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Convocation Opens School Year

"What Stand Beyond" was the t i t le of a msot e loquen ty delivered convocation address by the distinguished Dr. Manford Byrd, J r .

Byrd, a graduate of Central College in Pella, Iowa, received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and now holds the p r e s t i g i o u s p o s i t i o n of Superintendent of the Chicago Area Public Schools.

Byrd impressed on students that a life committed to "faith, knowledge, and service is re-quired if one is to make a positive impact on society."

Indeed, Byrd expressed that we must " turn obstacles into op-portunities" and to always be in a "s ta te of preparat ion."

Students were encouraged to "become great men and women, not celebrated or wealthy, but corageous and strong...to take the paths of most resistance."

Concluding his remarks , he in-spired everyone to "work to become—not to acquire.. .what stands beyond...your commit-ment. If we enumerate the pro-blems that beset us, if it often easy for us to despair, 'I am only one' I can' t do all, but I can do some. And that that I can do, I ought to do. And that that I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do."

Also during the convocation, an honorary doctor of letters degree was awarded to Byrd and an honorary doctor of laws degree was awarded to L. Homer Surbeck, a retired attorney from Atherton, California.

Surbeck led a distinguished law career , graduating first in his class at Yale Law School, ser-ving as law secretary to Chief Justice William Howard Taft,

WTHS Shoots for Quality

The goal of WTHS this year is "quali ty."

T h a t w a s t h e m e s s a g e delivered to over a hundred potential disc jockeys at an in-formational meet ing Sunday night for Hope's student-run FM radio station.

The Execut ive Commit tee (EC) of WTHS is so concerned about getting top quality d.j. 's and staff that they declined to give an on-air date, instead waiting until everything is in place before the fun begins.

"We want to have enough time to have a clean running outfit ," stated personnel director Bryan Eytcheson.

T h e f o l l o w i n g s c h e d u l e , however, leads one to believe that WTHS will hit the air waves late this month or early next:

This week will consist of training seminars for any new potential d.j. 's.

Next week will be devoted to both old and new d.j. 's practic-ing.

Auditions for shows will be the week after that.

And then there will be a mock week, in which each d.j. goes through his or her (or their) show as if they were on-air—even though they aren' t .

Only after all that will WTHS decide when it will go on the air (watch the anchor for the conti-nuing saga).

The EC members stressed that anyone could be a d.j. and they encouraged all forms of music.

Program Director John Miller urged the potential d.j. 's to "feel free to express yourself in whatever way you want ."

The EC is planning various changes to heighten the quality of this year 's broadcasts:

Among other promotions, said Tim Kleyla, there will be record give-a-ways, and possibly bumper stickers and a concert in the spring. There will also be a p r o f e s s i o n a l p r o g r a m m i n g guide.

The bigs news for news is that there will be an AP Wire Ser-vice. No longer will the news per-sonnel keep up on the news by watching television or reading newspapers as was done last year.

News Director Nathan Bocks added that "news is no longer boring," but will be "fun and in-novative" and shorter.

Steve Spencer, Sports Direc-tor, echoed Bocks and added that there will be live broadcasts of many of the Hope games, possibly including women ' s basketball.

Music Director Jon Hop stated that the focus of WTHS will be towards "an alternative music station."

He added that if WLAV starts playing something, WTHS is going to pull it, thereby keep-ing several steps ahead of them and light years ahead of the top 40 stations in West Michigan.

Eytcheson commented that all hopeful d.j. 's will have to audition and all new d.j. 's must have a partner, a major change from last year.

The EC is also planning on clamping down on the rules and r e g u l a t i o n s of o n - a i r per-sonalities.

"Termination is going to be a pretty definite thing," stated Eytcheson.

Production Director Pete Myers plans on working with the d.j. 's to help them make their shows individual, unique, and professional.

"We'd like to think of this year as when people really take notice of us in the community and here at Hope," stated Eytcheson.

"Our goals are definitely quali-ty oriented this fall ," commented Miller.

"Quality more than quantity," added Steve Cooper, General Manager. "Much more profes-s i o n a l t h a n l a s t y e a r . "

Hop concluded, "We're going to be playing things which are left of center ."

Community Day

and becoming a member of a Wall Street law firm, working in New York for many years.

Surbeck shared his "golden rule for life" with students by saying, "put God first and He will direct you and crown your ef-forts with success."

President Gordon Van Wylen presided at the convocation. Also p a r t i c i p a t i n g w e r e P r o v o s t Jacob Nyenhuis and Chaplain Gerard Van Heest. Alfredo Gon-z a l e s , a s s i s t a n t d e a n fo r

multicultural life, presented the honorary degree to Byrd, and J a m e s Zoeteway, professor of political science, awarded the honorary degree to Surbeck.

The Hope College Chapel Cho i r , d i r e c t e d by R o g e r Rietberg, professor of music, sang an anthem and was ac-companied by Norene Walters, part-time lecturer of music.

The annual ice cream social followed convocation.

A children's magic show and continous musical entertainment will highlight the 21st annual Community Day Picnic to be held at Holland's Smallenberg Park Saturday, Sept. 13.

Community Day has been co-sponsored by the City of Holland and Hope College for over two decades to foster the positive relationship that exists between the college and community.

This year 's picnic will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The purchase of a picnic ticket also enables the bearer to attend the Hope College football game against Wittenberg University of Ohio at the Holland Municipal Stadium. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m.

The picnic menu will include hamburgers or bratwurst , baked beans, coleslaw, potato chips, brownies, and beverage.

Joseph Beyer of Holland will provide the entertainment for the children with a magic show at noon. The American Legion

Band and the Hope Jazz Ensem-ble will also be featured as they provide continous musical enter-tainment during picnic hours.

In keeping with the Communi-ty Day spirit, half t ime entertain-ment will feature the Holland High School Marching Band.

Tickets are $3.50 for adults, $1.50 for children five through 11, and $3 for senior citizens. Children under five will be ad-mitted free when accompanied by an adult.

In case of rain, the picnic will be held at Phelps Hall on the Hope College campus.

Tickets may be purchased at the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce office, the Holland Ci-ty Treasurer ' s office, and the Hope col lege Dow Cen te r . Tickets will also be available during the picnic at Smallenberg Park.

For further information, call the Hope Office of Public Rela-tions at (616) 392-5111, ext. 2030.

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State of the College (Editor's ' Note: Just before

school began, president Van Wylen Addressed the faculty and staff of Hope with his "State Of The College Address." For the next several weeks, the Anchor will be printing the bulk of his report with commentary coming either in the Inklings or a future issue of the Anchor. Your reac-tions are also welcome.)

SOME THOUGHTS REGAR-DING THE FUTURE

Though there are other mat-ters that could be said about the current state of the College, I want to move on to share with you some thoughts regarding the future. I do so with particular reference to the fact that the Col-lege will have a new president at the close of this fiscal year. I am eager that the College not lose any significant momentum dur-ing this period. I will certainly do my best in this regard, though I do sense within my some hesita-tion to make decisions that another person must implement and live with.

I believe that the best way to maintain momentum is to have w e l l - d e v e l o p e d and w e l l -accepted plans so that decisions can be made in the light of these plans, and thus have significance that transcends this transition periof. Our senior staff has been working over the summer to for-mulate such plans. These will be discussed with the department chairpersons at our first meeting this fall.

However, I thought it might b e helpful if I took this opportunity

to outline my thinking on a number of areas.

Size of the College and Future Enrollment

For some time we have had as our goal to remain at our present size. While this could be inter-preted as a decision simply to re-tain the status quo, there are several factors which make this a reasonable decision :

At our present size we are able to have a reasonably large number of faculty members in a number of key departments, of-fer a diversity of majors and pro-vide significant extracurricular opportunities for students.

T h e r e a r e s i g n i f i c a n t economies of scale in being our present size as compared to be-ing smaller.

Our present size makes near optimum use of our facilities; becoming larger would require a major expansion of our facilities.

It would be difficult to recruit the additional students to become larger, and particularly difficult to do so while retaining the academic quality of those we admit.

Becoming larger would make it difficult to retain the sense of community we enjoy and the personal nature of the College.

For these reasons, I strongly urge that we focus our energies on recruiting well-qualif ied students in such numbers that we retain our present size. We need, however, to recognize that in view of demographic factors, to

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achieve this goal over the next decade will be difficult. The number of high school graduates will continue to decrease until 1992, and even then will increase very slowly for several years. Thus, retaining our present enrollment will be a major undertaking and will require our best cooperative efforts.

There are two aspects of main-taining enrollment. These are ad-missions and retention, and both are of vital importance. Because of this, the concept of enrollment management, in which there is a focus on both admissions and retention, has been developed in recent years. We are moving for-ward to develop and enrollment management approach at Hope and will be giving this Increased attention this year. This will in-volve giving Increased attention to retention, which we plan to do this year, while maintaining a vigorous admissions program. Such an admissions program in-volves considerable strategic planning and a wide variety of activities. These Include public relations and marketing, con-cepts that seem foreign to our vi-sion of an ideal college. These havef however, become an ac: cepted and necessary aspect of higher education these days, and we will do our best In public rela-tions and marketing, while seek-ing to keep these activities in pro-per focus.

One of our great strengths has been the active involvement of the entire College commnity, particularly the faculty, in our admissions program. It is vitally important that we continue this in the future, and I urge that we retain this dimension of our ad-missions program.

There are two other aspects of enrollment that I must briefly touch on. The first Involves minority students. As I mention-ed earlles, we are embarking on a new effort In this matter this year. I want to stress that this

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must be a long-term effort, and that our goal is notslmply to "look good" In this regard. Rather, our goal Is, first of all, to serve these students to the best of our abilities. Further, we want to be a college that reflects In our student body and faculty the diversity of contemporary socie-ty. This Is the world In which both we and our graduates must live and serve. We want to help our students prepare to live with a genuine sense of community In a diverse society, and see the power of Christian faith to help achieve this goal.

As we Increase the number of minority students, we may need to provide assistance for some of these students In their transition from high school to college. 1 do not propose that we Initiate a specific program at this time, but we must be alert to this possi-ble need and open to addressing It when It arises.

The second Issue is financial aid, both need-based and merit-based. Financial aid has become both a need and an expectation of many students and an Integral element of both admissions and retention. It has also become a very costly Item. Las year our expenditures for financial aid were $2,200,000, which is ten per-cent of our Educational and General budget. The whole mat-ter of need-based and merit-based financial aid will be one of the most important things to manage in the years ahead.

As I reflected on this, it seemed to me that there are three factore we should keep in mind.

Quality is always more im-portant in admissions than finan-cial aid. Only when we maintain high quality in all facets of our programs can financial aid help In admissions and retention.

It will be Important to give continued attention to the balance between need-based and merit-based financial aid. Both are Important and both must be

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We need to continue to ex-plore creative ways to help families and students finance the student's education. Our new Alumni Friends Tuition Pro-gram, which Involves prepaid tuition. Is one such effort. While loans will no doubt continue to be used by students, we must be careful that students are not sad-dled with too large a debt when they graduate. This whole mat-ter of financing students' aduca-tlon Is worthy of our thoughtful, creative efforts.

One final comment In regard to enrollment. On reviewing data on GLCA colleges last year, I was struck by one significant dif-ference between Hope and the other G1CLA colleges. This Is In the n u m b e r of p a r t - t i m e students. Of our headcount enrollment, twelve percent are part-time students. Thus, In round numbers, we have 2,200 full-time students and 300 part-time students. Hope is the only college in the GLCA with a significant number of part-time students. The reason is that most are in small towns, or in cities such as Kalamazoo, where there are other Institutions that meet community needs. Hope is rather unique in the GLCA in being the only institution in a fairly large city in which there are no other colleges.

There is on implication of this that I believe we should bear in mind. When we do various studies and compare Hope to other GLCA colleges, I believe we will have a more accurate picture if we use enrollment of

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full-time students rather than head count. It is only recently that this point became clear to me, and I want to pass this on to you. For example, when we talk to prospective students about the size of Hope, or evaluate library experditures per student, or the percentage of students living in our residence halls, and compare ourselves to other GLCA col-leges, we should use the number of full-time students rather than head count.

Financesv

During my first years at Hope, two private institutions—the University of Richmond and Tulsa University—each received bequests of about $50 million. I have been eagerly opening the mail each day for the past four-teen years—and am still waiting. And now I am down to the last ten months. The only real hope I have for the College is to careful-ly choose my successor!

If I were to put my perception of Hope's financial picture in a nutshell, it would be this. Hope's vision for excellence, and its achievement of this vision have, over the years, outstripped its financial resources. I want, first of all, to say that I think this is something of which we can be proud. It is rewarding to achieve more than is expected of us. It has also been rewarding to build the physical facilities and strive to a c q u i r e the f i n a n c i a l resources needed to fulfill this vi-sion. But to acquire the resources to close the gap between vision and reality is a very difficult task. Further, our vision and ex-pectations tend to expand, as they probably should, so that even as resources are provided, the gap tends to reamin.

This matter was brought to my attention in a rather striking way recently as I reviewed the publication Voluntary Support of Education for 1984-85. This report lists the gifts received by colleges during 1984-85 and the value of their endowment on June 30,1985. What was especial-ly interesting is that Hope had the largest income but has the smal les t endowment . Hope

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received $7,380,000 in gift in-come, while the average for the other 10 GLCA colleges (ex-cluding Antioch College, which had departed from its original mission and has become- a university with campuses in several cities across the country) was $4,105,000. Thus Hope's gift income, was forty-five percent greater than the average . However, on June 30, 1985, the value of Hope's endowment, however, was $14,540,000, which is twenty-e ight percent of $51,000,000 average value of the endowment of the other 10 col-leges. Thus, we are doing well in our current fund-raising pro-gram, for we have been near the top of the GLCA for the last few years. But it will take a long time, even at this rate, to build an endowment commensurate with our needs.

While it would be great to receive a truly major gift, the on-ly path we can responsibly follow is to work diligently to build our resources from tradit ional sources. As we do so, I have con-cluded that to achieve both pre-sent and long-term financial strength we must vigorously pur-sue three important activities in parellel. These involve the An-nual Fund, the Endowment Fund, and programmatic sup-port.

The Annual Fund will be the basic of providing additional resources in the short run. This past year we received $1,520,000 for the Annual Fund. With the completion of the Campaign, we will place a great deal of em-phasis on the Annual Fund. This year the budget is $1,670,000. With the new organization in operation in the Development Of-fice, I believe that in a few years tha Annual Fund can reach $2 million annually, and within five or six years $2.5 million per year. If this can be achieved, this will provide significant resources to sustain and enhance the opera-tion of the College and our com-mitment to esxcellence.

Secondly, we must continue to build the endowment. This will be done primarily through estate

planning—annuities, trusts and wills. A very significant program in planned giving has been built up over the last ten years and has been enhanced through The Campaign for Hope. This pro-gram provided opportunities for friends of the College to give significant resources to the Col-lege at a time when they are no longerneeded. As of June 30, the market value of the endowment was $17.9 million. While this is small compared to many col-l e g e s , i t h a s i n c r e a s e d significantly and is now an im-portant factor in our finances. Further, the prospect for steady growth in the endowment fund is very good.

The third is to vigourously seek funds for various programmatic a c t i v i t i e s . T h i s i n c l u d e s federally-supported programs such as the National Science Foundation, the National Endow-ment for Humanities, and the National Institute of Health; State funds such as the Michigan Council for the Arts and the Mich igan Counci l for the Humanities, and a variety of foundations. In most of these cases, the initiative must come from faculty members, though the Office of College Advance-ment is prepared to be of every assistance it can.

If we vigorously pursue these three approaches to fund raising, I believe that the financial strength of the College can steadily increase in the years ahead. It will be particularly helpful that the need for physical f a c i l i t i e s shou ld d e c r e a s e significantly after the library and certain related projects are completed. However, the need to carefully allocate resources will be with us for the indefinite future.

We need to remind ourselves that we have a great resevoir of good will and positive support for the College. We also have a good reputation among various fun-ding agencies such as NSF and NEH and a number of founda-tions. The challenge before us is to c o n t i n u a l l y bu i ld and strengthen these relationships.

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provide ways in which people can have a genuine sense of owner-ship of the College, and provide effective vehicles for persons and organizations to support the College.

Young Artists Series begins with pianist

Pianist Paul Shaw, winner of the 1986 New York-based Young Concert Artists International Auditions, will open the 1986-87 Hope College Young Artists Series with a concert Friday, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel on the Hope College campus.

The Young Artists Series will feature five musicians during the academic year.

Season tickets for the season are currently on sale through the Hope College public relations of-fice in the DeWitt Center. The cost is $25 for a family member-ship, $15 for an adult, $12 for senior citizens, and $5 for students. Tickets will also be sold for individual concerts as follows: adults, $5; senior citizens, $4; and $2 for students.

The Young Artists Series is supported in part by a grant from the Louis and Helen Padnos Education Fund of Holland.

Well-known soloist in his native Jamaica, Shaw, at the age of 15 won the top prize of the Jamaican Music Festival in Kingston and was recipient of the first Howard Cooke Award for

excellence in music. One year later, he represented Jamaica at the Kiwanis Music Festival in Toronto, Canada. Shaw has ap-peared as soloist with the Or-chestra of Jamaica and in recitals at the Little Theatre, the Olympia Internat iona l Art Center, and at the University of the West Indies.

In 1977 he came to the United States to study at the Juilliard School where he was awarded the William Petschek and Marc Ajemian Memorial Scholarships. He prformed at Lincoln Center as soloist with the Juilliard Philharmonia under the direc-tion of Richard Westenburg, and as winner of the Juilliard Concer-to Competition he participated in the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.

Future Young Artists concerts will include violinist Maurice Sklar, Dec. 9; cellist Marcy Rosen, Jan. 20; clarinetist Daniel McKelway, March 10; and organist Michael Gailit, April 10.

A brochure describing this series and the 1986-87 Hope Col-lege Great Performance Series may be obtained by calling 394-6996.

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McCombs on exhibit

Bruce McCombs, associate professor of art at Hope College, recently had his prints included in the following exhibitions: The Ninth British International Print Biennial, a traveling exhibition at The - Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Print, Ann Arbor Art Association; The Thirteenth National Print Ex-hibition, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, N.J.

McCombs was also awarded a purchase prize In the 62nd exhibi-tion of The Society of American Graphic Artists, held at the Leuer House In New York City.

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Alex Cole to Picnic in the Pine Grove A l e x Cole the s t a n d - u p

comedian-entertainer likes to think that his s ty le fa l l s somewhere between George Carlin and Bill Cosby. "And no, that's not just in the phone book, but in my style and presenta-tion," Cole muses.

He refers to himself as the average Joe, but this average Joe transforms himself into the q u i n t e s s e n t i a l s t o r y t e l l e r , parlaying life's everyday ex-periences and observations into laugh-a-second material. And it wasn't just recently that Cole got the comical itch. He has wanted to be an entertainer ever since he was five. That's when his dad played a Bill Cosby album and told him what it was all about; at that time the flame to be a stand-up comic was lit.

That was all it took to unleash the gradeschool funnychild, a St. Cloud, Minnesota, native who, it was said by the PTA, was the kid who takes over the classroom at

the beginning of the day and doesn't give it back to the teacher until the final bell rings. Scholastically, Cole says, ' T d always shunned cheating, and with that upstanding attitude I combined a little bit of stupidity to forge out a quite mediocre C average."

At age 16, Cole, a member of a rock'n roll band, joked between songs as the band played for burgers and beverage. "The bet-ter we performed the better we ate, so we played with all our hearts and stomachs," he said.

In 1978, he began playing col-lege campuses with crowds rang-ing from 50 up to a house of over 5,000 at the University of Pitt-sburgh while performing with Pure Prairie League. Cole has vigorously continued the college circuit, playing up to 150 shows per year.

Through his college dates, he earned the 1985-86 nomination for Entertainer of the Year and

Comedian of the Year by NACA (the National Association for Campus Activities). Along with this recognition came a bevy of other accolades and highlights; earning a tie of the national TV show "Star Search," regular stints at the Improv in New York and the Comedy Celler in Green-wich Village, being named the first Comedian of the Year at the 1983 Minnesota Music Awards.

Cole is turning heads, in-cluding that of critic Bob Protz-man of the St. Paul Dispatch, who wrote: "He's a wonderful mimic. He also has a pliant and handsome countenance that he can twist and screw into all sorts of expressions and an incredible energy that the stage can't seem to contain."

Alex Cole has also doubled-up audiences for the Oak Ridge Boys, The Commodores, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Cab Calloway, Stanley Jordan, The Talking Heads, and The Tubes.

With the diversity of the crowds that he has worked, along with his new agency, the Jim Halsey Company, Cole looks for nothing but success.

"There are absolutely no plans here for failure, because I can't afford it, it's too expensive," he said.

So the self-proclaimed buffoon-comedian- storyteller hailing now from Coon Rapids, Min-nesota, has his eye on the big-time. "I study how comedy works. I like to know why people laugh and how I can best enter-tain them. I just like to get out there and shake up the crowd," Cole states.

The man is definitely shaking up his audiences, and as for Alex Cole's future, there's be a whole lot more shakin' goin' on.

Alex is sponsored by SAC and the Western Food Service and will appear during the Picnic Dinner in the Pine Grove on September 10.

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"La Semilla" on display in DePree A show of black and white

photographs of migrant field workers in Western Michigan will be featured in the Corridor Gallery of the DePree Art Center from Sept. 22-29.

The photographs were taken by Andy Fierro who began work-ing on this project as a personal interest a year ago. Recently he received a grant from the Muskegon, Ot tawa , Oceana Regrant Agency (M.O.O.R.A.) of the Michigan Council for the Arts. The grant was applied for through the Crossroad Chapel of the Reformed Church in America of which Fierro is the pastor.

The present exhibition consists of 25 b l a c k a n d w h i t e photographs of the migrant field workers throughout Ot tawa, Muskegon and Oceana counties.

Fierro has entitled the show "La Semilla" which means the seed in Spanish. Fierro entitles the p r o j e c t " L a S e m i l l a " because of the many memories that he brings to this work. Hav-ing been born in Texas, his parents and many relatives mov-ed to Michigan in the early SO's spending many of their years working the fields in Western Michigan.

While most of the photographs are of the workers in the field, Fierro was also able to capture their moments of leisure. He was asked to photograph a special concert for the migrant workers in Hart. This concert was produc-ed by the Hart Migrant Educa-tion Program and also supported by M.O.O.R.A.

The annual Act ivi t ies Fa ir brought a crowd to the DeWitt patio.

Could Vienna be for you?

by Amy Herrington

Vienna—the toughest summer program you'll ever love. For over thirty years the Vienna Summer School Program has been changing people's lives. This program allows you to learn about another culture just as you represent your own country. But what does Vienna have to offer you? Well, if you're willing to challenge language barriers , test your map reading skills and meet people (not to mention radiation and terrorism—for the editor's enjoyment)—then this is the program for you. Vienna S u m m e r School o f f e r s op-portunities to travel in several countries in Europe for example; the Ne the r l ands , G e r m a n y , Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Hungary. But what do students do in Vienna when they're not making weekend ex-cursions? Several courses are of-fered covering a range of core curriculum subjects. Art history has been a long standing favorite with students taught by Frau Doctor Spitzmuller. A music course, economics, German, l i t e r a t u r e and i n d e p e n d e n t studies are available to study. The German course offers the special feature of a language lab open 24 hours a day right outside the door. Who goes on this pro-gram? Students from Hope, Al-bion, Ferris, Michigan State, U of M as well as students from Tennessee , Cal i forn ia , Min-nesota, New York. What 's in it for you. Travel , fr iendship, culture, music. Bier Kellers, ex-citement and possibly romance. The summer of '85 saw a whirl-wind romance that led to a November wedding. But above all this program offers you a whole new way to look at the world. For more information contact Dr. S. Hemenway ("Doc") at x3068 or get a brochure from the International Education office. Also look for In-formation meetings later this semester. Vienna Summer '87.

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Young sophist icates . (Give them t ime . )

Fun and laughter at D.R.I.N.K,

Drinks of all kinds were served at the D.R.I.N.K. gathering...

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must simply complete a form available in the records office which notifies the local draft board that the applicant is a stu-dent...The draft calls have been increased to record heights..."

90 years ago. October, 1896. 1'Hurrah Boys! Why buy new clothes when you can get your old ones Cleaned, Dyed and Pressed as good as new. A whole suit for only $2.25 at the City Dye Works. We also make clothes to measure and guarantee a perfect fit. Now boys let us hear from you. F. Warner. River Street near Seventh Street."

50 years ago. September 16, 1936. "Blue Key as usual is runn-ing the Book Store under Chir-man Peter Vanden Berg and Lester McBride. The store is to be entirely different than last year's. Instead of selling only us-ed books, there will be on hand new books and school supplies of all kinds. Students get to sell their books in the store at their own prices."

Hornsby and the Range charm crowd

"I must say I felt butterflies keyboards giving the music a before I got up here," admitted light, but thoroughly refreshing Bruce Hornsby following two texture. On songs such as "The rousing opening numbers in front Way It Is," Hornsby's keyboards of a capacity crowd at the Calder are a joy to listen to as he Stage in downtown Grand Rapids pumped out the backbone of the last Friday night, "but y'all s o n g ' s m e l o d y and a s he made 'em go away." From developed his more delicate im-there, Bruce Hornsby and the provisational pieces in a playing Range went on to play an in- style reminiscent of George vigorating show of one and a half Winston. hours free of charge as part of The band's less instrumentally the Celebration on the Grand original numbers sounded pain-festivities. fully too much like Huey Lewis

Performing before his biggest (who produced three songs on the audience ever, an audience con- LP). On the other extreme of the sisting of curious onlookers originality spectrum, on "On the knowing except ional ly l ittle Western Skyline," the six foot about the band to begin with, it is five inch Hornsby sported an ac-little wonder why Mr. Hornsby cordian and an irrepressible grin may have felt unsettled before as he towered over the front of taking the stage. Having releas- the stage enthusiastically tapp-ed their surprisingly solid debut ing his foot looking like a robust album The Way It Is earlier this character out of a frontiersman's summer, Bruce Hornsby and the tall tale. Range are now just beginning to It was obvious that the crowd ^ receive proper recognition and and the band was having fun and air-play for such songs as the ti- Hornsby himself exuded his tie track and the single "Every good-naturedness creating a LittleKlss." p l e a s a n t l y c o n t a g i o u s at-

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Volleyball squad reaches MIAA standing A young but experienced Hope

College volleyball squad gives • cause for optimism as the Flying

Dutch seek to continue their climb toward being a MIAA title contender.

Last year the Flying Dutch finished fourth in the MIAA stan-ding, up two notches from their sixth place finish in 1984. The team finished with an overall 15-14 record, highlighted by winning the championship of the Great Lakes Co l l ege A s s o c i a t i o n (GLCA) tournament.

The team has six returning players from last year's squad

and only one is a senior, ac-cording to caoch Donna-Eaton who is beginning her third year at the helm.

"While we will be young we will not lack experience," notes Eaton.

The returnees include senior Jill Vredevelt; juniors Barb Gras, three-sport s tandout DeeAnn Knoll, and Lynette Ohala; and sophomores Stacy Dyes and Sarah Smith.

Knoll and Ojala have been on the varsity since their freshman year and Gras and Smith were starters last fall. As a.freshman Kyes played an important role

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coming off the bench either as a setter or backrow specialist.

"We have the largest pre-season roster since I've been coach," said Eaton. "Not only do we have a large number of freshmen recruits, but also several students already atten-ding Hope. Add to that the group of sophomores from last year's jayvee team. I'm expecting tryouts to be very competitive.

The season opens Tuesday, Sept. 9 at St. Mary's Ind. Hope will host this year's GLCA tour-nament the weekend of Sept. 19-20.

Four returning letter winners and a promising group of newcomers are reasons to make Hope golf coach Doug Peterson optimistic about the upcoming campaign,

Hope has finished third in the MIAA standings each of the past four years. They were only seven strokes behind league runner-up Albion in 1985.

Returning letter winners from a year ago are sophomore Steve Knott, junior co-captain Jim Raf-ferty, senior co-captain Quinn Smith, and sophomore Rolfe Timmerman.

Last fa l l the D u t c h m e n featured a balanced attack with their top six golfers separated by an average of just two strokes per league tournament round. Timmerman led the team, averaging 81.4 strokes per round.

Among promising new comers are two transfers—junior Brian Westveer and junior Gabe Mar-shall.

Three freshmen prospects who received all-state recognition as preps are Todd Barckholtz, Dave Tull, and Paul Ver Meulen. Freshmen Cullen Chappie and Mike Ensing were both all-

conference performers in high school.

Hope will have a new home course this fall, moving to the outstanding Grand Haven Coun-try Club.

Once again, MIAA golf teams will play seven tournaments and tally total strokes to determine the league champion. The season opens Saturday, September 13 at Olivet.

Hope will host the MIAA tour-nament on Tuesday, September 23.

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"We return a very strong nucleus to build our season on," notes head coach Todd Kamstra who is beginning his second season.

The team is led by all-MIAA forward Jerry Nyanor, a junior. Last fall Nyanor was the second leading scorer in the MIAA with 15 goals in 12 games. He tied Hope's single season record for

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Run For Congress STUDENT CONGRESS WANTS YOU!

STUDENT CONGRESS SHOULD PROVE TO BE AN EFFEC-TIVE AND ACTIVE ORGANIZATION THIS YEAR AS IT SEES NEW LEADERSHIP TAKE THE HELM WITH BOLD IDEAS.

LIKE WORKING AND DECIDING INSTEAD OF DEBATING AND TALKING.

BUT THEY CANT DO ANYTHING WITHOUT COMMITTED INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTING THE STUDENTS.

THAT'S WHERE YOU COME IN.

ANYONE MAY RUN FOR STUDENT CONGRESS AND ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO DO SO.

IT IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO SO. PICK UP A PETITION AT THE STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICE, GET IT SIGNED BY THE NEEDED NUMBER OF STUDENTS (25 for a dorm, 50 at-large), AND RETURN IT TO THE STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICE BY SEPTEMBER 15.

CAMPAIGNING LASTS UNTIL THE VOTING ON SEPTEMBER 22nd.

SO DO YOURSELF AND YOUR SCHOOL A FAVOR AND RUN-BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE READY TO PUT SOME WORK INTO IT.

IT'S NOT JUST A RESUME BUILDER ANY MORE.

If anyone has any questions about running for Student Congress, they should contact second vice-president Scott Carpenter at 394-9083.

Straight Ahead hv Kirk Yfraafrror by Kirk Kraetzer

Howdy. This week, we're gonna talk

about choosing a major. This topic, like all others, is 6f varying interest to various people; freshmen couldn't care less about choosing a major, unless they're p o s s e s s e d pre-med students, but this should prove a helpful primer; sophomores find it of vague interest—just above t h e i r p o l i - s c i r e a d i n g assignments and just behind tormenting freshmen; juniors, finding themselves beyond petty bickerings such as this, are in-terested to the extent that they will occasionally flip through the catalogue to see how many hours they have to get to major in either psych or sociology. Seniors who haven't decided will get very interested when the Registrar shows up, pipe and thumb screws in hand. Those who have decided are basically aloof and continue to muddle along, thinking everything's under control.

Picking a major is easy: it all depends on what you want to do

with your life. If you like being of stock market analysts, has his own t.v. show that somewhere over 10 million people watch each week; is probably worth one dollar for each of those viewers, and pulls down ten

cloistered away in a windowless room filled with obnoxious fumes and blank-eyed people, then chemistry is your bag. If you like flaying animals that have been 7

soaked in formaldehyde or pull- grand per speaking engagement ing petals off flowers, talk to Dr. plus first class transportation. Gentile in Biology. If you like lots Volker made it on t.v. whenever of money, go into either of those he pissed Reagan off and has, to for an industrial research grant all intents and purposes, vanish-or pre-med. If it's pre-med, you'll ed from the public eye and is pro-have to learn to be tense and very bably living somewhere in obsessed with grades and you Newark, wondering if he should must like spending many hours have kept his mouth shut, cloistered away in small win- (The moral of this story is that dowless rooms. you make the best of it no matter

If charts and graphs and pretty what shape the economy's in and printouts do it to you, head for quit wasting time complaining physics, psychology, sociology, a b o u t i t . T h i s i s c a l l e d comp. sci, or economics. Econ is capitalism.) okay, but smart people tend Of the bunch I've listed so far, towards Wall Street. It's more in- physicists are the most fun, teresting, moves faster, and you basically cuz they get neat toys can get rich more quickly than like partical accelerators, lasers, anyone who thinks looking at supercomputers and zero gravity flaws in the Holland City Budget chambers to play with. If you're is the height of ecstasy. If you a good physicist, you may even don't believe me, compare the get to go to JPL in California and salaries of Louis Reukeyser and play with, say, a Mars Rocket. Paul Volker. Reukeser, the god

Howzzat for fun times? that fits into this class). Or, you The other side of the stick is c o u l ( 1 be a scholar, and sit in dus-

people who, for one reason or rooms trying to read an 800 another, like being, if not poor, y e a r old manuscript in the dark no where near as well of as any because any bright light* will research chemist you might destroy it; better yet, specialize come to name (Linus Pauling i n some oddball area like San-ring any bells?). Poli sci, s k r i ^ which maybe 20 people English, history, religion, com- worldwide can read or, heaven munications (unless you're nam- forbid, speak. There's always ed Ted Turner or Rupert Mur- politics, and a communications doch), philosophy. Also foreign ^ajor can likely get a job in a t.v. language, although you do get to studio somewhere. Music, yet travel and maybe become a another major, is its own reward, translator at a summit meeting ^ that don't pay the Visa bill, in Geneva or Tokyo. If you like to unless you're Eddie Van Halen. sweat, go to Dow and they'll take course, all this is not to say care of you. that you'll get a job in your

What can you do with anyone of those six majors listed above. Lots. You can teach, if you like

chosen field. I know a guy who double majored in Bio and Chem and is now selling computer

snotty kids and odd hours and go- systems over in England, ing three months without pay Of course, you can get a job as every year. You could be a mis- a professor here at Hope, hang sionary, if you enjoy exotic around long enough, surviving diseases and possibly hostile t h e meager salary you get, then cultures. If you like having ^ named President of the col-critics looking around every cor- l e g e - Who knows, it's happened ner, you could be a writer (or an before. art:st, wh'ch is another major

Publ ished w e e k l y September t h r o u g h A p r i l , excep t dur ing e x a m per iods and col lege vacat ions, by and for the s tudents of Hope Col-lege. Hol land, M ich igan , under the au tho r i t y of the Student Com-mun ica t ions Med ia Commi t tee . Subscr ipt ion pr ice : $10 per yea r .

O f f i ce located on the f i rst level of the DeWi t t Cen te r . Telephone 394—6578. The op in ions on th is page a re not necessar i ly those of the stu-

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It's t ime to do something ' about 'Hope party ' problem No one can escape seeing (he

signs put up dur ing the past two weeks in numerous establish-ments ac ross this city. "Wel-come back Hope s tuden t s " they say.

I should like to descr ibe, how-ever. my feel ings as a pe rmanen t resident who has not looked for-ward to the annual au tumn influx of; Hope College s tudents (and my neighbors a s su re m e I do not stand alone in these feelings).

Yes. the kids a re back, and to-night the pa r t i e s began in the four-or-five-block a r ea which sur rounds the c a m p u s per se ." These pa r l i e s a r e well-organized (and not by f r e s h m a n s tudents) ; they even boast "s lush funds" fi-nanced by selling "admiss ion" per head . Persons living in the immedia te vicinity are fully aware of what is going on. but 1 doubt the res t of Holland realizes the extent of the "Hope p a r l y " problem, because it is not within earshot .

The p a r t y to which I refer spe-cifically in this le t ter is in proc-ess as 1 wri te . P ic ture , if you can, a two-story f r a m e home of ordi-nary size, with approximate ly 300 people c r a m m e d into it - 300 sc reaming and shouting, drunk and d i so rder ly , drug-abusing

people who overflow into the yard , the s t ree t and up to College Avenue f rom 41 E a s t 14tb Street , where the action is concentrated. The smel l of pot p e r m e a t e s my neighbors ' and m y back yards . The mus ic is loud, but the voices a re m o r e so. I h e a r people called by n a m e in shouted conversa-tions. T h e r e is a lot of swear ing. There a r e repea ted obscenities. Glass c ra shes , and a ladder falls away f rom a second-story win-dow. It is about 11:30 p .m. It is not a pa r ty , it is a raucous, d runken brawl .

Police a r r ive , and someone shouts, " i t ' s the g-d— cops ! " "Don ' t r u n ! " yells somebody else. A young female voice s c r e a m s . "You can ' t gel away with this! I 'm a Hope s t u d e n t ! " Another girl tells someone to -( something obscene) "off that c o p ! " A fellow yells, "1 have a beer ; want a beer . D u d e ? " A chant ensues : " P o w e r s u c k s ! " (and) "Bul l Crap. M a n ! "

College author i t ies claim they can do nothing about the behav-ior of s tuden t s who live off cam-pus. and tha t the college is in no way responsible for their actions. 1 claim this to be a total disre-gard for a portion of the college population, a grea t many of

whom a r e under-age; and that if a s tudent is enrolled at Hope, he or she should be at least mini-mally bound by Hope rules and regulat ions which involve deco-rum. Fu r the r , if the college can-n o t b e r e s p o n s i b l e , t h e communi ty must be responsible, and cer ta inly the communi ty ha s ordinances about individual be-haviors which affect adversely the communi ty as a whole.

It is impor tant to say at this point that this misbehavior by certain segments of the s tudent body is not new. It has been going on for at least seven years , and is well-documented in both police and college files. When my par-ents lived here , drunken next-door Hope s tudents fornicated on their front lawn, and ur inated and vomited on their s ide fence. When my mother approached the senior who " r a n " the " h o u s e . " she was told she ought to sell her properly and move to a be l ter par t of town.

I t ' is l ime lo do something con-crete. I am sick and tired of hear-ing comment s such as : "They

a re just k ids ." — "You know you can ' t beat Hope College." — "Close your eyes lo it. because Hope students bring a lot of money into Hol land." - I want to ask a few questions. I admit to being at a loss for the answers , but the questions jnus l be ad-dressed.

How do the under-age dr inkers get away with it? Is the drug scene deliberately overlooked by Hope authorit ies? If not, why a r e their hands l ied? Do the people who are being asked by Mr. Boersma to contr ibute to Hope's expansion, know about this unde-s i reable e l emen t in " t h e i r " school? If Hope can ra ise the money for a l ibrary addition, why can ' t it priorit ize for on-campus housing? Are the alumni associations a w a r e of what Hol-land Police have known for yea r s about Hope s tudents? Are par-ents (paying up to $10,000 a yea r ) aware? Why can a bunch of Hope-ites get away with repeated infract ions of the law, when an ordinary citizen cannot? Can you imagine any other gather ing of 300 rowdy persons getting away with this type of " a s s a u l t ? " What about Hope's image as a pri-vately-endowed, Christian col-lege?

The use of alcohol by minors, drug abuse, excessive noise and nuisance behavior a r e all illegal. How do the Hope College fra ter-nities, char te red , condone It? Who takes the responsibility for a cer tain group ' s illegal actions? If no one can, if no one does, we live in a s ta te of anarchy. And a word to our city council: how can you even think of condoning a city budget which cuts the police force? With a r rogant Hope Col-lege rowdies on the loose, with the school unwilling to address It as a m a j o r problem, with a police force diminished, just who will monitor this aspect of our -com-munity?

1 am not a disgruntled old fuddy-duddy who needs her sleep. I am an actively-con-cerned citizen, a 33-year-old par-ent, a registered nurse who attended the University of Michi-gan. and who chose to come back to Holland to live and work. I am a Holland native who has many relat ives and fr iends who have graduated from Hope.

I wri te because I love this city, v its beauty and its quality of life. I love my home, which has seen four generat ions of the s a m e family living in it. I am not blind to the fact that " a f e w " can spoil

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a good barrel , but I know also that when those few prol i fera te into 300 people at one drunk-and-d i s o r d e r l y , o u t - o f ^ c o n t r o l " p a r t y , " they become the ma jo r -ity.

- Welcome back Hope students? What a t ravesty I

Louise A. Jonker-McCor-mick is a Holland resident and working on an advanced de-gree at Grand Valley State College.

"Left of Center" bv Larry J Wagenaar

When I first read the words I was angry. How could she say things like that and mean all of us. It simply wasn't fair. It wasn't true. Noway.

By now you probably have heard of the letter written by Mrs. Jonker-McCormick. Dr. Beal sent out a letter to the off campus students. Dr. Van Wylen responded to it in the paper, students put up signs on their front lawns: "please fornicate here, not on the grass." It seems as if we have our first campus "crisis" of the year.

A couple of weeks ago I was watching TV 8 while they were showing a report on the problems Grand Rapids area colleges were having with alcohol, the drug of

choice. I thought to myself that while many Hope students drink, by and large it keeps pretty much under control. It seems that the report was more ac-curate than I had first believed. Is it always the same group that gets it going? The parties I went to always seemed well under con-trol—how did this one get to have 300 people?

Reports tell of some of the pro-fanity thrown at the police for breaking up the party. As it turns out, there were a lot of parties go-ing on that night and more than one of them was "busted". The cops had decided to get down to business on this holiday weekend and we decided to give them the opportunity.

Scratch that. I don't mean "we". It upset me that some pe^ pie could get out of hand and

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make the rest of us look bad, make it look like most Hope students did not know how to have a controlled gathering. One that did not bother the neighbors, and did not produce the fiasco that ensued Labor Day weekend. The college has no business governing the actions of students living in private off campus hous-ing—but the students were out of line. What is the college supposed to do? If the police alone take care of the problem, fines are heavy and one is looking at a police record and maybe some jail time, not simply a talk to the dean.

Last year we had an Alcohol Awareness week. Most of the presenations portrayed alcohol as a bad substance that should be ivoidr i . The cacophony of voices with the same message produced

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a bunch of students that rebelled and carried an empty keg around campus screaming "we wanna drink". It seems to me that ad-vocating abstinence is not necessarily the best thing to do. But does responsible use and reasonable behavior make sense? Is it possible? The more outbursts like the one that took place Labor Day weekend is only going to result in more arrests and a further clamp down by the school.I am not advocating that minors drink. It's an issue that passed me by personally a long time ago. However, I am not one to put my head in the sand and hope a problem will go away. Most of us are too old to act that way anyway.

Mrs . Y o n k e r - M c C o r m i c k wrote her article while the party was still at full roar. She dragged

everything into her anger from drugs to the Hope building pro-gram and simply lashed out at almost all aspects of our respec-tability. She went too far in stereotyping all of us. However there was a lot of truth to what she said though. It was out of hand and she did a good job of tarnishing all of us.

If all of us can keep our gather-ings under control the police won't have to "bust" us, the col-lege won't have to intervene and we won't have angry neighbors writing to the Sentinel. Best of all we won't have to hear us catagorized as "the kids are back," those "screaming and shouting, drunk and disorderly, drug-abusing people," "...ar-rogant Hope College rowdies on the loose". It simply isn't true about most of us.

by David Hoff The more I think about it, and

the more I live through it, I'm convinced that the New Year starts in September. The cham-pagne and gaiety of December 31 formally celebrate the christen-ing of new books, new clothes, and new courses, which occurred three months earlier.

The beginning of the school year is the end of summer, and the student body has a different face than in May. One quarter of the students are at Hope for the first time. And the old students, with tanned cheeks and sun streaked hair, have changed. Everyone looks healthy, vibrant, and alive—the after effects of summer.

The campus, like the student body, takes on a fresh look. The

^construction workers have filled the hole that will support the Van Wylen library. And the Maas Center, a skeleton in May, is

ready for dances and banquets and whatever else. Fences have sprung up and sidewalks have laid down to barricade or lead up to the new buildings, whatever the case may be. I've noticed a few baby pines in the grove.

E v e r y t h i n g — w e l l , a lmost everything-is new. At least it seems that way.

The first week of the semester is a fresh start. Every year before school begins in the fall, I make a list, in the back of my mind, of what I want to ac-complish. I always hope to broaden my social life—find new friends, keep the old ones—and improve my study habits—spend less time with books and boost the GPA.

In addition, I expect to delve into new extra-curricular ac-tivities (this fall, I will write for the Anchor) and stay involved with the old ones. These am-

bit ious goa l s—New Y e a r ' s resolutions, if you will—are a chance to correct the mistakes last semester, and unknowingly commit different, if not larger, blunders this time around.

I come to school itching to start. I yearn to fulfill my goals immediately. I expect my new commitments and goals to change me. I might be too op-timistic. But I'm ready.

The first week of school, for all of its newness, lacks the zest I feel for it. Despite the veil of cosmetic changes, we spend our first days doing the same stuff every year: unpack boxes and suitcases, claim boxes, fur-niture, and lofts from storage, stand in line at the bookstore, stand in line for an ID picture, set up the lift, pay the bill. Busy work, busy work, busy work.

As we do our chores, we have the same conversation at each

stop. How's your summer? Where you living? What classes you taking? What is your major, anyway? You look good. I like your hair that way. Give me a call.. We'll get together.

And the first day of classes is just as predictable: what's your name, here's the syllabus, this is the book, this is how you can get an A...

I can't wait to start the new year, but, once it begins, I abhor formalities. I'm ready for ac-tion: new classes, new friends, new experiences. But for the first week, I, like everyone else, ask the standard questions, give the polite answers, and feign the pro-per interest. It's a thin facade, like the walls that will protect the Van Wylen library.

I've discovered that each semester, despite its different schedule and requirements, falls into the same pattern: a three

week genera l introduct ion followed by a quick, almost painless, round of tests. After a short, unneeded four day break, we return for more tests, few papers . H o m e c o m i n g , and Nykerk. We ease into Thanksgiv-ing, a much needed rest and change of diet, to brace ourselves for the bombardment of school work (all which should have been started earlier). In the end, we wrap up the work, with relief and satisfaction, and go home for three weeks of rest.

The first week of school plays a necessary role in the cycle of the semester. Without it, we'd all jump into our work and friend-ships—like a swimmer into a cold lake—without preparing ourselves for the challenge aheacd . And without that preparation, we would—like the stunned swimmer—run for the warmth and comfort of home.

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week to party together! Let's do of b S s F a c i l ^ s aTe avaflable it like we used to! I'm going to ° miss everv one of vou so much' First United Methodist Hna. T y C h u r c h ^ is within walking nugs, Laura — distance from Hope College. An Mailed subscriptions to the opportunity to spend time at area anchor: $12 a year. Dirt cheap. campgrounds is also available Hey Bait! Wednesday nights, during the fall and spring months P.W. and drinks with Babs!

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Dionjelatig—I'm so glad you & baby car are back. I hope the SS house is as good to you as M.Y. was! Big Hugs, L.

Personals in the anchor cost a mere nickle. Drop em off outside especially Dzinksi our office by Sunday.

free. For more information please call: Marge Rivera, 396-5205 or 394-0367 after 5:00 p.m. or see Mr. VanderBilt at the Dow.

To the UAW ,s86: Can you believe we lasted the whole summer? I personally miss our gloves, stergent, and

Too bad we

Max, Sus, Susie, Wend, Kath, Dionjelatig, and Robiin—table dancing, loud jams, Vuarnets, Hawaiian Shorts & cruising in the baby car. Too much fun!

Hey girls from x6037, hello hello

can't to anymore Kollen lobby windows. Or dirty d i shes . Anyway, I miss seeing you guys! L e t ' s g e t t o g e t h e r a n d reminisce! Love, UAW member - B

Nuke Scott Brown! hello...Hello!!!...oh by the way, Nyfcg gcott Brown again just to goodnight!

Death Row Prisoner, Caucasian male, age 40, desires cor-respondence with either male or female college students. Wants to form a friendly relationship and more or less just exhange past experiences and ideas. Will answer all letters and exchange pictures. If interested write to J i m J e f f e r s , Box B-38604, Florence, Arizona 85232.

o.k. Guys FIRST STEP: ask her out and treat her like a lady SECOND STEP: TELL her she's the one your dreamin' of...

be sure!

Welcome back off campus students! One question: Why are you changing the ' 'house" names? The Encore remains the same....

choo choo!!! ! ! !

Please Mr. Asst. Editor, if we start a "I don't want to see another 'Scott Brown' ad ever again" campaign can the student body declare him banded from the want ads this year?? PLEASE! 1 We'll raise bribe !!!.

WATCH OUT!! IT'S COMING SOON! IT'S STUPENDOUS,

THIRD STEP: hold her in you MAGFINICENT, IT'S BETTER arms and never let her go...

THE MONKEES FOREVER!!

You're a young nymphet who FINALLY made it through the maze but were are the glasses? Stand on a chair and YELL "Randy Andy! Randy Andy! Randy Andy!" You will SOON be assisted with your SUDS.

THAN THE BEST RADIO SHOW EVER! MORE THAN THE MOST MUSIC! WATCH OUT M O T H E R S , H I D E Y O U R CHILDREN! IT'S COMING SOON! IT'S T H E SCOTT BROWN POWERLIGHT SHOW! FRESHMAN BEWARE!

Pil, are you behind this PARK AID" c o n c e r t for p o l i t i c a l reasons? You sly dog.

Please all new off campus houses if you have a name change...let everybody know about...o.k.? Otherwise we be late for all the parties!!

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Hey EVERYBODY, did you see HEY, HEY, HEY...YA YA YA that on OCTOBER 4TH, Tom YA YA!! ! ! ! "The Segar" Cruise, is starring Blondie—Sorry you won't be with in RISKY BUSINESS!! Quick u s i n the '89 Pull-but we know everyone show up to the movie in you're pullin' from the heart with your darkest black shades!! We u s i at Hope will "like that old fashion rock 'n roll" while wearing our "sunglasses at night"!!

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Hey Cluster 2-5...you guys are awesome! Have a great year! —BKH Pistol, Milford, Scooter, Petey,

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