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FEBRUARY 22. 2012 • SINCE 1887 SPERA IN DEO" HOPE COLLEGE • HOLLAND, MICHIGAN

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Play debuts "As It Is In Heaven" shakes up DeWitt.

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FEATURES

Entreprenuers Hope students turn business Ideas Into reality.

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SPORTS

Perfect record Dutchmen finish perfect in MIAA regular play.

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Rick Santorum visits Hope College Conservative presidential candidate rallies for family values and religious freedom

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Chris Russ, Claire Call and Lauren Madison CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF. AND CAMPUS CO-EDITORS

Presidential Candidate Rick San torum held a campaign rally in Maas Audi tor ium at Hope College

M o n d a y night. Student organizers led by the Hope

College Republicans were given little notice and had minimal t ime to prepare and p romote the event. A

press release announc ing the event was no t publ ished until Sunday evening, yet the audi tor ium was filled to

its 250 pe r son capacity and more were tu rned away.

"The San torum campaign asked us if we would like

to host an event for t h e m and we pu t it together in real shor t not ice and were able to get a pretty good

turnout," said Stewart Elzinga (x12) of the H o p e

College Republicans. The H o p e College Democra t s also had to act

quickly once they heard of the event. "We tried to

organize as quickly as possible. It's impor t an t to us

that Rick San torum unders tands that West Michigan doesn ' t be long solely to Republicans and that there is

diversity of voices and opinions here . I'm actually glad

1 he's here. For one, it's helped ou t H o p e Democra ts ;

we've sold more T-shi r t s than we have all semester. But really I th ink the key to democracy is open

PHOTO BY ANN MARIE PAPARELU SEE S A N T O R U M , PAGE 2

Hope raises tuition 2.9% up for sixth year in a row Mary Kelso GUEST WRITER

I'm sure you received the

letter and let out a collective

groan: yes, tui t ion is going up. Again. But before poin t ing

fingers and threatening to

transfer, it may pay to look a

little deeper into this issue. For the sixth year in a row,

the tuit ion at H o p e College is increasing. This year there will

be a 2.9 percent increase, which

translates into $1,040. Total tuit ion, room and board will

increase to $36,320, up f rom

$35,280 for 2011-2012. Tom Blysma, the vice-

pres ident and chief fiscal officer

of business services, provides some reasons behind the

numbers . First, there has been a 3

percent raise in t he inflation

index since last year. The 2.5 percent base wage increase

approved for faculty and staff mus t also be taken into account .

" W h e n de te rmin ing the

level of tuit ion, room, and board rate increases for a given

year, inflat ionary and market

pressures on these i tems are

Peace Corps recruits at Hope carefully reviewed," Blysma said.

In a letter to H o p e s tudents

and parents regarding the tuit ion increase, this rationale is stated:

"In consider ing s tudea t charges,

the college tries to balance two principle concerns . The first is a

concern to main ta in the quality

that H o p e s tudents and their pa ren t s have c o m e to expect .

The second is a concern for t he

financial impact of the charges on H o p e s tudents and their

families. . .We are also commi t t ed

to doing everything possible to mainta in the affbrdability of

the college for our s tudents and

their parents." If you look at o the r colleges

in our academic consor t ium, Hope's tui t ion increase looks

like a bargain. Last year, Hope's increase was 1.9 percent while

peer colleges averaged at 4.4

percent . Calvin College recently

approved a 4.5 percent tuit ion

increase for the 2012-2013 academic year, br inging the total

cost of a t tendance to $35,815. President James Bultman,

in his winter 2012 Presidential

Update , out l ined how H o p e is able to keep the increase below

SEE T U I T I O N , PAGE 1 0

Lauren Madison CAMPUS CO-EDITOR

The Peace Corps held a

meet ing February 17 to inform

interested s tudents about the

Peace Corps experience, f r om the initial application process

to t ime spent in service abroad.

Three former Peace Corps m e m b e r s spoke about their

27-month- long internat ional

experiences, in locat ions diverse as Eastern Europe,

Morocco and South Africa. The first th ree of these

27 m o n t h s are dedica ted to

volunteer t raining, in which an

accepted Peace Corps m e m b e r learns t he language, his tory and culture, of the host country.

Though this initial t ra ining is the mos t t ime-intensive,

t raining sessions do cont inue

t h roughou t a volunteer 's Peace

Corps experience. Abou t 20 H o p e s tudents

were in a t tendance, m o r e than regional recrui ter Judy

Torres had expected. A m o n g these s tudents was M a t t h e w Rutter ( '12), w h o successfully

applied for and interviewed with the Peace Corps . He was

nominated by his interviewer to serve in Sub-Saharan Afr ica

start ing s u m m e r 2012.

Rutter, a management ,

philosophy, and organizat ional

leadership s tudent , views his

approaching t ime in the Peace C o r p s as "an oppor tun i ty for

[his] life's 'great experiment. '" He

views the service c o m p o n e n t of the Peace C o r p s experience as

hugely valuable, bu t also looks

forward to living for a per iod of t ime outside t he realm of

Wes te rn influence. "The Peace Corps is an

unpreceden ted oppor tuni ty

to serve as best I can, while

'exper iment ing ' with ways to lead a Gospel-centered life

outside Amer ican culture. It

seems like God has given me peace toward my decision to go. Therefore, I go," Rutter said.

Also in a t tendance was H o p e s tudent and music major

Kelli VanDyke C13). "The Peace Corps interests me because it

is a great organizat ion where I

can use my skills to really help people. 1 have s tudied abroad

twice, am pret ty gif ted with

languages and have a hear t for wha t the Peace Corps s tands

for, so 1 feel that I have no reason no t to serve," VanDyke

said. Whi le the Peace Corps a ims

to serve the needs of those in

the internat ional communi ty ,

t ime spent in Peace Corps service also benefi ts volunteers.

According to Hope s tudent Carmina O'Sull ivan-Scimemi

( '14), "The Peace C o r p s can

do incredible things for recent college graduates . My parents

m e t dur ing their t ime serving

in Tunisia, where they taught English to school age children.

From what they tell me. Peace

Corps allows you to see and experience the world in a way

you wouldn ' t otherwise. Plus, it

looks great on resumes." The Peace Corps offers its

volunteers help with s tudent

loans, free travel to and f rom a coun t ry of service, two vacation

days per mon th , medical and dental care, health insurance,

and about $7,000 in."transit ion funds" upon complet ion of

service. Many interested in the

Peace Corps worry about the compet i t ive na ture of the

application process. Recrui ters

present at Fr idays meet ing emphas ized the impor tance

of volunteer work and the ability to keep an open mind

as characterist ics that can be valuable in an applicant.

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T H I S W E E K AT H O P E

Wednesday-Saturday Feb.22-25 Theatre Department presents "As it is in Heaven" DeWil t Main Theatre. 8 p.m.

Thursday Feb. 23 Poetry reading by Fred Mer-chant

Winants Audi tor ium. 7:30 p.m.

Friday Feb. 24 The Sense of Book: Rare Books f rom the Hope College Collection Depree Art Gallery, all day

I N B R I E F

INTERNATIONAL FOOD FAIR

The annual International

Food Fair at Hope College will

be held on Saturday. Feb. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Maas

Center auditorium. The fair has

been sponsored by the college's international students for more

than 25 years. For the event

students get together to cook

a dish from their homeland. Tables will feature food and

educational displays concerning

the cuisine and cultures. Faculty,

staff, students and people from the community buy tickets at

the. Admission is $5 for an

initial packet of five tickets, with

additional tickets costing $0.50

each. Most dishes cost one or two

tickets.

Santorum campaigns for Ottawa County vote •Santorum, from page 1

discourse, and the more of that we have, t he better.

So I really hope that he takes quest ions and we have an open discourse and we can aide democracy in that

way," said Lee Marcus ( 1 2 ) , president of the Hope

College Democra t s . Santorum's speech covered campaign topics such as

health care reform, his plans for smaller government and growing the private sector, and the recent b i r th

control debate.

Throughout his speech, San torum continually emphas ized the impor tance of family values and

religious f r eedom in America, as he believes bo th to be th rea tened by the possibility of four more years of t he

O b a m a adminis t ra t ion. San torum also m a d e sure to make his speech

relatable to the people of Western Michigan, praising

Ot tawa Coun ty as "the second-mos t Republican

coun ty in America" He criticized the snobbish or elitist out looks of o the r politicians while descr ibing himself

as m o r e approachable and down- to -ea r th . "I c o m e

f rom Wes te rn Pennsylvania. 1 c o m e f rom many areas

that are very similar to Micfiigan, and 1 can tell you, we w e n t th rough some tough t imes, bu t I always belteved

that government wasn' t t he answer."

This s ta tement echoed the words of Rev. Tyler Wagenmaker , one of Santorum's open ing speakers,

who said, "We're no t like liberals, every t ime we see

a problem we don ' t have a government p rogram to

fix it," a s ta tement we lcomed with applause f rom the

audience. Reactions to Santorum's speech varied and were

predictably divided along par t isan lines.

"I t hough t he did well. I thought the topics he

covered and the way he approached a lot of t he issues is wha t we're looking for in our next president," Elzinga

said. Marcus , on the o the r hand , said. "I was really

disappointed in the way that they fielded quest ions,

PHOTO COURTESY OF MEGHAN LECHNER

S T U D E N T S S H A R E T H E S P O T L I G H T - Hope Republ icans Meghan Lechner, Emily Evans, and Stewar t Elzinga pose wi th San-to rum af ter the rally.

they didn't have s o m e o n e media te ques t ions w h o was non-par t i san . I was

disappointed that it didn't end up being an event where there was open

discourse." Even more were upset by the absence of quest ions taken f rom H o p e

s tudents; the three quest ions that were taken were asked by older

c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s . Regardless of individual political a l ignments , having a presidential

candida te on Hope 's c a m p u s was widely accepted as an honor and privilege.

"I th ink anyt ime we could have national leaders in f ron t of undergraduates

it's a good thing because it helps them engage with the civic process. W e have terrific leadership of the s tudent g roup that made the invitation and

they worked very well with college staff in the events and conferences

office and that joint par tnersh ip m a d e it happen," said Provost Richard Ray.

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More contractors dying in Iraq Annel lese Goetz STAFF WRITER

M o r e eivilian w o r k e r s t h a n

mi l i t a ry p e r s o n a l a r e n o w dy ing

in I raq . This is no t b e c a u s e f e w e r

so ld iers a re b e i n g killed, bu t be -

cause m o r e jobs a r e b e i n g c o n -

t r a c t e d ou t to t h e p r i v a t e sec-

tor. T h e s e jobs i n c l u d e ca t e r ing ,

g u a r d s a n d c o n v o y dr ivers , j o b s

t rad i t iona l ly p e r f o r m e d by t h e

mil i tary . T h e i m p l i c a t i o n s of th is

a re c o m p l i c a t e d fo r A m e r i c a n s .

T h e mi l i t a ry is u n -

de r ob l iga t ion to an -

n o u n c e t h e n u m b e r

a n d n a m e s of t h o s e de -

c e a s e d in serv ice . T h e

s ta t i s t ics a r e wide ly

avai lable a n d a re f r e -

q u e n t l y h igh l igh t ed by

t h e m e d i a . T h e p r i v a t e

sector , however , is u n -

de r n o s u c h ob l iga t ion .

At m o s t t h e y m u s t

on ly n o t i f y t h e su rv iv -

ing fami ly m e m b e r s .

A m e r i c a n c i t i z ens

a re genera l ly u n a w a r e

of t h e s ta t i s t ics c o n -

c e r n i n g c o n t r a c t o r s

as c o m p a r e d to sol-

d ie rs . O u r ideas a b o u t

h o w t h e s i tua t ion is

p r o g r e s s i n g a re t h e r e -

f o r e skewed . O n a

m o r e p e r s o n a l level,

t h o s e c ivi l ians w h o

gave t h e i r l ives o f -

t en go u n c e l e b r a t e d o n a w i d e

scale. It is a lso n o t u n c o m m o n

fo r t h e su rv iv ing fami ly m e m -

b e r s to go u n c o m p e n s a t e d fo r

t h e d e a t h s of the i r loved ones .

I n a n i n t e r v i e w w i t h t h e N e w

York T imes , l aw p r o f e s s o r at

G e o r g e W a s h i n g t o n Univer -

sity S teven L. S c h o o n e r said,

"By c o n t i n u i n g t o o u t s o u r c e

h igh - r i sk j o b s t h a t w e r e p rev i -

ous ly p e r f o r m e d by so ld ie r s .

t h e mil i tary, in e f fec t , is p r iva -

t iz ing t h e u l t i m a t e sacrifice."

In 2011, "at leas t 4 3 0 e m -

p loyees of A m e r i c a n c o n t r a c -

t o r s w e r e r e p o r t e d ki l led in

Afghanis tan ," a c c o r d i n g to

i n f o r m a t i o n g a t h e r e d for t h e

N e w York T i m e s . This i n f o r m a -

t ion w a s co l l ec t ed t h r o u g h t h e

A m e r i c a n E m b a s s y in Kabul

a n d is o n l y par t ia l ly avai lable to

the A m e r i c a n pub l i c t h r o u g h

t h e U n i t e d Sta tes D e p a r t m e n t

G O I N G H O M E — So ld ie rs board a C -130 a i r c r a f t t o

U.S. In A u g u s t . Desp i te t h e w i t h d r a w ^ so ld ie rs and

I raq.

of Labor . Of t h e s e 4 3 0 e m p l o y -

ees , 386 w e r e w o r k i n g for t h e

D e f e n s e D e p a r t m e n t a n d 4 3

fo r t h e U n i t e d S ta tes A g e n c y

fo r I n t e r n a t i o n a l D e v e l o p -

m e n t . O n e of t h e s e 4 3 0 w o r k e d

fo r t h e S ta te D e p a r t m e n t .

A n i n d e p e n d e n t o r g a n i z a -

t i on c o m p i l e d a list of d e a t h s of

A m e r i c a n so ld iers fo r t h e D e -

fense D e p a r t m e n t , c o m i n g u p

w i t h a to t a l of 4 1 8 d e c e a s e d . In

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m a k e t h e i r way b a c k t o t h e

c iv i l i ans c o n t i n u e t o d ie In

" the w a r z o n e d e a t h s a n d in-

ju r ies of the i r e m p l o y e e s - in-

c lud ing s u b c o n t r a c t o r s a n d

fo re ign w o r k e r s - t o t h e D e -

p a r t m e n t of Labor , a n d t o

c a r r y i n s u r a n c e tha t will p r o -

v ide the e m p l o y e e s w i t h m e d i -

cal ca re a n d compensa t i on . "

T h e fami l ies of fo re igne r s

e m p l o y e d by c o n t r a c t o r s gen -

erally receive b e n e f i t s fo r life

to ta l ing half of t h e sa la ry of

t h e i r d e c e a s e d . T h e fami l ies of

A m e r i c a n s a re en t i t l ed

to h ighe r benef i t s .

T h e largest c o n c e n -

t r a t i o n of d e a t h s c e n -

te r a r o u n d a f ew c o n -

t r a c t i n g c o m p a n i e s o r

a t leas t t h o s e f ew c o m -

pan ie s w h o a re r e p o r t -

ing w i t h fair rel iabil i ty

t h e d e a t h s of the i r e m -

ployees . P r imar i ly the

d e a t h s a re t h o s e of "in-

t e r p r e t e r s , d r ivers , se-

cu r i t y g u a r d s a n d o t h -

e r s u p p o r t p e r s o n n e l

w h o a re pa r t i cu la r ly

v u l n e r a b l e to attacks."

L - 3 C o m m u n i c a -

t i o n s r e p o r t s t h e larg-

est n u m b e r of d e a t h s .

A c c o r d i n g t o t h e

N e w York T i m e s , "If

L - 3 w e r e a c o u n t r y , it

w o u l d have t h e th i rd

h ighes t loss of life in

A f g h a n i s t a n as well as

in Iraq; on ly t h e U n i t e d S ta tes

a n d Bri ta in w o u l d exceed it in fa-

talities." O v e r t h e pas t 10 years ,

t h e y r e p o r t t h e d e a t h s of a p p r o x -

ima te ly 3 7 0 w o r k e r s , a n d 1,789

w h o have b e e n ser ious ly in ju red .

S u p r e m e G r o u p r e p o r t s 2 4 1

ca t e r e r s dead , a n d Serv ice E m -

ployees I n t e r n a t i o n a l r e p o r t s

125 ca t e r e r s d e c e a s e d . T h e secu -

r i ty c o m p a n i e s D y n C o r p s r e p o r t

101 d e c e a s e d . Aegis 86 d e c e a s e d .

News from the other Holland:

Dutch website invites complaints about immigrants

T H E N E W S I N Q U O T E S

"They put a stake in the heart of efforts to resolve this conflict peacefully." - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, speaking of China and Russia's veto of the resolution for Syria's Bashar al-Assad to step

down.

"Think of what happened after 9/11. The minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administra-tion because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat...that's exactly what they're do-ing now with Iran." - Ron Paul speaking in Ames, Iowa.

"It is going to fail... It is easier to see the sun tomorrow rising from the west than to see all these orders, all these mea-sures bringing us growth, bringing us to normal life." - Greek journalist Stylianos Chrysostomidis speaking of a Greek deal with the European

Union and the I.M.E

"If a women's employer is a charity or a hospital that has a religious objec-tion to providing con-traceptive services as a part of their health plan, the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity, will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive care free of charge." - President Barack Obama speaking at a White House press

conference.

"We can cut back on the things that we don't need, but we also have to make sure that everyone is pay-ing their fair share for the things that we do need." - President Obama, speaking at a community college after unveiling

a $3.8 trillion budget for 2013.

"It seems like the presi-dent has decided again to campaign instead of govern and that he's just going to duck this coun-try's fiscal problems." - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., after

Obama released his budget plan.

"The General Assembly is dangerously close to making Virginia the first state in the country to grant personhood rights to fertilized eggs." - Tarina Keene of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, after a Republi-can supermajority muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years through the Virginia

House.

Source : pa r t i s ans .u rg a n d foxlo lec lo .com

Cory Lakatos WORLD CO-EDITOR

A n e w w e b s i t e t h a t invi tes

D u t c h na t iona l s t o c o m p l a i n

a b o u t i m m i g r a n t s f r o m E a s t e r n

a n d C e n t r a l E u r o p e is c a u s i n g a

c o m m o t i o n in t h e N e t h e r l a n d s .

T h e site w a s c r e a t e d by t h e Free-

d o m Party, w h i c h o c c u p i e s t h e

radical r igh t of D u t c h pol i t ics .

" D o you h a v e p r o b l e m s

w i t h p e o p l e f r o m C e n t r a l a n d

E a s t e r n E u r o p e ? H a v e you

los t y o u r j o b to a Pole, Bulgar-

ian, R o m a n i a n or o t h e r Eas t -

e r n E u r o p e a n ? W e w a n t t o

know," says t h e site. Use r s l odge

t h e i r c o m p l a i n t s a n o n y m o u s -

ly. Ca t ego r i e s inc lude d o u b l e

p a r k i n g , loud a n d o b n o x -

ious m u s i c a n d d r u n k e n n e s s .

T h e E u r o p e a n C o m m i s s i o n

h a s c o n d e m n e d t h e F r e e d o m

Par ty ' s webs i te , a n d t h e Eu ro -

p e a n P a r l i a m e n t h a s s c h e d u l e d

a specia l deba te o n t h e issue fo r

M a r c h . Joseph Dau l , l e ade r of

t h e E u r o p e a n Peoples ' Par ty , h a s

s t rong ly c o n d e m n e d the site. "It

is aga ins t all E u r o p e a n a n d in-

d e e d h u m a n va lues t o a t tack a

g r o u p of p e o p l e in t h i s way. It

is reck less t o e n c o u r a g e h a t e

a n d d i sc r imina t ion , " h e said.

I r y n a K r e m i n , w h o w a s b o r n

in t h e U k r a i n e bu t h a s w o r k e d

in t h e N e t h e r l a n d s for 20 years ,

vo iced he r c o n c e r n s a b o u t t h e

webs i t e t o t h e BBC. "It is no t

jus t p e o p l e f r o m Russia a n d

P o l a n d w h o get d r u n k a n d

play l o u d m u s i c , is it? D u t c h

p e o p l e d o tha t , too," she said.

K r e m i n w o r r i e s tha t t h e

site e n c o u r a g e s d i s c r i m i n a t i o n

in t h e N e t h e r l a n d s . "In e v e r y

c o u n t r y t h e r e a re g o o d a n d b a d

p e o p l e , b u t t o have a si te t h a t

jus t t a rge t s p e o p l e f r o m East -

e r n E u r o p e a n d a sks p e o p l e

to say b a d t h i n g s a b o u t t h e m ,

it 's w r o n g a n d 1 don ' t t h ink

any g o o d c a n c o m e f r o m that."

D e s p i t e t h e w i d e s p r e a d o u t -

c r y aga ins t t h e F r e e d o m Party,

o v e r 40 ,000 r e s p o n s e s have

b e e n p o s t e d o n t h e webs i te .

G e e r t Wilder , t h e par ty ' s leader .

th i s list, A f g h a n i s t a n a n d I raq

s h o w paral lel t r e n d s t o w a r d

m o r e c o n t r a c t o r d e a t h s t h a n

mil i tary . A c o n t r i b u t i n g fac-

to r to th is ear ly t r e n d w a s the

r e d u c t i o n of A m e r i c a n t r o o p s .

Las t year saw t h e first reversa l

of th is t r e n d s ince it b e g a n , w i t h

54 so ld ie r s dy ing in I r aq as c o m -

p a r e d t o 4 1 p r iva te c o n t r a c t o r s .

T h e n u m b e r s fo r t h e d e a t h s

of pr iva te c o n t r a c t o r s a re d i f -

ficult t o accura te ly judge . T h e

r e c o r d s t a n d a r d s for p r iva te

c o n t r a c t o r s a re c u r r e n t l y low

a n d e x p e r t s s u s p e c t t h a t m a n y

c o n t r a c t o r s d o n o t m e e t even

t h e s e r e q u i r e m e n t s . S c h o o n e r

said, " N o o n e be l ieves we ' re u n -

d e r r e p o r t i n g mi l i t a ry d e a t h s .

Eve ryone be l ieves we ' re u n d e r -

r e p o r t i n g c o n t r a c t o r deaths ."

A c c o r d i n g t o t h e N e w York

T imes , A m e r i c a n d e f e n s e c o n -

t r a c t o r s a re r e q u i r e d to r e p o r t

s i tes th is as p roof t h a t D u t c h

v o t e r s a re us ing t h e site as a le-

g i t i m a t e ou t l e t fo r f r e e s p e e c h .

W i l d e r has to ld t h e Eu ro -

p e a n P a r l i a m e n t t o "get stuffed."

"They s h o u l d m i n d the i r

o w n business ," he said. " W e

are a sovere ign c o u n t r y ,

w e a re a d e m o c r a t i c pol i t i -

cal p a r t y a n d w e voice t h e

c o n c e r n s of m a n y Dutch."

I n t h e pas t , W i l d e r a n d h is

p a r t y have b e e n a c c u s e d of in-

c i t ing h a t e s p e e c h by l a sh ing

o u t aga ins t E u r o p e a n M u s l i m s .

S o m e obse rve r s , i nc lud ing

G o d f r i e d E n g b e r s e n , p ro fe s so r

of soc io logy a t E r a s m u s Un i -

vers i ty in R o t t e r d a m , be l ieve

t h a t t h e F r e e d o m P a r t y is n o w

s c a p e g o a t i n g E a s t e r n E u r o p e -

ans b e c a u s e s u p p o r t fo r its an t i -

Is lam p l a t f o r m is d i m i n i s h i n g .

S p e a k i n g t o t h e BBC, Eng-

b e r s e n spoke of t h e D u t c h

c o n t r o v e r s y in t e r m s t h a t a re

r e m i n i s c e n t of t h e d e b a t e over

i m m i g r a t i o n in t h e U n i t e d

Sta tes . "The Poles a re d o -

ing t h e jobs t h a t t h e D u t c h

p e o p l e d o n ' t w a n t t o d o t h e m -

selves. So t h e y a r e n o t s teal-

ing j o b s at all, b u t Mr. W i d e r

n e e d s to u n i t e t h e p e o p l e a n d

h e is us ing h a t e a n d f ea r t o d o

t h a t t o t ry a n d b o o s t h i s o w n

pol i t ica l suppor t , " h e said.

I m m i g r a t i o n h a s b e e n a h o t -

b u t t o n issue in t h e N e t h e r l a n d s

a n d o t h e r E u r o p e a n n a t i o n s

for yea r s . T h e na t iona l s ta t i s -

t ics b u r e a u e s t i m a t e s t h a t in

t h e N e t h e r l a n d s t h e r e a re cu r -

ren t ly 168,000 m i g r a n t s f r o m

M o r o c c o , 197,000 f r o m Turkey

a n d 300 ,000 f r o m C e n t r a l a n d

E a s t e r n E u r o p e . Of t h e lat-

t e r g r o u p , f ou r o u t of five mi -

g r a n t w o r k e r s a re f r o m Poland .

D u t c h P r i m e M i n i s t e r

M a r k Ru t t e h a s t h u s f a r nei-

the r c o n d e m n e d n o r sup -

p o r t e d t h e ac t ions of t h e Free-

d o m Party, m o s t likely b e c a u s e

h e n e e d s i ts s u p p o r t to keep

h is g o v e r n m e n t in power .

4 T H E A N C H O R WORLD FEBRUARY 2 2 , 2 0 1 2

T H I S W E E K I N H I S T O R Y

Feb. 19

1473: Copernicus, the founder of modern as-tronomy and originator of the heliocentric model of the solar system, is born.

1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs execu-tive order 9 0 6 6 , which leads directly to the establishment of intern-ment camps for Japanese Americans.

F e b . 2 0

1962: John Glenn Jr. becomes the first Ameri-can to orbit the Earth when he is successfully launched into space in the Friendship 7 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Feb. 21

1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Mani-festo" in London.

1916: The 10-month-long Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of World War I, begins at 7:12 a.m.

Feb. 22

2006: A gang of at least six men pulls off the larg-est robbery in British his-tory, stealing £53 million from the Securitas bank depot in Kent.

Feb. 23

1945: Marines raise the U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Suribachi on the Island of Iwo Jima dur-ing the battle between American and Japanese troops.

1954: Dr. Jonas Salk administers his new polio vaccine to students of Ar-senal Elementary School in Pittsburgh.

Feb. 24

1840: Former President John Quincy Adams be-gins arguing the Amistad case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1868: President Andrew Johnson becomes the first president in U.S. his-tory to be impeached.

F e b . 2 5

1948: President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia bows to pressure from the Communist Party and allows the organiza-tion of a communist-dominated government.

Source: history.com

The Euro crisis: A turning point Brent Wilkinson G U E S T W p r r E R

The Greek debt crisis may fi-

nally reach a tu rn ing poin t . On Friday, European heads of s tate

and f inance officials negotiated a se t t lement to relieve Greek debt .

The se t t lement would provide a bailout of 130 billion euros ($171

billion) to the Greek government ,

allowing it to redeem b o n d s wor th 14.5 billion euros ($19 bil-

lion) by their deadline of M a r c h

20. Rest ructur ing private-sector

debt would also provide mild ad-dit ional relief to the government .

Reactions to the announce -

m e n t were varied. The G e r m a n stock marke t DAX rallied sharp-

ly, gaining 1.4 percent . A Spiegel

poll of G e r m a n finance ministers, however, showed that the major -

ity were prepar ing themselves for

the failure of the proposal and the subsequent default of Greece.

Moreover , Friday's announce -

m e n t merely indicated lead-ers' confidence that they would

reach a set t lement . The details

of such a se t t lement n o w mus t

be worked out . In the past , lo-gistics have been the dea th of

many debt reduct ion proposals . A m o n g the many decisions

that have to be m a d e regarding

the se t t lement - perhaps mos t impor tant ly - the dis t r ibut ion

of the m o n e y m u s t be deter-

mined . Some leaders want to

wi thhold par t of the funds until af ter Greece's April elections.

In addi t ion to the dis t r ibu-

tion of funds , euro zone lead-ers are also seeking insti tutional

and policy reform f rom the

Greek government to ensure that the country 's debt contin-

ues to shrink. Further auster-

ity measures will no doubt be

included, bu t the exact condi-t ions of the bailout are unknown.

Curren t calculations indi-cate that the plan would reduce

Greece's debt to 129 percent of GDP by 2020, mean ing that even

if the plan is fully implemented , the nation would have a long way

to go to fix its systemic problems.

Leaders scheduled to mee t about these details on Sun-

day. Any se t t lement reached on Greek debt will have wide- reach-

ing effects across Europe and the world. G e r m a n bank officials fear

that if the value of Greek bonds is reduced too drastically, investors

will be less eager to purchase debt

f rom other struggling countr ies ,

such as Spain, Italy and Portugal. France and Italy hope to

reach a quick se t t lement in hopes that this will b r ing more

stability to Italy's unsteady debt

situation. French f i rms hold a

large vo lume of Italian bonds , so France is eager to prevent

any deter iora t ion of Italy's debt .

Greece itself has been deeply affected by the austeri ty mea-

sures required to control its debt.-

The last austeri ty package includ-

ed a 22 percent cu t in the mini-m u m wage and 150,000 govern-

m e n t layoffs. U n e m p l o y m e n t in Greece is at 21 percent and rising.

In an unrelated twist of irony,

the Greek central bank issued an a n n o u n c e m e n t reminding citi-

zens that they have until March

1 to t rade in any d r a c h m a s they

have for Euros. The 10-year t rade-in per iod for the old cur rency

ends on that day. Whi le the fu-

ture looks hopeful , any ho ldouts with a stash of d r a c h m a s may no t

want to t rade them in just yet.

Arab League calling for help with peacekeeping in Syria Shubham Sapko ta W O R L D C O - E D I T O R

A week af ter a U N Security

Counci l resolut ion was vetoed by Russia and China, the Arab

League is calling for a joint

peacekeeping force to end the 11-month conflict in Syria.

This peacekeeping force would be a joint effort by the

Arab League and U N peace-keeping forces. The proposal

was discussed at a meet ing in Cairo where the league

t r ied to focus on new ways in which they could d i m i n :

ish the b loodshed in Syria.

The ministers w h o adopted

the resolutions asked the Se-curity Counci l to allow a joint

Arab-Uni ted Nat ions force to

"supervise t he execution of a cease-fire." They have also ad-

vocated for t he Arab League

m e m b e r s to "halt all fo rms of d iplomat ic cooperat ion"

wi th t he Syrian government .

Fur thermore , they sup-

po r t ed the not ion of coop-erat ing and communica t ing

wi th Syrian opposi t ion and

providing all fo rms of politi-cal and financial suppor t to

them. However, the resolu-

t ion has no t yet specified what fo rm of suppor t it would

be, and nei ther has it rec-

ognized the Syrian National Council , which is the legiti-

ma te representat ive of Syr-

ian people in the opposit ion-While t he polit icians and

minis ters of the Arab League

have cont inued to focus on diplomatic efforts , the Syr-

ian government has m a d e clear that this negotiat ion is no t happening . The regime

stated on Sunday night that

it "completely rejected" any diplomatic approach to deal-

ing with what was going on. The Syrian ambassador

to the League, Yousef Ah-

mad , fu r ther s t reng thened their disapproval w h e n he

claimed tha t the decision re-flected "hysteria and confu-

sion" by the Arab League.

Moreover, it is unclear whether or no t t he Uni ted

Na t ions would actually ap-prove of such a mission. The

Securi ty Counci l has been

unwilling in the pas t to de-ploy peacekeeping missions

where there is n o peace to

keep. The Counci l is n o t uni ted in its s tance on h o w

to deal with t he si tuation in

Syria, as was evidenced w h e n Russia and China vetoed a

resolution this m o n t h which

called for an end to the vio-lence that is ongoing in Syria.

Regardless of wha t the

Uni ted Nat ions may do, Wes t -e rn and Arab League nat ions

have f o r m e d a "Friends of

Syria" contac t group, which is similar in na ture to t he g roup

that was used to pu t pressure

on Libya pr ior to the fall of the regime of M u a m m a r Gadafi.

It is going to take t ime to

see if Uni ted Nat ions along with the internat ional com-

muni ty will do anything to

in tervene in this issue; until now there was n o sign of that .

News Corp. investigated for bribery Megan Stevens S T A F F W R I T E R

The New York Times re-

por t s that on Saturday, Feb.

11, British authori t ies arrested

eight people in connec t ion with br ibery of public officials.

Five of the eight, accord-

ing to police, were employees of the British Tabloid The Sun,

mostly in senior posi t ions.

. Whi le names were no t re-

leased by the police, officers did conf i rm that one of those

ar res ted was a Surrey police officer. O t h e r s arrested in-

cluded a m e m b e r of the a rmed

forces and a civil servant

f rom the Minis t ry of Defense. The Surrey Police told jour-

nalists that they had handed

the mat ter over to the Inde-penden t Police Compla in t s

Commiss ion . The Minis t ry of Defense gave no commen t s .

According to the BBC, the

arrests were par t of the police case "Operat ion Elveden," which

was mean t to investigate br ibes

to police officers. Those ar-res ted were taken to police sta-

t ions in Essex, Kent, London, and Wiltshire for quest ioning.

An email sent to Sun em-

ployees gave the names of those arrested as Geoff Webster, a

deputy edi tor ; John Kay, chief re-por ter ; Nick Parker, t he paper 's

chief foreign cor responden t ; John Edwards, a p ic ture edi tor ;

and John Sturgis, a reporter.

Rupert Murdoch , cha i rman of The Sun's parent company News

Corp. , is reportedly flying to

Britain in the wake of the arrests . This is no t N e w s Corp.'s

first scandal. Last s u m m e r the

Since that t ime 21 people

have been arrested, nine of

w h o m worked for The Sun. A m o n g these were Rebekah

Brooks, the fo rmer C E O of

N e w s Corp. , and Andy Coulson, who, in addi t ion to formerly

serving as the editor of News

Corp.'s o w n News of the World,

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B R I B E R Y A L L E G A T I O N S — A p r o t e s t e r I m p e r s o n a t e s R u p e r t M u r d o c h . P r o t e s t s

t a r g e t i n g N e w s C o r p . b e g a n o n F e b . 1 7 o u t s i d e t h e c o m p a n y ' s h e a d q u a r t e r s .

News of the World, a now-

closed pape r the company

owned , was involved in the hacking of several voicemail

accounts, perhaps the mos t fa-m o u s being that of 13-year-old

Milly Dowler, a murder victim.

also served as an aide to Britain's

cu r ren t p r ime minister, David Cameron . News of the Wor ld

closed following public reaction

to the p h o n e hacking scandal. According to police, the

latest ar res ts c ame after the

homes of the alleged br ibers

were searched. N e w s Corp. has stated that it is offering

" immediate legal representa-

tion" to those arrested. Despite this, says the National Union

of Journalists, the paper re-

mains in a "witch hun t" state. According to the BBC, News

Corp. has also said that one of its

own depar tments , the Manage-m e n t and Standards Commi t -

tee, gave police t he informat ion

that led to the arrests . A fo rmer News Corp. official claimed

that the company had given

the police "receipts, expense reports , messages, and other

internal documents ." The New York Times repor ts that o ther

fo rmer employees feel that the

company is only "protect ing it-self and serving up journalists."

"Once again Rupert Mur-doch is t rying to pin the b lame

on individual journalists , hop-ing that a few scalps will sal-

vage his corpora te reputation,"

NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet told The Guardian .

"The developments show this is no longer only about

phone hacking. It goes to the

very hear t of corpora te gov-ernance of the company," said

Labour M P Tom Watson. All of the eight arrest-

ed are current ly ou t on bail. • a o n y i

FEBRUARY 2 2 , 2 0 1 2 ARTS T H E A N C E I O R 5

Theater shakes up DeWitt with Shaker production MacKenzle Anderson G U E S T W R I T E R

This week marks the opening

of "As It Is In Heaven," the mos t

recent H o p e College Theatre Depa r tmen t product ion . The

play will run Feb. 22 - Feb. 25. "As It Is In Heaven" by Arlene

Hut ton focuses on the w o m e n

of the Shaker communi ty of Pleasant Hill, Ky., du r ing a

t ime of religious revival and

conflict. Trouble arises within the communi ty when young

newcomers begin to express their spiritual beliefs in ways

which defy the strict Shaker

tradit ions. The play touches on a topic

to which s tudents can relate: the

expression and persecut ion of personal spiritual identity. The

Shakers found their identity in their spirituality and later in

iheir religious t radi t ions. With

the various f r eedoms that c o m e

with leaving home, o f ten one finds a need to def ine his or her

identity. S tudents o f ten connec t

their identi ty with their activities,

academics, f r iend groups, or, like the Shakers, th rough their

expression of spiritual beliefs.

The young w o m e n in this play encounte r opposi t ion f rom the

leaders of their communi ty when they express their faith in

radical ways. Directed by John Tammi,

"As It Is In Heaven" showcases

tradit ional Shaker worsh ip songs and d a n c e s dur ing scene

t ransi t ions. Elizabeth Dwyer (12) served as t he product ion 's

vocal director, teaching the various acapella Shaker songs

to the cast. Linda Graham of

the dance depar tmen t , who had previous experience with the

Shaker style of worship, served

as the choreographer for the

product ion . "The Shakers were bo th

admired and der ided - admired for their successful and

industr ious work ethic, their

aesthetic and func t iona l designs and their pragmat ic inventions;

at the same t ime they were

der ided for their eccentricit ies - one of which was dancing.

Through their shaking dances,

which eventually became highly

choreographed , they released

their tensions. Ecstatic dance

was also their plug-in to God. Through dance, they released themselves, and therefore

could open themselves to God,"

Graham said. "There is a long his tory of

ecstat ic dance in many faiths

serving as a direct condui t to

God. It is believed that the first dance was actually ritualized

for this purpose , and all o ther

forms, styles and concept ions of dance have s t e m m e d f rom this

sacred purpose," Graham said. Ten w o m e n comprise the

play's small cast , including

f r e shmen Rebecca Flinker and Taylor A n n Krahn; s o p h o m o r e s

Molly Coyle and Alexa Duimstra ;

juniors Laura Clement , Kaitlin Colburn, Kelsey Colburn, Sophia

Daly and Kaija Von Websky; and

Kara Williams, a senior. O n Friday there will be

a discussion panel after the

show. Audience m e m b e r s are

encouraged to stay after the pe r fo rmance to discuss the

p roduc t ion and the quest ions

it raises with professor Lynn Japinga, Deborah Schakel

and Diana Van

Kloken. Scene and

proper t ies were designed by

the resident scenic designer

Prof. Richard L.

Smith. C o s t u m e s were designed by director of

theatre and

resident cos tume designer Prof.

Michelle Bombe.

Lighting and sound were

designed by the

resident sound and lighting

designer and

manager of thea t re facilities

professor Perry

Landes. Andrew Gras, a junior, served as the

assistant lighting designer.

Tickets for "As It Is In Heaven" are $10 for regular

admission, $7 for senior cit izens

and H o p e faculty and staff and $5 for s tudents . Tickets are

PHOTO COURTESY OF M A C K E N Z I E ANDERSON

available at the ticket office in

the main lobby of the DeVos

Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays f rom 10 a.m. to 5

p.m., and may be called at (616)

395-7890.

Hope artist profile: photographer Ji-Hyun Jung Ben Lemmen G U E S T W R I T E R

W h a t i n s p i r e d you t o p ick u p a

c a m e r a as t h e too l f o r y o u r a r t ?

I'm just thinking of all the

t imes I was sitting in the back

seat of my mom's car when we're driving down the highway, and I

see the way that cer ta in c louds

are par t ing and the way the light hi ts them. N o mat te r wha t I say

to everybody else later in my life, they don ' t unders tand what

I saw in those m o m e n t s . They

don't unders tand the beauty that 1 saw. For some reason that is so

impor tan t to me - for people to

experience what o the r people's walks were like. It's in the little

things. 1 see it a lot in nature. I

suppose because, usually, that ' s someth ing that can't reoccur

again. I want to take that bit of

experience and share it wi th other people. 1 think that is wha t

inspires me.

W h a t a r e s o m e ways you t r y t o d i s t i ngu i sh you r work?

I th ink what makes my work

different is that I like to capture

the "in be tween moments." I like to capture what you see while

you're experiencing something; bu t never thought a picture

could capture it. The m o m e n t

someone laughed, or the m o m e n t someone cried, or the

smell of a cake when someone cuts it at a wedding. I try to

capture all those other essences when in reality, a picture is jus t

the sight. So, when you look at a picture, you can hear that

baby laughing because at that m o m e n t it was legitimately

laughing.

You o f t e n u s e p e o p l e as you r sub jec t s . A r e t h e r e o t h e r

ob jec t s , o r t h e m e s , t h a t you

e n j o y c a p t u r i n g ?

I really like na ture and archi tecture. W h i c h is funny

because they're two completely

opposi te things; one is m a n -m a d e and one is God-made .

But I like na ture because I know

that it's so temporary . Like the m o m e n t s when I'm walking after

the rain and there's those little

d e w drople ts on a tree. Things that are so t empora ry that I

know I need to cap tu re them, I like that . I like archi tecture

because... things so sharp and shiny just look really cool

on camera . (Laughs) I guess

there 's no other way to really

explain that one.

W h a t ou t l e t s a r e you us ing t o get y o u r w o r k o u t t o t h e

gene ra l pub l i c?

Obviously a lot of media .

I actually never wanted my

work to go anywhere. It was honestly just more convenient

to have a website for people

to pu t an inquiry into me . I never mean t it to be a

big business, bu t I've had to decline so many clients

because I'm a ful l - t ime s tudent . A business is no t someth ing

I in tended to pursue; just someth ing that 's on the side.

Facebook also works like magic, if you know h o w to

work it r ight as a tool. I have a page on there, and r emember

that I got like 600 fans in a few days, bu t I did no t intend that at all. There are a lot of avenues

th rough there. Like, randomly 1 got a call wi th in the first week

of making my website. It was a

person in California and they told m e that they had found my

informat ion on the back of a C D

in a hair salon. I was like, " W h a t is my informat ion doing there?!"

All I did was make a website. I didn't advertise it by any means .

I didn't do business cards or

anything. The world's crazy.

So, c o u l d you see p h o t o g r a p h y as a poss ib le c a r e e r p a t h ?

It's funny because so many people ask, "So, you're major ing

s h o o t w i t h usual ly?

I shoot with a Canon . It's really funny because Photoshop

does magic. People think I have one of those C a n o n 50D's.

I don' t . I actually have a T2i Rebel Canon . It's pret ty average;

a lmost anyone can get their

h a n d s on one. If you're t rying to be a photographer , usually

the beginners have that camera.

But it's a lot of Pho toshop that gets my work done, especially

because you can't control

PHOTO COURTESY OF J I - H Y U N JUNG

S M I L E ! — Jl-Hyun Jung ( 1 3 ) shows of f her goofy sel f In f ron t of t he

camera .

in photography?" And 1 respond with, "Nope, no t at all

actually." But honestly it's really

convenient to have; if all else fails in life 1 can always have

photography as a fallback. So, I don ' t see it as the center of where

I go, bu t I know it will always be someth ing of a hobby. I really

don ' t in tend to have a business with it. Then again, I can't limit

God, so you never know.

W h a t e q u i p m e n t d o you u s e t o

weather.

Does you r c rea t ive p roce s s

ever b e c o m e o ld o r f o r c e d ?

W r i t e r s o f t e n ge t w r i t e r ' s b lock - is t h e r e s u c h a t h i n g as

p h o t o g r a p h e r ' s b lock?

I would think so. I haven't

got ten there yet, because I like

to th ink that creativity can be found anywhere. But yes, there definitely is. Especially

for people who have a very

limited avenue. If people are

wedding photographers or baby photographers , then there's only

so many t imes you can have a mother ' s belly in f ront of a

"Bump" sign. O r the baby blocks on the belly. After a while you're

like, "Okay, every cus tomer is

get t ing the same thing, I want someth ing fresh, but don't know

what else to do." But I th ink that when you are truly creative, you

don ' t look at all t he websites,

get inspired by people, and try to imitate it; you do your own

thing. You see things the way no o n e has seen someth ing

before.

A n y advice f o r a sp i r i ng

p h o t o g r a p h e r s ?

I would say to literally just

pick up a camera and go for it. I've had so many people

c o m e up to me and say, "I

see things and I want to take

pictures, bu t I know I'm no t a good photographer." Well,

how do you know? They say, "I'm just no t artistic."

But have they ever tried? The th ing is, photography is

so different than any other fo rm of art because you don ' t have to recreate it; you

just have to see and know how to feel it. Honestly, I

think it's a passion that a lot

of people can pursue , and it's

a lifelong thing. I really would consider it for anyone. If it was

paint ing or someth ing like that , I would maybe say someth ing

different. But just go for it, and

practice. N o one can teach you to be a good photographer ; you just have to keep working at it.

Check out her work at www.

j jungphotography.com.

6 T H E A N C H O R

H o p © s l t yde rn l t e h m bm Hope Grows helps orphans grow own food

" H o p e Grows" is a non-pro f i t

o rganiza t ion that s o p h o m o r e

Collen Qu ick ('14) developed last

s u m m e r as par t of the H o p e En-

t r ep reneu r sh ip Initiative.

T h e A n c h o r : W h e r e d id you get

the idea for " H o p e Grows?"

C o l l e e n Q u i c k : W h e n I w a s 8, I

s t a r t ed go-

ing to Juarez

Mex ico on

mission t r ips

wi th m y

church . The

t r ips were led

by my fa ther

and we w o u l d

go abou t four

t imes a year.

In 2008, m y

dad s t a r t ed a non -p ro f i t organi-

za t ion called Amigos in Cris to"

which is an a f t e r school p r o g r a m

that helps keep chi ldren off of

the s t reets . Amigos in Cr is to

feeds the chi ldren, he lps t h e m d o

h o m e w o r k , does Bible lessons,

plays games and provides life skill

classes.

My senior year in high school .

Name: Colleen Quick

Year: Sophomore ,

Hometown: Springfield, 111.

Major: Undecided

I lived in Juarez for the s u m m e r at

an o r p h a n a g e . O n e of the p rob-

lems I no t iced at the o r p h a n a g e

is tha t some of t h e m rely c o m -

pletely on f o o d d o n a t i o n s f rom

d ie Uni ted States. If they didn ' t

receive green beans or vegetables

that week , then t hey wouldn ' t

have any heal thy food. M y dad's

c o m m u n i t y centers s ta r ted gar-

dens and I

t h o u g h t it

would b e a

g o o d idea

to s ta r t

g a r d e n s

at the or-

p h a n a g e s

a n d teach

the chil-

d r en h o w

to g row

their own food .

T h e A n c h o r : W h y a re you pas-

s ionate abou t this cause?

C Q : I a m really pass iona te abou t

chi ldren w h o are living in pover-

ty a n d feeding the hungry . It has

always been a heavy b u r d e n on

m y hear t knowing that 1 have so

m u c h at t h e t ips of m y f ingers and

t hen the re are chi ldren w h o don ' t

even eat a meal a day. W h i l e liv-

ing at the o rphanage ,

I f o r m e d close rela-

t ionships with the

chi ldren and k n e w

that I w a n t e d to do

s o m e t h i n g to help.

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t

were the initial s teps

in get t ing the ga rdens

s ta r ted?

C Q : This pas t s u m -

mer, I w e n t to Juarez

two d i f fe rent t imes

wi th m y fa ther and

s o m e people f r o m my

church . Together we

built ga rdens at two

dif ferent o r p h a n a g e s

and got p lan ts f r o m

t h e c o m m u n i t y center to plant .

W e also hi red a ga rden manage r

w h o oversees t h e gardens . He has

t augh t t h e chi ldren how to plant

a n d w h e n to water the c rops .

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t is^grown and

how is the ga rden main ta ined?

C Q : The main th ings tha t are

g rown are chilles, t oma toes ,

onions , c i lant ro and peppers ,

this go ing in the fu ture?

C Q : As of r ight now, I 'm not

entirely sure, b u t I definitely

i

m m

which are all foods they eat a

t o n of in Mexico. The chi ldren

at the o r p h a n a g e s wa te r the

c r o p s every day in the m o r n i n g

a n d then pull t h e m w h e n they a re

ready.

T h e A n c h o r : W h e r e d o you see

PHOTOS COURTESY OF COLLEEN Q U O

w a n t to see a g r eenhouse built

in Juarez and hopeful ly get a

couple of o the r orphanages

gardens . ... Taking this to big

organ iza t ions is definitely a

possibility, b u t for right now

I'm t ry ing to take it one s tep at

a t ime.

Fashion blog evolves into social media marketing effort

PHOTO COURTESY OF E M I HATTORI

Name; Ziye Liy Name; Emi Amy Hattori

Year; Senior Year; Senior

Hometown; Chong Qing, China Hometown; Los Angeles

Major: Public Accounting Major; Psychology and Japanese

H o p e s tuden t a n d th r i f t s tore

fashionis ta Emi Ha t to r i ('12)

r eached in te rne t f ame w i th he r

blog, "Today I W o r e at Hope."

Following the blog's success .

The A n c h o r asks Hat tor i abou t

the blog's beginnings , as well as

its social ne twork ing plans for

the fu ture . C o m b i n i n g her f r iend

Ziye Liu's ('12) bus iness skills with

the o p p o r t u n i t i e s of the In te rne t ,

Ha t to r i h o p e s to expand fu r t he r

into the b logosphere .

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t is "Today I

W o r e at Hope" and how did you

get the idea for it?

E m i H a t t o r i : "Today I W o r e at

Hope" is a fashion blog I s ta r ted

wi th my f r iends . I love going to

thr i f t s tores and wan ted to keep a

record of m y outf i t s because af ter

you wear an outf i t once , n o one 's

going to r e m e m b e r it.

Initially I would take p ic tures

of myself and my f r iends but t hen

I would see s t rangers o n c a m p u s

a n d th ink to myself, "Hey, her

outf i t looks really nice," so I s tar t -

ed tak ing p ic tures of t h e m as well.

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t type of re-

sponse did you get for T I W A H ?

reached over 13,000 pos t views. I

t hough t that G o d was telling m e

"this could b e something," b u t I

wasn ' t sure wha t .

T h e A n c h o r : H o w did you tu rn

T I W A H in to a bus iness venture?

EH: O n e day I m e n t i o n e d TI-

W A H to my f r iend Ziye and

she was very in teres ted in it,

so we sat down, talked abou t

it and dec ided tha t w e wan ted to

m a k e s o m e type of bus iness o u t

of it.

Originally we w a n t e d to take

T I W A H and work toward t u rn -

ing it in to a ne twork ing company .

We h o p e d that it could p o p u p at

o the r colleges and there would

be a "Today I W o r e at Calvin or

a "Today I W o r e at G r a n d Valley."

However we quickly realized tha t

we could only get advert- is ing

revenue w h i c h is supe r hard to

get . O u r n e w idea is to be a social

m e d i a marke t i ng c o m a n y where

w e package the in fo rmat ion of

how to utilize Facebook a n d

f r anch i se it to local businesses .

Big c o m p a n i e s have the resourc-

es to hire big social media ex-

per t s , b u t small local businesses ,

like d o w n t o w n Holland, don ' t

have the resources and the m o n e y

to d o tha t . W e though t tha t we

could help t h e m utilize Facebook

m o r e and drive traffic to their

bus iness .

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t do each of

you individually br ing to the busi-

ness?

EH: Wi th in its first week, T I W A H EH: I love be ing creat ive b u t don ' t

have any bus iness background

like Ziye does . W e combined

o u r abilities a n d f o r m e d a team

where she handles the businesss

side a n d I handle the creativity.

T h e A n c h o r : Have you got te r

any type of response f r o m loca

businesses?

EH: Wha t ' s crazy is tha t the

day af ter we f o r m e d tha t idea

the Hol land Rescue Mis-

sion called [Hope] and were

looking for s o m e o n e to help

t h e m wi th social media . Wc

m e t and will b e he lp ing then-

m a k e Facebook pages and help

t h e m upda t e t h e m in o rde r tc

p r o m o t e the i r business , drive

traffic and a t t rac t potent ia l cus-

tomers .

T h e A n c h o r : W h e r e do you set

this ven tu re going?

EH: I would like to pu r sue thi*

af ter 1 graduate . I do not ex

acdy know where this is going

We are still in the expe r imen ta

phase. If this is successful anc

I a m s o m e h o w able to make

m o n e y of of this, I really w a n t tc

pu r sue it.

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t makes yot

qualified to d o this job?

EH: Mos t college s tuden t s a n

good at using social media

however, knowing how to mar

ket t h r o u g h social media infor

mat ion is different . W e have the

knowledge of how to use socia

media and how to sucessfull)

marke t th rough it.

FEBRUARY 2 2 , 2 0 1 2 7

s tness i i d t e o s t n t o r e d l t t y Lifestyle branding company ignites Great Lakes passian A l e e s a R i b b o n s FEATURES EDITOR

It doesn ' t m a t t e r w h e t h e r you ' re

t a lk ing a b o u t Lakes Mich igan ,

H u r o n , Super ior , O n t a r i o o r Erie;

A c c o r d i n g to sen ior Kylen Blom

('12), " w h e t h e r sailing, sp lash ing ,

fishing o r gaz ing , you k n o w w h a t

y o u r lake is. Pa r t of tha t lake is in

you, w h i c h m a k e s it yours ."

G r e a t Lake p r i d e h a s i n sp i r ed

Blom a n d H o l l a n d local, J o n a t h a n

K o o p , t o deve lop "My G r e a t Lake"

a l ifestyle

b r a n d i n g

c o m p a n y tha t

s t r ives n o t

only t o igni te

p a s s i o n a b o u t

t h e G r e a t

Lakes, bu t

to s h o w tha t

each o n e is

u n i q u e a n d

w o r t h be ing

ce l eb ra t ed .

T h e

c o m p a n y

o f fe r s appa re l

( T - s h i r t s ,

l o n g - s l e e v e s ,

s w e a t - s h i r t s

a n d st ickers)

t a i lo red t o

f e a t u r e e a c h

of t h e five

g rea t lakes.

W h i l e

m o s t H o p e

s t u d e n t s

spen t t h e

week of finals

c r a m m i n g

fo r e x a m s o r

t y p i n g o u t

the i r p a p e r s ,

Blom u s e d h is

s tudy b reaks

to d e s i g n

T - s h i r t s a n d

l a u n c h a

webs i t e in

p r e p a r a t i o n

fo r the i r initial

"sof t launch,"

tha t w e n t live in D e c e m b e r .

As the p u r c h a s e s s t a r t e d

rol l ing in, B lom said tha t t h e y

t h o u g h t , " th is cou ld really be

s o m e t h i n g . Let 's k e e p going." T h e

resu l t : B lom a n d Koop e x p a n d e d

the i r i n v e n t o r y to inc lude long-

s l eev t s , swea t sh i r t s a n d s t ickers .

A p o r t i o n of e a c h sale m a d e

is d o n a t e d to a G r a n d H a v e n

b a s e d n o n - p r o f i t o rgan i za t i on

cal led "The Al l iance fo r t h e G r e a t

Lakes." T h e c o m p a n y ' s p u r p o s e

is to p r b t e c t a n d c o n s e r v e t h e

G r e a t Lakes a n d dea l w i t h

e v e r y t h i n g f r o m »the a m o u n t of

w a t e r tha t is t a k e n o u t of t h e m ,

to t h e p o l l u t a n t s tha t a re p laced

i n t o . t h e m , spec ie s t h a t invade

t h e w a t e r s a n d c l ean ing up t h e

s h o r e s . Blom says t h e y s u p p o r t

t h e c o m p a n y b e c a u s e it a l igns

w i t h the i r pas s ion .

"The r e a s o n tha t w e d idn ' t

s t a r t a non-pro f i t , " said Blom, "is

t h a t t h e r e a re a l r eady a lot of n o n -

SUPERIOR I MICHIGAN I HURON I ERIf I ONTARIO

pro f i t s o u t t h e r e w h o a re a l r eady

d o i n g grea t work." In t h e end ,

t h e y r e a s o n e d tha t "we'll let t h e m

do w h a t t hey ' r e g o o d at a n d we'll

d o w h a t we ' re g o o d at, a n d in t h e

e n d , t h e G r e a t Lakes will be even

better."

S ince t h e initial l a u n c h of t h e

c o m p a n y , "My G r e a t Lake" h a s

sold over 300 sh i r t s a n d a c c o r d i n g

to Blom, they a l ready have p lans

t o t ake the c o m p a n y even f u r t h e r .

An initial s t ep w a s e n t e r i n g the i r

bus ines s in t h e G r a n d Rapids

even t "5x5" w h i c h p r e s e n t e d five

d i f f e ren t c o m p a n i e s w i t h t h e

o p p o r t u n i t y to p i t ch the i r idea

to a pane l of five j u d g e s to win

$5,000 in g r an t m o n e y t o s u p p o r t

the i r c o m p a n y . W h i l e t h e y m i g h t

no t have w o n t h e g r a n d pr ize ,

they did walk away w i t h $2,000.

Fol lowing g r a d u a t i o n , Blom

p lans t o f o c u s h is t i m e o n

e x p a n d i n g h is c o m p a n y o u t s i d e

of Ho l l and . Th i s s u m m e r , h e p l ans

o n t a k i n g a

r o a d t r ip to

the ci t ies

tha t a re

o n t h e

s h o r e s of

the G r e a t

Lakes .

" I ' m

go ing to be

t r a v e l i n g

a r o u n d all

of t h e G r e a t

Lakes a n d

a t t e n d i n g

d i f f e r e n t

t ypes of

fes t ivals a n d

d i f f e r e n t

t o w n s a n d

c o m m -

unities," said

Blom.

"I w a n t

to sha re o u r

s t o ry w i t h

t h e m , tell

t h e m w h a t

w e a re d o i n g

a n d t ry to

get p e o p l e

e x c i t e d

a b o u t it

b e c a u s e

it's a n e w

th ing , it's

a n e w idea

a n d p e o p l e

a re j u s t

s t a r t i n g to

get exc i ted

LOGO BY KYLEN BLOM a b o u t it."

If all goes a c c o r d i n g to p lan ,

t h e n r e s iden t s of H o l l a n d c a n

look f o r w a r d t o a festival at t h e

c u l m i n a t i o n of the r o a d tr ip.

B lom h o p e s t h a t the fest ival will

i nc lude act ivi t ies such as sailing,

kayaking, vol leybal l t o u r n a m e n t s

a n d o t h e r types of cha l l enges .

" W e w a n t to t h r o w a b ig par ty ,

no t on ly as a t h a n k y o u to t h e

c o m m u n i t y , bu t a lso as a w a y

t o say ' eve ryone ge t ready, it's

go ing to be sweet, '" said Blom.

"If it t akes off a n d if w e

e n o u g h in te res t over t h e

s u m m e r a n d find t h e

r ight c o n n e c t i o n s , I

wou ld love to s t a r t

p u t t i n g

t o g e t h e r

s o m e

fest ivals fo r t h e

next s u m m e r

for each lake ...

I w a n t peop le to

e x p e r i e n c e m o r e

ac t iv i t ies o n t h e

lakes t h a n they

ever have before."

W h i l e

M i c h i g a n d e r s

m i g h t t h i n k of the

G r e a t Lakes in

t e r m s of t h e lakes

t h a t b o r d e r s ta te

of Mich igan , Blom

s t resses tha t h i s

bus ines s is no t jus t

a b o u t M i c h i g a n

pr ide .

" W e are f o c u s e d

o n M i c h i g a n jus t

as m u c h as w e

a re f o c u s e d o n

W i s c o n s i n , N e w

York, I n d i a n a a n d

Ohio." B e c a u s e

H o p e Col lege is

l oca t ed so c lose to

Lake Mich igan , it

is easy fo r s t u d e n t s

to t ake thei r access

t o f r e s h w a t e r for

g r a n t e d .

"It is i m p o r t a n t to

t ake t i m e to a p p r e c i a t e

t h e lakes w e have b e e n

b lessed wi th a n d en joy

w h a t t h e y have to

offer," c o n c l u d e d Blom.

For m o r e

i n f o r m a t i o n o n " M y

G r e a t Lake," o r t o o r d e r

y o u r appare l , visit

w w w . m y g r e a t l a k e

o n l i n e . c o m .

Name; Kylen Blom

Year; Senior

Hometown: Holland

Major; Business Management & Communications

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8 THI ANC"OR—VOICES FEBRUARY 2 2 , 2 0 1 2

Staying Young Christopher Russ

Co Editor-in-Chief

I've always perce ived college as the t ime w h e n you

finish the t rans i t ion f rom be ing a kid into be ing an

adult . But recently I've no t iced tha t even as a senior,

I don ' t really v iew myself as an adult . A n d looking at

my c lassmates , I don ' t see anyone else w h o I th ink of

as an adul t .

Sure I th ink I 'm generally responsible , a n d based o n

m y age I'm legally an adul t , b u t w h e n I th ink of myself,

t h e t e r m "college kid" p o p s u p in m y m i n d .

I th ink that a large pa r t of this self percep t ion can

b e a t t r ibu ted to t h e fact tha t society n o longer expec ts

a lot f r o m peop le in my age bracket . Even on a legal

level, hea l thcare laws have b e e n modi f ied to allow m e

to r ema in unde r my parent ' s coverage.

M o s t people don ' t s e e m to be in a h u r r y to reach

the t radi t ional mi les tones of life: g radua t ing college,

leaving h o m e , get t ing mar r i ed , hav ing a child a n d

reach ing financial i n d e p e n d e n c e .

That s o u n d s like a lot of things to accompl ish ,

but accord ing to U.S. C e n s u s data col lected in 1960,

77 pe rcen t of w o m e n a n d 65 pe rcen t of men had

accompl i shed all of these things by age 30. By 2000,

these pe rcen tages d r o p p e d absurdly to 4 6 percen t for

w o m e n and 31 percen t for men .

I know tha t a lot of this pe rcen tage d r o p is the result

of choice and not a lack of a ccompl i shmen t . A n u m b e r

of my p e e r s seem to th ink tha t mar r i age and chi ldren

are th ings that a p e r s o n d o e s once they're d o n e hav ing

fun .

S : — — "1

College has b e e n m a r k e t e d by Hol lywood as

everyone's last c h a n c e to b e a kid a n d people seem to

be ca r ry ing this mindse t in to their post-col lege lives.

There is no th ing w r o n g with taking s o m e t i m e before

you "settle down" and the re is n o t h i n g w r o n g wi th

n o t w a n t i n g to "settle down" at all. But th is desire to

pu r sue pe r sona l in teres ts n e e d s to b e t e m p e r e d wi th

responsibility, and based on the n u m b e r of pos t -

college g radua tes w h o are still rel iant on the i r pa ren t s ,

this is not happen ing .

Before people take the t ime to chase their d reams ,

they n e e d to ea rn that oppor tun i ty . Sure the cost of

college is t r e m e n d o u s a n d it's fine to get helping paying

for it, b u t if you are get t ing he lp f r o m your paren ts , that

deb t implies a responsibi l i ty to work ha rd to just i fy our

paren ts ' financial sacrifices.

Even w i thou t cons ider ing the financial

responsibi l i t ies of many college s tudents , there seems

to b e a genera l lack of perspec t ive o n what being a

S E E Y O U N G , P A G E 9

10 things (not) to do when meeting someone famous

Alex Brennan Columnis t

1) W h e n wai t ing m a k e sure you go to the b a t h r o o m

be fo rehand . There is n o t h i n g worse than having to pee

just m i n u t e s be fo re your favori te celebrity shows up.

Also, it dec r ea se s t h e c h a n c e tha t you will wet yourself

w h e n you see t h e m .

2) M a k e sure tha t you are indeed mee t ing a celeb-

rity. t will be slightly e m b a r r a s s i n g w h e n you c o n f r o n t a

comple t e s t ranger th ink ing they are f a m o u s w h e n they

are in fact no t . 3) D o not mis take ano the r celebrity for s o m e o n e else.

Do n o t be tha t p e r s o n tha t is tak ing a p ic tu re wi th some-

one just because eve ryone else is. A n d for the sake of

eve ryone involved, ask w h o they are whi le you are get-

t ing their au tog raph .

4) D o n o t be a mime . Th rus t i ng your pen a n d pape r

in the celebrity's face, whi le smiling, is n o t a good idea.

Try hav ing a n o r m a l conversat ion. Ask h o w their day

is going or thank t h e m for tak ing the t ime to sign your

used Kleenex.

5) Think before you speak. There is no th ing worse

t han mee t ing s o m e o n e and b lur t ing o u t the first t h o u g h t

that p o p s into your bra in w h e n you have wa tched on -

sc reen for years . It's usually s o m e t h i n g s tupid. For ex-

ample: 6) Don ' t yell, "I w a n t to have your baby!" This is just

u n c o m f o r t a b l e for you, the celebri ty and the ent i re

c r o w d you have so willingly a n n o u n c e d you r des i res

to. The fol lowing c o m m e n t s are also unacceptable : Talk

dir ty to me. You're be t te r looking onsc reen . How's you r

ex-wife. You are m y God . Will you m a r r y me? I ha te

you. Can I have you r au tograph? Can you he lp m e wi th

my m a t h h o m e w o r k ?

7) Really th ink before you speak . I m e a n it. W h e n you

have scr ip ted w h a t you are going to say, m a k e sure to say

exactly w h a t you plan. I 'm not kidding. In the m o m e n t it

is really ha rd to r e m e m b e r w h a t you have p lanned , b u t

really really just stick to your scr ip t . O the rwi se , you'll

say s o m e t h i n g like: "I've always w a n t e d to m e e t you for-

ever! Will you b e m y f r iend? This is a d r e a m c o m e true!

You're real, like right he re in f ron t of me! I can ' t believe

this is happen ing! O h m y G o d , I love you."

8) D o n o t c ry in f ron t of said celebrity. S o m e people

will tell you tha t it is f lattering, b u t I c a n n o t urge you

enough to keep your c o m p o s u r e . You will look r idicu-

lous and the celebrity might th ink you are crazy.

9) Do n o t take three s teps away f r o m the celebrity

a n d wi th your back t u r n e d to t hem, d o your happy

d a n c e a n d sc ream. They can still hear you and they can

still see you. You will look r idiculous. If it makes you feel

better , you can tell yourself they apprec ia te the en thus i -

a sm and the in ten t ions of your act ions, b u t they d o no t .

10) Do not u n d e r any c i r cums tances a t t emp t to ca-

ress their face. This will e n d poor ly for you every t ime .

You will b e s lapped wi th a res t ra in ing o rde r at bes t , if

you a re lucky. You can however , accidently b rush h a n d s

w h e n get t ing their au tograph .

Alex met Alan Rickman ("Harry Potter," "Sweeney Todd") last weekend. She did NOT do any'of these things.

A life worth living Intentionality

• Marc Tori Columnis t

Do you r emember SOPA and PIPA? They were bills in t roduced in the U.S. Congress

that would censor content on the Internet , among other things. They were highly con-

troversial, but it w a s clear that Internet users were not in favor. Several people changed

their Facebook profile pictures and tweeted about the injustice of censoring the Internet .

The uprising in response to SOPA and PIPA shocked me. I've never seen people so

passionate against legislation before. Congress quickly scrapped the bills and the whole

event soon faded f rom our minds .

N o w I'm wonder ing how we can resurrect that passion. Injustice happens all a round

us in society. Mo^t of it, in my opinion, is m u c h worse than SOPA and PIPA. I don't see

nearly the same level of action being taken against any of it. W h e r e has all our passion

gone? Aren' t we college s tudents learning to take roles of leadership and service into a

global society? In my cultural heri tage class, we read the Greek tragedy "Medea." In this play, Medea

is an extremely passionate woman. So passionate, in fact, that because she cannot stand

the thought of her husband leaving her she kills her two children and herself. If she can't

b e happy, no one can. Her husband, Jason, is so logical, reasonable and impassionate that

he does nothing except grieve at what h e lost.

These two characters were but of balance. The author, Euripides, has a message for us

A N C H O R

today: Don't b e like Medea and don't be like Jason. Balance your reason and passion. If I

was honest , I diink most of us need to shift more toward the Medea side (but please, not

too far!). We shouldn't be so n u m b to injustice that we d o nothing, yet we can't be loose

cannons either. W e can start by finding something to be passionate about. Dance Mara thon is coming

up. Fundraising for those kids and families is wor th being passionate about. Start going

to H o p e United for Justice meetings. Find a local place to volunteer. There are causes ev-

erywhere a round us that need our at tention. W h a t meaningful things have you done this

school year? Have you left a lasting impact? If we could sustain the short burs t of passion we had against SOPA and PIPA for a

semester, we would change the world. I'm serious. Don't underes t imate the impor tance

of speaking out , showing up, or giving money. Some working adults see college s tudents

as unreliable and uninterested. We can change that. W e can show them we are different.

Join with me in showing continuous, sustained passion for a cause. The presidential

elections are coming up soon. I say we star t asking some tough quest ions of the m e n w h o

want to lead our country. Don't wait until November to educate yourself on the issues. It's

o u r civic duty to be involved in choosing our leaders. I hope my words don't fall on deaf ears. W h a t we do now echoes in eternity. Each day,

each week, each semester is too impor tan t to blow off. So please, find the passion God has

placed in your hear t and share it with the world. As Mar t in Luther King Jr. once said. O u r

lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."

Marc is passionate about sustainability and taking care of creation. Don't you dare throw away recyclables!

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The study abroad column: Aye Awrite, ola, bonjour , hei, hej, hello to you f r o m th is

brisk city of Aberdeen , Scot land, a city w h o s e light cer-

tainly does no t c o m e f r o m the sun but ra ther the m a n y

cul tures represen ted here. Aberdeen 's skies are usually

gray, b r i m m i n g with rain, sleet and hail, bu t , s o m e days,

the sun sh ines in a nearly cloudless blue sky, a pleasant

r e m i n d e r for m e tha t G o d con t inues to smile d o w n on

Scodand , at least some t imes .

T h e University of A b e r d e e n is overf lowing with stu-

den t s f r o m a r o u n d the world, f r o m h u n d r e d s of differ-

en t count r ies , wi th a million different stories. T h e buses

swell wi th conversat ion be tween fr iends, famil ies a n d col-

leagues—a steady h u m of Spanish, French, Russian, Pol-

ish, Finnish and o the r languages ove rpower ing the h a r s h

r u m b l e of the cobbles tone benea th the wheels . It s e e m s

as if, wi th each passing m o m e n t , I a m in t roduced to a dif-

ferent language, a n e w cul ture, a f r e sh perspect ive. S o m e

days it is hard to believe that I l anded in Scot land.

The re are six of us in my cozy, albeit modes t , flat - t w o

f r o m Metz , France; one f r o m Glasgow, Scodand; one f r o m

Edinburgh , Scodand; one f r o m Joensuu, Finland, and me.

I wake up every m o r n i n g t o a s m o o t h melody of French

be ing spoken in the k i tchen and m a n a g e to gree t the girls

gracelessly, "Bonjour , ca va bien?" Together, w e enjoy

toas t wi th j am, f ru i t juice a n d laughter - a g o o d way to

begin the day. O n Tuesdays and Fridays, 1 have Muni" - simply pu t , class. ^ j i r-u k Cf T h e walk t o c a m p u s takes m e d o w n a m u d d y trail alongside the River Don, t h r o u g h t h e sprawling a n d green Seaton Park, up a hill p a s t the e n o r m o u s Cathedra l C h u r c h of St.

M a c h a r (built in the 1130s), and d o w n cobbles tone roadways lined with h u m b l e cottages, small pubs , a n d bakeries. I enjoy four h o u r s of lectures o n Victorian a n d Scott ish litera-

tu re o n Tuesdays, and I i m m e r s e myself in the analysis and discussion of the mater ia l in the f o u r - h o u r tutor ials on Fridays. My schedule is m u c h m o r e relaxed t h a n 1 am u s e d to

at Hope , so every day is a surprise, an ex t raord inary explorat ion filled wi th m o r e aimless w a n d e r i n g a n d w o n d e r m e n t t h a n any th ing else. It is a t rue joy to lose myself in this place.

Each day c o m e s a n d goes, last ing m o m e n t s and years, a confus ion of t ime and space that t h rows m y body a n d m i n d off balance. Aye. I know tha t I am in Scotland; s o m e t i m e s it

simply takes slowing d o w n for it to b e c o m e a reality. O t h e r t imes , I m u s t hike to the N o r t h Sea ? n d s tand o n the edge of the world, gazing ou t at no th ing and at everything, s t ra ining

toward Poland a n d Russia, so far f r o m h o m e and so very small, yet taking par t in so big a n adventure . Such a s t range feeling it is. W h a t a beaut i ful life w e live.

Rips and Tears

Kate Schrampfer Columni s t

W i n t e r b r e a k w a s s u p p o s e d to b e a f u n , re lax ing coup le of days . I h a d a f ew se t

p l a n s bu t left lo t s of r o o m fo r s p u r - o f - t h e - m o m e n t dec i s ions , n a p s a n d even a little

h o m e w o r k . But t h i n g s c h a n g e d p re t ty quickly early on Sa tu rday m o r n i n g . I n s t ead of

w a k i n g u p t o t h e s u n s t r e a m i n g in m y big, s o u t h - f a c i n g w i n d o w s , I w o k e u p to a t ap

o n m y b e d r o o m door . It w a s still d a r k ou t , a n d for a m o m e n t 1 w a s really c o n f u s e d .

T h e n m y d o o r o p e n e d a n d m y d a d c a m e in a n d sat d o w n o n m y bed . A n d t h e n 1 got

a fee l ing in m y gu t tha t I'd on ly h a d a f ew t imes b e f o r e in m y life, o n t h e days w h e n

m y g r a n d p a s died. M y d a d said s o m e t h i n g like "I 'm so r ry to have to tell you this," a n d I k n o w 1 re -

s p o n d e d wi th , "Oh, no." A n d t h e n 1 w a s c ry ing a n d h u g g i n g h i m m y d a d , w h o a l m o s t

never , ever c r ies , b u t w a s t h e n . A n d t h r o u g h t h e shaky t e a r s he to ld m e w h a t I'd al-

r eady guessed : t h a t m y g r a n d m a h a d d ied .

H e h a d to leave t hen , to go t ake c a r e of t h ings , a n d I rol led over, t r y ing t o fall back

as leep . . . bu t I cou ldn ' t . I gues s I'd k n o w n it w a s c o m i n g , as m y g r a n d m a h a d b e e n

slowly dec l in ing fo r a b o u t a year. M o s t of t h e t ime , she really w a s n t hersel f , a n d he r

o n c e - q u i c k o p i n i o n s h a d me l t ed in to a m e l l o w obl iv ion. Lying in b e d tha t m o r n i n g ,

s t ruggl ing to c o n t r o l m y leaky eyes , it f inally m a d e sense - w h y p e o p l e use "R.I.P."

w h e n s o m e o n e they love dies . I k n o w w h a t it really s t a n d s fo r (rest in peace) , b u t I

always t h o u g h t tha t "rip" w a s an ugly a c r o n y m for s o m e t h i n g that 's s u p p o s e d t o be

a b o u t peace . There ' s n o t h i n g peace fu l a b o u t r ipp ing , b u t it fits here , b e c a u s e even if

I Y O U N G , F R O M PAGE 8

c o n t r i b u t i n g m e m b e r of socie ty is.

This is d o c u m e n t e d w o n d e r f u l l y in t h e film " K n o c k e d Up." T h e m a l e p r o t a g o n i s t

of t h e film, p layed by Se th R o g a n is no t in d e b t to anyone , b u t h e still h a s a ve ry

ch i ld i sh a n d self ish wor ldv iew.

In s t ead of r u i n i n g h is life, a n u n e x p e c t e d p r e g n a n c y p u s h e s h i m t o w a r d s a

c h a n g e in pe r spec t ive a n d h e b e c o m e s a r e spons ib l e f a the r a n d h is life sees h u g e

i m p r o v e m e n t s . So I 'm no t saying t h a t e v e r y o n e n e e d s t o get m a r r i e d a n d have kid, b u t 1 t h ink it 's

w o r t h c o n s i d e r i n g t h a t s o m e t i m e s , t h e s e t h i n g s can actual ly m a k e y o u r life be t te r .

y o u know, d e e p d o w n , tha t t h e d e c e a s e d is h a p p i e r t h a n you cou ld ever i m a g i n e p o s -

sible, there ' s still t ha t r aw feel ing. M a t t h e w 27:51 d e s c r i b e s how, w h e n Jesus d ied , t h e w h o l e e a r t h felt th i s r awness .

T w o t h i n g s h a p p e n e d : " the c u r t a i n of t h e t e m p l e w a s t o r n in t w o f r o m t o p to b o t t o m "

a n d " the e a r t h s h o o k a n d the r o c k s split." For s o m e o d d reason , th is image , w h i c h I've

h e a r d in coun t l e s s G o o d Friday services , c a m e t o m y m i n d o n Saturday, whi le I w a s

t r y ing to h o l d t h e r ips toge ther . Crazy . . . bu t in t h e c i r c u m s t a n c e s of Jesus ' o w n d e a t h ,

it s eem like th is r i p p i n g is s u p p o s e d t o h a p p e n .

D e a t h is no t p a r t of God ' s or ig ina l p lan , b u t t h e r i p p i n g is a r e m i n d e r tha t he is

in con t ro l . It is a r e m i n d e r of t h e t o r n c u r t a i n in t h e t emple , wh ich signif ies h o w in

Chr i s t ' s d e a t h a n d r e s u r r e c t i o n , w e a re d r a w n u p in to God ' s s tory . W e are able to ap -

p r o a c h h i m , a p a r t f r o m o u r sin, b e c a u s e t h r o u g h Chr i s t , t h e c u r t a i n of b l a m e tha t

s e p a r a t e s us f r o m G o d is t o r n . This doesn ' t m a k e d e a t h okay. T h e d e a t h of Jesus m a d e t h e w h o l e e a r t h shake . . .

literally. So w h e n a loved o n e of o u r s d ies , it s e e m s t o m a k e sense t h a t o u r figurative

w o r l d s a re shaken . They s h o u l d be -- l a m e n t is as m u c h a p a r t of life as ce lebra t ion .

So e v e n t h o u g h t h e f u n e r a l is over, a n d b reak is over, I 'm n o t over m y g r a n d m a

be ing g o n e ye t . I 'm t a k i n g m y t ime , a n d c ry ing , b e c a u s e even t h o u g h p e o p l e tell m e

it's for g o o d , a n d I k n o w in m y h e a r t it is, I still n e e d t h e tea rs . T h e r ip in m y fami ly is

real a n d p a i n f u l a n d p re sen t , a n d o u r lives are never go ing to b e t h e s a m e again . I 'm

just p ray ing , for myself a n d for m y h u r t i n g family, t h e w o r d s f r o m a song , over a n d

over again: "Give m e y o u r eyes for just o n e s e c o n d / Give m e y o u r eyes so 1 c a n see/

Eve ry th ing tha t I keep missing". . Given t h e rest of the song , I don ' t t h ink tha t ' s e x a c d y w h a t B r a n d o n H e a t h w r o t e

t h e lyrics for, bu t it fits, in a way, a n d it is m y prayer of m o u r n i n g . Give m e y o u r eyes .

Fa ther . . . give m y fami ly y o u r wisdom. . . give us all t h e a w a r e n e s s of y o u r g rea t love fo r

t h e wor ld so t h a t w e can u n d e r s t a n d w h y these t h i n g s h a p p e n . So t h a t I can u n d e r -

s t a n d w h y m y g r a n d m a is gone .

Love you and miss you lots, grandma.

O n e of m y favor i te m o v i e s is "Grosse Po in te Blank." In th is film John Cusack

d r o p s o u t of s c h o o l to d o h i s o w n t h i n g (he e n d s u p be ing a h i t m a n ) a n d t h e film

d o c u m e n t s h i s h igh schoo l r e u n i o n . At t h e r e u n i o n h e c o m e s up to a w o m a n h e

k n e w in h igh schoo l w h o w a s h o l d i n g a baby. H e asks , " H o w is it all, it no t like it w a s

s u p p o s e d t o be r ight?" She repl ies , "No , n o it's n o t t rue , it's g rea t . People th ink tha t

w h e n you ge t m a r r i e d , y o u loose y o u r f reedom." "It's no t t rue . "No . It ge t s b e t t e r

a n d better." She h a n d s Cusack the baby a n d he ga ins a n e w app rec i a t i on for life.

So I k n o w t h a t b e i n g a l i sdess h ips t e r isn't t h e s a m e t h i n g as be ing a h i t m a n , bu t I

t h ink t h a t th is is still a va luab le message .

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Rising cost for a Hope education continues • T u i t i o n , f r o m page 1

average while still providing

an above average educat ion.

He at t r ibutes this success to "realistically, disciplined effor t to control costs, strategic financial

p lanning, targeting s tewardship

efforts , and diligent s tudent recrui t ing and fundra is ing

efforts." Despi te these promis ing

s ta tements , many s tudents

are not convinced that the tuit ion increase is necessary.

Sophomore Sara Beasley, who

holds two jobs to help pay for H o p e (one of which involves

babysitt ing at 5:45 am!) is not

pleased by the numbers . W h e n asked how she felt

about the tui t ion increase

Beasley said, "As a t ransfer s tudent , 1 don't receive m u c h

financial aid and my parents can

only pay for so much. Working two jobs o n top of school isn't

easy bu t it is necessary for me to

be able to afford it. O n e of those jobs is in the admissions office

talking to accepted s tudents and

the mos t c o m m o n thing I hear is

4I love Hope bu t my family just

can't afford it.w

And Beasley is no t alone. All across the count ry s tudents are

66 The mos t common

thing I hear is ' I

love Hope but my

family jus t can ' t

afford it.'

— SARA BEASLEY ( '14)

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forced to search for yet another job or pray for additional

financial aid to supplement the

skyrocketing sticker price of

their college educat ion. Al though this has caused

f rus t ra t ion for s tudents and parents , H o p e says it is do ing its

best to offer an above average educat ion with a below average

tuit ion increase.

Peace Corps offers post-grad option • Peace Corps, from page 1

Fur thermore , certain

academic concentra t ion and

language combinat ions were

cited as potential ly helpful, such as e n v i = 0 9 7 6 5 3 2 r z x c

m,onmen ta l degrees and

Spanish or Agricul ture and

French. Rutter took steps to bo th

p repare himself for the

Peace Corps and give h im a compet i t ive edge. "I knew after

applying to the Peace Corps

that I wan ted to be involved in

the ent repreneur ia l aspect of their small business advising

program, so I chose to cont inue

to pursue learning f rom and exper iment ing with t he growing

ent repreneur ia l crowd in West

Michigan. These experiences and relat ionships have worked

to prepare me for the unknown

- to critically th ink and properly react in high-stress scenarios.

M o r e importantly, however, 1

have sought spiritual t ra ining

and preparat ion f rom my local elders and church to

s t rengthen me for endurance

and perseverance in the fai th

wi thin non-Chr is t ian cultures,"

Rutter said. Whi le there is no "typical"

Peace Corps volunteer, 90 percent of those in service do

have a college degree. And

while the average age to serve is 28, seven percent are over

the age of 50. Twenty percent

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Swim teams finish second in league meet T H I S W E E K IN SPORTS

Bethany Strlpp S P O R T S E D I T O R

Hope's men's and women's

swimming and diving teams both

finished second in the MIAA for the second year in a row while Kalamazoo and Calvin repeated

as conference champions in the

men's and women's compet i t ion ,

respectively. The league mee t began on

Feb. 15. Hope's women's 800-yard freestyle relay team of

Sarah Sohn ('12), Erin Holstad ('13), Chelsea Wiese ('12) and

Libby West ra te ('13) won the

opening race of the meet with a t ime of 7:39:58. Sohn, Holstad,

Weise and West ra te set a school

record in the race, defeat ing the

previous record set in 2009 by

about half a second.

Hope's men's team of Josh Grabijas ('13), Patrick Frayer ('12), Chris Waechte r ('15) and

Andrew Rose ('12) tu rned in a

third-place finish in the men's 800-yard freestyle relay.

Sohn and Grabijas won

the 500-yard freestyle MIAA

championship for the thi rd t ime on Feb. 16. West ra te took h o m e

her second consecutive 50-yard

freestyle championsh ip that day as well, winning the race with a

N C A A condi t ional qualifying

t ime of :23.74. H o p e also won both the men's and women's

400-yard medley relays. Two highlights of Feb. 16's

compet i t ion came f rom Wiese and Kyleigh Sheldon ('13). Wiese

took Hope's first women's title in

the 200 IM since 2004, beat ing

Calvin's Stephie Fox by five one-

PHOTO COURTESY OF HOPE P R

D E T E R M I N A T I O N - Jeff Shade ( 1 2 ) competes In last

week 's MIAA league meet.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HOPE P R

C H A M P I O N — Llbby Westra te ( '13) took three Individual t i t l es and cont r ibuted to two relay wins at the league meet .

h u n d r e d t h s of a second. Sheldon

w o n the women's 3 -mete r dive

with a score of 433.00 and was

the first Hope w o m a n to win the

event in 11 years. Friday's m e e t opened like

Thursday's with two H o p e wins in the 400-yard individual

medley. Wiese took the women's

title, finishing in 4:40.08 and Jeff Shade ('12) finished in first place

for the m e n for the second year

in a row. West ra te won her third

200-yard freestyle gold medal and tied the school record t ime

of 1:52.58 in the prel iminary

race, Hazekamp ('13) set

a schdol record that day in the 100-yard backst roke prel ims

with a t ime of :51.14 and won the finals with an N C A A condit ional

qualifying t ime of :51.20. Maria

Kieft ('14) also won the event for

the w o m e n in :57.94. The MIAA meet concluded

on Feb. 18. Sohn opened the day with a win for Hope, taking

the 1,650-yard freestyle title for

the four th year in a row and

tu rned in an N C A A condit ional

qualifying time of 17:28.00. Grabijas w o n the same event for

the men. Hazekamp and West ra te

cont inued their winning ways

in their signature events on

Saturday, with Hazekamp taking the 200-yard backstroke title and

West ra te for a third t ime in the

mee t with her thi rd consecutive

100-yard freestyle win. Westrate, Holstad, Sohn and

Wiese ended the mee t the same way it s tarted, taking the title in

the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Men's tennis opens season with indoor tournament James Rogers A S S I S T A N T S P O R T S E D I T O R

The men's tennis t eam

launched its indoor season by taking par t in the Grand Rapids

City Tournamen t at the Orcha rd

Hills Athletic Club last Friday

and Saturday. The t o u r n a m e n t consisted

of six schools f rom the western side of Michigan. Part icipating

alongside H o p e were Aquinas

College, Calvin College, Davenport University, Grand

Rapids C o m m u n i t y College and Grand Valley State University.

The t o u r n a m e n t opened

Friday with doubles play, while singles matches were held Saturday. Also known as the

West Michigan Tournament , this was the first of six scheduled

indoor " matches for the

Dutchmen . Four pairs of Du tchmen took

the cour ts on Friday dur ing doubles action, and the tandem of Bobby Cawood ('13) and

Kyle Kreps ('13) provided the

s t rongest results for Hope. They posted wins in two of their three

matches. In t he first match, Cawood

and Kreps defeated Andrew Darrell and Benny Delgado-Rochas of Grand Valley 8-6.

Dropping their second match 8 -5 to Aaron Hendrick and

Nick Artaev of Aquinas, the

pair finished s t rong with an

8-6 victory over Davenport 's Vitaly Schumilov and Eric Pell.

Cawood and Kreps finished

third place in the tourney. "Get t ing the win over Grand

Valley in our first match was

huge," Kreps said. "It gave us a lot of conf idence going into our

next one." Al though the pair d ropped

the next match to Aquinas,

Kreps noted that Aquinas is one

of the bes t pairs they will face all season. Sticking with them was

a positive. "We knew that the Aquinas

1 doubles t eam could be one

of the best we could play all year and we hung with them

throughout the match," Kreps said. "Unfortunately we couldn't

get the victory though." Kreps was pleased with

the way he and Cawood came back in the third match against

Davenport , complement ing

each o the r s game very well. "Beating 'Davenpor t for

third place was a good way

to end the night too," Kreps said. "Bobby and I work pretty well together. We've been

roommates for the pas t three years and that definitely helps

on the court." Hope 's o ther th ree pairs each

d ropped bo th of their matches in doubles play on Friday.

Saturday's singles proved

to be more successful for the

Du tchmen , with four different

players serving to a match win. Cawood led the way with

three straight wins. He cruised

past Casey Feenstra of GRCC 6-2 6-1, then had similar results

against Calvin's Loukas Peterson

with a 6-0 6 -3 t r i umph . Cawood ended with a default win over

Aaron Hendrick of Aquinas . Parker Bussies ('14) clashed

with Calvin's Brian DeMaagd in

a close three-set match. Bussies d ropped the first set 4 -6 but

came back firing, claiming the second set 6-2 and eventually

finishing off DeMaagd 10-7 in

the third set. Cody Herbruck ('15) held on

against Matt Jackson of GRCC, winning in straight sets 6 -3 6-4.

John Panzer ('15) was the four th Du tchmen to tally a victory,

flying to a 6-2 6-2 beat ing of

GRCC's Andrew Amante . The Du tchmen were

wi thout two of its top players in Gabe Casher ('14) and

Davis Vanderveen * (-13), w h o were present ing research at a

conference in Las Vegas. Even with these two absences, Kreps

was optimist ic with what he saw.

"I think the second day of the tou rnamen t was good for

our team," Kreps said. "There is definitely a lot of room for improvement but for the first

t o u r n a m e n t of the season, it

Wednesday Men's Basketball vs. Calvin at 7 p.m.

Feb. 22

wasn't bad. A lot of guys played

really well on Saturday." With the first matches of the

young indoor season completed, Kreps compared the advantages

of playing indoors to ou tdoors .

Kreps enjoys bo th settings. " Indoors is nice because the

cour t s are m u c h faster than ou tdoors and that definitely

bodes well for my big game,"

Kreps said. "Outdoors is great too because you get to add

the e lement of the weather. It definitely can change the way

you play." Another thing that changes

the way you play is establishing

f r iendships with fellow t eammates and keeping each

o the r accountable on a daily

basis. With no seniors on the

roster this season, the young Du tchmen still have veteran

experience with a handfu l of juniors who lead by example and

keep each other commit ted . "1 think we have a chance to

have a pretty successful season,"

Kreps said. "The a tmosphere dur ing our practices has been

great so far. We want everyone to be giving it their all in each

drill."

Thursday Feb. 23 Women's Basketball vs. Albion at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday Feb. 25 Women's Tennis vs. Aquinas at 10 a.m.

Men's Basketball MIAA Championship game at highest

remaining seed. 3 p.m.

Women's Basketball MIAA Championship game at highest

remaining seed, 7:30 p.m.

I N B R I E F

TRACK CONTINUES INDOOR SEASON

The men's and women's track

teams competed in the non-scoring Grand Valley Tuneup

on Friday. Four H o p e athletes

took first place a m o n g ^col le -giate compet i tors in t he event.

Mered i th Busman (14) won

the 5,000-meter run , defeat ing the second place finisher by .48

seconds with a t ime of 18:40.13.

Joel Rietsema ('13) was the first

college finisher in the 800 me-ters, crossing the finish line in

1:53.78. In the men's 3,000-me-ter run, Nate Love ('12) won

the race by about a two and a half second margin in 8:32.92,

set t ing a new school record for

the distance. Steffon Mayhue ('14) finished third overall in the

long j ump bu t first of athletes at-tached to a college or university

with a j ump of 6.49 meters . The

track t eams have one more in-

door mee t this season on Feb. 25 against the other M I A A schools at the MIAA Invitational host-

ed by Calvin College.

MEN'S LACROSSE BEATS WESTERN MICHIGAN

The men's lacrosse team w o n

its game on Feb. 17, defeat ing Wes te rn Michigan University

12-8. The Flying Du tchmen had a 7 -3 lead at half t ime and main-

tained its lead to the end to post

their first win of the season. Josh Kamstra ('13) had 12 saves in the game. Jacob Kamstra ('14)

had four goals in the game and Chris Schedlt ('12), Niko Pag-

kanlungan ('14) and Will Fran-ken ('14) cont r ibuted two goals

each. O n defense, Ryan Holmes ('12) had eight takeaways while

Scheldt had five. The men's lacrosse team is

in the midst of its last season

as a club sport at Hope Col-lege. The team now has a break

until March 15 when they will take on Calvin at Grand Rapids

Christ ian High School. Next year the men's and women's la-crosse t eams will be elevated to

varsity status.

1 2 T H H A N C H O R SPORTS FEBRUARY 2 Z 2 0 1 2

Dutchmen finish perfect in MIAA, honor senior class Katherine Magulre S T A F F W R I T E R

H o p e College m e n s basket-

ball t eam defeated Trine 65-

46 topping off its perfect 14-0

MIAA season record on Feb. 19. "I think it (14-0 M I A A re-

cord) is pret ty special," David

Krombeen ('12) said. "It puts our senior g roup in a special cat-

egory in history."

H o p e and Trine got off to a slow star t as they struggled to

break their 2-2 tie for over five

minutes . The Flying Dutchmen ' s weak

defense in the beginning left

t h e m trailing the Thunder by as

many as five poin ts du r ing the

first half. Hope finally took the lead

with less than 10 minutes left in

the first half and main ta ined that

lead th roughou t the game.

Going into half t ime, H o p e

was shoot ing 53 percent and making 66 percent of their free

th rows—with a s t rong lead over

Trine, 39-16.

"This g a m e was w o n on the glass," head coach Mat t Neil

said. The Flying D u t c h m e n cont in-

ued to play s t rong in the second

half. At one point they led

t he Thunder by as many as

29 points .

For the last M I A A g a m e

of their final

season, Hope 's

four seniors, Peter Bunn,

Nate King, Da-vid Krombeen ,

and Logan

Neil, domina t -ed the cour t

for m o s t of the

second half. "Our four

seniors getting

a chance to

play together with (Nate

S n u g g e r u d ) , "

Neil said,

"was a special

thing."

H o p e ' s tough defense l imited Trine

to shoot ing

only 34 per-

cent in the sec-

ond half. The Fly-

ing Dutch-

m e n totaled

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PHOTO BY MONICA DWYER

F O U R B I G Y E A R S — David Krombeem (*12) puts up a jumper In Hope's 65-46 win over Trine. A varsi ty player since his fresh-man year, Krombeen was honored w i th th ree fe l low seniors.

15 assists, eight

b l o c k s , a n d nine steals

for the game. Hope w o n the

game by a final

score of 65-46. K r o m b e e n

led t he Flying

D u t c h m e n ,

scoring 11 points. O t h e r

g a m e leaders

were Neil and Nate VanAr-enDonk (*14)

each with nine

points . "There were

15 very un-selfish, very

caring, very

d e t e r m i n e d

t eammates ou t

there," Snug-gerud ('13)

said. "That's a

big par t of why

we are 24-1 and 14-0 in the

conference."

S a t u r d a y ' s

g a m e was a double celebra-

t ion of the final

game of Hope 's

per fec t MIAA

season and the final h o m e game

of Hope 's seniors. The final event of the evening

was the senior recognition.

Hope men's basketball senior assistants, Paul Bowen and Brian

Ward , were recognized as well as the four senior players: Bunn,

King, Krombeen and Neil.

With their parents at their side, the players were presented

with f r amed H o p e basketball jerseys bearing their numbers ,

44, 2 3 , 1 1 and 12, respectively.

The players thanked the H o p e

and Holland C o m i n u n i t , ^ Jfcr

"I would just like- to tSank everybody, the Dew Crew, the

fans, for coming ou t and sup-

por t ing us," Krombeen said. "You have really m a d e these four

years special."

The Du tchmen head to t he semi-finals in the MIAA tourna-

m e n t with its perfect conference

season, taking on Calvin for the

third t ime this season.

"It is tough to bea t a t eam three times," Neil said. "I think

that our team is mental ly and

physically tough enough to bea t

a team three times." H o p e will hos t Calvin in the

semis of the M I A A t o u r n a m e n t

on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Devos

Fieldhouse.

Flying Dutch hold off Adrian, set for MIAA tournament Bethany Stripp S P O R T S E D I T O R

H o p e College's women's

basketball team closed its regular season on Saturday with

a 55-49 win over the Bulldogs of

Adrian. H i e w o m e n en tered

Saturday's game after a close

game at Trine on Feb. 15 that saw

the Dutch fall to the Thunder

52-50. The Du tch fought back f rom

an 11-point deficit early in the

second half to regain the lead with less than three minu tes

remaining, bu t a series of Trine

f ree th rows secured the win for

the Thunder . The Dutch had an early lead

in Saturday's g a m e against

Adrian, bu t an 11-0 Bulldog run

in the middle of the first half pu t Hope down by seven.

A j u m p e r by Cour tney Kust

('13) ended Hope 's nearly seven-

minu te long scoring drought ,

and a layup by Rebekah Llorens

('15) with 5:28 left in the first

half pu t H o p e back o n top. The Dutch took a four-point

lead into the break, bu t two

quick threes f rom Adr ian gave

the Bulldogs the lead again. Two free th rows by Ashley Bauman

('13) helped cut Adrian's lead

before Llorens net ted the

Dutch's first field goal of the second half to tie t he game.

A th ree -po in te r by Liz Ellis

('13) less t h a n a minu te later gave H o p e a lead they would hold o n

to for the rest of the game.

"I th ink it was really good

that we got on a run and created some momentum," Ellis said.

"We had some players really step

up to fill spots." Ellis led all players in scoring

with 16 points . Kust recorded a

double-double with 10 rebounds and 10 points . Llorens also

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added 10 points to t he Dutch's total and Bauman grabbed nine

rebounds . Absent f r o m Saturday's game

was co-captain Maddie Burnet t ('12), w h o suffered a concussion

in the Feb. 15 game against Trine and had to sit out against Adrian.

"It was tough, but I know that

my head definitely was no t right to play," Burnet t said of missing

the game. "There's just no way

that it would have worked out . I'm so p roud of my team. They

did awesome." Burnett 's absence allowed

other players to fill in.

"We overcame the loss of another impor t an t player to

our p rogram but o ther people had a chance to step up," head

coach Brian Morehouse said. "In part icular Anna Kaufmann ('14)

got in the game and I thought did some really good things, gave

us seven very, very impor tan t

points . I thought Katie Overway ('13) did a nice job on the glass,

get t ing us six rebounds." Kaufmann also had a t eam-

high four steals in Saturday's

game. The Dutch will begin MIAA«

t o u r n a m e n t play on Feb. 23

when they host Albion in a rematch of the Jan. 21 63-46 loss.

"I'm looking fo rward to the

week ahead," co-captain Allie Cerone ('12) said. "It's a different

si tuation than we've been in in

the past , so I think that 's kind of exciting. I don ' t th ink this

season, no mat te r wha t happens ,

could be disappointing." In the latest N C A A Division

III nat ional polls, t he Flying

Dutch are ranked n u m b e r

18 going into the MIAA

tou rnamen t .