ANCHORS VOL. 125 NO. 17 MARCH 7. 2012 SINCE 1887 "SPERA IN DEO HOPE COELEGE HOEEAND, MICHIGAN

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That Takes Ovaries' opens women's studies week 20th anniversary celebration begins with open mic night

PHOTO BY M O N I C A D W Y E R

DUTCHMEN ELIMINATED - Hope Men's basketball fe l l to I l l inois Wesleyan Saturday n igh t 1 0 8 - 1 0 1 In a gruel-ing double overt ime game. The loss ousted Hope f rom the NCAA Division III tou rnament and ended Its 23-game win-n ing s t reak. Here, Josh Holwerda ( '13) reaches over a Ti tan for the bal l Saturday.

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Eva Sagastume G U E S T W R I T E R

Writ ing this article takes ovaries. No t because I am a female, nor because I a t tended the event, but because years ago 1 would not have been allowed to publish wri t ten work. Bobbi Ausubel b rought "That Takes Ovaries" open mic night to Maas Audi tor ium on Feb. 27. The book is a collection of s tories wri t ten by women to inspire and empower them.

The event kicked off a n u m b e r of events that con t inue this week to mark the 20th anniversary of women's studies at Hope. Four H o p e College s tudents read stories f rom the book, then 10 were chosen to hold a bal loon in celebration of the t r i umph of w o m e n over t ime. Everyone at the event was invited to share their o w n stories of bold and courageous acts.

Befofe these stories were shared, Ausubel was in t roduced and s tar ted off the event by shar ing her personal struggles as a woman, as well as disclaimers to various stereotypes, two of which were "feminist" and "courage."

She instilled in the audience to not stray f rom declaring themselves feminists because it does no t mean a bitter, power-thirsty,

hippie. It simply means believing in equal rights for m e n and women; m e n can be feminists too!

Also, that courage does not have to c o m e with a t rophy: it can be the simplest act that inspires you to persevere. Courage is not the absence of fear in your life, bu t instead, doing someth ing even if you are afraid.

Almost every w o m a n who read a story and shared a personal experience was afraid. The mos t heart-rending story was "Saving Mommy, or The Night I Lost My Childhood," read by Raquel Giron. Wri t t en by D.H. Wu, the story begins at age 6, when she saves her mother f rom commi t t ing suicide, and took us th rough the journey of their lives as they are abused by their father.

Second mos t compelling was a story which has a not -so-happy ending. "Not

Minding My O w n Business" by Mary A n n McCour t , read by Liz Mart in , tells the story of a 74-year-old-woman who saves a high school girl f rom a violent episode of rape by her boyfr iend of th ree years, takes her to the police station to repor t the incident, only to have the young girl be too afraid to do so.

After giving a preview to the book, 10 s tudents passed forward with a balloon and stated what each balloon celebrated: the right to o w n property, vote, take birth control, at tain a profession, wear pan ts in all public locations, publish literature, opening of rape crisis centers and hotlines, women's shelters, "Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" pamphle t , and having women's studies be legitimized as a major.

Soonaf ter th isce lebra t ion , everyone was invited to share a courageous story, and rewarded with golden ovaries. Many w o m e n , and o n e man, took a s tand and shared their courageous story. Most of which were hard to share and hard to hear. That Takes Ovaries taught a very valuable lesson to w o m e n and men. W e m u s t celebrate the progress of our world's femininity by leading courageous and bold lives, and inspiring o thers to do so too.

Hope United for Justice backs 'Beyond Coal' campaign Lauren Madison C A M P U S C O - E D I T O R

The d o c u m e n t a r y "Carbon Nation" was screened Feb. 22 in the Fr ied-Hemenway Audi tor ium of Mar tha Miller for member s of the Hope College and Holland communi t i es .

The film is marketed as "a climate change solutions movie that doesn ' t even care if you believe in climate change." It foregoes the ominous tone that is o f ten typical of the "eco documen ta ry" genre to instead focus positively on the act ions of individuals and organizat ions passionate about protect ing the env i ronment and developing sources of clean energy. "Carbon Nation" also provides its viewers with practical ideas for ways to live more sustainably; examples include part icipat ing in "Meatless Mondays" and raising allowances for children who save energy and reduce utility costs. In its op t imism, "Carbon Nation" is a breath of f resh air.

The Sierra Club and its Holland Beyond Coal volunteers hosted the screening, which was also co-sponsored by the s tudent organization Hope United for Justice.

As par t of its mission, the Sierra Club works to help t ransi t ion Amer ica away f rom the use of fossil fuels.

Its nat ionwide "Beyond Coal" campaign has b e c o m e a force to be reckoned with.

and has prevented the opening of over 150 coal-fired power plants . This success p rompted "Beyond Coal" to "(turn their) efforts to making sure that

the existing fleet of outda ted coal plants gets cleaned up or phased out," according to the campaign's webpage.

It was in this spirit that the "Beyond Coal" campaign came to Holland last fall. The James DeYoung power plant , owned by the Holland Board of Public Works and situated only blocks f rom Hope's campus , p roposed a twofold expansion of its coal facilities.

"Beyond Coal" recrui ted communi ty members , local business owners and Hope s tudents to join a grassroots campaign. Student volunteers helped peti t ion member s of the Holland communi ty , form business coalitions, and organize events and meet ings at Hope.

O n e of these s tudents , envi ronmenta l engineer ing major Evelyn Ritter f l S ) , says, "I wanted to get involved in keeping the env i ronment clean so I can still go sailing and hiking in 50 years."

As Holland faces impor tan t quest ions about its energy future, the screening of "Carbon Nat ion" was timely. Holland City Counci l has yet to make a decision on the fu tu re of the James DeYoung plant bu t will likely do so in the coming months . To weigh in on the debate, contact a City Counci l m e m b e r or visit hollandbeyondcoal .org.

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Hooyman: Aiding Hope for 34 years

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ANNIVERSARY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES AT HOPE

T h e Hope Col lege Depar tmen t of W o m e n ' s Studies celebrates its 20th anniversary as an academic depar tment this week . The celebrat ion, wh ich consists of a week full of lectures and panels , fal ls dur ing Nat ional W o m e n ' s History Month as well . A m o n g the lecturers a re Dr. J ane Dickie , psychology professor and f o r m e r head of the W o m e n ' s Studies p rogram, w h o is ret i r ing at the end of this year.

Claire Call C A M P U S C O - E D I T O R

T h e H o p e Col lege P re s idency is no t t h e on ly off ice w i t h b ig s h o e s n e e d e d to be filled.

T h e off ice of t h e d i r e c t o r of financial a id will a lso be o c c u p i e d by a n e w c o m e r n e x t fall.

Phyllis H o o y m a n , a f t e r 34 y e a r s of w o r k i n g in t h e Of f i ce of Financia l Aid (she b e g a n he r c a r e e r at H o p e in 1974), will be r e t i r ing th is sp r ing .

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t initially m a d e y o u d e c i d e to w o r k he re?

Phyllis H o o y m a n : " W o r k i n g in h ighe r e d u c a t i o n w a s a lways a goal. I b e g a n w o r k i n g at H o p e in A l u m n i Re la t ions in 1974 a n d w a s t h e n o f f e r ed a f inancia l a id pos i t i on in 1978.

I loved w o r k i n g a t H o p e a n d , in par t i cu la r , w a n t e d to w o r k w i t h s t u d e n t s a n d fami l ies . I w a s t h e r e f o r e thr i l led w h e n o f f e r ed t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o w o r k in Financia l Aid in 1978."

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t a re you p l a n n i n g t o d o in y o u r r e t i r e m e n t ?

PH: "Ask m e in a year. 1 k n o w I w a n t t o d o m o r e of t h e

t h i n g s I love a n d t h a t i nc ludes s p e n d i n g m o r e t i m e w i t h fami ly a n d f r i ends , t rave l ing , r e ad ing , v o l u n t e e r i n g a n d re laxat ion!"

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t a re s o m e of y o u r bes t m e m o r i e s w o r k i n g at H o p e ?

PH: " P u r e a n d s imp le t h e peop le . 1 have so t r e a s u r e d w o r k i n g wi th m y co l leagues , m y staff m e m b e r s , a n d t h e t h o u s a n d s of s t u d e n t s a n d p a r e n t s w e have a ided over all t h e s e m a n y yea r s .

I have also e n j o y e d m a k i n g c o m p l e x s y s t e m s a n d Phyllis b u r e a u c r a c i e s m o r e s imp le a n d u se r - f r i end ly fo r o u r famil ies . Back in 1994, H o p e w a s o n e of t h e first 100 s c h o o l s na t iona l ly t o p a r t i c i p a t e in t h e Federa l D i r ec t Loan P r o g r a m .

It w a s g rea t f u n w o r k i n g to b r i n g u p a b r a n d n e w federa l loan p r o g r a m t h a t o f f e r ed o u r s t u d e n t s a n d p a r e n t s a m u c h q u i c k e r a n d eas ier loan p r o c e s s wi th f e w e r expens ive m i d d l e m e n .

Th i s n e w p r o g r a m b e c a m e a na t iona l financial a id success s t o ry a n d 1 am so p r o u d t h a t H o p e w a s p a r t of it!

It a lso led t o b e i n g invi ted to of fer t e s t i m o n y a b o u t t h e succes s of t h e p r o g r a m b e f o r e b o t h t h e U.S. Sena t e C o m m i t t e e o n L a b o r a n d H u m a n R e s o u r c e s a n d t h e U.S. H o u s e of Rep re sen t a t i ve S u b c o m m i t t e e o n O v e r s i g h t a n d Inves t iga t ions in W a s h i n g t o n . T h e s e w e r e def in i te ly p e a k expe r i ences .

"I w a s a l so thr i l led w h e n , a b o u t 10 yea r s ago, H o p e a l lowed m e to serve as a c o n s u l t a n t t o the U.S. D e p a r t m e n t of E d u c a t i o n in W a s h i n g t o n , D .C . Th i s o f f e r ed m e t h e o p p o r t u n i t y of w o r k i n g in W a s h i n g t o n a b o u t

Hooyman a w e e k a m o n t h fo r o v e r a yea r

a n d it w a s o n e of m y g rea t e s t p ro f e s s iona l exper iences ."

T h e A n c h o r : W h a t a re you go ing t o mi s s t h e m o s t a b o u t w o r k i n g he re?

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PH: "Again p u r e a n d s imp le t h e people . I have w o r k e d w i t h inc red ib le p r e s i d e n t s a n d v i c e - p r e s i d e n t s w h o have always s e r v e d as m y chee r l eade r s . I will a lso miss m y staff m e m b e r s a n d the s t u d e n t / p a r e n t r e l a t ionsh ips w e have forged .

O u r off ice con t inua l ly counse l s wi th t h e s t u d e n t in cr is is w h e t h e r it r esu l t s f r o m divorce , the d e a t h of a p a r e n t , a m o m w h o just lost he r job, o r a d a d w h o has jus t b e e n d i a g n o s e d w i t h cancer .

"Being able to he lp these s t u d e n t s / p a r e n t s in cr is is is jus t a b o u t t h e m o s t g ra t i fy ing work I c a n imag ine . I will m i s s be ing p a r t of tha t he lp ing process."

Likewise, H o p e Col lege will m i s s H o o y m a n , an asse t to the Of f i ce of F inanc ia l Aid as wel l as to t h e c a m p u s .

Considering grad school? Now's the time to decide Claire Cal l C A M P U S C O - E D I T O R

W i t h a bache lo r ' s d e g r e e t o d a y qu ick ly b e c o m i n g t h e equ iva l en t of a h i g h schoo l d i p l o m a to ear l ie r g e n e r a t i o n s , g r a d u a t e s c h o o l h a s b e c o m e a v iable o p t i o n for m a n y s t u d e n t s w h o m i g h t no t have c o n s i d e r e d it o t h e r w i s e .

In today 's e c o n o m y , g r a d u a t e s c h o o l m a y be t h e w a y to gain a n e c e s s a r y edge in ca ree r fields b e f o r e e n t e r i n g t h e c o m p e t i t i v e s t r e a m of y o u n g a n d intel l igent j o b app l i can t s .

Col lege s t u d e n t s in e v e r y field n o w m u s t c h o o s e w h e t h e r o r n o t to a t t e n d g r a d u a t e schoo l a n d if t h e a n s w e r is a f f i rma t ive t h e n e x t d e c i s i o n s to m a k e a re w h e r e , w h e n a n d how.

W h e r e to go to g r a d u a t e s c h o o l d e p e n d s u p o n a c a d e m i c in t e r e s t s a n d ind iv idua l p r e f e r e n c e s . Pre- law, p r e -m e d , o r o t h e r p r e -p ro fe s s iona l s t u d e n t s w o u l d m o s t likely c h o o s e to a t t e n d t h e p ro fes s iona l s choo l of t h e i r choos ing . T h o s e w i t h o u t p r e -p ro fe s s iona l p l ans w o u l d c h o o s e to a t t end a g r a d u a t e schoo l b a s e d on t h e qua l i ty of t h e p r o g r a m o f f e r ed in t h e i r c h o s e n disc ipl ine .

W h e n to beg in t h e f u r t h e r i n g of one ' s s tud ies d e p e n d s mos t ly o n one ' s c h o s e n a c a d e m i c p r o g r a m . T h o s e a t t e n d i n g p ro fes s iona l s choo l s s h o u l d go r igh t a f t e r the i r u n d e r g r a d g r a d u a t i o n . T h o s e c h o o s i n g to a t t e n d g r a d u a t e schoo l m a y o r m a y no t n e e d w o r k e x p e r i e n c e b e f o r e c o n t i n u i n g the i r e d u c a t i o n .

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f r o m H o p e Col lege, t h e app l i ca t ion p r o c e s s beg ins o n e year p r io r to g r a d u a t i n g .

This m e a n s tha t c u r r e n t s e n i o r s haVe t u r n e d in thei r a p p l i c a t i o n s a n d th is year ' s j u n i o r class n e e d s t o s t a r t p l a n n i n g a h e a d if t h e y have no t a l ready b e g u n to. S t a n d a r d i z e d t e s t s - t h e GRE, t h e LSAT for law schoo l , t h e M C A T for m e d i c a l schoo l , t h e G M A T fo r b u s i n e s s schoo l , the N T E fo r e d u c a t i o n , o r poss ib ly t h e M A T fo r s o m e g r a d p r o g r a m s - s h o u l d b e t a k e n in t h e fall of s en io r year.

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Romney victorious in Michigan primary Rick Santorum comes in a close second place and earns nearly as many delegates as the winner Cory Lakatos W O R L D C O - E D I T O R

O n the evening of Feb. 28, Mi t t Romney was declared the winner of Michigan's Republi-can presidential p r imary elec-tion. Former Sen. Rick Santo-rum, w h o visited the c a m p u s of Hope College o n Feb. 24 and had hoped to pull off an upset win over Romney, took second place. Ron Paul c ame in third, with Newt Gingr ich in four th place.

Though Romney did come ou t on top, the margin be tween h im and r u n n e r - u p Santo-r u m was small. The N e w York Times repor t s that Romney w o n 409,899 votes, or 41.1 percent of the total, earning 16 delegates to the Republican convent ion. San to rum garnered 377,521, or 37.9 percent of the total, and ea rned 14 delegates. The race was close, wi th other sources such as C N N indicating that the two candidates will split Michigan's 30 delegates evenly.

Though Paul and Gingrich w o n 115,712 (11.2 percent) and 65,016 (6.5 percent) votes re-spectively, nei ther candidate received any delegates f rom the pr imary. All o ther Republi-can candidates combined only managed to win 29,024 votes, or 2.9 percent of the total.

So far in the Republican presidential p r imary race, C N N est imates that Romney leads the pack with 181 delegates. San-to rum current ly holds 80, Gin-grich has 39, and Paul has ea rned 38. Jon Hun t sman , w h o d ropped

ou t of the race in January and en-dorsed Romney, managed to se-cure two delegates before admit-ting defeat . A candidate will have to secure t he suppor t of 1,144 delegates to win the Republi-can presidential nominat ion .

According to exit polls pos ted by CBS News , Romney was m o s t popular wi th Republicans w h o repor ted an income of $200,000 a year or more . He garnered 55 percent of the votes in this de-mographic , while Rick Santo-r u m earned only 29 percent .

A m o n g Republicans who repor ted an annual income of $100,000 to $200,000, there was a significantly nar rower gap: 37 percent voted for San-t o r u m and 44 percent voted for Romney. San to rum actu-ally beat ou t Romney a m o n g Republicans who earn less than $100,000 a year; San to rum won 39 percent of the vote while Romney ea rned 35 percent .

Earlier on Feb. 28, Romney also achieved victory in the Ari-zona state primary. Exit polls based on income were remark-ably similar in Michigan and Ar-izona, as well as in o ther states that have already held their Re-publican p r imary or caucus.

So far, Romney has enjoyed more success in the race than any of the other candidates . O n M a r c h 1, he added another vic-tory to his total by winn ing the W y o m i n g caucuses. Both Santo-r u m and fo rmer Speaker of the House Gingr ich have been mar-keting themselves as conserva-tive alternatives to mode ra t e

Romney, with l imited success. Gingrich admi t ted at a cam-

paign s top in Atlanta that he needs to win in the state that he once represented in Congress . "I have to win Georgia, I think, to be credible in the race," he said.

Thus far, Gingr ich has won only o n e primary, in neighboring

South Carolina. Romney has w o n the pr imaries or caucuses of seven states: Maine, N e w Hampshire , Michigan, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Wyo-ming. Though Mitt Romney's odds look good. Rick Santorum's campaign has been gaining mo-m e n t u m recently. He current ly

holds three states: Minnesota , Iowa and Colorado. Paul has no t achieved victory in any state.

At this stage in the race, it remains unclear which Re-publican will face President Barack O b a m a in the presi-dential election in November .

Romney leads in total delegates Mitt Romney's Arizona and Michigan wins further cemented his front-runner status ahead of the Super Tuesday contests. States won Gmgnch Paul Romney Santorum

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REPUBLICAN PRIMARY SEASON Though estimates of the number of de lega tes t h a t each cand ida te has are t en ta t i ve and vary be tween sources. M i t t Romney c lear ly has a comfo r tab le lead and R ick San to rum Is secure ly In the second-p lace spot .

P ERSPECTIVES N.Korea freezes nuclear program Shubham Sapkota W O R L D C O - E D I T O R

There has been a lot of speculat ion on what the n e w leader of Nor th Korea would do about nuclear weapons , and on Feb. 29, Kim Jong-un announced that Nor th Korea will f reeze its nuclear weapons p rogram.

Moreover, the nation has given per-mission to the Internat ional Atomic Energy Agency to moni tor the ac-tivities of their ma in nuclear sites.

This a n n o u n c e m e n t has allowed the internat ional communi ty to see h o w ne-gotiat ions regarding d i sa rmament will go in the fu tu re under the new leader.

These developments con-trast sharply with the s tance N o r t h Korea has had for years.

If we are thinking that N o r t h Korea is simply willing to give up its a rms and ne-gotiate, then we are wrong. This whole an-nouncemen t may be too good to be true.

Nor th Korea has h in ted that with nego-tiations over d i sa rmament of the nuclear weapons, they will require exchange of a lot of food. This has been assumed to be a signal that the isolated c o m m u n i s t nation wan ts to go th rough with an exchange for their controversial d i sa rmament .

The last t ime Nor th Korea was at the negotiat ion table was more than three years ago, and the deal fell apar t dur ing the last few weeks of the Bush presidency.

The ou tcome of this negotiat ion could influence President Barack Obama's

campaign in the election in November . Fur thermore , while tension be-

tween Israel and Iran is increasing in the Middle East and while the Uni ted States is focused on halting Iran's nu-clear weapons , peace with another de-viant nuclear state could change the shape of internat ional politics in 2012.

W h a t has confused many in the in-ternat ional c o m m u n i t y is why the new leader is making this move right now.

Only a few weeks ago, Kim Jong-u n was threatening a "sacred war" against neighboring South Korea, and now Nor th Korea has agreed to mor-a to r iums on test ing nuclear weap-ons as well as long-range missiles.

Moreover, the nation has welcomed the Internat ional Atomic Energy Agency for inspect ions after more than three years even though a s ta tement released Feb. 25 said that N o r t h Korea has "means to war more powerfu l than the U.S. nukes."

Whatever the intent ions of Pyong-yang might be at the m o m e n t , it may be a strategic move to show Chi-na and Russia they are not the only ones who can help N o r t h Korea.

O n the other hand , it may be mo-tivated by the massive need for food aid in the impoverished country.

Only t ime will be able to tell what will take place in this unexpected t u rn of events in the N o r t h Korean nuclear saga.

Nigerian attacks continue Cory Lakatos W O R L D C O - E D I T O R

O n Feb. 26, a suicide b o m b e r drove a car packed with explosive materials into the headquar te rs of t he Church of Chris t in Jos, Nige-ria. Four people were killed in the bombing , with many o thers emerg-ing alive f rom the wreckage. At least 38 were taken to nearby hospitals.

The casualties included the driver himself, a w o m a n he struck before r a m m i n g into the church building, and a fa ther and his child who were killed in the blast. The explosion was powerfu l enough to be heard for ki lometers and blow out the glass windows of about 30 nearby cars.

News of the attack spread quickly, causing Chris t ians across t he count ry to respond with fear. "It's pandemoni -um. There are a lot of people w h o are concerned - some are o n their way to church" and fear that o ther churches could be attacked, said Mark Lipdo, a m e m b e r of the church and the pro-gram coordina tor for the Stefanos Foundat ion. The organizat ion comes to the aid of persecu ted Chris t ians in a variety of locations, Nigeria included.

The b o m b i n g took place approxi-mately 15 minu tes into the first service of the day. Lipdo was planning to at-

tend the second service and was there-fore not present dur ing the attack.

C N N repor ts that the car m a d e it th rough a security checkpoint wi thout being s topped and was able to drive th rough a gate that had been left open.

This incident is only the mos t re-cent in a str ing of violent persecut ions that have taken place over the past year in Nigeria. The area su r round-ing Jos has been particularly p rone to ethnic and religious violence, and h u n d r e d s of people have been killed in the region in the past few years.

The largest such attack took place on Chr i s tmas Day 2011, when 35 people were killed in a str ing of church bombings . Thir ty- two of the victims were killed at a single Catho-lic church in t he city of Mandalla. Nigerian President Goodluck Jona-than felt it was necessary to declare a state of emergency in several no r th -ern states in response to the attacks.

Boko Haram, a mili tant Is-lamist group, claimed credit for t he Chr i s tmas Day bombings. The or-ganization has targeted churches, mosques , and police stations that do no t live up to its vision of an Islamic society because they dis-play t oo m u c h Western influence.

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4 THE A N C H O R WORLD MARCH 7 . 2 0 1 2 Putin reclaims Russian presidency in contested election

Christopher Russ C o E D F T O F H N - C H I E F

O n Feb. 26, a week before the Russian Presidential elec-t ions took place, d o w n t o w n Moscow was filled with thou-sands of protes ters w h o had gathered to oppose Vladimir V. Putin, Russia's p r ime minis ter w h o was runn ing to reclaim his fo rmer posit ion of president .

Putin served as president for two, four-year t e rms f rom 2000-2008. Formerly, Russian laws held this to be the m a x i m u m length of t ime that a person could hold the nation's highest office (much like Amer ican laws).

However, Putin's political par ty changed the law. Now, an individual is legally allowed to serve back-to-back six-year t e rms , a f ter which they mus t take a o n e - t e r m break. Af te r that break they may again serve back-to-back six-year t e rms and theo-retically, they could con t inue re-peat ing this pa t te rn indefinitely.

Dur ing these pas t four years, Put in has been taking that break, however, he has remained very active at the top of Russian poli-tics in this role as p r ime minister.

Now, the highly contes ted election results have c rowned Put in as the victor with close to 63 percent of the vote. French For-eign Minis ter Alain Juppe told repor ters "The election has no t been exemplary, to say the least."

Some spoke m o r e harshly about the results and accused Putin of succeeding as a re-sult of conspiracy and fraud.

Oppos i t ion activist Gar ry Kasparov claimed that Putin suppor te r s "simply added n e w voters to the register using so-called supp lementa ry voter rolls. At one of the polling sta-tions, the n u m b e r of extra vot-ers even exceeded the n u m b e r of registered voters," he said.

Put in completely denies these claims, and after wiping tears f rom his eyes, he told a crowd of suppor te r s who had assembled in Manezhnaya Square, "We have won an open and hones t fight."

Four candidates ran against Putin, and the next closest can-didate was Gennady Zyuganov of the C o m m u n i s t par ty who re-ceived slightly more than 17 per-cent of the vote. Polls before the election showed that Putin did

have a good chance of winn ing the elec-t ion, and even his o p p o n e n t s do no t deny his popular -ity. However, those pre-election polls indicated that the fo rmer KGB officer was set to receive a round 40 percent of the vote. In a Russian presidential elec-t ion, if a candidate receives less than 50 percent of the vote in the first round of t he election, a second round run-off mus t PHOTO COURTESY OF ASSOCUTED PRESS be held after the field RUSSIAN ELECTIONS Prime Minister Putin speaks In a meeting of Russian is n a r r o w e d t o t h e P o P u l a r Pront In Siberia. The Russian Popular Form Is created by Putin to broaden t o p t w o c a n d i d a t e s , his part ies dominat ion.

D o w n t o w n Mos-cow saw thousands of Russians ga thered to pro tes t the election results. Whi le this protest was sanct ioned by the government , there were still 12,000 police sent ou t into the city to act as security forces. At o n e point , pro tes t leader Sergei Udaltsov asked the crowd, "If it was a f ree election, why have they f looded

the entire city of t roops?" The crowd replied, "They fear us!"

Any non-sanc t ioned pro-tests that took place across t he count ry were shut d o w n by police forces. In St. Peters-burg, a pro tes t that was re-po r t ed being a round 2,000 people large was s topped after 100 protes ters were arres ted.

Protesters were no t only un-happy with the results, they were also ques t ioning the fair-ness of the election process. Putin's opponen t s claimed that s ta te- run television heav-ily favored Putin and gave h im significantly more airt ime.

Syrian violence and protests continue; elections seen as farce Megan Stevens S T A F F W R I T E R

The BBC repor ted last week that at least 30 Syrians were killed in count rywide violence as o thers voted on a const i tut ional r e fe rendum. The n e w const i tu-t ion would call for a mul t ipar ty par l iamentary election at some po in t in the next th ree m o n t h s .

A m o n g the voters was Syr-ian President Bashar al-Assad, w h o has spoken in favor of the re fe rendum. BBC correspon-dent Lina Sinjab repor ted that

the president sees the n e w con-st i tut ion as ma jo r re form over the cu r ren t system. The mul-t iparty election would elimi-nate the cu r ren t political mo-nopoly held by the Baath Party.

The referendum's o p p o n e n t s say the election is a farce. Many activist g roups have already poin ted out how easy it would be for the cu r ren t regime to ig-nore any n e w const i tu t ion. The previous const i tut ion, Sinjab wrote, "guaranteed personal and political f r e e d o m s and b a n n e d torture." The old regime ignored and violated these provisions.

According to Syrian activ-ist Huse in Saqer, "people don ' t want to vote because they see no difference be tween this o n e and the o the r constitution."

Sinjab also repor ted inter-viewing a housewife, w h o voted yes in suppor t of the pres ident in spite of the fact that she has no t read the const i tut ion.

M o r e than 13,000 polling places have been set up, the BBC repor ted , which would serve 14.6 million voters.

Meanwhile , shoot ing be-tween rebels and government forces cont inues on all sides.

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SYRIA PROTESTS CONTINUE- P ro tes ts c o n t i n u e as v o t i n g has been l abe l l ed as a fa rce .

The city of Homs , in particular, has taken much shelling, mos t of it in its Baba A m r neighbor-hood . The U.K.'s Syrian Obser-vatory for H u m a n Rights esti-mates that nine civilians and four Syrian soldiers have been killed so far in H o m s alone. The CBC says at least 16 were killed in the city on Monday.

The Red Cross is t rying to evacuate injured Syrians and foreign journalists . It was also atable to recover the bod-ies of two journalis ts , Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, who were bo th killed in Homs.

Both journalists had exten-sive experience repor t ing in war zones. Ochlik, a photogra-pher, was known for his pho-tos of the Arab Spring. Colvin had repor ted o n war s for 30 years and was, according to The Guardian, "credited with sav-ing the lives of 1,500 w o m e n and children" in East Timor.

The U N est imates that 5,400 people have been killed in the last 11 mon ths . The n u m b e r may have increased to 7,300, though sources differ. The ca-

sualty number s cannot be con-f i rmed due to t he Syrian gov-ernment ' s strict restr ict ions on foreign cor respondents .

U.S. Secretary of State Hill-ary Cl inton w a r n e d the nation Feb. 26 that sending t roops to Syria might only worsen the si tuation. The country, she told The Australian, is on the brink of civil war, and "outside inter-vention would no t prevent that , it would probably expedite it." She did, however, call for the Syrian army to rebel, saying that the t roops cannot cont inue to suppor t a dying government .

O n Feb. 27, the O b a m a ad-minis t ra t ion s u m m o n e d the se-nior Syrian envoy to the Uni ted States. The president later called for Assad to s tep down. This is the second t ime he has made such a request , having done so last August . Assad, said Presi-dent O b a m a , is s tanding be-tween Syrians and the future .

M A R C H 7 . 2 0 1 2 ARTS T H E A N C H O R S

Hope artist profile: photographer Chris Cox Ben Lemmen G U E S T W R I T E R

You' re c u r r e n t l y f i n i sh ing a s f u d i o a r t s m a j o r h e r e a t H o p e , w i t h a f o c u s o n f i lm p h o t o g r a p h y . W h e n a n d h o w d i d you ge t s t a r t e d wi th p h o t o g r a p h y ?

sophomore school. My dad gave

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into photography. I s tar ted thinking of it outside of just a "taking pictures for fun" type of thing. I've always been kind of into pictures and visual things. Growing up, I always did art : paint ing and drawing and things like that .

Coming to Hope, I wasn' t sure if 1 was going to do art or not . That was par t of my reason for coming to Hope actually. 1 was like, well, I could major in English or history, or whatever I want . Probably s o p h o m o r e year here I really decided that I'm interested in visual culture: making images and what that means . So, for the last three yeafs-Tve been pretty devoted to pho tography and image making.

A r e you exclus ively a f i lm p h o t o g r a p h e r ? W h a t a r e y o u r r e a s o n s b e h i n d us ing film as o p p o s e d t o digi ta l?

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D o you d e v e l o p you r o w n f i lm be a landscape, but you'll not ice hop ing the viewer can really get country. t h e n ?

Well, I shoot all color negative photos . You can really process color with hand chemicals like you could with black and white, so 1 just ship it all out . W h e n 1 get it back, I scan my work into a c o m p u t e r with a film scanner, and then edit it as you would with any other photograph. It's kind of like a mix of b o t h worlds: I capture on film, bring it into the computer , then edit and print it f r om there.

L o o k i n g a t y o u r work , t h e r e ' s a u n i q u e b a l a n c e b e t w e e n p h o t o g r a p h s of peop le , as wel l as l a n d s c a p e s a n d i n a n i m a t e ob jec t s . W o u l d you say t h a t t h i s is a n i n t e n t i o n a l b a l a n c e , o r ju s t n a t u r a l l y c o m e s o u t in you r w o r k ?

I don ' t really categorize my work as "landscape" or "portrait." I kind of see it all more like one whole thing. I'm really interested in the relationship be tween myself taking pictures, and whatever I'm taking a p ic ture of. I'm interested in what happens when the pho tographer is taking a picture of a person w h o is in a landscape, or a space, and what happens with the relationship between the person, the landscape, and myself. This three-way relationship and the conversat ion that evolves liiMlml luliiiiiiiiill

subjects in it interacting with the land.

Is t h e r e a n y t h i n g specif ical ly t h a t you en joy c a p t u r i n g m o r e t h a n a n y t h i n g ?

I'm interested in people. I'm really into visual culture, and when a subject is captured on film, how their whole awareness of visual ideas, culture, a t t i tude and m o o d is cap tu red and por t rayed to the camera . So I'm really interested in the person and h o w par t s of them can c o m e th rough on film.

H o w d o you d e c i d e w h a t t o c a p t u r e ? Axe you a p l a n n e r , o r d o y o u r u n m o r e off of fee l ing a n d s p o n t a n e i t y ?

Recendy, what I've been doing has been qui te intentional . Everything has been pretty contr ived. So, even if you see an image that appears to be spon taneous and loose, mos t likely I've spent some t ime really thinking about how it's going to c o m e together visually. Usually, before I do a shoot I really think about what 's going to happen but more so for the overall picture, not necessarily the individual composi t ions .

You have a n exh ib i t i on o p e n i n g M a r c h 8 a t H o l l a n d ' s C u l t u r e W o r k s Gal lery . Te l l

into it and f r ame themselves in the images. They're so big that when you get up close, they'll be the only thing you can see on the wall. There's a mix of work too. It's all stuff f r om N e w Zealand. There's a mix of straight up landscape, figurative stuff, and some portrai ts . It's really an overall look at my t ime studying there,

Jacob Bullard, who graduated a year ago, has recorded a soundtrack for the work too. It's about a 30-minute long piece that he created in response to the pictures that will be played th roughout the exhibition. The music should hopeful ly enhance the m o o d and feeling of the imagery. We'll see h o w people respond to it. For me, I really like the music because I have such a personal connect ion to the work. It will be interesting to see someone w h o is no t related to it and h o w they engage with bo th aspects .

T h i s e x h i b i t i o n is i m a g e s of you r s e m e s t e r in N e w Z e a l a n d . H o w m u c h of y o u r t i m e t h e r e c o n s i s t e d of ac tua l ly go ing o u t a n d s h o o t i n g ?

My coursework out there was all studio stuff. I did an ar t h is tory course, a p h o t o course and a classical typography course. I spent a lot of t ime taking pictures too. All of t|ie

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c m the travels that I did there.

D o you have c a r e e r in p h o t o g r a p h y ?

Yeah, we'll see what happens (laughs). I thought I was going to be doing commerc ia l pho tography after school, li por t ra i ture for a magazine company. But over the m o n t h I've been reconsideri that . I'm thinking of pursu ing fine ar t now. Possibly do ing exhibition and gallery work, kind of what I'm doing here . I'm also doing album design and directorial stuff with Jacob Bullard. He's doing a n e w full length that will come ou t in the middle of June. I'll be doing a lot of pho tography with h im. I'm excited about that . I'm m o r e interested in project-based stuff, if it's like the commercia l aspects of doing ar twork for artists. I'm not going to hope or plan for anything too much . We'll see what happens .

A n y sol id p l ans a f t e r you g r a d u a t e ?

I'm going to move to d o w n t o w n Grand Rapids with Mr. Bullard. We'll just be living right d o w n t o w n in kind of a live-work apar tment space, so I'll hopefully do some exhibit ions there. Jacob and I are going to work on the a lbum there as _well. But who knows, I could see myse l f 'n tov ing to the East Coast or West Coast . Maybe grad school in a couple years.

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Best Supporting Actor; Christopher Plummer (Beginners)

Best Supporting Actress: Octov ia Spencer (The Help)

Best Actress: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)

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Is music piracy a 'rip off or 'cool' marketing tool? Chris Russ C O - E O I T O R H N - C H I E F

In recent months , the news has been full of s tories docu-ment ing the controversy sur-round ing the Stop Onl ine Pira-cy Act, a bill in t roduced in the House, and a similar bill intro-duced in the Senate, the Pro tec t IP Act.

The s ta ted goal of the bills now on hold is to make it more difficult for websites to spread pirated materials, bu t a n u m b e r of complaints were raised about complicat ions that could arise f rom the implementa t ion of this policy.

The debate sur rounding these bills once again brought to the foref ront , the always controver-sial subject of music piracy, a subject that is part icularly rel-evant to college s tudents .

A 2011 University of Ne-braska study publ ished in "Psy-chology, Cr ime and Law" found that while s tudents largely felt tha t shoplif t ing was wrong, they did no t feel nearly the same way about digital music piracy. In fact, the majori ty of those polled had no moral object ion to downloading copyrighted music for free.

The music industry has seen firsthand the results of this view-

point . Even though record sales rose slightly in 2012, the overall totals for records sales are down by more than 50 percent pr ior to the dawn of easily accessible il-legal downloading.

Steve, owner of The Full Cir-cle record store in d o w n t o w n Holland, which first opened in 2003 has seen the decl ine of re-cord sales first hand .

"Wha t gets to me, a f ter seeing the effects of Napster , Limewire, C D bu rne r s being included in all computers , is that people have been t rading music for so long that they feel that they're ent i-tled to it. It doesn't have a s t igma anymore."

Steve also explained that pi-racy might have more pragmat ic downsides. "People have accept-ed a lower quality sound of mu-sic, it's compressed. You're kind of r ipping yourself off."

Some take a different stance, and feel that the music industry is so vehement ly against piracy, not because they suppor t ar t -ists, bu t because they are afraid of not being able to profit off of those artists.

"Well as we can see, 'piracy' is just one of those scare words used by big business like Vic-tory Records where the bands who p roduce the p roduc t don ' t

see any of the profits. It's just an-other example of the 'haves' at-t empt ing to keep the 'have-nots ' f r om having," Nicholas Pillsbury ('12) said.

Pillsbury is referencing the d isputes Victory Records has had with some of the art ists signed to the label. O n e of those artists, Streetl ight Manifes to , encouraged their fans to pirate their music or purchase it di-rectly f rom the band website, due to d isputes over royalties.

Whi le the in ternet has hu r t overall sales, it has given art ists a n oppor tun i ty to connec t more directly with fans. Jake Kalmink is a s o p h o m o r e at H o p e and a musician w h o uses a variety of m e t h o d s to dis t r ibute his music .

" W h e n I release my music, I personally prefer either burn ing CD-Rs (to give away free to just get my n a m e ou t there) or put-ting songs onl ine on a website called Bandcamp. The coolest par t about b a n d c a m p is that it has the opt ion of "Pay W h a t You Want." This allows for the down-loaders of my music to decide whe the r they want it for free, for a dollar, or for $20! It's really cool to me, because it allows me to get my music ou t there at no cost, and at a fair cost to anyone. I see a m o u n t s of downloads and

I do feel really great w h e n some-one thinks my music is good enough to purchase," Kalmink said.

But along with embrac ing the In te rne t as a means to share mu-sic, Kalmink opposes piracy as an irresponsible response to this sharing.

"I th ink that the ability to download helps people hear a lot of great music, bu t the lazi-ness and lack of c o m m i t m e n t to actually purchas ing music really bugs me. Music has as much val-ue as food does to me. And I love food. I don ' t like to download music illegally most ly because I don ' t feel as though I'm sup-por t ing the artist , and it doesn't feel like I actually own the mu-sic," Kalmink said. He added that he does feel that the penalt ies for music piracy are excessively harsh.

Mat t Costello ('14) serves as a music director at Hope's ra-dio station, W T H S and also has mixed views on illegal down-loading.

"Piracy has taken a lot of m o n e y ou t of the hands of the artist , there's no quest ion. It makes it ha rder for smaller, in-dependen t musicians to get their feet off t he ground. But there is more music available to the av-

erage person than ever before. This has created a sense of com-peti t ion. Almost every previous generat ion shows record labels t rying to cash in on one part icu-lar craze by produc ing hundreds of carbon-copies , f r om the Brit-ish Invasion to Boy Bands. But now that we have easy access to conceivably anything, we as the consumer get to dictate what we listen to and who we suppor t . So I suppose my main point is that despite the problems it br ings to art ists it's had an overall positive effect on the music industry."

Despite the overall lack of a consensus on the issue, the one point everyone seems comfor t -able agreeing on is that illeglal downloading has changed the music industry permanent ly and will cont inue to change it in the years to come.

""In my opinion, art ists are going to have to tour more to make a living, and they'll get used to smaller paycheck, they probably already have," Steve said.

How and when the govern-m e n t plans to step in and impact this cur rent system remains to be seen.

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',Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

"Although it's not the easiest read, especially the first time through. I've read it at least four times and it gets better everytime. I think a really good book is one you can read any number of times and get something new out of it everytime and ,Catch-22' definitely fits the bill."

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"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway "Hemingway rewrote the ending 47 times. 1 read the ending and was floored. Great novel."

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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To date, I've read this book almost 20 times. The way that Lee writes about big life issues through the eyes of a child takes me back to my childhood every single time. It's a timeless American classic that will always remain my favorite book."

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A week and a half f r om now, the s tudents of H o p e College's eyes will be a little bit brighter, their smiles will be a little bit wider and they will be able to breath a little bit lighter. By the end of next week, mid te rms will have concluded and s tudents will be seen rushing back to their d o r m s to pack their bags and flee the c a m p u s as March 16 marks the last day of classes and the beginning of spring break.

For many, the past few mon ths have been spent d r eam-ing, discussing, p lanning and finalizing spring break plans. For some, plans to go h o m e are ei ther exciting or daunt ing. And then there are those last min-ute p lanners who completely d ropped the ball on planning a trip.

Unless you want to remain on c a m p u s with no th ing to do, you might want to consider pu t t ing together a t r ip quickly. Here are some ideas of wha t could soon be awaiting you. P l a n a r o a d t r i p

Spring break doesn ' t neces-sarily have to be about where you go or what you do. Hit t ing the open roads for an adventure could be just as exciting and might even be more memorable . Ga ther some fr iends, purchase a map, stock up on snacks, mix a couple of CDs with your favorite tunes and hit the road and see where it leads you before you have to re turn to Michigan. T a k e p a r t in a n i m m e r s i o n t r i p

This spring break, a round 170 s tudents will be heading out across the nation and world to take par t in H o p e College's im-mers ion trips.

There are 14 tr ips with Wash-ington D.C; Detroit , Mich; East Palo Alto, Calif; Tegucigalpa, Hounduras and Blue Fields, Nicuragua being some of the places that s tudents will visit.

These tr ips serve to immerse s tudents in a different culture, challenge their ideas about injustice, deepen their faith, s t re tch their relat ionships and change the way they see the world.

According to Kate Kooyman, director of outreach and social justice th rough H o p e College C a m p u s Ministr ies, s tudents will benefi t f rom these tr ips be-cause "students develop s t rong relationships with s tudents they never would have me t be-fore, they get to mee t people w h o are par t of the Kingdom of God who will challenge them to ask quest ions they've never asked and to see God in a n e w way and they challenge s tudents to discern their o w n call to be a par t of working for justice in the world."

Whi le it may be t oo late to sign up for the national and in-ternat ional immers ion trips, there is a local immers ion tr ip that still has spots available. S tudents who part icipate in t he Holland immers ion tr ip will visit var ious organizat ions and ministr ies in Hope's backyard. They'll stay at different churches a round town and see firsthand

how God is already working in Holland to address injustices that are here.

The cost is $100 and spots are filling quickly, so contact Kooy-m a n at kooyman@hope.edu to-day! Hi t t h e g rea t o u t d o o r s

W h e t h e r you're based out of Holland or decide to re turn to your hometown, chances are high that there is a good camp-ing site within driving distance f rom your home . A week spent enjoying Mothe r Nature with f r iends requires a marginal a m o u n t of money and very little planning. Al though it may still be a little chilly, a w a r m fire and a heavy sleeping bag can easily make the winter winds bearable. Borrowing equ ipment f rom fr iends who are Florida bound will spare you the high costs of camping gear.

Once you have decided on campground and set up camp, you and your f r iends can spend t ime hiking, fishing, playing cards, sitting a round the camp-fire talking or roast ing marsh-mallows.

It is sure to be a low-key week filled with bond ing and mak-ing memor ies you won't soon forget. L a s t - m i n u t e t r ave l ing

If you absolutely mus t spend your spring break lying on the beach someplace warm, it's a possibility that you might be able to find some las t -minute deals on tropical vacations. Priceline and Last Minute are two com-panies that help you find hotels and airfare at reduced rates.

Jonathan Snavely J U N I O R

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Charlie Gles S O P H O M O R E

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Kelsey Carpenter J U N I O R

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Tom Filer S E N I O R

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8 T H E A N C H O R VOICES M A R C H 7 , 2 0 1 2

Life after basketball The vow Bethany Stripp Sports Co-Editor

In "The Love Song o f ) . Al f red Prufrock," T.S. Eliot m e n t i o n s m e a s u r i n g one 's life o u t in cof fee spoons . I 'm n o t m u c h of a coffee drinker , so tha t analogy doesn ' t d o m u c h for me. Me , I've mea -sured m y life o u t in basketbal l games .

That may seem like a s t r ange s t a t e m e n t c o m -ing f r o m the girl w h o s e basketball ca ree r consis t -ed of two unimpress ive seasons of B team midd le school basketball , w h e r e she never qui te g rasped the c o n c e p t of a play and had a career -h igh th ree po in t s on o n e - o n - o n e in e ighth grade, b u t hea r m e out .

I g rew u p in the gym of C o m s t o c k High School in C o m s t o c k , Mich. , where on Tuesday a n d Friday nights , m y dad, a t eacher at C o m -stock, b r o u g h t m e to the boys' varsi ty games . I sat at the s tat table night af ter n ight , wa tch ing h im fill o u t a book of po in t s and fouls and all sor t s of o the r th ings tha t m a d e n o sense to me. I may n o t have k n o w n w h a t w a s going on , b u t I loved be ing at t hose games . I loved w a t c h i n g all those big high school kids play.

I spent m y t eenage years in the gym of Ka-l a m a z o o Chr i s t i an High School , the "biggest lit-tle gym in Michigan," accord ing to the rad io an-n o u n c e r s tha t covered o u r games . 1 did n o t miss one h o m e g a m e for fou r years , a n d it was in that gym tha t I f ound my passion.

The d r ink ing scandal of 2005, w h e n the Intox-icated Ten, inc luding fou r of o u r s ta r te rs , were b e n c h e d for six games a n d the Sober Six s t epped up, sparked in m e a love for spor t s journa l i sm. U n d e r my bed at h o m e , there is a b i n d e r tha t has every single article abou t Ka lamazoo Chr i s t ian basketbal l that ran in t h e K a l a m a z o o Gaze t t e f r o m the beg inn ing of Februa ry 2005 unti l the end of M a r c h 2008.

1 found m y pass ion in the win te r n ights I spen t in K Chris t ian 's gym, a n d to this day if you ask m e w h a t the highl ight of m y high school ca reer was, I won ' t p o i n t to p r o m or g radua t ion : 1 would

tell you, w i thou t ques t ion , tha t the best day of my high school ca reer was M a r c h 15,2008, w h e n two ca lm free t h r o w s f r o m Mike VanderPloeg at the end of the g a m e sealed the deal and ea rned us the Class C s ta te title over Flint Beecher . (Side note : s h o u t o u t to any Wes te rn Michigan Chr i s -t ian a lum - chee r ing you on to a state t i t le that day is also one of my favorite m e m o r i e s f r o m high school) .

I didn ' t c o m e to H o p e for the D e w Crew, b u t I've said s ince f r e s h m a n year that I couldn ' t imag-ine go ing to a school tha t d idn ' t care abou t its basketball t eam. I th ink it's safe to say I ended u p at t h e right place. The ded ica t ion I've seen and b e e n a pa r t of over the pas t fou r seasons f r o m s tudents , faculty, staff a n d all sor t s of c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s has redef ined pass ion for me.

You can have you r Izzone. You can have your C a m e r o n Crazies . If I could d o it all over again, there 's n o ques t ion in m y m i n d : I would always c h o o s e to spend my four college basketball sea-sons in the D e w Crew.

Leaving DeVos last Sa turday night w a s as great of a chal lenge for m e as leaving the Civic Cen te r af ter Nyke rk this year, which , if you k n o w m e at all, is a pre t ty huge s t a t emen t . 1 l ingered unti l well pas t 10 p .m. because I k n e w once I left, I couldn ' t go back. Sure, I can r e tu rn to t h e bui lding, and 1 can go back to m o r e H o p e basket-ball g a m e s a n d you be t te r believe 1 wil lbut my t i m e as a ded ica ted D e w C r e w m e m b e r has c o m e to a close.

The th ing abou t senior year, t hough , is tha t you can ' t look at every th ing as end ings and lasts. It's too ove rwhe lming . I try ( s o m e w h a t unsuc-cessfully, but t ry never theless) to look at m y exits as en t r ances into s o m e t h i n g new. W h e n 1 hea rd the east doo r of DeVos click closed af ter I walked into Saturday night , 1 en t e r ed into a new phase of my basketbal l - loving life. I don ' t know w h a t tha t p h a s e will look like, but there 's n o d o u b t in m y m i n d tha t it will still involve a lot of win te r n ights in gyms. Basketball has been a pa r t of m e since I w a s a little girl, and I in tend to keep it tha t way.

Bethany would like to thank every single Hope College basketball team member, f rom coaches to players to managers, for four fantastic years of basketball.

Kyle Sutton-Columnis t

I finally managed to d rag my gir l fr iend to see "The Vow" th is weekend (and yes, in this relat ion-ship, 1 a m the one w h o w a n t s to see chick-flicks. Guys shouldn ' t be afraid to admi t that.) For those of you w h o don' t know, the movie is a b o u t a h u s b a n d ( C h a n n i n g Ta tum) and wife (Rachel M c A d a m s ) w h o get in a car acc ident . W h e n the wife wakes up, she has no m e m -ory of the pas t five years , inc luding her husband . T h e rest of the movie is abou t Ta tum re -da t ing her a n d winn ing back her love.

It's b e e n in thea ters for two weeks, and in tha t t i m e I saw plenty of Facebook s ta tuses a n d twee t s f r o m girls saying they were amazed wi th T a t u m (and not just because of his excellent w a r d r o b e or abs that every guy w a n t s to have by spr ing break.) Girls w a n t a guy like T a t u m because h e didn ' t s top loving her, and against all reason t r ied to win back her love again. A girl usually w a n t s a guy w h o is tha t crazy in love with her, w h o would b e willing to d o whatever it takes to win her hea r t .

That 's all good and d a n d y ladies, b u t I w a n t to share a piece of ad-vice tha t I have hea rd whi le l is tening to a ser ies of talks called "Love, Sex, a n d Dat ing" by A d a m Stanley. Guys like Ta tum are looking for a special girl too. They w a n t a girl wi th w h o m it is wor th being tha t head-over -hee l s in love with. You think T a t u m w o u l d t ry to win back the love of a girl w h o t rea ted h im like crap , or w h o compla ins that her camera isn't good enough , or tha t her cell p h o n e isn't the new-est? Does h e w a n t a girl w h o hooks up wi th r a n d o m guys every o the r weekend , or is failing half of her classes? N o . He's going to w a n t a girl w h o t rea t s h im r ight and respec t s herself a n d o thers .

So if you w a n t a guy like C h a n n i n g Ta tum to sweep you off your feet , you need to act like a girl w h o deserves tha t k ind of guy. Look nice, even if you're just going to class. Don ' t act like you're d u m b because you th ink guys find it cute . We don' t . You need to b e "the pe r son tha t you're looking for is looking for." ( Q u o t e d f r o m t h e talk series m e n t i o n e d above. It's a great series for anyone in teres ted in dating!)

I 'm not saying change you w h o are. In fact , you n e e d to be your -self! But if you are the type of girl w h o w a n t s to go o u t every week-end or compla in a b o u t # f i r s twor ldprob lems , don ' t expect a C h a n -n ing Ta tum in your life any t ime soon.

O h a n d an addi t iona l no te for guys- If you watch "The Vow," you'll see tha t Ta tum doesn ' t o p e n the car doo r for M c A d a m s at the very beg inn ing af ter they leave the movie theater. 1 don ' t ca re if it's your first da te or you 've b e e n da t ing for five years , you should still be o p e n i n g the car doo r for her.

And on the sixth day.

Marc Tori Staff Writer

I love nature. There's something inside m e that pulls m e to the wild every so often. 1 have a desire to go on grand adventures exploring the vastness of creation. I'm not the mos t "outdoorsy" guy, but I've learned to enjoy roughing it.

Something about the wilderness speaks to me. It might be the old, tall trees that have seen and heard so much . Maybe it's the endlessly flowing stream with source un-seen or the thrill of imagining what the land looked thou-sands of years before.

There's nothing like sitting in the woods watching the sunrise. The forest comes to life slowly. Birds begin to sing as dawn approaches. Squirrels wander down f rom their nests to play in the crinkly leaves and look for hidden acorns. All the while, 1 sit quiedy marveling at creation. The light, the sounds, the plants and the animals all over-whelm my ser

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Genesis 1 tells us Creator God spoke the world into be-ing f rom nothing in six days. Each day He added something new and good. The Psalms tell us that creation displays the glory of God. I agree wholeheartedly. From the shores of Lake Michigan to the Andes Mountains , I've seen the nat-ural works of God's hands in so many beautiful ways. There is n o way to deny His work.

Did you notice 1 left out the mos t impor tan t par t of cre-ation? I've only wri t ten about how I love the natural beauty in the world a round us. I've only wri t ten about the first five days of creation. G o d did his best work on Day Six!

H u m a n s are the crowning jewels of creation. We are all unique and created in the image of the God. Admittedly, I don't always have the love for other people like I have the love for nature. Don't misunders tand m e though. I love people. 1 love being around them at Waffle House, giving them tours of Hope, or speaking Spanish with them.

But people aren't always as easy to love as a quiet morn -ing in the woods . They let m e down. They don't clean up after themselves. People are selfish and rude. W e tear down our brothers and sisters with our words. We are so imperfect .

I think this is one reason I've separated the first five days of creation f rom the sixth. Isn't it easier to find irresistible the untouched pieces of wilderness, the ones man hasn't

contaminated yet? Isn't it understandable I want a pet dog because it can't argue with me? If I don't have to engage with the flaws of humanity, they can't hu r t me.

But God has called m e to so much more. He's called each one of us to love all seven days of creation together. There is n o escaping creation. From the concrete jungles of u rban skyscrapers to the golden plains of the west, God wan t s us to embrace, care for and cherish what He has made. He sent his son Jesus to redeem humanity, and one day He will restore creation to its intended state.

There are so many reasons to be cynical towards peo-ple; I don't need to n a m e any. O u r world is broken. But like Derek Webb said in chapel last Friday, "There is no ex-cuse for cynicism because Christianity is all about hope." As m e m b e r s of the H o p e College community, we should know that better than most .

People are tough to love. W e should love them anyways. God once destroyed all of creation to save Noah and his family, showing us that people are wor th a lot. I pray we all, including myself, begin to see other people as the jewels they are, and that we would love them like our God loves all of his creation.

Marc really wan t s to move out west and explore the other side of this continent . Bring on t h e Rocky Mountains!

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Lessons learned while wandering I a m convinced that 1 am living in one of the most beau-

tiful places in the world. I m u s t be. If I 'm not and there are more s tunning lands than one I am in, I m not sure my heart

could take it. I'm certain that it couldn't.

Scotland's cities are lovely, of course. Aberdeen buzzes with that international excitement, the airspace b r imming with the

sounds of a hundred different languages. Edinburgh is majestic, rich in cul ture and his-tory, a sprawling town of cobblestone and cathedrals and bagpipes. But there is some-thing about this humble countryside, someth ing subtle and breathtaking. It's the way that the sun is positioned in the sky, s treaming through thin, white clouds that hang low over the hills. It's the way that the shadows move steadily across the face of the moun-tains. It's the way that the color of the land shifts from green to red to brown to tan, the dirt and the pastures and the farmland creating an e n o r m o u s quilt that blankets the ear th as far as the eye can see. The black birds dancing in the breeze, the sheep speckling the landscape, the smell of pine needles and d a m p wood and rainwater, the sound of waterfalls and white water and the c runch of pebbles benea th your feet. It is everything gigantic, and it is nothing at all - certainly beauty in what we see as Ordinary and beauty in what God has m a d e extraordinary.

As I wander the city streets and roam the rolling hills, I a m ever mindful of the les-sons I am learning. 1 c ame to this place knowing little, and though I still have an incred-ible amoun t to learn, each day I grow a little wiser and a bit more worn . I a m still an amateur after these five shor t weeks abroad, but I will share with you, readers, a few of the lessons I've learned thus far:

1) Wear the right shoes. You've heard it before, and I'll say it again: for heaven's sake, wear the right shoes! I brought three pairs wi th me to Europe: Sperrys, ankle boots, and

We are all journalists Samuel Tzou

Columnis t

This topic w a s inspired re-ally by a d iscuss ion I h a d wi th my f r i end at N o r t h w e s t e r n . It had b e e n nearly t h ree years s ince we a t t e n d e d the N a -t ional High School Ins t i tu te in Journal ism. For six weeks we ate, d rank , and slept jour -nalism, wr i t ing over 80 ar-ticles, and conduc t ing over 200 in terv iews over that

d u m b tape recorder tha t I've since t hen t h r o w n away. O u t of the 80 of us, I 'm probably one of five failures that didn ' t e n d u p going to

Nor thwes t e rn , Co lumbia , or one of the o the r top 10 journa l i sm schools across the country .

Anyhow, our conversa t ion e n d e d u p being a bar rage of ques t ions of why I never con t inued to do journal i sm. I d o d g e d the ques t ion , a n d to tell you the t ru th , I m not qui te sure I have the best answer, b u t I th ink the ti t le of the co lumn is the bes t answer I'll ever give.

Here 's w h a t I mean . N o t a week passes wi thou t s o m e o n e telling m e h o w awful t h e news m e d i a is today,

wi th a c o m m e n t on how biased it is or how wor th less half the s tories are. As the news moves away f r o m pr in t and t owards an electronic version, th is will b e c o m e m o r e ap-paren t ; each journalis t ' s bias will b e c o m e m o r e apparen t in bo th their wri t ing, as well as media b roadcas t s .

But the pu rpose of this co lumn is n o t to call Fox N e w s as Faux N e w s or you to as-ser t tha t C N N is really C o m m u n i s t N e w s N e t w o r k (Disclaimer: I don ' t s u p p o r t e i ther of those claims)

Ins tead I would suggest tha t you yourself are a journal i s t on a news ne twork . Webs ter def ines a journal is t as one w h o collects and d isseminates in fo rma t ion to

the general public. Each a n d every day, w e c o m e across h u n d r e d s of stories, wi tness t h o u s a n d s m o r e events , and read t h o u s a n d s of words a day (pending on if you're tak-

backpacking boots - none of which are ideal for the everyday. O n a daily basis, I walk at least 5 miles, and on the weekends, 10 miles per day at min imum. My feet are already bruised, swollen and sore. This, in par t , is a blessing, for with each step I a m reminded of the travels I have had the privilege to take and the enormity of the place in which I am present. O n the other hand, though, it's easier to just buy the right kind of shoe.

2) Travel-sized gear is wor th the small investment. W h e n your backpack is heavy, your back will hur t , and you will b e n o cleaner or fresher for it. W o m e n , leave your plethora of p roduc t s at home. If you disagree with this, I beg you to read some Thoreau. Your back and your mind will thank you later.

3) Never book the latest bus possible. Few things will be open past six on a Sunday anyway, so there's little use in staying those extra five hours. There will, without a doubt , be d runk old men shouting obscure things at inappropriate momen t s , filling the bus with the scent of stale alcohol and an overwhelming sense of discomfort . Just book the 7 p.m. trip.

4) Revel in the small things. Listen hard, breathe deeply, and keep your eyes focused on the world a round you rather than on your own two feet. There is so much to be seen, so much to enjoy, and an incomprehensible amoun t for which to be thankful. The sounds of the streets, the fly sitting on your forearm, the smell of wa rm spring air - all of these are wor thy of your time, of your acknowledgment . Relish in these subtleties, and be grateful for it.

I feel that it is officially t ime to consider myself a weary traveler. My feet are bruised, my body sore and dehydrated, my hair unbrushed . W h a t a privilege it is to be lost in this place, to attr ibute my fatigue to the unequaled beauty of this land.

ing a cul tura l her i tage class or n o t this semester , it'll b e a lot more) . A n d o u t of t hose th ings you access plus the mil l ions of events you've wi tnessed or hea rd about , that 's w h a t you talk abou t wi th your f r iends , family, acqua in tances a n d you 've accessed. A n d wi th tha t i n fo rma t ion tha t you relay, you are also relaying your op in ion based off you exper iences .

Gran ted , not all the events tha t you wi tness deserve wor ld recogni t ion, however, they a re events tha t m o r e than likely you r f r i ends will listen to a n d will wa tch just as closely as wha tever events are on the television.

Just as a journal is t has a responsibil i ty to p ro jec t news objectively, I would suggest tha t we all have the s ame responsibil i ty as the journal is ts to genuinely relay the infor-ma t ion a n d descr ibe it in a responsible manne r .

For t hose w h o are Chr i s t i ans I w o u l d suggest that we should d o as Paul suggested in 1st Thessa lonians 2:4: "For we speak as messenge r s approved by G o d to b e en -t r u s t e d wi th the G o o d News . O u r p u r p o s e is to please God , not people . H e alone examines the mot ives of o u r hearts."

Unlike m e d i a journal is ts , o u r responsibil i ty lies in glor i fying the k ingdom in all tha t we say and do. W e are b roadcas t ing to the wor ld constant ly in every th ing we do. There may n o t b e a camera , Katie Cour ic is not on the o the r end asking ques t ions , and our r e p o r t will not b e on the O'Reilly Factor or quo ted by David Rich, but o u r words definitely make an impac t beyond w h a t we imagine . - I'm also n o t d i scoun t ing the profess ion of journa l i sm. The wor ld n e e d s profess ion-

als in this area to con t inue to relay in format ion . I 'm just saying along the way the re is n o reason wha tsoever tha t we can ' t and shouldn ' t be process ing and regurgi ta t ing in fo rma t ion tha t we have l ea rned and have access to and do ing it in a loving m a n n e r as Chr i s t would .

Ins tead of be ing an occupa t iona l journal is t , I would suggest we are all vocat ional journal is ts : individuals charged wi th spreading the g o o d news of the gospel , a n d p ro-mo t ing o the r events in a loving manner . This should be d o n e as Paul descr ibes in 1st Cor in th i ans C h a p t e r 13: W i t h o u t love w e are c langing cymbals , an obnoxious sound tha t n o o n e wan t s to l isten to. It's the love that he ld Chr i s t t o the cross that we need to be r epor t ing on and emula t ing .

At the end of the day we are all journal is ts .

Letter to the Editors Dear Editor,

H o p e College has s o m e ser ious issues tha t n e e d resolving, and s o o n e r ra ther t han later.

There is ser ious p rob lem wi th d iscr imina t ion a n d intolerance on th is campus , and it exists w h e t h e r t h e college wan t s to admi t it or no t . A s a s tuden t you can feel the air of disapproval of anyone w h o isn't Chr i s -t ian (if you are not a Chris t ian) ; even Cathol ics are looked on wi th disdain. T h e religious in to lerance is as palpable as the racism a n d the h o m o p h o b i a .

But, I don ' t see h o w we can deal with these issues, because any ef for ts to change deroga tory school issues have overwhelmingly fell shor t of t rue progress . The adminis t ra t ion 's h a n d in keeping the college back in t ime f r o m progress is staggeringly d i sappoin t ing . I 'm at a loss for suggest ions at this poin t .

Even w h e n the s tuden t b o d y has ga the red toge the r in g rand a m o u n t s to m a k e change , n o t h i n g real a n d long last ing has occur red . Last year r e p o r t s of active rac ism were kept h u s h e d on the d o w n low unti l one huge, publ ic event ( the d isgus t ing KKK posters) finally, t o o late, b r o u g h t t h e issue to light.

A dia logue circle w a s c rea ted for healing, a great idea, bu t . . .now what? W h a t is the last ing p e r m a n e n t effect?

W h e n LGBT s tuden t s and allies cam toge ther against vandal i sm a n d d i sc r imina t ion and a huge m o t i o n w a s m a d e wi th great effor t to c rea te a panel of homosexua l i ty nea r the e n d of the year, fo rmal and wi th sea t ing for a great n u m b e r of people, a public event to discuss the college's degrad ing s t a t e m e n t on homosexual i ty , I w a s opt imist ic tha t th ings were really s tar t ing to happen .

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I went to t he panel, and saw tolerant and educa ted faculty making incredibly well-stated a rguments that could no t be defied, and was full of hope that equality in this area may be making progress.

And what happened? The s ta tement was not removed, and still leaves LGBT s tudents second class citizens. In addition, the CIS issue for this year on Islam was an incredible idea, especially with so many stereotypes circulating abou t Musl ims in this country. But, as I expected, rates of a t tendance for many discussions dur ing CIS were less than exemplary, and I experienced many s tudents taking things in one ear and ou t the other.

Efforts to internalize diversity, be open minded and encourage the self to consider new ideas and accept others ' belief systems were dismal, and remain dismal in this s tudent body.

All in all: the panel of H o p e Colleges official s ta tement on homosexuali ty, heal ing dialogues for racist events , CIS o n Islam, Stand Up, walks a round campus and impromptu s tudent meet ings. All of these grassroots movements , all of them initiated by s tudents and faculty that are sick and tired of being stuck in a cul ture no t consis tent with tolerance that exists in our 21st cen tury life ou t in the real world.

All of these, ideas that could have changed campus life for the be t te r forever, and c rushed by an invisible, heavy hand . If we have powerfu l s tudent organizat ions rising up hand in hand , overwhelming faculty support , and even shockingly high c o m m u n i t y suppor t , w h o is left to for the decimat ion of all the progress we've a t tempted?

The college has been able to mainta in a shockingly pure image of peace, harmony, and diversity th rough all of the turmoi l that s happen ing inside the walls. I know my a t tempts to voice this serious problem will fall shor t of t rue publicity, bu t if I can get a few people thinking, I'll have at least done something.

I want real progress, I want real, institutionalized, permanent ly progressing movemen t s against racism, homophobia , intolerance against o ther religions and cultures, and ignorance.

But h o w much can we do, even as a combined s tudent body, faculty, and communi ty when the powerful , shadowed, wealthy hands of domina t ing influence pull the strings, collapsing and destroying t rue , palpable success.

Think about it. I'm ou t of suggestions, out of ideas, out of recommenda t ions . W h a t else can we do that we have no t already done? I'm asking you too faculty, I know the f rus t ra t ion many of you feel is my own.

Sincerely, Emily Di t tmar ('14)

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TTTC men's basketball team hosted two rounds of N C A A t o u r n a m e n t play over the weekend, defeat ing Westminster , Mo. 79-65 before falling to Illinois Wesley an in a gruel ing double over t ime game. 108-101. H o p e got off to a slow star t in the beginning of the March 2 game as they struggled to overcome the Blue Jays' lead. H o p e finally took the lead with less l h a n four minutes left in the first half and mainta ined that lead th roughou t the game. ^ 4j

"Good t eams find a way to win.'' H o p e head coach tylatt Neil said. "And we certainly had to work hard this game to find a way to win." * Westminster ' s head coach Mat t Mitchell was proud of his team's overall per formance , especially h o w they held H o p e off in the first half.

"I t hough t our kids played absolutely as hard as they could," Mitchell said, "Just to show (Hope! | and to get them out of their rhythm." f t

The Flying D u t c h m e n cont inued to play s t rong in t he second half s tepping up its offense to shoot 52 percent .

"It was the establ ishment of someth ing in the pa in t ; that caused them to have to collapse," Neil said. " I think that is wha t got us going. We got some baskets in the paint." i n H jffi S S | | | ^ J | | &

H o p e finished off Westmins ter with a 79-65 victor}'. Junior forward Nate Snuggerud was the leading

scorer with 37 poin ts for t he Flying Dutchmen . "My t eammates were able to find me in a place where

1 could go to the basket," Snuggerud said. "It m a d e my 5tf\ac job a l o t j a s i e r . I just had to pu t the ball in the b a s k e t ^

1 Krombeen (12) and Peter Bunn ('12) also hit igures for t he D u t c h m e n wi th 12 and 11 poin

ively. jthe win, the D u t c h m e n advanced to the seco

round 'of t he N C A A T o i ^ n a m e n t on Saturday, Mar J w h e r o t h e y played Illinois Wesleyan at DeVos.

After an excruciatingly close ba tde with Illinois Wes le fan that went in to double overt ime, the Ti tans f defeated the Flying D u t c h m e n 108-101, breaking H o p e ' s ^ winn ing consistency.

H o p e opened the Saturday night game with a huge 15-2 lead, keeping the Titans f rom scoring more than one basket for a lmost a full quar te r of the first half.

"They came ou t and kind of took our breath away," Illinois Wesleyan head coach Ron Rose said. "At first, f wasn' t sure we were going to g e t a basket."

The Plying Du tchmen struggled to mainta in its lead over the Titans. Tllinbis Wesleyan m a d e a speedy comeback af ter being d o w n by as many as 12 points , cut t ing Hope 's lead to two by half t ime.

The second half of the game left the two t eams battling to mainta in the lead. H o p e led 52-41 at the 13:47 mark, while Illinois Wesleyan had a 70-63 lead with 6:44 to go.

"It's hard no t to see things h a p p e n you hope wouldn' t happen," Neil said. "It was just a tough night for us all the way around."

With 2:30 left in regulation, the teams were tied at 76-76, and this led them into their first of two 5:00 overt imes.

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The Flying Du tchmen a n d ' t h e Ti tans played a close first over t ime and a late field goal by Hope's Josh Holwerda ('13) in the wan ing seconds t ied up the first ov