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F E A T U R E S

Pictures from DM 2012 Snapshots f rom this year's milestone-reaching fundraiser

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SPORTS

Mixed results Tennis wins one and loses one this weekend during indoor play.

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Dance Marathon reaches $1 million milestone Caltlln Klask E D I T O R - I N - C H I E F

With over 650 par t ic ipants

f rom nearly 30 organizat ions represented in this year's Dance

Mara thon , the air was buzz ing

with aspiration. But the results of the 24-hour

event were even more legendary

than expected: the total raised was $92,444.32, bringing the

13-year cumulat ive total to

$1,003,599.60. The "million-dollar-

milestone" reached on Saturday represents 13 years

of organizing, fundrais ing and

dancing th rough the night to raise awareness of Helen

DeVos Children's Hospital in

d o w n t o w n Grand Rapids. The

organizers of the phi lanthropy

effor t start p lanning in the fall. "Dream Team begins

p lanning and preparat ion in the fall semester with some

minor fundrais ing, team

bond ing and theme brain-storming," said Katherine

Voorhors t ('12), co-director

of the mara thon . "We plan fundraisers for g roups to do

and essentially try to get the

Dance Mara thon n a m e ou t there as early as possible."

Dance Mara thon

par t ic ipants consist of dancers , w h o remain in the Dow

Center for the full 24 hours , and morale shif t workers , who take

eight-hour shifts to mainta in the

optimist ic spirit of the dancers .

The event began at 7 p.m.

in the Dow Center on Friday,

coming to a close when the fundrais ing totals came in at 7

p.m. on Saturday. Throughout

the evening, a line dance was

givins hope taught to morale shif t workers

and dancers - bo th to serve the pu rpose of a dance event and

keep tired minds alert.

Coord ina t ing with the

hospital all year, each s tudent organizat ion is paired with a

family to connec t before the

event. The t r ademark phrase "it's for the kids" is used as motivation

in fundrais ing efforts, reminding par t ic ipatants and sponsors

of the real help the

mara thon provides. Local businesses also

join forces with H o p e s tudent organizat ions to

cont r ibute to the mara thon , which is affiliated with

the Children's Miracle

Ne twork Hospitals. Helen DeVos Children's Hospital ,

the largest of the those in the

network, recently relocated to a 440,000-square-foot facility

which cares for more than

7,600 inpat ients and 190,000 outpat ients annually.

The proceeds f rom the mara thon go straight toward the

p rograms that help the Dance

Mara thon kids deal with their illnesses more comfortably.

"The millionth dollar became impor t an t to me because the

goal was challenging but attainable with hard work and

dedication," Voorhors t said. "The mara thon drew more

par t ic ipants , visitors and

attention than years previous, and I feel so blessed that I was

able to be a central par t of it," she

said. "I th ink we all unders tood that it was all for the kids. It was

brilliant."

Hope's spring break immersion trips; Where are you going?

Lauren Madison C A M P U S Co-EotTGR

Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

M e m b e r s of this immers ion tr ip will help ou t o n the Pine Ridge reservation, providing manual labor while also learning about the

cul ture of its residents.

Southeas tern Kentucky

"My hope for this t r ip is that the s tudents on the trip b e c o m e more aware about the problems that

coal can cause b o t h t he the env i ronment and the

people su r round ing coal." -Nate Erber (x 12), g roup leader

East Palo Alto, California

"This trip is all about being

immersed in another culture,

unders tanding more about injustice, and growing in our

faith." -Amy Gagliardi (x13), g roup

leader

U.S.-Mexico Border

"We will be learning abou t the issues

sur rounding immigrat ion, hoping to bring back knowledge we learn and

be able to apply it to our daily lives."

-Luke Dishnow (' 13), g roup leader

Jackson, Mississippi

M e m b e r s of this immers ion tr ip

will be spending a week at the John and Vera M a e Perkins Center for

Reconciliation and Development , learning issues of race and social

injustice in America.

L'arche Mobile, Alabama

M e m b e r s of this immers ion tr ip

will be living in an intentional communi ty where adults with or w i thou t disabilities live together.

Detroit , Michigan

"We will be traveling to different u rban

fa rms th roughou t the city of Detroit while

learning and working with the citizens that

run these farms." -Michael Atwell C14), g roup leader

Newark , N e w Jersey

M e m b e r s of this immers ion tr ip will fo-

cus on u rban minis t ry and par tner with

church-organized soup kitchens.

Washington , D.C.

M e m b e r s of this immers ion trip will

par t ic ipate in pr ison ministr ies, visit-

ing a D.C. jail, sitting in o n cour t room conversat ions, and meet ing with ex-

convicts.

Miami, Florida- Little Haiti

The p u r p o s e of the t r ip is less about the

things that we will be doing in Miami and more about immers ing ourselves in

the Hait ian culture while also learning

and serving." -Richele Ehardt C13), group leader

Tegucigalpa, H o n d u r a s

M e m b e r s of this immers ion trip will be working with an organization called the

Association for a M o r e Just Society.

Blue Fields, Nicaragua

M e m b e r s of this immers ion tr ip will be adminis ter ing lice treat-

men t s and parasi te medicat ion to Nicaraguan schoolchildren.

Miami, Florida

"One of the main things we'll doing

is working wi th migran t f a rm work-ers, but we also could do things like

going to a food distr ibution center or go on a scavenger hun t to learn

about the city." -Brandon Folkert

f 12), g roup leader

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Celebrating female empowerment at Hope Lindsey Wolf A R T S C O - E D I T O R

Students , a lumni, faculty and adminis t ra t ion m e m b e r s

ga thered in Maas Audi tor ium

March 6 to c o m m e m o r a t e women's studies at H o p e

College. This celebration would

not have been possible wi thout the passionate, dedicated work

of Dr. Jane Dickie. Dickie,

fo rmer director of the women's s tudies p rogram and professor

of psychology, presented her

lecture "Love and Everyday

Rebellions: 20+ Years of

Women ' s Studies at Hope." Dickie began her presenta t ion

with a quote f rom one of her heroes, bell hooks: "Love only

exists when everyone has rights."

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For hund reds of years, women in the U.S. have

struggled with inequalities such as the right to vote, equal

wages and higher educat ion.

And for several decades, H o p e failed to recognize the reality of

sexual discr iminat ion on its own

campus . In the 1978-9 school year,

Dickie, a few faculty member s

and two s tudents were de te rmined to make H o p e

aware of its sexual biases.

After collecting research, they cons t ruc ted a repor t about the

s tatus of women at Hope. Dickie and her fellow researchers

found that only 15% of faculty

were women, no w o m e n worked in adminis t ra t ion, no minori ty

women faculty were hi red on

c a m p u s and only two ful l - t ime w o m e n worked in the entire

science center. The report also po in ted ou t

inequities for female s tudents .

Whi le fraternit ies had houses,

sororities had to mee t in d o r m

basements . Male athletes were able to dine at nice res taurants

after their games while female

athletes ate at McDonald 's . In t e rms of the cur r icu lum, Hope

offered zero courses focusing on

women . Cur ren t director of women's

s tudies. Dr. Jeanne Petit, c o m m e n t e d on the inequit ies

female s tudents faced at the

t ime. "It took the activism of

faculty, staff and s tudents to point ou t the inequalities of

these si tuations and to fight for

them to change," Petit said. "We wan ted to show current

s tudents that fighting for social change is difficult but ultimately

rewarding. In the m o m e n t ,

those who struggle to change hear ts and minds, to make our

communi ty a more equitable,

accepting and loving place, can get f rus t ra ted by the slow pace of

change. But it is worthwhile to

look back and see that positive

changes have happened." As a result of Dickie and

her colleagues' work, Hope College experienced significant

changes over the next couple

of years including the hir ing of more female faculty, changes in

hous ing and the establ ishment

of the women's studies minor in 1991. Fourteen years later,

the women's studies major was

launched at Hope. Dur ing her presentat ion,

Dickie explained the purpose of

women's studies. "The purpose of the p rogram

is to t r ans fo rm the sense of self by identifying mult iple

s t ruc tures that define us and

to t r ans fo rm our sense of relationship with the world

which encompasses complexity, diversity and difference," Dickie

said. Women ' s studies explores

sexism, racism, classism and

cultural issues. The program encourages car ing for others

and embracing differences. At the end of t he presentat ion,

a handfu l of women's s tudies majors shared how the program

has helped shape their lives.

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Dr. Jane Dickie

"Women's studies is empower ing yourself and o thers

to feel and know you have the

power to change the world," Lauren Bull ('12) said.

"It opens your mind to

different v iewpoints f rom all over the world, which directly

engages you towards Hope's

mission s ta tement to become global cit izens. Women's studies

is made up of global cit izens who are ready to listen and ready

to learn and ready to p romote

change. And best of all, women's

studies loves you th rough this

process." Currently, there are 20 majors

and minors in the women's

studies program. "Since t he study of w o m e n

and gender enhances any major, we have double majors f rom

all divisions and depa r tmen t s

of the college, especially the depa r tmen t s of psychology,

social work, English, religion

and political science," Petit said. The women's studies program

has had s tudents f rom pret ty much any major you can think

of. "I would love to see more

double majors and minors in

the professional p rograms, such

as business and account ing, educat ion and pre-med," Petit

said. "Those p rograms are very

intense and it is hard to fit in o ther classes, bu t we are willing

to work with those s tudents to

find a way to include women's

studies in their education." Petit is thril led about the

direct ion the women's studies

program is headed . "Like the previous directors,

1 want to keep educa t ing our majors how the study of w o m e n

and gender is an essential par t of

a dynamic Chris t ian educat ion. I also want to build more of a

sense of communi ty a m o n g our

majors and minors outside of the classroom through intellectual

and social activities," Petit said. "I love hear ing suggest ions f rom

s tudents about how to do this!" In addit ion to building

communi ty , women's studies

at t r ibutes to an academic, social and spiritual well-being.

"Wi thou t Jane Dickie, there would be no women's s tudies

depar tmen t , and wi thout that , I

don ' t th ink I would have stayed here at H o p e for all four years," Bull said. "She's helped create

this safe place for us to listen, grow and challenge each other.

Women's studies has helped me b e c o m e a more whole h u m a n

being."

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Hundreds die in explosion in the Congo Michael Kroneman G U E S T W R I T E R

Terror struck Brazzaville, the capital

city of the Republic of the Congo, in the morn ing hours of March 4 when a se-

ries of large explosions tore th rough the city after a fire e rup ted in an a rms depot .

As buildings and h o m e s fell to the

g round and burn ing debris fell f r om the sky, many residents of the city imme-

diately feared that the des t ruct ion was the result of a new military conflict . It

has only been 15 years since the coun-try's devastat ing 1997 civil war, and

the hor ror is still fresh in their minds.

Whi le Defense Minis ter Charles Zachar ieBowao quickly pu t these fears

to rest and explained the t rue cause of

the des t ruct ion, his words did not br ing much comfor t to the f renzied city, as

early repor t s suggested that a round

200 people were killed in the explo-sions, and even more were injured.

The BBC repor t s that Brazzaville was no t the only city to fall into a chaotic

state after the initial explosions. Across

the Congo River in Kinshasa - the capital

city of the ne ighbor ing country, the Dem-ocrat ic Republic of the Congo - many

residents felt the impact after several

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

M A S S F U N E R A L — Soldiers of the Republ ic of the Congo at-

tended the funera l held in Brazzavil le on March 11 .

buildings were damaged due to the force exerted f rom the blasts. As in

Brazzaville, many civilians feared that a war was breaking out and panicked.

Al though none were as severe as

the initial blasts that took place Sunday morn ing , t he explosions con t inued for

two days. Dur ing this t ime period, Braz-

zaville ran into n u m e r o u s obstacles as it tr ied to provide help to the city's residents.

For example, cont inuous explosions thwar ted several a t t empts to rescue

those people w h o were bur ied by de-

bris. Hospitals ran low on many supplies and were unable to assist the injured. In

addit ion, many individuals feared that

the fires might spread to other a rms depo t s and cause fu r ther des t ruct ion.

Once the blasts s topped, Brazza-

ville faced a horrible t ru th - 246 were

dead, over a thousand people were in-jured, and thousands were left home-

less. The government also in formed

the citizens of Brazzaville that explo-sives may still be laying around the city that have no t been de tonated .

Now, with the ci ty*in the process of p lanning a mass funeral for those

lost in the accident , which has been at-t r ibuted to a circuit fire within the

depot , many people are fur ious with

the government for placing an a rms depo t so close to residential areas.

In 2009, the Republic of Congo ex-per ienced a similar incident, when

an a rms depot exploded within Braz-zaville. Al though no one was killed in

this occurrence , in the a f te rmath of

that event the government promised to move all a rms depots out of the city to

prevent tragedy. After the March 4 ex-plosion, many are wonder ing why the

government never lived up to its word.

However, the government may have learned its lesson: it has once again re-

leased a s ta tement that any arms de-

po t s within the city would be removed. Brazzaville now faces an uphill ba tde

toward reconstruct ion. Only time will tell whe ther the city can rebuild and ensure

that an event like this never;occurs,.

Bin Laden's wives charged with illegal entry into Pakistan Shubham Sapkota W O R L D C O - E O I T O R

It has nearly been one year since the U.S. got rid of the infamous mas t e rmind

behind the 9 /11 attacks, O s a m a Bin Lad-en. The terror is t leader was caught and

killed by U.S. soldiers in Pakistan last May. U.S. t roops enter ing Pakistan wi thout

permission f rom the Pakistani govern-

ment has caused a tension be tween the two nat ions. In another incident that

similarly involves s o m e o n e crossing an

internat ional border wi thout permis-sion, Bin Laden's three widows have

been charged by the Pakistani govern-

m e n t with illegally enter ing the country. The widowed wives, along w i t h abou t

10 children, have been in custody since

the raid on their house last May. At the

t ime, they were living in the safe house in Abbot tabad where Bin Laden was living.

Rehman Malik, t he interior min-

ister of Pakistan, has said that the w o m e n , two of them Saudis and one

of them Yemeni, have been charged bu t have no t disclosed any fu r the r

in format ion regarding the issue.

Malik added that the widows of Bin

Laden and his chi ldren are being held

in a "sub jail." He also repor ted that it is

"only the adults" who have been charged with this c r ime and has s ta ted that the children were free to go back to their na-

tive countr ies if their mothe r s agreed. The w o m e n have been charged with

several incidents involving decept ion

and forgery. Regarding the si tuation that Bin Laden and his family were in, it is no

surpr ise that the m a n n e r in which they

crossed the border was illegal. Consider-ing all these factors, it has been specu-

lated that the w o m e n could receive a

sentence of up to five years in prison. Bin Laden and his wives were able

to live in Abbot tabad for nearly five years, even though the mos t power-ful a rmy in the world was looking for

them. Because they managed to stay h idden so long in the Pakistani terri-

tory and to cross the border into the

country, the widows have been asked not to answer quest ions publicly.

Perhaps if they do, the weaknesses

in Pakistani securi ty and border control might be m a d e plain to the entire world.

Tibetans protest through self-immolation Michael Kroneman G U E S T W R I T E R

Radio Free Asia repor ted last week

that Western China had seen two sepa-rate suicides by self-immolatioji . Both

victims were Tibetan women . One, a

s tudent f r o m the M a q u county of the Gansu province, died Monday, while

a m o t h e r of four died over t he week-end in Aba, in the Sichuan province.

Over the past year there have been

about 25 self- immolat ions in the Ti-be tan por t ion of China. These number s

cannot be verified, RFA activists say, be-cause security is t ight for the anniversa-

ries of the deaths, and foreign journal is ts are either being sent away or detained.

March, according to activists, is a m o n t h expected to see more

than the usual n u m b e r of immola-tions. The m o n t h marks the anniver-

sary of the Dalai Lama's exile in 1959. There were two immola t ions in Feb-

ruary, a 19-year-old m o n k and a cur-rently unidentif ied nun. Four immola-

tions, mostly of monks , took place in January, the Tibet Sun says, and of the

four, three called before their dea ths for the re turn of the Dalai Lama and

spoke against the Chinese rule of Tibet. Following the dea th of o n e monk ,

the Guard ian says that hund reds of Ti-

be tans swarmed the local police sta-

PROTEST M A R C H - A Tibetan monk orat ing the unsuccessful revolt aga ins t In New Delhi, India.

tion, smashing windows and doors . The body of the m o n k was released to

them, and they paraded th rough streets . Radio Free Asia quotes a source as say-

ing that the m a n who commi t t ed suicide

was working"not for his personal glory bu t for Tibet and the happiness of Tibetans."

Chinese officials, according to the Guardian, released a s ta tement alleging that all of the suicides were "outcasts,

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in exi le par t ic ipates in a march commem-China in 1959 . It t ook place on March 10

criminals, and mental ly ill." The top ad-ministrator of Aba, an ethnic Tibetan

n a m e d W u Zegang, says, "They all have criminal records of suspicious activities.

They have a very bad reputa t ion in society." The Chinese paper Xinhua claims

that some officials say this is the work of Dalai Lama. The officials are claim-ing that he used his influence to ma-

nipulate his followers, and that the

suicides are no t due to any inside

unrest . The Dalai Lama denied such claims, and o n e of his possible suc-

cessors called for the suicides to stop. Tibetan activists a t t r ibute

the suicides to the suppression

of Tibetan religion and culture. According to the Guardian, the

Chinese government wan t s to in-

stitute "patriotic and legal edu-cation a m o n g monks and nuns," a proposal not well received by

the Buddhist Tibetan populat ion. China previously experienced un-

rest du r ing the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and at that t ime the government called

on nationalist sympathies to overr ide the protests . Now, the government

is taking a two-par t course of action. W h e n self- immolation occurs, the

Public Security Bureau and Peoples Armed Police are sent it to handle the

situation, while the government itself

issues s ta tements saying that self-im-molat ion goes against Buddhist tenets .

An analyst for the BBC repor t s that Chinese authori t ies have taken a spe-

cial interest in avoiding more suicides and protes ts this week. The par l iament will be meet ing in Beijing in anticipa-

t ion of a major leadership t ransi t ion

scheduled to occur later in the year.

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Euripides, Galileo works part of rare book collection Lindsey Wolf A R T S E D I T O R

De Pree Ar t Center has been

h o m e to a variety of artistic

med iums : oil paintings, wood and iron sculptures and digital

pr ints , to n a m e a few. But

the cu r ren t exhibit is unique. "Reading Between the Lines:

The History and Product ion of

Books Highlighted by the H o p e

College Rare Book Collection" provides a historical context in

addit ion to the art and technique

of print ing books. The exhibit was curated by

nine H o p e s tudents who took

an advanced art h is tory seminar last fall. Dr. A n n e Hea th-

Wiersma, assistant professor of

art history and De Pree gallery

director, explained how hard her

s tudents worked. "In only 14 weeks, these

s tudents accomplished the

difficult task of learning a complex and interdisciplinary

scholarly area that is book

studies: conduc t ing p r imary research g rounded in

unpubl ished pr imary sources,

conceptual iz ing a cohesive exhibit ion f rom a wide variety of

.examples and wri t ing a catalog,"

Hea th -Wiersma said. The exhibit explores the '

stories behind the rare books

including the produc t ion , the selling and the pr int ing. The

books in De Pree have been

bo r rowed f rom H o p e s Rare

Book Collection, located in Van Wylen, which conta ins

over 1,000 rare volumes dat ing

back to the 15,h century. Works p e n n e d by Euripides, t he

Catholic Church , Galileo Galilei

and Ralph Waldo Emerson are

on display. "A rare book is any book with

relatively few copies and that is

of interest to scholars, readers

and book collectors," Katherine Kirby (*12) said.

The exhibit runs th rough Friday March 23. Admiss ion is

free.

s R A R E B O O K S - Above and lef t , numerous rare books on display In De Pree.

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National exhibit highlights King James Bible Can you imagine no t being

able to read the Bible on your

own? In the 16 th century, scrip-

tu re was t ranslated by the clergy who communica t ed passages to

the people. Before 1539, t rans-

lating the Bible into English was considerecfl ieresy in England.

The Van Wylen Library is

current ly host ing "Manifold

Greatness: The Creat ion and Af-

terlife of the King lames Bible," a traveling exhibit ion for libraries

a round the country. The exhibi-

t ion marks the 400 ,h anniversary

of the first pr int ing of the King

lames Bible.

Visitors can read abou t the lengthy creation of the Bible,

which took more than four doz-

en t ranslators over six years to

complete . The Bible is n a m e d af-

ter King James I because he was its royal sponsor, not because he assisted in its t ranslat ion.

The exhibit includes a section

o n mispr in ts such as the "Wick-

ed Bible" of 1631 which conta ins

a crucial mistake in-Exodus. The

seventh c o m m a n d m e n t reads "Thou shalt c o m m i t adultery."

The church could no t have been

happy abou t that typo. The last par t highlights t he

l i terary influences of the King

James Bible. John Milton, Her-m a n Melville, Allen Ginsberg

and Toni Morr i son have all been

inspired by the holy book.

In addit ion, the Bible has cont r ibuted to music and T V shows. Handel's "Messiah," first

pe r fo rmed in Ireland in 1742,

conta ins a scriptural text com-piled f rom the King James Bible.

Linus reads f rom Luke 2:8-14 in

"A Charl ie Brown Chr i s tmas" to explain what Chr i s tmas is all

about . C o m e celebrate the world-

wide impact of the King

James Bible Van Wylen.

"Manifold Greatness" is here

until Friday March 30.

K I N G J A M E S B IBLE— Above, "Man i fo ld Greatness" on display In Van Wylen.

SAVE T H E D A T E !

Thursday March 15 A Dark Speaking: English Translations of 1 Corinthians 13:12 and What We Can See in Them

Dr. Curt is Gruenler, Van Wylen Library

Rare Books Reading Room. 3-4 p.m.

Tuesday March 20 The Geneva Bible and the King James Bible

Dr. Eugene Heideman, Wlnants

Aud i to r ium, 1 p.m.

Monday March 26 Chapel Choir Concert St. Francis de Sales Cathol ic Church,

7:30 p.m.

Wednesday March 28 Guest Artist: Fred Hersch, Jazz Piano Wichers Audi tor ium. 7:30 p.m.

Thursday March 29 The Bible and Shakespeare

Dr. John Cox, W inan ts Aud i to r ium,

3-4 p.m.

Guest Artist: Robert Lunn, Classical Guitar Wichers Auditorium, 7 :30 p.m.

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f r o m h e r p r e v i o u s w o r k s , b u t h e r i n c r e a s i n g t a l e n t is e v i d e n t . I n "La

G r a n d e , " G i b s o n e x p e r i m e n t s m u c h m o r e w i t h a n a r r a y of i n s t r u -

m e n t s . H e r s o n g s a r e l a y e r e d w i t h p e r c u s s i o n , v io la , F r e n c h h o r n a n d

c l a r i n e t ( a m o n g o t h e r i n s t r u m e n t s ) . H e r h e a v y fo lk a n d b l u e s s o u n d is

sti l l v e r y m u c h p r e s e n t b u t w i t h a d d e d c o m p l e x i t i e s t h a t h a v e t o t a l e d

t o a r i c h e r s o u n d . Final ly h e r d i s t i n c t a n d u n i q u e v o c a l s de l ive r m e s -

s a g e s of l iv ing a n d l o v i n g u n i n h i b i t e d l y t h r o u g h h e r e w e l l - c r a f t e d

lyr ics . T h i s wil l b e a g r e a t a d d i t i o n t o y o u r c o l l e c t i o n of a l b u m s f o r

t h e s e r e n e w i n t e r e v e n i n g s u p o n us . H i g h l y r e c o m m e n d : "La G r a n d e " ,

"Skin , W a r m i n g Skin," a n d " T h e Fire."

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'undun' - The Roots R e v i e w e d by M a t t Cos te l l o

T l i o u g h m o s t k n o w T h e R o o t s f o r b e i n g t h e h o u s e b a n d o n

" L a t e N i g h t w i t h J i m m y Fallon," t h e g r o u p ac tua l ly h a s h a d a l ong ,

s u c c e s s f u l c a r e e r as o n e of t h e m o s t t a l e n t e d b a n d s in h i p - h o p . In

a g e n r e b a s e d u s i n g s a m p l e s . T h e R o o t s a r e u n u s u a l : t h e y u s e live

i n s t r u m e n t a t i o n . T h e r e su l t is j u s t as m u c h a b o u t t h e m u s i c a s t h e

r a p s , a n d " U n d u n " is n o e x c e p t i o n . A c o n c e p t a l b u m a b o u t t h e d e a t h

of a m a n to ld in r eve r se , t h e lyr ics a r e c r y p t i c , po l i t i ca l ly c h a r g e d a n d

e m o t i o n a l . T h e g r o u p ' s M C Black T h o u g h t h a s a f low t h a t ' s s m o o t h

a n d r h y t h m i c , a n d g u e s t s i n c l u d i n g Big K.R.I.T. a n d D i c e R a w h e l p tell

t h e s to ry . D r u m m e r Q u e s t l o v e l e ads t h e g r o o v e - b a s e d b a n d , a n d t h e

r e s u l t is s o m e t i m e s b e a u t i f u l , s o m e t i m e s r a w a n d f u n k y . T h e a l b u m

s h o w s t h a t t h e b a n d is as c r e a t i v e as ever .

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6 T I IF A N C H O R VOICES M A R C H 1 4 , 2 0 1 2

The void C h r i s t o p h e r Russ

Co Editor- in-Chief

"There are only two seasons: baseball s e a s o n and

The Void." - Jona than Yardley

it's a lmos t s p r i n g t i m e and tha t m e a n s basebal l

season is fast a p p r o a c h i n g . O v e r sp r ing b reak , I'll be

w a t c h i n g Ken Burn's a lmos t 2 0 - h o u r long "Baseball"

d o c u m e n t a r y and w a t c h every inn ing of sp r ing t ra in ing

basebal l tha t I can m a n a g e to ca tch .

Sadly it feels to m e that increasingly so, a t least in

m y genera t ion , be ing a basebal l fan is b e c o m i n g m o r e

like be ing a soccer fan. A n d by tha t , 1 m e a n no slight

against soccer . I jus t w a t c h e d Arsena l kick a literally

l a s t -minu t e goal pa s t Newscas t l e to secure a 2 -1 v ic tory

a n d it was the m o s t exci t ing th ing I've seen in s p o r t s

th i s year.

W h a t I mean , is t ha t b o t h s p o r t s a r e increas ingly

perce ived as be ing b o r i n g a n d s low-moving . I find

myself p re t ty regularly de f end ing the spo r t to N B A

and NFL fans w h o crave t o u c h d o w n s , t h r e e - p o i n t e r s

and a l ley-oops over sac-flies, d o u b l e plays and pick-off

moves . I 'm suspec t ing tha t this m i g h t be the result of a

gene ra t i on a c c u s t o m e d to " T r a n s f o r m e r s " movies and

cl icking t h rough YouTube. The thrill of basebal l doesn ' t

c o m e t h r o u g h c o n s t a n t n u m b i n g s t imula t ion . Ins tead,

basebal l sets you u p to be amaze .

I sat in C o m e r i c a last season as Justin Ver lander took

a no-h i t t e r in to the seven th . Fans roared wi th increas ing

v o l u m e each t ime Ver lander escaped u n s c a t h e d and

n o o n e d a r e d m e n t i o n the w o r d s "no-h i t t e r " lest they

anger the basebal l gods . The no -h i t t e r eventual ly fell

apar t , b u t t ha t wasn ' t even the mos t exci t ing pa r t of t he

g a m e . The o p p o s i n g p i t che r Jared Weaver, was e jec ted

and d ragged off the field a f te r he t r ied to crack a Tiger

h e l m e t open wi th o n e of his fastballs in the seven th .

As I've been th ink ing a b o u t t he u p c o m i n g season

a lmos t obsessively, a n d in ref lec t ing on m y ded ica t ion

to a p a s t i m e tha t I w i sh m o r e p e o p l e u n d e r s t o o d , I was

r e m i n d e d of a very similar re la t ionship; my love of h ip -

hop. Similarly, I have an in tense love of h i p - h o p tha t I

find myself f r equen t ly de fend ing . It is mi scha rac t e r i zed

as mind less , n o n - m u s i c a l yelling over a bea t . W h e r e

peop le will compla in a b o u t t he m o n o t o n y of baseball,

they compla in about immora l i ty in rap music . In b o t h

cases , the observer h a s failed to look d e e p e n o u g h into

t h e t r u e n a t u r e of the a r t f o r m .

The biggest basebal l s to ry of t he pas t 15 years

w a s p robab ly s teroids , b u t this doesn ' t w i p e o u t t he

i m p r o b a b l e cu r se -b reak ing of t he Red Sox, last year 's

insane Wor ld Series, or t he rise of t e ams like the Rays

or t he Gian t s . Similarly, peop le hear o n e rap song on

the radio and wr i t e off t he w h o l e genre . This wou ld be

like read ing a smut ty g rocery s to re r o m a n c e novel a n d

wr i t i ng off novels as valid f o r m s of express ion .

S o m e of t he m o s t musical ly complex and inspir ing

mus i c cu r ren t ly be ing r eco rded is h ip -hop . Kendr ick

L a m a r is no t only poe t i c bu t he def ies t h e no t ion tha t

h u m a n s should n e e d to b rea th every n o w and then

(please listen t o "Rigamortus") , The Roots jus t c r a f t ed

o n e of t he m o s t in t r ica te concep t a l bums I've ever

h e a r d w i t h the i r r eco rd "undun," and any t ime I wan t

t o feel like a s u p e r h e r o , I'll jus t p u m p Jay Electronica 's

"Exhibit C" t h r o u g h my car speakers .

So this spr ing, give basebal l and h i p - h o p a chance ,

you migh t b e a m a z e d by w h a t you've been missing.

Created S h a r o n H e c k e r

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Spr ing break is u p o n us.

Florida will be b loa ted wi th tour is t s . Tropical is lands

will a loha n e w faces. G r e a t uncles will g r ee t relatives and

the i r m a n y sui tcases . A n d peace will fall u p o n H o p e .

I have t raveled a lot in the pas t year and a half.

S tudy ing a b r o a d in Argen t ina for two s emes t e r s gave

m e the o p p o r t u n i t y t o go to a m a z i n g places, b o t h in the

c o u n t r y and ou t . This sp r ing break, I will be going to

Florida wi th the t rack t eam, and forgive m e if I t h o u g h t

to myself , "so wha t?"

O n e th ing a b o u t t ravel ing t o far off p laces is tha t you

realize h o w big and small t he wor ld is. I lived in Sou th

A m e r i c a for a year, bu t t he peop le w e r e still jus t people .

They wen t t o s p o r t s games , they b o o e d the oppos i t ion .

H a d coffee da tes . C r a m m e d the n ights before . They

paid t oo m u c h for T - sh i r t s and c o m p l a i n e d a b o u t ra iny

weather . They did so m u c h of w h a t we d o here .

Because they are just people .

This sp r ing b reak , whe reve r we go, the re will be

people . A n d the people will be jus t people . They may

have f u n n y accents . They may have y e a r - r o u n d tans . W e

m i g h t say "sick" a n d m e a n it because they d o and w e

don ' t . M a y b e they won ' t k n o w w h a t "pop" is or w h y w e

po in t to o u r h a n d s t o s h o w w h e r e we live. But even if

they don ' t , even if o u r Mich igande r cool is lost on them,

(sob), the re is o n e th ing tha t will never change .

It c o m e s f r o m Genes i s , c h a p t e r one .

27 So G o d c rea t ed m a n k i n d in his o w n image, in

the image of G o d h e c rea t ed t h e m ; male a n d female he

c rea t ed t h e m .

28 G o d h le s sed t h e m a n d said to t h e m , "Be f ru i t fu l

and increase in n u m b e r ; fill t he ea r th a n d s u b d u e it. Rule

over the fish in the sea and the bi rds in the sky a n d over

every living c rea ture tha t m o v e s on the ground."

29 Then G o d said, "I give you every seed-bea r ing

p lant on the face of t he whole ea r th and every t ree tha t

has f ru i t wi th seed in it. They will be yours for food.

30 A n d t o all t he beas t s of t he ea r th a n d all the bi rds

in the sky and all t he c rea tu re s t ha t move a long the

g r o u n d — e v e r y t h i n g tha t has the brea th of life in it—I

give every g reen plant for food." A n d it was so.

31 G o d saw all tha t h e h a d made , and it was very

good. A n d the re w a s evening, and the re was m o r n i n g —

the sixth day.

W h e r e v e r we go this M a r c h , be it no r th , sou th , or to

t h e qu i rk iness of o u r o w n h o m e s , let us no t forget t he

peop le tha t we will be a m o n g . These are the peop le m a d e

by G o d , m a d e in His ve ry o w n image. Let us g lor i fy tha t ,

and let us glorify H i m by glor i fying each other .

H a p p y spr ing b reak , H o p e College.

Reading the news wiii change your life M e l o d y H u g h e s

Columnis t

You are r ead ing a n e w s p a p e r r ight now, a n d I'd

like to persona l ly t h a n k you for do ing tha t . I have a

confess ion . For a long whi le I d id n o t read the m o r n i n g

news . I avo ided it.

The re w e r e two ma in r e a s o n s for m y avoidance.

First, I w a s unwi l l ing t o m a k e t ime in m y m o r n i n g

schedu le t o even d o a qu ick check online. This laz iness

was easily just i f ied because I cou ld collect s e c o n d h a n d

n e w s by w o r d of m o u t h or f r o m Facebook . If s o m e t h i n g

really big h a p p e n e d , I'd find o u t be fo re the day e n d e d .

The s e c o n d reason was w h a t really s t opped m e t h o u g h :

I f o u n d the n e w s t o b e cr ippl ingly depress ing . I face

each day wi th my o w n set of p r o b l e m s and chal lenges,

and add ing an extra d i m e n s i o n of e m o t i o n a l baggage

was jus t t oo m u c h t o bear.

In m o r e r ecen t m o n t h s , I had t o p u t t he k ibosh on

this habi t . M y avoidance of t he n e w s not only c a u s e d

se l f - induced ignorance , b u t it revealed a d e e p level of

self ishness. I w a n t e d to p r e se rve m y o w n e m o t i o n a l

secur i ty—living w i th in the safety of a fence tha t b locked

the world ' s ons laught of n i g h t m a r i s h t ragedies .

Living in a wor ld tha t is a n d will always be b roken , 1

n e e d to k n o w what ' s h a p p e n i n g o u t there , and feel the

we igh t of o t h e r s ' sadness . There is n o o the r way to b e

h u m a n . I 've a d o p t e d the habi t of t ak ing 10-15 m i n u t e s

in the m o r n i n g t o read head l ines a n d skim s tor ies .

Here ' s w h y I read the news , w h y I h o p e you c o n t i n u e

to read the news, and w h y I h o p e you e n c o u r a g e y o u r

f r i ends t o read the news:

Read t o b e b roken .

Over half of t he head l ines cou ld se t off t he

w a t e r w o r k s in a m o r e tea r fu l ly inc l ined individual .

There are t w o m a i n ca tegor ies of t ragedy: p e o p l e

h u r t i n g peop le (where it be physical , emot iona l , or

o therwise) , and acc iden t s /d i sas te r s h u r t i n g people .

T h e f o r m e r inflicts t he h o w - c o u l d - s o m e o n e - e v e r - d o -

t h a t - t o - s o m e o n e sor t of hea r t ache ; t h e la t ter infl icts

t he w h y - d i d - t h a t - e v e n - h a v e - t o - h a p p e n sor t . Ch i ld ren

are a b d u c t e d while e a r t h q u a k e s des t roy cit ies whi le

s t u d e n t s s h o o t o the r s t u d e n t s whi le g o v e r n m e n t s

c o m m i t genocide . O n the surface , it s e e m s I a m

power less t o d o a t h i n g a b o u t it. I a m o n e little p e r s o n

wi thou t t he m o n e y or inf luence or s t r eng th t o s top

these th ings . The wor ld is full of da rknes s .

Read t o m e n d .

M o s t of us are n o t m u r d e r e r s or k idnappe r s or

sl ime-ball pol i t ic ians. A n d this is fantas t ic , bu t t h e

act of n o t be ing s o m e t h i n g is a passive act . Ins tead of

n o t c o n t r i b u t i n g to evil, 1 m u s t consc ious ly c o n t r i b u t e

to goodness . I read the n e w s be fo re s t a r t ing m y day

to r e m i n d myself h o w despera te ly the wor ld needs

g o o d n e s s . Having an i n f o r m e d awareness of tragic

real i t ies h a s r e a r r anged m y a p p r o a c h to life. M o s t

impor tan t ly , I seek t o t r ea t eve ryone wi th k indness .

This r eaches b e y o n d po l i t eness for t he sake of socie ta l

expec ta t ions—I 'm ta lking a b o u t be ing s incere a n d

actively us ing sensi t ivi ty a n d k indness wi th o thers ,

even w h e n they are no t k ind in r e tu rn . In every

m o m e n t of t he day, m y ac t ions mat ter . I can tell the

t ru th . I can smile. I c a n forgive. I can recycle. 1 can

r e spec t t he p e r s o n I d isagree wi th . I can vote . I can

share my t ime , ta lents , a n d resources . In small bu t

i m p o r t a n t ways, I can m a k e a posi t ive impac t . Even a

speck of light b r igh t ens the da rknes s .

Melody truly hopes that something good happens to you today, and even more sincerely that you make something good happen today.

A N C H O R 2 0 1 2 S P R I N G S E M E S T E R S T A F F

C h r i s R u s s EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Cai t l in Klask EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Cla i r e Call CAMPUS NLHS CO-EDITOR

l^aurcn M a d i s o n C*wus NEHS CO-EDITOR

Cory L a k a t o s WORLD.NEWS CO-EDITOR

S h u b h a m S a p o t k a WORLD NEWS CO-EDIIOR

L i n d s e y W o l f ARTS CO-EDITOR

Sam H i r t ARTS CO-EDITOR

Aleesa R i b b e n s FEATURES EDITOR

B e t h a n y S t r i p p SWRTS EDITOR

J a m e s R o g e r s

B e c c a H a w k i n s

M a r i e t t a J o n e s

M i k e C o n n e l l y

ASST. SPORTS EDITOR ' r m a C r u z

VOICES EDITOR B r o o k e M c D o n a l d

ADS MANAGER L a u r e n Bul l

BUSINESS MANAGER A m a n d a Long

C OP) EDITOR Kathy N a t h a n STAFF ADVISOR

COPY EDITOR A n n M a r i e Papa re l l i PHOTOCRiPH) EDITOR

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M A R C H 1 4 , 2 0 1 2 V O I C E S T H E A N C H O R 7

Off-campus study on h p ^

Coming f rom an area like Holland, homeless people are not something you see every

day. Sure there are people that are struggling, but there is no one begging for money on

the streets like in Chicago. My first instinct when I heard that I was going to b e taking a

homeless person out for breakfast for one of my classes here at The Chicago Semester,

1 was not very excited. I have been brought up in a pretty 'safe' envi ronment and being

alone with a stranger that lives on the streets is not something one exactly thinks of as

safe. To my great surprise however, it was not what I expected.

For class homework this past week it was our job to go out and find a homeless per-

son and take them out to breakfast . To be honest it felt somewhat wrong to go scope out

the streets and try and 'pick' someone to treat. 1 felt like I was window shopping which

sounds terrible. Another girl and I c ame across this lady sitting on Michigan Avenue.

I handed her some change and asked if she would be interested in joining us for some

breakfast at the nearby Panera Bread. Her face lit u p the instant we asked. She gathered

her belongings into a small duffle bag and walked with us to Panera. Her n a m e was Brit-

ney. She was in her late 30s /early 40s and had five children all within five years of each

other. She said that they all live and go to school in Chicago but she rarely sees them.

Britney loved being in our company. She had so many quest ions she wanted to ask.

O n e of the first things she wanted to know was if ei ther one of us had any kids. W h e n she

found out that we did not, she said that was great. Losing her children was something

that bu rdened her life and considering that when she was our age she already had at least

three, we were doing things better. She then asked us what we were doing in Chicago.

We proceeded to tell her that we were taking a class and working in internships. We

asked what she liked mos t about the city and she said that she loved it because there was

always something going on. It was just as if she was a normal person like us but we knew

when we left her she would go back to sitting on the street with all of her belongings

stuffed in a bag. I think the hardest par t for me was deciding what questions to ask. I did not want to

get too personal and have her get upset but at the same t ime 1 did not want her to think

I was treating her differently than I would anyone else. O n e thing she brought up was

how Whi tney Hous ton just died. She said that it was sad but it was her own fault because

she got into drugs and alcohol. I found this interesting because when you think of people

on the streets sometimes you think of them as druggies and that they spend all of their

money on this habit, but Britney was different. She said she could not unders tand why

people did drugs because after their buzz was gone or when they woke up hung over,

their problems were still there. She told m e that people should look at G o d for answers

instead of things like drugs and alcohol. I was taken aback at that point. I proceeded to

ask Britney, where does she stay? She told me that she mainly stays right where I found

her on Michigan Avenue and even though she is homeless, God still brings her to the

right places every day and she has her t rust in Him to lead her way.

This made me realize how small all my problems are in the world. We have to realize

that the homeless are real people too. I would really encourage and challenge everyone

that if someday you encounter someone on the streets, either sit down and have a con-

versation with them or take them out for a good meal and chat, because you never know

how much it could change their week by just car ing — and you might never realize how

it could change yours even more.

The world's greatest need Call to Vocation

Kate S c h r a m p f e r Columnis t

My f r e shman year at Hope , m y FYS professor said a little phrase tha t set t led d o w n

d e e p in my head , built a solid little h o u s e for itself, and hasn ' t left my bra in since.

She w a s quo t ing theo log ian Freder ick Buechner when she told m y class, "Vocat ion

is where our greates t pass ion m e e t s the world's greates t need." 1 sat there, goggle-

eyed, visions of m e as the h e r o of the c e n t u r y flashing before my eyes as 1 filled in the

world's gaping n e e d s wi th piles of plenty, solving o n e world p rob lem af ter another .

I 'm sure some of m y classmates were swep t u p in similar daydreams, as impressed

wi th ourselves as we all were . Af te r all, we were b r a n d - n e w college s tuden ts .

Hadn ' t we been told by count less peop le tha t we were about to exper ience the

bes t years of o u r lives? Didn ' t adul t s nod the i r h e a d s sagely toward us, acknowledg-

ing all the potent ia l tha t was c r a m m e d into o u r young , 18-year-old selves? Weren ' t

we all cocky and sure of the happiness , weal th and f a m e tha t would no doub t c o m e

our way u p o n gradua t ion , regardless of w h e t h e r we ded ica t ed m o r e t ime to h o m e -

work or our social life in the next four years?

Now, I 'm si t t ing on the o the r side of t hose fou r years , looking back into r o o m

1118 in the Science Center . I'm shaking my head at those 18-year-olds c l u m p e d

a r o u n d their tables, b u t not because 1 th ink they ' re silly. Or because I 'm so "wise"

now tha t I see their folly. The reason I'm shaking my head is because I still don ' t

u n d e r s t a n d why they were so w r o n g for being ambi t ions . I still don ' t believe tha t I

can ' t m a k e a posi t ive change. I'm n o t being impract ical abou t it, t hough . Yes, the whole "hero of the cen tu-

ry" th ing is a little (okay, a LOT) overdramat ic . But the pass ionate idea, the cliche,

showy c o n c e p t of "change" tha t s t r ides along beh ind tha t impossible he ro isn't so ri-

diculous. If we give up on this idea that we can work to improve things, t hen we slip

to the o the r ex t reme: the pessimist ic, hope less cynic. And that 's just as impract ica l

as a s tar ry-eyed dreamer . That little ph ra se m y FYS professor said abou t finding your vocat ion, which has

been quiet ly biding its t ime in m y m i n d for three and a half years, is right in the

midd le of these two ex t remes . It gives us a perfect ly reasonable goal b u t il lustrates

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M A R C H 1 4 , 2 0 1 2

Baseball and softball prepare for season Bethany St r ipp S P O R T S E D I T O R

For the past two seasons, the baseball t eam has finished

second in the Ml A A, just missing

out on an N C A A t o u r n a m e n t bid. This year, the t eam hopes

to build on its success f rom last season and win the conference

for the first t ime since 2007. "We definitely have the goal

of being conference champs , but

we want to a im higher than that

as well," co-captain TJ . Klein ('13) said. "We are shoot ing for

a national title and we have the

ability to do that. That 's what we have our sights on and we

have a t eam with the experience,

conf idence and talent to do that." Over half of this year's roster

has at least one year of collegiate

varsity experience, and six

players on the 2012 team were n a m e d to ei ther t he first or

second Al l -MIAA team after

last season. "1 believe we have a very

experienced, ta lented t eam

this year," co-captain Danny

De tmar ('12) said. "We are going to rely on some of the players'

experience to get us th rough those

tough games."

The t eam has w o n 20 or more

games each

season since 2008, including a

28-12 season in

2010 and a 26-14

record last year. " W h e n you look at the last

two years we've been pretty solid," head coach Stu Fritz said.

"Both of the last two years we've

had one week where we haven't

played well. We're looking at consistency. We want to make

sure we stay away form the o n e

week where we don't get it done." This year, M I A A baseball,

along with several o ther

sports , swi tched to a four-

t eam conference t o u r n a m e n t

to de te rmine the MIAA's au tomat ic qualifier for the

N C A A t o u r n a m e n t . This new

format has an effect on the team's approach to the season.

"This being the first year

of the M I A A t o u r n a m e n t I th ink we'll have a different

focus because the t o u r n a m e n t

champion gets the N C A A bid,"

Fritz said. "While every game is impor tan t our goal is to make it

into the t o u r n a m e n t at the end of the season and then go f rom

there." The baseball team opens its

h o m e season on March 24 with

a game against Adrian, w h o has

claimed the conference title for t he past th ree years. Last year,

the Du tchmen went 2-2 against the Bulldogs, gaining bo th wins

in the last game of the season.

Before the h o m e opener, however, the team will travel to

Florida for their annual spr ing

break trip, where they will face t eams f rom Iowa, Pennsylvania,

Illinois and Wisconsin.

"We are definitely excited for

spring break," co-captain Jon Ponte ('12) said. "We play nine

games in seven days. It is for sure

the mos t fun we have bond ing as

a team." The softball team will also

travel south for spring break,

heading to Cla remont , Fla., for a full week of games against

t eams f rom all over the country.

The team got off to a slow

start in February, d ropping all four games in

We're looking at

consistency. •

— S T U FRITZ

B A S E B A L L H E A D COACH

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the Finlandia

Tournamen t in

Marque t t e on

Feb. 24 and 25. Last year, the

softball team

barely missed out on its first

conference title

since 2006, finishing two games

behind Alma for second place

overall in the MIAA. The team

re turns eight let ter-winners, including two al l-MIAA

honorees in Stephanie Faber

('12) and E m m a Page ('14). "I th ink all the re turners for

the coming year are bringing a

sense of leadership to the team,

since we have a lot of f r e shman this year," Faber said. "We are all

working extremely hard to step

up in cer ta in aspects of the g a m e

to give our t eam the advantages

we need to win games. The t eam opens its h o m e

season on March 27 against W h e a t o n and will begin MIAA

play on April 4 against Alma.

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F O C U S — Bobby Cawood ( '13) earned his 23rd career s ingles v ictory on Saturday.

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 team

evened its indoor record to 2-2

this weekend with a 5-4 win over Davenpor t and a 5-4 loss to

Elmhurs t . Three D u t c h m e n t a n d e m s

paired up against Davenpor t in the m o r n i n g slate's doubles play,

and all th ree swung to victory. The d u o of Bobby Cawood

('13) and Gabe Casher ('14) beat

Davenport 's Vitaly Shumilov

and Victor Roland, 8-4. Casher

gained the 20'h doubles win of

his career. Hope 's pair of Kyle Kreps

('13) and Davis VanderVeen

('13) rolled over Davenport 's

Chr is t ian W o o d s and Matheus

Carvalho in ano the r 8-4 D u t c h m e n victory. Kreps

improved his indoor doubles

record to 4-2 for the season, and against Elmhurst he would add

his fifth win. Winn ing 8-6, Parker Bussies

('14) and Mat t Culver ('15)

out lasted the Panther ' s Keaton

Briggs and Chris Grashorn

to seal the doubles sweep of

Davenpor t .

The Panthers had the edge over the Du tchmen in singles,

taking four out of the six

matches . Cawood cruised to victory

over Davenport ' s Shumilov

6-2, 6-1. Hope's o ther singles

winner was Kreps, w h o edged Davenport ' s Carvalho 7 -6 (5),

6-4 in a close battle. Kreps tallied the 15,h win of his singles career.

Bussies was the only other

D u t c h m e n to force a third set

against a Panther, defeat ing Roland handily 6-1 in the second

set but d ropping the first and

third sets 6-3. Hope grabbed the 5-4

m o r n i n g t r i umph over

Davenpor t . "The intensity level was

high th roughou t the day,"

VanderVeen said. "The team was feeding off t he energy genera ted

by each other and by the great

showing of fans we had." After concluding play against

Davenport , Hope's focus tu rned

to Elmhurst . In doubles play, Hope's

t andem of Kreps and

VanderVeen defeated Elmhurst 's

Vince McPherson and Luke Tanaka 8-6. The two doubles

wins on the day for VanderVeen

gave him 20 total for his carrer.

D u t c h m e n duo Bussies and Culver had another good

showing in doubles, cruising to

an 8 -3 victory over the Bluejays' Kevin Noble and Jim White .

In singles, Cawood took

care of Elmhurst 's Alex Harber t 6-3, 6-3. Ano the r victory to his

credit , Cawood now boasts a

career singles record of 23-2. John Panzer ('15) joined

Cawood as the other D u t c h m a n

t o wrap up a singles win. Panzer was in c o m m a n d against Justin

Guenther , cruising in straights

sets 6-1, 6-2. The Bluejays eventually

slipped past the Du tchmen in the a f t e rnoon contest , 5-4.

Wi th the indoor season

arriving and depar t ing quickly,

the focus needs to remain going

into ou tdoors and the weather

that it brings. "We can always improve,"

VanderVeen said. "We need to work on developing our overall

games as we prepare for t he

condi t ions that ou tdoor tennis presents . With the sun and wind

acting up, we really need to be

fundamenta l ly sound."

BASEBALL "We c a n n o t wait to get south

and play the first n ine games of our season. Just as exciting

will be t he oppor tun i ty to play

a little beach volleyball in the a f t e rnoons and the chance to

spend s o m e quality t ime wi th

t he team."

WOMEN'S TENNIS "It's a good chance to finally

get outside and pract ice deal-

ing wi th the sun and wind. We usually face some good compe-

t i t ion down there which is fun."

MEN'S GOLF "We've got a t o u r n a m e n t l ined up at Divison II Florida Insti-

tute of Technology. Everybody is really looking fo rward to that

challenge and we want to t u rn

in a good per formance , bu t our main p u r p o s e is to get our-

selves back to the fo rm we had

in the fall."

Spring break travels r 0 SOFTBALL

"This is a t ime where we have

Stephanie Faber Chris Mat tson

Davis VanderVeen Shelby Schulz

Nick Campbel l

the chance to spend the week

as a t eam getting to know

each other and building team chemis t ry as well as become

much more prepared for our

league play that begins the

week after spring break."

MEN'S TENNIS "We have played some of the

t eams in past years that we will see when we're there.

Each of those matches was

highly competi t ive and we expect no less this year. We're hoping to get a few victories

while we're there."

TRACK "We treat spring break like a business trip; wi th two mee t s

and five days of practice, we make a lot of improvements

in 10 days. That being said, we

still have plenty of fun." Travis Mar t in PHOTOS COURTESY OF H O P E P R