NOVEMBER 10. 2010 • SINCE 1887 SPERA IN DEO"

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HOPE COLLEGE • HOLLAND, MICHIGAN

Even Year triumphant in epic Nykerk

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B I G M O T I O N S , B IG V O I C E S , B I G F I N I S H - The w inn ing cast of even-year play pose at the conclusion of the i r per formance of "Scooby Doo and the Haunted Or ientat ion." Full of Hope Col lege references, hi lar ious one l iners and even an appearance by President Bul tman, the play was wel l received by the audience. Cast members inc luded Al l ie Hoyt (Scooby Doo). Br i t tany Berry (Shaggy), Madele ine Cantor (Velma), Kate Pi tchford (Daphne), Erin Drews (Fred), Jenna Banas (OA Tracy), Ann Mar ie Paparel l i (OA Mark), Ericka Shima (OD Lawrence). Amy Banas (OD Annie), Laura Van Camp (Henry Porter), Al lyson Womack (Professor Nape) and Zada

Harris (Librarian).

James Nichols CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF

Legendary. Bone-chilling.

Spectacular. Epic. Uplifting.

Invigorating. Magical. There are an endless n u m b e r

of words to describe the 76-year-

old t radi t ion that is Nykerk; a wonder fu l a r rangement of song,

play and oration cleverly bundled into a compet i t ion be tween

f reshmen and sophomores .

Yet, it is more than a compet i t ion . M o r e than just

odd year versus even year. More than just song versus song, play

versus play and oration versus

oration. It is the t r emendous n u m b e r

of hours spent learning mot ions ,

learning the lyrics to a song hundreds of girls will never

forget, learning the intricate details and words of a speech

that , for one girl, will be her

shining m o m e n t . O n a night where extra seating

was necessary (and eventually

created on the g round in front of

the judges' tables), the f r e shmen class of 2014 t r iumphed . Their

song, "I Just Can't Wait to

be King," arranged by even-

year song coach AmberLyn Scheeringa ('12), foreshadowed

what was to come almost th ree

hours later. "1 was thrilled," even-year

song mot ions coach Andrea Converse ('12) said. "They

executed perfectly. I couldn't have asked for anything more.

AmberLyn and I had complete confidence in them and they

exceeded our expectations." Following the thrilling

pe r fo rmance was the

impassioned orator for 2013, Z o a n n Wissner. Her speech,

" Immersed in Life," encouraged all those present to ven tu re ou t

of their comfor t zone and truly

live life. "I think she did great," odd-

year play morale coach Nick Rebhan ('11) said. "1 was literally

on the edge of my seat the whole

t ime; it was phenomenal." The final event before

intermission was the 2014 play

"Scooby Doo and the Haunted

Orientation." Laced with pop-culture and Hope-re la ted

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Popular author shares her perspective with students Mikella Bryant GUEST W R I T E R

Shauna Niequist , a Wes t Michigan lover, revisited her

"home" on Nov. 2 as she spoke

to Hope College s tudents about

her book "Bittersweet." Niequist was brought to

H o p e College by the SIB sorority

to speak as an author. Christ ian

and mother . Niequis t has writ-ten two books and is now work-

ing on her third. The evening began with her

in t roducing herself. She t ru th -fully stated that she had wan ted

to stay at h o m e that night with her husband and child bu t real-

ized she, "forgot how meaning-ful it is for me to speak at these

kind of events." Her in t roduct ion was brief;

she spoke mostly of her upbring-ing. She lived in Grand Rapids

for six years and now lives in Chicago where she is a mother

to her 4-year-old son, Henry. Niequist went on to explain

the night 's events. She said she would read some of her book but mostly wan ted to have t ime

for t he audi-ence to ask

quest ions. She read,

"The idea of 'Bit tersweet ' is

changing the

way 1 live, un-raveling and

r e - w e a v i n g

the way I un-ders tand life."

" ' B i t t e r -sweet ' is the

idea that in all things there

is bo th some-thing broken

andsome th ing beautiful , tha t

there is a mo-ment of light-

ness on even the darkest S H A R I N G H E R S T O R Y - West Mich igan na of nights, a t ive Shauna Niequist reads f rom her novel, "B i t -

shadow of te rsweet . " hope in every hear tbreak, and that rejoicing is "Grace," and another titled 25. no less rich even when it con- She explained that she me t ear-

tains a splinter of sadness." lier with the w o m e n of the SIB

After reading the introduc-tion, she read a chapter titled SEE AUTHOR, PAGE 2

Wanted: 'Ribbons Statue stolen from Nykerk Hall

Meagan Dodge STAFF W R I T E R

Wanted : The marble s ta tue

titled "Ribbons," which was taken f rom Nykerk Hall, the

college's music building. It is approximately 30" tall, white,

curvy and asymmetrical . An

investigation is underway in search of this missing statue.

The statue was last seen o n Saturday, Oct . 16. Main tenance

personnel noticed the statue missing the following day around

5:30 a.m. Once main tenance repor ted

this missing statue to campus

safety, they asked everyone in the building if they knew the

statue's whereabouts . Nobody had noticed the statue was

gone. Chad Wolters, director of

c a m p u s safety, said, "Typically

when someth ing is added to people's sur roundings they

notice the change right away, bu t when someth ing is missing

it takes a while for people to

realize what is actually gone." C a m p u s safety also checked

card access to see if they noticed

any unusual pat terns . There was

no th ing to repor t . They checked the rooms of

s tudents who had been in the

building as well and the statue

was not located. The statue was displayed in the main lounge of

Nykerk Hall. The building had been secured and there was no

sign of a forced entry. Previously two marble

sculptures have been stolen f rom Nykerk. O n e statue has

been retrieved and pu t back in

its previous location. The statue, titled "Donut," was taken f rom

Nykerk April 7. It was recovered later that month after a tip was

recieved f rom a Holland w o m a n who read a news story about the

thef t . Since the first s tatue was

stolen the cha i rman of the art depa r tmen t has made efforts to secure the display of ar twork.

Thousands of dollars wor th of art are donated each year to

Hope. It is impor tant that these works of art are taken care of

and respected by the s tudents . In efforts to secure buildings

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

Thursday Nov. Slam Poet Javon Johnson 9 p.m.. the Kletz.

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Friday Nov. 12 Relay for Life 7 p.m., cont inuing all day Saturday.

Dow Center

SAC Weekend Movie - "Salt" 8 p.m.. 10:30 p.m.. VanderWerf 102.

Monday Nov. 13 Walk-in Flu Vaccine Clinic 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.. Phelps East Lounge.

I N B R I E F

RELAY FOR LIFE Hope College 's Relay for

Life will take place Friday Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. to Saturday Nov. 13

at 7 a.m. in the Dow. Students

can come out to support their classmates and make donations

to the American Cancer Society

supporting cancer research and treatments. Participants will walk

a course lined with bags decorated

in honor of those who have battled

or are battling cancer.

PLASTIC BAG DRIVE

Residential Life and the Sigma

Iota Beta Sorority are sponsoring a plastic bag drive. The drive will

run November 8-19. Students

can drop off bags by the SUD desk in DeWitt and in the Phelps

lobby. Representatives will be

going door to door for a cottage

bag drive Saturday, Nov. 13.

Nykerk 2010: Even and odd years please packed Civic Center • N Y K E R K , f r o m page 1

references, Scooby and the gang,

along with new r o o m m a t e Henry Porter, solved the hilarious case

of the haunted or ienta t ion with a few in ter rupt ions for musical

numbers . A 15-minute intermission

was qui tkly forgot ten when

the 2013 song, a choral revue of songs f rom "The Wiza rd of

Oz," blew the roof off the Civic

Center. Colored gloves, paper hearts , hel ium bal loons and

yellow-brick roads wooed the

crowd f rom beginning to end. "1 have absolutely no clue

where mos t of the p rops came from," Rebhan said. "Part of the

en te r t a inment is t rying to figure

ou t how they hide someth ing

like a hel ium balloon." Jordan Ippolito, the even-year

orator, kept spirits alive with her speech "Roots G o Deep," a heart-

warming tale of f r iendships and their similarities to the majestic

t rees found a round campus .

"I was thoroughly impressed with her confidence and what

she had to say" Converse said.

"She definitely did a great job

represent ing even year." Closing the compet i t ion was

the 2013 play, "Don't Let the Bed

Bugs Bite." An original creat ion centered on the ever-drowsy bed

bug, Mary Can tor (11 ) and Kara

W e a v e r s ('11) show combined huge pe r fo rmances with humor .

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and a video chronicl ing the

journey up to that point , the t ime came for the judges to

announce their decision. The shuffle of thousands of people

to t he f ront of their seat was the

only th ing audible in t he packed

gymnas ium. "I had no idea who was

going to win," Converse said.

"I thought odd year did a great job on all th ree events and I

t hough t even year did jus t as

well. I would have been conten t with ei ther t eam winning. It

was a s t rong compet i t ion; bo th sides presented as much as they

could." Wi th the a n n o u n c e m e n t of

their victory, the f r e shmen side

of t he building e rup ted in cheer.

Hugs were being passed ou t like

candy at Halloween.

A stark contrast was visible on

the sophomore side. Although

hugs were provided, they were of consolat ion rather than joy.

Tears filled the eyes of coaches, moralers and girls alike as they

came to the realization that ,

for mos t of them, their Nykerk

career was over. Nykerk is a c o m m i t m e n t

unlike anything else. For those

involved, Nykerk is more than just practicing for four weeks; it

is eating, sleeping, breathing and

living Nykerk for four weeks. "Nykerk literally made me

who I am today," Rebhan said. " I t s changed every aspect

of who I am. Nykerk is the

th ing that t ied me to Hope. I absolutely love every single par t

of Nykerk."

Cameras under consideration to protect campus buildings

• C A M E R A S , f r o m page 1 o n H o p e s c a m p u s security

cameras are being tes ted in

various locations. C a m p u s safety has different

types of cameras in place to see which me thod they want to

choose in the future . By using these security

cameras , c a m p u s safety hopes

to avoid the tedious search for missing items. The cameras will

allow a more efficient way to find

s tudents or o thers who vandalize

school property. Cameras will be installed

in public areas so they do no t

invade the privacy of s tudents . C a m p u s safety is doing

everything it can to ensure that

similar t he f t s will no t happen

again. In the fu tu re security cameras

will be installed to help track

d o w n the offender. If you or anyone you know

has seen this s tatue please repor t

it immediately to t he Holland

Police D e p a r t m e n t at (616) 355-1100, or Silent Observer at (877)

88-Silent, or C a m p u s Safety at

395-7770.

Niequist offers wisdom on life and the writing process • AUTHOR, f r o m page 1

sorority, who had reques ted that

she read these chapters . Chapte r "25" was witty and

engaging. The audience e rup ted in laughter. She descr ibed her

thoughts at age 25. She gave ad-vice, and detailed her funny ex-

periences per ta ining to that age. After the readings gave in-

sight into her book, the floor was opened to the audience.

An audience m e m b e r asked ad-vice o n how to t rust in God and

no t in yourself, and how to step away f rom trying to control your

o w n life. Niequist said, "Whatever it is

I am grasping with white knuck-les 1 know that that is the place

I need to grow. W h e n I try to

control, I ask is this an oppor-

tunity to let go and to be t rans-

formed?" Ques t ions continued, hands

raised. "Your first two books

were memoirs , do you write in o ther styles?" another audi-

ence member asked. Niequist explained how shor t form, nar-

rative essays were the easiest for her; it was what c ame naturally.

The speech wrapped up with

Niequist reading one more seg-ment f rom her book. In response

to the speech, Elizabeth Meyer ('11) said, "1 thought it was very

honest and genuine."

NOVEMBER 10. 2 0 1 0 NATIONAL THE ANCHOR 3

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Amy Alvlne STAFF W R I T E R

O n Tuesday Nov. 2, fo rmer

state Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland) w o n a seat in Michigan's

second Congressional district, a seat held by Pete Hoekstra (R-

Holland) for the past 17 years. Huizenga will be one of the 239

Republicans who will hold a seat in the House of Representatives

this upcoming January; the Democra t s have secured 185

seats. Receiving 149,235 votes,

Huizenga won the congressional race with 65 percent of the

vote, compared to Democra t

Fred Johnson's 32 percent . In a conversat ion with the Holland

Sentinel, Huizenga said, "It was a good, clean, hard fight... It was

a battle of ideas, no t a battle of

he said/she said." Af te r t he election results

were tallied and Huizenga received a winning majority,

Huizenga talked with Fred Johnson, a history professor at

Hope College. According to the Sentinel, both agreed that , "If

bo th political races were batt led

like [theirs], the count ry would

be in bet ter shape." In regard to the election,

Johnson said, "Bill is a very

gracious individual. There's no

animosity be tween us. W e just have two different perspectives on h o w [we would] solve the

many problems facing our count ry right now. Like I tell my s tudents , if there are things

that you don't like going o n in

balanced spending and pro-

business policies. Hoekst ra told the Holland Sentinel that , "House Majori ty Leader Nancy

in control of the Whi te House and Senate even though Republicans

had major wins in bo th Lansing and Washington, D .C.

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R I C K S N Y D E R H I R E D — M ich igan Gov.-elect Rick Snyder and Supreme Cou t l c e Elect Mary Beth Kelly wave t o GOP suppor ters a t a v ic tory party Tuesday Nov. 2.

our government , then you are

obliged as an Amer ican citizen to go and do someth ing about it

- and we did our best." According to Tuesday's voting

results, the majori ty of Michigan

sided with the Republican Party. The Republicans have been

calling for change by having

P ERSPECTIVES

Pelosi didn't allow Republicans

much of a voice in the process.

This election gives Republicans a voice to actually be a party of

the process." In suppor t of this s ta tement ,

Huizenga told repor ters that t he

a tmosphere in Washington , D.C. will be different with Democra t s

Holding a majori ty in the

legislature is impor t an t not only to affect policy, but also to affect

the drawing of district lines. Redistricting in the United States

occurs every 10 years following the results of the nat ion-wide

census. This redrawing of

congressional distr icts is usually

controlled by the political party

that holds the majori ty in the

state legislature. In the state of Michigan, the

new governor-elect Rick Snyder

is of the Republican Party. With the suppor t of the Republican-

controlled Michigan House of Representatives, Republicans will now hold the main responsibility

for reshaping the districts based

upon populat ion. This reshaping of district lines could help

benefi t the Republican Party in

fu tu re elections. The unemploymen t rate and

weak economy in Michigan has

helped influence a decline in the state populat ion. This means

that the state of Michigan will likely face less representat ion

in Congress, f r om the potential loss of one of its 15 congressional

seats in D.C. The seat mos t

likely to go is that of a Michigan

Democra t . Political analyst Paul Rozyski

told ABC News 12, "It's going

to mean that that Republican is going to be the only person

reflecting the views of maybe 40 Democra t s in that district.

So it can be a complex thing

when they actually get down to drawing the lines, but the way

you shape a district can make a

huge difference in a lot of ways."

Ego factor: Can Obama change after suffering 'shellacking' Matthew Lee C O - N A T I O N A L EDITOR

Nearly halfway th rough his term. President Barack O b a m a

admi t ted on Sunday that he mus t

make a "midcourse change" in o rde r to win over a f rus t ra ted

electorate and work with recently

empowered Republicans. Whi le on an economic tour

of Asian nations, O b a m a told

college s tudents in India that the

m id t e rm elections back h o m e reflected the "right, obligation

and duty" of people to express their unhappiness by voting ou t

the incumbents . In last week's mid - t e rm

election O b a m a took a beat ing even though he was not on

the ballot. Republicans won a major i ty of the House of Representatives and slightly

diminished the Democra t major i ty in the Senate.

Republicans also m a d e huge

gains in state legislators. O b a m a said he will not

change his de terminat ion to

invest money in education, inf ras t ruc ture and clean energy at a t ime when the pressures

in Wash ing ton are to slash spending. But he said the

election "requires me to make some midcourse correc t ions and

adjustments." O b a m a added that his

"midcourse change" will depend heavily o n talks with Republican

leaders in t he next couple of

mon ths . "This is someth ing that I th ink

every president needs to go th rough because ... some t imes

we lose track of the ways that we connec ted with folks that got us

here in the first place," O b a m a said toward the end of his post-

election news conference, af ter

repor ters pressed h im to go beyond his clinical descr ipt ions

of the disast rous election results and explain whether he felt

responsibility or guilt. "Now, I'm no t r e c o m m e n d i n g

for every fu ture president that they take a shellacking, like I

did last night. I'm sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons.

But I do think this is a growth

process and an evolution." In a recent article. Politico

asks an impor tan t quest ion:

Can Barack O b a m a change? Analysts consider this quest ion

as a central o n e for Obama's presidency. Some analysts have

said this election is a pun i shmen t toward O b a m a f r o m the voters

who believe he has b e c o m e

overconfident . Politico repor ts , "Self-regard

can blur into self-delusion. According to many O b a m a

suppor te r s and skeptics alike, it is still to be seen whe the r O b a m a shares with his mos t successful

predecessors a capacity for self-cr i t ique and self-correction."

In his speech following the

Republican domina ted mid-

t e r m elect ions O b a m a alluded to two successful bipart isan

presidents that experienced the

same m i d - t e r m setback, Ronald

Reagan and Bill Clinton. Some analysts have said

that neither of these examples in history can

be a sign of hope for the

O b a m a presidency. Reagan hardly

suffered a "shellacking" like last Tuesday's. Toby

H a r n d e n o f t h e Telegraph explains that the 1982

Republican defeat

change to quickly, resulting in center." a mid - t e rm "shellacking" like Successful bi-part isanship

Obama's . Clinton's response was Clinton's biggest

was a "counte rpunch f rom the accompl ishment dur ing his SEE PERSPECTIVES, PAGE 4

was hardly a set back;

the Senate remained

unchanged and an economic recovery effort began immediately.

Unemploymen t d ropped by almost four percent

over the next two years while growth soared

towards seven percent . N o economis t is

forecast ing anything like

that by 2012. O b a m a has also

begun studying Clinton's

presidency in an a t tempt to regain suppor t .

Cl inton is an excellent example of wha t a president should do after a mid - t e rm defeat. In his

book "The Cl inton Tapes" Taylor Branch explains that Clinton admi t ted

that he had pushed to

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T H I S W E E K I N N E W S

"In many ways, 1 view the first half of Pres ident Obama ' s t e r m like the first half of a basketbal l g a m e . . . S o m e th ings good , s o m e bad, at t imes leading, b u t now, clearly losing at the half . . .his job n o w is to go into the locker r o o m and make s o m e pivotal ha l f t ime adjus tments ."

- R o l a n d S. M a r t i n , a C N N c o n t r i b u t o r , c o m m e n t i n g o n

P r e s i d e n t O b a m a ' s first t e r m .

"He's got a p lenty tough job. T rus t me . And there 's gonna be plenty of cri t ics and he doesn ' t need me cr i t ic izing him."

- F o r m e r P r e s i d e n t G e o r g e W.

Bush s p e a k i n g to O p r a h a b o u t his

o p i n i o n of O b a m a .

"People have a r ight to assemble, a r ight to p ro tes t and a r ight to f ree speech . But peop le do no t have a r ight to tear this city up."

- O a k l a n d po l i ce ch ief A n -t h o n y Bat t s in r e f e r e n c e t o u n r u l y

m a r c h e r s p r o t e s t i n g a t w o - y e a r

s e n t e n c e for a f o r m e r t r a n s i t

po l ice o f f i ce r c o n v i c t e d for ki l l ing

a n u n a r m e d m a n .

"We've go t ten into a conf igura t ion n o w on the space s ta t ion where we have a lot of stuff and we don' t have a lot of space to pu t it in."

- Royce R e n f r e w , lead s p a c e

s t a t ion f l ight d i r e c t o r f o r t h e

D i s c o v e r y shu t t l e , o n s t o r a g e

c o n s t r a i n t s . T h e m i s s i o n w a s de layed yet a g a i n last w e e k d u e t o

a g a s leak.

"I th ink frankly th ings look very bad in t e r m s of America ' s ability to solve s o m e of its p rob lems . . . The p rob l em is the po-litical sys tem r ight n o w doesn ' t seem to func t ion in a way w h e r e ei ther side can accept compromise ."

- Fa reed Z a k a r i a , a u t h o r a n d

i n t e r n a t i o n a l n e w s ana lys t , c o m -m e n t s o n A m e r i c a ' s abi l i ty t o c u t

t h e def ic i t .

"The government has

invested so much power

in the church because it

couldn ' t find any other

ideology. The church

should be financed by be-

lievers or private contribu-

tors, not by taxpayers like

me. I told the patriarch

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Britain, France sign defense pact Aftan Snyder C O - N A T I O N A L EDITOR

Historically long- t ime

enemies - think Agincourt ,

Waterloo, or Trafalgar -Britain and France signed an

unpreceden ted defense pac t this week designed to increase military coopera t ion be tween

the two nat ions while also minimizing cost. This treaty

binds the a rmed forces of both nat ions together for a per iod of

50 years. French President Nicolas

Sarkozy and British Pr ime

Minis ter David C a m e r o n signed

the treaty Nov. 2 at Lancaster House in London . "Together we

will be stronger," Sarkozy told

Guard ian repor ters . "Together we will do better. Together we

will bet ter protect our values.

W e cannot solve problems of t he 21st cen tury with t he ideas

of the 20th century."

C a m e r o n weighed in as well: "The two largest defense budgets

in Europe are recognizing that if we c o m e together and work

together we increase no t just

our joint capacity, bu t crucially we increase our own individual

sovereign capacity so that we can do more things alone as well

as together."

Combined Joint Expedi t ionary

Force composed of bo th countr ies ' t roops . This force

will deploy together on civil and mili tary operat ions, as well as

PHOTO COURTESY OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

A N E W DEAL — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, lef t , and Bri t ish Prime Minister David Cameron, r ight, sign a defense pact on Nov. 2 tha t wi l l last 50 years.

The pact st ipulates that Britain and France will share

aircraft carr iers f rom 2020, making sure at least one is at sea

at all t imes, and also creates a

share more intelligence, air- to-air refuel ing and cyber-warfare

capabilities. Mos t controversially, the pact

also says that British and French

nuclear weapons scientists will work together at new research

centers to test as well as moni tor nuclear arsenals.

Despite this new cooperat ion, bo th nations ' leaders were

quick to clarify that this defense pact in no

way limits each nation's individual sovereignty.

Whi le some me t the treaty with enthusiasm,

o thers remain cautious. Some hypothesize that

the treaty has potential implications for the

Nor th Atlantic Treaty

Organizat ion, since Britain and France

could hypothetically act outs ide the N A T O

alliance.

C a m e r o n addressed these fears in a recent

s ta tement : "To those that worry this might

in some way lead to

sor t of European armies - that is no t the point . The point is to

enhance sovereign capability by two l ike-minded countr ies being

able to work together."

Iran agrees to talks Aftan Snyder C O - N A T I O N A L EDITOR

Iran m a d e the latest move this

past week in an ongoing saga over its nuclear program. I ranian

Foreign Minis ter M a n o u c h e h r

Mot taki announced on Sunday that Iran has agreed to at tend new

talks with the U.S. and its allies,

discussing the controversial

I ranian nuclear program. Mot taki m a d e the offer

th rough Turkey, also suggesting that Turkey could be a potent ia l

host for the talks. Such discussion

would be held be tween Iran and

the so-called P5+1 group, a g roup composed of the United

Nat ions Security Counci l - t he

their reactor at Bushehr. O u r

p rob lem is with their facilities at places like Natanz and their

secret facility at Q o m and o the r

places where we believe they are conduct ing their weapons

program," said Secretary of State Hillary Cl inton to repor ters

while at a mee t ing with Austria's

foreign minis ter Oct . 26. "Iran

is enti t led to the peaceful use of civilian nuclear power. They are

no t enti t led to a nuclear weapons

program." Several sanc t ions have been

imposed on Iran to discourage

such a weapons p rogram. The U.N. enacted four sets of

sanctions, while the U.S. and

the E.U. have imposed their own

penalties.

Major question: Can Obama change? • Perspectives,

f rom page 3 presidency. Many ques t ion

whe the r O b a m a is capable of such bipart isanship. Cl inton

was originally a centr is t who wandered too far left and was

brought back to the center after a mid - t e rm Republican victory.

H a r n d e n f rom the Telegraph

said, "Obama is a s tandard issue liberal. No th ing in his career

indicates he is ready to cut deals

with political opponen t s . He is sure what he believes is right;

if you don't agree with him, he pities you for being so slow to

understand." Will O b a m a swallow his

pride and c o m e to the center to

work with Republicans or will

he con t inue to push a far-left

agenda? As Politico explains.

"Humili ty is a great quality, and it's o n e that people will respect .

Ronald Reagan could be seen

as a polarizing presence, but he also knew how to play humble

when it was necessary. W h e r e is President Obama's self-

deprecat ing h u m o r ? Kennedy

and Reagan could both be very self-deprecating. People liked

that." Last Tuesday a major i ty of

voters voted against t he O b a m a

agenda and Republicans want to con t inue this success into

the elections two years f rom

now. It is much too soon to predict anything abou t Obama 's

chances of re-election but his

bipart isanship has, thus far, been proven to be nonexistent , and as

a result he has left Democra t s and himself exposed and

vulnerable for the next two years.

Iran is entitled to the

peaceful use of civil-

ian nuclear power.

They are not entitled

to a nuclear weapons

program.

SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON

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£ . Professor of Geology and Environmental Sciences

"The Call to Humanity: A Scientist's Faith"

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United States, Britain, France,

China, Russia and Germany. These talks have been stalled for over a year, bu t Mottaki 's

recent a n n o u n c e m e n t suggests that perhaps Iran is willing to

negotiate. Nearly two weeks ago Iran

began loading fuel into the core

of its first nuclear power plant in the sou the rn city of Bushehr.

U.S. officials worry that this

action may lead, or may have already led, to the deve lopment

of nuclear weapons. "Our problem is no t with

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NOVEMBER 10. 2 0 1 0 ARTS THE ANCHOR 5

Hope students embrace 'NaNoWriMo' challenge Cara Haley STAFF W R I T E R

Some of us cringe at the idea of reading a novel in a month ,

while o thers decide that , along with all their o ther homework ,

they'd like to write one.

November is National Novel Writer 's Month! C o m m o n l y

referred to as NaNoWriMo, this organization encourages people

all over, whoever you are, to

wri te an entire novel. They said to themselves, "Let's wri te

laughably awful yet lengthy

prose together." Quant i ty over quality is t he

idea here, creat ing a 175-page, 50,000-word novel in just 30

days t ime. But with all the other

5

papers professors are assigning right now (and let's face it, they

all a ssume their class is top priority over all else), who on

Hope's c a m p u s wan ts to bang out 1,700 words a day? Several

s tudents , actually. Lucia Mart is ('11), Carl

Dunker ('11), A m b e r Wilson

('11), A m a n d a Gernen tz ('11)

are par t of the Facebook group

suppor t ing NaNoWriMo. Even Sarah Baar, a favorite face of the

English d e p a r t m e n t is wri t ing this month . Here are some

other s tudents ' thoughts : "NaNoWriMo is pretty

exciting. I haven't got ten too stressed ou t about it yet bu t

we'll see how I'm feeling in a few weeks, or toward the end of the

month! I really love how much

writ ing I'm getting ou t of it. Even though a lot is nonsense , it's, a great way to stretch my

writ ing muscles," said Katelyn

Vanderson ('11). "So far my experience with

N a N o W r i M o has been.. . intense!

Last spring 1 did the equivalent of N a N o in Dr. Trembley's novel

wri t ing class and managed to

finish a novel in 23 days," said Genevieve Colletta ('11).

"This November is the first t ime I've officially part icipated

in NaNoWriMo, and I'm finding

it to be very challenging with

my class schedule and work load, bu t it's completely wor th

the extra effort! I'm working on the second novel in a series I'm writ ing and I look forward

to having a rough draf t done by the end of the month . The

biggest motivator for me is that N a N o is bringing me one s tep

closer to publication someday,"

Colletta said. The movemen t of wri t ing

a big novel very quickly began with a g roup of people in 1999.

Why? Their website reads: "Because we wanted to make

noise. Because we didn't have

anything bet ter to do. And because we thought that , as

novelists, we would have an easier t ime getting dates than we did as non-novelists." If that 's

not good reason, . then what is? Ge t ou t your Macbooks ,

H o p e College. If you write

50,000 words by Nov. 30, you are officially a N a N o W r i M o

part icipant . Wr i te about your life, your roommate ' s life, or just

bunch of crap. And just think, your new status as "novelist"

might land you that date.

T H I S W E E K I N A R T

Thursday Nov. 1 1 Slam poet Javon Johnson The Kletz, 9 p .m.

Friday Nov. 12 Turtle Island Quartet

Dlmnent Chapel, 7 :30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday Nov. 12-13 SAC Weekend Movie: "Salt" Vanderwerf 102 , 8 and 10 :30 p.m.

Friday Nov. Carlos Perez guitar show

Knickerbocker Theatre. 7:30 p.m.

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Novelist David Shields visits Hope Thurdsay

Joel Hofman S T A F F W R I T E R

Los Angeles ambien t punk d u o N o Age broke out of the

^ates and into indie p rominence

in 2008 with their second full-

ength a lbum "Nouns." O n their mos t recent release

"Everything In Between," singer/ d r u m m e r Dean Spunt and

guitarist Ranfly Randall use the same wall of noise formula

p rominen t on "Nouns," tu rn ing

the vocals exponentially higher. The emergence of the vocals

showcases Spunt 's simplistic, raw songwri t ing and (almost)

poppy melodies tucked within

all of Randall's layers of noise.

Impressively,

N o Age is just two people

making such a t r emendous a m o u n t of

noise. Upon

first listen, the noise can make N o Age far f rom accessible, yet the heavy racket

within each track can ultimately be more expressive than the

lyrics themselves, evident on the

lead single "Glitter." The d r u m s mainta in a drive

th roughout t he song while Randall adds a guitar, like nails

o n a chalkboard, to complement the layers of d is tor ted chords.

The screeching guitars dur ing the chorus create a beaut iful mess

while Spunt desperately sings, "I want you bad undernea th my

skin."

Oritic's Comer Songs like "Glitter" give off I a slacker romant ic vibe used N o A g e : Everything In Between b y m a n y n o i s e r o c k s t a p i e s like

Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.

Unlike bo th of these bands, there is no lead guitar, ra ther layers

of noise that create a specific

a tmosphere for each song. Ano the r highlight on the

a lbum is the t rack "Fever Dreaming." The punk rock

power chords rip th rough the intro while Spunt 's scratchy and

unt ra ined voice yells, "Why's

this wha t you wanna be? I gotta go. And I'm dying without you."

The song maintains that same

slacker vibe bu t t u rns up the aggression and re tu rns to the

sheer noise found o n previous

a lbums. Still, the first

half of "Everything in Between" shows

Spunt 's sha rpened his skills in wri t ing

moredis t inguishable melodies to bring

ou t the lyrics. As the second

half of the a lbum

presses onward the

listener gets a sense that N o Age is re turn ing to the blasts of whi te

noise present on earlier a lbums. Toward the end of the LP are

three i n s t r u m e n t a l that take a step back f rom the more poppy

e lements of the first half. This lack of song s t ruc ture may deter

new listeners, bu t it should no t t u rn t h e m away f rom No Age's noisy essence. Wi th "Everything

in Between" N o Age expanded the s t rengths f rom earlier a lbums

and m a d e catchy and noisy work to impress longt ime fans and

welcome new ones.

r p David Shields

Julie Oosterlnk G U E S T W R I T E R

David Shields reaches across

the boundar ies be tween fiction

and non-fict ion. Many books may be easily categorized in sect ions

of a library or bookstore, but

in Shields' latest book, "Reality Hunger : A Manifesto" (Knopf) , he pieces together quotes f rom

a seemingly unending variety of sources, creat ing a whole new

genre. O n Thursday, the lack Ridl

Visiting Wri ters Series welcomes

Shields to Hope College. Author Chuck Klosterman

tweeted: "[Shields' new book)

might be the most intense, thought-accelerat ing book of

the last 10 years." In a review of

"Reality Hunger," Author Sarah

Manguso said, "it provides an

ars poetica for wri ters . . .who, exhausted by the artificiality of

our culture, and 'obsessed by real events because we experience

hardly any,' are taking larger and

larger pieces of t he real world and using them in their work."

Shields' 600 plus samplings of his own work and the

work of o ther au thors (think M C H a m m e r sampling Rick

James—"You Can't Touch This")

demons t ra t e s his a t tempt to

restore a writer 's f r eedom to innovate, borrow, and maybe

even steal. Shields' book might allow more flexibility and artistic

f r eedom for o ther artists, but some might call h im a plagiarist. You can judge for yourself; fresh

copies of "Reality Hunge r " are

on sale at the H o p e bookstore. "Reality Hunge r " is Shields'

10th book. Previous books by Shields include "The Thing

About Life Is That O n e Day

You'll Be Dead," a N e w York Times bestseller, and "Black

Planet: Facing Race dur ing an NBA Season," a finalist for the

National Book Cri t ics Circle

Award. He also appeared on

television shows, including "The Colber t Report," where Steven

Colber t r ipped the pages ou t of the book and put back only the

endnotes that cited the samples.

Ha ha, Colbert . Shields also writes essays

and shor t stories that have appeared in the New York

Times Magazine, Harper 's , Yale

Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne

Reader, Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship,

two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation

Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein

Foundation grant , and a New York Foundat ion for the Arts

Fellowship. He lives with his wife and

daughter in Seattle, where he

is a professor of English at the

University of Washington. Shields will interview on

W T H S at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 11 and field quest ions at

3 p.m. in the Herrick Room of Dewitt . Shields will read his

work later in the Knickerbocker

Theatre at 7 p.m. Admission is

free.

T h e Avctt Brothers: 4Live, Volume 3*

The Avctt Brothers are

a rowdy bunch of guys.

Their studio albums offer

T h e Extra Lens:

' U n d e r c a r d '

John Darnclle, lead

singer of the Mountain

Goats, an American

Guster: 4Easy W o n d e r f u l '

Gustcr has always been one

of those indie bands who

always seem t o be on the

brink of breaking through to

good pop songs with a hard indie folk-rock band, be household names.There ' s

folk twist , blending catchy a n { l Franklin Bruno, a remarkable precision to

southern harmonies with philosopher, professor their songcraft — their

guitar and banjo shredding. a n ( ] musician, worked songs slip naturally f rom one

Indie folk has been all the together and combined part to the next ; their melo-

rage lately, but especially their ideas to create dies make immediate im-

in their live shows, f h e j h e Extra Lens. John pressions; nothing feels un-

Avett Brothers are doing Darnclle sings and writes focused, yet it's breezy and

something dif terent; they're the music and Franklin natural, like they grew up on

playing folk rock, almost Bruno arranges it. It is

folk punk. "Live, Volume 3" the classic Mountain

takes their studio albums Goats raw sounding

and adds some personal w i t h an extra punch to

intimacy to the slow songs it. The songs are tragic

and shock ol energy to the a n ( i t r iumphant , loud

loud bits. They're kicking ^<1 soft, and raw and

and screaming and having a polished.

good old t ime, and it's hard

not to join in

their own. With "Easy Won-

derful," Guster follows its

comfortable approach. Aside

from some bells and a very

prominent Christian per-

spective, Guster isn't throw-

ing curveballs. The t ide says

it all. It delights the ears and

goes down easy.

T h e Secret Sisters:

^ h e Secret Sisters'

The Secret Sisters arc sisters

who sing folk songs in harmony.

They're not indie folk nor ah-

country, but they're close.Their

debut album is a collection ol

covers of old American folk

and country songs Irom a time

before country was a radio

format or folk was political

commentary. Produced by

legend T-Bone Burnett , the

sisters sound like they could

have come out of the '40s, but

they sing the standards with a

humble pep that feels modern .

If indie country is a genre, The

Secret Sisters define it, and it

probably sounds exactly how

you'd expect . Hint — there are

slide guitars.

Thanks to W T H S music directors Paul Rice. Laura Helderop and Aaron Mart in of for these awesome album reviews.

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Paradoxical perspectives

Karen Patterson Co1 Editor-in-Chief

Correlation does not equal causation

Fact; during the summer months, the number of people who eat ice cream in-creases. There is also an increase in the number of deaths that occur by drown-ing. But if you told the average person that eating ice cream will cause them to drown, they'd probably think you're crazy. Similarly, it's just as absurd to say that the annual result of one Hope Col-lege tradition is based on the outcome of another.

Let me say this loud and clear: The results of Nykerk are not dependent on

the results of Pull. This has never been true, it was not true this year, and it will never be true. Why, you ask? Because the events are completely and entirely independent of one another.

I'm sure there are quite a few people rolling their eyes; but hear me out. Since the 1936 Pull (the year that Nykerk was started), the sophomores have won 52 times, the freshmen 19 times, there have been three cancellations and two draws. Nykerk did not start tracking the winner until recent years since the more competitive nature is a relatively recent

phenomenon. Nonetheless, I do not believe that

the judges are consciously or sub-con-sciously aware of the results of Pull when judging Nykerk. I personally have not seen the judging sheets, but I am aware that a set point system exists for each event; also, each coach receives a copy of the Nykerk constitution, which outlines the criterion used to judge each

event. I also firmly believe there are two spe-

cific reasons that the results of Pull and

Nykerk are so readily compared. First, both events involve even vs. odd; each group is comprised of under-classmen coached by upper-classmen. Second, the two events take place within four weeks of each other. If either competi-tion took place during second semester or if Nykerk occurred before Pull, I'm willing to bet fewer comparisons would occur.

Claiming that even year won this year's Nykerk because they lost Pull is as ridiculous as saying that odd year won Pull because Dance Marathon raised more money than Relay for Life. Pull and Nykerk are apples and bananas: re-lated by nature, but sources of different

types of sustenance. I want to strongly encourage the stu-

dent body to view each and every ac-tivity at this college as independent. I started hearing the, "Oh, they only won because they lost Pull," line my sopho-more year when the class of 2012 won Nykerk. Based on the last four years, it's certainly easy to make a case for this, but I find it very hard to believe that there is a

massive conspiracy theory going on. And quite honestly it comes down to

this: If each song girl, play girl and ora-tor puts forth her absolute best effort on Nykerk night, why do we let ourselves be defined by which class wins? Why do we assume that the results are "rigged" to make one class feel good for losing an entirely separate event? I've always heard that Nykerk is about reaching be-yond the constraints of even vs. odd.

As a campus, lets rise above the urge to automatically associate the two events as one. Be proud of all the partic-ipants, the 300-some students involved in Nykerk gave one heck of a show on Saturday—hands down the best com-petition since my freshmen year. And next year when the class of 2015 arrives, let's make sure they know that Pull and Nykerk are about so much more than winning or losing.

Karen would like to thank my friends on executive board for putting up with my constant questions about all things Nykerk throughout the last two years. Your patience is amazing.

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I don't like animals

I spent most of high school working in a pet supply store. When someone close to me would find out that 1 worked at Pet Supplies Plus, they would usually scoff and say, "But you hate animals!" to which I would answer, "I don't hate them, I'm just not good with them!" My retort was at least partly true.

Truthfully, I spent the better part of my childhood disliking animals. 1 just didn't un-derstand why people would spend so much money on dog food or toys when humans were starving just around the block. Or why people would continue to feed their 16 barn cats while

they were on food stamps. Customer after customer would ask me

about my own pets; most of the people that worked in the store had their own personal zoos. I would reply that my parents wouldn't allow them. It didn't bother me that I had to grin and bear it at the crazy, stinky cat people. I had to stifle a giggle when a woman asked if I'd like to see a picture of her son and pulled out a wallet-sized photo of her black lab.

Why were animals so wonderful? Why were customers complaining about their dogs eating better than they do? Why did people think 1 was a vet? 1 tried and tried, but alas, I never understood. Until Ralphie.

I found him by chance on a local rescue's website. My mom, sister and I rushed to the pet store hosting this rescue's pet adoption day. Upon first meeting him, we instantly knew tJ\at we couldn't leave him. He was sitting in his crate, thin as can be, with a sad little face that just

Quote for thought

Mandela says: I've got grass stains on my jeans. There they

are; muddy streaks smeared across my knees. I know people don't always notice them, and sometimes I even forget about them, but they are there. Always. And no amount of laundry deter-

gent or stain remover can get them out. Just so you know, I'm not really talking about

literal grass stains. Or actual blue jeans. I'm talk-ing about the bruises on the soul that come when life knocks you down. And I know you know what I'm talking about: I can see the muddy smudges and green smears on your jeans, too. Maybe you interviewed for six different internships over the course of two weeks and nothing came of any of them. Maybe you felt like you were up to your eyeballs in a lake of homework deeper than Lake Michigan, and you just couldn't seem to get your whole head above the water. Maybe you were just frustrated because you went out for coffee with him, but he still hasn't texted you. Ever/ t ime life does something like this, something you aren't expecting or don't want, you trip and fall down. You get grass stains on your knees... and it hap-

pens again and again. These green-brown smudges are a constant

reminder of how difficult life can be, and of how many times I've fallen down. I don't really remember each specific time I've ended up on my hands and knees in the dirt, staring at a goal that seems farther away than ever. It's happened

ached for love. We held him and walked him and played with him, then took him home. We

were now a family of five. My family hadn't had a dog for a long time.

The last dog we had died when I was in third grade. My dad wouldn't let us have any more pets until my younger sister Candace got a fish

a few years ago. We rescued Ralphie in May. He was a 6-

pound, 1-year-old miniature daschund that needed a lot of love. And he got it. Having four people dote on him day after day, Ralphie became a happy little dog, always giving kisses and wanting to play tug-of-war.

After spending the summer training and play-ing with Ralphie, most of my issues with animal owners cleared up. I now understood that a little breathing, furry four-legged creature could bring a person more joy than I'd ever known. Even though my friends started calling me a "crazy dog owner," I played mother to Ralphie not only because someone had literally thrown him away, but also because it made me happy.

When I came home in September after be-ing at school for at least a month, Ralphie was the first to greet me, jumping up and down, licking my face and peeing a little in excite-ment. I cradled him like a baby and let him go to town: I missed it.

Madalyn Muncy says that mom's stuffing at Thanksgiving dinner rocks her face off She's also looking forward to the snow.

Kate Schrampfer Columnist ,

so much, I get tired of even pushing myself back up. Why can't I just reach my goal without mess-ing up, and then stand proudly, knowing that if people were staring, it was because of what I'd accomplished and not because of the grass stains

on my jeans? Nelson Mandela once said, "The greatest glory

lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Those green streaks on my jeans, rather than being an embarrassing tattle-tale of how many times I've failed, could instead be a testa-ment to the courage it takes to get back up and try again. My courage. Your courage.

What is it in your life right now that you want more than ever? Jump out of your comfort zone to go for it, even if it means you'll fall. When life trips us, we'll still smart at the all-too-familiar sting of falling. It'll hurt, our pride will take a hit; but when we stand up again, it's OK to be proud of those green smudges that can't be brushed off. They are a reminder of what we've learned. When you step out and start walking again, walk proudly, and keep following your goal. Yes, you've fallen... but that was then. You won't trip there again. And now the goal is closer than ever.

Kate would like to point out that next month is Christmas. In light of that, she wants to he the first to wish you a "Merry Christmas!"

Joggin' the globe the abroad column

Katie Is currently s tudying at the University of Auckland and go ing

on lots of adventures, the most recent of which involved camping

wi th sea lions and seeing penguins In the wild.

The "Lord of the Rings" movies are right: New Zealand is an amazingly beautiful country. There are spectacular mountain rang-es, rolling green pastures and incredible coastline. People from all over the world travel here to experience these sights, and one of the coolest things about living and traveling in New Zealand is that I get to meet so many interesting and unique people and hear their stories.

Dutch people: A lot of people from the Netherlands travel here and at first 1 thought that being Dutch was something that I had in common with them, but turns out that's not really how they see it. The first Dutch guy I met I excitedly told that I was from Holland, Michigan, in the USA. He looked at me like I was a weirdo. If I tell people here I am Dutch, they respond, "Umm no, what are you talk-

ing about? You're American." Sandra and Ken: Halfway through the semester, the university

here has a two-week break. For part of this time I worked for room and board on a farm run by Sandra and Ken through an organization called wwoof, (you should check it out). They live so far away from everything else that I had to get a ride with the mailman to get there, because he's the only person with a reason to drive the distance. They mainly farm sheep, but also have cattle, chickens, geese, turkeys and a huge organic garden. From their house, there is an incredible view of the Tasman Sea crashing against the rugged coast. Sandra and Ken are inspirational to me because they are so content with their simple life. While 1 was there, they spent every day working extremely hard; they had the most incredible relationship with the land that they lived on and farmed. They were also wonderful hosts, and when 1 was not weeding avocado trees or shoveling manure, I was exploring nearby beaches or cooking a meal from fresh ingredients straight from the garden, or just chatting with them about life.

Boar hunters : I went hiking for a couple days over mid-semester break with a couple of friends. We saw maybe four other people in a day, and grew used to being alone. We were about to cross a swing bridge crossing over a steep valley (like the kind you might see in an action movie set in the rainforest) when all of a sudden a huge dark figure emerged from the thick foliage leading down to the valley. First 1 thought it was a bear, but then I remembered that those don't exist in New Zealand. Turns out it was a man who had just killed a boar and was now carrying it on his back with its feet tied together like a backpack. He had been hunched over walking up the steep hill so the boar's head was the first thing we saw. After the initial shock of being meters away from a gigantic beast, we realized that these people who were out hunting live in this remote area and actually survive on whatever they grow or farm on their property and what-

ever they kill hunting. Crazy! I've grown to know people from all over the States, Argentina, the

UK, Greece, Iceland, Chile, Germany, Denmark, the Pacific Islands, Japan, China, Malaysia and even a guy who works in Antarctica. Each person has a different perspective, each person has a different story.

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

Saturday Nov. 13 Cross Country

NCAA Great Lakes Regional a t West

Ot tawa Golf Course, 1 1 a.m.

Football vs. Olivet at 1 p.m.

Hockey vs. Northwood at 8 :30 p.m.

Tuesday Nov. 16 Women's Basketball vs. Rochester at 7 :30 p.m

I N B R I E F

DIETRICH TO PLAY IN ALL-AMERICAN BOWL

Wide receiver Kyle Dietr ich

('11) will represent H o p e Col-

lege in the Division II/III Ail-

Amer ican Bowl on Dec. 18 in Minneapol is . Dietrich holds two

football records at Hope: single

game recept ion yardage and all-t ime leading pass receiver in

yardage, which he achieved on

Saturday in the Dutchmen ' s loss

to Adrian. Dietrich's appear-ance will be the first t ime a H o p e

player part icipates in a post-sea-

son game since 2004.

MIAA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Volleyball

Kara VandeGuchte (Ml )

Middle Hitter

SPORTS Neil inherits experienced squad

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S H O W I N G O F F F O R T H E C R O W D - Nate K ing ( 1 2 ) goes

toward the r im dur ing the Hope Madness dunk contest .

Chris Russ across t he nation for its rivalry

ASSISTANT S P O R T S EDITOR with Calvin College, one of the top rivalries in college

H o p e College's men's basketball. basketball p rogram is known Recently, however, H o p e has

been coming up shor t to the

Knights, finishing second in the MIAA and post ing 21-8 overall

records in bo th of the past two

seasons. However, this year the

D u t c h m e n look to retake the

conference under the new-found leadership of Mat t Neil. Neil

takes over for Glenn Van Wieren,

a Hope legend who retired after having led the H o p e basketball

p rogram for 33 seasons.

Neil, who has been with the p rogram since 1985 as an

assistant coach, was asked if there would be any significant

changes now that he is at the

helm. "Not particularly, what

we've been do ing here has been

working. There are just some

subtle changes. I'm a big believer in the mot ion offense and so

we're t rying hard to learn that .

But no, I think our phi losophy is pretty much the same. W e want

to be tough defensively and we

want to push the basketball." W h e n explaining the team's

goals for the season, Neil

emphas ized two aspects of the game, defense and rebounding,

that would be essential for

the t eam to focus on. Hope 's potential for an exceptional

season is underscored by its

inclusion in two Division 111 pre-season polls in which they

are ranked 14th and 17th. "I think it simply speaks to

the tradit ion of our program that we're ranked that high, and

that we have several re turn ing players. That 's what rankings

tend to be; they look at what

you did last year and they look at what you have coming back.

We're humbled to be ranked that high, that 's for sure, and we have

high expectat ions and I think

they'll mee t those," Neil said. The Hope m e n have a highly

experienced team, with no

f re shmen on the varsity l ineup and 11 re turn ing let ter-winners.

This level of experience will be

necessary to survive a tough early season s t re tch of games.

Seven of the first 11 contests for the team will be on the road

against quality opponen t s . Neil

out l ined the mental i ty that his players will be working with as

they press through these early

games. "Every t ime we play we

should be bet ter than we were

the time before, and we're going to treat every single game like

it's an N C A A tournamen t game.

W e have to c o m e ou t and be prepared and we have to execute

our game plan every time."

Volleyball

Greer Bratschie (MS) Setter

Footbal l Aaron Thompson ( '14)

Punter

Soccer David Whitaker ( '12)

Defense

TEAMS HEADED TO NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS

The volleyball t eam and men's

soccer t e a m have bo th qualified

for their respective N C A A tour-

naments . The volleyball t eam capped off a 26-4 regular season

with a 3-0 sweep of Calvin in the

MIAA t o u r n a m e n t finals Satur-day, qualifying for the national

t o u r n a m e n t for the third t ime

in as many years. Though H o p e tied Calvin for first in the M I A A

in men's soccer, H o p e received

their first N C A A bid since 2006 because of their two earlier vic-

tories over the Knights.

High expectations for Hope women James Nichols C O - E D I T O R - I N - C H I E F

Losing a championsh ip game

is o n e of the hardest things to get

past in spor ts . If you are coach

Brian Morehouse and the H o p e College women's basketball

team, not so much .

After losing by six poin ts to Washington University (Mo.)

in t he Division III nat ional

championship , the Flying Dutch are looking forward to another

great season. Ranked second in

the nat ion going into the season,

expecta t ions for the t eam are

inevitably high. "Expectat ions can't get

much higher than the national

championsh ipgame,"Morehouse

said. " W h e n you talk about

expectat ions, it's managing those expectat ions. W e have a high

pre-season ranking but we need

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type of season we have." This season, the H o p e roster

is chock-ful l of re turn ing

let terwinners . Twelve ou t of the

15 roster spots are occupied by re tu rn ing le t terwinners .

"I a m mos t looking forward to

building s t ronger relat ionships with all the girls on the team,"

co-captain Carr ie Snikkers (11 )

said. "1 have so much f u n every season with the girls; it makes

pract ice go by so much quicker.

W e have so many talented girls on the t eam that it is f u n to learn

f rom one another and b e c o m e a

solid t eam o n and off the court." Co-capta in Allie Cerone

('11) echoed Snikkers' thoughts

saying, "I a m mos t excited about the chance to play basketball

with a t eam I love. I am looking

forward to compe t ing with each o the r every day to get better."

Morehouse is enter ing his

15th season as t he Flying Dutch's head coach. He has led the t eam

to 20 wins or more in 12 straight years and over the past five years

has a record of 147-10. Part of Morehouse 's success as a coach

comes f rom his R3 philosophy: respect yourself, respect o thers

and be responsible for your

actions. "For us to be good people and

live a way pleasing to God, we need "to respect ourselves and

others," Morehouse said. "Wha t

you do when nobody's watching

goes a long way in defining who you are as a person. You mus t

have respect and confidence to

reach your full potential as a

person." Morehouse and his players

have already t amed high expectat ions and are p lanning on

doing the same with this year's

goals, by keeping them simple: W i n the MIAA championship ,

win the MIAA tou rnamen t

and go as far into the N C A A

t o u r n a m e n t as possible. "Every day is our own little

championsh ip whether it is pract ice or a game," Snikkers

said. "But we all would love to be back where we ended last year,

just with a different outcome."

Coach Morehouse added, "This season isn't going to be

defined as a success or failure

based on whether or no t we

make it to the Final Four." Mos t importantly, t he Flying

Dutch want to make this season about their fans. Although

the Flying Dutch already

lead Division III in women's basketball a t tendance (for the

past two years), Morehouse and

his team want even more . "I want to see the s tudent

body, faculty and staff come out and suppor t them," Morehouse

said. "I want to know if there are

things a s tudent wan t s to see that would make it bet ter for them.

W e value input . We need to earn

the people on campus ' respect so they will want to a t tend

our games. I'm always open to

suggestions as to how we can make this a pleasing experience

for people on campus." Overall, Morehouse stressed

the loyalty of Hope fans the most ,

emphatically stating, "We have

the greatest fans in America . N o Division III t eam has fans like

us. H o p e is an incredible place

to coach and play."

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