September 18, 2015
Volume 110 - Issue 3
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INSIDE OUT PAGE 7
PROFS IN OXFORD PAGE 9
RESPECTING CULTURE PAGE 11
CHAOS
SE dynasty delivers, wins by a tug
BY MADDIE HUGHEY
Campus Co-Editor
Schultze-Eldersveld (SE) won
the 46th annual Chaos Night,
formally known as Chaos Day,
thanks to their tug-of-war triumph that broke the tie between
them and Beets-Veenstra (BV)
while Bolt-Heyns-Timmer (BHT)
and Noordewier-VanderWerp
(NVW) tied for third.
“ D o e s [w i n n i n g ] c h a n ge
the world? No,” said Courtney
Zonnefeld, a sophomore resident
of SE. “But it’s fun to say you’re
part of the SE dynasty.”
This Chaos Night was the
closest one officials have seen in
a long time.
“Each event means something,” said Jay Wise, assistant
dean of residence life and announcer at Chaos Night.
But to many, Chaos Night is
more than just a competition. For
junior Angie Tiemeyer, it is an
opportunity for dorms to come
together for a little friendly competition and to stir up dorm pride
“It’s meant to bring the dorm
together as a whole,” she said.
“It’s a great event for the dorms
all to get together and do a lot of
activities and get super hyped,”
agreed sophomore Kerri DeVries.
“Chaos Day gives students in
the dorms, especially freshmen,
a sense of unity and community
with the other people on their
f loor and in their dorm,” said
Calvin alumna Audrey Hughey.
“They have to work together in
ways that they wouldn’t have
to otherwise.”
T he eve nt wa s a h it for
first-year students and sophomores alike:
“I enjoyed having everyone
come together and be very spirited,” said f irst-year st udent
Shelby Waterson.
“I think the leadership in the
dorms did a great job of gett i n g a l l t he u nd e r c l a s s me n
hyped about it,” said sophomore
Sarah Mulcock.
“I remember Chaos Day being
an awesome time of getting to
hang out with my new friends and
be silly,” said Hughey.
“It gives people a fun thing
to do on their first Friday night
at college,” said Tiemeyer. “The
best part is seeing all the dorms
dressed up in their costumes. I
think this year probably had some
of the best costumes I’ve seen.”
Up until two years ago, Chaos
Night had taken place on the
East Beltline field during the
day. Student life decided to move
it to a night event in 2014 to
make it more accessible to students who had obligations on
Saturday mornings.
PHOTO BY ANNA DELPH
“Getting up that early was
difficult,” said Tiemeyer. “People
have more energy and are more
with it at Chaos Night. And you
have more time to get ready. If
you come up with a costume that
day, you have time to prepare.”
“When it was pretty early in
the morning, I didn’t go,” said
senior Lucas da Silva. “It was
too early.”
Some students, however,
would have prefered to keep it
during the day.
“I wish it was the middle of
the day instead of at night,”
s a id so phomor e Br e n n a n
Steenhoek. “I wish it would
happen in the afternoon when
the sun was up. It would be
nice to be outdoors.”
“Nine o’clock to 11 is a bit
late. If it was 8-10, it’d be golden,” said Tiemeyer. “You’d
have a little bit more time to
have a dance party or a dorm
event afterwards without people wanting to go to bed.”
“Having some sort of social thing afterwards like a
p o s t- C h a o s N i g h t d o r m
mixer would be nice,” added
Waterson.
According to Mulcock,
the real fun of Chaos Night
is when students get to build
community. “If the sophomores include the freshmen
then it’s more fun for all of
them.”
“It’s really fun to be a sophomore when you have more dorm
pride and understand what’s
going on,” said Zonnefeld.
T H E O F F I C I A L S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F C A LV I N C O L L E G E S I N C E
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PHOTO BY ANNA DELPH
Art exhibition premieres on campus
BY JON GORTER
Campus Co-Editor
Last Wednesday, the CFAC’s
Center Art Gallery released its
newest exhibition, “Light: An
Eternal Presence — The Donna
Spaan Contemporary Collection
of Art.” The collection, made
possible by a generous donation from Calvin alumna Donna
Spaan, cur rently feat ures 17
pieces from artists representing
seven nationalities that work
from both Christian and secular
backgrounds.
Joel Zwart, Calvin’s director
of exhibitions, began working
with Spaan in 2013 to find art and
create a collection that would be
not just aesthetically appealing
but also educational. After two
years of searching for and collecting art, Zwart and Spaan were
glad to release the collection’s first
exhibition to the public.
“T h is ex h ibit ion rea l ly is
the result of the last two years
of us working together to start
this collection,” said Zwart. “This
spring we spent quite a bit of
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buying new work and finding
new work so we could get up
to about what we were
shooting for.”
Spaan, a Calvin alumna with
a Ph.D. in theater f rom the
University of Michigan, has expressed interest in the arts since
her days in school. Creating and
donating an art collection, she
said, was her way to “pay back”
the college.
Overall, the donation for
the art was around $350,000,
and it was this sizable amount
of funding, said Zwart, that has
really helped make the collection unique so far. “Some of
the artists represented here, like
Hiroshi Sugimoto and Gerhard
Richter, are more internationally
known. It’s pieces like these that
really help give weight to the collection as a whole.”
Still, each piece contributes
to the overall theme and gives
variety to the collection.
“I chose each artwork very
carefully and with a unifying vision based on Light in mind,” said
Spaan. “One goal was to have the
artworks speak to each other and
thereby to the viewer. The operating interconnections would then
add density to the collection as
a tapestry.”
“It excites me that I am making an international collection
with seven nationalities already
housed in 17 artworks,” said
Spaan. “[It excites me] that I can
use my assets to share with others
my deep belief in the necessity
and power of art to unveil God's
presence at work in the world.”
Even though only a few of
the artists are actually working
from a Christian perspective, the
overall theme of the collection,
“Light: an Eternal Presence,”
encourages a more spi r it ual
exploration of each piece.
“Light is such a divine gift.
With it we see the world and
can begin to understand and
experience what is alive inside the
cosmos,” said Spaan.
Complementing the opening
of the exhibition was a
ne wly com m i s sio ned p o e m
by Lew Klatt, entitled “Say What
You See in the Dark,” and a
lect ure by Craig Hanson
on the historical context for
Advisors
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Lynn Rosendale
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the collection.
T he col lec tion wi l l remain at Calvin until October
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Dordt College and Grand Valley
State University.
Lord Huron performs engaging concert
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BY BETHANY COK
On-Call Writer
La st Wed nesd ay eve n i ng,
a sold-out audience gathered in
the Covenant Fine Arts Center
to hear Lord Huron, a folk-rock
band known for its broad instru-
mentation and intriguing lyrics.
T h e b a n d’s e n e r g y a n d
the crowd’s enthusiasm, amplified by dramatic lighting and
s moke o n s t a ge, c r e a t e d a n
electric atmosphere that
wowed concertgoers.
“I was really impressed by
[the band’s] attention to detail,
both musically and visually,
especially when the lighting would
line up with the drumbeats,” said
senior Nicole Reenders.
The frontman of Lord Huron,
Ben Schneider, is or iginally
a visual ar tist, and this was
ev ident i n t he t hemat ic t ies
bet ween the stage set up and
decoration and the song lyrics
and themes.
The band recently released
“Strange Trails,” an album pondering themes of love, heartbreak
and death, and they played several songs from that album in
Wednesday’s concert. Onstage,
a skeleton sat atop an amp, and
the projected backdrop was a
rather mysterious-looking forest,
reminiscent of a “strange trail.”
T h roug hout t he concer t,
Lord Huron utilized quite a
range of instruments, including
usual instruments like guitars
and drumsets, as well as lessused ones, like a harmonica and
a theremin, which is an electronic
musical instrument operated using electromagnetic waves.
Several concer t attendees
were impressed with the way
Lord Huron’s music seemed
to leap genre and defy a firm
stylistic categorization.
“It wa s l i ke i nd ie mee t s
rock meets Elvis. It was a really interesting mix that I didn’t
t h i n k wou ld work r ig ht of f
the bat, but it sounded really cool,
especially near the end of the
performance,” said Devin Auld,
a junior.
“’Indie folk beach rock’ is the
closest I can come to describing
their style,” said Luke Tilma, also
a junior.
L o r d Hu r o n b e g a n a s a
solo project by Ben Schneider,
originally f rom Okemos,
Michigan, in 2010. The band
has gradually gained more members over the last few years,
and has released three EPs and
two albums.
Their music evokes emotions through depth of lyrics
a nd c re at ive mu sic a l laye ring. This was evident in the
variety of audience responses, f rom wi ld ent husia s m a nd c he e r i n g t o mo r e
melancholy reflection.
“Lord Huron’s music made me
restless, like I wanted to go roam
around unexplored frontiers,”
said junior Kyle Disselkoen.
“One thing they did was used
a lot of repeated lines, and that
made the music drive forward.
You were always anticipating the
next thing.”
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Lord Huron captured the crowd’s attention with a wide range of instruments
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Calvin to remember 1937 Haitian Parsley massacre
BY JON GORTER
Campus Co-Editor
Ne x t Wed ne s d ay, C a lv i n
will host a lecture remembering the 1937 Haitian Parsley
massacre, in which Dominican
dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Molina ordered the murder of
thousands of Haitians. This lecture
is part of the history department
col loqu iu m se r ies, but a l so
one of two lectures sponsored
by African and African
Diaspora Studies.
L e a d i n g t he e ve nt w i l l
be Edward Paulino, a historian
a t t he Joh n Jay C ol le ge of
Cr i m i na l Just ice who ha s
done extensive graduate work on
the massacre.
“A Christian liberal arts institution such as we are should
be conversa nt about at roc ities that occur globally, both
historically and at present,”
said Eric Washington, assistant
history professor and the Director
of African and African Diaspora
“Even in the 1930s when the
atrocities occurred both Haiti
and the DR were among the
poorest countries in the Western
Hemisphere,” said Washington.
“Poor people tend to
draw little attention
then, and even now.”
Now, Washington
hopes that Paulino’s
lecture will help students, faculty and staff
at C a lv i n not on ly
become more aware
of an insuff iciently
publicized event in
history, but also encourage them to act in
response.
“C h r i st ia n s seek
to uphold God’s just i c e g l o b a l l y, a n d
PHOTO COURTESY CALVIN COLLEGE AADS
they seek to call out
and remedy injustice
Border of Lights raises awareness for the 1937 Parsley Massacre.
where t hey see it,”
said Washington. “So
of the Haitian massacre and
But the Holocaust was not drawing attention to a genocide
the Holocaust. “The Haitian the only thing distracting the that occurred in the Haitian border
Massacre is on a smaller scale wo r ld’s a t t e nt io n f r o m t he of the DR in 1937 is one way to expose another case of injustice, and
[t ha n t he Holocaust]. O n ly Haitian massacre.
Studies (AADS) at Calvin.
The massacre, though, is not
widely known and seldom remembered. That in part is due
to the near-simultaneousness
30,000 people killed compared
to millions of Jews in Europe,
but both genocides were mot i v a t e d b y r a c i a l a n i m u s,”
said Washington.
it should serve to make Christians
more sensitive to similar acts that
occur at present.”
In Haiti and the Dominican
Republic, the massacre
will be remembered on
Oct 3rd. Border of Lights, an
i nte r n at ion a l hu m a n r ig ht s
solidar it y collaborative,
will hold a candle light vigil
at the border of the two countries,
where mourners will join others
across the globe via the Border of
Lights Facebook page.
The lect ure will be hosted
Wednesday, September 23 at
3:30pm in the Commons Annex
Alumni Board Room.
This will be the first lecture of
the year hosted by AADS; in the
future, they are planning to host
additional events. “AADS will
be sponsoring Dr. Sika DagbovieMu l l i n s a n Eng l i sh p r of at
F lor id a At la nt ic Un iversit y
will lecture based on her book,
C r o s s i n g ( B) l a c k i n w h ic h
s h e d e a l s w i t h m i xe d - r a c e
identity in American literature,”
said Washington.
Student organization raises awareness about human trafficking
The Free Project collaborates with local anti-human trafficking organizations
BY MADDIE HUGHEY
Campus Co-Editor
On Monday, Calvin’s chapter
of The Free Project placed red
flags around campus as part of
their project to raise awareness
and to help people understand
when their children are at risk of
being trafficked.
According to their website,
The Free Project is “a growing
network of college students fighting to bring an end to slavery
worldwide.”
The Free Project started in
September 2010 when a group
of st udents f rom fou r campus anti-slavery groups in the
Washing ton, DC/Mar yland
area combined to form an international student organization to
fight slavery.
“We are the former ‘Voice
Against Human Trafficking,’ but
since leadership changed we just
thought a fresh start in multiple
aspects would be nice and helpful,” said Flavius Tomeci, the
vice president and treasurer of
the organization.
The Free Project isn’t the only
anti-trafficking effort in the area.
Kent County Human Trafficking
Task Force also had a conference
in downtown Grand Rapids on
Tuesday, September 15, where
they screened the documentary
“The Hunting Ground” and had
a panel discussion afterwards.
Tomeci listed three goals for
the organization this year, one of
them being promoting awareness.
“This would be maybe streaming some documentaries and
making t-shirts and cookies to
sell on campus,” he said. The
group also plans to attend the
Third Annual Movement Against
Humans Trafficking at Spring
Arbor with their members.
The group intends to hold fundraisers around campus to raise
money for organizations either
locally or globally.
Another goal is to increase
their involvement with local
organizations in Grand Rapids:
“We thought it would be nice
to already get in touch with organizations around Grand Rapids
and include Calvin College in
this great and important cause,”
said Tomeci.
The Free Project will have its
first meeting Monday, September
21, at 7:00 p.m. in CFAC 230.
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Civic Theatre begins 90th season
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The “Cheers to Michigan Brew Fest” exists to spread
awareness and support families experiencing the pain of CF.
Sophie VanSickle, “Cheers”
”
National and World News
From the Editors: After repeated requests from our readers, we have decided to
reinstate an old tradition, with a new twist. We will now be including national and
world news headlines, as well as QR links to their articles, on our new “Local and
World” page in order to keep our community more informed on important issues. We
welcome your feedback and questions regarding this installment.
PHOTO BY SOPHIE VANSICKLE
BY SOPHIE VANSICKLE
Local Editor
Grand Rapids Civic Theatre
kicks off its 90th season with
a s t a ge ad apt at ion of Scot t
F. Fitzgerald’s American classic,
“The Great Gatsby.” Civic began
running its community theatre
shows in the roaring twenties,
the same era that “The Great
Gatsby” was published. That
said, it’s only fitting that Civic
begins its 2015-2016 milestone
season with this title, a story
full of extravagant celebrations.
This presentation is a trimmeddown stage adaptation, so while
the production is a little less
glitzy and glamorous than what
the novel and the movies portray,
the story still stands. Included
in this version is much of the original dialogue, a bonus for fans of
the literature.
Out of this season’s nine shows,
seven of them have never before
been performed on a Civic stage,
making this 90th season one
to be remembered. Following
“The Great Gatsby,”which runs
from Sept.11 to Sept. 27 of this
year, is “Sleepy Hollow,” a modern-day spin-off of the classic
story and one of this season’s
youth musicals.
Then, at the end of
Nove mbe r, Civ ic celebrates
t he C h r i s t m a s s e a s o n w it h
“A Christmas Story” making its
debut on their stage, the final
show of the year.
Continuing the 2015-2016 season at the beginning of the new year,
i n m id - Ja nu a r y, Civ ic w i l l
present “Barefoot in the Park”,
a light-hearted romantic comedy
about newlyweds in their New
York apartment.
Following this production
will be their f irst musical of
2016, the ever-famous “Sister Act”
and then the stage adaptation
of t he book , “Fr ec k le Fa ce
Strawberry,” a sugar-sweet children’s musical about embracing
your differences.
Civic Theatre will end their
regular season in June with the
musical, “Caroline or Change,”
a heartwarming story set in 1963
Louisiana that faces the subject
of Civil Rights, a time of major
social and political change.
Though the regular season
ends in June, that’s just the beginning for their annual Summer
Repertory Theatre, their summer series for actors ages 14-19.
T h is yea r’s SRT consists of
a play and a musical.
Returning to the stage is “Into
the Woods Jr.,” always a favorite
fairytale for musical theatre fanatics. Simultaneously, the 2015-2016
season will finish off with the silly
“Sideways Stories from Wayside
School,” ba sed on t he za ny
c h i ld r e n’s b o ok o f t h e
same name.
Cheers to Michigan Brew
Let the sparks fly: Carly Fiorina takes
on republican candidate Donald Trump
“(CNN) For once, it wasn’t the Donald Trump show.The billionaire
businessman’s uneven performance at CNN’s prime-time Republican
presidential debate Wednesday gave Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush openings to seize the spotlight. And they did, putting Trump in the unusual
position of being on defense throughout the evening.”
Another Government Shutdown Imminent
“(NPR) Congress has two weeks to pass a measure to keep the government funded beyond Sept. 30. If no agreement is reached, federal
agencies could be shuttered again — the second time in three years.”
Muslim teen Ahmed Mohamed creates
clock, shows teachers, gets arrested
“(CNN) When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving,
Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming
an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he’d made
from a pencil case.
The 14-year-old’s day ended not with praise, but punishment, after the
school called police and he was arrested.”
Refugee crisis: Hungary uses tear gas,
water cannons on migrants at border
“(CNN) Hungarian riot police used tear gas and water cannons
Wednesday on migrants at the country’s border with Serbia after a group
broke through a barrier to try to enter the European Union.”
Chile 8.3-magnitude quake strikes off coast
“(CNN) At least five people were killed and 1 million evacuated from
affected areas, when a powerful 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck Chile
Wednesday, the director of the National Office of Emergency for the
Chilean Ministry of Interior, Ricardo Toro, announced at a Santiago
news conference early Thursday morning.”
BY SOPHIE VANSICKLE
Local Editor
If you look at any list of the
attractions that make Grand
Rapids a great place to be, no
doubt that list will include Grand
Rapids’ top-notch breweries, consistently rated among the city’s
best consumer attractions.
Grand Rapids even
snagged the title of Beer City,
USA in 2014. One of its breweries, Founders Brewing Co.,
was named as the third best
b r e we r y i n t he wo r ld , a nd
severa l ot hers have a lso
put Grand Rapids on the map
for beer enthusiasts.
T ha n k s to t he ge ne rosit y
of more than 15 local breweries, wineries and cider mills,
including Michigan’s first combined coffee shop and brewery, Essential Bean Coffee and
Pub, and the renowned Founders
Brewing Co., Grand Rapids will
be combining their fall tastes with
a good cause.
On Saturday, Sept 26 at the
Deltaplex Arena, Grand Rapids is
launching a “Cheers to Michigan
Brew Fest” hosted by Friends
and Families of Cystic Fibrosis
( F FC F ), a We s t M ic h ig a nbased nonprofit organization
dedicated to raising money in
support of those in West Michigan
who suffer from Cystic Fibrosis.
Cystic Fibrosis (often shortened to CF) is a genetic and
life-threatening disorder that
clogs the lungs and can cause
serious lung infections, affecting other organs, like the intestines, along the way. Most cases
of Cystic Fibrosis are diagnosed
before t he age of t wo yea rs
EB Coffee and Pub, one of the many businesses supporting the “Cheers to Michigan Brew Fest”.
old, and the predicted age of
s u r v iva l ave ra ges a rou nd
3 0 y e a r s .T h o u g h m o d e r n
medicine and daily therapies
have improved the lifespan and
living conditions of individuals
with Cystic Fibrosis, there is still
a long way to go.
On top of all the health complications, breathing treatment
equipment, medicine and frequent
hospital visits are expensive, and
many CF patients also take the
route of undergoing single or
double lung transplants. While
this is undoubtedly beneficial to
their health, the transplants themselves and post-operation hospital
stays cost a great sum of money,
which can be difficult on families
that are already dealing with the
difficult emotions that come with
having a chronically sick friend or
family member.
T he “Cheers to M ich iga n
Brew Fest” exists in order to
spread awareness and to support
fami lies exper iencing t he
d i f f ic u lt ies t hat C F br i ng s.
T his is FFCF’s f i rst year of
sponsoring this event, but they
hope that this will continue, said
FFCF volunteer Dayna Watson
during an interview on local
news segment Take 5. All the proceeds will remain local and will
support young adults and children in Michigan who suffer from
Cystic Fibrosis. Not only will this
be a chance for many of West
Michigan’s breweries, wineries
and cider mills of Grand Rapids
to show off their fall tastes, but
this event will also include games
and live music to keep a fun and
upbeat atomsphere.
The band line-up currently
includes names such as Fast
PHOTO BY SOPHIE VANSICKLE
Hands Blues Band, Jesse Cline&
Michael Carnavo, Forrester,
Po p C u l t a n d F l e d F i v e .
All bands will have 40 minute set
and local DJ Jason Veeder
will entertain between each act.
Tickets are $35 if purchased
ahead of time through Friends
and Families of Cystic Fibrosis’
website, or $45 at the gate.
The event runs from 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m., rain or shine said
FFCF volunteers, and in the
case of inclement weat her,
the event will move inside the
Deltaplex Arena.
“
The Calvin-Hope rivalry is very fun to be a part of and seems
to bring together the community of Calvin.
”
Women’s soccer wins fourth straight, two in conference
Kayla Van Eck, “Volleyball”
ward for the team,” said head coach
Mark Recker in an interview with
Calvin Sports Information. “We
were able to use our early losses
this season as lessons.”
In early September the
Knights left their Illionois trip
game shutout. She has a total of
23 saves on the season.
Sports Editor
“Albion is a very disciplined
team and their goaltender made
The women’s soccer team has
some amazing saves today,” said
gotten off to a 2-0 start in conRecker. “We were able to sustain
ference and a 4-2 start overall.
more pressure in the second half.
The team’s recent sucT he defe n sive u n it
cess has seen them
keeps structuring itself
exec ute on of fense
and building.”
and defense.
The improving
In a conferdefense has seen
ence bout at Albion
t he K n ig ht s r ele nt
College, Calvin held
one goal in their
the Brits scoreless belast four games and
hind senior goalkeeptwo in their last five.
er Holly Ellerbroek.
Veenstra is leading
It to ok ne a rly t he
t he team w it h fou r
entire match, howgoals, followed by three
e ve r, for C a lv i n
from senior Sydney
to get on the board
K i n n e y. Ve e n s t r a
before junior Carly
and Capel have both
Veenstra struck in the
t a l l ie d t wo a s s i s t s
88th minute.
thus far. As a team,
Sen ior m id f ieldthe Knights average
ers Paige Capel and
1.7 goals on 11.5 shots
Taylor Ten Harmsel
a game.
combi ned for fou r
The season is still
PHOTO COURTESY CALVIN SPORTS INFORMATION
shots on goa l, t wo
young, and t houg h
MacKenzie
VandeWeerd
converges
with
Albion
Forward.
more than the entire
they will face MIAA
total for Albion.
with a 3-0 victory against DePauw competition soon, Calvin isn’t
After starting the season with University. They then recorded set to face off against last year’s
two non-conference wins, Calvin back to back wins against Trine conference champion and MIAA
is making promising progress. University and the University rival Hope College until October.
Calvin began their 2014 cam- o f C h i c a g o w i t h 2 - 0 a n d
The team will take a break
paign with four straight confer- 3-0 wins, respectively.
from MIAA competition before
ence losses but are now two wins
Ellerbroek’s two saves helped a home game versus Alma College
into their 2015 season.
her notch her third shutout of the on Saturday, September 26, at
“Today was another step for- year and her second complete 12:00 p.m.
BY MARK PELESS
Women’s volleyball sweeps rival Hope in straght sets
ranked ninth in the nation and
second in the MIAA.
“As a fan, the experience of this
huge rivalry is thrilling, exciting
and energizing,” said sophomore
Kayla Van Eck, president of
Boer-Bennink. “The atmosphere
is loud and filled with the energy of excited students and fans
and it’s always great to see Calvin
BY ANNA GERNANT
kill Hope in the first three games.
Guest Writer
It’s big enough that alumni in
Arizona and Florida get together
and throw parties to view the
This past weekend Calvin
games online.”
hosted Hope College in the Van
The Calvin-Hope rivalry is
Noord Arena. The team continsomething that ties alumni, facued their winning streak and
ulty, staff and current students
swept their biggest rival in three
together to be one united
Knight Nation.
“The Calvin-Hope rivalry
is very fun to be a part of and
seems to bring together the
community of Calvin,” Van
Eck said. Saturday’s game
against Hope had a huge
student section sporting maroon and gold attire while
incorporating the theme of
athletic jerseys.
Setter Jenna Lodewyk
was excited to see the big
crowd as it helps her and
her team focus on the game
ahead. Lodewyk was named
MIAA Specialty Player of
the Week and is now a second-year starter on Calvin’s
volleyball team.
“Without having such
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Fans filled Van Noord Arena and celebrated a Calvin victory on jersey night. good hitters and passers,
I wouldn’t be the player
games, with scores of 25-16, 25-17 who wa nt to see t hei r team I am,” said Lodewyk after the
game Saturday. She is very exand 25-18. Calvin collected nine take the victory.”
The Calvin-Hope rivalry has cited for the rest of the season
aces as a team, including three
from junior Laura Danhoff in the been in various stories and ar- and is eager to see the competiticles, most famously making tion the Knights will face and the
first minutes of the game.
The win over Hope was head ESPN’s article “No hate, just heat growth of the team throughout
coach Amber Warners’s 400th in Hope-Calvin rivalry” in 2007. the year. “I think we have a lot
Lydia Gildea, senior and catch- of good potential and I am excareer win in her 14 years at
Calvin. But the rivalry between er on Calvin’s softball team, was cited to play some teams down
Calvin and Hope goes back fur- present at the game Saturday, in Emory this weekend.”
Calvin is currently 6-1 overall
ther than that. The Calvin wom- cheering the Knights on to vicen’s volleyball team is currently tory. “It’s a super huge rivalry as they travel to Emory.
Notable Results From the Past Week (As of 9/16/2015)
September 12
Men’s Cross Country Knight Invite: 1st place, 57 points
Women’s Volleyball: Calvin 3 Hope 0
Women’s Cross Country Knight Invite: 2nd place,
September 15
Men’s Golf MIAA Tournament 2: 1st place, 293 strokes
September 16
Men’s Soccer: Calvin 3 Trine 0
Women’s Volleyball: Calvin 3 Olivet 0
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s p o rt s
S P O RT S T H I S W E E K
Friday September 18
Volleyball vs. Franklin & Marshall; 11:30 AM
Women’s Golf Calvin-Whitewater-Hope; 2:00 PM
Volleyball vs. Washington (Mo.); 4:00 PM
Saturday September 19
Women’s Soccer at Adrian; 12:00 PM
Men’s Soccer vs. Hope; 2:30 PM
Men’s Golf Calvin-Whitewater-Hope; 9:30 AM
Monday September 21
Men’s Golf MIAA Tournament 4
Tueesday Sepember 22
Women’s Volleyball vs. Albion; 6:30 PM
Men’s Soccer at Alma; 4:00 PM
Wednesday September 23
Women’s Golf MIAA Tournament 1; 1:00 PM
Thursday September 24
Women’s Soccer ; 1:00 PM
Friday September 25
Women’s Golf MIAA Tournament 1; 1:00 PM
Women’s Volleyball at Alma; 3:00 PM
Women’s Volleyball vs. Heidelberg; 5:00 PM
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Women’s golf off to slow start
BY MARK PELESS
Sports Editor
T he women’s gol f team
ha s fa i led to place above
third place out of 13 schools
in their first two tournaments
of the season.
Their third place finish at the
finish by senior Jennie Poole, who
had a second day finish of eighth
place with 85 strokes. Poole also
had the best score for Calvin at the
Kyle Campbell classic. Overall,
however, it was only good enough
for a 15th place finish.
Calvin had a round total of 383
the first day and countered with
a better performance the second
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Senior Shara Reynolds closed out with a two-day total of 197.
Furniture City Classic in the day, finishing with 365 strokes
beginning of September was for a total of 747. Poole shot 86 on
recently followed by a ninth Saturday and 88 on Friday.
Other Saturday round totals
place finish in last weekend’s
Olivet College Kyle Campbell from Calvin include 92 from
Classic. Calvin finished fifth in sophomore Emily Short and 93
the overall MIAA conference from senior Casey Harkema.
Hope Col lege ( la st yea r’s
standings last year.
In their first tournament, MIAA champion) placed first in
Calvin was led to a third place the Kyle Campbell Classic.
Want to write for sports?
Email the editor, Mark Peless:
map28@students.calvin.edu
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F E AT U R E S
Gender Roles at Calvin:
Changing the way we speak
This week’s feature is a view of gender roles at Calvin by sophomore Emily
Anderson. In her piece titled “Changing the way we talk about women at
Calvin,” Anderson presents her perspective on women and f loor culture in
her dorm, Kalsbeek-Huizenga-vanReken.
The following is an opinion piece and does not necessarily represent the
views of Calvin Chimes, Calvin College or the Christian Reformed Church.
BY EMILY ANDERSON
Guest Writer
In the wake of the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s
revolutionary book, “The
Feminine Mystique,” it is
easy to take what Friedan
wrote as a dated account
of women’s social role in
the United States. A lot has
certainly changed since the
book’s publication in 1963.
We now have laws banning
employment discrimination
against pregnant women,
and the percentage of women in the workforce has
increased from 14.8 to 43.2
percent between the years
1967 and 2009, according to
the United States Census
Bureau. However, despite
the second-wave feminism
she influenced, the spirit
of what Friedan reported
on all those years ago is far
from dead. It is vital that
we change the language
surrounding women’s roles
in society.
With its serenades, floor
dates and Calvin walks,
Calvin College has an ageold reput ation for sustaining a strong and often
overwhelming dating culture. While never explicitly declared, the students
at Calvin are very aware
of the concepts of “freshmen frenzy” and “ring by
spring.” This is why I was
not surprised when I sat
down for a meal in my coffee kitchen the first week of
school to see two large declarations of admiration from
my brother floor propped
up against a wall. Sitting on
the ledge of the windows
leading to the first Kalsbeek
hall were two two-foot
posters with messages in
Sharpie marker signed by every resident of first Huizenga.
While one, a childlike rhyme,
read “…how do we love
you so? Sufficient to say it
grows everyday...” it was the
second poster that, through
the lens of “The Feminine
Mystique ,” stuck out as
a striking example of occupation: housewife. The
poster read:
“Behind every great man is
a woman who supports him
Behind every good husband is
a wife worth being good for
And behind every little
boy is a mother that
teaches him well…
…but Kalsbeek girls are usually the ones up front.”
I investigated and found
many of the girls on the
floor were delighted at the
thoughtful gesture while
the rest were embarrassed
over its silliness. No one
seemed to notice or care
about the poster’s emphasis
solely on women’s role in the
family structure.
Articles in women’s magazines began their transition away from por traying self-sufficient, worldly women around the
same time male writers
were returning from the war,
dreaming and writing of a
cozy lifestyle and replacing
female writers in the workforce. The ideal woman of
that time was suddenly a
woman with little education
who married early, had a
large family and never worked
outside the home. This re-
definition of femininity that
occurred in the 1950s was
largely — if not completely
— the result of male influence. Certainly the posters
left in the Kalsbeek coffee
kitchen were not intended
to be a reinforcement of
these same outdated gender
roles, but in many ways that
is exactly what they achieve.
The women written about
in the poem are mothers
and wives. There is no mention of the women whose
identity is not connected in
any way to a husband or her
children, a career woman,
a single woman. What the
women in the poem all have
in common are their direct
ties to the world of men as
mother, wife and caretaker.
Yet, as the guys of first
Huizenga and everyone else
would agree, women are
much more than the labels
we put on them.
Women don’t get their
identities from the roles
they fill, but instead infuse
their pre-constructed identities into their individual
passions. This is something
I believe everyone with a
wife, mother, sister or woman in their life would agree
on. The functions women
hold in society being that
of positive change is due
to forces larger than any
one individual or residence
hall SET team. These are
social constructs that have
long been in place as a defining but confining standard for
feminine norms.
But just as the World
War II-era woman was replaced by the ‘50s housewife, these attitudes can
change, and it’s our responsibility to be agents for that
change in the way we discuss
gender roles.
“
a rt s a n d
e n t e rta i n m e n t
Throughout the night there was an air of
authenticity to Colbert’s material and his antics.
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Colbert helms Late Show The Visit more comedy than horror
Nate Hunt “Late Show”
NATE HUNT
Arts & Entertainment Editor
W ho i s Ste phe n Colbe r t?
That’s the million-dollar question that Colbert himself hopes
to answer as the new host of “The
Late Show.”
Ta k i n g o v e r f o r D a v i d
Letterman, who helmed the show
for 22 years, Colbert sees the
importance of recognizing the
talent which came before him.
In his opening show, the new
host pays tribute to Letterman,
saying, “The comedy landscape
is so thickly planted by the forest
of Dave’s ideas that we sometimes
need to remind ourselves just how
tall he stands.”
Despite having such big shoes
to fill, Colbert’s first show as host
of “The Late Show” attracted
6.55 million viewers, beating out
all other late shows that night.
A farewell to Letterman.
Colbert is no stranger to attracting large audiences, however. For
the last nine years he hosted the
incredibly popular “The Colbert
Report,” playing a self-important,
right-wing political pundit.
Ma ny we re wor r ied a s to
Colbert’s suitability to host “The
Late Show” and rightly so. No one
had seen the real Stephen Colbert
minus his ever-present, pundit
character before. Thankfully,
Colbert is no stranger to himself
or these fears and put his best face
forward last Tuesday night as he
revealed himself to be a down-toearth and genuine guy.
In perhaps a nod to the patriotic nature of his previous
character, the comedian opened
“The Late Show” by singing the
national anthem set against a
backdrop of American monuments, pastimes and the working class. He then introduced
us to his new home, giving
us a tour of the set which included all kinds of memorabilia and gags to be used in
upcoming shows.
In what was perhaps the
highlight of the night, besides
his ridiculous promotion of
Sabra brand hummus, Colbert
did a bit where for each Donald
Trump story he covered, he
treated himself to an Oreo,
before indulging himself by
practically drowning himself
in cookies.
Colbert rounded out the
evening by welcoming his
first guests, George Clooney
and presidential candidate Jeb
Bush onto the show for a chat.
Throughout the night there
was an air of authenticity to
Colbert’s material and his antics.
T h i s a u t h e n t ic ity was keenly felt
T h u r s d ay n i g h t
when the host sat
dow n w it h Vice
President Joe Biden
for a lengthy conversation. The conversation quickly
vee red f rom t he
FILE PHOTO
comedic to t he
serious as both Biden and
Colbert reminisced about their
deceased family members.
It was immediately apparent
that this conversation would
not serve as an opportunity
to promote political agenda
but would instead be an intimate conversation between
two people.
It is this tact and Colbert’s
inventive comedic vision that
makes him already look like
a natural. If you’re thinking
about catching some late night
television, consider tuning in
to “The Late Show.” Colbert
will be inviting guests Stephen
Curry, Ted Cruz and Donald
Trump among others to the
show next week.
NATE HUNT
Arts & Entertainment Editor
and humorously senile. But, as
anyone who has ever seen a horror movie with an elderly woman
in it, when just one of those ingredients is missing, things can turn
very creepy very quickly.
As a horror movie, “The Visit”
is as chock-full of clichés as they
come — from jump scares, to
bumps in the night, the film has
it all, yet Shyamalan knows this
and manages to make a parody of
and unsettling. What does Pop
Pop keep in his shed? Why won’t
he let the kids into the basement?
Why does Nana ask Rebecca to
clean the oven only to urge her
to go all the way inside it? And
what are those scratching noises
that happen after everyone has
gone to bed? The kids soon find
that their documentar y f ilm
project intended to reconcile their
mother to her estranged parents
For the past decade, M. Night
Shyamalan has seemed bent on
killing his career. After a period
of success in which the director
graced the thriller genre with
gems like “The Sixth Sense” and
“Signs,” Shyamalan began a slow
and painful decline which culminated with two of his
most recent works, the
practically unwatchable
“The Last Airbender”
and “After Earth.”
So it was with a great
deal of skepticism, but
still a glimmer of hope,
that I mustered up the
courage to see the director’s newest horror comedy film, “The Visit.”
A nd it was wit h a
smirk on my face that
I walked out of the theater, not because the
film had met my low
expectations, but because it had far exceeded
them in ways I was unprepared for.
Shot largely in a first
person doc umentar y
style by the lead female
protagonist Rebecca,
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who fancies herself a Shyamalan has made his best film in a decade.
filmmaker, “The Visit” accom- these cliché moments. The kids has instead turned into an invespanies Rebecca and her younger themselves bring constant humor tigative mystery with sinister unbrother, Tyler, on a week-long stay to intense and frightening situa- dertones, and when the director’s
with their estranged grandparents tions, which serves to add a level signature twist comes, because of
while their mother embarks on a of believability to the weirdness. course you knew it was going to
cruise with her new boyfriend.
And, of course, the movie is come, it is genuinely shocking,
As backstory, the kids’ mother, essentially a found footage film although not nearly as effective
Paula, explains that her parents which we have been informed is as those found in some of his
disowned her 15 years earlier af- supposed to automatically make earlier works.
ter she eloped with a high school things scarier. Despite being
With “The Visit,” Shyamalan
teacher, which explains why the incredibly overused, Shyamalan seems to have once again found
kids have never met their grand- proves that, in the right hands, his stride. This is far from a perparents until now.
the technique can still be effec- fect movie, but it sure is a heck of
Although all seems perfectly tive. As it is used here, the method a lot of fun. The director masterwell and good at first, Rebecca enhances the sensation of claus- fully uses a blend of horror and
and Tyler soon start to notice trophobia, that whether we like comedy that in the span of secthings about Nana and Pop Pop it or not we are on board for this onds elicits screams of alarm that
that seem a little bizarre. Rebecca ride till it ends.
transition to chuckles of disbelief.
blames these strange events on
Although the movie raised If he can maintain this caliber of
just normal elderly dementia. more laughs than screams in the filmmaking, Shyamalan may yet
After all, grandparents are sup- theater I was in, “The Visit” as be able to wash away the sins of
posed to be sweet and bumbling a whole is still positively creepy his past.
Inside Out a huge return success for Pixar
NATE HUNT
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Many critics had feared that
the middling success of “Cars
2,” “Brave” a nd “Mon s te r s
University” meant that Pixar
was experiencing a severe case
of writer’s block that might never
end. It certainly seemed that the
studio’s narrative well might have
run dry, which could have spelled
an end for the high quality of
animation that Pixar was famous
for. However, “Inside Out” has
officially put those fears to bed.
The latest from Pixar, “Inside
Out,” which the Student Activities
Office is showing this Saturday at
8 p.m. in the CFAC auditorium,
is a thoughtful comedy-adventure which follows a young girl
named Riley as she is uprooted
from her comfortable and familiar home in Minnesota and
moved to the bustling city of
San Francisco.
Riley is controlled by her emotions and much of the film takes
place inside of her mind, where
each of her emotions is personi-
f ied by a car toonish character. There’s Joy (Amy Poehler),
Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear
(Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black)
and Disgust (Mindy Kaling).
These emotions have had an
easy job so far as Riley has yet
to face many of the hardships of
growing up. But, with her recent
move to the city and the approach
of puberty, Riley’s idyllic life gets
shaken up and Joy, who has been
the dominant emotion in Riley’s
life, finds her leadership challenged by Sadness.
The five emotions act essentially as Riley’s inner voices, operating a control panel that, with the
push of a button,
can decide how
Riley feels in any
single moment.
The youngster’s
memories are represented by glassy
spheres that are
color-coded by the
dominant emotion
i n t hat memor y
(yellow for joy,
blue for sadness,
green for disgust,
red for anger and
pur ple for fear).
These memories
a re t reated l i ke
f i les on a computer as they are
shipped from one
mental location to
FILE PHOTO
another through a series of chutes
and tubes. Most memories are
shuttled off to longterm storage
at the end of the day, while others
that are deemed as unnecessary
are dumped into an abyss to be
forgot ten. For mative memories, known as core memories,
are kept in the central control
room and guarded and treasured
by Joy.
This envisioning of the abstract concept of emotions and
memories is genius in how it
is portrayed; what could have
been visually complex is instead
handled with precise, yet fun and
creative, ideas by some of the best
animators that Pixar studios has
to offer.
The other non-physical aspects
of Riley’s mind such as memories, thoughts, nostalgia, dreams
and her train of thought, which
is symbolized by a literal train,
are made very real and central to
the conflict.
Much of this conflict that Joy
and her pals experience is directly
correlated to how Riley responds
to her environment. For instance,
when Riley angrily refuses to play
along with her father’s childish
antics, structures in her mind,
affectionately named Goof ball
Island and Family Island, crumble into the abyss where her nonessential memories are dumped.
“Inside Out” does a splendid
job of illustrating the often unapparent consequences that trauma
inflicts on the mind and psyche.
In fact as the movie progresses,
it becomes evident that although
everything feels safe and happy
when Joy is influencing Riley’s
emotions, it is necessary and even
beneficial for Sadness, Anger,
Disgust and Fear to have a say in
some matters.
True to life, the movie understands that the inf luence of
negative emotions challenges
us, matures us and aids in our
self discovery and, in Riley’s
case, provides the turning point
she needs to embrace her new
l i fe a nd be reconc i led w it h
her family.
“Inside Out” can at times
be a heady concept for younger
viewers, which certainly isn’t
foreign to Pixar’s narrative style.
I appreciate the studio’s desire
to stretch and challenge younger viewers through their narrative while at the same time
managing to still appeal to all
maturity levels. Pixar has always created stories that viewers can grow into, that only
g e t b e t t e r a n d m o r e r e l a table with age, and this one is
no exception.
Ultimately, “Inside Out” is
a magnificent return to form
for Pixar. The film serves up
just the right combination of
adventure, wit and wisdom to
propel the interesting concept
and characters towards a thought
provoking finale that is sure to
leave a good taste in audiences’
mouths.
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SCIENCE AND
TEC H N O LOGY
O B S E RVATO RY CO R N E R
By Christopher Spedden
Sunset times for Sept. 18 to Sept.25
7:48 p.m. — 7:35 p.m.
Hello, my ardent astronomy
admirers, and welcome to this
fall semester’s first edition of
Observatory Corner for Friday, September 18, 2015! Initial weather forecasts for the
coming week look favorable,
with light cloud cover Monday and Thursday. However,
this is Michigan, in case you
weren’t already aware, and the
weather is as changeable as my
opinions on the 2016 presidential candidates. So, rather than
take my word for it, you can
look for yourself at www.wunderground.com. As we progress into the fall, the Sun is setting earlier and earlier, so the
observatory opens earlier too,
as we open just a half hour
after sunset on clear nights,
Monday through Thursday.
Currently, we’re open around
8:45, so be sure to stop on by
to get a glimpse of the glory of
the heavens!
Saturn is drifting lower
and lower in the sky, so the
next few weeks are the last
opportunity to see it in all its
splendor! It’s below the horizon as early as 9:30 now,
so hurry and see it while you
can. The Summer Triangle,
an asterism (mini-constellation) comprised of Vega,
Deneb and Altair, sits high
in the night sky, giving a
view of some of the northern
sky’s brightest stars. Altair
also serves as the tail of Cygnus, the swan, whose flight
path traces the galactic plane
across the sky. The Moon
is also waxing through this
next week, resulting in a beautiful full moon Saturday the
26th, so now is the perfect
time to get a glimpse of
some of the craters on its
lustrous surface.
The featured Calvin astronomy image of the week is of
M31, the Andromeda Galaxy.
Returning readers might be familiar with this one, although
the significance of this image
cannot be overstated, thus I
am featuring it again for all incoming first-years.
The image is comprised
of some 2,700 images covering 98 fields, and took over
4.5 years to complete! The
best cameras today can take
around a 20 megapixel images, but this is a 50 megapixel
image, and the most high-resolution full image of Andromeda in existence. Andromeda
is our sister galaxy, and sits a
“mere” 2.5 million light-years
from us. If we could see its
full size in the sky with the
naked eye, it would be as long
as six full moons. That’s how
close it is. Comprised of over
100 billion stars, the beautiful
galaxy is actually on a collision course with our own,
although this won’t happen
for four billion years, so don’t
hold your breath. Or, if you
can hold your breath that
long, contact the Guinness
Book of World Records. I’m
sure they’d be interested.
If you so desire, you can learn
more about Andromeda at
Calvin’s observatory webpage.
Let’s hear it for Calvin
alumni Jess Vriesema, Melissa Dykhuis and Dan Van
Noord for their amazing work
on this project! Space is a very
big place, and there’s always
more to see. Tune in next
time for another edition of
Observatory Corner!
PHOTO COURTESY JESS VRIESEMA, MELISSA DYKHUIS AND DAN VAN NOORD
M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is our sister galaxy, located
2.5 million light years away from earth.
XKCD BY RANDALL MUNROE
“The less common, even worse outcome: ‘3: [everyone in
the financial system] WOW, where did all my money
just go?’”
“
Andromeda is our sister galaxy, and sits a “mere” 2.5 million lightyears from us.
Christopher Spedden, “Observatory Corner”
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Study observes whale social networks
The study compares sperm
whale communities to human
c u lt u res: va r iat ions i n song
vernacular are used to differentiate conversation between individuals from that between families
or even larger groups (clans) of
whales with a shared migration
pattern. The st udy describes
this behaviour as “hierarchically
nested social levels.”
“These findings,” the study’s
authors write, “suggest that processes similar to those that gen-
marine mammals.
A decade later, Louis Herman
Sci-Tech Editor
conducted experiments that indicated dolphins were capable
of understanding not only voA study published earlier this
cabulary (presented in the form
month in the journal Nature
of an invented sign language), but
Com mu n icat ions explores
also the grammatical mechanpatterns of sperm whale comics of vocabulary combinations.
munication that may point toThat is, the dolphin could disward culture-like exchanges in
tinguish between the command
the species.
“surf board person fetch,” and
By comparing 18 years of col“person, surf board fetch,” aclected whale song data from
cording to National Geographic’s
the eastern Pacific Ocean, the
Ed Yong.
s t u d y fo u n d s o Today, comprecia l com mun icahension has been
tion structures inestablished for
tricate enough to
f ive decades, but
put whales in the
communication
“complex commuremains surficial.
nication” camp ocStan Kuczaj, a psycupied by humans,
chologist who studother primates
ies dolphin cogniand elephants.
tion at the Roatan
The study found
Institute for Marine
that variations in
Sciences (RIMS),
the songs sung by
is hopef ul that
d i f fe r e nt g r oups
the key to unlockof spe r m wha les
PHOTO BY GABRIEL BARATHIEU (CC BY-SA 2.0)
ing dolphin comare neither genetic
n o r r a n d o m b u t Sperm whales are complex communicators, similar to munication is just
around the corner.
learned. According primates and elephants in terms of social structures.
Ju s t i n G r e g g ,
to Un ive r sit y of
Dalhousie’s Mauricio Cantor and erate complex human cultures a research associate with the
his team, these variations are only could not only be at play in non- Dolphin Communication Project,
explainable if whales consciously human societies but also create is more skeptical. “The ever-prespick up the patterns of “speech” multi-level social structures in ent scientific caveat that ‘there is
much we do not know’ has alfrom structured social groups to the wild.”
Such complex pat ter ns of lowed dolphinese proponents to
which they belong.
The authors observed great communication have been not- slip the idea of dolphin language
similarity in the acoustic signals ed in other species as well — in the back door,” Gregg writes.
“The sophistication of dolshared by members of specific most famously other primates
phins that makes them so insocial groups. This, combined and elephants.
T he c o nc e p t of i nte r s p e - teresting also makes them rewith the lack of acoustic similarity between different social cies communication has also ally difficult to study,” Kuczaj
g roups indicates t hat sper m been on t he scientif ic radar told Nat ion a l G eog raph ic’s
w h a le s, l i k e p r i m a t e s, hu - for decades. In the 1960s, scien- Joshua Foer. After 18 years of
m a n s a nd e le ph a nt s, le a r n tist John Lilly predicted that it d a t a c ol le c t io n a nd a n a lyt h e d i a l e c t s ( p a r t i c u l a r would only be a few years before s i s, C a n t o r a nd h i s t e a m’s
to each group), rather than ac- humans established meaning- sperm whale study may share
quiring them as a heritable trait. f ul communication with the that sentiment.
BY NATASHA STRYDHORST
Solar bike paths light up the Netherlands
“If one panel is broken or in
shadow or dirt, it will only switch
off that PV panel,” Jan-Hendrik
Kremer, a Renewable Energy
Systems consultant, told Science
Alert. Because of this design,
localized damage won’t impair
the entire road.
Despite bei ng ex posed to
greater stress than their rooftop
counterparts, the roadway panels have a reported lifespan of at
least 20 years.
SolaRoad’s path is not the only
solar bike path in the Netherlands,
which is also home to a Vincent
commute for nighttime bikers,
at least for the half-mile length
Sci-Tech Editor
of the trail.Roosegaarde’s project opened on November 12 of
Last November, the
last year, during commemoraNetherlands became the first
tions of the 125th anniversary of
country to introduce a solar road;
Van Gogh’s death.
today, the project is 10 months
Roosegaarde hopes his artold and going strong. The road
work will inspire people from
— a bicycle path used by 150,000
all walks of life. “A good projcyclists during its six-month
ect,” he told NPR, “generates
trial period — was installed by
new stories.”
SolaRoad. The path is only 70
That has been the case with
meters (230 feet) in length, but
another roadway development
produces 3,000 kWh, enough
being planned in the Netherlands.
electricity to supply power to
The city of Rotterdam, in cono ne ho u s e hold
junction with the
fo r a ye a r, a c construction group
cording to Science
VolkerWessels, has
A l e r t ’s F i o n a
hopes of installing
Macdonald.
plastic roadways
In ter ms of anrepurposed from
nual producocean waste. While
t i v it y, St e n d e
this project is still
Wit, SolaRoad’s
in its infancy, the
spokesman,
desig n prom ises
predicted to A l
benefits over tradiJazeera’s Tarek
tional asphalt. The
Bazley a proremoval of asphalt
duction value of
from production
“mor e t h a n 70
and use is suggestkWh per square
ed, according to
meter per year.”
the Guardian, to
The project
reduce global CO2
was installed in
PHOTO BY STUDIO ROOSEGAARDE emissions by about
K r o m m e n i e (a Roosegaarde’s solar bike path in Eindhoven is based on
1.6 m i l lion tons
town in the prov- Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting, “Starry Night.”
per year.
i nce of Nor t h
Plast ic roadHolland). It features solar pan- Van Gogh-inspired path in the ways, like solar ones, would
els protected by a network of town of Eindhoven, which served integrate a series of interlockglass, rubber and concrete re- as a backdrop for Van Gogh’s ing segments to allow simple
silient enough, according to paintings while he lived there. access to sections in need of reMacdonald, to support the weight By day, the trail looks like any pair. This same flexibility means
of a fire truck (approximately other of the numerous bike paths that roadways could even be
13 tons) without cracking under across the Netherlands. By night, t ra n spor ted to ent i rely new
the pressure. Developing the it glows in a pattern reminiscent lo c at ion s. T h i s ap pl ic at ion
pa nel s a nd p rotec t ion took of the artist’s classic painting, is largely unnecessary for lof ive years, and the engineer- “Starry Night.”
cations like Michigan, but is
ing goes beyond mere duraThe path was designed by artist anticipated to be a plus in espebility. Panels are individual, Daan Roosegaarde. Electricity cially sandy and boggy terrain
and each can be set to trans- generated during the daylight common in the Netherlands,
fer power directly to the grid hours powers thousands of LED a c c o r d i n g t o I n h a b i t a t ’ s
or streetlights.
lights at night to create a safer Katie Medlock.
BY NATASHA STRYDHORST
“
There is no more hiding the barbarism of abortion.
Fred Zaspel, “Planned”
”
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religion
Planned Parenthood: scandal or success?
BY MARISA HEULE
On-Call Writer
Recently, Planned Parenthood,
the largest pro-choice organization in America, has been
accused of illegally selling fetal
tissue. By releasing a string of secretly filmed undercover videos,
The Center for Medical Progress
(CMP) claims to have proof of
Planned Parenthood’s illicit sale
of fetal tissue for profit.
These videos have sparked
out rage f rom ma ny pro -l i fe
Americans, including a number
of activists within the church
who have called for a government shutdown of the federally
funded organization.
Revamping the controversy
surrounding both stem-cell research and abortion in general,
Congress continues to battle
over a proper response to the
allegations by the CMP. While
the Republican Party has pushed
towa rds def u nd i ng Pla n ned
Parenthood, there is still hesitation by others who are concerned
with the reliability of the evidence, as well as the need for the
women’s health services Planned
Parenthood provides.
According to their mission
statement, the CMP as an organization is “dedicated to monitoring
and reporting on medical ethics
and advances,” with the goal of
advocating for human dignity
within the realm of the medical
field. The released videos, which
address highly controversial issues and present possibly damning evidence against Planned
Parent hood, have A mer ican
C h r i s t i a n s a nd no n - C h r i s tians alike alike searching for
moral answers.
Many Christians have made
their sentiments toward the abortion issue clear. In his article “A
Gospel Problem: Thoughts on the
Planned Parenthood Scandal,”
Reformed theologian Fred Zaspel
says, “There is no more hiding
the barbarism of abortion,” and
he projects Planned Parenthood
as the “outstanding leader ... of
the abortion industry.”
However, other Christians
have struggled with a holistic
approach to the controversy,
condemning the scandal while
cont i nu i n g to a c k nowled ge
and remember the successes of
this organization beyond the
current despondency.
In light of the recent claims
against Planned Parenthood,
Ron Hamel, former ethicist for
the Catholic Health Association,
stated that “no guidelines or
codes can suffice for any use
of fetuses killed in an elective
abortion. The Church would see
that what Planned Parenthood is
doing is a double indignity to human life. There is both a willing
destruction of a life and the sale
of the fetal tissue.”
This issue has also touched
the religious community within Grand Rapids. After the release of the Cardinal Newman
Society report on the controversy,
Aquinas College, along with six
other Catholic colleges, removed
website links that indicated connections between the colleges and
Planned Parenthood.
The Newman Society’s report
highlighted 63 working connec-
Supporters show their support at a Planned Parenthood rally.
tions between 27 Catholic colleges and Planned Parenthood since
May 2011. The identified links
provide Planned Parenthood as
a health and education resource
within the school for students,
encouraging volunteer staff, delegating Planned Parenthood
representatives to campus, and
also work to help host organization events. These colleges were
urged by the report to dissolve
any relationship with Planned
Parenthood, and since then 15
of the 63 identified links have
been changed.
Planned Parenthood has continued to deny the allegations by
the CMP that they are involved
in any illicit activity with the
handling of fetal tissue. Taking on
the complexity of the controversy,
Laurie Zoloth, former president
of the American Academy of
Religion and current ethicist,
acknowledges the moral challenge paired with the horror and
insensitivity seen in the CMP’s
released videos.
“They need to start with an
apology,” Zoloth said. However,
Zoloth admitted to the essential contributions by Planned
Parenthood to American sexual
health, pointing out that the organization is not solely an abortion
services provider.
The organization operates 59
locally governed centers across
the nation, manages roughly 700
PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
health centers in all 50 states and
reaches approximately 1.5 million youth and adults annually.
Planned Parenthood provides
services from cancer screenings
to STD informational sessions.
The group also claims to advocate for the improvement of “the
sexual and reproductive health
and well-being of individuals and
families globally.” Committed to
being a leader in the reproductive health and rights movement,
Planned Parenthood “allows
individuals to avoid unintended
pregnancies through access to
affordable contraception and
protect[s] the health of young
people by providing them with
comprehensive sex education.”
Three Calvin professors spend summer at Oxford University
Professors from Calvin research Jewish exegesis, Patristics, and sociology of religion at Oxford
PHOTO COURTESY FLICKR USER CHRIS CHABOT
A view of Oxford University’s Radcliffe Square.
BY TRENT GROENHOUT
Guest Writer
This past summer, Oxford
University hosted several Calvin
College professors for various
research projects and paper presentations. One of these professors, Frans van Liere from
the histor y depar tment, was
invited by the Aquinas Institute
at Blackfriars College to present
a paper at a conference held at
Oxford University.
The conference, held in midJune, was called “A Millennium
of Christian Biblical Exegesis:
Aug ustine to Aquinas,” and
it focused on examining how
great theologians of the East and
West drew on the Scriptures,
illustrating the contrasts and
continuities within the traditions
they represent.
The paper van Liere presented
was entitled “The Spectre of
Judaizing: Victorine Exegesis and
Hebraica Veritas.” According to
van Liere, the paper “explored
the study of the Hebrew Bible
and Jewish exegesis as it happened at the 12th-century abbey of Saint Victor.” Van Liere
focused specifically on “Andrew
of Saint Victor’s interpretation
of Isaiah 7:14 and its subsequent
condemnation by Richard of
Saint Victor in his invective ‘On
Emmanuel.’” Van Liere’s translation of this text will be released
next month in volume six of
Victorine Texts in Translation,
which he co-edited with Franklin
Ha rk i n s of Boston Col lege.
Reflecting on his trip, professor
van Liere was very pleased with
the conference, describing it as a
fruitful experience.
In August, professor Young
Kim, another member of the history department and the chair
of the classics department, was
invited to present a paper at the
Seventeenth Oxford Patristic
Studies Conference.
The conference is held once
every four years and brings scholars and students from all over the
world to Oxford University where
they “present and hear papers and
lectures on a wide range of subjects dealing with the writings,
ideas and legacies of the church
fathers (and mothers).”
Kim describes the conference
to those who have not heard of it
as the “Olympics of Patristics.”
The conference was first held in
1951, and Kim said that “over the
years some of most important and
famous scholars in the field have
given lectures and papers.”
But the conference has had to
face the challenge that “the notion of ‘patristics’ has changed
and has come to encompass far
more than the usual suspects
like Athanasius and Augustine,”
and that there are now scholars
working on a variety of subjects
that include gender theory, the
history of Christianity, Syriac
Christianity and the relationship
between Christianity and Islam.
This was Kim’s third time
participating in the conference,
and this year he presented a
paper entitled “Nicaea is Not
Enough: The Second Creed of
Epiphanius’ Ancoratus.”
“Much of my research and
scholarly productivity,” said Kim,
“centers on the life and writings of
Epiphanius, who was lead bishop
of the island of Cyprus in the late
fourth century.”
In addition to the presentations, Kim was thankful for the
conference because it gave him
the opportunity to connect with
colleagues and friends from all
over the world, especially those
not from North America. He
enjoyed many social gatherings
at local pubs and catching up
with friends from the United
Kingdom, continental Europe,
Asia and Australia.
Sociology professor Jonathan
Hill spent his time at Oxford
du r i ng a mont h-long pro gram titled “Bridging the Two
Cult ures of Science and t he
Humanities.” Hosted by t he
Council for Christian Colleges
and Universities, the program
included a series of seminars
given by scholars from a wide
range of disciplines exploring the
specific tension between religion
and science.
Hill’s project concerned “the
relationship of religious pluralism
to higher education institutions,
the religious faith and practice
of emerging adults, and the inf luence of social and religious
contexts on beliefs about human origins.” Working with the
research institute, Science and
Christianity in Oxford, Hill has
been given a stipend which will
go towards further research of the
sociology of religion through the
BioLogos Foundation.
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ET CETER A
SUDOKU
Beginning next week, we will include the answers to the previous
week’s puzzles in the et cetera section.
Campus Safety Report
A seminary student living in off-campus seminary housing (2900
block of Englewood Drive SE) reported their unlocked apartment was burglarized and several electronic items were stolen.
The seminary students was not home at the time of the burglary.
A report was made with the Grand Rapids Police Department.
Reported 9/7/2015
from the pages of
Tribute to Chopin
Katie Pruss (2008)
It Stole - Upon my Kite - Came Hope
And in abandoned - Wild
Sliced Sanity’s white slender Throat
With Innocence - Of Child
The Wind of Freedom - filled my Kite
But Failed - At Face - I knew
Alive - With Power - to Indict
This Force - I thought - Fate Slew
Campus safety officers responded to a report of a suspicious person in the Fieldhouse complex. The building ervices supervisor
contacted campus safety to report a possible suspect from recent
larcenies in the men’s pool locker room. Campus safety officers
were unable to locate the suspect.
Reported 9/8/2015
A student reported that they left their bike (a silver Diamondback) locked to the Bolt-Heyns-Timmer bike rack at the end
of the 2014-2015 school year. When they returned this fall
the bike was gone. It is not known exactly when the bike was
taken. The bike was registered with campus safety.
Reported 9/8/2015
The campus safety department responded to a report of people
on the roof of the Knollcrest dining hall. Officers located five
students on the roof upon their arrival. The students were instructed to get off the roof and were identified. The information
on the students was forwarded to judicial affairs for possible
disciplinary action,
Reported 4/29/2015
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Photo essay
Chaos Night
Photos by Anna Delph
September 18, 2015