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Arbeit macht frei On and on falls Snow, gentle, bright As marched I, man-child, into squalls That blackest night. Bloated bellows split Ears, the heat reminding Dread in our freeing work In that Forest ringing. The animals cried too, Gifts bringing no repose To the Name, Blooming of a rose. Nacht, as our flesh Kept silence, you took The place provided; push Us into your Book.

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Campus Fair Trade sale promotes justice

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producers of goods rather than e x plo it t h e m . S o me of t h e ways that Fair Trade products ensure that producers are receiving fair payment for the products include lessening the channels of distribu-

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CAMPUS & COMMUNITY NEWS

Tyler Slamkowski Elizabeth Steiner

Joseph Matheson David Ryou

NATIONAL & WORLD NEWS

Allison Schepers

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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A week af ter Black Friday on Dec. 1 and 2, students were invited to do a little Christmas shoppi ng at t he sevent h annual Fair Trade fair, Presents with Presence. W hile coffee is one of the products most often associated with Fair Trade, the label extends to other agric ult ure ba sed produc t s s uch a s ap parel and health products like cleansers. Sponsored by the social justice coalition, the fair hosted ten vendors including Global G i f t s, Ke nya n Je wel r y a nd Crafts, Otavalito and Peruvian Handknit Creations. On Thursday there was a constant stream of people coming through the fair and some were even skipping class to do so, said Heidi Mast, co-leader of the SJC a student organization that seeks to foster active response to social injustices and human rights issues. Fair Trade, a movement towards justice, transparency and environmental benefits, is an issue that the SJC continually raises awareness about on campus. In a society fixated on consumption, the Fair Trade label reminds people to think about whe r e t he i r p r odu c t s come from and who produced them. Fa i r Trade USA u rges consumers to consider questions l i ke W hat i f t he box of c ho col ate you g ive to you r w i fe cou ld help te ach ch i ldren in South A mer ica how to read? Fa i r Tra d e i s fo c u sed on transparency and a respectful relationship between producers and consumers. It helps to create markets in developing countries that benefit the

tected with the promise of safe working conditions. In order to use the Fair Trade label on products, companies must register with Fair Trade USA to ensure that fair trade practices are being upheld.

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The Fair Trade fair last week offered the Calvin community a chance to shop for Christmas gifts and promote fair practice. tion so that producers receive a la rger sha re of t he prof it. Furthermore, under the Fair Trade label, buyers sign a longter m commitment wit h producers, so that they can accurately invest in and produce goods based on t he amou nt of busi ness t hey receive. Moreover, laborers a re pro I think it is impor tant to recognize when products lack a Fa i r Tr a d e m a rk , t h i s i n no way i mpl ies t hat soc ia l, environmental, labor and developmental standards are neglected. There are high quality products that meet and exceed fair trade standards even though they are not Fair Trade

certified, said Jesica Saunders, Calvin senior and Rowster New American Coffee associate. Items marked as Fair Trade do not have to be 100 percent fair trade, only 25 percent. For some products, only cer tain ingredients are Fair Trade. For instance, if ice cream contains sugar that is Fair Trade, but the milk and eggs were domestic, the product is still considered Fair Trade. Products that use the Fair Trade Ingredients mark means that 10 percent of the ingredients must be Fair Trade certified. Another thing to consider about Fair Trade is that, while the producers maintain high environmental standards, not all of the products are organic. Transfair USA reported that 60 percent of Fair Trade coffee in America i s o r g a n ic . E nv i r o n me n t a l practices used in making Fair Trade goods include restricting the pesticides producers can use and incorporating practices such as minimizing water use for irrigation, according to Slate Magazine. Weve lost touch with the ability to consume justly, which I think is actually a really beautif ul and joyf ul oppor t unit y we have before us, said Emma DeVries, co-leader of SJC. Businesses hear when people advocate for change. In 2005, one of the two coffee lines in the dining hall was designated with Fair Trade coffee as a direct result of the efforts of SJC members, who convinced Calvin and Knollcrest dining about the importance of switching their coffee products. Furthermore, t he Fish Hou se on ly ser ves 100 percent Fair Trade coffee. SJC members raise awareness by showing videos at the Fish House and hosting events such as this fair.

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Kampus Safety Report

f r o m t he C him e s s t a f f i n a fox costume. Thursday, 12/1 - A f t e r r e c e i v i n g a no nymous calls repor ting fogged c a r w i ndows, k a mpu s sa fet y se a rched for a 19 91 te a l Sat ur n SL with suspicion of le wd beh av ior. T he veh ic le could not be located due to a rainstorm. - Kampus safety preformed a s t i n g o p e r a t io n o n t h r e e dorms in an attempt to break up the Adderall cartel that has risen to power over the past fou r ye a r s. T hou g h se ve ra l students were detained by the Grand Rapids police, others jumped out of t hei r secondand third-floor dorm room windows and fled into the forest. Saturday, 12/3 - A student called dispatch complaining of dizziness and speech impairment. Af ter extensive questioning, the student offered to undergo a drug test and tested positive for THC. Information on the st ude nt wa s t u r ned ove r to Calvins most righteous office of dub-dicial affairs. -Kampus safety responded to a sighting of a fox on campus near Commons A n nex. A student had tried to pet the fox, but it hid in the bushes. Upon arrival, kampus safety discovered it was a female st udent Sunday, 12/4 - M i d m o r n i n g S u n d a y. Ear t hwor m epidemic. Pat hs littered with shriveled corpses of the tube-like victims. Monday, 12/5 - A st udent was caught d r i n k i n g r ye w h i s k e y a n d smok i ng Luck y St r i kes i n the Kalsbeek residence hall. W he n q u e s t io ne d , t he s t ude nt refe re nced a n obsc u re TV show in defense of her actions. - Kampus safety incinerated a n eco -f r iend ly roof ga rden tended by the residents of the B e e t s -Ve e n s t r a R e s i d e n c e H a l l a f t e r K nol lc r e s t s t a f f complained about decreased cafeteria turnout. Tuesday, 12/6 - Physical plant staff, who had been repairing a section of f loor tiles in the Hiemenga Hall basement, placed an urge nt c a l l to k a mpu s sa fe t y. A f ter evaluating t he site, kampus safety off icers b r ou g ht i n me m b e r s of t he GEO de pa r t me nt who det e r m i ne d t h a t t he r e m a i n s belonged to a species of early hominid. Though the f ind was located directly below t he i r of f ice s, no me mbe r s of t he rel ig ion fac u lt y were consulted.

Senate Corner
Questions you MAY have, answers we DO have.
Every year students ask about some kind of online meal counter that would help them keep track on the number of meals left for the week. Why hasnt it happened?
The dining system is something Calvin purchases from an outside vendor, CBORD. CBORD does not have a Web interface to their database that would provide the kind of information necessary. This is not something that CIT could do because they dont have access to the underlying database.

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Why cant students buy tickets for Calvin events or select their seat online?
There is a on-line interface to the box office available at http://www.calvin.edu/boxoffice/tickets/. The challenge is that this system is not hosted at Calvin but by the vendor that supplies the software that runs the Box Office ticketing system. If you look at the site, youll notice three things: First, there is a service charge to buy tickets online, just like at a movie theater; second, the only price available online is the public price, not the discounted price for the Calvin community; and third, only bank-issued credit or debit cards can be used for payment, not the Calvin miscellaneous charge. The reason for the second and third items is that this website is hosted online and there is no connection to the Calvin ID system to validate that the purchaser is a Calvin student or to post the charge to student miscellaneous accounts. So, students can purchase tickets online if they wish, but theyll have to pay a higher price and a surcharge and wont be able to use their miscellaneous accounts for payment.

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Acton translates Kuyper

tion will raise awareness and engagement of Kuypers work in Staff Writer anticipation of next years release of Common Grace. Of this project, Fuller In recent years, awareness of Theological Seminar y presisocial injustice and the need for dent Richard Mouw said, The community engagement have appearance on this treatise in grown both within Christian English translation is for me the circles and in our culture at beginning of a larger dream come large. One thinks of the cortrue. Kuypers writings on comporate social responsibility mon grace are much needed for movement in the latter half of such a time as this. the 20th century, during which In November, Wisdom and corporations began to strive Wo n d e r w a s for closer ties with released in San their communities Francisco at an through programs annual meeting including scholarof the Evangelical sh ip f u nds, env iTheological ronmental impact Society, which is campaigns and nonNorth Americas profit collaboration. largest evangeliWit hin churches, cal scholarly somany congregants ciety and seeks to have felt a calling to spread biblicallylocal volunteer procentered theologigrams that address cal scholarship. both the material In conjunction and spiritual needs with this recent of their neighborrelease, Christian hoods. Liberty Press Despite these a nd t he Ac ton largely positive deInstitute are hostvelopments, some ing a launch event have observed that for Wisdom Christian commuand Wonder on n it y e n g a ge me nt Sat u rd ay, Dec. effor ts have tried 10 , a t C a l v i n to prog ress wit hTheological out first developing S e m i n a r y. D r. a biblically-based Vincent Bacote of philosophical guide Wheaton College, to ac t ion. To adwho w rote t he dress this discrepbooks introducancy, Grand Rapids FILE PHOTO tion, will open Acton Institute has the event with a p a r t n e r e d w i t h Grand Rapids Acton Institute has partnered with Kuyper College to Kuyper College to translate Abraham Kuypers writings. brief presentation on Kuyper. The translate Abraham books t ra nslaKuypers writings on common grace from the Wisdom and Wonder: Common tor, Nelson D. K loosterman, Grace in Art and Science, a a n d t h e s e m i n a r y s D r . Dutch. As Actons program direc- series of chapters Kuyper in- Mike Wittmer will then join tor Dr. Stephen J. Grabill ob- tended for his larger three-vol- Bacote for a panel discussion served, Kuypers inf luence ume work Common Grace. The of the book. Afterwards, attenon evangelicalism has been partnership is also translating dants will have opportunities to significant and this work on all 1,700 pages of Common chat with the panel participants common grace is critically im- G race, t he f i r st volu me of and purchase discounted copportant to ongoing evangelical which is due to be released in the ies of Wisdom and Wonder. fall of 2012. Anyone in the Calvin or largengagement of culture. In Wisdom and Wonder, er Grand Rapids communities As a seminal figure of modern Protestant thought, Kuyper Kuyper meditates on the relation- who shares an interest in either (1837-1920) remained active in ship between Gods redeeming Christian social engagement or the spiritual and public life of creational agenda, culture and Kuypers thought is encouraged the Netherlands throughout a Christian calling. Its publica- to attend.
BY RYAN DEVRIES

his lifetime. Kuyper wrote extensively on Christian theology with an emphasis on common grace, in hopes of developing a theology for the general public. He also founded the Free University of Amsterdam in 1880. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Kuyper also remained active in Dutch politics, serving as the Netherlands prime minister from 1901 to 1905. To date, the translation project has produced the recently-released

Choirs worship with LaGrave

Choir and Chorales joint performance moves audience
BY GRACE RUITER

Staff Writer

T han k sgiving has come and gone, and the Christmas season has officially arrived. Traditions, f rom decorating the tree to lighting the Advent candles, abound. For many, at te nd i ng C a lv i ns L esson s and Carols service, which took place at L aG rave C RC la st S u n d a y, h a s b e c o m e o n e such tradition. The ser vice, a joint effor t bet wee n t he Ca mpus C hoi r and Womens Chorale, differs f rom t ypical choir concer ts. It is a unique and important oppor t u n it y for Ca lv i n st udents to join with the greater com mu n it y i n wor sh ip to mark the beginning of the Advent season. Dr. Pearl Shangkuan, director of the Womens Chorale, said of the experience, We are blessed to participate in this ser v ice t hat, for many i n t h e c o m m u n i t y, s e t s t h e t o n e f o r t h e i r A d ve n t a n d Christmas celebration. The sacred tone of this service often has a powerful emotional impact, but many repeat

at tendees and choristers felt this years ser vice was especially meaningf ul. Audience members were visibly moved, some of them even tearing up. Wome ns C hor a le me m b e r, Liz Hoeksema observed. My dad cried. He didnt cry at my wedding. The powerful emotional response may be at t r ibuted to this years thematic return to the original Christmas story. Third year Womens Chorale member, Abby Zwart, felt that the services focus on the original Christmas story as told by the four gospels serves as a reminder of t he t r ue meaning of Christmas. The ser vice was moving, e s p ec i a l ly for t he si n ge r s, said Tyler Slamkowski, a sophomore in Campus Choir. The experience is unforgettable. The music choice this year, wh ich set a more i ntense, passionate, and even dark tone, in contrast to the more cla ssica l ly hy m n-l i ke selections of the past few years, also made this year a standout for s ome. At s e ve r a l p oi nt s i n the ser vice, such as the ending of the song, Magnificat,

there was a palpable sense of awe at Gods majesty. When everyone joined together to sing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! and Joy to the World the true Christmas spirit was definitely in the air as well. Some attendees have been e njoy i n g t h a t C h r i s t m a s s pi r it at t he L esson s a nd C a rol s se r v ice for a long time. One woman remarked a f te r t he s e r v ice t h at attending Lessons and Carols has been one of her favorite Ch r istmas t radition for over 30 years, but there is also a new generation just discovering this tradition. One of t he most poig nant moments in the service came when a little boy, inspired by the music, walked up the aisle during a song and began to conduct. Lessons and Carols has been a wonder f ul way for Calvin to bless the community, and celebrate the beginning of t he Adve nt se a son for many years, and it appears that with the support of people like that little boy, it will continue to be a special tradition in the future.

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE UPDATE

The presidential search committee met multiple times last week. We are in the process of narrowing our pool of candidates, and in that process are continually encouraged by both the strength of our pool and the unity of the committee. We covet your prayers for endurance, wisdom and peace for committee members in this busy time. We also ask your prayers for the candidates, that they would be able to discern Gods call on their lives with clarity, peace and joy. We would also like to thank the Chimes sta for their excellent letter in last weeks paper. Please rest assured that we have taken those recommendations seriously. We are condent that the next leader of Calvin will represent the hopes of the colleges constituencies. All your input has been extraordinarily valuable in shaping this process. We thank you for your faithfulness in prayer and your support for the presidential search. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Kelly Larsen, student representative kal22@students.calvin.edu

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Everybody, all at once, say BOOB. - Professor Ward, English

This place has created more impotent men than any other college in human history. -Professor Schultze, CAS

Subsound its like the eHarmony of elephant life. - Professor Harper, physics

Thats what a bard is, a man who has the intelectual breeze blowing through his beard. - Professor Engbers, English

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As we searched the archives for an interesting tidbit this week, we came across a page from September 1972 with a hole. Someone had taken a scissors and physically cut out a section of the page. In its place was a note reading, Believe it or not, I am all for freedom of speech, etc. but do you really feel that a poem on sex (not described as the pleasurable experience God made it to be) and another on expletives is a worthwhile acknowledgement of our relationship to God? I realize that people swear and think about sex but you, as editor, must also think if these subjects are relevant and appropriate to the Calvin community ... Are these really the messages we want to send to people? ... The college wishes students to grow in their knowledge of various subjects but they wish for students to do this while grounded in the Lord. I hope that you can see how inappropriate those poems are in the light of the message they are sending to people. Looks like someone decided to bowdlerize the Chimes archives.

5 SCI ENCE & TE C H N O L O G Y Scientists ght bacterial resistance Bone marrow for sale?
Compensation will save the lives of patients, improve the lives of donors, drive down the costs of treatment and improve the quality of life of cancer patients as they battle to survive. -Kumud Majumder, Bone marrow
BY JON HIELKEMA

Staff Writer

Alarmed health officials and medical professionals have spread the word about bacterial infections becoming more resistant to traditional antibiotics. From their discovery early last century to the present, these drugs have saved countless lives from death through infectious diseases like tuberculosis and typhoid fever. Yet recent reports from the Center for Disease Control demonstrate why resistance is becoming a major problem. Over $1.1 billion is spent per year on unnecessar y antibiotic treatment regimens. Use of antibiotics in farm animals costs even more and has also contributed to the development of these new strains. The result is wor r ying: E. coli infections are now seven times less susceptible to antibiotic drugs. With traditional agents, including former drugs of last resort, increasingly unable to cope with evolving strains, scientists have been searching for alternative methods of treatment. Some of them are designed as replacements for traditional treatments. One of those techniques is called phage therapy. This entails the use of bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria, to kill off infections. Long used in parts of the Soviet

Union, phage therapy has some support in clinical trials. This includes one study of 518 people with staphylococcus infections. Through the administration of phage therapy, a 75 to 100 percent cure rate was achieved. However, this and many other studies in phage therapy lacked proper control tests, and there are significant questions of efficacy and safety. According to the American Society for Microbiology, the main advantages of this therapy are the ability to specifically target harmful as opposed to helpful bacteria, that it does not create viral infections and is thus safe, and the vir uses can be, with modern genomics, modified to keep pace with evolving bacterial populations. Me a nwh i le, t he D e fe n s e Advanced Research Projects Agency has been funding the development of another alternative technique. The new antibiotic agents are RNA or DNA strands on gold nanoparticles. They are arranged in a sphere, which allows them to enter cells in this case bacteria and flip genetic switches on and off. Trials in animals have shown that they are highly effective at turning off a bacterial cells resistance to other antibiotics, and they could also be used to turn off the replication abilities of the cell, leading to the direct destruction of the infection. The advantages of this approach are many. For one, although bacteria will develop

resistances, the genetic nature of the therapy allows scientists to tailor their properties to suit evolved strains. I n t e r e s t i n g l y, t h e t r e a tme nt cou ld have a n i mpac t beyond anti-bacterial treatment. Scientists at DARPA are now considering this approach to t r e a t c a n c e r c e l l s a s we l l . Nanotechnologist Chad Mi rk in had t his to say i n a n i nte r v ie w w it h N PR : [Its] a concept of switching off genes or down-regulating genes so that you could adjust protein le ve l s a nd t a k e e f fe c t i ve ly a disease or make it healthy, or, in the case of a cancer, selectively cause it to die. He then notes that conventional treatments for cancer and bacteria are associated with allergic reactions and toxic side effects. These nanoparticles, on the other hand go everywhere, but they cause no toxic side effects, so they accumulate in a lot of cells and you can selectively go after those cells based upon the genetic differences in those cells causing them to selectively die. The arms race between resistant bacteria and antibiotic drugs and new alternatives is becoming a matter of increasing urgency. With these new safe, though yet unproven techniques, there is hope that humans will be able to continue fighting bacterial infections that, in 2005, killed 19,000 people who were given traditional antibiotics.

Compensation for marrow could increase the number of donors and save thousands of lives annually.
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A father who believes a lack of bone marrow donors contributed to his sons death from leukemia says a federal court ruling allowing most bone marrow donors to be paid will save lives and drive down treatment costs. The appeals cour t r uled T hu r sd ay t hat most bone marrow donors can be paid, overturning the governments interpretation of a decades-old law making such compensation a crime punishable by up to five years in prison. In its ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a technological breakthrough makes donating bone marrow a process nearly identical to giving blood plasma. Its legal and common to pay pla sma donor s. Therefore, the court ruled, bone marrow donors undergoing the new procedure can be paid as well and are exempt from a law making it a felony to sell human organs for transplants. The ruling comes after a lawsuit was filed by lawyers at the nonprofit Institute for Justice. The group represents a coalition of patients, doctors a nd MoreMa r rowDonors. org, which is seeking to offer donors $3,000 in the form of a scholarship, housing allowance or gift to charity. A plaintiff in the lawsuit, Kumud Majumder, said his 11-year-old son, Arya, died of leukemia last April. The family had resorted to an imperfect bone marrow donor match in desperation because no perfect match was available, the father said at a news conference outside the circuit courts Pasadena chambers Aryas tragedy happened in part because of a lack of bone marrow donors, Majumder said. In the end, creating more and better bone marrow donor matches through a system of modest compensation will save the lives of patients, improve the lives of donors, drive down the costs of treatment and improve the quality of life of cancer patients as they battle to survive. The unanimous, three-judge panel of the court did say it remains a felony to compensate donors for undergoing an older transplant method, which extracts the marrow from the donors bones. But the court said the new technology isnt covered by the law because actual bone marrow isnt taken from the donor. Instead, specialized cells that grow into marrow are taken from a donors bloodstream, and its basically a blood donation, not an organ transplant, the court said. It noted that two-thirds of bone marrow transplants employ the newer process. Tens of thousands of people with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases are saved each year by such procedures. An estimated three thousand others die waiting for donations, which unlike simple blood donations need to be genetically compatible. The decision wont become official for at least 30 days while the U.S. Department of Justice ponders what to do

next. The DOJ can ask the appeals court to reconsider the decision or petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take it. D OJ s p ok e s m a n C h a r le s Miller said the department is reviewing its options. Advocates for paying donors said compensation will spur even more donations. Detractors argue that donor compensation will exploit the poor to undergo risky medical procedures to benefit the wealthy. The National Marrow Donor Program, the nonprofit that provides transplants from volunteers, opposes payments. We were surprised and puzzled by the appellate cour ts decision regarding allowing compensation, said Michael Boo, the programs chief strategy officer. The National Marrow Donor Program is studying the decision and assessing the impact. We do not anticipate the ruling will change the NMDPs current policies and practices. The ruling overturns a lower court decision barring compensation for all bone marrow donations. At the heart of the courts ruling, which is sure to ignite renewed debate over paying medical donors, are two processes for transplanting bone marrow into patients suffering from diseases of the blood. The f irst and older one is known as aspiration and requires the donor to endure painful and risky procedures that require hospitalization and anesthesia. Long, thick needles are inserted into the cavities of the donors hip bones to suck out the bone marrow. The court said that process was still covered by the National Organ Transplant Act, which explicitly prohibits paying donors for their bone marrow. The point of the ban on selling organs is to protect people from ignoring the medical risk for money, said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist with the University of Pennsylvania. Caplan said the ruling Thursday may unintentionally support campaigns to pay donors in other medical fields such as compensating women for their eggs. The newer procedure, which the court ruled exempt from the act, was developed about 20 years ago and involves harvesting cells from the bloodstream rather than in bone. Called apheresis, the procedure requires the donor to undergo five days of drug injections to stimulate production of specialized blood cells. Then the donor sits in a recliner for several hours while the blood is filtered through a machine that extracts the specialized cells. Congress could not have had an intent to address the apheresis method when it passed the statute, because the method did not exist at that time, Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote for the court. We construe bone marrow to mean the soft, fatty substance in bone cavities, as opposed to blood, which means the red liquid that flows through the blood vessels. Kleinfeld said it may be time to apply a new label to the process. It may be that bone marrow transplant is an anachronism that will soon fade away, as peripheral blood stem cell apheresis replaces aspiration as the transplant technique, much as dial the phone is fading away now that telephones do not have dials, Kleinfeld wrote.

Bill would allow indefinite detainment DC clash oddly peaceful US citizens could be held without trial or a lawyer
BY RACHEL HEKMAN BY JOSEPH MATHESON

N AT I O N A L A N D WO R L D N E W S
tion, but leaves it to the courts to decide. While the strength of the bills provision for detainment is unclear, the bill would still likely provide the option for the military to detain terrorist suspects, even including American citizens on American soil, without bail or access to a lawyer. Proponents of the bill have supported such a measure in order to avoid situations such as the one that occurred with the underwear bomber, when the suspect who nearly blew up a plane f lying from London to Detroit was able to call for a lawyer and avoid interrogation.

To be honest, I didnt expect there to be any violations.

-Yegor Duda, Russian election p. 7

Nat-World Co-Editor

T he Se n ate pa ssed a ve rsion of the National Defense Authorization Act on Dec. 1 by a 93-7 vote. One provision of the bill, which would allow the military to detain terrorist suspects, including American citizens, indefinitely, has been widely criticized and Obama has threatened to veto the legislation. The bill is sweeping legislation that is enacted each year, detailing the budget of the Department of Defense. This year, it includes $662 billion worth of funding t o s u c h pl a c e s a s the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, weap- You can ons systems and military personnel. It also includes an amendment that would add harsh sanctions to the Central Bank of Tehran. The controversial part of the legislation is a few parts that authorize military forces to detain terrorist suspects indefinitely without access to a lawyer or a trial. In fact, Section 1032 would actually require military custody for any terrorist suspect, although American citizens are exempt from this requirement. The executive branch also would still have the option of moving suspects into civilian custody after they entered military custody. An amendment to the bill included a provision which formed a compromise. Senator Dianne Feinstein, author of the amendment, said that it does not endorse either sides interpreta-

get killed in the process. You detained indefinitely.

In an interview with NPR, Senator Lindsey Graham said: Im just saying to any American citizen: if you want to help alQaeda, you do so at your own peril. You can get killed in the process. You can get detained indefinitely. And when youre being questioned and you say to the interrogator, I want my lawyer, the interrogator will say, you dont have a right to a lawyer because youre a military threat. Civil rights groups have fiercely opposed the legislation. The bill is a historic threat to American citizens and others, because it expands and makes permanent the authority of the president to order the military to imprison without charge or trial American citizens, argued Christopher

A nders, sen ior legislat ive counsel for the ACLU. The Obama administration opposed the measure for slightly different reasons. By ignoring these non-partisan recommendations, including the recommendations of the secretary of defense, the director of the FBI, the director of national intelligence and the attorney general, the Senate has engaged in political micromanagement at the expense of sensible national security policy, said National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor, referring to advice from counterterrorism experts from both Republican and Democratic adminiscan get trations that suggest that the policy would actually restrict the presidents ability to detain and transfer terrorist suspects. Critics of the provision have argued that not only is it possibly unconstitutional, but that it is simply impractical, and that civilian criminal prosecution has proven more effective for handling terrorist suspects on American soil than military custody. President Obama has threatened to veto the provision, but the bill passed with such a large majority in the Democratcontrolled Senate that it is possible that the veto could be overturned by a two-thirds majority vote. Currently, a committee is working to resolve the Senate version of the NDAA with a House version already passed.

stand down, and police moved in around noon Sunday afternoon, Staff Writer beginning a standoff that lasted nine hours as protestors climbed Unlike most of the Occupy the framework and refused to get movements sweeping the country, down. Though several protestors Occupy Washington, D.C. has got down voluntarily, a few had had a largely cordial relationship to be removed from the roof by with police. Occupiers in the police using a cherry picker. The capitals McPherson Park have last man to be removed reportbeen present in several other edly took down his pants and uricity parks since October with nated on the police officers that almost no interaction with po- arrested him. lice in contrast with the more By 9:30 p.m., the structure agitated branches of the move- had been dismantled and hauled ment, Occupy Wall Street and away, causing no damage to any Occupy Seattle. other Occupy property. It comes as rather a surprise, Altogether, about 20 people then, that the D.C. protestors were arrested with little incident, had their first serious clash with and police removed an American flag removed from the structure. Despite the arr e s t s, howe ve r, relations between the protesters and police remain amiable. Other Occupy moveme nt s a nd police forces could t a ke t he i r c u e s from Washington, D.C., whose proFILE PHOTO testors and police The building erected by Occupy protesters. have made it an unspoken rule to police this weekend. compromise as much as possible T he sit uat ion a rose when to avoid dangerous incidents like residents of the Occupy tent vil- those in other cities. lage in McPherson Park started If the capitals police have building a two-story structure been satisfied about lawmakto hold meetings in. A safety ers safety despite the unstable inspector declared the construct potential of mass movements, unsafe; local police issued several Occ upy D.C. must be doing warnings to take down the con- something right. struct, as the movement did not At any rate, the protestors have a permit to build on public arent planning on going anyland, and eventually set a one- where. As police made their last hour deadline. arrest, other demonstrators began D.C. protestors ref used to decorating a large Christmas tree.

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A series of allegations of sexual harassment and extramarital affairs led up to the decision
BY CONNOR STERCHI

Staff Writer

O n S a t u r d a y, D e c . 3 , Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain suspended his campaign amid allegations of an extramarital affair. Cain had been a frontrunner of the GOP f ield a nd of te n touted his various business exper iences, such as being CEO of G o d f a t he r s Pizza, a radio host and the chairman o f t h e Fe d e r a l Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo. As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul-searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign, Cain said at Saturdays rally in Atlanta. Because of the continued distractions, the cont i nued hu r t caused on me and my fa m i ly, not because we a re FILE PHOTO not fighters, not because Im not Gingrich is surging in the polls following a fighter. Cains departure from the race. The Cain campaign remained relatively steady affair. Alongside his wife Gloria in the polls following a string of at a rally in Atlanta, Cain said sexual harassment allegations by the sexual harassment and the four women. But Cain started 13-year affair allegations were unto drop significantly in the polls true. Im at peace with my God, when accusations of a prolonged he said. Im at peace with my

affair surfaced. On Monday, Nov. 28, a fifth woman named Ginger White stepped forward, alleging that she had been involved in a 13 year extramarital affair with Cain. Cain acknowledged that he knew the woman and was friends with her, but denied having an

wife, and she is at peace with me. two-thirds [of those polled] say in the race, said Bachmann. After suspending his candidacy, they are still persuadable voters, They saw Herman Cain as an Cain said that he would endorse which tells me its going to be a outsider, and they see my voice one of the Republican candidates. wild ride for the next four weeks, will be the most reflective of his. Paul on the other hand, is A Des Moines Register poll said Matt Strawn, chairman of released on Dec. 3 showed Cains the Iowa Republican Party. It confident that Cains Tea Party numbers were waning and that still doesnt seem that Iowa cau- supporters will come to his side. The Tea Party was started dursupport was trending toward cus voters are locked in. ing the last campaign Gingrich. In an October four years ago with our poll, Cain was in the lead campaign, he said. of the GOP pack with The collapse of the 23 percent, but in the reC a i n c a mpa ig n h a s cent poll he dropped to 8 caused Gingrich, forpercent. The allegations me r s p e a ke r of t he of an affair came on the house, to surge in the second day of polling by polls. Romney has rethe Des Moines Register. sponded with sharper Cains support went from criticism of some of 12 percent down to 4 perGingrichs positions on cent during the four days illegal immigration and of polling. child labor. I certainly T he suspension of dont agree with that, Ca i ns ca mpa ig n may said Romney regarding bode well for some of the Gingrichs proposal to other candidates, partichelp children in povularly Newt Gingrich, er t y by giving t hem Michele Bachmann jobs to mop f loors in and R ick Santor um. their schools. Clearing that distraction Gingrich has parried out of the race might be Romneys attacks by good for Santorum. That espousing his consergoes for Bachmann, too, vatism. I dont claim said Craig Robinson, forto be the perfect candimer director of the Iowa G OP, who now heads FILE PHOTO date, I just claim to be a lot more conservative t h e p ol i t i c a l we b s i t e Cain suspended his campaign due to the TheIowaRepublican.com. continued distractions and hurt to his family. than Mit t Romney, said Gingrich on WSC Thats the one thing they M i t t R o m n e y, M i c h e l e Radio in South Carolina. We have to be banking on and that is [that] their support is greater Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman think there has to be a solid than what they are seeing in Cain, and Newt Gingrich have all conservative alternative to Mitt been frontrunners. Romney Im the one candithese polls. The other candidates, par- date who can bring together Although recent poll numbers have been favoring Gingrich, the ticularly Tea Party-supported national-security conservatives f luidity of voters opinions in Bachmann and Ron Paul, have and economic conser vatives this early stage of the race must attempted to court Cains con- a nd soc ia l con se r vat ives i n be considered. The first thing servative supporters. People see order to make sure we have a that jumped out at me is that that Im the Tea Party candidate conservative nominee.

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Syrian conflict. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem wrote a letter to Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi on Monday, declaring that in exchange for allowing the proposed mix of military and civilian observers into the country, the regime would consider all the Leagues resolutions on Syria void, according to the state-run SANA news service. In response, el-A rabi told CNN, The Syrians acceptance of the protocol does not mean that we will suspend the sanctions. The Arab League imposed the sanctions after Syria failed to end the regimes crackdown on protestors by Nov. 25, a deadline the League set. Syria has violated a number of similar Arab League deadlines in recent months. The Leagues sanctions include a ban on dealing with the Syrian central bank, a freeze on government assets and a travel ban on 19 Syrian officials. T he Un ited St ates, t he European Union and Turkey have also imposed sanctions of their own. Together, these measures are predicted to significantly harm Syrias economy and weaken the regimes authority. Last weekend, the Arab League planned further sanctions, anticipating that Syria would not meet its most recent deadline of Sunday, Dec. 4. These measures include banning all weapon shipments into Syria, reducing flights in and out of the country by half and freezing the assets of even more regime officials. In addition to allowing Arab League observers, the League also calls for Syria to cease government attacks on protesters, release political prisoners and allow journalists, rights groups, and other observers entrance into the country. that the eurozone must impose sweeping changes to the way they deal with finances. We want structural changes that go beyond agreements, she said. Sarkosy and Merkel are taking a fairly large risk in introducing a new treaty. There is always a risk that the 17 countries that are part of the eurozone will become further divided from the 27 countries that make up the European

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League rejects Syrian conditions

by JoSh delacy

Sarkozy and Merkel discuss crisis plans

by lauren de haan

Staff Writer

Syrias ruling regime agreed on Monday to allow Arab League observers into the country, but only if the Arab League removes its sanctions on Syria and adopts several amendments the League had previously rejected. The Arab League refused the terms. This latest exchange is yet another piece in the failing negotiations regarding the Syrian conflict, conducted between the Arab League and Syrian President Bashar al-Assads regime. The Arab League is attempting to mediate the conflict, which is in its ninth month of bloodshed. The countrys government has suppressed Arab Spring-inspired protests calling for reform, claiming over 4,000 lives and detaining over 14,000 people in the process. However, Syria foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makissi told reporters that Syria is indeed committed to those reforms. Diplomacy is an art, he said. We delivered our best, and we believe that such an offer cannot be rejected. We are so keen on solving everything within the Arab framework, but again, we need to be realistic about the true intentions out there. He cited the regimes recent decisions to release some prisoners and withdraw some troops as evidence of this commitment. However, the regime shows little sign of actually alleviating its crackdown. Government security forces killed 12 people on Monday, and the military performed large-scale exercises last weekend that, according to the Washington Post, were intended to warn the international community against interfering in the

compromises. Merkel wanted all oversight of national budStaff Writer gets to be done in Brussels and the European Court of Justice French Pr ime Minister to have the power to veto budNichola s Sa rkoz y me t w it h gets and send them back to Ger ma n Cha ncel lor A ngela national parliaments to review. Merkel on Monday in Paris to Sarkozy did not want to give discuss a plan to increase budget any commit tee t hat much discipline within the European power over an elected parliaUnion. ment. They agreed that the The two major leaders in the court would have a lesser role eurozone will introin dealing with naduce this new pact to tional governments the other members of finances. the European Union The European during a summit in court wont be able Brussels on Thursday to check every budand Friday. The plan get, but rather rule calls for amendments on whether the debt to the treaties that brake anchored in govern the European n at ion a l law h a s Union. been implemented in Europe has recently such a way that it adbeen struggling with heres to the Stability a series of countries and Growth Pact, facing bank r uptcy. Merkel said. This new plan seeks Me r ke l i s a l s o to stabilize the Euro File photo back ing dow n on by enforcing stricter Merkel and Sarkozy met Tuesday to lay out plans. her call for more prilaws regarding indivate sector involvevidual countries finances as well Union. Part of the new changes ment, something that France as providing automatic sanctions would subordinate all economies is strongly against. against countries who violate to technocrats in Brussels. This One thing that the two counfirmer rules on deficits. It also is a change that many countries tries automatically agreed on makes Europe into a more in- who are not part of the eurozone was their rejection of euro tegrated political and economic will not likely warmly embrace. bonds. These bonds would confederation, making it easier T he hope i n Sa rkoz y a nd make the debts of some counfor EU regulators to challenge Merkel coming together is that tries such as Greece into a colbudget policies of other member they will be able to persuade the lective debt between all counnations. European Central Bank to sup- tries in the eurozone. Sarkozy We want to make sure that the port their plan and encourage firmly rejected the idea saying imbalances that led to the situa- other countries to raise money on it is not at all a solution in tion in the eurozone today cannot bond markets while still protect- this crisis. He stated that happen again, therefore we want ing weaker economies like Greece France and Germany would a new treaty, to make clear to the and Italy. This package shows not even consider taking on peoples of Europe that things can- that we are absolutely determined other countries debts without not continue as they are, Sarkozy to keep the euro as a stable cur- having control over the money. told a joint news conference. rency and as an important conThe crisis requires an extra The two heads of state met on tributor to European stability, commitment towards unity Monday with a warm embrace said Merkel. and a Europe that will not redespite an often touchy relationAn agreement between the two peat the mistakes of the past, ship. Chancellor Merkel stated countries did not come without its said Sarkozy.

Russian election brought under public scrutiny as fraud is revealed

lots processed, election officials said that United Russia had won Staff Writer 238 seats in Parliament, or about 53 percent, from 315 seats or 70 On Monday, observers conpercent now. The Communist firmed that the results of Russias Party won 92 seats; Just Russia, parliamentary eleca social democratic tions were tarnished party, won 64 seats by fraudulent ballot a nd t he n at io n a l stuffing and a lack of Liberal Democratic transparency. With Party won 56 seats. his handheld camIn her comments era, Yegor Duda, a on the Russian 33-year-old volunteer election, Secretary ele c t io n ob s e r ve r, of State Hi l lar y caught a man sitting Ro d h a m C l i nto n at a desk f u r t ively conde m ned wh at checking off ballots. she c a l led t rouM r. D u d as v id e o bling practices bewas only one of the fore and during the many videos that have vote in Russia. The been released since Russian people, like Sundays elections, people everywhere, and after being updeserve the right to loaded on YouTube, have t hei r voices it spread with fervor heard and their votes ac ross t he n at ion. counted. Another video demAg reeably, t his onstrated the ink in tension has lef t pens supplied in votan uneasy feeling ing booths at one pollin the air for all of ing place on Sunday the political leaders was easily erasable; in Russia. Voters, yet another showed main ly the new packets of ballots apm idd le cla ss a nd parently just removed city dwellers, have from the ballot box, sent a loud, though stacked neatly, one a mbig uou s, me s on top of the other, an sage. Demandi ng indication that they change without were inserted togethovertly endorsing a er, not individually, specific direction, File photo all reading, United A member of Russias Communist party openly declares his disapproval of the election results, along with a big crowd. many are leaning Russia. These viral towards the ever-favideos are a relatively new meth- is happening. gathered around Chistye Prudy served blatant fraud. While the miliar and always well-organized od of combating the fight against Mr. Duda is one of a growing Boulevard before police dispersed monitors declined to any defi- Communists. corruption against the lack of group of freelance election ob- them shouting, Russia without nite conclusions, their report This new political stratum transparency in Russian elec- servers in Russia, who, with the Putin! and Putin is a thief. clearly eluded that the vote steal- wa nt s ch a nge, s a id Se rge i tions, and are exposing Russia help of hand-held cameras and Valentin Gorbunov, the head ing might have spared Prime Markov, a Duma deputy and more than ever. smartphones, have been relatively of the Moscow City Elections Minister Vladimir V. Putins United Russia member, but To be honest, I didnt expect successful at revealing falsified Commission announced that United Russia party from an they didnt decide what kind there to be any violations. I hoped voting practices. Russian investigators had opened even larger loss than it officially t h e y w a n t . T h e y h a v e n o there wouldnt be, Mr. Duda, Several days after the clip was a case into ballot tampering by received. With 99.9 percent of bal- political champions.
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a new election observer, said in a brief telephone interview. I now understand better what goes on there. And as long as I think it will be useful, I will continue to tell people about what

released, a major demonstration of as many as 5,000 people occurred in central Moscow. Several hundred were arrested, including two major opposition leaders. The youthful protestors

the head at Polling Place No. 2501, where the episode occurred, Russian news agencies reported. Election monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also ob-

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I am really pleased with how the series came together this year. The fact that by January we will be heavy into the election year was definitely on my mind as we pulled together the list of presenters. We knew we wanted one person who could talk about what will be happening in the news in January having to do with politics and the presidential election. David Gergen was chosen because of his extensive experience serving under both political parties for four presidents and his continued work as a television analyst. He will be able to give us bipartisan insights into the Obama administration and the divided Congress, and latest in election news. We added Michael Gerson to the schedule to take a different approach with his topic Religion and Politics in a New Era. Taking into account, how does civility play into politics during this election year? The rest of the series is very eclectic, touching on all kinds of topics that are worth discussing. Sherry Turkle will talk about how technology affects us as humans. As a professor at MIT, she is a cheerleading for all kinds of new technology, but as a licensed psychologist she asks important questions about what technology does to us living in an always on, always connected digital culture. Turkle was one speaker that we have been trying to get for years, in fact she was on the list

of possible speakers when June Hamersma was running the series. She was the person to have speak 15 years ago when the internet was brand new and she is still the person to get. Im thrilled we finally have her on our list. John Varineaus addition to our lineup came out of a discussion with the Grand Rapids Symphony to partner in January with a speaker that would complement their Jan. 6 and 7 concert, Cinematic Shostakovich. The concert will include the film The Battleship Potemkin, which is one of the greatest propaganda films ever made. Our desire was to have a speaker talk about how music can be used to inspire for good and for bad. An example of this is how music is used to sell products and ideas. We realized that Varineau was actually the perfect fit for this presentation and since we always have one Calvin College faculty person on our lineup he was able to fill this role as well. Calvin partners with the Grand Rapids Symphony in many ways, and we are pleased to do so again with Varineaus presentation. And anyone who knows him knows that he will easily captivate our audience for his given hour. Pedro Noguera will talk about the important issue of education, in particular the ways schools are influenced by social and economic conditions. Joel Salatin will share his thoughts on small farms, local food systems and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm. His latest book Folks,

This Aint Normal discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. We always choose a topic that teaches us about a part of the world many of us are not familiar with. This year, Edith Mirante will introduce us to what is happening in Burma, a country that has been in and out of the news over the years, especially when Aung San Suu Kyi was released from years of house arrest, and yet so many of us dont understand this countrys story. Ralph Edmond will give us firsthand insights into what is happening in Haiti and how he is determined to make a difference in his country through business opportunities and mentoring. Did you know that free aid can act ually hur t Haitis economy? Reza Aslan will give us insight into the Arab Spring and the new generation of youth that are standing up for their rights and freedoms. What does this mean for the future of democracy in the Middle East and what will be the economic and political effect on the rest of the world? Eric Metaxas will talk about his New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, the story of a true hero that is full of life lessons for the 21st century. He has led an eclectic career writing for Veggie Tales, Chuck Colsons Breakpoint and The New York Times and authoring two major biographies and numerous

childrens books. He is sure to entertain. Deborah Lew is a Broadway actress and Calvin graduate who will share her stories and music from her life on the stage. She played Belle in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. Jennifer Pharr Davis just set the world record in August for the fastest thru-hike with support on the Appalachian Trail by completing the 2,181 miles in 46 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes. Amongst a lineup of heavier topics she will be able to inspire us to live healthy lives and enjoy the beauty of creation, which will be a refreshing break in the series. Gabe Lyons is the author of The Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America, an important book in the conversation about the role of the church and Christians in society, and it gives insight into the hopes and aspirations of the next generation of Christian leaders. N.T. Wright returns for the fourth time to close our series on Jan. 24. He will stay to participate in the Symposium on Worship that will take place on Calvins campus the rest of that week. Wright is an all-time favorite of the January Series over our years and has received the most hits on our website for people tuning in to recordings of our past presentations. He is certainly the superstar of the series if there is one, although I think every speaker on the series is a superstar. Hes the perfect person to help us wrap up the celebration of 25 years of the January Series.

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in words and phrases, while she thinks in pictures. Another memorable presentation was the Ensemble Galilei with NPRs Neal Conan and Lily Knight. The collection of string instruments and flutes, combined with black and white photographs of early American natives, settlers and soldiers provided a fitting backdrop to the poetry and prose of some of Americas greatest writers. Heres the thing about the January Series: It makes you feel smart. While going to a lecture during your lunch break doesnt jump off the page as a super exciting thing to do, you are bound to learn something from any presentation you attend. Its really a condensed version of Calvins liberal arts standard. Spend an hour in the CFAC every day and youll suddenly have a little bit of knowledge about a whole lot of things.

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interesting subjects like fried chicken, mashed potatoes and Staff writer Los Angeles. Just look at their album cover, which manages to evoke Rushs Moving Pictures The Grammy nominations and demonstrates the fact that were just announced. While I, they have a drummer. Nothing like so many Kanye fans, chafe could be more original. at the exclusion of My Beautiful Best Obscenely Expensive Dark Twisted Fantasy from the Reissue Album: SMiLE Album of the Year nomination Sessions list, I recognize that award shows Nirvana, U2, Pink Floyd, and are basically self-congratulatory The Smashing Pumpkins were all costume pageants for industry immortalized with fan-exploiting pros. reissues and box sets this year. This list, however, is deadly Kudos to them and their reserious. In honor of the impendcord companies. However, this ing holiday season, with the reissue of an album that never sombre celebration of the winter officially came solstice and o u t i s v a s t ly the advent of better than t he c o m i n g Nevermind year of apoco r A c h t u n g a ly pse, huBaby in this manity needs reviewers to define mind. Brian its g reatest Wi lson stood works of art. at the brink of Sadly, while rock and rolls the Grammys transformation w i l l i nd e e d f rom bluesy cove r much yout h mu sic of the musical to respectable, landscape in progressive art vapid praise, form. Had he they will miss not imploded out on some in a lurid temessential pest of drugs, work s t hat perfectionism need to be and technical recognized. I FILE PHOTO limitations, this give you the a lbu m wou ld Lost Grammy Some quality albums were inevitably overlooked and will not merely be a reCategories receive Grammy-level recognition. issue and not a (read as Juno if you hail from Canada) and the ing it could be heard several states five-disc, $100 studio session winners for this year, decided by away. Combining guitar virtuos- retrospective. Makes one susa secret committee of govern- ity with a devil-may-care attitude pect some kind of conspiracy, ment agents who elected me their about hearing loss and shattered if you think about it irrationally scribe. glass, this band taps into some- enough. I think that will leave us plenty Best Radiohead Album of the thing both primal and cosmic. Year: The King of Limbs Blandest Rock Album of the prepared. With the list complete, all that is left is to carve it into This was a difficult choice to Year: Nothing is Wrong make for the committee, mostly I wondered about the sanity blank marble tablets and leave it because many members wanted of the committee on voting this in a Martian-friendly location so The Bends to win for some way. Clearly, there is nothing they will know forevermore what reason. They just murmured bland about Dawes. Its almost an we thought was worth listening something about how Johnny outrage. This typical rock band to. No nobler or more virtuous Greenwood used to play guitar plays typical rock songs about task exists, my friends.
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before grudgingly signing their ballots. The King of Limbs won in the end because of its sonic depth and mix of abstract and funky rhythmic songs combined with more straightforward but equally abstract melodic pieces like Codex. Its earnest sentiments and technical innovation pluck your heartstrings and tickle your imagination. Best Noise Album of the Year: IIDespite what you might t h i n k, t hat t it le is no t y po. Psychedelic noise band T he Psychic Paramount released an album called II (pronounced two) this year, and those play-

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If [Mark Lugo] was the person who was removing these paintings, he wasnt doing it for financial gain. -James Montgomery, Mark Lugo charged, pg. 11

Ticketmaster sued, loses case

BY MADELINE TRACY

Company forced to credit customers for the past decade

Staff Writer

How ma ny of you have bought tickets through Ticketmaster and begrudgingly accepted the processing fee that goes with it? Weve all done this, or turned to other sites like StubHub or Craigslist just to avoid the fee that supposedly pays for the convenience of buying tickets online. We l l , fo r t ho s e of yo u who angrily pressed accept, I am happy to tell you that Ticketmaster will soon be paying you back, at least somewhat. A class action lawsuit filed on Oct. 21, 2003, in response to these unfair processing fees has finally found closure, and Ticketmaster is being required to pay back its customers from the last decade because the company never stated on its website that the processing fees were purely for profit. Therefore, if you have used Ticketmaster between Oct. 21, 1999, and Oct. 19, 2011, you are entitled to a $1.50 credit per ticket for up to 17 orders. Also, the court case against Ticketmaster included documents that showed UPSs delivery price for the expedited shipping of the tickets was also deceptive.

This subclass of the suit states that if you had UPS deliver the tickets, you are entitled to an additional $5 credit per ticket. Credits are issued in the form of vouchers, which can be redeemed two at a time. The public has four years to redeem their entitled compensation; after that point no refunds will be allowed. Ticket purchasers will receive email notification that they are eligible for the refund. Depending on how many customers come forward to claim their refund, Ticketmaster could be out a lot of cash. Ticketmaster has also announced that if customers claim less than $11.25 million, they will donate the rest to charity. In addition to these refunds, the counsel is seeking $16,500,000 in attorney fees and $20,000 for the two plaintiffs who brought the case forward. They are also looking to increase the refund, as they dont believe $1.50 is enough compensation for the customers frustrations. But dont get too excited yet. Credits wont be issued until April 15, 2012, or at least 30 days before the final approval of the settlement, which is scheduled for May 29, 2012. Ticketmaster wont be forced to stop charging the processing fees, they are simply required to disclose on the site that Ticketmaster is profiting from the fees.

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Christmas with the editors Haiku street signs encourage pedestrian safety
Though the green grass of Commons Lawns might say otherwise, Christmas is in the air. The Chimes staff has been making merry all evening, and now its time for us to share some of our favorite Christmas things. Theres really no way to categorize these, so just keep reading for some laughs and holiday traditions that will make you all warm and fuzzy inside. Jess Koster (Sports): Every Christmas, my brother and I get a childrens book from our aunt and uncle, and we read it around the dinner table. Josh Yonker (Sports): Every year my family listens to Frank Sinat ra while we put up the Christmas tree and decorate cookies. John Kloosterman (Op-Ed): Best Christmas movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The Martian kids watch Santa on TV and are really jealous, so they go and steal him and bring him back to Mars. Then Santa beats a bunch of bad guys and brings them joy. Josh Ngenda (copy editor): The Grinch. The cartoon version is really good. Andrew Steiner (head copy editor): Eggnog. Thats all Im going to say. David Ryou (World News): I dont have a lot of traditions, but we do eat a lot of rice if that counts as a cultural tradition. Joseph Matheson (National News): We always have rum balls. Theyre like, vanilla wafers and rum and other stuff. Really good. Elizabeth Steiner (Campus News): Drunken karaoke with my aunt shes the one thats drunk. And playing these homemade Christmas bells my uncle made out of steel pipes. Colleen Keehl (A&E): The song Red Ribbon Foxes by A Fine Frenzy, the movie White Christmas, and going on midnight snow walks. Michelle Ratering (A&E): I love waking up to the smell of my mom baking cookies and the sounds of John Teshs Romantic Christmas on the radio. Allison Schepers (SciTech): My favorite Christmas movie is Love Actually, favorite carol is Hark the Herald Angels Sing and my favorite Christmas candy is chocolate peanut clusters. My favorite tradition is that my dad would always read us The Polar Express on Christmas Eve when we were young. Katie Hall (Features): My dad got me a carton of cigarettes and he said Smoke up Johnny! But really, my favorite part of Christmas is Jackson spreading milk all over his almost naked body. We were putting up the tree and he thought it was Christmas so he got out the milk and cookies for Santa. Things got a little messy. Jackson Hall (Features): That milk incident wasnt like, last year or anything. I was pretty young. My favorite memory is every year my father telling me a different way Santa died. Also making poisonous drinks to put out for Santa.
BY JACALYN DEN HAAN

The case against Ticketmaster involved charges due to the deceptive service and delivery fees. The company is being forced to refund portions of each ticket since Oct. 19, 1999.

mixed reactions. According to some, they are cute, efficient, Staff Writer and add a lot to the city. Some have been critical of the poems Imagine a world / Where themselves, arguing that they are your every move matters / slightly morbid. One of the poems Welcome to that world. in question says, Oncoming cars This is the message of rush / Each a 3-ton bullet / New Yorks new street signs And you, flesh and bone. in a nutshell. The city has A few of poems are very recently upped the ante on clever and encourage one to signage, putting warnings think of potential safety hazinto verse and turning signs ards Too averse to risk / To into pieces of art. chance the lottery, yet / Steps There are 12 different deinto traffic. Others are just signs, each warning pedesodd Car stops near bike trians, cyclists and motorists lane / Cyclist entering raffle respectively to be mindful of / Unwanted door prize. those around them and to T he new sig n s have use their heads while on the sparked a sudden interest road. Each design is accomin haiku among the public. panied by a haiku. These Many people have suddenly haikus are either printed begun to write verse in the beneath the sign or embedsimple 5/7/5 syllable format ded into a code and can be and put it online. ready by scanning the code Beneath NPRs article on into a smartphone. the signs on their website E a c h of t he 12 s i g n s (Haiku Traffic Signs Bring wa s c reated by Joh n Poetry to NYC Streets), many Morse. He was commisFILE PHOTO people have commented, sioned to do so by the New Twelve different haiku signs now colorfully adding their own haikus. York City Department of and creatively dot the streets of NYC. More are posted on Yahoo Transportation. As an artist, News. Some are in response he is very enthusiastic about The new signs are able to compete to the idea (A man in the road the project. If you say to with the craziness. / Became man under my car / people, Walk, Dont walk or, The NYCDT takes this proj- While I read Haiku). People Look both ways if you can ect ver y seriously. All of the have also created their own safety tweak it just a bit and poetry signs were placed at intersections haikus. does that the device gives where many accidents occur. Morse is very happy about the these simple words power, Although the signs are some- new signs and peoples reactions he says. what sarcastic, they all convey to them: Theres just a plethora The purpose behind the new important safety messages and of haiku coming out. Its so excitstreet signs is to get people to are meant to be taken seriously ing. With the creation of these actually look at street signs and while also entertaining. signs, people are being encourtake safety seriously. New York These sig ns have received aged to write their own poetry.

is a very busy city, bustling not just with people and cars but also with flashing lights and colours. Consequently, street signs are often ignored in favour of looking at more interesting things like billboards and advertisements.

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Mark Lugo charged for second time with theft of New York artwork
BY JOVIANUS ALDEN HARTOPO

Staff Writer

The proverb he who steals an egg will steal an ox best describes the life of 31-year-old Mark Lugo, the man accused of stealing six pieces of art after spending over four months in jail for the theft of a Picasso from a San Francisco Gallery. Pleading not guilty, charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property were filed following a police raid on Lugos Hoboken apartment in which 19 pieces of art totaling a value of $500,000 were discovered. According to authorities, Lugo allegedly made off with a painting at both the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan and the Chambers Hotel in Midtown through stuffing both in a tote bag before hopping onto a taxi. The painting stolen from the latter has been valued at $350,000, though its exact value remains disputed. Tit led Composition wit h Mechanical Elements, the artwork was created by Fernand Leger, a French painter and sculptor. Known for capturing the essence of modern life, Legers ideas acted as an inspiration for many pop artists positioning himself as a forerunner of pop art. Among others, Lugo was also accused of stealing a group of five works by South Korean-born artist Mie Yim. Together titled

Pastel on Board, each piece was estimated to being worth around $1,800. The Lehmann Maupin Gallery describes Yims works as hazy, colorful pastel drawings depict[ing] stuffed bears, bunnies, and other creatures in disconcerting situations and environments. The painting in which Lugo was indicted for was essentially a

1965 work of the famous Picasso titled Tete de Femme (Head of a Woman) from the Weinstein G a l l e r y i n S a n Fr a n c i s c o. Other than the alleged, Lugo has also been suspected of another New York art heist of a $30,000 Picasso from the William Bennett Gallery. While it is surprising that Lugo

was able to simply take valuable paintings and leave, Robert K. Wittman, a former FBI investigator for national art stated that While artworks can be equipped with electronic tags that sound alerts when theyre moved, some galleries dont use the technology because they sell works and change their exhibits frequently.

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Lugo displayed the stolen masterpieces around his home instead of selling them to others.

Paintings were not the only thing that Lugo made off with. He also stole three bottles of Chateau Petrus Pomerol worth a total of $6,000 were stolen from Garys Wine and Marketplace in Wayne, NJ. Facing a maximum sentence of 15 years each for two of the most serious charges, Lugo has also been revealed by his lawyer, James Montgomery to have a problem more serious than a mere affinity for masterpieces. To reporters Montgomery stated, I think time will show that Mr. Lugo is someone who has been struggling with particular difficulties and went through a very difficult six week to two month period. Montgomery has also pointed out that Lugo cannot be classified as a professional art thief as the paintings were freely displayed in Lugos home. If he was the person who was removing these paintings, he wasnt doing it for financial gain, said Montgomery. However Wittman asserted that most art thieves sell or try to sell what they snatch, but a few have stolen to enhance their own collections sometimes for bragging rights. According to the Manhattan district attorneys office, further investigation is ongoing in regard to the status of four pieces, including a Picasso, which is believed to have been taken from New York galleries.

My Left Foot is inspiring, compelling Paradise Fears impressive

BY DAVID GREENDONNER

Staff Writer

Yet, like everyone else, I am acutely conscious sometimes of my own isolation even in the midst of people, and I often give up hope of ever being able to communicate with them, writes Christy Brown, Irish author and painter. Brown was born in Dublin in 1932, t he 10th of 22 children 13 of which survived to adulthood. Christy was different, however. He was born with cerebral palsy, and was left with only the ability to move one of his legs. B r o w ns s t o r y i s known because he went on to write about it. In 1954 he published an autobiography titled My Left Foot, and in 1989, the book was adapted into a film of the same name. My Left Foot, the film, is directed by Jim Sher ida n, a nd sta rs Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker. It tells the story of Browns life from his birth to shortly after the publication of his first book. More than anything, Sheridans adaptation wrestles with questions of understanding and identity questions that prove to stretch beyond Christy Browns pa r t ic u la r ci rc umstance, though t hey m ay be a sked mos t readily from his perspective. The film opens with a shot of a foot. The foot pulls a record from a shelf, places the record on a turntable, sets the needle and is met with an operatic bellow. White cars arrive and pick up Christy (Day-Lewis), now in his twenties, along with his family. They are taken to what appears to be a royal estate, where Christy is separated from his mother

(Fricker) and siblings to await his entrance into the dinner room. A woman named Mary looks after him on the meantime. He offers her a copy of his book, My Left Foot, and she begins reading sending the scene into a flashback that will constitute the majority of the film. Despite Christys condition and the practices of the time, the

Browns decide to raise the boy on their own along with their other children. As he grows, its clear that Christy is unable to articulate himself short of gesturing with his foot or uttering undirected sounds. Despite his efforts to reveal otherwise, he is largely thought by his family and community to be mentally incapable. Thus, very little is expected of Christy in his young

life, especially from his father, who maybe more than anyone refuses to acknowledge his sons full value. In time, however, Christ y shows his family that he is not only intelligent, but talented. He begins to paint using only his foot and gets quite good. He is eventually visited by a doctor (Fiona Shaw) who offers him speech lessons, through which she believes Christy will be able to learn to communicate his thoughts and feelings more clearly. The lessons are helpful, but as Christys means of expression become more developed, he begins to reveal his nonphysical afflictions and frustrations. What we go on to see of Christy turns into a back-and-forth between these newvehicled demons and the good-hearted soul we met in his youth. The film resounds with messages of family, loyalty and recognition, and as a result, is dense with powerful, touching moments. Mos t of t he se mo ments are the product of Day-Lewis inspiring performance as Christy, which as is typical of his performances leaves the actor unrecognizable under the mask of his character. Its no wonder that the role brought Day-Lewis FILE PHOTO the Academy Award for Best Actor. My Left Foot is rated R for language, but is by no means unfit for most audiences. The film is beautiful, compelling, and as Browns own words invoke a story about everyone as much as it is about one man. If youre looking, you can find My Left Foot and other great DVDs in the Cayvan Media Center of Hekman Library.

BY JESS KOSTER

Sports Co- Editor

Last Wednesday night, I went to the Ready Set concert at the Intersection in downtown Grand Rapids. Paradise Fears was the first opening band and I was thoroughly impressed by them. Paradise Fears is an up and coming pop rock band from a small town in South Dakota. According to Sam Miller, lead vocalist, Its been an entirely self taught process...with a very steep learning curve. Weve had to teach ourselves how to promote, how to book shows, how to tour, how to record, everything, but it gives us a ver y unique approach, because in ou r a re a, what were doing is so unprecedented that we havent fallen victim the generic, cookiecutter career path, and instead weve r e ceived a tremendous amount of support from our home town. Paradise Fears is made up of six extremely talented musicians. Sam Miller offers his great vocal abilities to the mix. Cole Andre and Jordan Merrigan are very talented with the guitar and backup vocals. Michael Walker chimes in with the piano while Marcus Sand and Lucas Zimmerman add rhythm with the bass guitar and drums. The members came together in high school and decided to forgo a year of college to see if they could actually make it as a band. I would say that they are well on their way to doing just that. They sang some of their

own music while also covering some other popular music such as Stacys Mom by Fountains of Wayne. Miller also sang Super Bass by Nikki Minaj leading into their own song Last Breathe. They brought a lot of energy to the stage. I was impressed by the fact that they were able to do their entire set without use of in-ear monitors and still sound amazing through all their songs. If I had not seen that they did not have in-ear monitors, I would have guessed that they did. After the show, I immediately went to their merchandise table and bought Paradise Fears albums Make Them Believe and Yours Truly. After buying the CDs, my friend and I were able to track down Miller for a quick picture before he was recognized by the rest of the fans and mobbed for pictures and autographs. Since buying these CDs the songs have been on repeat on my computer a nd i Po d . My personal favorites FILE PHOTO o f f Yo u r Truly are More Than Lust, Last Breath, and Yours Truly. From Make Them Believe, I love Hear Me Out and Sanctuary. These songs are very easy to listen to and are very catchy. I have found myself humming the songs even without the music playing. The band is currently touring the country with the Summer Set, Downtown Fiction, Plug In Stereo, and headliner the Ready Set. Paradise Fears will be in Chicago on February 1 and in Pontiac, Michigan on February 3. They will be touring with The Summer Set, The Cab, He is We, and Days Difference. I would highly suggest trying to get to either one of these concerts or perhaps even both.

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Soccer team finishes second in the nation

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Being here two years ago and getting so close adds a little extra fuel.
-Brad Heethuis, Soccer team
BY MARK ZYLSTRA

Staff Writer

History sometimes repeats itself. That was the harsh realit y for Calvins mens soccer team on Saturday night at the NCAA D-III final four in San Antonio, Texas. The Knights season ended with a 2-1 defeat to Ohio Wesleyan in the national championship game, a scene all too familiar for the Knights as they fell one step short of the national title on the same pitch in 2009. That squad lost 2-0 in the final to D-III powerhouse Messiah College. This years team came even closer to national glory, s u f fe r i n g a n agonizing onegoal defeat. Ca lv i n d id enjoy an amazing run to capt ure national runner-up hono r s, t ho u g h . Three times in NC A A tou rn a me n t pl ay the K nights pushed to the brink of defeat. Calvin won 4-2 against Oneonta State in the semi-final game in Texas. They won their opening round sisting on the first goal, Bucci out- That loss of confidence led to a match against sprinted a defender and aggres- near equalizer for the Knights Car t hage by sively cut to the top left corner of just two minutes later, but Willis scoring the the box. Before any Calvin player cross was corralled by the OWU g a m e s o n l y could challenge him, Bucci laced keeper. The increased chances for the goal late in the a ball toward the far post that s e c o n d h a l f. snuck inside the upper 90. The Calvin side prompted Hughes Then, in secgoal sent the Ohioan squad and to comment af ter t he game, tional play their fans into a frenzy with less I thought it was a tale of two i n Red la nd s, than five minutes till intermis- halves. It cer tainly was as Calvin Calif., they desion. Calvin went into the break feated the hosts with their backs against the wall, continued to apply the pressure i n a p e n a lt y Ohio Wesleyan scored two goals before Calvin was able to answer. down 2-0 in the national cham- and dictate the direction of the kick shootout. pionship, where their opponents match, nearly tying the score Perhaps even were sure to emphasize defense on two more occasions within a more remarkable was Calvins as Calvin remained on the attack t he line to contest an OW U even more to maintain their minute of each other. In the 66th forward who centered it to a healthy lead. However, this team minute, Vegter was again on the win in the sectional final over throughout the period. Oneonta came out strong in the teammate, who then fired a shot had been down before, and their attack as he shot a ball toward Texas-Tyler. They were down a player and a goal late in the game, second half and earned more scor- on an open goal. Thankfully, resilience proved to be a calling the far post which the defense could only def lect wide over but tied it and found a golden ing opportunities than Calvin, Calvin sophomore Lawrence card in postseason play. goal early in the second OT to but Calvins defense held firm. Murray made a remarkable play. The Knights came out strong t he end li ne, ear n i ng Calvi n punch their ticket to the final four. The Knights put the game fully He stood firm on the line and in the second half. They were one of their six corner kicks But Calvin was not done yet: out of reach in the 76th minute. blocked the shot, preserving the not going to let their season end on the night. Freshman Dino They took on the Red Dragons Vegter ripped a gorgeous shot scoreless tie. in a loss without putting up a Duratovic served up a nice ball The two sides continued threat- serious fight. Calvin earned a that sophomore Joe Broekhuizen from Oneonta State in the na- from 25 yards that snuck under ening to light up the scoreboard corner kick early in the half, and headed strongly on target, but it tional semi-finals. The Knights the crossbar. In the waning minutes of the until the last few minutes of the they were also maintaining more went right into the arms of the recovered beautifully from an early 1-0 deficit. The Dragons game, the Red Dragons were able half when OWU was finally able possession. On one of those pos- keeper. The K nights continued scored in the seventh minute, to get in the scoring column again to break through the stiff Calvin sessions, sophomore Zach Willis but Calvin responded within off a set piece, but it was too little, defense. The Bishops forward made a run with the ball down to earn chances all the way till four minutes with a goal from too late for them, and Calvin was Paulo Bucci brought the ball near the left side. He centered the ball the final buzzer sounded. It seemed senior Brad Heethuis. Heethuis on to the final with a 4-2 victory. the end line on the left half of the to Vegter, who snuck around as though they were destined Coach Chris Hughes was very field. His cross was deflected by three defenders, allowing himself to find the back of the net durput home a rifle off a cross from freshman Sean Broekhuizen. Not pleased with the way his team a Calvin defender, but it landed just enough room to fire a shot ing those final 20 minutes of satisfied with the equalized score, peaked at the right time. Not right at the feet of an open Travis into the far bottom corner of the play, but every time they mounted a c h a r g e, e it he r t he OW U Calvin proceeded to bang home only are our seniors taking it to Wall at the top of the box. OWUs goal. three more goals without allow- the next level, our freshman are senior leading scorer calmly The early goal was exactly defense found a way to def lect ing Oneonta a chance to recover. contributing, he said. Our settled the ball and drove it past what Calvin needed to revive or clear the ball, or their keeper Heethuis said of Calvins fero- boys have shown through this a diving Dolan into the bottom their momentum and their crowd. made a great save. As the final seconds ticked off the clock, the comeback ef for t c a me up ju s t shor t for C a lv i n, a nd OW U celebrated its second soccer nat iona l championsh ip i n school history. Willis, junior Dan Nederhoed and Murray were named to the all-tournament team for their stellar play. The Knights conclude their season as the D-III runners-up for the second time in three years. They end their season with a 19-6-2 overall record, earning an outright MIAA title and NCAA regional and sectional championships along the way. They will sorely miss a senior class led by Heethuis, Wassink, Tyler Vegter, Justin Ahearne and Miles Colago. About the seniors, coach Chris Hughes PHOTOS COURTESY OF CALVIN SOCCER said, This class is one which The Knights lost a hard fought game to the Battling Bishops of Ohio Wesleyan in the D-III national final game last Saturday night. has absolutely no fear. What a fantastic class.

cious response: Being here two years ago and getting so close adds an extra fuel. In the 28th minute, freshman Travis Vegter put the Knights ahead when he headed in a cross from junior Dan Nederhoed. Vegters goal came on his first touch of the game. Si x m i nute s l ate r, se n ior Brad Wassink, winner of the touted Elite 89 award for the highest GPA of any st udentathlete in the final four, showed off his athletic side with a volley into the net, a goal assisted by junior Joe Broekhuizen. The halftime horn sounded mercifully for the Red Dragons,

tournament that they are quite resilient. The Knights would then clash with the sixth-ranked Battling Bishops of Ohio Wesleyan, who carried a 22-2 record into the championship match. OW U defeated Montclair State in their semi-final 4-0. Out of the gate, Bishops seemed to have the slightest edge in momentum, possessing the ball a bit more than the Knights. T he y e a r ne d a gold e n chance in the 10th minute when Calvins junior kee pe r M ich ael Dola n was forced to come of f

right corner of the net. While Calvin was still recovering from the shock of the first goal, the Bishops smelled blood and pounced once again. Bucci made an incredible individual effort to post the games second goal. Just two minutes after as-

Wit h 40 m i nutes remai n i ng in the match and down by just one goal, Calvin was suddenly back in the game. The goal noticeably bothered the OWU side. They lacked the patience and precision they had shown for most of the first half.

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Basketball undefeated
BY JOSH YONKER

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Over Thanksgiving, Calvins womens basketball team won the Siena Heights Tournament. This past weekend they picked up right where they left off as they opened up conference play against Albion. T he g a me t o ok pl a c e o n Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Albion. The game started out tight for the first six minutes as each team exchanged field goals on their way to a 7-7 tie. Calvin responded however with a 21-4 run over the next 10 minutes to take a 28-11 lead with 6:22 remaining in the first half. Both teams continued trading off field goals for the remainder of the half, with Calvin heading into the half with a 4230 lead. Albion did not go down without a f ight, however. Albion slowly chipped away at Calvins lead one basket at a time. Albion came out of the locker room and scored the first five points of the half, bring Calvins lead down to seven. Senior Jill Thomas responded with a three-pointer to bring Calvins lead back up to ten with 16:51 remaining in the game. Albion then responded with a three-pointer of their own on their next possession making it a sevenpoint game again. Albion continued trying to claw their way back into the game, eventually making it a three-point game with Calvin leading 57-54 with six minutes remaining in the game. Determined not to lose their lead for the first time all game, Calvin fought back and scored six unanswered points from a threepointer by junior Kelsey Irwin,

a jump shot from junior Julia Hilbrands and a free throw from junior Carissa Verkaik. Calvins nine-point lead would prove to be enough as the Knights went on to win 69-60. The Knights had three players with double digits points. Hilbrands lead the way with 17 points, while Verkaik followed with 16 and Thomas contributed 12. Verkaik also had 13 rebounds, four blocks and four assists in the game. Three days later the Knights hosted the Adrian Bulldogs. Once again, the game remained tight for the first 10 minutes, with Adrian holding a slim 15-14 lead. With 6:33 remaining, Irwin gave the offense the spark it needed, hitting back to back three-pointers to give the Knights a 22-19 lead. The Knights outscored the Bulldogs 9-5 in the remaining six minutes, making the halftime score 31-24. With the adrenaline from the end of the first half carrying over into the second, the Knights got off to a hot start. After giving up the first two points, the Knights bounced back with an impressive 20-3 run to take a 22-point lead with 9:56 remaining. The Knights never looked back from this point on and clinched a 64-46 victory. Once again, Verkaik led the way again for the Knights with a double-double, scoring 18 points and bringing in 14 rebounds. Irwin scored nine points while senior Courtney Kurncz contributed eight. The Knights next action takes place a week from tomorrow when they host Olivet. The Knights will then go on a two week break for Christmas until their next game, which takes place Dec. 30.

VandeStreek gets 300th win

The Knights beat Carthage but fell to Wheaton in the MIAA/CCIW challenge.
BY JON BREEMS

Staff Writer

It was a milestone weekend for Calvin mens basketball head coach Kevin Vande Streek. Coming into the weekends pair of games for the Knights, Vande Streek had notched 299 victories as head coach. Friday night he captured number 300. Calvin (3-3) played host to Carthage College in the opening evening of the MIAA/ CCIW challenge held in the Van Noord Arena. Carthage (21) pulled ahead of the Knights by as many as 12 points in the f irst half behind three 3-point baskets from guard Malcolm Kelly. The Knights s t r u g g le d t o g e t i n t o a n offensive groove early and would only shoot 39 percent from the field for the first period. A defensive stand in the final three minutes of the half limited Carthage to only three points and allowed the Knights to pull within five at 28-33 heading into halftime. The second half opened with neither team able to pull away in a tightly contested game. With 12 minutes remaining in the game, however, a jump shot by junior forward Matt DeBoer brought Calvin to within one of Carthage, 46-47. The following play the Knights got the ball back on a steal by sophomore center Tyler Kruis, who quickly passed to

DeBoer, who then found sophomore forward Mitch Vallie open for a three. The shot gave Calvin its first lead of the game since the opening minutes. The Knights held onto a slim lead until a basket by Thompson put Carthage briefly back up by one with only 2:28 remaining in the game. A pair of free throws by junior forward Tom Snikkers followed by a steal by Calvin junior guard David Rietema, which led to a Kruis lay-up gave the Knights the lead for the final minute, and they held on to beat Carthage College, 71-68. Snikkers and DeBoer led the Knights in scoring with 15 points apiece. Free-throw shooting was an issue for Calvin in the game as the Knights converted only 13 of their 23 attempts. Key for Calvin, however, was the play of its bench, which outscored Carthage 28-15. Mast, junior center Nate Van Eck and junior guard Bryan Powell would chip in with eight, six, and nine points, respectively for the Knights. The victory brought Vande Streeks record to 300-126 in his 14 years as Calvin head coach. It was another milestone for Calvins all-time winningest head coach, whose resume includes six MIAA regular season titles over his career with the Knights, as well as being named the NCAA Division III coach of the year for 1999-2000 season en route to winning the schools second basketball national title. Calvins f inal game of the we e k e nd c a me a g a i n s t t he number 13 nationally ranked

Thunder of Wheaton College. M at t DeB oe r ap p e a r ed u ndaunted by the Knights underdog status as he scored six of the teams first eight points to t ake an early t wo-point lead. However, the Thunder responded by going on a 17-7 run to take an eight point lead of their own at 23-15. With three minutes remaining in the f irst half a three-point play converted by Powell on a fouled lay-up followed by three straight baskets from Calvin sophomore forward Mickey DeVries would send the Knights into halftime with the lead 32-29. Led by DeBoer and DeVries, the Knights appeared to have the game wrapped up in the second half after a basket by DeBoer put them up 60- 47 with only 6:12 remaining in the game. Led by preseason f i rst-team all-Amer ican Tim McCrar y, the Thunder stormed back into the lead scoring 18 unanswered points to take a five-point lead over Calvin. The Knights were held scoreless for 5:43 before hit ti ng a f ree t h row wit h only 28 seconds remaining in the game. Calvin found their scoring touch was too little too late as they let a 13-point lead slip away over the final six minutes before finally falling to Wheaton, 71- 6 6. DeBoe r a nd DeVr ies led the Knights with 20 and 10 points, respectively. The loss drops Calvins record to 4-4 on the year. The Knights next game is tomorrow against Trinity Christian at 3 p.m. in the Van Noord Arena.

Teams impress at Calvin Winter Invite JJs: Penn State Edition

BY MARK DEHAAN

Staff Writer

Hosti ng t he t hi rd A n nual Calvin Winter Invitational Dec. 1 through Dec. 3, the Calvin mens and womens swim and dive teams competed against a number of high-quality opponents including D-I school Valparaiso, D-II schools Grand Va l le y St ate, Un ive r sit y of Indianapolis, Northern Michigan University and Hillsdale College and D-III schools Alma College, Kalamazoo College, Saint Marys College, Baldwin-Wallace College and Wabash College. Both Calvin teams competed at high levels, with the women taking fifth out of 10 possible teams with 392 points, and the men taking fourth out of eight with 428 points. The 428 points scored by the men is the teams highest point total in the three-year history of the Calvin Winter Invitational. Grand Valley claimed first place in both mens and womens meets. Thursday night contained just two events, the 800 freestyle relay and the 1650 freest yle. For the Calvin men, the 800 freestyle relay team, consisting of seniors Ross Battoclette and Travis Vincent, freshmen Alex Baumann, and sophomore Peter Johnson took seventh in a time of 7:07.05. In the 1650 freestyle, freshman Matthias Bares took fourth with a time of 17:04.21. On the womens side, the Calvin relay team of juniors Stephanie Fox, Rachel Colasurdo, Shelby Cloyd and Kathryn Wrobel took fifth overall with a time of 7:51.22. Three women scored individually in the 1650 freestyle as Cloyd took fifth, Wrobel claimed seventh and senior Bridget Scott finished 10th. In the first full day of competition on Friday, the Calvin men were highlighted by senior Greg Gorhams NCAA D-III B cut qualifying time of 57.73 in the 100 breaststroke preliminary rounds.

Gorham finished in seventh in the evening finals with a time of 58.40. Also swimming strong for the men were Battoclette, who took fifth in the 200 freestyle (1:43.90), junior Mark Rushlow who finished eighth in the 100 butterfly (1:58.50) and sophomore Andrew Mitchell, who claimed eighth in the 100 backstroke (54.10). The 200 freestyle relay team of Rushlow, Battoclette, Baumann and Mitchell also grabbed a fifthplace finish in a time of 1:25.87. The women were led Friday by junior Elizabeth Counsell, who won the 100 breaststroke in an NCAA D-III B cut qualifying time of 1:03.62, less than twotenths of a second short of an NCAA III A cut. Fox also swam well for the Knights, earning second in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:54.07 and ninth in the 400 IM. Cloyd also placed in the top eight of the 200 freestyle with a seventh place finish in a time of 1:58.11. The 200 freestyle relay team of senior Rachel Bos, freshmen Alex Dhaenens, sophomore Sam Musolf and Colasurdo took seventh for Calvin in a time of 1:39.66. The divers set tone on Saturday for both the mens and womens squads. Sophomore A ndrew Krafft continued his stellar season on the diving board, winning on both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards. In the prelims of the 3-meter board on Saturday, Krafft broke the Venema Aquatic Center pool record with a score of 540.90, which is also a D-III qualifying score. Krafft later won the event with a score of 518.25, also earning a winning 1-meter score of 509.20. Freshman Jordan Kaster was seventh in both events for the Knights with a score of 322.45 in the 1-meter and 307.50 in the 3-meter. For the women, junior Sam Klaasen took fourth place in both diving events. In the 3-meter board, Klaasen scored a 382.85.

In the 1-meter board, Klaasen scored a 403.50, which is also a D-III qualifying score. Freshmen Rebecca Mumby took seventh in the 3-meter dive and eight in the 1-meter board event for Calvin. Mens swimming wrapped up with another strong swim for Battoclette, who finished seventh in both the 500 freestyle (4:51.88) and the 100 freestyle (47.98). Rushlow placed third in the 100 butterf ly in 50.70, with his time being just three-hundreths shy of a D-III B cut qualifying time. Junior Stephen Kraft had a strong swim Saturday, breaking the previous Calvin 200 breaststroke record of 2:10.28 with a time of 2:09.68. Kraft claimed eighth place in 200 breaststroke finals later Saturday night while also taking eighth place in the 200 IM with a time of 2:01.58. The Knights 200 medley relay team of Mitchell, Gorham, Rushlow and Battoclette was able to take fourth place in a seasonbest time of 1:34.76. Counsell continued her strong showing over the weekend with another top time, this one coming in the 200 breaststroke, where she claimed second and an NCAA D-III B cut qualifying time of 2:21.58. The Knights claimed a pair of f ifth-place f inishes: freshmen Erika Waugh in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:09.28 and Shelby Cloyd in the 500 freestyle with 5:14.29. Fox rounded out the top eight finishes for Calvin on Saturday with an eighth place finish in the 200 IM in a time of 2:15.97. For their strong performances at the Calvin Winter Invitational, both swimmer Counsell and diver Krafft won the MIAA Swimmer/ Diver of the Week Awards. Both teams now look forward to the New Year. For their next competition when they travel to the University of Chicago for t he C h ic a go C l a ssic on Jan. 13 and 14.

BY JESS KOSTER

Sports Co-Editor

We have yet to mention anything about the Penn State scandal and I have a lot of stuff to rant about concerning it; this JJs is going to be solely on Penn State. Former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of having sexual relations with at least eight underage boys from 1994-2009. All of these were on or near campus. In 1994 or 1995, a boy admitted to being molested by Sandusky to his mom, who reported it to the university police in 1998. The detectives told the family that there would be no criminal charges. A graduate assistant witnessed Sandusky taking a shower with a boy, who was around 10 years old, back in 2002 on campus. He reported it to head coach Joe Paterno, who in return reported it to the athletic director, and the athletic director reported it to the senior vice president and the president. Nothing happened except that Sandusky was no longer able to bring boys on the campus. But how did this go almost 10 years with being made public? How did Sandusky maintain a job there? The police investigated some of the early claims but they were dropped. Many times when charges are dropped it means that money is involved. Paterno was paid just under $500,000 last year. An assistant coach would normally make less than that. If we assume that there were only eight victims, and also assume that Sandusky made $400,000 and paid no taxes (in this illustration, the IRS is after him too). Assuming that he used his entire salary to pay off the victims (Im just using this to

make the numbers nice; plus there is no way to know how much he lives on), he would be paying each victim $50,000 a year. Thats a big chunk of pocket change. Now lets add in living expenses: Were still going to have to assume that he made $400,000 a year. With a salary that size, he would likely have a pretty big house and possibly a vacation home as well. In addition, we also have to add in food and cost of living. Sandusky is 67 years old; he is probably starting to get health problems. He also has six children and presumably numerous grandchildren. Its a fact of life that grandparents love to spoil grandchildren. Lets say that he is down to $150,000. That payoff number is down to $18,750. In a small poll I took, this amount would not satisfy any of the people I asked. The payoff would have to be ever y year to ensure that the victims and their families do not open their mouths. This all being said, the college had to have helped with paying off the victims for them to keep silent. Lets face it, they must have known about it since at least 2002. The first time the graduate assistant was questioned was by a Grand Jury in December of 2010. This smells of cover-up on many levels, both by Sandusky and by Penn State. As a result of this scandal coming to light in early November, Paterno, the president, the vice president and the athletic director all lost their jobs. The graduate assistant is now an assistant coach. Im disappointed that he didnt get the boot or some kind of punishment as well. He had nine years worth of opportunities to go to the police and he didnt. He did the right thing by reporting it to his superiors on campus, but he should have gone to the police. This whole thing is disturbi ng on ma ny level s a nd my prayers go out to the victims and their families.

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O pi n iOn a n d E di t Or i a l

Of all the positions on campus, those that directly influence and shape the image and reputation of Calvin are the most delicate and need to realize their heavy responsibility. -Elizabeth Steiner, Verge cover pulled, pg. 15

From the Editor

As a former national and world news editor for Chimes, Im still in the habit of reading news headlines and stories daily. My web homepage is National Public Radio, and I often listen to the station on my way to or from school. I try to spend a little of my Web-browsing time each day reading The New York Times or Al-Jazeera English. Its become a habit that I like to keep because it helps me stay informed and think outside myself. So while you would usually find a news version of this editorial in the national news section of Chimes, I just couldnt help myself. It all began with NPR, my news source of choice. Say what you will its biased, its fluff, it shouldnt be government-supported but dont let that sway your opinion of this story. NPR conducted a yearlong investigation of the South Dakota foster care system and came out with a three-part series this fall. Okay, you mig ht t hin k, foster care programs are notoriously ridden with problems, but why South Dakota? Because in South Dakota, over 700 Native American children each year are being removed from their homes on reservations and placed in foster care situations with white families. This is hugely disproportionate to the number of children of other ethnicities being removed. Indian children make up about 15 percent of the child population in the state, but they also make up about 50 percent of the foster care population. There are laws against this. Federal law says that states must do their very best to place Native American children with Native American foster families. So why is South Dakota ignoring the law? Because theyre getting paid. For every child they put in foster care, the state receives federal funding, usually several thousand dollars, to care for that child. And if the child has special needs, that funding can reach $12,000 per child. The thing is, about 10 years ago South Dakota passed a law declaring all Native American children to be special needs. This means that the state has begun an ignoble campaign to get as many Native American children in foster care as they possibly can. The kids are being removed on petty charges. In one case, a mother was told her children were being removed because she used drugs and that someone would be by a few days later to arrest her. She was not a user, and no one ever came, but the kids had to stay put in a white foster home where their hair was cut (against tribal traditions) and they appeared miserable and malnourished. Insiders say kids are being taken away so quickly and so easily because many of the social workers who see them have no cultural knowledge of native peoples. Of the 183 caseworkers in the state, only 11 are Native American. The state says they do yearly cultural training, but it seems many of the younger workers cant tell the difference between neglect, the word that is most often used to explain why children have been removed, and tribal traditions or simple poverty, a common problem in Native American communities. Bob Walters, a council representative from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, says the standards are too high for native people. These families often have between five and 10 children, and there just isnt always enough food to go around. Walters says the workers expect people to take parenting classes or buy more nutritious food, but they dont realize these people just dont have the money. What is the states excuse for this behavior? They need the

money. I mean look, were a poor state, said former governor Bill Janklow. Were like North Dakota without oil ... We dont have resources. We dont have wealth. We dont have high-income jobs. We dont have factories opening here hiring people. This is abuse of child protection policy is happening within our very borders today. For me, it feels hypocritical to campaign or monetarily support organizations that want to solve hunger in China or AIDS in Africa when I can look next door or across the state or a few hours down the freeway and find problems that are just as dismal and just as important. Its obviously important for us to spread out the wealth we enjoy here in the United States, but personally, I plan to spend my life working for solutions to problems in our own nation. This foul play in foster care and i nequa lit y for Nat ive Americans should not be tolerated. Any of us familiar with the foster care world know that it comes with a lot of problems for kids of any race, but do Native American children really deserve more inferior treatment and more separation from their disappearing culture? Our country has been subjecting Native Americans to cruelty, mistreatment, discrimination and physical violence since the continent was discovered. Weve tried to make amends, but life on Indian reservations is still of the poorest quality in the country. Hopefully the investigation of this story will drive the state and federal government to review procedures and make changes. Its certainly a case of injustice that is worth our notice and worth our effort to dispel. For more information on this story, check out NPRs three-part series by searching native foster care on their website. Be sure to check out some of the user comments as well, as these bring up some interesting objections and contain personal accounts from both sides of the story. ~ajz

News writing difficult

BY CHRISTINE BENNETT

Staff Writer

Ive been writing for the world section of Chimes for a while now. I confess, Im not the best of writers, and I must apologize to the editors for my tendencies for tardiness. But I have learned a lot through the process, including how to take my news with a grain of salt. We all know the media has biases. Its just part of human nature. However, we also tend to trust the facts that news agencies present us with. After all, opinion cant change, for example, a death toll. I remember once reading an article on an explosion which killed about seven people. I was confused to no end. How does an explosion kill about seven people? I could understand if it were about 10, or about a dozen. But about seven? Seven is so precise a number! Then one day, I was assigned to write about violent protests in the Kashmir Valley, a region in India which borders Pakistan. I looked through the related articles by several respectable news agencies, but found, to my dismay, a varying death toll. Even though all the articles I referenced were published within the same day, their death tolls varied from 13 to 23, and not all the difference could be explained by rising death tolls with the passage of time. Suddenly, I found myself sympathizing with that one reporter who reported the death of about seven people. Another thing about news is that sometimes you simply receive too much information and have to whittle away most of it before your articles goes to print. Now, lets say Im writing a relatively minor news item a small protest somewhere in France. Lets say the same week Chimes also publishes an article on some drastic change in the Middle Eastern dynamics. Now, as much as I might enjoying writing about a small French protest, and as much information as I would like to insert into my article, it simply wont do to have the French protest take up half the page if the Middle Eastern dynamics only takes up a quarter. So, its up to me to decide what and what not to include in the article. You, the reader, are trusting me to make

good judgments and offer the fairest coverage possible. Sadly, I, the writer, am a mere human, and as much as I might dislike it, I simply dont have the luxury to tell you about the views of the Turkish immigrants who might also have a stake in French politics. But what often gives me headaches is the positioning of paragraphs. Ive decided which numbers, or range of numbers, I would like to quote. Ive decided what information is absolutely vital, and what we will have to survive without. Now I simply need to present the reader with the facts, in a fair and unbiased manner. Suppose Im writing about Swiss gun control. Naturally, there are both people for and against gun control. First I write about the legislation which did not pass, then why people supported said legislation and finally I write about why they didnt. Merely by presenting a certain view last, I unintentionally give it more strength, almost as if refuting the earlier opinion. I try to present the views as fairly as possible, but I am, after all, limited by some need for sequence. Then, as the deadline is ticking closer and closer, I rack my brains for some form of closure for the article. I never knew how to write proper endings for news articles, though perhaps someday I ought to take a course for news writing in general. Finally, just as my alarm rings informing me that the hour is up I happily send my article to the editors, glad to see the last of it. When Friday comes along, I cringe at the mention of my name, wishing I could deny accountability. Since Chimes is weekly, I am given much more time to write a decent article than actual journalists might be. But Ill confess, with schoolwork and just a tiny bit procrastination, I often end up writing last minute, which means that my work is not as polished as it should be. The wonderful copy-editors painstakingly correct my spelling and perfect my punctuation. But they are helpless to change my voice, double check some minute fact or throw in an extra quote of some important person. What ends up in print is, I am ashamed to say, a highly imperfect piece of work, the perfect specimen of the possible faults a human might make when attempting to write a newspaper article.

Eating ethically includes not stealing food from dining hall

BY KATERINA PARSONS

Staff Writer

Both as a country and a college campus, we hear a lot about the ethics of food. Some people choose to be vegetarian or vegan because they feel its more ethical, while others eat only organic or locally grown foods. These are all good steps to take, but while were worrying about whats on our plate, lets not forget how were eating it. There are a lot of ways that we could be more ethical in how we eat here at Calvin, especially in how we act in the dining halls. First of all, a huge amount of food is wasted every day. Mommy isnt here to tell us to clear our plate before dessert, so many of us dont. There are so many options that we try a little of this, a little of that, and before long were done eating and our plate is still full. Ive worked at the dish return at Commons, and it can be staggering how much food is thrown away by students. Untouched fruit, main dishes with one bite

out of them: if our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, then we live in a goggle-eyed campus. Throwing food away is just bad stewardship. It seems ironic that the same students who recycle their cardboard and enjoy the nature preserve would be so wasteful. Part of taking care of our planet means being responsible with our resources, but we negate any energy were saving by eating organic if we just dump that salad in the trash. Smaller portions are a better idea all around. With small portions, less food gets thrown away and people also tend to eat less. Lets follow our mothers advice and clean our plates before we are excused. And if we happen to fend off the freshman 15 while doing it, that cant hurt. Another way that we can act more ethically is by not taking things out of the dining hall that were not supposed to. Who among us hasnt smuggled out soup or dry cereal in our CUPPS mug, or snuck out a cookie or two in a pocket? It can become almost a competition to see what

you can sneak out: silverware, decorations, bags of cereal. I talked to Lindsey Gilbert, the service manager at Commons, and she said that while theft isnt a huge problem at Commons, its definitely happening. Kids are kids, she said. They dont think theyre hurting anyone. They may not even think theyre breaking any rules. But what they dont realize is that their meal plan only pays for what they consume inside the dining halls. If we let every student take an extra meal, or even an extra popsicle with them, we would have to almost double our budget, which cant be done without raising prices for meal plans. Taking that extra popsicle might not seem like a big deal, but its plain and simple stealing. K nol lc rest a nd Com mons f unction as businesses. They dont have room in their budget to cover food regularly being stolen. And there are consequences to this. Its a small thing, but Knollcrest, for example, had to stop putting out Nutella because the container kept disappear-

ing. Thats a sad thing when we cant be trusted with a package of Nutella. An extra entree smuggled out in a napkin isnt a big deal. But the fact that were willing to compromise our morals for such a small thing is. Most of us wouldnt steal from a real restaurant, so why are we comfortable doing it here? If were here on this earth to be representatives of Christ, we dont get a lunch break. Eating ethically means more than just avoiding hormones and pesticides. Its more than just the food we choose to eat. Its creating a community of trust and supporting the dining halls that are here to serve us. As long as

were here at Calvin; Knollcrest, Commons and Uppercrust are our family tables. Theyre the dining room table where we get together, laugh, talk and of course eat. Whether or not eating ethical food is important to you, we all have a vested interest in how our dining room, which is such a central part of our community, is kept. In order to preserve that, we should make wise choices about what we choose to eat, follow the rules we are given and be conscious of how much we consume. If we do these things well be well on our way to both eating ethically and being ethical in how we eat.

In last weeks letter to the presidential search committee, the names of Chimes sports editors were ommitted in the list of signatories. Jess Koster and Josh Yonker both endorse the letter. Chimes regrets the error.

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Longboarding gaining popularity Verge cover pulled

BY BRAD WASSINK

Guest Writer

Coasting back to his dorm after class, Tyler Minnesma clearly knows what it means to longboard. The sophomore Beets resident hailing from London, Ontario, has been carving for years even before coming to Calvin. Clad in worn-through jeans and a faded T-shirt, Minnesma looks the part, a sort of Lordof-Dogtown-cum-CalvinKnight. He lifts his heel, revealing a garish absence of skin. M i n nesma blames a longboa rd i ng acc ide nt severa l weeks back. He is still skating t houg h; now i n sa nd a ls because he cant wear shoes. He is that committed. Minnesma witnesses to the growing presence of longboarding on the Calvin College campus. Even as the fall skating season draws to a close, this growth has not gone unnoticed by riders and walkers alike. Do you even remember longboards freshman year? I dont, said Sarah Kluitenberg, a junior elementary education major. When I first came [to Calvin], nobody really did it, said Kyu Hyung Park, a junior accounting major. My friends gradually got into it. Joe Hirte, a junior psychology major, wonders if an increasingly diverse student community may be causing the growth: With [longboarding] being more popular where students are coming from, with more incoming freshmen, it is getting bigger. No one longboarded in Delvin, said the Wisconsin native.

R e g a r d le s s of c au s e, t he longboard business is shreddin the gnar also known as doing very well. According to Lynne Gardiner, manager of Modern Skate and Surf in Centerpointe Mall, business is booming though as of this date, the store is closed during mall remodeling. We definitely have seen an increase in sales over the past three years, Gardiner said. Though I cant say this increase is specifically from Calvin students, we sell locally and Calvin is very close. Securing steeze st yle + ease isnt cheap. Never Summer, a Colorado-based company on the forefront of longboard technology, peddles its wares for between $200 and $400. For that, the buyer receives a complete board and a three-year warranty, according to its website. Given the cost, why do supposedly poor students longboard? Longboarding is fun, and it definitely helps getting to class, especially when youre late, said Matt DeVries, a sophomore whose major is undecided. I mainly do it because you can get to class in half the time, echoed Blaine Reinsma, a sophomore media production major. And, its just a lot more fun. So for some, the longboard is the most enjoyable way to get to class. Others are attracted to the steezy vibes that longboarding exudes. There is definitely a longboard culture, said Reinsma. I know a lot of people who longboard just to look cool. Def ining the longboarding subculture is difficult, but stu-

dents are quick to try. I dont wanna say its skater dudes, cause its not. Its different from just skating, said Reed Bowden, a freshman business major. It has its own little culture, Hirte said. Hipsters isnt the right term to use, but Ill stick with it. Kluitenberg who struggled to remember longboarding her freshman year said, Theres definitely, I guess you could generalize, some people that look like longboarders, but some just dont. St udents, even t hose who dont longboard, dont seem to mind whatever culture it is that they cannot really describe. If anything, they think think it is straight gnar really sweet or are at least indifferent to it. I never get irritated, said Jackson deJong, a nonboarding physics major. I kind of wish ... well, I think its kinda cool. I never find myself like, Ohh, this longboarder is taking up too much space. On the path, Kyu Hyung Park walks a bit more cautiously when longboarders are getting icey going so fast the wheels start slipping. It just hurts, like, other peoples ankles, and its just really painful, Park said. I just give a little extra space in case they cant stop, just in case. I think its cool though. As sophomore Zach Willis puts it, longboarding is pretty sexy. As for Hirte: Bikers piss me off. But boarders are to the point where I dont mind. Longboarding, well miss you. See you in the spring.

BY ELIZABETH STEINER

News Co-Editor

Kloosterant envelops chess, Steve Jobs, the arts

BY JOHN KLOOSTERMAN

Op-Ed Editor

Its that dreaded time of year again: exams. The scarcity of sunshine also starts taking its toll, and a general feeling of malaise and despair begins to spread across the campus. Sometimes facing reality in all its busyness is just too difficult, and thats the way procrastination gets its foothold into our schedules. More than a few times, however, I have felt that my accomplishments done while procrastinating are more worthwhile than what I was supposed to be doing. Take this past Sunday, for example, when I found myself once again in the bowels of Wikipedia, since the world should surprise you a lot, and if it doesnt, you need to read more Wikipedia, re ad i ng about t he fa sc i n ating world of chess. The article Cheating in Chess describes a side of the game I had never thought of before: Apparently players at major tournaments have been caught going to the bathroom to consult a computer about their next move. In the chess version of drug testing, players have been searched with

metal detectors for communication devices. I n 19 9 9, Ga r r y K a spa rov (the player who famously lost to the chess computer Deep Blue two years before that) played a game against an Internet forum, which is detailed in the article Kasparov versus the World. Each side had 24 hours to make their move; the forum was lead by expert advisors, who presented moves for the forum to vote on. The article has a captivating move-by-move analysis up until the Worlds resignation on move 62. Elsewhere on the Internet, I found an article about Steve Jobs by Andy Crouch, the author of the one-of-a-kind book Culture Making, in the Wall Street Journal. Even if you go to Church of the Servant, where this article has been referenced in more than one sermon, it is well worth reading. Crouch portrays Jobs as a secular prophet and describes part of Jobs commencement address at Stanford the gospel of a secular age. Crouch shows how technology promises to relieve us of the burden of being merely human making us less finite, undoing the curse that we will eat by the sweat of our brows.

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Instead of trying to replicate the genius of this article, I encourage you to put down the Chimes right now and read this piece. Apple, the company Jobs left behind, has had great success with its tablet, the iPad. Everyone seems to want one (to the exclusion of any other tablet), but it is still not clear to me what its compelling case is. Tablets are inherently meant for information consumption, not production. Tablets are good for watching movies, reading books and having convenient access to the Internet consuming content others have already created. They do not work well for creating quality content onself they are terrible at word processing, even with an external keyboard, because of the cramped screen, and phones do far better at taking photos and videos because of their portability. Given that all major operating system vendors (sorry, Linux distros other than Ubuntu dont count) can find a compelling business case for optimizing their product around touch-screen tablets, this trend worries me. On a different note, a few weeks ago I wrote an album review for the A&E section, and I was approached by a philosophy professor who had a difficult time understanding my article. As one with great respect for philosophers, I apologize for being confusing; maybe with practice I might achieve the great perspicuity of Hegel and Heidegger. But to make up for my error, here is my review in a philosopher-friendly format: 1. Smile is a good music album. 2. People enjoy listening to good music albums. 3. Therefore, people would enjoy listening to Smile. I apologize in advance if this is not sufficiently precise.

It looks like Calvins promoters could use a bit of a refresher course in visual culture. Lucky for them, we offer the class right across the lawn in the art department (located in the basement of the Spoelhof Center in case youre scratching your head). An interesting discussion took place on Calvin Matters two weeks ago regarding Calvins new lookbook Verge. This past year, the classic lookbook mailer was replaced with the quarterly magazine Verge to maintain a steady presence in the homes of high school upperclassmen. Verge covers similar topics as the old lookbook, including stories of outstanding alumni, facts and numbers about campus and plenty of smiling, diverse students. Two weeks ago, however, Verge came under scrutiny for publishing their fall 2011 issue with a controversial image on the cover. The image was spotted on Calvins website by a faculty member, and several others quickly expressed their disappointment on Calvin Matters with the magazine creators choice of cover photo. The image, no longer available for viewing on Calvins website, shows a Calvin student in Ghana surrounded by several Ghanaian children under the headline How Calvin students and professors are partnering with communities in Africa: From Soccer to Sutures. In the photo, the four young boys faces are obscured and they crouch at the students feet (one of whom is near his crotch). There is no soccer ball and no evidence of sutures, either. The student is standing above these African kids who seem confused as to whats going on. How does

this depict Calvins attitude to the global community? In this image, evidently, its an imperial one. Its not so much that Calvins marketing and admissions departments didnt think twice about using such a terrible photo, its the revelation that our publication staff members on campus are desperately in need of a lesson in reading images. Of all the positions on campus, those that directly influence and shape the image and reputation of Calvin are the most delicate and need to realize their heavy responsibility. Its not enough to be cutting-edge in the design world, as admissions has been trying to do (in the process severing itself from the brand of Calvin College, but thats a different article). If this was a short-run publication, say 500 pieces or less mailed out, damage-control might be easier. But this magazine is mailed to thousands of high schoolers across the nation. Do we really want these ideologies to be the first that students and their parents see in connection to Calvin? According to Calvin Matters, this mistake is not the first of its nature. In times past, committees have been formed to check images before publications are released, but have dissolved due to the time-sensitivity of these materials. In most cases, publications are on a tight deadline with many hands involved, so the more desks an image needs to pass, the longer the process becomes. Im not advocating the formation of a new committee Im advocating the education of the members of staff responsible for these kinds of publication. An afternoon of PowerPoints about whats appropriate in photo isnt enough students at Calvin spend an entire semester learning how to read into images. If those with the power are unwilling to invest the necessary time to educate themselves on these issues, then they misrepresent the commitment to excellence Calvin upholds.

Letters to the editor

Letter spot on Dear Editor, Many thanks to the Chimes staff for your letter concerning the qualifications and personal characteristics of next president of Calvin College. What you said expresses the opinions of many students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the college. No one could have said it better. John Ubels Professor of biology Article misunderstood America Dear Editor, I was frustrated when reading Mr. Thayers Op-Ed piece Opportunity for all in U.S. for a few reasons. First, his analysis was myopically partisan. He skipped over eight years of Republican presidency and placed the blame of an entire economic crisis on Clinton, liberal media and then Obama for doing nothing. Clearly our president is doing something (stretch your memory back to the days of health care, Aghanistan, and DADT debates). Obama may not be doing what Mr. Thayer would like, but after calling 99 percent of America a very, very misinformed bunch and asking us not to vilify politicians who want refor m, Thayers rhetoric seems counter-productive to his end goals. Another frustration I had was the complacency he seemed to have with America. I agree that in America we have many freedoms, but we are no longer the only democracy in the world. This isnt the only country that gives people opportunity. We cant complacently belittle the cries of the poor just because we wrote a bill of rights. Finally, to say that we should demonize the dead weights in our society who are content with living off of the taxpayers dime means we should demonize public school teachers, any member of the gover nment or ar med forces who receives a salary and definitely anyone who lives on welfare. I know people who have received government welfare and you probably do too. Sorry Mr. Thayer, but I refuse to demonize the poor, and I sincerely hope that doing so is un-American. Becca Bosslet, 14

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