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1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hic
Show more1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hicks On my summer tour of books and recreation I pause at Victoria, the old English city of North America. Princess Louise stands there beckoning with her many flags to help complete the beautiful boat-flecked harbor of Victoria. Reaching down to the wharf the grandeur of Victoria greets you. The gang-plank carries one into full view of the harbor stadium. (Wouldn't I like to be there on evenings when the chorus and bands meet for their concerts over the water!!!) To the right are the parliament buildings •with their, flower-lined lawns, statutes arid fountain: The murals of Captain Cook and other early pioneers decorate the walls of the large corridor. It was after 11:00, so to get to"the senate room before noon meant that I must,go at once. On reaching the senate room which was completely carpeted with huge blue plush rugs, we, host of Arntzen followers, were reminded of the familiar phrase, "left and right wingers'. And did -you have a chance to see the relics of the good ship "Beaver", one of the first on the Pacific coast, and the many other things of interest in the archives of the parliament building? • * » c * I, too, would like a couple of days to see the museum' exhibits. First time I can catch a ferry I shall head directly for those Butchart gardens. "Heavenly" is the way most people have described them for me. Well, my partner and I covered miles in that last hour and then waved farewell with only half our plans realized. Thanks to the recreational committee and to our reliable weather prophet, we had a jolly fine time. • * • * * Two-hundred-eighty-three people of the U. S., motorists, gathered for "The Great Round-up of the Skies" last July Fourth. Do you realize that is an average of six people per state? Washington won a notable record in this regard as we motored safely through the day without a fatality. * » » » « One World War veteran should be given a big hand for the precedent established. I understand that he sent his bonus to the commission for International Peace. It is a proven fact that advertising pays. No doubt the peace commission can use'the price of a great number of bonuses to picture the values of world peace, and if this man's few dollars is.the instrument that will prevent an early break in family ties, I'm sure that he will feel well repaid. * • • * * * I would tell you how to do those tricks of magic of the recent assembly but you have those already figured out? Five dollars to the man who can tell where those eggs and the rabbit went. "What My American Citizenship Means to Me" was the title of the declamation with which Miss Sylvia Karjalainen of Aberdeen, Wash., won the Elks* oratorical contest last week, in a straightforward way she. told of the experiences of herself and her family in Soviet Russia, and /urged others to cling to American freedom. The Aberdeen World., went on to say that Miss Karjalainen was winning something of fame for herself. Her speech was published ifc newspapers throughout the northwest and many people had sent her lettelfc of congratulation, among them Governor Clarence D. Martin. Normal Alpine Enthusiasts To Visit Mountains Hikers' Destinations Lake Ann and Chain Lakes; Austin Pass Headquarters Normal hike enthusiasts will leave the knoll at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning bound for an outing at Heather meadows, Mount Baker. Some will drive up in private cars while others will ride in a bus chartered for the occasion. Those going are asked to bring lunch and a cup. Low heel shoes and ordinary hiking clothes will serve for the trip. High top boots with calks or corks will not be necessary. The trip will cost $1.50. Hikers will make their headquarters "for the day at Austin pass. Prom there, those interested will hike to Chain lakes and to Lake Ann. Miss Elizabeth Hopper, of the Normal appointment bureau, will lead the hike to Chain lakes. The hike to Chain lakes is about 6 miles long and the trail goes around Mount Herman. Lake Ann is located on an arm of Mount Shuksan and the territory around it is said to offer good opportunity for those who desire to take pictures. Lake Ann is the usual starting point for hikes up Mount Shuksan. -6 Freshmen Girls Given Hints In Self Starter Bond Reviews Recent Oregon NEA Meeting Considers Panel Discussion Education, Democracy Most Noteworthy on T oday's Youth Upheld Convention, as Whole, Opposed to "Set Mold" Methods Relations Glub Opens Meeting With Greetings Ten Day Conference Is Attended By Seven Representatives From Normal What to wear and when to wear it are two of the many questions answered for freshman girls in the new Self Starter. Giving the low-down on school life, the book is designed to help entering women adapt themselves quickly to the college program, Katheryn Hatch and Beverly Holiday have edited the 1935-36 edition. Several linoleum cuts were contributed by Jean Hatch, while Bob White, Lucille Lee, Helen Hos-tetter, Helen Boothe. and Carol Hughes assisted with the writing. It was printed by R. D. Wilson, school printer. Greetings from Dean Florence E. Johnson, and Mary Jane Moergeli, president of the Women's League, open the book. Besides explaining school and house rules; a section is devoted to the problem of finances. Traditional social functions such as mixers and informais are also ex plained. — o Pratt Institute Students Presented Puppet Show "The Witches' Enchantment", a puppet show, was given Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Guild Playhouse, by Midgie Eaton and her"brother, Johnnie, graduates of the Pratt Institute of New York city. The play was written and the stage settings and costumes were designed by Miss Eaton. Nine puppets were used. She impersonated five voices and her brother, six. A glimpse into the strange fairyland of FoOzeleum, with the "Ali-gator Bird", really an enchanted Duchess, was the theme of the show. . In reviewing the past NEA convention, Dr. E, A. Bond, Belling-ham Normal's official delegate, considered the panel discussion on education and democracy the most noteworthy. This meeting was opened by Commissioner of Education Dr. Studebaker. Speaking on the necessity for academic freedom Dr. Studebaker stated: "Schools should be free to study any system of government and its working. To withhold facts is not education." Youth Unchanged On attitudes of students, President Bruce Baxter of Willamette university gave an address, mentioning in particular the desirable qualities in young people. With this in mind Mr. Baxter read a passage from an NEA report Of 1904 lamenting the lack of desirable traits of young people in that day. Smilingly, President Baxter said: "Prom this group you came and left tb.e impression that the youth were not superior to those of today." Perfection Bather Than Expansion Stressing the fact that American education is entering a phase of perfecting itself rather than of spending its energies Upon expansion, the convention drew comment from the . Portland Oregonian. "This conservative paper", Dr. Bond says, "disbelieves in the value of the loyalty oaths now on the statute books of 19 states, as they are an example of what legislation might do to the educational system". The main thought brought from the Portland meeting was departure from the present day movement toward gagging teachers and casting pupils into set molds. ^o— One Act Play Will Be Given By Dramatists 'The Valiant* to Be Presented By Former Outstanding . Actors "•'•1 Several of the girls of Beverly hall spent the week-end at their homes, among whom were: Dorothy Harwell, Monroe; Helen Gaddis, Sedro-Woolley; Miriam Sisson, Mount Vernon; Grace Emmans, and Helen Neely, Everett; Helen Ferry, man, Mount Vernon; and Gyneth White, Shelton. Speeches Are Given By Normal Teachers •-.At NEA Conference Faculty delegates to the NEA 'convention held in Portland, Ore., last week were: Florence Johnson, dean of women; Leona Sundquist and Ruth Piatt of the Science department; Dr. E. A. Bond of the Mathematics department; Irene Elliott, and Elsie Wendling of the Training school; Lucy Kangley of the English department; Hazel Plympton, of the Art department; Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department; Nora Cummins of the Social Science depart^ ment; and Herbert C. Ruckmick of the Industrial Arts department. Among the addresses given was one by Miss Kangley who spoke on June 29 in the First Christian church at the National Council of Teachers of English. She chose as her subject, "An Approach to Poetry Appreciation." Dr. Bond represented the Normal at the convention and spoke on the subject of "Present Trends in the Teaching of Arithemetic." "Arithmetic is a coherent, unified science rather than a multiplicity of details. The thread of unity that runs through the whole science should' be recognised at every- step. This is best done by relating facts to experiences," stated Dr. Bond. By Elmer Lindquist With greetings by many dignitaries, the Pacific Northwest Institute of International Relations opened their Id-day conference Monday morning at Reed college, Portland, Oregon. The greetings were rendered by Mr. Estes Snedecor, chairman of 'the institute; Pres. Decter Keeger of Reed College; Mr. Lester Thomas, representative of the mayor of Portland; Anfred Powers, Dean of University of Oregon; and Dr. Lawer-ence. Wilson, representative of the Congregational Council for Social Action. Anderson Gives keynote Speech In the keynote address of the Institute, Dr. Elam J. Anderson of and methods of the Institute. Linfield college, explained the aims Round table discision group groups were organized in the afternoon. The subjects to be discussed are: American security and world organization, problems of Latin America, the collective system and the enforcement of peace, the far East relations, the problems of population, raw materials and markets, national politics and international relations, peace from a spiritual point of view. A Bellingham Normal student is represented in each of the discussion groups. One round table is to be held at a different time from the others because it is felt that it is of a special significance to everyone. It is the discussion of Methods in Popular Education and Peace Action. . o •* , Music Club Sponsors Home Coming Recital Young Bellingham musicians home for vacation after teaching and studying in New York, Chicago, and Seattle for a year, will give a joint recital Tuesday, July 14, at the Garden Street Methodist church. The talented musicians appearing on the program are: Suzanne Cissna, Jean Phillips, pianists; Hortense Yule, soprano; Herman Ivarson, baritone; and Chaun-cey Griffith, organist. The Scholarship Ways and Means committee of the Bellingham Woman's Music club are sponsoring the musical event. '; A silver offering which will be taken during the intermission will be used - for the [scholarship which is ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 2 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Established 1899 «^^ Published every Friday except during the month of September by the Associated Students, Washington State Normal School, Bellingham. Entered in the Postoffice at Bellingham, Washington, as second class matter by virtue of the act of March 3, 1879. • , •• Printed by the Miller Sutherlen Printing Company, Bellingham National Bank Building, Bellingham. Subscription rate by mail, $3.00 per year, in advance. Advertising rates on application. Address all communications, other than news items, to the Business Manager of the Northwest Viking, Bellingham, Wash. Telephone 3180. Editor HARRY KLUGE Managing Editor .MARY JOHNSTON Business Manager : .WARREN TOMS News Editor Phyllis Robinson Feature Editor ~ -Bob White Society Editor .._ —Prances Pelegren Sport Editors —.Ralph Dever, Elmer Lindquist Copy editor ~ - -Beverly Holiday Special Writers: Pat Wade, Joan Hoppe, Glen Gres-eth, Helen Shipley, Margaret Thon, Oscar Svarlien, Dorothy Williams, Rose Cassidy, Nancy Smith, . Helen Booth, Louise McBurney, Beverly Holiday, Marion Peterson. Military Training or Not Probably the most significant occurence in today's news was an article issued by the American Institute of Public Opinion concerning the Civilian conservation Corps. This bureau conducted a nation-wide poll with the purpose of discerning the public's attitude toward the CCC, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pet New Deal project. The startling* factor in the compilation, directed by Dr. George Gallup of New York City, was not the fact that a majority of voters wished to continue the CCC but rather that an overwhelming part of the voters favored the addition of military training to the men's duties. The actual figures are shown below: Yes No Women -74% 26% Farmers 77 23 Reliefers 78 22 Young People 68 32 College Students 59 41 These results are a revelation to many people who have imagined that the pacifists were firmly entrenched in. our American governmentt It might be well for whose who favor military training in the CCC camps to think further than the • fact that 250,000 men would be added to the standing army. If such an addition of military instruction is carried out, no longer will we be able to scoff at Hitler's militaristic policy or look askance at Mussolini's antagonistic course. It would destroy any benefit derived from the consultations with diplomatic heads of other nations concerning disarmament plans. It would signify our intention of keeping pace with . Germany and Italy and setting the pace for Great Britain, France, and Japan. And most important, it would lower the whole standard upon which our democratic government is based. Can this be the opinion of the people at large? o OUR SOCIAL STUDY GROUP SOMETHING NEW? And friends were glad to call around You greeted with a smile, And friends were glad to call around To stay with me awhile. But lately life has taken on An aspect queer and strange And everybody wonders what Has brought about the change For, I mumble and I mutter As I stroll upon the street And erstwhile friends pass quickly by If we by chance should meet. My eyes are dull and vacant and My mind is in a fog. My voice resembles very much The croaking of a frog. I know you all are wondering Just how this came about, I'll tell you all the secret, But please don't let it out. For really I'm as happy As a baby with the croup, For I'm getting educated in Our Social Study Group. Track, football, and baseball teams have driven their respective ways to either glorious victory or inglorious defeat, many times depending upon the number of the much-needed supporters present in the time-worn stands pictured here— Only too often has that number been not numerous enough to mention. But not only for athletic events has this structure been made use of— Tis said that several times a certain Eveready about school has been focused upon those who chose its idyllic haunts in preference to Sehome or Sunset Heights. Those to his own choosing, so what? Point of View By Harlan Jones In which we attempt to coerce the perogatives of Dante's Inferno as brick-bats to thrust down the craw of the public mind to help masticate some of the illy digested figments of Utopia and Messiahs which ever return to haunt the folk that have too little sand in their Intellectual gizzards. You tell 'em. Being on the spot as you remember, this column is muttering in its heard trying desperately at the last moment to coin a slogan that will save the world for democracy. However, since "Point of View" is much too immersed in water much too deep to have time to aspire for political office this fall, we shall try to be terse. Having dwelt on the third dimen~- sion of human nature, the political idealism of the Football-cast and the PWA scrubs, and this man Ka-gawa, we should like to take a slant at Co-operation. The Bellingham Egg Co-op just makes it tough for the widow with the hen house on the shores of Lake Carnegie. Her Rhode Island Reds hardly have room to cluck on the open market. Good in Bellingham? Yes. Partly a good thing. In Denmark the country villages can paint their roof-trees with the money their producers' co-ops have paid them. Japan, with the help of Kakawa's hundred popular books on co-operatives, which attach themselves to the public mind much as did Tolstoy's, whom he studied. Such as "Grains of Wheat". They have consumer stores. Each member buying his food, or his $1.85 work suit having one vote. Not so in an American corporation for here, where the controlling money lies, so does the vote. Each member there, has a speaking part, but getting back at the end of the month a proportion of what amount he buys. Do you recognize the Grange gas and oil setup? of American democracy. Why not fill the gap of bankruptcy and lack of purchasing power with co-operative stores, and so give the "Civil Liberties League" a break politically? There are very strange bedfellows in this election. —Selected Musing You have probably heard about the consumer of tooth paste who thought the manufacturers put too much moisture in dentifrices. To prove his idea he went into manufacturing and really did produce a tooth paste without any excess moisture in it. But a pair of plyers was needed to get the paste out. We don't know if he is, as yet, convinced that manufacturers of dentifrices make tooth paste moist for a better reason than deception. But we of the teaching profession believe that we had better instill a little more humor into our intellectual students so that future generations can make use of them without getting a sledge hammer to uncover the prodigy's mind. Book Shelf POETRY OF TODAY, by Rosa M. R. Mikels and Grace Shoup; Charles Scribner's Sons. Reviewed by Glen O. Greseth. This is the ariswer to the desire of thousands of poetry lovers to have a pocket-sized anthology of contemporary verse. The selections in "Poetry of Today" are admirably chosen to bring out the adventuring spirit of modern poetry. There are poems'about "excavations, cabbages, tea, skyscrapers, automobiles, and Saturday-night crowds in large cities, blossoms; rivers, sunsets, mountains, and sea-themes that have always appealed to poets; and the age-old problem of love and life." There are poems for all the moods of a sentimentalist on a fishing trip. If he sits buried in retrospection, he will find expression in "Birches" by Robert Frost or the light-hearted reminiscences expressed in "Little Boy Blue" by Eugene Field. If he seeks expression for the beauty of nature let him read "May is Building her House" by Richard Le Gal-lienne or ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 3 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Racqueteers To Play Off Games Bodminton and Archery Players Support Favorite Sports Enthusiastically "The tennis tournament schedule has been posted, stated to Miss Luell Weed of the Women's Physical Education department. "The second round matches to be played Monday are between Dohalda Grant and Inez Sjognen; Mary Morrow and May Dillon. One first round match has yet to be played off to determine the other players in the second round". Looking It Over Those eight lanky University of Washington oarsmen and their skipper, Bob Moch, deserve all the credit and publicity they are receiving. It is perhaps the finest crew Washington has ever produced; certainly their cox appears to be the best little admiral. And that's saying a lot, for Washington's crews are known wherever college oars sweep the water. We'll be wishing them all the breaks, and we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for them while they are in Berlin. Archery Popular The enthusiasm expressed by the large number signing up for Archery, Thursday, at 4:00 o'cock has pleased Miss Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department. Badminton Added Of the Wednesday afternoon sports at 4:00, Miss Weed related, *There was a small but enthusiastic group out for volley ball. No one turned out for baseball. However", Miss Weed continued, "another sport, badminton, was played upon the demand of a group." All bad-} minton enthusiasts are welcome it they furnisft their own birds. They can be bought at the Co-op". According to Miss Weythman of the same department badminton as a sport has increased in popularity at a tremendous rate in the last eight years. Eight years ago there were no teams, at the Normal but now there is a class devoted to teaching the rules and techniques of the game. One of those voices that you heard over CBS last Sunday afternoon had more than a passing interest in the outcome of the crew race. It was none other than Royal Brougham, sports editor for the Seattle PI, making a national name for himself as a radio announcer for the Columbia system. After all, (what is more fitting than that a | sports writer from our own state should announce the victory of a Washington crew? They say that when Washington began to put on the power they gained the space of a man with each stroke of the oars. Your sports editor does not want anyone to fail in his studies, yet he cannot help noting an observed human phenomenon. The day is Wednesday, the time 4:30 in the afternoon, the sky is clear, the weather is not too hot. A much used room in the library is filled to overflowing with Normal school students reading books and taking down notes. Yet near that library are playing fields where softball, volleyball, tennis, and numerous other sports could be enjoyed by those people who are so studiously trying to remember what someone else has written. With such a fine recreational program why study so hard? Of course, everyone knows by now who won the Wimbledon in tennis. But.it is not too late to give Helen Jacobs another big hand for winning that championship. It's a tough, hard grind, all the way to the top. Lappenbusch Plans Invasion Of University Basketball Gym; Return Bout on Local Floor With the WAA Of her badminton class Miss Weed told, "Some fast playing may be seen any morning at 9:00 o'clock in the gym. The class is in the midst of an interesting round robin tournament". Badminton was introduced from India to England around 1873, thence to Canada and the United States. Howdy, WAAers—Art you still WAAing? Do you get your cold shower every morning? Do you Walk five miles every day? (Musi keep that figure down.) Do you eat fresh fruit or vegetables and drink milk each meal? Do you avoid candy between meals? Do you get some other exercise besides Walking? TRY Our Combination BREAKFAST 30c LUNCH 30c-35c Special Steak Dinner 50c MODEL CAFE We Never Close 1324 Commercial Why do I ask all these questions? Well, after all, it isnt every month that a great orchestra leader and composer like I sham Jones graces Bellingham with his presence. Isnt that a good reason to-look and feel right ? What.' You re not going? You say you cant go on all these hikes and trips and expect to have money or for your boy friends to have enough ('scuse me, 1 thought WAAers didn't have boy friends) for a dance as expensive as that. I dont blame you too much, as these hikes and trips are keeping me badly bent, too. But isnt a dance exercise? Well, fight it out for yourself. If you ever run out of anything to do, all you athletes, let me tell you of a sport that will fascinate you. Once you get yourself involved you won't be able to give up until 'you absolutely have to announce yourself as licked, and one of Ted Shane's cockeyed crossword puzzles in Liberty surely can do it. Or are you one of those master minds no puzzle can lick? Anyway who cares? When a person has to talk about crossword puzzles on a sport page he had better quit, so I am. School Golf Team Accepts Challenge It will be a first come first place, in the tryouts for the golf team to play the University of Washington team, according to a statement from Coach Chuck Lappenbusch this week. The team will consist of six men. All golfers are urged to report to the coach as soon as possible so that the tryouts can take place right away. The ladder system will be used to pick the six best men to represent the school. "The first man to report will have his name placed at the top of the ladder" said Coach Lappenbusch. "A man can challenge either of the two men directly above him". o Jon High Defeats Carnival Mat-Men Hammett's Hams, Tomco's Tomcats Lead Intramural Basketball First Series Keppler Leads Scoring All Members Kitten Team Score; Second Series Started Jon High, 190-pound junior of WSNS, matched his grappling skill with the carnival mat-men Wednesday night to win two and break even on the third of three consecutive matches. After answering the usual challenge and agreeing to pay his own doctor bill, High entered the *ing for seven minutes of catch as catch can with polished Billy Newman This match resulted in a draw. The two men drew another crowd and did it over again. High won this one with a series of body slams. Then he was pitted against George Kelly, a 200-pounder, but downed Kelley too in less than six ininutes of the scheduled eight minute handicap. o — Outstanding basketball players chosen from the four intramural teams will invade Husky territory, Tuesday, July 14, to play the University of Washington varsity team, according to an announce* ment by Coach Lappenbusch. A squad of 6 to 11 men will make the trip. The U of W team will play a return game here in the little gym* Tuesday, July 21, at 4 p. m. Standing of Teams • W L Pet. Hammett's Hams 2 1 .667 Tomco's Tomcats ...:..2 1 .667 Keppler's Kittens 1 2 .333 StutzSs Bearcats 1 2 .333 Stutz's Bearcats 1 2 .333 Bearcats Win Stut's Bearcats upset the applecart Monday afternoon when, from the cellar position in the league, they defeated the formerly unbeaten Hammett's Hams by a score of 24 to 30. Stutz' own 12 point score helped materially to put his team ahead of Hammett's in the tally. Prender for the Hams with his 8 points was chief threat against the Bearcats. Summary Bearcats—24 Hams—20 Let Us Do Your Work We Call and Deliver C A S C A D E Laundry and Cleaners 205 Prospect Phones 66, 120 When It's Your Move Let's Make it "Our Move" M0DEL3SS PHONE 70 Puppetry Play Slated For Training School |S. K. Scheldrup, D. C. Palmer Graduate CHIROPRACTOR I Phone 878 210 Kulshan Bldg. X-RAY "The Magicians and the Dragon," a puppet show, will be presented in the training school assembly next Friday by members of the puppetry class. The assembly will be at 9:00. Mr. Robert Kindschy will direct the play and also take the leading part. Members of the class will assist in the presentation. WELL, THAT'S OVER! About the greatest danger we encountered this Fourth was the danger of catching pneumonia. Perhaps it's just as well to remember during summer, as well as winter, that DARIGOLD PASTEURIZED MILK fortifies you against cold and disease! Whatcom County Dairymen's Assn. PHONE 314 SANDISON "Photos That Please" Official Klipsun PHOTOGRAPHER STAGES ••***•» Seattle, Everett, Mount Vernon— 7:30, 8:30,10:30 a. m., 12:30, 1;30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30. 5:30 (6;30 Sundays and Holidays), 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. North Coast Lines Depot—Magnolia and State Phone 5004 Bullard .P. Digerness 2 iTulin 10 P. .......Prender 8 Alpaugh 2 C... ...McDonald 2 Stutz 12 _..G „....:........Hall 2 Osibov .....G .Wilder 2 Sub .Lovos Sub. Hammett 4 Referee—George. Tomcats vs. Kittens Tomco's team of wild Tomcats roamed from third place in the league to second by silencing Keppler's Kittens in the second game on Monday afternoon. The score was 22 to 18. Hager, on the Tomcat team, and Keppler, on the Kitten team, tied for high point man in the game with scores of 9 each. Every man on the Kitten team made at least one basket, either from the field or from the foul line. Summary Tomcats—22 Kittens—18 Compliments of CYR BROTHERS DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. Established 1889 Pacific Laundry Phones 126 and 127 Dwelley 6 ...~.F. Tulin 2 Reeves 3 -F-— .Witherow 1 Hager 9. C .Keppler 9 Belcher G „..Zylstra 2 Tomco 4. G. George 2 Sub.... .Osibov 2 Individual Standings In the total individual scores for the first series of league games | Keppler leads the field with 24 points, only one point ahead of Frender with his 23. Stutz is parked in third place with a 20. The top scorers are: Keppler 24 Frender .23 Stutz 20 Hager .. .-.17 Tulto ... :.16 Hammett 14 Digerness 9 Reeves 9 Tomco .7 Dwelley .6 Hall ..j* Bo chn.ak' * 110 EAST HOLLLY Summer Clearance Sale Fancy Men's Clothes at Bargain Prices ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 4 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. BELLINCHAM. WASHINGTON Introducing-- MARIE de GALLIER, master manager . . . former Board member . . . popular, efficient WAA prexy . . . named one of 'big ten' in 1935 Klipsun . . . has spent the ast year teaching in the lower grade at Shelton . . . looking forward to a promising opportunity as cadet instructor in the Seattle teaching system . . . forsook the Dorm this quarter to batch with Aggie Martin in their cabin in the cottonwood. • • • * BARNEY CHICHESTER, former NWV editor as well as business manager . . . dramatically prominent during previous attendance at Normal . . . played in "The Poor Nut," "Craig's Wife," "Sun Up" and others : . . taught in Seattle last year . . . if fond papa to a strapping six-month (or) so old son . .. recently sold a play . . . is called by NWV printer "a darn fine fellow." * * • • EDITH McLACHLAN—ex-teacher of rural student.teacher at the Victor school for seven years—a rural-ite herself for the last three years, teaching in the Westsound school on Orcas island—living on the home farm with her husband and small son—son now in the fifth grade of the Normal Training school—enjoys the rural life—nevertheless still has eyes for new worlds to conquer. New Catalog Is Distributed Fisher Points Out New Features Of Interest in Pamphlet for 1936-37 Grade Children Reveal Interest Bushell Trio Offers Musical Selections A musical program featuring the Bushell trio was given in assembly this morning. The trio consists of Arthur Thai, well-known local violinist, and Edith R. Strange and Donald Bushell, members of the Normal school music faculty, who gave an arrangement of selections chosen for their pleasing melodies. Among the outstanding numbers were the last three movements of the Arensky melody, and sentimental sketches by Mason. Daniel Gregory Mason, according to Mr. Bushell, is famous for his writings on music as well as for his compositions. Barbara Kennedy of Beverly Hall has accepted a position as camp councillor for the Girl Scout Camp at Lost Lake, Elma. She left- Thursday to take up her new duties which will last throughout the summer camping season. Announcing the arrival of the new catalogue which has just come from the printers, President C. H. Fisher described some of the new features which will add to the interest and information of the book. Under the head of general education there is a paragraph on courses for nurses. "Beginning with the au-for nurses. "Beginning with the au-pursue a course in nursing will be required by the State Department of licenses to have one year of college work before they will be allowed in an accredited school for nurses. Courses in anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, hygiene, and nursing education totaling 23 quarter hour credits will be required. The State Normal school at Bell-ingham has been authorized to offer this work and will enroll students beginning in the autumn of 1936, according to the catalogue. "There is also a revision of courses for teacher librarians that brings these courses up to date, according to the standard set by the American Library association", Fisher commented. o Isham Jones to Play Under Curtis Auspices At State Armory Today Isham Jones and his orchestra, famous on the screen and known to all radio listeners, will be at the State Armory tonight. This appearance is sponsored by Jay Curtis, local orchestra leader, who has brought many famous dance bands to Bellingham the past few years. Jones and his boys have played in such leading hotels as the Ambassador in Atlantic City and the Ritz- Carlton in the famous New- Jersey shore resort. "I'll See You in My Dreams", "It Had to Be You", "Spain", "Indiana Moon", "If You Were Only Mine", "I Can't Believe It's True", and "Let's Try Again" are some of the popular tunes Isham Jones has composed. In addition, the recordings of this orchestra are extremely popular. InM agic Lore Audience Mystified by Oranges, Bunnies Drawn, Apparently, From the Air Older Students Skeptical Second Grader Believes Jones Member of Troupe "Are those oranges real?" "Was that a magic bunny?" were some of the questions of the primary training school children after they visited the Friday morning assembly at which Paul Fleming entertained with magic. The first grade child who received an orange from Mr. Fleming felt it, turned it over, and Wouldn't believe it was real until it was opened and the real juice came out. The children in the kindergarten were proud of their representative who was an assistant to Mr. Fleming, but they couldn't imagine how the rabbit was concealed in the little boy's sweater. After a discussion of magic in the second grade, the children put the following statement in their newspaper, "The magician's hands moved so much faster than we could see, so it seemed it was magic really". Another second grade child asked if Harlan Jones were one of the magician's troupe. Third, fourth, and fifth graders expressed curiosity about the magic, but one fifth grade girl said, "I don't believe a bit of it. It really isn't magic". The upper grades took balcony seats from which they could see much of the wiring and use of properties. o Local Normal Student Northwest Indian Queen Librarian Gets Testing Bulletin New Publication Aids Students; Plans for Examinations Are Given "Standard Testing and Remedial Work", a new bulletin compiled by Miss Jeannette Donaldson, supervisor, upper grades and junior high school of the State Department of Instruction, has been received by "Miss Mabel Zoe Wilson, librarian. It is Miss Wilson's opinion that this bulletin offers much worthwhile material for the teacher, and that Miss Donaldson should be praised for her organization. A standard testing plan, a remedial program, and information on the new plan for state examinations in the elementary schools are all considered in this bulletin. Some of the more specific items included are: "The General Principles and Points of View"; "The Necessity of Pupil Guidance"; '"The Favorable Outcomes of the Standard Testing Plan'; "Acceleration and Retardation"; "The Elementary Library and the Remedial Program"; and "Pro cedures Helpful in Reducing Pupil Failures". Miss Donaldson also gives reading references and aids for professional use. Copies of this bulletin can be obtained from the State Department of Instruction, Olympia, Wash. ectidiis At Downs Stop-Look-Listen A FOUNTAIN PEN THAT WE WILL FILL WITH WATER No Mixing of Ink No Carrying of Ink Bottles No Running Out of Ink in a Tight Place Just Fill With Water See Them At the Mary Iyall, a former student of the Bellingham State Normal school, won the "tribal crown" in Seattle Sunday. She was chosen "queen" "over the young Indians of the Pacific Northwest by the North-westerns. Miss Iyall will reign as their "queen" until the salmon run begins in 1937. Miss Iyall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Iyall, who reside on the Yakima reservation at Top-penish. She is a graduate of the Salem high school, Oregon. This fall Miss Iyall plans to re-enter the Normal school. Mrs. Carl Rich and Miss LaVeta Smart drove to Seattle for the holidays. Mrs. Rich is an assistant to Mrs. Lovegren. Margaret Green attended the Sedro-Woolley rodeo over the Fourth of July. * # *t * * Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Moser (Violet Waech) spent this.week in Bellingham and visited members of the faculty and friends. Both Mr. and Mrs. Waech - are former Normal students. * * * * * John Kerr, a former Normal student, was a guest of Chauncey Griffith, also an alumnus of the Normal. NU-WAY Shoe Rebulders Howard Holstine Across from Postoffice 107 W. Magnolia Try the HERALD Beauty Shop For an A P P O I N T M E N T CALL 146 308 Herald Bldg. The Finest SUNDAE in Town Frozen Fudge 15c Try Smalley's Soda Fountain for a Real Treat The Smalley Drug Co. Prescription Druggists Commercial and Magnolia Dorothy Wellman St. James Weds At First Christian Church / On Sunday Weddings, week-ends, election of officers, and conventions characterized this week's activities. * * « * • Within the First Christian church on Sunday evening was the marriage of Dorothy E. Wellman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Wellman, and Mr. George St. James, of this city. In the presence of a few friends, Rev. Earl Hanson Fife, the pastor, read the service. . The attendants were Elaine Oltman and Ralph Henderson. Both Mr. and Mrs. St. James are .graduates of Whatcom high school and they have attended the Normal. Mr. St. James has also been a student at Washington State college. * --* -* * gt;* Another wedding took place within the home of the bride's parents at Wiser Lake on Saturday evening. Miss Ebba Erickson and Mr. George Wetzel were married by Rev. A. D. Johnson, of Ferndale. Mrs. Wetzel is a graduate of the Normal. * « * * * Officers of Downs hall for the summer quarter are: Winifred Claypoole, president; Rosetha Newman, social secretary; and Millie Gerdis, reporter. » » * » * Clarys Allison, Elsie Johnson, and Dorothy Christensen of Downs hall attended the NEA convention in Portland, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Bertha Herold spent the week-end visiting in Auburn. » * * * * Mrs. Grace Krous, formerly of the Music department of this school, visited in Bellingham on" Monday and Tuesday. * * * * * Miss Bessie Williams was the week-end guest of her parents at their home in Renton. 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1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hic
Show more1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hicks On my summer tour of books and recreation I pause at Victoria, the old English city of North America. Princess Louise stands there beckoning with her many flags to help complete the beautiful boat-flecked harbor of Victoria. Reaching down to the wharf the grandeur of Victoria greets you. The gang-plank carries one into full view of the harbor stadium. (Wouldn't I like to be there on evenings when the chorus and bands meet for their concerts over the water!!!) To the right are the parliament buildings •with their, flower-lined lawns, statutes arid fountain: The murals of Captain Cook and other early pioneers decorate the walls of the large corridor. It was after 11:00, so to get to"the senate room before noon meant that I must,go at once. On reaching the senate room which was completely carpeted with huge blue plush rugs, we, host of Arntzen followers, were reminded of the familiar phrase, "left and right wingers'. And did -you have a chance to see the relics of the good ship "Beaver", one of the first on the Pacific coast, and the many other things of interest in the archives of the parliament building? • * » c * I, too, would like a couple of days to see the museum' exhibits. First time I can catch a ferry I shall head directly for those Butchart gardens. "Heavenly" is the way most people have described them for me. Well, my partner and I covered miles in that last hour and then waved farewell with only half our plans realized. Thanks to the recreational committee and to our reliable weather prophet, we had a jolly fine time. • * • * * Two-hundred-eighty-three people of the U. S., motorists, gathered for "The Great Round-up of the Skies" last July Fourth. Do you realize that is an average of six people per state? Washington won a notable record in this regard as we motored safely through the day without a fatality. * » » » « One World War veteran should be given a big hand for the precedent established. I understand that he sent his bonus to the commission for International Peace. It is a proven fact that advertising pays. No doubt the peace commission can use'the price of a great number of bonuses to picture the values of world peace, and if this man's few dollars is.the instrument that will prevent an early break in family ties, I'm sure that he will feel well repaid. * • • * * * I would tell you how to do those tricks of magic of the recent assembly but you have those already figured out? Five dollars to the man who can tell where those eggs and the rabbit went. "What My American Citizenship Means to Me" was the title of the declamation with which Miss Sylvia Karjalainen of Aberdeen, Wash., won the Elks* oratorical contest last week, in a straightforward way she. told of the experiences of herself and her family in Soviet Russia, and /urged others to cling to American freedom. The Aberdeen World., went on to say that Miss Karjalainen was winning something of fame for herself. Her speech was published ifc newspapers throughout the northwest and many people had sent her lettelfc of congratulation, among them Governor Clarence D. Martin. Normal Alpine Enthusiasts To Visit Mountains Hikers' Destinations Lake Ann and Chain Lakes; Austin Pass Headquarters Normal hike enthusiasts will leave the knoll at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning bound for an outing at Heather meadows, Mount Baker. Some will drive up in private cars while others will ride in a bus chartered for the occasion. Those going are asked to bring lunch and a cup. Low heel shoes and ordinary hiking clothes will serve for the trip. High top boots with calks or corks will not be necessary. The trip will cost $1.50. Hikers will make their headquarters "for the day at Austin pass. Prom there, those interested will hike to Chain lakes and to Lake Ann. Miss Elizabeth Hopper, of the Normal appointment bureau, will lead the hike to Chain lakes. The hike to Chain lakes is about 6 miles long and the trail goes around Mount Herman. Lake Ann is located on an arm of Mount Shuksan and the territory around it is said to offer good opportunity for those who desire to take pictures. Lake Ann is the usual starting point for hikes up Mount Shuksan. -6 Freshmen Girls Given Hints In Self Starter Bond Reviews Recent Oregon NEA Meeting Considers Panel Discussion Education, Democracy Most Noteworthy on T oday's Youth Upheld Convention, as Whole, Opposed to "Set Mold" Methods Relations Glub Opens Meeting With Greetings Ten Day Conference Is Attended By Seven Representatives From Normal What to wear and when to wear it are two of the many questions answered for freshman girls in the new Self Starter. Giving the low-down on school life, the book is designed to help entering women adapt themselves quickly to the college program, Katheryn Hatch and Beverly Holiday have edited the 1935-36 edition. Several linoleum cuts were contributed by Jean Hatch, while Bob White, Lucille Lee, Helen Hos-tetter, Helen Boothe. and Carol Hughes assisted with the writing. It was printed by R. D. Wilson, school printer. Greetings from Dean Florence E. Johnson, and Mary Jane Moergeli, president of the Women's League, open the book. Besides explaining school and house rules; a section is devoted to the problem of finances. Traditional social functions such as mixers and informais are also ex plained. — o Pratt Institute Students Presented Puppet Show "The Witches' Enchantment", a puppet show, was given Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Guild Playhouse, by Midgie Eaton and her"brother, Johnnie, graduates of the Pratt Institute of New York city. The play was written and the stage settings and costumes were designed by Miss Eaton. Nine puppets were used. She impersonated five voices and her brother, six. A glimpse into the strange fairyland of FoOzeleum, with the "Ali-gator Bird", really an enchanted Duchess, was the theme of the show. . In reviewing the past NEA convention, Dr. E, A. Bond, Belling-ham Normal's official delegate, considered the panel discussion on education and democracy the most noteworthy. This meeting was opened by Commissioner of Education Dr. Studebaker. Speaking on the necessity for academic freedom Dr. Studebaker stated: "Schools should be free to study any system of government and its working. To withhold facts is not education." Youth Unchanged On attitudes of students, President Bruce Baxter of Willamette university gave an address, mentioning in particular the desirable qualities in young people. With this in mind Mr. Baxter read a passage from an NEA report Of 1904 lamenting the lack of desirable traits of young people in that day. Smilingly, President Baxter said: "Prom this group you came and left tb.e impression that the youth were not superior to those of today." Perfection Bather Than Expansion Stressing the fact that American education is entering a phase of perfecting itself rather than of spending its energies Upon expansion, the convention drew comment from the . Portland Oregonian. "This conservative paper", Dr. Bond says, "disbelieves in the value of the loyalty oaths now on the statute books of 19 states, as they are an example of what legislation might do to the educational system". The main thought brought from the Portland meeting was departure from the present day movement toward gagging teachers and casting pupils into set molds. ^o— One Act Play Will Be Given By Dramatists 'The Valiant* to Be Presented By Former Outstanding . Actors "•'•1 Several of the girls of Beverly hall spent the week-end at their homes, among whom were: Dorothy Harwell, Monroe; Helen Gaddis, Sedro-Woolley; Miriam Sisson, Mount Vernon; Grace Emmans, and Helen Neely, Everett; Helen Ferry, man, Mount Vernon; and Gyneth White, Shelton. Speeches Are Given By Normal Teachers •-.At NEA Conference Faculty delegates to the NEA 'convention held in Portland, Ore., last week were: Florence Johnson, dean of women; Leona Sundquist and Ruth Piatt of the Science department; Dr. E. A. Bond of the Mathematics department; Irene Elliott, and Elsie Wendling of the Training school; Lucy Kangley of the English department; Hazel Plympton, of the Art department; Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department; Nora Cummins of the Social Science depart^ ment; and Herbert C. Ruckmick of the Industrial Arts department. Among the addresses given was one by Miss Kangley who spoke on June 29 in the First Christian church at the National Council of Teachers of English. She chose as her subject, "An Approach to Poetry Appreciation." Dr. Bond represented the Normal at the convention and spoke on the subject of "Present Trends in the Teaching of Arithemetic." "Arithmetic is a coherent, unified science rather than a multiplicity of details. The thread of unity that runs through the whole science should' be recognised at every- step. This is best done by relating facts to experiences," stated Dr. Bond. By Elmer Lindquist With greetings by many dignitaries, the Pacific Northwest Institute of International Relations opened their Id-day conference Monday morning at Reed college, Portland, Oregon. The greetings were rendered by Mr. Estes Snedecor, chairman of 'the institute; Pres. Decter Keeger of Reed College; Mr. Lester Thomas, representative of the mayor of Portland; Anfred Powers, Dean of University of Oregon; and Dr. Lawer-ence. Wilson, representative of the Congregational Council for Social Action. Anderson Gives keynote Speech In the keynote address of the Institute, Dr. Elam J. Anderson of and methods of the Institute. Linfield college, explained the aims Round table discision group groups were organized in the afternoon. The subjects to be discussed are: American security and world organization, problems of Latin America, the collective system and the enforcement of peace, the far East relations, the problems of population, raw materials and markets, national politics and international relations, peace from a spiritual point of view. A Bellingham Normal student is represented in each of the discussion groups. One round table is to be held at a different time from the others because it is felt that it is of a special significance to everyone. It is the discussion of Methods in Popular Education and Peace Action. . o •* , Music Club Sponsors Home Coming Recital Young Bellingham musicians home for vacation after teaching and studying in New York, Chicago, and Seattle for a year, will give a joint recital Tuesday, July 14, at the Garden Street Methodist church. The talented musicians appearing on the program are: Suzanne Cissna, Jean Phillips, pianists; Hortense Yule, soprano; Herman Ivarson, baritone; and Chaun-cey Griffith, organist. The Scholarship Ways and Means committee of the Bellingham Woman's Music club are sponsoring the musical event. '; A silver offering which will be taken during the intermission will be used - for the [scholarship which is ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 2 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Established 1899 «^^ Published every Friday except during the month of September by the Associated Students, Washington State Normal School, Bellingham. Entered in the Postoffice at Bellingham, Washington, as second class matter by virtue of the act of March 3, 1879. • , •• Printed by the Miller Sutherlen Printing Company, Bellingham National Bank Building, Bellingham. Subscription rate by mail, $3.00 per year, in advance. Advertising rates on application. Address all communications, other than news items, to the Business Manager of the Northwest Viking, Bellingham, Wash. Telephone 3180. Editor HARRY KLUGE Managing Editor .MARY JOHNSTON Business Manager : .WARREN TOMS News Editor Phyllis Robinson Feature Editor ~ -Bob White Society Editor .._ —Prances Pelegren Sport Editors —.Ralph Dever, Elmer Lindquist Copy editor ~ - -Beverly Holiday Special Writers: Pat Wade, Joan Hoppe, Glen Gres-eth, Helen Shipley, Margaret Thon, Oscar Svarlien, Dorothy Williams, Rose Cassidy, Nancy Smith, . Helen Booth, Louise McBurney, Beverly Holiday, Marion Peterson. Military Training or Not Probably the most significant occurence in today's news was an article issued by the American Institute of Public Opinion concerning the Civilian conservation Corps. This bureau conducted a nation-wide poll with the purpose of discerning the public's attitude toward the CCC, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pet New Deal project. The startling* factor in the compilation, directed by Dr. George Gallup of New York City, was not the fact that a majority of voters wished to continue the CCC but rather that an overwhelming part of the voters favored the addition of military training to the men's duties. The actual figures are shown below: Yes No Women -74% 26% Farmers 77 23 Reliefers 78 22 Young People 68 32 College Students 59 41 These results are a revelation to many people who have imagined that the pacifists were firmly entrenched in. our American governmentt It might be well for whose who favor military training in the CCC camps to think further than the • fact that 250,000 men would be added to the standing army. If such an addition of military instruction is carried out, no longer will we be able to scoff at Hitler's militaristic policy or look askance at Mussolini's antagonistic course. It would destroy any benefit derived from the consultations with diplomatic heads of other nations concerning disarmament plans. It would signify our intention of keeping pace with . Germany and Italy and setting the pace for Great Britain, France, and Japan. And most important, it would lower the whole standard upon which our democratic government is based. Can this be the opinion of the people at large? o OUR SOCIAL STUDY GROUP SOMETHING NEW? And friends were glad to call around You greeted with a smile, And friends were glad to call around To stay with me awhile. But lately life has taken on An aspect queer and strange And everybody wonders what Has brought about the change For, I mumble and I mutter As I stroll upon the street And erstwhile friends pass quickly by If we by chance should meet. My eyes are dull and vacant and My mind is in a fog. My voice resembles very much The croaking of a frog. I know you all are wondering Just how this came about, I'll tell you all the secret, But please don't let it out. For really I'm as happy As a baby with the croup, For I'm getting educated in Our Social Study Group. Track, football, and baseball teams have driven their respective ways to either glorious victory or inglorious defeat, many times depending upon the number of the much-needed supporters present in the time-worn stands pictured here— Only too often has that number been not numerous enough to mention. But not only for athletic events has this structure been made use of— Tis said that several times a certain Eveready about school has been focused upon those who chose its idyllic haunts in preference to Sehome or Sunset Heights. Those to his own choosing, so what? Point of View By Harlan Jones In which we attempt to coerce the perogatives of Dante's Inferno as brick-bats to thrust down the craw of the public mind to help masticate some of the illy digested figments of Utopia and Messiahs which ever return to haunt the folk that have too little sand in their Intellectual gizzards. You tell 'em. Being on the spot as you remember, this column is muttering in its heard trying desperately at the last moment to coin a slogan that will save the world for democracy. However, since "Point of View" is much too immersed in water much too deep to have time to aspire for political office this fall, we shall try to be terse. Having dwelt on the third dimen~- sion of human nature, the political idealism of the Football-cast and the PWA scrubs, and this man Ka-gawa, we should like to take a slant at Co-operation. The Bellingham Egg Co-op just makes it tough for the widow with the hen house on the shores of Lake Carnegie. Her Rhode Island Reds hardly have room to cluck on the open market. Good in Bellingham? Yes. Partly a good thing. In Denmark the country villages can paint their roof-trees with the money their producers' co-ops have paid them. Japan, with the help of Kakawa's hundred popular books on co-operatives, which attach themselves to the public mind much as did Tolstoy's, whom he studied. Such as "Grains of Wheat". They have consumer stores. Each member buying his food, or his $1.85 work suit having one vote. Not so in an American corporation for here, where the controlling money lies, so does the vote. Each member there, has a speaking part, but getting back at the end of the month a proportion of what amount he buys. Do you recognize the Grange gas and oil setup? of American democracy. Why not fill the gap of bankruptcy and lack of purchasing power with co-operative stores, and so give the "Civil Liberties League" a break politically? There are very strange bedfellows in this election. —Selected Musing You have probably heard about the consumer of tooth paste who thought the manufacturers put too much moisture in dentifrices. To prove his idea he went into manufacturing and really did produce a tooth paste without any excess moisture in it. But a pair of plyers was needed to get the paste out. We don't know if he is, as yet, convinced that manufacturers of dentifrices make tooth paste moist for a better reason than deception. But we of the teaching profession believe that we had better instill a little more humor into our intellectual students so that future generations can make use of them without getting a sledge hammer to uncover the prodigy's mind. Book Shelf POETRY OF TODAY, by Rosa M. R. Mikels and Grace Shoup; Charles Scribner's Sons. Reviewed by Glen O. Greseth. This is the ariswer to the desire of thousands of poetry lovers to have a pocket-sized anthology of contemporary verse. The selections in "Poetry of Today" are admirably chosen to bring out the adventuring spirit of modern poetry. There are poems'about "excavations, cabbages, tea, skyscrapers, automobiles, and Saturday-night crowds in large cities, blossoms; rivers, sunsets, mountains, and sea-themes that have always appealed to poets; and the age-old problem of love and life." There are poems for all the moods of a sentimentalist on a fishing trip. If he sits buried in retrospection, he will find expression in "Birches" by Robert Frost or the light-hearted reminiscences expressed in "Little Boy Blue" by Eugene Field. If he seeks expression for the beauty of nature let him read "May is Building her House" by Richard Le Gal-lienne or ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 3 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Racqueteers To Play Off Games Bodminton and Archery Players Support Favorite Sports Enthusiastically "The tennis tournament schedule has been posted, stated to Miss Luell Weed of the Women's Physical Education department. "The second round matches to be played Monday are between Dohalda Grant and Inez Sjognen; Mary Morrow and May Dillon. One first round match has yet to be played off to determine the other players in the second round". Looking It Over Those eight lanky University of Washington oarsmen and their skipper, Bob Moch, deserve all the credit and publicity they are receiving. It is perhaps the finest crew Washington has ever produced; certainly their cox appears to be the best little admiral. And that's saying a lot, for Washington's crews are known wherever college oars sweep the water. We'll be wishing them all the breaks, and we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for them while they are in Berlin. Archery Popular The enthusiasm expressed by the large number signing up for Archery, Thursday, at 4:00 o'cock has pleased Miss Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department. Badminton Added Of the Wednesday afternoon sports at 4:00, Miss Weed related, *There was a small but enthusiastic group out for volley ball. No one turned out for baseball. However", Miss Weed continued, "another sport, badminton, was played upon the demand of a group." All bad-} minton enthusiasts are welcome it they furnisft their own birds. They can be bought at the Co-op". According to Miss Weythman of the same department badminton as a sport has increased in popularity at a tremendous rate in the last eight years. Eight years ago there were no teams, at the Normal but now there is a class devoted to teaching the rules and techniques of the game. One of those voices that you heard over CBS last Sunday afternoon had more than a passing interest in the outcome of the crew race. It was none other than Royal Brougham, sports editor for the Seattle PI, making a national name for himself as a radio announcer for the Columbia system. After all, (what is more fitting than that a | sports writer from our own state should announce the victory of a Washington crew? They say that when Washington began to put on the power they gained the space of a man with each stroke of the oars. Your sports editor does not want anyone to fail in his studies, yet he cannot help noting an observed human phenomenon. The day is Wednesday, the time 4:30 in the afternoon, the sky is clear, the weather is not too hot. A much used room in the library is filled to overflowing with Normal school students reading books and taking down notes. Yet near that library are playing fields where softball, volleyball, tennis, and numerous other sports could be enjoyed by those people who are so studiously trying to remember what someone else has written. With such a fine recreational program why study so hard? Of course, everyone knows by now who won the Wimbledon in tennis. But.it is not too late to give Helen Jacobs another big hand for winning that championship. It's a tough, hard grind, all the way to the top. Lappenbusch Plans Invasion Of University Basketball Gym; Return Bout on Local Floor With the WAA Of her badminton class Miss Weed told, "Some fast playing may be seen any morning at 9:00 o'clock in the gym. The class is in the midst of an interesting round robin tournament". Badminton was introduced from India to England around 1873, thence to Canada and the United States. Howdy, WAAers—Art you still WAAing? Do you get your cold shower every morning? Do you Walk five miles every day? (Musi keep that figure down.) Do you eat fresh fruit or vegetables and drink milk each meal? Do you avoid candy between meals? Do you get some other exercise besides Walking? TRY Our Combination BREAKFAST 30c LUNCH 30c-35c Special Steak Dinner 50c MODEL CAFE We Never Close 1324 Commercial Why do I ask all these questions? Well, after all, it isnt every month that a great orchestra leader and composer like I sham Jones graces Bellingham with his presence. Isnt that a good reason to-look and feel right ? What.' You re not going? You say you cant go on all these hikes and trips and expect to have money or for your boy friends to have enough ('scuse me, 1 thought WAAers didn't have boy friends) for a dance as expensive as that. I dont blame you too much, as these hikes and trips are keeping me badly bent, too. But isnt a dance exercise? Well, fight it out for yourself. If you ever run out of anything to do, all you athletes, let me tell you of a sport that will fascinate you. Once you get yourself involved you won't be able to give up until 'you absolutely have to announce yourself as licked, and one of Ted Shane's cockeyed crossword puzzles in Liberty surely can do it. Or are you one of those master minds no puzzle can lick? Anyway who cares? When a person has to talk about crossword puzzles on a sport page he had better quit, so I am. School Golf Team Accepts Challenge It will be a first come first place, in the tryouts for the golf team to play the University of Washington team, according to a statement from Coach Chuck Lappenbusch this week. The team will consist of six men. All golfers are urged to report to the coach as soon as possible so that the tryouts can take place right away. The ladder system will be used to pick the six best men to represent the school. "The first man to report will have his name placed at the top of the ladder" said Coach Lappenbusch. "A man can challenge either of the two men directly above him". o Jon High Defeats Carnival Mat-Men Hammett's Hams, Tomco's Tomcats Lead Intramural Basketball First Series Keppler Leads Scoring All Members Kitten Team Score; Second Series Started Jon High, 190-pound junior of WSNS, matched his grappling skill with the carnival mat-men Wednesday night to win two and break even on the third of three consecutive matches. After answering the usual challenge and agreeing to pay his own doctor bill, High entered the *ing for seven minutes of catch as catch can with polished Billy Newman This match resulted in a draw. The two men drew another crowd and did it over again. High won this one with a series of body slams. Then he was pitted against George Kelly, a 200-pounder, but downed Kelley too in less than six ininutes of the scheduled eight minute handicap. o — Outstanding basketball players chosen from the four intramural teams will invade Husky territory, Tuesday, July 14, to play the University of Washington varsity team, according to an announce* ment by Coach Lappenbusch. A squad of 6 to 11 men will make the trip. The U of W team will play a return game here in the little gym* Tuesday, July 21, at 4 p. m. Standing of Teams • W L Pet. Hammett's Hams 2 1 .667 Tomco's Tomcats ...:..2 1 .667 Keppler's Kittens 1 2 .333 StutzSs Bearcats 1 2 .333 Stutz's Bearcats 1 2 .333 Bearcats Win Stut's Bearcats upset the applecart Monday afternoon when, from the cellar position in the league, they defeated the formerly unbeaten Hammett's Hams by a score of 24 to 30. Stutz' own 12 point score helped materially to put his team ahead of Hammett's in the tally. Prender for the Hams with his 8 points was chief threat against the Bearcats. Summary Bearcats—24 Hams—20 Let Us Do Your Work We Call and Deliver C A S C A D E Laundry and Cleaners 205 Prospect Phones 66, 120 When It's Your Move Let's Make it "Our Move" M0DEL3SS PHONE 70 Puppetry Play Slated For Training School |S. K. Scheldrup, D. C. Palmer Graduate CHIROPRACTOR I Phone 878 210 Kulshan Bldg. X-RAY "The Magicians and the Dragon," a puppet show, will be presented in the training school assembly next Friday by members of the puppetry class. The assembly will be at 9:00. Mr. Robert Kindschy will direct the play and also take the leading part. Members of the class will assist in the presentation. WELL, THAT'S OVER! About the greatest danger we encountered this Fourth was the danger of catching pneumonia. Perhaps it's just as well to remember during summer, as well as winter, that DARIGOLD PASTEURIZED MILK fortifies you against cold and disease! Whatcom County Dairymen's Assn. PHONE 314 SANDISON "Photos That Please" Official Klipsun PHOTOGRAPHER STAGES ••***•» Seattle, Everett, Mount Vernon— 7:30, 8:30,10:30 a. m., 12:30, 1;30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30. 5:30 (6;30 Sundays and Holidays), 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. North Coast Lines Depot—Magnolia and State Phone 5004 Bullard .P. Digerness 2 iTulin 10 P. .......Prender 8 Alpaugh 2 C... ...McDonald 2 Stutz 12 _..G „....:........Hall 2 Osibov .....G .Wilder 2 Sub .Lovos Sub. Hammett 4 Referee—George. Tomcats vs. Kittens Tomco's team of wild Tomcats roamed from third place in the league to second by silencing Keppler's Kittens in the second game on Monday afternoon. The score was 22 to 18. Hager, on the Tomcat team, and Keppler, on the Kitten team, tied for high point man in the game with scores of 9 each. Every man on the Kitten team made at least one basket, either from the field or from the foul line. Summary Tomcats—22 Kittens—18 Compliments of CYR BROTHERS DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. Established 1889 Pacific Laundry Phones 126 and 127 Dwelley 6 ...~.F. Tulin 2 Reeves 3 -F-— .Witherow 1 Hager 9. C .Keppler 9 Belcher G „..Zylstra 2 Tomco 4. G. George 2 Sub.... .Osibov 2 Individual Standings In the total individual scores for the first series of league games | Keppler leads the field with 24 points, only one point ahead of Frender with his 23. Stutz is parked in third place with a 20. The top scorers are: Keppler 24 Frender .23 Stutz 20 Hager .. .-.17 Tulto ... :.16 Hammett 14 Digerness 9 Reeves 9 Tomco .7 Dwelley .6 Hall ..j* Bo chn.ak' * 110 EAST HOLLLY Summer Clearance Sale Fancy Men's Clothes at Bargain Prices ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 4 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. BELLINCHAM. WASHINGTON Introducing-- MARIE de GALLIER, master manager . . . former Board member . . . popular, efficient WAA prexy . . . named one of 'big ten' in 1935 Klipsun . . . has spent the ast year teaching in the lower grade at Shelton . . . looking forward to a promising opportunity as cadet instructor in the Seattle teaching system . . . forsook the Dorm this quarter to batch with Aggie Martin in their cabin in the cottonwood. • • • * BARNEY CHICHESTER, former NWV editor as well as business manager . . . dramatically prominent during previous attendance at Normal . . . played in "The Poor Nut," "Craig's Wife," "Sun Up" and others : . . taught in Seattle last year . . . if fond papa to a strapping six-month (or) so old son . .. recently sold a play . . . is called by NWV printer "a darn fine fellow." * * • • EDITH McLACHLAN—ex-teacher of rural student.teacher at the Victor school for seven years—a rural-ite herself for the last three years, teaching in the Westsound school on Orcas island—living on the home farm with her husband and small son—son now in the fifth grade of the Normal Training school—enjoys the rural life—nevertheless still has eyes for new worlds to conquer. New Catalog Is Distributed Fisher Points Out New Features Of Interest in Pamphlet for 1936-37 Grade Children Reveal Interest Bushell Trio Offers Musical Selections A musical program featuring the Bushell trio was given in assembly this morning. The trio consists of Arthur Thai, well-known local violinist, and Edith R. Strange and Donald Bushell, members of the Normal school music faculty, who gave an arrangement of selections chosen for their pleasing melodies. Among the outstanding numbers were the last three movements of the Arensky melody, and sentimental sketches by Mason. Daniel Gregory Mason, according to Mr. Bushell, is famous for his writings on music as well as for his compositions. Barbara Kennedy of Beverly Hall has accepted a position as camp councillor for the Girl Scout Camp at Lost Lake, Elma. She left- Thursday to take up her new duties which will last throughout the summer camping season. Announcing the arrival of the new catalogue which has just come from the printers, President C. H. Fisher described some of the new features which will add to the interest and information of the book. Under the head of general education there is a paragraph on courses for nurses. "Beginning with the au-for nurses. "Beginning with the au-pursue a course in nursing will be required by the State Department of licenses to have one year of college work before they will be allowed in an accredited school for nurses. Courses in anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, hygiene, and nursing education totaling 23 quarter hour credits will be required. The State Normal school at Bell-ingham has been authorized to offer this work and will enroll students beginning in the autumn of 1936, according to the catalogue. "There is also a revision of courses for teacher librarians that brings these courses up to date, according to the standard set by the American Library association", Fisher commented. o Isham Jones to Play Under Curtis Auspices At State Armory Today Isham Jones and his orchestra, famous on the screen and known to all radio listeners, will be at the State Armory tonight. This appearance is sponsored by Jay Curtis, local orchestra leader, who has brought many famous dance bands to Bellingham the past few years. Jones and his boys have played in such leading hotels as the Ambassador in Atlantic City and the Ritz- Carlton in the famous New- Jersey shore resort. "I'll See You in My Dreams", "It Had to Be You", "Spain", "Indiana Moon", "If You Were Only Mine", "I Can't Believe It's True", and "Let's Try Again" are some of the popular tunes Isham Jones has composed. In addition, the recordings of this orchestra are extremely popular. InM agic Lore Audience Mystified by Oranges, Bunnies Drawn, Apparently, From the Air Older Students Skeptical Second Grader Believes Jones Member of Troupe "Are those oranges real?" "Was that a magic bunny?" were some of the questions of the primary training school children after they visited the Friday morning assembly at which Paul Fleming entertained with magic. The first grade child who received an orange from Mr. Fleming felt it, turned it over, and Wouldn't believe it was real until it was opened and the real juice came out. The children in the kindergarten were proud of their representative who was an assistant to Mr. Fleming, but they couldn't imagine how the rabbit was concealed in the little boy's sweater. After a discussion of magic in the second grade, the children put the following statement in their newspaper, "The magician's hands moved so much faster than we could see, so it seemed it was magic really". Another second grade child asked if Harlan Jones were one of the magician's troupe. Third, fourth, and fifth graders expressed curiosity about the magic, but one fifth grade girl said, "I don't believe a bit of it. It really isn't magic". The upper grades took balcony seats from which they could see much of the wiring and use of properties. o Local Normal Student Northwest Indian Queen Librarian Gets Testing Bulletin New Publication Aids Students; Plans for Examinations Are Given "Standard Testing and Remedial Work", a new bulletin compiled by Miss Jeannette Donaldson, supervisor, upper grades and junior high school of the State Department of Instruction, has been received by "Miss Mabel Zoe Wilson, librarian. It is Miss Wilson's opinion that this bulletin offers much worthwhile material for the teacher, and that Miss Donaldson should be praised for her organization. A standard testing plan, a remedial program, and information on the new plan for state examinations in the elementary schools are all considered in this bulletin. Some of the more specific items included are: "The General Principles and Points of View"; "The Necessity of Pupil Guidance"; '"The Favorable Outcomes of the Standard Testing Plan'; "Acceleration and Retardation"; "The Elementary Library and the Remedial Program"; and "Pro cedures Helpful in Reducing Pupil Failures". Miss Donaldson also gives reading references and aids for professional use. Copies of this bulletin can be obtained from the State Department of Instruction, Olympia, Wash. ectidiis At Downs Stop-Look-Listen A FOUNTAIN PEN THAT WE WILL FILL WITH WATER No Mixing of Ink No Carrying of Ink Bottles No Running Out of Ink in a Tight Place Just Fill With Water See Them At the Mary Iyall, a former student of the Bellingham State Normal school, won the "tribal crown" in Seattle Sunday. She was chosen "queen" "over the young Indians of the Pacific Northwest by the North-westerns. Miss Iyall will reign as their "queen" until the salmon run begins in 1937. Miss Iyall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Iyall, who reside on the Yakima reservation at Top-penish. She is a graduate of the Salem high school, Oregon. This fall Miss Iyall plans to re-enter the Normal school. Mrs. Carl Rich and Miss LaVeta Smart drove to Seattle for the holidays. Mrs. Rich is an assistant to Mrs. Lovegren. Margaret Green attended the Sedro-Woolley rodeo over the Fourth of July. * # *t * * Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Moser (Violet Waech) spent this.week in Bellingham and visited members of the faculty and friends. Both Mr. and Mrs. Waech - are former Normal students. * * * * * John Kerr, a former Normal student, was a guest of Chauncey Griffith, also an alumnus of the Normal. NU-WAY Shoe Rebulders Howard Holstine Across from Postoffice 107 W. Magnolia Try the HERALD Beauty Shop For an A P P O I N T M E N T CALL 146 308 Herald Bldg. The Finest SUNDAE in Town Frozen Fudge 15c Try Smalley's Soda Fountain for a Real Treat The Smalley Drug Co. Prescription Druggists Commercial and Magnolia Dorothy Wellman St. James Weds At First Christian Church / On Sunday Weddings, week-ends, election of officers, and conventions characterized this week's activities. * * « * • Within the First Christian church on Sunday evening was the marriage of Dorothy E. Wellman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Wellman, and Mr. George St. James, of this city. In the presence of a few friends, Rev. Earl Hanson Fife, the pastor, read the service. . The attendants were Elaine Oltman and Ralph Henderson. Both Mr. and Mrs. St. James are .graduates of Whatcom high school and they have attended the Normal. Mr. St. James has also been a student at Washington State college. * --* -* * gt;* Another wedding took place within the home of the bride's parents at Wiser Lake on Saturday evening. Miss Ebba Erickson and Mr. George Wetzel were married by Rev. A. D. Johnson, of Ferndale. Mrs. Wetzel is a graduate of the Normal. * « * * * Officers of Downs hall for the summer quarter are: Winifred Claypoole, president; Rosetha Newman, social secretary; and Millie Gerdis, reporter. » » * » * Clarys Allison, Elsie Johnson, and Dorothy Christensen of Downs hall attended the NEA convention in Portland, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Bertha Herold spent the week-end visiting in Auburn. » * * * * Mrs. Grace Krous, formerly of the Music department of this school, visited in Bellingham on" Monday and Tuesday. * * * * * Miss Bessie Williams was the week-end guest of her parents at their home in Renton. 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Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Peter Elich ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" cr
Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Peter Elich ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Dr. Peter Elich, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at his office in Miller Hall on April 11, 2003. The interviewer is Steve Inge. SI: Today is April 11, 2003. We‟re talking with Dr. Peter Elich, Professor Emeritus…not quite. PE: Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. SI: Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, congratulations! And former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Western. The interviewer is Steve Inge. For the record, this is a second effort at this interview, first having been fouled up by operator error. So Pete, thank you for your patience. Could you tell us how it is that you came to be at Western? PE: I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Washington. I came to Bellingham and began teaching in the public schools, first at Whatcom Junior High School, which is now Whatcom Middle School. I taught a variety of courses. I had no room of my own. I walked around carrying history maps one time and materials for the science lab the next time. I spent two years at Whatcom, then went on to Bellingham High School, where I taught and coached football for a couple of years. During that time I was going to school at Western, working on a masters degree in school psychology and working graveyard shift at the paper mill. I had three kids at that time and a $3,600 a year teaching salary, so a little extra income was much appreciated! About the time I completed my master‟s degree, I was also not doing well as a football coach. Maurice Freehill, who was a professor of mine here at Western at that time, asked me one day if I would be interested in going on to graduate school. I hadn‟t thought about going on to get a PhD. He suggested I go down and talk to some people he knew at the University of Oregon. He thought they had a good program in the area of educational psychology where you could do most of your work in the department of psychology, since I already had a lot background in education. So my wife and I went down, spent a couple of days, and by the end of that time we were enrolled. That next fall we went down and spent two and a half years at the University of Oregon finishing a PhD. By the time I got out in ‟61, there were a lot of jobs available. I‟d done some research at Oregon, but was primarily interested in going to a school that emphasized undergraduate education and teaching. A position was available at Western. I made a phone call to Chuck Harwood, who was the chair of the department of psychology, and sent him a letter. I got a call back from him indicating I was hired. I didn‟t need to come for an interview because people knew me pretty well, since I‟d been doing work in the department. I had a lot of family in the area, so I came back to Western, for a starting salary of $6,000 -- a significant improvement. I taught a variety of courses, almost everything in the department except animal behavior. I was pleased with the opportunity to come to Western (then Western Washington College of Education), because of its strong reputation as a quality undergraduate school. We had a small lab with four rats, and that was about it, in Old Main. A few years later we added some armadillos. Carol Diers was interested in studying armadillos because they have identical offspring so you can tease out the effect of environment upon learning. She almost burned down the building I recall one time, when she had a heat lamp above the baby armadillos and it caught the straw on fire in the middle of the night! 1 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: In Old Main? PE: Yes, fourth floor of Old Main. Jim Jarrett had just become president the year before I came. He came from the University of Chicago, Great Books tradition, and started a shift almost immediately from exclusive teacher training emphasis, to a broader, multidisciplinary, departmentalized approach. There was a lot of difference of opinion on the faculty about this change. There were two groups, one that was going along with Jarrett to emphasize more the liberal arts and sciences focus. Prominent among those were Herb Taylor, Henry Adams, Don Blood. And then there was a group that was trying to hang on to the exclusive teacher training focus because we had a very strong reputation as a teacher training institution, particularly at the elementary level, but also to some extent at the secondary level. We had a national reputation of being one of the better teacher training institutions in the country, and people didn‟t want to lose that by moving in another direction. I taught at Western in the department of psychology until about 1971. I worked with Tom Billings in setting up one of the first Upward Bound programs in the country. Billings went on to become the national director of the Upward Bound Program. During the latter years of the „60s, I spent a lot of time traveling around the country – literally, the Pacific Islands, Alaska, and Pacific Northwest, helping set up Upward Bound programs and doing evaluations of those programs. In about ‟68, ‟69, I was involved in trying to set up a programmed learning workshop during the summer. That was a hot new thing at the time based on the theories of B. F. Skinner. We looked around the country to find where the activity was going on. Xerox was big in program instruction at that time, and they had a person who I wanted to bring but he couldn‟t come, so they suggested another fellow, Bill Laidlaw. Bill came out and spent that summer and liked it so well here that he took a leave and stayed an entire year. Then he went back to New York and got involved in the New York State Higher Education System. He was hired by the City University of New York to be the dean of developing Hostos Community College, which was in the South Bronx. Because I‟d had some involvement in working with American Indian kids, and Hispanic educational issues, he called me and asked me if I was interested in coming back. I went back and spent two and a half years in New York helping to get that program going. I headed up the social and behavioral science area, selecting faculty and developing curriculum. It was a very, very interesting experience. Bill later came back and became the President of Whatcom Community College, and unfortunately was stricken by cancer a few years into his tenure there. He was a very close friend of mine, and a very great loss, not only to his friends and family, but to the community and to the community college. Soon after I came back, Meryl Meyer, who was the chairman of the psychology department, took a position at University of Florida, and I was selected as the chair of the department. I served as chair of the department for fifteen years. We had as many as thirty two faculty at one time, principally because we had a very heavy proportion of the teacher education program. We taught measurement, learning and child and adolescent development for all students planning to become teachers. Then in about ‟83, the dean‟s position became open in Arts and Sciences. Jim Davis stepped down, and I was appointed interim dean. I was the successful candidate and became dean of the College, where I served until my retirement at the end of fall quarter, 1999. One particularly noteworthy experience during the time that I was department chair, Bill McDonald suffered a mild heart attack. He was the dean of men at that time, and I was asked if I would stand in for him until he recovered, which would be a couple of months. So I spent half a day over here chairing the department, and half a day over there at the dean of men‟s office. It was during the time there was the Vietnam issue, and things got pretty hot around here. There was a mass demonstration one day on Red Square with the Weathermen here with big dogs and side arms, and it had the potential for getting pretty nasty. Jerry Flora was president at that time. Flora and his inner circle of 2 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED people, sometimes they called them “the six pack.” I don‟t remember all six, but it was at least Alan Ross and Herb Taylor and I think Jim Hitchman, who was the dean of students at that time. Sam was probably there; Sam Kelly was always part of that group, and whoever else might have been there at that time. The president of the Faculty Senate perhaps, whoever that was. They were up in Flora‟s office, and I was sort of the runner between, communicating messages between them and the students. I would go out and hear what the students had to say, and then I‟d run upstairs and tell them what the students had to say, and then they‟d tell me what I was supposed to tell the students and I would run back down and tell the students. Then I‟d hear more from the students, and I‟d run back up and tell them. I must have made that trip six or eight times during that day. During one of these times, I was standing on the edge of the pond there, and the students were getting understandably a little frustrated with not having direct access to the President, but to somebody they didn‟t even recognize as having any authority at all, which was true! And somebody hollered out, “Throw the fucker in the pond!” They started moving toward me. Fortunately for me, there was a circle of football players, I later learned, who warded them off and ushered me to a safe entry back up the stairs and told me that I when I came back down they would take care of me. This potentially violent situation was calmed by a group of faculty, organized and led by Professor Mike Mischaikow from the economics department who broke the students into small groups, where faculty would listen to what they had to say and reassure them that they would bring their concerns to the attention of university officials. Let‟s see, what else…Well I think that the transition of the presidents I‟ve had the opportunity to work with maybe warrants a comment. I mentioned Jarrett to begin with. I got to know Jarrett reasonable well because I was in the psychology department where some of his closer advisors were, people like Don Blood, Henry Adams and Carol Diers. I socialized somewhat with Jarrett and that group, so I got to know him reasonable well. I had a high regard for his intellectual capability and his direction. I think that period of time probably represents one of the most significant periods in the history of the University, that shift from exclusively teacher education to Western Washington State College and then eventually to Western Washington University. And then following Jarrett I think we have Harvey Bunke, who didn‟t stay long, but I thought Bunke was a very good president. He actually encouraged me to look into academic administration. He called me over one day and asked me if I was interested in going to an administrative workshop at the University of Minnesota. So I went to that for three or four days and learned about how you shuffle paper and that kind stuff. But he was encouraging. And then I think we had Flora following that, yes. And Jerry was a very popular president at the beginning of his tenure because he was a very well-known faculty member, an outstanding faculty member, an excellent teacher and campus leader and well-liked by people. I had the opportunity to work closely with Jerry Flora as well. It was during that time (1969) we had enabling legislation from the legislature to grant a PhD. They didn‟t give us any money, but they gave us the enabling legislation. I wrote a proposal for a PhD program in school psychology with some people in education and we had the appropriate visitations from people who could evaluate the program and so on and it came out pretty well. So Flora and Alan Ross, who was dean of the graduate school at that time, and I traveled around to visit each of the members of the council, I think it was the Council of Post-Secondary Education, the group that was essentially responsible for making recommendations to the legislature and to the governor regarding higher education issues. And we visited each of them in their own communities, took the person to dinner, and lobbied them on behalf of our proposal. Flora meanwhile had been lobbying the presidents of the other four year institutions. When we went to the meeting where the vote was to be taken, it appeared as though we had a narrow majority voting in favor of us. Just after the debate and just before the vote, the President of the University of Washington, called for a brief recess, and called the presidents of Central and Eastern over and when the vote came, the presidents of Central and Eastern voted against us. And Flora was quite sure that they would vote in favor. As I recall, they said that they were informed by the President of the University of Washington that their chances of ever being named a university would be markedly reduced if they supported our effort to have a PhD program. They were, as we, interested in becoming a university at that time. That was another issue before us. So we lost the opportunity. We could have gone ahead with the program, but we lost the opportunity for any funding. In retrospect, I think it is a good thing that we did not pursue a doctorate program because of our undergraduate program. We are principally an undergraduate institution, that‟s our main strength. When you have a doctorate program, you tend to put a lot of your main resources, your strongest resources, into that program. 3 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: At that time, the institution was some what of an even balance still between teacher education and arts and sciences, and many of the other colleges had yet to emerge, so it was a logical position at that time. PE: Right, right, yes, that‟s right. I think it was about in that time when the cluster college concept began? I think Paul Woodring was one of the people who was influential in that movement; the idea that we would develop a variety of small cluster colleges with different kinds of emphases. They would be relatively small, and some faculty would live in with students, so that you would have kind of the Oxford environment. By the time the first of those was developed, Fairhaven, the glamour of that approach sort of wore off and nobody wanted to live in! Students didn‟t even want to live there! But Fairhaven was developed and endures today. I think it offers an excellent educational opportunity for some students who need the more flexible environment that they have in Fairhaven. Huxley was also developed following that same concept and endures today as one of the relatively few remaining environmental studies programs. A lot of them were developed, and a lot of them fell by the wayside. Also the College of Ethnic Studies was developed. I think the recommendation by the dean of the College of Ethnic Studies, Jesse Hiroaka, to close the College of Ethnic Studies, was probably as unique among deans‟ actions in the history of higher education. But Jesse had the foresight to see that isolating minority students was not what you were trying to accomplish. What you wanted to do is to have broad cultural integration in the campus, rather than to isolate the minority students from the majority population, so Ethnic Studies was closed. PE: Paul Olscamp followed Flora. I was on the search committee for Olscamp as well. He provided strong academic leadership. I think that that combination of Olscamp and Talbot, in terms of the internal management of the university, was one of the strongest periods in our history. Talbot, in my judgement, was an excellent provost. He was strongly supported by Jim Albers, who was this person that you interacted with on financial matters. I remember going frequently to Albers‟ office, where you had to go for additional sections of this, that, and the other thing. It was like going to a loan shark without any collateral. But you usually got what you needed, but not always what you wanted. Olscamp pretty well let Talbot run the show inside. I‟m sure they conferred about directions and things of that sort. I took the proposal for the PhD program to Olscamp a few months after he was here and reviewed it for him briefly. What he already knew, I‟m sure, was that we had the enabling legislation. The Counsel on PostSecondary Education voted against our doing it, so we had no resources coming, but I asked him if he wanted to do anything further with it and he, decided that we should not pursue that at this time. PE: Following Olscamp we had Bob Ross. I was rather fond of Bob Ross, as a personal friend as well as a president. He was a marked contrast to Olscamp. Olscamp was much more of a strong academician in orientation. I think much more of – I don‟t want to call him “elitist” – but much more focused upon quality undergraduate education, focusing upon relatively few programs. Don‟t expand too far, but make sure you have very good study in-depth, and attract the very strongest students you possibly can to those programs. Ross was very much of a populist. His approach was that we should offer a wide variety of programs appropriate for a regional comprehensive university. If a student came to Western for a quarter that would probably enrich their lives, even if they didn‟t go on to school beyond that point. We went through the frequent drill of developing a strategic plan during that time. I remember we developed a variety of objectives. We‟d have list of a dozen or so and people said, “Well what about this?” and Ross said “We‟ll add that!” We added it, and we ended up with, I don‟t know, forty, fifty objectives, which gave him license to do anything he wanted to. He could make this decision, and say, “Well this fits items six, seven, eight, nine, ten…” whatever. Backing up, somewhere during that period of time, and I don‟t recall exactly the year, we went through a serious budget reduction. It was prior to Ross. It may have been during either Olscamp or maybe even Flora‟s tenure. We had a big Reduction in Force at the University. We had the Mischaikow Committee, and I was a member of the Mischaikow Committee. I think we met all summer long and we had to reduce by a hundred and twenty some positions in the University, which we were able to do largely by attrition. Some departments even took reduced salaries for a period of time to save some people. We came out of that. But that represents, I think, a very important period in the University‟s history. Comparing Central and Western which were very similar prior to that, more similar than they are now, Western took the position that we‟re going to retain essentially the structure that we have. Trying to maintain strong academic departments, and we‟ll take the cuts and not change the structure. Central took 4 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED the position that we‟re going to try to save everybody, and we‟re going to do this by farming out programs in the Seattle area, in the Yakima area, doing a lot of extended education, taking a lot of people offline, and let them work, on the money that can be generated from offline courses. So they sort of diluted their programs to some extent by spreading out and doing a lot of things at a lot of different places; adding a lot of programs. Western retained our basic structure. I think that was a very important decision on the part of Western, which enabled us to retain that strong academic focus and not try to be everything to everybody, but to focus upon the basic liberal arts and a few selected professional applied colleges and programs, that depended upon the philosophy and the content, and methodology of liberal arts and sciences as a basis. We had Education, and Business and Economics, and Huxley, and Fairhaven, and Fine and Performing Arts, which spun off from that but are all closely tied to the liberal arts and sciences, whereas Central became much more diffused. Going back to Ross now which is a later period, Ross‟ presidency was, I think, marked by, in addition to his approach to developing programs and the populist kind of approach; he was also a very strong representative of the University to the community and to the legislature. I‟ve been told by people from other institutions that he became one of the principal spokespersons for higher education before the legislature and legislative groups. He was very effective in representing higher education; very effective in representing the University to the community. He could talk to almost any kind of group, from the farmers out in the county, to fishermen on the docks, to the business people and education people as well, and I think provided in his own way, strong leadership, although many faculty did not like the more populist approach that he took. He unfortunately, as everybody knows, was killed along with Jeanene DeLille, Don Cole and the pilot of the plane in that tragic accident. I might have been on that plane, I had been with them on the same plane a couple of days earlier at another meeting, and I might have been on that plane as well except that Jeanene DeLille had found a fundraising training activity for deans in Washington D.C. All the deans were in Washington D.C. on the day the plane went down. We hustled back as soon as we learned they were missing. But we found out en route, as we could call each time we had to stop, that they had found the plane and there were no survivors. A great loss of three people who provided strong leadership to the university. Ken Mortimer was next. Mortimer had some clear ideas about what the university should be. He wanted to strengthen the basic liberal arts and sciences orientation, offer a very high quality education. I remember his saying on many occasions that he thought Western was already, and should be further recognized and further developed as, a quality liberal arts and science based institution as an alternative to the more expensive private institutions in the state; the Whitmans, and the PLUs and places of that sort. And he saw us in that light, and that was consistent, I think, with the faculty notion of what the University should be as well. And he supported increasing diversity of the student body. He also tried to strengthen the bonds with the community, and really got the Foundation moving, although the Foundation really began with Olscamp, and Ross moved it along a bit, it really took a significant step forward with Mortimer. I remember Mortimer calling the deans in one day and saying “We have to put a couple, three, four hundred thousand dollars into the Foundation if we want to make it go…if we really wanted to move. He outlined for us what he saw the advantages might be. But informing us that that was money that might otherwise go to us, we were in a reasonably good budget period at that time and after some discussion we unanimously supported putting that money into the Foundation, which enabled him to hire a new director and staff. The Foundation really moved from that point on. He put a lot of energy behind it, and the payoff in the long haul is going to be very strong as a result of that. Then of course the most recent president is Karen Morse, who has continued to work very hard to develop the Foundation, and had done an excellent job in continuing to raise resources for the University, from private, corporate and philanthropic donors as well as from the legislature. I think she has served the University well in her representation to the legislature and worked very hard in providing leadership to the University. I haven‟t agreed with some of her decisions, but that‟s to be expected, you‟re not going to agree with everything that other people do. I can‟t fault her for hard work and her sincere effort. She‟s an extremely nice person and I‟ve been fond of both her and her husband Joe, who unfortunately suffered a tragic stroke a few years ago. SI: I have a couple of people that I would like you to comment on, some of whom we have talked about… PE: Oh yes. 5 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: Chuck Harwood, who hired you to come in here, and then Chuck goes on to be the first Dean of Fairhaven, and dies tragically later. Could you talk a little bit about Chuck? His notions about education and what he was doing in Fairhaven? Even in psychology? PE: Chuck, I think, provided very strong leadership for the department of psychology. It grew rather significantly during the time that he was here. Not only in numbers of students and faculty, but also in terms of the quality of the program, the kind of people he hired. We had some excellent faculty that came on at that time. He was an extremely nice person to work with. He was a very friendly guy, and an excellent scholar and excellent teacher in his own right. I had some classes with him while I was doing a master's program here. I was actually a bit surprised when he took the Fairhaven job, but I think he provided the kind of leadership they needed there as well. His ability to work with any variety of people, and Fairhaven certainly had its variety of folks. My wife and I and family became close friends -- they had children about the same age as ours. We were in New York at the time that he was overcome by carbon monoxide on his boat. His wife Vonda survived, but was ill. Anyway, I thought Chuck was a very important person in the history of the University, and certainly a valued colleague and valued friend of mine. Another person who fits into that category, who I actually knew for a much longer period of time, was Sam Kelly. Sam and I began teaching, let‟s see now, he was at Bellingham High when I came to Bellingham High in 1956, and we taught there and got to know each other quite well. We were working on master‟s degrees at the same time at Western. He went to the University of Chicago and got a degree in higher education. I went to the University of Oregon. Then we both returned to Western. Sam was in education for a while then went over to Old Main, I never could quite figure out what his job was, but he did a lot of things. He had a few titles; one was director of the Center for Higher Education. He was also then the graduate dean, and I think for a while he was also the dean of research as well. But I think most importantly, he was a very valued advisor to the senior administration. He was a wise man, a very quick wit, and a very intelligent person -- he provided very effective council to the presidents and provosts and to me. I didn‟t mention this before, but I think it was between Bob Ross and Karen Morse; we had Al Froderberg as interim president of the University for a while. He was serving as the interim provost at the time of the tragedy and so he was moved into the presidency. And then later Larry DeLorme served as the interim president following Mortimer and during the search that resulted in hiring President Morse. Talbot left the provost position in 1983[?], he didn‟t work too well with Ross; they were of different styles, put it that way. Ross, the “good old boy” from the south, and his style was the “good old boy” approach. And Talbot with the Australian background, and had been working with Olscamp, and had a little different style. So they parted company. But I had high regard for Talbot and I relied upon Talbot and on Sam Kelly for council throughout my tenure as dean. A word or two about Froderberg; Froderberg was an outstanding department chair in the department of mathematics. I worked closely with him in my early years as dean and valued his contribution greatly. Ross was trying to select somebody to represent the university at the legislature. He called Sam and me in one day and he had a person in mind. He said he was inclined to hire this faculty member and both of us said “Oh God, no!” This person would not be the person you‟d want to send. “Well all right, who in the hell are we gonna select?” So I suggested that he talk to Al, even though I was reluctant to have Al assume that position. But I thought Al and he would get along well. Their personal styles, kind of casual in their approach, if you will, a sort of down home kind of approach. I thought Al had a respect for the faculty and would represent the faculty position strongly. He‟d been the President of the Senate and so on. So they struck it off right away. He put Al in that position, and Al represented us in the legislature for a number of years. A great loss to the academic side of the house, but a great plus I think to the University in general in terms of his representation at the legislature. Another person I should mention is Larry DeLorme, who was chair of the department of history, with whom I worked closely. I think probably among all the chairs the two that stood out in those early years especially, were Froderberg and DeLorme; very strong, and helped to shape some of the policies for the college which then really influenced some of the policies for the University as well. Then Larry went on to become the Provost, and I worked closely with him obviously in my role as dean. Then, unfortunately, he had a long period of illness and strong 6 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED medication, and his overall performance declined, not as a function of any lack of ability or intent on his part, but I think just as a function of the illness and the medication that he was taking during that time. I think he had all the potential to continue to be a very strong academic leader for the University. Unfortunately he was not able to carry out his career as I‟m sure he was capable of doing. SI: During your time as dean was Joe Hashisaki still chair in mathematics, or had he passed away? PE: No, I think Hashisaki had left the chair before that. SI: Well Joe later dies. PE: Yes, Joe did. But I think first Al was chair at the time I became dean, I‟m quite sure. SI: Because Hashisaki had been hired by Jarrett to initially build that math department. PE: And he did a fine job. That was a very strong department. He did an excellent job, just as Don Easterbrook did a fine job in building an extremely strong department of geology. I think that approach that Jarrett used of going out and trying to bring in some of the top people he could possibly bring in as chairs, then give them some leeway to make decisions in hiring faculty and things of that sort. It was a very good approach. I had the opportunity to be involved in hiring some of the excellent chairs from outside; Rick Emerson for one, Ken Hoover, Jay Teachman. They‟re people who provide very strong leadership for their departments, and I‟m sure there are others who I am overlooking at this point that are equally strong. SI: One program that emerged in that time and sort of got lost was the nursing program. PE: Yes. SI: Did that begin during your time and then subsequently end during your time as well? PE: It was in the initial stages when I became dean. It was a program that was designed for people who already had RNs to get the baccalaureate degree part of their program if they had their RNs from the community colleges. For a variety of reasons it just didn‟t work very well. We could not maintain the enrollment in the program. I think it may be partly leadership, partly because the program was maybe a bit too rigorous or not flexible enough for people who were working as nurses. At any rate, it was a program that I was later instrumental in phasing out. Similarly the apparel design/fashion marketing program, that was a Seattle-based program, we developed that when Rosalie King came to head up the department. She was hired by Jim Davis just before I became dean. She headed the home economics program and she was instrumental in adding the apparel design/fashion marketing program in Seattle. Actually not doing too badly for its purpose, but not a good program for Western; not to have a program stuck out there like that. The students really didn‟t have any attachment to the University. SI: Is this a bit of an expression of the Bob Ross populist approach? PE: I think it is. I think that‟s a good illustration. And I think some of the students who had AA degrees from community colleges came there and took their upper division program in Seattle and many of them never set foot on Western‟s campus. There is actually another person who I didn‟t mention, Les Karlovitz, who was the provost for a brief time. Les was ill when he came here and didn‟t last very long. He died of cancer. I thought he had the potential to be a very strong provost. Sharp mind, brilliant guy, but he was agonized from the time he came. He‟d have those Saturday meetings with the deans, and God, he‟d come up, and he couldn‟t even wear regular clothes, he‟d come up in a sweat suit. He‟d walk around in pain from conducting a meeting, tenure promotion cases and things of that sort. I felt so sorry for him. SI: But not opposed to working you on Saturday! 7 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PE: But not opposed to working Saturday, yes. He was a hard driver, yes. He was a hard driver. I‟m not sure if I would have lasted as dean if he‟d stayed on as provost. His staying on and my leaving as dean might have been good for the University, I don‟t know! I probably stayed on two or three years longer than I should have. Well anyway, what I‟m doing now is, I had a post-retirement agreement when I left, essentially the same agreement that I had negotiated with forty or fifty faculty when I was dean, for people who had been here for a long time. Teach one quarter a year, you give up your tenure of course, and you don‟t have any benefits, but you teach one quarter a year for three years. And I had that arrangement. Then I had the opportunity to teach a fourth year at a markedly reduced salary, which I did this last year. Just got my teaching evaluations back and they‟re quite good, I‟m very proud of them. A little better than they were last year. I‟ve told the chair that if he needs somebody next winter, I‟d be available again, but don‟t take that as a request to teach, merely an indication of my availability. And if you‟ve got other people who want to teach and need to teach more than I do, hire them first. SI: One other person, Herb Taylor. PE: Herb Taylor, yes. Herb Taylor‟s a real legend at the University as one of the original “wiz kids,” you know, high IQ, Mensa, charismatic personality, dynamic lecturer. I used to occasionally sit in on his lectures just for the entertainment quality. Also I think he was extremely well-read and well-informed and knew a lot about his subject of anthropology. And was a strong leader in the University. As I mentioned earlier, he was one of the people who quickly supported Jarrett‟s efforts to change the nature of the University. He went on to become the dean for research, and did a lot to develop the research activity. Under Taylor‟s direction, that‟s probably when the emphasis upon research at the University really began to blossom. Not to make us a research institution, but to encourage faculty research. And I worked with him and had one of the first grants, actually the largest grant the university had ever gotten for research - $45, 000 - back in the „60s. Taylor was inclined also to call you at odd hours. I remember he called me Thanksgiving morning and said, “I‟m in my office, I‟ve been going your proposal for the grant,” or something, “and there are some significant changes that need to made. I want you up here right now.” And I said, “I‟m preparing dinner for my family!” “Well get up here, it won‟t take too long.” It was Thanksgiving morning. He wanted to talk really, mainly, and chatted a bit. He said, “I think you should maybe change this paragraph a little bit, put this part first and that part second.” A few things of that sort, nothing of any significance, you know. I think he wanted to let you know he was on top of things. I think if anybody had classes from him, they remember Herb Taylor. As well as people like Keith Murray. We have had many great teachers at Western. SI: Maybe if you would editorialize just slightly, but in the Ross period and then his death, and the death of Don Cole, and Jeanene DeLille, was in certain respects a watershed just because of the loss…I don‟t know if you could comment upon what that may have done, if anything, to the institution, but it might be an interesting insight? PE: Don Cole, whose loss I think, to the University, was much greater than most people realized. Cole worked very quietly in his role as vice president for business affairs; but did an extremely effective job in managing the financial resources of the University, with principle focus upon supporting the academic programs. It seemed as though Don could always find at the end of the biennium, a few dollars for the president to have to support this, that, and the other academic program. I think he probably represents one of the stronger people in that position in the University‟s experience. I came to value him very greatly. I think one of the things that happened following the tragic accident was that…we had a period of time, we‟ve talked about the Kelly/Froderberg/DeLorme people involved in … sort of the, I wouldn‟t call it confusion, but there wasn‟t much happening at that time -- people were sort of holding the fort until we got more permanent administration in place. I don‟t see that that had any really strongly negative effect upon the University in the long run because we had strong leadership following that when Mortimer came. But it was a period of time when we were just sort of treading water, I think. Not to in any way discredit the people who were in those positions, they did a good job of doing what they were doing, but they weren‟t there to provide leadership at that time. They were there to keep things running smoothly until we could get new leadership on board of a more permanent nature. 8 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: At that time, at least I have heard, I have no idea if it‟s true; Ross had, for example, a notion of a College of Engineering Technology, which did not fully develop because he was gone. But that was kind of a Bob Ross project that he kind of liked to move along in its own subtle ways. PE: That‟s right. That was certainly something which I think he was pushing forward. I recall one particular incident. I didn‟t mention Paul Ford, who was a Provost for a while under Ross, as well. We had a lot of provosts, and some of those I‟ve even forgot. I recall one day the Deans were in a meeting in Paul Ford‟s office. Paul announced that Bob Ross was advertising, (we had a position open for the chair of that department) for a director of the Division of Engineering Technology. And I said, “We don‟t have a Division of Engineering Technology, we have a department, and we don‟t need a director, we need a chair. And if you‟re going to create a division like that, that‟s normally something which would go through at least the faculty, Academic Coordinating Commission, Planning Council, things of that sort.” “Well,” he said, “here, take this,” he again showed me the announcement. “He‟s down in his office.” Well I got up, took this down to his [President Ross‟s] office, and asked if I could see him, and went in and shut the door. Ross was a guy you could argue with in private, but you never took it outside the room. You could cuss at him, and he‟d cuss at you, and sometimes you gained a point and sometimes you lost. So anyway, I said “God dammit, you can‟t do this.” [Ross], “What do you mean I can‟t do this?” [Elich], “You can‟t just go creating divisions and hiring directors. This is a department in the college I‟m administering.” “Well, what do you want me to do?” he said. [Elich], “What I want you to do is change that to what it‟s supposed to be, to a chair of a department.” [Ross] “Give me that piece of paper!” And he reached out and got a pencil and wetted it his tongue. And he crossed out “director”, and he wrote in “chair,” and he crossed out “division” and wrote in “department.” He says, “There, does that make you happy?” I said, “You‟re not going to change anything, are you?” “No, I‟m not.” He was encouraging us, during a period when the budget was reasonably good, for the Deans to squirrel away some money for a rainy day. So we were in a pretty good budget situation at that time. That was another function of Sam Kelly. Sam Kelly somehow, could take end of biennium money and hide it somewhere for two or three days then give it back to you. I think he usually took ten percent off the top or something too. So we had $250,000-$300,000 that we were saving as a reserve, that‟s what we called it. One day we got a notice that all these reserves were being recaptured centrally. I went over to see Ross and I said, “What are you doing? You told us to reserve this money, and now you just take it away!” And he said, “Well I need it.” I said, “Well we need it too! That‟s my money!” He says, “Listen, it‟s all my money!” That‟s his style. SI: He didn‟t hide it! Now he‟s being the good guy, bringing it back! PE: That was just his approach. “Hey, listen now, it‟s all my money.” 9 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED I was very happy to have stayed at Western during nearly all of my career. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching and had the great pleasure and honor of being selected as Western‟s, “Outstanding Teacher Award” for „65-‟66, by the Associated Students of Western Washington State College. I treasure that, as well as the recognition from the Faculty Senate upon my retiring as dean, and being named Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. But I thoroughly enjoyed teaching and I thoroughly enjoyed my contact with my colleagues, thoroughly enjoyed the position as dean, particularly the opportunity to work with department chairs and individual faculty to help them build stronger departments and hire stronger faculty. I think I was greatly influenced by an early workshop I went to for the National Council of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, a dean‟s workshop; Bernard Kelly was retiring as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Dakota, where he‟d been the dean for twenty years or so, and he announced that he could really sum this up very easily. He said, “You want to select the very best department chairman you possibly can. And then provide them all the support that you possibly can in hiring and developing the strongest faculty that you can. And your job is to facilitate the chair‟s job in building a strong department, in hiring strong faculty and supporting those faculty. Providing them the things they need in order to exercise their capabilities and talents.” And I always remembered that, and that‟s the way I tried to manage my affairs as dean, as a facilitator rather than a director. When big issues came up, I would call the department chairs together to get their collective wisdom because it was certainly stronger and much more effective than my individual position. I think that my greatest satisfaction came in working with the department chairs and faculty to help them develop as teacher-scholars, and help develop strong departments. I gained a lot of satisfaction in seeing departments develop and faculty and staff develop. I couldn‟t always do everything they wanted, but I always kept the role of the faculty central. The relationship between the faculty and the student is the principle area of focus for the university. END OF TAPE 10 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections PoetryCHaT Kwame Alexander ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria
Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections PoetryCHaT Kwame Alexander ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Kwame Alexander on October 21, 2015, in the Special Collections Conference Room, Western Libraries in Bellingham, Washington. The interviewers are Nancy Johnson and Sylvia Tag. ST: So we are here with Kwame Alexander, who is in Bellingham for several days for the Compass 2 Campus program, as well as lunch with Western students and high school students, and this evening is giving a community presentation. NJ: Sponsored by PoetryCHaT. KA: Welcome to Fresh Air, with Nancy and Sylvia, and Kwame Alexander. ST: If only I was as smart as Terry Gross. NJ: Yeah, really. ST: So, in the tradition that we’re trying to start with these oral histories, we’re hoping that you can talk freely, and we’ll see where it goes. And just kind of a free flow conversation opportunity for you to kind of riff on your own thought process, writing process, what you -NJ: History as a writer. ST: -- some of the insights you have about your own books, interactions, intersections. So we could start out with just some of this. We were just looking at some of the titles, and I was just noticing, myself, some of the interplay between the books. NJ: Are you even aware that you do that? Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 1 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections KA: Yes, I’m certainly aware that the poems speak to each other and the books connect with each other. Some of it is intentional. Some of it is like when you get into this sort of rhythm, into this zone of the writing, it just -- it happens, you know. It’s sort of the writerly destiny of it all just takes over, and that’s really exciting. I don’t know how to sort of -- If I could bottle that, it would be wonderful. But I think most of it comes from BIC - Butt In Chair. Like the more you just sit down, and you’re writing, and you’re just living this writerly life, as Langston Hughes’s Jesse B. Semple character used to say, “Everything is connected.” And so the connections sort of find themselves. And it’s kind of cool, it’s exciting, especially when readers like yourself are able to pick up on that. The titles I think are really important to me. I remember my first play that I wrote. It was back in college, and it was a play called Self-Discovery 101: You Gotta Have It. And so, I was at Virginia Tech, and there weren’t a whole lot of black students there, and I really wanted to write a play to talk about what it means to be a black student on a predominantly white campus. And I stayed up all night. I’d never written a play before. I’d read plays, I’d acted in a few plays. I acted in a play on Broadway when I was 13. So at some point, I thought I was going to be an actor. But I was familiar with the theater enough to think that I could write a play. And so I stayed up all night and wrote a play, a two-act play. I remember calling my father about 7:00 in the morning and saying, I wrote a play last night. And I remember him being really excited and telling me, asking me, “What are you going to do with it?” I said, “I’m going to produce the play.” And so I started reading and researching how do you produce a play. And of course you need a director, you need a cast, you need a venue. And so naturally I didn’t have a whole lot of resources at my disposal, so I said, Well, I’ll direct it. I wrote it, I’ll direct it. I’ll get my friends who are in the theater department to act in it, and that was my cast. And then of course I had to find a venue. Well as it turns out, I had received a letter inviting me to a student leadership conference at the College of William and Mary, and that was taking place in about four months. And I said, How cool would that be? They’ve got to have entertainment there, so why not my play as the entertainment? And I’m a sophomore in college, and I remember calling up the director at the College of William and Mary of the student leadership conference and saying, “My name is Kwame Alexander. I’m a playwright at Virginia Tech, and I’d like to offer my play as your entertainment for your student leadership conference.” The sort of the audacity to do something like this is something I was raised with, that level of confidence, to think that the world is at your disposal. And something my father always tells me is that you have to behave and act like you belong in the room. If you don’t believe that you belong in the room, then people are going to notice and you’re not going to be sort of embraced, and there are going to be some opportunities that you’re going to miss. And so I’ve always believed that I belonged in the room, even times when I probably didn’t. But, Dr. Carol Hardy was her name, and she said, “Tell me more about this play.” I said, “It’s about student leadership.” I had all the buzz words. “It’s about black students and how they can, you know, sort of reach their destinies” -- And she said, “Well how much are you charging?” I hadn’t thought that far. I said the biggest number I could come up with. I’m a sophomore, I didn’t have any money, any food in the fridge. “What would be a good amount?” “A thousand dollars.” “Hmm, well, that’s too much.” “Can you do it for $500?” “Yes.” Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 2 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections I talked to some friends and so I knew -- I’d written a play, so I knew the number of actors it was going to require, and it was nine. And here I was getting paid $500 for a play that was going to take place three hours, four -- five hours away from my school, and I had to get everyone there, and I had to pay everyone, got to have a place to stay. So I said, “Well, I can do $500, yes, but we’ll need hotel rooms.” She said, “I can give you two rooms.” I said, “Done. And, we’ll need to attend the conference for free.” This conference cost 300 to 400 bucks. And I’d been invited but none of the cast members, I knew, would have been invited. So she agreed to all that. I got my cast together, started rehearsing. The play happened on a Friday night, the opening night of the student leadership conference. It was the main attraction. And I’m 17 years old, I’m thinking, Okay, this is cool. I’m going be a theater minor. My minor was theater. And, the auditorium was 800 people filled. I mean it was exhilarating and it was like, Wow! It was Broadway to me. Like I knew I had arrived (laughter). And we -- the play happened. It went off exactly as we had rehearsed it. It couldn’t have been any better. That is not to say that it was very good, because I only knew so much about the theater. But within the constraints of what I thought was good, it was excellent, at the time. Standing ovation. And of course the students, who were my peers, didn’t know any better either. Standing ovation, the teachers, the professors. The administrator was like, Whoa, what just happened? So, me thinking on my feet, which is another thing that I’ve sort of been groomed to always do. When we were kids we’d be in a grocery store. My father didn’t cook until very later in life, but he shopped. So my sisters and I would be in the grocery store at the checkout line, and he would not let the cashier take an item and ring it up until we could tell him the cost, with the sale and the double coupons. Unless we could tell him what the price was, he wouldn’t let it go through. And this happened for every item. So you had to be able to think very quickly on your feet. And so I remember saying to myself, We’re about to do a question-and-answer. We can do a Q-and-A. And part of it was my ego, like wanting to savor the spotlight. And the standing ovation, and then I said, “Okay, we’re about to have a Q-and-A.” And the actors sat down on stage, and I stood up, and we started taking questions, and it was amazing, the energy in that room. And the whole time I’m answering questions, I’m thinking this is my life. This is what I want to do. I knew it in that moment. I wasn’t able to articulate that it was going to be some combination of writing and presenting, but that’s what I had just done. So I said, this energy, this spirit, this feeling right now, this is what I want to do in my life. And I just got paid $500. It’s a wrap. And so, the Q-and-A goes on for an hour, and it’s 10 o’clock, and people are -- you know, at these kind of conferences for students, Friday night is time to party. So kids, nobody’s like trying to get out of there to go party. They’re staying around asking questions. So one kid asked a question, she’s from Rutgers, and she says, “Kwame, have you thought about taking this play on tour?” And I, come on, I was barely in the room. I barely made it into the room. But my answer was, “Yes, we are doing a tour.” So as she’s saying that, thoughts are going through my head, How can this happen, how can this happen? And so I say, “Well, after everything’s over, tomorrow…” because I knew that my father, who was a book publisher, had a -- Another thing that I’d been able to negotiate was for my father to have a booth, and so he would sell books. So I said, “At booth number Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 3 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections so-and-so, I’ll be giving out information on our tour.” So everybody’s like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I did something I probably shouldn’t have done. I said, the tour, “It costs $1000 for us to come to your school.” I should have never given the price out in front of 800 people, even though I was sort of married to it. But they clapped again. It was over. And we did an 8-city tour to Rutgers and Fisk and NYU... And it was sort of the first time that I was able to sort of understand that writing is, for me, is more than pen to paper. It has to be writing with sort of the goal of being able to share your words with the world in some profound way, and you now have the capacity to do it. So you don’t have to just write and it ends up in a drawer or under a mattress. You’re going to share your works with the world, and the degree to which you do that is only limited by your vision and your dreams. So you start -- we started with me talking about titles, and of course we ended in another place, in terms of this first experience where I knew I wanted to be a writer and live this writerly life, in all of its different aspects and capacities. But the title for that play was really not that good. I had borrowed it from a Spike Lee movie called She’s Gotta Have It, and so I said, Self-Discovery 101, You Gotta Have It. It seemed pretty cool. I guess the kids liked it. But from that point forward, my titles got progressively better, and so the next couple of titles...there was a title called Ebony Images, another play that I wrote, which was still okay, probably bad. But titles became very important to me. I really wanted titles that A reflected the subject matter of the book, but B, that sort of had a little bit of edgy and coolness to it, and so the titles got a little bit better over the years. I remember a really good friend of mine, my best friend, who was an actor in that first play. He’s always ribbing me about my titles. He’s like, Dude, you don’t know how to come up with titles. That used to be a really sore spot for me. We used to argue about that. And I think, you know, now he’s like a huge fan of my titles. So I think he really inspired me to sort of work on those titles. And so, when you think about - there was a play -- After Ebony Images, there was a play called 8 Minutes Till 9, which was bad, like what does that mean? The play was about a Muslim and a Christian who were twin brothers, and who were trying to figure out how to live in the same space when they had these sort of different, distinctly different, views on religion and the world and spirituality, and their mother. And so their mother -- And they hadn’t spoken in a while -- and their mother was in the hospital on her deathbed, and she died at 8 minutes till 9. Not a very good title. And then my first book of poems, Just Us: Poems and Counterpoems. What are counterpoems? I have no idea. And I think probably -- And then Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur. That’s kind of cliché. I think probably the transition into like really coming up with a title that was concise and represented the book and still had an edginess was the book Crush, and that was 10 years, 10-15 years into my writing. But I think that sort of when I hit my stride, if I can say that, Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers, I felt like it was really simple, it represented what the book was about. It had sort of an edginess to it. Just the word “crush” in and of itself has some energy. And from there I felt like it was on, with the titles. NJ: I am curious as you were just talking about that play, the 10 minutes to 9? KA: 8 Minutes Till 9. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 4 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections NJ: 8 Minutes Till 9, thank you. It really impressed me -KA: Yes, it’s just, it’s a horrible title. KA: Yes, 25 minutes past 11. NJ: Yes. And (The) Crossover, and twins, mother on a deathbed... Do you find you come back? And what do you come back to in different maybe iterations? KA: Wow. So that’s great, because we’re talking about the books talking to each other. And here’s this play that I wrote that has this direct link to this novel that I wrote, which was 20 years later. And so the thing I didn’t tell you about 8 Minutes Till 9 is that -- this was my third sort of, my third attempt at producing theater, okay. So after that first play had just wild success, as a 17 year-old, of course, I can do this. I can do this now. I will become a theater impresario. And so part of this whole idea of finding your rhythm and saying yes is that there are going to be failures. And I think that, the thing is, you got to be willing to deal with the failures. Like you’ve got to be willing to let those happen, embrace them, and learn from them. And that way you’re able to sort of find what’s possible. And so with 8 Minutes Till 9, it was my third attempt, I felt like I was in a rhythm, and it was now time for me to actually go to Broadway, like literally. NJ: Oh my gosh. KA: And so I found a theater in my home town, in Norfolk, Virginia. It’s called the Norfolk Center Theater, I believe, and I had 800 students in the first play, because the students had been registered for the conference from all around the country, so they were -- that was my audience. I didn’t have to market, just had to show up and do my piece. Well now I had to market to the Norfolk Center Theater, and I remember getting my scholarship money from school, I was now a junior, and I had leftover money. And I decided I’m going to use this money to produce my play. The theater sat 2,000 people. I’m going to do this. Everybody’s going to love this play. And there were 5 people in the audience. And I remember feeling like, or feeling a number of things. Two of the people were my parents. And I remember feeling like it was the end of the world, like it’s a wrap. I mean, just thinking about it right now makes me just want to, wow, it was devastating, because I had done everything I thought that I knew, everything that I thought I had to do in order to bring people out. And certainly a theater with 2,000 people in there and there are 5 people in the audience, there’s no way to sort of think positively about that, especially as a 19 year old, who thinks he wants to be a writer/director/producer. And so I was devastated. ST: So as part of the consequence of having the tremendous confidence and self-assuredness, when it doesn’t happen, it sounds like there’s some extremes going on. I mean, that’s a challenging way to move through the world I imagine. KA: Well again, it’s no way around that. You can’t, I don’t care how much confidence you have, you can’t rationalize there being 5 people in a theater of 2,000, in front of the people you care the most about, and the actors who you promised that this is going to be. And it was just, like you really just felt like you wanted to be in your mother’s arms. You wanted to just be away from the world. And it was Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 5 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections the lowest -- it’s one of the lowest points in my writing career. And then the other thing happened, because you can’t take away confidence, 19 years of confidence being instilled in you by your parents and being reinforced daily. That doesn’t just end because you’re devastated. It takes a hit. It doesn’t go down though. And so we did the play. We did the entire play. And it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Of course I’m only 19, so how many hard things have I done? But when you start looking at the future, in terms of my writing career, it definitely laid a foundation for how I would move through the world, how I would deal with the nos, because that was the biggest no. It’s probably one of the top three biggest nos I’ve ever faced in terms of the rejection that I felt. But we did the play. We did the play. I don’t know how that 2 ½ hours -- I don’t remember how I made it through that 2 ½ hours, but it’s not, you know, we did. And when it was over and I got home, yes, I felt a whole lot better because I was out of that space, and I was able to look back on it, and I knew that I would never be in that position again. I would never be in that position again. I mean, I gave up my scholarship money for this, to produce this. I didn’t, obviously, I didn’t market it and promote it well. And so, yes, yes, yes. And so, to go back to your question and the idea when we look at The Crossover and we have similar sort of themes, in terms of twins, rivalry, parent, parental illness. I kind of I guess when I think back on it, I guess I feel like I never -- that story never got told. And so maybe I needed to be able to close that chapter in some way, and this was sort of a coming full circle. I don’t know, I’m speculating, but I think our subconscious acts in ways that we don’t necessarily know. So when you bring it up, maybe that had something to do with it. I needed to have some closure, because I always felt like it was a great idea. So I needed to circle back and deal with some of that. But oh, I get chills when I think about that theater. It was the hardest thing. But again I mean, we can’t have the yeses without the nos. You can’t have the mountains without the valleys. You just you can’t. The world doesn’t work like that. So, yes, 8 Minutes Till 9. NJ: Music. It’s everywhere, in your work. KA: Yes, the music. I told my parents that I don’t remember music being in our house. I don’t remember you all listening to music. You know, I remember gospel music because my father was a Baptist minister, and so I remember church, and I remember my father didn’t listen to secular music. So he never, I don’t have that recollection of him listening to music outside of church. I remember him trying to sing in the pulpit and sounding horrible. I remember that. I remember my mother humming songs and singing songs around the house, If you want to be happy for the rest of your life... I remember her singing, How much is the doggy in the window? I remember her singing songs like that around the house. I remember that a lot. So I remember those two things. And I remember, certainly, my sisters and I loving Michael Jackson and sort of going through our phases. And then I remember falling asleep at night listening to the oldies but goodies, every night. I had a little alarm clock radio, and so I’d fall asleep, Breaking up is hard to do. Now I know, I know that it’s true. Don’t say that this is the end. Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again. I beg... So I used to listen to these songs. Yes, I guess there was music in my house. There was a lot of music. I used to listen to those songs every night, loved the stories, loved the stories. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 6 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections But you know, the music in the books, I think, comes from a couple different places. Obviously it comes from that. But it comes from, I love writing while listening to music. The writing, it centers, it calms me, it inspires me, so I love listening to music, especially instrumental jazz music. The music has to be instrumental. I can’t have words when I’m writing. So I think the biggest thing in terms of why the music is so much a part of my life now, and therefore a part of my writing life, I was a sophomore in college and I’d come home, and again, the only music I ever heard my father embrace was gospel music, and I came home -- and this is a man who didn’t, he never said I loved you. I didn’t hear that. Like you knew he did, but you didn’t ever hear it. He wasn’t very emotive. But he was emotive when he fussed. But you didn’t really get the warm and fuzzy, Oh come here, son, give me a hug. That never happened, ever! So I remember coming home sophomore year and being in our attic. My grandmother used to say that I was a meddler. “Why is that boy always meddling in my stuff?” He’s in my closets and then, “What are you, Ed, come down!” She used to call me by my first name, Edward. “Edward, come downstairs and stop meddling up there.” I loved going in drawers and finding things and being under beds, and there was always little things that you could find, and it was just so cool to me to discover all these wonderful things that you knew had stories, had these sort of backgrounds, these histories...medals in your grandfather’s drawer, and fur coats, oh and fur hats. Oh, my favorite thing was papers, anything that was paper, because papers had things written on them. And whatever was written on them, you knew was going to be something that you didn’t know before. And so you got this sort of peek into these people’s lives who were your family. My grandmother used to say, “Why is he meddling?” And this is both of my grandmothers. My mother’s mother and my father’s mother, I did the same thing. My mother’s mother had an attic where her mother had lived, so it was a whole apartment up there. Oh my goodness! I found watches, encyclopedias, you know, can I say bras? I mean, I found everything, and it was all so exciting! And so, I come home sophomore year and I do what I always do. I’m in our attic, because growing up I’d never discovered everything that was in the attic, so it was always cool to go up there. So maybe I was up there looking for something from my high school days. Everything was in boxes. And I find two crates of records, and I started looking at the records, and the records are like Ella Fitzgerald, Live in Berlin; Duke Ellington; Ornette Coleman; Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. And I’m like what is this? And I look at the top of each record, and in stencil, which is what these guys in the Air Force used to use to identify their records, it said, Property of The Big Al. And I’m like, That’s my dad. My dad’s nickname in the Air Force was The Big Al. My dad has a record, “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” What is my dad doing with Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith? What is he doing with these? And then it hit me, My dad was a huge jazz fan. Anybody who loves jazz has to be okay. That’s when I sort of fell in love with my dad. That was the moment. I took those records back to college. I took them all back to college, bought a record player, and began to just fall in love with jazz music. And it has informed and influenced my writing ever since. And I guess in some way, it’s sort of me, reestablishing or reconnecting with my dad in a really profound way. ST: I don’t know if you could hear your dad while you were giving your Newberry speech, because you were up there, but -KA: I’ve been told. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 7 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ST: Oh you have. I loved it! It was -KA: It was church. ST: It was church, and it was -- it was church. He was so loving and so supportive and exhilarating about what was happening. KA: Yes, I think for them, for my mom and dad, the whole, you know, awards, the Newberry Medal in particular, it was -- it was validating for them in some way. Because when I got the call on February 2, at 7:16 a.m., I called him. He was the first person I called. And his response was, “We did it.” Which I was like, Dude, we didn’t do anything. But of course we did. Like I wouldn’t have been getting that call had he not done all that stuff that they did. And my father and I -- again, he wasn’t very emotive, so we didn’t -- We talked every couple months. We had conversations every now and then. It was cool. And as he’d gotten older, we talked a little bit more. But beginning February 2, we talked an hour a day, which is -- I mean, there are some days where I just, I can’t, I can’t do it tonight, Dad. I’ll have to call you tomorrow. But we talked an hour a day. And I think, what better way, what is more important for a parent than to see their child living a life that they have always hoped that they would be able to live. Maybe they didn’t articulate the specific, but that everything we put into you, we see it coming out and we’re very -- we feel good. We’ve done something. And you know, me fighting or me fussing because I have to read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and him not being able to understand. Why are you fussing? And me tearing... So there was this phase in my life where we lived in Brooklyn, and we lived in this awesome row house on President Street, between New York and Brooklyn Avenue. It was owned by this older woman who had first editions of quite a few books, Alexander Dumas. She had everything. And she left the books, and there were built-in shelves in every room. So I had a room with built-in shelves everywhere, and I hated it. Because I knew I was going to have to read these freakin’ books. And he made me read them. And so, when he traveled, I would rebel. This is not the kind of thing to share when you’re talking with librarians and English professors. It’s a part of my life. I would take books off the shelves and start tearing pages out. That was my way to rebel. I would only do it when he left town. I wasn’t crazy enough to do it when he was there. To come from that place -ST: And would you get rid of the pages, then, or would they -KA: I don’t remember. I’d tear a page out. I’d tear a page out and then throw the book. My mother would come in. We won’t say what she did, but I had to stop. That was sort of my way. So to come from that place to now be here, I think they’re just very thankful, and my mother said -- I remember my mother saying to my father, “Where did he come from? Where did this guy come from?” So I think they’re just very proud. I know they’re very proud. I’m really happy to have -- I feel like it’s good. It’s sort of my way of saying thank you for all the stuff I put them through as it related to literature. But they never, they never stopped. They never stopped, I mean, “We don’t care. If you don’t want to read, too bad you’re going to do it.” That thing never stopped. And so yes, he’s right, we did do it. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 8 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections NJ: Do you think work, know when something’s going to end up being a picture book or a novel or a collection of poems? Is that conscious? Does it happen organically? KA: Yes. It’s a good question. I have not always, I haven’t been -- Quite a few of my writer friends are very sort of, and I say this in the most respectful way, in the clouds. They’re inspired, and the muse comes, and that’s all good. And to a certain degree, yes, I have muses. But I am also very methodical about my approach to writing books. I’m going to sit down and I’m going to write a play tonight. That’s always been my mindset. I’m going to sit down, I’m going to write a picture book. This morning I was working on a picture book, looking out on this beautiful water and listening to the trains, and I’m going to write a picture book. So it’s very, it’s very planned. I mean, it’s very intentional. I know what genre it’s going to be. I’ve thought about it over and over in my head because there are -- before I can actually sit down to write, I have to know what genre. There’s not going to be any I don’t know, maybe this is something else. No, it is what it’s going to be. I have to know the title. I have to know that from the beginning. And I have to know the whole -- and I have to know the entire story. I have to know the beginning and the end. I don’t have to know the middle. But I have to know those three things. And so it becomes very -- it becomes less, let the muse sort of inspire me, let me find out what this is, and more of, alright, muse, you ready to do this? Let’s make it happen. This is what’s about to go down. NJ: Do you think the muse is percolating even though you’re not aware of it? KA: Yes. NJ: So by the time -KA: Yes, the muse is definitely -- yes. By the time I actually write, I’ve already started writing, and the muse has been working with me and inspiring me. So all that happens up there while I’m presenting, while I’m traveling around, walking my daughter to school, the muse is working. When I sit down to write, I’m taking all of that that I’ve gathered and culled together over the weeks, months, or years. It’s interesting because when I present to students or when I’m giving a keynote, it’s weird because two things are happening up there. Number one, I am present in the moment, which is why I try to make sure that I connect with students and get names. And it’s not just so that the students can feel connected. It’s so I can feel connected too. Because there’s another thing going on. I’m also actively at this simultaneously, I’m involved in this whole other process, and that process is -- I’m not even sure if this is something I should say. That’s the thing about this, in this age of Twitter, stuff ends up everywhere. ST: Nancy and I do not know how to Twitter. NJ: We don’t tweet. We do not tweet, so. KA: I’m being facetious. I’m being facetious. ST: I’m not. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 9 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections KA: My mind, my mind is in the moment and I’m trying to connect with you, but I’m also thinking about what I’m going to be doing over here. And over here could be, I heard four kids up there laughing and being rambunctious. Okay, at some point during this presentation, Kwame, you need to make your way up there, and you need to do that poem that’s on page 46 in Crush, because that poem is going to resonate with that boy, because you saw the way... So I’m having this whole other conversation as I’m connecting with this student over here. And I don’t know if that’s multitasking or literary schizophrenia, or whatever it is, but I have stopped trying to understand it and just do it. I don’t know, I don’t know how it happens, but I just do it. NJ: I think I mentioned to you at Singapore American School that that’s what I hope I get better at as a teacher. I mean, watching you yesterday, watching you at the Singapore American School, you are so present for the learners, the kids, whoever’s there, even the grownups, that we’re sure you’re -- It’s like when I go to a really good church service, it’s like, Oh, that sermon was for me. KA: Right. NJ: And that’s what I hope I can learn to do as a teacher so that when I leave they go, Oh yes, that lesson was for me. I needed that one. And you don’t even seem to think about it. I think it’s kind of who you are. KA: Yes. NJ: You’re saying, No, I’m not a teacher. You are a teacher at the core. KA: Well, yes, thank you. I tried teaching, I tried teaching. NJ: Well you’re still doing it. You just don’t do it with a certificate. KA: Yes, right. NJ: You don’t have a teaching certificate. You’re still teaching. KA: Right, right. NJ: I saw you with your daughter. KA: Right. NJ: I mean, you’re still teaching. KA: Yes. NJ: And in ways that sometimes we can’t get away with in a classroom. Cool, we’re lucky to have that happen. KA: Right. I remember Scott Riley, one of the teachers in Singapore. At the Singapore American School, he told me, it was like, “The kids are the curriculum.” And so, if you’re teaching the curriculum, you got Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 10 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections to teach to the kids. And we forget that sometimes. And I think that one of the beauties of presenting with students, like the 5th graders at Western Washington, is that you get to -- it’s sort of like jazz. When you have a jam session, you have to be present in order to riff off of your bandmates. In order to follow along, in order to get in the groove, and you don’t know the kind of magic that’s going to come out of that, but you got to be willing to do that and discover it. And I think each time I go into a class or into an auditorium or what have you, I want -- it’s a jam session for me. We’re all involved, and I may have some ideas about what I’m going to do, and I’m also open to wherever this is going to take us, because there may be some teachable moments here. There may be some things that I’ll discover about myself. There may be some things that some student will discover about her or himself. And I think that’s really magical. But you got to be willing to have five people in the theater to do that, and that is not easy. ST: Thanks. KA: Thank you. NJ: You got two people in the theater. NJ: It’s easier. -KA: Yes. It’s good to be able to talk about it. A lot of this stuff I haven’t shared in a while, just remember. It’s good to remember that. ST: Yes. KA: Yes. ST: We have a few more months until the next announcement in January. I hope it carries, I hope it flows over. You’ve talked about this year as this platform that you’re honored to be on and to reach out, and I don’t see it ending, to be perfectly honest. NJ: I think you’re booked for the next two years anyway, right? KA: Yes. NJ: I think you’ve found the theater. I mean, it is really not gone. KA: Right. I think I was able to sort of merit all those things, right? NJ: This is your theater. That one was temporary. It was a placeholder. KA: Right. NJ: It’s a placeholder theater. KA: Yes. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 11 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections NJ: Right? I mean, this gig is not Broadway, but for you, you’re on a different Broadway. ST: Well it’s the trifecta that you were talking about of who you are, what you’re writing about, and the connection with the audience, that initial rush that you had from that first place. NJ: Yes. KA: Right. NJ: Sharing your words with the world. ST: And then here you are now -KA: Oh, you’re right. ST: -- in that same experience. It’s like it’s that whole spiral, cyclical thing going. And it’s like, wow, that does make a lot of sense. KA: You’re right. That’s exactly what it is. NJ: And so it’s no wonder it’s like it feels like you’ve come home when you do that. It feels right because it is right for you. KA: Right, right. NJ: Not for all of us -KA: Right. NJ: -- but it’s right for you. KA: Yes, yes. NJ: And that’s why the other people who have a muse that is different, that’s right for them. KA: Right, exactly, exactly. NJ: And that’s right for them. This is you, and to try to find that, we don’t always find it at 18 or 19. We’re looking. KA: Right. NJ: We’re meddling. KA: Right, right. NJ: Right? Yes. So you kind of hope that there is that place. And it’s just lovely when you know. I mean when you know it, it’s like, I am so lucky. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 12 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections KA: Right, exactly. I was telling Sylvia, I wake up every morning, I just laugh. It’s like, “No way, really?” NJ: Really, seriously, right? Hey, Dad, I am going to talk to you for an hour because really? KA: Right. ST: Well, that’s a good place to end. NJ: But you wouldn’t have known that when you had five people in your audience. ST: But you knew it when you had that previous feeling. It was the feeling to repeat. NJ: Yes, yes. Thank you. Kwame Alexander Edited Transcript – October 21, 2015 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 13 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections
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1998_0224 ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 1 ----------heading layoffs SPOKLS/8 VW's FRONT SEAT? FEATURES/6 WESTERN WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY VOLUME 203 ISSUE 12 TUESDAY February 24,
Show more1998_0224 ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 1 ----------heading layoffs SPOKLS/8 VW's FRONT SEAT? FEATURES/6 WESTERN WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY VOLUME 203 ISSUE 12 TUESDAY February 24, 1998 BELLINGHAM; WASHINGTONCity Council hears master plan complaints By Arvid Hokanson The Western Front Bellingham CityCouncil members faced a standing-room-only chamber of citizens, students and Western officials lastnight as it began the process of reviewing Western's Neighborhood Plan for potential adoption in themonths to come. The public-comment portion of the meeting began with City Planning Director PatriciaDecker and Associate Director Greg Aucutt speaking about the complexity of the plan and the vari- .ous issues involved. Many of the members of the public who spoke expressed confusion about thesize and scope of the plan. "It's understandable that people are confused, and hopefully we cancorrect some of that confusion through this public process," Decker said. "Patricia Decker wasconfused; she didn't know whether to tell us to speak on the Memorandum of Agreement or not," HappyValley resident and citizen activist John Servais said. "She didn't know what they (the city council)should or should not listen to." "It's a difficult process when you're dealing with an institution likeWestern that covers the neighborhood," Decker said. "It's very, very confusing, and that's the problemwith this process," Servais said. After 10 months of tedious review, which included 11 public meetings,the Bellingham City Planning Commission submitted its 38-page "Findings of Fact and Conclusion" onthe neighborhood plan that included a Memorandum of Agreement to the city council at the end of last year. In the proposed Memorandum of Agreement, the city would release Western from complying with the state Growth Management Act until the adoption of the IMP. This has come under fire for beingdisrespectful of the law. The plan, which will be used to develop an Institutional Master Plan, lays outrules for developing Western's regulatory guidelines. Issues included parking, the Viking Unionrenovation, property acquisition and a newly proposed Memorandum of Agreement betweenWestern and the city. "Interest (in Western's neighborhood plan) is greater than any of the otherseven plans already reviewed by the city," Aucutt said. "This neighborhood plan is only a first step indeveloping regulatory plans." Officials from Western then made a short but strong presentation tothe city council, stating their position on the adoption of the neighborhood plan. Western Board ofTrustees Chair Grace Yuan, President Karen Morse, Trustee Charlie Earl and Trustee Warren Gilbert all commented about Western's inevitable growth, increasing enrollment and value to the community, before members of the public spoke. "The Growth Management Act is clouded on development of theuniversity with relation to the city development plans," Earl said. "Development will not occur until thecity and neighborhood have been consulted and an See Plan, page 4 Front/Wendy Giroux Happy Valley resident John Servais addresses Western administrators about the necessity of justifying Western'sacademic needs for the proposed expansion into Happy Valley Viking Union renovation brought beforepublic hearing By Wendy Giroux The Western Front The proposed Viking Union renovation and theremoval of Vendors' Row were vehemently discussed during the public forum at the Bellingham CityCouncil meeting Monday night. At the opening of the meeting, council chairperson Bob Ryan asked forthe signatures of meeting attendees who wished to speak about Vendors' Row. More than ten peoplesigned up, but not all were able to speak due to time constraints. "The most significant part of theproposed plan is the VU remodel — it will require a public review process," Greg Aucutt, an associate director of city planning, said. Aucutt said the time frame will allow time for public review beforeconstruction of the final document begins. "The plan-development process involves public participation,"Western President Karen Morse said. Morse spoke about specific issues, including the VU renovation:"The vacation of High Street (will be completed) for safety purposes and to help with the constructionof the plaza," she said. Associated Students President Shane O'Day did not directly address the VUrenovation, but he reiterated Morse's statement. "The purpose of the university is to meet thechanging and growing needs of its student population," O'Day said. April Markowitz representedWestern's staff and faculty; she spoke about the community at Western and its infrastructure. "Weneed to be getting everybody's input — getting creative ideas," she said. "In a world that's growing more impersonal, (Vendors' Row is) a human place." Tim McHugh Cookie Table employee and (provides)many inexpensive things of extremely high quality," Robert Monaham, a Bellingham resident for 36years, said. Western junior Theresa Fagin said that she can buy food for a whole school day atVendors' Row for $3.65, compared to the $10 she spends for the same number of snacks and mealsat Mar-riott. "There are two essential differences between Vendors' Row and the Marriott foodservices on campus — one (is) quality and cost, and the other half is personal satisfaction," she said.Fagin said she feels the administration did not strive hard enough to seek student views. My voice wasnever sought, and it's 'Western is an enormous cultural asset falling on deaf ears now as I hear more andmore about the renovation plans. Vendors' Row worker Joel Litman presented to the council the 2,700-signature petition in opposition to the renovation plans. Litman said the signatures were collected inonly seven days. "For those of you who might not know, Vendors' Row is a 22-year tradition," Litmansaid. He described the row as "an open-air marketplace — kind of similar to Pike's Place Market inSeattle, although considerably smaller." Litman said Vendors' Row "offers an alternative to corporateinterests up at Western, but more importantly, it offers a cultural and political link to the community— the only link of that kind left at Western today." Litman said it's important to understand thedifference between the existing Vendors' Row and the proposed university- supplied vending spaces.See VLT, page 4 k. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 2 ----------2 • THE WESTERN FRONT NEWS February 24, 1998 Campus Police Feb. 17,10:42 a.m.: A studentreported her vehicle was damaged in Lot 15R. She discovered muddy footprints on her vehicle's hood,roof and trunk. One footprint was visible where a slight indentation was created on the roof. No otherdamage was noted. Feb. 17, 3:05 p.m.: Parking Services personnel discovered a vehicle with the driver'sside window broken. The owner was contacted; she reported damage to the CD player, but no propertywas missing. Bellingham Police Feb. 22, 11:20 a.m.: A man was pulled over in the 1100 block of E.Maple Street. He was subsequently arrested on the scene for taking a motor vehicle without permissionand was booked at Whatcom County Jail. Feb. 22, 6:42 p.m.: A man reported the theft of his gas-powered barbecue. The unknown suspect(s) wheeled the barbecue away from where it sat next to hishouse. Feb. 23,12:09 a.m.: Police responded to an alarm in the 3100 block of Ellis Street. The perimeterwas secure. The K-9 unit checked the inside. A balloon was found blowing around inside the office. Theballoon was put away. Feb. 23, 12:17 a.m.: Two people in the 1600 block of Fairhaven Avenue werecontacted by officers after a large fireworks display generated a number of calls to the Bellingham PoliceDepartment 911 Dispatch. Upon investigating, the activity appeared to be planned and permitted. Feb.23,1:35 a.m.: A woman called to complain about a neighbor's wood stove and the problems associatedwith smoke emissions. Feb. 23, 8:33 a.m.: A man was pulled over near the corner of Illinois and Summer streets for a traffic violation. A routine warrant check was performed; two outstanding warrants werediscovered. He was transported to the Whatcom County Jail where the warrants were served and he wasbooked. Feb. 23,9:03 a.m.: A man reported that someone smashed the windshield of his car in the2000 block of Franklin Street while it was parked outside of his workplace over the weekend. The unknown suspect(s) used rocks to smash the windshield. Compiled by JohnBankston COI^CTtON Once again}TheFront lias demonstrated if^m abilityr_ ^ ^ ^^CP" "^" ",^5lt;i?'-'^-^:T^^:?^4^^fiV^-J^S^M^! L "r^wpsjtlt;c^is? ^LVi"4^.ice^s«r ir"--" - jg^eK? jfc^ ^!J5B«gt;a^cp^^^7' '^ttf^tl Wjiday's issue/ m^ Ifysliilco landRywHaz^ PaystoiyonpageS.^ MgWand promise to pay a^eh^wiinextt^e. . Publication's Title: Statementof Frequency: Authorized Organization's name and address: The Western Front Published 2 x WeeklyThe Western Front Western Washington University College Hall 110 Bellingham, WA 98225-9100 Rallygiven to save Vendors'Row A rally will be given to help save Vendors' Row at noon on Feb. 25 at theViking Union Plaza. The rally is sponsored by the Cesar Chavez Student Organization for LaborSolidarity. Speakers, and musicians will be present to strike up student and community supportconcerning the preservation of Vendors' Row. "Boogie Nights" shown today Associated StudentsProductions Films will show "Boogie Nights" at 7 and 10 p.m., Feb. 24, in Fraser Hall 4. Admission is$2. Featuring Mark Wahlberg and Burt Reynolds, the plot of "Boogie Nights" revolves around thepornography industry. As part of "Promiscuity Week," the AS Sexual Awareness Center will displaycondoms that evening. Veterans information session given Thursday The Veterans' Outreach Center will host a question-and-answer session with a Veterans Affairs Service officer. The event will take placefrom 1 to 3 p.m., Feb. 26, in Viking Addition 300. Information about filing for benefits and obtaining homeloans will be offered. Celebrate your body As part of "Body Pride Week," Western's Counseling, Healthand Wellness Program and St. Joseph Hospital are co-sponsoring several events. A Women's HealthFair will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Feb. 26, in the Viking Union Main Lounge. All programs areopen to the community and are free. Pre-registration is not required. To receive more information, callJan Rystrom at 738-6300, ext. 4161. In addition, every day this week will feature an on-campus event to celebrate "Body Pride Week." For details on times, dates and places contact Candice Wiggum at theCounseling Center at 650-3164. Tour Wilson Library Wilson Library will give a tour at 3 p.m. on Feb. 26. Learn about future plans for Wilson, share your information needs and get introduced to the staff andvarious services. An optional demonstration of Wilson Library's Information System will be offeredfollowing the tour. To register, call 650-7764. Benefit drag show An AIDS charity drag show will takeplace at 7 p.m., Feb. 27, in the Viking Union Main Lounge. The cost is $5, or $4 with a non-perishablefood item. All proceeds will go to Camp Rise and Shine and the Sean Humphrey House. VolunteersNeeded Volunteers are needed to install plant, material for the Bluff Planting Project. Work parties are•scheduled at 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for Feb. 28 through April 4 in the Maritime Heritage Park. Contact Tara at 676-6880 for more information. Heroin information presented today An open and honest discussion on the effects of heroin use and abuse will take place at 7 p.m., Feb. 24, in the Library PresentationRoom. Panel member representatives from Whatcom Combined Treatment Center and the Bellingham community will lead the session. Call 650-6116 for more information. Listen to both sides of Initiative200 debate Rep. Scott Smith, co-sponsor of Initiative 200, and Tim Wise, affirmative action advocate,will address topics about racial equality and whether or not affirmative action gives preferentialtreatment to some and discriminates against others. The debate begins at 7 p.m., Feb. 24, in VikingUnion Main Lounge. It will also be broadcast live on 89.3 KUGS. French Film Festival comes to campus Associated Students Productions Films will host the 3rd annual French Film Festival at 8 p.m.,March 1 to March 5, in Fraser 4. Tickets cost $2 and can be bought at the door. For more information,call 650-6130. Discuss sexual issues The Student Health Assessment and Information Center is hosting free consultations about sexual health this week. The educators will speak with students one on oneabout birth control, sexual diseases, pelvic exams and various other sexual issues. For moreinformation, contact Catharine Vader at 650-2961. Attend rally opposing renovations There will be a rally opposing the proposed renovations to the Viking Union building, at noon on Wednesday in the VUPlaza. Compiled by Kelly Ferguson WWU Official Announcements Deadline for announcements in thisspace is noon Friday for the Tuesday edition and noon Wednesday for the Friday edition. Announcements should be limited to 50 words, typewritten or legibly printed, and sent through campus mail to "OfficialAnnouncements," MS — 9117. fax 7287, or taken in person to Commissary 113A. DO NOT ADDRESSANNOUNCEMENTS DIRECTLY TO THE WESTERN FRONT. Phoned announcements will not beaccepted. All announcements should be signed by originator. PLEASE POST ACADEMIC ADVISINGCENTER is hiring Academic Student Advisers (ASAs) to work.during Summerstart and Fall Orientation. ASAs work with faculty members advising new freshmen. Qualifications include a minimum GPA of 2.5and demonstrated interpersonal, helping, and leadership experience. Applications available in OM 380.Call X/3850 with questions. VIKING UNION RENOVATION DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATION to update the campus community on the upcoming renovation of the Viking Union Complex will be held at 4 p.m. Feb. 25 in the Viking Addition 5th. floor food court. SUMMER QUARTER 1998 DEGREEAPPLICATIONS are due in the Registrar's Office, OM 230, by March 13, 1998. All students expecting tograduate summer quarter must have a degree application on file with the registrar. OPEN COURSE LINE,X/7300,-will be ih operation during spring quarter registration as follows: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. March 9-12, 30-31, and April 1-2, 8:30 a.m.-nqon March 13 and April 3. Call during these hours for help finding openclasses. PARKING SERVICES will reserve, lot 9G and 31G beginning at 7 a.m. Feb. 24 for the AthleticCampaign-' Kickoff "Donor Breakfast." • Lots 6G and 9V will be reserved beginning at 5 p.m. Feb. 25 for the VU Renovation meeting. • Lots 6G •'• and 9V will be reserved beginning at 5 p.m. Feb. 26 forSister-to-Sister: Parti Allen. Permit holders may leave vehicles parked in reserved lots for work-relatedpurposes. PACIFIC NORTHWEST INTERNATIONAL CAREER FAIR will be held Feb. 27 from 10 a.m.-3p.m. at Seattle Pacific University in the Royal Brougham Pavilion. Seniors and master level studentswelcome. A r6sume is required for admission. Dress for success. For more information: visitwww.ups.edu/pnwicf.htm or call Don Gorman at X/3240. MILLER ANALOGIES TEST: Registrationrequired. Call X/3080. $35 is payable at test, 3 p.m. March 3 in FR 3. MATH PLACEMENT TEST:Registration not required. Bring picture. I.D, and a No. 2 pencil. $10 is payable in the exact amount attest. Allow 90 minutes. Testing will be at 9 a.m. in OM 120 oh Feb. 26 and March 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, and 19.THE TEST FOR ENTRANCE INTO TEACHER EDUCATION (TETEP) will be in FR 3 at 3 p.m. March 11.Registration is required in OM 120. A fee of $25 is payable in the exact amount at time of registration. The test takes about 2'/2 hours. INFORMATION REGARDING NATIONAL TESTING is available at the Testing Center, OM 120. CAREER SERVICES WINTER QUARTER WORKSHOPS are open for registration atOM 280, or X/3240. • Cover Letters, 4 p.m. March 2. • Interview Techniques, 10 a.m. Feb. 26. •Mock Interview times are available. • Effective Resumes for Educators, 10 a.m. March 3. • Focus — Your Career Decision Making, a'computerized career guidance system. $5 fee. • Myers-BriggsWorkshop, 2-4 p.m. Feb. 26. On-campus recruiting For additional information and to sign up, contactPenny Wilson, Career Services, Old Main 280, X/2944. • Access Telecommunications interviewsscheduled Feb. 26 for Account Executive positions in Seattle. Submit a resume when you sign- up. •American President Lines (APL) interviews scheduled Feb. 25 for Management Training positions. Submita resume when you sign up. • Fortis Investors interviews scheduled March 4 for Management Trainingpositions in Bellevue. Submit a resume when you sign up. • Public Interest Research Groups interviews are scheduled March 4 for Campus Organizer positions and the PIRG Fellowship program. • PublicSchools Personnel Cooperative campus interviews are scheduled March 4 for public school teachers (allareas and levels). PSPC hires for 11 school districts in the Olympia, WA vicinity. Informational session at8:30 a.m., followed by individual interviews. Submit a resume. • RealNetworks campus interviewsscheduled March 3 for positions in their Seattle Software company. Submit a resume when you sign up. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 3 ----------February 24, 1998 NEWS. THE WESTERN FRONT • 3 Looking back at stories from The WesternFront, Winter, 1977 Huxley graduate kidnapped in Colombia A 30-year-old Huxley graduate working inColombia as a Peace Corps volunteer was taken captive by leftist guerrillas on Feb. 14, the StateDepartment reported on Wednesday. Charles Richard Starr was studying the status of vegetation andwildlife in the Macarena mountains, 95 miles southeast of Bogota, when he was kidnapped. HughPerenyi, State Department press officer, said the name of the group who seized Starr had not beenconfirmed. Reports attribute the kidnapping to the pro-communist Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia. The kidnapping took place during a two-hour raid on a police outpost. One policeman andone guerrilla were killed in the raid. Starr was the only person taken hostage by the approximately 50guerrillas, witnesses said. Starr graduated from Huxley in 1972 and received his master in botany fromthe University of Wisconsin. Western's liquor license crushed Western's chances for beer and wineservice may have been crippled by Bellingham Mayor Ken Hertz's public announcement that he wouldoppose granting liquor licenses to the college. SAGA Food Service and the Viking Union recently madea joint application to the Washington State Liquor Control Board for Class "A" and Class "C" liquorlicenses. If the application goes through, beer and wine service would begin in the Viking Union CoffeeShop's Auxiliary Room. Proposed hours for service are 12 to 7 p.m. weekdays. SAGA would managethe sales and ID checking. Associated Students President Bruce Ayers said Hertz's oppositionmakes it unlikely that Western will be granted the license. "No liquor licenses get through when city hall opposes," he said. Hertz asked for a public hearing in the event that the liquor board shows signs ofissuing the "A" and "C" licenses. He predicted that the Bellingham citizens would oppose issuance 2to 1. Crazed fan charges at entertainer A crazed fan lunged at folk star Al Stewart before hisperformance in Carver Gym on Friday, Jan. 21. The young man, who called himself Lord Granville, wasdragged off the stage by road crew members after bounding toward Stewart during a pre-concertrehearsal. Jacques Duchesneau, 22, of Montreal, was arrested by campus security officers andcharged with simple assault. "He was heading straight for Stewart, no two ways about it," said WarrenErksine, security director for the Program Commission. Duchesneau apparently hid in a Carverclassroom after being kicked out earlier in the day by concert officials. Another program commissioner said he put a "hex" on the concert prior to his ejection. The man was chased from the classroom by apatrolling security officer. He then ran and jumped onto the stage where rehearsal was in progress.Stewart's roadies recognized Duchesneau from the previous encounter and quickly surrounded him.One of the workers was struck by the intruder. The man reportedly yelled lyrics from Stewart's songsand "Why did you bring me back from the dead?" at Stewart as he ran at him. Duchesneau denied thathe had threatened Stewart. He was sentenced to five days in jail and a $50 fine, with time alreadyspent in jail credited to his sentence. Radicalesbian speaks at Western Feminist author Rita MaeBrown talked about the feminist movement and establishment versus feminist art in a speechWednesday, Jan. 19, in Lecture Hall 4. Brown has been an activist for the past ten years in such groups Front/File photo Western student Pat MacNealy practicing his repelling techniques down the southwall of Nash Hall in February of 1977. Radicalesbians and the cal. They make people think." No securityexists, either financially or emotionally, for the feminist artist, Brown said, and chances are one in amillion that a feminist arstist will make a lot of money. as National Gay Task Force. "This is not goingto be 'Women's Lib 101,'" she said, as she launched into the problems of feminist art in the UnitedStates. "Artists are considered dangerous," Brown said, "because they provide a conscience for theirtime, and they are generally criti- Compiled by Meredith Lofberg Clubs want alternative to Marriottcatering By Samantha Tretheway The Western Front Some Associated Students club members havequestioned why Marriott Food Service has an exclusive contract with Western, saying Marriott chargestoo much money for food that does not meet the clubs' diverse needs. "I'm not saying the food is bad— but for the amount we pay, it could be better," said Tony Im, a volunteer at the Ethnic Student Center.Other clubs also have complaints with Marriott, including the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance. TheLGBA paid Marriott $74.10 to provide beverages for 30 people, Jess Torcaso, a staff member at theLGBA, said. "It puts us in a no-win situation," Torcaso said. "As a university organization, we'rerequired to use Marriott." Co-coordinator of the Women's Center Christa Orth said she would like tosupport off-campus businesses, but "our purchase orders would not be approved if we tried to get an off-campus business to cater our events." Marriott's services and prices are negotiated in their contractwith Western Viking Union Director Jack Smith. "They have an exclusive right to provide university foodservice, but we retain the right to allow special events ... after consultation with Marriott," Smithsaid. However, Marriott does offer i 1I gUBIBlBIglBJBIBIBMBIBMB^^ "LOVE (DOES 5VD HA(RM "Sexuality and Intimate Relationships Featured Speaker: DR.. MARJE M. FORTUNE Center for thePrevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence United Church of Christ Pastor Nationally known speaker inthe relationship of theology, sexuality, and sexual abuse and domestic violence. WAere: MILLER HALL # 163WWU Wfon: WEDNESDAY, MARCH4TH, 7:00PM Sponsored by The Chrtsttan Quest UnitedMinistries m Higher Education 1 ; 11 1 1 i1 11 11 I1 I i discount packages to clubs on limitedbudgets. But these packages do not include delivery, setup or cleanup, said Larry Stahlberg, generalmanager of University and Dining Services. "When the (AS clubs) want full catering service, then weprovide that, which does cost more," Stahlberg said. "A club can pick up, set up and clean up food from Marriott." Last spring, the Sexual Awareness Center sponsored an Aphrodisiac Party that Marriottcatered. "It's good food and it's gorgeous," Ellen Chesley, assistant coordinator of the SexualAwareness Center said. "But we're limited by what Marriott can do." "Toasted almonds areaphrodisiacs ... but Marriott couldn't provide them," Chesley said. Clubs can provide their own food ifthey get a catering waiver, Smith said. In order to get an off-campus catering waiver, an AS club mustdisclose several things, including the name of the catering company or caterers, and the location of foodpreparation, according to the Viking Union Petition for "Other than Marriott" Food Service. Clubs mustalso say if they have already asked Marriott to provide the food. The waiver will most likely be acceptedif the food is from home, an ethnic specialty, or donated, Stahlberg said. Marriott will help if they can, he said. "The Ethnic Student Center has a different issue: usually food offered by the ESC is ethnic,"Gajee Parsons, an ESC volunteer, said. Tyler Jones, assistant coordinator for the ESC, said the ESChas used Marriott's food service for many events. On Nov. 1,1997, the ESC sponsored an event titledFaces of America where Marriott provided beverages after the event in one of the Viking eateries, Jonessaid. "When we cater things, we want ethnic food, and they already stated they won't do ethnic food;" Jones said. "Nothing was set up and people were waiting around for 30 minutes for Marriott to bringwhat was ordered," he said. Jones' said his job at the ESC keeps him so busy that he doesn't alwaysnotice when Marriott has done its job right, only when Marriott messes up. Marriott's contract withWestern will end in July of 2000. At that time, anyone can bid for a food service contract at Western. "Afree market is operating when we go out for a bid," Jack Smith, director of Viking Union said. Smithadded that there are usually three or four bidders. As with all bidding processes, whoever offers thebest plan gets the contract, Smith said. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 4 ----------A • THE WESTERN FRONT NEWS February 24, 1998 Hi-tech dinosaurs come alive at Western ByCaroline Deck The Western Front Computer-generated dinosaurs came to Western yesterday, but theywere not created by Steven Speilberg. Professor Michael Parrish lectured Monday in Fraser Hall 2about cyberpaleontology, which incorporates the study of dinosaurs using current computertechnology. "Computer scientists and paleontologists are working together to do things they would not be able to accomplish by themselves," Geology Department Chair Thor Hansen said. Parrishcollaborated with Uni- Front/Erin Fredrichs Professor Michael Parrish lectures yesterday in Fraser Hall 2on the use of computers to study dinosaurs. Plan, from page 1 — agreement reached," Gilbert said."Western must plan for growth and is committed to community involvement," Morse said. "Is the tailwagging the dog? Is Western telling the city what to do?" Happy Valley resident Joe Deeny asked.Carlie Casey lives just south of campus on Indian Terrace, which according to the master plan theuniversity wishes to acquire. He expressed his support for the university and the university'sfriendliness in trying to acquire his home. "I was surprised and hurt by the suggestions that we don'tlove Western, or that we want Western to go away," Servais said. The Institutional Master Plan is being used for only the second time. The city used it successfully with St. Joseph Hospital, which lies withinthe Cornwall Park neighborhood. A portion of the agreement states, "During the period of transitionbetween now and the time agreement is reached on an Institutional Master Plan or this agreement isterminated, the city will process university permit applications as set forth herein. The city will not delayor prohibit permit processing even though the Institutional Master Plan has not yet been approved bythe city. The city will review each permit application to ensure compliance with all applicabledevelopment regulations as set forth in this memorandum." Happy Valley resident and former citycouncil member Tip Johnson commented that the city would most likely not sign an agreement with anyother party that had proceeded without check as far as Western has. "We hear that our needs areimportant and the universities are essential," Johnson said. The public-comment period will continuenext month at 7 p.m., March 23rd, in the city council chambers. VU, from page 1 "Lef s take Pike'sPlace Market for an example — it has vendors. Now let's take Bellis Fair food court — it has vendorsalso, so what's the difference?" Litman asked. He said the difference is that Vendors' Row is acommunity and cultural center, whereas Bellis Fair is a commercial center. "Vendors' Row is a placewhere people show up to gather and protest different issues of concern," part-time cookie vendor TimMcHugh said. "A student can show up without any money and get a snack and a cup of coffee and it's ok, the food and coffee vendors are based upon the honor system," he said. "The reason we havealmost 3,000 signatures so far is that ,in a world that's growing increasingly more impersonal, it's*ahuman place," McHugh said. In closing, he compared the 2,700 students who sighed the petition to themost recent AS election when less than five percent of the students voted. Patricia Decker saidneighborhood meetings addressing the VU renovation will take place at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. onWednesday at Western. versity of Oregon computer scientist Kent A. Stevens to study themovements of sauropods—long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs such as the brontosaurus. Accordingto a press release from Western's Public Information Office, Parrish and Stevens have recordeddimensions from the United States and Europe of sauropod vertebrae and recorded them ontocomputers. Parrish and Stevens have been working on this project for about three years, usually inspurts, Parrish said. They were, brought together when Stevens took a class from Parrish aboutdinosaurs. They were standing under the enormous skeleton of a dinosaur when they concocted the idea of a computer generated analysis, Parrish said. "One thing that distinguishes dinosaurs from othermammals is that most mammals stop growing when they reach maturity," Parrish said. "This isn't thecase with dinosaurs." The enormous size of dinosaurs is what makes them extremely interesting,Parrish said. It is because of their enormous size, however, that dinosaur bones are like huge stonesand hard to move, Parrish said. The computers helped to solve this problem. Parrish and Stevensworked to isolate the constraints of dinosaurs' bodies, such as bone structure and joint capsules.This information was included with recorded data about particular dinosaurs, mostly theApatosaurus louisae, Parrish said. Parrish and Stevens found that the neck vertebrae had "21 degreesof freedom" and, using a 3-D graphics program, could see the difference between a "neutral position—or the relaxed position— and an eating or walking position, Parrish said. In the neutral pose, thedinosaur's head actually tipped down and usually did not rise above shoulder height, Parrish said. Thiscontrasts with traditional ideas that long-necked dinosaurs kept their head high to reach tall plants.With their research, Parrish and Stevens have found that the dinosaurs were very flexible animals,Parrish said. "That's what the bones suggest. Of course, there would have been skin and muscularrestraints, also," Parrish said. The accuracy of the project seems to be very high, said Parrish. Theproject was first tested with giraffes, and the results were very close. 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Dominating the room, the pianosdemand attention, and Jeffrey Gilliam, Western's associate professor of music, complies — althoughnot as often as By Sara Magnuson he' d uke. in Gilliam's The Western Front Utopian world, he wouldpractice five to six hours per day. Former student Tony Keil offered an observation. "The color of his hairdescribes his intensity — the bright orange-red color." Music has been a part of Gilliam's life since hewas six years old. He was a choir boy, but singing was just part of the package. He was fortunateenough to receive individual theory lessons, which he said is almost unheard of. Through these lessons,he learned to compose — something he said he will be eternally grateful for. "You have to either playsomething someone else wrote, or else compose it yourself," he pointed out. Of course, playingsomeone else's music isn't all bad. Many musicians have inspired him. Apparently, composer FranzSchubert has had considerable impact; Gilliam's computer hard drive is labled with the composer'sname. And, as the computer is a continuous reminder of his inspiration, a floor-to-ceiling columntestifies to his accomplishments: secured with tacks, multiple programs boast his and his students' recitals. Students are a huge part of his life. Diane Greenburg, who has worked with Gilliam, said, "Heeven takes times out of his own schedule, on weekends, to help students." But their accomplishmentsaren't his only source of pride. "I like being here. That's an accomplishment," Gilliam stated. Gilliamobtained his undergraduate education in the states. From there, a scholarship allowed him theopportunity to study in Germany. His stay in Europe was extended, and he found himself inSwitzerland attending the International Menuhin Music Academy, a school specializing in the study ofstring instruments. He said he worked diligently at the not-so-fun stuff because he was young and eagerto do anything. It wasn't all busywork. He also followed the students on competition trips, Gilliam said. "I know small-town America like a presidential candidate," he declared. However, he's no stranger to theother side of the world. A boy visiting the school invited him to Thailand. He said he enjoys playing infamiliar areas, despite the adventure of a foreign place. "There's more of an edge going to a place whereyou don't know anyone," he said. His face became pensive as he tried to recall the thoughts that occupy his mind while he is performing. "I try not to think of the piano," he admitted. "It's too limiting. I try tosilence the chatterbox in my head." His story about a runner illustrates his point. If a man is racing, andsuddenly he stops to contemplate the fact that they're running, it can throw off his concentration. To avoid that catastrophe, pianists ought to be so familiar with the music that it's almost second nature, he said.Prior to a performance, Gilliam might practice a piece of music for months. "I know a piece so well that Ican trick myself into believing that I composed it," he said, grinning. Right now, Gilliam is exploring theConcord Sonata by Charles Ives — a task comparable to reading Ulysses. The first time through thepiece, pianists haven't a hope of understanding it; they must immerse themselves in it. "You live in (Ives')world — in his mess, in his dreams, in his philosophies," he explained. While he plays, his perspectivechanges. "Like in a play, if I'm always intense, you'll get tired of me." Gilliam said he absorbs knowledgewhile accompanying. "I make my personality a chameleon," to fit the musician's style. But he saidaccompanying is oppressive — the pianist wears a leash held by the performer. "If I only (accompanied)for a lifetime, it would be scarring for my musical psyche," he said. Solos are important because "youget to flex your own musical muscles." Gilliam said he the learning process never ends. "The momentyou think you've got it all figured out, you're dead," he said matter-of-factly. Gilliam is encouraged toexpress his visions for the department, one of which is to see more mingling between pianists. Eliteschools tend to be more one-on-one, which he said is good, but "pianists tend to lead lonely lives — inpractice rooms and cubicles." Of his breed Gilliam admitted, "We're a little special." L E A R N T O L EAD T H E P L A T O O N L E A D E R S C L A SS CHALLENGE We want strong leaders. As an Officerof Marines, you will be just that. The Platoon Leaders Class (PLC) will challenge the limits of your mental and physical capabilities. It is a demanding test that reveals your true character and lets you prove youhave what it takes to be a leader of Marines. 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Contemporary uprights are much the same way, and the popular choice of toy is now theautomobile. When the idea of a fast car is brought up, people think of names like Ferrari, Viper, Lotus,Corvette and BMW. But rare indeed is the moniker of Volkswagen mentioned. However, the image ofVolkswagen is changing, and all because of people like Shawn Van Neer. Van Neer is a Volkswagentuner who spends his days turning Germany's less-expensive answer to lead-footed drivers from stockautomobiles into entirely different animals — cars that can eat traditional speed demons for breakfastand then be driven home in comfort. He has made such metamorphoses happen for the past 10 yearsat Ron's Parts in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Last July, he opened his own shop, calledMomentum Motorsports, up in Port Moody, B.C., where he and cohort Brian Ng work some seriousmechanical magic on some of Germany's finest. Some of his deeds include being the first person in theworld to yank the four-cylinder engine out of a Rabbit and replace it with Volkswagen's rather potent VR6, a 172-horsepower, six-cylinder engine that forms the basis for many of Momentum's projects. But justdropping an engine into a little VW is hardly enough for Van Neer, for his wares extend much further thanswapping. Usually he will add a few go-fast goodies to the motor and the rest of the car before it leaveshis shop. One of his recent examples is a 1992 Golf II VR6. This black beauty has a whopping 280horsepower just waiting to be unleashed by the driver's foot. Considering that the fastest car BMW sendsto this side of the Atlantic is the heavier 240-horsepower M3, it seems obvious that Van Neer is doingsomething right. Although giving a car barely bigger than a bread box enough power to rip the skin offyour face can be truly exhilarating, Van Neer considers this car far from finished. Usually he upgrades the wheels and tires, suspension and brakes, leaving the customer with a car that can corner like adragonfly and stop fast enough to yank your eyeballs out. Basically, Momentum takes Volkswagens toanother level. "We're trying to overachieve what people have already done," Van Neer said. And if thatisn't enough, he has more than enough imagination for new projects. "We're building a VR6 turbo Rabbit," Van Neer said. Having already put a VR6 into a Rabbitgt; he knows what this can do. But he's going totur-bocharge it as well, giving it that much more oomph. When he and Ng are done with it, this littlewonder will be putting out about 375 horsepower — far more than almost any car coming out of Detroit,Japan or Germany these days — in a car about the size — and shape — of a toaster. And if this stillisn't enough, Van Neer has even more up his sleeve. "We're building a VR6 turbo, Syncro Cabriolet," VanNeer said with what seemed to be a smidgen of drool on the corner of his mouth. When complete,some lucky person will get to drive home a cozy little convertible with a four-wheel-drive system similar toAudi's and Subaru's, but with enough power to stretch that already huge smile all the way around thedriver's face. Although Van Neer loves Volkswagens, he doesn't limit himself. "Audi, VW, Mercedesand BMW — that's my forte," he said. However, Van Neer seems partial to VWs, and it is interesting tosee why. "It's primarily about Volkwagen as the underdog," he said, grinning. "When you beat somebody, you don't just beat them. You embarass them." Coming from a man who scrubs the pavement withCorvettes and Mustangs as often as he does, the little mites must have something appealing; drivingan appliance-shaped car at speeds around 150 mph would have to be entertaining, except in cases of aweak constitution. In this situation, the best bet is to change shorts and go back to a Geo. Van Neeradmitted that although driving a sooped-up VW can be loads of fun, what he does for each car ultimatelyboils down to what the customer wants. Many of the modifications he can perform have undesirable,yet expected, side effects. Lowering a car and tightening its suspension will make it corner like there is no tomorrow, but it may hurt riding comfort. Tuning an engine to achieve race-car-like performace willmake the car fly like a rocket, but everyday drivability will suffer. What it comes down to is what thecar's owner desires, is willing to compromise and can afford. Van Neer makes these compromises easyto handle. He is one of the premier tuners in North America, with profiles of his work having beenpublished in European Car magazine — an authority on vehicles from the other side of the pond —eight times. He said with pride that he knows what he is doing when people drop off their babies. VanNeer makes temporarily handing over the keys even easier for his customers in another important way: he doesn't charge much in respect to what he does. Putting a VR6 under the hood of the typical mild-mannered VW is a common feat for Van Neer, and he doesn't ask owners to part with a lot of money ortime with their cars. "A standard VR6 swap in a '91 to '96 is about a week — five working days," VanNeer said. He added that the procedure will cost "anywhere from $3,800 to $6,500," depending on anyother work he and Ng have to do. So, for a moderate amount of scratch, VW owners can give their prideand joy a lot more go. For a few dollars more, they can also give it a bunch more stop. And for theproverbial icing on the cake, they can have plenty more grip on the twisty roads and a ton more style toboot. But it all goes back to doing things faster, and Van Neer is one who never actually realizes "fastenough." He will continue to do what is thought to be impossible and continue to make all the Grogs inhis ancestry proud. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 7 ----------February 24, 1998 FEATURES THE WESTERN FRONT • 7 Front/Ken Brierly Mike Brown tries out the 1977AMC Eagle he bought at the Bellingham Public Auto Auction because of its stunning good looks.Somewhere out in the county, a gray pickup's canopy is packed full of marijuana, its cargo headed forthe incinerator. In Bellingham, a young man discovers the drug-seizure car he bought at an autoauction two days before wasn't as good a deal as he thought it was. At the truck crossing in Blaine, acustoms administrator talks about drug disposal, seized goods and relays stories of his many yearsworking with the U.S. Customs. The street value of the cargo in the pot-packed pickup is $70 million,said Ron Peterson, who coordinates the burns for the Whatcom County Sheriff's Department. "We do iton an 'as-needed' basis," Peterson said of the evidence disposal process. They're called "security burns"— for good reason. "We don't announce when or where (the incineration) will be," Peterson said. "Wedon't want to jeopardize the safety of the officers involved." "We use a different transport vehicle everytime. We drive the truck through the building's doors, see that the furnace is on, load the narcotics into the furnace and close the doors," Peterson said. "It's 2,000 degrees in there. After a while, we open thefurnace doors and make sure the drugs are disposed of." U.S. Customs seized 335 boats and 12,500cars world wide last year. John Hollstein, U.S. Customs Operational Enforcement Analyst, said, "Whengoods are seized, ownership of the items is applied to the government." Anything brought to the UnitedStates is subject to licensing and fees. Therefore, part of the job of enforcing the nation's boundaries isseizing prohibited or undeclared goods; in the case of drug smuggling, the vehicle of transport is alsoforfeited. "Property can be destroyed, sold at an auction and sometimes is put to (government) use,"Hollstein said. Bellingham resident Mike Brown bought a car at the Bellingham Public Auto Auction onSaturday; by Monday, the car was broken and in need of major repairs. The car had been seized by theNorthwest Drug Task Force. "What a piece of junk," Brown said, referring to the bronze 1977 AMC Eagle he paid $800 for"; the car needs'a new transmission. The 23-year-old Brown said that at an auction,"buying a car is a crapshoot — you never know what you're going to get. That's why the selling pricesare so low." Brown said a new transmission will cost more than he paid for the car. "I'll probably neverbuy at an auction again," Brown said. "I just thought the car was so ugly that it was cool." The moneygenerated from the sale of the seized items goes into the public coffers. During recent years, theinternational border at Blaine has become a major trafficking area for British Columbia-grown marijuanamoving into the United States. "Marijuana is the biggie now," Hollstein said. According to The Vancouver Sun, the province is the world's top exporter of hydroponics- grown marijuana. When large amounts of drugs are found, Hollstein said they are held for evidence pending charges and trial for the smuggler.Customs releases the drugs to the jurisdiction in charge of the case. They are usually incinerated. "If it's only a couple of (marijuana) roaches, they could be flushed down the toilet," Hollstein said. "Pills couldbe ground and flushed." After his many years working for customs, Hollstein has worked his way up theemployment ladder. He leaned back in the chair behind his desk, hands folded behind his head. Histop-floor office at the Blaine truck crossing has an expansive view of the Canadian Cascades. He hasa wealth of stories. He relates one from several years earlier, when he was working in a different part ofthe country: "I think it was opium. They used to incinerate that. The birds liked it. They used to sit ontop of the smokestack and one by one, fall to the ground." WESTERN FRONT CLASSIFIEDS : SELL!650-3161 sday »* y from 8-12 pm jiai mg Sastern onilY._ * . unqed by i m e n f o f a rap Fun anon [WESTERN I WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WE CAN 2000 TUA • K2 • BLACK DIAMOND •THE NORTH FACE • WINTER CLEARANCE SALE! Jackets, Parkas, Fleece 40% off Backcountry,Telemark Cross-Country Ski Equipment up to 65% off T* H * E G»R*E*A*T 201 E. Chestnut St. 671-4615 OSPREY • GREGORY • MOUNTAINSMITH • MSR Western Students Staff Earn $10 for one half hour discussing your views on social issues. To find out if you qualify to participate in thisNational Science Foundation supported study send inquiry to: George Cvetkovich Dept. of Psychologycvet@cc.wwu. edu ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 8 ----------8 • THE WESTERN FRONT SPORTS February 24, 1998 Vikings down Warriors in thriller By JustinHall The Western Front The Western men's basketball team snapped a three-game losing streakSaturday afternoon against Lewis and Clark State College with a 75-68 win. Ranked fifth in the PacificNorthwest Athletic conference going into the contest, the Vikings needed a win this weekend to move up in the conference rankings. "At the beginning of the year we had hopes of being the number one ornumber two seed," Assistant Coach Tony Dominguez said. "Tilings didn't go our way there for a week;so now we were in the position where we had to win tonight." The Warriors, who won the league title two years ago, were led by transfer forward Jonathon George, who scored 31 points and grabbed eightrebounds. Western's Jared" Stevenson scored in double figures for the fifteenth consecutive game as helead the Vikings with 24 points and seven boards. L-C State won the tip; Warrior forward George, whoestablished his presence early, was the first to score in the game. Western soon struck back with athree-point basket that gave the Vikings a lead they would not relinquish until late in the first half. As the half wound down, the Warriors took advantage of sloppy passing to gain the lead with 3:24 remainingin the half. Completing the last three minutes of the first half in a press, the Warriors added to their leadand headed into the locker room up by eight points. George scored 17 first half points and grabbed three offensive rebounds while putting on an offensive display. "He was our main topic of discussion at half-time," freshman guard Jeff Chapman said. "We said whoever takes him has to work hard to get in front,and that we really have to trust our defense behind us for the help-side." The two Western guards,Chapman and Stevenson, led the Vikings in the first half by scoring 18 of the team's 31 points. "We toldour players at half-time just to relax," Jackson said. "They were very frustrated because our shotsweren't going down." "We were trying to figure out a way to stop George, but they were really finding the seams and hitting little jumpers along the baseline," Jackson said. "We weren't rotating very well,so we just said forget and decided to go after them." L-C State opened the second half with the sameintensity that they had at the end of the first. With hot hands and good defensive doubling of the ball, the Warriors took their biggest lead of the game, 48-38, with 14 minutes left to play in the game. TheVikings got a late spark in the game from forward Michael Greene who hit a three-point shot with 12minutes left to play. Soon to follow were three more three-point bombs that had the crowd going nuts."We had some big plays," Jackson said. "Really, one of the keys to the game was Dave Mott becauseeven though it won't show up on the stat sheets, he got his fourth foul with about ten minutes left,"Jackson said. "We decided to keep Western forward Ryan Kettman him in the game because he's oneof our big guys — we felt he was the most energized and was working the hardest and click-ing." Withfine rebounding and free-throw shooting, the Vikings sealed the victory, 75-68, despite a Front/AaronDahl harrasses Lewis-Clark State's Jonathon George (with bail). poor field-goal shooting percentage of.400. "We looked at this as our first playoff game and that's how we approached it," Jackson said.Western's next men's basketball game is at Hawaii-Pacific on Thursday, Feb. 26. No matter how theregular season ends, the Vikings will play The Evergreen State College in the opening round of theplayoffs March 4. Due to the similar conference records of both teams, the site of the game has yet to be determined. Spring Break in Palm Springs Accommodations • Fairway Condominiums •Three Bedrooms/3 Baths ' Capacity: 6 Guests • Fully Equipped Kitchen • Living Room with Dining• Air Conditioning TV ' Washer/Dryer Site Amenities • 30 Pools Jacuzzi ' Restaurants Bars • Giant Hotel Pool ' Tennis lt;£ Golf • Racquetball Fitness • 3 Miles to Downtown ' CarRental: $22.86 per day Front/Aaron Dahl Western center Dave Mott (40) posts up against the Warriors.LA QUINTA RESORT COUNTRY CLUB! 6 NIGHTS/7 DAYS $180 PER PERSON** Call Seab at SmartTennis: 734-7692 *Based on 7-day rental of Chevrolet Cavalier or similar model. Price includes all taxes fees. Proof of insurance required. Driver must be 21 and have a major credit card. **Based on 6 guests.Price varies with number of guests. 10% occupancy tax not included. Refundable damage deposit:S360.00. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 9 ----------February 24, 1998 kJJfUlvl O THE WESTERN FRONT * 9 Albert lights up Vikings for 38 By JohnBankston The Western Front Western's women's basketball team fought hard, but came up short, 84-79, in an exciting Pacific Northwest Athletic Conference shootout against Lewis-Clark State College onSaturday at Carver Gym. Western couldn't stop L-C State's perimeter game as the Warriors hit 15 of 24 three-point attempts. L-C State forward Rosie Albert led all scorers with a career-high 38 points on ll-of-18 shooting — hitting 7 of 9 from three-point range. "They have so many good three-point shooters —Albert, (Jodi) Benson, (Robin) Berg," sophomore center Celeste Hill said. "They each had three three-pointers in the first half alone. It was so frustrating because we were in their faces, but the shots justkept dropping." "It's just our luck," she added, "that whenever we play a team, someone has a careerday." The Warriors hit nine of their first 11 three-point attempts, enabling them to take a 32-23 lead withsix minutes left in the first half. But Western charged back on the strength of a 10-1 run, tying the gameat 33 apiece. Western took the lead 39-38 when Hill hit an eight-footer from inside the key. The Vikingsled 41- 40 with just seconds remaining in the half, but Albert hit a two-point buzzer beater to give L-CState a one-point lead at the intermission. Four Western players scored in double-digits. Hill led thebalanced attack with 20 points and nine rebounds. Senior guard Heidi VanBrocklin chipped in 13points and two steals. Guard Amanda Olsen and forward Nicole Krell each added 10 points. Midwaythrough the second half, leading 54-53, the Warriors hit three consecutive three-pointers — two byAlbert and one by guard Jennifer Marquardt — to take a commanding 10-point lead, 63-53, with 11:49remaining. But Western continued to battle, scoring nine straight points and pulling to within one point when freshman forward Pamela Lovely hit a wide-open Hill under the basket for the easy lay-in. "Wedon't quit — we're fighters," Hill said. "We've been through a lot this season, and we're not going tolay down and die for anyone." With the Warriors mamtaining a six-point lead, 76-70, Western stillwouldn't give in. Krell hit with a three-pointer to cut the lead to three. After a two-pointer by Albert, Krellblocked a shot and dished to freshman guard Briana Abrahamsen for the easy lay-up, cutting the deficitback to Front/Aaron Dahl Western forward Sara Nichols desperately attempts to steal the ball from L-CState point guard Amanda Campbell in the closing seconds of Western's 84-79 loss to the Warriors lastSaturday. three points with just under two minutes remaining. Western had two more chances to pulleven late in the game. Down 78-75, with 1:30 remaining, Hill scored on a drive and was fouled, but shefailed to convert the three-point play. Albert hit a lay up to give the Warriors a three-point edge. On theVikings' next possession, Western guard Amanda Olsen's three-point attempt rimmed off at 990Margaritas • Wednesday All Night 990 Well Drinks • Thursday From 8-12 pm $1.25 Ladies Night• Fri. Sat. Well Drinks • 8-12 pm Free Pool • Monday Tuesday + $1.50 Wells Beers 'tillMidnight Still Bellingham's #1 Nightclub and Billiard Club 4 years running. Free Cover with couponThursday, Friday, or Saturday expires 3-12-98 Cash Redemption Value no more than 1/10 of one cent. ttik with less than a minute left. Albert put the game out of reach with 13.8 seconds to go when she hittwo free-throws to give L-C State an 84-79 advantage. Even after the loss, the Western remains in athree-way tie for second in the PNWAC. Western, L-C State and St. Martin's are all 5-4 in conferenceplay. Western (18-7) has beaten five nationally-ranked opponents this season. They will make theplayoffs — the question is will they surge in or flounder out? "I think we've done everything we can,"Hill said. "We've focused on the things we need to focus on, we take extra shots after practice, wepractice free-throws; we're doing the things we need to do to be successful." "It's time for stuff to startfalling our way," she added. "We're due." Viking players make rugby all-star team By Meredith Lofbergand Amy Christiansen The Western Front Six members of Western's men's rugby team were selectedto be members of the Northwest Collegiate Rugby Union All-Star team, which competed against theFraser Valley Under-23 All-Stars in Langley, British Colum-bia, on Sunday. Dan Moseley, Matt North,Nathan Spitler, Mike Hemphill, Jeff Klinger and Judson Heller were chosen to play with about 15 otherplayers from NCRU, the Canadian league that Western's Warthogs compete in. Each team in the league was allowed to contribute five players. Since NCRU had fewer than the usual 20 players on its side,Western was allowed six all-stars. The usual number of players on each team's side is 20. The 80-minute game resulted in a Fraser Valley victory, 25-0. The NCRU team had one pre-game practice onFriday evening at Trinity Western University in Langley. Moseley, who played inside center, said the lack of preparation may have hurt the team's chance for success. "We would have been more prepared if we had more practice," Moseley said. "We didn't even know the names of most of the people on ourteam." NCRU held off Fraser Valley for most of the first half. Twenty-five minutes into the game, Fraserran 50 meters to score the first try. A try in rugby is similar to a touchdown in American football andallows the scoring team a place-kick for an extra point. Klinger, playing prop, carried the ball into the tryzone to score, but the referee did not award the try, ruling that the ball was held up by the oppositionand did not award the try to NCRU. "We played really well in the first half, but they pulled it out in thesecond," Moseley said. "I think our forwards played really well, especially in the first half," North, whoplayed eight-man, said. "We rucked really well; our scrums blew them off the ball. The line-outs wereuntouchable." Fraser came out strong in the second half, scoring another try after six minutes of play.Two minutes later, they were once again at their try-zone. A rash of NCRU penalties and a quick-handed Fraser back line led to two more Fraser Valley tries before the game was over. The score was20-0 after Fraser kicked the ball. 70 meters downfield and recovered the loose ball in their try zone toscore. A Fraser player was tackled in goal after a short break-away run to score what turned out to bethe final try of the game. "We played well considering (Fraser Valley) is a really good team," Moseleysaid. The Warthogs will play Trinity Western University Wednesday afternoon in Langley, and CentralWashington University on Saturday at 1 p.m. on Arntzen Field. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 10 ----------10 • THE WESTERN FRONT OPINIONS February 24, 1998 Corruption in CIA: And this is news?Well, well, well. It seems the CIA is finally ready to admit what the public has known for 37 years. OnSaturday, the Associated Press obtained recently de-classified documents in which the shady andsecretive agency blames itself for the botched Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Ignorance, incompetenceand arrogance are what the document called the CIA's efforts to overthrow Cuba's Fidel Castro. For theinvasion, the CIA recruited 1,400 Cuban exiles to stage a coup attempt against Castro. Of those soldiers,200 were killed and 1,197 were captured and later released to the United States. The document statedthat the CIA did not give the operation "the top-flight handling which it required." Apparently, the CIAoperatives who trained the rebels did not speak Spanish and "treated the Cubans like dirt." The $46-million invasion went forward with the "pathetic illusion" of deniability even after reports came out thatthe U.S. government was involved with a possible plan to invade Cuba. But after the invasion, whichreportedly left President John F. Kennedy in tears, the CIA denied any wrongdoing. It blamed Kennedy for not sending in air strikes to back up the invasion. That's all good — except for the fact that the missionwas supposed to look like a coup with no U.S. involvement. But the bigger issue is not just what wentwrong with the Bay of Pigs invasion; it is what is wrong with the CIA. This is not the only incident inwhich the CIA has demonstrated its arrogant tendencies. Rather, it is an organization built uponarrogance, power and deceit. The agency's shady history includes such dubious allegations as beinginvolved in the assassinations of many foreign leaders, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and startingthe crack epidemic in Los Angeles. None of these allegations have been proven, but that is becausefinding proof is virtually impossible. On top of all of this, the CIA cannot be kept in check. It has authoritythat goes far beyond the president; the agency kept Kennedy only minimally informed about the Bay ofPigs invasion. Until last year, the CIA was not required to release its budget. But according to last year'sbudget, it seems the agency has an unlimited supply of money to perform its dirty deeds — unlimitedto the tune of $26 billion dollars. So, with unlimited power, unlimited money and no obligation to divulgeinformation to the public or even the president, the CIA is a power-hungry glutton run amok. What is theuse for this organization? With the elimination of any real Soviet threat, very little nuclear threat and little,if any, threat to the safety of the United States from foreign countries, the CIA seems to have beenrendered useless. What would the U.S. government call an organization that operates outside the rules of diplomacy and is constantly involved in violent actions without regard or respect for human life? Aterrorist group. It is time for the CIA to stop operating under a veil of secrecy and deceit and be exposedas the type of organization it truly is. — Corey Lewis, News Editor The Western Front Editor GeneMetrick; Managing Editor: Kristen T. Paulson; News Editors: Corey .Lewis and Kevin Rus; FeaturesEditors: Suzanne Asprea and Tim E. Klein; Accent Editors: Tina Potterf and Steven Uhles; SportsEditors: Vincent Verhei and Todd Wanke; Opinions Editor: Carey Ross; Copy Editor: Amy Christiansen;Photo Editor: Aaron Dahl; Assistant Photo Editor: Erin Fredrichs; Graphics Editor: Dennis Pasco; OnlineEditors: Matt Jaffe and Jessica Luce; Cartoonist: Jason Kelly; Adviser: Pete Steffens; BusinessManager: Teari Brown; Mascot: Corky. Staff Reporters: John Bankston, Barney Benedictson, AlfredBentley, Ken Brierly, Katy Calbreath, Ernesto Cardenas, Dave Chesson, Mike Dashiell, Caroline Deck,Jennifer Dorsey, Sarah Erlebach, Hope Evans, Peggy Farris, Kelly Ferguson, Wendy Giroux, BrianaGlenn, Klaus Gosma, Justin Hall, Nolan Harron, Jennifer Hart, Arvid Hokanson, Karl Horeis, Colin Howser, Brian Kingsberry, Jesse Kinsman, Nadja Kookesh, Meredith Lofberg, Jenni Long, Sara Magnuson, Chad Marsh, Casey Minton, Cindy Nunley, Sarah Olson, Jed Palevich, Jennae Phillippe, David Plakos, Jeremy Reed, Matt Renschler, Leslie Robertson, Heather Romano, Katherine Schifmer, Robin Sicillings, EmilySorenson, Samantha Tretheway, Greg Tyson, Jonathan Vann, Kevin Westrick, Tiffany White and CarrieWood. The Western Front is the official newspaper of Western Washington University and is publishedby the Student Publications Council. The Western Front is mainly supported by advertising revenue, butthe opinions of Front editors or reporters are not reflected in these advertisements. Content is determined by student editors. Staff reporters are enrolled in the course entitled "newspaper staff." Any Westernstudent may send submissions to: The Western Front, College Hall 09, Western WashingtonUniversity, Bellingham, WA 98225. Advertising inquiries should be directed to the business office inCollege Hall 07 or made by phone at (360) 650-3161. Single copies of The Western Front are distributedfree to members of the Western community. Wake up call to Western: Apathy will not end war MikeDashiell COMMENTARY Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is brutal and sadistic and has little to offerthe world other than ulcers. He is also clever and, in recent months, has played both the United Statesand the United Nations like a dime-store piano. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan struck a dealSunday with Hussein concerning the opening of eight of Saddam's presidential compounds to U.N.arms inspectors. Annan and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz signed an accord Monday, which issuspected to detail Saddam's compliance with the United Nation's demands. Annan is scheduled tomeet with the U.N. security council to outline the terms of the agreement. As of Monday, U.S. officialshad not confirmed the details of the accord, due to poor communication systems between the UnitedStates and Iraq. "It is possible that he will come with something that we don't like, in which case we willpursue our national interest," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Sunday, on ABC's "This Week." Her spokesman, James Rubin, said, "Whatever happens, we will be looking for actions, not words." InHussein's eyes, this ugly conflict has been raging since the United States imposed economicsanctions against his country seven years ago. He sees the inspections as "trampling" the dignity andsovereignty of Iraq. The situation gets uglier as time passes; Saddam has threatened to end allcooperation this spring if the sanctions are not repealed. And the United Nations has legitimatecomplaints. Hussein has persistently toyed with and mocked the most powerful nations in the world.After the 1991 Gulf War, the United Nations ordered Iraq to destroy all long-range missiles and weaponsof mass destruction. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has said that the United Nations wouldconsider lifting the sanctions if Hussein gives Annan a written promise to comply with the inspections. After holding out until the last minute, Hussein has complied. The only remaining question is: What willhe do next to piss off the powers that be? For all the talk and positioning, something is being overlooked:people are involved in this, not just politicians and money. At least 25,000 U.S. troops aire in the region.Young adults who joined the armed forces to earn money for college could soon be caught up in theconflict. Since the United Nations first imposed sanctions, Iraq has reported more than a million deaths.Many of the dead are women and children who died because of a lack of food or water. Most of the Iraqis who have suffered due to the sanctions would never touch a bullet or a bomb. But bombs may soon bedropped on them, if the United States is not appeased. Pro-Iraqi protests have erupted across the Middle East. Jordan was forced to send tanks Sunday to control one city's protests. Israel is readying for adifferent kind of attack: On Sunday, leaders decided to distribute antibiotics to the citizens to protectagainst a biological attack. And while the world is going nuts, our nation remains calm. During everymajor war, significant protest and debate has erupted on college campuses. At Western,. hardly amurmur can be heard. Attempts at discussions on the subject seem to be few and far between. "I wish students were more aware of the world instead of living in a bubble," said Heather Gibbons in the Feb. 20 issue of The Western Front. She makes a valid point: Can you honestly say that anything happening onthe national scene affects your daily walk through this world? Does our involvement in the lives of otherswarrant your attention or action? Millions of Americans are part of military families, and currently theirlives are being turned upside down. Families across the world may have their defining moments or waysof life decided in the following weeks. Are we so closed as a town, a community, a culture, that wecan confidently ignore this? Perhaps. We seem quite adept at sitting behind our computers and ignoringanything that happens on a national scale. In a letter to the editor of the Bellingham Herald, Bellinghamresident Libby Chenault talked about what she does on a daily basis to protest war against Iraq: "If I amto call for peace in the Middle East, I must examine my own role in the violence. So I am riding the busand car pooling in solidarity with the Iraqi people. I am riding my bicycle for peace. I am walking forjustice. I will not trade my blood for oil." Saddam Hussein makes a living gambling his country's fate withworld powers that could crush him. Unfortunately, his collateral is every Iraqi citizen and U.N. troop.While we may not have a particular reason to protest or balk at another Gulf War, perhaps we shoulddecide whether this is a gamble we really need to take. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 11 ----------February 24, 1998 OPINIONS THE WESTERN FRONT • 11 leit er_ To the Editor: KatherineSchiffner asks, "Where are all the feminist voices during this latest Clinton scandal?" Many of thefeminists are in Washington, D.C., fighting for sanctions against Afghanistan and the atrocitiescommitted against females there daily. Feminists are in Washington, D.C., petitioning to savereproductive rights nationwide. Feminists are in Washington, D.C., lobbying to save affirmative action.Feminists are standing toe-to- toe with the big boys and fighting every step of the way to ensure equalrights for people of any gender, color,-sexual preference, religion or income level. What feminists are not doing is worrying themselves with scandals that are products of media circus rings and are notabout politics. Bill Clinton is not our "poster boy." He is our president. As such, we will continue tobombard him with our presence. Only through communication can people see the majority voice.President Clinton just happens to be one of the few political figures that acknowledges that voice;therefore, the conservatives attack him to further oppress us. You should smarten up, {Catherine.Without people in the world that stand up for our rights, you never would have been able to voice youropinion through an article. Why don't you use your writing skills to better the world for the nextgeneration, rather than helping to push us back? * Andrea Curtis NEW from Independent LearningLiberal Studies 2 32 Myth and Folklore 4 credits What do the Brothers Grimm, Virgil and John Fordhave in common ? 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1998_0224 ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 1 ---------- heading layoffs SPOKLS/8 VW's FRONT SEAT? FEATURES/6 WESTERN WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY VOLUME 203 ISSUE 12 TUESDAY February 24
Show more1998_0224 ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 1 ---------- heading layoffs SPOKLS/8 VW's FRONT SEAT? FEATURES/6 WESTERN WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY VOLUME 203 ISSUE 12 TUESDAY February 24, 1998 BELLINGHAM; WASHINGTONCity Council hears master plan complaints By Arvid Hokanson The Western Front Bellingham CityCouncil members faced a standing-room-only chamber of citizens, students and Western officials lastnight as it began the process of reviewing Western's Neighborhood Plan for potential adoption in themonths to come. The public-comment portion of the meeting began with City Planning Director PatriciaDecker and Associate Director Greg Aucutt speaking about the complexity of the plan and the vari- .ous issues involved. Many of the members of the public who spoke expressed confusion about thesize and scope of the plan. "It's understandable that people are confused, and hopefully we cancorrect some of that confusion through this public process," Decker said. "Patricia Decker wasconfused; she didn't know whether to tell us to speak on the Memorandum of Agreement or not," HappyValley resident and citizen activist John Servais said. "She didn't know what they (the city council)should or should not listen to." "It's a difficult process when you're dealing with an institution likeWestern that covers the neighborhood," Decker said. "It's very, very confusing, and that's the problemwith this process," Servais said. After 10 months of tedious review, which included 11 public meetings,the Bellingham City Planning Commission submitted its 38-page "Findings of Fact and Conclusion" onthe neighborhood plan that included a Memorandum of Agreement to the city council at the end of last year. In the proposed Memorandum of Agreement, the city would release Western from complying with the state Growth Management Act until the adoption of the IMP. This has come under fire for beingdisrespectful of the law. The plan, which will be used to develop an Institutional Master Plan, lays outrules for developing Western's regulatory guidelines. Issues included parking, the Viking Unionrenovation, property acquisition and a newly proposed Memorandum of Agreement betweenWestern and the city. "Interest (in Western's neighborhood plan) is greater than any of the otherseven plans already reviewed by the city," Aucutt said. "This neighborhood plan is only a first step indeveloping regulatory plans." Officials from Western then made a short but strong presentation tothe city council, stating their position on the adoption of the neighborhood plan. Western Board ofTrustees Chair Grace Yuan, President Karen Morse, Trustee Charlie Earl and Trustee Warren Gilbert all commented about Western's inevitable growth, increasing enrollment and value to the community, before members of the public spoke. "The Growth Management Act is clouded on development of theuniversity with relation to the city development plans," Earl said. "Development will not occur until thecity and neighborhood have been consulted and an See Plan, page 4 Front/Wendy Giroux Happy Valley resident John Servais addresses Western administrators about the necessity of justifying Western'sacademic needs for the proposed expansion into Happy Valley Viking Union renovation brought beforepublic hearing By Wendy Giroux The Western Front The proposed Viking Union renovation and theremoval of Vendors' Row were vehemently discussed during the public forum at the Bellingham CityCouncil meeting Monday night. At the opening of the meeting, council chairperson Bob Ryan asked forthe signatures of meeting attendees who wished to speak about Vendors' Row. More than ten peoplesigned up, but not all were able to speak due to time constraints. "The most significant part of theproposed plan is the VU remodel — it will require a public review process," Greg Aucutt, an associate director of city planning, said. Aucutt said the time frame will allow time for public review beforeconstruction of the final document begins. "The plan-development process involves public participation,"Western President Karen Morse said. Morse spoke about specific issues, including the VU renovation:"The vacation of High Street (will be completed) for safety purposes and to help with the constructionof the plaza," she said. Associated Students President Shane O'Day did not directly address the VUrenovation, but he reiterated Morse's statement. "The purpose of the university is to meet thechanging and growing needs of its student population," O'Day said. April Markowitz representedWestern's staff and faculty; she spoke about the community at Western and its infrastructure. "Weneed to be getting everybody's input — getting creative ideas," she said. "In a world that's growing more impersonal, (Vendors' Row is) a human place." Tim McHugh Cookie Table employee and (provides)many inexpensive things of extremely high quality," Robert Monaham, a Bellingham resident for 36years, said. Western junior Theresa Fagin said that she can buy food for a whole school day atVendors' Row for $3.65, compared to the $10 she spends for the same number of snacks and mealsat Mar-riott. "There are two essential differences between Vendors' Row and the Marriott foodservices on campus — one (is) quality and cost, and the other half is personal satisfaction," she said.Fagin said she feels the administration did not strive hard enough to seek student views. My voice wasnever sought, and it's 'Western is an enormous cultural asset falling on deaf ears now as I hear more andmore about the renovation plans. Vendors' Row worker Joel Litman presented to the council the 2,700-signature petition in opposition to the renovation plans. Litman said the signatures were collected inonly seven days. "For those of you who might not know, Vendors' Row is a 22-year tradition," Litmansaid. He described the row as "an open-air marketplace — kind of similar to Pike's Place Market inSeattle, although considerably smaller." Litman said Vendors' Row "offers an alternative to corporateinterests up at Western, but more importantly, it offers a cultural and political link to the community— the only link of that kind left at Western today." Litman said it's important to understand thedifference between the existing Vendors' Row and the proposed university- supplied vending spaces.See VLT, page 4 k. ---------- Western Front - 1998 February 24 - Page 2 ---------- 2 • THE WESTERN FRONT NEWS February 24, 1998 Campus Police Feb. 17,10:42 a.m.: A studentreported her vehicle was damaged in Lot 15R. She discovered muddy footprints on her vehicle's hood,roof and trunk. One footprint was visible where a slight indentation was created on the roof. No otherdamage was noted. Feb. 17, 3:05 p.m.: Parking Services personnel discovered a vehicle with the driver'sside window broken. The owner was contacted; she reported damage to the CD player, but no propertywas missing. Bellingham Police Feb. 22, 11:20 a.m.: A man was pulled over in the 1100 block of E.Maple Street. He was subsequently arrested on the scene for taking a motor vehicle without permissionand was booked at Whatcom County Jail. Feb. 22, 6:42 p.m.: A man reported the theft of his gas-powered barbecue. The unknown suspect(s) wheeled the barbecue away from where it sat next to hishouse. Feb. 23,12:09 a.m.: Police responded to an alarm in the 3100 block of Ellis Street. The perimeterwas secure. The K-9 unit checked the inside. A balloon was found blowing around inside the office. Theballoon was put away. Feb. 23, 12:17 a.m.: Two people in the 1600 block of Fairhaven Avenue werecontacted by officers after a large fireworks display generated a number of calls to the Bellingham PoliceDepartment 911 Dispatch. Upon investigating, the activity appeared to be planned and permitted. Feb.23,1:35 a.m.: A woman called to complain about a neighbor's wood stove and the problems associatedwith smoke emissions. Feb. 23, 8:33 a.m.: A man was pulled over near the corner of Illinois and Summer streets for a traffic violation. A routine warrant check was performed; two outstanding warrants werediscovered. He was transported to the Whatcom County Jail where the warrants were served and he wasbooked. Feb. 23,9:03 a.m.: A man reported that someone smashed the windshield of his car in the2000 block of Franklin Street while it was parked outside of his workplace over the weekend. The unknown suspect(s) used rocks to smash the windshield. Compiled by JohnBankston COI^CTtON Once again}TheFront lias demonstrated if^m abilityr_ ^ ^ ^^CP" "^" ",^5lt;i?'-'^-^:T^^:?^4^^fiV^-J^S^M^! L "r^wpsjtlt;c^is? ^LVi"4^.ice^s«r ir"--" - jg^eK? jfc^ ^!J5B«gt;a^cp^^^7' '^ttf^tl Wjiday's issue/ m^ Ifysliilco landRywHaz^ PaystoiyonpageS.^ MgWand promise to pay a^eh^wiinextt^e. . Publication's Title: Statementof Frequency: Authorized Organization's name and address: The Western Front Published 2 x WeeklyThe Western Front Western Washington University College Hall 110 Bellingham, WA 98225-9100 Rallygiven to save Vendors'Row A rally will be given to help save Vendors' Row at noon on Feb. 25 at theViking Union Plaza. The rally is sponsored by the Cesar Chavez Student Organization for LaborSolidarity. Speakers, and musicians will be present to strike up student and community supportconcerning the preservation of Vendors' Row. "Boogie Nights" shown today Associated StudentsProductions Films will show "Boogie Nights" at 7 and 10 p.m., Feb. 24, in Fraser Hall 4. Admission is$2. Featuring Mark Wahlberg and Burt Reynolds, the plot of "Boogie Nights" revolves around thepornography industry. As part of "Promiscuity Week," the AS Sexual Awareness Center will displaycondoms that evening. Veterans information session given Thursday The Veterans' Outreach Center will host a question-and-answer session with a Veterans Affairs Service officer. The event will take placefrom 1 to 3 p.m., Feb. 26, in Viking Addition 300. Information about filing for benefits and obtaining homeloans will be offered. Celebrate your body As part of "Body Pride Week," Western's Counseling, Healthand Wellness Program and St. Joseph Hospital are co-sponsoring several events. A Women's HealthFair will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Feb. 26, in the Viking Union Main Lounge. All programs areopen to the community and are free. Pre-registration is not required. To receive more information, callJan Rystrom at 738-6300, ext. 4161. In addition, every day this week will feature an on-campus event to celebrate "Body Pride Week." For details on times, dates and places contact Candice Wiggum at theCounseling Center at 650-3164. Tour Wilson Library Wilson Library will give a tour at 3 p.m. on Feb. 26. Learn about future plans for Wilson, share your information needs and get introduced to the staff andvarious services. An optional demonstration of Wilson Library's Information System will be offeredfollowing the tour. To register, call 650-7764. Benefit drag show An AIDS charity drag show will takeplace at 7 p.m., Feb. 27, in the Viking Union Main Lounge. The cost is $5, or $4 with a non-perishablefood item. All proceeds will go to Camp Rise and Shine and the Sean Humphrey House. VolunteersNeeded Volunteers are needed to install plant, material for the Bluff Planting Project. Work parties are•scheduled at 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for Feb. 28 through April 4 in the Maritime Heritage Park. Contact Tara at 676-6880 for more information. Heroin information presented today An open and honest discussion on the effects of heroin use and abuse will take place at 7 p.m., Feb. 24, in the Library PresentationRoom. Panel member representatives from Whatcom Combined Treatment Center and the Bellingham community will lead the session. Call 650-6116 for more information. Listen to both sides of Initiative200 debate Rep. Scott Smith, co-sponsor of Initiative 200, and Tim Wise, affirmative action advocate,will address topics about racial equality and whether or not affirmative action gives preferentialtreatment to some and discriminates against others. The debate begins at 7 p.m., Feb. 24, in VikingUnion Main Lounge. It will also be broadcast live on 89.3 KUGS. French Film Festival comes to campus Associated Students Productions Films will host the 3rd annual French Film Festival at 8 p.m.,March 1 to March 5, in Fraser 4. Tickets cost $2 and can be bought at the door. For more information,call 650-6130. Discuss sexual issues The Student Health Assessment and Information Center is hosting free consultations about sexual health this week. The educators will speak with students one on oneabout birth control, sexual diseases, pelvic exams and various other sexual issues. For moreinformation, contact Catharine Vader at 650-2961. Attend rally opposing renovations There will be a rally opposing the proposed renovations to the Viking Union building, at noon on Wednesday in the VUPlaza. Compiled by Kelly Ferguson WWU Official Announcements Deadline for announcements in thisspace is noon Friday for the Tuesday edition and noon Wednesday for the Friday edition. Announcements should be limited to 50 words, typewritten or legibly printed, and sent through campus mail to "OfficialAnnouncements," MS — 9117. fax 7287, or taken in person to Commissary 113A. DO NOT ADDRESSANNOUNCEMENTS DIRECTLY TO THE WESTERN FRONT. Phoned announcements will not beaccepted. All announcements should be signed by originator. PLEASE POST ACADEMIC ADVISINGCENTER is hiring Academic Student Advisers (ASAs) to work.during Summerstart and Fall Orientation. ASAs work with faculty members advising new freshmen. Qualifications include a minimum GPA of 2.5and demonstrated interpersonal, helping, and leadership experience. Applications available in OM 380.Call X/3850 with questions. VIKING UNION RENOVATION DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATION to update the campus community on the upcoming renovation of the Viking Union Complex will be held at 4 p.m. Feb. 25 in the Viking Addition 5th. floor food court. SUMMER QUARTER 1998 DEGREEAPPLICATIONS are due in the Registrar's Office, OM 230, by March 13, 1998. All students expecting tograduate summer quarter must have a degree application on file with the registrar. OPEN COURSE LINE,X/7300,-will be ih operation during spring quarter registration as follows: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. March 9-12, 30-31, and April 1-2, 8:30 a.m.-nqon March 13 and April 3. Call during these hours for help finding openclasses. PARKING SERVICES will reserve, lot 9G and 31G beginning at 7 a.m. Feb. 24 for the AthleticCampaign-' Kickoff "Donor Breakfast." • Lots 6G and 9V will be reserved beginning at 5 p.m. Feb. 25 for the VU Renovation meeting. • Lots 6G •'• and 9V will be reserved beginning at 5 p.m. Feb. 26 forSister-to-Sister: Parti Allen. Permit holders may leave vehicles parked in reserved lots for work-relatedpurposes. PACIFIC NORTHWEST INTERNATIO