2009_0605 ---------- Page 1 ---------- P H B f l H H f OVERDOSED ON PBR? I S U I ^ ^ ^ H TIPS TO CURB M j J B I l B ^ ^ H THAT HANGOVER Wt^K^^^M WESTERN, PROFESSOR MILLS BACK IN COURT RAGE 4 WESTERN SENIOR LOOKS TO 1 RETAIN TITLE | AS MMA CHAMP § PAGE 17 Friday, June 5, 2009 AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SINCE 1$70 I W E S T E R N F R 0 N T 0 N L I N E . N ET Too often, failure is not an option 11 of the top-25 most-failed classes come from quantitative and symbolic reasoning GUR Coral Garnick THE WESTERN FRONT The dreaded F. Every student fears it. Not only does it drag down a grade point average (GPA), it can mean having to retake a class. Students hear urban legends about the most difficult general university requirement (GUR) courses, but an analysis by The Western Front of four year's worth of grades shows the most-failed GUR is Philosophy 102, mtrodiiction to Logic, with an 112 percent failure rate. According to data provided by the Registrar's Office, six out of the top 25 most-failed GURs are math classes, and 11 are courses designed to satisfy the "quantitative and symbolic reasoning" GUR. Because most GURs are lower-level courses, professors and administrators believe the failures may reflect students' difficulties in adjusting to college life more than difficulty with the subject matter. Steven VanderStaay, vice provost for undergraduate education, said incoming freshmen and transfer students are often shocked by the pace of classes and the amount of work required of them. Western requires students to take courses in six broad areas to fill general education requirements". Those areas are: communication, quantitative and symbolic reasoning, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, comparative gender and multicultural stud-iess. Students may choose from more than 319 GURs to meet those requirements. Western does not have an "acceptable" rate of failure for a class. VanderStaay said the university is structured in a way that puts departments in control of their own curriculum and assessment, which are then overseen by the dean. Brent Carbajal, dean of Western's College of Humanities and Social Science, said each college makes sure the assessment practices and the evaluation practices of courses are rigorous and fair, but colleges do not look at the failure rates of specific classes. Struggling with logic Philosophy 102 is a class in symbolic logic that looks at reasoning and patterns of argument, said philosophy professor Ned Markosian. He said the class resembles a math class and satisfies a quantitative and symbolic reasoning GUR. Western senior Mitchell Lee, a philosophy major, describes logic as more practical than math in that people learn how to think in an analytical way as they would in calculus or algebra, but analytical thinking in logic is directly related to how people talk. "There is a misconception when coming into the philosophy department," Lee said. "You are not expecting a math-centered course, but logic is absolutely math- oriented; it is basically algebra with propositions and sentences." Western freshman Amanda Kerzman, TOP 25 MOSTFAILED GURS COURSE NUMBER ENROLLMENT F GRADE see FAIL page 6 *offered one quarter out of four years ** removed 2007-2008 Indicates quantitative and symbolic reasoning GUR Huxley explores landslide issues Anne Maertens - THE WESTERN FRONT Facing extreme sprawl and few economic resources, thousands of Guatemalans choose to live in illegal squatter slums in Guatemala City. The precarious settlements are built overnight on steep slopes, which are subject to life-threatening landslides. For the past three months, Huxley College of the Envidrnment professors and students have been working to develop a participatory risk-reduction assessment intended to reduce the deaths caused by landslides and improve the quality of life for people living in the settlements. The initial risk assessment determines the level and areas of risk, as well as some measure that can be taken to reduce it. After the assessment photo courtesy Scott Miles is complete, Huxley professor Re- Many illegal settlements built on steep ravines eventually bekah Green, who is leading the proj-become legalized by the Guatemalan government. ectj s a ^ she would like to see Western professors and students work on implementing the assessment plan. Huxley professor Scott Miles, an engineer who specializes in landslide risk assessment, spent nine days in Guatemala over spring break analyzing the structure of the settlements. To build the settlements, Miles shacks up on Chuckanut [Drive]," Miles said. "If it were slow, it would never work, and [police] could stop it. So the whole game plan is to get all the people together and do so much that it's too much to stop." Miles said the areas chosen are typically steep ravines that slope down Thinking about how you would evacuate an area or how you would get medical services to somebody at the bottom of these ravines was a little mind blowing. - Rebekah Green, Huxley research associate said a community leader collects money from everybody who wants a home and organizes a massive government land invasion. Hundreds of people then gather in secret to build an entire neighborhood overnight. "It'd be like if you started putting from the edges of legitimate neighborhoods. The grade of the ravines is between 40 degrees and 70 degrees, which makes building difficult, he said. see LANDSLIDE page 3 ---------- Page 2 ---------- See more online at www.westernfrontonline.net Friday • June 5,20091 The Western Front photo by Katie Greene THE WESTERN FRONT Western senior Kei Omotaka steps back to look at her paintings Thursday night. Omotaka said she took photographs of her mom and grand, parents, who are in Japan, and based her oil paintings off of them. She said she had been working on the painting of her grandparents for a week and a half and the painting of her mom for two to three weeks. AS Board of Directors votes on DRAG charter The move to approve the previously presented DRAC charter as an interim charter with a stipulation that board and committee make the requested changes by the end of the fall quarter passed unanimously 7-0. The Departmentally Related Activ-ites Committee (DRAC) Charter that was drawn up by members of the Associated Students (AS) Board of Directors was voted on at an AS Board of Directors meeting June 3. The charter was drawn up to improve transparency between students and administration regarding the policies and procedures over committees such as DRAC. DRAC prioritizes and disperses its allocated funding to pay for departmenal programs such as music, theater, student publications and dance. Scholarship sends student to Egypt Western student and German and Arabic major Dana Rafter won a scholarship, which will provide him with up to $20,000 to cover a trip for him to study abroad in Cairo, Egypt. The funding will cover airfare, tuition and living expenses. This particular scholarship, known as The National Security Education Program's Boren Scholarship, provides students with funding to help them study abroad in countries that are of U.S. interest but are underrepresented. Summer Ghana trip deadline extended, looking for more students Western business department professor Craig Mayberry plans on taking students to Ghana, Africa, this summer for the first time to learn about financial capital and social justice implications in a third world nation. The program is scheduled from Aug. 31-Sept. 11,2009. Applications are open to anybody, and the cost will be approximately $5,000, including airfare, he said. Three students have already registered for the summer course, but May-berry hopes more will apply. The Ghana program was going to be cancelled; however, this week Mayberry and Marlene Harlan, director of marketing and summer programs, decided to extend the deadline to June 19. It would be ideal if there were nine to 10 people going, Mayberry said. This summer program would be beneficial for financial and MBA students in order for them to gain experience in real-life situations, Harlan said. Over the course of the program, students will meet with local organizations in order to understand the impact of funding decisions" in the Ghana community. The main focus of the course is mi-crolending, but the trip will also focus on the World Bank, various government programs, non-profit organizations as well as investigating other methods for decreasing poverty. Western graduate student contributes to new finding Western graduate student Amy F. Gaudette teamed with Northwestern Uni^ versity chemists to design anew material known as cobalt-molybdenum-sul-fur- chalcogel. This new material can be used for removing mercury from polluted water, pulling sulfur out of crude oil and separating hydrogen from other gases. Gaudette helped conduct tests on the material's highest use, hydrosulfurization, which is a process to remove sulfur from crude oil- These chalcogel materials were discovered by a Northwestern University professor, but Gaudette published a scientific article about their findings with the professors involved. WEATHER REPORT High:i5*F Mostly Cloudy HJp65!F :f-1MONlK Mostly Sunny (Chance of showers) CORRECTION .... A Frontline article in the June 2 issue of The Western Front titled "Shepard: Share the Wealth," incorrectly stated that next year's Associated Students president Matt Jarrell will be making less than his predecessor, Erik Lowe. It was recently decided by the AS Board of Directors that Jarell will earn the same amount. The Western Front apologizes for this and any other error. 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Members of the Western community are entitled to a single free copy of each issue of the Western Front. , ---------- Page 3 ---------- westernfrontonline.net I Friday • June 5,2009 NEWS I 3 LANDSLIDE: Green and Miles involved in disaster risk assessment from 1 Oxfam International, a nonprofit organization that funds disaster relief and prevention, asked Green to lead the assessment after they heard about work she had done in New Orleans following the Hurricane Katrina disaster. In New Orleans, Green and her colleagues used a participatory format that involved local residents, Miles said. The residents were able to give input on what they wanted to see implemented in a recovery plan for their community, he said. They used a similar format in Guatemala, he said. Green said residents of the Guatemalan slums did not have time to terrace out the land when they built their homes because everything had to be done quickly. As a solution, she said the workers created artificial plateaus with sandbags, which they use as a foundation for their temporary, corrugated metal shelters. Typically, Green said the sandbags last roughly one year because Guatemala's intense ultraviolet rays and rainy season completely deteriorate the actual bags. As the bags break down, the sides of the house start to shift outward, she said. One family put a stake through its floor and then ran wire between the stake and the walls of its house to keep the walls from slipping down the edge of the sandbag plateau, Green said. During the rainy season, sheets of rain pour down the ravine, Green said. The weak structures get pummeled by rain running off the roofs of neighboring houses and often collapse, she said. In some cases, the shelters are completely washed out in a landslide that cjm'leayep^ Green said no; roads lead into the illegal settlements. People come and go by climbing up and down the ravines, which she said are surprisingly deep and intense. This is particularly challenging for elders and pregnant women who live in the depths of the ravines, she said. "Thinking about how you would evacuate an areaor how you would get medical services; to somebody at the bottom of these ra-vines'was a little mind blowing," Green said. Municipal services, like electricity and water supply, are eventually extended to the neighborhoods usually through political favoritism; Miles said. ;A goverhihent official trades the services for the votes of the citizens living in the slums, which Miles said he estimates to be 50 percent of the people living in the metro region. - :,. gt;/ Until then, Miles said many of the individuals will tap.intip the water pipes of thett heighbors who'live• legally in the flat lai^aboyethe ravines^ gt; " • Some of the oldest settlements, which were:«stablished about 15 yelirs ago, have nowbfecome legalized, and the houses are mbr^^enrm^ concrete fpunfjafions that can withstand the intense'', seasonjains; Miles;said; Ironically, there is a huge social divide between the settlements that have become legitimized and those that are still illegal, Green said. Not only do the formerly illegal residents look down on the squatters living below them on the ravines, but those residents also throw their trash into the newer settlements, she said. Trash is an extensive problem that, when burned, can lead to fires racing through the settlements, Miles said. When lef^Kyjdecomppse, the trash clogs storm? water pipes in the legal areas above, increasing the torrents of water that.flow through the illegal settlements, he said. Although clogged drains are one tangible problem that can be solved, he said it is one of the many problems the residents face. It's a duel-edged sword because we're trying to build sustainable livelihoods, and not just put a band aid on a problem that's going to eventually getout of control. // Kevin Vandenheuvel, Western senior : ;iv"fhe catcli-22 is that if it's not a legal plot anifybu'rg;the home owner, you don't feetJiike bujlcjing better because: you don't knp^ if megoVemment is. going to knock it alfde?wn^' Miles said^ "Once they get a legal sta f^they start building with masonry." , %^sfern seniors Kevin Vandenheuvel arid^aiiii' Isl^ruder are part of a\f6iu:- persontea^ working with Green to come up with a risk reduction assessment that outlines how people in the settlement can make their living situations safer. Magruder said when she first started the project, she expected the settlements to be like refugee camps and was surprised to see they were not. She said the people choose to live there because they want a piece of land to call their own, and many also do it to make a political statement to their government. "It's a duel-edged sword because we're trying to build sustainable livelihoods, and not just put a band aid on a problem that's going to eventually get out of control," Vandenheuvel said. "What they need to see down there is political change." Green said Guatemala's disparity, caused by a lack of affordable housing in areas that are within reachj6f economic opportunity, is a problem that is fed by the entire globe. The United States uses Guatemala for textiles, cheap agriculture and narcotics, which pushes Guatemala further into the impoverished ravines, she said. "There's this structure of inequality that just comes from the fact that they were born with a Guatemalan citizenship and we're not," Green said. Green said she wants to see the project continue once the assessment has been com-pleted,: but any furttie^-wbrk must first receive funding. G|b# Ms apphed for a grant from The ^rld^ar^^uid plans to apply for more grants this^^Sto^eirJ she said. - Green's smofalts have; created a plan to include stude%s^om:;several campus departments in "aliyj future work* which could include s|prig break trips and internships. Vander^euvelsaid he plans to go to Guatemala jftis summer and work independently 6* Mth other organizations to assist the communities. The student involvement would have to be limited to small groups because the settlements are very dangerous, Green said. Police escorts or community leaders accompanied Green and Miles at all times, she said. Miles said most white people, or gringos, stick to more affluent tourist areas that are safer. "We got to see parts of Guatemala that gringos don't get to see," Miles said. 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He served a five-year suspension that ' began in 2004 because of his alleged frequent verbal remarks but resumed teaching at Western in the fall of 2008, according to court documents. In an appeal hearing, Mills contended four things: Western violated the Administrative Procedure Act and breached its employment contract with him, his right to free speech was violated, and the University's Faculty Code of Ethics is unconstitutionally vague. The Washington Court of Appeals ruled that by having Mills' disciplinary hearing in secret, Western violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which warrants Mills a new hearing. However, the court rejected Mills' other contentions. Mills was.also awarded his attorney's fees, according to court documents. Western is currently in consultation with Mills' attorney and has several options, which include preparing for a new hearing this fall, seeking a reconsideration on that piece of the decision or appeal to the state Supreme Court, Western's legal council Wendy Bohlke said. Mills "said the issue was that he needed to have a public hearing to discuss his case and allow for testimony and the cross-examination of witnesses to prove that many of the allegations against him did not have any merit. It all started back in October 2002 when Mills complained that the drama department chair at the time, Mark Kuntz, was misusing funds derived from his students' lab fees, according to court documents. Mills said he came into conflict with the procedures involved in administering the money he collected from his film study students for what they call a lab fee, which was a way of paying for the films he used in his classes. "The funds we collected for the videos got administered to some other use," Mills said. "The university didn't think that was embezzlement; I thought it was. So, I blew the whistle on it and asked for an investigation." About a week later, Mills said he was thrown off campus. "I was asked to leave because of this great big bunch of stuff that had been collected from students who don't like me because I'm abrupt and dismissive of people who won't do the work," Mills said. Paul de Armond, who used to work for Western's Bureau of Faculty Research in the early 1990s, said he has known Mills for years and assisted in the development Call today to schedule a tour! 360.393.6477 Reserve now for Fall! [New England] 2516 Douglas Ave. 1, 2, 3, and 4 Bedrooms Balconies Fireplaces Washers/Dryers [Broadway] 524 32nd. 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On Oct. 18, 2004, former Western Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs Andrew Bodman said he told Mills in writing that Dean Carol Edwards had given him a memorandum recommending that Mills be put on suspension with pay, due to several complaints he had received from students, staff and other faculty members. The complaints were mainly of a verbally abusive nature and directed toward, students and faculty members. They also included incidents of Mills bringing a knife to class and around campus, according to court documents. "I'm in theater, everybody carries a knife f Mills said. "We have to constantly deal with sets and things like duct tape. Sometimes you have to cut something." Many of Mills' students and co-workers frequently complained about his verbal remarks, stating that he was offensive, degrading and made them feel uncomfortable, according to a Washington Court of Appeals document. On one occasion, a female student, who had recently undergone treatment for cancer, enrolled in Mills' dramatic writing class. When the student was reluctant to photo courtesy of University Communications Tenured Western theater professor Perry Mills was suspended in 2004 regarding allegations of frequent verbal ly abusive remarks. He contended the university and won his case regarding a hearing that was held in secret. share her piece with the class at the request of Mills, he responded, "If you can't even put up your piece for the class, then you should have just died of cancer," the document states. "I lose my temper like everybody else," Mills said. "I get in trouble because I have a big mouth, but my first and foremost concern is considering what is going to make my students stronger. I challenge my students." 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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ---------- Page 5 ---------- westernfrontonline.net I Friday • June 5,2009 NEWS I 5 PROFESSOR: Mills awarded his attorney's fees for duration of case from 4 plaints were serious and warranted furthef investigation. Bodman proceeded to suspend Mills immediately, with pay, and informed him that, "During this period of suspension, you will be permitted access to campus only with the prior notification of your department chair, who will make appropriate arrangements for a University Police escort. Failure to comply with these arrangements may be considered a criminal violation and subject to further disciplinary action." Bodman claimed Mills violated three sections of the Faculty Code of Ethics by failing in his "obligation to exercise self-discipline and judgment in using, extending and transmitting knowledge," and in the requirement that staff "encourage the free pursuit of learning by students." According to court documents, Mills was also accused of not "avoiding and condemning sexual harassment, intimidation and the exploitation of students," and that he also failed in conducting himself in a manner expressing "respect for, and defense of, the free inquiry of associates and, in the exchange of criticism and ideas, the respect for the opinions of others." A Hearing Panel of five faculty members then convened in secret to discuss Mills' suspension. Western's Board of Trustees implemented their recommendation of suspending Mills for two academic quarters, without pay, according to the document. Western's Faculty Handbook states that in order to warrant a severe sanction, which includes suspending a faculty member, there must be misconduct that falls into one of the following categories: "a serious and persistent neglect of faculty duties, unlawful discrimination or sexual harassment, serious scientific or scholarly misconduct, conviction of a felony or intentional and malicious interference with the scientific, scholarly and academic activities of others." According to court documents, none of the misconduct Mills was accused of falls within any of these categories that man relied upon were made many years earlier and his contention was, therefore, untimely. The provost said he did not file a formal Statement of Charges, nor did he consult with the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate regarding the conditions of the suspension, and the 2006 hearing which ruled that Mills would be suspended for two quarters without pay, was conducted in secret and was closed to the public and the press. "Nobody I talk to wants to come out on my side because they are afraid they will be under the microscope next. In the five years, I was suspended from campus; out of the 500 professors or whatever it is we have here, only one professor called me to say 'keep up the fight.1 -Theater professor Perry Mills would have warranted a suspension The Faculty Handbook also states three conditions must be met in order for a suspension to be imposed: "the faculty member's continued presence threatens to cause 'immediate harm,' formal disciplinary charges have been filed before the suspension is imposed, and the provost consults with the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate before imposing any suspension and within ten days of the filing of the formal statement of charges." According to court documents, none of these conditions were satisfied in this case and Bodman said he never claimed any of the threats Mills made were of "immediate harm." The documents also state that the complaints against Mills that Bod- Agency decisions must be "open to public observation, except for the parts that the presiding officer states to be closed under a provision of law expressly authorizing closure or under a protective order entered by the presiding officer pursuant to applicable rules," according to court documents. Western did not seek a protective order nor did it follow the correct procedures to obtain one, and therefore violated the open hearing provision of the Administrative Procedure Act, the document said. "Nobody I talk to wants to come out on my side because they are afraid they will be under the microscope next," Mills said. "In the five years I was suspended from campus, out of the 500 professors or whatever it is we have here, only one professor called me to say 'keep up the fight.'" Bohlke said she is satisfied with the court's ruling. "I think the decision affirms the university's careful adherence to the faculty handbook," Bohlke said in reference to the confusion about the actual handbook. Mills said he thought the court's ruling was marginal and was surprised to find some of what he thought would have been . addressed by the court was not. "I have won a lawsuit which indicated that the university had acted in a way that was illegal," Mills said. "But what's so funny about it is that they could have saved themselves millions of dollars worth of legal action and idiocy of the dean at the time had had the sense to get 12 people in a room together and ask what had happened." Mills said what he needed to have was a public hearing where students' and faculty members' claims could have been cross-examined, and people could have come forward to state that many of the allegations were untrue. "The university is a huge insensitive corporation that just wants me to shut up and go away," Mills said. "It doesn't seem to want to make any sense out of the situation either." De Armond said the situation has been one-sided from the beginning and will persist until Western responds to the criticisms or Mills decides to countersue. "This issue can not simply be smothered," de Armond said. "The university will have to positively respond. Repeated denial is not going to work." ---------- Page 6 ---------- 6 I NEWS Friday • June 5,20091 The Western Front FAIL: Professors stress regular attendance to avoid falling behind from 1 who is taking Philosophy 102, said she thought the course was going to be an easy way to get around taking another math class. "It is a completely different way of looking at math," Kerzman said. "I kind of ended up running into something a little harder than math would have been in the first place; now I'm saying to myself, 'Shoot, maybe Math 112 would have been easier.'" Kerzman said logic does not come easily to her, but she is slowly getting used to it. as Math 112 and 114 are required, the failure rate can be attributed to the wide range of students who take the classes all with different levels of ability and motivation'. Ypma said the main issue students seem to have with math is doing the homework. "It's the old cliche that math is not a spectator sport," he said. "You need to participate and do the exercises to get familiar with it." Dobbins attributes students' difficulty with math to taking too much time off between math classes, but she said she "The BS-ability in logic is also about the same as it is in math, and that is zero." -Thomas Downing, philosophy professor "For some people, it just comes really easy. Some people in class always know the answers," she said. "So maybe it's like a Da Vinci Code/Tom Hanks thing; they just see it in their minds." Philosophy professor Thomas Downing said they have trouble with logic for the same reason people have trouble with math: because they do not like variables, and they do not like precise rules. "The BS-ability in logic is also about the same as it is in math, and that is zero," Downing said. Markosian said the failure rate for Philosophy 102 concerns him, but he has made a lot of changes to his sections over the years to try to reduce it. He said at the beginning of each quarter he now makes sure students understand what is expected of them during the quarter and explains that the homework will directly affect their overall grade in the class. "It is unlucky that for this class some of what you have to do well is just put in some time every night from the beginning," Markosian said. "Because of that, it is easy to fall behind." Poor study habits = failure Math 112 is an algebra course that is comparable to high school Algebra I with some Algebra II included, said Math 112 instructor Sarah Dobbins. Math department chair Tjalling Ypma said math has traditionally been regarded as challenging. He said because courses such agrees that not doing daily homework assignments is a big portion of it. "A lot of instructors warn students to keep up with their homework in the beginning," she said. "But students have to try it out for themselves; they have to figure out what works for them." Skipping classes = downward spiral Professors say logic, similar to math and other quantitative and symbolic reasoning courses, is not skippable. Downing said he had a student put a comment on the Web site Ratemyprofessor.com, where students post anonymous evaluations of professors, that said: "If you miss one day, it is like coming into a Chinese class." Markosian said he thinks the main challenge for students comes from balancing college life with school work. He said practice is especially important in skill-based classes, such as foreign languages, math and logic, where students need to keep up with the work and develop the skills because each new skill developed is based on the previous skills. If students skip classes and do not do homework assignments, they will not understand enough to do the following night's homework, and then they fall further behind. It is a vicious cycle, he said. "It is not that it is intellectually too challenging," Markosian said. "I think the main challenge for a lot of students starting college is that it is just so fun; the social life is so appealing that it is easy to slack off a little bit on school work. Advising and tutoring available According to Western's course catalog, after failing a course at Western, the grade is included on the student's transcript and no credit is given for the course. If the student repeats the course, both the original failing grade and the new grade will be calculated into the student's cumulative grade point average (GPA), and both the failing grade and the new grade will appear on the student's transcript. Academic advising is available for students who are having trouble with courses and want to know whether they should drop and for those who are undecided about their major or want clarification about academic warning and probation policies, said Tina Loudon, director of Academic and Career Advising Services. Academic advising is also available for students who need assistance mapping out what GURs to take or are frustrated because they can't get into preferred courses, she said. Students often seek academic advising during the seventh week of each quarter when they are trying to decide whether to drop a course they are worried,about failing, Loudon said. She said incoming freshmen, in particular, are often too optimistic about how well they are going to be able to do on a final to improve their grades. "For freshmen, school terms in high Loudon said her department has just started doing some assessment of the benefits of the tutoring center. On first observation, she said they have found that it looks like students who use the tutoring center multiple times get higher GPAs than students who do not. Currently, Philosophy 102 has two tutors available in the tutoring center; Math 112, 114, 118, and 107 each have 20; and Math 156 has 13, said Western freshman Alex Mahlum, who works in the tutorial center. Markosian said he would like to see more qualified tutors for Philosophy 102 available in the tutorial center, and he would also like the philosophy department to have a say in hiring, which would ensure the tutors are fully qualified. Currently, departments do not get to give input when tutors are being selected, he said. Freshmen face tough transition Because GURs are usually taken in the first few years at Western, many of them are taken by incoming freshmen and transfer students, VanderStaay said. He said the transition from high school and community college to a four- year university can be difficult for many freshman and transfer students. The pace of classes and the amount of work required often shocks freshmen // It's the old cliche that math is not a spectator sport. You need to participate and do the excercises to get familiar with it. -Tjalling Ypma, math department chair school were longer so things didn't happen as fast," Loudon said. "And in high school classes, there are many more assignments and assessments of the quality of work. So, to adjust to a 10-week quarter and maybe have a class where it is two midterms and a final, students may not do as well as they want." Academic advising assists the tutoring center by ensuring support is provided where it is most needed and periodically monitors grades in the GURs to see where the need is the greatest. This allows for the right decisions to be made on selecting tutors for the center, Loudon said. The highest need is usually in math and science GURs, she said. and transfer students, and is the main reason behind GUR failure rates at Western, VanderStaay said. Additionally, freshmen often do not study enough or use study habits that proved successful in high school or community college, but were not rigorous enough for a four-year institution, VanderStaay said. "We will often see students successful as juniors and seniors who were not [successful] as freshmen because they just weren't geared up for the amount of work and the pace of the work," VanderStaay said. Transitioning into college also be see FAIL page 7 Earr\ Transfer (Zredit this SiAh^h^er atWfa fcoh* —-•** tfay 5-week and 8-week sessions • Earn transfer credits to complete General University Requirements *• Complete courses in less time • $78 per credit! General registration opens June 8. www.whatcom .ctc.ed u /su m mersession WCC is an equal opportunity institution ---------- Page 7 ---------- westernfrontonline.net I Friday • June 5,2009 NEWS I 7 FAIL: Rate a cause for concern Small classes boost GPA from 6 comes a problem because math courses offered in high school are typically more skills-oriented than math courses offered at Western, causing students who may have been successful in math in high school to not be prepared in college, VanderStaay said. High school students often get good at solving defined problems and problem sets, but they are not trained in their understanding of concepts, he said. "We try to push understanding and mastering of concepts and being able to apply techniques in a wide range of settings," Ypma said. "That setting can be quite a bit different than the focus students get in their high school classes." VanderStaay and Western registrar Susanna Yunker created a First-Year Planning Group and have been doing analyses to compare the success of students with their community college and high school preparation. He said the best the group can tell, Western's failure rates reflect poor math preparation in high school. However, math failure is a national problem, he said. "The strongest predictor for success in college, nationally, is success in high school intermediate algebra," VanderStaay said. Cause for concern Because math is such a challenging subject, Ypma said he is surprised the failure rates are not higher. "A 6.7 percent failure rate [for Math 112] - that seems to me remarkably low actually, given the vast number of students in Math 112," Ypma said. "Math has a reputation for being particularly challenging, and I'm glad to see that there are other departments that offer equally challenging, if not more so, classes." Dobbins said the failure rate did not surprise her either and said students simply need to learn to ask for help when they need it. "[The failure rate] is sad but not totally surprising. I know math is hard for a lot of people, and a lot of people don't know how to study for math; so they struggle with it," Dobbins said. When referencing Philosophy 102 and its 11.2 percent failure rate, Carbajal said 17 students out of 150 who are failing a class does not strike him as either average or alarming. He said many reasons account for why something does not work for students in particular courses and why many students could end up failing. * Students all come from different levels of preparation, and all have preconceived notions about what they are going to learn in a class, he said. "You'd hope that the students would all do well and learn a lot and get a lot out of a course," Carbajal said. 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WESTERN www.wwu.edu/~summe? - summer.session@wwu.edu (360)650-3308 Coral Garnick THE WESTERN FRONT Western has a number of first-year programs to help incoming freshman and transfer students find success in their first year, vice provost Steve VanderStaay said. The First-Year Interest Group (FIG) programs, First-Year Experience program and Summer Start have all been designed to ease the transition. Resident advisers, academic advisers and the tutoring center also offer one-on-one help for individuals, VanderStaay said. For the FIG program, students sign up for two, five-credit GURs and one, two-credit seminar associated with those two GURs to make up a FIG cluster, VanderStaay said. The FIG seminars are helpful because it gives students two hours a week to meet with 20 other students who are all taking the same classes, he said. "FIGs are useful to give students a better chance of knowing a bunch of their classmates, which makes it easier to meet up with people and discuss issues in the class," Markosian said. "I have found that when I teach a FIG section of [Philosophy] 114, and also a non-FIG section, students in the FIG section tend to get better grades." According to the course catalog, the First-Year Experience seminars are small four- and five-credit freshmen only seminars that are taught in sections of 30 students or less. VanderStaay said the FIGs and First- Year Experience seminars are helpful because studies have shown that freshmen need at least one small classroom their first year to give students opportunities for more interaction with faculty and other students. He also said that studies have shown students who participate in FIGs always have a better GPA than would have been predicted for them had they not participated. According to Western's Web site, spaces are available on a first-come, first-serve basis for both FIG clusters and First-Year Experience Seminars during Summer Start, and advanced registration for FIG clusters is available beginning May 15 through July 1. However, at Western, only 10 percent of incoming freshmen and transfer students get into FIGs and only another 10 percent get into First-Year Experience seminars. VanderStaay said Western would like to offer more FIG courses, but there is not enough funding to offer small 20-25 student classes for every freshman on campus. ..-. "We have what, 1,700 incoming freshmen a year?" philosophy professor Thomas Downing said. "It is hard to come up with a bunch of sections so they only have 20 students in each out with our budget-especially now that the state is contributing less than half of our operating budget." Western is also looking at the idea of an early fall start for incoming freshmen and transfer students to assist with the transition into college, VanderStaay said. The program would allow students to arrive to campus early to get a two-week intensive class while getting oriented to the university and making friends, VanderStaay said. He said he hopes to pilot the program in fall 2011. "Students would come here before school starts, and it would be pretty dead, so there wouldn't be all the distractions-booze, people of the opposite sex-there is just so much going on in college that it is a terrible time to have to study," Downing said. Happy Hour scotty browns HOURS 3101 Newnarket bi. oe'lr. Phone - 360.306.8823 www.scotlybrownsres'aurc 11-12 Fri-Sat ---------- Page 8 ---------- 8 I NEWS Friday • June 5,20091 The Western Front ATUS cracks down on printing to save paper Kevin Minnick THE WESTERN FRONT Ever go to print out an assignment to find a stack of uncollected documents sitting on the priiiter? :% Western junior Zachary Furste, a Wilson Library assistant, said whenever tie. cleans up the library at night, he always finds random documents left at the print stations. The Academic Technology User Services (ATUS) reported in its spring 2009 newsletter that Western students printed roughly 1.6 million sheets of paper during the 2008 fall quarter alone. When taking four quarters into consideration, that equates to more than 5 million sheets of paper. "Paper is something that we go through, well, like paper," joked ATUS Assistant Director Rob Galbraith. "I don't think people really think about it." In reaction to growing financial and environmental concerns regarding paper usage on campus, Galbraith and ATUS have been implementing a number of paper reduction practices over the last several years. Effective beginning this summer, Western will be reducing standard paper margins from 1.25 inches to .75 inches. This is a result of a collaboration between Galbraith and Huxley junior Connor Harron that will reduce paper usage by an estimated 5 percent. Galbraith said Harron had approached him for a project for his Huxley Campus Planning Studio, a class where students take on real-world, ecologically-oriented projects. "Connor and his partner worked with trie and did research on the environmen-tall impacts," Galbraith said.. "They did a beautiful job, and they should have credit for this project" Galbraith said while they have already started implementing the reduced margins at a few places around campus, the official start is summer 2009. Some other paper- saving practices include making two-sided printing the default setting on university printers and reducing student print quotas from 600 to 500 sheets per quarter 7 years ago. Starting next year, Galbraith said ATUS will start charging students a nickel for every page above 500. "I proposed lowering the quota again; although it didn't get approved this year/' Galbraith said. "There's a funny thing that goes on with quotas, in the sense that people sort of think of it as free up to a point, so they don't use a conservation frame of mind." Galbraith said he suggested lowering the quota to 200 sheets because the average student print rate per quarter is 131 sheets. Galbraith said the average is not evenly distributed, with students in upper-division courses using much more paper and the students in general university re-photo illustration by Katie Greene THE WESTERN FRONT ATUS is brainstorming and implementing ways to cut down the paper usage at Western among the students. Western junion Zachary Furste, a library assistant, said he always sees unused papers gathered at printers like this around campus at print stations. quirement (GUR) courses using much less. "I think it really depends on the class," said Western sophomore and English literature major Jessica Lynch. "A lot of lower-division classes usually don't require that much paper, but in English classes you are really printing out a lot of reading assignments or papers for peer critique." Lynch said it is easier for her to read a document when it is printed out. She said she has never reached her quota, but several of her biology major friends have. The ATUS estimation of students printing 5 million sheets per year equates to more than 500 trees and 150,000 gallons of water to provide the fiber and process it into sheets. This process also produces 157 tons of carbon dioxide. ATUS also estimates Western, as a whole, prints and copies approximately 20 million sheets of paper per year, four times greater than the students' amount. Richard Neyer has been the coordinator of Western's Associated Students Re^ cycle Center for 19 years. "I think the thing we notice as recy-clers is that there is a lot of wasted paper," Neyer said. "Sometimes students click print and realize they made a mistake, so they leave the paper or recycle it." Galbraith said ATUS has been adding print release stations around campus to reduce the amount of unclaimed prints piling up on printers and in recycle bins. Print release stations require students to log in and select which documents they want to print before everything prints. "Having that one extra click so you can double check what you're printing helps," Neyer said. Western senior and business management major Amalia Thompson said her upper level classes expect a lot of paper to be printed. "For management, it's not so much the reading that takes a lot of paper, but it's the big portfolios we have to print out when assignments are due," Thompson said. •.•••:' Thompson said she has never run out of her quota, but she has heard it is very easy to go request more paper if the quota is reached. "All you have to do is go say 'Hey, I need more paper,' and they will add it on to your quota," Thompson said.. •• . - ; With next year's implementation of the nickel charged for every page above 500, extra paper requests may be fewer and farther between. "People need to be conscious of the resources that they use," Galbraith said. "If you're paying for it, you'll think about how much you really need." Western freshman Alex Armenta said he has not had any issues with reaching the maximum quota, but he has friends who would like more pages. "It's kind of a toss up," Armenta said. "There are people like me who say we don't really need it [500 page quota], but that it is nice to have, and there are people who absolutely need it." Neyer said he and his employees have noticed that the recycle bins in the computer labs have started to fill up less over the last several years, possibly due to teachers using the Blackboard online program and other electronic forms. . Galbraith said he appreciates teachers using online resources, but there is still room for improvement. "There is some behavior [among teachers] that needs to change, too," Galbraith said. "I think students are more adaptable sometimes than faculty are in terms of that sort of thing." Galbraith said ATUS has had some reports of faculty that would require students to print out 150 to 200 pages of class material from their Blackboard site at the beginning of the quarter. "There are obviously other ways that it could be accomplished," Galbraith said. "You don't have to print out everything to access it." Armenta said his teachers' printing requirements have been varied. "Some of them have wanted me to print out every single thing for class, and it gets ridiculous after awhile," he said. Galbraith said with the way the budget has been reduced, the student print average of 131 sheets per quarter is all ATUS can currently afford. "If I had to actually print 500 pages per student, I'd have to quit printing-at the endof fall quarter,"?Galbraith:said., -J. : ATUS estimates the cost of printing the student total of 5 million sheets per year adds up to more than $100,000 for paper and toner. "Paper is something that we deaf in wholesale around here, so it's a place; where we can make a big difference," Galbraith said. "I want to get people thinking, 'Do I really need to print that wad of stuff out? Or could I just save the file and come back to it when I need it later?'" LaBttunty www.labountyseJfstorage.net ; fflfc^gHJHSSL SHELF STORAGE ^mmm* mmmT.amWm wmw mmWmW mm mmmmw mm mm mm mm^mmm*^^^ Lowest f*rSees gt; G u a r a n t e ed Over 4-75 Onits 5' x 1 0 ' t o 10; x 2 0 ' JlMSt: S m i n u t e s £«*sy I-S-- f r o m SBellincpaH«n Access 360-383-01 04 5210 L a B o u n t y D r i v e - F e r n d a i e , WA ^ r i v e - u p Units •£24;Mr Video Surveillance •Electronic Keypad Access 7 A M - 10PMPA11Y gt; On-Site Management [ Short D r i v e B i g S a v i n g s ' M o v e - I n Special! 50% OFF First 3 Months Exit 2 60 3 6 0 3 8 3 - 0 1 0 4 S210 L o B o u n l y D r i v e - F e r n d a i e . WA spot.com ---------- Page 9 ---------- westernfrontonline.net I Friday "June 5,2009 NEWS I 9 Hydrogen road tour drives into Red Square Kevin Minnick THE WESTERN FRONT On first glance, the cars parked in Red Square Tuesday, June 2, appeared ordinary. What drew the crowds, however, is what was under the cars'hoods. In collaboration with Western's Vehicle Research Institute (VRI), the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) made a stop at Western to showcase 12 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as part of their 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour. According to the CaFCP Web site, the Hydrogen Road Tour is a nearly 1,700 mile West Coast tour to promote hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles, which is a cleaner alternative to gasoline. The tour spanned from Chula Vista, Calif., to Vancouver, B.C. The hydrogen fuel cell vehicles feature various car manufacturers, including Volkswagen, Honda and Toyota, and were on display for onlookers to view and ask questions. According to the CaFCP's Hydrogen Road Tour pamphlet, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles run off of stored electricity from hydrogen and oxygen. "I don't think people really understand how important these cars are," said Western senior and vehicle engineering technology major Axel Schmidt. "They represent some of the highest levels of technology in the engineering world." The stop was also a chance for Western's VRI to showcase several of its project cars, which ran on a variety of alternative fuel sources besides hydrogen fuel cells. Some of the VRI vehicles displayed mciuded the Viking 20, a solar powered car, the Viking. 46, a formula-style racer, and the Viking 29, the world's first ther-mophotovoltaic- powered car. • VRI alumnus Ben Vos said the Viking 29 is basically a solar- powered car that does not rely on sunlight. V^s said a natural gas flame heats up a black ceramic tube in the car, which is filled with a material that emits infrared light energy. This infrared light is picked up by special solar cells that convert the light to electricity for the car's battery, he said. One of the VRI vehicles, the Viking 32, runs on methane, which is-collected from cow waste. While this may seem unusual, VRI director Eric Leonhardt said this fuel source is a real possibility in Whatcom County. "We could power probably 20 to 40 thousand cars in Whatcom County," Leonhardt said. "And that's including big trucks as well." Western senior and vehicle design major Ben Romeijn-Stout said methane is harvested from organic waste by pouring the waste into an anaerobic digester, which is a building that decomposes the matter over the period of about a month. The methane is then harvested off the top, he said. "It turns [the waste] into excellent soil actually," Romeijn-Stout said "It has a lot of nutrients in it." Vos said while engineers are in a unique position in Whatcom County to make biomethane from dairy waste, it is not limited strictly to this area. "Biomethane also works from human waste, fish guts, chicken breading—anything organic that will rot can be put in the digester," Vos said. Vos said even urban areas without farms, photo by Keith DaigleTHE WESTERN FRONT The Viking 29, the world's first thermophotovoltaic-powered car was one of 12 fuel ceil vehicles on display as part of the Hydrogen Road Tour in Red Square June 2. like Seattle, could harvest biomethane from their sewage treatment plants. Chris White, communications director for CaFCP, said biomethane is a promising technology, but it is still in the developmental stages. She and the California Fuel Cell Partnership are pushing for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. "California has more hydrogen fuel stations than any other region in the world," White said. "We have 26 stations. Next to us is Germany, then Japan and then Canada." White said participating automakers are looking at early commercial models of fuel cell vehicles, such as the ones on display Tuesday in Red Square. They expect thousands of vehicles will begin to be sold between 2012 and 2014 and tens of thousands by around 2017. Schmidt said while proponents of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles like to claim that the vehicles run clean, the actual process of extracting the hydrogen for use in the vehicles leaves a large carbon footprint. "It's a newer technology, so it still has its bugs to work out," Schmidt said. Regardless of which alternative fuel source is the "right" one, White, Vos and Leonhardt agree that diversification is key. "We would be a very foolish country to put so many eggs in one basket again," White said. "We have to have multiple fuels, and multiple sources of making those fuels." Besides the economic vulnerability of relying on one source of fuel, Schmidt said the United States' dependence on fossil fuels is one of the leading causes of global climate change! "Finding alternate sources of fuel is important because our supply of oil is finite," Schmidt said. "Ithink people assume that this problem of running out of oil is something that our kids or grandkids will have to deal with, but if we continue to consume oil as we do now, it will be a serious problem in our lifetime." $250 Western Bookstore Gift Card IK^^^BBHBIililli $250 Bellingham Community Food Co-Op Gift Certificate Duncan Graham, AnnelieseFruhling, Claire Petersen- XnMvtilmoi Ira Simon and Owner of Bellingham Travel Cruise, Frank Zuriine. ' ~ ^ Excellence Scholarship with WWUV • ---------- Page 10 ---------- 1 0 I Friday • June 5,2009 I The Western Front Andi Williamson THE WESTERN FRONT The summer months are. upon us and for most students early morning classes and late-night library stints are temporarily a thing of. the past. Enter instead, long days in the sun, barbeques, late nights of partying and unfortunately for many, hangovers. Hangovers are an experience almost as timeless as drinking. At times you may find yourself asking the next day, 'Was it worth it?' In a perfect world, one could enjoy a night of debauchery without the stomach-turning, head-pounding feelings the following morning. It goes without saying that the best way to prevent next morning nausea is to avoid entirely or severely limit the amount of alcohol consumed the night before. However, evenings of over-indulgence can happen to the best of us, which is why The Western Front and I have taken it upon ourselves to scientifically break down hangovers and try to uncover the secret to a successful remedy for the students of Western. Hangovers vary for every person. Western's Student Health Center Medical Director Emily Gibson said weight, gender and tolerance to alcohol are all contributing factors to how you may feel post party. However, women typically should not have more than four drinks in a 24-hour period and men should not exceed more than five. The most likely explanation for why we get hungpver is the dehydration caused by the diuretic effect of ethanol combined with the toxic brain effects of a powerful depressant taking time to recover, Dr. Gibson said. There is a rebound adrenaline effect coming off alcohol that can cause irritability, restlessness and shaking, while the inflammatory effects of alcohol on the stomach lining causes nausea and hyperacidity, she said.' The headache is from too much vasodilation in the brain blood vessels, causing a throbbing, pounding headache. Individuals have different tolerance levels to alcohol depending on their ability to metabolize it, and so have different responses to recovering from its effects, Dr. Gibson said. Congeners are found in alcohol as a result of the fermentation process. They are responsible for heightening your hangover symptoms. The more congeners consumed, the worse your hangover will be, according to About.com. Darker colored beverages, such as red wine or whiskey, contain more congeners than lighter alcohols, such as white wine or vodka. When selecting my methods I made sure to avoid the most common cures, such as greasy foods, Gatorade, pain killers, excess sleep and some herbal antidotes. My experiments begin by consuming copious amounts of adult beverages (the things you have to do in the name of research) to ensure that I would feel far from 100 percent the next day. Wandering off the well-beaten path, I chose treatments from a wide range of eras, cultures, ingredients and logic. As long as there has been drinking, there have been hangovers. Remember, the best way to not be hungover is to drink responsibly. Don't over imbibe. Keep at one to two drinks in 24 hours and you will never have a hangover, Dr. Gibson said. If you drink more, space the drinks out over several hours and be sure to eat and hydrate with non-alcoholic fluids in between. However, if you do find that thy keg cup has runneth over, give one pf these solutions a try before you suffer through a pounding headache and blood-shot eyes. Who knows, one of them may work for you. . ' Here are nine unusual and daring solutions for curing a hangover, in no particular order, and the results of some of the methods I actually attempted: • Jeeve secret concoction/ Prarie Oyster One raw egg, a quarter ounce Worcestershire sauce and a quarter ounce tabasco. Mix this together in a glass and swig it fast. This was one of the few remedies I did not try, but according to Askmen.com, there are people out there who swear by this method. • Rabbit-dropping tea This method originates from the days of the Wild West. Cowboys and cowgirls used to brew themselves a steaming cup of tea made with rabbit droppings after hard nights of whiskey drinking and shootouts. I did not try this one, sorry guys. If someone tries this remedy though, please let us know how it goes. • X03 Hangover Prevention ($1.99/packet, Super Supplements) X03 Hangover Prevention was recommended to me by employees of Super Supplements on 1300 Ellis St. The powder comes in small individual packets of either lemon or grape flavoring and should be taken with water before consuming alcohol. It is packed with vitamins C and B and claims it provides a "nutritional boost for a quicker recovery." The overwhelming smell, similar to sticking your face in a jar of Flintstorie chew-ables, and questionably fizzy reaction to the water seemed promising. Unfortunately, I awoke the next morning, yet again, with unsteady hands and an uncomfortably low threshold for sunlight. Blam What is s o 'Would Farm photos by Rebecca Rice THE WESTERN FRONT Andi Williamson THE WESTERN FRONT For some time now, the "of- age" crowd of Belling-ham's modest population has unknowingly been making its mark in the world of adult beverages through one of Bellingham's oldest bars. Thanks to its loyal slew of Western students, regulars, and out-of-towners, the World Famous Up and Up tavern has been able to claim it sells more Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) beer than any other bar in the United States. PBR representative Sanjiv Gajiwala confirmed via e-mail that while they are not able to officially provide the volume, sales or numbers of one specific account, they can say The Up and Up "is definitely up there ;)," emoticon and all. So just how much PBR does The Up and Up sell? On a busy night, the taproom has been known to go through six kegs of the lager through selling pitchers and pints, manager Ryan Leak said. Dickerson Distributors salesman and Western senior Chris Schallot handles The Up and Up's PBR account. Schallot said he delivers about 50 kegs and 75 cases of' PBR each week to The Up and Up. Totaling approximately 1,000 gallons per week and about 52,000 gallons of PBR per year. It would take nearly six tanker trucks to hold that much liquid. "No other bars in Bellingham, or accounts we have, can compare to The Up and Up in Pabst sales," Schallot said. "It would be hard to say they are not very, very high on the list of top sellers in the country, if not number one." In addition to PBR sold in the bar, a large portion of sales come from "to-go beers," in the form of cases of 24 ".tail boy" cans and special order kegs, Leak said. The Up and Up usually sells approximately 10 to-go kegs each week, he said. "Pabst is-a crowd pleaser," Leak said. "Our regulars drink it; students drink it. It's for all types, really." There are 15.5 gallons of beer in one keg, which equals about 120 individual beers, Leak said. This means the patrons at The Up and Up consume about 720 cups, or 93 gallons of PBR in a single night, he said. It also means The ---------- Page 11 ---------- e westernfrontonline.net I Friday • June 5,2009 I 11 it on the Mrfc -^®fe@l Coffee and cola Mix equal parts hot, black coffee and cold cola in a cup and add at least five sugar packets. You will want to drink this mixture quickly because of the fizzy reaction between the two liquids. Also, it tastes like dirt. Initially, I thought I was on to something when my headache, dry mouth and dizziness almost immediately subsided. However, I painfully discovered later that what I was experiencing was nothing more than a sugar high, and I now had two types of intoxications that my body had to process. Rub cut lemons under yours arms In Puerto RicO, people apparently rub slices of lemon or lime in their armpits prior to drinking. Supposedly, the citrus fruits help to prevent dehydration and, therefore, headaches. I did attempt this method. It couldn't hurt, right? The lemons were cold, wet and sticky but at least had a fresh scent to them. I peeled my eyes open the next morning only to discover the lemon method was ineffective, and I was immediately hit with a waye of dizziness and cotton-mouth. On to the next method. Deep fried canaries In ancient Rome, locals were known to actually fry canaries and eat them as a cure for their hangovers. Obviously, I was not able to try this one, even if-1 wanted to. According to Forbes, com, if I was really pining for some deep-fried canary, I would need: one canary, one pint of cooking oil, salt and pepper and would then need to behead the bird, remove its feathers and skin and let it fry in the oil for about two minutes before adding the salt and pepper for flavor. Chewing ginger root. Ginger is known to counteract feelings of nausea, so if that is a major symptom for you, gnawing on this raw little root may be the way to go. Ginger contains antioxidants and works as a blood thinner as well. It can be very bitter when fresh though, so I would not recommend it on an empty stomach. The ginger root is small, lightweight and totally portable. It is dry and scentless on the outside but packed with a distinct flavor once you bite down. This method really only helps with issues of the stomach and morning- after sickness, but it was still effective. ^Ekei$ise Exeia^^L be a toss up as a remedy for a hangover. Rais10g your heart rate and breaking a sweat can M^n? efficient method of processing and expellit^gl from your body. It can also feel good t^^t%jpand move around rather than succumb t|*f our symptoms by tying around. Personally, a|}uick morflong jog actually accentuated my headjehe but lessened my other feelings, such as nausea and fatigue. \ cpas1 about Up and Up can go through approximately 40 kegs of PBR in a week, Leak said. Another way to grasp the immense volume of PBR consumed annually is by the pitcher. The Up and Up serves the beer in 48-ounce pitchers. The average amount of PBR sold in a year would require about 19,549 pitchers. If these pitchers were stacked on top of each other, they would reach heights of approximately 12,495 feet, just more than 1,700 feet higher than Mount Baker. "I was really surprised to hear about this at first," Western senior and Up and Up customer Greg Crenshaw said. "It makes me proud, though because the majority of those sales are probably contributed by Western students." These numbers deal specifically with PBR. They do not factor in any of the other 18 beers The Up and Up has on tap each night. Busch Light and Bud Light are the bars second and third highest sellers, Leak said. The Up and Up was once the longest continuously running tavern in Washington until Rudy's Pizza bought it two years ago, Leak said. It has been in business since the 1930s and used to be located on Holly Street in downtown Bellingham. Its current location on North State Street was previously a Shakey's Pizza Parlor in the 1960s. Prior to that, it was a piano warehouse, he said. Leak has been working at The Up and Up for seven years, and said business and morale has improved since Rudy's took Over the taproom. "The smaller space is easier to fill, and to be honest, it's a lot friendlier now than it used to be," Leak said. "We didn^t always have the same crowd in here that we do now." PBR has been the house beer for as long as Leak can remember, estimating at least nine years, the same amount of time The Up and Up has been serving it, he said. Before PBR, Leak said the house beer was Falstaff. Of the 19 beers on tap, PBR is the most ordered on any given night as well as the most purchased "to-go beers," he said. "It doesn't really surprise me that [The Up and Up] sells so much Pabst with the amount of college students that flow in there every Thursday night," Western senior The Chaser Pill ($4.99/box, Fred Meyer) A late-night advertisement for Chaser piqued my curiosity one evening. Although it seemed similar to the X03 powder, Chaser had a much different result. The instructions say to take two tablets before consuming any alcohol and then two more every four to six drinks throughout the evening. After a long night out on the town, I woke the next morning to find myself surprisingly functional. It seems the infomercials may be on to something here. The downside to Chaser is it does not solve dehydration or dry-mouth symptoms, and the amount a person should take per week is limited as well. phdtoby Rebecca Rice THEWESTERN FRONT The Up Upli^rri gpjefr^h^ about 50 kegs and 75 cases of PBR per; week/»rapprotirnately 1,000 gallons of beer. se^P^i^pagei^ ---------- Page 12 ---------- 12 I ARTS LIFE Friday • June 5,2009 I The Western Front An evening of comedy with Hari Kondabolu RodLotter THE WESTERN FRONT The combined laughter of 150 people echoed through; Fraser Hall room 3, as New York-based comedian Hari Kondabolu expressed his "righteous indignation." Racists, politicians, comedians and the Queen of England were among the many targets for Kondabolu's sharp and incisive jokes. "Righteous indignation: A night with comedian Hari Kondabolu" was sponsored by Western's Social Issues Resource Center and took place June 1. Drawing from his experiences as a first-generation American and Hindu Indian, Kondabolu's material addresses social issues like racism and immigration, but in a charming and sometimes.silly and absurd way. Sarah Tfah, a long, time friend of Kondabolu's and coordinator for the Social Issues Resource Center, was responsible for bringing Kondabolu to Western. Tran met Kondabolu while they were both volunteering for AmeriCorps in Seattle. "Comedy is an incredible tool for social change," Tran said. "[Kondabolu's material] hits on a lot of topics that are very pertinent to society. He has a great ability to draw people in and make them engage in a dialogue." To Open up his comedy routine, Kondabolu screened a short film he created called "Manoj," which was screened at the 2008 Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Toronto. The film is a mockumen-taiy about a man named Manoj, played by Kondabolu, whose jokes rely solely on American stereotypes of Indian people, like worshipping cows and gods with eight arms and eating monkey brains and curry. ' "Alot of times people come up to me and say, 'Manoj, why do Indian people eat monkey brains all the time?"' Manoj said in the film. "That is simply not true. If "Comedy is an incredible tool for social change. - Sarah Tran, SIRC coordinator you knew anything about monkey brains you'd know monkey brains are very, very expensive. You can't just eat them all the time. If I had a dime for every time someone came up to me and asked, I could actually afford to eat monkey brains." The film pokes fun at comedians who rely on stereotypes for the bulk of their material, Kondabolu said. Bursts of laughter erupted from the audience throughout the entirety of the 15-minute film. After the film, Kondabolu stood at the front of the classroom under dim lighting, which he said made him feel like a professor, and began his routine. "Aren't you guys going to ask me why my skin looks so beautiful?" Kondabolu asked the audience. "Well, it's because I use cocoa butter." He then went on to explain that as a child, he tried to find skin lotion to use for his dry skin, but every lotion advertise- photoby Rebecca Rice THE WESTERN FRONT Comedian Hari Kondabolu performs in Fraser Hall room 3 Monday, June 1. Kondabolu takes a lighter approach to tough issues such as racism and immigration. ment he saw in magazines and on television only had white people in them. Then one glorious day he picked up a copy of Ebony magazine and found a lotion advertisement that had a non- white person in it. The advertisement was for cocoa butter, which led him to believe it is the lotion for him. "So, I went to the supermarket to buy . some cocoa butter," Kondabolu said. "And it was in the 'ethnic needs' section. When I saw that I thought to myself, 'Huh? Ethnic needs ... end to police brutality, end to racism*, more educational opportunities.' But, no; just shampoo and soap." Western junior Alex Z. Wray and senior Nicholena Hamilton both said the cocoa butter joke was their favorite one of the night. "I think it was probably the funniest joke I've ever heard from a comedian," Wray said. Wray said he thought Kondabolu was spot on because he was very truthful "and unique and it was the first joke he had ever heard about cocoa butter. Hamilton said Kondabolu's mix of humor and knowledge made him stand out to her. "He knew a lot about history, stuff I didn't even know about," Hamilton said. "I like that he used humor and knowledge to address issues like religion and racism without being pver the top." Many of Kondabolu's jokes were about imperialism and colonialism, especially concerning the history of British rule in India. Kondabulo said he tries to never pander to or belittle the audience, which is an idea he picked up from comedic inspirations like Bill Hicks, Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle and Lenny Bruce, also a New York native. Kondabolu said he feels no subject is off limits in comedy, but the comedian's intentions behind the joke determine whether it is offensive or not. "Fuck the British, and fuck the Queen of England," Kondabolu said in a much louder tone than normal, recalling memories of Micheal Richard's famous racial slur-laced tirade a year ago. "She is just an ---------- Page 13 ---------- westernfrontonline.net I Friday • June 5,2009 ARTS LIFE 113 COMEDY: 'If any of my jokes piss you off, speak up. Stop blogging.1 from 12 old white lady wearing my grandma's jewelry." The crowd hooped and hollered, while some gasped, but no one seemed really offended by it, probably because there were not too many Brits in the crowd. Kondabolu said he did that joke in England; it didn't go over too well. "If any of my jokes piss you off, speak up," Kond-/ abolu said. "Stop blogging." Kondabolu has been involved with issues inyoftihg human rights, specifically the rights of immigrants and deportees. As part of his act, Kondabolu took out a United States citizenship application and used the document as material for his jokes, which is reminiscent of what Lenny Bruce and George Carlin have done in the past with other official government documents. The first thing Kondabolu pointed out was the race category. There is no box for bi-racial people, but there is a box for African American, although the people who are filling out the form are not American yet, so it does not make sense, he said. Under the eye color section, there were two choices that confused Kondabolu: pink and maroon. "Of course bi-racial people are fucked and have no category," Kondabolu said. "But, people with maroon eyes do? Who has maroon eyes? Vampires?" The last question asks the applicant if they have ever persecuted someone for their race or religion. "If you answer 'yes' to that question," Kondabolu said. "Well, then welcome to America!" After that Kondabolu pulled a crumpled piece of paper from his back pocket. He said it was a list of people who will be the first to die if a revolution occurred: 1 Anyone who refers to their car as 'ghetto' because 7it only has one DVD player. 2. People whose first job was as a star on a reality show. 3. If you have ever name dropped the president by first name during a conversation. 4. Jimmy Buffett. 5. People who have ever used the phrase, 'my grandmother's cottage,' without being preceded by 'we have to sell.' 6. People who say they hate flying on Jet Blue because they do not have a first class. "My goal as a comedian is to find a way to talk about issues, which aren't necessarily happy ones, in a comedic way," Kondabolu said. "Comedy is cathartic, but it definitely needs to be funny first, cathartic second." At the end of the routine, Kondabolu fielded questions from the audience. One attendee asked him if there are any subjects that he feels are too offensive to joke about. "When approaching touchy subjects, I try to find a way to tell the joke without it being on the targeted or oppressed people," Kondabolu said. "So, usually I just put the joke on myself. There are some subjects that I want to joke about, but I just haven't found a way to tell them yet." PABST: Beer gets blue ribbon in Bellingham from 10 Jane Gershovich said. "It's what I always order." Leak said the busiest nights are usually Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The Up and Up does not have any rivalries with any other Bellingham bars, Leak said. It is a good starting place so it is more a crossover of business between other bars rather than competition, he said. According to the official Pabst Blue Ribbon Web site, PBR is a classic premium lager brew. It was established in 1844 in Milwaukee, Wise, when German immigrant Jacob Best founded Empire Brewing. In 1863, a steamship captain named Frederick Pabst married into the Best family. He took over the brewing business, renaming it the Pabst Brewing Company and tying signature blue, silk ribbons around the neck of each individual bottle of beer. The flagship beer was awarded "America's Best" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in the 1880s, and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer was born, according to the Web site. During World War II, a rationing of silk forced the brewing company to begin printing the blue ribbon image directly on the bottles and cans, and the logo has endured ever since, the Web site stated. "After many weekend nights in 'The Up,' watching bartenders dole out pitcher after pitcher, I believe it," Western senior Kelsey Williams said. "I used to mock WSU for their epic Busch beer consumption, but I guess Western is just as devout; we just chose a different brew." s Parking 3 Permit CM Notice Student Applications Available Online May 18th at 8am. www.ps.wwu.edu If you do not have access to a computer you may obtain an application at the Parking office, located in the Campus Services building. Applications due July 31st, by 4:30 P.M. Apply as soon as possible. Permits are issued by amount of credits, date of application, and time submitted. Those needing further assistance can contact us at (360) 65(3-2945 or parking@wwu.edu. Western Washington University - Parking Services 2001 Bill McDonald Parkway Bellingham. WA 98225-9131 parking @ wwu.edu www.BellinghamFitness.com : 3 Months: : only $99: Offer Expires June 30th, 2009 • 'See Club for Details " ---------- Page 14 ---------- 14 I OPINION See more online at www.westernfrontonline.net Friday • June 5,20091 The Western Front Cultural insensitivity alive on campus Mar Moller Guest Columnist The Cinco de Mayo cartoon published on May 1,2009 was a degradation of Mexican culture. The cartoon mocks a people and tradition under the guise of making a "satirical point" regarding the recent swine flu scare. For many Latinos on this campus, students and staff, it was difficult to read the final words of the cartoon: "I'm trying to be true to the culture." These words came from a Euro-American-appearing man in a sombrero, wearing a mask and holding a pig pinata. A cartoon like this does nothing more than further centuries-old stereotypes about a people and their culture as dirty or diseased. This is not satire; this is a shameful display of ignorance. Students of color are reminded daily of their lack of representation on university campuses. The 2006 Western Strategic Plan: Engaged Excellence states that in order for Western to demonstrate diversity, we must be a community "where members appreciate, honor and celebrate people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds". The poor choice by The Western Front to run a cartoon that furthers racial discrimination is counterproductive to this mission. Cartoons like this one diminish the positive strides made toward this campus goal and make future success that much more difficult to achieve. President Bruce Shepard's diversity update informed us that students of color make up 18 percent of Western's total student population. While Shepard heralds this as a source of pride for the campus community, other statistics demonstrate that higher education remains out of reach for a disproportionate number of capable students of color in the U.S. There is a desire at Western to continue to increase the representation of these historically marginalized populations, but Viking Voices Opinions from around campus What was your worst summer job? Compiled by: Katelyn Yruretagoyena Fran Springstead Graduate Student "House cleaning at a resort." much work remains to be done. When members of the Ethnic Student Center and American Cultural Studies Program viewed the cartoon, many felt that the most damning part was not that it was published, but that this was done by our "peers," members of our own campus community. People of color live, work and learn "lhe time has come for Western to face reality. We are not as diverse as we claim, and ignorance and intolerance run rampant." - Mar Moller, MEChA member on this campus where diversity is so greatly valued and discussed on a daily basis, and yet some of us can still walk across it without seeing anyone who looks like us. After this cartoon was published, imagine what that walk across campus must feel like. We now wonder whether our cultural traditions are valued and respected at Western. Furthermore, we fear that there will be future public displays of ignorance and stereotyping. One of our peers, our friends, our fellow students created a cartoon that was beyond insensitive. The time has come at Western to face reality. We are not as diverse a school as we claim, and ignorance and intolerance run rampant. Students, staff and faculty of color are an integral part of Western; our presence should not be denied, ignored, devalued or belittled by anyone. 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One of the craziest things is people saying that the Holocaust did not happen, when there are people who were there and lived through it who can talk about it now. 2. Once, while playing baseball in a T-shirt and baseball pants, someone stopped me to ask why we rabbis and hassids are always wearing black? I wasn't, but good question anyway! Rabbis do not always-wear just black, but they do wear a lot of dark, conservative clothes. It's a concept of modesty and tradition. 3. When people ask "Do you speak Jewish?" They mean Hebrew or Yiddish. But, whatever the case, in America your average Jew speaks good English with American accents, and knows how to read and write American ... Hebrew, not so much. Jews in Israel, on the other hand, speak Hebrew and English. Speaking of Hebrew, people always ask how important it is for a Jew to know Hebrew: how to read, and write and speak it. Let the truth be told that although at Chabad we give Hebrew lessons, Judaism's priority system says that action is more important, such as eating matzo on Passover and resting on the Sabbath. Yiddish was and still is a language that Jews use to communicate with each other. However, it is not a vital matter in Letters to the Editor: Why single out president Bruce Shep-ard for taking a salary cut for sharing the wealth in these tough economic times? Is it because he makes a lot, or because he makes too much? If you think he makes too much, that means you think the job he is doing is not worth the compensation for it. I have heard no one even hint at this, quite the opposite. And the truth is, even ignoring market considerations (which is perilous), if one is doing a really good job as president of Western, then no sensible presidential salary is too much. If you think he makes a lot and that is why he should take a voluntary reduction, then why stop with him? By some standards, lots of people at Western make a lot (you seem to think that is a six-figure salary). Let's invite all of these people to accept a voluntary reduction in salary and share the wealth? At some point you have to do the math and see what this would really accomplish, and do not forget to take into account how this would affect the attractiveness of employment at Western. There is a dangerous, slippery slope here. In general, I am against cheap gestures, or at any rate, gestures which really have, at most, a tiny effect, especially when the cost to one individual is considerable. Yes, students will be paying more tuition and faculty and staff will not see a raise for many years. But the president forgoing even a sizable chunk of his salary would have an indiscernible effect on this. If he were to forgo, say, $50,000 of his salary, that would permit a per-student quarterly reduction in tuition somewhat under the price of a latte. That just does not seem to be a sensible sharing of the wealth. Do the math. Once you have done the math you will see that the only residual reason for the president taking a salary cut is to make some sort of gesture for, at best, an unclear reason, and I think if you ask someone to make a gesture that costs him tens of thousands of dollars, the reason had better be compelling and obvious. As is well-known to moral philosophers, one person's considerable sacrifice to make a large number of people just a little bit happier does not add up to a compelling reason for making the sacrifice. Thomas E. Downing Associate Philosophy Professor As an alumni, it has been difficult to watch Western go through such challenging times from afar. I feel, however, that despite these challenging times it is unfair to expect President Shepard to sacrifice part of his salary "for the common good." President Shepard did not cause these economic conditions, and he is probably Western's best bet for getting us through the next few years. President Shepard is right in his assertion that talent should be compensated - and now more than ever. If there was a less experienced leader at the helm, Western may find itself in far worse shape. Asking someone to take a personal salary cut should be equated to asking someone to wear more than 15 pieces of flair: Sure, it would be nice if they wore more flair, but it should not be expected or required. Not wearing that 16th piece of flair does not make an individual a poor leader or any less compassionate, as the Western Front Editorial Board alluded to in "Shepard: Share the Wealth." Britt Hoover Fairhaven College Alumna Dining hall food should be more accessible In response to the May 29 article, "Yearly Theft Plagues Dining Halls," I agree it is frustrating to have people stealing dishes and silverware. What really bugs me about the dining halls is the fact that students are not allowed to take food from the dining halls. I understand that you do not want people taking meals out of the hall because this would require them to take dishes as well. Judaism and many Jews don't know it. It doesn't make a Jew any less Jewish. 4. "Do Jews believe in hell?" The hell that Judaism teaches is a far cry from eternal damnation. Everyone goes to heaven, maximum wait time - 12 months. Also, Judaism preaches "to live it up," make heaven on earth, make the most out of your years on this physical world, make the world a better place with more peace, justice, morals and ethics. 5. What does Judaism have to say to members of other religions? Regarding non-Jews, the Torah explains that everyone was created perfectly as they are and every nation of the world has something to contribute to the greater good in the world. The Torah asks all mankind to go by the "7 rales of Noah (from the Ark):" -Believe in the one God -Not to curse God -No adultery -No stealing -No murder -To be kind to animals -Set up a justice system. I agree with this, but I think students should be allowed to take a bagel or sandwich (wrapped in a napkin or bag) for later. It frustrates me that a student who tries to take food is asked to give it back when the food will then just be thrown away and wasted rather than eaten. It seems ridiculous for many reasons. First of all, I am paying for the food (all you can eat, mind you), yet I am still restricted. There are many reasons why one may want to take a bagel or sandwich. One of them is a time issue. Since dining halls are only open at certain times, I sometimes miss meals because of class or other school related activities. Also, college students are extremely busy, and not all of us have the time to sit down for a full meal. It would be way easier if we could make something to eat and take it to go (without stealing any dishes). As I talk about taking food, I am not referring to taking large amounts to store in the fridge for the next week or so, I am strictly talking about taking something to eat later that day. My goal is not to rip off the dining hall, but to get my full money's worth. Students pay large amounts of money for this service, and we should be able to grab food for later in the day when the dining hall is not open. Lesley Countner Western freshman 6. Sometimes, students come to me and tell me they are bad Jews. My answer is the Torah's answer. There is no such thing. A Jew is a Jew, and the soul is what makes the person Jewish, not the person's religious behavior. 7. Here is a popular myth that is sometimes asked: Jewish males wear "yarmul-kas" or kippas - it's like a skull cap or beanie. So I am not sure where this myth came from, but people often ask: "Are there really horns under that yarmulke?" 8. When a Jew is tanned he or she gets asked, "Are you that tan all the time because your people walked through the desert for 40 years?" Anyway, there are dozens more, but I picked a few that might be interesting. If you have any questions or comments about Jewish life, give us a call or stop by the Chabad House. . Wishing you all a happy, healthy and safe summer! Rabbi Levi Backman is the leader of the Western Chabad House. Students should be more aware of their consumption Thank you for the well written article about the biodegradable cups used on campus. Western has taken great efforts to encourage responsible consumption of resources. This is a big step in preventing students from having a false sense of security in using these disposable cups. While they require less energy to produce, many people are misinformed about the process in which they degrade. I hope this article inspires others to make efforts to be more aware of what they consume and perhaps consume less. For example, investing in water bottles and reusable mugs. Along with this topic, I've noticed recycle bins in most of the computer labs. One place I haven't seen them in is the AIC 306/308 computer lab. The building has many sustainable design elements, and this lab has become a popular place to study. Having a place to deposit our recy-clables would only reinforce Western's efforts to encourage responsible student consumption. Lori Humphrey Western junior TWE. ClteS OF 200°l OH XEPH, F.S.. GOOD U)CK ---------- Page 16 ---------- 16 I NEWS Friday June 5,20091 The Western Front Institute to offer credit, training for student leadership Brian Conner THE WESTERN FRONT Western will be expanding its leadership opportunities and attracting students in all areas of higher education with the creation of the Karen W. Morse Institute for Leadership that will allow students to further their leadership experiences and knowledge in an academic setting. Western Provost Dennis Murphy announced May 26 that Joseph Garcia, associate dean of Western's College of Business and Economics and director of the Center for Excellence in Management Education, will be appointed to the Bowman Distinguished Professorship in Leadership and will be the director of the new Karen W. Morse Institute for Leadership. The leadership award allows Garcia to start the formal study of leadership and provide funding for the leadership institute, Murphy said. He said the leadership institute will allow him to formally; study leadership and work toward creating courses and a recognition process for students who are involved with academic programs and would like leadership recognition or training. Garcia said the new leadership institute will provide Western students with the opportunity to get recognition for their leadership achievements through a certificate or other recognition process. He said more details about the leadership institute will become available when he formally begins his role as the director at the start of fall quarter. "The reality of today, and not just at Western, but for the world, is a need for having a balance in judgment and a need for leadership," Garcia said. "Western is full of student leadership opportunities that exist in any form." Creating a leadership institute would allow leaders involved at Western and those who are interested in leadership opportunities to get credit and formally train in a leadership course, Garcia said. Jack and Jo Ann Bowman, retired Johnson Johnson executives, donated $1 million, along with other private donors, to provide Murphy with the professorship and launch the leadership institute. "Garcia has many ideas and visions for leadership at Western," Murphy said. "Garcia has demonstrated leadership in his department and published on the subject, and he has the skills to get any project up and running." Garcia said he has looked at a number of other universities, such as the University of Oregon, to see how.they teach and recognize student leaders. He said Western has many student leaders who inspire, teach and help throughout the community, but possibly do not receive proper credit or acknowledgement for their achievements. He said Western's Vehicle Research Institute, Woodring College of Education and Huxley College of the Environment are examples of departments that consist of photo courtesy of University Communications Joseph Garcia, associate dean of Western's College of Business and Economics and director of the Cetner for Excellence in Management, will start up the Institute for Leadership. excellent student leaders. Murphy said the new institute will offer a leadership course to give students an opportunity to lead and become leaders, but said much work is still needed to create a curriculum and establish how the course will be offered. Class size and logistical details, such as how the university will offer the course, will have to be analyzed before Western can move forward and create a course, he said. Murphy said the leadership institute will hopefully attract a variety of students who want to attend Western and advance their leadership skills while formally studying leadership. Next year's Associated Students President Matt Jarrell said the concept of being involved and known as a leader can scare people and even discourage participation. He said he would not be the leader he has become if it was not for the shared knowledge and confidence the people at Western have provided him. He said Western is a perfect place to get involved with leadership because the advisers are patient, which creates a comfortable learning environment. "People think that leadership only applies to people with official titles or jobs, when really everyone is a leader in some way, shape or form," Jarrell said. "I hope a leadership course would eventually breakdown stereotypes and make leadership less taboo and more of a valuable resource." Jarrell said he believes anyone can lead, but a leader must have passion, drive and the willingness to learn. He said if a student is motivated, anything is possible. "I urge students to take initiative and look into the many leadership opportunities Western has to offer," Jarrell said. "Getting involved on campus can complement a major and create a more well-rounded experience in higher education." Shaker box dedicated to deceased professor Tiana Day THE WESTERN FRONT Approximately 15 friends and colleagues of deceased Western engineering technology professor Clyde Hackler gathered Thursday, May 28, in an engineering lab to dedicate a piece of machinery in Hackler's honor. The machine, named Clyde's Ride, was manufactured by Western senior Drew Thayer. Thayer, an Industrial Technology and Vehicle Design major, said he didn't personally know Hackler, but he wanted to practice his welding skills in" preparation to build the Viking 44, an off-road prototype vehicle, for the Society of Au-photo by Katie Greene THE WESTERN FRONT this piece of machinery made by Drew Thayer, known as a shaker box, was created in dedication of deceased Western engineering technology professor Clyde Hackler tomotive Engineering Baja racecar competition. Thayer said he decided to practice by making a shaker box, a piece of machinery engineers use to make useful aluminum parts. He said the shaker box is used to facilitate the process of pouring the liquefied metal into a mold. When the metal cools and hardens, he said it takes shape and can be used to make a part, such as a bell or golf club. Thayer said he began by collecting pieces of scrap metal from community businesses, cut them down to the sizes he needed and then welded them together to form a box. He then placed an electric motor in it, which enabled the shaker box to shake, and made sure it worked. After all the mechanical work was done, Thayer said he cleaned and painted the box so it would be ready for the dedication ceremony. "I'm proud of the final product, and instead of welding useless things it's going to benefit students," he said. "Even though I didn't know Clyde, I'm glad [the faculty] got to dedicate it to him because he sounds like a top notch professor." Thayer said he started the project fall quarter, which took a total of between 20 and 30 hours to complete, and received .help from Western seniors Erik Nickerson and John Kuplen and Western junior Ryan Hollander, who all donated a combined total of about three or four hours. Thayer said the project was a great learning experience to understand how to weld properly, and he is glad the shaker box was dedicated to Hackler. Retired Western welding professor Bob Hollingsworth, who volunteers for the engineering technology department, said the shaker box will be used to build items, such as engine blocks and large castings. He said it was appropriate to name the shaker box after Hackler because of how much Hackler loved machinery. "Every piece of his equipment was named, so now we have Clyde's Ride named for him," Hollings worth said. Hackler's friends and past coworkers held a dedication ceremony for the shaker box in recognition of his contributions to Western. After mentioning a few would put plaques on machines that held particular significance to special faculty who have retired, he said. Seal said Hackler was enthusiastic about what students were doing and consistently went beyond what was expected of him, even on occasion staying at school "Universities sometimes name rooms after people who donate large sums of money, but Hackler dedicated his life. - Michael Seal, retired employee of the engineering department words about him, they held a 30 second moment of silence. The faculty plugged in and turned on the shaker box, then had Thayer get inside for pictures and gathered around a table to eat a pizza and salad lunch together. Hollingsworth said Hackler was a great professor, an expert in his field and served as the department chairperson during part of his time at Western. He said Hackler was well respected and a friend of everyone in the department. Hollingsworth said the department has a tradition of naming its machinery after former faculty members, as a way of honoring them. "As a group we thought it was right and proper to continue [Hackler's] memory somehow," Hollingsworth said. "It's a neat tradition to recognize those folks who made a super contribution." Michael Seal, founder of the Vehicle Research Institute and a retired employee of the engineering technology department, said Hackler loved the pickup truck he owned named Ginger which bounced around whenever he drove it. Seal made the shaker box has a plaque mounted on its side which reads, "Clyde's Rides-Professor Clyde Hackler, a world class machinist, instructor and friend. 1933-2009." Often times the department until 3 or 4 a.m. supervising students so they could get projects done for their engineering competitions. "Universities sometimes name rooms after people who donate large sums of money," Seal said. "But [Hackler] dedicated his life." Stephen James, an engineering technician at Western, said he first met Hackler as a lab technician in the engineering technology department. James said Hackler was then chair of the engineering technology department at the same time former Western President Robert Ross in the mid-1980s. James said Ross had a particular interest in the department because he worked at a foundry when he was younger. James said Ross supported the department having a foundry, where metal is heated up and liquefied in a furnace to be poured into a mold to make a useful metal object. He said the technology is 3,000 to 4,000 years old and. many schools think it is outdated, but Hackler thought it still had value and worked to keep the technology at the school. James said another one of the reasons why the shaker box was named after Hackler was because he played a key role in establishing a foundry at Western. ---------- Page 17 ---------- I See more online at www.westernfrontonline.net Friday June 5,2009 I The Western Front For MMA fighter, school comes before career Andrea Williamson THE WESTERN FRONT Western senior Yancey Bagby may seem like an average college student at first. Upon digging deeper, one may learn that Bagby is actually Washington's Best Amateur Fighter in the mixed martial arts (MMA) light-heavy weight division. Last summer, Bagby won the 205 pound light-heavyweight Ax Fighting Championship. His MMA career is beginning to take off with a record of 7-0. Bagby is in the midst of training to defend his title in July for the same championship, In his previous title fight, Bagby defeated his opponent 2 minutes and 37 seconds into the first round using ah arm bar submission hold. "I love the competition; it's not like any other sport," Bagby said. "It's just two people in a cage with no excuses. You win or lose on your own merit." • Bagby is still an amateur fighter, but •he said he is considering moving up to the professional level. Bagby said the difference between amateur and- professional fighting is that pro fighters get paid for their fights while amateurs do not. The appeal of remaining amateur is to gain experience and build up a strong record so people could make more money when they do move up, he said. "Bagby has been offered a spot on professional teams a couple of times," said Shayne Simpson, one of Bagby's coaches. "The Ultimate Fighting Champion show even approached him to try out for the show recently too, but he said he needs to finish school first." Bagby's interest in martial arts came from wrestling at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane. He said he was looking for a place to continue fighting when he moved to Bellingham about five years ago, and came across Shayne Simpson's Pacific Northwest Karate Center. Bagby said he began taking kickboxing lessons, excelled in the art and decided to try some of the other martial arts offered at the gym. Bagby uses a combination of muay thai, kickboxing, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kenpo, wrestling and some boxing in his fights. "The key to combining different arts like this is in your transitions," Bagby said. "Part of my success is in my progression from a good hit to a good take down to getting a submission hold." MMA fighting is one of the fastest Photo by Rebecca Rice THE WESTERN FRONT Western senior Yancey Bagby presses Robert Stokes' face into the mat June 3, during a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class held at Shayne Simpson's Pacific Northwest Karate Center. growing sports in the world and began to emerge in the United States in the early 1990s, said John Taylor, Bagby's Brazilian jiu jitsu coach and a martial arts teacher at Western. Taylor has been coaching Bagby for about three years. Charles Pearson has been coaching MMA since 1995 and was partly respon-sounds like a thunder clap when he hits the bag." The art of muay thai is based on hits and punches using kicks, elbows and knees, Simpson said. Kenpo is more scientific and involves self defense, while jiu jitsu is similar to wrestling and deals more with moves on the ground, he said. // It's just two people in a cage with no excuses. You win or lose on your own merit. - Charles Pearson, Bagby's former coach sible for bringing the sport to Bellingham, Simpson said. Pearson coached Bagby for several months and inspired him to continue with the sport and take some actual fights, Simpson said. "Bagby has really good versatility, but his greatest strength is in his grappling jiu jitsu game because he was a wrestler," Taylor said. "Although, his powerful kicks and punches scare me sometimes. It Simpson said he has been coaching Bagby for about four years. He said Bagby is a successful MMA fighter because of his adaptable fighting techniques, focus and work ethic, he said. . Washington state amateur fighting rules forbid biting, throwing elbows, shots to the groin, throwing knees or kicking while your opponent is on the ground as well as no hits to the back of the head. Besides these rules, most anything goes, Bagby said. There are three, three-minute rounds in amateur MMA fighting. Title fights consist of five, three-minute rounds. Bagby said his favorite moves in a fight are rear naked choke holds, triangle chokes, a scissor take down, heal hook and an over hard right. "Someday, I would like to get a knock out," Bagby said. "That would be amazing." Bagby said he trains three to four times per week with his various coaches, but when he has a fight coming up, like now, training five to six times a week is not unusual. Training for a fight is a time to hone particular skills in each art and work on perfecting combinations,.he said. "Bagby .may not seem like the most polished! fighter, but/he-goes into everything with ah open mind, and that is important," Pearson said. "He is a passionate competitor, and once he is done with, school he can train even harder." Complete a WWU Course Online! 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It is uncertain when exactly Noon Ball began, but Ernie Adamson said he has been playing at Carver Gym for close to 40 years. Adamson, now 73 years old, is a retired sheet metal worker in the construction business. He said he was involved with the construction on numerous buildings on campus, such as the Environmental Studies building, the Science, Mathematics and Technology Education building and Old Main. Adamson said he has been coming to Western's campus regularly to take on players of all ages. Adamson continues to come back to exercise, but said he also enjoys the camaraderie among the players, some of which he has been playing with for many years, he said. Before the Wade King Student Recreation Center was built, students, faculty and staff played side-by-side on adjoining courts, said Butch Kamena, a Canadian studies and political science professor. 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Lately, about 15 to 20 players show up for a game, Ellis said. In 1983, the players had trouble just finding eight players, and today they often have two games going at the same time, he said. The teams are decided depending on the number of players who show up and whether they are looking for a full court or half court game, Ellis said. There is nothing organized about it, which works because everyone has his or her own schedule, he said- Like other pickup games, Ellis said it is an unwritten rule that the winning team stays on the court to play the next game. However, players usually sit out after winning two games to let the other players participate an equal amount and get some exercise, he said. Most of the players do not have passes for the rec center, and have to pay a fee to use the facility, Kamena said. 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The players use the honor system for either team to call fouls because there is no referee, Ellis said. It would be too competitive if there was a referee, he said. "Occasionally there are disagreements, but everything pretty much works itself out," Ellis said. "There have been some arguments, and they are usually about disputed calls [in which players have] traveled or fouled.". As Western's staff turns over, more new players are coming to Noon Ball, Ellis said. The younger staff and faculty are more inclined to stay in shape and have more emphasis on the physical aspect, he said. "Unfortunately for me, the age group is getting younger," Ellis said. Derrick Webb, a senior on Western's men's basketball team, sits with a basketball in his lap watching the games. He said he knows a lot of the faculty who play and enjoys watching them. .. - "It's a workout for most of them instead of going on the treadmill," Webb said. Kamena said he enjoys playing basketball, especially with the people who show up for Noon Ball. He describes it as a small community of people. "It's a great bunch of people," Kamena said. 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At 3 p.m. sharp, a bus headed for Qwest Field will leave the Archer carrying about 25 people dressed in Sounders FC colors. The trips to Sounders games were the idea of 34-year-old Todd Stauber, owner and head of the Puget Sound Soccer Academy in Bellingham. Stauber also owns a semi-professional soccer team in Bellingham, the Rapids, which are part of the Pacific Coast Soccer League. Stauber charges $85 for a ride down to Qwest Field, tickets to the Sounders game and a ride back, as part of a fundraiser he came up with to help support the Rapids. Western senior Kyle Haberly, who also helps Stauber at the soccer academy, said he plays a role as somewhat of a marketer for the fundraisers. "I put the event on Facebook to get the word out to students," Haberly said. "But I've been surprised that not that many have come yet." Stauber said he will always view the game of soccer from a player's perspective, but he loves the way local communities have embraced the Sounders. "It's been phenomenal to see everyone around Seattle especially just take it in," Stauber said. "I love it like anybody else. Having been on a team, it's cool to be on the other side as a spectator and still feel like part of a team." Stauber said he could never forget the first game he attended in Europe, but now he wants to get the rest of the community involved with soccer, too. Stauber said Ben Dragavon, a former Western goalkeeper and backup goalkeeper for the Sounders, has access to the special tickets Stauber gets. "Me and Drago (Dragavon) go way back, and we still talk. It's been awesome to see everything come full circle for him," Stauber said. Stauber said he wants to get college students involved, but it is still open to anyone. "It's really fun to get into sold out games," Stauber said. "We call ourselves the 'Mafia' [because] we get things done that we shouldn't be able to get done." At Saturday's game, the Sounders tied 1-1 against the Columbus Crew from Photo by Rhys Logan THE WESTERN FRONT From left: John Totten, Western junior Sean Conner, Todd Stauber and Western senior Kyle Haberly cheer on the Seattle Sounders on Saturday, May 30, at Qwest Field. Ohio, which was the fifth draw in their last six games. However, the Sounders slump is not getting Stauber or the bus riders down. The entire two-hour drive home was a mix of worn out sleeping Sounders fans in the front of the bus, while Stauber and a small group packed themselves in the back shoulder to shoulder dancing, jumping and belting out soccer dedicated drinking songs. "The game is about passion," Stauber said. "I want everyone to feel how I do about it." Classifieds FOR RENT SOUTHGATE CONDOS. 1,2, 3 bed units starting at $725. Assigned parking shuttle to WWU. W/S/G paid. W/D all 11 units. (360)318-4242. SOUTHS1DE RENTAL homes. 3 4 beds near WWU. Starting at $995. (360)318-4242. CYPRESS PLACE Condos. 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