Western Front - 1985 April 26

              Pechthalt lifts
for power,
not physique
/5
Bar crew serves
balloons and
brew Thursdays
/6.
WESTERN FRONT
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1985 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA VOL. 77, NO. 23
AS Board accepts, rejects referendums
Cash or
charge?
By Christine Valdez
Students may have the cash-or-
charge option to pay tuition if
they vote for a credit card refer­endum
on the Associated Stu­dents
elections ballot.
They also can say whether they
want to pay tuition in monthly
installments.
At its meeting Wednesday, the
board approved six referendums
to appear on the ballot Mav 7
and 8.
A referendum provides stu­dent
opinion on the issues but is
not binding, Vice President for
Activities Terri Echelbarger said.
The daycare initiative, started
by AS Business Manager Mark
Earle and Vice President for
Internal Affairs Eric Clem, also
will appear on the ballot. The
initiative asks students if they
think the AS should continue
funding daycare.
The students also will be asked
whether they want the Washing­ton
Student Lobby to continue
to operate at Western.
AS President Majken Ryherd
said WSL must be re-authorized
every three years. This is the
third year.
Also appearing on the ballot is
a referendum suggested by Tim
Baker of the Peace Resource
Center. If passed, it will recom­mend
Health Services stock cya­nide
tablets to be distributed in
the event of a nuclear war.
The sixth referendum, sug­gested
by Janette Vickery, will
ask students if they prefer West­ern's
current official seal,
with George Washington, or the
anniversary seal, which displays
Old Main.
Candidates
Running for president are,
BHKBHHHHHHHi
Three students from a visual communication class staged a mock
sacrifice to the god of Fisher Fountain as part of their film project.
Vice-President for External
Affairs Jeff Doyle and Owner of
the University Notetaking Ser­vice,
John Warnick.
Vice President for Academic
Affairs George Sidles and Kitty
Brougham are running for vice
president for internal affairs.
Vickery has filed to run for
vice president for academic
affairs.
The vice president for external
affairs position attracted the
most applicants: Robert Chamb-lee,
Dana Wilson and Brett
VandenBrink.
Echelbarger is running for re­election
to the vice president for
activities position.
Arnie Klaus and Ron Morris
have filed to run for
secretary/ treasurer.
Filed to run for director-at-lafge
for communications are
Kris Skewis and J. Andrew
Heppner.
Sheryl McCracken and Mich1!
Prentice are running for at-large
representative to university
residences.
Running for at-large repre­sentative
to university services
council is Doug Holmstrom.
Escort yes,
song maybe
By Karen Jenkins
The Associated Students will
continue funding the escort ser­vice
for at least one more year,
but on a modified schedule.
The AS Board voted Wednes­day
not to include a referendum
on the ballot asking if the AS
should continue paying for the
service.
Earlier this quarter, the board
voted to offer the service fewer
hours next year, thus reducing its
cost. Next year, the rides will be
offered from 8 p.m. to midnight
fall quarter, 7 p.m. to midnight
winter quarter and 9 p.m. to
midnight spring quarter, Sunday
through Thursday.
The funding for next year's
service tentatively is set at
$2,700, $300 less than this year's
allotment and $ 1,000 less than its
original budget request.
On Tuesday, the AS Budget
Committee approved its initial
funding recommendations for all
AS programs, including the
escort service.
Next week, it will hear from
organizations that wish to appeal
the recommendations before the
AS Board votes on them.
In other AS business, the
board voted not to put a referen­dum
on the ballot suggesting
"Louie, Louie" should be West­ern's
school song. But the idea
isn't dead yet.
The board will further discuss
the idea of a school song at next
Wednesday's meeting. AS Board
member George Sidles has prom­ised
to play a tape of "Louie,
Louie" at the meeting.
Sidles said he had mixed feel­ings
about the issue.
He expressed concern over
what he calls a "void that exists
at Western" because the univer­sity
has no official song.
But he also cautioned that by
making "Louie, Louie" the
school song "we might impede
the momentum moving forward
toward making "Louie, Louie"
the state song."
One option the board may
consider would be to choose
another song, Sidles said.
S&Afee split...
Who gets what they want?
By Liisa Hannus
The Associated Students got
what it wanted. Housing and
Dining said it could "get by" by
taking a decrease, so they did.
The only one left out in the cold
was Departmentally Related
Activities Committee (DRAC),
which was budgeted almost
$45,000 less than what it asked
for.
These three areas all are under
the control of Service and Activi­ties
(S&A). Next year, S&A fees
will increase 4 percent over cur­rent
levels if the Board of Trus­tees
accepts the S&A Fee-Split
Committee's recommendations.
To each student, a 4 percent
increase would mean paying an
additional $2.51 per quarter, on
top of the $62.76 students
already pay each quarter. These
fees are calculated into tuition
payments.
The committee presented a
report and its recommendations
at an open yearing Tuesday, with
about 40 people in attendance.
The recommendations presented
at the hearing may or m.ay not be
the ones eventually presented to
the trustees.
The monies collected from
S&A fees are divided between
the three constituencies menti­oned.
In the proposed recom­mendation,
Housing and Dining
will take a decrease of aproxi-mately
$7,000. Keith Guy, direc­tor
of University Residences,
said that his area could take a
decrease.
The amount of money Hous­ing
and Dining currently receives
from S&A fees is $748,775 for
the academic year.
The AS is to receive a pro­posed
6.97 percent increase,
which would give it an additional
$29,877. The AS currently
receives $428,525 for the aca­demic
year. The increase is close
to the $36,000 the AS asked for.
In the proposed recommenda­tions,
DRAC will receive a 10.98
percent increase, which would
give it $38,198 on top of the
$347,700 it already receives.
DRAC requested an increase of
approximately $83,000.
According to the report pres­ented
by Joan Sherwood, vice
president for Student Affairs and
the chairwoman of the fee-split
committee, the committee
decided in early January to limit
the increase to 5 percent over
current levels. The AS Board
voted to limit the increase to 4
percent. The report goes on to
say that Housing and Dining did
not recommend a limit, but
communicated support for "not
allowing the increase to be at
maximum levels and keeping the
increase as low as possible given
budget needs and priorities."
Members of the committee
represent the three constituen­cies
under S&A control. At the
hearing, they briefly discussed
how their areas will be benefitted
and affected by the increase.
Majken Ryherd, AS Presi­dent,
discussed how the increase
will help to pay for faculty course
evaluations, postage, telephone
bills and to make up the differ­ence
for the escort service being
underfunded last year.
Terri Echelbarger, AS Vice
President for Activities, attended
the hearing. She presented a long
computer printout that listed the
activities the AS has scheduled
so far this quarter. She talked
about the correlation between
students who participate and
those who don't, saying that
those who don't have a tendency
• See FEE SPLIT, p. 12
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ing to a student who said she was late to class because she was