Western Front - 1985 May 17

              WESTERN FRONT
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1985 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA VOL. 77, NO. 29
Voters say 'yes' but...
Referendums need final confirmation
By Christine Valdez
Although they said "yes" to
installment tuition payments and
paying with credit cards, before
the students get these options a
final affirmative is needed from
the Board of Trustees.
This also goes for the official
seal being changed from George
An overwhelming 87 percent
of the voters said they want the
option to pay their tuition in
installments.
Before the students even con­sidered
the referendum, the
Legislature had adopted a bill
allowing students the same thing,
said AS President for External
Affairs Jeff Doyle.
Western Controller Don
Sturgill said the bill was not put
tuition over July, August and
September. Winter and spring
quarter tuitions would have to be
paid during the preceding
quarters.
Assistant Attorney General
Wendy Bohlke said paying the
installments for tuition during
the same quarter is illegal
because "theoretically, you're
receiving something before you
pay for it."
bill honoring credit cards issued
by any bank in Washington.
The problem is, Bohlke said,
Western can't pay the surcharge if
a bank requires it for servicing
the credit card receipts, and
Western can't charge the stu­dents
the extra percentage, she said,
"The trick is to not require the
state to pay for the student,"
Bohlke said.
Business and Financial Affairs
Washington to Old Main, and
"Louie, Louie" becoming the
official school song.
The only sure thing is the deci­sion
by the Associated'Students
Board of Directors to send a let­ter
to George Elliott, AS Co-op
Bdokstore manager, instructing
him to order the next issue of
Penthouse magazine. AS Presi­dent
Majken Ryherd said the let­ter
will be sent after the election
results are ratified Wednesday at
the next AS Board meeting.
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into effect because the Washing­ton
Constitution forbids the
state from extending credit.
If the referendum were
enacted, Sturgill said, students
would have to pay fall quarter
Doyle said he thinks the instal­lment
plan may be initiated for
next fall, although the AS hasn't
received an implementation
date.
The Legislature also passed a
Vice President Don Cole said the
only way he could see the credit-card
plan being started would be
if the Legislature passed a consti­tutional
amendment allowing
Western to pay the surcharge.
He said both the tuition-installment
and credit-card plans
would be expensive for Western
because of the increased
bookkeeping.
Changing the official seal will
require approval by the Board of
Trustees. Jan Vickery said she
will distribute a questionnaire to'
the faculty and administration to
get their opinion whether to
change to the Old Main seal.
"If we bring 94 percent of the
faculty like the 94 percent of the
students who voted for it (the
referendum) and say, 'see, this is
what they want,' they should be
responsive," Vickery said.
The decision whether to name
"Louie, Louie" the official
school song also may rest on the
trustees. Board of Trustees
member Craig Cole said that, to
him, the students already made
the decision.
"I congratulate the students on
their wise decision," Cole said.
He actively advocated making
"Louie, Louie" the state song.
AS adviser Jack Smith said
the AS board could declare the
song the AS school song. The
trustees or Western President G.
Robert Ross would have to name
the song the official school song,
however.
Asked if he would push the
referendum to the trustees next
year, AS President-Elect Jeff
Doyle said, "If there were people
that wanted us (the AS) to, I
think we would."
Senate approves
Fairhaven plan
By Elizabeth Parker
In a close vote Monday, the
Faculty Senate recommended
approval of the University Plan­ning
Council's proposed three-year
contingency plan that
would eliminate Fairhaven Col­lege
in event of a $1.5 million
budget cut.
"It seems like cutting Fair­haven
certainly brings out the
full house," Senator Rand Jack
of Fairhaven said to the crowded
room of senators and spectators.
The vote to approve the con­tingency
plan passed 15-10, with
five senators abstaining.
The senate's recommendation
now goes to Vice President for
Academic Affairs Paul Ford for
approval. He must present any
objections he has in writing to
the Faculty Senate which must
negotiate the differences before
Ford can recommend approval.
"1 want to study it. I don't plan
to do anything yet," Ford said.
"It's a serious matter and it
deserves some attention."
Western President G. Robert
Ross then will make a recom­mendation
and send it to the
Board of Trustees for approval.
"I haven't given it (the contin­gency
plan) much thought.
There's really no compelling rea­son
to. This is something the
Faculty Senate and Planning
Council are required to do each
year," Ross said. "My position is
well known. I told the Front two
years ago I didn't come here to
take action to eliminate
Fairhaven."
Jack asked Planning Council
member Erwin Mayer, who
helped draft the contingency
plan, whether other programs
within the university had been
considered for cuts.
Mayer said the council did not
want to begin suggesting cuts
below the college level.
"It runs contrary to our objec­tive
(to suggest such cuts),"
Mayer said.
Jack asked Mayer if the coun­cil
was aware that other' areas
were less cost-effective than
Fairhaven.
Mayer said he was aware that
other colleges were less affected,
by the plan.
"We didn't discuss other pro­grams,
but we did discuss the
number of faculty each had
available," Mayer said.
Senator Robert Thorndike of
the psychology department said
he was concerned about educa-
• See SENATE, p. 12
Board approves budget. . .
Films funded, recycling not
By Karen Jenkins
On-camp-us movie-goers may
be offered fewer movies or
charged higher prices next year,
even though the Associated Stu­dents
will subsidize the films for
the first time.
Wednesday, the AS Board of
directors approved next year's
budget, including $1,000 for the
Program Commission film ser­ies.
The AS decided to begin sub­sidizing
the series because it has
been running a deficit in previous
years.
PC Coordinator Shannon
Wilcox told the board the $ 1,000
may not be enough for the PC to
continue offering its current level
of service.
"We're looking at big prob­lems
right here, and $1,000 isn't
going to take them very far,"
Wilcox said.
Wilcox and members of the
board discussed options, such as
raising the price of the movies or
offering them only twice a week.
AS board member George
Sidles said the-board should not
discuss how the PC will solve its
budgeting problems.
"I don't want to be giving pro­gramming
suggestions to people
we pay to do the programming,"
Sidles said.
The board also voted to take
$5,000 originally budgeted for
the Recycling Center and put it
into a discretionary account,
where the board puts its unbud-geted
money. The Recycling
Center Task Force has been talk­ing
with the administration
about the possibility of it taking
over funding for the center.
If the administration decides
not to fund the center, the money
can be taken out of the discre­tionary
account to pay for it.
Also at the meeting, Vice Pres­ident
for Student Affairs Joan
Sherwood announced that
summer quarter students will
pay a health services fee, for the
first time, this year. The fee will
be $6," the same amount students
pay per quarter during the aca­demic
school year.
Sherwood said the fee will
reduce the service's $38,000
deficit by about"$ 12,000.
She said the fee is fair since
currently "the students in the
academic year are subsidizing
the students who are here for the
summer, and I've never felt that
was right."
AS Board Member Terri
Echelbarger objected to the fee
being decided on without con­sulting
students.
"It really disturbs me now that
we have a health service that is
completely funded by students
and the students have no say in
how it is run.
"We're paying for it and you're
deciding, and that really disturbs
me," she added.
In other AS business, the
board voted to recommend
establishing a polling place on
campus for general elections.
Ryherd will begin working with
Whatcom County Deputy Audi­tor
Pete Griffith on bringing a
polling place to Western.
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