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WESTERN FRONT
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1985 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA VOL. 77, NO. 31
Campaign expenditure complaint.. .
AS decides Doyle didn't overspend
By Christine Valdez
The Associated Students
Board of Directors Wednesday
agreed with the Election Board
that AS President-elect Jeff
Doyle's campaign expenditures
did not exceed the $60 limit dur­ing
the AS elections earlier this
month.
JEFF DOYLE
But the Election Board also
presented a list of amendments
to next year's election code that if
adopted would answer some of
the questions raised in this year's
election, Election Chairwoman
Teri Johnson said.
The questions began last week
after John Warnick, former AS
presidential candidate, filed a
complaint against Doyle. War-nick
maintained, that Doyle
exceeded the limit because
Director—at—Large for Com­munications
Dana Grant pur­chased
leaflets with his own
money.
Warnick said he appealed the
Election Board's ruling because,
"They neglected the fact that this
is a donated good. Dana donated
it,for Jeff's campaign."
Johnson said the Election
Board decided the cost of the lea­flets
was not included in the
expenditures because Day'? said
he did not authorize or consent
to them.
Grant said "There's a loophole
but, there's no way the election
board can regulate the actions of
8,000 students."
In 1984, an Election Code
Revision Committee was formed
to decide a policy about cam­paign
expenditures. At that time
it was decided that candidates
should file a financial statement,
which would include receipts for
all campaign expenditures.
The code states, "Campaign
expenditures, shall include
expenses initiated, authorized or
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meeting Wednesday after Election Board Chairwoman Teri
Johnson mistakenly said it was voted not to put Penthouse
consented to by the candidate.
This includes the value of
donated goods and services
offered as campaign handouts in
the candidate's name."
Then Vice President for Inter­nal
Affairs Bruce Keith, who was
a member of the committee,
attended the AS Board meeting
Wednesday, but said he was not
speaking for either side.
"I think two points were
addressed by the motion. It was
to prevent people from sabotag­ing
another's campaign. And to
keep the candidate from being
harmed by enthusiastic wayward
supporters."
Doyle said, "I don't under­stand
how I can be held accoun­table
for that when I didn't vio­late
the election code."
Warnick also maintained that
Doyle should be accountable
because his campaign manager,
AS President Majken Ryherd,
knew about Grant's idea before
he printed the leaflets.
. Warnick cited.the definition of
an agency relationship according
to common law under which
Doyle would be liable for
Ryherd's actions because
Ryherd was acting in Doyle's
behalf.
Because the AS Election Code
mentions only candidates and
not campaign managers, John­son
said the Election Board did
not agree with that argument.
The AS Board decided to vote
only whether to grant Warnick
his appeal or uphold the Election
Board's decision as a whole.
Before voting on the motion,
Vice President for Academic
Affairs George Sidles said, "I
agree with John (Warnick) that
some sneaky and nasty stuff did
go on here. But I'm voting for the
motion because the appeal deals
with election code, and the Elec­tion
Board has made it's inter­pretation."
Warnick said he thought the
AS Board should not have
decided the appeal because the
people on the board are biased.
"Everyone but Eric (Clem)
worked on Jeff's campaign,"
Warnick said.
Arnie Klaus, former candidate
for secretary/treasurer, said he
didn't think the Election Board
or the AS Board should have
decided Warnick's complaint.
"They are biased. Members of
the Election Board are Majken's
roommates. I think another
committee should decide on
this," Klaus said.
Johnson said she'd "recruited"
her roommates because she
couldn't find anyone else.
"Before the election, Majken and
I agreed I wouldn't talk to her
about Election Board stuff and
JOHN WARNICK
she wouldn't talk to me about
campaigning stuff."
When discussion ended, Sec­retary/
Treasurer Yvonne Ward
requested a roll-call vote on
whether the AS Board should
uphold the Election Board's
decision.
Doyle abstained from the vot­ing,
At-Large Representative for
University Residences Ruth
Norton was absent, and Ryherd
did not vote.
Voting "yes" were Ward,
• See APPEAL, p. 3
Education budget. . .
Negotiations continuing
By Kathy Abbott
The dinosaur of democracy is
twitching its tail as a team of
negotiators from the Legislature
start working on a budget accep­table
to both houses.
W&5|ern> legislative liaison* Al
LEGISLATURE
Froderberg said the House
version gives a higher biennial
appropriation to Western—
$77,169,000 compared to the
Senate's appropriation of
$76,426,000.
"The House also addressed the
discrepancy between allocations
for Western, Central and East­ern,"
he said. "There is a line item
in the House version that tries to
bring equity to the situation,
whereas the Senate version
doesn't address the problem
directly.
"The drawback to the House's
version is the spending restric­tions
it includes. The Senate
appropriates less money but
gives the universities more con­trol
where the money will go."
Froderberg said in the House
version it would be difficult to
move money from the mainte­nance
account into the academic
account, if that was where the
money was most needed.
He said little is for certain,
including the starting date for the
special session. If could be June
10 or June 17, he said.
To help out during this time of
budget cuts, some students have
organized a bake sale. Froder­berg
said Sen. H.A. "Barney"
Goltz will attend the June 4 sale,
which will take place from noon
to 2 p.m. in Red Square. Other
legislators may attend the sale as
well.
Bob Haase, spokesman for
"Better Awareness Against Kuts
in Education" (BAKE), said the
money from the bake sale will be
given to the Western Foundation.
"If we give it directly to the
school then the state takes a large
percentage in taxes," he said.
The goal of the students is to
raise $3.2 million to help close
the gap between the state's
appropriations for Central,
Eastern and Western, Haase
said.
He said they have organized
three speakers for the bake sale:
Sen. Goltz, Rep. Dennis Brad-dock
and Bellingham Mayor
Tim Douglas.
"We are trying to get the gov­ernor
to attend, but haven't
heard anything from his office,"
he said.
Goods for the bake sale will be
contributed from 15 Bellingham-area
merchants, Haase said.
"The merchants see that if
Western suffers because of
budget cuts their businesses will
suffer," he said. "Our funds have
been cut back a lot and the stu­dents
are the ones who are
suffering."
Western's Controller Don
Sturgill said the state doesn't
take taxes from gifts to the
university.
"We encourage people to give
their donations to the Western
Foundation because they are set
up to receive gifts and we are
not," Sturgill said.
He said people may give dona­tions
to the foundation in one of
two classes.
"People can designate where
they want the money to be spent,
for scholarships or in a specific
program: This is the restricted
fund," he said. "The unrestricted
fund allows the foundation to
designate where the money will
go."