Western Front - 1985 October 18

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WESTERN FRONT
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1985 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA VOL. 77, NO. 45
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JOHN ATKINSON
Karen Crabtree, Washington State Executive Director of Women Exploited
by Abortion, spoke to a crowd at a pro-life rally Wednesday by the PAC. She
related her abortion experiences at the rally, sponsored by Students for Human
Infant care
AS moves with
Infant/toddler program
moving after year delay
plan
Central American
policies criticized
By Karen Jenkins
By Liisa Hannus
The proposed infant /toddler
care program again was the topic
of a lengthy discussion before the
Associated Students Board of
Directors who took action on it
Wednesday night.
Members of the board spoke
for and against a number of
motions put forward by Vice
President for Internal Affairs
George Sidles.
Pat Carl, the author of the
feasibility study, was at Wednes­day's
meeting, and offered a few
changes to the proposals. Her
main amendment was to add
"toddler" every time "infant" is
used.
Carl asked Sidles if a tempor­ary
timeline could be incorpo­rated
into the proposals.
"The reason I didn't add a
timeline to this is that we're
already a year behind," Sidles
said. He went on to explain that
the 1983-84 board had set an
infant/toddler program as a goal
for the fall of last year.
"We've already missed our
goal," he said, "and we're strug­gling
to catch up."
Occupying a great deal of time
and discussion were the propos­als
Sidles had developed for the
board. After amending a few
points in the proposals, they
were passed by the board, read­ing
as follows:
• The A.S. Board of Directors
shall accept and distribute the
Infant Care Feasibility Study
written by Pat Carl. This report
shall serve as justification for the
guidelines toward the establish­ment
of infant/toddler care at
Western.
• The A.S. Board of Directors
shall renew its goal of expanded
child care services at Western to
include the establishment of
infant/toddler services.
• The A.S. Board of Directors
shall appeal to Western's Board
of Trustees to remember and
maintain its pledges to help fund
the A.S. Day care. Further, the
A.S. Board of Directors shall
urge the University's Board of
Trustees to reinforce and sup­port
collective, campus efforts
toward the establishment of
infant/toddler care at Western,
taking into account the needs
• See AS, p. 12
The lecture was billed as
"Nicaragua: Prospects for
Peace." But the title was a mis­nomer,
said the speaker, Jim
Bradford.
"That name really doesn't fit.
At the moment I don't see any
prospects for peace," Bradford
said, addressing an audience in
the Library Presentation Room
Wednesday afternoon.
Bradford is the director of the
Honduran Office of the Unitar­ian
Universalist Service Com­mittee,
an organization that has
been arranging bi-partisan, fact­finding
delegations to Central
America since 1978.
The purpose of the trips is to
"expose these people to the
thorny issues so they can go
home and at least mull them
over," said Bradford, who led
two congressional delegations to
Central America in August.
The "thorny issues" are the
effects of the United States'poli­cies
in Central America.
He criticized U.S. support of
opposition to Nicaragua's San-dinista
regime, which he called
"the best government in Central
America."
But he admitted the Sandi-nista
government, which recently
imposed martial law, is repres­sive
and that "some of the things
I've seen them do make me
nervous."
"We as an organization feel we
can be a friend and still criticize."
He said if the U.S.-backed.
Contras came into power it
would be "turning back the clock
on social reform."
And he blamed the war in
Nicaragua for the Sandinistas'
"heavy-handedness."
Stopping the war would allow
the government, which currently
spends 60 percent of its budget
on the military, to concentrate
on social reforms, Bradford said.