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WESTERN FRONT
V-> FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1985 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA VOL. 77, NO. 53
Board approves
legislative agenda
AS proposals
voice concerns
By Liisa Hannus
Protecting the rights to hous­ing
and employment of people
who test positive with the AIDS
antibody is one of the proposals
supported by the Associated
Students Board of Directors in
the 1985-86 Legislative Agenda.
The proposal comes under the
topic of gay rights, one of seven
topics in the agenda, compiled
and submitted by Yvonne Ward,
AS legislative affairs liaison. The
board approved the agenda,
minus an eighth topic on
women's issues that it wants to
look at more closely.
The agenda was put together
to convey the priorities of the
board to legislators in Olympia.
It is intended to be a statement
voicing student concerns,
addressing the issues that affect
Western students and their
education.
The other topics on the agenda
are Services and Activities fees,
academic quality of higher edu­cation,
governance (student
representation at all levels),
access (to a full education), anti-apartheid
and minorities.
George Sidles, vice president
for internal affairs, put forth the
motion to approve the agenda.
He excluded the topic of
women's affairs because, he said,
some of the subtopics had not
been formally addressed by the
board. He noted the subtopics of
comparable worth and child
care.
The board will review the
women's issues section of the
agenda and will bring it up at
next week's board meeting.
In other AS business:
Randy Hansen, coordinator
of the Veterans Outreach Center,
asked the board for program
status within the AS. The VOC
currently is classified as ah AS
club.
To qualify as a club, five peo­ple
must show interest in the
idea. The VOC wishes to become
a program so veterans will be
assured that an outreach pro­gram
always will be at Western
for them.
The only other facility for
veterans is Veterans' Affairs
Information, which is run out of
Registrar Eugene Gmey's office.
The VAI is contracted by the
Veterans Administration, a fed­eral
organization. The VAI is
contracted by law to provide a
place for veterans to go to receive
enrollment certification and pay
certification, Hansen said.
"They are contracted to do
that and that is all they do," he
said.
Paying the wages of VOC staff
would not be a responsibility of
the AS, Hansen said, explaining
that last year, 4,000 work-study
hours were put to use at the
VOC. The wages of the work-study
students are paid by the
Veterans Administration.
Hansen also is a work study
student.
AS Secretary/Treasurer Ron
Morris said he has "been very
impressed with the Veterans
Outreach Center" in regard to
events, programs and fund-raising
on campus. "Will this
continue if you have program
status?" he asked Hansen.
"I like the idea of fund-raising,"
Hansen said, adding
that it enables the VOC to have
money to use as it wants. He told
Morris there would be a minimal
need for AS money.
The board will take action on
the VOC's request next week.
TV film highlights
awareness week
By Mary Barouh
"An Early Frost," the NBC
drama aired Monday night,
helped underscore issues for
AIDS Awareness Week at
Western.
The film focused on a homo­sexual
young man, the revelation
of his sexual preference to his
family, the diagnosis that he had
contracted AIDS and the ensu­ing
effects on his career and his
relationships.
Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease
caused by a virus. AIDS dam­ages
the body's immune system,
resulting in infections and
cancers that usually would not
pose a threat to healthy people.
As part of AIDS Awareness
Week, the T.V. drama played in
the Campus Christian Ministry
Lounge with a discussion
afterwards.
• see AIDS, p. 3
Gwendolyn, a spotted porker, is one of the three pigs which have escaped a few times
from their home at the Outback. Not even hog-fencing nor electric fencing have
discouraged the pigs from running free. All three pigs are, at present, safely fenced in.