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The Western Front
VOL. 78, NO. 13 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1986
Right-wing leader visits Lynden
Protesters may greet speaker
A rioted conservative who
worked to defeat the Equal
Rights Amendment will be in the
Bellingham area today.
Phyllis Schlafly, president of
the right-wing Eagle Forum
which recently sent "care pack­ages"
to the Contras in Nicara­gua,
will speak at 8 p.m. at the
Lynden fairgrounds. Schlafly is
scheduled to speak on education
and family issues.
She also will speak at a press
conference at 3 p.m. at the Bel­lingham
Bay Center.
Schlafly is known for her
stance on sex education in public
schools. In a recent magazine
article she protested the dispens­ing
of contraceptives in public
high shcools.
"The promoters of contracep­tive
centers for children are
imposing peculiar concepts on a
captive audience, namely, that
promiscuity is a good but preg­nancy
bad. They are saying,
'Step right up, little girl, and get
your contraceptives here; have
fun with your sex partner; the
only thing that's wrong is having
a baby,'" Schlafly said in the
article.
Some students have said they
will protest Schlafly's appear­ance
in Lynden.
Housing toughens
weapons policy
Revision bans
car storage
By Jackie Soler
associate news editor
Campus housing residents will
be prohibited from keeping any
weapons in their rooms or cars
next year, due to a revision in
Western's weapons policy.
The purpose of the change was
to make the policy more inclu­sive
of new weapons housing
staff members have seen being
brought into the dorms, Nash
Ha}l Resident Director Kerry
Krueger said.
Machetes,- Chinese throwing
stars, BB guns and nunchakus
have been seen in increasing
numbers in the dorms, she said.
The policy revision includes
prohibiting residents from keep­ing
weapons "in or around uni­versity
residential facilities" such
as dining halls and parking lots.
Otherwise, "students would keep
sawed-off guns in their cars,"
Krueger said.
Students with weapons will be
required to store them at the pub­lic
safety office, according to the
policy.
Director of University Resi­dences
Keith Guy said the inten­tion
of the clarified policy.is "to
protect people in a high-density
area from dangerous accidents"
involving weapons.
Committee member Tony
Sailer asked if the new policy vio­lated
the U.S. Constitutional
amendment prohibiting the right
to bear arms.
Guy answered, "We're taking
the ambiguity out of the current
policy. We're not limiting stu­dents
access to their weapons."
Public safety isopen 24 hours a
day, he emphasized.
The revision was approved
Tuesday by the Committee on
Housing and Dining.
The new weapons policy,
effective this fall, is: "Conduct
which endangers the safety of the
residential community is prohib­ited.
For this reason, no resident
shall have in his/her possession
any firearm (including BB guns
and pellet guns), explosive, dan­gerous
chemical or other dan­gerous
weapon in or around uni­versity
residential facilities.
Firearms may be stored free of
charge, at the Department of
Public Safety, and are accessible
24 hours a day."
Krueger and Assistant Direc­tor
of Residence Life Kay Rich
requested a weapons policy
change because "weapons are
threatening to others even if
they're not used," Rich said.
"If a (resident adviser) sees a
student with, say a rifle hanging
on the wall, he or she will ask that
the weapon be removed imme­diately
and kept at the public
safety office," Rich said.
Disciplinary action will be
taken if weapons are used, she
said. Students will meet with the
residences hall director, and will
• See WEAPONS, p. 2
Sci-fi sex film critics
will distribute flyers
By David Wasson
managing editor
A leading critic of plans to
show the sexually explicit cult
film "Flesh Gordon" here next
month said he has decided to try
discouraging other protesters
from picketing the film.
Instead, pornography-infor­mation
flyers will greet movie­goers
as they enter Lecture Hall
4, where the film is to be shown.
The flyers will ask viewers to
analyze the manner in which
women are depicted in the film,
Associated Students Men's
Resource Center Coordinator
S o r e n • R y h e r d s a id
Wednesday.
Ryherd and AS Women's
Center Assistant Coordinator
Tami Breckenridge will compile
the flyer and submit it to AS
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Club members for approval, he
said. SFFC is sponsoring the
three campus showings of "Flesh
Gordon" March 14.
Ryherd said "Flesh Gordon"
violently depicts women as sex
objects under the control of
men's desires. He hopes the flyers
will cause people to examine the
societal acceptance of the way
women are portrayed in the
movie.
Ryherd announced the flyer
distribution campaign Wednes­day
evening during a radio
debate on KUGS-FM.
"Flesh Gordon" was rated X in
1975 when it was released. SFFC
Special Events Coordinator
Shawn Connor, however, said
the group has ordered the R-rated
version.
Ryherd and Connor said they
haven't seen the R-rated version
and are unaware of which scenes
• See FLESH, p. 2