Western Front - 1982 November 19

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He hates
being old
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'Orpheus'
opens its run
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Western Washington University
Friday, November 19, 1982
Vol. 74, No. 58
PHOTO BY DAVE JACK
Cleaver joins the right
Panther-turned-hawk denounces communism
By DON JENKINS
Eldridge Cleaver Thursday afternoon
found it almost as controversial to
denounce communism and call for a
strong national defense, as it was to be an
avowed Marxist dedicated to the violent
overthrow of the United States government
in the 1960s.
During his speech in Arntzen Hall 100,
Cleaver engaged in a shouting match with
a person in the audience who accused
Cleaver of "participating in ideological
wars."
The overflow crowd, some of whom sat
in the aisles, reacted by shouting down the
person in the audience.
Cleaver reacted by flashing the peace
sign with both hands and sarcastically ask­ing,
"What does it mean, peace, peace,
peace?
"Your ideology is very convenient for the
Warsaw pact countries," Cleaver said to
the man, who questioned his call for Amer­ica
to have a strong defense to stop the
spread of communism across the world.
Cleaver said the United States must be
strong enough to deter Soviet agression
and "obliterate" the Soviets if necessary.
This comment drew applause and some
boos.
In 1968, Cleaver fled to Cuba to avoid
going to jail. He came back to the United
States in 1975 a changed man.
During his years in exile, he went on an
extensive fact-finding tour of many com­munist
countries. He came back espous­ing
the virtues of the radical ideas of the
American Declaration of Independence,
rather than the radical ideas of the Com­munist
Manifesto.
He said he studied the communist sys­tem
in practice and found communist dic­tatorship
to "stink."
Cleaver said that after contact with
police departments in communist coun­tries,
"I began to miss the Oakland Police
Department."
The former Black Panther was involved
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No safety
for majors if
programs cut
By ELAYNE ANDERSON
Some students could have their degree
•programs pulled out from under them
before they graduate after the Academic
Review Committee completes its work.
The reason: Western has no legal obliga­tion
to allow students to graduate from a
program if that program is going to be
eliminated, Acting University President
James Talbot said.
It's also possible that some programs
will cease to exist. The Academic Review
Committee is charged with reviewing pro­grams
for possible consolidation, reduc­tion,
enhancement or elimination. Talbot
said only one quarter's notice legally must
be given to students before a program is
cut.
"Our legal obligation is to help students
in finding alternatives," he said.
Talbot said a highly technical program
slated for elimination, however, would
need to be kept open for three years.
But a liberal arts major is easier to
change, he said. Using the English
department as an example, he said an Eng­lish
major could transfer to a similar
department at Western.
"We would have to evaluate case by
case," Talbot said. "Were not there, yet."
' Associated Students President Mark
Murphy said that although he felt sure
Western had some sort of obligation to
allow students to finish in a programi he
said he wasn't sure it was a legal one.
"I've ahvay understood that any student
who registered according to a catalog has
entered into a contract, as long as that
catalog is in effect," Murphy said. New
catalogs will be issued next fall, he
noted.
Murphy predicted if students were
stranded by programs that were elimi­nated,
"we may see lawsuits by individuals
and student organiztions.
"Were this to happen," Murphy said,
"the AS would have to back the student.
I'm not saying we would sue (Western)."
Western proposals shot down
at WSL's Pullman meeting
By ERIC DANIELSON
PULLMAN—After driving for"
seven hours to reach last Sun­day's
meeting, Western's
Washington Student Lobby
representatives were blocked
from taking their seats on the
state board. Instead, the WSL
incorporators, comprising the
state's Associated Students pres­idents,
made all the decisions.
Every school except Western
was represented only by AS offic­ers.
Washington State University,
the host school, and the Univer­sity
of Washington had elected
their boards prior to the meeting.
"The incorporators can do all
the business for today," Donna
Christensen, ASUW president
said.
Complaints from Western stu­dents
were told that it didn't mat­ter
what decisions incorporators
made because local boards could
change them with a two-thirds
vote at the next state meeting.
Toward the end of the meeting,
Western's frustrated representa­tives
let loose their pent-up
feelings.
. "All the people making deci­sions
here today are AS presi­dents.
It is important for WSL to
For related story, see page 6.
be disassociated from the Asso­ciated
Students," Western board
member Dan Pike said.
"We should have been seated _
today," Darcy Roenfeldt, West­ern's
WSL board chairman, said.
Western's local board now will
be unable to make a budget or
spend money until the next meet­ing
in Ellensburg Dec. 5, Roen­feldt
said.
"Every time we brought up a-proposal
it was shot down. Both
WSU and the UW discouraged
their local boards from coming,"
Roenfeldt said. She said that
"meetings run by the AS presi­dents
could lead to problems
with the separation of Associated
Students and WSL."
Difficulty in prying the WSL
loose from Associated Students
control resurfaced during the
meeting when WSU announced a
controversial clause in its fee col­lection
contract with its adminis­trators.
The clause states that
WSU's Associated Students can
dissolve the university's partici­pation
in the WSL at any time,
with 90 days notice.
Western AS President Mark
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Some students
will get tuition
refund of $5
Students who have pre-registered forwinter quarter may get a$5
refund.
A $5 levy on health services was approved by the Board of
Trustees in August to compensate for budget cutbacks. The charge
only was for fall quarter, but could be added winter and spring
quarters if further reductions became necessary, said Thomas
Quinlan, vice president of student affairs.
Since additional cuts weren't made, the extra $5 health service
charge wasn't supposed to be tacked on the tuition fees for next
quarter.
"It was just one of those computer things," Quinlan said. "Once it
was put into the computer it didn't get taken out in time."
Students will be notified if they are to receive a refund. Students
who have registered, but haven't paid tuition will have the $5
deducted, Quinlan said.
Quinlan said because not all students who have registered have
paid tuition, he didn't know the total amount of money to be
refunded.
Health Services Director Evelyn Schuler said she was unaware of
the mix-up.