Western Front - 1988 November 18

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VOL. 80, NO. 57 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA
Football coach loses job
'Time for a change'
By Herb Reich
of The Western Front
Head football coach Paul Hansen's contract will
not be renewed, and the search is on for a replacement
for the 1989 season.
The decision, made by Director of Athletics Lynda
Goodrich, was announced Wednesday.
"Li coaching you're constantly evaluated," Goodrich
said. "We just decided it was time for a change."
The decision to look for a new coach is part of
Western's commitment to excellence in athletics,
Goodrich said.
"It has more to do with where we want to go,"
Goodrich said.
Goodrich did not give specific reasons why Hansen's
contract will not be renewed.
Hansen issued a prepared statement Wednesday
afternoon.
"First, I would like to thank the assistant coaches,
players, university peers and wonderful people in the
community, who have given me tremendous support
for the past six years," Hansen stated. "I will miss the
players and all of those associated with the football
program. The groundwork has been established and I
am pleased with the teams' potential for the future."
Hansen was unavailable for any further com­ments.
The "change" is part of Goodrich's overall plan of
taking Western athletics to the top.
"We're totally committed to bringing the football
program to the championship level," Goodrich said.
"I did not come in with any pre-conceived no­tions,"
she added. "But, there are on-going evalu­ations,
and that means sometimes making hard deci­sions,
sometimes unpopular."
"I've been here for 18 years and I'm a graduate,"
Goodrich said. "I'm here to make decisions for this
university for the long run."
Telephone calls are pouring in from potential
coaches to fill the vacancy.
"I have already received numerous calls from
potential applicants and advice from others on who to
pick," Goodrich said.
see HANSEN, p.5
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Former Viking football coach Paul Hansen inspects his team while they do calisthenics
shortly before their loss to PLU.
Players have mixed feelings
By Herb Reich
of The Western Front
Football players were shocked to hear
their head coach, Paul Hansen, will not
return for the 1989 season.
The football team learned Hansen would
not be back at the same time the public did.
Hansen met with the team Thursday to
explain his contract would not be renewed.
"It is hard for me to find justification for
what they (the athletic department) did,"
said Kelly Susee, a strong safety. "It was
strange for me because the players were in
the dark about it. We were hearing it at the
same time as everyone else.
"He knew the Monday before the PLU
game and he didn't let us know anything
was wrong," Susee said. "I think that is
great."
Players disagreed about Hansen's coach­ing
abilities.
"I'm shocked about the whole thing,"
said senior kicker Peter LaBarge.
"I've got mixed emotions," LaBarge
said. "I think its too bad because everything
was on the rise. There was some player-coach
communication problems. Some people
quit during the year who thought they were
being mistreated."
Defensive end Rudy Grandbois said a
play would be called repeatedly when aplay
was working, but sometimes a play would
be repeated when it was not working.
"I feel Hansen was trying. I think if he
would have had a few more assistant coaches
he might have done better. Some of the guys
were not to happy with the plays he was
calling," Grandbois said.
see PLAYERS, p.5
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1988
Students
shun sexual
harassment
By Gail Skurla
of The Western Front
Sexual harassment is illegal, in­tolerable
and a problem on campus,
said Connie Copeland, director of
the Office for Student Life, during a
panel discussion Tuesday on sexual
harassment.
The panel, part of "Power and
Sex Week," was sponsored by the
Associated Students Human Resource
Program.
See related stories on p.3
Swan Dahmouh, a Fairhaven
graduate and panelist, spoke about
sexual harassment she said she re­ceived
from a Western professor last
year.
Last year she and another student
filed a joint sexual harassment com­plaint.
Dahmouh said she "felt a lack
of trust... and safety" about taking a
class with the professor. She didn't
elaborate on what happened, but noted
she "walked around with a lot of an­ger."
Filing a formal complaint helped
her regain her self-esteem, she said.
The university administration was "a
place for me to turn."
Dahmouh said the university ac­knowledged
her statements, and when
the professor didn't accept the uni­versity's
sanctions, he quit his job.
"What I did was right," Dahmouh
said.
Western first identified sexual
harassment as an issue in 1979,
Copeland said, and she noted the
slow growth of awareness on cam­pus.
"The biggest confusion surround­ing
(sexual harassment) is what it is
and what it isn't," she said.
see HARASSMENT, p. 3
Presentation exposes pornography victims
By Erika Williams
of The Western Front
Linda Carr
Pornography is used to perpetrate violence
against women, emphasize racial and gender
inequality, and expose men's and women's
sexual identities.
Linda Carr, a Fairhaven student in Women's
Studies, presented this view at a pornography
forum Thursday at the Viking Union as part of
Power and Sex Week. She recently was in­volved
in the passage of Initiative 1-C, limiting
pornography in Bellingham.
"It's an intertwining of power and sex. It's
important for people to see it and what its
messages are," she said.
Pornography, an $8 million industry, is
becoming more available and bringing vio­lence
into the home. Gas stations, convenience
stores and video rentals have contributed to the
growing trade.
"Pornography contributes to the (stere­otyped)
impression of all women through crimes
against individual women. It helps to reinforce
those beliefs about what men and women are,"
Carr explained.
As laws now exist, it is legal to sell films
showing rape for profit, she said. Victims have
no power to remove such films from distribu­tion,
even if the victim can prove in a court of
law the crime was committed against his or her
will.
"Every day, that woman is raped again. She
has no control over that," Carr said.
Her presentation centered" on the film
"Pornography: A Practice of Inequality,"
compiled between 1983 and 1985 by Organiz­ing
Against Pornography: A Resource Center
for Education and Action, based in Minneapo­lis.
A "sampling" of different categories of
pornography is represented. Violence and sex
in advertising, women being brutalized by men
and murder as the ultimate sexual experience
are represented in various magazines currently
in circulation.
"Power is always the central issue. The
reality is that women have limited choices ...
therefore they end up doing things they don't
want to do," Carr said.
Nearly 70 percent of women involved with
pornography were victims of incest, she said.
Other women are forced to remain in the indus­try
through blackmail.
"This is not just a bunch of dirty old men.
It is becoming a normal part of our society.
We've got a whole system of inequality and
hierarchy in society (to accept pornography),"
said Carr.
Audible reactions from the presentation
included expression of shock, disgust and anger.
"I was shocked at the availability of this
kind of material," an audience member said.