Western Front - 1989 April 7

              NEW RECRUITS
Coach searches
for next year's talent
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FRIDAY
WEATHER: Ocassional
rain Saturday, decreas­ing
Sunday. Highs in the
50s and lows in the 40s.
REGGAE DANCEHALL NIGHT:
9 p.m. Saturday intheVU Lounge.
$1 students, $2.50 nonstudents.
SWEET DREAMS
Sleeping disorders
can be a nightmare
page 5
The Western Front
Commuters could win parking priority
ByGailSkurla
staff reporter
Western's parking system will undergo a
face-lift next fall if changes recommended by
the Parking Advisory Committee are approved.
First priority will be given to out-of-town
commuters for P-lot permits, and hall residents
will be assigned C-lot permits according to
class standing. Physically disabled students
will be given first priority for both. Currently,
the priority system is limited to the physically
disabled. All other permits are obtained on a
first-come, first-served basis.
Three commuter P-zone
areas (3P upper level,
20P and 26P south sec­tion)
are to be converted
to resident C-lots. The
free parking lot, located
at the comer of 21 st Street
and Bill McDonald Park­way,
will be incorporated
into Western's parking
system. This new PC-zone
will be a combined commuter/resident lot.
These proposals were presented by parking
committee members and discussed with stu-
Wallace
dents at the campus parking forum Thursday
afternoon in the Viking Union Lounge.
"We cannot provide close and convenient
parking for everyone. That's a reality we have
to face," said parking office Director Anne
Wallace. "Commuters have the greatest need."
"(Hall) residents will be buying only C-lot
permits (because) they are storing their cars on
campus 24 hours a day," said Ernst Gay den,
Huxley professor and committee member.
"We are trying to discourage (first-year
students) from bringing their cars, at least
initially," he noted. "We cannot provide park­ing
for 9,000 cars."
Several hall residents disagreed, citing jobs
and weekend trips home as realistic needs for
transportation.
Dillon Schneider, committee member and
graduate student, said "You can go to the
university and not have a car here," referring to
non-commuting students.
Every year, she said, more and more com­muters
are being displaced, Of the 2000 P-lot
permits sold this year, Wallace said, one-third
of those are used by students who live on
campus. Hall residents occupy 70 percent of
the north campus P-lot (near Higginson and
Edens halls), she noted.
Exam nonsense
not permissible
ByGailSkurla
staff reporter
Students "defying" the junior
writing exam system, either by writ­ing
tirades against the test or not
completing the test, will probably
not be admitted into a writing profi­ciency
course, said Richard Fonda,
chairman of the Expository Writing
Committee.
The committee presented to the
Academic Coordinating Commission
(ACC) a new junior writing exam
policy, which would prevent students
who don't make a valid attempt to
complete the exam from being al­lowed
to take a writing intensive
course.
Undergraduate students must take
the junior writing exam before being
admitted into a writing proficiency
course, which is a graduation re­quirement.
With a few exceptions,
most departments do not require
students to pass the exam.
The ACC, however, rejected the
proposal "on the grounds that it is
unenforceable," said Tom Downing,
chairman of the ACC.
'"No clear-cut way" exists to
determine whether students failed
purposely or not," Downing said. "It
would just cause more work and misery
(for the Expository Writing Com­mittee)."
Three students who signed up for
the junior writing exam during win­ter
quarter either filled in all the "A"
circles on the objective section and/
or wrote a diatribe instead of summa­rizing
the essay as instructed, Fonda
said.
The proposed policy was designed
to ensure students would make a
reasonable attempt to complete the
test, and the Expository Writing
Committee believes it is enforce­able,
Fonda said.
Letters were sent to the three
students, informing them that "as far
as we (the committee) are concerned,
they have not completed the exam,"
Fonda said. At this point, one student
has retaken the JWE, and one has
See Exam on page 4
Waste policy dumped
Western obeys
federal laws
By Jeremy Meyer
staff reporter
Western is in the process of
changing its hazardous waste policy
since the university was discov­ered
last January to be burning
toxic waste at Thermal Reduction
Company (TRC) despite a warn­ing.
After a Department of Ecol­ogy
(DOE) inspection in Febru­ary,
the state agency asked West­ern
to comply with a federal t
administrative code for small waste
generators. The code requires the.
university to ensure that waste
containers are properly labelled
and covered, and to notify the
entire campus community that no
hazardous wastes are disposed of
improperly.
Lawrence Ashley, DOE in­spector,
said Western is comply­ing
with the recommended
changes.
"We're working with the
university to get it in compliance
by June 30th," he said.
He said the university will
definitely not send anymore haz­ardous
waste to TRC.
"Right now there is nothing
going out there and there will be
nothing going out there aside from
common trash,"Ashley said.
Until now Western has been
unregulated, newly-appointed
hazardous waste coordinator, H.
William Wilson, said. Wilson is
constructing a program, under
supervision from the DOE, which
will put the university's hazard­ous
waste disposal and handling
in compliance with federal, state
and local laws.
Vice President of Academic
Affairs Sam Kelly appointed
Wilson, a chemistry professor and
director of the university's in­strument
center, to monitor the
campus' hazardous waste policy
and build a long-term safety pro-
See Toxic on page 4
ACC rejects plans
for internship delays
By Paul Mahlum
staff reporter
The Academic Coordinating
Commission rejected a proposal on
March 28 to allow undergraduate
education students to graduate with­out
completing their internship re­quirements.
The proposal, submitted to the
commission by the School of Educa­tion,
would have made it easier for
education majors to finish in four
years, said Marie Eaton, associate
dean of education.
Education majors typically
complete their B.A. in five years,
said John Mason, director of Gradu­ate
Studies and member of the Eng­lish
department.
Currently, students getting a
bachelor of arts in education must
complete an internship requirement
before graduation. Students can peti­tion
the Teachers Curriculum Coun­cil
to take the internship after gradu­ation.
According to the proposal, both
secondary and elementary education
students could take their internship
after graduation.
The internship, required for ele­mentary
and secondary education
majors, consists of two quarters of
student teaching.
See ACC on page 4