Western Front - 1989 April 28

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RUGGERS READY
Women's Rugby Club
headed for regionals
page 9
WEATHER: Fair today
and Saturday, highs in
the 60s and 70s. Cooler
i' Sunday.
AS BOARD MEETlW(raf4]SH;
today in VU 408 to put health
service fee increase proposal on
student ballot.
FLAMING LIPS
New band blows
into town tonight
page 5
The Western Front
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Business accreditation put on hold
By Shanna Gowenlock
staff reporter
Western's College of Business
and Economics didn't pass its first
shot at national accreditation this
year, but it didn't quite flunk, either.
Instead, the 13-year-old college's
bid for the accrediting organization's
blessing was "put on hold," said Roland
DeLorme, assistant vice president
for Academic Affairs
'In summary, they were gener­ally
impressed with the CBE but did
point out several areas where they
felt there were various needs that
needed to be addressed," DeLorme
said.
DeLorme said the American
Assembly of Collegiate Schools of
Business turned down the Western
school because of concerns that its
faculty is understaffed and in need of
more research and growth opportu­nities.
Chairman of the finance, mar­keting
and decision sciences depart­ment,
Earl Benson, said the AACBS
wants the business college to fill, or
demonstrate its intention to fill, its
six to seven vacant faculty posts.
Benson, who helped write the
college's extensive self-study sub­mitted
to the AACSB last June, also
said faculty members at Western face
stiff competition for scarce research
dollars.
"Western's support in general of
faculty is not anywhere near what it
would be at a major university, but
Western has been making some fairly
good advances in support of faculty.
"In terms of teaching and re­search,
AACSB's main interest is
that faculty is alive and well, and
making contributions in their field,
so they can be good contributors in
the classrooms as well," Benson said.
According to the 300-page self-study,
17 business and economics
college faculty members received
either sabbatical leave, summer re­search
grants, academic year research
grants, faculty developmental grants
or participated in foreign exchange
programs from June 1987 to June
1988.
Currently the school has a 38-
member faculty.
Benson said with accreditation
comes a desirable reputation —? both
for the school and for its graduating
students.
"Some employers refuse to inter­view
students from a non-accredited
school. I've spoken with several
graduates in the past who were un­able
to get interviews for this rea­son,"
he said.
He said Western also could lure
more talented students and faculty to
an accredited business school.
See CBE on page 3
Programs scramble
for piece of S&A pie
By Angela Reed
staff reporter
An increase of $149,200 in Serv­ice
and Activities fees has split stu­dent-
funded departments, each vying
for its share of the money.
Students will have the chance to
defend their programs in a public
forum at 4 p.m. Monday in the Vi­king
Union Lounge.
Each student currently pays $75.50
per quarter for S&A fees from his or
her tuition. The S&A Fee Split
Committee voted April 10 to increase
student contributions to $81.50 start­ing
next fall.
Departmentally Related Activi­ties
(DRAC), Housing and Dining
and the Associated Students have
proposed separate budgets on how to
split the increase, each of which favors
their department.
DRAC currently receives 27
percent of the total S&A budget,
while AS gets 32 percent and H&D
gets 40.9 percent.
Lynda Goodrich, Western's ath­letic
director, said the S&A budget
should be equally split.
"We (DRAC) are operating on a
budget that's about 10 years old,"
Goodrich said. Only in the last two
years has DRAC done a thorough
budget review, she said.
"Our requests are in no way padded
— we use this process to indicate our
needs."
DRAC, which funds intramurals,
club sports, athletics, publications,
music and other extracurricular ac­tivities,
submitted a proposal request­ing
a majority of the increase. Its
proposal would allot $128,150 to
DRAC, $20,750 for AS. Housing and
Dining would not receive an increase.
DRAC needs money for men's
and women's tennis, new music
equipment, club sports and other areas,
Goodrich said.
AS funds programs such as the
Lakewood recreation area, daycare,
Human Resource Programs, AS pro­ductions
and student clubs, and
employs 125 students. Their pro­posed
budget would allot $54,046 to
AS, $50,573 to Housing and Dining
and $45,581 to DRAC.
AS wants the money for an Eth­nic
Student Center, as well as to help
cover increasing minimum wage costs.
See Fee on page 3
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AS candidate pleads
guilty on theft charge
By Don Hunger
campus government editor
Associated Students Secretary-
Treasurer Kent Thoelke was con­victed
for possession of stolen prop­erty,
a misdemeanor, April 14 in
Whatcom County District Court.
Thoelke is a presidential candi­date
in the upcoming AS election.
The charge resulted from a Feb.
20 report of a vandalized telephone
booth in the 1100 block of North
State Street, according to court rec­ords.
Bellingham police officers
stopped Thoelke on that block, found
a telephone receiver in his coat and
arrested him. He was also charged
with minor in possession of alcohol,
which was later dropped.
Thoelke plead guilty. He was
given a $200 fine and a.one-year
suspended sentence, during which a
violation could send him to jail.
Presiding Judge
David Ray also
ordered him to pay-
$75 for his court-appointed
lawyer.
Thoelke's
record will be
cleared in one year
if he is not con­Thoelke
victed of another
See Thoelke on page 2