Western Front - 1989 April 14

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AS promotes jobs
Tyler Anderson/Th* Western Front
The Needles razzle and dazzle a Red Square crowd Tuesday in an
effort to attract attention to AS job openings.
Businesses answer
to yellowfin boycott
By Ellis Baker
staff reporter
A successful on-campus boycott
of yellowfin tuna encouraged a
Western student to contact businesses
off-campus and several are respond­ing,
said senior Cortlandt Fletcher.
Haggen Foods is the first major
grocery store to respond to Fletcher's
request to boycott yellowfin tuna,
although six stores were contacted,
he said.
Haggen's spokesperson Anita
Wisman said that while the store
probably won't remove yellowfin tuna
from the shelves, it will address the
issue.
"I've outlined six or seven op­tions
that we have open ... I'm pre­senting
those options to my boss,"
Wisman said. "I don't think that we
can duck issues like this. I think that
it's time to look at issues like pesti­cides
and dolphins and meet them
head on, while keeping in mind the
needs of both the company and our
customers."
Fletcher, an environmental edu­cation
major and director of the
Regenerative Society, an Associated
Students organization, said he has
contacted grocery stores and restau­rants,
both large and small, to edu­cate
owners and managers about the
yellowfin tuna issue.
A national tuna boycott, spon­sored
by Earth Island, is in force
because commercial tuna-fishing
methods in tropical zones of the Pacific
Ocean may kill as many as 115,000
dolphins a year, Fletcher said.
Denise Ranney, owner of Around
the Corner Cafe, said Fletcher con­tacted
her about six weeks ago. She
decided to buy a similarly priced
alternative, but her supplier has had
little success in finding one.
"It's a goal of ours. We can get
albacore [tuna] really easily, but that's
about $20 a case more than yellowfin
tuna and we just can't justify that
expense, not with a $2.50 sandwich,"
Ranney said, adding that tuna sand­wiches
are the restaurant's best seller.
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Jugglers take
center stage
By Star Rush
assistant news editor
The Associated Students
will stand on their heads to
make a deal.
Well, almost.
In an attempt to attract
students'attention to available
AS jobs for next year, the AS
hired jugglers to perform in
front of their information table
Tuesday in Red Square.
Dressed in shorts and tie-dye
T-shirts, The Needles
performed various juggling
feats. At one point they set
aside their usual batons and
daringly tossed fire wands.
No one was safe from the
juggler's crazy antics, as an ele­mentary
school class soon
found out. The children were
whisked away from their safe
vantage point in the audience to
center stage when the jugglers
pulled them into the act.
Along with the jugglers, the
AS promotion included giving
away free candy.
A large crowd of people
gathered in Red Square all day,
but as Front photographer Tyler
Anderson observed, was it the
jugglers or the sun that drew the
crowds?
Campus cruisers
Students to vote
in bike referendum
By Gail Skurla
staff reporter
Western bicyclists and pedestri­ans
can vote on the "bikes on cam­pus"
issue in a referendum on May 9
and 10, said Associated Students
President Tammy Fleming.
Student opinion revealed by the
referendum results, however, may
not have any impact.
Parking Office Director Ann
Wallace said she doesn'tknow if the
Parking Advisory Committee, which
is in the process of making safety
recommendations, will postpone
submitting a proposal until after the
referendum has been held.
The Central Safety Committee,
which had been working on recom­mendations
to resolve the issue, has
transferred the problem to the Trans­portation
and Parking Office.
"There is, potentially, a (safety)
problem," Fleming said. "(The com­mittee)
is asking the parking office to
enforce the regulations that are al­ready
in place."
Currently, the Washington
Administrative Code (WAC) states
that pedestrians have the right-of-way
on plaza areas, sidewalks and
campus paths, and bicyclists must
use caution when riding in these areas.
"(The WAC) is so vague, there is
no way to enforce it," Wallace said.
"We wish to provide more specific
restrictions."
Wallace said solutions being
considered by the Parking Advisory
Committee include assigning spe­cific
areas for bike lanes and restrict­ing
bicyclists from riding on pedes­trian
pathways, requiring them to
walk their bikes through campus.
The actual wording of the refer­endum
has not yet been decided,
Fleming said. She noted the AS "does
not support a bike ban."
"If I had to choose between a
bike ban or the status quo, I'd choose
the status quo," she added.
Student Philip Moore, a bicy­clist,
said the university "is negligent
for not having bike paths." He also
suggested installing more bike racks,
preferably covered.
Greg Madson, a graduate student
and bicyclist, said safety on campus
pathways is a problem.
"I've seen people riding down
the paths without their fingers on the
brakes," he said.
Restricting bicycles would proba­bly
improve safety, he noted. A ban
would not, however, prevent him
from continuing to ride through
campus, Madson said.
Gloria Johnson, a senior and
pedestrian, said a ban is not neces­sary
as long as bicyclists ride safely
and are considerate. She said she had
seen a woman who was hit by a
bicyclist "who didn't even apolo­gize.
He knocked her down... grunted
and ran off."
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