Western Front - 1984 November 2

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VOL. 76, NO. 50 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1984
AS escorts temporarily suspended
By Christine Valdez
R.G. Peterson of the University
Police decided yesterday after
meeting with the head of the Kung
Fu Club that the police do not
want to run the Associated Stu­dents
escort service with a club.
A.S. Adviser Jack Smith, who
also attended the meeting, said
Peterson wanted more time to run
background checks on the Kung
Fu Club members.
Smith said Peterson also was
concerned because at two escort
training sessions last week, two of
the four people who showed up
were not students and the people
who were to show up did not.
Peterson was not available for
comment.
Last February. Tan Tran, Kung
Fu Club instructor, volunteered
the club to work on the escort ser­vice
with the University Police
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
In return for its service. Smith
said the club was to be paid S2 an
hour which would go • into its
budget.
Currently. University Police is
paid S3.86 an hour and escorts
from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. The help
from the Kung Fu Club would
have extended the hours from 6
p.m. to 12 p.m.
At next week's AS Board meet­ing
Smith said the Board will dis­cuss
options to the current escort
service. It can either continue with
the current hours and the Univer­sity
Police, or extend the hours
from 7:30 or 8 p.m. until midnight,
or it can provide its own escort
service which would not be super­vised
by University Police.
In other AS business:
The board is arranging shuttles
to the polls Tuesday. One shuttle
will leave every hour from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. in front of the Viking
Union.
Shuttles also will leave every
half hour from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
from the Ridgeway, Fairhaven and
Viking Commons dining halls.
The polling places for on-campus
students are: Nash,
Mathes, Edens and Higginson vote
at Maple Street Firehall, 111-1
Indian. Ridgeway; Fajrhaven,
Buchanan Towers and Birnam
Wood residents vote at Sehome
High School. Highland Hall resi­dents
vote at the Courthouse
Annex, 1000 North Forest.
ANDY PERDUE
In the true Halloween spirit, Dana Grant(left)and Soren Ryherd (right)dressed up as Charlie
Chaplin and a cowboy for Wednesday's AS board meeting. State and county candidates on last leg
40th District candidates
focus on education, taxes
By Vaughn Cocke
Taxesand education were the most popu­lar
themes in three 40th-District debates on
Oct. 25.
About 60 people filed into the Fairhaven
Middle School cafeteria for the Bellingham
Herald I League of Women Voters-sponsored
event.
SENATE
The first debate pitted incumbent Sen.
Lowell Peterson (D-Concrete) against
Republican challenger David Welts. Welts,
a Mt. Vernon attorney, opened by talking
about education.
Welts said he supported the idea of a tui­tion
freeze, but cautioned that the quality of
education might suffer as a result.
"You cannot arbitrarily freeze tuition,
because that cuts off funding," he said.
Peterson, seeking his sixth four-year term,
directed his attention to tourism.
Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia,
he said, will generate much business for
Whatcom County, and he pledged to pre-,
pare for expansion.
Peterson supported a tuition freeze, say­ing
higher education should be available to
everyone.
At one point during the. debate, Welts
asked of Peterson, "Do you think I'm quali­fied
for the Senate?"
Peterson responded by calling Welts one
of the finest lawyers in the Pacific Northw­est,
but said he should stay in that
profession.
Welts later cited an interview of two years
ago when Peterson allegedly said he was
considering leaving the Senate.
Welts claimed that Peterson repeatedly
had tried to secure an outside job and ques­tioned
the senator's dedication.
Peterson said he intends to stay on four
more years if elected, adding, "I'm not look­ing
for a higher paying job in government."
Abortion, nuclear free zone
discussed at 42nd debate
By Karen Jenkins
Six local candidates launched their final
week of campaigning last Tuesday night by
answering questions from each other and an
audience at Shuksan Middle School.
HOUSE POSITION 1
The debate between Democrat Terry
Brainard and Republican Homer Lundquist
was a slow-moving affair. It consisted
mostly of Brainard attacking his opponent's
performance in the Legislature in 1981 and
1982, when Lundquist had the district's
Position 2 seat.
Brainard described Lundquist's policies
as"short-termexpensive solutions,"and cri­ticized
the former representative's voting
record in the Legislature.
He asked Lundquist why he voted against
a bill to punish people for cruelty to animals.
Lundquist replied that the bill was "a
waste of taxpayers' time and money."
When he wasn't defending his past record,
Lundquist pledged "to provide funding for
• see 40th DISTRICT, page 2
HOUSE POSITION 1
The first debate was between State Repre­sentative
(Position I) Democrat Dennis
Braddock and his opponent, Republican
Carol Post. The discussion was subdued,
with neither candidate showing much
emotion.
Braddock said he is against Initiative 471,
which would stop state funding of abortions.
"I believe in choice," he said. "We cer­tainly
don't want to encourage the. use of
abortion. But sometimes it's best for people
to have that choice and that choice should
not be only for the rich."
Post favors the initiative. She said medical
care should be provided to people when they
need it but abortion is an operation of cho­ice,
not a medical necessity.
A man from the audience asked Braddock
why he had voted to put the state in debt
with a $386 million bond issue.
"I thought it was a relatively responsible
capital expenditure for us at that time,"
Braddock said.
The bond went toward building and
upgrading schools, prisons and mental
health facilities, he said.
One woman asked the candidates if they
thought religion should influence the way a
person voted.
Braddock answered, "They (religious
beliefs) are so much a part "of us, they do
whether we mean them to or not."
Post replied similarly, "Our religion is the
basis for all our ethics and how we relate to
other people. We can't divorce that from
anything we do in our life."
HOUSE POSITION 2
The candidates in the second debate, State
Representative (Position 2) Republican
Roger Van Dyken and Democratic chal­lenger
Pete Kremen, were much more
aggressive in their remarks.
Kremen opened by saying Van Dyken has
been able to get only three bills passed dur­ing
his three terms in the state House of
Representatives.
"He has failed," Kremen said.
Van Dyken defended his record, saying he
had helped 49 bills get passed during his six
years in office. In addition, he said, he
helped write six other bills that were passed.
"There is a saying in Olympia that last-minute
personal attacks are the last resort of
a desperate candidate," Van Dyken said.
As president of the Big Brothers and Sis­ters
of Northwest Washington, Kremen
started a bingo game that has made the
• see 42nd DISTRICT, page 2