Western Front - 1971 October 22

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OCT. 2 2nd 1971
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Women plan varied activities
Western's first Women's Symposium sponsored
by the Program Commission, for and about
women begins this coming Tuesday and continues
for four days until next Friday.
Programs and activities during the symposium
will cover a variety of interests including singing,
poetry reading, speakers, discussions, arts and
crafts and films. A complete listing of activities is
found on page 3 of this issue.
Esther Helfgott, of the Women's Commission,
explained what the symposium hopes to
accomplish.
"We want to bring women from the campus
and the community together. There will be
something here for all women and we hope to be
able to develop an awareness of what is happening
to women."
The Women's Commission also said that they
hope that the symposium will give a chance for all
women to get to know each other better, learn to
have fun together, learn to work together and
function as sisters and friends rather than
competitors.
In addition to the other activities the
commission plans to hold numerous workshops
during the symposium focusing on issues relating
to women.
Workshops on the opening day of the
symposium will include ones on: sexuality and
social roles, sex and the college women, women's
studies at Western, playing of the NOW group's
sexist board game and one hosted by the Men's
Liberation group from Seattle.
Complete workshop schedules are available in
the Women's Commission office in Viking Union
214B and will be available throughout the
symposium.
The Women's Commission invites all interested
women and men to attend any or all of the
activities during the symposium.
(See page 3 for schedule of events)
Bookstore changes proposed
By DAN TOLVA
Proposals for a new rebate-scholarship system and across
the board price cuts have been made by AS President Tod
Sundquist and bookstore manager George Elliot
respectively.
Sundquist's proposal would set up a scholarship fund to
be financed by bookstore profits and administered by the
financial aids office or the associat dean of students.
Last- quarter the bookstore made about $50,000, of
which $28,000 was not returned to the students because of
their failure to turn in their sales slips, Sundquist said.
"The students had an opportunity to collect their
rebates, only a minority took it," he said.
The scholarship would aid students with "high student
potential and low financial ability."
"If I had to choose between giving every student an
extra $3 spending money or helping someone with his
education, I'd choose the latter," Sundquist said.
Bookstore manager George Elliot favors a price cut,
possibly as high as eight to ten per cent. Besides being
inconvenient for the student, the old rebate system cost the
Bookstore $2,000 to operate, according to Elliot.
So far this quarter over $13,000 in savings has been
passed along to the student, and Elliot hopes this figure will
increase.
"It all depends on how efficiently I run the operation,"
he said.
Elliot has plans for increasing the efficiency of the
bookstore while cutting costs. They include curtailing
operations of the bookstore annex and staffing it with
students instead of professional help.
Elliot hopes that his proposals will be adopted by the
newly formed bookstore committee. He plans to "change
the image" of the bookstore.
"I think the students are going to be a lot happier with
this organization," Elliot said.
Candidates for city council and mayor spoke at a forum on campus Tuesday night. Front
reporter Mary Jo White's account of their comments is carried on page 3.
An in-depth discussion on
Western's placement services
appears on page 7 in today's
Front. Reporter Bill Dietrich
brings out some of the
misconceptions commonly held
about the placement office
and explores its varied services
in an interview with Placement
Director Louis Lallas.
WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE VOLUME 64 NUMBER 7