Western Front - 1971 November 5

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NOV. 5 t h 1971
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A Senate stilLawaits
lote faculty returns
By PAT BRENNEN
The date of the first meeting of Western's All-College Senate is
uncertain due to a possible run-off election for faculty positions.
Mike Barnhart, administrative assistant to President Flora, said that
after faculty absentee ballots are counted Tuesday, if a tie exists, the
run-off election will be held Monday, Nov. 15.
In last Tuesday's all-college election, 34 administrative, faculty,
staff and student representatives were elected to the All-College
Senate. Seven other faculty representatives will be named after
absentee ballots are counted.
Turnout for the election varied, with only 78.8 per cent of the
classified staff, 74 per cent of the administrators, 51.9 per cent of the
faculty and 9.2 per cent of the student body voting.
Barnhart, chairman of the all-college elections committee, said he
was extremely pleased with the turnout of the faculty, staff and
administrators, but that he was a little disappointed with the light
student turnout.
"Overall I think the results of the election were most gratifying,"
he said. "We have an excellent slate of people for the Senate."
Barnhart commented on the "magnificent" job Gail Denton,
chairman of the students' election committee, did.
Miss Denton said she could not understand why the student body
turnout was so small.
"I don't know if this is a sign of general student apathy or what it
isj" she said. "Whatever it is, I am very disappointed. I felt the
campus understood that the All-College Senate was a new way to
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It was a slow day for some election workers Tuesday in the Viking Union as
just over nine per cent of the students turned out. Photo by JIM THOMSON
Border rally caps
Amchitka protest
A rally at the Peace Arch in Blaine yesterday by 200 students from
Western and the University of British Columbia capped a week of
protest against tomorrow's detonation of an underground nuclear
warhead on Amchitka.
Speakers at the Blaine rally called for unity between American and
Canadian students in protesting the blast.
Professor Will Wasson of the College of Ethnic Studies cautioned
the crowd against violence or attempting to close off Interstate 5.
"If you've come to see a little blood, go home. We don't need
you," Wasson said.
The Reverend Bill Sodt told the gathering that the demonstration
against Amchitka was a continuation of the whole peace movement.
"This is great. We've got to keep protesting for it allows us a way
to keep from feeling like we're helpless," Mr. Sodt said.
The demonstration followed a drive by members of the College of
Ethnic Studies to solicit telegrams of protest to President Nixon.
A petition to Bellingham Mayor Reg Williams to wire Governor
Dan Evans expressing opposition to the test received about 2000
signatures according to the Student Information Office for Amchitka,
inVU305.
Wednesday, about 50 students from Western joined over 2000
Canadians in a demonstration outside the American Consulate in
Vancouver, B.C.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced Wednesday that the
blast would come on Saturday at 2 p.m. Bellingham time.
On campus the Fairhaven Policy Board voted down student Eric
Nelson's request for a closure of the college in protest of the
Amchitka bomb test, but passed a resolution criticizing the
government's role in that test.
Their resolution, which passed 12-1, read: "We the members of the
policy board of Fairhaven College lament that we live in a nation with
leadership so callous as to proceed with the Amchitka test. We urge
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Rain reduced the turnout of Western students at Wednesday's
demonstration in Vancouver, but loyal web-footed Canucks
carried on regardless. Photo by KEN RITCHIE X WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE VOLUME 64 NUMBER 10