Western Front - 1972 April 4

              THE WESTERN FRONT
Vol. 64 No. 35 WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE Tuesday, April 4, 1972
PE merger causes confusion
The combining of the men's
and women's physical education
departments at Western has led
to an enormous amount of
confusion regarding the future
status of William Tomaras, head
of men's P.E.
The chairmanship of the new
department was offered to
Margaret Aitken, present head of
women's P.E, by William
Bultmann, dean of arts and
sciences, following a poll of the
P.E. department's faculty.
Tomaras has been offered the
position of athletic director of
Margaret Aitken
the new department and in this
new position would be directly
responsible to Dean Bultmann.
As of yesterday Tomaras had
not yet accepted that job.
Wednesday, Aitken told
Tomaras that she had accepted
the chairmanship of the new
department.
Regarding the post of athletic
director Aitken said, "Bill, I am
asking you not to do it."
Tomaras believed this was a
request for his resignation as
athletic director, a position he
has held since 1960.
In an article in Thursday's
Bellingham, Herald Tomaras
charged that the administration
was trying to force him out.
"I was not about to let her or
anybody else just walk in and
take over my job," Tomaras
said.
"I don't mind not having the
chairmanship, as I have plenty to
do just with the athletic
program.
"We have worked hard to
obtain a program which puts
education above athletics and
still keeps athletics high.
"I feel we have been
successful so far, despite
monetary problems and I refuse
to stand back and let it go down
William Bultmann
the drain."
Tomaras cited to the Viking's
Evergreen championship football
and basketball teams as an
indication of the program's
success.
Tomaras told the Bellingham
Herald that he believed that the
administration was trying to
dump him because of his
outspoken objections to a plan
last spring to drop intercollegiate
sports.
"President Flora thought I
overreacted last spring and
opened my mouth too much.
"We needed to save the
program and I felt that was my
job.
"She (Aitken) has never
shown any interest in our
athletic program."
Commenting on the overall
program, Aitken said that if
changes were to be made, they
would be for the better.
"Nobody is trying to get rid
of athletics; no one has ever
mentioned it. We'll continue to
have athletics," she said.
She said that there hasn't
been enough interchange
between the men's and women's
physical education departments.
"There is a need for more
men to have women teachers,
and women to have men
teachers.
"We, in women's physical
education, think we have a good
program," she said.
Dean Bultmann had praise for
both Tomaras and Aitken.
He said he is very pleased with
the outstanding work Aitken has
done on the academic side of
physical education.
"Academic innovation is
perhaps an over-used term, but it
certainly applies in her case," he
• said.
"Tomaras has done a very
good job in athletics," he also
said.
"He has been way
under-funded, but has gone out
and gotten very good athletes to
represent Western."
Bultmann said that the new
setup for the physical education
department will attempt to take
the strong points of both Aitken
and Tomaras and use them for
the best advantage of Western.
William Tomaras
'Turn in a pusher'
Sundquist offers reward program
Tod Sundquist will pay you
to turn in a pusher.
Sundquist, AS president,
announced last Wednesday that
his office has set up a reward
fund to pay anonymous
informers on the conviction of
heroin pushers.
The details of the program,
how much to pay, reward
procedures and amount of
heroin that has to be involved
have not been worked out.
P a t r i c k Davis, AS
non-academic coordinator, is
working with the Bellingham
chief of police and the Whatcom
County sheriff to set up the
program. Details are expected in
about a week.
The program, modeled after
Tampa, Fla., TIP (Turn in a
Pusher), deals exclusively with
heroin.
"It's better to institute a
preventative program than wait
until a remedial program is
needed," Sundquist said.
"I don't think there can be
any question that people want
to preclude the entry of heroin
into the area." He expects not
only students but others in the
community to respond.
"I wouldn't say that we have
a lot of heroin in the area," Cecil
B. Klein, Bellingham chief of
police, said, "but if someone
wanted to get it, they could buy
it without any trouble.
"There have been no arrests
for use or pushing to speak of,"
he said.
A source who wished to be
anonymous said that there have
been two possible heroin
overdoses in the area in the last
month.
The Tampa TIP program,
which deals in hard drugs
exclusively and assures absolute
anonymity, received 5,000 calls
that led to 39 arrests in a nine
month period.
No arrests or warrants are
Tod Sundquist
ordered on the basis of a tip.
Police use the information to try
to make purchases. On
conviction of a pusher, the
anonymous informer collects his
reward.
Sundquist is opposed to
including other drugs besides
heroin in the program for two
reasons.
"First is that clearly heroin is
the most dangerous drug I can
think of," Sundquist said, "not
only because it involves the sale
and use of an illegal substance
but because it is a crime that
breeds crime.
"Second, I think it's
important for the success of the
program that we don't spread
ourselves too thin."
Sundquist started the reward
fund with $100 from his
contingency fund. Davis will
contact area business and
organizations for more funds.
Klein said he was in favor of
the program and he hopes that it
will work, "but I'd like to get it
all laid out before it starts. I
don't think anyone will want to
give money until they see where
it is going to go.
"We haven't really got the
program set up and we're still
working on the angles before we
start to augment the reward
fund. It's a Western project as
far as getting information. They
are going to do the solicitation
of funds."
Klein hasn't received any
comments from the community
yet.
Sundquist who received
comments, said, "Everyone
seems enthusiastic. The reaction
of the students is positive."
Sundquist said that the
success of the program will
depend on his successor, but he
is fairly sure it will continue. He
will concentrate on building up
the reward fund the rest of this
year.
"If we let it fizzle, there's no
doubt it will die," he added.
He did not agree that the
program could cause a feeling of
distrust on campus.
" I 'm not sure you're
encountering that type of
situation," he said. "As I see it,
sellers of heroin are forcing this
community to face a problem of
a fairly crucial nature, and I
don't see it as a situation as you
suggest. I've thought about this a
lot."
Bellingham. is not too small'
for the program he said. "I'm
not sure the size of the
community is important. I'm
not sure we're any less
vulnerable to the heroin problem
than anyone else."
The source of the report on
the local heroin overdoses had
similar feelings.
" T h e drug scene in
Bellingham is relatively cool, and
we don't want to repeat the
d i s a s t e r in Seattle and
Vancouver or the classical
example of Haight-Ashbury that
in a three month period turned
from a peace and joy center to a
.mugging and murder center.»
Black politician Julian Bond
to speak here tonight
Julian Bond, Black politician,
will speak in Carver Gym at 8
o'clock tonight.
Tickets for the 50 cents
admission charge will be sold
this afternoon at the Viking
Union Information Desk and at
the door, according to Program
Commissioner Lynn Wienholtz.
His appearance is being
sponsored by the Program
Commission.
Bond, who is 32, gained
national recognition by being
the first Black man nominated
for the vice-presidency of the
United States. This occurred at
the 1968 Democratic convention
in Chicago.
Bond's involvement with
politics and civil rights began
when he founded the Committee
on Appeal for Human Rights, a
student organization originating
from Atlanta University which
coordinated three years of
anti-discrimination protests in
Atlanta in 1960. He served as its
executive secretary for three
months.
Bond also helped found the
S t u d e n t N o n v i o l e nt
C o o r d i n a t i n g Committee
(SNCC) in April 1960.
In 1965, Bond was elected to
a new seat created by
reapportionment in the Georgia
House of Representatives. He
was prevented from taking office
in January 1966 because of
l e g i s l a t i v e members who
objected to his statements about
the Vietnam War.
He won a second election in
February 1966, to fill his vacant
seat, but a special House
committee voted not to seat him
once more.
After winning a third election
in November 1966, Bond took
his place in the Georgia House,
only after the United States
Supreme Court unanimously
ruled that the Georgia House
erred in refusing to seat him.
Bond is a member of the
executive committee of the
Atlanta National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, advisory board of the
proposed Martin Luther King,
J r . Memorial Library and
S o u t h e r n Correspondents
Reporting Racial Equality Wars.
He is also an honorary
member of Phi Kappa Literary
Society of the University of
Georgia at Athens, Ga., research
associate of the Voter Education
Project of the Southern Regional
C o u n c i l and the first
co-chairman of the National
Conference for New Politics.
Bond has been described as
the leader of a new Democratic
coalition, a militant activist, not
r e v o l u t i o n a r y but a
representative of Blacks that are
influencing the nation through
the system.