Collegian - 1964 October 2

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Wm Vol. LVII, No. 2 Bellingham, Washington Friday, Oct. 2, 1964
Trustees Name Bunke President
Legislature Moves Quickly ^ •. ——-^^ "n , W WB
In Session's First Meeting
Western's legislators hesitated to choose a new
K l i p s u n editor and nodded official approval for a
s t u d e n t election convention at the year's first Asso­ciated
Students L e g i s l a t u r e meeting Monday.
Fast legislation followed AS
President Ralph Munro's opening
remarks that student government
at Western will be better than
ever this year.
The blazermen, through a tech­nicality,
tabled appointment of a
new yearbook editor to replace
Sue Weir, who had been appoint­ed
last winter. Miss Weir failed to
show up to assume editorship
this quarter.
Munro placed Lloyd Strong's
name in the hopper and gave
Strong, a senior majoring in
biology, his recommendation. A
letter of recommendation from
Publications Advisor" James Mul­ligan
also accompanied Strong's
application.
when legislator Blair Paul ques­tioned
the legality of a choice at
that time.
. "Usually the editorship's va­cancy
is publicly announced so
that equal opportunity may be
afforded other students to apply
for the position," Paul said. "I
don't think this has been done in |
this case."
The solons voted unaminously
to shelve the appointment for one
week to allow more time to re­ceive
applications and announce
the vacancy.
The legislators also questioned
plans Strong had for this year's
Klipsun if he was chosen. This
action was prompted by last
year's book burning by some stu­dents
because of dissatisfaction
with its magazine format and ex­cluding
freshman, sophomore and
junior class photographs. The
book drew widespread deroga­tory
criticism for its content.
"I would like to see Western
have a yearbook that is represen­tative
of the student wants,"
Strong replied.
Legislator Paul quickly queried
if the new book was going to be
anything like last year's. Strong
Crooks Net Fees
At Wayne Stale
Registration
Detroit, Mich. (CPS>—Wayne
State University was robbed re­cently
of their first day regis­tration
receipts. The total take
of the educated bandits was
$125,000.
The robbers entered the regis­tration
room as though they were
going to pay their fees and regis­ter.
When the building was clos­ed
at 8 p. m. they held a gun
on the night watchman and rob*
tied the cashier of $65,000 in
cash and another 360.000 in
checks.
implied that it would be changed
somewhat.
"Of course, you must realize
that finances will control the for­mat,
size, and cover," Strong
added.
PAUL ASKED if the Legisla­ture
could get a report of the fi­nancial
allotment for the new
book. "It would be nice if we
could substitute pictures of stu­dents
for the 11 pages of what
should have been in the Syn­desis
literary magazine," Paul
retorted.
He was referring to former
Collegian Editor Dick Simmons'
controversial insert article frank­ly
describing student life.
; Strong^ replied that he would
certainly tryto obtain a financial
statement for the next meeting.
Additional legislation was pro­posed
by legislator Clark Drum-mond
advocating a student nom­inating
convention.
See " L e g i s l a t u r e " page 5
DR. HARVJEY C. BUNKE, chairman of the Economics Department
at Iowa State University, was appointed Western's president. He
will take oyer the presidential duties winter quarter.
Education Main Topic
At Legislator Panel
E d u c a t i p a was t h e main
topic at a recent political
p a n e l f e a t u r i n g W. O. E.
Radcliff (D) and Dr. C. J.
F a r r (R), candidates for
Legislator from t h e Forty-second
District; and t h e in­cumbent
Legislators, Jack
Hood (R-41st), Dick Kink
(D-42nd), a n d Charles Lind
(R-42nd>;
"This college is one of Bell-ingham's
biggest businesses, and
it is growing. It needs more
Central is being awarded $6.5
million.
The figures quoted are for the
last biennium (two-year legisla­tive
period) which ends July,
1965. Education in ^Washington
tricting, Whatcom County has
two districts, the 41st, which
takes in the rural area of the
county, and the 42nd, which cov­ers
the city of Bellingham. The
41st and the 42nd districts, will
cost the county one senator and
possibly one representative," re­marked
Lind.
THE ORDERLY conduct of the
discussion was interrupted when
Ken Geary, a Young Democrat,
tried to see if Lind was accept­ing
support from the John Birch
Society. Lind said that he did
not feel that he had to rely on
Charles Lind (R-42nd)
land/' Radcliffe emphasized.
Kink announced that Western
is presently receiving more ap­propriated
funds from the state
for education than either of the
other two state colleges. The
figures revealed that Western is
getting $8.8 million, while East­ern,
is receiving $5.5 million and
Dick Kink (D-42nd)
is getting 60 per cent of the tax
dollar, and is expected to ask for
an increase of $150 million in the
coming session.
Another topic discussed at
leength was the measure for re-districting.
The members agreed
the deadline for redisricting will
be left up to the decision of the
Federal district courts. When the
state is redistricted, Whatcom
County may be converted to one
district:
"Nothing will be done until the
redistricting measure is taken
care of and out of the way," Kink
said.
According to the present dis-extremist
groups for his support.
Another unexpected turn in the
session, came when Kink, after
being asked if he would endorse
the Governor, sidestepped the
question by answering .that he
was awaiting certain develop­ments.
Duties Midway
Winter Quarter
By J o h n Stolpe
Collegian Staff Reporter
Dr. Harvey C. Bunke,
42-year-old professor and
c h a i r m a n of the Depart­ment
of Economics at Iowa
S t a t e University, has been
appointed as W e s t e r n ' s
seventh president by the
Board of Trustees.
Bunke will officially assume
presidential duties Feb. 1, replac-ing
Interim President Paul Wood-ring.
Dr. Woodring, education editor
of the "Saturday Review" and
distinguished service professsor
of the college, was asked to fill
the office Aug. 1 following the
resignation last winter of Dr.
James L. Jarrett.
Jarrett resigned as president
to accept a new post as associate
dean^r theSchool of Education
at tKe*'University of California,
Berkeley. Dr. Jarrett left the
campus in July.
Bunke was selected from more
than 250 applicants for the posi­tion.
Twelve candidates were ac­tually
brought to the campus to
look the college facilities over
and .meet personally with the
Board of Trustees. Bunke was the
Board's unanimous choice.
An exclusive Collegian inter­view
via telephone with ? Dr.
Bunke .earlier' this week, pro­duced
these remarks:
Q. Why do you think the trus­tees
chose you for the position?
A.'The Board felt that I had
similar views in what should be
done concerning higher educa­tion
at Western and more spe­cifically,
Bellingham."
Q. Have you been on campus,
if so, what do you like about
Western's facilities and curricu­lum?
A. "Oh yes, many times and
most recently just last week I
was on campus. Western's cam­pus
is graceful. It is a unique
combination of modern and class­ical
architecture.-The facilities
See " P r e s i d e n t " page 10
Cong. Westland
Will Speak Here
This Wednesday
Washington State Congressman
Jack Westland, Republican from
the second congressional district,
will meet wih Western's stu­dents
and teachers at 4 p. m.
Wednesday in the VU Lounge.
Congressman Westland will be
sponsored by the Political Union
of the Public Affairs Commis­sion
and the Young Republicans.
He is appearing as a part of
this quarter's political awareness
program in which Dean Foster,
AS executive vice president, is
in charge.
After his talk, he will answer
questions from the audience.