Collegian - 1965 April 9

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T W E j j § WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE
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Vol. LVII, No. 19 Bel I ingham, Washington Friday, April 9, 1965
SOLONS TO DECIDE
TUITIO BILL SOON
Curts Resigns -
Stolpe New Editor
J o h n Stolpe p r e m a t u r e ly
assumed editorship of The
Collegian l a t e l a s t w e e k fol­lowing
t h e u n e x p e c t e d res­i
g n a t i o n of Dave Curts.
Curts was bitter when giving
his reasons for quitting and wrote
in his resignation notice to Pub­lications
Advisor 'James Mulli­gan:
"If you can't stand the smell-in
the outhouse, geVout"—. Fin-
Ster. Signed, Dave -CurtS;;;
Curts said . that he "couldn't'
work under an advisor who "kept,
him from doihg^isHjdfo- efficient^,
ly." - • . . . ;;:•:"
Mulligan fired-Curts last-quar­ter
for two weeks_„:;d^o#irig; a
disagreement in editorial policy.
Curts printed a letter to the edi­tor
written by a staff member
and signed under an assumed
name.
"I was fired and fined $50. My
keys were taken away from the
darkroom on charges I exposed
some photographic paper, my
keys to the outside door were
taken so I couldn't work on the
paper spring vacation and Mulli-an
gave me a "B" grade for
the quarter," Curts remarked in
an interview.
HE BELIEVED that the lower­ing
of the grade was a strictly
personal matter and that he felt
that was unfair.
Curts' resignation was followed
by the walk-out of Managing
Editor Scott Rund. Rund gave no
reasons for his action.
Stolpe, a sophomore journalism
major from Bellingham, quickly
reorganized the editorial staff and
announced that he would formul-late
a new editorial policy for
the paper.
He had been appointed anyway
to edit The Collegian beginning
summer quarter at a Feb. 11
meeting of the Publications Com­mittee.
"The paper needs some face
lifting and that's what I intend
to do in the next couple of is­sues,"
Stolpe said.
Some of those changes are in­corporated
in today's Collegian.
THERE ARE some vacancies
on the reporting staff and Stolpe
intends to have them filled by
next week.
"I don't care what anybody
says," Stolpe remarked, "this is
one of the best .college papers on
the coast, but there is room for
lots of improvement—one hell of
a lot!"
Campus Wages
Ail-Out Attack
The State Legislature is expected to r e a c h a de­cision
w i t h i n t h e n e x t few days on t h e controversial
bill t h a t would r a i s e tuitions i n t h e t h r e e s t a t e colleges.
The solons are in e x t r a o r d i n a r y session and will
w r a p up t h e i r 39th Legislature sometime next week.
Student leaders
HE'S PROTESTING—What this unidentified student
i s protesting isn't known for sure—it could be the
police department, coffee shop, juke box or the
tuition bill in Olympia.
Weather
Weekend weather for the Puget
Sound area calls for partly cloudy
skies over the coast, possibility
of sunny afternoons—skiing condi­tions
at Mt. Baker should be fair
to good.
BULLETIN
Western has been granted
$36,800 from the U. S. Office
of Education for the training
of teachers for the mentally re­tarded.
Senators Jackson, Magnuson
and Rep. Meeds made the an­nouncement
by telegram at
press time. Details next week.
Veto Franchise
By MIKE WILLIAMS
Collegian Managing Editor
- A S P r ^ d e ^ R a ^ M n -
r o exercised for t h e first
time Monday his constitu­tional
power to veto, w h en
he r e t u r n e d to t h e Legisla­t
u r e a bill t h e y h a d passed
d u r i n g t h e l a s t session, win­t
e r q u a r t e r.
THE BILL, sponsored by Orest
Kruhlak, then the temporay Exec­utive
Vice-President, proposed to
abolish all on campus preference
polls before student elections. It
was passed by a two-thirds vote
of the legislators.
At that time Munro told the Col­legian
he thought the measure
was "sour grapes" as several of
the isolons voted in favor of the
bill supported a presidential can­didate
who won in the nominating
convention but lost the Helmsman
poll and the election.
However, the bill is not dead
yet. Program' Vice-President
Tony Tinsley questioned the con­stitutional
legality of the presi­dent
vetoing a bill passed in one
session and returning it to the
board in a subsequent session.
TINSLEY POINTED out that
foiir members'of last term's Legi­slature
(three who voted in favor
of the bill) are no longer on it.
The solons voted to refer the
problem to the Judiciary Com­mittee
(a campus Supreme Court)
for a.decision. Chief Justice of
the Court is Joel Lamphear. The
two other justices are Jim Thorns-bury
and Ron Hendricks.
If the veto is allowed, the Legis­lature
may still overrule it by a
two thirds majority when the bill
is returned to them.
In other Legislative action Legi­slator
Clark Drummond won a
partial victory when his motion
to suspend the rules of the Legis­lature
to allow the AMS-AWS
See 'VETO' Page 2
on campus,
hanging onto protest - petitions
signed by over 3,000 of Western's
4,100 students, are optimistic tor
day and many feel the bill will
be killed in the House. v
AS President Ralph Munro will
rush the petitions directly to Gov­ernor
Daniel J. Evans in jthe
event the bill .passes, in the hopes
that2 he will veto the measure.
Munro and. Executive Vice
President Dean Foster garnered
the signatures after they learned
that Senate Bill 552 proposed by
State Senator Foley would raise
sharply "Western's tuition. '
FOLEY'S BILL would boost in­state
tuition to $88 per quarter
for an increase of 14 per cent and
out-of-state tuition to $157 per
quarter, or a $47 increase. •
The vast majority of the stu­dents,
including the Bellingham
Herald, feel that the suggested
tuition increase would be a ser­ious
burden for many students.
Munro drove to Olympia Mon­day
morning to show the petit-tions
to several state representa­tives,
but did not leave them. He
also sought support from the Uni­versity
of Washington and a
campus refrom group took heed
and circulated petitions.
"I strongly feel that this bill
would force, many students at­tending
Western now to drop out
because of the additional finan­cial
burden," Munro said.
Assistant to the President, Har­old
A. Goltz, told the Collegian
Editor on assignment in Olympia
that 40 per .cent of all students
who have dropped from Western
recently have attributed financial
problems as a contributing factor.
THE COUNCIL of Presidents,
composed of the college presi­dents
in the state, voted earlier
this week to request the Legisla­ture
not to raise tuitions "more
than what would be necessary."
The bill is the second piece of
legislation this session which will
critically affect Western's oper­ating
procedure.
Earlier this year, the solons
passed former Governor Albert
Rosellini's budget request for
Western's operating capital—a
See 'TUITION' Page 12
Snow Fun -See p 8-9