Western Front - 1978 April 25

              WESTERN FRONT Vol. 70, No. 42
Tuesday, April 25, 1978
AS elections end with president slot open
byJOHNWATKEVS
Final returns are in on last
week's Associated Students
elections, and the results pro­duced
two runoff races.
No one got more than 50
percent of the vote for presi­dent
or activities representa­tive
of the AS board. R. S.
"Tracy" Maxwell and Kurt
Hanson are in the runoff for
president, and Gary Gillespie
and Michael DuBeau will run
off for activities representative.
Write-in votes were not a
factor except in races no one
filed for and the 10 senate at
large positions for which only
three people filed.
The following returns will be
made official at the AS board
meeting Tuesday evening.
President:
Kurt Hanson 457
R.S. "Tracy" Maxwell 366
Mike Acord 243
Greg Webley 234 ,
Vice President for Internal
Affairs:
Doug Scott 691
ALL BOTTLED UP — Tom Keeney, of the Huxley Recycling Center, stands amid some of the
many glass bottles and other recyclables brought in daily. Located at 519 21st St., the center is
open all daylight hours, seven days a week.
Development of Tech college put 'on hold'
by SANDY CATT
A College of Technology
should not be established with-aut
further investigation into
the possibility of forming a
Droader College of Applied
Sciences, Wednesday's Faculty
\ffairs Council (FAC) vote de-ermined.
The vote was taken in re­sponse
to an inquiry from James
Talbot, vice president for aca-lemic
affairs. The Long
tenge Planning Committee
LRPC) asked Talbot to investi-
;ate the advantages and disad-antages
of a new college. He
urned to the FAC for its opin-
3n.
"Going with a school of tech­nology
closes the option of
amalgamation of other depart­ments
into colleges," Merrill
Lewis, chairman of the council,
said. He told the faculty repre­sentatives
an exclusive tech­nology
college might restrict the
development of a college for
related areas such as journal­ism,
speech, VICOED and
broadcasting.
The council also said forma­tion
of specialized colleges
might restrict the classes to
students within the college. The
establishment of professional
schools concentrating on one
skill, harm the general educa­tion
aspect of the university,
Joe Crook, FAS member, said.
The council discussed recom­mending
that the Academic Co­ordinating
Committee ensure
that future professional col­leges
will admit non-majors to
courses and require that spe­cialization
students take a va­riety
of liberal arts courses.
Although the FAC put the de­velopment
of a College of Tech­nology
"on hold," George Wit­ter,
council member, said,
"The way we change adminis­trative
structures around here,
nothing closes any doors. If you
don't like it, wait a minute."
Kathleen M Kilcullen 596
Vice President for Academic
Affairs:
Rita Fernandez 764
Ian McDonald 425
Secretary Treasurer:
Scott Allen 856
Activities Representative:
Gary Gillespie 528
Michael DuBeau 367
Don Severson 311
Services representative: (write
in only)
Tracy Maxwell 29
Sam Kussler 22
Facilities representative:
(write in only)
Steve Conion 182
Jim Morford 39
Recreation representative: (un­contested)
Mary Ennes 885
At large (position 9):
Jess Mann 642
Jay Parks 364
At large (position 10):
Dave Hillis 648
Bruce Thompson 283
Senate positions:
Huxley: (uncontested)
Steve Jones 682
Fairhaven: (write in)
Shannon Collins 6
Ken Alexander 6 (not a Fair-haven
student)
Scott Charnley 5
Graduate: (write in)
Ellen Johnson 7 '
Roger Blackman 5
At large (10 positions to be
filled):
Steve Conion 645
Doug Scott 661
Rita Fernandez 710
Joe Haggerty 9 (write in)
David Lonergan 8 (write in)
Robert Smith 7 (write in)
Ellen Pritchard 6 (write in)
All the senate at large candi­dates
who received over five
votes will serve on the senate
unless it is dissolved.
A forum for runoff candi­dates
will take place at 1 p.m.
Tuesday. Voting for these po­sitions
is Friday.
AS might face suit
over groups' rent bill
by JESSIE MILUG AN
Several active campus religi­ous
groups might sue the uni­versity
if the AS Board of Di­rectors
decides tonight that
religious groups should be re­quired
to pay rent for meeting
rooms here.
The groups "threatened to
sue or to recall everyone on the
board who votes (for the rental
policy) or appeal to the Board
of Trustees," AS President
Dave Clark said. "I don't know
if they are idle threats or not,"
he said.
The Rev. Doug Bosscher,
Christian group spokesman,
said they would rather not
spend the time and money on a
court case. "As long as we can
keep the status quo (using
rooms here without paying
rent), then we won't move to
more formal proceedings," he
said.
A Seattle lawyer has been
retained by the groups to study
the constitutional issue of al­lowing
religious groups to use
state facilities free of charge,
Bosscher said.
A recent opinion by state At­torney
General Slade Gorton
stated school districts may rent
surplus property to religious
groups but the lease must not
be for an "unreasonable"
length of time in case the school
later should need the property
for another use.
Although the opinion was di­rected
at public elementary
and secondary schools, "there
is guidance in this opinion that
applies to other state institu­tions,"
Robert Patterson, as­sistant
attorney general, said.
If school property is leased to
religious organizations then it
must be "sufficiently remote
from other school property ...
to avoid the appearance of an
endorsement of the religious
activities ... and also prevent
any sectarian influence," the
attorney general's report
stated.
The issue of requiring rent
from religious groups rose fall
quarter when the AS consider­ed
including part of Amend­ment
34 of the state constitution
in its recognition policy. The
amendment reads, "No public
money or property shall be ap­propriated
for religious wor­ship,
exercise or instruction
Currently, religious groups
here do not receive funds but
do receive use of campus build­ings
free of charge. "To date,
the groups have a semi-recog­nized
status. In order to be
recognized, they must receive
funds," Clark said.
"Even by just giving them ac­cess
to the buildings we are
subsidizing them — to the tune
of $10,000," Clark said.
Seven active Christian groups
estimated they would have to
spend about $10,000 if they
were required to pay rent, ac­cording
to a recent AS survey.
AS faculties representative,
Kurt Hanson, said he thinks he
is the only board member who
will vote against requiring to
pay rent for the groups. "I don't
think the AS Board of Directors
should be addressing problems
such as the separation of
church and state. It should be
left to the courts," he said.
The groups, claiming mem­bership
of 500 students, are the
Ananda Marga meditation
group, the Baptist Student Un­ion,
the Campus Bible Fellow­ship,
the Campus Christian Fel-jowship,
Inter-Varsity Christ­ian
Fellowship and The Navi­gator.
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