Western Front - 1978 April 18

              WESTERN FRONT Vol.70 No.40
Tuesday, April 18, 1978
AS candidates make views public
by JOHN HICKS
Candidates for elected Asso-
I elated Students positions spoke
and answered questions Friday
I in the Viking Union lounge.
Major topics included stu-
Ident involvement and unifica­tion,
support and improvement
I'of the day care center, campus
I minimum wage and continuing
| Fairhaven's workshops.
Other topics were recycling,
[ proposed faculty evaluation by
students, arts and entertain­ment
and the recognition policy
approved by the AS Activities
Council that might limit relig­ious
meetings.
Candidates for president are
Kurt Hanson, Commonwealth
candidate Tracey Maxwell,
Mike Acord and Greg Webley.
Maxwell, a member of the
election's only political party
said unification of student gov­ernment
and better use of
funds were his top priorities.
He suggested more tutors
| anH guest speakers, discos and
expressing Western's needs on
a state level, like the state
legislature.
Hanson's • goals include ex­pansion
of Miller Hall, a coffee
jshop in Arntzen, more funding
for the day care center, more
student involvement and better
I cultural programs.
He criticized the campus
[poster policy being put into
effect without students partic­ipating
in the decision. He said
| a salary raise for Viking Union
land AS positions would make
[jobs "more professional."
Hanson said better art pro-
[ grams would be his top priority.
Acord said more funding for
I the day care center was his top
I priority, since it would encour­age
more funding for AS pro­grams.
"The AS is now the only
funding source for the pro-igram,"
he said. "The college
should also fund it."
Acord also stressed more
recycling resources, maintain­ing'Fairhaven's
workshops, ac­ceptance
of a campus minimum
wage, more gym use by smaller
organizations and creation of a
consumer advocacy service for
students.
He said students should ac­cept
the disbandment of the All-
University Senate.
Webley agreed with Acord
that the senate will disband. He
said the new system of repre­senting
students through the AS
will give students more control.
Webley also stressed more
funding for the day care center
and more student influence in
spending funds gained through
tuition.
He declined further comment
on other issues, saying they are
denned by students and con­stantly
change.
"We need to listen (for the
issues), not just tell what the
issues are," he said.
Candidates for vice pres­ident
of internal affairs are
Doug Scott and Kathleen Kil-cullen.
Scott said he favored main-
"HEY BABE, YA WANNA BOOGIE?" - Punkers brought their own brand of music and
anarchy to Western. See story page 10.
Olscamp won't allow wet T-shirts on campus
by SUE TAYLOR
Highland Hall's wet T-shirt
contest was canceled Thursday
after University President Paul
Olscamp told Highland's repre­sentatives
that the contest
could not take place in any
campus buildings.
Olscamp met with the repre­sentatives
Thursday afternoon
because he said he heard a
number of negative responses
from the community and cam­pus
about the contest and he
questioned the use of campus
buildings for the contest.
The contest would have been
"an inappropriate use of tax-supported,
state-owned facil­ities,"
Olscamp said. "It has a
negative effect on Western in
the way the community views
us," he added.
Olscamp said he was contac­ted
by faculty, students, wom­en's
groups and people from the
community. The city of Belling-ham
did not send an official
response, he said.
"All the contacts that I
received were negative," he
said. Olscamp said he sought
opinions from others in the
community and decided not to
allow the contest to take place
on campus.
One of the four who spoke
with Olscamp, Bob Sealey, said
the meeting "was very posi­tive,"
and added the cancella­tion
was no surprise.
"All along the way we were
expecting someone to say no,
(but up until now) no one did,"
Sealey said. "We knew we
would have to face a lot of
opposition," he added.
Olscamp's main concerns
were using the campus and the
effect it would have on the
community, Sealey said. "He
couldn't have handled it more
fairly," he said.
Highland Hall decided not to
have the contest somewhere
else off campus, Sealey said.
Olscamp said he volunteered
his services for an alternative
fund-raising event for the
.dorm. "I have nothing against
Highland raising money," he
said. He said he suggested a pie
throw and offered to be the
target.
Highland Hall is planning a
keg roll to Olympia instead of
the wet T-shirt contest, Sealey
said. He said he believed
Olscamp had been invited to
"roll it off."
Regatta
Western's Seventh Annual Invitational
rowing regatta, a "minature Sea/air,"
made waves on Lake Samish. Story on page
16.
Co-op lease
Bellingham Cooperative School might be
asked to move off the Fairhaven campus.
See page 7.
taining the All-Uni­versity
Senate as a source of
student representation, rather
than the AS.
"The only time the AS pays
attention to matters is during
election time," he said.
Scott also favors expanding
the bookstore's variety of pro­ducts,
more payment for re­turning
used textbooks, manda­tory
midterm deficiency reports
and retroactive pay for stu­dents,
which he said various
departments can afford.
He severely criticized the ad­ministration
for not approving
the campus minimum wage pro­posal.
Kilcullen's goals include bus
shelters, expansion of the bus
Continued on page 6
Star beam
experiments
byBETHJACOBSON
Two Western Administrators
are involved in solar experi­ments
in order to see a more
fantastic universe that had
been until now shut from the
eyes of mankind, Peter Kotzer,
of the Bureau of Faculty Re­search,
said in a recent inter­view.
Kotzer and James Albers,
vice provost for instruction and
research, are heading experi­ments
investigating the pres­ence
of neutrinos, a by-product
of nuclear fusion emitted by the
sun and all stars. The problem
is finding them, since neutrinos
have little or no weight and no
electrical charge.
Neutrinos do have energy,
however, and might lock up 50
percent or more of the uni­verse's
energy, Kotzer said. A
great sea of neutrinos exist in
space, he said.
, Because neutrinos have no
mass, they rarely interact with
matter. Ten billion pass freely
through a square centimeter of
matter every second. Neutrinos
travel at the speed of light.
The experiments might lead
to a new method of communica­ting
over long distances without
the use of satellites, copper
wires, antennas and without
electro-magnetic interference
(noise). These are things no
other system can do, Kotzer
said. A neutrino beam could
transmit as many as 16 TV
channels at once.
Neutrino beams will be brok­en
up into Morse-type code and
deciphered when they reach
the detectors.
Although anyone could break
the code, they would have to
dig deep into the earth to
intercept the beam. Commun­ications
will be more private,
Kotzer said.
Kotzer believes it will be
easier to make contact with
extraterrestrial life using neu­trino
beams than with conven­tional
electromagnetic waves.
. He said he also believes more
than 1,000,000 highly techno-lized
societies exist in our solar
system.
Neutrinos are "a tool to open
up a whole new window on the
universe," Kotzer said. He
compared the impact of neu­trino
research on physics to
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