Western Front - 1969 May 13

              It's legal: co-ed dorms get go-ahead
The Board of Trustees,
following a recommendation by
President Charles Flora, has
approved the establishment of
two co-ed halls on Western's
campus.
The two dorms to be used
will be Ridgeway Kappa, a
women's dorm on upper
campus, and either Higginson, a
women's dorm, or Edens Hall on
lower campus.
Fairhaven college, presently
in Edens Hall, will move to its
new building this Fall.
If Edens is not chosen as the
lower campus dorm it will
become a women's hall.
Kappa-Theta will be a
separate wing situation, the
Kappa wing being a Men's dorm
and the Theta wing being a
woman's.
"If Higginson, a favored
dorm, is selected the lower
campus hall would be a separate
floor arrangement with men on
the top floors and women on the
bottom two," Keith Guy,
assistant director of residence
programs, said.
"Edens Hall would be a
separate wing hall, the same as
Kappa-Theta.
"We would like to see both
types of halls on campus," Guy
said.
"When renewal cards go out
this week, a notice will be
included for those interested in
moving into a co-ed hall, and it
will indicate which lower
campus hall was chosen," Guy
said.
"The earlier proposal to use
Higginson as a co-ed separate
suite arrangement was dropped
in favor of a separate floor
arrangement.
the western front
Vol. LXI no. 2 j f Western Washington State College Bellingham, Washington 98225 Tuesday, May 13, 1969 10c
Fun in the sun at Larrabee. Students listen to free concert. -photo by fisher
AS discovers $24,000 budget deficit
"At the rate we're going,
Associated Students (AS) will be
approximately $24,000 in the
red by the end of the Summer
quarter," Terry Issacson, finance
co-ordinator of student
government said last week.
The original budget received
last Spring quarter was
$130,000, a $3,000 cut from the
amount requested. At that time,
all departments of student
government revised their
individual budgets.
It was then estimated by
student government officials
that the balanced budget would
be approximately $ 164,180.
"We estimated income from
concerts and dances would add
the $34,000 income above the
amount allocated by the
administration," Issacson said.
In February, requests were
sent to the departments to
estimate expenditures and to
obtain an idea of where AS
stood financially.
About three weeks ago, all
revised budgets were returned
and a deficit of $24,000 was
discovered.
Three main problem areas in
this year's budget were found.
l)The cost of concerts prior
to the Fifth Dimension was
$28,000. Revenue from these
concerts was $15,000.
2)Appropriations by the AS
legislature out of the reserve
fund co different groups
amounted to about $2,000.
3)A $3,000 bill for last year's
Jeopardy was discovered unpaid.
The money was taken out of this
years's budget.
Revenue from the Smoke
shop, which is supposed to go to
the administration, was held up
in the AS budget last year. This
amounted to $4,200, which was
then taken out of the money
budgeted this year.
The combined figure amounts
to $24,000 after all mistakes in
the budget were discovered and
adjusted.
Student government is
working on methods to ease the
deficit by cutting down on
expenses for the remainder of
the year and initiating
money-raising programs such as
Dirty Dan Harris Day. (See
story, page ). Course critique ready for Fall registration
The first student conducted
course critique is now on sale
and will be sold through Friday,
May 23, Bob Moon, critique
editor, announced last Thursday.
The 130-page book will be
sold outside the Viking Union,
in the foyer outside the VU
coffee shop, faculty lunchroom,
Upper Saga and Lower Saga,
Moon said.
"We are putting the
critiques out in time for students
to consult them for Fall quarter
registration," Moon said: Nearly
200 courses and approximately
150 faculty members are
discussed in the critique,
according to Sue Moon.
More than 90 per cent of
the general education courses
and all the professional
education courses are listed with
comments from students and
responses from the faculty, Mrs.
Moon said.
"We think the critique will
be valuable to any student
registering for Fall quarter."
The critique is especially/
designed for students who still
have general education courses
or professional education
courses to take, Moon said.
More than 100 students
and 15 or 20 instructors have
aided the Moons in their task
which began last October.
The group started from
scratch designing a questionnaire
that was relevant to Western,
Moon said.
The project, entailed
d r a f t i n g questionnaires,
distributing the questionnaires
and editing both the student's
comments and instructor's
responses.
A number of professors
have initiated changes in their
approach on the basis of student
comments, she added.
Moon indicated that more
than 90 per cent of the
instructors he contacted
co-operated in the project.
"Our purpose was not
merely to criticize any course or
intructor but rather to describe
the course and the instructor's
approach so the students could
decide if the course would
present a good learning
experience," Moon said.
An initial run of 2,000
copies has been printed, Moon
said.
Students with advance sales
tickets may redeem them at any
table, he added.
Mayor Williams slams local press
Bellingham Mayor Reg
Williams called The Northwest
Passage "garbage" last week and
said that its financial ruin
wouldn't be a loss to the city.
"In its present format, the
Passage will do more to separate
the city from the college,"
Williams told JohnStolpe,
Thursday.
He added that the local
underground newspaper's
editorial content was in bad
taste, as were, several others
distributed locally.
"This is not in good taste,"
Williams said, clutching a recent
issue of the Chicago Seed and
pointing to a completely nude
photo of Beatle John Lennon
and girlfriend Yoko Ono.
"Of course, not everything
the Passage prints is garbage,"
the Mayor clarified.
"But I'm confident that it
can only get worse in the
future."
Williams said that he was
amused with the Passage's
declaration to create a better
understanding between the
college and the community.
"Their article ridiculing
Police Sergeant John Burley is
not what I would call the right
step towards creating better
understanding," the mayor said.
The Passage accused Burley
of harassing patrons and owners
of the Atlantis Peace Shop in
downtown Bellingham. The shop
d e a l s in underground
newspapers, posters and
psychedelic paraphenalia.
"I don't know whether the
Passage's publishers are printing
for what they believe or for
what they can collect in fees,"
Williams said.
The paper's staff has had to
resort to benefit dances and
advance subscriptions to meet
their financial obligations.
Frank Kathman, Passage
editor, one of the paper's 12
unpaid staff writers and artists,
said that unless more funds were
received, they would have to
shut down.