Western Front - 1969 April 22

              AS elections take
place tomorrow
Elections for Associated
Students offices will take place
tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 6:30
p.m.
Polling places will be open
from 9 ajn. to 6 pjn. in the VU
coffee shop foyer, in front of
the VU and between the library
and humanities building.
Polling will take place at
Viking Commons from 11:30
a.m. to 1:30 pjn. and at the
Ridgeway Commons from 5 to
6:30 p.m.
The balloting will be filled
out with Number 2 pencils.
Students must present their I.D.
cards with the proper validation
sticker.
Anybody in line prior to
closure of the polls will be
allowed to vote, Gary
Fredrickson, elections board
chairman said.
Constitution voting
moved to May 15
The special election for
a p p r o v a l of the new
constitutional by-laws was
r e - s c h e d u l e d from last
Wednesday to May 15 in order
to give people a chance to read
them and decide how to vote.
Open forums will be held
during the week of April 28 to
May 2 in the VU Lounge to
enable students to be informed,
AS President Noel Bourasaw
said.
The new constitution will
decentralize student government
and will define the structure
more clearly so that agencies will
have greater autonomy while
acting in the governmental
framework, Bourasaw said.
Hopefully, it will integrate
student activities into the
government. For example, the
executive cabinet will include
Inter-Club Council. Clubs will be
given money if they want it, but
they will be required to turn in
their revenue, he added.
Clubs who want to exist
without support (such as
literature clubs, etc.) can do so
as well.
The new constitution will
also cover general policy,
executive cabinet, and the
all-student judicial board.
AMS to elect 4
officers tomorrow
The Associated Men Students
(AMS) are looking for four new
officers to program social events
and provide services for the
college and community for next
year.
The four available offices are
AMS president, vice president,
secretary, and treasurer.
Elections for the AMS offices
will be tomorrow on the same
ballot as the AS offices.
Men may be nominated by
signing up for the AMS offices
by 5 p.m. today at the VU desk.
Interested men should submit
a brief (not more than one
typewritten page) letter to the
VU desk explaining their
qualifications and why they are
seeking an AMS office.
All AMS candidates should
attend the AMS meeting
tomorrow in VU 10 (the current
affairs briefing center, across
from the barber shop).
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Vol. LXI No. 22 Western Washington State College Bellingham, Washington 98225 Tues. April 22, 1969 10a
"Man is challenging the bondage of patterns in which he exists, and is moving toward social existentialism." See page 5 for story.
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Doctorate bill to pass soon—Atwood
JIM AUSTIN
copy editor
Sen. R. Frank Atwood
(R-Whatcom) predicted last
Wednesday that the state senate
would soon accept the house
amendments to a bill giving
Western the power to grant the
doctor of philosophy degree in
education.
"It's on the calendar and I
will move that the senate accept
the amendments," Atwood said
in a telephone conversation.
The bill was introduced by
Atwood and passed by the
senate. It was passed by the
house Friday, April 11, after
two amendments were added by
the house higher education
committee.
Rep. Cas Farr (R-Whatcom)
amended the bill to delay the
effective date until July 1,1971.
Farr also specified that a
proposed Council on Higher
Education would have to
approve the program before it
could be started.
R e p . Fred Veroske
(R-Whatcom) amended Farr's
amendment to read that the
council would have to "review
and recommend" approval of
the program.
'The bill creating the council
gives it no power to approve
anything," Veroske said in his
argument.
If the Higher Education
Council is not approved during
this legislative session, that
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portion of the amendment
would not have effect on the bill
as a whole, Atwood indicated.
The house vote on Atwood's
bill as amended was 65 to 28.
The bill was opposed by only 2
democrats, while 26 Republicans
opposed it.
"We are picking the third
university when we pass this
bill," Rep. Alan Bluechel
(R-Kirkland) said in opposition.
"We are looking at a cost of
$200 million."
Rep. Frank Brouillet
(D-Puyallup) called the figure "a
red herring."
Brouillet noted that the
University of Washington budget
for the 1969-71 biennium is less
than $150 million.
"I don't know where he
(Bluechel) gets his figures," the
Democrat said.
Dr. Charles J. Flora, college
president, said he was not
concerned about the July 1,
1971 beginning date.
"We couldn't implement the
program before then if we began
planning immediately," the
president said last Wednesday.
Flora said he sees no
stumbling blocks to prevent
approval of the bill.
"We will not sacrifice one
segment of the undergraduate
program."
The doctorate program will
be totally self-supporting, Flora
said.
"Funds will not be diverted
from other programs for the
doctorate programs."
The Student Information
Office will be compiling a
pamphlet to be distributed at
the end of Spring quarter for use
this summer as well as next year.
The pamphlet will contain
lists of AS officers, deans, and
other school officials and their
offices and hours. This will
enable students to locate people
quickly.
This guide will also serve as a.
reference by which students will
know who to see about specific
campus problems.
It will be especially useful to
freshmen and transfer students.
Between 20,000 and 30,000
copies will be printed and
available to students at no
charge.
Pedestrian campus to be
created next Fall
If all goes well, Western will
have one less campus
thoroughfare by the beginning
of Fall quarter.
Construction begins in
August for the proposed High
Street by-pass which, when
completed, will divert traffic to
the west of the main campus
along Garden Street.
High Street will be blocked
off to all but emergency vehicles
from the Edens Hall driveway to
the south end of the
Auditorium-Music building,
according to Harold A. Goltz,
campus planner.
The High Street closure will
provide room for the future
west-end expansion of Wilson
Library.
The by-pass project includes
construction of a new route off
High Street above the Music
building connecting with Garden
Street near Garden Terrace.
Goltz said that if current
plans are not interrupted by
weather and legalities, the
$300,000 by-pass route could be
ready for use by Oct. 1.
In addition, Garden Street,
from Oak through Cedar Streets,
would be widened to
accommodate the additional
traffic.
"We are shooting for a
completely closed campus in the
future," Goltz said.
"It will be possible to walk
from one end of the campus to
another without ever crossing an
active street."
Parking, which is another
concern for the College planning
office, will be shifted to the
perimeters of the campus.
"Improved parking space will
be at" a premium when nearly
8,000 students scramble for
parking stalls next Fall," Goltz
said.
Stan Shockey is just one of the many people who have been busy
putting out campaign materials the past week. _p a o to by finley