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w& FRIDAY, April 14,2000 The Western Front Western Washington University Volume 112 Issue 5 Bellingham, Washington Women reign on a rainy night Daniel J. Peters/The Western Front Marchers pour from the Performing Arts Center following a presentation sponsored by the Women's Center. Take Back the Night, a 19-year annual tradition, draws more than 200 people By Erin Crumpacker . THE WESTERN FRONT It was a rainy and wet evening for women of Bellingham but that didn't stop them from taking back the night. Take Back the Night is an annual event including a rally and march protesting the ongoing societal and physical violence against women. The Women's Center sponsored this event. Rosalynn Greene and Monica McCallum, co-coordinators of the center, spoke to the crowd at 6:30 last night in the Performing Arts Center and emphasized that if women and men allow oppression, it becomes a natural part of our society. "We need to stop prioritizing what we fight for in order to eliminate oppression," Greene said. Greene added that the march for women isn't just for physical violence against women. "This march is against any violence against women" she exclaimed Robin Elwood, a Western student and coordinator in the Women's Center said Western has participated in Take Back the Night since 1981, 19 years. "Take Back the Night was an international outgrowth of the '60s and 70s," Elwood said. "It started in Germany in the early '70s and spread to the United States in the late 70s." Prior to the march the excitement was present in the PAC. More than 200 students and community members applauded to humorous interludes from the radical cheerleaders. Greene, a cheerleader said the cheers are a good way for them to get the message across. Katie'" McLane, a volunteer and trainer at the Women Care Shelter in Bellingham, discussed several personal stories from the times she has experienced at the center. She empha- See RALLY, page 4 Photo Illustration by Jay Tarpinian/The Western Front Voyeurism can become a problem on college campuses. Reassessing campus safety Restroom peeper at U.W., robbery, causes UP to stress need for student responsibility By Kacee Gradl THE WESTERN FRONT Creating a safe environment on college campuses has always been a great concern for students and administrators, but recently it has taken on special importance. Two weeks ago, a 29-year-old man was arrested at the University of Washington after he was caught videotaping men using campus restrooms. According to police reports, the suspect had a stash of 38 explicit videos of men at urinals dating back as far as October 1999. Due to this incident, as well as the armed robbery that occurred April 6 in Western's Higginson residence hall, ways to keep college campuses safe are of grow- See PEEPING, page 4 Center gets serious about Earth Day 2000 By Gabriel Joseph THE WESTERN FRONT Western students for the past 11 years have usually celebrated Earth Day with delicious food and great music, part of Western's festive Earth Day Fair. Unlike years past, however, this year's Earth Day celebration will take a more serious tone. This year the Associated Students Environmental Center plans to bring about two dozen speakers to The North Cascades Environmental Conference, a free, day-long series of lectures and panels with environmental activists and urban developers. The conference starts at 9 a.m. Saturday with 8 a.m. registration in Arntzen Hall 100. While the music, food, and fun was a great diversion to attract attention to the earth, said A.S. Environmental Center Co- Coordinator Patrick Taylor, the previous celebrations did not seem to accomplish the Environmen-tal Center's goals of raising environmental awareness and moving people to act on them "I enjoy being out in the sunshine and listening to good music, eating Mallard's ice cream," Taylor said, "but at the same time we didn't seem to be accomplishing our goals which are raising environmental awareness and prompting people to action, which is the original intent of Earth Day." Ryan Orth, the other co-coordinator for the Environmental Center, said, "While there were speakers there (in years past), they were drowned out by the music." This year's environmental conference is significantly cheaper, Taylor said. The conference cost the A.S. about $2,000. Most of the speakers are not charging the Environmental Center, except for the two keynote speakers, Milenko Matanovic, a community planner, and Cha-das-ska-dum Which-ta-lum, a Lummi Nation elder. See CONFERENCE, page 4 Candidates gear up for A.S. elections By Andrea Mclnnis THE WESTERN FRONT Western's Associated Students Board of Directors election will take place April 25 and 26 in Red Square. Election coordinator Stephen Shurtleff and current A.S. board members hope to see an improvement on last year's approximately 15 percent voter turnout. "In my opinion, a good turnout is about 17 percent, but my goal is to get 30 percent," Shurtleff said. He said his biggest challenge as coordinator is to encourage students to vote. "Voters will get to see candidates' different approaches this year," Shurtleff said. "Some candidates have on-campus leadership experience from Residence Hall Association to bring to their positions, and some have previous A. S. leadership experience." Vice President for Business and Operations Michelle Yousey said the candidates will start visiting residence hall councils next week. "The A.S. positions carry one-year terms, which begin during spring finals week and run until the following year's spring finals week," Yousey said. Amy Finkbonner, A.S. vice president for activities, is the only current board member running in this election. She will run against Drew Eggebraten and Jake Barry. "I'm starting to realize that the people I've worked with and who have supported me aren't going to be here next year," See ELECTIONS, page 3 IN THIS ISSUE Play ball Western's men's baseball looks to build on strong tradition while struggling to be in the public eye. See story page 8. It's sexual T h e r i s q u e classic "Les L i a s o n s D a n g e r - euses" runs t h r o u g h Sunday.The play was directed by Western graduate student Jessica McLaughlin See story page 6. For news tips, call (360) 650-3162 or e-mail the Western Front at wfront@cc.wwu.edu http://westernfront.wwu.edu
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Rating | |
Title | Western Front - 2000 April 14 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 112, no. 5 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 2000-04-14 |
Year Published | 2000 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Editor |
Bobby Stone, editor Robin Skillings, managing editor Lisa Curdy, head copy editor Cole Cosgrove, copy editor Kristin Bigsby, copy editor Daniel J. Peters, photo editor Terrill Simecki, photo editor Angela D. Smith, news editor Andrea Abney, news editor Curt Woodward, accent editor Soren Velice, features editor James Neal, sports editor Alex P. Hennesy, opinions editor Remy Kissel, online editor |
Staff |
Kerin Lubeitch, cartoonist/graphics Lucas Miller, cartoonist/graphics Carol Brach, business manager Joel Hall, advertising manager Reporters : Kasey Anderson Sara Ballenger Shelly Baynes Mike Beck Monica Bell Grant Brissey Sarah Carlson Melissa Child Erin Crumpacker Emily Dodd Dionna Dominguez E.A. Doolittle Kacee Gradl Brendan Haug Bronlea Hawkins Jacob J. Horn Liam House-Doyle Ken Jager Jessica Keller Heather King Stephanie Kosonen Dana Luthy Millissa Macomber Brendan Manning Andrea Mclnnis Michelle Mc Pherson Siobhan Millhouse Evan Parker Daniel Pearson Levi Pulkkinen Laura Rabel Karlee Rochon Jon Simmons Hillary Smith April Uskoski Lynsie Wickstrom-Wiese Craig Yantis |
Photographer |
Matt Anderson Jay Tarpinian Daniel J. Peters Sara Ballenger Angela Smith Mike Beck |
Faculty Advisor | Lyle Harris |
Article Titles | Women reign on a rainy night / by Erin Crumpacker (p.1) -- Reassessing campus safety / by Kacee Gradl (p.1) -- Center gets serious about Earth Day 2000 / by Gabriel Joseph (p.1) -- Candidates gear up for A.S. elections / by Andrea McInnis (p.1) -- Cops box (p.2) -- AP Wire news briefs (p.2) -- Official announcements (p.2) -- Extra writing classes not required / by Gabriel Joseph (p.3) -- Strange days (p.3) -- Accent (p.5) -- Kingsolver's Poisonwood, examines Western Cultural bias / by Dana Luthy (p.5) -- Play us a song, Piano man / by Kasey Anderson (p.5) -- Danger, danger / by Erin Crumpacker (p.6) -- Barbed Wire Cutters thrill in an all star, all acoustic jam at Boundary Bay / by Heather King (p.6) -- Mellow Green / by Mike Beck (p.6-7) -- Sports (p.8) -- Western baseball club gets no respect / by Ken Jager (p.8) -- DeMarco nets new position / by E.A. Doolittle (p.9) -- Women's golf loses its stroke / by Jeremy Thurston (p.9) -- Men's golf ready to regroup / by Janis Lee (p.9) -- Opinions (p.10) -- Classified (p.11) |
Photographs | Marchers, take back the night (p.1) -- [Woman undressing in front of window] (p.1) -- [Take back the night supporters in Fisher Fountain] (p.4) -- [Cast members of Les Liasons Dangereuses] (p.6) -- [Mellow Green, musical group] (p.6-7) -- Josh Brahinski, Adam Carp (p.7) -- Mike Miller (p.8) -- Michael DeMarco (p.9) |
Cartoons | [If fish could talk] / Lucas Miller (p.10) |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | Campus History Collection |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 45 x 29 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Full Text | w& FRIDAY, April 14,2000 The Western Front Western Washington University Volume 112 Issue 5 Bellingham, Washington Women reign on a rainy night Daniel J. Peters/The Western Front Marchers pour from the Performing Arts Center following a presentation sponsored by the Women's Center. Take Back the Night, a 19-year annual tradition, draws more than 200 people By Erin Crumpacker . THE WESTERN FRONT It was a rainy and wet evening for women of Bellingham but that didn't stop them from taking back the night. Take Back the Night is an annual event including a rally and march protesting the ongoing societal and physical violence against women. The Women's Center sponsored this event. Rosalynn Greene and Monica McCallum, co-coordinators of the center, spoke to the crowd at 6:30 last night in the Performing Arts Center and emphasized that if women and men allow oppression, it becomes a natural part of our society. "We need to stop prioritizing what we fight for in order to eliminate oppression," Greene said. Greene added that the march for women isn't just for physical violence against women. "This march is against any violence against women" she exclaimed Robin Elwood, a Western student and coordinator in the Women's Center said Western has participated in Take Back the Night since 1981, 19 years. "Take Back the Night was an international outgrowth of the '60s and 70s," Elwood said. "It started in Germany in the early '70s and spread to the United States in the late 70s." Prior to the march the excitement was present in the PAC. More than 200 students and community members applauded to humorous interludes from the radical cheerleaders. Greene, a cheerleader said the cheers are a good way for them to get the message across. Katie'" McLane, a volunteer and trainer at the Women Care Shelter in Bellingham, discussed several personal stories from the times she has experienced at the center. She empha- See RALLY, page 4 Photo Illustration by Jay Tarpinian/The Western Front Voyeurism can become a problem on college campuses. Reassessing campus safety Restroom peeper at U.W., robbery, causes UP to stress need for student responsibility By Kacee Gradl THE WESTERN FRONT Creating a safe environment on college campuses has always been a great concern for students and administrators, but recently it has taken on special importance. Two weeks ago, a 29-year-old man was arrested at the University of Washington after he was caught videotaping men using campus restrooms. According to police reports, the suspect had a stash of 38 explicit videos of men at urinals dating back as far as October 1999. Due to this incident, as well as the armed robbery that occurred April 6 in Western's Higginson residence hall, ways to keep college campuses safe are of grow- See PEEPING, page 4 Center gets serious about Earth Day 2000 By Gabriel Joseph THE WESTERN FRONT Western students for the past 11 years have usually celebrated Earth Day with delicious food and great music, part of Western's festive Earth Day Fair. Unlike years past, however, this year's Earth Day celebration will take a more serious tone. This year the Associated Students Environmental Center plans to bring about two dozen speakers to The North Cascades Environmental Conference, a free, day-long series of lectures and panels with environmental activists and urban developers. The conference starts at 9 a.m. Saturday with 8 a.m. registration in Arntzen Hall 100. While the music, food, and fun was a great diversion to attract attention to the earth, said A.S. Environmental Center Co- Coordinator Patrick Taylor, the previous celebrations did not seem to accomplish the Environmen-tal Center's goals of raising environmental awareness and moving people to act on them "I enjoy being out in the sunshine and listening to good music, eating Mallard's ice cream," Taylor said, "but at the same time we didn't seem to be accomplishing our goals which are raising environmental awareness and prompting people to action, which is the original intent of Earth Day." Ryan Orth, the other co-coordinator for the Environmental Center, said, "While there were speakers there (in years past), they were drowned out by the music." This year's environmental conference is significantly cheaper, Taylor said. The conference cost the A.S. about $2,000. Most of the speakers are not charging the Environmental Center, except for the two keynote speakers, Milenko Matanovic, a community planner, and Cha-das-ska-dum Which-ta-lum, a Lummi Nation elder. See CONFERENCE, page 4 Candidates gear up for A.S. elections By Andrea Mclnnis THE WESTERN FRONT Western's Associated Students Board of Directors election will take place April 25 and 26 in Red Square. Election coordinator Stephen Shurtleff and current A.S. board members hope to see an improvement on last year's approximately 15 percent voter turnout. "In my opinion, a good turnout is about 17 percent, but my goal is to get 30 percent," Shurtleff said. He said his biggest challenge as coordinator is to encourage students to vote. "Voters will get to see candidates' different approaches this year," Shurtleff said. "Some candidates have on-campus leadership experience from Residence Hall Association to bring to their positions, and some have previous A. S. leadership experience." Vice President for Business and Operations Michelle Yousey said the candidates will start visiting residence hall councils next week. "The A.S. positions carry one-year terms, which begin during spring finals week and run until the following year's spring finals week," Yousey said. Amy Finkbonner, A.S. vice president for activities, is the only current board member running in this election. She will run against Drew Eggebraten and Jake Barry. "I'm starting to realize that the people I've worked with and who have supported me aren't going to be here next year," See ELECTIONS, page 3 IN THIS ISSUE Play ball Western's men's baseball looks to build on strong tradition while struggling to be in the public eye. See story page 8. It's sexual T h e r i s q u e classic "Les L i a s o n s D a n g e r - euses" runs t h r o u g h Sunday.The play was directed by Western graduate student Jessica McLaughlin See story page 6. For news tips, call (360) 650-3162 or e-mail the Western Front at wfront@cc.wwu.edu http://westernfront.wwu.edu |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
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