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The Western Front Friday May 17,1991/Volume 83, Number 40 Western Washington University please recycle Fulani says American political system is failing By Chris Schneidmlller staff reporter The Persian Gulf War was an example of the United States' attack on colored people, Dr. Lenora B. Fulani said in her speech "From Bellingham to Baghdad: The War Against People of Color," on Tuesday night. While African-Americansoldiers make up only 21 percent of the U.S. forces, they accounted for 58 percent of the soldiers on the front lines, said Fulani, who is the New Alliance Party's candidate for president in 1992. "We would either be dead there or we would take out the Iraqis," Fulani said. "The effect is the same," she said. "People of color are killed." Fulani discussed what she called the "genocide" against communities of color. "There are serious moves in the country to do in working-class people of color," she said. Police brutality is another form of the war on people of color, Fulani said. The videotape of Los Angeles Administration stresses 'wait and see' on budget By Scott M. Ayers staff reporter Two weeks ago Governor Booth Gardner sent the state legislature home without a budget, leaving the fate of many Western academic departments and professors in limbo. When the legislature reconvenes in early June, the budget agreed upon will affect courses offered in the next two years and to what professors will be teaching them. "It's safe to say at this point we don't know what will happen, it's all contingent upon the legislature," said Robert Sylvester, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts. "The administration is stressing a wait-and-see attitude." But while Western's administration is not jumping to conclusions, all signs from Olympia point to a reduction in Western's budget somewhere between the senate's proposed .88 percent and the house's 3.35 percent decrease. And the university is preparing contingency plans to reduce faculty and services. "If we had a carry-forward budget, which is current costs plus inflation, all of our faculty positions would be filled," said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Peter Elich. "What we are doing at the present is postponing final commitments on certain positions," he said. In late April, the administration proposed freezing hiring for 35 tenure track positions, currently open. Nineteen of these positions were in the Arts and Sciences, six were in the Woodring College of Education, and the others were scattered throughout the university. Many of these positions, although considered open for new faculty who would work toward tenure, are filled by part-time and one-year full-time professors. If these positions were lost, the number of courses offered would be cut. Reaction to the administration's freeze proposal was negative and immediate. The summary of the Deans and Chairs (DAC) meeting of April 30, sent by Elich to department chairs and program directors in the College of Arts and Sciences contained comments from those attending the meeting, some of which were highly critical of the administration proposal. "Why is it that when lots of funds are available the academic area gets only a small amount, but when dollars have to be recaptured the first place to be affected is the academic area?" stated a portion of the summary. The summary also stated that all department chairs interested in drafting a letter to President Kenneth Mortimer are asked to meet. "The chairs did make a statement based on information that was in error," Elich said. "It was made at a time when the chairs were not yet aware of the $300,000 the president freed up, after that the chairs decided to pause, wait and ask for more information on the current situation and how money has been divided up in the past" Face-to-face meetings with the administration in budget meetings last week seemed to have eased tensions somewhat as the administration freed up $300,000 more of next year's budget outlay for use in filling faculty positions. The move was made to keep cuts from hitting any one department too hard. Originally, thehistory department was to have four positions held open, the most for any one department on campus, but the extra money has allowed Elich the opportunity to try and fill two-and-a-half of those. Still, many other positions on campus cannot currently be filled and waiting for the legislature to reconvene and come up with final numbers may cost Western some top-notch teachers, Elich said. "The major problem with the whole situation is the timing is very bad," he said. "We've got some very good people who really can't stay around much longer and wait They may have other options and not want to wait to make their decisions." Sylvester agreed. "The longer onehas to wait, the smaller thevacancy pool," he said. "We (the college of fine and performing arts) are very fortunate to have developed pools of people we can readily call on in different areas of expertise." Elich said Arts and Sciences is not so lucky. "It may be hard for us to find adequate replacements for some really good people if they are lost." This concern has led Elich to factor in the possibility of losing good professors into his decisions on where the 19 positions in arts and sciences would be frozen. A decision, he stresses, that was made by him and not the administration. "Which 19 positions put onhold was determined by me," he said. "I decided, with council, the places we should leave them on hold." Although all involved are hoping for a reprieve from the legislature, they also worry about how proposed cuts would effect students. "We are deeply concerned with minimizing the negative impact on students," Elich said describing the most likely impacts. "The impact on students will largely be fewer small-section classes, like small specialty sections in majors. We will definitely see larger classes." police beating Rodney King has brought the issue to the forefront, but the problem has been there for a long time. "I can't tell you how many funerals I've gone to of black kids killed by cops," Fulani said. She talked about her own son, who has been chased, had guns pulled on him, and been arrested by police officers for "tagging," a form of graffiti. Fulani said the legal system seems to work against people of color; one in four African-Americans spends time in jail during their lives. Several cities, including Seattle, have passed anti-loitering laws in areas inhabited by people of color ..Fulani calls these kinds of laws fascism. "Fascism in America is going to come in very subtle, very absurd and See FULANI, p. 4 Students gaining more influence By Ftenee Brewer staff reporter Student input is beginning to gain more clout within Western's policy-making process, Associated Students President Mark Aaserud said. While the Interim Campus Audit Report released Feb. 15 stated, "student leaders complain about 'an incredible lack of respect for students by the administration and a number of faculty,"' Aaserud said he feels the AS Board and students have gained more influence within the administration in the past year. Though he complains that sometimes "issues that affect students don't go by my desk," Aaserud said he feels good progress has been made toward greater influence on Western by the AS and students in general. "I think there's been an increase in the credibility of the student voice," Aaserud said. One early student success was convincing the Board of Trustees to make the recent measles immunization policy applicable to faculty and staff as well as students. At first, the policy would expel students who hadn't been immunized, but would require faculty and staff to avoid work for three weeks if they contracted the disease, Aaserud said. Aaserud said he argued for the current policy, which requires everyone on campus under 33 to provide proof of immunization, on the grounds that "a measle germ doesn't care if you have tenure or not" However, Aaserud said he has often encountered an atti- ' tude within the administration that students at Western are merely passing through anddon'tneed to be consulted for long-rangeoecisions. "On paper we (students) are supposed to have equal voice as faculty (indecision-making)," Aaserud said. "In reality, we're not seen as equal." Aaserud said at the first Board of Trustees meeting he attended, the faculty representative reported on the development of teaching evaluations and a grievance policy. When Aaserud asked about the level of student input into the process, the faculty member replied it wasn't really a student issue. Aaserud has a different perspective. "You need to include those most affected by a decision in the process of that decision," he said. Western President Kenneth Mortimer said he has received complaints from some students about the lack of respect they receive on committees but hasn't witnessed this behavior at meetings he has attended. Tyler Anderson/The WMtem Front Associated Students President Mark Aaserud says that students are gaining more political clout with Western administrators. Mortimer and the AS Board will discuss the allegations of lack of respect for students at the next few meetings together, Mortimer said. "Dr. Mortimer and fhave a good working relationship. ... We don't always agree, but we're honest with each other," Aaserud said. "I just keep working on changing his mind." The cause of most apparent exclusion of student voices is glitches in the system, Mortimer said. For example, students are not being nominated to committees; or too few are nominated, so none make it through the screening process; or committee meetings are scheduled during class times so student members find it difficult to attend. Mortimer said students were on the presidential See STUDENT VOICE, p. 3 •HHHHH iiilllllllllli H l l l l l l l l llllllffiliiiilllil liiliilil
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Title | Western Front - 1991 May 17 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 83, no. 40 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1991-05-17 |
Year Published | 1991 |
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 |
Mark Hines, Editor Steve McClure, Managing editor Kathy Tucker, News editor Maria Manliclic, Assistant News editor Noelle Kompkoff, Campus government editor Catherine Legacy, Sports editor Alexandra M. Page, Sports editor Geoffrey Patrick, Issues / Opinions editor Darryl Carr, Features editor Martin Knutson, Assistant Features editor Debi Disbrow, Accent editor Gloria Robinson, Assistant Accent editor Charlotte Anderson, Copy editor Julie Anderson, Copy editor Tyler Anderson, Photo editor |
Staff |
Holly Borba, Typesetter Staff : Michael Anthony Steve Arnold Stephanie Aspelund Scott Ayers Renee Brewer Crystal Brockway Jonathan Burton Mike Clynch Lori Corso Patricia Davis Julie Davisson Andrea Dixon Joan Elmenhurst Bill Evien Jeff Flugel Rob Gwinn Heather Harnischfeger-Smith Jason Haws Christie Houser Christine Hudyma Arthur Hughes Josh Jenkins Karl W. Jensen Robert Johnson Stacey Jurgensen Kevin Justik Kristin Kline Erik Kvilaas Neil Landaas Sam Lipoma Beth Matthews Denise Mead Anne Nichol Wendy Nungesser Becci Oxner Bret Rankin Troy Ragsdale Claudia Reed Scott Ryan Chris Schneidmiller Ted C. Schuehle Kristine Susee Michele Thielke Michael Thompson Dan Tolley Chris von Seggern Erika Williams Clayton Wright Suzi Zobrist |
Faculty Advisor | Pete Steffens |
Article Titles | Fulani says American political system is failing / by Chris Schneidmiller (p.1) -- Administration stresses 'wait and see' on budget / by Scott M. Ayers (p.1) -- Students gaining more influence / by Renee Brewer (p.1) -- Huxley celebrates 20 years / by Samantha Lipoma (p.2) -- Writer tortured in Argentinian prison shares experience / by Bill J. Evjen (p.2) -- Briefs (p.2) -- Western Washington University official announcements (p.2) -- Instructor gets rare glimpse of Soviet Union / by Dan Tolley (p.3) -- Panel provides insight on eating disorders / by Robert Johnson (p.4) -- Fairhaven Renaissance Festival / by Lori Corso (p.5) -- Dark's column ... Encyclopedia Soup / by Dave Lambert (p.6) -- Amnesty International presents free concert / by Lori Corso (p.6) -- This week's happenings (p.7) -- Student directs AS drama / by Joan Elmenhurst (p.7) -- Track athlete to end collegiate career at nationals / by Art Hughes (p.8) -- Sports report (p.8) -- Dreaming of Mother ... / by Bill J. Evjen (p.9) -- Misunderstanding obscures our secret love of Mr. Rogers / by Michael Anthony (p.9) -- Student apathy comes from being ignored (p.9) -- The bookstore shouldn't exist just to create profits / by Mark Hinchliff (p.10) -- Reader comments on Heather and Dan's commentaries / by Derek Baylor (p.10) -- Sexuality commentary was disgusting and immoral / by Jim Connett (p.10) -- Women's activists seek oppression through censorship / by Partick Mazzuca (p.10) -- Dumas's references to "fundamentalists" were unfair and hypocritical (p.10) / by Allen Peterson (p.10) -- Classified (p.11) |
Photographs | A.S. President Mark Aaserud / by Tyler Anderson (p.1) -- Environmental Studies building interior / by Tyler Anderson (p.2) -- Alicia Portnoy (p.2) -- Phil Schofield (p.3) -- Petropavolvsk-Kamchatski, U.S.S.R. (p.3) -- Lenora B. Fulani (p.4) -- Bassist Paul Hinklin from Sadhappy (p.5) -- Evan Schiller, drummer for Sadhappy (p.6) -- Lisa Waltenburg trails an opponent at district competition / by Art Hughes (p.8) -- Bill J. Evjen (p.9) -- Michael Anthony (p.9) -- Self-portrait / by Tyler Anderson (p.10) |
Cartoons | [President is stuck again] / by Marsh (p.9) |
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 | 44 x 28 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 |
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Title | Western Front - 1991 May 17 - Page 1 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1991-05-17 |
Year Published | 1991 |
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 | The Western Front Friday May 17,1991/Volume 83, Number 40 Western Washington University please recycle Fulani says American political system is failing By Chris Schneidmlller staff reporter The Persian Gulf War was an example of the United States' attack on colored people, Dr. Lenora B. Fulani said in her speech "From Bellingham to Baghdad: The War Against People of Color," on Tuesday night. While African-Americansoldiers make up only 21 percent of the U.S. forces, they accounted for 58 percent of the soldiers on the front lines, said Fulani, who is the New Alliance Party's candidate for president in 1992. "We would either be dead there or we would take out the Iraqis," Fulani said. "The effect is the same," she said. "People of color are killed." Fulani discussed what she called the "genocide" against communities of color. "There are serious moves in the country to do in working-class people of color," she said. Police brutality is another form of the war on people of color, Fulani said. The videotape of Los Angeles Administration stresses 'wait and see' on budget By Scott M. Ayers staff reporter Two weeks ago Governor Booth Gardner sent the state legislature home without a budget, leaving the fate of many Western academic departments and professors in limbo. When the legislature reconvenes in early June, the budget agreed upon will affect courses offered in the next two years and to what professors will be teaching them. "It's safe to say at this point we don't know what will happen, it's all contingent upon the legislature," said Robert Sylvester, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts. "The administration is stressing a wait-and-see attitude." But while Western's administration is not jumping to conclusions, all signs from Olympia point to a reduction in Western's budget somewhere between the senate's proposed .88 percent and the house's 3.35 percent decrease. And the university is preparing contingency plans to reduce faculty and services. "If we had a carry-forward budget, which is current costs plus inflation, all of our faculty positions would be filled," said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Peter Elich. "What we are doing at the present is postponing final commitments on certain positions," he said. In late April, the administration proposed freezing hiring for 35 tenure track positions, currently open. Nineteen of these positions were in the Arts and Sciences, six were in the Woodring College of Education, and the others were scattered throughout the university. Many of these positions, although considered open for new faculty who would work toward tenure, are filled by part-time and one-year full-time professors. If these positions were lost, the number of courses offered would be cut. Reaction to the administration's freeze proposal was negative and immediate. The summary of the Deans and Chairs (DAC) meeting of April 30, sent by Elich to department chairs and program directors in the College of Arts and Sciences contained comments from those attending the meeting, some of which were highly critical of the administration proposal. "Why is it that when lots of funds are available the academic area gets only a small amount, but when dollars have to be recaptured the first place to be affected is the academic area?" stated a portion of the summary. The summary also stated that all department chairs interested in drafting a letter to President Kenneth Mortimer are asked to meet. "The chairs did make a statement based on information that was in error," Elich said. "It was made at a time when the chairs were not yet aware of the $300,000 the president freed up, after that the chairs decided to pause, wait and ask for more information on the current situation and how money has been divided up in the past" Face-to-face meetings with the administration in budget meetings last week seemed to have eased tensions somewhat as the administration freed up $300,000 more of next year's budget outlay for use in filling faculty positions. The move was made to keep cuts from hitting any one department too hard. Originally, thehistory department was to have four positions held open, the most for any one department on campus, but the extra money has allowed Elich the opportunity to try and fill two-and-a-half of those. Still, many other positions on campus cannot currently be filled and waiting for the legislature to reconvene and come up with final numbers may cost Western some top-notch teachers, Elich said. "The major problem with the whole situation is the timing is very bad," he said. "We've got some very good people who really can't stay around much longer and wait They may have other options and not want to wait to make their decisions." Sylvester agreed. "The longer onehas to wait, the smaller thevacancy pool," he said. "We (the college of fine and performing arts) are very fortunate to have developed pools of people we can readily call on in different areas of expertise." Elich said Arts and Sciences is not so lucky. "It may be hard for us to find adequate replacements for some really good people if they are lost." This concern has led Elich to factor in the possibility of losing good professors into his decisions on where the 19 positions in arts and sciences would be frozen. A decision, he stresses, that was made by him and not the administration. "Which 19 positions put onhold was determined by me," he said. "I decided, with council, the places we should leave them on hold." Although all involved are hoping for a reprieve from the legislature, they also worry about how proposed cuts would effect students. "We are deeply concerned with minimizing the negative impact on students," Elich said describing the most likely impacts. "The impact on students will largely be fewer small-section classes, like small specialty sections in majors. We will definitely see larger classes." police beating Rodney King has brought the issue to the forefront, but the problem has been there for a long time. "I can't tell you how many funerals I've gone to of black kids killed by cops," Fulani said. She talked about her own son, who has been chased, had guns pulled on him, and been arrested by police officers for "tagging," a form of graffiti. Fulani said the legal system seems to work against people of color; one in four African-Americans spends time in jail during their lives. Several cities, including Seattle, have passed anti-loitering laws in areas inhabited by people of color ..Fulani calls these kinds of laws fascism. "Fascism in America is going to come in very subtle, very absurd and See FULANI, p. 4 Students gaining more influence By Ftenee Brewer staff reporter Student input is beginning to gain more clout within Western's policy-making process, Associated Students President Mark Aaserud said. While the Interim Campus Audit Report released Feb. 15 stated, "student leaders complain about 'an incredible lack of respect for students by the administration and a number of faculty,"' Aaserud said he feels the AS Board and students have gained more influence within the administration in the past year. Though he complains that sometimes "issues that affect students don't go by my desk," Aaserud said he feels good progress has been made toward greater influence on Western by the AS and students in general. "I think there's been an increase in the credibility of the student voice," Aaserud said. One early student success was convincing the Board of Trustees to make the recent measles immunization policy applicable to faculty and staff as well as students. At first, the policy would expel students who hadn't been immunized, but would require faculty and staff to avoid work for three weeks if they contracted the disease, Aaserud said. Aaserud said he argued for the current policy, which requires everyone on campus under 33 to provide proof of immunization, on the grounds that "a measle germ doesn't care if you have tenure or not" However, Aaserud said he has often encountered an atti- ' tude within the administration that students at Western are merely passing through anddon'tneed to be consulted for long-rangeoecisions. "On paper we (students) are supposed to have equal voice as faculty (indecision-making)," Aaserud said. "In reality, we're not seen as equal." Aaserud said at the first Board of Trustees meeting he attended, the faculty representative reported on the development of teaching evaluations and a grievance policy. When Aaserud asked about the level of student input into the process, the faculty member replied it wasn't really a student issue. Aaserud has a different perspective. "You need to include those most affected by a decision in the process of that decision," he said. Western President Kenneth Mortimer said he has received complaints from some students about the lack of respect they receive on committees but hasn't witnessed this behavior at meetings he has attended. Tyler Anderson/The WMtem Front Associated Students President Mark Aaserud says that students are gaining more political clout with Western administrators. Mortimer and the AS Board will discuss the allegations of lack of respect for students at the next few meetings together, Mortimer said. "Dr. Mortimer and fhave a good working relationship. ... We don't always agree, but we're honest with each other," Aaserud said. "I just keep working on changing his mind." The cause of most apparent exclusion of student voices is glitches in the system, Mortimer said. For example, students are not being nominated to committees; or too few are nominated, so none make it through the screening process; or committee meetings are scheduled during class times so student members find it difficult to attend. Mortimer said students were on the presidential See STUDENT VOICE, p. 3 •HHHHH iiilllllllllli H l l l l l l l l llllllffiliiiilllil liiliilil |
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