Western Front - 2002 March 8

              The Western Front
Western Washington University Volume 120 Issue 15 Bellingham, Washington
North campus
parking garage
may not solve
parking issues
By Romeelah Payof elin
THE WESTERN FRONT
Western senior Tony Stagnaro
came to campus to study at the
library. To his dismay, a yellow
sign in front of the parking lot
said "Lot must be cleared out by
5 p.m." Stagnaro drove away in
frustration.
"I can't find any parking," he
said. "It's a mess, especially on
weekends when I want to come
to the library."
Stagnaro is one Western stu­dent
who would benefit from the
construction of a new parking
garage.
University Police Chief Jim
Shaw said plans are underway
for a parking garage that will
hold 250 to 300 new parking
spaces. If built, it will be locat­ed
on North Campus behind the
Viking Union.
This was decided in 1998 when
Western was working on its
Institutional Master Plan, a
long-term development strategy.
Administrators, the Performing
Arts Center, Associated
Students, the AS Bookstore, the -
Viking Union and the Campus
Parking Committee agreed the.
location would be the most
advantageous. .... '•
"This location seems'to be the
one that most people want,"
Shaw said. "It's an area that has
high circulation."
Currently, Arai/Jackson
Architects and Planners, the
company chosen to oversee the
project, is determining the best
way to maximize space for a
parking garage.
"That's essentially what we're
trying to fact find: how much
can we build and how much
money it's going to take," Shaw
said. "Until we know the cost,
we don't know if we'd be able to
construct it."
~ See GARAGE, Page 4
Honesty key to monogamous relationships
THE WESTERN
FRONT SEXUAL
LIFESTYLES
SERIES
By Amber Bomar,
Romeelah Payofelin and
Derek Sheppard
Laramie Smith, Gay
Bisexual/Transgender/Alliance
coordinator, said she believes
honesty is crucial to monoga­mous
relationships.
Smith has been in a monoga­mous
relationship for a year. She
said if she and her partner had
not had good communication
about the status of the relation­ship,
she could have gotten emo­tionally
hurt.
<fYou have to be honest with
each other up front," she said.
"You have to make sure that you
mutually agree on what
monogamy is, agree on the term,,
and what you both want out of
the relationship, or someone's-going
to get hurt."
Smith has not always been in
monogamous relationships.
"I have had 'friends with ben­efits'
in other states before, and
at that time, they didn't get
hurt because they knew I wasn't
See SERIES, Page 3
Candace Nelson/ The Western Front
Students and community members gathered in Red Square with colorful placards on a cold Wednesday morning to
listen to speakers and gather signatures for an anti-war petition.
Students, community members rally to end war
By Laura Thoren
THE WESTERN FRONT
Despite freezing temperatures,
nearly 90 people rallied against
the war on terrorism, raising $51
for Afghan aid and 85 signatures
for an anti-war petition in Red
Square Wednesday.
The Western Anti-War
Movement, a campus organiza­tion,
organized speakers from
Fairhaven College and
Bellingham to speak out against
the Bush administration's cam­paign
in the Middle East.
"The Bush administration
seems to be leading this country
down a path of endless war with
undefined enemies that could last
for years," WAM spokeswoman
Jean Fallow said. "Attacking
these countries doesn't make
Americans feel safer."
The rally focused on three
issues: prevention of future
attacks in Iraq, defense of civil
liberties of people who have
been detained since Sept. 11 and
funding of human needs rather
Late book request submissions may mean less buyback cash
Cahdace Nelson/ The Western Front
College Store employee Zeke Spier sorts previous quar­ter's
books to make room for spring books.
By Robin Duranleau
THE WESTERN FRONT
Western students may feel the
frustration of receiving less
money when selling books back
if Western professors do not
make their book requests for
spring quarter soon.
Western Associated Students
Bookstore manager Robert Perks
said they have received 75 per­cent
of the spring quarter book
list. The booklist was due Feb. 1.
"The last 25 percent does
affect the students," Perks said.
College Store manager Tom
VanSant said he has received
nearly half of the book list for
spring quarter. The College Store
has only received approximately
1,100 "adoptions," or book
requests, when usually 2,100 to
2,300 are submitted per quarter.
Texts that have an adoption
can receive a refund of up to 50
percent of the original price of
the text, VanSant said.
VanSant said the College Store
has another week to put together
their buy-back list. Without a
booklist, VanSant said the book­stores
do not know which books
will be used for classes.
VanSant said the bookstore
often offers students the lower
wholesale price for the book
because they do not know which
books will be of any value.
"Whatever we don't get at
buy-back, we have no other
choice at this point but to order
it new," VanSant said. "Students
will be buying new books rather
than used ones."
The AS Bookstore provides the
College Store with Western's
book list information. Perks said
the amount of adoptions they
See BOOKS, Page 4
than military needs, Fallow said
"We hope to encourage people
to take a public stance to change
the catastrophic course our
country is going in," Fallow said.
While students and Bellingham
residents waved placards with
statements such as "Dead
Afghans = security?" and "Stop
See RALLY, Page 4j
IN THIS ISSUE
Tired of those pesky
wheel boots?
Annoyed with the Parking
Nazi? Didn't pay your tickets
and got a wheel boot in return?
Find out how to get even.
See story, Page 14.
The Sound
of Fire
Strange sounds and plumes
of flame filled
the night sky
Wednesday in
Red Square,
courtesy of
performance
artist Scot
Jenerik.
See story, Page 8.
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