Western Front - 2005 June 3

              HE WESTERN FRONT
Y, JUNE 3, 2005 • WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY • BELLINGHAM, WASH. • WESTERNFRONTONLINE.COM
ISSUE 18
VOLUME 133
Crew wins nationals Western students
give tsunami aid
Two-week excursion to assist
with rehabilitation in India
Photo Courtesy of John Fuchs
The Western women's crew team celebrates its national title Sunday at the Sacramento State
Aquatic Center on Lake Natoma in California.
Women's team wins Western's second national title
BY MICHAEL LYCKLAMA
The Western Front
Western women's crew team
finally captured the national title
Sunday after falling short the past
four years.
The team finished sixth in 2001,
when all three NCAA divisions
competed for one title. The
Vikings placed second in 2002
and 2003 and third in 2004 in the
NCAA Division II championships.
Western led in 2004 until the last
600 meters when the rowers caught
a crab, which is when an oar gets
stuck in the water, and the boat had
to come to a stop, said John Fuchs,
Western crew program coordinator
and women's crew head coach.
"After catching a crab last year,
we were very, very focused on
nationals," said Gail Lumsden,
Western senior crew member, co-captain
and No. 3 rower in the
varsity eight. "Each practice, every
stroke was focused on this race."
Western won the varsity eight and
the varsity four and finished with
a perfect score of 20 points at the
Sacramento State Aquatic Center
on Lake Natoma. Mercyhurst
College from Erie, Pa., placed
second with 12 points.
The eight includes eight rowers
and a coxswain, who directs the rest
of the crew, while the four includes
see CREW, page 8
BY BECKY ROSBLLO
The Western Front
Traveling 44 hours on five
different airplanes, stopping in
three different countries and going
on one train ride — all for two
weeks of work in 110-degree heat
— is more- than Western junior
Ivy Wilson bargained for when
she planned a tsunami-relief trip
to India in February.
"It's been a lot more work than
I anticipated," she said.
Wilson and 14 other Western
students, staff and faculty
members formed the Western
Washington University Tsunami
Relief and Response Team after
the December tsunamis. The club
will leave June 9 forNagapattnam,
India, to aid in reconstruction
efforts and will return June 22,
Wilson said.
Beth Stickley, Woodring
College of Education professor
and club adviser, said more than
5,800 people in the southeast
India city died in the disaster.
The club members are working
with the international disaster-relief
organization Ananda
Marga Universal Relief Team
and will receive more specific
instructions about their project
from the organization upon their
arrival in Nagapattnam, the most
damaged city in India, Wilson
said. The organization focuses
on rehabilitating communities
damaged by the tsunami.
The group's current plants
to build a fence around a local
children's park. Adding to the
stress of manual labor, the group
will be working in temperatures
of more than 110 degrees. Wilson
said possible dehydration concerns
her, but everyone . has been
preparing for the climate change.
Stickley said the group will also
bring its own bottled water and
filters to prevent becoming sick.
The largest health threat is the
waterborne bacteria Giardia
Lamblia, which is common in
lakes and slow-moving water,
Western freshman club member
Brian Augenthaler said.
The club chose to work with
the relief organization because
of its extensive disaster-relief
experience and zero overhead
monetary policy.
"(Zero overhead) means nothing
is going to administration," Wilson
said. "Everything goes toward the
victims."
see INDIA, page 4
Western to offer
Gamp for children
BY MICHAEL LYCKLAMA
The Western Front
Western's Extended Education
and Summer Programs" will
collaborate with the Campus
Recreation Services staff to offer
weekly educational camps this
summer for Bellingham students in
kindergarten through eighth grade.
Western Kids Camp offers
weekly camp . themes such as
nontraditional-holiday week,
pioneer week and under the sea
week. The camp will take place
from June 20 to Sept. 2.
Parents who are members of the
Wade King Student Recreation
Center can enroll their children now
for $150 per week. Nonmembers
can enroll their children for $175.
The camp will accept a maximum
of 40 students per week. If parents
sign up their children for more
than three weeks, they receive
a 10 percent discount, said Pete
Lockhart, assistant director of
programming and services for
Campus Recreation.
"This gives parents the
opportunity to have an educational
experience as well as fun,"
Lockhart said. "It's more than
your average camp."
The students will spend the
mornings on campus learning
with teachers who graduated from
Western this school year. Then
students will spend afternoons
with the Campus Recreation staff.
Each week will have a specific
field of study and activity, such
see CAMPERS, page 5
Art students will depart for Italy
BY LAUREN ALLAIN
The Western Front
Sixteen art students will depart on a 22-day
tour of Italy June 22.
The group will stop in Rome, Florence and
outside of Pienza and Venice, said Sharron
Antholt, a Western art professor who teaches
drawing, art design, painting and foundation
classes. Antholt is one of the trip's leaders.
Cara Jaye, a Western art professor who teaches
drawing and senior seminar, said she will lead
the group with Antholt.
Antholt said she considers the trip a
workshop. Students earn seven upper-division
art credits for their time in Italy. The course,
Art 394, requires a daily journal, a daily
sketch and four projects of any medium such
as sketches, paintings or photographs that the
students need to turn in two to three weeks
after the group returns home, she said.,
In October, the art department will display
a minimum of one piece from all 16 students
see ITALY, page 6
Photo Courtesy of Cara Jaye
Western alumna Kristen Proctor and art historian Liz
Luv, who specializes in Roman art, look at the Roman
Forum in Rome during the 2003 program.
LOCAL LABELS
Bellingham is a mecca for
do-it-yourself record labels.
ACCENT, PAGE 10
more than just a place to work out.
PADDLING FUN
Western students find
excitement in kayaking on
Skagit River.
SPORTS, PAGE 13