Western Front - 2006 October 3

              TUESDAY
ISSUE
TinOpH iMi
The new
HIGGINSON
HALL
See what's old, new,
borrowed and blue
in the redesign of this
north-campus dorm
M§E SK
Ads in textbooks
will downgrade our
education
PABE 18
"Shoot the
Family" exhibit
now open ws|4
Tuesday 63°/43°
Wednesday 68°/43°
Thursday s , 66°/43°
Seasonal Affective
Disorder 5
Men's Basketball .......8
Quarterback Profile...8
Fantasy Football 9
Frontline..... 10
Viking Voices 11
W E S T E R N W A S H I N G T O N U N I V E R S I TY
Chalk ad in violation
photo courtesy of Western Washington University
Photo evidence of a chalk ad in Red Square was cited as illegal activity in a cease and desist order sent
to The College Store by the Washington Attorney General's office on behalf of Western.
Western sends College Store cease and desist order for ad
Tom Callis
THE WESTERN FRONT
In the Sept. 26 issue
of The Western Front, The
College Store purchased
a full-page advertisement
displaying a cease and desist
notice from Western's legal
representative Lisa Wochos,
an assistant attorney general
for Washington state.
The notice, dated Aug. 4,
pertained to an illegal chalk
drawing in Red Square's free
speech zone displaying the
book stores name and location,
Wochos said.
"The free speech zone
is there for students to
utilize primarily for free
speech purposes; it's not for
commercial activity," Director
of Viking Union Facilities Jim
Schuster said.
"There are many
commercial businesses that
would love to get a hold of
this population and I think we
//
have a responsibility to make
sure that the university is first
and foremost an academic
institution and that's where our
priorities tend to be," Schuster
said
The College Store
displayed another chalk
drawing in June for book buy-back,
which went unmentioned
by the university, College
Store General Manager Josh
Canham said.
"The policy is a disservice
to students," Canham said,
"t consider us as part of the
academic community and I
think students would agree."
Canham said the College
Store currently has no interest
in challenging the order.
The Associated Student
Bookstore general manager
Lara Mann said the store has
a great working relationship
with the College Store and she
doesn't have a problem with it
advertising on campus as long
as it complies with regulations.
Many students, such as
junior Melissa Lawler, choose
to shop at the College Store
because it has a larger selection
of used books.
"If the student store had
more used books I would
support the school," Lawler
said.
The student bookstore
provides students with a 10
percent discount on all new
books, Mann said. This is
lower than 87 percent of college
bookstores in the country,
which makes it important for
the store to maintain a certain
level of business, she said.
"We recognize textbooks
are expensive," Mann said.
"It's important to us to keep
as many used textbooks as
possible."
The College Store is one
of 137 college bookstores
across the country owned by
Nebraska Books.
The free speech zone is there
for students to utilize primarily
for free speech purposes; it's
not for commercial activity/'
- Jim Schuster
Director of Viking Union Facilities
"The policy is a disservice to
students. I consider us as part of
the academic community and I
think students would agree/'
- Josh Canham
College Store General Manager
photo by Mark Malijan
THE WESTERN FRONT
OCTOBER 3,2006
ISS0E2.V01UME139
Graduate
student
wins award
Chelsea Osterberg
THE WESTERN FRONT
Western biology master's
student Pema Kitaeff received
the Harold C. Bold Award this
summer in Juneau, Alaska.
Kitaeff, 30, traveled to
the Phycological Society of
America's annual conference in
July where she competed against
more than a dozen speakers for
the award. The Phycological
Society of America supports the
study and research of algae.
A graduate of Reed
College in Portland, Ore. with
a Bachelor of Arts in biology,
Kitaeff prepared a presentation
in June on her thesis, which
deals with a mutual relationship
between giant green anemones
see AWARD page 3 •
Move-in
HELPers
set record
Amanda Downs
THE WESTERN FRONT
This year, a record 242
students signed up for the HELP
program, a three-day student
volunteer event designed to
aid students in unpacking and
moving on to campus.
David Ruble, manager of
conference and guest housing
and overseer of the HELP
program, attributes the record
turnout to effective advertising
and word-of-mouth.
"When current residential
students re-register for housing
in the spring for the next
academic year, they have the
option to say that they are
interested in being a HELP
volunteer," Ruble said.
Nick Fomin, program
assistant for conference and
guest housing, teamed up with
Ruble to compile the list of
interested returning students,
then recruited incoming
freshmen at the summer
orientation program called
Summerstart.
Students who have been
a HELP really talk up the
program to their friends and
recruit them, Ruble said.
Western freshman Ainsley
Yeager said she and her family
benefited from the HELP
see HELP page 4 •
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