Western Front - 2007 October 16

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NEWS
Trustees tour
Academic
Instructional
Center
page 6
ART a IIFE
Break lancing
going strong at
Western
pages
Simmons garners
attention from
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page13
OPINION
Guest column:
Bicyclists are
people too
Columnist:
Make trash cans
happy
page15
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Abandonded children find care in Happy Life Children's Home
Shana Keen
THE WESTERN FRONT '
A Kenyan woman heard her
dog barking and went out to check
on the dog and her puppies. Lying
next to the puppies was a tiny baby
girl partially wrapped in a plastic
bag. Her dog found the abandoned
girl in a forest, and dragged it
through a barbed wire fence and
over a main road to her spot next
to the puppies.
The baby girl, named Angel
by the nurses who cared for herv
was malnourished, said Peter
Ndungu, director of the Happy
Life Children's Home in Kenya.
But she survived and was adopted.
It is two years after
Angel's rescue and her story
of abandonment is not unique,
Ndungu said.
Western's World Injustice
Awareness Club (WIAC) is
bringing Ndungu to Western for a
lecture at 6 p.m. Oct. 17 in Science
; Lecture Building room 150. He
will talk about his efforts to find
homes for the abandoned children
of Kenya.
"I'm an ambassador for this
cause," Ndungu said. "They have
no voice so I'm a voice for them.
I'm here to say that while we may
all live in different countries, we
all belong to the same world."
Due to poverty and HIV/
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feller Betties battle it out
• : • ' • photo by Jon Bergman THE WESTERN FRONT
Glowh make-up and fishnet stockings. Rocky Horror Picture Show meets World Wrestling Entertainment on roller
skates. Two teams of women from Whatcom and Skagit counties square off in a Red vs. Black exhibition match
held to generate interest in the upcoming women roller derby season. After three 20-minute periods of crashes,
bruises and pain, the Black team outskated the Red 137 to 135 Saturday Oct. 13 at the Bellingham Sportsplex.
See "Betties in Bellingham" at westernfrontonline.net for exclusive audio and pictures.
Panel to
discuss
race riots
Allison Nilton
THE WESTERN FRONT
In September of 1907, anti-
Sikh race riots broke out in
Bellingham. Asian-Americans
were driven out of their homes and
out of the city.
One-hundred years later,
Western's Center for Law, Diversity
and^uFtiee (CLDJ) will host
two nights in observance of this
anniversary. One will showcase
a student-made documentary and
the other will present a discussion
panel with experts on the riots.
The panel discussion is at
7 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Fairhaven
College, auditorium.
, ^Speaking on the panel is Satpal
Sidhu,.a member of the Whatcom
County Sikh Temple and dean at
Bellingham Technical- College;
Paul Englesberg, Western faculty
member and Asian-American
Curriculum and Research Project
director; historian Hugh Johnston
from Simon Fraser University
see SIKH page 2 •
Committee forming to find Morse's successor
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Tela Crane and
Andrea Williamson
THE WESTERN FRONT
Western's Board of Trustees
appointed a chair for . the
committee to find a new Western
president Oct. 12.
Phil Sharpe, the Board of
Trustees' vice chair, was appointed
as the chair of the Presidential
Search Advisory Committee.
Sharpe will provide trustees with
recommendations on the size and:
composition of the committee, said
Paul Cocke, director of the Office
of University Communications.
The search committee will'
look for a hew president and
advise the board on its final
decision, Cocke said.
The Board of Trustees'
members are appointed by the
state governor and have true
legislative power at Western as a
state institution, said Associated
Students (AS) President Ramiro
Espinoza.
The board will make the
filial decision on a new president,
Espinoza said.
At the Oct. 12 meeting, board
members heard from former
^Western trustee Craig Cole, who
led the search that hired Morse in
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Cole provided aboard
members with recommendations
on the composition pf^the search
committee and how the committee
should be run.
"They shouldn't be ranking
candidates for you," he said.
"The idea is that they should be
delivering qualified candidates to
you for your decision."
The 1993 committee had
15 members, including two
student representatives, said Liz
Sipes, secretary to the Board of
Trustees.
Cole said he recommended
this search committee, be smaller.
"It's important that we have
broad participation in describing
what is being sought in the new
president," he said. "But the actual
mechanics should be a smaller
group so things can be more
efficient:"
Beyond finding a new
president, the search committee's
purpose is to keep students
informed, engage those on campus
interested in the search and find
a search consultant to act as an
outside source of opinion, Cocke
said.
"Any search committee is
going to be time consuming, but
it is worth it," said Kayla Britt,
Western junior and vice president
for diversity on the AS Board of
Directors.
The trustees should be patient
in their search because the best
candidate for the job may not
show up in their timetable, Cole
said. The committee should
also keep the identities of the
candidates confidential to protect
their current positions, he said.
see COMMITTEE page 4 •