Western Front - 2009 April 28

              APRIL BREW'S DAY RAISES $36,000
FOR MAX HIGBEE CENTER
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TRACK TEAM WINS 18 EVENTS AT
NINTH ANNUAL TWILITE MEET
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT'NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SINCE 1970 I WESTERNFRQNTQNLINE.NET
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, Jeremy Schwartz
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When Wpodring College of Educa­tion
/Ppst-Bacealaureate student David
Branripn. changed his;Westepi;eVmail ac­count
terihe new Mictpsoft'Qiitlook sys-.
tern three weeks ago, he was pleased to
see the new program better resembled oth­er
e-mail software-compared to Western's
previous e-mail system.
However, Brannon said the-most
common difficulty'; many students?;: are -
experiencing. irjVthe new system is;?find-ing
e-mails-thaJt-were-migrated-pVeii^iram- •
Western's old system. The problem most
likely stems from the different forms Out­look
takes when students access it through
Web browsers other than.Microsoft's In­ternet
Explorer, such as the Firefox Web
browser, he said. , .'...*.. • ,; ' . •
"[Academic Technology and-User
Services] should use technology that is
versatile," Brannon said. "I think they
have restricted themselves with Outlook."
The majority- Of student feedback
ATUS has received1 about the new e-mail
system has been positive, said Rick Nich­ols,
the help desk coordinator for ATUS.
Of the 6,000 students who have migrated
their saved e-mail. messages to Outlook
since the April 1 start date, only 300 have
contacted the ATUS Help Desk for assis­tance
in the process, Nichols said.
see E-MAIL page 4
University Police Galled to remove disturbance at career fair Thursday
phbtb by Katie Greene THEWESTERN FRONT
Western graduate student Matteb Tamburini and an unnamed protester (left) speak with Officer Joe Alexander before being removed from
the Career Fair Thursday. Tamburini's attorney Larry HMes, (center) defends their protest of distributing fliers about military service.
Brian Conner
THE WESTERN FRONT
Two anti-military protesters were
removed by University Police (UP)
Thursday from the Spring Career Fair for
handing out fliers in frontof a military re­cruiter's
booth.
UP responded to the Wade King Stu­dent
Recreation Center to remove Western
graduate student Matteo Tamburini and
his attorney Larry Hildes, who cited their
First Amendment rights as reason .to dis­tribute
fliers that question the length and
requirements of service in the military.
Western Dean of Students Ted Pratt asked
Hildes and Tamburini to leave the career
fair.
Tamburini and Hildes refused to com­ply
with Pratt's request, which prompted
UP to respond at 1:05 p.m. and request the
see PROTESTERS page 7
Goodbye phase, hello canola oil
Jeremy Schwartz
THE WESTERN FRONT
. University Dining. Services has de­cided
to replace Phase, the hydrogenated
soybean oil used in the preparation of
grilled and sauteed food items in the din­ing
halls, with a trans-fat-free, canola
oil-based cooking product in response to
concerns raised by Western's dietitian and
.students.
Dining Services will start using the
phase replacement, canola pan and grill
oil, in ^^^g'ha^-miMh^wxifew-weeks,
said Lisa Philbrook, director of
business development for Dining Servic­es.
Unlike Phase, the canola oil product
will not be used as a flavor enhancer or
preservative on steamed vegetables served
in any of the dining halls, she said.
The replacement cooking oil is made
from canola oil and has 1 gram of satu­rated
fat per tablespoon. This equates to
5 percent of the recommended daily al­lowance
of saturated fat based on a 2,000
calorie diet, whereas Phase has 13 percent
of the recommended daily allowance of
saturated fat.
A tablespoon of Phase, which Din­ing
Services had been using since 2006,
and a tablespoon of trie canola oil prod­uct
each contain 120 calories, all from fat,
which is 22 percent of the recommended
daily allowance of total fat. The canola
oil product costs 30 cents less per gallon
than Phase.
The main reason Dining Services is
replacing Phase stemmed.from a discus­sion
regarding the use of the product at
a March 6 meeting of Western's Campus
Dining Committee, Philbrook said. At the
meeting, Western dietitian Jill Kelly men­tioned
The Western Front had sought her
input about Phase for an article that would
eventually run in the March 13 edition of
the paper.
Kelly, a member of the dining com­mittee;
expressed concern about Dining-
Services' use of Phase because it con­tained
hydrogenated oil and suggested
using a healthier cooking product made
predominantly from canola oil.
Ira Simon, director of Dining Servic­es,
told Chris Kenney, director of opera­tions,
to research an-alternative to Phase,
and report his findings at the April 3 din­ing
committee meeting.
Kenney contacted the national suppli­ers
for Sodexo, the food provider for Din-,
irig Services,.to find a hydrogenated oil-free
cooking product from a list Sodexo
dietitians had developed.
Philbrook said Kenney also consulted
with dining services at the University of
see PHASE page 5