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VIKINGS SWEEP
EASTERN, REMAIN
UNDEFEATED
PAGE 16
FORMER COP
SPEAKS ON MARIJUANA
PAGE 10
WESTERN JOINS PACT
WITH SLOW FOOD
PAGE 4
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SINCE 1970 I W E S T E R N F R 0 N T 0 N L I N E . N ET
server
Nick Johnson
Anne Maertens
THE WESTERN FRONT .
Hundreds of students and their families
were^ left^^frustrated after Western's
University Residences housing application
Web site crashed three separate times
between noon and 1:15 p.m. on Friday,
April 3. -
"At 12:15 [p.m.] on Friday, it was. like,
a fire burning in here," said Karen,Walker,
assistant director of Occupancy Management
and Assessment. "We [thought] we
were going to bring the campus down. We
had to react quickly." - 7
Walker said between 300 and 400
Western students simultaneously logged
on the on-campus housing application
page, causing the system to shut down.
The application page was brought back
online, causing the system to crash again
minutes later, she said.
The Web site was revived a third time.
This time, however, it asked for each student's
I.D. number allowing the system to
develop a queue, Walker said;.
•-•'. After crashing for the third and final
time, a message was posted to inform students
that the application would be postponed
until the next week, at which time
a new system, such as a random lottery,
might be used in its place, she said.
"That is the ill-conceived message
that I put up during the third crash," Walker
said.- "It was the first thing the tech.
guys thought to do."
During the two weeks prior to April
3, University Residences informed students
about the new renewal process via
e-mails, postcards and informational table
tents in the dining and residence halls,
Walker said.
With th& help of the Residence Advisory
Council, University Residences
limited the number of returning students
living on campus to 1,100 for fall quarter
2009, Walker said. University Residences
also chose to use a first-come, first-serve
model to determine who would receive
placement. In response, students flocked
to the system Friday, she said.
"Even though the application was
see HOUSING page 5
Riordan gets
second chance
to interview
for provost
Coral Garnick
THE WESTERN FRONT
After not interviewing well at her neutral-
site interview in Seattle in November,
Catherine Riordan was the only candidate
for Western's provost/vice president for
academic affairs whom the search advisory
committee asked to return to Seattle
in March for a second chance.
Craig Dunn, chair of the search advisory
committee and associate professor in
the management department, said Riordan
looked good on paper and had excellent
references, but when it came to how she
presented herself in Seattle the first time,
the committee was disappointed. Riordan
was not selected as one of the original finalists.
After the first round resulted in a
candidate declining to take the provost
position, President Bruce Shepard and
the search advisory committee decided to
re-open the search. Dunn said of the five
remaining candidates the committee saw
in Seattle during the first round, Riordan
was the most qualified, and the committee
thought it was important to bring her out
again.
"We decided she deserved a second
look and a second chance," Dunn said.
"Sometimes • people just have off days.
You can't penalize someone unfairly for
having an off day."
From the eight candidates who were
see PROVOST page 6
Scientific instrument donated to Western
Thomas Bennett
THE WESTERN FRONT
Western's Advanced. Materials Science
and Engineering Center (AMSEC)
received a new piece of equipment that
will.be a useful asset not only to students
and faculty in the chemistry and geology
departments, but also to local researchers
and companies.
The new instrument is called an inductively
coupled plasma mass spectrometer
(ICP-MS) and was donated by No-vartis
Pharmaceuticals Corp.,. a medical
and pharmaceutical research company.
AMSEC, the chemistry department and
the geology department jointly funded the
purchase of a laser ablation attachment to
the ICP-MS.
Polly Berseth, Western's materials
lab manager, said the mass spectrometer
can detect almost all of the elements on
the periodic table, down to a concentration
of one part-per-trillion.
"That would be like dissolving a grain
of salt in an Olympic-sized swimming
pool and being able to detect it again,"
Berseth said.
The Student Technology Fee funded
$90,015, and the remaining $59,000 was
see SPECTROMETER page 3
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| Title | Western Front - 2009 April 7 |
| Date Published (User-Friendly) | April 7, 2009 |
| Date Published (machine-readable) | 2009-04-07 |
| Year Published | 2009 |
| Decades | 2000-2009 |
| Original Publisher | Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA |
| Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
| Editor | Jeff Twining, editor in chief; Gabrielle Nomura, managing editor; Dan Balmer, news editor; Ashley Mitchell, news editor; Andrew Frazier, arts editor; Angelo Spagnolo, life editor; Brynn Regan, sports editor; Danielle Koagel, opinion editor; Katie Greene, photo editor; Cassi Gallagher, online editor; Rogelie Rael Johnson, copy editor; Hannah Bostwick, copy editor |
| Staff | Brandon Kays, illustrator; Michele Anderson, advertising manager; Alethea Macomber, business manager |
| Photographer | Carolyn Copstead; Katie Greene; Keith Daigle; Becca Rice; Alex Roberts; Hailey Tucker |
| Faculty Advisor | Nielsen, Carolyn |
| Article Titles | Housing applicants flood server / by Nick Johnson, Anne Maertens (p.1) -- Riordan gets second chance to interview for provost / by Coral Garnick (p.1) -- Brothers begin global bike trek / by Thomas Bennett (p.1) -- Erik Lowe travels to D.C. to discuss current issues / by Kendall Mercer (p.2) -- Cops box (p.2) -- Western signs on with Slow Food / by Coral Garnick (p.4) -- Morse honored for science contributions / by Andrea Davis-Gonzalez (p.7) -- Arts & life (p.8-9) -- Art cut from a different cloth / by Coral Garnick (p.8) -- Chabad House Jewish Student Center to host rare sun-blessing ceremony / by Hailey Tucker (p.9) -- Pot Policy: a chronic contradiction / by Kendall Mercer (p.10) -- Opinion (p.12) -- Frontline (p.12) -- Viking voices (p.12) -- Letter to the editor (p.12) -- Crew pulls against out-of-region squads / by Rhys Logan (p.13) -- Vikings split doubleheader / by Steven Houk (p.14) -- Sideline chat / Amanda Halle (p.14) -- Western speeds ahead of the pack / by Andrew Mitchell (p.15) -- Classifieds (p.15) -- Vikings blow out Eagles / by Nicholas Johnson (p.16) |
| Photographs | Andrew and Randall Leese (p.1) -- Shalom Long (p.2) -- Erik Lowe (p.2) -- Polly Berseth (p.3) -- Carlo Petrini, Gigi Berardi / courtesy of University Communications (p.4) -- Alex Bacon (p.5) -- Catherine Riordan (p.6) -- George "Pinky" Nelson (p.7) -- Mackenzie Boetes (p.8) -- [Students in Red Square] (p.9) -- Jaimie Fife (p.12) -- Heather Siddiqui (p.12) -- Megan Schatz (p.12) -- Robert Weigle (p.12) -- Tashia Shupert (p.12) -- Western women's crew team (p.13) -- Michelle Wrigley / courtesy of Western Athletic Dept. (p.14) -- Lauren Breihof (p.15) -- Sam Bedell (p.15) -- Zane Kennedy (p.16) |
| Notes | Publication year and issue numbering are missing from this issue. |
| Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
| Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
| Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
| Program | Special Collections |
| Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
| Object Type | Text |
| Original Format Size | 45 x 29 cm. |
| Genre/Form | Newspapers |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
| Identifier | WF_20090407.pdf |
| Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
| Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
| Language | English |
| Language Code | Eng |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Date Published (User-Friendly) | April 7, 2009 |
| Date Published (machine-readable) | 2009-04-07 |
| Year Published | 2009 |
| Decades | 2000-2009 |
| Original Publisher | Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA |
| Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
| Editor | Jeff Twining, editor in chief; Gabrielle Nomura, managing editor; Dan Balmer, news editor; Ashley Mitchell, news editor; Andrew Frazier, arts editor; Angelo Spagnolo, life editor; Brynn Regan, sports editor; Danielle Koagel, opinion editor; Katie Greene, photo editor; Cassi Gallagher, online editor; Rogelie Rael Johnson, copy editor; Hannah Bostwick, copy editor |
| Staff | Brandon Kays, illustrator; Michele Anderson, advertising manager; Alethea Macomber, business manager |
| Faculty Advisor | Nielsen, Carolyn |
| Notes | Publication year and issue numbering are missing from this issue. |
| Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
| Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
| Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
| Program | Special Collections |
| Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
| Object Type | Text |
| Original Format Size | 45 x 29 cm. |
| Genre/Form | Newspapers |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
| Identifier | WF_20090407.pdf |
| Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
| Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
| Full Text | VIKINGS SWEEP EASTERN, REMAIN UNDEFEATED PAGE 16 FORMER COP SPEAKS ON MARIJUANA PAGE 10 WESTERN JOINS PACT WITH SLOW FOOD PAGE 4 Tuesday, April 7, 2009 AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SINCE 1970 I W E S T E R N F R 0 N T 0 N L I N E . N ET server Nick Johnson Anne Maertens THE WESTERN FRONT . Hundreds of students and their families were^ left^^frustrated after Western's University Residences housing application Web site crashed three separate times between noon and 1:15 p.m. on Friday, April 3. - "At 12:15 [p.m.] on Friday, it was. like, a fire burning in here," said Karen,Walker, assistant director of Occupancy Management and Assessment. "We [thought] we were going to bring the campus down. We had to react quickly." - 7 Walker said between 300 and 400 Western students simultaneously logged on the on-campus housing application page, causing the system to shut down. The application page was brought back online, causing the system to crash again minutes later, she said. The Web site was revived a third time. This time, however, it asked for each student's I.D. number allowing the system to develop a queue, Walker said;. •-•'. After crashing for the third and final time, a message was posted to inform students that the application would be postponed until the next week, at which time a new system, such as a random lottery, might be used in its place, she said. "That is the ill-conceived message that I put up during the third crash," Walker said.- "It was the first thing the tech. guys thought to do." During the two weeks prior to April 3, University Residences informed students about the new renewal process via e-mails, postcards and informational table tents in the dining and residence halls, Walker said. With th& help of the Residence Advisory Council, University Residences limited the number of returning students living on campus to 1,100 for fall quarter 2009, Walker said. University Residences also chose to use a first-come, first-serve model to determine who would receive placement. In response, students flocked to the system Friday, she said. "Even though the application was see HOUSING page 5 Riordan gets second chance to interview for provost Coral Garnick THE WESTERN FRONT After not interviewing well at her neutral- site interview in Seattle in November, Catherine Riordan was the only candidate for Western's provost/vice president for academic affairs whom the search advisory committee asked to return to Seattle in March for a second chance. Craig Dunn, chair of the search advisory committee and associate professor in the management department, said Riordan looked good on paper and had excellent references, but when it came to how she presented herself in Seattle the first time, the committee was disappointed. Riordan was not selected as one of the original finalists. After the first round resulted in a candidate declining to take the provost position, President Bruce Shepard and the search advisory committee decided to re-open the search. Dunn said of the five remaining candidates the committee saw in Seattle during the first round, Riordan was the most qualified, and the committee thought it was important to bring her out again. "We decided she deserved a second look and a second chance," Dunn said. "Sometimes • people just have off days. You can't penalize someone unfairly for having an off day." From the eight candidates who were see PROVOST page 6 Scientific instrument donated to Western Thomas Bennett THE WESTERN FRONT Western's Advanced. Materials Science and Engineering Center (AMSEC) received a new piece of equipment that will.be a useful asset not only to students and faculty in the chemistry and geology departments, but also to local researchers and companies. The new instrument is called an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) and was donated by No-vartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.,. a medical and pharmaceutical research company. AMSEC, the chemistry department and the geology department jointly funded the purchase of a laser ablation attachment to the ICP-MS. Polly Berseth, Western's materials lab manager, said the mass spectrometer can detect almost all of the elements on the periodic table, down to a concentration of one part-per-trillion. "That would be like dissolving a grain of salt in an Olympic-sized swimming pool and being able to detect it again," Berseth said. The Student Technology Fee funded $90,015, and the remaining $59,000 was see SPECTROMETER page 3 |
| Language | English |
| Language Code | Eng |
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