Western Front - 1985 February 22

              Western prof
finds stress
by the mouthful
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Goodbye, John:
Little man ends
big hoop career
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Volunteers
provide fun
and friendship
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1985 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA VOL. 77, NO. 11
No Hope
Light, dims on tuition freeze
By Bob Bolerjack
Thoroughly Good GRANT BOETTCHER
More than 1,300 fans rocked to George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Monday night in Carver gym. See page 13. '
Only four weeks into the state Legisla­ture's
1985 regular session, two of student
lobbyists' favorite lawmakers have gauged
their colleagues'sentiment toward a freeze in
state college and university tuition.
Their conclusion: Hope for a freeze has
melted away.
And in a further setback to the Washing­ton
Student Lobby's legislative agenda,
these two student allies say they can find
little support for any increase in student
financial aid.
"The thought around here is that it
appears to be dead," Rep. Pat McMullen
said of the freeze proposal he is co-sponsoring.
"But what's important is to keep
fighting and to make the point—to keep tui­tion
low."
McMullen, whose district includes West­ern,
and Rep. Ken Jacobsen (D-North Seat­tle),
said students should continue to press
the point that higher education is becoming
less affordable for many. Beyond that, they
could offer little encouragement to students
frustrated by the rising cost of education.
The Council for Postsecondary Educa­tion
recommended last year that state tui-tidriandTees
be increased byabout 20'per­cent
during the next biennium.
McMullen said current state revenue
forecasts leave no room, in the eyes of most
lawmakers, to help state college and univer­sity
students. State-mandated programs,
such as kindergarten through twelfth-grade
education and various social programs, are'*
taking precedence over high education, he
said.
Student leaders received similarly gloomy
news earlier this month from Gov. Booth.
Gardner.
Jacobsen, prime sponsor of the House
version of the tuition freeze bill, which
would cost the state about $45 million in
revenue, agreed that the state's "grim
revenue picture" makes passage of the mea­sure
unlikely.
He said requests for increases in financial
aid also stand little chance of passage.
And like McMullen, Jacobsen urged stu­dents
to "keep the pressure on." He sug­gested
students should write legislators, des-
STUDENT LOBBY
cribing any hardships they might face
because of the rising cost of higher
education.
Letter-writing campaigns, however, do
little to pacify student leaders like Majken
Ryherd, Western Associated Students
president.
"ItVfrustrating when air you hear during
the election campaign is that (a tuition
freeze) will be a priority, and then when
(legislators) start getting pressure from all
sides, they say it can't pass," Ryherd said.
"We're trying to be realistic. We see that
state revenue is limited. But it seems like
higher education and students always have
to balance the budget. We think it's time
they got something."
Ryherd said the WSL's main goal still is to
reduce the "need gap," or the difference
between the amount of financial aid dollars
students qualify for and the amount avail­able.
The WSL estimates the current "need
gap" to be about $150 million.
Healthful hints found at the fair
By Vaughn Cocke
The scene was remininscent of a
carnival midway: Curious people
wandered around while a sym­phony
of voices solicited them.
"Would you like your blood
pressure taken?"
"Can we test your hearing?"
"Check your eyesight?"
The Student Health Services-sponsored
volunteer health fair
made its quarterly appearance on
Feb. 13 and 14 in the Viking
Union Lounge. Many campus and
community groups were repres­ented,
including Planned Parent­hood
of Whatcom County, the
Washington State Dairy Council
and Western Washington Speech
and Hearing Clinic.
ANN EVANS
Students at the Health Fair find out if their respiratory systems
work.
One of the more inventive dis­plays
belonged to the Drug Infor­mation
Center. In addition to the
usual brochures outlining the
danger of drug use and abuse, the
booth featured a game called
"downer roulette," in which con­testants
could spin the wheel five
times and accumulate points. The
more-dangerous drugs had the
highest point values, so the object
was to get a low score and avoid
being classified as comatose or
dead.
The stand also had a collection
of liquor bottles with labels that
looked, but didn't read, like the
originals. "Brain-Damage Wine,"
"Ulcers 69" and "Cirrhosis
Blended Scotch Whiskey" were
some of the "products" on display.
Kristin Hawes, an intern at the
drug center, said she was asked a
variety of questions, from the
effects of alcohol and cocaine to
the origin of the liquor bottles.
She said she thought the health
fair was a good idea-because it
made the drug center—usually
located on the second floor of the
Viking Union—more visible.
"Being up here gives us more
exposure," she said.
Another popular display had
health-service personnel testing for
• see HEALTH, p. 5
Results to be slow in
athletic dept. audit
An audit of Western's Athletic
department was completed last
Friday, State Auditor Jack
Schmitz said.
Schmitz said he could not
comment on any of his findings
because his report must go
through offices in Seattle and
Olympia for review.
The review process may take
one or two months, depending
on the flow of other incoming
audit reports, Schmitz said.
This is a busy time for/the aud­itor's
office, with the University
of Washington and other schools
now being audited, he said.
The audit began about two
weeks ago at the request of Jeff
Doyle, Associated Students vice
president for external affairs.
Doyle said then that the AS
requested the audit to emphasize
student's rights to information
about the spending of Service
and Activities fees, which are
deducted from tuition payments.
Doyle said he had trouble
obtaining budgets from Athletic
Director Boyde Long.
Doyle said he sought that
information as part of research
for a legislative bill to reform the
S & A fee structure at state
universities.
IHIHiiilHiKl
"I show the movie for revenge. I hope one or two of you in here
will go out and become murderers—go out and kill some of the
myths of the Tupperware society. It'stfie most I can hope for in
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