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The Columbia Cement plant may become the site of hazardous waste burning
Activists join hands,
bridge Columbia gap
By Karin Stanton
Nine-hundred people, including at least
six Western students, joined hands across
the Columbia River Sunday to protest
nuclear waste and the Hanford
Reservation.
The protestors filed onto the 3,700-foot
Columbia River Bridge, from Vancouver,
Wash, to Portland, Ore. and formed a
human chain with three minutes of
silence. A boat under the bridge released
hundreds of balloons as the demonstra­tors
headed back to land.
The protest was co-sponsored by the
Oregon Hanford Oversight Committee, a
citizen's group concerned about nuclear
waste and its effects on the Columbia
River, and the Washington Public Inter­est
Research Group.
Lori Farrow, campus coordinator for
Western's WashPIRG chapter, Ruth
Holbrook, chapter media representative,
and four other students took part in the
rain-soaked protest.
"We wanted to be a part of it," Hol­brook
said. "The rain didn't dampen our
spirits."
Republican Sen. Slade Gorton and
Brock Adams, Gorton's Democratic
opponent in the upcoming election, spoke
to the crowd, both stressing that Hanford
is a non-partisan issue.
Gov. Booth Gardner and Sen. Robert
Packwood, from Oregon, also took part
in the protest.
A WashPIRG bus took approximately
45 students from Western, University of
Washington and Evergreen State College
to Vancouver for the event.
Thursday, Western's chapter of
WashPIRG will sponsor a forum for Ref­erendum
40, presenting the pros and cons
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City studies parking restrictions
By Pete Jorgensen
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Western students who park along
Garden Street beware. For at least one
month, weekday parking will be limited to
four hours.
The limit is the second phase of a two-month
study being conducted by the City
of Bellingham to determine the effective­ness
of restricted parking along Garden
Street.
Bellingham City Engineer Tom Rosen­berg
said the study was initiated because
property owners along Garden Street
complained about lack of parking.
Many students park along that area
during classes. Residents also park along
Garden Street on a 24-hour basis.
Rosenberg said warning signs were
installed last Friday, and police will patrol
and issue citations to violators of the tem­porary
restriction.
From the four-hour limit, city officials
hope to determine whether the problem
property owners have complained about
has improved, Rosenberg said.
The limited parking will be effective
weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In the first one-month phase of the
study, Public Works employees observed
the affected Garden Street area, which
stretched from Myrtle to Bryant streets
and includes the block below Nash and
Mathes residence halls.
They recorded the length and regularity
of time cars were parked by writing license
plate numbers, Rosenberg said.
The Public Works Department will
present its findings from this study before
the city council adopts permanent parking
limits, he said.
City council secretary Bonnie Smith
said people with complaints should con­tact
their council representative or file a
complaint in writing with the city.
Rosenberg said the city council has dis­cussed
Garden Street parking with West­ern's
parking officials and property
owners.
Program to focus on awareness not abstinence
By Mary Barouh
Alcohol abuse has been acknowl­edged
as a problem on this campus, but
it's no worse than elsewhere in the com­munity
or on other campuses across the
nation, said Connie Copeland, assistant
to the vice president of Student Affairs.
Last fall a student survey on alcohol and substance use
on campus was conducted by Copeland's office. At the
same time, Ann Wales, a certified alcohol counselor,
made recommendations on assessments and proposals
the university might adopt to cope with the problem.
As part of the move to educate students, Western's
Alcohol Awareness Week, which ended last Friday, was
initiated.
At the end of the awareness week, members of the
Committee on Alcohol and Substance Abuse met..They
met not to evaluate the week, but to discuss possible
programs for the future.
The alcohol task force, comprised of representatives
from across the campus, was formed in January as an
outcome of Wales'suggestions. She recommended such a
group be formed to make recommedations to G. Robert
Ross, Western's president.
Last Friday, the committee was handed an interim
report stating its responsibilities.
The report also outlined the information resources
available on campus and from national organizations,
and the results of interviews with students living in the
residence halls.
Committee members were asked to review the report
for discussion at the next meeting at 4 p.m. on Nov. 4.
Dan Hammer and Kelly Ryan, Western students, gave
a presentation about their recent attendence at a confer­ence
at Central Washington University in Ellensberg.
The conference, titled Building a Vision of a Substance
Abuse Free Washington State, was designed to inform
faculty and students about possible programs for use on
university campuses.
The BACCHUS program, Boosting Alcohol Con­sciousness
Concerning Health of University Students,
was one of the topics of the conference.
"It is a national program that could be used at West­ern,"
Hammer said.
The program could be effective and realistic because
"its focus is on awareness and not on teetotalling," he
said.
Most of the national alcohol and substance abuse pro­grams
are oriented toward high school students, but
"BACCHUS is the only program adapted for universi-