Western Front - 1988 November 22

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VOL. 80, NO. 58 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1988
Remembering
Kennedy
25 years later, students and faculty
recall death of a favorite president
By Michael J. Lehnert
of The Western Front
"The President's been shot."
Students in the beginning
psychology class stared at their
professor in disbelief. They were
unsure whether to believe him
because, in the past, he had told
them other outrageous things as
part of psychological experi­ments.
They didn't want to believe
he was at last telling the truth,
like "the boy who cried wolf."
He was telling the truth. The
date was Nov. 22, 1963 and
Western and the rest of the nation
was sent into shock by the
assassination of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
Western and all state schools
and offices were closed by the
governor on Monday Nov. 25, in
observance of the funeral.
Gov. Al Rosellini proclaimed
a period of mourning in Washing­ton
state soon after he heard the
news.
Those old enough to be aware
of what was happening in 1963
have vivid memories of exactly
where they were and what they
were doing when they heard the
news from Dallas.
That Friday, Bruce Beaman,
class of 1964, was on his way to a
history class, unaware of what
had happened.
Arriving at class, the students
found their professor crying.
Thinking it was a personal
problem, Beaman said, they
asked what was wrong. The
professor told them the news and
dismissed the class.
"We ran out of class, every­body
crying and heading in a dif­ferent
direction. I remember
going to the student union
building to get more news.
"Going across campus, every­where
I looked people were
crying. People were blaming the
Republicans, the John Birch
Society, the K K K and other
radical groups," Beaman said.
Returning home on the bus
that evening, Beaman's fellow
passengers were playing portable
radios and in between news
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Western fans celebrate another Big Blue bucket as the men's basketoall team beat Whitman College,
reports they were playing
"maudlin funeral music,"
Beaman said.
Herbert Taylor, of the anthro­pology
department, was on his
way to Lecture Hall 2 when he
heard the news.
"I was walking across what
became known as Red Square,
and professor Harley Hiller, of
the history department, told me
that President Kennedy had been
shot. He was also on his way to
class and had only gotten
fragmentary information over the
radio."
see SHOCKING p. 3
Director of athletics to announce
new football coach by Dec. 2
By Theodore Gross
of The Western Front
Job descriptions for the position
of head football coach at Western
have been sent out to all high schools
and universities in Washington,
Oregon and Idaho, said Western's
Director of Athletics Lynda Goodrich.
The decision not to renew the
contract of Paul Hansen, who coached
Western the past six years, was an­nounced
Nov. 16. Hansen led the
Vikings to a 5-4 record this year,
including five straight victories for
the first time since 1951.
"I guess in all coaching there's
more than won-loss record," Goodrich
said. "There's excellence in a lot of
different areas."
Goodrich will decide who will be
Western's next football coach after
taking recommendations of a search
committee. The search committee,
now being formed, will consist of
faculty, athletic staff, students and a
member of the community.
The deadline for submitting
applications for the job is Nov. 30.
Goodrich said she hopes to decide on
a new coach by Dec. 2.
In making her final decision,
Goodrich will look for someone who
has demonstrated leadership and the
ability to recruit. She said she would
prefer someone who has established
relationships with high school and
community college coaches in the
state.
She already has received numer­ous
calls from potential applicants
, concerning the position. While names
i are kept confidential at this early
stage of the hiring process, one per­son
certain to be considered for the
job is Western's defensive coordina­tor
Rob Smith.
"I will apply for the job," Smith
said. "Any coach with head coach
aspirations would have to look at this
job with excitement."
Smith, who has been an assistant
coach for two years, served as an
assistant at Renton High School for
six years before coming to Western.
"I have been here, I know the
players, and Iknow the situation," he
said. "The transition would not be as
see WESTERN p. 12
Poli sci student becomes House representative
By Don Hunger
of The Western Front
Randy Tate, 22, a Western economics and
political science major, was elected Nov. 8, to
serve as state representative for the 25th Leg­islative
District, Puyallup.
With the victory, he maintained a record of
nominations that began with class presidency
in 1 lth grade. And he furthered his aspirations
for becoming President of the United States, he
said.
Tate, defeated State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Frank "Buster" Brouillet, by 14,044
to 12,915 votes, becoming the district's first
Republican in 57 years.
Brouillet, a Demo­crat,
was state school
chief for 16 years and
25th District state rep­resentative
from 1957
to 1973.
Tate has two quar­ters
to complete before
graduating from West­ern.
"I was registered to
return to Western win­ter
quarter. My date of
registry was Nov. 7, the day before the election.
I had to cover all the bases," he said.
Tate campaigned on a platform to fight the
Randy Tate
threat of tax increases and the escalating drug
problem.
He said his perseverance won him the
election.
'T 'doorbelled' for 141 days and only missed
nine days altogether. One of them was for my
brother's wedding. I was chased and bit by
dogs, and I went through three pairs of shoes."
His father, owner of a trailer park in Puyal­lup,
was his campaign manager. He coordi­nated
fund raising and single-handedly posted
4,000 campaign signs.
"Our plan was to get name-familiarity.
Everytime I met someone I'd say, 'Remember
Tate for state.' It was our slogan. It was on our
signs. And it worked," he said.
The campaign went through several stages
between Christmas and the election, Tate said.
First, he waited for current Rep. Dan Grimm,
D-Puyallup, to decide if he was going to step
down and leave an uncontested seat. When this
happened, he decided to run against Brouilett.
"I was told I had a rough road to hoe to beat
Buster," he said. "When someone tells me I
can't do something, I go after 'em to prove 'em
wrong."
The next obstacle was making it through
the primary election on a $6,000 budget.
see STUDENT p. 12