Western Front - 1983 April 26

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Vol. 75, No. 25 Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash. Tuesday, April 26,1983
Project UNCLE dies
By CLAIRE SWEDBERG
After a year of spotting neutri­nos
and six years of research, the
Project UNCLE neutrino tele­scope
in the basement of Old
Edens Hall is being dismantled
because of lack of funding.
Peter Kotzer, head of the pro­ject,
was receiving funds from a
private grant from the Office of
Naval Research until the end of
winter quarter, when the grant
was scheduled to run out.
Construction-of the neutrino
telescope began in 1977. The tele­scope
has been picking up man-made
neutrinos from the Fermi
National Acceleration Laboratory
near Chicago since 1982. The only
other such telescope in the world
is in the Soviet Union. Eventually
these telescopes could lead to the
use of neutrinos for communica­tion
across the world and in
searching for deposits such as oil
and natural gas.
Kotzer has been invited to the
International Cosmic Ray Con­ference
in India, this summer to
present his findings.
Kotzer, who was unavailable
for comment, now is in Washing­ton,
D.C. He will visit the Fermi
Lab before returning to Bel­lingham,
said physics depart­ment
chairman Ajit Rupaal.
In an interview with the Bel­lingham
Herald published
Thursday, Kotzer stated that he
felt Sam Kelly had been against
the project and had been
Dr. Peter Kotzer
. . . loses funding
attempting to bring it to an end
since he was appointed Faculty
Research Dean. Kotzer said that
be believed Kelly was trying to
"sabotage" his efforts.
Kelly said that this statement
was false and that no sabotage
was involved. He said that he was
no more responsible for Kotzer's
lack of funds than he was respon­sible
for Western's losing football
season.
"He will probably go to the Uni­versity
ofWashington to continue
his research now," Kelly said. He
said he believed from the begin­ning
the project was impractical
at Western.
"High-technology physics of
this kind is not a basement opera­tion.
Our physics department is
not equipped to support such a
project," he said, adding he felt
that Kotzer belongs at the Univer­sity
of Washington rather than
"an abandoned building" at
Western. He said "The question is
Why didn't he go (to the UWI in
the first place?'"
Kotzer has not been employed
at Western since he arrived here
10 years ago to replace a physics
professor who was temporarily
absent, said Executive Vice Presi­dent
James Talbot. "Since Kotzer
was not being paid by the univer­sity
the grant was his only
income. We are just providing
him with a home for his research.
"Grants run out all the time.
The only reason people are mak­ing
such a fuss over this one is
because Kotzer doesn't have any
other money," he said.
The equipment for the tele­scope,
most of which is Soviet,
will remain at Western.
With the basement no longer in
use, Old Edens Hall now will be
closed off completely. Western
has been paying for the heating
and maintenance of the building
during the Project UNCLE
research, which was fairly costly
because the building is so old,
Kelly said.
Twenty file for AS races,
three running for President
By LESLIE NICHOLS
and DAVE WASSON
At the close of the filing period
last week, 20 students had sub­mitted
their names for entry into
next week's Associated Students
general elections.
The three contenders for pres­ident
are Dana Grant, Ty Hanson
and David McFadden.
Running against current AS
Secretary/Treasurer Ron Bensley
for the vice president for internal
affairs spot is junior political
science major Gary Garrett.
Garrett said he thinks his five
years' experience working in the
administrative management field
lends itself to the job, a position
he said he would use to support
the AS drive to get a polling place
on campus.
Garrett's other goals include
continued support for the AS-sponsored
Project Vote, designed
to register students to vote, and
the formation of a closer relation­ship
between Washington Stu­dent
Lobby officers and student
members.
Soren Ryherd and George
Sidles compose the duo in pur­suit
of the vice president for aca­demic
affairs office.
The two competitors for the
vice president for external affairs
job are Steven Dahl and Dan Pike.
Kevin Lohman's opponent for
vice president of activities is geo­graphy
major Mark Marlow.
Active in the Associated Students
for two years, Marlow said if
elected he would like to use his
position to increase the number
of student activities. He cited pic­nics
and the revival of dances in
Red Square as two examples.
Formerly a candidate for the
same position, Larry Rogers was
disqualified by the AS Election
Board because he is not a full-time,
fee-paying student this
quarter.
The trio of candidates for
s e c r e t a r y / t r e a s u r e r in elude
Kevin Gomes, Steve Graham and
Jon Sitkin.
Gomes, a senior business edu­cation
major, said acting in the
secretary/treasurer cap; city
would give him a chance to us.:
skills he learned in his business
classes, as well as fulfilling a
major requirement that he have a
year of office work before he can
teach.
A volunteer in the Office of Stu­dent
Life, a former Inter-Hall
Council representative and
member of the Housing and Din­ing
Committee, Gomes said he is
willing to invest the time required
of the position, which includes
prioritizing the AS budget and
deciding which clubs should
receive the most funding.
Running unopposed for the
• See AS ELECTIONS/page 2
Bargaining bill is
ready for signing
By ELAYNE ANDERSON
The state Senate and House
agreed Friday on amendments'
for a bill that would allow faculty:
to decide if it wants collective
bargaining.
If Senate Bill 3042 j s approved
by Gov. John Spellman, faculty
will vote whether it wants to be
represented by a union, after one-third
of faculty sign a petition call­ing
for the election. Next, faculty
would vote on which union it
wants to represent them.
The bill was upheld last week
while the Senate and House con­curred
on amendments added by
the House.
One amendment excludes
medical and graduate students
from collective bargaining.
Another makes salary increases
dependent on fur.di:.e njceived
from the Legislature.
The issue of strikes is obscured
in the bill by the language chosen,
said Milt Krieger, president of
Western's local chapter of the
American Federation of Teachers.
As the bill now reads, strikes
are neither authorized nor
banned. Krieger called the possi­bility
of faculty strikes "remote."
Krieger said he is optimistic
that Spellman will sign the bill.
"I know he's been getting a lot
of mail from both sides," Krieger
said.
Collective bargaining is a right
others have had to exercise,
Krieger said. "What's the sense in
holding the faculty back."
When asked if he thought
Western's faculty would vote to
be represented by a union,
Krieger pointed out that more
than half the faculty signed a peti­tion
sent to Olympia supporting
the bill.
"I hope not to be surprised," he
said.
Spellman has 20 days to make a
decision on the bill.
The KOMO-TV van visited Western Thursday. Students such as
Cindy Boies had a chance to use some of the station's equipment.
(See story page 2.)
Reciprocity with
B.C.. Idaho ok'd
By PAT BULMER
A bill calling on the Council for
Post-Secondary Education to
negotiate reciprocal tuition
agreements with Idaho and Brit­ish
Columbia was approved Sat­urday
by the state Senate.
The House approved the bill
April 16.
The agreements will waive out-of-
state tuition rates for Washing­ton
Students in Idaho and for
Idaho and B.C. students in
Washington.
However, the bill's sponsor,
state Senator H.A. "Barney" Goltz
(D-Bellingham) said reciprocity
won't take effect until September
1984.
Goltz said the CPE will nego­tiate
with Idaho and B.C. "just as
soon as possible," but that the
agreements will have to be
approved by the Legislature next
year.
A House amendment to the bill
terminates both agreements on
June 30, 1987.
The Idaho portion of the bill
prohibits either state from losing
more than $25,000 a year. Thus, if
Washington finds it is paying
• See RECIPROCITY/page 3