Western Front - 1984 October 23

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WESTERN FRONT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1984 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA
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VOL.76, NO. 47
Debaters score Mondale over Reagan
Students have
mixed opinions
about candidates
By Heidi deLaubenfels
Outbursts of laughter and anger
were reactions from members of
Western's debate team as they
viewed the second Reagan/Mon­dale
debate Sunday night in Col­lege
Hall.
Although the team members
each had varying personal opin­ions
about the candidates, the gen­eral
consensus was that Mondale
won the debate.
"He was able to simplify his
answers," Dennis Lewis said.
Michou Lockridge, ardent Rea­gan
supporter and freshman team
member, said in terms of issues,
Reagan took the debate, but in
terms of style, Mondale won.
While the group felt that Mon­dale's
debating was superior, sev­eral
agreed that Reagan proved
himself to be a more able debater
this time than in the last debate.
"Reagan was a lot better (than
before), but Mondale is still a bet­ter
debater," said Jim Hanson.
The debaters jiointed out that
the format used in the presidential
debate was not the same used in
collegiate debate. Consequently^
the debate was difficult to score.
But Jim Hanson was able to apply
his own score.
"On my point system, I'd rate (in
favor of) Mondale, nine to six," he
said.
Hanson's point system invokes
rating each debater on a scale from
one to ten; one being the poorest
rating and ten the highest.
JANICE KELLER
Mark Murphy, a speech graduate student, clearly shows his opinion of Sunday's presidential debate as he cringes, laughs, then
bows his head in disbelief while President Reagan discusses his "Star Wars" defense proposal.
He judges on clarity, knowledge
and expression of facts, and over­all
appeal to the public.
As trained debaters, the viewers
were more aware of details such as
speaking styles, points made, clar­ity,
holes in logic and fallacies,
senior team member Brenda
Skidmore said.
"We're more aware of how a
speaker is, supposedly, supposed
to speak," agreed Ty Hanson, a
former team member who gradu­ated
last spring.
Lewis said he believed the two
presidential candidates addressed
issues the American public was
interested in hearing. He expressed
concern, however, that the public
wasn't interested in specifics.
"I'd have been more pleased if
they'd discussed what each of them
would do.(specifically) about for­eign
policy in the next four years,"
he said. "The problem is that eve­ryone
probably would have turned
their televisions to 'Big Valley.'"
But the viewers showed little
attempt to remain objective fol­lowing
the debate. Strong opinions
surfaced, resulting in heated dis­cussion
between the team
members.
While Hanson declared that
"Reagan is so incompetent," Lewis
asserted that "Mondale. showed
that he doesn't have a grasp of the
issues he was addressing. He
doesn't have a comprehensive view
of military technology."
An animated dispute about the
arms race ensued, with statistics
and variables being flung about the
room. \
"Mondale tells the people the
facts about the arms race," Jim
Hanson declared.
"The facts that he believes,"
Lewis said.
"The facts that he believes?
What does Reagan believe?" Han­son
questioned.
"The facts that do exist," Lewis
said.
Not all opinions were so heat­edly
conveyed, however. Mike
Goodson was calm and cool about
his views. His quiet statement at
the end of the presidential debate
was, simply, that "people deserve
another four years of Reagan if
they vote him in after this."
Students to receive refunds
of past paycheck deductions
By Heidi deLaubenfels
About 5,800 Western stu­dents
will receive refunds this
year for Social Security money
withheld from past work-study
paychecks.
Social Security contributions
deducted from student wages
from 1979 to 1982 must be
refunded to students because of
a recent reinterpretatton of an
agreement between the state of
Washington and the Social
Security Administration. That
agreement used to require stu­dent
employees to pay the
So.cial Security tax, Carol
Leshefka, payroll supervisor,
said.
Leshefka said she didn't
know why the agreement was
reinterpreted.
Refund claim forms are
being sent to affected students,
who must return a photocopy
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of their Social Security card to
the payroll office to receive the
refund.
Leshefka stressed the impor­tance
of the card photocopies.
"We're currently giving fop
priority to students who pro­vide
everything we need," she
said. She added though no time
limit oh refund claims exists,
returned forms that don't
include card photocopies are
delayed for quite awhile.
Students should receive their
refunds within 30 days, if every­thing
is correctly supplied by
the students, Leshefka said.
WSL considers a shot
at tuition freeze bill again
By Laurie L. Ogle
Western's local Washington
Student Lobby again will back a
tuition freeze measure that board
members said Friday is the best
way to combat the suggested 20
percent tuition increase.
Last year, the WSL tried to push
a tuition freeze bill through the
Legislature, but the bill died in the
House Ways and Means Commit­tee
and the WSL was told to give
the measure another try this year.
WSL took the advice, and after
changing the name of the measure
to "tuition maintenance bill," it
will reintroduce the bill in January.
WSL local Chairwoman Yvonne
Ward said they changed the word
"freeze" to "maintenance"
because, in the words of Robert
Chamblee, "freeze" "evokes
emotions."
The term "freeze" causes legisla­tors
to react negatively while the
word maintenance does not, Ward
explained.
The bill would freeze tuition
rates, Ward said, until students are
back to paying 20 percent of the
cost of their education. Students
herecurrently pay 25 percent.
WSL state ex-officio board
member Majken Ryherd said "If
you freeze the dollar amount, the
percentage naturally drops."
Ward said the bill stands a better
chance this year because legislators
now are familiar with the bill and
support it. She said WSL has built
a strong case for the freeze.
In another matter discussed at
Friday's board meeting, members
were told they won't know until
Nov. 6 how much money the WSL
failed to receive during registration
when fee-billing cards without the
WSL check-off box accidentally
were distributed to students.
Ward recently met with Western
Assistant Attorney General
Wendy Bohlke, who explained
that when WSL and Western's
administration agreed to the nega-
• see WSL, page 12