Western Front - 1970 May 5

              Convention may be postponed
inet calls class strike against war
The AS Cabinet decided
yesterday to call for a strike on
all classes and AS activities to
demonstrate dissatisfaction with
President Nixon's sending U.S.
troops into Cambodia.
There will be an all-college
meeting at 3 p.m. today in the
VU lounge to discuss this
resolution. Depending on
student reaction at the meeting,
the resolution will be submitted
to the Legislature at 4 p.m. If
the Legislature passes the
resolution, the strike will begin
tomorrow and continue through
Friday.
The Cabinet also asked that
Friday be named a "Day of
Mourning" to express feelings
for troops killed in Cambodia
since the U.S. entered, and for
the four students killed during
violence at Kent State University
resolution will probably be
submitted tonight at the AS
Convention asking that the
Convention be postponed until
next week.
Hjeresen said that most of the
prospective candidates are in
agreement, and have pledged
their political machine to
present a community crisis
teach-in during the three day
strike.
Several departments have
agreed to cancel their classes,
Hjeresen said.
Candidates for AS President,
Vice-President and Legislature
will be nominated as the 3-day
spring nominating convention
opens at 6 p.m. tonight in the
VU lounge.
Faculty and staff at Western
will be represented by delegation
along with students for the first
t i m e , Steve Plane ic ,
newly-appointed elections board
chairman, said last week.
According to the spring
convention rules, each dorm will
be allowed one delegate for
every 20 residents, and one
additional delegate for any
remaining odd number of
residents over 10.
Each college-approved house
will be allowed one delegate for
every 20 persons living
off-campus and one additional
for any remaining odd number
over 10.
Delegates representing
on-campus living groups have
been elected rather than
appointed, as in the past, to
insure "a fair representation
from each dorm," Plancic said.
Off-campus delegations are
filled from lists of interested
students who signed up.
All delegates representing
faculty and staff were appointed
by the respective office heads
and department chairmen,
Plancic said.
Tonight's business will be
devoted mainly to voting on the
rules of the convention,
introducing bills and nominating
presidential, vice-presidential
and legislator candidates.
The chairman of each
delegation will nominate
candidates requested by his
delegation.
According to convention
rules, nominated candidates will
be selected by secret ballot, on
the last night of the convention.
A vote will be taken for all
positions, unless there is- only
yesterday.
D e n n y H j e r e s e n , tllC
administrative assistant to the
AS president, said that a western front
one person nominated for the
position.
The ten candidates receiving
the most votes for Legislature
will be qualified for the general
election ballot, with the
runners-up being designated as
alternates.
The top three nomineees each
for president and vice-president
will be put on the general ballot,
Plancic said.
No motions or bills involving
finances may be submitted,
although resolutions asking the
AS Legislature to pass a financial
bill will be considered.
Bills will be divided into four
categories for caucusing, he said.
The categories are student
welfare, responsible leadership,
fiscal management and
bookstore.
All candidates selected at the
convention will be eligible to run
in a college-wide election to be
held May 21.
Vol. LXI1 no. 31 Western Washington State College Bellingham, Washington 98225 Tuesday, May 5, 1970 10c
Legislature
denies dorm
poll demand
Jackie Lawson
Western Front staff
Despite a protest by Interhall
Council (IHC) the AS
Legislature failed to reconsider
Bill No. 100 last Tuesday which
removed voting booths from
dormitories.
Greg Gustafson, Ridge way
Beta president, presented the
protest which stated, "Be it
resolved that IHC demand to AS
Legislature that it immediately
withdraw Bill No. 100 and
re-establish its polling places in
dormitories."
It was discussed that
off-campus students feel
alienated and resentful, and will
experience difficulty in voting
because of a lack of voting
booths situated off-campus.
Gustafson outlined the source
of the problem as not enough
booths for off-campus students
and stated that the product of
the problem is a dispropor­tionate
amount of booths for
on-campus students. "It isn't
necessary to cut down the
amount of booths on campus,
just supply more booths off
campus, Gustafson said.
He attacked the action taken
by the legislature as "strictly
negative," and said that due to
the legislature's refusal to
withdraw Bill No. 100, IHC will
take immediate action to
withhold the $18 activities fee
that goes to Associated
Students.
Dean of Students C.W.
McDonald responded to
Gustafson by saying that it is
possible, in a budgeting
situation, to withhold funds of
any agency on campus, but it
must be done by legal
authorities such as the president
of the college or the Board of
Trustees.
Legislator Gary Sharp said
that many people have the
wrong idea on the election
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Students unite to
end repression
"We are people uniting to
fight the trend of repression
c u r r e n t l y sweeping this
country."
So begins the manifesto of
People Against Repression
(PAR). PAR evolved from the
last Moritorium committee
meeting where it was decided
that a different kind of
organization was needed.
There will be an open
meeting at 3 p.m. today in VU
8. A literature and information
table will be in the VU plaza
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today
with a signatory declaration for
support.
The combined ideas of the
organizing committee that met
last week were incorporated into
the manifesto.
The first issue in the
manifesto is the sentencing of
Black Panther chairman, Bobby
Seale and the "government's
attempts to murder or jail all
Black Panthers."
Another aim is to fight
against the government
institution of "thought crime"
t h r o u g h the use of
unconstitutional conspiracy
laws.
Another point agreed upon
was to fight against the attempt
t o r e p r e s s ' ' O u r ''
culture—banning festivals, jailing
people for smoking the wrong
kind of weed.
"We will fight all unjust
laws—dope laws, laws governing
m o r a l i t y , laws allowing
preventive detention, no-knock
laws, i.e., the means the
government uses to keep us
down," reads part of the
manifesto.
Eliminating the repression of
all people—women, Third World
people, Indians, homosexuals,
freaks, students—anyone who
refuses to accept the restrictive
mold they are placed in, was
designated as another directive
for PAR.
The manifesto wound up by
declaring that PAR would fight
American fascism led by Vice
President Agnew and General
Mitchell, who are responsible for
the increased tempo of
repression, they believe.
"We are the People Against
Repression—and we are
preparing to fight," ended the
manifesto.
Warm Spring weather is attracting hundreds of college students to
Mount Baker's snowy slopes. Mount Baker skiers enjoy good skiing
conditions through most of the quarter's weekends.
Western Front photo by Shoblom
procedure. He had previously
introduced an amendment to the
original bill which stated that
the polling places should be
moved from the dorms into
academic buildings making them
easily accessible to all students.
Legislator Jim Stevens said
there was a greater voter turnout
when the polling places were in
the dorms.
Legislator Bert Halprin said
that prior to last term there were
no voting booths in the dorms
and everyone felt the elections
were fair. Last term when the
booths were replaced in the
forms people felt it was a
"weighted" election because on
and off-campus students did not
have an equal opportunity to
vote.
The resolution reads that
voting booths would be placed
in the Viking Union lounge,
coffee shop, and plaza, the
library, Red Square, Saga dining
areas and all academic buildings.
"If a student wants to vote he
will make the effort to vote like
anyone else who lives
off-campus," Fredrickson said.
Viet War escalation
may prompt strike
Student leaders across the
nation may call a class strike in
protest of President Nixon's
decision to send U.S. combat
troops into Cambodia.
The National Student
Association claimed that a poll
of 100 student body presidents
revealed that every one of them
condemned the president's
action.
Nixon's move prompted
nationwide student protests.
Princeton students called for a
strike while some students
firebombed an ROTC office on a
New York campus.
The AS Legislature here is
expected to vote on an
anti-Nixon resolution at today's
meeting.
The Cambodia decision also
irked members of Congress. The
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee asked for a top-level
conference with President Nixon
to discuss implications.