Western Front - 1971 November 16

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TUESDAY
NOV. 16 th 1971
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Parking lot here—the low, brushy area shown above will be
transformed into an asphalt parking area if the plan approved by
the Parking Committee is passed by President Charles Flora and
the Board of Trustees.
$15,000 granted
Parking lot gains
initial approval
The Parking Committee approved a $15,000 minor capital
improvement project early last week to create a parking lot between
the Ridge way dorms and the activities fields on south campus.
Gerald Brock, committee chairman, explained that the lot was
approved because of the need for parking close to campus.
On Thursday of last week, the Campus Environmental Committee
went on record as opposing the proposed parking lot.
The committee suggested using the mobile homes site and lot 21-D
as alternatives to the new lot, but according to Brock, lot 21-D is not
being used by students because of its distance from campus.
The Environmental Committee brought out a number of reasons
for opposing the proposed lot at their meeting, included were:
—ruining of the aesthetic value of the wooded area in question.
—geological problems with construction and maintenance of the
lot.
—the fact that the lot probably would only be temporary due to
possible dorm construction within the next five years.
—possible ice and snow removalproblems on the access ramp.
—an increase in noise. ,v>
—increased traffic friction in alUarea where a great amount of
money has already been spent to decrease it.
Discussion by the Environmental Committee also brought out the
need for more visitor parking closer to campus and the need for signs
directing visitors to parking lots and other areas of the campus.
College President Charles Flora will make the final decision on the
lot after hearing recommendations from both the Campus
Environmental Committee and the Parking Committee.
First All-College Senate meets tomorrow
By BOB BURNETT
The All-College Senate will hold its first meeting at 5 p.m.
tomorrow in Lecture Hall 3, but it may take up to 10 months for the
Senate to become a fully operative, effectively functioning governing
body.
College President Charles J. Flora is expected to address the new
Senate in tomorrow's open meeting. He is expected to charge the
Senate with its responsibilities and to ask the Senate to conduct its
business slowly and deliberately in order for each of the
yet-to-be-staffed councils and commissions to work properly.
The 43-member body is faced with a long list of housekeeping and
organizational matters before it can begin to consider any hard
business. The Senate is expected to elect a chairman and a secretary
from its members and to set the procedures for appointing members
to each of the constituency bodies.
According to Mike Barnhart, Flora's administrative assistant, it
may take until "the beginning or middle of spring quarter, or certainly
by the beginning of the next academic year" before the duties of the
existing governments in each of the four college areas are taken over
by the Senate.
Barnhart said it was extremely important that the governments for
classified staff, administration, faculty and students, continue to
function until the Senate could iron out any new "bugaboos."
"It depends on how much they are going to deliberate over items
that come from committees," he said. "I don't mean that they should
be a rubber stamp, but they shouldn't have to deliberate for two
hours on one item."
He said that any item requiring more than an hour's deliberation
should be sent back to committee for further consideration.
Barnhart cautioned that the Senate could get bogged down if there
was "too much politicking." He said senators should not consider
themselves as faculty, staff, administration or students, but as
members of a homogenous college community.
Search brings buck-passing charge
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WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE VOLUME 64 NUMBER 13
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