Western Front - 1972 November 14

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Vol. 65
No. 13
TUESDAY
November 14, 1972
Bellingham, Wash.
Lummi hatchery
Eat oysters and love longer
by ALICE COLLINGWOOD
"Eat oysters and love longer," boasted a
bumper sticker on a truck parked outside the
Lummi Oyster Hatchery.
The Lummi Indian Tribe is going to try to help
you do just that, while providing income for the
tribe, by harvesting about 100 million oysters next
spring.
That will be the first oyster harvest since the
Lummi Aquaculture Project began more than
three years ago with a pilot hatchery on Lummi
Island.
Since then a new facility, including a three-mile
long breakwater enclosing a 750-acre pond area,
has been constructed near Gooseberry Point. The
facility includes tanks for growing and nourishing
oyster larvae and eggs until they are ready to be
planted in the outdoor ponds.
"Natural oyster seed is influenced by weather
and water conditions and by natural predators,"
Dick Poole, hatchery manager, said. "Here we try
to maintain favorable water conditions."
Water from the outdoor ponds is pumped into
tanks inside the hatchery building, where it is
filtered and heated before the oyster eggs are put
into it.
Nutrients and specially grown algae are added
to 300-gallon tanks, which each contain two to
four million oyster larvae and eggs.
While oyster larvae grow during the summer
under natural conditions, they grow all year round
at the hatchery.
"We create summertime conditions all year,"
Poole said. "We make the larvae think it's
summer."
Under natural conditions, it takes about 30
days until the larvae grow to .3 millimeter and are
ready to set. In the hatchery tanks, they are ready
to set in about 15 to 21 days. It takes a little
longer for the larvae to reach that stage during the
winter months, even in the hatchery.
When the larvae are ready to set, shells are hung
in fiberglass tanks for the young oysters to attach
themselves to.
"The oyster larvae walk around for awhile and
look for the right spot," Poole said. "Then they
attach themselves."
The hatchery has 50 million larvae now, which
will be planted in the ponds in the spring. The
larvae which are ready to be set on shells will be
kept inside the hatchery until spring, when the
weather conditions are more favorable.
After they are set, it will take about a year and
a half before the oysters are ready to harvest.
Poole said some of the oysters are conditioned
for spawning. They are kept at a constant
temperature of 70 degrees for a month until the
(cont. on pg. 12)
Bob McLauchlan photo
The need to be cared and loved for was one of the philosophies of the human potential workshop
held last weekend at Fairhaven college. Above, participators are rocking, stroking and feeding each
other grapes—an experience of comfort contact which is considered essential to adults, as well as
children. It is called a primal sensory experience.
Workshop's goal
People learn to love people
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by BRUCE HAYES
Helping people to care for themselves and
others and to recognize their full potential was the
purpose of a workshop held Saturday and Sunday
at Fairhaven College.
The "Developing Personal Potential
Workshop," was sponsored by the National Center
for the Exploration of Human Potential of La
Jolla, Calif, and Western's Center for Continuing
Studies.
A. J. Lewis, from the national human potential
workshop directed the two day event.
"The purpose of this type of workshop is to
help people to love, respect and care for
hemselves and others," Lewis said.
V"It is a beginning to help people recognize their
potentialities, an opening of the door. People
should know they have the capacity to care, and
that others really care," he said.
"But," Lewis continued, "we aren't going to
tell the people involved about this-they need to
experience it."
He described the lecture method as "the most
inefficient" method of instruction in this case and
stressed the importance of experience.
According to Lewis, people have a diminished
view of themselves and see themselves small, when
they ought to see themselves great.
"We are truly great," he said, "and people need
to know this. We need to develop our creativity if
(cont. on pg. 12)
Rich Collingwood photo
An employee at the Lummi Oyster Hatchery spreads out fledgling
oysters to prevent them from smothering. The oysters will be
kept in trays until weather conditions are favorable for planting
them in ponds.
AS approves new
bookstore charter
A new bookstore board
charter received the approval of
the AS Board of Directors, and if
ratified by the College Services
Council (CSC), it will replace the
latest working document, drafted
in 1959.
The proposed charter would
place six voting members on the
board. This includes three
students (with one as vice
chairman of the board)
appointed by the board of
directors, two faculty members
appointed by the All-College
Senate and an administrator
appointed by the college
president.
The bookstore manager would
act as a non-voting member.
The old charter had four
voting members with two
students appointed by the AS
president with approval of the
AS legislature and two faculty
members, appointed by the AS
president from a list supplied by
the college president.
The director of student
activities was the ex officio
member, having a vote only in
the case of a tie.
The need for a new charter
began last fall quarter when
college president Charles J.
Flora, former Faculty Council
chairman Loren Webb and
former AS president Tod
Sundquist agreed to dissolve the
current board.
Since that time four
bookstore board charters have
been written—but none have
been ratified by the All-College
Senate, which is the appropriate
reviewing body under the
agreement between the three
negotiators.
Under the recent lawsuit
settlement agreement between
the AS and the college, it was
agreed that the CSC, a council
directly under the senate, review
any proposed charters.
inside...
ESP experiments outlined
Physicist Peter Kotzer discussed three years of
experiments dealing with extra-sensory perception.
Seepg. 3.
Viks w\n cross country title
Western slipped by Whitworth to capture the
district NAIA crown in Walla Walla Saturday. See
pg. 10.
Nutrition expert warns
V
Nutrition expert Dr. Nathan Smith advocated
education in nutrition to combat poor diet
planning. Seepg. 6. J