Collegian - 1963 October 18

              T H E WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE
Who in the
Hell
111 Voi. LVI, No. 4 Bellingham, Washington Friday, Oct. 18, 1963
A ON VOTE BALLOT
Students To Decide Fate
At Wednesday's Election
S t u d e n t s will go to t h e polls Wednesday to decide t h e most important single
issue t h e y will have t o face this year: W h e t h e r Western should disassociate itself
f r om t h e United States National. S t u d e n t Association.
The move to p u t t h e NSA r e f e r r e n d um on t h e gen­e
r a l elections ballot came after extensive discussion in
t h e AS L e g i s l a t u r e meeting Monday.
Dick Simmons, Collegian editor
LEGISLATORS MARY WAKEFIELD, Linda Green
a n d Ron Huddleston appear concerned over the Na­tional
Student Association issue under discussion at
last week's l e g i s l a t u r e session. The p r o b l em is wheth­er
or not to include the issue on next Wednesday's
ASB election ballot.
received speaking privileges from
the representatives to suggest
the addition to the ballot, and
George Toulouse, legislator, made
the. final motion. ~
After extensive debate in which
Terry Gallagher, exec-vice presi­dent,
and Allan Gibbs, campus
NSA co-ordinator, both took nega­tive
stands on the organization,
the body passed the motion by an
eight to four roll call vote.
"The same programs initiated
by NSA will be taken over by the
Public Affairs Commission," Gal­lagher
said, '.'Any benefits how
gained from NSA can be gained
without membership," he added.
STATING HIS objection, legis­lator
Al Morse noted, "I hope
you will realize the apathy that
will be shown (toward both the
election and the referendum).
Well no doubt have a very poor
turnout, so we should wait for a
major election when at least 20
per cent of the students might
vote!"
Professors Will look At
Western Via TV Thursday
By J o h n Stolpe
" I ' v e ' been in college
t e a c h i n g long enough to
r e m e m b e r of time when
h a v i n g a p r e g n a n t student
was different. Now it's par
for t h e course for a girl to
come up and say, "Now
j u s t when is t h e exam?
TTT-Bad
Traffic
May Bring
Re-zoning
Representatives from Belling­ham's
Planning Commission and
Western met yesterday to dis­cuss
a comprehensive rezoning
survey of the College area.
WESTERN'S INTEREST in the
survey arises from the critical
traffic versus pedestrian problem
along High Street and Highland
Drive.
"The traffic problem is be­coming
a major one," comment­ed
Barney Goltz, assistant to the
See "Traffic" P a g e 11
My baby is due Friday, June
10. Do you suppose I will make
it? . . . . ." Dr. Katherine Car­roll,
associate professor of edu­cation,
notes on ''The Professor
Looks at His College," a KVOS-TV
presentation slated for Octo-bed
24 at 10:30 p.m.
Eight of Western's faculty
members are to participate in
the program. They will take a
candid, yet thought-provoking
look at Western, its students and
organizations.
"THE PROFESSOR looks at
his college" is a dialogue com­posed
of ad-lib interviews, re­arranged
into logical sequences
and categories such as student
activities^ dormitory life and the
professor's influence upon the
student.
In a recent interview, Al Swift,
director of public affairs for
KVOS-TV, commented, "the only
was that I can explain the con­tent
of the program is to say that
the audio (interviews) is a pen
sketch, if I may use an allusion
to art, and the video is a water-color
wash over it, filling in the
details."
The film taken on campus was
shot after the actual interviews
with the professors took place.
"When the professors talked
about bull sessions, we shot pic­tures
of bull sessions, and when
they talked of lecturing, we en^
tered their classrooms and filmed
there," Swift added.
Obviously, KVOS'S* recorders
caught some rather candid and
revealing comments during these
sessions . . . I would be most
surprised if the program caused
any controversy . . . It is basical­ly
Boy Scouts with everybody
agreeing," asserted swift.
The program is packed with
unusual and highly entertaining
quips.
"I suspect that most professors,
certainly I feel this way concern­ing
myself, are at times subject
to the imperial madness. You
know, in our own classroom we
are virtually all-powerful," says
Dr. Herbert Taylor, professor of
Anthropology.
". . . . The thing that worries
me is that sometimes the profes­sor
may expound as truth what
he only thinks, and not let the
student know that this just his.
own opinion. I hate to see this
s u b t l e indoctrination happen­ing
in the classroom," Comment­ed
Dr. Mary Watrous, associate
professor of education.
Certainly to prove just as in-
S e e " T V " P a g e 2
Morse was backed by fellow
legislator Terry Thomas who
feared, "We'll be springing some­thing
on the students that they
don't know anything about/' and
added, "I'm not against us pull­ing
out, I'm just against putting
it on this ballot."
TO THIS NSA co-ordinator
Allen Gibbs replied, "We've got
enough NSA publications for
every student on campus and all
they have to do is read!"
In a later interview Neil Mur­ray,
AS president, noted that:
"Although I have received the
majority of my program ideas
from the association, I still feel
that it does not represent the
total thought of the college stu­dent
today.
"Now is not the proper time to
evaluate the worth of NSA. We
should wait and watch the asso-
See "Election" P a g e 11
Jester? Jam It Up
Highland
Blocked
Eighteen student vehicles were
found jammed in a helter-skelter
fashion across Highland Drive
last Friday about 3 a.m. by a
Bellingham police officer, accord-
"FROM HERE on out the Se­curity
Patrol will know what
their job is," affirmed Campus
Marshal D. O. Maconoghie after
last week's traffic jam incident
on Highland Drive.
ing to D. O. Maconoghie, campus
marshal.
The automobiles had been
shoved onto the street by prank­sters
from Highland Hall or
Ridgeway Dormitories, the mar­shal
assumed.
The vehicles were towed away
by a local towing company at the
request of the police officer. The
Drive
By Cars
names of the pranksters involved
are in Dean C. W. McDonald's
hands according to Maconoghie.
McDonald was out of town and
unavailable for comment this
week.
Where was Western's night se­curity
patrol at the time? "The
security patrol was doing all they
thought they were supposed to do.
Six out of the eight men employed
as night security patrolmen are
new this quarter. They misunder­stood
their job and thought they
only had to secure the campus
against potential fires," Mac­onoghie
explained. He added that
the new patrolmen were con­cerned
with learning the various
See " J e s t e r s " P a g e 11
Roethke Reading
Set For Monday
A r e a d i n g in memory of
t h e poet Theodore Roethke
will be held at 8 p. m.
Monday at t h e T h r e e J o l ly
Coachmen Coffee House in
downtown Bellingham.
CO-SPONSORED by the Eng­lish
Department and the Eddy
Guest Club, the program will fea­ture
readings by Bill Burke,
Peggy Harrison and Ric Steph­ens.
Annis Hovde of the English
faculty will introduce the read­ing.
Roethke, 1953 Pulitzer prize
winner in poetry, had taught at
the University of Washington
since 1947. He died last August
at his summer home on Bain-bridge
Island.
Burke, who organized the read­ing,
said that Roethke was widely
known both as a poet and a
teacher.