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the Western FRONT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Vol. 71, No. 11 NOV. 7,1978 Committee drops 12 courses from GUR, six from geology AND THAT'S INDIA! — Western students shared a taste of college life with dad and mom on Parent's Day last weekend. Activities included a football game, a play, Saga food and sight-seeing. Might prove difficult by GALE FDZGE and THERESA MIGHELL Twelve courses from four departments, tentatively scheduled to be dropped from the list of General University Requirements (GUR's) were given the final ax Thursday at a GUR Committee meeting. The geology department suffered the most losses, with six courses removed from the GUR list. Physics and astronomy had three class cuts, followed by English with two and anthropology with one. Geology courses dropped are 214, Environmental Geology; 310, Geo-morphology; 311, Common Rocks and Minerals; 314, Geomorphology of Western U.S.; 340, Geological Oceanography and 414, Geology of Washington. Physics and Astronomy courses dropped are 306, Physical Foundations of Music; 301, Physics and Environmental Problems and 317, Cosmology. English courses dropped are 325a, Introduction to Rhetoric and 425a, Rhetorical Analysis. The one anthropology course dropped was 202, Introduction to Human Origins. The GUR committee has tentatively determined which courses will be included in the GUR program for the 1979 General Catalog. Department representatives are now meeting with the committee to appeal tentative decisions. GUR Committee Chairman Hugh Fleetwood said the committee follows GUR guidelines adopted last spring and follows four main objectives when reviewing courses for acceptance. Objectives are breadth, to avoid premature course or subject specialization and centrality, or the importance of the course to an intellectual, well-rounded academic background. Methods used in teaching a course and the extent to which students are actively involved in courses, in the form of term papers or labs, are other (continued on page 2) Olscamp reports on enrollment limitation policy by ERIC HOOKHAM In an informational report to the Board of Trustees Thursday, University President Paul Olscamp said a limited enrollment policy would be a "difficult course to pursue." He said the Long-Range Planning Committee has begun the stuCving process and should present five descriptions of Western in the future by spring. The projections will depict Western at student populations ranging from 9,000 to 12,000. Olscamp said a number of difficulties will arise before the Betel huts, grub worms: Learning to appreciate cultures other than ours by PAT KING Herbert Taylor likes to talk about eating crunchy grub worms and chewing addictive Malaysian betel nuts. The Western anthropology instructor uses ideas like these to help his students better understand the values of other cultures. "Taste, morality and your attitudes toward God and body odor are all conditioned by culture," Taylor said. Cultural conditioning is a pervasive, yet sometimes necessary form of brainwashing that can poison the thought processes, Taylor said. "All of us carry built-in prejudices," Taylor said. "This conditioning begins shortly after birth, long before we're conscious of it," he said. Taylor, puffing his pipe Inside One kind Part two ofEricHookham's series on communication between Western's faculty and administration explores the merit pay issue. See page 3. Another kind Local FM station KISM doesn't communicate with disc jockeys sitting in cramped control rooms. The whole show is on tape. See page 7. during the interview, said, "If we were in Malaysia, we'd be sitting on mats, chewing addictive betel nuts, staining our lips and teeth." Taylor is one of nine instructors teaching Behavioral Science 105. The class studies the human condition by combining knowledge from psychology, anthropology and sociology. One student in the class this fall is David Kaufman, a junior computer science major from Blaine, Wash. "It's the only class I know of where the instructors have got standing ovations," Kaufman said. Kaufman said Taylor communicates by using examples that hit students at a gut level. For instance, Americans aren't conditioned to eat rattlesnake, grasshoppers or the highly nutritious witchetty grub worm enjoyed by Australian Aborigines, Taylor said. Although Taylor tries to broaden a student's understanding of others, he feels some ethnocentrism, or "people centeredness," is needed. "Americans, however, tend to judge all other creatures on earth as to how democratic we feel they are, '•' Taylor said. Another difference in cultural conditioning is a person's reaction to being slugged. Most American males feel it's natural to hit back when someone slugs them, Taylor said. But not the Hopi Indian. They back away when hit. "The Hopi feels the person who hit them is insane and should be secured or gotten rid of," Taylor said. policy becomes official. He said a limited enrollment policy's "effect would be to exclude some people," making it a "change in social policy." Before a college's social policy changes, the state legislature must approve it. The method of state funding must be "enriched," he said, because faculty size would not be "hinged to growth of enrollment," meaning improvement of existing programs would be difficult. He said a decision must be made to avoid "possible discrimination." Either Western can emphasize a "mix" of students of different intelligence levels, or it can simply raise the GPA standards for entrance, he said. He said a possible solution would be to "impose GPA requirements in popular programs" such as the College of Business and Economics. In addition to problems in writing a comprehensive proposal, committees involved might have difficulty finishing it by the end of this winter's legislative session. "There is Little possibility that the current biennial legislature will change policies," Olscamp said. Dog leash laws prevail on campus •v by NANCY WALBECK All dogs brought on campus must be leashed, according to local leash laws. Dogs are not permitted in university buildings and must be under the control of their owners on any campus property. Four or five years ago, Western had a "bad dog situation," Sgt. Walt Springer, of security, said. "They ran in a pack and caused all kinds of problems," he said. Dogs are picked up and taken to the .u Bellingham-Whatcom County Humane Society -2 if their owners cannot be found, he said. ' ^ In the spring, when everyone has left ° campus, wild, starving cats at Birnam Wood !."£ pose a problem and are also turned over to the > £ Humane Society, Springer said. Dogs leave "deposits" on campus grounds and when the custodial crew comes by with their Weedeaters they "get a face full of it," Clyde Snodgrass, plant service manager of Western's custodial department, said. In the hot weather dogs at Western are inclined to cool off and Snodgrass doesn't appreciate them "doing a number in Fisher Fountain." The Washington Administrative Code states it is illegal to have pets in dormitories or campus apartments, Terry Meredith, housing maintenance manager, said. "In our own (Western's) housing contract, WHO ME? — This lawbreaker will have to make its "deposits" somewhere off campus. only aquarium life is acceptable," he said. If any pet is found, it must be removed and the occupant must pay a fumigation fee of $25 for an apartment or $12.50 for a dormitory room. Experimental animals at Western are under the control and supervision of the departments involved.
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Title | Western Front - 1978 November 7 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 71, no. 11 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | November 7, 1978 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1978-11-07 |
Year Published | 1978 |
Decades |
1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Editor | Bruce Hyland, editor, Mike Wickre, new editor, Darrell Butorac, photo editor, Chris Jarvis, opinion editor, Barbara Waits, A&E editor, Rick Eskil, sports editor, Bruce Stinshoff, head copy editor, Eric Hookham, assistant news editor, Gale Fiege, copy editor, Steve Valandra, copy editor |
Staff | Dave Imburgia, business manager, Michelle Roedell, ad manager, John Watkins, production manager, Pat King, assistant production manager, Reporters: Joyce Ansley, Janet Borgaard, Jim Barner, Bill Boyd, Calvin Bratt, Cheryl Brush, Mick Burroughs, Matt Caldwell, Connie Compton, Michael Connors, Jonathan Davis, Patti Dorst, Bruce Edwards, Wendy Egger, Greg Geleynse, Patrice Gibble, John Greeley, Dan Green, Clay Hartl, Janet Hevly, Melissa Johnson, Jaime Johnstone, Lynn Keebough, Howard Levin, Gary Lorentson, Jody MacDonald, Mark May, Dave McCracken, Dave McHugh, Tim Merkel, Laura Merkel, Theresa Mighell, David Miltenberger, June Myers, Craig O'Hara, Shane O'Hara, Debbie Oliver, Isaac Sherman, Becky Spithill, Susan Lynn Stauffer, Dave Steiner, Tricia Sylliaasen, Penny Thomas, Stacie Thumlert, Christie Vigonen, Nancy Walbeck, Mark Walker, Lew Williams, Bruce Yeager, Brad Ziemer, Mark Higgins, John Hicks |
Photographer | Jonathan Blair, Darrell Butorac, Lori Caldwell |
Faculty Advisor | Harris, Lyle |
Article Titles | Committee drops 12 courses from GUR, six from geology / Gale Fiege, Theresa Mighell (p.1) -- Olscamp reports on enrollment limitation policy / by Eric Hookham (p.1) -- Betel nuts, grub worms: learning to appreciate cultures other than our / Pat King ((p.1) -- Dog leash laws prevail on campus / by Nancy Walbeck (p.1) -- Profs to handle cheaters if Academic rule changed / by Bruce Edwards (p.2) -- Minorities concerned: proposed deletions feared / by Gale Fiege (p.2) -- Merit pay prone to criticism by faculty / by Eric Hookham (p.3) -- Student I.D.s go unclaimed (p.3) -- Student defends art with sign / by Darrell Butorac (p.3) -- Editorials (p.4) -- Comment (p.4) -- Letters (p.5) -- Shorts & briefs (p.6) -- Emergency 911: county lacks national number / by Cheryl Brush (p.6) -- A & E (p.7) -- Programming by tape: computer 'DJ' at KISM / by Brian Rust (p.7) -- Film crazy, but good / by Jonathan Davis (p.7) -- Diversions (p.8) -- Shadow box depicts dying / by Shane O'Hara (p.8) -- Bergman film seventh seal to show this week (p.8) -- Relax in music room / by Barbara Waits (p.9) -- Lorimer to play, teach (p.9) -- Sports (p.10) -- Viks recover fumble, smash Central 23-7 / by Rick Eskil (p.10) -- Homecoming mocks the home town spirit / by Laura Merkel (p.11) -- Surprise victory over Ducks / by Dave Miltenberger (p.11) -- Classified (p.11) -- Official announcements (p.11) -- Outside (p.12) -- Outdoor program snow bound / by Jaime Johnstone (p.12) -- Basketball squad begins workouts / by Jonathan Davis (p.12) |
Photographs | [Student with parents] (p.1) -- [Dog off leash] (p.1) -- [Student with binoculars] (p.2) -- [Art is wrong, hanging from windows] (p.3) -- Mike Bettelli, disc jockey (p.7) -- Kym Collins (p.9) -- Jon Christie (p.10) -- Mike Locker (p.10) -- Kelly Turner (p.12) |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 29 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19781107.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
Description
Title | Western Front - 1978 November 7 - Page 1 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 71, no. 11 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | November 7, 1978 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1978-11-07 |
Year Published | 1978 |
Decades |
1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Editor | Bruce Hyland, editor, Mike Wickre, new editor, Darrell Butorac, photo editor, Chris Jarvis, opinion editor, Barbara Waits, A&E editor, Rick Eskil, sports editor, Bruce Stinshoff, head copy editor, Eric Hookham, assistant news editor, Gale Fiege, copy editor, Steve Valandra, copy editor |
Staff | Dave Imburgia, business manager, Michelle Roedell, ad manager, John Watkins, production manager, Pat King, assistant production manager, Reporters: Joyce Ansley, Janet Borgaard, Jim Barner, Bill Boyd, Calvin Bratt, Cheryl Brush, Mick Burroughs, Matt Caldwell, Connie Compton, Michael Connors, Jonathan Davis, Patti Dorst, Bruce Edwards, Wendy Egger, Greg Geleynse, Patrice Gibble, John Greeley, Dan Green, Clay Hartl, Janet Hevly, Melissa Johnson, Jaime Johnstone, Lynn Keebough, Howard Levin, Gary Lorentson, Jody MacDonald, Mark May, Dave McCracken, Dave McHugh, Tim Merkel, Laura Merkel, Theresa Mighell, David Miltenberger, June Myers, Craig O'Hara, Shane O'Hara, Debbie Oliver, Isaac Sherman, Becky Spithill, Susan Lynn Stauffer, Dave Steiner, Tricia Sylliaasen, Penny Thomas, Stacie Thumlert, Christie Vigonen, Nancy Walbeck, Mark Walker, Lew Williams, Bruce Yeager, Brad Ziemer, Mark Higgins, John Hicks |
Photographer | Jonathan Blair, Darrell Butorac, Lori Caldwell |
Faculty Advisor | Harris, Lyle |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 29 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19781107.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Format | application/pdf |
Full Text | the Western FRONT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Vol. 71, No. 11 NOV. 7,1978 Committee drops 12 courses from GUR, six from geology AND THAT'S INDIA! — Western students shared a taste of college life with dad and mom on Parent's Day last weekend. Activities included a football game, a play, Saga food and sight-seeing. Might prove difficult by GALE FDZGE and THERESA MIGHELL Twelve courses from four departments, tentatively scheduled to be dropped from the list of General University Requirements (GUR's) were given the final ax Thursday at a GUR Committee meeting. The geology department suffered the most losses, with six courses removed from the GUR list. Physics and astronomy had three class cuts, followed by English with two and anthropology with one. Geology courses dropped are 214, Environmental Geology; 310, Geo-morphology; 311, Common Rocks and Minerals; 314, Geomorphology of Western U.S.; 340, Geological Oceanography and 414, Geology of Washington. Physics and Astronomy courses dropped are 306, Physical Foundations of Music; 301, Physics and Environmental Problems and 317, Cosmology. English courses dropped are 325a, Introduction to Rhetoric and 425a, Rhetorical Analysis. The one anthropology course dropped was 202, Introduction to Human Origins. The GUR committee has tentatively determined which courses will be included in the GUR program for the 1979 General Catalog. Department representatives are now meeting with the committee to appeal tentative decisions. GUR Committee Chairman Hugh Fleetwood said the committee follows GUR guidelines adopted last spring and follows four main objectives when reviewing courses for acceptance. Objectives are breadth, to avoid premature course or subject specialization and centrality, or the importance of the course to an intellectual, well-rounded academic background. Methods used in teaching a course and the extent to which students are actively involved in courses, in the form of term papers or labs, are other (continued on page 2) Olscamp reports on enrollment limitation policy by ERIC HOOKHAM In an informational report to the Board of Trustees Thursday, University President Paul Olscamp said a limited enrollment policy would be a "difficult course to pursue." He said the Long-Range Planning Committee has begun the stuCving process and should present five descriptions of Western in the future by spring. The projections will depict Western at student populations ranging from 9,000 to 12,000. Olscamp said a number of difficulties will arise before the Betel huts, grub worms: Learning to appreciate cultures other than ours by PAT KING Herbert Taylor likes to talk about eating crunchy grub worms and chewing addictive Malaysian betel nuts. The Western anthropology instructor uses ideas like these to help his students better understand the values of other cultures. "Taste, morality and your attitudes toward God and body odor are all conditioned by culture," Taylor said. Cultural conditioning is a pervasive, yet sometimes necessary form of brainwashing that can poison the thought processes, Taylor said. "All of us carry built-in prejudices," Taylor said. "This conditioning begins shortly after birth, long before we're conscious of it," he said. Taylor, puffing his pipe Inside One kind Part two ofEricHookham's series on communication between Western's faculty and administration explores the merit pay issue. See page 3. Another kind Local FM station KISM doesn't communicate with disc jockeys sitting in cramped control rooms. The whole show is on tape. See page 7. during the interview, said, "If we were in Malaysia, we'd be sitting on mats, chewing addictive betel nuts, staining our lips and teeth." Taylor is one of nine instructors teaching Behavioral Science 105. The class studies the human condition by combining knowledge from psychology, anthropology and sociology. One student in the class this fall is David Kaufman, a junior computer science major from Blaine, Wash. "It's the only class I know of where the instructors have got standing ovations," Kaufman said. Kaufman said Taylor communicates by using examples that hit students at a gut level. For instance, Americans aren't conditioned to eat rattlesnake, grasshoppers or the highly nutritious witchetty grub worm enjoyed by Australian Aborigines, Taylor said. Although Taylor tries to broaden a student's understanding of others, he feels some ethnocentrism, or "people centeredness," is needed. "Americans, however, tend to judge all other creatures on earth as to how democratic we feel they are, '•' Taylor said. Another difference in cultural conditioning is a person's reaction to being slugged. Most American males feel it's natural to hit back when someone slugs them, Taylor said. But not the Hopi Indian. They back away when hit. "The Hopi feels the person who hit them is insane and should be secured or gotten rid of," Taylor said. policy becomes official. He said a limited enrollment policy's "effect would be to exclude some people," making it a "change in social policy." Before a college's social policy changes, the state legislature must approve it. The method of state funding must be "enriched," he said, because faculty size would not be "hinged to growth of enrollment," meaning improvement of existing programs would be difficult. He said a decision must be made to avoid "possible discrimination." Either Western can emphasize a "mix" of students of different intelligence levels, or it can simply raise the GPA standards for entrance, he said. He said a possible solution would be to "impose GPA requirements in popular programs" such as the College of Business and Economics. In addition to problems in writing a comprehensive proposal, committees involved might have difficulty finishing it by the end of this winter's legislative session. "There is Little possibility that the current biennial legislature will change policies," Olscamp said. Dog leash laws prevail on campus •v by NANCY WALBECK All dogs brought on campus must be leashed, according to local leash laws. Dogs are not permitted in university buildings and must be under the control of their owners on any campus property. Four or five years ago, Western had a "bad dog situation," Sgt. Walt Springer, of security, said. "They ran in a pack and caused all kinds of problems," he said. Dogs are picked up and taken to the .u Bellingham-Whatcom County Humane Society -2 if their owners cannot be found, he said. ' ^ In the spring, when everyone has left ° campus, wild, starving cats at Birnam Wood !."£ pose a problem and are also turned over to the > £ Humane Society, Springer said. Dogs leave "deposits" on campus grounds and when the custodial crew comes by with their Weedeaters they "get a face full of it," Clyde Snodgrass, plant service manager of Western's custodial department, said. In the hot weather dogs at Western are inclined to cool off and Snodgrass doesn't appreciate them "doing a number in Fisher Fountain." The Washington Administrative Code states it is illegal to have pets in dormitories or campus apartments, Terry Meredith, housing maintenance manager, said. "In our own (Western's) housing contract, WHO ME? — This lawbreaker will have to make its "deposits" somewhere off campus. only aquarium life is acceptable," he said. If any pet is found, it must be removed and the occupant must pay a fumigation fee of $25 for an apartment or $12.50 for a dormitory room. Experimental animals at Western are under the control and supervision of the departments involved. |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
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