Western Front - 1993 May 7

              May7,t??3/Volume $$> Number 44 Western Washington University please recycle
Three finalists in running to replace Mortimer
By Karl Schweizer
campus government editor
The Presidential Search Committee
selected three finalists for Western's
presidency.
The first to visit Western, Provost
Melvyn Schiavelli, will meet the public at
a forum 3 p.m. Monday in Lecture Hall 4.
William and Mary Student President
Lisa Goddard called Schiavelli "incredibly
intelligent" during a telephone interview.
"Don't try to pull something over on
him," she said.
When asked about Schiavelli's
accessibility, Goddard said he works more
with faculty than students. She
characterized him as "a nice man. ... I
think you guys would be lucky to have
him as president," she said.
The second finalist to visit, Provost
Karen Morse of Utah State, was described
as "constant and efficient" by Jennifer
Kohler, the editor of Utah State's
newspaper. Kohler said Morse was "not
one to hide out in her office."
The third finalist is Provost Henry
Roland of Miami University in Ohio. Grace
Trocolo, Miami's executive vice-president,
said Henry was "terribly
friendly" even though he seemed "a bit
dry until you get to know him," she said.
Schiavelli, a chemistry professor, has
been provost of the College of William
and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. since 1986.
He begins his visit to Western with a May
9 meeting with the board of trustees.
Afterward, he will be lost in a raging sea of
meals and meetings with the Associated
Students, the Faculty Senate, the
Administrators Association, and numerous
other groups from on and off-campus. He
will tour the campus at 9 a.m. Monday
with Acting President Roland DeLorme.
Morse,achemistryprofessor,received
her Ph.D in 1967 from the University of
Michigan. She will visit Western May 16-
18, meeting the public Monday, May 17 at
3 p.m. in Lecture Hall 4.
Roland is a theoretical atomic physicist.
See CANDIDATES, page 3
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Trustees want orientation fee
By Danette Reeff
staff reporter
When Western welcomes ap­proximately
3,000 new students
next fall, they will be presented
with a new $45 orientation fee.
The fee, proposed to the board
of trustees by Marie Eaton, vice
president of Student Affairs, is
expected to generate approxi­mately
$135,000.
Projected state budget cuts
prompted the fee, said Connie
Copeland, associate to the vice
president of Student Affairs.
"We'll be looking at shifting
current funding for orientation to
compensate for those cuts,"
Copeland said. "It hasn't been
totally earmarked yet. We don't
know exactly how much of that
money will be used to offset the
state cuts and how much will go
back into the programs."
Although it hasn't been de­cided
how the money will be spent,
at least a portion will go toward
improving the orientation pro­gram.
Since freshman will no
longer be charged $40 for Sum­mer
Start, the fee will offset the
nearly $50,000 normally col­lected.
Copeland said she didn't
know how much Summer Start
costs the school.
"We're trying to preserve and
improve the orientation program,"
Copeland said.
The orientation for transfer
students is not expected to change
this fall, but a summer program
for transfer students will be
implemented in summer 1994.
In the face of tuition and hous­ing
hikes, students are concerned
about the new fee even though
they will not be impacted.
"I think it's ridiculous," said
Fairhaven student August
Wegener. "I could understand it if
the university had the monies ear­marked
for something in particu­lar."
"I'm being as up front as I can
at this point, (about where the
money is going)" Copeland said.
"We just don't know yet."
Some students said they didn't
feel orientation was worthwhile..
"It's not worth $45," said
Western student Kim Bilyeu.
"They didn't help me academi­cally."
Some, hCivever, said orienta­tion
was a good social experience.
"The friends I made at Sum­mer
S tart are sti 11 m y best friends,"
Wegener said.
Fired cop sues Western for his job
Russ Martin, former public
safety director at Western who
was forced to resign last year, is
suing to get his job back.
Martin resigned in January,
1992 after being cited for shop­lifting
a pack of cigarettes from
Ennen's Market.
Charges were dropped, how­ever,
after he passed a lie-detec­tor
test.
According to a story run last
year in the Front, Martin was also
forced to repay hundreds of dol­lars
in personal long-distance
phone calls he charged to the uni­versity.
According to court documents,
officials at Western gave Martin a
choice between resigning or be­ing
fired. If he chose to resign,
officials agreed they wouldn't
comment on the firing or his job
performance, and he would be
given six months of severance
pay.
The suit states Martin resigned
but was unaware he was entitled
to the money if he was fired. The
suit also states Western officials
made statements to the media
about him that were false,
defamatory and were an invasion
of his privacy.
The lawsuit states Martin lost
his job and other employment
opportunities because the incident
damaged his reputation.
The suit asks for unspecified
damages, attorney's fees, and
seeks to reinstate Martin in his
job.
Material for this story was
contributed by Lezlie Fox
ofKGMI radio
^fvpi races undeci a majority vote
By Karl Schweizer
campus government editor
Arecord numberof students cast ballots Tuesday and Wednesday
during the Associated Students election.
Of 10,860 eligible voters, 3,068, or 28.2 percent, voted, said
Election Board chair Tiffany Gerrish.
The races for AS President and AS Vice President for External
Affairs did not have clear winners because none of the candidates
received a majority of the votes — 50 percent or more.
''^•'•:Winners:of::the'two positions will be determined in a run-off
election next Wednesday.
In the presidential race, Keith Boyd received 1,035 votes to Ken
Wood's 1,023 votes, or 34 percent arid 33 percent, respectively.
James Walsh pulled in 880 votes, or 29 percent.
Boyd will face off against either Wood or Walsh for the presi­dency,
depending on the outcome of a complaint against Wood.
Wood was accused of violating the AS election code by campaigning
within 25 feet of a polling place. If the Election Board finds Wood
in violation, it could disqualify him from running, and Walsh would
run against Boyd. The board will make its decision Monday at 9 a.m.
The location was tentatively set in VU 408.
In the race for Vice President of External Affairs, Tres Gallant
may face Jason Hansen next week. Gallant garnered 46 percent of the
vote, while Hansen got 26 percent. Rob Sorensen, with 21 percent,
was knocked out of the race, but he could be back, because Hansen's
future, like Wood's, is in doubt. Hansen turned in his campaign
See ELECTIONS, page 2
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