Western Front - 2007 November 2

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NEWS
Border
construction to
cause delays
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Pizza Pipeline to
serve alcohol
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ART&IIFE
Emotional
music coming to
Western
page 6
SPORTS
Fencing Club bits
the mark
page 9
OPINION
FRONTLINE:
Waterfront huge
opportunity
page10
COLUMNIST:
Love your
umbrella
page10
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photo by Mark Malijan THE WESTERN FRONT
Western senior Greg Barrett, left, and Western graduate Nathan Cox, right, stagger through campus with fellow
zombieSiOct. 31. The Western Students Against Zombies club hosted the walk. See a video and a image gallery of
the Zombie Walk on Tlie Western Front Web site.
Poik:e enforce seat belt I aw
Tela Crane
THE WESTERN FRONT
Western students have even
more reasons to wear their seat
belts during the biannual Click It
or Ticket extra nighttime patrols.
The Bellingham Police
Department, added nighttime
traffic patrols from Oct. 22 to Nov.
5 to specifically target people who
are not wearing seat belts as part of
the twice-yearly Click It or Ticket
seat belt enforcement campaign,
said Bellingham Police Sgt. David
Richards.
"The main goal of the
program is to get people to wear
proper safety restraints so they
are safer while driving," Richards
said.
Anyone in a moving vehicle is.
required by law to wear a seat belt
throughout the year, but the extra
patrols biannually help remind
people of the law, he said. The
revised seat belt law passed June
2002. •';
During the last campaign,
from May 21 to June 2, 2007,
police issued 268 tickets in two
weeks, Richards said. ' '
Officers hope to see more
people wearing seat belts and issue
fewer citations this time, he said.
Bellingham Police declined
to comment on how many tickets
police have issued so far as part of
this campaign.
"It's important to note that
you have to be wearing your seat
belt correctly," Richards said. "If
you have the lap belt on but not the
shoulder harness, you get the same
$124 fine."
The Bellingham Police
Department plans to have five
see SEAT BEIT page 4 •
Markets
change
recycled mug
discount
Angela Steinkamp
THE WESTERN FRONT
Beginning this year, Western's
campus markets are no longer
offering the same recycled mug
discount.
There is still a reduced price
for people who bring in their own
mug, but it is different from the
policy of previous years, said Ira
Simon, director of University
Dining Services. Previously,
customers could receive the
discount on any drink, but now the
policy only covers fountain drinks
or drip coffee. The change in the
discount is due to a revision in the
Munch Money program, Simon
said.
A 10 percent discount is given
with every Munch Money purchase
in order to make the program more
rewarding for students, but the
change meant University Dining
Services had to buy new software
for the cash registers, he said. The
new software for the registers
would not allow for the old mug
discount in conjunction with the
Munch Money discount.
"We found out afterward that
with the software we cannot give
a discount on top of a discount,"
Simon said. "And we can't just
give cash customers a discount, so
this presented a challenge."
In order to continue promoting .
recycling, Western's markets
created a set price for people who
use their own mugs to replace the
old discount, Simon said.
see DISCOUNT page 4 •
Child Development C e i ^ with Woodring
^ m p r o t ^
Mackenzie NcDoweH •'.'••
THE WESTERN FRONT
The Western Associated
Students Child Development
Center is in the midst of
creating a partnership with
the Woodring College of
Education's newly formed
early childhood education
program.
The Child Development
Center was awarded
two grants through the
Washington Higher
Education Coordinating
Board — one from 2005
to 2007 and the other for
2007 to 2009 — to fund
an assessment project * that
sets up learning outcomes
for students working at the
center.
The goal of the
learning outcomes is for
students who work at the
center to learn teaching, •
group management and-communication
skills with "
childreriy -said Patricia >
Ashby, the center's program
manager.
The project allowed:
teachers to identify ways
they could improve the
learning environment for
the parents and students
who work at the center,
Ashby said.
Because the center is
a cooperative preschool,
parents work at the center
four hours per week.
Parents who choose a non-cooperative
option pay a
higher enrollment fee to
cover the cost of hiring
see CHILD page 4 •
•.^::A^j^ ' '-." '" photo by Justin Steyer THE WESTERN FRONT
Karolyn Schwartz, center, reads to a group of children in the Associated Students Child
Development Center Nov. 1. The center is a cooperative preschool, meaning children's
parents work in the center four hours each week.