Western Front - 1993 October 12

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AS Board discusses
yearbook proposal
By Stephen Duncan
staff reporter
In their first meeting of the
quarter, Associated Students
board members considered re­viving
a 56-year tradition at
Western by bringing back a school
yearbook.
The board tabled the sugges­tion
by yearbook proponent Bob
Collins to switch the format of the
student-run magazine Klipsun
from a bi-quarterly to a end-of-year
publication.
AttheOcL 11 meeting, Collins
outlined his ideas for a 300-page
yearbook that would contain ap­proximately
96 stories accumu­lated
thoughout the year. Klipsun
prints 72 during the year.
Collins said he chose the idea
of changing the format of the
Klipsun because equipment to
publish the yearbook would al­ready
be present. He said total
costs to publish the current format
are roughly $45,000, while the
yearbook would be $25,000.
Funding for the yearbook
would come from sales, Collins
said. At $28 a copy, the book
would raise $28,000 dollars if it
was sold to just 1000 students.
The book could be sold for less,
Collins said, because the student
body would purchase more than
1000 copies.
He said with the yearbook
format, students would get the
same educational opportunities
See AS Board, page 4
Pedophile still in county
Registered sex offender Timothy Alan Warner is still living in
Whatcom County, Bellingham Police said.
Warner has registered his new residence on Aldridge Road with
the county sheriff, Bellingham Police Lieutenant Rick Sucee said
Monday.
Sucee said Warner, a convicted pedophile, has relatives in the
Voltaire Apartments at 3010 Ferry Ave. and in the vicinity of
Western's campus, and may be in the area to visit them.
Warner, 20, is Caucasian and has brown hair and hazel eyes. He
is 5*11" tall and weighs 180 pounds.
He is classified by Bellingham Police as a level-three sex offender
because of the nature of his crime, the 1990 first-degree rape of a four-year-
old girl, and his high risk to re-offend.
Phone registration system passes first test
By Jason Haws
staff reporter
The RSVP (Registration for Students
Via Phone) system, scheduled to be fully
operational by spring quarter, passed round
one of student testing last week in the
continuing effort to "work out the bugs in
the system," acting registrar Joe St Hilaire
said.
Oct 5 testing involved one student who
successfully used the system to "register"
for a sample class. Hilaire said the purpose
was to make sure the system's computer
got the message and registration tookplace.
Testing will continue through Novem­ber,
adding more complex scenarios each
time. Hilaire said he wants to be certain the
system upholds the restrictions programmed
into it, such as keeping undergraduates out
of graduate-level courses and letting stu­dents
into written permission classes only
with the proper code.
"We have to test every single restriction
we have in the system before it becomes
fully operational," Hilaire said.
A "dummy registration" will take place
later this month to test the endurance of the
system. Fifty students will be directed to
call the system all at once to see if the
system breaks, Hilaire said.
The system will undergo a "live test"
during advance registration in November.
Telephones will be set up in the registration
center and some students in registration
lines will be diverted to the phones to reg­ister.
Students in the journalism department
See RSVP, page 4
Arrested Development singer cancels performance
Due to a prior professional obligation, a
performance by Speech, lead singer for
hip-hop rap group Arrested Development,
is cancelled.
Speech was scheduled to perform at 8
p.m. Oct. 14 in the Performing Arts Center.
The producer, song-writer and lead
singer for the group, Speech (a.k.a. Todd
Thomas) is currently working to fulfill a
contractforamoviesoundtrack, saidNicole
Meinzer, AssociatedStudents Productions'
Special Events Coordinator.
His talk at Western was to have focused
on life in the music business, how he feels
about individuality and his inspiration for
Arrested Development's songs.
International Talent Agency, who ar­ranged
Speech's contract with Meinzer,
gave only six days notice of cancellation,
Meinzer said. She said she hopes to work
with the agency to get Speech to come at
another time.
Ticket refunds are available through
the Associated Students Finance Office in
Viking Union 202.
In the notice of cancellation, Special
Events and Social Issues staff apologized
for any inconvenience.