Regents Approve EE/ME Building
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Summer Don't forget to come to Murrow •••today Wednesday expect showers and thunderstorms, high of 76. Wednesday night showers and a low of 55. On Teen Thursday it will be sunny with a high of 80. Fnday and Saturday will be dry and warm. washington State University Vol. LXXXIX No. 157 Established 1894 Wednesday, July 20, 1983 Regents approve EE/ME building by Vern Woodall May 1984 and the building should be Editor completed by June 1986. PROSSER - The board of regents In other regents action, the final approved plans Monday for a $14 mil- plans for a $2 million completion of lion construction of a new electrical Fulmer Hall remodeling. phases one and mechanical engineering buildins to and two. were approved by a unani- be built by spring 1986. c '" mous vote of the Board. The WSU Board of Regents met at . The regents also approved the estab- the Irrigated Agriculture Research and lishment of a degree for master of arts Extension Center in Prosser. Wash .. In communications which Executive for its annual summer meeting at one of Academic Vice President and Provost the university's five main experiment Albert Yates recommended and extend stations. altuIllon waiver to veterans no longer Last summer the regents met in Van- e igible for vocational or educational couver, Wash., where the day was long benefits from federal funds. and the budget came up short. Howev- The tuition waiver was recom- er, this year the Board of Regents was mended by G.A. (Jay) Hartford, vice blessed with a huge appropriation of president of university business and fi- funds from Olympia and approved by a nance, who said the allowance would vote of 5-1 to accept the plans for con- allow tuition to be paid for by about 10 ~truction of the new electrical and veterans at a cost of about $1900 each mechanical engineering building. "This was strongly recommended t~ The new building's architecture was me by C. James QU";'ln (university reg- istrar), and I think II would be fair" discussed by the Board after regent said Hartford. ' member Vitt Ferrucci of Puyallup ob- In a housecleaning action by the re- jected to a sloped roof design on the gents, an error in legal language on the building. contract for a gift of land to the uni- George Loschky , of the architecture versity from the Columbia River firm Cummings Schlatter Associates Orchards Foundation was ordered cor- and Loschky Marquardt and Nesholm rected to include an extra 30 acres of that designed the plans for the building, land which was omitted. showed slides of the building's tower In a hearing of reports from various which will have a sloped roof. deans and administraters by the Bo d Summer Evergreen photo by Vern Woodall Loschky also re-designed the plans Y t id h' ar , a es sal t., e Legislauve Budget to reduce the window space by 40 per- Presi~~nt of the WSU Board of Regents Edwin and IAREC Superintendent Lin R, Faulkner at Committee, a research arm of the cent as Ferrucci had asked at a previous McWilliams, University President Glenn Terrell the Regents' meeting Monday. state. house., and senate," will audi11 the meeting and strongly objected to Fer- uruvcrsrty s cooperative e t . rucci's complaint about the sloped tow- agencies in each of the 39 cox ensron er, which he said he believed the re- the state. unties 111 commended the merger proposal and He said in 1982 revenue from state college expanded from 804 maims to gents had agreed to accept in a previous Yates said legislators ask' said he was dlsapPolllted that the urn- l~ncts_ 94 J")e'rct"ntof which cornes frorn I_H08 in 19M2: and C::I"CW from $3.000 in _gran[s in 1971 (0 $700.(X)() in 1982 . bo . 109 ques- ve:rsJly Faculty Sen ale Steering com- timber sales. was $9 million but was meeting. tions a ut possible duplIcation by the Markin said a critical shortage of Loschky said the building would mittee failed to act on the proposal. down to $7 million this year and will agencies and community coil faculty available to teach business war- Yates will appoint a chairman for the drop to $4 million in 1984 and $4.8 have the same colored brick and with prompted the review, to be compfe~:~ rants the granti ng of the doctorate the sloped roof he said. "acting as a merged department in September. million in 1985. by Dec. 1. and added the extension program. A report .to. the Regents by State Also. Rom Markin. dean of the col- facade on the front tower, the building offices Will understand the nature of the He said the colleges hotel and res- Land Commissioner Brian Boyle stated lege of business and economics, re- would match with campus language ." audit. taurant administration program is the the uruversity has lost money on its quested a doctorate's degree program The building will be attached to only one of its kind in the Northwest Yates' report also included the prop- 150,000 acres of state land, valued at for the college of business by this year. Sloan and Dana with a 16-foot bridge and is viable in a service-oriented eco- osed merger of the men' s and women's $130 million. which was granted to the Markin said growth in his college spanning Spokane Street. merits the degree. He said in 1971 the nomy. Construction is scheduled to begin physical education departments. He re- university by a state law in 1889. Member stations to IFe food co-op halted by Greg Witter Pullman merchants would be protected, because not all goods would come from Food Services. pull NPR out of hole Staff Writer "That wouldn't hurt the university, just some private industry. The university should take care of its own people An ambitious project by the Interfraternity Council here to by Greg Witter form a food cooperative among 15 of the campus' 24 fraterni- first. " Bierbaum said, "We are trying to look at this in a positive Staff Writer ties has been halted. way and possibly work something out. But not if it is at the . Plans for the co-op were drawn up last spring with opera- National Public Radio has decided to go ahead with a national fundrais- lions scheduled to begin in the fall. But two major problems expense of our service to the residence halls." He did not elaborate on how that service might be hindered. ing campaign to help offset a projected $9.1 million deficit it faces at the have temporarily, if not permanently, blocked further plan- end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. The project will be coordinated through rung. A spokesman for URM Food Services in Spokane, one of many of the 281 stations belonging to NPR, including Pullman's KWSU- Foremost is the co-op's plan to obtain its food through the the largest distributors to the fraternities and one of Food AM and KFAE-FM. university's Housing and Food Services department. Ken Services' suppliers, declined comment on what effect the In a closed-circuit conference via satellite Monday, NPR discussed with Abbey, assistant vice president of Business and Finance, said co-op - if given the go-ahead - would have on business. its member stations details of the fundraiser, which will be held Aug. 1-3. he believes the plan is illegal. He said the state constitution He said URM currently has accounts with" about 18" of the Stations are not obligated to participate and as of Monday, 28 of 60 stations prohibits a state agency (Housing and Food Services) from fraternities here. responding said they would partake and 32 said they would not. "lending the state's credit" to an outside organization (IFC). "The effect wouldn't be good," said Richard Morgan of A spokesman for NPR said during the nationwide hook-up that if half of Abbey said the fraternities are independent of the universi- Morgan Brothers distributors in Lewiston, "but I think the the stations join the campaign, the fundraiser will be successful. He said he ty and are not eligible to work through Housing and Food fraternities are better off going with independent suppliers had "no idea" how much money would be raised. Services. rather than the university'S food program." "~n the basis of what we've heard today, we'll go ahead with it." said Pat Murray, IFe treasurer, said the legality of the plan "The only reason they want to do this is because they can Denrus Haarsager. the director of radio and televison services here, which should not be an Issue because the goods obtained from Food buy things cheaper. But there are other advantages. They operates KWSU and KFAE. Se.rvices are to be paid for pri?r to delivery. In this way, he now get super service with delivery two or three times a week ~e fundraiser has been created in the hopes it will generate replacement said. Housing and Food Services would not be lending the montes for community service grant funds the stations have given up for the and also have extended credit," he said. state's credit. In the larger picture, Morgan says, suppliers, fraternities next three years to help NPR through its financial turmoil. Haarsager said Murray also said he believes the fraternities are part of the and the university "all support each other in one way or the grants Will total between $1.6 million and $2.65 million.