Eastern Washington Review, Fall 1966 Eastern Washington State College

Eastern Washington University EWU Digital Commons Eastern Washington University Digital History Alumni Publications Collections 10-1-1966 Eastern Washington Review, Fall 1966 Eastern Washington State College Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.ewu.edu/alumni_pubs Recommended Citation Eastern Washington State College, "Eastern Washington Review, Fall 1966" (1966). Alumni Publications. 22. https://dc.ewu.edu/alumni_pubs/22 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Eastern Washington University Digital History Collections at EWU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of EWU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. F.AI.L.L 19&& ·~ C?~ ~-:::.::~~==:;=::;::::;:::= President, E .\i\7.S.C. HOMECOMING DAY EVENTS - ---;:,._pages 6 and 7 Sciturclay, Oct. 22, 1966 STATEMENT On November 8, Eastern's building plans will go to the people, in the form of Referendum 15. Of the forty millions asked for by the legislature, Eastern will re ceive almost four. So far, no organized movement has appeared to oppose the bond issue. Well, but will it pass then? I think we are entitled to guarded optimism-but not complacency. A similar measure, Referendum 10, failed in Spokane County in 1958 by a margin of 7,621 votes. Of the sixteen easternmost counties in Washington, only six favored the proprosal-though a large affirmative voice in King County saved the bond issue at that time. Advocates of Referendum 15 in eastern \Vashington, how ever, probably will not wish to depend so heavily upon their v,restern counterparts this year. Certain tendencies in national voter reaction may affect the outcome in \Vashington this "ovember, and they should be taken into account. The first warning appeared with the astounding defeat of Governor Smylie in the Idaho primary (it remains to be seen whether or not Idahoans v,ere simply rejecting Smylie's fourth term, and will now elect the most profound social thinker in Idaho, Republican Perry Swisher). Yet the edge of the same axe, we read, may descend upon Brown in California, Douglas in Illinois. Incumbents, generally, may be in deep trouble. And the situation seems oddly different from simply the usual off-year gains for the minority party. \iVe cannot be sure, therefore, that the new mood of the people will not affect tax proposals as well as bond issues. In a great many people in 1966 there is a deep dissatisfaction with government at all levels. The "con sensus" has disappeared; the feeling is widespread that forceful international action and vigorous domestic reform do not go together-do not form a coherent political philosophy. Other hints concerning important nevv attitudes of the people have also been expressed. Americans do not like the vague sense of guilt that results from war prosperity. Customarily, this would be countered by the government's effort· to condition citizens to hate the enemy. During the Viet Nam police action, on the other hand, no propaganda effort has kindled anything like the enmity Americans harbored for the German and Japanese peoples. Profound, underlying hostilities are inevi table in time of war, of course; but there is a good chance that if they have no where to "go," these feelings will be expressed at the polls. The people have already shown that they are prepared to say "No" to candidates seeking re-election and to government-instigated programs of all kinds. Speeded-up processes of in flation have coincided with summer race riots, and with current talk in \Vashington of more financial manipulation and increased domestic spending-an accident of timing, no doubt. Voters in 1966, in short, will be unusually aggressive-especially those who are motivated enough in an off-year election to bother to go to the polls. In such an atmosphere, the poorest candidate can dethrone the least offensive incumbent. The weariest of ill-defined cliches ("Let's put government back on a <business-like' plan"-"Stop <unnecessary spending'!") will attract voters on :'.\ovember 8, just as they did in the primaries. In such an atmosphere, bond issues can have very rough sledding indeed. Now, nobody expects that the \Vashington electorate will wish to cripple the operation of a correctional institution in Centralia or the plan for improved medical training at the U. of W. But passage of such measures as Referendum 15 may fall heavily upon the shoulders of persons and groups, such as alumni of public state colleges and universities, who are seeking ways to support their alma mater. They should not underestimate the strength of their un-acknowledged opposi tion-nor should they misread the present mood of the people.-D.G. THE EASTERN WASHINGTON REVIEW Eastern Washington State College Cheney, Washington 99004 Editor ______________ . _ Don Goodwin Business Manager Graham Johnson FALL EDITION Published quarterly by Eastern Washington State College. The Re view is designed to furnish news of the college and alumni. Entered as second class matter at Cheney, Wash ington. VOL. 16, NO. 3 OCTOBER, 1966 EWSC ALUMNI OFFICERS President Alvie Shaw __ Denver President-Elect LeRoy Buckley . _____ __ Moses Lake Vice-President Bill Hinchliffe __ Richland Executive Secretary Graham Johnson ___ _ _ _ ..Cheney DISTRICT DIRECTORS Jack Hall __________ N.E. Washington Area (Colville Public Schools) Hugh Neuman _______ North Idaho Area (Hayden Lake Schools) Orland Favaro __ Ritzville-Othello Area (Othello-Public Schools) Kenneth Hickey _____________ LWenatchee- Okanogan Area (Eastmont Public Schools) Dick Campanelli . Walla Walla Area (Walla Walla Public Schools) Inside ... Roland Jantz __________________ Tri-City Area (Richland Public Schools) Robert Lincoln _______ Puget Sound Area (The Boeing Company) Eastern's Stake in Referendum 15 _______ _____________ 4-5 George Gwinn ______________ Portland-S.W. Homecoming __ __ __ _____________________ _______ ________ _____ _______ 6-7 \Va'ihington Area (Portland Public Schools) Alumni Symposium -------------------------------------------- 8 Bob Kuehl ______ N .W . Spokane County (Spokane Public Schools) Campus Highlights _____________ ·----------------------- ____ _____ 8 lerton Gray N.E. Spokane County 1966 Football Prospects _____ ____ __ __ _____ ______________ __ ___ 9 (Spokane Public Schools) Glen Whiteley____ S.W. Spokane County Alumni Association News ___________ ______ ______ ___ ________ 10 (Spokane County Sheriff's Office) Significant Books ________________________________ ··--------------- 11 Les Francis _____ S.E. Spokane County (\Vest Valley Public Schools) Savage News Briefs ------------------------·-· ______________ ll-12 Ed Chandler _ _ ______ ASB President A B / A Vocal Music Annex -..- B Keyboard Annex C Music Library D String Annex Eastern :r Stake in Referendum 15 D Standing 1n the middle of Eastern's changing ative Arts Division. The music facility, which would campus, looking somewhat wonderingly around, a be built from Referendum 15 funds, will cost homecoming graduate will perhaps feel a mixture of $1,375,000. nostalgia and-and something else. The remainder of the referendum request for Around him will range new buildings in various Eastern would be used to build a general classroom states of undress. The stadium and library will be building ($890,000) to accommodate its homeless near completion. Austere Cecil Dryden Hall will English Department, which now utilizes the Hall of have been joined by another new women's residence Sciences, part of a residence hall, and a war surplus hall, Dressler Hall, the newer of the twin towers. temporary building slated for early removal from the And our alum might be gazing for the first time campus. upon George Pearce Hall ... and upon the Hall of In addition, the buildings that Eastern's planners Sciences. have found to be necessary to handle the swelling At this time, if he were reminded that in pre enrollments have placed a nearly impossible burden cisely seventeen days he would be asked to approve on its outdated heating plant. Referendum 15 would a referendum designed to provide $3. 7 millions in supply $1,500,000 to begin replacement and exten additional funds for Eastern's campus, well, his sion of utility tunnels and renovate the present in emotion might easily turn from awe to shrewd ap adequate plant. praisal. Of course, to answer our alum's further queries, Four millions in more expansion? the larger background of this referendum proposed ,vell, no. Actually, our alum could be told, the by the legislature might be further brought to light. funds provided in the referendum will not so much In essence, Referendum 15 is a request by Washing help Eastern "expand," as it will allow the college ton's legislature to have the people decide whether to make Eastern's existing facilities merely adequate. $40,575,000 should be spent to finance classroom, re search, and medical facilities at the five state col Eastern's planners have agreed that one urgent leges and universities and to renovate and expand task for the 1967-69 biennium is the removal of sub correctional facilities in Washington. standard struchires of all types from the campus. ~lost of these "buildings" now accommodate the in In order to avoid asking present taxpayers to structional programs of the rapidly growing De shoulder the entire burden of these funds, the legis partment of l\lusic. The only building on campus lature proposes to spread the repayment of them that was constructed originally as a music facility over a twenty-year period. The 3½ per cent interest is the small Instrumental l\Iusic Building, where rate on the twenty-year general obligation bonds students must be packed into the crowded library, amounts to a total interest of $16.4 millions. for example, as shown in "D" on the facing page. $2,850,000 will be required from the state's general There are seven other locations (including Sho revenues each year for principal and interest-or ap walter Auditorium and Campus Elementary School) proximately $1.00 per year from each person in the state of \Vashington.

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