Tacoma's Historic Buildings

Volume IV, Number II The University of Washington, Tacoma Campus Student Newspaper November, 1995 Services and Activities Fees Committee Explained remainder of the school year for Katherine Kolody special projects and requests. If Copy Editor any of this money remains at the end of spring quarter, 1 996, it will On November 2, the Student carry over into the next school year. Services and Activities Fees Com The S &. A Fees Committee is mittee had its first fall quarter meet designed to serve the students. The ing. Every quarter, students pay an committee allocates money with S &. A fee along with their tuition. the intent of fulfilling student inter This year's fee is $83 per quarter, ests and needs. There are four and last year's fee was $81 per categories of requests: operational quarter. The 1995-1996 school budget, special amended authori year S &. A Fees budget is based zations, one-time special project upon the estimated amount of full- funding and emergency funding. time equivalent students enrolled The operational budget requests each quarter during fall, winter are those made by clubs and orga and spring. The S «Si. A Fees Com nization for their yearly operating mittee is responsible for deciding costs. The special amended autho what is done with the money col rizations are those made during the lected from these students. year to supplement club and orga There are guidelines that the nization budgets. The one-time committee follows when allotting special project funding is open to any UWT campus member, stu Dr. Butchart and his Crayola Crayons the money. For example, this year, 46.5% of the money went into dents, faculty and staff. This fund long-term savings, a mandatory ing is for special events or projects, 3.5% went to help students with which will only be funded once. Tacoma's Historic Buildings financial aid and the remaining The requirements for this type of 50% has already been or will be funding are student sponsorship, The many faces of the Luzon used at the discretion of the com and a mandatory submission date mittee. Last spring, when the 1995- of at least six weeks before the Bank Building. The archi counting and comparing 1996 S & A Fees budget had been event or project. The emergency Karla Stover tects, Burnham and Root, buildings. estimated, the committee was given funding is for projects or events Contributor were pioneers in skyscrapers. With all it had going for it, $136,950 to allot. $63,682 went that occur less than six weeks after The Luzon was an important it was the building's bad luck into savings, $4,793 went for fi the request is submitted. Watch Tacoma Grow! innovation away from to be completed at the same nancial aid and the committee was When the committee considers The booster cry of the 1890's unreinforced masonry toward time as the 1890's Financial left with $68,475 to disperse. requests, it puts student benefit has become the rallying cry modern steel-framed con Panic. In 1893, 14 banks in The committee allotted $23,350 and satisfaction in the foreground. of the 1990's. The clock on struction. One of only two Tacoma closed. George W. to the ASUWT; $10,500 to Ca The committee has request guide Old City Hall is chiming Burnham and Root buildings Vanderbilt bought the build reer Services; $9,955 to The Indc' lines that are designed to benefit again. The Colonial Hotel is left on the West Coast, there ing, and the bank become a pendent, $6,600 to Escort Services; the greatest number of students as refurbished and landscaped. is a rumor among architects leasee, but that relationship $3,503 to the Black Student Union; possible. There are six guidelines At the other end of town, the that if they could figure out lasted barely six years. Then, $2,755 to the Asian/Pacific Island within which the committee oper dying trees are gone, and the how, the Smithsonian would the Metropolitan Bank moved ers Club; $2,800 to the Women's ates: the requests must be available construction equipment is in whisk it back to Washington in. America was heavily in Network; and, $1,035 to Action and accessible to all students; no place on the site of the new D.C. volved in the Philippines at for the Arts. The remaining $7,977 credit can be earned through the Washington State Historical At the time of its construc the time, Luzon being the was placed in a contingency fund. requests; the requests must estab museum. tion, Tacomans were full of largest island in the chain. It The allocation of the S &L A Fees lish a potential good for UWT Sandwiched between the hyperbole. They pointed out was then that the building money was based upon requests students; requests cannot be north and south ends of the Otis Hydraulic Elevator, became the Luzon Building. submitted by student clubs and funded for more than one year downtown Tacoma, however, the Mexican and South Bad luck continued to dog organizations. These requests were (except for hired employee costs); are three historical buildings American mahogany and the structure. In 1905, there submitted last April, and they were the requests cannot involve politi worthy of attention. On the French Range Royal marble was a fire. Tacomans were either approved or rejected by the cal party advocacy, religion or fund corner of 15th and Pacific, interior. They bragged about well prepared for fires, so committee. The rejected requests Please see 'Services,' pg. 3 across from Schoenfeld's Fur the safety of the fire wall, the much so that at the sound of could be resubmitted with appro niture, stands the Sprague cement floor under the ma the alarm the horses auto priate changes. This year, all clubs Building, a heavy, no-non chinery and the corrugated matically moved into hitch and organizations will be given a sense, Winston Churchill- iron ceiling. With a Teddy ing position in front of the budget request sheet in February, looking structure of Roosevelt kind of bluster, fire wagons. Their quick re and it will be due in March. ON THE INSIDE unrein forced masonry they thumbed their nose at sponse, plus the various fire Lastyear, the committee did not blocks. Across the street, in Seattle, which they contemp prevention features con spend all of its money from the CAMPUS foppish Queen Anne archi tuously rhymed with Death tained the damage to about 1994-1995 school year allotment. INFORMATION 7 tecture of cement columns Rattle. After all, just the pre $15,000. Today, fire fight As a matter of fact, $23,062 re CROSSWORD 8 imbedded with faces, is the vious year, after the big fire, ers in the old station houses mained at the end of last spring. HEALTH CORNER 4 Waddell building. And, two Rudyard Kipling had de tell you that the ghosts of This year's committee voted to put COMICS 8 blocks down Pacific, on the scribed the Seattle business these horses haunt the places $3,000 ot this money into savings, corner of 1 3th, is the tall and district as a horrible black by way of hoof marks in the and add the rest to the contingency TRIVIA QUIZ 7 lean Luzon Building. smudge. The local newspa wainscoting, and the faint fund. Now, there is $28,039 in the COOKING CORNER 7 The Luzon began life in pers did, however, keep an contingency fund. The committee Please see 'Luzon,' pg. 3 1890 as the Pacific National eye on Helena, Montana, can use this money throughout the The Independent November^ **. .mA a^ *• Miss Bad Manned Owney the Mail Dog Learn how to be a proper host Wagging his mail around the world must dress for success, as they say. manner (i.e., not to scribble on crashed the Pacific Kennel Club Sunny Noonpuppy Of course, I wouldn't be caught Karta Stover temple or shrine walls, drive too show. In Montreal, Canada, he Snodgrass dead in primary colors either, but Contributor fast on the narrow roads or at was arrested for lack of proper Contributor once in a while one must compro tend fires on horseback). dog license, and had to be bailed mise one's values for a higher With the issue of Ivan the From the Orient, Owney re out. In Spokane, he was pre Entertaining Guests at Meal cause. Gorilla's new home finally re turned home by way of India, the sented with a tag reading Spo time: telling stories the right way; Miss Bad Manners recom solved, it seems like a good time Suez Canal and the Mediterra kane, Wash., Where Bonds Sell plus, food fights: pass the carrots, mends a similar approach to the to look back at other animal no nean Sea. The steamship, Port Above Par. His Tacoma tag please; and, tips on energy-effective food itself. If the food is highbrow, tables who have become part of Phillip provided passage to New read Wishing You A Happy New burping... one must throw from the right. On Northwest history. There's Dub York. He arrived back in Tacoma, Year, Gambell & Trushew. the other hand, if the food consists Dub, the Point Defiance Zoo's via the Northern Pacific Railroad, Owney grew testy in his old When telling stories at meal of deep fried wonder bread balls delightful harbor seal, and Cindy, on December 29, 1895, with an age, and bit a Toledo, Ohio postal time, one must have three things: cooked in butter flavor Crisco the recalcitrant elephant.

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