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. Outside increased supply of tags, and clerk. He was dispatched to the an audience (Barbie dolls don't served with a side of macaroni in the zoo there was Jack, the weighing a little more than when dead letter box in the sky. A local count), a good story and gobs and Velveeta, then it's a free-for-all. Tacoma Hotel's resident bear, he left. Owney stayed in Tacoma, taxidermist embalmed the corpse gobs of food. Miss Bad manners Throw wherever the you want. Miss and Owney, the Nellie Bly of dog- as a guest of the Postmaster, and and presented it to the suggests that, at the appropriate Bad Manners isn't a party pooper, doom. Who, you ask? Owney, was a main attraction at the Janu Smithsonian Institute. moment (especially when the in just a stickler for the finer things in the mail-clerks' dog. Never heard ary 1896 Rabbit and Poultry Forty years after his death, laws are over for dinner), you tell a life, and the improper way of doing of him? Well, about the same Show held in the Wallace Block Owney made his last trip. The particularly disturbing story by them. A bit of advice for making time Jack was guzzling beer in the facilities on what is currently 12th National Federation of Post which to arouse and awaken your the event even more joyful: find the bar of the Tacoma Hotel, Owney Street and S. A Street. His dig Office Clerks held a conven guests. The timing must be perfect: one individual who could pass for was making headlines as a fa nity, however, was severely tion, ironically in Toledo, and when mum-in4aw-dearest begins Frasier's repressed older cousin, mous world traveler. strained because his accommoda Owney was sent to sit in the slurping her rice pudding, after the one crouching in the corner One day in 1888, an over tion was a large cage located near lobby of the Commodore Perry downing a scrumptious entree of shouting, No, this isn't the proper grown Scotch Terrier pup wan the rabbits. But, when the show Hotel where he greeted the suc poached salmon, immediately tell forum! Besides, I thought we were dered into the Albany, New York closed Owney had another cessors of his friends and pro a story that fits the mood. going to debate which episodes of post office, and wandered into medal. tectors. He and his tags are on Perhaps you visited the Cedar I, Claudius were historically in the history books. The tail-wag One never knew where the permanent display at the Na River last year to see the rock cod accurate. My evening is ruined! ging dog made himself at home intrepid canine would show up tional Postal Museum, mate, and instead you saw hun And pelt him with the gooiest and and was adopted by the clerks. next. In San Francisco, he Smithsonian Institution. dreds of dead, bloated fish lying least appealing food in the house. They fed him from their lunches, prostrate by the river's edge, worms I promised tips on energy-effec and let him sleep on the mail crawling from their bellies. Share tive burping. Miss Bad manners feels bags. Owney began to feel safe your experiences with loved ones, it's important to share knowledge with the bags, and took to hop TOTS TO TEENS and by all means, don't forget to with others in the field of one's ping trains to travel with them. exaggerate! It is rude (not to men expertise. I confess, everything I As his trips took him farther and Dear Sue: Please help me convince lives but we still should remember the tion uncouth) to tell boring stories know about burping my brother farther away from Albany, the my friend to get smoke detectors for her other precautions. You must have a with no life (or death) in them. Butch taught me. In a way, he was my clerks bought him a collar and home. She thinks I'm too nervous family fire drill so your children will Maybe one of the fish opened mentor, and I was his protege. We identification tag with the inscrip because I have several in my home. She know what to do in case you can't get to up its mouth, and billions, and spent hours practicing our craft. Of tion, Owney, Post Office, Al says she is a light sleeper and if there them. Children must know the fastest billions of maggots came to the course, this was some time ago, e:ons, bany, New York. They also were any smoke in the house, she way out and an alternate route if that surface. Be creative! Don't leave in fact, but I digress. asked that other clerks make would wake up in time to get her way is blcxked. Assign a meeting place out details which would otherwise Power burping is an art. Coke is Owney a tag showing where he'd children out I know she is wrong but outside the house. If they escape but are have your guests on the edge of the best weapon for preburping been. Eventually, the collar had she won't listen to me. Maybe she'll wandering about, you might think they their seats. It is you. Reader, who preparation. Choke down about to be replaced with a harness. listen to you. Elizabeth A. are still trapped inside. A child who is has the responsibility to prevent a three Cokes (no ice cubes allowed) When the harness was full, a Dear Elizabeth: There are too many not trained will tend to hide in a closet Sominex Seminar from occurring and turn on the television. I believe portmanteau, sort of a pup- dangers in this world diat we can't or under the bed which is the absolute at the dinner table, even if it means televised sports were invented for the manteau, accompanied the dog protect our cliildren from. There is no worst thing to do because you or a fire spiking their drinks with No-doz. purpose of acting out one's aggres on his jaunts, and carried his excuse not to do everything you can do fighter will not be able to find them. Finally, Miss Bad Manners re sions in a controlled environment tags, badges and hotel keys, his to protect your children from fires. Schedule a fire drill tonight and go minds you, genteel, but socially (e.g., the basement). No one feels like brush, comb and blanket. Every house should have smoke detec now and check the batteries in your inept Reader, to always invite your letting loose while watching Dr. Owney was never more than a tors on every floor. Your friend is taking smoke detector. After you've safe guests back to your humble hovel, Quinn...the program must involve temporary resident anywhere. In quite a chance that she would smell the guarded your family, send my column where you can share more Fuji testosterone! When we burp, after 1895, he passed through Tacoma smoke before she was overcome by it to your friend. Film Memories with loved (and all, aren't we really getting in touch on his way to Alaska where he The smoke detector is a wonderful Sue Ellen Sullivan hated) ones. with our masculine side? That's why was presented with a tag that invention that has saved diousands of King Features Syndicate, 1995 P.S. If you're wondering where sports, especially football or pro wres read, Juneau, Hottest City On the salad fork goes, carefully place tling, are ideal for creating the right Earth. He then returned to it pointing up on mum-in-law's mood. The burp must come from Tacoma, his point of exit in a chair after she leaves to ralph up the heart: a booming baritone from round-the-world trip. dessert! one's chest cavity can be a memo Owney visited the Puget The Independent Well, on to more important rable form of nonverbal communica Sound in August, accompanied matters. Last week, when I was tion. What gesture says I care more by Capt. John Panton of talking with the General, a curious than a long, protracted belch from thesteamship Victoria, and topic burrowed its way into our the diaphragm? Some of my fondest headed for Hong Kong where he Name conversation. How does one be recollections are of Butch belching received a rather cold welcome. Address: out the words. Go Seahawks! Dur have like an urbane barbarian dur The concerned captain took the Phone:_ ing a food fight? Darlings, I've ing the peak of their 1983-84 season. dog to Yokohama and helped been in a few food fights during my I could only look on in mute admira him find a passage to India. Size: time, and believe me, this question tion. Butch, on a good day, could While in Japan, His Imperial Maj Cost: is of utmost importance. First, there also belch-sing the national anthem. esty presented the canine traveler Ad info: is the problem of what to wear. I'm It's always nice to have a talent to fall with a passport that allowed him going to say the one word which we back on, don't you think? the privilege of traveling to the all fear in our hearts, if not in our Well, I, Miss Bad Manners, must interior, and admonished him to Nordstrom accounts, brace your say buh-bye for now, sweeties. I'm behave in the proper Japanese selves, darlings, POLYESTER! As late for my annual overhaul at the Public Relations painful as it is, silk is a bitch to plastic surgery clinic. Just a little gift clean, especially after a lactose in I give myself every year for being so If you like people, tolerant battle of pesto duck pizza good! have a neat appearance and gooseberry cheesecake. One and excellent ^ American Bartenders College ^ communication skills, The content of all classified ads is subject to ttie publication code of The (As seen on TV) this may be your career Independent. 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Columbia, a banana from Guate James Crawford mala and sugar from India in a Contributor pewter container partly of Bolivian tin. She unfolds a napkin of cotton Martin Luther King, Jr. saw us grown in Zaire, and picks up cut living together in a world house. lery compounded of Zambian To open the recent General Synod chrome, Canadian nickel and Pe of the United Church of Christ, ruvian vanadium. James Crawford of Boston's Old Then off to work with a brief South Church pictured a day in the case of leather from a Nepalese life of an American woman who is mountain sheep, in a car manufac really a resident of the world. We tured in Sweden, fueled by gaso share this house as a reminder of line pumped in Kuwait. the gifts and challenges of diver Carrying an umbrella invented sity. in China, she stops to buy (with She begins her day when the coins first used in Lydia) a Wall clock radio made in Japan plays Street Journal, whose editorial ap music composed in Mexico. She pears to be written by 18th century goes to the bathro6m and washes Scotsman Adam Smith. her face with soap invented by the She scans the day's news, set in Gauls. Arabic characters on Chinese pa Her husband steps out of his per by a German process. She pajamas from the East Indies and cringes at the reported antics of begins to shave, a masochistic rite dreadful foreigners, and thanks a first practiced by the priests of Hebrew God in an Indo- Sumer made a little less unpleasant European language that she is, by using a razor made of steel, an in a decimal system developed by ironcarbon alloy discovered in the Greeks, 100% American, a Turkestan. word derived from the name of an She dons clothes originally de Italian explorer sailing under a signed in India and adds a throat Portuguese flag. scarf, the vestigial remnant of a Thanks to James Crawford shoulder shawl worn by a 17th and the Interfaith Alliance century Croat. of Washington State for this Then, down to breakfast for a article. cup of coffee from beans grown in Dollars and Sense Credit Card Sense When it comes to credit addition to rates and annual cards, less is more. A wallet fees, find out how much the dents who buy these packets full of credit cards does not bank charges for late payments, Services, 'from pg. 1 from UBS have to pay a 25% 'Luzon, 'from pg. 1 mean lenders view you as a bounced checks, and exceeding raising; and, the requests will markup rate. smell of urine on a hot day. good credit risk. In fact, having your credit limit. Also, deter not be denied on the basis After the requests were ap Then briefly, after the fire, too many credit cards can work mine the length of the grace race, region, sex, age, handi proved, the committee nomi Luzon became the Bank of Califor against you _ even if you rarely period _ the time during which cap and so forth. nated two members for the po nia building. By 1919, though, the use them. When some lenders no interest charges accrue on During this school year's sitions of chairperson and Bank of California moved out and review your credit application, new purchases. Without a grace first committee meeting on recorder. The committee chair the Scandinavian Bank moved in. they may add your credit limits, period, you may owe finance November 2, two proposals person is responsible for pre Following the style of recognizing as well as your actual debts. A charges even if you pay in full were submitted. First, Mark siding over committee meet historical events, it became the large available credit limit may each month. Craypo submitted a proposal ings, submitting an annual Argonne Building. Sadly, the cause a lender to think you are A card with a 7.5-percent for the 1995-1996 UWT year committee report and issuing Scandinavian Bank was only a financially overextended and interest rate might seem like a book. Craypo requested committee decisions and de temporary resident. The build may result in the denial of a winner, but that rate may rise $3,000 to be divided over fall, bates to the Office of the Dean ing reverted to the name of future loan request. by as much as 10 points after a winter and spring quarters. of Branch Campuses. The re Luzon and spent its last useful The best credit card is one relatively short introductory This fall, he wants $500 for corder is responsible for over years housing the Fun Circus, that suits your individual period. Cards that offer low the year book editor and $200 seeing the recording of dia a place for after-hours enter spending and payment habits. rates for a limited period of for yearbook expenses. In win logue at the meeting, and tainment. If you regularly pay off your time are best only if you plan to ter, he wants $600 for the edi submitting a summary of each In 1983, a News Tribune ar credit card balances each transfer a balance from another tor and $300 in expenses. Fi committee meeting to the Of ticle said a $30,000 grant had month, look for a card with no card on which you are paying nally, in spring, he wants fice of Branch Campuses. been given to begin repairs and annual fee. The rate of interest higher interest AND have a $1,000 for the editor and $400 David Quinn was nominated restoration on the Luzon. I spoke is less important. If you carry a strategy for paying off the debt for expenses. Craypo's request as chairperson, he accepted to the city's Historical Preserva balance from month to month, while the lower interest rate is was approved, and the com and was approved by a vote. tion Department, but they were however, get a card with the in effect. mittee allocated $3,000 for the Katherine Kolody was nomi unfamiliar with the grant. The lowest interest rate possible. Also, it is not a wise idea to UWT yearbook. nated as recorder, she accepted one person I found who had A wise strategy is to have two let your credit card become an The second request came and was approved by a vote. been inside the Luzon said it credit cards _ one no-fee card easy source of quick cash. The from the school's library. This Other members of the commit looks like the mahogany and to use for those day-to-day pur interest rate charged on en request was for $1,000, $500 tee include: Carolyn Sawyer, marble are still there, but in a chases you plan to pay in full hancements like cash advances for this school year and $500 Iris Finch, ASUWT V.P. of badly deteriorated state. The each month, and one low-inter and convenience checks are al for the 1 996-1 997 school year. Finance, and Rebecca library's records show that the est-rate card for items you will most always higher than the The money will be used to pay Gallogly, who is the S & A building now belongs to the repay over time. rate you pay on purchases. an employee to sell instruc Fees Committee's staff advi county. Read the fine print in any Bryon Elson tors' book packets in the li sor. So, the next time you pass the new credit card agreement. In King Features Syndicate, 1995 brary during the first few weeks The next S & A Fees meet old place remember the Luzon of each quarter. The commit ing is on December 5, at 3:00 Building is a prestigious piece of tee approved the request, with pm. Please come and take part Tacoma's history. It's a veteran Thank You! a recommendation that the li in the meeting, so you will that deserves better than its get brary make an effort to employ know how your money is being ting, and at the very least our Thanks to all who contributed to this issue: Adrienne Ip, Karla a student with this money. spent. respect. Stover, Brian G. Vance, Yvonne McDonald and a special thanks to This reques*. .benefits students James Crawford and the Interfaith Alliance of Washington State for because the library gives their uosja^pf seuioijjL 9 '.^c, generously contributing the article A World House (No Alien unsold packets to the Univer 'l 1SB3 leameu '|io '|BOD 9 !i96i 'g JauaniQ dmB3 Sui^ -^ tajae^a^ Nation) . sity Book Store after the first ui|of £ JA3i|Di|snjn^ eii^if^ puB uoxifsf piBUDi-^ ^ tMOiioj^ suuy • \ few weeks of school. And, stu saaMsuy is3j_ BIAU_L The Independent November, 1995 The LSAT and Other Graduate Pet Care Be kind to your best School Admittance Exams friends Women at Work
complete LSAT test. These prac The holidays are descending Audrey and Judy Landers, Our Miss Oops-A-Daisy character Katherine Kolody tice tests are the real thing; they are upon us in record time. That usu whom many of us recognize as the helped the children understand Copy Editor LSATs from previous years. They ally means a time of visiting, hav talented sisters who have appeared how to handle mistakes gracefully, come compiled in books, and can ing guests over and lots of feasting. on television and in films for years, and how to learn from them. I took the Law School Admis be found in bookstores. In class, However, don't let that feasting have created a superb children's COMMENT: I thought I might sions Test (LSAT) on Saturday, we reviewed the weeks' assign extend itself to your pets. show called The Huggabug Club, not have to mention the O.J. September 30. It was quite an ments and learned strategies and Dogs and cats don't need to which airs on public television. Simpson verdict again, but a recent ordeal. The test has five sections, tips for taking the test. taste the turkey and you don't have Since both Judy and I are work news story changed that decision. four real and one experimental. I cannot tell you how much that to feel you have to give them a ing mothers, Audrey Landers told Apparently, more women are re Each section is 35 minutes long, class helped me. On the day of the special treat. If you must, make me, we knew we might not always porting heightened threats from and no indication is given as to test, I was relatively confident in sure it's a pet treat _ a dog biscuit be there to monitor what our chil already abusive male partners who which section is experimental. my abilities, and I knew what to or kitty treat _ and not people food. dren would see on television. So believe they have a clear On November 19, 1620, became the first state to re the Mayflower reached Cape strict abortions after the U.S. ZINC ABOUT IT! Zinc has deficiency syndrome is more winter sun is less bright and Cod ... November 16, 1776, Supreme Court gave states the been a prime ingredient in heal frequent among children in comes at us from a more pro Hessian soldiers captured Ft. right to do so ... November ing ointments for centuries. It's poorer circumstances. It may nounced angle, the sun's ultra Washington in Manhattan 19, 1989, President Bush also a nutrient found in sea stem from a lack of nutritious violet rays can still cause along with 3,000 men ... No signed an increase in the mini food, including oysters, which foods either because the fami wrinkles, age spots, and can vember 18, 1776, Ft. Lee, mum wage into law; the wage may account for that bivalve's lies are too poor to buy them, cer. As Dr. R. Stan Taylor, N.J., fell to the Hessians ... would rise from $3.35 an hour reputation for helping increase or because their families are assistant professor of dermatol November 15,1 777, the Con to $4.25 by 1 991, with a train sexual performance. unaware of proper nutrition. ogy at University of Texas tinental Congress adopted the ing wage of $3.35 for 16- to In a recent study by the Cen Whatever the cause may be for Southwestern Medical Center Articles of Confederation and 1 9-year-olds in their first three ter on Hunger, Poverty and the deficiency, the effects can in Dallas says. Sunscreen with Perpetual Union ••• Novem months on the job ... Novem Nutrition at Tufts University be damaging. Some of the foods a sun protection factor of 15 ber 19, 1863, President ber 15, 1990, President Bush School of Nutrition, it was containing zinc include eggs, should be used all day ... An Abraham Lincoln delivered signed a bill designed to re found that zinc _ which is es lean ham, low-fat milk, bran estimated 80 percent of ultra the Gettysburg Address ... duce budget deficits by nearly sential for normal growth and cereal, tuna fish, whole wheat violet ray exposure comes from November 18, 1903, Panama $500 billion over the next five brain development _ is shock bread, baked beans, peas, broc walking, working, and playing and the U.S. signed the years; the top personal income ingly absent from the diets of coli, carrots, bananas, nuts and outdoors; not from basking in Panama Canal treaty ... No tax rate would rise from 28 to millions of American children. seeds, cheese, frozen yogurt, the summer sun. Also, if your vember 15, 1969, 250,000 31 percent and exemptions for A zinc deficiency not only af and bagels. Speak to your doc sunscreen is a year old or more, people marched on Washing upper-income Americans fects brain development tor or pediatrician if you sus toss it. Chemicals can break ton, D.C, to protest the war would be phased out; gas, ciga which can lead to poor cogni pect a zinc deficiency in your down, leading to skin prob in Vietnam ... November 16, rette, liquor taxes would in tive function and learning prob family. lems. 1969, the massacre of hun crease; a luxury tax would be lems, but can also cause a con SUN SENSE FOR WIN Judith Sheldon dreds of Vietnamese civilians imposed on some planes, cars, dition known as stunting, in TER: Don't lock up your sum King Features Syndicate, in Mylai, South Vietnam in a boats, furs, and jewelry ... No which a child is shorter than mer supply of sunscreen for 1995 1968 incident was reported ... vember 14, 1993, in a plebi normal at a given age. This next year's use. 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Ella McClurkin 9618 1/2 Pacific Ave. ber 18, 1989, Pennsylvania King Features Syndicate. 1995 (206) 535 -3377 Tacoina, WA 98444 November, 1995 The Independent 1, Fuzhou: City Two of the Summer China Trip ^ After seeing the video and talking to them about what Nark Craypo talking with the representa- they wanted to do, we discov- Managing Editor tive, they took us out to the ered they had very little hope. FETDZ, and they were still They were resigned to doing Fuzhou, a sister city of looking at us as potential in- whatever the government Tacoma, was the second city vestors or business people. If would hand them, even if they we visited on our trip to we had been, Fuzhou would really wanted to do something China. We arrived at the have bent over backwards to else. The students had great Fuzhou International Airport, get more businesses to move dreams about what they really which was decades out of date, there. The FETDZ was your wanted to do, such as Jack, The airport had no jetways or typical industrial area that was who wanted to become a pi- other typical airport con- expanding and growing lot. Cecilia, Lenny and I all veniences, and had the look quickly. Their location was in- felt very discouraged about being operated by people who teresting because it looked as how they felt, and tried to give did not have a very good idea though one good earthquake them a little hope that they Examining room in the Fujian Traditional Chinese iMedicine about what needs to be avail- would level part of the zone could achieve their dreams, Hospitai able to travelers. Since the and the rest would sink into Our last major attraction Chinese do not really travel the ocean. They need to learn in Fuzhou was the College of much, there is not much pri- from San Francisco. Traditional Chinese Medi- ority given to their airports. The hotel was entertaining cine, which operated the local We met our local guide, and enlightening. Fujian food hospital. I nicknamed them Mr. Zhong Sheng also known was great, lots of seafood and the hospital and college of as Mr. Johnson, at the air- less beef and pork. The veg- doom. If I had needed any port. We were then taken to etables were the same as in form of medical treatment, I the Fuzhou Sister City Head- Beijing because they were would have sooner done the quarters. We were introduced what was in season. Our next work myself than let the Chi- to a member of the Fuzhou day we had the first of several nese doctors anywhere near Sister City Council, who had lectures during our stay and me. The lack of cleanliness us view a promotional video we met a couple of teenage and basic sanitation was in- about Fuzhou and all of its students, Angela and Lark, credible. The absence of basic advantages for international who were learning English. sterilization techniques would business ventures. The repre- Later that night, Cecilia, make most anyone nervous sentative for Fuzhou was ap- Lenny and I saw Angela and about touching anything in patently hoping that we were Lark, who introduced us to the hospital. The acupunc- interested business people four of their friends. Jack, ture clinic was one of the more who could invest or begin Lillian, Lucy and Lucky. All of interesting stops, along with other joint ventures in the us went for a walk around the the emergency room. Fuzhou Economic Trade and city, ending at McDonald's for Fuzhou is an interesting dty, which Development Zone (FETDZ). a late night snack. Lenny and is building up and growing quickly. I am glad that I did not bring I bought food for all of us. Everywhere we looked diere was new my laptop out and use it for nine people, for 88 yuan (Chi- construction. The people were very taking notes, because I think nese dollars), or about 10 U.S. friendly, with a definite desire to make that the Fuzhou representa- Dollars. We learned a great lots of money with the hopes of tive would have been all over me, deal about the people and the making their lives better, thinking that I was important. city from them. When we were Students of English from the Sun Yat-sen Vocational School in Fuzhou: Jack, Lillian, Lucy, Lark, Lucky and Angela Answers to King Crossword ••ED {!]••• QOaS 3 b 3 3 n 0 V 3|i N V "All right, class. Tbday u 3 A iX 0 0 1 1 N n u we'll practice grunts.* QQDED a N V 1 0 3 1 9 n|8H A 1 1 V 1 I N >i s 1 1 3 8 u V 8 ¥ A V A 1 1 1 M li J D V ^ 3 H s 0 1 V 9 3 A 1 H 1 1 1 s • V N 0 U V 3 N V 1 d BBDQ 1 0 0 1 H 3 A o D 1 n d V 0 1 u V 1 1 H o M 3 i 1 V 0 e V 1 8 V U The Independent November, 1995 ART AND CTILTURE Seattle Opera's "Carmen" POETRY Brian G. Vance This is not new, it has been a well accepted version for years. It is Contributor different, but effective. Mona Another feature of tradition in Once upon a time at the Univer* On Saturday, November 4, the opera is the use of the original CORNER sity of Washington, Tacoma, Seattle Opera completed its 1995 libretto around which the opera is There did exist an elevator production of Carmen, by composed. I have seen this opera Georges Bizet. It was a wonderful twice, once in English and once in named Mona. What's Happening? performance, well produced with its original language of French. many good singers. Nancy This is one feature of opera which Mona was persnickety to say the 1 see what's happening Maultsby played Carmen and I feel cannot be compromised. The least, People want crime to go poof! Patrick Denniston played Don original language is what the com As if possessed by some me Cease the crack menace. Boom! Jose. Anna Steiger, who played poser intended and singing it in chanical disease. We don't love violence Micaela, was particularly great in English is not acceptable, unless, Dig this, unified we stand, divided her role. Her character was a sort of course, it is the original lan On numerous occasions, Mona we crash of floating messenger, who spent guage. Singing an opera in a differ deigned to skip a floor or two. Village love raised us up much time trying to convince Don ent language than the one in which But, what was really scary was Bring the village beat back Jose that his dying mother was it was written causes many prob Now! Pronto! ASAP! Hurry! Rush! more important than his service in lems. For one, it gives the audi when you walked up to Mona and Fives, Franco's military. ence a false sense of security. They she opened as if on cue. Boo! On the human side I have witnessed a supporting expect that they will be able to character get more praise at the understand the opera better, which There have been times when Back to grooving together end of the opera than the main is usually not the case. Most sing one could hear a strange moaning. Bigging us back up where we came character. But, in this perfor ers do not have perfect diction, Was Mona moaning because from. mance, both Micaela and therefore, the audience misses the students were always groaning? Yvonne McDonald Escamillo got more applause than parts of the dialog anyway. Supra titles are much better because they Carmen and Don Jose. Escamillo Groaning...Bemoaning, Dron- was a real charmer of a bull fighter give a clear indication of what is who represents the crux of Carmen being said while the original integ ing. Groaning about Mona. and Don Jose's entanglement. rity of the opera is maintained. Greer Grimsley, who was The original language, most of the Escamillo, is a powerful baritone time, is much more artistic than Groaning about grades, who did this role better than any English. English just does not Groaning about professors, Cancer one I have ever seen. sound good in opera. French, Ital Groaning about the lack of Surprising to people who had ian, and German offer much more sleep. Forget those hot dogs and ciga never seen this opera before was artistic flexibility. Those who have rettes, only gone to opera sung in En the set. It was extremely Yeah, our collective diatribes The smoke stacks and chemical glish, I believe, are in for a real minimalist, with one backdrop and Were interpreted by Mona as plants. only a handful of props. What surprise when they go to an opera in its original language. It is easier bad vibes. made this set work was the light My bellicose mother and that ing and color scheme. With the to understand and is much more Do you know which elevator in damn cat. lighting, the producers were able authentic. the Perkins Building is Mona? The one with the three legs and to make the plain white backdrop Now this brings us to the go from a barracks to a mountain Tacoma Opera. This group has a winsome stare... pass. But, most impressive was the good chorus and orchestra, and, Yvonne McDonald color scheme in the final act. Ev as I have seen in The Marriage of Will cause my cells to separate erything was white, red or black, Figaro, can attract some excellent Into a million little broken with the exception of Escamillo, of singers. The only problem is that hearts course, in his glittering gold for they produce their operas in En mal tuxedo of a Toreador. glish. This is good marketing, but That will attempt to reform into Tradition is very important in a I believe that the audience is so Something new and better... production of an opera. This par phisticated enough for opera in its ticular production broke with tra original language. This group is To no avail. dition in its setting. Instead of merely holding back its talent. The using the time-frame in which Bizet Tacoma.Opera needs to produce at Adrienne Ip wrote it, the Seattle Opera decided least some of its operas in the to go with an interpretation which original language, with Supra used the setting of Franco's Spain. titles, for its audience. GREAT AMERICAN Home I mm ! HOME LOANS Rates Are Down ! There may never be a better time to: Financing Available Now For: • Get a home improvement loan •Purchasing • Refinance • A new /first home • Lower Your Home Mortgage • A manufactured home Payment • Land • Consolidate Consumer Debt •Opening a Line of Credit • Custom Construction A SuperMarhet of Loan Values, Over 150 different Programs assure you the lowest interest rates available. Free in-home evaluation and consultation. 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