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ONLINE AT: WWW.ONLINE-GREEN.COM December 9, 1996 Showers SINCE 1895 High 43 VOL. 103 Low 31 No. 75 OPINIONS - SPORTS INSIDE Cheat Sheet 4 . Opinions 5 Women win second Gay and lesbian Sports 7 straight Dial Classic title marriage adoptions Borderline 9 unfair to children Page 7 Classifieds 10 Page 4 Kansas State melts in Bohler Gym heat "They are a very good hitting team." . Game three may have showed the Wild- WSUmoveson cats "never quit" attitude, but the Cougars demonstrated their own mental toughness to third round trailing 10-4 in game two. Sarah Silvernail started the comeback By JOSH MORTON with a kill followed by a block, and Shan- The Daily Evergreen non Wyckoff, making her first appearance of the match, served an ace to cut the lead to Kansas State may not have been in Kansas anymore, but the WSU volleyball three points. .' The Wildcats countered With two pomts team ousted them from the NCAA tourna- m~nt faster than they could say "yellow to extend their lead to 12-7. The Cougars cut the Wildcat lead to 12- bnckroad." 11 thanks in part to a Stinson kill, a Stin- The Cougars defeated the Wildcats 15-6, so;USilvernail block, and a Silvernail kilL to advance to the third round 16-14,. 15-12 Shannon Wyckoff's ?f the tournament block tied the score 12- In Palo Alto, Calif. 12, but Kansas State rau~oore thfan 1,800 "This team practices to fight scored two points and us ans sup- came within one point POned the Coug:m- back always." of winning the game. for the final home CINDY FREDRICK The Wildcats served match of the sea- for the game twice, but SOn. WSu volleyball coach two serving errors The Wildcats enabled the Cougars to refused to give up despite being down 2-0 heading into game stay in the hunt. three. A pair of Stinson/Olgman blocks ned the score 14-14. The Cougars took a 15-14 lead WSU took an early 4-2 advantage in on a Stinson kill, which was made possible game three before Kansas State tied it 4-4 by a diving save from back row specialist on a couple of WS U errors. The teams exchanged points to a 7-7 tie Paige Nelson. A Wildcat error concluded the Cougar before the Couzars tallied four straight comeback and gave the team a 2-0 lead POints, which in~luded a pair of Jennifer Stinson kills and a Keren Oigman kill. rather than a split "We kind of let things slide for a Although the Cougars took a 13-8 lead, minute," Fredrick said. "This team prac- the Wildcats scored five unanswered points, cutting the Cougar lead to 13-12. See VOLLEYBALL Page 8 But a pair of Kansas State errors allowed the Cougars to escape from playing a fourth game. Kill by Sarah Silvernail helped WSU coach Cindy Fredrick said the 3-0 spark a Cougar comeback from a sweep was not an easy task for the Cougars. 10-4 deficit in the second game. 'They (Kansas State) are a really nice STAFF PHOTO BY SHINICHI SIGUIRA team and they never quit," Fredrick said. Campus 'visits' high schools Candidate could be first for recruitment program female provost at WSU. Students, faculty, staff answer questions • Bataille will be available Smith has indicated he would Office of Admissions counselor like to offer the job as the univer- By FELECIA CHANDLER Jai Elliot participated in the program for public interviews on Tuesday sity's fourth provost. to the top The Daily Evergreen last year as a WSU student By STACEY BURNS candidate before Christmas. 'The first thing I always tell the The Evening of Excellence pro- The Daily Evergreen Bataille could become the univer- gram is a traveling retinue of WSU interested students is we have a large sity's first female provost faculty, staff and students putting on school, but there is still a small~town Throughout her life, Gretchen Bataille's philosophy Bataille was nominated for the an information night for high school atmosphere," said Elliot "Another has been to keep moving forward. position by an anonymous col- students interested in attending interesting fact is the average age "I don't really have a plan for my life," said the Uni- league, and when a search firm WSu. here is 20." versity of California, Santa Barbara provost of the Col- called her regarding the nomina- The program will stop in the Working in admissions can lege of Letters and Science. tion, she agreed to send her Bataille Olympia area on Monday and then involve a lot of advertisement when . Bataille's life has moved ahead another step; after resurne to WSu. make stops in Bellevue, Tacoma and trying to appeal to prospecnve new WSU President Sam Smith's announcement Thursday, The choice to send her resume Everett during the rest of the week students. she is one of two fmalists for the university'S position of fo?ows B~taille's philosophy on life, which she grew up "The reason we have these infor- Susan Miller, an assistant director provost and academic vice president. With and picked up from her family. mation nights is to bring a campus of admissions, is now working on the Bataille will interview with university officials, facul- "(The provost position) sounds like a wonderful visit out to students," said Terry west side with the Evening of Excel- ty, staff, students and general community on Tuesday. opportunity," said the Mishawaka, Ind., native. Flynn, director of admissions. lence Program. The other candidate for the position, James MacMa- Bataille entered the field of higher education because The focus of the program is to "Although the high school stu- hon, dean of the College of Science at Utah State Uni- she did not want to leave college. interest students in various aspects of versity, will be on campus for interviews Friday. See EXCELLENCE Page 3 See BATAILLE Page 3 the campus. .. PAGE 2 THE DAILY EVERGREEN MONDAY, DECEMBER 9,1996 Duncan Dunn residents celebrate holidays, release stress By KEARSTEN HOLMDALE Hill Halls and the men's halls as The Daily Evergreen well. ~J~A~A~ ~//~AAl••~. Capping off the week, a Winter Holiday spirit fills the halls of Wonderland Dance Party was held in 4Stf/S t:( et.e7A'AAAAI Duncan Dunn after residents cele- the Stimson Hall lobby on Friday. brated Winter Wonderland last week, Although the dance was free, 4//AAAAI ~.hl.hlAJ7A'A' a series of activities organized to cel- Dani Shultz, a resident adviser at ebrate the season. Duncan Dunn said the organizers ~A' Af/AI ~ 77A'A.' On Monday, students caroled were looking for donations to buy ~ 77_.p.:/ ~ Af/All. Af/_;,AI.A' ~AI.:0, •..••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••~...t through Duncan Dunn, McCroskey, children's books for the Northwest I Rogers, Waller and Stimson Halls, Children's Home in Lewiston. 0/ .d/AA'~.hl.hl~// PA'AA'. and the Stephenson Complex. Shultz said she would like to see Activities on Tuesday included a the residents of Duncan Dunn build ~,,/~ A.hlA7A~A.· day of crafts and decoration-making an ongoing relationship with the in the Duncan Dunn basement. Con- Northwest Children's Home. ~ 77;/J.:/ ~Af/Af/. Af/AlAI.A' ~AI.·0, struction of holiday cards followed Residents have been enthusiastic on Wednesday. about the events and fundraiser, 0/ .d/AA'~.hl.hl/ Thursday night, holiday decora- Winter Wonderland "is a good tions were posted in the front lobby idea," said Jenya Kielpinski, envi- flfcCJ~4'1lfc{!~4 A···· of Duncan Dunn . ronmental representative for Duncan "So far, it has been a lot of fun," Dunn. "Every night, a lot of ., said Erin Niemann, president of (women) have turned out." AA//L,~;f ~// 7AA-~A'7A1~ Duncan Dunn. "It was nice to come Summer Healey, administrative :?;AlA ZJA-? A'AAlA~A'~A .r: back (from Thanksgiving) and get assistant for Duncan Dunn, said they together." would like to get even more people 7~ CAAlA'AAh/{!A7AL,~A The activities also served as a involved. Events like Winter Won- stress reliever before studying for derland will "bring the hall together," ~A/AAA' 7~ LJ4. 4~A'Lu finals begins, she said. she said. Niemann said she thought it "This is a tradition begun last T,A-~A'7A1A'AA Al'A'~AI'7AA~A'1im· . would be fun if the Winter Wonder- year," said Shultz. "We would love 7~A~AI#~ 1lfc{!~4 .hlA'.hl land activities expanded to the other to do it every year." ~Af/~~4~~/~1I~·M 8~; ZJ.-en. Z ••••1••·••••••••··.·.·.·I;;··••••••••••i\(( Multicultural director ~d~.hl ~~ ~~ed(~i?lli ••.• speaks on community ~~/,~~ZJ~ FROM WSU NEWS AND INFORMATION Lee Jones, director of Multicultural Student Services, will deliver the 0/'.hl' tf/ff~ ~ ~/ keynote address during the Human Rights Day celebration in Spokane. The celebration will be held at Spokane City Hall, 808 West Spokane Falls Blvd., in the Spokane City Council Chambers, Tuesday from 6-9 ~/t(t( * 90.7 * i.·.;·ii •.•.•.••••••••••••••••• p.m . The program will honor the 48th anniversary of Human Rights Day .ctM~ /9~~/~~· I}; •••...•••. and the first anniversary of Unity in Action, which is co-sponsoring the AteUI~/ ''11~A'A-I'Le .-h~A'~A1A1AA?,· program with Gonzaga University and the Spokane Human Rights Com- mission. It will initiate an effort by community members to have every ";r~'fAt~AI;t h:n~.· 335.2207. Spokane organization go on record with their plans to address racism in their organizations. {/,:,uI ~/;t?' 1/C'tt/ tfh-l' ~1tII~II~; Spokane Mayor Jack Geraghty and the Spokane Task Force on Race AI AlIA// A'~A.-h#-e ?,~AtA h/~.