The Ceremony to Honor Wsuveterans

The TUESDAY, .NOVEMBER 10, 1998 VOL. 105 A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY No. 62 Holiday Closure Ceremony to honor WSU veterans BY SETH TRUSCOTI which lists WSU students killed in for- we don't get a lot of support." While rhythms campus life. There will be no The Daily Evergreen eign wars. veterans make up around 10 percent of "We try to assist people coming off The university R.O.T.C. color the student population at WSU, most classes tomorrow of active duty," he said. Many veter- For campus veterans, the guard, comprised of guard members students haven't made it to past morn- at WSU in honor of ans, used to-ri a.m. wake-up calls and Wednesday vacation isn't just a well- of all branches of the armed services ing Veterans Day ceremonies. a disciplined regimen,. find it difficult Veteran's Day. The needed day off. It is Veterans Day, and will begin the ceremony by escorting McElwee said most Veterans need in a university environment, when University of Idaho the WSU Veterans Affairs Committee in the flag. ASWSU Senator Dan a reason to attend. they don't have to attend classes or get will remain open will be holding an open ceremony Haverling will give an address, and a "It all depends on what kind of vet- honoring WSU students, alumni, few members of the local chapter of eran you are -- if your dad or grandpa out of bed all the time. "It's a bit of a and follow a regular friends and family who have died in the American Legion are scheduled to was killed in the war," he said. 'There transition. We help them manage their schedule. the U.S. military. speak as well. The ceremony will end are all sorts of veterans on campus. It's time," McElwee said. The brief service begins at 11 a.m. with a final moment of silence for the usually people who are concerned. It's Last year, the Veterans Day speaker Wednesday at the WSU Veterans fallen .: not just a day off from school for was pilot and Medal of Honor-winner Memorial, a wide, circular stone and "It's open to everybody," Veterans' them." Colonel James Fleming, who dis- bronze monument sited between the Affairs Committee Chairman Dave The Veterans Affairs Committee cussed changing times in the United Murrow building and Thompson Hall, McElwee said Monday. "It's just that exists to help veterans adjust to the States military. Groups holding forum on changes brought on by 1-200 enactment BY MATI'HEW SMYLIE race, sex, color, ethnicity or The Daily Evergreen national origin. Geology graduate student Sports Some WSU groups have Steve Kuehn, who is organiz- WSU men's and responded to the passage of ing the event with Steve Initiative 200 by organizing a Nakata, interim director of women's basketball forum to discuss concerns Multicultural Student play tomorrow night and inherent changes to WSU . Services, and Malcolm Page 7 and Pullman. Haworth, the president of the Sponsored by WSU Peace and Justice Club, said Women's crew Human Relations and they are attempting to bring finishes fourth at Resources, the Office of administrators, faculty, stu- Multicultural Student dents and members of the race in Seattle Services and the Peace and Pullman community together Page 7 Justice Club, the event will to discuss how the new law address possible changes that will affect life in Pullman. Mariners bolster will result from the passage of Participants in the forum, bullpen with trade 1-200, which prohibits gov- titled "Initiative 200: Where ernment agencies from dis- Do We Go From Here?," will Page 7 criminating or granting pref- include WSU President Opinion erential treatment based on See CHANGES on Page 12 Don't forget about WSU research labs focus Hurricane Mitch Page 5 of visit by business execs FROM STAFF REPORTS Chemistry, College of Quote of the Day Veterinary Medicine and bio- A group of business execu- analysis and biotechnology 'The grave buries f:NerY tives and other people laboratories across campus. error, f!NBfY defect, extin- involved in the economic After the tour, the center guishes every resentment. development will visit WSU will hold a series of presenta- From its peaceful bosom . research laboratories Tuesday tions and meetings for WSU spring none but fond in a tour hosted by the faculty and administrators. regrets and tender rec0l- Washington Technology The center is responsible leCtionS. Who can look Center. davvn upon the grave of an for funding and facilitating Approximately eight cor- interaction between academic enemy, and not feel a STAFF PHoro BY HSlLK:HU, CHUNG porate members will be institutions and private indus- compunctious throb that Ian Golash, a junior majoring in anthropology, asks for information about a job among the group that will try across Washington, and he shoUld have warred search from Catherine Wunderly, a junior majoring in human development, at observe the. facilities at the has a board of directors that with the poor handful of the Career Service Center booth in the CUB Monday. dust thalfleS moldering Institute of Biological are appointed by the governor. before him." Washington Irving WSU class crosses cultural boundaries between students Today's Weather BY SETH TRUSCOTI Ullrich, then an International Programs The Daily Evergreen advisor, said her department had been thinking about ways to help new students. Previously, This fall, the WSU Foreign Languages new foreign students had only a few days, department offered a new orientation class for often only a few hours of seminars, to prepare foreign students designed to break down the them for their new life in Pullrnan, USA. barriers of interaction between American stu- '1think this class offers contact," said Soci- Snow & Showers dents and foreign students attending WSu. ology student Iris Lee Hoi Yan, who original- The class, foreign languages 499, titled ly hails from Hong Kong. 'Through the dis- H 44 L32 "Communicating Across Cultures," is finish- cussion, we know more about the culture." ing up its first semester and instructors are Students enrolled in the course said it eager for new foreign students to sign up next helped them ovencome transition difficulties. Weather 2 semester . 'The only thing that was offered before this Opinion 5 The CAC course has a long history; it took was a two-day orientation," said business twelve years to get from the foreign languages management major llkham Kurbonou, who Sports 7 drawing board to the classroom came to Pullman from Uzbekistan. "We carne to the orientation late, and there was 30 PHOTO COURTESY OF MARY UllRICH "It was a class that we first dreamed about min- ClassHieds 10 UChao Chen, a graduate student, visits with elementary in 1986," instructor Mary Ullrich said in a utes left. I didn't think of it something useful." school students as part of the "Communicating Across Monday afternoon interview in her office in "When I first came I had problems with a Visit us on the Web at lot of people," said neurobiology graduate stu- Cultures" class outreach program. the converted McAllister Hall, currently home WNW.~.com to the campus' International Programs center. See CLAss on Page 12 P.a:2 WEATHER I POLICE LOG The Daily Evergreen Staff Tug. WID. THURS~ FRI. SAT. Pullman 44H •.. 44H EDrroR Ryan Sadoski 335-1099 I'[email protected] L . L NENS EDIToR Sean Lamphere 335-1140 Weather 32· 32 [email protected] Sno.v & Showers Mostly Cloudy . Partly.~O~.~Cloudy Sunny Partly Cloudy 0PN0N CooRoINATOR Juanita Driscoll 335-2290 Pullman forecast from the National Weather SenIice. SPoms EDIToR * Eric Blankenship 335-2465 [email protected] EN1Bn"ANEtfT EDIToR Marcus Michelson 335-2488 P<>LICE L<>~ [email protected] CotrpIed tom WSU SlCI PlJtnan Police Reports PHc:nooRAPttcs EDrroR Michael Lee 335-23n ed to have exposed himself at the Chevron on Main m-leeOwaunix.wsu.edu Street. The man was wearing a G6tring and a shirt, Nov. 1 AI:MRnsINa MNWER Michelle Hampton 335-1572 and had a tattoo on the left cheek of his buttocks. PRooucnoN MNwa Gina Cossey 335-4576 12:04 a.m. - Police received three calls from code GJwottcs MANAGER Christian Hammer 335-4179 blue telephones IocatecI on Stadium Wg}f, in the Rne ON.N: EDIToR Sean Eftekhari 335-4576 Ar1s Par1<ing lot and near McCroskey Hallwithin three Nov.? [email protected] minutes of each other. 2:08 a.m. - Police received a report of a broken ClASSIFIED Ai:JvERnsING 335-4573 window on a construction vehicle parked on Valley NEWSROOM HML, FAX [email protected] Nov. 2 335-7401 Road. P91icechased a suspect running up Orchard 5:35 p.m. - Police were contacted after someone Drive and took Daniel McCullough, 28, into custody The 0aiIy E...,_.. Is the oIIicIaIlIIUdenI pubIcaIIon 01WaahllIIIIon Slate UrWanity.~ under in Orton Hall directed a laser into the windows of the auIhority granted to the Board of student Publications by the WSU Board of Regents. for malicious mischief. Re8poII8IbIIIies lor eeIabIaIW III news IRI advefti8Ing poIcIes IRI deciding __ related to content Rotunda. 11181SOlely willi the student atarf. The editor IRI advefti8Ing manager pnMde reports to the Board of 8:47 p.m. - Police received a report of severaJ peo- PublIcations at 118rnontIiy rnaetinga. The _.,;ng "StaIament of PoIIciee IRI ()pen6,g ~. Is available at SPa adrninisInItMt ofIices In Room n3, MtmJW BuIdIng. SP general manager is Bob Nov. 4 pie in a.silverpickup truck who fled off from Hico with- HillIard. 1:35 a.m. - PoJice pulled over a U-Haul truck on . out paying for gM.

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