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11-20-02, 1,3 11/19/02 9:57 PM Page 1 WEDNESDAY November 20, 2002 Greeting Partly cloudy the season High: 54 | Low: 39 What’s yet to come? More weather, Page 2 Sports | 7 Volume 108 | No. 68 | [email protected] | www.dailyevergreen.com A student publication of Washington State University | Pullman, Washington Apple Cup tickets at basketball game Amy Trang ticket that will allow access to sec- “Students who are reacting to it Daily Evergreen staff tions 28, 29 and 30. More sections don’t know the logistics behind it,” will be reserved depending on Griffith said. “This is the same Students will have a chance to turnout at the basketball game, protocol we’ve had before at foot- get lower-section seating for Apple said JD Griffith, director of mar- ball games, except the passes are Cup without waiting hours in the keting and promotions for WSU given out at a different venue.” cold before the game. Athletics. Tahir Zaman, a freshman a bio- Every student who attends the engineering major, expressed men’s basketball game against “An area will be protected and only allow students with the prior- anger that he must go to another San Jose State at 11 a.m. Saturday sporting event to get a good seat in Beasley Coliseum will receive a ity passes to get into those special sections,” Griffith said. for the football game. special seating pass that will give “I believe that when I paid $70 them access to a lower-section seat Normally, students who show up for my sports pass, it was Mark Han/Daily Evergreen for the Apple Cup. to a football game early are given a A sign on the Cougar Depot window mocks frustrated football Students will receive a priority priority pass to the lower sections. See TICKETS, Page 3 fans Tuesday afternoon. Student debt checks may lower tuition Amy Trang Daily Evergreen staff The new way to battle increasing student tuition will come in the form of a check. With a 5 percent cut to the higher education budget last year and a rumored 30 percent cut this year, students want to make legislators aware that will it hurt financially if the budget is cut. So students are sending them their debt checks. The program, sponsored by the Washington Student Lobby and ASWSU, urges students to fill out a fake check with their total tuition debt after college. The checks will empha- size to legislators how Sign a much students are in debt after college and how cut- check ting the higher education ASWSU and WSL budget isn’t needed. “It will be an eye-opener will have a booth to the legislators about the on Glenn Terrell consequences if there is a Mall from 11 Mark Han/Daily Evergreen a.m. to 1 p.m. Megan Powers, left, and Traci Nelson, center, officers of the WSU Atheist and Agnostic Group, speak during their meeting cut to higher education,” said James McMahan, through Friday. Thursday night at the CUB while Treasurer Sara Bieker, right, listens. director of legislative affairs for ASWSU. Each debt check will be made into four copies, made out to to students’ district legislators and Atheist, agnostic group wants Gov. Gary Locke. “Legislators think that students either have their parents pay for everything or else the stu- to argue, dares students to do it dents qualify for financial aid. Those are two extremes,” McMahan said. “Seventy percent of students can’t afford to pay for everything out of Matthew R. Weaver tence of God) or agnostic (a person their own pocketbook and don’t qualify for all the Daily Evergreen staff Attend a meeting who believes nothing can be known financial aid they need.” The Atheist and Agnostic Group about the existence of God outside of “This tells legislators the total debt that exists Question boldly. human experience). meets at 6 p.m. on Thursdays in CUB for college students,” said Brady Horenstein, So said Sara Bieker, a member of Discussion among peers with a ASWSU District 9 Sen. “I think they’ll be sur- WSU’s Atheist and Agnostic Student rooms 112-113. common interest is a crucial element, Contact Megan Powers at 333-1255 prised on how much debt actually exists.” Group, when asked how best to sum and the zombie creation question sim- Eastern Washington, Central Washington up the mindset of the group. or by e-mail at [email protected] ply is a holdover from the previous for more information. and Western Washington universities and the “Thomas Jefferson said that,” meeting. University of Washington also are participating Bieker, the group’s treasurer and a “First and foremost, we’re an open in the effort. WSU staff member, said. “Question forum,” said Traci Nelson, club presi- “It’s really important and it is a state-wide boldly even the existence of God.” recipe is the combination of the poiso- dent and a junior political science effort so I think it will make a bigger impact and And right now, the group is ques- nous venom from a bouga toad and major. “We don’t ever have set topics be more effective,” Horenstein said. tioning the recipe for a zombie. from a sea snake. that we will rigidly adhere to. McMahan hopes to get 60 percent of the stu- Megan Powers, the group’s vice “Where are you going to find this Basically, we start off the meeting if dent population to sign a debt check. president and a sophomore interna- stuff?” asks a group member. anybody has something they would “I think students like it,” he said. “It’s some- tional business and psychology “eBay,” comes the response. like to talk about. thing minimal that they can do to fight for high- major, reads aloud from Rosemary “It tells you how to make a zombie, “It isn’t always related to atheism. er education and it’s in a way that they know it’s Ellen Guiley’s “The Encyclopedia of but not the right mixture,” grumbles We talk about current issues; we don’t actually doing something to help.” Ghosts and Spirits” and explains another. always talk about God. It’s mostly a ASWSU and WSL will have a booth on Glenn zombies probably will not be the However, zombies are not the only social club for us — people who are Terrell Mall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. through actual resurrected dead. More than topic of discussion at this organization. friends and come together and talk.” Friday for students to participate in the debt likely, they will use poisoned or badly The group consists of 30-45 mem- Later, Nelson puts forth these check program. The table also will have district brain-damaged people as a starting bers and acts as a social haven for questions and others for the 12 mem- maps and legislative information. point. those students who are atheist (a per- Students also can get debt checks from their Another crucial ingredient in the son who does not believe in the exis- See DARE, Page 3 ASWSU district senator. 11-20-02 2,11 11/19/02 8:42 PM Page 1 2 | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2002 NEWS THE DAILY EVERGREEN Pullman weather localbriefs Thursday: Cloudy High: 52 Low: 32 Speaker to discuss each council attended Goldman’s pro- Friday: Scattered showers gram and felt the topics presented were High: 42 Low: 25 sex under the influence vital to the education of students at WSU. “We are hoping that students will take Saturday: Cloudy HIV positive Joel Goldman will speak at into account Joel’s personal story,” said High: 41 Low: 26 tonight at 7 in the CUB Ballroom in a pre- Courtney Wilcox, a senior elementary edu- sentation titled, “Sex Under the Influence.” cation major. “In the presentation, Joel warns stu- This will be Goldman’s last appear- dents of the dangers of mixing alcohol ance at a college; he’s decided to take policelog and sex,” said Felicia Mattson, vice presi- the position of national spokesman for The police log comes from the WSU and Suspicious person/circumstance dent of programming and development the Pediatric Aids Foundation. Pullman Police departments’ daily activity North Grand Avenue, 12:30 p.m. for Panhellenic at WSU. “Joel is now HIV Panhellenic, the Inter Fraternity log. The reporting party said she encoun- positive and if it can happen to him, it can Council, Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi tered three men outside of her apartment happen to other students.” Kappa Theta will sponsor the event. Saturday when she came home and she overheard Goldman will address the issues of For more information, call 335-7874. one asking the others, “is it dead?” The alcohol, sexual conduct and how he Suspicious person/circumstance reporting party asked them what they believes his behavior in college led to his South Grand Avenue, 12:02 a.m. were doing and they said they were clean- contraction of HIV. Pullman artists’ works The reporting party said a vehicle was ing. “Students don’t understand that they spinning doughnuts in the parking lot. are at a serious threat of contracting a featured in CUB exhibit Harassment sexually transmitted disease,” said Jaclyn Disorderly conduct N.E. Illinois Street, 9:20 p.m. McKinnie, a senior majoring in business. The CUB will exhibit the work of three N.E. Colorado Street, 1:36 a.m. The reporting party said he has been “Just because we live in Pullman doesn’t Pullman artists from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.