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Kamiak Butte 'Differences' delay tower construction By KITTY E. GRAY Moving the transmitter, which Evergreen Staff is housed in the Old Arts Hall is unavoidable, Tuell said. The construction of a new tele- The first step in the relo- vision transmitter tower on cation was to choose a suit- ,Kamiak Butte has been held up able site for the new transmit- for over three months despite ter. Eight possible sites were the fact that the university has discussed. Kamiak Butte was fulfilled all its legal responsi- chosen. bilities, stated Gordon Tuell, Kamiak is near campus, which general manager of radio-TV is convenient for technicians who services, must inspect the transmitter The main reason for the de- daily. It also requires the con- lay, Tuell said, "is that the struction of a relatively short university administration has access road and bad weather wanted to do anything in its is minimal most of the year. power, anything they could, to On the other hand, Mission resolve differences or objections Mountain, the first area on the on this campus," list of suggested places, was Objections to building the tower found to be unsuitable because were first raised last spring, of its out-of-state location, its almost II months after the first inaccessibility during the winter public notice of the project. A months and, 30 miles from cam- =Letter to the Editor" in a May pus, it would make operating and issue of the Pullman Herald was maintenance costs prohibitive, The other six sites were re- vehemently against the project. Photo by Dick Dierks This objection was to be the jected on similar grounds with Peaceful setting embroiled in controversy. first of many in the development the exception of Steptoe Butte, of what has been called, the It has good elevation, Tuell points However, objections to the Kamiak Butte controversy, out, and is readily accessible. The first public notice of the tenance service and possibly a It is also only 25 miles from university's plan to construct cyclone fence for vandalism pre- building were becoming many and varied, Tuell said. Beginnings Pullman. the television antenna and trans- vention, Steptoe was considered the mitter building on Kamiak Butte At the meeting, the board ap- A group of concerned students The transmitter tower pro- most acceptable location until came with the announcement of proved the plans for the project now known as the Kamiak De- ject started in 1970 when the radio-TV Services received a an action by the Board of Regents and gave radio-TV services the fense Fund (KDF), started formal protest last Spring. A petition WSU Facilities Planning Depart- letter from the Washington State in their meeting of July 17, 1971, go-ahead to apply for matching drive to stop construction re- ment began construction pro- Patrol which pointed out that In addition to the 319 foot funds from the Educational sulted in 1100 signatures. cedures on a $1,5 million tele- a new transmitter may cause transmitter tower, there would Broadcast Facilities program The main objections voiced vision studio in Murrow Com- interference with other towers be a low profile building, a road administered by the Department by the KDF have centered a- munications Center. on the butte, for the five-day-per-week main- of Health, Education and Wel- fare (HEW). round the belief that the natural It wasn't until May of the next beauty of Kamiak Butte should year that formal objections a- be preserved. rose in the form of a "Letter Jay Foster, KDF spokesman, to the Editor" in the Pullman said, « aesthetics are our main Herald. The letter made refer- concern, Kamiak is one of the ence to "the planned invasion of few remaining places where Kamiak park," people can get away from it Daily Evergreen One day after the publication all in just a few minutes." of this letter, radio-Tv services received notification from HEW Washington State University that our grant had been given Summer Meetings to us," Tuell said. The grant totalled $97,628. It was under- A group of concerned ecolo- Friday, October 6, 1972 Vol. 79, No. 15 stood that the university would gists met with President Terrell provide matching funds for the three times during the summer. remaining cost of the relocation, It was agreed throughout the The total cost of the project will be $174,000, Tuell added. cent, on page 9 ACLU student chapter seeks campus recognition A student affili:ltp nfth,'.l1 ms-r'- the equal protection clause of ican Civil Liberttos Union's Pull- the 14th Amendment to the Con- man chapter is pr e sr-ntlv ;It- stitution. The courts ruled in tempt ing to g..111' status ,).', an favor of Smith, clearly demon- ASWSU campus orgaul zation. strating the effectiveness of since three past student ACLU action in defending indi vi- ACLU organizations have become dual rights. defunct on this campus, the pre- Litigation costs for ACLU ac- sent attempt has had trouble tion are minimal since attorneys gaining the confidence of the generally donate their services. ASWSU Constitution Subcommit- Funding for the student ACLU tee, according to Dale Raugust, will come from dues of one dol- president of the proposed chap- lar per semester for each mem- ter. Approval by this subcom- ber as well as from local, state, mittee is necessary for the stu- and nat ion a 1 organization dent ACLU to become a recog- sources. nized campus organization. Membership in the student Raugust explained, "The pur- ACLU is open to any full-time pose of the organization is to de- student at WSU who pays the fend the civil rights of indivi- semester dues. duals, the Federal Bill of Rights, As well as being president and the Declaration of Rights of of the student group, Raugust the Washington State Constitution has been a member of the ACLU as interpreted by the courts.· for two years and is presently The national ACL U was formed on the Board of Directors for 52 years ago in 1920 to protect the Pullman ACLU. the civil rights of such anti- Faculty adviser for the student establishmentarian organiza- ACL U is Frank Mullen of the tions as the socialists and com- political science department. Photo by Seibolt munists of that era, said Rau- Walfred Peterson of the same gust. This was the time of the department is helping out with first "red scare," The ACLU the student group. He is also attempted to provide a counter- a member of the Pullman ACLU vailing power against govern- Board of Directors as well as mental infringement on the rights the state board. Home-Apple Pie of the national citizenry. Tentatively scheduled for the Last year the ACL U came to latter part of October is an the. aid of a WSU student, Ron ACLU-sponsored student's Voter prevails over stork Smith, who was seeking to have workshop. According to Raugust, his name placed on the ballot as emphasis for the workshop will "Do you solemnly swear and confirm ....• began hospital's "family only" visiting policy. a candidate for Pullman City be on search and seizure aspects Jeff Rundell, a Whitman County Deputy Registrar~ Those people who are determined to register Council. The legal issue involved of constitutional law. "I do" said Joyce Leonard, lying in a bed at can do so at the Pullman Voter Registration an ·optional municipal" code Possible speakers for the Memorial Hospital. Having recently given birth Office before 5 p.m, today. It is located in the which requires a candidate to be workshop include the attorney for to her first son, she became a registered Wash- Pullman Community Center and City Hall, Kamiak a registered voter one full year the students of the University of ington voter on the last day ofthe CUB registration and Paradise. before he runs for office. Had Idaho, Asst. Atty. Gen. Lloyd drive. Smith lived in a "charter code" Peterson, and a person from the Daniel and Joyce Leonard who moved here from Since absentee ballots must be postmarked the city, this requirement would not Whitman County Drug Control Montana, had previously lived and voted in Pull- day of the election, they should be requested im- have applied to him. Unit, man. Joyce entered the hospital Monday night to mediately according to the registration office. The cooperating ACLU attor- The tentative plan for the work- have her baby and her husband discovered that A person must write to the county auditor, give ney, Wallis Friel, argued that shop includes speeches and a they had to re-register before Saturday. They the address and precinct in which he is regis- this difference in Washington law question and answer period at managed to meet the deadline although Rundell tere:l aud sign his name as he did on the regis- treated people in different cities the CUB, as well as discussion had a little difficulty seeing Joyce because of the tration form. differently, therefore violating sessions in the living groups. 2 DAILY EVERGREEN Friday, October 6, 1972 ~--------------------------------------------- McGovern's IInew internationalism" to replace lIunconscious isolation" NEW YORK (AP) -- Demo- prospect in the forseeable fu- and trading partners by ..six cratic presidential nominee ture, despite his own summit gun diplomacy and failure to George McGovern said yesterday diplomacy in Peking. consult," and from the develop- President Nixon's foreign pol- As always, McGovern vowed ing nations by attitudes that favor icy is one of "unconscious tso- to withdraw immediately from big business there. Iationtsm" and pledged if elected the war in Indochina, but the "We are isolated from reality Congress okays pure water bill to supplant it with what he speech he prepared for the City by the insistence that though called a new internationalism.

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