Shooting Stings WSU Students

Weather: Inside: Snow Junior Miss: Kimbrough adds Jessica Caldwell of Pullman Monday and sleet two stories .3 wins 3rd runner-up High,35 Opinions 4 Febrnary 5}1996 Loui, 20 Page 13 Sports 7 Classifieds 14 Th e IJaily r ree VOLUME 102, NUMBER 98 SINCE 1895 Shooting stings WSU students Friday, a 14-year-old student By Stacey Burns entered an algebra class at ThepDaily Evergreen Teacher recounts situation Frontier Junior High School, tragic shooting MQ'SesLake hit home for two WSt! students J;riday pulled out a high-powered rifle The In By Nicholas Geranios comer, in a dark trench coat with a when their mother was kiIleda~,Frontier Junior High School. and shot three students and the The Associated Press hat, with a rifle," Lane recalled Caires, amafu teacher, was the mother ofWSU students Damian and' Sunday at a news conference in teacher. MOSES LAKE - Teacher Jon Matt Caires. Two of the students, Manuel Lane heard the explosions and went which he gave his first detailed pub- "My heart really grieves for them," ASW;Sq pn,;sident Jesse Harris. Vela, 14, and Amold Fritz, 15, into the hall to check. Then he heard lic account of Friday afternoon's Harris said he spoke with M~tt ana his father Steve late Friday night and the teacher; Leona Caires, 49, crying students from the algebra bloody classroom rampage. , :\Matt is doing okay," he said. "The realism hadn't really sunk in yet"!1 died before police arrived. - classroom two doors down, and He didn't know it yet, but a student His father was really distraught/I The third student, Natalie Hintz, entered it. had entered the Frontier Junior High 13, is in serious condition at Matt Caires, a senior,is the ;..SWSU chief. ofstaffand was appointed The first thing he saw was teacher classroom a few minutes before and Tuesday the Pullman city council. He is planriing bn filing forthe position Leona Caires, bleeding from a gun- Harborview Medical Center in shot Caires and three students. of ASWSU president Monday. shot wound and lifeless. Seattle. She suffered wounds to Caires and student Manuel Vela, 14, "It was very tragic, so senseless," Pullman Mayor Mitch Chandler said. Lane, 48, looked around the class- were dead, a second student was her arm. chest and stomach. room. Several students were on the Barry Loukaitis was apprehend- "Everyone inthe.city bas,b~elt sympathy for the Caires family. " dying, and the third had her arm floor, others were cowering in their ed after a physical education Karen Carlson, .f! close friend and Matt Caires' running mate, said she. has nearly tom off by a shot. talked with him several times since the shooting occurred. chairs. Lane dived behind the teacher's teacher managed to get the gun "I noticed a boy standing in the aWay from the boy and tackle him "He is trying so hard to be strong," she said. "He loves hlsfiunily so' desk and tried to collect his to the ground. ;, See Caires: Pase J6 See Shooting: Page 16 Wax on, wax off _ ASWSUexecs take stand on state bills By Jeff Nusser The Daily Evergreen The top ASWSU executives met with the Washington Student Lobby (WSL) in Olympia Saturday to discuss bills in the Washington State legislature which could affect WSU students. President Jessie Harris and vice president Mike Morris made the trip "to get up to speed on different bills and to talk about the game pian on which bills to support and which bills to oppose," Morris said. The main bills discussed were House Bill 2293 and Senate Bill -6280, dealing with the technology fee, HB 2303, concern- ing tuition variance among majors, and HB 2478 and SB 6303, which would raise tuition for out-of-state students. The House version of the technology bill gives university administration the autonomy to levy a (HB) 2303 stinks. technology fee of up to $120 a year on students. It's got local control The Senate bill provides written all over it Staff photo by Danielle Strolis for student approval of and I don't like it. A student of the Dentoteki (traditional) Kyolrnshinkai Karate Club looks up for approval any fee, either by the Jessie Harris ASWSU Senate or a while practicing a technique. ASWSU President general student vote, and only allows a fee of up to $90. The House version of the technology bill was killed Saturday, Let the negotiation begin putting the issue to rest. " They also discussed HB 2303, the tuition variance bill, which allows for the Board of Regents to either raise or lower the phone registration only a contract, construction away tuition of one degree program by up to 15 percent. This bill is dying, Harris said. By Mike Halliday been discussed. To be decided: The bill recently passed the Appropriations Committee, but is The Daily Evergreen Though a contract is being signed, the being severely amended in the process. The original bill called =Exactly how to incorporate the- university does not have a sequence of Within the next two weeks a contract is for up to three degree programs to be affected by the bill, and events planned as to how to go about planned to be signed between WSU and system more changes are impending. -When and how to test it building the system. Such plans are a private company to start work on a being considered. Harris said ASWSU is against this bill for a number of rea- ·Who gets registration priority sons. telephone registration system. Nielsen said the school wants to remain a communication company, has First, Harris doesn't like the idea of local control over tuition. mG, financial aid. flexible while the system is being built. won the bid to build a system which The Board of Regents, whose members are appointed by the For the past year administrators and This would allow for changes to be governor for life, are not accountable to students; legislators should be in place by the fall of 1997, faculty have been discussing how the made while different parts are incorpo- who need votes to stay in office are. Monty Nielsen, the registrar, said. proposed system should operate. _ rated into the system. "We want to keep tuition-setting at the state level," Harris During that time employees of the con- "We want it as student friendly as pos- "I wish it were real simple and clean," said. "Physically we're closer to the Board of Regents, but tractor will reside in Pullman while the sible," Nielsen said. he said. politically we're closer to the Legislature." system is brought on line. A re-engineer- A wide range of scenarios are being How to test the system before it is Harris said the present Board of Regents is very progressive ing expert will be hired to make sure the considered for handling different aspects allowed to help every student on campus and student friendly, but expressed concern the dynamic or system operates properly with the exist- of the registration. When to start and end is being mulled over as well, Nielsen opinion of the board could shift in the future. ing computer system, Nielsen said. the registration process, who should get said. "(HB) 2303 stinks," Hanis said. "It's got local control written Though it is called a telephone registra- first priority, and how to handle incom- Before coming to WSU, Nielsen was tion system it will include records and ing freshman and transfer students has See Registration: Page 12 See Bills: Page 12 Page 2 The Daily Evergreen DeAL BRIEFS • Disability Awareness Association meeting today in the small conference room in ORC in Cleveland Hall at 4 p. m. Everyone is welcome! • Physical Therapy Club meeting Friday in CUB 214-216 from 1-2 p.m. T-shirts are ready! • Cycling Club meeting, Thurs., Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.rn. in CUB 219. Want a jersey? Be there. • Check it out! Self Exploration and Communication Group - starts Feb. 7 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at counselling services. Learn more about yourself, making friends and other relationships. Call 335-4511. • Special Olympics coaches needed for basketball and track- 2-4 hours per week. For more info contact Victor at YMCA 5-3915. • Advertising Club will be meeting on Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. in Thompson Hall Room 120. Get involved! It looks good on a resume. • Hawaii Club meeting on Feb. 8 in the CUB B7-9 at 6 p.m. Short but important meeting . • Circle K International service organization will be meeting Thursday at 6:10 p.m. in CUB 110. All are invited. For more information check us out an the Internet at http://www. wsu.e- du:8080/circlekl. • World Travelers Club meeting Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in McCroskey Lounge. New members welcome! • Citizens interested in serving on the Board of Adjustment, the Citizens' Advisory Commission or the Parks and Recreation Com- mission, pick up information and an application at Pullman City Hall. Due by 5 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 15. Muriel's • La Leche League announces monthly meeting for breastfeeding Weddi',J:>'" mothers at Sacred Heart Catholic Church NE 440 Ash, Pullman. FRIDAY, FEB 9 . "\<">' Advantages of breastfeeding to mother and baby. March 6 at 7 p.m. Call Ann at 332-2486 for more information. 7:00pm . FRIDAY, FEB 10 • GPQA (Gr(!duate and Professional Queer Alliance) will meet this semester on Wednesday evenings at Sidewalk Coffee and Tea (next 9:30pm to Corner Drug). Prefunk starts at 6:30; meeting starts at 7: 15.

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