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Klipsun Magazine, 1992, Volume 29, Issue 02 - January

Sara Bynum Western Washington University

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Graphics Editor Lori Andrusky Table of Contents Story Editors Martin Knutson This Brew's by You 4 Toni Weyman by Suzi Zobrist Adviser The Tragedy of Bellingham Bay 6 Marilyn Bailey by Chris von Seggern The Snorkle Slap Shot 10 Klipsun Staff by Lyle Crouse Tyler Anderson Stephen Arnold Yes, Date Rape is RAPE 13 by Lori Corso Matt Campbell Jeff Collins Self Defense 10 Lori Corso by Jeff Flugel Lyle Crouse Northwest Indian Art 19 Juliane Fancey by Becci Oxner Jeff Flugel Sally James Procrastination 22 Neil Landaas by Sally James Catherine Legacy Campus From Another Perspective 25 Vanessa Loveland by Crystal Brockway Sean McWhinny Margaret Olsen Guns on Campus 28 Becci Oxner by Stephen Arnold Theresa Pearson Underwater Sanctuary 30 Gloria Robinson by Vanessa Loveland Scott Ryan Dan Tolley Chris VonSeggern Cover photo by Matt Hulbert Danielle Whalen ]dhn Hudson, Western underwater hockey player. Ingrid Williams Suzi Zobrist Table of contents and back page photo by Eric Anderson

KLIPSUN magazine, published twice quarterly, is supported by student fees and is free. The KLIPSUN office is located in College Hall 137, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. KLIPSUN is a Lummi Indian word meaning "beautiful sunset." Copyright January 1992, Volume 29, Issue 2.

HOME BREW The Opportunity to Create Your Own Beer

By Suzi Zobrist

The tingle of the carbon diox­ also be purchased at Lyn ide fills the nose and the sweet smell Blu Vineyards or by mail of hops emanates out of the brown­ order. ish-amber liquid. The palate, accus­ The brewing pro­ tomed to the light, sweet beer served cess is basic for all teer, at most taverns, almost cringes as said Tony Wickham, the bitter broth slides by. The rich­ manager of Bullie's Beer ness and full-bodied flavor resembles Emporium Shoppe. All good domestic beer, but it was made you need is water, bar­ by hand in the home of a Western ley, hops and yeast. Washington University student. The easiest way to Many Western students are homebrew is to buy a Michael Smith (left) and Garth Simpson brew their beginning to brew their own beer. malt extract kit which own beer at home. With a taste like Red Hook Ale or already has the barley, hops and a a malt extract kit, boil the extract Ballard Bitter and a price of about 23 package of yeast prepared for brew­ with one gallon of water for 15 to 30 cents per 12-ounce bottle, homemade ing. All you need to add is water minutes. Put the boiled mixture, brew makes a good, cheap alterna­ and corn sugar. An extract kit costs called wort, into the primary fer­ tive to tavern beer. about $11.50, Wickham said. menter and then add cold water up "I started homebrewing be­ Another option is to buy a malt to the five-gallon mark. When the cause I wanted to get a good beer I extract which is simply the prepared wort reaches room temperature, add could afford to drink," said Garth barley. The homebrewer would then the yeast. The yeast will begin mul­ Simpson, senior. need to add the hops, yeast and corn tiplying as it reacts with the sugar in Homebrewing is fairly easy sugar. the malt mixture and forms alcohol and inexpensive after the initial pur­ Breweries make malt extracts and carbon dioxide. chase of a homebrewing kit. A just for homebrewing and Bullie's You then cover the wort and homebrewers kit, which can be pur­ sells many different varieties, many put an airlock stopper on. The stop­ chased locally at Bullie's Beer Empo­ which are imported from England per allows the carbon dioxide in­ rium Shoppe in Sunset Square for and Australia. side the fermenter to be released but $57.75, comes complete with the ba­ Many homebrewers also chose keeps the contaminated outside air sic equipment needed to begin to add additional hops and barley to out. brewing beer. This includes a 25- their brew to change and alter the The wort stays in the primary gallon primary fermenter, a five-gal­ taste of the final product fermenter for about five to seven lon glass bottle called a carboy, a "Once you start days, at which time it continues to hydrometer, an airlock stopper, com (homebrewing) it's so wide open form alcohol and carbon dioxide. sugar, a siphon assembly, bottle cap­ there's no way you can cover all the When the activity of the yeast be­ pers, a homebrewing book and bottle variations," Wickham said. gins to slow down, which is evident caps. Homebrewing supplies can Tobeginyour homebrew with by how much foam is collecting on

4 KLIPSUN nitely worth it," Thackray said. tant to keep close records on what you do while brewing the beer so the top of the wort and by the rising "It cost about $10 a case to that it can be duplicated again or bubbles from the carbon dioxide, make, which is about how much given to friends to try on their own. it's time to move the mixture into Bud Light costs on sale and it's a lot Simpson said it helps if you the glass carboy. better than Bud Light," said Pittman, know what makes beer taste the A layer of yeast sediment will senior, marine biology major. way it does. He said oftentimes you form in the bottom of the fermenter, Pittman and Thackray got into the homebrewer then siphons the homebrewing because of their may not like a beer, but can't ex­ plain why. Simpson said he does mixture into the carboy. The carboy friends Garth Simpson and Michael like Cascade hops, which are used is then capped off with the airlock Smith, who began brewing their in Ballard Bitter and Red Hook, and stopper and allowed to sit and own beer this summer after Simpson slowly ferment further for another returned from a nine-month stay in uses them in his homebrew. Smith said drinking week. Germany. After drinking German homebrew gives you a great satis­ At the end of the second week, beer, Simpson said he acquired a faction because you made it, al­ the beer is now ready to be bottled. taste for better beer and decided to start making his own. though is doesn't always taste the Siphon the beer back into the pri­ best. He said domestic l^er isn't all mary fermenter and add about Simpson and Smith purchased three-quarters of a cup of dissolved a homebrewer's kit and have made that good either. "The more you do, the better com sugar to the mixture. This small somewhere between 10 and 15 amount of sugar will reactivate the batches since. you get and the more friends you yeast and form the carbon dioxide "You learn through trial and acquire," Wickham said. Thackray said he and we are familiar with when we open error," Simpson said. "We made a Pittman got tired of drinking the a beer. The mixture is then put into lot of stupid mistakes. It takes awhile usual brew and thought it would be bottles and capped-off. to know what you can and cannot fun to make their own. They bor­ "With a little practice anyone do." rowed some equipment from Smith can duplicate what you can buy in Simpson said many things can and Simpson and just finished their the store and it can be better than go wrong with brewing up a small first batch. It turned out so well, most of the domestic beers, " batch of beer. If the equipment is not they are planning on starting a new Wickham said. kept sanitary, he said, it will ruin the batch right away, but not before A homebrewing kit makes five batch. Because he and Smith did not celebrating their success with a beer­ gallons of beer at a time, which is clean their equipment well their first about 50 12-ounce bottles. It takes two attempts, they ended up with tasting party. about two weeks for the beer-mak­ beer that tasted like bleach. ing process to be completed, but the Smith said they had to pour beer reaches its peak of quality with it out. age. Wickham said it is better to let Len Kerr, president of the finished beer sit for two to three the Whatcom County months before indulging. Homebrewers Club, said Western students Paul Pittman slow fermentation can also and Paul Thackray, a team of cause a batch to go bad. If the homebrewers, anxious to taste the yeast takes a long time to react fmit of their efforts, found the wait­ to the malt sugar, there is a ing difficult. greater chance for a bad "You have to have a lot of pa­ batch, he said. tience. We tried not to msh the pro­ Kerr, who has been cess," said Thackray, a senior ma­ brewing beer for about a year Photo joring in visual communications. and a half, started a

Pittman and Thackray de­ homebrewers club six by

months ago. The group of scribed their finished product as a John cross between Full Sail Ale and half dozen members meets

Ballard Bitter. once a month to discuss the Ketcham "Brewing your own beer is finer points of homebrewing nice. You get something that is com­ and to sample each others parable to Full Sail, which is expen­ beer. Kerr said it is impor­ sive, and you get two cases. It's defi­ Tony Wckham, manasier of Bullie's Beer and Emporium Shoppe, presents home kits. JANUARY 1992 5 TRAGEDY OF BELTJNOHAM Pollution in the Bay

By Chris von Seggern Photos by Eric Anderson

Whether we realize it or not, Initiated in 1988, the BBAP at­ Chemical and bacterial contamina­ Bellingham Bay is an important part tempts to curtail pollution in the tion of bay waters and sediments of the lives of Bellingham residents. bay through a cooperative approach, have drastically affected popula­ We swim in it, boat on it, fish in it working with businesses and local tions of marine life in some parts of and some of us even live right on the groups instead of utilizing an en­ the bay. In the worst areas, such as Bay. Without the bay, the city of forcement approach. Program co­ Whatcom Creek Waterway near the Bellingham might not even be here. ordinator Lucille Pebles character­ Georgia-Pacific facility, there is little Unfortunately, we aren't as izes the program's efforts as a vol­ or no life on the bottom. A study kind to the bay as it has been to us. untary interaction between the state completed by the DOE in 1979-80 For years, Bellingham Bay has been and local community. found the sediments near Georgia- a dumping ground for our industrial Jackie Peyton has a different Pacific to be entirely devoid of any wastes, sewage and just about any­ opinion about the DOE approach. life except for a few bloodworms. thing else we don't want. Peyton is the project coordinator for Although improvements Storm runoff from our streets Puget Sounders, a local environ­ completed by Georgia-Pacific later carries lead, arsenic and a wide va­ mental-action group. She suggests in 1979 drastically reduced the riety of other toxic substances into that a more enforcement-oriented amount of pollutants that company the local creeks and streams and approach may be necessary to get dumps into the bay, the area is still eventually ends up in Bellingham results. heavily contaminated. Contamina­ Bay. A recent study by the Wash­ "I don't think [DOE] wants to tion from this and other sources has ington Department of Ecology take the time and money to hire the also led to areas being closed to (DOE) identified four major problem lawyers," Peyton said. Puget commercial fishing, affecting the areas within the bay for chemical Sounders is in the process of secur­ livelihoods of those who make their contamination and a larger potential ing a grant from the state to help living off of the water. problem area which consists of most educate area residents about their John Andersen, Georgia- of the inner bay. relationship with the bay and the Pacific's environmental control di- Bad as the problems may ap­ other local pear, they aren't irreversible. Among ecosystems. other efforts, Bellingham Bay is the O p i n - focus of a DOE program known as ions differ the Bellingham Bay Action Program about how to (BBAP). The BBAP is one of seven tackle the urban bay action programs admin­ problem of istered by the DOE around Wash­ water pollu­ ington to address the problem of tion, but all pollution in our state's urban wa­ concerned terways. Other areas addressed by agree that the similar programs include Tacoma's problem is real Commencement Bay and Lake and needs to Union in Seattle. be addressed. Sludge by Bellingham Bay.

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Anyone who toxics with it. These storm drains lives in the north empty either directly into the bay or campus residence into stream and rivers, which in turn halls is familiar with empty into the bay. the sight of the large "Anywhere you have an im­ secondary-treatment pervious surface, the water ends up lagoon Georgia-Pa­ in the bay sooner or later," Pebles cific operates on the said. The storm drainage problem bay. Completed in is compounded by area residents 1979, the purpose of pouring old antifreeze, motor oil, the lagoon is to circu­ paint, and other chemicals into storm late Georgia-Pacific's drains instead of disposing of them wastewater stream properly. for about a week and It isn't known exactly how provide constant much of which pollutants come from aeration, in order to which source. Huxley College bring the oxygen con­ professor Bert Webber is a member centration up to ac­ of the citizens' advisory committee ceptable levels. to the BBAP, a group which works Andersen estimates with the state and community to that the secondary- help determine program policy. treatment system Webber points to large deposits of brings the oxygen zinc found near the mouth of level to about 85% or Squalicum Creek, the source of more of normal. which is unknown. Part of the func­ In addition to tion of the BBAP is to locate uniden­ industry, other tified sources or pollutants so that sources are contrib­ they may be eliminated. uting to the pollution Bellingham Bay has pollution in bay waters. An­ problems, but it may not be too late rector, said Georgia-Pacific still other major problem is human to turn the tide of chemical and bio­ causes some pollution in the water­ sewage. The emergency overflow logical contamination in our local way, but contends the facility's ef­ system at Bellingham's Post Point waterways. Programs such as the fluent discharge is tightly controlled sewage treatment plant dumps raw BBAP, combining state and federal and kept within state standards. sewage into the bay south of town. resources with efforts on the local "I'm not going to sit here and Although this happens less than and individual level, can do much tell you it's great news, but it's not once a year, it introduces large to clean up Bellingham Bay and re­ all bad. Our obligation is to meet the amounts of harmful bacteria into store it to its original condition. conditions of our wastewater dis­ the water, which are then carried Webber adds that individuals charge permit," Andersen said. throughout the bay by currents. need to get involved in learning Georgia-Pacific operates under a Buildup of fecal coliform bacteria, about how their community deals National Pollutant Discharge which is measured as an indicator with environmental issues and han­ Elimination System (NPDES) per­ for other types of bacteria, has led to dling hazardous chemicals. "It's mit, which allows for certain levels the closure of commercial shellfish responsibility for learning of toxic substances to be discharged. beds in the bay. abouthow the place you live in Georgia-Pacific monitors their The third major identified handles these affairs," Webber said. wastewater stream for oxygen level, source of pollution in the bay is Household hazardous wastes suspended solid materials, pH, and storm runoff. In an undeveloped such as paints, solvents, cleaners, mercury levels, among other mate­ area, rainwater soaks into the waste oil, antifreeze and the like can rials. Compliance with state and ground and enters the local water be disposed of, but must be dis­ national regulations is enforced table. When large amounts of rain posed of properly. through submission of daily test fall on an urban area, instead of A facility for dumping these results, quarterly toxicity tests and soaking into the ground, the water wastes is located in Bellingham. For announced or unannounced in­ runs off the paved streets into storm location and hours of operation, call spections by the state. drains, carrying oil, metals and other 676-6850 or the county number, 380- 4640.

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Jeriy Parrel (left) and John Hudson come to the surface for a quick breath. Illustration by Sean McWhinny By Lyle Crouse The player only hears the nothing you've ever done before," computer science major. consistent tapping of hockey sticks said Tracy Tuzzolino, 23, president "I can see why they get con­ oh the playing surface...she only of the Underwater Hockey Club at fused," said Tracy Tuzzolino, 23, an feels her burning lungs, desperate Western Washington University. engineering student. "You don't for air. The club, made up of Western really picture hockey underwater." Air may suddenly seem un­ students, graduates and Bellingham People may find it difficult to important as she steals the puck and community members, gathers in the imagine what goes on at one of the advances on the opposition's goal. Carver Gym pool on Friday nights 30-minute games unless they see it. And when the only defender in sight and Sunday mornings. The club also Players put on their snorkels, masks leaves the play to get a breath of air, competes in tournaments, and some and flippers, and pass the 3-pound a goal seems certain. players compete in Seattle on puck along the bottom of a pool Goals don't come easy in this Thursday and in Vancouver on Sat­ with hand-held, 14-inch hockey sport. Just as the player gets ready urday. sticks. to flick the puck into the goal, an­ Although the Underwater The goal is a narrow pan, mea­ other defender descends from above Hockey Club has existed at Western suring three meters in length. But and steals it back. for more than a decade, students getting to the goal is a real chore, Welcome to the world of un­ still aren't very familiar with the because the players surround the derwater hockey. sport. puck like a group of starving pira­ "You can't really diagram it or "They just naturally assume nhas. bring a booklet that explains (un­ we're going to play ice hockey," In underwater hockey, when derwater) hockey, because it's like said club member Jerry Farrell, 24, a a player goes to the surface for air.

JANUARY 1992 11 his or her teammates are briefly left beating their friendly rival "It's in the high schools in New shorthanded. Vancouver, but lost to San Zealand and Australia," Farrell said. "If you need a breath, you go Francisco's "Club Puck" in the "It seems the United States is the last to the top and you're out of the championship game. country to get (underwater) play," said James Luce, 38, who The SeaHammers men's, hockey." f works for the Parks and Recreation women's and mixed teams usually Members of the Underwater travel to at least four tourna­ Hockey Club are always trying to ments a year, and attend two spread the word about their sport, annual tournaments in British in hopes of attracting new mem­ Columbia (Victoria and Simon bers. Fraser college) and the nation­ "We always want new play­ als and the P.C.C. ers," Farrell said. "This is a sport The SeaHammers will that's so new, we're constantly try­ participate in the 1992 national ing to let people know about us." tournament, held March 13 to Friday night sessions are 15 in Florida. It will be Luce's geared toward the beginning play­ sixth trip to nationals. ers, with practices that are more re­ Although the United laxed so the new people can learn States has a national tourna­ without being intimidated, ment, the sport is still relatively Tuzzolino said. unknown here. In other coun­ Once a beginner shows Illustration by Sean McWhinny tries, it is much more popular. enough progress, Tuzzolino said her Luce said one of the or she will be ready for the Sunday Department. "In football and soc­ world leaders in underwater hockey morning competitions. cer, you can breathe and hold your is England, where the sport was The game is aggressive, but position." invented in the late 1940s as a means beginners don't need to worry about Opponents also defend you of training military divers and the combative, fighting mentality of from every imaginable direction, swimmers. ice hockey. Tuzzolino said. In ice hockey and all Other nations are also in love "The spirit of the game is, you other team sports, the player must with the sport. don't try to hurt people," Luce said. be aware of where opponents are in front, behind, and of him or her. "It's also a sport that's played in almost complete silence," said Tuzzolino. When a player scores a goal, the silence is unbroken, although no cheering fans are heard, the fans can be seen quite easily, as they are of­ ten in the water with the players. The fans put on masks and snorkels,

and float either in the out of bounds Photo area or along the side of the pool.

The SeaHammers, the tourna­ by

ment team consisting of players from Matt Western's Underwater Hockey Club

and Seattle, took part in the annual Hulbert Pacific Coast Championships in Vancouver, Nov. eight to 10. Luce said the fans weren't allowed to get in the pool, so they sat along side the Ylestern underwater hockey players in action. pool and stuck their heads in the water so they could watch. The SeaHammers men's team took second place at the P.C.C.

12 KLIPSUN we believe tham to be. just wanted to really for­ particularly freshmen, than in Of all age groups, college stu­ any other age group." get it, because I felt like it dents are the most vulnerable to The ACH A also reported was my fault. Rape didn't rape. In their book, "Sexual Assault the findings of a survey where even enter my mind at that point," on Campus: What Colleges Can I one in two college students re­ Anne’^ (name has been changed) Do," Aileen Adams and Gail ported being the victim of some said. Abarbanel write, "nationally, the form of sexual aggression. One Anne, currently a student at majority of reported victims and in four women were the victims Western Washington University, offenders are of college age, with of rape or attempted rape, and was raped when she was 17, while the rate of rape victimization high­ 84 percent of their assailants visiting a guy she'd been dating for est among 16- to 19-year-olds. The were dating partners or ac­ two weeks. second highest victimization rate is quaintances. She said no, but he wouldn't experienced by women between 20 Mary P. Koss, a psy­ stop. "I cried all the way through it and 24 years of age." and it didn't seem to phase him at all. I guess I Yes, thought, now that I started it, it date rape must be my fault," Anne said slowly. is Af­ terwards she blocked the inci­ RAPE dent out of her mind. Anne By Lori Corso was date raped. In Washing­ ton state Photo illustration by Tyler Anderson rape is de­ fined as, "sexual contact between persons Why are college students so chologist at Kent State Univer­ without consent (in any form: pen­ at risk? The college environment is sity, conducted a scientific etration of vagina, anus or mouth; one factor. Students are living away study of acquaintance rape on by an object or sex organs; either from home with new found free­ 32 college campuses. Koss sex can be victim or perpetrator." doms such as drinking, using drugs concluded that 57 percent of According to a brochure pro­ or partying. In fact, 70 percent of all the rapes occured on dates. duced by the American College date rapes involve alcohol or drugs. Despite these statistics, Health Association(ACHA), ac­ "I personally have not dealt much of the faculty, staff and quaintance or date rape is, "forced, with a case of acquaintance rape students at many colleges and manipulated or coerced sexual in­ that did not involve alcohol," said universities today are under tercourse by a friend, date or ac­ Robyn Rogers, assistant coordina­ the impression that rape is a quaintance. . . Studies show that tor of Western's Sexual Awareness rare occurrence on their cam­ acquaintance rape occurs more fre­ Center. pus. This isn't true. Colleges quently among college students. Alcohol coupled with the ste- aren't the safe the safe haven

JANUARY 1992 13 officials or seek counseling. According to Federal Bu­ reau of Investigation (FBI) statis­ tics, a rape is reported about once every six minutes in the United States. In Whatcom County, Rape Relief reports six to eight rap>es occurring every week. However, reported rapes constitute only a fraction of the rapes that actually occur. FBI victimization surveys estimate that 10 times as many rapes are committed as are re­ ported. Date rape is underreported much more than stranger rape. Still, about half of all reported rapes are acquaintance or date rapes. Photo illustration by Tyler Anderson In her 1987 national survey of college students, Koss found that 27.5 percent of the women reotypes or gender roles of males rape. Many believe it was their had experienced a rape or at­ and females, for example, (the man fault in some way. They are over­ tempted rape since the age of is usually the instigator of sexual whelmed with guilt or shame. fourteen. The majority of these contact and the woman's role is to At first, Anne wasn't sure if rapes went unreported. Only 5 regulate it, or a woman's 'no' is often what happened to her was rape. percent of rape victims report interpreted by a man as really "I started rationalizing it.. their rape to the police. And 42 meaning 'yes.') percent of rape victims told no "Theses factors combined (Al­ one of their assault. cohol and gender roles) create an "If I had to do it all Anne didn't tell anyone environment that is just ripe for about the rape. rape," said Pat Fabiano, the Wellness over again I probably "Well, I couldn't tell my Consultant at Western. wouldn't report it. And mother because as a 17-year-old, Most rapes on campus don't it's because of the stigma she doesn't know that you are occur on a dark pathway at night; that you get in society" sexually active in the first place. and the attacker usually doesn't And she's not going to too spring from the bushes. Instead, Anne* jazzed to hear that you went to most campus rapes happen in the this guy's house and went in his residence halls or at fraternity par­ . Like, 'well, it wasn't really my bedroom. So I thought, 'you can't ties. fault.' And I should realize that. tell your mom.'" "Until something gets a name I felt so guilty about it afterwards. Anne didn't report the rape in our culture nobody can realize its .. I was so ashamed... The worst to the police. existence. I think acquaintance rape of the story is that I got pregnant. "If I had to do it all over has always been with us," Fabiano I had to have an abortion, be­ again I probably wouldn't report said. cause there was no way. So that it. And it's because of the stigma Many incidents of date or ac­ was a big thing. I had to tell the that you get in society. When you quaintance rape go unreported be­ people when I was having the say, 'I was raped,' people look at cause victims of sexual coercion are abortion. And I didn't want to you and say, 'she's just trying to often times reluctant to label their tell anyone that I'd been raped. I get him back, or she wasn't really experience as rape. The national waslike, 'oh,it was just this guy,"' raped. She just regretted having average statistic is 73 percent of vic­ Anne said. sex with him and now she's try­ tims who do not identify the sexual As a result, Anne didn't re­ ing to say it was rape. And so, for coercion or assault against them as port the rape to law enforcement these reasons I don't think, I

14 KLIPSUN myself, would report it now. Just call was in May 1974," Doughty Copeland, Assistant Vice President because I wouldn't want to go said. for Student Affairs said, "We have through that. But I think that it's The low numbers concern some educational programming important, if you are date raped, Doughty, "The numbers are going on, but our goal is to coordi­ that you report it. I wish I had the very low and that bothers me nate it and make sure that we have courage. Because you don't want to because I know that in actuality the service resources." bring it public first of all, that you the numbers are much higher. Various resources for victims had sex with this guy in the first By strict definition it (date rape) of sexual assault are available on place. Second of all, that he forced it happens every weekend." Western's campus, they are: The on you and you were a big enough To increase the accuracy Sexual Awareness Center, the idiot. And you have the prosecutors of the rape figures on Western's Counseling Center, The Women's campus Rogers said, "We still Center, The Sexual Harassment need to have a rape relief center Ombudsman, Health Services and "Until something on campus. There is no office the university police. gets a name in our cul­ on campus designed to deal In Whatcom County, 24-hour ture nobody can realize specifically with cases on cam­ rape relief is available through the its existence. I think pus of sexual assault. And that Whatcom County Crisis Center. acquaintance rape has is a problem." The Center works closely with always been witn us." Congress is currently victims of sexual assault at West­ amending the provisions of the ern. The Rape Relief crisis line Pat Fabiano Higher Education Act of 1965 phone numl^rs are 676-1175 or relating to treatment by cam­ 384-1485. pus officials of sexual assault saying to you, 'well, did you go to victims. The Act is refered to as his house?' 'Well, did you go to his the "Campus Sexual Assault bedroom?' 'Oh gee, what did you Victims' Bill of Rights Act of think you were going to do in his 1991." bedroom?"' Anne said. "The 'Campus Statistics aside. Western still Sexual Assault Vic­ doesn't appear to adhere to all the tims' Bill of Rights national college studies on date rape. Act' will ensure that A glance at the uniform crime re- campus authorities port issued by the university police treat sexual assault shows zero rapes on campus since victims with respect, 1986. The figure is zero because no make their rights and forcible rapes (date, acqauntaince legal option clear, and or statutory rape are not tallied) have fully cooperate with happened since that time. them in exercising "For it (a rape) to be reported those rights," wrote in our annual statistics it has to be Congressman Jim officially reported and investigated. Ramstad, sponsor of . . The rape figures we currently the bill. include in our statistics would not Currently, a be date rape, only forcible rape as task force at Western defined by the FBI," said Lieutenant is being formed to Dave Doughty of the university po­ evaluate the current lice. services addressing "Rape Relief sends us third sexual assault of stu­ party reports but we can't report it dents on Western's because we can not investigate it. campus, and the pos­ Third party reports come to us pretty sibility of developing sterilized to protect the victim," a comprehensive Photo illustration by Tyler Anderson Doughty continued. program dealing with "The last case of an actual sexual assault. forcible rape that I can actually re­ Connie

JANUARY 1992 15 By Jeff Flugel ou are walking down a secluded path, on Yyour way home froma friend's house. It is late, and the shadowy branches of the trees lining the path seem to reach for you like arms to pull you into the gloom. The dark silence makes you a little nervous, so you walk fast. You took this path because it is the shortest route back to your apart­ ment. It's part of the campus, you think. It's safe enough. Your friend offered to drive you home, but you laughed her off. It was a nice, moonlit night, and you've always enjoyed walking under a clear, star-filled sky. Be­ sides, you assured her that you've Photo walked home alone countless times

before and never had any problem. by

Suddenly, you hear a tearing Tyler sound in the underbrush just be­

hind you, as if something heavy is bursting forth from its hiding place. Anderson Before you can even turn around, strong hands grab you from be­ hind. Fingers clamp across your mouth, muffling your screams, while another limb snakes around your waist, pinning your arms to your sides. You kick and struggle, but your assailant is much too power­ ful for you. Before you know it, he's pressed you to the damp ground and is on top of you, fumbling and ripping at your jeans with one hand while the other traps your flailing fists. His breath flushes over your face, hot and reeking of whiskey. With a sharp stab of fear and disbelief, you realize you are being this year. As terrifying as that yourselfber of places where women can raped. You never thought it could sounds, rape is not something to learn self-defense techniques— happen to you... be ignored. It is not going to go and the confidence to use them / Rape, whether it is perpetrated away. when necessary—^bo th on and off by a lurking, unidentified assailant, That doesn't mean you campus. Lessons range from very or—as is far more common—^by a should give in to being another practical, street-oriented defense friend or acquaintance on a date, statistic, or that you should live techniques, such as karate, to continues to plague our society. in constant fear. You can fight "softer," more pacifistic styles Recent statistics predict that one back. Literally. With the proper such as aikido. out of every six women will be self-defense, martial arts training, No matter what style of victims of date rape on colleges and you need no longer walk in fear. martial art you choose, an unde­ universities across the United States Bellingham boasts a num- niable by-product of self-defense

16 KLIPSUN training is an increased level of con­ the Bellingham Academy of Self- to be open to logic or persuasion. fidence. Defense on High Street. "It What we teach here is what to do "It (martial arts) works to di­ teaches women to be assertive, when the peaceful approach minish your victim residence," said that they don't have to accept hasn't worked." Debra Holmes, 37, a black belt and victim roles just because they Sammons said he and his assistant instructor at the Aikido were at one time commonplace." assistant instructors often put on Peace Center on Cornwall Avenue. "The whole point of self- heavily padded equipment that "A lot of women used to be kind of defense for women is not that allows women students to really victimized, always put in weak and they can expect to win a fight pound on them. helpless roles. Martial arts training against a heavier, stronger man, "Our style of karate is ideal helps a woman to cultivate a bigger but that they can apply the for women's self-defense. It's all persona, the type of persona that strengths, skills and techniques close in-fighting, meant for real refuses to give in to helplessness." they've learned to interrupt an hand-to-hand combat," Holmes has been training for assault, to counter, block, and Sammons said. "The techniques six years in aikido, a Japanese art neutralize their attacker, so they are all based on what to do after that specializes in manipulating the can escape and make a plea for someone has put his hands on energy and momentum of an help," Sammons said. you." attacker's body against themselves. Sammons, who has been Sammons said women "Aikido is definitely self-de­ teaching self-defense at the should overlook the stigma that fense—^it's totally de­ martial arts are fensive," Holmes "sticky, sweaty, said. "There is no of­ male-oriented fensive movement, sports." no kicking or punch­ "Martial ing. Instead, you arts are great for the blend with your kind of woman opponent's energy who doesn't want and manipulate it to L to carry a gun, but keep out of their !o who wants to be way." able to walk down Aikido is a a street confident graceful and intricate that she can protect art form in which it herself, with her takes several years to hands or feet, if gain proficiency. It is (^necessary, a style based largely § Sammons said. on locking and Duan Sammons and his class at the Academy of Self Defense. Holmes said throwing techniques, successful self-de­ which are so precise and subtle that Academy for 20 of his 27 years in fense has to do with an increased a good deal of time is required to the martial arts, explains the awareness. master their execution. Japanese style of Gojo-ryu as an "Aikido makes you "Because of the nature of the in-fighting style that is "very more centered, so you become art, it does take a while to be confi­ street-oriented." less of a target," Holmes said. dent in knowing that you can use it. "There's been a rise lately "You don't give off victim vibes. It takes a lot of practice, but it's in martial arts styles that try to You can sense negative energy definitely worth the effort," Holmes teach a pacifistic, peaceful ap­ and stay away from potentially said. proach to self-defense," hazardous situations. Most "The physical capabilities Sammons said. "That is certainly aikidoists never have to practice gained in self-defense training pro­ a laudable approach, but it is not what they've learned in the vide an uplifting of attitude and always going to be suitable." streets. They can feel ill inten­ self-confidence that is instrumental "Rape has been shown to tions and either quell the prob­ in dispelling women's belief that be an aggressive act, more linked lem by saying, 'Hey, knock it they are cultural victims," said with violence than sex, Sammons off!' or get out of the situation Duane Sammons, a 5 th degree black said. "The type of people that before it gets bad." belt in Gojo-ryu karate and head of carry out these acts are not likely Michelle Lemaster, 21, a

JANUARY 1992 17 senior history major at Western Washington University who has a first degree black belt and 8 years of experience in Shotokan karate, has taken part in seminars on women's self-defense, presented to students in residence halls on campus for the past three years. She elaborated on ways to avoid or at least minimize potentially risky situations: Photo "It's really just common sense advice. Always keep the door to by your apartment or dorm room Gerald closed and locked. Don't leave the

door open waiting for the pizza guy. Reilly Always lock your car, and check your back seat before getting in. If it's dark, always have your (car) keys ready. Avoid walking any­ The Instructor shows some moves to Bobbie Lane (left) and Liz Taunton. where alone when it's dark. Re­ member that more than half of all who say, 'Well, I've never been you can minimize your chances rapes involve alcohol. If you're raped. I'm 32 years old, and of being sexually assaulted. It drinking at a party, just be aware of haven't had any problems. If it won't save you in every instance, what's going on, and only go home hasn't happened yet, it's not but at least you will have a solid, with somebody you trust." likely to,' " Sammons said. fighting chance. "I also encourage women to "That's not a realistic view. "All that counts is that you take some kind of formal self-de­ There's no assurance that such a get out of the way (of your at­ fensetraining," Lemastersaid. "You person won't get raped in the tacker)," Holmes said. "You don't just can't learn enough from a brief next month, despite the fact that need to beat up on them. Just get seminar." she's had no problem for the 32 out of there. And don't forget Many rape crisis centers stress years up until then. Thinking that you have a good, strong pair of that fighting back is not always the lungs." best method. Lemaster feels that Lemaster believes self-de­ such a decision depends upon indi­ "If you think fense is something women are vidual situations. somebody's going to kill beginning to take more seriously, "You have to use your own you, you have to make as the world in which we live judgement," Lemaster said. "If you up your own mind what becomes an increasingly dan­ think somebody's going to kill you you're going to do." gerous place. "I think more (if you resist), you have to make up women are going to move into your own mind what you're going Michelle Lemaster self-defense. They're going to to do." have to, once they fully realize Sammons stresses the impor­ the danger. It's just not safe any­ tance of self-defense for women as a way is just a gamble. Better be more." deterrent to crime. prepared for it so if it does hap­ Aside fromthe numerous "Every time a mugger or a pen, you're ready." places around town, self-defense rapist gets away with it, it increases Think of how different the classes for women are also offered the likelihood that he will keep on opening scenario might be for through the Associated Students doing the same to other women until someone who had some self-de­ Women's Center and the Campus he is stopped," Sammons said. "But fense training. Security office. Women can also if a women can foil such a person, You would probably walk participate in the taekwondo get away from him or possibly hurt down the trail alert but classes offered through the P.E. him enough, then maybe he will unfrightened, and, if attacked, department, as well as A.S. clubs think twice before trying to attack would be sure enough of your such as the Judo Club and the someone else." abilities to retaliate with force. Karate (Gojo-ryu) Club. "I've talked to a lot of women By learning self-defense.

18 Klipsun ‘Hp‘Rj:hWes^ cojis‘T

By Becci Oxner The Tlingit, T simshian, Haida, single Raven sits with its wing out­ Legend has it Raven got things Kwakiutl, Nootka and Coast Salish stretched toward the other, linked ready for people. He released the are the groups of people who form together through the feather touch sun, made the trees, filled the rivers the cultural area of the Northwest of their wingtips. One Raven holds with fish, brought the berries and Coast Indians. Geographically, they the moon, the other the sun. It tells colored the birds. Raven traveled inhabit portions of the coast, us how Raven released the sun and through the world, making it what stretching from northern Washing­ the moon, giving us light. it is today. His adventures are ton to the Gulf of Alaska, encom­ Polly Hanson, library director, passed on in Indian folklore as epi­ passing a distance of about 1,200 said the pole was carved by Master sodes, like chapters of a book. miles. This area is rich with ex­ Carver Dale Jones. Through a grant, Sometimes he is known as the amples of Indian art, ranging from Hanson commissioned Jones to trickster, for his deeds can be mis­ gigantic totem poles in Stanley Park, carve the poles last January. chievous as well as helpful. B.C. to thousands of exquisite In­ In an effort to keep this tradi­ Countless legends such as the dian artifacts displayed in the Makah tional type of Indian art alive. Raven myth are portrayed visually Cultural and Research Center in Northwest Indian College offers in Northwest Coast Indian art. Tra­ Neah Bay. carving classes. The instructor, a ditionally, the artwork has always Locally, two examples of former pupil of Master Carver Dale been more than decorative. It is in­ beautifully carved totem poles are Jones, is Joyce Warbus Tommy. tricately woven into the culture, found on either side of the entrance Carving style is developed intertwining a rich spiritual heritage. to the Northwest Indian College li­ individually, Joyce Tommy said. Without it, the culture would not brary, located on Lummi Indian While apprenticing with Jones she exist. Reservation. Atop each pole, a carved a series of different items.

JANUARY 1992 19 One of those was a mask. "With my spruce hats, face masks, grease native art has flourished and is fully mask, I had my own style. No mat­ dishes and woolen leggings all in­ recognized in the art world. ter what he did and told me, I did it corporate intricate art designs. Part of this is due to commissions different," Joyce Tommy said. Dif­ Feast bowls, for example, are from museums and private collec­ ferent styles can be as simple as very functional, yet intricately tors. carving thin lines or thick lines, she carved. Among Joyce Tommy's Joyce Tommy said some of her said. work was such a bowl. It's oblong art is beginning to be recognized. Formerly a garage, the art de­ shape and hollo wed-out center hold Her husband Tommy has sold pieces partment consists of two good sized the food, yet the carved-out center is to private collections in California rooms, filled with large tables and the middle of an intricately carved and Montana. supplies. In one room the walls are eagle. Richard Hunt, a more well- lined with artist proofs. The proofs One of the more unusual known Kwakiutl artist, received are drawings of owls and killer commissions from the British whales, distinctive by their Columbia Provincial Museum Northwest Indian design. located in Victoria in the early In the other room, wood 1970s. By 1974 he became scraps and shavings litter the master carver of the Museum's floor. Hunks of wood are open air Thunderbird Park, stacked under the benches. Master carvers such as Completed carvings rest on the Hunt pass on their artistic benches. Taking center stage skills by working with ap­ is a large Raven head carved prentices. It is common for a from cedar. Joyce Tommy's master carver and an appren­ husband, Floyd Tommy, is also tice to work on the same piece. enrolled in the class and cre­ Tommy described his ator of the Raven head. experience as an apprentice Indian art is much more with Dale Jones. The most than something to hang on the difficult part, he said, was wall. It normally has two char­ keeping the design symmetri­ acteristics - crest art and as cal. Jones would draw one side usable art. Carvings or draw­ and Tommy would draw the ings most often are of animals other. Tommy said it took a or guardian spirits, indicating long time before he got it right. the social origin and rank of The intricate work of the owner. Tommy likened these designs sometimes make these to the code of arms con­ it difficult to identify the cept in England. Anthropolo­ drawings or carvings. Com­ gists refer to it as crest art. The mon characteristics typical in use of these crests are essential the art help to identify the in the coastal Indian's well de­ species. Killer whales, for ex­ veloped social and political ample, have a striking dorsal system because they are a visual carvings found in Northwest Indian fin and a blow hole somewhere in motif used by families to display art are the Sxwayxwey masks. The the design. Beavers are identified their rank and privilege. masks have similar characteristics by the large incisor teeth and a cross- A high ranking chief, for ex­ of cylinder shaped, protruding eyes hatched tail. The popular Raven ample, might carry a Thunderbird and sometimes snakes carved above usually has a long beak with a slight crest. Wearing a Thunderbird head­ the eyes. Tommy said it is usually curve as compared to Thunderbird dress is a visual testimony of the used in potlatches for a ceremonial with its strongly curved beak. If one social role and status of the chief. dance. is unable to identify the species, Thunderbird is a prestigious gigan­ Whether used ceremonially or specialized catalogues and books are tic eagle in Indian legend, known to for everyday, each piece fits within usually available. some as the creator. the cultural framework. Asides wood, argillite is used The second characteristic of In recent years Northwest for carving. Softer than slate with a Indian art is its usability. Berry coast Indian art has transcended into not-quite-black hue, the consistency spoons, shaker rattles, halibut hooks. a thriving trade art. Since the 1960s, lends to detailed carving. In the past.

20 KLIPSUN argillite pipes were a popular item with non-Indians. Today, one might find a platter or miniature totem carved from argillite. Artist Gamer Moody of Skidegate, Alaska is a popular artist who specializes in argillite.

More modem techniques such Photo as silk-screen enhance the traditional

art form, adding yet another me­ by

dium to Indian art. Silk-screening, John along with basket weaving, is taught

at the Northwest Indian College. Ketcham With the increasing demand for Indian art in the non-Indian world, a small start is being made by the non-Indian world to under­ stand and accept the rich hereditary value in Indian people's culture.

^Hy salmon Bones are returned to nver

''Why Salmon Bones are Re­ turned to the River" Some people living in the Bella served to Raven which actually was plan. Coola region say in the beginning of the daughter of the chief. As he ate. Raven asked the chief to order time, sockeye salmon were not Raven carefully examined the bones his daughter to carry the bundle of I found in their rivers. To fill the to learn what he omitted from the food to the canoe. When she ap­ rivers with these fish, trickster Raven wooden salmon he had carved. The proached, Raven stepped inside, decided to make some. He carved chief told Ravennot to eatany bones, pushing the canoe farther out into some wooden fish and threw them but Raven held one against the roof thebay. Thechiefsdaughterwaded in the river, but they jumped just a of his mouth. out, and Raven pushed the canoe I few times and died. This prompted Once the meal was over the out farther making the chief's Raven to visit the Salmon people's extra food was tied in a mat for daughter wade to waist-deep wa-' village on the other side of the west­ Raven to take home. Then someone ter. This is what Raven planned and ern ocean. He and Mouse canoed to took the leftover salmon bones and he pulled her in the canoe. The! a flat land where Salmon lived. threw them in the river. The bones salmon people tried to follow in The beach in front of the immediately turned into live fish their canoes, but they sank because | salmon village was covered with and started swimming to shore. of the holes Mouse chewed in them. [canoes, which were really the skin Suddenly, they began madly cir­ Raven released the chief's] of the sockeye. When the sockeye cling and jumping. Everyone agreed daughter once he returned to I chief saw Raven he invited him to a bone was missing. They searched Bentinck Arm. Ever since then, his house. Raven instmcted Mouse the house, but found nothing. Next sockeye have come to the Bella Coola to stay and nibble holes in all of the they searched Raven, checking his River, and people are ever cautious! about returning all bones to the wa­ canoes. mouth. The bone was found. Raven Everyone sat down to eat in just said, "Oh I didn't know it was ter when they eat salmon. I the chief's house. A salmon was there." Thus, he decided on a new

JANUARY 1992 21 Illustration by Sean McWhinny

THERE IS NO BETTER TIME LIKE TOMORROW From procrostination to organization

By Sally James

eorge Harrington with a quick hour nap. tiny wads of paper into the began studying The nap turns into a three- garbage.... early that after­ hour snooze and he wakes up Activities such as these noon. His lack of to an unhappy stomach gar­ are usually categorized in one enthusiasm led bling for food. The next hour of two ways, the first being an him to flip on theand radio. a half is spent eating Top obvious lack of concentration Caughte up in the funky beat Ramen and watching re-runs skills, the second being an over he soon found himself air of "Cheers." abundance of procrastination guitaring his way through his By 8:30 p.m. he decides skills. It is this latter idea that bedroom only to fall ex­ it's time to get serious again. seems to plague the masses hausted onto the living room He begins writing down vo­ and George, our hypothetical couch at the end of the song. cabulary words on small student, creates the stereo­ His time as a rock star had notecards. The words turn into typical example of a student's exhausted him and his role as a series of scribbles. One mis­ gift for procrastination. In fact, a student is once again put off take and he begins shooting many people assume students

22 KLIPSUN o'clock Friday it's most likely going it is likely you will find out that you to be easier to get an extension on do, in fact, have enough time to that report then say, the three term complete everything. And in the papers you have due on Friday. unlikely situation it simply is not Now that we can all rest a little possible to accomplish everything easier knowing that everybody, in the given amount of time King students and working people alike, said, varying with each situation, it have the same knack for prc»crasti- would be best to simply cut some­ nating wouldn't it be nice to know thing out. And because it is highly why? unlikely you will be able to cut out Unfortunately, King said an exam or report, perhaps the best people usually don't know why they way to solve the dilemma is to procrastinate, that it is an automatic shorten the time you plan to spend behavior. with your parents or prepare only "Usually there is some reason two days in advance for that special for it," King assured. date instead of seven. Lumping some of the more If creating this list seems a little general reasons people procrastinate time consuming it may be easier to King divided them into five basic simply write things down that are categories, including perfectionism due during each month of the quar­ which is tied with fear of failure, ter. Many people use regular sized are the greatest procrastinators rebelliousness, fear of success and calendars with all their test dates among any other groups. finally the feeling of being over­ and due dates carefully written This could stem from the re­ whelmed. down. Other people carry small or­ bellious tendencies toward those It is this final one that most of ganizers that not only have a weekly chipper teachers you had when you us can relate to. You know the kind calendar but also an address book were younger who always overused of overwhelming feeling you get and small note pad. those familiar cliches such as during the first day of classes "There's no better time like the when you are handed all the present" or "Why put off until to­ syllabi only to realize the morrow what you can do today." enormous amount of exams, Hearing such phrases from the past papers and presentations you almost makes you feel like closing will have to take, write and your eyes and clicking the heels of present by the end of the your red ruby slippers together three quarter. times. For this King suggests a But we must be careful when person should make a list of lumping students into a stereotypi­ what needs to be done, say, cal role because, according to from now until the end of the Michael King, clinical director at quarter, (e.g. three term pa­ Western Washington University's pers, big date on Saturday, Counseling Center, students are no four exams, two presenta­ better at procrastinating than any tions, visiting your parents other group of people. etc...) Once you figured out He said the only reason pro­ what needs to be done, you crastination shows up so much for then can put a realistic time students is that they have more estimate on each activity, (i.e.: deadlines, usually non-negotiable 24 hours to study for each deadlines that cannot be changed exam (not a two-hour cram because the end of the quarter al­ session), 48 hours with par­ ways looms ahead. ents, 20 hours for each paper "Normal life doesn't have as etc...) Then count the time or many deadlines," King said. In the hours you have remaining in outside world it is easier to bargain the quarter. and if that report isn't complete by 3 By doing this King said

JANUARY 1992 23 Others simply write down the for just those few minutes each day hours at a time. We all know it is not day's activities on a scrap of paper can make. uncommon for this small machine to for quick reminders. It would be Perhaps to get motivated to suck the motivational skills right from wise, however, to write your list study you need a little time to relax our brain. down on a piece of paper that will or maybe you are the typ>e who needs Suddenly Bobby and Cindy be easily located again. A list on the to exercise for awhile to release daily Brady getting lost in the desert and back of an Ennen's receipt or a bank tension. meeting up with an Indian boy that machine receipt is probably not the A note of caution: If the only they eventually feed beans and wisest choice. way you can motivate yourself is to weenies to (an episode you've seen at For these daily reminders King run five miles, swim 30 laps and least a hundred times) becomes more said it is important to include ev­ bike another three miles, all followed important than studying for that silly erything that needs to be done by an hour nap, then by all means go molecular biology exam. during a particular day. Things such for it. But if at 9 p.m. the night before Be leery, too, of the radio. Even as the time necessary to get ready, eat, go to classes and work should be included as well as time necessary for aerobics or visiting a friend. King said time should also be allocated for those interruptions of an unex­ pected friend dropping by. It is this latter idea of being interrupted that many people for­ get to include simply because inter­ ruptions can usually never be pre­ dicted. To ready yourself for an in­ terruption it may be smart to think of your surrounding environment during certain times of the day. If, for example, you plan to spend a three-hour break in the library be T 'Aa-- I sure to include the likelihood of your big exam you are just lacing up though people usually do other things bumping into friends which may your shoes to begin your mini- while they listen to it you could eas­ knock out 30 or 40 minutes of your triatholon it simply isn't going to ily be swept away by some catchy time. work. tune and fall into the George-trap of King said day-to-day sched­ By the time you return it will air guitaring your way into total ex­ ules like these are for the 50 percent undoubtedly be close to midnight haustion. of those people who like to be struc­ and your one hour snooze to refresh Perhaps the overall drawback tured. However, for those other 50 yourself will undoubtedly turn into for the true procrastinator is this percent who may create a list. King an all night event, thus leaving your whole idea of time. It is so uncoop­ said they will soon forget about it studying to that small 10-minute erative. All we ask for is a little break because they like to more spontane­ break where you walk from Miller from that relentless ticking, a chance ous. Hall to Amtzen, madly cramming for us to perhaps catch up on our By creating lists people may all the information from your notes soap operas without the feeling of not only learn to discipline them­ into your brain. guilt plaguing ur bodies. selves but actually become orga­ While being organized and Perhaps we should unite and nized. Yes. Organized! A relatively motivated are excellent skills to create a universal clock-unplugging foreign word to most, this could have, we must not forget the objects day where every man, woman and possibly be the answer to ending looming around us just waiting to child of this great nation would un­ the habit of procrastinating. taunt us into hours of procrastina­ plug their clocks and then breathe a Getting motivated to tackle a tion. sigh of relief if only for a few vicari­ nasty project such as house cleaning The object may be a TV, which ous moments. O.K. So we got a little may be as easy as setting 10 to 15 is undoubtedly hooked to a remote carried away. But hey, procrastina­ minutes out of each day to clean. It control. Forty-some odd channels at tors are allowed to dream too. may come as a big surprise to see your finger tips is liable to make what a difference cleaning the house anybody procrastinate for several

24 KLIPSUN CAMPUS

Sty

By Crystal Brockway

All I have to do is get from the of planning," said Brett Wolfe, when rain is tricky, because the wheel­ front of College Hall to the gym in I attended a Disabled Student Orga­ chair grips are slick and you need ten minutes for my next class. I be­ nization meeting to get tips on cam­ gloves to keep control. Svor didn't gin to push myself down the bumpy pus wheelchair mobility before I find the snow earlier this year too cobblestone path toward the gym. attempted it. Wolfe is an industrial difficult to maneuver in, because I'm about 500 yards from where I design major, who gets around the walks were shoveled by the time started when I notice I'm out of campus using either a wheelchair, he arrived on campus. breath and the back of my shirt is prosthesis or a one p>edaled moun­ Ho wever, I was told at the DSO damp with perspiration. tain bike. meeting, that years past have not As I roll up in front of the gym been as easy to get around in the doors, I reach up to push the auto­ snow. In fact, a student in a wheel­ matic door op>ener and then I roll chair, who has since graduated, was back for the door to open. I roll in far once seen shoveling snow, from his enough to push the automatic door wheelchair, all the way to his classes. opener on the second door, backing The first thing I learned in a up into the door jam of the first wheelchair is how impossible it is to door, making room for the second get into College Hall. I could never door to open and then quickly mov­ do it by myself. I had to be pushed ing forward before the first door can up a short, steep hill to the backdoor, close on me. sitting in the concave dip of a man­ After making it through the hole, filled with leaves, in front of a doors and down the hall to my class, door that opens out. Impossible. My I wonder how anyone in a wheel­ Automatic door openers assist ^ friend had a lot of trouble trying to chair can make it through a whole physically disabled students. keep the door open, while tipping day on campus and what physical me backward, to get the wheels out barriers they find preventing them At the meeting I was told to of the manhole dip and over the accessibility at Western. pray it wouldn't snow and beware door ledge. I then rolled down the I was wheelchair-bound for of wet, raised or misplaced bricks, hallway, went through a classroom, three days to observe, through par­ because the elements and unsteady moving desks out of my path, to get ticipation, how accessible Western ground are the biggest problems of to my classroom. I had to find a is to the physically disabled in getting around in a wheelchair. Not place at the end of the table where wheelchairs. I realize in three days, only does the ground become slicker there were no table legs. Going I cannot know what it is like to be in the rain and snow, but you become through all this for one class means physically disabled, but through wetter when you sit in the rain, I have to be on campus 25 minutes participation, I hoped to gain a bet­ without an umbrella, moving from before my class. I cannot use the ter understanding of the daily frus­ building to building. I was drenched restroom in College Hall, because I trations facing the physically dis­ after my second day in the wheel­ would have to reverse the maneu­ abled on campus. chair. vers I went through to get to my "Getting around in a wheel­ Maynard Svor, a wheelchair- class, then go outside, to the other chair is not hard, it just requires a lot bound student said, mobility in the side of College Hall, in the back

JANUARY 1992 25 door, up a chairlift to the second said, 'I'm a little generally annoyed wheelchairs in that building. There floor, where the restroom doesn't at people who use elevators, who is no access to restrooms in Hu­ even have a handicapped stall. don't need to. I never used elevators manities and in the library you have For these reasons, very few before I was in a wheelchair. It's not to deal with double door access. physically disabled students take like stairs are difficult to use." When asked about restroom classes in College Hall. Physically Majoring in English, Svor must accessibility, Svor said, "Double disabled students also have the op­ often use the Humanities building doors are deadly. Double door tion of trying to relocate a class to a to attend classes and visit professors. bathrooms are the bane of my exist­ more convenient building by con­ He said the inaccessibility is ence." tacting Disabled Student Services. unforgivable in Humanities, be­ Svor was nearly trapped once Svor said he tries to arrange cause it'safairly new building. There between double doors in a restroom his class schedule with buildings are no automatic doors, no eleva- at the University of Washington. that are easily accessible. "If Both doors opened the same I don't really need a class, direction and he couldn't like an elective or something open one door before clos­ I can take later. I'll wait for ing the other, until he the class to be in a different grabbed a garbage can to location, or I might not take prop open one door for him it if it's too hard to get to," to exit. Svor said. In other buildings, Svor is in a manual chairlifts are the only way wheelchair and said he never to reach a restroom. Svor wants an electric wheelchair, dislikes the use of chairlifts, because he wouldn't get any "Stair crawlers (as he has exercise and they're more termed them) are inconve­ difficult to maneuver. Next nient for me and anyone else quarter Svor will have class using the stairs. It's a slug, on the fourth floor of Old it's so slow and no one can Main and ten minutes later get around it." he will need to be in the base­ When I used my ment of Amtzen Hall. He's wheelchair at Beilis Fair already spoken with his pro­ mall, I found everything fessor about being late to very wheelchair accessible, class, and he's decided not to until I went to the restroom, ask for the class to be relo­ g' I went to use the handi- cated for his sake. o capped stall, with the extra Svor said, "Getting up < wide door, at the end of the the hill to Amtzen is not my ^ row, but could hardly get in favorite thing in the world to ^ because the door was half- O- do." ^ way blocked by a perma- It wasn't my favorite ^ nent bench, placed there for thing to do either. On my weary shopp>ers to rest and way to class in Amtzen, I The view of Amtzen Hill to a physically to the inconvience of had to have a friend push me disabled student. wheelchair patrons. up part of the hill or I would have tors and the restrooms are in the On campus, I found the book­ never made it on time. Getting into basement, without lift access. The store to be more wheelchair acces­ Amtzen takes awhile too. The only closest easily accessible restrooms sible then I had expected. There are automatic doors are on the north are in the library. automatic double doors, with end by the coffeeshop and once Restroom access I found in­ enough space in between to move, again there are double doors to con­ teresting in and of itself. Most the aisles are wide enough to move tend with, along with about 20 restrooms on campus have a wheel­ through and the elevator allows people who congregate between the chair stall available, but the prob­ wheelchair access to all areas of the doors. Then I had to get into a small lem is not the stall, it's getting to the bookstore. The only problem I faced elevator with two people in it. stall. The fifth floor restrooms in was coming out of the elevator in I must agree with Svor, who Old Main are the most accessible to the basement, where boxes had been

26 KLIPSUN stacked in front of the elevator exit. College Hall with several curb some of the problems students with For a brief and fleeting second I had problems. Going down the side­ physical dissabilities have with get­ visions of being smashed between walk, on the east side of the street, ting around campus." elevator doors, until I pulled myself there is a dip in front of Haggard I would also suggest this, for around the boxes. Hall and after the library, but not on anyone who wants to know what I spoke to Bob Anderson, stu­ the crosswalk. On the west side of accessibility means to those who dent co-op manager about the boxes the street there is a dip at the cross­ need it and to acquire a whole new and bookstore policy on accessibil­ walk, and on the north side and perspective at Western. ity to physically disabled. He was west side of the bookstore sidewalk. Overall, I found Western to not aware of any problems with ac­ Only two dips match up on both be more wheelchair accessible then cessibility because he doesn't get sides of the street and it's not on the orginally anticipated. Elevators, any feedback, he said. There is no crosswalk. chairlifts and automatic door open­ written policy in the bookstore on The Disability Access Advi­ ers are all efforts to make Western the physically disabled, but em­ sory committee was created through accessible to physically disabled, yet ployees will help anyone who needs the Center for Equal Oppurtunity, there are several more things that it, Anderson said. "The hardest time in an effort to evaluate and monitor need to be implemented to make for wheelchairs would be rush week, access issues at Western, in terms of campus truly accessible. There but other than that I don't see where buildings, programs and services, should be no place out of reach to there should be any problems," said Maurice Bryan, director of those in wheelchairs and Western Anderson said. Center for Equal Oppurtunity. has improvements to make before Wilson library does have a Bryan said the committee has accomplishing this goal. written policy for both learning and added automatic physically disabled students. Rick doors, chairlifts Osen, Wilson library circulation and is currently manager and coordinator for dis­ working on creat­ abled student services, said the ing a map of acces­ policy includes special services for sible areas on book searches and providing mate­ campus as well as rials that might be out of reach, as making Gym D long as a request is made in ad­ accessible to vance. Osen also said there is one wheelchairs. study carrel on each floor of the All new library, made for wheelchairs. buildings on cam­ Svor, who uses the wheelchair pus, by law, must carrels, said only one carrel of the be wheelchair ac­ six is marked for wheelchair use cessible. The and chairs are often found in front battles DSS cur­ of them. Svor said his "crusade for rently fight are this quarter" has been, to get all making the new wheelchair carrels marked for weight room ac­ wheelchairs only. cessible and mov­ Next quarter Svor will be try­ ing fall registra­ ing to improve handicapped park­ tion from Gym D ing around campus. A general irri­ to an accessible Photo tation he said is people who come area.

for a few minutes and park in a Dorothy by handicapped spot, just waiting for Crow, director for Gerald someone. DSS said, "Some­ Amy Webb, a physically dis­ times I'd like to abled student and organizer of the have people who Reilly DSO, said some parking spaces are think Western is designated handicapped spots, but accessible and put Stairs in front of College Hall are one of many there are no dips in the curbs to roll them in a wheel­ obstacles facing students in wheelchairs. your wheelchair onto the sidewalk. chair, so maybe 1 went to the bookstore from they would realize

JANUARY 1992 27 By Stephen Arnold

a bicycle or "I can go out and spend $14 on microwave a CD or I can go out shooting and oven. have a lot more fun," Bobin said. Jack Because the ammunition Bobin, a 21 Bobin uses is moderately expensive, year-old in­ an afternoon shooting can cost up to dustrial tech­ $20. nology major, Students who live in residence owns a World halls at Western are allowed to bring War II vintage firearms to campus, but are required Enfield rifle to store them with campus police. and Smith & Though their weapons are secure, Wesson .38 students have access to them 24 caliber re­ hours a day, no questions asked, volver, both of providing they have picture identi­ which he fication and a claim check. stores at the "I think it's a great thing the campus police university has a storage program. office. The people are great, they always Bobin check serial numbers to make sure O jokes about everything matches, no one else can o stereotypes get your firearm. It's completely H people have safe," Bobin said. about gun Slingshots, paintball guns or ►-tfD > owners. anything else that can fire a projec­ 3 CL "People think tile are also required to be stored fD •-1CD that because I with campus police. 13O own a firearm. Will Wright, 24, an environ­ Jack Bobin stores his gun with the University Police. I'm ready to mental studies major, owns a Mar­ kill at any mo­ lin .22 caliber rifle that he stores ment. They always ask 'Do you with the campus police. He says the Every September, students hunt?' I'm not a killer, I just enjoy stereotypes of gunowners are leaving home to move onto campus firearms. We need to dispel the prevalent. at Western Washington University myth of the hyperactive gun owner," "I've never killed anything, pack their cars high and tight with he said. and I don't think I ever would, belongings they'll need to live While to some people shooting Wright said. "I couldn't shoot an comfortably in the coming months. a gun may seem stressful, Bobin animal." Eventually, hundreds of coffee shoots to relax. Wright said he never had an makers, stereos, tennis rackets, "Some people like to sew, some interest in guns until recently when popcorn poppers, and a handful of people like to fish, some people like he went camping with some friends firearms make their way to to shoot," Bobin said. "There is a who brought along small caliber Bellingham and onto Western's great responsibility associated with rifles and some paper targets. campus. owning a gun...You never forget that "I've always been against While rifles, pistols and shot­ it can take a life instantly." guns, really," Wright said. guns aren't on top of everyone's list Bobin said he tries to get out Though many of Wright's of things to bring, firearms do make and shoot about twice a month, friends own guns, none of them it to campus, most just as legally as money permitting. hunt. As Wright and his friends, all

28 KLIPSUN armed, were driving to their location to go target shooting, a large deer crossed directly in front of them. Though they could have killed the animal, they simply sat back quietly and let the animal pass. "As a hobby (guns). I'm not doing anything that would hurt anything. Some people collect coins, some collect guns. 1 don't think people know that most guns are used for target shooting," Wright said. The caliber of a firearm de­ notes the size of the bullet the gun fires. A.22 caliber gun fires a bullet .22 of an inch in diameter. A .45 n caliber gun fires a bullet just less than half an inch in diameter. A larger bullet is usually more pow­ Will Wright aims at his target. Photo by Tyler Anderson erful, more expensive and requires a larger gun. frightening experience. too many firearms are stored in his Because Wright's rifle is a Wright believes guns have a office. lower caliber, he can purchase sev­ bad reputation as a result of TV "We store mostly rifles and a eral hundred rounds of ammuni­ portrayals and peoples' general ig­ few shotguns, we get an occasional tion for only a few dollars. "It norance about guns. handgun. We've even had a bow (shooting) is very economical for a "Always hearing about and arrow before," Doughty said. student," Wright said. shootings keeps people away from While Doughty said he could "I like showing other people guns and encourages stereotypes," not describe a "typical," student gun how to shoot. A lot of people have Wright said. owner, he said many of those who a negative attitude toward guns," Lt. Dave Doughty of the cam­ store weapons in his office are hunt­ Bobin said. He said if people are pus police said although students ers, noting an increase in the num­ shown the right way to use a fire­ living on campus are not allowed to ber of firearms coming into his office arm, it can be enjoyable, and not a keep weapons in their rooms, not during the fall hunting seasons.

...... Doughty said his office stores about 36 firearms each year belonging to students living in residence halls and off campus. Wright said he encourages people interested in guns to go to a shooting range. In addition to several privately operated gun clubs in Whatcom County, the Whatcom County Parks and Recreation Department main­ tains a public range just south of Bellingham on Samish Way. Bobin said he thinks shooting is a unique hobby. "I like being different," Bobin says. "How many people can say 'I went shooting.' Anyone can see a movie, not everyone can go shoot- Wright (left) and Booth pick up their guns from the campus police. ing //

JANUARY 1992 29 By Vanessa Loveland

In the green, murky water, renity, the peace are lobsters snuggle into crevices, unsurpassed. For a few hours pockets and archways of honey­ they don scuba gear and es­ combed rock wall. A magenta-col­ cape the hectic and sometimes ored octopus hides in a small cave. cruel times they experience It dangles one arm out, daring a in daily life, by exploring the curious spider crab to enter. underwater world's magic An eel threads its way through and mystery. the water, chasing a school of silver- "Unless you have ever colored fish playing hide-and-seek dived, you don't know the among long strands of kelp. Their sheer beauty which lies un­ shining scales reflect specks of color derwater here," Pogue said. Photo and light, appearing and disap­ Pogue's son, Paul, who

pearing in a carnival-like explosion

is majoring in political science by of activity.

at Western Washington Uni­ John This mixing of motion and versity, and his dad find dif­

color in the coastal waters of

ferent, yet always fascinating, Ketcham Bellingham can leave a person plant, shell and animal life breathless with wonder and awe. A each time they dive. whole new world full of beauty The type of fish the unfolds through the lens of a scuba Pogues frequently see include Dave Long of Washington Divers Inc. diving mask. flounder, rockfish, lingcod and Dr. Larry Pogue, clad in a poacher. Paul says these fish found Pogue did get scared one time neoprene wetsuit, glides through in Bellingham's coastal waters are scuba diving, when he and his the cool, silent water, making distinct in a couple of different ways buddy swam over a lush, green smooth swimming strokes with his from those found in tropical waters. jungle of kelp. Suddenly the kelp's fins. His son, Paul, lingers behind "Every fish here is either long green strands, swirling in the poking a small sea urchin with his brown or silver-colored and no t very water, wrapped themselves around finger. attractive," Paul said. "The fish over the arms and legs of Pogue's buddy. A lobster senses Pogue's ap­ in Hawaii are brightly-colored, Thinking quickly, Pogue proach and scurries across the smaller and prettier." grabbed his knife. Using it like a muddy bottom to find protection by Scuba diving in cooler waters sickle, he began cutting down the a rock encrusted with mussels. off the coast of Bellingham gave kelp. Blue starfish and thatched Pogue the opportunity to see Orca Fragments of kelp floated barnacles cling to rocks nearby while whales, sea otters and 5-foot-long around him, building up gradually pipefish hide in a seaweed garden dogfish. with every cut. Pogue didn't stop. sprouting sea cucumbers, yellow "I've never been scared of Finally after 45 minutes, his buddy sponges and white plumes. them, they've never hurt me," Pogue was free. This liquid environment is a said. 'They're scared ofyou so they Had Pogue not been there to sanctuary for the Pogues; the se­ swim away." cut him out of the kelp, his friend

30 KLIPSUN could have died. sea life. scuba diving to people who aren't Scuba diving with another Dave Long, who teaches scuba sure what it is all about," said Long. person, a buddy, is a basic rule of diving at Washington Divers Inc., in Even though scuba diving is scuba diving, which the Pogues Bellingham, said a great place to go an expensive hobby, exploring the learned 11 years ago in scuba diving diving is Keystone, on the west side underwater world's beauty is price­ school. of Whidbey Island. less. Scuba diving is a great way to "My diving instructor said "There isn't a tremendous explore the rich shell, plant and ani­ over and over to never dive alone, amount of sea life in Bellingham mal life in the coastal waters off so that you're not alone if you have Bay, but there is off of Whidbey," Bellingham. an accident or run out of air or run into a life-threatening situation," Paul said. Paul said he always carries a knife with him, too, for safety rea­ sons as well as for pryingopen shells. Curious about the animals inside, he open shells such as scallops, clams and mussels to examine the soft in­ vertebrate inside.

"If you want to get inside the Photo shell you can use the knife as a

hammer or as a prybar to open the by

shell," Paul said. John Paul said he finds some of the

most unusual shells in his favorite Ketcham scuba diving spot, off the coast of Larrabee State Park. "I like it because it's an en­ closed area, so you don't have to Long jumps into the water to scuba dive. worry about the tide coming in," Paul said. 'There is also a lot more Long said. For information call Washing­ sea life than up north by the city." Long takes his scuba diving ton Divers Inc.,903 N. State St., at The tide has a lot to do with class to Keystone for their last dive 676-8029 or Bellingham Dive'n how murky the water is. If the tide to complete their scuba diving pro­ Travel, 2720 W. Maplewood, at 734- is going out or coming in, mud, gram. 1770. sand and kelp waver around, mak­ Larry Elsevier, owner of Bellingham Dive 'n Travel, ing the water murky. If the tide is Bellingham Dive 'n Travel, takes through Western's Outdoor Equip­ stabilized, the water is much clearer. his scuba diving classes to Keystone ment Rental Center, offers a three Pogue said summer is the time as well. week scuba diving program for $ 195 of the year when the water is most "An underwater marine cen­ to Western students. murky. ter is there which has abundant fish The program costs $295 not "Kelp, algae and other vegeta­ and plant life," Elsevier. including diving equipment. The tion grow real fast in the summer Paul Pogue said the initial cost equipment needed, including mask, more than any other time of the of scuba diving, classes and scuba snorkel, wetsuit, fins and tanks, must year, because the summer sun's rays equipment is expensive. After that, be furnished by the student. can filter down deeper," Pogue said. all you pay for is air to fill the tanks, Elsevier said if Bellingham Another factor affecting the which is inexpensive. Dive 'n Travel offers classes again murkiness of the water is how far "Like all hobbies, there is a through Western, they will start a you are out from the shore. "The cost," said Paul. few weeks after winter quarter be- further you venture out in the wa­ Between each three week class gins. ter, the clearer the water gets," said session at Washington Divers, Inc., At Washington Divers Inc., the Paul. a splash party is held in their pool to average cost of full equipment, in­ However, Paul said even orient people with scuba diving and cluding classes runs from $1,500 to though the water is clearer farther scuba diving equipment. $2,000. The classes last three weeks. out, there tends not to be as much "It's a fun way to introduce The interim splash party costs $25.

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