Avery Dedicated Before Done

1 al reen ~ ever Vol. 79No. 122 Washington State .University Avery dedicated before done Although the Avery hall dedi- Money for the elevator has several changes will be made cation ceremonies will take been granted by the state legisla- from the other floors. The ceil- place today, the building will not ture. The elevator does not have ings in the offices will be left in be completed unless there is a to be built until the fourth floor is their natural condition, and the big increase in enrollment in the being occupied, but it will be T.A. office space will be enlar- English department, according finished some time this summer. ged. to Milton C. Peterson, associate When the fourth floor is needed professor. The fourth floor of Avery hall is completely vacant, without lighting, heat or individual room walls. This is because of a two year delay in construction because of a location conflict. When the location of the building Defense to ask for acqUittal had finally been agreed upon, the building costs had risen so SEATTLE (AP)-:-Defense attorneys in the conspiracy trial of 10 much that only three floors could past and pres~nt King County law enforcement officers are expected be built with the money that had to ask Superior Court Judge James Mifflin today to acquit their been granted by the state. clients, thus preventing an appeal. When the building was finally The prosecution could appeal if defendants were dismissed from ready for construction, the the case but could not if they were found innocent. money allocated for the elevator If motions for acquittal fail, the defense lawyers still will be able to was cut out when the bids for the argue for dismissal. Should that fail, they will have the right to building came in. This hampered present their defense. the occupation of the building by . The prosecution rested its case Tuesday after calling 75 witnesses the English department, but was In an effort to show that a payoff system existed in the Seattle Police not violating the state law Department during the 1950sand 1960s. requiring every four story build- Mifflin indicated earlier the entire case would be dismissed if he ing to have an elevator. decides the indictment involved more than one conspiracy. Wu Shu-jen Board reactions favorable China refugee sees to nU'rsery school proposal no improvement The Pullman School Board res- community. and use such centers," accord- ponded favorably to a proposal Mary Marie Taylor, vice-presi- ing to the report. by the National Organization for dent of NOW, said, "I feel we By ROBERTA FLOYD Women (NOW). The proposal achieved our purpose." Taylor The proposed centers "would Evergreen Staff concerned the organization of a also said that with assurance operate year-round, morning nursery school/child care cen- from the board that if funding is through afternoon to serve all The experts on China, who visited the mainland for a few ter. obtained, there would be conti- younger children. For infants days and returned painting bright pictures of life under the Denny Morrison, a member of nued support for the program. there would be individual care. communist regime, were wrong, according to a refugee from the school board said the aim of Satterthwait said that the last For two - and a-half to Mainland China who was on campus yesterday. the board is to make space avail- time Pullman has had a program five-year-olds, there would be Wu Shu-jeri, who escaped from China in 1969, charged that able to the community wherever such as this was during World quality child care to provide an "as long as China is under communist rule, there will be no possible. War II. enriching experience in which improvement in living conditions because that is not the Michelle Satterthwait, spokes- According to the proposal by each child could develop his or concern of the government." person for NOW, mentioned that NOW, the cost of the child-care her potential." Speaking through an interpreter, Wu described the 15 years the board displayed considerable centers "would be derived from he lived under communist rule as "insecure" in that as a concern over the funding of such user fees, grant funds, or other The proposal also stressed the member of the Chinese Communist Party he·feared th~next a program. The board also revenue." NOW feels confident importance of having the centers party purge. When asked if his motivation for leaving was in questioned the legal require- that the voters would "support available to kindergarten and any way selfish, Wu replied, "I do not believe that fearing for ments of such a center and ex- these nursery school-child care grade school students before my life is selfish." pressed a desire to know more centers since many of them are school, after school, and during Wu cited his father's death as one of the main reasons for his about the special needs of the young families who might need summer vacation. decision to leave China. Wu said he believes that his father was killed by the Red Guards for political reasons in 1966.After his father underwent three torture sessions, Wu related that his father died within a few weeks. Wu's family was thereafter blacklisted as "counter-revoluti- Avery dedication onaries," his wife divorced him and by 1969 he planned his escape. After bribing a local official for a travel permit, Wu traveled to feature poet to a point opposite Hong Kong and swam eight hours, towing a As part of the Avery Hall dedi- local farmer, to reach the British colony. cation, students today can hear His previous experience as a member of China's water polo one of America's major contem- team conditioned him to make the eight-hour swim, though he porary poets read his own work. noted the only exceptional factor in his escape was the farmer William Stafford, recent occu- he took with him. Rationing food and other necessities as well as governmenta- pant of the Chair of Poetry of the Library of Congress, will be lIy-controlied housing is standard practice, according to Wu. reading in the CUB Aud. at 4 The average city worker earns an average of $42.50per month, p.m. and needs $25 to minimally survive, Shu-jen noted. This necessitates both the husband and wife working to support two children, he said. Stafford has won the National Every month, the average city worker is allowed to buy 25 Book Award and the Shelley pounds of grain, one and one-half pounds of fish and pork as Memorial Award of the Poetry well as one-half of a bar of soap. Society of America. He also Wu stressed, however, that intellectuals and high-party received a Guggenheim Grant. officials live much better, usually earning at least three times the money as well as earning the right to buy more food. In a citation from the judges of In response to a question from the audience, Wu stated that the National Book Award, his the Chinese people are most concerned about their government poems are described as, "clean, funneling China's profit into foreign nations as North Vietnam. direct and whole. They are both In three cited Canton factories who, during the peak of the tough and gentle; their music Vietnam conflict, shifted from civilian equipment to the knows the value of silence." manufacture of military parts. The largest group of people disenchanted with communist Currently a professor at Lewis rule, Wu stated, are the young. Wu claims that in 1964, 16 and Clark College in Portland, million students were forced to quit school and go to work on Stafford has produced several farms. "These young people are the greatest danger faced by collections of poetry and has had the Peking regime," he stated. work in numerous magazines Since 1958,Wu said that all religions have been prohibited in and anthologies. China except the Moslem religion. Wu noted that the Moslems also form a large ethnic group in China and the party would be Avery Hall dedication events tempting rebellion to outlaw them. following Stafford's readings in- It is' estimated by the Hong Kong police that approximately clude a no-host English depart- ~8,OOOpersons escape from Mainland China annually, accord- ment alumni dinner in the CUB mg to Wu. Until 1967 the Hong Kong authorities sent back all at 6: 30 and a speech by George refugees found on their shores but since then the rule has been Winchester Stone at 8 p.m. in lifted. Bryan Aud. Stone, the Dean of . Wu left his mother and son in mainland China. "I have very the Graduate School of Arts and Pullman folkdancers practice Calus, a Romanian men's htt~e hope for my mother," he said, "but my son is a very good Sciences at New York Universi- dance, for this weekends dance festival. Native dances from swimmer." ty, will speak on "Teaching around the world will highlight the weekend festival. Literature: The Heart of the Photo Hedy Herrick Matter." Humphery backer named in charge NEW YORK (AP)-The federal government U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour charged yesterday filed a criminal charge against the that at Loeb's urging the employes wrote checks Sphele senior partner in a Wall Street brokerage firm for drawn on their personal checking accounts to 12 allegedly making $48,000 in illegal, indirect contri- different campaign committees after Loeb had butions to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey's presidential transferred the $48,000from his account to theirs.

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