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10-1990
Klipsun Magazine, 1990 - October
Michelle Partridge Western Washington University
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^1A/^I+1(/1^ +0 -fou^^d-- Dawn Robinson French/Klipsun EDITOR Michelle Partridge In This Issue.. ADVISER Carolyn Dale Blowing the Art World Away ASSOCIATE EDITORS Doree Armstrong 2^ LocalbyRobMartin artisan achieves his dream Chris Webb You Can Run But You Can’t Hide DESIGN EDITOR Police dogs trackdown criminals Tina Pinto 6 by Darlene Obsharsky GRAPHIC DESIGN Western Music Man Rides Seattle’s Airwaves R. Scott Randall j ^ Western grad becomes Seattle's youngest music man JL U by Doree Armstrong PHOTO EDITOR Tim Boyles Tales of a Guy With Big Shoes Y ^ Persistent problems of a fellow with afootfetish PHOTOGRAPHERS 1 3 by Chris Webb Brad Ellis Pete Kendall Behind the Scenes Dave Rubert An in-depth lookat Western's weekly TVprogram 14 by Drew McDougal ILLUSTRATORS Tom Flood A ’’Dirty” Look at Fairhaven’s History Garth Mix q Dredging up the past of Fair haven'sfounder Greg Stair 7O byMarkHines Dawn Robinson French Christina Vitaijic Live a Little... get closer to Death Western students talk about their unusual sports WRITERS ^ by Matthew W. Campbell Julie Anderson Patricia Caiarelli Graduate Turns Disability Into a Plus Matthew W. Campbell ^ Former student lectures on handicapped life Michael Flynn 2D by Kristy Lambro Shannon Fowler Mike Gladhart Eat This, Soggies! Mark Hines q Contests: They're notjustfor Ed McMahon Peter Ide 2O by Patricia Caiarelli Kristy Lambro Samantha Lipoma Integrating the Parent Track With Student Life Rob Martin f\ Balancing dual student and parent responsibilities Robert McDonald 2^ by Michael Flynn Drew McDougal Denise Mead Old Edens Isn’t Derelict... Yet Jill Nelson Past pangs andfuture plans for this former party hall Dana Nowicki ^ by Rob McDonald Darlene Obsharsky Mike Radice Ways to Beat the ’ ’Heat” Christina Rustvold Beware of"smokey"onI-5 Siri Throm / by Christina Rustvold
OCTOBER 1990
by Rob Martin Sargent said he hadn’t always aspired to be a great glass-blower, or even a glass-blower at all. Bill Sargent had a dream. And today, after “It was pretty innocent. One day I decided to 16 years of sacrifice and hardship, Sargent has make a metal mold and blow glass into it ... seen part of his dream become reality. that’s how I got started.’’ His dream of opening his own glass-blowing He pulled a glass face sculpture from the studio was not an easy one to accomplish, and shelf, holding it gently in one hand and wiping making a living at it has proven even more off the thin layer of dust with the other. “This challenging. was the first piece I did. Making the move from Denver to Belling “It was then that I discovered the hypnotic ham and setting up shop required years of pull of glass. gathering equipment and spending his entire “I was inspired by glass because it’s one of life’s savings. the few materials that you can actually sketch in ‘‘All tolled, it took about $40,000 ... with the 3-D,’’ he said, adding, “It’s a very easy material move and all the equipment and materials,” to manipulate, but it’s a very hard material to Sargent said. master and to control -- It’s probably one of the While in Denver, Sargent started blowing hardest.’’ glass, but had to use other friends’ shops or In Denver, Sargent had to work a number of rent studios to create his art. different jobs in order to make a living and save Sargent said blowing glass while desper money for his shop. He continued creating art in ately trying to save money for the move slowed his spare time. him down. When he had the idea of owning his own glass- “I don’t think I could have given it up even ' blowing studio, he knew one day he would make a if I wanted to. It’s an addiction. living doing what he loved best. “Making art is a genetic designation as Sixteen years later, his art is the sole source much as it is a choice. I don’t feel like I have a of income. But he still hasn’t completely ful real choice about what I’m doing,” he chuck filled his dream. led. “I really love what I’m doing but there are sure easier ways to make a living,*’ he laughed, adding, “It’s been paying the bills, but that’s about it.’’ He thinks he may have to take some other type of work on the side to help out financially. “It’s expensive. Just for utilities (gas and electric) I’m lookin’ at about $800 a month. With rent on top of that, you’re lookin’ at a pretty big overhead.’’ Sargent said his dream of supporting himself comfortably is close and getting better all the 4 time. “It’s just a matter of time. I’ve only been hot (producing) since August (1989),’’ he said. As of August of 1989, Sargent was all moved Dave Rubert/Kiipsun in to his new shop and working, and in the
KLIPSUN 3 of our income locally, then I’ll be in good shape -- This is the hardest time. “The payoff is that I love what I’m doing.’’ Sargent hadn’t always dreamed of moving to Bellingham, but in 1987, after visiting some friends in Seattle, he started blowing glass for Freemont Antique Glass. While working there he met a man from Bellingham. “I liked the size of the town, and things were quite reasonable as far as rent at that time. But by the time I had got it together to move, things had changed quite a bit,’’ he laughed. While blowing glass in Denver, Sargent was never pampered by the luxuries of a state-of-the- art studio. “I used to work on a little pad in the back of a two-car garage.’’ With the move brought the luxury of a state- of-the-art shop, which is located just off State Street near Georgia Pacific. The large white garage door opens into a space large enough to hold several small school buses. Just inside the door are shelves that dis play some of his blown glass, everything from multi-colored dancing figures to egg-shaped paper weights. “The dancing figure is a reoccurring theme in my work,’’ he said. In the middle of the shop sits a heavy-duty steel table about the size of a queen-sized bed. Located near the far end of the table is a large Dave Rubert/Klipsun white apparatus with a large sliding door on the Sargent shapes the molten glass In the work area of Hot Stuff, top. Sargent said it cools the glass slowly after he has shaped the glass to his specifications. process of establishing contacts within the In the rear of the studio are the two furnaces community. used in melting and shaping the glass. The tem He said it’s a slow and difficult process peratures of both furnaces are controlled by a getting your name out into the public. But small computer terminal mounted on the wall Sargent has taken a number of steps to promote behind them. himself and the work he does. “There have been a few open houses, some newspaper articles and a few art shows to help raise the level of community awareness. ^^Making art is a genetic designation “It’s hard to find the time to do both — create as much as it is a choice. and promote.’’ — Bill Sargent But time isn’t his only restraint. One of the hardest things he has had to adjust to while trying to make it in the competitive world of art is self-promotion. Sargent said he has always felt really funny “This is a wonderful space, but it’s a little out about promoting himself. of my league. It’s really ideal ... I guess it’s a “Where I come from you just don’t do that. I trade-off in that you trade low rent and lack of think (in this business) it’s necessary -- If you responsibility for high overhead,’’ he laughed. don’t do it nobody will. Sargent is never alone in the shop. He has a “Once I get established in some galleries and partner, Nancy Curtis, who helps out. But be get established here and can make a third to half cause of her job and the time she puts into her
4 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 own art, she isn’t able to be there all of the time. “I would like to do more open houses and be When she’s not there. Bill’s two cats keep him more open to the public. The problem is when company during the long work weeks that extend I’m here alone and blowing glass I can’t really beyond 90 hours. concentrate and take care of people at the same “That’s the dirty shop cat,’’ he said, pointing time.” to the black and gray feline lying on a chair near Sargent isn’t interested in the fame that some one of the furnaces. The cat used to be black and artists have encountered, he just wants to get a white. fair price for his product. He admitted, however, Galleries and fairs are other ways Sargent’s that it would be nice to be a little more comfort art is able to reach people in Bellingham and able financially. other communities. Most of his art is sold on con “That would be just being able to stay on top signment programs through a number of galleries of the bills and being able to progress and con in Bellingham and Seattle. tinue doing what’s inside (art).” The Chuckanut Bay Gallery, Fairhaven He sat on the corner of the steel table. “My Frames Gallery, and the new Garden of Art, off long-range goals would be to make the product Alabama Street, are just a few places locally and be able to sell it, have an outlet where it where Sargent’s work can be viewed and pur could be sold, and set up a gallery in the studio chased. itself,” he said,
Sargent displays a semi-finished piece of work. Dave Rubert/Klipsun
OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 5 His stance quickly changes. His head raises higher. In an instant he is in a flat-out You Can Run run. He knows where the quarry is. At full speed he cuts through a small stream, But You Can't Hide storms up the hill and sim ply leaps over a medium- unit can do, he will dramati size bush to trap his victim, Local police officers cally demonstrate it. all within a matter of sec Officer Ochs begins the onds. In mid-air his eyes take a bite demonstration with a mock lock in on the prey. Eye scene in which officer Beth contact is made and main Gaede volunteers to play a tained. Thunder offers no out of criminals criminal rummaging hint of blinking first. The through a car. Police dogs eyes reflect confidence. His by Darlene Obsharsky and their handlers practice dark markings easily induce Bellingham Police offi apprehending this “crimi fear. His 115-pound muscu cer Warren Ochs is proud of nal.” Officer Gaede tries to lar frame further increases the police canine unit he escape, but each attempt to the odds that his quarry will supervises. He is so proud elude capture is cut short be afraid of him. To ensure that he will go beyond dis when the canine dog reacts dominance and capture of cussing what this special by firmly biting the padded his quarry. Thunder locks arm guard Officer Gaede his teeth into the padded wears. arm guard and nearly pulls In additional exercises, his victim to the ground. officer Gaede volunteers to At a single-word com act as quarry for the dogs. mand Thunder releases the Being quarry includes being quarry and heels beside his tracked, found and re handler, officer Mike strained by the police dog. Mozeiewski. Thunder Officer Ochs believes doesn’t relax as he leans on doing is better than watch his haunches, not fully sit ing, at least for those who ting down, and sits next to want to know about his ca his handler’s left leg. Thun nine unit. The next set of der is ready for action the exercises includes a novice instant his handler orders as quarry. The perspective it. He waits. changes from being the ob Thunder is one of three server to being the hunted. tracking dogs used by the Several hundred yards Bellingham Police Depart away a police dog, Thunder, ment. The other police dogs paces in a parking lot. include Tigger, whose han Working patterns across the dler is officer Robert Van- lot, he holds his head der Yacht, and Zeke, who is several inches from the handled by officer David ground, sorting out scents Doll. The department also carried by the wind. Al has one other dog, Ruggers, ready, he has cut through a who is handled by officer large field of overgrown Allan Jensen, and is used weeds and hidden ruts only for drug and narcotic Dave Rubert/Klipsun following the drifting Thunder and his trainer Mike Mozeiewski—ready searches. scent. The canine unit of the for action, (Next page): Protected oniy by an arm Suddenly he whips his pad, bad guy Chip Ethir is Thunder's quarry. Bellingham Police Depart head toward one direction. ment was formed in 1968. It
6 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 was the first police depart* Dogs are procured ment in Washington state to mostly through donations. have a canine unit, said One dog had to be pur Ochs, canine unit supervi chased for the Bellingham sor. department because there Police dogs are full- were no qualified dogs do •ivA fledged members and spe nated, Ochs said. cial tools of the depart What the police depart ment. These dogs must meet ment looks for in a dog is a the public on a daily basis. strong sense of retrieval They have the ability to re and prey drive, plus a large spond on command to take size, Ochs said. and forcibly hold a criminal For tracking who may be armed. In dogs, addition, the dog has to both function as a member of his handler's family, because he lives with his human partner. They are a team. the Police dogs are alert and han intelligent, and are selected dler and for their courage level, prey dog must undergo drive and agility, Ochs 390 hours of training to said. Dogs are selected be certified by the Washing' ...... ton State Police Canine As and three years old, sociation (WSPCA). Nar- The police departra’en cotic dogs must undergo pays for medical expenses 180 hours of training in) nd food..,The handler is re searching out narcotics^ sponsible ““for the dog’s “grooming and; general car^ Officers in the) he dog usually has only police departmenll one officer as his handler during his police career, IpMlWdWS... which can last up to six | ^Currently years.
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8 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990
Rich Ellis, Western broadcast graduate and KMGhFM jock, is master of the night airwaves at^^ilOTJ”
sticker on the end of each tape is the title and artist, the time length and how much dead-air time is available for the disc jockey to do a public service announcement or station identification. Ellis was the youngest DJ at i 107.7, just 22 years old, in the summer of ’89. A spring 1989 graduate of Western, he was an unpaid intern when the station changed its format from “Magic 108 FM,” which played classics from the past few decades. The station’s new target audience became men and women 25-35 years old, with the ideal demo graphic being a 27- 32-year- old woman. Ellis was soon of ficially hired for his own pro gram. During his internship he had also been working as a telephone solicitor in Bellevue to pay the bills but quit when i 107.7 hired him. Sitting on the 15th floor of
Pete Kendall/Klipsun by Doree Armstrong
On Sunday morning disc Western Music Man jockey Rich Ellis is wearing his party hat made from a Rides Seattie’s Airwaves newspaper as he broadcasts from Seattle’s KMGI, “i 107.7” FM radio station. He The music in the booth is a building in downtown Se likes to wear his party hat REALLY loud. attle, Ellis has a view of Inter when his show is going well, “Welcome to i 107.7,” he state 5 and Lake Union. but this morning’s show is not says as he lets his visitors into Besides his 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. as good as he’d like it, so he the booth. The booth has a Sunday shift, Ellis works takes it off. neutral sort of blue-gray midnight to 6 a.m. five nights He takes a long drink of carpet and tan walls, which a week at the station, whose coffee from a Seattle are almost completely lined motto is “No raps, no naps, no Seahawks mug and moves with racks containing about disco, no Manilow.” quickly from the control 1,400 tapes. Each tape, which The job at i 107.7 is not board to the editing machine looks more like an old 8-track something Ellis just fell into, and back again, flipping tape than a cassette, contains however. He began his career switches, dials and levers. just one song. Typed onto a at Western’s own KUGS 89.3
10 KLIPS UN OCTOBER 1990 FM in the fall of 1985 with his Ellis was told he sounded too voted following. “I had some “Metal Shop” program. Ellis commercial for the station serious ratings last year,” he says he had a lot of listeners, and that his show would be says. “I was the top-rated jock despite being on the air from canceled after the summer. for Bellingham and Canada 2-4 a.m. But Ellis knew he had a tal for a DJ broadcasting from a “It was a tight show. It ent to cultivate, so when he Bellingham station. I was sounded great musically,” he met KISM’s Allan Fee in Sep hotter than Dave and Allan.” said enthusiastically. tember 1987 he volunteered Back at KISM, Ellis says He had to buy his own — free -- to help out at the he had more freedom to play records because nobody else station. Fee put Ellis on the what he wanted. “We played had the kind of rock music he “Sports Saturday” program. A records and compact disks all played. He explains how he few months later Ellis became the time, and I’d play what had to lug a huge box of rec the producer for the Dave & ever turned me on.” ords from Mathes Hall up to Allan morning show. The duo This morning Ellis is the station on the fourth floor created the position for Ellis playing Michael Bolton’s of the Viking Union. He also so he could learn more about “How Can We Be Lovers,” started bringing some of his the business. They affection which is “hot rotation” at friends into the studio as ately called him “Mr. Pro every two hours and 45 regular characters to liven up ducer Head.” His job in minutes. the show. volved research for the show. Ellis’ big break at i 107.7 He says he didn’t play “al ternative” music like many of the other KUGS DJs. “I was the first one to play ‘You Give Love a Bad Name.’ I broke Bon Jovi,’’ he says with a proud and somewhat smug smile. “I probably enjoyed that more than at any time in my career. I was programming my own music.” But at KMGI, the program director decides what music to play and the order it’s to be played. Each DJ gets a list of songs and ads to play for that shift. Ads are also recorded onto tapes and lined up in or der on one wall, with every thing from “Motel 6” to “Pro- gresso Soup” and the ever present “Shane Company.” Pete Kendall/Klipsun Ellis, whose hometown is Minutes before his midnight shift begins, Eiiis reiaxes with his constant companion, Vancouver, Wash., really got a cup of coffee. into music during his junior such as finding interesting came one Saturday night year of high school. He lis tidbits for Dave and Allan to while he was taping songs tened to a Portland hard rock banter about. from CDs onto the cassettes. station and decided being a DJ “They basically put me on Another DJ said to Ellis, sounded pretty neat. But the air as a supporting cast,” ‘“Look, I’m tired. I want to go when he came to Western, “I he says, because they wanted home. You want to take the thought about majoring in to create a “zoo” atmosphere. last hour?’ And he gave me English and minoring in his Soon, he was officially two hours every Saturday tory. When I think of it now, I hired — and paid — for his after that,” Ellis said. “It was go ‘ugh!’” Saturday and Sunday shows. terrible. I was nervous, very After two years at KUGS, He quickly developed a de nervous.”
OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 11 Ellis said the night shift is “Everything she said started key to success in the business. usually only busy for the first to make sense in a weird way. “I used to call Seattle jocks two or three hours. For the After the third call I started to all the time when I was in most part the phones stop believe her.” Bellingham. Now that I’m ringing after 2 a.m. “At three Ellis finally assumed she working full-time here o’clock in the morning you’re couldn’t be telling the truth if they’re all looking up to me, sitting here going, ‘What the she was only calling a disc which blows my mind. I don’t hell am I doing here?’’’ jockey with the information. think I’m that great.” Part of his job as a DJ is Some people may think it’s He said his biggest prob easy being a good lem is that he sounds too jock but it takes a young. He actually lowered lot of practice. his voice on the air for a while Songs, ads and but said he sounded really promos are timed to boring. the second and DJs His real career goal is to be must be right on a program director. “That’s every time. For my passion.” instance, when DJs He says Seattle radio needs talk at the begin a big boost right now in terms ning of a song they of different kinds of music are supposed to talk and more creative contests. right up to where “Seattle radio actually the words begin. sounds really bad right now. This is called They all sound the same, so “hitting the post.” you don’t know what you’re “That’s sup listening to unless you look at posed to be the sign your dial.” of a good jock,” So what’s next for this suc Ellis says. He says cessful Western grad? listeners get upset “(I) went to school for 16 when a jock talks years of my life, it’s time for over the first words playing,” he says, although of a song, although with working six days a week they probably he doesn’t have much time to wouldn’t notice if play. he hit the post. To “I’ve got student loans to make his show pay back and I’m just broke, better he says he all the time. I just make Pete Kendall/Klipsun Ellis relaxes with his listeners In the night tries to listen like a enough to pay my bills and eat listener and not a and go out once in a while.” m jock. having female callers ask him He says working nights out. Ellis said he has met a and sleeping days gets to be few female listeners, but he tiresome after a while. He realizes now it’s not such a doesn’t want to stay on nights ^‘At three o’clock in good idea. “They could be forever because he’ll get the morning you’re really weird.” typecast as a nighttime DJ. sitting here going, One of his most bizarre ex But, he stressed, he’s come ‘What the hell am I periences at i 107.7 was a few a long way for being so early doing here? months ago when a woman in his career. “I can’t com — Rich Ellis named Donna called him and plain. I’m full time in Seattle claimed to know who the (the nation’s fourteenth Green River killer was. She largest radio market). And I called him four times one came from Bellingham, and night and said the man was that just doesn’t happen.” killing girls because of her. He says networking is the
12 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 “Shit,” I say out of frus Tales Of 0 Guv With tration. “If I wanted another pair of basketball shoes, I would’ve asked for ‘em.” These “shoes” (size 13 in all) were made for walking -- which is exactly what I did. by Chris Webb ger laugh from pulling down On Campus your shorts in front of a It never fails -- while sit I’ve heard it all -- from girls’ physical education ting on a bench in Red Sasquatch to Bozo the class. Square, enjoying the early Clown. Shopping for Shoes afternoon sun, somebody Living life with big feet will come and sit next me. isn’t always easy. Trying to find a particu Instead of discussing nor It seems a day doesn’t go lar type of shoe, one that mal topics such as foreign by without somebody mak you really want in a size 13, affairs, weather, sports or ing a comment about my is like trying to find a Cali keggers, my feet seem to feet. fornia surfer dude who likes take center stage. For every activity I do, or the rain. Very rare. “Wow, what size do you every social event I attend, After telling the sales wear?” they’ll ask, as if my somebody nearly always has person the particular model feet are the 8th wonder of to make a comment. I want to purchase from his the world. For you who don’t know, fine establishment, I pro “Twenty-six,” I’ll tell here are just a few examples ceed to tell him the size. them with a straight face. of what a person who wears “Thirteen,” I exclaim “No way,” they’ll say be size 13 shoes usually has to proudly, knowing that I am fore hesitating. “Really? put up with. probably the only teen shoe Are they really 26?” Sliding size the guy has had all day next to me they usually Waterskiing or even all week. match their feet up next to “So you big lump of gar He slowly shakes his mine. bage (actually it’s a differ head back and forth before “Man, I thought I had big ent word that rhymes with dropping his head, knowing feet, and I only wear a six.” “pit”) are you ready?” a his chances of making a People with large feet are friend will say as he tosses commission on this cus discriminated against the rope over the top of the tomer are most likely going through ruthless jokes and outboard motor. to go down the drain. comments and an insuffi “Sure,” I say, while snap After returning from the cient amount of shoes that ping the buckle of the blue back room, where the over aren’t basketball related. life vest and looking at the stock of shoes is located, But people with big feet reflection of the boat gently he drops four boxes next to are naturally sexy. You can rocking in the water. “Toss my feet. His eyes are almost change the color of your me the 68-inch ski,” I say to mesmerized by the gigantic hair, the shape of your nose the driver. yet beautiful specimen of and even have fat removed “With feet like that, who feet attached to my body. from your body, but you can needs skis?” he remarks “Well,” he says in an op never change the size of back, erupting in laughter. timistic tone, “we don’t your feet. “Why don’t you just bare have a 13 in that loafer you Let your mouth do the foot ski?” the other friend wanted, but maybe these talking and your feet do yells to even more laughter. will do instead. Basketball your walking. Okay, so they’re friends high-toppers are still real And in this case -- bigger and that alone probably popular and can be worn is better. gives them the right to make with almost any outfit,” he smart-ass comments about says in a voice that would my feet. But these jokes are convince Cal Worthington old and one could get a big to buy a Chevy. Greg Stair/Klipsun
OCTOBER 1990 A close-up look at Western View
Before, during and aftertaping, Spring 1990 - ^ co-anchors Paui Bishop and Kirsten Johnson work to prevent any miscues. Pete Kendall/Klipsun by Drew McDougal in the editing bay making harder. I don’t think I could sure everything flows take the pressure,” he said. “We’d like to thank you together. Adams agreed it often for watching this week’s “It’s a hell of a lot of gets frustrating. “Some edition of Western View.’’ work to produce a three-or people don’t take the class “Thank you, Kirsten. four-minute segment,” seriously. It should be fun.” Closing the show today, Whitney said. she said. weTl take a look at some of Once the packages have The whole program the scenery that makes Bell been completed, Laurie comes together on Wednes ingham so beautiful. Adams’ job begins. Adams, day. Adams, the class Goodbye.” the spring 1990 quarter’s adviser Alden Smith, the as Western View is the producer/director, puts to sociate producers and all weekly entertainment show gether the script and techni the anchors meet a few produced by Western stu cal operations for the whole hours before tape-time to dents for students. The show. In the end, she is the run through the show. The show, which airs Wednes one who operates the con session offers the group a day and Friday from 5:30 trol panel that turns on each chance to make any changes p.m. to 6 p.m. on chan camera and blends in the in the scripts and also gives nel 10, is in its eighteenth music and visual effects. them a chance to clown year and is a product of “By far, Laurie’s job is around a little to relieve communications, journal the hardest,” said senior that pre-show tension. It’s ism and technology students. communications major and also the time for the show’s The broadcast itself lasts one of the quarter’s lead technical director, Alfred only half an hour. But hours anchors, Paul Bishop. “It’s Smith, to double-check the and hours of writing, inter her responsibility to see cameras, lights and micro viewing, filming and edit that the show comes out phones to see if everything ing are involved before the looking good. If everyone is ready. anchors finally sign off at doesn’t do their job, it Finally, at 3 p.m. the the end of the week’s show. makes her job that much whole crew meets back at Western View is a class, and the process of creating the show begins in the class room. But the real meat of the show comes from the fea ture “packages” produced by each student in the class. The feature topics range from important issues to en tertaining happenings and events. “You can’t just go out and film and hope that you’ll get some good foot age,” said sports anchor John Whitney. “A script sets up what you’re going to do. Without it the package would come out looking sloppy.” After the script is com plete it may take hours to get the right interviews and camera shots to make a Pete Kendall/Klipsun package worthwhile. Those Joking with the anchors is common during rehersai but not accepted during the two^hour are followed by more hours taping, (L to R: Sarita Christensen, Lisa Baxter, Laurie Adams and co-adviser Aiden Smith) C-\<-
the studio in Miller Hall yw'' < 186. The one-room studio is adorned with bright lights, chords, cameras and micro phones. In one corner sits the false-living-room- like set. Directly oppo site is the production ^ : booth. In the booth lit %x 1% «!?f tsi Adams is checking a bank K > :: X > X n < M \ X %1L^ of television screens. H U There are screens that 5 IS > It ^ tt ^ It M show each camera’s 11 .1 3^m sit It % angle, a special effects ft I.-Si It' «t screen, a preview screen H and a screen that shows St vS^' the ultimate product that i goes onto the tape. The studio was some what disorganized, and it •<^l mi confirmed that Western M
Cameraman Scott Brockett and floor director Dina Carey work behind the scene
View is, after all, a stu dent production. On this particular day Bishop was a little late arriving, and he hurried into the dressing room to change out of his sweatshirt and tennis shoes. The camera operators M were checking their equip
•’ X N\*< ment. One operator let out a frustrated laugh because one of the tripods wouldn’t stay in place. “All this equipment is at 5^ least 50 years old and it's
“W, seen better days,’’ he said. On close inspection it be V iy- comes apparent that he’s Pete Kendaii/Klipsun right. The tripod is unstable Co-adviser Aiden Smith and the camera itself looks
16 KLIPS UN OCTOBER 1990 minutes,” and getting a shot of the side they all took their of his face. places for the final The second time equipment checks through Bishop made an and a few last-min error in his opening and
ute adjustments. they had to start again. I i All the hours of But everything worked background work out all right. would culminate in The third take went the next 20 minutes. without any major mis The show is taped, takes. Bishop and Johnson but it has to be done were both unhappy with straight through. So the way they had read if there are any some of the transitions, mistakes they and they humbly apolo have to start over gized to each other dur again. Adams called, ing the running of the “Thirty seconds,” packages. and then the show Bishop said later, “We began. are still students, and we “Hi, welcome to are still learning. You’re Western View. I’m going to see mistakes. Kirsten Johnson.” But it’s better that we “And I’m Paul make them here and learn Bishop, and today on from them than if we Western View we make them out in the real have...” world.” The first introduc Finally, the last pack 1 tions went without age finished airing. After any problems, and the credits were added the technicians made and their jobs were done, some minor adjust everyone in the studio let ments (and tension- out a sigh of relief. relieving jokes) Adams announced over Petekendali/Klipsun while the first pack the speaker that it was a age was running. wrap, and Bishop and The show went Whitney invited every as if it dates back to World smoothly for the first half, one to join them at War II. causing Bishop to remark Fryday’s to watch the The rest of the studio is in they might be able to hit 5:30 p.m. broadcast and about the same condition. A Fryday’s (restaurant and drink a few beers. 1940s boom mic stands in one bar) early for a little alco Of the whole broadcast corner. Exposed insulation holic refreshment if things experience Bishop said, hangs from the top of one continued. Three-quarters “It isn’t all glamour and wall, and the wood floor is of the way into the taping bright lights. Some of the cracked, uneven and has chips his hopes were dashed. jobs can be pretty boring. missing altogether. The set is Whitney was wrapping But without them we composed of a plywood riser up his sports report when couldn’t get on the air. covered with old, yellow turf, Adams let out a frustrated For me the best part is a water-stained table and scream from inside the pro finding out what it's like three chairs. duction booth. The cue- to get in front of the cam “As old as this stuff is. I’m cards Whitney was reading era. It’s a very learning amazed we haven’t had any from were next to camera experience; one I’ll take thing break down during a two while he was supposed with me after graduation show,” Whitney said. to be looking at camera and that I’ll never for- Adams called, “Five three. As a result, they were get.”5Sj
OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 17 by Mark Hlnos
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3 © 1/ t ^ C. ■ [l j. S : .Slli- jP'■ wll i l o -- R"b '• V^ctbria and. row^j-d a dory |ili|||f^i^ffi|i;|i®i^l|ibpc;ii|!da-liw adv:Man% Point (Inbw Fairhaveii) , lii||K|lf|i|i^li|iy5|di;i|||i‘d#§§:|.^^ pinppvvHS sutrmier of 1853, He took an immodiat .' liking to the -apbn nnddtn• f 1 n-st sett.ler^ John ;d^|tESpda^wbbgan h his iS||P|fi^jd^i|iiillp^|i^ : in new friend build a cabin, ihomas died the first winter. Pdliiiiil bnbna; bn after long
;iv- •‘*5^'• *v battle, inherited the property. Harris stayed in the area, Christ-, ening^ it ^*^airhaven -- a name. questionable origins that Harris claimed he derived from the Ipca-r - Indian word "Seeseeleechem, » vdiioh V Harris said meant a place of safbty. • or a fair haven, nother pos sib la, ■origin of name is Pairhaveh,' Maine^,^ sr^MiSi whaling . port/where ..Harris pro'febiiH stayed .as -^rt Atlant'fc wuaier,r only '*Dirty Dan" ^knoA^'s'Tor surei ■ AS a Pioneer in Fairhaven, Harris was an energetic, babkr,;-.0 ■/■" •*»
woods sort of (^ntT'-^proji'nir, V . staggered home, blitzed victims of made froqiiert trf.ps to Victoria,; ' ■: one of Bellingh;m Bay’*'3 most where he sold vegetables and bouglit spectacular festivitle's -- it was cheap booze and fancy hats. He March 4, 1885, smuggled his cargo bade to Pairhaven Despite Harris’, numerous whei’e he sold the headwear to young projects and festivity planning, Indian maidens and the booze to \ tales depicting his incredible the settlers, \ laziness abound. One' such tale n at least one occasion, Har goes like th^is; Harris returned ris’ sloop was boarded by the from one of'h.1-5 trading trips to local^ customs inspector, Edward Taoma with j^overal swine in his Eldrldge, who confiscated much possession^ Mot knowing what to of his cargo. On another jiJStrip feed them, he simply imloaded from Victoria, Harris spotted them on the mud flats in front of Eldrldge’,3 ship coming out of his shack andlet them run free. Bellingham Bay to inspect his In ihe weeks that followed, cargo. Harris threw his barrel the piglets grew fat and healthy, - of Ihidspn’s Bay Company booze ove> the side, attached to an never venturing far from the mud Hats,' From time bo time, ■ Harris’ anchored line^ and came back l er 1h 0 p-ig8—hie—ta— to retrieve the contraband after wdald offer the pigs his table his' vessel had been inspected, scraps, whitsh they would some-* other lemorable days in Fair M wm times devour but other ,tL]pe3 ' haven’s early history were refuse. Growing^ curious, about-, Harris’ sponsoring of the first their eating habits, Harris baseball game in the area, the follov/ed them .out to ti e tidal fl^rst bo:5;lng match (which went flats where he found the .source ; 104 rounds before a knodc -out) of his pigs sustenance, The • - as well as throwing the region’s pigs dug up clams, breaking the ^'biggtist ..party, , shells witLh theit* snouts and ' ^ The party, aa inaugural ce- devouring the contents. " • X' '' .lebration in honor of the 1884 . Dan was in heaven, taking election of President Grover every other clam^ the pigs dug Cleveland,; centered around tbe up £> r his own (nnsumption, Dan arduous task of raising the supposedly liked to brag that he nation’s largest flag. Specially initially worried about where his made in San Francisco, the flag next meal was coming from, but Was ^54 feet in length and v/eighed then tie tide went obt and ’ithe,
50 pounds. The polo came in two talii e was set." ,.d • >• pieces and stood 125 feet above arris lik5 d to tell humorous the ground, . V stories,' and, more often than not, \ ,/ Party goers, who traveled ha made himself the butt of his from far and wide to partake jokes, Chlldreri v/ould gather ,ln the festivities, gathered on around, listening for hours as the corner of Fourth md Harris Harris spun his tales of adventure, 1 Streets to consume barrels of ' It's likely that of the "Dirty ' booze offered by their gracious Dan" fdlk tales alive today*, some host -- but no food,; The drunken originated From Harris himself. celebrators labored ^11 afternoon Michael Sean Sullivan, a to raise the flagpole, finally V/estern history graduate, has succeed Ing wxth. the help of some published the'only collection of c sailors from a ship who were these folk tales, a small, color loading lumber at the local mill. fully illustrated book that con After finally hoisting the flag tains a clever sense for story as the sun set, the haggard hoisters telling, ' " ■ 20 KLIPSUN ■ OCTOBER 1990 - This bool;!:, much of tho Despite a lack of concrete other v/ritings on Harris, focuses evidence about Harris' personal on his earlier, wilder years. But hygiene and demeanor, the legends Harris grew to be a prominent, and folk tales abound. Illustra enormously wealthy and prestig tions of Karris appearing in
sp;* j . ious Pairhaven figure, and this Sullivan's book — drawn by Kent part of‘his life deserves atten Shoemaker — depict Harris as fat tion. - - and sloppy, with vaporous fumes he Pairhaven Hotel was con* ' emanating from him. But, like structed shortly after $"arris Paul Bunyan, Harris* charMCtoristics mad§ some major land sales In ■ may be growing proportionately to 1882 and 1883, filling him witi, the number of years gone by security and assurance that since he walked the stri-ets of ■ c., • ¥. Pairhaven v/ould become tho Pairhaven, 1 '•
An;:d'.lingSm/ c V h'r*‘Envisioned s. iery is the sole owner of * 'wherb.,he landed oi* the site 30 the only known, photograph of years earlier, Harris, Standing' in his .dory, * 'Selling Pairhaven real estate, pulled up onto'tbe beach, 'with'.
• OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 21 # # by Matthew W. Campbell Unusual, unheard of and dan telling their stories seemed gerous seem to be the only almost as exciting as engag criteria for their sports. ing in the original acts. The age-old American Sitting at the local Their adventures began in dream of baseball, hot dogs, Denny’s eating fries and different ways and at various apple pie and Chevrolet may drinking shakes, the guys ages. The first of the four to be outdated. relived some past experi begin the insaneness was For a group of four stu ences. For them. Christopher Wermus. dents, baseball doesn’t have Wermus, a junior majoring enough excitement to fulfill in psychology, began his ad their sporting needs. ventures in fifth grade. Their dreams may be While on a family vaca described as a desire tion to Yellowstone to seek natural National Park, Wer highs and to be mus visited the crazy and ad Firehole River venturous. Gorge. Tom Flood/Klipsun to ^cotfi 22 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 The event: Cliff diving in the San Juan Islands. does,” Wermus said. This particular cliff meas “The cliff was just in “I climbed Mount Erie ured 40 feet, but to Wermus, sanely high. Everyone said last weekend, and for the first at his early age, it seemed as ‘you’re a donkey if you don’t time I learned the importance though it was closer to 100. jump.’ After a long time I of using ropes as safety de ‘T didn’t want to do it, but finally convinced myself that vices. I like climbing more I finally gave in to peer pres the water was too cold. I knew than jumping because it’s a sure. Only the first time did I it was fear, but I had to have a lot more risky. There’s a big feel the pressure of anyone better reason than that.” ger payback. It’s a lot more mocking me,” Wermus said. Wermus said the only exhilarating,” Hull said. thing that freaks him out is Robert Hull, a 20-year old The event: Parachuting. sophomore, began his jump sometimes just before he is ing career when he was in jun about to jump, he imagines The adventurers don’t al ior high school. His first jump himself tripping and falling ways stick together on their was off the arboretum at the to his death. outings. The lone parachuter University of Washington, Fisk said, “I get razzed in the group is Fisk. which he estimates to be and feel left out if I don’t “I was 8,800 feet high. I about 50 feet high. jump.” couldn’t see any houses, only “It took me at least 20 small little fields. When I put minutes to do it. I was so my foot on the ledge and scared the first time. I just jumped, I spun in all direc stood there and stared at the tions — I was totally disorien water as everyone yelled at tated. The only sound I could me to hurry up and jump.” hear was the wind rushing Biology-Huxley major through my goggles. I free- Haans Fisk first took the fell for 35 seconds and pulled plunge his junior year in high my chute open at 4,000 feet. school. Once the chute came out it “It was mass scary. It was was the most peaceful mo the 46-foot-high train trestle ment of my life. There was no longer any fear. All I noticed in Bothell. The fall seemed to Tom Flood/Klipsun last forever ... it was about was how peaceful, relaxing four seconds really. I gave in Asked what the keys to and quiet it was.” having a successful jump are, to peer pressure also. My The event: Bat caving. younger brother (of three the adventurers began to years) went first,” Fisk said, laugh. Both Wermus and Hull as he worked on his chocolate “Today I jumped, and my have participated in the shake. arms look like they have a little-known sport referred to Describing their first sunburn on the underside. as bat caving. jumps brought back a bit of Just clear the rocks, land feet Wermus said the location fear into their hearts. first and keep your arms to of their exploration activities “The first jump seems to your side — But even that was in the Chuckanut moun take forever. Your heart stops doesn’t work,” Wermus said tains. and time freezes,” Wermus with a painful grin. “It looks like the land of the lost,” Wermus said, caus said with wide eyes. The event: Cliff climbing. “The first jump was a lot ing Hull to let out a burst of of fun. It was a big rush,” ‘The excitement that I hearty laughter. Hull said. love is that every move could Wermus continued his “It felt like I was sus be your last,” Fisk said. story as he grabbed a greasy pended in a free fall,” Fisk “Sometimes we sail nacho piled high with cheese. said moving his arms as across (Lake Whatcom) and “The two most important though he were flying. climb the waterfalls. It’s a se requirements are you can’t be The only time Hull didn’t ries of falls that looks like claustrophobic and everyone jump when he was actually on it’s in Hawaii. It can get has to have a flashlight. You the cliff was at John’s Island pretty sticky sometimes. It see this hole in the ground in scares me more than jumping the middle of the boulder OCTOBER 1990 KUPSUN 23 from the tunnel, and the train ’The bridge must have been was a mile away. We said, 75 feet above the water. The ‘Hey let’s beat the train cord they wrapped around me through the tunnel,” Wermus didn’t look like it could hold explained. a cat. I peered over the edge “We didn’t think there and saw death, but I did it was any hurry,” Hull added. anyway,” Ottem said with “The train was about to prideful glee. cross the bay when we were at “Too many people heard the opening to the tunnel. The me say I was going to do it ... train blew its horn, but we It was like flying. The wind in knew there was no trouble,” my ears and my heart squash Wermus said assuredly. ing out my nose. The landing, “Once we stepped in the if you can call it that, was one tunnel, it was too late to turn of the strangest experiences back. of my life. Right before I hit “I asked myself, ‘why are the water I felt the cord we playing this stupid game?’ tighten around my legs. I As we got about half way heard nothing but my beating through, we heard the whistle heart as I dangled there. It Tim Boyles/Klipsun blow again. By now we were was great.” at a full sprint. My chest was Cliff jumping: A popular sport at Whatcom The event: Death. Falls. heaving,” Wermus said as though he was living through If these peril seekers knew field, and you’re barely able it again. death would be the end result, to squeeze through it.” “The adrenalin was kick would they still do it? “There must be 100 differ ing in. I saw the light from the “I’d rather die being a ent caves once you get other side of the tunnel, but at missionary in Africa,” Hull through the first hole. You the same time the sides of the said. could get lost really easily. If tunnel lit up from the train’s “If I knew I would die, I you were born in those caves, light,” Hull added. wouldn’t do it,” Fisk said. it would take you until you “I was thinking where I “It’s a calculated risk. I were 35 to find your way could dive if I couldn’t make rationalize it by ‘figuring out,” Hull said with a tinge of it. Ten seconds after we made life’s a risk anyway,” Wer humor. it through, the train came mus said. “It’s really beautiful with roaring on out. It was a good “Live a little,” Ottem all the underground ponds. thing we were in shape,” said with a shrug, The bad part is that there are Wermus said. bats everywhere. You walk “We’re not it!” joked into a room with a low ceiling Hull referring to the nick and there’s a big ‘ol hairy bat name of the game, tunnel tag. in your face,” Hull said. “There are no winners in “There were 14 hanging that game,” Hull said. And from one ceiling once,” Wer- right he is. mus interjected. The event: “They make great snacks Bungee-cord jumping. if you get lost,” Hull said, quickly adding that he was Sophomore Jeffrey Ottem only joking. was in ninth grade living in The event: South Carolina when he Tunnel jogging jumped for the first and only or tunnel tag. time. “It was in Monks Corner. “Rob and I were out at Some friends of mine told me Clark’s Point where the about it. I had to do it.” said tracks cut across the bay. We the English-drama major. were about 100 yards away Tim Boyles/Klipsun 24 KLIPS UN OCTOBER 1990 which caused him to be para lyzed from the waist down. As a result of the opening, Graduate Turns he developed Hydrocephalus, or water on the brain. An experimental silicone tube, called a shunt, was inserted Disability into the right side of his brain to drain the excess spinal fluid that had built up. During the first two years Into a Plus of his life, Roos went through more than 15 operations. He by Kristy Lambro opening in the spine called had numerous bladder surger Spina Bifida. The twin ies and bone and muscle trans Tim Roos was walking brother who followed within plants, and the opening in the across Red Square when a two minutes did not have the spine was closed and grafted total stranger looked at his birth defect. The hole was with skin from his hip. crutches and said, “Geez, located on the base of his The extent of his paralysis what the hell happened to spine (the most severe kind). was unknown. After a major you?” Roos, finding this a very strange thought, said, “What do you mean what happened to me? Fm dis abled.” The stranger obviously didn’t get the response he was looking for. As he began stammering, his face turned deep red. ‘T, I, I, urn, I thought, well you see, you look exactly like somebody I know who lives in Oregon. I heard he had gotten in a car accident, and I just as sumed, well you know,” said the stranger. The smile on Roos’ face put the stranger at ease. “Now I understand. You must have mistaken me for my twin brother, Bruce,” Roos said. The awkward situation turned into the beginning of a friend ship. Roos, 27, graduated from Western in 1987 with a bache lor’s degree in human serv ices. One of his class projects at Western was to give a speech to fellow classmates about his disability. Other teachers heard about the speech and asked him to speak Dave Rubert/Kiipsun to their classes, too. Western graduate Tim Roos shares his disabiiity with other students through humor Roos was born with an and honesty. OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 25 In the speeches he makes worse physically and emo to classes he talks about his tionally than I am, as it would own disability. He makes it have been in a ‘normal’ clear to the audience that his school,” he said. experiences are only from one His parents and doctors disabled person’s perspec told his teachers exactly what tive. But he feels that by his problems were, and describing his life he can helped inform the other stu educate people about how a dents. person with a disability “They all worked at ac struggles, triumphs, feels and cepting me. Just because I copes. walked on crutches -- it didn’t Roos feels his disability is seem to matter,” he said. a gift. When the students played “I think my disability has baseball at recess Roos was made me the person I am to the umpire. “It was their way day,” he said. He says being of making me a part of what disabled has brought him was going on.” closer to other people as well Doctors were unsure of his as to God. learning capacity - until Mrs. The Roos family lived on a Malings’ third grade class at farm in Acme. Roos feels it Acme Elementary. was crucial he lived in that “Through a lot of frustra setting. tion and a lot of tears and “Acme is a real small com anger I learned. She made me munity where everybody learn. She somehow knew knows each other, and people what my capabilities were, accepted me,” he said. and it was at that point that I Dave Rubert/Kiipsun He said he is thankful his knew if I worked hard I could Roos overlooks his brother's farm where he works parents didn’t put him in a do it.” six hours a day, special school. Being raised on a farm was physical therapy for Roos. He surgery of transplanting bone walked the large farm, fed the and muscle tissue into his calves and tended to his legs, his mother walked into garden. All of his equipment his hospital room and saw him ^^Through a lot of was built for him at the farm. in a full body cast. The doc frustration and a lot For Roos, having his twin tors told her to feel his warm of tears and anger I brother Bruce was therapy in toes. That was the first time learned. She made itself. He’s more than happy his toes had ever been warm, me learn. She to show you their baby pic which meant the blood was somehow knew what ture. “I’m the one that’s not circulating. my capabilities drooling,” he boasts. “It was at that point that Roos deals with his dis they could start physical ther werey and it was at ability every day. He said apy. And it was that point the that point that I adults are ignorant because of doctors felt I would be able to knew if I worked their learned assumptions and walk,” Tim said. hard I could do it.^^ stereotypes. Parents should His wavy brown hair, wire- — Tim Roos not tell their children not to rimmed glasses, warm smile look at people who are differ and the cartoon T-shirts he ent, because that tells them wears match his charismatic the people are bad. personality. He’s proud to “Kids are naturally curi display the “Party Animal” “The challenges would ous. They want to know, and Garfield with the lamp shade not have been as great for me that’s good. I wish more on its head that sits on his in a special school with adults were (curious),” he dresser. people who are just as bad or said. 26 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 He remembers a humorous job that makes me work my relationship is important to situation involving a young butt off for $600 when I can him, but not if it would mean girl. He and some friends sit at home and get it?’’ losing a friendship. were at the mall when from He works on his family’s “I’ve almost gotten to the behind them they heard, dairy farm for no money be point where I feel I’m good “Mommy, Mommy, look at cause he enjoys it, and he sees enough for someone else. If that funny little man.*’ The the $600 as his paycheck for they don’t see that I’m good mother was very embar doing it. He said the only time enough for them, then it’s rassed, but when she noticed he would risk losing the their problem and their loss.’’ Roos and his friends laughing Social Security money would Roos uses openness and she felt better. be if he found a job that he humor to help people under “The whole night I was could make a career out of and stand about the disabled. The known as The Funny Little that paid well. bumper sticker on the back of Man,” he said. “Once you give up that his car that reads: “Why be Roos said disabled people money you almost never get it normal?’’ says it all. lAj face a lot of barriers, includ back. The government should ing the government. He just lower it, not take it away started getting Social Secu -- keep the incentive there.’’ rity at age 15 when his father During his speeches to stu died. If he gets a job that pays dents, Roos tries to be as open more than $300 a month, his as possible, even when the $600 a month in Social questions involve his per Security gets cut. sonal life. Many people want “Where’s the incentive to know how he feels about for me to go out and look for a dating. He said a serious Dave RuberVKIIpsun Working and living on a farm by the Nooksack river has been therapy for Roos: “I think my disability has made me the person I am today.” OCTOBER 1990 KUPSUN 27 ^ d > A ^ 1 I % \ $85. That’s enough compen sation for me. 4. Second: Always, always follow the directions. If they ,y. say use a 4 by 6 index card, use a 4 by 6 index card. Not following the directions is a way for the promoters to weed you out. It’s not pretty, but hy Patricia Caiarelli Getting through that first competition’s fierce. You When you’re a student on a toll-free number was child’s need a calloused hand and a limited budget, you need to play. Infiltrating the second calloused tongue to make it in come up with creative ways to set of circuits was definitely this world. save and make money. My tougher ... The third was hell. Third: Devise your strat money-maker of preference No, I’m not exaggerating. I egy. For the Cap’n Crunch is winning contests. Don’t became a woman possessed. contest I had a two-part plan, laugh — real people win those The lines only worked during I mailed in one or two entries things. I win those things. limited East coast hours, so a week, so I’d have something I’ve won soccer tickets, every minute counted. I in every mail bag. I also tried concert tickets, meetings planned Cap’n-phone-time the “saturation” trick: I with famous people — the into my schedule. It got so I mailed in about 30 entries in gamut. wouldn’t leave the house one sitting, almost guarantee However, my favorite until I called the number ing I’d have that mail bag to prize was the check I received “one last time.” And as soon myself. Having a number of when I “saved” the Cap’n as I came back, or got to entries in one bag signifi from the Soggies. another phone. I’d call again cantly increases your chances Quaker Oats gave away — “just in case.” for winning. $10,000 in its promotion to Then the breakthrough I never found out which “find” the trademark of finally happened. Company strategy won for me. I think Cap’n Crunch cereal. was over, and we were watch next time I’ll use two names Three clues were located ing football, me with the (but make it legal, or else on the newly-designed phone sprouting from my ear you’ll be disqualified -- a “missing Cap’n” Cap’n — like an eye from a potato — sister’s or friend’s name Crunch boxes — they had a big and pounding that redial works well). Due to logistics, white silhouette of the Cap’n button like Julia Child I think my name must have with a question mark super tenderizing a steak. Just as been drawn more than once. imposed over where his face Denver’s John Elway threw a But no multiple winners are should have appeared. By de pass directly to a Seahawks allowed — you guessed it: ciphering clues on the boxes, defensive lineman, I made my that’s the rules. entrants guessed the toll-free connection - it had to be an Fourth: Keep track of numbers to call that would omen. which contests you’ve en give the three correct answers But here’s where the strat tered. Contest sharking is necessary for the contest’s egy comes in. Now that I had grueling work. You’ve got to entry form. (I think we had to all the correct pieces, I had to keep it together, mentally and know where the Soggies were plan my entries carefully. physically. Think of how hiding him, what door he was (Here’s where you start embarrassing it would be if behind, and what key opened taking notes.) someone called you up and the door.) Sure it was simple. First: Determine if the said you won that dream date What did you expect? Quaker very bottom prize is some with Mac Davis and you said, Oats needed to make it easy thing you could want, use or “Who’s Mac Davis?” enough for those crazed live with. If it’s not, don’t Anyway, lately I’ve 8-year-old sleuths. And no, I waste your time. (I was noticed I really need a com didn’t care that I had close to hoping to win $1,000, but I puter. If you hear of any good a 12-year advantage — all’s only won $100.) Still, deduct contests, would you please let fair in love and money, isn’t ing all the possible postage me know? it? costs, etc., I netted more than 28 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 Brad Ellis/Klipsun Danielle Grigsby, 6, gives her dad, Brian, an admiring glance. It was common to see the pair at the Art Annex—both hard at work on their art. by Michael Flynn Margaret Halverson had When Two Worlds Collide had a long day. She had Streaming down his face. He gone to a full day of stammered cries of Integrating classes, picked up her “Mommy” between sobs. youngest son from daycare He had been playing the parent track and had made dinner for the Superman with the help of family. Now she was work his 9-year-old brother, with student life ing on making cupcakes and Eric, and had received a a cake for her eldest son’s slight concussion. For the birthday party. Behind the rest of the night, despite the low din of the mixer, she fact she had a lot of study heard a loud crash from the ing to do, Halverson stayed other room. She lifted up with her son, comforting Editor^s Note: The Grigsbys, her head, shut off the mixer him. shown in the photographs, are not and walked into the living For many university stu a part of the story, even though room. Looking down, she dents, school is a full-time Brian was a student last spring. found her 5-year-old son, job. But a number of stu None of the other people Karl, lying on the floor, dents at Western face the interviewed for the story could be holding his head, with tears double role of balancing contact prior to press time. OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 29 parental and student duties. from daycare on which concentration, focusing on Margaret is not the typi days. A couple of times resource management and cal transfer student. Her there have been mix-ups. environmental science. straight, bobbed, light Despite their working Hurst said when she gets brown hair is streaked with together to take care of the an assignment she tries to touches of gray, and her kids, Margaret said she and get it done as soon as pos large eyes, set behind her Jan still have a lot to sible, because that way if glasses, look wise from her handle, but they’re learning she has to drop something 46 years. the ropes. she can maneuver around it. She and her husband Jan In addition to Karl and Trying to study with a 3- both attend school, he at Eric, the Halversons also year-old in the house can be Whatcom Community Col each have grown children challenging, she added. lege. They have learned to from previous marriages. “If I try to sit down to work together to raise the Margaret’s oldest son is 28, study, he ends up running children. which she explains is older around and swinging from The two of them arrange than her fellow students in the chandeliers,” she said their schedules at the begin most of her classes. with a laugh, as if recalling ning of the quarter so they The Halversons believe a recent time when this know which one of them is furthering their education happened. “Sometimes it’s picking up the youngest kid will provide security for the hysterical, (but) it makes it family. hard to get a lot of studying “I want to be able to find done.” something better than a $4- After she graduates, an-hour job,” Jan said. Hurst said she hopes to stay “It’s bringing me out of in the Bellingham area, but my shell a little bit,” Mar right now she is looking at garet said, referring to the graduate programs, such as extra demands of parenting and being a student. “It’s Huxley College’s program. made me branch out a lot.” She said she must make a Nata Jo Hurst is a single decision about whether she parent who came back to wants to go straight into a school in ’89, after being in graduate program, or take and out of school since high some time off from school school graduation 10 years and work for a while first. earlier. Hurst mentioned one of “Basically, you’re work the plus sides of being a ing two full-time jobs,” parent. Hurst said. “You start “When I was working in learning to be tolerant of a the garden weeding one lot of things you used to not time, my son put his hand be tolerant of.” on my back and said, “It’s difficult having to “Mommy, I’m really proud of you.” worry about things like when my son gets sick,” she Being a student and a said. “Worrying in class parent, you learn to priori about if I’ll get out in time tize, Hurst said. to pick up my son from Like Hurst, Gilberto daycare - You never have Perez has found a number of time to leave the parent part pluses to being a parent. off. When you get home, no For Perez, who is the matter how much homework single father to 6-year-old you have, you have to be a Tiffany, the sacrifices of parent.” being a student and a parent Nata Jo Hearst gives her 3-year-old son Richard a Hurst is taking a won’t just end up leading to loving tickle. Fairhaven interdisciplinary reward for him. 30 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 “Fm promoting educa “You need to be up front tion in her,” Perez said. He and honest with your son or said Tiffany already plans daughter,’’ he said. “You to go to college when she need to be able to put things gets older, and, though she on hold, and you need to can’t read yet, she comes have love, trust and rapport along with him to the li with your child. You need brary and looks at her to accept that when your books. He says that through children are in their forma his example, she is already tive years, you really need gaining an appreciation of to give them that atten the value of education. tion.’’ Perez is currently taking Perez has a special rela graduate classes and is on a tionship with Tiffany. He one-year track to get his said he couldn’t be a suc master’s in student person cessful student without her. Brad Eliis/Klipsun nel administration. On top She gives him encourage ment and support, and even (Above): Danielle shows Dad of his dual responsibilities, Perez also works about 12 will tell him sometimes exactly how the alphabet is typed when she thinks he needs to out on the computer. hours a week for Upward Bound. study. For Perez, responsibility “Tiffany isn’t just my daughter, she’s my best and success go hand-in- friend.’’ hand. For Perez, as for most “It’s important balanc student-parents, the most ing out week to week to binding difficulty of play make sure you spend quality ing both roles is the time time both as a student, and constraints that come about as a parent. when dealing with taking OCTOBER 1990 KLIPS UN 31 care of a home and one or College has changed She will have begun gradu more children and trying to Smith’s life in a variety of ate school this summer. fit in time to study. He said aspects. She never went to “Sometimes when it gets he usually studies when college after high school, really, really hectic, you Tiffany is in school. but instead was a housewife just do what needs to be Perez worked for 10 for 18 years. However, that done,” she said. “You need years in various job capaci all changed five years ago to just get to it. Usually ties before deciding to go when her husband left her what gets cut out is the back to school. “When I and her family. She said she sleep. came back, I came back looked for a job, but had no Carol Forte learned no with a vision,” he said. experience. Without experi matter how diligent and Perez thinks there is a big ence, she realized, she hard working an individual difference between students wasn’t going to be able to may be, it isn’t possible to who come back to school find a job. do everything at once. after having spent time in After an eight-week pro “I tried to be Super- the working world, particu gram at Yakima Valley woman,” Forte said. “I larly student-parents, and Community College, she tried to do everything I had the regular students who said she decided she needed done before I started come straight from high to go to school. While she school.” It just wasn’t pos school. was going to school there, sible, she conceded. Kergie Smith, coordinator of she worked 20 hours a week Forte, who moved from STRATA (Students That Return as well as took care of the Massachusetts to San Fran After Time Away) for the Associ usual chores on the ranch cisco in the early 1970s, has ated Students, agreed. they lived on outside of grown up since her days as a “Most of us are there Yakima. During this time, radical youth. she stressed, she never (school) because we want to Education, she said, has be there,” she said. “We missed either of her sons’ helped her mature and ex have goals. We know what football games or wrestling pand her world. It has we want to do and how to matches. changed it. She said she get there. We are a lot more By the time she got her thinks everyone should motivated, for the most associate’s degree, her eld have the opportunity to part.” est son graduated and she have education do that for and her youngest son moved them too. “I’m really sold to Bellingham. But she said on making college acces during the time she was at sible to everyone.” Yakima, she and her daugh It is that belief that has Sometimes when it ter took a number of classes raised her interest in work gets really^ really together, which was a real ing at the Western Founda hectiCf you Just do growing experience for tion for her internship. She what needs to be Smith. Before she went to explained that funding from done. You need to college, she couldn’t under private sources is needed to just get to it. Usually stand why her kids couldn’t make that happen. what gets cut out just get straight As if they Forte, 38, is currently is the sleep. studied. She learned school working full-time as an wasn’t so simple, she said. — Kergie Smith alumni events coordinator Time management is the in addition to her classes biggest factor in success as and parental responsibili a student and as a parent. ties. But, she says, “That’s Smith said. what I want, challenge and Smith, a single mother of “We all have the same adventure.” three, admitted the role of 24 hours, but we choose to Forte’s success has not the student-parent is not an use it differently.” come without its hardships easy one, but she said she Smith is very low-key and sacrifices. thinks it can be a very re about her successes, both as Though she started col warding one. a student and as a parent. lege in California in 1975, 32 KLIPSUN OCTOBER 1990 Brad Ellis/Klipsun Under Brian^s watchful eye, Danielle creates her own art work. she didn’t return until 1982. second seat to a husband’s ing time to spend with By that time she was living career — go where he’s sta them. in Cleveland. She said she tioned at the drop of a coin. These parents think the got serious at that time, and She wasn’t willing to two biggest problems they got her associate’s degree give up her goals, and he have to deal with are budg in 1985, despite continuing wasn’t able to deal with eting time and budgeting to work full-time. She and that. They divorced. money. They all said money her family moved to Port “I struggled for a while situations seem to take care Angeles in 1986. She at thinking it was my going to of themselves if a budget is tended Western, living in school that was the maintained. But the other Bellingham during the week problem,’’she said, reflec seems to be the more diffi and commuting home to the tively. But after some time cult. Smith said, and all peninsula for the weekends. she realized that she seemed to agree, that when This was a difficult time had the right to lead her life it comes right down to it, in her life, she said, be too. family comes first. cause on top of the stresses Like most single parents, “Being a parent is some of school and playing she said her kids, 18 and 15 thing that never leaves weekend mother to her two years old, are her most you,’’ Smith said. “It’s an children, she faced the most loyal supporters. They have awesome responsibility.” trying experience she has encouraged her to go on. In faced being a student- fact, she said, they insisted parent. It became clear to she go straight into gradu her that her husband of 17 ate school instead of taking years, an officer in the time off until they were off Coast Guard, wasn’t as sup to college. portive of her as she She said she used to feel thought he was. She said guilty spending time away because he’s in the Coast from her kids when they Guard, an officer’s wife were younger, but now the usually must be able to take biggest problem is just find- OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 33 # by Rob McDonald Edens Hall is the only building on campus that has ominous pillars that could make a Greek god swoon. The wide, granite steps are the red carpet that make you think you’re heading some place impor tant. The grand front door almost guarantees a frigid butler named Cadbury would answer the door after summoned by a gong like doorbell. All of this could actually be true if Mother Nature hadn’t done such a good job of trying to reclaim Edens Hall. The building is dark and quiet now. Clumps of brownish- green moss have overrun the hard granite steps. The pillars are a dull yellow hue, similar to the color of large, over-used teeth. Vines cover the walls. Windows are broken and boarded up. Edens Hall has come a long way since it was first built in 1921 when the state Legislature allotted $219,787.50 for the project. Suppose this building had a personality like yours. You are the life of the party. Everyone came to you when it was time to enjoy living. OCTOBER 1990 In Edens’ prime, most of the to the trouble of breaking long hallway had windows at important faculty meetings into Edens Hall at night the end that let in streams of were held in the large blue didn’t know that there is an light. The smell of decay room. Celebrations cherish easier way. If they had been and mold soon became unno ing Legislative victories by journalism students wanting ticed. the administration flour to do a story about Edens The upper floors seemed ished at times. Even the play Hall, they could have ar nicer, but were no less “Dear Ruth’’ was presented ranged for a tour of Edens’ creepy. More light filled the in Edens’ blue room in 1950. innards on a sunny day. hallway. Signs of life ap Then, slowly but stead Steve Sutterman, a West peared here and there. The ily, everyone stops calling. ern maintenance worker, former dorm rooms were You’re not the center of at was scheduled to let a jour mostly empty. The rooms tention anymore. People nalist and an engineer tour with the best views had a few begin to forget you’re the inside of Edens at 1 p.m. beer bottles lying around the around. So you quit spend on that sunny day. Sutter floor. One room had a few ing so much time styling man handed out flashlights, pages of a victimized phone your hair and picking out because in places where book sitting in the corner your clothes. It just doesn’t there are no windows flash next to a comfortable-look matter as much anymore. lights are needed. Inside ing piece of carpet. And you let your hair droop was cold, damp. On the first Sutterman said, “Stu to one side — Edens’ roof floor most everything had a dents have been breaking leaks. You let your shoes gray patina. Piles of old into this building since it become scuffed and dingy -- office equipment filled the was closed down.’’ Edens’ floor is warped in rooms near the entrance. A Even the attic showed many places by swelling moist dust coated every evidence of life after Edens wood. You let yourself go -- thing. was closed. “Tina Chopp is Edens’ windows not boarded Sutterman led the engi God,’* was scrawled on the up are filthy, and the vines neer away and gave a last wall in thick, black perma growing on it need to be warning to “Watch your nent marker. shaved off. step.’’ The floor was uneven But today, there was no And then you are thrown in places from the warped life except a few bodies aside and given the cold and aged wood, while in touring the building. Many shoulder. No body wants to other places engineers had of the windows let in sun be seen around you any light, but the glass was old more. And so it is, in 1978 and warped, distorting the Edens Hall was shut down. outside view. Old vines In the midst of spring crept along the edges of the quarter one sunny day, ten windows leaving room in the students walked by Edens middle for an undisturbed Hall, and none of them view. The bodies of dead looked up at the molded bees lay along most of the structure. The students must window sills. have known the building was In the center of the build there because they did walk ing stands the grand en around it. Not one student trance hall at the top of the smacked into its walls. granite steps. Surprisingly, According to the Cops the entrance door worked box in The Western Front, fine. It swung open wide, two students were caught torn holes in it to inspect the and sunlight poured in from walking through Edens Hall building’s frame -- The engi outside. Several beer bottles one night. Mysteries always neers had to be certain the lay near the outside of the appeal, and a large, closed- frame was still attached to door at the top of the steps. down building seen by only a the outer brick wall. Maybe they were waiting for smattering of people must The ceiling of the first someone to let them in but be interesting. floor was twice as high as in someone never came. All those who have gone most modern buildings. The When President Kenneth OCTOBER 1990 iiiiiiiiiiii KUPSUN 35 Mortimer arrived on campu his interview he received he osaal presidential-can- idate tour. He asked about dens Hall and why it wasn’t being used for anything. ast fall quarter, he created % committee to look into ^possible uses for the build- :: ing. George Pierce, vice president for business and financial affairs, heads the : committee. “We’re pursuing any and very course we can to save the building,” Pierce said. We are certainly stirring he broth as much as we can.” From a "View direct! above, Edens Hall actually resembles a U-shaped cup floating above: its plate, which would be High Street. MUmiMi The EdenSf Hall committee ■ ’ttssm has conducted several tests to see if the structure is sal vageable. Nothing conclu WmtStitM sive has been decided yet. wlmk »«iW'ii ‘'”‘ If Edens is torn down in the end, it wouldn’t be the first time. The brick struc ture of Edens replaced a smaller wooden Edens Hall in 1921. At the time, the new structure was probably seen as progress. But I’m not sure everyone would consider it progress if our brick Edens Hall is replaced with an up dated version more in-tunc with the 90s. ijU ers are at the 55 transitions into the city and in the Birch Bay and Lynden ar eas. The troopers do give Wajfs to Beat the drivers a bit of distance to by Christina Rustvold ing beeps and vivid red lights. Literally standing on reduce their speed. For example, coming north Well, it’s been a few the brakes, my boyfriend bound into Bellingham they weeks since you’ve been was able to reduce his speed give drivers until the North home, and Homecoming for to 56 mph by the time the Lake Samish exit to reach your Alma Mater is just trooper’s radar locked-on. 55 mph. around the corner. Sounds He was pulled over and se as if it’s time to pack up verely warned. The trooper For students traveling your car and drive that long said he had no proof to southbound to Portland, Ore., the speed changes to and winding road leading ticket him since he shifted 55 mph at the Clark County home. However, since many speed before the radar Fairgrounds exit. I have Western students live in locked-on. western Washington, the If you really can’t afford seen as many as seven troopers at one time occu road home is probably that a radar detector, like most pied at the side of the road State Patrol trooper’s para college students in the with speeders. dise known as Interstate United States, there is an So, be aware of speed Five. other way to avoid getting zone changes! Pulling out of a gas sta caught on 1-5. One final thought to aid tion on Samish Way you pop All you need is to know you in some motivational music where the troopers drink in your various jour — something that beats so their cups of coffee and eat neys: As well as avoiding cops for speeding, be very loud the yuppie in the lane their doughnuts while casu sure to avoid them for DWI ally clocking speeders. next to you can even stay offenses. Hey, 1-5 hypno awake. Watching for cops is also a tizes you enough that you Music pumpin’, shades good way to keep alert as don’t need to be drinking on on for rare but potential sun you travel past miles of your trip too! You never breaks, you’re now ready to green acres spotted with an know, one of those jersey hit the highway. But don’t occasional cow. barriers could just jump forget your most important Areas on 1-5 that are nor right out at you and you’d weapon of defense -- your mally speed trapped can be history! radar detector. vary. A popular spot I’ve If you don’t have a qual observed in my travels is ity radar detector when coming northbound driving 1-5, you might be just outside of Ever faced with a ticket ranging ett before the speed kfiMiliHiW: i i in price from $38 to $66 on changes to 65 mph. the average -- depending on This area is a the zone you’re in and trooper heaven. Many exactly how fast you’re folks get mesmerized going. by the highway and Now, you might think the begin to think, “Gee, detectors don’t work did I miss the 65 mph against the speed measuring sign?’’ So, thinking devices of the State Patrol. they just weren’t pay But, my boyfriend was ing attention, they saved from a horrendous begin to increase ticket by his radar detector. their speed and -- Garth Mix/Klipsun Doing 87 miles per hour WHAM! Here come de fuzz. Arm yourself with aware in a 55 zone, he was spotted State trooper Scott ness and common sense, and by a State Patrolman on a Nelson said in Whatcom 1-5 will be yours! Happy motorcycle. His radar de County the areas they are motoring! jsj tector exploded with warn most likely to catch speed OCTOBER 1990 KLIPSUN 37 mmmiM; \ m 4 m , MmM fSiSSi? mmmmmimm y- ^ '' '■v n?niiiiuij‘ljH{»iiii^ svy