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OPINION SPORTS NATIONAL A woman's write in Bruinscrash Cougar U.S.sends checks to the locker room / page 4 Homecoming party / page 9 interned citizens / page 6 Monda ,Oct. 1 1990 e Establishedver1894 een Vol. 97 No. 31 MONDAY Science fellowships created A WSU alumnus donated $50,000 to the son is acclaimed as a co-developer of the test "It is difficult to overstate the benefits that university Friday to help create two endowed for the Rh factor in blood. top-notch graduate students bring to a state graduate fellowships to help young scientists. When Abelson was finishing an undergrad- that depends on a highly-trained work The contribution, made by renowned uate degree in chemistry at Washington State force," Smith said. atomic scientist Philip Abelson and his wife College during the Depression, he received a WSU has more than 2,100 graduate stu- Neva, is one of six recent gifts to WSU vary- graduate fellowship from the Department of dents, 900 of whom are researching and ing in amounts from $25,000 to $100,000, Physics. teaching assistants. which will create 10 endowed graduate fel- He said this fellowship "served as a criti- Besides the Abelsons, donors for the initial lowships. cal springboard" for his later doctoral work IO public-private fellowships include Keith For each $25,000 gift, the state will pro- at the University of California Radiation Lab- and Turri Jackson of Sherman Oaks, Calif.; vide an equal amount under terms of the oratory. Harold "Ole" and Jeanne Olsen of Bellevue: Graduate Fellowship Matching Program WSU President Sam Smith said the univer- the Dorothy Otto Kennedy family of Everett: funded by the 1990 Legislature. sity is grateful to the donors and the Legisla- the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation of Abelson is known as the father of the ture for their joint investment in recruiting nuclear-powered submarine and Neva Abel- and keeping quality graduate students. See SCIENCE on page 3 Hunters buck New dinosaur conviction GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) discovered _ A decoy doesn't count as wildlife, a judge said as he reversed the convictions of By Robert Southern tWOhunters who were bagged Staff Writer by state game officers for Utah geologists who study prehistoric life forms shooting at a stuffed deer. may have found the world's largest dinosau~. Aaron 1. Stiffey Sr., 46, of David Gillete, Utah's state paleontologist, pre- Bolivar, and James Wagner, sented evidence of what he calls a seismosaurus, or 31, of New florence, were "earth shaker," in a lecture Thursday night as part arrested Dec. 7, 1989, during of WSU's Museum Awareness Week: buck-hunting season. They were charged with The 1979 discovery of the seismosaurus in cen- shooting at the decoy from a tral New Mexico by two hikers began a revamp of vehicle on a public road, not conventional ideas concerning the traditional meth- wearing proper hunting garb ods of excavation, fossilization, and the lifestyles or having their hunting of the ancient reptiles. licenses, and having loaded Gillete got involved in the project after receiving firearms in their pickup truck. countless reports about the find while working as a Wildlife officers testified Staff photo by David Wellington curator for the State Museum of Natural History in that the decoy, nicknamed The College of Veterinary Medicine "Caring Call" statue is unveiled Utah. "Officer Buck," was shot Saturday morning in front of Bustad Hall. Excavation of the site began in 1985, and the twice and that they saw Stiffey removal of eight giant vertebra confirmed feelings fire one of the shots. And they that the fossil was not a diplodocus, a close relative said that when Stiffey was of the brontosaurus, Gillete said. cited, he remarked: "I guess School to add media prof "The bones turned out to be different - about you got me." 25 percent larger," he said. Westmoreland County Com- The Edward R. Murrow School of Bellevue-based media firm, K. Smith Further study prompted Gillete to publicize esti- mon Pleas Judge Richard E. Communication has announced plans to Enterprises. mates of the dinosaur's size at 110 feet long. The McCormick Jr. on Wednesday establish a "distinguished professorship" Smith's daughter, Kimberly, graduated previous record was held by the diplodocus at 87 overturned Stiffey's conviction in media management. from WSU in 1978 and is married to rock feet. because the stuffed deer was Alex Tan, the department chairm~n, star Steve Miller. Gillete named the new genus of dinosaur the not alive and did not meet the said he would like WSU's communicatIOn seismosaurus. "This anchors a position to build real state definition of wildlife. school to be known not only for its front- Realizing they were onto something extraordi- Assistant District .Attorney line people, but also for the important quality into this new area of focus," said nary, Gillete wrote a report. and presented it to Patrick Noonan said the use of decision makers in media organizations. WSU Development of Arts and Sciences National Geographic. The society gave them fund- Director Kevin Jacques. the stuffed five-point buck was Funding for the program will be ba~ed ing for a year. not entrapment, as the men on a $250,000 donation and the matchmg The school is looking to attract a Removing the bones, including many that have bad argued. of those funds from the Higher Education national figure established in the profes- been trapped 8 feet deep in a bed of sandstone for "The use of this decoy is Coordinating Board of Washington. sion and academics of media management. 150 million years, presents a challenge to archaeol- no different than an under- The donation is from Lester and Bernice ogists. cover policemen soliciting for Smith. Lester Smith is a member of the "This person will be a cornerstone in Several techniques used to locate hazardous prostitution," he said. professional advisory board for the school both the graduate and undergraduate of communications and a partner of the media management programs," he said. See BONES on page 3 Gulf crisis wounds local agriculture "This may be the plight of many farm- Palouse farmers due to the Middle East BY Carrie Hartman of the white wheat market to lack of gov- ers, because although the price of wheat is crisis coupled with the food embargo ernment involvement as well as excessive Stoff Writer down, the costs of equipment and materi- placed on Iraq by the United States. amounts of crops and the embargo on The ongoing crisis in the Middle East is als is constantly going up," Kromm said. An excessive surplus of white wheat has Iraq. the catalyst for deep price cuts on white Iraq was scheduled to purchase a large also contributed to this year's grim eco- "Many other countries subsidize farm- wheat grown here on the Palouse, and amount of wheat from the Palouse region nomic outlook for 'wheat farmers, Kromm er's crops, but the U.S. government does fanners are expecting to endure a long before the invasion of Kuwait occurred said. not do that to a large degree," Hart said. economic slump before it's allover. said Phil Hinrich, an H.P. Schmidt Grow~ A carry-over of 158 million bushels The federal government does provide With Iraq being the fifth-largest ers employee. from this region alone exists, according to guaranteed loans to farmers, Hart importer of Palouse wheat, agricultural But now grain distributors are left hold- a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. explained, which provides farmers with a officia~s, farmers and even bankers are ing the bushel. "There's just too much of the product market to sell their crops. However, the predicting that the low prices are going to "Iraq is definitely a large buyer, and with no market for it," Kromm said. price per bushel is lower than the present stagnate the agricultural economy. without them the local economy will The Palouse hills rendered abundant and buying price. John Kromm of the Whitman County become depressed as a result of that high quality crops, Kromm said, which is "Farmers are being promised by the Growers reported that white wheat sold at absent market," Hinrich said. another reason for the large carry-over. government that they will pay $2.08 per $4.13 per bushel in 1989. That figure "In order for the money to keep coming "The farmers had great crops this har- bushel," Hart said. dropped this year by 35 percent to $2.67 in, the pipeline from the farmer to the vest and it's such a shame to see it all go "At least they will have some money per bushel. exporter must be smooth, and it's not." to waste," Kromm said. coming in, but it's not a hell of a lot. " Kromm says that spells trouble for Hinrich reported that 25 percent of the Dan Hart, an Almota Grain Growers Palouse farmers. white wheat market is unavailable to official, contributes the spiraling economy See WHEAT on page 7 2 The Evergreen Monday, October 1,1990 WSU, Pullman, Wash. tOCAL BRIEFS Announcements • Eating Disorders group meets every Tuesday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Counseling Center in the Ad Annex building. 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