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Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU The peS ctator 2-17-1988 Spectator 1988-02-17 Editors of The pS ectator Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator Recommended Citation Editors of The peS ctator, "Spectator 1988-02-17" (1988). The Spectator. 1798. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator/1798 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The peS ctator by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. Non-Profit Org. PAID Spectator Seattle, WA. the PermitNo.2783 February 17, 1988 SEATTLEUNIVERSITY SU and Seattle face off over master plan ByTIMOTHYJ.HUBER fie and parking reduction goals, the editor proposed ban on parking lots and the reduction of the proposedathletic field. If thecity of Seattle gets its way,half Aspart of themasterplan, SUset up of Seattle University'sfaculty and staff, goalsfor increaseduseofMetro andcar- and 34 percent of the student com- pooling and reduced reliance on single munity would not beable to drive their occupancy vehicles by faculty, staffand owncars tocampus. students. The city proposal threatens to take While the city can set up a plan to away all parking lots outside of the reduce traffic by requiring SU to meet campuscore. goals for reducing thenumber of faculty The city also may cut the size of a and staff who drive to work alone,city new SU athletic Held, eliminating the law does not allow such restrictions to possibility of a regulation size running be placed on students, according to track. Pierce. The Department of Construction and "Including them (students) in the Land Use recently recommended these goals of thecityis notpart of the code," andother changesas partofitsresponse Pierce said. "We feel optimistic that we to theSU masterplan. The master plan can convince them (the city) of the i* details the University's development fact." * plansfor theperiod from itsapprovalby DCLU recommended the ban on the SeattleCity Council until 1994. University parking areas across 12th SU plans to air its criticisms of the AvenuebecauseDCLUfeels theparking "" proposals ataMarch 15hearing,accord- lots can be better used for business ing to George Pierce,Ph.D., vice pres- development .* ident for universityplanning. According to DCLU, thenew athletic "We need, in a sense, to be able to field SU would like to build on the zeroinon the facts of the case,"he said. formerMetrobus barnsite-located west To do so, Pierce said SU will use ex- of Connolly Center between 14th and perts tobring out the merits ofitscase. 13th avenues and Cherry and JeTcrr.cr. Although Construction and Land streets—can be constructedon 500 feet of Use'sreply differs in several ways from theproperty.Thesouthern 100 feet that the wishes SU laid out in the master faces EastJefferson Street couldbe left plan,theUniversityplans toconcentrate for future development of housing or A detailed map shows existing Seattle University campus boundaries and proposed expanded boundaries outlined In the SU master plan. its efforts on three major concerns, businesses. SUdisagrees. SUplans tocontest the stringent traf- see 'City' page twelve Drive to the top WashPIRG continues drive for student fee BySUSAN KENDALL Sullivan read over the letter at the managingeditor beginning of last week and delegated Eshelman, to look into the situation, Nodecisionhasbeen reached toallow according to Joyce Crosby,assistant to a WashPERG chapteron theSeattle Uni- to the president. versity campus as of last week, ac- Crosby said she is certain there will cording toJohn Eshelman,Ph.D.,exec- beagreatdealof discussion surrounding utive vicepresident the chapter's request to put a waivable The Washington Public Interest Re- fee on the tuition statement search Group is the state's largest en- Eshelman noted that SU does not vironmental and consumer advocacy have extra student fees tacked onto the organization. tuition statement now,so it would be Two weeks ago, Dave Lippeat, ad- difficult toestablish such afee. visor to WashPIRG, sent a letter to SU "It would seem itis not an easy start- President William J. Sullivan,S.J., to ingpoint," saidEshelman. "We are not" announce intentions of developing a setup todo that even if we wanted to. chapter on campus. "Frankly, there are lots of worthy WashPIRG has been gathering sig- causes and I'm not sure what would natures since that time for a petition make this one special that we would that willallow thechapter to be funded want to put iton the tuition statement," by a waivable negativecheck-off fee on he said. student's tuition statements. Eshelman said he would personally A negative check off fee would have have great difficulty with the negative the student check off a box if they do check off fee. not want to bechargedan additional $3 He added that he would like to see per quarter. WashPIRG work through the existing The group will present thepetition to funding channels of the Associated Sullivan when it has gathered 2,300 Students of Seattle University. "I would signatures support and amassed from think that would bean option; it would" faculty andstudent groups,according to be Jenny Fredericks scores a breakaway better thananegativecheck off fee, basket during the first half of Lippeat. of last Friday, the group last night's 77-59 victory over Simon-Fraser University. SU women As Eshelman said. are ranked 19th among the nation's See story page ten. hadover 1,800 signatures. NAIA teams. see 'WashPlßG' page twelve Volume LVHI No. 83 (478-800) FEATURES Ex-spy, peace activist exchange words ByKENBENES Nicaragua if the Soviet flow of arms andMIKE LIGOT continues." staff reporters Moyer responded to James by telling the former spy to look at things in a Sparks flew last Wednesday as a more thoughtful, less confrontational former spy and a Seattle University manner. peaceactivistexchangeddiffering ideas "You have painted a picture of a on worldpolitics. dualistic world in which the United Ex-CIA spy Peter James, touring the States must out-doand out-compete the country to promote his book, "The Air Soviet Union, and this is wrong," Force Mafia," presented SU with two Moyer told James. "You fail to take lectures on whathecalled "aquicklook into consideration the moraland ethical at thefascinatinggameofespionage." aspectsof thesituation. The cost oflife Throughout the lengthy discussions, because of thisidea ofadualistic world James presented his views on United is despicable." States foreign policy, nuclear warfare In the second lecture, James talked and global problems caused by com- about his career as a spy,using a slide munism. After each lecture,James was show to emphasizeboth the excitement met with strong opposition from Bill and danger involved with the job. Moyer, an SU student and member of James also spokeof new information he the Peace andJusticeCenter. has uncovered, such as a new Soviet In the firstpresentation,James spoke space shuttle capable oflaunching nuc- of the problems occuring in Central lear weaponswhileorbiting theearth. America. Hesaidhe feltNicaragua was Moyer angrily responded to James, a video replay of the communist over- calling the entertaining manner of the throw of Cuba. lecture adisgrace. "DanielOrtega(Nicaraguan President) "This isn'ta football game," he said. is bad news," he said. "He's running a "There arepeople gettingkilled. When communist style dictatorship. Ipredict this becomes entertainment, education brought his views on "the game of espionage" to the Ex-spy Peter James that in two to four years, we will have stops. Ifpeople canbe entertained over Student Union Building last Wednesday. direct U.S. military intervention in this,thenpeople are worthless." 'Longest Walkers' still seek change ByKELLY VANDOREN around and anyone will saidGalvan. me else who American Student Council wants to staff reporter listen,that the jeopardy andpunishment "There has been a lotof collusion by increase awareness on campus. This you incur when you stand up for your government to destroy these people's spring they will present a film mini- This month the rights, rights, marks tenth anni- or your people's never aspirations of self-determination and series, a photo exhibit and feature versary of the start of is, to the American ends. What theyare saying don't step efforts defend their people.We havea speaker Russell Means, who was Indian's "Longest Walk" across the ofline, we'll beon youevery day people in prison, or dead or out or lot of involved in forming the American United States. for the rest of your life. We're all through the discouragement of itall,on Indian Movement, to articulate the On Feb. 11, 1978,approximately 75 supposed to conclude it's not worth it," row, while the governmentis still skid Indianpeople'sconcerns. Indians gathered on Alcatraz Island in saidDennis Banks inarecentarticle. attempting to control the land and consciousness, California to begin a 3,000 mile Robert Galvan, of the Seattle resources of all tribes,"saidGalvan "We want to expand peace-walk protesting injustices im- University Native American Student Regarding the "Portland Four" trial, raise questions and at least start giving background posed on the American Indians. The Council, said the current educaiional Galvan said the governmenthas spent some on native issues that to students," "Longest Walk" wasaimed atopposing systempurposely leaves the population millions ofdollars trying to form acase relate back said Galvan. "Weknow thatit ishard for students anti-Indian treaty termination bills in the dark. A lot of injustices occur against these individuals. Why? Galvan to getinterested,but we want to accomo- introduced to Congress by Rep. Jack without public awareness and when believes it's because of what they date people by making the film series Cunninghamof Washington state. those issues are brought up, the public represent--thewhole ideaof the right to available asmany times as possible," he The participants of the "Longest can't to stand up to government see how itrelates them.