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Volume 108 | No. 50 | [email protected] | www.dailyevergreen.com A student publication of Washington State University | Pullman, Washington Pullman cleans up the leaves Natasha Jaksich Daily Evergreen staff It’s cold outside, snow is just around the corner and the city of Pullman is ready to tackle the leaves that fall on the ground. Each November, the city of Pullman encourages what Alan Davis, parks superintendent, calls “Pullman City Leaf Pick-up.” Davis and his crew specify a time period — usually about two weeks — when they encourage citizens of the Leaf community to rake their leaves onto the pick-up streets for them to come around and pick them up. dates During the week, Davis’ crew targets certain neighborhoods. With a crew of November about 10 people, the pick-up goes pretty 13-15: NW fast. Military Hill/ “We really thought about doing away Halls’ Addition with the program this year,” said Mark 18-19: SW Workman, public works director. Sunnyside Hill/ “But we decided that since we’ve McCroskey Brendan Dore/ Daily Evergreen been doing this clean-up since about the Addition & From left, Mica DeMarco, Ira Mavrodi and Paulina Henry, all fifth graders, pick out decorations for a haunted ’80s, the people are really used to the Evergreen house at the WSU Children’s Center on Friday. program by now,” he said. Community Davis uses two mowers during the 20-21: SE fall. One mower is used during the Pioneer Hill/ beginning for mulching up the leaves, Meadows/ and then the other one with a vacuum Earthtone Haunted house project attached is used after that. 25-27: College “We found out that mulching the Hill/Landis leaves up actually helps the soil, and then we come by later and suck up the leaves,” Davis said. Working as the superintendent since 1976, Davis is used pulled together by kids to the yearly clean-up routine. “Pullman has a lot of maple trees and ash trees with lit- Natasha Jaksich Aguilar’s fraternity, Omega were too scared to go inside. tle leaves,” he said. Daily Evergreen staff Delta Phi, and a number of other So the three girls stepped in. “It’s kind of funny especially on the streets of downtown,” Greek chapters had made it one “We wanted to help with a he said. “One day all the leaves will be up in the trees and hree girls were responsible of their yearly service projects to haunted house that little kids then the next day they’ll all fall down. ... It makes for a quick for a ghoulishly good time help coordinate the center’s could go to,” Henry said. clean-up,” he said. T Friday night. Halloween party. Henry, DeMarco and Mavrodi But cleaning up the leaves isn’t always a quick process. Paulina Henry, 10, Mica “This will be my third year literally mapped out what they “We get about 80 percent done during the fall, but then DeMarco, 9, and Ira Mavrodi, 9, doing this, and I enjoy it every wanted to do for a second haunt- the snow comes and we have to do the rest around showed up at the Halloween time,” Aguilar said. “But never in ed house. February,” Davis said. party planning meeting for the the past did any of us ever have While many of the kids were While Davis, Workman and many other crew members WSU Children’s Center armed the biggest help coming from eating snacks in the afternoon, take care of the city, Kappy Brun and her crew are in charge with a plan. three young girls.” they were drawing floorplans of of keeping the WSU campus under control during fall. “It was really interesting when The Halloween party has been what they wanted the haunted Brun has been part of the campus maintenance crew for these three girls walked in and a tradition at the center for the house to look like, a list of materi- about 10 years, picking up trash during the year and leaves told us what we needed to get past 10 years. als needed and a list of things during the fall. done, and what they had already Many attendees take part in needed to be done. Now as the WSU grounds crew supervisor, Brun heads a done,” said Jason Aguilar, a junior the haunted house that Aguilar “We always encourage the management information systems and his fraternity brothers put on, See LEAVES, Page 4 major. “It put us all in check.” but many of the younger children See PROJECT, Page 5 Seattle Symphony tour wows Pullman audience Jennifer Jackson The Symphony’s violin, viola, first Washington State Tour, Daily Evergreen staff cello, bass, piano and several which wraps up early this week brass instruments were repre- after visits to Wenatchee, A Gray Lines of Seattle bus sented on the tour, including Sunnyside and Moses Lake. brought a little of the Emerald Maria Larionoff, the Clowes “We had fun playing,” City to Bryan Hall Friday night. Family associate concertmaster Larinoff said. “It’s a great hall to The Seattle Symphony, under of the Seattle Symphony. play in and we’re having a great the direction of guest conductor Larinoff, a graduate of the time on this tour. Christopher Warren-Green, per- Juilliard School and a former “It’s fun to take something on formed to a near-packed house at member of the Los Angeles the road. You get to play at dif- 8 p.m. Friday. Philharmonic, has been featured ferent times, and we do some- Mark Han/Daily Evergreen thing new every night. We don’t Although the complete sym- with the Seattle Symphony sev- know what it is, but something Christopher Warren-Green, left, and Maria Larinoff, right, from the phony did not make the trip, eral times, and retained the ends up being new.” Seattle Symphony, play Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Concerto for Two more than 20 members were pre- unofficial position of guest star Violins and Strings” during Friday’s performance at Bryan Hall sent on their second Washington for the tour. Auditorium. State Tour. She said she is enjoying her See SYMPHONY, Page 4 10-28-02 2,3,6 10/27/02 7:44 PM Page 1
2 | MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2002 NEWS THE DAILY EVERGREEN localbriefs Pullman weather 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Rec The advanced purchase cost is Tuesday: Rain to snow Flu vaccinations Center. The cost is $20 for stu- $25 and $30 when the sweat- High: 42 Low: 23 dents and $25 for non-students. shirts arrive. Wednesday: Partly cloudy available at CUB Register at the Outdoor The graphic can be seen at High: 45 Low: 23 WSU Health and Wellness Recreation Center at 335-1892. www.aswsu.org. Thursday: Partly cloudy Services will offer flu vaccines for For more information, e-mail High: 47 Low: 28 faculty, staff and students from 10 [email protected]. a.m. to 2 p.m. at the redwood ASWSU to sell bench in the CUB. Photography entries The cost is $10 per person. Apple Cup shirts Call 335-6778 for more infor- to be displayed policelog mation. ASWSU is pre-selling Apple The police log comes from the agreement with a salesperson. Cup sweatshirts for the Pullman The Outdoor Photography Contest entries will be displayed Pullman and WSU daily activity log. community through Friday. Utility problem “Pop goes the New Weasel” from today through Nov. 15 in the Fly fishing clinic sweatshirts will feature a carica- CUB Gallery. Thursday SE Ridgeview Street, 5:21 ture of UW coach Rick Neuheisel The Outdoor Recreation Center p.m. changed to Nov. 16 and the CUB Gallery have spon- The reporting party said on the front. The back is a carica- Animal problem/complaint ture of a giant apple with the WSU sored the event for more than 20 there was water in the street, The fly fishing clinic has been South Grand Avenue, 10:32 postponed until Nov. 16. logo carved into it and “Apple Cup years. possibly from a water main a.m. The class will take place from 2002 ASWSU” on it. FROMSTAFF REPORTS break. The reporting party said there is a dog in the parking lot Suspicious person/circum- that almost got hit by cars. stance NW Valhalla Drive, 8:14 Civil calls p.m. NW Golden Hills Drive, 12:11 The reporting party said a p.m. subject was teaching another The reporting party had a dis- how to drive.
peoplebriefs the roof when firefighters arrived Comics show up just before 6 a.m. Friday. The house, which firefighters for TV show tryout said was completely razed, had MILWAUKEE — They came an estimated value of with guitars, Hawaiian-patterned $812,900, according to town- skirts, spoons, their voices — ship records. and a sense of humor. The cause of the blaze is About 60 people, mostly under investigation. amateur comics and singers, An acquaintance of Franklin auditioned Saturday in front of said the singer hadn’t lived in Caroline Rhea for a chance to the house in two years. appear on her talk show and win a new SUV. “I was really impressed by a Garfunkel makes lot of people,” said Rhea. “The Caroline Rhea Show” is songwriting debut looking for dancers, singers, LOS ANGELES — Art standup comedians and any- Garfunkel freely admits that Paul thing out of the ordinary at audi- Simon was the one with the tions and in videotapes contes- words during their long musical tants send in. partnership. Successful candidates will Now, the 60-year-old per- appear on her show in former is trying to break out of November and viewers will vote that image as he makes his for their favorites. The winner, to songwriting debut on his new be announced Nov. 27, gets a album, “Everything Waits to Be moment in the limelight and a Noticed.” 2002 Dodge Durango SLT. “We have an image of our- selves, and we carry ourselves all through life with some rough Aretha Franklin’s sense of ourselves,” Garfunkel told the Daily News of Los home burns down Angeles. BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, “I’ve shifted my way to Mich. — An $800,000 Michigan respecting words, respecting house owned by Aretha Franklin what comes out of my mouth, burned down. having a little more sobriety in Nobody was in the 5,000- my expression of things.” square-foot residence at the Songwriter Buddy Mondlock time of the Friday morning blaze. and performer Maia Sharp col- The house mainly was used to laborated with Garfunkel, help- store boxes and furniture. ing to turn some of his poetry Fire Chief Leo Chartier said into songs. flames were shooting through THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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THE DAILY EVERGREEN NEWS MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2002 | 3 Graduate Programs Fair hopes to inform Angela Love “Students can learn Graduate and Professional Daily Evergreen staff Student Association. Departments attending fair what a degree would In addition to learning Free food, money for gradu- do for them.” about various graduate pro- From other universities: ate school and opportunities grams offered at WSU and • Occupational Therapy from EWU for undergraduates will be Val Miskin around the area, students also • Physical Therapy from EWU available Thursday at the sec- director, graduate programs can talk with representatives • College of Graduate Studies/Law School from UI ond annual Graduate in business about scholarships, intern- • Accounting from UI Programs Fair. ships and fellowships. • Graduate School of Management from Willamette U, Atkinson The fair will be from 10 a.m. The Office of Grant and • School of International Management from Whitworth to 1 p.m. in the CUB Ballroom. a career fair, where students Research Development will be • School of Business Administration from Gonzaga “(The fair) is for juniors and can talk to representatives at the fair to talk about fellow- • U.S. Air Force from Spokane seniors who are thinking from schools about what their ship opportunities. • School of Education from Pacific Lutheran University about graduate school now, graduate program is like, said Financial aid sometimes • MBA from U of Portland and for younger people who Paul Mencke, co-chair of the can pay for all of a graduate don’t really know yet,” said Graduate Programs Fair. student’s tuition and housing. From WSU: Kristen Johnson, graduate Representatives will be on “Everything is paid for,” • School of Biological Sciences school interim associate dean. hand to answer questions Mencke said. “It’s like a job.” • Neuroscience Program “Students can learn what a about guidelines for getting According to Johnson, • Human Development degree would do for them,” Edward R. Murrow School of Communication into graduate school, credits about 80 percent of graduate • said Val Miskin, director of students at WSU have some • School of Molecular Biosciences needed, how much longer graduate programs in busi- sort of financial support. • Biological Systems Engineering ness. graduate school would be, and The fair is geared to educat- • Center for Multiphase Environmental Research Thirty schools from WSU what classes to take. ing undergraduates about the • Plant Pathology and around the Northwest will Each table also will offer various opportunities given to • Political Science and Criminal Justice have information tables and handouts and publications. them after graduation. • American Studies representatives at the fair, said “Students can wander “Going to graduate school is • MBA and PHD Ilkholm Kurbonov, chair of the around and see what looks a big and important decision,” • University Graduate School Graduate Programs Fair. interesting to them,” said Eric Johnson said. “Students need The fair is set up similar to Holm, vice president of the as much info as they can get.” communitycalendar Monday The ASWSU Environmental Tuesday will meet at noon in CUB room 110- Miscellaneous Task Force will meet at 6 p.m. in 111. The Sexual Information and CUB room 224. The Association for Women in Vote and put your input in regard- Referral Center (SIRC) and Communication will meet at 5:30 The Washington Student Lobby ing a comedian for Dad’s Weekend Cougars Encouraging Alcohol p.m. in Murrow room 307. 2003. Go to beasley.wsu.edu to vote. Knowledge (CEAK) will meet from The School of Architecture will meet at 4:30 p.m. in CUB room 4 to 5:30 p.m. in CUB room 113. and Construction will have a pre- The Nichiren Buddhism Club will 220. sentation by Eric Cobb at 7 p.m. in Mom’s Weekend Committee Those interested in educating the meet from 7 to 8 p.m. in CUB room Applications are available in Wilson WSU community about alcohol and Carpenter room 102. B5. There will be a Plant Physiology sexual choices are encouraged to Refreshments and an exhibit of Seminar at 4:10 p.m. in Johnson room 8. They are due by Nov. 1. attend. his work will begin at 6 p.m. in the The Beta Alpha Psi/Accounting room C105. Dr. Joerg Bohlmann Gallery of Carpenter. Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Todd from the botany Do you want your organization’s The Disability Awareness room 320 with Clothier and Head. department/biotechnology labora- event in the community calendar? E- Association will meet at 4:30 The Circle K Club will meet at 7 tory from the University of British mail [email protected], call p.m. in Ad Annex room 201. p.m. in CUB room B-22. The Cougar Toastmasters Club Columbia will speak. 335-2465 or go to Murrow room 113. 10-28-02 01, 04, 05 10/27/02 8:28 PM Page 2
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Warren-Green agreed. “It’s fun repeating the program with the same orchestra,” he said. “I’m just a guest, but when you start to get to know the musicians, it’s great to work with them.” Friday’s two-hour performance featured works by Mozart, including “Symphony No. 15 in D Major,” “Divertimento in D Major,” “Serenade in G Major” and “Symphony No. 29 in A Major,” and Bach’s “Concerto for Two Violins and String” and “Orchestra in D Minor.” The selections were diverse — some were fast-paced and energetic, while others sounded like music appro- priate for a fairy-tale wedding. The performers, dressed in black tuxedos and dress- es, stood out against white rectangular pillars on the stage of Bryan Hall auditorium. The audience responded to the selections enthusias- tically — breaking into applause at several intervals and giving a standing ovation at the end of the perfor- Ryan Winters/Daily Evergreen mance. Stadium Way trees, along with others around campus, are shedding their leaves in preparation for winter. When the symphony wraps up its Washington State Tour, it will return home to Benaroya Hall in Seattle for cherishing the fall season. But this year, the students are a three-week subscription series, conducted by Warren- LEAVES “You would think I hate the fall taking on an extra project for the Green, who then will go to Minnesota to conduct the continued from front page season by now, but I don’t,” she said. fall. Minnesota Orchestra, and then Vancouver, B.C., before “I love the colors, the changes, and On Tuesday, the students will be heading back to his hometown, London, to conduct the crew of 18 people in the full-time job the feel of the air. ... I even garden at going to the Pullman Community London Orchestra. cleaning up leaves. home, so I guess you can say that my Garden at Koppel Farm near the He said he will miss touring and seeing Washington “The worst areas can be the resi- life revolves around caring for Professional Mall and will be getting state. dent halls,” Brun said. “There can be plants.” hands-on learning while helping to “I love the countryside out here,” he said. “It’s huge.” a foot pile of leaves in the matter of a It’s more than the maintenance plant more than 130 flower bulbs for He said he really enjoys playing in Bryan Hall. He day, and with literally thousands of crews for both the city and the cam- the spring. played there in 2000 during the first Washington State trees on campus, it can be very time pus that get involved with leaves “We always look for service pro- Tour, and in 1985 with an orchestral group from consuming.” during the fall. jects that will involve our students to London. Brun’s crew takes into careful Students at the Montessori help in the community,” Carper said. “This is my third time out here,” Warren-Green said. consideration the process of clean-up School of Pullman always are About 20 preschoolers and “There are wonderful acoustics here — it’s a super hall. — trying to start clean-up daily after encouraged to get involved with the kindergartners will be digging I love touring and getting out to see new audiences. 9 a.m. fall clean-up efforts. trenches and planting the bulbs at “The audiences (in Pullman) always are very warm. “It can become quite loud when Tanya Carper, administrator of Koppel Farm. They are extremely disconcerting, too — they really we’re running our rakes and mow- the school for 15 years, said she “I think they will really enjoy know what they’re listening to, and that’s a pleasure for ers in the morning,” Brun said. preaches what her school teaches. planting the bulbs,” said Linda us. They mainly target pedestrian “The kids are constantly learning Hurley, the Montessori teacher who “The real music exists in the hearts of the audience.” thoroughfares and drains first. about how things grow,” Carper will be taking her students to the Warren-Green said before leaving Washington, he “We try and make the walkways said. farm. had one wish, and it wasn’t related to music. clean first and then move onto other The Montessori has two gardens Students are encouraged to call “I want to sit in the rig,” he said, gesturing to the areas,” Brun said. in which the students plant bulbs the WSU Maintenance and Ground moving truck the symphony transports its instruments Being part of the maintenance during the year and rake the leaves Crew at 335-9067 to report heavy in. “We don’t have them in England. They’re so huge crew doesn’t prevent Brun from during the fall. fallings of leaves. and fascinating.” 10-28-02 01, 04, 05 10/27/02 8:29 PM Page 3
THE DAILY EVERGREEN REGION MONDAY, OCT0BER 28, 2002 | 5 UW loses president to Rutgers The Associated Press “Rutgers is really home 1, 1995. Gerberding had announced in But the chairwoman of the state the fall of 1994 that he planned to retire Senate Higher Education Committee SEATTLE — It took the University of for President McCormick June 30, 1995. said there might have been more to Washington nearly a year the last time it and it’s very hard to The UW will advertise the opening McCormick’s decision than just his New had to replace its president. resist going home.” and fly in candidates to be interviewed. Jersey connections. Sen. Jeanne Kohl- Seven years after the UW Board of As UW president, much of Welles, D-Seattle, said part of the reason Regents hired Richard McCormick to Gov. Gary Locke McCormick’s time was spent lobbying might have been his budget frustrations. take over for William Gerberding, the Washington Locke and the Legislature in Olympia “I know President McCormick has board doesn’t want to take a year to find for money. The UW has a $3.4 billion been frustrated, as have all the presi- a replacement for McCormick as its 29th budget for the 2002-2003 fiscal year. dents of our public colleges, as have I,” president. Rutgers, but he and others said it was Locke said he didn’t think she said. McCormick, 54, on Friday accepted more a matter of going back to his native McCormick was leaving because he was “I’m sure there were a lot of draws on the job as president of Rutgers state of New Jersey than the money. frustrated with dealing with Olympia in him for accepting the Rutgers job. But I University, where he was on the faculty “Rutgers is really home for President tough economic times. know he’s been terribly worried about for 16 years in the 1980s and 1990s. McCormick and it’s very hard to resist “New Jersey has been facing even the underfunding by the state here. He McCormick’s salary will jump from going home,” Gov. Gary Locke said. more severe budget problems than the and I have discussed the situation for a $295,000 at the UW to $525,000 at McCormick took the UW job on Sept. state of Washington,” Locke said. long time.”
around the center and take part in PROJECT different activities. Military raises may boost continued from front page Kids decorated cookies, went bowl- ing for ghosts, had a glass of witch’s children to take on projects that stim- brew and ended the night with a trip Puget Sound economy ulate them and also challenge them,” to the haunted house. said Children’s Center Director Mary “I think it was a huge success,” Ellen Radziemski. “These girls were Starkey said. “If it wasn’t for the par- cruise missiles and Special Operations Defense spending bill the utmost description of going up ents donating time and effort, the par- troops. Two of the conversions — which and beyond the call of duty.” ticipation of faculty and staff, help brings pay increase cost about $880 million apiece — will take Henry, DeMarco and Mavrodi, who from the college, the creativeness from place at the naval shipyard in Bremerton. The Associated Press called themselves “The Haunted three girls ... it was a great time.” The Army’s Stryker program will get House Committee,” helped with the $788 million for more armored vehicles and DeMarco’s mom, Kari, was one of TACOMA — A military pay increase construction of the haunted house, as the parents in attendance. funding for more Stryker Brigade Combat well. President Bush recently signed into law is Teams at Fort Lewis. About $79.8 million “I’m so proud of Mica,” she said. expected to give the Puget Sound region a will pay for an Army barracks complex and “It’s amazing a couple children saw “And I’m really glad that the teachers badly needed economic boost. an urban warfare training center at the a need to help other children,” said and staff supported her creativity,” The 4.1 percent raise is part of a $355.1 base about 12 miles south of Tacoma. Cheryl Starkey, one of the center’s she said. billion defense spending bill for 2003. And another $56.6 million will go early childhood aides. “We don’t even By the end of the party, the center That legislation and a $10.5 billion mili- toward building Navy barracks in see some adults with that same deter- had seen more than 100 kids come tary construction bill signed Wednesday Bremerton and security improvements at mination that’s in these girls.” and go with lots of candy and smiles contain numerous items that affect the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The haunted house was just one on their faces. Puget Sound. Economists predict the 4.1 percent pay element contributing to the success of “I just have one question,” Mavrodi Most of the $278 million in projects Friday’s party, though. said. “How did Halloween start?” planned for Washington state military raises, which will pad the paychecks of near- The center handed out free trick- “Don’t you know?” DeMarco said. installations will go to Fort Lewis and facil- ly 60,000 servicemen and women, will have or-treat bags, and children could go “It was started by a woman.” ities in Bremerton and Bangor. the biggest effect on the region. The budget also includes $645 million toward the ongoing conversion of four Trident ballis- tic missile submarines, which are being retrofitted to carry 10-28-02 2,3,6 10/27/02 8:12 PM Page 3
6 | MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2002 REGION THE DAILY EVERGREEN Officials Law hasn’t stopped ‘spam’ The Associated Press “Some spammers have this warped idea ject line, invalid reply address- studying es or disguised paths of trans- OLYMPIA — For people that their freedom of speech mission. It allows for damages with e-mail in-boxes clogged of $500 for individuals and with unwanted offers for is guaranteed all the way mercury pornography, Nigerian get- into my hard drive.” $1,000 for Internet service rich-quick schemes, and all providers, which bear the manner of dubious medical Nigel Featherston financial brunt of dealing with treatments, Washington’s anti-spam activist spam. hazards tough anti-spam law hasn’t More than two dozen other The Associated Press been much help — yet. they’re preparing to sue spam- Kitsap Peninsula in 1994, states have laws dealing with More than three years after mers under their own laws when the World Wide Web was spam, but Washington’s is con- MOSES LAKE — State biol- a law crafted to ban the worst against misleading business just a promise and spam had- sidered the toughest in the ogists, armed with electrical kinds of unsolicited e-mail was practices. n’t really been invented. nation. Even so, it was a fall- nodes and fishing nets, are join- enacted, the state has nailed Even so, the spam still is State and federal authorities back position for Kendall and ing a national effort to identify exactly one spammer — a flowing, and it’s far from cer- have had some success tackling others who pushed for it in how pervasive mercury pollu- $100,000 judgment handed tain whether current laws are Internet fraud — chain letters 1998. They wanted an “opt-in” tion is in lakes and rivers. down this month that most feel powerful enough to cut and pyramid schemes that are They’re testing bass — a fish law that bans any unsolicited is largely symbolic. through the tortuous tangle of illegal no matter how they’re dis- commercial e-mail unless the that’s frequently eaten and like- But the law also allows the legal and electronic barriers tributed. But they’ve been large- sender already has an existing ly to accumulate the toxic metal spammed to fight back in court that separate the sender of a ly powerless against garden- — in 20 Washington waterways relationship with the recipient. without the state’s help. And pornographic spam from a variety spam — unsolicited e- from Olympia to Spokane. private citizens have filed mother trying to keep her mails offering any number of “Some spammers have this “We may have missed it more than a dozen lawsuits, child’s e-mail clean. essentially legal goods and ser- warped idea that their free- because we’ve not really focused hoping massive judgments will dom of speech is guaranteed on it,” said Dave Serdar, an envi- “The problem is not getting vices that people might conceiv- put big-time spammers out of better, it’s getting worse,” says ably want. all the way into my hard ronmental specialist with the drive,” said Nigel Featherston, Ecology Department. action. Jim Kendall, who founded Washington law bans bulk a Microsoft software designer Researchers have been stun- Meanwhile, Federal Trade Internet service provider or commercial e-mail with mis- ning the fish with electrical Commission lawyers say Telebyte NW on Washington’s leading information in the sub- and anti-spam activist. bursts, sending them belly-up to the surface. The collected speci- mens are packed on ice, carted to a state lab and tested. Some rivers and lakes that Bishop named in investigation have been analyzed so far have revealed troubling levels of mer- The Associated Press “It was my understanding that this guy Columbus convention, accord- cury. ing to the one-page police From 1993 to 2001, mercury SPOKANE — A former thought he was going to be killed, that he report. Welsh at first told the contamination warnings Roman Catholic bishop accused was traumatized by what happened.” detectives he picked up a drug increased by 115 percent at of turning a blind eye to allega- addict and took him to his room rivers and lakes nationwide. tions of priests sexually abusing Ron Graves at the Chicago Hilton for coun- The number of states issuing children was himself the object former Spokane police detective seling. such warnings jumped from 27 of an investigation into an According to both the 1986 alleged sex crime, a newspaper to 44. report and his own recollection, reports. Methylmercury, a common, Graves said Welsh admitted to highly toxic form found in fish, The late Bishop Lawrence the whistle on these guys? He The case was dropped when Welsh never was charged after had to keep their secrets. the man in Chicago decided not everything in the Chicago com- has accumulated in Puget plaint except for the level of vio- Sound species, such as rockfish. an investigation into allega- Otherwise, they wouldn’t keep to pursue charges. lence against the victim. It’s also been found at lower lev- tions that he choked a male his secret,” Tim Kosnoff, lead Graves, now retired after 25 els in chinook salmon. prostitute during a sex act in a attorney representing several years with the Spokane Police The detectives told Welsh Mercury is a naturally occur- Chicago hotel in 1986, The plaintiffs suing a former priest Department, was one of two they wished to discuss the inci- ring element that enters the Spokesman-Review reported and the church, told the news- Spokane detectives who fol- dent with someone higher in environment when oil- and coal- Friday. paper. lowed up on the Chicago police the church hierarchy. fired power plants burn those A former Spokane detective The newspaper cited a one- complaint and interviewed Welsh agreed they should fossil fuels. Rain washes it into involved in the case said page police report that a male Welsh. meet with his superior, waterways, where it settles and Thursday he felt it had been prostitute in Chicago told police The handling of the investi- Archbishop Raymond is eaten by microorganisms, given special treatment by his there that he met a Washington gation was “hush-hush,” Hunthausen of Seattle. which are eaten by fish. In superiors. state man at a Knights of Graves said. Five days later, the detec- Washington, a handful of indus- The Spokane diocese is the Columbus convention in Instead of turning the report tives, Welsh and Hunthausen tries released nearly two tons of target of litigation by people August 1986, agreed to perform over to a sergeant, “We turned all met at Welsh’s home, the mercury into the air in 2000. who allege former bishops oral sex and that the man the report in to the brass” and report said. A recent study by San ignored complaints that they began to strangle him during were told not to talk about it, The detectives told Francisco internist Dr. Jane were abused by priests decades sex. Graves said. Hunthausen they would like Hightower concluded that of ago. “It was my understanding On Sept. 24, 1986, Graves Welsh to be evaluated by a psy- 116 patients who had their As bishop from 1978 to 1989, that this guy thought he was and Robert Webb, both detec- chiatrist who specialized in sex- blood tested, 89 percent Welsh oversaw several priests going to be killed, that he was tives, arrived at Welsh’s home ual abuse cases. The archbish- showed mercury levels greater who recently have been accused traumatized by what hap- and described the complaint op agreed. than the 5 parts per million of sexually abusing minors dur- pened,” former Spokane from Chicago. The detectives closed their recognized as safe by the ing those years. Police Detective Ron Graves Welsh admitted having been report with these words: “... Mr. National Academy of Sciences. “Why couldn’t Welsh blow said Thursday. in Chicago for the Knights of Welsh is truly embarrased (sic) and regretful of the incident and ... there is no reason to believe he is a threat to society.” Graves said he did not know whether the recommen- Choose Social Work! dation for psychiatric evalua- tion was followed. In the top 10 occupation growth areas in the United States. Time Magazine