ANSWER TO RAfEMYPR0FESS0R.COM. HIEII 1 HE WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2006 ISSUE 4, VOLUME 137 Facebook accusations Nash Hall resident used photos to incriminate students BY CASEY D. HALL depicted the rive freshmen drinking in violation of a contract 2005, he said. The Western Front they signed stating they wouldn't drink on campus. Harris did not officially request the move, but Gaddy said Harris put Western freshmen Hector Yanes, Troy Terry, he felt as though he could either move willingly or Harris Nick Gaddy, Grant Landrum and Brandon Love on probation would formally request him to move. Nash Hall resident director Melvin Harris suggested a and assigned them an on-campus alcohol prevention class Gaddy posted the pictures on a photo album on his Nash resident move to Ridgeway Gamma and placed four after an anonymous Nash resident brought pictures to a Facebook profile, he said. others on probation after pictures from Facebook.com led resident advisor, Yanes said. The images included Western freshman Grant Landrum, Harris to issue alcohol violations on March 26. Harris convinced Gaddy to move out of Nash Hall Nash is a substance-free dorm, and the pictures on Facebook because he received a prior alcohol violation on Dec. 10, see DRINKING, page 4 Lecturer is Senate nominee BY BECKIE ROSILLO TheT Western Front A Western management lecturer accepted a nomination from the Libertarian Party to run for one of Washington state's seats in the U.S. Senate in the November election. The party announced Bruce Guthrie's nominati on Sunday night at the 2006 convention of the Libertarian Party of Washington state, he said. Guthrie will run against incumbent Sen. MATT VOGT7 THE WESTERN FRONT Maria Cantwell, Juggler Aaron Jessup performs at the Bellingham Farmers Market April 7. Jessup has juggled for 16 years and D-Wash. PHOTO COURTESY OF travels around the country for different events. The second market of the year took place in tents outside because Guthrie ran BRUCE GUTHRIE the Depot Market Square completion is behind schedule. Western lecturer for a seat in the Bruce Guthrie ac­ U.S. House of cepted the 2006 Representatives Washington state in 2002 and 2004 Depot Square behind schedule Libertarian nomina­ against Rep. Rick tion to run for the Larsen, D-Wash., U.S. Senate Sunday. which makes BY ABBY VINCENT construction process by almost two months, not be the only activity held in the Depot him the best The Western Front said Brian Griffin, Depot Market Square Market Square, Griffin said. candidate, said Ruth Bennett, a Libertarian committee member. Crews should have Local organizations can rent space in candidate for governor of Washington state finished construction by April 1, he said. the square from the city for other purposes, in2004. "The Farmers Market is a lively place," such as public meetings, dances and outdoor Bennett said Guthrie's name continually The Bellingham Farmers Market will said Chama Archimede, a booth worker at movies. came up during the Libertarian Party's have a permanent place to call its home the market on Railroad Avenue. "There are The Depot Market Square will be a new candidate selection. when workers complete the Depot Market usually musicians. It gives the farmers and place to hold the farmers market, but the Square community center in approximately the craft people a chance to sell directly to people are the ones who define the event, six weeks in downtown Bellingham. the public." said Daniel Sloan, a Western junior who see LIBERTARIAN, page 4 Winter rain has lengthened the The Bellingham Farmers Market will juggles at the market. BURNIN' RUBBER SPRING SERVICE OCEAN TO OCEAN WEATHER Western's cycling club dominates Students assist Habitat for Hu­ Hiker travels 7,778 miles across Wednesday: Cloudy North Shore Circuit Race manity in Miami during the country from the Atlantic Hi: 56 Low: 40 Saturday in Bellingham. spring break. Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Thursday: Rain SPORTS, PAGE 7 FEATURES, PAGE 6 NEWS, PAGE 3 Hi: 56 Low: 42 www.westernfrontonline.com 2 • THE WESTERN FRONT NEWS APRIL 11,2006 Cops Box Holocaust survivor reminisces 83-year-old woman recounts concentration camp experiences University Police BY KATIE RAYNOR say no because I learned a lesson "The legacy of genocide and more endurable. April 6, 11:10 p.m.: UP The Western Front from Auschwitz," Ban said. "If I the significance of the Holocaust "It will never be talked about responded to a report of a still have hate in my heart, I will resonate today," Wooding said. enough," Gylys said. "It's a taboo student who fell down a flight be a prisoner of my own hate." "And we see this taking place in subject and this lecture is a good of stairs in Ridgeway Kappa. Holocaust survivor Noemi Ban said she will parallel the Darfur. So unless we tell these way to start dialogue, and it's UP did not need to transport Ban spent almost six months Holocaust's tragedies to modern- stories, share these stories and accessible to everyone to actually the student to a hospital. in a brutal concentration camp, day genocides, such as the one in keep the memory of the past alive, see her up there. She's a living assembled bombs in a German the Darfur region of Sudan. we're susceptible to historical legacy and the end of an era and April 5, 9:24 p.m.: UP weapon factory and emerged "When she tells the story of amnesia. Having someone like future generations won't have the responded to a report of a hit- from Nazi Europe in 1945 all that she lost, the question Noemi Ban share her experience same perspective as we do seeing afid-run on north campus. A with only one surviving family that comes up is what aren't we makes the past present by giving her in person." vehicle damaged the gate to member, her father. listening to now that could help us a face with the atrocities that Ban said talking about the campus on High Street. Ban, 83, will share memories solve the problems we're having have taken place." experiences and relating them to of her experiences in a free public today?" Wolpow said. Laura Gylys, a Western people is therapeutic to her. April 5, 4:41 p.m.: UP lecture 5 p.m. April 19 in Fraser Joe Wooding, a Western graduate student who helps "To share someone's problem responded to a report of a Hall Room 3. A question and graduate student who works organize events for the center, is healing and it's really true," student who needed medical answer session will follow. with the center, said he thinks said although the Holocaust is not Ban said. "This problem will not assistance for an ankle injury Opportunities to hear firsthand lectures such as Ban's offer lines always a popular subject because go away, but when I share and see in the Ridgeway Commons experiences is something that of communication for discussions it is so disturbing, associating how people listen and learn, that dining hall. UP transported won't be available to future about genocide. stories with a face will make it gives a certain kind of healing." the student to the hospital. generations because the number of survivors is dwindling, said Ray Wolpow, director of The Bellingham Police Northwest Center for Holocaust Education at Western. April 9, 1:39 a.m.: Officers "I encourage people to think cited and released a 21-year- about their children and their old man on suspicion of children's children," Wolpow said. public urination on the 1200 "What will they ask you about the block of Railroad Avenue. Holocaust and what can you tell them you heard?" April 9, 1:21 a.m.: Officers Ban was born in Szeged, cited and released a 21-year- Hungary and now lives in old man on suspicion of Bellingham. She said Nazi officers public urination on the 1200 put her and more than 80 Jewish block of North State Street. prisoners in a cattle car bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp April 9, 12:32 a.m.: in Poland, where they separated Officers cited a woman on her from her mother, brother and suspicion of driving under sister. Nazis had already taken her the influence on the 1500 father from Debrecen, Hungary, block of North Forest Street the town Ban's family lived in after she reportedly caused an before Nazi occupation in 1944. accident and ran into several Ban said she slept on dirt floors unoccupied vehicles. at Auschwitz and because food was so scarce, prisoners weighed PETER THAN / THE WESTERN FRONT Compiled by Michael Lee an average of 65 pounds each. 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