The Daily TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30,1999 VOL. 106 No. 73 www.dailyevergreen.com Committee evaluating presidential hopefuls Brye Butler Thirty-four candidates now are being eval- After reviewing the files, the search corn- dent, Goldmark said. uated by the committee, Goldmark said. mittee will determine who to interview. The The Daily Evergreen The committee is continuing to accept input Candidates either responded to the national candidate pool then will be narrowed with the from the community and WSU constituents. The WSU Presidential search continues advertisement placed by WSU or were con- finalists being presented to the Board of Members have received feedback from WSU and one to five candidates are expected to be tacted by Ford Webb Associates, a national Regents. students, faculty and staff, he said. presented to the Board of Regents by January. search firm. Interviewees either will meet with the Constituents have expressed the need for a The WSU Board of Regents met to discuss After the initial contact, a recruiter from the search committee in Pullman or at another president with academic experience, research the progress of the search. among other things, firm talks with candidates about their interest destination chosen by the candidate. emphasis, as well as someone who understands Nov. 19 in Seattle. in the position and the candidate submits a file Expenses for this process are funded inter- the importance of the students and their benefi- Peter Goldmark, president of the Board of for the WSU search committee to review. nally through WSU, Goldmark said. cial experiences at WSU, Goldmark said. Regents, presented a brief report from the WSU The tile contains current and past positions 'The search is a significant expense," he said. The future president also should be a posi- search committee to update board members. held by the candidate and also includes any WSU also pays Ford Webb Associates a flat tive leader and have a powerful statewide The committee has received more than 40 let- publications or participation in organizations rate plus all expenses related to the search. The presence, he said. ters and e-mails from prospective president'> and that would pertain to the presidential position fee of a national search firm is typically one- The-committee will make its final decision others expressing their ideas and giving input. at WSU. third of the first-year salary of the new presi- in March. Much more than a hole in the wall Local activists VOIceconcerns• about trade orgamzanon• • Cameron Probert The Daily Evergreen Environmental protests will spot the Seattle landscape as the World Trade Organization begins its third ministerial meeting today. Some local environmental groups are concerned with decreasing trade barriers on trading wood and eliminating some environmental regulations. Patti Goldman from the Seattle-based Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund said the WTO takes what would be rational environmental laws and regulations and treats them as trade barriers. One U.S. environmental regulation that required refineries to make a clean- er-burning gasoline was struck down by the WTO because it was viewed as a barrier to free trade, according to the International Forum on Globalization, an organization opposed to the WTO. If member countries decide to disre- gard the ruling, they can be fined and have trade sanctions placed against them, said Gary MacFarlane, treasurer of Friends of the Clearwater, a Moscow- based group that seeks to preserve Idaho's Clearwater National Forest. The Palouse River and other tributaries of the Columbia River run through that forest. THE DAILY EVERGREEN/LORI ASSA MacFarlane said he is concerned the Doug Venn (left) and manager Andre Zita (right) spend Monday afternoon at Vegan's, a restaurant inside the Koinonia House. WTO is able to sanction countries who go against its rulings. "(The WTO) removes anything that gets in its way," MacFarlane said. "We WSU seeking funds to upgrade aging power plant don't have a democracy, or even a limit- ed democracy. We have a corpocracy." Will Koenig . Gov. Gary Locke now is consid- power plant was shut down for continuously since then, and there One of the agreements being dis- ering the request for emergency about six hours in early August, is no way to maintain or fine tune cussed at the ministerial meeting is a lift- The Daily Evergreen funds. said Larry Ganders, director Plant Manager Connie Nolen said. the machines, he said. ing of restrictions on the export of logs WSU is requesting $5.6 million of WSU's state-wide affairs office. The boilers are old and difficult Since the steam shutdown the that have not been processed. staff has been studying the plant to from the Washington Legislature to It may be included in the budget for to control, he said. In August, the Lifting the ban may cause foreign see what upgrades are needed and make emergency repairs to the this legislative session, he said. controls failed and amount of species from other countries to invade making repairs when able, Nolen ower plant and to purchase a new "(We) expect a budget out by the steam being produced fluctuated forests, such as the Clearwater and Nez said. ~oiler for the plant. governor by the end of December," rapidly. The boilers could not han- Perce national forests in Idaho. "We want a plant that is going to The boilers, located on College Ganders said. dle it and had to be shut down, he The near extinction of the white pine last another 50 years," Nolen said. Avenue, produce the steam that If things go well, the university said. The high cost of parts has been in the Clearwater National Forest hats almost every building on may have the money by March, he "This (event) made us open our the biggest problem, he said. A sin- because of blister rust, a fungus that c:mpus. If the boile:-, fai!ed during said. It would be a real emergency eyes," Nolen said. gle pump the size of a tennis ball attacks white pines, was caused because the winter, the umversity would if the university had to wait another Most of the power plant was costs $600, he said. Other modern of the import of wood, MacFarlane said. ffer from frozen pipes, damaged year for the funds, he said. designed and built in the 1930s and ~~periments and very cold students. Steam production at the WSU I950s. The plant has been operating See Power on page 8 See Trade on page 3 Weather 2 Showers Calendar 2 Sports: News: State 3 Idaho, other Big West Protestants, Catholics sports 4 teams to compete in unite in big step toward Classifieds 6 Sun Belt Conference peace in Northern Ireland crossword 6 Boondocks . 8 P!,ge 4 PageS International 8 .., A student ~ubUcatiOflof Wast}ington $fa(e·OO~i1t PAGE 2 THE DAILY EVERGREEN • TuEsDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1999 TuB. WED. Pullman H H Canadian man sues Starbucks 46 44 Weather L L 41 33 for injury in New York bathroom Scattered Showers Scattered Showers Associated Press affixed when it should have been "It absolutely has affected hi" tightly affixed, slid, catching him ability to perform sexually," SAT. TIm. FRI. NEW YORK - A Canadian between the seat and porcelain Robbins said. "It's a tremendously H H man has sued Starbucks for $1.5 bowl." painful event now." 43 41 million, claiming that he suffered a Robbins said Skwarek, who suf- The lawyer said his client, an L L penis injury while using a coffee fered "a crushing injury and bruis- employee of an Ontario govern- 30 33 shop bathroom and that the injury ing," went to the Roosevelt mental agency, and his wife Sherrie E Hospital emergency' room where have no children. To have children, Showers Scattered Showers Scattered Showers left him unable to have children by normal means. doctors gave him pain killers. He Skwarek must now undergo a surgi- Edward Skwarek, 38, of says Skwarek was treated later by a cal procedure to have sperm Toronto, said in court papers that urologist in Toronto. removed so his wife can be insemi- his penis was crushed by a defec- The accident left Skwarek with nated, Robbins said. Community tively installed toilet seat he was sit- injured sperm ducts, scar tissue, and The lawsuit, filed Friday in ting on in the Starbucks on Avenue a condition called Peyronie's dis- Manhattan's State Supreme Court, of the Americas at West 22nd Street ease in which scar tissue causes the asks $1 million for Skwarek and Calendar on Aug. 20. penis to become misshaped. $500,000 for his wife for loss of her Skwarek's lawyer, Richard The injured sperm ducts have husband's consortium and services. from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. If interested, Tuesday caused retrograde ejaculation, call Jannette at 333-3456 . Robbins, described the mishap: Alan Gulick, a spokesman in • The Association for Women "The toilet paper was on a roll Robbins said, describing that as a Starbucks' Seattle headquarters. in Communications will meet Thursday on the back of the tank. He turned condition in which sperm cells are said he was aware of the lawsuit but Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Todd Hall 211. • The WSU Undergraduate to get it. The seat, very loosely not discharged during intercourse. could not comment on it. For more information, contact Tara English Club will meet Thursday at at 334-2988. 6 p.m. in the Bundy Reading Room. • The ASWSU Gay, Lesbian, • Gamma Alpha Omega, the first Bisexual, Transgendered and Allies ChicanalLatina sorority on campus, organization is looking for volun- will be having an ice cream social teers to watch the AIDS Quilt Thursday' at 7 p.m.