'Chicken Run' full of fun in play/page 3 College stars take first step to NBA . sports/page 5 Vol. 106 No. 173 A Student Publication of Washington State University since 1895 Thursday, June 29, 2000 AD search will end today Portland State University Conference, which The men's basketball team hasn't had competes at the Tyrone Evans are academically ineligi- a winning season since 1995-96, and ble for the 2000-2001 school year. AD to be tapped for WSU Divison I-AA level in won just one Pac-l0 basketball game Sterk will fill the position former WSU athletics director position football and at Division last season. I in other sports. AD Rick Dickson vacated March 4 in The baseball team is without a coach favor ofThlane University. Portland State Sterk also resur- By Jeff Chrapczynski and went 6-18 in the Pac-lO last spring. hired Sterk from Thlane in June of 1995. rected a basketball In the three most prolific WSU sports The mystery is over. The search for a program that had "Jim Sterk is a great choice," Dickson - football, basketball and baseball - said. "He will bring a great deal of new athletics director officially will close been dormant for 15 the Cougars were 26-67 overall and 8-42 today. enthusiasm and energy to the job. I am years. in the Pac-10 last year. very happy for both WSU and Jim; they A press conference is scheduled for "He is a very hard The problems don't stop there. make a perfect fit." 10:10 a.m. to announce Portland State Sterk worker," said Portland The athletics department must com- Dickson said he had a chance to get to University AD Jim Sterk as wSU's new State Senior Associate pete with across-the-board budget cuts. know Sterk the past five years while AD - and to whom hopes for a revived AD Anne McCoy. "He is successful because "He (Sterk) was able to raise the money Sterk was at Portland State. WSU athletics program will now fall to. he gets a vision and goes after it." "He is coming in at a wonderful time," "I am very excited," said Ken from only a few hundred-thousand dol- Terms of the deal have not been dis- lars to over a couple million," McCoy said. Dickson said. "I think he will be able to Casavant, chairman of WSU's on-cam- closed, but Sterk now will start rebuild- form the close-knit, friends and family pus search committee. ''We had 38 can- "He also has done ~a great job bridging ing a Cougar program that has fallen athletics and academics. He works his program that we first had, before things didates and got it narrowed down to one. into shambles. began to splinter up." It's Jim Sterk ..." best for the university and program." The football team has won one Pacific- Also, several athletes have become Sterk played football at, and graduat- During Sterk's reign at Portland State, 10 Conference victory in the two years ed from, Western Washington he was the catalyst in raising the VIkings academically ineligible recently. since the Cougars reached the Rose WSU linebacker Curtis Holden and University. from NCAA Division II to the Big Sky Bowl in 1997. basketball players Mike Bush and See Search, page 6 WSU feels The boys next door the heat ofnoAC By Denise Holley Crews were scrambling to enlarge and relocate a water cooling tower for WSU's largest chiller when temperatures soared into the mid-80s Wednesday. Staff and students sweltered as Facilities Operation funneled the limit- ed cooling capacity to buildings with animals, plants and research labs, said Ev Davis, director of Facilities Operation. The university bought a more effi- cient 2,000-ton cooler last winter to propel chilled water through a loop sys- tem to air condition most of central campus, Davis said. "We knew when we started replacing the 2,000-ton chiller that we were tak- ing a chance of getting a hot spell," Davis said. The alternative was to "wait until fall and live with what we knew was inadequate capacity." The new chiller was supposed to be installed by May 15, Davis said. He predicted it would be running by the end of next week. 'We didn't anticipate it being so hot and we didn't anticipate the problems we're having," said Tom Burritt, maintenance supervisor. He sent an e-mail to all depart- ments Wednesday to explain the lack of RAJAH BOSE/SUMMER EVERGREEN Doug Cameron, right, lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Stranger Neighbor, sings with horn player John Fricke in a See Cooling, page 6 I performance Wednesday afternoon on Glenn Terrell Mall. City Council expands district buildings By Will Koenig expand the classes and pro- will be able to rent the rooms for The Aquatic Center has a lap grams it provides, Recreation The Aquatic Center is taking activities in the evenings. The pool capable of holding 123 peo- The Pullman City Council Superintendent Al advantage of technology to keep center also has a gym that will ple, a recreation pool capable of toured something old and some- Vorderbrueggen said. costs down. Fetter said the cen- thing new, both of which are be used for fitness classes and holding 34 people and a wading ''We've been restricted before, dances. ter is using a keyless entry sys- borrowed from Pullman School pool for children. It also has a tem to track who can access the because oflack of space," he said, The Pullman Aquatic Center District. fitness room, which will be out- building. It will easier and "but now the sky's the limit." has been open for swimming be Pioneer Center, rebuilt from fitted with exercise equipment, cheaper to change codes instead The city has spent $223,000 lessons since June 21, but it will the old Franklin Elementary Fetter said. of changing the locks and issu- remodeling the building, which not be fully open until School, and the newly con- Swimming lessons, family ing new keys, Fetter said. will be split between Pullman -Septembar; Public Services structed Pullman Aquatic swims, water aerobics and lap Computers also keep track of School District administrative Director Larry Fetter said. Center are both owned by the swims all are planned to start the chemical ~vels in the pool, offices and the Parks and The building is owned by the Pullman School District, which in September, Holland said. Holland said' The constant Recreation Department, he Pullman School District and is is operating the facilities with There may be lifeguard training tracking means only small said. run by the city government. the help of the city government. and synchronized swimming amounts of chemicals need to Pioneer Center will have sev- The two entities are working as Pullman Parks and programs in the future. be added to the water. This has eral classrooms and a multipur- partners to share the costs of Recreation will use the extra "There's a full gamut of com- already cut down on the pose room with a kitchen, the facility, Aquatics space in the Pioneer Center to munity programs," Holland amount of chemicals the center Vorderbrueggen said. People Coordinator Josh Holland said. said. needs to purchase, he said. ' 2 THE SUMMER EVERGREEN .THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2000 NEWS LOw CORRECTION NEWS BRIEF The McNair Achievement dents at the graduate level. 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