10-28-02 01, 04, 05 10/27/02 8:27 PM Page 1 MONDAY Win some, October 28, 2002 lose some Soccer team sees both victory and loss Cloudy in home series High: 51 | Low: 31 Sports | 7 More weather, Page 2 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.