University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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£t - DECEMBER The Institute for Environmental Studies, supported by WashPIRG. proposed a plan for more effective waste control and recycling measures. IES and ASGW members In the Recycling Advisory Board decided to hire an outside professional to analyze campus waste flow before acting on the plan. Vim Wright, assistant director of IES, said, I doubt if the GW recycles more than six percent of its waste now. Supporters of the plan anticipated difficulties in changing city regulations. Wright encouraged the administration to become more aggressively involved in the problem, saying that the university should be actively and socially responsible. If fully implemented, our plan could make the GW a leader in recycling programs nationwide. The GW volleyball team defeated the Arizona State Sun Devils, winning the first playoff game in the history of the team. The ninth-place Huskies went on to play Stanford in the second round of the NCAA post season tournament. Bruce Springsteen and actress Julianne Phillips, a former Northwest resident, were granted a divorce. The two met backstage at one of Springsteen’s concerts in 1984. and were married in May 1985. Seattle developer Martin Selig paid his light bill. In October. City Light threatened to shut off the power in five of Selig’s buildings if payment of an impressive $64,000 were not received. Almost three months and three large payments later. Selig was in the clear, and his buildings, including the Columbia Center, were not in the dark. Just in time for the holidays, Cineplex Odeon. Seattle’s largest theater chain, increased ticket pr ices. Adult tickets moved up from $5.50 to $6. This was the third price increase for the theater chain in Seattle in two years. Entering the finals of the NCAA, the GW volleyball team was aided by this set for one point by Melinda Bcckenhaur to Jackie Auzias de Turenne. 10 December

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Cougar Mark Ledbetter celebrates WSCJ's Apple Cup victory as Husky Aaron Jenkins grimaces in pain. Acquisition fever hit the (J.S. food industry when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Company bought RJR Nabisco. The investment firm paid $25 billion for the food and tobacco company, making it the largest corporate buyout in G.S. history. RJR stockholders also benefitted from the purchase as RJR stock rose $32. Just weeks earlier. Philip Morris Company, another food and tobacco firm, bought Kraft Incorporated for $13.1 billion. This purchase followed an agreement by Pillsbury Company to be acquired for $5.75 billion by Grand Metropolitan PLC, a British food and liquor company. The Huskies lost the Apple Cup game to the Washington State Cougars 32-31 la Pullman. Although the Huskies had a halftime lead, the Cougars rallied in the fourth quarter to top the Huskies by one point. WSG clinched their first bowl bid in seven years while the Huskies' string of nine consecutive bowl game appearances was snapped. It was a really frustrating season because every game came down to the last minute and we lost most of them. said Husky free safety Eugene Burk-halser. The Huskies finished with a disappointing 6 and 5 overall record. GW sophomore Kelly Caviezel and junior Stacey ‘Jones represented the Huskies during College Week on the game show. “Win, Lose or Draw.” They competed against students from Southern Methodist. Georgia Tech and Northwestern Gniversities. “It was a lot of fun, said Caviezel. “The people we met from the other colleges made it fun, added Jones. The pair won $1,000 for the GW's general scholarship fund. Luckily, a computer hacker was unable to obtain classified G.S. Navy information from the GW Applied Physics Laboratory when an account was opened on the GW main frame system. The break-in followed a computer virus incident two weeks earlier which affected more than 6.000 computers nationwide. The virus, created by a Cornell Gniversity graduate student, triggered a rash of copy-cat incidents on the East coast. Neither the break-in nor the virus caused any major damage to the GW computer system. Some GW students ate a single scoop of rice with their hands while others enjoyed ham. potatoes and dessert at the Overseas Development Network's Third World Dinner held at the HGB West Ballroom. For the $3 ticket price. 90 students were seated in either the third world section (on the floor) or the first world” section (at a dining table). The dinner raised more than $300 for a water purification project in San Pablo. Ecuador. Students were encouraged to step out of their comfort zone and volunteer to help needy people, said Zoe Ann Olson, head of the Overseas Development Network. The ASGW Board of Control unanimously approved a resolution calling for the installation of condom machines in residence hall bathrooms. The resolution called the machines Necessary for the discreet protection from disease 24 hours a day, seven days week at little or no cost to the Gniversity. The ASGW Student Assembly cited the efficacy of condoms in guarding against dangerous sexually transmitted diseases and an increasing rate of campus sexual activity as reasons why the machines were necessary.

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Columbia Tower almost loses lighting when Martin Selig neglects his bill. Philanthropist Prentice Bloedel. whose wife had hearing problems, gave $5 million to the (JW for hearing impairment research. The money would be used for a new hearing research center and would be named for Bloedel's wife. Virginia. Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie. Scotland, killing all 270 people on board. It was not apparent just who was responsible for the bomb, although further studies showed that a sophisticated two-trigger device caused the explosion. For the first time in Its 35-year history. Denny's was closed for Christmas. Since the restaurants up until then were open 24 hours a day. Denny's never had to lock its doors. Most of the restaurants’ front doors did not even have locks until the week before Christmas. In spite of escalating tuition costs anticipated for next year. President William P. Gerberding called tuition at the GW a bargain. Faculty salary increases, campus improvements, and proposals for two branch campuses hiked tuition rates up to a scheduled increase of $169 per year by 1990-91. The Higher Education Coordinating Board's figures indicated that GW tuition for resident undergraduates was 8.5 percent higher in 1987-88 than at peer universities nationwide. Prompted by the HEC Board, legislators agreed to analyze a plan to replace the automatic escalator rule which tied tuition levels to fixed percentages of students’ educational costs with one that tied tuition levels to national averages. The Space Needle hosted the third annual “times Square of the West. The festivities were well under way by midnight when all eyes turned skyward as the top of the Space Needle was lighted and hundreds of balloons were released. December 11