University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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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

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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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fc: - JANUARY After one of Washingto state's largest oil spills, volunteer Margaret Bonham sorts birds for a Burke Museum study. Serial killer Ted Bundy, a GW graduate, was finally executed. Extensive media coverage informed the morbidly fascinated public. Police speculated that he had killed 36 women in the Northwest and Florida, including two GW students in 1974. Controversial linguist and political theorist Noam Chomsky lectured to a packed house in Kane Hall, questioning G.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. His lecture led to a fierce debate in the editorial pages of The Daily. Two G.S. fighter pilots shot down two Libyan planes over the international waters off the coast of Libya. The incident sparked a controversy, as it was unclear whether the Libyan planes were armed. The ASGW Student Assembly later proposed a resolution to salute the brave pilots of the naval jets, but the ASGW Board of Control rejected the resolution. After several inches of snow fell on the Seattle area, a snowball fight among roughly 300 members of fraternities and sororities on Greek Row wreaked havoc on houses and passing cars when the fun got out of hand. More than 100 windows were reported broken during the fight. A live rooster was thrown from the balcony in Kane Hall into a Psychology 210 (Human Sexuality) classroom. horrifying students present when the rooster died on impact from an exploded abdomen. The prank turned out to be part of a fraternity's inspiration week, and a member of the fraternity eventually confessed to police. The incident sparked numerous letters to the editor in The Daily. On the night of the federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King. Jr., riots broke out in Miami. Florida, where one man was shot. At the GW. students honored King with week-long activities, ending with a march and rally. George Bush was sworn in as the 41st President of the Gnited States, saying it was the purpose of the American people to “make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the Face of the world. At the GW. about 150 demonstrators held a rally protesting G.S. involvement in El Salvador. Chanting slogans like Money for schools, not for war. G.S. out of El Salvador. the demonstrators marched to the ROTC building, where one protestor poured a bucket of cows' blood on the front steps. 12 January