University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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The 1989 student legislative lobbying agenda was carried to Olympia in a relay run by members of the ASUW Board of Control. The baton containing the agenda drawn up by student advocacy groups was handed off as students from the UW, Western Washington University, and Eastern Washington University ran threeto eight-mile legs of the 70-mile trip to the state capital. Vans also carried students to a rally in front of the Capitol Building to protest tuition hikes. Other items on the agenda included the bill which would give students more control over spending the Services and Activities Fees and would propose more state financial aid. About 300 people demonstrated to protest the loss of low-income housing in downtown Seattle, one sign of the increasing problem of the homeless in the Seattle area. Forty-eight protesters were arrested for criminal trespassing after refusing to leave the lobby of the state convention center when it closed. January 13

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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

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£ ■ FEBRUARY The Huskies basketball team defeated Wazzu in a 76-70 victory, finishing off a season sweep of the Cougars. This also acted as a double victory” since Wazzu beat the Huskies twice last year. Snow paralyzed the CJW and the school closed for a day and a half — the second closure in 1989 and in four years. The University Hospital, University Police, and the University campus libraries stayed open, however. Remembering the sledding incidents in the winter of 1985, Housing and Food Services replaced the plastic trays from the residence hall cafeterias with cardboard ones. The UW police handled more calls than usual concerning Fire alarms and water flow alarms caused by freezing pipes, and a few concerning minor traffic accidents. Hershel and other sea lions in the Ballard Locks still faced capture by government agencies despite objections from environmentalist groups and interested individuals. In recent years sea lions have feasted on the lock s steelhead trout; in fact, last year around 20 sea lions consumed more than half of the prized steelhead run. Many experts believed that removal of the mammals from the locks was the only solution to the dwindling trout population. Several groups protested this action on the grounds that the public’s inability to participate in the decision to remove the sea lions constituted a violation of National Environmental Policy Act procedures. Because of the deaths of several sea lions, these groups have also protested the use of an anesthetic administered to the animals which allows the scientists to affix radio transmitters to the animals' bodies so that their location can be monitored. Seven sea lions have been captured by the Department of Wildlife and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Eldridge Recasner goes up for two points in a victory over WSCJ (76-70). 14 February