University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Greek Week adopted a new tradition to unite members and pledges with the community. Funds were collected for local charities such as Children's Orthopedic Hospital and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. House members raised approximately $30,000 through T-shirt sales and donations from the Songfest competition, the Make-A-Wish Foundation Run. and the phone-a-thon. In addition to the fundraiser, all houses competed in events. Belly flops, airband shows, and slam dunks highlighted the week's activities. House members and pledges scored points through T-shirt sales, attendance at meetings, phone-a-thons, food drives, Run donations, placing in events, and by winning the spirit award. Following a week of hard work and play, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity and Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority pulled the highest scores and won the competition. Frustrated math majors, teaching students. and other undergraduates competing for small classes at GW might welcome a plan similar to the one outlined in a Minnesota bill. The proposed bill, which had gained popularity among Minnesota state residents in the past year, would force colleges to offer required courses often enough so that students could attain their bachelor's degrees in the traditional four year time period. According to a College Placement Council Survey, new college graduates In various disciplines could expect higher salary offers than those of the previous year. Chemical engineers received the biggest jump of 5.9% to an average salary offer of $32,812. Allied health graduates also enjoyed higher earnings, and average salary offers to most business graduates rose, particularly for human resources and accounting majors. A series of arson fires broke out in the GW Electrical Engineering Building, causing almost $420,000 In damages to the building and several computers. Although few graduations were delayed for students' projects that were destroyed in the flames, some students used backup software at other locations to protect their work. Police and fire departments decided to reinvestigate the April 24 fire after fires occurred on May. 15. 16. and 18. The April fire was later dismissed as accidental when investigators found that all three May fires were similar in the way they started. After the fourth fire and for the first time in Gniversity history, police officers guarded security posts at all EEB entries. Students, staff, and faculty members had to sign in when entering the building and sign out when leaving. May 21 Mellanie Thompson of Kappa Kappa Gamma ponders an alternate sketch for her teammates In Win. Lose or Draw.

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- MAY The University District Street Fair celebrated its 20th anniversary with more food, crafts, people and entertainment than ever. In 1969. small business owners decided that a big project such as a street fair could unite the community — and that it did. The ever-popular. late spring event attracts more and more people every year. Because of the perfect weather, this year's weekend turnout was in excess of 200.000 people. Local bands entertained the crowds with oldies and classic tunes while other groups showcased their new musical talents. Students and the public consumed a wide variety of ethnic foods offered at close to 30 stands. Roughly 470 other booths offered artwork and diverse items ranging from hand-crafted flutes to bonsai trees. UW Time Schedules have their share of errors, but none approached the mix-up of the University of New Mexico's class directory. Students there found every other page of their directories upside down on account of a printing mishap. The printing plant agreed to send new ones at no charge, but students had to wait up to four more weeks for the corrected copies. A new injectable birth control method might alter current views toward contraception. Family planning might be more highly regarded as a male responsibility if a contraceptive which stops the natural production of sperm gains popularity nationwide At the University of Washington Medical Center, male subjects were given 200mg injections of a synthetic form of testosterone once a week for 16 to 20 weeks. After this period, subjects with zero-sperm counts were asked to discontinue all other forms of contraception except the injections for one year. Five of the men who completed the one year term reported no pregnancies. Only one subject’s partner became pregnant, but his sperm count had not yet reached zero and his condom had malfunctioned. Tests showed that a normal sperm count resumed after the injections had stopped. Some men reported mi nor side effects such as recurring acne among men who had suffered acne during puberty and or an average weight gain of six pounds. During Greek Week, ASUW President Michael Egan of Psl Upsilon Fraternity impersonated Michael Jackson In a version of his music video Smooth Criminal wearing dark make up on his face. This invoked complaints from student organizations who charged that he was performing In blackface. The students wrote a letter to President Gerberding In The Daily, explaining that blackface performances began in minstrel shows where white performers ridiculed black people. The letter described modern minstrel shows and Airband contests as demeaning, degrading, and an insult to black students, black faculty and staff, and the black community as a whole. Egan wrote in response, ... my intentions can be misconstrued but I hope that those who know me realize my intentions were never meant to offend anyone. Husky crew races have always increased the excitement of boating season. Follow ing a 19-year tradition, Husky races highlighted Opening Day of the season Thou sands of people lined Montlake Cut to get a glance at the races and watch boats of all types go through the Cut on the biggest boating day of the year. The Husky teams didn't let them down. Rowers faced teams from New Zealand. Italy, and the University of California at Berkeley for the Third Annual Windermere Cup Races. The UW varsity women's and men’s teams both finished second in their races. The New Zealand women's team and the Italian men's team finished first. Following the event, rowers from all teams traded sweatshirts and other articles of clothing as part of Windermere Cup tradition. Of course, the most popular items were from UW. 20 May

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 - JUNE The CJW Task Force on Racism pre sented the conclusions of a year long study on racism, which showed that blacks and Native Americans in particular believe race relations at the (JW are unsatisfactory. The report recommended stronger efforts by university officials to investigate cases of racial harassment and to increase hiring of minority faculty members, whose numbers lagged behind the percentage of minority students. The College of Arts and Sciences began studying the Task Force recommendation that all GW students take ethnic studies courses that would expose them to various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini died of a heart attack at age 86 after undergoing surgery for a bleeding digestive system. President Ali Kahmenei was appointed to take Khomeini’s place, with Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani expect ed to become Iran's new president. Khomeini was swept into power in 1979 during the revolution which toppled the Shah of Iran. Political turmoil had gripped the country since Khomeini launched a radical resur gence in February with his death decree against British author Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his novel, The Satanic Verses. The Chinese army stormed into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and began to forcibly remove student protesters. killing hundreds of students and bystanders in the process The students had been occupying the square for several months to bring about de mocracy in China. Many who were arrested were sentenced and executed for being counter-revolutionaries. The Chinese government launched a huge propaganda campaign and maintained that no deaths occurred in Tiananmen Square. Reports from China revealed that the Chinese government had cremated victims’ bodies beyond recognition to destroy proof of the massacre. 22 June