Whalesong (v.3 no.10)

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Publisher University of Alaska, Juneau

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Volume 3 No. 10

University of Alaska, Juneau

March 30, 1984

House Finance arts

UAJ slated to receive increase

By Whalesong Staff

If the figures recently passed by the House Finance Com- mittee hold true, the University of Alaska, Juneau will receive a healthy 12.6 percent increase in funds for the 1985 fiscal year.

The current fiscal year bud- get at UAJ is right at $11.8 mil- lion. The new House budget would allow the university to spend a- bout $13.1 million, according to a recently-released state budget summary.

If the governor's budget holds true, UAJ would, receive a slightly higher figure, amounting to a 13 percent increase or $13.2 million.

UAJ administrators original- ly asked the Legislature for a- bout $13.7 million for FY 85. It is rare that either the governor or lawmakers ever grant a state agency's total request, especial- ly in light of recent declines in state oil revenue.

UAJ would receive about $335,000 from federal receipts; nearly $11 million from the state general fund coffers; $2.1

mil-lion from tuition and other pro-gram receipts; and $30,000 from other funds.

The total university system is also faring well in both the governor's and the House budget although, once again, statewide UA administrators are not getting all they asked for. The original

request was for $286.4 million but the governor chopped the a- mount to $277.3 and House lawmak- ers whittled it down to $271.9 million. The current year opera- ting budget for the UA system is $244.7 million.

UAJ administrators original-ly asked lawmakers for enough money to fund 190 full-time

po-sitions and six part-time on cam-pus for FY 85. This compares to 183 full-time and eight part-time positions funded this fiscal year. The gpvernor's amended

budget allows for 199 full-time positions and eight part-time positions. The House allows for 204 full-time and eight part-time positions.

New positions that are being considered for hire include: one faculty position in population dynamics; one foreign language faculty; a marine technology instructor; a computer education faculty member; a power technol- ogy instructor; a coordinator of telecommunications; one paralegal studies faculty member; a library assistant as well as an instruc- tional librarian; a counseling assistant; one faculty member in the mathematics department; and another in psychology.

New positions may be

opening up for a

growing college if

funds go through

Dr. Demmert chosen to head school

Special for the Whalesong

William Demmert, Jr., has re- cently been named dean of the School of Education and Liberal Arts at the University of Alaska, Juneau, moving up from his posi- tion as acting dean of the school, a post he has held since June of last year.

Demmert, who served as depu- ty commissioner of the Alaska De- partment of Fish and Game from 1980-1982, will head a department of 29 faculty and more than 450 program students.

Demmert received his doctor- ate in education from Harvard U- niversity, his master's of educa- tion from the University of Al- aska, Fairbanks and his bache- lor's degree from Seattle Pacific College. He also received an hon- orary doctor of laws degree and was named the Indian Educator of

the Year in 1977. He has been with the University of Alaska,

Juneau since 1982.

Demmert, who remains active in Native affairs, served as an affiliate professor for public affairs and Indian studies at the University of Washington from 1978-1980; was a deputy commis- sioner in the U.S. Office of Edu- cation, and has served as direc- tor, program manager, consultant and technical advisor for a wide variety of state, private and federal offices and programs. He also worked as an advisor to the U.S. Senate in its dealing with the Indian Education Act of 1971.

From 1979 to 1981 he was chairman of the board of the Kla- wock Heenya Corporation based in Klawock. In 1982 Gov. Jay Hammond selected Demmert for a State of

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Opinion

Every week it seems that you read more and more about the ar- rests of people, young and old, for possession or sale of mari- juana. And while laws on the use of "pot" are, relatively speaking, lax in Alaska, more people are having their lives ruined by their love affair with pot.

Obviously there is a large demand for the drug in Juneau, otherwise it would not be so much in the limelight in the police blotter. And try as they will, the law enforcement community will never be able to seriously undermine the established "jokers, smokers, and midnight tokers" in our capital city, or indeed, Al- aska as a whole. No matter how many people are made to suffer.

There are also complaints to be heard from the doper popula- tion. Dealers who "short" them or charge exorbitant prices. And people who break into your home to steal your "stash".

Combine all of this with Al- aska's falling oil revenues and you can come to one conclusion, the legalization and taxation of marijuana for sale to adults is sensible. Alaska already leads the Union with up-to-date laws on marijuana, why not start a new trend and save millions in court costs, lost taxes, and lost souls?

Legalizing and controling the sale of marijuana would rapidly reduce the price to a reasonable level (I for one do not feel com- fortable paying 60 plus dollars for about seven grams of a plant's leaves, I don't care what it does), as well as giving the state a boost in revenue to help it finish the many projects it started and abandoned when the oil prices started to drop. But to go along with this would have to be a way to keep pot out of the hands of juveniles. Adults usually have sense enough to know what they want and understand the consequences, minors do not (us- ually).

Give back Central America

Sirs,

The situation in Nicaragua is extremely critical at this time. The Nicaraguan economy which de- pends heavily on only a few agri- cultural exports has been under increasing attack from CIA-backed counterrevolutionaries. Several hundred million doll ares worth of damage has already resulted from attacks such as the one against the vital oil storage facilities at the port of Corinto last Octo- ber.

Nicaragua needs a successful coffee harvest to be able to pur- chase basic food stuffs, medi- cines, spare parts for industry and transportation, and oil. Be- cause of the urgent political and military situation, many Nicar- aguans have been mobilized in the defense of their country and cannot participate in the Decem- ber-February coffee harvest this year.

That is why I have chosen to respond to Nicaragua's call for international work brigades to ensure a successful coffee har- vest this year.

In the United States, the Nat- ional Network in Solidarity with the Nicaraguan People (NNSNP) is working to coordinate volunteer participation. U.S. citizens have a particular role to play in this harvest, because if it were not for our governments open attempts to overthrow the government of Nicaragua, the Nicaraguans would be free to develop their own political life and their economy in peace.

By participating in the vol- unteer coffee harvest, I hope to show that as an American citizen,

I stand with the people of Nicar- agua in their time of need and that I oppose the policies of the Reagan administration. I urge

others who hold similar beliefs to write to NNSNP for furthur in- formation on h o w to help the peo- ple o f Nicaragua and to make

don-ations. Their address is: NNSNP, 2025. "I" Street NW, suite 402, Washington, D.C, 20006.

The time has come to give Central America back to its people!

Sincerely,

David L. Wiltsie San Francisco

Letter of apology

Dear Whalesong Staff and All Faculty and Students:

Over the past four issues I have used works by Richard Brautigan and with some revision have used my name on the by-line.

These Brautigan pieces were taken from Trout Fishing in Amer- ica, The Abortion, and The Tokyo- Montana Express.

It would be a sin to have one reader of the Whalesong believe that these stories are mine. I stole them and deeply apologize.

Because of my flagrant abuse of responsible journalism and my responsibility as Arts Editor, I hereby submit my resignation.

My behavior and actions have axed my credibility to readers, staff and faculty members. I have no excuse, only regrets for lying to all of you and appeal to your capacity to forgive me.

I have enjoyed sharing the many past issues and being a part of the Whalesong family. I would warmly welcome any future re- quests to submit honest journal- ism to your paper. I hope that my abuse will not harm the validity of the paper and its writers in the future.

In closing, I must tell you that this is one of the most stu- pid things I have ever d.one and offer a sincere apology to Michael Mulnix through whose personality and talents have led me to take these classes.

I also feel a responsibility to answer to him personally, my actions, if so requested.

With regrets I submit, Gary Long

Whalesong Staff

Editors

Tracey Williams

George Paradise

Layout & Design

Michael Barger

Reporters

Karen Bonnett

Barbara Cadiente-Nelson

Therese McHugh

Tammy Mills

Jose Peguero

Ron Reed

Advisor

Michael Mulnix

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Presidential finalists chosen

By TRACEY R. WILLIAMS Whalesong Co-Editor

Five finalists have been cho- sen as potential hopeful Is for the position of President of the University of Alaska, statewide.

The University of Alaska Presidential Search Committee Chair Jeff Cook presented to the Board of Regents on March 8, the names of the five contenders for the presidential seat. The fin- alists are listed in alphabetical order in response to the regents' request that finalists not be ranked.

They are; Richard Bjork, Cha- ncellor of Vermont State Colleges in Waterbury, Vermont since 1978 and currently Acting President of Glassboro State College. He also served as the founding Pres- ident of Stockton State College (New Jersey) and the Vice Chan- cellor, Department of Education in New Jersey. Dr. Bjork received his B.A. from Yale in 1952, an M.A. from Vanderbilt in 1953 and a Ph.D. from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1961, all in political science.

Ellis E. McCune, President, California State University at Hayward since 1967. He has also served as Dean of Academic Plan- ning for the California State University system. Dr. McCune earned his B.A. in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1957, both in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Donald D. O'Dowd is the Exec- utive Vice Chancellor of New York State University system since 1980. Prior, he was Acting Pres- ident of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York and President of Oakland University in Michigan (1970- .1980). Dr. O'Dowd received his B.A. in philosophy from Dartmouth College in 1951, an M.A. in 1955 a n d . a Ph.D. in 1957 in social psychology from Harvard.

David Richard Powers, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the West Virginia Board of Regents since 1982 also served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at George Mason Univer- sity and Vice Provost at the Uni- versity of Pittsburg. Dr. Powers received his B.A. in 1963, an M.A. in 1965 and his Ph.D. in political science from the Uni- versity of Pittsburg.

Jerome F. Wartgow has served as the Executive Director for the Auraria Higher Education Center since 1978. Prior to this pos- ition, he was a visiting professor at the University of Denver, and Deputy Director, Acting Executive Director and Director of Planning

for the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. Dr. Wartgow re= ceived his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin- Superior in 1964, an M.A. in ed- ucational administration from the University of Hawaii in 1967 and a Ph.D. in higher education/busi- ness administration from the Uni- versity of Denver in 1972.

Regents Roy Huhndorf, Herb Lang and Ruth Burnett will travel to the candidates communities to

interview them and their assoc- iates. The candidates will then

be invited to Alaska where they will be interviewed by the Uni- versity of Alaska's Board of Re- gents, faculty, students, staff and members of the general public. The five finalists were un- animous choices of the search committee which screened 90 cand idates in all. According to Board President Don Abel, "The Regents plan to move very quickly," and possibly, "could know something by the time of our next meeting, April 26-27." T h e f i n a n c i a l s t a t e m e n t s s h o w n h e r e o u r f o r t h e c u r r e n t S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t a n d t h e l a s t y e a r ' s S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t (it i s s h o w n s i n c e a f i n a n c i a l s t a t e m e n t w a s n o t d o n e ) . F i s c a l y e a r 1 9 8 4 ' s f i n a n c i a l s t a t e m e n t i s t o F e b r u a r y 2 9 , 1 9 8 4 . S t u d e n t s s h o u l d b e a w a r e t h a t S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t c a n n o t j u s t s p e n d m o n e y . W e h a v e t o h a v e a n a d v i s o r ' s s i g n i t u r e , a n d o b t a i n i n g a p u r c h a s e o r d e r i s a l e n g t h y p r o c e s s . R e s p e c t i v e l y s u b m i t t e d , C y n t h i a M . M o o r e , S e c r e t a r y - T r e a s u r e r . S T U D E N T G O V E R N M E N T F I N A N C I A L S T A T E M E N T F Y '83 ( 7 / 1 / 8 2 - 6 / 3 0 / 8 3 ) R e v e n u e s S t u d e n t a c t i v i t y f e e s $ 1 9 , 4 5 3 . 7 0 M i s c e l l a n e o u s r e v e n u e 3 8 2 . 8 7 V e n d i n g m a c h i n e r e v e n u e 2 , 7 9 6 . 1 1 M i s c e l l a n e o u s s a l e s & r e n t a l r e v e n u e 2 , 6 4 6 . 7 5 T O T A L R E V E N U E S $ 2 5 , 2 7 9 . 4 3 E x p e n d i t u r e s S a l a r i e s $ 2 , 0 0 0 . 8 5 T r a v e l - A l a s k a C o n f / M e e t i n g s 1 , 8 9 5 . 8 0 P r o f e s s i o n a l f e e s 4 , 4 6 2 . 2 9 O f f i c e m a c h i n e r e n t / l e a s e 3 0 0 . 0 0 C o m p u t e r h a r d w a r e r e n t / l e a s e 4 8 5 . 7 9 S p a c e r e n t a l / l e a s e 9 6 . 0 0 D u p l i c a t i n g c h a r g e s 6 1 8 . 0 0 P h o n e r e n t a l c h a r g e s 4 6 . 7 1 T o l l c h a r g e s ( l o n g d i s t a n c e ) 3 9 . 5 9 A d v e r t i s i n g / p u b l i c i t y 1 , 0 9 0 . 0 0 D u e s / m e m b e r s h i p s 2 , 0 2 5 . 0 0 E q u i p m e n t m a i n t e n a n c e s v c . c o n t r a c t 1 7 7 . 9 6 S t a t i o n e r y / o f f i c e s u p p l i e s 1 8 2 . 3 7 D i s p o s a b l e e q u i p m e n t p u r c h a s e 2 2 8 . 5 2 O t h e r i t e m s f o r r e s a l e 1 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 E n t e r t a i n m e n t 8 1 3 . 8 5 T O T A L E X P E N D I T U R E S $ 1 5 , 4 6 2 . 7 3 N e t r e v e n u e $ 9 , 8 1 6 . 7 0 S T U D E N T G O V E R N M E N T F I N A N C I A L S T A T M E N T F Y ' 8 4 ( 7 / 1 / 8 3 - 2 / 2 9 / 8 4 ) R e v e n u e s S t u d e n t a c t i v i t y f e e s $ 2 0 , 2 4 1 . 5 0 I n d i v i d u a l g i f t 2 0 . 0 0 M i s c e l l a n e o u s r e v e n u e 2 1 . 1 4 V e n d i n g m a c h i n e r e v e n u e 1 , 3 8 2 . 1 9 M i s c e l l a n e o u s s a l e s & r e n t a l r e v e n u e 7 9 . 8 0 T o t a l r e v e n u e t o d a t e $ 2 1 , 7 4 4 . 6 3 E x p e n d i t u r e s S a l a r i e s 1 , 3 3 1 . 4 2 T r a v e l - A l a s k a C o n f / M e e t i n g s 1 , 5 3 6 . 6 0 ( 4 1 9 . 0 0 ) D u p l i c a t i n g c h a r g e s 5 4 . 3 0 P r i n t i n g c h a r g e s 2 4 0 . 0 0 P h o n e r e n t a l c h a r g e s 1 1 8 . 9 4 T o l l c h a r g e s ( l o n g d i s t a n c e ) 3 1 . 9 0 P o s t a g e 4 . 0 0 E q u i p m e n t m a i n t e n a n c e s v c . c o n t r a c t 6 0 0 . 0 0 S t a t i o n e r y / o f f i c e s u p p l i e s 1 . 0 0 ( 3 8 9 . 3 5 ) O t h e r s u p p l i e s c o m m o d i t i e s 1 9 9 . 2 2 E d u c a t i o n a l e q u i p m e n t 1 , 5 7 5 . 0 0 T o t a l e x p e n d i t u r e s t o d a t e $ 5 , 6 9 2 . 3 8 N e t R e v e n u e 1 6 , 0 5 2 . 2 8 L e s s : e n c u m b e r a n c e s 8 0 8 . 3 5 N e t R e v e n u e t o d a t e $ 1 5 , 2 4 3 .9 0

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B-ballers build team from ground up

By DON FREY

Special to the Whalesong

The exciting action of inter- collegiate basketball lies on the horizon for the University of Alaska, Juneau as Coach Clair Markey and Director of Student Activities/Athletics Jim Dumont begin the task of building the blue and silver team from the ground up.

Tip-off for the first game is scheduled for Dec. 30 when UAJ faces Eastern "Baptist College of Salem, Ore. That contest launches a 22-game schedule which includes 10 home encounters, two in Ketchikan and at least one trip to the Lower 48.

Games have tentatively been arranged with Concordia College , Pacific University, Simon Fra- sier University, the University of British Columbia, Southern Oregon College and Northwest As- sembly of God.

UAJ plans to petition to affiliate with the National Asso- ciation for Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), according to Dumont. Affiliation requires the approval of the University of Alaska, Board of Regents. Both the University of Alaska, Fair- banks and the University of Alaska, Anchorage are in the NCAA Division II but began in the NAIA.

Markey, hired on a part-time basis to run the intramural bas ketball program on campus, is currently recruiting talent from across the reaches of Alaska. He is no stranger to the maplecourt, having coached at Juneau-Douglas, Wrangell and Monroe Catholic high schools, as well as at Seattle U- niversity and Tacoma Community College. While at Seattle Univer- sity Markey took his charges into the first round of the NCAA play- offs. He has also coached UAJ professional basketball for the

Anchorage Northern Knights of the Continental Basketball

League.

Recruits for the program, ac- cording to Markey, will come from the field of talent in Alaska.

" There are enough good bas- ketball players within the state. We will be competitive using the young men of Alaska," he said.

The UAJ squad, as all teams within the NAIA District I, will not abound with tennis-shoed monoliths. The average height of centers in the league is around 6-6, according to Markey. For- wards reach up to 6-4 while guards, built for speed and quickness, will be in the six- -foot range, he said.

''There are few teams with a dominating center,'' said Markey. "Our program will be built a- round speed, getting up and down the court, putting pressure on the opposition. We want to set the tempo of the game.''

Markey said he felt the u- niversity could be competitive within its first few seasons.

" A lot of what I've done on the recruiting trips so far is to introduce myself, the university and the new basketball program.

It's a new program, one I feel is tailer-made for Alaskan players," said Markey.

Lucky duo win free trip

For two lucky people it was a trip to Seattle and tickets to the final four National Collegi- ate Athletic Association basket- ball games. For the University of Alaska, Juneau it was needed funds for it embryotic basketball program. Either way a recent fundraiser was a resounding suc- cess according to Jim Dumont, UAJ director of Student Activities/ Athletics.

" W e took in, in round fig- ures, about $8600 which we will use for entirely for scholarships for athletes. We wanted to show we could raise money for athletic scholarships and we did," said Dumont.

The other part of the fund- raiser was the trip to Seattle and tickets to the final four major college basketball tourna- ment. The trip and the tickets were won by Dr. Sidney Bergquist, dean of the School of Education at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. His ticket, however, was not the first drawn.

The first winning ticket was purchased collectively by four officials, from Seattle, who were hired to officiate during the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau. They elected to return their ticket and allow another name to be drawn. Bergquist's name was then drawn.

UAJ's dean of Education and Liberal Arts, Bill Demmert, earned the prize for selling the most tickets. He accounted for 64 of the 344 tickets sold,

includ-ing one he sold to Bergquist. Tickets sold for $25 each. For his effort Demmert received two tickets to the final four basket- ball games.

Tickets to watch the NCAA basketball tournament were dona- ted by the Southeast Alaska Athletic Association (SEAAA).

The flight carrying the win- ners to Seattle was donated by Alaska Airlines, four nights lodging for two was donated by

Vance Hotels of Seattle and Mirier Publishing of Juneau donated the cost of printing the tickets.

In addition to the major pri- zes, five names were drawn to re- ceive season tickets to the uni- versity's initial basketball cam- paign which begins at the end of December of 1984.

Michael outshoots most,

takes 3rd in competition

Dave Michael, shooting for the University of Alaska, Juneau Rifle squad, notched a 3rd Master medal in championship competition in Anchorage held the first weekend in March. Michael was the single UAJ shooter to make the medal rounds.

UAJ, coached by Bud Shaw, captured fifth in the Match #4 A- laska State Team Championship. The Juneau team came in behind the Alaska Rifle Club, UAF, Alaska National, Guard and UAA

with 3857 points. A.R.C. paced the competition with 4468 points. Michael collected 380 points in the prone position; 293 in the standing position and 348 kneel- ing. Each was out of a possible 400 points. His point total was

1021.

Colleen Campbell followed for UAJ with 989; Becky Hinman with 969; Joy Vandenberg is 940; and Anthony Vandenberg with 927. Totals were based on a possible 1200 points.

The Anchorage match was the final shootout for the UAJ ri- flers.

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Edie Trambitas and early Juneau

By BARBARA CADIENTE-NELSON Whalesong Staff Reporter

Sitting in Edith 'Edie' Trambitas' living room, one gets the immediate impression that she is a collector of items that re- flect Juneau and Auke Bay's hist- ory; antique beachcombed bottles, scrapbooks of Juneau business matchbooks dating as far back as

1939, and Tlingit artifacts dug up from her mother's garden in Auke Bay. Aside her rows of books could easily be a history book of her life in Alaska.

As Edie speaks of her child- hood in Auke Bay back in the 30's, she speaks of being the only kid on the block besides her two brothers. Her vivid memory paints an exciting picture of trapping in the meadows when she was a youngster.

"I wore a long coat one day when I went to check my mink trap.

I got next to the mink in the trap to club him. "That way," she added apologetically, "you got the mink out of his misery quick- ly."

With her voice rising exci- tedly, she added, "But I got too close! The mink chewed and clawed at my coat. I screamed and man- aged to pull away but the bottom of my coat was shredded to pie- ces."

Laughing about the fear she felt then, Edie spoke of another trapping incident that put her face to face with two brown bears. "One bear was in my trap and the other was standing close by. They were both staring at me. It didn't take but seconds for me to turn and run all the way back home."

Edie was born and reared in Auke Bay when the only access to the bay was by boat.

"I was born in a cabin on the beach grounds that my grandfather homesteaded which was later farm ed by my father. The homestead consisted of 160 acres of land.' Pt. Robertson, in fact, which was included in the homestead, was the battle site where the Yakutat

Indians fought the Auke tribe." Edie's grandfather, John

'West' Waydelich came to Auke Bay in 1881 in search of gold. Wayde- lich, a Yale College graduate, was the first white settler in Auke Bay. He married a Tlingit woman from the Auke clan and they turned their homestead into farm land.

Edie's father, Victor Spauld- ing, also came to Alaska in sear- ch of gold. He crossed the Chil- kat Pass and settled in Auke Bay. In 1897, Spaulding married Dora Waydelich and they reared three children. Dora taught Spaulding the farming trade and they grew the only fresh produce available

in Juneau.

"The biggest day of the summer was when we would go with my fa ther to town over the sand bar in his small boat to sell our vege tables. One day when I was about five years old, we got stuck on the sand bar. The tide went out on us and we had to wait six hours or so before the tide came back in! But we were happy. We had lots of good to eat and so we enjoyed our day."

Their cargo of lettuce, on- ions, radishes, beets, potatoes, and berries of every sort were sold to the local Juneau grocers.

"I vaguely remember the

gro-cers buying our produce and haul-ing it away from the City float in their horse-drawn wagons. Their horses terrified me!"

Edie's laughter and lively eyes did not betray her age as she spoke further of her 'golden days.'

"We were busy kids. In the winter we skated on the lake and skied, trapped, and tended our mining claims on Auke Mountain. We speared dungeness crab where Fishermen's Bend is today. We would pan for gold out of Auke Nu Creek, swim in the lake and fish in the bay during the summer."

Getting to school each week was an expedition in itself.

"My dad would trample down the waist deep snow on the trail from our house to the beach, row us across the bay, and break the trail for us up to the mouth of Fritz Cove Road where the school bus would pick us up."

Heavy snow fall to this day still reminds Edie of that "feel- ing of being smothered or trap- ped."

"If it snowed on the week- ends," she explained, "it meant that we couldn't go home because the roads would be blocked. I would cry every night I was away from home and get sick to my stomach. I would see my mother once every three months or so. It was terrible!"

At the aqe of nineteen, on July 3, 1939, Edie eloped with her fiance' then an A.J. miner and professional boxer 'Smiling' Jack Trambitas.

"I married Jack right out of the ring. He had a match that night in Douglas. We planned to leave on a short honeymoon after- wards and cruise around the is- lands. My brother, Bill, let the word out to our friends. When we got down to the boat after our wedding, we had a big surprise awaiting us-Bob and Warren Haynes, Brice Mielke, and my brother waiting and ready to join us on our trip."

The Trambitas' home, for the last forty-four years, edges the Glacier Highway and is a three minute walk away from Auke Lake. Their daughter and son will be the first to say that their home "was and still is a place of love, fun, good cooking, and a favorite hang out for everyone in the neighborhood."

Their home blazes with Chr- istmas lights in the winter, er- upts with garden colors in the summer, and banners the American flag on holidays.

Her latest adventure was see- ing her longtime favorite enter- tainer 'Tom Jones' "wiggling and swaying" on stage in Los Vegas last February.

"Next year, who knows? Jack and I might go to Mexico."

Edie and Jack Trambitas resting against the first wooden bridge across Auke Creek.

The house where Edie was born on what is now the site

of the new Spaulding Condominiums.

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Haulout available for student use

Each spring, as fishermen begin their trek to the seas, the task of bottom maintenance on the boat looms as a major undertak- ing. That annual job could be easier for those taking a Univer- sity of Alaska, Juneau class util- izing the new boat haulout lift.

The lift, representing a $100,000 investment on the part of the university, is capable of taking measured 35-ton or smaller boats from the water for mainte- nance work. The lift operates at UAJ's Juneau-Douglas Community College water front site, located between Harris Harbor and Aurora Basin. Don Erickson, UAJ instruc- tor of Fisheries Technology, is overseeing the program involving the lift.

" The university had a com- mitment to replace the weigh on the NC Machinery property where the Juneau-Douglas Community Col- lege now stands," said Erickson. It is also part of the school's commitment to advancing marine technology training by providing students with a means of getting boats out of the water to perform inspection, maintenance and re- pair.

Erickson said the only way to make the lift available to the public is through the special haulout classes offered for the first time this spring.

" There's no commerical use of the haulout, we're not compe- ting with private industry," he added, " but we want to make as much use of it as possible. It's designed to be a working tool, not a toy." In addition to the haulout, which can take boats with up to 17 feet of beam, the university is installing a 20-ton lifeboat crane stationed on the docks below the welding lab.

" I would like to eventually have a building down here big e- nough to house the boats we're working on so we can have a place to work during the winter. As it is it looks like we'll only be a- ble to use the haulout during the spring, summer and fall," said Erickson. He said the university may also put in a fill in the harbor at some point in the fu- ture.

Students in the haulout class will be working on mainte- nance tasks from cleaning bottom growth and replacing zincs to ma- jor repair of the hull. Erickson said there could be room around the JDCC property for four or five boats, depending on size. Cradles will be used to block up boats while the lift brings others to land.

Replacing zincs is one of the more common reasons for bring- ing a boat out of the water.

UAJ's new haulout

According to Erickson there is a lot of galvanic action in salt water and that, combined with stray 110-electrical current in the harbor areas, creates a lot of electrolysis which eats metal. Zinc bars are placed on boat bottoms to draw the electrolysis action away from the other metal.

" It's a relatively simple operation to bring the boats out," said Erikson. " We bring them into the slip, guide the

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A T T E N T IO N

UAJ!

The deadline for graduates to

establish Career Planning and

Placement files is April. Plan ahead

and make an appointment with the

Career Counselor in the Whitehead

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belts under the boat, make sure the tension is uniform and lift it out." He said that unless they work at an extremely low tide, there would be no problem bringing 40- to 50-foot boats out. The key, he said, is not as much the length of the boat but the measured weight. The haulout is equipped with scales to ensure compliance with the 35-ton measured limit. Erickson has used

the haulout to work on his 50- foot boat, the Big Dipper. The haulout facility will, in addi- tion, handle sailboats " and just about anything, any kind of con- struction that fits within the size and weight limits."

During the haulout workshops students will be working with a docking plan, instruction on haulout and the use of grids and actual work on student's boats.

The three spring classes will be limited to 12 student's each and, with a limit on the number of boats that can be hauled out, Erickson said the class may have to draw lots to determine which boats will be worked on.

necessity at university

News Analysis

Dr. Marjorie Fields, a pro-fessor of childhood development, supports the need for a campus day care. Fields cited its use- fulness as a "multi-faceted pur- pose lab."

"Students studying nursing, teaching, parenting, physical education, and nutrition can ben- efit from such a facility if it is also used as a research lab," said Fields.

Students studying childhood development are required to work

360 lab hours before earning a degree. These lab hours are now earned in local schools. It is Fields' contention a university daycare center could substitute for the current need to use local schools.

Fields added that a child care facility is "essential to the living complex (student hous-

ing now being designed to house single and married parents."

To date, definite plans have not been made to include a child care center in the residential housing unit planned for comple- tion in 1985.

Jim Dumont, Dir. of Athletic and Student Activities-UAJ, sta- ted that "If the need is there, let's find it and go from there."

Dumont suggested that per- sons in need or in support of a day care on campus should form a core group.

"The first step would be for this core group to meet with UAJ's Executive Committee to dis- cuss various problems and plan- ning criteria," he said.

"Dear Auntie Humpie"

DEAR "AUNTIE HUMPIE"

(There have been numerous requests lately for a columnn in of which, our readers may submit questions concerning academic ru- mors plaguing our campus, romance with or without finance, the heart- break of hieroglyphics and the hi- fi, and basic inquiries of our T.Y.P. (Trendy Young Society).

So as not to keep you in sus- pense any longer than necessary about the secrets of life, here is "Auntie Humpie", queen of the oceans of whaling knowledge.)

Dear Auntie Humpie,

I like this guy and he likes me, but one thing stands between us and that is his girlfriend. He and I really do hit it off really well, and he says he really would rather be with me. So he told his girlfriend of his feelings toward me, but she broke down and now they're back together. Please help me Auntie.

signed, "Feeling Rejected." Dear "Rejected,"

Oh be serious. If you really have the hots for this bum you're going to have to do one of two things. Either get the wimp to stiffen his backbone and dump the girlfriend or you're going to have to do it for him.

Dear Auntie Humpie,

I just moved in with my boy- friend and we've been seeing each other for over a year. Well, my problem is that he doesn't do a damned thing around the house! When he had his own place, he al- ways kept it clean. So, the other night his mother calls and asks me if her son was a slob. I said, no, so she goes on about what he likes and what he doesn't like as if I'm his mother away from home.

Auntie Humpie, I love him very much but I don't want to be his mother and I don't want to hurt his feelings either. I think that two people should share with all the responsibili- ties of living together* don't you?

signed, "Oh! The Agony Of Living Together." Dear "Agony",

No! I don't think people should share. This is a dog eat dog world and we all lay our own carpet, so to speak! So tell that apron-stringed slob to pop his own balloon. Or, better yet, in- vite mom to move in. Sounds like she wants to mettle, so be a sport and let her.

Singers set

to warble

The University Singers will present their annual spring con- cert early in May at Chapel-by- the-Lake.

The 26-member choir will sing a variety of folk, minstrel and classical music beginning at 7:30 p.m. on May 4.

The singers are conducted by UAJ music professor John d'Armand and accompanied on the piano by Sharon Cooper.

Selections will include mu- sic written by Johann Sebastian Bach, John Rutter, Aaron Copland, William Billings, Jean Berger, Peter C. Lutkin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michail Ippolitoff-

Ivanoff.

Classified

W ANTED: Good home for two-year old Elkhound mix. Good with children. Cali Pat at 789-4479.

NEED ADVICE?? Does your love life lack luster?? Are your tulips wilted?? Write to 'Dear Auntie Humpy' in care of the "W h a leso n g," W hitehead Bldg. Room 101. Names will be withheld upon request.

By BARBARA CADIENTE-NELSON Whalesong Staff Reporter

Without a doubt, a child care facility at the UAJ campus would help to attract and retain students, faculty, and staff.

The convenience of a campus day care would not only benefit parents but also students major- ing in fields related to the physical and mental development of children.

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"Room 222"

By JEROME J. MAYFIELD Career Counselor, UAJ

During the late fall of 1983, it was an honor to speak with the students in the Educa- tion 222 class. At this time I shared with them data concerning the local (State of Alaska) stat- istics for future teachers.

Syndicated Columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy reported in the Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer newspaper (1/22/84) that some teaching jobs will blossom, and this information will be shared in this article.

Joyce began with a question about teacher hiring and followed it with an answer. The question essentially asked was "What is the outlook for teaching jobs?" Her answer was that after a de- cade of glum reports from the ed- ucational job market, students may once again want to consider a career in elementary school, teaching. She said to chalk up the brightening demand to the baby boom among parents in their 30's and the disenchantment of '70s college graduates seeking elementary education careers.

Yet specific projections of

an impending teacher shortage vary. Among the optimistic views is that of Dr. Lambert Baker, As- sistant. Dean of the School of Ed- ucation at United States Interna- tional University in San Diego. He indicates that 35 percent of the teachers in San Francisco will retire in September of this year. Baker says that similar situations in other cities a- cross the country mean that there will be 86,000 job openings for kindergarten and elementary school teachers each year through 1990 and although most of the va- cancies are expected to occur first in primary grades, as stu- dents get older there will be more job openings for secondary school teachers.

According to Dr. Vance Grant of the National Center for Educa- tional Statistics in Washington the first enrollment rise is ex- pected to turn up next year when there will be 175,000 openings in the United States for elemen- tary and high school teachers. Grant says the openings will con- tinue to rise through 1987

(192,000 openings) and then begin

a new climb to 217,000 openings in 1990.

Dr. Donald Streets, one of Baker's colleagues at U. S. Inter- national University, believes a teaching candidate's willingness to relocate may still be a requi- site to find teaching jobs. (This realistic attitude may in part explain USIU's record of placing 95 percent or more of their education graduates in teaching jobs.)

What kind of teachers are in demand? A nationwide survey two years ago by the National Educa- tion Association found that many states have shortages of teachers who can handle math and science. Bilingual teachers are also sought. Special education, in- dustrial arts and English teaching jobs, however, are not as easily obtained as they once were.

Only one major competitor can affect the anticipated burst of demand for new education graduates. Members of a huge pool of ex-teachers who have left the field in the past ten years may be tempted back to the class- room if exactly the right oppor- tunities turn up.

Planning a career: an important task

By JEROME J. MAYFIELD Career Counselor

The majority of high school students, especially seniors, have no idea of how to go about planning careers, so the concept of career planning may be com- pletely alien to you.

Almost every student that I have counseled here at the Uni- versity has had, and I emphasize, has had, some misgivings about career planning and placement. One reason for the misgivings is that most students do not plan for a career until they are about to graduate. Another reason is that some are torn between being what they chink their parents wanted of them as a child and being what they are most quali- fied to be as an adult. We, here at the university, have something for you. We can help you to be- come more knowledgeable about yourself, your values and value

judgements, as well as help you to learn more about careers.

Planning your career NOW is just as important as graduating from school. Planning a career today is planning something that you will ENJOY doing for the rest of your life, or lives. I con- fess, the school or college major field of study you choose does

not guarantee you success. How-ever, I do guarantee you that the educational process will take time, effort and require self- initiative on your part. Plan-ning your career today will give you a better chance of being more meaningfully employed tomorrow. So, with initiative and ability, you can become a part of planning your career for a future lifetime which can start right here at the University of Alaska, Juneau.

I want to IMPRESS upon you that we, here at UAJ, stress in- dividual development and growth,

and we place emphasis upon the person who can and will develop to be a responsible person who will take responsibility for his/ her own actions in life. Let me share with you the words of one of my favorite people.

Susan Pol is Schutz -

If I were to rub a crystal ball and ask: What does the future hold for tomorrow?

The answer would be: You will find the avenues of wealth and power in tomor-

row's world.

This is one answer. Another answer would be that no one knows exactly how the shape of things will be in the coming years. There are too many variables, new technologies, employment demands, etc., that will come into play to give a decisive answer. From the August/September 1983 issue of The Black Collegian, we quote, uThe world that is rapidly emerging from the clash of new values and technologies, i.e., new geopolitical relationships, new life styles and modes of com- munication demands, new ideas and analogies, classifications and concepts." Certainly, we cannot cram the embryonic world o f tomorrow into yesterday's conven- tional cubbyholes. Nor will the orthodox attitudes or moods ap- propriate today be appropriate tomorrow.

Call the Career Counselor

at the Counseling and Health Center

789-4462

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An endearing episode...

By TRACEY R. WILLIAMS a movie review

Gad, we barely slosh through the maudlin mud of one Debra Win- ger flick when another shows up, and this time it's a blockbusting rave— of good grief, love, lust, hanky-panky, life and death--that dazzles our emotional socks off.

But thanks to the infatuating disdain of Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson's neighborly nui- sance," Terms of Endearment" made us wimper and whine.

We suffered through weeks of critical suspense as the media re- viewed director James L. Brooks'

"pretty baby." The critics raved about the film, giving us a real beauty, a virtious Freudian slip that New Yorker Magazine called, "cartoon underpinnings of TV com= edy."

What's infuriating about it was its calculated humanity. What makes it tolerable were the per= formers. In "Terms", every juicy detail had to be squeezed out of MacLaine, dynamic, as mother to an obnoxious Winger and Nichol= son, a paunchy, cocky, swinging ex-astronaut who lives next door showed up just in the nick of time.

A real slap-happy picture that got people to say, "I saw myself in those characters", and "I could really relate." Arrghh! Yet that's what Brooks had in mind.

"Terms of Endearment" did shed some light on the rather hidious shadows of our lives but where did Brooks get off smearing them on us like residue from an aid tattered family album of an outragious mother-daughter rela- tionship spanning some 30 years?

And endear this dears. The

F.Y.I.

The Juneau Symphony will be presenting its Silver Anniversary Concert on Friday, April 6 at 8 p.m. in Centennial Hall.

Guest pianist will be Alber= to Rafols and the Symphony will be conducted by UAJ Assistant Professor of Music Mel Flood.

The Symphony will travel to Sitka on Saturday, April 7.

Tickets are now available at the Baranof and Hearthside bookstores.

For more information about this concert or the Juneau Sym- phony in general, you can get in touch wit h Flood by calling the university at 789-2101.

Record review

Who are the Infidels?

By RON REED

A couple of years ago, a pam- phlet I picked up while browsing in a bookstore in Kensington purported to analyze the prog- ressed horoscope of Bob Dylan, and came to the conclusion that some time during 1982 or 1983 he would pass out of his born-again Christian phase, as some planet- ary influence or other abated.

Now it would appear, with the release of "Infidels," that such a passage has indeed begun to take place. The songs on the album, while retaining the elus- ive symbolic ambience and the spiritual hunger that character- ize all his later works, are far and away less overtly Biblical and more ambivalent towards "mes- sages" about religion than other recent Dylan albums.

Only one song on the album, "Man of Peace," makes specific reference to Satan, while many of the songs are more "political" than anything Dylan has done since his "Street Legal" album in 1978-79. For example, "Neighbor- hood Bully" deals with U.S. mili- tarism in a fairly translucent way; "Union Sundown" laments the corporate greed that has dest- royed the viability of the Ameri- can industrial infrastructure; and "Jokerman" questions just how free we really are.

The most mystical song on the album, "I and I," brings the Ras- tafarians' Jah to mind more read- ily than the Jehovah of the Bible — from its reggae beat, courtesy of Dire Straits' lead guitarist Mark Knopfler and session musi- cians Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, to its evocative tijtle and lyrics: "In creation

where one's nature be that

nei-ther honors nor forgives ... no man sees my face and lives."

"License to Kill" has a dual message, simultaneously attacking the violence that has more and more come to characterize global

relations, and that which we do to each other on the most intimate

level.

The other two songs, "Sweet- heart Like You" and "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight," deal more with the personal side of rela- tionships. "Sweetheart," modify- ing the old cliche "what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this," presents a fine sketch of the jealousy and back- stabbing any woman or man faces in trying to be true to her or himself. "Don't Fall Apart" features a harp melody unlike anything Dylan has done else- where.

As an indication, perhaps, of his more removed and ambiguous sensibilities, the album cover shows a portrait of the artist behind opaque sunglasses a la

"Blood on the Tracks"; the inner sleeve has Dylan turning his back on Jerusalem to squat in the des- ert - home of the Old Testament prophets.

Those of us who lamented Dy- lan's turn to fundamentalism may rejoice in his "return to the fold," so to speak; but the years in that camp have enriched his imagery without blurring his vi- sion. Dylan has served as a kind of spiritual pointman to three or four generations of youth over the last two decades. Anyone interested in putting a finger on the pulse of the final decades before the millenium should di- gest this album thoroughly. Oh, yes, and you can dance to it.

Happy eating. icing off the top is yet the

in-famous and couragious bout with cancer that we've all come to recognize as the appropriate end- ing of those soppy melancholy love stories.

On Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29, the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, the Insti- tute ot Alaska Native Arts and the University of Alaska, Juneau will co-sponsor a technical assis- tance workshop for artists.

Artists will learn of ways to market and promote their works by attending group and individu al sessions.

Artists should call 586-ARTS to register.

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New student regent appointed

FAIRBANKS - University of Al-aska - Anchorage sophomore Lynn Shaver was seated as student re- gent at the Univeristy of Alaska Board of Regents meeting held last week in Juneau. Shaver, a University of Alaska - Anchorage student since 1979 on a part time basis is now attending full time, majoring in business administra- tion with emphasis in accounting.

"In addition to the value and satisfaction of being also to serve the students of the

univer-sity in this way, the experience of being on the board of regents will contribute immeasurably to my education," said Shaver of her appointment. "I'll have to take an extra time."

In recommending Shaver for the position, University of Al- aska - Anchorage Professor John Havelock cited her "precise thinking and conscientious appli- cation." Employers cited Shaver's "energy and initiative," high de- gree of business and political

awareness" and "exceptional level of competency, .and self motiva- tion." Barbara Simpson, University of Alaska - Anchorage director of student activities, said, "Lynn is a very responsible person who knows how to budget her time. Her maturity, personality and tact- fulness are also some of her most outstanding assets."

Candidates for student regent were selected by the various units of the University of Al- aska. Governor Bill Sheffield made the final selection. The

student regent is a full voting member of the board of regents

and serves a two year term.

Negotiations still stalled

By TAMMY MILLS

Whalesong Staff Reporter

Nine weeks of negotiations and still the teachers 280-member union hasn't been able to come to a compromise on a new contract.

Frank Schoppel, a commis- sioner with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services has been chosen to resolve the im- passe between the Juneau Educa- tion Association and the Juneau Board of Education. To this day, however, Schoppel has been power- less to bring about a settlement.

The major issues with which the union is concerned are class size, maintaining cost of living increases, teachers benefits and teachers working conditions.

Schoppel, and the primary union spokesman, Bob Cooksey of the National Education Associa- tion, had their first meeting on Thursday, March 15, during which a 16-hour session brought no agreement on the contract. The existing contract expires June

30.

Other members of the nego- tiating team include Harborview Elementary School sixth grade teacher Mary Becker, Marie Drake Junior High School science teacher Teal Schrider, Auke Bay Elementary School fifth grade teacher Jerry Pattson and JEA president Jim Barron.

The school board's team includes chief spokesman Joe Montgomery, Mendenhall River Community School principle Jac- queline Sparks and board members Jim Wilson, Kris Gray and board president Joe Donahue.

Schoppel will return to Ju- neau on April 16-17 to continue talks between both parties. If a settlement is reached before then, he will return to tie up any lose ends. Schoppel advised each group to assess their pre- sent positions to be in agreement with "what they want" and "where they are at," according to Bar-

ron.

Campus

Update

Preregistration

Fall semester preregistration for those students admitted to a University of Alaska, Juneau degree or certificate pro-

gram will be held in the Office of Admissions and Records, Auke Lake campus, April 2—13, between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Saturday Night at the Movies

March 31, 7:30 p.m., "Sanjuro," Student Lounge, Mourant Bldg. Free to all UAJ faculty, staff, students and families.

Intro to Computer for Health Professionals

Thursday and Friday, April 5 & 6, 6— 10 p.m., Saturday, April 7, 8 a.m.—4 p.m., Bill Ray Center. Fee: $195. An excellent class for all health professionals who need or want to understand computer technology and how it can be applied to the profession. Hands-on operation of hardware and soft- ware systems and information on selecting a computer system for the health profession. Ideal for doctors, dentists, nurses, administrators and others involved in health services. For information call 789-4481.

Intro to Supervision for Managers

A special class coming April 16. Learn how to be a more effective, efficient manager. Watch for details or call 789-4481.

Dance into Spring

Wed., April 11, 8— 10 p.m., Marie Drake Junior High. No charge. The community is invited to at- tend an evening of international dance including: The Daughters of the New Moon (Oriental dance); Juneau International Folk Dancers; Stroller White Pipes and Drums Highland Dancers; Na Mele O'Hana (Polynesian dancing); Linda Fordham (T'ai Chi Chuan); Salah Rais Dance Troup (Bellydanc- ing). For information call 586-6257.

MT 151: Lifeboat Training

First session, April 9—20, second session, April 23—May 4, both at the Marine Tech Center, 9 a.m.—4 p.m. 2 credits each. For information call 789-4428.

Contemporary Britain

Join instructor Clive Thomas on a three-week class in London beginning July 8 with an Anchorage departure. Visit historic sights, witness history in the making in one of the most interesting capitals of the world. The course offers 3 credits and may be tax deductible. For information on this trip call 789-4476.

Japanese Karate

Tuesdays and Thursdays, through May 5, 6:30—9:30 p.m., Mendenhall River Community School. Inst: Jason Hayes.

Class offers traditional Japanese karate instruction. For further information, call 789-5143.

Aerobic Exercises

Mondays and Thursdays, through May 5, 6:15—7:30 p.m., Mendenhall River Community School. For more information contact Patti at 789-7918.

Children's Art Class

Classes begin the first week of April. Elementary art education classes explore a variety of media and expression. Classes are at Mendenhall Community School. Contact Patti at 789-7918.

Basic Drawing

Class begins April 4, at 7 p.m., Mendenhall River Community School. Class covers techniques in pencil and charcoal. For more information contact Dianne at 789-7918.

MT 112: Outboard Maintenance

Saturdays, April 7—May 5, Marine Tech Center, room 133. One credit. Inst: J. Sherman Tanner. Limit: 16. Introduction to outboard systems, maintenance and upkeep for efficient operation. Two hours lab per week. For information call

789-4428.

The University of Alaska, Juneau is an equal opportunity institution