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Student wages lonely campaign for Initiative 602 PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Katri na Becker has a penchant for argu ing. hut finds it's of little use when few will listen. The Washington State University senior is waging a lonely campaign on campus in support ot Initiative 602. one ot two tax limitation proposals on the Nov. 2 election liallot. Becker, a 22-yenr-old political science major from Wenatchee, is serving ns unpaid district coordinator of the Initiative 602 campaign for the Committee to Limit Taxes Now. "Unfortunately, here I'm having quite a problem find ing people who support it." she said. Students don't understand Initiative 602. Becker said "If they're going by what they mod in the papers, they're probably pretty uninformed because the coverage has been so slanted." she said. University officials across the state, iru hiding WSU President Sam Smith, are predicting dire consequences for higher education with passage of the tax initiatives But Be» ker argues that $903 million in spending cuts identified by tax reformers would not affect essential ser vices, such as higher education "Nowhere in the initiative does it explit illy state that education has to t>e cut." His ker said. Initiative fi02 would repeal tax and fee increases approved by the Legislature this year. Future growth in state spending would be limited to the iru rease in the total slate personal income Fee or lax ini reuses within that limit would reipiire a fit) percent majority in both the Mouse and Senate Exceeding the limit would require a dei larntion of emer gency In the governor and a ?'> por< ent majority in each house. College students tend to be liberal in their political outlook, and see the tax initiatives .is conservative mea sures "Everybody is calling it a Republican initiative, hut it's not. It’s a people’s initiative." Becker said ‘Till wry imu h an independent, I'm not a Republican at all ‘Unfortunately,; here I'm having quite a problem finding people who support it.' — Katrina Becker, Washington State student The fifth-year senior, however, lias interviewed with the Mouse Republican Caucus and hopes to become an administrative assistant to a state legislator when she graduates in Documber On top of 19 hours of i ourse work this semester, Beck er devotes 25-.10 hours a week campaigning for the tax limitation measure That includes debates with oppo nents of the measure on t .inipus He* ker s.mi she's not intimidated walking into a room where opinions are slni ked against her: "it makes me want to fight more." Jury deliberates fate of boy OREGON CITY (AP) — A jury resumed deliberations this morning in the of a Lake Oswego teen-ager accused of deliber ately running down a 12-yourold girl with fiis parents’ car. Andrew John Whitaker. 17, is l>eing tried as an adult on a charge of murder. The jury deliberated for eight hours Monday without reaching a verdict. It began considering the cose late Friday afternoon before recessing for the weekend Whitaker is accused of intentionally killing Lisa Marie Doell in Lake Oswego last Oct. 21 os she walked to her grandpar ents' home after school. The girl was struck from behind and thrown into a tree Lake Oswego police detective Mit Itnel Hammons testified that Whitaker told him he hit the girl on purpose. "He showed no remorse," Hammons said. But Whitaker testified that he was m an emotional fog at the time he talked to polo e He said he didn't mean to kill the girl. "At the time. 1 was focused on emotion al things and because of that I wasn’t pay ing any attention." Whitaker said "I saw her." he said. I wasn’t thinking, the next thing I knew I hit her." Whitaker testified that he had talked to a friend about an impulse to rape a girl, that he had been rejected by a girlfriend and that he had written and given to a teacher a poem about a dead opossum He said that he didn't stop after hitting the girl because he was si ared He said he i haracterized the incident to friends as "acting out an impulse." because he fell at fault and was "having trouble sorting through what was going on " Police fire officer in shooting PORTLAND (AP) — A police officer who fired 23 shots a! n man as ho ran away from a bus in July has been fired, according to the Portland Police Bureau Officer Douglas Erickson chased Gerald C. Gratton Jr., 27, off a Tri-Mot bus on July 19, emptied his pistol at him, reloaded, and resumed shooting until Gratton fell, wounded in the elbow and Iwck Gratton has since recovered from his wounds. The bus driver had called police, saying the Oration and his brother were drunk and unruly. brickson and two other officers con fronted Oration, who had a 45-colilier pis tol in the waistband of his pants Gratton fled out the back door of the bus. but never pulled his own gun or fired it. Police Chief Charles Moose found that brickson violated the bureau's general orders, which allow police to use deadly force only when they believe lives are being threatened. cydo • racydo • recydo • racy cl Washington State wins honors for its cheese PULLMAN. Wash. (Al») — In thn hilly Pnlouse country. Washington Mato University produces graduates, research and more than a little cheese. While more than n few awards have boon doled out to students and faculty, the school’s cheese is draw ing attention as well. Two varieties produced at WSU's creamery were awarded first-place prizes in the American Cheese Soci ety’s "best Cheeses of 1993" compe tition One went to Cougar Cold, a Ched dar that's sold through the mail and at Northwest stores starting each fall and running through the holidays. The other winner was WSU's Italian variety, which consists of the cream ery's Viking white cheese blended with oregano and sweet basil. WSU’s dairy enterprises are rooted in the school's creation as a land grant college in 1H90. when it was called Washington State College. "There's always been some cows around so students could learn and research them," said creamery man ager Marc Bates. “Lo and behold, this generated some milk.” The creamery was built in Troy Mall in the 1900s. and moved to its own building in April 1992. The school now produces about 240,000 pounds of cheese a year. about 75 percent of it Cougar Gold. The other 25 percent includes sever al white cheeses with herbs and spices. Cougar Child owes its unique flavor to a bacteria discovered in the 1040s when VVSU's Norman Golding began experiments to figure out how to pre serve cheese in cans so it could be sent overseas to the military in World War 11 The bacteria was discovered when Golding decided on vacuum sealing for preservation While sales from the creamery allow the facility to break even finan cially. its focus is to teach students about dairy work. Bates said. The creamery also creates jobs for students. On some days, student Damon Griffith drives a tanker truck to the campus farm at 5 a.nr. to pick up milk produced by WSU's herd of 150 Holstein cows. The herd pro duces more milk than the creamery uses to make cheese, so the surplus milk is sold to consumers. 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