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.
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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.
"The science of (choose-making)
attracted me to it." said Griffith, who
changed his major from mechanical
engineering to food science when he
found the work creamery interesting
“As a whole, evuryfiody who is work
ing here is dedicated to trying to pro
duce the best and highest quality of
product.”
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