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President Bruce Shepard announces retirementBrandon Stone

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Western President Bruce Shepard announced on Thurs-day, June 11, his plans to retire after the upcoming 2015-2016 academic year. Shepard has been the university’s president since 2008, and is the institu-tion’s 13th president. The West-ern Front recently sat down with

Shepard to talk about his time with the university and his future plans.

Q: Why is now the time to move on?

A: It’s a variety of factors. One is that there’s a lot of research that shows that seven to nine years is about the right time for a person to serve as a president. That view is held most strongly by those who’ve served 12-15

years. They realize as they look back that you start to get in the way. When you come in, you re-ally have new ideas, you can help, and then you get vested in those ideas. It’s time for someone else to come in and take a critical look at them.

My wife and I want to go do other things. We aren’t moving on to another job, but we’ll both stay involved in higher ed.

Q: Is there anything that you set out to do that you think you’ve really accom-plished?

A: Universities are complex organizations with lots of people, so a president doesn’t accom-plish anything on their own, and I would never claim anything is an accomplishment of mine.

I came in here and I met with

Whatcom County Executive Jack Louws, new homeowners Joseph Hill, Megan Grosshuesch and Calvin Hill, Mayor Linville, Congressman Rick Larsen, and Execu-tive Director of KulshanCLT, Dean Fearing, cut the ribbon on Monday, June 22, at the newly dedicated eco-friendly land trust home. // Photo by Daisey James

President Bruce Shepard // Courtesy of Matthew AndersonQ&A, page 2

Citizens gather for waterfront cleanup

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RE Sources for Sus-tainable Communities hosted a public walk to educate and show peo-ple toxic cleanup sites around the Bellingham Waterfront.

The mile-long walk started in Maritime Heri-tage Park and continued around the surrounding area, visiting and shar-ing information about the ecological impact of the cleanup sites on the city of Bellingham.

Over 30 people showed up to RE Source’s second tour out of four on Saturday, June 20. Bell-ingham residents visited five sites including the Central Waterfront, Holly Street Landfill, Whatcom Waterway and Georgia Pacific cleanup locations.

At each stop, partici-pants were given a history of the site, including how

it had come to be and how far in the cleanup process it was. These sites had been contaminated by years of industry runoff and pollution.

RE Sources, a non-profit group that pro-motes sustainable acts in northwest Washington, received grant money from the Washington State Department of Ecology to organize tours and distribute papers to educate people about the toxic cleanup sites.

RE Sources’ North Sound Baykeeper Wen-dy Steffensen organized and lead the walk, during which she talked about the history of the sites and how they have made progress over the years. Also aiding in the tour was RE Sources intern and Western senior Mari-ka Weber.

Larsen, Linville dedicate new home

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U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, Bell-ingham Mayor Kelli Linville and Kulshan Community Land Trust dedicated a newly constructed home with solar panels in a living community on Lafayette Street on Monday, June 22.

Solar panels will continue to be installed on the newly constructed homes as a result of an anonymous grant donation, the land trust re-cently received.

Larsen and Linville were two of several city and county elected of-

ficials in attendance for the dedi-cation and ribbon cutting of one of three new energy efficient homes that are part of the Kulshan Com-munity Land Trust.

“Our goal is to do as many of our homes as possible, but for sure we want to do solar on all of the new homes we’ve built ourselves,” said Dean Fearing, Executive Director of Kulshan Community Land Trust.

Kulshan Community Land Trust is a nonprofit organization located in Bellingham, that aims to support low to moderate income homebuy-ers.

Megan Grosshuesch and Joseph

and Calvin Hill, soon-to-be home-owners of one of the dedicated houses were also in attendance and cut the ribbon for their new home. Grosshuesch said at the dedication that she and her family were excited to move into their new home soon, after showing interest nearly two years ago.

“The boxes are all packed,” Grosshuesch said. “We’re just wait-ing on things to be signed by the city.”

Larsen attended the event be

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Bellingham Music Club celebrates 100th anniversary with gala concert: The club honors member and Western alumna, Joanne Donnellan,

with the Woman of the Century award on Sunday, June 21.

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all of the faculty and staff, and I said I’ll meet with everybody who works with the university, a lot of student groups as well. I heard what the university’s agen-da was and the first and foremost is they really wanted to open up decision making. All these things emerged, so that then became the agenda. People would ask me, “what’s your vision for the university?” And I’d say, “well if I have one, it’s really irrelevant. That doesn’t really matter.” The question is, what’s a university’s vision for itself?

When I got here, my biggest surprise was how little regard there was for higher education down in Olympia. In fact, higher ed was seen as part of the prob-lem, it was seen as elitist, re-moved, irrelevant to the people of the state of Washington. So we set out an agenda to really turn that around and it really has. About two years ago, the legisla-ture started reinvesting in higher education.

Q: Do you have a favor-ite memory of your time at Western?

A: The times to reflect on that will come. What I’m focused on is a busy year ahead and I re-ally haven’t thought about that. I know the best times always in-volve people, and in my case al-ways involve students. You get in this line of work because you love being with students.

My wife and I use a lot of dif-ferent opportunities to get stu-dents to our house to celebrate and enjoy their company. Those are the memories I enjoy most. Any student group who wins something significant on cam-pus comes to the house for din-ner.

Q: How do you want to focus the university in your last year? Are there any oth-er issues you want to tackle?

A: I’ve asked a variety of groups to help me understand what needs to be our focus next year. I use the opening convoca-

tion talk as my chance to bring together the thinking of the campus and share it. Certainly, the search for the next president is going to be very important. I have nothing to do with who that’s going to be, but our trust-ees will go through a process asking not who should the next president be, but who should the next Western be? Over the next five years, what should the prior-ities be? That’s a process of con-sulting, there’s going to be a lot of discussions with faculty, staff, students and alumni about this.

Q: Speaking of your con-vocation speech, you use that every year to talk about a lack of diversity on cam-pus. How has diversity at Western changed in the time you’ve been here?

A: It’s changed a lot. We have made substantial progress in seeing the campus enriched by diversity. Each incoming class of first-year students is more di-verse than the one that has pre-

ceded it. We still have progress to make in closing the gap. If you look at the percentage of high school graduates in the state of Washington by race and eth-nicity and look at our incoming class, we’re lagging about seven percentage points behind there. So there’s always opportunities to make more progress and I think that will continue.

I really wanted to start con-versations. This is talking about a need to have a different climate on campus, a more open and ac-cepting climate.

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Extended Q&A with Shepard discussing divestment and the search for the new

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Friday, June 26, 2015 | The WesTern FronT neWs | 3CLEANUP: Walking tour reveals contaminated sites

“There is nothing like being on the ground to see the areas when you are talking about [the cleanup sites],” Steffensen said. “There is a real connection to see it and have someone ex-plaining it to you, where as be-fore you would just drive by and not even notice.”

Many of the participants on the walk said they were inter-ested in being informed about their local environment and asked questions about how the toxic cleanup sites affect Bell-ingham and how it will change the waterfront.

Paul Becael, one of the par-ticipants, is new to Bellingham and said he decided to partici-pate in the cleanup because he wanted to know how beautiful the waterfront could be.

“I hope that [the cleanup sites] are something more and

more people will continue to be informed about,” Becael said.

Steffensen explained how there is a 30- 60 day public com-menting period when the De-partment of Ecology produces a document detailing the infor-mation about the cleanup sites and how they will decide to fix them. By visiting these cleanup sites, Steffenson said she hopes that people will be more aware and offer their voice on each of the cleanups.

“I think people will under-stand a little bit more of our history, and the insults we have put upon our environment,” Steffensen said. “I think that it's going to give [people] a lot more awareness and I’m hoping that it will make people want to par-ticipate more in these cleanups decisions.”

The last tour in the series is a biking tour at Marine Heritage Park, 10 a.m. on June 27.

Wendy Steffensen, RE-Sources North Sound Baykeeper, begins the Mari-time Walk on Saturday, June 20 at Maritime Heritage Park. // Photo by Yaelle Kimmelman

cause he is a supporter of solar energy as well as other sources of renewable energy, said Ingrid Stegemoeller, Larsen’s communications di-rector.

All but two of KulshanCLT homes in the area have solar panels built by Itek Energy that were installed by Ecotech

Solar. Ecotech Solar is anoth-er Bellingham-based compa-ny that works with Kulshan-CLT when possible.

The two homes lacking solar panels were built in partnership with Habitat for Humanity to passive home standards, meaning that the energy costs for homes are supposed to be less than $100 a year. Therefore, homes built

to passive houses standards have little to no need for solar power, Olson said.

Larsen discussed renew-able energy sources in Wash-ington at the Hampton Inn by the Bellingham airport. The event was hosted by the Northwest Jobs Alliance, Whatcom Business Alliance and Keep Washington Com-petitive organizations. Dur-

ing the event, Larsen noted that Bellingham-based itek Energy is the leading manu-facturer of solar panels in the state.

Itek Energy produced the solar panels installed on the KulshanCLT homes. The company, opened in 2011, is expected to produce between 25 and 30 megawatts of solar capacity in 2015.

“That’s energy enough for 4,300 homes,” Larsen said. Fearing said they started do-ing new construction because it allows them to control the quality of the homes.

“These homes are really green and energy efficient,” Fearing said. “We can keep the price of the home down and get a really high quality home out of it.”

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SOLAR PANELS: Nonprofit creates energy efficient homescontinued from page 1

Angela Melby, a customer of BelleWood Acres and Koskela Blueberry Farm, prefers u-pick farms be-cause they allow her to get exactly what she wants.

“I like that you can hand pick the fruit you are buying and get the exact amount you want. I also like that you get to see where it grows,” said Melby.

Getting to go out to the farms and enjoying a beautiful place to be can be fun for both children and adults, Grubbs said. "The children get to see how things are grown and a lot of adults do too. Some adults don’t even know where a carrot is or how to find one,” Grubbs said. U-pick farms are beneficial for customers because it gives them ability to pick and choose what they want.

The ability to pick specific amounts and kinds of ber-ries for a cheaper price with peaceful scenery is what Julie Vander Meulen, Manager at Barbie’s Berries, said benefits u-pick customers. Melby said that because prices are usually cheaper, u-pickers have the ability to get more fruit in bulk.

“You get to be picky about the fruit because you can see it all before you pick it,” Melby said.

Melby said most of the farms have other activities to do besides picking fruit, though she typically spends two hours at the farms to sort through the variety of berries and apples to bring home with her.

“There are usually other things at the farms like events or a store where you can look through and buy other things too,” Melby said.

Upon arrival to BelleWood Acres, employees tell custom-ers which varieties of apples are available for them to pick. Customers are also given a map of the 18,000 trees on the orchard to guide them with a list of available apples. Belle-Wood Acres offers a fun atmosphere for everyone, office manager Evelyn Tjoelker said.

Among their 20 varieties of apples, BelleWood Acres of-fers Honeycrisp, Gravenstein, Sansa and Golden Supremes, Belisle said.

Honeycrisp apples are usually the most popular apples tak-en home from BelleWood Acres, but Gravenstein apples are becoming very common among bakers, Belisle said.

“Unfortunately not all the apples are u-pick though because some of them have to come off very quickly or they aren’t good,” Belisle said. This year, apples are going to run from approximately $1.40 to $1.80 a pound at BelleWood, depending on the variety of the crop, Belisle said. The months of September and October are BelleWood Acres’ harvest months. BelleWood celebrates the harvest every weekend by giving attendees the op-

portunity to sit outside, enjoy music, participate in u-pick and have a meal at BelleWood’s restaurant, Country Café & Bakery, Belisle said.

“The atmosphere is just awesome,” Tjoelker said. “We’ve got great food and people are just happy, that’s one of my favorites. And there is just so much to do between the distillery, store and café.”

BelleWood’s distillery is also open year round from 10 a.m-5 p.m daily for tasting and tours. BelleWood Distilling offers seven differ-ent handcrafted spirits including vodka, brandy, gin and liqueurs.

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a day at the

The Apple Bin Express takes customers through rows of orchards at BelleWood Acres. Six to eight old wooden apple bins made into seats are lined up and hooked to a tractor and get pulled out to the orchard

for 15 to 20 minutes. When arrived, customers have a chance to pick their own apples off BelleWood Acres apple trees.

BelleWood Acres, near Lynden, is one of the various Whatcom

County sites offering u-pick farming this summer, along with Belling-ham Country Gardens, Barbie’s Berries and Koskela Blueberry Farm.

U-pick farms give customers the opportunity to see where the pro-duce is grown, how it is grown, and customers can be assured it is fresh from the garden, said Sam Grubbs, owner and farmer at Bellingham Country Gardens.

Since Bellingham has been having an early summer and warm weather, local farms are already starting to harvest their fruit. Howev-er, things could slow down a bit if the rest of June and July are cooler, said Dorie Belisle, owner and farmer of BelleWood Acres.

Whatcom County farmers welcome customers to their orchards to pick seasonal summer fruits

Sam Grubbs, owner of Bellingham Country Garden, stands in front of his garden on Wednesday, June 24. // Photo by Yaelle Kimmelman

Sam Grubbs, owner of Bellingham Country Garden says that one of the most popular fruits to be picked are strawberries. The garden has three plots dedi-cated just for different kinds of strawberries.// Photo by Yaelle Kimmelman

“I think customers are most interested in the fun that comes from picking and being out in the orchard and actually being able to pick an apple off a tree,” Belisle said. “So it’s fun and educational and, of course, the fruit tastes won-derful because it’s coming right from the tree.”

“I like that you can hand pick the fruit

you are buying and get the exact amount you want. I also like that you get to see where it

grows.”Angela Melby

BelleWood Acres and Koskela Blueberry Farm

customer

Beans can be picked at the farms. // Photo courtesy of Bellingham Country Gardens.

Whatcom County U-Pick Farms: BelleWood Acres:6140 Guide Meridian(360) 815-3989

Barbie's Berries:7655 Melody Lane, Ferndale.(360) 384-1260

Bellingham Country Gardens:2838 E. Kelly Rd.(360) 223-3724

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Friday, June 26, 20156 | opinion Viking Voices

What's your opinion on President Shepard retiring?

Anne Huntemer

“Good for him. He is coming to the end of his career and he can have a happy retirement. We’re

going to miss him.”

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Matt Nugent

“I think he really set the university up for a good transition period for a

new president.”

Whitney Walker

“It’s kind of sad. I know that Cyndie Shepard

works here; I’m not sure if she’s going to continue to. ”

Mitchell Walker

“I think it will be inter-esting to see who steps up as far as leadership

role and what they plan to do.”

FRONTLINEOpinions of the Editorial Board

How will we remember Shepard?

As we enter summer quarter 2015, one news topic has been on everyone’s mind: what will hap-pen when Western President Bruce Shepard retires at the close of the 2015-2016 academic year and what will his legacy at Western be?

Shepard became Western’s 13th president on September 1, 2008, and since taking the position has done quite a bit. He was influential in transitioning the university’s en-gineering technology programs to full-fledged engineering programs as well as expanding Western’s out-reach to include the Kitsap Penin-sula. One of the things that students may not recognize is how influential Shepard has been in extending part-nerships with other universities lo-cated around the world.

Shepard has also been involved with the creation and overall growth of Compass2Campus, an award-winning program founded by his wife, Cyndie Shepard, that helps en-courage youngsters to stay in school and attend higher education.

However, despite all the posi-tive things that Shepard has helped bring to Western, the aspects that he may be remembered for could be his comments on diversity and the issue of divestment from fossil fu-els.

Shepard’s comments, “if in de-cades ahead, we are as white as we are today, we will have failed as a university,” made during a 2012 convocation speech and later in his personal blog were largely publicized and blasted by conser-vative bloggers as racially insensi-tive based on his use of the word “white.” Shepard stood behind his

comments, unapologetic, and we the students rallied behind him leading to the student-organized “Day of Action: ‘Diversity Is’” rally on campus in which 700 students attended in Spring 2014.

Shepard has also come under scrutiny for his support of the West-ern Washington University Founda-tion’s stance on divestment. This has led to various actions, includ-ing an organized campout located outside of Shepard’s office in Old Main. The protest began at noon on Wednesday, June 3, and continued until noon on Thursday, June 4. Al-though the protest was organized against Shepard and the Western Foundation, Shepard still took the time to have several pizzas deliv-ered to the protesting students.

So how should we remember Shepard? For his support of the Western Foundation’s stances on divestment and his views on diver-sity? Or should we remember him for advocating on behalf of Western during the 2008 recession, broad-ening campus outreach and ex-tending Western partnerships with universities in China, South Korea and Mongolia? We all have our own opinions on Shepard, and only time will tell how he will truly be remem-bered 10, 15 or 50 years down the line. Regardless, we believe he has certainly made an impact on West-ern, and we will be interested in seeing the impact made by the next university president as well.

The editorial board is composed of Miles Barnes, Stephanie Villiers and Alexandra Bartick.

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Friday, June 26, 2015 | The WesTern FronT sporTs | 7Daisey James

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The Western women’s soccer team will be adding three transfer students to the roster who are expected to strengthen the team this season.

Malia Maack, a sopho-more from Spokane, Wash-ington, is a defender that transferred from New Mexi-co Highlands University this spring. Ashley Homer, a ju-nior from Puyallup, is a goal-keeper who played her first two seasons at the College of Saint Rose in New York. Sa-vanna Moorehouse, a senior from Bonney Lake, is a mid-fielder that transferred from Central Washington Univer-sity last year.

All three reached out to Western after showing inter-est in playing closer to home.

“There are a number of rules that govern transfer students,” Head Coach Tra-vis Connell said. “If you’re in Division II we have what’s called a one-time team trans-fer waiver, so as long as the other school that they’re leaving signs off on it and al-lows it then they can partici-pate right away.”

Moorehouse trained with the Vikings last season, but was unable to compete in any games due to conference re-strictions.

Connell is hopeful that the three transfers will make a positive impact in the up-coming season.

“They all have experience at the college level which you can’t really prepare for,” Connell said. “They know what the level is and they know how to prepare for it and so that’s a huge advan-tage.”

Last season, the team graduated three seniors, lost one player to injury and two transferred to other schools.

“We’ve also changed our formation and our style of play this spring and so, for only graduating three kids, we’ll look so much different from last year which is a lit-tle bit of a gamble,” Connell said.

Connell said the spring has gone really well as the team makes these changes.

Sierra Shugarts, a sopho-more from Federal Way and returning defender, believes the new girls will help the team this year.

“We had a really strong

spring season and I believe the new girls will benefit us immensely by keeping us hungry for a national cham-pionship,” Shugarts said in an email.

Maack is a strong defend-er who is expected to give the team more depth in the back line, Connell said. She is a versatile back, able to play outside or center, which gives Connell many options as to how to utilize her, he said.

Moorehouse, who was voted to the All-Region team in the Great Northwest Ath-letic Conference, or GNAC,

in 2013, is a versatile player with experience in the con-ference, Connell said.

“I expect her to contribute goals and assists and be dy-namic in the attack as a cre-ative player,” Connell said.

Shugarts said she is very excited for Moorehouse to be able to play in the coming season.

“She is an outstanding player and will definitely im-pact our team and take us to that next level we need to be at,” she said. “We lost some creativity up top [to injury] and I think [Moorehouse] will bring that creativity back.”

Homer was ranked fifth in the country for Division II goalkeepers in goals against average last year.

“We kind of have an em-barrassment of riches in that position,” Connell said. “The number three ranked keeper in the nation was our keeper [Ashley Haden] and she’s re-turning, so [Homer] gives us depth and will push [Haden], our returning goalkeeper, to be the best that she can be.”

Connell said he believes it’s a good thing when the team has competition for positions and starting spots,

which the team will have this season.

“We can make things a lot easier on ourselves [this sea-son] if we can win the games right at the beginning of the season, we’re kind of front-loaded with some big time games and so that’s a chal-lenge” Connell said. “We have to play our best right from the get go.”

Getting the new players, transfers and freshmen alike firing on all cylinders early in the season is Connell’s first goal as it will help the team return to the national cham-pionships, he said.

Savanna Moorehouse // Courtesy of Paul Madi-son

Ashley Homer // Cour-tesy of Paul Madison

Will Tiger Woods win another major

championship?

Is Lebron James's Legacy in jeopardy

after losing his fourth NBA Finals?

From the Sidelines

Women’s soccer adds three new recruits

Yes, but not for a while. He let his private life come into the spotlight and since then he hasn’t been the same. On top of that he has changed swing coaches numerous

times. His upside is that he is still only 39, but he has to set-tle down and find his groove

again in order to return to his dominant self.

Not even close. I think his individual performance in the Finals will go down as one of the best in NBA history as it

already has on the stat sheets. We all know he will be back

again next year and this time he should have a healthy sup-

porting cast.

No. Woods once said that he wasn’t going to return until

he was ready to win although he clearly wasn’t ready at

this year’s U.S. Open. If he wants to even be a contender in another major champion-

ship, he needs to focus on shaking off the past six years

and really take some time off to do what he promised

to do.

LeBron James’ overall legacy as we know it could be in jeopardy, but he might be

remembered for something else. We have to remember that he took an underdog

team, Cleveland, and carried them through six rounds of the playoffs before losing in

the NBA Finals twice.

Yes, I think he will. The longevity of a golfer's career gives him a good chance to win again. I’d say no if he

played another sport where your career is shorter like

football or hockey.

No, he’s made it to six straight finals and when he has had help he’s won two

out of four. Michael Jordan had support with hall-of-

fame teammates like Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman. James’s numbers this Finals were absurd without his two

all-stars.

Opinions from the Western Front staff on all things sports

No, Tiger Woods will not win another major. For the lon-gest time, I would have said the opposite. However, he

will have to face better talent with the emergence of young guys like Jordan Spieth who just won his second major

championship of 2015 at the U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy, Ja-son Day and Rickie Fowler.

LeBron’s legacy will always be in jeopardy. It is ridicu-lous to expect any player to

be able to follow Michael Jordan. But James is the only player to go to five

straight NBA Finals, and he has six triple-doubles all-

time in the NBA Finals, good for second all-time to Magic

Johnson.

Colin FloydSports Editor

Cam CaplingerSports Reporter

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