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NORTHWEST THE DAI1.Y NEWS, IjONGVIEW. WASH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1MS B4 State's first openly gay senator dies of AIDS Oftt) mi vWfffli liUriitliiiHlil David Amnions the associated press ISA Account vs. Bank Rate Monitor National IndexTI 7-day annual percentage yield for the period ending 73195 stronger. "People will be shocked to learn of his death." Gov.

Mike Lowry, a fellow Democrat, called Anderson "a man of integrity and courage who served the people of his district and the state with distinction." Anderson, 47, was awarded two Bronze Stars and two Army V. 7 6, Anderson for years waged an unsuccessful battle to have the Legislature adopt a gay-rights bill. He was a major force in fighting anti-gay rights initiatives in 1994. "He spent too short a time with us," said Senate Majority Leader Marc Gaspard, a close friend. "He lived a life of dignity and courage and grace.

His pain is gone, he's with God." In a 1994 interview, on the day the so-called gay civil-rights bill died for the 17th year in a row, Anderson said his tenure in the Legislature put a human face on homosexuality and would pave the way for eventual passage of the legislation and equal treatment for gays and lesbians. "Egotistically, my being in the House has helped, because they see that gay men care about the same issues they do, that we are not monsters. We are their friends, their family, their compatriots," he said. Even among colleagues who disagreed with his position on gay rights, he was a favorite. Members from both sides of the aisle called him a hard worker, willing to do the behind-the-scenes committee and constituent chores that "showboat" legislators avoid.

,5 3 4 3 2 Cal Anderson, the first openly gay member of the Washington Legislature, has died after a battle with AIDS. Secretary of the Senate Marty Brown said Anderson was found dead by his partner, Eric Ishino, at their Seattle home when Ishino came home from work Friday. A man who answered the phone at the Anderson home Friday night declined comment The immediate cause of death was not known. However, Anderson, a Democratic senator from Seattle's 43rd District, was absent for most of the 1995 legislative session, battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma, an AIDS-related cancer. Anderson announced in April that vigorous chemotherapy had eradicated the lymphoma, but he was left weakened and susceptible to further opportunistic illnesses.

In June, he missed being grand marshal of Seattle's gay-pride parade due to blood clots in his legs and lungs. "Everybody thought he was doing fine," Brown said. "He was off chemotherapy. His hair was growing back and he seemed to be getting Commendation Medals during his tour of duty Sen. Cal Anderson 1 0 Bank Rate Monitor National Index Insured Savings Account" in Vietnam.

He was appointed to the House in November 1987 to fill out an unexpired term. He won House elections in 1988, 1990 and 1992 in the heavily Democratic, liberal 43rd District, and won an open Senate seat in 1994 with 81 percent of the vote. He took an interest in civil rights, the environment, and legislation dealing with elections, ethics and state government Funding colleges a big challenge The Associated Press The Merrill Lynch CMA Insured Savings5' Account (ISA account) is a federally insured money market deposit account (MMDA) at one or more banks or savings associations. The seven-day yield on the ISA account substantially outperformed that of the average bank money market deposit account, as reported by the Bank Rate Monitor National Index for the period ending 73195. The ISA account offers you: FDIC deposit insurance of up to 100,000 per customer at each participating bank and savings association (subject to FDIC insurance limitations).

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Prison officials allowed the release because they? had no record of his conviction for the attempted murder of the officer, said Perrin Damon, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. Corrections officials discovered their mistake Friday and issued a bulletin warning that Petrie should be considered dangerous. Petrie initially was sentenced to 48 years in prison for 11 crimes that he committed in Deschutes, Multnomah, Jackson and Umatilla counties. He was paroled in January 1994. But a month later, he was arrested for attempted aggravated murder and several other charges after he took away the patrol car of Stanfield police officer Ralph "Butch" Parrish, then rammed the officer with the vehicle.

Parrish, 25, is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. 2010, said Mike Bigelow, higher education policy director for the state budget office. That increase exceeds the higher education share of the budget, set under spending-limit Initiative 601, by $200 million. House Education Chairman Ron Carlson, R-Vancouver, said the state probably should prepare for between 30,000 and 50,000 new students in that time frame. The current system has about 180,000 students.

The higher education budget is $1.9 billion, or $4.7 billion including tuition dollars, federal dollars and other funds. The overall General Fund budget is $17.6 billion. Panel chairman Joe King, a former state House speaker from Vancouver, said the committee's first task should be to agree on a reasonable higher education goal. "We need high expectations, but a touch of realism," said state Rep. Helen Sommers, D-Seattle.

Then comes the hard part devising a funding system and persuading the Legislature to adopt it and stick to it down through the years, King said. His panel will present its recommendations next July; the outcome will be up to the next governor and the 1997 legislature. The 21-member panel didn't do any serious brainstorming on ways to finance colleges, but some members did mention tuition increases and a guaranteed share of the state budget as two options. among the best in the nation, ranking fourth, bringing the state's total public college participation rank to 14th. But a number of panel members said the crucial number is the four-year college statistic.

Educating large numbers of community and technical college students and then barring them from upper division work amounts to failure, panelists said. Washington has never recovered from deep cuts in higher education in the recession of 1981 and 1982, said state Sen. Gene Prince, R-Thornton. He and others said the state must do more than simply perpetuate the current higher education budget. "We were seventh or eighth in the nation before the cuts of 1981 and "82," Prince said.

"I'm not interested in being part of a group that wants to be last We need to regain our belief in higher education we used to have It will be a tall order if the state wants to improve its standing among the states, much less move to the 90th or 95th percentile, said Chuck Collins, a former chairman of the Higher Education Coordinating Board. "We've got real participation problems right now and we've got a rush (of new students) coming right at us," he said. "If we want to become average, we've got a long ways to go." Simply paying for population growth and leaving the general admissions policies alone will cost an extra $900 million by the year OLYMPIA Providing even average support for Washington's colleges will be a huge challenge in the next two decades as thousands of new students seek higher education, members of a new panel say. Gov. Mike Lowry appointed the panel of community and government leaders to devise a firm financial footing for the state's public colleges.

As the panel kicked off its one-year effort Friday, Lowry noted many panels have studied the problem. "We always get to the tough question (how to pay for it) and that's usually when the punt happens," he said. "I do not expect this task force to punt." Panel members and policy experts said it's an expensive, vexing problem on two fronts: The sheer numbers of the "Baby Boom Echo." The state's population is one of the fastest growing in the nation, both from in-migration and natural growth. The college-age population is expected to grow by 300,000 in the next 25 years. Washington's four-year colleges haven't begun to keep pace with the current population trends, much less the forecasted increases.

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