The Cooper Point Journal Vol. 2, Number 21 (April 18, 1974)

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Title: Eng The Cooper Point Journal Vol. 2, Number 21 (April 18, 1974)
Date: 18 April 1974
Evergreen Subject: Evergreen Organic Farm; Media Studies/Arts; Student Organizing and Activism
Description: Eng Page 1: Cooper Point Journal (front page) -- custodians unite!;
Page 2: (advertisement) OOKKEE's;
Page 2: (advertisement) Rainy Day Record Co.;
Page 2: (advertisement) Channel 10 Campus Report;
Page 2: Table of Contents;
Page 2: Staff Credits;
Page 3: Times At Evergreen State College: E-COP Scores;
Page 3: Times At Evergreen State College: Clean you rooms, kids!;
Page 3: (advertisement) Ray's Grocery;
Page 3: (advertisement) Britton's Jewlers;
Page 3: (advertisement) Robin Hood's;
Page 4: Brief News: Dispute mediated;
Page 4: Brief News: Senate okays building (image: Lunch Meet (by Hirshman));
Page 4: Brief News: Position proposed;
Page 5: Brief News: Study undertaken;
Page 5: Brief News: Deadline nears;
Page 5: Brief News: Sounding Board;
Page 5: Brief News: Cabin for farm;
Page 5: Brief News: Needs reviewed;
Page 5 & 11: Brief News: Bus May merge;
Page 5: (advertisement) Peterson's Foodtown;
Page 6: Custodians work for change;
Page 6: (advertisement) ROBCO'S;
Page 6: Image: Jerry Schillinger (by Gilman);
Page 7: Festival art exhibits are for everyone;
Page 7 &13: Women's art to come;
Page 7: Image: Festive Strings (by Gilman);
Page 8-11: The portfolio, part two: careers, grad school, and a return to grades;
Page 9: Image: Will Humphreys (by Gilman);
Page 9: Image: Richard Alexander (by Gilman);
Page 9: Article preparation by Stan Shore;
Page 10: Image: Ken Donohue (by Gilman);
Page 11: Brief News: assertion taught;
Page 11: Brief News: Correction;
Page 11: (advertisement) The Sign Studio;
Page 11: (advertisement) Asterisk & Cheese Library;
Page 12: (advertisement) The Guardsman;
Page 12: (advertisement) Vino Fino;
Page 12: (advertisement) Pete & Gay's Cafe;
Page 12: (advertisement) Hendrick's Rexall Drugs;
Page 13: (advertisement) Olympia Sport Shop;
Page 13: (advertisement) Boone Ford Town (Image: Dave Jirovec);
Page 13: (advertisement) Medieval Tournament;
Page 13: (advertisement) Moreno's Mexican Restaurant;
Page 14: Cinema: Gatsby and film-makers;
Page 14: (advertisement) Word of Mouth Books;
Page 14: (advertisement) Ellie's;
Page 15: Northwest Culture;
Page 15: (advertisement) Olympia Federal Savings;
Page 15: (advertisement) rally for the impeachment of Nixon;
Page 16: (advertisement) Bob's Big Burgers;
Page 16: (advertisement) Gourmet Vintners;
Page 16: (advertisement) The General Food Store
Creator: Eng Graham, Tom; Eng Pease; Eng Nancy; Eng Christian, Susan; Eng Shore, Stan; Eng Mahan, Jeffery H.
Contributor: Eng Berger, Knute Olsson H.G.S.; Eng Foster, John; Eng Psthumus, Ingrid; Eng Ryan, Andy; Eng Hishman, William P.; Eng Brown, Claudia; Eng Ushakoff, Michael; Eng Mahan, Jefferey; Eng Hester, Mary Frances; Eng Countryman, Teresa; Eng Graham, Tom; Eng Pokorny, Brad; Eng Shore, Stan; Eng Groening, Matthew; Eng Chrisitan, Susan; Eng Lastrapes, Libby; Eng Williams, Charlie; Eng Riback, Lee; Eng Katz, Dean; Eng Murphy, Brian; Eng Kramer, Wendy; Eng Lenon, Thomas R.; Eng Murphy, Paul; Eng Girvin, Tim; Eng Whitemire, Glenn; Eng DeMoulin, Dan; Eng Robb, Lynn; Eng Tilton, Mike; Eng Gilman, Joel; Eng Toedtemeier, Terry; Eng Lanigan, Steve; Eng Gribskov, Margaret
Subject: Eng Times at Evergreen State College; Eng Dispute mediated; Eng Communications Laboratory Building; Eng Study undertaken; Eng Sounding Board; Eng Evergeen Organic Farm; Eng Bus system; Eng Custodians; Eng Women's Art Festival; Eng Portfolios; Eng Cinema; Eng Northwest Culture; Eng Herman, Steve; Eng Beug, Michael; Eng Oakley, Karen; Eng Fabricant, Mort; Eng Denison, Bob; Eng Wallick, Len; Eng Bogue, Neil; Eng Hunter, Sally; Eng Clabaugh, Dean; Eng McCan, Charles; Eng Kahn, Doug; Eng Carnahan, Dave; Eng Shelnutt, Barbara; Eng Dobbs, Carolyn; Eng Vincent, Pearl; Eng Marvin, Sue; Eng Elbow, Peter; Eng Knapp, Helen; Eng Nichols, Dick; Eng Nitzke, Johanna; Eng Youtz, Byron; Eng Durkan, Martin J.; Eng Dobbins, Pete; Eng Hitchens, Dave; Eng Kormondy, Edward; Eng Schllinger, Jerry; Eng Patterson, Lynn; Eng Olexa, Carolyn; Eng Skov, Niels; Eng Guttmann, Bert; Eng Eickstaedt; Eng Parsons, Willie; Eng Knapp, Rob; Eng Estes, Betty; Eng Kahn, Linda; Eng Sluss, Bob; Eng Alexander, Richard; Eng Marcy, Vivian; Eng Reid, Ed; Eng Sadler, Carole; Eng Hunter, Smokey; Eng Jacobson, Norman; Eng Scheider, Ursula; Eng Maass, Nancy; Eng Vincent, Eve; Eng Reid, Dorothy; Eng Parker, Lucinda; Eng Berthot, Jake; Eng Cox, Beverly; Eng Nelson, Mary F.; Eng Parker, Pat; Eng Kim, Willyce; Eng McPherson, Sandra; Eng Shange, Notzke; Eng Knapp, Helena; Eng Martin, Gail; Eng Morishima, James; Eng Barry, David; Eng Boyle, Elizabeth; Eng Aldridge, Bill; Eng Smith, Perrin; Eng Idol, Bill; Eng Donohue, Ken; Eng Juhola, Kirby; Eng Crocker, Bob; Eng Cohens, Rick; Eng Zima, Liz; Eng Kinnear, Cal; Eng Stein, Getrude; Eng Thompson, Virgil; Eng Lipchity, Jacques; Eng Thanner, Janet; Eng Cerf, Bennett; Eng Balmain, Pierre; Eng Chicago, Judy; Eng Rdford, Robert; Eng Coppola, Francis Ford; Eng Farrow, Mia; Eng Groening, Matthew; Eng Evans, Jay; Eng Cox, Jim; Eng Foster, Frankie; Eng Dejarnett, Steve; Eng Bergma, Ingmar; Eng Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Eng Michelson, Jerry; Eng Barnes, Elle; Eng Jackson, Glenda; Eng Beckman, Max; Eng Arden, Eve; Eng Nixon, Marni; Eng Baez, Joan; Eng Voight, John; Eng Ookee's Books; Eng Rainy Day Record Co.; Eng The Evergreen State College; Eng Evergreen State College Visual Environmental Group; Eng House Ways and Means Committee; Eng Input Resources Center; Eng Commission on Higher Schools of the Nothwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools; Eng Evergreen State College Sounding Board; Eng Evergreen Bus System; Eng Intercity Transit Bus System; Eng Peterson's Foodtown; Eng Robco's; Eng Sonoma State College; Eng University of Southern California; Eng Department of Communications; Eng University of Washington; Eng Western Washington State College; Eng Department of Education; Eng Rutgers Law School; Eng John Marshall School of Law; Eng Northwestern Universtiy; Eng New College; Eng California Personality Inventory; Eng The Sign Studio; Eng Asterisk and Cheese Library; Eng The Guardsman; Eng South Sound Center; Eng Westside Shopping Center; Eng Vino Fino; Eng Pete & Gay's Cafe; Eng Hendricks Rexall Drugs; Eng Olympia Sport Shop; Eng Higher Education Personnel Board; Eng Moreno's Mexican Restaurant; Eng Boone Ford Town; Eng Word of Mouth Books; Eng Ellie's; Eng Applejam Coffee House; Eng Evergreen Coffee House; Eng Adult Student Housing Inc.; Eng Seattle Repertory Theatre; Eng Cirque Dinner Theatre; Eng Green River Community College; Eng Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Eng Seattle Japanese Buddhist Church; Eng Bob White Metro Cinema; Eng Olympia Federal Savings; Eng Bob's Big Burgers; Eng Gormet Vinters; Eng The General Food Store
Place: Eng The Evergreen State College; Eng Olympia, WA; Eng Lacey, WA; Eng Bay Area; Eng San Fanscisco, CA; Eng Portland, OR; Eng California; Eng Florida; Eng Thuston County; Eng Tacoma, WA; Eng Seattle, WA
Extent: Eng 16 pages
Temporal Coverage: Eng 1972/1973/1974/1975-77
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Vol. 2 Number 21
April 18, 1974

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April 18, 1974
Vol. 2 Number 21

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Brief news

Cover story
Custodians
Women's art festival

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Portfolio: part two

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Cinema

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Northwest culture

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Cover
This week's cover was taken by Terry Toedtemeier. Some members of Evergreen's custodial staff show solidarity in their efforts to change certain working
conditions and to unionize. Solidarity forever. See Cover Story.

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The Cooper Point Journal is published hebdomadally by The Evergreen State College Board of Publications and members of the Evergreen community. It is funded. in part. by student services and activities
fees. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the editorial staff or The Evergreen State College. The
Journal news room is located on the first noor of the college Activities Bldg.. rm. 103. Phone: 866-6213.
The business office is located on the third noor of the Daniel J . Evans Library. rm. 3129. Phone: 866-6080.

Editor - Knute Olsson H.G.S. Berger; Business Manager - John Foster; Production Manager - Ingrid
Posthumus; Managing Editor - Andy Ryan; News Editor - William P. Hirshman; Special Editor Claudia Brown; Photo Editor - Michael Ushakoff; Cinema Editor - Jeffrey Mahan; Assistant to the Editor - Mary Frances Hester; Writing and Production - Teresa Countryman, Tom Graham, Brad
Pokorny, Stan Shore, Matt Groening, Susan Christian, Libby Lastrapes, Charlie Williams, Lee Riback,
Dean Katz, Brian Murphy, Wendy Kramer, Thomas R. Lenon, Paul Murphy, Tim Girvin, Glenn Whitmire,
Dan DeMoulin, Lynn Robb, Mike Tilton, Joel Gilman, Terry Toedtemeier, Steve Lanigan. Faculty
Advisor - Margaret Gribskov.

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E-COP Seores
Students of Ecology and Chemistry of
Pollution, (E-COP) a coordinated studies
program headed by Steve Herman and
Michael Beug, have been awarded two
National Science Foundation research
grants. E-COP students worked up two
proposals for submission to the StudentOriginated Studies (S.O.S.) funding program.
A group under Karen Oakley was
awarded $12,300 for a study of "Tussock
Moth Damage as related to Forest Management". The other group, headed by
Mort Fabricant, received $9,740 to fund
a study of fluoride use in the Columbia
River ecosystem and related ecosystem
changes.
A third S.O.S. grant of $9,330 went to
Bob Denison, a student in the Evergreen
Environment group contract. Bob and a
small group of his fellow students will
spend the summer studying acid rainfall
in this area.
Since Evergreen received three out of
eight S.O.S. grants given in the state of
Washington, this school is batting .375.

Occasional shafts of sunlight are reaching Olympia; some days the grey clouds
are almost completely hidden by blue
skies. Whole hours go by without rain.
It's real softball weather, time for the
sounds of CPackerjacks crunching, bats
cracking, and the ol' horsehide thumping
into the glove.
Len Wallick at Intramural Activities
thinks so too. On April 2, he sent letters
to all program heads and campus organizations, to try to gauge interest in softball and other competitive team activities for Spring Quarter. Thus far, the
only team that has responded is a joint
group from the Architecture of Matter,
Matter and Motion programs, ably captained by Neil Bogue.
For those who don't want the commitment and intense competition that Evergreen intramural teams entail, occasional
participation in pick-up games is an alternative.
"Next week, if the weather's gQOd and
the field dries oui., we'll schedule noon
pick-up games," Wallick promised. "The

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Clean your rooms, kids!
Sally Hunter, administrative assistant
to the provost, has a provocative idea for
an experiment in Evergreen cooperation.
She proposes that the third floor Library
office area be the testing-ground for a
new system of housekeeping.
At present, each maintenance worker
is responsible for cleaning a certain
square footage of floor space. Under
Hunter's experiment, such major tasks
as vacuuming and cleaning lavatories
would still be handled by the maintenance staff, but tidying up the offices
would be the responsibility of those who
use them. At 4:30, when the ubiquitous
ladies (formerly in yellow) come by to
oversee, everyont: would knock off work
and clean off their desks.
"It would make a nice little ritual to
close out the day," Hunter remarked.
But wouldn't those office-users involved in the experiment argue that
with maintenance people merely supervising cleaning, fewer of them would be
needed?
"They'd better not, or they'd be arguing against their own jobs. Most of the
third-floor people - Dean Clabaugh,
Charles McCann - are supervisors themselves.''

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Dispute mediated
"Watch out for Jake Romero," advised
Doug Kahn, Evergreen exhibits coordinator, prior to the open hearing which convened on Friday, April 12, to deliberate
on Kahn's charge that Library director
Dave Carnahan acted improperly in
removing two drawings on February 26,
from an exhibit entitled "Fried Eggs" in
the gallery area of the Library. The
drawings by student Barbara ' Shelnutt,
"Some Penises and Cigarettes Mingling"
and "Clinical Proof: Penises Don't Turn

Your Teeth Yellow," reportedly produced
six complaints of "bad taste" in 36 hours.
At the hearing, Romero, a member of
the adjudicative board selected from the
Community Service List, presented a
brief of the issues in mediation. He concluded that it was Kahn, not Carnahan,
who acted beyond his authority. The
other members of the board - Carolyn
Dobbs, Pearl Vincent, Sue Marvin, and
Tim Faulke - agreed that Kahn did not
follow acknowledged procedure when he
failed to submit the drawings to the Visual Environment Group (VEG) prior to
exhibiting them.

The board also concurred with Romt>ro'!. interprt>tation that Carnahan does
indeed have administrative jurisdiction
ovt>r the gallery area of the Library, but
that "Dave acted rather hastily in this
case" bt>cause he "failed to take full advantagl' of the alternatives available to
him," such as covering the material until
either Shelnutt or Kahn could be contacted.
On the question of VEG jurisdiction
over exhibition space on campus,
membe.rs of the board expressed disap·
proval of administrative ambiguity and
apparent laxness in formulating procedural guidelines. There was, consequently, no consensus on Romero's suggestion
that the VEG exercised its function as
"overseer of exhibitions" irresponsibly.
At the fifth hearing, scheduled for yes·
terday morning, the board was to dis·
cuss guidelines, as requested by Kahn,
relating to administrative censorship.
For the time and location of future hearings, which are open to the public but
closed to audience participation, contact
board secretary Pearl Vincent at
866-6600.

Position proposed

LUNCH MEET - Senator Martin Durkan (D-Issaquah) and President McCann
confer at Evergreen (Photo by Hirshman)

Senate okays bui Iding
A $6.75 million budget request for the
proposed Communications Laboratory
Building ~t Evergreen has been passed
by the state senate and at press time
was being reviewed by the House Ways
and Means Committee, before going to
the house floor for a final vote.
Chairman of the Senate Ways and
Means Committee, Senator Martin J.
Durkan, who placed the communications
building back in the budget after its
failure in the January mini-legislative
session, expressed hope that the building
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would be budgeted. "Just four words,"
he said, "it's in the budget."
Funds for the building, which is
planned to house an auditorium and production facilities for the arts, could possibly be passed by Friday, said President
McCann.
"Actually, I'm as pleased as punch,"
said Administrative Vice President Dean
Clabaugh.
The Communications Laboratory Building would complete Evergreen's first
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phase of construction.

Faculty member Peter Elbow and
counselor Helena Knapp have put forward a proposal designed to alleviate
major problems in communications at
Evergreen. Addressed to the Evergreen
community, the proposal calls for the
creation of an "interpreter of informa·
tion" whose job would be to attend all
college meetings. As a paid staff mem·
ber, the interpreter would be responsible
to collect and disseminate information.
The proposal has met with mixed reac·
tions.
Dick Nichols, head of College Relations, said he recognizes the lack of communication, "but one more paid bureaucrat just won't be able to solve .the
problem. The problem lies with the community as a whole." He added that
people do not care enough to attend
meeting~ or read memoranda, and that
an interpreter would not change that.
Johanna Nitzke, student coordinator of
the information center, also feels that
there is a problem with a lack of
communication and that it is a problem
that the "Evergreen community has to
face." But rather than making the new
position a permanent one, as proposed,
Nitzke believes that a yearly evaluation
of the position would make more sense.
In this way the interpreter's job "could
be ended if and when people learn to
communicate as they already should be
doing."
Academic Dean Byron Youtz feels that
the transfer of information is essential to
the governance of the college and indicated he was attracted by the idea of an
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interpreter. He would like to see it tried
for the rest of the spring quarter. "An
adive, interested party might just do
it."

Pete Dobbins, head of the Input
Resource Senter (IRS), says he is
pleased to see the problem of communicalion recognized. Dobbins sees a great
need for some kind of centralization, but
feels that "some kind of autonomy must
be kept with the varied information
processes on campus."

Study undertaken
'from April 29, through May 1, an
team representing the Commission on Higher Schools of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools will visit Evergreen and make
a decision about Evergreen receiving full
accreditation. As part of the preparation
for the eleven man team's visit, a self
study, reviewing all aspects of the
college has been prepared by a number
of administrators, each in their own area
of responsibility.
A DTF, chaired by Dave Hitchens, has
been formed to review the green-bound
225-page report. The self study DTF
must report to Provost Ed Kormondy on
April 24th. Because of the lack of student input in the report, Hitchens is urging students to submit papers and reports concerning student academic life
for inclusion in the final report which
will go to Kormondy. Students are urged
to send their material to Hitchens before
the 24th of April. Hitchens' office is in
Science bldg. rm. 3020.
e~aluation

Sounding Board
"There's just an incredible lack of
communication between DTFs (disappearing task force) and a whole lot of
other organizations on campus," commented Johanna Nitske at the April 17
meeting of the Sounding Board. Nitska
was speaking in favor of the main topic
of the meeting, a proposal by Director of
Information Services Dick Nichols to
have DTF's present progress reports to
the Sounding Board.
"A DTF will be formed, because I'll
see to it," vowed student Bill Hirshman
informing the Sounding Board of his continued pursuit of the equivalency disclaimer issue.
The Sounding Board also discussed the
Faculty Forum, and faculty representation on the Sounding Board. There are
only four faculty representatives on the
board.

Cabin for farm
There is a good chance that Evergreen's Organic Farm may get the new
building it has been asking for. After
much worrying and wondering by the
farmers as to where funds might come
from, Jerry Schillinger, director of Facilities Planning, said he would "place the
new building on the list for consideration
of the 1975-77 Capital Budget."
It has been proposed that the new
building be of a Jog cabin type, designed
as a combination caretaker's residence,
research Jab, library, and meeting hall.
The new building, with its proposed
2,000 sq. ft. of floor space, is needed to

accommodate the expanding activities at
the farm.
The call for this building is amplified
by the condition of the present
farmhouse. It is in need of extensive remodeling and is overcrowded. In addition, it is being attacked by carpenter
ants at its foundations, but it is expected
to last at least several more years.

Needs

reviewed

Evergreen's faculty needs are being
evaluated by a disappearing task force
(DTF) charged by Academic Dean Lynn
Patterson to review faculty recruiting
procedures. Patterson formed the DTF
to recommend solutions to recruiting
problems such as Jack of student input.
The Faculty Recruitment Procedures
DTF, chaired by faculty member Carol
Olexa, will review faculty application
files today at 4 p.m. The DTF members
will also discuss how the Affirmative
Action Policy, a statement of Evergreen
equal opportunity and guidelines in the
Faculty Handbook, affect faculty hiring.

Bus may merge
Operations of the Evergreen Bus System may be taken over by the Olympia
Inter-city Transit Bus System starting
next Fall Quarter, with about 12 runs a
day Monday through Saturday. The cost
will increase from 10 to 15 cents per
ride.
"A decent transportation system is of
utmost importance to the Evergreen
community," said Evergreen student

Deadline nears
Tomorrow (April 19) is the last day
nominations will be accepted for the Academic Deanship being vacated by Byron
Youtz.
Those nominated to date are Niels
Skov, Bert Guttmann, Larry Eickstaedt,
Willie Parsons, Rob Knapp (who has formally declined the position), Betty Estes,
Linda Kahn, Steve Herman, · and Bob
Sluss.
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The deanship is open to any faculty
member who will have had at least one
academic year (three quarters) experience in coordinated studies or group
contracts by next Fall Quarter, and who
holds no administrative position nor has
ever held an Evergreen deanship. The
applicant should show strength in the
natural sciences, and will be in charge of
phase II of the Lab Building, including
the arts and arts faculty.
Nominations should be submitted to
Richard Alexander, chairperson of the
DTF established to screen applicants, in
Lib. rm. 2411.

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Custodians vvork for change
BY TOM GRAHAM
AND NANCY PEASE
"It feels good. I feel like I belong to
Evergreen now," said custodian Vivian
Marcy when asked about not having to
wear a uniform. "I'll bet there were a
hundred people who stopped me to say
something about how nice it is. Everybody seems to be pleased that we don't
have to wear uniforms now."

Evergreen's 23 custodians no longer
have to punch a time clock or wear uniforms. This policy decision which coincided with a custodian move to unionize
was announced by Jerry Schillinger, director of Facilities, at a meeting attended by custodians April 9.
"In general, in the past, we have been
treated, as far as I'm concerned, like irresponsible juveniles rather than responsible adults," commented custodian Ed
Reid, explaining that the staffs complaints were based largely on discrepancies between rules for custodians and
those for other community members.
"I feel that within custodial we are not
able to participate as freely as other
TESC members do," reiterated custodian
Carole Sadler. "I resent being told that I
am a TESC member who cannot participate in many of the privileges that the
rest of the community takes for granted.
It creates a sub-class structure. After all
isn't this a hypocritical situation at an institution that stresses equality for all?"
Proud of uniform'
Custodian "Smokey" Hulet was not as
concerned. Asked to comment on the
time clock and uniforms he stated, "I'm
proud to wear a uniform. People can
recognize me if they need any kind of
assistance. They recognize the green and
yellow. There's nothing wrong with this."

Custodial Services Supervisor Norman
Jacobson, who has been the focus of
some complaint by custodians, saw the
whole issue as a matter of the custodians
doing the work they're paid to do.
"While they're here at work," he explained, "they're not to participate in
any shows or dances or anything that's
going on around here, as long as they're
working. On their break they can do as
they please; on their lunch they can do
what they please."
Continued on page 13

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Cooper Point Journal

Festival art exhibits
are for everyone
As a woman who, four years ago, was
trying unsuccessfully to gain a foothold
as One Of The Boys who dominated East
Coast art, I am now very much
interested in what women's art looks
like. For a few weeks we have some examples of it, courtesy of the Women's
Art Festival.
Of four separate shows, the most professional is the Bay Area show, handpicked and carefully hung by Susan
Brenner, who came to the Evergreen
faculty from San Francisco. It is a
strange show, gaudy and gay, but full of
kinks and quirks and dark edges. Its
irreverence for serious art-problems
sometimes makes it look minor; its pretensions to comical worldliness seem like
an ev.asion of grandeur. Things I think
are big in heart or spirit are Susan B's
Mother, Ursula Scheider's Eagle, Nancy
Maass Mosen's Britannia (the bulldog
painting, so drunken and crazed), Eve
Vincent's musky-innocent spangled, cheesecloth self-portrait, and especially
Dorothy Reid's untitled stained-dowel
construction, which is a knockout. These
five things are as loving of detail and
care as the dottier pieces, but they seem
weightier.
Han~~:ing with the Bay Area show inside the Library proper is a small show of
work by Seattle and Portland artists,
well hung but not very well collected.
There is an overabundance of crafty
(why do hangings always have to be
brown or bright pink?) non-ART! pieces.
To be sure, ART! has dominated art as
MALE! has dominated female, and it's
good to assert the value of the "female"
crafts and skills. However, Lucinda Parker's two confident Crib Drawings are
similar to but stronger than the paintings of a successful guy in New York
named Jake Berthot, and I like that assertion too. My admitted prejudice
against the wall-hanging school of
thought is not impermeable; I think the
weaving from Portland called Burt Lake
is even better than Lucinda's good good
paintings; quality transcends both politics and media.
The juried exhibition in the Library
lobby contains an assortment of pretty
good work by no one but us locals.
Struggling with the awkwardness of
many non-complementing entries, the
five-woman jury agreed to select for energy, rather than for consistency of
genre or consciousness. Thus it happens
that Beverly Cox's portrait, in a naive,
un-chic painting-on-velvet tradition, hangs
April 18, 1974

between Ellen Trabka's classical untitled
weaving, which is in a tradition we know
it's okay to take seriously, and Susie
Jones' sophisticated stained-and-scum bled
stitched painting. P.S. - don't forget to
notice the quilts.
On the Library balcony is an unjuried
local show with something in it for every
taste. I would like to mention Marjorie
Held's acrylic-on-paper. The image came
straight out of her waking dream, and it
shows. Paint handling is wonderful, and
the composition eccentric and personal.
These four shows tell me only that
women's art is various; I don't see this
mass of work as exclusively female
(when will I see an equivalent mass of
all-male art to compare it to?) Maybe
we're all in this together. Aha.
SUSAN CHRISTIAN

Women's

art to come

BY WOMEN AND LITERATURE
In the interest of informing the community of the beautiful things the
Women's Art Festival is bringing to Evergreen, members of the Women and
Literature group contract are publishing
these brief descriptions of a few upcoming events. We would like to remind everyone that exact times and places for
the events are posted at the Festival Information Desk located in the main Library lobby.

~~~

FESTIVE STRINGS - Karen Gottlieb
Gottlieb plays harp during the opening
opening days of the Women's Art
Women's Art Festival
(Photo by
Gilman)

Faculty member Mary F. Nelson will
stage a slide presentation featuring contemporary Native American Art on Friday, April19, at 1 p.m. Mary, a member
of the Colville Tribe in Northeast Washington, will emphasize the techniques, dimensions and methods of the Indian artist in landscape and portrait painting~~.
She will compare these with the works
of other modern painters.
Her extensive knowledge in this field
transforms the arrylics and watercolors
of the Hopi, Navaho and other Indian
artists into an authentic experience. The
viewer becomes fascinated with the materials and methods used in the production of Indian art.
Mary will also participate in a panel
discussion concerning the role of the
Native American woman artist and modern art this Friday at 10 a.m.

Two lesbian feminist poets will
present their works to the women of Evergreen Friday at 9 p.m. Pat Parker is a
black poet fron'l San Francisco who
wrote the books Child of Myself and Pitstop. Willyce Kim, from the Oakland
Woman's Press Collective, is an Asian
poet whose works include Eating Artichokes.
Both women are frank and have much
to teach us about not only being women
artists, but about being lesbian and nonwhite women artists as well.
Sandra McPherson is an important
poet who lives in the Northwest. In 1971
she was guest editor of Poetry Northwest. Her book, Elegies for the Hot
Season, was chosen as a selection of the
National Council on the Arts Program.
She has had poems published in many
periodicals, including The New RepubUc
and The New Yorker. Two of her poems,
recently anthologised in No More Masks,
are on the experience of motherhood.
Notzake Shange is a poet and dancer
currently on the faculty of Sonoma State
College in California. Her poems are "my
conversations with spirits and lovers or
demons i usedta know." She has been
published in Invisible City, Third World
Women, Phat Mama, and Anon, and will
soon publish a new book of poetry. For
Continued on page 13
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·T he portfolio, part tvvo: careers, grad
school and a return to grades
BY STAN SHORE
Editor's note - In the April 4 issue
the Journal printed part one of an examination of the portfolio, discussing credit
equivalency disclaimers. This week's
article looks at the evaluation itseH, as
well as the portfolio in graduate school
admissions.
"I can't think of one person who hasn't
been able to get into graduate school because they wei:e from Evergreen,"
stated academic counselor Helena Knapp.
It is Knapp's responsibility to advise
students about graduate school: whether
they should attend, which schools to
apply to, and what academic background
at Evergreen would qualify them for different schools.
To date not many students have gone
on to graduate school from Evergreen.
According to a memo from Gail Martin, a
placement counselor, 17 per cent of the
first year and approximately nine per
cent of the second and fall quarter third
year graduates have gone on to graduate
school.
Included in the schools where Evergreen graduates have been accepted are:
The University of Southern California,
Department of Communications; University of Washington Medical School;
Western Washington State College, Department of Education; Rutgers Law
School; John Marshall School of Law and
Northwestern University.
Knapp cautioned against taking the
low number of Evergreen students going
on to graduate school compared with our
"sister" schools (Eastern and Western)
too seriously. Both of the other schools
have extensive teacher training programs•and other specific graduate school
preparation curriculum whereas Evergreen has neither.
Need graduate school
"Our applicants," she explained, "are
those people who genuinely need to go
on to graduate school. Very few apply
from Evergreen because they can't think
of anything else. Either they have a very
good idea of the advanced study they
want to do, or a professional field they
want to get into. They're very serious."
In the discussion with Knapp, and
with others on the subject, a handful of
important factors kept coming up in
regards to getting into grad school: the
Graduate Record Exam, Law School
Aptitude Test (LSAT), or Medical Collt>gt> Admissions Test (MCAT) scores;
faculty rt>commt>ndations, prestige of the
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school and specific faculty members
studied under, as well as the prestige of
the college being applied to.
The first hurdle for a student is to
make sure that the school understands
the Evergreen transcript, which includes
the evaluations, course titles and a list of
course equivalencies.
"One of the schools I applied to," a recent graduate explained, "didn't understand the transcript that well so I had to
send them a letter explaining some of it.
The registrar here offered to write a
letter to them for me if I needed it, but
it wasn't necessary ."

much different than that of other students seeking graduate school admission.
"In a sense," she continued, "Evergreen being an experimental school is
lucky, since if we were just a newlyformed traditional small state liberal arts
college, we wouldn't have any kind of
reputation across the country and would
not have the faculty we have. As it is,
graduate schools have heard of us and
are interested in what we are doing.
"Our faculty," Knapp explained in reference to the importance of faculty recommendations, "~omes from a wide
range, from many colleges and some
have very impressive connections. Their
recommendations can be important, indeed."
Knapp also explained that the more
prestigious colleges were generally more
receptive to the Evergreen transcript
than some other smaller, less well known
ones. "The reason is, that the (prestigious) schools are willing to take the
risk. The people there are bright, ' intelligent thinkers, and our transcript doesn't
scare them away," she said.
Despite this optimism, three reports
on the subject of graduate school admissions from schools with non-traditional
evaluation methods (i.e. no grades) have
shown less hopeful results.

HELENA KNAPP (Photo by Hirshman)
At the University of Washington Law
School a similar problem cropped up.
"They were very worried about 'soft
teachers' here and suspicious of the evaluations," Knapp related. "The logic they
followed was something like: 'any teacher that gets to know their students very
well is soft, and to write an evaluation
you have to get to know your students,
therefore, the teachers and the evaluations must be soft.' We explained to
them the way that Coordinated Studies
are scheduled and showed them some
sample evaluations. It pretty much
convinced them that it would be unlikely
that a student could go through four
years intentionally seeking out 'soft' faculty to get good evaluations."
Situation not unique
Knapp also maintained that, although
a great deal of publicity is given to the
unique grading system used at Evergreen, particularly during "legislative
crisis," an Evergreener's situation is not

Perhaps the most famous of the reports is the one by James Morishima, Ph
D, from the University of Washington,
which stirred a controversy last spring
when the Post-Intelligencer ran a story
about it that President Charles McCann
later called misleading.
Morishima's report
At the Pacific Northwest Conference
on Higher Education, held at Evergreen
October 18-20, 1973, Dr. Morishima had
this to say about the report, ". . . These
data indicate a reluctance on the part of
higher education and employing agencies
to accept innovative grading systems.
The results are not that difficult to
understand in view of the academic
power structure. The structure tends to
be conservative and status-quo oriented .
. . Thus, while they may be willing to
allow undergraduates to be graded on an
innovative basis, they will maintain traditional standard:: for graduate admissions.
" ... The problem is compounded if the
student attended a new institution, for
Cooper Point Journal

WILL HUMPHREYS (Photo by Gilman)
example The Evergreen State College,
because other institutions have had little
or no experience from that institution,"
he concluded.
Another study was conducted in
August 1972 by the Colorado State University. In summarizing their findings in
a report sent to then Administrative
Vice President David Barry, they wrote,
"Students with more than one-half nontraditional grades would find their
chances for admission (to graduate
school) greatly reduced . .. (and) nearly
three-fourths of the deans indicated that
chances for financial aid would be extensively jeopardized ...

•

"Finally," the report concluded, "the
results showed most graduate deans
have negative feelings about non-traditional grades."
Survey most telling
The third survey by former Evergreen
student Elizabeth Boyle is perhaps the
most telling of the three since it directly
involved the Evergreen transcript. This
answers much criticism of the first two
reports that their general Pass-fail,
Credit No Credit, Evaluative written
categories were (1) confusing to the respondents and (2) did not accurately describe Evergreen.
Boyle's report dealt only with law
schools, though. In her conclusion she
states, "Although the policies varied, the
responses indicate a strong preference
for traditional grades ... Deans pointed
out that Evergreen was putting its
students at a disadvantage."
"I don't think you can put that much
weight into the results of those surveys,"
Knapp commented, "the decision to accept someone ir;J.to grad school is a very
individual one. The surveys are really
only useful in showing extremes."
"I'd be willing to go back to some system of grades," stated faculty member
Will Humphreys, who is doing individual
contracts this quarter, and taught at
New College in Florida, which also uses
evaluations, before coming here. "Some
cannot function well in a situation with
grades, but then again some people can't
function well without them. I . think that
for the vast majority though it wouldn't
make a difference."
Humphreys argued that the writing of
evaluations was too time-consuming and
too little used on top of all the other
problems it caused with graduate school

. In preparing the Portfolio article in this issue I interviewed over fifteen
people, read three separate surveys about the accepti~ility ~f ~on-trad~tional
transcripts and by the end of the week had a very hard tlme thmkmg stra1ght. I
couldn't quite figure out what was wrong but somehow in the deluge of information any lightheartedness that I had disappeared. Three incidents stand out:
The first was talking to Richard Alexander, a faculty member in The Classics
group contract. During a forty-five minute interview Alexander rather forcefully
presented his views on evaluations (see above) .as .w~ll . as a little of h!s
philosophy on life. Needless to say, I was thoroughly mtlm1dated, both b~ h1s
persuasive speaking manner and his size. (He is, I am sure, at least half ag~m as
large as 1.) A day later I ran into him once more and he took the opportumty to
sum up our previous conversation about student self-evaluatio9s.
"What it all' adds up to," he said, "is that you have to watch out for your own
ass buddy, 'cause nobody else will."
The second event was writing my own self-evaluation for Winter Quarter. Alexander's warnings against being too personal in the evaluation as well as all of
the other interviews full of criticism of the evaluation were fresh in my mind.
No self-evaluation is easy for me and this one became particularly difficult since
it seemed the evaluation would decide the fate of all my future job plans and
graduate school chances.
The final blow was struck, inadvertently, by one of the deans in a memo regarding the contract I had. written for spring. My style in writing contra_cts is
abrupt, and leaves a little to the imagination of the reader. The memo reJected
the contract and asked me to rewrite it - which I didn't midd. The reason
given: "Perhaps you don't realize that this contract is going to be used as a
prospectus by future employers and graduate school admissions officers."
Stan Shore

April 18, 1974

admissions to be continued.
"I have written probably over 300
evaluations since coming here," Humphreys continued, "and I think that less
than ten per cent are ever read by anyone other than the student. I don't think
that more than fifty per cent are even
read by the students . . . I don't mind
writing them if they're used, but I hate
to, be churning them out if no one is
going to be using them."

RICHARD ALEXANDER
(Photo by Gilman)
Humphreys also suggested that if
grades seemed unpalatable to a large
number of students at Evergreen, we
could always use a "closed system"
where a student's grades would no\ be
revealed to them until they graduate. Although some colleges use this system he
conceded that if he were a student he
would be "terrified" by such a method.
"It is infinitely harder to write evaluations than grades," Richard Alexander,
faculty member in The Classics group
contract admitted, but went on to say
that there was really no way of knowing
for sure if the evaluations should be used
until they are written better.
"The first year there were some real
horror stories as far as the self-evaluations were concerned," Alexander explained. "For example one student for
three quarters of work did nothing more
than trace the outline of their hand on
the evaluation. Another wrote a long.
poem about how much she loved her boyfriend. A large group also wrote nothing
but a page full of adjectives to describe
themselves, and the faculty members responded in kind."
Alexander contends that a faculty
member is unable to tell much about a
student from the time they spend
together in seminar. "You can find out
what the group knows, but only rarely
can you get a clear idea what individuals
know," he said.
Continued next page
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Continued from preceding page
"Students should make damn sure that
their self-evaluations are complete,"
Alexander enjoined, "nobody cares about
a student's personal life either whether you were in love with the seminar leader, liked or disliked the students, how things went with your boyfriend. No one cares. No one cares at
all!"

The faculty evaluations, according to
Alexander who is part of a continuing
study of the evaluations, have improved
but most have become very dull.
Bland vagueness
"They are bland vagueness occasionally punctuated by enthusiasm," he
mused, •·sometimes it is not merely a
matter of tact when a faculty member
doesn't mention certain things or leaves
an incident out, it's a matter of being
honest."
"A lot of students who are graduating
this year," he further cautioned, "should
check their portfolios and take a hard
look at the evaluations in them. If the
faculty member consents, they can be
changed."
Another faculty member Bill Aldridge
does not agree with Alexander about
the impersonal nature of evaluations.
In the fall of the second year, according to Aldridge, the deans, after urging
from Registrar Perrin Smith, set down
some guidelines for the writing of evaluations as well as limiting them to one
page per quarter. At the same time
there was a workshop for faculty to
show them what kind of evaluation the
deans wanted.

Through the new Career · Learning
Program offered by the Cooperative
Education office, students now have
the chance to coordinate their goals
and studies with extensive counseling
and special internships.
The ~eart of the new program,
according to Cooperative Education
Director Ken Donohue, is the special
internships called Career Learning
Placements. The Placements will be
six-month, highly structured experiences in the specific job field of interest to the student. The positions in
such fields as journalism and urban
planning and management will also be
salaried.
"We've had excellent response from
employers," explained Donohue. "I
think with the normal internship program in the past we've been kind of
stymied . . . It's been heavy going
with salaries. The problem is that employers haven't been able to count on
the background of the student in the
position."
Donohue explained that in the nor'Tial internship program, which will

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"I like the old way better," Aldridge
commented about the new, less personal
form," I imagine that it was done
because of concern about the outside,
and maybe they're right. I know that
now the evaluations are a lot less delightful."
Commenting about the results of the
faculty evaluation workshop, which was
strongly supported by Alexander, Aldridge said, "I was talking to Richard and
he mentioned how boring all of the evaluations are now. He seemed pretty perplexed about it, but it seems to me like
the logical result of a workshop that told
everyone to write alike.
"I think that we're making assumptions
about the outside world," he said about
the guidelines limiting the evaluations, "I
think they might get pretty bored with
all those evaluations that sound alike."
Tantamount to grades
Another faculty member commented
that the new guidelines were tantamount
to asking the faculty to write grades.
"Instead of having us write a C," the faculty member said, "they have us describe what a C level of work is."
Aldridge concluded by saying that he'd
like to see more "creative and varied"
attempts at describing accurately what a
student had done.
One proposal toward that end came
from Bill Idol, who was hired by Ed Kormondy to help come up with some systems to use in institutional evaluation.
He emphasized that his idea had nothing
to do with his official capacity at the college, where he is working on some interpersonal relation workshops, among
other things.

still continue in full force, the student
could take whatever "adds to their
education at the time." With Career
Learning Placements, the >Students

I

KEN DONOHUE (Photo by Gilman)

According to Idol's scheme, when a
student, faculty or staff member first
came to the school they would be responsible for going over to Computer Services and feeding into the computer a description of themselves, their goals and
skills, using different tools to help them.
"For instance," Idol explained, "if a
student is just out of high school and
wants as one of his goals to get into
medical school, he could use tests like
the GRE, and SAT to help him see
where he stands. Very sophisticated programs can be worked out. If a community member sees themself as uptight and
wants to be able to relate to people
better then he could use tools like the
California Personality Inventory , to help
him judge his position."
This system, according to Idol, would
make self-evaluations much more sensible, since it would let everybody judge
themselves against specific goals. Also it
could be worked into a people to People
Index system at the same time, cross
referencing different strong points in
different people.
"The people here are very worried
about being required to do things," he
commented about possible reluctance on
the part of community members to go
along with an idea like his. "They are
very concerned with trying to make this
a perfect place and sometimes they
aren't very trusting ... Still, it's better
than any place else I've been."
Credential file
Another aspect of the portfolio is its
use in findin~ employment. According to
Continued next page
must be decided on their job field,
have a thorough background in the
subject, and have taken a series of career seminars and counseling sessions.
The program, which combines many
facilities already available, is meant
not just to be for the junior or senior
but also as a four-year program to
help students find and plan their careers.
The program is divided into two
phases. In the first, the student attends a series of counseling sessions
and career seminars until he decides
and is firmly committed to a specific
career. Phase•two consists of working
out a specific time table for the
internships.
"By the time the placement comes
they should be fantastically prepared
in their job field," explained Donohue.
"In fact, we fully expect a fair number of students to be hired as permanent employees from these internships. From other programs like this
we know there are approximately 65
percent who wind up with permanent
employment."
Cooper Point Journal

Continued from preceding page
Gail Martin, the portfolio itself is seldom
used in employment situations. Instead a
"credential file," consisting of a resume,
internship or other employer recommendations, and finally the transcript, is
used.
At Job Information Day, April 10, employers from various fields including education, communications, counseling services, social services, environment, business and industry, were invited to
campus. During the day students had
mock interviews with employers, both to
give the students practice in interviewing, and the employers a chance to see
what Evergreen students are like.
Among the positions other recent Evergreen graduates have landed are:
cable station video technician, assistant
director traffic safety commission and as
a legislative aid.
In talking to alumni, they all stressed
that the portfolio itself does not usually
come into play when seeking jobs.
"I've had no problem with the portfolio
or with Evergreen as a background,"
stated Fall Quarter graduate Kirby

Juhola. "I have a resume which I use.
The state jobs all have applications to fill
out and I summarize on them. No one
hasn't trusted me or questioned me on
it."
Another recent graduate Bob Crocker
commented, "When I go looking for a job
I don't take anything. It works well for
me. I have my portfolio in my mind. I
can tell the employer exactly what I
have done, practically and academically."
To help students plan for careers a
new program has been developed by the
Cooperative Education office called the
Career Learning Program. (See box page
10.)
90 percent employment
Another guide to how well Evergreen
graduates are doing in the job market is
how well they are getting paid.
According to an article in the Tri-City
Herald (April 9, 1974), President
McCann quoted figures in a recent
speech which indicate that ninety
percent of Evergreen graduates have
jobs. Also they average $30-$100 more a
month than bachelor of arts graduates
from other schools.
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a new production service of the Graphic Arts Studio.

Briefs
Continued from page 5
Rick Cohens, an organizer of the bus
system. "The Inter-City Transit system
will be able to do a better job for the
same cost to the college."
Cohen announced tentative plans for
summer bus operations. a signup sheet is
available at the Bus Kiosk on the second
floor of the Activities building, where
new bus schedules can be picked up.
The Evergreen Bus System now
serves approximately 80 people a day,
nearly a 100 per cent increase since Fall
Quarter, between Evergreen and downtown Olympia.

Assertion taught
Counseling Services would like lo remind everyone that there will be an Assertive Training Group offered this
month. It will involve two evening
meetings per week. For more information contact Patty Allen at 866-6151 or
John Colson in Library rm. 1223.

Correction
In last week's story, ITT: Twinkies
and telephones (Vol. 2, No. 20) the Journal reported erroneously that the yearly
profits of ITT were greater than the
gross national product of Portugal or
Chile, when, in fact, it is only the yearly
revenues that are greater. Also, in the
nine months following the ITT-Hartford
merger, ITT bought 20 American and 12
foreign companies for a total of 300 mil lion dollars, and not with sales of 300
million dollars as was reported.
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Festival
Continued from page 7
the Women's Art Festival she will discuss the form of Third World women's
writing. Her talk will enrich our reading
experiences with this literature.

Balcony Piece may be one of the most
intriguing, not to say downright mysterious, offerings of the Women's Art
Festival. Written, directed and produced

by TESC student Liz Zima, it is an "expressionistic theatre piece" for three
players, using words and abstract
sounds. When consulted about the
content of Balcony Pleee, Cal Kinnear,
one of the actors, would say very little.
Apparently there's someth,ing about it
which would be spoiled by advance
knowledge. So we'll all just have to go
see it.
The film Gertrude Stein: When this
You See, Remember Me is a 90-minute
documentary about the creative world of
Paris during the author's years there
(1905-1930). It shows the historical development of the art culture of that time.

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This film views Gertrude Stein not
merely as author, but hostess, collector
and friend.
It contains home movies of Stein and
Alice B. Toklas, a recording of her only
radio interview, plus talks with her
friends and contemporaries - Virgil
Thompson, Jacques Lipchity, Janet
(Genet) Thanner, Bennett Cerf and
Pierre Balmain.

~~~

Judy Chicago, well known pioneer in
the development of a feminist perspective in art, will be conducting a
workshop on Friday afternoon at one.
Chicago, co-founder of the Feminist Studio Workshop in Los Angeles, is an instructor in feminist art programs. She
also has a book which will be published
in the near future entitled Through the
Flower: A Feminist Theory of Art.

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Asserting that the time clock and uniform changes are only superficial, some
custodians have asked the Higher Education Personnel (HEP) Board to recognize
the Evergreen custodians as a legitimate
bargaining unit. If this is done, and fiftyone percent of the custodians support
unionizing, then the employees can
choose a union to represent them most likely the Washington Federation
of State Employt:es, according to one
source.
Although the HEP Board decision
won't be known until May, custodians
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Gatsby and film-makers
After more fanfare than any film since
Gone With the Wind, Paramount's The
Gn•at Gatsby has opened. The film has
had pre-release publicity throughout the
country, including a cover story in Time
magazine. This colossal P.R. push has
eaused "film buffs" to prepare for the
worst. Either Gatsby would be so aimed
at public taste that there would be
nothing for the serious film diggers, or it
was simply going to be so awful that it
needed all that pushing just to recoup
Paramount's losses.
With that kind of expectation I was
ready to be spectacularly unimpressed
by The Great Gatsby. Therefore it is
with great pleasure that I report that
the film buffs were wrong. Gatsby is one
of the most delightful and entertaining
films that I have seen this year.
It is easy to see Gatsby as an hour and
a half fashion show or 1920's museum.
One <'an easily see the Fitzgerald story
as a sort of jeweler's setting, pretty in
itself hut incidental to the gems that are
to he displayed. Those gems abound in
Gatsby: classic cars, yachts, swing
bands, mansions, jewels, and, of course,
Robert. Redford. The film shines with
such brilliance that it is quite easy to
understand why many critics have

missed or ignored the story itself. What
is more difficult to understand is why
the "things" in the movie have so
an~red them. Even if the glitter of the
film were all there were, it would be fun
just to look at Gatsby's pink suit or
watch him shower the room with a rainbow of shirts that he throws from the
closet. Both of these scenes are taken
from the novel and are so cinematic that
of course they belong in the film. The
fashions are fun; the crystal, the flowers,
the practically choreographed parties.
All of the beautiful old cars, particularly
Gatsby's lovely old yellow Dual Cowl
phantom Rolls Royce, make a pleasant
evening of nostalgia.
In addition to the "things" that bejewel Gatsby there is the Fitzgerald
story and Francis Ford Coppola's screen
play. While there may be some problems
with both, The Great Gatsby is an entertaining and commanding portrait of the
wealthy before the great depression and
a romantic love story. The acting of Mia
Farrow has been much criticised, again I
think unjustly. Her portrayal of Daisy
carries a slightly flighty bird-like quality.
She is constantly dressed in chiffons and
gives the feeling of a woman men want
to protect.

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The problem I have with Gatsby is
simply the presentation of Jay Gatsby as
morally superior to the old rich of East
Egg. That superiority is stated explicitly
by Nick Carraway at the beginning. Yet,
if you examine Gatsby's relationship
with Daisy Buchanan and Tom Buchanan's relationship with the garage owner's
wife, you are forced to conclude that the
differences are ultimately differences of
taste or style. Gatsby's actions are not
so much different from Tom's as they
are simply more tasteful. And that sort
of superiority is not to my taste.
I suspect that whatever the critical
opinion, the public is going to love
Gatsby and this is one case where the
public is right. See The Great Gatsby for
the Fitzgerald story, see it for the costumes, see it because you like Robert
Redford, see it for the yellow Rolls
Royce, but see it.

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Last Friday's Film-makers' Group Festival played to surprising crowds - who
turned out to view films by Evergreen
film-makers. The audience had been
promised a "film orgy," and the festival
sponsors came through with sex, color,
computer graphics, excrement, drugs
and other excitements.
As with any orgy, some festival offerings were more interesting or exciting
than others; and, overpowered by some
films, the audience passed over some
fine offerings - such as Jay Evans' Tenino. The film is a documentary about
the early days of that community.
Tenino was composed of original browntone stills from the early 1900's with
voice-over by three Tenino senior citizens who reminisce about the early days
in that part of Washington.
The range of the films, in style,
quality of production, and general excellence was great, and the cinematic quality of all the films was surprisingly high.
One of the high points of the evening
was Mat Groening's Drugs: Killers or
Dillers, a parody of drug education films
which attempts to answer the question
"What is drugs?"
Other interesting films were shown.
Amo~g these was Jim Cox's beautiful
and imagistic Neptune, an impressionistic picture of the sea, it was among the
most professional films at the festival.
Also shown was Frankie Foster's Phos·
phfues, which united color film footage
and computer graphics with interesting
and amusing effects.
Film-maker Steve Dejarnett's work
brought a standard of craftsmanship and
art to the festival. His scatological investigation of Buns was well received as
was Oat on the Periphere, which may
well have been the finest work at the
"film orgy". Periphere was an investigation of madness which used to great
effect the campus handball courts as a
setting.
JEFFREY B. MAHAN
Cooper Point .Tnu .. n11l

OLYMPIA
An Ingmar Bergman film, Cries and
Whispers, is now at the Capitol, along
with The First Circle based on a work
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Sting
continues at the Olympic and the State
is featuring The Three Musketeers with
The Heartbreak Kid. Oklahoma Crude
and Slither play all weekend at the
Lacey Drive-ln. Evergreen's Friday
night Film Series presents Memories of
Under-development.
Applejam Coffee House, 220 E. Union,
presents the folk music of Sou'wester
String band and Lost Continent this
Friday beginning at 8 p.m. Donation
$1.00.
Evergreen's Coffee House, located at
the Empathy Room at ASH, presents
Jerry Michelson on piano this Friday.
Saturday EDen Barnes and Friend bring
some folk music to the Empathy Room.
The movies for Sunday are Muscle
Beach, The Problem, and The Medium is
the Message.
The Tumwater High School Players
present The Taming of the Shrew on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:30
p.m. at the Old Washington Junior High
School.
SEATTLE
Movies in Seattle are much the same
as last week. A Touch of Class with
Glenda Jackson is playing at the Twin;
Serpico and Massacre in Rome at the
Southcenter, Northgate and Bel-Vue;
Mean Streets at the Neptune; Blazing
Saddles continues at the Town; Gene
Hackman in T.he Conversation is at the
Music Box; The Sugarland Express with
Goldie Hawn is at the Coliseum along
with Sometimes a Great Notion; Cinderella Liberty continues at the 5th
Avenue; and I.F. Stones Weekly and
Joyce at 34 are at the Movie House. The
Apple's War is presented in its first
American showing at the Harvard Exit.
The Seattle Repertory Theatre announces two extra showings of Thornton
Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth, Friday
at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
A showing of Max Beckman Graphics
opens today at the Seattle Art Museum
April 18, 1974

Pavilion. A "beergarden" theme will enliven visitors to the exhibition of this
leading German expressionist. It will
continue through May ·26.
Eve Arden stars in Under Papa's Picture, live at the Cirque Dinner Theatre
until April 21.
Marni Nixon and the Seattle Symphony perform at Eckstein Middle
School, Friday the 19th at 8 p.m. and at
Green River Community College, Sunday
the 21st at 3 p.m.
The Pointe~ Sisters return to the
Opera House May 4, at 8:30 p.m. and
Joan Baez makes an appearance at the
Seattle Arena May 9, at 8 p.m. Tickets
for the Baez performance are reserved
only from Fidelity Lane Ticket Office.
Bach Rock is presented by the Seattle
Symphony Orchestra at the Hec Edmundson Pavilion April 20, at 8 p.m.
The Seattle Japanese Bonsai Club will
display their work at the Seattle Japan-

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TACOMA
Movit..s in Tacoma are Man on a Swing
at the Lakewood; The Great Gatsby at
the Cinema I; Blazing Saddles at the Tacoma Mall; The Exorcist at the Rialto
and Deep Throat at the Mecca Adult
Theatre and the Community. The Last
D~tail is at the Guild 6th Avenue and
The Best of the New York Erotic Film
Festival is at the Village Cinemas.
PORTLAND
John Voight as Conrack is at the
Westgate and the Jantzen Beach; The
Three Musketeers is at the Eastgate,
and The Exorist is at the Southgate
Quad Cinema. M~an Streets plays at the
Guild; Cheerleaders and Fritz the Cat is
at the Bob White Metro Cinema; A
Touch of Class and Save the Tiger is at
the Hollywood; and Mame plays the
Bagdad.

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Cooper Point Journal
Source: Eng US-WaOE.A.1973-01

Item sets: The Evergreen State College Student Newspapers

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