The Cooper Point Journal Volume 4, Number 31 (May 27, 1976)

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Eng The Cooper Point Journal Volume 4, Number 31 (May 27, 1976)

Date

27 May 1976

Evergreen Subject

Evergreen Organic Farm

Student Organizing and Activism

Media Studies/Arts

Curriculum

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Eng Pg.1: Grad Placement Successful Here (photo: Graduation by: Buster, Doug);
Pg.1: Union Charges Procedural Misconduct;
Pg.1: Final S&A Allocations Begin (photo: S&A Board);
Pg.2: Letters: EPIC Accusations Empty (photo: Evergreen winners of the Last Annual Invitational Rex Rasco Memorial Artisans Competition for 1976);
Pg.2: Letters: Bicycle Paths Need Resort;
Pg.2: Letters: Gripes Galore;
Pg.2: Letters: Buildings Cry For Art;
Pg.2: Letters: Yoshimura Trial Approching;
Pg.3: Comics Strip by: Flichy Ford;
Pg.3: Letters: Mr. Clean Disgusted;
Pg.3: Letters: A Bozo Like Everyone Else;
Pg.3: Letters: Witch Hunt on EPIC;
Pg.3: Letters: Response From EPIC;
Pg.3: Letters: Womens Music Speaks of Joy;
Pg.3: Letters: Pull Weeds, Reduce Biocides;
Pg.3: Letters: Bicycling for Alaska;
Pg.3: Letters: Empirical Inspiration;
Pg.3: (advertisment) Seamart Drug;
Pg.4: 19th Century Feminism Reviewed (photo: The Co-Respondents);
Pg.4: Farm Wraps Up Quarters Work (photo by: Curtis, Milton);
Pg.4: Museums and Monuments; Evergreen Abroad;
Pg.4: (advertisment) The Duck House;
Pg.4: (advertisment) Evergreen Coins and Investments;
Pg.5: Rising From The Ashes of The Old;
Pg.5: Curiculum DTF Releases Plan (photo: Student Members of the Long Range Curriculum Planning D.T.F. by: Buster, Doug);
Pg.5: Survey Aids Planning;
Pg.6: In Brief: 450 Seniors To Graduate (photo: Dave Smith by: Buster, Doug);
Pg.6: In Brief: Sports Tourney Deadlines Set;
Pg.6: In Brief: From Media Loan;
Pg.6: Co-op Corner;
Pg.6: Classified Ads;
Pg.6: (advertisment) Peterson's Food Town;
Pg.6: (advertisment) Jabberwocky Galleries;
Pg.6: (advertisment) Older 3 Bedroom House Wanted;
Pg.6: (advertisment) Paul's Mobil Service;
Pg.6: (advertisment) Eld Equipment;
Pg.6: (advertisment) Archibald Sisters Mechantile;
Pg.7: (advertisment) The Evergreen State College Housing Office;
Pg.8: Renters Beware!;
Pg.8: '75-'76 Programs: Looking Backward (photo: Feet Up by: Touster, John);
Pg.9: Women On The Road;
Pg.9: The S&A...What's That?;
Pg.10: Low Light Exotics Replace Philodendrons (photos: Marallta by: Nack, Mary; Grape Ivy by: Nack, Mary; Snake Plant by: Nack, Mary);
Pg.10: Fighting Summers Weeds;
Pg.10: (advertisment) Grace Piano Service;
Pg.10: (advertisment) Rainy Day Record Company;
Pg.10: (advertisment) The Artichoke Mode;
Pg.10: (advertisment) Rainbow Deli;
Pg.10: (advertisment) Olympia Greenhouse;
Pg.11: Spring Quarter CPJ Staff (photos: CPJ Staff Members);
Pg.11: Willie Parson Named Senior Dean;
Pg.11: (advertisment) Planning for Life Rather Than For A Living;
Pg.11: (advertisment) Dirty Dave's Gay 90's;
Pg.11: (advertisment) Raudenbush Motors;
Pg.12: Commentary: Conservitive Backlash;
Pg.12: Programs (continued from page 8);
Pg.12: A singular Event;
Pg.13: Commentary: Home Is Closer Than You Think (photo: John Zupa Away From Home);
Pg.13: Evergreen Horoscope Coming True;
Pg.13: (advertisment) Careers In Library Science;
Pg.13: (advertisment) Farmers Insurance of Washington;
Pg.13: (advertisment) South Sound National Bank;
Pg.13: (advertisment) Bob's Big Burgers;
Pg.13: (advertisment) Hendricks Drugs;
Pg.14: The Mystery of Reggae;
Pg.14: Review: The Final Days;
Pg.14: (advertisment) MB Audio;
Pg.14: (advertisment) The Cooper Point Journal Call For Content;
Pg.15: Entertainment: My Students Make Lousy Films (photo: Cat on Toilet);
Pg.15: Arts And Entertainment: General Listings;
Pg.15: Comic Strip by: Ford, Flichy;
Pg.15: All Ways Travel Service;
Pg.16: (advertisment) The Evergreen State College Housing Office;

Creator

Eng Wright,Jim

Eng Buster, Doug

Eng Milton, Curtis

Eng Stewart, Jill

Eng Imfeld, Teresa

Eng West, Robin

Eng Thomas, Stone

Eng Mador, Alan

Eng Luckerman, Doug

Eng Swanberg, Cindy

Eng Ramsey, Barbara

Eng Locke, Ti

Eng Zupa, John

Eng Touster, John

Eng Groening, Matt

Eng Ford, Flichy

Eng Wimmerman, Fred

Eng Corrigan, Michael

Eng Jaycox, Sherry

Eng Nack, Mary

Eng Judd, David

Eng Riddell, Catherine

Eng Goeher, Keith

Eng Olsen, Barbara

Eng Burbank, Spider

Eng Peterson, Tom

Eng Evans, Jay

Eng Dimitroff, Stephen Pope

Eng Bloch, Lucienne

Contributor

Eng Stewart, Jill

Eng Milton, Curtis

Eng Riddell

Eng Groening, Matthew

Eng Solomon, Sam

Eng Buster, Doug

Eng Gilbreath, Ford

Eng Locke, Ti

Eng Wright, Jim

Eng Gil, Joe

Eng Feyk, Jim

Eng Judd, David

Eng Schmitt, Mark

Subject

Eng Graduate Placement

Eng Hitchhiking Women

Eng Film Making

Eng Reggae Music

Eng Parson, Willie

Eng YOSHIMURA, Wendy

Eng Mason-Shelton County Journal

Eng The Evergreen State College

Eng The Cooper Point Journal

Rights

In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Language

Eng eng

Place

Eng Washington State

Eng Olympia, Washington

Eng Thurston County

Publisher

Eng The Evergreen State College Board of Publications and members of the Evergreen community

Extent

Eng 16 pages

Temporal Coverage

Eng 1976

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Grad Placement Successful Here
ciated Press, "Many college counselors
agree that students at Evergreen State College in Olympia are having an easier time
finding jobs than their counterparts at the
more traditional colleges." Katz indicated
that this was because " Evergreen places a
strong emphasis on internships and work .
experience as part of the student's experience .
Of the 80 % of reporting 1975 Evergreen
graduates placed, 43 % had been employed
in their area of interest while 22 % had accepted other positions and another 10 %
had gained admission to graduate school
or other graduate education. Less than
1 % (3 graduates) had received jobs in
military-related fields and 4 % reported
that they are not currently seeking employment.
Similar figures for earlier years indicate
that 95 % of 1974 graduates atld 98 % of
1973 graduates reporting had been placed
in jobs at the time the report was made.
Cumulatively since the college's opening
in 1971 , 89% of reporting graduates had
received employment of some kind. Placement percentages are higher for earlier
years because of the great€[ amount of
time these graduates have been available
for work.

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Graduation June 6, 1976 : Where will they be a year from now?
by Jim Wright

Come Live At Our Place.
Come live at our place this Spring and Summer and
share the conveniences of living on campus, including
free utilities and free phone serv ice.
Each apartment comes complete with its own kitchen
and private bathroom not usually found in traditional
housing. Wall-to-wall carpeting is in each apartment
to soften the floors while laundry facilities are just
around the corner. And, if you're not afraid of
heights, we can even throw in a view either east or
west.
Rental prices do vary, but can be as low as $40 per
month based upon multiple occupancy and availability. For example, you and three friends can rent a
furnished two bedroom duplex for $160 per month.
So if you're a student, a faculty member, or a staff
member you can come live at our place.
To find out more about campus housing, stop by the
Housing Office or give us a call at 6132.

Despite Evergreen's continuing enrollment crisis, there is room for optimism
concerning graduate job placement accurding to figures relea sed by Career
Planning and Placement. These figures
show that approximately 80 % (290) of all

1975 graduates reporting (363 out of a
total of 468) had been placed in jobs
,within six months of graduation.
Thi s ratio compares favorab ly with
other colleges and universities which report an a verage 70 % job placement of
graduates.
According to Dean Katz of the Asso-

Union Charges
Procedural
Misconduct
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Editor '" 11/('1(' , The Cooper Poin t J0umal
lew-nea that informalinn reported i/l
tile April 29 iss ue concerning the rlO/l renewals of con tracts for fawlty members
Jim Martin ez and Medardo Delgado was
i IIcorrect.
Dean Rudy Martill now denies statemellts attributed to him in which he said
thell recommendations by both him and
Dean Willie Parson that Martinez and
Delgado be retained were overruled by
Vice Pres ident Ed Kormondy.
According to Kormondy, Parson and
others, that information is incorrect. The
Journal has been illformed that Parson
was the dean for the two facully. He recommended that Martinez be retained and
that Delgado not be retained.
Following procedures outlined in the
Faculty Handbook , the three other deans
met to hear the evidence. They concurred
with Parson and sent their recommendation in letter form to Kormondy . Althougll
the letter reflected a group opinion , it was
signed only by Parson, head of the two
facultys ' dean group, as is traditional.
Kormondy upheld the ruling on Delgado by deciding not to renew his contract. He overruled the deans' recommendation on Martinez by not renewing his
contract also.
Although the misinformation originally
appeared in the April 29 issue of the
Journal as well as the May 6 issue, the
Journal was not infomled of the mistake
until May 14 in a letter from Dean Leo
Daugherty.
Apparently, the original mistake was
the result of a misunderstanding on the
part of Martin as he talked with the
Journal reporter. The Journal is surprised
that a mistake of this magnitude was not
pointed out immediately. .
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by Curt Milton
The Evergreen lotal of the American
Federation of Teachers has intensified its
charges of procedural misconduct in the
Jim Martinez non-renewal decision .
In a letter to Vice President Ed Kormondy dated May 20, the Union Grievance Committee stated that a review of
portfolios for Martinez and Sid White,
both of whom were candidates for nonretention, "has in both cases raised serious
questions about whether the procedures of
the Faculty Handbook Wi!re followed."
One of the procedural steps in the
Handbook says that a faculty member

" mll~t he eVillual ed annuall y arcl i,..,+<)rrne(
in writing 01 any deficiencies whi ch migh t
be ca U5e for non-reappointment. " Acco rding to the Union letter, of the two cases
reviewed, the only evaluation which mentioned specific deficiencies "which might
be cause for non-reappointment" was a
dean's evaluation dated March 27, 1976
and received by Martinez. That date
"gave Martinez little time to make improvements before you sent him his letter
of dismissal on April 14, 1976," the Grievance Committee stated. Although other
evaluations contained criticisms and
suggestions, the deans never said that the
problems were sufficient to cause a nonrenewal.
" Furthermore, the 1974 - 1975 deans'
evaluations for the two faculty members
were dated September 30, 1975, and
October 7, 1975," the letter continued.
"Even if these evaluations had specified
that the deficiencies might be cause for
non-reappointment, the faculty members
would have had only slightly more than
one quarter in which to improve ... "
The Handbook requires that a faculty
member who may not be renewed be assigned to a different dean in the second
year of his I her contract and that the two
deans work together to help the faculty
correct the deficiencies. It also requires
that all the deans get together, discuss the
situation and send a letter reAecting their
opinion to the Provost and the faculty
member. " There is no evidence of two
deans working together," the Union
charged. "In neither case did the deans
send a letter reflecting their opinion to the
Provost ... " or the faculty member.
The letter went on to question Kormondy's application of the seven nonretention criteria outlined in the Handbook, Kormondy had written in a letter
to Martinez that faculty are judged not
only on the "quantitative" criteria listed in
the Handbook, but that he and the deans
also had to interpret each faculty in an
unspecified way on the ' quality of their
teaching. The Union countered that " ...
the deans' and the Provost's judgment
about faculty performance shall be rooted
in the seven criteria listed in the Hand "
book. Those criteria are at once both
qualitative and quantitative . .. " (emphasis theirs).
Based on the review, the Union asked
that Kormondy rewrite a letter he had
sent to White announcing his retention,

Breakdown by subject area show s tholt
Counseling and Social Services attracteJ
the largest number of 1975 graduates
(21 %), followed by Environmental Sciences and Planning (11 %) and Educati o n
(10 % ). Other areas include Visual Art s
(7%), Medicine and Health (3%). Law
(2%), Communications (2%), and Air plane Navigation (.2 % - one graduate
placed).
Of those placed in the Visual Arts category; one graduate listed his current occupation as a self-employed potter while another is a stained glass maker. Still an other is a crafts program director. Inter estingly, of nine graduates listi ng a major
interest in Anthropology, none had received placement in their area of focus.
Meanwhile, of seven reporting gradu ates not indicating an area of interest , one
had been employed as a golf course attendant; another received a job as a field
coordinator for the Campfire Girls .
Of the overall 22 % of 1975 Evergreen
graduates receiving job s outside their
major area of interest, present placements
include a Halfway House cOllnselor, a
switchboard operator, a bartender, a dime
store clerk , a railroad switchman , and a
child care worker.

The Evergreen State College· Olympia,Washington 98505

THE COOPER POINT

RNAL
Volun" e IV Number 3'

The S & A Board works out
Wednesday.

May 27, 1976

Lecture

Final S&A
Allocations Begin
by Jill Stewart
Final decisions on Student Services and
Activities budgets were begun yesterday
as the S & A Board met for its final
allocation week.
Thus far a total of nine budgets have
been cut completely, three budget requests
were funded in full and thirty-two
budgets were reduced.
Eliminated were the Bookstore Subsidy,
Campus Major Productions, Career Planning Computer, Coffee House, Evergreen
Promotion Money, Film Resource Bank,
Food Services Subsidy and Forensics.
One of the most striking reductions was
to Leisure Education, which was funded
only $ll,1.~57 of the $45,227.27 originally
requested .
Among student groups, EPIC received

"taking into account the criticisms we
have presented." The letter also asked
that Martinez be reinstated for another
three year contract.
The Union has also asked Rindetta

$4922 of an original $9943.86 requested,
Asian Coalition was alloted $3203.31 ,
down from $4769 and the Gay Center
received $3259 of their original $8233
request.
The Faith Center was cut from $2108 to
$1327 and NASA has received a tentative
allocation of $5000. down from their
$8000 request.

Groups under the "Communications
and Cultural Events" catagory were
funded as follows: . KAOS $23,000 ,
Cooper Point Journal $20,000, Center for
Poetry $2,865, Chamber Singers $900,
Friday Night Films $8,790, Gig Commission $800.
With final decisions pending on several
more budgets, the S & A Board will meet
Friday, May 28, at 10:00 a,m , in the
Board Room .
Jones, Affirmative Action Officer, to "Investigate the Martinez case for possible
racial discrimination in the application of
criteria for retention ... "

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LETTERS

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Here are tllf? Evergreen winners of the Last Annual Invitational Rex Rasco Memorial
Artisan s Competition for 1976: I. to r.. Sherm Dada with his brilliant tracing 0/ the N.
W asIl. coastlirJe: E. C . Rancher, winner of the Recycled Art category, with his egg carton
mobile : Prof. Parson Bells with his computer film "Breakfast Shadow at Noon ;" and
Mike Boomer and his recording of Panorama City residents on "What the Bicentennial
Mean s to Mel " Missing from photo are Brian Moratti, winner of the paint-by-number
category. Robin Zarcowinchski and her plastic flower arrangement; an anonymous Ever green coed 's self portrait: and the sister-brother choral reading team of Abdul and Lori
Sinclair with, tlleir poem "Your Love Is Cramping My High ."

EPIC ACCUSATIONS
EMPTY
Tll the Edit o r :
II is indeed curious to learn of
EPI C's "dogmatism" and "rhet()ri c" throug h shrill tones of rhe lo ri ca l a nd polemical attacks
wh ic h embody li tt le evidence
tha t ba cks up the accusers' argument s. If one wa nt s to be logically criti cal. o ne must be rigo ro us . T he lac k of such rigor exposes th e empt iness of the accusat io ns.
Secondl y, EPIC has had a
constructive evolution during the
past two years. Last year it too
easily reso rted to we / they rhetor ic rather than dynamic discussio n . But it s services , primarily
the film a nd speaker series, pro vide d opportuni ti es for exposure
10 a criti ca l awareness of our soc iety . Thi s film and speaker
series and the attempt to develop
crea ti ve critici sm have continued
to co ntribute towa rds a responsi bl e radica l understanding . Such
an a lte rn ati ve understanding
should be viewed as an educational o ppo rtunity rather than
dism issed as dogmatic rhet oric.
Spider Burbank

BICYCLE PATHS
NEED SUPPORT
T o the Editor:
T hi s past year I have been
working as an intern with the
T hurston County Parks and Recreat ion Department on a Comprehensive Bicycle Plan for the
en tire co unt y. Early in March of
th is yea r the first draft of the

plan was presented throughout
the co unty in various groups including Evergreen . With the response and generation of ideas
that emanated, we revised the
plan to better fit the needs of the
bicycle riders , and have now just
completed the final draft of the
"Comprehensive Bicycle Plan for
Thurston County. "
The plan proposes a total of
125 miles of bicycle routes to be
built. At present the county's
on ly guaranteed source of revenue for the routes is the mandatory one-half of one percent
of the Motor Vehicle Allocation
($5,000 per year).
Other viable sources of revenue include a County Bond
Issue, in which the people of
Thurston County would vote on
whether they would fund the
construction of bicycle routes .
Other possibilities for funding
include several matching opportunities with other governmental
agencies. One of these, which
the cou nty has just applied for,
is the Federal Bikeway Demonstration Program. For thi s program the coun ty has proposed
the notorious Cooper Point Road
and 28t h Avenue -Division Road,
along with Mud Bay Road from
Overh ulse (TESC Bike Path) to
the O lympia city limits.
There is definitely a need for
des ign ated bicycle routes in the
co unty. I am very disheartened
to see the lack of public support
for th e routes . The public meet ing held in March at Evergreen
by the . Parks and Recreation Depa rtment presenting the first
draft of the plan, was unwar-

rantedly sparingly attended; especially by Evergreen students
who should have a vested interest in the matter. Maybe apathy ,
Maybe laziness.
The bicycle users on campus
can easily organize into a viable
group to coordinate interest in
obtaining routes, and possibly
teach bicycle safety in the local
schools. Instead of organizing
another bureaucratic organization it can easily be pla ced
within / under an umbrella organization, i,e . Sierra Club (Sasquatch), Audubon (Black Hills
Group) , etc. If anyone is interested in such a vitally needed
project I will be very willing to
help organize such a venture.
Or write a letter, or similar
correspondence, to Marj Yung, ·
County Commissioner of District
Three and Chairwoman, or to
the Parks and Recreation Board
o r to the Parks and Recreation
Department, expressing your interest. It is up ' to you, the individ ual , to make things happen.
Progress does not proceed on its
own accord.
Tom Peterson

GRIPES GALORE
To the Editor:
Good , successful stories like
the Journal's last two articles
about film and film-making at
Evergreen are few and far between. Most stories we read in
the Journal are ill - conceived ,
technically rotten , a nd unbeliev-

ably boring to read , Countless
others are even worse. *
But every year or so a talented
student comes a long, learn s how
to sharpen a pencil. and composes a story which delights its
readers wherever it goes. One
such sto ry is "Student Film-makers: Gripes G alore, " by , Matt
Groenin g.
" Grip es" is sc ience fiction
p se udo-j ou rn alism at its be st,
wri tten by a reclusive fly-bynight r e porter who worships
closed circuit TV images. In a
cameo role, Groening plays himself, an omniscient, omnipresent
student reporter pretending to
interview the entire Evergreen
Film Complex, generou sly categorized as a sorry band of undernourished desperados. Much like
Bernstein and Woodward before
him , Groening manages to uncover the mental breakdown and
conseq uent secret envyings of
one "fra ntic" failure of a filmmaker , and hints that there are
many more.
For a st udent story , "G ripes
Galore" is outstanding. The dazzling double talk its author expe rim en ted with in his first
story, " Film-making at Evergreen ," continues to give hi s
work a professional look missing
from most student productions.
"!' like to make fun of things
people ta ke too se riou sly ,"
Groening reports, His next story
will be on the racist implication
of journalism in democratic societies.
Keep up the good work student story writers . We're all des perate for something good to
read .
Respectfully,
Jay Evans
Live and Recorded
Spring '76
* Recognize the language? It's
yours .

BUILDINGS CRY
FOR ART
To the Editor:
To the Architects of Evergreen
and the Administration.
Our two quarters at TESC
now ending, have been a great
experience for us . We have tried
our best to teach the importance
of Art in Architecture in our everyday life. This is beautifully
said in the following exerpt from
the foreword by Robert L Durham , FAIA (Campus Master
Planner of TESC) in the book
Art in Architecture by LG . Red stone (TESC Library):
"For the many architects who
have been reluctant to use art in
their buildings , the examples
shown (in this book) should encourage a reevaluation of their
thinking on the integration of th e
arts in view of the growing interest on the part of the public and
the individual client" (in the case
of Evergreen, the students, the
facu lty and some of the adminis tration).
Another quotation, p . 201 by
sculptor Andre Bloc:
"Our world ... still needs the
help of all its art ists to realize an
e nvir o nm ent wor thy of the
human race. But blinded by the
ex trao rdinary progress of tech -

nics, our contemporaries think
they have opened the doors to a
great civilization. They are mistaken. If science and technology
are not dominated by a great
culture, they can lead us to the
worst disaster, not only the cataclysms of war but also the
breakup of a very old culture
acquired over the centuries .
" All the countries colonized
during those centuries have seen
the disappeara'n ce of ·their cultures , of everything characteriz- .
tng their way of life, which
means primarily their art values.
The colonist who pretended to a
higher civilization , has not been
able to replace those values .. .
The artists have the duty to participate directly in everyday life
in order to fulfill this role ...
they must participate in the improvement of an architectural
and urbanistic order not only by
adding to its works of art but by
a direct involvement in the elaborat ion of new architectural
trends ."
There is a great need in the
beautiful buildings, here at
TESC, inside and outside, to go
on from here, to see some Iifevibration on the walls of such a
unique college. The architecture
cries out for some break in the
expanse of gray blankness, We
don't visualize hysterical "murals':
But a lot can be communicated
with quiet statements, in sculptural forms that play with light
and shadows outdoors, and with
provocative statements in form
and color and textures inside .
"The measure of man is man
himself,"
We want to thank the people
we've worked with, their lively
interest, their inspiration, their
effervescence our students.
Good luck to you. Don't let 'em
wear you down 1

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MR. CLEAN
DJSGUSTED
To the Editor :
Yesterday (5/20176), I had the
opportunity to watch a certain
young gentleman (?) walk down
the Library loop, stop, finish his
box of Kef ir , and place it ever
so gently on the sidewalk. He
then proceeded on his merry
way down the parkway. When I
mentioned to him that it wasn't
too kosher, he said that someone
would come by and piCk it up to
throw it away , This is all probably true, but I want to know is
he going to stop and pick up
someone else's garbage? Then
why does he expect anyone to
pick up after him , or does his
mother still clean up after him 7
If that inconsiderate bastard
believes that it doesn't matter
about clean - up around here because someone's getting paid to
do it , then I think he ought to let
'our friends Sam and Smokey
from custodial services have a
few choice words with him !

Stephen Pope Dimitroff
Lucienne Bloch

YOSHIMURA TRIAL
APPROACHING

Mr. Cle'a n

A BOZO LIKE
EVERYONE ELSE

To the Editor :
For those of you who haven 't
heard yet, or haven't seen the
flyers, Wendy Yoshimura is: a
Japanese-American woman, born
at the Manzanar concentration
camp during World War II ,
moved with her family to Japan
after WWlI because they resented
the treatment they received as
American citizens by the U.S ,
government .
While in Japan she began to
realize that she didn't have
things that th e other kids had because her family was very poor ,
She saw the horrors of Hiroshima , returned with her family
to America when she was 12
years old, suffered through the
humiliating experience of going
to second grade because she
didn 't speak English, started high
schoo l at 19, went to Calif. College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland where she perfected her artistic talent , and had her consciousness expanded by her opposition to the Viet Nam war
and learning a bout Feminism and
the import ance of asking questions as opposed to blindly ac ceptin g what one is told ,

To the Editor:
Now that the issue has died
suppose I shouldn't bring it up
again, but alas here goes:
This is in reference to those
who so graciously gave me the
honor of the "Memorial Artisan
Competition" (which Ti Locke
wrote a letter about in the April
22 issue).
Since my review and the letter
criticizing it appeared right before spring break, I felt it would
be useless to answer the person's
com ments, but it is obvious that
someone is still nursing a deeply
inflicted wound. Had I been on
camp u s this quarter I would
have written sooner.
Yes, I agree , I am not an art
critic but a "bozo" like everyo ne
else, Although , whoever wrote
the letter and dreamed up the
artisan competition failed to realize that the art show was not
being shown to professional critics, but to ordinary Evergreen
bozos (who ; according to the
artists, have no right to like or
dislike w hat is hung up in front
of them). I suppose you a lso believe that students can't form ah
opinion on books and movies
because they haven't been christened "professional critics."
As to your implying that in
this modern age EVERYTHING
can be considered art , you 're
being outrageous . That's like
saying every sound you utter can
be considered music.
If you happen to like something and I don ' t , fine and
dandy, but you sure have a long
way to go when it comes to ac cepting criticism (whether you
agree with it or · not) , Face the
fact , not everyone is going to pat
you on the head for what you
do , You have a right' to disagree
with me but, you'd like to take

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JOURNAL .STAFFBlJSINESS

EDITOR
Jill Stewart
NEWS EDITORS
Curtis Milton
Cat herine Riddell
FEATURE EDITOR
Matthew Groening
PRODUCTION
Sa m So lo mo n

PHOTOGRAPHY
Dou~ Buster
Ford Gilbreath
Ti Locke
NEWS STAFF
Jim Wright

Joe G il
Jim Feyk
David Judd
ADVERTISING
Mark Schmitt
PRINTER
Shelton-Mason
County Journal

She was indicted in 1972 along
with three men on charges of
possession of unlawful weapons,
went ·· underground in 1972 and
was not seen again until her arrest on Sept. 18, 1975 with Patty
Hearst at the apartment they
shared.
Since her arrest, the AsianAmerican community and many,
many others have come to the
support of Wendy Yoshimura ,
She really needs the support and
the money, since she doesn't
come from a wealthy family or
have the kinds of connections
that Patty Hearst had. If you'd
like to find out more about the
pre-trial hearings (her trial is set
for June 14), or if you want to
know what the Wendy Yoshimura
Fair Trial Committee is about,
the information is at the Asian
Coalition, Lib . 3209.

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away MY right to dislike something you think is great. Fair?
You criticized me on my "abilit y" to judge the show, but had I
praised you then this "ability"
would never have been ques tioned . If you can't accept criticism you may as well lock yourself in a closet because you'll
never make it otherwise . The
only person you'U find to totally
agree with you is the one that
stares back at you in the mirror
(and even that isn' t always true).
Teresa Imfeld
P.S, Thank you Ti.

WlTCH ' HUNT
ON EPIC
To the Editor :
. I would like to pledge my full
support to EPIC for the most
beautiful and informative job
they have done throughout this
academic year. The lecture and
film series they have tllken the
responsibility of coordinating has
pro vided an alternative analysis
to problems facing the universe
both domestically and internationally .
I must differ with Mr. Stephen
Harrison's description of EPIC
as being unwilling to engage in
open political discussion. I have
attended sessions with members
of EPIC and their willingness to
participate in open political discussion is thorough and should
be commended, It's quite possible
the problem Mr. Harrison is
having with EPIC is twofold: 1)
he is unwilling .to accept the
reality that everybody does not
view political issues as he does
and 2) because of his own selfinterest to receive S&A funds to
distribute his own original love
poetry, which were denied , he
has assumed the posture of a
"witch-hunt" on EPIC.
In the struggle,
Stone Thomas

RESPONSE
FROM EPIC
To the Editor:
Susan Beyer's letter to the C P J
criticizing EPIC contained many
of the inaccuracies found in
Stephen Harrison's two recent
letters. Had either Stephen or
Susan spoken ~o us directly
about their concerns, these misrepresentations could have been
avoided, We encourage criticism,
but unfounded attacks only serve
to obstruct meaningful political
dialogue .
Susan raised the question of
our lack of involvement in local
politics . While it is true tha t
EPIC does not present much information about local political
issues, this is primarily due to
our own lack of resources and
the priorities we have established.
However, we have not completely ignored local and legislative politics. Just last week some
EPIC members talked to Don
Bonker abo ut legislative action
which would cut off U. S. aid to
dictatorships such as Chile and
Brazil. We have also been involved in local hearings and in formational work about saving
the eight hour day . At a recent
EPIC presentation, two women
from Olympia explained how
they organized their work place,
an action which changed their
situation of roughly $2 .20/hour
pay, Other issues we have discus sed in our Monday night
series include local Native American st ruggles, Senate Bill One,
prison reform, and urban development in Seattle,
EPIC has no "line" concerning
the "only way" to deal with
problems in the world. While we
do not necessarily believe that
working for reforms will enable
us to realize our fundamental
goals, we do see it as important
political work .
Some other points need further
clarification : We do not claim to

represent anyone other than ourselves. We are simply a source of
alternative political information.
We are not political allies with
the governments of Chile and
Brazil - in fact our work has
clearly been in support of the resistance movements in these
countries , Our emphasis on particular labor and women's struggles does not imply that these
specific subjects are the only
ones of importance , We choose
our subjects on the basis of their
significance, and on the availability of rEliable film s and
speakers ,
We understand that the controversial nature of our activity
stimulates the sort of criticism
that other student gro ups do not
encounter. A great deal of this
criticism can be traced to our socialization and upbringing which
h ave trained us to reject ideas
that challenge the status quo .
While we do not expect that 100
years of anti-socialist ideology
and culture can be easily overcome, we would like people to
judge us on the basis of our actual words and deeds, and not
on the basis of their prejudices
against radicals in general
For EPIC,
Kraig Peck
Alan Mador

WOMEN'S MUSIC
SPEAKS OF -JOY
To the Editor :
As a man I have a real hard
time understanding the current
con troversy centering around
women's music. Women's music
does not speak of disgust - unlike many of the pelvic -pulsating
cock rockers of the male music
world, i.e. rolling stones ' "under
my thumb. " Women 's music
speaks ' of joy, pain, hatred, fears
and many other feelings that
people generally encounter.
To interpret women's music as
a general loathing of men can
o nly be our reaction and feelings
of being threatened by words
that sometimes strike uncomfortably close to home , We should
be delighted to listen to the personal accoun.ts that so many
women write about - there is 50
much we men can learn from
their b a llads. The words we
do~'t understand we should leave
unscathed fo r the many women
who do understand the words
and relate closely to them ,
So, come on folks, we've got .

real gigantic world to change.
Let's support our sisters and their
music, even though at times we
feel threatened by it, or don't
understand it, . or just plain don't
like it. Women aren't our enemy
if you recall everything that you
have learned in history a nd politics and all that stuff in 'the spirit of
revolutionary criticism,
thorn thacker
the men's center

PULL WEEDS,
REDUCE BIOCIDES
To the Editor :
During the last few month s
there has been a growing controversy over the use of biocides on
the Evergreen campus . One of
the major impasses encountered
within the controversy, is finding a cost comparable alternative
to the use of the biocides, The
suggestion of hand - pulling weeds
and other unwanted foliage by
the grounds crew, was flatly re jected as a waste of man-hours
as compared to the time it takes
to spray the same ground. But,
at the same time a suggestion
was made that perhaps a group
of students who wo uld like to
see the use of biocides on cam pus reduced, would volunteer
their services.
The volunteers would work directly with grounds m ai ntenance
and would be given a certain
area to cover as to make th e
most efficient use of their serv ices. At present we are looking
,for people who would be available on a once or twice a month
basis, especially during the summer session ,
If you are interested in volunteering a littl e of your time in exchange for a reduction in the use
of biocides on campus, please
leave your name, telephone num ber or some way to contact you,
a t the EAC mailbox in CAB 305
or at room 3225 in the library .
(Exact days and times will be
worked out according to the
amount of respo nse received. )
Doug Luckerman ,
chairperson, EAC

BICYCLING
FOR ALASKA·
To the Editor :
Re : Bicycling for Alaska
To the Editor:
Two Iowans are peqaling
across this country to so li c it

concern "nd stimulate awareness
about , Alaska as a national
treasure, Currently, 80 million
acres of national interest lands
are being divided up into federal,
state, tribal and private holdings.
Eric Jayne and friend will ride
thru Olympia at 7 p,m, on Sat. ,
May 29, collecting signatures for
a "letter of care" of the use of
Alaska's lands. Stop them as
they pass by 'o r meet with them
on TESC's library plaza between
7:30 - 8:30 p .m . 5 !29~6 to hear
about Alaska and v ~ice your
concern.
Il.
Cindy pwa nberg

EMPIRICAL ./'
INSPIRATION
The ancient cities spread themselves like
shattered peacocks. They have
gone to sleep ,
and only the bedrock remains .
Time passes as man lifts ano ther stone.
A seco nd hand twitches, while
the hand of Nature
scatters marble like rice a t a
wedding ,
In such a way do people ma rry
themselves to
the earth . From the swaddling
clothes of brida l gowns,
to the mou rning shrouds of death ;
a ll to be reborn
in the flowers of spring, and in
a utumn 's cha nging leaves.
Matthew Sperling

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Here are tllf? Evergreen winners of the Last Annual Invitational Rex Rasco Memorial
Artisan s Competition for 1976: I. to r.. Sherm Dada with his brilliant tracing 0/ the N.
W asIl. coastlirJe: E. C . Rancher, winner of the Recycled Art category, with his egg carton
mobile : Prof. Parson Bells with his computer film "Breakfast Shadow at Noon ;" and
Mike Boomer and his recording of Panorama City residents on "What the Bicentennial
Mean s to Mel " Missing from photo are Brian Moratti, winner of the paint-by-number
category. Robin Zarcowinchski and her plastic flower arrangement; an anonymous Ever green coed 's self portrait: and the sister-brother choral reading team of Abdul and Lori
Sinclair with, tlleir poem "Your Love Is Cramping My High ."

EPIC ACCUSATIONS
EMPTY
Tll the Edit o r :
II is indeed curious to learn of
EPI C's "dogmatism" and "rhet()ri c" throug h shrill tones of rhe lo ri ca l a nd polemical attacks
wh ic h embody li tt le evidence
tha t ba cks up the accusers' argument s. If one wa nt s to be logically criti cal. o ne must be rigo ro us . T he lac k of such rigor exposes th e empt iness of the accusat io ns.
Secondl y, EPIC has had a
constructive evolution during the
past two years. Last year it too
easily reso rted to we / they rhetor ic rather than dynamic discussio n . But it s services , primarily
the film a nd speaker series, pro vide d opportuni ti es for exposure
10 a criti ca l awareness of our soc iety . Thi s film and speaker
series and the attempt to develop
crea ti ve critici sm have continued
to co ntribute towa rds a responsi bl e radica l understanding . Such
an a lte rn ati ve understanding
should be viewed as an educational o ppo rtunity rather than
dism issed as dogmatic rhet oric.
Spider Burbank

BICYCLE PATHS
NEED SUPPORT
T o the Editor:
T hi s past year I have been
working as an intern with the
T hurston County Parks and Recreat ion Department on a Comprehensive Bicycle Plan for the
en tire co unt y. Early in March of
th is yea r the first draft of the

plan was presented throughout
the co unty in various groups including Evergreen . With the response and generation of ideas
that emanated, we revised the
plan to better fit the needs of the
bicycle riders , and have now just
completed the final draft of the
"Comprehensive Bicycle Plan for
Thurston County. "
The plan proposes a total of
125 miles of bicycle routes to be
built. At present the county's
on ly guaranteed source of revenue for the routes is the mandatory one-half of one percent
of the Motor Vehicle Allocation
($5,000 per year).
Other viable sources of revenue include a County Bond
Issue, in which the people of
Thurston County would vote on
whether they would fund the
construction of bicycle routes .
Other possibilities for funding
include several matching opportunities with other governmental
agencies. One of these, which
the cou nty has just applied for,
is the Federal Bikeway Demonstration Program. For thi s program the coun ty has proposed
the notorious Cooper Point Road
and 28t h Avenue -Division Road,
along with Mud Bay Road from
Overh ulse (TESC Bike Path) to
the O lympia city limits.
There is definitely a need for
des ign ated bicycle routes in the
co unty. I am very disheartened
to see the lack of public support
for th e routes . The public meet ing held in March at Evergreen
by the . Parks and Recreation Depa rtment presenting the first
draft of the plan, was unwar-

rantedly sparingly attended; especially by Evergreen students
who should have a vested interest in the matter. Maybe apathy ,
Maybe laziness.
The bicycle users on campus
can easily organize into a viable
group to coordinate interest in
obtaining routes, and possibly
teach bicycle safety in the local
schools. Instead of organizing
another bureaucratic organization it can easily be pla ced
within / under an umbrella organization, i,e . Sierra Club (Sasquatch), Audubon (Black Hills
Group) , etc. If anyone is interested in such a vitally needed
project I will be very willing to
help organize such a venture.
Or write a letter, or similar
correspondence, to Marj Yung, ·
County Commissioner of District
Three and Chairwoman, or to
the Parks and Recreation Board
o r to the Parks and Recreation
Department, expressing your interest. It is up ' to you, the individ ual , to make things happen.
Progress does not proceed on its
own accord.
Tom Peterson

GRIPES GALORE
To the Editor:
Good , successful stories like
the Journal's last two articles
about film and film-making at
Evergreen are few and far between. Most stories we read in
the Journal are ill - conceived ,
technically rotten , a nd unbeliev-

ably boring to read , Countless
others are even worse. *
But every year or so a talented
student comes a long, learn s how
to sharpen a pencil. and composes a story which delights its
readers wherever it goes. One
such sto ry is "Student Film-makers: Gripes G alore, " by , Matt
Groenin g.
" Grip es" is sc ience fiction
p se udo-j ou rn alism at its be st,
wri tten by a reclusive fly-bynight r e porter who worships
closed circuit TV images. In a
cameo role, Groening plays himself, an omniscient, omnipresent
student reporter pretending to
interview the entire Evergreen
Film Complex, generou sly categorized as a sorry band of undernourished desperados. Much like
Bernstein and Woodward before
him , Groening manages to uncover the mental breakdown and
conseq uent secret envyings of
one "fra ntic" failure of a filmmaker , and hints that there are
many more.
For a st udent story , "G ripes
Galore" is outstanding. The dazzling double talk its author expe rim en ted with in his first
story, " Film-making at Evergreen ," continues to give hi s
work a professional look missing
from most student productions.
"!' like to make fun of things
people ta ke too se riou sly ,"
Groening reports, His next story
will be on the racist implication
of journalism in democratic societies.
Keep up the good work student story writers . We're all des perate for something good to
read .
Respectfully,
Jay Evans
Live and Recorded
Spring '76
* Recognize the language? It's
yours .

BUILDINGS CRY
FOR ART
To the Editor:
To the Architects of Evergreen
and the Administration.
Our two quarters at TESC
now ending, have been a great
experience for us . We have tried
our best to teach the importance
of Art in Architecture in our everyday life. This is beautifully
said in the following exerpt from
the foreword by Robert L Durham , FAIA (Campus Master
Planner of TESC) in the book
Art in Architecture by LG . Red stone (TESC Library):
"For the many architects who
have been reluctant to use art in
their buildings , the examples
shown (in this book) should encourage a reevaluation of their
thinking on the integration of th e
arts in view of the growing interest on the part of the public and
the individual client" (in the case
of Evergreen, the students, the
facu lty and some of the adminis tration).
Another quotation, p . 201 by
sculptor Andre Bloc:
"Our world ... still needs the
help of all its art ists to realize an
e nvir o nm ent wor thy of the
human race. But blinded by the
ex trao rdinary progress of tech -

nics, our contemporaries think
they have opened the doors to a
great civilization. They are mistaken. If science and technology
are not dominated by a great
culture, they can lead us to the
worst disaster, not only the cataclysms of war but also the
breakup of a very old culture
acquired over the centuries .
" All the countries colonized
during those centuries have seen
the disappeara'n ce of ·their cultures , of everything characteriz- .
tng their way of life, which
means primarily their art values.
The colonist who pretended to a
higher civilization , has not been
able to replace those values .. .
The artists have the duty to participate directly in everyday life
in order to fulfill this role ...
they must participate in the improvement of an architectural
and urbanistic order not only by
adding to its works of art but by
a direct involvement in the elaborat ion of new architectural
trends ."
There is a great need in the
beautiful buildings, here at
TESC, inside and outside, to go
on from here, to see some Iifevibration on the walls of such a
unique college. The architecture
cries out for some break in the
expanse of gray blankness, We
don't visualize hysterical "murals':
But a lot can be communicated
with quiet statements, in sculptural forms that play with light
and shadows outdoors, and with
provocative statements in form
and color and textures inside .
"The measure of man is man
himself,"
We want to thank the people
we've worked with, their lively
interest, their inspiration, their
effervescence our students.
Good luck to you. Don't let 'em
wear you down 1

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MR. CLEAN
DJSGUSTED
To the Editor :
Yesterday (5/20176), I had the
opportunity to watch a certain
young gentleman (?) walk down
the Library loop, stop, finish his
box of Kef ir , and place it ever
so gently on the sidewalk. He
then proceeded on his merry
way down the parkway. When I
mentioned to him that it wasn't
too kosher, he said that someone
would come by and piCk it up to
throw it away , This is all probably true, but I want to know is
he going to stop and pick up
someone else's garbage? Then
why does he expect anyone to
pick up after him , or does his
mother still clean up after him 7
If that inconsiderate bastard
believes that it doesn't matter
about clean - up around here because someone's getting paid to
do it , then I think he ought to let
'our friends Sam and Smokey
from custodial services have a
few choice words with him !

Stephen Pope Dimitroff
Lucienne Bloch

YOSHIMURA TRIAL
APPROACHING

Mr. Cle'a n

A BOZO LIKE
EVERYONE ELSE

To the Editor :
For those of you who haven 't
heard yet, or haven't seen the
flyers, Wendy Yoshimura is: a
Japanese-American woman, born
at the Manzanar concentration
camp during World War II ,
moved with her family to Japan
after WWlI because they resented
the treatment they received as
American citizens by the U.S ,
government .
While in Japan she began to
realize that she didn't have
things that th e other kids had because her family was very poor ,
She saw the horrors of Hiroshima , returned with her family
to America when she was 12
years old, suffered through the
humiliating experience of going
to second grade because she
didn 't speak English, started high
schoo l at 19, went to Calif. College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland where she perfected her artistic talent , and had her consciousness expanded by her opposition to the Viet Nam war
and learning a bout Feminism and
the import ance of asking questions as opposed to blindly ac ceptin g what one is told ,

To the Editor:
Now that the issue has died
suppose I shouldn't bring it up
again, but alas here goes:
This is in reference to those
who so graciously gave me the
honor of the "Memorial Artisan
Competition" (which Ti Locke
wrote a letter about in the April
22 issue).
Since my review and the letter
criticizing it appeared right before spring break, I felt it would
be useless to answer the person's
com ments, but it is obvious that
someone is still nursing a deeply
inflicted wound. Had I been on
camp u s this quarter I would
have written sooner.
Yes, I agree , I am not an art
critic but a "bozo" like everyo ne
else, Although , whoever wrote
the letter and dreamed up the
artisan competition failed to realize that the art show was not
being shown to professional critics, but to ordinary Evergreen
bozos (who ; according to the
artists, have no right to like or
dislike w hat is hung up in front
of them). I suppose you a lso believe that students can't form ah
opinion on books and movies
because they haven't been christened "professional critics."
As to your implying that in
this modern age EVERYTHING
can be considered art , you 're
being outrageous . That's like
saying every sound you utter can
be considered music.
If you happen to like something and I don ' t , fine and
dandy, but you sure have a long
way to go when it comes to ac cepting criticism (whether you
agree with it or · not) , Face the
fact , not everyone is going to pat
you on the head for what you
do , You have a right' to disagree
with me but, you'd like to take

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JOURNAL .STAFFBlJSINESS

EDITOR
Jill Stewart
NEWS EDITORS
Curtis Milton
Cat herine Riddell
FEATURE EDITOR
Matthew Groening
PRODUCTION
Sa m So lo mo n

PHOTOGRAPHY
Dou~ Buster
Ford Gilbreath
Ti Locke
NEWS STAFF
Jim Wright

Joe G il
Jim Feyk
David Judd
ADVERTISING
Mark Schmitt
PRINTER
Shelton-Mason
County Journal

She was indicted in 1972 along
with three men on charges of
possession of unlawful weapons,
went ·· underground in 1972 and
was not seen again until her arrest on Sept. 18, 1975 with Patty
Hearst at the apartment they
shared.
Since her arrest, the AsianAmerican community and many,
many others have come to the
support of Wendy Yoshimura ,
She really needs the support and
the money, since she doesn't
come from a wealthy family or
have the kinds of connections
that Patty Hearst had. If you'd
like to find out more about the
pre-trial hearings (her trial is set
for June 14), or if you want to
know what the Wendy Yoshimura
Fair Trial Committee is about,
the information is at the Asian
Coalition, Lib . 3209.

..£ITlIU ~O~ (,£1 ANhl
N~~RMo~ fOi TIlls *Ie?
CiTilP Oi STm UP
DR~"I~' !(~S)'?!

SYl'mrop-. SLOC,/•

The Journal Is located In the College Activities Building (CABI 306. News phOnes
Ad~ising and business 866-6080, LettenJ Policy: A" lett81'S to
the editor and phOtogrllPhs for lett.,. page must be received by noon Tuesday for
that w...·s publication . Lett81'S must be signed, typed, double-spaced and 400
~ords or leu.
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away MY right to dislike something you think is great. Fair?
You criticized me on my "abilit y" to judge the show, but had I
praised you then this "ability"
would never have been ques tioned . If you can't accept criticism you may as well lock yourself in a closet because you'll
never make it otherwise . The
only person you'U find to totally
agree with you is the one that
stares back at you in the mirror
(and even that isn' t always true).
Teresa Imfeld
P.S, Thank you Ti.

WlTCH ' HUNT
ON EPIC
To the Editor :
. I would like to pledge my full
support to EPIC for the most
beautiful and informative job
they have done throughout this
academic year. The lecture and
film series they have tllken the
responsibility of coordinating has
pro vided an alternative analysis
to problems facing the universe
both domestically and internationally .
I must differ with Mr. Stephen
Harrison's description of EPIC
as being unwilling to engage in
open political discussion. I have
attended sessions with members
of EPIC and their willingness to
participate in open political discussion is thorough and should
be commended, It's quite possible
the problem Mr. Harrison is
having with EPIC is twofold: 1)
he is unwilling .to accept the
reality that everybody does not
view political issues as he does
and 2) because of his own selfinterest to receive S&A funds to
distribute his own original love
poetry, which were denied , he
has assumed the posture of a
"witch-hunt" on EPIC.
In the struggle,
Stone Thomas

RESPONSE
FROM EPIC
To the Editor:
Susan Beyer's letter to the C P J
criticizing EPIC contained many
of the inaccuracies found in
Stephen Harrison's two recent
letters. Had either Stephen or
Susan spoken ~o us directly
about their concerns, these misrepresentations could have been
avoided, We encourage criticism,
but unfounded attacks only serve
to obstruct meaningful political
dialogue .
Susan raised the question of
our lack of involvement in local
politics . While it is true tha t
EPIC does not present much information about local political
issues, this is primarily due to
our own lack of resources and
the priorities we have established.
However, we have not completely ignored local and legislative politics. Just last week some
EPIC members talked to Don
Bonker abo ut legislative action
which would cut off U. S. aid to
dictatorships such as Chile and
Brazil. We have also been involved in local hearings and in formational work about saving
the eight hour day . At a recent
EPIC presentation, two women
from Olympia explained how
they organized their work place,
an action which changed their
situation of roughly $2 .20/hour
pay, Other issues we have discus sed in our Monday night
series include local Native American st ruggles, Senate Bill One,
prison reform, and urban development in Seattle,
EPIC has no "line" concerning
the "only way" to deal with
problems in the world. While we
do not necessarily believe that
working for reforms will enable
us to realize our fundamental
goals, we do see it as important
political work .
Some other points need further
clarification : We do not claim to

represent anyone other than ourselves. We are simply a source of
alternative political information.
We are not political allies with
the governments of Chile and
Brazil - in fact our work has
clearly been in support of the resistance movements in these
countries , Our emphasis on particular labor and women's struggles does not imply that these
specific subjects are the only
ones of importance , We choose
our subjects on the basis of their
significance, and on the availability of rEliable film s and
speakers ,
We understand that the controversial nature of our activity
stimulates the sort of criticism
that other student gro ups do not
encounter. A great deal of this
criticism can be traced to our socialization and upbringing which
h ave trained us to reject ideas
that challenge the status quo .
While we do not expect that 100
years of anti-socialist ideology
and culture can be easily overcome, we would like people to
judge us on the basis of our actual words and deeds, and not
on the basis of their prejudices
against radicals in general
For EPIC,
Kraig Peck
Alan Mador

WOMEN'S MUSIC
SPEAKS OF -JOY
To the Editor :
As a man I have a real hard
time understanding the current
con troversy centering around
women's music. Women's music
does not speak of disgust - unlike many of the pelvic -pulsating
cock rockers of the male music
world, i.e. rolling stones ' "under
my thumb. " Women 's music
speaks ' of joy, pain, hatred, fears
and many other feelings that
people generally encounter.
To interpret women's music as
a general loathing of men can
o nly be our reaction and feelings
of being threatened by words
that sometimes strike uncomfortably close to home , We should
be delighted to listen to the personal accoun.ts that so many
women write about - there is 50
much we men can learn from
their b a llads. The words we
do~'t understand we should leave
unscathed fo r the many women
who do understand the words
and relate closely to them ,
So, come on folks, we've got .

real gigantic world to change.
Let's support our sisters and their
music, even though at times we
feel threatened by it, or don't
understand it, . or just plain don't
like it. Women aren't our enemy
if you recall everything that you
have learned in history a nd politics and all that stuff in 'the spirit of
revolutionary criticism,
thorn thacker
the men's center

PULL WEEDS,
REDUCE BIOCIDES
To the Editor :
During the last few month s
there has been a growing controversy over the use of biocides on
the Evergreen campus . One of
the major impasses encountered
within the controversy, is finding a cost comparable alternative
to the use of the biocides, The
suggestion of hand - pulling weeds
and other unwanted foliage by
the grounds crew, was flatly re jected as a waste of man-hours
as compared to the time it takes
to spray the same ground. But,
at the same time a suggestion
was made that perhaps a group
of students who wo uld like to
see the use of biocides on cam pus reduced, would volunteer
their services.
The volunteers would work directly with grounds m ai ntenance
and would be given a certain
area to cover as to make th e
most efficient use of their serv ices. At present we are looking
,for people who would be available on a once or twice a month
basis, especially during the summer session ,
If you are interested in volunteering a littl e of your time in exchange for a reduction in the use
of biocides on campus, please
leave your name, telephone num ber or some way to contact you,
a t the EAC mailbox in CAB 305
or at room 3225 in the library .
(Exact days and times will be
worked out according to the
amount of respo nse received. )
Doug Luckerman ,
chairperson, EAC

BICYCLING
FOR ALASKA·
To the Editor :
Re : Bicycling for Alaska
To the Editor:
Two Iowans are peqaling
across this country to so li c it

concern "nd stimulate awareness
about , Alaska as a national
treasure, Currently, 80 million
acres of national interest lands
are being divided up into federal,
state, tribal and private holdings.
Eric Jayne and friend will ride
thru Olympia at 7 p,m, on Sat. ,
May 29, collecting signatures for
a "letter of care" of the use of
Alaska's lands. Stop them as
they pass by 'o r meet with them
on TESC's library plaza between
7:30 - 8:30 p .m . 5 !29~6 to hear
about Alaska and v ~ice your
concern.
Il.
Cindy pwa nberg

EMPIRICAL ./'
INSPIRATION
The ancient cities spread themselves like
shattered peacocks. They have
gone to sleep ,
and only the bedrock remains .
Time passes as man lifts ano ther stone.
A seco nd hand twitches, while
the hand of Nature
scatters marble like rice a t a
wedding ,
In such a way do people ma rry
themselves to
the earth . From the swaddling
clothes of brida l gowns,
to the mou rning shrouds of death ;
a ll to be reborn
in the flowers of spring, and in
a utumn 's cha nging leaves.
Matthew Sperling

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19th Century Feminism Revived
by Catherine Riddell
Co- Respondents is an unusual
word for an unusual performing
group made up of Pat Larson,
Sa ndra Nisbet , and Maggie
Unruh , In addition to performing
professional femin ist theater Pat
and Sandra are preparing t o
teach a gro up con tract at Evergreen thi s summer , Brllig Her
. Back Alive.
In the last four yea rs the CoRespo ndents have ' put togeth er
to ur shows in a reader's theater
t" rmat which they have pertormed in 18 states for milita ry
pe rso nnel. wo men 's gro ups , civic
~ro u ps , busin ess executi ves , and
schoo ls.
T o these audie nces they have
brought a new perspec tive to
19th cent ury fem inism, co ntra ry
to ste reo types in th e hi st ory
books. They have popularized
and b rought to life this segment
o t Ameri can histo ry. The Co Respondents reo pen communi cation in the face of react iona ry
Images ot "libbe rs. " By tak in g
trulv radi cal ideas , showi ng the
e ml~tions beh ind them , a n d
showi ng th a t peo pl e li vi ng a
hu ndred years ago had th em ,
thev b uild an atmosphere co nd ucive to co mmuni ca tion even
w ith people w ho co me to th eir
shuw with closed minds.
Special facto rs co ntribute to
the effectiveness of the shows:
the people whose ideas, experie nces, and emotions are being
shown are long dead ; the three
performers are acting , and not
speak ing for, or harangu ing them -

ton, Sojourner Truth, and a little
'known book , " Are Women
People? After the show there is
always discussion with the audience.
Pat Larson and Sandra Nisbet
hope students will be attracted to
their summer group contrac t
who share their interest in education, entertainment, feminism ,
hist ory , and / or media . The
medium for bringing history out
of the books will be creative.
Ideas that exist now include a
video test-tape to take to a local
TV studio , teaching packages for
local schools (teachers are an other group targeted for this program) and short theater presentations . Hopefully all presentations
will be taken out to the communit y .

Rising
From
The
Ashes
o,
f
The
Old
I
I
l

t

I,

selves ; the uress is politically
neu tr a l, old -s ty le lon g simpl e
dresses .
Their show last Thursday , a
benefit for th e YWCA, was assembled four years ago for an
Evergreen conference on women
and toured the state for the
Equal Right s Amendment cam pai g n , " Giv e ' Em An In ch"

brings together music and readings from fa iry tales , Moliere's
" School for Wives, '" Shaw's
"Mrs . Warren's Profession, " Ibsen's "A Doll's House," Woolf's
A Roo m of One's Own, varIous feminist writers interspersed
wit h anti -feminist editorials and
hecklers . Thus, Co-Respondents
is a theater of exchange.

month on the main deck of the
farmhouse, the trusses were lifted
into place with a small assist oy
Capital Crane .

The farmhouse is being funded
by $15 ,000 in S&A mon ies and
will become a permanent campus
building when' finished. The
building will accommodate 50 to
70 people in the first floor meeting room . It also includes a community kitchen, two caretaker
bedrooms and a study room.

major goals last Thursday with
the raising of two huge roof
trusses (see photo). The trusses
weigh three tons apiece and peak
at 26 feet above the main floor .
Asse mbled over the previou s

/

Construction on the project
began in the spring o l 1975 and
has proceeded at a steady pace
ever since. Students supplied
wood by cutti ng up 30 ,000
board feet of lumber at a small
sawmill in Lacey last summer.
They expect to have some stairs
in before the end of the quarter
and hope to get started putting
up shakes. The roof should be
finished by the end of the
summer and student crews will
begin interior work in the fall .
Personnel at the Organic Farmhouse will present a slide show
on their work next Tuesday .
Contracts in architectural design,
engineering, drafting and other
areas related to construction of
the house will be available . For
information on place and time
call the farm at 6161 or Bill
Knauss at 6120.

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The show demonstrates that
argu men ts, both pro and con ,
used in the 19th century about
suffrage are used today about
ERA. Different viewpoints come
from woman lobbyi st Maude
Younger, a working girl of Bos-

The first week projects will be
identified and because of the
time factor in the five-week program, developing a polished per formance package will be the
emphasis of the remaining time .

by Jim Wright
Exactly one year ago Saturday, the
hopes and aspirations of all those people
associated with the Marine History and
Crafts Coordinated Studies .program were
incinerated when the fishing craft they
had been building all year burned to the
ground. In commemoration, planners of
next year's Marine Studies and Crafts program have initiated '!The Phoenix Project"
to raise funds for a similar "fishing boat
under sail" they intend to build next year.
'The Phoenix is symbolic of a new boat
rising from the ashes of the old,"
explained student planners Kiki Foote,
Julia Rabinowitz and Joel Gregory.
Marine History and Crafts (last year's
program ) was an unqualified success according to the three self-professed "romantic scientists." Its goal was to design
and build a non-mechanized, sail-powered
fishing craft.
"The whole emphasis of the program
was on quality rather than mass production," observed Joel. "We were using technology but in a very human way - to
capture the romance of the sea through a
dynamic scientific project."
The three have ambitious plans for next
year's boat. "We definitely plan to use the
boat for fishing in Puget Sound . On the

T he Co- Respondents believe
the 19th century femini st movement is similar to today 's and it
is "incredibl y ri ch material. " The
goa l of the fiv e-week, two cred it
progra m wi ll be a live or medi a
p rese n tation fo r a par t icul ar
audience .

Farm Wraps Up
Quarter's Work

by Curt Milton
Work on Evergreen's studentbuilt Organic Farmhouse has ac ce lerated with the coming of
spring.
Th e construction crew saw the
rea lizatio n of one of the quarter's

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Curriculum DT F Releases Plan

MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS

Evergreen
Abroad
by Barbara Olsen
Europe? Great! This summer?
Fantastic! But how? Well we at
Evergreen have an alternative designed to specifically incorporate
the best features of touring
Europe with the added advantage
of learning something and getting
credit for it while you're there .
This program was not devised
for the independently wealthy
and emotionally unstable student
who needs the security and structure of a tour complete with
guide and lodging. Instead 16
brave but broke students pocket
thei r life savings and charter-fly
their ways overseas for a
summer of European adventures.
With the cars we rent in Paris
and maps in hand we take off to
rediscover the art treasures of
Europe. Camp sites become our
homes, pro tem. , and grocery
stores provide the necessaries,
complimented by an occasional
cappucino in a provincial cafe.
Our vehicles free us to explore
the remote villages and exquisite
country inaccessible to most
tourists . Not only did this mode
of travel prove a great way to
really see Europe and Europeans,
but it is an inexpensive trip, as
well.
The program was last year
called "Backpacks, Monuments
and Museums," this year titled
"Medieval and Renaissance Museums and Monuments: Travel
in Europe. " It was an inspiration
of the Evergreen faculty member,
Gordon Beck.
A seasoned European traveler,
Gordon realized the necessity of
a firsthand encounter with a
work of art in the environment it
was designed to compliment . He
felt there was no better way to
learn of the history of Western
CIvilization than by the immedi -·
ate impact of a confrontation
with Europe .
Of the 13 students that accom panied Gordon on the debut of

"

the program last summer, I was
able to locate several around
campus. Dennis White recommends this program to ,myo ne
seriously interested in studying
European art and art history .
Richard emphaSized more individual preparation before the
program begins . He found that
in classic Evergreen fashion, this
program forced the student to
learn for himself . Keith Brown
remembers how valuable the itin erary and the reference material
we brought with us proved to be
once we were over there. As
Richard sa id, the shock of encountering firsthand that incredible mass of creativity in Europe
made us very aware of how
poorly prepared we were.
Each of us felt cars were the
on ly way to travel. With four
students to a car, we formed selfcontained and totally mobile
units, interacting as a complete
group formally just once a week
in seminar. Sometimes we found
ourselves all together at a particular campsite, but not necessarily. Our sole obligation for the
summer was to see and feel. This
requirement proved to be a 24
hour a day experience, and in credibly exhausting .
Since each person perceives
things at their own pace, the program was geared to allow the
freedom to feel at the discretion
of the individual. Consequently,
at any given point during the
trip last summer, one could find
13 lost souls wandering around
in roughly the same vicinity,
gazing intensely at walls and
windows and writing feverishly
in scruffy, dog-eared notebooks .
Sounds funny? Well it was .. .
But at the end of the summer
last yea r I found I'd learned
more about my self and about
Europe than I co uld ever have
anticipated . And I can't wait to
do it all over again this summer.

long range, we'd like to see fishing regulations changed to allow sail-powered fishing boats to use fishing gear that is currently illegal. We'd also like to see it (the
boat) u;;ed for marine biology and niltural
history research in the Sound."
The purpose of The Phoenix Project,
headed by Olympia businesswoman Doris
St. Louis, is purely and simply to raise
$20,000 to fund materials for next year's
craft. "A group of Seattle businessmen
have already donated rigging and spars,"
according to Marine Studies and Crafts
sponsor Pete Sinclair. "We are seeking to
provide a hull. To make the involvement
personal, we are asking that individuals
and groups donate funds by 'buying' a
plank, rib, or deck beam which will bear
the donor's name on it in the completed
hull ," he added .
For example, the scheme provides that
donors may "buy" a deck plank for $25
which will then exhibit the "buyer's"
name. However, Kiki, Julia , a:1d Joel
stressed that any and all donations are
welcome. "We're asking people from the
community - both Evergreen and Olympia - to take an interest in the program
by donating money, " explained Kiki.
Persons wishing to offer support may
contact The Phoenix Project, Lab . 3018,
The Evergreen State College, Olympia,
Washington, phone 866-6012 .

I
I

by Jim Wright
Advanced Interdisciplinary
Specialty Areas were outlined in
the second progress report of the
Long Range Curriculum Planning
Disappearing Task Force issued
Tuesday . In addition, basic coordinated studies were defined
and Experimental and Individualized learning options were de-

scribed : These changes will be
incorporated into next year's catalog.
. Interdisciplinary Specialty Areas (ISA's) were defined as
advanced sequential curricular
pathways dealing with broadlyfocused areas of interest. The
committee defined the following
areas as potential ISA's:

American and European
Studies
Communications (conditional approval only)
Cultural and Area Studies
Environmental Studies
Expressive Arts
Human Development
life and Health
Management and the Public

Interest
Political Economy
Marine Studies and Cratts
Northwest Native American
Studies
Northwest Native American
Studies was selected as a specialty area because "A preliminary survey of programs which
serve the needs of Washington's
Native American communities in
the four-year institutions of
Washington and British Columbia reveals that none has ade-'
quately concentrated on the
needs of this population . Evergreen has a unique opportunity,
particularly given our curricular
structure, to respond to their
needs,"
The description of another
propos,ed specialty area, Marine
Studies and Crafts, will offer a
two or three year sequence of
Coordinated Studies, modules,
group contracts, and internships
to give participants "an integrated view and ·in-depth experience" in related aspects of Ma rine Biology, boat design, fisheries and aquaculture, and "the
special psychology of living with
the sea ."
Still another area, Communications, was tentatively identi-

Survey Aids Planning
by Curt Milton
To paraphrase an old saying,
"Students, what do they really
want?"
, In an attempt to find an answer, Nancy Taylor and the Enrollment Services Advisory
Group have recently circulated
an Academic Interest Questionnaire on campus. The purpose?
Find out how many students will
be returning to Evergreen next
fall and what those students
want in the way of academic
programs.
Out of 2,100 questionnaires
distributed 1,255 had been returned by last week. The results
indicate some trends but Taylor
is justifiably cautious about
drawing any conclusions. "It
does· tell where the pressure
points are," she says.
Of those returning question -

naires, 250 said that they would
be graduating at the end of
either spring or summer quarter.
Students who indicated they
would not be returning numbered
108 while 519 said they would be
returning and 378 said that they
might come back 'in September.
Among the 108 who are not
returning, reasons were many
and varied : 46 said they were
transferring to another college;
32 can't study what they want
here while 12 can't study the
way they want; 25 are out of
money and 37 gave other reasons, mostly that they were tired
of school.
Taylor feels that those figures
are "not so discouraging" and
that people are leaving for good
reasons for which the college
isn't to blame .
The critical group are the
"maybes," , those people who in-

dicated that they might be returning to Evergreen next fall but
aren't sure. A large portion of
this group, 156 people, are undecided as to what program or
contract they would take if they
do return ill September . Taylor
feels this is significant as the
largest portion of those who are
returning indicated that they
have a definite program or contract in mind.
The most attention is being
paid to the "maybe" column as
those students are the swing
votes that can make or break a
good retention figure. Half of the
"maybes" must stay on if we are
to equal or best last fall's 58 %
retention figure. "There's no reason to think retention will be
better than last year," says Taylor. "If we're not flexible and
helpful in dealing with students
retention will be worse."

Returned surveys are marked
off on a master enrollment list
and the results are then tabulated. The names of students
who are definitely or possibly interested in a specific program or
contract are recorded on sheets
of paper that will be made available to the appropriate program
coordinator, This will allow for
follow-ups during the summer in
the areas of student interest,
The main purpose of the questionnaire is to help improve re&tention and find out whether the
curriculum being offered matches
student interest. Vice President
Ed Konnondy has been briefed
on the results and they are being
made available to faculty and
staff planners. "I don't 'know if
it'll do any good," Taylor comments, "but we're trying to be
responsive."

fied as a specialty area providing
that faculty coordinators can be
found before publication of the
catalog this summer. Otherwise,
Communications will be offered
as an Experimental program in
1977.
A basic coordinated studie~
program, according to the task
force, should introduce students
to Evergreen's interdisciplinary
approach through organization
of studies around a central
theme. The report states that
"Given that a higher than
average percentage of students
entering Evergreen are undecided
about future studies, it is
important that basic programs
allow students to explore several
options and that basic programs
do not become prerequisites for
specialty areas or divisional
programs."
Concerning student program
planning, the committee urged
that "all year-long basic programs must allow for students to
design and select the content of
some parts of the program ."
To allow flexibility within
coordinated studies programs,
the task force prOVided that
basic programs require 100% of
the student's academic commitment for the first quarter
followed by a reduction to 75 %
in subsequent quarters to allow
enrollment in related modules
and workshops. Faculty in these
programs would be self-selecting
but rotating to prevent stagnation .
Finally, the committee defined
Experimental programs as those
which "can be used to test or
develop the viability of the new
approaches to education, without threatening the continuity
and stability of the rest of the
college." this area would include
student-initiated programs, new
specialty area programs, and
new teaching/learning modes for
traditional material.
The · committee stressed that
"using the tenn 'exPerimental'
does not create a separate box
for programs which are isolated
from the main body of the
school. but rather, providrs a
feed bed for new ideas and
processes for the total college."

4

19th Century Feminism Revived
by Catherine Riddell
Co- Respondents is an unusual
word for an unusual performing
group made up of Pat Larson,
Sa ndra Nisbet , and Maggie
Unruh , In addition to performing
professional femin ist theater Pat
and Sandra are preparing t o
teach a gro up con tract at Evergreen thi s summer , Brllig Her
. Back Alive.
In the last four yea rs the CoRespo ndents have ' put togeth er
to ur shows in a reader's theater
t" rmat which they have pertormed in 18 states for milita ry
pe rso nnel. wo men 's gro ups , civic
~ro u ps , busin ess executi ves , and
schoo ls.
T o these audie nces they have
brought a new perspec tive to
19th cent ury fem inism, co ntra ry
to ste reo types in th e hi st ory
books. They have popularized
and b rought to life this segment
o t Ameri can histo ry. The Co Respondents reo pen communi cation in the face of react iona ry
Images ot "libbe rs. " By tak in g
trulv radi cal ideas , showi ng the
e ml~tions beh ind them , a n d
showi ng th a t peo pl e li vi ng a
hu ndred years ago had th em ,
thev b uild an atmosphere co nd ucive to co mmuni ca tion even
w ith people w ho co me to th eir
shuw with closed minds.
Special facto rs co ntribute to
the effectiveness of the shows:
the people whose ideas, experie nces, and emotions are being
shown are long dead ; the three
performers are acting , and not
speak ing for, or harangu ing them -

ton, Sojourner Truth, and a little
'known book , " Are Women
People? After the show there is
always discussion with the audience.
Pat Larson and Sandra Nisbet
hope students will be attracted to
their summer group contrac t
who share their interest in education, entertainment, feminism ,
hist ory , and / or media . The
medium for bringing history out
of the books will be creative.
Ideas that exist now include a
video test-tape to take to a local
TV studio , teaching packages for
local schools (teachers are an other group targeted for this program) and short theater presentations . Hopefully all presentations
will be taken out to the communit y .

Rising
From
The
Ashes
o,
f
The
Old
I
I
l

t

I,

selves ; the uress is politically
neu tr a l, old -s ty le lon g simpl e
dresses .
Their show last Thursday , a
benefit for th e YWCA, was assembled four years ago for an
Evergreen conference on women
and toured the state for the
Equal Right s Amendment cam pai g n , " Giv e ' Em An In ch"

brings together music and readings from fa iry tales , Moliere's
" School for Wives, '" Shaw's
"Mrs . Warren's Profession, " Ibsen's "A Doll's House," Woolf's
A Roo m of One's Own, varIous feminist writers interspersed
wit h anti -feminist editorials and
hecklers . Thus, Co-Respondents
is a theater of exchange.

month on the main deck of the
farmhouse, the trusses were lifted
into place with a small assist oy
Capital Crane .

The farmhouse is being funded
by $15 ,000 in S&A mon ies and
will become a permanent campus
building when' finished. The
building will accommodate 50 to
70 people in the first floor meeting room . It also includes a community kitchen, two caretaker
bedrooms and a study room.

major goals last Thursday with
the raising of two huge roof
trusses (see photo). The trusses
weigh three tons apiece and peak
at 26 feet above the main floor .
Asse mbled over the previou s

/

Construction on the project
began in the spring o l 1975 and
has proceeded at a steady pace
ever since. Students supplied
wood by cutti ng up 30 ,000
board feet of lumber at a small
sawmill in Lacey last summer.
They expect to have some stairs
in before the end of the quarter
and hope to get started putting
up shakes. The roof should be
finished by the end of the
summer and student crews will
begin interior work in the fall .
Personnel at the Organic Farmhouse will present a slide show
on their work next Tuesday .
Contracts in architectural design,
engineering, drafting and other
areas related to construction of
the house will be available . For
information on place and time
call the farm at 6161 or Bill
Knauss at 6120.

EVERGREEN COINf&S
AND
'
INVESTMENTS
.
BUYING
SilVER. GOlD COINS
DOLlARS
RARE COINS

COMPLETE
COLLECTIONS

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• T' M $ ON C:ONl'''~'''''tJT. 8A:W.11sftlr CP c;.A.B.

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(~fOI$ hom Bob', Ita lkarpnl
352 - 8848

The show demonstrates that
argu men ts, both pro and con ,
used in the 19th century about
suffrage are used today about
ERA. Different viewpoints come
from woman lobbyi st Maude
Younger, a working girl of Bos-

The first week projects will be
identified and because of the
time factor in the five-week program, developing a polished per formance package will be the
emphasis of the remaining time .

by Jim Wright
Exactly one year ago Saturday, the
hopes and aspirations of all those people
associated with the Marine History and
Crafts Coordinated Studies .program were
incinerated when the fishing craft they
had been building all year burned to the
ground. In commemoration, planners of
next year's Marine Studies and Crafts program have initiated '!The Phoenix Project"
to raise funds for a similar "fishing boat
under sail" they intend to build next year.
'The Phoenix is symbolic of a new boat
rising from the ashes of the old,"
explained student planners Kiki Foote,
Julia Rabinowitz and Joel Gregory.
Marine History and Crafts (last year's
program ) was an unqualified success according to the three self-professed "romantic scientists." Its goal was to design
and build a non-mechanized, sail-powered
fishing craft.
"The whole emphasis of the program
was on quality rather than mass production," observed Joel. "We were using technology but in a very human way - to
capture the romance of the sea through a
dynamic scientific project."
The three have ambitious plans for next
year's boat. "We definitely plan to use the
boat for fishing in Puget Sound . On the

T he Co- Respondents believe
the 19th century femini st movement is similar to today 's and it
is "incredibl y ri ch material. " The
goa l of the fiv e-week, two cred it
progra m wi ll be a live or medi a
p rese n tation fo r a par t icul ar
audience .

Farm Wraps Up
Quarter's Work

by Curt Milton
Work on Evergreen's studentbuilt Organic Farmhouse has ac ce lerated with the coming of
spring.
Th e construction crew saw the
rea lizatio n of one of the quarter's

l

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The main test will be ':will it
wo rk ?'"

Curriculum DT F Releases Plan

MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS

Evergreen
Abroad
by Barbara Olsen
Europe? Great! This summer?
Fantastic! But how? Well we at
Evergreen have an alternative designed to specifically incorporate
the best features of touring
Europe with the added advantage
of learning something and getting
credit for it while you're there .
This program was not devised
for the independently wealthy
and emotionally unstable student
who needs the security and structure of a tour complete with
guide and lodging. Instead 16
brave but broke students pocket
thei r life savings and charter-fly
their ways overseas for a
summer of European adventures.
With the cars we rent in Paris
and maps in hand we take off to
rediscover the art treasures of
Europe. Camp sites become our
homes, pro tem. , and grocery
stores provide the necessaries,
complimented by an occasional
cappucino in a provincial cafe.
Our vehicles free us to explore
the remote villages and exquisite
country inaccessible to most
tourists . Not only did this mode
of travel prove a great way to
really see Europe and Europeans,
but it is an inexpensive trip, as
well.
The program was last year
called "Backpacks, Monuments
and Museums," this year titled
"Medieval and Renaissance Museums and Monuments: Travel
in Europe. " It was an inspiration
of the Evergreen faculty member,
Gordon Beck.
A seasoned European traveler,
Gordon realized the necessity of
a firsthand encounter with a
work of art in the environment it
was designed to compliment . He
felt there was no better way to
learn of the history of Western
CIvilization than by the immedi -·
ate impact of a confrontation
with Europe .
Of the 13 students that accom panied Gordon on the debut of

"

the program last summer, I was
able to locate several around
campus. Dennis White recommends this program to ,myo ne
seriously interested in studying
European art and art history .
Richard emphaSized more individual preparation before the
program begins . He found that
in classic Evergreen fashion, this
program forced the student to
learn for himself . Keith Brown
remembers how valuable the itin erary and the reference material
we brought with us proved to be
once we were over there. As
Richard sa id, the shock of encountering firsthand that incredible mass of creativity in Europe
made us very aware of how
poorly prepared we were.
Each of us felt cars were the
on ly way to travel. With four
students to a car, we formed selfcontained and totally mobile
units, interacting as a complete
group formally just once a week
in seminar. Sometimes we found
ourselves all together at a particular campsite, but not necessarily. Our sole obligation for the
summer was to see and feel. This
requirement proved to be a 24
hour a day experience, and in credibly exhausting .
Since each person perceives
things at their own pace, the program was geared to allow the
freedom to feel at the discretion
of the individual. Consequently,
at any given point during the
trip last summer, one could find
13 lost souls wandering around
in roughly the same vicinity,
gazing intensely at walls and
windows and writing feverishly
in scruffy, dog-eared notebooks .
Sounds funny? Well it was .. .
But at the end of the summer
last yea r I found I'd learned
more about my self and about
Europe than I co uld ever have
anticipated . And I can't wait to
do it all over again this summer.

long range, we'd like to see fishing regulations changed to allow sail-powered fishing boats to use fishing gear that is currently illegal. We'd also like to see it (the
boat) u;;ed for marine biology and niltural
history research in the Sound."
The purpose of The Phoenix Project,
headed by Olympia businesswoman Doris
St. Louis, is purely and simply to raise
$20,000 to fund materials for next year's
craft. "A group of Seattle businessmen
have already donated rigging and spars,"
according to Marine Studies and Crafts
sponsor Pete Sinclair. "We are seeking to
provide a hull. To make the involvement
personal, we are asking that individuals
and groups donate funds by 'buying' a
plank, rib, or deck beam which will bear
the donor's name on it in the completed
hull ," he added .
For example, the scheme provides that
donors may "buy" a deck plank for $25
which will then exhibit the "buyer's"
name. However, Kiki, Julia , a:1d Joel
stressed that any and all donations are
welcome. "We're asking people from the
community - both Evergreen and Olympia - to take an interest in the program
by donating money, " explained Kiki.
Persons wishing to offer support may
contact The Phoenix Project, Lab . 3018,
The Evergreen State College, Olympia,
Washington, phone 866-6012 .

I
I

by Jim Wright
Advanced Interdisciplinary
Specialty Areas were outlined in
the second progress report of the
Long Range Curriculum Planning
Disappearing Task Force issued
Tuesday . In addition, basic coordinated studies were defined
and Experimental and Individualized learning options were de-

scribed : These changes will be
incorporated into next year's catalog.
. Interdisciplinary Specialty Areas (ISA's) were defined as
advanced sequential curricular
pathways dealing with broadlyfocused areas of interest. The
committee defined the following
areas as potential ISA's:

American and European
Studies
Communications (conditional approval only)
Cultural and Area Studies
Environmental Studies
Expressive Arts
Human Development
life and Health
Management and the Public

Interest
Political Economy
Marine Studies and Cratts
Northwest Native American
Studies
Northwest Native American
Studies was selected as a specialty area because "A preliminary survey of programs which
serve the needs of Washington's
Native American communities in
the four-year institutions of
Washington and British Columbia reveals that none has ade-'
quately concentrated on the
needs of this population . Evergreen has a unique opportunity,
particularly given our curricular
structure, to respond to their
needs,"
The description of another
propos,ed specialty area, Marine
Studies and Crafts, will offer a
two or three year sequence of
Coordinated Studies, modules,
group contracts, and internships
to give participants "an integrated view and ·in-depth experience" in related aspects of Ma rine Biology, boat design, fisheries and aquaculture, and "the
special psychology of living with
the sea ."
Still another area, Communications, was tentatively identi-

Survey Aids Planning
by Curt Milton
To paraphrase an old saying,
"Students, what do they really
want?"
, In an attempt to find an answer, Nancy Taylor and the Enrollment Services Advisory
Group have recently circulated
an Academic Interest Questionnaire on campus. The purpose?
Find out how many students will
be returning to Evergreen next
fall and what those students
want in the way of academic
programs.
Out of 2,100 questionnaires
distributed 1,255 had been returned by last week. The results
indicate some trends but Taylor
is justifiably cautious about
drawing any conclusions. "It
does· tell where the pressure
points are," she says.
Of those returning question -

naires, 250 said that they would
be graduating at the end of
either spring or summer quarter.
Students who indicated they
would not be returning numbered
108 while 519 said they would be
returning and 378 said that they
might come back 'in September.
Among the 108 who are not
returning, reasons were many
and varied : 46 said they were
transferring to another college;
32 can't study what they want
here while 12 can't study the
way they want; 25 are out of
money and 37 gave other reasons, mostly that they were tired
of school.
Taylor feels that those figures
are "not so discouraging" and
that people are leaving for good
reasons for which the college
isn't to blame .
The critical group are the
"maybes," , those people who in-

dicated that they might be returning to Evergreen next fall but
aren't sure. A large portion of
this group, 156 people, are undecided as to what program or
contract they would take if they
do return ill September . Taylor
feels this is significant as the
largest portion of those who are
returning indicated that they
have a definite program or contract in mind.
The most attention is being
paid to the "maybe" column as
those students are the swing
votes that can make or break a
good retention figure. Half of the
"maybes" must stay on if we are
to equal or best last fall's 58 %
retention figure. "There's no reason to think retention will be
better than last year," says Taylor. "If we're not flexible and
helpful in dealing with students
retention will be worse."

Returned surveys are marked
off on a master enrollment list
and the results are then tabulated. The names of students
who are definitely or possibly interested in a specific program or
contract are recorded on sheets
of paper that will be made available to the appropriate program
coordinator, This will allow for
follow-ups during the summer in
the areas of student interest,
The main purpose of the questionnaire is to help improve re&tention and find out whether the
curriculum being offered matches
student interest. Vice President
Ed Konnondy has been briefed
on the results and they are being
made available to faculty and
staff planners. "I don't 'know if
it'll do any good," Taylor comments, "but we're trying to be
responsive."

fied as a specialty area providing
that faculty coordinators can be
found before publication of the
catalog this summer. Otherwise,
Communications will be offered
as an Experimental program in
1977.
A basic coordinated studie~
program, according to the task
force, should introduce students
to Evergreen's interdisciplinary
approach through organization
of studies around a central
theme. The report states that
"Given that a higher than
average percentage of students
entering Evergreen are undecided
about future studies, it is
important that basic programs
allow students to explore several
options and that basic programs
do not become prerequisites for
specialty areas or divisional
programs."
Concerning student program
planning, the committee urged
that "all year-long basic programs must allow for students to
design and select the content of
some parts of the program ."
To allow flexibility within
coordinated studies programs,
the task force prOVided that
basic programs require 100% of
the student's academic commitment for the first quarter
followed by a reduction to 75 %
in subsequent quarters to allow
enrollment in related modules
and workshops. Faculty in these
programs would be self-selecting
but rotating to prevent stagnation .
Finally, the committee defined
Experimental programs as those
which "can be used to test or
develop the viability of the new
approaches to education, without threatening the continuity
and stability of the rest of the
college." this area would include
student-initiated programs, new
specialty area programs, and
new teaching/learning modes for
traditional material.
The · committee stressed that
"using the tenn 'exPerimental'
does not create a separate box
for programs which are isolated
from the main body of the
school. but rather, providrs a
feed bed for new ideas and
processes for the total college."

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IN BRIEF
450 SENIORS
TO GRADUATE
I n ca se you hadn 't noticed ...
,,'Sgraduati o n time .
Th e 19 76 version of the Evergreen Gradu.l tion Ceremony is
>c heduled for Su nda y afternoon ,
lu ne 6 on Red Square , officia lly
k no wn as the Daniel J, Evans Li br.1I'Y Plaza.
Appro ximatel y 400 to 450 sen Il' rs will be laking part in the 2
p .m . ce remony . Those sen iors
p.l rticipating will include students
whn g raduated after sum mer
qua rt er 10 75 as well as fa ll ,
", int er and spring quarter grad-

semble.
Coordinating Graduation 1976
is Sally Hunter , Assistant to the
Provost.

uates.

\'V elcL'ming remarks will be
ma de by Max ine M imm s, faculty
me mber , and Ma rk Papworth ,
.115 0 a facultv membe r , will pre,ent t he t ac~ i ty remarks.
Ga il l\ iJ rt in , Direc tor of Career Pla nn ing a nd P lace men t ,
" 'i: 1 make th e gradu ati ol) address.
She w ill be fo ll owed by a musil ~1 interlude b y t he Ka ll yo pe
C lwir.
Fa cu ltv member Richa rd Ale xander w ill make th e prese ntati o n
"\ t ' :e gradu at es and t he cl osi ng
rem.lrk, and ack now ledgement
,, \ the gr adu ate, w ill be made b y
I'rl' side nt Char le s McCa nn,
C,'t lee , (l,()kies and punch wil l
be served on Red Square after
t he ce remon y w ith mu sic pro\'i d ed bv Do n Chan 's Ja zz En -

Da v e SmifiJ , ca ndidafe for He,ny
Jackso n 's U. S. Senafe pos ifio l'l ,af
a press co nferenre 0'1 campus
Tue sday. Smi fh is running as an
American Indepe ndent (the parfy
of William F. Buckly) and has
II Pper nm fo r or h~ld political
o ffic e. Ti, e engill ee r from Seattle
suy s 'I e's geffi n g " rea l good
re s ponse " talking to people
parficlIlari y ill Easfem Washingt O il .

SPORTS TOURNEY
DEADLINES SET

WESTSIDE ~NG CENTER

Hours 9 - 9 Daily
Sunday 7 - 7

ELD
EQUIPMENT

HIGH

QUALITY

FLEXIBLE FIBERGLAS
, FRAME BACKPACKS
UNIQUE,

OVER PACK
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357-4345

Tennis Anyone?
How often do you have the
desire to play tennis on Evergreen's fine tennis facility? However, when you get out to the
courts all of them are filled up
right?
We now offer a court reservation policy that guarantees you a
tennis court whenever you want
to play. Here's how it works:
1) Call up Equipment Checkout (6535) the day before you
want to play . You can reserve
cour ts between the hours of
noon and 7 p.m.
2) Next, on the day of your
reservation go to Equipment
Check-out , inform them of your
reservation and show them your
Evergreen 1.0. Equipment Checko ut will then give you a
Reservation Slip,
3) Finally, take your reservation slip and I.D. to the courts
a nd place both items in the top
slot of the little green box affixed
to each court. You're -ready to
play!
Two more important items:
Reserved court time is limited to
o n e hour, and. if you ge t
hassled, inform the hassler of
our reservation policy.
Racquetball and Handball
Tourney
The spri ng Quarter Racquet -

Jabbtrwockp ~alltrltS

7

ball and Handball Tourney will
begin Tuesday, June 1. To play
you must pre -regis ter before
Friday the 28th. To sign up,
merely enter room 302 of the
CRC and place your name in the
proper catagory; Men's A , B
and Women's Open . For Handball. Men's Open.
All tourneys will be single
elimination (one loss and you are
out). Remember , to play in the
tourney you must register before
Friday the 28th of May.
Evergreel) Open Tennis Tourney
Register now in room 302
CRC for the tennis tourney. This
is for the members of the
Evergreen community. The tourney is open for men and women
singles players and will begin
Tuesd ay , June 1, rain or shine .
The procedure will be single
elimination, best of three sets
(no-add scor ing, Tiebreaker). To
play you must sign up before the
28th.
Archery Cage
If you noti ced a big, white net
on the Playfield, let us enlighten
you to it 's purpose . It's an
arche ry cage,
Wh .on you ch .;c k o u t an
archery target, please set it up
within the net enclosure. The net
will co ntain a ny mi s-di rect ed
arrows from entering a mea ndering studen t.
Bike the Point
Lucy Woods will lead a lunchtime bicy cle ride down and
aro und Cooper Point at noon
Friday the 28th of May. Show
up at the top of the loop at
noon. Bring your lunch! Fair"
weather ride only,

FROM MEDIA LOAN
A full-time temporary Media
Technician I position will be
open at Media Loan in the library . A person is needed to replace Carla Traylor, who is taking a leave of absence between
mid-August and January 1, 1977.
Apply at the college Personnel
office, Library 3238, Appl ications
will be accepted until June 11th.
Interviews will be scheduled for
June 17 - 22 and an individual
will be selected for the position
by Friday, June 25th.
Students and faculty wh'o have
borrowed eql!ipment on a quarter-long basis for spring quarter
should check the due date on
their blue slips. Most equipment
o n quarter- long loan is due
either June 4th or June 11th.
Students and faculty needing
media equipment on an extended
loan basis during summer quarter
can pick up a green quarter-long
request form now at Media Loan.
S t udent s wishing to borrow
equipment before summer quarter actually beg ins on June 28th,
must provide a note from the
Registrar indi ca ting that they
have registered for summer quarter plus a note from their faculty
s ponsor indicating why the
equipment is needed early .
Eq uipment loans for the normal checkout period will continue through Friday, June 4th.
During the following evaluation
week, June 7 - 11, eq uipment
will be loaned only for evalua~ion purposes.
• Renewals for library materials
begin on May 28th. If you're not
planning on renewing - please
return items now! Final due date
is June 4th.

CO-OP CORNER
News from the Office of Cooperative ~ucation
by Keith Goehner
We all know that last weekwasthe first week of registration for
Fall Quarter, Are you planning on an Internship next year? In
what?
The Arts? Visual and performing arts positions are possibilities
in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, LA., Washington D ,C., or almost
anywhere else. There are many Theaters and Art Organizations
with Administrative and Management positions' available .
Through practical experience you could see just what is involved
in managing'a theatre or running an art gallery. There are internship positions to help produce plays and festivals, manage a brass
qu inte t or other musical group, aid senior citizens and the handicapped as an arts and crafts instructor, become involved in a
dance troupe, or help write grants and develop funding sources
for non-profit organizations.
How about Broadcast Journalism? There are radio stations in
Centralia , Chehalis, Shelton, Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle that
have internship positions for Engineers, Production Assistants,
and Broadcast Journalists. Depending on your interests and experience, you cou ld : conduct field interviews; write and edit
news; produce public affairs and special interest programs; solicit , write, engineer, and record advertisements; edit tapes ; etc. It
all depends o n you!
Internships for 76 - 77, look into it! Administration. Finance.
The Sciences. Education. Counseling, Graphics and Media. Recreatio n. Social Work. Law Enforcement and Corrections. Environmental and Urban Planning, Humanities. And Political Science.
• All persons interested in the

Back to the Land group contract
coordinated by Bob Filmer are to
meet Monday , June 7 at 10: 00
a .m, in CAB Rm. 108.
• TESC gradu.ltes who wish to
have their faces appear in the
Class of '76 group portrait
should arr ive at Red Square
around 1 :00 p.m. on Sunday,
June 6. The portrait will be
taken at that time, prior to the
g raduation ceremony at 2: 00
p. m.. and will be posed on the
grassy hill, To be shot in stages,
the final group picture will be a
composit image made from
several sma ller group photos
printed together,

• On Friday (tomorrow) May 28
at 1 :00 p.m. in [AB 2020 the
Communications and Commun ity program will hold a meeting
to discuss plans for the fall.
• Facu lt y Member Peggy Dickinson and students are staging a
pottery sale Friday , May 28
inside or in front of the CAB
building. Proceeds will go toward scholarship fund to send
Evergreen students to the Pilchuck G lass Center this summer.

Cltamniack
Iltnnis Wbitt llantp etJrtdJt
Junt 1·18
1976
218 it
w. 4tfJ, Olpmpia Wa

Older 3 bedroom
house available
around the first of the
month, preferably ill
the country. $100 to
$200 a month. Call
day: 753-7748, night:
, 357 -9969 ..

• Thurston Neighborhood Fair is
looking for groups seeking greater involvement in community
projects and decision-making .
The fair will be Saturday, June
'. Attention students with inter5, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
ests in music or such crafts areas
at the Thurston County Fairas clay, weaving, wood carving,
grounds. Contact Ronald Clarke
ceramics. Organizers of a church
at 753-4900.
summer
day camp - scheduled
• The Recreation Center anJune
21-30
at L.P. Brown Grade
nounces all locks and towels
School in Olympia - are lookmust be turned in to the
ing for help from you.
attendants by June 6. New locks
.
Call Mary Garbutt at 352-8252,
and baskets will be issued
starting June 28. One dollar will
be fined for any clothing or '
CLASSIFIED ADS
equipment
left over the break.
Wanted : someone to live in
,
nights in exchange for free
• New to the Media Production
room. Nonsmoker. 357-4222.
Center, on the first floor of the
Creative Seamstress: /,11 do
Library, is a photographic exhibit
any sewing job. Now through
titled "The Converse All-Stars
summ er. Carol, 943-7186.
Silverprint Show." The exhibit is
a project of the Photo Critique
Los t. Red notebook with
Group, one of the many
papen.vork pertaining to the
workshops offered this quarter
" Crusty's Coop " te levisio n
through the Leisure Education
program. Please return to
Carl L. Cook in care of
program.
KAOS-FM , or call 866-5267.
• Yes , friends, it's true!
Sta rting July 1 the position of
House for Sale , View of Budd
KAOS Station Manager will be
and Mt. Rainier. 3 bdrm .
open . Applications will be acOlder home on 3 acres.
cepted through June 1. Low pay,
Mature landscaping and fruit
trees . Fireplace in living room
lots of long hours, etc . Stop by
and Franklin daylight baseKAOS and talk to Randy or call
him at 866-5267.
ment. $46,000, call owner,
866 -4107,
• Explorations-collection of slide/
tape performances by Evergreen
MOVING ON? Pass your House
studen ts put togethp.r for a recent
on to some good people . We need
s howing at the Portland Art
a 3-4 bedroom house. Call
Museum.
June 2, Lecture Hall HI 8 :00 943-1372 evenings or weekends or
leave a message- for Corinne at
p.m. No admission charge.
TES(:: Libr. eire. desk.

PAUL'S MOBIL SERVICE
Automotive

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Lowest Guaranteed
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2401 W. Harrison

A telephone to call your friends
without having to pay a
deposit or a monthly charge .

• Auditions for George M.
Cohan's The Tavern to be
presented in August by the
Evergreen Playhouse will be held
June 9 and 10 at 7 p.m, in room
4004 of the library and June 14
and 15 at 7 p . m. at the
Evergreen Playhouse in Centralia.
For additional information call
Michael McGalliard at 357-8768.

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A kitchen complete with all
the modern conveniences to cook
up your latest culinary magic.

Nice, cool, fresh water from
the tap to wet your whistle or
water your philodendron.

Close enough to campus
so you don't have to start up
the old VW and burn up
gas,
'
And people who share a common
interest with you in making
campus living fun and worthwhile.
Since we include all the utilities you
only have to pay one low monthly
bill .. . an arrangement
commercial rentals can't touch .
Prices start as low as
$40 p I month and up. If we can
help you out, stop by the
Housing Office or call us at· 6132 .

Come Live At Our Place.

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IN BRIEF
450 SENIORS
TO GRADUATE
I n ca se you hadn 't noticed ...
,,'Sgraduati o n time .
Th e 19 76 version of the Evergreen Gradu.l tion Ceremony is
>c heduled for Su nda y afternoon ,
lu ne 6 on Red Square , officia lly
k no wn as the Daniel J, Evans Li br.1I'Y Plaza.
Appro ximatel y 400 to 450 sen Il' rs will be laking part in the 2
p .m . ce remony . Those sen iors
p.l rticipating will include students
whn g raduated after sum mer
qua rt er 10 75 as well as fa ll ,
", int er and spring quarter grad-

semble.
Coordinating Graduation 1976
is Sally Hunter , Assistant to the
Provost.

uates.

\'V elcL'ming remarks will be
ma de by Max ine M imm s, faculty
me mber , and Ma rk Papworth ,
.115 0 a facultv membe r , will pre,ent t he t ac~ i ty remarks.
Ga il l\ iJ rt in , Direc tor of Career Pla nn ing a nd P lace men t ,
" 'i: 1 make th e gradu ati ol) address.
She w ill be fo ll owed by a musil ~1 interlude b y t he Ka ll yo pe
C lwir.
Fa cu ltv member Richa rd Ale xander w ill make th e prese ntati o n
"\ t ' :e gradu at es and t he cl osi ng
rem.lrk, and ack now ledgement
,, \ the gr adu ate, w ill be made b y
I'rl' side nt Char le s McCa nn,
C,'t lee , (l,()kies and punch wil l
be served on Red Square after
t he ce remon y w ith mu sic pro\'i d ed bv Do n Chan 's Ja zz En -

Da v e SmifiJ , ca ndidafe for He,ny
Jackso n 's U. S. Senafe pos ifio l'l ,af
a press co nferenre 0'1 campus
Tue sday. Smi fh is running as an
American Indepe ndent (the parfy
of William F. Buckly) and has
II Pper nm fo r or h~ld political
o ffic e. Ti, e engill ee r from Seattle
suy s 'I e's geffi n g " rea l good
re s ponse " talking to people
parficlIlari y ill Easfem Washingt O il .

SPORTS TOURNEY
DEADLINES SET

WESTSIDE ~NG CENTER

Hours 9 - 9 Daily
Sunday 7 - 7

ELD
EQUIPMENT

HIGH

QUALITY

FLEXIBLE FIBERGLAS
, FRAME BACKPACKS
UNIQUE,

OVER PACK
RAIN PARK

AT

SUNRISE
205 E. 4th Oly

357-4345

Tennis Anyone?
How often do you have the
desire to play tennis on Evergreen's fine tennis facility? However, when you get out to the
courts all of them are filled up
right?
We now offer a court reservation policy that guarantees you a
tennis court whenever you want
to play. Here's how it works:
1) Call up Equipment Checkout (6535) the day before you
want to play . You can reserve
cour ts between the hours of
noon and 7 p.m.
2) Next, on the day of your
reservation go to Equipment
Check-out , inform them of your
reservation and show them your
Evergreen 1.0. Equipment Checko ut will then give you a
Reservation Slip,
3) Finally, take your reservation slip and I.D. to the courts
a nd place both items in the top
slot of the little green box affixed
to each court. You're -ready to
play!
Two more important items:
Reserved court time is limited to
o n e hour, and. if you ge t
hassled, inform the hassler of
our reservation policy.
Racquetball and Handball
Tourney
The spri ng Quarter Racquet -

Jabbtrwockp ~alltrltS

7

ball and Handball Tourney will
begin Tuesday, June 1. To play
you must pre -regis ter before
Friday the 28th. To sign up,
merely enter room 302 of the
CRC and place your name in the
proper catagory; Men's A , B
and Women's Open . For Handball. Men's Open.
All tourneys will be single
elimination (one loss and you are
out). Remember , to play in the
tourney you must register before
Friday the 28th of May.
Evergreel) Open Tennis Tourney
Register now in room 302
CRC for the tennis tourney. This
is for the members of the
Evergreen community. The tourney is open for men and women
singles players and will begin
Tuesd ay , June 1, rain or shine .
The procedure will be single
elimination, best of three sets
(no-add scor ing, Tiebreaker). To
play you must sign up before the
28th.
Archery Cage
If you noti ced a big, white net
on the Playfield, let us enlighten
you to it 's purpose . It's an
arche ry cage,
Wh .on you ch .;c k o u t an
archery target, please set it up
within the net enclosure. The net
will co ntain a ny mi s-di rect ed
arrows from entering a mea ndering studen t.
Bike the Point
Lucy Woods will lead a lunchtime bicy cle ride down and
aro und Cooper Point at noon
Friday the 28th of May. Show
up at the top of the loop at
noon. Bring your lunch! Fair"
weather ride only,

FROM MEDIA LOAN
A full-time temporary Media
Technician I position will be
open at Media Loan in the library . A person is needed to replace Carla Traylor, who is taking a leave of absence between
mid-August and January 1, 1977.
Apply at the college Personnel
office, Library 3238, Appl ications
will be accepted until June 11th.
Interviews will be scheduled for
June 17 - 22 and an individual
will be selected for the position
by Friday, June 25th.
Students and faculty wh'o have
borrowed eql!ipment on a quarter-long basis for spring quarter
should check the due date on
their blue slips. Most equipment
o n quarter- long loan is due
either June 4th or June 11th.
Students and faculty needing
media equipment on an extended
loan basis during summer quarter
can pick up a green quarter-long
request form now at Media Loan.
S t udent s wishing to borrow
equipment before summer quarter actually beg ins on June 28th,
must provide a note from the
Registrar indi ca ting that they
have registered for summer quarter plus a note from their faculty
s ponsor indicating why the
equipment is needed early .
Eq uipment loans for the normal checkout period will continue through Friday, June 4th.
During the following evaluation
week, June 7 - 11, eq uipment
will be loaned only for evalua~ion purposes.
• Renewals for library materials
begin on May 28th. If you're not
planning on renewing - please
return items now! Final due date
is June 4th.

CO-OP CORNER
News from the Office of Cooperative ~ucation
by Keith Goehner
We all know that last weekwasthe first week of registration for
Fall Quarter, Are you planning on an Internship next year? In
what?
The Arts? Visual and performing arts positions are possibilities
in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, LA., Washington D ,C., or almost
anywhere else. There are many Theaters and Art Organizations
with Administrative and Management positions' available .
Through practical experience you could see just what is involved
in managing'a theatre or running an art gallery. There are internship positions to help produce plays and festivals, manage a brass
qu inte t or other musical group, aid senior citizens and the handicapped as an arts and crafts instructor, become involved in a
dance troupe, or help write grants and develop funding sources
for non-profit organizations.
How about Broadcast Journalism? There are radio stations in
Centralia , Chehalis, Shelton, Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle that
have internship positions for Engineers, Production Assistants,
and Broadcast Journalists. Depending on your interests and experience, you cou ld : conduct field interviews; write and edit
news; produce public affairs and special interest programs; solicit , write, engineer, and record advertisements; edit tapes ; etc. It
all depends o n you!
Internships for 76 - 77, look into it! Administration. Finance.
The Sciences. Education. Counseling, Graphics and Media. Recreatio n. Social Work. Law Enforcement and Corrections. Environmental and Urban Planning, Humanities. And Political Science.
• All persons interested in the

Back to the Land group contract
coordinated by Bob Filmer are to
meet Monday , June 7 at 10: 00
a .m, in CAB Rm. 108.
• TESC gradu.ltes who wish to
have their faces appear in the
Class of '76 group portrait
should arr ive at Red Square
around 1 :00 p.m. on Sunday,
June 6. The portrait will be
taken at that time, prior to the
g raduation ceremony at 2: 00
p. m.. and will be posed on the
grassy hill, To be shot in stages,
the final group picture will be a
composit image made from
several sma ller group photos
printed together,

• On Friday (tomorrow) May 28
at 1 :00 p.m. in [AB 2020 the
Communications and Commun ity program will hold a meeting
to discuss plans for the fall.
• Facu lt y Member Peggy Dickinson and students are staging a
pottery sale Friday , May 28
inside or in front of the CAB
building. Proceeds will go toward scholarship fund to send
Evergreen students to the Pilchuck G lass Center this summer.

Cltamniack
Iltnnis Wbitt llantp etJrtdJt
Junt 1·18
1976
218 it
w. 4tfJ, Olpmpia Wa

Older 3 bedroom
house available
around the first of the
month, preferably ill
the country. $100 to
$200 a month. Call
day: 753-7748, night:
, 357 -9969 ..

• Thurston Neighborhood Fair is
looking for groups seeking greater involvement in community
projects and decision-making .
The fair will be Saturday, June
'. Attention students with inter5, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
ests in music or such crafts areas
at the Thurston County Fairas clay, weaving, wood carving,
grounds. Contact Ronald Clarke
ceramics. Organizers of a church
at 753-4900.
summer
day camp - scheduled
• The Recreation Center anJune
21-30
at L.P. Brown Grade
nounces all locks and towels
School in Olympia - are lookmust be turned in to the
ing for help from you.
attendants by June 6. New locks
.
Call Mary Garbutt at 352-8252,
and baskets will be issued
starting June 28. One dollar will
be fined for any clothing or '
CLASSIFIED ADS
equipment
left over the break.
Wanted : someone to live in
,
nights in exchange for free
• New to the Media Production
room. Nonsmoker. 357-4222.
Center, on the first floor of the
Creative Seamstress: /,11 do
Library, is a photographic exhibit
any sewing job. Now through
titled "The Converse All-Stars
summ er. Carol, 943-7186.
Silverprint Show." The exhibit is
a project of the Photo Critique
Los t. Red notebook with
Group, one of the many
papen.vork pertaining to the
workshops offered this quarter
" Crusty's Coop " te levisio n
through the Leisure Education
program. Please return to
Carl L. Cook in care of
program.
KAOS-FM , or call 866-5267.
• Yes , friends, it's true!
Sta rting July 1 the position of
House for Sale , View of Budd
KAOS Station Manager will be
and Mt. Rainier. 3 bdrm .
open . Applications will be acOlder home on 3 acres.
cepted through June 1. Low pay,
Mature landscaping and fruit
trees . Fireplace in living room
lots of long hours, etc . Stop by
and Franklin daylight baseKAOS and talk to Randy or call
him at 866-5267.
ment. $46,000, call owner,
866 -4107,
• Explorations-collection of slide/
tape performances by Evergreen
MOVING ON? Pass your House
studen ts put togethp.r for a recent
on to some good people . We need
s howing at the Portland Art
a 3-4 bedroom house. Call
Museum.
June 2, Lecture Hall HI 8 :00 943-1372 evenings or weekends or
leave a message- for Corinne at
p.m. No admission charge.
TES(:: Libr. eire. desk.

PAUL'S MOBIL SERVICE
Automotive

Rep..r SpecI.Us's
Lowest Guaranteed
Labor Rate In Town

2401 W. Harrison

A telephone to call your friends
without having to pay a
deposit or a monthly charge .

• Auditions for George M.
Cohan's The Tavern to be
presented in August by the
Evergreen Playhouse will be held
June 9 and 10 at 7 p.m, in room
4004 of the library and June 14
and 15 at 7 p . m. at the
Evergreen Playhouse in Centralia.
For additional information call
Michael McGalliard at 357-8768.

WANTED

~atritt

Cost saving rent easing the
burden on your pocketbook.

A Bag
Of EXtras
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bald =:~

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Zappy 110 volts of Columbia River
electriCity to light up your
rooms and give power to your
mega- stereo.

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A kitchen complete with all
the modern conveniences to cook
up your latest culinary magic.

Nice, cool, fresh water from
the tap to wet your whistle or
water your philodendron.

Close enough to campus
so you don't have to start up
the old VW and burn up
gas,
'
And people who share a common
interest with you in making
campus living fun and worthwhile.
Since we include all the utilities you
only have to pay one low monthly
bill .. . an arrangement
commercial rentals can't touch .
Prices start as low as
$40 p I month and up. If we can
help you out, stop by the
Housing Office or call us at· 6132 .

Come Live At Our Place.

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WomeaOnThe Road

ReDtersBewarel
Are yol,l going to get shafted by your
landlord7 We at the Self"Help Legal Aid
Office have assisted many students with
landperson / tenant problems and have
w('rked especially with students who were
moving out of the dorms , ASH, and off
campus housing. A large percentage of
these problems involve deposits being
withheld because of insufficient notice of
intent to move out, cleaning problems,
and damages to the premises.
The intent of this article is to distribute
information to help prevent these problems from arising. We have compiled
50 me suggestions to keep in mind when
moving out of a house, apartment, or
campus hpusing .
.
II Notice : When you are moving out of
a place that has been rented on a montht<' -month rental basis you are required to
give the landperson a written notice of
your intent to vacate the premises 20 days
prior to the date you move out. Should
Ihe day you intend to move out extend
into the next month's rental period, YOIl
may be liable for the month's entire rent.
If the 20 day notice is not served you are
technically obligated to pay the following
month's rent because the landperson has
no way of knowing your intent to move
<'ul : thereiore would not have the requi~ite length of time to make arrangements
tor 10eating a new tenant.
There are some houses and apartments,
however, such as ASH , that will allow a
~c nant to extend his .l her rental agreement
:,'r less than a full month, charging the
:enant a pro- rated fee on a per day basis.
If y ou make a verbal agreement with the
landperson to stay in the house or apart ment for an extra few days free of charge
be sure that a third party is present to
serve as a witness. This is in case your
landperson decides to retract the agreement and sue you for those days' rent.

The housing contract for the dorms is
based on a lease agreement which automatically ttrminates at the end of the
quarter, June 11. If you can't be ~oved
out of your room by then, m~e special
arrangements with Housing officials or be
charged for each extra day you stay there.
.1) Cleaning : When moving out of a
house, apartment or campus housing it is
important to know to what extent the
landperson expects the place to be cleaned.
If the landperson is expecting the rug to
be cleaned and ~he dra~ dry-cleaned it
is important for the tenant to clean them
or face the possibility of forfeiting a part
of their deposit . to have the landperson
clean them professionally .
A large part of the landperson/tenant
problems that have come through our office in volve the land person retaining the
deposit because of a "poorly cleaned"
apartment. When vacating a house or
apartment, you should go by the premise
of "leaving it as clean as you found it." It
is also advisable to have a friend with
you when cleaning so as to have someone
else witness the effort put into the cleaning. ASH and the college housing have a
cleaning check-list, available upon request
that can be used as a guide in cleaning.
Follow it carefully. If at tlie time you
moved into the apartment or house, you
made a list of the damages that were there
when you got there, you could use the list
as a guide as to what damage you did to
the place while you occupied it.
3) Checkout: When the time comes to
check out of the house, apartment, or
room, make sure you or one of your
roommates are present when the land person checks it out. When checking out
make sure that if there are any disagreeml'{lts in the cleaning that the landperson
maRes a list of additional cleaning needed
and gives you a copy. Find out if the

cleaning could be done by yourself or a
roommate or what the exact charges will
be if it is not done. Get a definite' answer
from 'the landpetson if s/he indicates the
carpet might need cleaning, and see if you
can clean it yourself by purchasing a commercial carpet cleaning product from the
store or by renting a rug shampooer .
'. The
landperson
is
required
to either retul1\ your deposit in 14' days or
send you an iteinized list of the cleaning
that 'needed to be done and the remainder .
of your deposit that was not used to pay
for cleaning charges, also within H days.
When you check out and you feel there is
going to ~ a conflict on the cleaning that
needs to be done, it is advisable to go in
and take pictures .of the place, this being
useful evidence if you have to sue your
land person in .Small Claims Court t.o get
your deposit back.
If you are living in the dorms, it is a
good idea to have at least one person be
present when housing assistants come by
to check out the community kitchens. 'T he
Housing office has community kitchen
check-lists available for the persons responsible for the kitchens. If you are a
keyholder to one of the community kitchens in the dorms, you and all the other
keyholders on the floor are responsible
for thoroughly cleaning the kitchen before
the last day of the quarter. Be sure a keyholder is present when the housing assistant comes to check out your kitchen . In
case of any discrepancies, the keyholders
should obtain an itemized list from the
checkout person of all the things that
Housing will have to clean. If there is
over an hour and a half worth of work
·that Housing's crews will have to ~o, each
keyholder on the Hoor will be charged an
additional fee .
A common problem to dorm residents
is the bill they receive from Housing for

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Coordinated Study and Individual Contract Enrollment - These enrollment statistics from the Registrar demonstrate that
Otis year enrollment has dropped 25%
within coordinated studies (basic. advanced, and divisional) from fall to spring.
This is compared in the chArt to individual
contracts which increased 20% since fAll
quarter. Note there were 16 coordinated
study programs fAll And 17 coordinated
study programs winter and spring. Asterisks (.) show programs highlighted in
article.
by Catherine Riddell
and Jim Wright
The interdisciplinary Coordinated Studies program is a unique aspect of Evergreen's educational curriculum. For the
current academic year, Coordinated Studies programs exhibited a wide range of
subject disciplines and varying degrees of
success. Student enrollment is not the
only factor indicating success or failure of
a program, however.
For the purposes of this article, six ccNdinated studies programs were selected

for analysis and comment by students and
faculty involved in those programs.
ENVIRONMENTS , PERCEPTION
and DESIGN
Environments, Perception and Design '
(EPD) was immediately noticeable because student enrollment dropped from
106 falI quarter to 60 during spring registration . Most students contact~ expressed
mixed emotions concerning the program.
(Marian Osborne and Mike Witz are Currently teaching Environmental Education
to grade schoolers at Griffin School.)
MARIAN : I really like it. Probably the
one reason why I like it is that it was
such a vague program that it allowed me
to go whichever direction I wanted to and
still be within the limits of the program .
The name itself is too broad. What doesn't
fit under Environments, Perception and
Design 1 This year was much more worthwhile and much more frustrating for me
because I was forced to work and think
anq be satisfied with what I was doing.
MIKE ~ I enjoy it. It was the only program that allowed me to work in Environmental Ed. EPD lost a lot of people. but
its loss was their gain. People were able
to draw more specific directions from it.
That was good because it forced people to
think about what they did want to do.
CAROLYN BYFIELD: I'm not sorry I
was in EPD because if I wasn't in it, I
wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now
in the Sociobiology contract. It made me
realiu what I didn't want to be doing.
BARBARA MARINO : (left · the pro-

charges due to damage cr clean-up to the
,community kitchen. If you know there is
damage done to your community kitchen
and you don't feel responsible for it and
don't want to be charged You must talk to
Housing officials before or during the
time you check. out of your room·_
If you are checking out cf your room
before the end of the quarter you should
c1eanyour sha.reof · the community
kitchen and write a statement to Housing
indicating that you have cleaned your
share of the kitchen, and you will not be
held reSponsible for charges subsequent' to
the time you mOve out. This statement
must be signed by all the community
kitchen keyholders on your floor . If anyone refuses to sign go to Housing and ask
for their assistance in mediating the situation. Give this ·s ta(ement to Housing at
the time you check out of your room. In
a case where you are one of the last persons on your floor to check out and are
left with a dirty kitchen you can clean
your share of the kitchen then contact
Housing to release you from any charges
that may be billed to the other keyholders.
The time may come when your landperson has not returned your deposit and
you know you are entitled to it. Don't despair. You are then able to take your landperson to Small Claims Court and sue to
get your money back. There is no guarantee that the landperson will pay up, but it
is a fairly successful method at getting
your money returned. Specific written
procedures for Small Claims Court and a
summary of the Landlord/Tenant law can
be obtained from the Self Help Legal Aid
office in Lib. 3223, or from Larry Stenberg's secretary in Lib. 1217.
. Good li.1ck and happy packing I
The SHLAP Staph:
Betsy, Terry, Monica,
Nick, and Hap.

gram following winter 'q uarter) It was not
catering enough to women and racial. and
sexual minorities. That was a real important reason why 1 left.
INVENTION and DISCOVERY
Interestingly, enrollment in Invention
and Discovery grew from 22 fall quarter
to 30 winter quarter before dropping back
down to 20 after spring registration. Students in the program are presently engaged in final inventions ranging from a
process for recycling paper to a toy lifesize Jeep for pre-schoolers at the Daycare
Center.
DOUG LUCKERMAN: One of the best
things I've got out of this program is that
I've been inspired to learn more about
what I'm doing and to dc it well. It awakened me a bit to things happening around
me.
DAVE RAUH : I feel really good about
the program . I wish I could have done
more. I'm very impressed with the faculty.
¥ARK GOlTLIEB: I learned a lot and
I had a lot of time to do things I wanted
to do. I just finished a computer-animated
film on four-dimensional cubes.
DAN DEVINE: Things should take
care of themselves. I create more gadgets
so I have more time to create_ My invention is a solar-powered, rechargeable
flashlight. It hal .a cryltal radio built in to
either receive or transmit sipals.

PERSON IN PERFORMANCE
Person In Performance (PIP) wu a coordinated studies prosram which 'collapsed
midway through fall quart'er. It wu even-

tually reorganized into Artistic Realization
of the Self (A.R.T .S. ).
BUD JOHANSEN: (Program sponsor) I
don 't know why the prOgram didn't work.
I don't think that will be known for many
years.
.
CURT MILTON : The faculty couldn't
agree on how to teach it. We did some
. really neat things - people were really
close. But that was overshadowed by the
. program's collapsing. It was just a strange
program ..,- a strange experience all~
around .
GREG STEINKE : (Faculty member)
The program fell apart because of the incompatibility of the faculty - personality
conflicts and different conceptions of
what the progr~m was supposed to be.
We reached a point where. we said the
thing isn't working and it was far more
honest .to . admit . that it .wasn't working
and that we couldn't go on. We reorganized and learned a tremendous amount
about student input. I have no bitter feelings. It taught me a great deal.
DESLIE FRIESENDAHL: It didn't seem
real because it didn't seem that that could
happen. It was not O .K. to take away
something we were right in the middle of.
I learned a whole lot about being patient,
being able to compromise - about this
school and red tape. I think ' it was valuable.
JERRY MEEK : The faculty were incompatible. They took it upon themselves to
dissolve the program out from under the
. students with no regard to students who
were paying tuition for that not to
happen. None of the faculty were concerned enough about the students. Students weren't involved in any of the planning. Evergreen is supposed to be studentgear~d. h'THICS and POLITICS
Ethics and Politics consisted of an academic study of ethics, logic, and politics
fall quarter, interning at the legislature
winter quartet, and writing and presenting
projects spring quarter.
JIM MARTINEZ: (faculty) People are
always goinS to the faculty for faculty
opinion and then to a few students for
baIance. Whv don't you ask the midentsl
MARTINA GUltFoIL: (fint year itudent, interned in the Office of Community
Development) I learned the historic: ethical
sy~s, my oWn ethical stance, logic and
public speaking, and to observe. analyze
and interpret. We had legilla~on at our
potlucb . . . Some programs just 80 to
ChlSS, we're friends.
continutd P.~ 12

by Barbara Ramsey
Every woman has a right to hitchhike . .
Hitchhiking
a cheap, environmentally
sound, and extremely ~teresting form of
travel. As long as she cbeys local
ordinances. a woman has as much right
to hitchhike as a man or a bird ora baby

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possum.
On the other hand, no one has a right
to molest a womarihitchhiker. The
woman who hitchhikes is not doing
anything. wrons; it is the person who
interferes with her right who is in the
wrong, Though hitchhiking is potentially
dangerous, so is walking d9wn the street.
These activities are dangerous because our
soCiety is dangerous. And society doesn't
become less dangerous when wom~ give
up their right to do dangerous things. It
becomes less dangerous when women
(and men who support them) exert their
rights and make it clear that they will not
, tolerate the behavior of those who try to
abroga.te tho~ rights.
In the meantime, women hitchhikers
must remain prepared for the worst.
There are decidedly more dangers
involved in hitchhiking than in most other
forms of transportation, and a woman
should be constantly aware of those
dangers.
No woman should hitchhike if she
doesn't want to, or if she finds it too
frightening. Hitchhiking is simply one
option among many, and women should
choose this option only if they so desire.
As a woman who has been hitchhiking
regularly for the past seven years, I have
developed a number of techniques that I
believe are useful and health-preserving. I
hope that in writing them down ' .and
sharing them with other women who aJ$O
choose to hitchhike, my suggestions may
be of service.
The single Inost important lesson in
hitchhiking is learning to refuse rides. To
someone who's been waiting at the side of .
the road for a while, in the hot sun or the
cold rain or whatever, an offer of a rideany ride - is sometimes dangerously
tempting.
When I first began to hitchhike, I was
grateful to practically .anyone who
stopped. Unless the person who offered
the ride was covered by green slime mold,
my immediate reaction was, "Oh, thank
you kind motorist I" Obviously, this is a
foolish attHude. By conscious effort,
combined with the force of a few bad
experiences and all the horror stories one
hears about women hitchhikers, I have
hardened my attitude. I now say no to
about 60% of all the people who stop for
me. At first it was a little hard for me to
do this. It seemed rude to refuse what

were possibly kind and honorable offers.
Who was I to pass judgement on these
strangers? Weren't they doing me a favor
by stopping?
While those types of concemsmay be
perfectly valid in a society where people
mutually respect each other's rights, they
have no place in hitchhiking. Such .
"politeness" and passivity are dangerous
and impair one's ability to hitchhike
safely. Just as a woman has a right to
hitchhike, she also has the right-or
better yet, the absolute necessity - to
tum down anyone who offers her aride.
But just how does one implement this
right1 On
what grounds ' does a
hitchhiker say n01 . In an attempt to
determine the intentions ' of people who
stop for me, I've developed the following
process.
1.)1 go over 10 the car, oPen the door,
and look inside to check for a
handl~ on the passenger's side of the
door. This quick glance takes just a
split second, and should be an automatic response. No door handle, no
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2.) I then look into the car to see the
driver and passengers, if any. If
there is more than one man in the
car, I won't · take the ride, unless
there's. a woman in the car as ·weil.
3.) I look the driver straight in the eye,

smile, and say, "HL Where. are you
going1" This is extremely important.
Never simply hop into a car. First
communication; always look at and
·talk to the driver before you· get in.
,If he seems uncertain about where
he's going. tum him down. People
who are "just out for a ride" are liable to take you for one. If for any
reason 'person(s) in the car gives yoti
it bad feeling, tum him down. It
doesn't have to be a rational feeling
or idea; feel free to trust your guts.
Anyway, even if you're wrong in
assuming that someone may mean
you harm, who wants to ride in a
confined space with a guy who
makes you uneasy1
This question, "Where are you soingl,"
has another reason behind it, a reason I'm
going to depend on more and more~ If the
driver is not going' very far (relative to
where I'm headed), I refuse the ride - no
matter how nice the person seems. It is
far safer to wait for one long ride than to
take three or four short rides . . Also, it's
usually quicker in the long run, although
in the short run it' can . try one's patience
(turning down the sixth person in a row
who's just going "oh, three or four miles
down the road " when you ' re going
someplace two states away can be a little
painfu\) ~ I ' cannot emphasize this . point

strongly enough : it is far better to wait
for a good ride than to put up with r "something less . Such a policy takes
determination and hardy patience, but the
result is worth every minute of extra wait.
4 .) I look inside the car for unu!lual or
dangerous contents. Beer cans Iiuering the floor, gun racks with rifles
or other weapons, anything that
might make me uptight about the
sobriety of the driver or fearful for
my safety gives me ' reason enough
to tum down the ride.
One small problem remains. How
exactly does one refuse a ride1 Given that
one may well be' turning down a
legitimate and kindly offer, what is the
most tactful way of saying n011 think the
best way of avoiding rudeness is to have
a small repertoire of non-offensive, stock
answers. Most often after I've heard a
person's reply to .my question about
where he's going, I simply say, "Well,
thanks a lot, but I'm not going there. I
thing I'll wait for a longer ride. Thanks
again." Then I smile shut the door, and
walk on. This general reply, or some
variation on it, covers most ' situations
nicely.
However, when softer tactics fail, it's
best to be outright rude. If some guy
persists in wanting to give me a ride after
I've refused, I have to assume that he is at
least a creep or quite possibly a maniac,
so "I don't want a ride, mister'" or "Go
away or I'll scream my guts out'"
becomes the best way to put it. The thing
to remember is to be firm . Any outward
sign of intimidation or uncertaintY on the
part of the hitchhiker is ' bound to be
taken as a manifestation of weakness
.
Once again, I'd like to stress what i feel
is the most important skill a hitchhiker
should have: the ability to refuse rides.
It's an ability with many components. discriminating judgement, quick decision
making, confidence, firmness - all of
'which must be cultivated. For the woman
who has difficulty asserting herself, it
may take some doing. I advise her to
hitchhike only short distances, close to
home, on well-travelled roads. When her
confidence has outgrown to the point
where hitching doesn't seem so intimidating, she will find it easier to tell which
rides to refuse and how to refuse them.
Ultimately, the final word is patience.
I assure you, it's a hard skill to develop .
There have been times when I was 50
desperate I felt like I would have accepted
a ride from a car full of gorillas. At a
time like that, a hitchhiker feels willing to
trade all the good judgement in the wor' ,
for a warm, dry car . It is also the time
when good judgement is worth far more
than all warm, dry cars in the world .

TheS&tA • • .What's That?
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by Jill Stewart
A total of 100 hours has now been
spent by the Services and ' Activities Fees
Review (5 8& A) BOard members in the
current allocation process for the '76-77 .
budgets.
Although each of the past four weeks·
has held a special problem . for the . ' .
board, the big picture is even worse. The
group must cut the original group requests
of $600,000 to $300,000 - a 50% cut.
The magnitude of this responsibiltiy
and the plain nitty-gritty of deciding
"whether or not a certain group really
needs that pencil sharpener" has often
come close to exhausting the hard-working
board.
Though most memben agree that the
board is "pretty close," an occasional
shouting match, "Are you calling me a
liar1" or sharp sarcasm, "Never mind. I'm
just an idiot anyway," show the
frust~ation involved with their job.
the board is made up of six full time
students and two full time Evergreen staff.
all of whom volunteer the time spent 01'1
the board.
.
.
Student Cheryl Pegues, by far the most
outspoken board member is finishing up a
year as Gig Co~on Coordinator and ·
S & A member.
Cheryl renses from a fiery ball of
nerves to a KoOd natured. even-tempered
obterver in unatter of minutes, sometimet
influencing the board with her vocal
stands, sometimes not.
Michael Corripn plays the teIldent
conservative . of the .S • A Board.
CONtantly inIdItilll that tlMr ·board ~'be
consistent." Aithouah It teemS someone Is

He~,
Pet~

and

Corrigan; Cheryl Pegues, .
Steilberg. Not pictured: Katy Steele.

always disagreeing with his abundant
opinions, he still manages to get his
points ·across.
He feels that his conservatism comes
from a conviction that "the masses are
unqualified to. lead themselves." Corrigan
explairied that ·he is Striving to be "an
enlightened leader."
Lee Chambers is an Evergreen staff
.member employed by l<AOS radio. He
comes. across as a very realistic and
serious member. ohen brij\ging up
problems that the board has edged put,
notwantins to deal with. He joined the
board . in the fall . and hu been at
Everpeen .lince. 1m. "Becaule of the
Jensth of time I haw been heft I think I
undentand the colle&! perep«tiYe perbapI

better than the students on the board," he
said.
All year member Katy Steele, student
coordinator of tI\e night bus . run, is the
work-study member of th.e group. In
response ~o complaints from some budget
groups about having . to hire work-study
students, she replies• . "Oh yes, I'm workstudy - we're all Idiots you knowl"
She, offers a good sense of humor to the
board. Often on the sic;le of the underdog,
she avoids voUng on specific budgets until·
the last minute. '1 hate this part," Ihe
laYS.
.Mary Arin Hes.e is employed u a
ptoaram secretary In the Ubruy. She has
been With the board Iinoe Jut fall. Not a
. Itroq thoutel', the tends to uswne ~

role of a guider .for the group, calling
them back to the subject at hand. "If you
let people's attention start to wander, you
know what happens. So I try to keep
people moving, it's an instant death if
they get off the subject."
Hesse admit!; the sessions are tiring,
"When I come back to my office after
those meetings I can't do anything. I'm
mush."
. Madeline Mullen is a quiet calm in this
often loud group. Occasionally speaking
out to help the group through a problem
or standstill, she prefers to "flow with the
tide," unless she disagrees with something.
How does she feel about the board1 "I
find it very funny . Toward the end of the
day lstart laughing at everybody."
Brian Milbrat·h often serves as the
mover behind decisions and votes,
working with a "Let's get it done"
attitude. "I try to play the devil's
advocate," . he says. "I oftentimes am
opposed to something, but bring it up
anyway."
Connie Palaia acts as the Executive
Secretary (affectionately known as the
"student body pns"), the only paid
position on the board. She guides the
board with a light hand, rarely raising
, her voice and usually only interrupting to
clarify a point or clear up confusion.
Two non-members of the board who
have worked the same hours and are as
much a part of the. group are Activities
Director Lynn Giuner, eJlpert With a
calculator, and Director of Recreation and
Activities Pete Steilbel'l who has done a
lot of work at the blade boaid this past
month.

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9

WomeaOnThe Road

ReDtersBewarel
Are yol,l going to get shafted by your
landlord7 We at the Self"Help Legal Aid
Office have assisted many students with
landperson / tenant problems and have
w('rked especially with students who were
moving out of the dorms , ASH, and off
campus housing. A large percentage of
these problems involve deposits being
withheld because of insufficient notice of
intent to move out, cleaning problems,
and damages to the premises.
The intent of this article is to distribute
information to help prevent these problems from arising. We have compiled
50 me suggestions to keep in mind when
moving out of a house, apartment, or
campus hpusing .
.
II Notice : When you are moving out of
a place that has been rented on a montht<' -month rental basis you are required to
give the landperson a written notice of
your intent to vacate the premises 20 days
prior to the date you move out. Should
Ihe day you intend to move out extend
into the next month's rental period, YOIl
may be liable for the month's entire rent.
If the 20 day notice is not served you are
technically obligated to pay the following
month's rent because the landperson has
no way of knowing your intent to move
<'ul : thereiore would not have the requi~ite length of time to make arrangements
tor 10eating a new tenant.
There are some houses and apartments,
however, such as ASH , that will allow a
~c nant to extend his .l her rental agreement
:,'r less than a full month, charging the
:enant a pro- rated fee on a per day basis.
If y ou make a verbal agreement with the
landperson to stay in the house or apart ment for an extra few days free of charge
be sure that a third party is present to
serve as a witness. This is in case your
landperson decides to retract the agreement and sue you for those days' rent.

The housing contract for the dorms is
based on a lease agreement which automatically ttrminates at the end of the
quarter, June 11. If you can't be ~oved
out of your room by then, m~e special
arrangements with Housing officials or be
charged for each extra day you stay there.
.1) Cleaning : When moving out of a
house, apartment or campus housing it is
important to know to what extent the
landperson expects the place to be cleaned.
If the landperson is expecting the rug to
be cleaned and ~he dra~ dry-cleaned it
is important for the tenant to clean them
or face the possibility of forfeiting a part
of their deposit . to have the landperson
clean them professionally .
A large part of the landperson/tenant
problems that have come through our office in volve the land person retaining the
deposit because of a "poorly cleaned"
apartment. When vacating a house or
apartment, you should go by the premise
of "leaving it as clean as you found it." It
is also advisable to have a friend with
you when cleaning so as to have someone
else witness the effort put into the cleaning. ASH and the college housing have a
cleaning check-list, available upon request
that can be used as a guide in cleaning.
Follow it carefully. If at tlie time you
moved into the apartment or house, you
made a list of the damages that were there
when you got there, you could use the list
as a guide as to what damage you did to
the place while you occupied it.
3) Checkout: When the time comes to
check out of the house, apartment, or
room, make sure you or one of your
roommates are present when the land person checks it out. When checking out
make sure that if there are any disagreeml'{lts in the cleaning that the landperson
maRes a list of additional cleaning needed
and gives you a copy. Find out if the

cleaning could be done by yourself or a
roommate or what the exact charges will
be if it is not done. Get a definite' answer
from 'the landpetson if s/he indicates the
carpet might need cleaning, and see if you
can clean it yourself by purchasing a commercial carpet cleaning product from the
store or by renting a rug shampooer .
'. The
landperson
is
required
to either retul1\ your deposit in 14' days or
send you an iteinized list of the cleaning
that 'needed to be done and the remainder .
of your deposit that was not used to pay
for cleaning charges, also within H days.
When you check out and you feel there is
going to ~ a conflict on the cleaning that
needs to be done, it is advisable to go in
and take pictures .of the place, this being
useful evidence if you have to sue your
land person in .Small Claims Court t.o get
your deposit back.
If you are living in the dorms, it is a
good idea to have at least one person be
present when housing assistants come by
to check out the community kitchens. 'T he
Housing office has community kitchen
check-lists available for the persons responsible for the kitchens. If you are a
keyholder to one of the community kitchens in the dorms, you and all the other
keyholders on the floor are responsible
for thoroughly cleaning the kitchen before
the last day of the quarter. Be sure a keyholder is present when the housing assistant comes to check out your kitchen . In
case of any discrepancies, the keyholders
should obtain an itemized list from the
checkout person of all the things that
Housing will have to clean. If there is
over an hour and a half worth of work
·that Housing's crews will have to ~o, each
keyholder on the Hoor will be charged an
additional fee .
A common problem to dorm residents
is the bill they receive from Housing for

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Coordinated Study and Individual Contract Enrollment - These enrollment statistics from the Registrar demonstrate that
Otis year enrollment has dropped 25%
within coordinated studies (basic. advanced, and divisional) from fall to spring.
This is compared in the chArt to individual
contracts which increased 20% since fAll
quarter. Note there were 16 coordinated
study programs fAll And 17 coordinated
study programs winter and spring. Asterisks (.) show programs highlighted in
article.
by Catherine Riddell
and Jim Wright
The interdisciplinary Coordinated Studies program is a unique aspect of Evergreen's educational curriculum. For the
current academic year, Coordinated Studies programs exhibited a wide range of
subject disciplines and varying degrees of
success. Student enrollment is not the
only factor indicating success or failure of
a program, however.
For the purposes of this article, six ccNdinated studies programs were selected

for analysis and comment by students and
faculty involved in those programs.
ENVIRONMENTS , PERCEPTION
and DESIGN
Environments, Perception and Design '
(EPD) was immediately noticeable because student enrollment dropped from
106 falI quarter to 60 during spring registration . Most students contact~ expressed
mixed emotions concerning the program.
(Marian Osborne and Mike Witz are Currently teaching Environmental Education
to grade schoolers at Griffin School.)
MARIAN : I really like it. Probably the
one reason why I like it is that it was
such a vague program that it allowed me
to go whichever direction I wanted to and
still be within the limits of the program .
The name itself is too broad. What doesn't
fit under Environments, Perception and
Design 1 This year was much more worthwhile and much more frustrating for me
because I was forced to work and think
anq be satisfied with what I was doing.
MIKE ~ I enjoy it. It was the only program that allowed me to work in Environmental Ed. EPD lost a lot of people. but
its loss was their gain. People were able
to draw more specific directions from it.
That was good because it forced people to
think about what they did want to do.
CAROLYN BYFIELD: I'm not sorry I
was in EPD because if I wasn't in it, I
wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now
in the Sociobiology contract. It made me
realiu what I didn't want to be doing.
BARBARA MARINO : (left · the pro-

charges due to damage cr clean-up to the
,community kitchen. If you know there is
damage done to your community kitchen
and you don't feel responsible for it and
don't want to be charged You must talk to
Housing officials before or during the
time you check. out of your room·_
If you are checking out cf your room
before the end of the quarter you should
c1eanyour sha.reof · the community
kitchen and write a statement to Housing
indicating that you have cleaned your
share of the kitchen, and you will not be
held reSponsible for charges subsequent' to
the time you mOve out. This statement
must be signed by all the community
kitchen keyholders on your floor . If anyone refuses to sign go to Housing and ask
for their assistance in mediating the situation. Give this ·s ta(ement to Housing at
the time you check out of your room. In
a case where you are one of the last persons on your floor to check out and are
left with a dirty kitchen you can clean
your share of the kitchen then contact
Housing to release you from any charges
that may be billed to the other keyholders.
The time may come when your landperson has not returned your deposit and
you know you are entitled to it. Don't despair. You are then able to take your landperson to Small Claims Court and sue to
get your money back. There is no guarantee that the landperson will pay up, but it
is a fairly successful method at getting
your money returned. Specific written
procedures for Small Claims Court and a
summary of the Landlord/Tenant law can
be obtained from the Self Help Legal Aid
office in Lib. 3223, or from Larry Stenberg's secretary in Lib. 1217.
. Good li.1ck and happy packing I
The SHLAP Staph:
Betsy, Terry, Monica,
Nick, and Hap.

gram following winter 'q uarter) It was not
catering enough to women and racial. and
sexual minorities. That was a real important reason why 1 left.
INVENTION and DISCOVERY
Interestingly, enrollment in Invention
and Discovery grew from 22 fall quarter
to 30 winter quarter before dropping back
down to 20 after spring registration. Students in the program are presently engaged in final inventions ranging from a
process for recycling paper to a toy lifesize Jeep for pre-schoolers at the Daycare
Center.
DOUG LUCKERMAN: One of the best
things I've got out of this program is that
I've been inspired to learn more about
what I'm doing and to dc it well. It awakened me a bit to things happening around
me.
DAVE RAUH : I feel really good about
the program . I wish I could have done
more. I'm very impressed with the faculty.
¥ARK GOlTLIEB: I learned a lot and
I had a lot of time to do things I wanted
to do. I just finished a computer-animated
film on four-dimensional cubes.
DAN DEVINE: Things should take
care of themselves. I create more gadgets
so I have more time to create_ My invention is a solar-powered, rechargeable
flashlight. It hal .a cryltal radio built in to
either receive or transmit sipals.

PERSON IN PERFORMANCE
Person In Performance (PIP) wu a coordinated studies prosram which 'collapsed
midway through fall quart'er. It wu even-

tually reorganized into Artistic Realization
of the Self (A.R.T .S. ).
BUD JOHANSEN: (Program sponsor) I
don 't know why the prOgram didn't work.
I don't think that will be known for many
years.
.
CURT MILTON : The faculty couldn't
agree on how to teach it. We did some
. really neat things - people were really
close. But that was overshadowed by the
. program's collapsing. It was just a strange
program ..,- a strange experience all~
around .
GREG STEINKE : (Faculty member)
The program fell apart because of the incompatibility of the faculty - personality
conflicts and different conceptions of
what the progr~m was supposed to be.
We reached a point where. we said the
thing isn't working and it was far more
honest .to . admit . that it .wasn't working
and that we couldn't go on. We reorganized and learned a tremendous amount
about student input. I have no bitter feelings. It taught me a great deal.
DESLIE FRIESENDAHL: It didn't seem
real because it didn't seem that that could
happen. It was not O .K. to take away
something we were right in the middle of.
I learned a whole lot about being patient,
being able to compromise - about this
school and red tape. I think ' it was valuable.
JERRY MEEK : The faculty were incompatible. They took it upon themselves to
dissolve the program out from under the
. students with no regard to students who
were paying tuition for that not to
happen. None of the faculty were concerned enough about the students. Students weren't involved in any of the planning. Evergreen is supposed to be studentgear~d. h'THICS and POLITICS
Ethics and Politics consisted of an academic study of ethics, logic, and politics
fall quarter, interning at the legislature
winter quartet, and writing and presenting
projects spring quarter.
JIM MARTINEZ: (faculty) People are
always goinS to the faculty for faculty
opinion and then to a few students for
baIance. Whv don't you ask the midentsl
MARTINA GUltFoIL: (fint year itudent, interned in the Office of Community
Development) I learned the historic: ethical
sy~s, my oWn ethical stance, logic and
public speaking, and to observe. analyze
and interpret. We had legilla~on at our
potlucb . . . Some programs just 80 to
ChlSS, we're friends.
continutd P.~ 12

by Barbara Ramsey
Every woman has a right to hitchhike . .
Hitchhiking
a cheap, environmentally
sound, and extremely ~teresting form of
travel. As long as she cbeys local
ordinances. a woman has as much right
to hitchhike as a man or a bird ora baby

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possum.
On the other hand, no one has a right
to molest a womarihitchhiker. The
woman who hitchhikes is not doing
anything. wrons; it is the person who
interferes with her right who is in the
wrong, Though hitchhiking is potentially
dangerous, so is walking d9wn the street.
These activities are dangerous because our
soCiety is dangerous. And society doesn't
become less dangerous when wom~ give
up their right to do dangerous things. It
becomes less dangerous when women
(and men who support them) exert their
rights and make it clear that they will not
, tolerate the behavior of those who try to
abroga.te tho~ rights.
In the meantime, women hitchhikers
must remain prepared for the worst.
There are decidedly more dangers
involved in hitchhiking than in most other
forms of transportation, and a woman
should be constantly aware of those
dangers.
No woman should hitchhike if she
doesn't want to, or if she finds it too
frightening. Hitchhiking is simply one
option among many, and women should
choose this option only if they so desire.
As a woman who has been hitchhiking
regularly for the past seven years, I have
developed a number of techniques that I
believe are useful and health-preserving. I
hope that in writing them down ' .and
sharing them with other women who aJ$O
choose to hitchhike, my suggestions may
be of service.
The single Inost important lesson in
hitchhiking is learning to refuse rides. To
someone who's been waiting at the side of .
the road for a while, in the hot sun or the
cold rain or whatever, an offer of a rideany ride - is sometimes dangerously
tempting.
When I first began to hitchhike, I was
grateful to practically .anyone who
stopped. Unless the person who offered
the ride was covered by green slime mold,
my immediate reaction was, "Oh, thank
you kind motorist I" Obviously, this is a
foolish attHude. By conscious effort,
combined with the force of a few bad
experiences and all the horror stories one
hears about women hitchhikers, I have
hardened my attitude. I now say no to
about 60% of all the people who stop for
me. At first it was a little hard for me to
do this. It seemed rude to refuse what

were possibly kind and honorable offers.
Who was I to pass judgement on these
strangers? Weren't they doing me a favor
by stopping?
While those types of concemsmay be
perfectly valid in a society where people
mutually respect each other's rights, they
have no place in hitchhiking. Such .
"politeness" and passivity are dangerous
and impair one's ability to hitchhike
safely. Just as a woman has a right to
hitchhike, she also has the right-or
better yet, the absolute necessity - to
tum down anyone who offers her aride.
But just how does one implement this
right1 On
what grounds ' does a
hitchhiker say n01 . In an attempt to
determine the intentions ' of people who
stop for me, I've developed the following
process.
1.)1 go over 10 the car, oPen the door,
and look inside to check for a
handl~ on the passenger's side of the
door. This quick glance takes just a
split second, and should be an automatic response. No door handle, no
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2.) I then look into the car to see the
driver and passengers, if any. If
there is more than one man in the
car, I won't · take the ride, unless
there's. a woman in the car as ·weil.
3.) I look the driver straight in the eye,

smile, and say, "HL Where. are you
going1" This is extremely important.
Never simply hop into a car. First
communication; always look at and
·talk to the driver before you· get in.
,If he seems uncertain about where
he's going. tum him down. People
who are "just out for a ride" are liable to take you for one. If for any
reason 'person(s) in the car gives yoti
it bad feeling, tum him down. It
doesn't have to be a rational feeling
or idea; feel free to trust your guts.
Anyway, even if you're wrong in
assuming that someone may mean
you harm, who wants to ride in a
confined space with a guy who
makes you uneasy1
This question, "Where are you soingl,"
has another reason behind it, a reason I'm
going to depend on more and more~ If the
driver is not going' very far (relative to
where I'm headed), I refuse the ride - no
matter how nice the person seems. It is
far safer to wait for one long ride than to
take three or four short rides . . Also, it's
usually quicker in the long run, although
in the short run it' can . try one's patience
(turning down the sixth person in a row
who's just going "oh, three or four miles
down the road " when you ' re going
someplace two states away can be a little
painfu\) ~ I ' cannot emphasize this . point

strongly enough : it is far better to wait
for a good ride than to put up with r "something less . Such a policy takes
determination and hardy patience, but the
result is worth every minute of extra wait.
4 .) I look inside the car for unu!lual or
dangerous contents. Beer cans Iiuering the floor, gun racks with rifles
or other weapons, anything that
might make me uptight about the
sobriety of the driver or fearful for
my safety gives me ' reason enough
to tum down the ride.
One small problem remains. How
exactly does one refuse a ride1 Given that
one may well be' turning down a
legitimate and kindly offer, what is the
most tactful way of saying n011 think the
best way of avoiding rudeness is to have
a small repertoire of non-offensive, stock
answers. Most often after I've heard a
person's reply to .my question about
where he's going, I simply say, "Well,
thanks a lot, but I'm not going there. I
thing I'll wait for a longer ride. Thanks
again." Then I smile shut the door, and
walk on. This general reply, or some
variation on it, covers most ' situations
nicely.
However, when softer tactics fail, it's
best to be outright rude. If some guy
persists in wanting to give me a ride after
I've refused, I have to assume that he is at
least a creep or quite possibly a maniac,
so "I don't want a ride, mister'" or "Go
away or I'll scream my guts out'"
becomes the best way to put it. The thing
to remember is to be firm . Any outward
sign of intimidation or uncertaintY on the
part of the hitchhiker is ' bound to be
taken as a manifestation of weakness
.
Once again, I'd like to stress what i feel
is the most important skill a hitchhiker
should have: the ability to refuse rides.
It's an ability with many components. discriminating judgement, quick decision
making, confidence, firmness - all of
'which must be cultivated. For the woman
who has difficulty asserting herself, it
may take some doing. I advise her to
hitchhike only short distances, close to
home, on well-travelled roads. When her
confidence has outgrown to the point
where hitching doesn't seem so intimidating, she will find it easier to tell which
rides to refuse and how to refuse them.
Ultimately, the final word is patience.
I assure you, it's a hard skill to develop .
There have been times when I was 50
desperate I felt like I would have accepted
a ride from a car full of gorillas. At a
time like that, a hitchhiker feels willing to
trade all the good judgement in the wor' ,
for a warm, dry car . It is also the time
when good judgement is worth far more
than all warm, dry cars in the world .

TheS&tA • • .What's That?
~,...,.,..~~

by Jill Stewart
A total of 100 hours has now been
spent by the Services and ' Activities Fees
Review (5 8& A) BOard members in the
current allocation process for the '76-77 .
budgets.
Although each of the past four weeks·
has held a special problem . for the . ' .
board, the big picture is even worse. The
group must cut the original group requests
of $600,000 to $300,000 - a 50% cut.
The magnitude of this responsibiltiy
and the plain nitty-gritty of deciding
"whether or not a certain group really
needs that pencil sharpener" has often
come close to exhausting the hard-working
board.
Though most memben agree that the
board is "pretty close," an occasional
shouting match, "Are you calling me a
liar1" or sharp sarcasm, "Never mind. I'm
just an idiot anyway," show the
frust~ation involved with their job.
the board is made up of six full time
students and two full time Evergreen staff.
all of whom volunteer the time spent 01'1
the board.
.
.
Student Cheryl Pegues, by far the most
outspoken board member is finishing up a
year as Gig Co~on Coordinator and ·
S & A member.
Cheryl renses from a fiery ball of
nerves to a KoOd natured. even-tempered
obterver in unatter of minutes, sometimet
influencing the board with her vocal
stands, sometimes not.
Michael Corripn plays the teIldent
conservative . of the .S • A Board.
CONtantly inIdItilll that tlMr ·board ~'be
consistent." Aithouah It teemS someone Is

He~,
Pet~

and

Corrigan; Cheryl Pegues, .
Steilberg. Not pictured: Katy Steele.

always disagreeing with his abundant
opinions, he still manages to get his
points ·across.
He feels that his conservatism comes
from a conviction that "the masses are
unqualified to. lead themselves." Corrigan
explairied that ·he is Striving to be "an
enlightened leader."
Lee Chambers is an Evergreen staff
.member employed by l<AOS radio. He
comes. across as a very realistic and
serious member. ohen brij\ging up
problems that the board has edged put,
notwantins to deal with. He joined the
board . in the fall . and hu been at
Everpeen .lince. 1m. "Becaule of the
Jensth of time I haw been heft I think I
undentand the colle&! perep«tiYe perbapI

better than the students on the board," he
said.
All year member Katy Steele, student
coordinator of tI\e night bus . run, is the
work-study member of th.e group. In
response ~o complaints from some budget
groups about having . to hire work-study
students, she replies• . "Oh yes, I'm workstudy - we're all Idiots you knowl"
She, offers a good sense of humor to the
board. Often on the sic;le of the underdog,
she avoids voUng on specific budgets until·
the last minute. '1 hate this part," Ihe
laYS.
.Mary Arin Hes.e is employed u a
ptoaram secretary In the Ubruy. She has
been With the board Iinoe Jut fall. Not a
. Itroq thoutel', the tends to uswne ~

role of a guider .for the group, calling
them back to the subject at hand. "If you
let people's attention start to wander, you
know what happens. So I try to keep
people moving, it's an instant death if
they get off the subject."
Hesse admit!; the sessions are tiring,
"When I come back to my office after
those meetings I can't do anything. I'm
mush."
. Madeline Mullen is a quiet calm in this
often loud group. Occasionally speaking
out to help the group through a problem
or standstill, she prefers to "flow with the
tide," unless she disagrees with something.
How does she feel about the board1 "I
find it very funny . Toward the end of the
day lstart laughing at everybody."
Brian Milbrat·h often serves as the
mover behind decisions and votes,
working with a "Let's get it done"
attitude. "I try to play the devil's
advocate," . he says. "I oftentimes am
opposed to something, but bring it up
anyway."
Connie Palaia acts as the Executive
Secretary (affectionately known as the
"student body pns"), the only paid
position on the board. She guides the
board with a light hand, rarely raising
, her voice and usually only interrupting to
clarify a point or clear up confusion.
Two non-members of the board who
have worked the same hours and are as
much a part of the. group are Activities
Director Lynn Giuner, eJlpert With a
calculator, and Director of Recreation and
Activities Pete Steilbel'l who has done a
lot of work at the blade boaid this past
month.

10

Low Light Exotics
Replace Philodendrons

Spring Quarter CPJStaff
i
\

lim Feyk, Business Manager

; , •
'

~

!

David Judd , Business Manager

Here they are, the Spring Quarter staff of the Cooper
Point Journal (Sam Solomon, production manager, is not
pictured). After an exhausting and, at times, seemingly
endless quarter - long struggle, the staff ends its work with
this issue. Hopefully, they'll be able to find a quiet and
peaceful place to recuperate this summer.
Several on the present staff will be returning for the
summer and Journal Editor Jill Stewart advises that the
position of news editor for Summer Quarter is sti ll open,
Interested persons are encouraged to stop by the CPJ office
in CAB 306 to apply.
Joe Gill, Accounting Assistant
'.

Matth ew Groen ing, Feature Editor

Gmpe Ivy

Marall/a

by David Judd
T ,rn J of Philodendrons fOI
that low-l it area in VOur homeTrue, that Split- Lea'f Philodendro n just doesn 't make it as "n
,'xo tic house plant anymore. For tunately because of the demand
fo r low light to lerant house
plant" many exo tic low light
pia nts are being introduced on
t he market.
Hou,e plants that tolerate low
li\( ht and that have been grown
properly in the greenh ouse will
ma ke excelle nt plants for low indirect light in yo ur off ice or

home. For l'xa mple , s"me plants
thrive ('n indirect ligh .ing found
in dn ollice where th"re a re few
wind ows but wherr plent y of
fluo rescent li ghti f\8 i~ available
from the ceil ing,
The Mother fern (Asplenium
viv lparum ) is a verv unique fern,
that bears new plants on th e
leaves of the old plant. It can
tolerate low light , but requires a
lot of humidity . Propagat ion can
be done by roo ting the smaller
plants into so il while they are
st ill co nnect ed to the parent
plant.

Ma rantas (Matan t aceae) are
the most co lorfu l of the low ligh t
plants. Their impressive and oftentimes bizarre foliage is more
co lorful than their blossoms. The
most interesting thing wi th these
plants is the ability of their
leaves to fo ld upwards at night ,
in prayer - giving them the
name prayer plant. The soil for
these plants should con tai n no
"perlite," since "perlite" (a white
substance often found in house
plant soils) has fluoride in it and
burns the tip of the leaves.
One of the 'most tolerant

house plants to low light is th e
Grape Ivy (Cissus rhombifolia),
This lush green- leafed plant will
tolerate very low li gh t with a
minima l amount of humidity .
Grape Ivies can be trained to
climb around your house or be
a llowed to hang . It is w ise to
pinch the tips of growt h that
have become too long, to create
lush foliage.
The Snake Plant (Sanseveria
trifasciata lavrentii), unlike other
succulents, can tolerate limited
amounts of light. This unusually
hardy plant produces spike- like

Snake Plant

leaves that twist upwards severa l
feet high . The soi l shou ld dry
out a litt Ie in between waterings.
Snake plants are the type of
plant th at flourish in spite of
neg lect.
It is possible to have these
four plants in a dark corner with
the aid of gro-Iux lights . This
might not give the plan t exactly
what the sun gives it, but in
most cases the gro -Iux lights will
keep the foliage radiant. Experiment with smaller plants in a
low light area before creating
your own jungle.

Willie Parson Named Senior Dean

Fighting Summer's Weeds
by Sherry Jaycox

TUNER & TECHNICIAN
Tuning - Cleaning

Refelting Regulali~ -

AU
AWlS
'" .,..,
c_ _-NEW

Repairing

&.OLD
. . ...

C~

no ...... - UUI • IIITIU
CAll JOHN GRACE
,~'"

CAPITOL WY

-

943-3712

GOOD NEWS
for
CONCERT GOERS!
We are now able to
get ti c kets for nearly
any event in Seattle
(c oncerts as well as
sporting events) in c luding most that are
"sold out ."

COME INTO OUR
WESTSIDE STORE
FOR DETAilS

So now you have yo ur garden
in . You dust your hands off, put
the too ls away , a nd si t back to
wa it fo r those vegetables and
fruits to co me popping up. However, you find that the weeds are
popping up too .
Some of your crops - such as
lettuce, carrots. radishes, etc. can be sown somewhat thickly,
which a llows an abundant crop,
utilize s your available space
effic ient ly , and also discourages
weeds to grow in your row. This
method doesn 't always give you
uniform carrots or radishes, but
if you are going to eat them and
not sell them , it's not important.

If you ' ve already sown your
rows thinly, and weeds and
plants are growing, you can still
correct yo ur weed problem.

'Ih~tt8wke

C9\1o

I C('t your Nor'weqer 76

ti tk!'!s he re , too,j

RamyD3Y
RecoriLCo.
Westside Center 106 Y, E, 4th

357-4755

357-7358

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Carefull y clean out the weeds in
the rows and sow some more
seed thinly between the plants
and areas the weeds were . Th is
wi ll also extend your season for
your crops through the summer.
By the time the first crop is
almost through producing, your
second sow ing of seeds will be
ready to harvest.
Another w y to combat the
weeds, and help your crops at
the same time is to use a mulch.
By now the ground is warm, and
the plants have grown enough to
spread mulch around them (the
plants shbuld be about 2 - 3
inches high) . The mulch should
hold in most of the moisture in
the soil, so the ground should be
somewhat dry when you mulch.
Several readily available substances can be used for a mulch,
Keep in mind that a mulch can
be used to cover up and smother
weeds out as well as adding natural fertilizers to your garden .
They can also add humus
co ntent to the so il , which if you

have a sandy or clay soil, this
w ill help . Below is a list of loca ll y available mulches and what
they can offer to y<?ur garden:
ORGANIC
Grass clippings - breaks down
readily, has nitrogen and potash ,
which encourages plant growth.
Sawdust (must be well rotted,
old) - discourages weeds, how ever, sawdust needs nitrogen in
order to break down so you
shou ld add grass clippings, manure, hops or any other sub stance with nitrogen content to
help it break down without
robbing your p lants.

Hops - can add nitrogen to
your soil, it is best to handle
when dry.
Seaweed and kelp - rinse off
the sa lt if you want, though it
isn't necessary , it is very high in
potash and trace elements,
Straw, corncobs, cornstalks
these are all good, just pile them
hi gh. Some extremely good resu lts have come from growing
potatoes in straw.

Leaves - they seal in moisture ,
block out weeds . You should
add some lime to the soi l underneath, as leaves tend to be very
acid.
NON-ORGANIC
Rocks, gravel - are very effective in stopping weeds, and rain
leac hes minerals off the rocks
and into the soil. A problem
could come up when you want
to till your garden the next year
with rocks in it.

Black plastic - keeps the ground
warm, and very effective in
stopping weeds, If you want to
keep costs of a garden to a minimum, this is not the best way.
Also keeps a ir from getting to
the plant roots effectively .
After you have spread your
mulch on , there is only some
easy hoeing and pulling to get
the few weeds out that do come
up . Now , you can sit back and
wait for those vegetables and
fruits to come popping up .

Mark Schmitt. Ad Manager

Jim Wright, Staff Writer and Cathy Riddell, News

Willie Parson

by Ti Locke
Willie Parson has been appointed as one of the two new
senior deans under Evergreen's
new deanship program. The new
program makes provisions for
two senior deans (with permanent duty assignments) and four
assisting junior deans, as opposed
to the old "rotating duties"
deanship system used by Ever-

green in the past.
As a senior dean, Parson will
be in charge of the budget desk ,
space management , and the
academic support s taff . His
counterpart, Will Humphreys, is
in charge of curriculum planning
and faculty hiring and evaluation
(see Journal May 13, 1976).
Parson has been serving as the
budget dean for the past year (he

PLANNING FOR LIFE RATHER THAN
FOR A LIVING
A day-long event coordinated by Career Planning
and Placement including:
Morning Workshop Sessions, Lib. 1221
Occupational Outlook on Today's Job Market
How to Make Yourself Marketable
life Style Planning and Decision Making
Afternoon Workshops, CAB 110
Where Can Your Evergreen Education Take You
or - What You Can Do With a BA from Evergreen
Overseas Opportunities
Career AdvisIng for Third World Students
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 1976

initially came to Evergreen as a
faculty member in biology). Last
March, before taking over his
deanship, Parson worked with
the budget heads in budget
p lanning, He also spent some
time at the legislative hearings
on Evergreen's budget and
worked with Charles Teske, who
previously held Parson's position.
Parson will also be in charge
of space management for aGademics , He will be assigning
programs labs, seminar .rooms,
arts space , and garden areas
according to need . Parson said
that the only "clashes" for space
have come from a demand for
space by non-academic areas, a
single program demanding exclusive use of an area , or a simple
misunderstanding.
He will also be assigning
support staff positions. The
support staff includes the academic secretaries, the lab staffs,
a nd students employed by academics.
As one of the new senior
deans, Parson's main concern is
developing the academic portion
of the next biennial budget. And, I
straying into Humphries' main

co ncern areas, Parson said that
he also wants to " take a look" at
carrying through with the LongRange DTF's plans for long-range
curriculum , Parson sa id that
long-range curriculum will require faculty to think again
abo ut "doing exactly what we
(the faculty) want to do when
we want to do it. .. and making
a long-term commitment to a
program." He said that longrange curriculum wouldn ' t include only programs that repeated year after year , but
related programs planned for
every other year or every two
years.
Parson also wishes to do some
work with the individual contract mode , He called it "o ne of
the most abused parts of the

curriculum on campus. " However, he countered by saying,
" .. . it's certainly needed ... it's
one of those things that bring
students to Evergreen in the first
p lace , . ,the need is to establish
some criteria for entering the
in dividual contract mode . .. "
Finally, he said that he wants
to "pay close attention to the
assessment of the current (faculty)
evaluation and retention policy. "
(Parson was one of the deans
invol ved in the recent DelgadoMartinez firing controversy . See
related stories, page 1 .)
In the face of Evergreen's
current turmoil, get ting ready for
the unexpected is the least that
Willie Parson can do for
Evergreen 's academic programs .

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10

Low Light Exotics
Replace Philodendrons

Spring Quarter CPJStaff
i
\

lim Feyk, Business Manager

; , •
'

~

!

David Judd , Business Manager

Here they are, the Spring Quarter staff of the Cooper
Point Journal (Sam Solomon, production manager, is not
pictured). After an exhausting and, at times, seemingly
endless quarter - long struggle, the staff ends its work with
this issue. Hopefully, they'll be able to find a quiet and
peaceful place to recuperate this summer.
Several on the present staff will be returning for the
summer and Journal Editor Jill Stewart advises that the
position of news editor for Summer Quarter is sti ll open,
Interested persons are encouraged to stop by the CPJ office
in CAB 306 to apply.
Joe Gill, Accounting Assistant
'.

Matth ew Groen ing, Feature Editor

Gmpe Ivy

Marall/a

by David Judd
T ,rn J of Philodendrons fOI
that low-l it area in VOur homeTrue, that Split- Lea'f Philodendro n just doesn 't make it as "n
,'xo tic house plant anymore. For tunately because of the demand
fo r low light to lerant house
plant" many exo tic low light
pia nts are being introduced on
t he market.
Hou,e plants that tolerate low
li\( ht and that have been grown
properly in the greenh ouse will
ma ke excelle nt plants for low indirect light in yo ur off ice or

home. For l'xa mple , s"me plants
thrive ('n indirect ligh .ing found
in dn ollice where th"re a re few
wind ows but wherr plent y of
fluo rescent li ghti f\8 i~ available
from the ceil ing,
The Mother fern (Asplenium
viv lparum ) is a verv unique fern,
that bears new plants on th e
leaves of the old plant. It can
tolerate low light , but requires a
lot of humidity . Propagat ion can
be done by roo ting the smaller
plants into so il while they are
st ill co nnect ed to the parent
plant.

Ma rantas (Matan t aceae) are
the most co lorfu l of the low ligh t
plants. Their impressive and oftentimes bizarre foliage is more
co lorful than their blossoms. The
most interesting thing wi th these
plants is the ability of their
leaves to fo ld upwards at night ,
in prayer - giving them the
name prayer plant. The soil for
these plants should con tai n no
"perlite," since "perlite" (a white
substance often found in house
plant soils) has fluoride in it and
burns the tip of the leaves.
One of the 'most tolerant

house plants to low light is th e
Grape Ivy (Cissus rhombifolia),
This lush green- leafed plant will
tolerate very low li gh t with a
minima l amount of humidity .
Grape Ivies can be trained to
climb around your house or be
a llowed to hang . It is w ise to
pinch the tips of growt h that
have become too long, to create
lush foliage.
The Snake Plant (Sanseveria
trifasciata lavrentii), unlike other
succulents, can tolerate limited
amounts of light. This unusually
hardy plant produces spike- like

Snake Plant

leaves that twist upwards severa l
feet high . The soi l shou ld dry
out a litt Ie in between waterings.
Snake plants are the type of
plant th at flourish in spite of
neg lect.
It is possible to have these
four plants in a dark corner with
the aid of gro-Iux lights . This
might not give the plan t exactly
what the sun gives it, but in
most cases the gro -Iux lights will
keep the foliage radiant. Experiment with smaller plants in a
low light area before creating
your own jungle.

Willie Parson Named Senior Dean

Fighting Summer's Weeds
by Sherry Jaycox

TUNER & TECHNICIAN
Tuning - Cleaning

Refelting Regulali~ -

AU
AWlS
'" .,..,
c_ _-NEW

Repairing

&.OLD
. . ...

C~

no ...... - UUI • IIITIU
CAll JOHN GRACE
,~'"

CAPITOL WY

-

943-3712

GOOD NEWS
for
CONCERT GOERS!
We are now able to
get ti c kets for nearly
any event in Seattle
(c oncerts as well as
sporting events) in c luding most that are
"sold out ."

COME INTO OUR
WESTSIDE STORE
FOR DETAilS

So now you have yo ur garden
in . You dust your hands off, put
the too ls away , a nd si t back to
wa it fo r those vegetables and
fruits to co me popping up. However, you find that the weeds are
popping up too .
Some of your crops - such as
lettuce, carrots. radishes, etc. can be sown somewhat thickly,
which a llows an abundant crop,
utilize s your available space
effic ient ly , and also discourages
weeds to grow in your row. This
method doesn 't always give you
uniform carrots or radishes, but
if you are going to eat them and
not sell them , it's not important.

If you ' ve already sown your
rows thinly, and weeds and
plants are growing, you can still
correct yo ur weed problem.

'Ih~tt8wke

C9\1o

I C('t your Nor'weqer 76

ti tk!'!s he re , too,j

RamyD3Y
RecoriLCo.
Westside Center 106 Y, E, 4th

357-4755

357-7358

W e're planning a gourmet graduation dinner. Please make your
reservations soon,
203 \Y 4lIL

J

Ol ympi.a.Wa ,- '

3')7 - 81<)9

Carefull y clean out the weeds in
the rows and sow some more
seed thinly between the plants
and areas the weeds were . Th is
wi ll also extend your season for
your crops through the summer.
By the time the first crop is
almost through producing, your
second sow ing of seeds will be
ready to harvest.
Another w y to combat the
weeds, and help your crops at
the same time is to use a mulch.
By now the ground is warm, and
the plants have grown enough to
spread mulch around them (the
plants shbuld be about 2 - 3
inches high) . The mulch should
hold in most of the moisture in
the soil, so the ground should be
somewhat dry when you mulch.
Several readily available substances can be used for a mulch,
Keep in mind that a mulch can
be used to cover up and smother
weeds out as well as adding natural fertilizers to your garden .
They can also add humus
co ntent to the so il , which if you

have a sandy or clay soil, this
w ill help . Below is a list of loca ll y available mulches and what
they can offer to y<?ur garden:
ORGANIC
Grass clippings - breaks down
readily, has nitrogen and potash ,
which encourages plant growth.
Sawdust (must be well rotted,
old) - discourages weeds, how ever, sawdust needs nitrogen in
order to break down so you
shou ld add grass clippings, manure, hops or any other sub stance with nitrogen content to
help it break down without
robbing your p lants.

Hops - can add nitrogen to
your soil, it is best to handle
when dry.
Seaweed and kelp - rinse off
the sa lt if you want, though it
isn't necessary , it is very high in
potash and trace elements,
Straw, corncobs, cornstalks
these are all good, just pile them
hi gh. Some extremely good resu lts have come from growing
potatoes in straw.

Leaves - they seal in moisture ,
block out weeds . You should
add some lime to the soi l underneath, as leaves tend to be very
acid.
NON-ORGANIC
Rocks, gravel - are very effective in stopping weeds, and rain
leac hes minerals off the rocks
and into the soil. A problem
could come up when you want
to till your garden the next year
with rocks in it.

Black plastic - keeps the ground
warm, and very effective in
stopping weeds, If you want to
keep costs of a garden to a minimum, this is not the best way.
Also keeps a ir from getting to
the plant roots effectively .
After you have spread your
mulch on , there is only some
easy hoeing and pulling to get
the few weeds out that do come
up . Now , you can sit back and
wait for those vegetables and
fruits to come popping up .

Mark Schmitt. Ad Manager

Jim Wright, Staff Writer and Cathy Riddell, News

Willie Parson

by Ti Locke
Willie Parson has been appointed as one of the two new
senior deans under Evergreen's
new deanship program. The new
program makes provisions for
two senior deans (with permanent duty assignments) and four
assisting junior deans, as opposed
to the old "rotating duties"
deanship system used by Ever-

green in the past.
As a senior dean, Parson will
be in charge of the budget desk ,
space management , and the
academic support s taff . His
counterpart, Will Humphreys, is
in charge of curriculum planning
and faculty hiring and evaluation
(see Journal May 13, 1976).
Parson has been serving as the
budget dean for the past year (he

PLANNING FOR LIFE RATHER THAN
FOR A LIVING
A day-long event coordinated by Career Planning
and Placement including:
Morning Workshop Sessions, Lib. 1221
Occupational Outlook on Today's Job Market
How to Make Yourself Marketable
life Style Planning and Decision Making
Afternoon Workshops, CAB 110
Where Can Your Evergreen Education Take You
or - What You Can Do With a BA from Evergreen
Overseas Opportunities
Career AdvisIng for Third World Students
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 1976

initially came to Evergreen as a
faculty member in biology). Last
March, before taking over his
deanship, Parson worked with
the budget heads in budget
p lanning, He also spent some
time at the legislative hearings
on Evergreen's budget and
worked with Charles Teske, who
previously held Parson's position.
Parson will also be in charge
of space management for aGademics , He will be assigning
programs labs, seminar .rooms,
arts space , and garden areas
according to need . Parson said
that the only "clashes" for space
have come from a demand for
space by non-academic areas, a
single program demanding exclusive use of an area , or a simple
misunderstanding.
He will also be assigning
support staff positions. The
support staff includes the academic secretaries, the lab staffs,
a nd students employed by academics.
As one of the new senior
deans, Parson's main concern is
developing the academic portion
of the next biennial budget. And, I
straying into Humphries' main

co ncern areas, Parson said that
he also wants to " take a look" at
carrying through with the LongRange DTF's plans for long-range
curriculum , Parson sa id that
long-range curriculum will require faculty to think again
abo ut "doing exactly what we
(the faculty) want to do when
we want to do it. .. and making
a long-term commitment to a
program." He said that longrange curriculum wouldn ' t include only programs that repeated year after year , but
related programs planned for
every other year or every two
years.
Parson also wishes to do some
work with the individual contract mode , He called it "o ne of
the most abused parts of the

curriculum on campus. " However, he countered by saying,
" .. . it's certainly needed ... it's
one of those things that bring
students to Evergreen in the first
p lace , . ,the need is to establish
some criteria for entering the
in dividual contract mode . .. "
Finally, he said that he wants
to "pay close attention to the
assessment of the current (faculty)
evaluation and retention policy. "
(Parson was one of the deans
invol ved in the recent DelgadoMartinez firing controversy . See
related stories, page 1 .)
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current turmoil, get ting ready for
the unexpected is the least that
Willie Parson can do for
Evergreen 's academic programs .

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Home Is Closer Than You Think

COMMENTARY: CONSERVATIVE BACHLABH

by Michael Corrigan
A C0uple o i weeks ago
attended the Thurston Co unty Repub lican Conventi on as a precinct delegate. I m ust adm it th at
I had some serious reservat ions
abo ut our "democratic" process
beiore attending t he convent io n .
[t seemed to me that t he loca l
~' l at form . no matter how well de,·e loped . would fina lly end up
the product of simpletons. useless on the national level.
[ was concerned that the elec tora te wou ld not be q uali fied to
make necessary choices due to it s
ge neral leve l of ignorance. In
,o me of my d iscussions with Re pub li ca ns before the conventio n.
I felt the fra udulence of it all
creep in. Because of these fee l-

ings I almost decided not to at tend . Vague feelings of "responsibility" finally convinced me to
go against my better judgment.
The Republicans of Thurston
County are a liberal bunch compared to Republicans in other
parts of the state. Gov. Evans'
followers have been he re for 12
yea rs and they have almost total
control over the local party .
Most everyone supported President Ford .
The day had several highlights
which confirmed my earlier reserva tion s and added a few more
as well. It began with the
speeches. Political speeches have
a tendency to be juvenile, and
when they a ppeared that way, I
wasn't surprised.
T he childish contradictions
were particularly am u si ng (or
perhaps ' disturbing considering
the supposed seriousness of the
sit uation ). For instance, the cowboy- ha tt ed. baby blue leisure su ited, Reagan delegate Ve rn on
Briggs implored a ll of his "fell ow
delega tes" to vote for Reagan
supporters. He mentioned "Ronnie's" strong comm it ment to decentrali ze government (a n appealing notio n. the implications
of wh ich his remarks h ave
proved he doesn't understand).
W he n h e fini s h ed there he
said. " th e govehnuh " (remember
he is a rea l Westerner) "is not
sad dled" (there he goes aga in )
"b y th e P residen t's most serious

liability. Ford has spent the last
25 years in Congress . This ties
him to comm itm ents t o the
Congress. Gov. Reagon won't
have that problem, he won't let
Congress run him around w ith a
ring through his nose. " This
combining of imperial presidency
and de-centralized government
doesn't quite co nne c t in my
mind .
Again, if this had been all that
happened I suppose I could have
'written it off as your typical political speech, but the following
remarks on the Panama Canal
issue finished me off . A man got
up and spent ten minutes raving
about Ford's willingness to give
away our canaL and to a " Communist Dictator" no less. This
became too much . This silliness
could not be written off as mere
demagoguery. Anyone who has
seen the film The Ugly American
knows that I mean . This was a
clear example of how self-destr u ctive the political rhetoric
ca n be. It merely serves to
further cloud the issue and make
rational decision impo ssi ble.
Here was this large group of
people, w ho felt that they had
real power to effect change in
America n leadership and policies,
bu t people totally ignorant of the
sit uat ions which were t he basis
of their strong opinions. In short,
peop le who were totally unquali fied to send up any kind of
message to A merica's leaders . N o

Programs (cant.)
cO lltinLled from pa~e 8
11M KENNER : (in terned w ith Department of C riminal Ju stice) There was a lot '
l' l energy put in by the facult y members
dn d that made the student s feel li ke putt ing in a lot of energy . . . The faculty
members had a way of giv ing st udents
control . .. My opini o n was that the
['leople w ho left the program weren't very
:l10t ivated.
.
LYLE TRIBBET : Th is prog r am ha s
.Jught me to pay attent ion to peop le.
human values. My backgro un d has been
, Ieri le o f that. I was much more costbenefit analysis oriented ... I look a t it
' EOt P ) now and so metim es it seems things
lus t floate d . You cou ld miss one day and
1 he who le program 's changed. There was
•1 lo t o f confusion. No matter what pace
,'('U co me in with you have to fi t into the
p rogra m·s . Th e pace of Ethics and Politics
was reall y slow in fall and then suddenly.
go ing down to the legisla ture, it sped up.
Ii you stayed in everything appeared to
wo rk o ut. The last month students are
prese nting their projects. It·s far better
than you expect. It's an excellent set of
lectures. D iscussions are excellent. Just
this one month . Seminars are like wha t
you read about in the catalog .
GEO FF YOUNG: (first year at Evergreen ) I have a tool to get involved in
gove rnment a n yt im e I want to. But t here's
no room to take it anywhere. Ethics in
government isn't really going to change. I
don't think they got in to the radica l side
of changing government.
SCIENCE AND CULTURE:
BEYOND SPECIALIZA nON
Science and Culture was a program devoted to the history of science, reading in
the original the works of the Greeks (fall
quarter), the 17th certury (winter quarter)
and modern writers (spring quarter).
SANDRA SIMON: (faculty) You can't
predict what it's going to be in the end
from the beginning . . . It is an existentia l experience. No coordinated study has
meaning in itself. The coordinated study
must work on student commitment. Boredom is not the worst thing that can happen .. . People think reading isn't doing.
The program showed science can be
taught as humanit ies.
LINDA BARRY: I thought that it was
more informative than inspiring. It gave
me a good time-line . .. Especially fall
quarter was really good. We were studying the Greeks. The enthusiasm was there.
When we studied th e 17th century we
sl..ipped humanities and just did science. I
,I.'n·t know why winter was such a low
pl' ri"d . I thought the idea of doing indi\'idudl projects was really good.

PH IL HENINGER: (second year student ) There was not much hassle with student in put - maybe it was just a really
we ll -designed program .. There was a
gro up fee ling. We had ou r littl e Friday gettogethers.
PAUL NISHMAN: (transferred out of
th e program) I got rea l bored a lot of the
time t here.
I'm sat isf ied now bu t at
the time I wa s pretty dissatisfied . Now,
I'm ab le to grasp things people who
haven't s tudied history can' t ..
People
weren ' t perso na ll y invo lved. It 's hard to
get persona ll y invo lved in history.
LARRY ST ILl:.WELL: (first year at Evergreen ) At times I was ve ry frustrated
wi th seminar. It was kind of a high schoo l
frame of mind, not taking responsibility .
Peop le come in, not having read the materia l, and not feeling apo logetic .
Some
of the people's projects were on the philosop hical basis of science, sy nchronicity,
ex istentialism, nuclear power, a lienation
in the au to industry, and madness a nd
creativ ity .
BROADSIDES and BROADCASTS
Broadside~ was a program about media
com munications . Fall quarter consisted of
prepara tio n for and production of simu lated press conferences on assigned sub jects in assigned roles and media monitor ing. Winter quarter consisted of a series
of two week individual and group projects. Spring quarter everyone took internships.
PAUL MARSH: (faculty) We thought
we'd attract students who were more
prepared . B&B should be repeated as a
basic program (B&B was an advanced
program) with a series of modules.
NICK ROLLING: It seemed like
everyone was kicking 'a dead horse.
CAROLYN GILMORE: (graduated) I
think it was a good program for students
into media who were willing to go out ·
and do it themselves. It was an advanced
program but students weren't prepared for
it because there are no basic communications programs.
CARYN SWAN: (first year at Evergreen) The first quarter I think I learned a
lot from the press conferences. I hated
media monitoring b ut I learned a lot. I
put in a lot more hours than I should
have for what I learned. I think faculty
could have planned it better. Second
quarter I went on my internship with
channel 13 which I really enjoyed . I
learned a lot at Timberland Regional library. They had this equipment and didn't
know how to use it. There was no one to
teach me, they just ,w anted to know. I
learned how to edit videotapes, but I

doubt this was realized long ago
by those on top, they rarely
even bother to pay attention
these days. Their humorous attempts at masquerading shows
through as the fraud that it is.
The thought that they just
might b e wasting their time,
showed through on several
occasions, particularly in Brigg's
speech: " Ford is a tool of Congress, Congress has made us
number two and now it wants to
give away our precious canal to
a motley collectIOn of half-breed
greasers.
At this point the appeal of a
Ronald Reagan or a Jimmy Carter "becomes apparent. Because
Americans are informed of
events through a process that
simplifies things to the extreme,
our simplistic questions can only
be dealt with by the smiling
demagogues. We are a nation of
unsophisticated simpletons being
fed pab lum answers b y these
men. These men abandon the
Washington bureaucrats who
ignore the " sacred will of the
people." They cla im to be men
of the peop le and issue promises
of a new life. One sees in these
men the reincarnation of Huey
Lo ng .
At thi s po int one m ust recall
the message of Ortega Y Gasset:
Mass rul e is rule b y the incompetent. The fact tha t Jimmy Carter
has a shot at th e Whit e House
makes it essential that we not

underestimate the destructive
potential of the masses. This is a
dangerous situation indeed. We
no longer have the safeguards
which Toqueville observed in
1835. We are no longer the huge
country with its tiny spread out
population . We no longer possess
the numerous small independent
newspapers which protected
against the manipulation of the
masses.
In America today the powerful
ignore the message of . the
masses. Indeed, how can they
avoid it when the simplest local
bond issue is beyond the voters'
comprehension 1 The powerful
are vulnerable though, again witness the very real power of
Jimmy Carter.
Whatever one's political perspective, two things are clear.
Either the masses become informed , and · this would require
far more than even the gloriOUS
socialist revolution , or the power
of the masses is neutralized. This
is a short run consideration if
A merica is to be spared of the
smiling Alcibiades and his "sun shine fascism."
Gerald Ford may not be a particularly appealing possibility but
when one compares him to the
a lternatives he seems much less
dangerous . Jimmy Carter is far
more likely to lead us to the
fascism which could have bee n
America's fa te 30 years ago had
Huey Long not been assassinated.

by John Zupa
comp lained about , bItched
a t. and genera ll y bad-mouth ed
Everg reen the first quarter of my
stay. [ th en left the schoo l for a
more co nvent io na l ed ucat iona l
syste m . O n e of my grea test
downfa lls is m y inability to re-

haven't learned how to do the other
things I hoped . . . I thought I'd have a
lot more chance to learn the basic things
- edit, write news, use video equipment,
use a dark room. I didn't have any basic
skills when I came in . I just came out of
high school. I was in Women and Communications summer quarter, still I don't
feel like one quarter makes me advanced.
MARK DUTTON : I feel there was

by T i Locke
In December 1974, the editors
of the JOLlrnal were attempting to
understa nd Evergreen's various
a nd sundry problems.
As a last resort (or perhaps a
new angle), they con tacted V ince
Foster , a n Evergreen st ud ent
study ing astro logy, and had him
draw up a chart for th e co ll ege.
Foster used the date the first
se minar me t as Evergreen's
b irthd a te (October 4, 1971, 9: 00
a .m . - Libra) .

from the Execution is a person who has
never · Iived before - 'it has to be that
way - a nd if that is understood then you
will "see" nothing on stage. To varying
degrees you will be involved with the
presence of the performance itself - a
performance not as entertainment, propaganda distribution, discussion group, or
personality voyeurism , but as event - as
a fully living existence composed of the
gilt and the shared experience.
Here is the opportunity to create a new
entity by the mating of a udience and performer with the distance between them,
the space that can never be fully contained
in the printed word or recordings. If this
sounds like a description of the whole
concept of performance itself it is because
it must be - Flowers from the Execution
can only be approached as a performance /
event - and to grasp its value one must
forget who is on stage and become what
is in the room.
More than anything else, Flowers from
the execution is an immensely valuable
performance. It should not be missed. It
will pass this way o nly once. .

good and there was bad . . . I didn't feel
there was motivation, from both faculty
and students. Faculty got mad at students.
Students got mad at faculty. I don't know
if I feel that good about it. Student input
was tokenism . . . I felt the faculty was
reluctant. They could have done a better
job of directing the student's experience in
the program . You had to just do it yourself or you wouldn't get it.

" No , I'm not," I sa id , cool and
grinni ng .
I wheeled, not waiting for his
response, a nd spun out the door.
He muttered to his pal : "He's
crazy! Why won' t he fold his
sheets?"'
Crea tiv ity is sought out a nd
destroyed at NMSU. There were
ru les for everything . All the
buildings order you to enter a t
o ne place and exi t at anpther . A
crea tive thought never ' escaped
from the head of an NMSU stu dent. I walked in to one lou nge
and a vast sign ordered me , "Do
not Rearra nge the Furn iture 1"
My laughter burst forth as I
noticed the furnit ure was bolted
to the floor!
Th e rules kil led me , they
rea ll y did. One n ig h t whil e
stud ying. a girl walked into m y
dorm room and closed the door.
Fifteen secunds later there came
a knock accompanied b~ a voice:
"Ope n up, this is the R. A. W e
know you got a girl in there 1"
R.A. means resident assista nt .
st ud ents paid to make su re no
women enter men 's r ooms and
vice-versa. When an R.A . comes
arou nd you are supposed to become fearf ul a nd prostrate yo ur self.
'Tm not opening the door , so
sneak off in t h e dark, " I
respo nded.
"Open the door or we' ll call
the head R. A. "
"I don 't care if you ca ll the

godda mn president . l"m not
opening the door ."
Some mumbling occu rred, and
then. "Go get the head R. A. Joe.
I'll watch t he door."

It isn' t necessary to list the
long list of obscenities that flew
from my lips. I stomped and
screamed ; I bellowed and hurled
venomo us oa th s, cas ting th e
R.A.'s as demoni c creat ures 01
slime .
I knew that I must go out. A s
I p u t on my shoes, m y hands
trembled with a primordia l des ire to treat them as prey .
Through gnas hed t eeth m y
curses ma chine-gunned.
"You' re raising a school full of
idiots capable of the 'Richard
Nixon Mistake ... · I said as I
headed fo r the en tr a nce.
I saw my friend out. locked
t h e d o or and s tr o llpd awav .
The ir impoten ce b urned down
their act ; they cou ld think of n,'
way to stop us.
We slipped away into the r(' sell a blackness.
Evergreen is a co llege tha t
breaks a ll bonds a nd challen ges
all th e concepts of conventional
edu ca ti on . It riddles my sou l
with sad ness to hear so man y
peop le complain about thi s oasis.
Here I am a freeborn man .
Home is closer than you think .

Evergreen Horoscope
Coming True?

A Singular Event
by Fred Wimmerma n
Flowers from the ExeClltion. One performance only , Wednesday, June 2, 8
p.m . in the second floor Library Lobby .
Admissiol1 $1 at the door.
" T he flowers are w hat must go on to be
born after the ki llin g off, in ourselves, of
a ll that will not be born . Thus it is a lways
sp ringtime after an honest execution .-:.. a
perso na l exec u tion." The author / performer A ubrey Daw n leaves us with this
message . or. as he would prefer, warnin g,
and then his name does not need to be
mentioned aga in; he is gone a nd won 't
come back . He is no t permitted to come
back , fo r he has turned the stage over to
a highe r master - the eve nt itself. Here
then we have the opening of Flowers from
the Exec utiol1.
If any thing is to be emphasized it is the
uniqueness - the singularity - of this
event. "One performance only" means,
quite literally, one performance only;
much more than the theater, the music
hall , or the reader's stage it can never
truly be captured or relived .
Flowers from the Execution is an event
of words - living words - it becomes a
new ora l tradition in the making . This
performance is not about language but
rather is language - in full form - and
for that reason is a glorification, a celebration of the language, of what is human
in us . Humanity is animal loq uens (the
talking a nimal) and speech is not a tool or
a utility - it is an entity: us .
Apply the focused intensity of the
piano master to the performed word and
the resultant language , with its rhythm,
its progression, its tension and calm, is
necessarily an altered one - a hybrid that
can only be defined as musical ; a word
concert, a word symphony. "If one wants
a great writing teacher," says the author,
"he should put his Shakespeare asidE: for a
time and reverently approach Beethoven's
keyboard." If we want to talk, there is
listening to be do ne.
The performance is passion - we find
ourselves with a lion tamer who has left
us a lone to face the naked roar. What one
has the opportunity to "see" in Flowers

sea rch - no, I didn' t research
New Mexico State Un iversity; I
just ran blindly to it .
I found myself in the middle
of the deser t. The plants were as
hostile as the "jocks." The schoo l
system was a relic of the 1950·s.
1 was sick.

The ' first order I was given
was that I must fold my dirty
sheets when I returned them for
cl ea n o n es . The conversation
was int eresting as I handed the
fellow my unfolded sheets:
"Ya gotta fold yer sheets!"
"I ain't foldin' my sheets."
He stepped back and scrutinized me as if he had grave
doubts about my sanity.
"Ya golta fold 'em ." he piped.
" Look pal, I' m not fo ldin '
dirty sheets th at you just unfol d
again, so get used to that." I
5aid.
"We won ' t g ive ya c lean
ones ," he conned.
"I couldn't care less, I have
my own l"
"Ya won't get your grades !"
" I don 't ca re. grades don 't interest me ," I responded pointedly.
The linen jockey was sure I
was a lunatic. He sc reamed:
"Ya gotta fold yer sheets, everyo ne fol ds their sheets ' "
"Well I a in 't just everyone
sheetmanl"
"Yah? Yah?" He stood swallowing iil decisively . Nobody had
ever co nfro nted him w ith refusal
before. He had used all hi s cons ;
he gave u p.
''I' ll fo ld ye r sheets this time ,
bu t by the end of the semes ter
yer go nn a fo ld yer sheets!" he
bel lowed as he s lam med t he
fre s h cotton down on the
co un ter.

),

Foster w rites: "The co ll ege,
t hen, is full of the qualities of
Libra w ith ascendent sun , Mercury, Venus a nd Uranus in this
sign. Evergree n was born o n a
full moon in Ar ies. Mars is in
Aquarius, Ju piter and Neptune in
Sagittarius, Saturn in Gemini ,
and Pluto in Virgo.
Foster continues by interpreting the Ascenden t and individual
pla nets in the respective signs
a nd houses . Fi nall y, he makes
predictions for Evergreen.
"Uranus transiting the Ascendent the last couple of months
(of 1974) is creating a dramatic
change in Evergreen's appearance to the world." (At that
time , Evergreen was weathering
so me interesting storms - the
disappearance of Donna Gail
Manson in March, 1974; a
Gay Festival; controversy
over hiring Stephanie Coontz,
a "known ant·i -war activist"

and the non-hiring of Chuck
Harbaugh, a gay sociologist
a nd co unselor; Vicki Schneider's suicide fall from "A" Dorm;
a paraprofessional counselors'
strike; and th e beginnings of a
struggle over John Moss' appointment to the d ua l directorship of Personnel and Auxiliary Services .)
-"S'pring of 1977 w ill be a time
for defining o r co nfirm in g
Evergreen's energy expression,
and the beginning of a new
cycle or mode of financial
operation s." (Maybe Evergreen
wil l have to become a private
co llege . Then perhaps we can
be purchased by Hughes Summa Corporation and become a
CIA fron t - o r at the very
least, a training ground for
fl edglin g Erli ch man ns a nd
Deans . However, in t he light
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Spring Career & Graduate School Lecture Series
Jovana Brown, Dean of The Evergreen State College
Library, will speak on career opportunities in Library
Science.
Date: Friday, May 28
Time: 12 - 1 :30 p.m.
Place: CAB 110 (Bring your iunch)

dictio n is rapidly com ing to
fo rm .)
-"1980-81 will ca ll for strong
redefinition of Evergreen, its
purpose a nd goals ."
-"1982 will be a tim e of transformation of fi nancial struct ure due to the previous year's
redefinition ."
-1983-84 will be years of taking on a new form to the outer
wo rl d."
-"1985 will be a time of expansion of the emerging forces in
a well-defined and stable area
of activity."
Foster's horoscope ends on this
ambiguous note: "Though Evergreen has a natural flair for
attract ing financia l support , its

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Home Is Closer Than You Think

COMMENTARY: CONSERVATIVE BACHLABH

by Michael Corrigan
A C0uple o i weeks ago
attended the Thurston Co unty Repub lican Conventi on as a precinct delegate. I m ust adm it th at
I had some serious reservat ions
abo ut our "democratic" process
beiore attending t he convent io n .
[t seemed to me that t he loca l
~' l at form . no matter how well de,·e loped . would fina lly end up
the product of simpletons. useless on the national level.
[ was concerned that the elec tora te wou ld not be q uali fied to
make necessary choices due to it s
ge neral leve l of ignorance. In
,o me of my d iscussions with Re pub li ca ns before the conventio n.
I felt the fra udulence of it all
creep in. Because of these fee l-

ings I almost decided not to at tend . Vague feelings of "responsibility" finally convinced me to
go against my better judgment.
The Republicans of Thurston
County are a liberal bunch compared to Republicans in other
parts of the state. Gov. Evans'
followers have been he re for 12
yea rs and they have almost total
control over the local party .
Most everyone supported President Ford .
The day had several highlights
which confirmed my earlier reserva tion s and added a few more
as well. It began with the
speeches. Political speeches have
a tendency to be juvenile, and
when they a ppeared that way, I
wasn't surprised.
T he childish contradictions
were particularly am u si ng (or
perhaps ' disturbing considering
the supposed seriousness of the
sit uation ). For instance, the cowboy- ha tt ed. baby blue leisure su ited, Reagan delegate Ve rn on
Briggs implored a ll of his "fell ow
delega tes" to vote for Reagan
supporters. He mentioned "Ronnie's" strong comm it ment to decentrali ze government (a n appealing notio n. the implications
of wh ich his remarks h ave
proved he doesn't understand).
W he n h e fini s h ed there he
said. " th e govehnuh " (remember
he is a rea l Westerner) "is not
sad dled" (there he goes aga in )
"b y th e P residen t's most serious

liability. Ford has spent the last
25 years in Congress . This ties
him to comm itm ents t o the
Congress. Gov. Reagon won't
have that problem, he won't let
Congress run him around w ith a
ring through his nose. " This
combining of imperial presidency
and de-centralized government
doesn't quite co nne c t in my
mind .
Again, if this had been all that
happened I suppose I could have
'written it off as your typical political speech, but the following
remarks on the Panama Canal
issue finished me off . A man got
up and spent ten minutes raving
about Ford's willingness to give
away our canaL and to a " Communist Dictator" no less. This
became too much . This silliness
could not be written off as mere
demagoguery. Anyone who has
seen the film The Ugly American
knows that I mean . This was a
clear example of how self-destr u ctive the political rhetoric
ca n be. It merely serves to
further cloud the issue and make
rational decision impo ssi ble.
Here was this large group of
people, w ho felt that they had
real power to effect change in
America n leadership and policies,
bu t people totally ignorant of the
sit uat ions which were t he basis
of their strong opinions. In short,
peop le who were totally unquali fied to send up any kind of
message to A merica's leaders . N o

Programs (cant.)
cO lltinLled from pa~e 8
11M KENNER : (in terned w ith Department of C riminal Ju stice) There was a lot '
l' l energy put in by the facult y members
dn d that made the student s feel li ke putt ing in a lot of energy . . . The faculty
members had a way of giv ing st udents
control . .. My opini o n was that the
['leople w ho left the program weren't very
:l10t ivated.
.
LYLE TRIBBET : Th is prog r am ha s
.Jught me to pay attent ion to peop le.
human values. My backgro un d has been
, Ieri le o f that. I was much more costbenefit analysis oriented ... I look a t it
' EOt P ) now and so metim es it seems things
lus t floate d . You cou ld miss one day and
1 he who le program 's changed. There was
•1 lo t o f confusion. No matter what pace
,'('U co me in with you have to fi t into the
p rogra m·s . Th e pace of Ethics and Politics
was reall y slow in fall and then suddenly.
go ing down to the legisla ture, it sped up.
Ii you stayed in everything appeared to
wo rk o ut. The last month students are
prese nting their projects. It·s far better
than you expect. It's an excellent set of
lectures. D iscussions are excellent. Just
this one month . Seminars are like wha t
you read about in the catalog .
GEO FF YOUNG: (first year at Evergreen ) I have a tool to get involved in
gove rnment a n yt im e I want to. But t here's
no room to take it anywhere. Ethics in
government isn't really going to change. I
don't think they got in to the radica l side
of changing government.
SCIENCE AND CULTURE:
BEYOND SPECIALIZA nON
Science and Culture was a program devoted to the history of science, reading in
the original the works of the Greeks (fall
quarter), the 17th certury (winter quarter)
and modern writers (spring quarter).
SANDRA SIMON: (faculty) You can't
predict what it's going to be in the end
from the beginning . . . It is an existentia l experience. No coordinated study has
meaning in itself. The coordinated study
must work on student commitment. Boredom is not the worst thing that can happen .. . People think reading isn't doing.
The program showed science can be
taught as humanit ies.
LINDA BARRY: I thought that it was
more informative than inspiring. It gave
me a good time-line . .. Especially fall
quarter was really good. We were studying the Greeks. The enthusiasm was there.
When we studied th e 17th century we
sl..ipped humanities and just did science. I
,I.'n·t know why winter was such a low
pl' ri"d . I thought the idea of doing indi\'idudl projects was really good.

PH IL HENINGER: (second year student ) There was not much hassle with student in put - maybe it was just a really
we ll -designed program .. There was a
gro up fee ling. We had ou r littl e Friday gettogethers.
PAUL NISHMAN: (transferred out of
th e program) I got rea l bored a lot of the
time t here.
I'm sat isf ied now bu t at
the time I wa s pretty dissatisfied . Now,
I'm ab le to grasp things people who
haven't s tudied history can' t ..
People
weren ' t perso na ll y invo lved. It 's hard to
get persona ll y invo lved in history.
LARRY ST ILl:.WELL: (first year at Evergreen ) At times I was ve ry frustrated
wi th seminar. It was kind of a high schoo l
frame of mind, not taking responsibility .
Peop le come in, not having read the materia l, and not feeling apo logetic .
Some
of the people's projects were on the philosop hical basis of science, sy nchronicity,
ex istentialism, nuclear power, a lienation
in the au to industry, and madness a nd
creativ ity .
BROADSIDES and BROADCASTS
Broadside~ was a program about media
com munications . Fall quarter consisted of
prepara tio n for and production of simu lated press conferences on assigned sub jects in assigned roles and media monitor ing. Winter quarter consisted of a series
of two week individual and group projects. Spring quarter everyone took internships.
PAUL MARSH: (faculty) We thought
we'd attract students who were more
prepared . B&B should be repeated as a
basic program (B&B was an advanced
program) with a series of modules.
NICK ROLLING: It seemed like
everyone was kicking 'a dead horse.
CAROLYN GILMORE: (graduated) I
think it was a good program for students
into media who were willing to go out ·
and do it themselves. It was an advanced
program but students weren't prepared for
it because there are no basic communications programs.
CARYN SWAN: (first year at Evergreen) The first quarter I think I learned a
lot from the press conferences. I hated
media monitoring b ut I learned a lot. I
put in a lot more hours than I should
have for what I learned. I think faculty
could have planned it better. Second
quarter I went on my internship with
channel 13 which I really enjoyed . I
learned a lot at Timberland Regional library. They had this equipment and didn't
know how to use it. There was no one to
teach me, they just ,w anted to know. I
learned how to edit videotapes, but I

doubt this was realized long ago
by those on top, they rarely
even bother to pay attention
these days. Their humorous attempts at masquerading shows
through as the fraud that it is.
The thought that they just
might b e wasting their time,
showed through on several
occasions, particularly in Brigg's
speech: " Ford is a tool of Congress, Congress has made us
number two and now it wants to
give away our precious canal to
a motley collectIOn of half-breed
greasers.
At this point the appeal of a
Ronald Reagan or a Jimmy Carter "becomes apparent. Because
Americans are informed of
events through a process that
simplifies things to the extreme,
our simplistic questions can only
be dealt with by the smiling
demagogues. We are a nation of
unsophisticated simpletons being
fed pab lum answers b y these
men. These men abandon the
Washington bureaucrats who
ignore the " sacred will of the
people." They cla im to be men
of the peop le and issue promises
of a new life. One sees in these
men the reincarnation of Huey
Lo ng .
At thi s po int one m ust recall
the message of Ortega Y Gasset:
Mass rul e is rule b y the incompetent. The fact tha t Jimmy Carter
has a shot at th e Whit e House
makes it essential that we not

underestimate the destructive
potential of the masses. This is a
dangerous situation indeed. We
no longer have the safeguards
which Toqueville observed in
1835. We are no longer the huge
country with its tiny spread out
population . We no longer possess
the numerous small independent
newspapers which protected
against the manipulation of the
masses.
In America today the powerful
ignore the message of . the
masses. Indeed, how can they
avoid it when the simplest local
bond issue is beyond the voters'
comprehension 1 The powerful
are vulnerable though, again witness the very real power of
Jimmy Carter.
Whatever one's political perspective, two things are clear.
Either the masses become informed , and · this would require
far more than even the gloriOUS
socialist revolution , or the power
of the masses is neutralized. This
is a short run consideration if
A merica is to be spared of the
smiling Alcibiades and his "sun shine fascism."
Gerald Ford may not be a particularly appealing possibility but
when one compares him to the
a lternatives he seems much less
dangerous . Jimmy Carter is far
more likely to lead us to the
fascism which could have bee n
America's fa te 30 years ago had
Huey Long not been assassinated.

by John Zupa
comp lained about , bItched
a t. and genera ll y bad-mouth ed
Everg reen the first quarter of my
stay. [ th en left the schoo l for a
more co nvent io na l ed ucat iona l
syste m . O n e of my grea test
downfa lls is m y inability to re-

haven't learned how to do the other
things I hoped . . . I thought I'd have a
lot more chance to learn the basic things
- edit, write news, use video equipment,
use a dark room. I didn't have any basic
skills when I came in . I just came out of
high school. I was in Women and Communications summer quarter, still I don't
feel like one quarter makes me advanced.
MARK DUTTON : I feel there was

by T i Locke
In December 1974, the editors
of the JOLlrnal were attempting to
understa nd Evergreen's various
a nd sundry problems.
As a last resort (or perhaps a
new angle), they con tacted V ince
Foster , a n Evergreen st ud ent
study ing astro logy, and had him
draw up a chart for th e co ll ege.
Foster used the date the first
se minar me t as Evergreen's
b irthd a te (October 4, 1971, 9: 00
a .m . - Libra) .

from the Execution is a person who has
never · Iived before - 'it has to be that
way - a nd if that is understood then you
will "see" nothing on stage. To varying
degrees you will be involved with the
presence of the performance itself - a
performance not as entertainment, propaganda distribution, discussion group, or
personality voyeurism , but as event - as
a fully living existence composed of the
gilt and the shared experience.
Here is the opportunity to create a new
entity by the mating of a udience and performer with the distance between them,
the space that can never be fully contained
in the printed word or recordings. If this
sounds like a description of the whole
concept of performance itself it is because
it must be - Flowers from the Execution
can only be approached as a performance /
event - and to grasp its value one must
forget who is on stage and become what
is in the room.
More than anything else, Flowers from
the execution is an immensely valuable
performance. It should not be missed. It
will pass this way o nly once. .

good and there was bad . . . I didn't feel
there was motivation, from both faculty
and students. Faculty got mad at students.
Students got mad at faculty. I don't know
if I feel that good about it. Student input
was tokenism . . . I felt the faculty was
reluctant. They could have done a better
job of directing the student's experience in
the program . You had to just do it yourself or you wouldn't get it.

" No , I'm not," I sa id , cool and
grinni ng .
I wheeled, not waiting for his
response, a nd spun out the door.
He muttered to his pal : "He's
crazy! Why won' t he fold his
sheets?"'
Crea tiv ity is sought out a nd
destroyed at NMSU. There were
ru les for everything . All the
buildings order you to enter a t
o ne place and exi t at anpther . A
crea tive thought never ' escaped
from the head of an NMSU stu dent. I walked in to one lou nge
and a vast sign ordered me , "Do
not Rearra nge the Furn iture 1"
My laughter burst forth as I
noticed the furnit ure was bolted
to the floor!
Th e rules kil led me , they
rea ll y did. One n ig h t whil e
stud ying. a girl walked into m y
dorm room and closed the door.
Fifteen secunds later there came
a knock accompanied b~ a voice:
"Ope n up, this is the R. A. W e
know you got a girl in there 1"
R.A. means resident assista nt .
st ud ents paid to make su re no
women enter men 's r ooms and
vice-versa. When an R.A . comes
arou nd you are supposed to become fearf ul a nd prostrate yo ur self.
'Tm not opening the door , so
sneak off in t h e dark, " I
respo nded.
"Open the door or we' ll call
the head R. A. "
"I don 't care if you ca ll the

godda mn president . l"m not
opening the door ."
Some mumbling occu rred, and
then. "Go get the head R. A. Joe.
I'll watch t he door."

It isn' t necessary to list the
long list of obscenities that flew
from my lips. I stomped and
screamed ; I bellowed and hurled
venomo us oa th s, cas ting th e
R.A.'s as demoni c creat ures 01
slime .
I knew that I must go out. A s
I p u t on my shoes, m y hands
trembled with a primordia l des ire to treat them as prey .
Through gnas hed t eeth m y
curses ma chine-gunned.
"You' re raising a school full of
idiots capable of the 'Richard
Nixon Mistake ... · I said as I
headed fo r the en tr a nce.
I saw my friend out. locked
t h e d o or and s tr o llpd awav .
The ir impoten ce b urned down
their act ; they cou ld think of n,'
way to stop us.
We slipped away into the r(' sell a blackness.
Evergreen is a co llege tha t
breaks a ll bonds a nd challen ges
all th e concepts of conventional
edu ca ti on . It riddles my sou l
with sad ness to hear so man y
peop le complain about thi s oasis.
Here I am a freeborn man .
Home is closer than you think .

Evergreen Horoscope
Coming True?

A Singular Event
by Fred Wimmerma n
Flowers from the ExeClltion. One performance only , Wednesday, June 2, 8
p.m . in the second floor Library Lobby .
Admissiol1 $1 at the door.
" T he flowers are w hat must go on to be
born after the ki llin g off, in ourselves, of
a ll that will not be born . Thus it is a lways
sp ringtime after an honest execution .-:.. a
perso na l exec u tion." The author / performer A ubrey Daw n leaves us with this
message . or. as he would prefer, warnin g,
and then his name does not need to be
mentioned aga in; he is gone a nd won 't
come back . He is no t permitted to come
back , fo r he has turned the stage over to
a highe r master - the eve nt itself. Here
then we have the opening of Flowers from
the Exec utiol1.
If any thing is to be emphasized it is the
uniqueness - the singularity - of this
event. "One performance only" means,
quite literally, one performance only;
much more than the theater, the music
hall , or the reader's stage it can never
truly be captured or relived .
Flowers from the Execution is an event
of words - living words - it becomes a
new ora l tradition in the making . This
performance is not about language but
rather is language - in full form - and
for that reason is a glorification, a celebration of the language, of what is human
in us . Humanity is animal loq uens (the
talking a nimal) and speech is not a tool or
a utility - it is an entity: us .
Apply the focused intensity of the
piano master to the performed word and
the resultant language , with its rhythm,
its progression, its tension and calm, is
necessarily an altered one - a hybrid that
can only be defined as musical ; a word
concert, a word symphony. "If one wants
a great writing teacher," says the author,
"he should put his Shakespeare asidE: for a
time and reverently approach Beethoven's
keyboard." If we want to talk, there is
listening to be do ne.
The performance is passion - we find
ourselves with a lion tamer who has left
us a lone to face the naked roar. What one
has the opportunity to "see" in Flowers

sea rch - no, I didn' t research
New Mexico State Un iversity; I
just ran blindly to it .
I found myself in the middle
of the deser t. The plants were as
hostile as the "jocks." The schoo l
system was a relic of the 1950·s.
1 was sick.

The ' first order I was given
was that I must fold my dirty
sheets when I returned them for
cl ea n o n es . The conversation
was int eresting as I handed the
fellow my unfolded sheets:
"Ya gotta fold yer sheets!"
"I ain't foldin' my sheets."
He stepped back and scrutinized me as if he had grave
doubts about my sanity.
"Ya golta fold 'em ." he piped.
" Look pal, I' m not fo ldin '
dirty sheets th at you just unfol d
again, so get used to that." I
5aid.
"We won ' t g ive ya c lean
ones ," he conned.
"I couldn't care less, I have
my own l"
"Ya won't get your grades !"
" I don 't ca re. grades don 't interest me ," I responded pointedly.
The linen jockey was sure I
was a lunatic. He sc reamed:
"Ya gotta fold yer sheets, everyo ne fol ds their sheets ' "
"Well I a in 't just everyone
sheetmanl"
"Yah? Yah?" He stood swallowing iil decisively . Nobody had
ever co nfro nted him w ith refusal
before. He had used all hi s cons ;
he gave u p.
''I' ll fo ld ye r sheets this time ,
bu t by the end of the semes ter
yer go nn a fo ld yer sheets!" he
bel lowed as he s lam med t he
fre s h cotton down on the
co un ter.

),

Foster w rites: "The co ll ege,
t hen, is full of the qualities of
Libra w ith ascendent sun , Mercury, Venus a nd Uranus in this
sign. Evergree n was born o n a
full moon in Ar ies. Mars is in
Aquarius, Ju piter and Neptune in
Sagittarius, Saturn in Gemini ,
and Pluto in Virgo.
Foster continues by interpreting the Ascenden t and individual
pla nets in the respective signs
a nd houses . Fi nall y, he makes
predictions for Evergreen.
"Uranus transiting the Ascendent the last couple of months
(of 1974) is creating a dramatic
change in Evergreen's appearance to the world." (At that
time , Evergreen was weathering
so me interesting storms - the
disappearance of Donna Gail
Manson in March, 1974; a
Gay Festival; controversy
over hiring Stephanie Coontz,
a "known ant·i -war activist"

and the non-hiring of Chuck
Harbaugh, a gay sociologist
a nd co unselor; Vicki Schneider's suicide fall from "A" Dorm;
a paraprofessional counselors'
strike; and th e beginnings of a
struggle over John Moss' appointment to the d ua l directorship of Personnel and Auxiliary Services .)
-"S'pring of 1977 w ill be a time
for defining o r co nfirm in g
Evergreen's energy expression,
and the beginning of a new
cycle or mode of financial
operation s." (Maybe Evergreen
wil l have to become a private
co llege . Then perhaps we can
be purchased by Hughes Summa Corporation and become a
CIA fron t - o r at the very
least, a training ground for
fl edglin g Erli ch man ns a nd
Deans . However, in t he light
of rece nt budget and enrollment problems, the latter pre-

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CAREERS IN LIBRARY SCIENCE
Spring Career & Graduate School Lecture Series
Jovana Brown, Dean of The Evergreen State College
Library, will speak on career opportunities in Library
Science.
Date: Friday, May 28
Time: 12 - 1 :30 p.m.
Place: CAB 110 (Bring your iunch)

dictio n is rapidly com ing to
fo rm .)
-"1980-81 will ca ll for strong
redefinition of Evergreen, its
purpose a nd goals ."
-"1982 will be a tim e of transformation of fi nancial struct ure due to the previous year's
redefinition ."
-1983-84 will be years of taking on a new form to the outer
wo rl d."
-"1985 will be a time of expansion of the emerging forces in
a well-defined and stable area
of activity."
Foster's horoscope ends on this
ambiguous note: "Though Evergreen has a natural flair for
attract ing financia l support , its

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ENTERTAINMENT

The Mystery of Reggae

by John S. Foster
KAOS Music Director
Why topical songs from the
slums of b lack Jamaica should be
so popular with white middleclass college students is a mystery to me, but I will not deny
my love of reggae music.
Regga e , born of poverty and
o ppression , takes its roots from

the Afro-Latin influences of Caribbean island music , early 60's
rock' n'roll , and R&B - which
owes its root s to black blues of
the rural South and the industrialization of Northern cities
that caused the migration and
urbanizati on of black Americans.
Lest this become another book in
the bible on who begat who , let's
just say that if it had not been
for an unennghtened attitude
toward Africans by certain powerful Europeans there would be
no reggae music, very few black
Americans, and no need for this
article ... and it was also born
of lots of ganja .
Reggae, which was supposed
to be "The Thing" a few years
back, never did catch on, except
in Boston, where one might have
to go to be a collector in this
coun tr y. Everyone and their
brother makes records in Jamaica's capital city, Kingston,
and there seems to be no telling
what will get released in the U.S.
Due to KAOS -FM not having

any of these albums, this community - which, in theory ,
should be hip to things before
anywhere else - had little exposure to reggae before last
year's 'showing of The Harder
They Come. The movie (an absorbing look at the making of a
Jamaican hero / anti-hero) and its
soundtrack are hereby plugged.
It's an excellent introduction to
. reggae featuring some of the
most cogent songs to leave the
island and Jimmy Cliff's finest
work to date. Start with this.
Next you will want a Bob
Marley and the Wailers album.
Bu min', closely followed by
Natty Dread, would be my
choices, although the cookin' est
session is Live!, a British import,
which I wish was released nationally and had more music.
Another essential album is Toots
and the May tal's Funky Kingston
which contains tracks hap-

hazardly culled from their two
British albums. I just picked up a
used Funky Kingston import , a
rawer and more representative
collection .
The reggae anthologies are all
uneven, but the two worthy of
consideration are This Is Reggae
Music Vols. 1 and 2 . Volume 1
includes some of the classic
reggae songs (" Concrete Jungle"
from the Wailer's Catch A Fire,
The Heptone's "Book of Rules,"
and "Funky Kingston") and features well-known performers.
Volume 2 includes pieces by
some of the best unknowns. The
finest reggae songs are transfix ing and must be heard over and
over. Be forewarned; there are
some on this album.
Burning Spear and Third
World, two groups from Volume
2, have released albums this
year. Burning Spear's Marcus
Garvey, like Third World, re-

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by Curt Milton

from

veals heavy Afro influence, but
is tight , political, and concise. It
is a lso excellent. Third World
stretches everything out achieving a somnambulistic effect on
some songs. They also borrow
from the American soul ballad
form to good advantage. The
two albums, although contradictory in style, point out the ongoing evo lution of Jamaican
music.
Reggae was only officially created in 1968, but I can see the
purists already cringing. G . T.
Moore, with one album out in
the states, needs more defending
due to his color - white - and
his nationality "English. He
has made a great reggae album
that is neither pretentious or imitative .
Number four in a series on interesting music that is too unknown. For music like this listen
to KAOS-FM, 89.3.

The Final Days
by Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein, 456 pages,
$11.95, Simon and Schuster.
Few books in recent years
have generated the intense media
excitement that has surrounded
The Final Days for about two
months now . Long before it was
released to the reading public, it
became the center of an intense
controversy among government
officials , journalists and just
plain o ld folks. People who
knew little more about it than
what they had read on the front
page of the local paper or seen
between the covers of Newsweek
were denouncing it as both the
most monstrous lie ever and the
greatest invasion of privacy of
all time. Either that or they were
praising it as the most fascinating
and exciting case of reportage in
the history of print journalism .
No one seemed to be claiming
the middle ground of opinion.
Now that the book has finally
been released, with brisk sales '
that will probably keep it on the
best seller lists for a year or
more, the con troversy seems to
have died down. All of ' which
says a lot about the book and
the way it was handled by the
promoters .
The controversy received its
original boo st following two

S ~mme r is here and while a lot of people will be leaving for vacation, many others will be
s t ~y mg In school.. The Coop er Point Journal will publish four regular issues this summer and an

onent atlOn I~sue In August . To put it simply, we need writers! The position of news editor for
the summer IS open but we also need all types of writers who might not have the time to work
In a full staff poslhon. That doesn't mean just students, either. Faculty and staff are also
enco uraged to tur.n in articles. Artists and photographers - the Cooper Point Journal is the
perfect place to display your work. We regularly publish submitted art work graphic work
ph o tographs - just anything. Stop by CAB 306 or call 866-6213 or -6214 for m~re information.'

ffI~II~II"Hf/~

weeks of excerpts in Newsweek,
35,000 words in all , that were
not only out of context but out
of sequence as well. The book's
impact , derived from a careful,
chronological building-up of
events, was destroyed by the
magazine's handling of the mate rial. Sensational segments, such
as the Nixon-Kissinger "let's-getdown - on - the - Oval- Office - car pet - and - pray" incident, were
taken out of the back of the
book and prominently placed in
the first week of excerpts. Important material like the handling of
the "Saturday Night Massacre"
and a lengthy series of incidents
that establish Nixon's irrational
behavior, were either left out entirely or edited to a few paragraphs. Woodward and Bernstein left themselves open to attack by selling the excerpt rights
to Newsweek and allowing the
book to be butchered.
When taken as a whole, The
Final Days is not nearly so shocking or unfair as we have been led
to believe. Actually , it's the most
intriguing book to come out of
the Watergate scandal yet .
The one aspect about the book
that most easily offends people
and casts doubts on its validity
is the novel-like style in which it
is written. We are constantly let
in on what people "thought" or
"felt" at a particular time. In the
opening scene of Chapter One
we find lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt
"nervously tappi!\8 his hand on
the armrest."
J
"How could the authors know
that sort of stuff?" many have
asked. " They weren't there. "
Granted, they weren't and it
does seem to stretch things a bit
to include such information .

Josh Touster

However, this is no ordinary
piece of reportage. The authors
have chosen a style for non -fiction that is relatively unexplored
- treating the material in the
form of a novel.
The fact that the book does
read like a novel is exactly why
it is so good. If I might be excused a cliche, you can feel the
events sweeping toward the dramatic climax. Really. The only
problem is that we all know how
it ends.
The book takes readers inside
the machine of the Nixon White
House where all is not rllnning
as smoothly as it seems. Nixon is
under siege, living in a fantasy
world where reality intrudes
rarely, to be quickly tuned out
by an evening cruise on the
Potomac or an extra drink before
dinner. Nixon either can't or
won't comprehend his hopeless
situation, refusing to turn over
the bombshell tapes and all but
defying the Congress to impeach
him .
The situation among the White
House staff is. not much better.
General Alexander Haig, Chief
of Staff, attempts to fashion a
defense for a client who won't
talk to his lawyers and refuses to
disclose information. Many on
the staff, including Haig, Buzhardt , James St. Clair, the Presi dent's attorney, and others, are
concerned not only with saving
Nixon but with salvaging their
reputations untarnished from his
crumbling presidency.
What does it all mean 7 For
one thing, Nixon was a lot less
stable than we believed, even before Watergate . The amazing
thing is that he didn't do more
damage than he did. How the
whole thing escaped detection by
the general populace for so long
is a mystery we may never
solve.
The greatest story told here,
though, is that of the abuse of
power. Nixon and his men were
all small-time operators who
suddenly found themselves caught
up in the most powerful game in
the world . As such, there was
nothing they felt they couldn't
do for the good of the country
(as they saw it) and, most importantly, for the . good of Richard
M . Nixon . The bunker-like mentality of " Us vs. Them" that operated in the Nixon White House
has never been brought out more
clearly than it is here . They felt
that they were the law and yet at
the same time were somehow
above it. Unfortunately, the very
people they thought they were
serving were the same people
that they were lying to and de ceiving every day . And that, in
the end, was their undoing .

Why Students

Make lAOUSY Films
by Matt Groening

I,
,

i

I

I

"Kill them all. God will easily
recognize His own." - Amalric
(13th century French theologian
and philosopher). to Simon de
Montfort , at the massacre at
Beziers, 1209.
It is easier to take a good
photograph of a tree than to
make a good drawing of a tree
or a good sentence about one. It
is easier to put together a movie,
especially a short one, that has
some superficial resemblance to
art, than it IS to write a story or
paint a picture that produces
equivalent effects. Film technology is so advanced that any
moron can chum out a sound
movie with a minimum of effort,
and any of dozens of theories of
film aesthetics can be used to
justify with pride whatever is
thrown up on the screen.
Film, compared to other arts,
takes its first steps easily. ' Its
innate qualities include a relatively large amount of representational and symbolic power ,
and anyone who presses a
button long enough to expose a
hundred feet of film can exploit
this power. But film-makers
should be aware that the fact
that movies can often transfix
us is partially because in a darkened room there is nothing else
to look at.
Student film-makers rarely
move beyond the minimum
mechanical competence necessary
to produce the simplest movie.
Their output in general is characterized by empty ideas, stagey
acting, awkward composition,
and sloppy editing. The hundreds and sometimes thousands
of dollars that are poured into a
movie project will not alter the
result when the basic concept is

dismal. boring, and hopeless. If
anything, large budgets can even
make a movie worse by making
it longer.
Basically, student films fall
into six categories:

1) The Hallucinatory Film Trip
Films in this category are often
quite slick and technically advanced _ They are okay if they
don't last too · long. The soundtrack usually . consists of electronic drone music, realized on
an Arp synthesizer, the Hammond organ of the 1970's.
2) The Unfunny Comedy Tame
irreverence is the problem here,
as well as stolen sight gags and
irritating overacting. Symptoms:
any comical reference to Jesus
Christ, any depiction of marijuana being smoked, and any
scene showing a toilet.
3) The Pretentious Film Poem

Tedium is the message. The
makers intend a dream-like effect, and they are partially successful; they put their audiences
to sleep. Symptoms: indiscriminate zoom shots, young women
in long dresses walking through
forest glens in slow motion, and
any dramatic reference to Jesus
Christ.
4) The Cure Cartoon The calculated whimsicality that student
animators strive for rarely comes
off because the drawings are too
jerky or the ideas too slight.
5) The Boring Documentary

Students making documentaries
usually can't afford suff icient
film to make a good movie, so
they pick safe subjects with little
depth and keep their shooting
ratios down . They come up with
the same thing again and again:
"personality" films on wrinkled
old farmers or fishermen, who
seem like they might be full of
wisdom , but evidently not when

the microphone is on; local controversies which become outdated halfway through the shooting of the movie, and in which
the film-maker's bias is painfully
obvious; and that old favorite,
the tearing down of a local landmark, with black-and-white stills
of "how-it-used-to-be ."
6)

The Avant-Garde Ego Trip

Shoddiness is the order of the
day. Content and message are
out the window. A con job
which fools both the film-maker
and the audience: flimflam film
phlegm. If chimps could make
movies, this woul4 be their category. Symptoms: the film-maker
and / or his girl friend in the
nude, Jesus Christ in the nude,
or any sexual act involving Jesus
Christ.
Films in any of these categories sometimes gain their interest
from the musical soundtracks
they accompany . These consist
of popular ro~k and folk songs
taken from the film-maker's fav orite record albums. They are
used without permission. The
film-maker who steals a familiar
song should be aware that while
it may improve his or her movie ,
the credit goes to the recording.
But why do students make
these lousy films? What is their
problem? Basically, of course, it
is a lack of talent. For most, no
book, no workshop, no piece of
equipment will ever be of any
help. Is this what is called "destructive criticism 1" Is it too
harsh, too negative, too pessimistic?
Film-makers and film-goers , I
ask you :
"Is that latest film half infocus, or is it half out-of-focus?"

This is the final article in a
series on student film -making.

Friday, May 28
PUTNEY SWOPE (1969, 84 min.)
Robert Downey, an underground
film-maker who sort of made it.
wrote and directed this sat ire on
the advertiSing world, dealing with
t~e rise to success of a young
black man on Madison A.enue.
Also: "Drag -A long Droopy," an
MGM cartoon by Tex Avery. LH
one, 3, 7 and 9:30 p.m . FREE .
Tuesday, June 1
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951. 122
min .) George Stevens directed this
movie version of Theodore Drelser's
An American Tragedy, deal ing with
the immoral lives of the Idle rich. It
won six Oscars, including those for
Best Direction, Best Screenplay,
Best Scoring, and Best Cinematography. Starring Montgomery Clift,
Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters.
and Raymond Burr. Presented by
the Academic Film Series. LH one,
2 and 7:30 p.m. FREE.
Friday, June 4
THE GARDEN OF THE FINZICONTINIS (1971, 96 min.) Vittorio
De Sica directed this Oscar-winning
(Best Foreign Film) story, set in
Italy In 1938, about an aristocratic
Jewish family that is forced to
acknowledge the outside world for
the first time when Mussolini's antiSemitic edicts begin to take effect.
IN OLYMPIA
MISSOURI BREAKS Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, and director
Arthur Penn cash In . Thomas
McGuane is responsible for the
pointless script, and the aud ience
suffers. Olympic Theatre, 357-3422.
ORIZZL Y Unbearable . Capitol
Theatre, 357 -7161 .
WINTERHAWK and TRINITY IS
STILL MY NAME Lacey Drive-In ,
491-3161.
FIGHTING MAD 'and THE LAST
MEN Sunset Drive-In, 357-8302.
TAXI DRIVER A powerful and unpleasant film by Martin Scorcese
("Mean Streets"), starring Robert
De Nlro and Harvey Keitel. State
Theatre, 357-4010.
RADIO AND TELEVISION
Thursday, May 27
EDITH PIAF Diane Hess traces
the career of the famous French
Singer. KAOS-FM, 4 - 6 p.m.
Friday, May 28
CRUSTY'S COOP
Carl Cook as Crusty Pitts. Tonight:
Kathleen Meighan shows her'
photos , "Flying Deuces" with
Laurel and Hardy, "The Story of
Matthew Brady," and Chapter 10 of
"The Phantom Creeps." Channel 6
(telecable), 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Saturday, May 29
RE-RUNS FOR LATE RISERS
Popu lar music that Isn't so popular , with host John S. Foster.
KAOS-FM, 2:30 - 7 p.m .
Sunday, May 30
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
BROADCAST, Pierre Boulez conductlng. Brahms : Concer10 lor
Violin . Cello, and Orchestra, in A
Minor; Sessions : Symphony No.
3; Debussy: La Mer. KAOS-FM ,
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
IN AMERICA THEY CALL US
AMERICANS Obscure music on independent record labels, featuring
some very old country music. John
S. Foster is host. KAOS -FM , midnight until the wee hours .
Monday, May 31
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE A woman
from the Department of Social and
Health Services will dIscuss adoption. Laura Mae Abraham and WaIter Davis host. KAOS-FM, 7 p.m .
AUDIO OINTMENT Lee Meister
plays tasty Jazz from the 1940's to
the latest Jive. KAOS-FM, 4 to 7
p.m.
Wednesday, June 2
OLDER WOMEN AND HEALTH
CARE, Part IV : Ruth Haefner of the
Gray Panthers. Carla Knoper hosts .
KAOS-FM . 3 - 4 p.m.

MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, May 27
COUNTRY MUSIC CONCERT by
members of Performing in America
Counlry Music group. Lib. 4300,
7:30 - 9:30 p.m . FREE.
OLD-FASHIONED SQUARE
DANCE with Ii.e music and caller
Beer and popcorn included in admiss ion . Lib. 4300, 9:30 p.m. , $2
advance (during noon hours on
main CAB mall) or $2.50 at the
door.
Friday. May 28
MARC SNYDER in a classical
guitar recital. Works by John and
Robert Dowland. Francesco Milano ,
Bach, Sors, Villa-Lobos , and Tarrega will be performed . Main li brary Lobby. 8 p.m. FREE.
Saturday, May 29
TERESA TRULL. an LA lesbian feminist singerl guitarist , in con cert . Ms. Trull is a touring performing artist for Olivia Record.s . Main
library lobby. 8 p.m.
Tuesday, June 1
ROWDY BALL Evergreen's annual
end -ol-the-yea r party, with live
music and public lewdness. Participants in past festivities have in cluded Fort Lewis soldiers and
members 01 local bike gangs. Lots
of throwing up just like at a normal
college. Live music into the night.
probably taking place behind the library. Musicians interested in performing should call Jim Doney at
866-1173 or Bob Jastad at 8669369. This may be your last chance
to make a fool of yourself before
graduating .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, May 28
JODY ALIESON. a feminist songwriter and poet, and SID BROWN,
a banJol guitar player, in concert.
ApplejBm Folk Center, 220 E.
Union, 9 p.m ., $1.
Saturday, May 29
OPEN MIKE NIGHT open to all
musicians, poets, and thaspians.
Applejam Folk Center, 8 p.m. First
act starts 8:25. $1 admission.
POETRY
Thursday , May 27, 1976
JAMES TATE, author of The
Oblivion Ha Ha, Absences, and The
Lost Pilot, reads selections of his
work . Presented by the Center for
Poetry In Performance. LH th ree, 8
p.m. FREE .
SLIDES
Wednesday, June 2, 1976
TORRE EGGER , a slide presentation by Jim Donini. Presented by
Sunrise Mountaineering and The
Evergreen Alpine Association . LH
one. 3 p.m., 25 cents.
DRAMA
ON CAMPUS
Wednesday, June 2
FLOWERS FROM THE EXECUTION, a "word concert" by st udent
Aubrey Dawn . Main Library Lobby.
8 p.m., $1.
ART
SENIOR ART SHOW Library Art
Gallery . Through May 27 .
KAREN TRUAX HAND-COLORED
PHOTOGRAPHS Library Art Gallery.
Through May 27.
REFLEXIONES DE MESO-AMERICA ("Reflections 01 Central America") Works col lected by the
Mexico group contract. Library Art
Gallery, June 1 through June 11 .
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
EXPOSED The eagerly-awaited exhibition of stuffed albino squirrels has
proven to be yet another example
of Iraudulent publicity . The tiny rodents on exhi bit are not albino. are
not stuffed, and in fact are not
even squirrels . They are filthy gray
fie ld mice that have been dipped in
white paint. They do, howe.er.
make amusing noises when
squeezed . Joe Bemis Memoria l
Gallery. open 24 hours .

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ENTERTAINMENT

The Mystery of Reggae

by John S. Foster
KAOS Music Director
Why topical songs from the
slums of b lack Jamaica should be
so popular with white middleclass college students is a mystery to me, but I will not deny
my love of reggae music.
Regga e , born of poverty and
o ppression , takes its roots from

the Afro-Latin influences of Caribbean island music , early 60's
rock' n'roll , and R&B - which
owes its root s to black blues of
the rural South and the industrialization of Northern cities
that caused the migration and
urbanizati on of black Americans.
Lest this become another book in
the bible on who begat who , let's
just say that if it had not been
for an unennghtened attitude
toward Africans by certain powerful Europeans there would be
no reggae music, very few black
Americans, and no need for this
article ... and it was also born
of lots of ganja .
Reggae, which was supposed
to be "The Thing" a few years
back, never did catch on, except
in Boston, where one might have
to go to be a collector in this
coun tr y. Everyone and their
brother makes records in Jamaica's capital city, Kingston,
and there seems to be no telling
what will get released in the U.S.
Due to KAOS -FM not having

any of these albums, this community - which, in theory ,
should be hip to things before
anywhere else - had little exposure to reggae before last
year's 'showing of The Harder
They Come. The movie (an absorbing look at the making of a
Jamaican hero / anti-hero) and its
soundtrack are hereby plugged.
It's an excellent introduction to
. reggae featuring some of the
most cogent songs to leave the
island and Jimmy Cliff's finest
work to date. Start with this.
Next you will want a Bob
Marley and the Wailers album.
Bu min', closely followed by
Natty Dread, would be my
choices, although the cookin' est
session is Live!, a British import,
which I wish was released nationally and had more music.
Another essential album is Toots
and the May tal's Funky Kingston
which contains tracks hap-

hazardly culled from their two
British albums. I just picked up a
used Funky Kingston import , a
rawer and more representative
collection .
The reggae anthologies are all
uneven, but the two worthy of
consideration are This Is Reggae
Music Vols. 1 and 2 . Volume 1
includes some of the classic
reggae songs (" Concrete Jungle"
from the Wailer's Catch A Fire,
The Heptone's "Book of Rules,"
and "Funky Kingston") and features well-known performers.
Volume 2 includes pieces by
some of the best unknowns. The
finest reggae songs are transfix ing and must be heard over and
over. Be forewarned; there are
some on this album.
Burning Spear and Third
World, two groups from Volume
2, have released albums this
year. Burning Spear's Marcus
Garvey, like Third World, re-

Arts and Entertainment
FILMS
ON CAMPUS

REVIEW
by Curt Milton

from

veals heavy Afro influence, but
is tight , political, and concise. It
is a lso excellent. Third World
stretches everything out achieving a somnambulistic effect on
some songs. They also borrow
from the American soul ballad
form to good advantage. The
two albums, although contradictory in style, point out the ongoing evo lution of Jamaican
music.
Reggae was only officially created in 1968, but I can see the
purists already cringing. G . T.
Moore, with one album out in
the states, needs more defending
due to his color - white - and
his nationality "English. He
has made a great reggae album
that is neither pretentious or imitative .
Number four in a series on interesting music that is too unknown. For music like this listen
to KAOS-FM, 89.3.

The Final Days
by Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein, 456 pages,
$11.95, Simon and Schuster.
Few books in recent years
have generated the intense media
excitement that has surrounded
The Final Days for about two
months now . Long before it was
released to the reading public, it
became the center of an intense
controversy among government
officials , journalists and just
plain o ld folks. People who
knew little more about it than
what they had read on the front
page of the local paper or seen
between the covers of Newsweek
were denouncing it as both the
most monstrous lie ever and the
greatest invasion of privacy of
all time. Either that or they were
praising it as the most fascinating
and exciting case of reportage in
the history of print journalism .
No one seemed to be claiming
the middle ground of opinion.
Now that the book has finally
been released, with brisk sales '
that will probably keep it on the
best seller lists for a year or
more, the con troversy seems to
have died down. All of ' which
says a lot about the book and
the way it was handled by the
promoters .
The controversy received its
original boo st following two

S ~mme r is here and while a lot of people will be leaving for vacation, many others will be
s t ~y mg In school.. The Coop er Point Journal will publish four regular issues this summer and an

onent atlOn I~sue In August . To put it simply, we need writers! The position of news editor for
the summer IS open but we also need all types of writers who might not have the time to work
In a full staff poslhon. That doesn't mean just students, either. Faculty and staff are also
enco uraged to tur.n in articles. Artists and photographers - the Cooper Point Journal is the
perfect place to display your work. We regularly publish submitted art work graphic work
ph o tographs - just anything. Stop by CAB 306 or call 866-6213 or -6214 for m~re information.'

ffI~II~II"Hf/~

weeks of excerpts in Newsweek,
35,000 words in all , that were
not only out of context but out
of sequence as well. The book's
impact , derived from a careful,
chronological building-up of
events, was destroyed by the
magazine's handling of the mate rial. Sensational segments, such
as the Nixon-Kissinger "let's-getdown - on - the - Oval- Office - car pet - and - pray" incident, were
taken out of the back of the
book and prominently placed in
the first week of excerpts. Important material like the handling of
the "Saturday Night Massacre"
and a lengthy series of incidents
that establish Nixon's irrational
behavior, were either left out entirely or edited to a few paragraphs. Woodward and Bernstein left themselves open to attack by selling the excerpt rights
to Newsweek and allowing the
book to be butchered.
When taken as a whole, The
Final Days is not nearly so shocking or unfair as we have been led
to believe. Actually , it's the most
intriguing book to come out of
the Watergate scandal yet .
The one aspect about the book
that most easily offends people
and casts doubts on its validity
is the novel-like style in which it
is written. We are constantly let
in on what people "thought" or
"felt" at a particular time. In the
opening scene of Chapter One
we find lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt
"nervously tappi!\8 his hand on
the armrest."
J
"How could the authors know
that sort of stuff?" many have
asked. " They weren't there. "
Granted, they weren't and it
does seem to stretch things a bit
to include such information .

Josh Touster

However, this is no ordinary
piece of reportage. The authors
have chosen a style for non -fiction that is relatively unexplored
- treating the material in the
form of a novel.
The fact that the book does
read like a novel is exactly why
it is so good. If I might be excused a cliche, you can feel the
events sweeping toward the dramatic climax. Really. The only
problem is that we all know how
it ends.
The book takes readers inside
the machine of the Nixon White
House where all is not rllnning
as smoothly as it seems. Nixon is
under siege, living in a fantasy
world where reality intrudes
rarely, to be quickly tuned out
by an evening cruise on the
Potomac or an extra drink before
dinner. Nixon either can't or
won't comprehend his hopeless
situation, refusing to turn over
the bombshell tapes and all but
defying the Congress to impeach
him .
The situation among the White
House staff is. not much better.
General Alexander Haig, Chief
of Staff, attempts to fashion a
defense for a client who won't
talk to his lawyers and refuses to
disclose information. Many on
the staff, including Haig, Buzhardt , James St. Clair, the Presi dent's attorney, and others, are
concerned not only with saving
Nixon but with salvaging their
reputations untarnished from his
crumbling presidency.
What does it all mean 7 For
one thing, Nixon was a lot less
stable than we believed, even before Watergate . The amazing
thing is that he didn't do more
damage than he did. How the
whole thing escaped detection by
the general populace for so long
is a mystery we may never
solve.
The greatest story told here,
though, is that of the abuse of
power. Nixon and his men were
all small-time operators who
suddenly found themselves caught
up in the most powerful game in
the world . As such, there was
nothing they felt they couldn't
do for the good of the country
(as they saw it) and, most importantly, for the . good of Richard
M . Nixon . The bunker-like mentality of " Us vs. Them" that operated in the Nixon White House
has never been brought out more
clearly than it is here . They felt
that they were the law and yet at
the same time were somehow
above it. Unfortunately, the very
people they thought they were
serving were the same people
that they were lying to and de ceiving every day . And that, in
the end, was their undoing .

Why Students

Make lAOUSY Films
by Matt Groening

I,
,

i

I

I

"Kill them all. God will easily
recognize His own." - Amalric
(13th century French theologian
and philosopher). to Simon de
Montfort , at the massacre at
Beziers, 1209.
It is easier to take a good
photograph of a tree than to
make a good drawing of a tree
or a good sentence about one. It
is easier to put together a movie,
especially a short one, that has
some superficial resemblance to
art, than it IS to write a story or
paint a picture that produces
equivalent effects. Film technology is so advanced that any
moron can chum out a sound
movie with a minimum of effort,
and any of dozens of theories of
film aesthetics can be used to
justify with pride whatever is
thrown up on the screen.
Film, compared to other arts,
takes its first steps easily. ' Its
innate qualities include a relatively large amount of representational and symbolic power ,
and anyone who presses a
button long enough to expose a
hundred feet of film can exploit
this power. But film-makers
should be aware that the fact
that movies can often transfix
us is partially because in a darkened room there is nothing else
to look at.
Student film-makers rarely
move beyond the minimum
mechanical competence necessary
to produce the simplest movie.
Their output in general is characterized by empty ideas, stagey
acting, awkward composition,
and sloppy editing. The hundreds and sometimes thousands
of dollars that are poured into a
movie project will not alter the
result when the basic concept is

dismal. boring, and hopeless. If
anything, large budgets can even
make a movie worse by making
it longer.
Basically, student films fall
into six categories:

1) The Hallucinatory Film Trip
Films in this category are often
quite slick and technically advanced _ They are okay if they
don't last too · long. The soundtrack usually . consists of electronic drone music, realized on
an Arp synthesizer, the Hammond organ of the 1970's.
2) The Unfunny Comedy Tame
irreverence is the problem here,
as well as stolen sight gags and
irritating overacting. Symptoms:
any comical reference to Jesus
Christ, any depiction of marijuana being smoked, and any
scene showing a toilet.
3) The Pretentious Film Poem

Tedium is the message. The
makers intend a dream-like effect, and they are partially successful; they put their audiences
to sleep. Symptoms: indiscriminate zoom shots, young women
in long dresses walking through
forest glens in slow motion, and
any dramatic reference to Jesus
Christ.
4) The Cure Cartoon The calculated whimsicality that student
animators strive for rarely comes
off because the drawings are too
jerky or the ideas too slight.
5) The Boring Documentary

Students making documentaries
usually can't afford suff icient
film to make a good movie, so
they pick safe subjects with little
depth and keep their shooting
ratios down . They come up with
the same thing again and again:
"personality" films on wrinkled
old farmers or fishermen, who
seem like they might be full of
wisdom , but evidently not when

the microphone is on; local controversies which become outdated halfway through the shooting of the movie, and in which
the film-maker's bias is painfully
obvious; and that old favorite,
the tearing down of a local landmark, with black-and-white stills
of "how-it-used-to-be ."
6)

The Avant-Garde Ego Trip

Shoddiness is the order of the
day. Content and message are
out the window. A con job
which fools both the film-maker
and the audience: flimflam film
phlegm. If chimps could make
movies, this woul4 be their category. Symptoms: the film-maker
and / or his girl friend in the
nude, Jesus Christ in the nude,
or any sexual act involving Jesus
Christ.
Films in any of these categories sometimes gain their interest
from the musical soundtracks
they accompany . These consist
of popular ro~k and folk songs
taken from the film-maker's fav orite record albums. They are
used without permission. The
film-maker who steals a familiar
song should be aware that while
it may improve his or her movie ,
the credit goes to the recording.
But why do students make
these lousy films? What is their
problem? Basically, of course, it
is a lack of talent. For most, no
book, no workshop, no piece of
equipment will ever be of any
help. Is this what is called "destructive criticism 1" Is it too
harsh, too negative, too pessimistic?
Film-makers and film-goers , I
ask you :
"Is that latest film half infocus, or is it half out-of-focus?"

This is the final article in a
series on student film -making.

Friday, May 28
PUTNEY SWOPE (1969, 84 min.)
Robert Downey, an underground
film-maker who sort of made it.
wrote and directed this sat ire on
the advertiSing world, dealing with
t~e rise to success of a young
black man on Madison A.enue.
Also: "Drag -A long Droopy," an
MGM cartoon by Tex Avery. LH
one, 3, 7 and 9:30 p.m . FREE .
Tuesday, June 1
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951. 122
min .) George Stevens directed this
movie version of Theodore Drelser's
An American Tragedy, deal ing with
the immoral lives of the Idle rich. It
won six Oscars, including those for
Best Direction, Best Screenplay,
Best Scoring, and Best Cinematography. Starring Montgomery Clift,
Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters.
and Raymond Burr. Presented by
the Academic Film Series. LH one,
2 and 7:30 p.m. FREE.
Friday, June 4
THE GARDEN OF THE FINZICONTINIS (1971, 96 min.) Vittorio
De Sica directed this Oscar-winning
(Best Foreign Film) story, set in
Italy In 1938, about an aristocratic
Jewish family that is forced to
acknowledge the outside world for
the first time when Mussolini's antiSemitic edicts begin to take effect.
IN OLYMPIA
MISSOURI BREAKS Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, and director
Arthur Penn cash In . Thomas
McGuane is responsible for the
pointless script, and the aud ience
suffers. Olympic Theatre, 357-3422.
ORIZZL Y Unbearable . Capitol
Theatre, 357 -7161 .
WINTERHAWK and TRINITY IS
STILL MY NAME Lacey Drive-In ,
491-3161.
FIGHTING MAD 'and THE LAST
MEN Sunset Drive-In, 357-8302.
TAXI DRIVER A powerful and unpleasant film by Martin Scorcese
("Mean Streets"), starring Robert
De Nlro and Harvey Keitel. State
Theatre, 357-4010.
RADIO AND TELEVISION
Thursday, May 27
EDITH PIAF Diane Hess traces
the career of the famous French
Singer. KAOS-FM, 4 - 6 p.m.
Friday, May 28
CRUSTY'S COOP
Carl Cook as Crusty Pitts. Tonight:
Kathleen Meighan shows her'
photos , "Flying Deuces" with
Laurel and Hardy, "The Story of
Matthew Brady," and Chapter 10 of
"The Phantom Creeps." Channel 6
(telecable), 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Saturday, May 29
RE-RUNS FOR LATE RISERS
Popu lar music that Isn't so popular , with host John S. Foster.
KAOS-FM, 2:30 - 7 p.m .
Sunday, May 30
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
BROADCAST, Pierre Boulez conductlng. Brahms : Concer10 lor
Violin . Cello, and Orchestra, in A
Minor; Sessions : Symphony No.
3; Debussy: La Mer. KAOS-FM ,
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
IN AMERICA THEY CALL US
AMERICANS Obscure music on independent record labels, featuring
some very old country music. John
S. Foster is host. KAOS -FM , midnight until the wee hours .
Monday, May 31
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE A woman
from the Department of Social and
Health Services will dIscuss adoption. Laura Mae Abraham and WaIter Davis host. KAOS-FM, 7 p.m .
AUDIO OINTMENT Lee Meister
plays tasty Jazz from the 1940's to
the latest Jive. KAOS-FM, 4 to 7
p.m.
Wednesday, June 2
OLDER WOMEN AND HEALTH
CARE, Part IV : Ruth Haefner of the
Gray Panthers. Carla Knoper hosts .
KAOS-FM . 3 - 4 p.m.

MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, May 27
COUNTRY MUSIC CONCERT by
members of Performing in America
Counlry Music group. Lib. 4300,
7:30 - 9:30 p.m . FREE.
OLD-FASHIONED SQUARE
DANCE with Ii.e music and caller
Beer and popcorn included in admiss ion . Lib. 4300, 9:30 p.m. , $2
advance (during noon hours on
main CAB mall) or $2.50 at the
door.
Friday. May 28
MARC SNYDER in a classical
guitar recital. Works by John and
Robert Dowland. Francesco Milano ,
Bach, Sors, Villa-Lobos , and Tarrega will be performed . Main li brary Lobby. 8 p.m. FREE.
Saturday, May 29
TERESA TRULL. an LA lesbian feminist singerl guitarist , in con cert . Ms. Trull is a touring performing artist for Olivia Record.s . Main
library lobby. 8 p.m.
Tuesday, June 1
ROWDY BALL Evergreen's annual
end -ol-the-yea r party, with live
music and public lewdness. Participants in past festivities have in cluded Fort Lewis soldiers and
members 01 local bike gangs. Lots
of throwing up just like at a normal
college. Live music into the night.
probably taking place behind the library. Musicians interested in performing should call Jim Doney at
866-1173 or Bob Jastad at 8669369. This may be your last chance
to make a fool of yourself before
graduating .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, May 28
JODY ALIESON. a feminist songwriter and poet, and SID BROWN,
a banJol guitar player, in concert.
ApplejBm Folk Center, 220 E.
Union, 9 p.m ., $1.
Saturday, May 29
OPEN MIKE NIGHT open to all
musicians, poets, and thaspians.
Applejam Folk Center, 8 p.m. First
act starts 8:25. $1 admission.
POETRY
Thursday , May 27, 1976
JAMES TATE, author of The
Oblivion Ha Ha, Absences, and The
Lost Pilot, reads selections of his
work . Presented by the Center for
Poetry In Performance. LH th ree, 8
p.m. FREE .
SLIDES
Wednesday, June 2, 1976
TORRE EGGER , a slide presentation by Jim Donini. Presented by
Sunrise Mountaineering and The
Evergreen Alpine Association . LH
one. 3 p.m., 25 cents.
DRAMA
ON CAMPUS
Wednesday, June 2
FLOWERS FROM THE EXECUTION, a "word concert" by st udent
Aubrey Dawn . Main Library Lobby.
8 p.m., $1.
ART
SENIOR ART SHOW Library Art
Gallery . Through May 27 .
KAREN TRUAX HAND-COLORED
PHOTOGRAPHS Library Art Gallery.
Through May 27.
REFLEXIONES DE MESO-AMERICA ("Reflections 01 Central America") Works col lected by the
Mexico group contract. Library Art
Gallery, June 1 through June 11 .
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
EXPOSED The eagerly-awaited exhibition of stuffed albino squirrels has
proven to be yet another example
of Iraudulent publicity . The tiny rodents on exhi bit are not albino. are
not stuffed, and in fact are not
even squirrels . They are filthy gray
fie ld mice that have been dipped in
white paint. They do, howe.er.
make amusing noises when
squeezed . Joe Bemis Memoria l
Gallery. open 24 hours .

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Grad Placement Successful Here
ciated Press, "Many college counselors
agree that students at Evergreen State College in Olympia are having an easier time
finding jobs than their counterparts at the
more traditional colleges." Katz indicated
that this was because " Evergreen places a
strong emphasis on internships and work .
experience as part of the student's experience .
Of the 80 % of reporting 1975 Evergreen
graduates placed, 43 % had been employed
in their area of interest while 22 % had accepted other positions and another 10 %
had gained admission to graduate school
or other graduate education. Less than
1 % (3 graduates) had received jobs in
military-related fields and 4 % reported
that they are not currently seeking employment.
Similar figures for earlier years indicate
that 95 % of 1974 graduates atld 98 % of
1973 graduates reporting had been placed
in jobs at the time the report was made.
Cumulatively since the college's opening
in 1971 , 89% of reporting graduates had
received employment of some kind. Placement percentages are higher for earlier
years because of the great€[ amount of
time these graduates have been available
for work.

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Graduation June 6, 1976 : Where will they be a year from now?
by Jim Wright

Come Live At Our Place.
Come live at our place this Spring and Summer and
share the conveniences of living on campus, including
free utilities and free phone serv ice.
Each apartment comes complete with its own kitchen
and private bathroom not usually found in traditional
housing. Wall-to-wall carpeting is in each apartment
to soften the floors while laundry facilities are just
around the corner. And, if you're not afraid of
heights, we can even throw in a view either east or
west.
Rental prices do vary, but can be as low as $40 per
month based upon multiple occupancy and availability. For example, you and three friends can rent a
furnished two bedroom duplex for $160 per month.
So if you're a student, a faculty member, or a staff
member you can come live at our place.
To find out more about campus housing, stop by the
Housing Office or give us a call at 6132.

Despite Evergreen's continuing enrollment crisis, there is room for optimism
concerning graduate job placement accurding to figures relea sed by Career
Planning and Placement. These figures
show that approximately 80 % (290) of all

1975 graduates reporting (363 out of a
total of 468) had been placed in jobs
,within six months of graduation.
Thi s ratio compares favorab ly with
other colleges and universities which report an a verage 70 % job placement of
graduates.
According to Dean Katz of the Asso-

Union Charges
Procedural
Misconduct
1
Editor '" 11/('1(' , The Cooper Poin t J0umal
lew-nea that informalinn reported i/l
tile April 29 iss ue concerning the rlO/l renewals of con tracts for fawlty members
Jim Martin ez and Medardo Delgado was
i IIcorrect.
Dean Rudy Martill now denies statemellts attributed to him in which he said
thell recommendations by both him and
Dean Willie Parson that Martinez and
Delgado be retained were overruled by
Vice Pres ident Ed Kormondy.
According to Kormondy, Parson and
others, that information is incorrect. The
Journal has been illformed that Parson
was the dean for the two facully. He recommended that Martinez be retained and
that Delgado not be retained.
Following procedures outlined in the
Faculty Handbook , the three other deans
met to hear the evidence. They concurred
with Parson and sent their recommendation in letter form to Kormondy . Althougll
the letter reflected a group opinion , it was
signed only by Parson, head of the two
facultys ' dean group, as is traditional.
Kormondy upheld the ruling on Delgado by deciding not to renew his contract. He overruled the deans' recommendation on Martinez by not renewing his
contract also.
Although the misinformation originally
appeared in the April 29 issue of the
Journal as well as the May 6 issue, the
Journal was not infomled of the mistake
until May 14 in a letter from Dean Leo
Daugherty.
Apparently, the original mistake was
the result of a misunderstanding on the
part of Martin as he talked with the
Journal reporter. The Journal is surprised
that a mistake of this magnitude was not
pointed out immediately. .
IlLls

by Curt Milton
The Evergreen lotal of the American
Federation of Teachers has intensified its
charges of procedural misconduct in the
Jim Martinez non-renewal decision .
In a letter to Vice President Ed Kormondy dated May 20, the Union Grievance Committee stated that a review of
portfolios for Martinez and Sid White,
both of whom were candidates for nonretention, "has in both cases raised serious
questions about whether the procedures of
the Faculty Handbook Wi!re followed."
One of the procedural steps in the
Handbook says that a faculty member

" mll~t he eVillual ed annuall y arcl i,..,+<)rrne(
in writing 01 any deficiencies whi ch migh t
be ca U5e for non-reappointment. " Acco rding to the Union letter, of the two cases
reviewed, the only evaluation which mentioned specific deficiencies "which might
be cause for non-reappointment" was a
dean's evaluation dated March 27, 1976
and received by Martinez. That date
"gave Martinez little time to make improvements before you sent him his letter
of dismissal on April 14, 1976," the Grievance Committee stated. Although other
evaluations contained criticisms and
suggestions, the deans never said that the
problems were sufficient to cause a nonrenewal.
" Furthermore, the 1974 - 1975 deans'
evaluations for the two faculty members
were dated September 30, 1975, and
October 7, 1975," the letter continued.
"Even if these evaluations had specified
that the deficiencies might be cause for
non-reappointment, the faculty members
would have had only slightly more than
one quarter in which to improve ... "
The Handbook requires that a faculty
member who may not be renewed be assigned to a different dean in the second
year of his I her contract and that the two
deans work together to help the faculty
correct the deficiencies. It also requires
that all the deans get together, discuss the
situation and send a letter reAecting their
opinion to the Provost and the faculty
member. " There is no evidence of two
deans working together," the Union
charged. "In neither case did the deans
send a letter reflecting their opinion to the
Provost ... " or the faculty member.
The letter went on to question Kormondy's application of the seven nonretention criteria outlined in the Handbook, Kormondy had written in a letter
to Martinez that faculty are judged not
only on the "quantitative" criteria listed in
the Handbook, but that he and the deans
also had to interpret each faculty in an
unspecified way on the ' quality of their
teaching. The Union countered that " ...
the deans' and the Provost's judgment
about faculty performance shall be rooted
in the seven criteria listed in the Hand "
book. Those criteria are at once both
qualitative and quantitative . .. " (emphasis theirs).
Based on the review, the Union asked
that Kormondy rewrite a letter he had
sent to White announcing his retention,

Breakdown by subject area show s tholt
Counseling and Social Services attracteJ
the largest number of 1975 graduates
(21 %), followed by Environmental Sciences and Planning (11 %) and Educati o n
(10 % ). Other areas include Visual Art s
(7%), Medicine and Health (3%). Law
(2%), Communications (2%), and Air plane Navigation (.2 % - one graduate
placed).
Of those placed in the Visual Arts category; one graduate listed his current occupation as a self-employed potter while another is a stained glass maker. Still an other is a crafts program director. Inter estingly, of nine graduates listi ng a major
interest in Anthropology, none had received placement in their area of focus.
Meanwhile, of seven reporting gradu ates not indicating an area of interest , one
had been employed as a golf course attendant; another received a job as a field
coordinator for the Campfire Girls .
Of the overall 22 % of 1975 Evergreen
graduates receiving job s outside their
major area of interest, present placements
include a Halfway House cOllnselor, a
switchboard operator, a bartender, a dime
store clerk , a railroad switchman , and a
child care worker.

The Evergreen State College· Olympia,Washington 98505

THE COOPER POINT

RNAL
Volun" e IV Number 3'

The S & A Board works out
Wednesday.

May 27, 1976

Lecture

Final S&A
Allocations Begin
by Jill Stewart
Final decisions on Student Services and
Activities budgets were begun yesterday
as the S & A Board met for its final
allocation week.
Thus far a total of nine budgets have
been cut completely, three budget requests
were funded in full and thirty-two
budgets were reduced.
Eliminated were the Bookstore Subsidy,
Campus Major Productions, Career Planning Computer, Coffee House, Evergreen
Promotion Money, Film Resource Bank,
Food Services Subsidy and Forensics.
One of the most striking reductions was
to Leisure Education, which was funded
only $ll,1.~57 of the $45,227.27 originally
requested .
Among student groups, EPIC received

"taking into account the criticisms we
have presented." The letter also asked
that Martinez be reinstated for another
three year contract.
The Union has also asked Rindetta

$4922 of an original $9943.86 requested,
Asian Coalition was alloted $3203.31 ,
down from $4769 and the Gay Center
received $3259 of their original $8233
request.
The Faith Center was cut from $2108 to
$1327 and NASA has received a tentative
allocation of $5000. down from their
$8000 request.

Groups under the "Communications
and Cultural Events" catagory were
funded as follows: . KAOS $23,000 ,
Cooper Point Journal $20,000, Center for
Poetry $2,865, Chamber Singers $900,
Friday Night Films $8,790, Gig Commission $800.
With final decisions pending on several
more budgets, the S & A Board will meet
Friday, May 28, at 10:00 a,m , in the
Board Room .
Jones, Affirmative Action Officer, to "Investigate the Martinez case for possible
racial discrimination in the application of
criteria for retention ... "

Source

Eng US-WaOE.A.1973-01