The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 4 (October 28, 1976)

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Eng The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 4 (October 28, 1976)

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28 October 1976

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Eng Pg 1: The Cooper Point Journal (Front Page);
Pg 1: Image: Winning Pumpkin in Library's First Annual Great Pumpkin Contest by Dowd;
Pg 1: Faculty Elected to Presidential Search Committee;
Pg 1: Oly Late-Night Drag Scene: Heavy Hang Outs, Mean Machines (image: drag race car by Pokorny)(cont. page 3);
Pg 2: (image: two women in cat-eye sunglasses (by Gilbreath);
Pg 2: Letters: Entertainment Column to be Taken Seriously?;
Pg 2: Letters: Gay & Women's Centers Edited;
Pg 2: Letters: Another Fable of Our Time: The Faculty and the Dean;
Pg 2: (advertisement) Middle-Earth Mercantile;
Pg 2: Chris' Ice Cream;
Pg 2: Staff Credits;
Pg 2: (advertisement) Dirty Dave's Pizza Parlor;
Pg 3: The Alphabet Odyssey (image: artwork of quote from Nikos Kazantzaki);
Pg 3: (cont. from page 1) Cruisin' in Oly (image: three parked cars (by Pokorny);
Pg 4: Candidate Forum Here Tonight: 22nd District Features Personality Contest (Images: John Hendricks, Mike Kreidler) (cont. page 5);
Pg 4: (advertisement) Peterson's Foodtown;
Pg 4: (advertisement) Radiance Herbs & Massage;
Pg 4: (advertisement) EJ's Grocery and Tole Shop;
Pg 4: (advertisement) Tyee Motor Inn;
Pg 4: (advertisement) Break Away Tours;
Pg 4: Nationally Known Speed Reading Course to be Taught Here In Olympia;
Pg 4: Announcement: Government Job and Graduate School Information Day;
Pg 5: (cont. from page 4) Kreidler - Hendricks;
Pg 5: Classifieds;
Pg 5: (advertisement) Greenwood Inn;
Pg 5: (advertisement) Jerry Gray Campaign;
Pg 5: Announcement: Career Film Series;
Pg 5: (advertisement) The 7th House;
Pg 6: Announcement: Senior Employment Seminar;
Pg 6: (advertisement) Olympia Fish Market;
Pg 6: Swine Flu Vaccinations: Should You or Shouldn't You? (image: Dr. Dave Peterson);
Pg 6: (advertisement) Bell System Telephones;
Pg 6: (advertisement) Yaros Electronics;
Pg 7: Entertainment: Freaks; A Confession of Evil (image: The Harry Woman 1643);
Pg 7: Entertainment: Arts and Events;
Pg 7: (advertisement) Westside Auto Parts;
Pg 7: (advertisement) Red Apple Natural Foods;
Pg 8: New Admissions Director: Greg Vermillion "result - oriented";
Pg 8: (advertisement) m.b. audio;

Creator

Eng Wright, Jim

Eng Girvin, Tim

Eng Shore, Stan

Eng Kruse, Steve

Contributor

Eng Stewart, Jill

Eng Groening, Matt

Eng Floren, Brooke Ann

Eng Darling, Gene

Eng Dowd, Rick

Eng Imfeld, Teresa

Eng Pokorny, Brad

Eng McLaughlin, Tom

Eng McCartney, Kim

Eng Fleming, Lisa

Eng Judd, David

Eng Hansen, Jeanne

Eng Sutherland, Brock

Eng Rogers, Leo

Subject

Eng College Faculty

Eng Drag racing

Eng Cruising

Eng Calligraphy

Eng European Calligraphy

Eng Horror films

Eng Epidemics

Eng Vaccinations

Eng Local politics

Eng Newspaper editing

Eng College staff

Eng College President

Eng Brown, Bill

Eng Dobbs, Carolyn

Eng Jones, Richard M. (Richard Matthew), 1925-1994

Eng Kahan, Linda

Eng Mimms, Maxine

Eng Peskin, Joye

Eng Maraire, Dumisani

Eng Wolfe, Tom

Eng Barner, George

Eng Stenberg, Larry R.

Eng Hilts, Bonnie

Eng Wayne, John, 1907-1979

Eng Child, Heather

Eng Dinkel, Madeline

Eng El-Said, Issam

Eng Kindersley, David

Eng Carter, Will

Eng Waqiala, Othman

Eng Rees, Ieuan

Eng Urwick, Alison

Eng Hoefer, Karl-georg

Eng Schmidt, Hans, 1923-

Eng Zapf von Hesse, Gudrun, 1918-

Eng Neugebauer, Friedrich

Eng Toots, Villu

Eng LeClerc, Candy

Eng Eagan, Kim

Eng Anderson, Harold

Eng Pettit, Del

Eng Stevens, Ken

Eng Bausch, Del

Eng Elway, Harry

Eng Gray, Jerry

Eng Keller, Ron

Eng Hendricks, John

Eng Kreidler, Mike

Eng de Stefano, Rosalie

Eng Gordon, Reynard

Eng Steele, Katey

Eng Deshaye, John V.

Eng Peterson, David

Eng Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

Eng Browning, Tod, 1880-1962

Eng Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891

Eng Grass, Gunter, 1927-2015

Eng Earles, Harry

Eng Earles, Daisy

Eng Vermillion, Greg

Eng Mayer, Ken

Eng Evergreen Presidential Search Committee

Eng Evergreen Board of Trustees

Eng Evergreen Academic Consultative Council (formerly Faculty Leadership Group)

Eng Westside Eagan's Drive-In

Eng Shakey's Pizza

Eng Reuben's Drive-In

Eng Mark-it Foods

Eng Dairy Queen

Eng Pizza Hut

Eng Lew Rents

Eng McDonalds

Eng Eagan's Big Tom

Eng Winchell's Donuts

Eng Baskin-Robbins

Eng Sambo's Restaurant

Eng Washington State Legislature

Eng North Thurston School Board

Eng The Evergreen Women's Center

Eng The Evergreen Gay Resource Center

Eng YMCA

Eng The Creature Club

Eng Thurston-Mason County Health District

Eng Evergreen Office of Admissions

Rights

In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Language

Eng eng

Place

Eng The Evergreen State College

Eng Olympia, WA

Eng Tumwater, WA

Eng Lacey, WA

Eng London, England

Eng Wales

Eng Germany

Eng Austria

Eng Estonia

Eng Russia

Eng Soviet Union

Eng Fort Dix, NJ

Eng Seattle, WA

Eng Oregon

Eng Shelton, WA

Eng Sonoma, CA

Publisher

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

Extent

Eng 8 pages

Temporal Coverage

Eng 1976

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8

New admi ssions director

Faculty Elected
to Presidential
Search Committee

Greg Vermillion "result-oriented"
by Steve Kruse
What w o rds would best describe Greg
Ve rmillio n. Evergreen 's new d irecto r of
a dmi ssio ns? Expe rienced , aggressive ,
br ight. and strai ght -ta lking are just 'a few
(If th e descr ipti o ns th at have been used
lu r Greg throughout his young but successful career .
Verm illi on too k over this demanding
adm in is trat ive pos iti on whe n Ken Mayer
res igned after several stormy Uj:- and dllwn years here trying to keep Evergf(·e n·s en ro ll ment at an even pace .
Even th o ugh Vermi lli o n is orily 35 years
"id he bri ngs to Evergreen over 12 years
,' I e,,[,eri ence in the fie ld of college adm is,i,'m. Al ter Ve rmillion received his BA in
"ducdtil'n Ifl'm Sea tt le University in 1966,
he we nt ,t raigh t to St. Mart in 's Co llege ,
1"htTe he se fl'ed as direct or of admiss ions
I,' r It' ur ,·ears . He the n we nt on to be1 ,'11 1<' t' nl' 01 th e youngest directors o f ad I1l I"i"ll> In the C a lif ornia sys tem of higher l·d ll CJt il'n . b y filling the posit ion of
.\ " " tal1 t D irecto r of Ad mi ssions a nd Rec,'rd, 1, ,1' Ca lil cHn ia State Co llege- Fulle rto n
unt il 10 72. G reg was most recently em['I,'\'ed as the direc tor of adm iss ions w ith
C ,l l,to rn i,l Sta te Co llege-Sonoma.
T he ,, ',, ' Ve rmilli on's competitive nature
I\as develope d o n th e baske tball court at
,m ('a rl \' age. H is pa ss ionate dedication to
hard \\'or k a nd a thletics led him to a high
<c h,' c.) I irs t team , all -state basketba ll select io n in Mo ntana in 1959 a nd again in
I \),,0 a s a seni o r from Shelt on High
Sc hool in W ashington.
e re!, pursued his athl etic ca reer through
coll ege where he played three years of
\, a rsi t\· basketball fo r Seatt le University.
He then went on to coach basketball for
St. \ ];lrt in's and Ca l-State-F ullerton .
Ve rmillion's expe rtise and positive atti tude are reit erat ed in a late afternoon in te fl'iew w ith Th e Coo per Point JOllmal
As a wri ter it was a pleasure to interview
,,'meone so e nthu siastic a nd straightfor I\·Md . He see med to d is play a ll the attri -

Greg Vermillion
butes of a young man with a productive
future ahead of him .
What have been some of your past successes and failures ?
"My major success in life is that I have
co me up the hard way . Nothing was ever
given to me and I have earned everything
that I have received - I feel good about
that fact. My major failure was that I had
the opportunity to play professional basketball a nd I passed it up because I wanted
to use my education in a n educational
sense. I don't know if this was really a
fai lure, but now that I look back I w ish I
would have taken the opportunity to play
pro ball."
Your predecessor left Evergreen with a
disgrllnt led fee lin g over th e lack of results
of his o ffic e. Do you feel that this collld
hap per! to YOIl ?

"No! I'm not aware of his problems.
I'm a result-oriented man . This is perhaps
one of the toughest jobs in higher education today. With support a nd backing my
experience lends itself to the job in hand.
Nothing scares me and I consider it a challenge and that's what makes it exciting for
me. 1 wouldn't be in a job that didn't pre sent a challenge."
Why did you take the job in the first
place?
"I wanted to come home. When 1 left
St. Martin's I did it with the specific pur pose in mind of eventually coming to Ev erg reen. In order to do that I had to pay
my dues in the higher education system.
The California system offered me the best
opportunity to learn a great deal in a
short period of time, as well as build myself a reputation . I could go back to California any time ; but this is where I
wanted to be."
What are your priorities in redo ing the
Admissions Office?
" I want to streamline the management
of the Admissions Office so there is continuit y, cross- training with the staff and
to work effectively as a team towards
even tual boosting of enrollment. We want
to focus in on recruitment of freshmen
coming from the high schools in Sou th western Washington as well as the entire
state. We also want to start an orientation
program at the junior high level. Too
many colleges overlook the value of longrange planning that centers around getting
students thinking about college at an earlier age. . I wa nt to set up an advisory
committee composed of high school and
junior college counselors, to solicit their
input as to how we can better serve them
and their schools. This will help build up
a better working relationship with the Evergreen community ."
What kind of student or individllal will
the Admissions Office concentrate on at tracting to the cam pus?
'Tve heard the statement that Evergreen

is not for everyone - I'm not convinced
of that! We will try to attract anyone
who is self-motivated and wants to learn ."
What can be done to help Evergreen's
low retention of students?
"First we have to find out why the retention is so low . We have to design some
questionnaires for students that didn't follow through on enrollment Jafter they
were admitted ] and for students that left
Evergreen belPre graduating. Then, after
assessing the problem areas, we can concentrate on elimina ting them. " .
How would you compare Evergreen
with other institutions? Are there any advantages or disadvantages to this system?
"I think in many respects that public
education has failed to teach self-evaluation in a consistent ly effec tive way. 1
think this is something that Evergreen offers the student and that we are all becoming more aware of self-growth . ..
People are so used to structured learning
that it's hard to relate Evergreen's advan tages to them .. . Today's higher educa tion is a definite buyer's market for students. Competition with other institutions
is unbelievable; but as people become
more aware of Evergreen and its offerings
the potential could be unlimited. It's the
college's responsibility to make the community more aware of its potential. I
would a lso like to see the development of
an Educational Opportunity Program Office, established in the future. This way
we could develop a solid working relationship with the minority of the State of
Washington."
What can Evergreeners do to help the
Adm issions Office out?
"The pub li c [judges] the success of
any college by the amount of people that
go there. Though this is an 'arbitrary judgment , it is a fa ct of life. If Evergreen is to
succeed it must attrac t new students every
year and this can only come about by a
total eHort by everyone to promote the
college to th e buying public ."

by Jill Stewart
The election of six faculty to serve on
the Presidential ' Search Committee has
ended on an anti-climactic note . Six faculty were chosen, but three are out of
town and one wants to decline the position.
The six are: Bill Brown, Carolyn
Dobbs, Richard Jones, Linda Kahan, Maxine Mimms, and Joye Peskin. They were
elected by the faculty by written ballot on
Tuesday , but had not been officially notified as late as yesterday afternoon.
.
A proposal to form a Presidential
Search Committee comprised of six faculty , three staff, and three students will
be presented to the Board of Trustees by
the elected group today. However, Dobbs,
Mimms, and Peskin will be off campus
for the remainder of the week and Richard
J ones has said he is "prepared to try to
decline." He said he had not realized he
would be elected and is too busy with his

duties on the Academic Cons ultative
Council (formerly the Faculty Leadership
Group) to serve con the Search Committee.
Linda Kahan had no statement but did
indicate she would serve on the Search
Committee.
It is expected that the Board of Trustees
and the elected faculty will devise some
beginning procedures for the Search Committee at the Board of Trustees meeting
today at 10:45 a.m. in the Board Room.
However, the board cou ld reject the proposed comm ittee and organize one of
their own.
In other action at today's meeting the
board will make a decision on the d ismissal of Dumisani Maraire, former Evergreen faculty member. Maraire was terminated in June for violation of the social
contract. He appealed that decision to an
all-campus hearing board, which upheld
the original termination. That decision
was appealed to the Board of Trustees on
July 23.

Diy Late-Night Drag Scene

Heavy Hang Outs,
Mean Machines

The winning pumpkin in the Library 's First Annual Great Geo l Pumpkin Contest will be
chosen today at 1 p.m. Several pumpkins entered the competition. sporting names such as
"Space Pumpkin X-13 " and "Dame]acqueline OLantem." To th e winner goes Q $20 gift
certificate at Jo Mama 's, a local pizza restaurant.

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Garish street-lights illuminate rows of
drive - ins, seedy 7 - 11 stores, gas stations,
and used car lots. Engines rumble and reverberate and tires screech in the background. Colors kaleidoscope past in a
blur of motion . .. A jet-black van sinisterly embellished wi th red-orange flames
leaps past, chased by a sleazy '63 Impala
in hot pursuit. The air is a pungent mix ture of gasoline exhaust and wafting
aromas of equally deadly hamburgers and
French fries . The moon is full ...
Down the street, a traffic light winks
green, and two monster machines tear off,
neck - to-neck . Simu lt a neously, a blue
siren fla shes from nowhere, and the pace
slackens noticeably to allow for this un welcome interruption . As the intruder re treats into darkness, the action soon resumes in high gear. An orange convertible
full of gawking, blushing, waving girls
swings by.
" American Graffiti" repeats itself like
clockwork here every Friday and Saturday night - except that this is not South ern California of the late 50's and early
60's, but Olympia, Washington in 1976.
A veteran cruiser of the Olympia circuit of the 1950's remi.tisces back on the
fabulous fifties . . . - "When you think
about it - It's like 'Happy Days: I en-

joyed it. " Apparently, little has cha nged
since then . No matter how dead Olympia
may seem during the week, its streets explode into life on Friday and Saturday
nights with automobiles of all shapes,
makes and colors, and multitudes of fanatic teen-agers .
The action is only as far away as Harrison Street and the Westside Eagan's
drive-in, a traditional hot spot since 1946.
And while Olympia's Cooper Point Road
may not be Los Angeles' Sepulveda Blvd .,
it's obvious that they serve similar pur poses as remote late-night drag strips. In
ia-c t, rumor has it that our own Evergreen
parkway is used occasionally for this purpose . Welcome back to " Happy Days" with one important exception. Gasoline is
now 55 cents a ga ll on ...
Cru i ~ing has become a ritual of so rt s
among teen-agers who are old enough to
drive but not yet old enough to drink legally, anyway . Author Tom Wolfe
notes in The Kandy-Colored, Tangerine
Flake Streamline Baby that if there is one
thing teen-agers pay attention to above
all, it is adherence to an established form
of behavior. Actions are governed by 'un written rules according to a pre -set pat tern. Cruising in Olympia is no excep tion.
Needless to say, a cruiser is nowhere
without a car. Thirty-four year old past

. and present cruiser and Evergreen grad~
uate George Barner observes . . . " This
culture - You just got to accept the fact
that to get somewhere you had to have a
car or know someone who had one ." A
cruiser's car is crucial to his ego and selfidentity. In a line reminiscent of "American Graffiti," an anonymous friend of
George Barner's recalls that "As a matter of fact, it was easier to go up and kick
the shit out of someone than to park your
butt on their car . You didn' t screw with
anyone's car! "
Olympia's cruising circuit is a some what distended network of one-way streets
and main thoroughfares connecting Olympia with Tumwater and Lacey . .. I begin
at the parking lot in front of Shakey's
Pizza in the Westside Shopping Center. I
check to make sure my park lights are on.
I peel out onto Division Street, wait at
the stoplight and turn left onto Harrison
heading down into town. I watch out for
the cop in the alley across from Eagan's
but he's not there tonight. Off to a good
start. I cross the 4th Avenue bridge and
disregard Reuben's Drive-in on the left
next to Mark-it Foods completely. Only
greasers hang out there.

I hang a right at Capitol Way and head
up the hill for rough, tough Tumwater. I
pass a Dairy Queen on the left w ithout
stopping . No one hangs out there because
the parking lot is too small. My des tina tion is the Tumwater Pizza Hut a nd ac companying 7 - 11 store. On the way, I
pass another Eagan's, but this one is a
family joint, and no one ha ngs ou t there
either. When I get to the 7 - 11 park ing
lot , I turn in and pull up front. just to
make sure everyone can see me. My parking lights are left on .
When I lea ve, I am careful not to peel
out, because a friend has warned me that
" In Tumwater you're charged for how
. much per inch of rubber you lay on the
street. T he cops ge t out a ruler and measure it and then you get fined that much ."
I retrace my route back down the hill into
Olympia, to the intersection of 4th and
Capitol, where I turn right onto 4th and
head up a different , hill towards Lacey . I
see the cop lurking in his usual spo t a lo ngside Lew Rents just in time , and slow
down. He pulls someone behind me ove r
in~tead. I was lucky that time .

OCT. 28. 1976
j continue on ou t Martin Way cautiously, remembering a different warning from
the same friend ... " You don't check.
You just go slow 'cuz you know they're
there." I turn right off Martin Way when
I ge t to Sleater-Kinney Rd. Here, my eyes
are confronted with a dazzling array of
drive-ins and other quick-order food
places including a McDonald's, an Eagan's
Big Tom , a Winchell's Donuts, a Baskin Robbins, and a Sambo's Restaurant for
late- night coffee drinkers. I finally go to
McDonald's for a Quarter-Pounder with
C heese. I drive ac ross the street to Winch ell 's for dessert before turning back ont o
Sleater-Kinney to Pacific Avenue where I
turn right and head back for Olympia.
· My mind wanders as I drive, and I remember an older friend telling me about
her cruising days back in 1964 . . "We'd
keep going clear up 4th and we knew if
we went 25 mph all the way that all the
lights would be green and we could go a ll
the way up without stopping. That was
· sort of a nea t thing to do - make the entire loop without stopp in g ... " Fat
chance of tha t anymore, I think , as I
lurch to a halt a t a stoplight.

Pacific Avenue becomes one-way Sta te
Avenue as it drops back down int o Olympia heading for the west side . I rumb le
back through tow n, passing a coupl e of
beat - up junker cars parked sid e-by -side
on m y right. I slow down as I co me up
on the sharp corner where Sta te Ave.
turns back into 4th . re mem btrin g the
w o rd s of an Olympi a pollcem~n
"T his corner . . All the teleplw np POll"
have concrete reinforceme nt. If ?"1I !,~t d
guy from out o f town a nd he d,'esn 'l
kno w the town , here' s a good pldl (. lo r
him to lose it . . . " But I ro und the cor ner uneve ntfu lly and head on ur thl' h d!.
· once again on Harriso n Stree t. I tU' 11 rj~ h t
on Division and then w ing a lei: ,nt o tht'
Shakey's park ing Jo t, being care· lul nll t 1(1
scrape m y dual ex ha ust pipes on I h~ cu rb
as I enter. Feels good to be ho me .
Hang - outs a re very important to tecn
agers as socia l space. They rellect typi cal
teen-age co ncerns with indppenden ct'. mo bility. and Visibi lity . Evergreen assi~l a )1 t
to D ea n Larry Stenberg and cruisE" l f
1964 Bonnie Hilt s remembers that ,. A '
drive - ins you hardly ever got an y t hing 't (1

(please turn to page 3)

3

The Alphabet Odyssey
by Tim Girvin

o rigina l statem ent s said that
we w ere con cerned with and suppo rt the oth er <;tuden t groups in
their struggle,> against discrim ination. We recogni ze the need of
editing fo r space but the sta tement s were ex tremely sho rt to
begin with and our s tatement of
unit y is too imp ortant to be cut
out. We highly suggest that in
th e future you be more aware
abou t how your ed iting might
st ifl e, frustrate and confuse com munication between ourselves
and the stude nt s we are here to
serve.
The Women's Cen'!er
The Gay Resource <;:enter

nUl'

ENTERTAINMENT
COLUMN TO BE
TAKEN SERIOUSLY?
fl' th e Ed it or :

I\e : Ar ts and Ente rtain ment co lumn rctcrring to The Shoo tist .
John Way ne as a heroin addi cted cowboy ." Page 7, Vol. V
\!uJ11bE'r 3 of the Cooper Point
Jl1l m!al.
Is your colu mn to be cons id ered as a serious guide to entertainment? If yo ur response is no ,
then I'd agree that the reviews
often reflect that stance. If we
are to read the Journal to get
'ome idea of plot prior to attending a mov ie or play, then I
believe such off- hand comments
are unprofeSSional and unaccept- .
able.
The Shootist, while enacted in
the western fo rmat , is about a
termina ll y ill old man who hasn't
needed or found anything or
a .. yone. He now requires a place
to die, someone to feed him and
a dr ug (morphine) to help him
get through another day of pain.
T hi s movie says a lot about peo ple being alone, old, and sick.
About heroin addiction it has
no t hing to say! I enjoyed this
mov ie - the first John Wayne
movie I have ever paid to see .and I hope that others don't let
your flip review dissuade them
from going to see it.
Rita Cooper

GAY & WOMEN'S
CENTERS EDITED
To the Editor:
In the article last week on the
student groups, in the women's
center and the gay resource center statements of purpose, there
was a noticeable edit. Both of

Another Fable
for Our Time:
THE FACULTY
AND THE DEAN
Once upon a time a group of
animals started a new school because they were unhappy about
the way the older ones were
being run, They complained
about there being too many arbitrary rules, not enough freedom , no sense of community,
and an administration that
seemed remote and uninterested
in real education. And so they
got together and agreed that
each of them would simply teach
what he or she wanted to whomever would come to learn . The
school ran very smoothly at
first. The birds gave flying lesso ns, the squirrels taught selfsufficient living through nut storage, and the beavers taught architecture and engineering. Gradually more and more animals
came to teach their specialties
and learn from others.
But as the school grew larger
it developed some problems.
Sometimes two groups wanted to
meet at the same time and place,
so logs and trees and caves had
to be scheduled. Sometimes two
or three of the animals wanted

to teach together, but there were
confl icts about who was goi ng to
teach with whom and wha t wa s
go in g to be taught each year,
and th ese difficulties had to be
worked o ut. As th e number of
teac hers grew it became hard for
all of them to meet toget her and
discuss their mutua l concerns;
di scuss ion s tended to become
speechmaking a nd went off in
ten directions at once.
So one day some of the animals put their heads together
and decided that they needed an
administrator - a dean to make
some of the decisions and to generally coordinate the schoo l.
They called all the animals together and presented their plan.
"You see," they explained, "in
other schools the dean is just an
admin istra tor who doesn't understand the faculty because he isn't
one of them . But here we will
just make one of our own number a. dean for a while. He will
st ill just be one of us and he will
help us run the school the way
we want it run ."
"Yes, yes," cried some other
animals. "What a fine idea. We
need to elect one of us dean."
"Then who will do it?" asked
the bear. "I would do it myself,
except this year I am working
with one of the squirrels on an
exciting interdiSCiplinary program centering around the economics and nutrition of honey
and nuts. "
Several names were suggested,
and then someone shouted, "I
nominate Bill Beaver."
"Oh, wonderful." "A noble
fellow." "Just the man," ex-

claimed several others, and amid
great furor and acclaim he was
qUickly elected.
''I'm really very pleased by
you r confidence in me," said the
beaver modestly . ")'11 certainly
do my best. As a matter of fact,
I've got several ideas tha t I'd like
to tell you about," and he walked
up to the front of the group and
started to explain them.
But as he spoke, a strange
thing happened. Suddenly he no
longer looked like their o ld
friend Bill the Beaver to most of
the animals. Suddenly he looked
alien a nd very threatening.
"Look, look," cried a goose.
"The re's a stranger up there trying to t ~lI us what to do. "
The woodchuck jumped up
and yelled, "Don' t listen to him ,
don' t listen to him! He's trying
to make all kinds of rules for us.
We can d o it ourselves."
Then most of the anima ls flew
about in a panic, crying, "Oh,
mprcy sakes. Oh , heaven help
us. W hat a re we going to d o?"
"Don' t worry ," said an old
tomcat. " We' ll sta rt a Union,
We 'll a ll stick together and fight
thi s thing . We won' t let him
make rules for us a nd fire us because we don't obey t hem. Join

the Union! Solidarity forever I"
Just then the owl, who all this
time had kept his mouth shut,
cleared his throat, and when the
mob had quieted a bit he said, "I
think you're all crazyl That's just
our old friend Bill the Beaver up
there, and if you'll shut up and
listen to him for a minute you'll
see that he's just saying the same
things that we've always said to
each other. I don't see that he's
any th reat."
"Foo l, dupe, scab," shouted
some of leaders, and they chased
af ter the owl and ran him out of
the forest. "The same thing will
happen to anyone else who opposes us," they said. "Now let's
get to work and draw up a contract we can force that darn administ ration to sig n. "
"But what a sha me, " added
the woodchuck. "Th is used to be
suc h a nice place in the o ld days
when we used to just talk to
eac h other - before we had Us
o n one side and Them on the
other. " And with a sigh he went
off with the others.
MORAL: If you don' t I-.now
who your enem ies are, it is best
to in ve nt them.
Burton S, Guttman

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approached Othman Waq iala, a traditional arabic calligrapher. He knows the
formulas, the ancient design canons, the
symbolisms. All were to remain undisclosed: "You must seek ou t a Shaykll in
Instanbul ... " In Wales, Ieuan ReI'S, a
wild man born of the earth, with
multi-fisted pommels for hands to split
bold strokes in stone and wood, to splash
explosive calligraphy on paper, rending
the reed. His curly hair drafts in an arc
away from his face and his inspiration is
the architecture of the leaves, the trees .
Beautiful books with the words, letters,
and drawings all forming the pattern of
the fabric whole. This is the work of
Alison Urwick. '
I watched, talked, tried, learned .
And to Germany, the ancestral sunrise
of printing, where calligraphy was once a
soaring art and now is lost in the struggle
. of modernity and the American Appearance.
There is a brush calligrapher and type
designer, living now, his German talk and
writing a bundle of dynamic gesture. Karl. georg Hoefer . Nearby is the pensive
Hans Schmidt. He is a woodcutter, sculptor, typographer. He creates shifting rootlike letters, and others which blink in Klee
visions of positive and negative. I met
with Herman Zapf and his wife, Gudrun
Zapf von Hesse. Zapf is the grand master,
a designer of forty type faces, typographical designer, and master calligrapher; his
hand is forged to a deadly accuracy. Gudrun Zapf von Hesse is an excellent de-

signer, bookbinder, and calligraphic artist
, in her own right .
I got crit icisms, thoughts on design, and
knowledge of new letters and techniques.
On a sout hern train to Austria I jou rneyed to meet my mentor Friedrich Neugebauer. He is now a publisher of extraordinary childrens' picture books, and a
, maker of original ca ll igraphic manuscripts.
He is one of the best.
He understood the art during WWII in
an English War Prisoner Camp in Egypt.
. From a piece of bamboo he fabricated his
only tool; his writing surfaces were toilet
and stolen typing papers. He ground his
,pigments from the Sahara, paste came
from flour, and binding materials were
clothing fabric and helmet lining. He
passed the books to me carefully, speak' ing quietly, one by one.
One man remembered an essay; Neu' gebauer would write it . Another ' man
knew an old song, another knew the
'notes; Neugebauer would make a folding
book of it. It kept him alive. He is cen tered in his art .
I listened, watched. I practiced .
In Estonia is the 60 year old patriarch
of Russian calligraphy, Villu Toots . I correspond with him. He said, "Come to a
' symposium on calligraphy, lettering, and
. letters." I went. Moscow was dark, foreboding, and cold. Mysterious. The back
,streets were bare, old; the people in grey,
afraid to talk. Young people talked in subdued dusters in obscure alleys and corners. At dawn I flew to N. Russia, to the

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' medieval capital of Estonia: Tallinn . Its
ancient walled city, the old Russia, is surrounded by the new Soviet Union , a c1am,mering array of smoking industria. Still,
:these people were different, more alive
and happier.
Villu Toots was the happiest. A glori'ous man with fiery eyes. He is as vitalic
as his art; dancing, whipping , grasping,
and demanding attention.
T he symposium was entitled KIRI-KA ASAEG, 76, and was staged in a huge
: hall, its portals guarded by a massive 30
foot bust of Lenin staring fixedly into the
' distance. The walls were bedecked with
powerful red curtains separated by porI traits of Soviet officialdom. "MODERN
LETTER -ART" was attended by over s60
' Moscowians, Moldavians, Ukranians,
Lithuan ians, Estonians, Finns, Germans,
two English people, and one American,
,all listening carefully to earphones murmuring simultaneous translation . We had
dialogues on type design, graphic design ,
the necessity of change in letterforms
teaching, the process of pen to type. inno 'vative u~es of lettering, book design and
palaeography. I spoke on contemporary
,American activities, societies, indiv idual
calligraphers, typographical lettering, sign
pain ting, and my own work. I created a
small exhibit of examples, catalogs, broic hures, society publications, posters,
,slides, and my portfolio. A ravenous
horde of designers descended upon it,
. carefully and thorough ly exam ining and
: distributing the material through the audience . They are starved, yet they produce
excit ing new achievements in the realm of
, letters.
I met with a number of Estonian artists:
weavers, sculptors, printmakers , and
: bookbinders. They were also starved of
: outside material, but they're making, and
I beautifu·lIy . The "artist status" is unique
: in Estonia and is extremely difficult to at. tain. After one is accepted into the League
: of Artists Institute and its extensive six to
: seven year Masters program, the selected
artist becomes a sort of ward of the State .
,It is possible to survive solely as an artist
.or craftsperson from supporting commissions from the State, from exhibitions,
ibook illustration, and the sale of individ: ual commissions. There seems to be no restriction of personal style or expression .
All artists asked for books and catalogs
,on the arts in the U.S .
I return exhilarated with the uncovering
:of whole new worlds of images, direc'tions, expressions . Like some pilgrim, I
'sought the roots of the Letter experience,
:journeying from shrine to shrine, seeking
:all stations of the immense Alphabet labyrinth. Now perhaps closer to the center, I
'witness the majesty of a huge tree.

I

Tim Girvin received an award grant
made under the training program of the
:Westem States Arts Foundation through
its supporting grant from the Nationa) Endowment for the Arts .

-----Cruisin' in O l y - - - - -

• Fre8h·mada S.nc:twIchea

EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
Jill Stewart
Teresa Imfeld
fEATURE /MANAGING ED Brad Pokorny
Matt Croen ing
Tom Mclaughlin
PRODUCTION MGR.
Kim McCartney
Brooke Ann Floren
Lisa Fleming
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cene Darling
RIck Dowd

We all know what the A lphabet is: a
group of markings approximating various
sounds which, in turn, form words imparting their various meanings to us. But
most of us, through a fantastic Alphabet
overload, have truly forgotten the power
of the Alphabet, a collection of- ancient
mark ings traversing 4000 years of aesthetiic development , cultural t ransmission,
,muti lation and surVival to reach the pres:ent time . Poets a nd other lovers of lan[guage know it to be a potent mystery to
be arra nged a nd m anipulated to uncover,
,to convey the image. An expressive tool.
I have just returned from a search
'through Great Britain, Europe, and Russia,
for the greatest lovers of letters: the Calligraphers, the Fine Printers, the Letter
'Sculptors - to whom a single gestured
!stroke, an impression, the nuance of an
incision in stone expresses a whole poem,
a world. I have met w ith the Masters of
the letters to enhance my own comprehension of the Alphabet .
London is one of the calligraphic centers of the world, a vast repository of the
traditions of the past and as well the birth,ing ground of new developments in letters.
I wandered about the museums, collections, libraries of London and the surrounding cities to study the old books,
:the drawn books, the magic books, prodUCed to capture the glory of God's Heaven,
others : Hell, other books wove the
\
labsolute majesty of a single poem . All
,books were weavings of illustration to
,text un til they were a gallery for the
'reader, initiated to Language, to explore
:and understand . I spen t two weeks learn:ing gilding, the medieval practice of laying on breath-light sheets of pounded
gold to a humidity-sensitive raised paste,
which is then burnished to brilliance with
an agate stone. It was used during the
Middle Ages to express "the Light beyond
all lights" and the supernatural. Now it is
exploited for cost and luxury .
In a web about Britain are the Letter
Workers, concealed by distance and disinterest in public exposure . I conferred
with Heather Child, the calm and regal
matriarch of English calligraphy , master
of a sure and delicate hand. Madeline Dinkel, whose hair-light flourishes glisten
upon clear glass and swirl upon ceramics,
revels in her own eccentricity. Issam El,Said, a Sud ani painter, architect , author,
and calligrapher, maps the sacred phrases
of the Qur'an in the mystical geometric
letter constructions of Kufa. I stayed with
'David Kindersley, a swift stone cutter of
letters and sculpture, the slate chipping
:away like butter beneath his facile fingers
and blades. Working in a medieval tower,
,gargoyles guarding the vaulting, he and
'his partners explore computer spacing,
~ type design, and new letterforms. Will
,Carter explores, too. An extraordinary
,printer, he impresses the best crisp lead
type into thick paper. He makes books an
edible design feast to wanter through. I

(almost)
ON CAMPUS at
ASH TREE APARTMENTS

: it has a large, well-lit parking lot. A
Shakey's employee explains: "We have a
big empty parking lot. It's just somewhere
they can all get together. It's like a party
' in a room only with cars in a parking lot."
Shakey's apparently appeals to a much
broader cross-section of cruising teen.agers from Olympia, Tumwater, and
Lacey, whereas Eagan's is primarily a
· Westside (Olympia) hang-out.

go.' You got it and you stayed there and
ate. It was cool to hang around after you
finished eating, especially if your friends
were there - You just sort of mingled ..
.. " Hang-outs are first and foremost
places to see and be seen. Eating is only a
ifeeble excuse for being there, in the first
place.
In Olympia, Eagan's is as good a place
as any to hang out. A former Evergreen
employee, 1964 cruiser Candy LeClerc,recalls of Eagan's that "We used to call it
'buzzing' - buzzing Eagan's." Custom
dictates that there is only one correct way
to make the scene at Eagan's . An Eagan's
employee describes the ritual . . . "They
go through the stoplight and turn into the
parking lot . They cruise through real slow
to see if there's anybody they know. They
back in, so they can watch all the other
cars come in. They get out of their cars
and lean against them. They lift up their
hoods and look at their engines. They
stand back and look them over ... When
they leave, they peel out into the street."
That's the motor-head scene at Eagan's .
Olympia's social elite - athletes, cheer-

· Visibility is the ultimate consideration
· however. Kim Eagan, an Eagan's employee, notes that "When we close, we turn
· off the lights, so it's dark. Then they all
'move to a different parking lot - any
one that's lighted." Whoever heard of
hanging out in a dark parking lot any,way?

If nothing else, it is obvious that cruis , ing is a teen-age means to pass time
I among peers who are all playing the same
, game by the same rules. Nineteen fifties'
'I cruiser George Barner recalls that "In the
, fifties, you made your own excitement. "
leaders, student body officers - prefer to
avoid the "grease-monkey" environment
at Eagan's, and hang out at Shakey's in
. the Westside Shopping Center instead. AI-

i though Shal<ey's lost a lot of popularity
, when its foosball tables were removed, it
: remains the most popular spot in the
area, if for no other reason than because

,It doesn't take long to realize
: same situation exists still today:
: is not as aimless as it seems, nor
: pia quite as dead as i.t appears to

that the
Cruising
is Olymbe.

3

The Alphabet Odyssey
by Tim Girvin

o rigina l statem ent s said that
we w ere con cerned with and suppo rt the oth er <;tuden t groups in
their struggle,> against discrim ination. We recogni ze the need of
editing fo r space but the sta tement s were ex tremely sho rt to
begin with and our s tatement of
unit y is too imp ortant to be cut
out. We highly suggest that in
th e future you be more aware
abou t how your ed iting might
st ifl e, frustrate and confuse com munication between ourselves
and the stude nt s we are here to
serve.
The Women's Cen'!er
The Gay Resource <;:enter

nUl'

ENTERTAINMENT
COLUMN TO BE
TAKEN SERIOUSLY?
fl' th e Ed it or :

I\e : Ar ts and Ente rtain ment co lumn rctcrring to The Shoo tist .
John Way ne as a heroin addi cted cowboy ." Page 7, Vol. V
\!uJ11bE'r 3 of the Cooper Point
Jl1l m!al.
Is your colu mn to be cons id ered as a serious guide to entertainment? If yo ur response is no ,
then I'd agree that the reviews
often reflect that stance. If we
are to read the Journal to get
'ome idea of plot prior to attending a mov ie or play, then I
believe such off- hand comments
are unprofeSSional and unaccept- .
able.
The Shootist, while enacted in
the western fo rmat , is about a
termina ll y ill old man who hasn't
needed or found anything or
a .. yone. He now requires a place
to die, someone to feed him and
a dr ug (morphine) to help him
get through another day of pain.
T hi s movie says a lot about peo ple being alone, old, and sick.
About heroin addiction it has
no t hing to say! I enjoyed this
mov ie - the first John Wayne
movie I have ever paid to see .and I hope that others don't let
your flip review dissuade them
from going to see it.
Rita Cooper

GAY & WOMEN'S
CENTERS EDITED
To the Editor:
In the article last week on the
student groups, in the women's
center and the gay resource center statements of purpose, there
was a noticeable edit. Both of

Another Fable
for Our Time:
THE FACULTY
AND THE DEAN
Once upon a time a group of
animals started a new school because they were unhappy about
the way the older ones were
being run, They complained
about there being too many arbitrary rules, not enough freedom , no sense of community,
and an administration that
seemed remote and uninterested
in real education. And so they
got together and agreed that
each of them would simply teach
what he or she wanted to whomever would come to learn . The
school ran very smoothly at
first. The birds gave flying lesso ns, the squirrels taught selfsufficient living through nut storage, and the beavers taught architecture and engineering. Gradually more and more animals
came to teach their specialties
and learn from others.
But as the school grew larger
it developed some problems.
Sometimes two groups wanted to
meet at the same time and place,
so logs and trees and caves had
to be scheduled. Sometimes two
or three of the animals wanted

to teach together, but there were
confl icts about who was goi ng to
teach with whom and wha t wa s
go in g to be taught each year,
and th ese difficulties had to be
worked o ut. As th e number of
teac hers grew it became hard for
all of them to meet toget her and
discuss their mutua l concerns;
di scuss ion s tended to become
speechmaking a nd went off in
ten directions at once.
So one day some of the animals put their heads together
and decided that they needed an
administrator - a dean to make
some of the decisions and to generally coordinate the schoo l.
They called all the animals together and presented their plan.
"You see," they explained, "in
other schools the dean is just an
admin istra tor who doesn't understand the faculty because he isn't
one of them . But here we will
just make one of our own number a. dean for a while. He will
st ill just be one of us and he will
help us run the school the way
we want it run ."
"Yes, yes," cried some other
animals. "What a fine idea. We
need to elect one of us dean."
"Then who will do it?" asked
the bear. "I would do it myself,
except this year I am working
with one of the squirrels on an
exciting interdiSCiplinary program centering around the economics and nutrition of honey
and nuts. "
Several names were suggested,
and then someone shouted, "I
nominate Bill Beaver."
"Oh, wonderful." "A noble
fellow." "Just the man," ex-

claimed several others, and amid
great furor and acclaim he was
qUickly elected.
''I'm really very pleased by
you r confidence in me," said the
beaver modestly . ")'11 certainly
do my best. As a matter of fact,
I've got several ideas tha t I'd like
to tell you about," and he walked
up to the front of the group and
started to explain them.
But as he spoke, a strange
thing happened. Suddenly he no
longer looked like their o ld
friend Bill the Beaver to most of
the animals. Suddenly he looked
alien a nd very threatening.
"Look, look," cried a goose.
"The re's a stranger up there trying to t ~lI us what to do. "
The woodchuck jumped up
and yelled, "Don' t listen to him ,
don' t listen to him! He's trying
to make all kinds of rules for us.
We can d o it ourselves."
Then most of the anima ls flew
about in a panic, crying, "Oh,
mprcy sakes. Oh , heaven help
us. W hat a re we going to d o?"
"Don' t worry ," said an old
tomcat. " We' ll sta rt a Union,
We 'll a ll stick together and fight
thi s thing . We won' t let him
make rules for us a nd fire us because we don't obey t hem. Join

the Union! Solidarity forever I"
Just then the owl, who all this
time had kept his mouth shut,
cleared his throat, and when the
mob had quieted a bit he said, "I
think you're all crazyl That's just
our old friend Bill the Beaver up
there, and if you'll shut up and
listen to him for a minute you'll
see that he's just saying the same
things that we've always said to
each other. I don't see that he's
any th reat."
"Foo l, dupe, scab," shouted
some of leaders, and they chased
af ter the owl and ran him out of
the forest. "The same thing will
happen to anyone else who opposes us," they said. "Now let's
get to work and draw up a contract we can force that darn administ ration to sig n. "
"But what a sha me, " added
the woodchuck. "Th is used to be
suc h a nice place in the o ld days
when we used to just talk to
eac h other - before we had Us
o n one side and Them on the
other. " And with a sigh he went
off with the others.
MORAL: If you don' t I-.now
who your enem ies are, it is best
to in ve nt them.
Burton S, Guttman

-

10 - 6
mon - sat

~\.l\d.le.e~rlb
11)ftfCdT)llle
assorted apparatus
utilitarian utensils

venture positively fourth

202 W. 4
between rainbow & the fish market

BUSINESS MGR.
David Judd
SECRETARY.
Jeanne Hansen
ADVERTISING MGR.
Brock Sutherland
AD SALESMAN
Leo Rogers

The Joumall. l.lealed In lhe College Actlvlt_ Building (CAB) 308. N_ phoMa:
1166-6214, -6213. AdwIertI.lng .nd bual_:
lattIq Policy: All Iettera to
the editor .nd photog,.ph. for Iettera ..... muet be ~ by noon Tueeday lor
thai week'. publication. L....... mot be signed, typed, doubIe-..-ced and 400
word. or leu.

_-eoeo_

l

I

approached Othman Waq iala, a traditional arabic calligrapher. He knows the
formulas, the ancient design canons, the
symbolisms. All were to remain undisclosed: "You must seek ou t a Shaykll in
Instanbul ... " In Wales, Ieuan ReI'S, a
wild man born of the earth, with
multi-fisted pommels for hands to split
bold strokes in stone and wood, to splash
explosive calligraphy on paper, rending
the reed. His curly hair drafts in an arc
away from his face and his inspiration is
the architecture of the leaves, the trees .
Beautiful books with the words, letters,
and drawings all forming the pattern of
the fabric whole. This is the work of
Alison Urwick. '
I watched, talked, tried, learned .
And to Germany, the ancestral sunrise
of printing, where calligraphy was once a
soaring art and now is lost in the struggle
. of modernity and the American Appearance.
There is a brush calligrapher and type
designer, living now, his German talk and
writing a bundle of dynamic gesture. Karl. georg Hoefer . Nearby is the pensive
Hans Schmidt. He is a woodcutter, sculptor, typographer. He creates shifting rootlike letters, and others which blink in Klee
visions of positive and negative. I met
with Herman Zapf and his wife, Gudrun
Zapf von Hesse. Zapf is the grand master,
a designer of forty type faces, typographical designer, and master calligrapher; his
hand is forged to a deadly accuracy. Gudrun Zapf von Hesse is an excellent de-

signer, bookbinder, and calligraphic artist
, in her own right .
I got crit icisms, thoughts on design, and
knowledge of new letters and techniques.
On a sout hern train to Austria I jou rneyed to meet my mentor Friedrich Neugebauer. He is now a publisher of extraordinary childrens' picture books, and a
, maker of original ca ll igraphic manuscripts.
He is one of the best.
He understood the art during WWII in
an English War Prisoner Camp in Egypt.
. From a piece of bamboo he fabricated his
only tool; his writing surfaces were toilet
and stolen typing papers. He ground his
,pigments from the Sahara, paste came
from flour, and binding materials were
clothing fabric and helmet lining. He
passed the books to me carefully, speak' ing quietly, one by one.
One man remembered an essay; Neu' gebauer would write it . Another ' man
knew an old song, another knew the
'notes; Neugebauer would make a folding
book of it. It kept him alive. He is cen tered in his art .
I listened, watched. I practiced .
In Estonia is the 60 year old patriarch
of Russian calligraphy, Villu Toots . I correspond with him. He said, "Come to a
' symposium on calligraphy, lettering, and
. letters." I went. Moscow was dark, foreboding, and cold. Mysterious. The back
,streets were bare, old; the people in grey,
afraid to talk. Young people talked in subdued dusters in obscure alleys and corners. At dawn I flew to N. Russia, to the

(continued from page 1)

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• Milk

• Newepapara

• Snacks

• Sundila8

• Bread

• Recreation Room for
re.axlng & rapping.

GAY

PIZZA
SD~ PA1\I..01\
Save 50 cents.
good thru 11-4-76

....~4r.....~. . .

** '"

~

' medieval capital of Estonia: Tallinn . Its
ancient walled city, the old Russia, is surrounded by the new Soviet Union , a c1am,mering array of smoking industria. Still,
:these people were different, more alive
and happier.
Villu Toots was the happiest. A glori'ous man with fiery eyes. He is as vitalic
as his art; dancing, whipping , grasping,
and demanding attention.
T he symposium was entitled KIRI-KA ASAEG, 76, and was staged in a huge
: hall, its portals guarded by a massive 30
foot bust of Lenin staring fixedly into the
' distance. The walls were bedecked with
powerful red curtains separated by porI traits of Soviet officialdom. "MODERN
LETTER -ART" was attended by over s60
' Moscowians, Moldavians, Ukranians,
Lithuan ians, Estonians, Finns, Germans,
two English people, and one American,
,all listening carefully to earphones murmuring simultaneous translation . We had
dialogues on type design, graphic design ,
the necessity of change in letterforms
teaching, the process of pen to type. inno 'vative u~es of lettering, book design and
palaeography. I spoke on contemporary
,American activities, societies, indiv idual
calligraphers, typographical lettering, sign
pain ting, and my own work. I created a
small exhibit of examples, catalogs, broic hures, society publications, posters,
,slides, and my portfolio. A ravenous
horde of designers descended upon it,
. carefully and thorough ly exam ining and
: distributing the material through the audience . They are starved, yet they produce
excit ing new achievements in the realm of
, letters.
I met with a number of Estonian artists:
weavers, sculptors, printmakers , and
: bookbinders. They were also starved of
: outside material, but they're making, and
I beautifu·lIy . The "artist status" is unique
: in Estonia and is extremely difficult to at. tain. After one is accepted into the League
: of Artists Institute and its extensive six to
: seven year Masters program, the selected
artist becomes a sort of ward of the State .
,It is possible to survive solely as an artist
.or craftsperson from supporting commissions from the State, from exhibitions,
ibook illustration, and the sale of individ: ual commissions. There seems to be no restriction of personal style or expression .
All artists asked for books and catalogs
,on the arts in the U.S .
I return exhilarated with the uncovering
:of whole new worlds of images, direc'tions, expressions . Like some pilgrim, I
'sought the roots of the Letter experience,
:journeying from shrine to shrine, seeking
:all stations of the immense Alphabet labyrinth. Now perhaps closer to the center, I
'witness the majesty of a huge tree.

I

Tim Girvin received an award grant
made under the training program of the
:Westem States Arts Foundation through
its supporting grant from the Nationa) Endowment for the Arts .

-----Cruisin' in O l y - - - - -

• Fre8h·mada S.nc:twIchea

EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
Jill Stewart
Teresa Imfeld
fEATURE /MANAGING ED Brad Pokorny
Matt Croen ing
Tom Mclaughlin
PRODUCTION MGR.
Kim McCartney
Brooke Ann Floren
Lisa Fleming
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cene Darling
RIck Dowd

We all know what the A lphabet is: a
group of markings approximating various
sounds which, in turn, form words imparting their various meanings to us. But
most of us, through a fantastic Alphabet
overload, have truly forgotten the power
of the Alphabet, a collection of- ancient
mark ings traversing 4000 years of aesthetiic development , cultural t ransmission,
,muti lation and surVival to reach the pres:ent time . Poets a nd other lovers of lan[guage know it to be a potent mystery to
be arra nged a nd m anipulated to uncover,
,to convey the image. An expressive tool.
I have just returned from a search
'through Great Britain, Europe, and Russia,
for the greatest lovers of letters: the Calligraphers, the Fine Printers, the Letter
'Sculptors - to whom a single gestured
!stroke, an impression, the nuance of an
incision in stone expresses a whole poem,
a world. I have met w ith the Masters of
the letters to enhance my own comprehension of the Alphabet .
London is one of the calligraphic centers of the world, a vast repository of the
traditions of the past and as well the birth,ing ground of new developments in letters.
I wandered about the museums, collections, libraries of London and the surrounding cities to study the old books,
:the drawn books, the magic books, prodUCed to capture the glory of God's Heaven,
others : Hell, other books wove the
\
labsolute majesty of a single poem . All
,books were weavings of illustration to
,text un til they were a gallery for the
'reader, initiated to Language, to explore
:and understand . I spen t two weeks learn:ing gilding, the medieval practice of laying on breath-light sheets of pounded
gold to a humidity-sensitive raised paste,
which is then burnished to brilliance with
an agate stone. It was used during the
Middle Ages to express "the Light beyond
all lights" and the supernatural. Now it is
exploited for cost and luxury .
In a web about Britain are the Letter
Workers, concealed by distance and disinterest in public exposure . I conferred
with Heather Child, the calm and regal
matriarch of English calligraphy , master
of a sure and delicate hand. Madeline Dinkel, whose hair-light flourishes glisten
upon clear glass and swirl upon ceramics,
revels in her own eccentricity. Issam El,Said, a Sud ani painter, architect , author,
and calligrapher, maps the sacred phrases
of the Qur'an in the mystical geometric
letter constructions of Kufa. I stayed with
'David Kindersley, a swift stone cutter of
letters and sculpture, the slate chipping
:away like butter beneath his facile fingers
and blades. Working in a medieval tower,
,gargoyles guarding the vaulting, he and
'his partners explore computer spacing,
~ type design, and new letterforms. Will
,Carter explores, too. An extraordinary
,printer, he impresses the best crisp lead
type into thick paper. He makes books an
edible design feast to wanter through. I

(almost)
ON CAMPUS at
ASH TREE APARTMENTS

: it has a large, well-lit parking lot. A
Shakey's employee explains: "We have a
big empty parking lot. It's just somewhere
they can all get together. It's like a party
' in a room only with cars in a parking lot."
Shakey's apparently appeals to a much
broader cross-section of cruising teen.agers from Olympia, Tumwater, and
Lacey, whereas Eagan's is primarily a
· Westside (Olympia) hang-out.

go.' You got it and you stayed there and
ate. It was cool to hang around after you
finished eating, especially if your friends
were there - You just sort of mingled ..
.. " Hang-outs are first and foremost
places to see and be seen. Eating is only a
ifeeble excuse for being there, in the first
place.
In Olympia, Eagan's is as good a place
as any to hang out. A former Evergreen
employee, 1964 cruiser Candy LeClerc,recalls of Eagan's that "We used to call it
'buzzing' - buzzing Eagan's." Custom
dictates that there is only one correct way
to make the scene at Eagan's . An Eagan's
employee describes the ritual . . . "They
go through the stoplight and turn into the
parking lot . They cruise through real slow
to see if there's anybody they know. They
back in, so they can watch all the other
cars come in. They get out of their cars
and lean against them. They lift up their
hoods and look at their engines. They
stand back and look them over ... When
they leave, they peel out into the street."
That's the motor-head scene at Eagan's .
Olympia's social elite - athletes, cheer-

· Visibility is the ultimate consideration
· however. Kim Eagan, an Eagan's employee, notes that "When we close, we turn
· off the lights, so it's dark. Then they all
'move to a different parking lot - any
one that's lighted." Whoever heard of
hanging out in a dark parking lot any,way?

If nothing else, it is obvious that cruis , ing is a teen-age means to pass time
I among peers who are all playing the same
, game by the same rules. Nineteen fifties'
'I cruiser George Barner recalls that "In the
, fifties, you made your own excitement. "
leaders, student body officers - prefer to
avoid the "grease-monkey" environment
at Eagan's, and hang out at Shakey's in
. the Westside Shopping Center instead. AI-

i though Shal<ey's lost a lot of popularity
, when its foosball tables were removed, it
: remains the most popular spot in the
area, if for no other reason than because

,It doesn't take long to realize
: same situation exists still today:
: is not as aimless as it seems, nor
: pia quite as dead as i.t appears to

that the
Cruising
is Olymbe.

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Candidate Forum Here Tonight

Kreidler - Hendricks

22nd District Features Personality Contest
( Edit o ,s lIote: Tonight . at 7
I-' Ill .. tlr ere will be a c~ndidate 's
t o nllll ill the main lobby of Ever-

WESTSIDE CENTER
• Open every day •

10 - 7 Sunday

green 's library. At tllat time candidates for a variety of local
elective positions will be on hand
to answer questions and present
their v iews . Thurston County
Commissioner candidates Harold
Anderson . George Barner. Del
Pettit and Ken Stevens will be
there : also State Senate candidates Del Bausch and Harry EIway and Stat e House of Repre sentatives candidates Jerry Gray
and Ron Keller ; John Hendricks
and Mike Kreidler. 111 this
feature. the Journal takes a close
look at 0111' of those races.)

9 - 9 Daily

HENDRICKS
" Hendricks is a Friendly, outgoing guy .. . He's the sort that
has a reputation iF someone
needs drugs, a prescription, and
can't pay for it immediately, well
that's okay, they can wait to pay
· . . That's the kind of guy John
Hendricks is," someone said recently. It would not be such a
remarkable description if it had
not come from a close and ardent
Kreidler supporter.

by Stan Shore

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John Hendricks

Democrat Mike Kreidler, a
North Thurston School Board
member who is challenging Hendricks this year.
The 22nd District, where Evergreen is located, comprises all of
Thurston County . It includes the
city of Lacey; the city of Tumwater, home of the beer Washington's state capital was named
after; and, of course, Olympia
itself.
ISSUE~

The contest between Hendricks,
63, and Kreidler, who at 32 is al- .
most half his age, lacks any clearcut issues to divide the candidates. Instead, it is a matter of
personalities, perceived competence , and to some extent, generations.
.
In Washington, the legislature
meets only part-time . There are,
like the federal government, two
houses: the Senate and House of
Representatives. Their salaries,
approximately $7,200 a year, are
low enough that few would
think to live on it alone. Kreidler is an optometrist, and Hendricks, who owns the Rexall in
Westside Shopping Center, is a
pharmacist.

in our lounge thru November 7

Both men are opposed to Ini tiative 325 , the ballot proposition
which would curtail the development of nuclear power plants in
Washington. The initiative is
popular among many environ mentalists and students.

Working at his own pharmacy,
Hendricks has a chance to meet
many of his constituents, including Evergreen students, each
day, and he greets many of them
by first name. Although born in
Tacoma, Hendricks has been a
resident of Olympia for 35 years.
He has served on the YMCA
board, 14 years on the Olympia
School Board, and is a past president of the Kiwanis.
An affable man, Hendricks is
not as articulate as he is sincere.
When talking about issues, he is
knowledgeable, but not minutely
so. He does not have a storehouse of statistics to accentuate
his points. He is clearly at his
best as a representative of Chamber of Commerce type philosophy.
'There is a real responsibility,"
he acknowledges, "to try and
represent all the people in this
district: both the business community and the apprOXimately
7,000 state employees . I'm a businessman. I subscribe to the free
enterprise system . .. Small business is the backbone of this
country .. .
" I don't understand how anyone can get turned off on business," Hendricks said. "I can
understand not wanting to be a
steelworker or not wanting to be
a banker, or not wanting to have

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Both also favor decriminalizing marijuana , and adopting instead the type of law which Cal-

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READING COURSE TO BE TAUGHT
HERE IN OLYMPIA
Olympia - (Spec.) United States Read ing Lab will offer a 4 week course in speed
reading to a limited number of qualified
people in the Olympia area.
This recently developed method of in·
struction is the most innovative and effec·
tive program available in the United States.
Not only does this famous course reduce
your time in tpe classroom to just one class
per week for 4 short weeks, but it also in ·
cludes an advanced speed reading course on
cassette tape so that you can continue to
improve for the rest of your lifEl.
If you are a student who would like to
make A's instead of B's or C's, or if you are
a business person who wants to stay abreast
of today's ever· changing, accelerating world
then this course is an absolute necessity.
In a few months, some students are read·

ing 20 - 30 times faster, attaining speeds
that approach 6,000 words per minute.
Our average graduate should read 7 - 10
times faster upon completion of the courses
with marked improvement in comprehen·
sion and concentration.
For those who would like additional information, a series of free, one hour orien·
tation lectures have been scheduled.
These free meetings will be held at the
foUowing times and location:

GOVERNOR HOUSE
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Monday
Tuesday

Oct. 28 Oct. 29 Oct. 30 Nov. 1 Nov. 2 -

6:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.
6:30 p,m., 8:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.

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Both men also oppose oil su pertankers on Puget Sound;
Hendricks voted for the stateimposed ban on them this last
session.

Sunday Buffet

Kreidler is a more thoughtful
and articulate candidate than
Hendricks, whom he refers to
only as "the incumbent." There
is the air about Kreidler of a
budding professional politician.
He views his candidacy as a challenge by the younger, better educated people in the district, including professional and skilled
public employees, against the
"old guard," men who are wellestablished and lifelong residents.
A member of the North Thurston school bofrd, Kreidler is
proud of his "three degrees,"
which he spent' "nine or ten
years" earning. He speaks with
authority and precision, often
adding the phrase, "That's a
fact," to his more important
points.

Likewise, both favor lowering
the drinking age to 19 and both,
with reservations, think that Ev ergreen is doing a great job.

"The experience I've gained in
the Legis lature can prove very
valuable. not just to myself, but
to the people I represent ," said
Republican John Hendricks, the
first position representative from
the 22nd district since 1972 .
"You still have the Old Guard
. the Community establishment Iin elected offices I. A few
years ago , if you weren't born
and raised here , you wouldn't
have gotten elected to anything,
but I think that's changed," said

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ifornia has. In California, possession of a small amount is a
minor misdemeanor, like speeding, and is seldom prosecuted.

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• A workshop, Math Made Simple For Astrological Chart Makers, will be taught Thursdays
Nov. 4 - Dec. 16 in Lib. 4003 by
Rosalie de Stefano, a profeSSional
member of the American Federa tion of Astrologers. Class limit
20, fee $3.00 per person per
week . To register call Ann Harrelson, 357-9630 .
• Students interested in sports
should leave their names and
how they may be contacted with
Reynard Gordon or Katey Steele
in CRC 302. So far, informal organized sports are nowhere here,
but interest cont inues sporadically for volleyball, basketball,
and running. Special interest
workshops in racketball, speed
bag hitting, weight lifting, and
volleyball are scheduled regularly
in add ition to swimming lessons .

some particular job, but to be
against business in general ... "
This deeply felt loyaltv to business has netted Hendricks strong
financial support from different
political committees representing
the business community. United
for Washington is a political
committee which contributes to
many state legislative candidates,
and whose list of donors reads
like a Who's Who in Washington
state business. It has given almost $2,000 to the Hendricks
campaign, out of a total campaign expenditure of almost
$11,000.
Hendricks, who is a giant .of a
man, well over six feet tall,
speaks easily and personably,
even if he sometimes becomes
tongue- tied. He seems to view
issues in a very personal way: in
terms of people he knows, and
bills he's voted for. In the legislature, he most often votes along
Republican party lines .

• Membership application to the
River Rats, Geoduck Yacht
Club, or the Evergreen Alpine
Society is accomplished by visiting CRe 302 . Sailboats, kayaks,
rafts, and items of climbing equipment are avai lable to stu dents proficient in their use.

KREIDLER
The first time many people
saw Kriedler was during Olym pia's annual summer fest, Lakefair. He was an odd sight : a
small , well -dressed man passing
out white helium balloons with
his own name on them.

• A rally to support Solar Energy will be held Nov. 1 at 1 : 00
on the Capitol grounds for all
people who feel our society
needs to develop solar energy at
a faster rate . Show your support
and attend.

The Kreidler campaign has
picked up a lot of support since
then, particularly after his powerful primary victory in September, which made him the Democratic nominee . At that time, he
scored a dual victory: beating
both his Democratic opponents
and picking up enough votes to
out-poll Hendricks. As a result
he is the odds on favorite to win
in next week's election.

•

Artist needed for weekly
commercial assignment . Payment negotiable. Elaine Ward,
426-1118.
Entertainers wanted for
ASH snack bar (CHRIS ' ICE
CREAM), Fridays and Saturdays. Contact Elaine Ward ,
426 -1118.

Halloween Eve
Saturday Night

Marantz 1120 amplifier
purchased 4 months ago . Has
been in use for one month .
Best offer over $350, 352-4941

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with Moondance

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NICE CATS. Rachel and Sally
need a new home (or homes).
They are adult. spayed fe males 3 - 4 years old. Affec tionate, stay-at -home types
- go well with laps. fireplaces , children, etc. Sally: a
"plain clothes " Siamese with
tiger stripes. Rachel : a "pretty
kitty, " gray , pink, and white
lady. One or both codd add
warmth and fuzziness to your
life.
See or call Kay Atwood Lib 1218, Phone 6205
or 352-0999.

• Saturday October 30 at 10: 00
a .m. a self-help workshop will
be sponsored by the Women's
Clinic and you . Bring a mirror, a
flashlight, and a speculum if you
have one (and 75 cents if you
don't so you can buy one) . We'll
be teaching women how to do
self-breast exams and self-speculum exams. Located in Health
Services Lounge, Seminar 2110 .
For questions call 866-6238.

our Brass Bull Lounge

Try the "Witches' Brew" 75 ct:

GREENWOOD INN
2300 Ever ree" Park Drive

2200 District . .. Position # 2

• A student forum of seminar
delegates and other interested
students will be held Friday ,
Oct. 29 at noon in Lib. 4004 to:
I} select seven at -large representatives to the Sounding Board,
2} discuss the ramifications of
the proposed Geoboard and
adopt appropriate strategies, and
3) continue the grassroots democratic process that did some important growing last year.

CAMPAIGN FINANCING REFORM?

RON KELLER

JERRY GRAY

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•
Public Disclosure Commission
Reports (10-7-76) 8how contributions
from outside Thurston County, and
outside our state totalling thousands
of dollars. Contributors include a
transportation lobby group from
Cleveland, Ohio (9·24-76), and
Bethlehem Steel of Bethlehem, PA.
(10-7-76).
$1,500. is reported from one source
alone.

FAVORS
'" will give honest representation to
Thurston County with no strings, no
promises, and no obligations to
payoff ... except to you, the citizens
of Thurston County."

• If you are concerned about
some of the more fundamental
problems afflicting our state to day such as: taxation , growth of
the bureaucracy, school financ ing , local government authority ,
rights of individuals, and environmental protection, the Commission for Constitutional Alternafives urges that you attend the
Constitutional Forums series in
October and November. The forums will be held at St. Martin' s
College caf e teria from 7 : 30 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, 10 and 17.

CAREER FILM SERIES

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INFORMATION DAY

" In order to get elected,"
. Kreidler explained, "you don't go
out and make hairline decisions
on issues that are 50 - 50 with
the voters. You do that and you
don't get elected. "
Kreidler has spent approximately the same amount of
money as Hendricks on his cam paign, and he is proud of the
fact that a good deal of it comes
from small individual contributions.
This race between an optometrist and a pharmacist will most
likely be decided by whether
voters prefer the experienced ,
friendly manner of Hendricks or
the crisp, competent profeSSionalism of Kreidler. That , or the
toss of a coin, because there are
no issues dividing them.

Moondance
thru Nov. 13

GRAY has limited contributions to a
$100.00 maximum and refused
contributions from outside Thurston
County.

ITATE AEPAE/EnTATIVE
GOP

JERRY

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Help, I've lost my puppy .
She is small, white, and furry
- a female and her name is
Paddy. She was lost around
ASH Saturday night. Please
call if you have seen her. I
really want her back. Anne
Connelly , ASH #67, 866-8504

•

Topi c: Women and Career Development
Date : Friday , November 5, 1976
Date: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Place: CAB 110
Contact Career Planning & Placement for more
information at Lib. 1214 or phone: 866-6193

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:Wednesday, November 3, 9 :00 a.m . - 3:30 p.m . in Library:
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,
IFORMAT : Morning workshops on Job Market and Job'
I Search, and Resumes, Applications and Interviews. After-I
I noon workshop on Graduate School Information and Indi-I
I VIdual interviews with professional representatives.
I
'REPRESENT A TIVES INCLUDE : Seattle Office of Women's I
I Rights, Human Rights Commission, Social Security Admin-'
: istration , Washington State Department of Personnel, Pierce I
• County Manpower Planning, House Office of Program Re-'
• search, Seattle City Council. Plus the University of Oregon:
,and University of Washington.
I
• TO PARTICIPATE : Register today in the Career Planning I
land Placement Office (Library 1214). Interviews will be as-,
I signed on a first come, first served basis.
•
• TO PREPARE: Attend a special Job and Graduate School I
Preparation Workshop on Monday, November 1 at 4:00 I
p.m . in the Career Resource Center (Library 1213).
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Candidate Forum Here Tonight

Kreidler - Hendricks

22nd District Features Personality Contest
( Edit o ,s lIote: Tonight . at 7
I-' Ill .. tlr ere will be a c~ndidate 's
t o nllll ill the main lobby of Ever-

WESTSIDE CENTER
• Open every day •

10 - 7 Sunday

green 's library. At tllat time candidates for a variety of local
elective positions will be on hand
to answer questions and present
their v iews . Thurston County
Commissioner candidates Harold
Anderson . George Barner. Del
Pettit and Ken Stevens will be
there : also State Senate candidates Del Bausch and Harry EIway and Stat e House of Repre sentatives candidates Jerry Gray
and Ron Keller ; John Hendricks
and Mike Kreidler. 111 this
feature. the Journal takes a close
look at 0111' of those races.)

9 - 9 Daily

HENDRICKS
" Hendricks is a Friendly, outgoing guy .. . He's the sort that
has a reputation iF someone
needs drugs, a prescription, and
can't pay for it immediately, well
that's okay, they can wait to pay
· . . That's the kind of guy John
Hendricks is," someone said recently. It would not be such a
remarkable description if it had
not come from a close and ardent
Kreidler supporter.

by Stan Shore

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Tole painting •
Supplies • Classes
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Slushy • Beer • Wine
• Picnic,

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OlIVI _ OlYMfI4. WASH ING,10H 9ISOJ -

John Hendricks

Democrat Mike Kreidler, a
North Thurston School Board
member who is challenging Hendricks this year.
The 22nd District, where Evergreen is located, comprises all of
Thurston County . It includes the
city of Lacey; the city of Tumwater, home of the beer Washington's state capital was named
after; and, of course, Olympia
itself.
ISSUE~

The contest between Hendricks,
63, and Kreidler, who at 32 is al- .
most half his age, lacks any clearcut issues to divide the candidates. Instead, it is a matter of
personalities, perceived competence , and to some extent, generations.
.
In Washington, the legislature
meets only part-time . There are,
like the federal government, two
houses: the Senate and House of
Representatives. Their salaries,
approximately $7,200 a year, are
low enough that few would
think to live on it alone. Kreidler is an optometrist, and Hendricks, who owns the Rexall in
Westside Shopping Center, is a
pharmacist.

in our lounge thru November 7

Both men are opposed to Ini tiative 325 , the ballot proposition
which would curtail the development of nuclear power plants in
Washington. The initiative is
popular among many environ mentalists and students.

Working at his own pharmacy,
Hendricks has a chance to meet
many of his constituents, including Evergreen students, each
day, and he greets many of them
by first name. Although born in
Tacoma, Hendricks has been a
resident of Olympia for 35 years.
He has served on the YMCA
board, 14 years on the Olympia
School Board, and is a past president of the Kiwanis.
An affable man, Hendricks is
not as articulate as he is sincere.
When talking about issues, he is
knowledgeable, but not minutely
so. He does not have a storehouse of statistics to accentuate
his points. He is clearly at his
best as a representative of Chamber of Commerce type philosophy.
'There is a real responsibility,"
he acknowledges, "to try and
represent all the people in this
district: both the business community and the apprOXimately
7,000 state employees . I'm a businessman. I subscribe to the free
enterprise system . .. Small business is the backbone of this
country .. .
" I don't understand how anyone can get turned off on business," Hendricks said. "I can
understand not wanting to be a
steelworker or not wanting to be
a banker, or not wanting to have

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READING COURSE TO BE TAUGHT
HERE IN OLYMPIA
Olympia - (Spec.) United States Read ing Lab will offer a 4 week course in speed
reading to a limited number of qualified
people in the Olympia area.
This recently developed method of in·
struction is the most innovative and effec·
tive program available in the United States.
Not only does this famous course reduce
your time in tpe classroom to just one class
per week for 4 short weeks, but it also in ·
cludes an advanced speed reading course on
cassette tape so that you can continue to
improve for the rest of your lifEl.
If you are a student who would like to
make A's instead of B's or C's, or if you are
a business person who wants to stay abreast
of today's ever· changing, accelerating world
then this course is an absolute necessity.
In a few months, some students are read·

ing 20 - 30 times faster, attaining speeds
that approach 6,000 words per minute.
Our average graduate should read 7 - 10
times faster upon completion of the courses
with marked improvement in comprehen·
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For those who would like additional information, a series of free, one hour orien·
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These free meetings will be held at the
foUowing times and location:

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Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Monday
Tuesday

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6:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
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Both men also oppose oil su pertankers on Puget Sound;
Hendricks voted for the stateimposed ban on them this last
session.

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Kreidler is a more thoughtful
and articulate candidate than
Hendricks, whom he refers to
only as "the incumbent." There
is the air about Kreidler of a
budding professional politician.
He views his candidacy as a challenge by the younger, better educated people in the district, including professional and skilled
public employees, against the
"old guard," men who are wellestablished and lifelong residents.
A member of the North Thurston school bofrd, Kreidler is
proud of his "three degrees,"
which he spent' "nine or ten
years" earning. He speaks with
authority and precision, often
adding the phrase, "That's a
fact," to his more important
points.

Likewise, both favor lowering
the drinking age to 19 and both,
with reservations, think that Ev ergreen is doing a great job.

"The experience I've gained in
the Legis lature can prove very
valuable. not just to myself, but
to the people I represent ," said
Republican John Hendricks, the
first position representative from
the 22nd district since 1972 .
"You still have the Old Guard
. the Community establishment Iin elected offices I. A few
years ago , if you weren't born
and raised here , you wouldn't
have gotten elected to anything,
but I think that's changed," said

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minor misdemeanor, like speeding, and is seldom prosecuted.

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• A workshop, Math Made Simple For Astrological Chart Makers, will be taught Thursdays
Nov. 4 - Dec. 16 in Lib. 4003 by
Rosalie de Stefano, a profeSSional
member of the American Federa tion of Astrologers. Class limit
20, fee $3.00 per person per
week . To register call Ann Harrelson, 357-9630 .
• Students interested in sports
should leave their names and
how they may be contacted with
Reynard Gordon or Katey Steele
in CRC 302. So far, informal organized sports are nowhere here,
but interest cont inues sporadically for volleyball, basketball,
and running. Special interest
workshops in racketball, speed
bag hitting, weight lifting, and
volleyball are scheduled regularly
in add ition to swimming lessons .

some particular job, but to be
against business in general ... "
This deeply felt loyaltv to business has netted Hendricks strong
financial support from different
political committees representing
the business community. United
for Washington is a political
committee which contributes to
many state legislative candidates,
and whose list of donors reads
like a Who's Who in Washington
state business. It has given almost $2,000 to the Hendricks
campaign, out of a total campaign expenditure of almost
$11,000.
Hendricks, who is a giant .of a
man, well over six feet tall,
speaks easily and personably,
even if he sometimes becomes
tongue- tied. He seems to view
issues in a very personal way: in
terms of people he knows, and
bills he's voted for. In the legislature, he most often votes along
Republican party lines .

• Membership application to the
River Rats, Geoduck Yacht
Club, or the Evergreen Alpine
Society is accomplished by visiting CRe 302 . Sailboats, kayaks,
rafts, and items of climbing equipment are avai lable to stu dents proficient in their use.

KREIDLER
The first time many people
saw Kriedler was during Olym pia's annual summer fest, Lakefair. He was an odd sight : a
small , well -dressed man passing
out white helium balloons with
his own name on them.

• A rally to support Solar Energy will be held Nov. 1 at 1 : 00
on the Capitol grounds for all
people who feel our society
needs to develop solar energy at
a faster rate . Show your support
and attend.

The Kreidler campaign has
picked up a lot of support since
then, particularly after his powerful primary victory in September, which made him the Democratic nominee . At that time, he
scored a dual victory: beating
both his Democratic opponents
and picking up enough votes to
out-poll Hendricks. As a result
he is the odds on favorite to win
in next week's election.

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They are adult. spayed fe males 3 - 4 years old. Affec tionate, stay-at -home types
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warmth and fuzziness to your
life.
See or call Kay Atwood Lib 1218, Phone 6205
or 352-0999.

• Saturday October 30 at 10: 00
a .m. a self-help workshop will
be sponsored by the Women's
Clinic and you . Bring a mirror, a
flashlight, and a speculum if you
have one (and 75 cents if you
don't so you can buy one) . We'll
be teaching women how to do
self-breast exams and self-speculum exams. Located in Health
Services Lounge, Seminar 2110 .
For questions call 866-6238.

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• A student forum of seminar
delegates and other interested
students will be held Friday ,
Oct. 29 at noon in Lib. 4004 to:
I} select seven at -large representatives to the Sounding Board,
2} discuss the ramifications of
the proposed Geoboard and
adopt appropriate strategies, and
3) continue the grassroots democratic process that did some important growing last year.

CAMPAIGN FINANCING REFORM?

RON KELLER

JERRY GRAY

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Public Disclosure Commission
Reports (10-7-76) 8how contributions
from outside Thurston County, and
outside our state totalling thousands
of dollars. Contributors include a
transportation lobby group from
Cleveland, Ohio (9·24-76), and
Bethlehem Steel of Bethlehem, PA.
(10-7-76).
$1,500. is reported from one source
alone.

FAVORS
'" will give honest representation to
Thurston County with no strings, no
promises, and no obligations to
payoff ... except to you, the citizens
of Thurston County."

• If you are concerned about
some of the more fundamental
problems afflicting our state to day such as: taxation , growth of
the bureaucracy, school financ ing , local government authority ,
rights of individuals, and environmental protection, the Commission for Constitutional Alternafives urges that you attend the
Constitutional Forums series in
October and November. The forums will be held at St. Martin' s
College caf e teria from 7 : 30 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, 10 and 17.

CAREER FILM SERIES

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INFORMATION DAY

" In order to get elected,"
. Kreidler explained, "you don't go
out and make hairline decisions
on issues that are 50 - 50 with
the voters. You do that and you
don't get elected. "
Kreidler has spent approximately the same amount of
money as Hendricks on his cam paign, and he is proud of the
fact that a good deal of it comes
from small individual contributions.
This race between an optometrist and a pharmacist will most
likely be decided by whether
voters prefer the experienced ,
friendly manner of Hendricks or
the crisp, competent profeSSionalism of Kreidler. That , or the
toss of a coin, because there are
no issues dividing them.

Moondance
thru Nov. 13

GRAY has limited contributions to a
$100.00 maximum and refused
contributions from outside Thurston
County.

ITATE AEPAE/EnTATIVE
GOP

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Date : Friday , November 5, 1976
Date: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Place: CAB 110
Contact Career Planning & Placement for more
information at Lib. 1214 or phone: 866-6193

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Preparation Workshop on Monday, November 1 at 4:00 I
p.m . in the Career Resource Center (Library 1213).
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L. ____________ " We are trying to make the vaccine as available as possible.
Beyond that, it's really a take it
or leave it proposition. " So says
Dr. John V. Deshaye, the district
health o fficer for Thurston
County, in talking about whether
Evergreen students should seek
innoculation against the much
publicized Swine Flu .
Garnering a straight answer on
how important the vaccinations
really are is difficult . Evergreen
physician Dr. David Peterson,
when asked about the need for
vaccination against the Swine
Flu, sa id , "I have no opinion at
a ll. I got my shot last week. I
happened to be walking by the
ho sp it a l cafeteria and saw a
bunch o f people lined up . I asked
what was going on and they said
they were gi ving Swine Flu
shots . So I rolled up my sleeve.
What the hell . I can give you the
government recommendations. "
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in for the monovalent vaccine ,
and those older or with any
chronic debilitating disea ses
should get the bivalent vaccine."
President Ford launched the 135
million dollar public inoculation
program last March after one '
soldier died and others were infected at Fort Dix , N .J. with a
strain of virus said to be similar

to the one that caused 10 - 20
million deaths around the world
in 1918. Comolications are the
prime danger in influenza . Victims are usually treated to a few
days of fever, chills, headache,
dry coughing, and sore muscles.
But severe viruses, such as the
1918 version, weaken certain
people and open the ' door to secondary infections, such as pneumonia. Dr. Peterson put it this
way, "A good bug comes along
every once in a while and wipes
out a whole bunch of people people who are pr~bably ready
to go anyway ."
Swine Flu vaccine has been
produced in two types . The monovalent inoculum is directed only
against Swine Flu, while the bivalent is designed to be effective
against both the A / New Jersey
/76 (Swine Flu's official name)
and the A/Victoria strains. The
number of doses of bivalent are
limited, so it is being reserved
for people over 57 years of age
and others with a high risk condition. Anyone with heart or
kidney trouble, diabetes, or respiratory problems is advised to
seek immunization with the bi valent vaccine.
The government literature
speaks of the Fort Dix virus with

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is defended with a rhetorical
question: "Do you gamble with
dollars, or lives?" Yet many people feel the program is unjustified. Six British volunteers exposed to the Fort Dix strain developed only mild illness, and
the disease was not unusually
contagious . No outbreaks of
Swine Flu have been reported
since the New Jersey episode,
and no other countries have initiated immunization programs.
Some attribute the death of the
soldier to exhaustion, as he had
just taken a long hike, and contend there is no proof that this
virus is going to sweep the country in a deadly epidemic. Dr.
Peterson questioned the probability of a major outbreak this winter and indicated he did not feel
strongly about vaccinations for
young people. "I think fivergreen
students are among the least susceptible population - except
those with heart trouble or other
chronic diseases, " he said,
A few authorities even contend the program is harmful,
pointing to the possible side effects of vaccination . Dr. Deshaye
discounts the deaths of the elderly people in the east, saying
that a certain percentage of old
people die every day, and the
fact they were inoculated on a
particular day has nothing to do
with their deaths. He also blames
the "outer space approach" of
using mass inoculation jet injectors instead of regular needles
for causing the anxiety that
might have contributed to those
heart attack deaths. "We Use a
more personal approach, with a
small painless needle and syringe .
And we have not had any reports of any serious side effects
after giving about eight thousand
shots here. A few sore arms
maybe, but nothing serious," he
said. He also said that perhaps
two or three percent of the population would get a mild reaction
after vaccination, suffering a
slight fever and assorted aches.
Beyond the medical realm, the
Swine Flu program has been
touted as more of a political shot
in the arm than a public health
measure. One local physician
briefly wondered about governmental ulterior motive in light of
the total lack of Swine Flu cases
since Ft. Dix . And ' the lack of
viruses in the air does leave
plenty of room for speculation.
There are jokes about the vaccine actually being a mass inoculation for the Defense Department's latest biological weapon,
or perhaps a live test of our nation's ability to respond to new
microorganisms.

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Freaks:
A Confession
of Evil
by Matt Groening
Tad Browning's FREAKS w ill
be shown in Lecture Hall One on
Friday , October 29, as part of
the Friday Nite Film Series . The
show times are 3 , 7, and 9: 30
p,m, Th e cost is 75 cents,

Every intelligent kid I knew
w hen I was growing up was obsessed with freaks at one time or
another. I think our curiosities
were triggered at the first sight
of the Munchkins in The Wizard
of Oz, and by the tirrfe the Flying
Mo n keys showed up o n the
screen a life- long, embarraSSing
obsession was firmly implanted
in o ur tiny, unformed minds.
I like to thin k our morbid fixation was an unconscious revolt
against a placid, boring, suburban life-sty le, but I fear it was
merely a creepy love of loathsomeness which caused us to im merse ourselves in abnormality
of all shapes and sizes.
In the fourth grade we formed
a secret organization called the
Creature Club, and our apt little
motto was ''I'm Peculiar." The
Creature Club's president was a
doctor's son, so we used to go
over to hi s house and pore
through dusty old medica l books
full of photos of cyclops babies,
victims of elephantiasis, and the
like. We didn't waste our time
on homogenized Hanna- Barbara
ca rtoons like bur peers, but
searched diligently for new extremes in the lower depths of unwholesome weirdness . W e
watched the TV show You
Asked For It religiously, and
whenever we were in the Seattle
area visiting friends or relatives
we never missed Freak Wrestling,
' a program which featured grunt ing midgets. We memorized passages from the Guiness Book of
World Records, Ripley's Believe
It or Not, The American Way of
Death, and Miss - Lonelyhearts.
We all read P.T. Barnum's autobiography and took turns with
Duet For a Lifetime, the story of
Cheng and Eng, the Siamese
Twins. Some of us even. got
through Gunter Grass' The Tin
Drum, and we all were enchanted
by the sniggering hunchback in
the novel Candy.

But li terature did not slake o ur
thirst for the bizarre . We carefu ll y passed around a jar of em balming fluid a club member had
found in his attic, and went on
bike tours of some of the local
cemeteries. A couple of the ' more
daring club members act ua ll y
snuck into the back of a mortu ary and reported back, bug -eyed
and breathlessly, "The shower . .
. , has straps !" We stared at the
two-headed stuffed lamb at the
Oregon Museum o f Science and
Industry time a nd again , and if
th e Right to Life people had been
crusadi ng in those days, we
probably would have hun g
around just to eye their bottled
fetuses over an extended period
of time.
The Creature Club fina ll y
broke up in frustration after we
spent the club's entire treasury
($35) on back issues of Fa mous
Mon s t ers of Film/and , which
were ripped up by a disgruntled
older brother of o ne of the club
members who broke into the
padlocked club closet in a fit of
pique when we voted unani mously to keep him out of all
club activities. He also stole the
club's secret Playboy magazine
collection, but I don't know if he
ripped them up or not.
I All of us pretty much put our
temporary preoccupation with
the gro tesque out of our minds,
and when something happened
to remind us of the Creature
Club or its activities, we dismissed that warped period in our
lives as "a growing experience ."
But when we arrived at co llege we found we weren't as
monstrous as we had thought we
were: other kids had grown up
with the same morbid drives we
,had, and many of them carried
their contemplation of deviation
to extremes which we had not
'thought possible . Dog-eared copies of Very Special People and
We Are Not As Others Are
haunted their libraries, and they
watched and re-watched movies
'like Sisters, Fellini Satyricon,
and Do~ 't Look Now , the last of
'which reveals Little Red Riding
Hood to be a psychotic dwarf
'with a machete. Right down the
hall in the dorms were kids who
took delight in recreating the
I,scene when the Sheriff came to

investigate a death , and others
who liked to eat light bulbs or
wish they could fellate them' selves. One young woman .made
it her New Year's Resolution for
three years in a row to sleep
with a midget ; she finally acI complished that goal'.
All of this somehow brings me
to the original topic of this essay,
which is Tod Browning's 1932
horror masterpiece , FREA KS .
This long-banned movie will disappoint no one who has somewhere within him- or herself the
Creature Club mentality .
FREAKS gives it to you both
ways : as a voyeuristic sideshow
thrill , and as a sympathetic, although crude, portrayal of the
adj ustments and miseries in the
lives of total physical o utcasts,
The film also asks some profo und questions, and th e answers
may haunt you ,
Tw o th ings make FREAKS
unique among horror movies,
First, apart from the few "nor ma l" actors, all the roles arf
taken by actual circus freaks of
all types : dwarfs, midgets, Sia mes e twins , limb less per so ns ,
and so on. The "monste rs" in
thi s mov ie can no t be dismi ssed
as fa nt asy - they we re born the
way they now appear, to an extent the ir scree n lives m irr or
th eir actual lives, and th ey are
rea l. Second , the freaks are de pi cted with grea t sympa th y, a
co mplete reversa l o f the expectat io ns in a trad itiona l horr o r
movie. We are given li fe fro m
th e freaks' po int of view, . a nd
after the first visual shock we
find we can accept it , to a n extent. It is the "norm als" who are
seen as cruel and 'ev iL as nonhum an, as an irrational night mare , This pervasive evil e-"entu a ll y overcomes th e freaks,
though, and they turn on their
tormentors w ith a chilling a nd
grimly sat isfy ing act of venge ance.
I suppose one of the main impulses behind the desire to view
the inmates of zoos, insane asylums, and sideshows is to reas -'
sure the outsider of his or her
own physical and moral superiority, FREAKS fairly effecti ve ly
subverts that desire through the
compassionate treatment of its
stars, some of whom we get to
know and like as indiv iduals ,
Harry Earles as Hans, th e circus
midget , is completely charming,
despite stiff lines and awkward
acting. Frieda, another midget
(played by Daisy Earles), is just
as appealing, even though her
acting is even worse than her
husband's.
Notwithstanding the sympathetic rendering of the freaks'
lives, FREA KS is ultimately a
film of horror . Although we are
taken in by the gentleness a nd
tolerance in "their lives, our physical revulsion cannot be denied ,
however much we may wish to
do so. Perhaps the most reveal ing example of this is during the
feast scene, in which a "normal"
is initiated into the band of
freaks. Toasting her, they chant
something like, "Gooble, gobble,
gooble gobble, one of us, one of
usl W e accept her, we accept
her, one of us, one of usl " Al though we have no sympathy
with the "normal. " she is our
representative in the scene, and
most of us cannot help but identigy wi th her reaction.
FREAKS is more than a morbid movie treat. It is a test - a ,
test of tolerance, squeamishness,
conditioned reflex, and aversion,
' all tugging against each other at
the same time. The test, if you
take it, has no pleasant answers,
but it is important. Do we accept
the truly abnormal. the inexplicable, the deviation, can we
really accept it, as one of us, one
' of us?

Arts and ,EventsAJr~~
FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Friday, October 29
FREAKS (t932 , 64 min ,) One of
the few truly chilling horror film s in
a generally oYerrated genre mainly because the "monsters" in
this mOYie are actual human freaks .
Despite the impl icit exploitation of
the abnormal people in a film such
as this, they are depicted sympa.thelica ll y, and it Is the "normal"
folks who are the villains . Frank
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moyie . SEE REVIEW IN THIS
ISSUE . With WHITE ZOMBIE (1933 ,
66 min .) Bela Lugo si is the zom bi e,
in a moyie considered by some
,horror buffs to be outstanding . And
INSOMNIE (France, 1964) A horror
film spoof. Presented by the Friday
Nite Film Series. L H One, 3, 7. and
9:30 p.m. 75 cen ts.
Mo nd ay, November 1, and Tues day, Noyember 2
THE DOUBLE DAY (56 min.) a
docu m entary o n discr i mination
again st La tin American women.
" Double Day" relers to th e two lobs
the women ex perience: as wage earners and as wive s I mother s. Presented by EPIC ( Evergreen Pol iti ca l
Inform"t ion Cen ter ). LH One,
Monday, 7:30 p.m .: Tu es day ,
noon. FREE .
Wedn es day , November 3
KING LEAR (19 71) Peter Brook s
highl y acclai med ve rsion 01 Shake speare's play . Presented as part of
the Academ ic Fi lm Series. LH One,
1 : 30 and 7 : 30 p.m . FREE .
IN OLYM PI A
A MATTER OF TIME , starring
Li za Minelli and In grid Bergma n.
Capitol Thea tre, 357 - 71 61.
TUNNELVISION, an imilation of
" The Groove Tube ." Oly mpi c TheatFe, 357 -3422 .
SILENT MOVIE And yo u won't
hear any laughter, either. With :
THE TWELVE CHAfRS , another Mel
Brooks movie . State Theatre , 357 40tO.
GIRLS WHO DO For guys who
' can 't . With : MIDNIGHT COWBOY,
starring John Voight and Du sti n
Hoffman . Trunks and ID's wil l be
s pot - c hecked . Skylin e Dri ye- In ,
357 -8302 ,

"OLlTICS
Thursday, October 28
THE 1976 CANDIDATES FAIR
AND FORUM , featuring candidates
for seals in the state legi slature
and in Thursto n County . Each candidate w ill make a fi ve-minute presentat ion , with o pen quest ion I answer sessions following . Mai n li brary lobby , 7 - 9 p.m. FREE .

MUSIC '
ON CAMPUS
. Thursday, October 28
SQUARE DANCE with live band
and caller, Fourth Floor Library ,
1:30 p .m. Donations appreciated .
Sunday, October 3t .
FOLK DANCING All dan ces
taught. College Activities Building
lobby , 7 :30 to 10 p.m. FREE .
Wednesday , Novem ber 3
FOLK DANCING All dances
taught. College Activities Building
lobby , noon to 2 p.m . FRE E .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, October 29
IRISH-AMERICAN STRING BAND
English, Ameri can, and Irish folk
mu sic wit h Frank Ferrel , fiddle :
Mark Graham, co ncerti na , bodh ran,
ha rm onica ; and M i ke Saunders,
guitar . Also: the annual Halloween
cos tum e con tes t. Applejam Folk
Cente r , 220 East Unio n. 8 : 15
p.m. $1 .
Sat urday, October 30
WALT ROBERTSO N, a pioneer
olks inger in th e northwest . Apple lam Folk Center. 8 : 15 p.m .. $1 .

ART
ON CAMPU S
THE FIRST ANNUAL GREAT
GEO I PUMPKIN CONTEST Judg ing
will take place Thursday . October
28 by members o f Everg reen'S Visua l Envi ronment Group . Library , 1
p,m. FREE .
THE BONE TONES Bi zarre draw inl;S a nd p aintings by Cha r les
Burns, Lavone Math ison. and Scott
Till otson. Crypto Art Gal lery, COllege Library . October 20 through
Novem ber 4 .
THE DO-IT -YOURSELF STUFFED
ALBINO SQUIRREL AND SWINE
FLU VACCINE KIT At grea t expense and trouble the Cooper Point
Journal has discovered that a local
virus, carried only by stu ffed albin o
squirrels. is even more deadly than
th.e dreaded upcom ing swine 'I u
plag ue. In order to nip thi s impending epidemic in the bud . so to
speak , we pro udly pre sent th e
world's first and on ly co mbination
Stu ffed Albin o Squi rrel Flu / Swine
Flu Scratch 'n' SniH Vacc ine:

Just Scratch and Sniff .
Now you' re im mune
Next week : Deadly side-e Hects
from Ihe above Scratc h 'n' Sniff
vacci ne. Joe Bemis Memori al Free
Clinic and Gallery, open 24 hours .
Foodstamps not accep ted .

Westside
Auto Parts
discount to
Evergreen students
Foreign parts. too.
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should take it, all 1 can say is;
IPlace : Ca reer ResourceCe nter . you can ask Jerry Ford. He's
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I taken it , and I've taken it myself.
L. ____________ " We are trying to make the vaccine as available as possible.
Beyond that, it's really a take it
or leave it proposition. " So says
Dr. John V. Deshaye, the district
health o fficer for Thurston
County, in talking about whether
Evergreen students should seek
innoculation against the much
publicized Swine Flu .
Garnering a straight answer on
how important the vaccinations
really are is difficult . Evergreen
physician Dr. David Peterson,
when asked about the need for
vaccination against the Swine
Flu, sa id , "I have no opinion at
a ll. I got my shot last week. I
happened to be walking by the
ho sp it a l cafeteria and saw a
bunch o f people lined up . I asked
what was going on and they said
they were gi ving Swine Flu
shots . So I rolled up my sleeve.
What the hell . I can give you the
government recommendations. "
Most physicians are standing
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in for the monovalent vaccine ,
and those older or with any
chronic debilitating disea ses
should get the bivalent vaccine."
President Ford launched the 135
million dollar public inoculation
program last March after one '
soldier died and others were infected at Fort Dix , N .J. with a
strain of virus said to be similar

to the one that caused 10 - 20
million deaths around the world
in 1918. Comolications are the
prime danger in influenza . Victims are usually treated to a few
days of fever, chills, headache,
dry coughing, and sore muscles.
But severe viruses, such as the
1918 version, weaken certain
people and open the ' door to secondary infections, such as pneumonia. Dr. Peterson put it this
way, "A good bug comes along
every once in a while and wipes
out a whole bunch of people people who are pr~bably ready
to go anyway ."
Swine Flu vaccine has been
produced in two types . The monovalent inoculum is directed only
against Swine Flu, while the bivalent is designed to be effective
against both the A / New Jersey
/76 (Swine Flu's official name)
and the A/Victoria strains. The
number of doses of bivalent are
limited, so it is being reserved
for people over 57 years of age
and others with a high risk condition. Anyone with heart or
kidney trouble, diabetes, or respiratory problems is advised to
seek immunization with the bi valent vaccine.
The government literature
speaks of the Fort Dix virus with

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narrow-eyed sternness. The' decision to confront the Swine Flu
is defended with a rhetorical
question: "Do you gamble with
dollars, or lives?" Yet many people feel the program is unjustified. Six British volunteers exposed to the Fort Dix strain developed only mild illness, and
the disease was not unusually
contagious . No outbreaks of
Swine Flu have been reported
since the New Jersey episode,
and no other countries have initiated immunization programs.
Some attribute the death of the
soldier to exhaustion, as he had
just taken a long hike, and contend there is no proof that this
virus is going to sweep the country in a deadly epidemic. Dr.
Peterson questioned the probability of a major outbreak this winter and indicated he did not feel
strongly about vaccinations for
young people. "I think fivergreen
students are among the least susceptible population - except
those with heart trouble or other
chronic diseases, " he said,
A few authorities even contend the program is harmful,
pointing to the possible side effects of vaccination . Dr. Deshaye
discounts the deaths of the elderly people in the east, saying
that a certain percentage of old
people die every day, and the
fact they were inoculated on a
particular day has nothing to do
with their deaths. He also blames
the "outer space approach" of
using mass inoculation jet injectors instead of regular needles
for causing the anxiety that
might have contributed to those
heart attack deaths. "We Use a
more personal approach, with a
small painless needle and syringe .
And we have not had any reports of any serious side effects
after giving about eight thousand
shots here. A few sore arms
maybe, but nothing serious," he
said. He also said that perhaps
two or three percent of the population would get a mild reaction
after vaccination, suffering a
slight fever and assorted aches.
Beyond the medical realm, the
Swine Flu program has been
touted as more of a political shot
in the arm than a public health
measure. One local physician
briefly wondered about governmental ulterior motive in light of
the total lack of Swine Flu cases
since Ft. Dix . And ' the lack of
viruses in the air does leave
plenty of room for speculation.
There are jokes about the vaccine actually being a mass inoculation for the Defense Department's latest biological weapon,
or perhaps a live test of our nation's ability to respond to new
microorganisms.

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Freaks:
A Confession
of Evil
by Matt Groening
Tad Browning's FREAKS w ill
be shown in Lecture Hall One on
Friday , October 29, as part of
the Friday Nite Film Series . The
show times are 3 , 7, and 9: 30
p,m, Th e cost is 75 cents,

Every intelligent kid I knew
w hen I was growing up was obsessed with freaks at one time or
another. I think our curiosities
were triggered at the first sight
of the Munchkins in The Wizard
of Oz, and by the tirrfe the Flying
Mo n keys showed up o n the
screen a life- long, embarraSSing
obsession was firmly implanted
in o ur tiny, unformed minds.
I like to thin k our morbid fixation was an unconscious revolt
against a placid, boring, suburban life-sty le, but I fear it was
merely a creepy love of loathsomeness which caused us to im merse ourselves in abnormality
of all shapes and sizes.
In the fourth grade we formed
a secret organization called the
Creature Club, and our apt little
motto was ''I'm Peculiar." The
Creature Club's president was a
doctor's son, so we used to go
over to hi s house and pore
through dusty old medica l books
full of photos of cyclops babies,
victims of elephantiasis, and the
like. We didn't waste our time
on homogenized Hanna- Barbara
ca rtoons like bur peers, but
searched diligently for new extremes in the lower depths of unwholesome weirdness . W e
watched the TV show You
Asked For It religiously, and
whenever we were in the Seattle
area visiting friends or relatives
we never missed Freak Wrestling,
' a program which featured grunt ing midgets. We memorized passages from the Guiness Book of
World Records, Ripley's Believe
It or Not, The American Way of
Death, and Miss - Lonelyhearts.
We all read P.T. Barnum's autobiography and took turns with
Duet For a Lifetime, the story of
Cheng and Eng, the Siamese
Twins. Some of us even. got
through Gunter Grass' The Tin
Drum, and we all were enchanted
by the sniggering hunchback in
the novel Candy.

But li terature did not slake o ur
thirst for the bizarre . We carefu ll y passed around a jar of em balming fluid a club member had
found in his attic, and went on
bike tours of some of the local
cemeteries. A couple of the ' more
daring club members act ua ll y
snuck into the back of a mortu ary and reported back, bug -eyed
and breathlessly, "The shower . .
. , has straps !" We stared at the
two-headed stuffed lamb at the
Oregon Museum o f Science and
Industry time a nd again , and if
th e Right to Life people had been
crusadi ng in those days, we
probably would have hun g
around just to eye their bottled
fetuses over an extended period
of time.
The Creature Club fina ll y
broke up in frustration after we
spent the club's entire treasury
($35) on back issues of Fa mous
Mon s t ers of Film/and , which
were ripped up by a disgruntled
older brother of o ne of the club
members who broke into the
padlocked club closet in a fit of
pique when we voted unani mously to keep him out of all
club activities. He also stole the
club's secret Playboy magazine
collection, but I don't know if he
ripped them up or not.
I All of us pretty much put our
temporary preoccupation with
the gro tesque out of our minds,
and when something happened
to remind us of the Creature
Club or its activities, we dismissed that warped period in our
lives as "a growing experience ."
But when we arrived at co llege we found we weren't as
monstrous as we had thought we
were: other kids had grown up
with the same morbid drives we
,had, and many of them carried
their contemplation of deviation
to extremes which we had not
'thought possible . Dog-eared copies of Very Special People and
We Are Not As Others Are
haunted their libraries, and they
watched and re-watched movies
'like Sisters, Fellini Satyricon,
and Do~ 't Look Now , the last of
'which reveals Little Red Riding
Hood to be a psychotic dwarf
'with a machete. Right down the
hall in the dorms were kids who
took delight in recreating the
I,scene when the Sheriff came to

investigate a death , and others
who liked to eat light bulbs or
wish they could fellate them' selves. One young woman .made
it her New Year's Resolution for
three years in a row to sleep
with a midget ; she finally acI complished that goal'.
All of this somehow brings me
to the original topic of this essay,
which is Tod Browning's 1932
horror masterpiece , FREA KS .
This long-banned movie will disappoint no one who has somewhere within him- or herself the
Creature Club mentality .
FREAKS gives it to you both
ways : as a voyeuristic sideshow
thrill , and as a sympathetic, although crude, portrayal of the
adj ustments and miseries in the
lives of total physical o utcasts,
The film also asks some profo und questions, and th e answers
may haunt you ,
Tw o th ings make FREAKS
unique among horror movies,
First, apart from the few "nor ma l" actors, all the roles arf
taken by actual circus freaks of
all types : dwarfs, midgets, Sia mes e twins , limb less per so ns ,
and so on. The "monste rs" in
thi s mov ie can no t be dismi ssed
as fa nt asy - they we re born the
way they now appear, to an extent the ir scree n lives m irr or
th eir actual lives, and th ey are
rea l. Second , the freaks are de pi cted with grea t sympa th y, a
co mplete reversa l o f the expectat io ns in a trad itiona l horr o r
movie. We are given li fe fro m
th e freaks' po int of view, . a nd
after the first visual shock we
find we can accept it , to a n extent. It is the "norm als" who are
seen as cruel and 'ev iL as nonhum an, as an irrational night mare , This pervasive evil e-"entu a ll y overcomes th e freaks,
though, and they turn on their
tormentors w ith a chilling a nd
grimly sat isfy ing act of venge ance.
I suppose one of the main impulses behind the desire to view
the inmates of zoos, insane asylums, and sideshows is to reas -'
sure the outsider of his or her
own physical and moral superiority, FREAKS fairly effecti ve ly
subverts that desire through the
compassionate treatment of its
stars, some of whom we get to
know and like as indiv iduals ,
Harry Earles as Hans, th e circus
midget , is completely charming,
despite stiff lines and awkward
acting. Frieda, another midget
(played by Daisy Earles), is just
as appealing, even though her
acting is even worse than her
husband's.
Notwithstanding the sympathetic rendering of the freaks'
lives, FREA KS is ultimately a
film of horror . Although we are
taken in by the gentleness a nd
tolerance in "their lives, our physical revulsion cannot be denied ,
however much we may wish to
do so. Perhaps the most reveal ing example of this is during the
feast scene, in which a "normal"
is initiated into the band of
freaks. Toasting her, they chant
something like, "Gooble, gobble,
gooble gobble, one of us, one of
usl W e accept her, we accept
her, one of us, one of usl " Al though we have no sympathy
with the "normal. " she is our
representative in the scene, and
most of us cannot help but identigy wi th her reaction.
FREAKS is more than a morbid movie treat. It is a test - a ,
test of tolerance, squeamishness,
conditioned reflex, and aversion,
' all tugging against each other at
the same time. The test, if you
take it, has no pleasant answers,
but it is important. Do we accept
the truly abnormal. the inexplicable, the deviation, can we
really accept it, as one of us, one
' of us?

Arts and ,EventsAJr~~
FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Friday, October 29
FREAKS (t932 , 64 min ,) One of
the few truly chilling horror film s in
a generally oYerrated genre mainly because the "monsters" in
this mOYie are actual human freaks .
Despite the impl icit exploitation of
the abnormal people in a film such
as this, they are depicted sympa.thelica ll y, and it Is the "normal"
folks who are the villains . Frank
laOO;)

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favoritp.

moyie . SEE REVIEW IN THIS
ISSUE . With WHITE ZOMBIE (1933 ,
66 min .) Bela Lugo si is the zom bi e,
in a moyie considered by some
,horror buffs to be outstanding . And
INSOMNIE (France, 1964) A horror
film spoof. Presented by the Friday
Nite Film Series. L H One, 3, 7. and
9:30 p.m. 75 cen ts.
Mo nd ay, November 1, and Tues day, Noyember 2
THE DOUBLE DAY (56 min.) a
docu m entary o n discr i mination
again st La tin American women.
" Double Day" relers to th e two lobs
the women ex perience: as wage earners and as wive s I mother s. Presented by EPIC ( Evergreen Pol iti ca l
Inform"t ion Cen ter ). LH One,
Monday, 7:30 p.m .: Tu es day ,
noon. FREE .
Wedn es day , November 3
KING LEAR (19 71) Peter Brook s
highl y acclai med ve rsion 01 Shake speare's play . Presented as part of
the Academ ic Fi lm Series. LH One,
1 : 30 and 7 : 30 p.m . FREE .
IN OLYM PI A
A MATTER OF TIME , starring
Li za Minelli and In grid Bergma n.
Capitol Thea tre, 357 - 71 61.
TUNNELVISION, an imilation of
" The Groove Tube ." Oly mpi c TheatFe, 357 -3422 .
SILENT MOVIE And yo u won't
hear any laughter, either. With :
THE TWELVE CHAfRS , another Mel
Brooks movie . State Theatre , 357 40tO.
GIRLS WHO DO For guys who
' can 't . With : MIDNIGHT COWBOY,
starring John Voight and Du sti n
Hoffman . Trunks and ID's wil l be
s pot - c hecked . Skylin e Dri ye- In ,
357 -8302 ,

"OLlTICS
Thursday, October 28
THE 1976 CANDIDATES FAIR
AND FORUM , featuring candidates
for seals in the state legi slature
and in Thursto n County . Each candidate w ill make a fi ve-minute presentat ion , with o pen quest ion I answer sessions following . Mai n li brary lobby , 7 - 9 p.m. FREE .

MUSIC '
ON CAMPUS
. Thursday, October 28
SQUARE DANCE with live band
and caller, Fourth Floor Library ,
1:30 p .m. Donations appreciated .
Sunday, October 3t .
FOLK DANCING All dan ces
taught. College Activities Building
lobby , 7 :30 to 10 p.m. FREE .
Wednesday , Novem ber 3
FOLK DANCING All dances
taught. College Activities Building
lobby , noon to 2 p.m . FRE E .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, October 29
IRISH-AMERICAN STRING BAND
English, Ameri can, and Irish folk
mu sic wit h Frank Ferrel , fiddle :
Mark Graham, co ncerti na , bodh ran,
ha rm onica ; and M i ke Saunders,
guitar . Also: the annual Halloween
cos tum e con tes t. Applejam Folk
Cente r , 220 East Unio n. 8 : 15
p.m. $1 .
Sat urday, October 30
WALT ROBERTSO N, a pioneer
olks inger in th e northwest . Apple lam Folk Center. 8 : 15 p.m .. $1 .

ART
ON CAMPU S
THE FIRST ANNUAL GREAT
GEO I PUMPKIN CONTEST Judg ing
will take place Thursday . October
28 by members o f Everg reen'S Visua l Envi ronment Group . Library , 1
p,m. FREE .
THE BONE TONES Bi zarre draw inl;S a nd p aintings by Cha r les
Burns, Lavone Math ison. and Scott
Till otson. Crypto Art Gal lery, COllege Library . October 20 through
Novem ber 4 .
THE DO-IT -YOURSELF STUFFED
ALBINO SQUIRREL AND SWINE
FLU VACCINE KIT At grea t expense and trouble the Cooper Point
Journal has discovered that a local
virus, carried only by stu ffed albin o
squirrels. is even more deadly than
th.e dreaded upcom ing swine 'I u
plag ue. In order to nip thi s impending epidemic in the bud . so to
speak , we pro udly pre sent th e
world's first and on ly co mbination
Stu ffed Albin o Squi rrel Flu / Swine
Flu Scratch 'n' SniH Vacc ine:

Just Scratch and Sniff .
Now you' re im mune
Next week : Deadly side-e Hects
from Ihe above Scratc h 'n' Sniff
vacci ne. Joe Bemis Memori al Free
Clinic and Gallery, open 24 hours .
Foodstamps not accep ted .

Westside
Auto Parts
discount to
Evergreen students
Foreign parts. too.
2211 W. Harrison
Ph. 352-7221

Let the Natural Way
Be Your Way
Organic produce

HERBS
Grains
Natural vitamins
:& minerals

Westside Center

357-8779

Juicers
Books

MondilY - Saturday 9:30 - 6:00

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New admi ssions director

Faculty Elected
to Presidential
Search Committee

Greg Vermillion "result-oriented"
by Steve Kruse
What w o rds would best describe Greg
Ve rmillio n. Evergreen 's new d irecto r of
a dmi ssio ns? Expe rienced , aggressive ,
br ight. and strai ght -ta lking are just 'a few
(If th e descr ipti o ns th at have been used
lu r Greg throughout his young but successful career .
Verm illi on too k over this demanding
adm in is trat ive pos iti on whe n Ken Mayer
res igned after several stormy Uj:- and dllwn years here trying to keep Evergf(·e n·s en ro ll ment at an even pace .
Even th o ugh Vermi lli o n is orily 35 years
"id he bri ngs to Evergreen over 12 years
,' I e,,[,eri ence in the fie ld of college adm is,i,'m. Al ter Ve rmillion received his BA in
"ducdtil'n Ifl'm Sea tt le University in 1966,
he we nt ,t raigh t to St. Mart in 's Co llege ,
1"htTe he se fl'ed as direct or of admiss ions
I,' r It' ur ,·ears . He the n we nt on to be1 ,'11 1<' t' nl' 01 th e youngest directors o f ad I1l I"i"ll> In the C a lif ornia sys tem of higher l·d ll CJt il'n . b y filling the posit ion of
.\ " " tal1 t D irecto r of Ad mi ssions a nd Rec,'rd, 1, ,1' Ca lil cHn ia State Co llege- Fulle rto n
unt il 10 72. G reg was most recently em['I,'\'ed as the direc tor of adm iss ions w ith
C ,l l,to rn i,l Sta te Co llege-Sonoma.
T he ,, ',, ' Ve rmilli on's competitive nature
I\as develope d o n th e baske tball court at
,m ('a rl \' age. H is pa ss ionate dedication to
hard \\'or k a nd a thletics led him to a high
<c h,' c.) I irs t team , all -state basketba ll select io n in Mo ntana in 1959 a nd again in
I \),,0 a s a seni o r from Shelt on High
Sc hool in W ashington.
e re!, pursued his athl etic ca reer through
coll ege where he played three years of
\, a rsi t\· basketball fo r Seatt le University.
He then went on to coach basketball for
St. \ ];lrt in's and Ca l-State-F ullerton .
Ve rmillion's expe rtise and positive atti tude are reit erat ed in a late afternoon in te fl'iew w ith Th e Coo per Point JOllmal
As a wri ter it was a pleasure to interview
,,'meone so e nthu siastic a nd straightfor I\·Md . He see med to d is play a ll the attri -

Greg Vermillion
butes of a young man with a productive
future ahead of him .
What have been some of your past successes and failures ?
"My major success in life is that I have
co me up the hard way . Nothing was ever
given to me and I have earned everything
that I have received - I feel good about
that fact. My major failure was that I had
the opportunity to play professional basketball a nd I passed it up because I wanted
to use my education in a n educational
sense. I don't know if this was really a
fai lure, but now that I look back I w ish I
would have taken the opportunity to play
pro ball."
Your predecessor left Evergreen with a
disgrllnt led fee lin g over th e lack of results
of his o ffic e. Do you feel that this collld
hap per! to YOIl ?

"No! I'm not aware of his problems.
I'm a result-oriented man . This is perhaps
one of the toughest jobs in higher education today. With support a nd backing my
experience lends itself to the job in hand.
Nothing scares me and I consider it a challenge and that's what makes it exciting for
me. 1 wouldn't be in a job that didn't pre sent a challenge."
Why did you take the job in the first
place?
"I wanted to come home. When 1 left
St. Martin's I did it with the specific pur pose in mind of eventually coming to Ev erg reen. In order to do that I had to pay
my dues in the higher education system.
The California system offered me the best
opportunity to learn a great deal in a
short period of time, as well as build myself a reputation . I could go back to California any time ; but this is where I
wanted to be."
What are your priorities in redo ing the
Admissions Office?
" I want to streamline the management
of the Admissions Office so there is continuit y, cross- training with the staff and
to work effectively as a team towards
even tual boosting of enrollment. We want
to focus in on recruitment of freshmen
coming from the high schools in Sou th western Washington as well as the entire
state. We also want to start an orientation
program at the junior high level. Too
many colleges overlook the value of longrange planning that centers around getting
students thinking about college at an earlier age. . I wa nt to set up an advisory
committee composed of high school and
junior college counselors, to solicit their
input as to how we can better serve them
and their schools. This will help build up
a better working relationship with the Evergreen community ."
What kind of student or individllal will
the Admissions Office concentrate on at tracting to the cam pus?
'Tve heard the statement that Evergreen

is not for everyone - I'm not convinced
of that! We will try to attract anyone
who is self-motivated and wants to learn ."
What can be done to help Evergreen's
low retention of students?
"First we have to find out why the retention is so low . We have to design some
questionnaires for students that didn't follow through on enrollment Jafter they
were admitted ] and for students that left
Evergreen belPre graduating. Then, after
assessing the problem areas, we can concentrate on elimina ting them. " .
How would you compare Evergreen
with other institutions? Are there any advantages or disadvantages to this system?
"I think in many respects that public
education has failed to teach self-evaluation in a consistent ly effec tive way. 1
think this is something that Evergreen offers the student and that we are all becoming more aware of self-growth . ..
People are so used to structured learning
that it's hard to relate Evergreen's advan tages to them .. . Today's higher educa tion is a definite buyer's market for students. Competition with other institutions
is unbelievable; but as people become
more aware of Evergreen and its offerings
the potential could be unlimited. It's the
college's responsibility to make the community more aware of its potential. I
would a lso like to see the development of
an Educational Opportunity Program Office, established in the future. This way
we could develop a solid working relationship with the minority of the State of
Washington."
What can Evergreeners do to help the
Adm issions Office out?
"The pub li c [judges] the success of
any college by the amount of people that
go there. Though this is an 'arbitrary judgment , it is a fa ct of life. If Evergreen is to
succeed it must attrac t new students every
year and this can only come about by a
total eHort by everyone to promote the
college to th e buying public ."

by Jill Stewart
The election of six faculty to serve on
the Presidential ' Search Committee has
ended on an anti-climactic note . Six faculty were chosen, but three are out of
town and one wants to decline the position.
The six are: Bill Brown, Carolyn
Dobbs, Richard Jones, Linda Kahan, Maxine Mimms, and Joye Peskin. They were
elected by the faculty by written ballot on
Tuesday , but had not been officially notified as late as yesterday afternoon.
.
A proposal to form a Presidential
Search Committee comprised of six faculty , three staff, and three students will
be presented to the Board of Trustees by
the elected group today. However, Dobbs,
Mimms, and Peskin will be off campus
for the remainder of the week and Richard
J ones has said he is "prepared to try to
decline." He said he had not realized he
would be elected and is too busy with his

duties on the Academic Cons ultative
Council (formerly the Faculty Leadership
Group) to serve con the Search Committee.
Linda Kahan had no statement but did
indicate she would serve on the Search
Committee.
It is expected that the Board of Trustees
and the elected faculty will devise some
beginning procedures for the Search Committee at the Board of Trustees meeting
today at 10:45 a.m. in the Board Room.
However, the board cou ld reject the proposed comm ittee and organize one of
their own.
In other action at today's meeting the
board will make a decision on the d ismissal of Dumisani Maraire, former Evergreen faculty member. Maraire was terminated in June for violation of the social
contract. He appealed that decision to an
all-campus hearing board, which upheld
the original termination. That decision
was appealed to the Board of Trustees on
July 23.

Diy Late-Night Drag Scene

Heavy Hang Outs,
Mean Machines

The winning pumpkin in the Library 's First Annual Great Geo l Pumpkin Contest will be
chosen today at 1 p.m. Several pumpkins entered the competition. sporting names such as
"Space Pumpkin X-13 " and "Dame]acqueline OLantem." To th e winner goes Q $20 gift
certificate at Jo Mama 's, a local pizza restaurant.

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Garish street-lights illuminate rows of
drive - ins, seedy 7 - 11 stores, gas stations,
and used car lots. Engines rumble and reverberate and tires screech in the background. Colors kaleidoscope past in a
blur of motion . .. A jet-black van sinisterly embellished wi th red-orange flames
leaps past, chased by a sleazy '63 Impala
in hot pursuit. The air is a pungent mix ture of gasoline exhaust and wafting
aromas of equally deadly hamburgers and
French fries . The moon is full ...
Down the street, a traffic light winks
green, and two monster machines tear off,
neck - to-neck . Simu lt a neously, a blue
siren fla shes from nowhere, and the pace
slackens noticeably to allow for this un welcome interruption . As the intruder re treats into darkness, the action soon resumes in high gear. An orange convertible
full of gawking, blushing, waving girls
swings by.
" American Graffiti" repeats itself like
clockwork here every Friday and Saturday night - except that this is not South ern California of the late 50's and early
60's, but Olympia, Washington in 1976.
A veteran cruiser of the Olympia circuit of the 1950's remi.tisces back on the
fabulous fifties . . . - "When you think
about it - It's like 'Happy Days: I en-

joyed it. " Apparently, little has cha nged
since then . No matter how dead Olympia
may seem during the week, its streets explode into life on Friday and Saturday
nights with automobiles of all shapes,
makes and colors, and multitudes of fanatic teen-agers .
The action is only as far away as Harrison Street and the Westside Eagan's
drive-in, a traditional hot spot since 1946.
And while Olympia's Cooper Point Road
may not be Los Angeles' Sepulveda Blvd .,
it's obvious that they serve similar pur poses as remote late-night drag strips. In
ia-c t, rumor has it that our own Evergreen
parkway is used occasionally for this purpose . Welcome back to " Happy Days" with one important exception. Gasoline is
now 55 cents a ga ll on ...
Cru i ~ing has become a ritual of so rt s
among teen-agers who are old enough to
drive but not yet old enough to drink legally, anyway . Author Tom Wolfe
notes in The Kandy-Colored, Tangerine
Flake Streamline Baby that if there is one
thing teen-agers pay attention to above
all, it is adherence to an established form
of behavior. Actions are governed by 'un written rules according to a pre -set pat tern. Cruising in Olympia is no excep tion.
Needless to say, a cruiser is nowhere
without a car. Thirty-four year old past

. and present cruiser and Evergreen grad~
uate George Barner observes . . . " This
culture - You just got to accept the fact
that to get somewhere you had to have a
car or know someone who had one ." A
cruiser's car is crucial to his ego and selfidentity. In a line reminiscent of "American Graffiti," an anonymous friend of
George Barner's recalls that "As a matter of fact, it was easier to go up and kick
the shit out of someone than to park your
butt on their car . You didn' t screw with
anyone's car! "
Olympia's cruising circuit is a some what distended network of one-way streets
and main thoroughfares connecting Olympia with Tumwater and Lacey . .. I begin
at the parking lot in front of Shakey's
Pizza in the Westside Shopping Center. I
check to make sure my park lights are on.
I peel out onto Division Street, wait at
the stoplight and turn left onto Harrison
heading down into town. I watch out for
the cop in the alley across from Eagan's
but he's not there tonight. Off to a good
start. I cross the 4th Avenue bridge and
disregard Reuben's Drive-in on the left
next to Mark-it Foods completely. Only
greasers hang out there.

I hang a right at Capitol Way and head
up the hill for rough, tough Tumwater. I
pass a Dairy Queen on the left w ithout
stopping . No one hangs out there because
the parking lot is too small. My des tina tion is the Tumwater Pizza Hut a nd ac companying 7 - 11 store. On the way, I
pass another Eagan's, but this one is a
family joint, and no one ha ngs ou t there
either. When I get to the 7 - 11 park ing
lot , I turn in and pull up front. just to
make sure everyone can see me. My parking lights are left on .
When I lea ve, I am careful not to peel
out, because a friend has warned me that
" In Tumwater you're charged for how
. much per inch of rubber you lay on the
street. T he cops ge t out a ruler and measure it and then you get fined that much ."
I retrace my route back down the hill into
Olympia, to the intersection of 4th and
Capitol, where I turn right onto 4th and
head up a different , hill towards Lacey . I
see the cop lurking in his usual spo t a lo ngside Lew Rents just in time , and slow
down. He pulls someone behind me ove r
in~tead. I was lucky that time .

OCT. 28. 1976
j continue on ou t Martin Way cautiously, remembering a different warning from
the same friend ... " You don't check.
You just go slow 'cuz you know they're
there." I turn right off Martin Way when
I ge t to Sleater-Kinney Rd. Here, my eyes
are confronted with a dazzling array of
drive-ins and other quick-order food
places including a McDonald's, an Eagan's
Big Tom , a Winchell's Donuts, a Baskin Robbins, and a Sambo's Restaurant for
late- night coffee drinkers. I finally go to
McDonald's for a Quarter-Pounder with
C heese. I drive ac ross the street to Winch ell 's for dessert before turning back ont o
Sleater-Kinney to Pacific Avenue where I
turn right and head back for Olympia.
· My mind wanders as I drive, and I remember an older friend telling me about
her cruising days back in 1964 . . "We'd
keep going clear up 4th and we knew if
we went 25 mph all the way that all the
lights would be green and we could go a ll
the way up without stopping. That was
· sort of a nea t thing to do - make the entire loop without stopp in g ... " Fat
chance of tha t anymore, I think , as I
lurch to a halt a t a stoplight.

Pacific Avenue becomes one-way Sta te
Avenue as it drops back down int o Olympia heading for the west side . I rumb le
back through tow n, passing a coupl e of
beat - up junker cars parked sid e-by -side
on m y right. I slow down as I co me up
on the sharp corner where Sta te Ave.
turns back into 4th . re mem btrin g the
w o rd s of an Olympi a pollcem~n
"T his corner . . All the teleplw np POll"
have concrete reinforceme nt. If ?"1I !,~t d
guy from out o f town a nd he d,'esn 'l
kno w the town , here' s a good pldl (. lo r
him to lose it . . . " But I ro und the cor ner uneve ntfu lly and head on ur thl' h d!.
· once again on Harriso n Stree t. I tU' 11 rj~ h t
on Division and then w ing a lei: ,nt o tht'
Shakey's park ing Jo t, being care· lul nll t 1(1
scrape m y dual ex ha ust pipes on I h~ cu rb
as I enter. Feels good to be ho me .
Hang - outs a re very important to tecn
agers as socia l space. They rellect typi cal
teen-age co ncerns with indppenden ct'. mo bility. and Visibi lity . Evergreen assi~l a )1 t
to D ea n Larry Stenberg and cruisE" l f
1964 Bonnie Hilt s remembers that ,. A '
drive - ins you hardly ever got an y t hing 't (1

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