The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 7 (November 18, 1976)

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Eng The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 7 (November 18, 1976)

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18 November 1976

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Eng COG III Draws Small Crowd; The New Eldridge Cleaver is Coming; Shimomura Show Shines; COG Improved?; Evaluations of Faculty - A Delicate Task; Radical Journalist Speaks; Cleaver Coming; Duck House Barely Winging It; Outdoor Action Program Has" Unique Vitality"; 'All You Need Do Is Ask"; Public Hearing December 1; Social Contract Drawn Up; Review: Behind the Front; Up to Your Neck in Giblets;

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Eng Shore, Stan

Eng Groening, Matt

Eng Fleming, Lisa

Eng Fink, Paul

Eng Leigh, Linda

Eng McNeil, Earle

Eng Carlson, Craig

Eng Alexander, Richard W.

Eng Berns, Judy

Eng Pokorny, Brad

Eng Doud, Rick

Eng Barry, Linda

Contributor

Eng Stewart, Jill

Eng Groening, Matt

Eng Floren, Brook Ann

Eng Dowd, Rick

Eng Wright, JIm

Eng Barry, Lynda

Eng Flemming, Lisa

Eng Pokorny, Brad

Eng Shore, Stan

Eng Judd, David

Eng Hansen, Jeanne

Eng Sutherland, Brock

Eng Siff, Jason

Subject

Eng Thanksgiving

Eng Library Theft

Eng Journalism

Eng Art

Eng Cleaver, Eldridge

Eng Silber, Erwin

Eng Shimomura, Roger

Eng The Duck House

Eng Prescott Center College

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In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted

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Eng eng

Place

Eng Washinton State

Eng Thuston County ,WA

Eng Olympia, WA

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

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Eng 12 pages

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Review

A'nother
viewpoint

Shimomura Show Shines

by Stan Shore
:\ se ries ()f 14 serigraphs , o r
.,ilk screen prints, are now apr earin g in The Evergreen State
C ollege Libra r y Ga ll ery in a
,hoI\' entit led " Asian Masterprint. . An appropriate title it is
.lls() . fo r although the show is

not of Asian masterpieces it is by
an Asian -American artist, Roger
Shimo mura , and the work itself
is an interesting hybrid of American and Japanese art.
The content of the works ,
which are all part of the same
se ries. is taken from the Ukiyoe

prints of Japan , although Shimomura has not retained some of
the traditional rules of that style,
such as keeping samurai and gei shas out of the same images.
In Japan, Ukiyoe prints are
not a high art form, but "comics"
or advertising illustration . So

Shimomura has combined it with
the graphic style and bright colors of American comic books.
But the prints are not that
reminiscent of Lichtenstein's fa mous paintings of the late sixties. Shimomura seems to have
been influenced not only by the
Japan ese iconography but by
their su btlety in the use of form
and color as well. The result is a
surp risingly beautiful set of prints
that make the best of both Western and Eastern aesthetic ideals.
It cou ld be said of the work
that it is merely decorative, does
not reveal anything about the
artist and is therefore uninterest ing or uninspired. But I don' t
think that's a val id criticism in
this case. Although Shimomura
does nut bring any self-revelatory new images into the world ,
he does reveal enough of himself
in the quiet technica l virtuosity
of the prints, their superb use of
color, and interesting visual patterns.
On the outside of the gallery
Karen Guzak has her Heavenly
Gate Series paintings hanging .
Looking like the I Ching hexagrams fighting each other in an
apocalyptic mud bath, the works
are not nearly as interesting as
Shimomura's to me.
The Asian Masterprints Exhibit
is part of the Arizona Comm ission on the Arts and Humanities
traveling exhibitions program.

Remember lo call Dad to lell him about your role in lhe new campus play.
The wardrobe mistress thinks you look great in marigolds.
He'll be glad you called.
You will be, too.

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COG III Draws Small Crowd

COG

Improved?

the Geoboard. Third, the document spells'
out five specific kinds of action the Geoboard can take (a vote of no-confidence
for example).
Audience members took turns speaking
at a microphone, making proposals and
asking questions. Many points were raised
and, as Neils Skov , chairman of the DTF,
said, "What I like is that we've been receiving very few pet peeves, and have
been receiving positive input. "
The role of the Information Center was
one issue raised. Under the new document ,
the Geoboard is charged with maintaining
an ongoing system of information dissem ination , evaluation and correction . No
mention of the Information Center was
left in, and there was concern that thi s
could lead to its demise.
Most matters raised were short and to
the point. Lyle Tribbett made a motion
that any vote the Geoboard takes should
be a roll-call vote. One woman proposed
that the wording "the President or his appOinted representative" should be worded
not to indicate either sex spec ifically, noting that since Evergreen is presently
:D
searching
for a new president, there is a
(;'
'" distinct possibility the new president will
5' be female . Th is proposal was one of the

(Ed. Note: This article is the
cooperative effort of student
members of COG III, Sounding
Board, and other interested students. )
The November 4 article in the
Cooper· Point Journal, entitled
"Demise of Sounding Board in
the Works, " was a discussion of
the COG 1II proposal. That article had a negative tone and serves
only to draw attention away
from the importance of the COG
III proposal. To present the document in a more positive light ,
the major differences between
COG II and COG III need to be
clarified.
The COG III DTF has
proposed significant changes in
Evergreen governance and community involvement. Some of
the major improvements are embodied in three new principles.
1) Decisions must be handled at
the closest level of responsibility.
(P reviously it was only at the
admin istrative level.) 2) Decisions can only be made with the
direct involvement of those who
will be affected by them. 3) Ev eryo ne has equal weight in the
involvement before the decision
has been made and in responding
to a decision that has already
been made .
The way Sounding Board opera tes under COG II. it would
not be able to implement all of
the new COG III principks, so a
new body was proposed, the
Geoboard. Geoboard would replace Sounding Board functions
as well as have additional duties
and functions. One of the major
funct ions of the Geoboard would
be to implement , and assist
others in implementing the principles of COG Ill.
Another new funct ion is tha t
DTFs will be charged through
and terminated at the Geoboard.
This facilitates the flow of information concerning DTFs and coordinates the use of resources,
i.e., people, with expertise in
particular areas and past stud ies
that have been done . The Geo board specifically will insure representation by those who will be
affected by a particular decision.
Geoboard was formed to facilitate these functions not to have
the power to deny DTF requests.
The Geoboard represents the
community and, acting in the interests of the community, would
not deny a DTF request unless it
was unreasonable. It would not
be difficult to inClude a stipulation in the COG III document
that the Geoboard must accept
all DTF requests. If a DTF request was unreasonable, it is
doubtful anyone would serve on
it because of the amount of work
involved.
In some instances DTFs going
through Geoboard would be
more time-consuming, but the
extra time spent is worthwhile
and helpful for insuring the principles of fair and open government.
One of the most important
changes is that constitutency
groups (students, faculty, classified and exempt staff) will each
select their members for the Geoboard, rather than having them
be appointed by the vice-presidents or the computer as under
COG II, In order for this to
work there must be more organization within the constituency
groups to establish communication between Geoboard members
and the people they represent.
The Wednesday student forum is
the present attempt to provide
this communication flow for stu dents.

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few to draw applause.
There was some confusion as to why
certain items seemed to 01' left out of the
document. A definition of a DTF was one
such issue.
"To some extent, that was intentionaL"
said Susie Strasser. "If I were to define it.
that could be in such a way that only certain kinds of decisions could be made by
DTFs. " It was added that DTF was defined in the social contract.
The general tone of the meeting was serious, but there was no one major issue
drawing controversy.
Neils Skov said "We're receiving a lot
of very valuable input. There are a fair
number of items we'll take up lin a future
DTF meeting ]. It's good to have your
work subject to scrutiny."
During a break in the meeting , student s
were called together to choose temporary
cand idates for th e presidential search co mmittee, which is schedu led to meet today
in the Board of Trustees room at 1 : 30. A
st udent forum will be held on Wednesday,
Nov. 24. to choose the official delegates
for the search.
The nex t public hearing will be on De cember 1, at 2:00 in CAB 110, to re ceive
input on the revised soc ia l contrac t .

a.

The Evergreen State College ' Olympia~ashIngton 98?Q5
by lisa Fleming
The first public hearing on the COG III
proposal was held yesterday afternoon
and drew a sparse crowd of approximately
50 persons.
The hearing had two main purposes: to
clarify any points the community might
have on any part of the COG III docu ment, and to hear any feedback, criticisms
and proposals by people.
Susie Strasser, a faculty representative

on the COG III DTF, said in her opening
statement that the hearing was not merely
a quest ion of student governance, but that
it covered the working conditions of all.
She explained what she thought to be the
three main differences between COG II
and COG III. The first was that COG JJI
calls for direct involvement of people in
the community, as they select their own
representatives to the Geoboard . The second was that DTFs will begin and end at

THE COOPER POIN

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V OLUME V NUMBER 7

NOV. 18, 1976

The New Eldridge Cleaver is Coming
by Matt Groening

Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul On Ice
and former Minister of Information of the
Black Panther Party, will speak at Evergreen on Wednesday, December 1, at
7:30 p.m. in the campus library lobby.
Cleaver's appearance is sponsored by the
Ujamaa Society, a black awareness and
self-determination organization, in conjunction with Evergreen 's Third World
Coalition.
In 1968 Eldridge Cleaver was a national
figure, He had been paroled after serving
nine years for a conviction of assault with
intent to kill, during which time he wrote
the bestselling book Soul On Ice. He joined
forces with Huey Newton and Bobby
Seale that year and became Minister of
Information of the Black Panther Party,
which expanded its original chapter in
Oakland, California, to hundreds throughout the country. Cleaver lectured at rallies and colleges on racism and oppression, wrote for Ramparts magazine, and
ran for the Presidency on the Peace and
Freedom Party ticket, receiving 36,385
votes.
The Black Panthers' problems with the
police in Oakland escalated from petty
traffic vio lations to an alleged police ambush two nights after the assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ., in April,
1968. Seven teen-year-old Treasurer Bobby
Hutton was sh ot dead, and Cleaver wa s
wounded, arrested , and booked on three
counts each of attempted murder and assault on police officers. Although he was
already on parole, a judge allowed friends
to post bail, and Cleaver was se t free
until his trial in November.
Convinced he would be mUfdered if he
returned to prison - but not by his fellow San Quentin inmates - Cleaver disappeared, fleeing first to Canada, then
Cuba, and finally ending up in Algeria. "I
thought a fascist coup [in the U.S.] was
imminent in 1969," he said, "Then Algiers
would have been a haven for everyone
from Jerry Brown to Tom Hayden," Instead he spen t several years in the company of airplane hijackers, political groupies, other Panthers in exile, and Dr. Tim-

Phil Haeck
Tom Morrill
Lynn Kormondy Lyle Tribbett

,.

othy Leary.
Cleaver's split with the Black Panthers
came in 1971 as a result of a surprising
phone call from Cleaver in Algeria to a
live TV talk show in San Francisco, on
which Huey Newton was a guest. Cleaver
severely criticized Newton on the air and
was immediately expelled from the Panthers. Cleaver himself was condemned as
a "fascist" by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry
Rubin when he temporarily incarcerated
Timothy Leary in Algiers in a dispute
over drug use. Fed up, Cleaver left Algeria, visiting, among other countries,
North Korea, North Vietnam, and China.
He did not like what he saw.
"From every corner Marxist -Leninist
thought has been discredited," Cleaver announced. " It is universally bankrupt, from
·Moscow to Peking to Havana."
For Cleaver, the ultimate betrayal came
when he saw a photo of Richard Nixon
shaking hands with Mao Tse-tung. " When
you see Nixon and all he stands for shaking hands with Mao and all that he stood
for - well, it marks a turning point in
history and a personal turning point for
me."
Cleaver began to reconsider his previous
political assumpt ions and changed his
mind about many things . He began to de fend Israel , denouncing Arabs as rac ists .
"No one understands this better than
black Africans living along the edge of'the
Sahara," he said. Cleaver attacked the
UN resolution which equated Zionism
with racism, saying, "The Jewish people
have done more than any other to end in equality and prejudice, "
Cleaver decided talk of a united Th ird
World struggle was "a skin ga me" and
just "an empty phrase." Cleaver said he
" realized that the dynamics of our struggle inside the United States had little to
do with what was going on in the Third
World, I began to understand that our
whole way of relating to the Third World
was a mistake , It was then that I decided
to come out of the Third World."
In the late summer of 1975, Cleaver
suddenly emerged in Paris as a designer
and promoter of a bizarre pants style

which "could release a deep revolutionary force," The pants featured a velvet
penis hanging from the crotch, apparently
modeled after the European codpiece of
the 15th and 16th centuries. From Paris
Cleaver began attacking Fidel Castro, suggesting in a Rolling Stone interview that
Castro helped the CIA track down Che
Guevara in Bolivia. The New York Times
featured Cleaver on its Op-Ed page, and
in May Cleaver contributed a "My Turn"
column to Newsweek, condemning the
"white racist Castro dictatorship," and
saying it was ."more insidious and dangerous for black people than the white racist
regime of South Africa."
At that time Cleijver began describing
himself as a patriot, saying he no longer
wa nted America to collapse. "With all its
. faults," he stated, " the American political
system is the freest and most . democratic
in the world ." The experience of his exile
showed him that "socialists ! communists
strap onto people the most oppressive regim es in the history of the world ." His
startlin g conclusion: " After all my travels
and seeing the socialists' world up very
close , really seeing how the Soviet Union
a nd Ch ina funct ion, well , I now thin k the
U.S. shou ld be seco nd to none militarily. "
On November 16, 1975, in a prearranged ceremony , Cleaver returned to the
U. S. a nd su rrendered him self to FB I
agents . He was put in jail in Cal ifornia,
and man y black a nd white radica ls began
calling Cleaver an enemy, accusing him of
testifying secret ly befo re the Senate Subcommittee on Interna l Security and sup plying the FBI w ith information about leftists . They are suspicious of hi s voluntary
return to the U.S. , where he faces up to
75 years in prison for the attelT)pted murder and assault charges which led to his
original exile.
Critics of Cleaver who feel betrayed by
his turnabout on political issues cite Cleaver's own Soul On Ice to further their case.
In the chapter " Notes on a Native Son ,"
Cleaver wrote, "In this land of dichotomies and disunited opposites, those truly
concerned with the resurrection of black
Americans have had eternally to deal with

black intellectua ls who have become the ir
own opposites, taking o n all the behav ior patterns of the ir enemy.
The intel
lectual syco phant does not pretend to be
o ther than he actually is, but hates wh a t
he is and seeks to redefine himse lf in the
image of his w hite idols . . . A se lf -willeJ ,
automated slave, he beco mes tlte white
man's most valuable tool in opp re~~ing
other blacks."
Cleaver is also condemned by femini~t '
for his anti -women attitudes . For a , tar t,
con tinw?d PU!{P 3

Evaluations of Faculty - A Delicate Task
MAKE LIFE A
PRIORITY IN
LAND USE
To the Editor:
Re: Development of Chambers
Lake, Lacey , Washington

s hould consider having it
changed, it's really very confus ing using a woman 's name.)

HOWARD
JOHNSON
CHILDBIRTH

Cheryl Pegues

T o th e Edit o r :
A very interesting letter to the
edit or ap pea red in last week's
C PJ - 50 inte resting , as a matter
of fac t, that I just had to com ment o n it.
I was ve r y im pr esse d by
:v1a urine Hoffman's forthright
dnd heart felt wo rds about the
glories o f , hildbirth , tha t is, how
the glor i(', of childbirth made
\ lauri ne Hoffman sick. I was
imp ressed wit h Maurine's ho n esty. admit~ing out ri ght that se cret a ll o f us wo men have kept
hidden t(1r so lo ng - th a t child birth is actua ll v o nl y a no rmal
biologica l res ponse to pregnancy,
and no t a gift fro m the cosmic
forces of th e u ni ve r se. What
bravery I An d the Ho ward John so n's a ppr oach to childbirth - a
littie comm u n it y o f co tta ges
where we cou ld all give ou t labo r
moans in uniso n - this is an
idea whic h sta rtled me with its
dep th. And Ma urin e's cos mic in sight into th e fact that all w e
need to d" to be happy in this
wo rl d i<, to stop lettin g women
have childr en th a t cannot take
ca re of them .. well , I simply
ca nnot ex press m y relief, know in g now th at I have Maurine's
permi ssio n to stop fu c king FOR EVEI<.
My o nl y regret Maurine, is
t hat a ll of t hese regulatio ns 'co uld
not have been di scovered b y a
woma n !!

r.s .

SAGA AFFECTS
HEALTH
To the Editor:
As a member of the SAGA
food s erv ice, I have become
acutel y aware and concerned
with SAGA's effect on the environment and on our health, I
have two complaints.
Firstly , SAGA 's customers are
penali zed for using glasses ins tead of plasti c cups. Two glasses
costing 40 cents contain the same
a mount of liquid as one large
pla sti c cup costing 30 cents . Logically , th e sensitive alternative
wo uld be either to decrease the
pricl' of drinks in glasses to 15
cents o r increa se the price of
dri nks in la rge pla stic cups to 40
cent s,
Seco ndl y, I protest the use o f
additi ves , preserv a tives, and ar tifi cial colo rings' and flavorings
in the fruit drinks and ice tea.
The health effects of these added
ingredients are questionable. Certainly , distributors selling natural
fruit drinks and ice tea at equiv alent prices must exist. I will
soon be posting ingredients labels
behind the drink dispensers in an
effort to increase the awareness
of SAGA 's customers. I hope
that this letter has made the Ever g re e n s tudent body more
awa re o f the food you inges t.
Sincerely ,
A Studen' o f the Everstrange Green College
Paul Fink

......_----

Is M a urine your g iv en
name, sir ? (If so, perhaps you

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Li sa Fleming
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Integrity of the earth . . . all
life . , . is now dependent upon
how humans decide to use or not
use the land. Development of the
land is irreversible. A biotic
community can never be duplicated.
Maintaining that earth - integri ty is now dependent upon intel ligent decision-making. This de cision-making must occur with
responsible dialogue among rhe
people affected by the decision .
In the ca se of land use , we are
all affected, as la nd use decisions
establish precedents regarding
land ethics and, thus, life . We
must be co llectively responsible
a nd active for that decision - making.
Such is the case with the use
of Chambers Lake and its sur rounding biotic communities.
Mobile home deve~opers are
threatening this last relatively
undeveloped lake in Lacey. The
basic issue of the conflict has
now become "What good is
Chambers Lake?" To me the answer is obvious: Life is sacred.
Dozers destr'oy habitat. Destruction of habitat destroys life.
Other people involved see shortterm good in destroying the lake,
in expanding the city and pocketing the profits. Blind spots of
self-interest exist in most of us.
These self-interests can be
publicly presented and assessed
tonight, November 18. The opportunity for dialogue is given us
by the Lacey City Council at a
public meeting at 7: 30 p. m. at
the Lacey Community Center.
No doubt many se lf-interests
will be represented: Farmers, biologists and surrounding property owners should make a
strong case against th e mobile
home development , while the
profiteers and other mobile home
inter est s will expound on its
necessity .
The only way to learn to
make responsible decisions within our communities is to help
make them. The only way to allow the earth's integrity is to
stop' subduing ecologically fragile
areas with concrete and to make
Life a certain priority in land use
decisions.
The Environmental Impact
Statement (for Lakeview Estates)
is availab le from the Thurston
County Planning Commission.
Respectfully,
Linda Leigh
866-6112

REST IN PEACE
To the Editor:
Now that the nuclear power
initiative has been laid to rest for
the 1976 political season, I'd like
to take one moment for reflection .
We humans are so careless
with time . We experience it so
briefly that we cannot conceive
of its length. We can hardly conceive of a shoe heel wearing out
- so little with each scuff - or
a . car engine slowly grinding
itself away, let alone the wearing
away of a mountain to a plain
or the digging of the Grand Can yon . And plutonium with a half
life of 25,000 years . . . 1 An extreme toxin unlike any naturally
occurring, that will some day be

loosened again on the earth . We
dump it in oceans . We bring it
to the watershed. We can "cap"
it and "can" it in as indestructible
a system as we can devise, but
time is its ally . It will still be
there when all other conceivable
human creations will have long
since ' reverted to the earth. It
will be an immortal testimony to
our species when it finally outlives its prison. But, rest in peace.
It will not come to pass in our
li fetime.
Earle McNeil

GET IT RIGHT
To the Editor:
I never said, "The sun is as
hot as a radish." What a terrible
line . Think about it . What I said
was : "Sun hotter than a radish. "
It is the distance between a flat
tire and a sunrise, those two
lines. Listen up: leave me alone
or get it right.
May the sun shine upon you ,
Craig Carlson

LIKE GENTLEMEN,
FADE AWAY
To the Editor:
The CPJ is to be congratulated
on its decision to devote so great
a part of its limited space to
Matt Groening's review of Susan
Brownmiller's magisterial study,
Against Our Will. One can only
hope that you will continue and
further this policy of providing
your campus audience with indepth reviews of the most significant scholarly work of our
times.
Mr. Groening strove admira bly to present Miss Brownmiller's case, but he seems far too
hesitant. Surely some remnant of
his socialization as a male is in hibiting him . But the mere fact
that he has come this far is en courag in g, and his efforts must
become exemplary on this campus.
Miss Brownmiller's utterly
convincing case itself stops short
of serious proposals for change.
After so many millenia of oppression, surely logic and technology must at last be brought
to bear.
Consider: It cannot be enough
that we merely begin to change
our socialization patterns. This
would be a long and arduous
task, and very uncertain of the
necessary success. Human nature
is not so easily expunged. And
(though Brownmiller herself is
apparently unwilling to look her
arguments squarely in the eye)
Brownmiller makes it clear that
something far more profound
than mere socialization is involved.
What would we have to do to
expunge rape - incitement from
our culture? To take only one
instance it would not be
enough just to ban pornography
(although, of course we should
do that). We would also have to
get rid of Homer, Sophocles,
Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy - all the literature
which, as Brownmiller should
make clear to us, covertly reinforces the male right to the fe male body. All films (consider
the Friday Nite Film schedule I),
all television, all Rock, all popu lar music - it is all infected.
How is it possible to do away
with all of this? Not to mention
all familial , political, economic,
legal, and religious patterns 1
And even if we did , it would do

by Jim Wright
Student evaluation of faculty is currently pervaded by the same atmosphere
of ambiguity that surrounds so many
other aspects of Evergreen's mode of operation .
Academic Dean and faculty member
Rob Knapp feels it is "a very delicate and
difficult process to get good faculty evaluations. Students often feel uncomfortable. They don't have any idea what to
say . Faculty members feel ambivalently
about what they might get. To organize a
process that gets around these difficulties
is very challenging. What we've got at the
moment is the willingness to have such a
process and the possibility for good statements to be included ... "
It is even more difficult for faculty
members to interpret such evaluations and
assess their relative importance. The Faculty Handbook requires that all evaluations of faculty members by students be
included in faculty portfolios for use in
annual evaluation sessions with the Deans.
There is, of course, no way to insure that
all evaluations end up in faculty portfolios. Also, the entire process is hampered
by the lack of standards for requiring (or
not requiring) evaluations from students,
and by the erratic nature and quality of
those evaluations received.
Academic Dean and member of the faculty Will Humphreys reports that he receives evaluations from approximately
one-third of his students. He observes
that faculty members who ask for them
prior to student evaluation sessions generally receive more responses, but he feels
that there might be "an element of coercion involved, --.r suspicion that people
won't be completely candid" under this
pressure. He also noted that "the overall
shape" of faculty evaluations he has received are "a mixed bag" of positive and
negative responses: In light of this mixture, Humphreys says he assesses impact
on the basis of how well-written an evaluation is. "If it's well-written, that's a
major factor in assessing what a faculty
member needs to work on . . ."
Rob Knapp points out that "If you are

no good. For Brownmiller makes
clear that rape precedes human
cu ltu re and human society . Culture merely legitimates and encourages what is there already.
Strict segregation of men from
women might serve, but men
rape men {as demonstrated so recently in the Bailey Motor Inn},
and men could always invade
the female provinces.
By now , do we not all know
that, as with handguns and nuclear weapons, the mere possession of the weapon will at some
time produce the crime? In this
regard, women are clearly superior to men, for women lack the
WeapOfl. Women can have sex
endlessly with other women and
never commit rape.
But even removing the weapon
would not insure the absence of
rape. As that notorious male
chauvinist, Faulkner, demonstrated in Sanctuary, corncobs
will serve.
Why don't womeh rape women? Not just for lack of a weap on , for they too could use dildos
or corncobs: fo r lack of the urge.
Ultimately, it is the Y chromo some and its effect on the male
brain, the production of the male
hormones, which is to blame.
But even sex change operations
and hormone treatments will not
suffice: the Y chromosome does
its damage in the womb.
At last we come to the truth
of the matter. Merely encouraging women to stand up for their
rights, teaching them Karate ,
will not work . Merely discouraging men from attack will not
work. Revolutionizing human
culture will not work. Segregation will not work . Emasculation
w ill not work. Surgery and
drugs will not work. Only the
successful solution to the problem of parthenogenesis will relieve hu manity (womankind?)
from the omnipresent threat of
rape .
Surely men see now what they
must do to redeem themselves
from the age-old burden of male
guilt : we must turn our technical
and scientific expertise to the development of an adequate technology of parthenogenesis. And
then, like gent lemen at last , fade
away.

a faculty member and you want good
evaluations (good meaning well-written,
. not necessarily positive), you have to
work really ~rd." Knapp receives evaluations from aPPJ-ciximately half his students.
He feels that evaluations have a considerable impact upon individual faculty members. "Getting a bunch of critical :!valuations shakes you up. It makes you look at
the way you're doing things ... "
Knapp recognizes the potential authority problem inherent in student evaluations of faculty . . . "People will always
be uncomfortable. If you expect people to
be relaxed, then you're dreaming, because
the questions are too personally important. A fair evaluation that touches on
both good points and criticisms will rarely
prevent one from having a working relationship in the future," he adds.
Faculty evaluations are required from
all students enrolled in Margaret Gribskov's Group Contract The State in Contemporary American Society. Gribskov
stresses the need to get an evaluation
from every student in order to obtain a
complete picture of student response .

Otherwise, she says, the picture is distorted because only students at the two
extremes - satisfaction and dissatisfaction - bother to write evaluations. Although she maintains that such evaluations are "very, very useful," she concedes
that there 'are problems with faculty evaluations. "Students are not identical. They
don't want the same things. There are
people at both extremes. It's difficult to
always know what evaluations mean. I
frequently don't know what to do with
them , except to look at them individually.
That's a conflict that's sort of unresolvable .. . "
,
SimilC!r1y, faculty member Richard
Jones places a great deal of emphasis
upon receiving evaluations from all his
students. "I make a very emphatic point
of saying that I want one. It's part of the
responsibility of the program ... " Jones
senses a problem in that such evaluations
are "written to the deans" rather than to
faculty members. Jones has also experienced problems with evaluations because
of a,uthority relationships with his students. "Under the best of circumstances,

Radical Journalist Speaks
by Stan Shore
Irwin Silber, the executive editor of The
Guardian, came to Evergreen Tuesday
with a dream of a Marxist - Leninist future
for Americ a.
The Guardian is a radical news weekly
pub li shed in New York. It takes a MarxistLeninist view of the news and is not subtle
about it. In the time-honored tradition of
radical publications of the last century,
the newspaper consistently reminds its
readers of the dangers of revisionism, the
fut ility of mere trade unionism, and of the
neo-colonial policy of the capita lists in
the Third World.
Silber, who served on Sing-Out before
joining The Guardian in 1969, writes two
regular features: mov ie reviews and a
column entitled "Fan the Flames."
"Fan the Flames" discusses various disputes within the Left , as well as commenting on news events . Silber confirmed at
Evergreen what he has often stated in his
column: He feels the number one problem
facing the Left in the United Stales is the
formation of a vanguard revolutionary
party.
The money to bring Silber to Evergreen
was raised by EPIC and the Marxism academic group contract. Silber is on a lecture tour of the Northwest, having ap peared at the University of Washington
on Monday. On Tuesday evening, he
gave a lecture entitled "The Politics of
Film" in LH One .
But before that, he met with the Marxism group contract in an hour and a half
question -and-answer session that touched
on a broad range of issues, from the Unit ed States' role in South Africa to the inseparable nature of Capitalism and Impe rialism .
Although lucid, Silber's responses to
questions were predictable. He is proud of
not being a "revisionist."
The students more than once expressed
chagrin at the enormity of their task and
their own uncertainly . "It's so difficult to
. talk to working class people," one said.
And, after a lengthy explanation by Silber

Richaro W. Alexander
Member of Faculty, TESC
MATT GROENING REPLIES:

When 1 wrote a two-part review
of Susan Brownmiller's Against
Our Will, 1 kept three things in
mind: 1) 1 did not want to treat
the subject of rape lightly , as 50
many men do ; 2) 1 did not want
to hurt the feelings of rape victims, particularly the feelings of
victims who are friends of mine;
and 3) 1 did not want my writing to provide cheap laughs for
sexist males over this most cruel
and traumatic experience. I have
unfortunately failed in my third
intention , as Prof. Alexander's
letter shows.
Prof. Alexander's mocking response should not completely be
dismissed, though , because it
does point to the obvious fact
that there are no individual, private solutions to the dilemma of
rape . It is hard for many persons
to seriously consider rape as a
societal problem based on a distorted masculine philosophy of
aggression, and apparently this
difficulty so overwhelmed Prof.
Alexander that he replied in ' the
only way he could. The ultimate
effect of rape, of course, is its in timidating influence on women's
emotions and actions even without the act, and trivialization of
the topic merely reinforces the
rapist mentality that Ms. Brown miller seeks to eradicate.

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it's difficult for students to be really hon est in writing evaluations ... They aren 't
convinced that you mean it ... Over the
years, I've almost had to instruct them on
what I don't want and what I do wanl .. . "
Jones feels that negative evaluations are
just as essential to faculty portfolios as
are positive ones. "One of the most com plementary things in a faculty portfolio is
a few highly critical evaluations, because
that show~ that this faculty member has
found a way of eliciting honesty from students. That shows a lot of skill . . ."
The first step toward formaliZing student evaluations of faculty has already
occurred. The Academic Deans have established a blank, carbon-copied evaluation form, similar to the one now being
used for student self-evaluations, for student use in evaluating faculty. Accompanying the form is a list of important
factors to consider while wrlting faculty
evaluations. The list includes such things
as ability to organize lectures and seminars, ability to evaluate students' work
fairly, ability to tolerate points of view
different from his / her own, and efficiency
in giving students prompt feedback on
their work.
ObViously, many past faculty evaluations have dealt with these subjects effectively , but this list represents an attempt
by the deans to standardize the process
somewhat in order to simplify the evaluation process. The follOWing is an excerpt
from an evaluation considered to be "wellwritten."
"Terribly good at seeing what people
mean, and clarifying it in their own heads .
asking loaded questions .. . This can be a
problem though, for sometimes I feel that
he has latched onto a vague statement of
a student and believed that the student
was thinking along the same lines as he
when the student wasn't thinking much al
all ... I am amazed at the variety of his
interests and depth of knowledge in esoterica, his matter of fact habit of applying
critical analysis to all thinking in any subject ... His intensity and intelligence, in
short, ate powerful and can scare people
less endowed, but he does not try to, and
in fact tries hard not to incur such feelings .. .
Conversely, highly critical evaluatioll5
are also absolutely essential. Unfortunately
they are less numerous. Another excerpt:
"I don't feel respect for you. Perhaps
my state of feeling let down by you will
color my other perceptions . I feel you're
almost never honest , and almost always
very selfish. .. I've truly felt that it
would be a n imposition to ask you to
spend an occasional hour talking to me ..
I feel it 's horrible for a student to feel
such reluctance towards imposition on the
personal life of their teacher' I think so me
of my feelings of distance from the pr.ogra m h.lve resulted from thi s. . "

Cleaver

Coming
(colltim, ed fro m page

another answered, "Oh, I keep forgetting .
I try to remember. The dictatorship of the
proletariat is part of a process."
Silber himself had a good time, but
later, in a separate interview, cautioned
students not to deceive themselves.
"Universities are part of the ruling class
system of idealogical control. But, within
every structure of control, there are con tradictions, " Silber explained.
" [People say] it 's a free university , you
can talk about anything that you want.
And it's true, you can talk about anything
you want . If your talk is bounded by the
rules of the educational system it will re-

main talk ; in fact, it will serve the very
useful purpose of creating an illusion of
openness ...
"That's one of the contradictions built
into studying Marxism for credit. I don' t
put do~n the people who do it .. . They
should not develop the illusion that one
becomes a Marxist -Leninist just by study ing Marxist theory or even agreeing with
it. That doesn't happen until the theory is
translated into political action ," he con eluded .
In conclusion , Silber stated, ''I'm o pti mistic. To be a revolutionary in the Unit ed States, you have to be optimistic."

J)

he i ~ a self-co nfessed rapist, justifying hi s
" business a nd pleasure" by saying it wa s a
weapon in the race / class war. His only
regret about rape in Soul On lee w as that
it finally damaged his "male pride." In
1968 he suggested that the main role of
women was to exerc ise "pu ssy power" to
deny sex to men who supported the war
and oppressed blacks. He was booed fo r
remarks like these, but continued throu gh
his exile with similar attitudes.
Cleaver do es ha v e his supp o rt e r s,
though. C ontributors to his defense hmd
inelude Jean-Paul Sartre, Julian Bond, Na t
Hentoff, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan .
They have helped raise the bail which has
gotten Cleaver out of jail once more,
pending his upcoming trial.
Has Eldridge Cleaver gone cra zy , or ha!>
he just become extremely cynical and opportunistic? Is his new role a carefull y
staged put-on, or is the new Eldrid ge
Cleaver the product o f seven yea rs .of
miserable, homes ick exile? These ques-,
tions will no doubt be answered, at least
in part, by Eldridge Cleaver himself a t his
Wednesday evening, D ecember 1 appearance at Evergreen. The adm ission is $2 for
adults, $1 .50 for students. Tickt?ts will ~
available at the door .

Evaluations of Faculty - A Delicate Task
MAKE LIFE A
PRIORITY IN
LAND USE
To the Editor:
Re: Development of Chambers
Lake, Lacey , Washington

s hould consider having it
changed, it's really very confus ing using a woman 's name.)

HOWARD
JOHNSON
CHILDBIRTH

Cheryl Pegues

T o th e Edit o r :
A very interesting letter to the
edit or ap pea red in last week's
C PJ - 50 inte resting , as a matter
of fac t, that I just had to com ment o n it.
I was ve r y im pr esse d by
:v1a urine Hoffman's forthright
dnd heart felt wo rds about the
glories o f , hildbirth , tha t is, how
the glor i(', of childbirth made
\ lauri ne Hoffman sick. I was
imp ressed wit h Maurine's ho n esty. admit~ing out ri ght that se cret a ll o f us wo men have kept
hidden t(1r so lo ng - th a t child birth is actua ll v o nl y a no rmal
biologica l res ponse to pregnancy,
and no t a gift fro m the cosmic
forces of th e u ni ve r se. What
bravery I An d the Ho ward John so n's a ppr oach to childbirth - a
littie comm u n it y o f co tta ges
where we cou ld all give ou t labo r
moans in uniso n - this is an
idea whic h sta rtled me with its
dep th. And Ma urin e's cos mic in sight into th e fact that all w e
need to d" to be happy in this
wo rl d i<, to stop lettin g women
have childr en th a t cannot take
ca re of them .. well , I simply
ca nnot ex press m y relief, know in g now th at I have Maurine's
permi ssio n to stop fu c king FOR EVEI<.
My o nl y regret Maurine, is
t hat a ll of t hese regulatio ns 'co uld
not have been di scovered b y a
woma n !!

r.s .

SAGA AFFECTS
HEALTH
To the Editor:
As a member of the SAGA
food s erv ice, I have become
acutel y aware and concerned
with SAGA's effect on the environment and on our health, I
have two complaints.
Firstly , SAGA 's customers are
penali zed for using glasses ins tead of plasti c cups. Two glasses
costing 40 cents contain the same
a mount of liquid as one large
pla sti c cup costing 30 cents . Logically , th e sensitive alternative
wo uld be either to decrease the
pricl' of drinks in glasses to 15
cents o r increa se the price of
dri nks in la rge pla stic cups to 40
cent s,
Seco ndl y, I protest the use o f
additi ves , preserv a tives, and ar tifi cial colo rings' and flavorings
in the fruit drinks and ice tea.
The health effects of these added
ingredients are questionable. Certainly , distributors selling natural
fruit drinks and ice tea at equiv alent prices must exist. I will
soon be posting ingredients labels
behind the drink dispensers in an
effort to increase the awareness
of SAGA 's customers. I hope
that this letter has made the Ever g re e n s tudent body more
awa re o f the food you inges t.
Sincerely ,
A Studen' o f the Everstrange Green College
Paul Fink

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Is M a urine your g iv en
name, sir ? (If so, perhaps you

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Integrity of the earth . . . all
life . , . is now dependent upon
how humans decide to use or not
use the land. Development of the
land is irreversible. A biotic
community can never be duplicated.
Maintaining that earth - integri ty is now dependent upon intel ligent decision-making. This de cision-making must occur with
responsible dialogue among rhe
people affected by the decision .
In the ca se of land use , we are
all affected, as la nd use decisions
establish precedents regarding
land ethics and, thus, life . We
must be co llectively responsible
a nd active for that decision - making.
Such is the case with the use
of Chambers Lake and its sur rounding biotic communities.
Mobile home deve~opers are
threatening this last relatively
undeveloped lake in Lacey. The
basic issue of the conflict has
now become "What good is
Chambers Lake?" To me the answer is obvious: Life is sacred.
Dozers destr'oy habitat. Destruction of habitat destroys life.
Other people involved see shortterm good in destroying the lake,
in expanding the city and pocketing the profits. Blind spots of
self-interest exist in most of us.
These self-interests can be
publicly presented and assessed
tonight, November 18. The opportunity for dialogue is given us
by the Lacey City Council at a
public meeting at 7: 30 p. m. at
the Lacey Community Center.
No doubt many se lf-interests
will be represented: Farmers, biologists and surrounding property owners should make a
strong case against th e mobile
home development , while the
profiteers and other mobile home
inter est s will expound on its
necessity .
The only way to learn to
make responsible decisions within our communities is to help
make them. The only way to allow the earth's integrity is to
stop' subduing ecologically fragile
areas with concrete and to make
Life a certain priority in land use
decisions.
The Environmental Impact
Statement (for Lakeview Estates)
is availab le from the Thurston
County Planning Commission.
Respectfully,
Linda Leigh
866-6112

REST IN PEACE
To the Editor:
Now that the nuclear power
initiative has been laid to rest for
the 1976 political season, I'd like
to take one moment for reflection .
We humans are so careless
with time . We experience it so
briefly that we cannot conceive
of its length. We can hardly conceive of a shoe heel wearing out
- so little with each scuff - or
a . car engine slowly grinding
itself away, let alone the wearing
away of a mountain to a plain
or the digging of the Grand Can yon . And plutonium with a half
life of 25,000 years . . . 1 An extreme toxin unlike any naturally
occurring, that will some day be

loosened again on the earth . We
dump it in oceans . We bring it
to the watershed. We can "cap"
it and "can" it in as indestructible
a system as we can devise, but
time is its ally . It will still be
there when all other conceivable
human creations will have long
since ' reverted to the earth. It
will be an immortal testimony to
our species when it finally outlives its prison. But, rest in peace.
It will not come to pass in our
li fetime.
Earle McNeil

GET IT RIGHT
To the Editor:
I never said, "The sun is as
hot as a radish." What a terrible
line . Think about it . What I said
was : "Sun hotter than a radish. "
It is the distance between a flat
tire and a sunrise, those two
lines. Listen up: leave me alone
or get it right.
May the sun shine upon you ,
Craig Carlson

LIKE GENTLEMEN,
FADE AWAY
To the Editor:
The CPJ is to be congratulated
on its decision to devote so great
a part of its limited space to
Matt Groening's review of Susan
Brownmiller's magisterial study,
Against Our Will. One can only
hope that you will continue and
further this policy of providing
your campus audience with indepth reviews of the most significant scholarly work of our
times.
Mr. Groening strove admira bly to present Miss Brownmiller's case, but he seems far too
hesitant. Surely some remnant of
his socialization as a male is in hibiting him . But the mere fact
that he has come this far is en courag in g, and his efforts must
become exemplary on this campus.
Miss Brownmiller's utterly
convincing case itself stops short
of serious proposals for change.
After so many millenia of oppression, surely logic and technology must at last be brought
to bear.
Consider: It cannot be enough
that we merely begin to change
our socialization patterns. This
would be a long and arduous
task, and very uncertain of the
necessary success. Human nature
is not so easily expunged. And
(though Brownmiller herself is
apparently unwilling to look her
arguments squarely in the eye)
Brownmiller makes it clear that
something far more profound
than mere socialization is involved.
What would we have to do to
expunge rape - incitement from
our culture? To take only one
instance it would not be
enough just to ban pornography
(although, of course we should
do that). We would also have to
get rid of Homer, Sophocles,
Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy - all the literature
which, as Brownmiller should
make clear to us, covertly reinforces the male right to the fe male body. All films (consider
the Friday Nite Film schedule I),
all television, all Rock, all popu lar music - it is all infected.
How is it possible to do away
with all of this? Not to mention
all familial , political, economic,
legal, and religious patterns 1
And even if we did , it would do

by Jim Wright
Student evaluation of faculty is currently pervaded by the same atmosphere
of ambiguity that surrounds so many
other aspects of Evergreen's mode of operation .
Academic Dean and faculty member
Rob Knapp feels it is "a very delicate and
difficult process to get good faculty evaluations. Students often feel uncomfortable. They don't have any idea what to
say . Faculty members feel ambivalently
about what they might get. To organize a
process that gets around these difficulties
is very challenging. What we've got at the
moment is the willingness to have such a
process and the possibility for good statements to be included ... "
It is even more difficult for faculty
members to interpret such evaluations and
assess their relative importance. The Faculty Handbook requires that all evaluations of faculty members by students be
included in faculty portfolios for use in
annual evaluation sessions with the Deans.
There is, of course, no way to insure that
all evaluations end up in faculty portfolios. Also, the entire process is hampered
by the lack of standards for requiring (or
not requiring) evaluations from students,
and by the erratic nature and quality of
those evaluations received.
Academic Dean and member of the faculty Will Humphreys reports that he receives evaluations from approximately
one-third of his students. He observes
that faculty members who ask for them
prior to student evaluation sessions generally receive more responses, but he feels
that there might be "an element of coercion involved, --.r suspicion that people
won't be completely candid" under this
pressure. He also noted that "the overall
shape" of faculty evaluations he has received are "a mixed bag" of positive and
negative responses: In light of this mixture, Humphreys says he assesses impact
on the basis of how well-written an evaluation is. "If it's well-written, that's a
major factor in assessing what a faculty
member needs to work on . . ."
Rob Knapp points out that "If you are

no good. For Brownmiller makes
clear that rape precedes human
cu ltu re and human society . Culture merely legitimates and encourages what is there already.
Strict segregation of men from
women might serve, but men
rape men {as demonstrated so recently in the Bailey Motor Inn},
and men could always invade
the female provinces.
By now , do we not all know
that, as with handguns and nuclear weapons, the mere possession of the weapon will at some
time produce the crime? In this
regard, women are clearly superior to men, for women lack the
WeapOfl. Women can have sex
endlessly with other women and
never commit rape.
But even removing the weapon
would not insure the absence of
rape. As that notorious male
chauvinist, Faulkner, demonstrated in Sanctuary, corncobs
will serve.
Why don't womeh rape women? Not just for lack of a weap on , for they too could use dildos
or corncobs: fo r lack of the urge.
Ultimately, it is the Y chromo some and its effect on the male
brain, the production of the male
hormones, which is to blame.
But even sex change operations
and hormone treatments will not
suffice: the Y chromosome does
its damage in the womb.
At last we come to the truth
of the matter. Merely encouraging women to stand up for their
rights, teaching them Karate ,
will not work . Merely discouraging men from attack will not
work. Revolutionizing human
culture will not work. Segregation will not work . Emasculation
w ill not work. Surgery and
drugs will not work. Only the
successful solution to the problem of parthenogenesis will relieve hu manity (womankind?)
from the omnipresent threat of
rape .
Surely men see now what they
must do to redeem themselves
from the age-old burden of male
guilt : we must turn our technical
and scientific expertise to the development of an adequate technology of parthenogenesis. And
then, like gent lemen at last , fade
away.

a faculty member and you want good
evaluations (good meaning well-written,
. not necessarily positive), you have to
work really ~rd." Knapp receives evaluations from aPPJ-ciximately half his students.
He feels that evaluations have a considerable impact upon individual faculty members. "Getting a bunch of critical :!valuations shakes you up. It makes you look at
the way you're doing things ... "
Knapp recognizes the potential authority problem inherent in student evaluations of faculty . . . "People will always
be uncomfortable. If you expect people to
be relaxed, then you're dreaming, because
the questions are too personally important. A fair evaluation that touches on
both good points and criticisms will rarely
prevent one from having a working relationship in the future," he adds.
Faculty evaluations are required from
all students enrolled in Margaret Gribskov's Group Contract The State in Contemporary American Society. Gribskov
stresses the need to get an evaluation
from every student in order to obtain a
complete picture of student response .

Otherwise, she says, the picture is distorted because only students at the two
extremes - satisfaction and dissatisfaction - bother to write evaluations. Although she maintains that such evaluations are "very, very useful," she concedes
that there 'are problems with faculty evaluations. "Students are not identical. They
don't want the same things. There are
people at both extremes. It's difficult to
always know what evaluations mean. I
frequently don't know what to do with
them , except to look at them individually.
That's a conflict that's sort of unresolvable .. . "
,
SimilC!r1y, faculty member Richard
Jones places a great deal of emphasis
upon receiving evaluations from all his
students. "I make a very emphatic point
of saying that I want one. It's part of the
responsibility of the program ... " Jones
senses a problem in that such evaluations
are "written to the deans" rather than to
faculty members. Jones has also experienced problems with evaluations because
of a,uthority relationships with his students. "Under the best of circumstances,

Radical Journalist Speaks
by Stan Shore
Irwin Silber, the executive editor of The
Guardian, came to Evergreen Tuesday
with a dream of a Marxist - Leninist future
for Americ a.
The Guardian is a radical news weekly
pub li shed in New York. It takes a MarxistLeninist view of the news and is not subtle
about it. In the time-honored tradition of
radical publications of the last century,
the newspaper consistently reminds its
readers of the dangers of revisionism, the
fut ility of mere trade unionism, and of the
neo-colonial policy of the capita lists in
the Third World.
Silber, who served on Sing-Out before
joining The Guardian in 1969, writes two
regular features: mov ie reviews and a
column entitled "Fan the Flames."
"Fan the Flames" discusses various disputes within the Left , as well as commenting on news events . Silber confirmed at
Evergreen what he has often stated in his
column: He feels the number one problem
facing the Left in the United Stales is the
formation of a vanguard revolutionary
party.
The money to bring Silber to Evergreen
was raised by EPIC and the Marxism academic group contract. Silber is on a lecture tour of the Northwest, having ap peared at the University of Washington
on Monday. On Tuesday evening, he
gave a lecture entitled "The Politics of
Film" in LH One .
But before that, he met with the Marxism group contract in an hour and a half
question -and-answer session that touched
on a broad range of issues, from the Unit ed States' role in South Africa to the inseparable nature of Capitalism and Impe rialism .
Although lucid, Silber's responses to
questions were predictable. He is proud of
not being a "revisionist."
The students more than once expressed
chagrin at the enormity of their task and
their own uncertainly . "It's so difficult to
. talk to working class people," one said.
And, after a lengthy explanation by Silber

Richaro W. Alexander
Member of Faculty, TESC
MATT GROENING REPLIES:

When 1 wrote a two-part review
of Susan Brownmiller's Against
Our Will, 1 kept three things in
mind: 1) 1 did not want to treat
the subject of rape lightly , as 50
many men do ; 2) 1 did not want
to hurt the feelings of rape victims, particularly the feelings of
victims who are friends of mine;
and 3) 1 did not want my writing to provide cheap laughs for
sexist males over this most cruel
and traumatic experience. I have
unfortunately failed in my third
intention , as Prof. Alexander's
letter shows.
Prof. Alexander's mocking response should not completely be
dismissed, though , because it
does point to the obvious fact
that there are no individual, private solutions to the dilemma of
rape . It is hard for many persons
to seriously consider rape as a
societal problem based on a distorted masculine philosophy of
aggression, and apparently this
difficulty so overwhelmed Prof.
Alexander that he replied in ' the
only way he could. The ultimate
effect of rape, of course, is its in timidating influence on women's
emotions and actions even without the act, and trivialization of
the topic merely reinforces the
rapist mentality that Ms. Brown miller seeks to eradicate.

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it's difficult for students to be really hon est in writing evaluations ... They aren 't
convinced that you mean it ... Over the
years, I've almost had to instruct them on
what I don't want and what I do wanl .. . "
Jones feels that negative evaluations are
just as essential to faculty portfolios as
are positive ones. "One of the most com plementary things in a faculty portfolio is
a few highly critical evaluations, because
that show~ that this faculty member has
found a way of eliciting honesty from students. That shows a lot of skill . . ."
The first step toward formaliZing student evaluations of faculty has already
occurred. The Academic Deans have established a blank, carbon-copied evaluation form, similar to the one now being
used for student self-evaluations, for student use in evaluating faculty. Accompanying the form is a list of important
factors to consider while wrlting faculty
evaluations. The list includes such things
as ability to organize lectures and seminars, ability to evaluate students' work
fairly, ability to tolerate points of view
different from his / her own, and efficiency
in giving students prompt feedback on
their work.
ObViously, many past faculty evaluations have dealt with these subjects effectively , but this list represents an attempt
by the deans to standardize the process
somewhat in order to simplify the evaluation process. The follOWing is an excerpt
from an evaluation considered to be "wellwritten."
"Terribly good at seeing what people
mean, and clarifying it in their own heads .
asking loaded questions .. . This can be a
problem though, for sometimes I feel that
he has latched onto a vague statement of
a student and believed that the student
was thinking along the same lines as he
when the student wasn't thinking much al
all ... I am amazed at the variety of his
interests and depth of knowledge in esoterica, his matter of fact habit of applying
critical analysis to all thinking in any subject ... His intensity and intelligence, in
short, ate powerful and can scare people
less endowed, but he does not try to, and
in fact tries hard not to incur such feelings .. .
Conversely, highly critical evaluatioll5
are also absolutely essential. Unfortunately
they are less numerous. Another excerpt:
"I don't feel respect for you. Perhaps
my state of feeling let down by you will
color my other perceptions . I feel you're
almost never honest , and almost always
very selfish. .. I've truly felt that it
would be a n imposition to ask you to
spend an occasional hour talking to me ..
I feel it 's horrible for a student to feel
such reluctance towards imposition on the
personal life of their teacher' I think so me
of my feelings of distance from the pr.ogra m h.lve resulted from thi s. . "

Cleaver

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another answered, "Oh, I keep forgetting .
I try to remember. The dictatorship of the
proletariat is part of a process."
Silber himself had a good time, but
later, in a separate interview, cautioned
students not to deceive themselves.
"Universities are part of the ruling class
system of idealogical control. But, within
every structure of control, there are con tradictions, " Silber explained.
" [People say] it 's a free university , you
can talk about anything that you want.
And it's true, you can talk about anything
you want . If your talk is bounded by the
rules of the educational system it will re-

main talk ; in fact, it will serve the very
useful purpose of creating an illusion of
openness ...
"That's one of the contradictions built
into studying Marxism for credit. I don' t
put do~n the people who do it .. . They
should not develop the illusion that one
becomes a Marxist -Leninist just by study ing Marxist theory or even agreeing with
it. That doesn't happen until the theory is
translated into political action ," he con eluded .
In conclusion , Silber stated, ''I'm o pti mistic. To be a revolutionary in the Unit ed States, you have to be optimistic."

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he i ~ a self-co nfessed rapist, justifying hi s
" business a nd pleasure" by saying it wa s a
weapon in the race / class war. His only
regret about rape in Soul On lee w as that
it finally damaged his "male pride." In
1968 he suggested that the main role of
women was to exerc ise "pu ssy power" to
deny sex to men who supported the war
and oppressed blacks. He was booed fo r
remarks like these, but continued throu gh
his exile with similar attitudes.
Cleaver do es ha v e his supp o rt e r s,
though. C ontributors to his defense hmd
inelude Jean-Paul Sartre, Julian Bond, Na t
Hentoff, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan .
They have helped raise the bail which has
gotten Cleaver out of jail once more,
pending his upcoming trial.
Has Eldridge Cleaver gone cra zy , or ha!>
he just become extremely cynical and opportunistic? Is his new role a carefull y
staged put-on, or is the new Eldrid ge
Cleaver the product o f seven yea rs .of
miserable, homes ick exile? These ques-,
tions will no doubt be answered, at least
in part, by Eldridge Cleaver himself a t his
Wednesday evening, D ecember 1 appearance at Evergreen. The adm ission is $2 for
adults, $1 .50 for students. Tickt?ts will ~
available at the door .

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7

Duck House Barely Winging It
by Lisa Fleming
The Duck House, Evergreen's
consignment shop for student
crafts , is entering its fourth, and
possibly last year.
.
"S&A is cutting off its funding
next quarter," said Jeff Bernard,
manager. "The Duck House has
never made money since it
l'pened . Ifll close next quarter if
we can 't make money. "
Interesting ly enough, even this
, mall student-run enterprise has
been criticized for its money Illaking desires. ''['ve been called
a capitalist before," said Bernard.
"A Ie\\' students have just come
up Jnd called me a capi talist. "
T he total S&A all ocation for
7 5 - ' 70 I S 5617.50 . This goes
nostly to r salaries since the shop
doe sn't pa y rent or utilities, or
have any other overhead costs.

The Duck House is located on
the second floor of the CAB
building, across from the book
store. It's a new location, and
sales seem to be doing better
than in the old site, on the first
floor of the CAB across from
SAGA .
The main problem the Duck
House seems to be suffering from
is a lack of merchandise. An attempt is being made to upgrade
the selection and show higher
quality items.
The other worker in the shop,
who goes by Yew, talked about
the lack of consignments.
"Supposedly this school has a
lot of arty-crafty people," he
said. " But they don't bring their
st uff in. People should be getting
their stuff in now , since Christmas is coming, and things will

sel l.
Severa l things are new to the

Duck House this year besides the
location . One is that the percent-

The Library honor system

'1\11 You Need Do Is Ask"

age kept by the Duck House is
now 25 percent, up five percent
over last year. Another is the
addition of a barter board. This
public board will be a place for
people to offer skills or crafts or
a variety of things in exchange
for those of others.
One thing that Jeff hopes will
change is the emptiness of the
large wall on one side of the
shop. He wants it to be filled
with people's art, paintings, photographs, and " love."
"We really need stuff," said
Jeff, "People can bring in used
books, records, paintings, pictures, macrames, silk screens. I
want to go down to the Capitol
and advertise with flyers, but we
can't do that if we don't have
anything to sell. We have the
room, now we need your crafts."

by Brad Pokorny
It's happened to us all. The
May 28 issue of TIME for a debate on swine flu. The Merck
Manuol to see if they're pearly
penile papillae or warts. The
current Rolling Stone to find out
what Butz really said. You need
something in the library, but it's
gone.
Last year, 481 books were
stolen from the library. Some
were expensive, difficult to replace reference books and the
average ' cost per book ran fifteen
dollars. That's about $7,200
total. Even more books are taken
without being checked out and
later brought back.
Many magazines are swiped.
Susan Smith, coordinator of user
services, told me that Rolling
Stone and photography magazines are the first to go. "We can
make no attempt to replace
them. It's too expensive. It seems
to me students should be responsible enough not to steal them.
We have a nickel copier," she
said.
She pointed ou t that the Evergreen Library is one of the most
flexible undergraduate libraries
in the country. "What I can't understand is the kind of self-importance that makes someone
feel they should have exclusive
access to a book or magazine.
What do you need to steal from
here for when it's so easy to
check stuff out? We'll practically
let you take a couch out. We
have, in fact. We'll even check
out one of the librarians. Malcolm's been checked out several
times ." She nodded at Malcom
Stilson, Evergreen's celebrity librarian, referring to his role as
the bald Guru in jim Cox's film,
Eat the Sun.
"All you need do is ask." Malcom said quietly.
Some students admit they take
materials from the library. "I
take magazines because I can't
check them out. I bring them
back," said one.
Susan said most of the materials do come back. "At the end
of the year, things start appearing in the book bins and so on.

From Prescott Center C.ollege

Outdoor Action Program Has" Unique Vitality"
b)' )udv Berns
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Th e outdoor action program
at Prl'sCC' tt College, now Prescott
Ce nter Co llege, has received national recognition as well as adding unique vitality to all the
co llege's programs.
On Sep tember 10th I joined 35

peop le as we left Prescott Center College. a n attractively old,
large, brick building that houses
the 12 faculty , 60 students and
staff whose dedication enables
the unique educat ion a l philosophies of the late Prescott College to survive. In an uncomfortably crowded van and small
school bus (driven by Mike
Goff. outdoor action coordinator) we were on our way to the
Wemin 1lChee W ilderness in the
San Juan Mountains ot Northern

Colorado .
Prescott Center College, in
keeping with its philosophy of
experien tial learning, has faculty
and students spend three weeks
exp loring the wilderness and
each ot her. It is significant preparation not only for the processes
of experiential education to
which we will return at the
coll ege but also general preparation for our lives as we relate to
peop le and the enviro nment.
In the Prescott Center College
catalog four aspects of Wilderness Orientation are emphasized:
"1 )Skills training; 2)Experiencing the exhilaration of active adventure in the wilderness; 3)
Leadership training; 4)Using wilderness experience in other learn ing programs."
Wi lderness Orientation is beneficial as an orientation to the
college as a whole. Not only are
we in close contact with the students and faculty we will later

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study with, but we are also getting an exposure to what the dynamics of experiential education
are all about. Experiential learning is easier to grasp under predominantly physical conditions
as with hiking through the mountains than with predominantly
intellectual programs like Philosophy or Mathematics. Through
Wilderness Orientation Prescott
Center College students have the
skill to make intellectually centered programs more alive and
useful.
The immediacy or necessity of
having to learn certain skills
while in the wilderness can offer
a more dynamic education than
seated in a heated building reading how to build a fire or set up
a tarp. Similarly with group dynamics one gets to know more
by hiking, laughing, eating, writ ing, and sleep ing with a dozen
people in the isolated wilderness
than re.ading a Psychology text.
One learns about responsibility
through mutual sharing, support,
and patience.
Among the experiences remembered, most significant for me
was the day of the hailstorm .
My feet were sore as we walked
barefoot through shallow, rocky
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streams and while tripping over
my rain poncho as we climbed
to the road the hail. striking my
legs, left red blotches on them
for days.
Significant for everyone was
SOLO, three days in the wilderness alone without food . Though
cold, the snow was beautiful except during the night when I had
to leave my sleeping bag continuously because of diarrhea.
Without the familiar stimuli of
friends, books, mUJic and food ,
time took on extra emphasis.
While watching the stream below
or the old mine in the distance
which we later explored, I sometimes thought about being back
with my group and through fantasy lived our laught er , the
warmth of the fire, and the
cru nch of a n apple.
Since we had only tarps for
shelter the difficult weather
caused us to move our orientation to Beaver Creek in Arizona.
We found scorpions. tarantulas,
rattlers and cact i which had
prick le rs with an unfortunate
tendency to fasten themselves
onto my hands and pants. There
was plenty of sunshine and
swimming holes straight out of
paradise. Some of · the more
daring climbed naked over the
incredible surrounding rock.
For most of us the three weeks
went fast, but we were getting
awfully tired of Mountain House
freeze dried food. On Oct. 1st
we returned to Prescott Center
College, civilization, showers,
clean clothes, and enchiladas.
We left the wilderness with a
strong appreciation for nature,
each other, and the experiential.
innovative education that Prescott Center College offers.

• Academic Advising, in Lib.
1221, is a place where students
can go to clarify goals, problems
and directions in academics. If
you need help finding a sponsor
for next quarter's individual contract, we can suggest some
names and methods. If, instead,
you are looking for a coordinated study program we can
help you find one.
If you are interested in meeting a couple times a quarter with
a faculty advisor (not your program sponsor) please contact
Academic Advising at 866-6312.
There will be a Group Advising Meeting on December 2, at 1
p.m ., in Lib. 2208. for any students who are looking for a win ter quarter program. The academic deans and all faculty coordinators with openings in their
programs will be invited, too .
December 3 is Individual Contract Negotiation Day.
One of these Academic Advisors will be in the office during
work hours to talk with you:
Mary Moorehead, Suzannah
Blessinger, Bruce Honig, Doug
McLaughlin, and Katy Sargent.

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since two years ago, when someone helped themselves to about
300 tapes in the music section to
put together a hell of a rock and
roll collection. But even now students often can't find materials
when they need them.
There's no wayan article like
this can slap the hands of those
of you who are taking books.
You probably didn't read this far
anyway. But if you did, lake
heed: SOME OF US ARE PISSED
OFF.

• Hey! Are you truly interested
in what Grounds Maintenance is
up to, and what Facilities has up
its collective sleeves? Is there
anything you can do about it?
Listen: Leaf blowers are not the
crucial environment issue on
campus. Beauty bark does have
its advantages in specific areas
(or would you prefer pesticides
maybe) . There is a group that
actively seeks restrictions and
elimination of biocides on cam-

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working against their own self
interest. He said th~t every book
gone meant less money to buy
new books, less staff time to
keep present books in order, and
contributes to the possibility of
setting up a security system.
. "They're really not ripping off
some big bureaucracy," he said,
"they're ripping off other stu dents ."
All the librarians want to keep
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL
Evergreen on the honor system.
and unless the book loss rate
goes up dramatically, it looks IAnn Kendrick , Assistant Dean, I
like students will be spared the Iwill be on campus to speak with I
inconvenience of a Big Brother at linterested faculty and students I
the door .
IDate : Tu esday, Novembe r 23
Evergreen's loss rate is about
Time: Groups begin at 2 & 3 pm
1.8 percent a year, just slightly I Place CAB 11 0
higher than the Uni versity of !contact Career Planning &
Most students who "take" books bring them back. Washington's 1.5 percent. But IPlacement to register .
I
they have a security system. And
$2.40 an hour for 86 hours a
One year we found over a hunthe librarians say the loss rate
week. "The cost of any security
dred books in the dorm garbage
has gone down this year, ever
system is just balanced by the
cans, books people had thrown
outflow of books right now," he
away after moving out. We
said, "The hard thing to assess is
check the garbage every year
the cost to the student when they
now." She relates this fact with
don't have access to the mateangered increduli ty .
rials ."
Another student said he never
One student wondered why
checks out books any more bethe people at the desk' couldn't
cause one year he got stuck with
watch for books leaving the lia hundred dollars of overdue
THE MOST REVEALING AND HONEST TAPE RECORDER DEMONSTRA·
brary. "There are librarians in
fines at the end of school. He,
TlON YOU WILL EVER SEE! AT AN OBERG TAPE RECORDER WORKSHOP
there who don't do anything.
too, insisted he always returned
TO BE OONDUCfED BY VIDAR BECH, TANDBERG ENGINEER, ON THURSThey just sit around and scratch
them.
DAY AND FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18111 AND 19TH, FROM 12 NOON T08 P.M.
themselves."
Susan commented that EverWhen Carnahan heard these
green's recall system is so much
remarks he replied, "The people
more lenient than other places
at the front desk are actually doshe worked. "We send out two
ing about six other jobs. In addior three overdue notices and take
tion to checking out books, they
out ads in the newspaper at the
are se nding out recall notices, reend of each quarter. And we are
she lving returned books, they do
willing to listen to extenuating
material maintenance, and gencircumstances. "
erally keep track of the collecSome students I talked to, antion. We're really understaffed as
gered at not finding the materials
it is. I'd hate to have to put
they wanted, wondered why the
someone at the door."
library doesn't install some sort
The librarians all seemed to
of security system. Dave Carnafeel that proViding the best poshan, dean of library services, said
Jfyou b...... r woader.d bow your
sible service was the solution.
e lectronic systems cost abou t
tape dee I. .ta.", up agaialttbe com·
Susan Smith said, "I think a
$15,000 per unit, not including
petitioa, h....'. your .haaee. For TWO
search and destroy mission at the
the cost of putting sensitized tape
DAYS ONLY w. will be ma"ia, <om·
door on ly angers people and
in each book binding - the device
......... bel..... TANDBERG aad aay
.....hia. you eboole to brlat! ia. Dem·
makes them steal more. My anthat allows the sensing unit to
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swer is to make library serv ice
spot an unchecked -out book. He
ed.en wiD ..... be (.. ha ......
better, so people won't feel they
said that to station someone at
have to stea l."
the door to check books and bags
For the te.hai .. lly eurioul
will
p..,leat.Ude .bow. OD tbe workiall' o( .'
Dave Carnahan ' insisted that
would cost about $10,000, a reTANDBERG tape recorde .. aad el• .,.
anyone stealing books was really
sult of staffing the position at
troDlel, pleturea of tb~ meth.ai,ml,
DoIbyud ero .. field b.ad (eatureund
in the college can be heard and
pus, that can tell Facilities when
bow \b.y work. Li•• VI. recorded <om· .
wW be ,...,...,ted.
needs for coordination can be dethey are environmentally out of
termined
.
step before they make a move .
.IOXD
The meetings will be held on
The Environmental Advisory
14~ HEADClEANING, DEMAGNETIZATION AND COMthe first Wednesday of each
Committee meets every Wednes-,:tt.~... PARISON IDEMONSTRATION OF ANY T APE RECORDER.
month at 8:30 a.m.
day, 10 a.m. in LAB II 1250. We
14,4 ON.TH£.SPOTCLEANING, ALIGNMENT AND MINOR REhave an opening for one student
Part of the Sounding Board's
-,:tt.~... PAIR OF ANY TANDBERG TAPE DECK.
and three faculty, but all who atfunction will be to receive Bitch
tend, member or no, can put in
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Tickets. The board will then give
r"~~ 1160.00 VAWE. ORA WING TO BE HEW 11IURS~ NOV. 18.
their ecological two cents . Interpublic notice to persons who
es ted 7 For more information,
have a complaint lodged against
TAPES AND ACCESSORIES GIVEN OUT DURING BOTH
contact Chairperson Mike Ross,
DAYS AS DOOR PRIZES. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
them that the conflict must be re866-6325, mail stop S6202 .
solved. Bitch Tickets are being
14,1!! 1~ CHECKOUT OF ANY TANDBERG PURCHASED OUR·
received by the library, but the
~.,.ING 11IE WORKSHOP.
• Beyond Conception: Our ChilInformation Center will now
MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN
dren's Children, a discussion of
begin collecting for the Sounding
SO
methods and consequences of
Board.
WHY NOT BUY 11IATTANDBERG YOU HAVE ALWAYS REALLY WANTED
population control, will be given
The question of how a DirecDURING OUR WOnSHOP. DON'T OWN JUST ANOTHER STEREO ... OWN
by Martha Kent Willing and
ATANDBERG.
tory of Facilities and Equipment
George Denniston, M.D. of Popcould be compiled was raised. A
ulation Dynamics on Tuesday,
All TANDBEllC P......... are Ioadteol .at jail by .. elde8ll•• w..... P......... but IDOft I...
number of suggestions on who to
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Nov. 23, 7 - 9 p.m . in Lib. 3rd
contact and where to start were
floor Board Room.
made. Anyone who is interested
• On Sunday, Nov. 21, Steve
in this can contact the moderator
Seskin & Friends, a three-piece
Direct Order Warehouse Division
of the Sounding Board. Lyle
vocal group, will perform in conTribbett (866-5196, Mod 313B).
. 25 % off
all Pioneer components
cert in the Library lobby in a
A name and address board
a ll Marantz components
25% off
benefit for KAOS-FM.
will be made. A roster of repre25% off
all JBl speakers
Show time is 8 p.m., with admissentatives will be posted with in.. 25% off
all Bose speakers
sion $1.50.
formation on Kiosk, Sour-ding
$49900
Sansui 9090 receiver .
other
Sansui
components
at
least
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all
Board,
S&A,
COG
III
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Legisla• A general meeting for all those
.. $100. off
Harmon Kardon 430 & 730
tive Representatives, State and
interested in "Images," a coordiFederal . phone numbers, and
allow 2 to 10 days for delivery
nated study, winter and spring,
Congress
Representatives.
1976-77, will be held Tuesday,
We are making a search for
November 30, 1976,12:00 - 1:00
people having conflicts which
p.m., in Lib. 2205.
need airing before the Sounding
• Twenty-three people attended
Board .
the first Sounding Board meeting
CLASSIFIEPS
of fall quarter on Nov. 10th, at
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According to COG II, the
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Duck House Barely Winging It
by Lisa Fleming
The Duck House, Evergreen's
consignment shop for student
crafts , is entering its fourth, and
possibly last year.
.
"S&A is cutting off its funding
next quarter," said Jeff Bernard,
manager. "The Duck House has
never made money since it
l'pened . Ifll close next quarter if
we can 't make money. "
Interesting ly enough, even this
, mall student-run enterprise has
been criticized for its money Illaking desires. ''['ve been called
a capitalist before," said Bernard.
"A Ie\\' students have just come
up Jnd called me a capi talist. "
T he total S&A all ocation for
7 5 - ' 70 I S 5617.50 . This goes
nostly to r salaries since the shop
doe sn't pa y rent or utilities, or
have any other overhead costs.

The Duck House is located on
the second floor of the CAB
building, across from the book
store. It's a new location, and
sales seem to be doing better
than in the old site, on the first
floor of the CAB across from
SAGA .
The main problem the Duck
House seems to be suffering from
is a lack of merchandise. An attempt is being made to upgrade
the selection and show higher
quality items.
The other worker in the shop,
who goes by Yew, talked about
the lack of consignments.
"Supposedly this school has a
lot of arty-crafty people," he
said. " But they don't bring their
st uff in. People should be getting
their stuff in now , since Christmas is coming, and things will

sel l.
Severa l things are new to the

Duck House this year besides the
location . One is that the percent-

The Library honor system

'1\11 You Need Do Is Ask"

age kept by the Duck House is
now 25 percent, up five percent
over last year. Another is the
addition of a barter board. This
public board will be a place for
people to offer skills or crafts or
a variety of things in exchange
for those of others.
One thing that Jeff hopes will
change is the emptiness of the
large wall on one side of the
shop. He wants it to be filled
with people's art, paintings, photographs, and " love."
"We really need stuff," said
Jeff, "People can bring in used
books, records, paintings, pictures, macrames, silk screens. I
want to go down to the Capitol
and advertise with flyers, but we
can't do that if we don't have
anything to sell. We have the
room, now we need your crafts."

by Brad Pokorny
It's happened to us all. The
May 28 issue of TIME for a debate on swine flu. The Merck
Manuol to see if they're pearly
penile papillae or warts. The
current Rolling Stone to find out
what Butz really said. You need
something in the library, but it's
gone.
Last year, 481 books were
stolen from the library. Some
were expensive, difficult to replace reference books and the
average ' cost per book ran fifteen
dollars. That's about $7,200
total. Even more books are taken
without being checked out and
later brought back.
Many magazines are swiped.
Susan Smith, coordinator of user
services, told me that Rolling
Stone and photography magazines are the first to go. "We can
make no attempt to replace
them. It's too expensive. It seems
to me students should be responsible enough not to steal them.
We have a nickel copier," she
said.
She pointed ou t that the Evergreen Library is one of the most
flexible undergraduate libraries
in the country. "What I can't understand is the kind of self-importance that makes someone
feel they should have exclusive
access to a book or magazine.
What do you need to steal from
here for when it's so easy to
check stuff out? We'll practically
let you take a couch out. We
have, in fact. We'll even check
out one of the librarians. Malcolm's been checked out several
times ." She nodded at Malcom
Stilson, Evergreen's celebrity librarian, referring to his role as
the bald Guru in jim Cox's film,
Eat the Sun.
"All you need do is ask." Malcom said quietly.
Some students admit they take
materials from the library. "I
take magazines because I can't
check them out. I bring them
back," said one.
Susan said most of the materials do come back. "At the end
of the year, things start appearing in the book bins and so on.

From Prescott Center C.ollege

Outdoor Action Program Has" Unique Vitality"
b)' )udv Berns
(Jud ll l, Be n1 s is a Juni or at Ever8,rrc l/ all d is clm'ently a NAUTE
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Th e outdoor action program
at Prl'sCC' tt College, now Prescott
Ce nter Co llege, has received national recognition as well as adding unique vitality to all the
co llege's programs.
On Sep tember 10th I joined 35

peop le as we left Prescott Center College. a n attractively old,
large, brick building that houses
the 12 faculty , 60 students and
staff whose dedication enables
the unique educat ion a l philosophies of the late Prescott College to survive. In an uncomfortably crowded van and small
school bus (driven by Mike
Goff. outdoor action coordinator) we were on our way to the
Wemin 1lChee W ilderness in the
San Juan Mountains ot Northern

Colorado .
Prescott Center College, in
keeping with its philosophy of
experien tial learning, has faculty
and students spend three weeks
exp loring the wilderness and
each ot her. It is significant preparation not only for the processes
of experiential education to
which we will return at the
coll ege but also general preparation for our lives as we relate to
peop le and the enviro nment.
In the Prescott Center College
catalog four aspects of Wilderness Orientation are emphasized:
"1 )Skills training; 2)Experiencing the exhilaration of active adventure in the wilderness; 3)
Leadership training; 4)Using wilderness experience in other learn ing programs."
Wi lderness Orientation is beneficial as an orientation to the
college as a whole. Not only are
we in close contact with the students and faculty we will later

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study with, but we are also getting an exposure to what the dynamics of experiential education
are all about. Experiential learning is easier to grasp under predominantly physical conditions
as with hiking through the mountains than with predominantly
intellectual programs like Philosophy or Mathematics. Through
Wilderness Orientation Prescott
Center College students have the
skill to make intellectually centered programs more alive and
useful.
The immediacy or necessity of
having to learn certain skills
while in the wilderness can offer
a more dynamic education than
seated in a heated building reading how to build a fire or set up
a tarp. Similarly with group dynamics one gets to know more
by hiking, laughing, eating, writ ing, and sleep ing with a dozen
people in the isolated wilderness
than re.ading a Psychology text.
One learns about responsibility
through mutual sharing, support,
and patience.
Among the experiences remembered, most significant for me
was the day of the hailstorm .
My feet were sore as we walked
barefoot through shallow, rocky
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streams and while tripping over
my rain poncho as we climbed
to the road the hail. striking my
legs, left red blotches on them
for days.
Significant for everyone was
SOLO, three days in the wilderness alone without food . Though
cold, the snow was beautiful except during the night when I had
to leave my sleeping bag continuously because of diarrhea.
Without the familiar stimuli of
friends, books, mUJic and food ,
time took on extra emphasis.
While watching the stream below
or the old mine in the distance
which we later explored, I sometimes thought about being back
with my group and through fantasy lived our laught er , the
warmth of the fire, and the
cru nch of a n apple.
Since we had only tarps for
shelter the difficult weather
caused us to move our orientation to Beaver Creek in Arizona.
We found scorpions. tarantulas,
rattlers and cact i which had
prick le rs with an unfortunate
tendency to fasten themselves
onto my hands and pants. There
was plenty of sunshine and
swimming holes straight out of
paradise. Some of · the more
daring climbed naked over the
incredible surrounding rock.
For most of us the three weeks
went fast, but we were getting
awfully tired of Mountain House
freeze dried food. On Oct. 1st
we returned to Prescott Center
College, civilization, showers,
clean clothes, and enchiladas.
We left the wilderness with a
strong appreciation for nature,
each other, and the experiential.
innovative education that Prescott Center College offers.

• Academic Advising, in Lib.
1221, is a place where students
can go to clarify goals, problems
and directions in academics. If
you need help finding a sponsor
for next quarter's individual contract, we can suggest some
names and methods. If, instead,
you are looking for a coordinated study program we can
help you find one.
If you are interested in meeting a couple times a quarter with
a faculty advisor (not your program sponsor) please contact
Academic Advising at 866-6312.
There will be a Group Advising Meeting on December 2, at 1
p.m ., in Lib. 2208. for any students who are looking for a win ter quarter program. The academic deans and all faculty coordinators with openings in their
programs will be invited, too .
December 3 is Individual Contract Negotiation Day.
One of these Academic Advisors will be in the office during
work hours to talk with you:
Mary Moorehead, Suzannah
Blessinger, Bruce Honig, Doug
McLaughlin, and Katy Sargent.

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since two years ago, when someone helped themselves to about
300 tapes in the music section to
put together a hell of a rock and
roll collection. But even now students often can't find materials
when they need them.
There's no wayan article like
this can slap the hands of those
of you who are taking books.
You probably didn't read this far
anyway. But if you did, lake
heed: SOME OF US ARE PISSED
OFF.

• Hey! Are you truly interested
in what Grounds Maintenance is
up to, and what Facilities has up
its collective sleeves? Is there
anything you can do about it?
Listen: Leaf blowers are not the
crucial environment issue on
campus. Beauty bark does have
its advantages in specific areas
(or would you prefer pesticides
maybe) . There is a group that
actively seeks restrictions and
elimination of biocides on cam-

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working against their own self
interest. He said th~t every book
gone meant less money to buy
new books, less staff time to
keep present books in order, and
contributes to the possibility of
setting up a security system.
. "They're really not ripping off
some big bureaucracy," he said,
"they're ripping off other stu dents ."
All the librarians want to keep
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL
Evergreen on the honor system.
and unless the book loss rate
goes up dramatically, it looks IAnn Kendrick , Assistant Dean, I
like students will be spared the Iwill be on campus to speak with I
inconvenience of a Big Brother at linterested faculty and students I
the door .
IDate : Tu esday, Novembe r 23
Evergreen's loss rate is about
Time: Groups begin at 2 & 3 pm
1.8 percent a year, just slightly I Place CAB 11 0
higher than the Uni versity of !contact Career Planning &
Most students who "take" books bring them back. Washington's 1.5 percent. But IPlacement to register .
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they have a security system. And
$2.40 an hour for 86 hours a
One year we found over a hunthe librarians say the loss rate
week. "The cost of any security
dred books in the dorm garbage
has gone down this year, ever
system is just balanced by the
cans, books people had thrown
outflow of books right now," he
away after moving out. We
said, "The hard thing to assess is
check the garbage every year
the cost to the student when they
now." She relates this fact with
don't have access to the mateangered increduli ty .
rials ."
Another student said he never
One student wondered why
checks out books any more bethe people at the desk' couldn't
cause one year he got stuck with
watch for books leaving the lia hundred dollars of overdue
THE MOST REVEALING AND HONEST TAPE RECORDER DEMONSTRA·
brary. "There are librarians in
fines at the end of school. He,
TlON YOU WILL EVER SEE! AT AN OBERG TAPE RECORDER WORKSHOP
there who don't do anything.
too, insisted he always returned
TO BE OONDUCfED BY VIDAR BECH, TANDBERG ENGINEER, ON THURSThey just sit around and scratch
them.
DAY AND FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18111 AND 19TH, FROM 12 NOON T08 P.M.
themselves."
Susan commented that EverWhen Carnahan heard these
green's recall system is so much
remarks he replied, "The people
more lenient than other places
at the front desk are actually doshe worked. "We send out two
ing about six other jobs. In addior three overdue notices and take
tion to checking out books, they
out ads in the newspaper at the
are se nding out recall notices, reend of each quarter. And we are
she lving returned books, they do
willing to listen to extenuating
material maintenance, and gencircumstances. "
erally keep track of the collecSome students I talked to, antion. We're really understaffed as
gered at not finding the materials
it is. I'd hate to have to put
they wanted, wondered why the
someone at the door."
library doesn't install some sort
The librarians all seemed to
of security system. Dave Carnafeel that proViding the best poshan, dean of library services, said
Jfyou b...... r woader.d bow your
sible service was the solution.
e lectronic systems cost abou t
tape dee I. .ta.", up agaialttbe com·
Susan Smith said, "I think a
$15,000 per unit, not including
petitioa, h....'. your .haaee. For TWO
search and destroy mission at the
the cost of putting sensitized tape
DAYS ONLY w. will be ma"ia, <om·
door on ly angers people and
in each book binding - the device
......... bel..... TANDBERG aad aay
.....hia. you eboole to brlat! ia. Dem·
makes them steal more. My anthat allows the sensing unit to
08l'rllioo. o( TANDBERG'S n... ,..
swer is to make library serv ice
spot an unchecked -out book. He
ed.en wiD ..... be (.. ha ......
better, so people won't feel they
said that to station someone at
have to stea l."
the door to check books and bags
For the te.hai .. lly eurioul
will
p..,leat.Ude .bow. OD tbe workiall' o( .'
Dave Carnahan ' insisted that
would cost about $10,000, a reTANDBERG tape recorde .. aad el• .,.
anyone stealing books was really
sult of staffing the position at
troDlel, pleturea of tb~ meth.ai,ml,
DoIbyud ero .. field b.ad (eatureund
in the college can be heard and
pus, that can tell Facilities when
bow \b.y work. Li•• VI. recorded <om· .
wW be ,...,...,ted.
needs for coordination can be dethey are environmentally out of
termined
.
step before they make a move .
.IOXD
The meetings will be held on
The Environmental Advisory
14~ HEADClEANING, DEMAGNETIZATION AND COMthe first Wednesday of each
Committee meets every Wednes-,:tt.~... PARISON IDEMONSTRATION OF ANY T APE RECORDER.
month at 8:30 a.m.
day, 10 a.m. in LAB II 1250. We
14,4 ON.TH£.SPOTCLEANING, ALIGNMENT AND MINOR REhave an opening for one student
Part of the Sounding Board's
-,:tt.~... PAIR OF ANY TANDBERG TAPE DECK.
and three faculty, but all who atfunction will be to receive Bitch
tend, member or no, can put in
~~I!! PAIR OF THE NEW TANDBERG FASETTE SPEAKERS ....~
Tickets. The board will then give
r"~~ 1160.00 VAWE. ORA WING TO BE HEW 11IURS~ NOV. 18.
their ecological two cents . Interpublic notice to persons who
es ted 7 For more information,
have a complaint lodged against
TAPES AND ACCESSORIES GIVEN OUT DURING BOTH
contact Chairperson Mike Ross,
DAYS AS DOOR PRIZES. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
them that the conflict must be re866-6325, mail stop S6202 .
solved. Bitch Tickets are being
14,1!! 1~ CHECKOUT OF ANY TANDBERG PURCHASED OUR·
received by the library, but the
~.,.ING 11IE WORKSHOP.
• Beyond Conception: Our ChilInformation Center will now
MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN
dren's Children, a discussion of
begin collecting for the Sounding
SO
methods and consequences of
Board.
WHY NOT BUY 11IATTANDBERG YOU HAVE ALWAYS REALLY WANTED
population control, will be given
The question of how a DirecDURING OUR WOnSHOP. DON'T OWN JUST ANOTHER STEREO ... OWN
by Martha Kent Willing and
ATANDBERG.
tory of Facilities and Equipment
George Denniston, M.D. of Popcould be compiled was raised. A
ulation Dynamics on Tuesday,
All TANDBEllC P......... are Ioadteol .at jail by .. elde8ll•• w..... P......... but IDOft I...
number of suggestions on who to
porUIidy by a ....Ibopby to...... tk art .......... 1II .... ....rooIactloa.
Nov. 23, 7 - 9 p.m . in Lib. 3rd
contact and where to start were
floor Board Room.
made. Anyone who is interested
• On Sunday, Nov. 21, Steve
in this can contact the moderator
Seskin & Friends, a three-piece
Direct Order Warehouse Division
of the Sounding Board. Lyle
vocal group, will perform in conTribbett (866-5196, Mod 313B).
. 25 % off
all Pioneer components
cert in the Library lobby in a
A name and address board
a ll Marantz components
25% off
benefit for KAOS-FM.
will be made. A roster of repre25% off
all JBl speakers
Show time is 8 p.m., with admissentatives will be posted with in.. 25% off
all Bose speakers
sion $1.50.
formation on Kiosk, Sour-ding
$49900
Sansui 9090 receiver .
other
Sansui
components
at
least
25
% off
all
Board,
S&A,
COG
III
,
Legisla• A general meeting for all those
.. $100. off
Harmon Kardon 430 & 730
tive Representatives, State and
interested in "Images," a coordiFederal . phone numbers, and
allow 2 to 10 days for delivery
nated study, winter and spring,
Congress
Representatives.
1976-77, will be held Tuesday,
We are making a search for
November 30, 1976,12:00 - 1:00
people having conflicts which
p.m., in Lib. 2205.
need airing before the Sounding
• Twenty-three people attended
Board .
the first Sounding Board meeting
CLASSIFIEPS
of fall quarter on Nov. 10th, at
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seater
International
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Sounding Board members .
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According to COG II, the
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peld public notice
peId public notice

Public Hearing December 1
general law. to protKt Ita property
from damage end u~
u.. Ind Ita opet'IIting ~
from Interruption. At the _
time. It 1110 IllU8t guarantee the
right of the me,nbers of Itt community to be '-rd .t approprtate
Iftela of declllon- making with r.apec:t to bnlcmattars of policy
.nd other I...... of direct _ .

A second public hearing to continue
discussion on the proposed COG III
and begin discussion of the Social
Contract (below). will be held Dec . 1 at
2 p.m. i n CAB 110. All members of the
Evergreen community are encouraged
to attend .

Key
Unmarked ' Items are those left unchanged. «items in double parent heses are those to be removed .)) Items in
bold are new.
Draft of the Social Contract as revised
by the COG III DTF sub-committee
WAC 174-124 GENERAL CONDUCT
Social Contract .' Community Code of
Conduct
WA C 174-124-010 IntrOduction «_
Declarations of College Pol icy))
\Ill) t (In its life as a community , The

Evergreen State College requires a
soci al contract rather than a list of
speCific prohibitions and essenti ally negative rules . The contract,
open to modifi cations over time
and res ponsive to the changing circumstances sure to attend the ins tl tu tio n' s fu t ure , represents a
co mm itment by each one of us to
search l or the set of agreements
:h at defi ne the spirit that we are
try in g tog ether to engender at the
eel lege . tha t ind icate the condie 'ons that su pport the primary pur:'05es tor wh ich Evergreen was
. 3lied Into existence, and that
',oeel l y the principles under which
d ! of us can live together as civi'cad and decent people who share
I Ce often very difficult exc itements
0 1 learning, ))
:1 1 The Evergreen State College is an
association of people who worf(
together as learners and ' teachers.
Such a community can thrive only
if members r.specf the right. of
others while enjoying fheir own
rights. Students. facufty . edmlnls.
trators and staff mambers may
differ widely In their specific Inter·
ests . In the degrees and kinds of
experiences they bring to Evergreen. and In the functions which
they have agreed to perform. but
all must share alike In prizing academic and interpersonal honesty.
in responsibly obtaining and In
providing full and accurat. Information . and in resolving their differences through due proeHs and
with a strong will to collaboration.
In its life as a community The Evergreen State College requires a
social contract rather then I list of
specific prohibitions and assentlally negallv. rul.s .
I! 2))I (CIOsely related to governance
and oec ision-making at Evergreen ,
t h, s doc ument summarizes the
dl sc ussions to date of the con cerns affec ting the relationships
0 1 the members of the Evergreen
community to themselves, to each
other. to the college as an institu~,o~. an d to the larger society of
:. nlch Ihat instit uti on is necessarane Inescapably an agency. As
"' can'pa:t among peol-lle , thi s 5 0 ~ , ,, I co ntract calls for all associ",.o~ wi th Evergreen student s.
' ae 11 '/ and staff . and tru stees I:; b ' Signatories to It. Two is sues
" I a " raced ura l kind must be dealt
:n' h one has to do with the proc ess t', WhiC h mem bers of the commu r ,,\ , become signatories" ; the
'c, tn ~ , ;CJc u s~ s on the matte r of
tim ing .) )
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The individual members 01 the Evergreen community have the responsibility lor protecting each
other and vrsitors on campus from
ph ysical harm . from personal
threats . and from 'unclvll abuse.
Similariy . the Institution Is obligated . both by principle and by the

«(3)) «The suggestion offered here is
that the social contract ,' along with
governance and decision- making
at Evergreen. be published in the
catalog and that this publication
be accompanied by a statement
indicating that all persons who become affiliilted with the college as
students or as employees agree as
a condition of acceptance or employment to conduct themselves
according to the principles embodied in these documents. This
arrangement preciudes the necessity of collecting signilture cards
and
requiring the occasionally
distasteful signing of 'ormal
" oaths." ))

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(3)

As • community. Evergre.n .
through Its gov.manee structUnBII .
has both the right .nd the obligation to .stabllsh re••onabl••ttndards of conducl lor It. members In
order to "'eguard the p _ _
of laamlng. to provlda for the sal.
ty
Its members. to protect the
Investm.nt of the peopl. of the
State of Washington In its properties. and to Insura • suitable respect for tha very dlff.rent tasf.s
and senslbllltl.. 01 lis members .
For th.se rea.ons. the I.w .mpowers the Pr.aident or Presidential designees to Intercede whenever sound judgment polnta to a
clear and present danger to these
concerns.

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«4) ) «( On the matter
timing . the rec·
ommendation submitted at this
point is that the social contract be
accepted as the basis 'or the college 's operations during 1971 1972, a year during which further
discussions can be held with respect to its spirit, its principillS.
and its language. With its publication in the catalog 'or 1972-1973.
the 'orce of its contractual impll·
cations becomes official. Patterned
in this manner, .x post feeto considerations 'are avoided, and all of
those prasenlly on the Evergreen
campus will have the necessary
and appropriate chance to react to
considerable impora statement
tance to them but which was not
available for their consideration
prior to their joining the college
community .) )
14) Each member 01 the community
must prolecl: (.) the fundamental
rights of others In the community
as cltlz.ns . (b) the right 01 each
member In the c~munlty 10 pursue different leamlngobjecthres
wlthlhe limits d.flned by Evergreen's curriculum or resourcea In
people. material I. equipment and
monay. (c) the rlghta and obligations of Evergreen la an In.tltution eltabllshed by the Staf. of
Washlnglon . and (d)lndlvldual
rights to fair and equltabte procedu_ when the Institution acts
to protect the safety of Its mambers.
WAC 174-124-020 «Basic Purposes
-Individual Responsibility of Members
of the College Community))

pili. In WhIcti It Ia '-led. FIQIII thI.
..... of .ft.... flow certain rIghta lor
the ~ of the E"'II_ community. -'lIn QOIIdItloN of campus
life. 8ftd certaI,n obligations,

(1) (The Evergreen State Collage Is
an association 01 people who
come together to leem and to help
each other learn,. Such a communIty of learners can tl)rlve only If
each member respects the rights
of othera while enjoying hia own
rights. II dependa heavily on • network of mutual trust and an atmoaphere of civility ; and it grows
in Its human utility only If each of
Its members llvea up to the responsibilities for honesty. lairness. tolerance. and · the giving 01
his best efforts as those effoRs
are entailed by his membership.
Students. faculty. admlnlstratora,
and staff members may differ
widely in their specific Interests,
in the degrees and kinds of experience they bring to Evergreen. and
in the functions which they have
agreed to ,perform. But all must
share alike in prizing academ ic and
interpersonal honesty. in responsibly obtaining and in providing
full and accurate information . and
i n resolving Iheir differences
through due process and with a
strong will to collaboration .))
(1)

Among the be.lc rfghts .re freedom of speech. freedom of the
P_s. freedom of peacelul
bly and ...oclatlon. freedom of
belief. and freedom from Intimidation. vlol.nee .nd .buse.
(2)) « These considerations directly
imply the necessity of an organized structure to achieve the goals
of more effective learning , a system of governance that encourages
widespread participation In Ihe
making
college decisions (See
Governance and Decision-Making
at Evergreen , statement of 10June,
1971). and a 'ull awareness on the
part of every member of the community
how his behavior Influences the climate and the spi rit of
the campus . If the spirit and climate
the college are to promote
learning most effectively, then
each member of the community
must protect In an active. thought ful . and concerned way :

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the fundamental rights of
others in the community as
citizens.
the right of each member of
the community to pursue
different learning objectives
within the limits defined by
Evergreen' s resources In
people, materials and equipment. and monay.
the rights and obligations of
Evergreen as an institution
established by the State of
Washington. and
the rights of all members of
the community to fair and
equ·ltable procedures for determining how , when. and
against whom the commun ity must act when Its safety
or its integrity has been
damaged.)

Even more important , however , is
the requirement, difficult to define
and impossible to legislate, that
each member 01 the Evergreen
community concern himself with
how the college can become a
more productive, more humane,
and more supportive, place in
which 10 learn. This requirement
entails an explicit and continuing
cons ideration of the delicate balances in the reiatlonshlp 01 the
members of the Evergreen community .to each other and to the

Individual Rights of M"mbers of
lhe Evergreen Community
Members of the Everg'reen community
recognize that the college Is part of the
larger society 8S represented by the
State of Washington. which funds It.
and by the community of grealer Olym-

......... 01 PIIbItc .... iIfIoaIlO8
cannot be properly ..... In _ _•

institution Itsell.»
(2)

There,.., be no ~1IIInatIon at
E"'II_ willi . NapeCf to_.
_ . rellgloui! or political bel.., or
riatIonaI 0IfgIn

willi reepect to adml.. ton • ......,,_t or . . - lion. To " - end the Col", ....
acIoptacI an effJrma.... action polIcy ("""'108 ~ AdmlnfatratlveCOde WAC 174,;141 Human
Rlghtt PoIICj, Equat Opportunity
PoIlcJ.nd Alflm.tlw ActIon Prognam),
(3)

«3)) «Freedom of the presa Implies the
right to lreedom lrom c;enaorehlp
In carnpua '-Ipapers and other
i118di•. Concomitantly. SUCh pl/bllcatlons IU1I subject to the uauaJ
canonll of responslbla joumatlam.
to .the 1_ of the ~. and to the
same .condltlonll 01 ..1I. miIlritenence that apply to other lonna of
public coinrnunlcatlon.))
(3)

BecauM the ·E,.,...... -nmunlty
I. pert of the 1e'V8l' aocIeIy. the
campua la not a
from
the general law or InvuI. . . . . to
geMnsl public opinion,

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(4)

Th. EvergrHn community 'wlll
.upport the 110M of Itt .........,.
IndlYlclually or In.groupe to upnsaa
1cIeeI, judtmenta .nd optntorw In
,peach or writing. The n •• 1biwa of
the communIty. " - "••i. obligated to make .tatementa In their
own .., . . and not .. expresaIoiIs
on betialf of the Collage.

All membera 01 the Collage community haft· the right to organlz.
their penonel 1'- and conduct
accoidlng to their own vallMS .nd
prelerences. with an approprlat.
respect lor the rIohtt of others to
.. organize t .... r 11_ dillerantly.

(5)

(6)

EV'rgreen does not llend In loco
for Itl members.

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The right to u.. the mediation and
edjudlcatlon proceaa I. anjoyed by
all members of the Everg_ c0mmunity. (ref.-: WAC-174-1~
060 Medlltlon and Adjudication of
Dlsput.s. Grl.v.nc.s Ind Appeals).

WAC 174-124-030 ((Individual Rights
of Members of the Evergreen Community))
Conditions of Leamlng .
Freedom - Privacy - H_ty
«1)) « Members of the Evergreen community recognize that the college
is inherently and Inescapably a
part of the larger society as represented by the State of Washington . which funds It. and by the
community of greater Olympia. in
which It is located. From this state
of affairs flow certain rights for
the members of the Evergreen
community . certain conditions of
campus life, and certain obligations.))
(1)

Evergreen's members live under •
apect.1 set of rfght • •nd neapollSlbllltI... loremoat among which II
thato!' enjoyIng full freedom to
explore Ideal Ind to dl-.... their
explonatlona In both apeec:h .nd
print without let or hindrance. Both
In.tltutlonal.nd Individual canlOrIhlps .r. at v.rlanee wtth this
basic freedom. R_n:I1 or other
Int,"ectual efforta. the neaulta 01
which must be kept secret or may
ba used only lor the benefit 01 •
specl.1 Intelftt group. alao violate
the principle of free Inquiry.

«2)) «Among the basic rights are freedom of speech, 'reedom of the
press, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of
belief . and freedom from personal
force and violence. from threats of
violence, and from personal
abuse.))
(2)

All members of the EvergrMl'l community are entitled to privacy In
lhe coIlege's offices. facilities devoted to educational programs. and
housing. The 88ma right 01 privacy
extends to personal pepera. confld.ntl.1 records ••nd peraonal
leet.. whether malntslned by the
IndIvidual or by the Institution.

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All .........01 the E',,_t c0mmunity enjoy the right to . . end
to paltlclpete In pUblic ..........
to ~t ~ on ... campua.
.nd .to engage In peacafuI demonatratlone. R.... ao ...... end Impartl· .
.lIy applied Iii... inaJ be Mt with
reepect to time. pIaw and .... of
Ev.tg_ Iaclllt'" In . . . . actIv.

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({4)) {(There may be no diacrlmlnatlon
at Evergreen with respect to race.
sex. rellgloua or political belief. or
national origin with reapect to admlss ;on. employment . or promotion.))
(4)

H_ty I• •n ..aent... condition

((6)) «(The Evergreen community will

support the right 01 Its members.
Individually or in groups . to ex·
press ideas, judgments . and opinIons, in speech or writing . The
members of the community; however; are obligated to make their
statements in their own names
and not as expressions of the col lege.)
(6)

R.llted to ",Is point Is the way
In which civility II a fundamental
condition of leemlng. Only If minority and unpopular poInta
vfew .r. ac:corded neapect. ar. lIa ·
tened to. 8ftd .na given lull oppor·
tunity for exp....ton will Ever·
grMl'l provide bona fide opportun1t
es lor significant I_mlng.

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«7») ( Each member of the college
community has the right to organize his own personal life and conduct according to his own vaiues
and preferences so iong as his actions accord with t!le general law ,
are In keeping with agreements
voluntarily entered into, evince an
appropriate respect for the rights
of others to organize their lives
differently , and advance (or at least
do not Interfere wit!!) the community-wide purpose of more effective
learning . In short. Evergreen does
not stand In loco parentis for lis
members.))
(7) All members of lhe Evergreen community lhould strive to prevent the
financial. political. or olliei' explolt.tlDn 01 the campus by any
1~lvldual or group.
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«1) (As a community of people who
have come together to learn and to
help one another to learn more effectiVely. Evergreen'a member1llive
under a spec!11 eet 01 rlghta and
responaibillties. Foremost among
these rights Is that 01 enloying full
freedom to explore the nature and
Implications of ldell. to generate
new Ideas. and to dlacuss their explorations and discoveries In both
speech and print without let or
hindrance. Both Institutional censorship and Intoleranoa by individuals or groups era at a variance
with this basic freedom. By a similar token. res.rch or other intellectual efforts. the ntSults of which
must be kept secret or may be
used only for the benefit of a special Intereat group. also violate the
principle of free Inquiry.))
(1)

AI.n lnatltutlon. Ewrg.........
the obligatIon to provide en operI
fonam for the ~ of Ita c0mmunIty to . . - t .nd to debete
public
to consider the
probI.m. of the college. and to
serve aa • rnechenllm 01 wldeIpread liwotvement In the IIf. of
the larger community.

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«2)) {(Serious thought and learning entail privacy. Although human accessibility Is a basic value. and although meetings of public signifIcance cannot properly be held in
secret. all members of the Evergreen community are entitled to
privacy in tl)e college's offices.
faclli ties devoted to educational
programs. and housing. The same
right of privacy elCtands to personal papers. confidential records.
and personal effecta. whether
maintained by the Individual or by
the institution.))

The college has the obligation to
prohibit the _
01 Itt name. Ita
flnancaa ••nd Itt facilltlea for com~I purpoMl.
«(3») (IAII members of the Evergreen
community enjoy the right to hold
and to participate In public meetinga. to postnoticea on the campus. and to engage In peaceful
demonstrations. In order to protect
the safety 01 the community end
to reapect the equal rights of thoae
who choose not to partlcl pale.
nsasonable and Impartl.lly applied
rulea. following established procedures of governance (See Governance and Declllon- Maklng at
Evergieen). may be set with respect to tlma. pl_ and use of
Evergreen facilities In these actlvities _»

(2)

E"'II_.... the right to prohibit Individual. end g~ who
.re not members of Ita communIty flQlll uatng Ita _ . Ita 11nanclal or other _ . and Ita
faclUtlee for commerclel. religious.
or polItical ectIvIt....
((4)) ((Honeaty Is an essential condi tion of learning. Honesty Includes
(although it i8 not limited to) the
presentation of only one'8 own
work In ona's own name. the full
conalderation 01 evidence and logIc even wlI8n they contradict a
chertahed personal point of view.
and lhe recognition - Insofar as
It Is humanly posalble - of b l _
and pfejudices In oneaeli as one
81r1_ to become • more effective
leiImer.))

(3)

(4)

The college Ia oblige'" not to
.... a poaItIon. _ an l ..tItutIort.
In electoral poIItIca or on public
I..- except for tIioee mettens
whIcti dll'IICtIy affect Ita integrity.
the freedom 01 the IMI'IIbers 01 Ita
Ita CDmI'IIUnIty. Ita IINncIeI . .port. end Ita _ _ tIoIlII ~.
At the _
lime.
the obligation to lUPPort .the right
of Ita COIIIiNRty'a . . - - . . to
......... cItImnI 01 the ........

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WAC 174-124-040 «Conditions of
leeming - Freedom PrIvacy
Honesty))

of leeming, H_ty Inclucln the
presentation of only __I own

work In one'a own name. the full
consideration 01 evIdeMe and log.
Ic. end lhe ..cognition of bI....
.nd pnsJudlcee In oneeaIf.
((5)) (Because the Evergreen communIty is not separate or segregated
from the larger society . the cam' _.pus Is not a sanctuary from the
general law or invulnerable to the
general public interest. The members of the Evergreen community
are therefore obligated to deal with
the relationship between the campus and the larger society with
balance of forthrightness and sensitivity. criticism and respect. and
an appreciation of the complexities of social change and personal
differences.))
(5) Another ealenU.1 condition of
leemlng la the 'ull freedom .nd
rlghl on the pert 01 Individuals and
groupe to the .xpreaaton 01 minorIty. unpopuler. or controv.,al.1
poInta of view.
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Social Contract Drawn Up
1OCiety. In polItical affalra. In any
way thet they ,.., elect within the
prowI8Iori of the ...... law,
{(5)) « Anolher .....tlal condition of
learning is the full lreedom and
right on the part of individuals 8i1d
groups to the expresalon of mi nority. unpopular. or contrOY8i1li.1
points of view. If the Evergreen
communlty ,la to prove valuable to
all Ita members. this right must be
especially cherished. particularly
when lhe predominan't current of
opinion. regardless of Its character or Its content. runs strong.))
({iI)) «Related to thill point Is Ihe way
In which civility is a fundamental
condition of learning. Only if minority and unpopular points of
view are accorded respect. are liatened to. and are given full opportunity for expression will Evergreen
provide bona fide opportunities for
significant learning as opposed to
preasures. subtle or overt. to ride
the main tides 01 purely contemporary opinion.))
((7)) {(All members 01 the Evergreen
community - etudents. staff, faculty, administrators. trust_. and
all others - are under an obligation to protect the Integrity of Evergreen as a community of learners from externel and Intemal attacks. and to prevent the financial,
political. or other exploitation of
the campus by any Individual or
group.)
WAC 174-124-050 «Institutional Rights
and Obligations))
Procedural RevIew - SubHquellt
Modification of
the SocIal Contrect
Thla document ahall be revIewad with
each review 01 the Covenant on Gov-

ernance.

(1») ({As an institution, Evergreen has '
lhe obligation to provide an open
forum for the members of Its community to p.r8sent and to debate
public issues. to consider the
problems of the college. and to
serve aa a mechanism of widespread Involvemant In the Ille of
the community. (See Governance
and Decision-Making It Evergreen.
sections on the College Forum
and on the College Sounding
Board.»)
.
«(2)) «The college has the obligation to
prohibit the use of Its nama. its
finances. and Its laclllllea for commercial purpoaes.))
((3)) (( EvergrMl'l hie the right to prohibit Individuals and groups who
are not members 01 this communIty from using Its nama. ita financial or other resources. and Ita
fecllities lor commercial. rellgiou8.
or political activities. This right Is
balanced by an obligation to formUlate and 10 administer its polIcies In this regard in an evenhanded manner.))
«4)) ({The college · ia obligated not to
take ' a position. aa an Institution.
In electoral politics or on public
issuea except f9r those matters
which directly affect Its Integrity.
the lreedom of the mambers of Its
community. its financi.I support.
and Its educational programs. At
the same tima. Evergreen has the
obligation to aupport the right of
Its communlty's mambers to en gage. as citizens of the larger soclety. In polilical affairs. in any
way thet they may elecl within the
provision of the general law.»
({5)) The Individual members of the
Evarg~ community have the responsibility for prolectlng eech
olher end vlsltora on campua from
phYllcal h.rm. from personal
th,..ta. and lrom uncivil abuse.
Similarly. the Inltltutlon ia obligated. both by principle and by the
general law. to protect Ita property
from damage and unauthorized
use and Ita operating proceasea
from InlerTVptlon. At the same
tI me. It alao muat guaranlee the
right 01 the members of 1t8 corn-

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munlty to be heard .t appropriate
levels of decision-making with respect to baalc matters 01 policy
and other Isall8l of direct Concern.
As a community . Evergreen.
through Ita governance structurea.
hie bolh the right and the obligation to establish reasonable standaids of conduct for Ita 'members In
order to safeguard Ihe procea_
of learning. to provide lor the
salety of Its members. to protect
the Investment 01 the people of
the State of Wsahlngton In Its
properties. and to inaure a suitable
respect lor Ihe very dillarent Iastes
and sensibilities of Its members.
For these reasons. lhe law empowera the President or his designees to Intercede whenever, in his
(or their) judgment, a clear and
present danger to these concerns
exista.))

({Although the mechanisms of ault and
litigation IU1I obviously essentl.1 at Evergreen . they represent the last nsaort
within a viable community. In Ihla social contract among Evergreen's members, our concern Is leas on government.1 and policy-oriented issues.
which Ire covered primarily by Governance and Declalon-Maklng at Evergreen. and more on the personal ralslIonshlps among Its members and between various groups. both formal Ind
Informal. Ihat may coma into axlstenee.
In these realms of human relationships,
Judicial action Is a less desirable way
of resolving difficulties in a genuine
community than are more Informal
methods of mediation. The processes
outlined here touch . therefore, on three
levels of conflict-resolution : informal
madlatlon. formal mediation. formal arbitration and enforcemenl, and. where
necessary . a means of appeaL))

«WAC 174-124-060») «The Issue of
Strikes - Boycotts - Sanctions»)

(WAC 174-124-080») «Informal Medlalion) )

((1)) «The strike. Including such variant
procedu res as the boycott and the
.prolonged demonstration . has
been formally institutionalized in
Industrial society as one means of
. effecting change. It is recognized
by law. has generated its own official personnel. and operates according to relatively common understandings. Because the strike
bases Itself in adversary rather
than collaborative relationships. it
is an inappropriate means of seekIng change at Evergreen . Neverth&less. an awareness of human frail ty and the complexity of our times
suggest that. in spite of hopes
that strikes will not need to occur
within our community, wisdom
and prudence call lor some reievant concepts and poliCies from
the outset .))
((2)) (As an effective means of demonstrating moral commitment and
the courage 01 one's convictions,
a strike entails costs; those who
choose to strike must put something of value on the lina that they
choose to draw . Otherwise. a
strike readily degenerates into a
kl nd of hybrid - part party and
part parade with IIItie moral or intellectual rrntBnlng. II is for this
reason that Industrial workers do
without their pay when they. lor
explicit purposes. withhold their
labor.))

((To begin with, it is expected that
members of the Evergreen community
who come into conflict with one another will make a determined effort to
resolve their problems peacefully and
quietly by themselves. When unable to
work out their differences in this direct
fashion. then they may resort to informal mediation in which no records are
kept. no lormal bodies are convened ,
and no "law" need be (although It may
be) re'erred to other than the terms 01
this social contract. By mutual agreement, the parties to a dispute may call
In a third party
their own choice to
help them ; they may request counsel ing help from some other member of
the community; they may invite or accept intervention by one of the student
lacilitators , or they may select a mOderator from the community service list.
These possibilities are not at all exhaustive; the people in conflict can
choose any other method that Is mutually acceptable to help them clear up
their problems in a peaceful and quiet
fashion . The great majority of disputes
are expected to find resolution at this
inlormal level . and the obligation of the
community i s to insure the availability
of these kinds of methods .)

(13)) « Because there Is no reason for a

campus to enjoy exemptions from
these principled conditions, two
entailments follow : First. both as
an Institution and as a commun Ity. Evergreen has the rlghl to deny
pay and academic credit to its
members who participate In
strikes. second. that right Is balanced by an obllg.tion to accept
legally conducted strikes without
dismissing those who participate
In them.))
({4) ({ Difficulties here are more probable in connection with the denial
01 credit than with the denial of
pay. II striking students are able
to mee.t their fuli academic obligations. then the nolion of Evergreen
as a community of learners argues
against their having credit withheld . The judgment of program coordinators and of supervisors of
learning contracts has a central
and basic importance here; but
when program coordinators and
supervisors of contracts may also
have been involved In a strike.
then Ihe queatlon ariseS of the extent to which their judgment Is
uncontaminated and of how free
they may be from conflicts of interests. Specific and detailed proCedures must be developed to
cope with these contlngenclea.
but lhe basic means of arriving at
equitable decisions IU1I provided
by the sectlona on adjudication in
G~ce and Decision-Making
at EvergrMl'l.)
«WAC 174-124-070)) «(Judicial Action))

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((WAC 174-124-090)) (Formal Mediation - Community Service List))
«1)) «(When Informal processea fall to
produce satisfaction. then the parties to a dispute may, following
procedures outlined in Governance
and Decision-Making at Evergreen.
convene a jury from the community service list to decide the lsaue
before them. To convene the jury.
evidence musl be presented that
informal efforts at aeltlement have
been tried In a boNI fide w.y. The
task of the jury is essentially that
of mediation ; its functions are to
resolve a conflict. to provide
guidelines 'for the disputants to
consider in their luture conduct,
and to record lis opinion. Although
its judgment Is llnal. It has no
power to enforce its findings or to
penalize the party to Ihe conflict
whom it finds at lault If. Indeed,it
identifies ona of the disputants as
"wrong" in some sense.))
«2)) ({Only If, after such a jury decision. the conflict or dispute tlares
anew Is a board of judgment con vened. again 'rom the community
service lIat. with powers of enforcement and penalty. The board
is bound by the opinion
the
preceding jury. Its task is to deter·
mine whether lhat opinion has
been violated . to enforce Ihat opinIon Ind to apply suitable penalties
when necesaary. and to record Its
action.»)

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. (WAC 174-124-100)) (Appeal Procedure - Board of Judgment))
« If the action by the board 01 judgment
Is unsatisfactory. then an application
for appeal may be entered with the allcampus hearing board. The all-campus
hearing board may accept or reject the
appeal. If It accepts. then It has . the
power to review the original opinion of

the jury as willi IS to consider the actions by the board of judgmant. The
only appeal withi n the institution is by
petition to the Board of Trust_. The
Board of Trust_ may also. on ils own
motion. review the decision of the allcampus hearing board and affirm. m0dIfy, or reverse that deci sian .) )
«WAC 174 -124- 110)) «Off-,Campus
Offenses or Convictions - All -Campus
Hearing Board))
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«1)) ({There remains the problem
double Jurisdiction or the extent to
which the Evergreen community
may have an appropriate interest
in the Implications of offenses
that are ·committed outSide its
own precincts. This problem Is a
very real one. but the general principle is that , unless the nature of
the offense raises questions about
the suitability of the person ' s
membershi p in the Evergreen community . his payment of penaities
exacted by the general law of our
society absolves him from paying
additional penalties under the
rules of the college. This pOSition
' Is consistent with the 'act that Evergreen does not stand In loco
parentis. An additional entailment
of this stance, however, is that the
college cannot properly intervene
I n behalf of its members if and
when they come afoul of the general law . This position in no wa)
preciudes , of course, actions b~
individuals in their own name and
on their own responsibility ; such
actions fall within the inherent
rights of cltlzenshio fully recog nized by Evergreen .))

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«2)) «The question
a general community interest may be raised only
when members of the Evergreen
community have been convicted of
off-campus offenses . When , in the
light of such a convicllon , a member of .the Evergreen community
believes that the offender has , by
the nature of his offense, demonstrated a lack of fitness to con tinue as a student or an employee
01 the college, he may request in
writing a hearing on the issue by
the all-campus hearing board . Initiative rests entirely with the person who ia Involved.))
«3)) «(When hearings are requested,
they must, of course, be conducted
In public. If the finding of the allcampus hearing board Is unsatisfactory , then a petilion for appeal
may be flied with the Board of
Trustees
The Evergreen State
College. lithe appeal is accepted ,
tnen the hearing by the Board of
Trustees must be heid promptly
and in public with its decision being final . In accepting an appeal.
the Board may, however, appoint
a panel of hearing offlcars to take
lestimony which the Board will
then review In arriving at its decision. On its own motion, the
Board of Trustees may also review
any decision
the all-campus
hsaring board and afllrm , modify ,
or reverse that decision.))

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«WAC 174-124-120)) «Procedural Re view - Subsequent Modification of
Rules))
«1)) ((In both this statement of the Evergreen social contract and in
Governance and Decision-Making
at EverQfeen. a number
i":'lportant procedural clarifications are
stili necessary. Several members
of the present task force on the
social contract have expressed interest in help ing to formu lale
those procedures and to work
them out In the necessary greater
detail. II acceptable to the com munity. then the appropriate members of the task force and interested members of the Committee
on Governance could profitably
assemble to identify the problems
and to begin to ,'love toward their
speedy solull on.) ;
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analogous to those which brought
It Into being.))

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peld public notice
peId public notice

Public Hearing December 1
general law. to protKt Ita property
from damage end u~
u.. Ind Ita opet'IIting ~
from Interruption. At the _
time. It 1110 IllU8t guarantee the
right of the me,nbers of Itt community to be '-rd .t approprtate
Iftela of declllon- making with r.apec:t to bnlcmattars of policy
.nd other I...... of direct _ .

A second public hearing to continue
discussion on the proposed COG III
and begin discussion of the Social
Contract (below). will be held Dec . 1 at
2 p.m. i n CAB 110. All members of the
Evergreen community are encouraged
to attend .

Key
Unmarked ' Items are those left unchanged. «items in double parent heses are those to be removed .)) Items in
bold are new.
Draft of the Social Contract as revised
by the COG III DTF sub-committee
WAC 174-124 GENERAL CONDUCT
Social Contract .' Community Code of
Conduct
WA C 174-124-010 IntrOduction «_
Declarations of College Pol icy))
\Ill) t (In its life as a community , The

Evergreen State College requires a
soci al contract rather than a list of
speCific prohibitions and essenti ally negative rules . The contract,
open to modifi cations over time
and res ponsive to the changing circumstances sure to attend the ins tl tu tio n' s fu t ure , represents a
co mm itment by each one of us to
search l or the set of agreements
:h at defi ne the spirit that we are
try in g tog ether to engender at the
eel lege . tha t ind icate the condie 'ons that su pport the primary pur:'05es tor wh ich Evergreen was
. 3lied Into existence, and that
',oeel l y the principles under which
d ! of us can live together as civi'cad and decent people who share
I Ce often very difficult exc itements
0 1 learning, ))
:1 1 The Evergreen State College is an
association of people who worf(
together as learners and ' teachers.
Such a community can thrive only
if members r.specf the right. of
others while enjoying fheir own
rights. Students. facufty . edmlnls.
trators and staff mambers may
differ widely In their specific Inter·
ests . In the degrees and kinds of
experiences they bring to Evergreen. and In the functions which
they have agreed to perform. but
all must share alike In prizing academic and interpersonal honesty.
in responsibly obtaining and In
providing full and accurat. Information . and in resolving their differences through due proeHs and
with a strong will to collaboration.
In its life as a community The Evergreen State College requires a
social contract rather then I list of
specific prohibitions and assentlally negallv. rul.s .
I! 2))I (CIOsely related to governance
and oec ision-making at Evergreen ,
t h, s doc ument summarizes the
dl sc ussions to date of the con cerns affec ting the relationships
0 1 the members of the Evergreen
community to themselves, to each
other. to the college as an institu~,o~. an d to the larger society of
:. nlch Ihat instit uti on is necessarane Inescapably an agency. As
"' can'pa:t among peol-lle , thi s 5 0 ~ , ,, I co ntract calls for all associ",.o~ wi th Evergreen student s.
' ae 11 '/ and staff . and tru stees I:; b ' Signatories to It. Two is sues
" I a " raced ura l kind must be dealt
:n' h one has to do with the proc ess t', WhiC h mem bers of the commu r ,,\ , become signatories" ; the
'c, tn ~ , ;CJc u s~ s on the matte r of
tim ing .) )
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The individual members 01 the Evergreen community have the responsibility lor protecting each
other and vrsitors on campus from
ph ysical harm . from personal
threats . and from 'unclvll abuse.
Similariy . the Institution Is obligated . both by principle and by the

«(3)) «The suggestion offered here is
that the social contract ,' along with
governance and decision- making
at Evergreen. be published in the
catalog and that this publication
be accompanied by a statement
indicating that all persons who become affiliilted with the college as
students or as employees agree as
a condition of acceptance or employment to conduct themselves
according to the principles embodied in these documents. This
arrangement preciudes the necessity of collecting signilture cards
and
requiring the occasionally
distasteful signing of 'ormal
" oaths." ))

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(3)

As • community. Evergre.n .
through Its gov.manee structUnBII .
has both the right .nd the obligation to .stabllsh re••onabl••ttndards of conducl lor It. members In
order to "'eguard the p _ _
of laamlng. to provlda for the sal.
ty
Its members. to protect the
Investm.nt of the peopl. of the
State of Washington In its properties. and to Insura • suitable respect for tha very dlff.rent tasf.s
and senslbllltl.. 01 lis members .
For th.se rea.ons. the I.w .mpowers the Pr.aident or Presidential designees to Intercede whenever sound judgment polnta to a
clear and present danger to these
concerns.

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«4) ) «( On the matter
timing . the rec·
ommendation submitted at this
point is that the social contract be
accepted as the basis 'or the college 's operations during 1971 1972, a year during which further
discussions can be held with respect to its spirit, its principillS.
and its language. With its publication in the catalog 'or 1972-1973.
the 'orce of its contractual impll·
cations becomes official. Patterned
in this manner, .x post feeto considerations 'are avoided, and all of
those prasenlly on the Evergreen
campus will have the necessary
and appropriate chance to react to
considerable impora statement
tance to them but which was not
available for their consideration
prior to their joining the college
community .) )
14) Each member 01 the community
must prolecl: (.) the fundamental
rights of others In the community
as cltlz.ns . (b) the right 01 each
member In the c~munlty 10 pursue different leamlngobjecthres
wlthlhe limits d.flned by Evergreen's curriculum or resourcea In
people. material I. equipment and
monay. (c) the rlghta and obligations of Evergreen la an In.tltution eltabllshed by the Staf. of
Washlnglon . and (d)lndlvldual
rights to fair and equltabte procedu_ when the Institution acts
to protect the safety of Its mambers.
WAC 174-124-020 «Basic Purposes
-Individual Responsibility of Members
of the College Community))

pili. In WhIcti It Ia '-led. FIQIII thI.
..... of .ft.... flow certain rIghta lor
the ~ of the E"'II_ community. -'lIn QOIIdItloN of campus
life. 8ftd certaI,n obligations,

(1) (The Evergreen State Collage Is
an association 01 people who
come together to leem and to help
each other learn,. Such a communIty of learners can tl)rlve only If
each member respects the rights
of othera while enjoying hia own
rights. II dependa heavily on • network of mutual trust and an atmoaphere of civility ; and it grows
in Its human utility only If each of
Its members llvea up to the responsibilities for honesty. lairness. tolerance. and · the giving 01
his best efforts as those effoRs
are entailed by his membership.
Students. faculty. admlnlstratora,
and staff members may differ
widely in their specific Interests,
in the degrees and kinds of experience they bring to Evergreen. and
in the functions which they have
agreed to ,perform. But all must
share alike in prizing academ ic and
interpersonal honesty. in responsibly obtaining and in providing
full and accurate information . and
i n resolving Iheir differences
through due process and with a
strong will to collaboration .))
(1)

Among the be.lc rfghts .re freedom of speech. freedom of the
P_s. freedom of peacelul
bly and ...oclatlon. freedom of
belief. and freedom from Intimidation. vlol.nee .nd .buse.
(2)) « These considerations directly
imply the necessity of an organized structure to achieve the goals
of more effective learning , a system of governance that encourages
widespread participation In Ihe
making
college decisions (See
Governance and Decision-Making
at Evergreen , statement of 10June,
1971). and a 'ull awareness on the
part of every member of the community
how his behavior Influences the climate and the spi rit of
the campus . If the spirit and climate
the college are to promote
learning most effectively, then
each member of the community
must protect In an active. thought ful . and concerned way :

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(c)

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the fundamental rights of
others in the community as
citizens.
the right of each member of
the community to pursue
different learning objectives
within the limits defined by
Evergreen' s resources In
people, materials and equipment. and monay.
the rights and obligations of
Evergreen as an institution
established by the State of
Washington. and
the rights of all members of
the community to fair and
equ·ltable procedures for determining how , when. and
against whom the commun ity must act when Its safety
or its integrity has been
damaged.)

Even more important , however , is
the requirement, difficult to define
and impossible to legislate, that
each member 01 the Evergreen
community concern himself with
how the college can become a
more productive, more humane,
and more supportive, place in
which 10 learn. This requirement
entails an explicit and continuing
cons ideration of the delicate balances in the reiatlonshlp 01 the
members of the Evergreen community .to each other and to the

Individual Rights of M"mbers of
lhe Evergreen Community
Members of the Everg'reen community
recognize that the college Is part of the
larger society 8S represented by the
State of Washington. which funds It.
and by the community of grealer Olym-

......... 01 PIIbItc .... iIfIoaIlO8
cannot be properly ..... In _ _•

institution Itsell.»
(2)

There,.., be no ~1IIInatIon at
E"'II_ willi . NapeCf to_.
_ . rellgloui! or political bel.., or
riatIonaI 0IfgIn

willi reepect to adml.. ton • ......,,_t or . . - lion. To " - end the Col", ....
acIoptacI an effJrma.... action polIcy ("""'108 ~ AdmlnfatratlveCOde WAC 174,;141 Human
Rlghtt PoIICj, Equat Opportunity
PoIlcJ.nd Alflm.tlw ActIon Prognam),
(3)

«3)) «Freedom of the presa Implies the
right to lreedom lrom c;enaorehlp
In carnpua '-Ipapers and other
i118di•. Concomitantly. SUCh pl/bllcatlons IU1I subject to the uauaJ
canonll of responslbla joumatlam.
to .the 1_ of the ~. and to the
same .condltlonll 01 ..1I. miIlritenence that apply to other lonna of
public coinrnunlcatlon.))
(3)

BecauM the ·E,.,...... -nmunlty
I. pert of the 1e'V8l' aocIeIy. the
campua la not a
from
the general law or InvuI. . . . . to
geMnsl public opinion,

1MCtue"

(4)

Th. EvergrHn community 'wlll
.upport the 110M of Itt .........,.
IndlYlclually or In.groupe to upnsaa
1cIeeI, judtmenta .nd optntorw In
,peach or writing. The n •• 1biwa of
the communIty. " - "••i. obligated to make .tatementa In their
own .., . . and not .. expresaIoiIs
on betialf of the Collage.

All membera 01 the Collage community haft· the right to organlz.
their penonel 1'- and conduct
accoidlng to their own vallMS .nd
prelerences. with an approprlat.
respect lor the rIohtt of others to
.. organize t .... r 11_ dillerantly.

(5)

(6)

EV'rgreen does not llend In loco
for Itl members.

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The right to u.. the mediation and
edjudlcatlon proceaa I. anjoyed by
all members of the Everg_ c0mmunity. (ref.-: WAC-174-1~
060 Medlltlon and Adjudication of
Dlsput.s. Grl.v.nc.s Ind Appeals).

WAC 174-124-030 ((Individual Rights
of Members of the Evergreen Community))
Conditions of Leamlng .
Freedom - Privacy - H_ty
«1)) « Members of the Evergreen community recognize that the college
is inherently and Inescapably a
part of the larger society as represented by the State of Washington . which funds It. and by the
community of greater Olympia. in
which It is located. From this state
of affairs flow certain rights for
the members of the Evergreen
community . certain conditions of
campus life, and certain obligations.))
(1)

Evergreen's members live under •
apect.1 set of rfght • •nd neapollSlbllltI... loremoat among which II
thato!' enjoyIng full freedom to
explore Ideal Ind to dl-.... their
explonatlona In both apeec:h .nd
print without let or hindrance. Both
In.tltutlonal.nd Individual canlOrIhlps .r. at v.rlanee wtth this
basic freedom. R_n:I1 or other
Int,"ectual efforta. the neaulta 01
which must be kept secret or may
ba used only lor the benefit 01 •
specl.1 Intelftt group. alao violate
the principle of free Inquiry.

«2)) «Among the basic rights are freedom of speech, 'reedom of the
press, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of
belief . and freedom from personal
force and violence. from threats of
violence, and from personal
abuse.))
(2)

All members of the EvergrMl'l community are entitled to privacy In
lhe coIlege's offices. facilities devoted to educational programs. and
housing. The 88ma right 01 privacy
extends to personal pepera. confld.ntl.1 records ••nd peraonal
leet.. whether malntslned by the
IndIvidual or by the Institution.

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All .........01 the E',,_t c0mmunity enjoy the right to . . end
to paltlclpete In pUblic ..........
to ~t ~ on ... campua.
.nd .to engage In peacafuI demonatratlone. R.... ao ...... end Impartl· .
.lIy applied Iii... inaJ be Mt with
reepect to time. pIaw and .... of
Ev.tg_ Iaclllt'" In . . . . actIv.

It....
({4)) {(There may be no diacrlmlnatlon
at Evergreen with respect to race.
sex. rellgloua or political belief. or
national origin with reapect to admlss ;on. employment . or promotion.))
(4)

H_ty I• •n ..aent... condition

((6)) «(The Evergreen community will

support the right 01 Its members.
Individually or in groups . to ex·
press ideas, judgments . and opinIons, in speech or writing . The
members of the community; however; are obligated to make their
statements in their own names
and not as expressions of the col lege.)
(6)

R.llted to ",Is point Is the way
In which civility II a fundamental
condition of leemlng. Only If minority and unpopular poInta
vfew .r. ac:corded neapect. ar. lIa ·
tened to. 8ftd .na given lull oppor·
tunity for exp....ton will Ever·
grMl'l provide bona fide opportun1t
es lor significant I_mlng.

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«7») ( Each member of the college
community has the right to organize his own personal life and conduct according to his own vaiues
and preferences so iong as his actions accord with t!le general law ,
are In keeping with agreements
voluntarily entered into, evince an
appropriate respect for the rights
of others to organize their lives
differently , and advance (or at least
do not Interfere wit!!) the community-wide purpose of more effective
learning . In short. Evergreen does
not stand In loco parentis for lis
members.))
(7) All members of lhe Evergreen community lhould strive to prevent the
financial. political. or olliei' explolt.tlDn 01 the campus by any
1~lvldual or group.
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«1) (As a community of people who
have come together to learn and to
help one another to learn more effectiVely. Evergreen'a member1llive
under a spec!11 eet 01 rlghta and
responaibillties. Foremost among
these rights Is that 01 enloying full
freedom to explore the nature and
Implications of ldell. to generate
new Ideas. and to dlacuss their explorations and discoveries In both
speech and print without let or
hindrance. Both Institutional censorship and Intoleranoa by individuals or groups era at a variance
with this basic freedom. By a similar token. res.rch or other intellectual efforts. the ntSults of which
must be kept secret or may be
used only for the benefit of a special Intereat group. also violate the
principle of free Inquiry.))
(1)

AI.n lnatltutlon. Ewrg.........
the obligatIon to provide en operI
fonam for the ~ of Ita c0mmunIty to . . - t .nd to debete
public
to consider the
probI.m. of the college. and to
serve aa • rnechenllm 01 wldeIpread liwotvement In the IIf. of
the larger community.

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«2)) {(Serious thought and learning entail privacy. Although human accessibility Is a basic value. and although meetings of public signifIcance cannot properly be held in
secret. all members of the Evergreen community are entitled to
privacy in tl)e college's offices.
faclli ties devoted to educational
programs. and housing. The same
right of privacy elCtands to personal papers. confidential records.
and personal effecta. whether
maintained by the Individual or by
the institution.))

The college has the obligation to
prohibit the _
01 Itt name. Ita
flnancaa ••nd Itt facilltlea for com~I purpoMl.
«(3») (IAII members of the Evergreen
community enjoy the right to hold
and to participate In public meetinga. to postnoticea on the campus. and to engage In peaceful
demonstrations. In order to protect
the safety 01 the community end
to reapect the equal rights of thoae
who choose not to partlcl pale.
nsasonable and Impartl.lly applied
rulea. following established procedures of governance (See Governance and Declllon- Maklng at
Evergieen). may be set with respect to tlma. pl_ and use of
Evergreen facilities In these actlvities _»

(2)

E"'II_.... the right to prohibit Individual. end g~ who
.re not members of Ita communIty flQlll uatng Ita _ . Ita 11nanclal or other _ . and Ita
faclUtlee for commerclel. religious.
or polItical ectIvIt....
((4)) ((Honeaty Is an essential condi tion of learning. Honesty Includes
(although it i8 not limited to) the
presentation of only one'8 own
work In ona's own name. the full
conalderation 01 evidence and logIc even wlI8n they contradict a
chertahed personal point of view.
and lhe recognition - Insofar as
It Is humanly posalble - of b l _
and pfejudices In oneaeli as one
81r1_ to become • more effective
leiImer.))

(3)

(4)

The college Ia oblige'" not to
.... a poaItIon. _ an l ..tItutIort.
In electoral poIItIca or on public
I..- except for tIioee mettens
whIcti dll'IICtIy affect Ita integrity.
the freedom 01 the IMI'IIbers 01 Ita
Ita CDmI'IIUnIty. Ita IINncIeI . .port. end Ita _ _ tIoIlII ~.
At the _
lime.
the obligation to lUPPort .the right
of Ita COIIIiNRty'a . . - - . . to
......... cItImnI 01 the ........

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WAC 174-124-040 «Conditions of
leeming - Freedom PrIvacy
Honesty))

of leeming, H_ty Inclucln the
presentation of only __I own

work In one'a own name. the full
consideration 01 evIdeMe and log.
Ic. end lhe ..cognition of bI....
.nd pnsJudlcee In oneeaIf.
((5)) (Because the Evergreen communIty is not separate or segregated
from the larger society . the cam' _.pus Is not a sanctuary from the
general law or invulnerable to the
general public interest. The members of the Evergreen community
are therefore obligated to deal with
the relationship between the campus and the larger society with
balance of forthrightness and sensitivity. criticism and respect. and
an appreciation of the complexities of social change and personal
differences.))
(5) Another ealenU.1 condition of
leemlng la the 'ull freedom .nd
rlghl on the pert 01 Individuals and
groupe to the .xpreaaton 01 minorIty. unpopuler. or controv.,al.1
poInta of view.
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Social Contract Drawn Up
1OCiety. In polItical affalra. In any
way thet they ,.., elect within the
prowI8Iori of the ...... law,
{(5)) « Anolher .....tlal condition of
learning is the full lreedom and
right on the part of individuals 8i1d
groups to the expresalon of mi nority. unpopular. or contrOY8i1li.1
points of view. If the Evergreen
communlty ,la to prove valuable to
all Ita members. this right must be
especially cherished. particularly
when lhe predominan't current of
opinion. regardless of Its character or Its content. runs strong.))
({iI)) «Related to thill point Is Ihe way
In which civility is a fundamental
condition of learning. Only if minority and unpopular points of
view are accorded respect. are liatened to. and are given full opportunity for expression will Evergreen
provide bona fide opportunities for
significant learning as opposed to
preasures. subtle or overt. to ride
the main tides 01 purely contemporary opinion.))
((7)) {(All members 01 the Evergreen
community - etudents. staff, faculty, administrators. trust_. and
all others - are under an obligation to protect the Integrity of Evergreen as a community of learners from externel and Intemal attacks. and to prevent the financial,
political. or other exploitation of
the campus by any Individual or
group.)
WAC 174-124-050 «Institutional Rights
and Obligations))
Procedural RevIew - SubHquellt
Modification of
the SocIal Contrect
Thla document ahall be revIewad with
each review 01 the Covenant on Gov-

ernance.

(1») ({As an institution, Evergreen has '
lhe obligation to provide an open
forum for the members of Its community to p.r8sent and to debate
public issues. to consider the
problems of the college. and to
serve aa a mechanism of widespread Involvemant In the Ille of
the community. (See Governance
and Decision-Making It Evergreen.
sections on the College Forum
and on the College Sounding
Board.»)
.
«(2)) «The college has the obligation to
prohibit the use of Its nama. its
finances. and Its laclllllea for commercial purpoaes.))
((3)) (( EvergrMl'l hie the right to prohibit Individuals and groups who
are not members 01 this communIty from using Its nama. ita financial or other resources. and Ita
fecllities lor commercial. rellgiou8.
or political activities. This right Is
balanced by an obligation to formUlate and 10 administer its polIcies In this regard in an evenhanded manner.))
«4)) ({The college · ia obligated not to
take ' a position. aa an Institution.
In electoral politics or on public
issuea except f9r those matters
which directly affect Its Integrity.
the lreedom of the mambers of Its
community. its financi.I support.
and Its educational programs. At
the same tima. Evergreen has the
obligation to aupport the right of
Its communlty's mambers to en gage. as citizens of the larger soclety. In polilical affairs. in any
way thet they may elecl within the
provision of the general law.»
({5)) The Individual members of the
Evarg~ community have the responsibility for prolectlng eech
olher end vlsltora on campua from
phYllcal h.rm. from personal
th,..ta. and lrom uncivil abuse.
Similarly. the Inltltutlon ia obligated. both by principle and by the
general law. to protect Ita property
from damage and unauthorized
use and Ita operating proceasea
from InlerTVptlon. At the same
tI me. It alao muat guaranlee the
right 01 the members of 1t8 corn-

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munlty to be heard .t appropriate
levels of decision-making with respect to baalc matters 01 policy
and other Isall8l of direct Concern.
As a community . Evergreen.
through Ita governance structurea.
hie bolh the right and the obligation to establish reasonable standaids of conduct for Ita 'members In
order to safeguard Ihe procea_
of learning. to provide lor the
salety of Its members. to protect
the Investment 01 the people of
the State of Wsahlngton In Its
properties. and to inaure a suitable
respect lor Ihe very dillarent Iastes
and sensibilities of Its members.
For these reasons. lhe law empowera the President or his designees to Intercede whenever, in his
(or their) judgment, a clear and
present danger to these concerns
exista.))

({Although the mechanisms of ault and
litigation IU1I obviously essentl.1 at Evergreen . they represent the last nsaort
within a viable community. In Ihla social contract among Evergreen's members, our concern Is leas on government.1 and policy-oriented issues.
which Ire covered primarily by Governance and Declalon-Maklng at Evergreen. and more on the personal ralslIonshlps among Its members and between various groups. both formal Ind
Informal. Ihat may coma into axlstenee.
In these realms of human relationships,
Judicial action Is a less desirable way
of resolving difficulties in a genuine
community than are more Informal
methods of mediation. The processes
outlined here touch . therefore, on three
levels of conflict-resolution : informal
madlatlon. formal mediation. formal arbitration and enforcemenl, and. where
necessary . a means of appeaL))

«WAC 174-124-060») «The Issue of
Strikes - Boycotts - Sanctions»)

(WAC 174-124-080») «Informal Medlalion) )

((1)) «The strike. Including such variant
procedu res as the boycott and the
.prolonged demonstration . has
been formally institutionalized in
Industrial society as one means of
. effecting change. It is recognized
by law. has generated its own official personnel. and operates according to relatively common understandings. Because the strike
bases Itself in adversary rather
than collaborative relationships. it
is an inappropriate means of seekIng change at Evergreen . Neverth&less. an awareness of human frail ty and the complexity of our times
suggest that. in spite of hopes
that strikes will not need to occur
within our community, wisdom
and prudence call lor some reievant concepts and poliCies from
the outset .))
((2)) (As an effective means of demonstrating moral commitment and
the courage 01 one's convictions,
a strike entails costs; those who
choose to strike must put something of value on the lina that they
choose to draw . Otherwise. a
strike readily degenerates into a
kl nd of hybrid - part party and
part parade with IIItie moral or intellectual rrntBnlng. II is for this
reason that Industrial workers do
without their pay when they. lor
explicit purposes. withhold their
labor.))

((To begin with, it is expected that
members of the Evergreen community
who come into conflict with one another will make a determined effort to
resolve their problems peacefully and
quietly by themselves. When unable to
work out their differences in this direct
fashion. then they may resort to informal mediation in which no records are
kept. no lormal bodies are convened ,
and no "law" need be (although It may
be) re'erred to other than the terms 01
this social contract. By mutual agreement, the parties to a dispute may call
In a third party
their own choice to
help them ; they may request counsel ing help from some other member of
the community; they may invite or accept intervention by one of the student
lacilitators , or they may select a mOderator from the community service list.
These possibilities are not at all exhaustive; the people in conflict can
choose any other method that Is mutually acceptable to help them clear up
their problems in a peaceful and quiet
fashion . The great majority of disputes
are expected to find resolution at this
inlormal level . and the obligation of the
community i s to insure the availability
of these kinds of methods .)

(13)) « Because there Is no reason for a

campus to enjoy exemptions from
these principled conditions, two
entailments follow : First. both as
an Institution and as a commun Ity. Evergreen has the rlghl to deny
pay and academic credit to its
members who participate In
strikes. second. that right Is balanced by an obllg.tion to accept
legally conducted strikes without
dismissing those who participate
In them.))
({4) ({ Difficulties here are more probable in connection with the denial
01 credit than with the denial of
pay. II striking students are able
to mee.t their fuli academic obligations. then the nolion of Evergreen
as a community of learners argues
against their having credit withheld . The judgment of program coordinators and of supervisors of
learning contracts has a central
and basic importance here; but
when program coordinators and
supervisors of contracts may also
have been involved In a strike.
then Ihe queatlon ariseS of the extent to which their judgment Is
uncontaminated and of how free
they may be from conflicts of interests. Specific and detailed proCedures must be developed to
cope with these contlngenclea.
but lhe basic means of arriving at
equitable decisions IU1I provided
by the sectlona on adjudication in
G~ce and Decision-Making
at EvergrMl'l.)
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«1)) «(When Informal processea fall to
produce satisfaction. then the parties to a dispute may, following
procedures outlined in Governance
and Decision-Making at Evergreen.
convene a jury from the community service list to decide the lsaue
before them. To convene the jury.
evidence musl be presented that
informal efforts at aeltlement have
been tried In a boNI fide w.y. The
task of the jury is essentially that
of mediation ; its functions are to
resolve a conflict. to provide
guidelines 'for the disputants to
consider in their luture conduct,
and to record lis opinion. Although
its judgment Is llnal. It has no
power to enforce its findings or to
penalize the party to Ihe conflict
whom it finds at lault If. Indeed,it
identifies ona of the disputants as
"wrong" in some sense.))
«2)) ({Only If, after such a jury decision. the conflict or dispute tlares
anew Is a board of judgment con vened. again 'rom the community
service lIat. with powers of enforcement and penalty. The board
is bound by the opinion
the
preceding jury. Its task is to deter·
mine whether lhat opinion has
been violated . to enforce Ihat opinIon Ind to apply suitable penalties
when necesaary. and to record Its
action.»)

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. (WAC 174-124-100)) (Appeal Procedure - Board of Judgment))
« If the action by the board 01 judgment
Is unsatisfactory. then an application
for appeal may be entered with the allcampus hearing board. The all-campus
hearing board may accept or reject the
appeal. If It accepts. then It has . the
power to review the original opinion of

the jury as willi IS to consider the actions by the board of judgmant. The
only appeal withi n the institution is by
petition to the Board of Trust_. The
Board of Trust_ may also. on ils own
motion. review the decision of the allcampus hearing board and affirm. m0dIfy, or reverse that deci sian .) )
«WAC 174 -124- 110)) «Off-,Campus
Offenses or Convictions - All -Campus
Hearing Board))
.

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«1)) ({There remains the problem
double Jurisdiction or the extent to
which the Evergreen community
may have an appropriate interest
in the Implications of offenses
that are ·committed outSide its
own precincts. This problem Is a
very real one. but the general principle is that , unless the nature of
the offense raises questions about
the suitability of the person ' s
membershi p in the Evergreen community . his payment of penaities
exacted by the general law of our
society absolves him from paying
additional penalties under the
rules of the college. This pOSition
' Is consistent with the 'act that Evergreen does not stand In loco
parentis. An additional entailment
of this stance, however, is that the
college cannot properly intervene
I n behalf of its members if and
when they come afoul of the general law . This position in no wa)
preciudes , of course, actions b~
individuals in their own name and
on their own responsibility ; such
actions fall within the inherent
rights of cltlzenshio fully recog nized by Evergreen .))

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«2)) «The question
a general community interest may be raised only
when members of the Evergreen
community have been convicted of
off-campus offenses . When , in the
light of such a convicllon , a member of .the Evergreen community
believes that the offender has , by
the nature of his offense, demonstrated a lack of fitness to con tinue as a student or an employee
01 the college, he may request in
writing a hearing on the issue by
the all-campus hearing board . Initiative rests entirely with the person who ia Involved.))
«3)) «(When hearings are requested,
they must, of course, be conducted
In public. If the finding of the allcampus hearing board Is unsatisfactory , then a petilion for appeal
may be flied with the Board of
Trustees
The Evergreen State
College. lithe appeal is accepted ,
tnen the hearing by the Board of
Trustees must be heid promptly
and in public with its decision being final . In accepting an appeal.
the Board may, however, appoint
a panel of hearing offlcars to take
lestimony which the Board will
then review In arriving at its decision. On its own motion, the
Board of Trustees may also review
any decision
the all-campus
hsaring board and afllrm , modify ,
or reverse that decision.))

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«WAC 174-124-120)) «Procedural Re view - Subsequent Modification of
Rules))
«1)) ((In both this statement of the Evergreen social contract and in
Governance and Decision-Making
at EverQfeen. a number
i":'lportant procedural clarifications are
stili necessary. Several members
of the present task force on the
social contract have expressed interest in help ing to formu lale
those procedures and to work
them out In the necessary greater
detail. II acceptable to the com munity. then the appropriate members of the task force and interested members of the Committee
on Governance could profitably
assemble to identify the problems
and to begin to ,'love toward their
speedy solull on.) ;
((2)) «This document Is subject to review and change by processes
analogous to those which brought
It Into being.))

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Review: Behind the Front
by Stan Shore
In Ihe fiflies , before most of
I,'day 's college s tudents were

born , this country suffered
through a bad case of Red fever,
known as McCarthyism. In politics, education and the entertainment world , a person suspected of being a communist or
sympathetic to communism was
discredi ted and disc rim ina ted
against. Now, from the dark side
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think that Allen could be funnier
and more appealing if left to his
own resources.
But as the film develops, Price
becomes a front for the writers
not only in a literal, bu t also in
a psychological sense. A blacklisted comedian, Hecky Green,
tries in an interview to excuse his
leftist political activities by saying that he did it only to get
laid. Price, ironically , contributes
to a socialist pamphleteer for just
that reason .
By the end oE' the film, wearing the heavy robes of martyrdom, Price valiantly resists the
probing questions of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities . Allen is not able to make
the thinly written script convincing . He delivers his emotional
lines as if they were deadpan
jokes, to be told in an off-thecuff style.
But inside this seriously flawed
and pretentious film starring
Woody Allen, there is another
much better film hiding. Zero
Mastel, who plays Green, seems
to be from a different, better,
and more severe film. As a pathetic, depressed comic who cannot find work, Mostel performs
with more intensity in one scene
than Allen displays in the whole
movie.
MostI'I plays the part with everything he has, and the script
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and horror of blacklisting fully
revealed, without the patronizing
humor that marks so much of
the film . .
When Mostel's part in the
movie ends, the film itself seems
to have quickly peaked. It lingers
on for fifteen minutes more and
the plot reaches its predictable
climax. The energy of the film,
however, is gone long before the
hst scene.
The film is not all that bad; it
is just not what it could have
been . It is not even as good as
another recent political propaganda film, All the President's
Men . Every care has been taken
to get technical details right. The
plot unfolds neatly . There are no
long sermons or blatant political
ramifications. The Front is inadequate because - except for Mostel's role - it lacks the courage
and anger of its convictions.
McCarthyism was fascism. In the
film Hecky Green is lost in frustration at what is happening to
him. He pleads, lies, acts tough,
and acts paranoid in succession
trying to find a release for his
anger .
After watching The Front one
has " sense of that frustration .
One feels the writer and director
of the film wanted to say:
"Those network bastards should
be cut up into a thousand small
pieces, burned, and their ashes
scattered." Then, they realized
they might sound too vehement
so they toned their story down.
But it is toned down too
much. Herschel Bernardi, Zero
Mastel and Woody Allen all
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Overly aware that a new generation has grown up since the McCarthy era, The Front condescends to its audience. Much of
the dialogue has the stilted tone
of a propaganda film.
Herschel Bernardi and Zero
Mostel play two of the main
roles in the film and they were
both blacklisted in the fifties. So
were writer Walter Bernstein and
director Martin RitL The
tragedy of the film is that because all four are professionals
they have made an overly professional film.
Perhaps it would not have
been so bad if the film had been
able to be unremittingly vindictive. In Z and State of Seige, for
instance, Director Costa Gravas
created films which were infused
with fierce political anger. The
Front, although it had every reason to be pointed, instead fluctu·
ated between anger and humor.
It was as if the makers of the
film were uncomfortable with
their own bitterness.
The choice of Woody Allen to
play Howard Price is indicative
of the uncertain purpose of the
film. Allen plays the part of a
part-time bookie who fronts for
some writers who have been
blacklisted for their pro-communist views. That is, the television networks refuse to accept
any of the material these writers
write and Allen, as Price, lends
his name to the material. Before
long, Price is the most sought after writer in Hollywood .
A lthough it has been widely
billed as Allen's first dramatic
role, it is not. It is not a 100 %
serious role. In the segments that
are serious, Allen acts the same

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by Lynda Barry
It all depends on what you
want coupled with what you got.
Really. And if you are looking
for a steamy-windowed homey
sort of Thanksgiving with a
home-cooked an inclusive spread,
hot spiced wine and some friendly
rollicking folksinging with banjo
accompaniment; if you want to
. pet the wandering dogs and children, and after the feast kick up
your heels in a soul-fusing dance
with ' your brothers and sisters,
don't look at me. Don't read
much further either. Call all the
co-op households you can and
find out if anyone knows any- .
thing abciut a Thanksgiving potluck and for godssakes go. Don't
sit in your room with a Swanson
TV dinner if you really want to
be steQpen out with the candied
yams. It's easy as hell to get invited somewhere .
However, if the home scene is
not exactly what you want this
year '- if you've always wanted
to give the Thanksgiving spirit a
good kick in the ass, this story is
for you. Have a cathartic Thanksgiving and release the dangerous
filial frustrations that so often
lead to cruel and unusual treatment of pets and countless other
socially embarrassing acts . Start
with $13, a friend with the same,
a camera, and a car with a full
tank. Start with a phone call to
Mom telling her you just can't
make it. Think of all the years
past when they made you watch
the cousins under eight. When
they made you convince your
drunk Uncle George to stop kicking the record player. When you
had to wait an eternity to eat
while Auntie Babe and Auntie
Alice fought over who was going
to drive back and get the forgotten hot rolls. And never forget
that nasty green cake Aunt Carol
made you eat at every goddam
family get- together.
Warm up the Camero. Lean
low and drive slow to the Westside parking lot. Your act of rebirth begins here, with your
friend, with your camera.
Walk into the meat section at
Foodtown and pick up a frozen
turkey. Pose. Have your buddy
take your picture. In the canned
vegetable section, hold up a can
of pumpkin pie filling, hold up
cranberry sauce . Pose. Have
'your pal. pose. Pose with your
favorite vegetable, with your
favorite dessert _ Take pictures of
all the food you would have
eaten if you were at home or
with some of your less tormented

friends. Pictoral documentation
is important on this, your own
Bicentennial Thanksgiving. It is
important because when you
later talk about it with your
friends, they will not believe
you. Take photos when necessary.
Go back to the car, hit Eagan's
and order a Big T. Think about
how cool you must look eating a
burger in the parking lot on
Thanksgiving Day.
While you are there, try to
decide exactly where to have
Thanksgiving dinner. It is necessary to eat at a restaurant - but
there are enough options in
Olympia to see you through a
chocolate banana malt and a side
of fries while you think about it.
Most places begin serving at
noon - a list of some of the
restaurants in and around the
Olympia area will be provided at
the end of this article, but for
many of us there are only two
choices - The Spar and the Rib
Eye . I will not try to disguise the
fact that my love for both of
these places is unbounded, yes even . winged. Winged love fills
these ribs whenever I hear the
names but softly spoken. This
odyssey may be of absolutely no
value t.o you if you've never in
your life eaten at either place.
The Rib Eye has bird from
noon till 8 p.m. at $2 .65 a shot .
They have Shake Your Boodie
on the jukebox . They have the
nicest goddamn waitress in
town . The Rib Eye is a constant
mother to me. It is open 24
hours a day, offers a spectacular
bar rush, and has such a melancholy I beautiful feeling to it that
two of my dear friends actually
held their wedding reception
there.
This is where the true Thanksgiving spirit lurks. Bring plenty
of quarters. Play or '55, Livin'
in the USA, and Showdown.
Play Fame, Out of Time, and,
for a laugh , Anniversary Waltz .
Put in four bits and push the
Golden Bar. ' Leave a $2 tip and
head out .
But drive slow. Stop at the 711 and play pinball six times .
Buy a comic book. Buy a cola
Siurpee. Read the comic book
while you drink your cola Slurpee and play pinball six times.
Have your pitture taken. Nod
politely as you leave and go to
the Sea Mart parking lot .
Bliss Kolb once told me while
we were trying to think of the
absolute worst thing to do in the
world, that he knew in his heart

of hearts t he absolute worst
thing in the world would be to
spread some a luminum fo il out
in the Sea Mart parking lot and
sit on it for a long time. Don't
get out of your car but look out
the window and imagine sitting
on aluminum foil right out there
in the lot. Think about it for five
minutes. Now drive to all the
places you know for a fact will
be closed and try the doors .
Some places not to miss: Brotherhood Tavern, Brown Derby,
Pat's Bookery, Salvation Army,
Mark-It, Hand H Shoes and
Modern Shoe Repair . By now it
should be about four p.m.
The next thing you must do
will blow your socks off . Drive
to the Westside Lanes . It is there
you will bowl. A bowling alley
on a big holiday has never failed
to amaze me since my parents'
divorce . Mom needed catharsis
herself one Thanksgiving and
while on our way to Auntie Lita's
and Uncle George' s, my younger
brother Mark suggested we bowl
instead . To our shock Mother
agreed and we bowled on
Thanksgiving Day. The lanes
were packed. They were packed
on Xmas and packed on New
Year's Day. This was in Seattle,
but I'm sure nothing turns Olympians on like holiday bowling.
Know your shoe size and fake
the scoring. It's the violent action
of the ball screaming down the
gutter that you need. Throw '
mostly gutter balls. Throw all
gutter balls. Play until you feel
better abou t life .
Head toward The Spar. Can it
ever be comprehended by Man
or God1 I doubt it . I've never
loved a place the way I love The
Spar. Will all The Spar regulars
come? The woman with the Big
round earrings7 The Qld couple
who always share their meals7
Will my favorite waitress Shirley
be there7 Ken Brooks will be
cooking. The folks at The Spar
are our true family.
Sit at the counter. For total rebirth to take place you must sit
at the counter. Order one
Thanksgiving dinner and split it
with your friend (it should be no
more than $3.50). Eat slow and
pay attention to all the folks
who hit The Spar on Thanksgiving night. After paying your
meal, leave all the $$$ you have
left minus the money it will take
you to get into the Capitol Theatre .
Drive to the Capitol Theatre. I
know it's walking distance from

EventsArEit~

FILMS
Friday , November 19
SEDUCTION OF MIMI A rowdy
po li tical! sexual farce. written and
direcled by Una Wertmuller, and
s tar ring Gianca rlo Giannini and
Mariangelo Melato . Considered by
many critics to be Wertmuller's
best film . With: THE CASE OF
THE MUKINESE BATTLEHORN , a
very funny short subject in the abs urd Goon Show tradition. with
Peter Sellers and Spike Mi ll,igan .
Presented by the Friday Nile Fitm
Series. LH One. 3. 7 and 9:30 p.m.
75 cenfs.
Monday, November 22, and Tuesday, November 23
FIGHTtNG FOR OUR LIVES A
widely-acclaimed documentary on
the Uniled Farm Workers. nominated for Best Documentary in the
t976 Academy Awards. The footage
contains plenty of blatanl police
brutality . Members of the Seattle
UFW will speak fol low ing Ihe film.
Presented by EPIC (Evergreen Politica l Information Center). LH One.
Monday, 7: 30 p. m. , Tu esday ,
noon. FREE.
Wednesday . December 1
THREE SISTERS (165 min.) Laurence Olivier directed and stars in
this critically-acc laimed film of AnIon Chekov's play. Stranded in a
provinc ial garrison town, the Ihree
daughters of an army general long
for the time when they can return
to the glittering Moscow of their
youth. Critics have praised Olivier's
performance, as usual, and Alan
Bates and Joan Plowrig ht are excell ent as wel l. Presented to the
supporting academic programs by
the Academic Film Series. LH One,
1:30 and 7:30 p.m. FREE .
IN OLYMPIA
THE RETURN OF A MAN
CALLED HORSE This sequel starring Richard Harris is even bloodier
and has more torture and violence
than its predecessor. Ch ildren 's
matinees Saturday and Sunday af·
ternoons. Capilol Theatre, 357-7161.
THE ADVENTURES OF THE WIL·
DERNESS FAMILY Rated G. Olym·
piC Theatre. 357-3422.

IN OLYMPIA
Friday , November 19
JOHN LOVES MARY . a three-act
comedy by Norman Krasna . Presented by the Olympia Liltle Theater, 1925 E. Miller Avenue , 8 :15
p.m. Additional performances are
scheduled on November 20 , 26. an d
27 , and December 1, 2. 3, and 4 .
Adu lts $2.50. children $1 .25

LECTURES AND RECITALS
ON CAMPUS
Thursday . November 18
SWINE FLU TO HERBAL MEDI CINE A discussion of health concerns and problem s. Parli Cipalin g
on the pan el are Dr . Jerry Peterson
and Dr. Chuck Buser, campu s phy ·
sicians ; Judy libby. Nurse PracliIioner . and Jan lne Shaw . Phys ician's ASSi stan t. Th e seSSion will
be open to quest ions concernin g
any health issue or problems . CA B
108, 7 to 9 p.m. FREE .
Thursday, November 18
W.M. RANSOM and BOB McGIN LEY read thei r poetry . Presenled by
Ihe Cenler for lileral ure In Perf ormance. The Board Room (LIb 311 2) .
7 p.m .. FREE .
Friday , November 19
BIOETHICS: HOW ADVANCES
IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AF·
FECT US, a lecture by Rev . Jane A.
Raible, Execut ive Direclor of the
Northwest Inst itute of Ethics an d
the Life Sciences. LH One , noon.
IN OLYMPIA
ThursdaY, November 18
GATHERfNG OF WOMEN IN
TRADES "A chance to meet olher
women involved in trades and nott raditionally-women's jobs; and
share thoughts. feelings , jOys . frustrations, support . .. " Box 251 A,
Overhulse Road . Second house
south of 11 th, with a white fence in
fron t. If still confused , call 8660303 or 866-1 089.

Friday, November 19
SHOWCASE . a full -sca le performance of music, dance , and theatrical presentations by Evergreen
students in the Perform ing Arts Today academic program . Performances include an electronic slide!
tape show by Mike Hunlsberger
and Gim li Ushahoff; songs composed by Zachary Smith and Suzie
Grant, and performed by flutist
Randy Mead and soprano Cindy
Seidentop; and electronic music by
Sid Brown, Gene Darling, and Mark
Vale. Also. a performance of W. B.
Yeats' 1938 one-act play "Purgatory," and Jone Millington Sygne's
1904 play. "Riders to the Sea." The
dance portion of the program will
feature "Social Intercourse ," a
piece created by faculty member
Maggie Hunt. Library main lobby, 8
p.m ., $1.50.

ART
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROHN FIN·
ARD Third Floor library Gallery .
through November 26.
ASIAN MASTERPRINTS by Roger
Shimomura. and HEAVENLY GATE
SERIES, painting s by Karen Guzak .
The World Famous Art Gallery . Li ·
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WHAT YOUR REACTION TO
STUFFED ALBINO SOUIRRELS REVEALS ABOUT YOUR SEXUAL 1.0.
Week after week we have been ru nning seemingly meanin gless announcements of purported "art" exhibit ions conS isting mainl y of
stuffed albino squi rrels in vary ing
stages of disrepair. Do yo u real ly
think there ,is nolhing behind these
trivial little nOl ices' Wrong. moron .
Careful scienl ifi c research has revealed that the stuffed albino squirrel Is an excellent gauge for determining psycho·sexual disturbance
in Ihe reader. Th ink about it. Why
are they "exhibilions" of "squ irrels"? And why are Ihese "squ irrels" "albino" ? And why. for God' s
sake. are these "albino" "squi rrels"
"stuffed '" You're catching on
"quick. " Next issue we will examine
readers' reactions to Ihe "cuddly"
little "nut-gathering" forest "creatures." We take no responsibi li ty
for the problems we diagnose.
Read on if you dare, Good wishes
until next time - Dr. "Stuffy ." Joe
"Bemis" Memorial Gallery , open 24
hours .

The Spar but drive. See whatever
is showing there. It may be closed
- it may be open. You may
walk in during the middle o f the
film, but it won't matter. After
the film walk to the Eastside
Club. Stand at the entrance and
think about how they have the
nicest goddamn piece of neon in
Olympia . Go back to the car .
and drive until you have no gas
left.
Other places to go on Thanksgiving:
The Broiler ' and Coffee Shop
- Smorgasbord Turkey or Ham
dinner, $3 .50. 3333 Martin Way,
just past the Rib Eye . Open noon
until 8 p .m .
Chaleo's - Turkey or Ham
dinner, between $S and $6. Westside Center. Open noon until 6
p .m., call 943-3042 for reservations .

Golden Carriage Turkey,
Ham or Prime Rib dinner, $4 .00.
1200 South Plum. Open noon
until 6 p .m. Call 9.43-9400 for
reservations.
'.
Governor House, Gatsby D in ing Room Turkey or Ham
dinner with choice of sa lad or
Bongo -Bo ngo soup {for those
few who refuse to believe [ can
write a straight story, I swear
from my heart of hearts the Bon go-Bongo soup is for reall. $3 .85 .
621 S. Capitol Way. Open 2 to 8
p.m. Call 352-7700 lor reservations.
Jacaranda - Turki'Y and Ham
with a view of the :iiea , between
$S and $6. Port dock . Call 943 7770 for reservation~.
Pierre's Greenhouse - Turkey
and Ham dinner, $4 .95 . 900 S.
Capitol Way. Call 352-7200 fo r
reservations .

ON STAGE
ON CAMPUS
Friday, November 19
CHAUTAUQUA . the Evergreen
'Arts program , has changed its
:weekly show to Ihe basement of
Ihe Library , special guests and all.
Noon . Free.

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Review: Behind the Front
by Stan Shore
In Ihe fiflies , before most of
I,'day 's college s tudents were

born , this country suffered
through a bad case of Red fever,
known as McCarthyism. In politics, education and the entertainment world , a person suspected of being a communist or
sympathetic to communism was
discredi ted and disc rim ina ted
against. Now, from the dark side
of Hollywood, the true story has
finally emerged . A b lacklisted
writer, director, and two blacklisted actors have gotten together
to make a bittersweet comedy
that tells all.
Or so the advertisements for
The Front would have us beIieve. There is in the film, and in
the way it has been advertised a

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liner humor of the film's script
seems out of place in Allen's
mouth. One cannot help but
think that Allen could be funnier
and more appealing if left to his
own resources.
But as the film develops, Price
becomes a front for the writers
not only in a literal, bu t also in
a psychological sense. A blacklisted comedian, Hecky Green,
tries in an interview to excuse his
leftist political activities by saying that he did it only to get
laid. Price, ironically , contributes
to a socialist pamphleteer for just
that reason .
By the end oE' the film, wearing the heavy robes of martyrdom, Price valiantly resists the
probing questions of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities . Allen is not able to make
the thinly written script convincing . He delivers his emotional
lines as if they were deadpan
jokes, to be told in an off-thecuff style.
But inside this seriously flawed
and pretentious film starring
Woody Allen, there is another
much better film hiding. Zero
Mastel, who plays Green, seems
to be from a different, better,
and more severe film. As a pathetic, depressed comic who cannot find work, Mostel performs
with more intensity in one scene
than Allen displays in the whole
movie.
MostI'I plays the part with everything he has, and the script
gives him enough material to
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and horror of blacklisting fully
revealed, without the patronizing
humor that marks so much of
the film . .
When Mostel's part in the
movie ends, the film itself seems
to have quickly peaked. It lingers
on for fifteen minutes more and
the plot reaches its predictable
climax. The energy of the film,
however, is gone long before the
hst scene.
The film is not all that bad; it
is just not what it could have
been . It is not even as good as
another recent political propaganda film, All the President's
Men . Every care has been taken
to get technical details right. The
plot unfolds neatly . There are no
long sermons or blatant political
ramifications. The Front is inadequate because - except for Mostel's role - it lacks the courage
and anger of its convictions.
McCarthyism was fascism. In the
film Hecky Green is lost in frustration at what is happening to
him. He pleads, lies, acts tough,
and acts paranoid in succession
trying to find a release for his
anger .
After watching The Front one
has " sense of that frustration .
One feels the writer and director
of the film wanted to say:
"Those network bastards should
be cut up into a thousand small
pieces, burned, and their ashes
scattered." Then, they realized
they might sound too vehement
so they toned their story down.
But it is toned down too
much. Herschel Bernardi, Zero
Mastel and Woody Allen all
gave it their best, but it is only a
front, some play-acting, a funny
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Overly aware that a new generation has grown up since the McCarthy era, The Front condescends to its audience. Much of
the dialogue has the stilted tone
of a propaganda film.
Herschel Bernardi and Zero
Mostel play two of the main
roles in the film and they were
both blacklisted in the fifties. So
were writer Walter Bernstein and
director Martin RitL The
tragedy of the film is that because all four are professionals
they have made an overly professional film.
Perhaps it would not have
been so bad if the film had been
able to be unremittingly vindictive. In Z and State of Seige, for
instance, Director Costa Gravas
created films which were infused
with fierce political anger. The
Front, although it had every reason to be pointed, instead fluctu·
ated between anger and humor.
It was as if the makers of the
film were uncomfortable with
their own bitterness.
The choice of Woody Allen to
play Howard Price is indicative
of the uncertain purpose of the
film. Allen plays the part of a
part-time bookie who fronts for
some writers who have been
blacklisted for their pro-communist views. That is, the television networks refuse to accept
any of the material these writers
write and Allen, as Price, lends
his name to the material. Before
long, Price is the most sought after writer in Hollywood .
A lthough it has been widely
billed as Allen's first dramatic
role, it is not. It is not a 100 %
serious role. In the segments that
are serious, Allen acts the same

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by Lynda Barry
It all depends on what you
want coupled with what you got.
Really. And if you are looking
for a steamy-windowed homey
sort of Thanksgiving with a
home-cooked an inclusive spread,
hot spiced wine and some friendly
rollicking folksinging with banjo
accompaniment; if you want to
. pet the wandering dogs and children, and after the feast kick up
your heels in a soul-fusing dance
with ' your brothers and sisters,
don't look at me. Don't read
much further either. Call all the
co-op households you can and
find out if anyone knows any- .
thing abciut a Thanksgiving potluck and for godssakes go. Don't
sit in your room with a Swanson
TV dinner if you really want to
be steQpen out with the candied
yams. It's easy as hell to get invited somewhere .
However, if the home scene is
not exactly what you want this
year '- if you've always wanted
to give the Thanksgiving spirit a
good kick in the ass, this story is
for you. Have a cathartic Thanksgiving and release the dangerous
filial frustrations that so often
lead to cruel and unusual treatment of pets and countless other
socially embarrassing acts . Start
with $13, a friend with the same,
a camera, and a car with a full
tank. Start with a phone call to
Mom telling her you just can't
make it. Think of all the years
past when they made you watch
the cousins under eight. When
they made you convince your
drunk Uncle George to stop kicking the record player. When you
had to wait an eternity to eat
while Auntie Babe and Auntie
Alice fought over who was going
to drive back and get the forgotten hot rolls. And never forget
that nasty green cake Aunt Carol
made you eat at every goddam
family get- together.
Warm up the Camero. Lean
low and drive slow to the Westside parking lot. Your act of rebirth begins here, with your
friend, with your camera.
Walk into the meat section at
Foodtown and pick up a frozen
turkey. Pose. Have your buddy
take your picture. In the canned
vegetable section, hold up a can
of pumpkin pie filling, hold up
cranberry sauce . Pose. Have
'your pal. pose. Pose with your
favorite vegetable, with your
favorite dessert _ Take pictures of
all the food you would have
eaten if you were at home or
with some of your less tormented

friends. Pictoral documentation
is important on this, your own
Bicentennial Thanksgiving. It is
important because when you
later talk about it with your
friends, they will not believe
you. Take photos when necessary.
Go back to the car, hit Eagan's
and order a Big T. Think about
how cool you must look eating a
burger in the parking lot on
Thanksgiving Day.
While you are there, try to
decide exactly where to have
Thanksgiving dinner. It is necessary to eat at a restaurant - but
there are enough options in
Olympia to see you through a
chocolate banana malt and a side
of fries while you think about it.
Most places begin serving at
noon - a list of some of the
restaurants in and around the
Olympia area will be provided at
the end of this article, but for
many of us there are only two
choices - The Spar and the Rib
Eye . I will not try to disguise the
fact that my love for both of
these places is unbounded, yes even . winged. Winged love fills
these ribs whenever I hear the
names but softly spoken. This
odyssey may be of absolutely no
value t.o you if you've never in
your life eaten at either place.
The Rib Eye has bird from
noon till 8 p.m. at $2 .65 a shot .
They have Shake Your Boodie
on the jukebox . They have the
nicest goddamn waitress in
town . The Rib Eye is a constant
mother to me. It is open 24
hours a day, offers a spectacular
bar rush, and has such a melancholy I beautiful feeling to it that
two of my dear friends actually
held their wedding reception
there.
This is where the true Thanksgiving spirit lurks. Bring plenty
of quarters. Play or '55, Livin'
in the USA, and Showdown.
Play Fame, Out of Time, and,
for a laugh , Anniversary Waltz .
Put in four bits and push the
Golden Bar. ' Leave a $2 tip and
head out .
But drive slow. Stop at the 711 and play pinball six times .
Buy a comic book. Buy a cola
Siurpee. Read the comic book
while you drink your cola Slurpee and play pinball six times.
Have your pitture taken. Nod
politely as you leave and go to
the Sea Mart parking lot .
Bliss Kolb once told me while
we were trying to think of the
absolute worst thing to do in the
world, that he knew in his heart

of hearts t he absolute worst
thing in the world would be to
spread some a luminum fo il out
in the Sea Mart parking lot and
sit on it for a long time. Don't
get out of your car but look out
the window and imagine sitting
on aluminum foil right out there
in the lot. Think about it for five
minutes. Now drive to all the
places you know for a fact will
be closed and try the doors .
Some places not to miss: Brotherhood Tavern, Brown Derby,
Pat's Bookery, Salvation Army,
Mark-It, Hand H Shoes and
Modern Shoe Repair . By now it
should be about four p.m.
The next thing you must do
will blow your socks off . Drive
to the Westside Lanes . It is there
you will bowl. A bowling alley
on a big holiday has never failed
to amaze me since my parents'
divorce . Mom needed catharsis
herself one Thanksgiving and
while on our way to Auntie Lita's
and Uncle George' s, my younger
brother Mark suggested we bowl
instead . To our shock Mother
agreed and we bowled on
Thanksgiving Day. The lanes
were packed. They were packed
on Xmas and packed on New
Year's Day. This was in Seattle,
but I'm sure nothing turns Olympians on like holiday bowling.
Know your shoe size and fake
the scoring. It's the violent action
of the ball screaming down the
gutter that you need. Throw '
mostly gutter balls. Throw all
gutter balls. Play until you feel
better abou t life .
Head toward The Spar. Can it
ever be comprehended by Man
or God1 I doubt it . I've never
loved a place the way I love The
Spar. Will all The Spar regulars
come? The woman with the Big
round earrings7 The Qld couple
who always share their meals7
Will my favorite waitress Shirley
be there7 Ken Brooks will be
cooking. The folks at The Spar
are our true family.
Sit at the counter. For total rebirth to take place you must sit
at the counter. Order one
Thanksgiving dinner and split it
with your friend (it should be no
more than $3.50). Eat slow and
pay attention to all the folks
who hit The Spar on Thanksgiving night. After paying your
meal, leave all the $$$ you have
left minus the money it will take
you to get into the Capitol Theatre .
Drive to the Capitol Theatre. I
know it's walking distance from

EventsArEit~

FILMS
Friday , November 19
SEDUCTION OF MIMI A rowdy
po li tical! sexual farce. written and
direcled by Una Wertmuller, and
s tar ring Gianca rlo Giannini and
Mariangelo Melato . Considered by
many critics to be Wertmuller's
best film . With: THE CASE OF
THE MUKINESE BATTLEHORN , a
very funny short subject in the abs urd Goon Show tradition. with
Peter Sellers and Spike Mi ll,igan .
Presented by the Friday Nile Fitm
Series. LH One. 3. 7 and 9:30 p.m.
75 cenfs.
Monday, November 22, and Tuesday, November 23
FIGHTtNG FOR OUR LIVES A
widely-acclaimed documentary on
the Uniled Farm Workers. nominated for Best Documentary in the
t976 Academy Awards. The footage
contains plenty of blatanl police
brutality . Members of the Seattle
UFW will speak fol low ing Ihe film.
Presented by EPIC (Evergreen Politica l Information Center). LH One.
Monday, 7: 30 p. m. , Tu esday ,
noon. FREE.
Wednesday . December 1
THREE SISTERS (165 min.) Laurence Olivier directed and stars in
this critically-acc laimed film of AnIon Chekov's play. Stranded in a
provinc ial garrison town, the Ihree
daughters of an army general long
for the time when they can return
to the glittering Moscow of their
youth. Critics have praised Olivier's
performance, as usual, and Alan
Bates and Joan Plowrig ht are excell ent as wel l. Presented to the
supporting academic programs by
the Academic Film Series. LH One,
1:30 and 7:30 p.m. FREE .
IN OLYMPIA
THE RETURN OF A MAN
CALLED HORSE This sequel starring Richard Harris is even bloodier
and has more torture and violence
than its predecessor. Ch ildren 's
matinees Saturday and Sunday af·
ternoons. Capilol Theatre, 357-7161.
THE ADVENTURES OF THE WIL·
DERNESS FAMILY Rated G. Olym·
piC Theatre. 357-3422.

IN OLYMPIA
Friday , November 19
JOHN LOVES MARY . a three-act
comedy by Norman Krasna . Presented by the Olympia Liltle Theater, 1925 E. Miller Avenue , 8 :15
p.m. Additional performances are
scheduled on November 20 , 26. an d
27 , and December 1, 2. 3, and 4 .
Adu lts $2.50. children $1 .25

LECTURES AND RECITALS
ON CAMPUS
Thursday . November 18
SWINE FLU TO HERBAL MEDI CINE A discussion of health concerns and problem s. Parli Cipalin g
on the pan el are Dr . Jerry Peterson
and Dr. Chuck Buser, campu s phy ·
sicians ; Judy libby. Nurse PracliIioner . and Jan lne Shaw . Phys ician's ASSi stan t. Th e seSSion will
be open to quest ions concernin g
any health issue or problems . CA B
108, 7 to 9 p.m. FREE .
Thursday, November 18
W.M. RANSOM and BOB McGIN LEY read thei r poetry . Presenled by
Ihe Cenler for lileral ure In Perf ormance. The Board Room (LIb 311 2) .
7 p.m .. FREE .
Friday , November 19
BIOETHICS: HOW ADVANCES
IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AF·
FECT US, a lecture by Rev . Jane A.
Raible, Execut ive Direclor of the
Northwest Inst itute of Ethics an d
the Life Sciences. LH One , noon.
IN OLYMPIA
ThursdaY, November 18
GATHERfNG OF WOMEN IN
TRADES "A chance to meet olher
women involved in trades and nott raditionally-women's jobs; and
share thoughts. feelings , jOys . frustrations, support . .. " Box 251 A,
Overhulse Road . Second house
south of 11 th, with a white fence in
fron t. If still confused , call 8660303 or 866-1 089.

Friday, November 19
SHOWCASE . a full -sca le performance of music, dance , and theatrical presentations by Evergreen
students in the Perform ing Arts Today academic program . Performances include an electronic slide!
tape show by Mike Hunlsberger
and Gim li Ushahoff; songs composed by Zachary Smith and Suzie
Grant, and performed by flutist
Randy Mead and soprano Cindy
Seidentop; and electronic music by
Sid Brown, Gene Darling, and Mark
Vale. Also. a performance of W. B.
Yeats' 1938 one-act play "Purgatory," and Jone Millington Sygne's
1904 play. "Riders to the Sea." The
dance portion of the program will
feature "Social Intercourse ," a
piece created by faculty member
Maggie Hunt. Library main lobby, 8
p.m ., $1.50.

ART
ON CAMPUS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROHN FIN·
ARD Third Floor library Gallery .
through November 26.
ASIAN MASTERPRINTS by Roger
Shimomura. and HEAVENLY GATE
SERIES, painting s by Karen Guzak .
The World Famous Art Gallery . Li ·
brary.
WHAT YOUR REACTION TO
STUFFED ALBINO SOUIRRELS REVEALS ABOUT YOUR SEXUAL 1.0.
Week after week we have been ru nning seemingly meanin gless announcements of purported "art" exhibit ions conS isting mainl y of
stuffed albino squi rrels in vary ing
stages of disrepair. Do yo u real ly
think there ,is nolhing behind these
trivial little nOl ices' Wrong. moron .
Careful scienl ifi c research has revealed that the stuffed albino squirrel Is an excellent gauge for determining psycho·sexual disturbance
in Ihe reader. Th ink about it. Why
are they "exhibilions" of "squ irrels"? And why are Ihese "squ irrels" "albino" ? And why. for God' s
sake. are these "albino" "squi rrels"
"stuffed '" You're catching on
"quick. " Next issue we will examine
readers' reactions to Ihe "cuddly"
little "nut-gathering" forest "creatures." We take no responsibi li ty
for the problems we diagnose.
Read on if you dare, Good wishes
until next time - Dr. "Stuffy ." Joe
"Bemis" Memorial Gallery , open 24
hours .

The Spar but drive. See whatever
is showing there. It may be closed
- it may be open. You may
walk in during the middle o f the
film, but it won't matter. After
the film walk to the Eastside
Club. Stand at the entrance and
think about how they have the
nicest goddamn piece of neon in
Olympia . Go back to the car .
and drive until you have no gas
left.
Other places to go on Thanksgiving:
The Broiler ' and Coffee Shop
- Smorgasbord Turkey or Ham
dinner, $3 .50. 3333 Martin Way,
just past the Rib Eye . Open noon
until 8 p .m .
Chaleo's - Turkey or Ham
dinner, between $S and $6. Westside Center. Open noon until 6
p .m., call 943-3042 for reservations .

Golden Carriage Turkey,
Ham or Prime Rib dinner, $4 .00.
1200 South Plum. Open noon
until 6 p .m. Call 9.43-9400 for
reservations.
'.
Governor House, Gatsby D in ing Room Turkey or Ham
dinner with choice of sa lad or
Bongo -Bo ngo soup {for those
few who refuse to believe [ can
write a straight story, I swear
from my heart of hearts the Bon go-Bongo soup is for reall. $3 .85 .
621 S. Capitol Way. Open 2 to 8
p.m. Call 352-7700 lor reservations.
Jacaranda - Turki'Y and Ham
with a view of the :iiea , between
$S and $6. Port dock . Call 943 7770 for reservation~.
Pierre's Greenhouse - Turkey
and Ham dinner, $4 .95 . 900 S.
Capitol Way. Call 352-7200 fo r
reservations .

ON STAGE
ON CAMPUS
Friday, November 19
CHAUTAUQUA . the Evergreen
'Arts program , has changed its
:weekly show to Ihe basement of
Ihe Library , special guests and all.
Noon . Free.

Review

A'nother
viewpoint

Shimomura Show Shines

by Stan Shore
:\ se ries ()f 14 serigraphs , o r
.,ilk screen prints, are now apr earin g in The Evergreen State
C ollege Libra r y Ga ll ery in a
,hoI\' entit led " Asian Masterprint. . An appropriate title it is
.lls() . fo r although the show is

not of Asian masterpieces it is by
an Asian -American artist, Roger
Shimo mura , and the work itself
is an interesting hybrid of American and Japanese art.
The content of the works ,
which are all part of the same
se ries. is taken from the Ukiyoe

prints of Japan , although Shimomura has not retained some of
the traditional rules of that style,
such as keeping samurai and gei shas out of the same images.
In Japan, Ukiyoe prints are
not a high art form, but "comics"
or advertising illustration . So

Shimomura has combined it with
the graphic style and bright colors of American comic books.
But the prints are not that
reminiscent of Lichtenstein's fa mous paintings of the late sixties. Shimomura seems to have
been influenced not only by the
Japan ese iconography but by
their su btlety in the use of form
and color as well. The result is a
surp risingly beautiful set of prints
that make the best of both Western and Eastern aesthetic ideals.
It cou ld be said of the work
that it is merely decorative, does
not reveal anything about the
artist and is therefore uninterest ing or uninspired. But I don' t
think that's a val id criticism in
this case. Although Shimomura
does nut bring any self-revelatory new images into the world ,
he does reveal enough of himself
in the quiet technica l virtuosity
of the prints, their superb use of
color, and interesting visual patterns.
On the outside of the gallery
Karen Guzak has her Heavenly
Gate Series paintings hanging .
Looking like the I Ching hexagrams fighting each other in an
apocalyptic mud bath, the works
are not nearly as interesting as
Shimomura's to me.
The Asian Masterprints Exhibit
is part of the Arizona Comm ission on the Arts and Humanities
traveling exhibitions program.

Remember lo call Dad to lell him about your role in lhe new campus play.
The wardrobe mistress thinks you look great in marigolds.
He'll be glad you called.
You will be, too.

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the Geoboard. Third, the document spells'
out five specific kinds of action the Geoboard can take (a vote of no-confidence
for example).
Audience members took turns speaking
at a microphone, making proposals and
asking questions. Many points were raised
and, as Neils Skov , chairman of the DTF,
said, "What I like is that we've been receiving very few pet peeves, and have
been receiving positive input. "
The role of the Information Center was
one issue raised. Under the new document ,
the Geoboard is charged with maintaining
an ongoing system of information dissem ination , evaluation and correction . No
mention of the Information Center was
left in, and there was concern that thi s
could lead to its demise.
Most matters raised were short and to
the point. Lyle Tribbett made a motion
that any vote the Geoboard takes should
be a roll-call vote. One woman proposed
that the wording "the President or his appOinted representative" should be worded
not to indicate either sex spec ifically, noting that since Evergreen is presently
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searching
for a new president, there is a
(;'
'" distinct possibility the new president will
5' be female . Th is proposal was one of the

(Ed. Note: This article is the
cooperative effort of student
members of COG III, Sounding
Board, and other interested students. )
The November 4 article in the
Cooper· Point Journal, entitled
"Demise of Sounding Board in
the Works, " was a discussion of
the COG 1II proposal. That article had a negative tone and serves
only to draw attention away
from the importance of the COG
III proposal. To present the document in a more positive light ,
the major differences between
COG II and COG III need to be
clarified.
The COG III DTF has
proposed significant changes in
Evergreen governance and community involvement. Some of
the major improvements are embodied in three new principles.
1) Decisions must be handled at
the closest level of responsibility.
(P reviously it was only at the
admin istrative level.) 2) Decisions can only be made with the
direct involvement of those who
will be affected by them. 3) Ev eryo ne has equal weight in the
involvement before the decision
has been made and in responding
to a decision that has already
been made .
The way Sounding Board opera tes under COG II. it would
not be able to implement all of
the new COG III principks, so a
new body was proposed, the
Geoboard. Geoboard would replace Sounding Board functions
as well as have additional duties
and functions. One of the major
funct ions of the Geoboard would
be to implement , and assist
others in implementing the principles of COG Ill.
Another new funct ion is tha t
DTFs will be charged through
and terminated at the Geoboard.
This facilitates the flow of information concerning DTFs and coordinates the use of resources,
i.e., people, with expertise in
particular areas and past stud ies
that have been done . The Geo board specifically will insure representation by those who will be
affected by a particular decision.
Geoboard was formed to facilitate these functions not to have
the power to deny DTF requests.
The Geoboard represents the
community and, acting in the interests of the community, would
not deny a DTF request unless it
was unreasonable. It would not
be difficult to inClude a stipulation in the COG III document
that the Geoboard must accept
all DTF requests. If a DTF request was unreasonable, it is
doubtful anyone would serve on
it because of the amount of work
involved.
In some instances DTFs going
through Geoboard would be
more time-consuming, but the
extra time spent is worthwhile
and helpful for insuring the principles of fair and open government.
One of the most important
changes is that constitutency
groups (students, faculty, classified and exempt staff) will each
select their members for the Geoboard, rather than having them
be appointed by the vice-presidents or the computer as under
COG II, In order for this to
work there must be more organization within the constituency
groups to establish communication between Geoboard members
and the people they represent.
The Wednesday student forum is
the present attempt to provide
this communication flow for stu dents.

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few to draw applause.
There was some confusion as to why
certain items seemed to 01' left out of the
document. A definition of a DTF was one
such issue.
"To some extent, that was intentionaL"
said Susie Strasser. "If I were to define it.
that could be in such a way that only certain kinds of decisions could be made by
DTFs. " It was added that DTF was defined in the social contract.
The general tone of the meeting was serious, but there was no one major issue
drawing controversy.
Neils Skov said "We're receiving a lot
of very valuable input. There are a fair
number of items we'll take up lin a future
DTF meeting ]. It's good to have your
work subject to scrutiny."
During a break in the meeting , student s
were called together to choose temporary
cand idates for th e presidential search co mmittee, which is schedu led to meet today
in the Board of Trustees room at 1 : 30. A
st udent forum will be held on Wednesday,
Nov. 24. to choose the official delegates
for the search.
The nex t public hearing will be on De cember 1, at 2:00 in CAB 110, to re ceive
input on the revised soc ia l contrac t .

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The Evergreen State College ' Olympia~ashIngton 98?Q5
by lisa Fleming
The first public hearing on the COG III
proposal was held yesterday afternoon
and drew a sparse crowd of approximately
50 persons.
The hearing had two main purposes: to
clarify any points the community might
have on any part of the COG III docu ment, and to hear any feedback, criticisms
and proposals by people.
Susie Strasser, a faculty representative

on the COG III DTF, said in her opening
statement that the hearing was not merely
a quest ion of student governance, but that
it covered the working conditions of all.
She explained what she thought to be the
three main differences between COG II
and COG III. The first was that COG JJI
calls for direct involvement of people in
the community, as they select their own
representatives to the Geoboard . The second was that DTFs will begin and end at

THE COOPER POIN

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V OLUME V NUMBER 7

NOV. 18, 1976

The New Eldridge Cleaver is Coming
by Matt Groening

Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul On Ice
and former Minister of Information of the
Black Panther Party, will speak at Evergreen on Wednesday, December 1, at
7:30 p.m. in the campus library lobby.
Cleaver's appearance is sponsored by the
Ujamaa Society, a black awareness and
self-determination organization, in conjunction with Evergreen 's Third World
Coalition.
In 1968 Eldridge Cleaver was a national
figure, He had been paroled after serving
nine years for a conviction of assault with
intent to kill, during which time he wrote
the bestselling book Soul On Ice. He joined
forces with Huey Newton and Bobby
Seale that year and became Minister of
Information of the Black Panther Party,
which expanded its original chapter in
Oakland, California, to hundreds throughout the country. Cleaver lectured at rallies and colleges on racism and oppression, wrote for Ramparts magazine, and
ran for the Presidency on the Peace and
Freedom Party ticket, receiving 36,385
votes.
The Black Panthers' problems with the
police in Oakland escalated from petty
traffic vio lations to an alleged police ambush two nights after the assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ., in April,
1968. Seven teen-year-old Treasurer Bobby
Hutton was sh ot dead, and Cleaver wa s
wounded, arrested , and booked on three
counts each of attempted murder and assault on police officers. Although he was
already on parole, a judge allowed friends
to post bail, and Cleaver was se t free
until his trial in November.
Convinced he would be mUfdered if he
returned to prison - but not by his fellow San Quentin inmates - Cleaver disappeared, fleeing first to Canada, then
Cuba, and finally ending up in Algeria. "I
thought a fascist coup [in the U.S.] was
imminent in 1969," he said, "Then Algiers
would have been a haven for everyone
from Jerry Brown to Tom Hayden," Instead he spen t several years in the company of airplane hijackers, political groupies, other Panthers in exile, and Dr. Tim-

Phil Haeck
Tom Morrill
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othy Leary.
Cleaver's split with the Black Panthers
came in 1971 as a result of a surprising
phone call from Cleaver in Algeria to a
live TV talk show in San Francisco, on
which Huey Newton was a guest. Cleaver
severely criticized Newton on the air and
was immediately expelled from the Panthers. Cleaver himself was condemned as
a "fascist" by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry
Rubin when he temporarily incarcerated
Timothy Leary in Algiers in a dispute
over drug use. Fed up, Cleaver left Algeria, visiting, among other countries,
North Korea, North Vietnam, and China.
He did not like what he saw.
"From every corner Marxist -Leninist
thought has been discredited," Cleaver announced. " It is universally bankrupt, from
·Moscow to Peking to Havana."
For Cleaver, the ultimate betrayal came
when he saw a photo of Richard Nixon
shaking hands with Mao Tse-tung. " When
you see Nixon and all he stands for shaking hands with Mao and all that he stood
for - well, it marks a turning point in
history and a personal turning point for
me."
Cleaver began to reconsider his previous
political assumpt ions and changed his
mind about many things . He began to de fend Israel , denouncing Arabs as rac ists .
"No one understands this better than
black Africans living along the edge of'the
Sahara," he said. Cleaver attacked the
UN resolution which equated Zionism
with racism, saying, "The Jewish people
have done more than any other to end in equality and prejudice, "
Cleaver decided talk of a united Th ird
World struggle was "a skin ga me" and
just "an empty phrase." Cleaver said he
" realized that the dynamics of our struggle inside the United States had little to
do with what was going on in the Third
World, I began to understand that our
whole way of relating to the Third World
was a mistake , It was then that I decided
to come out of the Third World."
In the late summer of 1975, Cleaver
suddenly emerged in Paris as a designer
and promoter of a bizarre pants style

which "could release a deep revolutionary force," The pants featured a velvet
penis hanging from the crotch, apparently
modeled after the European codpiece of
the 15th and 16th centuries. From Paris
Cleaver began attacking Fidel Castro, suggesting in a Rolling Stone interview that
Castro helped the CIA track down Che
Guevara in Bolivia. The New York Times
featured Cleaver on its Op-Ed page, and
in May Cleaver contributed a "My Turn"
column to Newsweek, condemning the
"white racist Castro dictatorship," and
saying it was ."more insidious and dangerous for black people than the white racist
regime of South Africa."
At that time Cleijver began describing
himself as a patriot, saying he no longer
wa nted America to collapse. "With all its
. faults," he stated, " the American political
system is the freest and most . democratic
in the world ." The experience of his exile
showed him that "socialists ! communists
strap onto people the most oppressive regim es in the history of the world ." His
startlin g conclusion: " After all my travels
and seeing the socialists' world up very
close , really seeing how the Soviet Union
a nd Ch ina funct ion, well , I now thin k the
U.S. shou ld be seco nd to none militarily. "
On November 16, 1975, in a prearranged ceremony , Cleaver returned to the
U. S. a nd su rrendered him self to FB I
agents . He was put in jail in Cal ifornia,
and man y black a nd white radica ls began
calling Cleaver an enemy, accusing him of
testifying secret ly befo re the Senate Subcommittee on Interna l Security and sup plying the FBI w ith information about leftists . They are suspicious of hi s voluntary
return to the U.S. , where he faces up to
75 years in prison for the attelT)pted murder and assault charges which led to his
original exile.
Critics of Cleaver who feel betrayed by
his turnabout on political issues cite Cleaver's own Soul On Ice to further their case.
In the chapter " Notes on a Native Son ,"
Cleaver wrote, "In this land of dichotomies and disunited opposites, those truly
concerned with the resurrection of black
Americans have had eternally to deal with

black intellectua ls who have become the ir
own opposites, taking o n all the behav ior patterns of the ir enemy.
The intel
lectual syco phant does not pretend to be
o ther than he actually is, but hates wh a t
he is and seeks to redefine himse lf in the
image of his w hite idols . . . A se lf -willeJ ,
automated slave, he beco mes tlte white
man's most valuable tool in opp re~~ing
other blacks."
Cleaver is also condemned by femini~t '
for his anti -women attitudes . For a , tar t,
con tinw?d PU!{P 3

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