The Cooper Point Journal Volume 9, Issue 20 (March 5, 1981)

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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 9, Issue 20 (March 5, 1981)

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5 March 1981

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Arts & Events
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Volume 9, No. 20

Jack & Jill Comingof Aqe

March 5, 1981

HarlanCounty USA

"Jack and Jill Coming of Age," an original·
musical comedy, complete with fairyland
characters, elaborate costumes and lantasylilled dance routines will be presented Feb.
26-March 1 at 8 p. m. in the secona l1oor
Library· Lobby. The play by Richard Johnson
is characterized as "definitely an Adull fairy
tale" and promises an amusing but "somewhat ribald evening ol entertainment."

Tues., March 3, "Harlan County USA" will
be shown in L.H. 1 at 3 and 7;30 p.m. This
award-winning film portrays the struggles of
Kentucky coalminers against dangerous working conditions and crooked bosses. Director .
Barbara Kopple brilliantly communicates the
lives and concerns of the miners, their wives
and lhe way they chanqed their conditions
against ric1iculous odds. Free.

State Gets McNeil lslan·d Pen from Feds

Hedda Gabler
Thurs .. March 5-7, 8 p.m.: Hedda Gabler is
on-stage ,n the Comm. Btdg.'s Experimental
Theater. Tickets are on sale al Yenney·s Music
and the TESC Bookstore; $4 general and
$1 .50 for sludenls and senior citi~ens. Reservations may be made by calling 866-6070
weekdays.

The Willmar 8
Thur., Feb. 26: lhe Olympic chapter of the
National Organization lor Women is sponsoring "Willmar 8," a lilm about eight women
bank workers who were required to break in a
young male trainee hired at twice their starting salaries. When they complained to the
bank manager, he told them, "We're not all
equal, you know." This is the story al the
women's struggle to assert their rights. Noon,
TESC, L.H. 1.

Thealer-Centralia College

Bonjour,La, Bonjour
The Impress1onistic play, "Bonjour, La.
Bonpur
w,II be presented in lhe Corbet hall
theater o 1 Centralia College, al 8:15 p.m.,
Feb 19-21 and 26-28. The play concerns a
Canad,an lam1Iy and centers on the only son
and h,s 1ela11onsh1pswith his lather. aunls
and sister~ 1nclud1ng his incestuous relation~
sh,p w1\h one sister Ano\her sis\er has a drug
addic\1on Tickets are available in \he lobby
..before eact1 presentation

Friday Nile Films
"Diary of a Chambermaid"
Feb. 27: this is a pointed observation of
the rise of Fascism in 1939 in France. a look
ai French social structure and a comment 011
sexual mores as seen through the eyes of a
lower-class chambermaid. Directed by Luis
Bunuel (1964, France, B&W) French w/
English subtitles. Plus: "Dangling Partici•
ple"-made entirely from old classroom instructional lIlms; practical advice on contemporary sexual hang ups. L.H. 1, 3, 7 and 9:30,
$1.25.
f_ro_m_H_ed_d_a_G_a_b_l_e_r_~

Theater-Sed!tle

The ElephantMan
"The Elephant Man." the Broadway hit
based on the lile ol sideshow lreak John
Merrick, comes to the Moore Theater stage lor
seven perlormances. beginning Wed .. March
11. Show1,rnes are 8 pm Wed \hrough Sun ..

lI photo by Nanry But_l<-_'r
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! Class-Olympia

Dance:

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BenefitSquare Dance

Show,imes are 8 pm Wednesday through
Sunday. March 15. Ma11neesare scheduled on
Saturday and Sunday at 2 r. m Tickets are on
sal~ at The Ticket Place aI the Bon Downtown
and sut-urban outlets

Classes begin March 2 and 3 for an eightweek, 16-class session. There is a Mon.-Wed.
class and a Tues.-Thurs. class. The classes
provide men and women with an enjoyable
and thorough physical work out. For times
and inlormation, call the YMCA at 357-6609.

Fri.: Feb 27. 8 p.m.: lhe Olympia Women·s
Center for Health is having a benelil square
dance at the YWCA located at Union and
Franklin. The cost ,s $2 and the money will
go to help purchase equipment so lhe center
can provide more lhorough medical services.

Excercisefor PregnantWomen

DanceWorkshop

The Bike Lobby

Classes are available specilically for the
pregnant woman; stretching and strengthening incorporated with dancercise to all types
al music. Classes held at the Body Shop,
3663 Pacific Ave. For information call
491-2020 in the afternoon or 456-0858 in the
evenings.

Sat .. Feb. 28, 1-4 p.m. at Olympia Ballroom. Live Arts sponsors "Group Dance Improvisation and Process," a workshop with
Jane Alsen (no experience necessary). Cost is
$6. Call 866-9527 to pre-regisler.

1 he Bike Lobby continues its I uesday
meeticgs at noon in the Library 3400 lounge
The group plans to present its proposals 1,,
The Olympia City Council al an upcoming
rneefing. For more inlormation, check with
the lolks at the Bike Shop in lhe CAB Bldg.
or call Todd Litman at 943-1460.

• Dance-TESC

EducationalFair •TEsc

WallflowerOrder
Lectures:
JournalistSam Day
Wed .. March 4: Sam Day will speak on lhe
topic. "Nuclear Technology and Civil Liberties_;__Ca_n_
We_Have Both:"'.Day ,_wbo_cunently
serves as a representative ol the Nuclear
Weapons Faciiities Project. a nat,onal organI•
zatIon dedicated to heightening public awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons production, will appear in L.H. 3 at 7:30. FREE.

Scattercreek
Sat .. Feb. 21, 9 p.m.: the Scatter Cr<Jek
Bluegrass l:land w,II appear at the Rainbow
Restaurant. W. 4th and So. Columbia. $2.50
co"ver charge
Music-Gnu Del,

Tropical Rainstorm
Sat. Feb. 28: Tropical Rainstorm, a sevenpiece Caribbean steel drum band will be
appearing. The cost is $3.50. The show begins
at 9 p.m.
Music-Olympia

ApplejamAnniversary
Sun .. Feb. 28, 8 pm.: an anniversary benefit concert Jor A.J. leatures the "Black Velvet
Band." "Ed Shincke & his Musical Saw,"
"Moore & Plaxton," "Miller Creek." and "Sugar
,n the Gourd." $2. YWCA/220 E. Union.
Mus1c-TESC

The SeldomScene
Tues .. March 3, 8 p.m.: The Seldom Scene
will appear second floor lib. lobby. Tickets.
$5 general, $4 students, seniors and under 18.
A dollar more at the door. Tickets available
TESC Bookstore. Rainy Day Records, Yenney
Music Co.
Music-Seattle

HarryChapin
Sat .. March 14, 8 p.m .. Harry Chapin will
perform In the Paramount Theater. Reserved
seal tickets are $9 and $10 and are available
al all Budget Tapes and Records and the
Paramount Box Office. For inlormation call
622-6088.

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Tues., March 3: representatives from Saint
Martin's, TESC, Centralia and OTCC will stafl
a day-long information fair in the lobby of the
General Administration Building on the
Capitol campus from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sat .. March 7, 8 p.m.: The Wallflower
Dance Troupe will perf6rni in the second lloor
Lib. lobby. Tickets are $3 and childcare
arrangements may be made in advance by
·-c,.ling 866-6162.

Discussionof Fishing
Thurs., Feb. 26, at 8 p.m.: a discussion of
techniques.""equipment ancflocations with Mr. Melvin Hurd al the Lacey
Public Library.

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Classes:

BreakingBread

Winter Quarter,ResumeWorkshop
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Music:

EPIC-"Aspects

.iazz Dance Exercise

A series of lecture discussions on
our heritage called "Breaking Bread"
sponsored by the Senior Center. and
held on Wednesday evenings at 7:30
the Olympia Public Library.

Wed .. March 4. the Career Planning and
Placement Cenler begins its Resume workshop, bi:,ginning at 12 to 1 : 30 p.m. in
Lib. 1213.

Reauitrnent for the
LeadershipInstitute of Spokane

PuertoRican Independence
Sal .. Feb. 28, 7 p.m.: the U.S. relationship
with Puerto Rico is the topic of a slide-show
and panel discussion. Issues around armed
resistance for independence. the FALN 11,
the role of the U.S. military, sterilization
abuse and living there as a Puerto Rican
woman will be discussed. A celebration ol
Puerto Rican culture through songs and
poetry will follow. The public is invited.
United Church on 11th and Washington
Streets

The Leadership Institute ol Spokane oflers
a g1aduate program in behavioral sciences at
the Graduate Center lor Applied Studies at
Whitworth College in Spokane. A representative from that program. Bob Crosby, will be
on campus to recruit ar.d talk with interested
Jolks on Tues .. March 3. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in
Lib. 2205 For inlormalion call 866-6193

WSU Mastersof BusinessAdmin.
Washington State University Masters of
Bu~iness Administration Program will have a
representative on campus to recrU1t students
lor the program. People interest&:J ,n learning
more about wsu·s MABA Program should see
Dr. Edward Perkins on Wed .. March 11. 9-4 in
Lib 1406 For ,nlormation call 866-6193.

KAOS will celebrate International Women's
Day on Sunday, March 8 with' a lull day of
music, poetry, guest artists, and information.
Area musicians and poets will be in the KAOS
studios to perform their works throughout lhe
rlay. If you are a woman and a performing
artist, KAOS would be glad to have you lend
your talents to this gala aflair. If you are
interested in appearing or helping KAOS in
some other way, contact Ellyn at the station.
Box 59.

by Denise Paulsen
The ,\,\c:NeilIsland Penitentiary will
switch from federal to state hands this
week as inmates from other state adult
correction facilities are transferred to the
island. The facility is presently under control of the federal Bureau of Prisons
which hasbe,engiven until the end ~f this
year to vacate the prison.
The agreement between Washington
state and the federal government signed ~
by Governor Spellman last month·leased
the facility to the state for a period of two
years. At the end of that period, the state
will negotiate to attain a long term lease
of the property.
McNeil Island federal penitentiary is
-one-of-the oldest operatin'jfredefal priso·ns

AcademicFilms
"Starisky"
Wed .. March 4: Business, politics, dying
dreams and corrupted grace in the 1930s.
France and the gentleman gangster, who
played stacked deck for top stakes, called the
bluff and toppled the government. Jean-Paul
Belmondo stars. Visual elegance. L. H. 1, 1 : 30
and 7:30. Free.

ThursdayNight Alms
March 5: Fellini's "The Clowns"
Circus has captivated Fellini's imagination
through·out his life, and from this 'fascination
has come much ol the reckless abandon and
comic optimism which characterize both his
fictional world and his method as a director.
"The clown," he says, "was always lhe caricature of a well-established. ordered, peaceful
society. But today all is temporary, disordered, grotesque. Who can still laugh at
clowns?" Fellini sadly accepts the inevitable
demise of The Clown in a world without
laughter-but
he goes on to assemble the few
survivors ol a dying art and, in the spiril of
the great European circus tradition, he stages
the mos! extravagant and breathtaking funeral
celebration ever conceived on film This quarter's mini-retrospective ol Rlllini's work will
• conclude on March 11 with "8½." TESC. Lecture Hall One: 3. 7, and 9:30; admission
$1.25

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Galleries:
Galleries-TESC
Gallery Two-"New
Metal Work" by graduate students lrom the University of Washington working with !acuity members John
Marshall and Mary Lee Hu.
Gallery Fou•-John
Hoover: Images In
Cedar: Recent work by a not~ regional artistAleut sculptor.
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Gallery Two-Open
daily during library
hours. Gallery Four open weekdays 12-6,
weekends 1-5.

I Arts:

Museums:
The Art of Persuasion
"The Art of Persuasion": a colorful and provocative display of American WW I posters is
on display in the museum art gallery. Also
live paintings by Jacob Lawrence. the nationally recognized Black painter and UW !acuity
member, will be shown during February In
observance of Black History Month. The
museum is open from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,
Tues.-Fri.: 12-4 p.m., Sat. and Sun. Free.

The Arts Resource Center Is soliciting
material lor a literacy publication which will
be printed in May 1981. Essays, lict1on,
prose. poetry and any form ol visual art which
can be reproduced in black and white are
needed. The deadline is March 15; submissions can be turned into the Arts Resource
Center Lib. 3215, 866-6148.

Mica Mime Troupe
Dinner Theater Featuring Mica Mime Troupe
Fri., ·Feb. "L7; the Mica Mime
appear at the Gnu Deli, located
of Thurston Ave & Capitol Way,
Dinner & show $7.50 at 7 p.m.:
only $2.50.

Troupe will
at the corner
943-1371.
9 p.m., show

Arts-Olympia

Artists in School
The challenge ol matching professional
artists to school-sponsored arts projects
begins this month In preparation for the 198'1·
Artist-In-School program. Until March 31, the
Washington State Arts Commission will
accept project proposals for AID lunds and
artists applications lor AIS employment.

in the country. According to Dick
Paulson,Public Affairs Officer for the
Adult Corrections Division, parts of the
prison are almost ninety years old.
Accading to this agreement, said
Paulsen, -the State will operate the prison
in con;.mction with the federal government il'ld thereby ease the overcr01Nding
of other state institutions. •
The state will transfer between 250 to
500 mi1imum and medium security prisoners to McNeil, stated Paulson. Presently
only 20 federal retainees are still in the
prison. Prisoners from the Walla Walla
Penitentiary, Washington State Reformatory, Oearwater Reformatory and
Shelton Correction Center and Cedar
Creek Reformatory, will be transfered to
tne-Nl<Neillsfana facilify:-

The Audobon Society is concerned
about /V\c:NeilIsland for a different,
reason. Nancy Kroening, a srokeswoman
for the society, said that McNeil 'Island is
ranked 5th out of 37 areas in Washington
state fa its unique variety of fish and
wildlife. Ideally, said Kroening, the group
would like the Island to be designated a
wildlife refuge. But she addgg that if
that'snot pa;sible,i+-is better for the-

Evergreen May Change
to Semester System

Needed: Material for Literary
Publication

AmericanInstitute of ForeignStudy
The American Institute ol Foreign Studv
will be visiting campuses in the Pacific Northwest in late February and early March. Gail
Roderiberg, Director ol Admissions at the
• Institute will be at schools in Seattle, Tacoma
and Portlana Sne will be happy to· talk 10 students personally about their interest in the
AIFS overseas study programs. Check in the
Office of Career Planning and Placement, Lib.
1214, or call 866-6193, lor specific times and
places and for further information

food and
is being
will be
p.m. at

of Rape Culture"

Mon., March 2: EPIC presents ''Aspects ol
Rape Culture." Rape is a very real problem
and it.happens frequently in the Olympia area.
The only ways to begin effectively dealing
with rape is lor all of us to become aware of
the tacts and myths surrounding the issue.
This issue will be addressed by representatives lrom Rape Relief, WAVAW, Men Combatting Sexual Violence, and FIST. L. H. 1,
7:30. FREE.

A numbff ot citizens groups are apprehensive about what will become of the
4,413 acre island. The groups include:
Save Old Steilacoom (SOS), the Audobon
Socie!'{ and the Washington Environmental Council lWEC).
The SOS group is comprised of people
from tl-e town of Steilacoom and the
surrourding area. Ferry access to the
McNeil Island Penitentiary is from Steilacoom. Mayor Dunkin, of Steilacoom, said
citizens are worried about the extra traffic
that will be caused by the prison's expanded use.
Maycr Dunkin felt that state prisoners
differ from federal prisoners. Federal prisooers, said the mayor, are usually serving
time fcr white collar crimes and are from
different parts of the nation, which means
few visitors. State inmates, he said, may
include violent criminals, and since they
are local that would mean more visitors
going through the town. The mayor said
the added traffic would cause a burden to
their small community.
SOSsought an injunction to stop the
state from using McNeil Island Penitentiary for state prisoners, but it was denied
by Judge ,\,\c:Cutcheonat a hearing last
Friday.
Paulsonsaid that the prison needs
work. The frst ninety prisoners, all federally approvl:ll minimum security risks, will
be plurri:Jers,carpenters, welders and
electricians. They will be put to work, said
Paulson, "'fixing holes in the walls and
ceilings an:! other minor work, which they
will receive pay for"

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Early winter quarter, Provost Byron
Youtz charged a D.T.F. to examine the
idea of changing Evergreen'sacademic
calendar system from quarters to semesters. The task force has outlined major
arguments for and against such a switch.
These are presented below.
Since few students participated on the
D.T.F., the members feel it is vital that
the arguments on both sides of the issue
be studied thoroughly, and that students
comment on what could be a major
change at Evergreen. To solicit comment,
the committee will conduct public hearings on Tuesday, March 10th, in the 2nd
floor lobby of the CAB building. Hearings
will be in two sections: 11:30-1:30 and
4:30-6:30.
The committee must forward their recommendation by early April and vote on
it at the April 8th faculty meeting.
If a semester system was adopted,
classes would run for about fifteen weeks,
instead of eight to ten as they do now.
This would mean that breaks between
classes would last about a month, and
that spring classes would end by mid-May
(thus allowing an early start on summer).
Faculty would stay an extra two weeks to
prepare for the subsequent fall quarter.
Summer school would probably begin in
the second week of June and run for an
eight to ten week session.

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Arguments in Favor of the Modified Early
Semester System
l'v1oretime and energy would be avail-·
able for teaching and learning because of

less time given to start-up· and wrap-up
activities. A full week of instruction would
be gained by eliminating one evaluation
week. The traditional disruption caused by
students entering late or changing
programs would be remedied by having
it occur twice instead of three times. Also,
evaluations would have to be written onlv
two times a year. T ,e semester system
would reduce the size of the transcript.
Expensive and time consuming activities such as program planning,' advising,
academic fairs, contract negotiation and
registration would occur only twice a
year. This would even out the work of
program secretaries and registrar staff.
With such an adjustment, program secretaries-would probably be able to help
faculty in teaching and research. Savings
may allow for more support to areas that
are nCM'being cut, such as counseling.
A switch from three terms to two,
rather than allowing fewer options to
students, would probably increase their
options because the present system of
one-three quarter long programs results in
many impossible curricular connections.
If the termination of one program doesn't
coincide with the beginning of the next
one a student wishes to take, they must
drop the first program early, drop out of
school or enroll in a program they are not
satisfied with.
By having a month long winter vacation, students would get a longer relief
from the pressures of school, and
wouldn't have to take a full quarter off.
This would improve the rate of student

retention and help students lose less time
getting their degrees. Winter break
would also give students more time to
catch up on incompletes.
In most colleges, faculty can do research while teaching. This is difficult at
best at Evergreen, and the long break
would facilitate such research. Also,
faculty could savor additional pleasures
of a month long vacation: study, travel,
or simply relaxing.
The' break would permit program secretaries and Registrar staff to finish all the
work from the fall before the next semester begins (probably eliminating overtime
work at the Registrar's office.).
Students would be able to make more
informed decisions about what programs
to take because program planning for fall
semester would take place during the last
two weeks in May. There would be detailed program descriptions, reading lists,
and schedules available in early summer.
This will aid summer recruitment of
students.
Early program planning would result
in better program plans. Faculty members
are now forced to donate unpaid summer
time to such planning because certain
matters, e.g. book orders, cannot be put
off until Sept. 15. Such summer planning
is difficult to arrange because of faculty
vacation travel. Semesters would make
summers more secure and productive. By
planning their programs in May, faculty
members will be able to better understand
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wildlife if the Island remains a prison, because that means public access will
remain restricted. This means less damage
to the wildlife ecosystems than if it was
sold to de-..elopersand given unrestricted
public access Some of the inhabitants of
the Island include 380 seals that reside in
a cove off the Island, Bald Eagles,a rookery of 79 Great Blue Heron nests, and
10,000Wigeons which use the Island for a
winter feeding ground.
There is currently a Senate Bill (3790) in
the works sponsored by Senator Irving
Newhouse,Senator Margaret Hurley and
Senator Bob McCaslin, which exempts the
the state from filing an environmental·
impact statement on the effects of
reopening the penitentiary. "The state has
upset many citizen groups by the highhanded methods they have used," said
Mayor D..il'l<in,"If they don't want to do
,omething, such as an environmental
impact statement, they just pass a bill."

Bill Would
Outlaw
Surrogate
Mothers
By

Theresa Connor

Surrogate motherhood arrangements ,rtificial insemination/adoption transJctions-may soon be illegal in Washington.
House Bill 592, introduced by Rep.
Phyllis Erickson, D-Puyallup, would legally
classify such arrangements as baby selling-a f~lony_in this ~ta~.
_
- Earlier, there had been some question
as to whether the present state statute
banning baby selling would apply to
surrogate motherhood arrangements. Last
week in an interview with CPJ, former
State Representative, Rick Smith, who
co-~ponsored the bill that made baby
selling a crime, said that such arrangements had not been considered when the
bill was passed last year.
Erickson introduced the bill outlawing
surrogate motherhood arrangements last
Friday after consulting with legal aides
and other legislators. The bill is cosponsored by Rep. Mike Padden, a lawyer,
and Rep. Brad Owens of Shelton. Erickson
said that many of the legislators she has
spoken with have supported the bill.
Some members of the public feel differently. Erickson was on KVI Radio after
the bill was introduced. She said that
many people who called in objected to
the bi II on the grounds that surrogate
motherhood arrangements were private
agreements between two consulting
adults, and that the government should
not be involved.
Erickson pointed out that surrogate
motherhood arrangements, like baby selling, are more than private transactions
between two adul,ts because they involve
a third party-a child.
··1 think we need to have it out and
discuss it in a public manner," said Erickson. "If it doesn't make it through the
legislature-well that's just the way it is.
At least it will have been discussed."
Rep. Erickson said that she has been
contacted by people who were concerned
about a surrogate mother service being
organized by Goodard and Wetherall, a
law firm in Redmond.
"The reaction I have been getting from
people," said Erickson in a11 interview
with the Seattle P-1,"is that . this is
really paying a person for renting their
body"

Olympia Beer: Earnings Co Flat

Seawuiff Launched
by Emily Brucker

by Andy McCormick
Despite reporting a slight increasejn
beer sales, the Olympia Brewing Company's earnings dropped by 58% in 1980. In
addition, last year's net income of $2.78
million was the lowest in a decade. And
to make matters worse, Olympia Brew
slipped behind Stroh's and is now the
eighth largest American brewery.
In a January news release James Senna,
President of Olympia Brew, emphasized
the upturn in overall beer sales. Although
part of the increase can be attributed to a
beer industry strike in Canada, total domestic barrelage was about the same as in
1979, Senna said.
• This compares to three years of successive decreases in Olympia Brew's
domestic beer sales. And, Senna said, the
1980 increase in sales "comes at a time
when industry growth is relatively low and
competitive activity very high. To a significant degree, 1980 volume reflects the
success of a very aggressive marketing
effort-an effort that will continue in
1981."
But a, a recent article in the Daily
Olympian point, out, Olympia Brew\
increased barrelage to b.09 million is

somewhat less impressive when compared
• to 1976's total output of 7.16 million.
In order to reverse the trend of decl ini ng sales the company increased its
marketing budget by 40% in e;l.rly 1980.
The money spent here, according to
Olympia Brew spokesman Mike Kilpatric,
is the main reason why earnings decreased
by 58% when production was up. Asked
how much money 40% of the marketing
budget is, Kilpatric said the company •
does not release such information.
Kilpatric also declined to comment on
when Olympia Brew expects its increased
expenditures on advertising to pay off.
More details will be available in April
when Olympia Brew releases its annual
report for 1980, he said.
One major advertising campaign iniated during 1980 has already been discontinued. According to Senna, the
campaign, designed to promote a new
super-premium beer, Medallion, was not
viable because a poor economy turned
consumers away from higher-priced
premium beers. Senna told the Daily
Olympian that new brands like Medallion
"are not the kind of things which will
make or break a company."

On December 26, 1980 Olympia Brew
began a major new advertising campaign
aimed at increasing sales of the Olympia
brand, the company's biggest selling label.
The campaign started in Washington state
and then, a month later, went national
with commercials shown during the Super
Bowl.
The campaign uses magical creatures
called Artesians who, like elves, protect
the waters that make Olympia beer taste
good. The "tongue-in-cheek" commercials
are being augmented by the distribution
of bumperstickers that carry the slogan,
"I seen 'em."
The Daily Olympian quoted Denis
Peterson, manager of the Olympia office
of Foster and Marshall Inc. (an investment
firm) as saying that the brewing company's financial problems hinge on its
having an ad campaign that will be
successful. And success, Peterson said,
hinges on the little Artesians right now.
While images of Artesians beam· into
America's living rooms, Olympia Brew
continues to produce 450,000 gallons of
beer a day. Despite the earnings drop in
1980, none of its 690 employees have
been laid off, Kilpatric said.

Veteran.,s Benefits Secure for Now
Ry Andrew Derby

Union to Give
Students Clout
b, [l1Labeth John;on
Last Thursday, twenty ,tudents met to
discu» what could become the most sub,ta11tIc1I
rhangf in student representation
evpr known ;it evergreen: the formation
01 a ,tuclf'nt union. Such unions exist at
virtuillh c1!I othPr rol leges and universities,
but one has never-been estab I ished here
/\\ilnv feel that with the enrollment growing, a student union is vital.
'>tudents attending the meeting decided
that all decisions would be reached in a
dPmocratic way by voting on the issues
rather than roming to a consensus. This
deCl',ion came because they felt it would
be difficult t,) reach consensus with the
growing number of students expected at
E_vergreE'n.
The group felt that student advocacy,
student services, and local politics are the
most impaiant things for the union to get
involved in, and decided they wanted to
lOOrd1natetheir efforts with the Student
Information Network.
'\!though the Student Union is not yet
an off1c1alorganization, and is still in the
planning stage, John Howat, one of the
union's organizers, said, "We're confident
of the union's likelihood to come together
and to succeed as a viable decision
making body." He also said that most
students are enthusiastic, and have no
doubts that the union will grow and
progress in.tQ__
i,I~
strong organization. John
said that the. union has the potential for
students to''gai'h•more power over what
happens at Evergreen.
The:-sruclent Union is considering keepi ~ a file of all the student evaluations of
the faculty members at Evergreen. This
will enable students to find out other
students' opinions of faculty members
when the-( are deciding which courses
they want to take. Students may be able
to tell when a teacher is incompetent
when they continuously receive bad
evaluations f:·om their students. They feel
that right now nothing is being done by
the deans, the administration, or the
board of trustees about teachers who for
years have conmtently received poor
tcvaluat1ons.If something were done
about this, 11might serve as an incentive
for teachers to do a better job. Howat
added that there are a lot of people who
~ply tor new teacnIng positions ar cve't!feP.n, people who may be better qualified
to teach than some of the present faculty.
The next Student Union meeting is
Thursday, March 5 at 4:00 in the Library
3200 lounge. All students are urged to
attend. The decision of whether cr not a
student union forms at Evergreen, thereby
giving the student body the clout it's
illways lacked, can only be made by the
,tudents themselves.
page 2 Cooper Pomt Journal

Last ,ummer·, Federnl court ruling on
the Veteran Administration's "seat time"
regulation, brought a short wave of panic
to vPterans attending Evergreen. But thi>
nisis died almost as quickly as it had
begun.
The controversial "seat time" rule stated
that benefits received under the G.I. Bill
would be granted on basis of the amount
of time a student spends in the classroom
A full-timf' student is defined as one who
spends at least 12 class sessions ( 10 class
hours) and receives full time credit (12 or
more credit hours)
Evergreen filed suit against the VA.
when it was announced rhat the "seat
time" rulE' would be enforced, but lost
that suit last July in the Ninth U.S Circuit
Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The
cvPrgrt>en Administration was concerned
-over enforcement of the Y.A. regulation,.
fearing a loss of veterans currently en-

rolled and -the discouragement of future
aprilicants. Those fears have since lapsed
William Jackson, Evergreen Veteran's
Coordinator, told the CPJ that enrollment
hasn't really changed as a result of the
"seat time" regulation. Enrollment of
veterans is down slightly, but this is a
trend occurring at all colleges.
"I he only major difference brought on
by the 'seat time' rule is to make it impos,iblf' for veterans to take internships or
individual contracts and still collect full
Y.A. benefits," said Jackson. "Most of our
students using individual contracts
switched to a coordinated studies program."
Jackson said that not all veterans have
forsaken internships or individual contracts because these are often necessary
in pursuing career goals. In cases like this,
the Y.A. covers the cost of tuition only.
The biggest problem the court ruling
created was the confusion in students'
clas n)om status. Each quarter brings a
volley of questions from students wishing
to know how their program stands in
relation to the "seat time" rule. Yet bigger

problems are created by students who do
not inquire. "We had one woman who
dropped out of school," said Jackson,
"because she thought she was ineligible
for benefits. She later reapplied and discovered that she had never lost her
eligibility in the first place."
To determine whether the "seat time"
rule is being adhered to, the Y.A. requires
classroom schedules of each student who
receives benefits. This creates a lot of
work for the Evergreen V.A. office because classes change each quarter. Efforts
to collect schedules are often hampered
by the slowness of the faculty to submit
classroom times.
Jackson could only speculate about a
change in Y.A. benefits under the Reagan
Administration. "Defense budgets are
rising," he said, "and the Federal government realizes that an awful lot of veterans
have been unhappy about their benefits
in the past. I think that to induce more
people into the armed forces, benefits will
have to improve. I'm sure that the Re.:i_gan
Administration has realized this too.''-

Reftections on a Saint
(Though He'd Deny It)
"Oh, may I join the choir invisible of
those immortal souls who live again."
George Elliot

by Kenneth Sternberg
I came to Evergreen for reasons other
than Willi Unsoeld, but would have arrived sooner had I known more about
him. My first program was Outdoor
Education; something that Willi had pioneered. I was looking.forward to working
with him, but fate determined that this
was one of the few times Willi would
teach another program. Although I felt a
loss, I was sure I would get to know him
in some other way.
That fall, Willi lectured us about the
Mt. Everest expedition. This proved to be
dangerous because no one in the room
felt the same about their lives after the
final slide clicked away. To hear Willi
speak about anything was to be spellbound. But to listen to him casually
discuss one of the greatest struggles and
achievements known in mountaineering
history was when the words inspiring, or
religious, could safely be used. Willi's
astounding mixture of humor, pragmatism,
joy and absolute love for living made me
feel _ashamedof thinking I had any serious
problems.
It was months before we spoke in
depth. Many times I had approached him,
repeating what many had told him in the
past: I didn't know him, but had a strong
desire (overwhelming need was the unspoken feeling) to get closer to him. "Well
Ken," he said with his booming voice, and
those gleaming eyes that few people seem

March 5. 1981

to have, "come around to my office and
we'll talk."
Things went on like this for quite
awhile. I'd see him often, walking across
Red Square. If we spoke at all, it was
briefly; more often than not while he was
walking to one of his pressing committments. Chronically overextended in his
obligations, Willi could rarely say no to
those who sought his advice and wisdom.
Although Willi had experienced severe
personal suffering that may have destroyed others, his overwhelming passion
for life remained untouched. At least
publicly
While becoming friends with his son, I
realized how deeply ingrained this passion
was in the entire Unsoeld clan. I often
lamented on how my own life seemed so
empty compared to theirs. A friend of
mine observed that while Willi's children
had been encouraged to live fully from an
early age, I had probably been encouraged
in the opposite direction. There seemed
to be some truth to that.
Willi and I finally did speak at length.
Two weeks before his trip to Mt. Rainier
I vislted his office and we spoke of things
which concerned us:-Evergreen's increased
conservatism, learning (real learning) and
the limits that affect growth. At one point
he told me that he was angry with whoever had treated me in such a way that I
was so tense and rigid. As usual, his ob• servation was stunningly accurate. The
rest I can't remember, but I do recall his
laughter, and that when I left I felt much
closer to this wonderful man. The time
was too brief, but we agreed to meet
again.

When I heard the news of his death I
absolutely did not believe it, and told the
person who told me that if he was joking
he'd soon be in deep, physical pain.
But it wasn't a joke, and my sadness
increased daily I am still sad that Willi is
not around; that I'll never hear his laughter or be able to speak· to him again. The
only answer I get when I ask why is that
he was here to change the lives of others;
to inspire them to overcome their limits.
Such people never seem to be here very
long
I prefer to think of Evergreen as Willi's
dream, his baby. When he died there was
no one left here to inspire people quite so
deeply. Things are no longer conducive to
the type of learning that Willi believed
was the most valuable. Blame it on the
times, Evergreen's enrollment crisis or on
the weather, but when he died a significant portion of Evergreen died too.
In speaking of his days in college, I.F.
Stone commented about his professors,
"The few islands of greatness .seemed to
be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity" I think this sentiment could well
apply here.
But if people and their ideas ever die, it
is only when they are forgotten. I would
sooner count all the stars before tallying
the number of people whose lives were
touched and catylized for change by "
Willi. My life would have been emptier
without him, and I know there are many
around the world who feel the same. We
carry his memory and live his philosophy,
and in so doing Willi is more alive in
death than most who are living.

Amidst a shower of champagne, sea
chanteys, and publicity, Evergreen's first
flagship, the' Seawulff, will be officially
commissioned 1 p.m. Sunday at Percival
landing. The ceremony is expected to
draw people from both the college and
Olympia communities.
Sunday's christening marks the end of a
ten year effort to design, construct, and
set afloat the 38 foot sailing vessel.
During this time literally hundreds of students, faculty and community boat-builders were involved in the project.
Provost Byron Youtz, a long time
Seawulff supporter, will preside over the
festivities which will include a speech on
the ship's history by Evergreen president
Dan Evans. Faculty member Jim Gulden
will relate some of his experiences in
building the Seawulff. Other speeches by
those involved with the Seawulff will also
be heard.
After the ceremony, from 2 to 4 p.m.,
the public will be invited to tour the
Seawulff.
The Seawulff was originally conceived
as being a learning experience for those
interested in wooden boat building and
design. After being completed, the ship
would serve as a sail-powered research
boat.
By 1975 members of the program
Marine Sciences and Crafts had nearly
completed the boat's hull. The project
was housed at Long Boatworks on
Olympia's Westside. But then tragedy, in

the form of a large fire, struck Long Boat
and the Seawulff was lost.
Marine Sciences and Crafts began anew,
but it was largely the ·combined
fundraising efforts of the College and
Olympia communities that enabled the
project to get underway. Wood and equipment were donated at cost by local businesses, and community boat bL1i!ding
experts joined in the effort.
Ber· een 1975-80 two programs, Resear h Vessel and Design and a boat
buil ing study, were directly involved in
conslruction of the Seawulff. Last December, in an informal ceremony, the boat
was finally launched and pronounced
seaworthy.
The Seawulff will be used as research
vessel for students and faculty to study
the marine environment of Puget Sound
and to utilize wind power as a wc1yof
saving energy.
The cost of the vessel is difficult to
estimate because of the amount of donated equipment and hours of volunteer
labor involved in construction. However,
the boat will be insured for about
$100,(XX)

Pete Sinclair will be the vessel's first
captain and stand at the helm on Sunday
when the Seawulff glides into Percival
Landing His crew will consist of faculty
members who participated in building the
boat and Don Fasset, a local boat builder
who oversaw much of the work that went
into the Seawulff.
The Seawulff is named for student boat
builder Reid Wulft who died in an unrelated boating accident in 1978.

Evergreen May Change to Semester System
Continued from page

1

what they are going to do and formulate
effective teaching methods.
The semester system would help yearlong programs by removing the temptation
(or chance) to drop out in March when
energy may be low. By dropping out then,
students may miss the essence of the
program. Many themes and issues don't
come together until the end.
The semester system would probably
descrease the spring attrition of students
and even out the student-faculty ratio
over the year. This would not require that
seminar sizes be inflated in the fall in
anticipation of spring declines.
It would be easier to help new studeots_entering at mi_d-year.At present we
need programs for new and switching
students for BOTH winter and spring
quarters. Providing enough options is difficult. Currently, the college has a hard
time attracting new students for spring
quarter-just when many students drop
out. 5€mesters would allow more time for
developing program themes, building
group cohesion, and combining field and
classroomwork.
At present, faculty must report at
mid-term which students are failing or
I iable to fai I. This is more feasible after
eight weeks rather than five.
Such a semester system would coordinate with other colleges already using it.
Fifty three percent of U.S. higher ed.
institutions use a semester system, and
the number is growing. It would fit"well
with high schools.
Arguments Against the Semester System
Students will perceive less flexibility in
the curriculum. The need to conceptualize
programs in larger blocks may mean the
demise of specialized programs that can
be offered in one-quarter length periods,
but which wouldn't draw enough students
to warrant a one-semester length period.
Semester long programs and modules
would be less attractive to part-time students, particularly those with jobs and
children.
The period for orientation in the fall
for students and faculty would be insufficient. Curricular planning in May
might be less productive due to faculty
fatigue. The reduction in paper work
in the Registrar's offices may result in ~he
belief that work force reductions are
being considered, thus having an adverse
effect on staff morale.
adverse effect on staff morale.
Under a semester system, students
(and faculty) in a seminar or program they
didn't like would be stuck there longer.
Many feel that quarters are too short
to ;ibsorb conceptually difficult materials.
This may not apply at Evergreen, where

most instruction is in the program format;
which encourages intensive study of less
material compared to courses that stress
extensive coverage at the expense of
depth
Changing calendar systems may add to
Evergreen's community relations problem
by adding one more item that needs to be
explained.
The Library would need to be open
over much of the break between fall and
spring semesters. This may be a burden to
staff members there. The library would
have to re-evaluate its policy on length of
loans for books af!d media equipment. •
Tuition fees will be lumped higher
with semesters, and will cost over. .$100
more ($309 vs. $206). Some students may
have trouble paying it all at once.
The Registrar's office would be required to build a conversion system for
translating quarter hour credits to semester credits. This would be in addition to
the conversions required by earlier
changes in the recording of work completed at the College. Future institutional

research would be complicated by the
additional series of ctcdit units.
Faculty would have far less opportunity for unpaid professional leave.
Losing half a year's salary is less managable than missing one third of a year.
Considerable faculty planning would
be necessary to convert to semesters. This
would occur as the college is growing and
adding master's programs, both of which
require substantial amounts of time. The
additional conversion process may overload some of the best faculty planners.
College staff would be adversely affected
during the transition period by having to
plan new procedures, and having to educate the camp-us community on how the
new systems work.
Ambiguous Issues
Semesters would help students get
summer jobs· by freeing them in mid-may.
But it may inconvenience them by having
to finish these jobs by early 3eptember.
Such an earlier start would probably
detract some students from entering in

·he fall, even though retention would
improve in spring.
A switch would probably mean that
ine to two quarter long programs would
ht> changed to one semester programs.
fhis. in effect, would both lengthen and
;horten present programs.
Faculty sabbatical leaves are currently
: paid for two quarters. A change to
semesters would probably adjust ,his period to the length of a semester. Thus,
more faculty would get paid leave but for
less time.
The computer costs of such a change
would be substantial. But such costs
would be greatly reduced if a decision
was made by summer because the school
is getting new computers that would have
to be programed from scratch.
This outline should help you clarify
your position on the potential switch to
the semester system. Questionaires will be
distributed to each program, and to program secretaries. Remember to voice your
opinion via the questionaires and at the
public hearings on March 10th.

Mysti cal Roots in a Barren Land
by l:lizabeth Jolinson
Findhor11 i, c new age, spiritual community which Peter and Eileen Caddy
started building in 1962. Peter spoke
about Findhorn at Evergreen, Tuesday,
Feb. 17.
The couple moved into their trailer on
a windy peninsula near the North Sea.
Because they received only sixteen dollars
a week in unemployment compensation,
they supplemented their budget by growing vegetables. Peter had never sown a
seed before in his life, and the only soil
present was sand and gravel. Both factors
combined to make the garden a failure.
Then Eileen received guidance through
meditation from an inner voice to telepathically contact the "devas." "Deva" is
a Sanscrit word meaning, literally, "shin,ing ones." Referred to by Peter as "angelic
archetypal, formative forces," they are the
spirits of plants. Certain people in the
community, including Eileen, have gained
the ability to communicate with the
Devas, and also other nature spirits which
include gnomes, fairies and elves.
Through this communication and cooperation with the Devas and nature spirits,
Findhorn grew amazing things: 42 pound
cabbages and tomatoes so big that it was
almost impossible to grasp one with one
hand. Peter said that it is only modern,
western man who has developed intellect

and science so far that he lost the aware1ess of the nature spirits around him.
lndiginous tribes such as native Americans, Aborigines, and certain South
American tribes have always been aware
of these spirits. "There's no known
method of organic husbandry that could
account for the growth within this garden.
There were other factors and they were
vital ones," Peter said.
After.three to four years of living in the
trailer, Eileen received a vision of "seven
mobile, sandwood bungalows, surrounded
by beautiful gardens and lovely flower •
beds." Even though they had nothing to
start building with, the Caddys proceeded
"in faith." If they followed their intuition
correctly, things would be provided for
them as were needed.
News about the Caddy's successful garden spread, and by 1973 they had 120
people who had come to visit and
decided to stay in the bungalows which
the Caddys had built. Currently, the community has about 250 permanent members and 120 guests at a time. Findhorn
has become a series of villages including
the islands of Iona and Erraid. "It's the
last place (excluding Iona a·nd Erraid) that
anybody in their right mind would choose
to start a garden or a spiritual community," said Peter, referring to the opinions
ht>ld by some agriculturalists.

The life-style of Finclhorn is based on
intense personal and spiritual growth.
Instead of looking outward ior spiritu;il
guidance, people are told to look within
themselves and listen to their own inner
voice.
Findhorn is run by a core group, which
is in the main policy-making body oi the
community. There are also three ma1or
branches: the administrative branch is rt~
sponsible for legal, planning, organizational, administrative and financial matters.
Another branch is responsible for the education of guests, new members through
workshops, seminars, and conferences.
The third branch Is made up oi the iocalizers, or leaders, of the different work
departments which comprise the •
community All decisions made within the
community are reached by consensus.
Peter Is presently on a three-month tour
along the west coast from San Diego to
Alaska. His goal is to establish an interlocking network of new-age communities
throughout the planet "There's so much
to be done in the healing of this planet,
so many changes that mankind must
make, unless he destroys himself, one way
or another," said Peter. "We have reached
the most exciting time in the whole
history of mankind, where we can eitherdestroy ourselves, or go into a new and
wonderful era."
March 5, 1981 Cooper Point loumal

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The NewfoundlandSeal Hunt: A TragicWaste
Half of all the seal pups born are killed
by hunters. This is a frighteni.ng percentage for a species that is suffering an
accelerated rate of decline. The 1977 harp
seal quota of 170,000 was raised to
180,000 even though the former limit had
not been met. This indicates that there
will be a serious reduction in population,
particularly of new born pups.

by Rob Sandelin

The Human Tragedy
by Jim Lyon
Now co~
the human tragedy. The
tragedy so many legislators on Capitol Hill
have pretended wasn't going to happen .
But haste and blind stupidity assured that
on Sunday, March 1st, the truth would
shine through.
On that day, the welfare cuts mandated
by the legislature went into effect. More
than 18,000 people will be affected,
mostly the poor, the handicapped, and
the elderly. Our own governor has called
these cuts "repugnant to him as a human
being.'.' Nlany senior citizens will receive
their notices and shake their heads. Some
won't understand. The 430 people in
nursing homes who'll be evicted over the
next several months because their incomes are too high for welfare, but not
enough to pay enormous medical bills,
probably won't understand.
The program that has supported these
people is called Federal Aid Medical Care
Only The legislature has decided to eliminate it entirely Most of the men and
women being cut are in their BCYs,some
don't speak English, let.alone understand

the legaleseof the state notices.Most of
thesepeoplehave no place to go. The
humantragedy,indeed.
And what does our state legislaturedo?
They havemoney for muralsand California computers that will fatten the lines
of their political territories but they don't
have money for these people. Rod Chandler, a key House leader and a man who
should knCM'better, wistfully hopes "that
maybe the nursing homes will keep the
penniless patients for free." You wonder
what world he's living in. Mike Kreidler,
our own Olyrrpia representative, who
didn't vote for the cuts, says "wholesale
cuts were made without any knowledge of
what they meant." That says a lot about
what's going on up on the hill.
Someone once said that you can tell a
lot about a society by the way it treats its
old pecple. That may be true. And when
this budget was being railroaded through
the Hruse, Andrew Nisbet, one of the
shortsighted little men who rammed it
through committee, heartlessly referred to
it as "a package of tears." For what's been
done to those 430 people, a real human
tragedy, he should truly weep.

CPJon Photographs
bv lim I ongley

photograph, that week, would be to not
run the photograph at all. Another
method to cut down poor reproduction\
is to edit out photographs whose main
intent relies on fine detail or delicate
shading. The paper that almost all newspapers are printed on is too cheap and
crude (25¢ instead of $1.50 at the newsstand) to sustain much detail of a fine arts
photograph But that's not to say that
newspaper photos can't be evocative,
challenging and moving, as anybody who
reads a good newspaper knows.
•

I 17thP Feb. 19 issue of The Cooper
Point Journal, a photograph by Lori Mink
was used 017the back page of the paper
U17fortunatelv, the photograph reproduced
poorly and Lori wrote a letter to the CPJ,
cec 26, protesting our handling of her
photograph
I'd like to respond to Lori's complaints
and also point out some of the factors
involvf>d in the reproduction of photographs in d newspaper in general.
There was one major reason-that was
thf> cause of the poor reproduction; too
Al this point, I'd like to make an open
much ink. When the CPJ leaves the hands
invitation to photographers and artists of
o: the staff to be printed in Shelton Thursall shapes, persuasions and styles to bring
day morning, it is completely in the hands
your work to the CPJ. We need and want
of the printers When the printers (i e. The
more input from students and staff to
Slwlton Journal) use too much or too little
make this paper a truly representative
,nk. the final product is greatly affected.
publication We need hard news photos
On Feb 19, the printers used too much
of events on campus and in town; photo111kand the paper suffered for it. I'm sure
journalistic work depicting important
many readers noticed that almost all the
issues and Mt photographs for entertainphotograQhs_ill_~d_
in that issue (/LQL9J,
_117_ent
purposes.
-taif as well as contributing photog'raphers' work, came out very dark. A numThere are many talented artists and
ber of advertising graphics were also dark
photographers in the Evergreen commu(La Petite Maison, for instance). It is unnity It's a shame they are not taking ,
fortunate that this sometimes happens,
advantage of the opportunity to be pubbut it does, and there has to be a certain
lished right here on campus. I can't
tolerance for variation of printing week to
guarantee your photographs will reproweek because that is the reality of newsduce exactly as you intended but the
paper publication
paper will make every effort to do the
From the standpoint of the CPJ staff,
hest it can. The more participation and
the only sure-fire way to prevent a poor
submissions we get, the better the CPJwill
reproduction of Lori's, OLanybody's
be and I think· that's what we all want.

Cooper Point Journal
Editor
Theresa Connor
Associate Editors
Kenneth Sternberg
Philip Watness
Roger Stritmatter
Phil Everling
Andy McCormick
Robin Willett
Production Manager
Susanne Lakin
Busin~s Manager
Karen Ber.ryman
Advertising Manager
Richard Ordas

Writers

Andrew Derby
Kenn Goldman
Dawn Collins
Bill Livingston
Elizabeth Johnson
James Lyon
Emily Brucker
Jeff Cochran
Denise Paulsen
Bi 11Montague
Peter Principle
Photographers
Nancy Butler
Jim Longley

he Cooper Poin1 Journal is published weekly
tor 1he students, faculty and staff ot The ,Everreen Slate College. Views expressed are not
necessarily those ot lhe College or ot the
Journal's staff. Advertising material contained
herein does not imply endorsement by this
newspaper. Offices are located in the College
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All lettera to the
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Production
Bill Livingston
Pamela Dales
Shirley Greene
Brendan Potash

March 5, 1981

arts and·events Items must be received by noon
Tuesday lor that week's publication. All articles
are due by 5 p.m. Friday tor publication the
following week. All contributions
111.\JSI
. be
signed, typed, double-spaced and of reasonable
length. Names will be withheld on request.
The editors reserve the right to reject material
and to edit any contributions for length, content, and st le.

For a few days each spring, world attention is focused on the ice floes off of
Newfoundland as ships carrying men from
Canada and Norway converge on the
nursery grounds of the North Atlantic
Harp seal. This year, 180,000 newborn seal
pups wi II die in the annual ritual -of the
In 1977 an aerial census was done with
seal hunt, sacrificing their snowy white
infrared sensing that revealed a populapelts to the demands of the fashion
tion of 231,000 harp seal pups. All future
markets of the world.
aerial censuses have been canceled by the
International Commission for Northwest
The North Atlantic Harp Seal populaAtlantic
Fisheries as the current status of
tion has rapidly declined over the last 25
the population of harp seals challenges
years and is now at only 10% of its
the Canadian government's claim that
former numbers. The Canadian governthere has been no decline in the harp seal
ment has blatantly ignored scientific evipopulation. This attitude of "managedence that the harp seal population is
ment" by government officials may well
rapidly approaching a critical low point.

1etterslettersJette
On Being Angry•
Dear Editor:
Re: Phillip Everling's article: "Name
In order for your submission to run in
Calling Fosters Separatism":
the CPJ the week you would like, it must
People often do not communicate
be turned in to us by the Friday previous
clearly
when they're angry. Often, expressto the date of publication. Included are:
ing anger takes priority over being educaLetters to the editor, letters for Forum,
tional. Angry people sometimes direct
news stories, poetry for Preface, Arts &
their anger at people not totally responEvents and News & Notes. Classifieds are
sible
for their oppression. Yet we all do
accepted up to the Tuesday before publiperpetuate oppression in some form, and
cation. Whether or not your submission
we need both support for changing ourwill make it into the issue of your choice
selves from others who are changing, and
is dependant upon the availability of
criticism from those who we're oppressing.
space. Get your article in as soon as posExperiencing firsthand, the outright
sible to make sure it doesn't get bumped
hatred and subtle invalidation that people
to the following issue. Motate. OON'T
of color, working-class people, wimmin,
PROCRASTIN~TE!.
and gays and dykes face, can help us
understand their anger, and replace our
defensiveness with unity and support of
their struggles. Hence, here's some suggestions which might change your ideas
To the Editor:
about "petty griping over trivial matters."
I have recently become a member of
1. Please define "paranoid negativism." 2.
the Immoral Minority, a local tongue-inSit in a classroom where you are the only
cheek organization with a very serious
person of your skin color. 3. Walk downpurpose: to expo~e the absurdities of the
town with your arm around another man.
so-called "Moral Majority" in their attempt. 4. Spend a week without any cash, checkto bully everyone into following their nar- book, or credit card. 5. Put on a dress,
row and draconian world-view.
shave well, and hang out at the Eastside
I have one objection to joining the
. Club.
I mmoral-Minority.-1-don't like-the-idea of - Amy-leeweAtal,--.
~-~
admitting that a group whose major purCo-coordinator Gay Resource Center
pose is defending the values inherent in
the Bill of Rights is in a minority. I don't
believe it is a minority. I get livid just
RE: Theresa Connor's "Open Letter to the
thinking that the Moral Majority believes
Third World Community"
it is in a majority
Theresa's "Open Letter" comes at a
Let's examine some facts. The Moral
Majority is closely associated with funda- truly needed time. It is true, as she so
mentalism yet only 35% of all Americans, ably asserts, that there is a "history,"
somewhat colorful, behind the "conflict''
at the highest estimate, are "born-again"
Christians. The MM is an opponent of
and "disagreement" between the CPJ and
reproductive choice, public sex education the Third World community. Even when
birth control and the ERA, but for a doze~ she describes the feeling of "many Third
years a majority of Americans have supWorld students and staff members" toported these very issues in most nationward the CPJ as one of "animosity," she
wide polls. The MM is said to have the
does not go too far; because, as she conear of Ronald Reagan and the Republicedes, this feeling "may" be well founded.
cans yet only 26% of all eligible voters
To charges by the Third World compulled the lever for Reagan. And Demomunity that "in the past" the CP) has
crats, believe it or not, still outnumber
been "racist, sexist, and insensitive" to
Republicans Some local chapters of the
their "needs," their "issues," Theresa also
Moral Majority have called for burning
concedes some validity. But, of course,
the books of authors like Vonnegut,
further than this Theresa cannot go. For
Huxley and even Harold Robbins. I can
the Third World community has comnot imagine most Americans condoning
mitted a grave indiscretion, yes, very
such Nazi-like tactics. (I would like to
grave indeed. Some of their members
point out that there are probably more
have expressed "attitudes" and "stands"
acts of violence and sex in the Bible than
since their spolkespersons met with Dan
in the entire life's work of Harold Ro'bbins Evans that have proven a disappointment
although I do admit the Bible's authors ' to Theresa.
were better grammarians.)
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And Theresa, mind you, does not take
Perhaps the Moral Majority is like
kindly to criticism, just or unjust, from
Richard Nixon's Silent Majority which
Third World slackers who have made
very vocally u~ged him from office not
"little or no effort" to reciprocate her
two years after he'd conned them into
efforts at disinterestedness. What can be
giving him a landslide victory.
expected, when she's not met halfway?
So the next time someone asks you
A further effect of this indiscretion, which
what you think of the Moral Majc,rity, ask of course the Third World community
them this: Do you think we'd have the
must also accept responsi,bility for, is that
freedom today even to criticize groups
they have, by their insensitivity, caused a
like the Moral Majority (or print letters
hardworking student-editor to embarrass
like this) if a majority of the framers of
herself by an untiml"I·,. , 1politic display
our Constitution had had their religious
of the rankest conde, _e.i; ion, unfortunate
. and political instruction under Jerry Falfor her already maculate reputation.
.
Reginald Maxwell
well and friends?
Third World Community Member
Evergreen Alumnus
F. R Joslin

Who's the Majority?

Open LetterWelcomed

mean that the harp seal will follow the
path of the Atlantic Walrus, which was
ruthlesslyhunted into extinction by
Canada.
An argument raisedby the Canadian
governmentofficials is that the hunt is an
economic necessity-nothing is farther
from the truth. In actuality, only 0.1
percent of the Newfoundland economy is
dependent upon sealingand only 0.2
percent of the province's· 560,000 people
are employed in the sealing industry. Over
75 percent of the Canadian landsman
make $200 or. less from the seal hunt. The
real profits from sealing go to the large
ship owners and the European companies
(mainly Norwegian) who turn the pelts
into finished products
The greatest tragedy of the whole affair,
is that almost half-of the pelts from last

year's harvest are still stockpiled in warehouses in Norway and Germany.
Since 1976 Greenpeace has traveled to
the ice floes in order to non-violently
protest the seal hunt and publidze this
tragic waste of life. This year the Greenpeace vessel "The Rainbow Warrior,"
carrying a crew from nine nationalities,
will travel to the Newfoundland ice floes
to express 111ternat1onalopposition to the
hunt.
On Thursday March 12th, Olympia
Greenpeace is forming a carpool lo prive
to the Seattle Harp Seal demonstration,
which begins at noon. To Join in the
demonstration against this senseless
;laughter, contact Olympia Greenpeace,
:n the Environmental Resource center. or
:all 866-6784.
Robert Sandelin is the coordinator oi
Olympia Greenpeace.

letters letters letters.letters letters
Critiquingan Art"Crit~c
To the Editor,
Regarding Jeff Cochran's review of the
U W. Graduate Metals Show,
About the difference between craft and
art It is difficult to say what makes good
art. I think it is partly the intention and
clarity of the artist. if the artist is fooling
himself, then this will become apparent in
time to the perceptive viewer. Craft, on
the other hand, can be what seals the
work (whether good or bad) with a kind
of integrity. This quality may not always
be apparent immediately.
There is another definition of craft that
artists like to use-it being opposed to art
(rather than supporting it)-that
is, something that has been done once, then
again, and over and over until it is a result of manual dexterity with no heart or
inspiration. This definition is somehow incomplete though it i9 widely used in art
circles.
This said, I would like to ask why Jeff
Cochran thinks that because Skip
Gaynard's piece, "The Big Gulp," lies on
its side and will not hold liquid this way,
that it is bad craft? Obviously, it was not
meant to hold liquid in this position. It
was, however, executed with an attention
Jo._detailand finished with a sense of
pride and, to me,-was well-crafted. But
also it is a cup. So what does it mean
when a cup is made so that it won't stand
up but must lie downl It may imply something beyond craft. To me, this is
significant.
Regarding Liz Howell's pieces with the
steel and sticks-these don't seem so intensely personal that they're inaccessible,
as Jeff says they are. Especially when her
statement claims that they are about her
experience with her environment. Her
environment must be the same as ours. Nature and man-made structures-and the
pieces combine these two elements to
make a unified and clear statement.
George Kimball's works, among my few
favorites in the show, are more difficult.
They are not immediately seductive unless
you appreciate this kind of stuff. J.C. says
they are cliched visual images. Calling
something a cliche is easy if you don't
like it and it is in a recognizable vein, as
most art is. But the greatest truths are
cliches, and if you are concerned with
truth, then you digest these cliches and
spit them back out. It's sometimes hard
to tell if the results are superficial or if
they reveal some insight.
•
I would like to see a review in this
paper of an exhibit at TESC by someone
who knows what artmaking entails and
how to talk about it.
Thank you,
Daniel Finn

ClosedMeetings
To the Editor
and the Evergreen Community:
The following information was not
printed in this newspaper two weeks ago:
The CPJ was barred from two other meetings on the same day that they tried to
attend the closed meeting of the Third
World Community. Isn't that interesting?

Satire Successful•
One was the President's cabinet meeting,
and the other was a Dean's meeting. If
the issue is open vs. closed meetings, how
did this gross oversight occurl Why was
the Third World Community singled outl
No matter what the reasoning, I see no
excuse for not reporting this information
111the article, "CPJ Editor Protests Closed
Meetings."
As for President Evans's position on this
matter, he said at a Student Council meeting last week that his meeting with the
Third World Community was indeed
private.

To the Editor:
.,
In reference to Larry Stillwell's forum
''Satire at Evergreen: No Laughing Matter"
{Jan. 22), I was not one of those who
missed former C.P.J editor Kathy Davis'
referal to Larry's satire· issue as "illconceived and poorly timed." I felt then,
and feel now, that Larry's-satire issue was
well-conceived, brilliantly timed, and,
more importantly, it was hilarious.
The satire incurred the undue indignation and attempts at censorship it
received from the people whor:n Larry
mentioned because it laid to ridicule the
standard conventions held at Evergreen.
As Larry aptly put it, "Are we so intellectually bankrupt here that liberal fascism,
knee jerk racism and censorship chic will
win out over humor, irreverence and
independent thinking?''

Political Ecology, Science and the computer. Philosophy Of Theater, Culture and
- Consciousness and. Sc.ience And Government: titles for .thinkers and philosophers.
Opportunities have broadened without
Si,lCrificin.g.the-idealistic approach to
learning. Greeners are thus free to dream
but outside the ivory tower. As the world
evolves, Greeners evolve
Tom Diamond

AlteredStates

Dear Editor CPJ,
Altered Srare, may be a "cosmic deMelanie Gulick
light" as your reviewer, Mr~~verling,
states. But like most other trips, it rarely
touches base with reality There are
amusing touches sweaty lovemaking between academics is follo"Yed. even
To the Editor,
accompanied, by pedantic discussions ni
I wantto sincerely thank everyone who
the origin of life and consciousnessWalter Carpenter, New London, N.H.
helped support KAOS-fm this last weeklong, cumbersome, foolish speeches, the
an
Evergreen
grad.
of
1980
end in our On-the-Air Auction. It was a
anthropologist,
true to long-standing film
huge succ~ss and raised over $1,500 for
convention, wears khaki shorts even in
the station. Our special thanks to,
Boston (cf alternative acceptable wear
- the local merchants and individuals
To
concerned
Greeners,
for
cinema anthropologists, i e. the white
who donated all the items and services
Is
Evergreen
becoming
a
traditional,
lab
coat worn by Joan Crawford in the
that made the auction possible
career-Oriented, and even (I shudder at
memorable Trog. One wonders if Vine
- the folks at the CPJ, Judy McNickle
Deloria saw real anthropologists Dr 1ust
and the Olympia papers who helped pub- the thought) a conservative institution!II
Some
say
it
is
...
rest
assured
it
isn't
but
too many bad movies.); the anthropololiciLe _the_~\l~nt
te-marFiage--is..~ekindled
- all of you who listenedand bTcf
ori-- -stodenr attitodes-are changing-to reflect-a·- --g1~>1:'s-commitmeA-t
changing world.
when her h·usband begins to make sounds
the i terns and services offered
In the early seventies, when Evergreen
which resemble field recordings she has
- all of the wonderful volunteers who
began,
the
economy
seemed
O.K.
The
made of baboons; the intere,t becomes
staffed the auction, and the phones, for
average Greener did not worry about
even more acute when the husband takP,
such long hours at KAOS.
money. Credits didn't matter either. If.
on the physical characteristics of a
THANKSI
someone actually did graduate, he got a
nPaturP which looks the way a T1me-L1fe
B.A
Communes
were
"in"
and
Greeri.ers
-·
··.:irt,st
might imagine i\ustralophithecus to
Sincerely,
were in them Pop psychology books like
look (a less than tive--foot. 150-pound
Toni Holm
anrestor which roamed the plains of
Development Coordinator On Becoming A Person and Joy were
admired. Machiavelli and his greedy
Africa three to four rrnllion years agoPrince were sneered down into the capisee Lucy: The Beginnings oi Huma11~1nr/
talist crap pile. The Greener was interestby Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A
Dear Editor:
ed in his soul. •
Edey for a controversial state-of-the-art
Your recent article "Farris Denies Video
Today's Greener is not so romantic.
exposition. Mr. Johanson. an anthropoloProject" in the February 19, 1981 issue
With an increasing unemployment rate
gist, is rumored to wear designer slacks
makes several references to information I
and a faltering economy, money feels
and Gucci shoes.) Though most of the
provided at the request of Mr. Montague
rather comfortable in his pocket. He
film is simply ridiculous, it 1sat t11nes,nin telephone conversation.
wants to validate his education with a
suiting. It seems to me to be an ob\ ,ou,
In that conversation, I quoted the entire
-najor. In a recent seminar on Thomas
rip-off of John Lilly's work, for example
contents of RCW 28A.58.053 to Mr.
\1ore's communal Utopia, students were
using a "Samadhi Tank," which I believP
Montague which in pertinent part reads:
asked if they would consider living in
Lilly designed; for isolation experiments
"Every school district board of directors
Utopia-they
would not. Pop psychology
Lilly is mentioned briefly in another conshall, after following established probooks are something to joke about and
tPxt. More insulting is the brief s-equence
cedure, adopt policy assuring parents
Machiavelli offers some good pointers on
which deals with our hero's trip to Mexico
<1ccessto their child's classroom and/or
scaling the corporate pyramid. Today's
to find a magic brew. The "bruja" 1sa
school sponsored activities for purposes
Greener may still be interested in his soul
cartoon of a Don Juan character (so the
of observing .. "
but he also wants his education to help
caricature is caricatured). the cave drawYour article states I expressed "the
give him something spendably green.
ings appear to have been done by a fouropinion that a request to film a class in
The Greener is responding to an erratic
year-old Australian Aborigine with a piece
progress would be looked upon more
world and its economic difficulties. With
of blackboard chalk and the filmmaker
favorably if the person making such a
ti is new influx of economically minded
has unforgivably stolen for a sound track
request had a child attending the school
sturlents, the college has adjusted, yet
for this sequence music from Tibetan
where the class was being held." I do not
, only ori the periphery.
Buddhist religious rites. The track is
recall expressing the opinion but I do re-Evergreen is like an island with a forest
clearly a recording of dung-chen wrich
call stressing that state law speaks to
in the center. The sandy beach shifts with
are long trumpets used, I believe, in
requirements for parent assurances of
wind and waves. Sometimes the beach is
rituals of the Drukpa order in Bhutan. Not
access to their child's classroom or school
steep; sometimes ,1 ~!opes gently. A sandcontent that we should hear and associate
activities. Any broader application of
bar r'ni~ht appear where before there was
this music with Mexican Indians, the filmassurances would be a matter for local
a
quiet
cove.
The
forest,
however,
stays
maker shows us the Indians in a cave
school board policy determination.
intact, its roots holdir,,., ".ie island togethplaying long trumpets. This is not only
er. It endures. The fo, '°!'. is evergreen.
ridiculous-this
is a blatant commercial
Sincerely,
The student-teacher relationship and
disregard for the integrity, even the
Jim D. McMinn
educational philosophy of Evergreen is
sanctity, of traditions.
Agency Rules Analyst
still
idealistic.
Flip
through
the
1981/82
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Lynn D. Patterson
catalog and you viii see programs lilfe

Thanksfrom KAOS

GreenersEvolve

ClassroomClarification

March 5, 1981

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by Peter Principle

He is aware that the dream has started·
the image clicks into position in front of
him as if proiected upon a two-dimensional
screen. Be~ore him, he can see a perfectly flat expanse of concrete; a white·.
featureless surface that lades into a dim
background of distant rolling hill,. The
hill, ,eem to twist and undulate behind a
shroud of grey clouds. The sky is filled
with a vague feeling of ange1. The silence
feels like a threat.
In the distance an army ieep enters the
left side of the picture, heading towards
him across the concrete plain. As it draws
near. he can clearly make out a large
white star upon its olive-drab hood. The
driver is a shadow, but he can see the
face-it glows above the hidden body. As
the face approaches he is able to make
out the features. The feeling of danger
grows sharper, more pervading. Suddenly
he can see the driver's lace. The lace is
hi, own.
There is a blinding flash. The hills turn
a brilliant red for a fractured instant and
then disappear into the glaring light. As
the blinding glare begins to fade, the ier;p
turns quickly over on its side and disintegrates, breaking apart in a shower of
glowing lraagments. The last thing he
remembers be/ore waking in a cold sweat
is the stark picture of a mushroom cloud
boiling up.into an empty sky
It's been about a year since that particular dream last troubled the reporter's
sleep. But others like it have come and
gone. The reporter is thinking about the
dreams as he drives north on U.S. 101;
wondering if the result of his journey will
be another round of the nuclear nightmares: midnight peepshows where he sees
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looking for a fallout shelter, or vomiting
his way through the advan.ced stages of
radiation sickness. It is the dreams more
than anything else ·that have put him on
the road this dismal Wednesday night,
heading for a place called Ground Zero.
It's full name is the Ground Zero ·center
for Non-Violent Studie~. Its purpose is to
explore alternatives to the moral values of
the guns and buttPr ethic. The Center sits
on a thrPe-acre tract in the rain forest on
the Kitsap Peninsula, about 35 air miles
west of Seattle. It got its name from the
next-0oor neighbor: The Bangor Naval
Submarine Base. The giant 8,527-acre
Bangor complex is the future home of the
Trident.submarine: America's latest contribution to the nuclear arms race._
Ground Zero was founded in 1977 by
the May 22 Coalition, a peace activist
group based in Seattle. At the moment,
Ground Zero consists of a small, two-story
house and a half-built geodesic dome.
Someday the dome may be finished; then
again it may not-life
at Ground Zero is
uncertain at best.
As a military term, ground zero indicates the exact detonation point -0f a
nuclear warhead. Used as a name, it's a
reminder to the reporter that once Bangor
Base is activated, it and the rest of Puget
Sound will become yet another target to
be programmed into a Soviet missile
guidance computer.
Sometimes the reporter can ignore
things like that But he c,an't do it tonight- th e road to Ground Zero runs right
by the base's shining vapor-lamped main
gate. A huge American flag hangs limply
in the hissing rain. A solitary guard is the
only living creature visible. The reporter
drives on down the road another mile or
so and then turns into the Center's dirt
driveway He switches off the ignition
At first the reporter was reluctant to go
to Bangor, reluctant to mix waking reality

with nocturnal fantasy. But in the end he
does just that-he goes to pay a visit to
the Leviathan. Now, as he sits, listening to
the engine ping and tick as it cools, he
wonders if he has made a wise choice.
From what he has heard about Trident, it
sounds like enough material for a whole
series of nightmares
After another moment of reflection, the
reporter gets out of the car, climbs up the
front steps to the door and knocks. A
chorus of "come in" greet, him. HP enters.
Inside he finds about ten or so people;
some young, some old, all of them
friendly Wednesday night is di,ru,sion
night at Ground Zero. People have gathered to talk about almost anything. On
any given Wednesday the conversation
may wander from Ghandi, to Trident, to
the question of how the hell the human
species is ever going to get out of thP
evolutionary dead end we...see.mto have
wandered into. The group tonight Is small,
but they make him welcome. A man in a
turtleneck sweater strums quietly on an
old guitar. The reporter is offered coffee
or tea.
He sits down and slowly, haltingly, explains why he has come. He talks about
the dreams, about the lost sleep. He mentions the stories he has read in the newspapers the exploding missile silos, the
malfunctioning computers, the false
alarms. He asks for information, explanations. There is a long silence and then
people begin to talk. Information comes
in bits and piece!\, each fact followed by
clarification and elaboration But as the
conversation progresses, the reporter
begins to get an idea of what Trident is
all about. Just a skeletal outline, the bare
bones of a picture. The picture is not a
nice one.
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Hood Canal in the spring of 1981 it will
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ballistic missiles. Each Trident missile
carries a payload of fourteen 150-kiloton
warheads and has a range of 4000 nautical
miles. Each warhead can be independently
delivered to a target inside the Soviet
Union.
As long as two football fields laid end
to end, weighing 18,750 deadweight tons,
the Trident submarine will be able to
patrol for as long as six months without
resurfacing. It will be fast, maneuverable
and completely undetectdble.
In the opinion of many observers (including Robert Aldridge, one of the Lockheed engineers who designed its advanced, new missile system), Trident is an
offensive, "first strike" weapon, designed
to give the United States the capability to
destroy the Soviet Union while suffering
only "acceptablP casualties" in rPturn.
The rPportPr doesn't under,tand thP
reasoning behind this and ,ays ,o. This is
how hf' finds out about thP MAO system
A, onacronyms go. it'<; an acnirate onP.
'v\AO (as in pissed off and/or mPntally
,!pranged) stand, for Mutually Assured
, )(•,truction and the morP tht• r~•portpr Is
1nld about that ont•, tht• na1iPr It q,irts
• tn ,ound.
MAO. It i, Pxpl,11nE:'d
to him. h,1, bPPn
lhl' kl'eper of tht· 1w,IC'e 111th<· nu,l<',H
.lf:P A ,ort of fundamentill ground rule
ior m<1tntaining thP balc1nct' of t!'rrnr;
whpreby each cont<-•,tant in tlw h,g ~ast
v, We,t grudge matrh offer, up '" l'ntirP
popul.1t1on ilS host<1gl', to l'nsun· th.it,
rt>me hl·II or high oil pm e,, neither -id,,
woll b!' quit,· 1rration,1l ,•nough to drop the
ll1g On<· Its opPrdtiw ,log<1n, if it h,1d
<HH', would bt· "fir,t ,trikt' and you'n• out "
Undf;'r tlw MAO ,y,tPm, both thP
US<, K. and thl' United St,1te, agrf't• to
t.:irgl't itll of their rP,pl'rtiw nuciP<1r
w,·apon, (c um•ntly P>!ilnatffl at 'i0,000+
warhPc1ds)on f'a< h other's major cities.
Th" Pnsure, that any nuclpar war would
inevitably be ",1 war without winners." If
the U.S.S.R., for example, launched a surprise fir<;t strike, it would undoubtedly
bomb the United States back into the
Stone Age. But it would not destroy U S.
bombers circling 24 hours a day in the
Arctic stratosphere, or U .S strategic
missiles <;Lashedaway in the North Dakota
flatlands, or U.S submarines lurking off
the Russian coast.
A Soviet sneak attack would automatically cause these forces to launch a
counter-strike (a sort of last reflexive kick
by the smoldering corpse of the nation)
and the Soviet Union would in turn find
out what it's like to glow in the dark.
Assuming that under such conditions no
one would be mad enough to start anything serious, superpower rivalry can be
confined to stirring U[) trouble in each
other's client states.
All nice and neat. But the world being
what it is, such solutions are never permanent. About 18 years ago, in the aftermath
of the Cuban missile crisis, a number of
U.S. policy thinkers (led by a young
Harvard professor named Henry Kissinger)
began to question the MAf) policy. Under
certain conditions, they said, a limited

nuclear war could be fought without
incinerating the world in the process.
They urged the United States to adopt a
more flexible posture towards thP use of
nuclear weapons. The Trident missile
system was designed with this concept in
mind.
The reporter is getting lost again; MAO,
frident. Kissinger and the concept of
limited nuclear warfare are a little too
much for him to swallow all at once. He
,1sksmore questions The answers that
rome back make the connections clear
;'Jightmarishly clear.
The essence of the MAD system ,s the
.thility of each side to verify-with
spy
planP, and satellites-that
the other side's
111is,ilPsarP targeted on c1tiPs and riot on
1111l1tary
ba,<c>s.
On,e upon d time this was
i'1m<;1bleOlder style missol(• sy~tems such
·" Atla, and Minuteman travelled on a set
, our,P. It they went uµ a Cf'rtain way.
1lwy lanw down a lertain way. Those
,1ntple, uncomplicated times are now ,it
,111 l'nd. ~ach warhead on the Trident
1111,"I<·i, a maneuverable. indPpendent
rt• ,•ntry vehic IP (MIRV). Though ,:i MIRV
111,1v
I)('
t,1rgetl•d on J Ru,s1an city at tdke011. 11' c·our,l' Lan hi:' corrPCtPd in flight
by ,111orbiting ~atPll1tP ,incl tlw wJrhPdd
dropp('(J within It Kl fel'I of ,1 Soviet
1111",J,,,do
Without thl· ability to verify 1111,'IIC'
t.irg<·t111g,tlw MAD sy,ten1 i, b<1,..,d,olely
<>11tru,t
In thP world ot nuclPdr stratet.:v,
trll,t 1, ,0111Pwh,1t,ynonomous with ··1rrl'i1·v,1111··or "l,111gh,1hlP.. I hi' Tridt•rH 1111,srle
,v,I,·111 1, .1 < IP.tr warning th,1I U.'i nuclt\-tr
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Flaubert's Letters: A Life Story
by AndyMcCorrnick
"Literature! That old whore. We must
try to che her wi'_', mercury and pills and
clean he-out from top to bottom; she has
been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks."
That such an earthly tirade comes from
that paragonof cool, nearly scientific detachment, Gustave Flaubert, seems surprising, and pleasingly so. After all,
reading fvladame· Bovary and knowing
Flaubert's oft-quoted dicta on the relationship bmleen life and letters-"an author
in his oocl<must be like God in the universe, p-esent everywhere and visible
nowhere"-it is easy to forget that this
most odd, peculiar man had a life of his
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A weird sort of life, to be sure, and one
which Flaubert rather freely admitted to
hating. Art was his consolation; writing
his life's work. But often the hours spent
at his desk were filled with a terrible drudgery. "Last week I spent five days writing
one page." Still, dismal as that sounds,
there were times when he fairly swoons
with jo,,. "Occasionally I have had
glimpses in the glow of an enthusiasm
that made me thrill from head to foot, of
such a state of mind, superior to life itself, a state in which fame counts nothing
and even happiness is superfluous."
Flaubert wrote this outburst at age 31,
engrossedin Bovary. At the time he was
beginning to cloister himself from the
world at the family estate in Croisset He
was not married (the idea repulsed him)
and lived with his mother. He seems to
have cared for little except art; Art For
Art's Sake. He had a mistress in Paris,
Louise Colet, whom he confessed to love,
but could not bring himself to visit very
often. He slaved in his study from noon
to night, shouting out phrases that tickled
him. He bewildered his poor mother,
while embarassing his bourgeois relatives.
Blcltdespite his "austere solitude" and
seclusion, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
1830-1857(translated by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard University Press, 1980) are
fascinating documents filled with delightful insights about life, art, literature, and
venereal disease.
Flaubert caught the latter on a voyage
to the Middle East and the Orient in his
late twenties. His bawdy descriptions of
this journey may be the highlight of the
book and, at any rate, should be the place
to start reading.
Travelling ostensibly for "educational
purposes" (the government paid the bill),
Flaubert turned the trip into an 18 month
long riotous debauch. He describes in
loving detail his adventures in Arabi_;m

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brothels, his encounters with young boys
in Turkish baths, and most gleefully of all,
his apparently inexhaustible sexual energy.
If we are to believe him, "I fucked three
women, fOJr shots in all, three before
lunch and ooe after dessert."
But all good things come to an end, or
at least a te.mpora·ry halt. Flaubert, in
Beirut, is put out of action. "I suspect a
Maronitewoman of making me this gift,
or perh~ it was a little Turkish lady. ·The
Turk or the Christian? Which? Probleme!
Food fcr thought!" So much for education.
Sti II, he is quite affected by a visit to
the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. ','Affected" in the way people who aren't particularly religious but still cling to a kind of
piety are affected. "There came over me
that strange feeling which men like you (a
poet friend) and me experience when we
are alme beside our fire, straining with
the mii:tit of our souls to explore the ancient abv.;srepresented by the word 'love,'
and imagining what it might be-if it
were pc6Sible."
Back home Flaubert tackles the task of
writing Madame Bovary. He also resumes
an alma,t Platonic relationship with his
mistressLouise Colet He seems to write
to her rrostly to talk about his work in
progress,or of art in general. He loves
her, hewrites, but seeing her is such a
distraction,; and as to her desire to meet
his mcther-out of the question! That she
can love him puzzles Flaubert. That she
can think of marrying him is positively
abhorfflt to him. By the end of the affair
his letters which, were ardently passionate, have turned almost vicious. His last
commi.nique to Louise in its entirety is
"Madiire: I was told that you took the
trouble to come here to see me three
times last evening. I was not in. And,
fearing lest persistence expose you to
humiliation, I am bound by the rules of
politeness to warn you that / shall never
be in."
A little later, Flaubert quotes a remark
his mcther made which he finds "Sublime." "'Your mania for sentences,' my
mother said, 'has dried up your heart."'
I don't think you have to be particularly
interested in Flaubert or literary history to
enjoy this book. Flaubert's hilarious and
caustic dismissals of the rising bourgeois
in 19th century France are alone worth it
Flaubert waged a war against the Philistines who were trying to make art, his
very bbod, into a "consumptive,'' utilitarian fflterprise and he suffered for his
efforts. "If you participate too actively in
- life, yru don't see it clearly: you suffer
from it too much or enjoy it too much.
The artist, to my way of thinking, is a·
monstrosity, something outside of nature."
Eve[!1een'slibrary has The Letters of
Custa\€ Flaubert 1830-1857, as does the
Timberland Library in Olympia. The book
wi II prcbably be printed in paperback in
the necr future.

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meeting/potluck, March 5 at 6 p.m.
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Graduation speakers, announcement
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heard are the featured topics. Rumor has
it that Dean Shacklett and Regis Philbin
are tied neck and neck to be the speaker.
If you want to have an effect on the ·outcome of this race, come to the meeting.
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people who have genital herpes-a virus
affecting an estimated 20 to 30 percent of
the sexually active population The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 10,
from 7-10 p.m., in the auditorium of the
Pierce County Health Department, 3629
South D St, Tacoma. For more information, inquire at SEM 4115, 1-4 p.m., TESC.

FamedJournalist
to Speak''
Richard Dudman, Chief Washington
Correspondent of the St. Louis PostDispatch, will be giving a public address
on Thurday, Mar. 5 on the second floor in
the Library Lobby on "The Reagan Revolution in Foreign Affairs."
Mr. Dudman brings several decades of
experience as a foreign correspondent in
the Mid-East, Latin America and Southeast
Asia and welcomes questions and discussion of his views.
He is eager to meet with students regularly and will be on campus all week and
eating most of his meals at the SAGA to
be available informally to students.

Album Project
SponsorsDance
THE EVERGREENALBUM PROJECT
Dance for the music this Saturday,
March 7, at the Evergreen Album Project
Benefit Dance on the fourth floor of the
Library Building. Doors open at 8 p.m.
-Opening up the night will be MEDUSA,
a band featuring the songs of Jimi
Hendrix. RMF will headline the stage,
making theiLWestCoast debut-of soul/
reggae music that will entice dancing on
into the night. In between, tapes of songs
from the Evergreen Album Project will
provide sneak previews from the album
that will be released this May.
Tickets are on sale this week in the
bookstore, and in the CAB lobby during
lunch hours and on Saturday from 10 to
3 p.m. for $2.75. Tickets will also be
available at the door for $3.50. Munchables and beer (with ID) will be on sale at
the dance. Come Saturday night and show
your support for the 1981 Evergreen
Album Project, plus get into a great night
of music and dancing.

Do you need a refill before spring
break? If so, please stop by the Women's
Clinic before March 19. Otherwise, you'll
have to wait until March 30.

CelebrateInternational
Women'sDay
Join with women from many nations in
an International Women's Day celebration
Saturday, March 7th from 1:00 until 4:00
p.m. A variety of community groups will
present an afternoon of singing, 'dancing,
and international foods spons·ored by
Feminists in Self-defense Training. This
event will take place at"the Olympia
Community Center, 1314 E. 4th.

Open Film Screening
OPEN SCREENING,Wednesday, Mar. 11.
Recording and Structuring Light and
Sound Group Contract presents "First
Films and Tapes" at 7:30 p.m, TESC
Recital Hall, FREE.

SpringRegistration
to Commence
SPRING REGISTRATION TO COMMENCE
There will be off-campus registration
sessions held in the Olympia area to augment regular on-campus registration prior
to the start of Spring Quarter. The first
off-campus session will be next to Leed's
shoe store at the South Sound Center in
Lacey. Registration will be conducted at
the state capital Tuesday, March 10, from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the lobby of Office
Building II (DSHS) and Thurs., March 12,
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the lobby of the
General Administration Building Offcampus registration will continue Sat.,
March 21, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Bon
Marche at West Olympia's Capitol Mall.
On-campus registration continues at TESC
by appointment only weekdays through
April 3.

StudentRep. Needed
for Trustees

Women'sShelter
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The Women's Shelter is undergoing a
financial crisis. So.... The Women's Clinic
is sponsoring a food drive _to keep their
shelves stocked. Please bring non-perishable items to the clinic. You can help out
a community service and you may win a
free massage at Radiance.

Student Position Open
The student representative position· on
the Board of Trustees will be open spring
quarter. Any student considering this
opportunity needs to attend the next SIN
meeting, Wednesday, March 11, at
10 a.m., CAB 110. The commitment and
responsibility required of student representatives will be discussed at this
'lleeting.

KAOSCelebrates
Women'sDay

New CoffeehouseOpens
New Coffeehouse Opens
There is nothing like sweetening the • annual tax statement with a French pastry
or two. Evergreen's new coffeehouse, The
Center, welcomes everyone to this party
and to future get-togethers for shaking out
the creases in good company.
Located in CAB 305, The Center is unfolding a friendly atmosphere where you
can talk, relax, or attend any of the amusing events now being planned. Here are a
few fun events suggested by the spritely
force behind The Center's opening: a rock
dance (BYO records), a laughing seminar,
films, a bad joke contest, an international
pot luck, and the t;x party, tentatively
scheduled for March 8 at 1:30. Look in
The Center for an announcement of the
exact time and date.
CAB 305 offers a beautiful view of a
day on Red Square. You can enjoy the
view with a cup of cocoa, tea, coffee, or
the morning's Seattle P.I. provided by the
Center. The P.I. is free and the beverages
are 15¢. The Center also offers a serendipity collection of books and magazines.
Any donations of reading material, plants,
posters and tapestries are welcomed.
The Center hopes to provide the·
friendly contact and warm atmosphere
that wili help dispel feelings of loneliness
and isolation. Visit the Center for a good
time and on your way out drop your suggestions in The Center's suggestion can
on the beverage table.

Sunday, March 8th is International
Women's Day and KAOS will be celebrating with a full day of women's music,
discussions, and readings. KAOS will mark
thP event with the following schedule of
,hows:
7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m-Potpourri of
women's music.
8:30 to 9:30-Will focus on issues concerning older women. Health care for
older women will ~ one topic covered.
9:30 to 11:00-W:Jmen and the music
1ndustry, including a discussion with representatives of Olivia Records, a women's
record company.
Noon to 2:30 p.m-Classical music,
featuring "The Mother of U, All," an
opera with words by Gertrude Stein,
which tel Is the story of Susan B.
Anthony.
2:30 to &:00-Live performances by
local poets and musicians. Among the
performers will be Amy Lowenthal.
Carolyn Street, and Jane Coffman.
&:00 to &:30-Women in Politics.
& 30 to 8 00-Thi> radio play "The
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8:00 to 9'00-Women in experimental
Music, hosted by Cheri Knight.
9:00 to 71:00-Women in Jazz, hosted
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Olympia
Sludent intern will be involved in the following: Participa1e in and evalua1e an experimental wilderness work I study program.
assist
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Program consists of three segments: 3-day
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Student Intern
Tacoma
Internship poss1bil1ties 1n Probation are
available through Pierce County Juvenile
Court. Students could be involved in the following:
Caseworker Aide; Victim Witness
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Community
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Legal Intern: Diagnostic Program,; Treatment
Program: and Friend-to-Youth program.
Preler student with a background in social
services and who has a strong interest in
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1-3 quarters, hrs. negotiable.
Volunteer position.

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Student intern will research grant sources
collect information on grants, and organize a
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Prefer student who is able to work independently and has
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- Theater in New York has ten <liflerent possibilities for students interested in internships.
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Community Alfairs Intern-Spring/Summer
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The student intern will be responsible for
developing an action plan for a major bank lo
ascertain the credit needs of the low and
moderate income groups in the various communitreSl'that the bank has branches in. This
action plan will identify the low and moderate
income commurwlies in their market areas and
develop a delivery system for meeting the
credit needs in these communities. The intern
will also be responsible for recommending an
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by Andrew Derby
The Evergreen State College's presentation of Henrick Ibsen's Hedda Cabler,
currently featured at the Experimental
Theatre, is perhaps the biggest fiasco ever
to grace the stage of academia.
Ibsen's famous story concerns a ruthless, neurotic woman, torn between social
conventions and her own passionate will.
Lacking the courage to follow her inner
convictions, Hedda compensates for her
failings by setting out to destroy her exlover, Eilert Lovborg, and his current
flame, Thea Elvstead. Hedda's perverted
values cause her best-laid nlans to backfire, driving her to suicide.
Hedda Cabler is a drama with intense
psychological undertones. It requires,
from the director, a strong understanding
of Ibsen's thematic symbols. In order to
be effective in portraying the character's
inner conflicts, without resorting to sappy
melodrama, the director must weave the
subtlety of the symbolism with the main
action of the story.
Andre Tsai's direction lacks both the
understanding of Ibsen's symbols and the
creative power to effectively mix them
with the main dialogue Instead of prod.icing a powerful psychological staterrent, Tsai gives us theatrical parlor tricks.
The inane amplified heartbeat, employed
whenever Hedda's emotions were stirred,
had the subtlety of a brick. The absurdity
of tlw gimmi_ck made it laughable and I
noticed the audience doing so. It made
rre think of the radio "chicken heart
which ate New Jersey," lurking in the
wings of the theatre.
Tsai's handling of Hedda also left much
to be desired. Melodrama is a very effective tool when employed sparingly. Linda

Olivas-Mathews' (Hedda) performance was
just plain over-acting. Her movements
were so exaggerated that her entire stint
on stage smacked of slapstick comedy,
reminiscent of Carol Burnett reruns.
The director's relationship with his
actors seemed terribly vague. The cast
had an air of frustration, either not understanding the character they were to
portray or being too bored to care. Character development is crucial to a play of
this magnitude. But there was none, either
o,ving to bad casting, or a bad relationship between director and actor.
I'm inclined to attribute David Logan's
performance as Eilert Lovborg to the
former malady. Not only did he have to
force his lines, but he consistantly harbored a ridiculous smirk on his face which
was not at all in line with his character.
His soul rending cry of remorse after
having "lost his child" in Act 3 was downright embarrassing. I would have gladly
delivered Mr. Logan the means to shoot
himself, relieving the audience's misery as
well as his own.
It is unnecessary to continue further
comment on the performances by the
other cast members. Let it suffice to say
that they were all pathetic. When one
actor is bad I would not hesitate on laying
the blame on the actor. But when the
entire cast is bad, the fault must lie with
the director.
I fail to understand why the drama department, as a whole, lacked the courage
to tell Andre Tsai that his production
stinks. I have heard that Mr. Tsai is an
excel lent technical director by occupation, but this attempt at creative drama is
a farce. His production of Hedda Cabler
is a bad play and not worth the price of a
program.

Intramural Sports: Not for Jocks Only
by Kenneth Sternberg
Mentioning the word "sports" at Evergreen is either one of the best ways to
clear people from a room or is a sure fire
invitation to a heated argument. Unlike
most other colleges, Evergreen doesn't
offer much in the w'ay of football or basketball nor any athletic scholarships. An
organized program of intramural (oncampus) sports began fall quarter, coordinated by Corey Meador, an Evergreen
student.
Meador explained how the program
came to be and what his goals are for
intramural sports at Evergreen. "People at
Evergreen have had bad experiences in
, recreation," he said .. He wanted to provide
experiences where people could play
games and sports without fear of being
criticized or of worrying if they were good
enough. "I wanted it to be fun. Otherwise,
there's no sense in doing it," Meador said.
Since there are no physical education
classes here, Meador said that many who

want some kind of recreation aren't sure
how to organize it or don't wan't to organize it themselves. He said that in the
past, some activities, like rock climbing,
were organized by one or two persons
who were addicted to the sport. When
they left, there was generally no one left
to continue their work. Such centralized
leadership is one thing Meador is trying to
change.
He explained that last winter, Jefferson
High School's gym was open to Evergreen
students for basketbal I ar,d that the reaction was quite positive. The following
spring, Meador organized volleyball
games in Red Square. Again, students
responded favorably. That summer, he
coordinated softball, volleyball and new
games (games which emphasize cooperation and'fun, rather than competition).
"People wanted more," Meador said.
With the interest evident, Meador wanted
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physical contact and no officials regulatinl!
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players. Goldfarb see, this as an integral
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"No one really knows how to run a
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see it happen." This is when he devised
the idea of an intramural sports program
sponsored by the Recreation Center.
During the fall, Meador placed sign-up
sheets in the Rec. Center for anyone
interested in playing soccer, flag football,
volleyball, ultimate frisbee or walleyball
(walleyball is volleyball played in a
racquetball court). Although students
again expressed their approval, the excitement died down in the winter.
Meador observed that winters are slow
at Evergreen. As the rains seep in, energy
se-epsout, and the desire to kick a soccer
ball or even open a book quickly fades.
Thus far, all that's been offered this
quarter is walleyball, body conditioning
and occasionally, water polo.
But spring is another story. Meador
plans to hold tournaments in wrestling,
new games and tennis. Also planned is
soccer, street hockey, softball and kayak
slalom races.

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