The Cooper Point Journal Vol. 2, No. 26 (May 23, 1974)

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Title: Eng The Cooper Point Journal Vol. 2, No. 26 (May 23, 1974)
Date: 23 May 1974
Evergreen Subject: Student Organizing and Activism; Faculty Hiring and Governance; Native American Studies
Description: Eng Page 1: Cooper Point Journal (front page) -- A look at the Hillaire controversy;
Page 2: (advertisement) University of the Americas;
Page 2: (advertisement) Rainy Day Record Co.;
Page 2: (advertisement) Ceramics Group Contract Sale;
Page 2: Table of Contents;
Page 2: Staff Credits;
Page 3: Times At Evergreen State College;
Page 3: Times At Evergreen State College: Neo-Socrates;
Page 3: Times At Evergreen State College: Nichols and Dimes;
Page 3: (advertisement) Olympia Brewing Company;
Page 4: (photograph) [old man lying on bench with a young person sitting on the bench wearing scuba gear];
Page 4: Letters: gravel dumped;
Page 4-5: Letters: Living has price;
Page 5: Letters: Gays explore;
Page 5: Letters: S&A negligent;
Page 5: Letters: Lighting questioned;
Page 5: (advertisement) Ellie's;
Page 5: (advertisement) Jeff's Westside Shell;
Page 5: (advertisement) SAGA [Food Services]: Mother's Oats;
Page 6: Brief News: Report received;
Page 6: Brief News: Tally presented;
Page 6: Brief News: Dispute reviewed;
Page 6: Brief News: Durkan expounds;
Page 6: Image: Martin Durkan (by Brad Pokorny);
Page 7: Brief News: Ford protested...;
Page 7: Brief News: ... and heard;
Page 7: Brief News: Misprint noted;
Page 7: (advertisement) Olympia Brewing Company;
Page 8-9: Charges against Kan ruled false at hearing;
Page 8: Image: Mary Hillaire (by Stan Shore);
Page 8 & 13: Hillaire portrayed;
Page 9: Errors revealed;
Page 9: Staff displeased;
Page 9: (advertisement) Olympia Sport Shop;
Page 9: (advertisement)Bob's Big Burgers;
Page 10 & 13: Expo: A look at Dick [Richard Nixon];
Page 11: (advertisement) Evergreen State College Housing;
Page 12-13: Guest Commentary: Evergreen at age 3;
Page 13: (advertisement) Word of Mouth Books;
Page 13: (advertisement) Red Apple Natural Foods;
Page 13: (advertisement) Raudenbush Motor Supply;
Page 14: Cinema: The good movie;
Page 14: Cinema: Correction;
Page 14: (advertisement) Evergreen State College Bookstore;
Page 15: Northwest Culture;
Page 15: (advertisement) Dirty Dave's Gay 90's;
Page 15: (advertisement) Mini Media Production Center;
Page 16: (advertisement) The Ash Tree [Adult Student Housing]
Creator: Eng Laurie, C.T.; Eng Chambers, Lee; Eng Windsor, Jay; Eng Daly, Andrew; Eng Macdonald, Dori; Eng Youngman, Lupine; Eng Reisner, Jennie T.; Eng Hirshman, William; Eng Haggarty, Teddy M.; Eng Oppenheimer, Martin J.; Eng Mahan, Jeffrey M.
Contributor: Eng Berger, Knute Olsson H.G.S; Eng Foster, John; Eng Ryan, Andy; Eng Shore, Stan; Eng Brown, Claudia; Eng Posthumus, Ingrid; Eng Pokorny, Brad; Eng Mahan, Jeffrey H.; Eng Hester, Mary Frances; Eng Graham, Tom; Eng Countryman, Teresa; Eng Lanigan, Steve; Eng Riback, Lew; Eng Wallick, Len; Eng Groening, Matthew; Eng Chrisitan, Susan; Eng Forrest, Tony; Eng Williams, Charlie; Eng Katz, Dean; Eng Lenon, Thomas R.; Eng Murphy, Paul; Eng Gilman, Joel; Eng Smith, Vincent; Eng Hirshman, William P.; Eng Lastrapes, Libby; Eng DeMoulin, Dan; Eng Robb, Lynn; Eng Toedtemeier, Terry; Eng Gribskov, Margaret
Subject: Eng Times at Evergreen State College; Eng Gravel; Eng KAOS; Eng Lighting; Eng S & A Board; Eng Accreditation Evalutation Commitee; Eng Martin Durkan; Eng Kingsley Kan; Eng Visual Entertainment Group; Eng Gerald Ford; Eng Mary Hillaire; Eng Expo; Eng Guest Commentary; Eng Cinema; Eng Northwest Culture; Eng Kiefer, Pat; Eng Oppenheimer, Marty; Eng Clabaugh, Dean; Eng States, Michael; Eng Bridwell, Bruce; Eng Nelson, Marianne; Eng Crocker, Bob; Eng Sampson, Tom; Eng Rode, Al; Eng Steilberg, Pete; Eng Mayer, Ken; Eng Tascherau, Reggie; Eng Hillaire, Mary Ellen; Eng Covington, Pauline; Eng Kinglsey, Kan; Eng Nichols, Dick; Eng Jones, Richard M.; Eng Sinclair, Pete; Eng Daugherty, Leo; Eng Maddox, Tom; Eng Laurie, C.T.; Eng Milner, Ruth; Eng Meserve, Chris; Eng Moore, Art; Eng King, Ed; Eng Moss, John; Eng Waldschmidt, Paul; Eng Kormondy, Edward; Eng McCann, Charles; Eng Teske, Charles; Eng Kahn, Doug; Eng Durkan, Martin J.; Eng Ford, Gerald; Eng Nixon, Richard; Eng Dix, Lawrence; Eng Bade, H.E.; Eng Bush, Jeff; Eng Kramer, Ludlow; Eng Mack, Russell; Eng Hanson, Julia Butler; Eng Annis, Judy; Eng Spence, Al; Eng Smith, Bill; Eng Winkley, Ken; Eng Avalon, Arthur; Eng Kaye, Danny; Eng Rogers, David H.; Eng Hope, Bob; Eng Hitchcock, Alfred; Eng Rainy Day Record Co.; Eng The Evergreen State College; Eng The Disappearing of Alums; Eng Greenwood Inn; Eng Olympia Brewing Company; Eng National Geographic; Eng KAOS Radio; Eng Cooper Point Journal; Eng Ellie's; Eng Jeff's Westside Shell; Eng Mother's Oats; Eng Input Resource Senter; Eng Carnahan-Kahn Hearing Board; Eng Visual Environmental Group; Eng Thurston County Sheriff's Department; Eng Capital Pavilion; Eng Tacoma Country Club; Eng Olympia Sport Shop; Eng Bob's Big Burgers; Eng Mama Mia Pizza; Eng Evergreen State College Housing; Eng Word of Mouth Books; Eng Red Apple Natural Foods; Eng Raudenbush Motor Supply; Eng Seattle Fil Society; Eng Dirty Dave's Gay 90's; Eng Mini Media Prodcution
Place: Eng The Evergreen State College; Eng Olympia, WA; Eng Tumwater, WA; Eng Lacey, WA; Eng Tacoma, WA; Eng Austrailia; Eng Soviet Union; Eng New York City; Eng Portland, OR
Extent: Eng 16 pages
Temporal Coverage: Eng 1937/1974-75
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Cooper Point
Journal

Vol. 2 No. 26

The Evergreen State College
Olympia Washington

May 23,1974

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Letters

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Brief News

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Cover Story

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Mary Hillaire- Kingsley Kan

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Guest commentary

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Northwest Culture

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

Graduation Presents
Wedding Presents
Going Home Presents
June 4th

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The Cooper Point Journal is published hebdomadally by The Evergreen State College Board of Publications
and members of the Evergreen community . It is funded , in part. by student services and activities fees .
Views expressed are not necessarily those of the editorial staff or The Evergreen State College. The Journal
news room is located on the first floor of the college Activities bldg., rm . 103. Phone : 866-6213. The business office is located on the third floor of the Daniel J, Evans Library, rm . 3129. Phone 866-608().

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Evergreen is still young and impressionable, but the accoutrements of traditional
higher education are fast accumulating.
There are already 2,000 former students
of Evergreen (of which some 480 are graduates) and an alumni association is in its
formative stages.

manent arrangement. The Disappearing
Office of Alums (or D.O.A.) will be
handled jointly by Crocker and Sampson
for about two months.
At adjournment, most of those present
repaired to the Greenwood Inn's Hemlock
Room for refreshments.

The fifth alum meeting was held Saturday May l~th, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
(T~e term alum" avoids the semanticosexJst hassle of "alumni" vs. "alumnae "
The meeting was held in CAB 110
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b 'ld'
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UJ mg removed from the somewhat unusual ambiance the gay symposium
created in the Library.

Neo-Socrates
While this hemlock-drinking was in
progress, self-proclaimed neo-Socrates
Mary Ellen Hillaire and her sister Pauline
Covington, Native American Studies student and paid assistant, were at work in
the NAS office. Hillaire works long and
hard, but her office hours differ from
those of many faculty members and administrators. It is possible that simple dissynchronicity is responsible for communication difficulties and isolation. Her apparent vacillation in the matter of the
deanship nomination, what she terms
"crucifixion" and victimization in the
Kingsley Kan dispute, and the change in
directorship for next year's Native American Studies program, could be explained

The U-shaped table in CAB 110 was
peopled by a motley lot: non-alum Pat
Kiefer, who was knitting a sock; student
~arty Oppenheimer, who threw paper
airplanes, smoked his pipe, and got off
one-liners; Executive Vice-President Dean
Clabaugh, dressed to the nines and maintaining an abstracted silence; graduates
Michael States and Bruce Bridwell, who
wrestled with writing; development
officer Marianne Nelson; grad Bob
Crocker; Tom Sampson, ponderously
pontificating on the beauties of the legislative system and the advantages of majority vote over concensus; chairperson
AI Rose, assistant director of student services; Pete Steilberg, campus activities director, Admissions Director Ken Mayer;
graduate Reggie Tascherau; Mayer's wife,
and their little daughter in a tutu.
After a discussion of the purposes of
organization (fund-raising, continued communication, etc.), organization structure
came up for debate. The alternatives
under consideration were incorporation of
~n alumni association within the college,
mcorporation of an association as a separate entity apart from the college, or formation of an advisory committee instead
of incorporation. Two proposals, board
of directors vs. an advisory board, nearly
converged to agreement.
Reggie Tascherau proposed a temporary
leader, an individual to relieve Marianne
Nelson of the burdens of collating the
questi<'nnaires and sending out the alum
newsletter, and to help plan a more per-

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by times out of joint, rather than by
inimical forces.
Nichols and Dimes
Meanwhile, College Relations Officer
Dick Nichols, upon whom much of the
community comment occasioned by the
Gay Symposium descends, was out relating to the community. Attended by a
marc~ing band, he rode a fire truck
through the streets of Tumwater, importuning the citizenry through a bull-horn.
He and the Tumwater Marching Band are
soliciting funds to travel to Spokane's
Expo. Saturday, they garnered $600.
Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies in
Psychology and Literature, more popularly (much more popularly) known as
Dreams and Poetry, is on an evaluation
retreat at Fort Worden State Park. Faculty
members Richard M. Jones, Pete Sinclair,
Leo Daugherty, and Tom Maddox, and
some 40 students, will retreat to the wilds
of Port Townsend Tuesday through Friday to put a pleasant end to a productive
year.

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Gravel
dumped
To the Editor:

"The measure of man's progress lies in the
way he fashions nature to his will"
Alcoa Aluminum
"Ahh, there goes a little nature I'd like to
C.T. Laurie
fashion to my will ... "
A few days ago on a walk from the
beach through the woods, I came upon a
couple tons of gravel dumped at the seaside end of the field that borders Driftwood Road (past the d~rrns). I don't
know what the gravel is intended for specifically, but I know what it means generally: Progress. I endorse this action
wholeheartedly. What has made this great
nation what it is today is the expression
of this divine spirit. With economy what
:t is today, now more than ever, we need
parking lots.

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I use the term parking lot generally to
all those structures identifiable by
1ts concrete or asphalt nature (correlating,
I am sure, with American Sensitivity) and
characterized by its functional service
which provides "solid basis" for events to
occur on . As such, most buildings and
roads are parking lots where activities are
imposed on this unyielding (with maintenance) surface. (This I contrast with more
primitive and archaic situations where
actions must occur with its immediate environment).
Sure, the woods, marshes, etc. . . .
have their purposes (the sea its porpoises) ,
but we must not let anything step in the
way of full realization of the American
Dream (nothing, no one has yet). While
nature may have subtleties and depths to
communicate in a fullness of experience
words can't handle. It's nothing that the
National Geographic and a few TV specials can't keep us in contact with . Take
that swampy area for example; all it is is
old logs, dying trees, obnoxious frogs and
humid decaying everything; it should be
filled and something sensible and useful
put in its place (a center for creativity7).
Someone will be quick to point out that it
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displays totally the natural relationships
of degenerative and regenerative processes
(i.e., life) and for this simple-minded
fellow we'll leave a rotting log with moss
and (perhaps) ferns at the edge of our
parking lots.
These are times of truth for all
man(un)kind and in no way should we let
bleeding hearts (Mother Mary) and
second thoughts (consciousness) prevent
us from being as we most truly are.
P.S. (Beware of leeches. They're at their
worst this time of year).
C.T. Laurie

Liying has
pr1ce
To the Editor:
KAOS fm radio was in no way connected with the "Da-Da" dance May 3rd,
and accept:; no responsibility for the actiOns ot anyone there. We agree witl\ Don
V. Smith when he says he is disgusted.
with the people \,b:> trashed the lobby.

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At the Paul Winter Consort those same
slobs were opening locked doors to let
friends in . . . I wonder how they would
have acted if they had spent months
putting together a benefit and then found
people subverting the effort.
Only a community effort can stop this
sort of thing. Everyone has to recognize
that he or she has a responsibility to everyone else,all the time, wherever they
are. That's the price of being alive. And if
someone won't accept the responsibility,
they should be encouraged to go live in a
barn. And stay there.
Lee Chambers
KAOS station manager

Gays explore
To the Gay People:
It's very, very difficult to open my heterosexual consciousness to include an understanding of who and what Gay people
are when, upon walking into the Symposium's canvas lobby, my genitals are explored before I so much as have the
chance to read the title on your pamphlets.
Jay Windsor

S &A negligent
To the Editor:
In addressing myself to the issue of
S&A fund allocations, I am discussing not
the efficacy of the system itself but the
competence of the present board. Having
attended the two board meetings which
were supposedly devoted to developing a
summer activities budget, I have noticed
what can only be considered as irresponsible and indecisive attitude on the part of
the board's members.
The first meeting introduced various requests to the board, and attempted to reconcile the requests with the monies available for the Summer Quarter. However,
the board members, those who showed
up, seemed intent upon telling "in" bureaucratic jokes and inventing means to
delay the process of the meeting. There
were few questions which concerned the
summer budget per se, rather they were
directed toward establishing the biases of
the particular members.
The second meeting was attended by
three of the nine members of the board.
The activities staff responsible for bringing records of the requests, as well as the
possible methods for increasing the funding levels for summer activities either did
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not attend, or arrived late. The board
members who did attend, Ruth Milner,
Chris Meserve, and Art Moore, did demonstrate considerable interest and ability,
and deserve the thanks of the entire Evergreen community. Ed King and John Moss
also deserve a great deal of credit for their
efforts. However this does not remove the
rest of the board members' responsibility .
No one forced them to join . As they
should realize, though, their acceptance
carries with it the responsibility to
complete their task - in this case the
allocation of $29,000 in activities fees.
Their actions demonstrate, in this case, a
complete lack of concern for the possibility of community activities for the Summer Quarter. Therefore I call upon the
remaining members to resign, and for the
board to be reconstituted and convene
hopefully with the interest of the community in mind.
This does not reflect my particular interest at the meeting, the board making
the only possible decision it could. I am
concerned rather as a member of the Evergreen community who feels that student
activities should receive the consideration
they deserve .
Andrew Daly

Lighting
questioned
To the Editor:
The Evergreen State College is trying its
best to illuminate as much of Cooper
Point as possible, in more ways than one.
There is a lengthy row of fluorescent
lights being erected along the parkway. It
is the best part of my school bike-ride to
pass by the meadow area, and catch sight
of a statuesque great blue heron, or the
killdeers, mallards and even a red-tailed
hawk frequents the meadow. It is obvious
that as the traffic, noise, and lights increase, the wildlife will be driven out.
There are no dangerous curves: what is
the necessity of so many lights for the
road? Is Evergreen's destiny to physically
look like every other state institution?
How soon until the school philosophy
changes to fit its environment? This is one
small instance where foresight and applied
action could stop these needless lights,
and save the meadow for the deer and us.
Dori Macdonald
Lupine Youngman
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The hearing board proposal dissolves
the existing VEG, and forms a new VEG.
This revised VEG will address the issue of
censorship directly, and temporarily
operate as a DTF to recommend guidelines and procedures for its own operation .

Durkan expounds
Report received
The preliminary report from the accreditation evaluation committee, received
here last week for review by Evergreen
administrators, was for the most part a
glowing commendation of the school and
its personnel.
The eleven-member committee, headed
by Reverend Paul Waldschmidt, visited
Evergreen from April 29 to May 1. In
those three days the group members were
shown around the campus by various
community members.
The report summarized Evergreen's fi- .
nancial state, status of faculty, administration and staff, its affirmative action
policy, and the physical structure of the
school itself. Also included were some
pointed recommendations regarding the
library staff being given full faculty
status.
"A study group is being appointed to
look into the matter over the summer,"
stated Provost Ed Kormondy , referring to
the suggestion by the accreditation committee that certain libra'ry staff and counselors be given faculty status. He further
explained that the study group would use
the findings of the Faculty Hiring and
Handbook DTF presently meeting.
Also included in the report were the
evaluations of a number of programs the
team had visited while here. Special praise
was given to the coordinated studies program Democracy and Tyranny.
"(It is) an effective, impressive program
based on the classic style of important
vital or 'great' books, and reinforced by
the elaborate evaluative process characteristic of TESC . .. coordinated studies are
probably the strongest components of
TESC's educational program; Democracy
and Tyranny is one of the more commendable of the coordinated studies," the
report stated.
Elsewhere in the report, the students of
Ecology of Pollution were commended,
" .. . here as elsewhere at Evergreen, we
were impressed by the fact that students '
had reached a level of proficiency that is
at least on a par with graduates of other
institutions. This seems to have been accomplished without any loss of breadth .
Two suggestions continually kept crop6

ping up in the report. The first was that
Evergreen need not be as defensive as it is
about its curricular structure. Also that a
more active program of academic advicement be pursued. Apparently they felt
that a reason for a program's failure or
dissolvement was studenls hadn't a clear
enough picture of a program's purpose
and structure.

State Senator Martin J. Durkan (D.-Issaquah). chairman of the Senate Ways and
Means Committee, gave a resounding
speech at Evergreen on Wednesday night.
Speaking before a crowded audience in
Lecture Hall 5, Durkan began by telling
what he called "the true story behind the
Communications building."
'"Doctor,"' he told President McCann
once, " 'you get out and prove to me that
you really want a Communications

Tally presented
The results of the COG II questionnaire
directed by the Input Resource Senter
(IRS). were tallied for presentation to
President McCann Wednesday, May 22.
McCann will present the results to the
Board of Trustees at their meeting May
23. The results are to be used in the final
decision on the COG II document at this
meeting. COG II is a revision of Evergreen governance and decision-making
processes.
A preliminary tally showed a total of
180 Evergreen community members responding. This was approximately seven
percent of the questionnaires sent out.
Students voted 66 percent yes, 17 percent
no, and 5 percent abstaining. Faculty vote
was 78 percent yes, 14 percent no, and 7
percent abstaining. Staff tally was 68
percent yes, 8 percent no, and 22 percent
abstaining.
President McCann asked IRS to do the
survey after the Board of Trustees requested community input on COG II to
aid them in their final decision. This concludes months of work by faculty, students and staff on the revised governance
document.

Dispute reviewed
Recommendations from the CarnahanKahn Hearing Board considering the Visual Environment Group (VEG) have been
approved by Vice President and Provost
Ed Kormondy, and submitted to Dean
Charles Teske for action. The CarnahanKahn Hearing Board reviewed a dispute
between Acting Dean of the Library Dave
Carnahan and Evergreen Exhibits Co-ordinator Doug Kahn over the removal of
some controversial drawings from the Library.

MARTIN DURKAN
Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means
Committee
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building .. .' Well, he did that ... I kept
on receiving calls from all over the state
telling me how that 'crazy McCann' was
out lobbying for his Communications
building . . . I don't know how many
thousands of miles he covered."
After that brief i~troduction, Senator
Durkan went on to give the body of his
speech on the subject of "Public Office."
"Politics was in my blood from the
very beginning. It's an honorable profession, " he said. "What politics is all about
is the art of compromise ... I think this
country is going to survive all the things
that are happening today ... I would like
to say this - in all fairness to the legislative branch of the government - it's improved .. . About 95 percent of the time
the legislature seems to balance itself out
for the good."
Later in the evening Senator Durkan revealed that he was impressed by the level
of questions that the students asked and
said that he has not been at a school
where there was as good a discussion in a
long time . Speaking of the students here
he said that they seemed to be quite 'Tenacious."
Cooper Point ·Journal

Ford protested . . .
"Organize to fight, kick the bums out,"
chanted about 75 demonstrators in a
monotone. In the nostalgic fashion of
peace marches of years ago they followed
one another in an oblong file on a narro~
sidewalk separated by a large ocean o~
parking lot from the Lacey Capital Pavilion where Vice President Gerald Ford was
speaking at a fund-raising dinner for Ludlow Kramer.
"We want Nixon out, any way we can.
The same goes for Gerald Ford," barked
Lawrence Dix, organizer of the University
of Washington's Attica Brigade, at a radio
newsman's microphone. "Nixon is a criminal. Ford's no better."
The scrawled-out placards were perched
over shoulders, the megaphone blaring,
the chants as simple as ever. "Richard
Nixon is a bum, Gerald Ford's another
one!"
No one seemed to have seen Ford
arrive. No one ever does. The rumors began to fly. "He came by helicoptP.r . . . by
the back entrance ... through a tunnel .
.. he drove through the front entrance in
a beat-up Volkswagen wearing a beard
and wig ... he came by divine right."
And it still holds true: Wherever you
find the marchers, the law is there. Even
some of the old sentiments lingered. "As
long as they're peaceful. I could care less,"
said Captain H.E. Bade of the Thurston
County Sheriff's Department, remembering his lines. He need not have worried.
Today's protesters are environmentally
aware and would never think of littering
the area with bottles and rocks.
Twenty-two of Lacey's finest were
there. "Essentially the entire force," admitted Sargeant Dickerson of the Lacey
Police Department.
"Could you please stay on the corner of
the sidewalk," asked a Lacey policeman,
"before some crazy nut runs you over."
"But what crazy nut would come to see
Vice President Ford," quipped a demonstrator.
"You'd be surprised," replied the officer.
From the outside, the fund-raising
attempt for Kramer did not seem that
successful. As one report had it, a demono;trator had been allowed into the $100-aplate dinner for $10.00 to help fill up the
hall.
Opinions of the demonstration's success
varied greatly. "It's a single-minded exhibition of intent, of political action," said
an Evergreen student of the rally.
"Political impotency is more like it," responded a less enchanted member who
identified himself as a Power and Personal
Vulnerability student.
May 23,1974

As a light drizzle began to fall the
demonstrators eroded away.
"It's the view of a cynic that they've
gone to get a hamburger," noted photographer Jeff Bush of Lacey who said he
would just as soon take a picure of a telephone pole as Ford.
A few minutes later a motorcycle drove
up the entrance way.
"Did you come to see Vice President
Ford?"
The befuddled driver looked up from a
blown-out cylinder casing.
"Is he here7"

... and heard
Vice President Gerald Ford addressed a
100 dollar a plate fund-raising dinner in
support of Secretary of State Ludlow
Kramer's Third District congressional bid
at the Capital Pavilion in Lacey Monday
evf>ning.
The 60 year old vice president seemed
weary as he was led to the head table by
Secret Service agents. Ford had given a
press conference upon his arrival at MeChord Air Force base and had attended a
$1,000 dollar a plate Republican reception
at the Tacoma Country Club prior to his
arrival in Lacey.
Once seated the vice president scarcely
had time to consume his meat and potatoes dinner, catered by the Olympia
Chuckwagon, when he was called upon to
speak in support of the Kramer candidacy.
Ford seemed slightly disoriented, once
referring to the Third District as the Sixth,
but he soon relaxed before the overwhelm-

ingly friendly crowd of about 800 friends
and supporters.
Ford stressed two themes in his 30-minute speech. First was his obligatory praise ·
of Kramer. Ford gave extended praise to
former Republican Congressman Russell
Mack who represented Washington's
Third District from 1947 to 1960, never
mentioning Democrat Julia Butl'!r Hanson
who has held the seat since 1960. He referred to the. need of carrying on Mack's
work and said, "Lud Kramer's the person
that can do it . . . the day after the election (in November) nothing will please me
more than to read that Lud Kramer will
take the oath of office."
Ford delivered a highly nationalistic defense of the Nixon administration, an increasing trend in recent Ford speeches.
The vice president described Nixon's
domestic policy as creditable, and claimed
that "There has never been a better
foreign policy in the history of the United
States . . . No President in the history of
the United States has the record for peace
of President Nixon." Ford defended President Nixon on impeachment and resignation, saying he should not resign and that
he was convinced of the President's innocence. Ford received a standing ovation
when he told the listeners, 'We should
stand up tall and be proud that we're
Americans."

Misprint noted
In last week's issue the Journal reported
in an article entitled "Candidate interviewed" that "only one official application
has been submitted and accepted" for
dean. It should have read "only one nominee has accepted."

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Charges against Kan ruled false at hearing
BY WILLIAM HIRSHMAN

The charges that Head of Student Accounts Kingsley Kan had "misappropriated
funds" and was "incompetent" were ruled
false Tuesday at a meeting of a special
five-member hearing board called together
by Provost Ed Kormondy to settle the
case.
The decision was seen by many present to
clear Kan without going as far as censuring Mary Hillaire, the faculty member
who made the accusations.
The board, which consisted of
two faculty members, two staff members
and one student, found that errors delaying delivery of financial aid monies to
several students were not the result of incompetency on the part of Kan or his office and that implications of mishandling
of funds were unfounded.
Hillaire, faculty member in the Native
American Studies program, made charges
at an April 10 meeting on the Non-White
disappearing task force (DTF) that students were being "shafted" by the Student
Accounts office.
"There is the implication that students
have not been ~etting all that they were

Hillaire portrayed
BY STAN SHORE

"The reason why no one is satisfied with the hearing board's deci·sion," stated one staff member, "is
that the hearing board was only trying Mary (Hillaire) on the Kingsley
(Kan) issue. Everyone else was trying her for everything that she had
ever done."
That type of comment has been
typical of the high emotions surrounding the hearing board meeting
and its decision. Since the announcement of Kan's resignation, rumors
have been exchanged that the purpose of the hearing board was to
somehow "get" or "fire" Mary Ellen
Hillaire, a faculty member in Native
American Studies.
Of course, nothing of that sort
happened. Hillaire's contract will be
renewed this year., according to Provost Ed Kormondy, and the matter
with Kingsley Kan, who is leaving
for another job on Friday May 24,
is settled.
A look into recent events surrounding Hillaire may illuminate

eligible for," Hillair ~ charged at the DTF
meeting.
In a May 8 memorandum consisting of
a lengthy point by point response to the
charges Hillaire had made, Kan submitted

MARY HILLAIRE
"Why am l being crucified?"

the controversy which surrounds
her, and explain why so many
people felt she was going to be severely dealt with by the board.
According to sources close to the
Native American Studies program,
a recent letter to the provost and
president from former faculty member Jose Arguelles charged Hillaire
with "racism." The letter also advocated Hillaire's dismissal from the
faculty.
On top of the Arguelles letter,
Hillaire was also told recently in a
meeting with the academic deans
that she would not be able to head
the Native American Studies program for 1974-75. Instead Cruz Esquivel was chosen to head the coordinated studies. The reason for
the change, according to the deans,
is that no faculty member may
serve as coordinator to the same
program two years in a row.
Unofficial sources, on the other
hand, report that Hillaire had insisted that no white students could
enter the program in 1974-75, if she
were coordinator. "It is a program
for Native Americans," she allegedly stated. This attitude is contrary
to state and federal regulations
•which say that no program can exclude students because of their race.
Esquivel reportedly stated that he

his resignation because of the accusations
which he considered "slander."
"Unsupported statements made against
any person can be detrimental to the confidence and integrity of that person . . . I
intend not to be subject to unsubstantiated
statements related to my character, honesty and integrity."
This was followed on May 9 by a memorandum to Hillaire from Kormondy and
Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh requesting Hillaire to either document the charges or extend a written
apology to Kan by May 15. Hillaire chose
rather to have a hearing board which
Kormondy initiated on May 17 according
to grievance procedures outlined by Evergreen's governance document (COG).
The hearing board convened at 9 a.m.
on Tuesday in the board room with approximately 30 people attending. After
initial remarks by Kormondy concerning
the role of a hearing board, the board
members went into executive session to
review in private all the available material
which included the memos, and tapes and
transcripts of the April 10 DTF meeting.
The board returned shortly to hear testimonv. Kan challenged Hillaire to docuwould poll the present members of
the program and abide by their decision if he became coordinator.
In a statement before the hearing,
Hillare stated "I have been called
the Socrates of Evergreen. If you
bother to ask me, I can usually explain my actions; but no one
bothers to ask."
She went on to explain that her
questioning of Kan was simply in
line with her interpretation of the
DTF charge to question what was
being done to help non-whites.
"Why am I being crucified when I
do my job7" Hillaire asked angrily
at one point, "I could get hundreds
of qualifying statements about me
to make those twelve people (from
Financial Aid who signed a letter
supporting Kan) look sick."
One student who has worked
with Hillaire described her as "a
beautiful person" who "has said a
lot of very beautiful things." Nonetheless the student admitted that
Hillaire has a very strong personality and in her flaring oration sometimes unduly agitates.
Another highly-placed member of
the administration who has worked
with her stated, "Sometimes I just
don't understand what she is doing.
We are on different wavelengths, I
think."

ment the charges made against him.
"I want some documentation on the
charges. I can't answer questions which
are hearsay. I can't speak to those things
if I don't know what the accusations or
documentations are."
In response Hillaire called Pauline Covington, Hillaire's sister and Hazel Pete as
witnesses. Covington is a Native American Studies student who had not received
her full financial aid grant. Hillaire cited
this as an example of incompetency in
which a student was "shafted."
"A student being 'shafted,"' Hillaire explained to the administrators, "can result
from not knowing your job, not doing it
well or not considering qualities of a job
that in day-to-day might become mundane."
As Kan was about to respond to the
documented charges of the two students,
stating that the errors were never intentional, Hillaire interrupted saying that any
reply would be taking "advantage of the
witnesses."
"If that's the tone of this," Kan said,
disturbed that she would not allow him to
respond to the specific charges, "then I
think I'll excuse myself."
The discussion then turned to just who
was being accused: Kan, his staff or Busi-

Errors revealed
At the Tuesday meeting, each
member of the hearing board was
given a transcript of the tape made
at the April 10 Non-White DTF
meeting. Included in the paragraph
containing Hillaire's initial charge
against Kan, the Journal has found,
thus far, two mistakes. One error in
particular changes the weight of the
charges made against Kan.
On page seven of the transcript
the statement by Hillaire reads, ". .
.Affirmative Action is not just
hiring, you know, it probably implies some competent inquiring also
"

Upon careful listening to the tape
of the phrase it is obvious that the
.wording should read, " . . . it probably implies some competence in
firing also ... " not "competent inquiring ... "
This changes the meaning of
Hillaire's phrase from an explanation of why she is asking questions ·
about Student Accounts (inquiring)
to the suggestion that somebody in
Student Accounts should, in fact,
be fired.
The second mistake the Journal
found was a minor change from the
phrase "man-made" in the same
paragraph to the word "mandate."
The phrasing as it stands in the
transcript with "man-made" makes
little sense.

of the hearing was a disappointment
to me because nothing was solved."
Judy Annis of College Relations
felt the Kan-Hillaire hearing pointed
out the apparent low standing that
staff members have in the Evergreen
community. "A lot of staff people
feel that whenever a dispute comes
up between staff and faculty , it's
the staff who is going to be
shafted."
Chief Accountant AI Spence
likened it to a caste system with
staff on the bottom. He was disturbed that members of the hearing
board did not speak to reprimands
for broad statements. "An individual cannot just go around making
inflammatory and unjustified statements."

Staff displeased
BY WILLIAM HIRSHMAN
As the hearing board members
filed back into the board room the
staff members present sat in silence
awaiting the findings. As the results
of the day's testimony were read,
many of the staff members showed
their disappointment visibly. Hardly
a word was spoken as the people
left the room.
"It seemed more like a joke than
an adjudication procedure," said
Mike Hall, financial aid counselor.
"The final statement that came out
ness Manager Ken Winkley. Kan said he
was the only one who was in charge of
handling student accounts and thus the
accusations were made against him.
Hillaire said the charges were towards
Kan and his staff.
"Are you then accusing my staff of
scarfing off funds, of ripping off students?" l<an asked angrily.
"I am accusing them of making the financial situation of many students inordinately difficult," responded Hillaire, citing
the hardships that had been faced by
Covington.
"You're accusing me of being unresponsive," said Kan, "that certain students
have to go through so much hassle or
whatever in my section. Now in Pauline's
(Covington) case, she came down the next
day, questioned her check and that very
same day she got a corrective check. Now

if that's being unresponsive, I don't know
what responsive is."
After another executive session the
board asked Kan to speak about the stu~nt accounts system.
Kan then called Bill Smith of Financial
Aid as a witness. Smith, who was indignant at the way the hearing board was
being conducted, saying it reminded him
"of a circus," cited the Covington errors
and how the problems were solved responsively. _
The board then went into final executive session for about two hours to work
out their findings. Besides making recommendations on the accusations, the board
commended the Student Accounts Office
for the relatively few funding delays considering the number of accounts it
processed and its limited size of staff, but
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briefly before heading to Spokane Falls
Blvd. It was this street the motorcade
would arrive, bringing Dick and Pat. The
street was roped off and lined down the
tenter with cops and secret service. Cops
were up in buildings with binoculars and
guns. I kept thinking that they didn't
w.tn t another Dallas. A mild excitement
ran through the crowd of onlookers lining
the street, the cops even had a look of excitement to them.
I listened to Danny Kaye's loud clear
voice tell of Expo's theme (celebrating
tomorrow's fresh, new environment). He
then went on to introduce each country
participating in the fair which was accompanied by appropriate music and very
loud fireworks from which the appropriate flag would fall from the sky in the
aftermath of fireworks smoke. The mayor
of Spokane David H. Rogers spoke and
so did Governor Dan.
Demonstrators were lined up on the
side of the street facing the entrance Dick
would arrive at holding various signs. An
Army helicopter circled once overhead. It
looked like people in the chopper were
taking photos. The chopper made an eerie
noise, a high-pitched hum mixed with a
fluttering sound.
Finally the motorcade came down Spokane Falls Blvd., led by motorcycles and
various other cars with the presidential
limo sandwiched in. Dick was smiling and
waving looking out the glass. He looked
good. I waved to him and said, "Hi
Dick."
Governor Dan introduced Richard
Nixon . Dick congratulated Spokane and
the west for a magnificent achievement.
He gave credit for the magnificent
achievement to self-reliance, which has
made the west great and will make the
nation great. Dick was slurring his words,
his voice occasionally cracked, sometimes
there were long pauses as if he didn't have
the speech memorized or forgot in midsentence what he was going to say. He
talked about the big picture, the need to
get along with everyone in the world, the
need to watch out for the environment, to
pwtect it. I had no qualms with anything
that was said. The only problem was that
it was Richard Nixon saying it.
r\t noon Dick proclaimed the fair open
In all citizens of the world.
Art and I went back to the street to
watch Dick leave. In a few minutes he
c.1nu• out with Pat, waved and got into
tl· •.· big black limo. As Dick went by this
•· w he looked vacant. not drained but

Ill

more as if whatever his self is had
dropped to his shoes. He just sat there
across from Pat. They weren't sitting
close together, they were each hugging a
door. I again thought of Art's lon e
goldfish and wondered if Dick wanted to
be in love or if he was in love, with anything. As the limo sped away I almost felt
sorry for them .
The whole time a group of hecklers and
protesters made noise. I imagine it is
necessary to have a physical manifestation
of dissatisfaction to keep a balance, just
so the news coverage can acknowledge it
so the public can be aware. Personally I
didn't find the manifestation of dissatisfaction tasteful. When something lacks esthetics it lacks effectiveness.
Art and I went about the business of
looking at the fair. I was impressed by the
graphic art work on the sides of the buildings. The theme for the art work was animals . I was especially impressed by the
large purple owl painted on the John
Deere Building.
There were several large structures
called butterflies which were pleasant steel
and vinyl products high atop white steel
poles.
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Pavilion. I found it at first impressive but
a sense of coldness grew over it and I felt
it was crude, idealogical and conveyed the
unpleasantness of state mentality. The
U.S.S.R. Pavilion had a strong melodramatic air about it. The attendants seemed
shy, like uninvited guests at a party. They
didn't talk much. The men of the pavilion
sometimes huddled about in an atmosphere of secrecy. The films bordered on
the avant-garde. I am sure it was
unintentional, but if you get a chance to
go there watch all the films and see what
I mean.
The fairgrounds contained people
dressed in smart casual spring attire. It
didn't feel crowded although around
75,000 persons were in attendance. I
didn't care for the blacktop which dominated most walkways. It gave an
unpleasant feeling of something which
will not be around for very long. Cheap
is a better word for it. The brown beauty
bark was distracting and degrading as was
the positioning and visual impact of the
buildings. I had no feeling of wholeness
or completeness. The fairgrounds should
have been laid out differently to give a
greater sense of unity. The landscaping

Dick was slurring his words, his voice

cracked, there were long pauses ...
The U.S. Pavilion contained severa l interesting modern art works. For the most
part the art work in the pavilion was not
convincing enough. The saving grace of
the art exhibits was provided by a work I
believe entitled "this water is recirculated." This was a quite avant-garde piece
bordering on the surreal. (It would make
for a lovely and much-needed addition to
the college campus here at Evergreen). It
was made of bathtubs, sinks and shower
faucets arr.anged geometrically like a parody of a European fountain. It was very
tall, with much flowing water coming out
of all available faucets causing tubs and
sinks to overflow. It was stunning.
The Australian exhibit was my favorite.
The exhibit was very low key, very serene. Inside was dark with wall to wall
(Literally - the carpets went up to the
ceiling) grey carpeting. 'Most everything
was triangular. There were triangular
monitors showing video tapes of Australia
showing the landscape, animals, cities,
towns and people of Australia, as all the
pavilions and exhibits were presenting
their resources. One exception to the triangular theme was a roundish sort of
room with a revolving floor enabling one
to stand and observe the 20 screens set
around a pentagon pattern coming from
the ceiling showing slides of Australia.
Arthur was impressed with the U.S.S.R.

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shou ld have dealt more adequately with
the too many steep slopes that were everywhere. I don't feel there was a strong
commitment by the countries involved to
the fair. This I feel is the fair's main
drawback and reason for my dissatisfaction.
I don't mean to criticize the fair unduly.
I sensed a great deal of pride in the fair,
especially from Governor Dan. Being a
Washington resident I feel a bit bad about
criticizing the fair. I do hope the fair is a
success and accomplishes the goal of
making people of the world and of Washington aware of the need to treat the environment with respect, to use it wisely,
to keep it beautiful and to restore beauty
to what man has made ugly.
Arthur Avalon and I hit the road
around 5 after a day at the fair. We were
tired and had a long drive ahead of us.
We got a pizza in Ellensburg at Mama
Mia Pizza. It was some of the best pie I've
eaten. If you go through Ellensburg on
your way to or from' the fair and like pie
Art and I would advise you to go in and
try one.
Art didn't get to shake Dick's hand but
he did get to see him. He didn't drink any
Russian vodka either because it was too
expensive. Win some, lose some.
Continued on page 13

Cooper Point Journal

11

May 23,1974

Guest
Commentary
Evergreen at age 3
In early 1971, I was living in New York City, had been out of
school for a year, was fed up with the traditional college, but
wanted to go back to school. I first heard of Evergreen through
Willi Unsoeld (seems a lot of folks did), and it sounded great. A
new, small, pliable, experimental college was my ideal. though I
thought that such a school would lose much of its impetus by age
five or ten. Two coordinated study programs, one group contract
and four individual contracts later, I'm a bit more cynical.
What are the dreams of yesterday; what are the realities of
today the myth of the Evergreen community?
Perhaps there was an Evergreen community during the planning
year. There was little evidence of community during the first year
and there is essentially none today. Many factors work against
community. There is no place on campus which is physically and
socially conducive to day-to-day gatherings. The yoke of the stateimposed bureaucracy helps to push Evergreen from community to
institution. Buildings and grounds are the responsibility of a veritable army of eight-to-fivers. Most of them are great people but,
since they're always around to clean up, one area of potential
communal responsibility is robbed.
Trust, like community, may have died an early death at Evergreen. Heaven forbid that our huge computerized business office
should ever have believed in trust. And like so many other intangibles, if you assume trust is missing, it will be. Some results are
-vandalism, theft, library ripoffs. Then, of course, some of the college's lack of trust ties in with the assumption of power.
More than one administrator has assumed powers not specifically his and has yielded them only when exposed by a
conscientious Evergreener. No, power has shown itself to be a
higher ideal than trust. Perhaps this is a bit too cynical; there are
very few administrators, faculty, staff, and students on power
trips. The problem has been that, from time to time, power has
been assumed easily enough for a few to fuck over the rest of us.
Two reasons why this has been possible are a lack of clarity as to
disposition of power and an unfortunately high level of apathy.
Community
Community? The first year was characterized by disorganized
coexistence; peace, love, and grooviness. Year two things were
more organized but with power struggles here and there. Unfortunately these were quiet skirmishes as we put up a smiling front
for the fire-breathing legislature. This year Evergreen's flow has
eased into a calm backwater, where, unless we get some community, trust, and action into gear fast, we will quickly become another impotent, though seemingly viable, institution. All in four
years. Not bad compared to my original estimate of five to ten
years.
One way to stem the tide is through the creation of an Evergreen ombudspeople. Someone with instant and unrestricted
access to everyone on the Evergreen campus, who can work
through any problem (except counseling type problems) either
open or confidentially. We need someone whose only job is problem-solving. Not an administrator who you need an appointment
' a Wef'k in advance to see, but someone whom you can contact or
who will return your call the day the difficulty arises. Who
kPows, if enough problems came ;nto the open, we might need
two or three ombudspeoples.
••

nflll

•n"4

The remainder of this commentary speaks to many of the
issues, problems, myths which bug me at Evergreen. I'm not presenting answers, merely opening the tops of boxes.
Rhetoric: use a new word and you've got a new phenomenon.
This has been one of Evergreen's traits since the planning year, if
not before. Vibrant, experimental education does not exist
through new names, my friends, it requires substance. The names
are fine, but be sure that the phenomenon merits it.
Radical education: to those of you who believe that this is what
most of Evergreen is, wake up. I'm referring not to what people
learn but to how they learn. There is a bit of radical education
here, as well as some degree of experimental education, but a very
large percentage of what goes on here is mighty traditional.
The gut: is it possible to gut your way to an Evergreen degree?
I think it probably is, though it must be easier at a larger, more
traditional school. But if people are into that trip, I don't really
care if they want to pay to waste their own time. More worthy of
examination might be those who are convinced that they are
working their butts off and aren't getting anywhere (faculty, as
well as students, please take note).
Academic Standing
Academic standing: there were regulations on academic standing in the first catalog, but somehow most people didn't notice
until the current edition. They're really quite reasonable, but are
they necessary? If Evergreen could function as designed, no one
who qualitied tor academic dismissal would want to be around.
Why would anyone stay who couldn't at least come close to
getting what he wanted here.
The myth of the interdisciplinary program: I have yet to see
one truly work, though I still like the ideal. Important to note,
however, is that interdisciplinary does not mean math, physics,
chemistry or film, photography, sound or history, sociology, anthropology. The introduction of divisional coordinated study programs shows recognition of this problem to some degree, but
please beware of rhetoric (there have been successful and interdisciplinary coordinated study programs, but they are the distinct
minority).
Who's got the dough: despite occasional cries of pain, the
sciences still shaft the arts. This is the case in numbers of personnel, equipment, and operating monies; this has been the case
for three years. There is no reason for sciences and arts to be at
odds but it would be nice for there to be more equality in hiring
and financing. After all, sputnik was 17 years ago - yes friends,
it was fired before some of next year's freshmen.
Empire building: there are a few Evergreeners on all levels
engaged in this charming practice. Usurpation, hoarding, and misappropriation are not nice and screw the rest of us. Naming
names is unnecessary, but power, dollars, and toys (equipment)
all come into play in various parts of the college.
Hiring: why is it that some areas of the college feel a need for
overqualified staff? People are placed in positions which cannot
use their abilities to the fullest. Not only is this a waste of
technical and creative peoplepower, but these people often become
either discontented or stagnant. Naturally there are faculty members who more than make up for this through real incompetence
for the job. On the other hand, the occasional practice of
nepotism and the potential of affirmative action for underqualification can be more damaging. Caveat emptor.
Faculty qualifications: while faculty forum discusses the role of
the Ph.D. at Evergreen, everyone seems to have lost sight of an
almost totally untapped source of faculty members. Many of us
thought that non-academics would be a natural part of the Evergreen faculty (particularly in the arts and professions), but it
seems that a masters or doctorate is the necessary passport. It is
unfortunate, but typical, that people, whose background and experience should easily open the doors, are not part of Evergreen
because they lack a few letters after their names.
A fiefdom
Facilities planning: a fiefdom within the college structure,
whose actions often work in opposition to ,the school's basic
ideals_. For an ecology-oriented school. the landscaping is at best
Continued next page
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Continued from preceding page
tacky and, yes, chemical weed control
methods are employed. In typical societal
fashion, a parkway lighting system is installed, more because it was bid out several years ago than because it is really
needed. It is here that the responsibility
lies for maintaining our concrete boxes in
museum-like sterility. Don't forget, if Evergreen should ever fail, the potential for
conversion to a police academy, state offices or perhaps a mental hospital remains.
Perhaps this cryptic commentary will
inform newer Evergreeners, and rekindle
the fires of indignation in those of you
who've been around. I realize that to new
Evergreeners, this place is better than anywhere else you've been. The issue is that
many of us have seen greater potentials
lost as easier and/or straighter ways of
functioning present themselves. To be on
the avant garde of college education, Evergreen will have to not only take a giant
leap to begin with, but we must also keep
up a breakneck pace to stay there. Grab it
now or the talons of tradition will hold us
here. Remember, the institution consists
of people.
Martin J. Oppenheimer

Let the Natural Way
Be Your Way

Dick
Continued from page 10

NATURAL VITAMINS,

If you like to look at girls the fair is the
place to be. If you go there to look at
girls remember these choice words uttered
by Arthur A val on on the way to the car
as we were leaving the fair: "Too many
girls, it only leads to desire, then frustration, then unhappiness."
I left feeling the samewav I did coming
out of the Bunuel film "The Discreet
Charm of the Bourgeoisie. " I was still
waiting for it to begin and I was leaving.

Hillaire
Continued from page 9
added, "constant vigilance is necessary to
provide service that is as understanding
and prompt as possible."
As a final footnote the board felt the
issue could have been handled in a more
humane manner.
"A willingness for open and honest personal exchange before the use of formal
measures may have been more appropriate
jn this case."
After the meeting, Hillaire said she felt
that the issue had beeri irresponsibly
handled because it became "emotionally .
charged."
Kan, obviously upset, would only say
that he had expected something more
from the hearing.
'That's the end of it," said Kormondy,
to whom the recommendations went, "unless either party wishes to appeal."

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The good
mov1e
Having filled this space in the Journal
regularly for a quarter with film reviews,
it seems appropriate that we think about
the process of looking critically at a
movie . We should consider a few of the
things that go into making a "good
movie."
The most obvious demand, and one
that is not often spoken of or understood,
is that a film should be cinematic. By
cinematic we mean that the story should
unfold in a way that is proper for the
medium . It is not enough for a film to
have a good story if it is poorly told - as
evidenced by all the bad Shakespeare
films that have been made.
The cinema is a visual art, and while
only a few purists still maintain that
seund adulterated the movies, making the
form less pure, we still should expect to
To be cinematic a story
be shown.
should be told primarily visually . The
more the audience sees, or thinks they
see, and the less they are "told," the
closer to the cinematic ideal.
The good director not only tells the
story with cameras and lights, but uses
specific camera angles, lenses, lighting and
shots to compose each shot in such a way

that it not only shows what is happening,
but adds to the emotional and esthetic
content of the film . It is only when the
cinema-craftsman uses his particular tools
to tell the story that we can say that a
film is not only interesting but cinematically interesting.
In addition to the director and cinematographer's efforts, there are other things
that go into making a "good movie."
While we have said that a good story
doesn't necessarily make a good film,
only the most dedicated and dull film buff
will sit through a film that is made up
only of exciting dolly shots and titilating
angles. The screenwriter must give the
technical people interesting materials to
work with. The screenwriter must create a
story which will appeal to the audience
and be done in such a way that it is appropriate to the film medium .
We also should expect a well acted production. One would hardly accept even
the most brilliantly conceived film of
MacBetlr if it featured Bob Hope as Me' Duff. A good film uses competent actors
in a role that he / she can believably play.
Good cinema then must be well acted,
well conceived and appropriate to the
medium. Those qualities can be difficult
to evaluate. There are no hard and fast
rules. Actors who are excellent on the
stage, may fail miserably on the screen.
Stories that play well as movies would
never make it as novels. There are not
only styles appropriate to the cinema and
not to other mediums. but within thP

cinema there are styles of composition
which play well in one genre and are out
of place in another. An example might be
the sweeping vistas which San Peckinpah
has brought back to the western. They
are perfect behind the credits of Pat
Garret and Billy tl1e Kid but would be
ludicrous in a psychological thriller which
demands constant close-ups to maintain
its tension.
Good cinema then, requires not only
skill from all of the people involved in the
production of a movie, but from the audience as well. If we are to respond to a
film intelligently, then our participation
must be creative. We must weigh the
qualities within the context of the particular film to make a judgment. This is a
process more demanding than simply
"liking" or "hating" a film. It is also a
more satisfying style of appreciation .
JEFFREY H. MAHAN

Correction
Last Week we speculated about the Seattle Film Society's showing of the Marx
Brothers' Animal Crackers . As the film
had apparently been out of circulation for
some time, we had been pleased to learn
that it would once more be shown in the
Northwest.
Alas, such was not to be. The Seattle
Times on May 17 reported that Animal
Crackers had been cancelled due to "legal
complications. " The showing was replaced
with the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, a
much more commonly shown film, and
Alfred Hitchcock's 1937 film Young and
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"Deplorable, disgusting, shabby, immoral •.. "
Senator Hugh Scott, R-Pen.
"revolting picture of conniving and deception ... "
Omaha World Herald
" . . . reek with stench and moral decay."
Alexander Schindler, Pres. Union of Amer. Hebrew Cong.
"perhaps the kindest way of putting it is that they amount to an
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W.R. Hearst
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Chicago Tribune
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The State Theatre will be showing The
Voyage of Sinbad and Living
ee) the Olympic bill is Serpico and Ash
ednesday; at the Capitol is Where the
ilies Bloom.
Olympia drive-ins are showing Robin
ood and That Darn Cat at the Sunset
nd MASH with The Heartbreak Kid at
he Lacey.
The Friday Nite Film Series presents
he Fabulous Baron Munchausen this Friay at 7:30 and 9 p.m. in Lecture Hall1.
f. slide/tape show entitled Goat Milk,
roduced by Evergreen student Gary
arcus, will be shown Wednesday, May
2 at 7:30p.m. in Lecture Hall 3.
The State Capitol Museum is presently
1howing an exhibit of law enforcement
araphernalia. The exhibit features the ac·omplishments of the Sheriffs of Thurston
ounty and dangerous weapons confisated from juvenile delinquents.

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This Friday the Applejam Folk Center
ill present Evergreen Grass, featuring
ocal musicians. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.
nd there is a donation of $1.00. The Folk
enter is located at 220 E. Union.

PORTLAND

Broadway.
of the Gods are at the Laurelhurst. A
Touch of Class and Save the Tiger show
at the Hollywood Theatre. And don't forget to see Fanny Hill plus Inga at the
Orpheum. The 5th Avenue begins its Directors Festival with Shame and Stolen
Kisses.
Be prepared for the coming of the
)offrey Ballet in mid-June at the. Auditorium and The Royal Shakespeare Company.
The Portland Art Museum is showing
Little Rascals Festival, five of the best
from Our Gang, May 25 at 2 p.m.

There are a wide variety of films in
Portland this week. Basil Rathbone stars
in the Sherlock Holmes classic The Pearl
of Death at the Movie House; The Sting
is playing at the Eastgate; The Three
Musketeers is at the Westgate. The Last
Detail and Five Easy Pieces are showing
at the Irvington and Zaroz plays at several theatres including the Village and

TACOMA
Tacoma films are Heavy Traffic and
The Trip at the 112th Street Drive-in;
The Valachi Papers at the Guild 6th Avenue and Electra glide in Blue at the Parkland. Where the Lilies Bloom is showing
at the Tacoma Mall and The Exorcist
plays at the Rialto. Son of Dracula is
showin~ at the Temple.

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Disney on Parade begins May 30 and
will continue through June 3 at the
Coliseum with a total of eight performances.
The Seattle Art Museum is currently
showing French Classic Films in its audi-.
torium located in Volunteer Park. Admission is $1.00.
Golden Earring, an acrobatic rock band
from Holland, comes to Set~ttle's Moore
Theatre Wednesday, June 19 at 8 p.m.

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Films in Seattle this week include such
tvorites as The Exorcist at the Cinerama;
ame at the Uptown; and The Great
atsby at the Cinema I and The King.
urence Olivier's Hamlet is showing at
he Movie House; Miss Erotica USA is at
e Flick Adult Cinema; The Erotic Mem1rs of a Male Chauvinist Pig is at the
id-town; The Harvard Exit continues to
ow The Apple War; and The Last Deil is at the Cinema 150 with The New
enturions. Harry Nilsson and Ringo
arr are in The Son of Dracula at the 5th
enue; The Music Box is showing two
{arx Brothers films, A Night at the
ra and The Big Store.
Rose Marie stars in Everybody's Girl at
e Cirque Dinner Theatre. Lawrence
elk will appear in Seattle at the Colim Sunday, June 9 at 3 p.m. Tickets
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