The Cooper Point Journal Vol. 3, No. 3 (October 10, 1974)

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Eng The Cooper Point Journal Vol. 3, No. 3 (October 10, 1974)

Date

10 October 1974

Evergreen Subject

Student Organizing and Activism

Curriculum

Faculty Hiring and Governance

Description

Eng Page 1: Cooper Point Journal (front page) -- Media Reaction to the Tragedy;
Page 2: (advertisement) Golden Retriever puppies;
Page 2: (advertisement) Moreno's Mexican Restaurant;
Page 2: (advertisement) Town House Pillow Furniture;
Page 2: (advertisement) Tropical Gardens;
Page 2: (advertisement) The Coachman for Mazda;
Page 2: (advertisement) Academic Research Library (Los Angeles, Ca);
Page 3: Curriculum Planning - page 14 (feature);
Page 3: Table of Contents;
Page 3: Staff Credits;
Page 4: (advertisement) Hendrick's Rexall Drugs;
Page 4: (advertisement) Rainbow Grocery;
Page 4: (advertisement) La Tierra;
Page 4: (advertisement) South Sound National Bank;
Page 4: (advertisement) Evergreen State College Bookstore;
Page 5: Times At Evergreen State College: Aeschylus at Evergreen;
Page 5: (advertisement) Word of Mouth Books;
Page 6: (photograph) [beauty queen sitting next to Smokey the Bear] (by Pokorny);
Page 6-7: Letters: Article criticized;
Page 7: Letters: Tragedy's aftermath;
Page 7: Letters: Honduras disaster;
Page 7: (advertisement) The Iron Greenhouse;
Page 8-9 &18-19: IRS Returns: How Evergreen is polled [Input Resource Senter];
Page 8: Image: Input Resource Senter;
Page 9: Image: Faculty member Chuck Nisbet;
Page 9: Image: Stacia Haley, Senter Coordinator;
Page 10: Campus News in Brief: Evergreen invites candidates;
Page 10: 2 Images: Don Bonker, Lud Kramer;
Page 10: Campus News in Brief: Elliot Richardson visits campus;
Page 11: Campus News in Brief: Prisoner to speak;
Page 11: Campus News in Brief: Evegreen students will study nepal;
Page 11: Campus News in Brief: Journal editor resigns;
Page 11: Campus News in Brief: New late-night buses to begin;
Page 11 & 20: Campus News in Brief: rape awareness week slated for campus;
Page 12-13: Vicki Scheider's [Schneider] Death: News Coverage, Campus Reaction;
Page 12: Image: Vicki Faye Schneider;
Page 12: Image: Sheriff Don Redmond addresses the all-campus meeting;
Page 13: New Facts Known [side story of Vicki Schneider death];
Page 14-15: Registration problems debated;
Page 14: 2 Images: Academic Deans Lynn Patterson and Rudy Martin;
Page 15: Image: Faculty Jeff Kelly;
Page 15: (advertisement) Health - Way Food Center;
Page 15: (advertisement) The Guardsman;
Page 16: American Perspectives: The Blindness of Power;
Page 17: Journal Commentary;
Page 17: Image: Daily Olympian front page headline on Schneider death;
Page 17: Questions about Rocky [Nelson Rockefeller];
Page 18: (advertisement) Bob's Big Burgers;
Page 18: (advertisement) All Ways Travel Service, Inc.;
Page 18: (advertisement) bradley sound co.;
Page 18: (advertisement) Evergreen Villages;
Page 19: (advertisement) European Motors;
Page 19: (advertisement) Vino Fino;
Page 19: (advertisement) Laid Back Motors;
Page 19: (advertisement) Shakey's;
Page 19: (advertisement) ROBCO'S;
Page 20: Campus News in Brief: Swami to lecture at Evergreen;
Page 20: Campus News in Brief: Scrap paper to be recycled;
Page 20: Campus News in Brief: Evergreen Hunger Action Center started;
Page 20: (advertisement) Gourmet Vintners;
Page 20: (advertisement) Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC);
Page 20: (advertisement) The Four Seasons;
Page 21: Sports / Len Wallick : Turnout for Kicking;
Page 21: (advertisement) Asterisk* & Cheese Library [photo missing];
Page 21: (advertisement) Rainy Day Record Co.;
Page 21: (advertisement) Dirty Dave's Gay 90's;
Page 22: (advertisement) The Original Better Days Flora;
Page 22: (advertisement) Episcopal Church Services: St. Johns, St. Christopher's;
Page 22: cartoon cinema;
Page 23: Northwest Culture;
Page 24: (advertisement) Spud & Elma's Two Mile House;
Page 24: (advertisement) Looking Glass Gardens;
Page 24: (advertisement) Sunrise Mountaineering;
Page 24: (advertisement) Raudenbush Motor Supply;
Page 24: (advertisement) Colony Inn

Creator

Eng Eldridge, Lesterter W.

Eng Bender, John

Eng May, Peter

Eng Kramer, Wendy

Eng Shore, Stan

Eng Allison, Nicholas H.

Contributor

Eng Praggastis, John

Eng Posthumus, Ingrid

Eng Orred, Liz

Eng Hester, Mary

Eng Foster, John

Eng Ryan, Andy

Eng Shore, Stan

Eng Blunt, David

Eng Charlton, Elizebeth

Eng Daly, Andrew

Eng Goodman, Kim

Eng Groening, Matthew

Eng Hanock, Sally

Eng Henault, Cecil

Eng Hillsberry, Lauren

Eng Katz, Dean

Eng Krame, Wendy

Eng Madsen, Babera

Eng Peterson, Gary

Eng Pitts, Tom

Eng Porter, Demian

Eng Solomon, Sam

Eng Thomas, Eric

Eng Unsoeld, Regon

Eng Vachuda, Jaroslav

Eng Wallick, Len

Eng Wittmayer, John

Eng Grisbov, margret

Subject

Eng Evergreen State College Curriculum

Eng Law Enfocement, Law Enforcement Education program

Eng Hurricanes, Humanitarian Aid

Eng Local Elections

Eng Local Government

Eng Watergate

Eng State Congress

Eng Torture, Vietnam War

Eng Saigon

Eng Kathmandu, Nepal

Eng Crime

Eng Homocide

Eng Evergreen State College Registration

Eng Economics

Eng Blackmail

Eng Recycling

Eng Swami Lectures

Eng Sports, Soccer

Eng Nixon, Richard

Eng Nichols, Dick

Eng Cronkite, Walter

Eng McLaren, Norman

Eng Sievers, Becky

Eng McCann, Charles

Eng Clabaugh, Dean

Eng Kormondy, Edward

Eng Halvorson, Halvor M

Eng Tourtellotte, Janet P

Eng Schmidt, Truman L

Eng Hadley, Herbert D

Eng Bailey, Eric

Eng Dixon, Thomas

Eng Winkley, Ken

Eng Berger, Knute

Eng Hirshman, Bill

Eng Cadwaller, Merv

Eng Jones. Richard

Eng Elbow, Peter

Eng Marr, David

Eng Daugherty, Leo

Eng Sluss, Bob

Eng Dobbs, Carolyn

Eng Dimitroff, George

Eng Jones, Richard

Eng Sparks, Paul

Eng Moss, John

Eng Allen, Walker

Eng Snook, Betty

Eng Martin, S. R. (Sennie Rudolph), 1935-2016

Eng Parson, Willie

Eng Dorsey-Travis, Edwina

Eng Ybarra, Thomas

Eng Mayer, Ken

Eng Peterson, David

Eng White, Sid

Eng Thompson, Kirk

Eng Ellsberg, Daniel

Eng Manson, Donna Gall

Eng Brandt, Willy

Eng Cox, Archibald

Eng Nisbet, Chuck

Eng Cellarius. Richard

Eng Pearson, Linnea

Eng Taylor, Nancy

Eng Baum,L. Frank

Eng Minelli, Liza

Eng Eastwood, Clint

Eng Bridges, Beau

Eng The Cooper Point Journal

Eng Town House Pillow Furniture

Eng Moreno's Mexican Resturaunt

Eng Tropical Gardens

Eng Mazda

Eng Academic Research Library

Eng Hendricks Rexall Drugs

Eng Rainbow, Grocery

Eng South Sound National Bank

Eng Evergreen State College Bookstore

Eng La Tierra

Eng Word of mouth Books

Eng The Iron Greenhouse

Eng The Gaurdsman

Eng Healthy-Way Food Center

Eng Bob

Eng s Big Burgers

Eng Allways Travel Service INC

Eng Bradley Sound Co

Eng Evergreen Villas

Eng Laid Back Motors

Eng Shakey's Pizza

Eng SAAB, BMW

Eng Robco

Eng Pioneer

Eng Vino Fino

Eng Gormet Vintners

Eng KFC

Eng The Four Seasons

Eng Asterisk and Cheese Library

Eng Rainy Day Record Co

Eng Dirty Dave's Gay 90's Pizza

Eng Better Dyas Flora

Eng St. John's Episcopal Church

Eng St' Christophers Episcopal Church

Eng Two Mile House

Eng Raudenbush Motor Supply

Eng Colony Inn

Eng Sunrise Mountaineering

Eng University Of California

Eng The Evergreen State College

Eng Thurston County League of Women Voters

Eng Lacey Chamber of Comerce

Eng Olympia Chamber of Comerce

Eng American friends Service Committee, Chi Hoa Prison

Eng Thurston County Sheriffs Deparment

Eng Evergreen State College Student Accounts

Eng Evergreen State College Financial Aid

Eng Evergreen State College Mens Center

Eng Evergreen State College Security

Eng Evergreen State College Student Serivces

Eng Olympia, YMCA

Eng Western Fiber Resources

Eng Washington State Soccer Leauge

Eng Olympiac Theater

Eng American International Pictuers

Eng Disney

Place

Eng Washington

Eng Seattle, Washington

Eng Olympia, Washington

Eng Portland, Oregon

Eng Evergreen State College Campus

Eng Honduras

Eng Central America

Eng Choloma Village

Eng San Pedro Sula

Eng Thurston County

Eng France, Danang

Eng Western Europe

Eng Japan

Eng Great Britin

Extent

Eng 24 pages

Temporal Coverage

Eng 1970/1972/1973/1974/1975/1976/

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Cooper Point
Journal
The Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington

Curriculum Planning

Vol. 3 No. 3 September 26, 1974

EDITOR

William P. Hirshman
MANAGING EDITOR

Nicholas H. Allison
NEWS EDITOR

Diane Hucks
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Knute Olsson H.G.S. Berger

page M

A number of students came to Evergreen this year uncertain of what they
would be studying. At a traditional college this would be unheard-of, but
since at Evergreen a student is registered in only one "course" instead of
many, the crunch for last minute sign-up should be less severe.
Despite this theory, the week of registration and orientation this year was
hectic and confusing for many new
students. Coming to Evergreen uncertain of what the school was like,
how it felt to be in a program, what
the various faculty members expected and how they acted, there
seemed to be a widespread feeling
of bewilderment at the lack of easy
guidance, a feeling maybe of being
"fucked over by the registration
process," as a student sign in the
Activities building suggested . Although statistics are unavailable, it
is probable that many people who
had registered in certain programs
last spring during Pre-registration
did so only because they needed to
write something down on the form,
and so were taking up space in the programs' lists of registered students
when they had no real intention of participating. This caused, in addition to
the real crunch of students fitting in to programs they wanted, a "false
crunch" of registered students who really had no intention of staying in their
pre-registered slots.
'
This story was researched by Kim Goodman and written by Stan Shore.

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GENERAL STAFF

. David Blunt, Elizabeth Charlton,
Andrew Daly, Kim Goodman, Matt
Groening, Sallie Hancock, Cecile
Henault, Loren Hillsberry, Dean ·
Katz, Wendy Kramer, Barbara
Madsen, Gary Peterson, Tom Pitts,
Demian Porter, Sam Solomon, Erik
Thomas, Regon Unsoeld, Jaroslav
· Vachuda, Len Wallick, John Wittmayer.
Faculty Adviser: Margaret Gribskov

· The Cooper Point Journal is published ;
hebdomadally by the Evergreen State Col:
l-------------....::::__________________-1 lege Board of Publications and membef'?
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MEDIA TREATMENT OF SCHNEIDER. DEATH

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Times at TESC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Letters ...... .. ... .. ... . .. . . .. . 6
Campus News .. . .... .. . . . . .. . . 10
American Perspectives ... . . .. ... 16
Journal Commentary .. ... ..... . 17

Records ..... . .. .. . .... .... .. .. 18 '
Sports . . .. .. . .. . . ....... . ..... 21
Cinema ... . .. . ......... . .. . . . . 22
N . W. Culture .. .. ...... .... .... 23

This week's cover was photographed by John Praggastis and shows Robin Groth
of Seattle's KING Newservice filing a report on the morning of Vicki Schneider's '
death. See the story on page 12 for details.
October 10, 1974

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Aeschylus
at

Evergreen
Hidden away in the microfilmed
archives of Evergreen there exists a talent
of unknown dimension in the shape and
form of one 40-year-old balding and slender man, who comes and goes under the
discreet heading of Library Acquisitioner
and I or Malcolm Stilson. Stilson is a playwright and when not buried in librarian's
technicalities might be seen in white collar
sitting at a piano with pencil between
gritted teeth, eking out a tune of extraordinary depth or scratching onto paper
what will soon become a major musical
comedy production in Lecture Hall One.
We decided to try and put down in
print the farcical humor, the style of his
wit and the goodwill that not only make
Stilson's productions tremendously popular at Evergreen but also make Stilson
the object of our attention in this column.
True to the tradition of sincere artistry
Stilson sometimes bases his~ plays on classical themes. He is the author of Achilles
the Heel which is loosely based on the
Iliad. The Students or Cloud Cuckoo You
is Stilson's rendition of Aristophanes' The
Birds, "with a bit of The Frogs thrown in"
according to the playwright. He first
began writing plays at The Universi'f of
California but since then has joined the
Evergreen Geoducks where he has been
inspired to create at a mad pace such
works as Omnia E.xstares, Sir Lunchlot,
The Founding of Jolly College or Learning
Can Be Fun, The Last Yippy, The
Computer Revolt, Secretaries Anonymous
and many more.
Stilson says that he finds Evergreen a
very inspirational place to reside. It is not
simply the subject matter that spurs him
on to write, but also the people. Many of
his characters are fashioned from the
characters on our campus. "Any similarity to people living or dead i5 strictly intentional" says Stilson in The Founding of
Jolly College. Among his fabricated and
reappearing troupe there are such names
October 10, 1974

as President Cann (sic), "if anyone can
Cann can," Billi Bunion who climbs
mountains, Dean Snowball, Myron
Yoicks, a fellow named Dillinger whose
first line in Trees is "Them trees has got
to go," and oddly enough the cast is
usually found to be somehow connected
with "Wintergreen College", our Jolly
College.
Malcolm Stilson writes his scripts with
various talented actors in mind. Sir
Lunchlot was played by Dick Nichols,
who Stilson says did a gallant job as
knight errant illicitly courting a belligerent
and dominating Mabel Whitney as Queen
Headabeer. Rudy Martin once starred as
President Cann wearing around his neck a
cue card saying "Blush" just at such times
as our beloved Charlie McCann might
become redder in the face. Stilson even
argues that at one point the Cooper Point
Journal gave a poor review of one of his
plays because one character in his farce
reminded the particular critic of himself,
although we find this hard to believe.
There are some students here who may
argue that New York City is a good place.

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to be because of the caliber of culture it
offers. There are others that prefer the
mountains to the maddening crowds and
Malcolm Stilson's ditties on our alma
mater's big cheeses. We will be glad to
gather with fellow Evergreeners in Lecture
Hall One for a premier of Achilles the
Heel, a touching drama of the Mafia
taking over Wintergreen College, with
script and music written by Stilson and
his sometimes collaboratQr, Dick Nichols.
Achilles will be shown sometime in
December if all goes well, and will
undoubtedly lampoon our familiar and
not-so-familiar administrators and friends,
as usual.
And as if that weren't enough, another
of Stilson's musical comedies, this one
entitled Without Morals, will be shown
on Stilson's birthday, May 26. It is a long
time to wait, to be sure. But.there are fe\\
enough things in this world, or on thi!
campus, that are really worth waiting for,
and we are glad to have Malcolm Stilsor
brightening our cultural life with hi!
talents.
SH

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Article criticized
To the Editor:
I noticed some errors of fact or omission in the article "Police Program Questioned" on page 9 of the October 3rd
Journal. After speaking to Hap Freund, I
further conclude that the author of the
article missed the point of Hap's concerns
over some elements of the Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP).
Hap's main concern, one which I share,
is with the academic quality of "external"
or "satellite" programs or individual contracts at Evergreen. These involve students who never experience in-residence
study at The Evergreen State College. The
basic question here is whether Evergreen
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is willing to invest the time and concentration to provide a first-rate academic experience for those students who complete
virtually all of their Evergreen studies at
points remote from Evergreen. As Hap
points out, it is inherently difficult to provide academic and related services to students who spend no time in residence on
the campus. It is not an impossible task,
however, and Charles Teske, among
others,· has already begun to address the
question of what energies need to be applied in order to accomplish it.
What Hap did not say was that all students studying in remote areas and unable
to reside on campus are LEEP-funded.
Neither did he say that all LEEP-funded
students study off-campus, nor did he use
the word "handled" in referring to these
students. At least one other large block of
students, Maxine Mimms' MDC group,
studies off-campus and has no connection
whatever with the Law Enforcement Education Program. It is with the quality of

educ.ation -for all off-campus students,
whatever their source of income, that our
concerns should lie.
The LEEP program's purpose is to professionalize and improve the education of
individuals already employed by courts,
correctional facilities and criminal justice
agencies, and to attract college students
not now in the employ of criminal justice
agencies to law enforcement careers. It is
not, as the. article implied, open only to
Federal or State Law Enforcement employees. In fact, .very few Federal employees qualify for the program at all. It is
open to many students who are not employed in Law Enforcement but who
wish to pursue that career. Nor does it
· have anything to do with a "National Police Force." It is purely a financial aid program and provides no funds for program
or staff support. The enabling legislation
makes absolutely no mention of a National Police Force. Most of the students
receiving LEEP funds study on-campus
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and many of them have graduated and
gone on to careers in corrections and law
enforcement. Many of the individuals receiving LEEP funds are pursuing studies
in the general liberal arts area without• a
law enforcement emphasis. In other
words, the LEEP students are in many
ways as diverse as those students receiving National Direct Loans or Educational
Opportunity Grants. To lump them together, assign them a stereotype and
speak of "handling" them is a gross unfairness to their diversity of background
and career goals. Neither does it acknowledge the Evergreen faculty's great capacity
to relate to a diverse student body.
I believe that the purpose of the LEEP
program is well met at Evergreen, as we
have brought a number of young, welleducated, problem-oriented graduates into
the field of Law Enforcement throughout
the state and have provided the extra
breadth and perspective which comes with
a four-year education to mar:ty students
who happen already to be employed in
Law Enforcement.
The issue here deals only tangentially
with some students receiving LEEP funds.
It is concerned with all students at Evergreen who study without the experience
of on-campus residence. The educational
progress of these students is impacted because of their distance from a four year
institution. Evergreen has chosen to meet
the needs of these students so that they
can continue their college education. We
must continue to insure, however, that in
meeting these needs we provide an education which measures up to our on-campus
standards.
Lester W. Eldridge

Tragedy's
aftermath
To the Editor:
A few days ago, an Evergreen student
died on campus. But everyone I have
talked to since seems afraid to talk about
it, almost to the point of not admitting it
happened. Do we think that if we ignore
it, it will go away7 After all, such things
just don't happen at Evergreen.
Or do they.
Ever since it happened, I have been asking myself, "Why7 Why is a person dead
that just a few days ago had started a
program that I almost went into7" Why7
Maybe we all need to ask ourselves that.
For several days it has been on my mind,
and I keep coming up with the same answers. Did someone, maybe me, not have
enough time to give7 Was someone, maybe me, in too much c;>f a hurry to reach
out and touch another human being? Was
someone, maybe me, too busy fitting into
the "system" to take a good hard look at
that system and see the conditions and injustices that can emotionally tear a person

to ·ribbons?
I am guilty of all these things. The
industrial society of the past century has
taught us to be efficient. Love, caring,
sharing, and giving are always inefficient.
The easiest route is always to ignore the
other person, to not see and hear signals·
and vibrations. Too easy.
I cannot speak for anyone else. All I
can say is that from now on, my life is
going to be taken a little more slowly, a
little more thoughtfully, and hopefully
with a little more perception. And maybt!
someday I can see and reach out to a person who is walking in a dark tunnel, for
many of those tunnels I have walked myself.
If each of us, when we are happy,
would reach out and touch someone who
is not happy, the world of Human Existence would be an infinitely better place
for all of us.
Jon Bender

Honduras disaster
To the Editor :
Honduras, as has been made dear to
you, I'm sure, by international press releases, is in the middle of the worst catastrophe of its history. For a country whose
economic resources are the second lowest
in all Latin America, a disaster of this
magnitude is more than tripled in impact.
Four thousand people are known dead,
hundreds of thousands are homeless, and
the• agricultural produce of millions of
acres of bananas, tobacco, and coffee
soon to have been harvested, is totally
destroyed.
Hurricane Fifi cut a swath~ directly
along the north coast of the country, 140
mph gale winds wrecked major cities, and
rains flooded river valleys, bringing one
landslide which .;overed the entire village
of Choloma, near San Pedro Sula, killing
half of its p-:>pulation of 5,000. This
devastation signals a call for immediate
relief aid worldwide. We mustn't wait for
governments to decide how much they
want to invest, for political purposes, in
aid for reconstruction. The only really
valuable assistance is that which comes
from individuals. Try to understand the

severe tension that grips the hearts of
these strong and proud people, impotent
in their poverty, their only means of subsistance, their homes and families ruined
in three short days.
Please try to mobilize some sort of relief action, soliciting contributions from
individuals, associations, municipalities.
Try to interest groups like NACLA,
GAGLA, CALA, etc. to work for this
effort.
This is deadly serious; I'm right in the
middle of this thing, and will be volunteering for reconstruction brigade soon, so
may not have a chance to write for a
while.
Send contributions to:
National Emergency Committee
Escuela Militar Francisco de Morazar
Comayaguela, D.C. ;
Honduras, C.A.
Peter May

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How &ergreen Is Polled
BY SAM SOLOMON

"Due to the present construction of a
major lighting system for our campus
parkway, and Evergreen's devout responsiveness to ecology and the energy crisis
in general. are you in favor of replacing
the present light bulbs with the grow-lux
variety?"
The above question is just one of many
that have been put to the Evergreen community since the inception of the Input
Resource Senter (IRS) last winter.
None of the five students who compose
the staff of the IRS receives academic
credit for their work, though staff member Stacia Haley receives a salary at the
rate of $2.33 per hour for a 15-hour
week.
The other four IRS student volunteers
are Doug King, Laura Kovacs, Jack Hoffman. and Bill Cooper.
- The survey group occupies an office
across from the Information Center in the

Activities building and is operating on a
budget allotment of $2,677 for this year
from Student and Activities (S&tA) funds.
The money goes towards office ~penses
and Haley's salary.
The IRS has been called, alternately,
the student council of Evergreen, a "vital
service" to the community, a group of incompetents, and a host of other printable
and non-printable terms.
While Larry Stenberg, dean of student
services and the originator of the IRS,
would like to see them take more of an
advocate role in college affairs, Haley will
go no farther than to say that the IRS influences decisions by making public the
way the students feel. She sees the group's
primary purpose as one of information
and the bringing forth of issues to the students and community. "The administrators will always have the final say on decisions, but we can give them the results
of our surveys and make public the fact
that they have them," said Haley.

Stenberg was willing to go farther. "J
see the IRS as potentially playing the role
of advocate," he said. "If 75 percent of
the people feel a certain way, then maybe
it should be pressed. There is a natural
feed-in to the student ombudsman and advocate office."
'Raising Student Interest'
There are ways to be effective without
being an advocate, however, says Haley.
She cites the parkway lighting survey as
an example.
"The survey raised student interest
simply by going around and posing that
question to people," she said. "Perhaps
next time, the administration will be more
apt to ask for student opinion before they
do something."
Haley also admits that issues in which
the IRS staff feels that the students need
to be heard will get top <;onsideration for
potential surveys.

Faculty member Chuck Nisbet has some
criticisms of IRS 's m ethods.

She cited plans now in the works to
build a pub in the campus annex as an example. "The plans were put in without
asking anyone . The pub coule be neat or
it could be a hassle, but however the students feel, we think that they should have
some say."
The idea for the IRS originated with
Stenberg about two years ago. "I wanted
to know how we could obtain a broader
base of opinion on attitudes of the students, faculty and staff on issues," he
said. Stenberg found student Piet Dobbins, and the two, using $200 out of
Stenberg's own budget, set up shop last
winter.
Last spring, operating o,n S&:A funds,
the IRS undertook surveys on such subjects as the ratification of the revised committee on governance (COG II) document, how new students felt about Evergreen and why they came here, the abovementioned parkway lighting survey, graduate studies, teacher certification, college
accreditation and others.· This year the
IRS has surveys planned regarding the
Native American studies program, new
students' feelings and a survey on the proposed Activities building annex .
IRS on Television
The group is also slated for two hours
of time per month on the campus closedcircuit television station. They plan to use
the time "basically to tell people what
we're all about and what we're doing,"
says Haley.
Surveys are initiated both from without
and within the group. "We're here to
serve others first," says Haley, although
many surveys ani completely the group's
own.
This year, the IRS plans to start chargOctober iO, 1974

ing for surveys commissioned by groups
other than themselves.
Twenty-five dollars would be the maximum charge, which is "cheap when you
consider , all the work involved," said
Haley.
Stenberg questioned the practice of
charging for surveys. "I wouldn't want to
see the IRS take money trom a group that
could possibly gain if a survey came out a
certain way," he said.
The students collate their survey results
by use of computer. Staff member Doug
King is in charge of that end of the operation.
"The way we break down the information depends on the question areas," he
said. "Some s\uveys consist almost exclusively of written answer questions, for ·example."
"In the past all we've done is frequency
distribution and frequency counts," said
York Wong, director of .computer services. "Later on, with more data, we
should be able to see if there's a correlation between students' profiles and their
reactions."
Polling Methods Important
The IRS has gone to faculty members
for advice. in the areas of computer programming and television work, but staff
members trust themselves co.mpletely
when it comes to polling methods.
"Methodology is the heart of polling;" ,
said Chuck Nisbet, Evergreen faculty
member and economist with a background in survey research in Mexico,
Chile and Colombia·. "It is entirely common for differen~ pollsters to come up
with different results on the same poll because of differing methods," he said. A ,
pollster's methods include choosing the
sample population, formulating the questions and tabulating the results. And any
pollster who does not state his methods
cannot remain in business for very long,
said Nisbet.
"Any poll must state the number of
questionnaires sent out, the number received back and the number used," he
said. "Polling is explaining in detail how
results are obtained and tabulated."
The IRS has consistently failed to detail
such information in its polls. For example,
probably the most important and certainly
the most massive survey the IRS undertook last year regarded the COG II document.
Last spring the COG II disappearing
task force (DTF) submitted its report on
proposed revision of COG I. the document detailing the governance of Evergreen, to President McCann. McCann
commissioned the IRS to survey the students, faculty and staff of Evergreen as to
whether they believed he should exercise
his authority to Tatify COG II.
Twenty-five hundred surveys were
mailed out at a cost of almost $200. Two
hundred fifty to three hundred persons re-

sponded. .
McCann ratified the document. and did
so on the basis of the overwhelmingly
favorable response to the survey, said
Haley.
"If the response to COG II had been
overwhelmingly opposed, even though he
still would have had the authority to
ratify it, I think he would have put it to
the people again," she said.
Results Questioned
However, Nisbet questioned the COG
II results as printed. "I would have sent
them back," he said. "The methods used
to compile the survey were not explained."
FoD example, he said, the resuits state
that of those responding to the poll, 73
percent were students, 23 percent were
faculty and four percent were staff. "Why
those percentages7" asked Nisbet. "Is it
because that is the percentage population
at Evergreen7 If so, the results should so
state and they would be that much the
stronger."
While IRS staff members will vouch for
the results of the COG II survey, they
agree that the minimal response to the
survey left much to be desired.
"This year," said Haley, "we're trying
to avoid handing out pieces of paper. Because it's so hard to get students to walk
up to us and say anything, we go out and
track them down."
Random Approach Method
The IRS hits people in the cafeterias,
CAB, Red Square; "in the places where
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Stacia Haley is coordinator of the Senter.

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Campus News
In Brief
EVERGREEN INVITES CANDIDATES
Eig~teen candidates who will appear on
the Thurston County ballot for the November 5 general election - among them
U.S. Senator Magnuson - have been invited to speak in a forum on the Evergreen campus October 30 from 6 : 30 to
10:30 p.m. The candidates will be part of
a fair organized by Evergreen, the Thurston County League of Women Voters, the

Del Bausch (D) and Paul Ellis (R)
Assessor - Ann Clifton (D) and Wes
·
Estes (R)
Auditor - Ron Keller (D) and Wesley
Leach (R)
County Clerk Thelma "Chum"
Thomas (D) and Barbara Stevens (R)
County Coroner·- Kenneth Eros (D) and
Fredrick Balz (R)
District Court Judge - Franklin Thorp
and Jane Dowdle Smith.

Third District Congressional candidates Don Bonker and Lud Kramer.
Lacey and Olympia Chamber of Commerce, and the Republican and Democratic Central Committees as an opportunity for members of the community to
hear and discuss views with the
candidates.
A discussion session is set for 7:30p.m.
Bob McCloud of KGY radio in Olympia
will moderate the program.
The candidates that have been invited
are:
Senate -Warren Magnuson (D) and Jack
Metcalf (R).
Congress (3rd District) - Don Bonker
(D) and Ludlow Kramer ( R)
Legislative Dist. No. 22 Position No. 1 Emory Kramer (D) and John Hendricks
(R)

Legislative Dist. No. 22 Position No. 2 page 10

Pros. Attorney - Patrick Sutherland
Sheriff - Don Redmond
Treasurer - Harris Hunter (D) and
Harold Anderson (R).
ELLIOT RICHARDSON
VISITS CAMPUS

With only half an hour's advance
notice, former Attorney General Elliot
Richardson appeared at Dorm A Wednesday night in a· campaign stop for
Washington's Secretary of State A.
Ludlow Kramer. Kramer, who appeared
with Richardson at the informal questionand-answer session, is running for United
States Congress in the Third District.
Kramer is a Republican and is opposed by
Democrat Don Bonker.

Richardson erased any doubts about the
political nature of his visit with his
opening remark, "Are you all working for
Lud Kramer for Congress, or are there
some here who need to be converted?"
Following the laughter which greeted this
remark, Richardson called Evergreen "an
activist place" where students "learn by
doing ," and encouraged students to work
for Kramer, "a really outstanding
candidate with a reputation for bringing
accountability into the electoral process."
Throughout the meeting, however,
more interest was evidenced in Richardson himself and his experiences in
national government than in Kramer, who
stood casually against the wall to
Richardson's rear when not answering
questions.
Richardson gained national prominence
when he resigned after refusing to follow
then-President Nixon's orders to fire
Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald
Cox. Before he served as Attorney
General he had been Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare and Secretary of
Defense.
Richardson spoke with relaxation and
frequent flashes of humor as he fielded
questions from the approximately fifty
people present. He expressed a desire to
see more public financing of political
campaigns, although he questioned
whether evenly distributed publicly allotted funds were the best way to remove
the financing issue from politics. Kramer
has received one "large check" ($3,000)
from Nelson Rockefeller, a longtime
friend, but no group financing.
In answer to a question on President
Ford's pardon of former President Nixon,
Richardson said he agreed with Kramer in
opposing the pardon, although he said he
believed it would "not be in the interests
of justice to require a jail sentence for the
former president. .. the issue is whether that
(the granting of the pardon) was equal
justice or not." He added that he still feels
"there ought to be some form of full
disclosure of whatever charges could have
been brought. I think it would have been
better to have the charges brought out
first - but even now I think they should
be brought out by the Special Prosecutor."
Kramer was asked if Washington state
governor Dan Evans, a friend of
Kramer's, was likely to receive a cabinet
post. The possibility had been repeatedly
mentioned after Evans was passed over
for the Vice-Presidential nomination.
Emphasizing that it was his own
assessment and was not based on any new
or "inside" information, he stated that "if
the Governor wants to go into the
President's cabinet" he could do so. Likely
posts, he said, would be Secretary either
.
of the Interior or of Transportation.
Kramer stated in respose to a question
that he is "not opposed to abortion for an
individual, either for religious reasons or
other reasons, but I would not vote for
Cooper Point Jo~nal

any national legislation" either permitting
or prohibiting it.
Before he left Richardson was asked
whether he .had any further political
ambitions. "Well, the word ambitions is
kind of broad," he answered. If I had a
good shot at a good job I'd probably take
it. If not, then I don't know." When
pressed as to his plans regarding running
for the presidence in 1976 or 1980, he
grinned and replied, 'Well, I don't have
any plans .. ,and it may be I don't have
any prospects either."
PRISONER TO SPEAK
Jean-Pierre Debris, a prisoner for two
and a half years of the South Vietnamese
Tl'\ieu regime, will be speaking at Evergreen this Friday, October 11, at 3 p.m.
in Lee. Hall 4. Debris is now touring the
United States in an effort to remind
Americans of their government's continuing involvement in Vietnam.
'
He will present· "A Question of Torture," a film describing current prison
conditions in South Vietnam and will discuss the ramifications of U.S. aid to the
Thieu government, particularly its adverse
effects on the implementation of the 1973
Paris Peace Agreement, concluding with a
question and answer session.
The program has been scheduled by the
American Friends Service Committee in
Portland, and will be free and open to all.
Debris, 29, is a citizen of France. He
went to Vietnam in 1968 to fulfill his military obligations by participating in the
"military cooperation" cultural exchange
program. He was assigned to Danang,
where he taught French and mathematics.
On July 25, 1970, Debris and fellow
teacher Andre Menras made their way to
the war memorial statue in central Saigon.
They had become distressed by the destruction they had seen and were determined
to speak out for peace, whatever the consequences. Climbing to the top of the
statue, they threw thousands of leaflets to
the crowd gathering below.
The National Police arrived quickly on
the scene, and 30 minutes later the two
men were hauled off in military jeeps,
bloody and unconscious. They were sent
to Chi Hoa prison in Saigon, where they
remained till December 1972.
During their period of confinement,
Debris and Menras witnessed the frequent
torture and abuse of their fellow prisoners. They saw people beaten to the
point of paralysis, women injured so they
could "never produce," limbs atrophied
by confinement in the tiger cages, and
torture by repeated electric shock.
Debris and Menras were to be released
on December 28, 1972, but they refused
to leave. The ceasefire agreement was to
_be signed within a month, and already indications of the coming wave of repression were evident - the reclassification of
~litical prisoners to common status, acUctober 10,- 1974 ·

celerated deportations to Con Son Island
and its tiger cages, issuance of new decree-laws, and the stepped-up resettlement
of refugees from contested areas to urban
camps. The abandonment of their fellow
prisoners at this critical time was inconceivable to them.
But their comrades insisted that they
accept deportation. As Debris and Menras
describe in their book, We Accuse:
"Andre and Jean-Pierre you must leave!
You must leave to bear witness. You must
leave to tell about what you have seen
here in this prison; to tell about the tortures, the brutality, the murders. You
must leave so 'that you may speak of the
policy that aims at slowly killing our
patriots. All these things have gone on for
decades, and no one mentions them in the
newspapers. You must leave to tell your
tale, to bear witness. You shall be the
spokesmen of the Vietnamese prisoners
locked up in Thieu's jails."
. EVERGREEN STUDENTS
WILL STUDY NEPAL
Beginning winter quarter, 30 Evergreen
students will attack the Nepali alphabet in
order to learn to read, write, and speak
the language in preparation for a year's
study in Nepal.
•
The coordinated studies program, A
Year In Nepal, will offer general Nepal
studies and various -specific topics including history, medicine, antht-opology, ethno-musicology, ethno-poetry, literature,
political science, education, geography,
theology, philosophy, sociology, economics, and linguistics.
Much of the time until the departure
for Nepal in the summer of 1975 will be
spent doing in-depth study of one or .more
of the related subjects. Each student will
develop a coherent research proposal in
the spring which will result in a thesis at
the end of the summer of 1976.
Sometime during the summer of 1975,
the group will fly to Kathmandu, Nepal
where they will enroll in Tribhuvan University to polish their language skills and
make the necessary contacts relating to
their projects. For the major part of their
stay, the students will move out of Kathmandu to live in villages with Nepali and
Tibetan families.
,
The faculty is comprised of Kathleen
Peterson, Dave Peterson. and WiHi Unsoeld. Peterson is a graduate student in
Asian arts and literature, and is most specifically interested in Tibetan Buddhism
and Buddhist Iconography. She has been
to Nepal twice and ~peaks both Tibetan
and Sanskrit. Dave Peterson, who is the
medical doctor at Evergreen, has also
been to Nepal twice and has done much
climbing and trekking in the Himalayas.
Willi Unsoeld, a faculty member at Evergreen, has spent many years in Nepal
while associated with Agency for International Development (AID) and the Peace
Corps. He is fluent in Nepali and has a

wide knowledge of Nepali affairs.
The program, beginning winter quarter,
is still open to students.and anyone interested may attend the last informational
meeting next Wednesday, October 16 at 8
p.m. in the southeast library lounge on
the third floor. The last day for applications is October 31.
JOURNAL EDITOR RESIGNS
Knute Olsson H.G.S. Berger, editor -of
the Journal for the last seven months, resigned Wednesday, October 9. William P.
Hirshman, Journal managing editor, will
assume the editorship as provided for in
The Evergreen State College Board of
Publications document, serving until the
Publications Board can select a new
editor. It is likely that Hirshman will
serve out the balance of Berger's term
which was to run out at the end of fall
quarter.
Berger, who assumed the editorship at
the beginning of spring quarter 1974, cited
his reasons as being "personal."
Nicholas H. Allison, Journal special editor, will take over the managing editorship vacated by Hirshman.
NEW LATE-NIGHT BUSES TO BEGIN
The Evergreen Bus System will be
running three late-night bus runs beginning October 7. The runs will start in
Evergreen parking lot C at 8 p .m., 9:30
p.m. and 11:10 p.m:, Monday through
Thursday, and 10:15 p.m. and 12
midnight on Friday. The bus runs will
proceed from parking lot C in a loop .
from the campus to the Westside,
downtown, the east side, Martin Way and
Lilly Rd. near St. Peter's Hospital, South
Sound Center and then back ·to the
campus through the first section · of the
route. This schedule will be in use at least
until the end of October. Other
information on service can be obtained at
the Bus System/Day Care Center Kiosk in
the Activities Building. The number to
call in case of emergency is 943-2066.
RAPE AWARENESS WEEK
SLATED FOR CAMPUS
Rape Awareness Week, taking place at
Evergreen the week of November 18, is
now in the planning stage. Areas to be
covered will be legal and medical aspects
of rape, the psychology of the rapist, and
the psychology of the victim.
A major purpose of the week-long program is to help women become
psychologically anti physically able to defend themselves against attack, according
to the program coordinator, Patrice Scoggins. One of the problems for women in a
combat situation is a general self-image of
passivity. "Women are not aggressive
Continued on page 20
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Vicki Scheider's Death:
News Coverage, Campus Reaction
BY WENDY KRAMER

Many Evergreen students woke up
Thursday morning, October 3, to a report
of a murder on their campus the previous
night. When they arrived on campus they
found that the story was not exactly true.
Vicki Faye Schneider had died at 2 a.m.
from a fall from either the roof or one of
the top floors of Dorm A, but there was

Vicki Faye Schneider

nothing to indicate positively that her
death had been a homicide.
The news media of the state had picked
up the story from Olympia and in many
cases distorted the facts they had at the
time. :'Olympia Coed Killed , " " Coed
Dies," "Coed's Death Likely Suicide,"
were some of the headlines that graced
the papers that day and those after. The
story was covered by all the major networks in Washington, as well as the
newspapers and radio stations from
Olympia to Seattle.
·
The evening news on KOMO-TV
featured Bill Brubaker in front of the
caption "Coed Dies" with a large knife ·
under the headline. Their reporting by Ed
Evans was less sensational. One KIRO-TV
reporter was heard to be sending in a
report on "multiple stab wounds", in fact
there was only one.
KING-TV and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer both reported the facts as they
were known, not resorting to the overreaction others did. The Daily Olympian
wrote about the "shadow of murder" on
campus, and the "apathy" of the students
on the campus.
·

Sl1eriff Don Redmond addresses the all-campus meeting held Thursday afternoon .
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The Centralia Chronicle ran the headline, "Olympia Coed Killed ." One
Tacoma radio station quoted an Evergreen faculty member as saying the death
was a murder. The Tacoma News Tribune
called Schneider's death a homicide.
These sensationalist reports by the news
media added fear to the confusion already
around campus. Many people began to
worry that the reports were true, and that
they were not safe. The increasing number of rapes around the Evergreen campus, .and the still unsolved murders and
disappearances of women in the state
made many women feel they were even
more in danger. Some people even tried
to link the missing women and the death
of Vicki . Schneider. Some rumors said
Schneider had been sexually assaulted.
Others said she was either drunk or on
drugs. None of these rumorS have proven
true.
Campus reaction on the other f\and was
basically calm. Students spoke in hushed ·
tones about the incident all day; concerned, but without either the panic or
the apathy that had been attributed to
them. There were no crowds gathered
around the scene in curiosity. It was the
first week of school and everyone went to
their clas~.
Rumors Dispelled
School officials were determihed to
keep the incident in perspective, and to
dispel the many rumors that were springing up. An all-campus meeting was called
for four o'clock that day · to give everyone
as many facts as were known.
An estimated 150-200 people arrived to
hear various officials explain the incident.
Thurston County Sheriff Don Redmond
spoke first and told the gathe~ing exactly
what was known, althousll at the time information was scarce. "If you know anything," he said, "for crying out loud tell
us. We need your help. We have to rely
on the people."
The crowd· seemed to want more specific information on the death, and re~on~ed with ~~'(es" when Redmond
asked, "Do you want me to lay it on the
line?'' He proceeded to describe how ViP<i
· Schneider had died and the extent of her

New
In the course of its investigation
into the death of Evergreen student
Vicki Faye Schneider on Thursday,
October 3 at 2 a.m., the Journal has
learned that an unidentified man
was seen on campus the previous
day, inquiring into Schneider's
whereabouts. He was described by
at least two people as being in his
early twenties, five feet 10 inches,
160 pounds, with short blond hair
parted on the side. He had no distinguishing facial characteristics.

Fads

Known

The man was wearing a white cowboy shirt with blue trim, tan dress
cowboy pants, and shined cowboy
boots.
A student reported seeing a man
fitting this description sleeping in
the kitchen on the fifth floor of
Dorm A that night. The Journal has
also learned that an anonymous
phone call was received by the Security office relating that a man
fitting the same description was
seen playing pool with Schneider at

11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Although there is nothing to indicate that this man is in any way
connected ' with Schneider's death,
police officials are attempting to locate him. If you have any information at all about this man, please
call either Detective Paul Barclift at
the Thurston County Sheriff's Department at 753-8100, or the
campus Security office at 866-6140.
All information will be kept confidential.

injuries.
Sheriff Redmond reiterated that there
was no proof that Schneider's death had
been suicide, but added that there was
nothing to prove otherwise. He agreed to
keep the school informed on the progress
of the investigation in order for everyone
to knQW the truth so rumors would not
continue to flourish.
,
Dick Nichols, Director of Public Relations spoke next with a scathing attack on
the media for its distortion of the event.
"Media implications that label the death
'an apparent homicide,' or describe
campus activities today as occurring in
'the shadow of murder' are simply not
borne· out by evidence. Again, the sheriff's
office is not able at this time to conclusively state how the death occurred."
Alarmed Parents
There were reports that many students
had received calls from their parents asking that they either return home until the
investigation was completed or completely
withdraw from the school as a result of
·the death. This was sparked by the coverage around the state, causing many parents to fear for their children's safety.
Only one student actually did withdraw,
citing the incident as well as constant
questioning by police and others as the
reason. Other students considered leaving,
but their fears were allayed by officials.
Since the death Thursday, the fear,
panic and overreaction have lessened.
However, since the Thurston County
Sheriff's Department has not released a
final statement on the death and the
coroner hasn't issued his report, the
doubts have not totally subsided.
Many people expressed their displeasure
on coverage of the incident to the news
media, and they in tum seemed to have
responded by softening their reports. Until a final report is issued, no one will be
totally at ease. The waiting has caused
most people to let their questions hang
unanswered, but it will be a long time
before The Evergreen State College returns to normal and can put the
.· unfortunate death of Vicki Schneider behind it.
October 10, 1974

Sheriff Redmo~d looks up at Dorm A from the .site where Schneider's body was found as
deputy looks on.
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Registration problems
- - - - -----===---==--==--BY STAN SHORE
"Do you feel fucked over by the registration process7" asked a sign in the Activities building urging students to attend
· a protest rally. Although few people were
at the rally, the assumption was everywhere: students, somehow, were being
"fucked over" this year as they tried to
get into programs that matched their interests.
lnqeed, by the time registration finally
' closed at the end of last week, five students had taken leaves of absence because
no program or contract was available for
them. But the problem runs deeper than
five students.
On Friday, October 4, Lynn Patterson,
Willie Parson, and Rudy Martin, three of
the four academic deans, got together
with some of the other people involved in
registration, including Head of Student
Jl,Accounts, AI Hanson,' Housing Director
~en Jacobs and Registrar Walker Allen to
discuss what could be done to make regis\ration and the curriculum planning behind it less of a "hassle."
'

Academic Hustling
"It seems to me that to a large extent;·
Patterson wrote in a memo on the subject, "we are rewarding students who
know how to wheel, who know how to
sell themselves, who are pe~~stent.. and

Ac·ad,emic De1m Lynn Patterson hopes to
tjgl1tm up the registration process.
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who are to a certain degree deceittul in
the sense of getting into something that
they are not really interested in so they
can do what they really want to do. Is
this what we want to be doing7"
Dean of Student Services Larry Stenberg, at an earlier meeting, seemed less
concerned. "A student would come up to
me," he explained, "and wonder how to
get into an independent contract. I'd tell
them that at Evergreen you pretty much
have to hustle contracts. Then their eyes
would light up. 'Oh, you're supposed to
hustle them.' They seemed to understand
that very well."
Despite the chaos of Orientation Week,
only four percent of the people who registered last spring or during registration in
the fall have switched their programs.
This, according to Patterson, is much
lower than they expected.
Another common concern, voiced by a
student during Orientation Week was "the
faculty are offering what they want to
teach, not what students want to learn."
The most commonly cited programs,
which seem to support this view, are the
Foundations of Natural Science and
Lawmakers I Lawbreakers coordinated
stuc;lies programs, which were both filled ,
up quickly and had long waiting lists.
Why couldn't there be more programs like
these or more faculty in these programs?
"After spring registration,'' Martin explained, "we knew there would be quite a
few students who wanted to get into
Foundations, and Life and Health (another basic science program). We then
tried to get the faculty to do · a basic program which is called Backgrounds of
America's Future, but that ended up with
more Social Sciences than Natural
Science, and was not exactly what they
wanted but provided some of what they
wanted."
Jeff Kelly, coordinator of the Foundations program, explained that wheh the
program was first conceived they didn't
expect more than 60 students. After
spring registration a faculty member was
added, but still it was clear that not all
students would be able to get in. The reason was that, Kelly explained, in the
Labotatory building there is only enough
lab space for 95 to 100 students.
Screening Process
To solve the problem Kelly and the
other faculty members in Foundations decided to hold a screening exam September
23 to make sure that only students who
knew basic mathematics and chemistry
would be admitted.

This particular idea of carefully screening students before allowing them to enter
a program runs contrary to some faculty
members' idea of Evergreen. Craig
Carlson, whose popular Communications
Inside and Out program had a waiting
list, stated that he felt interviewing a student was "demeaning" to the student and
a waste of time since it was hard to tell
anything from the interview.
Faculty member Mark Levensky, coordinator of the advanced program Conceptions of Self, disagreed, stating that he
didn't think the students minded the interviewing and that it helped the faculty get
students who were capable of doing the
work the program required.
The reason why some programs become
popular and others do not still remains
somewhat of a mystery, though. It is almost certain that an art or communications program offered will be popular and
have a waiting list.
Martin speculated on the reason for
this. "I think one of the big reasons for
the jump in the communications program
interest is that the society as a whole
seems. to be on a media trip, just as it
used to be that everyone thought they
were a poet and could express themselves
best in that way."
Martin also stressed that the academic
deans are more and more keeping a close
watch on the curriculum planning process
to insure that the programs offered are a

Academic Dean Rudy Martin - "Society
as a whole seems to be on a media trip."
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it is too early to make that a firm commitment; we need to study the data, but
it looks like that is the case."
Registration Background

Jeff Kelly 's Foundations of Natural
Science program had to turn students
away.

balance over a wide range of academic
fields. "I think it is better balanced this
year than before," he said, "and should be
even better balanced next year."
Patterson saw the problem as less that
of balance between different academic interests, as of balance between beginning
and advanced programs.
"We need to build more variety or just
plain mo.!e basic level programs and divisional programs, fewer advanced programs, perhaps four really solid advanced
programs, and put more faculty in the advanced contract or group contract pool.
Following my own advice, I really believe

The process of registration for programs used these last few weeks was devised--by a disappearing task force (DTF)
in the spring of 1974. In previous years,
students listed their first, second, and
third, choices and were put into one of
the programs without their final consent.
The "in-person" registration process was
felt at the time to be fairer, allowing a
student to make their second and third ,.
choices based on what was open ·at the
time.
Two things flawed this year's registration process. First, 147 students did not
sign up for programs in the spring. This
added them to the over 1,000 new students who were to register in the fall. Sec. ond, a large number- of beginningprograms, in communications, sciences, and
arts, were met with demands larger than
expected.
To cope with these problems the following specific ideas have been suggested:

would help them through the registration
process
- that students be notified during the
summer which programs are likely to be
closed in the fall.
These and other ideas will be mulled
over by the deans and registrar for a
year, hopefully allowing improvements to
be made in time for the next orientation
week. For this year, a stl\dent at the
protest "rally" Orientation Week summed
up the feelings of many when she said, "It
was too much of a hassle. Just too much ·
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- more faculty in contracts, rather
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and more than just a faculty signature is
required
- that new students be assigned faculty
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·AMERICAN·
PERSPECTIVES
BY NICHOLAS H. ALLISON

The Blindness of Power
,.

The actors in the middle of a massive
historical trend are often unable to see the
broad outlines of that . trend. Retrospectively, it is fairly easy to see how a certain shift in· the course of man's society
began - what its origins were, how it
gained momentum, who resisted it and
why, and what shape its dynamics took
- but rarely are. those things obvious
until after they have happened.
The shape, significance and consequences of a changing relationship or ·a
new idea usually are just not visible to
someone inside the change. It often seems
that if only a people embarked on some
new direction could somehow see ahead
, or think ahead to the effects of a chosen
course - for example, during the rise of
Nazism in the Germany of the 1930's- a
lot of anguish and suffering could be
• avoided.
Part of the inability to see the larger
directions of contemporary history is a
desire not to. A conservative strain is
common to most people who hold power,
since the natural leaning of their desire is
against the loss of that power to someone
else. For that reason a feudal lord will refuse to recognize the breakdown of the
feudal system, or a dictator will deny a
swell of popular revolution until it is at
his doorstep.
A similar blindness toward the sh!fting
of power can be observed in the major
1oWestern nations' view of their current
economic troubles. In America, as in the
sonations of Western Europe, the official
line is "we can survive this mess," the as,;sumption being that with application of
· rl.lhe right economic programs everything
lliwill go back to normal and life in the
western world will be like it was ten years
ago in terms of material well-being, proslrtperity and political power. None of the
~ ieconomic experts that President Ford
'· Called in for his "economic summit confer, ence" gave any hard reason why this rosy
·· prognosis should be true. They were
'•'t!conomists called in by politicians and
were expected to use their economic exl ·per.tise to try and back up political wishes
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and promises. Ford's programs, announced -on Tuesday,
mixture of
.
--"economic stimulation" (giving new tax
breaks and deductions to corporations)
and politically popular moves (public
service jobs, removing food production
restrictions, putting a ceiling on federal
spending), which he chose -athis -leisure
from the huge variety of suggestions given
him by th!_ economists at his conference.
Economics is unique becauseit is a field
in which, unlike any hard science, there is
not the slightest agreement from expert to
expert even on basic principles and yet,
unlike the "soft" sciences, all schools aspirl! to empiricism. The result is a myriad
of economists, each with a self-consistent
and plausible theory of finance, all disagreeing heartily on almost everything,
and this quality in economics makes conferences, summit or otherwise, somewhat
useless.
At any rate President Ford'seconoinic
programs and recommendations are domestic in their slant and contain no apparent understanding of the possible international and historical significance of
America's economic woes. Every western
nation is undergoing rampant inflation
and a declining level of prosperity. Germany, the least hard hit, has granted a
huge loan to Italy, one of the worst off,
to stave off true economic disaster in that
country for a few more months. England's
rising unemployment level and its lack of
prosperity are prompting the frequent
calling of elections with no positive purpose. The others - Japan, France, the
U.S. - are little or no better. These
problems and crises are not coincidences.
They spring from common roots, and in
large part from a single cause: the high
price of Arab oil.

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In spite of the many warnings and
signs, it took the industrialized nations of
the West by surprise when the Arab nations decided a year ago to use the price
and available supply of their oil as a·::political weapon. "Political blackma'il,"

came the injured cry. Oil was, and is, the
single most essential ingredient to the
workings of the industrial nations. Without it the machine simply cannot run. Yet
it never struck the leaders and people of
these countries that they were depending
so vitally for their oil on the continued
cooperation of a group of nations not
terribly friendly with the West - in fact,
that were situated in the middle of one of
the most politically unstable areas in the
world, a situation furthermore that the
United States was heavily involved in on
the side of Ute Israelis, enemies of the oilproducing nations.
· Regardlessof ail this, the -emba~gostill
managed to come as a surprise. After the
initial shock the nations of the West
began scrambling to make deals, give concel;sions, or change stance towards Arabs
in order to secure their own oil supply.
France jumped in feet-first and concluded
favorable trade arrangements, which it
has continued to embellish since; Japan
was forced after a very short time to begin making official pro-Arab statements,
which eased their problems somewhat.
The U.S. moved more slowly but no
less efficiently, and used all its weight and
prestige and power in a ridiculous summit
visit last July in which Richard Nixon
even gave Anwar EI-Sadat a personal
helicopter and pilot in the effort to win
his affection and, thereby, his oil. But
even though America can conclude better
sweetheart deals than anyone else since
we are bigger and more powerful. like everyone else we are reduced to vying for
the favors of the Arab world. The Arabs
hold the cards.
The amount of money pouring into the
Arabian nations with unprecedented speed
may have several effects. If the Arabs
spend it as fast as they can on enrichment
and development at home, they will be
astoundingly wealthy but still politically
out of the mainstream. But if they continue their present trend of investment,
the worldwide economic and political
power of the Arabs will grow to undreamed-of heights.
Economists have predicted that the
Arab nations could grow to hold a controlling interest in many major industries
of the West if they invest wisely, and already Arabs have bought a quarter of the
Krupp empire in Germany and are negotiating the purchase of an influential real
· estate company in Great Britain.
Money is power, at least potentially.
_Money is flowing at a huge rate out of
the major powers of this hemisphere and
into a small group of desert nations who
have never had that kind of wealth
before. What changes this will bring
about cannot be determined with any certainty now, but things will not be like
they were before. America an~ her European neighbors must prepare for a major
shift in the way they consume and the
way they live.

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Journal Com.m.entary
Evergreen has always been shrouded in suspicion. As an experimental and therefore controversial institution, it has, since its inception , drawn the attention of the media, the legislature, and the
public at large. It is a unique kind of place. It is one of the few experimental colleges that is also a state institution; its curriculum
and learning modes are, as a whole, totally different from any
o ther experimental college; it is situated in a fishbowl setting, a
few miles fro m the seat of the government which funds it; its students, staff, and facul ty reside in a conservative community which
is constantly wary of the institution and can watch what its tax
dollars are buying. Evergreen is a public experiment and is, as it
should be, open to public scrutiny.
Evergreen has received dose and sometimes painful examination. Any major change, proposed change, or event which affects
the college and its communi ty is questioned, reported upon and
editoria lized about. Evergreen saw this during the budgetary crisis
of 1972-1973, a crisis which threatened to close the institution;
when the Communications building was propused ; when accreditation was received ; when the college proposed raises for its facul ty; and now, even, in a n event that is unrelated to the basic
functions and theory of the institution : the death of Vicki Faye
Schneider.
No event that has occurred at Evergreen and which is unrelated
to the college as an insti tution, has received such widespread pub-

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cases misrepresented by the media, and had much sensationalism
and mystery injected into it, but the institution itself, its controversial and experimental nature: has been used by some members
of the press to raise fu r ther questions as to Evergreen's validity
and to t he healthfulness of its atmosphere.
The Daily Olympian's coverage of the Schneider death, and specifically its front page play of the event on October 3, is an example of this kind of misrepresentation and innuendo. Beyond the
inaccuracies regardi ng the nature of Schneider's death, there is a
tone tha t lies barely below the surface of their reporting. It is a
tone of resentment, a resen tment that has festered for a long time
a nd ca n be expressed and released a t the slightest encouragement.
There seems to be no other way to characterize the feeling
_behi nd these unsigned stories. T here is no other explanation for
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the suggestion made by the Daily Olympian that the students
were "uninterested" in the death of Schneider; that if "routine;' is
no t changed there is ··apathy; " tha t it is normal for scuffles, fights
over drugs, and strangers to fill the dorms at all hours of the
night. For those of us that live and work here, we know these observations are more than untrue - they are sad, sad because they
do the public, as well as the college,. an injustice.
Evergreen cannot expect to be different , to be experimental, to
be pioneering, and to be popular at the same time. Popularity
itself would nega te these other qualities. But as a public experiment, Evergreen has the right to be treated fairly, to be observed
objectively, and to be tested legitimately. It is an abuse of power
for the media as a whole or in part to inject their own biases and
color the eyes of the public that must be our judge.

Questit>ns
about Rocky
It now looks certain that Nelson Rockefeller will be confirmed
as Vice President of the United States, which no one ever considered unlikely . The only real challenge raised against him in his
Senate confirmation hearings was his performance during the Attica prison crisis while he was' Governor of New York, and that
challenge was brief and peripheral.
In many ways Rockefeller is well qualified to hold the
important, if somewhat nebulous, post of Vice President. He has
considerable expertise in the field of foreign affairs, particularly
Latin American, and his fifteen years as Governor have given him
experience in the requirements and mechanics of public life.
But the simple fact that Nelson Rockefeller is one of the richest
men in America should give serious pause to the people of this
country, without reference to his other qualifications or liabilities.
People with money have power in this country. Not only can
money sometimes illegally buy political favors or preferential
treatment ftom the government, but in legal ways such as amassing land, controlling employees, investing, and buying and selling
as well .
To say this is not to suggest that private money should be unrelated to private power - that is a different problem - but to
question whether we want to put such a great concentration of
private power together with a great concentration of public
power. We as a people are bestowing one of the highest public offices in the nation, and the accompanying public trust, upon a
man who privately possesses huge and different ·power because rof
his money .
'
It seems certain that sometime in the course of his Vice-Presidency, Rockefeller will be involved in the making of some deCision that will have a bearing on some of his financial holdings. He
owns or controls 218 million dollars. It is inconceivable that with
all the business and financial interests inherent in that sum he will
have no special interests to watch out for as Vice President .
Even disregarding specific items, holding that amount of money
creates an almost automatic conflict of interest in that Nels~m
Rockefeller is a successful businessman and is beholden to big
business as a way of life. Inflation, weekly shopping, trying to
buy a car, watching savings dwindle - all the financial re~lities
of daily life for most Americans are unknowns to Nelson Rock.efeller. How can he be expected to have a real concern for these
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they spend their free time," she said. "After all, everyone wanders through a place
like CAB at least once ."
This '-'random approach" method, as
Haley refers to it, would seem to be the
best way to compile a random samp,le of
Evergreen students for survey purposes.
Nisbet disagrees. "The IRS is not using
random samples," he said. 'The only way
to construct a random sample is if every
student on campus has an equal chance of
being polled. "
Approaching students "at random "
cannot be random because of the simple
fact that not all students may be on campus at any given time . Students on leave
or internships would be off campus, he
said , and even the day of the week on
which the survey is taken could affect the
results becau se studen ts who have no activities may not be on campus that day.
Because true random sampling is so expensive and would be impractical for use
at Evergreen, said Nisbet , the next best
thi ng is a non-random sample. "However, " he cautioned, " a non-random
sample must be accurate to be meaningful. " Chdracteristics such as age, color,
sex, academic program, year at school
and others must be accounted .for in the
sample. For instance, if 10 percent of Evergreen stude n ts are. non-white, then
every survey taken of Evergreen students
must include 10 percent non-wh ites, said
Nisbet.
Representative Sample

"If I were the IRS, I would first go to
the computer and draw a representative
sample of, say, 10 percent of the students
based on the characteristics of the Evergreen population ," said Nisbet. "Then I
would use that same sample for every survey . It might be expensive at the beginning, but the expense lessens considerably
after that."
IRS staffers believe· that their samples
are reliable. "I'm confident that if I've got
SO people's opinions on something, then
I've got an accurate survey," says King .
"It's not the number of respondents, but
the complexity.
"We. always try for a samp le of 200 to
300 people, but we don't need a . large
sample if none of th e qu est io ns are
biased," he added .
Stenberg admit ted that the polling
process used last year was "basic and unsophisticated ," but he didn't think the
polls were controversial enough to warrant a "highly pol ished" approach.
Another method that a pollster must
master is the questions. A pollster's questions, by the way they are phrased and
fo ll owed u.p, can alter the results of a survey , said Nisbet.
He pointed out that the question in las~

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had one wish for a program at Evergreen,
what would that wish be," was too
vague.
"You can get 150 responses to a question like that," he said. " If a survey is to
have any validi ty , it must narrow down
the choice of answers to no more than
five ." Nisbet pointed to last year's question on accreditation, "In the event Evergreen is not accredited, would you continue your present relationship here," as a
well-phrased, specific question.
The survey on teacher certification,
"Should Evergreen offer teacher certification ," needed more explanation, he said.
Simple yes-no questions such as "would
you like to see graduate study at Evergreen" must be followed up with more
specific questions, said Nisbit.
Stenberg had no argument with the
IRS 's polling methods. "1 think the methods used last year were successful," said
Stenberg. He agreed, however, that the
IRS is probably not receiving enough faculty advisement.
"I think the IRS should be tied in with
a loose-knit faculty advisory group with a
background in research and statistics,"
said Stenberg.
Ni sbet agreed . "I think it would be useful if the IRS would take on faculty advisers," he said.

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enough," said Scoggins. "They have to be
able to fight back:·The program welcomes participation by
men in every aspect of the activities. Topicr.: will include male rape and American
cultural male psychology.
The planners are soliciting involvement
from academic programs. They would
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October 15. On Wednesday at 10 a~ m. he
will give a Vedic analysis and commentary on William Blake' s poem, "the
Marriage of Heaven and Hell" in the
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SCRAP PAPER TO BE RECYCLED

Scrap paper recycling will become a
reality on the Evergreen campus within
the next two weeks according to Head of
Purchasing Arnold J. Doerksen. The recycling program is being made possible by
the inclusion of Evergreen into a state
contract for recycling, which is available
to all state agencies and institutions.
Materials included in the recycling project will be IBM cards, and scrap paper
such as white and pastel bond paper,
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Boxes will be set up for collection <'t
variou s locations around the campus
where the bulk of paper is used . Arrangements have been made with custodial
servJc~s to pick up full boxes of recyclable
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EVERGREEN HUNGER ACTION
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A new office, dealing with the
probl ems of hunger and malnutrition
through research , public education and
citizen action , has opened on campus.
The Hunger Action Center, an affiliate of
Neighbors in Need and independent from
Evergreen will be dealing with domestic
~unger in a program to reach people with
mformation which would aid them in
receiving the food stamps that they are
entitled to, by working with community
food and garden cooperatives, and
holding job training and development
programs.
The office, which was established in
mid-August, is developing a Food Stamp
Outreach program under a requirement of
federal law . Under this law, the state is
required to conduct a program to contact
people and notify them that they are
eligible for food stamps. The reason for
this program is that approximately 44 %
of the people eligible for food stamps are
not receiving them, with the majority in
the upper age groups . The center feels
that, with spiraling food prices, it is
critically important that the state meet
this obligation to make Food Stamps
more widely available to those eligible for
them .
Though the center will be dealing
primarily with -domestic hunger, world
hunger will be under careful consideration
also . The center is located in Seminar rm.
3122, and can be contacted for more
information, including the possibility of
internships, at 866-6695.

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The happy combination of sun, cool
air, and lush grass invited an afternoon of
loitering and relaxation . The twenty-eight
men and women who collected on the Evergreen playfield a few Thursdays ago,
however, had something more active in
mind . It is not unusual to see a low level
of punctuality at Evergreen, especially in
informally scheduled events, but this case
was a noteworthy exception. Everyone
was there at the appointed time of 4 p.m.
The activity that would promote such
an enthusiastic following is called "soccer"
in this corner of the hemisphere. At Evergreen , it's bringing all kinds of people out
of the woodwork .
Soccer seems to offer a unique fascination for people in this country. The most
popular American team sports (footl.:iall,
basketbalL baseball, etc.) put a premium
on hand-to-eye coordination . The feet and
legs are primarily used to move the body
around, while the head and torso are deligated secondary responsibilities. Not so in
soccer. With the exception of the goal
keepers (one for each team), contact between the ball and the shoulder, arm, or
hand is taboo. This calls for a particular
set of reflexes and helps to give the game
its unusual flavor.
Organized soccer play at Evergreen had
its beginnings in the efforts of student
Dan Jenkins last fall. Enthusiasm appeared to' be l}igh but diminished quickly
with the coming of a cold, wet winter.
Last spring Jenkins and student Ed Alkire
persuaded the Student Services and Activities Board to allocate $150 for soccer in
the coming year.
The present Fall Quarter has seen Jenkins depart for Chicago on an internship,
thus leaving Alkire, along wit!). David
Couch, to be the prime movers behind a
relatively unstructured program.
Present plans include a divisional approach in order to accommodate the
growing number of people appearing to
play (50-60 recently) . This approach
would consist of an intramural division of
four to five teams, a single group to participate against local competition (high
schools, etc. ) and another team to participate in the Washington State Soccer
league this January .
Alkire is surprised and enthusiastic
about the number of people his bi-weekly
turnouts have attracted. After last winter's
experience, however, he remains skeptical
of how long the enthusiasm will last.
"When the weather was good," he recalls, "we had all the people we could
October 10, 1974

handle. When it rained, only about eight
people showed up ." Ed indicates that he
has no reason to believe the situation will
be different this year.

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Last week saw a flurry of competitive
events at Evergreen . On Wednesday, October 2 there was a table-tennis tournament on the CAB second floor . Phil McMurray carried off a convincing first
place with Rick Cohen, Demian Alexander
Porter, and Matt Yagle taking second,
third and fourth respectively.
In the finals of the eight-ball pool tournament last Thursday evening, Robbie
Konikoff beat out Erskine White for the
gold, with Eero Roorand and Robbin Hall
finishing third aru.f fourth on the tables in
the third floor of the CAB.
Friday October 4 saw the occurrence of
a cross-country footrace appropriately entitled the "First Burst Run." To nobody's
surprise Spider Burbank finished first with

an elapsed time of n.ineteen minutes,
twelve and three-tenths seconds for the
approximately three and one-half mile·
course. Dave Hagen came out with a very
credible performance of 20:19 for second
place and Ken Ritland was close behind
with a time of 20:27. Byron Goldfarb
continued his record of last places with a
clocking 23 :30. Curiously there were no
women runners last Friday.

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cinema
BY MATT GROENING
Heavy Traffic, Ralph Bakshi's second
animated Feature soon to be playing at the
Olympic Theater in Olympia, could just
as well be called Portrait of the Cartoonist As a Young Man . It is a crude, vulgar,
and sometimes funny cartoon misery tour
through the New York City Experience
via the fantasies and dilemmas of Michael,
a would-be underground cartoonist based
on Bakshi himself. He escapes his demented Jewish mother (whose eyes glow
in the dark) and his stupid Italian father
(a Mafia slave) only to descend into the
slime world of junkies, slinkers, transvestites, winos, whores, and assorted undesirables. But don't get the impression that ·
all is bleak - the meat cleaver fight between Michael's mom and dad is played
strictly for laughs.
Bakshi's first feature was the X-rated
Fritz the Cat, a porno youth movie which
swindled Robert Crumb, on whose comix
character the movie was based, as well as
the audience, who didn't seem to care .
The manic postures of horny cartoon animals made over 25 million dollars . Bakshi
refused to do a sequel, so the financial
people went elsewhere, and the cheap
Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat was cranked
out . Bak shi was able to convince
American International Pictures to support his semi-autobiographical fantasies,
and Heavy Traffic was the result.
The animation in the movie is brilliant.
Bakshi is carrying on in the Disney tradition of full animation. He is just beginning
to explore the possibilities of the total
control he has of the cartoon image . Although some of his techniques are repetitive, the total effect is del ightful, especially when compared with the jerky drawings of Hanna / Barbera and associates.
Hea vy Traffic's main story line concerns the romance between Michael and
Carole, a black bar girl who is also desired by Shorty, a legless man who pro pels hi:nself menacingly on a tiny roller
cart with his powerful arms. Although the
characters are direct descendents of Disney's squishy-cute cartoon creatures, Bakshi's world does have some haunting moments. But the exaggeration characteristic
of all cartoons prevents it from getting
too bleak.
Encouraged financially by Fritz the Cat
and critically by Heavy Traffic, Bakshi
has plans for three more cartoon features.
He is at work at present on Coonskin, an
updated and transformed version of the
Uncle Remus stories set in modern-day
Harlem . What would Walt Disney think
of all this? Bakshi claims he would be
congratulated, but the audio animatron of
_Walt in Disney World violently disagrees .

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Cinema
State: California Split - Robert Altman
(Director of M* A *S*H, Brewster McCloud, The Long Goodbye,- McCabe and
Mrs . Miller, etc.) made this film with
Elliot Gould, one of his favorite actors
and George Segal. Segal is a respectabl~
architect who goes out gambling with the
loose-living Could but is always trying to
get his work done instead. The two actors
work bea,utifully together, with Gould
perfectly suited to the freewheeling
im provisational style of the film . A little
l.ighter than most Altman , but good.
Capitol: Chariots of the Gods - This is a
documentary made from Erich von Daniken's bestselling book of the same title,
which postulates that earth was visited by
spacemen repeatedly in prehistoric times.
There are some holes in his evidence but
it is a fascinating case.
Olympic: Retur~ of the Dragon - Kung
Fu expert Bruce Lee was just beginning to
gain real fame when he died of a marijuana-rela ted ailment. This increased his
appeal for some, making him something
of a folk hero. Return was his last film
and like the others contains lo ts of action~
Friday Nite Film: Ramparts of Clay - A
little-know.n film by a little-known director (Jean-Louis Bertucelli) , this has been
reviewed very highly by nearly all who
have seen it with adjectives like "extraordinary," "p_owerful and moving," "hauntingly beautiful. " Filmed in Algeria, it follows a village's rise to revolution and one
woman's struggle to free herself.
Academic Film Series (Lecture Hall #1):
Report pn the Party and the Guests, a
Czech film by Jan Nemec.
In Con cert
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Applejam : Mick McCartney and Evergreen's Greg Booth sing and play on Friday night . Saturday night a religious
drama group, the Covenant Players.
Octoher. 10, 1974

The Evergreen Art Galle ry : Notations, an
exhibit of original musical manuscripts by
Charles lves, Elliot Car ter, Erik Satie, The
Beatles, Luciano Berio, Igor Stravinski,
and others . Begins October 1 . ·
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Cinema
CQliseum : Together Brothers.
Edgemont: T,.;o MGM extravaganzas,
Zie.gfeld Girl and Ziegfeld Follies.
Fifth Avenue: 11 Harrowhouse - A
robbery caper film starring Charles Grodin and Candice . Bergen ; Sleuth - the
famous unusual suspense tale starring
Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine.
Harvard Exit: State of Siege - a political
thriller set in South America, directed by
Costa-Gavras (maker of Z).
Guild 45th: The Sting - the phenomenally successful caper movie with Robert
Redford .and Paul Newman. Very entertaini ng, but light.
King : Love is Forever - this film has had
a huge advertising buildup and stars Anthony Quayle.
.
Movie House: Harold and Maude Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in a philosophical and darkly funny love story. A
film with a cult following.
Music Box : Chinatown - the great Polanski detective film with Jack Nicholson
and Faye Dunaway.
Seattle 7th : The Longest Yard - Burt
Reynolds and Sonny Sixkiller in a football
film.
University: Kim - Errol Flynn playing
himself as usual in this Kipling tale ; King
Solomon's Mine.
Uptown: The White Dawn - Timothy
Bottoms, Warren Oates and Lou Gossett
in a semi-documentary about white men
among the Eskimos; Red Sun.
Varsity : The Chaplin festival continues,
with limelight and The Gold Rush .

Cinerama: That's Entertainment - Clips 1
from MGM's greatest musicals
starring 4
.
Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Con- ·
nor, Judy Garland, and others.
ACT : God spell, a local version of the ,
Broadway "rock gospel musical" which
was made into a hit movie.
Seattle Art Museum (Volunteer Park):
The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental
Art shows through November 3.
PORTLAND

Cinema
Backstage : The Groove Tube - A satire
of television; Brewster McCloud - Bud
Cart in a strange but interesting early Altman film .
Bagdad: Two Barbra Streisand vehicles
The Owl and the Pussycat and For Pete'~
Sake, and Mel Brooks' comedy Blazing
Saddles.
Fine Arts : Going Places; I Could Never
Have.
Movie House: Harotd and Maude Ruth Gordon and Bud Cart in a philosophical and darkly funny love story. A
film with a cult following .
.
Fifth A venue: That's Entertainment
Clip's from MGM's great musicals ; Lov ·
and Anarchy - A new film by Lin
Wertmuller about an attempted assassination of Mussolini; Garden of the
Finzi-Continis - A classic film of
war Italian jewry.
Esquire: Three films directed by ~ nd
starring Woody Allen; Bananas - revo
lution in a banana republic; Everythin
You Always Wanted to Know About Sell
- sketches satirizing Dr. Reuben's book 1
Sleeper - his latest and one of his best , a
satire of the future co-starring Diane Keaton .
Mernorial Co liseum : Bob Hope appear~ in
person Friday night, October 1_1, .at 8 p.m .
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