The Evergreen State College Newsletter (December 10, 1973)
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...STUDENTS TO STUDY EFFECTS OF ENERGY CRISIS ON AVERAGE FAMILIES...How can American
families effectively deal with the energy crisis? What adjustments to their life styles
will they have to make? How can they more efficiently use the limited resources they
have? Some answers to these kinds of questions may soon be available thanks to a research
project being undertaken by an Evergreen faculty member and 22 students in cooperation with
Olympia-area families willing to volunteer as control groups in the study. Families who
participate will be asked to live for one month within some "severe" energy restrictions.
Each of the families who volunteer for the project will agree to consume not more
than 10 gallons of gasoline a week. They will cut their use of water and electricity in
half; they will keep their thermostats set at 60 degrees, and they will live within sharply
reduced food and entertainment budgets. The results of their sacrifices "may help us all
deal more effectively with the adjustments we may eventually have to make," according to
Evergreen Faculty Member Ted Gerstl, an applied behaviorial scientist with a Ph.D. in
organizational behavior from Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, who is coordinating the study.
"It's becoming increasingly obvious that we will all be facing changes in our life
styles because of the shortage of energy sources," Gerstl says. "We want to study how
families make adjustments to these shortages now, before the crisis deepens any further."
Volunteer families are being sought to participate in the study. They must be available
between the first of February and the first of April, live in a single family dwelling
and have between one and four children. Persons interested in volunteering should contact
Dr. Gerstl at 866-6638 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays or at 866-0784 evenings.
...ECOLOGY PROGRAM AWARDED $750 GRANT...The Environmental Defense Fund has awarded a $750
research grant to Evergreen's Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution Coordinated Studies program.
The grant will enable 38 students in the two-year academic program to further research
the biology of the Douglas Fir Tussock Moth. Taught by Faculty Members Steve Herman, an
ecologist, and Michael Beug, a chemist, the program involves intensive laboratory and
field work in general, organic and biochemistry, as well as electronics and ecology. Study
of the tussock moth has been one emphasis of the program, Herman said.
...TEN MODULARS TO BE OFFERED WINTER QUARTER...Ten modular courses will be offered Winter
Quarter at Evergreen to part-time and auditing students, according to Academic Dean Charles
Teske. An introduction to these special academic programs will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
December 12 in Lecture Hall Three. Teske said the special "Living Catalog" presentation
will offer interested persons an opportunity to meet faculty members and discuss academic
programs,
Registration for the one-credit modulars, which are equivalent to four quarter
hours of credit, will be held January 3 from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Office of Admissions,
Library room 1102. Registration fees for persons interested in earning academic credit as
"special" students are $80 per module. Auditing students
those not wanting formal
evaluation or credit
may enroll in the programs for $20. Interested persons should
contact the Office of Admissions (866-6170) for additional information.
Modular offerings for Winter include: Education and Contemporary American Society,
taught by Faculty Member Bill Aldridge; Organic Chemistry, by Paul Jacobsen; Peoples of
the World by Eric Larson; Problems in Philosophy by Mark Levensky; Sociology of Everyday
Life by Carol Oleya; Mothers and Lovers: Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence Novels by Karjn
Syverson; Survey of Oceanography by Peter Taylor; History of American Cinema from 1919-1941
by Gordon Beck; Ceramic Process by Peggy Dickinson, and Calculus of Elementary Functions
by George Dimitroff.
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... ROSE NAMED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES...Al Rose, a Vancouver Evergreen
graduate, has been named assistant director of student activities. The appointment,
announced by Activities Director Pete Steilberg, was effective December 1. Rose, 26,
is a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War. He formerly managed the Clark College Student Center before he graduated from that school and transferred to Evergreen, where he
has managed the College Activities Building since Fall Quarter 1972.
...SENIOR GIVEN RESEARCH GRANT...Dirk V. Lanning, an Evergreen senior, has been awarded a
$450 study grant by the Southwest Parks and Monument Association to assist him in the
purchase of radio telemetry equipment. Lanning, who is currently conducting field studies
in the Chirica Hua mountains of Southeast Arizona, will use the equipment to track the
coatimundi, small raccoon-like mammals which are the focus of his field investigations.
A graduate of Eureka,
California High School, Lanning is studying under the
guidance of Faculty Member Steve Herman.
...JAZZ DANCE CLASSES OFFERED BY FORMER FLEETWOOD STAR...Gretchen Christopher Matzen, onetime member of Olympiad gold record recording trio, The Fleetwoods, is now offering jazz
dance classes at Evergreen. The lithe, petite former singing star taught more than 20
students Fall Quarter and hopes to offer instruction to more persons Winter Quarter. Sign
up date for her program is December 14. Interested persons should contact the Activities
Office (866-6210) for further information.
Ms. Matzen, whose husband Richard is a teacher at Washington Junior High, says she
offers her classes to persons from "all levels of ability." She "does not recommend a
career as a professional entertainer to anyone," but does not regret her decade in show
business. Because of her experiences, the Olympia High School graduate doesn't seek to make
professionals out of her students. "I'm just concerned with giving them a physical vocabulary of dance," she says, "one which will enrich their lives by expanding their awareness
of what they can do.
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