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The Evergreen State College Newsletter (January 21, 1974)
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January 21, 1974
...CHILE SYMPOSIUM BEGINS FRIDAY, JANUARY 25...Four major speakers and more than a
dozen experts on Latin American affairs will participate in a two-day Northwest Symposium on Chile January 25 and 26 on the Evergreen campus. The student-led community
project, which offers lectures, panel discussions, small workshops and cultural events,
is designed to present a comprehensive intellectual treatment of a major international
issue
the overthrow and death of former Chilean President Salvador Allende.
All events are free and open to the public and most events will be held in the
main lobby of the Evans Library Building. A detailed schedule can be obtained by calling the Evergreen Information Center (866-6300) or the office of sponsoring Faculty
Member Chuck Nisbet (866-6726). The outline of events, in brief, follows.
Friday, January 25 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Discussion of Pre-Allende Chile by Dr.
Jorge Neff, former professor at the University of Chile, and Dr. Maurice Zietlin, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin; 1-3 p.m.
Discussion on The
Allende Years by Hector Fernando Arias, University of Oregon graduate student in
economics; Joseph Hamwee, businessman and frequent Chilean visitor; Patricia Fagen,
professor at San Jose State University, and Joyce Herman, computer specialist whose
husband was killed during the Chilean coup; 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Series of small group
workshops on government housing and the poor, feminism in socialist Chile, health care
in Chile, restructuring the Chilean economy, political parties in Chile,and the transformation of Chilean Agriculture. Friday evening will feature discussions of Chilean
poetry and Latin American folk music.
Saturday, January 26
10 to 11:30 a.m.
Discussion on The Coup by James Petras,
sociology professor at State University of New York, and David Hathaway, graduate
student from Santiago who was held in the national Chilean stadium during the coup;
1-2:30 p.m.
Small group workshops on anti-semitism in Chile, the socialization
of Chile and Cuba, post symposium action relating to Chile, history of Chilean military,
Chilean mass media and the church in promoting social change in Chile.
The event will conclude Saturday night with a discussion on "The Implications of
Chile for Latin America," by Dr. Richard Fagen, former visiting professor at Santiago,
current professor of political science at Stanford University, and president-elect of
the Latin American Studies Association.
...SEVENTY-THREE YEAR OLD SONGSTRESS ARRIVING JANUARY 24...Seventy-three year
old songwriter Malvina Reynolds will add a special touch to the two-day Northwest Symposium on Chile at Evergreen January 25 and 26 when she presents two
evening concerts.
Ms. Reynolds, a nationally known songstress and composer, will perform the
evening before the symposium, January 24, at 8 p.m. in Evergreen's Lecture
Hall Three and January 25 at 9 p.m. in the main Library lobby. Her presentations, like all of the events in the Chile Symposium, are free and open to the
public.
...DOBBS MEMBER OF $27,000 GRANT STUDY TEAM...The State Office of Community Development has
awarded a $27,000 grant to a faculty team from three public four-year colleges for a review
of the program under which funds from Title One of the Federal Higher Education Act are
dispersed in Washington. The special project, which began in December, should be completed
by Fall Quarter, 1974.
Members of the team which received the grant include Henry Kass, political scientist
at Eastern Washington State College; Dee Eberhart, an instructor in the Department of
Geography at Central Washington State College; and Carolyn Dobbs, an urban planning faculty
member at Evergreen. Kass is the project director. An Olympia woman, Marie Cameron,
serves as project research assistant.
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...GALLERY EXHIBIT SHOWS LIFE IN WORKSHOP FOR MENTALLY RETARDED...Life in a workshop for
the mentally retarded is the subject of a photographic essay now on exhibit in the circulation area of Evergreen's library. The exhibit "shows this group of people as feeling,
related humans and not as an oddity to be shoved off into a corner," according to the
show's photographer, San Francisco artist Don Heiny.
On display through February 2, the exhibit includes 40 black and white photos by Heiny
a former research associate at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco
The exhibit is open to the public free of charge. Exhibit hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 8 p.m. Sundays.
...38 NAMED TO MARAT/SADE CAST...Thirty-eight students have been selected for the cast of
Marat/Sade, the Winter Quarter dramatic production by the Theater and Dance study program.
Slated for evening performances March 6, 7 and 8, the play is told by inmates of an
insane asylum and tells the story of the persecution and assassination of John Paul Marat,
a leader of the French Revolution. Daniel Dootson of Bremerton is cast as Marat while
Brooke Newel of Fresno, Calif, plays Charlotte Corday Marat's assassin, and Craig Stewart,
Salem, Oregon, plays Marquis de Sade, director of the asymlum.
...STUDENTS PUBLISH BOOK...The Douglas Fir Tussock Moth-DDT controversy is examined in a
25-page paper recently published by 41 Evergreen students. The paper, available on request
was researched and written by members of the Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution Coordinated Studies program under the direction of Faculty Member Steve Herman, an ecologist.
Entitled "The Douglas Fir Tussock Moth In The Northwest: The Case Against DDT Use *
in 1974," the paper examines the history of the use of DDT in eastern Washington and
northeastern Oregon, explains the current situation in infested areas, discusses the
environmental effects of DDT, and indicates areas of public misunderstandings.
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