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The Evergreen State College Newsletter (October 18, 1974)
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October 18, 1974
October 25 Deadline
KORMONDY CALLS FOR REACTIONS TO NON-WHITE PROGRAMS DTP
The Non-White Programs DTP is once again a topic of concern at Evergreen. Provost
Ed Kormondy, who charged the original DTP last January to "take stock of what we are
doing and what we need to do" to achieve minority student goals and other goals related
to non-white involvement and enrollment at Evergreen, has asked for final reactions to the
DTP by next Friday (Oct. 25).
The report, completed at the end of Spring Quarter, was drafted primarily by nonwhite members of the Evergreen community and offers a number of suggestions which have
prompted considerable discussion throughout the campus. Among those general suggestions are:
filling all vacancies in employment for the next two years with non-whites and women.
Hiring priority is suggested to be non-white women first; non-white men second, and white
women third.
faculty and staff hiring be prioritized to bring a racial/sexual balance of qualified
Asians, Chicanes, Native Americans, and Blacks to the campus according to established
criteria.
the Academic area, Student Developmental Services, Auxiliary Services, the Non-White
Coalition, the Admissions Office, the Library and any others who so choose should co-sponsor
and fund a regular summer orientation program of at least two weeks duration for prospective
non-white students.
More specific suggestions include:
Bookstore establish a line of credit on books for non-white students.
Food Services offer at least one daily serving of non-white ethnic food.
Financial Aid and Placement give top priority to placing non-white students on work
study and institutional jobs.
Health Services hire a full-time doctor
Academic Deans place non-verbal expressions of competence on a par with the written
essay as a major criterion in faculty hiring.
Complete copies of the DTP report are available for examination at the Information
Center. Read it over and share your reactions with Kormondy before Oct. 25. It's part
of your responsibility as a member of the Evergreen community.
NEW COORDINATOR NAMED FOR WOMEN'S CENTER; REORGANIZATION MEETING TODAY
Chris Ruggiero, an Evergreen senior from Pompton Plains, New Jersey, has been named
to coordinate the Women's Center, headquartered in Library room 3214. The center, which is
open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, is being "completely reorganized" according
to Ruggiero, a transfer student newly arrived on campus from the University of New Mexico.
A reorganization meeting
to establish committees and assign members to those
committees
is being held today (Oct. 18), beginning at 1 p.m. at Route 15, Box 650
(the first house north of ASH on the Overhulse Road). All interested Evergreen women are
urged to attend
and to plan for a "long, hard meeting", according to Ruggiero.
PHOTOGRAPHY INSTRUCTOR FROM CENTRAL HIRED
Ford Gilbreath, a former graduate teaching assistant for the Central Washington State
College Department of Art, has been hired as an Evergreen photographer. The appointment,
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effective Oct. 21, was announced by Woody Hirzel, acting coordinator of Library Media
Services.
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Gilbreath, who taught photography at Central until July, has also served as an instructor's aide in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University,
where he earned his bachelor's degree. He has also undertaken graduate work at CWSC.
An experienced free lance photographer, Gilbreath is a native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
where he graduated from high school in 1968. He replaces Craig Hickman, who has taken a
year's leave of absence, effective Oct. 31.
LEARNING SERVICES CENTER OFFERS NEW APPROACH
Since the first of September, five faculty members have been earnestly and energetically
involved in creation of the newly-named and completely reorganized Learning Services Center,
located on the third floor of the Library.
Guided by experiences of the now-defunct Learning Resources Center and the recommendations of the Learning Services Disappearing Task Force, the five, under the direction of
Faculty Member Maxine Mimms, have shifted the emphasis of the center from one which aimed
at helping students on a one-to-one basis to one which involves all Coordinated Studies
faculty members in helping their own students.
IDENTIFY AND REMEDY
"We're primarily concerned with helping identify and remedy student deficiencies in
communications skills," Faculty Member Richard Brian pointed out. "We're trying to make
students and faculty aware of need for academic skills improvement if they exist and then we're
trying to help faculty members help the students in their own programs.
"We're concentrating heavily on diagnostic and developmental learning work this fall,"
he continued.
"At the same time, we're working with faculty to assist them in improving
teaching methods."
Already this quarter nearly 1000 students in 17 Coordinated Studies programs have
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been tested for reading and writing skills, and a large percentage have also volunteered
for math skills tests. In each case, a member of the Learning Services Center staff
which also includes Faculty Members Charles Lyons, Thad Curts and Niels Skov
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taken the tests to the Coordinated Studies programs, explained, and administered it.
Once test results are determined, the LSC staff will return to discuss those results
with each Coordinated Studies faculty member. When explanations are complete, the responsibility for helping students becomes a coordinated effort between program and LSC faculty.
CAN'T CLOSE THEIR EYES
"It's no longer possible for faculty members to close their eyes to the fact that
their students are having difficulty," Brian said. "They can't just send students with
problems up here and hope we'll be able to help them. Instead, faculty members themselves
will have to deal directly with their students."
After the tests have been returned to Coordinated Studies faculty and discussed with
students, the LSC staff will invite programs to visit the third floor Library headquarters
and become familiar with the facilities, which are extensive, though not yet complete.
Rooms for reading instruction, self-taught typing, basic mathematics and computer
assisted instruction have been set up. All the computer terminals, currently located on
the first floor of the Library, are being moved upstairs to the center, and each of the
other LSC rooms is being equipped to help faculty and students work independently or in
groups to improve skills in all areas.
At the same time, the LSC staff is organizing a series of workshops for program faculty.
These workshops will introduce program instructors to such problems as how to administer
reading tests, what they mean and how the information can be used to design a reading
improvement program tailored to each student where necessary.
"What we're trying to do is help faculty members do their own academic work better," ,.
Mimms explained. "We see ourselves as a support group for Coordinated Studies programs. w,
aren't waiting for students or faculty to come to us. We're going to them, helping them
determine the problems and outlining for them methods for basic skill improvement."
SUCCESS LIES IN FACULTY HANDS
Success of the venture lies almost entirely in the hands of program faculty members.
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If they don't attend the workshops or work with their seminar groups, then, Minims indicates,
the LSC will not be of much use to the students.
As originally outlined by the Learning Services DTF, the LSC staff will also be
responsible for coordinating the External Credit Office, modular (part-time) programs,
foreign language instruction and Self-Paced Learning Units. In addition, the LSC staff is,
in theory, to work directly with Counseling Services in identifying student problems.
In practice, the new Center is concentrating on organizing its resources and examining
student skill levels. The five staff members are in contact with Counseling Services, but
not on a direct basis, and with the Self-Paced Learning Lab, located in the Laboratory
Building. The staff has not, as yet, had time to involve itself in the module programs or
foriegn language instruction. Despite the heavy time demands on LSC faculty members
each of whom is carrying at least eight individual contracts as well as working in the
Center
the staff IS also coordinating the External Credit Office (see next week's
Newsletter).
Winter and Spring Quarters LSC staff members hope to have completed the diagnostic
tests and to begin developing complete files on learning resources. They will also undertake national research on the subject of development of learning systems. In addition,
LSC staffers will offer a variety of mini-modules for students and workshops for faculty.
They will also continue to provide technical assistance to program faculty in the areas
of reading, writing and math.
COX WINS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD
Jim Cox, an Evergreen junior from Spokane, has won a bronz, third-place medal in the
Seventh Annual Atlanta International Film Festival. Cox's seven-minute film, "Neptune,"
won the award in the Experimental/Live Action category for his abstract, visual piece based
on the Neptune Movement of Gustav Hoist's "Symphony of the Planet."
The annual Atlanta film competition drew more than 2,000 entries from 32 nations.
Awards were given only to the top three films in each category. Cox completed his film
at Evergreen in conjunction with academic work done under the guidance of Faculty Members
Paul Sparks and Lee Anderson.
2,439 ENROLLED; MORE RESIDENTS AND NON-WHITES IN FALL QUARTER STUDENT BODY
Preliminary figures for Fall Quarter enrollment show 2,439 students currently attending
Evergreen, according to Registrar Walker Allen. The total compares with 2,327 students
attending Fall Quarter 1973.
Allen noted
that the tentative figures also reflect an increase in the percentage
of both residents and non-white students at Evergreen. "Last fall 75 per cent of our students
were residents of the State of Washington," he reports. "This fall that figure is up to
80 per cent. This percentage increase reflects a deliberate attempt on our part to provide
academic services to more Washington residents."
The percentage of non-white students enrolled at Evergreen has also climbed from
8.5 per cent (or 198 students) in 1973 to 9.7 per cent (238 students) this fall. The preliminary enrollment figures also reflect an increase in the percentage of students who
returned to Evergreen from the previous year. Fall Quarter 1973, 55 per cent of the students
enrolled in Fall of 1972 returned to TESC. This year, 61 per cent of those students who
attended Evergreen last fall have returned. This figure, as Allen noted with a grin, "sure
says we're doing something right."
PORTLAND PUPPETEERS RETURN OCT. 24
Jennifer and Bob Williams, professional puppeteers from Portland, will present their
latest puppet play, "The Wonderful Adventures of Perseus Including His Journey Into Africa,"
Oct. 24 beginning at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall One.
"The Wonderful Adventures of Perseus" is a marionette play from the Greek myth —performed by 17 intricate string puppets designed and built by the Williams couple, both of
whom are Olympia High School graduates. It's family entertainment, so bring your kids,
old and young. They'll love it!
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ALL DAY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MEETING SET WEDNESDAY
All Evergreeners have been invited to attend an Affirmative Action Followup Workshop
Wednesday (Oct.25) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall One, according to Rindy Jones,
Evergreen director of Equal Opportunities/Affirmative Action.
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The workshop, designed to follovrup the two-day Affirmative Action workshops held last
summer for staff and faculty, will feature discussions with four off-campus facilitators:
Joe Drake, Robert Ford and Carolyn Patton, all of Impact Associates in Tacoma, and Jim
Carroll from the Seattle Office of Health, Education and Welfare.
Ample time for open discussion and/or questions and answers relating to affirmative
action at Evergreen will be provided, Jones said. The event is part of the year-long program
of Community Day activities.
MICHIGAN VISITORS TO DISCUSS PYSCHIATR1C TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN
A psychiatric social worker, Autheta Burke, and a child psychiatrist, Harold Lockett,
will discuss the effects of the community mental health movement on services to children
at Evergreen Monday (Oct. 21). The two speakers
both on the staff of Hawthorn Center,
a pioneering state psychiatric treatment center for children with neuro-psychiatric disorders
will lecture at 10 a.m. Monday in Lecture Hall One. They will also participate in
discussion groups beginning at 2 p.m. in CAB 110.
Burke is director of social service at Hawthorn, while Lockett is assistant director
of the center. They were invited to Evergreen by Faculty Member Wini Ingram, who was
formerly associated with Hawthorn. The morning lecture and afternoon discussions are free
and open to all interested persons.
WEBB NAMED TO HEALTH COUNCIL
Faculty Member Jack Webb, has been appointed to the Board of the South Puget Sound
Comprehensive Health Planning Council, which promotes, assists and plans for public health *
services in the tri-county area of Thurston, Mason, and Lewis Counties.
Webb, a member of the "On Knowing" Coordinated Studies faculty team, is also an editorial
consultant for the SPSCHC, and serves on the Acute Inpatient Care Policy and Planning
Committee.
NISBET TO DISCUSS EVERGREEN AT UCLA MEET; SOULE GOES TO EXPO
Faculty Member Chuck Nisbet accepted an invitation to speak at the 20th annual meeting
of the Pacific Coast Counsel on Latin America Studies at the University of California at
Los Angeles tomorrow (Oct. 19). Nisbet will deliver a paper on "Latin American Studies
Through the Back Door: An Evergreen Approach" at the meeting. His will be the only paper
at the conference describing a different way of teaching Latin American studies at the
undergraduate level. He said he was invited to speak before the group after a California
Academic Dean attended the Northwest Chili Symposium last January. "He was so impressed
with the fact that our academic programs would allow undergraduates to conduct such an
extensive symposium,he thought I should discuss it all in California," Nisbet reported.
Meanwhile Faculty Member Oscar Soule is attending a meeting in Spokane entitled "EXPO
'74 Symposium on Law and Environment." Soule will attend workshops throughout the threeday event at Gonzaga University and tomorrow, will give a 15-minuite report of his observations of the symposium. He was invited to participate by the EXPO Symposium Committee.
OMBUDS/ADVOCATES SELECTED
Ten students have volunteered for and been named ombuds-advocates for the 1974-75
academic year. The ten
Mary Hester, Spider Burbank, Ross Carey, Gordon White, John
Praggastis, Doug Ellis, Beverly Feuer, Andy Ryan, Michael Hanly and Tina Peterson
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scheduled to meet for the first time Oct. 16. Topics of their meeting was appointment of
a coordinator for the soon-to-be opened Ombuds/Advocate office, discussion of policies and
procedures, and other organizational items necessary to see that the office is open and
ready to serve the Evergreen Community by Nov. 1.
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