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...SPRING REGISTRATION ACTIVITIES BEGIN MARCH 7...Registration for Spring Quarter part-time
studies at Evergreen will be held during Academic Fairs scheduled Wednesday,March 7, and
Wednesday, March 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on the first floor lobby of the Evans Library Building. Students may also register in person Thursday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and weekdays March 30-April 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Registrar's Office, or by completing a
special student registration form in the Evergreen Swingshift brochure, which will be available on campus by March 1. All registration must be completed by April 4.
Spring Quarter classes begin Wednesday,March 28, and continue through Friday, June 8. All
registration must be completed by April 4. Spring part-time studies offer openings in 75
different courses. Most of these are scheduled late afternoons or during the evening to accommodate working adults, according to Assistant Academic Dean Rob Knapp. Special offerings
this spring are designed for public employees,concerned consumers, and persons interested in
Washington state and world affairs.
Watch your mailbox this week for a complete list of Spring Quarter part-time classes
and a new section offering Evergreen news and a spring events calendar.
...CRIS WILLIAMSON SETS MARCH 1 CONCERTS...Two founders of contemporary women's music, Cris
Williamson and Jackie Robbins, headline twin concerts Friday, March 2 at 7:30 and 10 p.m. in
the second floor lobby of the Evans Library. Williamson, one of the first women to produce
with Olivia Records, packed the rafters at Evergreen when she performed here three years ago,
featuring songs from her first album, "The Changer and the Changed." At her second Evergreen
appearance this Friday, Williamson is expected to perform new cuts from her latest album,
"Live Dreams," which was recorded with Jackie Robbins, a cellist and electric guitarist who
will also perform at the March 2 concerts.
Advance tickets to the concerts are on sale for $3.50 at Yenney's Music, Budget Tapes
and Records, and Rainy Day Records in Olympia, and at the Evergreen Women's Center. Tickets
will also be sold at the door of the Library Building beginning at 7 p.m. March 2.
...ONE-ACT PLAYS OPEN THURSDAY..."Comic Views", an evening of two one-act plays from Britain
and the United States, opens Thursday, March 1, in the Experimental Theater of the Communications Building at Evergreen. Directed by Visiting Faculty Member Brian Thompson, the productions begin at 8 p.m. March 1-4 and 8-10, performed by two separate student casts.
Presented by four students, "Overruled" was written by George Bernard Shaw in 1913 and
tells the tale of two married couples who become involved with each other onboard ship. The
second play is an American comedy, "One Hundred and First," a social satire written in 1963
by Kenneth Cameron. Thirteen performers portray the story of a needy urban family's entanglements with a social worker and the courts.
Tickets cost $3 general admission or $1.50 for students and will be sold at the door of
the Communications Building at 7:30 p.m. March 1-4 and 8-10.
.."MENTAL HEALTH, THEN AND NOW" TOPIC OF WEDNESDAY PROGRAM... "Politics and Mental Health,
Then and Now," a topic which continues to raise eyebrows, ire and debate across Washington
state, will be the focus of a free public talk by Dr. Russ Hollander at noon February 28 at
the First United Methodist Church, 1224 East Legion Way, Olympia. Dr. Hollander, assistant
professor of psychology at St. Martin's College, is the fourth of eight speakers in the current
'Piece of My Mind Series." His talk begins at 12:10 p.m. and ends at 12:50 p.m., with open
discussion following for those who can remain.

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academic fair March 7
SPRING QUARTER PART-TIME OFFERINGS ANNOUNCED
Registration for Spring Quarter part-time studies at Evergreen will be held during
Academic Fairs scheduled Wednesday, March 7 and Wednesday, March 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
on the first floor lobby of the Library Building. Students may also register in person
Thursday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and weekdays March 30-April 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
in the Registrar's Office, or by completing a special student registration form in the Evergreen Swingshift brochure, which will be available on campus by March 1. All registration
must be completed by April 4.
Spring Quarter classes begin Wednesday.March 28, and continue through Friday, June 8.
Spring part-time studies offer openings in 75 different courses. Most of these are scheduled
late afternoons or during the evening to accommodate the working adult, according to Assistant
Academic Dean Rob Knapp.
Of special note in spring studies are offerings for public employees, concerned consumers,
and persons interested in Washington state and world affairs. Among these highlights,
Knapp says, are "Chemistry for the Consumer," which studies how to determine the benefits
and hazards of foods, drugs and household products; "Rise and Fall of the Islamic Empire
(600 to 1300 A.D.)," which offers a basis for understanding current world events in Iran and
the Middle East; and "Israel," which presents a study of the language and people of Israel
and represents a preparation for those headed to that nation in a special summer TESC program.
Spring offerings designed especially for persons working in or interested in the public
sector include "Big Decisions," which focuses on marketing policy for public institutions;
"Administrative Ethics," a survey of management techniques in private and public sectors;
"Inflation," which looks at causes, effects and possible solutions to everyone's number one
problem; "Politics of American Labor in World Perspective," which features a look at our
own state's labor scene; "The Public Administrator and External Power Groups," designed to
bridge communication between decision makers and those with whom they interact; and "State
and Local Public Finance," a study of resource allocations and the equity of costs/gains distribution.
Also, an especially timely offering will be the course "Shakespeare's Plays: Interpretation and Background," a study of nine works by the celebrated Elizabethan author, three
of which are scheduled to appear in April as part of the Public Broadcasting Services series
of Shakespearean plays.
Complete Spring Quarter course listings will be available by March 1 in the Registrar's
Office.
EICKSTAEDT NAMED ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Faculty biologist Dr. Larry Eickstaedt has been named to a one-year appointment as academic advisor effective Spring Quarter, according to Dean of Enrollment Services Larry Stenberg.
Eickstaedt, who assumes the post currently held by Faculty Member Dr. Kirk Thompson, will
direct the office through Winter Quarter, 1980, a time period during which the activities of
cademic Advising are expected to more than double, Stenberg says.
"By next fall we anticipate we'll have faculty advisors for all new full-time students,"
Stenberg says. "That will increase the numbers of advisees from 200 to 300 this spring to
between 1000 and 1200 next September."
"We're expecially fortunate to have a person like Larry take the advising post now,"

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Stenberg adds. "He has an indepth knowledge of Evergreen's curriculum, a commitment to the
college s philosophy, and excellent rapport with his colleagues, students and staff.
Thompson, who has held the post since last summer, will return to teaching Spring
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Quarter, offering a group study contract, "Camerawork," which seeks to offer "an intensive
experience in developing photographic vision through concentration on camerawork
on seeing
through the lens of a camera."
TEN AWARDED SABBATICAL LEAVES FOR 1979-80
Ten Evergreen faculty members have been awarded one or two quarters of sabbatical leave
during the 1979-80 academic year, based on recommendations
a Professional Leaves Disappearing Task Force made to Provost Byron Youtz. Requests for some 31 quarters of leave
were received, but Youtz says the DTP was able to fund only a total of 16 quarters of leave,
with no one receiving more than a two-quarter grant.
Leave recipients and their proposed activities include: Michael Beug, awarded two
quarters leave to expand his knowledge of mycology and natural products chemistry and to
write a beginning mushroom identification book for use in future mycology instruction;
Stephanie Coontz, two quarters leave to work on a book, "Women in American History," which
will consider the changes in women's roles and images in both the private and public spheres
from an interdisciplinary perspective; and Marilyn Frasca, one quarter's leave to "study how
and under what circumstances the Intensive Journal Process has been successfully used to do
academic work"and to develop "clear and informative guidelines" for Evergreeners who want to
use that process in academic programs.
Robert Gottlieb was awarded a one-quarter leave to "record, transcribe and document
performances of master drummers of South India." While in India, Gottlieb will also seek to
compare "improvisatory practices relating new research on South Indian drumming to previous
work done on North Indian drumming." Assistant Academic Dean Rob Knapp, who returns to the
faculty next fall, was granted two quarters leave to study methods of large scale transportation planning at Cornell University, followed by eight months work at University
London gaining an understanding of "the fundamental limits to the usefulness of cars in
cities."
Mary Nelson will take a one-quarter leave to conduct an archaeological and geological
study of four of the most recent dig sites in Washington to "learn as much as possible about
prehistoric humans who populated this area centuries ago." Tom Rainey will take two-quarters
leave to research and write about the business cycles in the U.S. and Great Britain and
their relationship to the labor movements in the two countries. Leon "Pete" Sinclair has
a two-quarters leave to "read, write and think about Chaucer's view of the nature and function
of the truth of stories" focusing on the author's work during his French, Italian and English
periods.
Nancy Taylor will devote two quarters to "collect, arrange and edit letters written by
English women in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries and publish a volume composed of these
primary sources with a lengthy introductory analysis of the changing roles of women in
English society." And, Ron Woodbury will take a one-quarter leave to research, write and
publish articles in the interdisciplinary journal of political economy, "Dollars & Sense."
He will also seek to complete and publish a collection of essays in populist political
economics.
Sabbatical leave requests not granted will be placed on a prioritized waiting list for
next year, according to Provost Youtz.
JOB DAY PLANNED FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Twelve professional representatives from the fields of arts and communications will participate in an all-day Job and Graduate School Information Day on campus February 28, beginny-~
at 9:30 a.m. in CAB 110. Participating in the session will be Todd Bitts, station manager V
KVI radio in Seattle; Mitchell Block, owner/manager of Direct Cinema Limited in Los Angeles;
James Coffin, owner/manager of Coffin and Company Motion Pictures in Seattle; Jack Hoffman,
associate producer of Pacific Communications in Malone; and William McGrath, development

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director for KOAC TV in Portland.
Also participating will be Kiku Schmorleitz, owner of Kiku Gallery in Seattle; Terry
Toedtemeier, co-director of the Blue Sky Photography Gallery in Portland; Bill Traver, owner
of Seattle's Traver Gallery; Bruce Wolcott, multi-media designer for Pacific Science Center
in Seattle; and Michael Whitenack, director of the Visual Arts Resource Center at the University of Oregon.
In addition, two graduate schools in arts will be represented: University of Washington's
School of Art, Master of Fine Arts Program, will be represented by Norman Lundin, professor
of painting and print making; and Central Washington University's Master of Fine Arts program will be represented by George Stillman, program coordinator.
Students interested in participating in the day-long session should contact Career Planning and Placement, Library 1213, or call 866-6193.

upcoming events
JAZZ CONCERT SUNDAY
The 17-piece Evergreeen State College Jazz Ensemble will combine notes with 30 student
and community members of The Evergreen Singers
and with Olympia vocalist Jan Stentz
for a 90-minute Sunday afternoon concert February 25.
Directed by visiting Faculty Musician Jorgen Kruse, the Jazz Ensemble performs beginning at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Communications Building. Spotlighting their
portion of the Sunday afternoon concert will be popular local jazz vocalist Jan Stentz
performing "Whatever It takes," a new tune composed by Kruse. The Evergreen jazz musicians
will also play works by Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and TESC student Dave Panco.
The Evergreen Singers, led by Faculty Musician Joan Winden, will perform a selection
->f madrigals based on Shakespearean texts by Emma Lou Diemer and other compositions by
andal Thompson, Alan Hovaness, Leonard Bernstein and by Evergreen Faculty Musician
Dr. Greg Steinke, who will accompany his piece on oboe.
Climaxing the event will be a joint performance of the Singers and Jazz Ensemble of
three selections: "Jubilation" and "Operator", both Kirby Shaw arrangements, and "I'm
in the Mood."
Admission to the Sunday afternoon concert is $1.
BROWN SHARES VIEW ON AFRICA TUESDAY
The problems of neocolonialism and nation building in sub-Saharan Africa will be
discussed by geographer Dr. William Brown in the February 27 Tuesdays at Eight lecture at
Evergreen. Complementing the evening lecture, set to begin at 8 o'clock in Lecture Hall One,
Dr. Brown will offer slides of African landscapes and peoples from a summer trip to six
African nations he took in 1975.
"The conquest and partitioning of Africa by West European powers created major problems
in most of the new African nations," says Dr. Brown. "Even an empire as ancient as Ethiopia
can attribute fundamental aspects of its present difficulties to European intervention."
These problems, Brown believes, are evident not only in widespread poverty and the limited
success these nations are having in developing natural resources for their own use, but in
"the exacerbation of tribal conflicts carried over into struggles for national leadership."
Dr. Brown says he'll share slides he took in the West African nations of Senegal,
Benin (Dahomey), and Nigeria and in the East African countries of Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
He will also focus on the contrasts between Kenya and Tanzania, which have very different
philosophies of development.
Admission to his talk is $1.
RAINEY EXPLORES ROOTS OF IRANIAN REVOLUTION WEDNESDAY

"The Religious Roots of the Iranian Revolution" will be analyzed in a free public
discussion Wednesday, February 28 by Dr. Tom Rainey, Evergreen Faculty Historian.
Pr. Rainey, whose talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Three, says there's "an incredible
amount of misinformation in the United State about the Ayatollah Khomeini and what's happening in Iran."

He'd like to shed some light on some of the misconceptions by concentrating his free
Wednesday evening talk on Shi'a, a branch of the Islamic religion practiced by Khomeini and
most Iranians.
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"Iranian secular leaders sometimes loose their positions if they loose the confidence of
religious leaders and are then viewed as having lost the support of Allah," says Rainey.
("It?s not clear yet if that's what happened recently in Iran, but it is clear," he adds,
"that some Islamic peoples regard the Shah as ungodly."
Americans often misunderstand the Iranian situation, he adds, "because we assume that
since our religious practices have become pretty well secularized, other countries have similar patterns. But in Iran, religion is still a very strong force and has led to creation
of a society and a tradition very different from our own."
Dr. Rainey's Wednesday evening lecture is free and open to the public.
MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINED BY PSYCHOLOGIST WEDNESDAY

"Politics and Mental Health, Then and Now", a topic which continues to raise eyebrows,
ire and debate across Washington state, will be the focus of a free public talk by Dr. Russ
Hollander at noon February 28 at the First United Methodist Church, downtown Olympia.
Hollander, assistant professor of psychology at St. Martin's College, is the fourth
of eight speakers in the current "Piece of My Mind Series." His talk begins at 12:10 p.m.
and ends at 12:50 p.m., with open discussion following for those who can remain.
A psychologist whose expertise lies in the development of mental health policy in the
U.S., Hollander is in the midst of his own research into this state's mental health problems.
The topic captured his attention last year when he moved to Olympia, after serving a postdoctoral fellowship in the psychiatry department of Cornell Medical Center, part of New York
Hospital.
To date his work in archivesand old accounts has revealed the medical-political contest
surrounding the establishment of Washington's first mental health facilities during early (
territorial days. The result, Hollander observes, was that quality service for patients fell
through the proverbial woodwork. He adds that this situation continues even today, evidenced
by Washington's claim to forty-fifth place among states in its resources allocated for mental
health care.
Treatment and funds are the focus of the current mental health debate here
the subjects of Hollander's research and talk on February 28.

also

CRIS WILLIAMSON PERFORMS FRIDAY

Two founders of contemporary women's music, Cris Williamson and Jackie Robbins, headline
twin concerts Friday, March 2 at 7:30 and 10 p.m. in the second floor lobby of the Library
Building. Williamson, one of the first women to produce with Olivia Records, packed the
rafters at Evergreen when she performed here three years ago, featuring songs from her
first album, "The Changer and the Changed."
At her second Evergreen appearance next week, Williamson is expected to perform new
cuts from her latest album, "Live Dreams," which was recorded with Jackie Robbins, a cellist
and electric guitarist who'll also perform at the Friday night concerts.
Though their music is still described as "women oriented," the two performers also call
attention to a variety of other issues concerning the future of today's children, the need
for prison reform, and the problems faced by Third World peoples and women in modern society.
Like her accompanist, Williamson performs with Olivia Records, a national women's
recording company which concentrates on providing women's music to the public and giving
women musicians access to the recording industry.
Advance tickets to the Friday evening concerts are on sale for $3.50 at Yenney's Music,
Budget Tapes and Records and Rainy Day Records in Olympia and at the Evergreen Women's Centf
If available, tickets will also be sold at the door of the Library Building beginning at
7 p.m. March 2.

ONE-'ACT PLAYS OPEN THURSDAY

"Comic Views," an evening of two one-act plays from Britain and the United States,
opens Thursday, March 1, in the Experimental Theater of the Communications Building at
Evergreen.
Directed by Visiting Faculty Member Brian Thompson, the productions begin at 8 p.m.
March 1-4 and 8-10, performed by two separate student casts.
Presented by a four-student cast, "Overruled" was written by George Bernard Shaw in
1913 and tells the tale of two married couples who become involved with each other onboard
ship. "It's an appealing play for modem women," says director Thompson. "Shaw's women
are terrific characters."
Concluding the evening productions is an American comedy, "One Hundred and First," a
social satire written in 1963 by Kenneth Cameron. Thirteen performers portray the tale of
a needy urban family's entanglement with'a social worker and the courts, in a play that
synthesizes the dramatic elements of plot and character, explains Thompson.
This Evergreen production, which costs $3 general admission or $1.50 for students,
is Thompson's first directorial assignment at Evergreen, where he serves on a one-year
visiting faculty appointment.
Tickets to "Comic Views" will be sold at the door of the Communications Building at
7:30 p.m. March 1-4 and 8-10.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONCERT SLATED SATURDAY
"New Music for Performers and Tape" will be offered in a public performance by student
musicians and composers Saturday, March 3, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Orchestra Rehearsal
Room (110) of the Communications Building at Evergreen.
Sponsored by "An Intermedia Group," a student/faculty production team devoted to producing new and avant-garde performances at TESC, the Saturday night concert features works by
student composers studying electronic music under the direction of Evergreen Faculty Member
Dr. Greg Steinke.
Included in the evening performance will be two quad tape selections: the first presented by Walter Winslow, composer and faculty member at the University of Southern California
at Berkeley; and a second produced by Dr. Steinke. Also on tap are a slide/tape show, and
music featuring a classical guitarist, percussion instruments accompanied by electronic tape,
and by the Evergreen synthesizer.
The performance, produced by student composer Peter Randlett and the Electronic Music
academic program, carries a $1 admission charge.

Legislative memo, volume V, no. 6
LEGISLATORS LOG LONG DAYS
By Les Eldridge, Assistant to the President
Only two weeks are left until the end of the regular session (March 8) and February 22
was the last day for passage of bills from the house of origin, with the notable exception
of appropriations measures. The pace during the past week and a half in each house has been
staggering. Committee meetings have begun at 7 a.m. and ended at 9 p.m. day after day.
It's still anyone's guess as to whether the Governor will call an extraordinary session
immediately following the end of the regular 60-day session or whether she will wait until
shortly before the end of the fiscal year, June 30, to call the legislature back. Observers
this week are guessing that she may opt for the latter alternative. The passage of a budget
by each house within the 60-day limit seems virtually impossible. The even split in the
House of Representatives complicates the decision-making process on the budget considerably,
and has made it difficult to arrive at agreements in the House Appropriations Committee, responsible for writing the budget this year. The Senate Ways and Means Committee, meanwhile, is
writing its own budget and the calendars of each house are extremely crowded as legislators
try to meet the March 8 deadline.
MASTER'S BILL ALIVE
The Evergreen Master's Bill appears to be alive in each house. It carries a fiscal

-6impact and a fiscal note, which in the House of Representatives, generally qualifies a bill
for exemption from the February 22 cut-off date. The House Higher Education Committee has
yet to reschedule the bill as it has concentrated on non-appropriation measures this past
week and a half. The Senate version, Substitute Senate Bill 2610, moved to the Ways and
Means Committee with an appropriation and therefore, also qualifies for an exemption from tl/
cut-off date.
Tutition and fees have occupied a great deal of time in each house. Not only is there
a question as to whether tuition will be raised this year, but there is also a question as
to whether the tuition portion of tuition and fees, dedicated to capital construction, will
be removed from control of the institutions and placed in the state general fund. One alternative to the total placement of tuition in the general fund would be placement of excess
capital reserves from the larger institutions. Universities might then retain funds needed
for bond redemption of current and planned projects. There is also a possibility that some
of the tuition account money might be used for equipment replacement and maintenance. Evergreen is little affected by this in the short run as our capital account has no reserves,
but as enrollment grows, the precedent set in this session will be significant for us.
The question of tuition increases likely will not be answered until the final hours of
conference when it is determined how much revenue is needed to balance the budget. That issue,
in turn, will remain in doubt until the Senate and House decide on their reaction to the
Governor's wish to accelerate full funding of common schools.
"BEVY" OF RETIREMENT BILLS OFFERED
A bevy of retirement bills is being considered in each house, and the compensation
subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee appears to favor a set of bills which
would provide cost of living increases for retirees on TIAA-CREF and offer newly hired faculty
the choice of the Public Employees Retirement System or TIAA-CREF for the first seven years
of their employment. At the end of those seven years, the individual would have to make a
decision as to which program to choose, but the choice of TIAA-CREF would leave the employee
without any state supplementation of the contribution from the institution and the employee.
The effect of these two bills would be to cap the TIAA-CREF program in the State of Washington
for new hires. A third bill favored by the subcommittee allows the retiree to designate a
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beneficiary who may or may not be that person's spouse.
A panel medicine plan bill, Substitute House Bill 729, is on the House calendar for
second reading and would once again allow state employees to contribute to health plans, an
option removed in the 1977 session.
Salary increase rates under discussion for the next biennium appear to be either 8
percent and 6 percent or 7 and 7, for consecutive years, exclusive of benefit increases.
Those percentages also exclude step increases for classified employees. The precedent in
past years for exempt and faculty has been to expect step increases to come from within those
funds.
Senate Bill 2187 would authorize exemption from tuition and fees for non-faculty employees
and is in the Senate Higher Education Committee. House Bill 226, providing for tuition
reciprocity between certain counties in Washington and Oregon, is in the Senate Higher Education Committee. And, finally, the faculty collective bargaining bill has passed the Senate
and been referred to the House Committee on Labor, composed of four Republicans and four
Democrats.

WARNING ISSUED

A warning: the schemers and dreamers who staged last year's
First Annual Geoduck Gong Show have slated a foliowup event—
complete with crab, beer and diversions
for Friday, April
6 on the fourth floor of the Library. The event will be open
to the entire campus, but tickets will be limited to less than
300 persons...Plan now to attend and/or leave town before 6 p.m.
April 6...Watch the pages of this Newsletter in upcoming edi tions for further details.

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...TACOMA'S SECOND CITY CHAMBER SERIES APPEARS TONIGHT...Tacoma's "Second City Chamber Series"
a nine-member classical music ensemble, will make its Olympia debut in a Tuesdays at Eight
concert/lecture presentation February 20, at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Communications
Building. The "Second City" performance will feature Hummel's Sonata for Flute and Piano,
Stravinsky's L'Histoire Du Soldat (Soldier's Tale), Ravel's Ma Mere L'Oye (Mother Goose
Suite), and Brahm's Liebeslieder Walzer, Volume I, Opus 52.
Performing with the Tacoma ensemble, supported in part this season by the Tacoma/Pierce
County Civic Arts Commission, are Evergreen faculty members Dr. William and Joan Winden,
singing baritone and mezzo, respectively; as well as Willa and William Doppman playing
together on one piano; Jerry Kracht, clarinetist and orchestra conductor at Pacific Lutheran
University; Pamela Mooney, flutist at Seattle Symphony, Tanglewood, and Fort Worden Chamber
Festival; Jan Sefarian, soprano soloist, New York City Opera and other southern, western
and Seattle opera companies; Larry Potts, tenor soloist in Verdi's Requiem with Victoria, B.C.
and Lower Columbia Symphonies; and Linda Johns-Cole, violinist, first violin section,
Seattle Symphony.
Cosponsored by POSSCA (Patrons of South Sound Cultural Ar±s) the performances at
Evergreen will cost $5 for general admission and $3 for students. Tickets go on sale at
7:30 p.m. at the door of the Communications Building. Advance reservations may be made
by calling the Office of College Relations, 866-6128.
..JAZZ ENSEMBLE, EVERGREEN SINGERS PERFORM SUNDAY...The 17-piece Evergreen State College
Jazz Ensemble will combine notes ~with 30 'student and community members of The Evergreen
Singers
and with Olympia vocalist Jan Stentz for a 90-minute Sunday afternoon concert
February 25. Directed by visiting Faculty Musician Jorgen Kruse, the Jazz Ensemble performs
beginning at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Communications Building. Spotlighting their
portion of the Sunday afternoon concert will be popular local jazz vocalist Jan Stentz
performing "Whatever It Takes',' a new tune composed by Kruse. The Evergreen jazz musicians
will also play works by Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and TESC student Dave Panco.
The Evergreen Singers, led by Faculty Musician Joan Winden, will perform a selection
of madrigals based on Shakespearean texts by Emma Lou Diemer and other compositions by
Randal Thompson, Alan Hovaness, Leonard Bernstein and by Evergreen Faculty Musician Dr.
Greg 'Steinke, who will accompany his piece on oboe.
Climaxing the event will be a joint performance of the Singers and Jazz Ensemble of
three selections: "jubilation" and "Operator", both Kirby Shaw arrangements, and "I'm In
The Mood."
Admission to the Sunday afternoon concert is $1.
...BROWN OFFERS AFRICAN SLIDE/LECTURE...The problems of decolonization in southern Africa
and an analysis of current economic problems, especially in Zimbabwe and the Republic of
South Africa, will be discussed by geographer Dr. William Brown in the February 27 Tuesdays
at Eight lecture at Evergreen. Complementing his evening lecture, set to begin at 8 o'clock
in Lecture Hall One, Dr. Brown will offer slides of African landscapes and peoples from a
summer trip to six African nations he took in 1975. "The conquest of Africa by the Europeans
—and the nature of each European occupation have created major problems in most of the
emerging African nations, "says Dr. Brown. "Those problems are evident, not only in the
agrees of success new nations are having in developing their resources, but in the intraethnic conflicts - those between tribes - as well as those between Europeans and Africans,"
he says.
His lecture, sponsored by Tuesdays at Eight, will be followed on March 6 by a
slide/lecture on "Pilgrimage to Santiago: Tracing the Midieval Routes through France and
Spain." Admission to all Tuesdays at Eight lectures is $1. Call the Office of College Relations, 866-6128, for complete information.

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...IRANAIN REVOLUTION TOPIC OF FEB., 28 LECTURE..."The Religious Roots of the Iranian Revolution" will be analyzed in a free public discussion Wednesday, February 28, by Dr. Tom
Rainey, faculty historian at The Evergreen State College. Dr. Rainey, whose talk begins
at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Three, says there's "an incredible amount of misinformation in
the United States about the Ayatollah Khomeini and what's happening in Iran." He'd like to
shed some light on some of the misconceptions by concentrating his free Wednesday evening
program on Shi'a, a branch of the Islamic religion practiced by Khomeini and most Iranians.
..."IMAGES" FOCUS OF EXHIBIT, PERFORMANCE..."Images in Sequence," an Evergreen study program,
is also the title of two student productions this month: an exhibit on display through March -9
in the Second Floor Gallery of the Library, and a public performance February 24 in the
Recital Hall of the Communications Building. "The exhibit features works demonstrating some
of the various methods of presenting ideas through sequential imagery," according to Evergreen
Faculty Artist Sid White. His students will present work exploring related ideas in a public
performance February 24, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall. "This 90-minute show," says
White,"features a series of multi-media works that are either explorative or narrative in
character." Both the exhibit and the performance are free and open to the public.
...RECREATION CENTER OPEN MORNINGS... The Campus Recreation Center is now open from 7 to 9 a.m.
weekdays for limited use. The CRC office will accept reservations for racketball and handball
Courts a day in advance for those who phone 866-6532 between 7 and 8:45 a.m. Reservations may
be made for two time periods: 7-7:35 a.m. and 7:45-8:45 a.m. The weight room and swimming
pool close at 8:30 a.m., leaving early morning users 30 minutes to shower and prepare to leave
the building by 9 a.m. The CRC reopens for regular use at 11 a.m. each day.

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Evans tells trustees
ENROLLMENT FACILITATOR TO BE APPOINTED IMMEDIATELY
By Judy Annis, Director of Information Services

A facilitator to implement 52 pages of recommendations from the Design for
Enrollment Task Force will be appointed immediately, President Dan Evans told Evergreen's
Board of Trustees at a Tuesday meeting on campus.
,The DTP report, the result of nearly five months work by a "hard core" of 18 to
20 persons, was outlined by DTF Chairman Larry Stenberg, who said his group "sought to
carefully protect the underlying structure of this college...not to redesign it, but to
help it develop a broader appeal."
Created by President Evans to design ways Evergreen can meet legislative and
Council for Postsecondary Education pressures to expand its enrollment, the DTF placed
first priority on appointment of an internal facilitator who would begin immediately
to pull together the campus staff necessary to start work on enrollment recommendations.
That facilitator would report directly to the president on a temporary basis and would
work intimately with an external marketing consultant, brought in to help the college
tackle its image and marketing dilemmas. Both the consultant and the facilitator would
work with an on-campus Public Relations Advisory Group to rally college forces toward
completion of a variety of recruiting and retention tasks. At the same time, the college
would move quickly to expand the Office of College Relations and organize and immediately
implement an expanded public relations campaign; hire additional staff in admissions and
expand its immediate abilities to make personal contacts with prospective students; and
appoint an arts coordinator who would help with organization and publicity of all campus
events.
REPORT NOT FORMALLY ACCEPTED

The report, which contains detailed recommendations affecting a number of college
operations, has not yet formally been accepted by President Evans, who was out of town
last week. He hoped to reveal his specific reactions to it at a meeting scheduled for
February 15 and to consult with key administrators on which portions of the recommendations, in addition to the appointment of a facilitator, he would seek to immediately
implement. At that meeting, a determination will also be made on publication of the
report to the campus community.
The package of "interrelated recommendations" delivered by Stenberg to the board
would, he said, help the college reach its immediate enrollment target of 2,300 full-time
equivalent students next year and at the same time enable Evergreen to build toward more
permanent, long-range solutions to the enrollment effort. But, Stenberg said, to be
successful, the report must be enacted in a "concerted, college-wide effort." "Continued
reliance on two small offices
College Relations and Admissions
to solve these
problems is a myopic and dangerous way to proceed," he warned. To ensure that the DTF
is implemented, Stenberg added, "decisive leadership" will be the most important element,
along with a "degree of unprecedented understanding and support from the entire campus."
Concerned over the potential success of the plan, Trustee Herb Hadley of Longview
asked Faculty Member Nancy Taylor, one of the DTF Subcommittee chairmen,
"Are you
definitely of the opinion that our product is saleable?" Taylor said DTF members felt it
was, that they didn't want to change the nature of coordinated studies programs, but
that they "want to do things better and expand our appeal to different audiences."
Faculty Member Duke Kuehn, also a DTF subchairman, said Evergreen has a core of students

-2who are interested in it, but "we're appealing to a rather narrow range of students."
"The college," he said, "needs to broaden its appeal, building on what we presently have
and drawing on new markets."
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"GOOD PROBABILITY" WE CAN REACH GOALS
Hadley persisted, asking "Can we reach 2600 students by fall by adopting this
report?" Kuehn said there was a "good probability" we could, if "we get the kind of
support we need." But, he cautioned, it "took eight years to get where we are now"
and it will take some time to solve the longer range problem of "recapturing our
essential markets"
like the high school student market. He was optimistic Evergreen
"can begin to turn its enrollment around by next fall."
President Evans pointed out that to reach fall's enrollment goals, "we're really
just looking at a some what better yield in a number of recruitment areas
three to
five percent increase in yield in most areas."
Direct responsibility for recruiting those students would continue to lie in the
Admissions Office, but the DTP calls for expanding that operation by two staff persons,
enabling the staff to institute what Admissions Director Arnaldo Rodriguez calls a
"much more active, personal system of communication with students." Admissions would also
be aided by faculty and staff recruitment teams who would be trained by Rodriguez and
sent to high priority high schools and community colleges to assist in recruitment
efforts.
But the key to the report, Kuehn pointed out, is the marketing consultant. "That
position is
an absolute imperative if we're to meet our short-term goals," he told
trustees. The position, hired on a temporary basis, would be phased out when the college
reached the third level of plans recommended by the DTP: hiring a new full-time director
of Public Relations, who would also assume some of the responsibilities to be held by
the facilitator.
HADLEY CALLS FOR "A NEW HEAD"
Apparently dissatisfied with the extent of the report, Hadley insisted that while
"the manner in which we're educating is truly outstanding," the problem is that "it
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doesn't sell." He called for creation of a new administrative assistant to the president
who would take charge and accomplish these goals, by possibly assuming responsibility
for such offices as Registrar, Admissions, Counseling, Career Planning and Placement,
Veterans Affairs, Development and College Relations. "We need a new head," he said,
"rather than to study, explore and determine...! would like to have somebody tell me that
this (report) will be accomplished by the Fall of 1979." President Evans commented "he
was "not prepared to say we'll do it (the recommendations) immediately" but promised
he would appoint a facilitator from within the college immediately to begin work on the
report. Evans also vowed he'd "find the money" to fund the tasks outlined and said that
a meeting scheduled for February 15 would attempt to pin down budget costs for the report
and consider personnel possibilites for the facilitator post. Evans also told trustees
he'd been in contact with a number of professional marketing consultants and would soon
be able to bring an appropriate firm aboard.
"I don't think it would be wise to suggest permanent reorganization at this time,"
he added. If the facilitator and the marketing consultant, working together, come up
with recommendations that lead to better ways of operation, through reorganization, he
said, "I will be prepared to bring those back to the board."
No formal action on the DTF report was required of the board, though its members
asked Evans to report back to them with progress at their March 8 meeting.
In other action at Tuesday's meeting, trustees approved a request from the Services
and Activities Fees Review board for $49,600 to complete remodeling efforts in the College
Activities Building, currently under way with the assistance of architect Max Knauss, and
approved a $27,883 request for funds to complete the organic farm house. S&A coordinator
Bill Bucks said students hope to have bid requests ready for CAB work by mid-April. Work
on the farm house would, hopefully, be completed by June 30. Funds for both projects were
taken from the CAB Phase II reserve budget.
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Trustees also adopted an official investment policy which seeks to "maximize financial return based upon a minimum of risk." The policy, drafted by Adminstrative Vice
President Dean Clabaugh, outlines purposes and goals for endowment funds and clarifies
investment authority and procedures. It was adopted by the board, which by legislative

-3statute has responsibility for "management of the properties of the college, including
its endowment and other college funds."
A progress report by Activities Director Pete Steilberg on work done by the
Intercollegiate Athletics Task Force was postponed until the March 8 meeting.
EVERGREEN WINS V.A. COURT DISPUTE
Evergreen last week won its court battle with the Veterans Administration over the
right to define what constitutes full-time studies, according to a decision issued by
U.S. District Court Judge Walter McGovern. That eases the stand-off between the VA and
G.I. Bill students at Evergreen and four community colleges around the state
a standoff that began in 1977 when the VA said it would not support tuition for veterans in
colleges where students did not spend a minimum of 12 hours per week in class.
At Evergreen, where Independent Learning Contracts, internships, field trips and
other academic activities often require learning to occur in non-classroom places, the
"12-hour" rule seemed inapplicable. The VA, however, stuck rigidly to its standard,
attempting to deny benefits to certain full-time students. Evergreen, joined by other
institutions with similar learning programs, went to court to prevent denial of G.I.
benefits to its students.
Assistant State Attorney General Richard Montecucco, who represented Evergreen
in the litigation, said Tuesday he fully expects the VA to appeal the February decision
by filing an action with the Ninth District Circuit Court of Appeals. In the meantime,
however, Montecucco feels confident Evergreen can stop the VA from mailing letters to vets
warning them they may be required to pay back any tuition benefits paid for education
at schools not complying with the "12-hour" rule. The letters have, in fact, kept many
would-be entering and continuing vet students from enrolling at the colleges in question.
In his ruling February 8, Judge Walter McGovern said that, "Congress has explicitly
defined a full-time course of study as being the situation where a student is charged fulltime tuition." This determination, McGovern believes, limits the VA's authority to make
rules affecting G.T. bill benefits.
Evergreen students and prospective students affected by this ruling may get a clarification of their benefits and student status from the Evergreen Veterans Affairs Office,
Library 1207.
FINAL PROVOST INTERVIEWS SET
The final three candidates for the position of Academic Vice President and Provost
will be interviewed next week. Adrian Tinsley, dean of William James College in Michigan
will be available for open interviews February 20 with students from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. and with faculty and staff from 3 to 5 p.m., both in CAB 110. Acting Provost
Byron Youtz will be available for interviews February 21 with students from 10:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. in CAB 110 and with faculty and staff from 3 to 5 p.m. in CAB 108. Peter Conn,
associate dean of faculty in arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, will
be available for interviews February 23 with students from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and
with faculty and staff from 3 to 5 p.m., both in CAB 110.
Persons who are unable to attend one open session may attend the other one, according to Jean Jacob , coordinator of the Provost Search. Written comments on all candidates
are due Tuesday, February 27, at noon in the President's Office, Library 3109. Jacob says
comments which evaluate all three candidates will be considered more heavily than those
which evaluate only one or two of the finalists.
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR FINALISTS INTERVIEWED
Two finalists for the position of development director were interviewed this week
and two more are scheduled before the end of the month. The position, which will report
to Presidential Assistant Lejs Eldridge, carries primary responsibility for both development
and alumni relations.
Interviewed on campus this week was Susan Washburn, currently vice president for
development at Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey; and David Van Sluyterjs, most

-4recently a consultant in development for private accounts in Albany, New York.
A third candidate, Leonard Gibb, executive director of development for the
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Foundation, will tentatively be interviewed
February 20. Eldridge says its probable a fourth candidate, Thomas Harper, assistant
director of development at University of Maine, Orono, will also be interviewed "
by the end of February.
He hopes to fill the position vacated last spring by Suzanne Feeney as soon
as possible.

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SMITH OFFERS ROOTS II STUDY

A chance to research "Roots II", to commemorate Black History Month, and to
gain academic credit at Evergreen in the process is being offered by Faculty Member
Dr. LeRoi Smith February 16 - March 17 in a unique combination of television and
academics. "Roots," the popular television series based on Alex Haley's book, returns to
the screen Sunday, February 18 for seven nights, tracing the history of his family in
America. The production, highly acclaimed by critics and the public alike, offers what
Dr. Smith considers an ideal opportunity for persons to commemorate Black History Month,
an observance taking place throughout the country in February.
Persons seeking to study "Roots" via Evergreen will be required to attend four days
of class at the college, featuring lectures on black history, politics and economics,
and discussions on patterns of black migration. Dr. Smith will offer a two-day orientation
February 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. and February 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., both on campus.
Following the "Roots" televised series, he'll require students to return to campus March 16
and 17 and to present individual research projects and analyze the entire program.
Persons enrolling in "Roots II" at Evergreen may earn one unit of academic credit.
Inquiries should be directed immediately to either Dr. LeRoi Smith, Laboratory Building
One or to the Admissions Office.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANTS SOUGHT

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Applications are now being accepted for 40 Foundation Achievement Scholarships from
persons interested in enrolling full-time at Evergreen next fall. The Achievement Scholarships, offered by The Evergreen Foundation in its second annual award program, provide
students paid tuition for three full quarters ($618 total value) and are designed to recognize students who have shown an outstanding talent in community service, academic work, or
other demonstrable ways, according to Evergreen Admissions Director Arnaldo Rodriguez.
"We're looking for applicants new to Evergreen who, regardless of age, have scholastic talents or contributions that merit recognition," says Rodriguez. "This past year
winners included persons chosen because of their high academic achievements, their talents
in the theater and in music, their contributions to their community school programs, and
their public speaking ability," he adds.
Applications for the one-year, nonrenewable awards are due in the Office of Admissions
at Evergreen by April 1. Awards will be announced one month later, for use beginning
Fall Quarter, 1979.
MEETING ON SPRING AND SUMMER ISRAEL PROGRAMS TUESDAY

The people, language and culture of Israel will be explored in a part-time course
offered at Evergreen Spring Quarter by Dr. Ted Gerstl, organizer of a two-month study
in Israel planned for next summer. Dr. Gerstl says the spring program will explore Jewish
history, Chassidism, the Holocaust, Arab-Israeli relations and Israeli music, dance and
art, in addition to teaching beginning Hebrew.
Offered on Monday nights beginning March 26, the program will also explore aspects
of modern Israel, including Ashkenazi-Sephardic relations, refugee problems and settlement
towns. Guest speakers will be presented and students will be expected to read and discuss/
a number of books and to practice their use of the Hebrew language.
Complete information on the Spring Quarter course
and discussion of Dr. Gerstl's
plans for a summer trip to Israel
will be offered at a public meeting Tuesday,

-5February 20, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Evans Library Building, room 1600.
The two-month summer study, which generates full-time academic credit (equivalent to
16 quarter hours) will take up to 20 students to Israel for a six-week stay on a kibbutz
and tours of such areas as the Sinai and Negev deserts, Jerusalem and Gaililee. The Spring
Quarter program, a part-time offering that generates four quarter hours of credit, is
a prelude to the summer study, but is also offered separately from it, Dr. Gerstl notes.
Students are welcome to enroll in either program separately from the other.
Details on both Israeli study efforts are available from Dr. Gerstl, Library 1602,
TESC.
PORT ANGELES INFORMATION DAY SET
Faculty members and admissions staff from Evergreen will stage an Information Day
at Peninsula College in Port Angeles March 21, to offer details on the proposed Peninsula
Evergreen Outreach Program set to open next fall. The new Evergreen program, announced
last month by TESC President Dan Evans, will be designed to accomodate up to 60 students
who are seeking their Bachelor of Arts degrees but are unable to leave the Peninsula for
further study.
Complete details on the upper division two-year Evergreen program will be available
at the March 21 Information Day, set from noon to 7:30 p.m. at Peninsula College.
upcoming events
NINE MUSICIANS PERFORM TUESDAY AT EIGHT
Tacoma's "Second City Chamber Series," a nine-member classical music ensemble, will
make its Olympia debut in a Tuesdays at Eight concert/lecture presentation February 20,
at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Communications Building. The "Second City" performance
will feature Hummel's Sonata _fgr_Flute and Piano, Stravinsky's L'Histoire Du Soldat
(Soldier's Tale), Ravel's Ma Mere L'Oye (Mother Goose Suite), and Brahm'-s Liebeslieder
Walzer, Volume I, Opus 52.
Performing with the Tacoma ensemble, supported in part this season by the Tacoma/
Pierce County Civic Arts Commission, are Evergreen faculty members Dr. William and
Joan Winden, singing bass-baritone and contralto, respectively; as well as Willa and
William Doppman playing together on one piano; Jerry Kracht, clarinetist and orchestra
conductor at Pacific Lutheran University; Pamela Mooney, "flutist at Seattle Symphony,
Tanglewood, and Fort Worden Chamber Festival; Jan Sefarian, soprano soloist, New York City
Opera and other southern, western and Seattle opera companies; Larry Potts, tenor soloist
in Verdi's Requiem with Victoria, B.C. and Lower Columbia Symphonies; and Linda Johns-Cole,
violinist, first violin section, Seattle Symphony.
In a January performance for a standing room only audience, the Second City Chamber
Series delivered what .a Tacoma newspaper reviewer called a "varied, comfortable program
of sound musicianship." The group was originally formed to perform in private homes, but
turned its talent to the public arena in the absence of any civic chamber series in the
Tacoma area. Although locally based and supported, the chamber group combines artists
from many parts of the U.S., some of them specifically to take part in this season's work.
Cosponsored by POSSCA (Patrons of South Sound Cultural Arts) the performances at
Evergreen will cost $5 for general admission and $3 for students. Tickets go on sale
at 7:30 p.m. at the door of the Communications Building. Advance reservations may be made
by calling the Office of College Relations, 866-6128.
ENDURANCE RUN SATURDAY
Runners with endurance, perseverance and perhaps slightly masochistic tendencies,
have been challenged to an arduous "Lost Horizon Hill Run" February 17 by The Evergreen
Running Club. The 20-kilometer run will take competitiors along eight miles of pavement
and through more than four miles of logged country in the Black Hills, complete with
"knee-deep mud", according to run organizer Dale Baird, Evergreen computer services program
analyst and frequent racer.

-6The 12.42-mile event, pioneered last year by Evergreen Faculty Member Sig Kutter,
is especially designed, says Baird, for those who "enjoy running in pretty and unfamiliar
places that are quiet, scenic
and very muddy."
Competitors may register beginning at 10:30 a.m. February 17, for the run which
takes off promptly at 11 a.m. Awards are possible for entrants in six age divisions and
entry fee is $1.
FRASCA TO EXPLORE HER ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

Twenty years of artistic expression, evolved from paintings of people to abstract
scenes of the Pacific Northwest, will be the subject of a free noon-time program by
Marilyn Frasca, February 21, at the First United Methodist Church, downtown Olympia.
Frasca, an artist, writer and Evergreen faculty member, will give a personal account of
her own development as a painter, showing slides and examples of her art and photographs,
and by explaining her work. Her talk is set to begin at 12:10 p.m., with a discussion
following for those who can remain.
Frasca appears as the third of eight speakers in the current "Piece of My Mind,Series,"
sponsored by Evergreen Campus Ministries, the Olympia Ministerial Association and Associated
Ministries of Thurston County.
A major inspiration in her transition from figurative to abstract painting, Frasca
says, was her own nature photography of the Pacific Northwest. She notes that photos
pointed out the interplay and reflection of light on water and suggested landscaped representations. Her work in mixed media is a culmination of two decades of artistic expression,
displayed public shows in Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Washington
state.
Olympia area residents know Frasca for her art as well as for her teaching talents
in writing. She has led workshops for community groups in intensive journal keeping and
participated in YWCA retreats. With Evergreen faculty artist Susan Aurand, she is
teaching painting in a full-time Evergreen program titled, "Studio Projects," for advanced
students in art.
CAREER WORKSHOP FOR JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS WEDNESDAY

Seven professionals in the fields of journalism and writing will participate in
an afternoon Job Information session Wednesday, February 21 from 2 to 4:30 o'clock in
CAB 110. Interested students will have a chance to confer with four Evergreen alums
who have successfully established careers in journalism: Ken Balsley, editor of the
Lacey Leader; Brad Furlong, information writer for the Secretary of State; Ed Michaelson,
KGY radio newsman; and Ralph Seeley, Portland freelance writer.
Also participating in the afternoon workshop are Jean Wiley Huyler, communications
service director for the Washington State School Directors Association; Mary-Lynne
Reiner, freelance writer and Evergreen adjunct faculty member; and Alice Watts, long-time
reporter for the Daily Olympian.
Contact the Office of Career Planning and Placement, 866-6193, to sign up for the
session.
"IMAGES" PRESENTS EXHIBIT, PERFORMANCE

"Images in Sequence" an Evergreeen group study program,is also the title of two
student productions this monthr an exhibit opening February 18 in the Second Floor Gallery
of the Library Building, and a public performance slated for February 24 in the Recital
Hall of the Communications Building.
"The exhibit, on display through March 9, will feature works demonstrating some of
the various methods of presenting ideas through sequential imagery", according to Evergreen
faculty artist Sid White. Experimenting in a variety of media, students will display their
academic efforts, including a series of images translated from photographs, photographs
which have been reproduced through a variety of printing techniques, two sequential
photographic studies, and a display using the interplay of words and photographs to tell
a story.

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Students will present work exploring related ideas in a public performance Saturday,
February 24, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall. "This 90 minute show," says White,
will feature a series of multi-media works that are either explorative or narrative in
character."
Both the exhibit and the performance, which are free, offer vehicles for students to
"gain understanding of their subject matter and, at the same time, master the art of
presentation," White says. He's confident the public will enjoy the results.
KAOS FEATURES LOCAL COMPOSERS
Music by Pacific Northwest composers will be aired in a special 90-minute program
at 4:30 p.m. February 20 over radio station KAOS FM (89.3), the campus community
station based at Evergreen. Produced and directed by Judy Hyslop, an Evergreen communications student, the program features compositions by Bruce Whitney, May_ Ajax, Greg Youtz,
Alice Palmer and Olga Stewart, with special vocal performances by Alice Colyar and
Barbara Neely.
The production has been developed at the request of Gertrude Tague, a member of the
Capitol Music Club and state chairman of the Washington State Federation of Music Clubs.
SINGERS AND JAZZ ENSEMBLE PERFORM FEBRUARY 25
The 17-piece Evergreen Jazz Ensemble will combine notes with 30 student and community members of The Evergreen Singers
and with Olympia vocalist Jan Stentz —- for a
90-minute Sunday afternoon concert February 25.
Directed by visiting faculty musician Jorgen Kruse, the Jazz Ensemble performs
beginning at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Communications Building. Spotlighting
their portion of the Sunday afternoon concert will be popular local jazz vocalist
Jan Stentz performing "Whatever It Takes1,"1 a new tune composed by Kruse.
The Evergreen jazz musicians will also play works by Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and
TESC student Dave Panco, in addition to a second number by Kruse called "Wind Song."
In addition members of the Jazz Quintet will perform original pieces by Jez Graham and
Dave Marcus.
The Evergreen Singers, led by Faculty Musician Joan Winden, will perform a selection
of madrigals based on a Shakespearean text by Emma Lou Diemer and other compositions by
Randal Thompson, Alan Hovaness, Leonard Bernstein and by Evergreen faculty musician,
Dr. Greg Steinke, who will accompany his piece on ofeoe.
Climaxing the event will be a joint performance of the Singers and Jazz Ensemble of
three selections: "Jubilation" and "Operator", both Kirby Shaw arrangements, and "I'm
In the Mood," a tune identified recently with songstress Bette Midler.
Admission to the Sunday afternoon concert is $1 at the door of the Communications
Building.
RECREATION CENTER OPEN MORNINGS
The Campus Recreation Center is now open from 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays for limited
use, according to Activities Director Pete Steilberg. His office will accept reservations
for racketball and handball courts a day in advance from those who phone 866-6532 between
7 and 8:45 a.m. Reservations may be made for two time periods: 7-7:35 a.m. and
7:45 to 8:30 a.m. Steilberg notes that the weight room and swimming pool will close at
8:30 a.m.leaving early morning users 30 minutes to shower and prepare to leave the building
by 9 a.m.
The building opens for regular use at 11 a.m. each day.
FACILITIES TO CONTROL WEEDS
Acting Facilities Director Dave West says his office will soon be treating three
campus areas for weed control: all campus road shoulders will be sprayed when weather
permits; expansion joints and cracks in plaza paving and walkways will be treated where
needed; and planting beds will also be treated. West says all areas will be identified

-8with appropriate signs indicating the types of control materials in use.
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNICATORS

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Students in communications who are able to demonstrate financial need, scholastic
-achievement and an ability to communicate may apply before March 15 for $1,000 scholarships
offered by the Seattle Professional Chapter of Women In Communications, Inc. The
awards, to be announced in April for the coming academic year, are open to full-time college
juniors or seniors"majoring in print or broadcast communications" who have been accepted
"to a school or department of communications." Applications and complete information
are available from Evergreen's Financial Aid Office.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Evergreen Faculty Musician Greg Steinke will conduct the Thalia Chamber Orchestra
when It presents the premiere performance of his "Fantasy Due Concestante" for violin,
cello and chamber orchestra March 2. Dr. Steinke will also conduct Creston's "A Rumor"
for orchestra during that Friday evening concert. He says he's also been invited to
deliver a presentation on "New Oboe Techniques" to the Music Teachers National Association
Convention in Seattle April 4.
Library Dean Jovana Brown has been recognized for the help she and her staff
offered residents of Jefferson County and the staff of the Port Townsend Public Library
recently. Kathy Hayes, coordinator of that library, says Dr. Brown's efforts with their
Jefferson County Library Project helped secure passage of a levy to support library
services.
Carle Cable, busily carrying dual responsibilites as founder of Kyodai and Evergreen
faculty member in Japanese cultural studies, addressed a record attendance at a January
Forum Five program of the World Affairs Council in Seattle. Topic of her talk: "Has
the Yankee Trader Missed the Cultural Target in Japan?" Cable's private consulting
firm, Kyodai, sponsors a day-long seminar on "Current Japanese Banking and Legal Issues"
on campus today. She'll follow that up with another Olympia presentation April 10,
sponsored by the Evergreen College Community Organization.
Faculty artist Dave Gallagher says he has been awarded a sculpture commission for
a new high school in Battle Ground, Washington. His 8-foot by 9-foot sculpture, constructed of metal and wood, is sponsored by the Washington State Art Commission.
Gallagher has also been selected as one of a group of Northwest artists for an exhibition
which will tour the western United States this year. The exhibit is organized and
sponsored by Visual Arts Resources of the University of Oregon's Museum of Art.
Gallagher says he has also been invited to participate in this year's annual invitational
art exhibit of Washington painters and sculptors which opens in Olympia's State Capitol
Museum in March.
Faculty dancer Meg Hunt recently performed with the Pacific Lutheran University
performing Dance Ensemble. Called "The Kabir Dances" the productions were based on
poet Robert Ely's interpretation of works by a fifteenth century Indian poet, Kabir.
Hunt performed once at PLU, backed by Ely's readings and a second time at Tacoma's Old
City Hall, accompanied by readings and commentary of Dr. David Seal from PLU's English
Department.
Faculty Member Chuck Pailthorp is presently appearing in a University of Washington
production of Benjamin Britten's "Albert Herring". The production, which opened February
14 in the Meany Studio Theater, is described as "the unmaking of the May-King or the
liberating influence of spiked lemonade." Ticket information is available at the University, 543-4880.
And, Evergreen student Dan McDonald has been hired as a VISTA outreach worker in
the Bulk Commodities Exchange section of the Pike Place Development Authority in Seattle.
He'll serve as a liaison person with local farmers and bulk consumers, seeking to help
small farmers market their produce.
Ben Wolfe, former manager of the college's Word Processing and typesetting operation
has an article in the February issue of "The Office,"
a magazine of management,
equipment and automation published out of Stamford, Connecticut. Not only did his piece

make the cover story (including color photographs of the Center and Wolfe), but it
featured a two-page story, complete with more photographs of Evergreen's operation and
staffers Karin Anderson, Arnold Doerksen, Lenore Doyle, and Christy Brewsaugh.
Personnel changes are also in the news this week: New to the staff are:
Patricia McCleod,library technician; Walter Van De Walker, Akido Smith, and Joyce Stephens,
custodians; Betty Harris, Upward Bound secretary; Susan Devlin, office assistant in"
facilities; Rosemary Conor, magnetic tape typist; Jane Lorenzo, office assistant in
academics;Richard Rowan, professional counselor; and Christine Kerlin, admissions
counselor, Larry Ralphs has been named housing coordinator and Pat Spears and Verna Baker
have transferred into Purchasing as purchasing assistants.
Recently departed from the college staff are Melanie Crawford, slide library curator;
Sarah Thompson, purchasing assistant, and Cheryl Droulliard, office assistant in academics.
Legislative Memo Volume 5, Number V
ENROLLMENT QUESTIONS POSTED ON THE HILL; MASTERS BILL MOVES
By Les Eldridge, Assistant to the President
During the past two weeks, President Dan Evans and Provost Byron Yoytz have appeared
at four hearings directly involving Evergreen. They testified on the Council for
Postsecondary Education's study and the master's degree bill before the joint Higher
Education Committees in January and on the operating budget before the Senate Ways and
Means Committee on February 2. The master's bill was the topic before the House Higher
Education Committee February 13 and the Senate Higher Education Committee, February 14.
Regardless of the agenda topic at these meetings, legislators' questions have concentrated
on Evergreen's ability to increase its enrollment, particularly from high school seniors
in Southwest Washington. Attention has also centered on the nature of plans which the
college has to achieve that enrollment increase.
In the specific January 31 joint Higher Education Meeting, House members focused on
the college's marketing plan for enrollment. Concern was expressed about the structure of
the first two years of the curriculum at Evergreen and its clarity and attractiveness to
Southwest Washington seniors.
The House Committee has also recently heard testimony on the bill introduced by
Representative Mike Kreidler to create a new community college district in Thurston County
with an academic program placed at Olympia Technical Community College. Testimony at these
hearings has addressed the need for academic programs at the freshman and sophomore level
in Thurston County and on Evergreen's ability to meet this demand. Evergreen testimony
has emphasized our commitment to meeting freshman and sophomore educational needs in
Southwest Washington. Legislative reaction has been mixed.
In the House Committee on February 13, the Committee adjourned after a half-hour
testimony on the master's bill brought it to the end of its schedule for the day. Continuation of that hearing is tentatively scheduled for next week. On February 14, the Senate
Higher Education Committee amended the Senate version of the master's bill, with a substitute
bill which attached an appropriation of $296,000 and removed the proviso which required
legislative approval of new programs. The bill moved unanimously, with a"do-pass" recommendation, to the Ways and Means Committee. The Ways and Means calendar is crowded and no
date has been set as yet for hearing.
RARE II TOPIC OF THURSDAY MEETING
A free public panel discussion and forum on RARE II, a study of Roadless Area
Review and Evaluation recently completed by the U.S. Forest Services, will be conducted
Thursday, February 22, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the main lobby of the Library Building.
Moderated by Faculty Member Dr. Willi Unsoeld, the evening discussion will feature
representatives from the Industrial Foresters Association, Sierra Club, Washington
Sportsmen's Council and other groups interested in the eventual outcome of the RARE II
study.
Issued in January, the RARE II study will soon become the object of Congressional
hearings and eventually of legislative action. Public support and involvement in the
February 22 program are encouraged by its sponsors, a group of TESC students.

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...FINALISTS FOR PROVOST NAMED...Three finalists for the position of Evergreen Academic
Vice President and Provost were named January 31 by a campus search committee. Acting Provost Byron Youtz was selected for interviews, along with Adrian Tinsley and Peter Conn. Dr.
Youtz has been a member of Evergreen's faculty since 1970 and has served as an academic dean
in addition to his one-year appointment as acting provost which began last summer. Dr. Tinsley
currently serves as dean of William James College, part of a six-institution cluster associated
with Grand Valley State College in Michigan. Dr. Conn, an applicant for the post last year,
serves as director of the writing center and associate dean of faculty in arts and sciences
at the University of Pennsylvania.
The search committee hopes to contact the finalists immediately to arrange interviews
on campus, possibly the week of February 20-23. The committee hopes to reconvene February 26
to prepare final recommendations for President Dan Evans.
...FACILITIES DIRECTOR SOUGHT...Applications for the position of Evergreen Director of
Facilities are being accepted through February 16 by Administrative Vice President Dean
Clabaugh. The post, vacated last month by Bob Strecker, is being filled on an acting basis
by David West. The directorship has tripartite responsibility: for serving as the college's
superintendent of buildings and grounds; directing facilities planning and construction; and
supervising the campus security force.
...BALLET NORTHWEST PERFORMS THIS WEEKEND...Ballet Northwest brings its company of 36 dancers
to the stage of Evergreen's Experimental Theater the second weekend in February with a full
range of dance
from classical through modern to contemporary ballet. Performing under the
artistic direction of Evergreen faculty member Bernard Johansen, Ballet Northwest stages its
winter productions February 8, 9 and 10 beginning at 8 p.m. in the Communications Building.
The evening performances will open with "My Oh My," a piece choreographed by Johansen
and set to music by Milhaud. This contemporary work features dance of Twentieth Century
America and will be followed by "It's All A Dream," a dance built on a series of dream and
fantasy fragments and choreographed by Olympia bookstore owner Cal Kinnear. Concluding the
winter concert will be selections from Act III of"Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky.
...LOVE OF AUSTRALIA TO BE SHARED FEB. 13...Australia, equated with America as a "last
frontier," equal to the continental United States in size but inhabited by only 14 million
people, shaped by European immigrants into a land distinctly different from the U.S. and
strongly attractive to most who've ever studied it. That's "The Australia I Know" that
faculty biologist Dr. Al Wiedemann will take visitors to on February 13 as part of the continuing Tuesdays at Eight concert/lecture series.
Dr. Wiedemann, who began his love affair with "the land down under" more than ten years
ago, plans to present a 40-minute slide tour of the vast country, unaccompanied by rhetoric,
but supplemented with the sounds of Australian music and poetry. His talk, set for the Recital
Hall of Evergreen's Communications Building, begins at 8 p.m. and carries a $1 admission fee.
...JAPANESE SEMINAR AT TESC FEE.16...Tokyo attorney Yasuhiro Fujita will be a featured speaker
t a day-long Kyodai seminar on "Current Japanese Banking and Legal Issues," set for February
j.6 at Evergreen and cosponsored by the Japanese-American Society for Legal Studies and TESC.
Fujita's presentation will focus on the S'mon Case filed against the Japanese Ministry of
Health and Welfare and four pharmaceutical firms. Complex procedures and an unusually large
number of litigants make this trial particularly important to international businesspersons
involved in legal issues and manufacturing in Japan.
Registration details and complete
information on the Friday program are available from Kyodai in Seattle, 1-322-9188.

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EVERGREEN ACTIVITIES FEBRUARY 8-20, 1979
Because the Newsletter will not be printed next week, we offer the following brief
calendar as a reminder of events coming up before you receive your next issue February 20.
February 8, 9 & 10
BALLET NORTHWEST brings 36 dancers to the stage to present winter
concert, 8 p.m.. Experimental Theater, Communications Building.
February 9
Seattle's Whistle Stop Improvisational Dance Company performs "Tapestries In
Motion," 4 p.m., Experimental Theater, Communications Building...free...
February 11
"Red Clay Ramblers" and Lily May Ledford offer an evening of "authentic
mountain music," 7 p.m., main lobbv, Evans Library Building.
February 13
Evergreen Faculty Biologist
Al Wiedemann shares slides and music from
"The Australia I Know," 8 p.m., Recital Hall, Communications Building.
February 14
Saint Martin's Brother Ronald Hurst contrasts faith and fanaticism in
free public lecture, 12:10 p.m., First United Methodist Church, downtown Olympia.
February 16
Day-long seminar on "Current Japanese Banking and Legal Issues" cospcnsored
by Evergreen and Japanese-American Society for Legal Issues.
Registration information
available through Kyodai of Seattle, 1-322-9188.
February 16 & 17
"Evergreen Almost Alive," a live spoof of popular television show
brings cast of 12 to Experimental Theater of Communications Building at 8 p.m.
February 19
Evergreen closed in observance of Washington's Birthday.
February 20
Tacoma's highly acclaimed "Second City Chamber Series" brings cast of
\r singers and five instrumentalists to perform classical concert, 8 p.m., Recital
Hall, Communications Building.
Ticket information or reservations on any of the above events may be obtained by
calling the Office of College Relations, 866-6128, weekdays.

The Evergreen State College

February 2, 1979

Published by the Off ice of College Relations/Library 3114

adjusted target date
CPE SENDS FINAL REPORT ON TO LEGISLATURE
The seventeen-member Council for PostsecondaryEducation convened January 24 and gave its
official approval to two Evergreen action items: a revised edition of its study on Evergreen,
first released in November, and a proposal for planning a master's level program. Revisions
to the study included up-dates of cost and student enrollment figures for Evergreen and other
state institutions, descriptions of Fairhaven College (part of Western Washington University),
and an adjusted target date for boosting enrollment to 3050 by 1982-83. In addition, the
January final draft recommends that Evergreen: continue its efforts to assume responsibility
for state interagency training, now handled by the Department of Personnel; continue to develop
and offer credit-bearing courses in the evenings especially related to the educational needs
of professionals working in the Olympia area; consider expanding its degree-awarding range
to encompass the Bachelor of Science degree; and study the feasibility of an inter-institutional
agreement that could lead to conjoint provisions of programs in teacher education on campus.
EXPLORE WAYS TO CUT COSTS
Other CPE recommendations encouraged the college to explore further means of reducing
per-student costs; reconsider the need for its Supplemental Application Form (see following
story); and more clearly identify and define career pathways through its curriculum. It
asked TESC to institute "greater structure and predictability in its curriculum;" consider
provisions of first-year requirements for entering students; and examine procedures for
individual contract and internship study arrangements.
CPE also recommended that Evergreen:
reexamine the evaluation system with a goal to
simplify the student transcripts^"reexamine its student advising program; "mount an. extraordinary and sustained effort to inform students, counselors and others in the high schools
of its programs;" and "make a sustained effort to meet the needs of students in the community
colleges of western and southwestern Washington. CPE also noted that Evergreen might study
the "desirability and feasibility of engaging in a limited range of intercollegiate athletics,
"address the expressed concerns of students...for places and events on campus for purposes
of socializing;" and study the possibility of offering off-campus programs in Longview,
Aberdeen/Hoquiam and Port Angeles. President Dan Evans has already announced plans to begin
a Port Angeles Outreach program next fall, and many other of the CPE suggestions have become
part of the recommendations from the Design Enrollment Disappearing Task Force, which hopes to
send its report to the Board of Trustees for consideration at its February 13 meeting.
ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO REMAIN
Council members took little issue with the proposed revisions, which represented their
own suggestions at their December meeting. However, discussion was renewed on Evergreen's need
to remain a true and unique departure from its sister state institutions, rather than moving
toward the same academic programs, standards or format as the other schools provide. Deputy
CPE Director Bill Chance assured the Council that study recommendations would not infringe
on Evergreen's ability to offer an alternative approach to learning, and his remarks were reinforced by President Dan Evans' own observations on what the study did and did not demand.
In later action, the Council heard a presentation from CPE's Eleanore Kenney on Evergreen's
proposed plans to establish a master's level program. The master's program (described in the
January 19 Newsletter) was, in fact, recommended by the Council in its fall study and is also
called for in the original legislation that created Evergreen in 1967. The current proposal
would permit a year's planning, as well as legislative authority to grant a master's degree,
before the program could enroll its first student in September 1980. Council members raised
only a few clarifying questions about the proposal before approving it unanimously and asking
CPE to seek legislative authority for Evergreen to offer the graduate degree.

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The CPE's work was presented twice this week before legislative hearings (See Les
Eldridge's report, page 8). Final outcome of the study hinges on legislative
and insti;
utional
reaction to it.
SUPPLEMENTAL ADMISSIONS FORM DROPPED
The Supplemental Admission Form, required by Evergreen as part of its formal admissions
process since the college opened in 1971, was dropped as a prerequisite to admissions this
week, following recommendations from the Council for Postsecondary Education, the Enrollment
Design Disappearing Task Force, and Admissions Director Arnaldo Rodriguez.
Historically, the four-page supplemental form, the only one of its kind in the state's
higher education system, sought to make certain that prospective students understood the
difference between Evergreen and its sister institutions and to help the college identify
students with basic skill deficiencies. Instead, the form has apparently become a deterrent
to students seeking to enroll at Evergreen and has only rarely been an effective gauge of
student academic skill levels.
Rodriguez found there were 99 student applicants for next Fall Quarter whose admissions
folders were complete except for the Supplemental Application Form. Of those 99, Rodriguez
said 87 clearly met Evergreen's other admissions requirements (They were either in the top
half of their high school graduating class or had a 2.5 or higher cumulative grade point
average.). Of the remaining 12, five wanted to "major" in fields which Evergreen doesn't
provide (like physical education), and only seven did not meet admissions criteria. Rodriguez
felt the 87 should be admitted immediately, without completing the supplemental form.
That sentiment, shared by members of the Enrollment Design DTP subcommittee on enrollment
and by CPB staff who studied Evergreen, was presented Monday to Dean of Enrollment Services
Larry Stenberg and Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh. Both agreed to immediately
suspend use of the form.
That decision, Rodriguez notes, means the college will have to examine other ways to (
identify students with basic skills deficiencies. He believes the function might better
be served by a post-admissions basic skill test to be required of selected students or by
use of the supplemental form by Academic Advising on a post-admission basis.
MISSING STUDENT FOUND
The body of Wendy Wilson, a 21-year-old Seattle student missing since December 5,was found on campus behind the Residence Halls January 30. Thurston
Country Sherrif's officers and the county coroner were conducting an investigation into the cause of death as the Newsletter went to press.
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PROVOST SEARCH NARROWED TO THREE
Three finalists for the position of Academic Vice President and Provost were named
January 31 by a campus search committee. Acting Provost Byron Youtz was selected for
interviews, along with Adrian Tinsley and Peter Conn. Tinsley currently serves as dean of
William James College, part of a six-institution cluster associated with Grand Valley State
College in Michigan, while Conn, an applicant for the post last year, serves as director of
the writing center and associate dean of faculty in Arts and Sciences at the University of
Pennslyvania. The search committee hopes to contact the finalists this week to arrange
interviews on campus February 20-23. The committee hopes to reconvene February 26 to prepare final recommendations for President Dan Evans.
FACILITIES DIRECTOR SOUGHT

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Applications for the position of Director of Facilities are being accepted now
through February 16 by Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh. The post, vacated last
month by Bob Strecker, is being filled on an acting basis by Dave West.

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upcoming events
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WESTERN FACULTY ENSEMBLES HEADLINE TUESDAY CONCERT
Four faculty musicians from Western Washington University will form three different trios
to present a classical concert for Tuesdays at Eight audiences February 6 beginning at 8 p.m.
in Evergreen's Recital Hall.
Charmian Gadd, who recently presented a violin concert at Evergreen, returns with her
November accompanist Ford Hill, and with cellist Barton Frank and clarinetist Eugene Zoro
for a full program of modern and standard selections.
The first trio will combine viola, clarinet and piano for a "Concertino" composed by
Alfred Uhl in 1928. Uhl, born in Vienna in 1911, is considered a leader of contemporary idiom
in traditional style and presently holds a dean's post at the Vienna State Academy of Music.
Western musicians will transform into a piano trio to present Mendelssohn's "Piano
Trio in D Minor" and then regroup for Bartok's "Contrasts", featuring violin, clarinet and
piano.
Reservations for the ensemble's concert, which is cosponsored by Tuesdays at Eight
and POSSCA (Patrons of South Sound Cultural Arts), may be made by calling Evergreen's Office
of College Relations, 866-6128. Tickets go on sale at the door of the Communications
Building at 7:30 p.m. February 6 for $2.50 general admission or $1.50 student admission.
SLUSS TO DISCUSS ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
A discussion of the underlying values that impact environmental issues will be featured
February 7 when Dr. Robert Sluss, Evergreen faculty biologist, opens the winter portion of
the Piece of My Mind Series at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Olympia.
">r. Sluss, slated to talk at 12:10 p.m. during a free "brown bag" lunch session, will compare
and contrast humanistic and naturalistic values in his Wednesday discussion.
"Both humanists and naturalists seek an environment which is good for humans," says
Dr. Sluss. "But they have very different notions about 'what is good'." He believes the
two value systems compel responses to environmental issues which are at dramatic odds with
each other, and says he'll emphasize and argue "for the position of the naturalist response
to environmental problems."
The Piece of My Mind series is sponsored by Evergreen Campus Ministeries, the Olympia
Ministerial Association and Associated Ministeries of Thurston County.
His talk will be
followed on February 14 by a program featuring Brother Ronald Hurst, O.S.B., of Saint Martin's
College. (See Page A ).
AGING SPECIALIST LECTURES WEDNESDAY
Human development and aging specialist Dr. Alice Kethley will explain why "The Older
American as Social Reformer" is bringing a new set of values to American society in -.a free
public lecture February 7, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Olympia Public Library. Dr.
Kethley, acting associate director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Washington,
is the second of seven scheduled speakers in the "Future of Our Heritage Series" sponsored
by the Senior Center of Thurston County, together with The Evergreen State College, Washington State Capitol Museum, Timberland Regional Library, Friends of the Library and Retired
Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).
Observing what she calls a revolution in the role of older persons in our culture,
Dr. Kethley will trace a shift from a youth-centered America to the establishment of a
gerontocracy, or governance by elders. She cites early signs of this trend in the increased
political and cultural activity of persons over 65, and the growing numbers of Americans
rfho will join their ranks within a few years as birthdays up their collective ages.
A society of elders will be marked by more time to learn, Kethley predicts, one in
which the "sabbatical" will become more commonplace for adults than it is today. People
of middle and later years will continue their learning through formal and informal means,
continuing the process for personal enjoyment which might have once represented merely a

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vehicle to a better job or position. There will also be increased contact between the young
and the old. Government will be forced to be more responsive to the needs of the old — nofc<just in terms of medical and other direct aid programs, but also in the priority given to
social and educational reform.
,Dr. Kethley, a former public school teacher and Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand,
believes that a gerontocracy will offer more flexibility for everyone. She will discuss
her ideas informally after an initial presentation on February 7. A number of local elders
will also be on hand to add their thoughts to this program, aimed at Thurston County residents
of all ages and interests.
BALLET NORTHWEST PERFORMS NEXT WEEKEND
Ballet Northwest brings its company of 36 dancers to the stage of Evergreen's
Experimental Theater the second weekend in February with a full range of dance — from
classical through modern to contemporary ballet. Performing under the artistic direction of
Evergreen faculty member Bernard Johansen, Ballet Northwest stages its winter productions
February 8, 9 and 10, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Communications Building.
The evening performances will open with "Me Oh My," a piece choreographed by Johansen
and set to music by Milhaud. This contemporary work features dance of Twentieth Century
America and will be followed by "It's All A Dream," a dance built on a series of dream and
fantasy fragments and choreographed by Olympia bookstore owner Cal Kinnear. Concluding the
winter concert are selections from Act III of "Swan Lake", with music by Tchaikovsky and
choreography by Johansen.
The works will be performed by three dozen dancers between the ages of 12 and 43, including Evergreen students and Olympia community performers. The productions are sponsored
by Ballet Northwest, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting dance in the greater
Thurston County area. Technical support for the performances is being coordinated by
Richard Nesbet, manager of Evergreen's Communications Building, with the assistance of
f
Glenn Horton and other TESC students studying theatrical production.
Advance tickets are already on sale at the Johansen School of Ballet and Yenney's Music
in downtown Olympia, at Word of Mouth Books on Olympia's Westside and at the Evergreen
Bookstore. Tickets will also be sold at the door for $3.50 general admission or $2 for
students and senior citizens.
WEAVING/DANCE SHOW SET FEB. 9
Weaving and dance will be woven together in an unusual collaborative program Friday,
February 9 when members of Seattle's Whistle Stop Improvisational Dance Company don costumes
designed and woven by Seattle student artist Jennifer Wright for a late afternoon production
at Evergreen. The performance begins at 4 p.m. Friday in the Experimental Theatre. It is open to
public. The unusual collaborative effort is sponsored by three Evergreen academic programs
in the arts: Images in Sequence, Visual Thinking and Perceptions, and features a number
of Evergreen alums who now perform with Whistle Stop.
BROTHER RONALD HURST TO COMPARE FAITH AND FANATICISM
Contrasting the problems of faith and fanaticism in the modern world, Brother Ronald
Hurst, O.S.B., chairman of music and religious studies at St. Martin's College, will ask
"Is Religion Wicked?" in a free noon-time program February 14, at the First United Methodist
Church, downtown Olympia. His talk begins at 12:10 and ends at 12:50, with discussion
following for those who remain. Participants are invited to bring their lunches.
Using an historical approach, Brother Ronald wrll offer what he calls "an alternative to
traditional doctrinaire thinking" on religious commitment. The Benedictine monk, in residence at St. Martin's College since 1969, will take the point of view of the believer and V
will probe what constitutes religious commitment and why that commitment sometimes leads
to fanatic behavior.
While the tragedy at Jonestown is recent and still fresh in our minds, Brother Ronald
says, history is footnoted by other experiments gone awry. He will cite .many of these and

will also examine what constitutes a legitimate religious community and how people today
can deal with the problems surrounding their own issues of faith and personal belief.
LIVE TELEVISION PRODUCTION SLATED

"Evergreen Almost Alive," a comedy written, produced and directed by David Schneider,
will be presented to Olympia audiences February 16 and 17 at 8 p.m. in Evergreen's Experimental
Theater in the Communications Building.
Schneider, an Evergreen senior in theater and television production, took his inspiration
for this original spoof from the popular television show "Saturday Night Live." His production, considered his senior thesis, will feature a cast of 12, including P.O. Boyer, Mark Button
and Becky McAninch, all known for their roles in other TESC productions.
On stage skits and pre-recorded material, to appear to audiences via studio monitors,
will offer parodies on the news; an editorial about Mafia connections in recent Washington
state fires; interviews with the Shah in exile and with Jimmy and Billy Carter; and gardening
tips from Ed Humus, among other rib ticklers.
Tickets for the performances go on sale at the Communications Building at 7:30 p.m. the
evening of each performance. "Evergreen Almost Alive" will also be televised live over the
college's closed circuit Channel 3, coinciding with the 8 p.m. showtimes.
STUDENT CAMPUS MINISTRIES MEET
The second annual St. Martins/Evergreen College Campus Ministries exchange will be held
at TESC Tuesday, February 6. Students, staff and faculty of the two colleges campus ministries
will join together for an evening of food, discussion, and entertainment, beginning with a
6 p.m. potluck in room 108 of the College Activities Building.
Jo Garceau, Chairperson for the hosting campus ministry, views the evening as "an exciting opportunity for persons from our 13 participating congregations to visit the campus,
meet with students, and become acquainted with the campus ministry programs first hand."
Gordon and Anne Wingard, Evergreen Campus Ministers, and Father Killian Malvey, O.S.B.
of St. Martins are working with a committee to plan the event. The evening program will
feature a cast of 20 Christian students and community youth in a 45 minute production.
Discussion will follow.
Persons planning to attend should bring a salad, rolls or a hot dish. Coffee and tea
will be provided.
WIEDEMANN SHARES LOVE OF AUSTRALIA FEB.13

Australia, equated with America as a "last frontier," equal to the continental United States
in size but inhabited by only 14 million people,shaped by European immigrants into a land
distinctly different from the U.S. and strongly attractive to most who've ever studied it.
That's "The Australia I Know" that faculty biologist Dr. Al Wiedemann will take visitors to
on February 13 as part of the continuing Tuesdays at Eight concert/lecture series.
Dr. Wiedemann, who began his love affair with "the land down under" more than ten years
ago, plans to present a 40-minute slide tour of the vast country, unaccompanied by rhetoric,
but supplemented with the sounds of Australian music and poetry. His talk, set for the Recital
hall of Evergreen's Communications Building, begins at 8 p.m. and carries a $1 admission
charge.
First sent to Australia in 1968 on a post-doctoral research grant by the National Science
Foundation, Dr. Wiedemann says he'll devote the first 20 minutes of his program to "trying
to put into words the reasons I feel the way I do about Australia and its people." The country
is, he says, one that shapes a very individualistic populace — "folks who say exactly what
they think and who take you for what you are and can do, not for what you say you are or
say you can do."
The nature of the Australian continent, forged largely by its arid climate, requires a
degree of "rugged individualism" to survive, says the Evergreen professor. That unique
nature includes species of plants and animals unknown anywhere else — from the 500 species
of eucalyptus tree native to Australia to the vast numbers of marsupials and brightly colored
parrots.

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SWIM CLASSES BEGIN TOMORROW

Beginning swimming classes for children five years of age and older will be offered
starting February 3 at the Evergreen Recreation Center. Taught be Kent Young, classes for
up to five youngsters will be offered Saturdays from 11 a.m. to noon and Sundays from noon
to 1 p.m. for $3 per hour or $6 per week.
Adults are also invited to take beginning swimming lessons in classes limited to five
persons. Adult sessions begin February 6 and will be conducted on Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 8 to 9 p.m., also in Evergreen's Recreation Center Pool.
Registration may be completed at the CRC office and additional information may be obtained
from Young at 866-9323.
JAZZ CONCERTS FEB. 9 AND 12
The Evergreen Jazz Quintet presents its first off-campus concert Monday, February 12,
at a popular King County jazz showplace, "The Other Side of the Tracks," located on Auburn's
Main Street. The Quintet, directed by Tacoma jazz musician Jorgen Kruse, a visiting faculty
member at TESC, features the talents of Dave Marcus on guitar, Jez Graham on keyboards,
Tim Koss on bass, Manual Pinson on saxophone and reeds, and Dave Christiansen on drums.
Their Monday evening performance, which carries a $1 cover charge, is the first of many
out-of-town concerts the group hopes to stage during the late winter and early spring.
Launching their musical tour on campus, the Quintet combines talents with Evergreen's
20-member Jazz Ensemble for a noon-time concert Friday, February 9 in the main lobby of
the Library Building. That concert, a kick-off for the Quintet's road shows, is free and
open to the public.
MEXICAN DANCE BOOKED NEXT SATURDAY
A four-hour Mexican dance, featuring Ray Tavares Los Mexicanos Orchestra of Seattle
concludes a day-long meeting of the State Commission on Mexican Affairs at Evergreen next
Saturday, February 10. The meeting, a regular monthly session for the commission, begins
at 10 a.m. Saturday morning and will be followed by a potluck luncheon at noon, and the
Mexican dance set to start at 9 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Evans Library Building.
Sponsored by MECHA, an Evergreen Chicano student organization, the dance carries an
admission fee of $3 for singles and $5 per couple. Purpose of the dance, according to MECHA
president Larry Sanchez,, is to "open communications among Mexican communities in the state
and our own Chicano community on campus."
Additional information on either the Commission meeting or the dance is available through
the MECHA office, 866-6033.
UJAMMA PLANS^MONTH OF ACTIVITIES

The Ujamaa Society, a black student group at Evergreen, has declared February "Umoja
Month". Defining "Umoja"as a Swahili word for unity, student organizers say their efforts
will be devoted to "educating the Evergreen community." They'll present a series of cultural
events throughout February, including the film, "The Harder They Come" set for Thursday,
February 8 at noon and 5 p.m. in Lecture Hall One; dramatic readings by TESC students; a play
titled "In Me There Are Many People;" African dances by junior high school students from
Tacoma; and a series of historical lectures.
Watch Happenings for complete details on time, date and place of Umoja Month events.
JAPANESE SEMINAR HERE FEB. 16

Tokyo attorney Yasuhiro Fujita will be a featured speaker at a day-long Kyodai seminar
on "Current Japanese Banking and Legal Issues," set for February 16 at Evergreen and cosponsored by the Japanese-American Society for Legal Studies (Seattle Chapter) and TESC.
Fujita's presentation will focus on the s'mon Case filed against the Japanese Ministry

-7of Health and Welfare and four pharmaceutical firms. Complex procedures and an unusually
"•arge number of litigants make this trial particularly important to international businesspersons involved in legal issues and manufacturing in Japan.
The Seminar's agenda includes^ "The Japanese Business Environment," by Dan F. Henderson,
University of Washington School of Law; "Money, Capital and Enterprise in Japan," by Stanley
A. Lance, Seattle First National Bank; and "Law and Legal Process in Japan," by John 0. Haley,
University of Washington School of Law.
Registration details are available through Kyodai, P.O. Box 12201, Seattle, 98112
(206-322-9188). Academic credit may be earned through the seminar.
EXHIBITS FEATURED IN LIBRARY FOURTH FLOOR GALLERY
The paintings, ceramics, drawings, glasswork, .photography and weavings of faculty artists
at Seattle's Factory of Visual Art are now on exhibit in the fourth floor gallery of the
Evans Library, The Evergreen State College. This eclectic collection shows through February 9
and replaces an exhibit by the Kansas City Art Institute, originally scheduled to appear.
Following the Factory of Art show is a "surprise" attraction titled "Political Power"
and due to be created on location by well-known Seattle artist Alan Lande. Lande's work is
to be an environmental piece inspired by Olympia's role as the seat of state government and
by the approach of Valentine's Day, he says. His exhibit will appear February 12-26.
The Evergreen Gallery is open 12 noon to 5 p.m. weekdays, except for Wednesday hours of
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Exhibits are free and open to the public.
ELDRIDGE "GROUP " STAGES OPEN HOUSE
The Institutional Advancement and Research staff (which includes the offices of Assistant
to the President, Development, and Institutional Research) invites Evergreeners to an open
ouse on Friday, February 9, from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Library 3103. Purpose is to introduce
IAR, share refreshments in their recently enlarged and remodeled office space, and say "thanks"
to the remodeling crew, including Bill Llovji, Ernie Pierce, Bob Bottoms, John Rohan, Jerry
Marcy, Jim Speaks, and to the Key Shop crew — Sherry Jaycox and Merle Hill.
IAR, headed by Les Eldridge, directs fundraising, alumni relations, government relations,
legislative liaisons Foundation support, institutional research, and general presidential
and administrative support.
The staff includes Bonnie Hilts, administrative assistant; Paul Roberts, acting director
of Development; Duke Kuehn, acting director of Institutional Research; Marguerite Gibbs,
Development Office secretary; Benice Muller-Cody, statistical typist; and student research
aides Charlene McQuarrie, John Petrich, Kim Craven, Rusty Flemming, Steve Guthe and Steve
Hunter.
Stop by February 9.
AUTHENTIC MOUNTAIN MUSIC CONCERT SET

A revivalist string band called "The Red Clay Ramblers" and Kentucky's own Lily May Ledford
who returned to the stage by popular demand after nearly 20 years retirement, come to Evergreen
in a one-time only country music performance Sunday,February 11, at 7 p.m. in the Library Lobby.
The authentic mountain music performance is sponsored by Country Music Productions, which brough
Bluegrass music great Bill Monroe to Evergreen last fall for a sell-out performance.
"The Red Clay Ramblers" are an exuberant blend of banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and other
instruments of the southeast Applalachian Mountains where they gained their start. Musicians
Bill Hicks, Tommy Thompson, Jim Matson, Mike Graver and Jack Herrick play in the grand style
of the old mountain or "hillbilly" music of the southern highlands. Since its formation in 1972
:he group has broadened its repertoire to cover many forms of folk music, however.
Appearing with the Red Clay Ramblers is Lily May Ledford, who made her own mark in
Southern mountain music during the 1930's and 40's as part of the Coon Creek Girls. A
traditionalist from the Kentucky Mountains, Lily Mae plays the five-string banjo in the old
trailing, hoe-down style of mountain picking.
Tickets to the "Red Clay Ramblers" and Lily May Ledford concert are $4 for general
admission, $3.50 for students and may be purchased in advance at the TESC Bookstore.
Tickets will be a $1 more at the door.

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Legislative Memo Volume 5, Number 4
EVERGREEN COMPLETES FULL HEARING SCHEDULE TODAY
By Les

Eldridge, Assistant to the President

An intensive week of hearings began January 26 for Evergreen, with presentation of our
operating and capital budgets by President Dan Evans and Provost Byron Youtz before the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on Education. The President voiced a strong plea for faculty
salary increases to make up for the current biennium's unusually low figures. He also requested additional funds for student services in order to implement recommendations from the
Council for Postsecondary Education pertaining to admissions and student services, and he
sought planning money for the gymnasium, also in response to CPE recommendations. Members
of the committee posed some tough questions on Evergreen's ability to increase its enrollment,
which prompted Evans to voice his conviction that we can accomplish the required enrollment gains
January 30 the House Higher Education Committee heard a brief presentation by Council
spokesman and President Evans on the CPE report. At press time Wednesday, college officials
were preparing for an evening hearing on the CPE report and the Master Degree Bill (House
Bill 568)
set for January 31 before the joint Higher Education Committees of the House and
Senate. The week of hearings concludes today at 2 p.m. with an operating budget presentation
before the Senate Ways and Means Committee in Public Lands Building, room 103.
SHINPOCH PRIME SENATE SPONSOR
The House bill on master's degree at Evergreen was joined by a companion bill in the
Senate presented to the Code Reviser last Wednesday for reading yesterday or today. The
Senate bill's prime sponsor is A.N. "Bud" Shinpoch, democrat of Renton, and other sponsors
include Senators George Scott, Barney Goltz, Gary Odegaard, Charles Newschwander, Sue Gould,
Sid Morrison, Del Bausch and Ruthe Ridder.
A complete list of sponsors will be presented /
in the February 16 Newsletter.
As promised, the list of 27 sponsors of the House Masters Degree Bill follows: Scott
Blair, Dan Grimm, Alan Thompson, Bill Burns, Delores Teutsch, Claude Oliver, Shirley Galloway,
Denny Heck, Mike Kreidler, Ron Keller, Brad Owen, Bill Fuller, Georgette Valle, Mike McGinnis,
Al Bauer Dick King, Hal Zimmerman, Jim Salatino, Bob Williams, John Erak, Rod Chandler, Irv
Newhouse, Donn Charnley, Ted Haley, Paul Pruitt, Frank Warnke and Ray Isaacson.
TUITION RECIPROCITY PASSED
In other recent action pertaining to higher education, the House Higher Education Committee
heard three bills pertaining to tuition reciprocity between Oregon and Washington in the
Portland area, service and activity guidelines, and tuition waivers for staff and faculty. The
committee passed the reciprocity measure, House Bill 226,providing that residents of Oregon
may pay in-state tuition at community colleges and the Evergreen-Vancouver program and that
residents of Washington counties adjoining the Columbia River near Portland and in Walla Walla
may pay resident tuition at Oregon schools in adjacent counties, including Portland State
University. The Service and Activity fee bill was also approved, but not until an amendment
had been added requiring Boards of Trustees to insure that programs devoted to political or
economic :topics present a spectrum of ideas. The tuition waiver for staff and faculty was
passed providing for waivers of tuition for staff and faculty on a space available basis.
Finally, the Senate on January 31 was scheduled to consider a bill providing for collective
bargaining for faculty members at the state's four-year public institutions. The measure
is very similar to the 1977 Senate version on faculty collective bargaining.
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Wednesday, February 7. The next issue of the Newsletter goes to press at noon on
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