The Evergreen State College Newsletter (October 1, 1980)

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The Evergreen State College
October 31, 1980

finally off the press
"COLLABORATIONS" BEGINS NATION-WIDE DISTRIBUTION THIS WEEK
By Judy McNickle, Director of Information Services

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The results of ten months work by more than two dozen Evergreen students, faculty and staff
finally came off the press last week. Aptly called "Collaborations," the double disk, long-playing record album offers an array of professional quality music composed, performed, recorded and
engineered by a student team who this week have begun distributing their project to music and
record stores throughout Western Washington --- and to radio stations throughout the United States
The album was first conceived last fall by students enrolled in the year-long "Making Music"
academic program who wanted to "compose and perform original music spanning the wide spectrum of
American musical traditions," according to veteran music student performer Thorn Farris of
Kennewick.
-"By the end of last Fall Quarter, we decided we could pull all our resources together and
record, promote and distribute our own record album --- one that would represent the best of
ent talent and would serve as a showcase for what's possible in music studies at Evergreen,"
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The idea of producing such an album has "been around the college for years," according to
faculty musician Dr. David Englert, whose background in music composition made him invaluable to
the student record team. What made that long-enduring idea suddenly seem possible last year, he
explains, was the availability of college equipment and the commitment of more than two dozen
students.
"We have on campus five recording studios, including one equipped with a 16-track recorder
that is considered state-of-the-art in audio technology," he notes. "We also had some 24 students
seriously interested in musical composition --- and an academic system that permits those students
to concentrate 100 percent of their time to music studies, rather than dividing their efforts
:1mong a variety of academic disciPlines."
What had been previously lacking, adds Karen Farris, a Shelton student who married Thorn after
coming to Evergreen, was a faculty member willing to help students "glean the most from the
college's recording facilities." When Englert came to Evergreen last fall as a visiting professor
students decided, says Karen, to "go for it" --- to create their own album. Their decision was
one that's taken far longer to implement than the ambit~ous young team ever imagined.
DEVELOPING PATIENCE --- A KEY PART OF THE PROCESS
"We've run into an interesting array of problems," admit both the Farrises, who have served
as student spokespersons for the musical production. "From the time we first plastered the
campus with signs to recruit original student work until this week when we finally got our hands
on the finished project, we've all had a chance to learn a lot about the recording industry and
about developing patience," they grin.
Their first efforts became visible last February when they sought to recruit original campoions written and performed by students, and original artwork, also by students, to adorn their
urn cover. In less than a month they gathered more than 80 musical entries, which a ten-studen ·
group called "the album committee" then began to review.
"l~e wanted to be sure we had a wide variety of music appropriate for both M-1 and n1 radio
stations," Thorn recalls. "So, we grouped entries into broad categories ---AM popular, country/
folk, jazz, contemporary rock, classical, orchestral and avant-garde · -- and we chose the best
from each." As part of that selection, students also sought to highlight work by graduating

seniors who might ne~er again have the chance to record their own creations.
. Once the select1ons .wPre narrowed down to 23, the real work began: recording the compositlons letter perfect, us1ng student performers and engineers, with staff and faculty support
college recording studios.
After three hectic weeks of recording, tapes were sent for pressing to Pandora Records in
Seattle. ~~~~e chose that small company because its owners promised to let us actually help them
with the pressing process,'' explains Karen. She, her husband, and several other students devoted
five full evenings to cutting the four sides of "Collaborations" in Pandora's small studio.
For the majority of students, the work ended right there. But the Farris duo were soon to
discover the i r tasks had only just begun. They vulunteered to oversee final production of the
record, which they thought was nearly accomplished, and they agreed to devote their summer to
marketing Evergreen's first record album, a process they had gained experience in by releasing
and promoting their own first single, an instrumental called "Initial Changes" issued earlier
last year.
"Collaborations," they were promised, would be off the presses by graduation in June, which
would mean the young marketing team could devote early summer to promotion, then go on to their
new post-graduate lives. As might be expected, all systems did not go so smoothly.
"The records came back from pressing--- and the quality just wasn't good enough," Thorn
remembers. "Our student engineers really wanted that album to be a show piece and it just didn't
meet their expectations. So, they decided to repress the album. But the studio in which the
pressing was to be redone was undergoing extensive remodeling, so repressing absorbed the entire
summer and was finally just completed the first of October.
That left the Farrises with no product to market during the first summer as graduates. In ar
industrious style that has become typical for both, they readily decided to spend their unexpectec
spare time "building a little log cabin" in West Olympia "so we'd have some place cheap to live
in this fall while we promoted the album."
They completed an efficient, 300-square-foot cabin on wooded acreage and waited. To keep
in touch with their project, they wrote non-commercial radio stations throughout the country,
asking them if "when the record is ready" they'd like to receive a free copy. They contacted
news media representatives, record store owners, college music department heads, and anyone e
who seemed a likely prospect for listening to and/or promoting the album.
So, last week when work finally came that the records --- all IDOO nearly perfect copies --were ready, the Farrises were already in second gear, lists of station appointments and record
store addresses in hand.
This week they've hit the western Washington market, traveling throughout the Puget Sound
area, delivering records, talking to store owners, meeting with radio station managers, conducting interviews with the press. At the same time, they're preparing to mail 50 copies out of
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"We've heard from radio stations all across the nation," Thorn notes. "We'll soon be getting
air play from New York City to Philadelphia, New Jersey to Green Bay, Albuquerque to New Orleans
--in nearly every corner of the country." Nearly all the stations are affiliated with colleges
and are non-commercial, which Thorn quickly points out, "doesn't mean they're small. One station
in New York City has more than one million listeners," he enthuses --- I can't wait to hear their
reaction.
"Our first priority," Thorn adds, "is to get radio air time. ~~e want the public to hear and
enjoy our work."
But the two also want potential Evergreen students to hear what's possible at their alma
mater.
"We've worked with the college admissions director to target high school and community
colleges that are part of Evergreen's academic service area," explains Karen. "We think this
album will demonstrate more ably than any catalog exactly what caliber of study opportunities
available at Evergreen for students interested in music."
The album, which is already attracting interest from major record companies on both coasts,
serves an additional purpose for the half dozen students who have recently graduated from Evergreen.
"It's become an important part of our· resume." notes Thorn . "We can use it to demonstrate

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what we•ve learned at Evergreen to potential employers, to record companies, even to graduate
schools. It may just give us an edge in the highly competitive music business...
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If as a bonus to all their efforts, the album generates revenue, students say the money
ll go into a special Evergreen fund earmarked for future record albums ... We have first to pay
back $2,000 in seed money we borrowed from the Evergreen Foundation and f~om the President·~
Contingency Fund, .. says Thorn.
Then we hope to give the second album proJect team the rema1nder
of the money for their new efforts.
Those efforts --- to produce a second 11 Collaborations 11 album --- have already begun. Students
Dan Crow and Carol Howell are already seeking entries of musical and artistic material by December
~Live audit1ons will be conducted that first week of December and the whole collaborative
effort will begin anew --- hopefully, say the Farrises, continuing a tradition that Evergreen
musical students will 11 Carry on 11 for years to come.
Copies of the first .. Collaborations .. are on sale now in the Bookstore for $6 each.
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FOUNDATION ELECTS HOWE CHAIRMAN, SELECTS NEW MEMBERS
The Evergreen Foundation Board last week elected Walter C. Howe, Jr. of Bellevue as its
chairman for 1980-81. Howe, who serves as vice president for-government relations for the
Weyerhaeuser Company, will head the 25-member Board of Governors, whose goal is to attract private
gift support from individuals, corporations and foundations to help meet vital needs and programs
at Evergreen, according to Development Director Sue Washburn.
Philip Swain of Seattle, director of educational relations, training and development for
the Boeing Company, was elected vice chairman. Reelected to the positions of secretary and
treasurer were Joan K. Thomas, of Seattle, chairwoman ~f the State Board of Tax Appeals, and
John~· Murray of Seattle, president of Murray Publishing Company, respectively.
Walter Williams, Seattle, president of Continental Inc., and Hal Wolf, owner of Wolf•s ShopRite Food Center in Yelm, were elected to serve their second terms-on ~board. Newly elected
three-year terms were: Aldan Bell, associate dean for continuing education at the University
Washington;~ Meredith, Olympia, owner of Meredith•s Hallmark shops and former trustee;
hristina Meserve, an Olympia attorney with Cullen, Holm,Hoglund and Foster and first president
of the Evergreen Alumni Association; Janet Smith, a Tacoma consultant and former press secretary
to Governor Ray; David Wagoner, a Seattle attorney with Perkins, Coie, Stone and Williams and
former president of the Seattle School Board, and Marty Wilson, a Bothel communications and education consultant and former education director for KOMO radio and television.
Retiring from the Board were l· Evans Wyckoff, president of the Johnny Appleseed Company of
Seattle and Jane Sylvester, a Seattle member of the College•s Board of Trustees. H. Eugene Hall,
a Bellevue pathologist, resigned in July due to conflicting time commitments.
---Continuing on the Board are: Katherine M. Bullitt of Seattle, Norm N. Calvo, Seattle, senior
vice president of Hill and Knowlton, Inc . ; Deborah ~reveling, handicap recreation coordinator
for Thurston County Parks & Recreation in Olympia; Pat Emerson of the University of Washington•s
·South Asia Studies Office; Fred Goldberg, president of Olympia•s Goldberg Furniture and Fred I·
Haley, president and chairman of Tacoma•s Brown and Haiey. Also continuing are: George Kinnear,
Mercer Island attorney; Isabelle Lamb OT Hoquiam, assistant to the chairman of Enterprises International; John McKibbin, Clark County Commissioner; Dennis H. Peterson, Olympia vice president,
Foster &Marshall, and outgoing chairman of the Foundation;-and Mary Stevenson 'Jf SDS Lumber
Company in White Salmon.
The Foundation Board also welcomed Olympian Joe Dear, who serves on the board as the newly
elected president of the Evergreen Alumni Association and Wes Berglund of Aberdeen, who, as
chairman of the College•s Board of Trustees, sits with the-rDundation as an ex-officio member.
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CHARLEY 1 S AUNT 11 PLAY CAST

A ten-member cast has begun rehearsals for the Fall Quarter production of Charley•s Aunt ..
be staged in the continuing Evergreen Expressions performing arts series on December 4-7 and
1-14.
The play, directed by Evergreen faculty member Andre Tsai, will feature an all-Evergreen
cast who seek to bring to life the popular, humerous Brandon Thomas tale first produced in
London•s Royalty Theatre in 1892. It tells of the misdeeds of two college men who seek to impersonate a rich aunt and quickly become entangled in their own rleceptions.
Named to the cast are students Tim Streeter, David Logan, John Mallaham, Lewis Pratt, Ben
Fuchs, Jane Sievert, Joe Winslow and Mary~ Parr, along with faculty member~ Patterson, and
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Evergreen costumer Ruth Palmerlee.
The productions:-fo be staged in eight evening shows in the Experimental Theater of the
Communications Building, are the third major presentation of the Evergreen Expressions series
w~ich is.cosponsored by POSSCA (Patrons of South Sound Cultural Arts) and the Evergreen Found~
t1o~ . . T1ckets are on s~le n~w . at the Bookstore and Yenney's Music in West Olympia for $4 general
adm1ss1on or $2 for sen1or c1t1zens and students. Reservations may be made by calling 866-6070
weekdays during regular working hours.
upcoming events
NICHOLS TO RECOUNT EVERGREEN'S FIRST DECADE
Dick Nichols, a man immediately recognized in Thurston County for his rapid-fire radio sports
broadcasts and his vintage crew cut, headlines the tenth anniversary luncheon of the Evergreen
College Community Organization (ECCO) as its keynote speaker Friday, November 14. Nichols, who
served for eight years as the founding director of Evergreen's Information Services, will offer
"A Hi story of Evergreen: Mud, t~emori es and Meanderi ngs," in his address, set to begin shortly
after noon November 14 at the Westwater Inn.
The Friday luncheon will honor all past cochairwomen and founding members of the ECCO board
who first convened in October of 1970 to forge a link between the new state college and its home
community. Contributions by those early ECCO founders will be acknowledged in brief remarks
Friday by Evergreen's founding President Charles~· M~ann,who currently serves on the college
faculty.
Hired as Evergreen's first public relations director in 1968, Nichols brought to the as yet
unopened college a thorough knowledge of the school's surrounding community. A former news and
sports director for KGY radio and past sports editor of the Daily Olympian, Nichols immediately
assumed the role of "community buffer between town and gown. "I felt it was my job to help this
community --- and the state as a whole --- understand what Charles and the original Evergreen
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were trying to create," Nichols remembers. "I urgently wanted to represent the most positive
of Evergreen to a community which at the time wasn't quite ready for what we were planning."
The challenge of creating Evergreen --- the first and only four-year state college to be
opened in the twentieth century --- kept the always-in-motion Nichols on his toes. He vividly
remembers the college's first official news conference with the Capitol City Press Corps. As
~1cCann carefully sought to explain what Evergreen was "not going to be" and what he hoped the new
college would become, someone asked how the new president felt about campus unrest --- a popular
topic in the late 1960s.
"Charles quietly noted that 'a campus without any unrest probably doesn't have much going
on', which, said Nichols "was immediately interpreted to mean that we approved of campus demonstra
tions.
Oh, yes," the public relations veteran laughs, "trying to get this college accepted before it even opened was challenging, but fun."
After eight years as Evergreen's chief spokesman --- and as its single most visible employee,
Nichols says, "I burned out.
I felt so intensely and loyally committed to convincing the public
about the good things we were doing that I took every siur on the college personally--- as if
I just hadn't done my job well enough."
Nichols, who left the college four years ago to become assistant to Tumwater School Superintendent Jim Pill, says he "still feels bad about not being able to clear up peo~le's misconceptfun~
about Evergreen." But the man named Thurston County's Citizen of the Year two years ago says he
remains "delighted to have been a part of Evergreen's early years and dedicated to continuing to
serve as one of its strongest community supporters."
Now an official member of Evergreen's newly created athletic booster group, Nichols says
he ' ll share his memories of Evergreen's birth and his reflections of the changes and challenges
the college has endured in his noon talk, for which reservations may be made before November 10
by calling 866-6128 or 866-6363 weekdays during regular working hours.
Cost of the ECCO luncheon is $5. 25, payable at the door of the Westwater's Fir room.
'FINAL' POLITICAL FORUM SET MONDAY
The Evergreen Political Information Center (EPIC) will stage what's billed as "yet another
political forum" Monday, November 3, beginning at 7:30 on the second floor of the Evans Library.
Representatives from six political parties (including Citizens, Independent, Libertarian, Social-

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ist Workers, Democratic and Republican) will discuss both their parties• platform and current
presidential nominee. Admission is free.
COALITION PRESENTS

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE S DAY NOVEMBER 10
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Native North American, Native South American, Native Hawaiian and African music will be
featured in a six-hour celebration of .. Indigenous People•s Day .. set for Monday, November 10 at
Evergreen. Sponsored by the Third World Coalition and a number of Third World student groups
to honor all native peoples of the United States, the event begins at noon on the second floor
lobby of the Evans Library with an opening blessing by Roberto Maestas, director of El Centr~.
de la Raza, a Seattle Chicano social services center, and .. Auntie .. Rosemond Aha, a local Hawanan
activist and hula instructor from Tacoma.
Dual programs will be presented at 1 p.m.: a Lecture Hall One showing of the controversial
film, .. Salt of the Earth, .. depicting the struggles of Chicano mine workers; and a Library lobby
presentation on the Hawaiian Land Rights Movement by Mrs. Aho. She•11 be joined by her husband,
Kaimi Aho, and Tacomans Emmalani Baker and Maile Baker as she also presents a workshop and demonstration on ••Hawaiian history as expressed through hula and chants ...
Two presentations will also be offered at a p.m.: a discussion in Lecture Hall Five on
.. Native Americans in Media, .. by Phil Lucas, a Seattle resident who was recently directed the
Public Broadcasting System•s mini-series .. Images of Indians; .. and a Library lobby presentation of
.. Hawaiian Music: Yesterday and Today, .. by the Aloha Experience, with musicians Pika Tabali,
Kavika Tabali and Kaeha Baker, all of Tacoma.
The Seattle-based Los De Rio Trio performs an hour-long concert of Native South American
Indian and Mexican music from 3-4 p.m. in the library, followed by a concert of African marimba
music by Dumi Maraire and his eight-piece Seattle band. The celebration concludes with a 5 p.m.
concert Monday in the 1i bra ry featuring ··t~i nterhawk, a a five-member band which presents a b1end
of contemporary and Native American Indian music.
Admission to all .. Indigenous People•s Day .. activities is free and open to the public.
COMEDY SHOW APPEARS HERE VETERANS• DAY
The .. Northwest Comedy Showcase .. brings three hours of comedy, music, and improvisational
theater to an Evergreen stage for one performance only Tuesday, November 11.
The seven-act production, produced by Joe Davis as a road show for his Seattle Comedy Showcase staged last January, promises the best among Pacific Northwest semi-professional entertainers .. who have been appear:ing regularly in local clubs and restaurants.
The Evergreen show, which begins at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the second floor lobby of the Evans
Library opens to the talents of Texan Ray Ashby, a dramatic entertainer whose musical gamut runs
from boisterous and bawdy to gently and loving. Andy Stamatin, a New England comedian, presents
a monologue and what he calls Visual character impersonations, .. followed by the premiere Showcase performance of Evergreen student comic Steve Smith, who promises a ten-minute 1augh break. ••
Five veteran Seattle actors will then stage a 50-minute improvisational theater presentation
called Play It ~1here It Lays.••
t·1ichelle Booudry headlines the second half of the production with her original musical
comedy, which she has frequently performed on the Seattle nightclub circuit. The show concludes
with two 15-minute acts: the first featuring Olympia comedian Dave Parsons, who took second
place in the 1980 Seattle Comedy Competition; and the second featuring French Canadian performer
P-ay Bonneville, who sings the blues and accompanies himself on guitar and harmonica.
Tickets to the three-hour comedy variety show are on sale now at the Evergreen Bookstore,
the College Information Center, Budget Tapes and Records in downtown Olympia and Yenney•s Music
in ~~est Olympia. Tickets will also be sold November 11 at the cioor of the Library. Cost is $3
general admission or $2.50 for students and senior citizens.
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WEST SUBJECT OF FEMINIST TRIBUTE• NOVEMBER 11
Mae vJest, the bawdy,
boisterous, buxom blonde who made early film history with her classic
line, ••come up and see me some time .. will be honored in a feminist tribute by Evergreen students
and faculty on Tuesday, November 11, at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Communications Building.
The octogenarian film star, who acted, directeq, wrote and prodused voluminously in Hollywood•s early years, will be honored with a reshowing of her first movie, .. She Done Him Wrong, ..
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d1scuss1ons on West s contr1but1ons to the f1lm 1ndustry --- and to American culture --- by four
Evergreen faculty women and student performer Sunshine Roze, who•11 stage a monologue from one
of ~1iss West•s plays.
-The free evening program features presentations by Evergreen faculty dramatist Ainara Wilder
on the influence of Mae West on American musical theater; faculty filmmaker Sallv Cloninger
on the filmography of Mae West; costume designer Ruth Palmerlee on Miss West-rs-ninfluence on
costuming and the female figure, and faculty anthropologist Lynn Patterson on t1ae West to Lilly
Tomlin: the cultural challenge of role reversal and female impersonation.~~
The Tuesday night tribute concludes with presentation of ••an outrageous prize for the
best Mae West look-a-like.
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UNION REPRESENTATIVE TO SPEAK HERE NOVEMBER 7
Elsie Schroeder, a representative of the Washington Federation of State Employees, will be
on campus Friday, November 7 to present a noon discussion in the Recital Hall of the Communications
Building. Schroeder has been invited here by Communications Building Manager Richard Nesbitt
to outline for college employees the possibilities for joining the state-wide employees union.
Since the recent riffing of two campus employees, I've become concerned that a number of
Evergreeners are working in an atmosphere of fear --- they•re afraid they•11 be the next ones
fired, says Nesbitt.
1 thought it might help them to discuss the benefits and potential for
belonging to a union organization.
Persons interested in the topic, but unable to attend Friday•s open meeting are encouraged
to contact Nesbitt at 866-6070 (Communications Buildina room 324).
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NEW EXHIBITS OPEN SATURDAY
Two new art exhibits, both featuring works by Pacific Northwest photographers, will open in
Evergreen's galleries tomorrow.
Regi ona 1 artists wi 11 be featured in New Northwest Photography," a show curated by Everg
Faculty Member Dr. Kirk Thompson and opening in Gallery Two on the second floor of the Evans
Library, Bl~kand white and color photographs will illustrate four major groups of images created ·
in the past year by artists Michael Burns, who focuses on large scale Seattle architecture;
Ford Gilbreath, a former Evergreen staff photographer who recently completed a Seattle Arts
Commission grant with his series of hand-colored Bus Photographs; Terry Toedtemeier, a Portland
artist who has completed a survey of early Northwest landscape photography; and Carolyn Tucker,
a University of Washington graduate student who combines photography and painting in her creations.
The Gallery Two show will be displayed in conjunction with a three-day meeting November
7-9 at Evergreen of the Northwest chapter of the Society for Photographic Education, which seeks
to promote communication among photographic teachers and students in Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana and British Columbia. Evergreen student photographers are welcome to join the group
at the gallery opening November 7 from 7-9 p.m. in Library 2300, and to attend talks on Northwest photography November 8 from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in CAB 110.
Opening in Gallery Four on the fourth floor of the Evans Library is a show comprised of
more than 40 photographs offering an Evergreen Retrospective," of selections by nearly a dozen
college staff, students and graduat~s. The exhibit, collected by photography taacher Craig
Hickman, will include works taken during the past nine years at Evergreen by staff artists Ford
Gilbreath and Tracy Hamby, and Evergreen a1urns t~i chae 1 Cohen, Stu Til ger, Larry Shl i m, Bob l.iill.·
Dick Park, Bonnie Moonchild and Marcia Hanson.
----Both exhibits, which remain on view through November 30, are free and open to the public.
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KAOS FORUMS PRESENT 0 •NEIL ON THURSTON COUNTY GRmHH
Barbara o•Neil, executive director of the Thurston County Urban League, will examine the
"implications of Thurston County•s rapid growth rate in the third of a six-part public forum
offered Tuesday, November 4 at noon in the College Activities Building, room 306. Sponsored by
Evergreen Campus Ministry and FM radio station KAOS, the series seeks to explore "the problems,
opportunities and changes" coming into Thurston County as a result of its rapid growth rate.
Coordinated by Reverend Jim Symons of the Community for Christian Celebration, the series will
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continue for three more weeks in November with the following speakers:
November 11, Thuy Vu, Chairman of the Vietnamese Mutual Aid Association;
November 18, Paul Majkut, president of Allied Neighborhood Association, and Larry Blackerby,
ident of Thurston County Regional Land Use Federation; and
November 25, Olympia Mayor Lyle Watson.
The public is invited to each of the forums, which will also be broadcast live over KAOS FM
radio (89.3).
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ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS TO SPEAK AT TYEE NOVEMBER 11

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a physician and author who is considered the foremost international ~
authority on death and dying, will offer a public talk Tuesday, November 11 beginning at 8 p.m.
at the Vance Tyee Motor Inn in Tumwater. Her talk, which is sponsored by Adult Day Services, a
non-profit United Way agency, will include discussion on such topics as recognizing the needs of
the terminally ill and of the family, dealing with sudden death, completing unfinished business,
and perceiving death as a transition.
Tickets for a combined dinner and talk are $15; admission to her talk only is $8. All tick&s
must be purchased in advance through Word of ~Iouth Bookstore, Pat's Bookery, or Adult Day Services,
on the corner of Harrison and Percival.
RECYCLING PROGRAM BEGINS ANEW
Recycling collection points have been earmarked on the floor of each college residence hall
and in a shed near the modular housing units this fall. Collection bins are available for beer
bottles, aluminum cans (which don't have seams), t.v. dinner trays, newsprint and computer paper.
Money from the collection will go toward the housing budget to purchase such things as pool
tables, game supplies, and other fun-producing items. Questions about what to recycle where may
be directed to 866-6114.
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Students interested in serving in one of 15 positions reserved for them on the Evergreen
Council are invited to sign up in the Services and Activities Fees Review Board Office, in room
305 of the College Activities Building. The Council, designed to serve as both a "watch dog"
of college governance actions and a forum for discussion and advice on issues affecting Evergreen,
is comprised of 30 representatives: 15 students, five classified staff, fi~ faculty members and
five exempt staff. The council will meet every other Wednesday throughout the regular academic
year. Find out details in CAB 305.
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TRUSTEES SET NOVEMBER 13 MEETING
Evergr·een's Board of Trustees will meet Thursday, November 13 at 10:30 a.m. in Library 3112
to consider·, among other agenda items, a revision to the policy defining the financial obligation
of students related to payment of late fees. A hearing on that policy is set for precisely
11 a.m. Thursday and all persons interested in testifying may submit their views in writing or
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Faculty Member Earle McNeil was notified Wednesday that he is among several Olympia-area
artists and craftspersons whose works have bee~ selected for an exhibit and sale at the State -~f
Capitol Museum beginning tomorrow, November 1. McNeil says his work, which includes wood
sculpture, plates, bowls and a game table, will remain on public view at the Museum through
er 9.
Pearl Vincent, assistant to Provost Byron Youtz, is still home recovering from a fall she
took October 17 which led to a badly broken elbow. Scheduled tobe fitted with "a working cast" ~.c
this week, Vincent hopes to be back to work within the next week or two.
Student Amy Shapiro has accepted a one-year appointment to serve as a student member of the
Campus Hear·ing Board. Her term, effective immediately, continues through September. Other
members of that board this year include faculty member Duke Kueh~ and staffer Judy Lindlauf.

October 27, 1980
... EVANS LEADS HIGHER EDUCATION 11 INFORMATION CAMPAIGN 11 ON 11 FINANCIAL CRISIS ... The threat of a
12 percent budget cut --- coupled with the recent cuts of five percent from this year's operating budgets --- has prompted Evergreen President Dan Evans and the Council of Presidents to
launch an 11 information campaign .. to 11 bring forcefully to the attention of the political leadership ... and the public the kinds of choices that we believe confront this state." Evans, in a
press conference with three other state university presidents earlier this month, called the
financial situation facing higher education 11 extremely serious," declaring it could prompt a
cut in enrollment at the four-year schools of "as many as 11 ,000 students a reduction of more
than 900 faculty and 1000 staff in the next biennium ... Those figures, Evans said, are in
addition to cuts which may force the 26-school community college system to reduce student enrollment by as many as 35,000, which would mean that more than 46,000 students seeking higher education in the next biennium would have to go outside the state system.
Evans and the Council have called for budgets equal to those of the current biennium, plus
increases for inflation and enrollment growth. In addition, the presidents have asked for
special increases for 11 crucial 11 educational needs, such as computers, instructional equipment
and new programs. And, they've urgently requested faculty salary increases of 24.8 percent for
1981-82 and 14.7 percent for 1982-83. They've capsulized their proposal in a newly released
-page brochure paid for by common alumni and friends organizations and distributed it to
legislative candidates, higher education alums, friends, students and faculty. They've also
a
to continue meeting to advance their common information campaign and to explore additional
ways they can combine forces with representatives of the community college system. And, they've
promised to share their message with civic and service organizations throughout their educational service areas.
Their efforts, according to one campus official, may just be the first time all of the
state higher education system's segments have been united on a single cause--- financial
survival .
.. . NATIONAL COLUMNIST TO SPEAK HERE DECEMBER 1 ... David Broder, a national syndicated columnist
for the Washington Post, will headline Evergreen's first Fall Symposium Monday, December 1, with
a free public address set to begin at 8 p.m. in the Evans Library. Broder, author of the
recently released book, Changing of the Guard, will discuss media and its influence on public
policy in his talk, which is also expected to include references to his views on the new shifts
in American political leadership. Broder will also meet with students and faculty at Evergreen
December 2 in both an open panel discussion and a smaller seminar session .
.. . NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PLANNED NEXT FALL ... A national conference on
.. alternative higher education in the United States" will be conducted at Evergreen next fall,
according to its organizers, Academic Dean · Barbara Smith and Faculty Member Richard Jones. The
confab, set September 8-10, will seek to bring together representatives from colleges, universities and foundations that 11 Were actively engaged in the various experiments in American
higher education initiated in the 1960s and 1970s, 11 Dr. Jones reports.
Purpose of the three-day event will be to 11 articulate the legacy of this distinctive period
of ferment in American experimental higher education and to assess its relevance for the 1980s,"
Jones adds. He and Smith have issued a national "call for papers" seeking participants who
explore the successful and unsuccessful innovations developed in the past two decades.
They'll seek to discover the circumstances, conditions and historical influences which favored
or undermined those innovations, and to determine "how we can enlist these answers to help
meet the challenges of the 1980s," Dr. Jones concludes.

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... CAL TJADER CONCERT TO BE DELAYED 30 MINUTES FOR PRE~IDENTIAL DEBATE ... The Cal Tjader jazz
concert, originally set to begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 28, will begin 30 minutes later
due to the scheduling of the presidential debate, according to campus arts coordinator Richard
Nesbitt. Presidential contenders Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan are set to debate from 6:30-8
Tuesdays night, so the Tjader concert will begin at 8:30 p.m. in the Experimental Theater of
the Communications Building. Tickets for the one-night-only show by the jazz giant and his
sextet are on sale now at $5 each at Yenney•s Music in West Olympia and the Evergreen Bookstore
Reservations may be made by calling 866-6070 .
... STROH PRESENTS MT. ST. HELENS
a geologist who has l ong studied
a slide/talk on Volcanology and
at the Olympia Community Center,
on the mountain, is appearing as
and open to the publ i c .
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SLIDE/TALK TONIGHT ... Evergreen faculty member Dr. Jim St
the intricacies of the Cascade Mountain Range, wiFpresent
Mount Saint Helens, Monday, October 27, beginning at 7 p.m.
1314 East 4th. Dr. Stroh, who has slides of recent eruptions
part of the Sierra Club•s general meeting, w!1ich is free
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... NEW PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWS OPEN NOV. 1.. . Two new art exhibits, both featuring works by local
photographers, will open in Evergreen•s galleries Saturday, November 1. Exhibits Coordinator
Sid White says Gallery T1.v0 (Library 2300) will offer a collection called 11 Ne\v Northwest Photography,11 featuring black and while and color photography by regional artists. The show has been
collected by Faculty Member Kirk Thompson. Gallery Four (Library 4002) will display a Retrospectiven o f- EVergreen pfio ograpny tal<en 1n lie past nine years y s a , acu ty an stu en
artists. That show, available for viewing weekdays between noon and 6 p.m. and Saturdays and
Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m., has been gathered by staff photographer Craig Hickman. Both
exhibits are free and open to the public through Sunday, November 30 .
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. .. KAOS TO CELEBRATE WITH THREE-DAY BLITZ ... Community radio station KAOS will commemorate its
recent power increase this \veekend with a three-day festival of 0ldies, rhythm and blues, and
soul music.
The broadcasts, which begin October 31 at 83.3 FM, will feature a special Halloween show of Edgar Allen Poe•s The Tell Tale Heart, from 9-10 Friday night, followed by a
Saturday filled with trivia contests (7-9 p.m . ), rockabilly (10 p.m.-midnight), and what•s
loosely called psychedelic rnusic 11 on into the early hours of Sunday. The three-day broadcast
concludes \'lith a 4-7 p.m. Sunday show offering sounds of Pacific Northwest bands and specials
featuring the British Invasion, surf music and Motown soul.
The FM station will also present a weekly series of public discussions on 11 implicatio
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Thurston County•s rapid growth rate.
The open forums will be conducted on Tuesdays at noo n
room 306 of the College Activities Building. October 28 features a talk by \-lashington State
Chief Just i ce Robert Utter, who will be followed on November 4 by Barbara o•Neil, executive
director of the Thurston County Urban League.
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The Evergreen State College

October 24, 1980
united front
EVANS LEADS HIGHER EDUCATION

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lNFORMATION CAMPAIGN 11 ON

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FINANCIAL CRISIS 11

The threat of a 12 percent budget cut --- coupled with the recent cuts of five percent from
this year•s operating budget --- has prompted Evergreen President Dan Evans and the Council of
Presidents to launch an 11 information campaign 11 to 11 bring forcefully to the attention of the
political leadership ... and the public the kinds of choices that we believe confront this state.~~
Evans, in a press conference with three other state college and university presidents earlier
this month, called the financial situation facing higher education 11 extremely serious, 11 declaring
it could prompt a cut in enrollment at the four-year schools of lias many as 11,000 students, a
reduction of more than 900 faculty and 1000 staff in the next biennium. 11
Those figures, Evans said, are in addition to cuts which may force the 26-school community
college system to reduce student enrollment by as many as 35,000, which would mean that more than
46,000 students seeking higher education in the next biennium would have to go outside the state
system.
FINANCIAL CUPBOARDS CLEANED OUT
Combining forces for the first time in recent memory, Evans and the presidents of Hestern,
Central and
the University of Washington declared jointly that recent budget cuts totalling five
percent 11 Cleaned out any cupboards the colleges and universities might have had financially and
left us operating with no reserves. 11 Unless relief is given, they noted, many academic programs
will be eliminated, Summer Quarter sessions may be cut, and the educational quality of Washington•s
higher education system will be reduced.
In a recent interview on campus, Evans said he recognized that the state•s resources --especially tax dollars --- will be in short supply and high demand when the next legislative
session begins in January. Despite that prediction, he expressed optimism that 11 a good case 11 can
be made for continued strong financial support for higher education.
As current chairman of the Council of Presidents, which represents the heads of all six state
supported four-year schools, Evans said he 1 ll be quick to point out that 11 Washington state now
ranks second in the nation in the percentage of its population involved in higher education. We
also rank sixth in per capita income. And, I believe there•s a strong correlation between those
two --- between a strong and healthy economy~ (one that has a productive work force) and one that
has a 11 good system of higher education.
If the legislature,
by
accident
or
on
purpose,
starts to tear down our high quality educational system, 11 he warned, 11 We 1 ll quickly see the results in a reduced economy ...
One of the .. major challenges in the next year, 11 he said, is to make that case for higher
education to every legislator with whom he can meet. At each opportunity, he vowed to discuss
the combination of unique elements that make Washington•s system of higher education so special.
uwe have an excellent research institution in the University of l·Jashington, a fine · land
grant university in Washington State University, three superb regional universities in Eastern
Western and Central, and Evergreen, which has secured a national reputation for its innovative
approach. In addition, 11 he pointed out, 11 We have the sixth largest community college system in
untry in terms of student enrollment.
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That•s why vJashington•s at the top nationally, both in percent of persons enrolled in higher
education and in measured productivity, which in a recent study is more than 20 percent above the
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EDUCATION:

"A SOUND INVESTMENT"

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Arguing that higher education is "a sound investment in ~Jashington's future " Evans noted
that the Council of Presidents was "not trying to prescribe state policies" or t~ advocate
financing four-year higher education at the expense of the community colleges or the public
(kindergarten through 12th grade) schools. "We must measure the total needs of the state and
then make some choices," Evans said. "I don't think we ought to be competitive."
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University of \~ashington President Hilliam Gerberding, who joined Evans at the press confer
ence, said he felt faculty salaries were the most serious aspect of the funding crisis.
"Faculty salaries at the current levels simply are unacceptable to higher education in this
state," he declared. Calling the proposed "target budget" an "educational disaster," Gerberding
argued for the COP's joint proposal for a 24.8 percent faculty salary increase for the 1981-82
fiscal year, to be followed by a 14.7 increase in the following year.
The COP has also called for budgets equal to that of the current biennium, plus increases
for inflation and enrollment growth. In addition, the presidents have asked for special increas(
for "crucial" educational needs, such as computers, instructional equipment and new programs.
They've capsulized their proposal in a newly released 15-page brochure paid for by the joint
alumni and friends organizations and distributed to all legislative candidates, higher education
alums, friends, students and faculty. They've also agreed to continue meeting to advance their
common information campaign and to explore additional ways they can combine forces with the
representatives of the community college system. And they've promised to share the message with
civic and service organizations within their educational service districts.
Their efforts, according to one campus official, may just be the first time all of the stat ~
higher education system's segments have been united on a single cause --- financial survival.
NATIONAL COLUMNIST TO SPEAK HERE DECEMBER 1
David Broder, a national syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, will headline Evergreen's first Fall Symposium Monday, December 1, with a free public address set to begin at 8 m
in the Evans Library.
Broder, author of the recently released book, Changing of the Guard, will discuss media
and its influence on public policy in his talk, which is also expected to include references to
his views on the new shifts in American political leadership. Broder will also meet with students and faculty December 2 in both an open panel discussion and a smaller seminar session.
His scheduled appearance will kick off what President Dan Evans hopes will be a series
of annual fall symposia.
ALUM ANNE ALDERSON FOUND DEAD
1976 graduate Anne Alderson was found shot and killed in a park in Marin County near San
Francisco on October 15. She had gone alone into the park three days earlier for a hike and a
break from her studies in animal husbandry at the University of California at Davis. Alderson
had recently r·eturned from a tour of service with the Peace Corps in Columbia.
COG IV BEGINS THO-QUARTER EFFORT OCTOBER

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Personnel Director Rita Cooper has called to order the first meeting of a disappearing task
force to review the college's governance document and prepare recommendations for "COG IV" by
the end of Spring Quarter. The meeting, set for 8:30 a.m. \·lednesday, October 29 in Library 3121,
will seek to, says Cooper, "clarify the governance scope of this committee and to delete nonfunctioning aspects of COG III," the college's current governance document. Cooper says she
intends to "poll the campus" to ascertain community feelings on such issues as the role of govern·
ance in disputes ov~r awarding of academic credit, the definition of governance and the functioning of several standing committees, including the Visual Environment Group, the Space DTF, the
Publications Board and the Services and Activities Fees Review Board. Cooper also notes her
personal belief that "the Evergreen Council is a waste of time" and that "we cannot grieve e
problem" in her memo calling to order the 17 persons appointed to the COG IV DTF.
Committee members include: staff \IJalker Allen, Betty Beeman, Judy Lindlauf, Jaccie Trimble
and Bill Zaugg; faculty members John Aik1n, Pris Bowerman, Carolyn Dobbs, t·1argaret Gribskov and

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York Hong; and students Tim Conner, Scott Elliott, Chris Fitzgerald, Ellen Kissman, Randy 12_ and
Larry Stillwell. A trustee yet to be named will also join the DTF.
events
CAL TJADER CONCERT DELAYED 30 MINUTES FOR PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
The Cal Tjader jazz concert, originally set to begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 28, will
begin one half hour later due to the scheduling of the presidential debates, according to camous
arts coodinator Richard Nesbitt. Presidential contenders Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan are
set to debate from 6:30-8
Tuesday night, so the Tjader concert will begin at 8:30 p.m. in
the Experimental Theater of the Communications Building. Tickets for the one-night-only show
by the jazz giant and his sextet are on sale now at $5 each at Yenney's Music and the Evergreen
Bookstore. Reservations may be made by calling 866-6070.
EPIC PLANS DRAFT "TEACH-IN" f·10NDAY
The Evergreen Po 1i ti ca 1 Information Center (EPIC) wi 11 host a "Draft Teach- In" r~onday,
October 27, beginning at 7:30p.m. in Lecture Hall One. The free evening program will feature
speakers on a variety of topics related to the draft. Ample time for discussion and quest ·ionanswer sessions will be scheduled before the group separates to form task forces that will en~ble
persons to become involved in working on the draft through either the Olymp i a Committee Against
Registration and the Draft (OCARD) or the Thurston County Draft Counseling Center. Draft
counselors will also be available to meet with persons of draft age.
STROH PRESENTS t.n. ST. HELENS VOLCANOI.Or.Y SL! nF TALK
Evergreen faculty member Dr. Jim Stroh, a geologist who has long studied the intricacies of
e Cascade Nountain Range, will present a slide talk on "Volcanology and t~1ount Sa int Helens,"
, October 27, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Olympia Community Center, 1314 East 4th. Stroh,
who has slides of recent eruptions on the mountain, is appearing as part of the Sierra Club's
general meeting, which is free and open to the public.
FREE

\~ORKSHOP

SLATED SUNDAY

The ~~ashington ~Jilderness Coalition will offer a free six-hour workshop on '\vilderness and
wild rivers ," Sunday, October 26, beginning at 10 a.m. in room 110 of the College Activit ies
Building. The program, sponsored in part by Evergreen's Environmental Resource Center and a
number of other local environmental groups, will focus geographically on Mount Saint Helens and
the Olympics. Details on the Sunday session are available at 866-6784.
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PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWS OPEN NEXT WEEKEND

Two new art exhibits, both featuring works by local photographers, will open in Evergreen's
galleries Saturday, November 1. Exhibits Coordinator Sid White says Gallery Two (Library 2300)
will offer a collection called "New Northwest Photography," featuring black and white and color
photography by regional artists. The show has been collected by faculty member Kirk Thompson .
Gallery Four (Library 4002) will display a "Retrospective" of Evergreen photography taken in
the past nine years by staff, faculty and student artists. That show, available for viewing
weekdays between noon and 6 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m., has been gathered
by staff photographer and teacher Craig Hickman.
Both exhibits are free and open to the public through Sunday, November 30.

COMPUTER SERVICES INVITES YOU TO VIEW NEW qUARTERS
Van Shafer the newly hired coordinator for academ~c computin~, has this week invite~ all
Evergreeners to stop by Library 2406 and view the extens1ve remodel1ng recen~ly comple~ed 1n
the public computer terminal area. He reports "old walls are gone, new term1nals are 1n, and
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to 9 p.m.~~ Students and faculty seeking more information on academic computer services are also
encouraged to contact Shafer at 866-6232.
sports news
SOCCER SQUADS WINNING IN SWSA
The Evergreen men's soccer team continues to sweep the Southwest l~ashington Soccer Association (S~!SA) league with impressive wins, including a 7-0 victory over Jenney's last Sunday. On
the intercollegiate circuit, the men have played strong games, but to date · have been unable to
score a victory. \·Jhitman edged the Geoducks Sunday in a close contest, ending at 0-1. The men's
team will compete again October 26 in an 11 a.m. contest at Whitman College and October 29 in
a 2 p.m. match at Everett Community College.
The women •s soccer squad is also tops in the S\·JSA 1eague, though they •ve had their troubles
in intercollegiate competition. The women beat the University of Portland 4-3 Saturday, but lost
to UPS on Sunday 0-7. They'll play again October 25 at 11 a.m. at the University of Portland.
RUNNERS FACE FIRST BATTLE TOMORROW
Cross Country track coack garry Neilson will take his men and women runners to Central
\:Jashington University in Ellens urg tomorrow for their first intercollegiate competition.
Neilson, who is bursting with enthusiasm for his new athletic program, predic~ strong individual efforts by his runners, who will be gaining 11 much needed experience .. Saturday, as the
team begins its first season.
~~~Je need to feel like a team--- and we need a little more time to develop, .. says Neilson.
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This meet at Central will launch our intercollegiate competition and we hope it also serves as
the beginning of something big at Evergreen ...
The team has logged five road races and some impressive individual times in preparation
their intercollegiate meets. They'll be set for the next road run, a 10,000 meter women's onl
event slated October 29 beginning at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Evans Library. Entry fee is 50¢.
KAOS CELEBRATES POWER INCREASE WITH THREE-DAY BLITZ
Campus radio station KAOS will commemorate its recent power increase next weekend with a
three-day festival of .. oldies, rhythm and blues, and soul ... The broadcasts, which begin October
31, at 89.3 F~t, will feature a special Halloween show of Edgar Allen Poe's 11 The Tell Tale Heart, ..
from 9-10 Friday night, followed by a Saturday filled with trivia contests (7-9 p.m.), rockabilly
(10 p.m.-midnight), and what's loosely called .. psychedelic, .. on into the early hours of Sunday.
The three-day broadcast concludes with a 4-7 p.m. Sunday night show offering sounds of Pacific
Northwest bands and specials featuring 11 the British Invasion, surf music and ~1otown soul ...
New and veteran listeners are invited to call 866-KAOS for programming information and
details on volunteer service opportunities.
SCHEMERS'SKULDUGGERY STILL SEETHING SILENTLY
t1embers of the Schemers and Dreamers Jubilee planning committee continue to skulk together
to craft their deadly deeds for the tenth anniversary party set for November 14, beginning at
5 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Library. Tickets to the event go on sale Monday in the Cash~ er's Office for a paltry $10, which covers the cost of veal parmesan and spaghetti dinner, wine
and beer refres hments, one hour of .. innovative, alternative .. Evergreen-style entertainment, and
a romping, stomping dance featuring Tex Mitchell &Company.
Persons seeking a more traditional celebration are reminded that members of the Evergreen
allege Community Organization will host a tenth year celebration at noon, also on Friday, No
er ~4 at the Westwater Inn. Founding Infonmation Services Director Dick Nichols and Foundin
:esl den t Char1es McCann wi11 share the speakers' platform for that luncheon for which rese
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October 20, 1980
... FALL ENROLLMENT INCREASE HIGHEST IN THE STATE ... Evergreen's Fall Quarter enrollment is the
highest in the campus's ten-year history--- and our overall increase of 13.8 percent is the
highest reported among Washington's six public colleges and universities, campus officials
reported Wednesday. Registrar Walker Allen says the full-time equivalent count (FTE) is
2,572, topping Evergreen's previous FTE high of 2,536 enrolled in 1974. This year's total
includes 36 new FTE graduate students in the master's degree program in public administration.
But, Allen notes, even without the graduate student total, the new fall count equals Evergreen's
previous undergraduate FTE high of 1974.
Fall head count-~- reflecting the number of individual full and part-time students
shows 2,805, including 40 graduate students, compared to last fall •s total of 2,514 or
the school •s previous high of 2,636 in 1976 .
... MCDERMOTT, SPELLMAN HEADLINE OCT. 25 CANDIDATES FAIR &FORUM ... Gubernatorial candidates
Jim McDermott and John Spellman, U.S. Senate candidate Slade Gorton, and Congressional contenders Don Bonker and Rod Culp are among 30 office seekers who will participate in a sixhour Candidates Fair and Forum scheduled Saturday, October 25 at Evergreen. The event begins
at noon in the lobby of the Evans Library with the first of four forums moderated by KGY
radio News Director Bob Macleod, and concludes with a 4:30-6 p.m. debate featuring those
eking seats in the U.S. Congress and Washington's governship. All candidates for those
~o~itions, except incumbent Senator Warren Magnuson, will participate in the final 90-minute
forum.
Eleven contenders for elective office in Thurston Cocnty launch the first 90-minute
forum Saturday. The second forum, set to begin at 2 p.m., will feature 14 contenders for
seven major state-wide races. A 30-minute debate at 3:15p.m. on Initiative 383, the 11 Don't
Waste Washington .. proposal, preceeds the fourth and final forum, slated to begin at 4:30p.m.
Throughout the four forums, candidates will be asked to address questions prepared by
the Thurston County League of Women Voters, which is cosponsoring the event along with Evergreen and the Thurston County Republican and Democratic Central Committees.
While those of voting age attend the forums, their youngsters are invited to make free
use of the college swimming pool in the Recreation Center or to attend a free, six-hour
cartoon film festival in Lecture Hall One .
... MPA PROGRAM AWARDED $25,000 FOR RESIDENT FELLOWSHIPS ... Evergreen has this week been awarded
$25,000 by the Washington Mutual Savings Bank Foundation to fund a Distinguished Fellow InResidence Program for the new graduate studies in public administration. The grant will enable Evergreen to 11 invite at least one expert from state, regional or local government or
from private business to spend up to one quarter per year in residence,:• according to Dr.
§!!t Adams, coordinator of the masters program. 11 These distinguished guests will help us test
our curriculum against the realities of working in public administration, .. says Adams. 11 0ur
fe 11 ows will enrich the program not only through their teaching but through deve 1oping case
studies that are regionally based and therefore most appropriate for the program's orientation
toward state and local goverment ...
The graduate program, which opened last month, has 40 full- and part-time men and women
c:tudents enrolled in a curriculum which, Adams says, has been designed in part 11 tO serve the
ecial educational needs of state and local government. Washington Mutual's $25,000 grant
, ill enable the MPA program to focus even more sharply on problems encountered in the Pacific
Northwest through the professional experiences of the distinguished fellows, who will be
asked to address such public policy issues as land use management, government regulations,
personnel management, affirmative action, and labor relations and collective bargaining.

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... JAZZ GIANT CAL TJADER APPEARS OCT. 28 ... Cal Tjader, a musician billed as "the Renaissance
man of jazz," brings his six-member group to Evergreen for one performance only Tuesday,
October 28, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater. Tjader, who began his career in
1949 as a drummer with the San Francisco-based Dave Brubeck Quartet and later as a vibraharpist and percussionist for the George Shearing Quintet, has for more than 30 years served as
a musical ambassador from the West Coast to the rest of the jazz world.
· Tickets to his concert on are sa 1e now for $5 each at Yenney 's Music in Hes t Olympia a
at the Evergreen Bookstore. Reservations may be made by calling 866-6070 .
... MICA MIME TROUPE OPENS THURSDAY ... Three evening performances of "Stix N Stones," the newest
show by the Olympia-based Mica Mime Troupe, will be staged October 23, 24 and 25 at Evergreen.
The four-member troupe, which is also offering two special children's shows at 10 a.. m. October 23 and 24, will present what they call "a visual encounter with the real and illusionary
world of mime." Their production begins with a delightfully different form of puppetry and
ranges the limits of imagination from an old children's fable brought to life to a pointed
observation of the absurdity of warfare, combining social commentary with original comedy.
Tickets will be available at the door of the Communications Building for $4 general
admission or $3 for students and senior citizens .
... CLASSICAL PIANIST PERFORMS OCT. 24 ... Dr. Alberto Rafols, ·a pianist and professor of music
at the University of Washington, will present a concert of classical works Friday, October 24,
beginning at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Dr. Rafols, who has performed extensively throughout
the United States and Spain as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, will present a
program of pieces by Claude Debussy, James Beale and Robert Schumann. Concert admission is
$5 general or $2.50 for students .
. .. PEST MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP OFFERED OCT. 25 ... Hestern Washington fanners and home gardeners
are iAvited to attend a day-long Pest Management Workshop and Farmers' Forum offered October
25 at Evergreen. The event, slated from 9 a.m. to · 7 p.m. in the Evans Library, will feature
a series of workshops on biological and cultural control of insect pests that affect such
local crops as vegetables, ornamentals, Christmas trees, forests, field crops, berries, apples
and fruit trees. Pest control in greenhouses will also be discussed, and a farmers' forum
will be conducted to promote the exhcange of ideas.
The Saturday session is cosponsored by the ~~ashington State Cooperative Extension Service, Evergreen, and the Tilth Association, a non-profit Pacific Northwest group dedicated
to preservation of "biological agriculture." Registration begins at 8:30a.m. in room 4300
of the Evans Library and costs $4. Details are available from Faculty Member Fred Stone at
866-6009.

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October 17, 1980

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FALL ENROLLMENT INCREASE HIGHEST IN THE STATE
Evergreen's Fall Quarter enrollment is the highest in the campus's ten-year history --- .and
our overall increase of 13.8 percent is the highest among Washington's six public colleges and
universities, campus officials reported Wednesday.
Registrar Walker Allen says the full-time equivalent count (FTE) is 2,572, topping Evergreen's previous FTE high of 2,536 enrolled in 1974. This year's total includes 36 new FTE
graduate students in the master's in public administration program. But, Allen notes, even
without the graduate student total, the new fall count equals Evergreen's previous undergraduate
FTE high of 1974.
MARKETING PROGRAM PAYS OFF
An extensive public awareness enrollment marketing program developed by college staff,
lty, students and friends is credited with reversing an enrollment downturn which began in
6. A coordinated two-year effort helped boost enrollment last year and has contributed to
even more dramatic student total increase this year. 11 The support we have received from all
those on-campus and individual and community groups has been outstanding, .. College Relations
Director Chuck Fm'ller said Hednesday. ~~~~ithout all of this work and combined effort, our success
in attract1ng and retaining a diverse, dedicated group of students would have been impossible ...
A major area of student population increase this fall is in the number of full-time students.
According to Allen, the number of full-time students has increased by 259 students (or 13.5%)
to a total of 2,173 compared to last fall. The part-time student count increased by 5.3% over
last year to a total of 632. 11 It appears that we have a significant number of students this
year who have converted to full-time status, .. the registrar notes.
RETENTION ALSO IMPROVED
Retention also seems to be a significant factor in Evergreen's enrollment picture. The
continuing student total increased from 1,255 from last fall to 1,457 this fall, a 16% jump.
Retention of students from last spring to this fall also showed a significant increase, he notes.
Allen credits the increased retention to a new student advising program and identification of
more specific educational pathways in the curriculum.
The number of new students also increased this quarter, with 1,348 newcomers (including
graduate students) enrolling this year, compared to 1,259 last year, a 7% hike. The number of
students enrolling from southwestern Washington also increased by 10% to 1,787 this fall, from
1,624 last year. Thurston County residents attending also showed a slight increase --- to
1,016 students. Significantly, students transferring from Olympia Technical Community College
increased by 29% to a total of 66 this year.
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~~~~e are very pleased with this enrollment figure this fall,
Fowler added, .. because it
that we are responding to the educational needs ident ified by the community, the region
the legi slature, without reducing our commitment to providing quality liberal arts learning
opportunit i es ...
The reco rd hig h fall enrollment also indicates that Evergreen will meet its annual enrollment target established by the legislature and the Governor's budget office. The contract goal
for 1980-81 is 2,350 annual average FTE undergraduates, or 2,375 FTE including graduates.

-2Fall headcount shows 2,805 (including 40 graduate students) compared to last fall's 2,5
or 291 students high than the school's previous (1976) high of 2,636.
t1PA PROGRA1,1

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Evergreen has this week been awarded $25,000 by the Washington r1utual Savings Bank Foundation to fund a Distinguished Fellow In-Residence Program for the new graduate studies in public
administration.
The grant will enable Evergreen to "invite at least one expert from state, regional or loca
government or from private business to spend up to one quarter per year in residence" according
to Dr. ~Adams, coordinator of the masters program. "These distinguished guests will help
us test our curriculum against the realities of working in public administration," says Adams.
"Our fellows will enrich the program not only through their teaching for up to one quarter per
year but through developing case studies that are regionally based and therefore most appropriat
for the program's orientation toward state and local government."
The graduate program, which opened last month, has 40 full- and part-time men and women
students enrolled in a curriculum which, Adams says, has been designed in part "to serve the
special educational needs of state and local government.
Early on we discovered there was a
keen interest in the greater Olympia area for a masters level program which would aid state
agency personnel and others whose career goals required graduate study in public administration,
Adams says.
Working with an advisory committee of 16 state and local practitioners and experts in publi
administration, Adams and four other Evergreen faculty designed the new t·~PA program "to focus
on real world issues and problems," and have required students without public sector work
experience to complete an internship in a state or local government agency or appropriate nonprofit organization.
Washington Mutual's $25,000 grant will enable the MPA program to focus even more sharpl
on problems encountered in the Pacific Northwest through the professional experiences of the
distinguished fellows, who will be asked to address such public policy issues as land use
management, government regulations, personnel management, affirmative action, and labor relation
and collective bargaining.
The five-year grant will also fund some short-time workshops and lectures by outside speakers and it will enable all the distinguished guests to become "intimately involved in every
aspect of our professional degree program," Adams notes.
The grant becomes effective in January, when Evergreen will receive the first of five
$5,000 awards.
NATIONAL CONFEREtJCE ON ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PLANNED HERE NEXT YEAR
A national conference on "alternative higher education in the United States" will be
conducted at Evergreen next fall, according to its organizers, Academic Dean Barbara Smith and
Faculty Member Richard Jones. The confab, set September 8-10, will seek to bring together
representatives from colleges, universities and foundations that "were actively engaged in the
various experiments in American higher education initiated in the 1960s and 1970s," Jones
reports.
Purpose of the three-day event will be to "articulate the legacy of this distinctive period
of ferment in American experimental higher education," says Jones, and "to assess its relevance
for the 1980s . " He and Smith have issued this week a national "call for papers" seeking participants who will expl ore the successful and unsuccessful innovations developed in the past
t wo decades. They'll seek to discover the circumstances, conditions and historical influences
which favored or undermined those innovations, and to determine "how we can enlist these answers
to help meet the challenges of the 1980s," Jones notes. He and Smith have requested 500
abstracts on those papers by December 15. Final papers by selected authors are due in June.
Hi ghlights of the conference already planned include presentation of a major keynote
"ddress b~ ' Ernest Boyer, former Commissioner for Education with the federal department of Health,
~d~ca tio n and Welfare and current president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching; plus a reunion of the Alexander Meiklejohn Experimental College, which will hOld its
fiftieth reunion --- commemorating the closing of that college --- at Evergreen before the
conference.

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llfcoming events
~1CDERMOTT, SPELL~1AN

HEADLINE OCTOBER 25 CANOl DATES FORUM

Gubernatorial candidates Jim McDermott and John Spellman, U.S. Senate ca~didate Slade
Gorton, and Congressional contenders Don Bonker and Rod Culp are among 30 off1ce seekers who
will participate in a six-hour Candidates Fair and Forum scheduled Saturday, October 25 at
Evergreen.
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The event begins at noon in the lobby of the Evans L1brary w~th the f1rst o our arums
moderated by KGY radio News Director Bob Macleod, and concl~des w~th a 4:30-6 ~.m. debate .
featuring those seeking seats in the U.S. Congress and Wash1ngt~n s gov~r~orsh1~. All ~and1dates
for those postions, except incumbent Senator Warren Magnuson, w1ll part1c1pate 1n the f1nal 90minute forum.
Eleven contenders for elective office in Thurston County launch the first 90-minute forum
Saturday. Committed to participate in that session are: Del Bausch and Dick Hemstad, State
Senate, District 22; Ron Keller, Bill Garson, Mike Kreidler and Don Trosper, State House,
District 22, Positions 1 and 2; and George Barner, Sam Reed, Ken Michael, Karen Fraser and
Jerilee Petersen, County Commission, Districts 1 and 2, respectively.
The second forum set to begin at 2 p.m., will feature 14 contenders for seven major statewide races , including: John Cherberg and William Treadwell, lieutenant governor; Ron Dotzauer
and Ral ph Munro, s.ecretary of state; Robert o•Brien and t•1arilyn l~ard, treasurer; Robert Graham
and Robert Kenne, Jr. , auditor; John Rose 11 ini, John t·1i 11 er and Kenneth Eikenberry, attorney
general ; Richard Marquardt and Joe Davis, insurance commissioner, and Brian Boyle, contender for
land commissioner, a post held by Bert Cole, who will not attend the event.
A 30-minute debate at 3:15 p.m. on Initiative 383, the 11 Don•t Haste I·Jashington .. proposal,
preceeds the fourth and final forum, slated to begin at 4:30 p.m. U.S. Senate candidate Slade
rton and U.S. House contenders Don Banker and. Rod Culp will lead the final forum, which
el udes with a 30-minute debate between gubernatorial candidates John Spellman and Jim
McDermott.
Throughout the four forums, candidates will be asked to address questions prepared by the
Thurston County League of Women Voters, which is cosponsoring the event along with Evergreen,
and the Thurston County Republican and Democratic Central Committees. Breaks scheduled between
each of the four forums will enable citizens to meet the candidates and pick up campaign materials at more than 40 booths representing all office seekers on the November 4 ballot, including
those seeking the presidency. They•11 also have a chance to purchase refreshments from the
co l lege food service and the Organic Farm.
While those of voting age attend the forums, their youngsters are invited to make free use
of t he college swimming pool in the Recreation Center or to attend a free six-hour cartoon film
festival, set in Lecture Hall One.
TJADER

PERFOR~ING

HERE OCTOBER 28

Cal Tjader, a mus i cian billed as 11 the Renaissance man of jazz, .. brings his six-member group
to Evergreen for one performance only Tuesday, October 28, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater.
Tjader, who began his career in 1949 as a drummer with the San Francisco-based Dave Brubeck
Quartet and la te r as a vibraharpist and percussionist for the George Shearing 0uintet, has for
more than 30 years served as a musical ambassador from the West Coast to the rest of the jazz
world. With more t han 30 albums to his credit, most of them on Fantasy Records, Tjader performs
musi c that defi es defi~ i t ion. Its elements include Afro-Cuban, jazz and pop, but he combines
commerc i al accessi bi li ty with what the San Francisco Chronicle calls 11 the most pure musician; p, II

The son of a conce rt pianist and a vaudeville dancer, Tjader literally spent his early years
0n t he road, .. unti l his parents settled in San Mateo, California to operate a dance studio.
After higr srhool and a three-year stint in the Navy, he enrolled in San Francisco State College,
\ ~ere he first me~ up with future jazz giants Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
The three hit the big
t1 me and Tjade r gave up forever his school teaching career. Later he joined Shearing•s Quintet
and th en formed hi s own group, performing throughout the country and recording albums that
attracted a steady stream of Latin-jazz/Afro-Cuban and Salsa music fans.
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In the process, he's earned a loyal following and a national reputation as a "captivating,
uninhibited, spirited Renaissance man of jazz." For, as one reviewer declared, "It's simply
not possible to listen to his music without catching his spirit and personality--- you don't
just hear Cal Tjader, you experience him."
His Tuesday night Olympia appearance is the second in the Evergreen Expressions performing
arts series and is cosp.onsored by POSSCA (Patrons of South Sound Cul tura 1 Arts) and the Evergreen
Foundation. Tickets are on sale now for $5 each at Yenney's Music in West Olympia and at the
Evergreen Bookstore. Reservations may be made by calling 866-6070.
STIX N STONES OPENS THURSDAY
Three evening performances of "Stix N Stones," the newest show by the Olympia-based Mica
t1ime Troupe, will be staged October 23, 24, and 25 at Evergreen. The four-member troupe, which
is also offering two special children's shows at 10 a.m. October 23 and 24, will present what
they call "a visual encounter with the real and illusionary world of mime."
The production begins with a delightfully different form of puppetry and ranges the limits
of imagination from an old children's fable brought to life to a pointed observation of the
absurdity of warfare, combining social commentary with original comedy. Mimes Michael Long
and Rebecca Cheney of Olympia and Michael Hutchison of Harstine Island blend their imagination
and grasp of the reality of illusion, aided by the subtle lighting talents of Jane Hutchison.
Tickets to the three Evergreen evening performances will be available at the door of the
Communications Building for $4 general admission or $3 for students and senior citizens.
CLASSICAL PIANIST PERFORMS OCTOBER 24
Dr. Alberto Rafols, a pianist and professor of music at the University of ~·Jashington, will
present a concert of classical works Friday, October 24, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Dr. Rafols, who· has performed extensively throughout the United States and Spain as a soloist
accompanist and chamber musician, will present a program of pieces by Claude Debussy, James
Beale and Robert Schumann.
The University professor will also conduct a workshop for piano students and teachers
Saturday, October 25, from 9:30a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Both the workshop and the Friday evening concert are sponsored by the l·lashington State
Music Teachers Association. Admission to the workshop and the concert are $15 general or
$12.50 for students. Details are available from r·1ary Jane Clark, 866-4587 or Evergreen Faculty
nember Dr. ~~illiam ~~inden, 866-6096. Concert (only) tickets, $5 general, $2.50 for students.
PEST MANAGEtiJENT WORKSHOP PLANNED
Western Washington farmers and home gardeners are invited to attend a day-long Pest
Management Workshop and Farmers' Forum offered Saturday, October 25 at Evergreen. The event,
slated from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Evans Library, will feature a series of workshops on
biological and cultural control of insect pests that affect such Western Washington crops as
vegetables, ornamentals, Christmas trees, forests, field crops, berries, apples and fruit trees.
Pest control in greenhouses will also be discussed, and a farmers' forum will be conducted to
promote the exchange of ideas.
Highlighting the 10-hour workshop will be presentations by guest speakers including: Dr.
Art Antonelli, an extension entomologist at the Western Hashington Research and Extension Center
in Puyallup; Dr. Dan t·1ayer, integrated pest management specialist and entomologist at the
Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser; Dr. Jay Brunner, assistant
entomologist at the Tree Fruit Research Center in Wenatchee; and Dave Bergin, a professional
pest management consultant in Moses Lake.
The day-long event is cosponsored by the Washington State Cooperative Extension Service,
Evergreen, and the Tilth Association, a non-profit Pacific Northwest group dedicated to the
preservation of "biological agriculture." Registration begins at 8:30a.m. in room 4300 of
t he library, and costs $4. Early registration is encouraged. Complete details are available
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GARDENERS' POTLUCK SET
Community gardeners at the Organic Farm are invited to a potluck dinner meeting Sunday,
October 26, beginning at 7 p.m. at the farmhouse. Persons interested in participating in the
college's community gardens are invited to attend the meeting designed to welcome all former
gardeners and to discuss plans for the farm's proposed new orchard, which will be planted this
winter on a site that will affect some of the former gardens.
Details on the Sunday night potluck meeting are available at the farm, 866-6161.
SCHEMING AND DREAMING CONTINUES
Plans for the Schemers• and Dreamers• Jubilee continue to be plotted behind closed doors
on the second floor of the library. Billed as a celebration to honor those hearty souls who
have served the college for the past ten years, the November 14 evening event promises "original,
Geoduck-style entertainment," recognition of "some startling contributions to this institution,"
music by a foot-stomping gang of Greeners, and lots to eat, drink and be merry about. Invitations to "come as you were" will be in the mail soon. See you there in just four more weeks.
SPECIAL WORKSHOPS FOR PART-TIME STUDENTS OFFERED
Part-time students have been invited this week to attend four events designed to acquaint
them with each other and with Evergreen services. The meetings, organized by Educational Outreach Coordinator Earlyse Swift, begin Tuesday night, October 21, with a two-hour "Oktoberfest,"
which will feature refreshments and brief presentations by staff from the offices of Career
Planning and Placement, Learning Resource Center, Financial Aid, External Credit, Admissions,
operative Education and the Academic Deanery. That opening meeting begins at 5 p.m., Tuesday
room 108 of the College Activities Building.·
Part-time students are also invited to a one-hour "Rust Remover" session on October 29.
Learning Resource Center Coordinator Stella Jordan will direct this study skill brush up session
from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Library 3500 lounge. She'll be promptly followed --- from 6:307:30 p.m. --- by a discussion on improving analytical reading skills and seminaring techniques,
directed by Faculty f~ernber t~argaret Gribskov.
The four-part series of meetings concludes November 5 when Librarian ~1alcolm St-i lson offers
a one-hour workshop on how to get the most out of the Evergreen Library. Stilson's workshop,
offered from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Library Reference Area, will specifically focus on how to use the
card catalog, how to find books and other library materials, and how to use microfilm and indexes
Further details on any of the four sessions are available from Swift at 866-6128.
SIMON'S LECTURES EXPLORE DICKENS WORKS
Faculty ~·1ember Sandra Simon wi 11 discuss "senti menta 1ity" as developed in the Charles
Dickens classic, "The Olde Curiosity Shop" in her continuing free Tuesday night lecture series
offered October 21 and 28, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Olympia branch of the Timberland Regional
Library. Her one-hour lectures will be followed by a 90-minute discussion session. Both portions of her Tuesday night program are free and open to the public, and are part of her fulltime academic program, "Dickens and the Art of Description."
sports news
ONE RECORD BROKEN, NIEMIEC COMES CLOSE
Runner Louise Taylor of the Evergreen Ski School staff, broke the women's record for
completing the 5.4-mile road run in a race conducted on campus Wednesday, October 8. Her time
of 37 minutes and 7 seconds tops the former record of 38 minutes, 18 seconds set last spring
by Barbara Bush, a teacher at Griffin School. Second place for women went to Cyndy Smith, a
member of the Geoduck cross country team, who crossed the tape in 38 minutes, 37 seconds.
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former 5.4-mile men's time. Niemiec won the event with his time of 30 minutes 49 seconds, ju
behind the 29 minutes 6 second record set in January of 1979 by Chris Bjarke. Dave Curtis
took second, and the next five place men finish~ were taken by members of the cross country
team: Bob Bresnahan, Scott Smith, Kris Nelson, · Joe Reilly and Randy Talley.
SOCCER RESULTS MIXED
Both the men's and women's soccer teams won one and lost two in games slated during the
past week. The Geoduck men's squad beat Black Hills 2-0 Sunday in a Southwest Washington
Soccer Association League match, but lost 1-0 in an intercollegiate battle SaturQay against
Pacific Lutheran University. The men also met defeat, 12-0, Tuesday in a tough game against
the University of Washington Huskies, one of the nation's top NAIA soccer teams.
The women continued their winning ways in Southwest Washington league play, beating the
McMuggers 3-1 Saturday. They lost their first intercollegiate match 8-0 Saturday afternoon
against University of Oregon. The women also lost 2-1 in a tight match Sunday against Lewis
and Clark College.
Soccer action this week pits the men's team against Whitman College at 11 a.m. on campus
playfields, while the women take on University of Portland at noon here Saturday. The women
will also compete Sunday in a game scheduled at 2 p.m. against the University of Puget Sound
on Tacoma playfields.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Faculty Member Donald Chan will accompany singer Marni Nixon in concert Tuesday, October
21, at 8 p.m. at Seattle Central Community College. ~1s. Nixon, who sang for Deborah Kerr in
"l'he King and I," Natalie Wood in ~~~~est Side Story," arid Audrey Hepburn in "t·1y Fair Lady,"
recently opened the artists series at Pacific Lutheran University with this same program. He
October 21 concert will be videotaped and shown later over public television. Chan will also
be appearing with Jan and Chuck Stentz October 23 and 24 in concerts at Fort Lewis Little
Theater. Evergreen favorite Red Kelly will join the threesome for the October 24 concert, which
will be repeated in Auburn on October 30.
Associate Director for Student Activities Lynn Garner gave birth to her firstborn son,
Ze, Friday, October 10. The young lad weighed in at 10 pounds, 1~ ounces. Both mother and son
are home reportedly "doing more than fine."
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Faculty members last week elected Provost Byron Youtz to chair their bi-weekly meetings.
They chose Nancy Allen, Gerry Brown, Diana Cushing, Kaye Y._. Ladd, and Ron \o!oodbury to serve on
the Agenda Committee, and they selected faculty to participate 1n the 1nterinstitutional Council
of Faculty Representatives. George Dimitroff will continue to serve as a senior member of that
body, along with faculty ~1argaret Gribskov, Tom Rainey and Susan Strasser, one of whom will
serve as an alternate.
Long-time staff member David West,who has most recently served as supervisor of buildings
and grounds, will take on responsibilities as "clerk of the works" for the campus fields project
during November and December. Then he plans to retire January 1. His former position has been
scheduled for elimination by the Facilities Office in a two percent budget cut. A second
position, that of space analyst, currently held by 11-year staff veteran Kris Robinson, has also
been scheduled for elimination. Both job eliminations are currently being reviewed by Vice
President for Business Richard Schwartz.
Absent from the Office of Financial Aid these days is veteran staffer Thelma Stamey, former
program assistant who has retired due to medical problems.
Former associa ce library dean Dave Carhahan leaves next week for a two-month assignment in
Singapore. Employed by the San Francisco-based Asia Foundation, Carnahan will work with the
local Singapore government and several multi-national corporations to establish an industrial
trai ning center for students who seek instruction that other industrial programs are not cu
' provi din g. He leaves Thursday, stops in Hong Kong briefly, then arrives in Singapore October

October 13, 1980
... CECIL ANDRUS TO DISCUSS ENERGY/ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES OCT. 16 ... Secretary of the Interior
Cecil Andrus will speak on regional and national environmental and energy issues in a free
public address Thursday, October 16, beginning at 9 a.m. on the second floor of the Evans
Library. Andrus, who has announced his resignation from the Cabinet effective in January,
has been nominated by President Carter to the board of the new national synthetic fuels corporation, a non-profit government organization created to promote alternative energy source
research. He is expected to discuss the task of that agency, in addition to the work with
which he has been involved, both as head of the U.S. Department of Interior and as a former
two-term conservati ani s t governor from Idaho .
... COMEDIAN BRINGS 11 POLITICAL THEATER 11 TO CAMPUS THURSDAY ... Contemporary political theater
comes to Olympia October 16 when comedian Bob Carroll presents his one-man show at Evergreen.
Called 11 0utrageously funny 11 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Carroll, a 11 Cultural storyteller 11
who has been described as 11 part jazz artist, part hipster, part prankster, part actor, 11 presents his latest production, 11 The Salmon Show, 11 at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Recital Hall of
Evergreen's Communications Building.
The show traces the life of the salmon while it lashes multi-national corporations,
agricbuiness farms, and whatever plugs in to Carroll's wild imagination. Reviewed by the Los
Angeles Times as 11 the single most effective and deceptive piece of contemporary radical poliical theater 11 recently performed, The Salmon Show combines Carroll's radical analysis of
istory, ecology and current events with his jazzy, somewhat astonishing style that creates,
say reviewers, 11 thoroughly, outrageously funny comedy. 11 Tickets will be sold at the door for
$2.50 .
... ECCO MEMBERSHIP PARTY THURSDAY ... The tenth anniversary of the founding of the Evergreen
College Community Organization will be celebrated Thursday, October 16, when the group hosts
its annual membership meeting at the home of President and Mrs. Dan Evans, 4202 Leavelle
Road N.W. on Cooper Point. The meeting, set from 7 to 9 o'clock Thursday evening, will feature
a brief presentation on the purpose of ECCO, an organization created in 1970 to welcome Evergreen faculty and staff to the community and to create a bridge of understanding and cooperation between the then new college and its hometown. Members and their guests will be invited
to enjoy refreshments and renew their memberships, which still cost only $3 per year .
. . . KAOS CELEBRATES POWER JUMP WEDNESDAY ... Thurston County's three 11 Big City 11 mayors will take
to the air waves of radio station KAOS at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 15, to celebrate the
station's quadruple jump in power. Mayors Karen Fraser of Lacey, Wes Barclift of Tumwater
and~ Watson of Olympia will each emcee a 15-minute program, offering brief historical highlights of their cities' development during the station's eight-year lifetime and spinning a
few of their favorite disks for KAOS listeners.
Sharing the Wednesday morning spotlight will be founding KAOS news director Mike
Hall, who participated in the station's first broadcast on January 1, 1972 from its headquarters at Evergreen. Hall, currently employed as ,a counselor in the Office of Cooperative
Education, will offer a brief history of the station from his perspective as one of its founders.
The hour-long event marks the increase in KAOS power from 450 to 1800 watts, which
will enable the FM station to be clearly received throughout Thurston County .
.. REGIONAL ARTS MEETING WEDNESDAY ... The creation of a new Thurston Regional Arts Council as
a nonprofit corporation will be the topic of an open public meeting Wednesday, October 15, at
7 p.m. in the Olympia branch of the Timberland Regional Library. Marilyn Carlton, a recent
Evergreen graduate, has organized the meeting, which she hopes will explore
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Details on the meet1ng
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. .. N E~~ FILM SERIES BEGINS OCT. 2l. .. A new, three-part film series called "Northwest Filmmakers"
opens Tuesday, October 21 at Evergreen when Portland director Penny Allen accompanies her
newly released 90-minute color film, "Property" in an 8 p.m. showing in the Recital Hall of the
Commun ications Building. Organized by Arts Coordinator Richard Nesbitt, the new series will
fea tu re screening of new works by Pacific Northwest film artists, including sessions on
November 4 of "The Experimental and Enigmatic," which offer eight short filr.1s, and a showing
call ed '' Animation," on November 18 which provides eight films, including the Academy Award
winn ing, "Closed Mondays," by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner.
The October 21 single showing of "Property" introduces the neighbors of a small, di1a pi dated Portland community who represent the youth culture of the 1960s "grown up or at
l eas t grown older," Nesbitt says. The film centers on an eccentric poet who learns that
neigh borhood block has been put up for sale.
"Property," say reviewers, "is far better than any first film has a right to be. "
It's "beautifully photographed" by Eric Edwards, also of Portland, and features what's called
"a fi ne musical score" by Richard Tyler. Director Allen will be on campus to discuss "Property" and answer questions about filmmaking. Admission to the show and her talk is $1 .
. . . CL ARA FRASER TO OUTLINE BATTLE WITH SEATTLE CITY LIGHT OCT. 20 ... Clara Fraser, a life-long
activist for civil rights, founder of Radical Women and member of numerous Seattle area
political organizations, will discuss her five-year legal fight against Seattle City Light in
a free publ ic talk Monday, October 20, beginning at 7:30p.m. in the second floot- lobby of the
Evans Library. Fraser , who believes sh.§..' s fighting a "battle for all of us" to e_liminate discrimin ati on and protect free speech in the work place, was "laid off" her job with the Seattle
utility in 1975 as part of what management called a five percent employee reduction. She
filed suit, claiming she had been discriminated against as a woman and as a radical socialist
active in organizing workers' rights. City Light then countered with the charge that she was
"abrasive and incompetent.
Si nce her termination in 1975, Fraser has been steadfast in what has become an uncommonly long and rigorous legal fight. October 20 she'll discuss her precedent-setting case
and how it relates to the current political climate in this country. Her free talk is sponsored by th e Evergreen Political Infonnati~n Center and the Cooper Point Journal .
... DEAR ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ALUMS ... Olympian Joe Dear, a 1976 graduate who heads the People
for Fair Taxes, has been elected president of Evergreen's Alumni Association. Serving with
him on th e Alumni Board from Olympia are Second Vice President Ralph Smith, Treasurer Janice
~.Jood and members Patricia BJiss, Debbie CreveJing, Patricia Foster, JU'il'eGrant, John Pau
Jones Ill· Nam Chu Pearl, Kevin Phillips, Will Rice, Colleen Spencer and Alumni Coordinator
Bonnie Ma rie.
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October 10, 1980

CECIL ANDRUS TO SPEAK ON ENVIRONMENTAL/ENERGY ISSUES HERE THURSDAY
Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus will speak on regional and national environmental
and energy issues in a free public address Thursday, October 16, beginning at 9 a.m. on the
second floor of the Evans Library.
Andrus, who has announced his resignation from the Cabinet effective in January, has been
nominated by President Carter to the board of the new national synthetic fuels corporation, a
non-profit government organization created to promote alternative energy source research. He
is expected to discuss the task of that agency, in addition to the work with which he has been
involved, both as a head of the Department of Interior and as a former two-term conservationist
governor from Idaho.
His morning talk is free and open to the public.
TAKE A CARD OPENS EXPRESSIONS SERIES TONIGHT
The Pacific Northwest premiere of "Take A Card, Any Card," launches the 1980-81 Evergreen
Expressions performing art series at Evergreen tonight in the first of six evening shows set
begin at 8 o'clock in the Experimental Theater. Described as a "handicap awareness play,"
ke A Card ... " continues _October 11,12,17,18 and 19 under the direction of Evergreen Arts
Coordinator Richard Nesbitt and Portland actor and director Jerry \~est.
In 15 short scenes the play, written by Tumwater author t·1artin Kimeldorf, depicts the
struggles of a family coming to grips with the realities of a handicapped daughter afflicted
with a symbolic disability called "sel noy." The cast of 16 includes Evergreen students and
a number of Thurston County handicapped citizens making their stage debuts. Together they portray more than two dozen characters, all common to the lives of the disabled and varying from
vocational rehabilitation counselors to institution directors, disappointed relatives and reluctant school officials and employers.
The story, says Kimeldorf, "portrays a fair representation of the problems of the disabled,"
which he has closely observed first hand in his post at Olympia High School as a vocational
evaluator for the Thurston County Speci~l Services Cooperative. Ki~Jeldorf, whose play has won
the 1980 Grand Prize in a national contest sponsored by the Kansas Association for Retarded
Citizens, firmly believes that "with the right attitude" the differences v1hich set the handicapped apart can be overcome. "When you get to basic needs, we're all very similar," he says,
"and, if you can once look beyond the disabilities, you can see that there really is more in
common (between the di sab 1ed and the norma 1) than there is different. ••
Voicing that belief throughout "Take A Card ... ," more than half the cast comprise a dramatic
chorus, who comment on the play as it weaves the tale of Pip, a handicapped youngster, and her
parents, who must face ways of helping her overcome "sel noy.••
Cast as Pip is the winsome Karen Schionning, who is joined by her father Jeff Noyes, her
mother Katherine Mullen, and "the magical, marvelous t,1arvini ," a magician, played by Timothy
Streeter, whose magic comes from his attitude, his willingness to give the child a chance at a
normal life. Streeter, Rob Richerson, Ben Fuchs and Amy Fowkes all play multiple roles in the
, while Evergreen student Katelyn Cramner-Drumheller leads the chorus, whose members are
local handicapped citizens. They include Thurston County's Robin White, Don ~1ichaels, Lisa
Hunt, Linda Stanley, Bennie Stanley, Paul Johnson, Barbara Stelljes and Susan Downs. Their
efforts mark the first full production of 11 Take A Card ... " in the Pacific Northwest, though it
has already attracted rave reviews for shows in California and the mid-west.
All six performances are being produced in cooperation with the Thurston County Association
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Tickets for the rema1n1ng five shows are on sale now at Yenney's Music and at the
Evergreen Bookstore for $4 general admission or $2 for students and senior citizens.
tions may be made by calling 866-6070 .
"Take A Card ... '' opens the Evergreen Expressions series, which is cosponsored this year
by POSSCA (Patrons of South Sound Cultural Arts) and The Evergreen Foundation. The second
production of the series .fe~tures renowne~ jazz music~an Cal Tjader and his sextet, appearing
Tuesday, October 28, beg1nn1ng at 8 p.m. 1n the Exper1mental Theater. Tickets at $5 each, are
on sale now at Yenney's and the college bookstore.
TRUSTEES TO CONSIDER PAY RAISES, BUDGET CUTS THURSDAY
Evergreen ' s five-member Board of Trustees will face a full agenda at the regular monthly
meeting Thursday, October 16 at 10:30 a.m. in Library 3112. Top on the agenda will be an update
on the tenth class day enrollment figures, which college officials already know will be the
highest in our history. Trustees will be asked to approve salary increases of 6% for all classi
fied and exempt staff. The latter will also be eligible for individual merit increases of 1.5%.
In addition, the board will also be asked to approve implementation of a new faculty salary
grid, which grants an average pay increase of 7.5%.
Budgets will once again dominate the trustees' considerations as they weigh the college's
plan for meeting the latest 2% cut (totaling $140,000) of this year's operating budget. It's
also expected that the board will hear
plans for eventually contracting with a private development firm to construct new campus housing for up to 600 students.
The meeting Thursday is open to the public.
CATALOG OUT EARLIEST EVER, SEARCH FOR 1982-83 PHOTOS UNDERWAY
Evergreen's 1981-82 Catalog is off the presses and ready for distribution by the Registrar'
and Admissions Offices. The new book, officially completed on September 29, is the work of
college editor Kennedy (~) Poyser and the Graphics team, compriseq of former senior desig
Peter Richards, current senior designer Brad Clemmons, and designer Mark Clemens, who spent a
hectic summer preparing the book for release a full seven weeks earlrer-than ever previously
published.
New to this year's publication, says Poyser, is a professional photo of Crescent Lake on
the Olympic Peninsula, taken by freelancer Harold Sund. The landscape piece, says Poyser,
"reflects a feeling of Evergreen" and is the first time the college has elected to feature noncampus artwork on the Catalog cover. Also new to the book is a reorganization of contents
which Poyser hopes makes it "clearer and easier to use." Limited to 96 pages to take advantage
of maximum efficiencies in printing, the book features fewer photos than has been the case in
past years, but offers readers a highly useful two-page grid of the 1981-82 curriculum, and an
array of readable quotes that top about a third of the pages.
Copies of the book will soon be available to students through the Registrar's Office. All
enrolled students will be sent a card which entitles them to the new publication that is also
being distributed to faculty and staff this week.
Before most folks even have their hands on the new Catalog, Poyser and the Graphics team
have begun a search for "imagery" to adorn the 1982-83 issue. "He're inviting students, faculty
and staff to begin taking photos or creating artwork for that publication now," says Poyser.
~~~~e want imagery --- drawings, and black and white and color photographs --- that reflect both
the college itself and the work our students do here." Poyser says he hopes "some kind of
prize" may be available to the top entries, which may be featured in an end-of-the-year art
exhibit on campus. Photo and artwork credit will be published along with every entry used in
next year's edition. Entries may be submitted for review to Poyser (Library 3114), Graphics
(Seminar 2150) or Photo Services (Library 1334). Final deadline for submission of works is
May 1, 1981, but the staff will be accepting and selecting work throughout the year.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ELECTS DEAR, SELECTS 24 BOARD MEMBERS
Joe Dear, a 1976 Olympia graduate who heads the People for Fair Taxes, has been elected
president-or-Evergreen's Alumni Association. Dear, who last year served as the group's treasurer and Financial Affairs Committee head, is joined on the executive board by: First Vice
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in Shelton; Second Vice President, ~alph Smith, a 1977 Olympia alum w~o recently completed an
assignment as coordinator for the T ursto~nty.Employer Resource ~1recto~y; Se~r:tary ~ave
on a 1974 Seattle grad who is work1ng on h1s master's degree 1n publ1c adm1n1strat1on at
r:-;.:.::..::::..;-,~v.;..e·rsity of Uashington; and Treasurer Janice l~ood, a 1976 alum who currently works as a
community college system program analyst for the Office of Financial 1,1anagement.
Joining the executive committee on the 24-member Alumni Board are: Patricia Bliss, budget
analyst for the State Board for Community College Education in Olympia; Debbie Creveling, handicap recreation coordinator for Thurston County Parks and Recreation; Patricia Foster, facilities
manager for Employment Security in Olympia; Bill Freeburg, data processing manager for C. Rhyne
&Associates of Seattle; Jill Fleming Freeburg, a graduate student in business administration
at the University of Washington; and Julie Grant, program evaluator for handicapped programs for
State Parks and Recreation Commission-rn-Dlympia.
Also serving on the board are: John Paul Jones III, administrative assistant to the
Washington State Senate; Doug King, vice president of MFM, Incorporated, a Seattle company which
distributes secondary sewage treatment systems; Eleanor Lee, Washington State Senator from
Burien; Brian ~1ilbrath, a Renton business manager for "Solar Washington" magazine; Gary f,1ozel,
natural science teacher at the Northwest School of the Arts, Humanities and the Environment,
Terry Oliver, Vancouver planner
a private Seattle alternative school that opened this fall;
with the Regional Planning Council of Clark County; Nam Chu Pearl, an Olympia accountant with
Employment Security; Kevin Phillips, Olympia sales representative for Farmers' Insurance Group;
Lee Riback, Seattle sales representative for Bowles Northwest, a wholesale plumbing company;
Will Rice, an Olympia economic analyst for OFM; Scott Salzer, partner and salesman for Special
Productions Company of Seattle; Colleen (Hunt) Spencer, Olympia coordinator for the Y\~CA !Jomen's
Shelter Program, which she helped create while attending Evergreen; and Kevin Thomas, a Seattle
industrial salesman.
-The board will work closely with Evergreen Alumni Relations Coordinator Bonnie r1arie, who
was named to that post last summer to serve as liaison between the college and its graduates.
Marie, who for six years served as an assistant to Dean of Student and Enrollment Services
~ Stenberg,will help alums organize programs and assist with tasks assigned to their standing
..,~~m~ttees on legislative relations, admissions assistance, program planning, financial affairs,
and communications. In addition, Marie will continue serving as office manager for Community
Relations (Government Relations, Institutional Research, Development and Alumni Affairs) and as
cochairwoman of the Evergreen College Community Organization.
sports news
SOCCER TEAMS FACE BUSY WEEKEND
A ~rip~e header faces Evergreen's soccer players this weekend. The men will be looking
for the1r f1rst intercollegiate win when they meet Pacific Lutheran University at 1 p.m.
Saturday on camp~s p~ayfields: The women, who have been winning by large margins in the club
league, face the1r f1rst two 1ntercollegiate matches: against a strong University of Oregon
team at 3 p.m. Saturday and a seasoned Lewis and Clark College team at 11 a.m. on Sunday. All
three games are free and open to the public.
SWIMMERS SET FIRST MEETING
. S~im Coach Don ~artin will stage the first official team meeting ~1onday, October 13,
beg1nn1ng at 4.p.m. 1n CRC 202. All students interested in competing are invited to attend the
afternoon sess10n, or to stop by the pool and talk to l~artin any weekday after 3:30.
CONFERENCE DRAWS 300 TO CM-1PUS
More than three hundred members of the Washington Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance are expected to convene for a two-day annual conference today and tomorrow
t Evergreen.
The Alliance, which includes public and private school teachers and college instructors
from throughout the state, will participate in workshops designed to keep faculty abreast of
their fields by sharing information and research, gaining up-to-date details on pertinent
legislation at the state and federal levels, and viewing a variety of exhibits demonstrating
the latest in health and physical education equipmemt.
Meeting for the first time at Evergreen, the Alliance convenes this morning in the Evans
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COMEDIAN BRINGS POLITICAL THEATER HERE THURSDAY
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Contemporary political theater comes to Olympia October 16 when comedian Bob Carroll presents his one-man show at Evergreen. Called .. outrageously funny .. by the San Francisco Chronicle
Carroll, a .. cultural story teller .. who has been described as part jazz artist, part hipster,
part prankster, part actor, .. presents his latest production, The Salmon Show, .. at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Recital Hall of Evergreen's Communications Building.
The show traces the life of the salmon while it lashes multi-national corporations, agribusiness farms, and whatever plugs in to Carroll's wild imagination. Reviewed by the Los
Angeles Times as the single most effective and deceptive piece of contemporary radical political theater .. recently performed, The Salmon Show combines Carroll's radical analysis of history,
ecology and current events with his jazzy, somewhat astonishing style that creates, say reviewers .. thoroughly, outrageously funny comedy ...
Carroll sings, wails, dances, stomps, chants and executes his way through the three-part
entirely original show which asks for --- in fact nearly demands --- participation, commitment,
even change from his audience, with whom he stays in close touch every rapidly-paced step of
the way.
Brought to Evergreen by the Campus Activities Office, Carroll appears here Thursday
and then
opens for a two-day return engagement in San Francisco Friday and Saturday.
Tickets to his October 16 appearance are $2.50 at the door.
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ECCO MEMBERSHIP PARTY THURSDAY
The tenth anniversary of the founding of the Evergreen College Community Organization will
be celebrated Thursday, October 16, when the organization hosts its annual membership meetin
at the home of Nancy and Dan Evans at 4202 Leavelle N.W. on Cooper Point. The meeting, slat
from 7 to 9 o'clock Thursday evening, will feature a brief presentation on the purpose of ECC ,
an organization created in 1970 to welcome Evergreen faculty and staff to the community and to
create a bridge of understanding and cooperation between the then new college and its hometown.
Members and their guests will be invited to enjoy refreshments, and renew their memberships, which cost $3 per year and entitle holders to receipt of ECCO's quarterly Newsletter, of
Evergreen's weekly Off-Campus Newsletter, and to reduced rates for use of the college recreation
center. ECCO members will also have a chance to get reaquainted and meet this year's board
members, who include Joan Cullen and Bonnie Marie, cochairwomen; new members Lenna Mulka, Kathy
McCormick, Donnagene ward, Lois Gottl1eb and Betty Rule, who are beginning three-year terms;
continuing members Jan Roth~an Conrad, Barb Rome~Lucia RodriTuez, Ruth Sluss, Bernice
Youtz, Jess Spielho~ Judy MCNlCkle, Sara~apman, Hanna Spielho z, Jo~ner, Betty Harmon,
f•1arilyn Erickson; and honorary member Nancy Evans.
KAOS CELEBRATES POWER JUMP WEDNESDAY
Thurston County's three Big City .. mayors will take to the air waves of radio station KAOS
at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 15 to celebrate the station's quadruple jump in power. Mayors
Karen Fraser of Lacey, Wes Barel ift of Tumwater and Lyle \'Jatson of Olympia will each emcee a
15-minute program, offering brief historical highlights of their cities' development during the
station's eight-year lifetime and spinning a few of their favorite disks for KAOS listeners.
Sharing the l·Jednesday morning spotlight will be founding KAOS news director f·1ike Hall, who
participated in the station's first broadcast on January 1, 1972 from its headquarters at
Evergreen. Hall, currently employed as a counselor in the Office of Cooperative Education, will
offer a brief history of the station from his perspective as one of its founding members.
The hour-long event marks the increase in KAOS power from 450 to 1800 watts, which stat
development coordinator Toni Holm says will enable the FM station to be clearly received thro
out Thurston County. Also new to KAOS is a change in its antenna polarization,'' says Holm.
This power increase has enabled us to change our antenna polarization from its old horizontal
pattern to a new, circularly polarized antenna, .. she explains.
That means the station will
now be better able to transmit clear signals to car radios and to homes located behind hills
and in valleys all over the county ... The improved and expanded transmission should also enable
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the station, adds Holm "to better involve the public in both program planning and in actual
icipation in on-the-air presentations." Staffed largely by volunteers, KAOS will continue
what she calls "a community access station" --- one that as of October 15 is totally
accessible to all residents of Thurston County.
On behalf of her fellow KAOS volunteers, Holm warmly invites the public to tune in to 39.3
F~1 1-Jednesday morning.
REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL MEETING TOPIC
The creation of a new Thurston Regional Arts Council as a nonprofit corporation will be
the topic of an open public meeting Wednesday, October 15, at 7 p.m. in the Olympia branch
of the Timberland Regional Library.
r1arilyn Carlton, a recent Evergreen graduate, has organized the meeting, which she hopes
will explore creation "of a supportive network and a focal point for the arts in Thurston
County.
We've enjoyed a tremendous influx of talented artists and creative arts groups in
recent years," she explains. "Now there's a pressing need to develop a communication network
among these groups, to create a headquarters from which they can jointly share and plan activities and thus better serve the cultural and entertainment needs of local audiences."
Carlton says Evergreen Faculty t1ember Charles Teske, a representative of the Vo 1unteer
Lawyers for the Arts, and a number of other spokespersons from local arts groups will participate
in the open public meeting, which will examine incorporation procedures, funding prospects and
possible office space for the proposed revitalized Council.
Further information is available from Carlton at 866-6119.
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A new, three-part mini film series, called "Northwest Filmmakers" opens Tuesday, October
at Evergreen when Portland director Penny Allen accompanies her newly released 90-minute
or film, "Property" in an 8 p.m. showing in the Recital Hall. Organized by Arts Coordinator
Richard Nesbitt, the new series will feature screening of new works by Pacific Northwest film
artists, including sessions on November 4 of "The Experimental and Enigmatic," which offer eight
short films, and a showing called "Animation," on November 18 which provides eight films, including the academy award winner, "Closed t~ondays," filmed by \•Jill Vinton and Bob Gardiner.
The October 21 single showing of "Property" introduces the neighbors of a small, dilapidated
Portland community who represent the youth culture of the 1960s "grown up or at least grown
older," Nesbitt says. The film centers on an eccentric poet who learns that the neighborhood
block has been put up for sale. He and his neighbors, most of whom are fond of plants, original
art and long hair, unite to determine what, if anything, they can do to save their neighborhood.
The friendships that evolve and what Nesbitt calls "the politics of poverty" are brought into
focus as the film explores the "problem of trying to live lightly in an urban environment where
attempts to protect the quality of one's life can be as destructive as powerlessness itself."
The film, say reviewers, "is far better than any first film has a right to be." It •s
"beautifully photographed" by Eric Edwards, also of Portland, and features what's called "a
fine musical score" by Richard Tyler.
Director Allen will be on campus to discuss "Property" and answer questions about filmmaking. Admission to the showing and her discussion is $1. Admission to the November 4 and 18
screenings will be free and open to the public.
MICA MIME TROUPE APPEARS OCTOBER 23-25
The ~1ica Mime Troupe brings its newest production, "Stix N Stones" to Evergreen October
23-25 for three evening performances and two special children's morning shows.
The four-member troupe, who premiered "Stix N Stones" in Seattle's Poncho Theater this
er, presents what its artists call "a visual encounter with the real and illusionary world
of mime." Their production begins with a delightfully different form of puppetry and ranges
the limits of imagination from an old children's fable brought to life to a pointed observation
of the absurdity of warfare, combining social commentary with original comedy.
r·1imes t·lichael Long and Rebecca Cheney of Olympia and r·1ichael Hutchison of Harstine Island
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talents of Jane Hutchison.
The three mime artists will appear in 8 p.m. performances October 23 24 and 25 in the
Experimental Theater of Evergreen•s Communications Building. They•11 als~ perform two special
one-hour productio~s for area junior high and elementary school students beginning at 10 a.
on Thursday and Fr1day .
. Tickets to their Ever~re:n evening performances will be sold at the door each production
even1ng for $4 general adm1ss1on or $3 for students and senior citizens.
KAOS BENEFIT DANCE SATURDAY
Three Pacific Northwest bands will play for a dance to benefit campus/community station
Saturday, Octob:r 11, ~eginning at 9 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Library. Featured
1n the four-hour bash Wlll be Larry and the r1ondellos, a long-time Olympia favorite soon
to release their first single on ~1r. Brown records; The Blackouts of Seattle, who have already
released a single on r~1odern records, an independent Seattle label; and The Beakers, .. whose
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newest record, Red Towel and Football Season Is In Full Swing .. will be out next month on the
~1r. Brown label. Admission to the benefit is $2.50 general or $2.25 to KAOS subscribers.
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CLARA FRASER TO OUTLINE HER BATTLE WITH CITY LIGHT
Clara Fraser, a life-long activist for civil rights, founder of Radical Women and member
of numerous Seattle area political organizations, will discuss her five-year legal fight against
Seattle City Light in a free public talk Monday, October 20, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the secon
floor lobby of the Evans Library.
Fraser, who believes she•s fighting a .. battle for all of US to eliminate discrimination
and protect free speech in the work place, was laid off her job with the Seattle utility in
1975 as part of what management called a five percent employee reduction. She filed suit, claim
ing she had been discriminated against as a woman and as a radical socialist active in organizing for workers• rights. City Light then countered with the charge that she was abrasive
inr.ompetent. ..
Her career with City Light began in 1973 when she was hired to coordinate a pioneer affinna
tive action program, which aimed at training women in electrical trades. The next year Frazer
became a leading spokesperson for employees when almost the entire City Light work force walked
off their jobs in protest of management practices. She was elected by workers to head a committee to draft an employee bill of rights and responsibilities, .. whidl former City Light Super
intendent Gordon Vickery refused to implement.
Fraser claims she then became the target of an intensive red-baiting campaign, reminiscent
of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s. An anonymous leaflet surfaced which labeled her a
Trotskyite Communist .. and included her voting record for Freedom Socialist Party presidential
candidates.
She was removed as electrical trainees coordinator and her subsequent job assignments were
downgraded. A memo was circulated denouncing the trainees• .. militance .. and Fraser•s excessive
.. influence over them.
Then, Vickery ordered that a new civil service examination be prepared for the position she
held. The analyst assigned to the task protested, calling it .. a hatchet job .. to remove Fraser.
After being rebuked by his supervisor, he left his job.
Since her termination in 1975, Fraser has been steadfast in what has become an uncommonly
long and rigorous legal fight. The Seattle Human Rights Department determined that discrimination had taken place in her case. Armed with a lawyer paid for by the city, Fraser•s suit is
tHe first test of Seattle•s Fair Employment Practices Act, which forbids, among other things,
job discrimination on the basis of political ideology.
In June, a city hearing examiner, civil liberties lawyer Sally Pasette, ruled in favor of
Fraser, awarding her back pay and damages and ordering City Light to reinstate her in her job.
But, 30 days later, the three-member hearing panel, made up of volunteers from the communi
voted 2-1 to overturn the ruling.
Clara Fraser says she•s not giving up. Instead, she has filed an appeal with King County
Superior Court challenging not only the final ruling in her case, but also the city•s hearing
process itself.
October 20 she•ll discuss her precedent-setting case and ' how it relates to the ·current
political climate in this country. She•11 also review her long career of involvement in civil
rights issues. Her free talk is sponsored by The Evergreen Political Information Center and
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Former Information Services Director Dick Nichols has agreed to serve as keynote spea ker
for the tenth anniversary luncheon of the Evergreen College Community Organization slated
November 14 at noon at the Westwater Inn. Nichols, current assistant to Tumwater Sc hool Superin tendent Jim Pill, served as the college's first information director from 1968 to 1976. He'll
share the speaker's platform with former President Charles McCann at the event, designed to
honor original members and past cochairwomen of ECCO, which was formed in 1970 to promote understanding and cooperation between "town and gown."
Budget Officer Mike Bigelow is moving up in the world --- and he's taking two others with
him. Bigelow has been named to a nine-month appointment as coordinator of business affairs for
t he Office of State College and University Presidents, replacing Bruce Beecher, who will serve
as higher education analyst for the Senate Ways and f•1eans Committee until July 1. Bigelow' s
new post will consume 75% of his time; the remaining 25% will be devoted to Evergreen budget
matters. Helping him with that task will be Library Budget Coordinator~ ~Jarbler, who will
work half-time in the budget office and half time for the library. Bigelow, \:Jarbler , and Budget
Analyst Diane Steele will move to new offices on the third floor of the library (room 3232) on
Hednesday.
External Credit Coordinator Jan Krones has retired after ten years service at Everg reen.
Her responsibilities have been assigned to Faculty r~ember Paul t1arsh. Also assuming new tasks
in recent weeks have been: Ozell Gaines, a former occupational analyst and planner for Stanford
Research Institute's field office in Seattle, who has begun work as an admissions counsel or;
former Financial Aid Director ~Atwood, who has returned to that office after a two-year
absence to work as a full-time counselor; and alum Mike Hall, creator and former owner of
Olympia's Gnu Deli restaurant, who is a full-time counse~in the Office of Cooperative Education. Hal Keating, former office assistant in the Registrar's Office has begun a new job as
urity officer.
Faculty ~1ember Paul Sparks is opening a one-man show of his recent paintings and drawings
at the Kiku Gallery on East Pike Street in Seattle. His display opens tomorrow and conti nues
through October 31. Gallery hours are 12:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a .m. to
5 p.m. Saturdays.
Student Corey Meador has been appointed coordinator of Intramural Recreation for the
College Recreation Center. Intramural, says Meador, involves recreation programm in g fo r t hose
af filiated with Evergreen, and most of the events will take place within the camp us commu nity .
He hopes his intramural programs will serve those who enj oy light, fun compet ition and a cha ce
t o play with a group. "I want intramurals to be a place where both the "joc ks " an d the "non jocks" feel free to compete enthusiastically without having to worry about how s kil led t hey are,
who wins or loses, and some of those other issues which can take the fun out of pl aying," he
says. He'll sponsor a variety of events, he says, "to accommodate both the hardco re and t he
l ess devout sportspersons, such as flag football, softball, new games, kayak races and swatball.~
~1e ador invites all to share their ideas for sports in which they'd like to compete.
Reach him
at 866-6530.
Librarian Pat Matheney-White has been named Evergreen's copyright compliance 'officer by
Provost Byron Youtz. Evergreeners are invited to consult with her on all copyright questions,
whether they're in regard to reprint materials for academic use or to original mater ia ls for
wh ich copyright protection might be sought.
f•1arilyn ~1roz, coordinator of the l~ashington ~Jomen's Heritage project based on campus, was
in Alaska recently to attend a regional workshop on "interpreting the humanit i es t hrough mus eum
exhibits." The conference sought to advance appreciation and knowledge of local his t ory i n the
U.S. and Canada and was sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History and
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Nancy f. Jones, an Evergreen alum, will have her first book published soon by Li t tle ,
and Company of Boston. Jones reports her book, called The~ Princess, is a modern
fairy tale that explores friendship and physical beauty. Jones also recently won f i rst pr ize
in the juvenile short story division of the Pacific Northwest Writer's Conference. Her story ,
The Well-Made Kite, is a picture manuscript about a Japanese thief who tries to steal two
golden dolphin-s.---She hopes to negotiate its publication with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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... HIGHEST ENROLLMENT IN EVERGREEN HISTORY .... AND WE'RE NOT DONE YET ... As this Newsletter
went to press, Evergreen Registrar Walker Allen reported,"we have already achieved the
highest head count in college history --- and we still have seven more days in which to
register students." At 11:30 a.m. October 1, exactly 2,637 students had enrolled for

Fall Quarter classes, one student ahead of the previous high of 2,636 recorded in fall of

1976. The early figures are also more than 100 students over last fall's enrollment,
tarulated at the tenth class day. Allen predicts the college's total head count this year
will be substantially ahead of last year's --- and of the 1976 total --- by the final
deadline of October 10 .

... LATEST REPORT SHOWS 93% OF ALUMS PLACED ... Ninety-three percent of Evergreen's graduates
who have reported to the Office of Career Planning and Placement have been successfully
placed in jobs, graduate schools or other situations of their choice, according to CP&P
Coordinator Joyce Weston.
The statistics,which cover the first eight graduating classes, show a total of 2,605
alums have reported their activities; of those, 2,416 have secured placement. Sixty-eight
.Percent (1 ,762) are employed; 19% (507) are in graduate schools; 7% (195) are seeking employment, and 6% (147) are traveling, homemaking or involved in other activities of their
choice.
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New to the annual report is a detailed survey of the number of alums who have completed graduate degrees. Of the 2,319 reporting from the Classes of 1971-78 (those who
have had time to complete graduate study), 480 are attending or have completed graduate
work in more 'than 190 institutions throughout the nation and the world. Of those 133
(28%) have completed their degrees.
Early figures on the Class of 1979, the most recent group to be surveyed, show that
class has continued the pattern of previous graduates and achieved a 93% placement rate.
Of the 286 students from the Class of 1979 who reported their activities, 266 (93%) are
placed, including 209 (73%) who are working, 27 (10%) who have been accepted in graduate
or other schools, 30 (10%) who are traveling, homemaking, etc., and 20 (7%) who are still
seeking employment .
... FIVE ALUMS SEEKING ELECTIVE OFFICE ... Marilyn Ward, Class of 1979, has become the first
Evergreen graduate to seek state-wide elective office. Ward, a Seattle Republican, is
running for state treasurer and is the only woman on the state-wide November 4 ballot.
Four other Evergreen graduates will also face the voters next month: incumbent Vancouver
legislators Dennis Heck and Shirley Galloway, both Democrats, are seeking reelection to
the House. Eleanor Lee, a Republican from King County's Thirdy-Third District, is running
to retain her seat in the State Senate. Also facing an election battle next month is alum
George Barner, running as a Democrat for his second term on the Thurston County Commission .
... GRADUATES JOIN COLLEGE STAFF ... Three Evergreen graduates are among five n~w professiona
staff persons hired this fall in the offices of Development, Cooperative Education, Admissions and Financial Aid. Donovan Gray, a 1976 alum who most recently served as grants
manager for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has joined the Development Office staff.as a
. half-time grants coordinator. Toni Holm, a 1978 grad, h~s been named to two half-t1~e
positions: as research assistant in the Development off1ce and as development coord1nator
for KAOS FM radio. Mike Hall, creator and former owner of Olympia's Gnu Deli restaurant,
has become a full-time counselor in the Office of Cooperative Education.
Also new to the Evergreen staff is admissions counselor Ozell Gaines, who served as
an occupational analyst and planner for Stanford Research Institute's field office in
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of entertaining events to campus. Major coming attractions in the next six weeks include:
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Thurston County Association for Retarded Citizens. Play opens Friday, October 10 in
Experimental Theater of Communications Building and continues at 8 p.m. October 11, 12,
17, 18 and 19. Tickets available at Evergreen Bookstore and Yenney•s Music. Reservations
may be made by calling 866-6070.
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Powerful 11 KAOS Celebration, October 15, 11 a.m., 89.3 FM. Campus/community station
KAOS celebrates its quadruple jump in power with special hour-long program featuring
Thurston County's three 11 big city 11 mayors and founding staff member Mike Hall.
ECCO Membership Cel£Pration, October 16, 7-9 p.m., home of Nancy and Dan Evans. All
new and continuing members of Evergreen College Community Organization invited to celebrate
tenth anniversary of the group, dedicated to fostering good relations between 11 town and
gown. 11
Mica Mime TrouRe Performs, October 23-25, 8 p.m., Experimental Theater, Communications
Bui 1ding. The four-member troupe brings its newest production, 11 Sti x N Stones 11 to campus,
complete with pointed observations on the absurdity of warfare, children's fables, and a
delightful combination of social commentary and original comedy. Tickets at the door only.
Candidates Fair and Forum, Saturday, October 24, noon-6 p.m., second floor Library
lobby .... Candidates for all major state-wide and Thurston County offices participate in
series of four pub 1i c fo-rums and in fair offering campaign 1 i terature and chance to meet
the political contenders. Free swimming and cartoons for kids.
Cal Tjader, renowned jazz musician, brings his sextet to campus, October 28, 8 p.m.,
Experimenta 1 Theater, Communications Buil i dng. Tjader, known as 11 a captivating, uni nhibited, spirited Renaissance man of jazz, 11 is a fanner member of Dave Brubeck Trio and
George Shearing Quintet. Tickets available now at Evergreen Bookstore and Yenneys .. $5 ..
ECCO Luncheon, Friday, November 14, noon, downtown restaurant to be selected. This
special event will honor the founding members of the Evergreen College Community Organization and those persons in the greater Olympia area who have worked with the college
during its first decade .
. . . 300 EXPECTED TO CONVENE ON CAMPUS ... More than 300 members of the 14ashington AJ Hance
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance are expected to convene for a two-day
an~ual conference at Evergreen October 10 and 11. The group, which includes public and
~r1vate school t~achers and college instructors from throughout the state, will participa
1n workshops _d~s1gned to keep faculty abreast of their fields by sharing information and
research, ga1n1ng up-to-date details on pertinent legislation at the state and federal
levels, and viewing a variety of exhibits demonstrating the latest in health and physical
education equipment.

The Evergreen State College

October 3, · 1980
HIGHEST ENROLLMENT IN EVERGREEN HISTORY IS ALREADY HERE!
As the Newsletter went to press Wednesday morning, college officials were predicting that,
by the end of the day we'll have the highest head count in Evergreen's history ... Institutional
Research Director Steve Hunter reported Wednesday morning that, as of Tuesday night, 11 We were
within 13 students of surpassing our previous high of 2636, enrolled in Fall Quarter of 1976 ...
The Tuesday night count showed 2,623 students enrolled, which included 2,051 full-time and 572
part-time Evergreeners. Those figures are already 109 higher than the final, tenth day count
for last Fall Quarter.
Not only is the head count higher than last fall, Hunter happily pointed out, but the fulltime equivalent count (FTE) for this year is already 126 higher than it was for last fall. ~Jhat's
happening, Hunter explained, is that this year students are enrolling for more credit hours, thus
fewer students are needed to generate the target goal of 2500 FTE for the 1980-81 academic year.
Hunter emphasized that Tuesday's figures ,.are a lpng way from final --- we still have three more
days of regular registration, and another week for late comers before our tenth day final report
is due ...
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.NINETY-THREE PERCENT OF REPORTING ALUMS PLACED; 133 GRADUATE DEGREES EARNED
Ninety-three percent of Evergreen's graduates who have reported to the Office of Career
Planning and Placementhave been successfully placed in jobs, graduate schools or other situations
of their choice, according to CP&P Coordinator Joyce Weston.
The statistics, which cover the first eight graduating classes, show a total of 2,605 alums
have reported their activities; of those, 2,416 have secured placement. Sixty-eight percent
(1,762) are employed; 19% (507) are in graduate schools; 7% (195) are seeking employment, and
6% (147) are traveling, homemaking or involved in other activities of their choice.
28% OF GRAD STUDENTS HAVE COMPLETED DEGREES
New to the annual report, issued the first of September, is a detailed survey on the number
of alums who have completed graduate degrees. Of the 2,319 reporting from the Classes of 1971-78
(those who have had time to complete graduate study), 480 are attending or have completed graduate work in more than 190 institutions throughout the nation and the world. Of those, 133 (28%)
have completed advanced degrees.
Among Evergreen alums are at least two medical doctors, 13 lawyers and four proud possessors
of doctorates. Forty-two graduates have completed their master of arts degrees, 24 have earned
their master of science degrees, and 11 have gained their masters in education. In addition, 5
alums hold masters in public administration, 12 have earned teacher certification, 3 hold masters
in library science, and 7 hold masters in business administration. Five graduates have completed
masters degrees in social work, 2 in public health, and one each in business science, fine arts,
and regional planning. The number of completed graduate degrees represents 6% of the alums from
1-78 who have reported their activities. That figure, Weston cautions, is low. \~e know
are many others who have earned graduate degrees, but we haven't been able to get official
ification from them yet, 11 says she, herself an Evergreen alum (Class of '76 and possessor of
a masters degree in higher education administration).
CLASS OF 1979 SHOWS 93% PLACED
Figures on the Class of 1979, the most recent group to be surveyed, are not as complete as
they have been in past years. Of the more than 600 students who graduated that year, the CP&P
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office has information on only 286, or 47%, Weston says.
For a number of reasons, we just
d~dn't get as many ~embers of that class to participate in the exit interviews; hence our inf
t1on on that class 1s not as complete as it has been in years past ... But for those who did
port the placement pattern is following that of all previous classes.
the 286 from the Class of 1979 who did report their activities, 266 (93%) are placed,
1nclud1ng 209 (73%) who are working, 27 (10%) who have been accepted in graduate or other school
30 (10%) who are traveling, homemaking, etc., and 20 (7%) who are still seeking employment.
As in past years, members of the Class of 1979 have continued to select counseling and
social services as a major career interest area. Eleven percent of the '79 graduates indicated
counseling and social services as their top career choice, followed by 10% who selected biologica
and environmental sciences, 8% who chose visual arts or public administration, 6% who selected
business and management or medicine, health and nutrition, and 5% who chose communications. Popu
l ar with 4% of those surveyed were literature, humanities and writing, all levels of education,
and the performing arts.
Copies of the complete placement report are available now from Weston in CP&P, Library 1214.
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WARD HEADS LIST OF ALUM OFFICE SEEKERS
Marilyn Ward, Class of 1979, has become the first Evergreen graduate to seek state-wide
office. Ward:-a-seattle Republican, is running for state treasurer and is the only woman seeking state-wide office on November 4. Four other Evergreen graduates will also face the voters
next month: incumbent Vancouver legislators Dennis Heck and Shirley Galloway, both Democrats,
are seeking reelection to the House. Eleanor Lee, a Republican from King County's Thirty-Third
District> is running to retain her seat in the State Senate. Also facing an election battle next
month is alum George Barner, running as a Democrat for his second term on the Thurston County
Commission.
outreach update
VANCOUVER LAUNCHES NEW COMMUNICATION PROGRAM; PORT ANGELES FOCUSES ON "AGAINST PROGRESS"
The Evergreen-Vancouver program launched its fifth year of operation this week with the
first half of a two-year program devoted to "Coi11Tlunication," and the second half of a two-year
study in "Management and the Public Interest:' Simultaneously the Evergreen-Port Angeles program
began its second year with a study called "Against Progress, .. which focuses on western European
history, literature and philosophy.
The new Vancouver "Communication .. program offers advanced studies in humanities and social
sciences and is coordinated by veteran Evergreen faculty member Philip Harding. He and four
other faculty will devote the year to exploring "Communication," an activity Harding sees as
basic to all of human interaction." All students in the program will attend weekly lectures
and seminars devoted to "the philosophical task of defining reality, of examining how accurately
we perceive what's real and how clearly we interpret that reality in our exchange of information,"
he says. During Winter Quarter Harding's group will focus on the question, "what is equality,"
and spring term students will seek to answer "what is beauty?"
Teaching the Communication program with Harding this year are Virginia Darney, Ronna Loewen,
nd during Fall Quarter, librarian Frank ~1otley, who will offer a course in library research
ethodology.
Also taught at Vancouver this year will be "Making Decisions," a year-long program coordinated by Gayle Rothrock ' with the assistance Fall Quarter of Dr. Art Mulka. During Winter Quarter
perry Lassen will join the Vancouver team, along with former Academic Dean Will Humphreys. And,
pring Quarter, Humphreys and Dr. David Paulsen, visiting faculty member, will join the EvergreenSouth teaching team.
Rothrock says the focus of the ~1PI program this year is on "examining the rational and
creative processes for solving problems and making decisions." During all three quarters s
s
'will study decision theory and systems, ways to implement and evaluate policies, and use of
.omputers and quantitative analysis methods," she adds. "We'll also examine ways human behavior
ffects decision making."
Faculty Member Gil Salcedo has moved to Port Angeles this year to direct the year-long
Against Progress" study program. Aided Fall Quarter by Humphreys, Salcedo and his students will
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xamine the period of history from the French Revolution to the present, an era, Salced~ says,
is usually viewed and taught as an examination of the histo ry of human progress, focus1ng on
he rise of democratic society and the development of new technol ogy and material successes.
"But," he says, "there appears now to be a more sober and di si ll us i oned sense of the fu~ure . "
etter understand this pessimism and to more clearly perceive what led to the disintegrat~on
f western Europe after World War 1, Salcedo believes students need to study the Counter Enllghtnment, the rise of political and social theories that deve l oped in reaction to the French
evolution. His students this year will examine the works of authors and artists who expressed
he conservative and reactionary positions of society, those who believed that, fundamentally,
there is no progress in human affairs, that all th i ngs that are have been before and shall
orne again.
The Evergreen-Port Angeles program is also offering a part-time course in studio art, this
ear taught by Adjunct Faculty Member Gary Seeling, a photography and j ournalism teacher at
lallam Bay School in the Cape Flattery School District .
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ABINETS, COUNCILS, COORDINATING COMMITTEES DEFINED
What or who is/are the President's Cabinet? The President' s Council? The Evergreen Council?
he Enrollment Coordinating Committee? As the school yea r begins, new, remodeled and continuing
roups resume regular meeting schedules and all members of the campus community may need an upate on who belongs to what. In brief:
President's Cabinet: A small group comprised of those who report di rectly to President
an Evans. Scheduled to meet on a weekly basis, this gro up usual ly i ncludes Provost Byron Youtz,
ice President for Business Richard Schwartz, Assistant to the Pres i dent and Director of
ommunity Relations Les Eldridge>Director of College Relati ons Chuck Fowler, Dean of Student and
nrollment Services Larry Stenberg and Director of Employee Relat i ons and Affirmative Action
ita Cooper.
President's Council: a slightly larger group that meet s on at least a monthly basis to
r with the president. This group usually includes all members of the President's Cabinet
Academic Deans Barbara Smith and John Perkins , Ass is t an t Academic Deans York Wong and
icard Alexander, Computer Services Director John Aikin , Fac il it i es Director Dave Uallbom,
usiness f·1anager Ken Winkley, Library Dean JovanaBrown , Budget Officer t~ike B.,.-gelow.
Evergreen Council: a 30-member group charged by the college governance document (COG III)
o COnstitute the forum for discussion and advice on iss ues affecting the college.
The Council
lso has a watchdog function and is the place Where the coll ege's principles are reiterated
nd actions are weighed for compliance with those principles.
Members for this year's Council
ave ~ot all b~en selected, but Assistant to the President Les Eld ri dge has been asked to set up
he f1rst meet1ng, to be scheduled before the end of the mont h. Once formally organized the
roup will include the president or his designee, four exempt staff , five classified staff, five
aculty and 15 students, with each group selected from wit hi n its own constituency. Meetings
re usually held every other Wednesday in the College Actities Bui ldi ng.
Enrollment Coordinating Committee: a 13-member group whi ch originally developed at the
ecommendation of the Enrollment Disappearing Task Force to coo rdinate all activities related to
nrollment growth. Usually scheduled to meet on Friday afternoon , the committee is chaired by
huck Fowler and includes: Admissions Director Arnalda Rodri guez, Institutional Research Director
!teve ~unter, Educational Outreach Coordinator Earlyse Swift, Information Director Judy ~1cNickle,
ducat:onal Support Services Director Stone Thomas, Academic Advisor Larry Eickstaedt, Developent D1rector Sue \·lashburn, Alumni Coordinator Bonnie t-1arie, plus Smith, Stenberg, Eldridge,
nd College Relations Secretary Ellie Dornan.
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IRING FREEZE LIFTED, BUT NEW HIRES MUST AWAIT FINAL BUDGET DECISIONS
President Dan Evans said Wednesday that, despite the gover nor's order to lift the hiring
e, no decisions~filling vacant positions would be made unti l later this month. First
d last spring, the freeze was lifted in a two-part executive order issued by the Governor
n , onday. The second part of that order imposed the lon g-awa i ted tWo percent budget cut.
ecause Evergreen officials are just this week finalizing plans f or mak i ng those cuts ---which
auld amount to a $225,000 chunk out of the remainder of this year' s operating budget --- Evans
aid, "we will not now act to fill vacant positions.
Instead, t he president said decisions on
ew hires will be made after the October 16 Board of Trustees meet i ng, which will consider final
ction on the two percent budget cutback.
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-4upcoming events
BRIEF CALENDAR OF

~1AJOR

fl.TTRACTIONS OFFERED

Fall Quarter promises to bring a variety of entertaining events to campus. Major coming
at tractions in the next six weeks include:
"Take A Card, · Any Card," a handicap awareness play produced in cooperation with the Thurston
County Association for Retarded Citizens. Play opens Friday, October 10 in Experimental Theater
and continues at 8 p.m. October 11,12,17,18 and 19. Tickets available at Bookstore and Yenney's
f•1us i c.
"Powerful" KAOS Celebration, October 15, 11 a.m., 89.3 Fr1. Campus/community station KAOS
ce lebrates its quadruple jump in power with special hour-long program featuring Thurston County's
three "b ig city" mayors and founding staff member Mike Hall.
ECCO Membership Celebration, October 16, 7-9 p.m., home of Nancy and Dan Evans. All new
and cont inuing members of Evergreen College Community Organization invited to celebrate tenth
anni ve r sa ry of the group, dedicated to fostering good relations between "town and gown."
Mica Mi me Troupe Performs, October 23,24,25, 8 p.m., Experimental Theater. The four-member
troupe br ings its newest production "Stix N Stones" to campus, comp1etewith pointed observations
on the absurdity of warfare, children's fables, and a delightful combination of social commentary
and or i gina l comedy. Tickets available at the door.
Cal Tjader, renowned jazz musician brings his sextet to campus, October 28, 8 p.m., Experimental Th ea t er. Tjader, known as "a captivating, uninhibited, spirited Renaissance man of jazz,"
is a former member of Dave Brubeck Trio and George Shearing Quintet. Tickets available now at
Bookstore and Yenney's for $5 each.
"Schemers and Dreamers Jubilee," November 14, 6 p.m., fourth floor library. Unreliable
sources say this event, designed to honor (?) planning faculty and staff, will feature a fine
feast , un predictable, uproarious, outrages
and worse. Budget $10 and mark your calendars.
~OMEN

ME ET TO DISCUSS CURRICULUM WEDNESDAY

Homen faculty and staff will begin a schedule of bi-weekly meetings next Wednesday to discuss
women's i ss ues and considerations in relation to development of Evergreen's academic curriculum.
Faculty fvlember Lovern King says the initial meeting of the group, held on September 18, involved
30 campus women who contributed ideas and suggestions for curriculum consideration and decided
to convene on t he second and fourth \•Jednesdays of every month for open, brown bag discussions.
She says eac h sess i on will feature a presentation on specific portions of the curriculuM and
each will have "a definite agenda" to be discussed.
Wednesday 's meet i ng, set for noon-1:30 in CAB 108, will feature a discussion on the "Human
Relations Cu r ri cu l um" in f~innesota, offered by Visiting Faculty ~lember Julie Andrzejewski. The
second meetin g this month, slated for October 22, will feature Visiting Faculty Member Gail
Tremblay dis cu ss ing "~1ulti-Cultural Curriculum" as taught at universities in Nebraska and Iowa.
Al l Everg reen faculty and staff women are invited. For details, contact King (Lab II, room
3271, 866-6753 ) .
TWO-PERSON SHOWOPENS GALLERY FOUR
A two- student show of two-dimensional works opens October 4 in Gallery Four at Evergreen.
The dis play, which is open and free to the public through October 26, features prints and photos
by Doug Plummer and drawings and paintings by Elizabeth Hunter. Both artists are Evergreen
seniors.
Their exhibit is the first of the 1980-81 season in Gallery Four, located in room 4002 of
the Library. Exhibit hours are from noon to 6 p.m. on weekdays and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturdays
and Sundays .
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EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Faculty Member Peter Elbow was in Los Angeles last week for a two-day conference of the
National Institute of Education and Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The conference sought to promote sharing of research among persons who write and who teach writing.
Elbow was asked to serve as a commentator on presentations made by college and university faculty
f rom throughout the country.

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