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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 4, Number 30 (May 20, 1976)
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20 May 1976
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Evergreen Subject
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Student Organizing and Activism
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Curriculum
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Media Studies/Arts
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Pg.1: CPJ Leads S&A Survery, but...;
Pg.1: Budget: Services Down Facilities Up (photo: The Academic Fair);
Pg.1: Poet James Tate to Perform;
Pg.2: Letters: Kormondy's Response Chilling (photo: Wolf by: Eric Krieger;
Pg.2: Letters: This Place Has Let Me Down;
Pg.2: Journal Staff;
Pg.2: Letters: Blue Jeans VS. Polyester Pant Suits;
Pg.2: Letters: Nothing Worse than Conventional Radicals;
Pg.2: Letters:"Smugs" Ridiculous, Sexist;
Pg.2: Letters: It Was Fun While It Lasted.
Pg.2: (advertisments) Pete & GAy's Resturaunt;
Pg.2: (advertisments) Archibald Sisters Merchantile;
Pg.3: A Womans Comentary: Crashing Through Age-Old Barriers (photo: Women
Dancing by: Toulouse, Arlie;
Pg.4: In Brief: News From Academic Advising;
Pg.4: In Brief: EAC Seeks Members (photo: Actors sponsored by the Theatre of the
Unemployed);
Pg.4: In Brief: Greek Festival Workshop With Omar Batiste;
Pg.4: (advertisment) Evergreen Coins and Investments;
Pg.4: (advertisment) Exhibits Coordinator Job Opening;
Pg.4: (advertisment) Red Apple Nattural Foods;
Pg.4: (advertisment) Word Of Mouth Books;
Pg.4: (advertisment) Rainbow Deli;
Pg.5: Announcments;
Pg.5: More letters (continued from page 2);
Pg.5: Classified Ads;
Pg.5: (advertisments) Dirty Dave's Gay 90's;
Pg.5: (advertisments) Interested in Employment or Graduate School in Counseling
and Social Services?;
Pg.5: (advertisments) Raudenbush Motor Supply;
Pg.5: (advertisments) MB Audio;
Pg.5: (advertisments) ELD Equipment;
Pg.6: Commentary: Evergreen In Trouble;
Pg.6: Commentary: The Fast Forgotten Singer/Songwriter;
Pg.6: (advertisments) The Artichoke Mode;
Pg.6: (advertisments) Baha'i House of Worship;
Pg.6: (advertisments) The Duck House;
Pg.6: (advertisments) South Sound National Bank;
Pg.6: (advertisments) Careers in Journalism;
pg.7: Entertainment: Student Film-Makers: Gripes Galore (photo: Student Lee
Meister at work "Get Off My Toe");
Pg.7: (advertisment) Grace Piano Service;
Pg.7: (advertisment) Farmers Insurance of Washington;
Pg.7: (advertisment) Paul's Mobil Service;
Pg.7: (advertisment) Olympia Greenhouses;
Pg.7: Entertainment: General Arts and Entertainment Listings;
Pg.8: (advertisment) Evergreen State College Housing Office;
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Buster, Doug
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Taylor, Bill
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Wright, Jim
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Chotzen, Claudia
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Milton, Curtis
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Kathy, Sickles
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Foster, Frankie
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Groening, Matt
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Toulouse, Arlie
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Krieger, Erik
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Nasser, Alan
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Rainey, Tom
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Beyer, Susan
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Rabow, Stephen D.
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Luckerman, Doug
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House, Louis
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Ahka, Dan
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Foster, John S.
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Stewart, Jill
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Milton, Curtis
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Riddell, Catherine
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Groening, Matthew
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Solomon, Sam
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Buster, Doug
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Gilbreath, Ford
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Locke, Ti
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Wright, Jim
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Gil, Joe
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Feyk, Jim
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Judd, David
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Schmitt, Mark
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The Evergreen State College Budget
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Songwriting
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FilmMaking
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Tate, James
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Batiste, Omar
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Meister, Lee
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Cooper Point Journal
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eng
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Washington State
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Olympia, WA
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Thurston County, WA
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The Evergreen State College Board of Publications and members of the Evergreen community
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10 pages
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1976
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CPJ Leads S&A
Survey, but ...
-_.--The Academic Fair was held all day Wednesday in the Library Lobby,
Faculty sat by tables representing their programs and talked with prospective students. Registration for fall quarter began Wednesday and will
continue through October 4 ,
Budget: Services Down,
Facilities Up,
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Student Services
$ 424,268
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Adm in istration
$ 1,028.407
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Institutiona l Rt>Serv
$ 170,087
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Instruction &:
$3,372,652
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Organized Activities Re lated
Educational Departments
$ 299,057
Dep~rtmental
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The Theatre of the Crushing Rose
6 %, dow n 3%
This graph SIIOWS w ho gets what portion of Evergreen 's 1976 - 77 budgetary
pie, For each of th e seven budget programs, it shows tile dollar amount they
will receive, each program 's percentage of
the total, and percentage increase or de crease from 1975 - 76, The pie represents
" Total Funds Available for A llo cation"
plus institutional reserves, This is based
on current enrollm ent figures , It does not
include th e Enro llm ent Reserve of
$522,792 which will be released partially
or totally, depending on how much of the
projected 2,882 enrollmcnt projection is
reached, The new budget is an increase of
2% over 1975 - 76 compared to an increase of 6% in the Consumer Price In dex,
by Jim Wright
Allocation of the proposed 1976 - 77
budget has changed again since last week
according to Evergreen AdministrativE
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THE COOPER POINT
13% , down 3%
Come live at our place this Spring and Summer and
share the conveniences of living on campus, including
free utilities and free phone service.
Each apartment comes complete with its own kitchen
and private bathroom not usually found in traditional
hOUSing, Wall-to-wall carpeting is in each apartment
to soften the floors while laundry facilities are just
around the corner. And, if you're not afraid of
heights, we can even throw in a view either east or
west.
Rental prices do vary, but can be as low as $40 per
month based upon multiple occupancy and availability , For example, you and three friends can rent a
furnished two bedroom duplex for $160 per month.
So if you're a student, a faculty member, or a staff
member you can come live at our place,
To find out more about campus housing, stop by the
Housing Office or givl/ us a call at 6132,
Career Planning Computer
MECHA
Chamber Singers iJazz Ensemble
Women's Soccer
Experimental Structure
Counseling Subsidy
Asian Coalitior1
Ujamaa
Men's Cen ter
Mountaineering
Campus Major Production
Musical Theatre Dance
Women's Softball
Women 's Basketball
Men's Soccer
Press
Third World Women's Org .
EPIC
Coffee Ho use
Geoduck Yacht Club
Folk dance
Gay Resource Center
Organic Farmhouse
River Rats
Women's Fi lms
Men's Basketball
Bookstore
Forensics
Duck House
Evergreen Promotion Money
Center For Poetry
Faith Center
Food Service
Roll-up Door
The Evergreen State College· Olympia, Washington 98505
5%, down 8 %
Come Live At Our Place.
The COOPER POINT JOURNAL was
rated as "most important" in last week's
S&A funding survey, but only 35 people
turned surveys in, and according to a
worker in the S&A oHice, some people
filled theirs au t twice.
Although the survey was intended to
help guide the Services and Activities Re view Board in making funding decisions:
the small turnout is likely to change that
plan.
The entire rating is as follows:
Organization
Total Points
Cooper Point Journal
146
Friday Night Films
141
Driftwood Day Care
138
Women's Clini;:
133
131
Bus Subsidy (even ing)
CRC Operations
126
Activities Bldg.
123
CRC Equipment
121
Leisure Ed .
120
SHLAP (Self Help Legal Aid)
119
119
Bus Subsidy Inter-City
115
Recreation Arts Facilities
Speaker's Bureau
III
Bicycle Repair
111
S&A Board Operations
107
Gig Commission
106
CAB Operations
105
Women's Center
105
NASA
101
Film Reso urce Bank
100
Career Planning Job Day
98
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LAST JOURNAL
NEXT WEEK
The COOPER POINT JOURNAL ' S final publication for
Spring is next week, May 27,
Because next week is the last
chance for important announcements, letters to the editor, etc"
we are expecting a crush of
people , For this reason, people
who really want to get something
into the paper have the best
chance if they bring it to our
office (CAB 306) tomorrow, Friday,
All copy submitted ' must be
typed, double-spaced.
The JOURNAL will resume
publication July I, 1976 and will
put out four papers for summer
quarter.
The position for News Editor
is open for summer quarter, People wishing to apply should contact Editor Jill Stewart at ihe
JOURNAL.
Vice President Dean Clabaugh ,
The ope rating budget is divided into six
broad categories for allocation (see graph) .
In a meeting lasting all day Monday, an
approximate $71,000 was re-allocated between budgetary programs, Re-allocation
of $62,500 of this amount was made possible through Jerry Schillinger's resignation as Director of Facilities ($27,000
salary) and through savings incurred by
delayed occupancy of the new Communications Laboratory building ($35 ,500).
Of the $71 ,000 re-allocated, $15,500
was budgeted to Administration and General Expense for transfer of two personnel
from Student Accounts into Enrollment
Services (formerly Student Services) , Enrollment Services received $11,000 for remodeling of the Enrollment Services office
area, In addition, full 12-month salaries
were reinstated for Pete Steilberg, Gail
Martin, and Bonnie Hilts,
The Plant Operation and Maintenance
budget was slashed by the $62,500 mentioned above to fund re-allocations to
other budgetary programs, Instruction
and Departmental Research was allocated
an additional $37,500 for improvement of
support services including secretaries and
laboratory technicians, Four thousand five
hundred dollars was also set aside for
support of the Daycare Center,
Finally, Organized Activities related to
Educational Departments received an additional $2,500 for improvement and restoration of administrative computing systems,
Turning to the overall budget picture
relative to last year, Evergreen is receiving
~,504,367 for the coming fiscal year, a
9 % increase over the $7,794,445 allotted
last year.
These figures are misleading, however,
in that $522,862 of the apparent $709,902
increase is committed to the Contracted
Enrollment Reserve which the college does
not receive unless enrollment goes up between now and fall term , The actual in crease in available funds, $170,087, is
allocated to the institutional reserve,
Poet James Tate
to Perform
by Bill Taylor
Nationally known poet James Tate will
read at Evergreen May 27 at 8 in L1i
three , At the age of twenty-two, Tate's
first book, The Lost Pilot, won the Yale
Series of Younger Poets Award , Since
that time James Tate has published severa l books of poems including three major
collections titled, The Oblivion Ha Ha,
Absences, and Hints to Pilgrims. He has a
new book forthcom ing this fall titled Viper's Jazz,
James Tate is brilliant. He writes with a
curious sensitivity that always eflcompasses intelligence, humor and ease as he
explores relationships with himself and
others in his world, Tate reads his work
superbly, Anyone who does not listen
close enough may link Tate to the Richard Brautigan mode in that both poets
consistently find ways to keep their audiences amused. But Tate goes beyond that ,
often utili zing humor in highly surreal
settings:
These hands consider
stillness a giving
in. I dreamed I had
to watch a handshake
chipped from the floor of
the Arctic Ocean
eterna lly this
afternoon and the
possibility
of something still worse
never occurred . , ,
It is very easy to step into Tate's poems
and move with him, There's a good rea son for this, Tate often writes in an absorbing conversational tone as if he were
talking to himself on the phone, and cluing all of us in on his musings. He begins
the poem " Intimidations of an Autobiog-
raphy" in this~ay :
I am wa/ ~irrg a trail
on a friend's farm
about tlrree miles from
town , I arra'lge the day
for you, 1 stop and say ,
you would not believe how ha/Jpy
I was as a child,
to so m e logs, Blustery wind
puts tumbleweed
irr my face as I am
pretending to be' o n my way
horn e to see you and
the family again.
Later in the poem Tate resumes this di a ogue with himself :
, , , Just betwe!,n
us , you know what I'm doirrg
now? I'm calling th e cows horne,
They 're coming too,
I lower
myself to the ground lazily ,
a shower of avuncular krsses
issuing from my hands and lips I just wanted to tell you
I remember you even now ;
Goodbye, goodbye , Here corne the
cows,
Tate's work, says poet/critic Michael
Dennis-Browne, "has the potential of altering our ways of perceiving things . ,
and if we come to feel. after reading him ,
potentially color blind, then this sense of
deficiency may be the first symptom of a
new health."
There is a one dollar donation requested
to help cover the cost of the event, but if
you do not have the money, don't let that
stop you from coming. James Tate shou ld
be heard by everyone, poor friends and
rich friends alike.
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LETTERS
A WOMAN'S COMMENTARY
BLUE JEANS VS.
POLYESTER
PANT SUITS
KORMONDY'S
RESPONSE CHILLING
contracts, It this is indeed a response to a fin ancial crisis, then
these terminations will be effected rega rdl ess of the faculty
memb e r's compe tence or academic productivity,
The Provost may decide to
"let go" older members of the
facu lty wit h higher salaries in
order to hire younger members
at a fraction of the cost. This is
not idle specula tion. In a recent
case, the Provost has used the
crit erion of "age and wisdom" to
determine a faculty member 's
value to the college, In this context , the Provost's insistence that
"personnel" decisions a re "personal" must be seen as a claim to
absolu te managerial authority,
As the Provost himself said, "If
they're worried, maybe they
should be,"
We think it is important to
understand that the kind of
power the administration wou ld
like to wield already has a base
outside the college, Indeed,
without this base any administrative claim to "final voice" in
ma tters that profoundly affect us
is impotent. Superior Court
Judge Frank Baker has ruled that
a faculty voice in governance
tha t would be more than merely
advisory violates state law, The
o nly rational faculty response to
this state of affa irs is a lso to plug
int o an off-campus power base,
The way is clear: it is only our
AFT chapter that can provide
the support and protection required by this increasingly critical turn of events,
Alan Nasser
Parad igms in Crisis
Tom Rainey
Working in America
Tn the Editor:
Provost Ed Kormondy's re'r,' nse to the controversy concL' rninl; the procedures surroundIng nCln- renewal of faculty contracts is chilling , and a potential
threat to every faculty member
J t l vergreen,
T he Provost 's claim that "pe r,on nI'l decisions are personal decisio ns" is a neat p lay on words,
but certai nly false in any straighttorward in terpretation , Personnel
decisiuns determine the range of
skills and resources to which student s and facult y will have
access, T hu s, these decisions
affect our immediate educational
interests in a most direct way,
They are in thi; sense obviously
',bJic matter." <;" ...1" thp
a ',ruism. ' We can only Lo n,I udI' that what the Provost
means is that he would like to
exercise "final voice in matters of
co ntract re newal" (the CPj's
''lords ) in as secret a manner as
possible, with no "interference"
frum tho se members of the
academic community whose interes ts are affected by such dec isions, And that is another
sto ry a ltogether.
Now we want, of course, to
in sist upon th e right of a ny faculty member to choose to discuss or not to discuss publicly
hi s / her situation at Evergreen,
But this is not the issue at stake
here, The rea l question is whether
ad ministrators at Evergreen
sho uld have the prerogative that
I!very boss (i,e , hirer and Firer of
labor) wan ts to have, namely, to
be able to (recruit and) terminate
workers, in thi s case pedagogical
workers, in accordance with consideration s that are not necessaril y in the interest of those perso ns affected by suc h decisions,
T his is nu mere split ting of
hairs, for the College is faced
with a seriou s enrollment crisis,
and this raises the real possibility
that "personnel decisions" will be
made unrelated to a faculty
member's profe ssional competence and contr ibuti on to the
Co llege , Suppose, for example,
that in re spon se to a fiscal
crun ch the adm inistration feels
I he need 10 "cut costs," i,e , to
terminate a number of faculty
THIS PLACE HAS
LET ME DOWN
To the Editor:
It is the middle of the night
and I am awake again with
a ngry, angry dreams about the
firing of James Martinez, When I
walked onto campus today for
the first time in two weeks, my
stomach was flooded with the
queasy sensation that this place
has really really let me down,
Jim Martinez represents all the
reasons I came to Evergreen; he
is the clearest embodimen t of the
finest quality of "teaching" the
way I believe in it. Jim trusts, He
trusts people to move on their ,
JOURNAL
EDITOR
Jill Stewart
NEWS EDITORS
Curtis Milton
(atherlne Riddell
FEATURE EDITOR
Matthew Groening
PRODUCTION
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STAFFBUSINEss
PHOTOGRAPHY
Joe Gil
Doug Buster
Jim Feyk
Ford Gilbreath
David Judd
rl Locke
ADVERTISING
NEWS STAFF
Mark Schmitt
Jim Wright
PRINTER
Shelton-Mason
County Journal
The Journal IS located In the College Activities Building (CAB) J06, News phones
866·621., ·6213 , Advertising and business 886-6080, Lett. . Policy: All letters to
Ihe edilor and photographs 'or lett81'8 pege must be received by noon Tuesday 'or
that weell 's publication . Lett8fs must be signed, typed, double-s~ and 400
ora 5 or tess,
goals, he is there with the sup port that makes us able to do it.
Facu lty at Evergreen talk about
sharing informat ion and seeing
students as "equal people," Jim
Martinez lives it. He has a magic
ab ility to create an atmosphere
w here students feel safe to explon~ new territories within themselves and within the world,
The issues in the firing hurt
me the most - the blant racism
of this institution still has me
wan ting to hit someone in the
face : hiring a person, know ing
hi s skills, his talents, al1d his
" academic deficie ncies," then
sucking ou t the benefits of his
expertise - "using" him while
not simultaneously bothering to
help correct the inadequacies
cited in the non-renewal of his
contract, and then blaming those
deficiencies on him! Every quarter Jim is swamped with students
wanting to work with him ; how
many white faculty who can't
seem to draw even four or five
students each quarter are having
their contracts renewed?
The shock inside of me has
been a mixture of disbelief, of
anger, of feeling "helpless" to
fight instit utions whose people
keep saying "it wasn't up to me,
I didn't make the decision, somebody e lse is responsible," of
knowing I would fight this crazy
decision with every pore in my
soul, then of feeling lost and
helpless aga in when Jim said he
didn't want to fight, and finally
realizing that it is my fight not his - because I need and deserve his unique teaching abilities
at this school.
Ed Kormondy, you sliced out
Evergreen's guts when you fired
Jim Martinez , Did you count on
the fact that he and everybody
else wou ld not fight it or stand
up to you? I understand the reasons that Jim is not contesting
the firing, I can see why now Evergreen would be the last place
he'd want to work , But I sure
would like to see him demand
his legal rights (according to the
firing criteria in the faculty handbook) and the respect he deserves
from this place,
James Martinez is a genius in
sensi ng and understanding the
inner workings of people and he
is skilled at transforming people's fears into strengths - somehow no one ever feels put down,
Those are qualities that bridge
the gaps between ivory towers
and police stations, Jim has
worked with students at this
school with whom no one else
was able to work, and future Ev ergreene rs are being robbed of a
rare student / teacher relationship: I have not seen the depth
of his ca ring ma tched, Luckily I
get to spend my la st year at Ev ergreen with Jim living out · the
rest of hi s co ntract - hi s presence ma kes this place worth whi le,
C laudia C ho tzen
To the Editor:
In response to Maxine Mimms
"no blue-jeans" policy for her
upcomi ng summer progra m. How
many students w ill that stipu lation cost her (and the program)?
Two ladies who were conSidering
the program just said ,,* * •• it! "
right here at this very table
w here I write this, In light of our'
current enrollment crisis, I think
th at's real big of M. M, to make
such sacrifices, No biggy though,
the ladies were just a couple of
C.W,K 's (crazy white kids) a ny way ,
Besides TESC s tud e nt s are
known for their abil ity to adapt
to bizarre scenes, Maybe those
who ca n't manage, bike ride to
school in a P,P.S, (polyester
pants su it ) could they just leave
the ir B,J,'s (blue jeans) by the
classroom door?
Why do we even have those
stup id old B,J.'s anyway , They're
on ly dumb old cotton, We could
a ll be sheat hed in beautiful
P.P,S.'s brought to us by our
dear friends in the petro-chemical business, Seriously though,
e',en I can understand that on
some overly figures, B, J.' s are indeed quite unfl attering, "Sut you
know I just cannot seem t;; bring
myself to trust someone who
never shows up wearing them .
To me it seems to label them as
"t hose having definite middleclass (onsumerist aspirations,"
I guess though we'll all have to
get used to being managed by
women in P,P,S:s as it is the
look of the future, I mean just
put your peepers to the porthole
of progress and picture this :
The year - 1981.
The place - somewhere in the
Midwest.
The scene - out in the cornfields the "brilliant" teacher (gen1'rally most visible in an equally
brilliant hot pink P,P,S,) is talking, giggling, and dancing and
welcoming a tremendous amount
of chaos and ambiguity as she
accep ts the label "college president." All this while riding
horses, skiing, and playing guitar
(simultaneously?) out there in
that cornfield where the C.W .K's
are literally leaving their B.J.'s
behind.
Signed,
Blue Jeans Blincow
(label me
crazy white kid)
NOTHING
WORSE THAN
CONVENTIONAL
RADICALS
the Editor:
This too is a letter about EPI C.
As I see it, EPIC doesn't reflect
my feelings at all folks, I'm active in county politics, but I
don't see any EPIC folk around ,
EVER. Hmmmm,
What I do see are inane posters of downtrodden workers in
the U,S, and abroad , Somehow,
with my $2,20 an hour, I can't
find it in my heart to feel sorry
for someone making $4,50 and
more, here in the U, S, And
somehow, I can' t feel sorry for
the oppressed Socialist, fascist,
and etc. workers in their coun tries, (EPIC showing these glowing examp les of your general
political feelings don't impress,
sway, or change me.)
Pete & Gay's
Restaurant
•
Seafood & steak specials
every day
M onday thru Sunday
Mlldb ay -
866-8211
Sincerely,
Susan Beyer
"SMUGS"
RIDICULOUS,
SEXIST
To the Editor:
In response to "the smugs':
Is it presumptuous of me to
assume that I am in a position to
make any comments on the
value of the letter (C PJ May 13)
to its a uthors? Understand, it is
not the criticalness of the letter
that I am responding to, rather
the fact that it was written by
people who can never really
identify with John's life,
Your letter is embarrassingly
ridiculous, freezingly sexist, and,
in the Evergreen sense, tediously
sad. "Smugs," have you tried
"No-Doze?"
Stephen 0 , Rabow
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Open 7 - 10
Your "radical" politics have
the ring of dull sa meness, and
even (gasp) conve~ ti ona lit y about
them, And to me there's nothing
worse tha n a conventional radica l, for he throws away his voice
in U,S, politics by rpfusing to
make his voice heard at the
times w hen he's given an opportunity by the system, And, further, EPI C. the t imes I attend ed
your functions I came away with
the feel ing that yo ur politics are
very one -sided, that you did 110t
express the views of most Evergreeners,
Do yo u want downtrodden
workers? Look at the ca mpus
fire station , T hose folk get room
and board in exchange for their
24 hours of time, ready to do
hazardo us work (m ore hazardous
than those terrible factory condit ions you harp to me a bout ),
And I really have never met a
better group of people, courteous,
open-minded, and fa ir. (Contrast
that with the rude, obscene doggerI'll I hear from E PI C speakers
and workers!)
Do yo u want to see poor people, dow ntrodden by political
systems? Go see the people in
Chi le, Brazil and Astrakhan
S,S,R, Then tell me aga in about
the good your political allies are
,d oing, Do you want to improve
your posters? Stop being so overly dramatic in the same sort of
way, And get a new painter. Do
you want to be more responsive
to my needs? Start carrying the
political information I need
abuu t the more conventional activities of the more standard parties. (Information is a part of
your title, remember?)
IT WAS FUN
WHILE IT LASTED
To the Editor:
As a student of The Evergreen
State College, I wish to register
my dismay at, and active disapproval of, the proposal to slash
the Human Growth Center and
Multi-Ethnic Cultural Counseling
Center 55 % for next year, Why
are these vita l services the lowest
on your list of priorities? You
are becoming quite the "usual"
institution when administrational
needs are paramount and human
needs are the least responded to,
Economic crunch? Surely the
10 % cut across the board as sug gested by one of your colleagues
is more equitable and feasible
than action such as this. (AI1Y continued page 5
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by Claudia Chotzen
What issues would a group of women
whose ages span six decades agree are
critical for the role of,'women in the world
today? I recently retu'r ned from an International Women 's Workshop in the
mountains' outside of Santa Barbara, California where a group of women spent a
week developing issues and answers that
are pertinent to our lives.
Topics ranged from the role of professional women in this society to issues
which surround the lives of lesbia n
women on a daily basis, For all of the
women (57 for the first weekend; 25 who
stayed the full week) it was one of the
most exciting, dynamic, and productive
weeks of our lives, Each of us returned
home fueled with new ideas, energy, and
directions to share with our communities;
I wou ld like to share some of them in this
article,
When the workshop began the only
thing we thought we had in common was
our sex , There were women 19 to 68,
Marxists, Quakers, wealthy and working,
professiona l women, lesbians, mothers,
grandmothers, Women came from all corners of this country and from Ca nada,
Lat in America, and Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and England ),
When the conference ended after a week
of intense and furious dialogue and discuss io n we fo und there was much we
agreed upo n,
of elitism toward other workers.
The "Women In Professions" proposal,
drawn up on the last day of the workshop, stated in part that women in positions of power must be aware of and activ~ly interrupt elitism and d assism in
themselves and others, It urged professional women to watch out for the phenomenon of the oppressed (women in this
case) acting out their oppression on other
oppressed groups (working, non-professionals in this case).
sional people; some have always been lesbian, and still others are bisexual or celibate.
Another stereotype is the unquestioned
assumption that "once lesbians work out
anger toward men they will become heterosexual." This is an assumption that
once again equates heterosexuality with
rationality and homosexuality with aberration and it must be halted, Heterosexual
women at the workshop were forced to
examine why lesbianism is ' so threatening
- - - - - ELiTISM-----Professional elitism, and elit ism within
the entire curren t feminist movement, was
a b ig topic during the week , Mothe rs and
housew ives felt they were dubbed "less
fe minist" for their marriage relationships
a nd choices to raise children and work at
home, Workin g women voiced the concern that the women's movement caters
only to middle class and affl uent women,
ignoring the strugg les of waitresses, secretaries, and factory workers, And heterosexual women felt that lesbians dismissed
them as "less feminist" for their choices to
love men and commit themselves to rela tionships with men , All of these tensions
developed during the first days of the
workshop - no one felt comfortable,
People stated their positions during int roducti ons, then factions formed and argu ments flared during the breaks and discussions. Women were frightened by the divisions which developed so quickly - a
few left the workshop - but it was a perfect way to begin: we all knew we had
come to confront just these issues, to feel
ourselves as' a unified force working for
chan&,es in the world. Several very powerful , very moving interactions between
women occllrrpn in front of the large
group that first weekend .
Issues surrounding lesbianism were the
most sensitive, tense, and predominant
areas of the week . On the first morning a
lesbian caucus gathered for support with
each other and then spoke to the full
group, One by one each woman related
her decision to love women in a culture
which still considers homosexuality an
aberration, The group demanded that heterosexual women at the workshop (and
everywhere) confront their fears and stereotypes of homosexuality and not assume
that the world is or ought to be heterosexual. Lesbian (and homosexual) stereotypes
are pervasive in every aspect of this
culture. Without thinking, people assume
that "all lesbians are alike," and that "lesbians never relate to men in a loving
way ." lesbian women come from different life-styles, and have different politics.
lesbians are mothers, workers, profes-
- does it perhaps threaten women's addiction to male approval? A nd perhaps
the biggest assumption in this culture is
the . typical reactio n that women whose
life-styles do no t involve many or any
men are "inco mplete" or "unnatural" - a
reaction that shou ld tell people a lot
about the way women have been defined,
The lesbian caucus discouraged hetero sexual women from wanting to share their
"liberal" attitudes abo ut homosexuality
and encouraged a ll women to really confront their true fee lings abou t same-sex
intimacy,
All women at the workshop became determined to combat what we titled "het erosexism," Many people incorrectly and
often unawarely assume that the only
valid intimate and sexual relationships are
between people of opposite sexes. Furthermore, the concre te reality in soc iety is
that lesbians and homosexuals are denied
jobs, oppressed by the legal system, are
denied proper health care, custody of children, are subjected to severe mental oppression by judgmental therapies, lesbians
and homosexuals often live a life of isolation and fear, feeling less than human as a
result of other people's biases, These types
of assumptions and prejudices foster an
atmosphere we called heterosexism,
One of the ways we tried to combat
heterosexist assumptions at the workshop
was by changing our language. We used
the term "heterosexual" instead of
"straight" because the word "straight" im plies that non-heterosexual relationships
are deviant, When we made statements
about our relationships we specified gender of the partner.
- - - UN IVERSAL I S S U E - - - A thread woven through the entire
workshop was the concept of "blaming
the victim" - blaming women for th eir
own oppression w hen in actuality they
are the victims, The most obvious of
these situations is rape: a one-way crime
of violence that is an ever- constant reality
in most women's lives , Our "evening on
rape" was packed with information (lega l
a nd medical statistics and facts about rape
clinics) and was emotiona lly charged, Using Brownm ill er 's book , Again5t Our
Will : Men , Women, al1d Rape, as a
so urce, we explored the historical use of
women as property, as the goods of wars,
as playthings, A Santa Barbara police woman at the workshop demonstrated
"dirty s tree t fig htin g" techniques and
weapons and discussed self defense (and
th e alternatives to it) wi th us, She urged
women to build confidence in their physical strengt h, to combat cultural stereotypes about feminine weakness and to
fi ll the co urtrooms of sisters in volved in
rape trials in order to show support. A
group of women expressed repulsion for
the treatmen t th at conv icted rapists receive in inhuman and racist penal institutions and urged that we act ively work for
prison alterna tives, bu t the consensus of
the group was that since rape is often a
repeated offense it is imperative to press
charges,
Other ways of "blaming the victim" are
less obvious than rape , Too often people
tend to look a t issues that are real from a
depersonalized point of view, At the
workshop women who were victims of incest, child brutality, and frightening men tal commitment procedures (and confinements in mental instit utions) shared their
painful experiences with us, A group of
mothers talked about the isolation and
weariness they feel (especially low -income
mothers) when they have no respite from
the demands of mothering; women talked
of the blame and guilt they felt for leaving
families, for asserting themselves, for
struggling aga inst the myths of women as
rewards and sexual and domestic property, We approached these issues from
both a personal direction and from the
larger political systems which create the
oppressed and then blame them.
During the days we worked in topic
groups, breaking naturally into the areas
most immediate to our individual lives, A
group of profeSSional women met. We
discussed fears of entering professional
fields ' the tremendous need for strong
supp~rt from other women as we push
through our fears of taking power, and
the pressing need to break through jeal ousy and competition feelings with other
women, Present in the group were a medstudent, doctor, film-maker , psychologist,
policewoman, computer analyst, and legal
worker. Women already in, or moving
towards professional careers, voiced fears
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SEXUAL SELF-DETERMINATION The last day of the conference we wrote
a proposal which affirms the right of each
human to choose her (his) sexual expression , When describing relationships we
urged that distinction not be made in
terms of homosexuality or heterosexuality
but instead in terms of the qualities of the
relationship - for example, the amount
of awareness, caring, and responsibility
that exists.
The attention we paid to lesbian issues
encouraged women to also give appreciation to other sexual choices. Celibacy was
explored - choosing not to rely on others
for sexual gratification - as a viable alternative to compulsive coupling. We discussed the need to support celibate people
in order to combat the isolation which
occurs as a result of choosing not to participate in sexual relationships with others ,
And we discussed parl?l1til1g cOl1tracts, in
addition to marriage contracts or as an
alternative to them : legally binding agreements for the economic and emotional
support of children until they are independent adults,
After the weekend crisis on everything,
suddenly rooms full of women were sharing their intimate experiences and ideas sexual labels dissolved, whole people appeared instead,
In one morning group we discussed the
"tools of oppression," Some of these are
manifested in mannerisms such as the "use
of space" - the way men talk, si t, stand ,
have offices in their homes, and move
through thi s world like it belongs to
them; and how women are taught to minimize their impact on this earth, Others
are assumptions such as "women work for
love, men work for money, " and the way
our cultures do not respect the beauty and
dignity of women growing old,
Because any time an act of injustice
goes unchallenged it constitutes a reinforcement to that structure, we spent severa l evenings dealing with ways to challenge the sexism and racism in our lives,
We took turn s act ing ou t sex ist-rac ist situa ti ons and reacting to them, we shook,
cried, and experiment ed with gett ing the
courage to assert our opinions and interrupt oppressive statements, And it turned
out that many women were terrified of
making people uncomfortable and especially of making men angry, Women are
taught to make people comfortable, to
cater to the emotional tides of men, Risking a few seconds of a friend's discomfort
and / or anger feels like the hardest, lone liest task in the world because it contradicts every inch of our acculturation to be
"sweet, fe minine, and lovable. " At the
workshop we took assertiveness training, We shared times we've succeeded,
times we haven't, and a full-forced push
to go out into the world and do more '
----OPPRESSiON - - - - Universal issues of oppression (such as
racism) that are not solely women's issues
also had a strong place in the workshop,
A Jewish Women '5 group met and shared
their childhood memories of being rid icu led, or listening to their parents' stories
of losing relatives in the gas chambers ,
the shame they felt for their Jewish faces
and culture, and the struggle to erase that
shame and replace it with appreciation for
their heritage, A paraplegic woman spoke
to us about other people's discomfort with
her presence in a wheelchair; she urged us
to confront our fee lings and fears of dis abilities so that this highly oppressed
group can be integrated into all aspects of
our culture ,
The majority of wemen had already
spent years studying feminist theory and
literature and were anxious at the work shop to push beyond relating experiences
of our individual lives into new territories
and solutions. Although the conference
had no stated political ideology at its
seams, our work took a radical tone each discussion was held in terms of the
larger economic and social systems affect ing women around the world, It was
scary, challenging and exhilarating to
push through our stereotypes and fears
(racism, ciassism, homosexuality) in the
attempt to understand and accept each
other beneath the labels and external layers, We did deal with our individual
battles and journeys in expanding each of
our lives to the broadest limits of equality
relationships and goals , but we also
looked at the similaritie5, and the systems
which created them, of our collective
struggle to live with all the dignity we deserve,
(For the book list , more details , or il1terest
in orgal1izil1g al1 Olympia womel1 's gath ering, cOl1tact me through the Women '5
Cel1ter, )
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LETTERS
A WOMAN'S COMMENTARY
BLUE JEANS VS.
POLYESTER
PANT SUITS
KORMONDY'S
RESPONSE CHILLING
contracts, It this is indeed a response to a fin ancial crisis, then
these terminations will be effected rega rdl ess of the faculty
memb e r's compe tence or academic productivity,
The Provost may decide to
"let go" older members of the
facu lty wit h higher salaries in
order to hire younger members
at a fraction of the cost. This is
not idle specula tion. In a recent
case, the Provost has used the
crit erion of "age and wisdom" to
determine a faculty member 's
value to the college, In this context , the Provost's insistence that
"personnel" decisions a re "personal" must be seen as a claim to
absolu te managerial authority,
As the Provost himself said, "If
they're worried, maybe they
should be,"
We think it is important to
understand that the kind of
power the administration wou ld
like to wield already has a base
outside the college, Indeed,
without this base any administrative claim to "final voice" in
ma tters that profoundly affect us
is impotent. Superior Court
Judge Frank Baker has ruled that
a faculty voice in governance
tha t would be more than merely
advisory violates state law, The
o nly rational faculty response to
this state of affa irs is a lso to plug
int o an off-campus power base,
The way is clear: it is only our
AFT chapter that can provide
the support and protection required by this increasingly critical turn of events,
Alan Nasser
Parad igms in Crisis
Tom Rainey
Working in America
Tn the Editor:
Provost Ed Kormondy's re'r,' nse to the controversy concL' rninl; the procedures surroundIng nCln- renewal of faculty contracts is chilling , and a potential
threat to every faculty member
J t l vergreen,
T he Provost 's claim that "pe r,on nI'l decisions are personal decisio ns" is a neat p lay on words,
but certai nly false in any straighttorward in terpretation , Personnel
decisiuns determine the range of
skills and resources to which student s and facult y will have
access, T hu s, these decisions
affect our immediate educational
interests in a most direct way,
They are in thi; sense obviously
',bJic matter." <;" ...1" thp
a ',ruism. ' We can only Lo n,I udI' that what the Provost
means is that he would like to
exercise "final voice in matters of
co ntract re newal" (the CPj's
''lords ) in as secret a manner as
possible, with no "interference"
frum tho se members of the
academic community whose interes ts are affected by such dec isions, And that is another
sto ry a ltogether.
Now we want, of course, to
in sist upon th e right of a ny faculty member to choose to discuss or not to discuss publicly
hi s / her situation at Evergreen,
But this is not the issue at stake
here, The rea l question is whether
ad ministrators at Evergreen
sho uld have the prerogative that
I!very boss (i,e , hirer and Firer of
labor) wan ts to have, namely, to
be able to (recruit and) terminate
workers, in thi s case pedagogical
workers, in accordance with consideration s that are not necessaril y in the interest of those perso ns affected by suc h decisions,
T his is nu mere split ting of
hairs, for the College is faced
with a seriou s enrollment crisis,
and this raises the real possibility
that "personnel decisions" will be
made unrelated to a faculty
member's profe ssional competence and contr ibuti on to the
Co llege , Suppose, for example,
that in re spon se to a fiscal
crun ch the adm inistration feels
I he need 10 "cut costs," i,e , to
terminate a number of faculty
THIS PLACE HAS
LET ME DOWN
To the Editor:
It is the middle of the night
and I am awake again with
a ngry, angry dreams about the
firing of James Martinez, When I
walked onto campus today for
the first time in two weeks, my
stomach was flooded with the
queasy sensation that this place
has really really let me down,
Jim Martinez represents all the
reasons I came to Evergreen; he
is the clearest embodimen t of the
finest quality of "teaching" the
way I believe in it. Jim trusts, He
trusts people to move on their ,
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goals, he is there with the sup port that makes us able to do it.
Facu lty at Evergreen talk about
sharing informat ion and seeing
students as "equal people," Jim
Martinez lives it. He has a magic
ab ility to create an atmosphere
w here students feel safe to explon~ new territories within themselves and within the world,
The issues in the firing hurt
me the most - the blant racism
of this institution still has me
wan ting to hit someone in the
face : hiring a person, know ing
hi s skills, his talents, al1d his
" academic deficie ncies," then
sucking ou t the benefits of his
expertise - "using" him while
not simultaneously bothering to
help correct the inadequacies
cited in the non-renewal of his
contract, and then blaming those
deficiencies on him! Every quarter Jim is swamped with students
wanting to work with him ; how
many white faculty who can't
seem to draw even four or five
students each quarter are having
their contracts renewed?
The shock inside of me has
been a mixture of disbelief, of
anger, of feeling "helpless" to
fight instit utions whose people
keep saying "it wasn't up to me,
I didn't make the decision, somebody e lse is responsible," of
knowing I would fight this crazy
decision with every pore in my
soul, then of feeling lost and
helpless aga in when Jim said he
didn't want to fight, and finally
realizing that it is my fight not his - because I need and deserve his unique teaching abilities
at this school.
Ed Kormondy, you sliced out
Evergreen's guts when you fired
Jim Martinez , Did you count on
the fact that he and everybody
else wou ld not fight it or stand
up to you? I understand the reasons that Jim is not contesting
the firing, I can see why now Evergreen would be the last place
he'd want to work , But I sure
would like to see him demand
his legal rights (according to the
firing criteria in the faculty handbook) and the respect he deserves
from this place,
James Martinez is a genius in
sensi ng and understanding the
inner workings of people and he
is skilled at transforming people's fears into strengths - somehow no one ever feels put down,
Those are qualities that bridge
the gaps between ivory towers
and police stations, Jim has
worked with students at this
school with whom no one else
was able to work, and future Ev ergreene rs are being robbed of a
rare student / teacher relationship: I have not seen the depth
of his ca ring ma tched, Luckily I
get to spend my la st year at Ev ergreen with Jim living out · the
rest of hi s co ntract - hi s presence ma kes this place worth whi le,
C laudia C ho tzen
To the Editor:
In response to Maxine Mimms
"no blue-jeans" policy for her
upcomi ng summer progra m. How
many students w ill that stipu lation cost her (and the program)?
Two ladies who were conSidering
the program just said ,,* * •• it! "
right here at this very table
w here I write this, In light of our'
current enrollment crisis, I think
th at's real big of M. M, to make
such sacrifices, No biggy though,
the ladies were just a couple of
C.W,K 's (crazy white kids) a ny way ,
Besides TESC s tud e nt s are
known for their abil ity to adapt
to bizarre scenes, Maybe those
who ca n't manage, bike ride to
school in a P,P.S, (polyester
pants su it ) could they just leave
the ir B,J,'s (blue jeans) by the
classroom door?
Why do we even have those
stup id old B,J.'s anyway , They're
on ly dumb old cotton, We could
a ll be sheat hed in beautiful
P.P,S.'s brought to us by our
dear friends in the petro-chemical business, Seriously though,
e',en I can understand that on
some overly figures, B, J.' s are indeed quite unfl attering, "Sut you
know I just cannot seem t;; bring
myself to trust someone who
never shows up wearing them .
To me it seems to label them as
"t hose having definite middleclass (onsumerist aspirations,"
I guess though we'll all have to
get used to being managed by
women in P,P,S:s as it is the
look of the future, I mean just
put your peepers to the porthole
of progress and picture this :
The year - 1981.
The place - somewhere in the
Midwest.
The scene - out in the cornfields the "brilliant" teacher (gen1'rally most visible in an equally
brilliant hot pink P,P,S,) is talking, giggling, and dancing and
welcoming a tremendous amount
of chaos and ambiguity as she
accep ts the label "college president." All this while riding
horses, skiing, and playing guitar
(simultaneously?) out there in
that cornfield where the C.W .K's
are literally leaving their B.J.'s
behind.
Signed,
Blue Jeans Blincow
(label me
crazy white kid)
NOTHING
WORSE THAN
CONVENTIONAL
RADICALS
the Editor:
This too is a letter about EPI C.
As I see it, EPIC doesn't reflect
my feelings at all folks, I'm active in county politics, but I
don't see any EPIC folk around ,
EVER. Hmmmm,
What I do see are inane posters of downtrodden workers in
the U,S, and abroad , Somehow,
with my $2,20 an hour, I can't
find it in my heart to feel sorry
for someone making $4,50 and
more, here in the U, S, And
somehow, I can' t feel sorry for
the oppressed Socialist, fascist,
and etc. workers in their coun tries, (EPIC showing these glowing examp les of your general
political feelings don't impress,
sway, or change me.)
Pete & Gay's
Restaurant
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Seafood & steak specials
every day
M onday thru Sunday
Mlldb ay -
866-8211
Sincerely,
Susan Beyer
"SMUGS"
RIDICULOUS,
SEXIST
To the Editor:
In response to "the smugs':
Is it presumptuous of me to
assume that I am in a position to
make any comments on the
value of the letter (C PJ May 13)
to its a uthors? Understand, it is
not the criticalness of the letter
that I am responding to, rather
the fact that it was written by
people who can never really
identify with John's life,
Your letter is embarrassingly
ridiculous, freezingly sexist, and,
in the Evergreen sense, tediously
sad. "Smugs," have you tried
"No-Doze?"
Stephen 0 , Rabow
-r 0
Open 7 - 10
Your "radical" politics have
the ring of dull sa meness, and
even (gasp) conve~ ti ona lit y about
them, And to me there's nothing
worse tha n a conventional radica l, for he throws away his voice
in U,S, politics by rpfusing to
make his voice heard at the
times w hen he's given an opportunity by the system, And, further, EPI C. the t imes I attend ed
your functions I came away with
the feel ing that yo ur politics are
very one -sided, that you did 110t
express the views of most Evergreeners,
Do yo u want downtrodden
workers? Look at the ca mpus
fire station , T hose folk get room
and board in exchange for their
24 hours of time, ready to do
hazardo us work (m ore hazardous
than those terrible factory condit ions you harp to me a bout ),
And I really have never met a
better group of people, courteous,
open-minded, and fa ir. (Contrast
that with the rude, obscene doggerI'll I hear from E PI C speakers
and workers!)
Do yo u want to see poor people, dow ntrodden by political
systems? Go see the people in
Chi le, Brazil and Astrakhan
S,S,R, Then tell me aga in about
the good your political allies are
,d oing, Do you want to improve
your posters? Stop being so overly dramatic in the same sort of
way, And get a new painter. Do
you want to be more responsive
to my needs? Start carrying the
political information I need
abuu t the more conventional activities of the more standard parties. (Information is a part of
your title, remember?)
IT WAS FUN
WHILE IT LASTED
To the Editor:
As a student of The Evergreen
State College, I wish to register
my dismay at, and active disapproval of, the proposal to slash
the Human Growth Center and
Multi-Ethnic Cultural Counseling
Center 55 % for next year, Why
are these vita l services the lowest
on your list of priorities? You
are becoming quite the "usual"
institution when administrational
needs are paramount and human
needs are the least responded to,
Economic crunch? Surely the
10 % cut across the board as sug gested by one of your colleagues
is more equitable and feasible
than action such as this. (AI1Y continued page 5
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Crashing Throug h Age-Old Barriers
by Claudia Chotzen
What issues would a group of women
whose ages span six decades agree are
critical for the role of,'women in the world
today? I recently retu'r ned from an International Women 's Workshop in the
mountains' outside of Santa Barbara, California where a group of women spent a
week developing issues and answers that
are pertinent to our lives.
Topics ranged from the role of professional women in this society to issues
which surround the lives of lesbia n
women on a daily basis, For all of the
women (57 for the first weekend; 25 who
stayed the full week) it was one of the
most exciting, dynamic, and productive
weeks of our lives, Each of us returned
home fueled with new ideas, energy, and
directions to share with our communities;
I wou ld like to share some of them in this
article,
When the workshop began the only
thing we thought we had in common was
our sex , There were women 19 to 68,
Marxists, Quakers, wealthy and working,
professiona l women, lesbians, mothers,
grandmothers, Women came from all corners of this country and from Ca nada,
Lat in America, and Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and England ),
When the conference ended after a week
of intense and furious dialogue and discuss io n we fo und there was much we
agreed upo n,
of elitism toward other workers.
The "Women In Professions" proposal,
drawn up on the last day of the workshop, stated in part that women in positions of power must be aware of and activ~ly interrupt elitism and d assism in
themselves and others, It urged professional women to watch out for the phenomenon of the oppressed (women in this
case) acting out their oppression on other
oppressed groups (working, non-professionals in this case).
sional people; some have always been lesbian, and still others are bisexual or celibate.
Another stereotype is the unquestioned
assumption that "once lesbians work out
anger toward men they will become heterosexual." This is an assumption that
once again equates heterosexuality with
rationality and homosexuality with aberration and it must be halted, Heterosexual
women at the workshop were forced to
examine why lesbianism is ' so threatening
- - - - - ELiTISM-----Professional elitism, and elit ism within
the entire curren t feminist movement, was
a b ig topic during the week , Mothe rs and
housew ives felt they were dubbed "less
fe minist" for their marriage relationships
a nd choices to raise children and work at
home, Workin g women voiced the concern that the women's movement caters
only to middle class and affl uent women,
ignoring the strugg les of waitresses, secretaries, and factory workers, And heterosexual women felt that lesbians dismissed
them as "less feminist" for their choices to
love men and commit themselves to rela tionships with men , All of these tensions
developed during the first days of the
workshop - no one felt comfortable,
People stated their positions during int roducti ons, then factions formed and argu ments flared during the breaks and discussions. Women were frightened by the divisions which developed so quickly - a
few left the workshop - but it was a perfect way to begin: we all knew we had
come to confront just these issues, to feel
ourselves as' a unified force working for
chan&,es in the world. Several very powerful , very moving interactions between
women occllrrpn in front of the large
group that first weekend .
Issues surrounding lesbianism were the
most sensitive, tense, and predominant
areas of the week . On the first morning a
lesbian caucus gathered for support with
each other and then spoke to the full
group, One by one each woman related
her decision to love women in a culture
which still considers homosexuality an
aberration, The group demanded that heterosexual women at the workshop (and
everywhere) confront their fears and stereotypes of homosexuality and not assume
that the world is or ought to be heterosexual. Lesbian (and homosexual) stereotypes
are pervasive in every aspect of this
culture. Without thinking, people assume
that "all lesbians are alike," and that "lesbians never relate to men in a loving
way ." lesbian women come from different life-styles, and have different politics.
lesbians are mothers, workers, profes-
- does it perhaps threaten women's addiction to male approval? A nd perhaps
the biggest assumption in this culture is
the . typical reactio n that women whose
life-styles do no t involve many or any
men are "inco mplete" or "unnatural" - a
reaction that shou ld tell people a lot
about the way women have been defined,
The lesbian caucus discouraged hetero sexual women from wanting to share their
"liberal" attitudes abo ut homosexuality
and encouraged a ll women to really confront their true fee lings abou t same-sex
intimacy,
All women at the workshop became determined to combat what we titled "het erosexism," Many people incorrectly and
often unawarely assume that the only
valid intimate and sexual relationships are
between people of opposite sexes. Furthermore, the concre te reality in soc iety is
that lesbians and homosexuals are denied
jobs, oppressed by the legal system, are
denied proper health care, custody of children, are subjected to severe mental oppression by judgmental therapies, lesbians
and homosexuals often live a life of isolation and fear, feeling less than human as a
result of other people's biases, These types
of assumptions and prejudices foster an
atmosphere we called heterosexism,
One of the ways we tried to combat
heterosexist assumptions at the workshop
was by changing our language. We used
the term "heterosexual" instead of
"straight" because the word "straight" im plies that non-heterosexual relationships
are deviant, When we made statements
about our relationships we specified gender of the partner.
- - - UN IVERSAL I S S U E - - - A thread woven through the entire
workshop was the concept of "blaming
the victim" - blaming women for th eir
own oppression w hen in actuality they
are the victims, The most obvious of
these situations is rape: a one-way crime
of violence that is an ever- constant reality
in most women's lives , Our "evening on
rape" was packed with information (lega l
a nd medical statistics and facts about rape
clinics) and was emotiona lly charged, Using Brownm ill er 's book , Again5t Our
Will : Men , Women, al1d Rape, as a
so urce, we explored the historical use of
women as property, as the goods of wars,
as playthings, A Santa Barbara police woman at the workshop demonstrated
"dirty s tree t fig htin g" techniques and
weapons and discussed self defense (and
th e alternatives to it) wi th us, She urged
women to build confidence in their physical strengt h, to combat cultural stereotypes about feminine weakness and to
fi ll the co urtrooms of sisters in volved in
rape trials in order to show support. A
group of women expressed repulsion for
the treatmen t th at conv icted rapists receive in inhuman and racist penal institutions and urged that we act ively work for
prison alterna tives, bu t the consensus of
the group was that since rape is often a
repeated offense it is imperative to press
charges,
Other ways of "blaming the victim" are
less obvious than rape , Too often people
tend to look a t issues that are real from a
depersonalized point of view, At the
workshop women who were victims of incest, child brutality, and frightening men tal commitment procedures (and confinements in mental instit utions) shared their
painful experiences with us, A group of
mothers talked about the isolation and
weariness they feel (especially low -income
mothers) when they have no respite from
the demands of mothering; women talked
of the blame and guilt they felt for leaving
families, for asserting themselves, for
struggling aga inst the myths of women as
rewards and sexual and domestic property, We approached these issues from
both a personal direction and from the
larger political systems which create the
oppressed and then blame them.
During the days we worked in topic
groups, breaking naturally into the areas
most immediate to our individual lives, A
group of profeSSional women met. We
discussed fears of entering professional
fields ' the tremendous need for strong
supp~rt from other women as we push
through our fears of taking power, and
the pressing need to break through jeal ousy and competition feelings with other
women, Present in the group were a medstudent, doctor, film-maker , psychologist,
policewoman, computer analyst, and legal
worker. Women already in, or moving
towards professional careers, voiced fears
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SEXUAL SELF-DETERMINATION The last day of the conference we wrote
a proposal which affirms the right of each
human to choose her (his) sexual expression , When describing relationships we
urged that distinction not be made in
terms of homosexuality or heterosexuality
but instead in terms of the qualities of the
relationship - for example, the amount
of awareness, caring, and responsibility
that exists.
The attention we paid to lesbian issues
encouraged women to also give appreciation to other sexual choices. Celibacy was
explored - choosing not to rely on others
for sexual gratification - as a viable alternative to compulsive coupling. We discussed the need to support celibate people
in order to combat the isolation which
occurs as a result of choosing not to participate in sexual relationships with others ,
And we discussed parl?l1til1g cOl1tracts, in
addition to marriage contracts or as an
alternative to them : legally binding agreements for the economic and emotional
support of children until they are independent adults,
After the weekend crisis on everything,
suddenly rooms full of women were sharing their intimate experiences and ideas sexual labels dissolved, whole people appeared instead,
In one morning group we discussed the
"tools of oppression," Some of these are
manifested in mannerisms such as the "use
of space" - the way men talk, si t, stand ,
have offices in their homes, and move
through thi s world like it belongs to
them; and how women are taught to minimize their impact on this earth, Others
are assumptions such as "women work for
love, men work for money, " and the way
our cultures do not respect the beauty and
dignity of women growing old,
Because any time an act of injustice
goes unchallenged it constitutes a reinforcement to that structure, we spent severa l evenings dealing with ways to challenge the sexism and racism in our lives,
We took turn s act ing ou t sex ist-rac ist situa ti ons and reacting to them, we shook,
cried, and experiment ed with gett ing the
courage to assert our opinions and interrupt oppressive statements, And it turned
out that many women were terrified of
making people uncomfortable and especially of making men angry, Women are
taught to make people comfortable, to
cater to the emotional tides of men, Risking a few seconds of a friend's discomfort
and / or anger feels like the hardest, lone liest task in the world because it contradicts every inch of our acculturation to be
"sweet, fe minine, and lovable. " At the
workshop we took assertiveness training, We shared times we've succeeded,
times we haven't, and a full-forced push
to go out into the world and do more '
----OPPRESSiON - - - - Universal issues of oppression (such as
racism) that are not solely women's issues
also had a strong place in the workshop,
A Jewish Women '5 group met and shared
their childhood memories of being rid icu led, or listening to their parents' stories
of losing relatives in the gas chambers ,
the shame they felt for their Jewish faces
and culture, and the struggle to erase that
shame and replace it with appreciation for
their heritage, A paraplegic woman spoke
to us about other people's discomfort with
her presence in a wheelchair; she urged us
to confront our fee lings and fears of dis abilities so that this highly oppressed
group can be integrated into all aspects of
our culture ,
The majority of wemen had already
spent years studying feminist theory and
literature and were anxious at the work shop to push beyond relating experiences
of our individual lives into new territories
and solutions. Although the conference
had no stated political ideology at its
seams, our work took a radical tone each discussion was held in terms of the
larger economic and social systems affect ing women around the world, It was
scary, challenging and exhilarating to
push through our stereotypes and fears
(racism, ciassism, homosexuality) in the
attempt to understand and accept each
other beneath the labels and external layers, We did deal with our individual
battles and journeys in expanding each of
our lives to the broadest limits of equality
relationships and goals , but we also
looked at the similaritie5, and the systems
which created them, of our collective
struggle to live with all the dignity we deserve,
(For the book list , more details , or il1terest
in orgal1izil1g al1 Olympia womel1 's gath ering, cOl1tact me through the Women '5
Cel1ter, )
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
IN BRIEF
cia ted by those studen ts staying
in school for the summer, either
for tuition benefits or the joys of
scholarship. Since many summer
programs last less than the
10-week quarter, students may
enroll for more than one program. However , the student
must enroll_for the whole group
a l the star t of the quarter.
Another innovation allows a
s tudent to stretch credit for
whatever program they are enrolled in.over the length of the
entire Summer Quarter. This is
designed to aid students who receive veteran 's and social security benefits and must be enrolled
for the entire quarter to do so.
Again. many programs run for
less than the 10 -week quarter
but studen ts can now have their
credit stretched to fill the entire
quarter so they may receive benefits. The work and evaluation
for a single program must be
done within the published duration of the program and for the
credit offered.
Although there isn't a visual
arts program lasting all 10 weeks
of Summer Quarter, there is a
possibility of one. The advisor
needs more information. Answer
the following questions on paper
and bring them to the advisor's
office in LAB 1010 or 1012.
1) Which program (Ceramics,
Basic Design) will you start
with?
2) How many Evergreen units
do you plan to carry alto-
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ADVISING
The office of the Academic
Adviso r has several notes perta ining to enrollm ent for Fall
Q uarte r 1976 .
Faculty member Pete Taylor
will be teaching a group contract
in Ma rinc Organisms . This contrac t is not included in the ca talog supp lement. The study will
st'rve as good preparation for the
E'''',Ir E"l'ir o nm e~l ts program
~V i n ter a nd Spring Quarters and
Il1 !" further marine studies . For
more info rm ation contact Taylor
Jt -60Se) o r stop by his office in
LAB 3024.
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g~ther?
3) What visual arts activities
do you want to add or continue?
4) Your name, and a phone
number where you can be
reached?
Dean Charles Teske will con sider the answers and try to find
room within the budget for a
program.
And finally, Paul Sparks and
Sid White will not be ava ilable
for contracts during Summer
Quarter.
Th e Library Gallery is
seeking a student Coordi nator for the upcoming
aca demi c year Appli ca nts must apply for the
e ntire yea r term (July 1.
1976 - Jun e 30. 1977), and
will be ent:ouraged to
find a n individual con trac t sponsor in gaJlery
management to expand
th e posit ion into a structur ed lpa rning experience .
For th e co mplete job desC ription , see the job
board in the financial aid
a rea . o r c all Eileen
Humphrey at 866-6295 .
Th p position is open to
a ll stude nt s, in stitutional
o r work / study Appl ica tion d pa dlin e is May 24 .
EAC SEEKS
MEMBERS
by Doug Luckerman
As the new cha irperson of the
Evergreen Environmental Advisory Committee (EAC) I feel it
is my responsibili ty to let the
student body know what it is
that we (the committee) do. Dur-
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Actors sponsored by the Theatre of the Unemployed are piclured rehearsing for their production of "A Woman's Manifesto. "
The play tells the story of an Italian girl and the situations which
lead her to write a women 's manifesto at age 19. The two-hour
play is directed by student Maggie Simms and will be presented in
the second floor Library Lobby May 26. Cost is $2 general admission and $1.50 for students and Senior Citizens. After the performance here , the play will go on the road.
ing the last week I conducted a
survey of students and found
that a surprising number of them
had no idea what the EAC was
or did.
The specific responsibility of
the EAC is to advise the administration on matters pertaining to
the environmental impact of
projects undertaken on the Evergreen campus, such as: use of
pesticides, types of foliage used
to replace that . which has either
been disturbed by construction
or used in landscaping efforts, or
any other action pertaining to
the disturbance of the eco-systems present on the Evergreen
campus.
The committee is composed of
nine members; three students,
three staff and three faculty. We
meel every other Wednesday in
Lib. 3119 at 9:30 a.m. The
majority of our decisions deal
with proposals from Facilities
Planning (headed by Jerry Schil linger).
To do this job effectively it is
important that the members of
the committee are interested in
the future of Evergreen's ecosystems . Many of the projects
that are brought up will have an
effect long after we have left the
school. I have mentioned this beca use I a m discouraged by the
att itude of some of the committee
members . This is a public plea to
those members who for one rea son o r another feel that they can
no longer be active participants
on the committee: please resign
yo ur positions. I am asking this
in order that o ther people who
are willing to be active partici pants and who are w illing to put
in the time and energy needed to
make this an effective advisory
committee can take your place .
In response to the survey I
conducted there are four ideas
which as new chairperson I will
try to bring to life:
I} The strengthening of the
committee itself. This will consist
of replacing inactive members
with ' members who are committed to the objectives of the
committee and who are aware of
the committee's importance.
2) The establishment of a consultant pool to help the committee obtain all the relevant facts,
so that it can make reasonable
decisions. The reason for this being that in order for the committee to make a responsible decision it is important to be able to
obtain all the facts pertaining to
that decision. The pool will not
be active members of the committee, but will act as advisors
on subjects on which the committee requires more in-depth or
technical information.
3) The obtaining ot a permanent office. This would be done
so that concerned people on
campus can have a place to
voice their opinions or to find
out what is being done to their
campus. This office would also
serve as an information center.
Any person on campus who has
a project in mind which would
affect .Evergreen's env ironment
wou ld be able to come and ask if
we think it would be feasible and
also to find out what procedures
are necessary in order to bring it
to the commit tee's attention.
4) The establ ishing of better
com munications between the
co mmittee and the Evergreen
community. Hopefully, this can
be achieved by an nouncing the
agenda for the next meeting,
issuing periodic statements in the
newsletter, and utilizing the CPJ
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GREEK FESTIVAL
WORKSHOP WITH
OMAR BATISTE
by Louis Howe
One night in Seattle, about a
year ago, I was sitting in a small
Greek restaurant when Omar
Batiste got up to lead a line
dance called Tsamiko. He literally stopped the show. Of all
Balkan folk dancing, Greek is
the most emotional, and as
Omar slowly turned, spiraled
and leapt, he filled the room
with a quiet but powerful intensity. Greeks like to express
their emotions by dancing, and
they get excited when anyone
does it really well. That night,
after the applause had died
down, the band took an unscheduled break.
Over the past 11 years, Omar
has become a key figure in eihnic tradition. He is the Ethnic
Dance and Music Coord inator
for such events as the Seattle
Folklife Festival and the University District Street Fair, and he
was a performer w ith the Koleda
Ethnic Dance Ensemble during
that- group's very successful 1969
tour of Europe and North America. His chief interest is Balkan,
and especially Greek, dancing,
which he studied in Greece.
On Saturday , May 22 ,. Omar
Batiste wi ll be conducting a
Greek folk dance workshop and
festival at Evergreen. The event,
sponsored by the Evergreen Folk
Dancers, is free and everyone is
welcome to participate. The em phasis will be on beginnin g
dances, so even those who've
never danced a step will be able
to lea rn a lot. and perhaps even
dance like Greeks before the day
is over,
The workshop will be from 1
to 4 p.m. in the CRC Multipurpose room . Then from 5 ro
6:30, in CAB 108, there will be
a potluck, talk, and slide show
with Omar playing tap es of
music and showing pictures he
collected in Greece. For the pot luck there will be plenty of
Greek food. Anyone who makes
good Greek food should bring
it ; ot herwise rest assured that
any of the old potluck favorites
will be gobbled with equal fervor. From 6: 30 - 11 there will be
an open and request dance either
in front of the CAB Building or
in it . 'depending on the weather.
It's an opportunity for anyone
who has ever wanted to learn
the basics of Greek dancing to
finally do so. HOPA!
to the president, will be conduct- .
ing two grant writing workshops,
T he £irst workshop runs May 20
and 21 while the second takes
place May 24 - 25. The second
workshop is limited to 20 people
and participants must attend all
three days. For more information
call John Lundberg at -6195 or
stop by Lib 3216.
• Contact, if interested in living
in I.ndia for a year, working on
individual projects . Sponsor:
Boq Gottlieb. Leave name and
number at Library 2114 mailbox.
• Massage as meditation. Learn
to relax through giving and receiving massage. Learn Esalen
a nd Swedish massage strokes, reflexology and shiatsu. Experience
breathing as a tool to release
blocked energy. A culture centered awareness to give a good
massage. May 27th and 28th.
Cost $10 per person. Min. 12,
Max. 20. If interested make a
reservation by caIling Jeff Bernards at 866-5185.
• The Women's Media Festival,
originally scheduled to be held
on campus May 24 - 26, has
been cancelled due to laclo: of
participation and cooperation.
Many thanks to those who did
help with planning and setting
up these past few months.
Morgan Beckett, Debbie /anison, Susannah Gordon and Nancy
O. (othen.oise known as Surrender Dorothy) and other members
of the American Country Music Performance Group Contruct are
inviting members of the Evergreen community to an evening of
entertainment on Thursday, May 27 on the fourth floor of the Library. The event, beginning at 7:30, includes a concert by contract members featuring bluegrass, old-timey, folk and country
western music, a square dance with a live band and caller and refreshments, all for $2.00 (or $2.50 at the door). Tickets are avuilable from contract members ut neon on red square.
• There will be a workshop on
the ovulation method of natural
birth control Tuesday May 25 in
either the Board Room. L3112,
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thing seems more equitable than
this, to me.) You will be damaging one of your most essential
departments. Retaining only one
full-time counselor for the needs
of this college is a disservice of
the highest degree. This man a lso
has the responsibility to do exit
interviews. It appears he may
have more of those to do than
he can handle.
Also. the cut would eliminate
the job of the secretary-coordinator, among other things. This
would disallow coordination of
services. This could mean you
will be forfeiting the future of
many students who are already
on shaky ground in this most
unusual institution. With no one
present to specifically answer the
phone, coordina te relevant written materials and do those "administrative" tasks you find impossible to cut in other areas,
plus, perhaps most importantly
act as a liasion between the seeking student when the perhaps too
few student counse lors are busy,
you actively disrupt the wellbeing of students at this institution.
With no one to "receive" students, and to coordinate the
services they receive, you only
propagate situations like the one
you are apparently trying to
eliminate by coordinating the
registration proced ure . It is not
enough though to "take care" of
students with registration and an
exi t in~erview . Hellohaveanice-
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• The Evergreen Women's Soccer
team split two games last weekend.
They won a game with the
Capitol Hill Streakers 5 to 4 on
Saturday but lost to the Kirkland
Krickets 2 to 1 on Sunday. Both
games were played on the home
field to a total attendance of 60
spectators. Goals were scored by
Pat Moddie, Barb Wooton and
Heidi Ehrenberg. Sunday's game
was a fight to the finish with
outstanding defensive s upport
from Evergreen goa li e Anne
Stone.
Next game for the Geoducks is
with Seattle Pacific College .
• Les Eldridge, special assistant
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as much as possible.
I have already taken steps to
fulfill some of these ideas. With
the help of Chuck Albertson I
have obtaied an office in the li brary (3225) and with the help of
Liam O'Callahan, alumnus and
graduate Biologist, I am searching olit people to make up the
consultant pool. Jim Edgerton,
current student Chemist and Biologist, has already expressed his
willingness to join the pool.
There is at the present time an
opening for one student member
on the committee. If you are in terested in filling this position
come and see me. And for all the
rest of you cOl1cerned students, I
can be found in room 3225 in
the libr ary or call 866-6089
(messages in CAB 305, please).
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tripgoodbye . People have ongoing needs that must be respected and serviced.
You cannot pass the responsibility for coordinated counseling
off to the community at large.
There are waiting lists months
long at the Community Mental
Health Center. Besides, there are
problems which relate directly to
the structure and design of
TESC. which need immediate
answers, or most probably we
lose another student. We cannot
afford that anymore. Oh, you
can avoid these responsibilities,
but we all suffer. By swamping
counseling per se personnel with
paper work, secretarial work ,
telephone answering and Iiasion ing, you come up with a crew of
perhaps efficient secretaries who
have no time to provide competent counseling services.
Or, a t best you end up with
haphazard, ineffectual. "rush-job"
counseling. At worst , you strike
yet another death blow to a
bruised and battered, though
perhaps recoverable institution.
This is a unique learning habi tat , my friend, but it may very
well go down as the brave experiment that failed .
Evergreen - it was fun while
it lasted .
Sincerely,
or one of the lecture halls (watch
posters for the exact location).
Time for the workshop is 7 p.m.
and the cost is $5 which covers a
book and supplementary Xeroxed
material. The teacher will be
Nealy Gillette from Seattle who
is very experienced with teaching
this method.
• Professor Steven Harrell of the
U. W. Department of Anthropology will speak Thursday, May
20 at 7: 30 p.m. in the 3500
lounge of the Library. His topic
will be "Women in Chinese Soci.ety: Past and Present."
• All campus buildings will be
closed Monday, May 31 for the
Memorial Day holiday. Security
will provide no unlocks. Buildings will be accessible for those
people who have keys. Call Security before en terin g or leaving
any building.
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• The office of Academic Advis ing and Information will be hold ing a group advising session May
20 in LAB 1012. The topic is "So
You Want to Be an Artist? Can
Evergreen Help You?"
• The Theatre of the Unemployed, Summer Street Theatre
Group still has one opening and
is looking for a person interested
in working with them this
summer. They will be holding
auditions on Thursday, May 20
at 6 :30 p.m.; 1103 W. Sixth
Street (Emma Goldman Col1ective ); tel. 357-8323.
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Interested in Employment or Graduate
School in Counseling and
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AHend: Job and Graduate School Information Day; Wednesday , May 26, 9 a .m . to 4 p.m.; Board Room, 3rd floor Library.
Sign Up: For morning workshops and afternoon interviews in
the Career Planning and Placement Office: Library 1221 or call
(866-6193) . Interviews will be schedu led on a first come, first
served basis ... . ... Sign up today!
Professional and Graduate School Representatives include
among others: UW . Women's Programs, Vocat ional Rehabilitat ion , Cedar Creek Youth Camp, Western State Hospital, Wa .
Hum an Rights Commiss ion , Seattle Opportunities Industrial
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Masters Programs in School, Counse ling and Psychology, Con be la Assoc iation, G roup Hea lth Cooperative, Law and Justice
Planning, Thurston County Commun ity Mental Health, Bureau
of Juvenile Rehabilitation, Center for Addiction Services, UW
Recreational Programs, Portland State School of Social Work,
U.W. School of Socia l Work.
Special Announcement: Attend a special preparation workshop on Monday, May 24, 3 - 5 p .m . in the Career Resource
Center, Lib . 1224. Learn more about Job Day, resume writing,
and information interviewing .
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
IN BRIEF
cia ted by those studen ts staying
in school for the summer, either
for tuition benefits or the joys of
scholarship. Since many summer
programs last less than the
10-week quarter, students may
enroll for more than one program. However , the student
must enroll_for the whole group
a l the star t of the quarter.
Another innovation allows a
s tudent to stretch credit for
whatever program they are enrolled in.over the length of the
entire Summer Quarter. This is
designed to aid students who receive veteran 's and social security benefits and must be enrolled
for the entire quarter to do so.
Again. many programs run for
less than the 10 -week quarter
but studen ts can now have their
credit stretched to fill the entire
quarter so they may receive benefits. The work and evaluation
for a single program must be
done within the published duration of the program and for the
credit offered.
Although there isn't a visual
arts program lasting all 10 weeks
of Summer Quarter, there is a
possibility of one. The advisor
needs more information. Answer
the following questions on paper
and bring them to the advisor's
office in LAB 1010 or 1012.
1) Which program (Ceramics,
Basic Design) will you start
with?
2) How many Evergreen units
do you plan to carry alto-
NEWS FROM
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ADVISING
The office of the Academic
Adviso r has several notes perta ining to enrollm ent for Fall
Q uarte r 1976 .
Faculty member Pete Taylor
will be teaching a group contract
in Ma rinc Organisms . This contrac t is not included in the ca talog supp lement. The study will
st'rve as good preparation for the
E'''',Ir E"l'ir o nm e~l ts program
~V i n ter a nd Spring Quarters and
Il1 !" further marine studies . For
more info rm ation contact Taylor
Jt -60Se) o r stop by his office in
LAB 3024.
Two new innovations for Summer Quarter should be appre-
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g~ther?
3) What visual arts activities
do you want to add or continue?
4) Your name, and a phone
number where you can be
reached?
Dean Charles Teske will con sider the answers and try to find
room within the budget for a
program.
And finally, Paul Sparks and
Sid White will not be ava ilable
for contracts during Summer
Quarter.
Th e Library Gallery is
seeking a student Coordi nator for the upcoming
aca demi c year Appli ca nts must apply for the
e ntire yea r term (July 1.
1976 - Jun e 30. 1977), and
will be ent:ouraged to
find a n individual con trac t sponsor in gaJlery
management to expand
th e posit ion into a structur ed lpa rning experience .
For th e co mplete job desC ription , see the job
board in the financial aid
a rea . o r c all Eileen
Humphrey at 866-6295 .
Th p position is open to
a ll stude nt s, in stitutional
o r work / study Appl ica tion d pa dlin e is May 24 .
EAC SEEKS
MEMBERS
by Doug Luckerman
As the new cha irperson of the
Evergreen Environmental Advisory Committee (EAC) I feel it
is my responsibili ty to let the
student body know what it is
that we (the committee) do. Dur-
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Actors sponsored by the Theatre of the Unemployed are piclured rehearsing for their production of "A Woman's Manifesto. "
The play tells the story of an Italian girl and the situations which
lead her to write a women 's manifesto at age 19. The two-hour
play is directed by student Maggie Simms and will be presented in
the second floor Library Lobby May 26. Cost is $2 general admission and $1.50 for students and Senior Citizens. After the performance here , the play will go on the road.
ing the last week I conducted a
survey of students and found
that a surprising number of them
had no idea what the EAC was
or did.
The specific responsibility of
the EAC is to advise the administration on matters pertaining to
the environmental impact of
projects undertaken on the Evergreen campus, such as: use of
pesticides, types of foliage used
to replace that . which has either
been disturbed by construction
or used in landscaping efforts, or
any other action pertaining to
the disturbance of the eco-systems present on the Evergreen
campus.
The committee is composed of
nine members; three students,
three staff and three faculty. We
meel every other Wednesday in
Lib. 3119 at 9:30 a.m. The
majority of our decisions deal
with proposals from Facilities
Planning (headed by Jerry Schil linger).
To do this job effectively it is
important that the members of
the committee are interested in
the future of Evergreen's ecosystems . Many of the projects
that are brought up will have an
effect long after we have left the
school. I have mentioned this beca use I a m discouraged by the
att itude of some of the committee
members . This is a public plea to
those members who for one rea son o r another feel that they can
no longer be active participants
on the committee: please resign
yo ur positions. I am asking this
in order that o ther people who
are willing to be active partici pants and who are w illing to put
in the time and energy needed to
make this an effective advisory
committee can take your place .
In response to the survey I
conducted there are four ideas
which as new chairperson I will
try to bring to life:
I} The strengthening of the
committee itself. This will consist
of replacing inactive members
with ' members who are committed to the objectives of the
committee and who are aware of
the committee's importance.
2) The establishment of a consultant pool to help the committee obtain all the relevant facts,
so that it can make reasonable
decisions. The reason for this being that in order for the committee to make a responsible decision it is important to be able to
obtain all the facts pertaining to
that decision. The pool will not
be active members of the committee, but will act as advisors
on subjects on which the committee requires more in-depth or
technical information.
3) The obtaining ot a permanent office. This would be done
so that concerned people on
campus can have a place to
voice their opinions or to find
out what is being done to their
campus. This office would also
serve as an information center.
Any person on campus who has
a project in mind which would
affect .Evergreen's env ironment
wou ld be able to come and ask if
we think it would be feasible and
also to find out what procedures
are necessary in order to bring it
to the commit tee's attention.
4) The establ ishing of better
com munications between the
co mmittee and the Evergreen
community. Hopefully, this can
be achieved by an nouncing the
agenda for the next meeting,
issuing periodic statements in the
newsletter, and utilizing the CPJ
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GREEK FESTIVAL
WORKSHOP WITH
OMAR BATISTE
by Louis Howe
One night in Seattle, about a
year ago, I was sitting in a small
Greek restaurant when Omar
Batiste got up to lead a line
dance called Tsamiko. He literally stopped the show. Of all
Balkan folk dancing, Greek is
the most emotional, and as
Omar slowly turned, spiraled
and leapt, he filled the room
with a quiet but powerful intensity. Greeks like to express
their emotions by dancing, and
they get excited when anyone
does it really well. That night,
after the applause had died
down, the band took an unscheduled break.
Over the past 11 years, Omar
has become a key figure in eihnic tradition. He is the Ethnic
Dance and Music Coord inator
for such events as the Seattle
Folklife Festival and the University District Street Fair, and he
was a performer w ith the Koleda
Ethnic Dance Ensemble during
that- group's very successful 1969
tour of Europe and North America. His chief interest is Balkan,
and especially Greek, dancing,
which he studied in Greece.
On Saturday , May 22 ,. Omar
Batiste wi ll be conducting a
Greek folk dance workshop and
festival at Evergreen. The event,
sponsored by the Evergreen Folk
Dancers, is free and everyone is
welcome to participate. The em phasis will be on beginnin g
dances, so even those who've
never danced a step will be able
to lea rn a lot. and perhaps even
dance like Greeks before the day
is over,
The workshop will be from 1
to 4 p.m. in the CRC Multipurpose room . Then from 5 ro
6:30, in CAB 108, there will be
a potluck, talk, and slide show
with Omar playing tap es of
music and showing pictures he
collected in Greece. For the pot luck there will be plenty of
Greek food. Anyone who makes
good Greek food should bring
it ; ot herwise rest assured that
any of the old potluck favorites
will be gobbled with equal fervor. From 6: 30 - 11 there will be
an open and request dance either
in front of the CAB Building or
in it . 'depending on the weather.
It's an opportunity for anyone
who has ever wanted to learn
the basics of Greek dancing to
finally do so. HOPA!
to the president, will be conduct- .
ing two grant writing workshops,
T he £irst workshop runs May 20
and 21 while the second takes
place May 24 - 25. The second
workshop is limited to 20 people
and participants must attend all
three days. For more information
call John Lundberg at -6195 or
stop by Lib 3216.
• Contact, if interested in living
in I.ndia for a year, working on
individual projects . Sponsor:
Boq Gottlieb. Leave name and
number at Library 2114 mailbox.
• Massage as meditation. Learn
to relax through giving and receiving massage. Learn Esalen
a nd Swedish massage strokes, reflexology and shiatsu. Experience
breathing as a tool to release
blocked energy. A culture centered awareness to give a good
massage. May 27th and 28th.
Cost $10 per person. Min. 12,
Max. 20. If interested make a
reservation by caIling Jeff Bernards at 866-5185.
• The Women's Media Festival,
originally scheduled to be held
on campus May 24 - 26, has
been cancelled due to laclo: of
participation and cooperation.
Many thanks to those who did
help with planning and setting
up these past few months.
Morgan Beckett, Debbie /anison, Susannah Gordon and Nancy
O. (othen.oise known as Surrender Dorothy) and other members
of the American Country Music Performance Group Contruct are
inviting members of the Evergreen community to an evening of
entertainment on Thursday, May 27 on the fourth floor of the Library. The event, beginning at 7:30, includes a concert by contract members featuring bluegrass, old-timey, folk and country
western music, a square dance with a live band and caller and refreshments, all for $2.00 (or $2.50 at the door). Tickets are avuilable from contract members ut neon on red square.
• There will be a workshop on
the ovulation method of natural
birth control Tuesday May 25 in
either the Board Room. L3112,
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thing seems more equitable than
this, to me.) You will be damaging one of your most essential
departments. Retaining only one
full-time counselor for the needs
of this college is a disservice of
the highest degree. This man a lso
has the responsibility to do exit
interviews. It appears he may
have more of those to do than
he can handle.
Also. the cut would eliminate
the job of the secretary-coordinator, among other things. This
would disallow coordination of
services. This could mean you
will be forfeiting the future of
many students who are already
on shaky ground in this most
unusual institution. With no one
present to specifically answer the
phone, coordina te relevant written materials and do those "administrative" tasks you find impossible to cut in other areas,
plus, perhaps most importantly
act as a liasion between the seeking student when the perhaps too
few student counse lors are busy,
you actively disrupt the wellbeing of students at this institution.
With no one to "receive" students, and to coordinate the
services they receive, you only
propagate situations like the one
you are apparently trying to
eliminate by coordinating the
registration proced ure . It is not
enough though to "take care" of
students with registration and an
exi t in~erview . Hellohaveanice-
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• The Evergreen Women's Soccer
team split two games last weekend.
They won a game with the
Capitol Hill Streakers 5 to 4 on
Saturday but lost to the Kirkland
Krickets 2 to 1 on Sunday. Both
games were played on the home
field to a total attendance of 60
spectators. Goals were scored by
Pat Moddie, Barb Wooton and
Heidi Ehrenberg. Sunday's game
was a fight to the finish with
outstanding defensive s upport
from Evergreen goa li e Anne
Stone.
Next game for the Geoducks is
with Seattle Pacific College .
• Les Eldridge, special assistant
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as much as possible.
I have already taken steps to
fulfill some of these ideas. With
the help of Chuck Albertson I
have obtaied an office in the li brary (3225) and with the help of
Liam O'Callahan, alumnus and
graduate Biologist, I am searching olit people to make up the
consultant pool. Jim Edgerton,
current student Chemist and Biologist, has already expressed his
willingness to join the pool.
There is at the present time an
opening for one student member
on the committee. If you are in terested in filling this position
come and see me. And for all the
rest of you cOl1cerned students, I
can be found in room 3225 in
the libr ary or call 866-6089
(messages in CAB 305, please).
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tripgoodbye . People have ongoing needs that must be respected and serviced.
You cannot pass the responsibility for coordinated counseling
off to the community at large.
There are waiting lists months
long at the Community Mental
Health Center. Besides, there are
problems which relate directly to
the structure and design of
TESC. which need immediate
answers, or most probably we
lose another student. We cannot
afford that anymore. Oh, you
can avoid these responsibilities,
but we all suffer. By swamping
counseling per se personnel with
paper work, secretarial work ,
telephone answering and Iiasion ing, you come up with a crew of
perhaps efficient secretaries who
have no time to provide competent counseling services.
Or, a t best you end up with
haphazard, ineffectual. "rush-job"
counseling. At worst , you strike
yet another death blow to a
bruised and battered, though
perhaps recoverable institution.
This is a unique learning habi tat , my friend, but it may very
well go down as the brave experiment that failed .
Evergreen - it was fun while
it lasted .
Sincerely,
or one of the lecture halls (watch
posters for the exact location).
Time for the workshop is 7 p.m.
and the cost is $5 which covers a
book and supplementary Xeroxed
material. The teacher will be
Nealy Gillette from Seattle who
is very experienced with teaching
this method.
• Professor Steven Harrell of the
U. W. Department of Anthropology will speak Thursday, May
20 at 7: 30 p.m. in the 3500
lounge of the Library. His topic
will be "Women in Chinese Soci.ety: Past and Present."
• All campus buildings will be
closed Monday, May 31 for the
Memorial Day holiday. Security
will provide no unlocks. Buildings will be accessible for those
people who have keys. Call Security before en terin g or leaving
any building.
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• The office of Academic Advis ing and Information will be hold ing a group advising session May
20 in LAB 1012. The topic is "So
You Want to Be an Artist? Can
Evergreen Help You?"
• The Theatre of the Unemployed, Summer Street Theatre
Group still has one opening and
is looking for a person interested
in working with them this
summer. They will be holding
auditions on Thursday, May 20
at 6 :30 p.m.; 1103 W. Sixth
Street (Emma Goldman Col1ective ); tel. 357-8323.
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House for Sale: View of Budd
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home on 3 acres. Mature
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Fireplace in living room and
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$46,000 Call owner 866-4107.
Camping Equip. for sale ,
pots - parkas. Ask for eppo
at 866-5209.
Interested in Employment or Graduate
School in Counseling and
Social Services 1
AHend: Job and Graduate School Information Day; Wednesday , May 26, 9 a .m . to 4 p.m.; Board Room, 3rd floor Library.
Sign Up: For morning workshops and afternoon interviews in
the Career Planning and Placement Office: Library 1221 or call
(866-6193) . Interviews will be schedu led on a first come, first
served basis ... . ... Sign up today!
Professional and Graduate School Representatives include
among others: UW . Women's Programs, Vocat ional Rehabilitat ion , Cedar Creek Youth Camp, Western State Hospital, Wa .
Hum an Rights Commiss ion , Seattle Opportunities Industrial
Center, Children's Resource Center, Western Wa . State College,
Masters Programs in School, Counse ling and Psychology, Con be la Assoc iation, G roup Hea lth Cooperative, Law and Justice
Planning, Thurston County Commun ity Mental Health, Bureau
of Juvenile Rehabilitation, Center for Addiction Services, UW
Recreational Programs, Portland State School of Social Work,
U.W. School of Socia l Work.
Special Announcement: Attend a special preparation workshop on Monday, May 24, 3 - 5 p .m . in the Career Resource
Center, Lib . 1224. Learn more about Job Day, resume writing,
and information interviewing .
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ENTERTAINMENT
COMMENTARY
Evergreen In Trouble
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by Dan Ahks
The 28 % underenrollment projected by some for Fall 1976 is
an indication of a fundamental
problem that ha s historically
been a part of Evergreen . The
administration has never established an objective means of in stitutional evaluation and therefore cannot and does not
respond to problems until they
are blatantly obvious.
For example, there have been
indications for some time that
Evergreen would eventually have
an enrollment crisis. Since our
first yea r we have not attracted
in-state s tudents , particular!
from Thurston and Mason coun~
ties . This was and is evidenced
by the high percentage of deelar ed o ut -of -s tate stude nt s
which is now 19 % and has bee'
as high as 25 % of the studen~
bod y, co mpa red to 10 _ 12 % at
the U of W . More significa nt is
the tota l number of o ut -of-state
stud ent s includin g those perso ns
w ho have c hanged th eir resi den c
status to a ttend college . This
ure coul d easi ly be as high as
40 % of the tot al student po pula .
tion .
'
Part of our prob lem in attracting Washi ngton State st udent s is
ou r fai lure to attrac t recent high
school graduates in this state. In
1975 _ 76 we a ttrac ted less tha n
100 students from this clie nt ele
a l thou ~ h 80 % of recruitmen t
e ff o ,.ts in 1975 were dire c te d
towa rd , in -s tat e high schoo ls.
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Appr ox im a te ly 30 new st u dent s came from Thursto n a nd
Mason cou nt ies out o f hundreds
of gradu ating seniors even th ough
Evergreen is t he ir onl y loca l,
pub lic fo ur year co llege. Because
edu catio n is costl y away from
home, a nd beca use few part - time
jo bs are a vailable in the Olym pia area . failure to attract stu -
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dents within commuting distance
IS an enrollment problem.
A national survey tomparing
attitudes and background of in·
coming Evergreen students to na·
tional norms forewarned of a
narrow student appeal at Evergreen. The American Council on
Education survey demonstrated
similarities in interests, attitudes,
political orientation and socialeconomic backgrounds of TESC
students to be markedly -different
from national norms.
I believe that the homogeneity
of the student body is at least in
part due to the many curricular
offerings attempting to define a
new life-style fo r students. These
cou rses often appealed to student s of middle and upper - middie class backgrounds who saw
Evergreen as an alternative to
the typically middle class o rient ation of traditional colleges. A
co un te r-cultural lif e-sty le and
d ress co de has de veloped at
TESC and been subtl y but effectively maintained .
. It has become increasi ngly difheult for student s of different
cultural o r soc ia l-eco nom ic backgrounds to adjust to the Ever green env iro nment. The co untercultural life -style an d dress code
IS foreign to a con servative community , yet no concerted effo rt
is made by th e admini strat ion to
ease tension s caused by the po la rit y of life-styles o r to in volve
the community in the college.
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illustrat.es the .failure of faculty
evaluatlOns. ~Ittle or no objec·
tive data was available and for
the most part decisions were
based on subjective data. Func·
tionally, the only academic grievance procedure available to the
student is the faculty evaluation.
Solutions?
First we must recognize what
we ~o well . Despite crippling
functlOnal problems many students have received a high quality education here, as evidenced
by the number of different post
graduate pursuits and our success
In career placement. Considering
the problems, our interdisciplinary approach to liberal arts education has been spectacularly
successful.
.
An example of an area where
we have not been successful is
the area of alternative life·styles,
also as eVidenced by career
placement. Most students return
to. "resp o nsible " positions wlthm the system . This cou ld
cha~ge if w e co ncentrated more
on Ideo logy than on the pure
mecham cs of alternative living.
It IS th e development of commitment and alternative ideology
that promote cha nge in society.
, Ultimately , student s do evaluate the school b y whether they
come and stay, but an effective
~va.luation system wo uld react to
indicators from students far be·
fore thiS fmal indicator becomes
necessary .
The Fast Forgotten
Singer/Songwriters
b y John S. Fos ter
KAOS Mu sic Direc to r
Th e 70's ushered in the era of
the sin ger -songwriter a nd with it
ca me millions of would-be James
Taylors a nd Carole Kings. In
man y ca ses there seems to be lit tle reaso n why some made it and
ot hers were never heard of. I
oft en a sk myse lf , " Why John
Denver?"
So me of the best kn ow n (Ne il
Young , Lou Reed . Todd Rund gren. a nd Boz Scaggs) are now
cult fig ures rather than superstars because of their unwillingness to s tick with their estab li shed marke ts. Young, for examp le, gained ma ss accepta nce
with hi s album Har ves t and
promptly los t it when he rej ected
the ove rpr oduct ion that had
made Ihe album palalable to the
masses and nau sea ting to those
'lVhens the last time yOu
hearll, ~E Willr?
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The resu.lt? - alienation of. the
commumty to TESC . We fall to
attract a large and diverse stu·
dent clientel~,. and because of a
changed pohl1cal and economic
cl1mate we attract fewer students.
For several . ~ear~ these factors
and their ramlfical10ns have been
re?e.atedly pointed out to the ad·
mInlstratlOn. The. system of eval uatlOn was and IS. so po~r that
steps to solve the Impending enrollment problem were not taken
until a faculty r.neeting about
major restructunng proposals
and the student . teach-in fla~ed
these and other Issues as a .crISI~.
EvaluatIon and correctIOn m
o ther areas have been equally
poor. . A high attrition rate has
contnbuted to the enrollment
problem. Only in the past few
months have the. exit interviews,
reqUired . to be fIlled out by all
semors In o rder to graduate,
been co mpIled.
Perhaps the most serious failures of eva luatIOn have been
programs and faculty. Apparent
In the proceedmgs of the longrange c~rnculum DTF has been
an mabliity to determme what
makes a program successful. Program evaluatIOns have not been
wntten or compiled In a form
from which objective ~nd quantlfled data can be obtamed . This
process is very i~portant if we
are to be an expenmental college .
Th e controversy over the recent
fmng of two faculty members
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who fo und solace in the desper ate edge to his voice. Reed will
probab ly never gai n mass acceptance no matter how soft and
sweet he sings in hi s lobo to mized
mo notone . Rundgren, like Reed ,
is a brilliant balladeer who slips
in and out of hi s fascination with
the art of noise. This makes
most of his a lbum s very uneven .
Scaggs' so uthern charm is a lways
evident but his ta ste is too eclec tic to keep his audience from al bum to album.
.
Randall Bramblett 's Light of
th e Night is the finest a lbum by
a sin ger-son gwriter so far this
year. It is excellently produced in
the New Orleans tradition and
shows a ra re sensitivity that I've·
failed to pick up in an artist for
awhile .
Another album that hits me in
a similar way is Gil Scott - Heron's Pieces of a Man . ScottHeron's other a lbums are more
political and lost their intensity
because of it.
Tom Waits , seemingly a throwback to the Beat Generation of
Jack Kerouac , is a little too jive
sometimes, but can tell us something about ourselves and our inability to fit into the culture that
has been created around us I by
us. Heart of Saturday Night captures this .
Bordering on rock but never
raucous are Jorg e Calderon.
Greg. Kihn , and Jonathan Rich man (Modern Lovers) , who are
tailor-made for success but probably won' t make it. All three are
distinctive, and the least access·
ible (or unorthodox) o ne , Jona than Richman, looks like one of
the decade's brightes t stars.
From Britain come G . T. Moore
with his reggae sound , St eve
Harl ey. less Roden. loan Arma trading , 10 1m Martyn , and Linda
Lewis' Lark album. These artists
do much to disprove the theory
tha t a ll England produces is hard
rock and traditiona l folk.
Michael Jo hnso n - not strictl y
a singer -songwriter - is another
of those grea t interpreters (Ell en
Mcllwain e is a no th er) who
shou ld have made it. His voice
ca n soothe the savage beast me fo r example. H e reminds me
o f Canada 's b est singer-song writer Bruce Cockburn .
Of course, the Northwes t has
its share of good musicians also
and a few of them are on rec o rd. lim ' Page - Sea ttle's most
famous streetsinger - is a protest singer in the classic mold,
and his album Sho t of the Usual
(though not live) reflects this .
Phyl Sheridan's Simple Things
(Morning Glory Records, c l o
Fiddler Records , 5212 South
Alaska SI., Seattle 98118) is
folky and pleasing. Perhaps this
area's finest export ha s been
Danny O 'Keefe who writes and
sings compelling so ngs that
s h o uld eventually bring him
grea ter attention nationally.
Do yourself a favor . Call your
local radio s tation (KAOS) and
ask to hear these musicians.
This is number three in a
series of articles on obscure and
forgotten music.
least there's none w hich can deal
effec tive ly wit h film , and no pro·
fesso r who can teach it effectively."
"We've got to ns of fantastic
equipment here ." he continued ,
"but no' one is interested in teaching how to use it. "
One film - maker who is forg ing
ahead despite all the problems is
LEE MEISTER , now in his third
year at Evergreen . Meister is edit ing hi s fourth 16 millimet e r
so und film , a comedy called
" Get Off My Toe ." It is scheduled for completion by the end
of the month. Meister prev iously
collaborated with student David
Worman on the movies, " Lick It
Thort on, " " Voodoo in Budapest," and " Let the Voice of the
People Be Hea rd ."
Student Lee Meister at work
"Get Off My Toe ."
Student
Film -makers:
by Matt Groening
This is the second in a series
of articles on film-making at Evergreen.
Many student film-makers at
Evergreen are unhappy . Most
agree that the media equipment
at the school is excellent, but few
have the money to cover the
considerable expense of an average 16 millimeter production.
''I've been working my ass off
to get this movie done," said one
film-maker, "but I don' t know
how I'm going to pay for it. I
guess I'll have to find something
around here worth stealing." He
was probably joking, but his des·
peration is typical among filmmakers. This is one reason why
movie labs in the area are often
reluctant to extend credit to the
frantic young men and women
who flock to their doors .
Financial problems are so uni ·
versal among film·makers that
they often look upon other successfully funded projects with
secret envy. "To be honest, any one else's success just reminds
iou of your own failure, " one
s tudent admitted . "If you really
let it get to you, you can end up
hating everybody."
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Beginning film·makers are
most disappointed with the lack
of faculty support at Evergreen .
"What faculty support?" asked
one student. "We have no film
faculty here, even though some
consider themselves film faculty. "
His friends agreed. "The main
problem is that there is no film·
making program," said one. "At
His plans include working in
the film industry in New York
this summer. " But if that doesn't
work out," he said, "I'll be a
New York cab driver again." After Evergreen Meister said he will
go to Columbia College in Hollywood to continue studying film·
making. He hopes eventually to
direct a comedy feature .
"I like to make fun of things
people take too seriously," he
sa id . "My next movie is a docu·
mentary on the racist implica·
tions of sexism in Marxist coun·
tries ."
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Margaret Gribskov, Member of TESC Faculty, wi ll speak Friday,
May 21 about careers in Journalism
Time : Friday, May 21 , 12 :00 - 1 :30 p.m.
Pl ace: CAB 110 (Bring your lunch)
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FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Frida y, May 21
THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937 , 92
min .) Produced and directed by Leo
Ca rey , w r itJen by Vina Detm ar .
Irene Dunn and Cary Gran t star as
a couple who find it increas ing ly
difficult to beli eve in each other's
fide li ty . Also : HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944 . 100 min . I
Woodrow Wil son Truesmith . who
comes Irom a lamily of war heroes ,
is about to return home in disgrace
after being discharged from the
service for chron ic hay fever. tn
San Francisco he fall s in wit h six
marines , led by a pug with a severe
mother co m plex. wh o persuade him
to pose as a war hero . Starring
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines , Fred die
Steele. and Witliam Demaresl. Direc ted by Prest o n Sturges . LH o ne.
3 and 7 p .m . 50 cen l s.
Monday, May 24
WINNIE WRIGHT: AGE 11 and
TRICK BAG Two short film s by a
Chicago f ilmmaking col lectiV t
which foc us on growing up in the
cit y's Norlh Side . Ev ergreen teacher
Alan Nasser will spea~. following
the film . Presented by EPIC (Evergreen Potitical Infor:nation Gemer) .
LH one , 7:30 p.m . FREE .
Tuesday, May ~5
DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY A
feature- length underground movie
detailing the fictional fitmed diary
of a crazy arti st. Presenled by th e
Academic Film Series . LH one , 2
and 7 : 30 p.m . FREE.
IN ;)LYMPIA
BLACKBEARD'S GHOST , a Watt
Disney Production . Capitol Theatre.
357-7161.
MISSOURI BREAKS , starrinQ
Marlon Branda and Jack Nicholson . Directed by Arthur Penn . Ten latively scheduled . Olympic Theatre
357-3422.
WATCH OUT WE'RE MAD and
George Segal in THE BLACK BIRD .
State Theatre, 357-4010.
TOMMY and SHAMPOO . Lacey
Drive-in, 491-3161 .
DEEP THROAT and WET RAIN·
BOW Trunks and ID's will be spotchecked. Skyline Drive-in, 426-4707.
HARD TIMES , with Charles Bron son, ALOHA, BOBBY, AND ROSE ,
and WHITE LINE FEVER . Sunset
Drive- in , 357-8302 .
POETRY
ON CAMPUS
Thursday , May 20
BILL TAYLOR , poet, reads original works. Also LETICIA GRAU
MARSH reads poems in Spanish
and English . Presented by The Genter for Poetry in Performan ce .
Board Room. Lib. 31 12, 7 p .m .
FREE .
Thursday, May 27
JAMES TATE . author of Thll
Oblivion Ha Ha, Absences , and The
Lost Pilot, reads his .poelry . Pre sented by The Center for Poetry in
Performance.
LH three,
8 p.m .
FREE .
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"If Evergreen lived up to it.s
interdisciplinary image , there
would be less division between
film and other media here, " was
how one disgruntled student put
it. Another student thought this
was because "film·makers come
off as snobs to other artists." He
continued, saying, "I tried to get
help from the theatre people, but
they laughed. Believe me, actors
are the biggest egotists of all."
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Others see lack o~ cooperatIon
w ith artists in other media as a
major problem. Few students
ha ve the diverse ta lents necessary
to complete a movie successfully
by themselves, but they find it
hard to collaborate with other
artists who are used to working
independently .
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The new movie stars Geof
Aim as a hardened criminal who
is visited by his guardian angel,
played by Evergreen teacher An drew Hanfman . Other actors include Victor Farin amd Mark
Blanchard as gang members, Ken
Wilhelm and Laurel White as
elegant robbery victims, and
Woody Hirzel as a religious fa natic. Gary Peterson ran the
camera, , James Moore did the
lighting, and Rod McClosky was
responsible for sound. " Over a
hundred people were involved in
the film," said Meister.
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Me ister's concern about filmmaking problems at Eve rgreen
center on the lack of m oney to
repair equipment. '''Get Off My
Toe' was begun last October, " he
said, "and one of the reasons it
took so long to finish was because the Eclair (a sophisticated
camera used in sound-sync
shooting ) broke down ." Meister
saw some benefit in the shooting
delays . "In a way it was good . It
gave me more time to plan the
film carefully."
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Sunday, May 23
WHAT IT IS Kidd Rhythm takes
uS back 101959, fealuring local art ists. KAOS-FM, 12:30 - 2 p.m .
2 O'CLOCK COUNT Robin Crook
co ntinues a series on women In
prison . KAOS -F M. 2 - 3 p.m.
FRENCH LANGUAGE HOUR with
Jananne Gaver. KAOS - FM, 6 :30 7 : 30 p. m.
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
BROADCAST . James Levine conducting . Weber: Overture t o
" Euryanthe;" Berg : Three Orchestral Pieces , Op. 6 ; Mahl er : Des
Knaben Wunderhorn . KAOS · FM ,
7 : 30 - 9:30 p.m .
Monday , May 24
~~ORTHWEST BRASS QUINTET
concert recording , with host Brad
Furlong. KAOS-FM, 9 - 10 a.m.
Wednesday, May 26
OLDER WOMEN AND HEALTH
CARE, Part III : " Finan cing Heallh
Care." Carla Knoper hosts . KAOS FM , 3 - 4 p .m .
MUSIC
ON CAM PU S
Thursday . May 20
ECCO PRESENTS THE ARTS
ECCO ( Evergree n Co l teg e Co m munity Orga niza li on) presents an
evening of mUSiC , dan ce. and fi lm
Perf o rmances by Ballet Northwest ,
Katy Mc Fartand . an d the new Ever green Chamber Music Ensemble
Mai n L ibrary Lobby. 8 p .m . FREE .
Sat urday, May 22
THE ROYAL NEIGHBORS OF
AMERICA a benefit concert for the
Open Communit y School presented
by KAOS Radi o . Performers in clude Jeff Morgan , Jack Johnson.
and Uba Waugh . Slides . percuss Ion
an d electroni c mus ic wi tl be featured , incl uding a perform ance of
Arnotd Schoenberg ' s Kteine Klaviers tucke . Mai n Libra ry Lobby . 8 p m .
$1 .50 .
Sunday. May 23
DEBBI SHORROCK , flautist . wi th
pianist LISA BERGMAN in a can·
cert of c lassical music . Presen ted
as part of the Colleg ium Senes
Main Library Lobby . 2 p .m . One
dollar student s and senior ci l izen s.
$1 .SO general. Under 5 free .
JOHN CARLETON . a s inger /
guitari sl from Bosto n. ptays orig inal music . Al so : SID BROWN , ano ther singer / gui tarist who plays
orig inal t unes . ASH Cofteehaus . 8
p .m . Fifty cents .
Monday , May 24
OPEN NIGHT FRIGHT MIKE
RIGHT , fealuring Tennessee Crud e
playing co unt ry mus ic , featu ri ng
Tom Foote , steel guitar ; Teasy Ryken. fiddl e and voca ls : Rennie Se tkirk , guitar and vocals , Mi ke
Marsh . bass; and Lee Anderson
drums . ASH Cofteehau s, FREE . .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday. May 21
JOHN CARLETON , singer / guita rist. and ERIC PARK , another singer/ guitarist , in concert . Applejam
Fotk Center, 220 E. Union . Doors
open 8 p .m . , li rs l act slarts 8 . 25 .
One dollar .
Saturday, May 22
RUSS FARREL, a shipwright.
logger. and poet, read s his work s.
At so : DAVID LEVINE plays Irish
and traditional folk musi c on guitar,
flute , and whistle . Applejam Folk
Center, doors open 8 p.m .. first ac t
starts 8 : 25 . FREE .
DRAMA
ON CAMPUS
Wednesday , May 26
A WOMAN'S, MANIFESTO by
The Theatre of the Unemployed, directed by Margaret Simms . Main
Library Lobby , 8 p .m .
IN OLYMPIA
Thursday , May 20
ELLEN'S BOX : REVISITED BY
THE LIVES OF THREE WOMEN
produced by James Moore and The
Theatre o f the Unempl oyed . A color
vide ota pe pr o duc ti on . The Spar
Re s taurant 's Highclimber Room
9:05 - 11 p .m . Showing beg ins at'
9 :30. Two do llar donation. 21 and
over onty .
GIVE 'EM AN INCH perform ed by
th e Co-Respondants . a three woman readers' Iheater and musi cal
group . United Church of Chris t.
11th and Capitol , 8 p.m . Benefi t for
YWCA , $2 donal ion.
ART
SENIOR ART SHOW Library Art
Gallery . Through May 27 .
KAREN TRUAX HAND ·COLORED
PHOTOGRAPHS Library Art Gallery .
Through May 27 .
NASTY ADULT NOVel TIES from
the extensive co llection of Ihe tale
Joe Bemis . A filmed dembnstration featuring Mr . Bemi s in h is last
p e rf orma nce is sc hedul ed . Joe
Bem is Memorial Gallery , open 24
hours .
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
Over 22 rare white rodent s in co m ical poses by local taxidermists .
Many of th e carefulty crafted animals make amus ing noises when
squeezed . Jo e Bemi s M emo ria l
Gal lery , open 24 ho urs .
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by Dan Ahks
The 28 % underenrollment projected by some for Fall 1976 is
an indication of a fundamental
problem that ha s historically
been a part of Evergreen . The
administration has never established an objective means of in stitutional evaluation and therefore cannot and does not
respond to problems until they
are blatantly obvious.
For example, there have been
indications for some time that
Evergreen would eventually have
an enrollment crisis. Since our
first yea r we have not attracted
in-state s tudents , particular!
from Thurston and Mason coun~
ties . This was and is evidenced
by the high percentage of deelar ed o ut -of -s tate stude nt s
which is now 19 % and has bee'
as high as 25 % of the studen~
bod y, co mpa red to 10 _ 12 % at
the U of W . More significa nt is
the tota l number of o ut -of-state
stud ent s includin g those perso ns
w ho have c hanged th eir resi den c
status to a ttend college . This
ure coul d easi ly be as high as
40 % of the tot al student po pula .
tion .
'
Part of our prob lem in attracting Washi ngton State st udent s is
ou r fai lure to attrac t recent high
school graduates in this state. In
1975 _ 76 we a ttrac ted less tha n
100 students from this clie nt ele
a l thou ~ h 80 % of recruitmen t
e ff o ,.ts in 1975 were dire c te d
towa rd , in -s tat e high schoo ls.
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Appr ox im a te ly 30 new st u dent s came from Thursto n a nd
Mason cou nt ies out o f hundreds
of gradu ating seniors even th ough
Evergreen is t he ir onl y loca l,
pub lic fo ur year co llege. Because
edu catio n is costl y away from
home, a nd beca use few part - time
jo bs are a vailable in the Olym pia area . failure to attract stu -
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ARTS, CRAF'T$ ANP QVAL,Tt' "SftD
I T EMS 0'" CONS ••..,,.,,WT. 8Mf.MEtJr OF c;.A.S.
dents within commuting distance
IS an enrollment problem.
A national survey tomparing
attitudes and background of in·
coming Evergreen students to na·
tional norms forewarned of a
narrow student appeal at Evergreen. The American Council on
Education survey demonstrated
similarities in interests, attitudes,
political orientation and socialeconomic backgrounds of TESC
students to be markedly -different
from national norms.
I believe that the homogeneity
of the student body is at least in
part due to the many curricular
offerings attempting to define a
new life-style fo r students. These
cou rses often appealed to student s of middle and upper - middie class backgrounds who saw
Evergreen as an alternative to
the typically middle class o rient ation of traditional colleges. A
co un te r-cultural lif e-sty le and
d ress co de has de veloped at
TESC and been subtl y but effectively maintained .
. It has become increasi ngly difheult for student s of different
cultural o r soc ia l-eco nom ic backgrounds to adjust to the Ever green env iro nment. The co untercultural life -style an d dress code
IS foreign to a con servative community , yet no concerted effo rt
is made by th e admini strat ion to
ease tension s caused by the po la rit y of life-styles o r to in volve
the community in the college.
.
illustrat.es the .failure of faculty
evaluatlOns. ~Ittle or no objec·
tive data was available and for
the most part decisions were
based on subjective data. Func·
tionally, the only academic grievance procedure available to the
student is the faculty evaluation.
Solutions?
First we must recognize what
we ~o well . Despite crippling
functlOnal problems many students have received a high quality education here, as evidenced
by the number of different post
graduate pursuits and our success
In career placement. Considering
the problems, our interdisciplinary approach to liberal arts education has been spectacularly
successful.
.
An example of an area where
we have not been successful is
the area of alternative life·styles,
also as eVidenced by career
placement. Most students return
to. "resp o nsible " positions wlthm the system . This cou ld
cha~ge if w e co ncentrated more
on Ideo logy than on the pure
mecham cs of alternative living.
It IS th e development of commitment and alternative ideology
that promote cha nge in society.
, Ultimately , student s do evaluate the school b y whether they
come and stay, but an effective
~va.luation system wo uld react to
indicators from students far be·
fore thiS fmal indicator becomes
necessary .
The Fast Forgotten
Singer/Songwriters
b y John S. Fos ter
KAOS Mu sic Direc to r
Th e 70's ushered in the era of
the sin ger -songwriter a nd with it
ca me millions of would-be James
Taylors a nd Carole Kings. In
man y ca ses there seems to be lit tle reaso n why some made it and
ot hers were never heard of. I
oft en a sk myse lf , " Why John
Denver?"
So me of the best kn ow n (Ne il
Young , Lou Reed . Todd Rund gren. a nd Boz Scaggs) are now
cult fig ures rather than superstars because of their unwillingness to s tick with their estab li shed marke ts. Young, for examp le, gained ma ss accepta nce
with hi s album Har ves t and
promptly los t it when he rej ected
the ove rpr oduct ion that had
made Ihe album palalable to the
masses and nau sea ting to those
'lVhens the last time yOu
hearll, ~E Willr?
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The resu.lt? - alienation of. the
commumty to TESC . We fall to
attract a large and diverse stu·
dent clientel~,. and because of a
changed pohl1cal and economic
cl1mate we attract fewer students.
For several . ~ear~ these factors
and their ramlfical10ns have been
re?e.atedly pointed out to the ad·
mInlstratlOn. The. system of eval uatlOn was and IS. so po~r that
steps to solve the Impending enrollment problem were not taken
until a faculty r.neeting about
major restructunng proposals
and the student . teach-in fla~ed
these and other Issues as a .crISI~.
EvaluatIon and correctIOn m
o ther areas have been equally
poor. . A high attrition rate has
contnbuted to the enrollment
problem. Only in the past few
months have the. exit interviews,
reqUired . to be fIlled out by all
semors In o rder to graduate,
been co mpIled.
Perhaps the most serious failures of eva luatIOn have been
programs and faculty. Apparent
In the proceedmgs of the longrange c~rnculum DTF has been
an mabliity to determme what
makes a program successful. Program evaluatIOns have not been
wntten or compiled In a form
from which objective ~nd quantlfled data can be obtamed . This
process is very i~portant if we
are to be an expenmental college .
Th e controversy over the recent
fmng of two faculty members
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who fo und solace in the desper ate edge to his voice. Reed will
probab ly never gai n mass acceptance no matter how soft and
sweet he sings in hi s lobo to mized
mo notone . Rundgren, like Reed ,
is a brilliant balladeer who slips
in and out of hi s fascination with
the art of noise. This makes
most of his a lbum s very uneven .
Scaggs' so uthern charm is a lways
evident but his ta ste is too eclec tic to keep his audience from al bum to album.
.
Randall Bramblett 's Light of
th e Night is the finest a lbum by
a sin ger-son gwriter so far this
year. It is excellently produced in
the New Orleans tradition and
shows a ra re sensitivity that I've·
failed to pick up in an artist for
awhile .
Another album that hits me in
a similar way is Gil Scott - Heron's Pieces of a Man . ScottHeron's other a lbums are more
political and lost their intensity
because of it.
Tom Waits , seemingly a throwback to the Beat Generation of
Jack Kerouac , is a little too jive
sometimes, but can tell us something about ourselves and our inability to fit into the culture that
has been created around us I by
us. Heart of Saturday Night captures this .
Bordering on rock but never
raucous are Jorg e Calderon.
Greg. Kihn , and Jonathan Rich man (Modern Lovers) , who are
tailor-made for success but probably won' t make it. All three are
distinctive, and the least access·
ible (or unorthodox) o ne , Jona than Richman, looks like one of
the decade's brightes t stars.
From Britain come G . T. Moore
with his reggae sound , St eve
Harl ey. less Roden. loan Arma trading , 10 1m Martyn , and Linda
Lewis' Lark album. These artists
do much to disprove the theory
tha t a ll England produces is hard
rock and traditiona l folk.
Michael Jo hnso n - not strictl y
a singer -songwriter - is another
of those grea t interpreters (Ell en
Mcllwain e is a no th er) who
shou ld have made it. His voice
ca n soothe the savage beast me fo r example. H e reminds me
o f Canada 's b est singer-song writer Bruce Cockburn .
Of course, the Northwes t has
its share of good musicians also
and a few of them are on rec o rd. lim ' Page - Sea ttle's most
famous streetsinger - is a protest singer in the classic mold,
and his album Sho t of the Usual
(though not live) reflects this .
Phyl Sheridan's Simple Things
(Morning Glory Records, c l o
Fiddler Records , 5212 South
Alaska SI., Seattle 98118) is
folky and pleasing. Perhaps this
area's finest export ha s been
Danny O 'Keefe who writes and
sings compelling so ngs that
s h o uld eventually bring him
grea ter attention nationally.
Do yourself a favor . Call your
local radio s tation (KAOS) and
ask to hear these musicians.
This is number three in a
series of articles on obscure and
forgotten music.
least there's none w hich can deal
effec tive ly wit h film , and no pro·
fesso r who can teach it effectively."
"We've got to ns of fantastic
equipment here ." he continued ,
"but no' one is interested in teaching how to use it. "
One film - maker who is forg ing
ahead despite all the problems is
LEE MEISTER , now in his third
year at Evergreen . Meister is edit ing hi s fourth 16 millimet e r
so und film , a comedy called
" Get Off My Toe ." It is scheduled for completion by the end
of the month. Meister prev iously
collaborated with student David
Worman on the movies, " Lick It
Thort on, " " Voodoo in Budapest," and " Let the Voice of the
People Be Hea rd ."
Student Lee Meister at work
"Get Off My Toe ."
Student
Film -makers:
by Matt Groening
This is the second in a series
of articles on film-making at Evergreen.
Many student film-makers at
Evergreen are unhappy . Most
agree that the media equipment
at the school is excellent, but few
have the money to cover the
considerable expense of an average 16 millimeter production.
''I've been working my ass off
to get this movie done," said one
film-maker, "but I don' t know
how I'm going to pay for it. I
guess I'll have to find something
around here worth stealing." He
was probably joking, but his des·
peration is typical among filmmakers. This is one reason why
movie labs in the area are often
reluctant to extend credit to the
frantic young men and women
who flock to their doors .
Financial problems are so uni ·
versal among film·makers that
they often look upon other successfully funded projects with
secret envy. "To be honest, any one else's success just reminds
iou of your own failure, " one
s tudent admitted . "If you really
let it get to you, you can end up
hating everybody."
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Beginning film·makers are
most disappointed with the lack
of faculty support at Evergreen .
"What faculty support?" asked
one student. "We have no film
faculty here, even though some
consider themselves film faculty. "
His friends agreed. "The main
problem is that there is no film·
making program," said one. "At
His plans include working in
the film industry in New York
this summer. " But if that doesn't
work out," he said, "I'll be a
New York cab driver again." After Evergreen Meister said he will
go to Columbia College in Hollywood to continue studying film·
making. He hopes eventually to
direct a comedy feature .
"I like to make fun of things
people take too seriously," he
sa id . "My next movie is a docu·
mentary on the racist implica·
tions of sexism in Marxist coun·
tries ."
TUNER & TECHNICIAN
Tuning - Cleaning
Refelting Regulati~ - Repairing
Spring Qua rt er Lec ture Series
Margaret Gribskov, Member of TESC Faculty, wi ll speak Friday,
May 21 about careers in Journalism
Time : Friday, May 21 , 12 :00 - 1 :30 p.m.
Pl ace: CAB 110 (Bring your lunch)
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FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Frida y, May 21
THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937 , 92
min .) Produced and directed by Leo
Ca rey , w r itJen by Vina Detm ar .
Irene Dunn and Cary Gran t star as
a couple who find it increas ing ly
difficult to beli eve in each other's
fide li ty . Also : HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944 . 100 min . I
Woodrow Wil son Truesmith . who
comes Irom a lamily of war heroes ,
is about to return home in disgrace
after being discharged from the
service for chron ic hay fever. tn
San Francisco he fall s in wit h six
marines , led by a pug with a severe
mother co m plex. wh o persuade him
to pose as a war hero . Starring
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines , Fred die
Steele. and Witliam Demaresl. Direc ted by Prest o n Sturges . LH o ne.
3 and 7 p .m . 50 cen l s.
Monday, May 24
WINNIE WRIGHT: AGE 11 and
TRICK BAG Two short film s by a
Chicago f ilmmaking col lectiV t
which foc us on growing up in the
cit y's Norlh Side . Ev ergreen teacher
Alan Nasser will spea~. following
the film . Presented by EPIC (Evergreen Potitical Infor:nation Gemer) .
LH one , 7:30 p.m . FREE .
Tuesday, May ~5
DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY A
feature- length underground movie
detailing the fictional fitmed diary
of a crazy arti st. Presenled by th e
Academic Film Series . LH one , 2
and 7 : 30 p.m . FREE.
IN ;)LYMPIA
BLACKBEARD'S GHOST , a Watt
Disney Production . Capitol Theatre.
357-7161.
MISSOURI BREAKS , starrinQ
Marlon Branda and Jack Nicholson . Directed by Arthur Penn . Ten latively scheduled . Olympic Theatre
357-3422.
WATCH OUT WE'RE MAD and
George Segal in THE BLACK BIRD .
State Theatre, 357-4010.
TOMMY and SHAMPOO . Lacey
Drive-in, 491-3161 .
DEEP THROAT and WET RAIN·
BOW Trunks and ID's will be spotchecked. Skyline Drive-in, 426-4707.
HARD TIMES , with Charles Bron son, ALOHA, BOBBY, AND ROSE ,
and WHITE LINE FEVER . Sunset
Drive- in , 357-8302 .
POETRY
ON CAMPUS
Thursday , May 20
BILL TAYLOR , poet, reads original works. Also LETICIA GRAU
MARSH reads poems in Spanish
and English . Presented by The Genter for Poetry in Performan ce .
Board Room. Lib. 31 12, 7 p .m .
FREE .
Thursday, May 27
JAMES TATE . author of Thll
Oblivion Ha Ha, Absences , and The
Lost Pilot, reads his .poelry . Pre sented by The Center for Poetry in
Performance.
LH three,
8 p.m .
FREE .
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"If Evergreen lived up to it.s
interdisciplinary image , there
would be less division between
film and other media here, " was
how one disgruntled student put
it. Another student thought this
was because "film·makers come
off as snobs to other artists." He
continued, saying, "I tried to get
help from the theatre people, but
they laughed. Believe me, actors
are the biggest egotists of all."
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Others see lack o~ cooperatIon
w ith artists in other media as a
major problem. Few students
ha ve the diverse ta lents necessary
to complete a movie successfully
by themselves, but they find it
hard to collaborate with other
artists who are used to working
independently .
CAREERS IN JOURNALISM
SOUTH SOUND NATIONAL BANK
The new movie stars Geof
Aim as a hardened criminal who
is visited by his guardian angel,
played by Evergreen teacher An drew Hanfman . Other actors include Victor Farin amd Mark
Blanchard as gang members, Ken
Wilhelm and Laurel White as
elegant robbery victims, and
Woody Hirzel as a religious fa natic. Gary Peterson ran the
camera, , James Moore did the
lighting, and Rod McClosky was
responsible for sound. " Over a
hundred people were involved in
the film," said Meister.
Gripes Galore
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
NOTARY SERVICE
Me ister's concern about filmmaking problems at Eve rgreen
center on the lack of m oney to
repair equipment. '''Get Off My
Toe' was begun last October, " he
said, "and one of the reasons it
took so long to finish was because the Eclair (a sophisticated
camera used in sound-sync
shooting ) broke down ." Meister
saw some benefit in the shooting
delays . "In a way it was good . It
gave me more time to plan the
film carefully."
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Sunday, May 23
WHAT IT IS Kidd Rhythm takes
uS back 101959, fealuring local art ists. KAOS-FM, 12:30 - 2 p.m .
2 O'CLOCK COUNT Robin Crook
co ntinues a series on women In
prison . KAOS -F M. 2 - 3 p.m.
FRENCH LANGUAGE HOUR with
Jananne Gaver. KAOS - FM, 6 :30 7 : 30 p. m.
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
BROADCAST . James Levine conducting . Weber: Overture t o
" Euryanthe;" Berg : Three Orchestral Pieces , Op. 6 ; Mahl er : Des
Knaben Wunderhorn . KAOS · FM ,
7 : 30 - 9:30 p.m .
Monday , May 24
~~ORTHWEST BRASS QUINTET
concert recording , with host Brad
Furlong. KAOS-FM, 9 - 10 a.m.
Wednesday, May 26
OLDER WOMEN AND HEALTH
CARE, Part III : " Finan cing Heallh
Care." Carla Knoper hosts . KAOS FM , 3 - 4 p .m .
MUSIC
ON CAM PU S
Thursday . May 20
ECCO PRESENTS THE ARTS
ECCO ( Evergree n Co l teg e Co m munity Orga niza li on) presents an
evening of mUSiC , dan ce. and fi lm
Perf o rmances by Ballet Northwest ,
Katy Mc Fartand . an d the new Ever green Chamber Music Ensemble
Mai n L ibrary Lobby. 8 p .m . FREE .
Sat urday, May 22
THE ROYAL NEIGHBORS OF
AMERICA a benefit concert for the
Open Communit y School presented
by KAOS Radi o . Performers in clude Jeff Morgan , Jack Johnson.
and Uba Waugh . Slides . percuss Ion
an d electroni c mus ic wi tl be featured , incl uding a perform ance of
Arnotd Schoenberg ' s Kteine Klaviers tucke . Mai n Libra ry Lobby . 8 p m .
$1 .50 .
Sunday. May 23
DEBBI SHORROCK , flautist . wi th
pianist LISA BERGMAN in a can·
cert of c lassical music . Presen ted
as part of the Colleg ium Senes
Main Library Lobby . 2 p .m . One
dollar student s and senior ci l izen s.
$1 .SO general. Under 5 free .
JOHN CARLETON . a s inger /
guitari sl from Bosto n. ptays orig inal music . Al so : SID BROWN , ano ther singer / gui tarist who plays
orig inal t unes . ASH Cofteehaus . 8
p .m . Fifty cents .
Monday , May 24
OPEN NIGHT FRIGHT MIKE
RIGHT , fealuring Tennessee Crud e
playing co unt ry mus ic , featu ri ng
Tom Foote , steel guitar ; Teasy Ryken. fiddl e and voca ls : Rennie Se tkirk , guitar and vocals , Mi ke
Marsh . bass; and Lee Anderson
drums . ASH Cofteehau s, FREE . .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday. May 21
JOHN CARLETON , singer / guita rist. and ERIC PARK , another singer/ guitarist , in concert . Applejam
Fotk Center, 220 E. Union . Doors
open 8 p .m . , li rs l act slarts 8 . 25 .
One dollar .
Saturday, May 22
RUSS FARREL, a shipwright.
logger. and poet, read s his work s.
At so : DAVID LEVINE plays Irish
and traditional folk musi c on guitar,
flute , and whistle . Applejam Folk
Center, doors open 8 p.m .. first ac t
starts 8 : 25 . FREE .
DRAMA
ON CAMPUS
Wednesday , May 26
A WOMAN'S, MANIFESTO by
The Theatre of the Unemployed, directed by Margaret Simms . Main
Library Lobby , 8 p .m .
IN OLYMPIA
Thursday , May 20
ELLEN'S BOX : REVISITED BY
THE LIVES OF THREE WOMEN
produced by James Moore and The
Theatre o f the Unempl oyed . A color
vide ota pe pr o duc ti on . The Spar
Re s taurant 's Highclimber Room
9:05 - 11 p .m . Showing beg ins at'
9 :30. Two do llar donation. 21 and
over onty .
GIVE 'EM AN INCH perform ed by
th e Co-Respondants . a three woman readers' Iheater and musi cal
group . United Church of Chris t.
11th and Capitol , 8 p.m . Benefi t for
YWCA , $2 donal ion.
ART
SENIOR ART SHOW Library Art
Gallery . Through May 27 .
KAREN TRUAX HAND ·COLORED
PHOTOGRAPHS Library Art Gallery .
Through May 27 .
NASTY ADULT NOVel TIES from
the extensive co llection of Ihe tale
Joe Bemis . A filmed dembnstration featuring Mr . Bemi s in h is last
p e rf orma nce is sc hedul ed . Joe
Bem is Memorial Gallery , open 24
hours .
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
Over 22 rare white rodent s in co m ical poses by local taxidermists .
Many of th e carefulty crafted animals make amus ing noises when
squeezed . Jo e Bemi s M emo ria l
Gal lery , open 24 ho urs .
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CPJ Leads S&A
Survey, but ...
-_.--The Academic Fair was held all day Wednesday in the Library Lobby,
Faculty sat by tables representing their programs and talked with prospective students. Registration for fall quarter began Wednesday and will
continue through October 4 ,
Budget: Services Down,
Facilities Up,
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Student Services
$ 424,268
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Adm in istration
$ 1,028.407
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URNAL
Institutiona l Rt>Serv
$ 170,087
2%
Instruction &:
$3,372,652
4,3 % , up ~
Organized Activities Re lated
Educational Departments
$ 299,057
Dep~rtmental
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This graph SIIOWS w ho gets what portion of Evergreen 's 1976 - 77 budgetary
pie, For each of th e seven budget programs, it shows tile dollar amount they
will receive, each program 's percentage of
the total, and percentage increase or de crease from 1975 - 76, The pie represents
" Total Funds Available for A llo cation"
plus institutional reserves, This is based
on current enrollm ent figures , It does not
include th e Enro llm ent Reserve of
$522,792 which will be released partially
or totally, depending on how much of the
projected 2,882 enrollmcnt projection is
reached, The new budget is an increase of
2% over 1975 - 76 compared to an increase of 6% in the Consumer Price In dex,
by Jim Wright
Allocation of the proposed 1976 - 77
budget has changed again since last week
according to Evergreen AdministrativE
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THE COOPER POINT
13% , down 3%
Come live at our place this Spring and Summer and
share the conveniences of living on campus, including
free utilities and free phone service.
Each apartment comes complete with its own kitchen
and private bathroom not usually found in traditional
hOUSing, Wall-to-wall carpeting is in each apartment
to soften the floors while laundry facilities are just
around the corner. And, if you're not afraid of
heights, we can even throw in a view either east or
west.
Rental prices do vary, but can be as low as $40 per
month based upon multiple occupancy and availability , For example, you and three friends can rent a
furnished two bedroom duplex for $160 per month.
So if you're a student, a faculty member, or a staff
member you can come live at our place,
To find out more about campus housing, stop by the
Housing Office or givl/ us a call at 6132,
Career Planning Computer
MECHA
Chamber Singers iJazz Ensemble
Women's Soccer
Experimental Structure
Counseling Subsidy
Asian Coalitior1
Ujamaa
Men's Cen ter
Mountaineering
Campus Major Production
Musical Theatre Dance
Women's Softball
Women 's Basketball
Men's Soccer
Press
Third World Women's Org .
EPIC
Coffee Ho use
Geoduck Yacht Club
Folk dance
Gay Resource Center
Organic Farmhouse
River Rats
Women's Fi lms
Men's Basketball
Bookstore
Forensics
Duck House
Evergreen Promotion Money
Center For Poetry
Faith Center
Food Service
Roll-up Door
The Evergreen State College· Olympia, Washington 98505
5%, down 8 %
Come Live At Our Place.
The COOPER POINT JOURNAL was
rated as "most important" in last week's
S&A funding survey, but only 35 people
turned surveys in, and according to a
worker in the S&A oHice, some people
filled theirs au t twice.
Although the survey was intended to
help guide the Services and Activities Re view Board in making funding decisions:
the small turnout is likely to change that
plan.
The entire rating is as follows:
Organization
Total Points
Cooper Point Journal
146
Friday Night Films
141
Driftwood Day Care
138
Women's Clini;:
133
131
Bus Subsidy (even ing)
CRC Operations
126
Activities Bldg.
123
CRC Equipment
121
Leisure Ed .
120
SHLAP (Self Help Legal Aid)
119
119
Bus Subsidy Inter-City
115
Recreation Arts Facilities
Speaker's Bureau
III
Bicycle Repair
111
S&A Board Operations
107
Gig Commission
106
CAB Operations
105
Women's Center
105
NASA
101
Film Reso urce Bank
100
Career Planning Job Day
98
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LAST JOURNAL
NEXT WEEK
The COOPER POINT JOURNAL ' S final publication for
Spring is next week, May 27,
Because next week is the last
chance for important announcements, letters to the editor, etc"
we are expecting a crush of
people , For this reason, people
who really want to get something
into the paper have the best
chance if they bring it to our
office (CAB 306) tomorrow, Friday,
All copy submitted ' must be
typed, double-spaced.
The JOURNAL will resume
publication July I, 1976 and will
put out four papers for summer
quarter.
The position for News Editor
is open for summer quarter, People wishing to apply should contact Editor Jill Stewart at ihe
JOURNAL.
Vice President Dean Clabaugh ,
The ope rating budget is divided into six
broad categories for allocation (see graph) .
In a meeting lasting all day Monday, an
approximate $71,000 was re-allocated between budgetary programs, Re-allocation
of $62,500 of this amount was made possible through Jerry Schillinger's resignation as Director of Facilities ($27,000
salary) and through savings incurred by
delayed occupancy of the new Communications Laboratory building ($35 ,500).
Of the $71 ,000 re-allocated, $15,500
was budgeted to Administration and General Expense for transfer of two personnel
from Student Accounts into Enrollment
Services (formerly Student Services) , Enrollment Services received $11,000 for remodeling of the Enrollment Services office
area, In addition, full 12-month salaries
were reinstated for Pete Steilberg, Gail
Martin, and Bonnie Hilts,
The Plant Operation and Maintenance
budget was slashed by the $62,500 mentioned above to fund re-allocations to
other budgetary programs, Instruction
and Departmental Research was allocated
an additional $37,500 for improvement of
support services including secretaries and
laboratory technicians, Four thousand five
hundred dollars was also set aside for
support of the Daycare Center,
Finally, Organized Activities related to
Educational Departments received an additional $2,500 for improvement and restoration of administrative computing systems,
Turning to the overall budget picture
relative to last year, Evergreen is receiving
~,504,367 for the coming fiscal year, a
9 % increase over the $7,794,445 allotted
last year.
These figures are misleading, however,
in that $522,862 of the apparent $709,902
increase is committed to the Contracted
Enrollment Reserve which the college does
not receive unless enrollment goes up between now and fall term , The actual in crease in available funds, $170,087, is
allocated to the institutional reserve,
Poet James Tate
to Perform
by Bill Taylor
Nationally known poet James Tate will
read at Evergreen May 27 at 8 in L1i
three , At the age of twenty-two, Tate's
first book, The Lost Pilot, won the Yale
Series of Younger Poets Award , Since
that time James Tate has published severa l books of poems including three major
collections titled, The Oblivion Ha Ha,
Absences, and Hints to Pilgrims. He has a
new book forthcom ing this fall titled Viper's Jazz,
James Tate is brilliant. He writes with a
curious sensitivity that always eflcompasses intelligence, humor and ease as he
explores relationships with himself and
others in his world, Tate reads his work
superbly, Anyone who does not listen
close enough may link Tate to the Richard Brautigan mode in that both poets
consistently find ways to keep their audiences amused. But Tate goes beyond that ,
often utili zing humor in highly surreal
settings:
These hands consider
stillness a giving
in. I dreamed I had
to watch a handshake
chipped from the floor of
the Arctic Ocean
eterna lly this
afternoon and the
possibility
of something still worse
never occurred . , ,
It is very easy to step into Tate's poems
and move with him, There's a good rea son for this, Tate often writes in an absorbing conversational tone as if he were
talking to himself on the phone, and cluing all of us in on his musings. He begins
the poem " Intimidations of an Autobiog-
raphy" in this~ay :
I am wa/ ~irrg a trail
on a friend's farm
about tlrree miles from
town , I arra'lge the day
for you, 1 stop and say ,
you would not believe how ha/Jpy
I was as a child,
to so m e logs, Blustery wind
puts tumbleweed
irr my face as I am
pretending to be' o n my way
horn e to see you and
the family again.
Later in the poem Tate resumes this di a ogue with himself :
, , , Just betwe!,n
us , you know what I'm doirrg
now? I'm calling th e cows horne,
They 're coming too,
I lower
myself to the ground lazily ,
a shower of avuncular krsses
issuing from my hands and lips I just wanted to tell you
I remember you even now ;
Goodbye, goodbye , Here corne the
cows,
Tate's work, says poet/critic Michael
Dennis-Browne, "has the potential of altering our ways of perceiving things . ,
and if we come to feel. after reading him ,
potentially color blind, then this sense of
deficiency may be the first symptom of a
new health."
There is a one dollar donation requested
to help cover the cost of the event, but if
you do not have the money, don't let that
stop you from coming. James Tate shou ld
be heard by everyone, poor friends and
rich friends alike.
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