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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 4, Number 34 (July 29, 1976)
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29 July 1976
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Evergreen Subject
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Student Organizing and Activism
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Faculty Hiring and Governance
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Media Studies/Arts
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Environmental Studies
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Personnel/Affirmative Action Proposal Receives Heavy Criticism; College Good Attempts on Original to Make Faculty Offers; Maraire appeals to Trustees, Hearing Upholds Board Termination; Be Did Not Mean to Build a · Maze; Is the Third World DTF D.O. A.?;
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Stewart, Jill
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Palmerston, Collin
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Milton, Curtis
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Sperling, Matthew
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Solomon, Sam
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Groening, Matt
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Allen, Fran
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Koch, Nathaniel
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Stewart,Jill
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Groening, Matt
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Solomon, Sam
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Allen, Fran
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Locke, Ti
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Gilbreath, Ford
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Shlim, Larry
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Judd, David
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Sutherland, Brock
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The Evergreen State College Hiring
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Poetry
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Music
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Cadwaller, Merv
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White, Erskine
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Maraire, Dumi
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McCann. Charles
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Venuti, Joe
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The Cooper Point Journal
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The Evergreen State College
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The Beatles
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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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McCann Proposes Personnel, Affirmative Action Merger
I'rt's id r nl C ha rles McCann has
l' r"p'''L'd a new administrative
1"",linn that would combine the
,Iut it's ,)t per5C'nnel director and
,IIlirmati vt' aClion offic t' r.
T he prl'posal came after the
Il', igna li"n 0 1 Direcl o r ot Per,,' nn el Au~ili a ry Services John
\ 1" 55 ",h,) left Everl, reen t,)
direct busint'ss and finance for
Communit y College District #5,
Moss' appo intment to the Director of Personnel in 1974 was
the cause of a lengthy campus
controversy in which the college
wa s accused by members of the
Evergreen commun it y of violating affirmative action policies,
Although a campus hearing
board ruled against the Moss appoint ment the Board of Trustees
upheld it.
McCann also proposed that
the job title" Auxiliary Services"
be eliminated and the various
functions under that job - food
services, housing, bookstore and
conferences - be divided be-
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In a letter to the Board of
Trustees McCann said, "I propose two steps, the net effect of
each being a reduction in administrative costs."
McCann said in his letter that
in a college the size of Evergreen
a director of personnel and an
affirmative action officer each
work "about half-time" if the
work load is averaged over a
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At the July 20 meeting of the
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President McCann's proposal to merge
the offices of affirma ti ve action and personnel was criticized at 'the July 20 meeting of the Board of Trustees as being
"grossly manipulative" and like "putting a
pimp over the head of the anti-prostitution bureau."
McCann had explained in a memo to
the trustees that he fe lt the affirmative action position a'nd the director of personnel
were each half -time jobs and that if combined they would "assure profound concern at the founta inhead where most of
our hiring w ill be done ," McCann emphasized that the merger would result in a reduction in administrative costs .
However, several people at the board
meeting voiced concern that the merger
wou ld lead to a conflict of interest.
Third World Coalition Director Stone
Thomas said , "We see the combination
. .. as being one of conflict. It's like try ing to stop prostitution and pu tting a
pimp over the head of the anti - prostitu tion bureau ."
Faculty Member Tom Ra iney described
the merger as "the fox with the henhouse."
Representing the 48 members of Evergreen's faculty union. Rainey said problems would occur when a person had an
affirmative action comp laint against the
personnel office and had only the
personnel ! affirmative action officer to
complain to,
Hap Freund, a faculty member, criticized McCann's statemen t that the posi tions were half-time jobs , calling._ it
"grossly manipulative" and not based "on
any rendition of facts ."
Freund caused a stir of applause and
cheers from the observers when he said ,
"I can't say that Evergreen is the most
racist or sexist place, but I'll tell you on e
thing - it s ure as hell is the most hypo cr itical. "
Rela ting th e proposal to past moves by
the administration , Stone Th o ma s cited
the development' of the Dean of St,udent
Services and the realignmen t of the dean ery as "in:;titutional racism and sexi sm ,"
He said the net effect has been that Third
World peo ple have not moved up in Evergreen' s system, Thomas called Ihe proposal "another sham and slam as it relates
to the development of parity a nd equality
for all peop le" at Evergreen .
Dean Willi Parson expressed surprise
that McCann had proposed the merger,
saying, "There should be conflict between
those two offices and I don't think you 'll
have that conflict with one person [ trying
to be J two."
In addition to criticism concerning conflict of interest , it was ' twice expressed
that the merger was a move against Affirmative Action Officer Rindetta Jones,
A letter addressed to Mrs. Neal Tourte-
lotte, the chair of the boa rd , and signed
by 23 staff from the Librar y. sa id th a t the
pro posal was a "vo te of no co nfidence in
the Affirmative Action offi ce," and th at
because they co uld no t support it Ih ey
had "cast [the ir 1 vote of no cu nf idence in
the proposed reo rga ni za tion ,"
Eve rgreen gra du ate Erni e Fi elds sa id Ihe
pro posa l was an att emp t to "e1imi na le
Rind etta Jones "
Board mem ber Th omas D ixo n, di rector
of the Tacom a Urban League , moved thai
t he item be re muv ed fr om th e age nda 111
light of the co m men ts from the floor
Howeve r, hi s mo tion d id not rece ive a
seco nd and the boa rd went inlo execut ive
sessio n o n t he matt er,
After the sess io n McCa nn a nno un ced
he wa s remov ing th e it em f ro m the
agenda say ing, "Th e quest ions tha i hav e
been brou ght up tod ay,
we need <;o me
further infurmati on o n ."
In a later interview he said , 'T m convinced we can carry ou t o ur po licy to pu l
as much of the money we ge l as is possible into instruction and I'm go ing tu just
keep looking for wa ys to cut administr ation, "
Contact w ill be made with o th er public
colleges Evergreen 's size and larger to o b tain information about their handlin g of
the two positions. The result s of t hat
study should be ready in early fall.
The Evergreen State College . Olympia,Washington 98505
THE COOPER POINT
RNAL
Volume IV Number 34
July 29, 1976
College Attempts to Make
Good on Original Faculty Offers
by Jill Stewart
Matthew Halfant and his wife, Deborah Matlack , say they are "very optimistic" they will be re-offered the original
three year facu lty contract the college
pulled out of in June.
In a turnabout decision at the July 20
Board of Trustees meeting, President
Charles McCann and Vice President and
Provost Ed Kormondy agreed to offer the
faculty one year visiting contracts with
the intention of changing the offers to
three year contracts if the enrollment picture begins to look better.
Halfant (mathematics, computer), Josie
Mumaw (mathematics). and Maggie Hunt
(dance), were verbally offered faculty positions in April, 1976 but were told June
16 that Evergreen was unable to honor
those offers.
However, Halfant had already given up
the lease on his apartment and turned
down job offers that were no longer avail able so he moved with his family to
Oly~pia, hoping to "work something
r
out. "
Charles Pail thorp, chairman of the faculty hiring DTF, appealed to the trustees
to overturn Ed Kormondy's decision not
to hire the three . Kormondy made the de cision after the fall enrollment picture
made it clear there would be less money
than planned to hire faculty .
Pail thorp said, "The impact of this
highly unprofessional conduct is already
being felt . Our reputation is being dam aged , at this point chiefly by word-ofmouth."
Pailthorp told the board the couple
experie nced "mental and emotional ha~d
ship" after being told 30 hours before
their planned departure to Washington
that Halfant would not be hired.
In an emotional appeal to Kormondy,
Deborah Matlack said, " Why did you
wait until April to look at your fall enrollment? Why didn't you tell us until
June? That should not have happened and '
that is nothing more than incompetence."
Several members of the Board of Trustees expressed their concern that "imme-
diate and strong action" be taken to rem edy the situation , Although there was
some question as to whether or not the
Maraire appeals to Trustees
Hearing Board
Upholds Termination
Faculty member Dumi Maraire has appealed to the Board of Trustees last week's
decision by the Campus Hearing Board to
terminate his teaching position at the college. The hearing board upheld Vice President and Provost Ed Kormondy's deci sion to fire Maraire on grounds of "violation of the social contract."
The board also ruled on July 13 that
Maraire was not denied due process or
prevented from confronting his accusers
prior to his termination on April 30, 1976,
and that the termination was "not arbi -
trary o'r capricious. "
Maraire was terminated because of alleged sexual misconduct with Evergreen
students Mia Jacobsen and Fran Allen .
He was informed of the Campus Hearing Board decision by registered mail July
14.
Maraire had been ordered by Federal
Judge Donald Voorhees on June 25 to ex haust all institutional means of appeal before taking the case to an outside court.
In Maraire's appeal to the Board of
Trustees, his lawyer, Jackie Ashurst, said,
"The decision of the campus hearing
board is in violation of state and federal
constitutional provisions . It is in excess of
the statutory authority or jurisdiction of
the institution . It was made upon an un lawful procedure . It is affected by other
errors of law . It is clearly erroneous in
view of the entire record . It is arbitrary
and capricious."
President McCann's secretar y , Rita
Grace, said that McCa nn will communicate with the Board of Trustees "the latter part of this week" to decide what pro cedures to follow in response to the
appeal.
college had legall y hired Halfant a nd
the other tw o, board member Th omas
Di xon seemed to re present th e feelings o f
the board , saying. "Legall y or not. I Ihin k
we hired the ma n. "
The three fa culty hopefuls received of ficial offers fo r o ne year posit io ns las l
week .
Although Matthew Halfant ex pl a ined to
the boa rd that he did not apply fo r a ny
one or two year positi o ns while lo oking
for a job because he wa nted "permanancy, " he said he will accept the college's
new offer of a one year positi o n. "Of
course I'jl accept it," he said , ''I'm eco nomically forced to accepl it. But we
want a three year cont ract, as originall y
offered, "
Halfant and Ma tlack said they were
feeling "much more positive" about th e
college's attempt to amend the situation
and said they were "confident the three
year contracts would come through. "
Halfant's reservation was with the co ntract letter. He said the letter fro m Ko r mondy cites the poliCies in the Faculty
Handbook as part of a fa culty's responsibility . But Halfant said, "Those policies
are constantly changing a nd most of the
Handbooks are out of date ." Ha lfa nt sa id
he didn 't like the idea of signing h is na me
to a document that "was always cha nging. "
Josie Mumaw , wh o wa s told of the new
offer last Thursday, said she ha d " made
no decision one way o r th e other" to accept the one year contrac t offered. She
said , "They did not offer me wha t was
originally offered, so now it's a matter of
who can push harder."
President Charles McCann says Eve r green should not have a ny mo re pro bl ems
of this nature in the future . He said th a t
hiring procedures "have not bee n as care·
full y laid out as they should be in orde r
to prevent this kind of occurrence" and
tha t he had turned the responsibilit y " I
impro ving hiring procedures over to EJ
Ko rmo ndy.
Of the prese nt probl em McCa nn ,ay,.
" II was just a fou l-up ,"
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LETTERS
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and didn' t get? The latest fancybut-stuffy issue of Precis (the
"off icial " TESC newsletter).
through its article "Evergreeners
in the news" leads me to believe
that Evergreen is just a graduate
prep school . . . none of the
mentioned alumni entered the
job market! What about the
"other" alumni (including non graduating students) who are
now working , or trying to?
Reading Precis is like listening to
an encyclopedia salesman - he
doesn't lie, but he doesn' t tell the
whole truth , either.
People out there aren't stupid
ON THE ROAD
- REPORT OF A
GRADUATE
To the Editor:
YOLI
took a chance. Ever-
green
. You took lots of them. I
respect and appreciate that.
It ·s something like taking in
used or poorly built cars and
their drivers for reconditioning;
help identify their weak points
(car and driver), then help teach
the use of tools and resources to
correct them. (Picture the "vehicle" as knowledge and skills
wh ich the "driver" must use to
achieve goals , and let's take the
metaphor further . .)
You also took a chance on me,
probably k nowing that this
vehicle you helped me fi x up
could buck , snort, and backfire
as we took off down the road,
maybe slinging back a little mud
ga thered on the under -carriage
from the various mudholes on
cam pus . Or develop trouble on
the road. Or get lo st.
Well . in my case my vehicle is
"funky." but sound.
But the driver left without a
road map. If it hadn't been for
my pre- Evergreen instinctual deve lopment (I'm 30). I wouldn't
even have found the paved highway (. . I can see it now. but
I'm 3,000 feet higher on an o ld
mountain pass and the road I
want is way the hell down there
Ah . yes , .. . there's where
the intern ship route joins in .
wonder how I missed that one?
. . It must have been overgrow n with overfed "Evergreenery," like the road to that Career
Planning and Placement bridge I
saw from the bottom of Postgraduate Gorge... I wonder
why the road to the bridge
wasn't paved? . . Funny, I've
seen a number of Washington
b ridges built like that ... )
Anyway, I came back to pick
up a road map, and couldn't find
one.
What's going on here, anyway? It's not like we're being
prepared for "unknown territory"
- there are some "k nowns" (rea liti es) about that world out
there. And after a ll , good maps
aren't made just from an airplane, or just from the ground,
they're made by good people using good tools, certain standards,
and each other. I suspect a lack
of teamwork between folks in
t he air (Evergreen) and those on
the ground (society).
Watch Out Evergreen!
Stepping outside Evergreen
brought me face - to - face once
agai n with a precious commodity
- reality. We all have common
sense, but our realities (or their
interpretations) differ.
Let's look at some realities:
Evergreen is a very special.
different, and valuable place. But
Evergreen is not unique in one
very important area: the people .
Their needs and limitations and those necessarily imposed by
their socio-political structure are universa l.
Reality: Evergreen is a bureaucracy. I caution those who really
want Evergreen to work as its
founders hoped to accept that
and steer away from some typi cally Evergreen "non-structure,
non -classroom, non-traditional.
etc." ways of thinking, and
move toward accomplishmentoriented work (in-fighting and
Evergreen -centered worry won't
help Evergreen or the students).
Reali ty: successfu I and lasting
work is most often that which is
goal- or accomplishment-oriented
work . What are your goals, Evergreen? What are your alumni
doing with their Evergreen education? How did Evergreen contribute or detract from their
setting or achieving their goals?
What did they find they needed
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Let's look at the annual report
of an unsuccessful or "dead-inthe-water " corpora tion : take
away the puff and insipid charts
and figures a nd. what we will see
might be pictures of non-accomplishments and two guys congratu latin g each other, probably
for being able to maintain the
"image" another year. It makes
me ill to think that Evergreen
might be repeating that.
I. like many other Evergreeners. have a certain vested interest
in Evergreen - a shareholder, if
you will, Therefore I am not
only interested in the effective
conduct of its business but the
success-through -salability of its
product. So when I receive a request for more money from a
"company" that won't give me a
clear, straightforward picture of
itself in the real light of the
marketplace, I'm going to cry
"bullshit" and call for the real
picture .
Bullshit, Evergreen . .
Collin Palmerston
1975 Graduate,
Media & Education
EVERGREEN HAS
BECOME
DISASTER SCENE
To the Editor:
I really don't have enough
time to do this letter the justice it
deserves but I thought I'd better
write it just the same. I am so infuriated at the crap (and I do
mean crap) coming down at Evergreen that I hardly know
where to start.
T he July 15 issue of the Cooper Point Journal arrived here in
Prosser in four days , a record
time, and [ read it from cover to
cover, something I rarely do
with any newspaper. I could
hardly believe it! This thing
abo ut Dumi I a lr eady knew
about and was expecting but the
other stuff - program secretaries and other staff resigning, enrollment down, verbal contract
offers broken - is really incredible. What the hell is going on
over there?
The problems all appear to be
long - standing so re spots that
have finally erupted into major
prob lems. My faith in the Administration's inability to sharpen
a dull pencil, much less handle a
real crisis, has been completely
reaffirmed. They don't seem capab le of doing anything about
anything I
The most revealing thing in
the whole issue was the statement by someone (the name escapes me at the moment) that
"Charlie (McCann) is out philosophizing in the woods" while everyone else is attempting to deal
with the reality of the disaster
scene Evergreen has become.
And then - my God, what poor
timing - on the back page, an
announcement from McCann
that he was proposing yet another reorganization of some
kind in an area of the school
that, at the moment, doesn't require the kind of help and guidance desperately needed by
many areas. No mention of all
the other problems that he
should be dealing with immediately, just some more totally ir-
relevant garbage about something that nobody gives a damn
about. One more memorandum
on the pile, so to speak, but
nothing that really means something.
I watched these things building
up all year from my post at the
Cooper Point Journal and at this
point there appears to be only
one course of action possible to
save the whole school from collapse - the immediate resignations of McCann, Vice Presidents ·
Kormondy and ' Clabaugh, and
the ever mysterious Les Eldridge.
Unfortunately, I don't see any
other plan that will work at this
time.
Yours truly ,
Curtis Milton
CP] News Editor
Winter & Spring Quarter
SILENT SCANDAL
To the Editor :
VI/hen we were protesting
American involvement in IndoChina back in the late sixties and
early seventies, or showed some
int erest in human dignity whether it was our own or that
of others - we were often reminded of the debt we owed to
Society, and that the proper currency with which to repay that
debt was the currency of silence.
All of us are aware of the pandemonium that follows the utterance of a child's first words; although I always suspected such a
reaction was meant to encourage
more speech rather than serve as
a warning against future statements.
The other day I was washing
my clothes in the ASH laundry,
which you must admit is a long
way from Vietnam or even
Selma, Alabama. At any rate, I
noted what I felt was some rudeness on th e part of a highly
placed official of the ASH apartments. I brought my feelings to
this person's attention for two
reasons: First, the object of this
person's rudeness was a child
who sti ll had several years to
learn the advantages and intricacies of free speech . The second
reason I spoke up was that I'd
found some fault with this particular official before, and had
eith er been too lazy or cowardly
to say anyth ing. I told him (or
her) to say p lease when ordering
the children to ckJ something,
add in g that this was the kind of
courtesy parents taught to chi ldren. The official told me to
mind my own business, or get
out, at wh ich point I said I was
going to make a complaint to the
ASH Corporation. Shortly there after he (or she) ca lled the
poli ce.
I finished my laundry, rather
en joyi ng what I anticipated the
policeman's expression would be
when he arrived on the scene of
the crime on ly to find that the
scenario contained two adults
arguing over whether one of the
adu lts should say please to a
child! I mean, there weren 't even
any Thankyous involved!
[ tried to delay the drying of
my clot hes as long as possible.
As I was walking out the door
with my ashes, the flashing blue
light appeared. The Light asked
for both sides of the story, arid
then told me that, "You opened
your mouth when you shouldn't
have ." The Light also said the '
ASH official had a perfect right
to order me off the premises. To
top it off He said that the kids'
mother was happy about the
way her baby'd been treated,
and on the way out the door a
child admonished me for arguing
with a certain highly placed
ASH official.
Earl y on in this article I mentioned the "currency of silence."
I suppose it's the gold which
Dick Nixon's Silent Majority
prostituted themselves for . And
I'm sure there are millions of
mothers who will tell their kids
that one of the ways to earn a
silent living is to always say
"Please." and "Thank you!"
Matthew Sperling
ASH RIP-OFFS NOT
ACCIDENTAL
To the Editor:
Regarding Davida Pugsley ' s
letter in the last CPJ about
ASH's "small-minded and shortsighted" management, I have a
few things to add. Pugsley is not
talking about an isolated instance
at ASH. Ripoffs of students are
not occasional or accidental oc currences at ASH, they are management policy. And it has been
this way ever since the beginning.
I myself lost $47 in deposit deductions designed to squeeze the
uncomp lai ning for everything
they are worth. I cleaned my
apartment thoroughly, while my
next door neighbors, who barely
touched theirs, received almost
their entire deposit back. The
difference: they gave the manager a hard time while he was
surveyi ng the apar tm ent for
damage; I was out of town at
the time.
The national management of
ASH has been under indictment
for over a year now for' misusing
company funds. It seems apparent that the funds that get misused in this government-supported non-profit o rganization
are the ones that students lose
unfairly.
There are a few things we ' can
do, and I urge all who have ever
rented and who are thinking of
renting at ASH to help out.
Make the manager sign a receipt
for every speck of dirt or damage in the apartment before you
move in. Make sure you are
with him when he inspects for
damage when you move out, '
and don' t let him deduct anything. Be mean if necessary
don't forget he is out to keep all
he can.
If you feel you have been
ripped off, write to the president
of the company, Phil McLennan,
at Adult Student Housing, Inc. ,
834 SW St. Clair, Portland, OR
97205. You might a lso try writing to Congressman Don Bonker
at the House of Representatives
in Washington, D.C. Also , anyone who has been ripped off at
ASH should leave their name
and number wit h the editor of
the CPj for a possible future investigative story.
I wou ld advise anyone to look
to ASH only as a very last resort... and if you rent there , consider your deposit as more rent
(in other words, don't expect to
see it again). The deposit there is
now $100, $25 of which is nonrefundable. They call this $25 a
"move-in" charge. The deposit at
the dorms is $45, all of which is
refundab le. I have never heard
of any consistent trouble at the
dorms or anywhere else.
If ASH had no deposits to collect, it would have no deposits
to keep. But hopefully before it
went out of business in this ideal
situation, it would stop exploiting students and start serving its
intended purpose: low- cost
housing for those who cannot afford either high-cost housing or
ripoffs .
Sam Solomon
Editor's note:
ASH has hired a new manager, Earl Swartz, who officially
begins work at ASH this week.
Swartz contacted me Monday,
July 26 to express his concern
with the relationship ASH has
had with its student residents.
He said he hopes to improve relationships between ASH and
the students at Evergreen.
Swartz will write a letter for
publication in the August 12
issue of The Journal. introducing
himself to the college.
Be Did Not Mean to Build a ·Maze
by Matt Groening
I did not mean to build a maze; I
planned a palace, shaped to the matrix
of the human mind .
- opening lines to "DAEDALUS,"
a poem by Richard Alexander, dedicated
to Merv Cadwa llader.
Merv Cadwallader, one of Evergreen's
origina l three academic deans , is leaving
the college to become Vice Chancellor of
Academic Affairs at the University of
Wisconsin - Platteville.
Cadwallader came to Evergreen as
"dean of the division of social sciences" in
july of 1970. He was the prime mover in
the promotion of coordina ted studies as a
mode of instruction at Evergreen, and
helped establish self-evaluation by ' students and facu lty , the written narrative
evaluation , and the portfolio .
In 1973 Cadwa llader's deanship ended
and he began teaching here. He designed
and coordinated the " Democracy and
Tyranny" and "Two Cities of Destiny"
coo rdinated studies programs, and worked
on a critique of higher education called
Several Outrageous Proposals. The manu sc ript is complete and is undergoing a final revision and polishing.
On Tuesday , Ju ly 27 , T he Cooper Point
journal interv iewed Cadwallader in his office . Wh a t follows are exce rpts from th a t
interview.
Why are you leaving?
I invested a lo t of m yself in Eve rgreen .
had high hopes, higher perhaps that I
should have. I got a lo t go ing here aut hored a lot - but I've been unhappy
w ith some of the resu lts. Much of what I
got sta rted here isn' t work ing as well as I
think it shou ld have, is!) 't working as well
as it can , because of failures in leadership
and weakness in Evergreen 's administra tion. So in a wa y I'm moving on in order
to sta rt aga in , to tryout some new ideas.
Is Platteville a more conventional college?
Utterly con vent iona l.
You don't' think that won't drive you
nuts ?
It might. [Laughs ] But it's a college
that's ready for some new departures . It's
a college with a lot of undeveloped potential.
What 's the difference between the way
you envisioned Evergreen and the way
things turned out?
I really believe a public college in the
United States shou ld have a required curriculum in the liberal arts, what I call the
moral curriculum.. The invent io n a nd
the spread of the elect ive sys tem was a
d isaste r for American higher educat ion.
Now , g ive n that positi o n . my ce ntral idea .
which [was to I build a co llege around a
restored and reinvigorated liberal arts curricul um, w as pretty much doomed to failure, because Charles McCann believed in
the exac t opposi te: tha t each student
s ho uld have an individually-tailored a nd
idiosy ncrat ic educati onal experience.
McCann's idea of an ideal college was
o ne in which every student could pick
and choose from an array of stuff that
would be offered by a ded icated and
classy facu lty. My idea of an ideal co llege was that a classy a nd dedicated fac -,
ulty would come to an agreement about a
core of material Ihat every student. should
have'. And that every student at my idea l
college would have that experience in
common when they left.
I thought I could persuade the faculty and McCann that, in addition to the
highly individualized curriculum at the
upper division level, all students should
go through a required lower division curriculum in the liberal arts. I thought I
co uld sell people
id ea. It just
see med so obviously true a nd right.
Do you consider the Two Cities of Destiny and Democracy and Tyranny prog rams part of that?
Yes .
Well, those were successful, popular
with students.
Sure. A nd my con tention is that if Evergreen had insisted that all of its student s
go through programs li ke that in their
fres hm an and so phomo re years th e n we' d
be a hell of a lot better off now th an we
are .. .
How much support from other faculty
did you have in this feeling?
That 's hard to ga uge. . I doubt that
more th iln a third , let's say, rea lly understood what I was talking about. There
. were a lot of faculty, maybe most of the
facu lty, for that matter , who thought they
understood what I was talking about, but
didn't ... Most of the faculty and virtually everyone in th e administra ti on
thought I was talking mostly about process - the educational process - and that
that's what I was most interested in , most
concerned about, and that that was my
primary contribution to Evergreen . .
[They} took hold of my ideas about proc ess and modes, accepted those with alacrity, and either didn't hear , or didn' t notice, or outright rejected the curricular
ideas, the content that I was pushing.
And there's no possibility for [your
ideas I now that you're leaving?
No. As long as McCann insisted there
were going to be no requirement s (and
that's one of the very few contributions
he made to this place - in my mind it's a
fatal and lethal and pernic ious contribu tion), as long as he insisted that no re quirements would be laid on the students
in the way of programs or sequences or
courses, my mission was compromised at
the outset.
What Evergreen has always lacked is a
common core, a center. It's not a question
of the center not holding. There never
was one, except in
the dreams of
some of us.
What parting suggestion do you have
for Evergreen that actually could be. implemented? Or does it have to be a big
one?
I s till s ta nd by my re org ani za ti on
scheme, the one that ca used all the rucku s
in the fall. I think that was a very simple .
elegant proposa l. It wouldn' t take a lot to
do it. In fact , it could be done in a coup le
of weeks if the adminis trati o n cou ld make
up its mind that somet hing like that cou ld
help. The Long-Range DTF , if you translate it s rat her o paque prose int o rea l En gli sh, is moving, inchin g. ass-backward s,
slowly but sure ly, toward the reorgan ization sc heme I proposed.
How long do you think that11 take ?
Oh , th ey'll be there in another yea r.
How do you want to be rem em bered ?
Let me sa y one thing that [ think is
very important to the tone of a ll this. I
don 't want to appear in the ar ticl e to be
leaving gleefully, or to be feeling bitter or
vin dict ive, or anything like that. I'm reall y
sad to be leaving Evergreen , despite the
fact Evergreen didn't turn out the wa y I
wanted it to ... There's a lot of me here,
and I've had lots of good , really good
times here. I brought a lot of people here
who a re very close to me, and it's going
to hurt to leave them . . I'm going to be
watching Evergreen with great interest
• and enormous affection for the rest of my
life. I love the place. I get madder than
hell at it , not because it's an evi l place,
but because it's not as beautiful as I
wanted it to be. It's the love of the
parent.
Commentary
Is the Third World OTF D.O. A.?
by Fran A llen
Once upon a time in a land known as
TESC, there was an organization known
as the Non-White Coalition. An ambitious
young man, Tomas Ybarra, was the Coalition Executive Chairperson. He was
concerned about the decline of the nonwhite population in the land of TESC and
wrote a memo on February 8, 1974 to
Dean Rudy Martin stating his concerns
and calling for an "examination of and report on the present capabilities of the institution, to be followed by a set of long
term recommendations designed to improve the quality of life for non-whites
.. ." Thus began the epic story of the
Non-White DTF .
Members of this DTF included 14 members of the community - Gail Tanaka,
Mary Hillaire, Maxine Mimms, Lynn Patterson, Elena Perez, Jacob Romero, York
Wong, Rudy Martin (Chairperson), Marian Williams, and Sally Fixico, among
others. These people issued a memo on
February 11, 1974 to budget heads, Program Coordinators and Group Contract
Sponsors asking them to respond to five
questions regarding their contact with,
support of and resources for the non. white community.
In addition, a series of study sessions
were set up beginning March 10, 1974, at
which discussions were held with faculty
members and budget heads to determine
specific problem areas and find out what
, policies were in effect with regard to
Third World students.
These study sessions continued through
April of that year and were termed "fruitful" by the members of the DTF. In May ,
community members began responding to
specitic questions put forth by the DTF .
The responses went something like this:
President Charles McCann - on Commitment to Affirmative Action for 1974 "We recognize and accept the need for developing a more responsive approach to
cooperative education for non-whites. We
are committed to the reorganization and
reprioritization of Co -op staff and other
resources to achieve . .. the above." But
on the other hand, "Co-op staff resources
are limited and the workload excessive."
McCann then listed six items he felt
could be achieved, including "providing
access for non-white students to a variety
of existing and / or continuing internship
opportunities," "prOVide guidance, counseling, orientation and placement assistance for non-white students in internships
and Career Learning Placements," "Develop an outreach program to encourage
non -white students to make use of Co-op
resources," "Provide incentive models and
subs tantive alternatives to aid in the recruitment of non-white students into the
College."
Other recommendations were mentioned
in that memo dated May 6, 1974. They
were ' given in good faith and sounded
great, on paper.
On June 6, 1974, the Non-White DTF
issued its recommendation to the community in an ll-page memo. This too
was done in good faith. While parts of
the report were later termed "a mixture of
stuff, some of it good, some bad, some
just silly" approximately 32 people took
the time to respond in writing regarding
the DTF Report.
Some WASPy types were paranoid
about the implications of the report, stat-
ing such comments as "it anything, this
report sets up a strong barrier between
'them ' and 'us: especially when we all
know it's our individual, hard won budgets that will be ripped off to provide all
of the listed super services for this small
minority of our dissatisfied community .. ."
"I feel too many of the current
demands are designed to crea te more demands. I would hope that instead of
major additional fund ing going to the Coalition and other areas who have or
would become dictators and police detectives to write reports and reprimand errant whites, rather let's all be certain the
non-whites are made to feel welcome . . . "
"We shouldn't be locked in by na~row
definitions and numbers; why should
someone with a Spanish surname take
priority over someone with a Chicano
mother who grew up in a Chicano community but whose last name is 'Smith: or
a jew who grew up in the ghettos of eastern Europe during the 30's and certainly
knows more about the 'minority experience' than most Americans ever will? ... "
"The report is written by people who
consider themselves non-whites and not
Evergreen community members ... "
"This is a public educational institution .
We are committed first and foremost to
the best in quality education for all. We
should yield to special interests only insofar as they do not impose upon this
priority ... "
"I support the report and all of its recommendations wholeheartedly with one
exception."
In spite of some general panic and paranoia, the persons who responded to the
report did make some suggestions wh ich
could have proven useful. Who knows?
On June 28, Vice-President and Provost
Ed Kormondy issued a memo assuring the
community that "The status of that docu ment is that of a report - it is not institutional policy. Because of the pervasive significance of this report, I am allowing an
extended period of time for review I discussions /reaction . The report will be subject to open discussion in the fall su bsequent to which revisions will doubtless be
made in the report before it is submitted
in final form, accepted, and implemented ."
President McCann, in his usual charming manner responded on July 18 by stat ing, "WHEREAS, Ed Kormondy charged
you \DTF} and is still receiving input and
will be receiving wide reaction to your
recommendations early in the fall and
WHEREAS I do not wish to be misunderstood as agreeing in every single point or
to every budgetary implication, but NEVERTHELESS, I think your report is a re markable piece of work, chuck full of
good ideas and helpful suggestions as to
how to make this a better place to be,
and WHEREAS, I'm going on vacation
and may forget when I come back - I
want to say BE IT RESOLVED , therefore .
THANK YOU."
Be it resolved? In a series of articles, we
plan ,to investigate the progress , of the:
DTF report, working with Dean RudY.
Martin (who .has recently requested that
each budget unit head update their progress report on the successes 'and problems
they have encountered implementing the
DTF during the previous year) and other
people directly involved in the DTF
Report implementation .
Stay tuned for the exciting results!
2
LETTERS
J
and didn' t get? The latest fancybut-stuffy issue of Precis (the
"off icial " TESC newsletter).
through its article "Evergreeners
in the news" leads me to believe
that Evergreen is just a graduate
prep school . . . none of the
mentioned alumni entered the
job market! What about the
"other" alumni (including non graduating students) who are
now working , or trying to?
Reading Precis is like listening to
an encyclopedia salesman - he
doesn't lie, but he doesn' t tell the
whole truth , either.
People out there aren't stupid
ON THE ROAD
- REPORT OF A
GRADUATE
To the Editor:
YOLI
took a chance. Ever-
green
. You took lots of them. I
respect and appreciate that.
It ·s something like taking in
used or poorly built cars and
their drivers for reconditioning;
help identify their weak points
(car and driver), then help teach
the use of tools and resources to
correct them. (Picture the "vehicle" as knowledge and skills
wh ich the "driver" must use to
achieve goals , and let's take the
metaphor further . .)
You also took a chance on me,
probably k nowing that this
vehicle you helped me fi x up
could buck , snort, and backfire
as we took off down the road,
maybe slinging back a little mud
ga thered on the under -carriage
from the various mudholes on
cam pus . Or develop trouble on
the road. Or get lo st.
Well . in my case my vehicle is
"funky." but sound.
But the driver left without a
road map. If it hadn't been for
my pre- Evergreen instinctual deve lopment (I'm 30). I wouldn't
even have found the paved highway (. . I can see it now. but
I'm 3,000 feet higher on an o ld
mountain pass and the road I
want is way the hell down there
Ah . yes , .. . there's where
the intern ship route joins in .
wonder how I missed that one?
. . It must have been overgrow n with overfed "Evergreenery," like the road to that Career
Planning and Placement bridge I
saw from the bottom of Postgraduate Gorge... I wonder
why the road to the bridge
wasn't paved? . . Funny, I've
seen a number of Washington
b ridges built like that ... )
Anyway, I came back to pick
up a road map, and couldn't find
one.
What's going on here, anyway? It's not like we're being
prepared for "unknown territory"
- there are some "k nowns" (rea liti es) about that world out
there. And after a ll , good maps
aren't made just from an airplane, or just from the ground,
they're made by good people using good tools, certain standards,
and each other. I suspect a lack
of teamwork between folks in
t he air (Evergreen) and those on
the ground (society).
Watch Out Evergreen!
Stepping outside Evergreen
brought me face - to - face once
agai n with a precious commodity
- reality. We all have common
sense, but our realities (or their
interpretations) differ.
Let's look at some realities:
Evergreen is a very special.
different, and valuable place. But
Evergreen is not unique in one
very important area: the people .
Their needs and limitations and those necessarily imposed by
their socio-political structure are universa l.
Reality: Evergreen is a bureaucracy. I caution those who really
want Evergreen to work as its
founders hoped to accept that
and steer away from some typi cally Evergreen "non-structure,
non -classroom, non-traditional.
etc." ways of thinking, and
move toward accomplishmentoriented work (in-fighting and
Evergreen -centered worry won't
help Evergreen or the students).
Reali ty: successfu I and lasting
work is most often that which is
goal- or accomplishment-oriented
work . What are your goals, Evergreen? What are your alumni
doing with their Evergreen education? How did Evergreen contribute or detract from their
setting or achieving their goals?
What did they find they needed
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Let's look at the annual report
of an unsuccessful or "dead-inthe-water " corpora tion : take
away the puff and insipid charts
and figures a nd. what we will see
might be pictures of non-accomplishments and two guys congratu latin g each other, probably
for being able to maintain the
"image" another year. It makes
me ill to think that Evergreen
might be repeating that.
I. like many other Evergreeners. have a certain vested interest
in Evergreen - a shareholder, if
you will, Therefore I am not
only interested in the effective
conduct of its business but the
success-through -salability of its
product. So when I receive a request for more money from a
"company" that won't give me a
clear, straightforward picture of
itself in the real light of the
marketplace, I'm going to cry
"bullshit" and call for the real
picture .
Bullshit, Evergreen . .
Collin Palmerston
1975 Graduate,
Media & Education
EVERGREEN HAS
BECOME
DISASTER SCENE
To the Editor:
I really don't have enough
time to do this letter the justice it
deserves but I thought I'd better
write it just the same. I am so infuriated at the crap (and I do
mean crap) coming down at Evergreen that I hardly know
where to start.
T he July 15 issue of the Cooper Point Journal arrived here in
Prosser in four days , a record
time, and [ read it from cover to
cover, something I rarely do
with any newspaper. I could
hardly believe it! This thing
abo ut Dumi I a lr eady knew
about and was expecting but the
other stuff - program secretaries and other staff resigning, enrollment down, verbal contract
offers broken - is really incredible. What the hell is going on
over there?
The problems all appear to be
long - standing so re spots that
have finally erupted into major
prob lems. My faith in the Administration's inability to sharpen
a dull pencil, much less handle a
real crisis, has been completely
reaffirmed. They don't seem capab le of doing anything about
anything I
The most revealing thing in
the whole issue was the statement by someone (the name escapes me at the moment) that
"Charlie (McCann) is out philosophizing in the woods" while everyone else is attempting to deal
with the reality of the disaster
scene Evergreen has become.
And then - my God, what poor
timing - on the back page, an
announcement from McCann
that he was proposing yet another reorganization of some
kind in an area of the school
that, at the moment, doesn't require the kind of help and guidance desperately needed by
many areas. No mention of all
the other problems that he
should be dealing with immediately, just some more totally ir-
relevant garbage about something that nobody gives a damn
about. One more memorandum
on the pile, so to speak, but
nothing that really means something.
I watched these things building
up all year from my post at the
Cooper Point Journal and at this
point there appears to be only
one course of action possible to
save the whole school from collapse - the immediate resignations of McCann, Vice Presidents ·
Kormondy and ' Clabaugh, and
the ever mysterious Les Eldridge.
Unfortunately, I don't see any
other plan that will work at this
time.
Yours truly ,
Curtis Milton
CP] News Editor
Winter & Spring Quarter
SILENT SCANDAL
To the Editor :
VI/hen we were protesting
American involvement in IndoChina back in the late sixties and
early seventies, or showed some
int erest in human dignity whether it was our own or that
of others - we were often reminded of the debt we owed to
Society, and that the proper currency with which to repay that
debt was the currency of silence.
All of us are aware of the pandemonium that follows the utterance of a child's first words; although I always suspected such a
reaction was meant to encourage
more speech rather than serve as
a warning against future statements.
The other day I was washing
my clothes in the ASH laundry,
which you must admit is a long
way from Vietnam or even
Selma, Alabama. At any rate, I
noted what I felt was some rudeness on th e part of a highly
placed official of the ASH apartments. I brought my feelings to
this person's attention for two
reasons: First, the object of this
person's rudeness was a child
who sti ll had several years to
learn the advantages and intricacies of free speech . The second
reason I spoke up was that I'd
found some fault with this particular official before, and had
eith er been too lazy or cowardly
to say anyth ing. I told him (or
her) to say p lease when ordering
the children to ckJ something,
add in g that this was the kind of
courtesy parents taught to chi ldren. The official told me to
mind my own business, or get
out, at wh ich point I said I was
going to make a complaint to the
ASH Corporation. Shortly there after he (or she) ca lled the
poli ce.
I finished my laundry, rather
en joyi ng what I anticipated the
policeman's expression would be
when he arrived on the scene of
the crime on ly to find that the
scenario contained two adults
arguing over whether one of the
adu lts should say please to a
child! I mean, there weren 't even
any Thankyous involved!
[ tried to delay the drying of
my clot hes as long as possible.
As I was walking out the door
with my ashes, the flashing blue
light appeared. The Light asked
for both sides of the story, arid
then told me that, "You opened
your mouth when you shouldn't
have ." The Light also said the '
ASH official had a perfect right
to order me off the premises. To
top it off He said that the kids'
mother was happy about the
way her baby'd been treated,
and on the way out the door a
child admonished me for arguing
with a certain highly placed
ASH official.
Earl y on in this article I mentioned the "currency of silence."
I suppose it's the gold which
Dick Nixon's Silent Majority
prostituted themselves for . And
I'm sure there are millions of
mothers who will tell their kids
that one of the ways to earn a
silent living is to always say
"Please." and "Thank you!"
Matthew Sperling
ASH RIP-OFFS NOT
ACCIDENTAL
To the Editor:
Regarding Davida Pugsley ' s
letter in the last CPJ about
ASH's "small-minded and shortsighted" management, I have a
few things to add. Pugsley is not
talking about an isolated instance
at ASH. Ripoffs of students are
not occasional or accidental oc currences at ASH, they are management policy. And it has been
this way ever since the beginning.
I myself lost $47 in deposit deductions designed to squeeze the
uncomp lai ning for everything
they are worth. I cleaned my
apartment thoroughly, while my
next door neighbors, who barely
touched theirs, received almost
their entire deposit back. The
difference: they gave the manager a hard time while he was
surveyi ng the apar tm ent for
damage; I was out of town at
the time.
The national management of
ASH has been under indictment
for over a year now for' misusing
company funds. It seems apparent that the funds that get misused in this government-supported non-profit o rganization
are the ones that students lose
unfairly.
There are a few things we ' can
do, and I urge all who have ever
rented and who are thinking of
renting at ASH to help out.
Make the manager sign a receipt
for every speck of dirt or damage in the apartment before you
move in. Make sure you are
with him when he inspects for
damage when you move out, '
and don' t let him deduct anything. Be mean if necessary
don't forget he is out to keep all
he can.
If you feel you have been
ripped off, write to the president
of the company, Phil McLennan,
at Adult Student Housing, Inc. ,
834 SW St. Clair, Portland, OR
97205. You might a lso try writing to Congressman Don Bonker
at the House of Representatives
in Washington, D.C. Also , anyone who has been ripped off at
ASH should leave their name
and number wit h the editor of
the CPj for a possible future investigative story.
I wou ld advise anyone to look
to ASH only as a very last resort... and if you rent there , consider your deposit as more rent
(in other words, don't expect to
see it again). The deposit there is
now $100, $25 of which is nonrefundable. They call this $25 a
"move-in" charge. The deposit at
the dorms is $45, all of which is
refundab le. I have never heard
of any consistent trouble at the
dorms or anywhere else.
If ASH had no deposits to collect, it would have no deposits
to keep. But hopefully before it
went out of business in this ideal
situation, it would stop exploiting students and start serving its
intended purpose: low- cost
housing for those who cannot afford either high-cost housing or
ripoffs .
Sam Solomon
Editor's note:
ASH has hired a new manager, Earl Swartz, who officially
begins work at ASH this week.
Swartz contacted me Monday,
July 26 to express his concern
with the relationship ASH has
had with its student residents.
He said he hopes to improve relationships between ASH and
the students at Evergreen.
Swartz will write a letter for
publication in the August 12
issue of The Journal. introducing
himself to the college.
Be Did Not Mean to Build a ·Maze
by Matt Groening
I did not mean to build a maze; I
planned a palace, shaped to the matrix
of the human mind .
- opening lines to "DAEDALUS,"
a poem by Richard Alexander, dedicated
to Merv Cadwa llader.
Merv Cadwallader, one of Evergreen's
origina l three academic deans , is leaving
the college to become Vice Chancellor of
Academic Affairs at the University of
Wisconsin - Platteville.
Cadwallader came to Evergreen as
"dean of the division of social sciences" in
july of 1970. He was the prime mover in
the promotion of coordina ted studies as a
mode of instruction at Evergreen, and
helped establish self-evaluation by ' students and facu lty , the written narrative
evaluation , and the portfolio .
In 1973 Cadwa llader's deanship ended
and he began teaching here. He designed
and coordinated the " Democracy and
Tyranny" and "Two Cities of Destiny"
coo rdinated studies programs, and worked
on a critique of higher education called
Several Outrageous Proposals. The manu sc ript is complete and is undergoing a final revision and polishing.
On Tuesday , Ju ly 27 , T he Cooper Point
journal interv iewed Cadwallader in his office . Wh a t follows are exce rpts from th a t
interview.
Why are you leaving?
I invested a lo t of m yself in Eve rgreen .
had high hopes, higher perhaps that I
should have. I got a lo t go ing here aut hored a lot - but I've been unhappy
w ith some of the resu lts. Much of what I
got sta rted here isn' t work ing as well as I
think it shou ld have, is!) 't working as well
as it can , because of failures in leadership
and weakness in Evergreen 's administra tion. So in a wa y I'm moving on in order
to sta rt aga in , to tryout some new ideas.
Is Platteville a more conventional college?
Utterly con vent iona l.
You don't' think that won't drive you
nuts ?
It might. [Laughs ] But it's a college
that's ready for some new departures . It's
a college with a lot of undeveloped potential.
What 's the difference between the way
you envisioned Evergreen and the way
things turned out?
I really believe a public college in the
United States shou ld have a required curriculum in the liberal arts, what I call the
moral curriculum.. The invent io n a nd
the spread of the elect ive sys tem was a
d isaste r for American higher educat ion.
Now , g ive n that positi o n . my ce ntral idea .
which [was to I build a co llege around a
restored and reinvigorated liberal arts curricul um, w as pretty much doomed to failure, because Charles McCann believed in
the exac t opposi te: tha t each student
s ho uld have an individually-tailored a nd
idiosy ncrat ic educati onal experience.
McCann's idea of an ideal college was
o ne in which every student could pick
and choose from an array of stuff that
would be offered by a ded icated and
classy facu lty. My idea of an ideal co llege was that a classy a nd dedicated fac -,
ulty would come to an agreement about a
core of material Ihat every student. should
have'. And that every student at my idea l
college would have that experience in
common when they left.
I thought I could persuade the faculty and McCann that, in addition to the
highly individualized curriculum at the
upper division level, all students should
go through a required lower division curriculum in the liberal arts. I thought I
co uld sell people
id ea. It just
see med so obviously true a nd right.
Do you consider the Two Cities of Destiny and Democracy and Tyranny prog rams part of that?
Yes .
Well, those were successful, popular
with students.
Sure. A nd my con tention is that if Evergreen had insisted that all of its student s
go through programs li ke that in their
fres hm an and so phomo re years th e n we' d
be a hell of a lot better off now th an we
are .. .
How much support from other faculty
did you have in this feeling?
That 's hard to ga uge. . I doubt that
more th iln a third , let's say, rea lly understood what I was talking about. There
. were a lot of faculty, maybe most of the
facu lty, for that matter , who thought they
understood what I was talking about, but
didn't ... Most of the faculty and virtually everyone in th e administra ti on
thought I was talking mostly about process - the educational process - and that
that's what I was most interested in , most
concerned about, and that that was my
primary contribution to Evergreen . .
[They} took hold of my ideas about proc ess and modes, accepted those with alacrity, and either didn't hear , or didn' t notice, or outright rejected the curricular
ideas, the content that I was pushing.
And there's no possibility for [your
ideas I now that you're leaving?
No. As long as McCann insisted there
were going to be no requirement s (and
that's one of the very few contributions
he made to this place - in my mind it's a
fatal and lethal and pernic ious contribu tion), as long as he insisted that no re quirements would be laid on the students
in the way of programs or sequences or
courses, my mission was compromised at
the outset.
What Evergreen has always lacked is a
common core, a center. It's not a question
of the center not holding. There never
was one, except in
the dreams of
some of us.
What parting suggestion do you have
for Evergreen that actually could be. implemented? Or does it have to be a big
one?
I s till s ta nd by my re org ani za ti on
scheme, the one that ca used all the rucku s
in the fall. I think that was a very simple .
elegant proposa l. It wouldn' t take a lot to
do it. In fact , it could be done in a coup le
of weeks if the adminis trati o n cou ld make
up its mind that somet hing like that cou ld
help. The Long-Range DTF , if you translate it s rat her o paque prose int o rea l En gli sh, is moving, inchin g. ass-backward s,
slowly but sure ly, toward the reorgan ization sc heme I proposed.
How long do you think that11 take ?
Oh , th ey'll be there in another yea r.
How do you want to be rem em bered ?
Let me sa y one thing that [ think is
very important to the tone of a ll this. I
don 't want to appear in the ar ticl e to be
leaving gleefully, or to be feeling bitter or
vin dict ive, or anything like that. I'm reall y
sad to be leaving Evergreen , despite the
fact Evergreen didn't turn out the wa y I
wanted it to ... There's a lot of me here,
and I've had lots of good , really good
times here. I brought a lot of people here
who a re very close to me, and it's going
to hurt to leave them . . I'm going to be
watching Evergreen with great interest
• and enormous affection for the rest of my
life. I love the place. I get madder than
hell at it , not because it's an evi l place,
but because it's not as beautiful as I
wanted it to be. It's the love of the
parent.
Commentary
Is the Third World OTF D.O. A.?
by Fran A llen
Once upon a time in a land known as
TESC, there was an organization known
as the Non-White Coalition. An ambitious
young man, Tomas Ybarra, was the Coalition Executive Chairperson. He was
concerned about the decline of the nonwhite population in the land of TESC and
wrote a memo on February 8, 1974 to
Dean Rudy Martin stating his concerns
and calling for an "examination of and report on the present capabilities of the institution, to be followed by a set of long
term recommendations designed to improve the quality of life for non-whites
.. ." Thus began the epic story of the
Non-White DTF .
Members of this DTF included 14 members of the community - Gail Tanaka,
Mary Hillaire, Maxine Mimms, Lynn Patterson, Elena Perez, Jacob Romero, York
Wong, Rudy Martin (Chairperson), Marian Williams, and Sally Fixico, among
others. These people issued a memo on
February 11, 1974 to budget heads, Program Coordinators and Group Contract
Sponsors asking them to respond to five
questions regarding their contact with,
support of and resources for the non. white community.
In addition, a series of study sessions
were set up beginning March 10, 1974, at
which discussions were held with faculty
members and budget heads to determine
specific problem areas and find out what
, policies were in effect with regard to
Third World students.
These study sessions continued through
April of that year and were termed "fruitful" by the members of the DTF. In May ,
community members began responding to
specitic questions put forth by the DTF .
The responses went something like this:
President Charles McCann - on Commitment to Affirmative Action for 1974 "We recognize and accept the need for developing a more responsive approach to
cooperative education for non-whites. We
are committed to the reorganization and
reprioritization of Co -op staff and other
resources to achieve . .. the above." But
on the other hand, "Co-op staff resources
are limited and the workload excessive."
McCann then listed six items he felt
could be achieved, including "providing
access for non-white students to a variety
of existing and / or continuing internship
opportunities," "prOVide guidance, counseling, orientation and placement assistance for non-white students in internships
and Career Learning Placements," "Develop an outreach program to encourage
non -white students to make use of Co-op
resources," "Provide incentive models and
subs tantive alternatives to aid in the recruitment of non-white students into the
College."
Other recommendations were mentioned
in that memo dated May 6, 1974. They
were ' given in good faith and sounded
great, on paper.
On June 6, 1974, the Non-White DTF
issued its recommendation to the community in an ll-page memo. This too
was done in good faith. While parts of
the report were later termed "a mixture of
stuff, some of it good, some bad, some
just silly" approximately 32 people took
the time to respond in writing regarding
the DTF Report.
Some WASPy types were paranoid
about the implications of the report, stat-
ing such comments as "it anything, this
report sets up a strong barrier between
'them ' and 'us: especially when we all
know it's our individual, hard won budgets that will be ripped off to provide all
of the listed super services for this small
minority of our dissatisfied community .. ."
"I feel too many of the current
demands are designed to crea te more demands. I would hope that instead of
major additional fund ing going to the Coalition and other areas who have or
would become dictators and police detectives to write reports and reprimand errant whites, rather let's all be certain the
non-whites are made to feel welcome . . . "
"We shouldn't be locked in by na~row
definitions and numbers; why should
someone with a Spanish surname take
priority over someone with a Chicano
mother who grew up in a Chicano community but whose last name is 'Smith: or
a jew who grew up in the ghettos of eastern Europe during the 30's and certainly
knows more about the 'minority experience' than most Americans ever will? ... "
"The report is written by people who
consider themselves non-whites and not
Evergreen community members ... "
"This is a public educational institution .
We are committed first and foremost to
the best in quality education for all. We
should yield to special interests only insofar as they do not impose upon this
priority ... "
"I support the report and all of its recommendations wholeheartedly with one
exception."
In spite of some general panic and paranoia, the persons who responded to the
report did make some suggestions wh ich
could have proven useful. Who knows?
On June 28, Vice-President and Provost
Ed Kormondy issued a memo assuring the
community that "The status of that docu ment is that of a report - it is not institutional policy. Because of the pervasive significance of this report, I am allowing an
extended period of time for review I discussions /reaction . The report will be subject to open discussion in the fall su bsequent to which revisions will doubtless be
made in the report before it is submitted
in final form, accepted, and implemented ."
President McCann, in his usual charming manner responded on July 18 by stat ing, "WHEREAS, Ed Kormondy charged
you \DTF} and is still receiving input and
will be receiving wide reaction to your
recommendations early in the fall and
WHEREAS I do not wish to be misunderstood as agreeing in every single point or
to every budgetary implication, but NEVERTHELESS, I think your report is a re markable piece of work, chuck full of
good ideas and helpful suggestions as to
how to make this a better place to be,
and WHEREAS, I'm going on vacation
and may forget when I come back - I
want to say BE IT RESOLVED , therefore .
THANK YOU."
Be it resolved? In a series of articles, we
plan ,to investigate the progress , of the:
DTF report, working with Dean RudY.
Martin (who .has recently requested that
each budget unit head update their progress report on the successes 'and problems
they have encountered implementing the
DTF during the previous year) and other
people directly involved in the DTF
Report implementation .
Stay tuned for the exciting results!
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IN BRIEF
gated for compliance with those
principles, "
A very different aspect of the
Geoboard would be the existenc~
wi thin the board of an "Executive Commi tt ee ." T he primary
function of the committee would
be to "insure that the issues
placed on the agenda. . . warrant attention." Evergreen community members who wan ted a
matter brought to the Geoboard
wou ld petition the Execut ive
Committee for a place on the
agenda. ReqLlests that are rejected would be responded to
with a "No te of Response."
[n addition , the recommendation stipu la tes that "decis ions
must be made (by the administration) only wi th the direct involve men t of students, faculty
and staff who are affected by
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The Thurston County Board
,'I C,' mmis"loners decided at a
public hearing Tuesday night to
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", het her or not to uphold an ad \'15Llry board 's designation of a
sh'Heline area on the Nisqually
Delta as "urban environmen t. "
Final argument s were heard at
th~ publ il hear ing where many
" I the 150 ob5ervers wore green
butt ons supplied by a group who
wa nted to signify "keeping Thursto n County green."
.
The meeting was the second
public hearing called to debate
the Department of .Ecology's recommendation that a shoreline
segment on the Nisqually Reach
be cla ssified as "rural" or "con ,ervancy ." A citizen's adVisory
committee . :n agreement with
the property owner, Burlington
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the stretch of mostly underwater
land be classified as "urban environment" to allow the building
of a la rge pier.
The pier and designated land
would provide a "transportation
corridor" to adjacent industrially
zoned inlands.
Representatives for Burlington
Northern have said that plans
for the site include boat loading
facilities, conveyor belts between
the water and backland loading
points, roads, and a pier that
can reach past the sha llow tidelands int o deep water. Estimates
have set the pier at o ne-fourth to
one- half mile in length.
The Department of Ecology
said in its reply to the proposed
sit e, "Major industrial and harbor facility proposals. ' . . would
likely result in adverse impacts
to the Nisqually Estuary,"
Arguments in favor of industrializing the site center on the
site's rarity as one of the last remaining port sites on the West
Coast , the taxes generated for
Thurston County from industrial
zon ing, and jobs brought to the
area through in creased industrializa tion.
However, opponents argue
that currently Burlington Northern has not identified tenants or
users for the proposed port, so
there is no proven need for the
·port. The opponents, who inIclude the Thurston County
League of Women Voters, the
Jones Beach Property Owners
and the North East Thurston Ac tion Committee (NET). say the
Nisqually a rea is one of the few
non-i'1dustrialized estuaries in
the U.S. and they want to keep
it that way.
Gene Little, of NET, said their
committee had trained over 300
people to conduct a survey of
every house in the Nisqually
area. He said that the "group
managed to question over 60
percent of the residents in North
East Thurston County" and the
great majority said they were
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against industrialization and
wanted to "maintain a scenic,
rural setting ."
Other speakers pointed out the
unsteady , earthquake-prone soil
a nd the slow water flushing rate
as reasons for not building on or
industrial izing the site.
COG III GROUP
PROPOSES
ELIMINATION · OF
SOUNDING BOARD
In its recently released recommendations to Charles McC ann ,
the COG III D isappeari ng Task
Force has outl ined, among o th er
things, a new overall board to
replace the existing Soundi n g
Board.
The DTF was charged with
the task of writing a new COG
(Committee on Governance) document, one more respom:ive to
Evergreen's needs than the COG
II documen t , which received
heavy criticism from the Evergreen communit y in Fall Quarter
1975.
A large part of the recommendation centers on what the DTF
has coined as the "Geoboard." In
essence, the Geoboard differs
from the Sounding Board in that
all DTFs will originate and terminate a t the Geoboard. This is
expected to giv~ the board more
clout than the Sounding Board,
which has been criticized for ineffectiveness.
In the past, administrators
were the only persons who could
initiate and select DTFs. Under
the new recommendations any
person desiring a DTF would petition the Geoboard, or the Geoboard itself could initiate DTFs .
The Geoboard would also be responsible for determining the
composition of the DTFs, although petitioners could request
a specific composition .
Five different types of action
could be taken by the Geoboard
in treating situ ations. They
include I} Comment, 2} Vote of
Confidence, 3} Vote of No Confidence, 4) Drop (Geoboard refuses to consider or rule on issue)
and 5) Vote of Censure (made
against a person, not an action).
The recommendation stated
that the Geoboard will "have a
wato;;hdog" function as the place
where our principles are reiterated and our actions are investi-
NOW CONVENTION
HERE
AUGUST 13 - 15
Between 300 and 400 people are
expected to attend a statewide
conven tion of the National Organizat io n for Women (NOW)'
to be held a t Evergreen August
13 - 15. The convention, themed
"The Future is Female," will feature a day of workshops, two
evenings of feminist entertainment and regular organizational
business.
The first full day of co nvening,
Saturday, August 14 wi ll consist
of some 30 - 40 workshops. State
legislator Pat Cochran will kick
off the conve ntion wit h an address about the future of women
in the state. The workshops,
conducted by NOW members
considered experts in their field ,
will include Women and Insurance, Women in History, Mas-'
sage , Organizing Techniques,
Feminist Counseling, ERA ,
Dance, Assertiveness Training,
Lesbianism , How to Impact Legislation, Sexism in Education ,
Survival Skill s, Sexual Violence,
Women and Drugs and others.
Enterta inm ent is planned for
both nights of the convention.
On Frid ay, August 13 at 8: 30
(place to be announced), Evergreen folksinger Carrilu Thompson will appear with the nationa lly reknowned Lavender Troubador. The Troubador is a onewoman presentation, in troubador style, on the life experiences
of two lesbians. "She puts on a
powerful but sad show," said
Linda Lombard of Evergreen's
Women's Center. "She tells her
story in a straightforward, emotionless way, but perhaps it is
for that reason that she hits on
the emotions of her audience."
Saturday night's featured performers will be the Co-Respondents, dramatizing "Here She
Comes," a play about "women
in power. " The play starts with
the satirical premise, "Isn't it
nice that men gave women all
these rights," and takes off from
there. Also on Saturday night
feminist
songwriter / fo lksinger
Gwen Harrell and feminist poet
Annette Van Dyke will perform .
All entertainment is open to the
public, with donations being
asked on Friday, and admission
to Saturday night's performances
set at $3.
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Sunday will be devoted to organizational business. Jan Spear,
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County chapter of NOW, expects the two main resolutions
discussed to be the issues of displaced homeworkers and battered wives. Workshops will also
be held on these topics. Other
expected issues to be brought up
include the Comparable Worth
Study (regarding equal pay for
eq ual value rather than work)
and child care under Title 20.
The complete agenda, however,
is being put together now and
should be available within anot her week.
Registration for the convention, which is open to the public,
is $5 (this includes admission to
entertai nmen t but not room and
board ). Reservations for room
and board must be made before
August 6. Free day care will be
provided. For more information,
confere nce coordinator Cathy
Cochran can be contacted at 9434592.
TARDY
EVALUATIONS
CAUSE ONE
NON-HIRING
Faculty member Charles Lyons
was reportedly denied a summer
facu lty contract a t Evergreen be cause of fa ilure to turn in severa l missing student evaluations
before a June 30 deadline given
to a ll faculty and staff by Vice
President and Provost Ed Kormondy .
More action of this nature
may be taken against facu lty and
staff members who do not turn
in student evalu ations.
In a June 1 memo to the faculty and staff, Vice President
and Provost Ed Kormondy said
there was a total of 641 outstanding student eva lu ations,
some of which go back as far as
Spring of 1974.
Kormondy urged faculty and
staff to complete and turn in
missing evaluations because
"(student) transcripts cannot be
issued if facu lty / staff eval uations
of student achievement are missing." The memo stated that "according to Registrar Walker AlIen, about one-ha lf of the transcript requests cannot be filled
because evaluations are not on
file."
Kormondy originally sent out
a warning memo on June 13,
1975, advising faculty that missing evaluations would be part of
the criteria considered d u ring
faculty evaluations. Kormondy
admitted that he had not enforced that eva luation procedure
because "there was so much
noise" and it "would have been
exceedingly difficult to apply this
criteria uniformly and evenly. "
However, in his June 1 memo
Kormondy stated in underlined
words, " . . . it is my intent to
have the slate wiped clean of all
unfiled evaluations by June 30,
1976." Kormondy went on to
say that evaluations not filed by
June 30 would be reported to
Deans Will Humphreys and Willi
Parson and would be considered
during winter and spring evaluations in 1977.
Kormondy a lso reiterated his
warning in the June 13, 1975
memo, that faculty salaries could
be withheld until their outstanding evaluations were on file.
As of Wednesday, July 28, 181
evaluations were still missing
and past the set deadline. Dean
Will Humphreys said, "I expect
to have those all cleared before
the start of Fall Quarter."
The Indians of All Tribes from
the Washington State Reformatory has announced the approach
of their sixth Bi-annual PowWow on the 11th of September.
People interested in attending
should send their name, address
and interest (singer, dancer, spectator) to Darrin A. Williams,
Pow-Wow Chairman, Indians of
All Tribes, P.O. Box 777, Monroe, Wn. 98272.
Events will begin at noon and
continue until 3 :30 p.m. Picture
I. D. is required for admittance.
Participants will be permitted to
bring cameras, cassettes, and
foods of all kinds (provided it is
in a non-metal container). Anyone under 18 years of age must
be accompanied by an adult. For
furth er information ca ll 7948077, ext. 339 or 328, between
1:00 and 3 :30 p.m. on any
weekday .
• Hopefully, after Friday, July
30, anyone following the trail of
wrapped candies (Kraft caramels
and saltwater taffy kisses) across
the first floor lobby of the library building to rooms 1611
and 1613 w ill fi nd a new occupant therein .
This space was formerly occupied by Ted Gerstl and long,
long before, in the dim reaches
of Evergreen's past, Health Services held forth there.
The Compuwriter I. Evergreen's photoelectronic typesetter,
wi ll be operating in the new and
more efficient location, with its
very own darkroom. No longer
will a groove be worn in the carpeting where Sherry or Billie trek
back and forth to develop each
strip of copy, or to and from a
source of water for cleaning and
maintaining the film processor.
Ext. 6045 or 6370 .
From 10 a .m. to 10 p.m. August 5th through 8th, regular programmi ng on KAOS 89.3 FM
w ill be suspended for live coverage of the Thurston County Fair.
Once agai n, the KAOS crew will
be bringing you all the events direct from our trailer parked on
the midway right across from the
baby anima ls. Come on down to
the fair and drop by and say hi.
• Have you ever considered
being a student firefighter?
Since 1971 Everg'reen students
have filled a special need by providing fire protection for the college and surrounding district.
Qualified students accepted into
this program receive free room
and board and at the same time
have a unique opportunity of
filling a vital role in the community . This program is open to
all new and returning students.
For further informa tion all interested students are encouraged to
contact :
The McLane Fire Department
Bldg. 212
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington 98505
• Summer senior employment
seminars will be held Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 3: 30 to
4: 30 p.m. in Lib. 1221, beginning
August 3.
The seminars are as follows :
August 3 - Introduction to
Placement Services and how to
write a resume and letter of
application.
August 5 - How to complete a
job application and how to
compile a credential file.
August 10 - How to plan and
conduct a job search .
August 12 - How to conduct an
information and employment
interview.
JOURNAL NEEDS
HELP ON
ORIENTATION ISSUE
"Someone I grew up with was
shot and died in my arms," said
White . White then came to Evergreen to get the skills needed to
improve his communi ty but had
to face a wife who questioned
his involvement, insisting it was
useless to care about the future
and demanding that he fulfill the
more
pressing
obligations
brought by his family.
The Bantus comprise seven
tribes in so uthern Africa, but
White sees them as epitomizing
all of traditional Africa n society .
"Their philosophy is one of huma nism," says White , "and one
that [ try to live my life by ." It
is this philosophy that "A Bantu
Tragedy " is about, a nd that
gives it its name.
White has rejected the solution
of going to work for the stat e
and contributing to the oppression of his people by supporting
the welfare system. He is more
interested in making the black
community self-supporting . But
the number one goa l must be to
change the va lu es and awareness
of the superstructures that gov ern this soc iety . Otherwise. sa ys
W hite, a revolution w ill take
place that will be like "a knife
cutting th rough flesh - it will be
painfu l to all in volved ."
Besides the two original pieces,
White will read selections from
Julius Lester's book Black Folktales. Ad mi ssion to the readin g is
75 cents.
In the tradition of the past two
years, The Cooper Point Journal
staff will publish an Orientation
Issue, this year on August 26,
and once again we need the help
of Evergreeners in writing, photography, graphics and lay-out .
The issue is planned to cover
such things as housing, food
prices, restaurant reviews, book
and movie reviews, orientation
and registration, "how to" land
an individual contract (etc.), student jobs and pay, plant purchasing and care, Evergreen's
academic direction, the Year in
Nepal program, herb collecting
and healing, Cooperative Education and whatever else you and
we can think of .
The most important area that
we will need research and
writing help on will be our
"Guide to the Faculty," a full
two pages devoted to reviewing
each member of the faculty. This
project will require a great deal
of thought and care. We are interested in students who feel they
can write popular opinion capsules about faculty they have
had.
In the Faculty Guide we would
like to answer such questions as:
What is this person like in coordinated studies? Individual contracts? Does this person seem
strong or weak in their field?
How do they run seminars? Lectures? Are they best suited to
first year or older students?
The purpose of the guide will
be to give newer and interested
students a chance to see what
other students think about the
fac ulty.
The guide will of course not
be unbiased, but it will be an
honest attempt to be fair in
showing popular opinion about
individual facu lty members.
Approximately 25 students
will be needed to cover all 120
faculty, and those faculty who
we feel we cannot sufficien tly review will be left out for review
at a later date.
True
Erskine White
POET ERSKINE WHITE TO PERFORM
The plight of the African in
modern American society will be
the subject of "Sililoquy," a poetry reading presented by the
New Poetry Theatre Workshop
August 5 at 8 p.m. in Lecture
Hall l.
Evergreen graduate Erskine
White will read two of his works,
"In Trouble 'n Times" and "A
Bantu Tragedy." White is a popular Evergreen poet who has engaged in past readings with poets
Gwendolyn Brooks and Don L.
Lee.
"My poetry reflects traditional
African culture in philosophy of
life and human relationships,"
says White. "In Trouble 'n
Times" is about the good and
bad moments in the life of an
African in the U.S., speaking to
the need for Africans to see their
long, noble history; to work to gether; to recognize that "we a ll
belong to the family of man and
woman; we are not weeds, but
flowers," says poet White.
"A Bantu Tragedy" is about a
love affair which came to a premature end because of the conflict between the protagonist's
socia l obligation to improve the
living cond ition of his people,
and his immediate but everpresent need to support his
fam ily. This experience actually
occurred in the poet's life .
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The issue will be the largest of
the year - probably 32 pages,
and will have a press run of
around 3,000, compared to 2,000
to 2,500 during the school year .
If you are interested in working on a story or have a story of
your own, or if you are a photographer or graphics designer,
come on in to the Journal in
CAB 306, right above the Bookstore .
The first group of deadlines
begins next week so come in
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gated for compliance with those
principles, "
A very different aspect of the
Geoboard would be the existenc~
wi thin the board of an "Executive Commi tt ee ." T he primary
function of the committee would
be to "insure that the issues
placed on the agenda. . . warrant attention." Evergreen community members who wan ted a
matter brought to the Geoboard
wou ld petition the Execut ive
Committee for a place on the
agenda. ReqLlests that are rejected would be responded to
with a "No te of Response."
[n addition , the recommendation stipu la tes that "decis ions
must be made (by the administration) only wi th the direct involve men t of students, faculty
and staff who are affected by
and interested in the issues."
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TO BE DECIDED
MONDAY
The Thurston County Board
,'I C,' mmis"loners decided at a
public hearing Tuesday night to
"" te " l ,' nday , August 2 , on
", het her or not to uphold an ad \'15Llry board 's designation of a
sh'Heline area on the Nisqually
Delta as "urban environmen t. "
Final argument s were heard at
th~ publ il hear ing where many
" I the 150 ob5ervers wore green
butt ons supplied by a group who
wa nted to signify "keeping Thursto n County green."
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The meeting was the second
public hearing called to debate
the Department of .Ecology's recommendation that a shoreline
segment on the Nisqually Reach
be cla ssified as "rural" or "con ,ervancy ." A citizen's adVisory
committee . :n agreement with
the property owner, Burlington
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the stretch of mostly underwater
land be classified as "urban environment" to allow the building
of a la rge pier.
The pier and designated land
would provide a "transportation
corridor" to adjacent industrially
zoned inlands.
Representatives for Burlington
Northern have said that plans
for the site include boat loading
facilities, conveyor belts between
the water and backland loading
points, roads, and a pier that
can reach past the sha llow tidelands int o deep water. Estimates
have set the pier at o ne-fourth to
one- half mile in length.
The Department of Ecology
said in its reply to the proposed
sit e, "Major industrial and harbor facility proposals. ' . . would
likely result in adverse impacts
to the Nisqually Estuary,"
Arguments in favor of industrializing the site center on the
site's rarity as one of the last remaining port sites on the West
Coast , the taxes generated for
Thurston County from industrial
zon ing, and jobs brought to the
area through in creased industrializa tion.
However, opponents argue
that currently Burlington Northern has not identified tenants or
users for the proposed port, so
there is no proven need for the
·port. The opponents, who inIclude the Thurston County
League of Women Voters, the
Jones Beach Property Owners
and the North East Thurston Ac tion Committee (NET). say the
Nisqually a rea is one of the few
non-i'1dustrialized estuaries in
the U.S. and they want to keep
it that way.
Gene Little, of NET, said their
committee had trained over 300
people to conduct a survey of
every house in the Nisqually
area. He said that the "group
managed to question over 60
percent of the residents in North
East Thurston County" and the
great majority said they were
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against industrialization and
wanted to "maintain a scenic,
rural setting ."
Other speakers pointed out the
unsteady , earthquake-prone soil
a nd the slow water flushing rate
as reasons for not building on or
industrial izing the site.
COG III GROUP
PROPOSES
ELIMINATION · OF
SOUNDING BOARD
In its recently released recommendations to Charles McC ann ,
the COG III D isappeari ng Task
Force has outl ined, among o th er
things, a new overall board to
replace the existing Soundi n g
Board.
The DTF was charged with
the task of writing a new COG
(Committee on Governance) document, one more respom:ive to
Evergreen's needs than the COG
II documen t , which received
heavy criticism from the Evergreen communit y in Fall Quarter
1975.
A large part of the recommendation centers on what the DTF
has coined as the "Geoboard." In
essence, the Geoboard differs
from the Sounding Board in that
all DTFs will originate and terminate a t the Geoboard. This is
expected to giv~ the board more
clout than the Sounding Board,
which has been criticized for ineffectiveness.
In the past, administrators
were the only persons who could
initiate and select DTFs. Under
the new recommendations any
person desiring a DTF would petition the Geoboard, or the Geoboard itself could initiate DTFs .
The Geoboard would also be responsible for determining the
composition of the DTFs, although petitioners could request
a specific composition .
Five different types of action
could be taken by the Geoboard
in treating situ ations. They
include I} Comment, 2} Vote of
Confidence, 3} Vote of No Confidence, 4) Drop (Geoboard refuses to consider or rule on issue)
and 5) Vote of Censure (made
against a person, not an action).
The recommendation stated
that the Geoboard will "have a
wato;;hdog" function as the place
where our principles are reiterated and our actions are investi-
NOW CONVENTION
HERE
AUGUST 13 - 15
Between 300 and 400 people are
expected to attend a statewide
conven tion of the National Organizat io n for Women (NOW)'
to be held a t Evergreen August
13 - 15. The convention, themed
"The Future is Female," will feature a day of workshops, two
evenings of feminist entertainment and regular organizational
business.
The first full day of co nvening,
Saturday, August 14 wi ll consist
of some 30 - 40 workshops. State
legislator Pat Cochran will kick
off the conve ntion wit h an address about the future of women
in the state. The workshops,
conducted by NOW members
considered experts in their field ,
will include Women and Insurance, Women in History, Mas-'
sage , Organizing Techniques,
Feminist Counseling, ERA ,
Dance, Assertiveness Training,
Lesbianism , How to Impact Legislation, Sexism in Education ,
Survival Skill s, Sexual Violence,
Women and Drugs and others.
Enterta inm ent is planned for
both nights of the convention.
On Frid ay, August 13 at 8: 30
(place to be announced), Evergreen folksinger Carrilu Thompson will appear with the nationa lly reknowned Lavender Troubador. The Troubador is a onewoman presentation, in troubador style, on the life experiences
of two lesbians. "She puts on a
powerful but sad show," said
Linda Lombard of Evergreen's
Women's Center. "She tells her
story in a straightforward, emotionless way, but perhaps it is
for that reason that she hits on
the emotions of her audience."
Saturday night's featured performers will be the Co-Respondents, dramatizing "Here She
Comes," a play about "women
in power. " The play starts with
the satirical premise, "Isn't it
nice that men gave women all
these rights," and takes off from
there. Also on Saturday night
feminist
songwriter / fo lksinger
Gwen Harrell and feminist poet
Annette Van Dyke will perform .
All entertainment is open to the
public, with donations being
asked on Friday, and admission
to Saturday night's performances
set at $3.
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Sunday will be devoted to organizational business. Jan Spear,
co-president of the Thurston
County chapter of NOW, expects the two main resolutions
discussed to be the issues of displaced homeworkers and battered wives. Workshops will also
be held on these topics. Other
expected issues to be brought up
include the Comparable Worth
Study (regarding equal pay for
eq ual value rather than work)
and child care under Title 20.
The complete agenda, however,
is being put together now and
should be available within anot her week.
Registration for the convention, which is open to the public,
is $5 (this includes admission to
entertai nmen t but not room and
board ). Reservations for room
and board must be made before
August 6. Free day care will be
provided. For more information,
confere nce coordinator Cathy
Cochran can be contacted at 9434592.
TARDY
EVALUATIONS
CAUSE ONE
NON-HIRING
Faculty member Charles Lyons
was reportedly denied a summer
facu lty contract a t Evergreen be cause of fa ilure to turn in severa l missing student evaluations
before a June 30 deadline given
to a ll faculty and staff by Vice
President and Provost Ed Kormondy .
More action of this nature
may be taken against facu lty and
staff members who do not turn
in student evalu ations.
In a June 1 memo to the faculty and staff, Vice President
and Provost Ed Kormondy said
there was a total of 641 outstanding student eva lu ations,
some of which go back as far as
Spring of 1974.
Kormondy urged faculty and
staff to complete and turn in
missing evaluations because
"(student) transcripts cannot be
issued if facu lty / staff eval uations
of student achievement are missing." The memo stated that "according to Registrar Walker AlIen, about one-ha lf of the transcript requests cannot be filled
because evaluations are not on
file."
Kormondy originally sent out
a warning memo on June 13,
1975, advising faculty that missing evaluations would be part of
the criteria considered d u ring
faculty evaluations. Kormondy
admitted that he had not enforced that eva luation procedure
because "there was so much
noise" and it "would have been
exceedingly difficult to apply this
criteria uniformly and evenly. "
However, in his June 1 memo
Kormondy stated in underlined
words, " . . . it is my intent to
have the slate wiped clean of all
unfiled evaluations by June 30,
1976." Kormondy went on to
say that evaluations not filed by
June 30 would be reported to
Deans Will Humphreys and Willi
Parson and would be considered
during winter and spring evaluations in 1977.
Kormondy a lso reiterated his
warning in the June 13, 1975
memo, that faculty salaries could
be withheld until their outstanding evaluations were on file.
As of Wednesday, July 28, 181
evaluations were still missing
and past the set deadline. Dean
Will Humphreys said, "I expect
to have those all cleared before
the start of Fall Quarter."
The Indians of All Tribes from
the Washington State Reformatory has announced the approach
of their sixth Bi-annual PowWow on the 11th of September.
People interested in attending
should send their name, address
and interest (singer, dancer, spectator) to Darrin A. Williams,
Pow-Wow Chairman, Indians of
All Tribes, P.O. Box 777, Monroe, Wn. 98272.
Events will begin at noon and
continue until 3 :30 p.m. Picture
I. D. is required for admittance.
Participants will be permitted to
bring cameras, cassettes, and
foods of all kinds (provided it is
in a non-metal container). Anyone under 18 years of age must
be accompanied by an adult. For
furth er information ca ll 7948077, ext. 339 or 328, between
1:00 and 3 :30 p.m. on any
weekday .
• Hopefully, after Friday, July
30, anyone following the trail of
wrapped candies (Kraft caramels
and saltwater taffy kisses) across
the first floor lobby of the library building to rooms 1611
and 1613 w ill fi nd a new occupant therein .
This space was formerly occupied by Ted Gerstl and long,
long before, in the dim reaches
of Evergreen's past, Health Services held forth there.
The Compuwriter I. Evergreen's photoelectronic typesetter,
wi ll be operating in the new and
more efficient location, with its
very own darkroom. No longer
will a groove be worn in the carpeting where Sherry or Billie trek
back and forth to develop each
strip of copy, or to and from a
source of water for cleaning and
maintaining the film processor.
Ext. 6045 or 6370 .
From 10 a .m. to 10 p.m. August 5th through 8th, regular programmi ng on KAOS 89.3 FM
w ill be suspended for live coverage of the Thurston County Fair.
Once agai n, the KAOS crew will
be bringing you all the events direct from our trailer parked on
the midway right across from the
baby anima ls. Come on down to
the fair and drop by and say hi.
• Have you ever considered
being a student firefighter?
Since 1971 Everg'reen students
have filled a special need by providing fire protection for the college and surrounding district.
Qualified students accepted into
this program receive free room
and board and at the same time
have a unique opportunity of
filling a vital role in the community . This program is open to
all new and returning students.
For further informa tion all interested students are encouraged to
contact :
The McLane Fire Department
Bldg. 212
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington 98505
• Summer senior employment
seminars will be held Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 3: 30 to
4: 30 p.m. in Lib. 1221, beginning
August 3.
The seminars are as follows :
August 3 - Introduction to
Placement Services and how to
write a resume and letter of
application.
August 5 - How to complete a
job application and how to
compile a credential file.
August 10 - How to plan and
conduct a job search .
August 12 - How to conduct an
information and employment
interview.
JOURNAL NEEDS
HELP ON
ORIENTATION ISSUE
"Someone I grew up with was
shot and died in my arms," said
White . White then came to Evergreen to get the skills needed to
improve his communi ty but had
to face a wife who questioned
his involvement, insisting it was
useless to care about the future
and demanding that he fulfill the
more
pressing
obligations
brought by his family.
The Bantus comprise seven
tribes in so uthern Africa, but
White sees them as epitomizing
all of traditional Africa n society .
"Their philosophy is one of huma nism," says White , "and one
that [ try to live my life by ." It
is this philosophy that "A Bantu
Tragedy " is about, a nd that
gives it its name.
White has rejected the solution
of going to work for the stat e
and contributing to the oppression of his people by supporting
the welfare system. He is more
interested in making the black
community self-supporting . But
the number one goa l must be to
change the va lu es and awareness
of the superstructures that gov ern this soc iety . Otherwise. sa ys
W hite, a revolution w ill take
place that will be like "a knife
cutting th rough flesh - it will be
painfu l to all in volved ."
Besides the two original pieces,
White will read selections from
Julius Lester's book Black Folktales. Ad mi ssion to the readin g is
75 cents.
In the tradition of the past two
years, The Cooper Point Journal
staff will publish an Orientation
Issue, this year on August 26,
and once again we need the help
of Evergreeners in writing, photography, graphics and lay-out .
The issue is planned to cover
such things as housing, food
prices, restaurant reviews, book
and movie reviews, orientation
and registration, "how to" land
an individual contract (etc.), student jobs and pay, plant purchasing and care, Evergreen's
academic direction, the Year in
Nepal program, herb collecting
and healing, Cooperative Education and whatever else you and
we can think of .
The most important area that
we will need research and
writing help on will be our
"Guide to the Faculty," a full
two pages devoted to reviewing
each member of the faculty. This
project will require a great deal
of thought and care. We are interested in students who feel they
can write popular opinion capsules about faculty they have
had.
In the Faculty Guide we would
like to answer such questions as:
What is this person like in coordinated studies? Individual contracts? Does this person seem
strong or weak in their field?
How do they run seminars? Lectures? Are they best suited to
first year or older students?
The purpose of the guide will
be to give newer and interested
students a chance to see what
other students think about the
fac ulty.
The guide will of course not
be unbiased, but it will be an
honest attempt to be fair in
showing popular opinion about
individual facu lty members.
Approximately 25 students
will be needed to cover all 120
faculty, and those faculty who
we feel we cannot sufficien tly review will be left out for review
at a later date.
True
Erskine White
POET ERSKINE WHITE TO PERFORM
The plight of the African in
modern American society will be
the subject of "Sililoquy," a poetry reading presented by the
New Poetry Theatre Workshop
August 5 at 8 p.m. in Lecture
Hall l.
Evergreen graduate Erskine
White will read two of his works,
"In Trouble 'n Times" and "A
Bantu Tragedy." White is a popular Evergreen poet who has engaged in past readings with poets
Gwendolyn Brooks and Don L.
Lee.
"My poetry reflects traditional
African culture in philosophy of
life and human relationships,"
says White. "In Trouble 'n
Times" is about the good and
bad moments in the life of an
African in the U.S., speaking to
the need for Africans to see their
long, noble history; to work to gether; to recognize that "we a ll
belong to the family of man and
woman; we are not weeds, but
flowers," says poet White.
"A Bantu Tragedy" is about a
love affair which came to a premature end because of the conflict between the protagonist's
socia l obligation to improve the
living cond ition of his people,
and his immediate but everpresent need to support his
fam ily. This experience actually
occurred in the poet's life .
Grits
' Featuring grits
and biscuits
709 Trosper Rd" off Cap ito l
over the freeway in Tumwater.
Always open
The issue will be the largest of
the year - probably 32 pages,
and will have a press run of
around 3,000, compared to 2,000
to 2,500 during the school year .
If you are interested in working on a story or have a story of
your own, or if you are a photographer or graphics designer,
come on in to the Journal in
CAB 306, right above the Bookstore .
The first group of deadlines
begins next week so come in
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South Sound Center
491-4144
Black Lake Office
Black Lake Boulevard
357-5200
Tanglewilde Office
Martin Way
491 -4512
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ENTERTAINMENT
Oh that magic feeling ... Nowhere to go
Reeye.ing the Beatle8
by Nathaniel Koch
T he re lease of Paul McCartney's solo
al bum McCart ney (April. 1970) more or
Ie,s si gnified the end of the Beatles. That
wa~ over six years ago. Stran~e1y enough ,
I he Fab Fo ur co ntinue to remain a promIn l'nt force in the music business . Within
I he last fo ur month s, the Beatles have
d,' mina ted the English charts with 23 old
~ in gles in t he Top 100 (" Yesterday " reac hing t he 'fop 10 ), have appeared on the
lu h ' 15 th cover o f Ro lling Stolle magazine
,ln d Capitol Records' repackaging of old
mate ri a l. Rc>c k '/1 ' Roll Mu sic, has shipped
"1I1 o ne million albums to wholesale / reI " il outlets. All this without the Beatles
h,l\'i ng to lift a fin ger.
l)ne mav well wonder why there is all
I hi~ re newed interes t in material as much
,l ' 12 ,'ea rs ol d . To dism iss it a ll as a mer,!1,.ndi sing ca mpa ign b y Capit ol Records
.:ld F '\ 11 I \\" ho now co ntro ls British right s
:. ' :Iw Beatie,' ca ta log ) wou ld be too
, :ll r k . U nch,ubled ly . the a..d diti o n o f
.. . 111\ ' 12 I,' 18 vea r olds w ho ;"'ere n' t old
," ,'u )!h II' r!' member the Bea tles' Ed Sull i:: ::;h,,\,' Jppe.HdnCe ( Fe b . 9 , "( 964 ), or
" ,;t, i n,/l.~ ,Yi8irr . o r eve n much abo ut
'. : ;'''''1 ','/". ha, ,ldded powerful muscl e
Ih',ll l"l11il n ia .
, !, I , h \ 1cGea n' opera tes T icket To
,i, 11,1. in O lvmpia and sell s U. S . a nd
: ' ,'1'1 ."('«'rd s tl' Bea l les colll'c to rs a nd
'. ' .li l ,"'er Ihe " ·,Hld. Fo r McGeary ,
. ,<'C ling h:" lurned from a hobby to an
:-::' l100 .1 vea r b U;,lness in just a sho rt
. :11 , . He ex pl ained . "" I dea l wit h peopl e
: : " ':~l
:1 ml" t be 10 al l the way to 35,
'.!l V\· I",,\.. li kE- . The more se ri ous co llec:''i', J r,' Ihe o lder " nes . O f cou rse, th e
\' , ' Un)!l' r ones a re rea ll y hea ding in to it
,l,·,'p. They 're Ihe ones do ing a ll the buy.")' . There's a new gene rat io n co min g a ll
'. iw : I m~ a nd eac h suc ceeding ge nerati o n is
\.! , '"1 ~ 10 brin g that many more bu yers,
l H ,IS each passi ng genera tion is go ing to
Jr<'p out. It' s just a beginnin g."
\ 1cGeary , al ong with Ted Knapp and
LnJ ia McNeal. p roduced the first West
C, 'J, t Bea tles C onventi o n in Seattle. It
ran to r two da ys (J uly 17th and 18th) and
w a' na med after a song from the Beatles'
Rc;',' !,'er a lbum . Here, There , and Everyw here-.
' We wanted to make it the biggest and
best Beatie Convention that ever happened ," McGea ry told me . To that end ,
alm ost 518,000 was spent on films , speakers. adve rtising, rent on Seattle Center's
No rth C ourt , buttons, T-shirts, bumper
s ticker s, and other items . McGeary,
Knapp, and McNeal expected attendance
to be anywhere from 1,000 to 3 ,000 fans .
Actual ticket sales fell well below that
goal. much of it having to do with the
525 two-day admission , which limited
,
sa les to primarily serious BeatIe collectors
a nd fans.
Aft er all , it was clear that the main
focus o f Here, ' There, and Everywhere
see med to be centered in the dealer's area.
Deal ers from all over the country set tIp
tables in ' the " Beatles Room ," the " Paul
McCartney Room, " the "John lennon
Roo m ," etc. This was the place where every thing wa s for sale. A devoted fan
could find such items as color slides from
Help! ($1.50 ea .), a Ringo Starr T-shirt,
Beatles lP's and 45's in every variety
from Israeli to Japanese imports, American releases, many bootlegs (i .e. LennonHendrix Dalltripper Jam), the rare Butcher
Cover for Yesterday and Today ($25+) ,
Beatles tennis shoes, Beatles movie posters, Beatles magazines, Beatles books, and
yes . . . even a model of the Yellow Submarine I Elvis Presley was represented at a
table where you could purchase pictures
of the King doing his act in Las Vegas.
The Brian Eps tein / Ma l Evans Memorial
Room featured displays of Beatie art and
memorabilia . These included rare releases ,
a few G o ld BeatIe records (awarded to
John Lennon ), old fan magazines, a few
autographs, and a cop.
.
If one was able to avoid the look-A like Contest, Beatles Disco, the Costume
Contest, the Auction, and many of the
bands playing Beatles material, the true
strengths of the Convention - speakers
and films - might have drawn more
people.
Richard Dilello worked at Apple, the
BeatIes' ill-fated ' business venture, from
1968 to 1970 and wrote a book about it.
It is called The Longest Cocktail Party,
His speaking style mixes a sharp wit with
sarcasm and sincerity. Speaking mainly
from notes, Dilello was full of short anecdotes about Apple and the BeatIes'
lives. At times he seemed a bit self-important, as when he called John Lennon's
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"Cold Turkey" an "anguished anthem of
the suburbian rock star." But he was a refreshing change from the adolescent idol
worshiping going on in other rooms of
the convention .
The films were, by far, the most worthwhile aspect and definitely drew the wild~
est response . People were subject to breaking out in uncontrolled shouts . and ap. pIa use whenever the Beatles would appear
on screen together or finish a song, One
young man left the theater screaming
" Beatles Forever.l" The convention presented over 28 hours of film encompassing'
close to 50 titles. There were all the song
shorts (Penny lane, Hey Jude , Let It Be,
etc. ). movie promo and newsreel footage,
television specials, and most of the feature
films the Beatles starred in . I masochistically sat through an uninterrupted screening of A Hard Day 's Night , Help! , Magical M ystery To ur (twice), Yellow Submarin e and Let It Be before I crawled off
to sleep with a dull headache and swollen
eyes.
Wa s Here , Ther e, and Everywhere
worth the $25 two -day admission price ?
Depe nds how you look at it. As a trade
fa ir of dealers and collec tor / fans bent o n
d o ing some seri ous busin ess and having a
good time, the weekend w a s a qualified
success. But I th ink the co nvention had
th e p re te nsio n s of o ff e ri ng so mething
mo re .
Beca use the post-B eat les effort s (over
24 albums) of Lenno n, McCartney, Harrison and Sta rr were generally overlooked
(w ith th e possible exception of Paul McCa rtney who seem s to ha ve inherited
many old Beatles fan s. Recall George Harri son's statement. " If you want the Beatles
.. go see Wings."), the convention centered on the period from 1962 to 1970.
G iven the a ge of about 70 percent of the
ticket buyers (18 and younger). I think
the promoters had an opportunity to
present a dynamic retrospective of the
Beatles' careers. But the films and speakers fell far short of lending any substantial
histo rical perspective o n who the Beatles
were and how they changed the times.
Most were content to scan the dealers'
tables for rare items, have an autograph
signed by the Beatles' first manager, Alan
Williams (preferably on his book, The
Man Who Gave The Beatles Away), and
generally reminisce on what it must have
been like.
The Beatles left the world with some of
the most powerful Rock music ever written (some of it can be heard on reissues
like Capilol's Rock 'n ' Roll Music) and a '
legacy that captured the hearts of millions,
But by 1970, the demystifjcation of the
Beatles had begun . When John Lennon
sang "the dream is over. , ., " I doubt
many were listening.
Joe Venuti c, 1934 (inset photo as he appear,s today)
Joe VenutiJazz Violinist
Extraordinaire
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Cooperation Key to Security
by Fran Allen
Summertime is a prime time for many
recreational activities at Evergreen, in
addition to academic activities scheduled .
In the past efforts have been made to consciously solicit community involvement
fro m non-students of all ages (conferences, workshops, etc .). This type of exposure is beneficial for Evergreen, but it
can also be detrimental.
Once visitors realize the lack of a security guard at entrances, and that the layout
of the college's buildings is not prohibitive
to sneaking around without being caught,
some of those people decide to come to
TESC for other than recreational activities.
Among them , larceny, burglary , vandalism, disorderly conduct. and trespassing. There are no exact statistics on who
the worst offenders are, but Mack Smith
says they are predominantly youths between the . ages of 16 and 20 years and
they are not · only Olympia residents but
often come from outlying ·areas .
During the month of January, 1976, for
example , there were reports of 4 cases of
~rand larceny, 13 cases of petty larceny, 4
cases of burglary, 1 case of vandalism , 5
reports of suspicious persons on campus,
S cases of disorderly conduct, 83 cases of
I,'st i found property, 32 parking violati,ms , 13 violations of ~he pet policy
(m,'stly by students), and 9 building
.11.Hms . (In addition, there were 123
requests for personal assistance ' - unlocks, jumps for dead batteries, etc.)
Along with other miscellaneous reports,
there were a total of 359 reports filed in
Security that month .
Security handles these cases in different
ways , Attempts are made to keep suspicious vehicles off cal"Pus, and reports of
suspicious persons are followed up by Security making contact with those persons
when possible to determine why they are
on campus. A case report is filed on each
report and sometimes the same person or
group will return again to try something
and students will report seeing suspicious
vehicles or people and a pattern may develop which enables the Security staff to
apprehend the culprit(s).
It is very due that a person(s) will be
caught in the act, it is just not possible to
watch every building and parking lot all
the time. Also , the proximity of the parking lots to the buildings and the trees between them make it difficult to ' effectively '
keep people from vandalizing parked cars
and/or siphoning gasoline,
The Security staff patrols the lots and
grounds regularly and the students who
work evenings and weekends (work-study
positions) also patrol both on foot and in
a vehicle. Because of these students, who
work part-time for Security, Mack Smith
sa'y s the effectiveness of the Security office
is enhanced, He feels these students are
able to communicate with a larger sector
of the TESC community and have a good
understanding of the people who attend
and how to de,,1 with problems that come
up. Smith says they have done a consistently excellent job ' in the past and have
been a great asset.
All of this is to say - Evergreen is a
sitting geoduck. Security does the best job
under the circumstances, but it is vital
that members of the Evergreen Commun ity make the effort to cooperate with Security and also take some initiative to insure . that instances described above are
kept at a minimum .
Here are some suggestions :
l. If at all possible, don't leave your car
in a lot overnight (unless you live on
campus).
2, Lock your car, don't leave valuable
items in view , get a lock for your gas
cap.
3 , Staff and faculty should not leave an
office unlocked and unattended at the
same time . If you have to leave, lock
your door (just don't leave your keys
inside) .
4, Students, ~aff and faculty shouldn't
leave purSes, backpacks, cameras,
briefcases, etc. lying around unattended, Keep them out of sight or on
your person,
5 , Report suspicious persons or occurrences. Vehicles cruising the lots, unknown persons walking around,
groups of obviously young people
roaming around without supervision,
etc , Let Security know when these
things happen "
6. Women - don' t walk around alone
at night on or near campus. Rapes
and rape attempts are too common.
Security will provide escort when
possible from and to the campus core
area from the dorms and the mods,
Just give them a call.
7. Try not to hitchhike with people you
don't know. Women should help each
other out and pick each other up,
8 . When using the recreational facilities,
don't leave lockers unlocked, Be sure
to keep valuables well concealed if
you can't lock them up, Ask the attendant to watch something for you
if you don't want to leave it unattended . (There was a racket going
spring quarter and many men lost
wallets because of leaving lockers unlocked. )
The Security office is open 24 hours a
day . Th,e phone number is 866-6140 (if
there is no answer call the Fire Station
business phone - 866-6348 - and they
can page the person on duty). For emergency assistance, the Fire Station phone is
866-3333 .
Mack Smith, Ann Brown, Gary Russell,
Clayton Sturgis, Ron McNeil. Keith Palo,
Don Davis and Gary Olive are all there
to help you. Mack told me that this summer is the quietest . he has seen in a long
. time, Hopefully, with your cooperation,
this can continue,
j
I
by Matt Groening
Things can get pretty embarrassing when stars get old. Great
performances captured on recordings or in films remain vivid,
but when the decaying skeletons
of former biggies wobble on
stage for yet another twirl under
the spotlight, we can only sway
from side to side and moan, "It
can't bel" How could Mary Pickford, Frank ' Sinatra, Mae West,
Jimmy Durante, Groucho Marx,
Red Skelton, Marlon Brando,
Danny Thomas, Elvis Presley,
Jackie Gleason, Ginger Rogers,
Fred Astaire, Bob Hope and
countless others do this to us 1
Couldn't they watch their old reruns and play their old records
along with the rest of us1 Why
did they have to remind us of
the meaninglessness of our impending deaths 1 It's so depressing.
Which brings me to the peculiar case of Joe Venuti. Mr. Venuti is considered by many the
first and best jazz fiddler, a man
whose popularity was at its
height in the late 1920's and
early 1930's, when he played
with the extraordinary jazz guitarist Eddie Lang. During those
years Mr. Venuti played with
such popular musicians as the
Dorsey Brothers, Paul White man, Bing Crosby, the Boswell
Sisters, Frankie Trumbauer, and
Hoagy Carmichael ; all -dead, or
might as well be. Although he
has released some new work recently, the latest Joe Venuti record I've heard was recorded in
1933.
Mr. Venuti appeared at ,Reed
College in Portland last w~k as
part of the Chamber Music
Northwest Series, now in its
sixth season. On Thursday, July
22, at a performance I ·did not
see, he played "Jazz Improvisations on Well-Known Schubert
Songs." I was told it was an excellent performance, but I was
still skeptical. How coul~ the
Hot Jazz Fiddler of 1928 be even
lukewarm in 19761
I arrived at the Saturday night
concert a little early and found
Joe Venuti sitting in the sun on
.the veranda at the Reed College
Commons, taking questions from
a few fans who drifted in and
out of the building with beer and
cookies. He sure looked old, He
looked more like he was ready
for a strenuous game of checkers
than an evening of hot jazz violin ,
"You call it jazz," Mr, Venu.ti
said. "I don't. I call it improvisational music ,"
"I see what you mean," a fan
replied ,
Somebody asked Mr, Venuti if
he still liked to playas much
after all these years. He looked a
little offended,
''I'm dedicated to it," he said.
" It's my whole life ' _' , And you
have to work hard and fast, all
the time. First you turn 20, then
30, then 40, then 50, and you've
had it. It's all over."
"How old are you1'"
"82. "
" But you're still - "
''I've gone beyond it. "
I told Mr , Venuti I had his
,"Stringing the Blues" album.
"That's a bootlegl" he yelled.
" It is1 On Columbia1"
''rve been trying to sue them
for 35 years ."
"What happened1"
"The judges keep delaying the
case."
I asked Mr. Venuti what he' d
been doing lately, and he said
he'd been touring. "I've been
home three weeks in the last two
years ," He also recorded a number of albums in Europe, the latest of which is, "Joe Venuti and
Zoot Sims," Mr. Venuti was
most enthusiastic about his Jazz
Violin Concerto, which he videotaped last 11l0nth with Arthur
Fiedler and the Boston Pops for
broadcast in the fall.
"What do you think of JeanLuc Ponty1" a fan asked.
"John11 know him. Sometimes
he . , , gets off the track ,"
"You mean too much electronics1"
It was time for the concert to
begin, Series conductor Sergiu
Luca introduced Joe Venuti as
the second violinist for the Detroit . Symphony in 1917 who
heard some jazz coming out of a
cafe and dropped the classical
music to make more money and
have more fun.
Then Mr. Venuti took the
stage to warm applause , He
opened with a long rocking · solo
which became "Sweet Georgia
Brown," then turned into the
Bea ties ' " Yesterday," accompanied by Portland musicians
Mary Field on piano, Dave Friesen on bass, and Dave Colman,
Jr. on drums , You'd think that
nothing could be done with such
cornball tunes, but by improvising on every turn of melodic
phrase, and playing them with
an octogenarian grin on his face,
the songs were delightful. The
audience a.te it up .
Next he performed "Autumn
Leaves" ("we're going to perform
the 1929 recording")' which
faded into what I believe was
one of Brahms' Hungarian
Dances. At this point he did the
trick he is famous for, a trick
that no other violinist can duplicate. He loosened the bow so he
could place the neck of the violin
between the stick and the horsehair, which was slack enough so
that he could piay all four strings
at once, and away he went. He
looked like a portly Boy Scout
trying to light a fire under his
chin, and the crowd burst into
applause three times before the
song was over,
The two-hour show stopped
only for a short intermission,
during which Mr. Venuti talked
to his fans some more, The second half of the concert was devoted to a number of medleys,
the best of which was a George
Gershwin medley (including a
tantalizing snatch from " Rhapsody in Blue"). When his accompanists took solos Mr. Venuti
strummed his violin like a ukulele to help them along, and they
whipped the audience into a
frenzy the way I've never seen
any 82 year-old do before with a
rousing version of Ellington's
" Duke's Place." Mr. Venuti
waved to the audience but declined the hoots for an encore.
In researching Joe Venuti for
this review I discovered that
when you reach a certain age
people will believe anything you
tell them, At least that's the way
it seems with Mr. Venuti. In the
five biographies I came across
(including the life stories he gave
before and during the concerts),
the basic facts were all twisted
and contradictory. Was Joe Venuti born in 1894, 1903, or 19041
Was he born in Italy, on board a
ship en route to the United
States, in New Orleans, in Philadelphia, or in Detroit7 Did Mr.
Venuti's parents lock him in his
room and force him to play Italian folk music as a boy, or did
, the young Venuti take "sustenance and his future from the
jazz and blues in the air," as
some stories c1aim1 Was he playing jazz violin at 15 in Philadelphia, or was he a classical violinist in Detroit7 Ask Mr. Venuti
and he'll probably tell you another story.
I personally I=hoose to believe
what Mr: Venuti told mea.t the
concert on Saturday. But now
that I think about it, he didn't.
look 82 at all, arid he certainly
didn't sound like he was 82, He
has a home in Seattle he visits
every few months, So maybe I
can catch him someday and ask
him what's the deal. Is it 72, or
83, Mr. Venuti1 Is it New Orleans or Detroit, or what1 And
what do you mean when you
say Jean-Luc Ponty is . . , off
the track1
Arts and Entertainment
FILMS
ON CAMPUS
FrIday, July 30
QUACKSER FORTUNE HAS A
COUStN IN THE BRONX (1970, 90
min.) Quack~ (Gene Wilder) Is a
cute young Dubliner who shovels
horse manure off the streets for a
living. A cute American student
(Margot Kidder) can't resist taking
his ptcture Bnd having an affair
with him . When the city passes an
ordinance banishing horse-drawn
wagons, Quackser tries to liberate
his friends, now on their way to
glue and dogfood factories . He is
called Quackser because he Imitated ducks when he was a boy.
Cute. With : Charlie Chase in THE
CHASES OF DIMPLE STREET. LH
one, 7 p.m., 75 cents.
Friday, August 13
STEAMBOAT BtLL JR, (1927. 75
min,) While not Buster Keaton's
best work, this movie has great
moments. Keaton plays a wispy
son returning to his tough riverboat
captain father alter being ruined by
college. The cyclone sequence is
one of the highlights of cinema
comedy. and Keaton 's moves , as
always, are impeccable. Unfortunately this marks the third showing
of this film on campus In three
years - Keaton's other fine movies
need more exposure . Oh well.
Also : Laurel and Hardy in THEM
THAR HILLS (1934). LH one, 7
p.m., 75 cents.
Friday , August 6
LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948.
87 min .) Orson Welles wrote, produced, directed, and stars In this
bizarre melodrama about a roving
merchant seaman who gets Involved
In B triple-cross murder plot. The
visuals and soundtrack are olten
outstanding, particularly In the unforgettable shoot-out sequence In
an amusement park house of mirrors. With Everett Sloane and Rita
Hayworth . Also THE FATAL GLASS
OF BEER, a poor W.C. Fields
short. LH one, 7 p.m., 75 cents.
Friday, August 20
DUEL tN THE SUN (1946, 138
min.) King Vidor's trashy, raCist ,
sexist western. Some will find it
quite amusing. Jennifer Jones
plays Pearl Chavez, a "half-breed"
torn between the love of Lewt and
Jesse McCanles, played by Gregory
Peck and Joseph Cotten . With
Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Glsh , and
Butterfly McQueen. LH one, 7 p.m.,
75 cents.
IN OLYMPIA
MURDER BY DEATH Neil SImon's lowbrow script wastes good
talent. Truman Capote should stick
to gossip. State Theatre, 357-4010.
GUMBALL RALLY, a car movie.
Starts August 4. State Theatre.
OUTLAW JOSIE WALES, with
Clint EastWOOd, and MAGNUM
FORCE . Starts August 11 . State
Theatre.
BAMBI, Walt Disney's cartoon
claSSiC, and GUS, about a donkey .
Through August 2. Capitol Theatre,
357-7161 .
DUMBO, Walt Disney's cartoon
claSSic , and BLACK BEARD'S
GHOST , which shows how low· a
corporation can sink. Starts August
11, Capitol Theatre.
BAD NEWS BEARS Michael
Ritchie directed Talum O'Neal and
Walter Matthau in this Little
League comedy. If kids spouting
profanity Is your idea of daring
humor, this movie is for you. Olympic Theatre, 357·3422.
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, PART
TWO Yup, and "That's Entertainment, Part Three" is now being
planned . Starts August 11 (tentatively) . Olympic Theatre.
EAT MY DUST with Ron Howard .
Also : FURY ON WHEELS. Through
July 31 . Lacey Drive-in, 491 -3161 .
MUSIC
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, July 30
JOHN HENZlE, a slng\lr/gultarist, plays contemporary and folk
mUSiC, with Instrumentals In the
KotkeiB""shion. Also : KAREN ENG·
LAND AND MIKE BRISTOW play
bluegrass and country duets on
guitars and fiddle. Applelam Folk
Center, 220 East Union . Doors
open6 :15,lIrst. act starts 8:30, $1 .
Minors welcome.
Saturday, July 31
OPEN MIKE NIGHT An open
stage for perfonners of all kinds.
Applelam Folk Center. Doore open
8:15, first act atarts 8 :30. FREE .
IN SEATTLE
Friday, July 30
LILY TOMLIN , comedienne. In
concert. I know aha's not a musiCian, but aha doesn't fit Into any
other category. Paramount North_ t Theatre, 8,30 p.m.
Contributions to the Arts and Entertainment column are welcome.
Contact Features Editor, Cooper
Point Journal, CAB 306, or call 8666213.
RADIO
For complete schedules see the
KAOS-FM monthly program guide.
Saturday, July 31
THE ALL NtTE JAMM, with host
Carl Cook. Th is week : "Conch, " an
electronic jazz group , live from a
secret remote local ion somewhere
in Olympia. 10 p.m., KAOS· FM ,
89.3.
Monday, Augusl 2
THE SELDOM HEARD SHOW
with Harlan Zinck, featuring Big
Band 78's, recorded concerts, and
trivial facts. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
. THE DANA HOLM HOWARD
SHOW A talk with Chris Howard,
an aide to Oregon Congressman
Robert Duncan . 1 to 2 p.m.
TOUT VA BIEN with Jananne
Gaver. French music, talk, poetry ,
and so on . This week : French
classical music , fro m Couperi n 10
Ravel. 2 to 4 p.m.
LISTENER FORUM A live meeting focusing on the queslion of
whether KAOS-FM should accept
commercial underwriting for certain
programm ing or not . "Shou ld we?
ShOUldn't we? If we should , how
much?" The meeting is open to all
listeners . CAB 110 at 7 p.m., or
call 866-5267 and speak over thl)
air.
Thu rsday, August 5 through
Sunday, August 8
THURSTON COUNTY FAIR KAOS
wit I cover the events Iive from the
fairgrounds In Lacey. 10 a.m. to 10
p.m., dally.
Saturday, August 7
THE ALL NITE JAMM Host Carl
Cook presents Olympia's new Latin
jazz band, Obrador. 10 p.m.
Wednesday, August 11
ELEVATOR MUSIC Jananne Gaver presents Women In Jazz : Carla
Bley, Mary Lou Williams, Alice Col·
trane, etc, 12 midnight
... 10 when·
ever.
Friday, August 13
BLUES IN THE NIGHT Toni Holm
presents the music of Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland . 10 p.m. to
midnlQht .
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LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Tuesday, August 3
LOWELL KUEHN speaks on sociology. LH four, 11 : 30 a.m.
Thursday , August 5
'PAT LARSEN and SANDY NISBET' speak on drama. LH four ,
11 :3Oa.m.
Tuesday, August 10
AL WIEDEMANN speaks on plant
ecology, LH four, 11 :30 a.m.
Thursday, August 12
PETE SINCLAIR speaks on literature. LH four, 11 :30 a .m.
Friday. August 13 - Sunday , August 15
STATE N.O.W. CONVENTION
The N.O.W. (National Organization
of Women, convention is open 10
atl women . Workshops are scheduled on Abortion, Massage , Selfhealth , Women and Insurance, Assertiveness- Train ing , Women In
History, Feminist Counseling, Organizing Techniques. Lesb ianism ,
Dance , Consciousness-Raising ,
Women's Sexuality , Washington 's
Comparable Worlh Study , The
Equal Rights Amendmenl , Whal
N.0W .'s All About, Sexual Violence. Displaced Homemakers ,
Chitdcare-Title XX, Older Women ,
Sexism in Education , How 10 Impact Legislation, Surv iva l Skills,
Women and Drugs, Litigation and
Legal 'Action , Fund-raising , Stress
Reduction, Newsletter Editors ,
Prost1tution, and more. Saturday
night entertainment with The CoRespondents. For further information, contact Conference Coordinator Cathy Cochran at 943-4592.
POETRY
Thursday, Aug~st 5
ERSKI,..E WHITE, an Evergreen
graduate, recites his wOrk . LH one,
8 p.m., 75 cents.
ART
ON CAMPUS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRICK
NAGATANI and CAPPY THOMPSON
STAINED GLASS Library Art Gal·
lery. August 9 through August 27.
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
FOR JIMMY CARTER , Almost · a
dozen clumsily-crafted non - pigmented rodents are featured In this
special exhibit In tribute to presidential candidate Jimmy Carter .
The furry figurines are fixed in posturea symbolic of Carter's personal
relationship with Jesus, and the
effect Is especially helghtened due
to the fact that many of I'MI lumpIer squirrels actually resemble the
presidential hopeful. Joe Bem is
Memorial GatiefY, open 24 hours.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Oh that magic feeling ... Nowhere to go
Reeye.ing the Beatle8
by Nathaniel Koch
T he re lease of Paul McCartney's solo
al bum McCart ney (April. 1970) more or
Ie,s si gnified the end of the Beatles. That
wa~ over six years ago. Stran~e1y enough ,
I he Fab Fo ur co ntinue to remain a promIn l'nt force in the music business . Within
I he last fo ur month s, the Beatles have
d,' mina ted the English charts with 23 old
~ in gles in t he Top 100 (" Yesterday " reac hing t he 'fop 10 ), have appeared on the
lu h ' 15 th cover o f Ro lling Stolle magazine
,ln d Capitol Records' repackaging of old
mate ri a l. Rc>c k '/1 ' Roll Mu sic, has shipped
"1I1 o ne million albums to wholesale / reI " il outlets. All this without the Beatles
h,l\'i ng to lift a fin ger.
l)ne mav well wonder why there is all
I hi~ re newed interes t in material as much
,l ' 12 ,'ea rs ol d . To dism iss it a ll as a mer,!1,.ndi sing ca mpa ign b y Capit ol Records
.:ld F '\ 11 I \\" ho now co ntro ls British right s
:. ' :Iw Beatie,' ca ta log ) wou ld be too
, :ll r k . U nch,ubled ly . the a..d diti o n o f
.. . 111\ ' 12 I,' 18 vea r olds w ho ;"'ere n' t old
," ,'u )!h II' r!' member the Bea tles' Ed Sull i:: ::;h,,\,' Jppe.HdnCe ( Fe b . 9 , "( 964 ), or
" ,;t, i n,/l.~ ,Yi8irr . o r eve n much abo ut
'. : ;'''''1 ','/". ha, ,ldded powerful muscl e
Ih',ll l"l11il n ia .
, !, I , h \ 1cGea n' opera tes T icket To
,i, 11,1. in O lvmpia and sell s U. S . a nd
: ' ,'1'1 ."('«'rd s tl' Bea l les colll'c to rs a nd
'. ' .li l ,"'er Ihe " ·,Hld. Fo r McGeary ,
. ,<'C ling h:" lurned from a hobby to an
:-::' l100 .1 vea r b U;,lness in just a sho rt
. :11 , . He ex pl ained . "" I dea l wit h peopl e
: : " ':~l
:1 ml" t be 10 al l the way to 35,
'.!l V\· I",,\.. li kE- . The more se ri ous co llec:''i', J r,' Ihe o lder " nes . O f cou rse, th e
\' , ' Un)!l' r ones a re rea ll y hea ding in to it
,l,·,'p. They 're Ihe ones do ing a ll the buy.")' . There's a new gene rat io n co min g a ll
'. iw : I m~ a nd eac h suc ceeding ge nerati o n is
\.! , '"1 ~ 10 brin g that many more bu yers,
l H ,IS each passi ng genera tion is go ing to
Jr<'p out. It' s just a beginnin g."
\ 1cGeary , al ong with Ted Knapp and
LnJ ia McNeal. p roduced the first West
C, 'J, t Bea tles C onventi o n in Seattle. It
ran to r two da ys (J uly 17th and 18th) and
w a' na med after a song from the Beatles'
Rc;',' !,'er a lbum . Here, There , and Everyw here-.
' We wanted to make it the biggest and
best Beatie Convention that ever happened ," McGea ry told me . To that end ,
alm ost 518,000 was spent on films , speakers. adve rtising, rent on Seattle Center's
No rth C ourt , buttons, T-shirts, bumper
s ticker s, and other items . McGeary,
Knapp, and McNeal expected attendance
to be anywhere from 1,000 to 3 ,000 fans .
Actual ticket sales fell well below that
goal. much of it having to do with the
525 two-day admission , which limited
,
sa les to primarily serious BeatIe collectors
a nd fans.
Aft er all , it was clear that the main
focus o f Here, ' There, and Everywhere
see med to be centered in the dealer's area.
Deal ers from all over the country set tIp
tables in ' the " Beatles Room ," the " Paul
McCartney Room, " the "John lennon
Roo m ," etc. This was the place where every thing wa s for sale. A devoted fan
could find such items as color slides from
Help! ($1.50 ea .), a Ringo Starr T-shirt,
Beatles lP's and 45's in every variety
from Israeli to Japanese imports, American releases, many bootlegs (i .e. LennonHendrix Dalltripper Jam), the rare Butcher
Cover for Yesterday and Today ($25+) ,
Beatles tennis shoes, Beatles movie posters, Beatles magazines, Beatles books, and
yes . . . even a model of the Yellow Submarine I Elvis Presley was represented at a
table where you could purchase pictures
of the King doing his act in Las Vegas.
The Brian Eps tein / Ma l Evans Memorial
Room featured displays of Beatie art and
memorabilia . These included rare releases ,
a few G o ld BeatIe records (awarded to
John Lennon ), old fan magazines, a few
autographs, and a cop.
.
If one was able to avoid the look-A like Contest, Beatles Disco, the Costume
Contest, the Auction, and many of the
bands playing Beatles material, the true
strengths of the Convention - speakers
and films - might have drawn more
people.
Richard Dilello worked at Apple, the
BeatIes' ill-fated ' business venture, from
1968 to 1970 and wrote a book about it.
It is called The Longest Cocktail Party,
His speaking style mixes a sharp wit with
sarcasm and sincerity. Speaking mainly
from notes, Dilello was full of short anecdotes about Apple and the BeatIes'
lives. At times he seemed a bit self-important, as when he called John Lennon's
\
"Cold Turkey" an "anguished anthem of
the suburbian rock star." But he was a refreshing change from the adolescent idol
worshiping going on in other rooms of
the convention .
The films were, by far, the most worthwhile aspect and definitely drew the wild~
est response . People were subject to breaking out in uncontrolled shouts . and ap. pIa use whenever the Beatles would appear
on screen together or finish a song, One
young man left the theater screaming
" Beatles Forever.l" The convention presented over 28 hours of film encompassing'
close to 50 titles. There were all the song
shorts (Penny lane, Hey Jude , Let It Be,
etc. ). movie promo and newsreel footage,
television specials, and most of the feature
films the Beatles starred in . I masochistically sat through an uninterrupted screening of A Hard Day 's Night , Help! , Magical M ystery To ur (twice), Yellow Submarin e and Let It Be before I crawled off
to sleep with a dull headache and swollen
eyes.
Wa s Here , Ther e, and Everywhere
worth the $25 two -day admission price ?
Depe nds how you look at it. As a trade
fa ir of dealers and collec tor / fans bent o n
d o ing some seri ous busin ess and having a
good time, the weekend w a s a qualified
success. But I th ink the co nvention had
th e p re te nsio n s of o ff e ri ng so mething
mo re .
Beca use the post-B eat les effort s (over
24 albums) of Lenno n, McCartney, Harrison and Sta rr were generally overlooked
(w ith th e possible exception of Paul McCa rtney who seem s to ha ve inherited
many old Beatles fan s. Recall George Harri son's statement. " If you want the Beatles
.. go see Wings."), the convention centered on the period from 1962 to 1970.
G iven the a ge of about 70 percent of the
ticket buyers (18 and younger). I think
the promoters had an opportunity to
present a dynamic retrospective of the
Beatles' careers. But the films and speakers fell far short of lending any substantial
histo rical perspective o n who the Beatles
were and how they changed the times.
Most were content to scan the dealers'
tables for rare items, have an autograph
signed by the Beatles' first manager, Alan
Williams (preferably on his book, The
Man Who Gave The Beatles Away), and
generally reminisce on what it must have
been like.
The Beatles left the world with some of
the most powerful Rock music ever written (some of it can be heard on reissues
like Capilol's Rock 'n ' Roll Music) and a '
legacy that captured the hearts of millions,
But by 1970, the demystifjcation of the
Beatles had begun . When John Lennon
sang "the dream is over. , ., " I doubt
many were listening.
Joe Venuti c, 1934 (inset photo as he appear,s today)
Joe VenutiJazz Violinist
Extraordinaire
I'
Cooperation Key to Security
by Fran Allen
Summertime is a prime time for many
recreational activities at Evergreen, in
addition to academic activities scheduled .
In the past efforts have been made to consciously solicit community involvement
fro m non-students of all ages (conferences, workshops, etc .). This type of exposure is beneficial for Evergreen, but it
can also be detrimental.
Once visitors realize the lack of a security guard at entrances, and that the layout
of the college's buildings is not prohibitive
to sneaking around without being caught,
some of those people decide to come to
TESC for other than recreational activities.
Among them , larceny, burglary , vandalism, disorderly conduct. and trespassing. There are no exact statistics on who
the worst offenders are, but Mack Smith
says they are predominantly youths between the . ages of 16 and 20 years and
they are not · only Olympia residents but
often come from outlying ·areas .
During the month of January, 1976, for
example , there were reports of 4 cases of
~rand larceny, 13 cases of petty larceny, 4
cases of burglary, 1 case of vandalism , 5
reports of suspicious persons on campus,
S cases of disorderly conduct, 83 cases of
I,'st i found property, 32 parking violati,ms , 13 violations of ~he pet policy
(m,'stly by students), and 9 building
.11.Hms . (In addition, there were 123
requests for personal assistance ' - unlocks, jumps for dead batteries, etc.)
Along with other miscellaneous reports,
there were a total of 359 reports filed in
Security that month .
Security handles these cases in different
ways , Attempts are made to keep suspicious vehicles off cal"Pus, and reports of
suspicious persons are followed up by Security making contact with those persons
when possible to determine why they are
on campus. A case report is filed on each
report and sometimes the same person or
group will return again to try something
and students will report seeing suspicious
vehicles or people and a pattern may develop which enables the Security staff to
apprehend the culprit(s).
It is very due that a person(s) will be
caught in the act, it is just not possible to
watch every building and parking lot all
the time. Also , the proximity of the parking lots to the buildings and the trees between them make it difficult to ' effectively '
keep people from vandalizing parked cars
and/or siphoning gasoline,
The Security staff patrols the lots and
grounds regularly and the students who
work evenings and weekends (work-study
positions) also patrol both on foot and in
a vehicle. Because of these students, who
work part-time for Security, Mack Smith
sa'y s the effectiveness of the Security office
is enhanced, He feels these students are
able to communicate with a larger sector
of the TESC community and have a good
understanding of the people who attend
and how to de,,1 with problems that come
up. Smith says they have done a consistently excellent job ' in the past and have
been a great asset.
All of this is to say - Evergreen is a
sitting geoduck. Security does the best job
under the circumstances, but it is vital
that members of the Evergreen Commun ity make the effort to cooperate with Security and also take some initiative to insure . that instances described above are
kept at a minimum .
Here are some suggestions :
l. If at all possible, don't leave your car
in a lot overnight (unless you live on
campus).
2, Lock your car, don't leave valuable
items in view , get a lock for your gas
cap.
3 , Staff and faculty should not leave an
office unlocked and unattended at the
same time . If you have to leave, lock
your door (just don't leave your keys
inside) .
4, Students, ~aff and faculty shouldn't
leave purSes, backpacks, cameras,
briefcases, etc. lying around unattended, Keep them out of sight or on
your person,
5 , Report suspicious persons or occurrences. Vehicles cruising the lots, unknown persons walking around,
groups of obviously young people
roaming around without supervision,
etc , Let Security know when these
things happen "
6. Women - don' t walk around alone
at night on or near campus. Rapes
and rape attempts are too common.
Security will provide escort when
possible from and to the campus core
area from the dorms and the mods,
Just give them a call.
7. Try not to hitchhike with people you
don't know. Women should help each
other out and pick each other up,
8 . When using the recreational facilities,
don't leave lockers unlocked, Be sure
to keep valuables well concealed if
you can't lock them up, Ask the attendant to watch something for you
if you don't want to leave it unattended . (There was a racket going
spring quarter and many men lost
wallets because of leaving lockers unlocked. )
The Security office is open 24 hours a
day . Th,e phone number is 866-6140 (if
there is no answer call the Fire Station
business phone - 866-6348 - and they
can page the person on duty). For emergency assistance, the Fire Station phone is
866-3333 .
Mack Smith, Ann Brown, Gary Russell,
Clayton Sturgis, Ron McNeil. Keith Palo,
Don Davis and Gary Olive are all there
to help you. Mack told me that this summer is the quietest . he has seen in a long
. time, Hopefully, with your cooperation,
this can continue,
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by Matt Groening
Things can get pretty embarrassing when stars get old. Great
performances captured on recordings or in films remain vivid,
but when the decaying skeletons
of former biggies wobble on
stage for yet another twirl under
the spotlight, we can only sway
from side to side and moan, "It
can't bel" How could Mary Pickford, Frank ' Sinatra, Mae West,
Jimmy Durante, Groucho Marx,
Red Skelton, Marlon Brando,
Danny Thomas, Elvis Presley,
Jackie Gleason, Ginger Rogers,
Fred Astaire, Bob Hope and
countless others do this to us 1
Couldn't they watch their old reruns and play their old records
along with the rest of us1 Why
did they have to remind us of
the meaninglessness of our impending deaths 1 It's so depressing.
Which brings me to the peculiar case of Joe Venuti. Mr. Venuti is considered by many the
first and best jazz fiddler, a man
whose popularity was at its
height in the late 1920's and
early 1930's, when he played
with the extraordinary jazz guitarist Eddie Lang. During those
years Mr. Venuti played with
such popular musicians as the
Dorsey Brothers, Paul White man, Bing Crosby, the Boswell
Sisters, Frankie Trumbauer, and
Hoagy Carmichael ; all -dead, or
might as well be. Although he
has released some new work recently, the latest Joe Venuti record I've heard was recorded in
1933.
Mr. Venuti appeared at ,Reed
College in Portland last w~k as
part of the Chamber Music
Northwest Series, now in its
sixth season. On Thursday, July
22, at a performance I ·did not
see, he played "Jazz Improvisations on Well-Known Schubert
Songs." I was told it was an excellent performance, but I was
still skeptical. How coul~ the
Hot Jazz Fiddler of 1928 be even
lukewarm in 19761
I arrived at the Saturday night
concert a little early and found
Joe Venuti sitting in the sun on
.the veranda at the Reed College
Commons, taking questions from
a few fans who drifted in and
out of the building with beer and
cookies. He sure looked old, He
looked more like he was ready
for a strenuous game of checkers
than an evening of hot jazz violin ,
"You call it jazz," Mr, Venu.ti
said. "I don't. I call it improvisational music ,"
"I see what you mean," a fan
replied ,
Somebody asked Mr, Venuti if
he still liked to playas much
after all these years. He looked a
little offended,
''I'm dedicated to it," he said.
" It's my whole life ' _' , And you
have to work hard and fast, all
the time. First you turn 20, then
30, then 40, then 50, and you've
had it. It's all over."
"How old are you1'"
"82. "
" But you're still - "
''I've gone beyond it. "
I told Mr , Venuti I had his
,"Stringing the Blues" album.
"That's a bootlegl" he yelled.
" It is1 On Columbia1"
''rve been trying to sue them
for 35 years ."
"What happened1"
"The judges keep delaying the
case."
I asked Mr. Venuti what he' d
been doing lately, and he said
he'd been touring. "I've been
home three weeks in the last two
years ," He also recorded a number of albums in Europe, the latest of which is, "Joe Venuti and
Zoot Sims," Mr. Venuti was
most enthusiastic about his Jazz
Violin Concerto, which he videotaped last 11l0nth with Arthur
Fiedler and the Boston Pops for
broadcast in the fall.
"What do you think of JeanLuc Ponty1" a fan asked.
"John11 know him. Sometimes
he . , , gets off the track ,"
"You mean too much electronics1"
It was time for the concert to
begin, Series conductor Sergiu
Luca introduced Joe Venuti as
the second violinist for the Detroit . Symphony in 1917 who
heard some jazz coming out of a
cafe and dropped the classical
music to make more money and
have more fun.
Then Mr. Venuti took the
stage to warm applause , He
opened with a long rocking · solo
which became "Sweet Georgia
Brown," then turned into the
Bea ties ' " Yesterday," accompanied by Portland musicians
Mary Field on piano, Dave Friesen on bass, and Dave Colman,
Jr. on drums , You'd think that
nothing could be done with such
cornball tunes, but by improvising on every turn of melodic
phrase, and playing them with
an octogenarian grin on his face,
the songs were delightful. The
audience a.te it up .
Next he performed "Autumn
Leaves" ("we're going to perform
the 1929 recording")' which
faded into what I believe was
one of Brahms' Hungarian
Dances. At this point he did the
trick he is famous for, a trick
that no other violinist can duplicate. He loosened the bow so he
could place the neck of the violin
between the stick and the horsehair, which was slack enough so
that he could piay all four strings
at once, and away he went. He
looked like a portly Boy Scout
trying to light a fire under his
chin, and the crowd burst into
applause three times before the
song was over,
The two-hour show stopped
only for a short intermission,
during which Mr. Venuti talked
to his fans some more, The second half of the concert was devoted to a number of medleys,
the best of which was a George
Gershwin medley (including a
tantalizing snatch from " Rhapsody in Blue"). When his accompanists took solos Mr. Venuti
strummed his violin like a ukulele to help them along, and they
whipped the audience into a
frenzy the way I've never seen
any 82 year-old do before with a
rousing version of Ellington's
" Duke's Place." Mr. Venuti
waved to the audience but declined the hoots for an encore.
In researching Joe Venuti for
this review I discovered that
when you reach a certain age
people will believe anything you
tell them, At least that's the way
it seems with Mr. Venuti. In the
five biographies I came across
(including the life stories he gave
before and during the concerts),
the basic facts were all twisted
and contradictory. Was Joe Venuti born in 1894, 1903, or 19041
Was he born in Italy, on board a
ship en route to the United
States, in New Orleans, in Philadelphia, or in Detroit7 Did Mr.
Venuti's parents lock him in his
room and force him to play Italian folk music as a boy, or did
, the young Venuti take "sustenance and his future from the
jazz and blues in the air," as
some stories c1aim1 Was he playing jazz violin at 15 in Philadelphia, or was he a classical violinist in Detroit7 Ask Mr. Venuti
and he'll probably tell you another story.
I personally I=hoose to believe
what Mr: Venuti told mea.t the
concert on Saturday. But now
that I think about it, he didn't.
look 82 at all, arid he certainly
didn't sound like he was 82, He
has a home in Seattle he visits
every few months, So maybe I
can catch him someday and ask
him what's the deal. Is it 72, or
83, Mr. Venuti1 Is it New Orleans or Detroit, or what1 And
what do you mean when you
say Jean-Luc Ponty is . . , off
the track1
Arts and Entertainment
FILMS
ON CAMPUS
FrIday, July 30
QUACKSER FORTUNE HAS A
COUStN IN THE BRONX (1970, 90
min.) Quack~ (Gene Wilder) Is a
cute young Dubliner who shovels
horse manure off the streets for a
living. A cute American student
(Margot Kidder) can't resist taking
his ptcture Bnd having an affair
with him . When the city passes an
ordinance banishing horse-drawn
wagons, Quackser tries to liberate
his friends, now on their way to
glue and dogfood factories . He is
called Quackser because he Imitated ducks when he was a boy.
Cute. With : Charlie Chase in THE
CHASES OF DIMPLE STREET. LH
one, 7 p.m., 75 cents.
Friday, August 13
STEAMBOAT BtLL JR, (1927. 75
min,) While not Buster Keaton's
best work, this movie has great
moments. Keaton plays a wispy
son returning to his tough riverboat
captain father alter being ruined by
college. The cyclone sequence is
one of the highlights of cinema
comedy. and Keaton 's moves , as
always, are impeccable. Unfortunately this marks the third showing
of this film on campus In three
years - Keaton's other fine movies
need more exposure . Oh well.
Also : Laurel and Hardy in THEM
THAR HILLS (1934). LH one, 7
p.m., 75 cents.
Friday , August 6
LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948.
87 min .) Orson Welles wrote, produced, directed, and stars In this
bizarre melodrama about a roving
merchant seaman who gets Involved
In B triple-cross murder plot. The
visuals and soundtrack are olten
outstanding, particularly In the unforgettable shoot-out sequence In
an amusement park house of mirrors. With Everett Sloane and Rita
Hayworth . Also THE FATAL GLASS
OF BEER, a poor W.C. Fields
short. LH one, 7 p.m., 75 cents.
Friday, August 20
DUEL tN THE SUN (1946, 138
min.) King Vidor's trashy, raCist ,
sexist western. Some will find it
quite amusing. Jennifer Jones
plays Pearl Chavez, a "half-breed"
torn between the love of Lewt and
Jesse McCanles, played by Gregory
Peck and Joseph Cotten . With
Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Glsh , and
Butterfly McQueen. LH one, 7 p.m.,
75 cents.
IN OLYMPIA
MURDER BY DEATH Neil SImon's lowbrow script wastes good
talent. Truman Capote should stick
to gossip. State Theatre, 357-4010.
GUMBALL RALLY, a car movie.
Starts August 4. State Theatre.
OUTLAW JOSIE WALES, with
Clint EastWOOd, and MAGNUM
FORCE . Starts August 11 . State
Theatre.
BAMBI, Walt Disney's cartoon
claSSiC, and GUS, about a donkey .
Through August 2. Capitol Theatre,
357-7161 .
DUMBO, Walt Disney's cartoon
claSSic , and BLACK BEARD'S
GHOST , which shows how low· a
corporation can sink. Starts August
11, Capitol Theatre.
BAD NEWS BEARS Michael
Ritchie directed Talum O'Neal and
Walter Matthau in this Little
League comedy. If kids spouting
profanity Is your idea of daring
humor, this movie is for you. Olympic Theatre, 357·3422.
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, PART
TWO Yup, and "That's Entertainment, Part Three" is now being
planned . Starts August 11 (tentatively) . Olympic Theatre.
EAT MY DUST with Ron Howard .
Also : FURY ON WHEELS. Through
July 31 . Lacey Drive-in, 491 -3161 .
MUSIC
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, July 30
JOHN HENZlE, a slng\lr/gultarist, plays contemporary and folk
mUSiC, with Instrumentals In the
KotkeiB""shion. Also : KAREN ENG·
LAND AND MIKE BRISTOW play
bluegrass and country duets on
guitars and fiddle. Applelam Folk
Center, 220 East Union . Doors
open6 :15,lIrst. act starts 8:30, $1 .
Minors welcome.
Saturday, July 31
OPEN MIKE NIGHT An open
stage for perfonners of all kinds.
Applelam Folk Center. Doore open
8:15, first act atarts 8 :30. FREE .
IN SEATTLE
Friday, July 30
LILY TOMLIN , comedienne. In
concert. I know aha's not a musiCian, but aha doesn't fit Into any
other category. Paramount North_ t Theatre, 8,30 p.m.
Contributions to the Arts and Entertainment column are welcome.
Contact Features Editor, Cooper
Point Journal, CAB 306, or call 8666213.
RADIO
For complete schedules see the
KAOS-FM monthly program guide.
Saturday, July 31
THE ALL NtTE JAMM, with host
Carl Cook. Th is week : "Conch, " an
electronic jazz group , live from a
secret remote local ion somewhere
in Olympia. 10 p.m., KAOS· FM ,
89.3.
Monday, Augusl 2
THE SELDOM HEARD SHOW
with Harlan Zinck, featuring Big
Band 78's, recorded concerts, and
trivial facts. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
. THE DANA HOLM HOWARD
SHOW A talk with Chris Howard,
an aide to Oregon Congressman
Robert Duncan . 1 to 2 p.m.
TOUT VA BIEN with Jananne
Gaver. French music, talk, poetry ,
and so on . This week : French
classical music , fro m Couperi n 10
Ravel. 2 to 4 p.m.
LISTENER FORUM A live meeting focusing on the queslion of
whether KAOS-FM should accept
commercial underwriting for certain
programm ing or not . "Shou ld we?
ShOUldn't we? If we should , how
much?" The meeting is open to all
listeners . CAB 110 at 7 p.m., or
call 866-5267 and speak over thl)
air.
Thu rsday, August 5 through
Sunday, August 8
THURSTON COUNTY FAIR KAOS
wit I cover the events Iive from the
fairgrounds In Lacey. 10 a.m. to 10
p.m., dally.
Saturday, August 7
THE ALL NITE JAMM Host Carl
Cook presents Olympia's new Latin
jazz band, Obrador. 10 p.m.
Wednesday, August 11
ELEVATOR MUSIC Jananne Gaver presents Women In Jazz : Carla
Bley, Mary Lou Williams, Alice Col·
trane, etc, 12 midnight
... 10 when·
ever.
Friday, August 13
BLUES IN THE NIGHT Toni Holm
presents the music of Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland . 10 p.m. to
midnlQht .
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LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Tuesday, August 3
LOWELL KUEHN speaks on sociology. LH four, 11 : 30 a.m.
Thursday , August 5
'PAT LARSEN and SANDY NISBET' speak on drama. LH four ,
11 :3Oa.m.
Tuesday, August 10
AL WIEDEMANN speaks on plant
ecology, LH four, 11 :30 a.m.
Thursday, August 12
PETE SINCLAIR speaks on literature. LH four, 11 :30 a .m.
Friday. August 13 - Sunday , August 15
STATE N.O.W. CONVENTION
The N.O.W. (National Organization
of Women, convention is open 10
atl women . Workshops are scheduled on Abortion, Massage , Selfhealth , Women and Insurance, Assertiveness- Train ing , Women In
History, Feminist Counseling, Organizing Techniques. Lesb ianism ,
Dance , Consciousness-Raising ,
Women's Sexuality , Washington 's
Comparable Worlh Study , The
Equal Rights Amendmenl , Whal
N.0W .'s All About, Sexual Violence. Displaced Homemakers ,
Chitdcare-Title XX, Older Women ,
Sexism in Education , How 10 Impact Legislation, Surv iva l Skills,
Women and Drugs, Litigation and
Legal 'Action , Fund-raising , Stress
Reduction, Newsletter Editors ,
Prost1tution, and more. Saturday
night entertainment with The CoRespondents. For further information, contact Conference Coordinator Cathy Cochran at 943-4592.
POETRY
Thursday, Aug~st 5
ERSKI,..E WHITE, an Evergreen
graduate, recites his wOrk . LH one,
8 p.m., 75 cents.
ART
ON CAMPUS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRICK
NAGATANI and CAPPY THOMPSON
STAINED GLASS Library Art Gal·
lery. August 9 through August 27.
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
FOR JIMMY CARTER , Almost · a
dozen clumsily-crafted non - pigmented rodents are featured In this
special exhibit In tribute to presidential candidate Jimmy Carter .
The furry figurines are fixed in posturea symbolic of Carter's personal
relationship with Jesus, and the
effect Is especially helghtened due
to the fact that many of I'MI lumpIer squirrels actually resemble the
presidential hopeful. Joe Bem is
Memorial GatiefY, open 24 hours.
McCann Proposes Personnel, Affirmative Action Merger
I'rt's id r nl C ha rles McCann has
l' r"p'''L'd a new administrative
1"",linn that would combine the
,Iut it's ,)t per5C'nnel director and
,IIlirmati vt' aClion offic t' r.
T he prl'posal came after the
Il', igna li"n 0 1 Direcl o r ot Per,,' nn el Au~ili a ry Services John
\ 1" 55 ",h,) left Everl, reen t,)
direct busint'ss and finance for
Communit y College District #5,
Moss' appo intment to the Director of Personnel in 1974 was
the cause of a lengthy campus
controversy in which the college
wa s accused by members of the
Evergreen commun it y of violating affirmative action policies,
Although a campus hearing
board ruled against the Moss appoint ment the Board of Trustees
upheld it.
McCann also proposed that
the job title" Auxiliary Services"
be eliminated and the various
functions under that job - food
services, housing, bookstore and
conferences - be divided be-
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In a letter to the Board of
Trustees McCann said, "I propose two steps, the net effect of
each being a reduction in administrative costs."
McCann said in his letter that
in a college the size of Evergreen
a director of personnel and an
affirmative action officer each
work "about half-time" if the
work load is averaged over a
year,
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and the Manager of the Bookstore.
At the July 20 meeting of the
Board of Trustees the proposal
wi ll be presented and discussed,
Crit icism of the proposal is expected,
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McCann said there are two other
reasons the combination makes
sense , He said, "Both functions
require a person skilled in personnel work and the affirmative
action part of the position would
assure profound concern at the
fountainhead where most of our
hiring will be done,"
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President McCann's proposal to merge
the offices of affirma ti ve action and personnel was criticized at 'the July 20 meeting of the Board of Trustees as being
"grossly manipulative" and like "putting a
pimp over the head of the anti-prostitution bureau."
McCann had explained in a memo to
the trustees that he fe lt the affirmative action position a'nd the director of personnel
were each half -time jobs and that if combined they would "assure profound concern at the founta inhead where most of
our hiring w ill be done ," McCann emphasized that the merger would result in a reduction in administrative costs .
However, several people at the board
meeting voiced concern that the merger
wou ld lead to a conflict of interest.
Third World Coalition Director Stone
Thomas said , "We see the combination
. .. as being one of conflict. It's like try ing to stop prostitution and pu tting a
pimp over the head of the anti - prostitu tion bureau ."
Faculty Member Tom Ra iney described
the merger as "the fox with the henhouse."
Representing the 48 members of Evergreen's faculty union. Rainey said problems would occur when a person had an
affirmative action comp laint against the
personnel office and had only the
personnel ! affirmative action officer to
complain to,
Hap Freund, a faculty member, criticized McCann's statemen t that the posi tions were half-time jobs , calling._ it
"grossly manipulative" and not based "on
any rendition of facts ."
Freund caused a stir of applause and
cheers from the observers when he said ,
"I can't say that Evergreen is the most
racist or sexist place, but I'll tell you on e
thing - it s ure as hell is the most hypo cr itical. "
Rela ting th e proposal to past moves by
the administration , Stone Th o ma s cited
the development' of the Dean of St,udent
Services and the realignmen t of the dean ery as "in:;titutional racism and sexi sm ,"
He said the net effect has been that Third
World peo ple have not moved up in Evergreen' s system, Thomas called Ihe proposal "another sham and slam as it relates
to the development of parity a nd equality
for all peop le" at Evergreen .
Dean Willi Parson expressed surprise
that McCann had proposed the merger,
saying, "There should be conflict between
those two offices and I don't think you 'll
have that conflict with one person [ trying
to be J two."
In addition to criticism concerning conflict of interest , it was ' twice expressed
that the merger was a move against Affirmative Action Officer Rindetta Jones,
A letter addressed to Mrs. Neal Tourte-
lotte, the chair of the boa rd , and signed
by 23 staff from the Librar y. sa id th a t the
pro posal was a "vo te of no co nfidence in
the Affirmative Action offi ce," and th at
because they co uld no t support it Ih ey
had "cast [the ir 1 vote of no cu nf idence in
the proposed reo rga ni za tion ,"
Eve rgreen gra du ate Erni e Fi elds sa id Ihe
pro posa l was an att emp t to "e1imi na le
Rind etta Jones "
Board mem ber Th omas D ixo n, di rector
of the Tacom a Urban League , moved thai
t he item be re muv ed fr om th e age nda 111
light of the co m men ts from the floor
Howeve r, hi s mo tion d id not rece ive a
seco nd and the boa rd went inlo execut ive
sessio n o n t he matt er,
After the sess io n McCa nn a nno un ced
he wa s remov ing th e it em f ro m the
agenda say ing, "Th e quest ions tha i hav e
been brou ght up tod ay,
we need <;o me
further infurmati on o n ."
In a later interview he said , 'T m convinced we can carry ou t o ur po licy to pu l
as much of the money we ge l as is possible into instruction and I'm go ing tu just
keep looking for wa ys to cut administr ation, "
Contact w ill be made with o th er public
colleges Evergreen 's size and larger to o b tain information about their handlin g of
the two positions. The result s of t hat
study should be ready in early fall.
The Evergreen State College . Olympia,Washington 98505
THE COOPER POINT
RNAL
Volume IV Number 34
July 29, 1976
College Attempts to Make
Good on Original Faculty Offers
by Jill Stewart
Matthew Halfant and his wife, Deborah Matlack , say they are "very optimistic" they will be re-offered the original
three year facu lty contract the college
pulled out of in June.
In a turnabout decision at the July 20
Board of Trustees meeting, President
Charles McCann and Vice President and
Provost Ed Kormondy agreed to offer the
faculty one year visiting contracts with
the intention of changing the offers to
three year contracts if the enrollment picture begins to look better.
Halfant (mathematics, computer), Josie
Mumaw (mathematics). and Maggie Hunt
(dance), were verbally offered faculty positions in April, 1976 but were told June
16 that Evergreen was unable to honor
those offers.
However, Halfant had already given up
the lease on his apartment and turned
down job offers that were no longer avail able so he moved with his family to
Oly~pia, hoping to "work something
r
out. "
Charles Pail thorp, chairman of the faculty hiring DTF, appealed to the trustees
to overturn Ed Kormondy's decision not
to hire the three . Kormondy made the de cision after the fall enrollment picture
made it clear there would be less money
than planned to hire faculty .
Pail thorp said, "The impact of this
highly unprofessional conduct is already
being felt . Our reputation is being dam aged , at this point chiefly by word-ofmouth."
Pailthorp told the board the couple
experie nced "mental and emotional ha~d
ship" after being told 30 hours before
their planned departure to Washington
that Halfant would not be hired.
In an emotional appeal to Kormondy,
Deborah Matlack said, " Why did you
wait until April to look at your fall enrollment? Why didn't you tell us until
June? That should not have happened and '
that is nothing more than incompetence."
Several members of the Board of Trustees expressed their concern that "imme-
diate and strong action" be taken to rem edy the situation , Although there was
some question as to whether or not the
Maraire appeals to Trustees
Hearing Board
Upholds Termination
Faculty member Dumi Maraire has appealed to the Board of Trustees last week's
decision by the Campus Hearing Board to
terminate his teaching position at the college. The hearing board upheld Vice President and Provost Ed Kormondy's deci sion to fire Maraire on grounds of "violation of the social contract."
The board also ruled on July 13 that
Maraire was not denied due process or
prevented from confronting his accusers
prior to his termination on April 30, 1976,
and that the termination was "not arbi -
trary o'r capricious. "
Maraire was terminated because of alleged sexual misconduct with Evergreen
students Mia Jacobsen and Fran Allen .
He was informed of the Campus Hearing Board decision by registered mail July
14.
Maraire had been ordered by Federal
Judge Donald Voorhees on June 25 to ex haust all institutional means of appeal before taking the case to an outside court.
In Maraire's appeal to the Board of
Trustees, his lawyer, Jackie Ashurst, said,
"The decision of the campus hearing
board is in violation of state and federal
constitutional provisions . It is in excess of
the statutory authority or jurisdiction of
the institution . It was made upon an un lawful procedure . It is affected by other
errors of law . It is clearly erroneous in
view of the entire record . It is arbitrary
and capricious."
President McCann's secretar y , Rita
Grace, said that McCa nn will communicate with the Board of Trustees "the latter part of this week" to decide what pro cedures to follow in response to the
appeal.
college had legall y hired Halfant a nd
the other tw o, board member Th omas
Di xon seemed to re present th e feelings o f
the board , saying. "Legall y or not. I Ihin k
we hired the ma n. "
The three fa culty hopefuls received of ficial offers fo r o ne year posit io ns las l
week .
Although Matthew Halfant ex pl a ined to
the boa rd that he did not apply fo r a ny
one or two year positi o ns while lo oking
for a job because he wa nted "permanancy, " he said he will accept the college's
new offer of a one year positi o n. "Of
course I'jl accept it," he said , ''I'm eco nomically forced to accepl it. But we
want a three year cont ract, as originall y
offered, "
Halfant and Ma tlack said they were
feeling "much more positive" about th e
college's attempt to amend the situation
and said they were "confident the three
year contracts would come through. "
Halfant's reservation was with the co ntract letter. He said the letter fro m Ko r mondy cites the poliCies in the Faculty
Handbook as part of a fa culty's responsibility . But Halfant said, "Those policies
are constantly changing a nd most of the
Handbooks are out of date ." Ha lfa nt sa id
he didn 't like the idea of signing h is na me
to a document that "was always cha nging. "
Josie Mumaw , wh o wa s told of the new
offer last Thursday, said she ha d " made
no decision one way o r th e other" to accept the one year contrac t offered. She
said , "They did not offer me wha t was
originally offered, so now it's a matter of
who can push harder."
President Charles McCann says Eve r green should not have a ny mo re pro bl ems
of this nature in the future . He said th a t
hiring procedures "have not bee n as care·
full y laid out as they should be in orde r
to prevent this kind of occurrence" and
tha t he had turned the responsibilit y " I
impro ving hiring procedures over to EJ
Ko rmo ndy.
Of the prese nt probl em McCa nn ,ay,.
" II was just a fou l-up ,"
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