The Cooper Point Journal Volume 4, Number 35 (August 12, 1976)

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Title: Eng The Cooper Point Journal Volume 4, Number 35 (August 12, 1976)
Date: 12 August 1976
Evergreen Subject: Student Organizing and Activism; Curriculum; Media Studies/Arts; Environmental Studies
Description: Eng Evergreeners"In Search of the Impossible"; Enrollment Could "Go Either Way"; "Herstory" a Success; NOW Convention: The Future is Female; Sex., Pinball., and Free Will; Middle Earth Mercantile - Utilitarian' Utensils; MOO is OM Spelled Backwards; "Freeky" Beardsley Tells All; L.A. Rocks the Kingdome;
Creator: Eng Rabow, Steve; Eng Stewart, Jill; Eng Effex, Plex; Eng Olive, Gary; Eng Hurley, Judith; Eng Larkins, Jerry; Eng Groening, Matt; Eng Imfeld,Teresa; Eng Jacobs, Karrie; Eng Pegues, Cheryl; Eng Solomon, Sam; Eng Foster, Frankie; Eng Shore, Stan; Eng Koch, Nathaniel
Contributor: Eng Stewart,Jill; Eng Groening, Matt; Eng Solomon, Sam; Eng Allen, Fran; Eng Koch, Nathaniel; Eng Locke, Ti; Eng Gilbreath, Ford; Eng Shlim, Larry; Eng Judd, David; Eng Sutherland, Brock
Subject: Eng Pinball; Eng Womens Equality; Eng The Evergreen State College Enrollment; Eng Beardsley, Michael F.; Eng The Evergreen State College
Rights: In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Language: Eng eng
Place: Eng Washington State; Eng Olympia WA; Eng Thurston County, WA
Publisher: Eng The Evergreen State College Board of Publications and members of the Evergreen community
Extent: Eng 8 pages
Temporal Coverage: Eng 1976
extracted text: Some programs full

Evergreeners"In Search of the Impossible"

Clellna Burmer exami'les a cell from a foreskin,
Se Cl'nd t o the r igh t. and
, tra ight l' n ti ll mornin g,' T ha t,
I'<' tl'r h~d told We ndy , was the
', , '.1\' Ie' the Neve rl and; but even
"i nl, c.1rrving maps a nd con ,,, lt J:l f: them at windy co rners,
l ,' uld ne' t ha ve sight ed it w ith
I l-: l'~t' i n ... t ruct iuns, "

- trp m Peter alld W elldy
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bv Steve Rabow
III 131- (ca nllS ti, e discovery
"f ,I ,(' II )' t" )J rodll(e go ld f roHi
,'th er "Ielllcilts (tra ll sm lltatio n).
f'o )Je 101" 1 XX/l de clared a ball
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" ,) ' " il, SIIP I"'eSSen a f ie ld of
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Ti, e ,lre'WI of trall smlltatioll
i", d slI r,'i,'"d till' con qu es ts of
ti le C rec!"> ul/d Arab Ilat io ll s.
Lrvst ll li : ut illli 0.1 tlillt dre am
IIll' allt 1I1/ IIII/ ited "iel,es for the
',' rtllllatc dis(,ll' erer , W ith su ch
" history !>elrll/d it , th e ( 011tilllla I iO Il 0 1 til t' SL'a r c/l w as illevitab le
c,'ell tl lo L/gll tir e searchers
:c,' r(, fo rced " l/dergrOlwd .
C ' r ,lt tlril/k ers ti, e li ke s of
I;, w ,' Ne,l'!o l/ alld Robert Doyle
,1,' I,'en II I ti" , search fo r the tral1 S,,,"t ill g prC' pe rti es . Of co urse
ti ,e\! lIe ,'cr did filld exactly w /Jat
tlrC!! ;,'ere loo king fo r, and Dal t.lI l 1 utollli c theory of 1808 0/11.'1
Ill ude prospects worse for th ose
,till hopef,,/. bL/t w hat we today
",,11 ,J,PllIistry is the outco me of
tl Jat ex plo ration .
Some of tllose who were dissutisficd in searching for go ld
h"ld th e belief that a tra nsmuted
subs tall ce migh t ha ve life-giv ing,
l ure- all properties w hen ingested
/JY man , A )Jarallel goa l was thus
, et fo r th e "elix ir of li fe ," th e end

p "(ld'lct tJrot1 l isi .lg an ilJl1l1 or t a l it." t"tally free of disease, W e are

all too fali liliar w ith the m ode m
descelldanis of th ose early eli.J.: irs.
YOII might think the ollly tall;:
o f illl lll ortalit y th ese da ys is to
lIe {o lllld w ith re ligious ove rtOil es o r ill ch ildren's stories,
"'l' st lIo tab ly tl1l' "folllltain of
y"llt l, . " A s e.J.:pected , most chil rlre" gl'OlV 11/-1 sharillg so me form
o f el"pathy fo r that search fo r
tl/[, i",p oss ibl e foulltaill. But
e Il L) u~ h history and pro loglle.
TWl' Everg reen student s are
curre ntl y engaged in a search for
th e impossible.
C le nn a Burmer a nd Jay Jones
dttended a n introductory course
in aging a t U.S.c. : " It wa s there
th a.! we we re told th a t the cu re
tLI aging is expected within the
next 25 years." As G lenn a pro ceeded to inform me of her ba ckground in the study of aging I
ra ked ove r the fa ct that I have
never bef are co n sid e red th e
agin g process as something that
nee d ed to be cu red . j ay res p(1ncied to m y pu zz lem e nt.
"Aging a nd death are looked
upon as natura\, the eve ntual
ou tco me of !ife," he sa id . "We
don't accept th a t ou tl oo k o r take
fo r gra nt ed that age is no t a disease in it self ,"
"Yo u wi ll find tha t most d iseases as we know them a re agerela ted, " G lenn a added . " If the
o nl y death s were accident a l the
ave rage huma n lifespan would
be so mewhere aro und 800 years ."
W ha t of the soc ia l and moral
im p li ca ti ons of such a possibilit y? " If I didn 't fi rmly believe
tha t the cure to aging would
have a fa nt as tica lly positive effect on the huma n race I would
not be do ing what I'm doing
now," G lenna sai d. "for exa mpl e, instead of having 20 - 25
yea rs to make mistakes and find

plac<' in society , indi vidu a ls
lei be a ble to ha ve 50 yea rs
10 spend just grow in g up ."
This is much more than a
Peter Pan story . The prospect of
adding even 100 years to one's
life means a change from a society based on short range survival to a society focused on the
development and refinement of
the individual - a change many
elderly persons are tryin g to
cope w ith today. This will all be
decided (if necessary) in the fu ture, hopefull y not by me.
G lenna and jay are a tt acki ng
the problem from scratch. Laboratory ex perimentation in the
manipulation o f se nescent (aging)
cells is a wide-o pen field. Current work in senescence is performed usin g a tissue cultu re lab
where human a nd a nimal cell s
are grown in fla sks and examined .
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"What they're doing and the
way they are going about doing
it is just about impossible for an
undergradu a te to do anywhere
else," said facu lty member Don
Humphrey, who, sparked by the
student s' interest, ha s provided
Evergree n with a co mplete tissue
culture lab . "This typ ifi es the adva nt age of Evergreen, .. " said
·Humphrey , "w here students with
a sha rp foc us on an area, such as
aging , can accomp li sh th e equ iv a lent to gra du ate work. In G len na and Ja y's case th ey had to research just how a ti ssue culture
lab i ~ set up to th e point where
th ey we re in vo lved in talki ng
w ith the sa les men . Believe me ,
that a lone is an ed ucatio nal experience.
In initiating their expe riment s,
C le nna and Jay visited hospitals
in O lympia and T acoma where a
doct o r took small tissue samp les
fro m a sou rc e and deposit ed
them in numerous flask s containing a growth medium. Basically ,
th e medium contain s a ll th e
a mino acids, vitamins, sa lts, and
glucose . Penicillin and Streptomycin are added to prevent bacterial invasion, the greatest problem in tissue culture experime nts ,
Fungus, yeast and bacteria can
completely take over a flask and
destroy an experiment. For this
reasop the tissue culture laboratory is supervised under sterile
condi tions.
In discussing the cultures st ud ied in Evergreen 's new lab, Glenna exp lain ed: " At first we just
used 12-day o ld chicken embryo .
Th en we used premature baby
foreskin (after circumcision ) and
also received ski n tissue from an
eld erly person's leg in order to
compare th e difference between
you ng a nd o ld cells ."
P rofessor Humphrey has provided an inverted phase microscope wit h the addi tion of timelapse ph otography which wi ll re cord cells during their mitotic di -

vision (replication). "Essentially ,
aging c;ells have a limited ability
to divide . . . " e xplained Jay.
"For example, the average human
cell growin g in a tissue culture
flask can on ly undergo 50 (plu s
or minus 10) population divi sions
and then it senesces a nd dies .
The ave rage chick ce ll ca n onl y
divide 20 population divi sions
wh ile th e tortoi se ce ll has 125
population div isions. W e wa nt
to find o ut mo re about these lim itations and soo n we w ill be
wo rk ing wit h ca ncer ce ll s."
Ca ncer ce ll s have unlimited
popul a ti o n divisions and multi pl y more ra pidl y than norm al
ce ll s. Cance r tend s to take over
once it has develo ped, One of
the hopeful views co nce rning ex periments in aging is th a t the o ri gin of ag ing wi ll be discove red
throu gh ca ncer research .
Hu mphrey has plans to util ize
the new la b in his group con tract, From Ce ll to Orgarlism:
St ru ct Ll re , FLln ction alld COlltroi,
which is scheduled to begin Win te r Q ua rter. Designed for the ad v a nced biology student , the
fie ld s of histology, anatomy,
physiol ogy, genetics and cell biology will be covered in two
quart ers. The advantage of havin g a tissue cu lture lab should
make this course offering especially appea ling.
In a re flectiv e mood Don
Humphrey sa id , . "Their (Clenna
and jay's) initial goa ls were very
ambiti ous. nothing short of finding the secret of life a nd discovering the elixir of youth . As a result Ev ergreen now has a tissue
culture lab, a sterile lab, a nd this
is availab le fo r o ther students to
use.
It is int erestin g to see that ,
eve n in a small way pe rha ps,
histo ry is playin g the sa me tune.
Th e spark is there and those that
w ish to, ca n join th e incredible
sea rch - fo r the imp ossible,
The tissue culture la b is lo ca ted in Lab 2056 .

Enrol I Dl.e nt Could "Go Either Way"
(Ron Woodbury, Peter Elbow, lee
Crowe), Political Ecology (Bob Sluss), Re sources for Self-Determination (Betsy
Diffendahl, Mary Hillaire), Advanced
Field Biology (Steve Herman), and Marine
Organisms (Pete Taylor).
A few programs are faltering and look
as though they will not reach their projected enrollments. Myth and Reality,
(York Wong, Cruz Esquivel, Priscilla
Bowerman), Advanced Environmental
Analysis (Dave Milne) and Religion il1
Human Life (Carol Olexa), are all below
expected sign-up levels, Humphreys said.
Myth and Reality was designed to meet
the needs of Third World students, and
the deans are still planning to offer the
program this year, with hopes of late enrollment from Third World students.
OVERAll ENROLLMENT
Evergreen's overall enrollment "could
go either way" at this time, according to
Dean of Enrollment Services Larry Stenberg. Stenberg said that approximately
1,000 students are registered for next year,
but that it is difficult to compare that
number to last year's registration.
Said Stenberg, "The 1,000 number represents a con tinuou s registration process.
There is no way to gauge how we compare to last year because there was no
rea l continuous registration last year."
Registration for the 1975-76 school year
took place before two major cutoff dates
- one in May and 'one in September,
1975.

However, this year it was decided to let
students register continuously until October 4, Stenberg thinks this change has let
many students put off what they normally would have done in May . "Evergreeners, to me, are sprinters," he said ,
"Folks come in at the tail end. We'll hav e
a lot of people come in and register that
last week."
He predicts Evergreen's enrollment will
be "either a little over or under our average annual figure from last year of 2,383
students."
Stenberg said the underenrollment wor ries stem from a "dramatic dip" in the
number of new students who normall y
would have registered in the middle of the
registration cycle (late winter and early
spring). That dip put registration figures
below what they were the previous year
at the same time, according to Stenberg.
He said that although registration is now
"running parallel" to last year, "we will
be significantly under last year's number
of l1ew students."
Because of this apparent loss of new
students, Enrollment Services is trying to
make up enro llment deficiencies through
retention of continuing students, parttime studies offerings and a degree competion program.
Twenty-three programs will ' offe r a
part-time st ud y option for the 1976-77
school year, and' nearly 50 modul es will
be offered during Fall Quarter.,alone (See
page 5 for complete list).

The Evergreen State College· Olympia, Washington 98505
by Jill Stewart
If you are planning on enrolling in a
program at Evergreen this fall, you may
already be too late.
Despite continued concern over possible
underenrollment, some academic programs
are full and others are filling rapidly, according to Dean Will Humphreys ,
Already full are Communications and
Commun ity (Craig Carlson) with 70 stu dents, Outdoor Education (Willi Unsoeld)

,THE COOPER POINT

with approximately 40 students, Helping
Relationship Skills (Earle 'McNeil and Roi
Smith) have 50 students enrolled, and
Natural History of Washington (Don
Humphrey) with 25 students . Natural History of Washingtol;l has had such a favorable response that the deans are trying to
find one more faculty to enlarge the program, according to Humphreys.
Several programs are filling up fast, but
not yet full, They are: Autobiography

Co~ft~~s . -·I~ad .

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Volume I V Number

August 12, 1976

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program

"Herstory" a Success

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WE NEED: YOUR IDEAS AND . . .
Writers (faculty revievvs, restaurant revievvs, nevvs, features . . . )
Photographers (artsy photos, photos of campus, mug shots,
picture of a geoduck, food, photo for cover shot . .. )
GraphiCS people (cartoons, graphics to accompany stories . . . )
HURRY! DEADLINES APPROACH I Please see page 5 column 2,
for complete information.

by Jill Stewart
The Co-Respondents are followed by
success stories wherever they go. Two
members of the feminist readers theatre
gfoup, ~ Sandie Nisbet and Patricia Larson,
have just c;pmpleted teaching a summer
group contract here at Evergreen - one
they term "a smashing success."
The program, Bring Her Back A live:
Herstory Out of the Books and onto the
Stage, lived up to its name.
With 20 students ranging in age from
18 to 60, Nisbet and Larson had just five
weeks to give them some understanding
of women's history - enough to choose a
project - and then carry ' them through
the tremendous job of researching, script
writing, acting and costuming that are
essential parts of any dramatic production.
The women were all expected to choose
a woman or event from women's history
and become familiar enough with that
event or person to present a production to
the pub lic. '
"W e've had a ball," said Sandie Nisbet,
"The students have done amazing things
in a very short amo unt of time . .. No body in retrospect can believe what they
have accomplished,"
Nisbet said the success of the students
was more than the two teachers had
hoped for. "Some of the productions have ,
been really more polished than we expected," she said,
'
Patricia larson gave much of the credit
to the subject matter itself. "There is
nothing like turning a group of women
loose in women's history. They get so excited. It's such a rich area and it has really
been unheralded in the past :"
"We made up the guidelines," said Nisbet, '''We offered them shortcuts and told
them the mistakes we had made so they
could avoid them. We aimed for quality
and assisted at that from the very beginning."
They both agreed that the stages they

have seen their students go through were
much like stages they went through when
they began the Co-Respondents readers
theatre group four and a half years ago.
One student remarked to them that she
had "formed a lifelong interest in the history of women" because of the program.
Another, an older woman who came to
the program "just to watch," ended up
creating an act herself. "She got into it
like anyone else, " said Nisbet, "and she
felt confident enough to agree to perform
her project at the [Olympia] Senior Center, "
The one-woman show, about Mother
jones, a labor leader at the tum of the
century, will be presented at the Olympia
Senior Center September 9 at 1:30 p .m .
Another group presented a "very moving performance" d ealing with the Yellow
Wall Paper, a short story by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman dealing with her own descent into madness and her experiences as
a patient confined to a yellow wallpapered
room.
Several Timberline High School teach ers spent their summer in the program
and created a multi -media production
based on courageous women who have
broken out of their roles .
Other productions .included a two -person show, "The Spinsters Came A Spinning, " dealing with "spinsters" such as
Florence Nightingale and Susan B .
Anthony, a puppet show for children 01)
the history of women, a script about p ioneer women, a play depicting Narcissa
Whitman and Eliza Southgate, who came
to the Northwest in the 1830's, and a
slide-show I reading about black women in
America.
The students had the option of presenting their projects to the general public or
just to the program. "We encouraged the
students to present them to the public."
said Nisbet, "but I'm sure many of them
hoped no one would show up ."
Many of the women in the program

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had families and other responsibilities that
gave them "a hard time in the creative
process in terms of spouses and children"
according to larson. "There was an un spoken and shared sympathy that many
women were working against big odds,"
she said, "but in spite of those tremendous
odds, they produced."
Nisbet and Larson hope the women will
continue to polish their projects and present them to larger audiences, perhaps in .
the fall.
Said Larson, "A number of them could
be done immediately, with very little
work . . . People see a play and think
'Oh, it looks so romantic,' but actually it
is one of the most disciplined things you
can do . We don't know if Ithe students]

will all be able to keep up tha t disc ipline ."
The two don't know if they wi ll return
to Evergreen next summer, but th ey bot h
agree, "it's been a lot of fun ."

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NOW CONVENTION

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Sex, Pinball, and Free Will - pg. 3
KAOS at the County Fair -

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LETTERS

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campaig.ns this year . He is
known for his strong environmentalist record and his anti-big
bus iness stand. He successfully
led the battle to stop the
Portland airport from expanding
into the Columbia River and in
changing the garbage dumping
practices of Seattle to reduce
pollution. Durning has signed
the nuclear safeguards petit ion,
believes in changing the state tax
structure so the large corporations a nd the rich pay more and
the little man and small property
ow ner pay less, and opening up
farmland for the small farmer in
eastern Washington. I don ' t
mean to picture D urning as a
knight in sh ining armor slaying
all the evil d ragons of state
government. But I do believe he
is the most intell igent , (he's a
Rh o de s Scholar), honest. and
bes t qualifi ed ca ndidate running
for gove rnor. If you would li ke
more informa t ion concerning
Durning or would lik e to
vo lunteer yo ur time co nt act me
at 866-5192.
Ga ry Olive

AFTER THE OCEAN,
ANTARCTICA

LET SLEEPING
BAGS LIE
To th e Edi tor:
This i5 a Thursday night. It is
A ugust . I m sure you can relate
to this. I am Plex , of international fame. I came to the states
through the Cigars for Mars program. My hair is a brilliant red.
It is natural. not like David
Bowie . I want to tell you about
a funny th ing which happened to
me whe:1 I was just a child. My
father slep t in the basement in a
sleeping bag. In my sleeping bag.
He slept downstairs because my
mot her thought he was gross. He
,dept in a sleeping bag because he
was too lazy to have sheets, and
he slept in my sleeping bag because it was the only one we
had . We had it because I was at
one time a girl scout.
I was go ing away to a weekend camp. While my father was
at wo rk, I packed, rolled the
sleep ing bag and walked to the
bus station to meet a rich friend
of mine. ThE' camp cost $20 .00
which I did not have to pay beca u se I was intelligent and
sneaky . I did not let my rich
friend know about this . I did not
let her know about anything.
My rich friend had
goosedown sleeping bag. I had a flannel one . On the first night of the
camp-o ut we counted off and
were separated. My group was
to sleep outside that night and
my rich friend suggested we
trade bags because she would be
too hot in hers . I agreed and it
wasn' t until ten years later, on
this night I could have called this
a funny story.
To put it bluntly, my flannel
sleeping bag was full of my

a

fat her 's u nderwear. Seve n teen
pairs, No Lie. She had counted
them, the bitch.
That is the end of my funny
story which had such a tragic effect on my camp weekend that I
was silent the rest of the stay
and was awarded Most Considerate Camper during the awards
session on the last day.
Plex (L. B. ) Effex

DURNING
BLACKED-OUT
BY PRESS
To the Editor:
For a year Marvin Durning
has been seeking the democratic
nomi nation for governor. Yet
during most of this time there
has been a myster io us press
blackout of his campaigning.
Not until last month was he taken
seriously by the state press. It is
a shame that the person with the
most innovative and imaginative
proposals that this state has seen
in several years has troub le
getting his name in newspapers
and on television. Whi le his two
most serious democratic opponent~. Dix ie Lee Ray (an advocate
of nuclear energy and · bringing
supertankers into Puget Sound)
and Wes Uhlman (who seems to
. have a knack for pulling down
large co ntributions from big
business), get constant coverage,
often for doing non-newsworthy
things. Yet despite the trouble in
getting coverage, Durning has
thousands of volunteers and the
second belst amount of money
of any other candidate running
for governor, which he raised
from almost entirely small contributors.
Durning has been running one
of the most impressive and open

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To th e Editor:
The Sea. in which all things
come together. is being bitterly
contested right now . as you read
this, in New York. at the fifth
and crucial session of the United
Nations Conference on the Law
of the Sea. Vir tually ignored by
the American mass med ia, this
co nference is nevert heless t he
most importa n t international
conference ever held. It is curren tly deciding who will control
the vast resou rces of the deep
seabed, the last untouched treasure on earth. whicl:t have recently
become technologically accessib le.
The basic principle of the conference. that is. of the Third
World nations who comprise the
majority of the 147 delegations.
is that the deep sea, beyond the
limits of national jurisdiction
(i.e., beyond 200 miles), is "the
common heritage of mankind"
and cannot be appropriated by
any private interest or nation.
As a significant step toward a
new international economic order, they are seeking to establish
an Internationai Seabed Resources Authority, with complete control over the resources
of the deep sea. The "Authority"
would support itself with the
revenues of seabed exploitation
and would distribute the rest
among all the nations of the
world. with preference given to
the neediest .
The major obstacle to a Law
of the Sea Treaty at prese~t is
U .S. corporate opposition to this
international "socialist" enterprise: Such corporations as Kennecott Copper and Lockheed
Missile and Space Company
have pressured Congress into
writing the "Deep Seabed Hard
Minerals Bills," S8 713 and HR
11879, which provide the legal
means for them to stake out
claims to the richest mineral deposits of the seabed. Based on
the U. S. legal standpoint that
anything not yet claimed as private property is available to be
claimed, these bills state that,
upon payment to the U.S.
government of a $50,000 application fee and submission of proof
of capacity to exploit, corporations could stake out claims to
blocks of seabed 40,000 sq. km .
in area (that comes to three cents
per acre). These investments
would be guaranteed by the U .S.
Treasury and backed by U.S
military might.
SB 713 and HR 11879 have
passed through committee and
could be brought to a vote at
any time: They are being used .
to blackmail the Third World
into ac~pting the U. S. "com-

promise" on the seabed, i.e., the
U.S . would allow an International Authority to be created.
but only on condition that it be
dominated by the U .S. and other
developed countries, and that
rights of exploitation be divided
equally between the Authority
and private corporations! If this
"compromise" is not accepted,
we threaten to wa lk out on the
Co nference and enact our unilateral claim to the seabed .
The Third World is putting up
a good fight, and has threate ned,
in exchange, to limit the use of
crucial straits of the wor ld.
which are under their contro l, in
such a way as to seriously affect
our military strategy.
So far , no one in the conference has challenged the anthropocentrism of the "common heritage of mankind" principle. No
one has spoken up for fishe s.
whales, or for those minute organisms on who,e li ves our own
lives depend. While the effects
on th e entire ocean ecosystem of
deep seabed minin g are not yet
understood. the only question
that has been asked is: Who
shall ex ploit?
After the ocean, Antarctica.
Then , the Moon and Mars .
What should our attitude be?
These decisions are being made
NOW: Let your voice be heard!
Write at once to Secretary of
State Kissinger, U.S. Mission to
th e U.N .. 799 UN Plaza. New
York , N.Y. And spread the
word!
- In hope, Judit h Hurley
UNDIVIDED OCEAN BUS
en ro ute
At Evergreen State College,
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SELL PIZZA AT
FRIDAY NIGHT
FILMS
To the 'Editor :
W hy don't you sell pizza at
the Frid~y Night . Fi~m.~?, 0 wh.r
don't you sell pizza7 Be like
Shakey's! The films fit right in!
(How scathing.)
Linda-Jean

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MISMANAGEMENT
OF RECREATION
CENTER
To the Editor:
I was very disappointed to
find the way the Recreation
Center is being run this summer.
Seems totally uns uited to recreation needs.
It is staffed on ly during
weekdays when people have
classes and homework and !'to
time to use it. It isn't staffed ~n
weeke nds or holidays. When /I
person gets a: day off so he has
time to use facilities or equipmen t. he runs in t 0 a locked
door. A lso he finds that equipment cannot be checked out in
adva nce for those days. It can
however be checked out for
Mondays w hen no one has any
time for recreation!
It is a stupid and deplorable
case of gross mismanagemen t.
Als o I am concerned that
although all Evergreen buildings
were bu ilt with supplementary
funds in return for a guarantee
that all facilities be totall y
accessible to the ha ndicapped .
the back door of Rec. Building is
kept lo cked. This mah\, the
building inaccessib le. to ; h,indi capped peop le coming from' t'he
direction of the dorms , except by
a long. circuitous route around
the front of the CAB. up the
elevator and across to the second
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I have also found some
work /study staff to be discourteous a nd very reluctant to be
helpful. It's a great build ing.
Let's get someone to manage it in
the interest of the Evergreen
Community, instead of people
who are just in terested in putting
in work/stud.Y,i:l\;JU~s ani;l .a.J!:·,·no.l
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The Washington State N.O.W. (National Organization of Women ) Convention will take place o n camp us this
weekend, start ing Fridav. AUlmst nann
running through Sunday, Au~ust 15. The
convention will feature workshops, discussions, and presel1tations on topics
ranging from the Equal Rights Ammendment to Assertiveness Training.
"THE FUTURE IS FEMALE"
Washington State N.O,W,
1976 Convention
Friday, August 13
3 to 8 p .m.
REGISTRATION Getting set't led in
rooms. gett ing acquai nted .
9 p. m.
lAVENDER TROUBADOR ( a one
woma n paly with Rebecca Valreja n)
Also: Carr il u Thompson. singer / songwriter, and Laura O 'Brady (singalong) .
See communications board for location.
Saturday, August 14
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8 to 9 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9 a.m. to 4 p .m.
REGISTRATION (all day)
9 a.m .
Keynote Address: "Future of Women in
Washington State" (Pat Cochran, Legislator).
10 a.m.
WORKSHOPS:
E.R.A. (Rita Shaw & Judy Young)
"Equali ty of rights under the law shall not
be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account of sex."
How can we help make this the LAW OF
THE LAND7
ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR
RApISTS: PRISON OR THERAPY (Maureen Sa yl or, Wes tern State Hosp ital,
Sexua l Offe nder Program, & Ju dge
Donald Horowitz). A two-h our discussion
of alternatives, and treatment of rapists;
including the Sexual O ffender Therapy
Program at Western State H ospital.
WOMEN, MONEY, AND POWER
(Joan Gross) Examining attitudes towards
money, setting life goals, assessing net
worth, and investments.
. MEDIA (Nanc~ Hawkins) A look at the
a\?;iUajJ')ifflo.xl':
t:lI'U L , < ... ' '-'n ~'
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Snohomish County N.O.W. will show
excerpts from some of their recent TV

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shows and will discuss the how and why
of every chapter having its own show. (2
hours).
MASSAGE (Women from Radiance
Herb and Massage, O lympia) Learning
how to give and receive a massage by
doing it! (2 hours)
SELF-HEALTH AND ABORTION ('.:die
Hardi~g) Discussion of patient advocacy;
update on the poli t ics of abortion;
demonstration of a pelvic and breast
exam. (2 hours).
11 a.m .
SPIRITUALITY, POWER, AND WOMAN (Marie Von Bronkhurst) To raise
the issue of spirituality for women, to
begin to redefine it, and to say it is of
vital importance to the women's movement.
N.O,W. (Sharon Dillon, State N.O.W .
Coordinator) What, when, how . and
why7
WOMEN AND INSURANCE (Aurilla
Doerner) Discussion of the basics of life
and health insurance. questions and
answers,
STRESS REDUCTION (Jenny Ring)
Techniques in relaxation response. AutogeniC ' training and visualization will be
taught.
12 noon to 1 p.m.
lUNCH

1 p.m .
WORKSHOPS
CHILD CARE: TITLE XX (Sandy
Crane) Where do we go from here7 (2
hours)
COMPARABLE WORTH STUDY (Ann
worchester, Ann Quantrack. Mary Helen
Roberts) Equa l pay for equa l-valued
work . First hour : Method for eva luation
of present law and implemenation of a
new law. Seco nd hour: Work on
workshop resolution, and presentation of
the union's recommendation .
WOMEN AND CREDIT (Bernadine
Maxie, Feminist Federal Credit Union,
and Karen Fox, Human Rights Commiss ion ) New alterna ti ves in finan cial
inst itutions available to feminists . A lso: a
discussion of your credit rights as a
woman. (2 hours)
FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING (C.J . Sm ith) D isc ussion of the
national N .O.W . guidelines; mini-C.R .
groups in the second hour. (2 hours)
DANCE (Carol Fulcher) Dance old and
new . Basic movements of the different
styles of bellydancing and Turkish folk
dances . (2 hours)
N.O.W. lEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
(Elaine Latourell and Melissa Thompson
of N .O.W:s National Legislative Office,
and members of Seattle N.O.W. chapter)

FeDlale
Planning and stra tegy 01 N . O . \1\
legislative programs . (2 hours)
LESBIANISM (Kathy Boyle. Lesbian
Reso u rce ' Center) Basic consciousnes,
raising. Brief prese ntation followed by
group discuss ion. The film "Sandy and
Maddy's Family. " by Sandy Schuster and
Madelyn Isaacson will also be shown . (2
hours)
3 p.m .
CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION
(Jea n Marie Brough) I< e viewln g th e
proposa ls for the new By-Laws. Copies
are avia lable. ueve loptng prior ities and
issues for our suppo rt. Preparation for the
October Nationa l Conference . (2 hours l
LITIGATION: LEGAL ACTION (Judit I
Londquist) What to do if you want to
sue.
ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING (S haron
Brogan and Ter r y Ke lso) Learn the
difference between assertiveness and
aggression . (2 hours)
DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS : OLDER
WOMEN (Laura Shields, of National
Task Force) Proposed national legislation
and reports on National and local Task
Forces. (2 hours)
MESSAGE repeat of morning workshop
4 p.m .
WOMEN AND HISTORY (Jan Shinpoch) Her-Story : what we have missed.
and why is it important7
IMPACTING LEGISLATION (Mary
Helen Roberts, Director of Women ' 5
Council, and Barbara Vandervolk. Lobbyist) The hows , whys, and wherefores of
bringing about change through the
legislative process.
STRESS REDUCTION repeat of morning workshop.
5 to 6 p.m. .
DINNER
9 p .m.
THE CO-RESPONDENTS present "Here
She Comes." Also Poet Annette Van
Dvke and singer/songwriter Gwen Harrel.
Sunday, August 15
8 to 9 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9:30 a .m. to 1 :30 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION Speakers: Elaine
latourI'll. Melissa Thompson, and Lori
Lakshas (former Seattle firewoman). Essay
award presentation to Valerie Hall.
Business Meeting
ENJOY!

Sex., Pinball., and Free Will
by Matt G roening
It's been said countless times before.
but it's true - playing pinball is like mak~ ng love. Both · ~ts are. sources of intense
p leasure. ~li.;lifo~~·\:ecstasy, and sor!row . Both a~ts'fnu'st be experienced rather
than described. And both acts prove satisfying day in a nd day out, year after year,
as innovation and refinement in technique
bring one to perfection with lover or
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Pin~:';,irgi~s" tend to scoff at the sex ual potential of the garish coin devices.
They deny the obvious features which are
identical to both pinball and sex: rapid
heartbeat. eye dilation, flashing lights,
bells, bumpers, roll-overs, roll-unders,
bonus balls, enormous scores, kickers,
gates, tilts, and flippers.
The unfeeling cruelty and insensitivity
which for years relegated pinball to the
dismal recesses of smelly bus depots is at
last coming to an end. The vicious stereotype of the slack-jawed. shifty-eyed degenerate in tight jeans has been exploded.
No longer will pinball enthusiasts shake
greasy bangs out of their eyes and hang
their heads in shame. A recent article in
Midnight declared the average l.Q. of
pinball .players was 103, and that's three
above the 'niltiomil norm.
Today we are 'proud to be pinheads.
: I know you don't care, but pinball does
have a fascinating history. Any true afi(!ionado ' will -tell you pinball originated
hundreds.of y~ars ago as bagetelle, a flat ,
boring ' billiard-like tavern and parlor
game. Bagatelle was first referred to in
literature in Chapter 14 of Dickens' Pickwick Papers .
; It wasn't until 1930 that anything resembling modern pinball as we know it
began to develop. It was in that year that
Ipavid Gottlieb, who managed a number
9f Te~ :-Y9ur-Strength grip machines for
!lweaty 'Texans in the 1920's, developed
dnd marketed a small walnut and brass
game cailed BAFflE BALL. He sold
SO:OOO 'BAFFL"E BALLS that year at $17.50
each, and psychiatrists the world over
lauded the therapeutic value of the simple

apparatus. It was . believed the soothing
sound of clinking steel balls (which sold
seven for a penny ) was a prime force in
cheering up thousands of Americans despondent in the face of the Depression,
and more than one pundit declared that.
BAFFLE BALL had arrived in the nick of
time, narrow ly averting a national suicide
epidem ic, which might in turn have triggered the total collapse of western civilization.
In 1931 Chicago businessman Raymond
Maloney played a few games of BAFFLE
BALL and designed his own machine,
BALLY -HOO. Maloney sold 70,000 in a
vear, and his company (now the Bally
Manufacturing Corporation) and Gottlieb's
(D . Gottlieb and Company) remain
leaders in the industry.
Each year has brought further leaps in
pinball technology. 1933 marked the
introducti\;>n of electronic circuitry. Solenoid-powered kicker units and anti-tilt
devices were first used in 1935. Other
innovations quickly followed : automatic
scoring, knockdown targets, roll-overs,
thumper-bumbers, and so on. A great
breakthrough came on December 4, 1937,
when the now-defunct Western Equipment
and Supply Company introduced AKSARBEN (Nebraska spelled backwards), a
pinball machine which gave free games.
Pinballers thought they had seen it all,
but a decade later Harry Mabs joined a
button -co ntrolled solenoid to a small
rubber bat and gave birth to the game's
most fundamental appurtenance, the
pinball flipper . HUMPTY DUMPTY, a
six-flipper Gottlieb machine that Mabs
designed, caused a frenzy of excitement
upon its unveiling in 1947 . Mabs '
revolutionary invention so completely
influenced the game that not one machine
manufactured since that year has been
without the all-important flippersl
Since the great 1947 breakthrough other
innovatipns have included multiple-player
games, assymetrical playing fields, messenger balls, captive balls, free balls, and
ever-increasing speed and action in each
new model. The three bi~ manufacturers,

The author tackles a difficult S.pace
Mission , and pondors the question, "If
there is free will. then why did 1 write this
article ?"
Bally, Gottlieb, and Williams, are now
being challenged by such upstarts as
Chicago Coin and Allied Leisure, and
foreign pinball companies are being
considered serious threats for the first
time. Sega, a Japenese company (actually
controlled by Gulf and Western). virtually
controls the pinball scene in Asia. and is
especially feared by the American
companies .
There is much debate about the best
pinball machine around . Action, novelty,
and difficulty of play must be in perfect
balance for a machine to be truly great.
Great pinball philosophers generally agree
that Bally's FIREBALL is the finest
machine yet made . FIREBALL, which
boasts a peculiarly appealing ramp, has a
spinning, grooved rubber disc in the

center of the playing field which adds
chance to what would otherwise be solely
a game of skill. This feature is the subject
of intense love/ha te among jaded pinbailers.
Another feature of great machines is
that they usually release capt ive ball s.
which put two or even three ball.s into
play simultaneously. FIREBALL has this
feature, as does its prototype, 4 MILLION
B.C.. and NIP IT, with an especially
enhanced. alligator motif.
Other superb mach ines include TRIPLE
ACTION, BIG CH IEF, and TRAVEL
TIME. FLYING ACES , a 1965 classic. is
not available locally but ho lds a fond
pl'\C'e in many pinballers' hearts. Williams'
ne",. game SPACE MISSION , with its
elusive swing target. is fast gaining in
popularity. CAPTAIN FANTASTle. with
its Elton John motif , has yet to hit the
northwest, but enthusiasts are skeptical.
Elton John is giving away a machine at
each concert on recent tours, much to the
disgust and resentment of the pros, who
see the giveaways as an attempt to
commercialize a basically pure and sleazy
pastime .
One grave drawback to pinball is that
it can be addicting. In moderation, pinball
has a place in the growing up of every
young person . But the chronic pinballer
who neglects normal social intercourse
and opts instead for onanistic sessions
'with nearby pinball machines can end up
at age 22 a stunted wastrel. with nothing
to look back upon but a few hundred
meaningless bonus replays. The despair
resulting from these empty memories, as
well as first-hand evidence that there is no
free will. often Jeads the pinballer trying
to break his or her habit into trying
desperate measures . Pinball playe rs.
baSically frightened children with lousy
complexions, hardened to a life of
flashing lights and instant gratification ,
take the next obvious step, a headfirst
plunge into promiscuous sexual activity,
for which there is no cure, and which
brings us back to where we started from .
Amen .

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campaig.ns this year . He is
known for his strong environmentalist record and his anti-big
bus iness stand. He successfully
led the battle to stop the
Portland airport from expanding
into the Columbia River and in
changing the garbage dumping
practices of Seattle to reduce
pollution. Durning has signed
the nuclear safeguards petit ion,
believes in changing the state tax
structure so the large corporations a nd the rich pay more and
the little man and small property
ow ner pay less, and opening up
farmland for the small farmer in
eastern Washington. I don ' t
mean to picture D urning as a
knight in sh ining armor slaying
all the evil d ragons of state
government. But I do believe he
is the most intell igent , (he's a
Rh o de s Scholar), honest. and
bes t qualifi ed ca ndidate running
for gove rnor. If you would li ke
more informa t ion concerning
Durning or would lik e to
vo lunteer yo ur time co nt act me
at 866-5192.
Ga ry Olive

AFTER THE OCEAN,
ANTARCTICA

LET SLEEPING
BAGS LIE
To th e Edi tor:
This i5 a Thursday night. It is
A ugust . I m sure you can relate
to this. I am Plex , of international fame. I came to the states
through the Cigars for Mars program. My hair is a brilliant red.
It is natural. not like David
Bowie . I want to tell you about
a funny th ing which happened to
me whe:1 I was just a child. My
father slep t in the basement in a
sleeping bag. In my sleeping bag.
He slept downstairs because my
mot her thought he was gross. He
,dept in a sleeping bag because he
was too lazy to have sheets, and
he slept in my sleeping bag because it was the only one we
had . We had it because I was at
one time a girl scout.
I was go ing away to a weekend camp. While my father was
at wo rk, I packed, rolled the
sleep ing bag and walked to the
bus station to meet a rich friend
of mine. ThE' camp cost $20 .00
which I did not have to pay beca u se I was intelligent and
sneaky . I did not let my rich
friend know about this . I did not
let her know about anything.
My rich friend had
goosedown sleeping bag. I had a flannel one . On the first night of the
camp-o ut we counted off and
were separated. My group was
to sleep outside that night and
my rich friend suggested we
trade bags because she would be
too hot in hers . I agreed and it
wasn' t until ten years later, on
this night I could have called this
a funny story.
To put it bluntly, my flannel
sleeping bag was full of my

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fat her 's u nderwear. Seve n teen
pairs, No Lie. She had counted
them, the bitch.
That is the end of my funny
story which had such a tragic effect on my camp weekend that I
was silent the rest of the stay
and was awarded Most Considerate Camper during the awards
session on the last day.
Plex (L. B. ) Effex

DURNING
BLACKED-OUT
BY PRESS
To the Editor:
For a year Marvin Durning
has been seeking the democratic
nomi nation for governor. Yet
during most of this time there
has been a myster io us press
blackout of his campaigning.
Not until last month was he taken
seriously by the state press. It is
a shame that the person with the
most innovative and imaginative
proposals that this state has seen
in several years has troub le
getting his name in newspapers
and on television. Whi le his two
most serious democratic opponent~. Dix ie Lee Ray (an advocate
of nuclear energy and · bringing
supertankers into Puget Sound)
and Wes Uhlman (who seems to
. have a knack for pulling down
large co ntributions from big
business), get constant coverage,
often for doing non-newsworthy
things. Yet despite the trouble in
getting coverage, Durning has
thousands of volunteers and the
second belst amount of money
of any other candidate running
for governor, which he raised
from almost entirely small contributors.
Durning has been running one
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To th e Editor:
The Sea. in which all things
come together. is being bitterly
contested right now . as you read
this, in New York. at the fifth
and crucial session of the United
Nations Conference on the Law
of the Sea. Vir tually ignored by
the American mass med ia, this
co nference is nevert heless t he
most importa n t international
conference ever held. It is curren tly deciding who will control
the vast resou rces of the deep
seabed, the last untouched treasure on earth. whicl:t have recently
become technologically accessib le.
The basic principle of the conference. that is. of the Third
World nations who comprise the
majority of the 147 delegations.
is that the deep sea, beyond the
limits of national jurisdiction
(i.e., beyond 200 miles), is "the
common heritage of mankind"
and cannot be appropriated by
any private interest or nation.
As a significant step toward a
new international economic order, they are seeking to establish
an Internationai Seabed Resources Authority, with complete control over the resources
of the deep sea. The "Authority"
would support itself with the
revenues of seabed exploitation
and would distribute the rest
among all the nations of the
world. with preference given to
the neediest .
The major obstacle to a Law
of the Sea Treaty at prese~t is
U .S. corporate opposition to this
international "socialist" enterprise: Such corporations as Kennecott Copper and Lockheed
Missile and Space Company
have pressured Congress into
writing the "Deep Seabed Hard
Minerals Bills," S8 713 and HR
11879, which provide the legal
means for them to stake out
claims to the richest mineral deposits of the seabed. Based on
the U. S. legal standpoint that
anything not yet claimed as private property is available to be
claimed, these bills state that,
upon payment to the U.S.
government of a $50,000 application fee and submission of proof
of capacity to exploit, corporations could stake out claims to
blocks of seabed 40,000 sq. km .
in area (that comes to three cents
per acre). These investments
would be guaranteed by the U .S.
Treasury and backed by U.S
military might.
SB 713 and HR 11879 have
passed through committee and
could be brought to a vote at
any time: They are being used .
to blackmail the Third World
into ac~pting the U. S. "com-

promise" on the seabed, i.e., the
U.S . would allow an International Authority to be created.
but only on condition that it be
dominated by the U .S. and other
developed countries, and that
rights of exploitation be divided
equally between the Authority
and private corporations! If this
"compromise" is not accepted,
we threaten to wa lk out on the
Co nference and enact our unilateral claim to the seabed .
The Third World is putting up
a good fight, and has threate ned,
in exchange, to limit the use of
crucial straits of the wor ld.
which are under their contro l, in
such a way as to seriously affect
our military strategy.
So far , no one in the conference has challenged the anthropocentrism of the "common heritage of mankind" principle. No
one has spoken up for fishe s.
whales, or for those minute organisms on who,e li ves our own
lives depend. While the effects
on th e entire ocean ecosystem of
deep seabed minin g are not yet
understood. the only question
that has been asked is: Who
shall ex ploit?
After the ocean, Antarctica.
Then , the Moon and Mars .
What should our attitude be?
These decisions are being made
NOW: Let your voice be heard!
Write at once to Secretary of
State Kissinger, U.S. Mission to
th e U.N .. 799 UN Plaza. New
York , N.Y. And spread the
word!
- In hope, Judit h Hurley
UNDIVIDED OCEAN BUS
en ro ute
At Evergreen State College,
8 / 11176

SELL PIZZA AT
FRIDAY NIGHT
FILMS
To the 'Editor :
W hy don't you sell pizza at
the Frid~y Night . Fi~m.~?, 0 wh.r
don't you sell pizza7 Be like
Shakey's! The films fit right in!
(How scathing.)
Linda-Jean

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GROSS
MISMANAGEMENT
OF RECREATION
CENTER
To the Editor:
I was very disappointed to
find the way the Recreation
Center is being run this summer.
Seems totally uns uited to recreation needs.
It is staffed on ly during
weekdays when people have
classes and homework and !'to
time to use it. It isn't staffed ~n
weeke nds or holidays. When /I
person gets a: day off so he has
time to use facilities or equipmen t. he runs in t 0 a locked
door. A lso he finds that equipment cannot be checked out in
adva nce for those days. It can
however be checked out for
Mondays w hen no one has any
time for recreation!
It is a stupid and deplorable
case of gross mismanagemen t.
Als o I am concerned that
although all Evergreen buildings
were bu ilt with supplementary
funds in return for a guarantee
that all facilities be totall y
accessible to the ha ndicapped .
the back door of Rec. Building is
kept lo cked. This mah\, the
building inaccessib le. to ; h,indi capped peop le coming from' t'he
direction of the dorms , except by
a long. circuitous route around
the front of the CAB. up the
elevator and across to the second
floor .of t~e ~ec. Bpi19~~' , : J {\
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wit h build ing ag're~meriis '
IS'
probably illega l (misappropriation of funds).
I have also found some
work /study staff to be discourteous a nd very reluctant to be
helpful. It's a great build ing.
Let's get someone to manage it in
the interest of the Evergreen
Community, instead of people
who are just in terested in putting
in work/stud.Y,i:l\;JU~s ani;l .a.J!:·,·no.l
-., ' ltlte'ft<~etl iff' '1~~lit~lingJ '~'fi'e'''J'se
. of the fine facilities.
Jerry Larkins
TESC Student

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The Washington State N.O.W. (National Organization of Women ) Convention will take place o n camp us this
weekend, start ing Fridav. AUlmst nann
running through Sunday, Au~ust 15. The
convention will feature workshops, discussions, and presel1tations on topics
ranging from the Equal Rights Ammendment to Assertiveness Training.
"THE FUTURE IS FEMALE"
Washington State N.O,W,
1976 Convention
Friday, August 13
3 to 8 p .m.
REGISTRATION Getting set't led in
rooms. gett ing acquai nted .
9 p. m.
lAVENDER TROUBADOR ( a one
woma n paly with Rebecca Valreja n)
Also: Carr il u Thompson. singer / songwriter, and Laura O 'Brady (singalong) .
See communications board for location.
Saturday, August 14
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8 to 9 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9 a.m. to 4 p .m.
REGISTRATION (all day)
9 a.m .
Keynote Address: "Future of Women in
Washington State" (Pat Cochran, Legislator).
10 a.m.
WORKSHOPS:
E.R.A. (Rita Shaw & Judy Young)
"Equali ty of rights under the law shall not
be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account of sex."
How can we help make this the LAW OF
THE LAND7
ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR
RApISTS: PRISON OR THERAPY (Maureen Sa yl or, Wes tern State Hosp ital,
Sexua l Offe nder Program, & Ju dge
Donald Horowitz). A two-h our discussion
of alternatives, and treatment of rapists;
including the Sexual O ffender Therapy
Program at Western State H ospital.
WOMEN, MONEY, AND POWER
(Joan Gross) Examining attitudes towards
money, setting life goals, assessing net
worth, and investments.
. MEDIA (Nanc~ Hawkins) A look at the
a\?;iUajJ')ifflo.xl':
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Snohomish County N.O.W. will show
excerpts from some of their recent TV

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shows and will discuss the how and why
of every chapter having its own show. (2
hours).
MASSAGE (Women from Radiance
Herb and Massage, O lympia) Learning
how to give and receive a massage by
doing it! (2 hours)
SELF-HEALTH AND ABORTION ('.:die
Hardi~g) Discussion of patient advocacy;
update on the poli t ics of abortion;
demonstration of a pelvic and breast
exam. (2 hours).
11 a.m .
SPIRITUALITY, POWER, AND WOMAN (Marie Von Bronkhurst) To raise
the issue of spirituality for women, to
begin to redefine it, and to say it is of
vital importance to the women's movement.
N.O,W. (Sharon Dillon, State N.O.W .
Coordinator) What, when, how . and
why7
WOMEN AND INSURANCE (Aurilla
Doerner) Discussion of the basics of life
and health insurance. questions and
answers,
STRESS REDUCTION (Jenny Ring)
Techniques in relaxation response. AutogeniC ' training and visualization will be
taught.
12 noon to 1 p.m.
lUNCH

1 p.m .
WORKSHOPS
CHILD CARE: TITLE XX (Sandy
Crane) Where do we go from here7 (2
hours)
COMPARABLE WORTH STUDY (Ann
worchester, Ann Quantrack. Mary Helen
Roberts) Equa l pay for equa l-valued
work . First hour : Method for eva luation
of present law and implemenation of a
new law. Seco nd hour: Work on
workshop resolution, and presentation of
the union's recommendation .
WOMEN AND CREDIT (Bernadine
Maxie, Feminist Federal Credit Union,
and Karen Fox, Human Rights Commiss ion ) New alterna ti ves in finan cial
inst itutions available to feminists . A lso: a
discussion of your credit rights as a
woman. (2 hours)
FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING (C.J . Sm ith) D isc ussion of the
national N .O.W . guidelines; mini-C.R .
groups in the second hour. (2 hours)
DANCE (Carol Fulcher) Dance old and
new . Basic movements of the different
styles of bellydancing and Turkish folk
dances . (2 hours)
N.O.W. lEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
(Elaine Latourell and Melissa Thompson
of N .O.W:s National Legislative Office,
and members of Seattle N.O.W. chapter)

FeDlale
Planning and stra tegy 01 N . O . \1\
legislative programs . (2 hours)
LESBIANISM (Kathy Boyle. Lesbian
Reso u rce ' Center) Basic consciousnes,
raising. Brief prese ntation followed by
group discuss ion. The film "Sandy and
Maddy's Family. " by Sandy Schuster and
Madelyn Isaacson will also be shown . (2
hours)
3 p.m .
CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION
(Jea n Marie Brough) I< e viewln g th e
proposa ls for the new By-Laws. Copies
are avia lable. ueve loptng prior ities and
issues for our suppo rt. Preparation for the
October Nationa l Conference . (2 hours l
LITIGATION: LEGAL ACTION (Judit I
Londquist) What to do if you want to
sue.
ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING (S haron
Brogan and Ter r y Ke lso) Learn the
difference between assertiveness and
aggression . (2 hours)
DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS : OLDER
WOMEN (Laura Shields, of National
Task Force) Proposed national legislation
and reports on National and local Task
Forces. (2 hours)
MESSAGE repeat of morning workshop
4 p.m .
WOMEN AND HISTORY (Jan Shinpoch) Her-Story : what we have missed.
and why is it important7
IMPACTING LEGISLATION (Mary
Helen Roberts, Director of Women ' 5
Council, and Barbara Vandervolk. Lobbyist) The hows , whys, and wherefores of
bringing about change through the
legislative process.
STRESS REDUCTION repeat of morning workshop.
5 to 6 p.m. .
DINNER
9 p .m.
THE CO-RESPONDENTS present "Here
She Comes." Also Poet Annette Van
Dvke and singer/songwriter Gwen Harrel.
Sunday, August 15
8 to 9 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9:30 a .m. to 1 :30 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION Speakers: Elaine
latourI'll. Melissa Thompson, and Lori
Lakshas (former Seattle firewoman). Essay
award presentation to Valerie Hall.
Business Meeting
ENJOY!

Sex., Pinball., and Free Will
by Matt G roening
It's been said countless times before.
but it's true - playing pinball is like mak~ ng love. Both · ~ts are. sources of intense
p leasure. ~li.;lifo~~·\:ecstasy, and sor!row . Both a~ts'fnu'st be experienced rather
than described. And both acts prove satisfying day in a nd day out, year after year,
as innovation and refinement in technique
bring one to perfection with lover or
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Pin~:';,irgi~s" tend to scoff at the sex ual potential of the garish coin devices.
They deny the obvious features which are
identical to both pinball and sex: rapid
heartbeat. eye dilation, flashing lights,
bells, bumpers, roll-overs, roll-unders,
bonus balls, enormous scores, kickers,
gates, tilts, and flippers.
The unfeeling cruelty and insensitivity
which for years relegated pinball to the
dismal recesses of smelly bus depots is at
last coming to an end. The vicious stereotype of the slack-jawed. shifty-eyed degenerate in tight jeans has been exploded.
No longer will pinball enthusiasts shake
greasy bangs out of their eyes and hang
their heads in shame. A recent article in
Midnight declared the average l.Q. of
pinball .players was 103, and that's three
above the 'niltiomil norm.
Today we are 'proud to be pinheads.
: I know you don't care, but pinball does
have a fascinating history. Any true afi(!ionado ' will -tell you pinball originated
hundreds.of y~ars ago as bagetelle, a flat ,
boring ' billiard-like tavern and parlor
game. Bagatelle was first referred to in
literature in Chapter 14 of Dickens' Pickwick Papers .
; It wasn't until 1930 that anything resembling modern pinball as we know it
began to develop. It was in that year that
Ipavid Gottlieb, who managed a number
9f Te~ :-Y9ur-Strength grip machines for
!lweaty 'Texans in the 1920's, developed
dnd marketed a small walnut and brass
game cailed BAFflE BALL. He sold
SO:OOO 'BAFFL"E BALLS that year at $17.50
each, and psychiatrists the world over
lauded the therapeutic value of the simple

apparatus. It was . believed the soothing
sound of clinking steel balls (which sold
seven for a penny ) was a prime force in
cheering up thousands of Americans despondent in the face of the Depression,
and more than one pundit declared that.
BAFFLE BALL had arrived in the nick of
time, narrow ly averting a national suicide
epidem ic, which might in turn have triggered the total collapse of western civilization.
In 1931 Chicago businessman Raymond
Maloney played a few games of BAFFLE
BALL and designed his own machine,
BALLY -HOO. Maloney sold 70,000 in a
vear, and his company (now the Bally
Manufacturing Corporation) and Gottlieb's
(D . Gottlieb and Company) remain
leaders in the industry.
Each year has brought further leaps in
pinball technology. 1933 marked the
introducti\;>n of electronic circuitry. Solenoid-powered kicker units and anti-tilt
devices were first used in 1935. Other
innovations quickly followed : automatic
scoring, knockdown targets, roll-overs,
thumper-bumbers, and so on. A great
breakthrough came on December 4, 1937,
when the now-defunct Western Equipment
and Supply Company introduced AKSARBEN (Nebraska spelled backwards), a
pinball machine which gave free games.
Pinballers thought they had seen it all,
but a decade later Harry Mabs joined a
button -co ntrolled solenoid to a small
rubber bat and gave birth to the game's
most fundamental appurtenance, the
pinball flipper . HUMPTY DUMPTY, a
six-flipper Gottlieb machine that Mabs
designed, caused a frenzy of excitement
upon its unveiling in 1947 . Mabs '
revolutionary invention so completely
influenced the game that not one machine
manufactured since that year has been
without the all-important flippersl
Since the great 1947 breakthrough other
innovatipns have included multiple-player
games, assymetrical playing fields, messenger balls, captive balls, free balls, and
ever-increasing speed and action in each
new model. The three bi~ manufacturers,

The author tackles a difficult S.pace
Mission , and pondors the question, "If
there is free will. then why did 1 write this
article ?"
Bally, Gottlieb, and Williams, are now
being challenged by such upstarts as
Chicago Coin and Allied Leisure, and
foreign pinball companies are being
considered serious threats for the first
time. Sega, a Japenese company (actually
controlled by Gulf and Western). virtually
controls the pinball scene in Asia. and is
especially feared by the American
companies .
There is much debate about the best
pinball machine around . Action, novelty,
and difficulty of play must be in perfect
balance for a machine to be truly great.
Great pinball philosophers generally agree
that Bally's FIREBALL is the finest
machine yet made . FIREBALL, which
boasts a peculiarly appealing ramp, has a
spinning, grooved rubber disc in the

center of the playing field which adds
chance to what would otherwise be solely
a game of skill. This feature is the subject
of intense love/ha te among jaded pinbailers.
Another feature of great machines is
that they usually release capt ive ball s.
which put two or even three ball.s into
play simultaneously. FIREBALL has this
feature, as does its prototype, 4 MILLION
B.C.. and NIP IT, with an especially
enhanced. alligator motif.
Other superb mach ines include TRIPLE
ACTION, BIG CH IEF, and TRAVEL
TIME. FLYING ACES , a 1965 classic. is
not available locally but ho lds a fond
pl'\C'e in many pinballers' hearts. Williams'
ne",. game SPACE MISSION , with its
elusive swing target. is fast gaining in
popularity. CAPTAIN FANTASTle. with
its Elton John motif , has yet to hit the
northwest, but enthusiasts are skeptical.
Elton John is giving away a machine at
each concert on recent tours, much to the
disgust and resentment of the pros, who
see the giveaways as an attempt to
commercialize a basically pure and sleazy
pastime .
One grave drawback to pinball is that
it can be addicting. In moderation, pinball
has a place in the growing up of every
young person . But the chronic pinballer
who neglects normal social intercourse
and opts instead for onanistic sessions
'with nearby pinball machines can end up
at age 22 a stunted wastrel. with nothing
to look back upon but a few hundred
meaningless bonus replays. The despair
resulting from these empty memories, as
well as first-hand evidence that there is no
free will. often Jeads the pinballer trying
to break his or her habit into trying
desperate measures . Pinball playe rs.
baSically frightened children with lousy
complexions, hardened to a life of
flashing lights and instant gratification ,
take the next obvious step, a headfirst
plunge into promiscuous sexual activity,
for which there is no cure, and which
brings us back to where we started from .
Amen .

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Middle Earth Mercantile - Utilitarian ' Ut'e nsils

b \' Teresa Imfeld
"Nt' we dc,"'t live in holes and
we don't have hairy feet!" exclaimed Allen Ledford , one of
the four collective owners of the
new Fourth Street shop. the Midd:e Earth Mercantile. The name ,
h,'wever . was inspired by J.R.R.
r olkien's The Hobbit and has ac'
tually caused a few curious customers to stop in and give the

place an anxious look . Although
they do not find short, fat, timid,
crea t u res behind the coun ter,
they do come into contact with
some friendly people who have a
worthwhile idea.
Besides Ledford, these people
include Harry Hill, Carol Clark
and Lynda Carlson. Together
they make up the total partnership of the Middle Earth Mercan-

tile, and each one agrees that the
basic idea behind the shop is to
sell good quality, efficiency
tools at a low cost to the customer.
A strong effort has been put
forth to equip the store with all
non-electrical products, and
plans for an increase in handcrafted items, such as wooden

towel racks and wooden toilet
paper dispensers, are being
worked out.
"Everything has a purpose,"
said the owners. Items displayed
in the shop are "not something
just to buy" and put on a table,
they all serve a useful function.
"Utilitarian utensils," the accompanying phrase under the
window , serves to include everything from simple wooden bowls
and dishes, to more elaborate
grain mills and kerosene lamps.
Items such as rakes, hoes, and
Swiss army knives can also be
found among the creative oystercrate shelves and recycled wood
paneling.
County Tool and Supply, distributors out of Eugene, Oregon
who originated the store, are
Middle Earth Mercantile's largest
wholesaler. Other supply companies include Associated Hardware out of Portland and People's Supply out of Seattle.
Hill describes the store and its
operation as an "alternative business," one that has a main thrust
but no limitation. The theme of
"tools," or "apparatus," covers
such a wide category that wooden buttons are sold alongside of
hammers and hammers alongside of bread pans.
The store and its contents are
not aimed at any particular age
group nor anyone in a specific

financial bracket . "We aTe ~?t ~ ,
supporters of inflation," stated '
Hill. He added that prices woul<J:'"
only go up if the wholesale cost
did. However, Ledford emphasized that if wholesale prices
went down, then theirs would
decrease also. Prices can run
from under a dollar to up into
the teens, depending on what the
product is.
.
The shop, located at 202 West
Fourth where the Square Deal
Trading Post used to be, had its
"grand opening" on Thursday
July 22. At present it is a small
place with 80 % of its inventory
centered around food preparation.
Futu re plans, however, are already being made to expand the
shop within the next few months.
One addition would be to carry
more hardware and mechanic's
tools, and there are also hopes of
organizing a "special order" department.
The group explains that they
are "not in it for the money, but
to provide quality tools, and for
the experience ." Hill commented
that at first he was leery. of get~
ting into salesmanship, ' ~ur he "~,
realized that this : type" of 's;iles ,~.,
was different. The" Middle 'Eittff" ,
Mercantile deals in needed, functional products, not something
for which a false need has to be
created.
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by Karrie Jacobs
Thl' >;rey stuff turned into mist

and t he mist turned int o a driz zle. T here I was at the Thurston
Co unty Fair and it was raining.
Well. ", hat do you expect? But.
I'll be damned if I'll go on the
ferri s whee l in the rain . so I wande red about in the rustic wooden
, heds. shuffling through wood
shavings and admiring the blue
ribb"n cabbages, the blue ribbon
da ff"dil s, and the blue ribbon
?encil hl, lders. I stood nose-tonust' w i ~h the biggest cow that
l've eVl'r see n in my life and
av oided the pigs. (You never
I-. no,",' what kind of diseases . . . )
Then I go t bored, so I ambled
over to the KAOS trailer, a
monstrou s white thing, affectionate ly referred to as the White
Elep hant . which was pumping
Bob Wills and the Texa~ Playboys out of a plastic-covered
speaker on the roof. The sign
taped to the door sa id, "Step
softly (or the record will skip) ,"

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and su re enough, as I plodded
around in the not-so-spacious
mobile home I heard Bob Wills
sing "Our hearts beat SKIP, and
we SKIP, but time changes everything. "
But then , what was KAOS
doing at the Thurston County
Fair amidst the livestock and the
marmalade? According to station manager Carl Cook, "We
were there for the same reason
we were at Lakefair: to make
people aware of Qur existence as
a comm unity radio station. We
tried to insure that all the community groups were represented.
We interviewed everyone from
a n old -time fiddler to politicians
to 4-H kids. We wanted the
whole flavor of the fair in our
broadcast."
Most KAOS_ people that I
spoke with thought it was well
wo rth the time and effort that
went into assembling and running a remote studio, despite the
difficult ies, because of the fair's
broadcast's value in public exposure for KAOS, as well as for
the production experience that
such an operation provides.
Setting up a remote studio entails disassembling the KAOS
production studio and installing

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GIG COMMISSION
COORDINATOR
"The year of the student."
Sounds nice, doesn't it? And
needless to say, it's about time.
After. fo\!r years of valiant
attempts to maintain this institution . with little emphasis on
you peon, second class folks
called "students," the administration has yielded to the reality
that you are, in fact, somewhat
necessary. Poor things, it's
killing them too . The sheer
agony of Kormondy saying
"student" is enough to move one
to tears. But yes, Martha, there
is a revolution, and it's called
Orientation Week '76, and (hopefully) it's gonna blo,w your mind.
This year you are Evergreen.
That, in fact, is the official
theme this year for the annual
week long effort at fitting those
confused, homesick creatures
called new students into the
chag~ ' o~ · Evergr~n. And with
the , ..f1l:lrolhpep! . problem, it is
vita,! . \hat we make every effort
this year seeing to the comforts
of those thousand or so individuals. It has previously been our
policy to do this with the
absolute minimum amount of
effort or inconvenience to ourselves - meaning all of us
hardcore , long-time burnouts
called "staff" - and save a few
who really do put 99% effort
into Orientation every year, we
have been extremely successful.
But this year we're trying
something new. We're going to
be nice. Yes, you heard it, it is
we who are going to be serving
you this fall, and here are a few
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The KAOS crew -in performance at the Thurston County Fair.
it in a trailer as a broadcast studio . The remote station is connected to the main station and
transmitter at the college by
means of telephone lines. The
whole process makes room for
all kinds of technical problems,
big and small. During my visit
to the KAOS trailer there seemed
to be a multitude of technical
difficulties taking place, including non-functional speakers, cables that were just a little too
short, and an interview thai
wasn't going over the air when it
s hould have been. Difficulties
were usually dealt with and
taken care of as soon as they
came up and in general. the fair
broadcast went smoothly . Of
course, it was hardly a normal

broadcast day at a normal station. The kitchen of a mobile
home is not designed to be a
radio station, and record storage
space was a little hard to come
by, so the soul records went in
the oven, the classical in the kitchen sink and the Monty Python
album was stored on the toilet
seat.
Not everyone was pleased
with the KAOS trailer's location,
which was a little out of the
way, behind Ma Bell's 100 Years
of Telephone History booth, and
a trailer selling scones. Several
KAOSites thought that the trailer should have been "more in the
thick of things." Program direclor Toni Holm didn't seem to
mind the trailer's location and

was pleased with the response
that KAOS drew from fair-goers.
"All kinds of people stopped
in to say hello," she said, "and
when we had disco music playing, kids even started dancing
outside. Besides, the best things
at the fair were the scones and
the antique telephone key chains
that Bell was giving away."
Unfortunately, KAOS did not
have any prize rabbits or zucchini to put up for a blue ribbon
but they did send a contestant
into the ladies News Media Ct>w .
Milking Contest and came in
eighth in a field of twelve. I have
been told that some of Olympia's
more corrupt news organizations "
hired 4-H kids to do their milk- .
ing for them. So it goes.

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Plann ing the final details fo r a jam-packed Orientation Week are, 1. to r., Cheryl Pegues, Constance
Palaia and Bonnie Hilts.
at Evergreen. And we are trying
to get over our differences with
you and learn to exist with you
in harmony during your stay
here. So give Orientation Week
a try this year. Who knows, we
may even get to like you.

MODULE
CHOICE FOR FALL
EXTENSIVE
Almost 50 modules will be offered at Evergreen Fall quarter in
an effort to attract more parttime students to the college.
Only 12 modules were offered
by the school for Fall quarter
last year.
The modules are offered in the
afternoon and evening to allow
full time students and working
people. to .. ~t!~nd .• ttem ..•, Ihey
range In class - slz~ from 10 to 50
students and will include such diverse topics as Marine Mammal
Phenomena , Women and the
Law, and Music Cultures of the
World.
To take the modules, a person
must be enrolled either as a special student, a regular student, or
a part-time student.
A complete list of modules for
Fall quarter follows:
ARTS
Basic Audio Recording Techniques
Beginning Acting
Beginning Modern Dance
Dance Performance
History of the American Theater
Intermediate Ballet
Life Drawing
Music Cultures of the World
Music Fundamentals
Photography: Perceptions and
Execution

Beginning Japanese
French, First Year
French, Second Year
French, Third Year
French, Fourth Year
Journalism of Politics
Literature of Existentialism
Spanish, First Year
Spanish, Second Year
Spanish, Third Year
Spanish, Fourth Year
Writing
NATURAL SCIENCES &
MATHEMATICS
Basic Ecology
Catastrophe Theory
General Biology I
Marine Botany
Marine History
Marine Mammal Phenomenon
Mushrooms of the Northwest
Precalculus Math
Soil and Water Engineering
Telephone & Its Use in Modem
Society
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Foundations of Applied Psychology
Introduction to Political Economy
Journalism of Politics
Legislature & Legislative Process
Social Statistics
Telephone & Its Use in Modern
Society
Thinking About Crime
Women and the Law
OTHERS, including Interdisciplinary Studies
Ajax Compact II /You & the Future
Between the Covers
Business Communications
Computers and You

The Thurston County Commissioners voted on August 2 to
rezone the property at the
Burlington Northern industrial .
site from "urban" to "rural." The
vote was 2-1 in favor of the
rural designation , with Ken
Stevens from District #2 voting
to keep the urban zoning. The
new rural zoning could be
subject to change if Burlington
Northern decides to approach
t he commission with a new
proposal in the future.
Burlington Northern's original
proposal was to build an 1800'
pier for a loading dock faCility
which would have transported
industrial goods from an adjacent
1350 acre industrial park. The
dock was to be located approximately one mile from the
Nisqually Estuary.
On the other side of the
Nisqually Estuary, Weyerhauser
wants to extend their existing
dock faCility to handle their
wood products. The area now
known as the Dupont Dynamite
factory is phasing out its
production and Weyerhauser is
planning to use the site and
shoreline for industrial development.
Several public hearings have
been held and Weyerhauser has
been requested to provide more
information concerning what
long-range plans they have for
the Dupont site.
More hearings are scheduled in
the future on thi s issue and the
battle between the environmentalists and industry continues.

the Olympia Community Center,
East 4th Avenue at 7:30 p .m. To
discuss and give information on
proposed projects . 1) 73 unit
Lakeshore complex and 2) Capitol Lake restoration plan . All
interested persons invited. For
further information call 943-2616.
• Dancin' in the Moonlight!
This Saturday night KAOS,FM
is putti,ng on a free dance , open
to everyone ...
The event will take place in
the grassy area where the roads
to the dorms from campus split.
Starting at 9 p.m. and continuing
as long as people can dance, we
hope this will be the first of
many outdoor dances throughout
the summer and into fall.
• Visually handicapped library
patrons can readily find out
what book titles are available in
large print through any Timberland Regional Library. The Ii,
brary system has published 3,000
copies of a large print book list
which has been distributed to its
25 libraries and four bookmobiles. The lists are in book form
and are available free to the pub,
Iic. They contain author, title
and other information on more
than 900 large print book titles
Timberland has available .

Herbal Shampoos
Shaklee Distributors
Ma ssage Ods
Complete select Io n of herbs
2181/2 West Fourth
Olympia, Wa. 98501

• More apartments on Capitol
Lakeshore? Citizen orientation
meeting, Monday August 16 at

Phone: 1206 I 357-9470

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NEW ADDRESS: Harrison & Division
Olympia, Washington

HUMANITIES
Basic Russian
Beginning Chinese

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downtown Olympia
bringing you very fresh
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Bulletins and registration forms for graduate school admission
testing are now available at Career Planning and Placement. Lib.
1214. Seniors take note of the following dates:

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Test Date:
October 16
Registration Deadline: September 20
LSAT :
Test Date:
October 9
Registration Deadline: September 9
MeAT: • Test Date :
October 2
Registration Deadline: September 3
'Only MCAT offered this year.
Practice GRE and LSAT: September 29

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First, an Academic Fair and
Mini Academic Fair that extend
into the evening to allow
working class folks to have an
equal opportunity with those
magic green cards. Not that we
will be open during lunch, mind
you, but after all, I1obody's
perfect. And, a centralization of
enrollment services so you won't
end up in the ,, ~s.pital with
1>;, " \ d"ue to the
nervous ex h aumon»
9th trip that day you've made
between the Registrar's office in
the Seminar Building, and the
Cashier on the first floor of the
library. We're going to wear
name tags so you can give us
shit this time around. There will
be an all-campus meeting Monday morning in Red Square to
give us a chance to say hello to
each other and to show you
what we look like. (You may
never see certain faculty members or administrators again.)
. There will even be a dramatic
production on "How to Survive
at Evergreen .. . and Like It."
And you're going to have fun,
too. We're having coffee, dances,
organized team sports, noncompetitive individual games,
something called "Physical Fun"
(and you'll have to make your
own decisions on what that is),
and some very interesting tours.
You can even be an artist and
paint your face (or ours) on one
of our giant outdoor murals.
So what do you think? It all
souncll; crazy, but then that's the
first and last word in PV'.MI'thllnl>

Contemporary Issues in language & Thought
Governmental Accounting
Intermediate Accoun'ting
logical Thinking
Public Budgeting Systems

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Lon & Pat Hogue
208 W . 4th
357-6762

Hours 9 - 9 Dltily

Sunday ,7
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College Activities Building
866-2440; Open 12 - 3

Main Office
Soulh Sound Center
491-4144

Black Lake Office
Black Lake Boulevard
357-5200

Tanglewilde Office
Martin Way
491 -4512

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Middle Earth Mercantile - Utilitarian ' Ut'e nsils

b \' Teresa Imfeld
"Nt' we dc,"'t live in holes and
we don't have hairy feet!" exclaimed Allen Ledford , one of
the four collective owners of the
new Fourth Street shop. the Midd:e Earth Mercantile. The name ,
h,'wever . was inspired by J.R.R.
r olkien's The Hobbit and has ac'
tually caused a few curious customers to stop in and give the

place an anxious look . Although
they do not find short, fat, timid,
crea t u res behind the coun ter,
they do come into contact with
some friendly people who have a
worthwhile idea.
Besides Ledford, these people
include Harry Hill, Carol Clark
and Lynda Carlson. Together
they make up the total partnership of the Middle Earth Mercan-

tile, and each one agrees that the
basic idea behind the shop is to
sell good quality, efficiency
tools at a low cost to the customer.
A strong effort has been put
forth to equip the store with all
non-electrical products, and
plans for an increase in handcrafted items, such as wooden

towel racks and wooden toilet
paper dispensers, are being
worked out.
"Everything has a purpose,"
said the owners. Items displayed
in the shop are "not something
just to buy" and put on a table,
they all serve a useful function.
"Utilitarian utensils," the accompanying phrase under the
window , serves to include everything from simple wooden bowls
and dishes, to more elaborate
grain mills and kerosene lamps.
Items such as rakes, hoes, and
Swiss army knives can also be
found among the creative oystercrate shelves and recycled wood
paneling.
County Tool and Supply, distributors out of Eugene, Oregon
who originated the store, are
Middle Earth Mercantile's largest
wholesaler. Other supply companies include Associated Hardware out of Portland and People's Supply out of Seattle.
Hill describes the store and its
operation as an "alternative business," one that has a main thrust
but no limitation. The theme of
"tools," or "apparatus," covers
such a wide category that wooden buttons are sold alongside of
hammers and hammers alongside of bread pans.
The store and its contents are
not aimed at any particular age
group nor anyone in a specific

financial bracket . "We aTe ~?t ~ ,
supporters of inflation," stated '
Hill. He added that prices woul<J:'"
only go up if the wholesale cost
did. However, Ledford emphasized that if wholesale prices
went down, then theirs would
decrease also. Prices can run
from under a dollar to up into
the teens, depending on what the
product is.
.
The shop, located at 202 West
Fourth where the Square Deal
Trading Post used to be, had its
"grand opening" on Thursday
July 22. At present it is a small
place with 80 % of its inventory
centered around food preparation.
Futu re plans, however, are already being made to expand the
shop within the next few months.
One addition would be to carry
more hardware and mechanic's
tools, and there are also hopes of
organizing a "special order" department.
The group explains that they
are "not in it for the money, but
to provide quality tools, and for
the experience ." Hill commented
that at first he was leery. of get~
ting into salesmanship, ' ~ur he "~,
realized that this : type" of 's;iles ,~.,
was different. The" Middle 'Eittff" ,
Mercantile deals in needed, functional products, not something
for which a false need has to be
created.
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by Karrie Jacobs
Thl' >;rey stuff turned into mist

and t he mist turned int o a driz zle. T here I was at the Thurston
Co unty Fair and it was raining.
Well. ", hat do you expect? But.
I'll be damned if I'll go on the
ferri s whee l in the rain . so I wande red about in the rustic wooden
, heds. shuffling through wood
shavings and admiring the blue
ribb"n cabbages, the blue ribbon
da ff"dil s, and the blue ribbon
?encil hl, lders. I stood nose-tonust' w i ~h the biggest cow that
l've eVl'r see n in my life and
av oided the pigs. (You never
I-. no,",' what kind of diseases . . . )
Then I go t bored, so I ambled
over to the KAOS trailer, a
monstrou s white thing, affectionate ly referred to as the White
Elep hant . which was pumping
Bob Wills and the Texa~ Playboys out of a plastic-covered
speaker on the roof. The sign
taped to the door sa id, "Step
softly (or the record will skip) ,"

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and su re enough, as I plodded
around in the not-so-spacious
mobile home I heard Bob Wills
sing "Our hearts beat SKIP, and
we SKIP, but time changes everything. "
But then , what was KAOS
doing at the Thurston County
Fair amidst the livestock and the
marmalade? According to station manager Carl Cook, "We
were there for the same reason
we were at Lakefair: to make
people aware of Qur existence as
a comm unity radio station. We
tried to insure that all the community groups were represented.
We interviewed everyone from
a n old -time fiddler to politicians
to 4-H kids. We wanted the
whole flavor of the fair in our
broadcast."
Most KAOS_ people that I
spoke with thought it was well
wo rth the time and effort that
went into assembling and running a remote studio, despite the
difficult ies, because of the fair's
broadcast's value in public exposure for KAOS, as well as for
the production experience that
such an operation provides.
Setting up a remote studio entails disassembling the KAOS
production studio and installing

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GIG COMMISSION
COORDINATOR
"The year of the student."
Sounds nice, doesn't it? And
needless to say, it's about time.
After. fo\!r years of valiant
attempts to maintain this institution . with little emphasis on
you peon, second class folks
called "students," the administration has yielded to the reality
that you are, in fact, somewhat
necessary. Poor things, it's
killing them too . The sheer
agony of Kormondy saying
"student" is enough to move one
to tears. But yes, Martha, there
is a revolution, and it's called
Orientation Week '76, and (hopefully) it's gonna blo,w your mind.
This year you are Evergreen.
That, in fact, is the official
theme this year for the annual
week long effort at fitting those
confused, homesick creatures
called new students into the
chag~ ' o~ · Evergr~n. And with
the , ..f1l:lrolhpep! . problem, it is
vita,! . \hat we make every effort
this year seeing to the comforts
of those thousand or so individuals. It has previously been our
policy to do this with the
absolute minimum amount of
effort or inconvenience to ourselves - meaning all of us
hardcore , long-time burnouts
called "staff" - and save a few
who really do put 99% effort
into Orientation every year, we
have been extremely successful.
But this year we're trying
something new. We're going to
be nice. Yes, you heard it, it is
we who are going to be serving
you this fall, and here are a few
,exallJP!es &oiAA.kind .of, ~£f? r,I;5,.."

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The KAOS crew -in performance at the Thurston County Fair.
it in a trailer as a broadcast studio . The remote station is connected to the main station and
transmitter at the college by
means of telephone lines. The
whole process makes room for
all kinds of technical problems,
big and small. During my visit
to the KAOS trailer there seemed
to be a multitude of technical
difficulties taking place, including non-functional speakers, cables that were just a little too
short, and an interview thai
wasn't going over the air when it
s hould have been. Difficulties
were usually dealt with and
taken care of as soon as they
came up and in general. the fair
broadcast went smoothly . Of
course, it was hardly a normal

broadcast day at a normal station. The kitchen of a mobile
home is not designed to be a
radio station, and record storage
space was a little hard to come
by, so the soul records went in
the oven, the classical in the kitchen sink and the Monty Python
album was stored on the toilet
seat.
Not everyone was pleased
with the KAOS trailer's location,
which was a little out of the
way, behind Ma Bell's 100 Years
of Telephone History booth, and
a trailer selling scones. Several
KAOSites thought that the trailer should have been "more in the
thick of things." Program direclor Toni Holm didn't seem to
mind the trailer's location and

was pleased with the response
that KAOS drew from fair-goers.
"All kinds of people stopped
in to say hello," she said, "and
when we had disco music playing, kids even started dancing
outside. Besides, the best things
at the fair were the scones and
the antique telephone key chains
that Bell was giving away."
Unfortunately, KAOS did not
have any prize rabbits or zucchini to put up for a blue ribbon
but they did send a contestant
into the ladies News Media Ct>w .
Milking Contest and came in
eighth in a field of twelve. I have
been told that some of Olympia's
more corrupt news organizations "
hired 4-H kids to do their milk- .
ing for them. So it goes.

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Plann ing the final details fo r a jam-packed Orientation Week are, 1. to r., Cheryl Pegues, Constance
Palaia and Bonnie Hilts.
at Evergreen. And we are trying
to get over our differences with
you and learn to exist with you
in harmony during your stay
here. So give Orientation Week
a try this year. Who knows, we
may even get to like you.

MODULE
CHOICE FOR FALL
EXTENSIVE
Almost 50 modules will be offered at Evergreen Fall quarter in
an effort to attract more parttime students to the college.
Only 12 modules were offered
by the school for Fall quarter
last year.
The modules are offered in the
afternoon and evening to allow
full time students and working
people. to .. ~t!~nd .• ttem ..•, Ihey
range In class - slz~ from 10 to 50
students and will include such diverse topics as Marine Mammal
Phenomena , Women and the
Law, and Music Cultures of the
World.
To take the modules, a person
must be enrolled either as a special student, a regular student, or
a part-time student.
A complete list of modules for
Fall quarter follows:
ARTS
Basic Audio Recording Techniques
Beginning Acting
Beginning Modern Dance
Dance Performance
History of the American Theater
Intermediate Ballet
Life Drawing
Music Cultures of the World
Music Fundamentals
Photography: Perceptions and
Execution

Beginning Japanese
French, First Year
French, Second Year
French, Third Year
French, Fourth Year
Journalism of Politics
Literature of Existentialism
Spanish, First Year
Spanish, Second Year
Spanish, Third Year
Spanish, Fourth Year
Writing
NATURAL SCIENCES &
MATHEMATICS
Basic Ecology
Catastrophe Theory
General Biology I
Marine Botany
Marine History
Marine Mammal Phenomenon
Mushrooms of the Northwest
Precalculus Math
Soil and Water Engineering
Telephone & Its Use in Modem
Society
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Foundations of Applied Psychology
Introduction to Political Economy
Journalism of Politics
Legislature & Legislative Process
Social Statistics
Telephone & Its Use in Modern
Society
Thinking About Crime
Women and the Law
OTHERS, including Interdisciplinary Studies
Ajax Compact II /You & the Future
Between the Covers
Business Communications
Computers and You

The Thurston County Commissioners voted on August 2 to
rezone the property at the
Burlington Northern industrial .
site from "urban" to "rural." The
vote was 2-1 in favor of the
rural designation , with Ken
Stevens from District #2 voting
to keep the urban zoning. The
new rural zoning could be
subject to change if Burlington
Northern decides to approach
t he commission with a new
proposal in the future.
Burlington Northern's original
proposal was to build an 1800'
pier for a loading dock faCility
which would have transported
industrial goods from an adjacent
1350 acre industrial park. The
dock was to be located approximately one mile from the
Nisqually Estuary.
On the other side of the
Nisqually Estuary, Weyerhauser
wants to extend their existing
dock faCility to handle their
wood products. The area now
known as the Dupont Dynamite
factory is phasing out its
production and Weyerhauser is
planning to use the site and
shoreline for industrial development.
Several public hearings have
been held and Weyerhauser has
been requested to provide more
information concerning what
long-range plans they have for
the Dupont site.
More hearings are scheduled in
the future on thi s issue and the
battle between the environmentalists and industry continues.

the Olympia Community Center,
East 4th Avenue at 7:30 p .m. To
discuss and give information on
proposed projects . 1) 73 unit
Lakeshore complex and 2) Capitol Lake restoration plan . All
interested persons invited. For
further information call 943-2616.
• Dancin' in the Moonlight!
This Saturday night KAOS,FM
is putti,ng on a free dance , open
to everyone ...
The event will take place in
the grassy area where the roads
to the dorms from campus split.
Starting at 9 p.m. and continuing
as long as people can dance, we
hope this will be the first of
many outdoor dances throughout
the summer and into fall.
• Visually handicapped library
patrons can readily find out
what book titles are available in
large print through any Timberland Regional Library. The Ii,
brary system has published 3,000
copies of a large print book list
which has been distributed to its
25 libraries and four bookmobiles. The lists are in book form
and are available free to the pub,
Iic. They contain author, title
and other information on more
than 900 large print book titles
Timberland has available .

Herbal Shampoos
Shaklee Distributors
Ma ssage Ods
Complete select Io n of herbs
2181/2 West Fourth
Olympia, Wa. 98501

• More apartments on Capitol
Lakeshore? Citizen orientation
meeting, Monday August 16 at

Phone: 1206 I 357-9470

ALL WAYS TRAVEL SERVICE. INC.

NEW ADDRESS: Harrison & Division
Olympia, Washington

HUMANITIES
Basic Russian
Beginning Chinese

A new business in
downtown Olympia
bringing you very fresh
seafood from the best
of local sources.

Olympia

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Fish Market

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Bulletins and registration forms for graduate school admission
testing are now available at Career Planning and Placement. Lib.
1214. Seniors take note of the following dates:

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GRE:

Test Date:
October 16
Registration Deadline: September 20
LSAT :
Test Date:
October 9
Registration Deadline: September 9
MeAT: • Test Date :
October 2
Registration Deadline: September 3
'Only MCAT offered this year.
Practice GRE and LSAT: September 29

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First, an Academic Fair and
Mini Academic Fair that extend
into the evening to allow
working class folks to have an
equal opportunity with those
magic green cards. Not that we
will be open during lunch, mind
you, but after all, I1obody's
perfect. And, a centralization of
enrollment services so you won't
end up in the ,, ~s.pital with
1>;, " \ d"ue to the
nervous ex h aumon»
9th trip that day you've made
between the Registrar's office in
the Seminar Building, and the
Cashier on the first floor of the
library. We're going to wear
name tags so you can give us
shit this time around. There will
be an all-campus meeting Monday morning in Red Square to
give us a chance to say hello to
each other and to show you
what we look like. (You may
never see certain faculty members or administrators again.)
. There will even be a dramatic
production on "How to Survive
at Evergreen .. . and Like It."
And you're going to have fun,
too. We're having coffee, dances,
organized team sports, noncompetitive individual games,
something called "Physical Fun"
(and you'll have to make your
own decisions on what that is),
and some very interesting tours.
You can even be an artist and
paint your face (or ours) on one
of our giant outdoor murals.
So what do you think? It all
souncll; crazy, but then that's the
first and last word in PV'.MI'thllnl>

Contemporary Issues in language & Thought
Governmental Accounting
Intermediate Accoun'ting
logical Thinking
Public Budgeting Systems

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Lon & Pat Hogue
208 W . 4th
357-6762

Hours 9 - 9 Dltily

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College Activities Building
866-2440; Open 12 - 3

Main Office
Soulh Sound Center
491-4144

Black Lake Office
Black Lake Boulevard
357-5200

Tanglewilde Office
Martin Way
491 -4512

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by Sam Solomon
" I get tired of answering all
the criticism I get from people
who consider US nothing more
than mental whores ." In these
wl'r d s . Michael F. Beardsley ,
\'ice -president and senior account
~xec utive at Advertising Research
A,soc iates, Inc. , New York City,
Il,ld me what I shou ld /lot ask in
.m exclusive interview I obtained
I(lr the I Olm11l1 last week. BeardsIpv , who lold me thai his middle
Inil ia l stood for "Freeky" (af ter
Ihe m ain headline in his most
'liccessf ul ad ), was on his way to
., co n vent ion in L.A. and stopped
1111 in Olympia to visit an old
Ifl en d and bu s ine ss associa te
I,'h ll now works fo r the Lacey
Il'dde r . As if to further justify
: his ,1ut-ot-the-way stop, BeardsIe\' told me that his mother hap,'e ns to reside in Shelton . "Sweet
" Id thing she is, too ," he said.
!'<'rgoing all questions about
pn >< titLltion , I asked "Freeky"
"b011t some of his most famous
" J , . " I remember ' This' ad
c\pa I h· " recalled the complacent,
~rJ\ In,: executive . The "This" ad
con ,, <.ted of three consecutive
ri)!h: - hand pages, the first conta ini ng the word "This" printed
Ir. ~ l1lall white letters in the center " I d black background coverin.: th e entire page; the second
( ":ltinuing the white-on-black
let t<' ring starting with " is the fin1',1 [\'pewriter money can buy.
and the third showing a
lull-co lor photo of an artfully arr,m ged table-fLlI of typewriters,
a ll manufactured by the adverti w r . The ad ran simultaneously
in Harper's , Playboy, the Saturda,· Review. Psychology Today,
E~qLlire, Business Week. Time
anJ . Newsweek for several
m()nl hs.
"The advertiser was willing to
go Ihree pages, " said Freeky of
the "This" ad, "so we wanted
someth ing that would catch and
hold people's attention for all
three pages, not something they
c()uld just turn past and ignore."
Thp acco unt executive proceeded
t() tell me about what advertising
people cal l the "gla nce factor."
·It you've got a page of gray
magazine copy talking about the
latest coup in Pelopenesia or an
interview with Amy Carter," he
said, "a block of black background in an ad is going to attract the reader's eye every time
he glances away from his story ."
Beardsley explained that most
reade rs will glance from copy to
ad anywhere from one to ten
times per minute , depending on
factors such as genera l nervousness, difficulty of the story , how
upsetting the story they are reading is , etc. "We especially like to
place these kinds of ads in news
and technical magazines, where
you'll find the most upsetting or
difficult kinds of articles ," he
sa id .

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of Science and Conservation (SCICON) in the
Sierra Nevada foothi lis
has openings for people:
Two or more years
college;
Major in sciences or
humanities;
Concerned with the
environment; and
Working with sixth
grade children for the
school year 1976-77.
Board and room and
student stipend,
WRITE: SCICON
Education Bldg,
Visalia , Calif,
93277

Beardsley Tells All

Beardsley's famous "Freeky" ad, from which he claims he took
his middle name .
asked Beardsley to compare
the This ad to something like the
"dog" ad , which was based on
an entirely different concept. At
the top of the page of the "dog"
ad was a simple color snapshot
of an old man, with the copy below telling in his own semi-literate language about how his
dog buried a camera made by
the advertiser, and when the
man dug it up ten years later
while building a sandbox for his

grandchild, it worked like new.
The last lines, which later became so famous, read, "So I
gave it to Mabel and asked her
to take my pitcher, .i ust to show
em. See? Here it is. That's me l"
The last three brief sentences
were later made into a popular
song, bringing nationwide fame
to the ad and, indirectly, to its
author.
"We like to do something
simple but heartwarming every

once in a while," explained
Freeky . "We knew the dog part
of the ad would appeal to dog
lovers, of course, and .the farmer
would capture the rural folk who
comprise so much of our nation's
population. We kept it out of the
exclusively urban magazines, of
course, except the ones such as
Atlantic and Harper's, where we
figured most readers would not
take it seriously . I must admit I
had no plans for such a smashing success before that song
made it a catchword of the teen
set." Following the song's success
the ad was placed in a ll the big
national magazines where most
readers became familiar with it.
I wanted to know a little
abou t ethics in advertising, and
asked Freeky what he does when
he is assigned an account from
an advertiser he has a philosophical or other disagreement with .
"That's never a problem," answered Freeky. ''I'm the vice
president, so if I don't like an account I'll just assign it to one of
the other account executives,"
And what would Beardsley suggest one of them do if faced with
a moral dilemma of this type?
" It would depend on th~ agency," said Beardsley. "In ours, we
don ' t tolerate such fickleness.
He'd be out on his ear that afternoon. But some of the other less
successful agencies might be able

to reassIgn the acC:i>unt or work
something e.lse out . .reT5oAal.l~,#
can't see why ·:that pr.oJ'le~
should ever occur."
:.';;'~:'Y.·
I asked Beardsley if he (elr
appreciated and unrecognized fOrthe brainpower and labor that go'
into each ad he does, when t!:ley
are all either ignored or credited
to the advertiser. "It's too bad
that people don't ask more questions about the ads they look
at," answered Freeky. "Sometimes I feel sort of lonely, but
then I just get back to work on
my latest account, and I become
totally absorbed. And my salary
helps ease some of the pain,
too ." (Beardsley reportedly earns
over a million dollars per year.)
"Do you consider yourself an
artist?"
"Oh, by all means, " answered
Beardsley, ''I'm as serious as the
next guy, be he Keinholtz, Wiley ,
Toni Smith, Warhol, Klein, Gilhooley, Stokes or Avedon. We're
all in there pitching, sincerely
trying to do our thing:'
It was time for Beardsley and 1
to go our separate ways, so
knowing just that much more
about the workings of the mind
of an advertising executive, I bid
"Freeky" a farewell, wished him
luck with future accounts, and
let him continue on his way to
Shelton. And the following
Thursday when I picked the lat est Time Magazine out of my
mailbox, I paid just a little bit
more attention to the ads , I
wonder who thought of that
one?

Movie Roundup
by Frankie Foster
THE MAN WHO
FELL TO EARTH
There are a number of good
arguments both for and against
whether this film works or not.
But there is one thing that there
is no question about. David
Bowie's portrayal of the title
character is perfect, making the
film at the very least a successful
star vehicle for him . . If you are
into science fiction you will
probably find this example entertaining, because it is after all
above average in quality for this
genre. But the average movie
watchers are bound to become
disappointed once they realize
that Nicholas Roeg's obscure
style of film-making tries to present the most interesting aspects
of the story in an abstract manner, leaving a strong taste of
lack of communication and frustration.
On the other hand, if you're
willing to accept lots of unanswered questions this film can be
a lot of fun . Strangeness seems
to have been made the main
priority and most of the clever
use of special effects help to
reach that goal. However, towards the end the unwise use of
extreme make-up on several of

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damage the realism of the production. And Candy Clark as
the girl friend (the bitchin' babe
from American Graffiti) doesn't
seem to have a voice that changes
any from teenager to middleage. Buck Henry is much better
as the lawyer who takes care of
Bowie's huge corporation. Like
Roeg's two previous films Walkabout and Performance, this film
is bound to get a wide range of
reactions. It's worth the trouble
to discover yours for yourself,
SOLARIS
The film that some people
have called, Russia's answer to
America's 2001: A Space Odyssey is no such thing in my opinion. The story moves very
slowly with only occasional special effects, which are all of television-grade quality. It's possible
that a lot was lost -in the translation to subtitles. Since the film is
quite verbal, which is nearly the
opposite of 2001, which contained no dialog for the first 30
minutes.
SWASHBUCKLER
There · are some interesting
things beneath the surface of this
parental- guidance - rated action
film. For one thing there is actually an adventuress among the
adventurers. And for the first
time that I can remember I heard
the enthusiastic voices of young
girls reacting to scenes of danger
and excitement much in the same
way that an Evergreen audience
would react to the snappy dialog
of a Katherine Hepburn movie.
The old-fashioned adventure
film has been carefully modernized in this production but it
can't help but come across a lit tle contrived to the nit-picky
film critics among us . How be·

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Tom Kramer

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style long hair."

Iievable is a story where a black
man, a woman, and a white
male join together to fight a
common evil? But the kids can
dig it and perhaps it will help the
country some to have a genera-tion of kids that have grown up
on entertainment like this . i It .
stars Robert Shaw and James
Earl Jones as the good guy pirates, with Genevieve Bujold as
the strong-willed daughter of a
political prisoner and Peter Boyle
as the common evil.
by Stan Shore
BLACKBIRD
A movie buff's film as much
about The Maltese Falcon as it is
about anything else, Blackbird
fails because it can't resist cheap
jokes instead of the sustained
satire that was the film's original
intent. George Segal plays Sam
Spade Jr. in an un-Bogartish
fashion, having only the gloss of
ineptness and none of the style
of the original.
The plot of the film, simply
told, is that a cheap lead imitation of the Falcon that was given
to the original Sam Spade as a
souvenir of his exploit winds up
to be the real thing. Sam Spade
Jr. is then thrust into the remarkable ultra-Lamarkian predicament of trying to decide what to
do with the bird.
A few laughs only .
ROBIN AND MARIAN
On the surface a shallow
maudlin melodrama about Robin
and Marian grown old, this production actually has much more
to it. Each of the characters in
the film while superficially
portraying the inhabitants of the
fabled Sherwood fo'r est - are
actuaJly modeled on different
functions of the mind as outlined
in Kant's "Analytic" in Critique

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of Pure Reason.
Robin plays the part of Understanding, Marian plays the Imagination and Sherwood Forest is
Space and Time. The film keeps
you guessing all the way tiJI the
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Not suggested for any but philosophy majors.
MURDER BY DEATH
This quaint Neil Simon comedy is not as bad as it might
have been, but not nearly as
good as it should have been considering the talent of'the individuals participating. Those individuals are: Truman Capote, Peter
Falk, Peter Sene~, pavi~ N,iv~n, I
and Mag'gi~ ~'-Smith,. lI~d\;H9Jiif
whom - except- CapOfe ' - ' pl~Y;s
a famous detective. Capote: who
was typecast, plays a madman,
This is another detective satire
making fun of the intricate plots
of most detective novels and of
the obscure methodology" hlployed by every fictiohal detec ~
tive since Sherlock Holmes.
There are a few witty moments, but all things considered,
the film would have been better
if Capote had written it and
Simon had played the madman.
SILENT MOVIE
Silent Movie is the worst film
I have ever seen. It is pathetic to
see a comedy director of Mel
Brooks' caliber stoop to the
quick-flick showmanship of a
Bob Hope Special. This film is a
series of guest star 'cameos; including such greats as Liza
Minnelli, Paul Newman and Burt
Reynolds.
The film is indeed silent, but
that doesn't help make it " any
funnier. In fact, it may · well
make it worse. We have aome to'
expect only the best from a .silent
movie, as the only ones seen any
more are the- classics from : a by"
gone era. Mel Brooks has revived ·
the genre, and defiles it _with ,this
trite, un-funny, long boring, am ateurish, pretentious film .
One good feature: for.' those
who have never beerr, the~e', ' , tl\e'
film was shot mostly: inl ~verh' "
Hills; since the, mm has: J)~A;I)k:!..' ,
ing, and nothing funny, wat~h
ing it has the c'uTrt'u lative t!ffe-e{
of having seen somebodY~ '1\om~ ;f·
movies of their trip to L.A ,
If he'd only gone to Disney land . ..

L.A. Rocks
:the Kingdo ••• e
by Nathaniel Koch
It was a co ncert promoter's
dream. Book the Eagles into Seatt le 's KingdomI' (which had
seated upwards of 67,000 for
McCartney's Wings) and throw
in musical kin Linda Ronstadt
. and John David Souther for
openers. The Eagles, after all,
have probably become the most
popular U.S . band in the world
with each successive single be~
coming a monster on the AM
charts. With an $8 admission
price ($10 - Day of Show)?how cl
could you lose?
Having seen the Eagles perform at Paramount NW with
Dan Fogleberg in March, 1974, I
knew this was an attractive offer.
But as the Eagles' popularity
seemed to increase, so did their
desire to play before larger audiences in acoustically inferior
sports arenas. Coming on the
h~-TJ~ V1~.)il~,t : y. ~a:li) seriously
f1jlr",e~Nre pf, J.~se. . Nigllts albu.m,i ..1 had avoided the band
when they appeared in August,
1975, at Seattle Center's Coliseum . However this time, I was
willing to take a chance. Combini~ Souther, Ronstadt 'and
tlie . ~agl!!s in one packag~ deal
was' t?O bdlliant a concept to refuse.
.
1 began wondering if [ had
made a mistake as I entered the
Kingdome's massive structure. It
easily holds four times as many
people' as the Coliseum. Faced
with sitting what seemed like a
mile from the stage, I opted for
crowding right up to the front,
along with a few thousand other
people. As it turned out, this decision was a wise one, even
though it meant standing for
over seven hours.
The unfortunates sitting on the
sides and rear of the 'dome
without binoculars had to be
content with viewing the show
L ~n a giant color TV screen hangmg over the rear of the stage.
For an hour and a half before
the concert and during breaks,
the cameramen amused themselves (and what appeared to be
about half the audience) by flashing close-ups of women's breasts
and faces on the huge screen ,
There was no telling when some
poor idiot would glance up and
find himself hovering over 50,000
people with "You're A Starl" emblazoned across his chest.

Wben J.D. Souther began the
shQW . with "The Fast One" off

hi s first a lbum, it was obvious
the P.A. system was going to be
a problem. From where I was
standing, the sound , at times,
would roa.r overhead and reverberate, seconds later, off the far
wall. Although this tended to detract from the music's subtlet ies
J.D. Souther and band played ~
strong 12 song set. Most of the
material was from his recent
Black Rose LP and the two
Souther, Hillman, Furay Band albums. J.D.'s fragile voice was in
top form throughout, especially
on T the ·5.!t's' l'tigh 'l'bint: a grinding electric version of "White
Wing."
Linda Ronstadt's new album
Hasten Down The Wind is due
to be released soon and her set
included nine new songs, among
others from her last three records. She was obviously enthusiastic about performing and confident in leading her new fivepiece band which features the
versatile Andrew Gold on guitar
and keyboards, and Waddy
Wachtel (who can be heard on
James Taylor's In The Pocket album) on lead guitar. They provided tight backup support, occasionally faltering a bit on the
difficult "You're No Good" and
Neil Young's "Love Is A Rose."
Despite the irritating acoustics,
which at times resembled an
echo chamber, Linda was at her
best during her long 19 song set.
As usual, the material mainly
dealt with heartbreak, lost lovers,
loneliness, and unrequited love .
In a new song, Ronstadt defiantly sang " It's not losing you
that's got me down so low, I just
can't find another man," and the
strength of the performance was
achingly magic. For a well-deserved encore, she brought J. D .
Souther out for a duet on his
"Faith less Love" which asks
"Faithless love, where did [ g~
wrong / Was it telling stories in a
heartbreak song1"
It wasn't until 11 p.m, that the
Eagles finally appeared on stage.
Beginning with the obligatory
"Take It Easy," the band moved
through seemingly perfect renditions of their "greatest hits" including "Desperado," "The Best
of My Love," "Lyin' Eyes,"
"Witchy Woman," and an awkward "One of These Nights,"
Had the evening been limited
to this familiar retrospective, I
would have been tempted to
agree with critic Robert Christgau when he said "The Eagles
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and false. " But the addition of
Joe Wa lsh (formerly of the James
Gang and Barnstorm) has added
an important new dimension to
the band's chemistry. His skillful
guitar-playing makes many of
the Eagles' tired rock pieces come
alive with a new soulful authority. In turn, the Eagles have
added stunning technical force
behind such Walsh compositions
as "Turn To Stone," "/149." and
"Walk Away." The showcase for
the band's awesome instrumental
talel~t was found in "Rocky
Mountain Way" where guitarists
Glen Frey, Don Felder, and Joe
Walsh exchanged biting solo
lines before Walsh moved up to
the curtain of the stage for a
long extended solo . Clearly, the
high point of the concert.

It should be mentioned that
the Eagles' singing was almost
flawless throughout. Bassist
Randy Meisner's incredibly
breathtaking vocal on "Take It
To The Limit" prompted Glen
Frey to remark, "The highest
voice in the business .. . and he
can sing higher, too." Their
superb vocal harmonies were
featured in a beautiful acoustic
version of "Seven Bridges Row"
with drummer Don Henley stepping down to sing with the other
four. It was reminiscent of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
[ hesitate to pompously proclaim the Eagles the best rock
band in the world, but they are
definitely in the running for top
position. More importantly, they
have continued to grow as a
band. With One of These Nights
now a year old, it will be interesting to see what they can produce in the studio with Joe
Walsh. Until then, we can only
view the band's exciting metamorphosis on the concert stage.
Although the Eagles were
seemingly able to transcend the
Kingdome's terrible acoustics
with impressive musicianship
and seasoned professionalism,
much of the evening's music
threatened to be ruined by the
atmosphere. Stated plainly, the
Kingdome may be excellent for
sporting events or Billy Graham
revivals, but it is no place for
music, When musicians are merchandised into performing in
large arenas like the KingdomI',
concerts threaten to become
"events" and the music and audience usually suffer for it. It is a
rare occasion when musical artistry dominates.

FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Friday , August 20
DUEL tN THE SUN (1946. 138
min .) King Vidor's trashy, raCist,
sexist western. Some will fi nd it
quite amUSing . Jenn ifer 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 Gish, and
Butterf ly McQueen. LH one , 7 p.m.,
75 cents . __
Friday, August 27
STEELYARD BLUES (1973 , 93
min .) Th is is one of those hip lillie
comedy cult fi lms that really stinks.
A direct steal from" Brewster Mc·
Cloud," only worse, if that can be
possible. Donald Sutherland and
Peter Boyle are occasionally amusing, but the roll en ed iting , photography, script , and direction ruin
what litlle fun there is. Any film
wh ich can turn Jane Fonda into
Helen Reddy before your very eyes
has gal to be a loser. Besides, the
movie wi ll be shown on TV later
this year. Also : TIT FOR TAT
(1935), a short in which Laurel and
Hardy go mad in a store. LH one 7
p.m., 75 cenls.
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IN OLYMPIA
AIRPORT '75 and THE HINDENBURG , a coup le of disasters .
Olympic Theater. 357-3422.
MURDER BY DEATH Truman Capote and Peter Sellers in a nude
wresll ing match to the dealh .
Wilh: THE BLACKBIRD George
Segal nude wrestles himself to exhaustion. Ends August 17, State
Theater. 357 :4010.
OUTLAW JOSIE WALES and
MAGNUM FORCE Goo goo gah
bu h goobers. Starts August 16.
State Theater.
ST. IVES Starring Olympia's favorite actor, Charles Bronson, in another piece of processed schlock .
Starts Aug ust 25. State Theater.
FOOD OF THE GODS 150-pound
rats on the prowl. Loosely based
on the H. G. Wells novel. Starri ng
the ex-evangelist Marjoe Gortner as
a football player. With: TERROR IN
THE WAX MUSEUM, not to be confused with "Terror in the Sax Museum," about a maniac who clubs
people to death with rare mu sical
instruments stolen from a millionalre's saxophone collection. Lacey
Drive-in, 491-3161.
LIFEGUARD With Sam Elliot
Anne Archer, and Stephen young ;'
directed by Daniel Petrie. With :
THE CRAZY WORLD OF JULIUS
VROODER, yet another in the "Julius Vrooder" series. Starts August
16. Lacey Drive-in.
CANNONBALL, with the zany
David Carradine, and WHIFF, a rollicking comedy about nerve gas.
With Eliot Gould and Eddie Albert.
Starts August 25, Lacey Drive-in .
THE EXORCIST The best movie
featuring green vomit ever made .
With: OLD DRACULA , the secondbest movie featuring green vomit
ever made. Ends today. Sunset
Drive-in , 357-6302.
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
and THE FRONT PAGE. Starts Friday, August 13. Sunset Drive-in .
GUMBALL RALLY and SUMMER·
TIME KILLER . Starts August 20.
Sunset Drive-in.
OUTLAW JOSIE WALES and
THE DESTRUCTORS Starts August
27. Sunset Drive-In.
MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, August 12
FRUITLAND FAMINE BAND, a
rock group, supply the music for a
wild dance, co-sponsored by the
Gig Commission and the LRY (Liberal Religious Youth, a Unitarian
group). Red Square, 8 p.m .
Saturday, August 14
DANCIN' IN THE MOONLIGHT, a
super Disco Event sponsored by
KAOS-FM, with dance contests
and general insanity. It will be located on a grassy knoll between
the campus Recreation Center and
the dorms. Free, but a donation
would not be refused .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, August 13, 1976
JOHN MILLER, an Instructor at
the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop,
displays his talent. Miller plays
many types of music, including
blues, nn Pan Alley, and Broadway
show tunes. He has three solo albums out on the Rounder and Blue
Goose labels. Applelam Folk Center, 220 E, Union , Doors open at
6:15 p.m., show starts 8:30. MInors welcome. $1.
Saturday, August 14
JASMINE, a newly formed local
lazz trio, f..turlng Rachel Rutherford, Jeff Parkhurst, and Msrk
Friend, In concef\ , Applelam Folk
Center. Doors open ·8:15 p.m. ,
show starts 8: 30. $1 ,

Friday , August 20
FOLK DANCE FROLIC Dancers
from the Community Center will
perform and teach Balkan and Euro·
pean folk dances . Applejam Folk
Cent.er. Doors open 6 :15 p.m.,
danCing starts 6:30. Minors wei·
come. $1.
Saturday, August 21
PHYDDLE PHADDLE FOGBOUND
BAND A lively band from Tenino
that plays just about everything ,
bul mostly music lrom the \ 930'5
,Featuring Ne il John s ton (fiddle
mandolin). Bob Mackey (trombone :
lug), Pete Holm (g uitar , kazool .
MIke McClellan (bass , piano, gUItar). Applejam Folk Center. Doors
open 6 :15 p.m" s how starts
6:30. $1 .
Friday, August 27
BALKAN SINGING WORKSHOP
Carol Elwood , Scott Rodhe, and
Kenny Schulman si ng and teach
songs 01 Yugoslavia and Bulgaria .
Applejam Folk Center. Doors open
6: 15. show sta rt s 8 : 30 50 cents
IN SEATTLE
Saturday, Augusl 14
JOHNNY AND EDGAR WINTER
in concert . Sea1\le Center Arena. 8
p.m.
Saturday, August 21
JETHRO TULL In co ncert. Sealt le
Col iseum, 6 p.m .
Saturday. August 26
SEALS AND CROFTS In concert ,
during which a live album will be
recorded lor release later this year .
Also: DEERDORF AND JOSEPH a
cou ple of si ng ers. Hec Edmunds~n
Pavilion , Univers it y of Washingt on,
Seattle. 6: 30 p.m .
Sunday, August 29
JUDY COLLINS in concert. Paramount Northwest. 6 p.m .
RADIO
For complete KAOS-FM schedules, see their wo nde rful new
monthly program guide.
Thursday, August 12
ABYSSINIAN CIVETS with hOst
John S. Foster, former CPJ music
critic, presenting unpopular music ,
4 - 7 p.m., KAOS-FM, 69 .3.
Friday, August 13
BLUES IN THE NIGHT Toni Holm
presents the music of Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland, 10 - 12 midnight. KAOS-FM.
Sunday, August 15
WHAT IT IS Rock and Roll and
Rhythm and Blues from 1956 and
1957 will be featured . With Kidd
Rhythm , 12 :30 to 2 p.m., KAOSFM.
IN AMERICA THEY CALL US
AMERICANS with John S. Foster
playing works by famous women
composers. Midni ght to 2 a.m ..
KAOS·FM.
Friday, August 20
BLUES IN THE NIGHT Toni Holm
presents Bessie Smith , 10 p.m. to
midnight, KAOS-FM.
Wednesday, August 25
CARDINAL FIRE SHOW The
UFO phenomenon will be examined
with Ed Palmer of the Portland Fly·
ing Saucer Club , 1 - 4 p.m.,
KAOS-FM.
CONVENTIONS
Friday, August 13 - Sunday , August 15
STATE N.O.W. CONVENTION A
comp lete schedu le is printed elsewhere in this issue. For further information , contact Conference Coordinator Cathy Cochran at 943·
4592, or call the Women's Center
(Lib. 3214) at 866-6162 .
ART
0N CAMPUS
CATHERINE THOMPSON
STAINED GLASS Panels from the
Japanese WOOdblock prints of Kiyonaga Utamoro. Also : PATRICK
NAGATANI PHOTOGRAPHS. Library Art Gallery , Aug ust 9 through
August 27.
DESCHUTES SOFT SCULPTURE
The dates for this show were astrologically ordained by the artists involved. September 7 through September 17. Library Art Gatlery .
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL CONSPIRACY These cuddly
little creatures, known as "Squirrels
of the Gods," were transporteo by
UFOs from Loch Ness to Chow·
chllla, california, on November 22 .
1963, leaving a trail of mysterious
cow mutilations across the midwest, according to a noted exCIA psychic. Infested ~y Satanists
with swine flu and extlib,led at Ihe
American Legion convention re cently, the mystery beasts were
kidnapped by Mafia· funded guerrillas and forced to mate with local
Sasquatches In a fu\Jle attempt to
breed a Symblonese Stuffed Albino
Squirrel Liberation Army . The
somewhat messy results are on display for publiC perusal and entertainment. Joe Bemis Memorial Get lery, open 2. hours.

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by Sam Solomon
" I get tired of answering all
the criticism I get from people
who consider US nothing more
than mental whores ." In these
wl'r d s . Michael F. Beardsley ,
\'ice -president and senior account
~xec utive at Advertising Research
A,soc iates, Inc. , New York City,
Il,ld me what I shou ld /lot ask in
.m exclusive interview I obtained
I(lr the I Olm11l1 last week. BeardsIpv , who lold me thai his middle
Inil ia l stood for "Freeky" (af ter
Ihe m ain headline in his most
'liccessf ul ad ), was on his way to
., co n vent ion in L.A. and stopped
1111 in Olympia to visit an old
Ifl en d and bu s ine ss associa te
I,'h ll now works fo r the Lacey
Il'dde r . As if to further justify
: his ,1ut-ot-the-way stop, BeardsIe\' told me that his mother hap,'e ns to reside in Shelton . "Sweet
" Id thing she is, too ," he said.
!'<'rgoing all questions about
pn >< titLltion , I asked "Freeky"
"b011t some of his most famous
" J , . " I remember ' This' ad
c\pa I h· " recalled the complacent,
~rJ\ In,: executive . The "This" ad
con ,, <.ted of three consecutive
ri)!h: - hand pages, the first conta ini ng the word "This" printed
Ir. ~ l1lall white letters in the center " I d black background coverin.: th e entire page; the second
( ":ltinuing the white-on-black
let t<' ring starting with " is the fin1',1 [\'pewriter money can buy.
and the third showing a
lull-co lor photo of an artfully arr,m ged table-fLlI of typewriters,
a ll manufactured by the adverti w r . The ad ran simultaneously
in Harper's , Playboy, the Saturda,· Review. Psychology Today,
E~qLlire, Business Week. Time
anJ . Newsweek for several
m()nl hs.
"The advertiser was willing to
go Ihree pages, " said Freeky of
the "This" ad, "so we wanted
someth ing that would catch and
hold people's attention for all
three pages, not something they
c()uld just turn past and ignore."
Thp acco unt executive proceeded
t() tell me about what advertising
people cal l the "gla nce factor."
·It you've got a page of gray
magazine copy talking about the
latest coup in Pelopenesia or an
interview with Amy Carter," he
said, "a block of black background in an ad is going to attract the reader's eye every time
he glances away from his story ."
Beardsley explained that most
reade rs will glance from copy to
ad anywhere from one to ten
times per minute , depending on
factors such as genera l nervousness, difficulty of the story , how
upsetting the story they are reading is , etc. "We especially like to
place these kinds of ads in news
and technical magazines, where
you'll find the most upsetting or
difficult kinds of articles ," he
sa id .

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has openings for people:
Two or more years
college;
Major in sciences or
humanities;
Concerned with the
environment; and
Working with sixth
grade children for the
school year 1976-77.
Board and room and
student stipend,
WRITE: SCICON
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93277

Beardsley Tells All

Beardsley's famous "Freeky" ad, from which he claims he took
his middle name .
asked Beardsley to compare
the This ad to something like the
"dog" ad , which was based on
an entirely different concept. At
the top of the page of the "dog"
ad was a simple color snapshot
of an old man, with the copy below telling in his own semi-literate language about how his
dog buried a camera made by
the advertiser, and when the
man dug it up ten years later
while building a sandbox for his

grandchild, it worked like new.
The last lines, which later became so famous, read, "So I
gave it to Mabel and asked her
to take my pitcher, .i ust to show
em. See? Here it is. That's me l"
The last three brief sentences
were later made into a popular
song, bringing nationwide fame
to the ad and, indirectly, to its
author.
"We like to do something
simple but heartwarming every

once in a while," explained
Freeky . "We knew the dog part
of the ad would appeal to dog
lovers, of course, and .the farmer
would capture the rural folk who
comprise so much of our nation's
population. We kept it out of the
exclusively urban magazines, of
course, except the ones such as
Atlantic and Harper's, where we
figured most readers would not
take it seriously . I must admit I
had no plans for such a smashing success before that song
made it a catchword of the teen
set." Following the song's success
the ad was placed in a ll the big
national magazines where most
readers became familiar with it.
I wanted to know a little
abou t ethics in advertising, and
asked Freeky what he does when
he is assigned an account from
an advertiser he has a philosophical or other disagreement with .
"That's never a problem," answered Freeky. ''I'm the vice
president, so if I don't like an account I'll just assign it to one of
the other account executives,"
And what would Beardsley suggest one of them do if faced with
a moral dilemma of this type?
" It would depend on th~ agency," said Beardsley. "In ours, we
don ' t tolerate such fickleness.
He'd be out on his ear that afternoon. But some of the other less
successful agencies might be able

to reassIgn the acC:i>unt or work
something e.lse out . .reT5oAal.l~,#
can't see why ·:that pr.oJ'le~
should ever occur."
:.';;'~:'Y.·
I asked Beardsley if he (elr
appreciated and unrecognized fOrthe brainpower and labor that go'
into each ad he does, when t!:ley
are all either ignored or credited
to the advertiser. "It's too bad
that people don't ask more questions about the ads they look
at," answered Freeky. "Sometimes I feel sort of lonely, but
then I just get back to work on
my latest account, and I become
totally absorbed. And my salary
helps ease some of the pain,
too ." (Beardsley reportedly earns
over a million dollars per year.)
"Do you consider yourself an
artist?"
"Oh, by all means, " answered
Beardsley, ''I'm as serious as the
next guy, be he Keinholtz, Wiley ,
Toni Smith, Warhol, Klein, Gilhooley, Stokes or Avedon. We're
all in there pitching, sincerely
trying to do our thing:'
It was time for Beardsley and 1
to go our separate ways, so
knowing just that much more
about the workings of the mind
of an advertising executive, I bid
"Freeky" a farewell, wished him
luck with future accounts, and
let him continue on his way to
Shelton. And the following
Thursday when I picked the lat est Time Magazine out of my
mailbox, I paid just a little bit
more attention to the ads , I
wonder who thought of that
one?

Movie Roundup
by Frankie Foster
THE MAN WHO
FELL TO EARTH
There are a number of good
arguments both for and against
whether this film works or not.
But there is one thing that there
is no question about. David
Bowie's portrayal of the title
character is perfect, making the
film at the very least a successful
star vehicle for him . . If you are
into science fiction you will
probably find this example entertaining, because it is after all
above average in quality for this
genre. But the average movie
watchers are bound to become
disappointed once they realize
that Nicholas Roeg's obscure
style of film-making tries to present the most interesting aspects
of the story in an abstract manner, leaving a strong taste of
lack of communication and frustration.
On the other hand, if you're
willing to accept lots of unanswered questions this film can be
a lot of fun . Strangeness seems
to have been made the main
priority and most of the clever
use of special effects help to
reach that goal. However, towards the end the unwise use of
extreme make-up on several of

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damage the realism of the production. And Candy Clark as
the girl friend (the bitchin' babe
from American Graffiti) doesn't
seem to have a voice that changes
any from teenager to middleage. Buck Henry is much better
as the lawyer who takes care of
Bowie's huge corporation. Like
Roeg's two previous films Walkabout and Performance, this film
is bound to get a wide range of
reactions. It's worth the trouble
to discover yours for yourself,
SOLARIS
The film that some people
have called, Russia's answer to
America's 2001: A Space Odyssey is no such thing in my opinion. The story moves very
slowly with only occasional special effects, which are all of television-grade quality. It's possible
that a lot was lost -in the translation to subtitles. Since the film is
quite verbal, which is nearly the
opposite of 2001, which contained no dialog for the first 30
minutes.
SWASHBUCKLER
There · are some interesting
things beneath the surface of this
parental- guidance - rated action
film. For one thing there is actually an adventuress among the
adventurers. And for the first
time that I can remember I heard
the enthusiastic voices of young
girls reacting to scenes of danger
and excitement much in the same
way that an Evergreen audience
would react to the snappy dialog
of a Katherine Hepburn movie.
The old-fashioned adventure
film has been carefully modernized in this production but it
can't help but come across a lit tle contrived to the nit-picky
film critics among us . How be·

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Iievable is a story where a black
man, a woman, and a white
male join together to fight a
common evil? But the kids can
dig it and perhaps it will help the
country some to have a genera-tion of kids that have grown up
on entertainment like this . i It .
stars Robert Shaw and James
Earl Jones as the good guy pirates, with Genevieve Bujold as
the strong-willed daughter of a
political prisoner and Peter Boyle
as the common evil.
by Stan Shore
BLACKBIRD
A movie buff's film as much
about The Maltese Falcon as it is
about anything else, Blackbird
fails because it can't resist cheap
jokes instead of the sustained
satire that was the film's original
intent. George Segal plays Sam
Spade Jr. in an un-Bogartish
fashion, having only the gloss of
ineptness and none of the style
of the original.
The plot of the film, simply
told, is that a cheap lead imitation of the Falcon that was given
to the original Sam Spade as a
souvenir of his exploit winds up
to be the real thing. Sam Spade
Jr. is then thrust into the remarkable ultra-Lamarkian predicament of trying to decide what to
do with the bird.
A few laughs only .
ROBIN AND MARIAN
On the surface a shallow
maudlin melodrama about Robin
and Marian grown old, this production actually has much more
to it. Each of the characters in
the film while superficially
portraying the inhabitants of the
fabled Sherwood fo'r est - are
actuaJly modeled on different
functions of the mind as outlined
in Kant's "Analytic" in Critique

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of Pure Reason.
Robin plays the part of Understanding, Marian plays the Imagination and Sherwood Forest is
Space and Time. The film keeps
you guessing all the way tiJI the
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Not suggested for any but philosophy majors.
MURDER BY DEATH
This quaint Neil Simon comedy is not as bad as it might
have been, but not nearly as
good as it should have been considering the talent of'the individuals participating. Those individuals are: Truman Capote, Peter
Falk, Peter Sene~, pavi~ N,iv~n, I
and Mag'gi~ ~'-Smith,. lI~d\;H9Jiif
whom - except- CapOfe ' - ' pl~Y;s
a famous detective. Capote: who
was typecast, plays a madman,
This is another detective satire
making fun of the intricate plots
of most detective novels and of
the obscure methodology" hlployed by every fictiohal detec ~
tive since Sherlock Holmes.
There are a few witty moments, but all things considered,
the film would have been better
if Capote had written it and
Simon had played the madman.
SILENT MOVIE
Silent Movie is the worst film
I have ever seen. It is pathetic to
see a comedy director of Mel
Brooks' caliber stoop to the
quick-flick showmanship of a
Bob Hope Special. This film is a
series of guest star 'cameos; including such greats as Liza
Minnelli, Paul Newman and Burt
Reynolds.
The film is indeed silent, but
that doesn't help make it " any
funnier. In fact, it may · well
make it worse. We have aome to'
expect only the best from a .silent
movie, as the only ones seen any
more are the- classics from : a by"
gone era. Mel Brooks has revived ·
the genre, and defiles it _with ,this
trite, un-funny, long boring, am ateurish, pretentious film .
One good feature: for.' those
who have never beerr, the~e', ' , tl\e'
film was shot mostly: inl ~verh' "
Hills; since the, mm has: J)~A;I)k:!..' ,
ing, and nothing funny, wat~h
ing it has the c'uTrt'u lative t!ffe-e{
of having seen somebodY~ '1\om~ ;f·
movies of their trip to L.A ,
If he'd only gone to Disney land . ..

L.A. Rocks
:the Kingdo ••• e
by Nathaniel Koch
It was a co ncert promoter's
dream. Book the Eagles into Seatt le 's KingdomI' (which had
seated upwards of 67,000 for
McCartney's Wings) and throw
in musical kin Linda Ronstadt
. and John David Souther for
openers. The Eagles, after all,
have probably become the most
popular U.S . band in the world
with each successive single be~
coming a monster on the AM
charts. With an $8 admission
price ($10 - Day of Show)?how cl
could you lose?
Having seen the Eagles perform at Paramount NW with
Dan Fogleberg in March, 1974, I
knew this was an attractive offer.
But as the Eagles' popularity
seemed to increase, so did their
desire to play before larger audiences in acoustically inferior
sports arenas. Coming on the
h~-TJ~ V1~.)il~,t : y. ~a:li) seriously
f1jlr",e~Nre pf, J.~se. . Nigllts albu.m,i ..1 had avoided the band
when they appeared in August,
1975, at Seattle Center's Coliseum . However this time, I was
willing to take a chance. Combini~ Souther, Ronstadt 'and
tlie . ~agl!!s in one packag~ deal
was' t?O bdlliant a concept to refuse.
.
1 began wondering if [ had
made a mistake as I entered the
Kingdome's massive structure. It
easily holds four times as many
people' as the Coliseum. Faced
with sitting what seemed like a
mile from the stage, I opted for
crowding right up to the front,
along with a few thousand other
people. As it turned out, this decision was a wise one, even
though it meant standing for
over seven hours.
The unfortunates sitting on the
sides and rear of the 'dome
without binoculars had to be
content with viewing the show
L ~n a giant color TV screen hangmg over the rear of the stage.
For an hour and a half before
the concert and during breaks,
the cameramen amused themselves (and what appeared to be
about half the audience) by flashing close-ups of women's breasts
and faces on the huge screen ,
There was no telling when some
poor idiot would glance up and
find himself hovering over 50,000
people with "You're A Starl" emblazoned across his chest.

Wben J.D. Souther began the
shQW . with "The Fast One" off

hi s first a lbum, it was obvious
the P.A. system was going to be
a problem. From where I was
standing, the sound , at times,
would roa.r overhead and reverberate, seconds later, off the far
wall. Although this tended to detract from the music's subtlet ies
J.D. Souther and band played ~
strong 12 song set. Most of the
material was from his recent
Black Rose LP and the two
Souther, Hillman, Furay Band albums. J.D.'s fragile voice was in
top form throughout, especially
on T the ·5.!t's' l'tigh 'l'bint: a grinding electric version of "White
Wing."
Linda Ronstadt's new album
Hasten Down The Wind is due
to be released soon and her set
included nine new songs, among
others from her last three records. She was obviously enthusiastic about performing and confident in leading her new fivepiece band which features the
versatile Andrew Gold on guitar
and keyboards, and Waddy
Wachtel (who can be heard on
James Taylor's In The Pocket album) on lead guitar. They provided tight backup support, occasionally faltering a bit on the
difficult "You're No Good" and
Neil Young's "Love Is A Rose."
Despite the irritating acoustics,
which at times resembled an
echo chamber, Linda was at her
best during her long 19 song set.
As usual, the material mainly
dealt with heartbreak, lost lovers,
loneliness, and unrequited love .
In a new song, Ronstadt defiantly sang " It's not losing you
that's got me down so low, I just
can't find another man," and the
strength of the performance was
achingly magic. For a well-deserved encore, she brought J. D .
Souther out for a duet on his
"Faith less Love" which asks
"Faithless love, where did [ g~
wrong / Was it telling stories in a
heartbreak song1"
It wasn't until 11 p.m, that the
Eagles finally appeared on stage.
Beginning with the obligatory
"Take It Easy," the band moved
through seemingly perfect renditions of their "greatest hits" including "Desperado," "The Best
of My Love," "Lyin' Eyes,"
"Witchy Woman," and an awkward "One of These Nights,"
Had the evening been limited
to this familiar retrospective, I
would have been tempted to
agree with critic Robert Christgau when he said "The Eagles
are suave, synthetic, brilliant,

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and false. " But the addition of
Joe Wa lsh (formerly of the James
Gang and Barnstorm) has added
an important new dimension to
the band's chemistry. His skillful
guitar-playing makes many of
the Eagles' tired rock pieces come
alive with a new soulful authority. In turn, the Eagles have
added stunning technical force
behind such Walsh compositions
as "Turn To Stone," "/149." and
"Walk Away." The showcase for
the band's awesome instrumental
talel~t was found in "Rocky
Mountain Way" where guitarists
Glen Frey, Don Felder, and Joe
Walsh exchanged biting solo
lines before Walsh moved up to
the curtain of the stage for a
long extended solo . Clearly, the
high point of the concert.

It should be mentioned that
the Eagles' singing was almost
flawless throughout. Bassist
Randy Meisner's incredibly
breathtaking vocal on "Take It
To The Limit" prompted Glen
Frey to remark, "The highest
voice in the business .. . and he
can sing higher, too." Their
superb vocal harmonies were
featured in a beautiful acoustic
version of "Seven Bridges Row"
with drummer Don Henley stepping down to sing with the other
four. It was reminiscent of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
[ hesitate to pompously proclaim the Eagles the best rock
band in the world, but they are
definitely in the running for top
position. More importantly, they
have continued to grow as a
band. With One of These Nights
now a year old, it will be interesting to see what they can produce in the studio with Joe
Walsh. Until then, we can only
view the band's exciting metamorphosis on the concert stage.
Although the Eagles were
seemingly able to transcend the
Kingdome's terrible acoustics
with impressive musicianship
and seasoned professionalism,
much of the evening's music
threatened to be ruined by the
atmosphere. Stated plainly, the
Kingdome may be excellent for
sporting events or Billy Graham
revivals, but it is no place for
music, When musicians are merchandised into performing in
large arenas like the KingdomI',
concerts threaten to become
"events" and the music and audience usually suffer for it. It is a
rare occasion when musical artistry dominates.

FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Friday , August 20
DUEL tN THE SUN (1946. 138
min .) King Vidor's trashy, raCist,
sexist western. Some will fi nd it
quite amUSing . Jenn ifer 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 Gish, and
Butterf ly McQueen. LH one , 7 p.m.,
75 cents . __
Friday, August 27
STEELYARD BLUES (1973 , 93
min .) Th is is one of those hip lillie
comedy cult fi lms that really stinks.
A direct steal from" Brewster Mc·
Cloud," only worse, if that can be
possible. Donald Sutherland and
Peter Boyle are occasionally amusing, but the roll en ed iting , photography, script , and direction ruin
what litlle fun there is. Any film
wh ich can turn Jane Fonda into
Helen Reddy before your very eyes
has gal to be a loser. Besides, the
movie wi ll be shown on TV later
this year. Also : TIT FOR TAT
(1935), a short in which Laurel and
Hardy go mad in a store. LH one 7
p.m., 75 cenls.
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IN OLYMPIA
AIRPORT '75 and THE HINDENBURG , a coup le of disasters .
Olympic Theater. 357-3422.
MURDER BY DEATH Truman Capote and Peter Sellers in a nude
wresll ing match to the dealh .
Wilh: THE BLACKBIRD George
Segal nude wrestles himself to exhaustion. Ends August 17, State
Theater. 357 :4010.
OUTLAW JOSIE WALES and
MAGNUM FORCE Goo goo gah
bu h goobers. Starts August 16.
State Theater.
ST. IVES Starring Olympia's favorite actor, Charles Bronson, in another piece of processed schlock .
Starts Aug ust 25. State Theater.
FOOD OF THE GODS 150-pound
rats on the prowl. Loosely based
on the H. G. Wells novel. Starri ng
the ex-evangelist Marjoe Gortner as
a football player. With: TERROR IN
THE WAX MUSEUM, not to be confused with "Terror in the Sax Museum," about a maniac who clubs
people to death with rare mu sical
instruments stolen from a millionalre's saxophone collection. Lacey
Drive-in, 491-3161.
LIFEGUARD With Sam Elliot
Anne Archer, and Stephen young ;'
directed by Daniel Petrie. With :
THE CRAZY WORLD OF JULIUS
VROODER, yet another in the "Julius Vrooder" series. Starts August
16. Lacey Drive-in.
CANNONBALL, with the zany
David Carradine, and WHIFF, a rollicking comedy about nerve gas.
With Eliot Gould and Eddie Albert.
Starts August 25, Lacey Drive-in .
THE EXORCIST The best movie
featuring green vomit ever made .
With: OLD DRACULA , the secondbest movie featuring green vomit
ever made. Ends today. Sunset
Drive-in , 357-6302.
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
and THE FRONT PAGE. Starts Friday, August 13. Sunset Drive-in .
GUMBALL RALLY and SUMMER·
TIME KILLER . Starts August 20.
Sunset Drive-in.
OUTLAW JOSIE WALES and
THE DESTRUCTORS Starts August
27. Sunset Drive-In.
MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, August 12
FRUITLAND FAMINE BAND, a
rock group, supply the music for a
wild dance, co-sponsored by the
Gig Commission and the LRY (Liberal Religious Youth, a Unitarian
group). Red Square, 8 p.m .
Saturday, August 14
DANCIN' IN THE MOONLIGHT, a
super Disco Event sponsored by
KAOS-FM, with dance contests
and general insanity. It will be located on a grassy knoll between
the campus Recreation Center and
the dorms. Free, but a donation
would not be refused .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, August 13, 1976
JOHN MILLER, an Instructor at
the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop,
displays his talent. Miller plays
many types of music, including
blues, nn Pan Alley, and Broadway
show tunes. He has three solo albums out on the Rounder and Blue
Goose labels. Applelam Folk Center, 220 E, Union , Doors open at
6:15 p.m., show starts 8:30. MInors welcome. $1.
Saturday, August 14
JASMINE, a newly formed local
lazz trio, f..turlng Rachel Rutherford, Jeff Parkhurst, and Msrk
Friend, In concef\ , Applelam Folk
Center. Doors open ·8:15 p.m. ,
show starts 8: 30. $1 ,

Friday , August 20
FOLK DANCE FROLIC Dancers
from the Community Center will
perform and teach Balkan and Euro·
pean folk dances . Applejam Folk
Cent.er. Doors open 6 :15 p.m.,
danCing starts 6:30. Minors wei·
come. $1.
Saturday, August 21
PHYDDLE PHADDLE FOGBOUND
BAND A lively band from Tenino
that plays just about everything ,
bul mostly music lrom the \ 930'5
,Featuring Ne il John s ton (fiddle
mandolin). Bob Mackey (trombone :
lug), Pete Holm (g uitar , kazool .
MIke McClellan (bass , piano, gUItar). Applejam Folk Center. Doors
open 6 :15 p.m" s how starts
6:30. $1 .
Friday, August 27
BALKAN SINGING WORKSHOP
Carol Elwood , Scott Rodhe, and
Kenny Schulman si ng and teach
songs 01 Yugoslavia and Bulgaria .
Applejam Folk Center. Doors open
6: 15. show sta rt s 8 : 30 50 cents
IN SEATTLE
Saturday, Augusl 14
JOHNNY AND EDGAR WINTER
in concert . Sea1\le Center Arena. 8
p.m.
Saturday, August 21
JETHRO TULL In co ncert. Sealt le
Col iseum, 6 p.m .
Saturday. August 26
SEALS AND CROFTS In concert ,
during which a live album will be
recorded lor release later this year .
Also: DEERDORF AND JOSEPH a
cou ple of si ng ers. Hec Edmunds~n
Pavilion , Univers it y of Washingt on,
Seattle. 6: 30 p.m .
Sunday, August 29
JUDY COLLINS in concert. Paramount Northwest. 6 p.m .
RADIO
For complete KAOS-FM schedules, see their wo nde rful new
monthly program guide.
Thursday, August 12
ABYSSINIAN CIVETS with hOst
John S. Foster, former CPJ music
critic, presenting unpopular music ,
4 - 7 p.m., KAOS-FM, 69 .3.
Friday, August 13
BLUES IN THE NIGHT Toni Holm
presents the music of Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland, 10 - 12 midnight. KAOS-FM.
Sunday, August 15
WHAT IT IS Rock and Roll and
Rhythm and Blues from 1956 and
1957 will be featured . With Kidd
Rhythm , 12 :30 to 2 p.m., KAOSFM.
IN AMERICA THEY CALL US
AMERICANS with John S. Foster
playing works by famous women
composers. Midni ght to 2 a.m ..
KAOS·FM.
Friday, August 20
BLUES IN THE NIGHT Toni Holm
presents Bessie Smith , 10 p.m. to
midnight, KAOS-FM.
Wednesday, August 25
CARDINAL FIRE SHOW The
UFO phenomenon will be examined
with Ed Palmer of the Portland Fly·
ing Saucer Club , 1 - 4 p.m.,
KAOS-FM.
CONVENTIONS
Friday, August 13 - Sunday , August 15
STATE N.O.W. CONVENTION A
comp lete schedu le is printed elsewhere in this issue. For further information , contact Conference Coordinator Cathy Cochran at 943·
4592, or call the Women's Center
(Lib. 3214) at 866-6162 .
ART
0N CAMPUS
CATHERINE THOMPSON
STAINED GLASS Panels from the
Japanese WOOdblock prints of Kiyonaga Utamoro. Also : PATRICK
NAGATANI PHOTOGRAPHS. Library Art Gallery , Aug ust 9 through
August 27.
DESCHUTES SOFT SCULPTURE
The dates for this show were astrologically ordained by the artists involved. September 7 through September 17. Library Art Gatlery .
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL CONSPIRACY These cuddly
little creatures, known as "Squirrels
of the Gods," were transporteo by
UFOs from Loch Ness to Chow·
chllla, california, on November 22 .
1963, leaving a trail of mysterious
cow mutilations across the midwest, according to a noted exCIA psychic. Infested ~y Satanists
with swine flu and extlib,led at Ihe
American Legion convention re cently, the mystery beasts were
kidnapped by Mafia· funded guerrillas and forced to mate with local
Sasquatches In a fu\Jle attempt to
breed a Symblonese Stuffed Albino
Squirrel Liberation Army . The
somewhat messy results are on display for publiC perusal and entertainment. Joe Bemis Memorial Get lery, open 2. hours.

Some programs full

Evergreeners"In Search of the Impossible"

Clellna Burmer exami'les a cell from a foreskin,
Se Cl'nd t o the r igh t. and
, tra ight l' n ti ll mornin g,' T ha t,
I'<' tl'r h~d told We ndy , was the
', , '.1\' Ie' the Neve rl and; but even
"i nl, c.1rrving maps a nd con ,,, lt J:l f: them at windy co rners,
l ,' uld ne' t ha ve sight ed it w ith
I l-: l'~t' i n ... t ruct iuns, "

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b\' I. ~\'1. Ba rrie

bv Steve Rabow
III 131- (ca nllS ti, e discovery
"f ,I ,(' II )' t" )J rodll(e go ld f roHi
,'th er "Ielllcilts (tra ll sm lltatio n).
f'o )Je 101" 1 XX/l de clared a ball
HI til e 5, ;,'1/ (,' of Alchemy, His
" ,) ' " il, SIIP I"'eSSen a f ie ld of
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'1I/'O Il!l.11 "('(o rded experimellts be,11/ "ill;>: aro ll l/(1 200 B. C. It was
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Ti, e ,lre'WI of trall smlltatioll
i", d slI r,'i,'"d till' con qu es ts of
ti le C rec!"> ul/d Arab Ilat io ll s.
Lrvst ll li : ut illli 0.1 tlillt dre am
IIll' allt 1I1/ IIII/ ited "iel,es for the
',' rtllllatc dis(,ll' erer , W ith su ch
" history !>elrll/d it , th e ( 011tilllla I iO Il 0 1 til t' SL'a r c/l w as illevitab le
c,'ell tl lo L/gll tir e searchers
:c,' r(, fo rced " l/dergrOlwd .
C ' r ,lt tlril/k ers ti, e li ke s of
I;, w ,' Ne,l'!o l/ alld Robert Doyle
,1,' I,'en II I ti" , search fo r the tral1 S,,,"t ill g prC' pe rti es . Of co urse
ti ,e\! lIe ,'cr did filld exactly w /Jat
tlrC!! ;,'ere loo king fo r, and Dal t.lI l 1 utollli c theory of 1808 0/11.'1
Ill ude prospects worse for th ose
,till hopef,,/. bL/t w hat we today
",,11 ,J,PllIistry is the outco me of
tl Jat ex plo ration .
Some of tllose who were dissutisficd in searching for go ld
h"ld th e belief that a tra nsmuted
subs tall ce migh t ha ve life-giv ing,
l ure- all properties w hen ingested
/JY man , A )Jarallel goa l was thus
, et fo r th e "elix ir of li fe ," th e end

p "(ld'lct tJrot1 l isi .lg an ilJl1l1 or t a l it." t"tally free of disease, W e are

all too fali liliar w ith the m ode m
descelldanis of th ose early eli.J.: irs.
YOII might think the ollly tall;:
o f illl lll ortalit y th ese da ys is to
lIe {o lllld w ith re ligious ove rtOil es o r ill ch ildren's stories,
"'l' st lIo tab ly tl1l' "folllltain of
y"llt l, . " A s e.J.:pected , most chil rlre" gl'OlV 11/-1 sharillg so me form
o f el"pathy fo r that search fo r
tl/[, i",p oss ibl e foulltaill. But
e Il L) u~ h history and pro loglle.
TWl' Everg reen student s are
curre ntl y engaged in a search for
th e impossible.
C le nn a Burmer a nd Jay Jones
dttended a n introductory course
in aging a t U.S.c. : " It wa s there
th a.! we we re told th a t the cu re
tLI aging is expected within the
next 25 years." As G lenn a pro ceeded to inform me of her ba ckground in the study of aging I
ra ked ove r the fa ct that I have
never bef are co n sid e red th e
agin g process as something that
nee d ed to be cu red . j ay res p(1ncied to m y pu zz lem e nt.
"Aging a nd death are looked
upon as natura\, the eve ntual
ou tco me of !ife," he sa id . "We
don't accept th a t ou tl oo k o r take
fo r gra nt ed that age is no t a disease in it self ,"
"Yo u wi ll find tha t most d iseases as we know them a re agerela ted, " G lenn a added . " If the
o nl y death s were accident a l the
ave rage huma n lifespan would
be so mewhere aro und 800 years ."
W ha t of the soc ia l and moral
im p li ca ti ons of such a possibilit y? " If I didn 't fi rmly believe
tha t the cure to aging would
have a fa nt as tica lly positive effect on the huma n race I would
not be do ing what I'm doing
now," G lenna sai d. "for exa mpl e, instead of having 20 - 25
yea rs to make mistakes and find

plac<' in society , indi vidu a ls
lei be a ble to ha ve 50 yea rs
10 spend just grow in g up ."
This is much more than a
Peter Pan story . The prospect of
adding even 100 years to one's
life means a change from a society based on short range survival to a society focused on the
development and refinement of
the individual - a change many
elderly persons are tryin g to
cope w ith today. This will all be
decided (if necessary) in the fu ture, hopefull y not by me.
G lenna and jay are a tt acki ng
the problem from scratch. Laboratory ex perimentation in the
manipulation o f se nescent (aging)
cells is a wide-o pen field. Current work in senescence is performed usin g a tissue cultu re lab
where human a nd a nimal cell s
are grown in fla sks and examined .
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"What they're doing and the
way they are going about doing
it is just about impossible for an
undergradu a te to do anywhere
else," said facu lty member Don
Humphrey, who, sparked by the
student s' interest, ha s provided
Evergree n with a co mplete tissue
culture lab . "This typ ifi es the adva nt age of Evergreen, .. " said
·Humphrey , "w here students with
a sha rp foc us on an area, such as
aging , can accomp li sh th e equ iv a lent to gra du ate work. In G len na and Ja y's case th ey had to research just how a ti ssue culture
lab i ~ set up to th e point where
th ey we re in vo lved in talki ng
w ith the sa les men . Believe me ,
that a lone is an ed ucatio nal experience.
In initiating their expe riment s,
C le nna and Jay visited hospitals
in O lympia and T acoma where a
doct o r took small tissue samp les
fro m a sou rc e and deposit ed
them in numerous flask s containing a growth medium. Basically ,
th e medium contain s a ll th e
a mino acids, vitamins, sa lts, and
glucose . Penicillin and Streptomycin are added to prevent bacterial invasion, the greatest problem in tissue culture experime nts ,
Fungus, yeast and bacteria can
completely take over a flask and
destroy an experiment. For this
reasop the tissue culture laboratory is supervised under sterile
condi tions.
In discussing the cultures st ud ied in Evergreen 's new lab, Glenna exp lain ed: " At first we just
used 12-day o ld chicken embryo .
Th en we used premature baby
foreskin (after circumcision ) and
also received ski n tissue from an
eld erly person's leg in order to
compare th e difference between
you ng a nd o ld cells ."
P rofessor Humphrey has provided an inverted phase microscope wit h the addi tion of timelapse ph otography which wi ll re cord cells during their mitotic di -

vision (replication). "Essentially ,
aging c;ells have a limited ability
to divide . . . " e xplained Jay.
"For example, the average human
cell growin g in a tissue culture
flask can on ly undergo 50 (plu s
or minus 10) population divi sions
and then it senesces a nd dies .
The ave rage chick ce ll ca n onl y
divide 20 population divi sions
wh ile th e tortoi se ce ll has 125
population div isions. W e wa nt
to find o ut mo re about these lim itations and soo n we w ill be
wo rk ing wit h ca ncer ce ll s."
Ca ncer ce ll s have unlimited
popul a ti o n divisions and multi pl y more ra pidl y than norm al
ce ll s. Cance r tend s to take over
once it has develo ped, One of
the hopeful views co nce rning ex periments in aging is th a t the o ri gin of ag ing wi ll be discove red
throu gh ca ncer research .
Hu mphrey has plans to util ize
the new la b in his group con tract, From Ce ll to Orgarlism:
St ru ct Ll re , FLln ction alld COlltroi,
which is scheduled to begin Win te r Q ua rter. Designed for the ad v a nced biology student , the
fie ld s of histology, anatomy,
physiol ogy, genetics and cell biology will be covered in two
quart ers. The advantage of havin g a tissue cu lture lab should
make this course offering especially appea ling.
In a re flectiv e mood Don
Humphrey sa id , . "Their (Clenna
and jay's) initial goa ls were very
ambiti ous. nothing short of finding the secret of life a nd discovering the elixir of youth . As a result Ev ergreen now has a tissue
culture lab, a sterile lab, a nd this
is availab le fo r o ther students to
use.
It is int erestin g to see that ,
eve n in a small way pe rha ps,
histo ry is playin g the sa me tune.
Th e spark is there and those that
w ish to, ca n join th e incredible
sea rch - fo r the imp ossible,
The tissue culture la b is lo ca ted in Lab 2056 .

Enrol I Dl.e nt Could "Go Either Way"
(Ron Woodbury, Peter Elbow, lee
Crowe), Political Ecology (Bob Sluss), Re sources for Self-Determination (Betsy
Diffendahl, Mary Hillaire), Advanced
Field Biology (Steve Herman), and Marine
Organisms (Pete Taylor).
A few programs are faltering and look
as though they will not reach their projected enrollments. Myth and Reality,
(York Wong, Cruz Esquivel, Priscilla
Bowerman), Advanced Environmental
Analysis (Dave Milne) and Religion il1
Human Life (Carol Olexa), are all below
expected sign-up levels, Humphreys said.
Myth and Reality was designed to meet
the needs of Third World students, and
the deans are still planning to offer the
program this year, with hopes of late enrollment from Third World students.
OVERAll ENROLLMENT
Evergreen's overall enrollment "could
go either way" at this time, according to
Dean of Enrollment Services Larry Stenberg. Stenberg said that approximately
1,000 students are registered for next year,
but that it is difficult to compare that
number to last year's registration.
Said Stenberg, "The 1,000 number represents a con tinuou s registration process.
There is no way to gauge how we compare to last year because there was no
rea l continuous registration last year."
Registration for the 1975-76 school year
took place before two major cutoff dates
- one in May and 'one in September,
1975.

However, this year it was decided to let
students register continuously until October 4, Stenberg thinks this change has let
many students put off what they normally would have done in May . "Evergreeners, to me, are sprinters," he said ,
"Folks come in at the tail end. We'll hav e
a lot of people come in and register that
last week."
He predicts Evergreen's enrollment will
be "either a little over or under our average annual figure from last year of 2,383
students."
Stenberg said the underenrollment wor ries stem from a "dramatic dip" in the
number of new students who normall y
would have registered in the middle of the
registration cycle (late winter and early
spring). That dip put registration figures
below what they were the previous year
at the same time, according to Stenberg.
He said that although registration is now
"running parallel" to last year, "we will
be significantly under last year's number
of l1ew students."
Because of this apparent loss of new
students, Enrollment Services is trying to
make up enro llment deficiencies through
retention of continuing students, parttime studies offerings and a degree competion program.
Twenty-three programs will ' offe r a
part-time st ud y option for the 1976-77
school year, and' nearly 50 modul es will
be offered during Fall Quarter.,alone (See
page 5 for complete list).

The Evergreen State College· Olympia, Washington 98505
by Jill Stewart
If you are planning on enrolling in a
program at Evergreen this fall, you may
already be too late.
Despite continued concern over possible
underenrollment, some academic programs
are full and others are filling rapidly, according to Dean Will Humphreys ,
Already full are Communications and
Commun ity (Craig Carlson) with 70 stu dents, Outdoor Education (Willi Unsoeld)

,THE COOPER POINT

with approximately 40 students, Helping
Relationship Skills (Earle 'McNeil and Roi
Smith) have 50 students enrolled, and
Natural History of Washington (Don
Humphrey) with 25 students . Natural History of Washingtol;l has had such a favorable response that the deans are trying to
find one more faculty to enlarge the program, according to Humphreys.
Several programs are filling up fast, but
not yet full, They are: Autobiography

Co~ft~~s . -·I~ad .

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Volume I V Number

August 12, 1976

35

program

"Herstory" a Success

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WE NEED: YOUR IDEAS AND . . .
Writers (faculty revievvs, restaurant revievvs, nevvs, features . . . )
Photographers (artsy photos, photos of campus, mug shots,
picture of a geoduck, food, photo for cover shot . .. )
GraphiCS people (cartoons, graphics to accompany stories . . . )
HURRY! DEADLINES APPROACH I Please see page 5 column 2,
for complete information.

by Jill Stewart
The Co-Respondents are followed by
success stories wherever they go. Two
members of the feminist readers theatre
gfoup, ~ Sandie Nisbet and Patricia Larson,
have just c;pmpleted teaching a summer
group contract here at Evergreen - one
they term "a smashing success."
The program, Bring Her Back A live:
Herstory Out of the Books and onto the
Stage, lived up to its name.
With 20 students ranging in age from
18 to 60, Nisbet and Larson had just five
weeks to give them some understanding
of women's history - enough to choose a
project - and then carry ' them through
the tremendous job of researching, script
writing, acting and costuming that are
essential parts of any dramatic production.
The women were all expected to choose
a woman or event from women's history
and become familiar enough with that
event or person to present a production to
the pub lic. '
"W e've had a ball," said Sandie Nisbet,
"The students have done amazing things
in a very short amo unt of time . .. No body in retrospect can believe what they
have accomplished,"
Nisbet said the success of the students
was more than the two teachers had
hoped for. "Some of the productions have ,
been really more polished than we expected," she said,
'
Patricia larson gave much of the credit
to the subject matter itself. "There is
nothing like turning a group of women
loose in women's history. They get so excited. It's such a rich area and it has really
been unheralded in the past :"
"We made up the guidelines," said Nisbet, '''We offered them shortcuts and told
them the mistakes we had made so they
could avoid them. We aimed for quality
and assisted at that from the very beginning."
They both agreed that the stages they

have seen their students go through were
much like stages they went through when
they began the Co-Respondents readers
theatre group four and a half years ago.
One student remarked to them that she
had "formed a lifelong interest in the history of women" because of the program.
Another, an older woman who came to
the program "just to watch," ended up
creating an act herself. "She got into it
like anyone else, " said Nisbet, "and she
felt confident enough to agree to perform
her project at the [Olympia] Senior Center, "
The one-woman show, about Mother
jones, a labor leader at the tum of the
century, will be presented at the Olympia
Senior Center September 9 at 1:30 p .m .
Another group presented a "very moving performance" d ealing with the Yellow
Wall Paper, a short story by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman dealing with her own descent into madness and her experiences as
a patient confined to a yellow wallpapered
room.
Several Timberline High School teach ers spent their summer in the program
and created a multi -media production
based on courageous women who have
broken out of their roles .
Other productions .included a two -person show, "The Spinsters Came A Spinning, " dealing with "spinsters" such as
Florence Nightingale and Susan B .
Anthony, a puppet show for children 01)
the history of women, a script about p ioneer women, a play depicting Narcissa
Whitman and Eliza Southgate, who came
to the Northwest in the 1830's, and a
slide-show I reading about black women in
America.
The students had the option of presenting their projects to the general public or
just to the program. "We encouraged the
students to present them to the public."
said Nisbet, "but I'm sure many of them
hoped no one would show up ."
Many of the women in the program

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had families and other responsibilities that
gave them "a hard time in the creative
process in terms of spouses and children"
according to larson. "There was an un spoken and shared sympathy that many
women were working against big odds,"
she said, "but in spite of those tremendous
odds, they produced."
Nisbet and Larson hope the women will
continue to polish their projects and present them to larger audiences, perhaps in .
the fall.
Said Larson, "A number of them could
be done immediately, with very little
work . . . People see a play and think
'Oh, it looks so romantic,' but actually it
is one of the most disciplined things you
can do . We don't know if Ithe students]

will all be able to keep up tha t disc ipline ."
The two don't know if they wi ll return
to Evergreen next summer, but th ey bot h
agree, "it's been a lot of fun ."

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Sex, Pinball, and Free Will - pg. 3
KAOS at the County Fair -

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