The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 13 (February 10, 1977)

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Title: Eng The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 13 (February 10, 1977)
Date: 10 February 1977
Description: Eng Illiteracy at Evergreen; Film. Access Protested; Unstructured Writing at Evergreen; Ujamaa Plans Umoja Week; Legal Pot
Proposed; A Surprise; Slapped by Mauve Gloves;
Creator: Eng Touster, Josh; Eng Wright, Terry; Eng Keyser, Keith; Eng Goehner, Keith; Eng Hillaire Covington, Pauline; Eng Haberland, Marita; Eng Yale, Ken; Eng Young, Laura; Eng Rugg, Jane-Louise; Eng Page, Mary; Eng Oakly, Lisa; Eng Pokorny, Brad; Eng Groening, Matt
Contributor: Eng Groening, Matt; Eng Judd, David; Eng Pokorny, Brad; Eng Sutherland, Brock; Eng Shore, Stan; Eng McCartney, Kim; Eng Weinman, Lynda; Eng Willis, Steve
Subject: Eng Cannabis; Eng Writing; Eng Illiteracy; Eng Ujamaa; Eng The Evergreen State College; Eng The Cooper Point Journal
Rights: In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Language: Eng eng
Place: Eng Washinton State; Eng Thuston County ,WA; Eng Olympia, WA
Publisher: Eng The Evergreen State College Publications Board and Members of the Evergreen community
Extent: Eng 8 pages
Temporal Coverage: Eng 1977
extracted text: We~re

happy to bring you a festival of ...._ _
some of the best of the current
Sci-Fi films.

Plus' "Radar Men from the Moon"

Vol. 5 No. 12

Feb. 3 - 4
5,000,000 Years to Earth
Made bv BBC-TV, this
movie quietiy sneaks up on you
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until . . . good lord! What is ~
happening in that excavation
for the new subway?

Feb. 5 - 6
Fantastic Planet

Feb. 7 - 9
Zardoz

An animated Czech film,
suberbly made and quite disturbing in ways possible only
to animation. A very grown-up
film, winner of many awards.

A thoroughly enjoyable
romp through the future. starring Sean Connery lin a loin
cloth and pony tail" Charlotte
Rampling, and Ireland.

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Feb.10-11
Silent Running

Feb. 12-13
The Magus

Feb.14-16
THX 1138

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Feb. 17-22
Slaughterhouse-Five

The very last garden on
Earth. sent out into Space for
safekeeping. A gentle fabl e
starring Bruce Oem and some
remarkably lovable robots.

Impossible to clearly
A chilling look at a notThis is the story of Billy
impossible future. numbered
Pilgrim. and of Dresden. and
descrihe. this is a shifting.
multi-leve l movie based on the
and controlled. and an individof the odd nature of Time. As
novel by John Fowles. Starring
ual attempt to escare. Directed
much as anything cou ld be.
by George Lucas I "A menca n
the movie is based on the novel
M ic h a e I C a i n e. Ant h 0 n \
Quinn. and Candice Bergen. .
Graffiti"'.
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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One out of eight students at
.
Evergreen IS functionally illiter.
ate. This IS the conclusion of
school-wide testing done last
fall by C-DRAW, the Center
for Developmental Reading and
Writing. 1,400 students participated in this test and 12 per
cent were found to read and
write at below the ninth grade
level.

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Academic deans Will Humphreys and Rob Knapp found one
group of juniors - many of
w hom transferred to Evergreen
from the University of Washington - who scored in the lowest
level of the test. ··That's really
kind of astonishing," Humphreys
remarked, " because the people in
t h at cla ~s have been doing
college work for some time. "
Humphreys felt the test probably
indicated there were more problems with reading and writing
than there actually are.

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Illiteracy at Evergreeil"t,

"The tests were only a gross
indicator of the reading and
writing levels at Evergreen ," said
Sadie Crouch, st udent intern at
C-DRAW.
Faculty member Linda Kahan
said,
"In general I think the
level of writing that first-year
studen ts s h ow is sho<;:kingly
poor. But they are experiencing
this all around the country just
as much: ·
In California, according to
C-D~AW, nearly one quarter of
the entering college freshmen (23
per cent) were functiona ll y
illiterate, wit h skills below the
ninth grade level.

Bring the kids.

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The Evergreen State College

The C-DRAW test is a short
one, taking about 20 minutes to
complete. It tests reading speed
in words-per-minute, readiflg
comprehension with ten questions about the reading, and asks
students to write a brief essay in
response to the reading. The
essay is scored for grammar and
spelling. not content.
"It didn't test for creativity:·
said Laurie Crosby, a student
intern.
The test could be inaccurate,
according tf' C-DRAW, since
many people apparently did not
take the test seriously.
Dorothy Fairbanks, another
C-DRAW intern , mused out loud
that it was difficult to tell why
students did poorly. Some people may have tried to mask a
literacy disability by goofing off
on the test, she said.
C-DRAW is now working
with about forty students, some
who cannot read or write above
a second grade level.
"I am not sure why," Crosby
commented , "but I don't think
that all the people who should
are coming here for help. I don't
think we get anywhere near th~
amount of people who are here."
One solution proposed by C-

DRAW is to a llow students to
ea rn academic credit while doing
remedial work. Otherwise, they
fea r. student s will never make
themselves find the time to get
the instruction they need.
But Will Humphreys dis,agreed. "Credit that is strictly
remedial shortens college time:·
he 'said. ·They should have to
take remedial work and every
thing else at once:·
Admissions Director Greg
Vermillion explained why seemingly illiterate people were allowed into Evergreen. He said
that it was often difficult to pick
ou t which students were having
problem s with reading and
writing. 'Tve seen students that
have done exceedingly well on
their high schoo l transcript , and
when they got to co llege, they
cou ldn·t put together a sentence:·
Verm illion said . He pointed out
that even the Evergreen supplementa l admissions form ,
which requires essay answers to a
number of questions, does not
always indicate poor wri tin g
skills .
Vermillion went on to explain
that some people were admitted
on the condition that they obtain
help from C-DRAW after they
arrive. He justified admitting
some people who were known to
have reading problems, saying,
"I think we owe it to them in a
lot of respects. As human beings
they have the potential. It's a
matter of smoothing those
skills. "
linda Kahan thinks Bonehead
English should be required here.
··What we should do is offer
remedial English and require
people to take it until they pass
it:·
Humphreys said that Dean of
Enrollment Services Larry Stenberg was looking into the use of
conditional admission more
often, where students are required to get help after they come
here. He also suggested that area
community colleges might take
Evergreen students for remedial
work.
Although Evergreen does have
a problem with illiteracy, it is
not as bad here as at some other
schools. Admissions office figures show that the average
freshman comes to Evergreen
with a 3.01 grade point average.
'That's high," said Vicki IdenMcKinlay, an admissions assistant.

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Film. Access Protested
·'Film-making has always been
a problem hue: ' Academic Dean
Bill Winden admitted yesterday
morning befo~e a n angry a nd
frustra ted group of film-ma k ing
students.
The s tudents in facu lty mem ·
ber Bob Barnard's film-making
module had gathered with Winden and Barnard to air their
comp laints about creative film ·
making at Evergreen, which has
reached a virtual standstill in th e
last year.
At the top of their list of
complaints was access to the
thousands of dollars worth of
16mm movie equipment, all of
which was in the contro l o f
Barnard, who is also in charge of
the Self-Paced Learnin g Lab oratories in the Science building.
In a written statement, the
twenty or so students complained
"First priority for the equipment
is given to Bob IBarnardl"s
special projects. Only those
students who now attend the
film module, regardless of any
past experience, are allowed to
use the equipment."
The students urged that a
proficency test be the only
requirement for using the equipment. As it is now . according to
student Don Dapp. students must
pass rigorous pre-production requirements , putting together a
complete script, storyboa rd. and
. production schedule. The reason
for this, Dapp claimed, was to
allow the films to be censored
I and production controlled from
, above. Stated Dapp: ··Bob will
try every trick in the book to
discourage you ... "
Barnard did not address these
charges directly at the tense
hour-long meeting yesterday, but
agreed to discuss them with
smaller groups of students later.
He did agree, though, that the
college needs a full-time faculty
member in film-making.

Winden also agreed . sa ying: ·lt
is first priority as fa r as l'm
concerned, ·· He was concerned
a bo ut students· cump laints th a t
the film-making module trieri to
cove r bo th beginnin g a nd ad va nced work a t th e sa me time.
··Sume thing s ho uld be done
immediately:' he stated , "so that
adva nc ed s tudent s can have
access to th e film-making equ ipment, ··

··1 don·t think it is something
that ca n·t be resolved: ' Barnard
exp lai ned later. ·'1 don't think
that I've been unfair in the way
l·ve a ll owed acce ss to the
eq uipment.
'·We're go in g to work it out
together ,'· he continued. ·Tm
glad th at the st udent s got
together the way they did so that
the issues could be made clear:·
INTERDISCIPLINARY
APPROACH
Winden had a broader view of
the problem. ··1 want very badly
for the arts of any kind to be
well done here.. . There has
alwa ys been a question of how
that can happen within the
concept of irfterdisciplinary studies in the liberal arts, which is
the crux of Evergreen·s philosophy. I think it can be done at
a high level , but it is a problem: ·
The film student s are in the
process of fo~malizing their
proposal for a film board ,
checking out insurance possibilities, and petitioning the Faculty Personnel ad-hoc committee.
16mm equipment access will
be dealt with in a report which
Winden is preparing after travelling to Southern California and a
meeting with professional filmmakers earlier this year. The
equipment involved used to be
under the control of Gordon
Beck and was at one time under·

the direct ion of staff member
Ken Wilhe lm .
The st u dents urged that a
st uuent-c o ntro lled comm ittee be
~e t up to oversee access tn the
16 mm equ ip m ent. Th i, pla n.
accord ing to Winuen . is mode l I'd after a method used at the
UCLA film sc hoo!. The problem .
Winden told the g ro up . was
insurin g the eq uipm ent , L;CLA
has a unique agree ment with its
insurance company . and Evergree n would have tot ry to
negotiate such an agreement
before the Access Board co uld
fun ction .
For next quarter . Winden
stat ed. ·· At a meeting yes terday
it was deciued that IFaculty
Member) Gordon Beck wou ld
take over the group contract in
film-making and the supervision
of the equipment. ·· This had
been planned since the fall ,
accord ing to Winden .

Fourt h-year student Frankie
Foster has been among the mos t
outspoken of the film students in
critic izing the present method of
access to the eq uipment . Yester·
day , February 9, Foster had to
take a proficiency test in the use
of the Arriflex sound-synch
movie camera. Ac(;ording to
Foster, he has been using the
Arriflex since 1972, and his
having to take a proficiency test
highlights the inequities of the
present system.
Foster is working on a
feature-length film entitled Center Courtyard and previously
directed the award-winning
Phospenes . This year he has
been unable to get the equipment
he needs to complete the feature ·
length production.

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tive, then there is no way (except
of course for the maxim: if it
feels good do itl). We're suggesting that there has to be an unchanging criterion with which to
evaluate _. especially here at Ev- ,
ergreen where so many ideas are
circulating. On what basis do we
judge our goals1 Are limitations
(absolutes) necessary and good 7
We'd like to know what our
fellow Evergreeners think about
the comments and ideas .
R.S.V.P.
The Evergreen
Christian Fellowship
Marc
Mary Lou
Ed
Nancy
Kirk

Something
Fishy
To the Editor:

Wright and
Wrong
ro The Editor :
THANK
YOU
MATT
:;ROENING'!! You have solved
me of my problems. It used to
)e that on Thursday I would run
o CAB at noon and patiently
;tand waiting for the CPJ. Then
I' d spend all afternoon reading
it. Now this cut into valuable
;tudying time and I was forced
o si t up late into the night to
'inish work for Friday's seminar.
"10 LONGER!!! With the Cprs
present quality, I know that if I
don't read it until Friday that I
won't miss anything. In fact, I
know that if i don't read the CPJ
AT ALL that I won't miss
anything. What a relief. Again,
thank you Matt Groening. You've
;'aved my life I
Respectfully yours,
Terry Wright

Baptists
and Rapists
To the Editor:

RE: COOPER POINT JOURNAL, January 27, 1977 - caption under "Kill Rapists" photo
What's this whitewash about
"The m!!ssage's effectiveness was
apparently disguised by the
illegibility of the words"?! It was
effectively clear to me what
those words read and meant. It
was also effectively clear to me
that that was not a "person"
printed on the pavement, but
actually a man. The way in
which you tried to smother the
message and its 'significance was
yet another act of violence
against women . That 's right
Matt Groening, violence against
Wllmen. Don 't vou know how

privileged and derogatory it is to
tell a woman that the difference
between a rapist and a Baptist is
merely phonetical? Damn you're
bold I Why did you write such a
th ing? You could have at least
acknowledged the fact that a
woman had been raped recently
and that you sypathized with her
and all women in their struggle
to stop rape forever. Rather
instead you attempt to not only
render the incident insignificant
but also present the image that
that incident never even happened. The truth of the matter is
that you can't begin to accept
the reality of women dealing
with the issues of rape themselves. Did you learn nothing
from Against Our Will? I am
referring here to your two-part
review of Susan Brownmiller's
book in which you rejected the
crux of her thesis. Which is that
all men benefit from rape. Now I
see you proving that very point
in your own actions or at least
in your own complicity for
letting it be printed. It is obvious
to me that " the message's
effectiveness was apparently diminished ... " in your own Selfserving head. And the "Kill
Baptists" clincher doesn't validate
yours or any other man's
misogyny.
Now do you want to know
what is wrong with Charles
Burns' picture? The same thing
that is wrong with all of the
Charles Burns cartoons you've
been printing. In his "art" he
proceeds to strip, dissect, mutilate, and blow up women all
under a neat 50's/ sci-fi disguise.
How artistic . How disgusting. If
you want to stop rape Matt
Groening. you can help yourself,
myself and every other man to
STOP RAPING. Rape mentality
must cease. At least one immediate way to do that is to get
it out of print. That means doing
away with Charles Burns cartoons in the CPJ and helping me
to get PLAYBOY and VIVA out
of the bookstore. You've been
complicit and so have 1. Now
I'm calling for a change to all
that.
Keith Keyser
clo Mens Center

Like Wow
To the Editor:
RE: The Stan "The Man"
Shore "lines From Our Past"
Contest
My entry: From "Spacing Out
on Zardoz, " page 7, last issue
" And you liked this1"
interjected.
"like wow," my friend said,
brushing his hair away from his
eyes .....
Daily Olympian, right, Stan?
Uh, the Summer of Love1968, Daily 0, Totem Tidings
section, from the article about
the "new generation" right? I Do
I win71 Cmon Stan, someone
has to, you're getting these lines
from somewhere ...
Boy I know I've got it this
time, yours, man, like, wow
(Not My Real Name)
P.S. "But it was satire I Didn't
you get it 7"

Steal This
Newspaper
To the Editor:
To the Evergreen Community
via the Editor,
For the past three quarters,
Cooperative Education has run a
short, informative column in the
CPJ called the Co-op Corner,
circulating internship opportunities to students. The Co-op
Corner has also served to
introduce Co-op to new students.
A new policy by Matt Groening,
the editor, does not allow Co-op
space (other than short announcements and paid advertisements) to facilitate timely, newsy
information from being passed
on to students.
I would like to know if the
CPJ no longer prints info'r mation
concerning student activities or
even educational programs such
as Co-op, then what (besides

news on Eddie Haskell's present
job) does the student newspaper
consider newsworthy information
for the Evergreen Community1 I
am feeling cheated. Not only
because Matt refused to print my
article, but also because he is
stealing the CPJ from the
Evergreen Community.
I ask that everyone read the
news from Co-op, now published
in the weekly Newsletter, and to
tell me (and the Journal staff) if
the information is indeed interesting enough to be printed in
the Journal. If it isn't, then I
apologize to Matt and to you for
wasting your time. But, if indeed
you, the readers of the CPJ, feel
that the news from Co-op is
journal-worthy, then I would ask
Matt Groening to reconsider his
policies on Journal articles and
to I"rint such information.
Keith Goehner
Student Coordinator
Office of Cooperative Education
Editor's note: The COOPER
POINT JOURNAL prints brief
announcements of interest to the
Evergreen community, free classified ads, letters to the editor,
contributions to the Good Reading and Arts and Events columns, and essays in the Forum
column. The JOURNAL does not
print hand-out documents from
any individual or group [including phone lists, calendars, minutes of meetings, memos, membership rosters, or length y service announcements], unless, of
course, a display advertiSing rate
is paid .

The Baby and
the Bath Water
To the Editor:
Last weekend a group of us
Evergreeners got together to talk
about our school - its strong
points, weak points, and needs.
Usually when talking about this
subject . the criticisms focus a-

round the curriculum and administration. Although we recognize
those problems (such as lack of
continuing curriculum, student
input, and unresponsive administration) most of us came up with
a different train of thought which
we'd like to share with the rest of
our Evergreen community.
One of TESC's strongest points
is its acceptance of diversity. Individuality is encouraged and
there are many outlets available
for expressing differences in
dress, thought, opinion, and lifestyle, Evergreen students as a
whole are open and honest with
their ideas - communication is
encouraged. The relaxed attitude
here reminds us that studying is
not all there is and that recreation is important. Although some
criticize Evergreen's non-specialiied approach, we see it as an
advantage because it encourages
a wide range of interests and selfmotivation to find one's own
goals. The physical facilities
themselves offer a lot to us that
at other schools would be available only to "majors" in a particular field. Even Evergreen's bad
reputation among some of the
community can be seen as an advantage . It indicates that it is a
challenging, thought-provoking
place that is upsetting some traditional American values.
As we discussed Evergreen's
weak points it was interesting to
realize that they are TESC's
strong points carried to the extreme. The diversity and acceptance of non-traditional life-styles
has led to lack of discernment .
The baby has been thrown out
with the bath water. On the other
hand, almost anything unconventional is accepted without evaluation. And although Evergreen
demands tolerance and accept ance for itself, there is lack of
tolerance here for many things
non-Evergreenish. Even Evergreen has its own dress code if
you think about it (no double knits please I).
The question that then comes
up is: how do we distinguish between the baby and the bath
water1 Is there any way of judging whether one philosophy,
world-view, or life-style is better
than anoth er? If values are rela ·

It is with reluctance that I pick
this pen up to demonstrate my
feelings regarding the Boldt deci sion of 1974. Standing up for
what you think is right sometimes
hurts your possibilities of getting
a good job. So I'll make this as
short and sweet as possible, I
promise.
This is the first time in over a
hundred years that a non - Indian
(Boldt) stood so steadfastly for
something that's right for the Indian people. I don't have the
govern men t documents before
me, but I believe it was Commissioner Penny who ' pleaded with
the government (of the people,
by the people, and for the people) to "cease fire" on the Indian
politically and otherwise. Forgive
me if I am wrong as to the name.
Needless to say, he did not hold
that job very much longer. And
from time to time, this proverbial
"cry in the wilderness" is heard
again. And more power to Judge
Boldt now.
The January edition of the Wenatchee World contained an article on Boldt's decision in relation
to the first state fish regulation in
1890. Do you believe this decision cut the Indian catch down
to 50 % 1 If not, would you believe 5 % 1 It may have been as
close as 1889 that the Indians had
a 100% catch.
Because fish are smelly and
slimy, the Hudson Bay and American Fur companies hired
only Indians as commercial fishermen. They even introduced a
better means to catch fish - a
net, whiteman style. The treaties
conceded "usual and accustomed"
fishing areas "without interruption" for Indian fishermen. Indian fishermen were numberless.
As a matter of fact, this is the
only area of the United States
where there was an argument
over Indian fish and fur trade
between America and Great Britain . The coastal land was "the"
land of plenty. But not anymore.
Who really cares what happened?
Now that there are hardly any
fish - more oil spills, etc. we're allowed (up t07) 50%.
True, we' re entitled to all we can
get; but isn't it like stripping a
forest, and then saying we can
have half of the rubble1
Why not allow Indian voices
in decisions on hatcheries, aquaculture, sound anti-pollution
laws, building permits, logging
practices, commercial fishing,
sports fishing, their own Indian
fishing, and (yes) even foreign
fishing, whatever. After all, who's
been at this business longer than

anyone else 7
The Indian fisherman's seniority goes unquestioned; but can
you picture the Indian vote in a ll
these matters up to 50 % 1 20 % ?
At least until there's enough fish
to go around again.
Pauline Hi!laire Covington
Native American
Studies Graduate
Okanogan, Washington

Forcing Out
the Air Force
To the Editor:
Last Thursday the Air Force
Band was booked for another
concert at Evergreen. When I
heard about this cultural activity
it suddenly hit me that by this'
act ion, Evergreen represented
nothing different than what
standard educational institutions
stand for.
That people in the position of
booking activities at Evergreen
do so v ary individualistically
without getting prior critical
feedback typifies the nature of
this institution.
Using the Air Force Band's
appearance February 3 and their
future one of April 12, it is
apparent that Evergreen is trying
to legitimize itself to the status
quo by using the military to lend
it credibility.
I find this kind of politicking
diametrically opposed to what
my conceptions of human
growt h at this school are. If this
institution is purveyed as one
which cultivates profitable learning experiences, people should
realize that this process of
growth should be fulfilled with a
critical evaluative eye .
The ide a of an eva lu at ion
process being built into the
academic programs here is but
one phase of the Evergreen
vision. In order to legitimize
Evergreen's method of learning,
we need not drag in the military
and its $47 million public
relations campaign. What needs
to be done is for this evaluat ion
process to be expanded to
include a critical perspective on
each part of this institution and
its activities .
I feel strongly that if people in
authority can make decisions like
having the Air Force Band
perform here then we owe ' it to
ourselves to accept responsibility
to question this authority in
what appropriate action we
deem necessary.
The act of questioning authority should be cultivated, not
criticized.
In struggle,
Marita Haberland

The Ku Klux
Klan, Nazi
Dance Troupes,
and the U .S .~
Air Force

tions apparatus to let us know
that militarism is good for us.
These protests are just going to
make the Pentagon think that ·we
don't support the armed forces,
their weapons, and foreign
policy objectives.
How dare the protesters say
that for the Vietnamese people
the Air Force was not an evening
of classical music or an air show
at the county fair , but an
onslaught of destructive firepower beyond our comprehen·
sion. Those backward cultures
just can't apprecia te good music.
I resented being shown pictures
of napalmed children and defoliated jungles by the demonstra·
tors . We should feel proud of the
military when we listen to the
music - not ashamed.
And what about all the young
children in the audience7 I'd hate
to see this demonstration make
them begin questioning all those
good things we've been teachLlg
them on TV and at school.
Those effete intellectual sno bs
represented Evergreen badly to
the community. So I was glad to
hear that our public relat ions
department will be properly
representing us by bringing the
Air Force band back to TESC on
April 12. And I hope Evergreen
has more cultural events like
this. How about a Ku Klux Klan
fash ion show or an FBI dance
troupe?
Sincerely,
Ken Yale

Black-Robed
Antagonists
To the Editor:
What is this, protesting the
concert of the Air Force Band?
The black-robed antagonists
obviously have no understanding
of the universal problem of
militarism. Certainly no one can
deny or ignore the existence of
the "growing unhappiness of the
American people over the size
and expense of armed forces and
their actions throughout the
world." Don't the protesters
realize that the members of the
Air Force Band are merely
adhering to part of a system that
is almost impossibly beyond our
control? Well, wouldn't it be
nice if we had an ideal, peaceful
planet?
Causing mis~nderstood conflicts with society by dressing in
hooded, black gowns and carrying symbolic scythes will not
educate society to the problem of
militarism. We as Americans do
have a responsibility to our
community (and to the citizens
of our planet) to awaken them to
what freedom means. However
this is accomplished, please do
not deprive the audience of its
freedom, the freedom to enjoy a
peaceful military activity.
Laura Young

Improper
Genitalia

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

I am morally indignant over
the childish and naive demonstration against the Air Force
band.
The Air Force band is part of
a $SO million-a-year public rela-

RE: Current "locals" exhibit in
the library Gallery
Gentlemen :
It's Beaux Arts, not Boy's Art.
Name withheld due
to Improper Genitalia

The Evergreen
Chainsaw
Massacre
To the Editor:
I'm writing to air my disgust
about the little bit of dramatics
that E.P.I.e. put on for the
benefit of both the Air Force
Band a nd the audience. The
affair upset me and didn't seem
to prove anything except that
E.P.I.e. seems to be radical just
to be radica l without thinking
about what they are doing.
I was late to the concert and
missed the nice slide show.
I heard it was something like
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre:
a lot of blood to portray an idea
of gorriness. Apparent ly E.P.I.e.
wanted us to have a picture of
theVietnam War in our minds as
we listened to the concert.
I agree, war is bad business.
People k ill in g other people.
What is rea lly sad is that the
driving force behind war is hate.
The worst side of human nature
-:- we are all capable of it. Hate
is the stimulus that destroys
~~Jple (and innocent Vietnamese
villages). If we truly want peace
in the world, we must begin with
ourselves, not the Air Force
Band.
Be it a good thing or not, the
military is there (personally, in a
run-or-kill/draft situatiol'li)j I
would catch. a balloon to tne
north pOle; but that is beside the
point). E.P.I.e. claims the motivation behind military bands is to '
get the movement of a bandwa)?;on started: "Pep the spirit,
let's get up, kill some commies
(word used for flavor and
dramatic value only) and save
our National Pride-rah, rah."
If anyone is afraid of being
caught up in such an uncontrollable mob of people in such a
way, th ey should stop and
carefully re-evaluate self-worth,
stability , identity, and satisfac·
tion and happiness with their
surroundings. Bandwagons don't
move those in control of the
situation, they only affect the
weak.
Okay, now that I've got that
off my chest, I'll make my point.
When I walked up to the library
last Thursday evening, I could
hear the lively strains of music
outside. As a big fan of
marching bands and loud trumpets, I ran in to get a seat. As I
sat down, I noticed the furtive
figures of E.P.I.e.. They were

EDITOR
Matt Groening
MANAGING EDITOR
Brad Pokorny
FEATURE EDITOR
Stan Shore

dressed in black cloaks, holding
daggers made out of cardboard.
It was so ludicrous, I almost
laughed . But I didn't: these
people were dead serious. I was
reminded of the Ku Klux Klan:
people masquerading to display
hatred. I saw their stony faces
under th e black hoods - they
must have felt a strong hatred to
do such a thing.
Mea nwhile, in sp ite of E.P.
I.C. 's ominous prese n ce, th e
band had a great so und and an
aura of camaraderie. They were
excellent musicians doing something they enjoyed . T he piano
players and percussion sect ion
were hamming it up in back,
which is pure enter ta inment for
the aud ience. I thought it was
great. The band didn't feel any
hate toward us, they were just
playing some familiar tunes .
E.P.I.C.'s battle between
radica ls and the establishment
was one-sided. In the first place,
the Air Force Band was here to
entertain us, not debate on the
legitamacy or rightfulness of the
Vietnam War. And secondly,
E.P. I.e. was defeating its purpose entirely: using hate to fight
hate will not bring peace, just
more hate.
Signed,
Just another passenger,
Jane-Louise Rugg

Westside
Protec.tion
Dear Editor,
We are organizing a Westside
friendship protection service . We
plan to make this a continuing
service for the Westside. Our
concern is for the protection ot
women; however, we hope men
will support us in this. We are
collecting names, addresses , and
phone numbers of people who
are interested . The purpose of
this is to make known houses in
the area where people who are
part of the protection community
can find help. We are also
organizing a list of Westside
people who are willing to give
rides to women at night.
• We will be holding meetings
Fridays at noon in the Women's
Center lounge. If you live on the
Westside and are interested in
joining our group, please come
to the meetings or contact us
through the Women's Center.
Mary Pagt
lisa Oakley

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tive, then there is no way (except
of course for the maxim: if it
feels good do itl). We're suggesting that there has to be an unchanging criterion with which to
evaluate _. especially here at Ev- ,
ergreen where so many ideas are
circulating. On what basis do we
judge our goals1 Are limitations
(absolutes) necessary and good 7
We'd like to know what our
fellow Evergreeners think about
the comments and ideas .
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Christian Fellowship
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Mary Lou
Ed
Nancy
Kirk

Something
Fishy
To the Editor:

Wright and
Wrong
ro The Editor :
THANK
YOU
MATT
:;ROENING'!! You have solved
me of my problems. It used to
)e that on Thursday I would run
o CAB at noon and patiently
;tand waiting for the CPJ. Then
I' d spend all afternoon reading
it. Now this cut into valuable
;tudying time and I was forced
o si t up late into the night to
'inish work for Friday's seminar.
"10 LONGER!!! With the Cprs
present quality, I know that if I
don't read it until Friday that I
won't miss anything. In fact, I
know that if i don't read the CPJ
AT ALL that I won't miss
anything. What a relief. Again,
thank you Matt Groening. You've
;'aved my life I
Respectfully yours,
Terry Wright

Baptists
and Rapists
To the Editor:

RE: COOPER POINT JOURNAL, January 27, 1977 - caption under "Kill Rapists" photo
What's this whitewash about
"The m!!ssage's effectiveness was
apparently disguised by the
illegibility of the words"?! It was
effectively clear to me what
those words read and meant. It
was also effectively clear to me
that that was not a "person"
printed on the pavement, but
actually a man. The way in
which you tried to smother the
message and its 'significance was
yet another act of violence
against women . That 's right
Matt Groening, violence against
Wllmen. Don 't vou know how

privileged and derogatory it is to
tell a woman that the difference
between a rapist and a Baptist is
merely phonetical? Damn you're
bold I Why did you write such a
th ing? You could have at least
acknowledged the fact that a
woman had been raped recently
and that you sypathized with her
and all women in their struggle
to stop rape forever. Rather
instead you attempt to not only
render the incident insignificant
but also present the image that
that incident never even happened. The truth of the matter is
that you can't begin to accept
the reality of women dealing
with the issues of rape themselves. Did you learn nothing
from Against Our Will? I am
referring here to your two-part
review of Susan Brownmiller's
book in which you rejected the
crux of her thesis. Which is that
all men benefit from rape. Now I
see you proving that very point
in your own actions or at least
in your own complicity for
letting it be printed. It is obvious
to me that " the message's
effectiveness was apparently diminished ... " in your own Selfserving head. And the "Kill
Baptists" clincher doesn't validate
yours or any other man's
misogyny.
Now do you want to know
what is wrong with Charles
Burns' picture? The same thing
that is wrong with all of the
Charles Burns cartoons you've
been printing. In his "art" he
proceeds to strip, dissect, mutilate, and blow up women all
under a neat 50's/ sci-fi disguise.
How artistic . How disgusting. If
you want to stop rape Matt
Groening. you can help yourself,
myself and every other man to
STOP RAPING. Rape mentality
must cease. At least one immediate way to do that is to get
it out of print. That means doing
away with Charles Burns cartoons in the CPJ and helping me
to get PLAYBOY and VIVA out
of the bookstore. You've been
complicit and so have 1. Now
I'm calling for a change to all
that.
Keith Keyser
clo Mens Center

Like Wow
To the Editor:
RE: The Stan "The Man"
Shore "lines From Our Past"
Contest
My entry: From "Spacing Out
on Zardoz, " page 7, last issue
" And you liked this1"
interjected.
"like wow," my friend said,
brushing his hair away from his
eyes .....
Daily Olympian, right, Stan?
Uh, the Summer of Love1968, Daily 0, Totem Tidings
section, from the article about
the "new generation" right? I Do
I win71 Cmon Stan, someone
has to, you're getting these lines
from somewhere ...
Boy I know I've got it this
time, yours, man, like, wow
(Not My Real Name)
P.S. "But it was satire I Didn't
you get it 7"

Steal This
Newspaper
To the Editor:
To the Evergreen Community
via the Editor,
For the past three quarters,
Cooperative Education has run a
short, informative column in the
CPJ called the Co-op Corner,
circulating internship opportunities to students. The Co-op
Corner has also served to
introduce Co-op to new students.
A new policy by Matt Groening,
the editor, does not allow Co-op
space (other than short announcements and paid advertisements) to facilitate timely, newsy
information from being passed
on to students.
I would like to know if the
CPJ no longer prints info'r mation
concerning student activities or
even educational programs such
as Co-op, then what (besides

news on Eddie Haskell's present
job) does the student newspaper
consider newsworthy information
for the Evergreen Community1 I
am feeling cheated. Not only
because Matt refused to print my
article, but also because he is
stealing the CPJ from the
Evergreen Community.
I ask that everyone read the
news from Co-op, now published
in the weekly Newsletter, and to
tell me (and the Journal staff) if
the information is indeed interesting enough to be printed in
the Journal. If it isn't, then I
apologize to Matt and to you for
wasting your time. But, if indeed
you, the readers of the CPJ, feel
that the news from Co-op is
journal-worthy, then I would ask
Matt Groening to reconsider his
policies on Journal articles and
to I"rint such information.
Keith Goehner
Student Coordinator
Office of Cooperative Education
Editor's note: The COOPER
POINT JOURNAL prints brief
announcements of interest to the
Evergreen community, free classified ads, letters to the editor,
contributions to the Good Reading and Arts and Events columns, and essays in the Forum
column. The JOURNAL does not
print hand-out documents from
any individual or group [including phone lists, calendars, minutes of meetings, memos, membership rosters, or length y service announcements], unless, of
course, a display advertiSing rate
is paid .

The Baby and
the Bath Water
To the Editor:
Last weekend a group of us
Evergreeners got together to talk
about our school - its strong
points, weak points, and needs.
Usually when talking about this
subject . the criticisms focus a-

round the curriculum and administration. Although we recognize
those problems (such as lack of
continuing curriculum, student
input, and unresponsive administration) most of us came up with
a different train of thought which
we'd like to share with the rest of
our Evergreen community.
One of TESC's strongest points
is its acceptance of diversity. Individuality is encouraged and
there are many outlets available
for expressing differences in
dress, thought, opinion, and lifestyle, Evergreen students as a
whole are open and honest with
their ideas - communication is
encouraged. The relaxed attitude
here reminds us that studying is
not all there is and that recreation is important. Although some
criticize Evergreen's non-specialiied approach, we see it as an
advantage because it encourages
a wide range of interests and selfmotivation to find one's own
goals. The physical facilities
themselves offer a lot to us that
at other schools would be available only to "majors" in a particular field. Even Evergreen's bad
reputation among some of the
community can be seen as an advantage . It indicates that it is a
challenging, thought-provoking
place that is upsetting some traditional American values.
As we discussed Evergreen's
weak points it was interesting to
realize that they are TESC's
strong points carried to the extreme. The diversity and acceptance of non-traditional life-styles
has led to lack of discernment .
The baby has been thrown out
with the bath water. On the other
hand, almost anything unconventional is accepted without evaluation. And although Evergreen
demands tolerance and accept ance for itself, there is lack of
tolerance here for many things
non-Evergreenish. Even Evergreen has its own dress code if
you think about it (no double knits please I).
The question that then comes
up is: how do we distinguish between the baby and the bath
water1 Is there any way of judging whether one philosophy,
world-view, or life-style is better
than anoth er? If values are rela ·

It is with reluctance that I pick
this pen up to demonstrate my
feelings regarding the Boldt deci sion of 1974. Standing up for
what you think is right sometimes
hurts your possibilities of getting
a good job. So I'll make this as
short and sweet as possible, I
promise.
This is the first time in over a
hundred years that a non - Indian
(Boldt) stood so steadfastly for
something that's right for the Indian people. I don't have the
govern men t documents before
me, but I believe it was Commissioner Penny who ' pleaded with
the government (of the people,
by the people, and for the people) to "cease fire" on the Indian
politically and otherwise. Forgive
me if I am wrong as to the name.
Needless to say, he did not hold
that job very much longer. And
from time to time, this proverbial
"cry in the wilderness" is heard
again. And more power to Judge
Boldt now.
The January edition of the Wenatchee World contained an article on Boldt's decision in relation
to the first state fish regulation in
1890. Do you believe this decision cut the Indian catch down
to 50 % 1 If not, would you believe 5 % 1 It may have been as
close as 1889 that the Indians had
a 100% catch.
Because fish are smelly and
slimy, the Hudson Bay and American Fur companies hired
only Indians as commercial fishermen. They even introduced a
better means to catch fish - a
net, whiteman style. The treaties
conceded "usual and accustomed"
fishing areas "without interruption" for Indian fishermen. Indian fishermen were numberless.
As a matter of fact, this is the
only area of the United States
where there was an argument
over Indian fish and fur trade
between America and Great Britain . The coastal land was "the"
land of plenty. But not anymore.
Who really cares what happened?
Now that there are hardly any
fish - more oil spills, etc. we're allowed (up t07) 50%.
True, we' re entitled to all we can
get; but isn't it like stripping a
forest, and then saying we can
have half of the rubble1
Why not allow Indian voices
in decisions on hatcheries, aquaculture, sound anti-pollution
laws, building permits, logging
practices, commercial fishing,
sports fishing, their own Indian
fishing, and (yes) even foreign
fishing, whatever. After all, who's
been at this business longer than

anyone else 7
The Indian fisherman's seniority goes unquestioned; but can
you picture the Indian vote in a ll
these matters up to 50 % 1 20 % ?
At least until there's enough fish
to go around again.
Pauline Hi!laire Covington
Native American
Studies Graduate
Okanogan, Washington

Forcing Out
the Air Force
To the Editor:
Last Thursday the Air Force
Band was booked for another
concert at Evergreen. When I
heard about this cultural activity
it suddenly hit me that by this'
act ion, Evergreen represented
nothing different than what
standard educational institutions
stand for.
That people in the position of
booking activities at Evergreen
do so v ary individualistically
without getting prior critical
feedback typifies the nature of
this institution.
Using the Air Force Band's
appearance February 3 and their
future one of April 12, it is
apparent that Evergreen is trying
to legitimize itself to the status
quo by using the military to lend
it credibility.
I find this kind of politicking
diametrically opposed to what
my conceptions of human
growt h at this school are. If this
institution is purveyed as one
which cultivates profitable learning experiences, people should
realize that this process of
growth should be fulfilled with a
critical evaluative eye .
The ide a of an eva lu at ion
process being built into the
academic programs here is but
one phase of the Evergreen
vision. In order to legitimize
Evergreen's method of learning,
we need not drag in the military
and its $47 million public
relations campaign. What needs
to be done is for this evaluat ion
process to be expanded to
include a critical perspective on
each part of this institution and
its activities .
I feel strongly that if people in
authority can make decisions like
having the Air Force Band
perform here then we owe ' it to
ourselves to accept responsibility
to question this authority in
what appropriate action we
deem necessary.
The act of questioning authority should be cultivated, not
criticized.
In struggle,
Marita Haberland

The Ku Klux
Klan, Nazi
Dance Troupes,
and the U .S .~
Air Force

tions apparatus to let us know
that militarism is good for us.
These protests are just going to
make the Pentagon think that ·we
don't support the armed forces,
their weapons, and foreign
policy objectives.
How dare the protesters say
that for the Vietnamese people
the Air Force was not an evening
of classical music or an air show
at the county fair , but an
onslaught of destructive firepower beyond our comprehen·
sion. Those backward cultures
just can't apprecia te good music.
I resented being shown pictures
of napalmed children and defoliated jungles by the demonstra·
tors . We should feel proud of the
military when we listen to the
music - not ashamed.
And what about all the young
children in the audience7 I'd hate
to see this demonstration make
them begin questioning all those
good things we've been teachLlg
them on TV and at school.
Those effete intellectual sno bs
represented Evergreen badly to
the community. So I was glad to
hear that our public relat ions
department will be properly
representing us by bringing the
Air Force band back to TESC on
April 12. And I hope Evergreen
has more cultural events like
this. How about a Ku Klux Klan
fash ion show or an FBI dance
troupe?
Sincerely,
Ken Yale

Black-Robed
Antagonists
To the Editor:
What is this, protesting the
concert of the Air Force Band?
The black-robed antagonists
obviously have no understanding
of the universal problem of
militarism. Certainly no one can
deny or ignore the existence of
the "growing unhappiness of the
American people over the size
and expense of armed forces and
their actions throughout the
world." Don't the protesters
realize that the members of the
Air Force Band are merely
adhering to part of a system that
is almost impossibly beyond our
control? Well, wouldn't it be
nice if we had an ideal, peaceful
planet?
Causing mis~nderstood conflicts with society by dressing in
hooded, black gowns and carrying symbolic scythes will not
educate society to the problem of
militarism. We as Americans do
have a responsibility to our
community (and to the citizens
of our planet) to awaken them to
what freedom means. However
this is accomplished, please do
not deprive the audience of its
freedom, the freedom to enjoy a
peaceful military activity.
Laura Young

Improper
Genitalia

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

I am morally indignant over
the childish and naive demonstration against the Air Force
band.
The Air Force band is part of
a $SO million-a-year public rela-

RE: Current "locals" exhibit in
the library Gallery
Gentlemen :
It's Beaux Arts, not Boy's Art.
Name withheld due
to Improper Genitalia

The Evergreen
Chainsaw
Massacre
To the Editor:
I'm writing to air my disgust
about the little bit of dramatics
that E.P.I.e. put on for the
benefit of both the Air Force
Band a nd the audience. The
affair upset me and didn't seem
to prove anything except that
E.P.I.e. seems to be radical just
to be radica l without thinking
about what they are doing.
I was late to the concert and
missed the nice slide show.
I heard it was something like
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre:
a lot of blood to portray an idea
of gorriness. Apparent ly E.P.I.e.
wanted us to have a picture of
theVietnam War in our minds as
we listened to the concert.
I agree, war is bad business.
People k ill in g other people.
What is rea lly sad is that the
driving force behind war is hate.
The worst side of human nature
-:- we are all capable of it. Hate
is the stimulus that destroys
~~Jple (and innocent Vietnamese
villages). If we truly want peace
in the world, we must begin with
ourselves, not the Air Force
Band.
Be it a good thing or not, the
military is there (personally, in a
run-or-kill/draft situatiol'li)j I
would catch. a balloon to tne
north pOle; but that is beside the
point). E.P.I.e. claims the motivation behind military bands is to '
get the movement of a bandwa)?;on started: "Pep the spirit,
let's get up, kill some commies
(word used for flavor and
dramatic value only) and save
our National Pride-rah, rah."
If anyone is afraid of being
caught up in such an uncontrollable mob of people in such a
way, th ey should stop and
carefully re-evaluate self-worth,
stability , identity, and satisfac·
tion and happiness with their
surroundings. Bandwagons don't
move those in control of the
situation, they only affect the
weak.
Okay, now that I've got that
off my chest, I'll make my point.
When I walked up to the library
last Thursday evening, I could
hear the lively strains of music
outside. As a big fan of
marching bands and loud trumpets, I ran in to get a seat. As I
sat down, I noticed the furtive
figures of E.P.I.e.. They were

EDITOR
Matt Groening
MANAGING EDITOR
Brad Pokorny
FEATURE EDITOR
Stan Shore

dressed in black cloaks, holding
daggers made out of cardboard.
It was so ludicrous, I almost
laughed . But I didn't: these
people were dead serious. I was
reminded of the Ku Klux Klan:
people masquerading to display
hatred. I saw their stony faces
under th e black hoods - they
must have felt a strong hatred to
do such a thing.
Mea nwhile, in sp ite of E.P.
I.C. 's ominous prese n ce, th e
band had a great so und and an
aura of camaraderie. They were
excellent musicians doing something they enjoyed . T he piano
players and percussion sect ion
were hamming it up in back,
which is pure enter ta inment for
the aud ience. I thought it was
great. The band didn't feel any
hate toward us, they were just
playing some familiar tunes .
E.P.I.C.'s battle between
radica ls and the establishment
was one-sided. In the first place,
the Air Force Band was here to
entertain us, not debate on the
legitamacy or rightfulness of the
Vietnam War. And secondly,
E.P. I.e. was defeating its purpose entirely: using hate to fight
hate will not bring peace, just
more hate.
Signed,
Just another passenger,
Jane-Louise Rugg

Westside
Protec.tion
Dear Editor,
We are organizing a Westside
friendship protection service . We
plan to make this a continuing
service for the Westside. Our
concern is for the protection ot
women; however, we hope men
will support us in this. We are
collecting names, addresses , and
phone numbers of people who
are interested . The purpose of
this is to make known houses in
the area where people who are
part of the protection community
can find help. We are also
organizing a list of Westside
people who are willing to give
rides to women at night.
• We will be holding meetings
Fridays at noon in the Women's
Center lounge. If you live on the
Westside and are interested in
joining our group, please come
to the meetings or contact us
through the Women's Center.
Mary Pagt
lisa Oakley

BUSINESS MANAGER
David Judd
ADVERTISING
Brock Sutherland
SECRETARY
Kim McCartney

PRODUCTION
Lynda Weinman
Steve Willis
TIle COOPER POINT JOURNAL I. publl.hed WMIlly for the students. fRuity.
and .lIff 04 TIle Everg_ SIIII College. OIympg. Washington 98505. VI_••• pIWMd are not _ I l l y ttIMe of The Everg_ SIIII College. Advertising m.·

!erial ~tad herein doN not _ I l l y Imply ~t by thl. _peper.
0111_ are locatad In the College Act""", Building (CAB) 3011. News phone_:
8118-11213. see·8214. Advertising and bu.I_: see-eoeo. Lett.,. polley: All tat.... to the editor mu.t be .-I¥ed by noon T~y for that . . . . . publication.
IAItwa must be typed. doubte-apeced. and 400 wont. or ..... TIle editors
the rtgt\t to edit for content and .tyta. Names wtll be w"hheId on reqwat.

r...n.

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Unstructured Writing
at Evergreen
"Whatever you may do after
college, the ability to write
well.. _. [is I critical to a successful
life. In Coordinated Studies,
both students and faculty do a
lot of writing: short essays to
start discussions, critiques, notebooks and journals, reports, .... "
- The 1977-79
Evergreen Bulletin

Writing at Evergreen, like
everything else here, is taught in
an alternative way. There is no
required English 101 with dreary
essays to write about 'Yo ur
Summer Vacation ' or ·[s God
Dead ?'
A lternative methods of teaching st ud e nt s to write have
evolved slowly a nd painfully in
the five yea rs since Evergreen
began, and ma ny of the meth ods
promote "unstructured" writing.
Most writ in g assignments at
Evergreen are ongoing, and yo u
are encouraged to make co nnections between the books you
read, the seminars you attend,
and just about anything else that
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basis for another widely-practiced structureless writing mode
at Evergreen : The Five-Pages-aWeek Notebook.
The method of writing five
pages a week about anything
you wanted began in 1972 in
Western Civilization coordinated
studies program, as originated
by faculty member Mark Levensky . This was almost teacherless
writing. Students were directed
to exchange notebooks weekly
and comment on each other's
writing. The facUlty member saw
the notebooks and commented
perhaps once a quarter.

while for its effects on the
seminar. "I t increased communication between members of the
seminar," Kahan said , "and some
discovered how to use the
journal for their own benefit. "
Kahan became interested · in
finding out exactly what effects
the notebooks did have on
student writing, so she and Steve
Erhmann, an evaluation consultant to the college, asked three
University of Washington doctoral English students to read the
beginnings and endings of 45
notebooks, and to respond
whether or not they felt the
writing had improved in six
areas: grammar, organization,
idea and thought flow, intellec tual development , expressivity , and holistic or overall
writing ability. The results indi-

TEACHERLESS WRITING

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usually starts with ten minute
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But teacherless wri ting has its
problems. Th ad Curtz, a faculty
memb er who teaches writing ,
said that " teache rl ess writing
groups tend to fa ll apart, even at
Evergreen ." C urtz sa id this was
because most student writing is
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EVERY WEEK
Elbow's method has been
criticized by students and teachers alike. It has been called
formless and self-indulgent. It
has been accused of placing
emphasis on quantity instead of
quality. A few years ago the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL
parodied the Elbow method,
dubbing it "Writing without
Purpose," and suggesting its

Levensky and Elbow both
taught at t he Massachusetts
Institute of Technology before
they ca me to Evergreen. Levensky said he learned "about the
ten-minute writing business from
a guy who had used it teaching
at San Q uenton prison," when
he was in the south looking at
Black colleges . 'When I came
back to Cambridge," Levensky
said, "I told Peter about it ."
Both he and Elbow experimented
with freewriting at M.I.T. , and
Elbow went on to write a book
about it.
The five-pages notebook came
out of a Western Civilization
summer planning meeting, ac- ,
co rding to Levensky . "I suggested a five-page notebook," he
sa id , "w hich I'd never used
before, but seemed to me a good
idea, to get people writing about
anyth ing, and then, hopefully,
they would write better about
other things later."
Levensky admits that at the
end of the year he decided that
the notebook s did not help
s tu dents learn how to write
academic essays. "Five pages a
week , as far as I know, did not
help people learn how to write
intelligently about difficult
books, and that's what it was
supposed to do."
The five-page notebook system
. was used the following year in
the Democracy and Tyranny
program by Nancy Taylor and
Merv Cadwallader, who modified the requirements slightly by
the end of the year: the wri ting
should be a response to the
seminar books. Nancy Taylor
defended the notebooks, not
because t hey helped students to
write "better" in the traditional
sense, but because if helped
students to write more easily.
'The first thing you have to do
with freshmen is get them off the
phony k in d of high school
writing they've been doing," she
commented.
Last year Linda Kahan coordinated Health: Individual and
Community . They used the
five-pages-a-week notebook because Taylor and Cadwallader
reported positive results w ith it,
and, Kahan said, "I think I also
wanted students to write better."
She said the notebooks ultimately did not help the students to
write better, but it was worth-

cate that most of-the notebooks
show that intellectual development a nd expressiOl:r improved
over the course ot the year, but
that grammar, organization, a nd
thought flow did not - or at
leas t grammar and organizational improvements do not
show up in a personal notebook
of this type.
The teachers interviewed agreed that the five-pages notebook scheme w ill not improve
your ability to write, following
th e traditional s tandards of
gramma r and spelling. But they
a ll ha 'Ie various reasons for
seeing the notebooks as valid.
Curtz, who worked with the
five-pages notebooks in Western
Civilization, feels it is useful
"because it makes the student
face some importan t questions
about what they really want to
write about."
Essentially the teachers view
the notebooks as a way to help
s tudents overcome their fears
about writing and learn to write
more easily, an echo of the
rationale behind Elbow's method.
Much of the failure of the
five-pages notebooks to improve
student writing can also be
attributed to the lack of faculty
criticism on each student's notebook . The Evergreen work load
makes it difficult for many
teachers to read and respond to
an individual essay or assignment
every week . Curtz pointed out
that the notebooks ·p rovide a
way for students "to write more
writing and have it read than
they could with a ny other kind
of wri ting ." Levensky stated the
problem with flat clarity. "Improving people's writing requires
an enormous amount of individual atten tion."
In defense of the notebooks,
a nd unstru ctured writing like
them, Curtz finally commented,
"You can be a terrific writer in
spite of bad grammar and awfu l
spe lli ng." And for many at
Evergreen, that represents a fond
hope for unstructured writing.
IMAGERY AND METAPHOR
Writing that probes the inner
self, or tries to, is almost an
obsession at Evergreen. Two
faculty members are currently
working with writing modes that
attempt to explore the unconscious and bolster creativity in

addition in learning to write
better. One is Richard Jones and
his dream reflection Seminar;
the other, Marylin Frasca and
her work with the Intensive
Journal Workshop.
Academic Dean Will Hum phreys said of Richard Jones'
dream reflection seminars, "It's
shown some of the stongest
improvement in writing I've seen
here ."
The dream reflection seminar,
if anything, is the writing mode
Evergreen can truly call its own.
Jones, the faculty member primarily responsible for developing
dream reflection and writing
techniques, said he had no plans
for combining dreams and writing when he arrived at Evergreen .
"[t's been invented by Evergreen," Jones said.
Jones started mixing dreams
and writing in the Human
Deve[opment program during
Evergreen's first year. He said
the method has just e volved
since then , through student and
faculty feedback .
At a dream reflection seminar
a student comes with a dream
carefully written up and reads it
aloud to the group . The dream is
then discussed for a half to two
hours. Then everyone leaves and
writes a response to the dreams.
Jones considers the writing
ex tremely important. " That's
what keeps it from wandering
off into a kind of bootleg psychotherapy. "
Later in the week everyone
meets again , all the responses are
read, and the dream is discussed
again. The responses can be any
genre of writing: poetry, prose ,
fiction, or letters .
'There seems to be next to no
stud en ts who don't find it
very interesting a nd productive
in awakening or re-awakening
their interest in writing," Jones
sa id . " There's so mething so
novel about dream imagery that
it has a way of coaxing people
into writing some thing fun
before they are even aware of
it. "
Jones admitted the dream
se minars didn't improve the
s tud ents ' writing so much as
c hange their attitude about
writing . " It 's had the most
success with people who have
[earned not to enjoy writing.
With seemingly no effort people
seem to be writing with p[easure."
Humphreys felt that the dream
semi nars resu lt ed in people
getting a "better feel for imagery
a nd metaphor" in writing. Pete
Sinclair and Chuck Pailthorp
have a lso given dream reflection
seminars.
TAPPING THE UNCONSCIOUS
Marylin Frasca uses the Intensive Journal Workshop as a tool
to "make the contents of people's
lives more accessible to them ."
Frasca, who is currently teaching
the Intensive Jo urnal in the
Images program, has participated
in Intensive Journal Workshqps
in San Francisco given by Ira
ProgoH, the originator of the
method and author of At a
Journal Workshop.
An Intensive Journal workshop
meets for two-and-a-half hours
twice a week. At each meeting
all are given a specific journalwriting exercise. "Each of us
writes by ourselves," Frasca said,
"but as a group ." The journals
are totally private. The more
p rivate they are, the better it
works, Frasca said.
The workshop follows set
guidlines, and the j<;lUrnals are
divided into different sections for
each type of exercise . Some

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exercises involve an imaginary
dialogue with another person .
All the exercises are geared
towards helping you make contact with the "well" of your
unconscious , and the " undergro und stream" that flow s
through it, as Progoff puts it.
Frasca described the journals as a
"workbook where all the contents a re the thoughts and
feelings of your life. You ' re
working with the whole movement of your life. It's not a daily
diary. "
Frasca feels the Intensive
Journal is an important way for
people doing creative work to
separate their inner life from
their outer life, resulting in
greater control of their creative
expression. "When people do
creative work," Frasca said, "this
[the journal] becomes a very
separate activity . And because
they have a place for their life,
then when they dq their work,
the subject matter doesn't have
to deal with their lives. They can
deal with things outside. They
don't have to be working out
relationships (\r illustrating pictures of their ideas or prob[ems."
Frasca explained that she was
not saying that creative work
sho u[dn't deal w i th personal
t hings, but rath er that one
should have a choice. "The
personal stuff doesn't have to
rush out," she said. "You're a
ga te-keepe r then, instead of
someone with personal contro!' ''
She related the advantages of
the Intensive Journa[ to people at
Evergreen who are interested in
making images. 'The difficulty
with a lot of students here with
creative work is that they try to
make other people's images .
They lose touch with their own
experiences. And then they don't
know how to tell if their images
are any good or not. So with the
Journa ls th ey begin to make
contact with their own subject
matter."
"For example," she said, "there
are lots of skilled filmmakers
on campus who don't have any
thing t o make fi lms about.
They're technicia ns in search of
content ."
Traditional schools emphasize
the traditional structure of writing, grammar, spelling, organization. At Evergreen the main
idea behind the unstructured
wri tin g modes is to get the
students exci ted about writing.
Presumably everything else will
follow.

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Ujamaa Plans Umoja Week
A play by Black A rts West of
Seattle and a three-hour concert
by jazz musician Walter Zuber
Armstrong headline a week of
activities beginning Monday ,
February 14, at Evergreen .
Sponsored by Ujamaa, Evergreen's black student group' the
Umoja week will feature art
exhibits in the library, films,
discussions , and poetry, in
addition to the Black Arts play
Wednesday night and Armstrong' 5 performance Friday
evening.
Nearly all the events are free
and open to the public, according to student coordinator AI
Walker, head of Ujamaa . "We've
kept the price down so as ma ny
persons as possible can join us
for this celebration of black
unity, " he says.
The program begins Monday
at noon with four hours of films
in LH Five and the unveiling of
black art works in the library .
Tuesday more films are scheduled, also from noon to 5 p.m . in
LH Five, and a special session of
poetry readings will be presented
at 2 p.m. by recent Evergreen
graduate Erskine White.
Black Arts W est theater troupe
mo ves to the library lobby
Wednesday evening at 7 :30
with a production of "Don ' t
Bother Me , I Can't Cope." The
play, written by Mikki Grant,
depicts black Americans in
contemporary so ciety . Admission is $2 .50 ' per person and
tickets will be sold at the door .
Evergreen Trustee Torn Dixon,
executive director of the Tacoma
Urban League, will chair a series

of discussio ns Thursday beginning at 1 p .m. in LH Three .
Featured speaker is Central
Washington State College sociolog y professor Skip Waymon
Ware, who will offer discu ssion
of black political thought with
a n historical emphasis.
More discuss ions are slated for
Friday, from 1 to 5 p.m . in LH
Two. Betty A very, nutrition
co nsultant for Depa r tment of
Social and Health Services, will
discuss black nutrition, followed
by Thelma Jackson, an Olympia
YWCA counselor, who will join
Thelma Patillo, coordinator of
the Yakima black children's
center , in discussing "B lack
Women ."
Armstrong , a popular jazz
musician from Va ncouver, British Columbia, will play flute and
saxophone at Ujamaa's Fish Fry
dinner Friday night, beginning a t
6 o'clock on the fourth fl oo r of
the library . Admission to the
dinner a nd th e three-hour concer t is $1 per person.
Umoja week concludes Saturday w ith a discussion of health
care, fea turing talks by Edwina
Travis , director of Olympia 's
Planned Parenthood, and Bill
Moss, Tacoma's regiona l directo r
of Planned Parenthood , Their
discussion begins at 1 p.m. in the
library lobby. A mobile blood
unit will also be on h a nd
Saturday to offer free sickle cell
blood tests.

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ood Reading
GOOD READING is a co lumn li sting books and arti cles which " ,a mber~ of
the COOPER POINT JOURNAL slaft have .ound espeCially usefu l. entertai ning, or important . From time to time GOOD READING will feature short com mentaries and items on literary matl ers . We welcome sUQQestions and ideas
for thi s column from our readers. Verltas OOlu,1I pari1. ("Truth engenders
hatred.")
THE WHO EVER CALLED IT THE
DAIL Y ZERO DEPARTMENT
The staff of the COOPER POINT
JOURNAL knew It was coming and
we were worried . The re porter had
asked what seemed like leading
questions . The news paper h e
worked for was known as a " zero"
which had hated the college for
years. To make things worse, t he
school was in the middle of a fight
with the legislature .
'
But when it came o ut we
breathed a co llective sigh of rel ief.
The Dally Olympian, In its " Totem
Tidings" section of Sunday February 6. ran a two-page feature titled
"The Evergreen State College As
Seen By Matt Groening, St udent
Newspaper Editor and Man Anxiou s
To See If There Is Life After TESC."
Denn is Anstine, th e au thor of the
artic le. was quite sympathetiC to
Evergreen .
About the JOURNAL the Dally 0
had this to say : "The writing has' a
tendency to be a little c ute, relying
on c lever or d ifferenl approaches to
an event. But the writers do take
th em selve:; seriou s l y, and their
st ra ig h t news w ritin g . w h ic h is
probab l y the best wri ting in the
paper, refl ects thi s."
Elsewhere in Ihe " Totem Tidings, " Anst ln3 recom mends Olympia
residents subscribe to the JOURNAL. So far the JOURNAL has
not been deluged with req uests .
In case you have never read it,
the DAILY OLYMPIAN has a
tendency to be a little boring,
relying on news wire or police
blotter stories. But the writers do
take themse l ve s ser iously, and
their feature writing, which is
probably the best in t he paper,
refl ects t hi s.
PERIODICALS DEPARTMENT
"Reputations Revisited," assembles a host of famous writers who
gleefu ll y choose the most overrated
and underrated book~ and authors
of the last 75 years. The Human
Condition by Hannah Arendt. a
favorite at Evergreen, is singled out
by Isaiah Berlin as overrated .
Virginia Woolf, Arthur Toynbee,
and George Orwell Are mentioned

repeatedly as greater in legend I han
in deed .
John Kenneth Galbraith c~ooses
Ring Lardner, the short s t o ry
writer, as th e most underraled.
Says he : "Lardner was ignored
because he was a former sport s
writer."
Robert Lowell dec ided incomprehensibl y that mil itary historian J.
F. C. Fuller was "a! good in hi s
way as Bertrand Russ" II. "
Bob Dylan. that prooh et of pop ,
voted th e Bible as both m osl
overrated and underrate.1 .
But the most telling of all th e
entr ies was that o f Vladmir
Nabokov. One wishes they cou ld
print his choices, but knowing the
value of his own rep utat ion hi s 12
lines were copyright 1977 Vladmir
Nabokov . 75th annive.-sary issue,
TIMES LITERARY SUf'PLEMENT
January 17, 1977 .
"The Newspeak Generation, " by
Reed Whitt emore. "As t he un ivers ilies t'ave abandoned literacy, the
media have stepped in to offer examples of the beautiful and correct. " And when Barbara Wallers Is
your teacher. look out . Harper's .
February 1977 . page 16.
"Revising the Faels 01 Life," by
P. B. & J . S. Medawar is a n
approach for laypersons to the
difficult topic of genet iCS. One may
wonder why they would want to
know more abou l the subject than
they already do. The answer is that
genetics is about to mushroom In
its influence the way t hat physics
did earl ier in this cen l ury . Genetic
bombs? No . An end to aging?
Sure, why not? HARPERS, February 1977 .
"The 011 Companies Get Their
Way, " by John Ken neth Galbrai th .
Not surpri singly , Gal braith is not
very sympathetic to the continual
complaints of oil company managers. But he does refuse to
engage in the mind less rhetoric
which marks so m uch of the
discussion 01 multi-national corporat ions . Where else? NEW YORK
REVIEW OF BOOKS, February 3,
1977.

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APPOINTMENTS ONL V
Men and Women
Open Nights
I recommend I nd un

Unstructured Writing
at Evergreen
"Whatever you may do after
college, the ability to write
well.. _. [is I critical to a successful
life. In Coordinated Studies,
both students and faculty do a
lot of writing: short essays to
start discussions, critiques, notebooks and journals, reports, .... "
- The 1977-79
Evergreen Bulletin

Writing at Evergreen, like
everything else here, is taught in
an alternative way. There is no
required English 101 with dreary
essays to write about 'Yo ur
Summer Vacation ' or ·[s God
Dead ?'
A lternative methods of teaching st ud e nt s to write have
evolved slowly a nd painfully in
the five yea rs since Evergreen
began, and ma ny of the meth ods
promote "unstructured" writing.
Most writ in g assignments at
Evergreen are ongoing, and yo u
are encouraged to make co nnections between the books you
read, the seminars you attend,
and just about anything else that
flutters into your head .

~~~l:
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basis for another widely-practiced structureless writing mode
at Evergreen : The Five-Pages-aWeek Notebook.
The method of writing five
pages a week about anything
you wanted began in 1972 in
Western Civilization coordinated
studies program, as originated
by faculty member Mark Levensky . This was almost teacherless
writing. Students were directed
to exchange notebooks weekly
and comment on each other's
writing. The facUlty member saw
the notebooks and commented
perhaps once a quarter.

while for its effects on the
seminar. "I t increased communication between members of the
seminar," Kahan said , "and some
discovered how to use the
journal for their own benefit. "
Kahan became interested · in
finding out exactly what effects
the notebooks did have on
student writing, so she and Steve
Erhmann, an evaluation consultant to the college, asked three
University of Washington doctoral English students to read the
beginnings and endings of 45
notebooks, and to respond
whether or not they felt the
writing had improved in six
areas: grammar, organization,
idea and thought flow, intellec tual development , expressivity , and holistic or overall
writing ability. The results indi-

TEACHERLESS WRITING

In 1973 faculty member Peter
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ones. He encourages "free-writin g," a technique of writing
down everything that comes into
your mind as fast as you can for
a short period of time. O ne
usually starts with ten minute
bursts and works up. The po int
is to learn to write more easily,
wit hou t pen-stopping blank-page
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But teacherless wri ting has its
problems. Th ad Curtz, a faculty
memb er who teaches writing ,
said that " teache rl ess writing
groups tend to fa ll apart, even at
Evergreen ." C urtz sa id this was
because most student writing is
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EVERY WEEK
Elbow's method has been
criticized by students and teachers alike. It has been called
formless and self-indulgent. It
has been accused of placing
emphasis on quantity instead of
quality. A few years ago the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL
parodied the Elbow method,
dubbing it "Writing without
Purpose," and suggesting its

Levensky and Elbow both
taught at t he Massachusetts
Institute of Technology before
they ca me to Evergreen. Levensky said he learned "about the
ten-minute writing business from
a guy who had used it teaching
at San Q uenton prison," when
he was in the south looking at
Black colleges . 'When I came
back to Cambridge," Levensky
said, "I told Peter about it ."
Both he and Elbow experimented
with freewriting at M.I.T. , and
Elbow went on to write a book
about it.
The five-pages notebook came
out of a Western Civilization
summer planning meeting, ac- ,
co rding to Levensky . "I suggested a five-page notebook," he
sa id , "w hich I'd never used
before, but seemed to me a good
idea, to get people writing about
anyth ing, and then, hopefully,
they would write better about
other things later."
Levensky admits that at the
end of the year he decided that
the notebook s did not help
s tu dents learn how to write
academic essays. "Five pages a
week , as far as I know, did not
help people learn how to write
intelligently about difficult
books, and that's what it was
supposed to do."
The five-page notebook system
. was used the following year in
the Democracy and Tyranny
program by Nancy Taylor and
Merv Cadwallader, who modified the requirements slightly by
the end of the year: the wri ting
should be a response to the
seminar books. Nancy Taylor
defended the notebooks, not
because t hey helped students to
write "better" in the traditional
sense, but because if helped
students to write more easily.
'The first thing you have to do
with freshmen is get them off the
phony k in d of high school
writing they've been doing," she
commented.
Last year Linda Kahan coordinated Health: Individual and
Community . They used the
five-pages-a-week notebook because Taylor and Cadwallader
reported positive results w ith it,
and, Kahan said, "I think I also
wanted students to write better."
She said the notebooks ultimately did not help the students to
write better, but it was worth-

cate that most of-the notebooks
show that intellectual development a nd expressiOl:r improved
over the course ot the year, but
that grammar, organization, a nd
thought flow did not - or at
leas t grammar and organizational improvements do not
show up in a personal notebook
of this type.
The teachers interviewed agreed that the five-pages notebook scheme w ill not improve
your ability to write, following
th e traditional s tandards of
gramma r and spelling. But they
a ll ha 'Ie various reasons for
seeing the notebooks as valid.
Curtz, who worked with the
five-pages notebooks in Western
Civilization, feels it is useful
"because it makes the student
face some importan t questions
about what they really want to
write about."
Essentially the teachers view
the notebooks as a way to help
s tudents overcome their fears
about writing and learn to write
more easily, an echo of the
rationale behind Elbow's method.
Much of the failure of the
five-pages notebooks to improve
student writing can also be
attributed to the lack of faculty
criticism on each student's notebook . The Evergreen work load
makes it difficult for many
teachers to read and respond to
an individual essay or assignment
every week . Curtz pointed out
that the notebooks ·p rovide a
way for students "to write more
writing and have it read than
they could with a ny other kind
of wri ting ." Levensky stated the
problem with flat clarity. "Improving people's writing requires
an enormous amount of individual atten tion."
In defense of the notebooks,
a nd unstru ctured writing like
them, Curtz finally commented,
"You can be a terrific writer in
spite of bad grammar and awfu l
spe lli ng." And for many at
Evergreen, that represents a fond
hope for unstructured writing.
IMAGERY AND METAPHOR
Writing that probes the inner
self, or tries to, is almost an
obsession at Evergreen. Two
faculty members are currently
working with writing modes that
attempt to explore the unconscious and bolster creativity in

addition in learning to write
better. One is Richard Jones and
his dream reflection Seminar;
the other, Marylin Frasca and
her work with the Intensive
Journal Workshop.
Academic Dean Will Hum phreys said of Richard Jones'
dream reflection seminars, "It's
shown some of the stongest
improvement in writing I've seen
here ."
The dream reflection seminar,
if anything, is the writing mode
Evergreen can truly call its own.
Jones, the faculty member primarily responsible for developing
dream reflection and writing
techniques, said he had no plans
for combining dreams and writing when he arrived at Evergreen .
"[t's been invented by Evergreen," Jones said.
Jones started mixing dreams
and writing in the Human
Deve[opment program during
Evergreen's first year. He said
the method has just e volved
since then , through student and
faculty feedback .
At a dream reflection seminar
a student comes with a dream
carefully written up and reads it
aloud to the group . The dream is
then discussed for a half to two
hours. Then everyone leaves and
writes a response to the dreams.
Jones considers the writing
ex tremely important. " That's
what keeps it from wandering
off into a kind of bootleg psychotherapy. "
Later in the week everyone
meets again , all the responses are
read, and the dream is discussed
again. The responses can be any
genre of writing: poetry, prose ,
fiction, or letters .
'There seems to be next to no
stud en ts who don't find it
very interesting a nd productive
in awakening or re-awakening
their interest in writing," Jones
sa id . " There's so mething so
novel about dream imagery that
it has a way of coaxing people
into writing some thing fun
before they are even aware of
it. "
Jones admitted the dream
se minars didn't improve the
s tud ents ' writing so much as
c hange their attitude about
writing . " It 's had the most
success with people who have
[earned not to enjoy writing.
With seemingly no effort people
seem to be writing with p[easure."
Humphreys felt that the dream
semi nars resu lt ed in people
getting a "better feel for imagery
a nd metaphor" in writing. Pete
Sinclair and Chuck Pailthorp
have a lso given dream reflection
seminars.
TAPPING THE UNCONSCIOUS
Marylin Frasca uses the Intensive Journal Workshop as a tool
to "make the contents of people's
lives more accessible to them ."
Frasca, who is currently teaching
the Intensive Jo urnal in the
Images program, has participated
in Intensive Journal Workshqps
in San Francisco given by Ira
ProgoH, the originator of the
method and author of At a
Journal Workshop.
An Intensive Journal workshop
meets for two-and-a-half hours
twice a week. At each meeting
all are given a specific journalwriting exercise. "Each of us
writes by ourselves," Frasca said,
"but as a group ." The journals
are totally private. The more
p rivate they are, the better it
works, Frasca said.
The workshop follows set
guidlines, and the j<;lUrnals are
divided into different sections for
each type of exercise . Some

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exercises involve an imaginary
dialogue with another person .
All the exercises are geared
towards helping you make contact with the "well" of your
unconscious , and the " undergro und stream" that flow s
through it, as Progoff puts it.
Frasca described the journals as a
"workbook where all the contents a re the thoughts and
feelings of your life. You ' re
working with the whole movement of your life. It's not a daily
diary. "
Frasca feels the Intensive
Journal is an important way for
people doing creative work to
separate their inner life from
their outer life, resulting in
greater control of their creative
expression. "When people do
creative work," Frasca said, "this
[the journal] becomes a very
separate activity . And because
they have a place for their life,
then when they dq their work,
the subject matter doesn't have
to deal with their lives. They can
deal with things outside. They
don't have to be working out
relationships (\r illustrating pictures of their ideas or prob[ems."
Frasca explained that she was
not saying that creative work
sho u[dn't deal w i th personal
t hings, but rath er that one
should have a choice. "The
personal stuff doesn't have to
rush out," she said. "You're a
ga te-keepe r then, instead of
someone with personal contro!' ''
She related the advantages of
the Intensive Journa[ to people at
Evergreen who are interested in
making images. 'The difficulty
with a lot of students here with
creative work is that they try to
make other people's images .
They lose touch with their own
experiences. And then they don't
know how to tell if their images
are any good or not. So with the
Journa ls th ey begin to make
contact with their own subject
matter."
"For example," she said, "there
are lots of skilled filmmakers
on campus who don't have any
thing t o make fi lms about.
They're technicia ns in search of
content ."
Traditional schools emphasize
the traditional structure of writing, grammar, spelling, organization. At Evergreen the main
idea behind the unstructured
wri tin g modes is to get the
students exci ted about writing.
Presumably everything else will
follow.

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Ujamaa Plans Umoja Week
A play by Black A rts West of
Seattle and a three-hour concert
by jazz musician Walter Zuber
Armstrong headline a week of
activities beginning Monday ,
February 14, at Evergreen .
Sponsored by Ujamaa, Evergreen's black student group' the
Umoja week will feature art
exhibits in the library, films,
discussions , and poetry, in
addition to the Black Arts play
Wednesday night and Armstrong' 5 performance Friday
evening.
Nearly all the events are free
and open to the public, according to student coordinator AI
Walker, head of Ujamaa . "We've
kept the price down so as ma ny
persons as possible can join us
for this celebration of black
unity, " he says.
The program begins Monday
at noon with four hours of films
in LH Five and the unveiling of
black art works in the library .
Tuesday more films are scheduled, also from noon to 5 p.m . in
LH Five, and a special session of
poetry readings will be presented
at 2 p.m. by recent Evergreen
graduate Erskine White.
Black Arts W est theater troupe
mo ves to the library lobby
Wednesday evening at 7 :30
with a production of "Don ' t
Bother Me , I Can't Cope." The
play, written by Mikki Grant,
depicts black Americans in
contemporary so ciety . Admission is $2 .50 ' per person and
tickets will be sold at the door .
Evergreen Trustee Torn Dixon,
executive director of the Tacoma
Urban League, will chair a series

of discussio ns Thursday beginning at 1 p .m. in LH Three .
Featured speaker is Central
Washington State College sociolog y professor Skip Waymon
Ware, who will offer discu ssion
of black political thought with
a n historical emphasis.
More discuss ions are slated for
Friday, from 1 to 5 p.m . in LH
Two. Betty A very, nutrition
co nsultant for Depa r tment of
Social and Health Services, will
discuss black nutrition, followed
by Thelma Jackson, an Olympia
YWCA counselor, who will join
Thelma Patillo, coordinator of
the Yakima black children's
center , in discussing "B lack
Women ."
Armstrong , a popular jazz
musician from Va ncouver, British Columbia, will play flute and
saxophone at Ujamaa's Fish Fry
dinner Friday night, beginning a t
6 o'clock on the fourth fl oo r of
the library . Admission to the
dinner a nd th e three-hour concer t is $1 per person.
Umoja week concludes Saturday w ith a discussion of health
care, fea turing talks by Edwina
Travis , director of Olympia 's
Planned Parenthood, and Bill
Moss, Tacoma's regiona l directo r
of Planned Parenthood , Their
discussion begins at 1 p.m. in the
library lobby. A mobile blood
unit will also be on h a nd
Saturday to offer free sickle cell
blood tests.

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ood Reading
GOOD READING is a co lumn li sting books and arti cles which " ,a mber~ of
the COOPER POINT JOURNAL slaft have .ound espeCially usefu l. entertai ning, or important . From time to time GOOD READING will feature short com mentaries and items on literary matl ers . We welcome sUQQestions and ideas
for thi s column from our readers. Verltas OOlu,1I pari1. ("Truth engenders
hatred.")
THE WHO EVER CALLED IT THE
DAIL Y ZERO DEPARTMENT
The staff of the COOPER POINT
JOURNAL knew It was coming and
we were worried . The re porter had
asked what seemed like leading
questions . The news paper h e
worked for was known as a " zero"
which had hated the college for
years. To make things worse, t he
school was in the middle of a fight
with the legislature .
'
But when it came o ut we
breathed a co llective sigh of rel ief.
The Dally Olympian, In its " Totem
Tidings" section of Sunday February 6. ran a two-page feature titled
"The Evergreen State College As
Seen By Matt Groening, St udent
Newspaper Editor and Man Anxiou s
To See If There Is Life After TESC."
Denn is Anstine, th e au thor of the
artic le. was quite sympathetiC to
Evergreen .
About the JOURNAL the Dally 0
had this to say : "The writing has' a
tendency to be a little c ute, relying
on c lever or d ifferenl approaches to
an event. But the writers do take
th em selve:; seriou s l y, and their
st ra ig h t news w ritin g . w h ic h is
probab l y the best wri ting in the
paper, refl ects thi s."
Elsewhere in Ihe " Totem Tidings, " Anst ln3 recom mends Olympia
residents subscribe to the JOURNAL. So far the JOURNAL has
not been deluged with req uests .
In case you have never read it,
the DAILY OLYMPIAN has a
tendency to be a little boring,
relying on news wire or police
blotter stories. But the writers do
take themse l ve s ser iously, and
their feature writing, which is
probably the best in t he paper,
refl ects t hi s.
PERIODICALS DEPARTMENT
"Reputations Revisited," assembles a host of famous writers who
gleefu ll y choose the most overrated
and underrated book~ and authors
of the last 75 years. The Human
Condition by Hannah Arendt. a
favorite at Evergreen, is singled out
by Isaiah Berlin as overrated .
Virginia Woolf, Arthur Toynbee,
and George Orwell Are mentioned

repeatedly as greater in legend I han
in deed .
John Kenneth Galbraith c~ooses
Ring Lardner, the short s t o ry
writer, as th e most underraled.
Says he : "Lardner was ignored
because he was a former sport s
writer."
Robert Lowell dec ided incomprehensibl y that mil itary historian J.
F. C. Fuller was "a! good in hi s
way as Bertrand Russ" II. "
Bob Dylan. that prooh et of pop ,
voted th e Bible as both m osl
overrated and underrate.1 .
But the most telling of all th e
entr ies was that o f Vladmir
Nabokov. One wishes they cou ld
print his choices, but knowing the
value of his own rep utat ion hi s 12
lines were copyright 1977 Vladmir
Nabokov . 75th annive.-sary issue,
TIMES LITERARY SUf'PLEMENT
January 17, 1977 .
"The Newspeak Generation, " by
Reed Whitt emore. "As t he un ivers ilies t'ave abandoned literacy, the
media have stepped in to offer examples of the beautiful and correct. " And when Barbara Wallers Is
your teacher. look out . Harper's .
February 1977 . page 16.
"Revising the Faels 01 Life," by
P. B. & J . S. Medawar is a n
approach for laypersons to the
difficult topic of genet iCS. One may
wonder why they would want to
know more abou l the subject than
they already do. The answer is that
genetics is about to mushroom In
its influence the way t hat physics
did earl ier in this cen l ury . Genetic
bombs? No . An end to aging?
Sure, why not? HARPERS, February 1977 .
"The 011 Companies Get Their
Way, " by John Ken neth Galbrai th .
Not surpri singly , Gal braith is not
very sympathetic to the continual
complaints of oil company managers. But he does refuse to
engage in the mind less rhetoric
which marks so m uch of the
discussion 01 multi-national corporat ions . Where else? NEW YORK
REVIEW OF BOOKS, February 3,
1977.

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About 30 Evergreen students demonstrated at a U.S. Air Force
Band concert in the library lobby last Thursday night, February 3,
protesting the band's appearance on campus. Just before the
concert was scheduled to begin the lights were dimmed and a slow
drum beat sounded. The demonstrators filed solemnly . in front of
the band and read a brief statement, criticizing. the AIr ..Force ~or
trying to "obscure and mystify the role of the Air Forc~. A whl~e
sheet was draped from the balcony overhe~d, and sbdes o.f Air
Force bombers and napalmed Vietnamese chIldren were prOjected
while the band sat silently.
Four of the demonstrators wore black capes and hoods, dressed
as Grim Reapers . After the statement was read, the Reapers
stationed themselves at the head of the aisles and were aske~ by a
Campus Security Man to leave. The concert proceeded WIthout
incident.

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Twenty-five dollars fine for a
grass bust? Bills pending in the
state legislature would reduce the
penalty for the possession of less
than an ounce of marijuana to
not more than a twenty-five
dollars fine . Driving while possessing any amount would become a misdemeanor, but the
possession of more than forty
grams (an ounce and a half), or
the sale of any quantity of the
weed, could lead to a five-year
prison sentence and / or a $10,000
fine.
The bill is currently in the
Judiciary Committees of both
houses, and there was public
hearing this moring, February
10, by the House committee, The
Senate committee will hold a
public hearing on its version of
the bill in the next few weeks.
The two bills are identical.
Senator George Scott (R-King
County), a co-sponsor of the
Senate bill, thought it had a
better chance of passing this time
than it did last session, but it is
" still less than 50-50," Scott
admitted, "There are many
conversions to be made."
Scott also warned that supporters of the bill could ruin its
chances by presenting an undesirable image to the legislators.
"People should come with a view
of what is necessary to properly

impress the legislators . They
should make both themselves
and their arguments credible,"
Scott advised.
The bill is similar to an
initia tive passed last year in
California. A conviction for the
possession of under an ounce
would be periodically removed
from a person's police record , as
is the case with traffic violations.

A Surprise
Evergreen should be closed
and converted into a graduate
school facility for the University
of Washington, suggests State
Senator Hubert Donahue.
According to Donahue's office,
the head of the powerful senate
Ways and Means committee has
not yet decided whether to
introduce a bill on his proposal .
Last week the Ways and
Means committee heard testimony from President Charles
McCann, and others, about the
selection of Daniel Evans as
president and the $65,000 leave
granted to McCann.
Donahue explained that all the
other state colleges have "empty
beds," so Evergreen is not
needed.
In the past it has been
proposed that Evergreen be
turned into a police academy, a
home for the Department of
Natural Resources, and a home
for wayward girls.

Feb. 10 -11
Silent Running

• Silkscreening, Judo. Contact
Improvisation, Stone Sculpture.
African Marimba Playing, These
are just a few of the proposed
Leisure Education workshops
which instructors are being
sought for spring quarter . The
CRC sponsors over 40 workshops here on campus every
quarter designed specifically for
the leisure enjoyment of students, staff, and community
members. A minimal fee is
required to participate in an
eight-week workshop . Over 400
participants are learning everything from scuba-diVing to belly
dance to calligraphy this winter.
Do you have a special interest,
or perhaps a proficiency in the
arts or a sport activity that you
would like to share?
• Anyone interested in an advanced group contract in Expository Writing should attend a
meeting in CAB 110 next Thursday, February 17, from 10:00 to
12:00 a.m. Rudy Martin and
Chuck Pail thorp will be teaching
the study for spring quarter, and
intend to focus on the manner
and meaning of expository
writing , The idea for the
contract was originated by
student Neil Marshall, and was
originally called Writing and
Thought,
• There will be a planning
meeting for those interested in
the Spring Quarter group contract. " ~ , Power, and Social
Chan ge, " at 11 :30 a . m . on
Thursday . February 17, in Lib.
2408 .
go t o gr aduat e
• Sh o uld
sc hoo l?
Should
a ppl y to graduate
school right awa y or work?
When should I take the GRE
or LSA T or MCA T or GMAT?
All these questions and more
will be answered at the Graduate
Schoo l Workshop on Wednesday, February 16, 3 : 00 - 5 :00
p,m. in CAB 108.
Contact Career' Planning and
Placement to register at Lib .
1214 or telephone us at 866-6193 .
• The legislative sentiment is
definitely in favor of a tuition
hike, It looks like it may well be
a substantial increase. In <lL.dllrto air students' views on this
issue there will be a demonstration against the tuition hike next
Tuesday, February 15. It will
take place in the capitol rotunda
at 10:30 a,m. After meeting as a
group we will circulate ourselves
throughout the capitol and
various offices. There will be
students from all around the
state participati~.

HOUSE OF

T he very las t g arde n o n ...._ _
E a r th, sent o ut into S pace for
s afe k ee ping. A gentle fable
s tarring Bruce D e rn and some
re markably lo vable robots .

115 EMt 5th

---~-'--::F-'eb:--.~1

Olympia, WA

- 13
The Magus

s s ible to clearly
this is a shifting,
level movie based on the
by John Fowles. Starring
Michael Caine. Anthony
Quinn . and Candice Hf'rJlI~n.

tavern

Live Music

No C'o ver

Friday & Saturday

by Matt Groening

Mauve Gloves &t Madmen,
Outter &t Vine
and other stories, sketches,
and essays
by Tom Wolfe
Farrar, Straus, and Girousx
$8.95
A bona fide , day-to-day,
grind-ern-out newspaper reporter
visited the COOPER POINT
JOURNAL office recently , and
he tried to chill the impressional tyros hangin g around the
typewriters with slow, ominous
words of ex perience: " You
know," he said, holding up a
copy of the JOURNAL, "You
won't be able to get away with
this on the -outside." What he
mea nt, it turned out, was that the
real world is full of right-wing
editors, dangling paychecks, and
mortgage payments - and that
if you want to eat, kid, you
lIave to write the news, the
obituaries, the marriage announcements, the stories like
SOLONS RAP EXCESSIVE
SPENDING or 4 INJURED IN
HOLIDAY MISHAP, because
that's stuff that's deemed fit to
print.
But we knew better. We'd
been following the work of Tom
Wolfe for years, and as a result
our pulses were irretrievably
quickened , No way would we
churn out COUNTY FUND
REQUEST NIXED or TOT
EATEN BY HUNGRY DOGS .
We'd rather starve than starve
on the Snoreville News Tribune,
fawning in front of Old Man
Muntz, the grizzled editor,
practicing to become alcoholics
in the great journalistic tradition.
The lively reportage of Tom
Wolfe, starting with his brilliant
first collection of magazine and
newspaper pieces, The KandyKolored Tangerine Hake Baby,
has exemplified the most significant new writing of the last 12
years. In the early 1960's Wolfe
grabbed the Gentle Fun newspaper story and used all the
fictional techniques he knew of
to make the traditionally trivial
subjects he was covering come
alive. The unsettling result was
called New Journalism by the
trend-mongers and "parajournalism" by the fops at the New
York Review of Books, who
were particularly peeved by a
vicious Wolfe attack on the

. gent)e New Yorker magazine in
an article titled, "Tiny Mummiesl The True Story of the
Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the
Walking Dead."

Wolfe wa s the great pop
chronicler of the last decade. The
Dectric Koolaid Acid Test, about
Ken Kesey, remains the best
, book detailing the 1960's social
upheaval. Wolfe's obsession with
the symbols of status - clothing, cars, dialect, and so on - is
the thread connecting all of his
works. He is often hated for this,
not so much because of the
subject matter, but because of
his snotty , satirical, detached
conclusions. He and a few other
writers showed that journalism
did not have to be of the
ZONING COMMITTEE SLATED variety , Newspapers and
magazines could truly be controversial, disru ptive, and disagreeable, at the same time exposing
incompetence and the misuse of
power. Jolting New Journal. ism hits the unsuspecting reader
in the face. A few wake up, but
others don't know what hit
them, and they write frothing
. letters to the editor, apparently
slapped a little silly,
Wolfe seems to many as faded
as the 1960's celebrities (Ken
Kesey, Hugh Hefner, Marshall
McLuhan) he wrote about. But
his lower profile is mainly due to
his familiarity and the expansion
of intensified journalistic coverage by writers in magazines
ranging from Harpers to New
West to Esquire to the Village
Voice, Wolfe is still going for the
throat in the 1970's in Radical
Chic and Mau-Mauing the flak
Catchers (a malicious dissection
of white guilt confronting black
rage), The Painted Word (a
scattershot attack on the art
world, its rules and critical
hierarchy), and now Mauve

Shoes for the Sole
Shakt,i shoes and boots

426-3020

109 S. 2nd

ID Please

Arts and EventsAlr1t

Gloves &: Madmen, Outter &:
Vine.
The stories and essays in
Mauve Gloves are, as usual,
concerned with the power of
status symbols, The book's title
comes from the first story, and
refers to a florist's shop (Clutter
& Vine) and - a catering service
(Mauve Gloves & Madmen) used
by a rich writer to. prove to his
friends and himself that he has
made it. Wolfe's fictionalized
portrait is amusing but slight.
The book's two longest pieces
are the best, "The Truest Sport :
Jousting With Sam and Charlie"
is about a couple of Navy jet
pilots in Vietnam, their motivations , and their psychological
fallout. Wolfe gets into his
subjects' minds, even to the
point of last, drowning thoughts
- " Jesus I How I pity myself
nowl" - and the story has
original insights into the military
mentality .
The other outstanding article
is 'The Me Decade and the
Third Great Awakening." Rampant narcissism has taken on the
characteristics of a mass religious
revival, Wolfe writes. Unprecedented luxury and plenty of
leisure time allow people to do
"something only aristocrats
(and intellectuals and arti~ts)
were supposed to do - they
discovered and started doting on
Me! They've created the greatest
age of individualism in American
history I All rules are broken I
The prophets are out of business I
Where the Third Great Awakening wi\! lead - who can presume to say? One only knows
that the great religious waves
have a momentum all their own.
Neither arguments nor policies
nor acts of the legislature have
been any matc~ for them in the
past. And this one has the
mightiest, holiest roll of all, the
beat that goes ... Me ... Me ... Me
... Me"
Wolfe's books are filled with
abruptly shifting narrative
voices, rhetorical tricks, puns,
arcane literary references, and
straight-faced put-ons. He is a
playful master in full control of
his words, and his essays serve
as lessons in what can be done
to expand the limits of journalism. Let Mauve Gloves slap you
around, and maybe, cries Wolfe,
you will wake up. Get away
from MAN TORTURES PETS
WITH HOT FORK., and if you
read carefully, with training,
perhaps ... perhaps you will get it.

E1I.6

ON CAMPUS
Friday, Februray 11 , and
Saturday, February 12
LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (The
Child..., 01 P.radIH) (France, 1945)
"This Is the best film to be shown
this year by this or any other film
series," says Oon Dapp, Friday
Nite Film Series Coord inator .
Marcel Carne directed the ambitious
3'A·hour masterpiece, wh ich traces
the lives of the art ists and thieves
who lived along the Boulevard du
Temple (Paris' famous theater
street) during the 1830's. The
performances , from to~ to bottom,
are superb: Arl etty, as the beautifu l
actress Garance , around whom the
story unfolds ; Pierre Brasseur, as
the actor Lemaitre; Louis Salou , as
Count de Montera y; Jean·Lo ui s
Barrault , as the mime Bapt iste;
and Marcel Herrand as the anarch,s,
tic criminal Lacenaire . This was
Jacques Prevert's last film with
Carne, which was sh ot, amazingly
enough, during the Nazi occupat ion
of Paris . LH One, 3 and 7 p.m.
Friday; 7 p.m . only Saturday. 75
cents .
Monday, February 14
AS LONG AS THE RIVERS RUN
and INDIAN FISHERIES REPORT,
two short films. Suzette Mills of
Frank's landing will speak. Presented by the Evergreen Political
Information Canter. LH One, noon
and 7:30 D.m . FREE.
IN OLYMPIA
FREAKY FRIDAY, a Walt Disney
movie. Starts Friday, February 11 .
Capitol Theater, 357-7161.
SILVER STREAK, a disappointing
comedy, with the exception of the
brief performance by Richard Pryor.
State Theater, 357-4010.
THE FRONT, a too-tame comedy
about the communist wltch-huntIngs of the 1950's, made by
formerly blacklisted movie folks.
With Woody Allen. Slate Theater,
357-4010.
FAMILY PLOT, one of Hitchcock's
worst movies, and JAWS, a frenzy
of fun . Olympic Theater, 357-3422.
SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL continues at the Cinema.
February 11: SILENT RUNNING, a
2001 variation w ith an ecology
message, starring Bruce Oern and
some Incred ible robots (played by
amputees In specially-designed
robot suits) . February 12-13: THE
MAGUS, based on the novel by
John Fowles, starring Michael
Caine, Anthony Quinn, and Candice
Bergen . THX-l t 38 An excellent
"Brave New World"-Iype mOVie,
based on the award-winning short
which director George Lucas made
when he was a college student.
February .17-22: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, a very good Interpretation of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s best
novel. The Cinema, 943-5914.

~
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, February 10
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT,
featuring faculty musicians Robert
Gottlieb, Don Chan , and Greg
Steinke. Library Lobby, 8 p.m .
FREE

Friday, February 11
AN EVENING OF GOOD FOOD,
WOMEN'S MUSIC, AND DANCE,
fealurlng an all-women Evergreen
lazz band, a group of Bell ingham
dancers, and songs by Race.
Valrej..n ("The Lavender Troubadour"), who wil l perform material
from her Song. For Silent LoYer1l
album. The dinner Includes vegetarian spaghetti, salad, garlic bread,
and lots of good things to drink .
"Share some good music and
dance and then go boogie at the
Beaux Arts Ball! " First floor Library
lobby, 6: 30 p.m . $3 .

PARTIES
Friday , February 11
BEAUX-ARTS
MASQUERADE
BALL, featuring Tropical Rainstorm ,
a Seattle steel dru m band . an d
Obrador , a jazz · l at i n · roc k· f unk
g ro up . Bill ed as "a tr iump ha nt
rey ival of a cheri shed trad ition in
Ihe fi ne arts." thi S will be an
Evergreen Even l you wil l wi sh to
tell yo ur grandchi ldre n about. The
Ball will be of such proportions
that no mere library lob by or
steamplant could contai n its bubbling exuberence: it will be held al
the Thurston County Fairground s.
Advance tickets $2 .50; at the door
$3. Bring your ID for amusing
alcoholic beverages .

A8l

MISSPELLED IMAGES, a show
of visual works by Evergreen
students, In the Library Gallery ,
through February 27.
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIR·
REL HUMOR TEST
This Is a lest . Read the following
story and answer the questions
below. Use the pencil supplied with
this Issue. If you do not use the
correct pencil, you flunk. The
story:
It was Sunshine's first month at
the commune, and she was gettl~g
very weary. One day, while out In
back plowing, she confessed to.
Yajoe her dissatlsfactlo~ . Yalet
held ~> a feather In reply, whl"!l,
meant "Walt and see." That night ;
after chanting, the cqmmune ' s
leader, Charlie, sensed Sunsh lne's
troubled feelings and stood up to
make an announcement. ':Brothers
and sisters," he sang out , "I have
some good news and I have some
bad news. First the good news. We
will all get a change of underwear ."
Sunshine's face lit up. "And now
the bad news," Charlie continUed.
"Yajoe, you change With Lotus :,
Lotus, you change with Sunshine ...
This story is not funny because :
A. It has nothing to do with
sluffed albino squirrels.
B. It Is vulgar and offensive and
might needlessly perturb state
legislators.
C. Hippies do not wear under·

wear.
O. Communal struggles are nOI
funny .
Send all vituperative criticism,
threats, and so on, to the Joe
Bemis Memorial Gallery, open 24
hours . Have a nice day.

Olympia

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352- 7527

$38.95

o

to $44.95

~.O
bringing you very fresh
seafood from the best
of local sources .

STUDENT
DISCOUNT

Management requests patrons to refrain from holding illegal
substances on the premises.
A c hilling look at a notimpossible future , numbe r ed ....- IIno con trolle d . and an individ
!la i a ttempt to escape. Directed
Lu cas ("A merican

Slapped by Mauve Gloves

Well. Ide Cenler
357-8779
Mondey - Salurd.y,
9 : 30 - 8: 00

$28.95

Birkenstock sandals

10 t o 6

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208 W. 4th
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Mon . t h ru Sat.

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New & Used Records
Tapes
Conc ert Tickets
Westside

Center 357-4755
About 30 Evergreen students demonstrated at a U.S. Air Force
Band concert in the library lobby last Thursday night, February 3,
protesting the band's appearance on campus. Just before the
concert was scheduled to begin the lights were dimmed and a slow
drum beat sounded. The demonstrators filed solemnly . in front of
the band and read a brief statement, criticizing. the AIr ..Force ~or
trying to "obscure and mystify the role of the Air Forc~. A whl~e
sheet was draped from the balcony overhe~d, and sbdes o.f Air
Force bombers and napalmed Vietnamese chIldren were prOjected
while the band sat silently.
Four of the demonstrators wore black capes and hoods, dressed
as Grim Reapers . After the statement was read, the Reapers
stationed themselves at the head of the aisles and were aske~ by a
Campus Security Man to leave. The concert proceeded WIthout
incident.

PACIFIC
COAST
Feb . 14-26th Monday thru Saturday

Legal Pot
Proposed

GR.eeDU)OOn ===~
2300 Evergreen Park Drive,
I ~D
I~
Olympia. 943-4000
We're happy to
bring you a

festival of
of the

Plus!

"Radar Men
from

the Moon"

Twenty-five dollars fine for a
grass bust? Bills pending in the
state legislature would reduce the
penalty for the possession of less
than an ounce of marijuana to
not more than a twenty-five
dollars fine . Driving while possessing any amount would become a misdemeanor, but the
possession of more than forty
grams (an ounce and a half), or
the sale of any quantity of the
weed, could lead to a five-year
prison sentence and / or a $10,000
fine.
The bill is currently in the
Judiciary Committees of both
houses, and there was public
hearing this moring, February
10, by the House committee, The
Senate committee will hold a
public hearing on its version of
the bill in the next few weeks.
The two bills are identical.
Senator George Scott (R-King
County), a co-sponsor of the
Senate bill, thought it had a
better chance of passing this time
than it did last session, but it is
" still less than 50-50," Scott
admitted, "There are many
conversions to be made."
Scott also warned that supporters of the bill could ruin its
chances by presenting an undesirable image to the legislators.
"People should come with a view
of what is necessary to properly

impress the legislators . They
should make both themselves
and their arguments credible,"
Scott advised.
The bill is similar to an
initia tive passed last year in
California. A conviction for the
possession of under an ounce
would be periodically removed
from a person's police record , as
is the case with traffic violations.

A Surprise
Evergreen should be closed
and converted into a graduate
school facility for the University
of Washington, suggests State
Senator Hubert Donahue.
According to Donahue's office,
the head of the powerful senate
Ways and Means committee has
not yet decided whether to
introduce a bill on his proposal .
Last week the Ways and
Means committee heard testimony from President Charles
McCann, and others, about the
selection of Daniel Evans as
president and the $65,000 leave
granted to McCann.
Donahue explained that all the
other state colleges have "empty
beds," so Evergreen is not
needed.
In the past it has been
proposed that Evergreen be
turned into a police academy, a
home for the Department of
Natural Resources, and a home
for wayward girls.

Feb. 10 -11
Silent Running

• Silkscreening, Judo. Contact
Improvisation, Stone Sculpture.
African Marimba Playing, These
are just a few of the proposed
Leisure Education workshops
which instructors are being
sought for spring quarter . The
CRC sponsors over 40 workshops here on campus every
quarter designed specifically for
the leisure enjoyment of students, staff, and community
members. A minimal fee is
required to participate in an
eight-week workshop . Over 400
participants are learning everything from scuba-diVing to belly
dance to calligraphy this winter.
Do you have a special interest,
or perhaps a proficiency in the
arts or a sport activity that you
would like to share?
• Anyone interested in an advanced group contract in Expository Writing should attend a
meeting in CAB 110 next Thursday, February 17, from 10:00 to
12:00 a.m. Rudy Martin and
Chuck Pail thorp will be teaching
the study for spring quarter, and
intend to focus on the manner
and meaning of expository
writing , The idea for the
contract was originated by
student Neil Marshall, and was
originally called Writing and
Thought,
• There will be a planning
meeting for those interested in
the Spring Quarter group contract. " ~ , Power, and Social
Chan ge, " at 11 :30 a . m . on
Thursday . February 17, in Lib.
2408 .
go t o gr aduat e
• Sh o uld
sc hoo l?
Should
a ppl y to graduate
school right awa y or work?
When should I take the GRE
or LSA T or MCA T or GMAT?
All these questions and more
will be answered at the Graduate
Schoo l Workshop on Wednesday, February 16, 3 : 00 - 5 :00
p,m. in CAB 108.
Contact Career' Planning and
Placement to register at Lib .
1214 or telephone us at 866-6193 .
• The legislative sentiment is
definitely in favor of a tuition
hike, It looks like it may well be
a substantial increase. In <lL.dllrto air students' views on this
issue there will be a demonstration against the tuition hike next
Tuesday, February 15. It will
take place in the capitol rotunda
at 10:30 a,m. After meeting as a
group we will circulate ourselves
throughout the capitol and
various offices. There will be
students from all around the
state participati~.

HOUSE OF

T he very las t g arde n o n ...._ _
E a r th, sent o ut into S pace for
s afe k ee ping. A gentle fable
s tarring Bruce D e rn and some
re markably lo vable robots .

115 EMt 5th

---~-'--::F-'eb:--.~1

Olympia, WA

- 13
The Magus

s s ible to clearly
this is a shifting,
level movie based on the
by John Fowles. Starring
Michael Caine. Anthony
Quinn . and Candice Hf'rJlI~n.

tavern

Live Music

No C'o ver

Friday & Saturday

by Matt Groening

Mauve Gloves &t Madmen,
Outter &t Vine
and other stories, sketches,
and essays
by Tom Wolfe
Farrar, Straus, and Girousx
$8.95
A bona fide , day-to-day,
grind-ern-out newspaper reporter
visited the COOPER POINT
JOURNAL office recently , and
he tried to chill the impressional tyros hangin g around the
typewriters with slow, ominous
words of ex perience: " You
know," he said, holding up a
copy of the JOURNAL, "You
won't be able to get away with
this on the -outside." What he
mea nt, it turned out, was that the
real world is full of right-wing
editors, dangling paychecks, and
mortgage payments - and that
if you want to eat, kid, you
lIave to write the news, the
obituaries, the marriage announcements, the stories like
SOLONS RAP EXCESSIVE
SPENDING or 4 INJURED IN
HOLIDAY MISHAP, because
that's stuff that's deemed fit to
print.
But we knew better. We'd
been following the work of Tom
Wolfe for years, and as a result
our pulses were irretrievably
quickened , No way would we
churn out COUNTY FUND
REQUEST NIXED or TOT
EATEN BY HUNGRY DOGS .
We'd rather starve than starve
on the Snoreville News Tribune,
fawning in front of Old Man
Muntz, the grizzled editor,
practicing to become alcoholics
in the great journalistic tradition.
The lively reportage of Tom
Wolfe, starting with his brilliant
first collection of magazine and
newspaper pieces, The KandyKolored Tangerine Hake Baby,
has exemplified the most significant new writing of the last 12
years. In the early 1960's Wolfe
grabbed the Gentle Fun newspaper story and used all the
fictional techniques he knew of
to make the traditionally trivial
subjects he was covering come
alive. The unsettling result was
called New Journalism by the
trend-mongers and "parajournalism" by the fops at the New
York Review of Books, who
were particularly peeved by a
vicious Wolfe attack on the

. gent)e New Yorker magazine in
an article titled, "Tiny Mummiesl The True Story of the
Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the
Walking Dead."

Wolfe wa s the great pop
chronicler of the last decade. The
Dectric Koolaid Acid Test, about
Ken Kesey, remains the best
, book detailing the 1960's social
upheaval. Wolfe's obsession with
the symbols of status - clothing, cars, dialect, and so on - is
the thread connecting all of his
works. He is often hated for this,
not so much because of the
subject matter, but because of
his snotty , satirical, detached
conclusions. He and a few other
writers showed that journalism
did not have to be of the
ZONING COMMITTEE SLATED variety , Newspapers and
magazines could truly be controversial, disru ptive, and disagreeable, at the same time exposing
incompetence and the misuse of
power. Jolting New Journal. ism hits the unsuspecting reader
in the face. A few wake up, but
others don't know what hit
them, and they write frothing
. letters to the editor, apparently
slapped a little silly,
Wolfe seems to many as faded
as the 1960's celebrities (Ken
Kesey, Hugh Hefner, Marshall
McLuhan) he wrote about. But
his lower profile is mainly due to
his familiarity and the expansion
of intensified journalistic coverage by writers in magazines
ranging from Harpers to New
West to Esquire to the Village
Voice, Wolfe is still going for the
throat in the 1970's in Radical
Chic and Mau-Mauing the flak
Catchers (a malicious dissection
of white guilt confronting black
rage), The Painted Word (a
scattershot attack on the art
world, its rules and critical
hierarchy), and now Mauve

Shoes for the Sole
Shakt,i shoes and boots

426-3020

109 S. 2nd

ID Please

Arts and EventsAlr1t

Gloves &: Madmen, Outter &:
Vine.
The stories and essays in
Mauve Gloves are, as usual,
concerned with the power of
status symbols, The book's title
comes from the first story, and
refers to a florist's shop (Clutter
& Vine) and - a catering service
(Mauve Gloves & Madmen) used
by a rich writer to. prove to his
friends and himself that he has
made it. Wolfe's fictionalized
portrait is amusing but slight.
The book's two longest pieces
are the best, "The Truest Sport :
Jousting With Sam and Charlie"
is about a couple of Navy jet
pilots in Vietnam, their motivations , and their psychological
fallout. Wolfe gets into his
subjects' minds, even to the
point of last, drowning thoughts
- " Jesus I How I pity myself
nowl" - and the story has
original insights into the military
mentality .
The other outstanding article
is 'The Me Decade and the
Third Great Awakening." Rampant narcissism has taken on the
characteristics of a mass religious
revival, Wolfe writes. Unprecedented luxury and plenty of
leisure time allow people to do
"something only aristocrats
(and intellectuals and arti~ts)
were supposed to do - they
discovered and started doting on
Me! They've created the greatest
age of individualism in American
history I All rules are broken I
The prophets are out of business I
Where the Third Great Awakening wi\! lead - who can presume to say? One only knows
that the great religious waves
have a momentum all their own.
Neither arguments nor policies
nor acts of the legislature have
been any matc~ for them in the
past. And this one has the
mightiest, holiest roll of all, the
beat that goes ... Me ... Me ... Me
... Me"
Wolfe's books are filled with
abruptly shifting narrative
voices, rhetorical tricks, puns,
arcane literary references, and
straight-faced put-ons. He is a
playful master in full control of
his words, and his essays serve
as lessons in what can be done
to expand the limits of journalism. Let Mauve Gloves slap you
around, and maybe, cries Wolfe,
you will wake up. Get away
from MAN TORTURES PETS
WITH HOT FORK., and if you
read carefully, with training,
perhaps ... perhaps you will get it.

E1I.6

ON CAMPUS
Friday, Februray 11 , and
Saturday, February 12
LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (The
Child..., 01 P.radIH) (France, 1945)
"This Is the best film to be shown
this year by this or any other film
series," says Oon Dapp, Friday
Nite Film Series Coord inator .
Marcel Carne directed the ambitious
3'A·hour masterpiece, wh ich traces
the lives of the art ists and thieves
who lived along the Boulevard du
Temple (Paris' famous theater
street) during the 1830's. The
performances , from to~ to bottom,
are superb: Arl etty, as the beautifu l
actress Garance , around whom the
story unfolds ; Pierre Brasseur, as
the actor Lemaitre; Louis Salou , as
Count de Montera y; Jean·Lo ui s
Barrault , as the mime Bapt iste;
and Marcel Herrand as the anarch,s,
tic criminal Lacenaire . This was
Jacques Prevert's last film with
Carne, which was sh ot, amazingly
enough, during the Nazi occupat ion
of Paris . LH One, 3 and 7 p.m.
Friday; 7 p.m . only Saturday. 75
cents .
Monday, February 14
AS LONG AS THE RIVERS RUN
and INDIAN FISHERIES REPORT,
two short films. Suzette Mills of
Frank's landing will speak. Presented by the Evergreen Political
Information Canter. LH One, noon
and 7:30 D.m . FREE.
IN OLYMPIA
FREAKY FRIDAY, a Walt Disney
movie. Starts Friday, February 11 .
Capitol Theater, 357-7161.
SILVER STREAK, a disappointing
comedy, with the exception of the
brief performance by Richard Pryor.
State Theater, 357-4010.
THE FRONT, a too-tame comedy
about the communist wltch-huntIngs of the 1950's, made by
formerly blacklisted movie folks.
With Woody Allen. Slate Theater,
357-4010.
FAMILY PLOT, one of Hitchcock's
worst movies, and JAWS, a frenzy
of fun . Olympic Theater, 357-3422.
SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL continues at the Cinema.
February 11: SILENT RUNNING, a
2001 variation w ith an ecology
message, starring Bruce Oern and
some Incred ible robots (played by
amputees In specially-designed
robot suits) . February 12-13: THE
MAGUS, based on the novel by
John Fowles, starring Michael
Caine, Anthony Quinn, and Candice
Bergen . THX-l t 38 An excellent
"Brave New World"-Iype mOVie,
based on the award-winning short
which director George Lucas made
when he was a college student.
February .17-22: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, a very good Interpretation of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s best
novel. The Cinema, 943-5914.

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ON CAMPUS
Thursday, February 10
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT,
featuring faculty musicians Robert
Gottlieb, Don Chan , and Greg
Steinke. Library Lobby, 8 p.m .
FREE

Friday, February 11
AN EVENING OF GOOD FOOD,
WOMEN'S MUSIC, AND DANCE,
fealurlng an all-women Evergreen
lazz band, a group of Bell ingham
dancers, and songs by Race.
Valrej..n ("The Lavender Troubadour"), who wil l perform material
from her Song. For Silent LoYer1l
album. The dinner Includes vegetarian spaghetti, salad, garlic bread,
and lots of good things to drink .
"Share some good music and
dance and then go boogie at the
Beaux Arts Ball! " First floor Library
lobby, 6: 30 p.m . $3 .

PARTIES
Friday , February 11
BEAUX-ARTS
MASQUERADE
BALL, featuring Tropical Rainstorm ,
a Seattle steel dru m band . an d
Obrador , a jazz · l at i n · roc k· f unk
g ro up . Bill ed as "a tr iump ha nt
rey ival of a cheri shed trad ition in
Ihe fi ne arts." thi S will be an
Evergreen Even l you wil l wi sh to
tell yo ur grandchi ldre n about. The
Ball will be of such proportions
that no mere library lob by or
steamplant could contai n its bubbling exuberence: it will be held al
the Thurston County Fairground s.
Advance tickets $2 .50; at the door
$3. Bring your ID for amusing
alcoholic beverages .

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MISSPELLED IMAGES, a show
of visual works by Evergreen
students, In the Library Gallery ,
through February 27.
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIR·
REL HUMOR TEST
This Is a lest . Read the following
story and answer the questions
below. Use the pencil supplied with
this Issue. If you do not use the
correct pencil, you flunk. The
story:
It was Sunshine's first month at
the commune, and she was gettl~g
very weary. One day, while out In
back plowing, she confessed to.
Yajoe her dissatlsfactlo~ . Yalet
held ~> a feather In reply, whl"!l,
meant "Walt and see." That night ;
after chanting, the cqmmune ' s
leader, Charlie, sensed Sunsh lne's
troubled feelings and stood up to
make an announcement. ':Brothers
and sisters," he sang out , "I have
some good news and I have some
bad news. First the good news. We
will all get a change of underwear ."
Sunshine's face lit up. "And now
the bad news," Charlie continUed.
"Yajoe, you change With Lotus :,
Lotus, you change with Sunshine ...
This story is not funny because :
A. It has nothing to do with
sluffed albino squirrels.
B. It Is vulgar and offensive and
might needlessly perturb state
legislators.
C. Hippies do not wear under·

wear.
O. Communal struggles are nOI
funny .
Send all vituperative criticism,
threats, and so on, to the Joe
Bemis Memorial Gallery, open 24
hours . Have a nice day.

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Feb. 3 - 4
5,000,000 Years to Earth
Made bv BBC-TV, this
movie quietiy sneaks up on you
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until . . . good lord! What is ~
happening in that excavation
for the new subway?

Feb. 5 - 6
Fantastic Planet

Feb. 7 - 9
Zardoz

An animated Czech film,
suberbly made and quite disturbing in ways possible only
to animation. A very grown-up
film, winner of many awards.

A thoroughly enjoyable
romp through the future. starring Sean Connery lin a loin
cloth and pony tail" Charlotte
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Silent Running

Feb. 12-13
The Magus

Feb.14-16
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Feb. 17-22
Slaughterhouse-Five

The very last garden on
Earth. sent out into Space for
safekeeping. A gentle fabl e
starring Bruce Oem and some
remarkably lovable robots.

Impossible to clearly
A chilling look at a notThis is the story of Billy
impossible future. numbered
Pilgrim. and of Dresden. and
descrihe. this is a shifting.
multi-leve l movie based on the
and controlled. and an individof the odd nature of Time. As
novel by John Fowles. Starring
ual attempt to escare. Directed
much as anything cou ld be.
by George Lucas I "A menca n
the movie is based on the novel
M ic h a e I C a i n e. Ant h 0 n \
Quinn. and Candice Bergen. .
Graffiti"'.
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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One out of eight students at
.
Evergreen IS functionally illiter.
ate. This IS the conclusion of
school-wide testing done last
fall by C-DRAW, the Center
for Developmental Reading and
Writing. 1,400 students participated in this test and 12 per
cent were found to read and
write at below the ninth grade
level.

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Academic deans Will Humphreys and Rob Knapp found one
group of juniors - many of
w hom transferred to Evergreen
from the University of Washington - who scored in the lowest
level of the test. ··That's really
kind of astonishing," Humphreys
remarked, " because the people in
t h at cla ~s have been doing
college work for some time. "
Humphreys felt the test probably
indicated there were more problems with reading and writing
than there actually are.

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Illiteracy at Evergreeil"t,

"The tests were only a gross
indicator of the reading and
writing levels at Evergreen ," said
Sadie Crouch, st udent intern at
C-DRAW.
Faculty member Linda Kahan
said,
"In general I think the
level of writing that first-year
studen ts s h ow is sho<;:kingly
poor. But they are experiencing
this all around the country just
as much: ·
In California, according to
C-D~AW, nearly one quarter of
the entering college freshmen (23
per cent) were functiona ll y
illiterate, wit h skills below the
ninth grade level.

Bring the kids.

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The C-DRAW test is a short
one, taking about 20 minutes to
complete. It tests reading speed
in words-per-minute, readiflg
comprehension with ten questions about the reading, and asks
students to write a brief essay in
response to the reading. The
essay is scored for grammar and
spelling. not content.
"It didn't test for creativity:·
said Laurie Crosby, a student
intern.
The test could be inaccurate,
according tf' C-DRAW, since
many people apparently did not
take the test seriously.
Dorothy Fairbanks, another
C-DRAW intern , mused out loud
that it was difficult to tell why
students did poorly. Some people may have tried to mask a
literacy disability by goofing off
on the test, she said.
C-DRAW is now working
with about forty students, some
who cannot read or write above
a second grade level.
"I am not sure why," Crosby
commented , "but I don't think
that all the people who should
are coming here for help. I don't
think we get anywhere near th~
amount of people who are here."
One solution proposed by C-

DRAW is to a llow students to
ea rn academic credit while doing
remedial work. Otherwise, they
fea r. student s will never make
themselves find the time to get
the instruction they need.
But Will Humphreys dis,agreed. "Credit that is strictly
remedial shortens college time:·
he 'said. ·They should have to
take remedial work and every
thing else at once:·
Admissions Director Greg
Vermillion explained why seemingly illiterate people were allowed into Evergreen. He said
that it was often difficult to pick
ou t which students were having
problem s with reading and
writing. 'Tve seen students that
have done exceedingly well on
their high schoo l transcript , and
when they got to co llege, they
cou ldn·t put together a sentence:·
Verm illion said . He pointed out
that even the Evergreen supplementa l admissions form ,
which requires essay answers to a
number of questions, does not
always indicate poor wri tin g
skills .
Vermillion went on to explain
that some people were admitted
on the condition that they obtain
help from C-DRAW after they
arrive. He justified admitting
some people who were known to
have reading problems, saying,
"I think we owe it to them in a
lot of respects. As human beings
they have the potential. It's a
matter of smoothing those
skills. "
linda Kahan thinks Bonehead
English should be required here.
··What we should do is offer
remedial English and require
people to take it until they pass
it:·
Humphreys said that Dean of
Enrollment Services Larry Stenberg was looking into the use of
conditional admission more
often, where students are required to get help after they come
here. He also suggested that area
community colleges might take
Evergreen students for remedial
work.
Although Evergreen does have
a problem with illiteracy, it is
not as bad here as at some other
schools. Admissions office figures show that the average
freshman comes to Evergreen
with a 3.01 grade point average.
'That's high," said Vicki IdenMcKinlay, an admissions assistant.

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Film. Access Protested
·'Film-making has always been
a problem hue: ' Academic Dean
Bill Winden admitted yesterday
morning befo~e a n angry a nd
frustra ted group of film-ma k ing
students.
The s tudents in facu lty mem ·
ber Bob Barnard's film-making
module had gathered with Winden and Barnard to air their
comp laints about creative film ·
making at Evergreen, which has
reached a virtual standstill in th e
last year.
At the top of their list of
complaints was access to the
thousands of dollars worth of
16mm movie equipment, all of
which was in the contro l o f
Barnard, who is also in charge of
the Self-Paced Learnin g Lab oratories in the Science building.
In a written statement, the
twenty or so students complained
"First priority for the equipment
is given to Bob IBarnardl"s
special projects. Only those
students who now attend the
film module, regardless of any
past experience, are allowed to
use the equipment."
The students urged that a
proficency test be the only
requirement for using the equipment. As it is now . according to
student Don Dapp. students must
pass rigorous pre-production requirements , putting together a
complete script, storyboa rd. and
. production schedule. The reason
for this, Dapp claimed, was to
allow the films to be censored
I and production controlled from
, above. Stated Dapp: ··Bob will
try every trick in the book to
discourage you ... "
Barnard did not address these
charges directly at the tense
hour-long meeting yesterday, but
agreed to discuss them with
smaller groups of students later.
He did agree, though, that the
college needs a full-time faculty
member in film-making.

Winden also agreed . sa ying: ·lt
is first priority as fa r as l'm
concerned, ·· He was concerned
a bo ut students· cump laints th a t
the film-making module trieri to
cove r bo th beginnin g a nd ad va nced work a t th e sa me time.
··Sume thing s ho uld be done
immediately:' he stated , "so that
adva nc ed s tudent s can have
access to th e film-making equ ipment, ··

··1 don·t think it is something
that ca n·t be resolved: ' Barnard
exp lai ned later. ·'1 don't think
that I've been unfair in the way
l·ve a ll owed acce ss to the
eq uipment.
'·We're go in g to work it out
together ,'· he continued. ·Tm
glad th at the st udent s got
together the way they did so that
the issues could be made clear:·
INTERDISCIPLINARY
APPROACH
Winden had a broader view of
the problem. ··1 want very badly
for the arts of any kind to be
well done here.. . There has
alwa ys been a question of how
that can happen within the
concept of irfterdisciplinary studies in the liberal arts, which is
the crux of Evergreen·s philosophy. I think it can be done at
a high level , but it is a problem: ·
The film student s are in the
process of fo~malizing their
proposal for a film board ,
checking out insurance possibilities, and petitioning the Faculty Personnel ad-hoc committee.
16mm equipment access will
be dealt with in a report which
Winden is preparing after travelling to Southern California and a
meeting with professional filmmakers earlier this year. The
equipment involved used to be
under the control of Gordon
Beck and was at one time under·

the direct ion of staff member
Ken Wilhe lm .
The st u dents urged that a
st uuent-c o ntro lled comm ittee be
~e t up to oversee access tn the
16 mm equ ip m ent. Th i, pla n.
accord ing to Winuen . is mode l I'd after a method used at the
UCLA film sc hoo!. The problem .
Winden told the g ro up . was
insurin g the eq uipm ent , L;CLA
has a unique agree ment with its
insurance company . and Evergree n would have tot ry to
negotiate such an agreement
before the Access Board co uld
fun ction .
For next quarter . Winden
stat ed. ·· At a meeting yes terday
it was deciued that IFaculty
Member) Gordon Beck wou ld
take over the group contract in
film-making and the supervision
of the equipment. ·· This had
been planned since the fall ,
accord ing to Winden .

Fourt h-year student Frankie
Foster has been among the mos t
outspoken of the film students in
critic izing the present method of
access to the eq uipment . Yester·
day , February 9, Foster had to
take a proficiency test in the use
of the Arriflex sound-synch
movie camera. Ac(;ording to
Foster, he has been using the
Arriflex since 1972, and his
having to take a proficiency test
highlights the inequities of the
present system.
Foster is working on a
feature-length film entitled Center Courtyard and previously
directed the award-winning
Phospenes . This year he has
been unable to get the equipment
he needs to complete the feature ·
length production.
Source: Eng US-WaOE.A.1973-01

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