The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 19 (April 15, 1977)

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Eng The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 19 (April 15, 1977)

Date

15 April 1977

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Eng The Video Equipment Is Here, But Someone Has To-Teach Us How To Use It; Nobody Knows The Troubles We've Seen; S And A Shouldn't Pay For Health Services; Getting Women Into The Curriculum; The New Trusties Will Fight For Evergreen; Intensive Journal; Marathon Maddness and KAOS; Should Evergreen Buy Judy Dater's Photos;

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Eng Jacobs, Karrie

Eng Baron, Michael

Eng Wright, Terry

Eng Gose, Michael

Eng Merker, Meghan

Eng Pokorny, Brad

Eng Keogh, Tom

Eng Dater, Judy

Contributor

Eng Groening, Matt

Eng Judd, David

Eng Pokorny, Brad

Eng Sutherland, Brock

Eng Jacobs, Karrie

Eng Stewart, Jill

Eng Rickles, Annette

Eng Bemis, Joe

Subject

Eng Video Production

Eng Student Health Services

Eng Art

Eng Dater, Judy

Eng Flowers, Robert

Eng The Evergreen State College

Eng The Cooper point Journal

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Eng eng

Place

Eng Washinton State

Eng Thuston County ,WA

Eng Olympia, WA

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Eng The Evergreen State College Board of Publications and members of the Evergreen community

Extent

Eng 8 pages

Temporal Coverage

Eng 1977

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Vol. 5 No . 19

A

15 , 1977

The Video Equipment Is Here, But
Someone Has To -Teach Us How To Use It
by Karrie Jacobs

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Rental housing is big business for real estate companies, land developers and
investment corporations.. Monies collected from renters help to pay for head office
expenses like utilities , salaries , telephones , expense accounts, stock dividends
and investment maintenance. Whatever is leftover is profit. At Campus Housing, we charge
just enough to cover expenses and rental upkeep . The rest pays for the needs of the
renters including heating , water and electricity. We also have cost-saving programs like
cooperative food buying and minimum deposit telephone service. Together,
we try to save as much money as we can .
If you 're on a limited budget or watch your hard-earned money, maybe Campus
Housing Is the right thing for you . Call 866-6132 or stop by the Housing
Office to find out more about living on campus.

Campus Housing. We're not In It for the money.

March s controve rsy of the month , con({'rnmg the allocation of fund s for the new
CommunICations Building, was finally resolved on Tuesday; April 12 by Dean
Willi!' Parson . The controversy involved a
fund of $f]O,QOO that was earmarked for
the purchase ot video-wiring and produc tIon equipment. Certain faculty members
mdlGlled that the funds might be better
spent o n audiO (') r live productIon facil• Il le... , which Invoked the Ife and indignatlCH\ of Video studen ts , and made a spt"Ciai
mE'E'tmg of the Soundinx Board necessary
In orde r to iur the Issue
FUNDS IN UMBO
At thl' meeting, which was held on
March J 1. Parsons announced his in len·
tu'n h.l freele any action o n distribution
01 the iunds In qut>Stion , leaVing S110,(X)()
In limbo. During the m~tlng so many
verSlo n ~ of ' tht' facts" wt'r(' CIrculated by
tht> vanous parlles Involved In the Communications Building debate. that a great
d~al uf informdtlon -so rting dnd gathering
had to take place before a proper decision
un the fate of tht> money could bt- made .
A freeze of an undetermined length on the
expendi ture of the Communications Build ing funds made a number of people uneasy , including Dav~ Carnahan, Associate
Dean of Library Services "Every day we
delav a purchase ," said Cdrnahan. "we
loSE' part of our purchasing power due to
infla ti on."
On April 12, 31 days of decreased pur chasing power later. Parson decided to
spend the $110,000 for its o riginal pur pose ; video cables for the building and a
video recorder with editing capa bility . Al though Parson determined that the Communications Building will bt- wired for
video, whether there will bt- lighting, fac ulty, or equipment to make on-going
video production worthwhile or even pos sib le is another qut>Stion entirely, one of
mdny raised during the controversy
Other quesltons that arose concerned
the use of the prf'Sent studio facilities ,
who can gain access to them , and how
they are actually used .
Almost everybody knows that two,) T . V.
studios lurk in the bowels of the library
building. as well as a campus cable system on which to broadcast any shows
that come out of these studios. but very
rarely does anyone see evidence of these
facilities on their television screens, or
anywhere else, for that mailer.
The most common video event on campus is a student armed with a Porta-pack
acquired from Media Loan with a vali dated I.D . card , a "pro" card. and a song,
shooting scenes of jugglers in white- face
on Red Square
OccaSional glimpses of what can btdone in the color studio crop up now and
then There is the ever - popular Media
Loan tape of Chas Davies demonstrating
the. fine art lof Portapack assemblage. a od
the L~ving 'tatalog makes an annual appearance on TV sets from Lab Phase II
to F Lot. But in general it is diHicult to
figure o ut exactly what goes on in Ever gr~n ' s television studios,
VIDEO FREE EVERGREEN
Currently only one group of pe-ople:
producn and broadcasts programming for
the campus cable system with any hope of
rquluity . This production group, which
calls itself Vid~ Frff Evergreen, has done:
o ne 4.5-minute broadc.ast to date. on the
su bject of life in the: dorms . Th~ plan to
do shows twice monthly , .at Ie.ast until the
end of the quarter . The group consists of
three students from the Communications
and Community studit"S program. Marvin
Young, Patty Hickey. and Dwayne Howe,

Student Marvin Yo un ~ working on

and one individual contract student, Mike
Poole.
"Video does not exist at Evergreen ,"
contends Marvin Young, wh o would like
to see the production crew develop into
the staff of an on-c.ampus cable TV
station, broadcasting to serve the Evergreen com munity .
Young sees video as an interdisciplinary
form that cou ld provide interaction
between Evergreen programs, and he is
com mitted to this ideal. 'We propoSE' to
establish a campus cable television station
which would provide a channel of
communication between the students of
Evergreen." reads the project contract
written by Young , Howe , and Hickey ,
"Our goal will be to use o ur skills to give
other students a place where they can
present their works to the community as a
whole , rather than only to their
immediate program ."
The group works out of the MHiia
Services black... and-white mini-studio ,
where regulations have been changed
recently to allow students to work there
unsupervised during off-hours.
"There were so many compla ints about
all the equipment that no one was using,"
said ,production group member Patty
Hickey , " that we thought we cou ld try
and broadcast regularly, like KAOS . It
might bring people into the school if there
was an actual station to work at. "
In addition to producing shows , the
Video Free Evergreen group will assemble
a handbook on television production at
Evergreen to simp lify the path to the TV
studio for future studen ts .
FUN WITH CABLE
II was surprising to discover that the
other Evergreen groups that were heavily
involved in video work were using the
facilities of CPTL, Olympia's cable TV
station, rather than the college's own
facilities ,
Margo Westfall , who is one of three
stude:nts producing a show called The
Music Makers. to bt- aired regularly on
Olympia cable TV (which cannot be:
recieved at Evergreen because the cable
doesn 't run out here) , explained some of
the reasons that 5h~ did not U5e
Evergreen 's equipment.
"In o rder to produce a show of this
cali~r. we needed color remote capi-bility . Color, as opposed to black and
white. and lit -inch video tape:. as opposed
to I I-inch so it would ~ broadcastquality ."
" The MUSi c Makers Will be a
documentary senes en co mpassing all

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video production for Video Free Evergreen .
f.lct>ts of the musIC indw~try '" according to
Westfall. The show will feature musIc
rl'<o rded live at concerts and interViews
With the musicians. Cable 6 provides an
outle t wllh an audience. which is
attractive to many students - more
attractive than the prospect uf drumming
up tnterest in campus cab lt>
THE WESTSIDE KIDS
Another group of students is working
on a wt'ekly half-hour variety show call~
The Westside Kids . I spoke with lac
Kittel who works with that group and is
also the CPTL station manager on ar l
Internship basis. Explaining why he was
tnvolved with the Olympia station, rather
than working in Evergreen's studi os Kittel
said, "When I first became invol;ed with
the station , I didn 't realized that there was
a cab le station on campus. Besides, there'"
less hassle and bt-tter access to equipment ..
He described the CPTL operalHIO d"
sma ller and requiring fewer pt'oplc tn
ope rate .
The Olympia cable TV group has to
draw on the Video Free Evergreen crew
for technical assistance , Evergreen cable
suffers from a lack of programming
material and will be geltln~ tapes from
the Westside Kids .
The issue of accesslbtllty recurs
consta ntly on campus . According 10 Ken
Wilhelm of Media Services. anyone dOing
a project for credit-genera ting purposes
ca n get access to the TV studios although
it's more difficult to get into the co lor
st udio than the black-and-white mini studio, The project should be submitted in
writing. explaining exactly what kind of
crew will be necessary and who will
provide it. Wilhelm indicated that it was
preferable from the media staff's point of
view to engineer productions themselves ,
rather than teach use of the equipment.
"You can't teach television in a couple of
afternoons." said Wilhelm , although he
mentioned that the Chautauqua program
members who had been using the
mini-studio, had picked up knowledge of
the equipment through experience.
FUNNY UTILE GAMES
Media Engineer Dick Fuller said that
any part of the EvergrHn Community
could have access to the: library facilities.
but sometimes, in order to get i- foot in
the studio door, "you 've got to play
funny little games ." He: didn't elaborate
but he did discuss the capacitiH in which
the Media Services Staff were supposed to
S4?rve
"We are here to do three things ."
explained Fuller. ''To hon o r va ltd requests

to do productIOn to bt> a pMI of a crew
or to stand bt>hlnd a producll<lO crew and
~Ive o ral as<;lstance
NO ,ACULTY
The com pia ant most often heard .about
the Video tactlltt>s at Evergreen IS tht> lack
01 faculty to teach Video ;\lont> of Iht>
tcachers whp sponsor vloeo "tudents have
an y rt>al knowlt'd"w (If the field them c;elves, and stuoent .. have to vie fnr tht'
ilmlted tIme of the Media Service ,>Iaff In
o rder to be taught Video mr'(tng . editing
and so on TeleVISIOn productIOn (an bt>
learned through hands-on expertence. bUI
no sk ill .. oltt>n mt>ans no acces" 10
t>qulpmt>nt and no acct>Ss means nn .. J..tlls
It IS convt>n lent tor somt> thai a paid
.. taft I ... IhNt' Ie' act a~ t~chnlcal crew but
what I., nwst In dcmClnd IS tethnlCal
prtlllClt>ncy r.Jth~r than willing servant ..
rhe necd hlr faculty capable ot
Il'achlO~ tplevl510n IS ... taled 10 the Rl'port
lin Cummu nlcat lons dl Evergreen
whICh
W.l'> prt>pClrcd
by laculty mt>mber Btl]
Winden The report questIOns whetht>r a
faculty person c(,uld bt> hired who was
both compe tent In vldt>o and h.ld d
di versE' enough background to fit Into
Evt>r~rcen ~ Intndl sClpli nar y modt> ot
educatilin It 'fas statcd again and again
In the report , both In quotes from
i::vergr€'en facultv and tndustry profes..,lOnal .. that technical e"<perttse should be
~ upp]emented with a Itbtoral art~ background and Visual literacy ' to mike
co mp<'tent and creative Video arllsts .
However .•11 thiS tlmt> , thert> are no
faculty members who can teach vldt>o, No
amount o f money . wiring, cameras .
lights. rt>corders or new butldings Will
make video a readdy -access lble art form
{'Ir an integral part of Evergreen ' s
CU rriculu m with out peoplc to faCIlitate the
Il'arnln~ of that skill

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FORUM is iI column of co mmentary o n iS5Ues of
interest to the EvergTeen community. The column is
open to any individual or group on cam pus .

S And A Shouldn't
Pay For Health Services
By members of EPIC (Evergreen Political
Information Center) and the Student
St udy / Action Group

(>vervbndy

Farm Here

coml' down to the
Or~dnlc Farm h ouse Saturd a y
morning , April 16, at 10 a .m to
'i hah the roo I rip apart forms .

To Eternity

budd a wond storage shelte r,
d.'cu ..... de~l.,;n and functIon or
th. ,> huddmK and buildings In

\\ nuld VOl! Il l£' III learn how
rut .. hal.. e., (In a nl(l! trame In
a wall put ul' ~I(.tln g hammer a
nat! and nll[ your thumb1
Thrtlu~h "pur S&A lunde; and
~h{' hard v.. nr l-. 0 1 manv tndlvld u.1 1., the rt' ('"\1<;1'.0 cl c'Iassr00m
wh t'r t' carrentrv IS exp lored
d ,( ,,\ l' n;'J hun~I ('J and tned
.l ~Jln learnt'd and ~ h.lred
the
cl!lC ANl l .ARMHOUSE Th"
\'a .. d ('sl~ned to meet bo th the
l'du(a tl onal and vanous personal
n('('d o, 01 perC;l)nS tnterested In
(11mtructlon , and to provide an
t'n\"iro nment that we created to
,UII ourselves In order to
.Hhl(' ve thcst' ~oal .. the archltectur dl and engmeermg -designs
wcre made In such a way as to
be Ile l(lble allOWing ong()J ng
r('VI <,lo ns to b(> made by thost'
Invo lved WIth the buddmg Th iS
letter IS a soliCI tation of commu nlt v help if you rt' an art
,tuoent we cou ld talk about how
tIl make the budding suitable for
\·11U to work
In or ho ld yo ur
(I d <'~ [here It you are interested
In [t'J(hlng a c1as~ In so me exotic
"'1\'1(' 0 1 coo king
you should
(Ilnl(' dnwn and help us With the
Jt'''I~n 01 the kit chen If you are
d p.Hf'n{ or Involved In day -care
\'oIU might
wanl 10 see Ihis
budding u..t'd In the evening fo r
"nur children whIle you attend a
luncllon at sc hool, and should
ht'lp us deSign the Interior with
c()"", luerat Ions for young people .
Bltllllll,lSts students, libranan s,
lab tKhnlclans, teachers : you all
hJvt the ch ance to get In volved
to desIgning a c1assroom -ltbrary "Iu d y-I ab ora tory for the new
h~,u'>(' The itst of who cou ld get
lnv(llved and add to the final
pn,Juct only ends when people
.. hlp comI ng w i ~ h Ideas and
\lt~l re .. IN what IS gOIng to be
th\'lr r.II1IJtnJ{
'\J I'\\' thJ t \'nu rt" all rarIn g 10
).:t·' 10\ l.hrJ I dt'hlZhl In Invittn~
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even co nsiders cutbacks in stu d e nt se rvi ces while tuiti o n is
going up , which places a double
burden on stu dent s .
Thank you .
Kra g
Regon
Lyle

Keneral Tll gel to the farm there
I" a
trail .. tartJng Irom the
wall...wav clInnf'ctmg Parking Lot
A III Ihe reM 01 the lab bu il ding .
Bnn~ "o rne tnod and we'll have
d p(lt/ud.
bnng sn me ," sl ru .
mt'nh .lnd well have music

nrmg V\lUr"t'!ves and we'll have

Lynn
Mi chael
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Questioning
The
Questi0nnaire

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Pushing

And
Polling
To the Editor

We are very cfltlca l of the 5 &:
A prtority poll that appear~ in

last week 's CPJ . Included in the
Itst of 5 & A - funded groups
were Health Se rvI ces and Cou nst'lln g . Although Cou nseling rect"lved $3,767 from S &: A this
year. the re.. t of ItS $35 ,000
budget was prOVIded by the
In s tituti o n , as was the enti re
Htalth Services budget
To
mclude them with the 5 &: A
groups was extremely misleading
as it Implied that they wer, also
ck>pende nt on 5 &: A for mo ney,
which histo ri ca lly ha s not been
the case at this instituti on .
Clearly . people will put these
two vi tal st udent services high
on their list of pri orities . They
may not rultze, however, that
such an action might easily be
construed as supporting S &: A
funding for Health ~rvicn and
Counseling, a truly major bud·
geting / policy du.ngt' .
We brl ieve that Health ~rvices
a nd Counseli ng art' Instituti o nal
re<iponsibihties and sho uld no t be
funded by S &< A
It IS
ou tra gf'"{l u~ that tht legislaturE'

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To the Editor .
la st week a poll appeared to
th IS newspaper regardmg S &: A
funded groups and student
priorities . As the surveys have
been turned in , it appears that a
couple of the questions are not
clear as to their intent. The most
co mmon resentme.nt (if the
feelings toward the po ll can be
called tha t) is the section
regarding sex, race, and sexual
orientat ion . The S ck A Board
included thi s set of questi o ns for
a signifi cant reaso n . While trying
to set up pnorlties for funding ,
the S &. A Board determined that
it was difficult to know if
on-camp us needs were being
met , and thi s was the onl y wa y
we had of determining this . In
oth er words , If 50 percent of the
men fillin g out the survey feel
the Men 's Cent~ r is not needed,
then obviously the Men's Center
is no t fulfilling the needs of th ose
community members to which it
is aimed . The same goes for
women , gays , ethnic minoritie-s ,
and o ther min oritits and majorities and anyone else I might
hav~ missed . We did not ask the
questions to be nosy or because
we wan t to send Big Brother
after you . There is only so much
money to do le out and some
method o f priorities has to br
devel oped by the S &< A Board .
The resu lt s of the poll are not
. totended to be and ending place,
rather they are a starting po mt
ThIS poll (a nd .. II its questions )

will help us to set these
priorities.
Certain it ems appeared on the
list whi c h se rved to co nfu se
people . With the exception of
Hea lth Services, all items listed
hav(' been funded for this year.
The groups may be different
while the name s remain the
same , serv ing to confuse people,
but the o nly wa y fo r us to utilize
the survey was to use names of
things as they are listed wit h us
for thi s year. Health Se rvi ces
was included because the 5 &: A
Board eventually will have to
make a deciSion about this, and
we would like to know how the
community feels abou t such a
se rvi ce. This d oes not mean that
the S &: A Boa rd has made a
decision one way o r the other
about fundlOg Health Services.
Such a deCision is still several
weeks away .
I hope this clarifies things in
people's minds .
Terry Wright
S and A Board Member

How
To Recruit
New
Evergreeners
To the Editor :
Last Wednesday . the bth of
April , Larry Stenberg came to
address the Sounding Bo ard
concerning next y~ar' s ~nrollment
picture . The bulk of his talk was
illuminating. What I'm conc~rned
with in this lett~r is the specific
activities we , as members of the
coll~g~'s community, can engage
in to recruit prospective students.
Larry stressed t he point that
direct word -of -mouth co n tact
between current stud~m5 and
pros pective stud~nts was the
single most effective method of
recruitment available. Especially
If this occurs In the Ev~rg r eener's
h o me · town
This IS not a

part ic.. ularly unique co ncept, and
that is probabl y why it needs to
be formally mentioned . We all
have a tendency to miss the
obvious.
As such there are two things I
Wish to say. The first is to ask
you to actively and consciously
talk with college-bound folks . By
doing this and giving them your
actual perceptions of Evergreen
yo u will n o t o nly indire c tl y
contrib ute to our student body
but you will also be giving
people a reaso nably accurate
impresSion of how our cat a logue
and po li cies translate int o action
And this translating effect
leads to my second point . which
is that the swo rd cuts both ways .
Not on ly are your remarks the
most encouraging sort of promotion , but your negative ex·
periences represent the qu ickest
way to cu rta il someon~' s interest .
What I think is impo rtant abo ut
this is no t that you should be
out there trying to kill peoples'
desire to att~nd TESC or that
you should d ow n -play your
dissatisfa ctions . It is an internal
consideration I would like to
o ffer . When the s pirit of
coo peration , o r the s pirit of
those things Evergreen tries to
embody , breaks d o wn and·
co mmuni ca ti o n between s taf L
faculty and students goes to he ll.
we are ultimately hurting our·
selves It goes o ut 10 the
commun ity and makes a shaky
foundation weaker yet. And fo r
those of us who do not w ish to
magically become members of a
U of W grad school this is a rea l
concern . So I would think that it
behoves all of us to co nst antl y
bring an air of cooperatio n and
understanding to o ur interac tions . If we do not we are the
ones who pay the price .

According to Vice President Clabaugh, Evergreen's
present st udent services budget will probably be cut
nex t year by as much as $110,000. If such cutbacks
occur, he said the administration is prepared to make
dras tic cuts in institutional support of Health Services
and Counseling. He warned that if those services are
to continue , they may have to be paid for by S&A
monies .
Meanwhde , it appears that a tuiti o n hike is
inevitable. Last week's CPJ said that yearly in-state
tuition will probably rise from $507 to $621 in just
two years, an increase o f o ver 22 ptrc~nt . Out·ofstate tuition will rise 54 percent from $1 ,359 at
present to $2,091 in two years .
The legislature is raisi ng tuition , yet they are
planning cutbacks in student services. Students will be
. hit fro m bot h sides.
HEALTH AND COUNSELING
SERVICES ARE VITAL
Due to rising costs, Health Services has had to
prioritize the qual ity of services . It is impossible to
give high·quality care (includ ing educational , self· help
aspet.is) to everyone who needs it. Thus the incidence
of referring co mplex disorders to docton a nd facilities
in town is increasing, causing grea Ler expenses for
students.

Getting Women Into The Curriculum
by Megh .. n Merker
Thi s fall a group o f five
st udents from the W o men ' s
Cen ter formed to w o rk toward
the goa l of In corpo rating wo men 's
studies into Evergreen, both as a
sepa ra te program and as a part
of all pr og ram s. The group
started be ca u se n o w o men ' s
studies program wa s planned for
the 1977-78 academic year . It s
members encountered many pro blems and frustrations, including
connict s with their own full-time
program demands , and their
inexperience in curriculum-planning . It was mos t discouraging
to realize that the program ' s
exis tence depended o n the hiring
of a visiting faculty member,
because all the quaUfied tea chers
were already assigned to st udi es
program s.
Du rin g wint e r quarter the
Rroup Rathe red petitions fo r the
deans and the rest of the adminis.
Iration to s h ow how many
student s wa nted women's, third
world , and gay co urses and
materials incorporated in to programs . Although the pelltion
was o nl y In the CAB for o ne
week during lunch hours, the
group co llected 200 signatures on
each pelltlon . They found th at
many student s were dissatisfied
wi th the la ck of women 's studi es

in group contracts and coor·
dinated studies, especially in the
sciences. These women believed
that the administrati o n and
fa culty should respond to this
la c k : the admini s tration by
hiring wo men from a variet y of
ethnic ba c kground s, and the
faculty by incorporating w o men 's
issues and wo men as authors and
lect urers into their programs.
Curreruly the group is sending
a questionnaire to all faculty
asking them how women's studies were incorporated int o their
programs this year. Fro m this
the members hope to assess the
ways fa culty have a nd have no t
been successful in incorporating
women 's studies with other areas
of study in the programs.
They are also sending memos
to next yea r's program coo rdina tors in hopes of wo rkin g with
them to fully incorpo rat e women
authors a nd issues into pro grams . The following is a n
Interview with members o f the
grou p .
CPJ: Why do you feel that it

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A T HOUGHT TO PO NDE R ON RISING
COSTS AND DECLI NING SERVICES
Business Week stated on March 21 of this year : "By
all measures. 1976 was a record· breaking year for
co rporate profits ."
It strikes us as extremely ironic that pros perit y run s
rampant in co rporate boardrooms while we find
o urselve-s hustlin g for funds.

EDITO R
Matt Groening

ADVERT ISING MANAGER
Brock Sutherland

MANAGING EDITOR
Brad Pokorny
FEATU RES EDITOR
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620 E. Legion

Discounts 10 all students

According to Les Eldridge , Assi st ant to the
President , the Board of Trus tees o r the administration
can all oca te S &: A fund s any time they choose to
exercise the rights that are legall y theirs . House Btil
1102 would change this . Boards of Trustees could no
longe r disburse SSrA funds without approval by the
" recognized student ac; soc lat lO n ." The Boa rd of
Trust~ could still '·freeze" th e Ludget. however, so
the bill stdl does not guarantee us control of our
funds .
Neverthel ess , the admin ist rati o n st rongly op poses
It Les Eldndge stated that they feel th e bill would
"se parate the autho rit y In govern the mstltutl on by
dividing it between a stude nt asso-: iation and the
Boa rd of Trus tees ;" In his words , "bad management
practi ce ."
Rather th an bad ma na ge ment practice, we set' It as
an opport unit y to take real responsibihty for decl<:; lons
that affect us. Experiential educatio n taken to It s
logica l end means learning how to govern our lives by
doi ng just that.

perspecti ve Into t he program as a
whole We are offer ing to help
faculty co mpile bibli og raphie s
and find ways to mco rpo rate
materials . For th IS reaso n we
want to interview ot her student s
to find out how wel l their
programs have Incorporated women 's issues. Our success w ill
depend on the amount of
studen ts and faculty willing to be
Interv iewed and to help coo rdinators of next year's programs.
CPJ: Wh at kind of feedback
have yo u gotten ]
Albrecht : We ha ve not been
worktn g publicly most of thiS
year, so we haven 't had muc h
o pportun ity to hear feedb ack I'd
say , though , that we 've had tht'
spectrum of revulS Ion to excilement about what we vt' been
trytng to do .
Kat. Albre cht and Molly
Fo rsy the ca n be contac ted through
the Women·s Ct'nter (L Ib 3214 )
or by calling 8bo -5115 The
Women 's Curriculum group met'I"
every Wedn~ .. day from 1 1 ;\0
a m
2 30 p .m at the W ~l­
men .. Cen ter All are welcClme tn
attend

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STUDENT
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is imJ)9rtant to work on women's
stud ies]
Moll y forsy the : Most of the
programs I've taken at TESC
were taught by white men , and
the ideas we studies originated in
white men 's heads . When we
petitioned I met people who
were never in a program whe re
ideas and bOO~5 from wo men
were studied. Even when women 's
books and ideas were presented,
it' s often in a sporadic fashion
with no maj o r link s to the
program as a whole .
Kate Alb r ec ht : A w o men ' s
s tudie s pr og ram is important
because it is one area where
wo men will be at least given an
equal emphasis. It is impo rtant
for wo men and men to learn that
women are not invisible nothings. You see very few wo men
being, do ing anything in mos t
subjects that are studies, no r are
questIOns raised as to why th a t is
the case . It is imp6 rtant to have

- We ca ll on the 5 & A gro ups and the S &r. A
Boa rd to place the funding of thf'se servlCt"S on the
instituti on .
- We ca ll o n Evergreen 's admini stra tio n to In sist
that the leg islat u re not cu t back student services We
ca ll on them to make an y necessa ry inter-budgetary
transfe rs with in the sc hoo l to ensure that S & A
monies need not go to these services (McCann 's
$6O,OOO-plus tw o-yea r leave, etc. )
- We ca ll on the legislature to fund stude nt servIces
at a level suffiCIent to provide quality health and
cou nseling se rvices. It is outrageous that they even
cons ider cutbacks when they are raising tuition
WHO REAllY CONTROLS
S&A FUNDS ?

w o men ' s s tudie .:; incorporated
into o ther programs to expose
both men and w o men to an
education that recognizes women .
CPJ: Since your main goal has
changed fro m just one co urse, is
there going to be a women's
progr.. m next year]
Al b r ec ht : There will be a
w o men 's program next fall.
Interested wo men should co nta ct
Margaret Gribskov , lib. 1404 .
fo rsyt he : Having a program
for wmter and spring depends o n
getting a visiting faculty for the
'77 - '78 academic year . We are
m the second group of pri ori ties
for visiting fa culty hiring . This
mainly depends o n the legislature
giving us m o ne y to expa nd .
There is a meeting next Wednesday fr o m noo n - 2 p . m in
CAB Ito for all those mteres ted
in tak ing the program next year.
CPJ : You ta lked abo ut sending
a memo to fac ult y . How a.re you
rking to incorporate women 's
st udies into ot her programs ?
forsyt he : In ou r questionnaire
we ask faculty to sha re women 's
cou rse materia ls a nd ideas, dnd
how t hey Incorporate women 's

DISCOUNT

BA P Oly mp ia Ltd .
To conclude : plc;ase actively
convey your fe-elings about the
schoo l to those who are interrsted ; you are the ones wh o can
tell lh~m what Evergre~n i!i
really lik~ .

Student access to medical supplies will decrease
even more next year . Costs for medical supplies have
increased as much as 2S percent. Health Services used
to give away antibiotics but is no longer able to,
which means students will have to purchase drugs at
pharmacy prices. Health Services has had to make
this change to manage increasing costs and partial
funding of the Women's Clinic. If Health Services
were to drop its support of the Women's Clinic, an
unrealistic demand would be made of S&:A monies.
This means that women would have to use services in
town at greater cost and inconvenience, ThurstonMa so n County Family Planning already has a
two-fo ur week wait fo r appointments .
Counseling is also an essential service. Our society
is p a rti c ularl y effectiv(' in crippling its ci tizen s
emotionally and psychol ogically . It is a society bound
and divided by racism, sexism, and class o ppression .
Human needs vs . profi t·maximiza ti on, pove rty vs .
affluence, oppressed vs , opressors : o urs is a society
built o n fundamental contradicti ons. Co unseling is
often necrssary just to cope with the present, though
our long-range goals must be to bui ld a new society
with new social relations .
S&< A SHOULON"T PAY
We believe that Evergreen has an institutional _
responsibility to provide qualit y health services and
counseling. According to President McCann in a
statement bef o re the Senate Way s and Mean s
Committee , " ... co mmunity agen c ies that provide
hea lth care and counseling a re too expensive for
students to use or are currently overtaxed ." The costs
of Health Services and Counseling would place such a
burden on S&A funds that ma ny of the present
student programs would have to be slashed o r
dropped entirely.
Institu tional in-roads have already been made on
S&:A monies. Career Planning &: Placement and
Counseling received o ver $4 ,700 this year. A request
has been made to raise S&:A support of transcript
costs to $1.50 per student per quarter, despite the fact
tha t the red portfolio folders ar~ no longer given out.
The Women 's Clinic receives $14,314 , We believe
these costs sho uld be assumed by the institution .

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ForUIIl
FORUM is iI column of co mmentary o n iS5Ues of
interest to the EvergTeen community. The column is
open to any individual or group on cam pus .

S And A Shouldn't
Pay For Health Services
By members of EPIC (Evergreen Political
Information Center) and the Student
St udy / Action Group

(>vervbndy

Farm Here

coml' down to the
Or~dnlc Farm h ouse Saturd a y
morning , April 16, at 10 a .m to
'i hah the roo I rip apart forms .

To Eternity

budd a wond storage shelte r,
d.'cu ..... de~l.,;n and functIon or
th. ,> huddmK and buildings In

\\ nuld VOl! Il l£' III learn how
rut .. hal.. e., (In a nl(l! trame In
a wall put ul' ~I(.tln g hammer a
nat! and nll[ your thumb1
Thrtlu~h "pur S&A lunde; and
~h{' hard v.. nr l-. 0 1 manv tndlvld u.1 1., the rt' ('"\1<;1'.0 cl c'Iassr00m
wh t'r t' carrentrv IS exp lored
d ,( ,,\ l' n;'J hun~I ('J and tned
.l ~Jln learnt'd and ~ h.lred
the
cl!lC ANl l .ARMHOUSE Th"
\'a .. d ('sl~ned to meet bo th the
l'du(a tl onal and vanous personal
n('('d o, 01 perC;l)nS tnterested In
(11mtructlon , and to provide an
t'n\"iro nment that we created to
,UII ourselves In order to
.Hhl(' ve thcst' ~oal .. the archltectur dl and engmeermg -designs
wcre made In such a way as to
be Ile l(lble allOWing ong()J ng
r('VI <,lo ns to b(> made by thost'
Invo lved WIth the buddmg Th iS
letter IS a soliCI tation of commu nlt v help if you rt' an art
,tuoent we cou ld talk about how
tIl make the budding suitable for
\·11U to work
In or ho ld yo ur
(I d <'~ [here It you are interested
In [t'J(hlng a c1as~ In so me exotic
"'1\'1(' 0 1 coo king
you should
(Ilnl(' dnwn and help us With the
Jt'''I~n 01 the kit chen If you are
d p.Hf'n{ or Involved In day -care
\'oIU might
wanl 10 see Ihis
budding u..t'd In the evening fo r
"nur children whIle you attend a
luncllon at sc hool, and should
ht'lp us deSign the Interior with
c()"", luerat Ions for young people .
Bltllllll,lSts students, libranan s,
lab tKhnlclans, teachers : you all
hJvt the ch ance to get In volved
to desIgning a c1assroom -ltbrary "Iu d y-I ab ora tory for the new
h~,u'>(' The itst of who cou ld get
lnv(llved and add to the final
pn,Juct only ends when people
.. hlp comI ng w i ~ h Ideas and
\lt~l re .. IN what IS gOIng to be
th\'lr r.II1IJtnJ{
'\J I'\\' thJ t \'nu rt" all rarIn g 10
).:t·' 10\ l.hrJ I dt'hlZhl In Invittn~
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even co nsiders cutbacks in stu d e nt se rvi ces while tuiti o n is
going up , which places a double
burden on stu dent s .
Thank you .
Kra g
Regon
Lyle

Keneral Tll gel to the farm there
I" a
trail .. tartJng Irom the
wall...wav clInnf'ctmg Parking Lot
A III Ihe reM 01 the lab bu il ding .
Bnn~ "o rne tnod and we'll have
d p(lt/ud.
bnng sn me ," sl ru .
mt'nh .lnd well have music

nrmg V\lUr"t'!ves and we'll have

Lynn
Mi chael
Roxa nn

Questioning
The
Questi0nnaire

~

gll(.J lime

Pushing

And
Polling
To the Editor

We are very cfltlca l of the 5 &:
A prtority poll that appear~ in

last week 's CPJ . Included in the
Itst of 5 & A - funded groups
were Health Se rvI ces and Cou nst'lln g . Although Cou nseling rect"lved $3,767 from S &: A this
year. the re.. t of ItS $35 ,000
budget was prOVIded by the
In s tituti o n , as was the enti re
Htalth Services budget
To
mclude them with the 5 &: A
groups was extremely misleading
as it Implied that they wer, also
ck>pende nt on 5 &: A for mo ney,
which histo ri ca lly ha s not been
the case at this instituti on .
Clearly . people will put these
two vi tal st udent services high
on their list of pri orities . They
may not rultze, however, that
such an action might easily be
construed as supporting S &: A
funding for Health ~rvicn and
Counseling, a truly major bud·
geting / policy du.ngt' .
We brl ieve that Health ~rvices
a nd Counseli ng art' Instituti o nal
re<iponsibihties and sho uld no t be
funded by S &< A
It IS
ou tra gf'"{l u~ that tht legislaturE'

I

To the Editor .
la st week a poll appeared to
th IS newspaper regardmg S &: A
funded groups and student
priorities . As the surveys have
been turned in , it appears that a
couple of the questions are not
clear as to their intent. The most
co mmon resentme.nt (if the
feelings toward the po ll can be
called tha t) is the section
regarding sex, race, and sexual
orientat ion . The S ck A Board
included thi s set of questi o ns for
a signifi cant reaso n . While trying
to set up pnorlties for funding ,
the S &. A Board determined that
it was difficult to know if
on-camp us needs were being
met , and thi s was the onl y wa y
we had of determining this . In
oth er words , If 50 percent of the
men fillin g out the survey feel
the Men 's Cent~ r is not needed,
then obviously the Men's Center
is no t fulfilling the needs of th ose
community members to which it
is aimed . The same goes for
women , gays , ethnic minoritie-s ,
and o ther min oritits and majorities and anyone else I might
hav~ missed . We did not ask the
questions to be nosy or because
we wan t to send Big Brother
after you . There is only so much
money to do le out and some
method o f priorities has to br
devel oped by the S &< A Board .
The resu lt s of the poll are not
. totended to be and ending place,
rather they are a starting po mt
ThIS poll (a nd .. II its questions )

will help us to set these
priorities.
Certain it ems appeared on the
list whi c h se rved to co nfu se
people . With the exception of
Hea lth Services, all items listed
hav(' been funded for this year.
The groups may be different
while the name s remain the
same , serv ing to confuse people,
but the o nly wa y fo r us to utilize
the survey was to use names of
things as they are listed wit h us
for thi s year. Health Se rvi ces
was included because the 5 &: A
Board eventually will have to
make a deciSion about this, and
we would like to know how the
community feels abou t such a
se rvi ce. This d oes not mean that
the S &: A Boa rd has made a
decision one way o r the other
about fundlOg Health Services.
Such a deCision is still several
weeks away .
I hope this clarifies things in
people's minds .
Terry Wright
S and A Board Member

How
To Recruit
New
Evergreeners
To the Editor :
Last Wednesday . the bth of
April , Larry Stenberg came to
address the Sounding Bo ard
concerning next y~ar' s ~nrollment
picture . The bulk of his talk was
illuminating. What I'm conc~rned
with in this lett~r is the specific
activities we , as members of the
coll~g~'s community, can engage
in to recruit prospective students.
Larry stressed t he point that
direct word -of -mouth co n tact
between current stud~m5 and
pros pective stud~nts was the
single most effective method of
recruitment available. Especially
If this occurs In the Ev~rg r eener's
h o me · town
This IS not a

part ic.. ularly unique co ncept, and
that is probabl y why it needs to
be formally mentioned . We all
have a tendency to miss the
obvious.
As such there are two things I
Wish to say. The first is to ask
you to actively and consciously
talk with college-bound folks . By
doing this and giving them your
actual perceptions of Evergreen
yo u will n o t o nly indire c tl y
contrib ute to our student body
but you will also be giving
people a reaso nably accurate
impresSion of how our cat a logue
and po li cies translate int o action
And this translating effect
leads to my second point . which
is that the swo rd cuts both ways .
Not on ly are your remarks the
most encouraging sort of promotion , but your negative ex·
periences represent the qu ickest
way to cu rta il someon~' s interest .
What I think is impo rtant abo ut
this is no t that you should be
out there trying to kill peoples'
desire to att~nd TESC or that
you should d ow n -play your
dissatisfa ctions . It is an internal
consideration I would like to
o ffer . When the s pirit of
coo peration , o r the s pirit of
those things Evergreen tries to
embody , breaks d o wn and·
co mmuni ca ti o n between s taf L
faculty and students goes to he ll.
we are ultimately hurting our·
selves It goes o ut 10 the
commun ity and makes a shaky
foundation weaker yet. And fo r
those of us who do not w ish to
magically become members of a
U of W grad school this is a rea l
concern . So I would think that it
behoves all of us to co nst antl y
bring an air of cooperatio n and
understanding to o ur interac tions . If we do not we are the
ones who pay the price .

According to Vice President Clabaugh, Evergreen's
present st udent services budget will probably be cut
nex t year by as much as $110,000. If such cutbacks
occur, he said the administration is prepared to make
dras tic cuts in institutional support of Health Services
and Counseling. He warned that if those services are
to continue , they may have to be paid for by S&A
monies .
Meanwhde , it appears that a tuiti o n hike is
inevitable. Last week's CPJ said that yearly in-state
tuition will probably rise from $507 to $621 in just
two years, an increase o f o ver 22 ptrc~nt . Out·ofstate tuition will rise 54 percent from $1 ,359 at
present to $2,091 in two years .
The legislature is raisi ng tuition , yet they are
planning cutbacks in student services. Students will be
. hit fro m bot h sides.
HEALTH AND COUNSELING
SERVICES ARE VITAL
Due to rising costs, Health Services has had to
prioritize the qual ity of services . It is impossible to
give high·quality care (includ ing educational , self· help
aspet.is) to everyone who needs it. Thus the incidence
of referring co mplex disorders to docton a nd facilities
in town is increasing, causing grea Ler expenses for
students.

Getting Women Into The Curriculum
by Megh .. n Merker
Thi s fall a group o f five
st udents from the W o men ' s
Cen ter formed to w o rk toward
the goa l of In corpo rating wo men 's
studies into Evergreen, both as a
sepa ra te program and as a part
of all pr og ram s. The group
started be ca u se n o w o men ' s
studies program wa s planned for
the 1977-78 academic year . It s
members encountered many pro blems and frustrations, including
connict s with their own full-time
program demands , and their
inexperience in curriculum-planning . It was mos t discouraging
to realize that the program ' s
exis tence depended o n the hiring
of a visiting faculty member,
because all the quaUfied tea chers
were already assigned to st udi es
program s.
Du rin g wint e r quarter the
Rroup Rathe red petitions fo r the
deans and the rest of the adminis.
Iration to s h ow how many
student s wa nted women's, third
world , and gay co urses and
materials incorporated in to programs . Although the pelltion
was o nl y In the CAB for o ne
week during lunch hours, the
group co llected 200 signatures on
each pelltlon . They found th at
many student s were dissatisfied
wi th the la ck of women 's studi es

in group contracts and coor·
dinated studies, especially in the
sciences. These women believed
that the administrati o n and
fa culty should respond to this
la c k : the admini s tration by
hiring wo men from a variet y of
ethnic ba c kground s, and the
faculty by incorporating w o men 's
issues and wo men as authors and
lect urers into their programs.
Curreruly the group is sending
a questionnaire to all faculty
asking them how women's studies were incorporated int o their
programs this year. Fro m this
the members hope to assess the
ways fa culty have a nd have no t
been successful in incorporating
women 's studies with other areas
of study in the programs.
They are also sending memos
to next yea r's program coo rdina tors in hopes of wo rkin g with
them to fully incorpo rat e women
authors a nd issues into pro grams . The following is a n
Interview with members o f the
grou p .
CPJ: Why do you feel that it

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SParr SHOP
P8m tor an Imported

C8R.

MIchael Cose
SounJtn~

A(lard Modt'rat o r

A T HOUGHT TO PO NDE R ON RISING
COSTS AND DECLI NING SERVICES
Business Week stated on March 21 of this year : "By
all measures. 1976 was a record· breaking year for
co rporate profits ."
It strikes us as extremely ironic that pros perit y run s
rampant in co rporate boardrooms while we find
o urselve-s hustlin g for funds.

EDITO R
Matt Groening

ADVERT ISING MANAGER
Brock Sutherland

MANAGING EDITOR
Brad Pokorny
FEATU RES EDITOR
Ka.rrie Jacobs
BUSINESS MANAGER
David Judd

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Jm Stewart (Editor Emeritus I
SECRETARY
Annette Rickles

,

Used ".hlng leckl.
Rod and reel repllr
719 E. 41h Ave .

115 Eu t 5th
352- 7527

IMPUDENCE EDITOR
Joe Bemis

The COOPER POINT JOURNAL I, publl.hed " 'Iy lOf the 'ludentt. fllCU lty ,
.nd .tltH of The E"'1J"'" StIl .. eo. • . OlymPt . Withington 11505. VMwt ., pIIItMd .,. not neceuarll'l thorN of The E-..rvteen StIl.. Cot ...... Advtort'alng mil teNl PftMI'IMd ......n . . . not neceuarlly Imply .. wJoIMt .... '1 by thI. ill• • p. . . .
0 0 _ ... loco.... In Il1o
"""'1100 lulldlng (CAl i .... _ _ :
. _112\3, _11214. _oIng .... _
: . ...... l .._
polley : All tot ..... to .,.. dlOf mutt be ........ by noon TYMdIy tOf tNt ...... publaUon,
l.ettIfI; mutl be typed . doub6e. tpeoed • • net 400 wordt Of . . . .. The edlton rteenlfIt
the rIGht to edit for content end .ty'-, NamM .111 be withheld on 1'IqUMI ,

CoI'-

620 E. Legion

Discounts 10 all students

According to Les Eldridge , Assi st ant to the
President , the Board of Trus tees o r the administration
can all oca te S &: A fund s any time they choose to
exercise the rights that are legall y theirs . House Btil
1102 would change this . Boards of Trustees could no
longe r disburse SSrA funds without approval by the
" recognized student ac; soc lat lO n ." The Boa rd of
Trust~ could still '·freeze" th e Ludget. however, so
the bill stdl does not guarantee us control of our
funds .
Neverthel ess , the admin ist rati o n st rongly op poses
It Les Eldndge stated that they feel th e bill would
"se parate the autho rit y In govern the mstltutl on by
dividing it between a stude nt asso-: iation and the
Boa rd of Trus tees ;" In his words , "bad management
practi ce ."
Rather th an bad ma na ge ment practice, we set' It as
an opport unit y to take real responsibihty for decl<:; lons
that affect us. Experiential educatio n taken to It s
logica l end means learning how to govern our lives by
doi ng just that.

perspecti ve Into t he program as a
whole We are offer ing to help
faculty co mpile bibli og raphie s
and find ways to mco rpo rate
materials . For th IS reaso n we
want to interview ot her student s
to find out how wel l their
programs have Incorporated women 's issues. Our success w ill
depend on the amount of
studen ts and faculty willing to be
Interv iewed and to help coo rdinators of next year's programs.
CPJ: Wh at kind of feedback
have yo u gotten ]
Albrecht : We ha ve not been
worktn g publicly most of thiS
year, so we haven 't had muc h
o pportun ity to hear feedb ack I'd
say , though , that we 've had tht'
spectrum of revulS Ion to excilement about what we vt' been
trytng to do .
Kat. Albre cht and Molly
Fo rsy the ca n be contac ted through
the Women·s Ct'nter (L Ib 3214 )
or by calling 8bo -5115 The
Women 's Curriculum group met'I"
every Wedn~ .. day from 1 1 ;\0
a m
2 30 p .m at the W ~l­
men .. Cen ter All are welcClme tn
attend

*****
******
STUDENT
****...~**

• 11,1

--

is imJ)9rtant to work on women's
stud ies]
Moll y forsy the : Most of the
programs I've taken at TESC
were taught by white men , and
the ideas we studies originated in
white men 's heads . When we
petitioned I met people who
were never in a program whe re
ideas and bOO~5 from wo men
were studied. Even when women 's
books and ideas were presented,
it' s often in a sporadic fashion
with no maj o r link s to the
program as a whole .
Kate Alb r ec ht : A w o men ' s
s tudie s pr og ram is important
because it is one area where
wo men will be at least given an
equal emphasis. It is impo rtant
for wo men and men to learn that
women are not invisible nothings. You see very few wo men
being, do ing anything in mos t
subjects that are studies, no r are
questIOns raised as to why th a t is
the case . It is imp6 rtant to have

- We ca ll on the 5 & A gro ups and the S &r. A
Boa rd to place the funding of thf'se servlCt"S on the
instituti on .
- We ca ll o n Evergreen 's admini stra tio n to In sist
that the leg islat u re not cu t back student services We
ca ll on them to make an y necessa ry inter-budgetary
transfe rs with in the sc hoo l to ensure that S & A
monies need not go to these services (McCann 's
$6O,OOO-plus tw o-yea r leave, etc. )
- We ca ll on the legislature to fund stude nt servIces
at a level suffiCIent to provide quality health and
cou nseling se rvices. It is outrageous that they even
cons ider cutbacks when they are raising tuition
WHO REAllY CONTROLS
S&A FUNDS ?

w o men ' s s tudie .:; incorporated
into o ther programs to expose
both men and w o men to an
education that recognizes women .
CPJ: Since your main goal has
changed fro m just one co urse, is
there going to be a women's
progr.. m next year]
Al b r ec ht : There will be a
w o men 's program next fall.
Interested wo men should co nta ct
Margaret Gribskov , lib. 1404 .
fo rsyt he : Having a program
for wmter and spring depends o n
getting a visiting faculty for the
'77 - '78 academic year . We are
m the second group of pri ori ties
for visiting fa culty hiring . This
mainly depends o n the legislature
giving us m o ne y to expa nd .
There is a meeting next Wednesday fr o m noo n - 2 p . m in
CAB Ito for all those mteres ted
in tak ing the program next year.
CPJ : You ta lked abo ut sending
a memo to fac ult y . How a.re you
rking to incorporate women 's
st udies into ot her programs ?
forsyt he : In ou r questionnaire
we ask faculty to sha re women 's
cou rse materia ls a nd ideas, dnd
how t hey Incorporate women 's

DISCOUNT

BA P Oly mp ia Ltd .
To conclude : plc;ase actively
convey your fe-elings about the
schoo l to those who are interrsted ; you are the ones wh o can
tell lh~m what Evergre~n i!i
really lik~ .

Student access to medical supplies will decrease
even more next year . Costs for medical supplies have
increased as much as 2S percent. Health Services used
to give away antibiotics but is no longer able to,
which means students will have to purchase drugs at
pharmacy prices. Health Services has had to make
this change to manage increasing costs and partial
funding of the Women's Clinic. If Health Services
were to drop its support of the Women's Clinic, an
unrealistic demand would be made of S&:A monies.
This means that women would have to use services in
town at greater cost and inconvenience, ThurstonMa so n County Family Planning already has a
two-fo ur week wait fo r appointments .
Counseling is also an essential service. Our society
is p a rti c ularl y effectiv(' in crippling its ci tizen s
emotionally and psychol ogically . It is a society bound
and divided by racism, sexism, and class o ppression .
Human needs vs . profi t·maximiza ti on, pove rty vs .
affluence, oppressed vs , opressors : o urs is a society
built o n fundamental contradicti ons. Co unseling is
often necrssary just to cope with the present, though
our long-range goals must be to bui ld a new society
with new social relations .
S&< A SHOULON"T PAY
We believe that Evergreen has an institutional _
responsibility to provide qualit y health services and
counseling. According to President McCann in a
statement bef o re the Senate Way s and Mean s
Committee , " ... co mmunity agen c ies that provide
hea lth care and counseling a re too expensive for
students to use or are currently overtaxed ." The costs
of Health Services and Counseling would place such a
burden on S&A funds that ma ny of the present
student programs would have to be slashed o r
dropped entirely.
Institu tional in-roads have already been made on
S&:A monies. Career Planning &: Placement and
Counseling received o ver $4 ,700 this year. A request
has been made to raise S&:A support of transcript
costs to $1.50 per student per quarter, despite the fact
tha t the red portfolio folders ar~ no longer given out.
The Women 's Clinic receives $14,314 , We believe
these costs sho uld be assumed by the institution .

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15 , 1977

The Video Equipment Is Here, But
Someone Has To -Teach Us How To Use It
by Karrie Jacobs

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Rental housing is big business for real estate companies, land developers and
investment corporations.. Monies collected from renters help to pay for head office
expenses like utilities , salaries , telephones , expense accounts, stock dividends
and investment maintenance. Whatever is leftover is profit. At Campus Housing, we charge
just enough to cover expenses and rental upkeep . The rest pays for the needs of the
renters including heating , water and electricity. We also have cost-saving programs like
cooperative food buying and minimum deposit telephone service. Together,
we try to save as much money as we can .
If you 're on a limited budget or watch your hard-earned money, maybe Campus
Housing Is the right thing for you . Call 866-6132 or stop by the Housing
Office to find out more about living on campus.

Campus Housing. We're not In It for the money.

March s controve rsy of the month , con({'rnmg the allocation of fund s for the new
CommunICations Building, was finally resolved on Tuesday; April 12 by Dean
Willi!' Parson . The controversy involved a
fund of $f]O,QOO that was earmarked for
the purchase ot video-wiring and produc tIon equipment. Certain faculty members
mdlGlled that the funds might be better
spent o n audiO (') r live productIon facil• Il le... , which Invoked the Ife and indignatlCH\ of Video studen ts , and made a spt"Ciai
mE'E'tmg of the Soundinx Board necessary
In orde r to iur the Issue
FUNDS IN UMBO
At thl' meeting, which was held on
March J 1. Parsons announced his in len·
tu'n h.l freele any action o n distribution
01 the iunds In qut>Stion , leaVing S110,(X)()
In limbo. During the m~tlng so many
verSlo n ~ of ' tht' facts" wt'r(' CIrculated by
tht> vanous parlles Involved In the Communications Building debate. that a great
d~al uf informdtlon -so rting dnd gathering
had to take place before a proper decision
un the fate of tht> money could bt- made .
A freeze of an undetermined length on the
expendi ture of the Communications Build ing funds made a number of people uneasy , including Dav~ Carnahan, Associate
Dean of Library Services "Every day we
delav a purchase ," said Cdrnahan. "we
loSE' part of our purchasing power due to
infla ti on."
On April 12, 31 days of decreased pur chasing power later. Parson decided to
spend the $110,000 for its o riginal pur pose ; video cables for the building and a
video recorder with editing capa bility . Al though Parson determined that the Communications Building will bt- wired for
video, whether there will bt- lighting, fac ulty, or equipment to make on-going
video production worthwhile or even pos sib le is another qut>Stion entirely, one of
mdny raised during the controversy
Other quesltons that arose concerned
the use of the prf'Sent studio facilities ,
who can gain access to them , and how
they are actually used .
Almost everybody knows that two,) T . V.
studios lurk in the bowels of the library
building. as well as a campus cable system on which to broadcast any shows
that come out of these studios. but very
rarely does anyone see evidence of these
facilities on their television screens, or
anywhere else, for that mailer.
The most common video event on campus is a student armed with a Porta-pack
acquired from Media Loan with a vali dated I.D . card , a "pro" card. and a song,
shooting scenes of jugglers in white- face
on Red Square
OccaSional glimpses of what can btdone in the color studio crop up now and
then There is the ever - popular Media
Loan tape of Chas Davies demonstrating
the. fine art lof Portapack assemblage. a od
the L~ving 'tatalog makes an annual appearance on TV sets from Lab Phase II
to F Lot. But in general it is diHicult to
figure o ut exactly what goes on in Ever gr~n ' s television studios,
VIDEO FREE EVERGREEN
Currently only one group of pe-ople:
producn and broadcasts programming for
the campus cable system with any hope of
rquluity . This production group, which
calls itself Vid~ Frff Evergreen, has done:
o ne 4.5-minute broadc.ast to date. on the
su bject of life in the: dorms . Th~ plan to
do shows twice monthly , .at Ie.ast until the
end of the quarter . The group consists of
three students from the Communications
and Community studit"S program. Marvin
Young, Patty Hickey. and Dwayne Howe,

Student Marvin Yo un ~ working on

and one individual contract student, Mike
Poole.
"Video does not exist at Evergreen ,"
contends Marvin Young, wh o would like
to see the production crew develop into
the staff of an on-c.ampus cable TV
station, broadcasting to serve the Evergreen com munity .
Young sees video as an interdisciplinary
form that cou ld provide interaction
between Evergreen programs, and he is
com mitted to this ideal. 'We propoSE' to
establish a campus cable television station
which would provide a channel of
communication between the students of
Evergreen." reads the project contract
written by Young , Howe , and Hickey ,
"Our goal will be to use o ur skills to give
other students a place where they can
present their works to the community as a
whole , rather than only to their
immediate program ."
The group works out of the MHiia
Services black... and-white mini-studio ,
where regulations have been changed
recently to allow students to work there
unsupervised during off-hours.
"There were so many compla ints about
all the equipment that no one was using,"
said ,production group member Patty
Hickey , " that we thought we cou ld try
and broadcast regularly, like KAOS . It
might bring people into the school if there
was an actual station to work at. "
In addition to producing shows , the
Video Free Evergreen group will assemble
a handbook on television production at
Evergreen to simp lify the path to the TV
studio for future studen ts .
FUN WITH CABLE
II was surprising to discover that the
other Evergreen groups that were heavily
involved in video work were using the
facilities of CPTL, Olympia's cable TV
station, rather than the college's own
facilities ,
Margo Westfall , who is one of three
stude:nts producing a show called The
Music Makers. to bt- aired regularly on
Olympia cable TV (which cannot be:
recieved at Evergreen because the cable
doesn 't run out here) , explained some of
the reasons that 5h~ did not U5e
Evergreen 's equipment.
"In o rder to produce a show of this
cali~r. we needed color remote capi-bility . Color, as opposed to black and
white. and lit -inch video tape:. as opposed
to I I-inch so it would ~ broadcastquality ."
" The MUSi c Makers Will be a
documentary senes en co mpassing all

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video production for Video Free Evergreen .
f.lct>ts of the musIC indw~try '" according to
Westfall. The show will feature musIc
rl'<o rded live at concerts and interViews
With the musicians. Cable 6 provides an
outle t wllh an audience. which is
attractive to many students - more
attractive than the prospect uf drumming
up tnterest in campus cab lt>
THE WESTSIDE KIDS
Another group of students is working
on a wt'ekly half-hour variety show call~
The Westside Kids . I spoke with lac
Kittel who works with that group and is
also the CPTL station manager on ar l
Internship basis. Explaining why he was
tnvolved with the Olympia station, rather
than working in Evergreen's studi os Kittel
said, "When I first became invol;ed with
the station , I didn 't realized that there was
a cab le station on campus. Besides, there'"
less hassle and bt-tter access to equipment ..
He described the CPTL operalHIO d"
sma ller and requiring fewer pt'oplc tn
ope rate .
The Olympia cable TV group has to
draw on the Video Free Evergreen crew
for technical assistance , Evergreen cable
suffers from a lack of programming
material and will be geltln~ tapes from
the Westside Kids .
The issue of accesslbtllty recurs
consta ntly on campus . According 10 Ken
Wilhelm of Media Services. anyone dOing
a project for credit-genera ting purposes
ca n get access to the TV studios although
it's more difficult to get into the co lor
st udio than the black-and-white mini studio, The project should be submitted in
writing. explaining exactly what kind of
crew will be necessary and who will
provide it. Wilhelm indicated that it was
preferable from the media staff's point of
view to engineer productions themselves ,
rather than teach use of the equipment.
"You can't teach television in a couple of
afternoons." said Wilhelm , although he
mentioned that the Chautauqua program
members who had been using the
mini-studio, had picked up knowledge of
the equipment through experience.
FUNNY UTILE GAMES
Media Engineer Dick Fuller said that
any part of the EvergrHn Community
could have access to the: library facilities.
but sometimes, in order to get i- foot in
the studio door, "you 've got to play
funny little games ." He: didn't elaborate
but he did discuss the capacitiH in which
the Media Services Staff were supposed to
S4?rve
"We are here to do three things ."
explained Fuller. ''To hon o r va ltd requests

to do productIOn to bt> a pMI of a crew
or to stand bt>hlnd a producll<lO crew and
~Ive o ral as<;lstance
NO ,ACULTY
The com pia ant most often heard .about
the Video tactlltt>s at Evergreen IS tht> lack
01 faculty to teach Video ;\lont> of Iht>
tcachers whp sponsor vloeo "tudents have
an y rt>al knowlt'd"w (If the field them c;elves, and stuoent .. have to vie fnr tht'
ilmlted tIme of the Media Service ,>Iaff In
o rder to be taught Video mr'(tng . editing
and so on TeleVISIOn productIOn (an bt>
learned through hands-on expertence. bUI
no sk ill .. oltt>n mt>ans no acces" 10
t>qulpmt>nt and no acct>Ss means nn .. J..tlls
It IS convt>n lent tor somt> thai a paid
.. taft I ... IhNt' Ie' act a~ t~chnlcal crew but
what I., nwst In dcmClnd IS tethnlCal
prtlllClt>ncy r.Jth~r than willing servant ..
rhe necd hlr faculty capable ot
Il'achlO~ tplevl510n IS ... taled 10 the Rl'port
lin Cummu nlcat lons dl Evergreen
whICh
W.l'> prt>pClrcd
by laculty mt>mber Btl]
Winden The report questIOns whetht>r a
faculty person c(,uld bt> hired who was
both compe tent In vldt>o and h.ld d
di versE' enough background to fit Into
Evt>r~rcen ~ Intndl sClpli nar y modt> ot
educatilin It 'fas statcd again and again
In the report , both In quotes from
i::vergr€'en facultv and tndustry profes..,lOnal .. that technical e"<perttse should be
~ upp]emented with a Itbtoral art~ background and Visual literacy ' to mike
co mp<'tent and creative Video arllsts .
However .•11 thiS tlmt> , thert> are no
faculty members who can teach vldt>o, No
amount o f money . wiring, cameras .
lights. rt>corders or new butldings Will
make video a readdy -access lble art form
{'Ir an integral part of Evergreen ' s
CU rriculu m with out peoplc to faCIlitate the
Il'arnln~ of that skill

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