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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 11, Issue 10 (January 20, 1983)
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20 January 1983
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Higher Education - A Right ·Or A Privilege~
by john Hill
State funded higher education is a
privilege not a right according to a bill
soon to be proposed in the Washington
State Legislature.
The bill, which is sponsored by state
Representative Gene Struthers (R-Walla
Walla), would require all young men between the ages of 18 and 22 to show
proof of having registered with the Selective Service as one way of procuring this
privilege.
Since 1979, the federal government has
required all male citizens of the United
States to register with the Selective
Service System for a possible military draft
within 30 days of their 18th birthday.
The following is an interview with Representative Struthers:
CPj: Could you give me a brief summary of the bill?
Struthers: Sure, the bill is really a very
si mple one-page bill. It merely states that
upon applying for entrance to a statefunded institution of higher learning that
you would be required to show proof of
having registered with the Selective
Service System, provided you are within
" I just think that anyone who
is going to take part in taxsupported colleges should
conform to all the laws of our
land."
the age bracket that the Selective Service
requires . That is all the bill does.
CPj: What are the connections you see
between state-funded colleges and the
enforcement of federal law?
Struthers: The connection I see is that
all of us, as citizens of the United States,
have an obligation to uphold federal law,
whether it is the Selective Service System
or registration or whatever it is. I n the
case of higher education, the schools in
the state of Washington are funded anywhere from 75% to 66% by state money.
Your registration fee, tuition if you will,
only covers the remaining portion to
maintain that college economically. By
far the most dollars come from taxpayers.
I just think that anyone who is going to
take part in tax-supported colleges should
conform to all the laws of our land . I'm a
great person, I was in World War II and I
feel very keenly about people sup,porting
the flag .
(P): Can the state punish an individual
for breaking federal law before they are
charged and convicted of a crime?
Struthers: I am not saying that we are
judge and jury. I look at the requirement
of state colleges now. Applicants must
show proof of age by showing a birth
certificate. Another document, if this bill
is passed, would be proof of having registered with Selective Service. I t is just
another document and I don't view it in
any other way than that. I don't view that
we are trying to maintain a strong arm on
those who want to go to college or that
we are forcing them to register with the
Selective Service. I think that it would be
. Cover Photo: One of the participants at
Evergreen's Tribute to Japan demonstrates
the art of calligraphy.
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photo by Oberbllllg
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Representative Gene Struthers (R-Walla Walla)
un-American for someone not to do that
(register) and still accept taxpayers dollars .
CPI: So you don't view denying somebody the right to attend college because
of not complying with Selective Service as
punishment?
Struthers: I don't view it as punishment
any more than requiring a birth certificate
at the time of coll ege registration .
Struthers was quoted in the Daily,
University of Washington's newspaper, as
saying the weakest point in his bill is that
it affects college students only: "I have
not figured out how to catch the rest of
them."
CP): How d~ this bill fit in with the
idea that citizens are innocent until
proven guilty? Wouldn't students be considered guilty until they prove themselves
innocent? Wouldn't this bill be a form of
self incrimination?
Struthers: Perhaps it would be. I suppose that none of us would agree on
every law, as to the interpretation of the
law. To me it is just very basic: No matter
how you look at it philosophically, a law
is a law and it should be complied with. I
think it is the duty of all of us to support
the American flag . I am not saying that if
you or I were a conscientious objector,
that would be attended to if the Selective
photo by Hill
Service should be triggered in . What the
federal law says now is that you merely
register; as you well know there is no
active draft going on at this time.
CPI: Then what you are saying is that
by showing proof of registration students
are not demonstrating their innocence but
their patrioti sm)
Strut hers .' Well that's right , patriotism is
the leading issue for me ) think that it's
very compelling for those men who are in
that age group of 18 to 22 to say that
" gosh, the least I can do is register, to sav
that if there is an emergency, if the Selective Service is triggered in, that if they
need me, they have my name and information available." I think that we
never know when we are going to war,
and to be prepared is certainly the least
we can do.
CP) : What does patriotism mean to
you?
Struthers : Patriotism means to me that
am supportive of the principle of this
form of government, that by my choi ce I
am living in this cou ntry and that those
laws which are mandated are those which
I will support. I think we could get into a
huge philosophical discussion here but
that is basically what it amounts to. If I
don't like it I can move somewhere else.
(PI : This bill would affect community
colleges as well?
Struthers: Yes, that's correct.
CPI: When will this bill be proposed in
the legislature and debated?
Struthers: I am in the process of getting
signatures There is a cover sheet that you
have attached to any bill that a legislator
proposes to introduce. The purpose of the
cover sheet is to go around and talk with
other legislators on both si des of the aisle
and to sec ure their signatures saying th at
they support the bill. I am in the proces\
of doing that now. The bill is out of bill
draft and I am getting signatures. Then I
will drop the bill in and it will be refe rrerl
to the speaker of the house. to a standl:lg
committee in the legislature and then at
the chairman's discretion, the bil l will b"
brought up for di sc uss ion. And probabl,
then at some time in the future, proi::Jblv
the next six week s, the bill could be "II ht-'r
voted out of committee or kill ed in ( 0 111 '
mittee. We must have a majority of I 'U IP ,
of those who are on the comm ittee In
order to vote the bill out. Then the bdl
would go to the rul es committee and thpn
the rules committee at their discretio n
would release the bill to the floor. Thi s
same process is followed on the Senate
side as well. So by the time it gets out of
both hOLises and gets to the governor's
desk, the bill has been well debated
The coll ege admission> process IS comhcated enough without the ex tra paper
work that thiS bill propos I "" AdmiSSions
Director at The Evergreen State College,
Arnaldo ~odrigu ez says that " we already
require enough pieces of papPI ."
According to Rodriguez, it " stretches
reason" to suggest that Selective Service
registration could be connected With
existing admissions criteria . AI. fvergreen ,
individuals are considered for f' '1rollment
based o n expectancy to do Wt'! I academica lly . Students who come directly from
hi gh school mu st be in the top 50% of
their graduating class . It is ~xpected by
the admissions department that jtudeilts
who are in the top half of th"! graduati ng
class will be prepared enough academica lly to succeed at Evergreen
" I think that we never know
whel we are going to war,
and to be prepared is certainly
the least we can do ."
~odriguez said : " It doesrt follow that
someone having regist ered with the Selective Service IS going to be necessa ril y able
to do co llege level work just by the fac t
that they are registered It would be
stretching any possible reason to say that
it's related to an admissions criteria ."
It is important that anyone who is registered to vote in Washington state and has
an opinion about thi s bi ll contact their
legislators . Mike Kreidler and Jennifer
Belcher are the representatives for the
, 22nd district. The phone number of the
House of Representatives is 753-7750. Our
state Senator is Dick Hemstad and the
phone number of the Senate is 753-7550.
Gene Struthers can be contacted through
I the House of Representatives .
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from noon to one o'c lock ,
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CAB 10), january 26, at 12-.1 p ,m. to discuss a merging of the educational aspects
of the Wilderness Center with the Environmental Resource Center, starting a Rides
Board for hiking and climbing activities,
posting of jobs, internships, and other
educational opportunities, the formation
of an Alpine Club for intermediate and
advanced level climbers, leisure ed .
classes for beginning climbers, hikers,
procedures for checking out climbing
equipment, and any other suggestions
people bring.
pie ment a l S2.S0 fee per s t udent pe r qua rt e r o:; ol l ccted by the College
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fu l l r efund befo r e t he forth week o f eac h qu a rt er at c o nvenie nt tim es
a nd pla c es.
jim Shock of the National Executive
Committee of DSA (DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA) will speak in
Lecture Hall 4 from 12:10 to 12 :50, Friday,
jan. 21, about contemporary strategies for
socialism in the U,S. He will stay on
campus through the afternoon to talk
more informally.
'\n ORCHARD CARE AND PRUNING
\.Ie . The c u rr ently F..nru ll ed Student s :I.e The Eve r g r ee n State Coll ege . h ereby
WORKSHOP, co-spo n~or ed by Olympia
pr ti t io n i t s l'reslde rH and Board o f Trustees f o r
S2 . S0 per quarter lee
COmmUl1l t\, Cardens, ,," ',,son and Thur ston
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Cou ntv Cooperat ive Extension Agencies ,
ilnd the O lympia chapter of Til th wi ll be
S I GNATURE
PR IN T NA.''1.E
STUDENT 10 ,
held on Saturday, january 22, trom d a,m.
Positions are opening for CITIZENS
to 1100n Those plannin g to att " d thi s
ADVISORY COMMITTEES to the Olympia
tree work shop should mee t in the parking
Please retu rn Petitio n to th~ CPJ Offi c e or TIle Info r rMt ton Ce nt er in t h e CAB.
city council. The committees with open10t of the Communi ty Action Council
ings are : Parks, Human Rights, Recycling,
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Drunken Driving. If you are interested
Would
you
like
to
be
more
self-expresThe Evergreen Women's Health Clinic is
d , ,,~o nall y b ehind th e O l ymp ia Com·
in serving on one of these committees
sive 7 An ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING (AT)
sponsoring a HERPES INFORMATIONAL
mllf" tv Center.
send a resume and letter of intent to :
GROUP is being formed to increase stuWORKSHOP. The workshop will include
General Government Committee, c/o Mary
I he S&A Board would like to fill iI,
dents' ability to stand up for personal
an overview on herpes as well as an Ujr
lux, P.O. Box 1%7, Olympia, WA 98507.
FACULTY POSITION , If you know of d
rights and to express thoughts, feelings.
date on the latest developments. Come if . The deadline for application is january 28.
taw lt v who is interes ted. tell him or her
and beliefs in direct, hones t and appropri- you have herpes, if your partner does or
For further information contact: Nancy
to (onl<1\ t Joel l3arnes or Lvnn Garner in
ate ways. The group will meet on Thursif you are just interested . Monday, januDombrowski, Asst. to city manager, City
CAB 30'). pho ne 8b6-6220,
ary 24 in Lib. 2116.
days for seven weeks beginning january 27
of Olympia, at 753-8325 ,
"CALL Of THE WILD," a Charl eton
at 3 p.m in lib 2205 , Interested students
Heston film vers ion of th e jack London
"VIOLENn" is the subject of the workmust attend the first sess ion . The AT
INSULATING SHADES AND SHUnERS
cl ass ic, will be shown Saturday, january 22
shop,
Sunday, jan , 23, 3-S p,m " at the
group is being conducted by KEY-Special
WORKSHOP SERIES. If your home is a
at 7 and 9:30 pm in Lecture Hall O ne at
Friendship Hall , YWCA, 220 E, Union .
typical one, 1/4 to a 1/ 3 of what you pay
Servi ces and Co un se lin g Servi ces. For
The Evergreen State Co Llege, Proceeds
for heat is lost out the window . At ni ght,
more information, phone 866-6000. ext . Panel members will talk about personal
trom the evenin g showtngs will benefit
and soc ial causes and effects of violence
6464 or ext. 6200.
you could be losing up to 50% of your
th e Wolf Have n Wolf Sanctuary. a nonin the United States. The workshop is free
heat throu gh them. You can learn to
Handicapped Access and Services is
profit orga nization based in Tenino and
and open to people concerned about
custom design and build your own attrac,ded ica ted to the preservat ion of wo lves . inviting all interested students, staff and
stopping violence against people and
tive insulating shades and shutters at a
Ad mi s<;ion to Ihe film, whic h is cospon- fa culty to atte[1d an open discussion on
destruction of the earth . Child care is prothree-part workshop series co-sponsored
sored b\' Evergree n's Environmental Re- ESTABLISHING A DISABLED STUDENTS
vided , Sponsoring groups include : Respect
by the Energy Outreach Center and lacey
source Center, I, $2 for adults; children COMMISSION at Evergreen The di scusand Freedom Project, Northwest Indian
Parks and Recreation . The series will be
sio n will be on Wednesday , january 26. at
will be admitted free .
Center (TESC). and Counseling Center
held at North Thurston High School o n
1 p .m . in Lib . . 2128. Call Handicapped
The S&A BOARD WILL MEET Wednes(TESC) Future workshops will include the 600 Sleater-Kinney Road NE. Each session
Acces, iwd Servi ces at 86b-UOJO, ext. 6361 ,
day, january 26, from one to four in
show in g of the film, The Dreamspeaker.
will run from 7:30-10 p.m. on Thursdays;
for mo re in formati o n,
. and panels di sc ussing violence in psychiLibrary 2220.
january 20, 27, and February 3. The series
atric institutions and prisons. for more
cost $5. payable at the first class, Call the
WORKSHOP TO ELIMINATE SELf information . ca ll Grace Cox, 352-3814 or
Energy Outreach Center for more informaDEfEATING BEHAVIORS. Starting: jan 2&,
Anne M cManus, 866-6000, ext. 6034,
ti on at 943-4595 .
Length of workshop : 7 weeks, meeting
" I really wanted to write a book that
Wanted: Dancers for Strip 'A' Gram , Exceltime: Wednesdays. 12 to 1 p.m ., sponWould
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gOing to celebrate dead housewives
and fun . Performing experi ence preferred
sored by Counseling, Health ancJ Women s
; females and mal e, Absolulely no
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and
dead c leaning women in the same
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ity. 574-8877.
your los ing your heat? Even with insulase
nse
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Health and Women s Services, fees: none.
for sale. Fair condi ti on with stove, poles ,
tion in the wall s and attic, you can still
dead presidents and kings. " says Susan
$300 Call Julie 1-759-9436
Strasser, faculty hi storian at The Evergreen
Thi s Friday, January 21, the NATIONAL lose up to 35% of your heat through the
Bedroom House available on the Westside.
State
cracks
and
leaks
around
windows
and
College; and now she's done it in
ABORTION RIGHTS ACTION LEAGUE
1 C:,,,rl •• n space. fruit trees , washer/dryer , etc.-. $675
.
The
Energy
Outreach
Ce
nter
will
doors
"NEVER
DONE: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN
(NARAl) is sponsoring a legislative lobby
month ren l plu s utilities. negotiable. Looking
demonstrate
a
Pressure
Door
Test
in
a
HOUSEWORK."
Strasser will discuss her
for a group of peopl e wa nt ing to move in around
day in recognition o f the 1973 Supreme
March- Ap,,' , Must be wi lling to be part of a land two-part
workshop
The
demonstration
new
book
in
a
lunchtime
talk on WednesCourt decisi on to lega li ze abortion. There
For more information call 943-6772 by
day,
will
begin
at
the
Olympia
Timberland
january
26,
in
room
110 of the Colwill be a rally in the capitol rotunda at
. 22 .
library
on
Franklin
St.,
then
move
to
a
lege
Activities
Buildin
g
at Evergreen.
noon and a workshop on how to lobby
Cleaner. Great, dependable, FAST, Experilocal
residence
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This
Guests
are
welcome
to
bring
a sack lunch
. Call 352-3319
from 9 to 10 a.m , in the general adminisor
purchase
lunch
in
the
cafeteria
before
will be held on Saturday. january 22, at
tration building
ng- Small female black and white Husky.
11
a.
m.
For
more
information
call
the
11
:45
a.m
.
Reservations
may
be
made
by
Muffy 866-1192. Reward ,
Energy Outreach Center at 943-4595,
ca lling 866-6000, ext. 6128.
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President's Cabinet: The Buck Stops Here
KAOS Expansion Refused
Cashiers Reinforced .With Steel
by Francisco Chateaubriand
by Stephen Kistler
There will be no KAOS in Grays Harbor
. . ,at least not yet. The President's
Cabinet has shelved the nearly four-yearold expansion plan indefinitely, Citing
fiscal uncertainty and unforeseen hidden
costs as the major reasons. Although
initial funding of the project would have
come in the form of an already approved
$27,000 grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTlA). the cabinet felt it could not
guarantee allocation of the nearly $2,000
a year it would require to maintain and
expand the project.
KAOS General Manager, Michael Huntsberger, said he was "extremely disajr
pointed" at the cabinet's decision to postpone the expansion plans but added that
it may have actually been a mixed blessing for KAOS.
" The upshot for me of this project
being postponed," said Huntsberger, "is
that this will be the first time that I will
have had any time to really get in touch
with the faculty I've worked with and talk
about long term planning for the radio
station ."
The grant, which was written by former
station managers Toni Holmes, David
Rauh and Bob johnston, can be resubmitted at a later date to the NTIA. Although
budget cutbacks under the Reagan Administration have threatened the survival
of the NTIA, Huntsberger feels that the
fact it has survived this long suggests it
might still be around in 1984 or 1985
when the station hopes to resubmit the
STAFF
on the corner of Capital & Thurston
Best Breakfast in Town.
Atmosphere of Casual Funk
with items like
Fred's Special
Chili Verde
O melet
Spicy start to any morning. w/pork
Tomatoes Red"O "s
Swiss cheese & Sou r Cream
BEST BREAKFAST IN TOWN
"Meet Me At Fred's This Weekend"
page 2 The Cooper Polnl Journat Jan. 20. 1963
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Graphics: } Gerry Amandes
Writers : Richard Fellows Carney Combs 'John W, Hili, Lesil Welliver Stephen Kistler.
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BusIness Manager : Margaret Morgan Adverttslng Manager : James Bergin
Photographers : Christine AlbrIght , Gary
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grant.
KAOS engineer Norm Sohl has worked
closely with the project and disagrees
with both Huntsberger and the cabinet
saying that the cabinet's deCision to
shelve the project was "a very bad
business move" and one that has left him
frustrated and upset.
"I feel frustrated by the direction of the
college administration. It seems that we're
being restricted tq always remaining a
limited radio station and our ability to
serve the community is being handicapped. It was a step toward the future
and a step we should have taken."
Sue Washburn, Director of College
Relations and a member of the cabinet,
agreed that the financial uncertainty of
the next two bienniums were the main
reasons for denying the expansion plans.
She added that politics were not involved
" in any way" in the decision and most
cabinet members were supportive of the
college station.
" The members were sensitive to KAOS
and Michael Huntsberger, We felt we
were making a short term decision . The
proposal can be resubmitted at a later
date," Washburn said.
Not so, says Sohl. "This will damage
our credibility with the grant agency and
although we might be able to get around
that we' ll have to respecify all of our
equipment and request more money to
meet rising inflation costs I just don' t see
that happening, The proposal is dead."
It is always a little surprising to see the
constant improvement of facilities when
there is so little money to improve The
Evergreen State College (TESC) in other
areas. Most recently, there is the addition
of a bullet resistant facade for the
Cashier'S Office on the first floor of the
Evans Library.
This job was first proposed several years
ago because of the lack of adequate
security. According to TESC controller
Karen Wynkoop there have been threats
of physical harm to cashier employees
from irate customers, but not of armed
robbery . There was also a danger from the
old glass windows which slid on rollers
and had a tendency to fall out.
The project is not yet completed , but is
projected to cost about $3,500 for parts
and labor. This money comes from the
Industrial Reserve fund, a fund whi ch
receives a yearly allocation from the
administration. In late spring the President's Cabinet approved funding of the
job. Most of the parts' cost went for the
bullet-resistant glass, which is composed
of five layers for a total thickness of one
and 3/ 16". The door is equipped with a
package receiver (so materials can be
received without opening the door). and
a peephole so employees can see who
wishes to gain admittance.
The whole interior of the cas hier's
office has been remodeled as well.
Each work station has a shelf unit beside
. it now, bulletin boards and more cabinets
have been installed, and they now have a
computer access terminal inside the
office, The layout of the floor had to be
changed to allow space around the
terminal-two stairs were removed and
the upper level was extended.
According to Head Cashier Debby
Davies, "It is a lot better. Before it wasn't
secure at all. It's a little less personal , but
the space is much more liveable now."
Campus Architect jon Collier, who redesigned the area, says the most impor[ant aspect is the psychological effect the
,mprovements will have on the people
working there. I n the past the blinds did
not prevent people from looking in . which
can be disconcerting when large quantities of cash are being handled. Now, there
are roll-down shades on each window to
prevent this . The metal adjoining the
windows will be covered with tack board
so notices can be posted outside each
station.
Audibility through the new windows
has caused less of a problem than was
.mticipated. There is an air space around
the perimeter of the glass which helps the
,ound travel through D avies says she has
no problem hearing customers as long as
they are facing her.
Wynkoop has this view of the overall
',ffec t from the outside: " I t may be more
impersonal . but I think if you provid e a
good service you can get past that "
Dorm -Lee-t ure Series Evergreen Food Drive
by Stephen Kistler
College life can be a harrowing experience coming from the loving arms of
family and the familiar territory and
friends of your home town , You will be
exposed to new relationships, new forms
of recreation (physi cal and mental), new
diseases, and new finan cial worries.
Colleges usually provide many ways to
prevent these new experiences from becoming new problems. You must, however seek out this information, and it is not
always easily available in a relaxed social
environment.
In answer to these needs, campus
Housing will be sponsoring a series of lectures on various topics to facilitate your
assimilation of information, enabling you
by Lcsli Welli ver
to make the most of your new freedoms.
These will be in the form of informal
workshops in the Corner of A dorm. They
will be held on Monday nights (following
this week's lecture on speed-reading and
note-taking with Shary Smith, which was
on Wednesday night) .
On j anuary 24, there will be questions
and answers on nutrition by Annie
Oksendahl beginning at 7:30. january 31,
Dean Blumberg and Roger Taylor will
conduct a workshop on time management
starting at 8 p.m.
Tentatively scheduled for upcoming
weeks are lectures on dreaming, birth
control and VD, rape, and drugs.
Evergreen is helping to feed the hungry
people in our community. Health Servi ces
has organi zed a food dri ve contest in cooperation with The Thurston County food
bank . Fall quarter's.efforts show the strides
of motivation; out of a number of participating groups, The Educational Support
Program shot ahead to w in the -race with
262 points , The groups are composed of
about ten members each and are given
one point for each can of food or dollar
that they collect. At the end of the
quarter all the points are tallied and the
winning group is treated to a free
luncheon catered by Health Services ,
The Educational Suppmt Program is
going to enjoy Italian food at the Organic
Farmhouse. You too can experience a
\' , H,derful meal and help your neighbor;
il l Ihe sa me time if your group wins. 11
you have any questions or are interested
1t1 forming a group, contact Lynda
M iranda at Health Services 866-1003. May
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by Steve Kistler
Senior Editor John W. Nielsen. Managing Editor Erin Kenny
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It seems rare of late to find costs for
anything actually going down particularly
here in the concrete village, but every
now and then the unexpected happens.
Head of Food Services at The Evergreen
State College Vonda Drogmund has
responded to complaints of high salad
prices and they have been decreased on a
graduated scale. The larger the salad, the
lower the price per ounce. At the beginning of the year the price was up from
1St to 17t per ounce. Now a salad weighing 21 ounces or more costs only 14t/ oz.,
and 11-20 oun ce salad costs 1St/oz. , and
a 1-10 ounce salad costs 1ot/ oz.
Drogmund said she saw how high the
price became when people composed
entire meals at the salad bar. A large salad
could cost as much as $5. While it
appears that this graduated scale may also
be designed to encourage people to buy
larger salads, Drogmund says it is mostly
responsive to people who do create an
entire lunch or dinner at the bar.
The price per ounce is, of course, an
average for the various items at the salad
bar. It is quite a bit more than you would
normally expect to pay for cottage cheese
or potato salad, and maybe a bit less than
you would for alfalfa sprouts or sunflower
seeds. Prime movers at the bar are lettuce
and other fresh vegetables, chopped hardboiled eggs, and cottage cheese, among
others. The dressings served are made in
the kitchen from home recipes, except the
Italian which is Good Seasons.
According to Drogmund, SAGA is more
concerned with having quality food ..
service than turning a big profit. She says,
in fact, that the kitchen does not always
end up "in the black. "
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by Nielsen
You are probably wonoering why the
CPI is so small this week. The reason is
that we just do not have enough money
in our budget to produce a larger-sized
paper. This week we had to cut many
stories of community concern as well as
a beautiful photo essay on this past weekend's " Evergreen Tribute to japan." It
appears to us here at Evergreen that we
are not the on Iy ones in dire finanCial
straits . Many local area businesses,.if not
closing their doors, are on the brink of it.
It would be easy to blame this on the
hard economic times we all face, or write
th is off as a symptom of the stereotype
many of us still carry regarding the local
attitude towards " Greeners," but instead,
here are a few figures for those concerned
to ponder.
First off, a figure, generated by the
school's Office of Community Relations
published last fall in The Daily Olympian:
Evergreen students sl-<:nd about $10,000,000
per year ~ an average of $400 per student a
month ) in the Olympia/Thurston County
area . Add to that the staffs' payrc.lll of
'1>9,724,000 (for 1982) On top ( f that,
TESC last year reinvested in the communi ty '1>800,000 through local purchases
and contracts for the school. We are looking at a very healthy hunk of cash by anyone's standards .
The CPI is funded haif by the Student
Activitie5 Board and half through the
advertising we sell. Right now we are
ha ving i\ hard time se lling advertisements,
en years ago this january 22, a
Supreme Court justice recognized that it
is a ,~o man 's right to end her unwanted
pregnancy. Abortion was legalized.
The Supreme Court decision was a reflection of its belief that a woman's constitutional right to privacy is the issue at
the ce nter of abortion, at least on the
legal level
On a more fundamental level , the issue
of abortion involves the termination of a
potential life. This is the prime reason
why there is so much controversy about
abortion . It is an extremely sensitive mora
issue that involves the question: When
does a fetus become a "person" and
therefore entitled to legal protection?
The deci sion to terminate a growing
fetus is a moral one; one which should
concern the woman and her doctor. A
woman is the only one who can know
whether or not she is ready to accept the
enormous responsibility of providing, both
emotionally and financially, for a child.
An unhealthy, unloved, abused child
could be the result of a no-choice
situation .
even though our staff is continually out
searching for potential advertisers. Think
of the figures I have just mentioned . With
close to $20,000,000 coming into the local '
economy I'd think that local businesses
would be pounding our doors down to
place ads in our paper, so that they too
cou ld get a piece of the pie.
The figures and statements I've just
made do not include the 4,000 copies of
the CPj that are distributed each week. To
give an example of the cal iber of our
readership and the spending power they
have: the State Capitol Campus is one of
our best distribution areas, where more
than 15% of our total run is distributed.
Legislators and their staffs have to eat,
drink, and sleep somewhere.
We here at the CPj are now in the
process of getting a readership survey
together which will be a help not only to
us, but to potential advertisers as well.
We wil l find out just what our readers
expect of us, and more importantly where
they spend their money.
An idea we've been kicking around is
having students and staff at TESC wear
identifying buttons, to identify themselves
to area businessmen as representatives of
the annual $20,000,000.
In closing I'm not asking for community
business to subsidi ze the CPJ, but I think
they would be foolish not to want a piece
of the action in these hard economic
times.
Outlawing abortions will not stop
women from having them, it will simply
force them int'o the back rooms again,
with all the risks and costs this implies.
We must work to ensu re that women at
least have a legal choice as to whether or
not they want to continue carrying an
unwanted child.
In a related women's right issue, many
hackles were raised this week over outgoing secretary of health and human
services Ri chard Schweiker's suggestion
that planned parenthood clinics be required to notify parents of teenage
women who apply for birth control.
The idea that a government which
cI aims to want to " get off people's backs"
should interfere in such a personal matter
as the lami Iy is absurd .
Notifying the parents of teenage women
about their sexual activities will not stop
these women from having sex; it will
simply discourage them from seeking
information about birth control. This
could result in an increase of unwanted
pregnancies among teens.
But the biggest outrage is the fact that
this requirement is being considered only
Statistical evidence demonstrates
for women. This demonstrates one of the
(Northwest Tribune , jan . 10, 1983) that
biggest contradictions in our culture: the
there are approximately the same number
sexual double standard. The suggestion
of abortions annually now as there were
reflects this idea, engrained in our society,
before 1973. The main difference is that
that women should remain sexually innow they are done legally, by reputable
active until marriage while men should be
doctors . They are not done with coat
encouraged to "sow their wild oats."
hangers and in back alleys by questionable
This proposal implies that parents
MDs . As a result, the health risks have
should be more concerned if their ,
been greatly reduced.
daughter'S having sex than if their son is.
A recent AP-NBC news poll (Seattle P-I ,
However, teenage men must take as much
jan 16, 1982) revealed that 77% of those
responsibility for the sexual activity of
surveyed agreed with the statement that
teens as women . Why not require all
"the decision to have an abortion should
. pharmacies to phone the homes of male
be left to the woman and her physician."
teens who try to purchase condoms?
Therefore, it must be a very active and
In a country that still thinks so archavoca l minority which is pushing the
ica lly about this sexual double standard,
Supreme Court to reconsider its 1973
is it so surprising that an equal rights
decision .
amendment failed,?
page 4 The Cooper Point Journal Jan. 20, 1983
Economic Democracy: Challenge For The 1'980'5
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EDITORS'YIEW
FORUM is a public opinion column . The
articles have been submitted by or
solicited from our readers . If you have an
issue you would like to discuss, submit
your article to FORUM c/o The Editor,
CPj. We reserve the right to edit.
by Roy Roistacher
In keeping with the spirit of this past
holiday season, let us not forget to thank
our recent lame duck Congress for their
speedy departure from Washington, D.C.
Amidst work completed or not, our sitting
duck legislators left the capital with barely
enough time to vote themselves a pay
raise; returning home to sip eggnog with
thei r former consti tuents.
Thi's is nothing less than an unconscionable affront to the voting public.
Why should legislators, who are defeated
at the polls or have retired be permitted
to temporarily retain their power and privilege in shaping public policy? These dead
duck legislators have virtually no accountability to their former constituents, They
are free to vote and make public policy
according to their individual preferences
and self interest.
The recent lame duck session, requested
by President Reagan, could have made,
and in some cases did make, decisions on
a wide range of controversial legislative
proposals. These included: a congressional
pay raise ; a proposal to accelerate the
third year of the income tax cut; a bill
that significantly changes immigration
policy; a domestic content bill; funding
for the breeder reactor and the MX missile
production ; contempt of Congress proceed ings; and a gas tax increase.
The very idea that a luminary such as
one-term Congressman john (who killed
Lou Grant?) Laboutiller, R-NY., was permitted to speak and vote on any of these
issues is truly unnerving. The good citizens of New York didn't "throw the bum
out" in November only to have him
reappear in December. The politicians and
voter~ do not expend tremendous amounts
of energy and resources to defeat incumbents and their policies only to see them
return to make their indelible marks.
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To further illustrate the magnitude of
the issue, one only has to conduct some ·
simple calculations. The Congress is
presently comprised of 435 Representa- .
tives and 100 Senators, During the 97th
lame duck session, 79 Representatives and
five Senators were dead ducks. In other
words, approximately one-sixth of those
assembled had no real right to be there at
all. In short, if a legislator is repudiated at
the polls, doesn't this signal public disapproval of their policies?
Article One, section four, of the Federal
Constitution established 'elections and the
times of congressional sessions. It held
that each state had the right to determine
"the Times, Places, and Manner of holding
elections for Senators and Representatives," It went on to require that Congress
convene every year, by the first Monday
in December. The Twentieth Amendment
(adopted in 1933) to the Constitution
established january 3 as the first day of
the congressional session,
Clearly, during the colonial period and
most of the nineteenth century, the
modes of transportation and communication made it impossible to convene a new
congressional session immediately after
the election, It took weeks for legislators
to travel by carriage or steamship to the
congressional site.
If the President determines, as Reagan
recently did, that there is a need for ongoing congressional activity, this interim,
once used for travel, can be used for lame
duck governance.
There remains no plausible explanation
(one wonders if there was one in 1933)
why this seven-week period remains. It
seems to be no more than a structural
atavism, a political "appendix" without
any basis in necessity. Those newly
elected legislators can relocate quickly
and be briefed effectively. Those who are
defeated or retire can clear their offices in
a few days .
Perhaps a constitutional amendment
should be proposed that would el iminate
the current seven-week period between
elections and the assumption of office.
This amendment could stipulate that the
Congress would convene in late November, thereby precluding any chance for
lame duck legislating and the enactment
of policies the public has rejected.
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Ashen
Time Is luxury
luxuries I presently
cannot afford
Had I had more
I may have sooner understood
your thinking
your ways
patience may have filled the days
when I antiCipate
satlslactlon
comfort
whatever they may be
mysteries to me
I review
the time we used
so much was damaging to me
that reflected on you, who
given luxuries
couldn't comprehend my hurry
the whole affair was clouded
uncertain
abused
and another one drowned
in the sea of misconception
soon to be dismembered
and ashen
tom schwind
Greti left a note in menstrual ink.
went to Boise, Idaho;
couldn't hack the long hours
of business school and sheep at once.
kept house for two horny dwarves
that kept turning into seven.
mooched from three bears
who made a heavy foursome,
ripped-off some invalid grandma's
cottage and riding hood,
and made it a while by eating wolvesuntil she lost her looks and teeth,
and the bank foreclosed the mortgage .
Derek Shearer, author of Economic
Democracy: The Challenge of the 1980's
and husband to Ruth Goldway, mayor of
Santa Monica, visited The Evergreen State
College Friday evening for the Conference
on Economic Development.
After joking about his role as first
husband of Santa Monica, he told of the
various red baiting which went on after
the election of the new city government.
Their reputation as the "People's Republic
of Santa Monica" earned them a visit
from a curious Chinese delegation.
Anxious to show that the Economic
Democrats were in league with the real
communists, a reporter asked the delegation what they saw as similar between
China and Santa Monica. One of them
replied: "Not much, these people in Santa
Monica are really just bourgeois reformers
trying to take the rough edges off capitalism, For example, in Santa Monica a big
problem is landlord-tenant relations. We
don't have that problem in China."
"Why not? asked the reporter.
"Because we don't have landlords," was
the reply.
Shearer pointed out that many " Ieftsectarian" movements have faltered
because they fail to speak in an American
context, speaking in terms imported from
European movements . He pointed out the
success of populist movements, which .
by David Gaff
" The japanese: Are They Creative? or
japan as Number Two" was the topic of a
panel discussion held by Evergreen faculty
members Richard Alexander, Tom Rainey
and v isiting professor Mitsuharu Mitsui at
the first annual " Tribute to japan" at The
Evergreen State College. Both Alexanqer
and Rainey have been involved in faculty
exchanges between Evergreen and Kobe
University of Commerce in japan. Mitsui
is a visiting professor from Kobe University of Commerce.
The discussion, held last Sunday, centered around the idea of creativity and
whether the japanese as a people have
the capability to be creative, and to what
degree. Although the speakers gave
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THE WARNING
The gulls flying Inland
hint of the storm to follow.
Their calling Is one with th.e wind
that brings the smell of tomorrow's
rain . This wind, and energy unbound,
speaks to the earth, now lying fallow,
of both the fertility and destruction the ground
will know again: but the earth knows.
This Isn't the first time she's heard the sound.
.
Patricia Ann Treat,
Continuity
A card-board cut out, pasted on a picture
the exact design and perfect mixture.
according to Ihe layout pieces fit as planned
the rlghl amount of structure, precise dimensions
and ....
lust enough content, pleasing to the eye,
correct corrections, paper plus dye.
A superimposed reality of surrealistic
Tanka
brutality .
Nothing wanes or cools,
being fired by failing leaves
Eye No
joining synergies
In a cherry-blossom mud
on paths we now walk alone.
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were rooted in grassroots movements and
spoke in an American idiom.
In discussing the present crisis of our
economy, Shearer pointed out that the
Chinese and Vietnamese idiogram for
crisis is made up of two parts: the idiogram for danger, and the one for opportunity. He pointed out that today "a lot of
the conventional wisdom about how to
run society seems not to work. People
lose faith in a lot of old ideas or relationships and they're open to new ideas," For
this reason, he refers to the present as a
time of opportunity.
" The Deindustrialization of America" by
Barry Bluestone and Ben Harrison is the
best single book according to Shearer that
explains the transformation of the American economy, and what it's been going
through these last ten years . He said there
exists an unwritten social contact by
which we all live our daily lives and make
our living. This has its origins in the New
Deal period. It is "basically the recognition of unions, social security, the recognition that the government would provide
employment for people, the dramatic
, government involvement in physical planning through highways, government loans
to housing, that whole system which you
could think of as a reformed capitalism
which worked so well in the '50s and '60s
began to break down in the 70s. Part of
the breakdown was brought on deliber-
ately, part consciously. Large corporations
decided they wanted to get out of this
social contract and they did this by
moving their plants to the Midwest or the
northeast, sometimes the northwest, moving overseas to avoid unions. Many
corporations began a deliberate attack on
government and this culminated in the
political attack on government in the
Reagan administration."
feels this might pull the economy into
some sort of recovery which wouldn 't
advance the caus,es of labor, minorities,
women, unions, environmentali sts or the
peace movement. In short, a kind of
organized national elitist, what they call
in Europe "s tate capital ist," solution . He
cited Gary Hart and john Glenn as proponents of this direction . This is also
He said that this has led to an " internationalization of the economy" whereby
people in their local community are
affected by world economic forces which
people feel they have no control over.
Shearer called for a new social contract
which people could have some allegiance
to, and feel that it works for them. If, he
said, people don't feel a sense of belonging to a society, it falls apart and can get
very ugly.
referred to as the" Atari Democrat" or
" high-tech" solution. Shearer claims that
it is a bad direction to go. He says that
while high-tech industry employs some
highly trained individuals, the jobs in production .!lnd assembly tend to be unpleasant and dangerous . They tend to be
filled by non-union Southeast Asian immigrant women who are less likely to
complain . It does not solve the problems
of unemployment from our older industries but instead ignores them .
Shearer sees three basic directions in
which Americans can go, One would be a
swing to the right, outlined by Bertram
Gross in his book Friendly Fascism . This
would be a path to the right of Reagan
where protesters and people who disagree
might be dealt with "in awful ways ."
"The most likely road," in the event of
the Democrats winning the next election ,
is a technocratic neo-liberalism characterized by top-down, pro-business national
planning by elite bankers and experts . He
"The worst thing about the neo-liberal s
IS that is that thev think the purpose of
the economy is to win an international
~ame" with West Germany or japan. " The
Idea that America has to be number one
w ithout asking 'What's the point of it al\l :
Why do you have to be number on el .Why are you doing this -·what are you
)roducing l .- 'What are the quality of the
ubs l : 'Where wil l they be locatedl ' They
:end to convenient ly skip over the'€
Issues," he said.
Shearer continued, " The third path ,
" hich I think is most desirable
rea lly
omes down to a question of va lues. Onp
·)f the things about ('conomics is that
p('onomists I ike to illystify you with nUillbers and graphs, obscure terminology to
make you think It is this technical science;
wht'n in fact , most of the key deci sio ns in
pconomics are poli tical , (they) come
down to what your values are." These
qlJPstions "c an 't bl' answered by economi sts, they can on ly be answf'rpd by
pporle through political action ."
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Japanese Creativity; Step by Step Innovation
photo by Oberbllllg
thought provoking arguments about
creativity in japan, each panelist failed to
give his own definition of what he be·Iieves creativity is .
Alexander described the japanese as a
people who do not believe that they are
fundamentally creative. They believe,
according to Alexander, that theirs is a
culture of borrowers, adaptors, and improvers who are incapable of independent
innovation. The japanese feel comfortable
in a role of dependency, as it ties in with
their ideas of hierarchy. The japanese
have not been in a position of total superiority this century, except in Asia during
the late 1930's and early 1940's, Alexander
believes that this time of superiority sti II
haunts the memory of present-day
japanese.
Mitsui echoed many of the points made
by Alexander, but there were some disagreements. He believes that the japanese
are not fundamentally creative, but that
they are successfu.l in step-by-step innovations, commercializing technology and
merchandizing technology. Mitsui explained that in japan adjustment to
dependency is crucial. Although independency is considered selfishness, individuality is considered to be the true
nature of people. So from childhood, a
japanese person must learn to suppress
their individuality and concentrate on
dependency.
Mitsui made several astounding statements that may shatter the belief of many
Americans that japan wants to be number
one. One such statement was that "we do
not want to catch up with your country,"
He said that America is "the eternal
teacher," a great leader, and that "always
a great leader is lonesome."
Rainey was much more skeptical about
the creatiYity of nations and civilizations.
He said that all countries steal ideas from
each other. This makes it hard to say
what countries are fundamentally creative
if n ,
vations are incremental, an idea which, if
true, would make the japanese at least as
creative as people of any other nationality .
Although acknowledging that research
and development are not profitable for
japan , Rainey does see crea tivity playing
a positive role in other areas. He believes
that the japanese have developed an
organizational and long-range planning
system that is especial ly productive and
inventive. Also important in the lapanese
economic structure is the combined plan ning of business and government .
Thi s third path is economi c democracy,
" the path that says that certainly there are
technica l reforms that are needed, but
Ihe way they are done and who does
Ihem and at what level is just as impo~
tant as the technical reform itself . Its way
to revive the economy is to include more
people as citizens, as consumers, as
workers, in the running of the economy
Creativity is important to japan today
because, at this time, japan is importing
high technology items and the United
States is exporting them. japan is also
continued on page 6
experiencing competition with other Asian
countries, especially Taiwan and South
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Korea. One problem is japan's need to
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In order to show our support for a
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ports of finished products. Although japan. be two rallies this weekend . The first is at:
cannot find raw materials all of a sudden : noon on Friday, jan. 21, in the Capitol
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Within Its borders, It can develop high
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technology on its own and that is one of • Abortion Rights Action League, The
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the reasons why creativity is being
• second rally will take place at the CaPitol:
advocated.
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Although this discussion was both in• Lux, 1-522-5598. Please attend and demon:
formative and thought provoking, it
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lacked two things that would have made • abortion .
the arguments stronger. The first improve- ~
ment would have been to include definitions of creativity by each panelist. By
not explaining the meaning of the word,
the panelists forced the audience to
formulate their own definition .
Another thing that cou ld have been
included would have been a study of
creativity in other fields besides economics and technology. Topics could have
included art, music, architecture, and
science, as well as many other topics.
Overall, however, the discussion was
eye opening for those of us with little or
outdated ideas about what a an is like.
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No Mardi Gras For Geoducks
by DA Heier
Sunday, while you were watching that
farce the National Football league calls
the Super Bowl Tournament, I was out on
a very chilly Eld Inlet covering The Northwest Windjammer Regatta. I would have
been less than enthusiastic but the winner
of this event goes to New Orleans fOT
Tulane's National Windjammer ... during
Mardi Gras . Hey, how could I pass up
that kind of action. If the Greeners won,
wouldn't I look great styling down Bourbon Street while the February rains paint
Puget Sound grey? A pleasant daydream,
but unfortunately unfulfilled.
Not that the 'Ducks didn't have a shot.
Going into the second day of raCing they
were only three points behind the University of Washington (UW) and the University of Oregon (UO); they did take second
place, beating out UO, Oregon State, and
lewis and Clark. The winner of each race
gets one point, second place gets two
points, etc. The overall winner is the team
with the least points.
Saturday'S rac ing schedule was cut in
half, because of light wind so on Sunday
they had to squeeze in the cancelled
races from the day before . Although, the
wind was absent again until ea rly afternoon, it did corne up strong' enough to
complete the entire race program.
W ith only t hree races to go the Geoducks we re still only three points behind
Arts &.Event
UW and UO, but they just couldn't match
the Huskies' consistency. In the next to
last B fleet race, Rick Baldwin and Jamie
Stewart made a fine start but missed the
first buoy twice and wound up working
like hell to finish third. Meanwhile, the
Huskies were winning again .
The Huskies were really serious about
winning this one. So serious, they sent
two different contingents here. One group
competed on Saturday while a completely
different bunch sailed on Sunday. The
Huskies were by far the smoothest team
on the water last weekend and they made
by far the least number of mistakes.
Though they didn't win, the Geoduck
showing was more than respectable. UW
and OU are the two most powerful teams
in this district.
Lewis and Clark sent only two people
and neither of them was a regular skipper
so they raced every race and traded off
between skipper and crew. Though they
finished last , their hard work and enthusiasm earned them the spirit of the regatta
trophy.
The Geoduck A fleet did exceptionally
well finishing only two points behind Uw.
Our A fleet was ski ppered by Eric Noyd
and was crewed by Gordon Smith.
O ur 'Ducks return to action this weekend journeying to Vancouver, B.C., to
take on the
of British Columbia.
by Carney Combs
This spring will see the beginning of a
new sports team at Evergreen .
An organizational meeting for a lacrosse
team will be held on Wednesday, February 2, at 4:30 in the College Recreation
Center, room 202. The meeting will be to
discuss fundraisers. The $2,042 allocated
for the new team by the Student Activities
Board has been designated to pay for
league fees and fees for one lacrosse
tournament. The money will also go for
some of the needed equipment-gloves,
helmets, goals and nets, a goalie body
pad and a goalie stick. Individual player's
will have to provide their own sticks.
Money raised in fund-raising projects will
be used to buy some player sticks and to
pay for travel expenses.
According to Corey Meador, who's
organizing the team, "we're going to start
it out as a rec sport where anybody interested can play, like the intramural sports.
Then those players who have a lot of
interest in the sport can play on the competitive team . There aren't any teams in
the immediate area so we'll be traveling a
lot and playing teams like Pacific lutheran
University, University of Puget Sound, and
Reed College; mostly teams around the
county and the Sound area"
lacrosse is a modern version of the
North American Indian game of baggataway, in which the players use longhandled racklike sticks to catch, carry, or
throw a ball down the field and into the
opponents' goal. There are 10 players
from each team on the field.
The Evergreen team will be coached by
experienced players.
For the first time at Evergreen, a Ski
Van Pool service is being offered for students, faculty, staff and any interested
community members. The service will
offer two trips a week and three Saturday
trips to Alpental (near Snoqualmie Pass)
and the nearby cross country area.
The cost is $6.50 per person round trip.
Payment must be made in advance before
1 p.m. the day before the trip .· This point
was stressed heavily by the CRe's Corey
Meador: "It's important to pay in advance
to reserve space in the van (which holds
15 people and has a luggage rack). If at
least 12 passengers haven't Signed up by
the deadline the trip will be cancelled
and the money refunded."
Thursday
Sunday
The Smithfield Cate, at 212 West Fourth
Avenue in downtown Olympia will present the
second part of a series of Independently produced
films on Thursday, January 20. These films were
made by both Olympia and Northwest artists. The
proceeds from this event will benefit KAOS. This
evening of films will begin at 8 p.m. Donation $2.
KAOS, In cetebrallon of Its 10th Anniversary, Is
reintroducing their "Aliv. In Olympia" program.
"Alive in Olympia can be heard each Sunday at
7 p.m. on 89.3FM.
Friday
Friday Night Filma presents "Chan Is Missing"
(198280 min. b/w), directed by Wayne Wang et
3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. In Lecture Hall
One. Admission is $1.50.
David Grlsman. one of the most highly acclaimed mandolin players in the world arrives in
Seattle on January 21 for onl y one show. Grisman
is accompanied by his quartet for the one show
at Meany Hall at the University of Washington,
Friday, January 21, at 8 p.m . Opening for David
Grisman will be solo guitarist, Eric Tlngstad.
Admission is $5.50 for UW students, $8 general
Payment can be made at the Recreation
Center office, CRC 302, Monday through
Friday, 8 a.m.-12 noon and 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Payment can also be made through the
mail. Payment and reservations are made
on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The Tuesday van leaves from the library
loop at 3:30 p.m. for evening and night
skiing. The Friday van leaves from the
library Loop at 7 a.m. for skiing all day.
The Saturday trips are offered January 22,
February 29, and March 19 only the van
will leave from the library Loop at 6 a.m.
traveling via Division Street and picking
up any waiting passengers. It will depart
from the Westside Center area at 6:30 a.m.
Additional Saturday trips may be planned
if there is enough interest. Also available:
Alpental $1 off lift ticket coupon books.
admission .
Saturday
An old-time country dance at the Organic
Farmhouse will feature a live band and caller,
square dances, contra dances, and waltzes. This
extravaganza will begin at 8 p.m. on Saturday,
January 22. Everyone is welcome. Admission Is
free .
Tides of Change sponsors "The Autoblography
01 MI•• Jane Pittman" (1974 102 min. color,
MTV), directed by John Korty on Sunday, January 23. Clcely Tyson puts forth one of her best
performances, and was rewarded wllh a much
deserved Emmy award. The film can be seen at
4 p.m. and 7 p.m. In Lecture Hall One. Admission
is $1 .50 for this excellent film.
Coming Up
Seattle Opera greets the new year with Rossini's
mirthful and inventive "The Barber of Seville,"
January 20, 22, 26, and 29 In Italian, and January
23 and 28 in English. Curtain time for all performances is 8 p.m . with the exception of Ihe
Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on January 23. Single
ticket prices for "The Barber of Seville" range
from $6 to $31 .25 and are available at the Seattle
Opera Ticket Office.
The Artists Co-Op Gallery, at 524 South WashIngton In downtown Olympia, will be featuring as
their artists of the week , January 22-29, oil
painter, Paul Lambert and Sumi artists, Nobu
Burmer. The gallery hours are from 10-5 Monday
through Saturday.
The YWCA Applejam has the following acts,
schedu led for January:
January 22-Steve and Maureen-S2.50
January 29- Tall Tlmber-S3.50
EPIC presents "Lucia" (Part I), a Cuban documentary dramatizing three separate periods In the
Cuban struggle lor liberation and the partiCipation
of Cuban women In that fight . The Women's Center co-sponsors this two-part documentary. The
second part will be shown on January 31 . This
film can be seen on Jan. 24 at 7: 30 p.m. In
Lecture Hall One and In CAB 110 at 12 p.m. on
the 25th. Admission Is free.
The Every Other Wednesday Night Film Series
presents "The Clowns" (1970 90 min. color) ,
directed by Frederico Fellini January 26 at 7 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m, "The Clowns" can be seen in
Lecture Hall One for $1 .50.
Continuing
Childhood's End Gallery at 222 West 4th in
Olympia is featuring paintings and pit-fired and
high·lired porcelains of Kirby Kallas Lewis from
January 7-31. The gallery hours are 10:30-6 Monday through Saturday, and from 12 to 5 on
Sundays.
An eclectic collection of photographs, draw'"9S, posters and crafts created by latin Amerl-
can Women Artists , and gathered by art historian
and artist Betty Ladrake of Southern Oregon Slate
College will be on display in Gallery 4 from January 15 to February 13.
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48 Hours
by Eric Brinker
For more information contact The Evergreen State College Recreation Center.
The TESC ski team has at last been
allocated money for league fees and some
of the race fees . This is the second season
for the team, which did very well last
year. The team is made up of both cross
country and downhi II skiers. Interested
students should contact Corey Meador at
the CRC (ext. 6530) as there are still openings on the team roster.
Stiff Little Fingers
that helps to relieve it. It is this tension
combined with the film 's breakneck pace
and the characters' inherent aggravation
of not being able to find the killer that
make this fi lm so completely engaging
by David Caff
Stiff Litt le Fingers \\,IS formed in the
. 'lI.mmer of 1977, by four angry youllg resiMovies about police usually don't hold
Before, during and after Christmas,
i" nts of Belfast The band. whi ch r ;much interest for me, that is unless there's
ecord buyers are plagued by hundwds of
luded lake Burns, guitar dnd VU ( ,II ,
some mystery involved. L like to be able
lew releases from the corporate record
1f'I1fV Cluney, guitar and voca b . \1,
to solve the crime right along with the
ompanies. Each consumer must wade
·,1cMordie, bass; and Brian Faloon . drums,
detective, so when the killer is presented
'hrough the needless records, the greatest
wely knew how to play thE'ir ins:,lIrnents
48 Hours has no great message to tell
within the first ten minutes of a film I
.vhen they relfwied thei r first alburn on
lits and live records, the first albums of
the world, but it is a very good character
rapidly lose interest. I was very glad to
:roups, and those by bands and individhe then unknown Rough Trad .. label in
study within an action-comedy framefind an exception to this personal bias in
,als that are not easily recognized . Stiff,
;1{79, en titl ed Inflammahle Material . After
work. Director Hill has created an inter48 Hours, the cop action-comedy starring
Little Fingers have just released an album
(hat album, Jim Reilly touk over from
esting and funny film that runs on pure
I~rian Faloull on drums. ,md 'itayf'd for th e
Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Director
that fits into this last category. It is enadrenalin . The film is now playing at the
Walter Hill has put together a film that is ~~~~~~~~_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...~t~it~led~::,N~o~w~T~h:.;e~n~._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _... 'lext three albums.
fast-paced, funny and highly entertaining.
Stiff Little FingE'rS, part of the origin,"
;Junk mOVE'ment , has been almost total.y
The chemistry between veteran actor
Il;nored in the United ~tdte, . whi le bands
Nolte (North Dallas Forty, The Deep) and
"kE' The Clash and The Jam ! , 1Vt' rE'ce ived
Saturday Night Live star Eddie Murphy in
:JOth criti ca l and public acd 1m. Both The
his film debut, is what makes this film
i 'lash and The Jam are well ,. Ilown for
work. Nolte plays Jack Cates, a gruff,
their soc ial and political CO" 1mE'ntanes,
hard-<liinking, chain-smoking pblice detechut they arE' also often phy"r all y removed
tive right out of the Hammet-Chandler
lrom these commentanh. Members of
mold. Indeed, Cates seems to be a distant
Stiff Little Fingers, along with co-songcous in of Sam Spade. Besides the fact
writer and manager Cordon Ogilvie have
that he works in San Francisco and his
"xrerienced constant tE'rrori SIll, Violence,
hard-boiled attitude and demeanor are
md war all their live, in North ern Ireland .
Spade's all the way, Nolte fits author
"'any of their songs on their four U.S
Dashiel Hammel's physical description of
.llbums: Inflammable Material. Nobody 's
Sam Spade far better than Humphrey
Hero, HANX' and Go For It rdlcct thE'
Bogart ever did. Cates pushes his way
,mger that they feel about thE' pla ces and
through the world with a gun in his holster
, ituations that thE'Y lived through in
and a hip flash in his pocket, always
Northern Ireland .
teetering on the edge of terminal burnout.
Stiff Little Fingers, though not well
known
in America, is we ll known in
Bass player, Sklppe Elyut, and a relallvely unknown vlbe player (who said his name was Will
Britain, Ireland, and Europe. They are
Humphries) treded some "sound Ideas" Friday night at The Corner, the student-run dell In A-dorm here
Eddie Murphy plays Reggie Hammond,
on campus. Other members of the group (which after some dellberallon decided to call themselves "the
currently on the financially troubled
convict that Cates gets out of pen so he
Ad Hoc Jazz Combo") Included singer carol Harding and plano player, Charles Henry.
Chrysalis Records . Their new album. Now
can help Cates locate one of his ex-gang
The sounds coming Irom The Comer Friday eve were Fine-and enthusiastically taken in by the
audience pecking the room .
Then .
has been released as an import,
members that's been blowing people away
The music was the culmination of the day's events on campus honoring the memory of Dr. Martin
hopefully
will be released domesand
in an effort to get some stashed bank
Luther King and a heartfelt appreciation of his contributions. Eartler In the day there was a luncheon
tically. The name of this LP is a good
with a film of Dr. King as well as speakers Stone Thomas (Director of Educational Services) Albert
loot. Hammond is a good contrast to
Smalts (Admissions Counselor), and poet Devlna Wright. Smalls made the clOSing remarks on the
choice. The cover shows members of the
Cates, not only can he one-up Cates' inImportance of making the necessary analysis to parpetuale "the dream of Martin Luther King."
band in various profiles on a black backsults but he seems to understand situaThe music and the events earlier In the day were sponsored by members of The Black Student Union,
Ulamaa, who also provided (with contributions by other unaffiliated students) the food for both events.
ground with green lettering and skulls (in
tions better, or at least what he can get
Michelle Boucree of Ujamaa and musical hostess for the evening said: "We have chosen jazz as a
green) representing evolution . The band,
away with in a given situation better.
fitting bridge In building understanding for our culture, and to underscore Martin Luther King's philosas the cover indi cates, has also evolved
Take for instance the scene in the cowboy
ophy; the compoSition of our evening's combo Is Interracial."
The mellow exchange generated by the mUSic, the good edibles and, above atl, the legacy of brotherquite considerably.
bar (one of the funniest of the film) where
hood of Martin Luther King prompted Boucree to add: "So many people were united In donating their
he knows he can push things as far as he
time and energies. I leel very good about the evening and it gives me new Inspiration to work hard on
Stiff Little Fingers began as an angry,
the events connect.~ with Black History Month here this February."
by Gary Oberbtlllg
wants to because they all think he's a
raw, political band on the verge of getting
cop. Yet when he has the chance to
out of control. After the recent introducescape from Cates, he doesn't. This is
tion of Dolphin Taylor on drums, the
because he knows Cates is the kind of guy
band began to show improvement
who's going to catch up with him no
musically. They cou ld probably be characmatter what he has to go through arid
terized now as pop, well, political pop.
Cates has as much as told him that.
They are making better use of their lead
guitar and their singing is actually singing
on
this album. They used to express their
The tension between Cates and Hamanger
through distorted guitars and
mond is established from the moment
'screaming
(or close to it) vocals . They are
.... they meet. Cates seems to feed on tension
.now
minimizing
the distortion, adding
to keep himself going; his life is full of it.
backup
vocals,
and
are writing better
There is tension in Cates' relationship with
is
a
great
album'
music.
This
his girlfriend, tension between Cates and
Pays Tribute To Martin Luther King
Bicyclists Get Political
by Todd Litman
Last year t he Washington State bicy·
cl"ts' or~ani l a t lOn s won .1 ma jor legi slative victory . thp right to n" ~ ride on a
biker)cth along, ide a road I. IJny pE'Ople
who are not acquainted w,t ! the issue,
in c luding some bicyclists. n' ght be surprised that Wf' would go thi llugh so much
trouble to not use a faci lit y 'lUilt just for
us . Some people see bi cyclt· paths as "the
answer to the bicycle problem" It's confus ing and sad to those of 'us who are
working to make bicycling a legitimate
f arm 0 f t r ansportat,'on that n11'III'ons of
dollars has been wasted on bad, unused,
and dangerous bikepaths.
A classic example of this problem is the
path alongside Divi sion St. from the
Handy Pantry to Conger St. It has two-way
traffic yet it's too narrow for two bikes to
safely pass ; it is heavily used, yet it has
both bicycle and pedestrian traffic ; it is
unlit yet there are several places that it
narrows ; it is ruttted or contains a rimdenting grate; the concrete barriers are a
hazard themselves ; and it floods. Even
worse than that, this "bikepath" requires
all northbound bicyclists to do the
dumbest thing that a bicyclist can do:
ride again st traff ic. Riding against traffic
is the single greatest cause of bicycle/
vehicle accidE'nts . Bicyclists should never
ride.against tratfic and a " bikepath" which
requir.es ridin g against traffic shows an
incredu lous misunderstanding of how
bicycles are supposed to behave on roads
on the part of the designers .
The real reason that the Division St.
bikepalh is built the way it is is because
it isn't rea lly a bikepath at all. The city
would have needed to build a sidewalk
tliere but by mutating the design and
ca lling it a Bicycle/ Pedestrian path they
qual i tied for bicycle faci lity funds . It was
a sad day for bicyclists. Such paths are
fine for chi ldren going to elementary
school, as long as they keep to pedestrian
speeds but faster riders have a touch
choice, either ride on a rotten path or an
all-too-narrow-Iane. Sometimes I do both.
It's a bad choice, but at least we have
the choice.
Incidentally, the legislation which
repealed the bikepath law also gives us
access to limited access highways outside
of urban areas. For a map of where you
may and may not ride, write to the Wash.
Dept. of Transportation or drop by the
TESC Bikeshop.
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Democracy
nued from page 5
Its a simple statement of values, but it
does translate ,'tself I'nto a ser,'es of reforms, proposals, and into politics,"
Shearer explained.
Central to the idea of economic
democracy is that there is no single solution . Shearer proposes non-military investments into the economy, but not the
government buying and owning everything. He said there are more flexible
. He proposes democratizing the
.1=~'>r~1 Reserve Bank which is a "public
banking system run by private bankers"
and that it is not " responsive to the
.,,"""'UI" who need credit." He pointed out
by having broader interests served
the Fed, the power that comes with
its control could be used as a way of prong policies which would be in the
better interests of the country as a whole.
policies might include promoting
loans to housing, co-ops, and small busior withholding loans for corporate
".,.,'rap'r< and acquisitions.
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European countries have what's called
."credit allocation." In this country it
would be a big deal, it's the kind of
reform that falls short of total public
ownership, but could reduce interest rates
and put credit into what I call productive
community-oriented sectors." He also proposes legally requiring corporations to
have workers and strongly affected communities represented on boards of directors. This is done in West Germany and
Sweden where companies don't shut
down "with one week or a day's notice
and throw people out of work."
Shearer pointed out the great power of
local planning boards and advocated
people trying to turn them into bodies
which would look at uses of land, be
responsive to neighborhood groups, and
the needs of regions . These boards could
also bargain with developers, obtaining
such things as parks, daycare centers, hiring of women, and the training of local
unemployed workers.
Economic democracy, claimed Shearer,
would promote a more diverse society
where, by having some control locally,
people could maintain and celebrate local
culture and revive historical traditions. He
sees economic democracy as a vision
which is the best of the American tradition .
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his boss and his co-workers, and of course
the tension of having to find the killer in
48 hours. All this tension would be too
much to take were it not for the humor
If you're tired of The Clash, but still
IIlterested in bands that rail against
violence, politics, and war, try listening to
Stiff Little Fi ngers' Now Then
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