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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 13, Issue 7 (November 8, 1984)
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Vancouver Campus-An Intimate Place
Charlie Campbell
Nearly a hundred years ago Army
officers snapped each other salutes
on the broad veranda of a two-story
Victorian house where Evergreen
Students now seminar on alternative
assumptions about human nature. In .
the small, high-ceilinged rooms
upstairs, where sergeants once
. stretched their bedcovers as taut as
bow strings, secretaries now collate
syllabuses. The "house" is The
Evergreen State College's Vancouver
campus, one in a row of Victorian
houses built in 1895 as barracks for
officers at old Fort Vancouver .
Vancouver is within Southwest
Washington, the area that Evergreen
was established to serve, but is over
two hours by car from Evergreen's
Olympia campus. Younger students
could move to Olympia, but the
distance decreased access to education for older students with families
and jobs they could not leave and the
time constraints those things involve.
Evergreen- Vancouver was established to serve adult students without
the time to commute or the inclination to change cities. Third year
HIGH TEA
Bored with mysterious ways of the West,
we buy our fortune cookies by the case,
spec ial-ordered without those platitudes.
With no singsong English gabbl ings coming
on ticker-tape to interrupt 'o ur tea ,
the dainties seem not to come from Utah.
Sti ll , I oflen put obscene suggestions
into cookies, or astoni shing pleas
from prisoners in Hong Kong cooky-plant,
or the basements of Chinese restaurants
in places like Hamburg and Istanbul.
standing is required before enrolling
at Evergreen-Vancouver. The
average student age is forty, and
most students have jobs and many
have families.
When Evergreen-Vancouver
opened in 1976 people in the area
were skeptical. Virginia Darney,
part-time faculty . and Director of
Evergreen-Vancouver, said, "It's
ironic that when we first went there
in 1976 people said, 'Well, coordinated study and interdisciplinary
study works very well in Olympia
with younger students, but I just
don't think it will work with adults.'
But, of course, it works. It's perfect.
It's the way all adult learning should
happen."
Karin DeDona, a graduate of
1983, was working as an X-ray scanner while attending EvergreenVancouver. She completed her first
two years of college, fifteen years
before, at Stanford. When asked if
her two years studying at Vancouver
and working were worth, it she said,
"Yeah! No question about that."
She now attends Lewis and Clark
Law School.
Connie Lester, a graduate of
1982, owned a boat and dock
building business, was married and
with three children when she attended Evergreen-Vancouver. Was it
worth it? "No question about it,"
said Lester. She is now Assistant to
the Vice President of the Northwest
Bank Chain 7
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Vancouver area students attend
Evergreen because it is nearby, but
that is not the only reasori. They
could easily go to school in Oregon.
Washington has reciprocity with
Oregon, and Portland State University is minutes across the bridge.
Nick Platt, a 1983 graduate, attended several schools before EvergreenVancouver and was looking for a
greater challenge . "If you know
there"s going to be three A's in a
class; regardless, you aim for the
third A," said Platt, "I was
notorious for being the 'third A, but
at Evergreen it was a matter of pressing myself to be the best I could
be .... I'm a lot harder on myself
than any instructor I've ever had."
Eight faculty teach at Vancouver
this fall: three live in Vancouver and
. are ' full-time, three adjuncts are
hired each quarter, and two are
faculty at the Olympia campus who
have volunteered to teach a quarter
at Vancouver and are compensated
for commuting costs .
Barbara Coo ley, Phil Harding,
Art Mulka, and Will Humphreys are
among the many instructors at the
Olympia,campus who have taught at
Vancouver.
'
.The programs now offered are
Management and the Public Interest, Health and Human Studies,
and Community Studies. The house
cannot hold two seminars at the
same time and half the seminars
meet at Clark College.
The Southwest Washington Joint
Center for Education coordinates
the efforts of Evergreen-Vancouver,
Clark College, and a branch of
Washington State University in the
Vancouver area. An outstanding example of intercollegiate cooperation
is the new Evergreen-Vancouver
building. It is designed by Evergreen
but will be built by Clark College on
Clark College property. EvergreenVancouver and Clark will share the
space. The new building will hold
two hundred and twenty five persons
and will be handicap accessible. The
most loved features of the house
have been designed into the new
building , i':lcluding a student kitchen, but th~ house will still be missed. Darney said, "The house is an
intimate place. It's inefficient. It's
warm. It's a nice place to be. We are
giving up something. "
NO! really inscrutable, she sometimes
chokes on food, but that's never an answer.
They're glances and ball-point calligraphy.
Clair Stairrett
The Newspaper of The
Evergreen Stale COII~rIel
I AM REQUIRED
DISCERNER OF THE BLIND
I am required to advise you
skeleton keys
you are within the limits
curiously malpracticed
of a military reservation.
in lead coffin
Public law and army regulation
locks
preclude demonstrations
a heathen treasure·
from occuring on the installation.
guarded by a foetal firedrake
mocks
Anonymous officer--Fort Lewis peace rally
the discerner of
leaves that die
in birtrh of worms
(trees are noose-ridden as pumpkins turn)
MAD TANKA .,
A ride through the woods,
a mead ow of swaying eyes,
cas tles on their hill s,
a ki ss a t fifteen hands high,
leaning, lo ng, and -- one horse farts.
C lair Stairrell
a tautological rise and fall
of mounds of earth
the instincti've scoto'pia
from accumulated, s,<:>noWS gleaned
mocks
locks
Human Rights
Investment Policy
The Danube is for lovers:
Our hosts keep a genial inn
with sunny stucco walls,
between tiered hills of grapes
and a shaded riverbank.
Zithers and violins duel tremolos
over courtyard walls, vibrating
our sympathetic strings .
The great Abbey of Melk rises,
just up-river.
by Roger Dickey
A new investment policy whi'ch
"affirms that human rights shall be
a factor in determining the acceptability of an investment" will be
considered by the Evergreen Board
of Trustees in their November 14
meeting. At eleven am the Board will
discuss the proposal with the sub-
The moon is a ten-schilling piece:
I ts lunar caustic corrodes
geraniums to fragile ash
and turns stucco wash as grey
as the granite house beneath.
Under a sky of yellow stars,
the courtyard floor is a quarry
with stone stairs reversing ~alf- h ourly.
I hear shuffling. Mauthausen nmp is
just up-river.
committee of the Evergreen Council which prepared the draft. The investment statement is on the aggenda of the afternoon meeting of the
Board which means there should be
an opportunity for public comments. The meeting will be in the
Board Room on the third floor of
the Library.
Direct Involvementincludes making loans or grants to a government or its
agents or agencies, .md/Qr conducting business within th~ national borders
or free trade zones of a nation which violates human Tights.
Clair Stairrett
the discerner of
Prudent Divestiture is the sale of securities, certificates or other obligations,
or the withdrawafof deposits, based on a determination that the investments
documented therein do not meet the standards that are acceptable to the
Board of Trustees, including those standards described herein as general
principles.
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Our apologies to Ramirez,
Uncle Lester Trained His Tri Ek Knee--
whose poem FIRST STRIKE appeared
"whatever your enlarged and numerous senses
last week withom a name.
outside CP J--Cab 306.
Patrick Hill Revealed
EAC 174-141
INVESTMENTS
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EAC 174-141-020
GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES
(New Section)
DEFINITIONS
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Violations of Human Rights include, but are not limited to constitutional
or legislated discrirriination based on race, sex, creed, color or national origin.
agonies carved
can percieve" -- in the POETRY envelope
NOVEMBER 8,1984
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T.E.S. C. - Vancouver Ca,,!pus
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EAC 174.141-020 GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES
It is the policy of The Evergreen State College to participate, as investor
or as shareholder, only in companies or financial institutions which do not
conduct business in / with, or maintain direct involvement with nations which,
by their laws, violate human rights. By asserting this principle, the Board
of Trustees affirms that human rights shall be a factor in determining the
acceptability of an investment . The Evergreen State College shall not invest
in companies or financial institutions involved in the commerce, finance
or industry of nations which, by their laws, violate human rights.
The Board of Trustees holds responsibility for making decisions as investor, and shall review investments and potential investments of the college for compliance with this policy. On a semi-annual basis, the Vice President for Business, in consultation with the Affirmative Action Committee,
shall solicit from companies and financial institutions in which the college
has investments, or may make investments, information concerning current
business and investment polices and transactions which may involve violations of human rights. This information shall be included in the quarterly
investment report, in order to inform the investment decisions of the Board
of Trustees . Prudent divestiture shall be considered the appropriate action
by the 'Board of Trustees, pursuant to the general principles and procedures
of this policy .
THE EVERGREEN
ST ATE COLLEGE
Olympia. WA 98505
Provost, Patrick Hilt
Presidents Come
to Campus
by Reiger Dickey
The campus visits of the three
finalists follow hard on the heels of
the announcement of their names.
All three remaining candidates will
visit Evergreen before the end of
next ·week.
Joseph Olander will be here this
Thursday and Friday, November 8
and 9. William Slott is due next
Monday and Tuesday, November 12
and 13. The final candidate, Carol
Guardo, will visit that Thursdat and
Friday, November 15 and 16.
Vitas and background information on all three candidates are
available at various locations around
campus. A list o~ those locations appears on page 3 of this paper . Also
on page three arc profiles of the candidates and a schedule of the various
activities that will occur during their
visits.
By the end of December one of
these people will probably be the
President of Evergreen. The next
week will be the campus community's opportunity to examine ,<and
comment on them . The Presidential
Search Committee requests comments from all community
members .
by Nancy Boulton
While his articles on educalional
reform bring to mind the image of
a dynamic, piercing intellect and
possibly intimidating personality,
Patrick Hill, Evergreen's Provost, is
surprisingly soft-spoken and mild.
People who work closely with Hill
see him as ext remely sensitive to
those around him. According to his
secretary, Kris Liburdy, he accomplishes his work smooth ly and
without hard feelings because he
tries always to go through normal
channels and to li sten to the opinions
of others.
He explains his own administrative style as "consultative
almost by nature'" and his style of
leadership as communal. He altempts to draw ideas from all concerned parties, then to shape these
thoughts in\o a workable whole.
Hill is a frequently published
author alld sought-after speaker on
mallers concerning post-secon dary
- educat ional reform. He believes that
"to have an effective education
system at any level you must ha ve
learning communities in which people are subject to the stimulation of
diverse perspectives, in which th ey
are immersed in an environment
which is a microcosm of the world
which you're preparing people for."
It is this type of community environment that Hill thinks is an essential
element in helping students to
develop qualities of "open mindedness, tolerance of ambiguity
and self-activating cr iticalness."
The major irritant that facilitated
Hill's critical examination of education was seeing "the way in which
traditional higher education was
wasting human res04rces and
crushing self-esteem ... seeing how
many good people got wasted
fJecause of the inflexibility and insensitivity in that mode of organi zing
education. "
Hill Continued P.4
NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE?
NONPROFIT ORG ,
U.S. POSTAG E
PAID
OLYMPtA, WA
PERMtT NO.65
LETTERS
LETTERS
LETTERS
LETTERS
LETTERS
TERS
LETTERS
LETTERS
LETTERS'
LETTERS I
Catalog's
Saccarin
Aftertaste
Dear Editor, or To Whom it May
Conce rn (not always the same
person ),
I must protest. The '85/'86 course
catalog is a tasteless joke at best, and
a chi lling hint of what could be the
future s hould the worst occur.
The cove r is the first indication
hat we are in trouble. Where are the
beautiful , subtl e co lor s of '83 / '84?
The breathtaking panorama of
'82 / '83? The simple, yet effective,
design of '8 1/ '82' I thought that
'84/ '85 was the worst a cover could
be, but I am obviously mistaken.
The stark. glarin g colors, the
uninspiring scene, the high-tech
design with our little sales pitch leaping off the page to grab you by the
throat a nd dare you to disagree, all
of this inspires nothing save
con tempt.
When you begin to believe th a t
things couldn't be worse, you ope n
up this catalog and discover just how
bad marketing an education ca n get.
f'or example, on page 4, the huge
type of the summary of Evergreen
educat ion so that the poor dears who
are of an undecided frame of mind
need not bother reading th e fine
print beside it , all of which contradicts the statement on the
[Jrevious page of the reader
"needling] to spend time on us as
you read about Evergreen's' Education with a Difference.' " Who
needs to spend time when the
'Ed ucation with a Difference' is
s ummed up so nicely in two
sentences? I never thought I'd see
the day that Evergreen would be
sum'm ed up in a slogan!
On to the next horror,the cute lit tle comments, excerpts and sel fcongratulatory statements which lit ter the tops of the first nineteen
pages, plus student comments on
pages 27 and 93. Good grief! Have
yo u no pride? I've heard of tooting
o ne' s own horn, but this is
ridiculous f The sources of
Evergreen' s academ ic references are
the New York Times, U.S. News and
Wurld Report, and Time magazine.
.1 would be far more impressed were
the evaluations written by Ernest
Boyer, President of the Carnegie
Commission on the Advancement of
Teaching, the national academic ac. creditation team, or of a director of
the Woodrow Wilson Fellows Program, evaluators far more concern- .
ed with the academics being taught
than with the novel manner of
teaching academics. Perhaps I am
wrong, but I feel that the statements
in the catalog stress the attention
Evergreen has attracted and our unconventional approach to learning at
the expense of Evergreen's truely
magnificent achievement, being an
undergraduate college which helps to
create Renaissance men and women,
people whose diversity, integration
and comprehension of academic
subjects makes them more than just
another bunch of 'college grads.'
Any college ca n teach, precious few
actively participate in creation.
Evergreen is one of t hose few.
Now, another crime, the nature of
those few marginal notes. These
co mments are authorless, pseudoauthoritative and ste ril e. Th e great
God Academia is rendering unto us
hi s glorious evaluation, halleluiah
and amen. Consider the quote by
Alexis de Toqueville on page 37 of
the '81 / '82 catalog, 'America is a
land of wonders, in which everything
is in constant motion and every
change seems an improvement.' (My
emphasi.~.) Now, replace the word
America with Evergreen. 'Change'
and 'motion' are not synonyms of
'improvement.' While you're at it,
rev iew the other statements in the
'81/'82 catalog. There are authors,
there is author-ity and they jump off
the page and dance about your
mind, teasing you into the Evergreen
tradit ion of exercising your intellect
in interesting ways. How many colleges do you know of where it is an
educational experience merely to
thumb through the course catalog?
I n this· new catalog, however, it's
simply business, getting the most
enrollment for the least amount of
effort.
All in all, my impression is that
this catalog was dreamed up by the
same computer which declared 'Tab'
to be the perfect name for a diet son
drink. There is a saccharin aftertaste
when you look at t his catalog and
though a little bit of this carrinogen
may not hurt you, constant
reproduction of this high-tech, hardsell publication may indeed produce
a sma ll cancerous cell in the
Evergreen community, spreadin!!
slowly and insidiously throughout
the academic body , until we become
a terminal patient. It is not merely
the structure, but also the creative
soul of our college which makes it
the finest undergraduate education
available. We must beware of losing
that soul for the sake of enrollment,
or we may find that despite our
semin;m and interdisciplinary study
and low faculty-student ratio and
state-of-the-art equipment, we are
nothing- more than another
undergraduate grist mill. Let us not
be ignorant of the directions our college is going, nor let us allow ignorance to lull us into thinking that
all change is for the better.
Francesca Weiser
357-9478
Less
Humorous
This Time
sion. This, of course, is another one
of those comments that you might
have to think about before you
understand its implieations--(but) I
hear that anger doesn't improve the
brain's intellectual capacity. Furthermore, if you want some of what
I was on when I wrote that article,
and this one too, you should try
opening. your sense up and looking
around--that's all I had to
do. There's a lot of talk about the
"Greeners" and it isn't coming from
the "Greeners" themselves. You
might realize that we're "all" in a
similar world--especially here on
Evergreen's campus.
(Do you realize) you've given me
reason to suspect that you and your
housemates are the types of
"Green" people I'm referring to? If
you are, maybe you can take the
time to re-read the article, and live
in the possibility of what I said, instead of your concept of it.
asked to define the organizatIOn .
Sinclair said the group has chosen to
examine Evergreen's banning investments in South Africa "because
we see foreign policy as something
real and a part of our daily life. It's
just hard to see its workings. Now
TESC's investment policy is bringing the question back home . Does
the Evergreen community really
want to make a profit off of investments in a society which denies
the inajority of its people human
rights? There are cleaner ways to get
a return. That's dirty money."
Last year the SFHFP organized a
succes~ul rally after the invaSion of
Grenada and sponsored a major
teach-in about U.S. involvement in
Central America. Interested
students, faculty and staff are invited to attend weekly meetings
every Wednesday at noon, Lib.
2220. For more information call
Terry Lee Barksdale at 754-4608.
Yours in Sympathetic Incredulit y,
Paul Heese
Dear Mr. Gratitude and housemates:
I'm surprised at how appreciative
your letter is, but I think that you've
missed the entire point .
To begin with, I wasn't aware that
my use of the wordmaidellwas so inexact. There are many girls on campus, and' Webster's first definition of
a maiden is, "a girl." And come on,
let's face it, it wasn't meant to be
taken literally in the first place. If
you want to stay in your shallow
world of dictionary definitions, then
go ahead, but don't blame me for
you inability to get out--while you're
in there, why don't you look up the
wordanalogy ....
The intention of that passage
where maiden was used was to show
how the "Greener" mentality can
overlook the awareness that many
other worthy people live in the world
besides those who have long hair,
beards, and colorful organic attire.
You don't have to look like a
"Greener" to reach any of the
heights in the social movements,
diets, or body consciousnesses ....
Some of us "Greeners" walk
around like they're on ground that
none of "us" can tread .... This is the
type of prejudice that I disparage in
my article. I'll have vou additionally know that my analogy of Cheryl
Tiegs and macaroni and cheese was
only an effort to further expound
upon the fact that the "Greener"
has a shell around them as hard as
any clique, and that the only difference between Cheryl Tiegs and
the "Greener" is that she's on televi-
Evergreen Dying To
Get
Better
& South
Africa
The Students for a Humane
Foreign Policy will be sponsoring a
presentation by TESC faculty Lynn
DeDanaan (formerly Patterson) exploring the nature of the college's investment in South Africa . DeDanaan will give a brief overview of the
political situation in South Africa
and inform students about the status
of a policy proposal upcoming
before the Board of Trustees. The
event promises to be exciting. It
takes place Tuesday, November 13,
at noon in CAB 110.
This meeting will be the first in a
series of informational events concerning Evergreen and South Africa.
The SFHFP is an informal student
organization with an activist orientation t hat has been working on
foreign policy issues for the last two
academic years. This year the
SFHFP has decided to focu s on
Evergreen's financial involvement
via banking investments in South
Africa .
SFHFP member Sean Sinclair was
I-;==========;ICPJ Staff 'of the Week
Cooper Point Journal
Editor: Roger Dickey
Managing Editor: Anne Bockman
Photo Editor: Anne Culbertson
Associate Editor: Liz Nequette
Poetry Editor: Donald Mills
Enviornmental Editor: Robert Healy
Advisor: Mary Ellen McKain
Writers: Charlie Campbell. Kurt BatdorLCath Johnson
Business Manager: Kirsten Lowe
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Advertising Manager: Theresa Conner
Photographers: Chris Corrie, Kirty Erickson, Steve Schaefe r
Graphic Artists: B.C. Shelby, C harlie Campbell
Production Crew:
Dave Vailancourt, Charlie Campbell
Dear Folks,
As a performer in Moonchildren
I feel that it is crucial to our survivai
to protest any violence, such as war.
In Ihe play, we protest the Vietnam
War where 55,000 young Americans
died. We must stop the war from
erupting in Central Amerika. We are
on the crux of a New Age of Peace
& Harmony. We must trust in each
other--in the fact that We are One
People; that we believe and live in
Freedom, Justice for All. We must
believe that we can change the
world.
"It's dying to get better,"
,
Dene
Teaching
.Opportunities
•
In
Japan
SCHEDULE ,FOR ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS
WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
by Charlie Campbell
William R. Stott, Jr.'s references
from Georgetown University call
him a tireless administrator and a
sterling instructor. At Georgetown,
Stott has been a member of the
English Department since 1977,
Dean of Students from 1977 to 1980,
and Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs since 1980. At Fordham
University Stott was a member of the
English Department from 1964 to
1977 and Assi~tant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1973
to 1977. Stott is an authority on
Shakespeare, a published poet, a
member of the Potomac Valley
Senior Track Club, and a bird watcher with discoveries of species to his
credit. Apparently he lives his conviction of excellence in diversity.
I n a written response as a candidate, Stott discussed his holistic
philosophy of education, which includes interdisciplinary study. At
The Frost English Center in Aomori,
Japan, is currently seeking energetic
individuals to fill several positions at
their English school in Japan. No
teaching experience is necessary, but
applicants for current positions must
have their B.A. or B.s. degrees by
. March IS, 1985. Maya Talisman,
Personnel Representative for the
Frost English Centers, says "We
also encourage next June's graduates
and current junior to· apply now for
next year's openings."
Contact Career Planning and Placement, Ll214 ' for details . The application deadline for these positions
is November ·IOth.
Roger DiCkey--Class Clown, Editor
THE COOPER POINT, JOURNAL
NOVEMBER 8,1984
Georgetown, Stott helped form
Living-Learning, an interdisciplinary
program, and a values program
which had interdisciplinary aspects.
Stqtt also teaches in a liberal studies
interdisciplinary program.
Stott says "Specialization is sure. Iy impoverished, for it ignores the
richness of context." For Stott,
specialization is equally restrictive in
the larger arena of mind, body, and
spirit. An education that neglects
any of those areas loses conte~t.
Stott might deem Evergreen neglectful of the body. Francis J. Ambrosio, a member of Georgetown's
philsophy department, credits Stott
with using Georgetown's national
championship men's basketball team
to serve educational goals.
Ambrosio and another reference
call Stott the "finest teacher" they
have ever known . Every reference
notes his vitality.
Stott has been significantly involv-
ed ' in forming such wort hy programs as the admission of exoffenders, a two-year college within
the New York prison system, and
Georgetown's Upward Bound, a
freshman English course for socially and academically disadvantaged
students.
Timothy S.
Healy , President of Georgetown,
says Stott "understand inside and
out the budgeting of a small college." Healy also assures us that
Stott knows the work of an admissions office and is a "stalwart fun·
draiser" who helped the school to
raise over twelve million dollars.
Stott attended high school in New
York, graduated from Georgetown
with a B.S.S . in English Literature
and Philosophy in 1957; he earned
his M.A. in English Literature and
Philosophy at Columbia University
in 1963. He will be on campus
November 12-13.
Joseph · D. Olander
by Roger Dickey
Joseph D. Olander will be the first
of the three presidential finalists to
visit Evergreen. 'He will be on campus Thursday, November 8, and Friday, November 9. His complete
schedule is provided elsewhere in this
paper.
Olander has both a B.A. and ari
M.A. in English from the University of Maryland and Rollins Colrege,
respectively. He also earned a
Ph.D. in Political Science at Indiana
University. He lists his languages as
Chinese, German, Japanese and
Spanish. He has lived in Japan for
three years and the Artic Circle for
one and has travelled widely .
His employment record is impressive. He has been Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Professor
of English at the University of Texas
.at EI Paso for the last five years.He
was Executive Vice President and
Professor of Political Science at
Florida International University for
two years before that. A two-year
term as the Special Assistant for
Higher Education to Florida's Commissioner of Edacation separated
those last two years at Florida International University from four
prevfous ones, two as Chairman of
the Political Science Department and
two as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sc;ences. Before
that, he was an Assistant Professor
of Poiitics and Public Affairs at the
University of Miami for two years,
and an instructor in the Rollins College Graduate Program in Education
for one.
The letter placing his name in
nomination refers to him in glowing
terms, calling him once a "Miracle
man." His list of publications, many
in the field of science fiction, runs
several pages, although he served as
editor rather than author on most of
the books.
His seven-page "letter-essay" in
response to the search committee's
request for supplemental informatiolT, sounds, however, a discord"nt
note. Olander . is a Professor of
.English, and yet his writing to a
committee considering him for the
presidency of a college contains
questionable usages, incorrect
usages, and just . plain sloppy
English.
"I have reflected sincerely" is a
funny phrase, but were it the only
jarring note in the letter, it could
probably,pass. The root words of
sincere literally mean "without
wax," ana sincere refers to there being no difference between the appearance and the reality, no deceit.
Since reflection, i.e. thinking, is an
internal proeess,it's hard to see how
sincerefv applies. But this is prelty
picky, English-major stuff. Sincere
reflection occurs in the . second
sentence of the letter. It's downhill
from there. On the second page
Olander says that certain experiences
"have enabled me to be able," a
phrase replete with redimdancy.
From page to page the letter features
such innovative turns of phrase as
"ability ... is a history" and "both
faculty, staff and students."
The
linguistic
acrobatics
culminate in the delightful , if
somewhat bewildering declaration
by Olander that "I am attempted
]sicJ to say it may be easier to get an
effective Pope t han it is to get an effective college president."
The reader is forced to assume
that either this Professor of English
does not understand the language, or
he doesn't take The Evergreen State
College seriously enough to proofread the essay he submitted in order
to become its president.
Once rhese suspicions are raised,
the entire leiter seems sort of sloppy, loosely reasoned, perhaps a bit
arrogant. Olander reels off line after
line of what "others would ~ay"
were his, Olander's, major accomplishments and casually
dismisses them. The philosophy of
"wonder" and "joy" which
Olander hopes to bring to Evergreen
education begins to sound
suspiciously like someone who
grabbed a copy of the Evergreen
catalog and started prattling back
what he thinks this audience is
buying.
In short, after a while, the reader
starts to wonder why Olander's colleagues unanimously "are extremely support [sic] of my efforts. " Even
the happy face drawn in the '0' of
his signature seems frivolous.
Perhaps his secretary sent out the
first draft instead of the corrected
versio)1 of his letter. Perhaps he was
just having an off day . Perhaps he
will be the best president this college
ever had. He's on campus today and
tommorrow . Find out.
Carol J. Guardo
by C harlie Campbell
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and faculty of The Evergreen State College . Views expressed are not
necessarily those of the college or the Journal's staff. Advertising
material conta ined herein does not imply endorsement by the Journal. Offices are located in the CAB, Room 306. Phone: 866-6000,
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The Presidential Candidate Review
William R. Stott:
First Day
Carol J . Guardo has been the Provost and a Professor of Psychology
at the University of Hartford, in
West Hartford, Connecticut, since
1980. She is 45 and the only woman
finalist. She has published steadily
since 1968 in psycholgy and educational journals. In 1975 Harper and
Row published her only book, The
Adolescent as Individual: Issues and
Insights.
Guardo considers planned liberal
education reform a hallmark of her
administrative career. She is working to redesign Hartford by 1990 and
was instrumental in redesigning
Drake University to resolve tensions
between liberal and professional
ed ucation . Liberal education remained central to the university's
recast mission.
As Provost of Hartford she
NOVEMBER 8,1984
oversees six hundred and seventy
faculty and two hundred and thirty
administrative and clerical staff, as
they meet the needs of six thousand
one hundred undergraduate students
and two thousand one hundred
graduate students.
Before working at Hartford
Guardo was Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and Profe's sor of
Psychology at Drake Universtiy, in
Des Moines, Iowa, from 1976 to
1980. She was the chief administrative and academic officer of
the undergraduate school. She
superv ised one hundred and twentytwo faculty, sixteen staff, and a
budget of over two million. From
1973 to 1976 Guardo was Dean of
the College and Associate Professor
of Psychology at Utica Co llege of
Syracuse University.
Guardo gained her faculty experience as Associate Professor of
Psychology and Staff Psychologist
8: 00 - - 9: 3 0 a rn
Breakfast with Trustees
10:00-.·11:00
Dick Schwartz
11:00 -- 12 :00
Patrick Hill
12:00--1:00prn
AIICampusC:ommunity
Lecture--Lib. Lobby 2000
I :00-- 2 :00
Lunch break
2: 00· - 3: 00
Budget Unit Heads
Board Room--L31 12
4:00--5:00
Staff Reception,
Staff/ Faculty Lounge
5: 30- - 6: 3 0
Video Playback of Noon Lecture
Board Room--L3112
5: 30- - 7 : 00
Dinner
7 :00 - 8:30
Faculty Recept ion-- CAB 110
(Last names beginning with A-K)
8 :30 - - 10:00
Faculty Recept ion --CAB I 10
(Last names beginning with L-Zl
Second Day
7: 30arn
Breakfast / Community Leaders & Alumni
9: 00- - 10: 00
Karen WynliOop
10: 00 - - I I : 00
President'S Reporting U nit /
President's Office
11:00 --12:00
LUflchbreak
I I : 00 · - I 2: 00
Video Playback of Previous Day's
Noon Lecturc--Board Room L3112
I 2 : 00 - - 2 : 00 p m
St ud ent s--C A 13 104 .
2: 00 - - 5: 00
Candida te ', Choice'
Ii: 00 p m
Dinner with Trustees
Vita and other materials about each of the three finalists will he made
availabfe at the followinl( campus locutio ns:
Facilities
Affirmative Action Office
S & A Office
Communications Building
Library Rese rve Desk
Maintenance Shop
Steam Plant
Information Ce nt er
Security
wit'h Housing Managers in Dorms
Lab I program sec retaries
Lab II program secretar ies
'Olander has chosen to meet the Education Support Program from
2:00--3:00 in Library 3205, Library staff in the Library Conference
Room from 3:00--4:00, and from 4:00--5:00 he is meeting cla ss ified
staff in the Board Room, L3112; Stott's and Guardo's chosen
schedules are not yet known, but will be avai lable before their arrival.
@o(Y)estic @risis
at the University of Denver from
1968 to 1973, and as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Eastern
Michigan University from 1966 to
1968.
Guardo's list of memberships and
professional activities is staggering:
American Association for Higher
Education, American Men and
Women of Science, American
Psychological Association, Association for General and Liberal Studies
(president for 1980 and 198/), Phi
Beta Kappa, Society for Research in
C hild Development, Society of
Sigma Xi, Who's Who in America,
Association of American Colleges
. Board of Directors, Saint joseph
College Board of Trustees, New
England 'Association of Schools and
Co lleges,
and
a ll
these
simu ltaneously.
Guardo will be o~ campus
November 15 and 16.
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Round 'Em Up,
Move 'Em Out
Incredible: Green Scene
No Boredom in Oly
by Liz Nequette
Living In Olympia does have advantages over big-city living, even in the
entertainment field. And "Supplemental Events" here at Evergreen
are some of them . It is the job of
Chris Metz, Supplemental Events
Coordinator, to provide programs to
fill in spaces left by student groups
sponsoring events. Many times these
events present entertainment at
reasonable prices that would be very
expensive in Seattle . A case in paint
is last month's "Duo" concert.
Darol Anger and Mike Marshall's
appearance here at TESC was $6
general admission, $4.50 for
. students and seniors, while the same
show at t he Paramount in Seattle
was $15.
Metz coordinates sponsorship
wit h other student groups and with
community groups such as Cracker'S
Restaurant, which co-sponsored the
Anger and Marshall concert in order
to create a budget large enough to
attract quality entertainers. "Supplemental Events" is funded partially by S & A, but largely generates its
own revenue. Any excess revenue
!loUected throughout the year goes
toward hiring bands to play at the
Rowdy Ball and other special events.
Metz is committed to providing
"quality entertainment that says
something and makes you think."
Supporting "the arts here at
Evergreen, Metz feels, can be a
political as well as a cult ural statement. Unfortunately, attendance at
events has been somewhat inconsistent, so Metz is soliciting student
opinion as to what types of entertainment are desired, what night of
the week is preferable--is Friday better than Saturday night, for
-example--and what price range is
feasible for Evergreen students.
Please direct your comments to
Chris Metz in CAB 305, extension
6220.
For students who would like to
participate in events production or
attend events at no cost, Metz is
organizing a volunteer corps to set
up and assist in any way necessary.
Again, call Chris for more information . Chris' office hours are Monday 12-4, Wednesday and Thursday
11-2. I f you have an event you would
like to sponsor or co-sponsor, you
will need to contact Annette Standifur, Production Clearance Coordinator, in the same office. Her office hours arc Monday and Wednesday 10-2 and Friday 9-1.
Patrick Hill ProfileFromCont.
Page 1
Before coming to Evergreen one
and a half years ago, Hill founded
the Federated Learning Co m munities (FLC's) a t Stonybrook College.in New York. The FLC model
is currently being used by nine col leges . It is basicly a federation of six
individual courses . (three per
semes ter) from six disciplines which
spa n three traditional specialty
areas.
Though separa te , these courses
achieve a common focus through
shared language, reading mat eria l
and refere nce points. A program
sem inar provides a cen ter for discu~
sion and com munit y.
The sem inars arc taught by a
'Master Learner.' The Master
Learner is a distinguished teacher
with no priur exper tise in any area
covered by the FLC, who goes into
the FLC as a st udent, does all the
work and receives a grade. The
Master Learner uses both the ski lls
of a teacher and the experience as a
student to provide extensive feedback to studen ts and faculty
members.
The theme of the program and integration of the material are the
main focus of a monthly Core
Course. The students gradually take
the responsibility for teaching the
C ore Course as they, unlike the
f ac ulty, are in contact with each part
of the program. Because they are
unable to rely on a cefltral authority figure to supply expertise and
unambiguou s answers, students
became active rather than passive
learners.
Hill feels that certain aspects of
the FLC model would be appropriate for use at Evergreen. "It
might be a very good intermediary
notion between coordinated studies
and free-standing courses. Those
courses which are not a part of coordinated studies might receive a real
integrated shot in the arm from being federated."
Hill's philosophies were greatly influenced by the work of John
Dewey, an educational reformer in
the early part of this century. He was
inspired by Dewey's "commitment
to t he capacity of each individual tu
lea rn and to make a contribution to
so<.:iety. "
Dewey, according to Hill, had
'· the raith that any person can learn
and he creative and make i:Ontribu<
tions to the soc iety, can grow and
have a fruitful lire . If it 's not happening, you questi on everything
before you ' question th e individual.. .. That's the democratic
and progressive faith which really
animates everything Dewey wrote
and wh ich I loved."
In harmony with his ideas on
diversity and open-mindedness ill
education, Hill names the emergence
of the intercultural literacy program
as the most stimulating occurence
si nce his arrival at Evergreen , He
believes that higher education is, "as
a whole, too in sular, to Euro-centric,
and t hat is somewhat ridiculous,
given the nature of the world."
in conjunction with this program,
Hill and the deans are each becoming involved in a major retraining
task. and have been making presentations to each other and to the
faculty. Hill is studying Native
American pedagogy. He will be giving a commen tary on third-world
pedagogy on Indigenous Peoples
Day, November 12 .
Other recent projects that he has
been working on include an article
to appear in next month's issue of
Liberal Education entitled "A
Deweyan Perspective on Higher
Education," and he is also writing
about the building and nurturing of
academic communities for a Mina
Shaughnessy grant that he received
in 1983.
Hill sees his most important task
as Evergreen's provost to be that or
keeping the college. centered on its
educational mission as it grows. According to Hill, this means "keeping the same sense of small, face-toface community, where people know
each other and interact with each
other." It is his duty to make sure
that whatever changes must be made
are accomplished within the
Evergreen mode.
He is looking toward the development of Washington State as a
"Pacific Rim country" and he
welcomes the changes this will bring
to our educational outlook. he also
sees changes being forced by the
computer revolution, and by a nationwide interest in lifelong
education.
When hc is not working on serious
questions of changing educational
policies, Hill is an avid baseball fan.
he is active in a baseball " league"
in which members "draft" major
league players at the beginning of
each season and create hypot hetieal
teams. They compile statistics on
their teams over the baseball season
and from these determine the winne
ing teams. Hill 's hypothetical teams
are reported to have done quite well
last year, better than his real
favorites, the New York Mets. He
also enjoys I rish music (his parents
are Irish immigrants) and plays the
guitar.
The thing people close to Hill
mention most is his humor. Liburdy says it is his humor that keeps office morale high , even on the busiest
days. And he supposedly does a
great impression of Groucho Marx .
Can you see yourself riding on a
vanished culture, a culture that was
wagon train or sailing on a tall ship?
of necessity built on cooperation,
Are you looking for an outdoor
self-discipline, and the work ethic.
lifestyle?
As it take's cooperative effort and
It's not as strange as it sounds.
hard work to move the train each
The train, the ship, and the lifestyle
day, this new frame of reference is
are part of Vision Quest, a unique
extremely successful in working with
child care agency with programs in
these youngsters, according to B ob
Arizona, New Mexico, PennBurton, co-founder of VisionQuest.
sylvania., and California. Vjsion-, The wagpn train rapidly points a
Quest actively seeks hardworking
youthful offender in a new direCtion
young men and women who are inand replaces past habit,s values, and
terested in treating troubled youth,
reactions with more socially accepwho are seeking a rugged lifestyle,
table ones.
and who look for challenges.
But, if you're still wondering how
Since 1973, VisionQuest, a privte,
you can ride on a wagon or sail a
for-profit organization, has conship, then be sure to see one of
tracted with government units in
VisonQuest's representatives. They
various states to provide services to
will be at Eveergreen on December
over 2,000 youth who have had
5, 1984. AVisionQuest videotape is
troubles with the criminal justice or available for checkout at · Career
mental health system.
.
Planning and Placement, x6193.
The wagon train, perhaps the best
VisionQuest can also be reached
known of VisionQuest's programs,
by· contacting Ann Marks, Visionis a visual revival of America's Quest, 507 First Street, Woodland,
pioneer past. The train recreates a CA 95695, (916) 666-2103.
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by R. Powell
After three years of budgetary
deep freeze, the Evergreen Albun
Project is back again, due to the
perserveranee of producers Tom Hill
and Rick Powell.
During its inception in '79-80, the
Album Project was originally meant
to give a platform to students of the
media arts from which they could do
professional quality work and have
an excellent piece for their individual
portfolios. However, it quickly
achieved greater popularity with the
college community. Three records
were recorded: Col/aborations,
E = MC2 + or - 3dB, andAmazing
Music. The first two were double
albums, then, when the first round
of budgetary cutbacks hit, the third
was reduced to one disk. The project was then done away with
al t oget her.
.
Reasons cited for pulling the plug
on the project ranged from its lack
of faculty to the failure to make
back the money spent. This latter
reason was largely due to the fact
that the records were done by
engineers, and no thought was given
to marketing the final product. Learning from past mistakes, the present
producers are actively seeking a
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made from these projects. The first
of these fundraisers will be an allcampus Christmas P\lrty on
December 7 in the Library Lobby,
featuring Seattle's "Girl Talk" and
Olympia's "Tiny Giants."
The producers are presently spending most of their time trying to
drum up support and interest in ;the
album. They are seeking original art
work and music. The only criteria is
that the composer/artist be
Evergreen students. The title/concept is also open for suggestion .
The main deadlines to keep in
mind are: December I, when the
Marketing Director will be chosen,
and March I, when all artwork and
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On November 15th the producers
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.. THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
by Kurt Batdorf
Jean-Luc Ponty's Open Mind is a
flawed and disappointing effort. In
spite of its polished technical work,
it is not particularly enjoyable.
The first thing one notices about
Open Mind is the homogeneous
sound. The first song on side one
leads right into the second, and the
second leads into the third. This
homogeneity wastes Chick Corea's
synthesizer solo and
Casy
Scheuerell's drums and tabla. I
could not tell that they played on the
LP until I read the credits. Who
would have known? Ponty could
have played the same thing on his
synthesizer (he does in fact) and I
never would have noticed a
di fference.
After forgettable side one,
Modern Times Blues leads off side
two . This is the only inventive sounding song on the LP, mainly because
of George Benson's guitar work. It
is crisp, tight, and different enough
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enjoyable. Modern Times Blues gets
my vote as the best on the album.
Not that it was difficult to pick a
best song, because Orbital Encounters, a really spaced out song,
and Intuition
quickly and
undeniably give the listener that
same homgeneous sound on side
one. Put these two songs together
with the three from side one, shuffle, change, or rearrange them, and
they still sound the same. It's like
looking at WO identical glasses of
milk - they all look alike after the
first three, no matter how you arrange them.
Listening to his 1979 album A
raSle for Passion, one realizes why
Open Mind is so flat. The culprit is
the band, or rather, the lack of one.
Open Mind lacks the life, the
richness, of the 1979 album primarily because a band, and therefore
more mllsicians, no longer back
Ponty. Except for one guitar solo
and a couple of drum backgrounds,
Open Mind is exclusively the product
of Jean-Luc Ponty. It surfers as a
result.
.On the good side though, Open
Mind makes fine background noise;
perfect for dentist's offices ,
elevators, and washing the dishes.
Just like the nefarious elevator
muzak (or mu-sick), you know Open
Mind is there, you can hear it, but
you don" know exactly why it's
there, and you don't care until it
starts to get on your nerves.
The fatal flaw of Open Mike is it s
homogeneity. You forget what
you've heard as soon as you turn it
off. But hey , if you need to drill
some teeth or wash last week's
dishes, and you want to cover those
unpleasant noises with something innocuou s, Open Mind fits your
needs. It's perfect throwaway music
for today's throwaway lifestyle. But
if you Ii ke variety, steer clear of this
album. Try The Replacement s
instead.
Goddess in Progress:
Energetic, Inventive
and' Satirical
by Kurt Batdorf
Julie Brown's new five-song EP,
Goddess in Progress, is an
unbelievable album in many ways.
It's unbelievably energetic, inventive
and satirical. It joins the ranks of
Rhino Record's classics, like The
Best of Slim Harpo. The Grandmother's Looking up Granny's
Dress, four volumes of the History
of Surf Music, and The Best of
Louie, Louie.
Now, if you've never heard of
Julie Brown, that's OK, because I
haven't either. But Julie's got a
positively wonderful sense of the absurd and the satiric. Every song,
which Julie co-wrote, pokes fun at
either A) idealism;. B) realism; C)
ding-dong California blondes; or D)
the sterotypical LA scene.
"I Like 'Em Big and Stupid"
leads off"sid.e one and sets the stage
for the satirical tone of the rest of
the EP. This song playfully espouses
the virtues of going out with guys
who have -Neanderthalic intellects,
and as if this weren't enough, the
song plays with the listener's mind
as well . For example, take this line
from the song: "I met a guy who
drives a truck/He can't tell time, but
he sure can drive ." Listemng to the
song, one expects a rhyme with
'truck', especially given the song's
context. It's gret anyway, just
because it's unexpected.
"The Homecoming Queen's Got
a Gun," which ends side one
(remember, this is an EP), absolutely
kills the concept of realism. After
all, who expects a song about a
murderous, psychotic homecoming
queen who kills·off half the class, the
glee club ("no big loss," Julie sings),
and the math teacher. "How can.
you do what you just did?! Are you
having a really bad period?" asks
Julie of her friend Debbie, the
homecoming queen gone amok . The
song begins with a slow' 50s beat and
tells the listener about wonderful
Debbie the Homecoming Queen,
then launches into a fast '80s beat
when the murders commence. It's
such an unbelievab farce, it's
outrageous, it's great! Homecoming
idealism bites the dust--another ilIuNOVEMBER 8,1984
sion shattered.
"Will I Make It Through the
'80s?" starts side two. It questions
the even remote possibility of surviving the fast-paced, burn-out LA
lifestyle. After Julie ponders the
idea while hungover and digging
through the ashtray looking for a
but. one gets the impression that she
really doesn't care if she makes it
through the '80s. She only want to
makl: it through the end of the week.
The weekend is Party! Party! Party! time and she knows it. Have fun
while you can, Julie implies. It's the
breaks of the game if you burn out.
Then Julie launches into .. Cause
I'm a Blond." Julie, as a brunette,
does notlike blonds, at least the
basic-blond LA ding-dongs . But
Julie takes the 'ding-dong blond persona' and then defends her blond
dizziness . She does it with flair and
conviction. You know that Julie, as
a blond, is about a cup and a saucer
shy of a full place setting. Combine
this lack of mentality with Julie's
'blond' snotty/snobby attitude, and
one begins to have second thoughts
about California Blonds, per se. It's
an extremely effective statement.
"Earth Girls Are Easy" is probably the silliest song of all, and it
makes a fitting ending for the silly
EP . This song is definitely National
Enquirer material: "Earth Girld has
Intercourse Through Doggy Door
with Alien." That headline is just
what the song is, too. It defies
description . You have to hear it to
believe it, but suffice it to say, it's
an uller riot.
MusicallyGoddess in Progress is
fine.
It's
not
particularly
memorable, but there aren't any bad
parts to remember. It's competent.
So if you readers out there have
wondered if the CP J would ever
have a good record reeview, this is
it, for now. Goddess in Progress
proves that all new music is not bad,
and that energy, inventiveness,
originality, and satiricism are still
alive and kicking. It all adds up to
a rollicking, engrossing, and hugely
entertaining album. Find it and buy
it if you want (and need) absurd,
musical comic relief.
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Moonchildren: An Exercise in
Anachronism
by Liz Nequette
Moonchildred, a play by Michael
Weller, opens tonight at 8pm in the
Experimental Theatre and runs
through Sunday night. It is a student
production directed by Thomas Cary
Walton
.
Set in the mid-l960s, Moonchildren depicts a group of college
students sharing an apartment and
engaging in typical '60's college student activities like swearing and
attending protest marches.
The play was originally performed in 1972 in London's Royal Court
Theatre under the title Cancer, and
ran for a time on Broadway, so I'm
told .
According to Walton's press
release, the play has been '.' Iauded
as a work whose affinity for
characters" (whatever that means)
succeeds "in reflecting the themes of
an entire generation ." Well, the
characters in the play do worry
about the draft, they go to a protest
march, smoke pot (well, actually,
they have some in a baggie) and
wonder if they should tell their current partners when they decide to go
to bed with someone else. They do
all these '60's kinds of things, but
never comment on them . They're
less concerned, for example, with the
ideology of peace marches than they
are with meeting "a few moderate
to extremely groovy people" (i.e., in
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one character's words, "getting
laid") at the peace maf'Ch. Perhaps
this is "n,;flecting themes," but, at
least in this production, it seems
more like rehashing cliches.
l'he set, designed by Stephen L.
Eagleburger, is good, as are the
technical details such as lighting,
props and costumes. One out fit
worn by Ruth (Denise Feldman) is
sufficiently hideous to capture
exactly that period of the '60's when
"psychedelic" was in, but before the
natural look was discovered.
A couple of nice performances are
turned in by Allen G. Nasser as Mr.
Willis, the friendly but slightly weird
landlord, and by Douglas C.
Ehrmantraut, double-cast as the extremely weird neighbor obssessed
with plastic trash cans and a sympathetic cop who, in response to the
neighbor's complaints of nudity in
the household, instructs the students
in how to make curtains. John
Dylan Cooper's Norman is interestingly wimpy, but most of the
other characters are overplayed,
almost to the point of hysteria. All
three women in the play, in particular, are painfully shrill.
Bob, played by Dave Portnoff, is
as close to being the hero of the play
as anyone gets. Something is bothering Bob; he doesn't have a nice word
to say to anybody, which isn't too
impressive, since no one else does
either. Even the flower ch ild ,
Shelley, played by Alicia Saltmarsh,
eventually joins in the chorus o f
"fuck you's."
The dialogue in the play, as a matter of fact, consists predominantly
of the word" fuck," which, while it
may be an accurate representat.ion of
the way college students talk, is
used to such excess (as in "that fucking Norman is so fucking stupid I
can't fucking believe it.") that it
displaces more normal dialogue.
Walton perceives Moonchildrenas
a "political play" involving the
politics of the "power struggle between the characters." One of the attractions of the play, to Walton, is
"a correlation between the times,"
between the generation of the '60's
confronting one unpopular war, the
Vietnam War, and the generation of
the 80's, confronting another, the
war in Central America.
In my opinion, however, the play
is less a comment on the political
times than it is an exercise in
anachronism, but see it for yourself,
Thursday through Sunday, 8pm, at
'he Experimental Theater. Tickets
He on sale at The Evergreen State
College ·Bookstore, and at Yenney's
Music, $4 general admission, $3
students and seniors. Make reservation by calling 866-6833 .
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Geoducks Battle Opponents d Weatber
To Set Record
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Mall Dietering Leads Evergreeri
by Cath Johnson and Todd Denny
The Geoduck Harriers finished
their season Saturday by competing
in the NAIA District Championships
at Ft. Steilacoom Park. They posted
t he first ever team score for
Evergreen in a cross COuntry championship meet. While Evergreen's
273 point score by itself is not impressive, the individual efforts made
by Geoduck runners were not only
impressive, but also inspiring.
An ominous storm front moved in
before the men's 8 kilometer race.
The starter's gun signaled the beginning of both the race and the rain.
The rain soon became a pelting
hailstorm. In gale-like conditions
which included rain, hail, and wind
gusts of 40 mph, Evergreen runners
turned in respectable times. Sean
Meehan, Todd Denny and Mat
Detering managed personal bests of
28:15,28 :58 , and 30:59 respectively
for the 8K course. Evergreen's lon ~
woman runner, Franny Hearn, was
well on her way to a personal record
for the women's 5K course, but faded with just one-half mile to go, still
posting a respectable 21 :48.
The Geoducks competed against
three of the nation's top ranked
Jon, Matt and David Fight It Out
teams: Simon Fraser, Seattle Pacific
them."
Steilberg hopes to add more
try runners plan to switch over. It
and Pacific Lutheran University.
numbers
to next year's team, but for
would seem that the Geoduck run Coach Pete Steil berg was proud of
now, that will have to wait.
ners are on the right track . .
his team's accomplishments. "I've
Track and field workouts begin
Anyone interested should meet
seen a real improvement in the seven
with the team at 4 pm daily in the
people who have stayed with it," he ' soon, and Steil berg is busily preparing for them. However, he will find
REC center Iqbby. Runners,
said. "They've trained and raced
a few familiar names on his winter
hurdlers, high jumpers, etc., are
regularly and their times have droproster since several of his cross coun- I needed on both teams.
ped. It's been a pleasure to coach
Dogs
Wring
Geo's
Neck
by Cath Johnson
Yesterday the Geuducks cl9sed
out their season with a frustrating
7-0 loss to the Univers it y of
Washington Huskies. Currently
ranked seventh in the nation. the
soccer dogs are a quick and capable
team. They took advantage of
Evergreen's inexperience, capitalized on Ge'oduck mistakes, and rolled to a comfortable vict
Soccer on Astroturf is a faster ,
game than Evergreen is accustomed
to playing. Combine this with the
very wet and slippery conditions of
Sunday's field in Husky Stadium,
and you can imagine the difficult
time the Geoducks had keeping their
footing. "They (the Huskies) ran
right through us a number of
times, "said Coach Arno Zoske.
"We did have trouble
to
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the field, but you have to give them
credit, they are a very quick team.
They just beat us to the baIt-And,
when we made a mistake, they were
right there to capitalize on it."
Zoske is disappointed that his
team had to end their season with
such a loss, but hopes it will serve
as a motivating force for next year.
The coach has good reason to be
looking forward to 1985, since he
has a sq uad full of freshmen, many
of whom were starters this year.
Zoske praised two of them for their
good defensive play against the
Evergreener Preparing for Dog's Thrashing
Huskies. "Kevin Schiele an<l 10m
BO'!tright both had good games.
They recovered quickly and maintained pressure on the ball; they just I
keep gett ing better," he said.
The Geoduck season record for
1984 stands at 8-3-5. Playing in one
of the toughest districts in the country, the Geoducks have to keep improving to stay competitive. This
year's performance demonstrates
that they have done so. Zoske
believes in his team. "We've got a
lot of poiential; there's no reason
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As part of the Recreational Arts
Program, the Recreation and
Athletics staff is hosting a Holidal
Bazaar . On Saturday, December 8.
) 984, from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. the se·
cond floor of the CAB will I><
transformed into a festive
marketplace. A large variety of
hand-made items will be on sale:
specialty gifts for the holidays, (or·
naments and decorations), pottery,
jewelry, paintings; in short,
something for everyone. The bazaar
will also serve as a multi-cultural
celebration by offering ethnic foods
and musical entertainment.
Allen Whitehead, Director of the
Recreational Arts Program, and
coordinator of the Bazaar, commented, "This type of event is real
popular. It 's a wonderful way for
folks to spend a Saturday afternoon.
They can browse and shop for the
holidays, sample the various foods,
listen to the musical entertainment
or just come .o ut and enjoy the
festive atmosphere."
The bazaar will also provide student artists and craftspersons with_
the opportunity to seIl their wares.
There will be some fifty booths or
space available, and one-half of
these will be reserved for TESC
students at $5 .00 each . Other craftspeople and artists must pay $15.00
for a booth or a space. Anyone interested in sellin g their crafts at the
bazaar should contact Allen
Whitehead at ext. 6247 or 6309, or
call the Recreation Center at ext.
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Floods
Citing "deep ' concern" about
delays in finding solutions to
flooding problems associated with
Mount St. Helens, Washington
Senators Slade Gorton and Daniel J.
. Evans, and Congressman Don
Bonker have asked President Reagan
for help in moving federal studies to
completion .
"The lives and property of 60,000
residents of Cowlitz County are be- .
ing jeopardized unnecessarily by the
threat of serious flooding," they said
yesterday in a leller to Reagan. "We
do not understand why additional
studies are being conducted following the completion of the Comprehensive Plan that you requested
in 1983 , and we certainly do not
understand why these additional
studies are being slowed down and
delayed.
"Delay is unacceptable. We need
your help to ensure t hat every effort
is being made to implement and to
expedite the completion of a permanent so luti on to the sedimentation
problems at Mount SI. Helens."
Gorton, Evans and Bonker have
expressed increasing conccrn in recent months about delays in finding
sol ut ions to short -term and longterm river and stream sedimentation
problems near the mountain. Fine
debris from the May 1980 eruption
is being continually washed from the
mountainside into the area's river
system. As the rivers slow down in
low-grade areas, the debris settles to
the bOllom and creates the threat of
flooding. In the short-term, that
debris has been dredged from the
rivers to maintain 100 year flood
protection as required by Congress
in 1983.
In another letter released today to
the Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Civil Works, Gorton, Evans, and
Bonker said they know of no current
plans for winter dredging on the
Cowlitz and Toutle Rivers. The Army's Civil Works section oversees
operations of the Army Corps of
Engineers that has been providing
flood protection assistance since
1980.
"It is now mid-October with the
rainy season rapidly approaching,"
they told Acting Assistant Secretary
Bob Dawson. "We understood that
this information has been included
in the past in a 'status report' that
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Congress has appropriated $6
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and initial design activities for the
SRS . Nearly all officials now believe
that to be the most cost-effective
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for completion of a draft feasibility
study which will report on several
alternatives. It also will designate a
preferred solution for final recom mendation to Congress
"Originally, we understood the
report would be released in midAugust, then it was delayed until October, and now there is yet another
delay in its release unti I late
November," Gorton, Evans and
Bonker told Dawson. They said they
want to know why tl)e report has
been delayed again, when it will be
completed and released, and what
are the plans for implementing the
SRS design and construction
schedule.
"We are alarmed over any effort
to delay interim dredging and the implementation of long-term solutions
to the sedimentation problems,"
they told Dawson. "It is essent ial
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was released each spring," they sai<l.
"We would appreciate receiving an
explanation on why (this year's)
report has not been released. We
believe this maller needs your immediate attention." .
The long-term sedimentation problems result from a need to trap the
debris as near the mouth of the
volcano as possible before the
material gets into area rivers. To do
that state and local officials want the
Corps of Engineers to construct a
Single Retention Structure (SRS) on
the upper Toutle River near Mount
St. Helens.
The SRS would act much like a
dam, except that it would ' capt ure
the volcanic debris that washes off
the mountainside and let the water
escape to the rivers below . That
would prevent the fine volcanic
material from reaching and building
up in those rivers. The sand -sized
material has been found as far
downstream as the lower reaches of
the Columb ia River and ha s
threatened to impede navigation.
NOVEMBER 8,1984
Putting Tbe Wolf Back
R.J. Healy
The wolf on the American continents was once distributed over a
wide geographic range north of the
equator. Its range is now severely
decreased. There are perhaps 1,200
living in the lower 48 states at this
time.
The wolf is the largest member of
the dog family. Like people, wolves
have a highly complex social structure. Their behavior is in large part
learned.
Wolves are extremely intelligent
animals.
Some
ethologists
(behavioral scientists) maintain that
the social structure in wolves more
closely resembles that in man than
in any other non-primate. Man's
ancestors, unlike any of the
primates, were group hunters, and
so are wolves.
Wolvcs also have a strong hierarchal tendency. All members arc
ranked and defer to the Alpha male .
The hierarchy serves to minimi ze
fighting and simplify decision making.
There are many instances of
human death by wolves in south and
~entra l Europe and central Asia
(many, if not all, were rabid)(Clark,
1976). Perhaps the seeds of animosity were largel y sown here.
The wolf was exterminated in Britain in the 17th century, and in Germany in the ) 9th.
Extens ive wolf eradication programs were once carried out by the
U. S government, as well as by
private citizens.
In North America, however, no
humans are known to have been killed by wolves.
Important in the wolves' demise
is the fact that domestic livestock is
sometimes taken by wolves.
Many poeple feel that wilderness
is incompletely wild without wolves.
Programs to reintroduce them are
now being considered.
Wolves need to be where human '
populations are lowest, where there
is no domestic livestock.
Wolf Haven is a wolf sanctuary in
Tenino, about 30 miles south of
Olympia. The people there believe
"too much is being taken from
nature" and "it's time to start putting back ."
Following is an interview with
S' tephen Kuntz, president of Wolf
Haven.
CPJ: What is Canis lupu~ 'present
range in the "Yrstern United States
right now?
Kuntz: There are just some very
small pockets of wolves--a fe" in
Idaho, a few right here in the State
of Washington. In the Okanogan
region there's a family of about 12
wolves.
CPJ: Why is (he wolf so scarce In
Washington?
Kuntz: The wolf that was originally indigenous here has gotten hunted
out of existence, wiped out, by man.
ePJ: In 1975 there was a case
S(ut;ly done by a group of TESC
students concerning reintroduction
of wolves to the Olympic Moun tains. Is something like that realistic?
Kuntz: Yeah, it's realistic. There
has to be a lot of education first, to
the public--the only reason that
wolves cannot be introduce.d right
now to the Olympic Mountains is
because too much of the population
around the area where they would be
introduced are afraid that the wolves
are going to eat their kids and take
livestock, and that's really not the
case at all. People have un based
fears. There has to be a lot of education
behalf of the wolf before
people will accept it.
CPJ: What is .the position of tire
National Park Service on reintroduction . Qf wolves to the Olympic
Penin.!iula?
Kuntz: At present they don't
on
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GraphIC by Sarah Jessa Lorion
take a stand, because it's illegal to
reintroduce any enaangered species. '
I believe the Fish and Wildlife people would like to see wolves in certain areas.
CPJ: Humans often hate wolves
and hunt them down. Are these attitudes changing much, in your
opinion?
Kuntz: The attitudes are starting to
change. People are just findi ng out
now, through educa tional programs
like ours, that the wolf is not a
vicious killer of people.
CPJ: Does the wolf contribute or
detract from an ecosystem?
Kuntz:
Oh, it definitely contributes. It's the apex of the
predator chain . We're really feeling
the effects in the lower forty eight
from the wolf not being there any
longer. Individuals in prey populations are getting smaller and weaker
and we're seeing smaller herd sizes.
Man cannot fill that niche because
of the way the wolf hunts . Man,
when he goes out to hunt, takes the
biggest and best. When the wolf
hunts, he's relying on the weak and
the sick ones.
CPJ: What do you see as the
future of the wolf in this state, and
in tile nation in general?
Kuntz: Within the next 3-5 years I
think there will be are-introduction
of wolves in specified areas like
Yellowstone NationalPark, Rocky
Mountain National Park, and
possibly the O lympic Range; but it
is going to take quite a bit of education first.
CP.I: . What is Wolf Hoven's role?
Kuntz: One word: educational
facility. We sometimes have internships. We have people from various
different educational outlets that
work with us. We also go into the
public school systems and give
educational programs to talk about
wolves and wilderness. We want our
educational programs to spread
throughout the United States. We
also hope to have a reintroductIOn
program at a later date, when it's
legal .
CPJ: What can someone concemed about wolves and their rein troduction do to help?
Kuntz : They could get involved
with wildlife organizations or wolf
organizations (there are a few others
besides ourselves in the Unit ed
States) and support them and wh at
they do. Or they can write lellers to
their congressmen stating that they
feel that the wolf should be protected more than it is now, as well
as show support for a reintroduction
program.
CPJ: Is the wolf threatened righl
now in Alaska'
Kuntz: Right now it's not threatcned, but there is a major wolf kill thai
started up as of a week ago there .
They are killing wolves from
helicopters again as well as from
airplanes, and in the very near future
it will be threatened in Alaska. Righi
now, they can still re-populate
themselves, but if it goes much further, they won't be able to. [t'll be
past that point, and it'll have to be
up to man to replace them.
CPJ: Who's kftling them?
Kuntz: Right now, the Alaskan
Fish and Wildlife Service.
CPJ: What becomes of the wolves
at Wolf Haven?
Kuntz: These wolves can never be
reintroduced . Everyone of Ihese
animals would have been killed if we
hadn't taken them in . The wolves
that would be reintroduced would bc
the puppies, the offspring of these .
They would be put through a very
rigorous traini ng program: afraid of
man, guns, and taught how 10 hunt.
Hunting is not an instinct; it's taught
by the parents in the wild. Wolves
in captivity cannot be re-taught.
They're much too independent. You
have to start when they're very
young and actually teach them how
to hunt then.
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