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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
December 9, 1985
Cooper Point Journal
notebook
Issue No. 11
December Opportunities
The Statewide Domestic Violence Hotline is looking for people interested in helping battered women and their families. Volunteers help people from all over Washington
by provideing crisis counseling, information and referrals. The skills you already have in listening to family members and friends are what you need to help our callers.
Most of the volunteers work evenings or weekends out of their homes . People of all cultures, ages, physical abilities, religious and sexual preferences, and past experiences
are needed. A new volunteer training will begin in late January. Call 753-4621 on weekdays from 9 to 5 p.m. for more information.
January 16, 1986
Cashier robbery is part of a bigger problem
by Dave Peterson
No changes in security are planned for the TESC cashiers' office
following an armed robbery January
3, according to Security Chief Gary
Russel and Controller Becky
Marcum.
Professional Performing Artists who are interested in participating to the 1986-87 Cultural Enrichment Program (CEP) should apply before February 28. All applicants
will be notified of the board 's decision by June 30. The three categories are dance, music and drama. The artists accepted will tour public schools performing during
the 86-87 sc hool year. For more information and an application form, contact Sally Iverson or Deb Martz at the Washington State Arts Commision, Mail Stop GH-ll ,
Olympia, W A 98504, or call 753-3860.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, a classic comedy play suitable for the whole family, will be performing through December 22 at the Chinook Center for the Performing·
Arts. Showtimes: Matinees at 2 p.m. on Dec. 7,8,14,15,21, and 22; Evenings at 8 p.m. on Dec. 6,7,12,13,14,19,20, and 21. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children
with a parent. The theater is located on Fort Lewis and directions and more information is available by calling 967-8491 x5636 or 967-3044.
The suspect, described as a black
male, approximately 25 years old, 6'
2" tall, slender and very neatly dressed, approached a cashier at abo).!t
12:35 p.m. He passed a note to the
cashier saying that he was armed and
demanding money.
Ben Moore's will be providing a variety of entertainment during the holiday season. On December 13 and 14, Jan Stenz and Marc Seales will perform from 6:30 to 10
p.m. On December 19, Kay and Dusty Rhodes will perform for the first annual Christmas Carole party at Ben Moore's in the dining room from 6 to 10 p.m. On December
20 and 21, Jan Stenz and Barney McClure will be featured, and on December 27 and 28, Jan Stenz will perform with Jack Percival. Ben Moore's is located at 112 W.
4th downtown. For reservations, call 357-7527.
He lifted his sweater and removed from his belt a large-frame, blue
steel revolver that had been hidden
by the tan knee-length coat that he
was wearing, and pointed it at the
cashier. He escaped with under $500.
Rides Home for Holiday Partiers are available throughout December from local cab companies and the Olympia Police. If a sober friend is not available to drive you
home, here are some alternatives to risking splattering someone on the pavement: For a fare which will not exceed $5, all local cab companies will drive you home, and
the Police will arrange transportation home from Olympia to your home within the tri-city area in unmarked cars, 8 p.m. to 3 a.m., Fridays and Saturdays. People are
requested to arrange their own transportation whenever possible. Special emphasis on DWI patrols will be in effect throughout the holiday season.
Information for Action, a group of 20 student planning a major survey of student opinion for Winter Quarter, invites to participate in the planning process. The survey
will include questions on academic, fiscal, philosophical, social, and strategic issues . We are interested in lost of student participation in the planning of this survey, both
at our business meetings on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. in the Peace Center, and in the form of suggestions for questions and issues to be addressed in the survey. Please
deliver yor comments to the Peace Center, LIB3234.
Authorities are unsure of his
escape route, or whether he had a car
waiting or left on foot. Russel
. speculated that he may have left the
building through the. first-Ooor exit
nearest the College Activities
Building.
Friday, December 13
We Three, Seattle's a cappella trio, will be performing at the Rainbow, located at 4th and Columbia . Tickets are $3.50. We Three have been together since 1980; the
performers are . Kim Scanlon, B. Sue Johnson, and Sarah Favret. .
The Thurston County Sheriff's
Department is investigating the
robbery.
.
Parenting for Gospel Values is the title of the program at Bread and Roses I;}ouse of Hospitality, 1320 E . Eighth Ave. at 7:30 p.m. The talk and discussion will be led
by Seattle parenting expert Diane Brezno and is free and open to all. Children are welcome.
'Saturday, December 14
Vol. No. 14
Although there are no firm plans
for changes in security, the installation of closed-circuit cameras is an
option that Russel says he has been
recommending for about three
years .
A composite sketch of the suspect.
The Evergreen Magazine will a ir at 5:30 p.m. on Channel 12, KTPS-Chehalis.
Campus crime on upswing
by Dave Peterson
The recent upswing of on-campus crime is an indication that
Evergreen is not isolated from the community th at surrounds it, says
Evergreen Security Chief Gary Russel. He has been here for 13 years,
and has held his present position for the last two years. He says that
the rise in crime rates is a regional trend of which Evergreen is a part.
The increase in 1984-85 was 37 percent, and last year there has been
an even grea ter number.
The recent robbery of the cashier's office is "kind of an Evergreen
first," says Russel, but he thinks it "just further goes to show us that
we are not isolated from those types of things ...
He rererred to the murder of Eli sa Tissot in the spring of 1984,
and com mented that other types of felony crimes also occur here.
There are more thefts than any other sort of crime here, Russel explained, saying that there were car thefts, as well as having stolen cars
dropped off on campus.
"I think it would really surprise a lot of people, the kind of things
that we're involved in and handle, " Russel says. "It's pretty much
like any other small community, and the surprising fact is that the
kind of serious situations that tend toward violence are not Evergreen
people.
"There are no large walls around the place, although [ wish there
were sometimes, and we find ourselves dealing pretty much with the
same crowd that Thurston County does."
Russel said the suspect, pictured
left, was seen hanging around the
library for about an hour and a half
prior to the robbery. The composite
descriptions
sketch was derived fl
:,on
of people who saw him during this
time.
Anyone with information regarding the incident should contact the
Sheriff's Department at 786·5530.
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Nicaraguan Salsa/Jazz. Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy and Grupo Mancotal with special guest Norma Helena Gadea, an acclaimed Nicaraguan female vocalist, will be at
Blocks on Broadway in Tacoma, 11 28 Broadway, at 8 p.m .; donations of $8 are requested. These performers have toured Europe as well as central and latin America .
They have "experimented with musical forms, incorporating local indigenous sounds and instruments of Latin America with other influences." Contact Olivia Watt from
Sixth Sense for more information at 272-5204.
Friday, December 20
City council votes on water system overhaul
Storytelling for Children of All Ages at Bread and Roses House of Hospitality at 7:30 p.m . The special guest will be Olympia's own professional storyteller Elana Freeland.
Bread and Roses is located at 1320 E. 8th Ave. Free. After the program iheir will be refreshments and caroling.
by Cynthia M. Sherwood
Saturday, December 21
Tenth Annual Olympia FOR Christmas Peace Vigil, Percival Landing Park along Water Street between State and 4th, noon to I p.m. Hot refreshments and social time
afterwards at Tom and Julie Murfin's home, 134 West Bay Drive (access from W. 4th, nor from Harrison). Vigil signs are provided, but feel free to bring own. A few
people
are
in vited
to
bring
breads
or
cookies
afterwards.
Information :
491-9093 .
Sunday, December 22
Artists, Storytellers, Mimes and Musicians are invited to volonteer their time and perform for t!le psychiatric patients at a Christmas Party at SI. Peter's Hospital from
4 to 8 p.m. Share your gifts and help spread holiday cheer. Call Larry Beye at 456-7080 for information.
F'ree Christmas Dinner on Chr istmas Day from 2 to 5 p.m. at SI. Michel's Catholic Church. Everybody i~ welcome. People are encouraged to bring food to share and
to bring toys for chi ldren and clothes for the needy, but this isn't requirement. There will also be a Christmas tree to trim, popcorn stringing, and Christmas carols. The
dinner is
by Bread and Roses and will be at 1021
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"Potential problems will occur
with fire flows which put out fires
in the Northeast Olympia area,"
warned Lyn Estesb, department
director of Public Works, if the 1985
$2 million Water Bond Ordinance is
not approved by the City Council.
"The City Council has determined it to be in the best interest of the
city that certain improvements be
made to the water works utility of
the city," said Dean Walz, Administrative Services Department.
The city sold $2 million in bonds to
Seattle Northwest Securities in October of 1984 to finance several
water projects.
"To be exact there are 25 various
projects," said Walz. On January
22, 1985 water rates were increased
per 100 cubic feet from 40 cents to
56 cents to h\!lp pay for the bonds,
explained Walz. "The volume increase, the sixteen cents, was in addition to their basic charge for a .y.,
meter; the increase was incorporated
as a part of a general increase in
rates which was needed anyway,"
said Walz.
He then added that their revenues
are currently sufficient to pay the
debt to Seattle Northwest Securities,
but natural costs will go up to reflect
labor rate increases and materials.
Estesb approximated the cost of
the water project at $3 million to $4
million for water customers, which
could result in several rate increases .
Summer internships to
lle offered this year
The Cooperative Education
Office has announced that there
will be internships available
summer quarter. Coop-Ed staff
say that many summer internships have early application
deadlines, so students interested
in arranging one should start
soon.
Internship intent forms for
spring quarter are due February
10. Anyone who thinks they
might want to do an internship
in the spring must turn in one
of these forms.
There will be an orientation
meeting for all interested
students on Wednesday,
January 22 from 1-3 p.m. in
CAB 108. Students with questions about internships are encouraged to attend.
But according to Walz, customers
will not suffer over the next 10 years
(the length of the bond issue)
because the bonds were borrowed on
fixed interest rates.
"The bond is our guarantee that
we'll repay that loan, and the water
department is responsible by ordinance to pay that. So all we've
done is to borrow $2 million, and
we'll pay that back over time," Walz
said.
At the City Council meeting Tuesday, January 7, 1986, Mark
Erickson, city attorney, said, "The
city council's vote is needed only to
authorize the spending of the pro·
ceeds. It's just a formality and
shou ld not pose any problems which
could be hazardous to the municipal
water system."
The appropriation of the project,
said Estesb, "will increase fire flow
capabilities, better reliabilities as a
water system, and improved water
pressure to all of our customers in
the particular area that this is going
to serve, because it doesn't serve the
whole city. It serves the Northeast
Olympia area."
S&A appropriates '86 monies
by R. Paul Tyler
On January 15 the Services and
Activities Board approved a mid·
year budget allocation of $67,448 in
student fees to be dispensed to 28
student groups. The board, a group
of student volunteers, is responsible
for hearing budget requests from
other student groups, and deciding
how to allocate the available funds .
They had been working on the midyear allocations for over 60 hours
since early November.
Three highlights of the allocation
process were the initial funding of a
downtown st udent center, a student
needs survey, and participating in
crew activities. The downtown
center, proposed by the Greater
Evergreen Student Community
Cooperation
Organization
(GESSCO), will receive $9,354.00 to
pursue the project.
The student survey, proposed by
Information for Action, will receive
$4,124.00 to assess what student
needs and preferences are at
Evergreen.
After a long debate in which 20
crew supporters pled their case, the
board approved a request for
$4,000.00 to buy rowing shells and
fund crew teams to participate in the
spring regatta season.
The allocation process was
delayed one week when the sc hcdul-
ed meeting of the S&A board on
January 8 failed to reach a legal
quorum, the rirst time that has happened in the history of the sc hool.
Other groups to be funded are
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Resolution Center, Compu ter
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Daycare, Graduate Student Associa tion, KAOS, Folk Dance , EPIC,
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January 16,1986
more news
Computer director
Planning
council
convenes
candidate visits
by James John McGuire and R.P.
Tyler
Wayne HoII, one oj Jour candidates.
Wayne Holt, one of four candidates for the director of Computer Services position here,
was on campus last Friday to interview for the post. Holt,
formerly a director of Computer Services at Union College
in Schenectady, New York,
spent the day meeting with interested faculty and students,
academic and administrative
computing users groups, Computer Services personnel, and
the search committee charged
with selecting a new director.
Holt also met with President
Joe Olander, Vice President for
Development
and
Administrative Services, Sue
Washburn, and. Associate Vice
President for Administrative
Services, Ken Winkley.
He said he is devoted to a
lifelong occupation of getting in
and out of projects, and
creating total solutions to problems. The so lutions work
because the people involved embrace them, he said.
Holt plans to stay in educa-
photo by Jennifer Lewis
tion because he enjoys the
gratification of working with
students. Hold said educational
systems also provide him with
suitable and challenging positions which allow him to solve
proble·ms.
Holt describes his management style as "professional,"
but overall his style depends on
the size and style of groups to
be managetl. His focus in a
torship position is service
deliv~ry which includes consulting service and technical
support. His goal is to meet
both the breadth of computing
needs ~s well as tht! depth required by science disciplines.
Members o:"" "'e search committee encourage all interested
students and faculty to allcnd
the campus interviews of candidate Ron Woodbury, on Friday, Jan. 17 and Don Smith,
Friday, Jan. 24. Both candidates will be in LH2 from
noon -Ip.m. All candidate files
are availab le at the circu lation
desk in the library.
Lecture pushes free trade
by Margaret Livingston
The result of "protectionist
legislation" would be fewer jobs,
lower income, and decreasing state
revenues for the state of Washington
according to Dr. Charles Nisbet,
faculty member in economics at The
Evergreen State College. Dr. Nisbet,
speaking at the Piece of My Mind
series Wednesday, January 8 stated
that protectionism, which provides
help for a "few at the expense of
many" could be particularly damaging to Washington State.
Dr. Nisbit defined protectionism
as any kind of restriction placed on
the flow of goods and services to
protect domestic industry. It can
take the form of an outright exclusion, a tax, or tariff and is designed
to raise the price of imported goods
so domestic goods will be more competitive . According to Dr. Nisbet,
experts recognize that protectionist
measures would provide only short-
term economic relief for some industries and regions.
Washington state is generally antiprotectionist, preferring the benefits
that come from the relaxing of trade
barriers. The state's ports-of-entry
handle a substantial proportion of
the Pacific Rim shipping into this
country. Imports such as textiles,
automobiles, and electronic equipment, and exports such as wine and
agricultural products could be affected by trade restrictions.
The Reagan administration is on
record as being for free trade, but
Dr. Nisbet is concerned that "if the
international balance of trade con tinues to worsen, Congress may try
to pass some type of protectionist
legislation this spring. Any restrictions would hurt Washington state
and that would be magnified if
foreign exporters retaliated and
reduced the traffic through our
port s-of-ent ry."
Student representatives
sought/or various boards
Gail Martin is extending the
applications for the Board of
Trustees Student Representative
to noon of January 21. Please
submit an application letter of
interest and three names of
faculty and/or staff for
references to L-3236 by January
21.
They are also urgently seeking
students for the Computer Advisory Group and tpe Strategic
Planning Council. P lease submit an application letter of interest and three names of faculty and/or staff for references to
Gail Martin's office by 2 p.m .
on January 22, 1986.
In his talk to the Evergreen community at the fall President's
Forum, Joe Olander discussed the
formation of a Strategic Planning
Council to develop a long range plan
integrating Evergreen programs with
state economic development needs.
Without such a plan, Olander said
he believes it will be difficult for the
schoo l to get increased funding from
the state legislature in years to come.
The reason for developing a
strateg ic plan at this time is an expectation that the Washington State
Legislature will want to see such a
document in the near future. Rather
than have the plan developed for the
college by an outside group, President Olander gave the responsibility of organizing the SPC to Patrick
Hill, provost here.
The council was scheduled to be
convened early in the winter quarter.
As of the first week of classes in
1986, Hill said the details of the SPC
were still being designed. The centerpiece of the operation is a planning
council chaired by Hill. Hill said he
envisions the plan as a council
operating three separate committees.
An "environmental" subcommittee will examine and assess factors
on the outside that will affect the
college, such as the state economy.
A "values and a~pirations" subcommittee will look as such internal
questions as what the values of the
Evergreen community are now, and
what the community wants
Evergreen to be like in the future.
The planning council will include
three faculty, one trustee, one
member of the Board of Governors,
one student , one staff, and one
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alum. Th'e subcommittees will have
ten members each -- two students,
one dean, four faculty, two staff,
and an alumn. President Olander
will give the council its formal charge
on January 15.
The first forums will be held on
Wednesday, January 22. The student forum will be from noon to I
p.m. Wednesday, January 22 in LH
5. Hill will meet with the academic
deans from 3-5 p.m. in Dean's
Groups. A meeting with the staff is
planned from noon-Ion Thursday,
January 23 in LH 5.
Copies of the council charge.and
drafts of the subcommittee charges
will be available Monday, January
20 in the Library and at the Information Center in the CAB. Students
interested in participating in the
planning process should contact Gail
Martin, Vice President of Student
Affairs, in LIB 3226.
by Austin KeUey
Will Perry, who calls himself
"Golden Phoenix Storyteller, Poet,
and Court Jester," will be performing in Olympia this week. He
presents an approach to storytelling
that defies simple categorization. He
draws on Native American folklore,
Celtic legendry, and tales of his own
composition.
Perry's original works include:
"The Cranebird," "How Shag-aRag Worm Became a Butterfly,"
"How Sun Came to Be," "How
Whales Came to Be," and "The
Yeah Yeah Myth of Regeneration."
The legends and stories he tells are
drawn from all over the world, but
they carry what he describes as the
"universal constant of transcendance," birth, death, and rebirth.
A mystic born in, of all places,
Mystic, Connecticut, Perry now lives
in Oakland, California. The lore of
the sea, learned growing up and
WashPIRG pursues agenda
by John Kaiser
Evergreen students are gearing up
to work on behalf of The
Washington Public
Interest
Research Group '(WashPIRG) in
pursuit of its agenda for consumer
and environmental protection.
At noon, Tuesday, January 21,
WashPIRG will hold its General Interest Meeting in CAB 108. This
meeting will present the different
issues that WashPIRG will be working on, as well as information on
how students can get involved.
"Strong student cuppor! is essential to our success in the legislature,
and we urge all those concerned to
corne out and support us," said Eva
Shinagel, WashPIRG campus
coordinator.
The student group will work to
pass a number of bills during the
eight week legislative session, including nuclear waste, bank practices and telecommunications issues.
On the environmental front,
WashPIRG advocates improving the
state's ability to respond to accidents
involving the shipment of nuclear
waste.
Currently there are already
numerous shipments of nuclear
wastes transported on Washington
highways, and now there's the
possibility that high level waste from
Taiwan will be coming down 1-5.
WashPIRG h;:s recently completed
a survey to determine the ability of
local agencies along transport routes
to cope with an accident involving
the shipments.
"The guidelines for safe transportat ion of radioactive waste are highly
inadequate in Washingtoll State;
there is significant room for im-
provement," said state member
Torn O'Brien.
According to the Washington
state offices of Hazardous Material
and Motor Vehicle Safety, the existing federal regulations on nuclear
waste transport are adequate.
Some representatives of the trucking industry spoke on this issue at a
recent Washington State Utilities
and Transportation Committee
hearing. They did not believe any
more stringent regulations are
needed.
On other issues of nuclear waste,
WashPIRG's Hanford Project will
be gearing up for a conference in
February with representatives of
Governor Gardner and possibly
Congressman Mike Lowry, DWash.
At the meeting students will give
petitions to the governor urging him
to stop "the DOE from declaring
Hanford a safe site for a high level
nuclear waste repository before studying it." Governor Gardner agrees
and said that would be "like giving
the grade before taking the test."
On consumer issues, WashPIRG
is working to reform the length of
time banks can hold checks. "Most
banks clear checks by two days and
hold them for up to three weeks,"
said Janet Thoman who worked on
the recently completed "WashPIRG
Banking Services Survey." The bank
is free to invest the funds in high
yielding money market accounts for
the duration of the hold period.
A bill placing restrictions on the
amount of time banks can hold
checks is needed to help stop one of
the biggest consumer rip-offs in
America, said Andrea Brenneke,
WashPIRG chairperson.
PNB contends that local usage
costs 8- IO cents per minute and that
"people should pay for what they
use." At issue is how much local
phone service actually costs. A recent Oregon legislative study revealed that local costs run between twotenths to five-tenths of a cent.
According to the Consumer
Federation of America phone rates
increased $2.5 billion in 1984, and
$2 billion in 1985 . WashPIRG contends that behind the flat rate increases lie an effort to make currently optional local measured service
the only service available, by encouraging people to switch to it
voluntarily.
For Perry, who has been a
storyteller for 15 years, telling tales
is more a religious calling than a job.
"Stories are a way to bring us
closer," he said. "Buddha and
Christ were less philosophers than
good storytellers . When you tell a
story, instead of saying people have
to believe a certain way, everyone
can enter into the spirit of the story
and interpret it for themselves. I
always say oneness is not sameness."
Perry will be presenting a
workshop on "Storytelling and
Ritual Myth Theater" from 2 to
4p.m. Friday, January 17 in COM
209. Admission is free and is limited
to 40 people. He will also present a
public performance the same evening at 7p.m. in COM 209. Admission is $2. These events are cosponsored by the Men's Resource Center,
Parent's Center, and Innerplace. For
workshop reservations or further information call 866-6000, x6002.
Support groups for every occasion
The banks that were contacted,
however, believe they need the time
to protect themselves against bad
checks.
Another consumer protection bill
concerns the prospect of mandatory
local measured telephone service
(LMS). Mandatory LMS would
allow the phone company to base
local residential and business rates
on the factors of distance, duration,
time of day and number of calls -much the same way long distance
charges are made.
Last year, WashPIRG passed a
two year ban on Pacific Northwest
Bell's (PNB) proposed mandatory
LMS. Now, the student group will
ask the legislature to fund a study on
the actual cost of local phone usage
in the state. "This will allow the
legislatu re to make an informed
decision on LMS in 1987," said
legislative director Lan Noffman.
The phone company has vowed to
return to launch a new campaign for
the controversial proposal.
working as a rigger on a restored
square-masted whaling ship, has
never left him.
In the late 1960's, Perry knew he
wanted to make a life of storytelling after he heard Boston's
notorious minstrel Brother Blue. "A
person has to follow the deep drive
of his heart, otherwise you'll spend
your whole life dreaming about the
way you didn't follow," Perry said.
During the '70's, he travelled all
over the country listening to and telling stories, practicing mime and
dance, and learning to meditate.
"When I meditate, the stories will
come into vision. It isn't like acting,
an actor doesn't necessarily believe
in what he does, but my stories are
my way of life," he said.
These days he perfoms at schools,
libraries, conferences, recreation
centers, nursing homes and
museums. He also teaches the art
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relationship counseling, referral, consultation, and assessment. The Health Center provides outpatient primary care
and health education to
Evergreen students. Weekly
groups and workshops are free
t04ull-time students and are offered to the rest of the community at a nominal cost.
Detailed brochures are available
at the Information Center,
Library, and other campus locations. Here is a brief listing of
the weekly groups and
workshops that start the week
of January 13:
.. Less Stress" Mondays
3:30-5p.m.
"Coming to Terms with Your
Parents" Tuesdays 3:30-5p.m.
"Eliminating Self-Defeating
Behaviors"
Wednesdays
3:30-5p.m.
"PMS Support ·Group"
Wednesdays 3:30-5p.m.
"For Women: Love, Sex,
Relationships, and All That"
Fridays I :30-3p.m.
"Free Brown Bag Series"
Wednesdays at Noon -- on such
topics as eating cheaply and
healthfully, depression, and
more.
For registration and more information call 866-6000, ext;
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movie" Amadeus" has generated an
unprecedented interest in the music
and life of Mozart. But what do we
really know about Mozart? How
does Mozart's extensive body of letters mislead rather than enlighten the
hi storian? Who was Salieri and what
is known about his relationship with
Mozart? Geoffrey Block gives an
overview of Mozart's life and
discusses the nature of genius and its
relation to mediocrity .
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the Humanities is a non-profit
organization supported by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and local contributors,
including Friends of the Humanities.
WCH makes grants to support pro-
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understanding of history, literature,
ethics , and other humanities programs such as exhibit s, films, and
speakers.
Admission to the talk is free and
open to the public.
ENCORE! is a volunteer
organization to provide support for
the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. Members are
volunteering in such areas as ushering, concession sales, guided tours,
office help, and school outread. New
members are always welcome. ENCORE! will have a business meeting
and social hour at 11:00 a.m. Prospective members are welcome. The
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Lecture reveals Mozart's life, myth
"Mozart and 'Amadeus': The
Schism Between Art and Life," a
talk given by Geoffrey Block, Assistant Professor of Music at the
University of Puget Sound, will be
presented Thursday, January 23, at
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, at noon. The presentation is sponsored by ENCORE!
and The Washington Center . Please
enter by the stage door in the alley
off of 5th . Brown bag lunches are
welcome. Coffee will be provided .
This program is part of "The I nquiring Mind: A Forum in the
Humanities," a speakers' program
available from the Washington
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Seat belt bill lifesaving,
but is it worth the price?
There are several measures concerning mandatory
seat belt use that will be discussed when the state
legislature convenes this week. Chuck Hayes, of the
Washington State Safety Commission, said that 63
percent of Washington residents would support a law
requiring some sort of restraint mechanism for
automobiles.
This kind of support is due in part
to the Washington State Safety Restraint Coalition.
The Coalition has been informing people that the
chances of saving a life in the event of an accident
are 30 times better when a restraint mechanism is
used.
They are further driven by the economic drain on
our society; in Washington state alone, there are
5,000 people with debilitating inj uries.
Beginning in 1987, domestic and foreign
automobile manufacturers must begin incorporating
automatic restraints into cars. By 1989, the federal
government will require that all domestic and foreign
cars have automatic restraints.
However, if states containing two-thirds of the
population of the United States enact mandatory
restraint laws, then the auto industries do not have
to comply with automatic devices. Sixteen states have
enacted mandatory restraint laws, but the people in
each of these states have carefully worded their laws
so as not to fall within the "two-thirds" law.
The understanding is that if people do not get
automatic devices in their cars now, they can at least
get protection while they wait. Or, if the federal
government will not immediately save our lives, the
state government will.
The mandatory seat belt law and automatic
restraint law are harmless and lifesaving laws.
How far are we willing to go in allowing others
to save our lives for us?
,.. How many freedoms will we have to sacrifice in
the process of saving lives?
Why are we able as a society to create laws which
protect en masse, and yet we lack the self-discipline
to protect ourselves?
Does this mean that laws in store for future
Americans will not just save our lives, but control
us for a better, more efficient, more productive and
effective society against our individual wills?
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At a typical American college
campus, students are loaded with
homework, and pressed with
deadlines. They have little time even
Sophistication. Romance . Excitefor their American friends. When
ment. Whichever word you choose
they meet someone who requires
to describe meeting someone from
more attention, and sometimes help
another country, you can't deny that
with adjusting to a new Iifesty[e, the
your senses are tapped more than
patience level naturally drops
usual. There is definitely something
interesting, or intriguing, about the slightly.
Sometimes a person will introduce
encounter with a foreigner.
themse[f
to a foreign student, or be
But along with the excitement
introduced through a friend . It is at
comes a problem: one's interest and
intrigue tend to last only through the that time one needs to be aware of
the language difficu[ty.
first few minutes of conversation.
[n the beginning, the "talkAfterward, something disintegrates
check"
method is good for finding
-- communication. More often than
not, the foreigner will have trouble out the level of English the person
possesses. By saying phrases such as
speaki ng English. The language difficulty involved obstructs what could · "Hello, how are you?" and "Where
are you from?" you can usually
determine success within a new
count on some type of response.
relationship.
However, the next step is the most
Although people from "other
important. Ask the person about
lands" appear to be innocent and
naive, the mistake often made of him /herself. Ask if he/she
understands what you say.
these people is just that. When a
A common problem with native to
language problem prohibits nat iveforeign-speaker conversations, is
lik e communicat ion , foreigners are
that th e foreign speaker will say
fo rced into" baby talk." Their ac"What?" or stare blank ly if they
tions are , in ways, similar to Englishdon't understand what was said . The
speaking chi ldren.
A natural react ion of nat ive native speaker, from habit, just
speakers is to treat them like repeats himself a little loud er. The
foreigners learn early to sm ile, nod,
youngsters, which makes them feel
or laugh in order to avoid problems.
separate, alienated, and frustrated.
Christian, a studen t from NorOne st udent said, "I get depressed
because people can't see the real side way, had just arrived to study
English with the EF Language Col of me." He isn't alone.
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here at Evergreen. He had never
Genera ll y, there are three types of
people whom foreigners encounter: studied Engl ish before. Someone
said to him, .. Hi! What is your
those who aren't interested and
become impatient. those who are in- name?" T he person received a blank
terested but speak too fast, and stare. She asked again, slowly . Then
those who are interested and take the his face lit up, he raised his hand and
time to speak slowly . Obviously, the said "Ooooohhhh Kaayyyy!!"
Kurt Egloff, from Switzerland,
third type is the preferred person to
mentioned
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. meet , but they are hard to find .
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groups of words as one word. For
example, "Ya wanna go?" or
"Wat's hapnin'?" are really difficult
to translate on the spot.
A Japanese student, Yuriko, said
she can understand a lot, but when
she has to speak, it is very hard.
Maybe because "l's" and "r's" are
almost impossible to pronounce, intimidation mixed with shyness prohibits her from speaking freely.
To add more to the list of problems, native speakers of English do
not speak "correct English." They
speak dialects. As Kurt said, it is difficult to "feel" the language if
everything is run together. And
along with running words together,
we have words in our vocabulary
that change with location. For instance, "tennies,' "sneekers,"
"pop," and "soda" are western and
eastern words, particularly.
These days, it is becoming more
and more important for people to
learn English. American companies
and organizations are everywhere.
With the grow in g demand for
Eng lish teachers, less experienced
people are allowed to teach. In many
cases, the teacher doesn't speak
Engl ish well, or is a native speaker
that never studied how to teach
English.
Nevertheless, people who come to
the United States to practice their
Eng lish come from extremely different backgrounds and need to be
noticed as individuals.
For the past two months, [ have
had the fortunate opportunity to live
with the students of the EF
Language Co llege as their student
manager. If anyone would like to
mingle with someone from
"somewhere e[se," give me a call.
Kirty Erickson, ext. 5004.
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Charles McCann: "The things we
agreed on were just vague enough
so that the big chunks in between
allowed people a lot of room to
make contributions. "
M.L. King's dream of peace
and freedom .honored Monday
by William Lucy
leE!
Monday, January 20 marks the
first official observance of Martin
Luther King Day by the federal
government. It's worthwhile to take
a minute to reflect on what this new
holiday is all about.
On Martin Luther King Day we
are honoring an American who rejected violence in all its forms, who
fashioned nonviolence into a potent
weapon in the nation's never-ending
struggle for peace and social justice.
[n 1968 he was in Memphis, Tennessee to put his moral strength on
the line for AFSCME sanitation
workers who were struggling to
achieve dignity as blacks, as
workers, and as citizens. In Memphis, non-violence was met with an
assassin's bullet. but the spirit of Dr.
King's non-violence triumphed.
There are some who still see Dr.
King as having been the leader of a
narrow cause, as having been the
spokesman for a single group, but
this sadly misreads his life. Dr.
King's message wasn't "b[ack." [t
was resolutely American. He had an
unshakeable faith in basic human
goodness, and with exceptional
courage he preached the spirit of
love and reconciliation, preached his
dream of racial and economic justice
in the belief that injustice or oppression in any form, affecting anyone,
is a threat to all.
For a time, Dr. King epitomized
the civil rights movement. Under his
leadership, the civil rights movement
led to greater access to public
facilities, housing, employment, and
participation at all levels of society
for Blacks and other minorities. The
protests and other events he organized began a trail that led to such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act of
1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
the Fair Housing Act of [968, and
the Education Amendments and the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Amendments of 1972.
King's
message wasn't
'black'. It was
resolutely
American. "
Inspired by these examples, other
disenfranchised groups have struggled to secure their own rights.
Hispanics, Native Americans,
women, the aged, the poor, and the
handicapped: All have challenged
the prejudices and stereotypes that
had deprived them of full participation in our society.
Certainly no other American more
than Dr. King has so successfully
wedded the Amercan political ideal
of equality in the eyes of the state
with our religious belief of equality.
He shared that dream in a
remarkable speech of August 28,
[963 at a massive rally in
W~shington, D.C. for peace and
freedom. He told us he dreamed that
one day in Georgia, and elsewhere,
the children of slaves and .<[aveholders would "sit down together at
the table of brotherhood," that the
State of Mississippi would be
"transformed into an oasis of
freedom and justice," that one day
in Alabama, white children and
black children would join hands and
.. walk together as sisters and
brothers." He did not limit his
dream to any particular group or
place, for he urged that we let
freedom ring" .. . from every village
and every hamlet, from every state
and every city ."
Now, 57 years after his birth, 22
years after the "I have a dream"
speech, and [7 years after his death
the struggle goes on. Economic and
social misfortune stifles the hopes of
millions of Americans; human rights
remain in jeopardy here and abroad,
and the threat of war and conflict
shadows the world.
But at least one day of the nation's calendar is now set aside to
honor the belief that non-violent
struggle, on behalf of all people -whatever their race or creed or station -- is a noble American cause.
Mr. Lucy is Secretary-Treasurer
of the American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME). He was a close associote
of Dr. King and worked with him
during the 1968 Memphis strike.
Copyright, [985, The National
Forum
January 16, 1986
Evergreen founded with hope and ambiguity
Cross the language barrier
with patience and slow speech
Editorial:
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January 16, 1986
Bill Aldridge: "We would be an
educational community where lear.
nlng to live, learn, grow, investigate, invent--learning to be a
community--that would be our
education. "
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equal to everyone else in what they
have to contribute; because it might
be different doesn't mean it's less
or more. "
This month, President Olander ,
will coli together the EI'ergreen community to look at strategic planning
for the coming years. According to
college administrators, not only will
they be looking at what the members
of the college will be doing and
thinking over the next few years,
they will examine the college in light
of external factors such as
economical and political climates.
This three part series is an allempt
to put into perspective the planning
process for the Evergreen community at large. Today's Evergreen will
be examined in light of its history.
Discovering who we are will reveal
what Evergreen may need to soar into the '90's.
Does anybody remember the
1960's? It was the Beatles, the Great
Society, the Woodstock nation, Lee
laccoca's '64 Mustang, and a war
10,000 miles away. It was a decade
of conflict and of dreams. The
children of World War II came of
age, and the idea of The Evergreen
State College was born.
Founding President Charles
McCann, together with the founding
faculty and administrators, brought
Evergreen to Ii fe. The new co llege
was lln absolutely blank slate.
Everythi ng had to be done: land
found, buildings built, faculty hired,
curriculum designed.
Almost from the start, Evergreen
was to counterbalance what already
ex isted in higher education in
Washington state, McCann said.
Evergreen soon defined itself in
terms such as no grades, no departments, no faculty tenure, no requirements, no football team, etc.
From these negatives evo lv ed
positives like interdisciplinary study,
narrative evaluations, minimum red
tape for the community, cooperative
rather than competitive Iearninj;\.
McCann said that Evergreen never
had a blueprint or overriding idea
around which faculty and staff
operated. "If I had come here with
a blueprint that I was trying to get
everybody to follow, we wouldn't
have anything here."
"We got a few people together
that were ' agreed on the negatives,
agreed on the very vag ue positi ves
like internships and so forth, and
had some very good ideas of their
own. The business manager agreed
with me that administration is there
to serve' learning . He and a very
bright, shar,p staff put things
together in such a way that the tail
didn't start wagging the dog,"
McCann said.
If it didn't have a sharp
philosophical focus, how then did
Evergreen survive those first few
years? "One of the factors may have
been that the things we agreed on
were just vague enough so that the
big chunks in between allowed people a lot of room to make contributions that they fe lt were the important things for Evergreen," McCann
said.
Once agreed upon the negatives,
then agreed upon the vague
positives, the faculty went out on
their own to do what they were hired
to do: teach. But how? Out of the
vague positives evolved the book
seminar, the heart of the curriculum,
where original sources were used instead of textbooks. Along with the
book seminar came the faculty
seminar, the program covenant, and
the individual contract.
One of the founding faculty
members still teaching at Evergreen
is Bill Aldridge; currently teaching
the" Adult Life Explorations" program. In 1969, he left Oregon State
University af~er an eye-opening experience with a student there.
He told a story of a woman at
Mike Hall: "The
between
walls
students, staff, and
faculty were the
thinnest I've ever
seen
anywhere.
There was a real
sense of family, a
real sense of community purpose, and
very little sense of
separation due to
class status. "
OSU who came to him looking for
a course to enroll in. Because of a
foul-up in the school's processing of
her paperwork, she was shut out of
coursework that she needed in order
to graduate.
Ald rige suddenly realized that it
had been his school that had hurt
this woman. Until then, his stance
had been, "Yes, but ['m a nice
Nazi," as he put it. But soon after,
he decided to get o ut of higher
education fo r a while.
"It was out of the realization that
my university was hurting too many
people. The purpose wasn't really to
help people with their lives and [ was
part of that," Aldridge said. Then
he heard about Evergreen and was
eventually hired.
Like many of the founding faculty, Aldridge came to Evergreen with
a personal, idealistic dream. In a
paper titled "Evergreen Ten Years
Late r: Requiem for a Humanist's
Dream," Aldridge described what he
thought Evergreen might become:
"We would be an educational
community where learning to live,
learn, grow, investigate, invent learning to be in a community - that
would be our education, our mode
of learning, living, being. Yes, and
of loving, too."
[n a recent interview, Aldridge
said that people let the agricultural
village go without replacing it with
anything in the industrial and
modern age. "Here was a marvelous
opportunity to not only do a different form of education, but also
to create a new model for community, for being together," he said.
Unfortunately for Aldridge, reality clashed headlong into his dream.
He recalled incidents when his program was accused of pandering to
students, and where the administration would not allow him to use the
word "radical" in the title of one of
his pro~rams. Confronted with the
realitites of institutional life, he said
he went through a period of
rebellion and rage over the behavior
of the faculty and administrators.
After a time of quiet bitterness, he
found himself going through a kind
of professional growing, a maturity
in which he became more confident
and at ease professionally. He said
some of his dreams have been realized, but they've been tempered by
reality.
Mike Hall, the current Director of
Student Activities, was a student at
Evergreen from 1972 to 1974. Prior
to Evergeen, he attended three tradtional colleges. He found the faculty and atmosphere of those colleges
aloof and uninviting. Deciding that
blue collar was his direction, he gave
up graduating from college
altogether .
However, through a local connection, he heard about Evergreen and
decided to investigate. He was excited by what he saw. "The feeling
that [ had was that this was such an
exciting environment and the people
I met were so interesting and seem-
ed to have so much to offer.
"I felt this would be a golden opportunity to put myself in a community of people that really had
education instead of certification as
their primary goal.
"Here was a bunch of students sitting around on the floor of
somebody's li ving room sharing a
bottle of wine and talking in a
seminar setting with faculty
members as peers, as master
learner," Hall said.
As with a ny group of peop le'
brought together for a specific purpose, complaints abounded. In 1973,
letters to the Cooper Point Journal
(then called The Paper) spoke of
lack of communication, lack of
social interaction, factionalization,
and lack of identity.
According to a May 3, 1973 letter, the Cooper Point Journal was
formed as an answer to a perceived
communication and information
problem. On May 31, 1973, a fu ll page ad was published declaring,
"Evergreeners talk and talk and
talk ... Let's turn some talk into
action! "
Many of the early complaints are
echoed today. Student Amanda
Goldberg recently wrote a paper in
which many of the early complaints
are repeated. Goldberg also complains of information problems,
communication problems, and
alienation.
In her paper, Goldberg says,
"Without a common force uniting
the Evergreen 'communit y,' groups
become fragmented and individuals
isolated; there is a lack of concern
with the community as a whole and
a reluctance to accept social
responsibility ...
Goldberg, Co-Coordinater for the
Peace and Conflict Resolution
Center, is in her fourth year. Like
Mike Hall, she attended three other
colleges and was disenchanted with
what she had experienced there.
For Goldberg, the dream of
Evergreen is in the Social Contract
and other documents. "It's supposed to be a community and the ideal
was everyone's equal; the janitor is
equal to the student is equal to the
faculty is equal to the president.
However, she feels Evergreen may
be backing away from its ideals
somewhat.
Despite some enrollment crises,
image problems, and legislative
broadsides, students still came to the
college. They sensed something was
happening here, something different
and exciting .
Evergreen thus began as an unfocused dream, a vague wish to be
different. As a group, the students.
faculty. and staff in those early years
came with few specifics in mind,
beyond the negative feelings about
what they had experienced in traditional institutions . They came with
a desire to be unlike the rest , to
create new ways of doing things .
Next week: Evergreen's identity.
January 16, 1986
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liinited to 250 word s, signed,
and mu st include a daytime
phone number where the author
can be reached for consultation
o n editing for libel and obsceni'y. The editor reserves the right
to reject any material, and edit
any contributions for length,
content, or style. Letters mu st
be recieved no later than 5 p.m .
on Monday for that week 's
publication.
Grad Student
commends
S&A
To the Evergreen Community :
The late sixties and early seventies
were years of student activism. The
college students of the late seventies
and early eighties did not lack a
social conscience, but they grew
complacent about issues of world
peace and justice. Evergreen is an
outgrowth of the search for alte·natives to the status quo that turned America upside down in the sixties. The pendulum returns . Now we
must heed the cries for peace,
justice,
and
env ir onmen t al
protection .
There are 38 student groups at
Everg reen which serve a broad spectrum of student interests. The
groups are funded through the Services and Activities Board which
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January 16, 1986
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receives its money from student fees
deducted each quarter from your
tuition.
With the desire to better serve the
student population and improve
coordination among student groups,
the S&A coordillators began meeting
monthly in November, 1984. The
meetings were initially fOf the purpose of information sharing and
coalition building but quickly evolved into a round-table for discussing
current campus issues (i.e., security
handguns, governance) and making
recommendations on these issues.
This year, we further support improved coordination of student efforts and 18 f us have signed the
Agreement to Cooperate, as have
members of the S&A Board, Information for Action, and the Student
Wednesday Forum.
As student coordinators, we are
serving as representatives of the student body, and as such, will
periodically make policy statements
on current issues that affect students
on campus and the world at large .
Our monthly meetings are open to
all students and we welcome your input. Our goal is to speak the mind
of students, to increase awareness of
issues, and to foster positive change.
Sean Sinclair
Men's Resource Center
John Heal
Graduate Student Assoc.
P,S. The next meeting is January
22 at 1:30 p.m. in Lib . 3200 Lounge.
Students are
united
Dear Folks:
Lots of people who are students
at TESC have been working hard on
issues concerning students. Some of
these issues are cultural diversity,
SAGA's monopoly, and student
participation in campus-wide decision making. Some of this work has
met with some success. Some hasn't.
One reason it hasn't it that there is
a limit to how much influence a
single group or movement of
students -- no matter how right they
are -- can have. Increasing the
number of students involved helps .
But we've all got limited time and
competing desires. So there has been
a bit of competition for support and
notice. This hasn't got any of us very
far. What we need instead is a way
to implement the cooperative ideals
of our college. By acting to support
each other we will all get further
along, right?
Recognizing this, the following
conglomerations of students have
endorsed an Agreement to
Cooperate: Expressive Arts Network; S&A Coordinators; students
in the Repercussions movement; Student Wednesd.y Forum; S&A
Board; the students on the Governance DTF; and Information for
Action . UJAMAA is considering it
and acting as liaison with the
Tacoma campus. Several meetings
of people from these associations
have been held to plan further
cooperation and to respond to the
Advisory Board proposal. There will
be more . Here's the text of the
Agreement:
TO THE EVERGREEN COMMUNITY: We students at The
Evergreen State College, recognizing
the need for an effective voice for
students in the affairs of the community, and desiring that voice to be
representative of the great diversity
of people who are students at the
college, do hereby agree to cooperate
in: addressing the selection of stude nt repre se ntati ves to administrative boards a nd DTFs;
responding to the proposal for a
presidential advisory board; and ex-
amining other issues of concern to
students within this community. We
invite other movements, groups,
associations, and bodies of students
to join with us in these cooperative
ventures, and we wc:lcome communication with staff and faculty so
that our efforts may complement
others as we al\ work for continued
improvement of The Evergreen State
College.
Things are happening. You are
welcome to add our work to yours.
Info at (you'll never guess) the Information Center. Cheers.
James Mershon
byline irks
CPJ writer
vending machine is cheaper than that
from the Deli. This tends to fuel a
fire rather than be enlightening.
Wouldn't you have demonstrated
balanced journalism if you found
out that the Deli may be a more
labor-intensive operation, thereby
being more expensive to operate
than a vending machine. Did you
find out if there were a difference in
the quality offered by the two
services?
After my investigation of the food
services I realized that the real problem was "out there," off campus
in America. The problem is creeping inflation, which is denied by
governmental statisticians who provide us with deceptive indices.
Anyone who has gone to the supermarket for a few decades or who has
managed public institutions knows
this.
There is a problem here which
hooting and hollering will not solve.
Creative thinking may result in a
solution.
Irene Mark Buitenkant
To the Editor:
In the last quarter I did a report
which was not used by the CP J ,
about the food service here. When
I was invited to do a joint coverage
of the Saga boycott, I declined . I did
suggest that the information I had
gathered be used as resource
material. Nevertheless, I was given
a byline on a story I didn't write.
This disturbed me because the
story encouraged the kind of
thoughtless action characteristic of
yellow journalism. My report
answered some of the demonstrators '
questions and perhaps, would have
generated others. There probably arc
many issues to be seized and dealt
with, but they should be confronted
in a manner appropriate to a n institution which prides itself on
thinking.
One exam ple is quoti'ng someone
who said that food bought from the
Thanks
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through
the
state
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represent the culmination of
three years of work by the
Citizens
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Wildlife.
Volunteers, including Evergeen
students, worked tQ gain the
signatures needed to place the
initiative on the ballot for a vote
by state residents . Many
Evergreen students signed, and
as of the January 2 deadline,
over 200,000 signatures were
obtained. Now, let's get out and
vote!
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BOb sauntered in dressed as a turtle . The
costume was very authentic, although we never saw
the headpiece. Larry brought brochures for his new
business, Mime-for-the-Blind phone services. But
just when it looked like everything was going greai
and it appeared that two men in the comer were
actually shaking hands, it tumed out that Lenny was
just wiping off his finger on a mirror, No sooner
was the buffet table removed from the room than
the crowd thinned as if something that died had
just started to smell.
Yes, the '73 Hermit's Convention finally came off
last Thursday at the Plebo Inn in Tacoma. Appearing there were some of the most "popular" hermits in the world. Harvey Ostowood, the famous
poet (who spent the late '60's in a "Star Trek" lunchbox) read his poem " Shut up! Leave Me Alone!
Maybe I'll Never Give It a Title!" to resounding
apathy. Dr. Leonard Piltdown introduced Mr.
Kilkyor, an Asian yogin who spent 20 years
meditating whilst curled up inside a record jacket.
When "Dr. Piltdown showed him to the "crowd, "
the Indian holy man was in seclusion in a
microcassette recorder. Piltdown accidentally M the
"record" button and most of Kilkyor's childhood
was painfully erased .
Also on the panel was Ramone Keitell, the man
who brought major media disinterest to the hermit
movement in the late fifties. Keitell spoke just long
enough to insult the few people that showed up,
then he crawled under the dais for the remainder
of the evening.
Army General Walter Warfield was slated to give
a demonstration on camoflage, but he never showed up. The band "Cold Shoulder" backed out at
the last minue, opting to do some "serious food
shopping and comparison pricing. " Instead, they
sent a tape of their new album: "Back OfLCreep! "
"I don't know why they even bothered!" exclaimed Barney Lestman, the hotel's manager. "You
could have landed a DC-9 on the dance floor! These
people are depreSSing! I couldn't handle 'em! I
refused to even talk to any of 'em! I just went into
my office and locked the door! If this is what people
are gonna act like, then ta Hell with 'em! I don 't
want any part of it!"
All in all, it was an event not to be missed. I suppose I should've gone.
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The dinner hall of the Plebo Inn swells to capacity on the last big night of the hermit's convention .
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January 16. ·1986
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
page 9
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
January 16. 1986
Plastic Doc gives hope to the helpless
by Greg Gamble '
The 'following is an exerpt from Mr. Gamble's
as yet untitled book that recently hit the best-seller
charts and has been nominated for a well-known
award of some. kind. In this interview Mr. Gamble
met with Dr. Sydney Glavin, D.S.A.M. Y.O.B. Dr.
Glavin recently achieved unparalleled medical fame
by installing a human heart in a plastic dummy. (His
reverse operation gained some fame as well.)
I visited Dr. Glovin in his stately Kentucky home.
He greeted me at the door with a brilliant cappedtooth smile and a firm, un-nerving handshake. I'd
been told that the famous doctor resembled acting
great Gary Cooper. He was more like talkshow host
and former B-movie-great Gary Collins.
Here was a man that some have called a gifted
surgeon, a genuinely compassionate person, and
a physician dedicated to the preservation of human
life . Yet others see a blacker side. They call him
an American Mengele, a slick, money-hungry front
man with a twisted desire to create human beings
with interchangeable parts.
Perverse pitchman or devoted doctor? Formalities
exchanged, I began to discover the answer.
GG: What does D.B.A.M.Y.O.B. stand for?
SG Don't bother asking mind your own business.
GG: Doctor I couldn't help but notice your lawn.
You must be a golfer. It looks very durable.
SG: It's a beaute, isnt' it? It never gets weeds,
it beats mowing, trimming, edging , raking, and
watering the dang stuff. And what for? It just tums
yellow every summer. This stuff -- it's the future .
Guaranteed to last five years! Then I just rip it up,
lay down some new turf, and it's as good as new.
Very realistic "fems" hung in the comer by the
Z-brick mantle. I moved one of Dr. Glovin's hairpieces that were scattered around the room and
seated myself in a naughahyde loveseat. Dr. Glovin
entered with a frighteningly large pitcher of the
bright-orange toxin . Smiling he seated himself.
SG: Tang is such a happy drink, don't you agree?
GG: They couldn't miss by making it navalhazard-orange.
SG: Happy. Yeah. (His dentures grinned at me.)
GG: Doctor, if you would . please respond to this
comment by Democratic govemor Richard Lamm
of Colorado. I quote, "We've got a duty to die and
get out of the way with all our machines and artificia hearts, so that our kids can build a reasonable
life. "
SG: What are you saying? That we should let men
III!!I--~~-~------~- die when we have the technology to allow them to
live? A doctor is swom to protect life.
,
GG: Okay, Barney Shroeder, your plastic heart
Barney's cost over $200,000.
SG: Patients don't pay.
GG: Yet. And they probably won 't. The government will. There's an estimated 7500 candidates
per year Y!t10' d be eligible for the artificial heart.
That's $1.1 billion.
SG: Two Trident subs.
GG: But my point: why exchange mechanical
heart disease for human heart disease?
SG: You want some ice in that Tang? .
00: I saw Schroeder on TV. He looked an unusual
shade of grey"
.
SG: Hey! The operation was a success. He drank
a can of Coors only four days after the surgery.
GG: I know, I know. And he eats pizza for lunch,
flirts with nurses, talks with president Reagan, and
he can even speak a full sentence on his good days.
On his bad days he's just very grey.
SG: Barn's glad to be alive.
GG: In his position, would you be glad to be alive?
SG: You bet. Life's precious .
GG: Carrying around an 11-pound air compressor
is precious? Slurred speech and blurred memory
are precious? Being famous for being sick is
precious?
SG: Let me get you some more ice, okay?
Dr. Glovin was almost done with his pitcher of
Tang and took out a can of Cheez Wiz. I didn't see
any crackers around and I didn't want to see him
spray the stuff down his throat. I made my goodbyes and headed for the aluminum front door.
So farewell to the man who put Salt Lake City
on the map. If you 're interested in getting Salt Lake
City off the map you can write to :
The Sanity and Good Taste Coalition
P.O. Box 8 trillion and six
Federal Way, WA. 98023
GG: And ..it's ... uh, very attractive.
We sat.on the patio by the Kingdome carpet that
covered his back yard .
SG : Hey, let me get you something to drink. HiC? Tang? Coffee?
'GG: Coffee. With cream .
SG: Mocha Mix?
GG: Forget it. You got something simple like an
apple?
SG: Uh-uh. Nope. They put wax on 'em.
Let me get you some Tang .
GG: Thanks. No. I like your Christmas tree.
SG: Had it for years. Live one's are more trouble than they're worth, know what I mean? I'll get
that Tang. Wow, it's getting chilly! Come inside and
tum on the fireplace.
Dr Glovl'n recently
.recel'ved fame by I'nSt aII ing a hum an
heart I'n a plastl'c
dUmmy,
He was right. There had been an almost
noticeable change in the weather. I walked into his
"living" room and snooped around a bit while Dr.
Glovin fetched the astronaut juice. I wondered if
Neil Armstrong was a diabetic. A sun-lamp lit up
the simulated wood-grain finish on the coffee table.
patient, smoked his entire life and was well-known
for his temper. But, just when he's about to kick
off -- a MIRACLE! His old, abused heart is roundly
chucked for a neato, plastic replacement. Does he
not have to be accountable for his lifestyle?
SG: You sound like a fundamentalist! Judgement
for all those nasty health abusers, eh?
GG: No, but why encourage a dangerous lifestyle?
Or doesn 't the medical community want a healthier
society? Not much money in good health, is there?
SG: You're not being realistic.
GG: Okay, maybe not. Govemor Lamm continues
to say, "High-tech medicine is really a Faustian
bargain, where for a few extra days of life we have
to ·pay a price that could bankrupt the country."
SG: How can you put a price tag on life?
GG: How's $150,000 an operation sound?
Cooper Point Journal serves community's needs
R ecently it has become fashionable and
popular for certain segments of the Evergreen student body to engage, for some unfathomable
reason, in a totally unwarranted orgy of CPJ
bashing . In an attempt to refute these vicious attacks we, the Students Concerned with America 's
Morals (SCAM), have' initiated. an independent
survey to get to the truth of the matter. Does the
CPJ serve a vital function for the Evergreen and
Greater Olympia communities? Our conclusion is
an unqualified and uneQuivocable, " Yes!"
Through our unbiased survey process we have
developed absolutely undocumented, and therefore
irrefutable, evidence that we would like to share with
the nattering nabobs of negativity. We are not afraid
to voice our beliefs, unpopular as they may be.
However, we are submitting this article under
assumed names to protect the innocent and guilty
alike.
" If it weren 't fo r the CPJ, " said Smokey Choker,
proprietor of the Creosote Woodstove Company,
" I probably woon 't sell nearly so many stoves. I
seen it every fall since I been here. Folks come
troopin ' in with copies of the CPJ under their arms
and Whoop! They flang 'em right in the old burner.
They flare up real good. I sell lots of stoves in the
fall but I don 't hardly sell none in the summer when
their ain 't no CPJ around.
We assured Mr. Choker that the CPJ would con. tinue its efforts to enhance the economic development of the region and we set off in search of fur-
ther enlightening facts.
After receiving approval for an emergency fund
'a llocation for transporation from the S&A Board,
we took an Evergreen van and a couple cases of
Buckhorr. beer (for trading purposes only) to the
Nook-a-Gooey Resefvation on south Mud Bay. We
were met by the natives in their colorfltl:tr~l!itional
garb of purple Mohawks and Birkenstocks.
" You got the new CPfl." they asked us as we
got out of the college van. "We need more CPJ's."
"No," we replied . "We're on a fact-finding mission from God ."
" Oh , you want to talk to Chief
Hungluckagooeduk.' ,
" We found the venerable old chief squirming uncomfortably in the deck chair of his ancient Chris
Craft trying to wrap a thirty pound king salmon in
the current issue of the CPJ.
" Yup," the Chief said sagely, peering at us
through the cataracts that covered his wise old
eyes. "The CPJ means a lot to me and everyone
around here. It's a whole lot better than the Nickel
Ads. Not as much ink smearing onto everything ."
We mentioned the fact that the CPJ was considering increasing the number of pages to accomodate
more advertising .
" I don 't know if more pages is such a good
idea, " he mused as he pulled a forty pound king
out of the hold and flopped it onto a fresh copy
of the Journal. " Bigger pages. They should make
the pages BIGGER."
The CPJ also serves a vital function in meeting
the needs of Thurston County's impoverished and
homeless. One cold moming we interviewed Depot
Joh Oh! under the Gazebo in Sylvester Park, where
he was wrapped up in a bundle of CPJ 's.
" Sometimes its hard to find adequate quantities
of dry, low cost insulation," he told us. "That's
when the CPJ comes in mighty handy. In fact, under
the Gazebo the boys call it the CPJama. I just wish
the pages were a little thicker." Mr. Oh! also told
Sound and the CPJ is there when it counts. To those
critics interested in such inconseQuentials as news
we offer the above evidence as a refutation of their
unreasonable crusade. We do not understand, nor
do we particularly care about the reasons we do
this. That we do it is reason enough .
The only suggestions we dare make for improving the CPJ is that the Editorial Staff should increase
both the size and fiber content of its pages. This
would make it cute and cuddly and even more
useful. And make sure it stays free! Because only
a free press can deliver the quality of service this
"Folks come troopin' in here with copies of the
CPJ under their arms and Whoop! They flang 'em
right in the old burner. They flare up real good,, "
us that he occasionally gathers large numbers of
the Joumal and wheels them up to the paper recycling depot.
community has come to depend upon.
"I can usually collect enough of them to pay for
a quart of Buckhorn and it doesn 't cost me anything
but a little shoe leather. Is that what they mean by
a free press?"
"You bet," we assured him as we popped the
tops on another round of cold brews .
There are a million stories in the South Puget
Sincerely,
SCAM , Students Concerned with America's
Morals
R.P. Tyler
C. Murray
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" It was early in '81 , and we were having a few
beers one night in the back room of a Maryland
baar, when Casper started muttering something
about one last hope for our military, far from the
threat of pinko, commie, liberal, fascist, imperialist,
materialistic, vegetarian conservatives. We a"
thought he'd flipped until he told us his plan. Then
we knew he had, but it had a certain chann to it,
not to mention military feasability.
Now the story can be revealed. It was in that
smoke-filled room that the Pea-Chee A" Season
Classified Portfolio was born. Seventeen billion
dollars for a cheapl yellow folder that kept tearing .
and needed another fifteen billion in masking tape
to hold the damn thing together. At the time, I felt
it to be a strategic imperative ... " --from the soon
to be published memoirs General Rex "Thunderbuns" Thompson , U. S, Army retired.
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January 16, 1986
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
January 16, 1986
Freeway funsters
add joy to commute
by Sharon Lee Nicholson
A 't 16, I would have sold my soul to have this
chance (maybe not my soul, but at least one Jantzen coordinated sweater outfit). Driving. Every day.
On the freeway. I'm not 16. The Jantzen outfit long
ago found its way into the Goodwill bag. But I drive.
Every day. On the freeway -- and I hate it.
Someone in the great word factory in the sky invented "commuting" to describe this daily experience of naked human terror. Not that I'm a poor
driver. Nor, for that maner, are the other folks on
the freeway. It's just that the business of hurtling
along at 55 mph, each driver in a private, fourwheeled universe, exposes the human animal to torture the Geneva Convention ought not to condone.
You want examples? I'll give you examples -- all
in one day's commute.
Mu~iple activity driver. That's the sort of person
who can't bear to waste time while driving. Aside
from aiming the car south on 1-5, there 's make-up
to be applied (using the rear-view mirror), stubbly
faces to be shaved (no mirror required, apparently) and business leners to be dictated. That's just
one five-mile stretch . These folks seem perfectly
at ease with only 50 percent of theirt1ention on the
road.
Then, of course, there 's the fellow who just finished reading "Winning Through Intimidation," and
practices his new skills in all three lanes. He means
to intimidate. You know him. He's the one who accelerates to 62 mph, maneuvers past you then inserts his car between you and the car in front. After
seWing into position, tuming off his signal, he promptly reduces his speed to 54, successfully
hampering your tuel economy and mental balance.
I don't mean to cast aspersions only on
automobile drivers. There are other challengers out
there. That mega-ton 18-wheeler coming up on your
rear firmly believes with Archie Bunker that "might
makes right, " and he has the might to make it stick.
I believe him and stay out of his path.
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'I heart NY.'"
Someone in the great
word factory in the sky
invented the word
"commuting" to
describe this daily experience of naked
human terror.
When my sa (stress quotient, a guage for emotional well-being) screams off the top of the chart,
I take my eyes from the road momentarily to marvel
at Mount Rainier. Before my mind has a chance
to meander from from 1-5, I notice the business
meeting in the beige Volvo just ahead. That's right,
a business meeting. Actually, it was three Brooks
brothers suits embroiled in a critical discussion,
preparing to break the big news.
Driver, passenger and back-seat passenger (clear·
Iy a subordinate) seemed light years away from the
middle-aged Vega along side of them . How could
they not notice. That little mini-polluter was belching
more particles into the air than the EPA would need
to shut down an entire industry.
Oh, sweet relief. There's Exit 104 and one more
day of survival. Hate freeway commuting? No, I
suppose I don't hate it, but it's right up there with
going to the dentist and washing dishes. They give
me joy because I survive!
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11IE COOPER POINT JOU1tNAL
pa8e II
DTF draft report draws criticism at meeting
by Josepb G. FoDansbee
What this is all about
After putting out two successful pullout sections last quarter, the Cooper Point Journal has decided
to have regular magazine pullouts. The staff decided the best possible format was to have three
regular magazines come out in a cycle. This humour issue, Warmed-Over Cabbage, is the first
magazine in the cycle. The second magazine will be the rock music mag, Groovy Tooth, which
first appeared at the end of last quarter. The last of the trio will be Arion, the Cooper Point Journal's biggest move from the newspaper format. Arion will house experimental joumalism, creative
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Objections regarding the adequacy of a student voice on the proposed Advisory Board to the president dominated discussion of the
All-Campus Governance Disappearing Task Force (DTF) draft report
last Wednesday in Lecture Hall I.
Some students said student interests
could not be fully articulated by any
student representative.
About 30 students and staff met
with members of the Governance
DTF, whose final report is due
January IS. Many of those who
commented on the report said the
draft proposal promoted divisiveness
and factionalization on campus.
Caroline Dobbs, DTF chairperson,
observed that no faculty members
were presen t in the audience.
Students complained the charge
given to the DTF by President
Olander was too limited and assumed wrongly that the college was
divided into separate constituencies,
that is, as the charge defines them:
students, faculty, and staff. The
students said Evergreen should be
thought of as a whole community,
rather than a collection of competing
interests and therefore the board
would be against the Evergreen spirit
of community and cooperation.
Members of the DTF said they
discussed the charge given to them
photo by Jennifer lewis
The DTF discussed the report.
among themselves and decided to ac- vice on policy directly to President
cept it as is. After considering the Olander.
charge, which asked them to develop
"I see it not as comprehensive a
a new campus-wide governance notion about governance as we've
body that would advise the president had in the past. I see it as focusing
on policy matters, they designed a 12 in more to the piece of governance
member board with three members that makes sure that the president,
each for the constituencies of facul- •as the ultimate decision maker, is inty, students, and staff plus two at- . formed about community interests
large seats and one seat for the presiand needs. It's an experiment," she
dent himself.
said.
The members of the DTF said
Some students opposed the idea of
they believed the Advisory Board
the Advisory Board and represenwould promote communication and
tative government for the college.
Student Clay Zollars said he felt he
information across constituencies.
Caroline Dobbs said in an interview
would not be represented on the
after the meeting that the Advisory
board and that the school did not
Board may help members of the
need a government bureaucracy or
Evergreen community feel they have
a "representative dictatorship."
more reason to participate in goverSince the president would be sitnance since the board will give adting on the board, some students
Students listened and offered opinions.
charged that any advice given to the
president by the board would be colored by his presence and create the
danger of making the board a "rubber stamp." The DTF members
agreed to consider a recommendation that the president be made a
non-voting member of the board.
Other students said that as the
proposal stands, students would not
have direct access to the board. They
suggested a town meeting format be
written into the final proposal,
which the DTF agreed to consider.
A few members of the audience expressed general support for the proposal. Student John Malone, in an
interview after the meeting, said, "It
brings together for the first time the
groups on campus : facuIty, staff,
and students."
Greenerspeak: HWhat form would you like to see student government take?
photo by Jennifer lewis
Members of the DTF expressed
hope that those sitting on the Advisory Board would consider the
needs of the entire community as
well as their constituencies needs.
Stone Thomas, Dean of Student
Development, questioned the lack of
a mechanism to ensure minorities
and women were represented on the
Advisory Board. The DTF agreed to
consider language addressing this
issue.
Student James Mershon was
concerned about the Advisory
Board ' s role in the upcoming
strategic planning meetings called by
President Olander. "It's impossible
to make good comments on the Advisory Board proposal without
knowing the relationship of it to the
strategic planning ' council ."
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
January 16, 1986
page 13
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Children's theater tickles with puns and color
Swim team beats Portland, loses to PLU -
by Joseph G. Follansbee
by Bob Reed
The Evergreen swim teams started
off the second half of their seasons
with victories in Portland over
Portland Community College. The
men's score was 83-22 and the
women's was 67-35.
Max Gilpin led the men with victories in the 200 yard individual
medley, the 100 yard breastroke and
the 200 yard freestyle. Robert Bruns
had victories in the SO and 100 yard
free and Casey Pratt won the SO yard
fly. Pratt, Bruns, and Gilpin swam
with Pieter Drummond for a win in
the 200 yard free relay and J.R.
Baldwin won the men's diving.
Highlights for the women included victories by Martha Grazier in the
100 yard freestyle, Ann Remsberg in
the SO yard breastroke, Erica Pickell
in diving, and the team of TawnyYoung, Pickell, Remsberg, and
Grazier in the 200 yard medley relay.
The next time my cat catches a
mouse, I won't feel sorry for the
mouse. Seeing the Seattle Children's
Theater production of "Puss in
Boots" convinced me the mouse
might be an ogre in disguise.
Playwright Greg Palmer brings
together a gluttonous queen, avery,
very nice boy, an organic ogre, and
Swifty, the Wonder Horse plus
assorted other madcap characters in
a delightful adaptation of the French
fairy tal~. Palmer creates a theater
experience for the whole family with
di<rlogue full of really awful puns for
the adults and plenty of colorful action for the kids . "Puss in Boots"
is the best production I've seen at
SCT so far.
The simple story Jakes a gentle
miller's son recently thrown out into the street by his evil borthers and
turns him into the Marquis of
Carabas, an event orchestrated by
his clever feline, Puss. Together they
meet the Queen and her court and
Iggy Ogerly, the ogre and learn
something about friendship along
the way. As I watched the show, the
children in the audience were
fascinated, even the little 2-year-old
beside me.
Palmer, according to the program, has been writing comedy and
satire professionally since 1967 and
appears regularly on KING Television's "Top Story." Inspired by the
holiday pantomimes performed in
England, Palmer follows the panto
tradition of having men play
womert, women play men, and
everybody plays animals. Director
Linda Hartzell brings off the tradition well for "Puss in Boots."
In such a production, strong performances are called for and the entire cast comes through. Especially
good were Rob Burgess, as Puss.
and John Pribyl, as the hysterical
Queen. Costume Designer, Guy
Beuttler, should get an award for the
Queen's hair. Special mention
should be made of Julia Smith, as
the nice boy, For her understated
performance which complemented
the high energy action.
Not only does "Puss in Boots"
feature wonderful live actors, pup-
Renaissance Jazz
pets-play an important part of the
show. Designer Ted Bernard has
created a variety of animals and people that add a special appeal. The
show also features a fine musical
score by CliFf Lenz, who appears
on KING-TV's "Good Company."
For once, the songs and background
music don't interfere with or interrupt the action.
"Puss in Boots" is yet another example of SCT's long history of
presenting for children stage adap
tations of classic literature. Other
productions have included adapta-
tions of Alexander Dumas' "The
Count of Monte Cristo" and
Moliere's "The Miser." .
SCT also serves the Puget Sound
area in other significant ways, providing acting and performance
classes for young people. One interesting part of every show is the
question and answer session at the
end of every performance. Not surprisingly, the kids more often than
not come up with more intelligent
questions than the adults.
"Puss in Boots," partly underwritten by KING Television, was
videotaped for broadcast and shown
last month. According to the "Puss
in Boots" program, KING Television plans to broadcast the tape in
all the markets it serves. Members of
the audience at the live performance
I saw, however, commented the live
show was better .
Unfortunately, "Puss in Boots"
closed January 5. SCT's next production, "Robin Hood," opens this
month at the Poncho Theater in
Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. For
details, call Seattle Children's
Theater at 1-633-4567.
Visions of Excess aptly titled
by Paul Pope
Remember Alan Parsons? Boring,
right? Yet you never knew who he
might have playing on one of his
albums . Now, this is Golden
Palominos, the child of drummer
Anton Fier and bassist Bill Laswell.
Definitely not boring! They have
pushed Parsons' approach of
assembling guest musicians to the
edge. Among this horde are
guitari5ts Jody Harris; Richard
Thompson; and Michael Hampton
of P-Funk All Star fame .
"Visions of Excess" is aptly titled. Each musician is trying to prove
something, and none more than Fier
whose heavy drums dominate at
points to distraction. Still, it is Fier's
record, and he has attempted to use
the vocals as its thrust. Side A
features REM's Michael Stipe
on"Boy" (GO), "Clustering Train"
(which he co-wrote) and a cover of
Moby Grape's "Omaha." Here
Stipe's visual droning is impassioned and desperate.
Side A's last cut is an unidentified
cover, "The Animal Speaks," John
Lydon's twisted offering reminiscent
of live Iggy Pop. Lydon's wounded
intonations are classically sick -shrieking and shamanistic. Lydon is
the only vocalist (?) able to steal his
song from Fier. (Hey, Anton, take
a lesson in moderation from Martin
Chambers). Fier further throws this
record off balance by drowning
Laswell's lean bass lines. Close
listening carries a slight hint gasping
for air beneath the DMX.
Coach Bruce Fletcher singled the
personal bests by Burke Anderson
and Richard Briney, and the improved efforts of Andtea Deetken and
Ellie Rosenthal. The teams didn't get
much of a break as they followed the
Friday meet with the Lewis and clark
Relays in Portland on Saturday.
Amidst tough competition, the
women's team placed sixth out of
nine teams while the men were
seventh out of 10 teams.
Drummond, Pratt, Anderson and
Bruns were fourth in the 400 yard
1M relay and Pratt, Gilpin and
Bruns were fourth in the 300 yard
breastroke relay.
"We had some real good efforts,"
Fletcher said, concerning Louise
Brown, who had strong performances in the 300 yard breastroke
and 400 yard medley relays, and
Erica Pickell, who was second in
diving.
B-Side offers "Silver Bullet,"
curiously featuring Jack Bruce on
vocals, once bassist for Cream
(Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton),
"Silver Bullet" may just have easily hailed from the days of "Strange
Brew." The remaining cuts are sung
by Sid Straw and Arto Lindsay.
"Head Office," being shown at
the Lacey Cjnema this week, is a
delight. This movie presents the
same kind of ragout shown in movie
shorts during World War II. Bing
Crosby would appear singing
patriotic songs while selling Chesterfield Cigarettes.
"Head Office" eats a sacred cow.
"Banish Misfortune, " thejau trio above, will play in the Recital Hall
on Friday, January 24, at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 general and 13.50
for students, seniors, and KAOS subscribers. Free childcore available.
It portrays the image of a multi-
national corporation, in the same
way that "The Russians are Coming,
the Russians are Coming" ridiculed
Want a little?
the Cold War, "Dr. Strangelove"
pointed a finger at the Pentagon and
"The China Syndrome" discredited
nuclear power plants.
At the beginning of this movie,
Eddie Albert, CEO (chief executive
officer of a corporation identified as
INC) is in a helicopter flying over a
large city. While pointing out how
many skyscrapers he owns, he says,
"Just think, I arrived in this town
just a few years ago with only $43
million in my pocket."
Satire, which is well done in this
film, is always a more effective way
to criticize than a lecturing. If the
story is not the whole truth, the components certainly are. Our country
prides itself on the fact that the
welfare of the individual is higher
than the state. However it seems acceptable in the world of corporations
that the corporate welfare comes
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the 400 yard relay and seventh in the
800 yard, with times of 3:30.86 and
8:06.38, respectively. UPS won the
800 yard relay with a 7:08.93 clocking, breaking the meet record by 12
seconds. Central used three out of
Whitman diver Erica Roetman,
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meter division, with PickiJI finishing
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The Evergreen swimming team in their home pool.
SPORTS IN BRIEF---....
RUN!!! JUMP!!! THROW!!! Yes, the infamous Evergreen Track team is at it once
again. If you enjoy any of the above or other
related track activities. Come travel with the
team, enjoy a good workout and the spirit of
team comradery. Men and women at all skill
levels are welcome. Head coach Pete Steilberg will be working with distance coach Art
Kuebel and throwing coach Paul Kelly. Most
workouts will be Monday - Friday; between
4 - 6 PM. Call ext. 6537 or stop by CRe 302 .
fhe tennis teams are once agam poundmg
those balls as they' get psyched for their first
match, this coming February. The women's
team has grown and presently includes six
players. The men's team has had regular
turnouts of eight to twelve players, which has
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Workouts include afternoon practices Monday thru Friday, several morning practices
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Interested players (especially women) can call
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The swim teams traveled to Portland last
weekend and came away with victories over
Portland C. C. The swimmers put together
some solid efforts at the Lewis and Clark
Relays, too. Teams from Alaska (Fairbanks
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the four swimmers that won the 400
yard relay at nationals last year to
win that event at PLU with a time
of 3:10.39.
Fletcher said he was pleased with
several of the performances by
Drummond, Alan Aldrich, Richard
Briney, David Koenig and Jeroe
Rigot. Drummond swam a 100 yard
leg of the 400 yard relay in 52.09, a
personal best and just three seconds
from the nationals qualifying time.
Aldrich and Briney both took two
seconds off their personal bests in
the 50 yard freestyle, while Koenig
and Rigot set personal marks in the
100 yard butterfly and the 100 yard
freestyle respectively. Fletcher said
he was also pleased to see friendships
form and team spirit grow during the
large amount of time the group spent
together.
Divers place first
in home meet
Erica Pickill, Evergreen diver, used her home pool to advantage and
took first place in the three meter
division of the first annual Evergreen
Invitational Diving Championships
held Saturday, December 7, at 10
a.m.
"Visions of Excess" is crowded,
but it is that suffocating rush that
throws the listener into a dance frenzy. A word of caution -- Golden
Palominos does run wild, its hooves
are thunder and deafening.
before anyone.
The film depicts executives
destroying themselves physically,
psychologically and morally as they
clamber over one another in their
zeal to get the comer office with windows on two sides at the top of the
aerie. The situation may not be
laughable but the way it is shown in
this movie, you will laugh.
This film helps vent the spleen of
people who are angry about lack of
control over their lives. It will
enlighten a few innocent people who
haven't thought about how their
society is structured.
While we don't know what the effectiveness of "Head Office" could
be, the results of the three satires
mentioned above, while provoking
laughter and thought, didn't stop the
proliferation of bombs, or the Cold
War, or close all the nuclear plants.
Ellie Rosenthal (breastroke), and
Kandis Cantlon (sprint freestyle).
Last sesaon the women bypassed the
relays but this time competed in six
relay events.
Casey Pratt had the top Evergreen
individual showing of the meet and
also swam with Jake Towle, Pieter
Drummond and Eric Seeman in two
strong relay performances. Pratt was
10th out of 23 swimmers in the 100
yard butterfly with a 59.30 clocking,
and had a personal best of 2:13.16
in the 200 yard individual medley
by Bob Reed
Head Office eats sacred cow' -by Irene Mark Buitenkant
The men host powerhouse Central
-Washington and the women host
Simon Fraser Friday, January 17 at
4 p.m.
Although Evergreen swimmers
didn't win any races at the Pacific
Lutheran University Invitational
December 6 and 7, they did record
a number of pcirsonal bests and
strong relay performances. The
women were led by steady Martha
Grazier, who had times of 29.24 and
1:06.33 in the SO yard and 100 yard
freestyle events, respectively.
- Ann Remsberg was right behind
her with times of 29.95 and 1:06.90
in the same events. Coach Bruce
Fletcher said Grazier'S times were
good for this stage of the season and
that Remsberg swam well, expecialIy considering she has missed a
number of workouts.
Fletcher also singled out the efforts of Louise Brown (backstroke),
Former NCAA diver Terry Forrey, now diving for Central
Washington State College, used his
added experience to easily win the
men's one meter and three meter
divisions. "He has the potential and
the dives to win nationals," said
Evergreen diving coach Debbie
Rodgers.
This was the first meet for
Evergreen's Steve Wadsworth, who
placed sixth in -the one meter division. "I was pretty happy. It was a
real learning experience," he said .
With two more years of eligibility remaining after this season, he plans
to continue working on hi s
mechanics.
Rodgers hopes to send PickiJI and
J . R. Baldwin, who was absent
because of illness, to nationals. She
emphasized the importance of h~d
work and competitive consistency,
adding that this was the first meet
of the season. "The Evergreen divers
practice a lot better than they compete. The whole idea is to be
consistent. "
Rodgers knows what it takes to be
a good diver . She was a two year
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The Expressive Arts Network is a Student Organization designed for the purpose of bringing Evergreen artists· together, having arts information available to the Evergreen community,
organizing projects that will move the Expressive Arts on this campus. If you have artistic interests, attend the Expressive Arts Network meetings at 5 p.m. Tues., in t~e Rotunda. Help
to write articles, brainstorm projects, install exhibits, or create a student archive. Mailboxes are located in Lab 11 on the second floor, in the COM building, and newsletter information
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Bill Schneider
Joe Smith's Theatrical Debut
by Marty BroWD
On Tuesday, Jan. 21, in a secret character of Joe Smith. The sets are
room beneath the Rotunda. there composed of wood, tin cans, day-glo
will be eight different performances paint, aluminum foil, and other
of "Joe · Smith Confronts The small treasures. There are several
Powers That Be." The presentation sculptures and one large painting.
is the result of a collaborative effort He's created a kind of mayhem, a
between local artists, musicians, per- chaotic backdrop, a psychedelic
formers and poets, who have been landscape. "The 'thing' is a colworking ·on the project for the past laboration of folks doing their parfive months. Members of the au- ticular pet projects--sets, poems,
dience will embark on a half hour music--and putting it together like
tour through the life and times of boards and nails go into a house.
Joe Smith. The production will in- We've all trusted each other's creacorporate sculptures, paintings, tions, and tried to move from a
words, music, and several surprises. framework theme to a cohesive,
"It's like a musical theater pro- final thing," Schneider said.
duction, but it's not like popular
Last July, Schneider approached
musical productions that you'd go to Evergreen student Jonathan Kline
Broadway and see," said Connie about collaborating on a play.
Bunyer, an Evergreen graduate "That's how this thing got started,"
who, along with Courtney said Kline, "Bill asked me to write
Crawford, Michael Dahlquist, and a play because he wanted to make
Jonathan Kline, will perform in the the sets. So then I asked this team
piece. "The sets are what really of crazed performers if we could
make it seem theatrical," she said. come up with a collaborative effort,
Olympia artist Bill Schneider has because it seemed like a better idea
spent about 300 hours over the past than me trying to sit down and write
few months designing and building a script. So its evolution has been
the sets . He also conceived the between Courtney, Connie, Michael,
and I, with certain input from Bill,
positive and negative."
There is no script for" Joe Smith
Confronts The Powers That Be."
Instead there is an outline of actions
and sound that are to occur as the
audience moves around the sets, and
through a series of rooms. "We've
designed an environment that would
be thoroughly engrossing in an art
gallery. We've taken that environment and we've each come up with
live performances to deliver in those
spaces," Crawford said.
The collaborative process it involved w~ a long one, and not
always easy. The performers went
through "different stages of
brainstorming and structuring and
brainstorming and cutting things
out, as a group effort," said Bunyer.
"It's such a pain to work with peo-.
pie sometimes. They're late. You .
have to wait. The organization is incredible. The running around is just
exhausting. But it's great. Collaborations are wonderful too,
because you get ideas from so many
different people," she said.
A lot of time, energy, and money
have gone into this production.
When it's over, it's over. The performances won't be repeated, and
Bill Schneidtr's artwork won't be on
public display after Tuesday.
You probably know Joe Smith.
He could be your uncle, your bus
driver, your friend, or your accountant. He could be you. "Joe Smith,
life and death, are about common
ground," said Schneider, "A little
of Joe is in us aU." So don't miss
Joe Smith's theatrical debut on Jan.
21. Show times are at Noon, 12:30;
I p.m., 1:30, 8 p.m., 8:30, 9 p.m.,
and 9:30, underneath the lecture hall
rotunda. Only 15 people will be
allowed in each audience, so don't
be late. Child care is provided and
donations are welcomed.
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forces affecting the role of men in
the family.
Jan. 30: Word Is Out. Interviews
with 26 people who speak tellingly,
funnily, and movingly of their experiences as gay men and women in
a way that destroys stereotypes.
Feb. 6: Ornette: Made in
America. This film celebrates the life
arid career of one of jazz's most
dynamic innovators, Ornette Coleman. The movie kicks off with a
,...-"..-----, concert in the saxaphonist's home
town in Texas, and chronicles his
youth, his contribution to the "free"
style of jazz in the late '50's, and
how he continues to tour today .
Feb. 13: All thllt Hellven Allows at
7 p.m. and Merchants of the Four
Seasoos at 4:30 and 9:30. The first
is a heart-tugging melodrama of love
in the face of social intolerance. The
second is the story of a fruit peddler
who watches his unexceptional life
MX. Defense policies of the U.S. are
examined, emphasing this country's
top-level corporate and banking
links with fascism for over 60 years.
Jan. 23: Five Ellsy Pieces and
Heroes lind StTII.ngers. The former is
about a restless drifter who returns
home to visit his dying father and is
forced to come to terms with his
unhappy past and uncertain future.
The latter is a short look into the
Feb 20: Flnt la tlte PWilipmes.
'A Film History of the SeOregon Volunteer Regiment, "
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this film documents the experiences
of the first army unit to arrive in the
islands in the United States' first war
outside the western hemisphere. The
director will be at both shows, and
will talk with a UW professor about
the Phillipines today at the 7 p.m.
show.
Feb. 27: Imllges Before my Eyes.
Vividly recreates Jewish life in
Poland from the late 19th century
through the 1930's.
March 6: Marillnne lind Juliaoe.
The story of two sisterS during Germany's post WWll turmoil.
March 13: Variety. Christine is an
attractive, hip and unemployed
young woman. Taking a job as
ticket ~eller at a porn theater, she
gradually becomes obsessed with the
sounds and images that surround
her. She develops a fascination with
one of the customer to the extent of
shadowing his movements ar'oWld a
noir-ish Manhatten. "A daring
departure into the dark obsessional
world of female fantasy" -~LA
Times.
note left at the end of the G.S.L. line:
Student artist
still in coma
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now that the cold blue beaks of these florescent
lights and computers and returning acquaintances have
picked clean the soft relaxed flesh of my winter
vacation, what am i supposed to do with the bones?
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Blaine Walker
Suslln Reams
New Year's Eve night an unfortunate thing happened. Long time
Olympia resident Rick Lewis was
brutally beaten after attending a
music show in Seattle.
Rick Lewis has been a prolific artist, musician and director in Olympia for a number of years. His large
oil paintings adorn many Olympia
resident's walls. Lewis attended
Evergreen from Spring 1976 to
Winter 1977, and now resides in
Olympia. New Year's Eve Rick and
some friends left the 1411 Gallery
after attending the U-Men concert.
The group witnessed the youths
kicking a bum in the face. Someone
called out to the boys. The boys approached the group and more boys
appeared. Blows were interchanged.
Reports claim that the youths were
trained in Martial Arts . Lewis was
repeatedly kicked in the head. His
friends fell to the ground in protection. Five others were listed injured
on the police""feport: Jimmie May of
Tacoma, Janson Swainson of
Alaska, Skip Kubeck of Renton,
Scott Burroughs of Tacoma, and
Tracy Thompson, an Evergreen student. It is believed that Lewis suffered the most damage simply
because he was at the head of the
group.
There are rumors that 'I Seattle
gang called "The Blue Mesh" is
responsible for the beating, but there
is no evidence to support this claim.
One suspect has been taken into
custody on another beating incident
on December 17, but could be involved in the Lewis beating.
Lewis has been in extremely
critical condition since that evening,
but now is in serious condition, according to Harborview. Apparently
he can hear people talking to him,
and even moved his hand when he
was asked. Brain damage is possible,
and it is not known how long he will
remain in the hospital. Probably
months. Debbie Roraback, Lewis's
housemate in Olympia is trying to
get help from Medicare to pay for
the enormous cost that months in the
hospital will incure. Hopefully, a
benefit of some sort building a fund
to aid in medical payments and
transportation costs for Lewis's
friends can be organized. If anyone
has any leads on a space which could
be used for a benefit · they should
contact the Expressive Arts Network.
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The Virgin ,Mary
lives 'with in
a small glass box
on the lawn owned by
the guy next door
No rain or air
can . reach her there
O.P.D.
This cold night bluffs small crime,
young lovers without a bed, poets
But I know something
he can't know
transient. A poem about something deep
beats my pen into a plow---
She can't get out
of the small glass box
on the lawn owned by
the guy next door
lemon. seeds I'll shit and sow. "The Man"
in his car crawls through Oly's empty
I guess he bought
her too
streets, bored with old coffee, said calm.
I watch him unseen, cradled high in
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Dennis Held
knotted fingers ... wanting to piss
so bad I can taste it.
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Skank Rabbit
I
AN IMPERA TIVE
Thalia on the Nile
(Thalia is the Greek Muse of Comedy. She carries a drum)
I was drowning in good times when I saw your little smile.
If your smirk had cracked, I wondered,
would it be a crocodile's?
And we would have all died laughing,
laughing on the Nile.
Oh, Thalia,
you're a pretty girl
and a pratfall sent from God.
With your laughing songs and delirious drum
you play for the Acrobat of Wine
capering chaotically in syncopated time,
Pause... and plunge
reel and
lear
into clear
O-bfivion.
0, Thalia,
So nice of you to visit my dream.
It's such a funny scheme
And though I don't know the joke.
I wonder how many times I'll crack-up
before I'm finally broke.
Sweet Hilarious Muse,
Help me lose these blues.
I can be your chortling fool.
Polish my nose in the swollen sun for fun,
Or meet you in the blind night's mind.
Hoist anchor out of day and ride your merry tide.
How far to the fatal pratfall?
Well, hell,
You sing a river song.
I'll hum along.
0, Thalia.
R.P. Tyler
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"Heroes and Strangers," f()CUMS
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Thursday night films line up eclectic bunch
Thursday night films is a weekly ,
S&A subsidized event. This quarter's
schedule has a wide range of littleknown films, often co-sponsored by
a student group. Usually the film
shows in LH 1 for $1.50, at 7 and
9:30 p.m., and free childcare is
available in the rotunda basement
for the 7:00 show. Pass tickets to all
IO shows are available for $10.
Tonight: America: from Hiller to
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
Paul Pope, Poetry Editor..J
Strange coins are words,
their purchase far stronger
than the grip of this house
slipping toward the sea
on a feather or dream,
on too many things
to name or seize
with such narrowed vision as we've mastered:
listen.
H.D.H. Trout
Second Nature?
It was bourbon and luke warm drafl beer
The barmaid informed me the complicated gas in the coolel
was either tired or timid
I don't recall which
I remember there were five songs on the Wurlitzer that movelwhatever it is inside a person that music moves
That worked out just fine
It jived with the two quarters I would feed the slot
every twenty minutes
Everyone else in the dimly lit dungeon
was oblivious or too cheap to play anything elsf'
I always got drunk faster in a bar
Maybe my bones absorbed the fumes from the racks of bottle,
or maybe it was simply self-defense
Possibly it was because the machines
never seemed to have more than half a dozen songs
that a man could befittingly get drunk by
It is diffiCUlt getting used to writing poems
about drinking in the past tense
My body is helping my spirit pray that it becomes second nature
Robert Haines
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