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Volume XVI
Number 10
December 3, 1987

A Seed Is Growing
Table
of
Contents
LETTERS ..... . ................. ... ... 3
• A mixed bag of AIDS , governance
and library issues.
INFORMATION .................. 4-5
• The Olander Report
• Evergreen '87/88 swimmers making
history
OPINION .................... . . . .. 9-10
• Education doesn't need Master
Plan: a reply to previous opinon
FEATURE .. . .. . .. . .. . .... . .•••••••••• 6
• Teacher Education at Evergreen :
Using an alternative approach
• Bringing color to the campus
• A new social contract causes conflict
FLICK FILE ....... ................ 17
• Arnold , papa(s) , heaven .. .
LlTERATURE . ........... ..... lS-19
• Poetry
• Fiction

A seed is growing at Evergreen. It is
innocent and young; as all new life
must be, but it is also the first of its kind
in many years. It is the seed of a new
era.
The week before last the Board of
Trustees held their monthly meeting.
They were pleasantly surprised to find
it was one of the most highly attended
meetings in years. Students concerned
about the Social Contract, the Master
Plan, and generally their vision of the
school, spoke at length about their
fears, and the board listened. In fact
almost all the members of the board
stayed for two hours longer than they
had planned so as to hear the students
out. A few people were cantankerous,
many rhetorical; one board member
was incredulous to learn that among
their interlocutors was a student who
thought that board members were
paid full-time for their work, which they
are not. The meeting was predictably
acrimonious, but it ended on a very
positive note.
This week the President scheduled a
one hour forum. About 250 people
showed up. Olander spoke for a few
minutes and the meeting was later
opened up to student comment. Some
students spoke at great length, mostly
about changes in the Social Contract
(please see pages 4 and 14). Members
of the administration looked on with
amazement
as
one
student
ceremoniously cut his 1.0. card to
pieces. President Olander, after listening for over an hour to the students,
late for another engagement, responded with only mildly constrained anger.
He noted especially the irony of seeing people worried about the integrity

of the Social Contract violating its principles in their protestations. His comments were met largely with applause
by the assembled crowd.
It seems that things are quite polarized. Why then, if things seem so
desolate, should I have opened this
commentary with . an optimistic
allegory? Despite the ragged edges of
the exchanges we have been witnessing (someone even spray-painted the
windows of the President's office in a
crude protest against the Social Contract changes), there is a sense of a
coming-to-life. Community members,
including the -administration, are racking their brains in an attempt to act
conscientiously. This does not always
bring the best of results, but as a community we are stretching muscles which
have lain dormantfor many years. Exercising these limbs for the first time in
so long, there are bound to be a few
involuntary spasms. But as the brain
gains control, I think the heart will soon
guide.
Even as Evergreen passes on into a
new era of acceptance and respect as
a college with a difference, it is itself
relocating its identity in the fruits of its
achievements. New seedlings are easily crushed to death; they need constant
nourishment. "The Experiment," that
common description of the purpose of
our school, is not over, as has often
been pronounced. It will probably
never be over, not as long as the intellectual gifts we seek to foster as a
college are conscientiously applied to
the ideals we came here to realize.

--Ben Tansey

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Copyright 1987: all copyrights are
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Letters
Wake-Up
Dear Editor:
When will the president wake up to
reality? He continues to purchase another
unneeded nuclear weapon system of mass
destruction, the BI Bomber, at a fmal cost
of more than $280 million per plane .
Meanwhile, across the nation and the
world people are dying in a ravaging
AIDS epidemic. Surely by cancelling the
BI , SDI and other unneeded nuclear
weapon systems enough money would be
freed to find cures for AIDS, most
cancers , and probably feed and shelter
the homeless and still go a long way
toward balancing the budget.
The FDA must wake up to reality also.
While people die of AIDS here in
America, other AIDS sufferers elsewhere
are being saved with AIDS drugs which
the FDA stubbornly delays testing and
approval of, not to mention making it illegal to manufacture, prescribe and
possess them .
The FDA must wake up to reality and
cease its anti-humane AIDS policy imm ediately. I urge everyone to wake up
the President , Supreme Court, FDA and

Congress by sending them copies of this
letter as part of a chain letter to
everyone's friends and relatives so that
they may do the same_ Let's all do our
part also and make a donation to an
AIDS charity _
Leonard De Fazio Jr.

Withdrawn
Open letter to students regarding student
governance

This fall, on my recommendation, the
President of Evergreen adopted a provisional student governance structure (the
Student Agenda Committee)_ I have been
asked to withdraw this proposal to allow
a group of students to develop and present what they believe would be a more
effective structure. I have agreed to do so
and look forward to the timely receipt of
an alternative proposal which I will be
able to endorse and recommend to the
President and the Board of Trustees.
At the same time, I am asking other
interested students to participate in this

important student governance movement
by getting involved in the development
of the alternative proposal.
For further information, contact James
Martin, X6220 in CAB 305 .
Please do participate in this planning
process so that Evergreen students will
have a more effectively organized voice
in Evergreen decision making_
Sincerely,
Gail Martin,
Vice-President for Student Affairs

Thanx
Dear "Cooper Point" crew,
As we pause to count our blessings this
week, we're particularly grateful for your
continued effort to bring library issues
and activities to the attention of your
readers .
A big thank you and best wishes for a
happy Thanksgiving from the
Timberland staff.
D enise Johnson

Information
Pres. Discusses Social Contract
by Kelly Hawk
The first President' s forum of the year
was held on Monday, November 30th at
4 :00 pm. The proposed "revised social
contract" was the announced topic, and
it attracted a standing-room-only crowd
in the space of CAB 110.
The meeting opened with President
Olander and VP of Student Affairs Gail
Martin making several remarks about the
proposed revisions . Immediately following these remarks, a few students made
lengthy prepared speeches which absorbed almost the entire hour. Other students
brought up their concerns as Mr.
Olander allowed the meeting to run over.
The students present took the position
that the proposed document was' 'faulty
by design , " while Campus legal counsel
Shawn Newman stated that the existing
social contract is "illegal," making the
college vulnerable to otherwise avoidable
lawsuits . It would seem that proposed list
of rules and regulations necessary for
legal protection of the college is at odds
with the existing contract which states
"The Evergreen State College requires
a social contract rather than a list of prohibitions and negative rules . "
Three concerns were made very apparent at this forum. First, the feeling of
a lack of student input into administrative
affairs . Secondly, a sentiment that the
proposed contract apparently is more
vague because the rules can be interpreted any number of ways, and third,
many students expressed concern over
the proposed grievance procedure, calling it unfair .
Unlike past debates over the Master
Plan, this meeting was quiet and mostly

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interruption-free . Additionally, while
many had specific substantive objections
to parts of the contract, most of the
discussion was theoretical , talking of "an
Evergreen way oflife," a way of studentadministration cooperation, and a system
of understood values which everyone excepts and follows.
As the meeting drew to a close, Mr .
Olander expressed concern about how
people talk as if everyone lives by the contract, yet some do not. As he puts it;
, 'I'm tired of Simon says one thing and
Simon does another." He vehemently
F!!f~~ed to back away from the challenge
of inhospitable students and reiterated his
plans to use the social contract and
strategic plan to help meet the challenge .
In the closing of the meeting, it was
dec ided by all those present to meet next
Monday, December 7, from 3 to 5 pm
in CAB 110.

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PIN ION: Greener Parties
Brew Vandalism

Swim (con't.)

Evergreen
Swimmers
Undefeated
by Andy Lane

The women's swim team got off to
their best start in Evergreen's history by
winning their first three dual meets of the
season.
"The team is really proud of their performances and at the same time a little
surprised," comments coach Bruce Fletcher. "This is definately our best
women's team at Evergreen but we still .
have to swim some very powerful schools
such as Central Washington and Pacific
Lutheran Universities."
The win over Pacific U niveristy was
another close meet. The women
continued on following page

UNDER THE BATON OF

Gerard Schwarz

Geoducks came out ahead with 79 points
to Pacific's 64 points . Individual winners
included Ann Remsbur (100 Fly), Tami
Trefethen (50 Free), Claire Littlewood
(100 Breast) , and Romy Church (100
Back) .
Newcomer Julie Goodrich teamed up
with Anni Pizey, Remsburg, and Church
to win the 200 Medley Relay. Sarah Person continued to improve her time with
a 1: 2 7 .99 in the 100 Breaststroke for a second place finish while Jenny Allen placed second in the 200 Individual Medley.
In the men's division , Evergreen also
came up winners by defeating Pacific 59
to 50. The men's team also swam to a
winning record this season with two wins
and one loss . Leading the team were
Matt Love and Pieter Drummond . Love
won the 50 free (24 .43) and the 100 back
(1.04 .31) while Drummond won the 100
free (52 .20) and was second in the 500
free (5 :35.47) . First year swimmer. Clint
Ells swam two best times in the freestyle
events and Mike Hurwitz again placed
high in the 100 Butterfly .
The next competition will be at the
Pacific Lutheran University Invitational
December 4 and 5 in Tacoma.

CONDUCTOR

by Whitney Ware

The Evergreen State C'oIlege has
recently endured a rash of vandalization,
most of it having taken place on the
weekend of November 27-29.
The victims of this outbreak have
primarily b~en the owners of vehicles left
in the campus parking lots, Lot F in particular. Over the course of the November
break, several cars, motorcycles and bikes
were damaged . According to Larry
Savage, sergent of Campus Security, no
one has been charged yet for the crimes,
but Security does have an investigator on
the case .
The main suspects are high school
students who came to Evergreen over the
weekend to "party" with residents at the
, New Dorms.
Why are minors being allowed on campus to get drunk and trash property?
Campus Security has been asking
underage individuals to leave campus,
but when questioned about the vandalization done in the parking lots by evicted

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TEP: Developmentalism Vs. Behavioralism
b y Tim O ' Brien

The ills of education are a perennial
issue. Concern shifts from whether or not
the students can read or write to whether
or not the teachers can read or write.
HEC boards come and go, but the question remains: What's wrong with education? Evergreen's Teacher Education
Program is attempting to answer that
question by offering an alternative to
traditional Teacher Certification
Programs .
" Every single aspect of this program
is different from a traditional program ,"
says Don Finkel, a faculty member whose
academic program "Development: The
Aim of Education," provided the basic
theoretical structure for the current TEP.
" The last thing I want is to graduate
teachers who will fit nicely into the system
the way it is. "

The interdisciplinary program, offered
cooperatively and accredited through
Western Washington University, is two
years in length and grants state certification in elementary or secondary education . This is the second year the program
has been offered through WWU . Faculty members instruct the same group of
students throughout the entire program .
Two faculty members , Helen Darrow
and Sy Schwartz, relocated from Bellingham to teach in the first cycle of the
program with Finkel. There are 109
students registered in he program, 59 of
whom are due to graduate this Spring.
The fundmental difference between
E vergreen ' s program and a typical
teacher education program is their
psychological theories . Traditional programs are largely based on behavioral
theory. Simply put, behaviorism looks at
behavior in terms of stimulus-response
reactions. This theory views students as

being passive learners , whose intelligence
can be enhanced through incremental
steps . Ideas are presented and built upon ,
like so many blocks . The Evergreen program adheres to developmental theory ,
a
theory that hinges on the belief that
students are active learners and intellec tual growth is coherent with emotional
development and evolves given the proper conditions .
"One of the essential ideas is you can ' t
give someone an idea, from one person
to another. A person has to develop new
ideas out of old ideas," explains Finkel .
" A teacher's job is to try and create an
environment which will elicit those ideas ,
create problems for them and force the
learner to sharpen and further develop
ideas. "
Second year student Nick D' Alonzo
describes what this mean s to a teacher
conceiving a lesson plan as , " developing
a program instead of introducing one ."

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(The way we're doing it (traditionally) I am surprised children learn to read and write.
D' Alonzo cites creativity and flexibility
as being keys to this type of education.
, 'Our program " encourages that."
One of the things that this program offers that is rare among teacher education
programs, says Director John Parker, is
its emphasis on educational philosophy
and developmental psychology combined with a tremendous amount of field experience that is begun in the initial
quarter and progressively builds
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them away with all these ideals and no
sense of reality they would all last about
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Both faculty members from ~WU,
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tha t they have been working with since
'day one. Both note that in most tradional
programs a field supervisor may never
have met the student teacher they are
assigned to evalute. With the Evergreen
mod~l, both students and supervisor
share a common intellectual and personal
background, allowing for a greater
dialogue concerning what the student is
or is not doing effectively. "It makes for
a unique program in that sense," said
D a rrow .

As opposed to a behaviorist model, a
developmental model stresses method
rather than methods. In methods programs, a student is required to take
several method classes for elementary certification. Method classes are designed to
show prospective instructors how to teach
particular subjects such as reading or
math . Many times students have completed their method classes long before
they ever have the opportunity to actually
student teach.
"Teaching has been separated as
though there isn't any underlying coordinated strategy," says Darrow. "The
way were doing it (traditionally) I am
surprised children learn to read and
write. "
Developmentalists believe there is a
general pattern to how children learn
regardless of the specific subject. Rita
Pougalis, Academic dean and Evergreen
liason with WWU, says that in a sense
the whole program is one method class.
Rather than tell the teacher how to teach
a particular subject, the developmental
model requires a teacher to try and
understand a student both emotionally
and intellectually before attempting to
facilitate further intellectual growth. "
Although students in TEP are exposed to some method techniques in
workshops, Marie Eaton, Chair of Curriculm and Instruction at WWU, believes
it isn't enough. "I frankly have concerns
how well we are looking at instructional
strategies." Eaton thinks the work on
developmental theory is great but wishes
there was more balance with other
theories.
Pougalis acknowledges there has been
some pressure by WWU to represent
behavior theory more prominently in the
program. To some extent she agrees. The
behavioral theory is so widespread in our
educational system it would be useful for
students to be aware of it and recognize

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it when they see it. But, she adds, "I am .
convinced that the general direction
we've taken is very good."
In particular subject areas such as
special education, where the state has set
broad minimum requirements for
teachers seeking certification, Eaton has
raised some warning flags . "I am a little
concerned that in some of the areas we're
barely meeting state standards,," said
Eaton.
Part of the problem, says '>ougiales, is
that the program does not have the faculty pool to draw from that a l¥ge program
does . She did say that the program is
meeting all state standards and will continue to strengthen weak areas by drawing on other resource people from both
Evergreen and WWU.
"I am less worried about what a -student doesn't know when they leave "here ,
as it relates to a specific methodology ,"
says Parker, "than I am about their
overall ability to see what is going on in
the classroom and react to it."
Fin'k el, who is responsible for much of
the developmental slant to the program,
while not familiar with the particulars of
state standards, believes that the program
is extremely sound . "Our program is
much more theoretically and academically rigorous than most teacher ed .
programs. "
Sharing a similar sentiment, Schwartz
says of the program, "I am confident that
the graduates of our program are going
to be, per capita, more excellent
teachers .. "."
One thing is clear from talking with
faculty and students in the program is
that there is a genuine sense of commitment and excitement about teaching
children in a more effective and
democratic way, a way which says to the
learner "yes" instead of "no," and
places development "clhead of obedience".

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It kinda bothers me to write about this.
I'm not really qualified. When I found
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something like that?
Her name is Lisa Kline. She is twentyone years old. Next fall she will be going
to school here at Evergreen. She still finds
it hard to talk about her brother.
I first spoke to Lisa in November. She
called because she wanted a woman to
come speak at Evergreen. A woman
whose son was killed in El Salvador. It
was in 1982; he was the eighth American
killed in El Salvador. I listened to Lisa
with amazement, and asked how we
could contract this woman, if she knew '
her.
"Yes." Pause . "She is my mother.
Her name is Renate Kline."
Michael was twenty-one when he got
on a public bus going from Mexico to
Costa Rica. He had friends in Costa Rica
to visit. Lisa describes him as very mellow
and an absolute pacifist. Politics didn't
interest him. He enjoyed history and
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secrecy of the situation, the reluctance of
the government officials to provide
straight-forward information; perhaps
Renate Kline sensed something was
wrong, but her faith in the honesty of the
U.S. government was still unshaken.
They waited forever for the government to admit that it was Michael who
had been shot. The consulate was pressing Renate for a hasty burial . No investigation had been conducted. Renate
decided to go to EI Salvador herself to get
some answers. There was something
strange going on.
The sufferir.g of the people of EI
Salvador shocked her . It was as if they
, couldn't be happy, as if the possibility
didn't exist. Renate wanted desperately
to see her son's body . They had told her
that he had been pulled off the bus at a
roadblack for questioning, that he had
tried to take a gun from one of the
soldiers, and that failing, he had attempted to escape . So the soldiers fired warning shots into the air, and he kept runing: until they fired a bullet that entered
his body and he died. But much later, a
missionary who had witnessed the incident contacted Renate through Amnesty International after he had left EI
Salvador. The soldiers, he said, had
taken Michael off the bus, tortured him,
then encircled his throat with a rope to
drag him behind their truck as they drove
off. And that is why when Renate's
lawyer saw Michael's body in that cold
morgue in El Salvador, he told her not
to go see her son. After two weeks,
Renate Kline left El Salvador feeling

frustrated and nearly hopless in the face
of the cover-up by the Salvadoran and
U . S. officals .
The fight did not end there . Renate
and Lisa spent time in Washington D.C.
publiziing Michael's death, testifying in
front of the Senate to stop aid to El
Salvador, and working with human rights
groups. Renate began writing a book
about their experiences. With the help of
the ACLU, they were also involved in a
lawsuit with the other seven families of
Americans killed in El Salvador, a lawsuit
against the U.S. government. After two
years, the Supreme Court held that the
government was immune . The case was
dismissed.
Lisa has grown tired of this whole
thing. She cannot really expend any more
energy publicizing the murder of her
brother and fighting the U.S. government . There is too ipuch pressure, too
much strain, too many debts, and too
much apathy .
.
Somewhere it has to end . But it is not
likely to be soon. Last month the House
of Representives approved $7.4 million
in aid to the EI Salvadoran police. A
human rights leader, Herbert Ernesto
Anaya, was assassinated on October 26 .
The return of Guillermo U ngo and
Ruben Zamoro, two r~b.elleaders, along
with the implication of right-wing leader
Roberto D' Aubuisson in the assassination of Archbishop Romero has led to
speculations of a return of right-wing
death squad violence. The situation has
changed in El Salvador since Michael's
death, but not much.
This year, Renate finished her book
and is in the process of getting it published . Lisa moved to Olympia where she
now lives and works. She knows it would
be valuable to her Mom to share their experiences with others. Despite all the
hardship and stress and pain, they will
not let Michael's'death be forgotten. And
they will not let the role of the U. S.
government in supporting repression, in
covering up Michael's murder, and in
deliberately spreading misinformation be
forgotten . Because in EI Salvador, it is
still happening.
Renate Kline will be coming to speak
at Evergreen on Tuesday, December 8,
at 7:00 in the Library Lobby .

9

Opinion

No Debate: Stop Master Plan
by Jonathan P. Knapp

It continues to disturb me how incompletely many members of the
Evergreen community understand the
dangers of the Washington State Master
Plan for Higher Eduacation and how
poorly they apprehend the intentions of
the people who are working to stop it. In
addressing the article "Education Needs
Master Plan," written by Kelly Hawk
which appeared in the November 19 issue
of the CPJ, I would like to outline some
of the fundamental issues which make it
a cause of such concern to believers in
academic freedom and partisans of
equality of educational opportunity.
Kelly Hawk first declares that, should
Washingtonians fail to adopt the Master
Plan, they may, in the next ten to fifteen
years, come to regret the condition of
higher education in Washington more
than if ruey had adopted it. The author
argues that declining funding for higher
education will be compensated for by rising tuition and that this would exclude
people of color from our colleges and
universities much more than anything in
the Master Plan. To say this is to utterly
flaunt the facts . Last year, when setting
the budget, state lawmakers voted
substantial increases in funding for higher
education for the next biennium.
Legislators have recognized the need to
revive an ailing educational system with
an infusion of increased funds . What they
have not yet recognized is their responsiblity to all citizens to provide equal ac cess to higher education .
The Master Plan is not conceived of so
much as a way of creating new revenues
for higher education as it is a way of justifying to special interests the increases in
funding that will be necessary to bring
our colleges and universities up to a
minimum level.

One of the Lawmakers ' axioms is that
you cannot get something for nothing. In
order to sweeten the pot for business, the
state government has commissioned the
development of"a " plan " that will give
business a "return" on their "invest 10 m e nt. " Though the language of the fmal

version of the Master Plan has been tODed down some in comparison to its earlier
drafts, the underlying message to
business is still clear: in the long run,
under the Master Plan, increased support
higher education will not hurt business
interests; it will help them . As always in
a liberal capitalist economy, the people
are seen as having responsibilities toward
business and industry such as providing
for a healthy business climate and a stable
and loyal workforce. But business and industry are seen as having few responsiblities toward the community.
In five of the six paragraphs under the
prefatory section of the Master Plan entitled "The Benefits of Higher Education, " the HEC Board focuses exclusively
on the benefits to business and industry.
Only in one paragraph are cultural
benefits to individuals and to society at
large outlined, and there in such a way
that Washington is portrayed as a state
with a quality of life that is attractive not
only to people but espec.i ally to out-ofstate or foreign venture capital. The
Master Plan accentuates the supposed
ultimate values of "loyalty, service to
others , and reliability ." It explicity refers.
to the so-called necessity of building " a
lasting partnership between academia
and industry." It states as a goal the
development and maintenance of " a
higher education system that... fosters
economic development"; and one of the
ways of fostering that development is to
"provide the human capital" necessary
to business . All this, we are to presume,
is in order to enhance the lives of all
citizens ofthe state . Let us not be deluded into thinking that recommendations of
the HEC Board have been made with the
interests of the people in mind; all of the
proposals of the Master Plan, in spite of
arguments to the contrary, are made
under the guiding idea of a system of
education designed to serve business and
industry .
Kelly Hawk suggests that without the
Master Plan, institutions of higher education will have to raise admission standards to more exclusive levels than with
it. While it is obviously true that under
the pressure of increasing dema nd for ac-

cess to higher education by a growing student population, a college or university
could raise its admissions standards in
order to maintain a constant enrollment .
In a capitalist economy, the obvious solution to an increasing demand is a concomitantly increasing supply . In order to
best serve the community the college or
university should not raise admission
standards but raise enrollment. If that
necessitates new facilities, then so be it.
The gist of the problem here is as simple
as simple can be: does higher education
exist to serve the interests of business and
industry or to serve the needs of people?
To assert facilely that the former is tantamount to the latter is to affirm an
overabiding faith in the internal ethics of
capitalist economics .
In concluding, Kelly Hawk gives the
o pinion that it is not a good idea to try
to stop the Master Plan. He states that
it is better " to try and change the Plan . "
He. suggests that since the HEC Board
showed itself unwilling to concede
anything to the " unruly crowd" who
protested the Board's actions at the
Doubletree Inn last October 16, students
should seek to engage the HEC Board in
"rational dialogue In a calm
atmosphere. "
In my conclusion I would like to point
out some facts . The meeting at the
Doubletree Inn was the last public
meeting of the HEC Board . It was not
even offically open to public comment.
The Master Plan goes to the governor
Dec.ember 1. It will go before the
legislature probably sometime inJanuary
or February . Few people debate the need
for educational reform . What is debated
is the shape that reform should take and
the direction in which it should orient
education. The reforms and orientations
of the Master Plan do not work for the
interests 9f potentional student of
educators; they do·not ·sern the needs of
the majority of people. Th~ Master Plan
is being ramrodded through; the people
most concerned by it have , from the
beginning, been excluded from the pro cess tha t has bro ught if forth . The only
way to change the M as te r Plan now is to
stop it.

HEY:
Everything is Possible at EPIC
by Maria Gudaitis

, ' I own one share in the Corporate
Earth, and I am uneasy about the
management ." (-E.B. White) These
words are on my mind as I,turn on those
wretched fluorescent lights and another
day begins at the Evergreen Political Information Center. The phone rings
before I even have a chance to put my
books down . We talk for a while. The inevitable question comes.
"Just what is EPIC anyway?"
"Well, urn, we're one of the oldest student goups; gosh, we started way back in
1971, you know, when people were painting peace signs on their foreheads and
singing protest songs." I go on and on ,
telling him about all the formal stuff:
we ' re a resource for students, staff, faculty , and community In creating
awareness, understanding, and action on
issues; we provide information, speakers,
books, films, and support for motivated
individuals .
But I don't tell him about all the other
things that go on at EPIC . For example,
plotting to steal, I mean, borrow campus
furniture to make our office more comfortable. 'Cause we EPIC people have
fully realized the importance of a couch
to crash on after a long, hard day of
fighting injustice. You see, all this work

on issues like aparthied , Indian rights ,
freedom of speech, student governance ,
Central American struggles, draft
resistance, etc .. . it is HARD WORK ,
really . I only wish that Ronald Reagan,
the CIA, and the capitalists would just
take a couple days off, you know, give us
a chance to rest.
So here I am at our office , looking at
our bookshelves full of neato books like
Nelson Mandela: The Struggle Is My Life and
The Perverted Priorities of American Politics

and dreaming about scheduling a debate
between Jello Biafra and Oliver North .
Suddenly, someone sticks their head in
the door and says:
"Hey, I wanna write a n a rticle about
fascism in America. Do you guys have a
ne\"/sletter I could get it published in?"
"Yup . And you could be the next Lou
Guzzo or Bob Woodward because they ' re
distributed all over campus, in the community and around the globe. "
Perhaps this person is in awe at the
possibilities . He asks, " By the way , do
you have any info about boycotting
Chilean products?"
"Certainly." I point to a towering vertical file and then pull out a whole folder
of stuff. "Oh, and we ' ll need the article
as soon as possible. It's a good idea to
type, or print very nea tly because we
can't decipher hieroglyphics. "

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"Sure, thanks . This is great." Another
happy customer.
Joe Evenson, our other coordinator,
comes in with a whole bunch of food.
Well isn't this great! "How sweet of
Joe , " I'm thinking, "to bring all this
delicious food for us to eat. " After all, as
EPIC "coordinators," we gotta eat well
to have all that energy to "coordinate."
Oh, but the food turns out to be for our
meeting (we have them every Thursday
at 5:30). We want to be sure that all those
wonderful, concerned people who come
to our meeting don't have growling
stomachs so they can concentrate on
bashing oppression and contributing lots
of input on issues we're working on.
Well, at the end of the day everything
gets quiet . Looking at all the posters on
the wall, you can almost hear people
chanting as they march, or see the flags
and banners flap in the wind, and the
sound of strumming guitars and Peruvian
pipes in the distance. It makes me think
about what EPIC really is, activity and
support that should instigate and tantalize people and seeing what should be
seen , sharing what should be shared, and
doing what should be done . There is a
lot of fun, and movement, and hope, and
all sorts of different people involved . Joe
and I go home feeling tired almost every
night. And tonight, as I leave the office,
an overwhelming question confronts me .
What should we name our two new
plants . Biko? Ghandi? Spock?
So you can see what a little bit of life
is like at EPIC. Busy, fascinating,
frustrating, and fullfllling . .The sign on
the wall says "The Evergreen Political
I nformation Center. " I think people expect us to be extremely serious folks . And
if the word "politics" makes you think
of business-suited legislators, longwinded speeches, or radicals in red
berets, you should call us (ext. 61H)
because we love to talk, or better yet, stop
by our office (LIB 3222), see all our neato
posters, chat with the people, and explore
the potential of all we have to offer .
Maybe you could then realize that politics
is really just" the science of possibility . "

11

Campus Seeking People of Color
by Kathleen Kelly

There is a general consensus in the
community that Evergreen has not done
well in achieving its institutional goal of
diversity.
The first of 16 proposals under
Strategic Statement VI. "Diversity" offers to "increase efforts to incorporate as
much variety as possible in race and
ethnicity, gender, socia-economic class,
lifestyle , and cultural values into the
faculty, staff and students of the
Evergreen State College . " Taking a good
look around campus, one will find that
these proposed efforts have yet to become
manifest.
This year, new efforts achieve diversity have been initiated with new commitments to minority student recruitment
and retention and minority faculty
recruitment and hiring . The state has
provided $75,000 for minority student re-

cruitment and retention and the college
has for the first time made multicultural
experience a requirement for new faculty positions. Two new staff positions,
Outreach Program Development and
First Peoples Retention and Counseling,
will be funded by the mOh ies for minority student retention.
"This policy is not new , " said Patrick
Hill, vice president and provost, in
reference to faculty of color recruitment.
"The ideal felt was that 25 percent of
faculty ~ould be of minority
backgrounds . . but we are not meeting
this, we are not making progress .
"We hired 14 new faculty last
year. none were people of color. Only one
serious finalist was a person of color. Nt)
new person of color was hired; that's
what occasioned us all to say, 'We are not
doing a good job,'" said Hill.
Hill stated three things the college is
doing to increase the number of
minorities in the applicant pool: The first
step was to "move Rita Cooper,
employee relations director , to work actively full-time for a three month pe riod
on developing applicant pools of people
12 of color. " The second step was" to join
Rudy Martin's job in the National Facul-

t y to the job of recruiting fa cu lty of color
to come to this campus permanently."
Thirdly, the number of deans was doubled from one to two to work on faculty hiring this year.
Funding for faculty of color recruitment and hiring is done mostly by
"redefining people's jobs ... funded by
the National Faculty, moving money
around that might have been used for
other similar purposes, " according to
Hill.
Nine out of approximately J 3 faculty
positions for J 988-89 have a requirement
of' 'substantive experience in a minority
or third world culture usefu l to a multic ultural college <;ducation.·' "It is illegal
to say we will hire only peop le of col.or,"
Hill says, "it is illegal to say you want
a white person, a handicapped person , a
person over 50 or under 50 ... It is not illegal to give preference."
Evergreen is making minority hiring
efforts not only because it is in the
Strategic Plan, but also because the college has been required by the state, as all
state agencies have been, to submit an
Affirmative Action plan , according to
Shawn Newman, college legal counsel.
"A lthough we are not being ordered,
we are being told by the Human Rights
Commission that we are not meeting our
goals and we need to make better efforts
to reach those goals," Newman said.
Although Evergreen's goals may be to
recruit faculty of color, the college cannot exclude anybody from the initial pool
o f applicants . But, "after you get the pool
and after you determine who
qualifies, m ee ts the minimum qualifications. it is at that point that you can prefer
protected classes in making an employment decision ," he said. If that decision
is to hire a protected class member who
meets the minimum qualifactions before
an applicant who is qualified but is not
a protect ed class member, that decision
must be made in pursuant of a plan,
"and we do have a plan," emphasized
Newman.
Currently, the coll ege is advert ising in
numerous publications for the faculty
positions for next academ ic year. " In the
hirin v nrocess there is nothing wrong in

directing your advertising efforts toward
accomplishing Affirmative Action goals ...
you could target minority publications.
The key is that the ad has to be nondiscriminatory . It is hoped because of
special efforts to get these ads in special
publications that the pool will be provided with more people of colQr," Newman
said.
For example, according to Barbara
Smith, academic dean, the college is
advertising in not only the "New York
Times" and the" Village Voice" but is
also advertising in "Amsterdam News,"
a black newspaper in New York city.
"We are putting ads where we usually
do, augmenting that with ads in places
we usually don't," she said.
Working on the 23 member Faculty
Hiring DTF composed of faculty, staff
and students, Smith described the hiring
process for the nine positions that require
multi-cultural experience.
First of all, there is a letter describing
how "significant multi-cultural experience," can be demonstrated by the
applicant. Education in ethnic or minority studies, work experience in culturally
diverse communities, work experience in
institutions serving primarily minority
populations, research on minority issues
and other ways are listed as
demonstrating experience. The applicant
is asked "to write an essay, basically, to
descrive their experiences," said Smith.
Once a qualified pool of applicants is chosen, Margarita Mendoza
de Sugiyama, assistant to the president,
relinquishes to the DTF information
about the candidate pertinent to Affirmative Action hiring. Applicants are
scored on nine pieces of criteria by a
numerical scale ranging from one to five
for each cirterion and the scores are totaled for each candidate. If the candidate is
a female, handicapped, person of color
or Vietnam era veteran, an additional
five Affirmative Action points are added
to his/her total.
"This is the first time the college has
really put its money where its mouth is
as far as personnel hours, " said Smith.

(This zs the first time the college has really put
its money where its mouth zs.
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"This is the first time the college has
really put its money where its mouth is
as far as personnel hours ," said Smith.
Rita Cooper is taking the task of minority faculty recruitment as her full-time job.
"Rita has been following up on individual candidates and also agencies that
have large pools of minority candidates,
such as, the National Science Foundation
and the Ford Foundation," Smith said.
These agencies have directories of
women, blacks, Asians, etc ., that are
valuable resources for minority faculty
recruitment. "Rita calls and writes to
each person in those directories," according to Smith.
"The process is labor intensive, but
our previous experience tells us that that ' s
what is takes to do it (recruit minority
faculty)," she added.
The college is spending additional
money on faculty hiring this year in the
areas of advertising and interviewing. For
past positions, two candidates were
brought to the school for each position,
but for each of the nine new positions requiring a multi-cultural experience, three
candidates for each are to be interviewed.
"For the nine positions there is no
maximum salary posted. Usually we've
been trying to control the salary of the
faculty," said Smith, which controls the
age of the candidates with lower salaries
bringing in junior candidates. With the
limit on the salary left blank, the college
is hoping to draw in not only junior but
also applicants with seniority, in other
words, a wide range of people of color.
In conjunction with next year's fulltime positions for faculty with multicultural experience, both Cooper and
Rudy Martin are working on positions
for '88-89. Martin is also seeking to bring
outstanding scholars of color on a short
term basis for purposes of lecturing,
faculty exchanges and short visitations.
"Even where I 've been I've met people in all these categories. People who are
still in grad school, or people who have
advanced degrees and are working but
would like to teach here. Finally,
Evergreen, like other institutions, is get-

ting really serio'Us in trying to locate some
of these people and bring them here and
we are doing this by committing the time,
money and resources."
Martin believes that the college needs
a regular continuing effort to mainta in
the applicant pools. He offered several
suggestions for retaining stude nts of color that include increasing the numbers of
peoples of color . "There simply has to be
more folks of color on the campus in
every sphere, faculty, stafT and students ."
Secondly, "we have to do more work
on multi-cultural awareness." And thirdIy, the college needs to do "more work
to bring cross-cu ltural events to the
campus .
"In the institution beef up on developing services for students of color. They're
always talk about tutoring, English
skills, grammer skills, math tutoring for
people of color, but there are just as many
whtie students who need that help as
students of color, so I don't buy that. I'm
talking about advis ing , counseling, peer
support, access to decision making," he
said.
There are a variety of positions that
have attached to it a multi-cultural experience requirement. These include
history, economics, fine arts, psychology
and mathematics. In each of these positions it is hoped that the addition of a
faculty of color will also aid in the retention of students of color. "Someone who
has worked in a multi-cultural setting ...
has experience working people of color,
who by national and state evaluations
have been demonstrated to have the
background that other students have ,
then that would be someone who would
make a contribution to our retention efforts of students of color. Someone who
does not have that experience or that sensitivity would not be an enhancer for our
efforts to retain students of collor," said
Margarita Mendoza de Sugiyama .
Why has Evergreen not attracted and
retained many students, staff and faculty of color' "The pe rennial problem ,"
accord ing to Gil Salcedo , faculty member
and Faculty Hiring DTF co-chair, " is

that there is no community here ... we're
out in the woods .. . in a predominately
white neighborhood .. . people of color are
n ot heav ily represented." This is echoed
by Martin: "Olympia is not an area
widely known for a community of people of color. "
Margarita Mendoza de Sugiyama
sa id: "Living out in the woods is not attractive to students who live in inner city. Isolated without any community to
relat e to is another reason. It is finding
ways. again, to project, and have it be
real, that here is a hqspitable climate
here. The first consideration of a lot of
students is 'am I going to be comfortable
there" I think we can change in environment. W e can change it by increasing the
number of faculty and staff of color."
, 'Programs that have all caucasian
faculty have been in some instances insensitive to the cultural backgrounds and
needs of the students who are in the program .. . Now I believe that in most cases
it is that they just don't know, nor are
they accustomed to relating to students
who come from different cultures," she
said.
"One of the ways that we change
the Eurocentric focus of the curriculum,
and also increase the hospitality of the
community, is to bring more people of
color, more faculty of color, more stafT of
color. more students of color, to be in the
community, to have a meaningful exchange which will increase the understanding and the sensitivity," Mendoza de
Sugiyama explained.
" I would rather we look at it as a taking of rcsponsibilty, a personal responsibility for how we contribute to the
hospitality . It is going to require individuals -to asses;' what they can do to
contribute to building a multi-cultural
co mmunity regardless of their ethnicity,
of their discipline, or their position. It's
not possible to say, ' I ' m not going to be
involved.' Either we are actively involved in suppo rting or creating our environment, or we're passively involved in
maint a inin g what is here now, which
people across the board et hnically. and
13
I include caucasians, aren't happy with."

New Student Code Questioned
by Eric Kuhner

14

, 'Administration declares war on
Students," proclaimed a sign hanging
from the Clock Tower stairs on Friday,
November 20 . The sign marked the
release of a proposed Code oj Rights and
Responsibilities which would establish a
specific list of acts prohibited on campus
and would change the Social Contract
and the grievance process. The Code is
intended to replace the section of
Washington Administrative Code entitled Governance and Decision Making, which
contains the Social Contract and the
Grievance procedures.
The draft Code was prepared by
Shawn Newman, the College Legal
Counsel, and was released by Vice President for Student Affairs Gail Martin just
as students were preparing to leave for
Thanksgiving break. Students who were
concerned about the document
distributed copies on Friday, and when
copies ran out they collected the addresses
of over 100 students so that copies could
be mailed to them.
Many students felt that the timing of
the proposal's release and the timeline for
its adoption would greatly limit student
involvement in this decision. A public
hearing was held on Monday, the day
students returned from break, and the
Board of Trustees was originally scheduled to consider adoption on January 6,
three days after the start of Winter
Quarter. The formal hearing in front of
the Board has since been rescheduled for
February 10, in response to student concerns voiced to Martin on the 20th .
In addition to concerns about the tim ing, students questioned the lack of involvement by the campus community in
drafting the code. According to Newman,
the draft is based primarily on student
codes used by some other institutions, on
case law, and on the recommendations
of experts in the field. The section on the
grievance process was written with
reference to the report of the Grievance
and Appeal DTF which was released in
the Spring, but the sections on Institutional Rights, Prohibited Conduct, and

Disciplinary . Sanctions have not been
reviewed or recommended by any DTF
or other campus group.
Dale Larson, who helped distribute
copies of the proposal to students on Friday, suggested that, "To have the campus lawyer draft these rules and regulations without talking to students, faculty
or staff, and without consulting anyone
to my knowledge but Gail Martin, is absurd." James Martin, coordinator of the
Services and Activities Board, said the
Board had directed him to draft a letter
to Gail emphasizing their concern about
the lack of process and student involvement in the formation of this proposal.
Objections have also been raised to
several specific points in the draft Code.
One such section is entitled "Rules
Violation" and states that the following
is prohibited: "Violation of college rules
or policies, including, but not limited to,
campus regulations concerning: residence
hall contracts; smoking; student
organizations; use of college facilities; and
terms of any disciplinary sanction imposed in accordance with these rules." Scott
Buckley, a concerned student, said,
, 'This rule is so vague, and the document
so p~)Qrly written, that even the most
trivial violation could be used as a pretext
to deprive students of their rights. This
kind of sloppiness would be laughed at
ina court of law. What Evergreen needs
is a document focused on protecting the
rights of individuals, with specific prohibitions kept to a minimum . Similarly,
there is no need for provisions which
duplicate State laws . For example, the
State can enforce its own drug laws
without the need for Evergreen to write
a special section which volunteers to do
it for them."
Of particular concern to students were
changes in the Social Contract. When
asked about this, Gail Martin stated that
to her knowledge only two changes had
been made. But upOn review of the revised draft which was released on Monday,
November 23, several others were found .
For example, under "Open Forum and
Access to Information," the sentence
"Meetings of public significance cannot
b e held in secret" was deleted . In that

same section, "Decision making processes must, "has been changed to "should
provide equal opportunity to initiate and
participate in policy making," and the
statement "Evergreen policies apply
equally regardless of job description,
status, or role in the community," has
also been removed. There were other
similar changes, none of which had be~n
recommmended or reviewed by the campus community.
One change Martin did know of was
the elimination of the section which
states, "Evergreen requires a Social Contract rather than a list of prohibitions and
negative rules." According to, Martin
and Newman, a list of prohibitions and
sanctions is necessary to meet the requirements of substantive due process.
"The rules must be spelled out specifically and the penalties for violation must be
clear," explained Martin . Stated
Newman, "The changes were driven by
a motivation to clarify the rules and ensure that students are afforded adequate
protection. The Social Contract is subject to arbitrary and capricious interpretation, and the changes ensure that
everyone will be treated fairly. " Martin
said her goal was to present the Board of
Trustees with a document that was defensible by external legal standards . "I have
an obligation to the college to be sure that
our procedures are legal."
Martin says that she suspected that the
Social Contract did not meet the requirements of due process when she first
became Vice President, and that her
suspicion was confirmed at a conference
she attended on due process in the fall of
1985. She has been working since that
time to revise the grievance procedure
and the Social Contract so as to meet due
process requirements.
In the summer of 1986 Martin drafted
a proposal to revise the Social Contract
and the grievance process. It was in this
document that prohibited conduct and
disciplinary sanctions were first mentioned. Se:veral students who were in Olympia that summer heard about the proposal and objected to the fact that it was
being considered at a time when most
students were away. The students ap-

proached the President's Advisory Board
with a letter requesting that no action be
taken to implement the proposal until
students returned in the fall. The Advisory Board then recommended to the
President that the issue be postponed. In
the mean time, Martin met with students
who objected to her proposal and made
several reVISIOns. This process
culminatied in the release of a document
entitled Grievance, Social Conduct, and Appeal Procedures in October of 1986. This
document was never submitted to the
Board of Trustees, but instead was given

recommendation has not been carried
out, but was instead undertaken by
Newman when he drafted the new code.
The Code of Rights and Responsibilities
was drafted to replace Chapter 174-107
of the Washington Administrative Code
(WAC), which is entitled Governance and
Decision MaJcing. Several components have
been added to the new Code which did
not appear in the original chapter,
noteably the sections on prohibited conduct and disciplinary sanctions, but there
were also significant omissions. The most
obvious dele'tion is the section entitled,

ble and provide for an amendment procedure and periodic evaluation.
When questioned about these ommissions, Newman replied that some of these
requirements are duplicated in other sections of the Washington Administrative
Codes (WAC's) and in statutory law, and
that, in any case, most of these guidelines
do not belong in the WAC because they
are not "rules" as defined in administrative code. He stated that important points in this section should be moved to the Evergreen Administrative Code
(EAC's), Ken Winkley, the College's
Associate Vice President for Administrative Services, is currently coordinating the revision of the EAC's. It is
an open question what will become of
these standards if they are repealed.
From talking with students and campus administrators, it is clear that the
proposed code has been in the Y.'orks for
some time. It is also clear that students
have been been left feeling that something
is wrong, that they have been left out of
the process, and that few people care .
Students are aogry and confused because
they don't know where they stand, which
code they are governed by, or what the
grievance procedure is or how it works.
"Administrators are so deep into their
own sense of priorities that they forget
about everybody else," said James Martin. "I guess they choose to forget, which
means they don't give a damn. He went
on to state that the lack of involvement
of students in administrative decisioins is,
"a comment about the commitment of
Joe Olander personally to communication with students, and it's not there .
Period." Steven Aldridge, an alumnus
who ' served on the Student Governance
DTF last year, has this observation: "I
suspect administrators are saying there is
no way to involve students, and this is
true. Maybe its time for the administration to stop making decisions and instead
concentrate on developing a way to involve students, or to work with .organizations developed by students that were
designed to provide administrators with
a means of involving them."
Copies of the Codes oj Rights and Responsibilities, the report of the Grievance and
Appeals DTF, and other documents are
available from Gail Martin in Library
3236. Comments should be addressed to
Gail Martin or to Shawn Newman,
Library 3103, at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 98505.
It

Students applaud a sign of dissent at President's Forum during a discussion on the proposed
Social Contract Changes.

to the Grievance and Appeals DTF as
they worked to revise the grievance process in the spring of this year. The document was also used by Newman as he
drafted the new code.
The Grievance and Appeals DTF IS
the only officially charged campus body
to have considered the issue of revisions
to the grievance procedure. They did not
address the issue of prohibited conduct
and disciplinary sanctions, but recommended instead, "that a new DTF be
charged to study to what extent, if any,
should the Grievance and Appeals procedures be applied to issues relating to
policy concerns, personnel, and academic
matters . In addtion, this DTF should
clarify and specify what are violations of
the Social Contract and what should the
sanctions be for those violations." This

"Standards for Decision-Making and
Governance at Evergreen." The section
requries:
-Establishment of a Governance Day.
-Decision makers to be held
accountable.
-That "Evergreen's system of governance must provide an opportunity for
participation by members of the
Evergreen community."
-That the community avoid fractioning into decision-making constituency
groups.
-That Evergreen use DTF's rather
than standing committees and governing
councils.
-That, when possible, decision making
groups use consensus.
-That due process procedures set forth
in the WAC/EAC must be followed .
-That governance procedures be flex i-

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Arnie plays the unjustly accused man
in a nasty little future where prisoners
, 'run for their lives" from some pretty
mean dudes, paid high prices to kill them
ingeniously. Actually, they all look like
ghoulish Sunday Wrestling rejects .
Anyway, the whole bloody process is captured by hovering TV cameras and
beamed out to the world, which obviously
has nothing better to do than wait around
to see someone's spleen ripped open. It
is, however, the future's most popular
game show, hosted by--yes!--Richard
Dawson. The movie isn't much. Once
more , to our delight , we have the not rare
enough ' opportunity to see Arnold
Schwarzenegger perform acts of
megaviolence (if one can use the world
, 'act" and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the
same sentence) . His bulging biceps.
triceps, pectorals and God knows what
else are oiled and flashing . Yawn! and
who cares? Obviously the teenagers (or
were they TESC students incognito) in
the back who cheered furiou sly at each
gory close-up of the latest seve red artel),
cared. What can you say in the face of
such horrendous violence, bad act ing,
and sheer celluloid innanity' Just that the
whole movie completely lost the point of
the Stephan King short story upon which .
it's based, and that as far as I'm concerned, Arnold Schwarzenegger should take
up potato farming in Idaho , or bt-tter yet,
New Zealand .

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Steve Martin, J ohn Ca nd y
Lacey C ine m as

H ero di es and goes to heave n where he
meets and marries a "true soul mate."
But she gets reborn (reincarnation can be
inconve nie nt y, so he also return s to Earth
t a search for her. Years pass. They are
(120 minutes lat er) reunited. During this
banal plot one has the time to as k one's
se lf m any qu es tion s, e .g. What sort of
Go d would se parate our celes ti a l
new lyweds a nd put th em through such a
boring ordeal?

Martin plays a rich . mlooth marketing
executive. H e's got is all, three kids, nice
h ou se and an adori~g wife. Can:
dy pl ays a lonely, working class, blabbermouth salesman. They form a n unlikely
team in order to try and make it home
in time for T hanksgiving . What follows
a rc a series o f weak to very funny sketches on the joys of trave l. I couldn ' t help
fee lin g that this would have been better
as a running gag OIl Saturday Night Live.

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I am dreaming now (life is so hard, and
I miss my baby fiercely, harshly.)
In my dream I am in my parent's
house . It is huge and blue, and inside,
it is beautiful. There is a long carpeted
staircase in the center of the house-oat the
end is the big wooden front door, the kind
that opens with a skeleton key. There are
so many people in the house, almost like
the parties my parents no longer have,
and they are all kinds, but I don't know
they are there until later. I am with my
lover, Almanon, and we have come from
his house, fled really, where something
unspeakable and violent has happened .
Maybe it was red fire, but at any rate
something very bad, and on the journey
to my parent's house it is dark and
misty, and 1 am very afraid.
Almarion is mute in my dream; he is
such a silent and beautiful man anyway-he has always been there for me, even
in sleep, though he is silent and inscrutable. He was with me when our
baby was born in the autumn. He held
my damp and terrified hand as I labored
and pushed . " Push harder, you're not
trying," the nurse urged , and maybe I
wasn't (did 1 really want my baby to leave
my warm body?) And then the spectacular, tearing moment of birth. She was
pulled forth , so slickly azure, the perfect
dream-form in her blue bubble, like an
acid vision, still joined to me by the toogreen rope, shiny and unreal and
beautiful. I lifted my hands to my blue
child (as I do now in dreams) heard, loving , her first cry, cut short by her own
distraction. As murmering, white-clad
professionals wiped and wrapped her, she
looked each way, alert in her newness ,
looked at me, and at Almarion, and we
loved her as one, as a god would love.
Now there is screaming, and I see the
many people, and they are running, and
I look up and hear a raging and crushing
horror. Down the stairs come boulders,
giant and fast. they bounce and destroy,
round, rough, and red. There is dust and •
so much debris, and still they come, as

Dreaming
1 stand still in knowing terror, watching
them. They are too clear, and too
beautiful. I can see each knobby
roughness of rock surface, and the colors
(the colors of acid, red-orange-browngrey luminous colors) casting lights in the
dusty destruction of movement and terror. Now I am action, running in the
path, dodging, almost without fear, intent on my purpose (purpose? What but
the dream itself suddenly gives me a purpose. and what purpose?) Boulders
bounce and shudder and shatter around
me, crushing walls and furniture . In the
eye of my hurricane, I stop to notice that
the rocks make no escape to the outside.
N ow there is a child in my arms. ~ yyurpose was rescue. a pretty girl-baby,

m y eyes, I can see her as she would be
now, after having been in the world for
a year. She is round and soft and sweet,
Almarion's green-gold eyes gazing from
deep in the beautiful face. H er hair is fine
and gold-white, stubbornly standing up
in baby-tufts, like the hair of the ch ild in
my dream.) All I can see of this child in
my dream is her white-gold hair , flattened against my shoulder in the stark terror of nightmare.
And now the dream has shifted, and
the house is gone, and the boulders, and
my arms are empty, hanging stupidly at
my sides (I cross them, unnoticeably clenching them, tightly) ~s I speak to silent
Almarion. "She wasn ' t my child to begin
with," I say inanely (I explain?) My

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. blonde and soft and crying (how did I
know she was there?)
(The nightmares are always in the blue
house of my parents .·Last time I dreamed of a human sacrifice. maybe it was
me?in that house .)
We called our new love "Ruby",
beauteous gem of our loins . She was
perfect and strong, alert and so human
in her tiny wonder. She babbled and
cooed (never crying, why?) made up of
our very souls and flesh and love, and we
were artists then , truly, A lmarion and I ,
completely lost and exposed in our creation. My heart was filled with this tiny
person , beating as big and alive as she,
and with so much hope. (When I close

dream-form Almarion says nothing, but
behind him stands the pregnant full
moon, red through the fog, as only
dreams can make moons. I think of blood
then.
Blood came from my womb after our
baby was gone away. Red, red blood,
and I thought it was my heart pouring
ou t of me . a crushed and splintered thing.
Later , the blood was brown, not like the
life-blood, but as if it were coming from
something dead. Almarion was there ; he
• tried to comfort, even using words .
"Don't, please, no one can own a child."
But my arms were so empty, and now I
have nightmares in which I hold my empty arms tightly to m yself. I feel so very
blue.
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St'attle Neurologist Robe rt Co lfelt,
au thor of a rece ntly publi shed collect ion
o f stories and essays called "Together in
th e Dark" will be in the Evergreen Stat e
Co ll ege Bookstore for a book signing
Thursday from 4:00-5:00 pm . This will
be followed by a free reading at the conversation pit on t he third floor of th e college's CAB building from 5: 00-6:00 pm.
Fo r more informa tion ca ll 866-6000

Sibyl Jalllt's . a Sealllc poc t of national
reputation, will pn' sell! readings of her
works in Olympia a t 7: 30 pm. James will
perform at the O lympi a Ce nter, 222 N .
Columbia. d ow ntown Olnllpia . Th e rt'
will be a two dollar fc c .

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DECEMBE R 4

" The Shadow Government" is a film
presented fr r(" of cha rge in the OIYilipia
Timberland Libra ry mee tin g roo m
Thursday at 7:30 pm . According to EPIC
t he film uncovers fi gures behind the I ra nContra affair a nd implies that crimes took
place beyond thc scope of th ose un -

Sixth Se nse will sponsor a benefit auction
with auctioneer Sandy Bradley. The Auction will be hdd a t 7:00 pm a t the Anti que Sandwich Company. Ticket reservations ca n be m ade b y calling 272-5204.
Sibyl J ames will perform at South Puget

Sound Co mmunity College, 2011 Mottman Rd . The afternoon performance,
which will be in the college's Student
Center, is free and open to the public. For
information on time, call 754.- 7711.

DECEMBER 5
The Masterworks Choral Ensemble will
perform at the Washington Center for the
Performing Arts at 8:00 pm. Tickets will
range from $6-$11. For more information , call 753-8586.

DECEMBER 6
The Asterisk and Cheese Library is having a Poetry reading at 7:00 pm. Sign up
at the Asterisk (right next to Rainy Day
Records on Division), or just come to
relax and enjoy.
The Olympia High School Christmas
Concert will be held at the Washington
Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30
pm. The cost is to be anl1ounced. For
more information, call 753-8586.

DECEMBER 8

Carlos Nakai, Native American Flutist,
will perform at 8:00 pm in the TESC
R ec ital Hall. Tickets range from
$4.50-$6.50. For more information, call
866-6833 .

Renate Kilne will speak at 7 :00 pm in the
Library Lobby about U.S. involvement
in El Salvador and the cover-up of her
son's murder there in 1982. The talk is
sponsored by the Evergreen Political Information Center.

Eugene Laverdiere, a theologian, will
hold a presentation at the Abbey Church
from 11 :00 am-2:00 pm. There is no fee.

DECEMBER 9
Multi-cultural Holiday Party and Open

House at the Parent Resource Center,
L3200 and L3226, on Wednesday from
4:00-7:00 pm. There will be refreshments
(including ethnic foods), toys for
children, and a special guest too. All
parents, famili es, and their friends are
welcome.

Tickets are on sale now and are available
in Olympia at Rainy Day Records and
The Evergreen State College Bookstore .
Genral admission is $7.50; $4.50 for
students, seniors and KAOS-FM
su bscri bers. For reservations call
866-6833.

DECEMBER 10

Who Speaks for the Children, one offive
hea rings around the country will be held
at the Des Moines Methodist Church,
22225 9th Ave., S . Des Moines, WA .
Who Speaks for the Children is a forum
with a focus on building a commitment
to end poverty among children and to
make related issues visable in the upcoming presidental election year. For more
information call 866-0352.

Red and Black Books has invited authoractivist Starhawk to lead a public ritual
to help the community express the fear,
anger, grief and possibilities of hope felt
with the threat of AIDS in our lives . The
ritual will be held at the First Baptist
Church at 7:00 pm with a requested
donation of $7-$15 to benefit Shanti , an
'organization which assists those with lifethreatening illnesses .
Narada Records recording artists Eric
Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel will perform a Holiday Music Concert at 8:00
pm In the Evergreen Recital Hall .

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Red and Black Books is producing!- unique rock and roll ritual dance with the
popular band Rumors of the Big Wave
and activist-spiritual leader Starhawk.
The dance will begin promptly at 8:00
pm at the Nippon Kan, 628 S.
Washington, Seattle, in the International
District, with a donation of $6-$8 requested at the door.
Tim Noah: Faces of Christmas Kids concert 11 :00 am at the Wilson High School
Auditorium. Tickets are $6 for adults and
$4.50 for kids. Tickets are on sale at Rotties, Auburn Chamber of Commerce,
Book Rack; all in Tacoma and Auburn.
F or more information call 863-6617.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Needed immediately: two student
representative positions available to serve
on the Communications Board. If you
are intereseted in being a student rep.,
contact Janine Throme, Chair, Communications Board, TESC, clo LI214A
(Mail stop Ll401), 866-6000 X6034, for
application information. Application
deadline : December 7.
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Capitol Playhouse '24 will present "The
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Ticket prices range from $4.50 to $16 for
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more information/tickets , call 754-5378
between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm.
First United Methodist Church is offering rides to its 11 :00 am service. The van
will be in the loop behind "A" dorm by
10:30 am, on Sunday mornings. Cosponsored by Innerplace and Campus
Ministries X6145 for more info.
Christian Support Group meets M,onday
nights at 7:00 pm, at Innerplace, L3225.
Co-sponsored by Innerplace and campus
ministries. For more information, call
X6145.
Weekly meetings at the Environmental
Resource Center on Wednesdays at
noon. Topics from a ban on polystyrene
to letter writing to save forests will be
discussed. The next meeting will be the
first week of winter quarter. For more information call X6784.

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Fishy plays in a steel drum
band at the Evergreen State
College. She's leader of the
band. She gets down, gets
funk.y. She plays the drums
with her dorsal fin, so she's
kind of upside-down and
she has two sticks on her
fin, fastened by velcro
because she's afish and she
. doesn't have any appendages. After the show, she
and her friends, in a school,
go out to the Rainbow and
catch their competion. The
name of Fishy's band is
, 'The Chicken of the Sea ".
They drink some brew and
go to bed.

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Harrllon and Dlvilion

Fishy is blue. He likes to
hang out in sandy gravel
shoals, and he eats red
algae. Occasionally he eats
other small, yellow fish
which swim nearby, just
out of Sight.

Fishy truly waTiUd to attain
three dimensionalism. She
knew it was possible-her
grandmother spoke of a time
when Jishies were round
and whole-not flat and
flagmen ted. Even now,
there probably existed many
({real" fishes out therebut, alas, her two dimensional perception flattened
them nght out. She started
talking, she started dreaming, started realizing that
she was not alone. she
started showing her kwghter
and tears with her fellow
flat fishes. Gradually and
mysteriously, they began to
see things in each other they
they had never seen before.,
They were amazed at what
was beneath their smooth
shining surfaces. They
discovered
many
similarities-how could
they ever feel alone again?
They also discovered many
differances-how could
they ever stop learning and
growing in this diverse and
wonderous new world?

Fishy was swimming happily in the ocean, had a nice
little happy fish family,
and was always smiling
and laughing, and just
didn't have a care in the
world. There was always
lots offood. One day, Fishy
saw this really yum"!y anchovy in the ocean, and ate
it, and got yanked up by a
long string that he couldn't
see, and was in a boat with
a bunch of otherfishies, and
then got filletted and canned. He was sold for a
dollar-ninety-three a pound.
But it's not really a sad
s/ory because the can was
shipped from Southeast
Asia over to Los Angeles
where it was distributed up
here to Olympia and was
sitting in the food co-op
when I bought it. I ate it,
and then Fishy found
himself back in the ocean .

Danita Sanders
What do you mean?Just a
story? Well, ok: Fishy was
the smallest member of his
family. He doesn't really
have a his/ory. He swims
around in the Puget Sound
and doesn 't do too much.
For fun, he comes to Super
Saturday and pre/n>..ds /0 be
a balloon. He likes doing
stuff like that. [think he's
pre-puberty, but he could be
a teenager arry day now.

intervif"ws by
Ellen Tepper
photos by
Philip Bransford

Well, I don 't know if
Fishy is a ((he." I think
Fishy could be a ({she. " As In "Fish-SHE".
What does Fishy do? Ah!
Since she's two dimensional, she is looking for a
third dimension . Well,
we've got /0 do something
to Fishy; maybe draw
something a little bit on
Fishy so it will become
more three-dimensional.
Let's change Fishy. No,
no, ~o, no! Fishy should
stay the same. I think. FIShy
is a Fresh-Frozenfish. See
that smile? She has a FreshFrozen smile.
One day Fishy went to the
market and went /0 the Jish
counter. She asked the lady,
, 'Is this Fresh-Frozen crab
meat?" And the lady said,
({No, it's immitation crab
meat." You know, the
kind made with sugar and
all kinds of artificial stuff·

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