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The Evergreen State College
After nine long years, Evergreen's first
president, Charles J. McCann, is leaving.
As first president, he's obviously had a
tremendous hand in shaping this coll~e.
Few p-:ople realize how great a hand.
Faculty member Richard Jones, in a letter to a colleague at the University of
Santa Cruz in California, wrote: "New
colleg~ are fabulously expensive and amazingly accurate projective-personality
tests for first presidents." Much of what
Evergreen is, much of what it tries to be,
and much of what it hopes to becorJ11eis
because of Charles McCann.
McCann came to the college in November 1968. The legislatu~ founded Evergreen in March 1967, and Governor Dan
Evans appointed the first Board of Trustees in August that same year. Evans urged
that Evergreen be a different place from
the start. He declared a need for a "flexible
and sophisticated educational instrument,"
as opposed lo the ..vast and immobile
establishment." The Board of TrustttS recognized that the selection of a president
was crucial in determining the fonn of the
college. Applications from 400 persons
were examined. That group was whittled
down to five finalists. Administrative Vice
President Dean Clabaugh, the college's
first employee, having been appointed
Executive Director to the Trustees by
Evans, explained why McCann was chosen, "I think Charlie McCann ,old himself
to the T rusttts as the one who had the
most clearly defined idea of how higher
education should be improved."
From the beginning McCann was committed to individualized study. He wanted
a work/study program in which students
could receive experience directly from the
community. He wanted mature, hardworking students, and he believed that a
May 26, 1977
A Farewell to Mccann
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curriculum aimed at such students would
sell itself. Clabaugh said that McCann
was the person most often insistent on improving old methods. He called McCann
the "lead architect for the design of Evergreen's curricular structure."
McCann was always finn in making
Evergrttn non-traditional. It was his committment to m.iking Evfigrttn .i place to
"learn how to lurn" that made the school's
centra.l philosophy which m05t of us tile
for granted today.
In 1969 he wrote: 'We conceive of a
college which will not attempt to 'produce'
a 'product' as such; th.it is someone
stamped with the point of view of a particular elite, constituency, or n.irrowly con-
leader at the planning meetings which
established what this college would be.
He selected the people who earned these
ideas forward. McCann was the final voice
in the design and lay-out of the campus
and just about everything that 1s Evtrgreen. Richard Jones, who was one of
the original 25 planning faculty, wrote:
"McCann was the genius of the place.
and always will be, no matter what happens, because he had the impulse. as first
president, to say to the planning faculty
'You don't have to do what m the past
you have had lo do badly • This gavf' us
the running room to put a variety of
dreams and ideals to real hands-on tests
TONE
Perhaps everything McCann has done
can be summed up m one quality Tone
McCann set the tone of this place. The
committment to hard work. The notion
that we should do a lot of reading and
writing. The belief that students can and
will be responsible for themselves if they
are given the freedom to do so. The constant battle on all levels to keep Evergreen free 0£ bureaucratic red tape. Clabaugh called it "an atmosphere where
learning can take place with as few trammels as possible."
We have a lot to thank McCann for.
Of course there have been disagreements,
but there is still a clear consensus that
McCann was exactly the sort of president
Evergreen needed for its first few years.
And to say that he has served this college
well is not enough. He has done much
more than that. Charles McCann made
this college.
There will be ai farewell luncheon honoring Prnidmt
Mc Cann next T unday,
Ma.y 31, at noon on the Library fourth
floor.
ceived vocation. We assume that the
most valuable service ·c1college can offei- a
student is to initiate a process of continuing leamin.g; by preparing him with the
methods of learning and experimentation,
by encouraging independence in pursuing
inquiries that interest and motivate him,
by providing him with resources to test
his know!~
and ability."
ln many ways McCann is responsible
~or everything that makes Evergreen unique: coordinated
5tudies, individual
contracts, portfolios, evaluations.
Although he did not originate all of these
ideas, he was responsible for hiring the
people who did, and he was the one who
finally approved them. McCann was the
One Way Or Another, CAB II Is On Its Way
Be
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REDUCEDRATES, UTILITIESINCLUDED,
FURNISHED,AND FRIENDLY.
CampusHousing
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by Kar e Jaco
Back in the early days of the college,
when the projected enrollment for the not
too distant future was 12,000 students, a
College Activities Building to be con~
structed in four phases was planned. It
was to ~ built one wing at a time as Evergrttn made the uphill climb toward maximum caP"city. But when the lint phase
reached completion it became app,armt to
the Council on Post~Secondary Education,
the legislature, th• Board of Trust .... and
the Evergr,m administ1'3tlon itself, that
the baby boom had fizzled and thett would
not be 12,000 students. The collq,, wu
left with one truncated activities building.
affectionately known u CAB. Initially
designed to be a Spllcious corridor to the
other .ctions, CAB now it.ands as a white
elephant bf sorts, Hllhetically pleuing.
but demonstrating lridficlent - of ~.
There hu boa, Rrious talk since 1974 of
building .CAB Phase II. which would be
constructed to RrVe the nftdo of the 4,000
ltudmts who will ~mtually attend Ever-•
acmrdlng to currmt uaumptions.
fMIIEl.llSH THE ORIGINAL PLANS
Annually, sine,, Its establishment. the
S6'A Boud hu had to consider the problem of CAB Pha .. II. Until this year they
just shunted some money into a building
fund and forgot about it. This year, how~er. thett was a propooal before the
Board that Sl!<medto some worth following up. It came in the form of a memo
from adjunct faculty member Lee Chamben, who expressed his desire to Sl!I!a
• DTF formed which would design a structure, not necasarily CAB U. which would
satisfy unmet student needa. Chamben'
concern with the problem stemmed from
a 1976 conversation he had wit.Ii )ffry
Schillinger. who was then Director of facilities. Schillinger ""Plained that once tht
collegr'1 mrollmmt grew beyond 3,200
students, the spaa, on the third floor ol
the library currently occupied by S6'A
funded groups would have to be tabn
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Thooretically,
the displaced groupo would haw to find a
home in CAB U. ~ for ltudmt offices
is provided fo, in the e,doting ochnnatic
ol the CAB addition, but tho bulk of the
building's area would be ocxupied by an
enlarged food senna, aru and an expanded bookstore. Chamben unhappy
with the idea of giving tht majority of
space in the 51.7 million S6'A funded
atructutt to a cafeteria and a bookstore.
He suggested that the DTF, which would
be comprised of faculty membertarchitects and students on contract, attftnpt to
embellish the original plans to come up
with a SP"cially-sound design.
Chamben also included oome recommmdations for mtructuring the present
CAB in the lint draft of his proposal.
dated November 24, 1976, which _,.. .,._
eluded from his more l"Kalt draft of April
12. 1977. These include repladng the Idolks on the second Aoor of the building
with a row of nine tffl\porary office •truetures to hOUM student groupo, and conwrtlng tht CAB 106 - 110 area into a
quiet "bistro".,... with a tarp~
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INrlMATE DESIGN
A mttting ol the S6'A Boud wu held
on May 24 to diocuu Chamber,' propooal,
which had boa, modified by that time to
include ll!Vffll) student interno. Faculty
member ~ Huenstab and fonnff
campus architect Bill KnaUN spoke at the
~ on the desirability of having
membfts of the community intimately involved in the desig, of the building. 1'3ther
than an architectunl firm which knows
nothing of Eve:rgrttn's particular nttds.
l<naUN deocribed the dneloprnent and
planning proces for CAB Phase U as he
visualiud It. Next fall. a group of students
(partially ,elected ahead of time) would
form a desig, group to r<Harch ampuswide objectiva and needs as far as facility demands go. Keeping the desires of the
C,ag.ee11 ,->mmunity in mind, they would
use olemmts of environmental and structural design to do-volop • suitable plan.
The plan would then be 1Cn1tinized by a
~ architectural -'tln1
firm
for Ill '-1bllity.
PLEASING THfBOARD
The S&.A Board seemed pleased in genera) with the idea of funding stu~t
planning of the project, as op~
to the idea·
of paying for the same architectural finn
that designftl the rest of the campus ... We
_have to do it anyway," said Constance
PaJaia, Executive Secretary of the S&:A
Board. "It's always bttn a given that the
Sa.A Board would build CAB Phase 11."
The. fu.ndin~ for the planning stage ~or
the building·w11l amount to SJ0.000, which
will be a P"rtial first P"ym<nt on the
$1 .7 million bond that will have to be
floated to P"Y for construction. The Sa.A
Boud was hesiwit about alloating any
mon, than $30,000 for the building fund
this year becau.e they wanted to avoid
taking money away from the Sa.A-funded
groups in ordrr to build a CAB Mldition.
"If w• commit too much money to the
building fund to show support for these
groups. - won't haw the groups to show
support for," Palaia mainWned towards
the end of the nweting.
It was fftred that Clabai,gh would not
approve of the board's proposal to put
only $30,000 into the building fund this
year. 1... than the $50,000 he suggested
earlitt.
NO TENTS OR WAnRCOLORS
Approval from Director of Facilities
Bob Strecker was Sttn as an important
factor in gaining approval from Clabai,gh
of the plan to use student., as designers.
"We've got to H5u~ Bob Strecker that
students aren't going to just play around
with watercolors and then put up a t•nt."'
said Pete Steilberg. head of the CRC.
Members of th• Sa.A Board approached
Strecktt after the mttting to explain their
ideas and get his opinion. His attitude was
guarded but favorable. "If the details can
be worked out."' he commented. "I think
that it would be a fascinating approach to
programming and designing a building."'
One way or another. either planned by
students or by prof ... ional,. sooner or
later. CAB Phaoe II is on ill way.
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Skaggs and Gill 7 Come on,
you've gotta be kidding. All they
were doing was voicing their
opinions, Before I was pleasant,
now I'm upset. I don't like this
angry feeling that's building up
inside. Hasn't it gotten just a
TAD out of hand]
Yoga Bare
To the Editor:
One thing that I have found
while listening and watching for
the past few weeks at the Women's Festival, the controversial
radio program and numerous
letters and posters. is that I have
a question, Disregarding the fact
that by women walking around,
doing Tai Chi and Yoga in the
nude (which I perronally thought
was the highlight of the festival)
and this in turn possibly inviting
a rapist to act in the sexually irrational manner they are known
for, what is all this that 1 have
been seeing and hearing about
rape culture? In the words of
Glen Horton, 'What are they
growing anyway?"
Rebecca Roush
The Alligators
Of
Your Mind
Ford Gilbraith
You Can Say
That Again
Tbl L,,mmunlly at Evergreen
h,_i-,l11n~ emploved the premise
·h ..n -.en,eles'i moralizing can"!,1t .11J but tmly hinder both our
:·,,Jit1l.1l and '>llC10-cuhu"ral
m1..,,,rit1h
tht1se not only en1oyed
1n -.1ud1e<, at TESC but those as
s<•ll 1'! all color<; and c,exes who
Mt' ...1r1v1ng to tree their minds
,inJ cau"'e a tlowermg of growth
n,,t ,,nh \'I. 1th in interpersonal
r.JLe-.
but al'-o without.
within
t~t.• intracommunal provinces 1hal
.11\ 111 u.., -.hare. often w11hout so
:-nuch a.., a second thought for the
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nf our rad1atu,g touch.
me11me-. profoundly
personal,
,dwr limes t0uchmg in its simrliu'\' a,; well a'> m the direction.
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,fttn
un((1n5c1ously,
directed
l'h,1rJ-. 1he emotional mean of
ht' u1mmun1ty and at thE' same
1mt' matching the needs of the
'\'l'r ~niwm~ self. evolving nearer
Jt cvC'rv corner and cusp to the
grqwmg
feeling seE'mg, awarem·-,., that can overwhelm the per,,,nal c;oul and have profound alenn~ influences on all of us and
,, directed 0utwards towards
,:hn-, as well
Thank you,
Dale Christensen
Branching Out
th<' Editor
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Tn TESC Students
Faculty,
and AJministration
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hJvt" het'n visiting your coll, ,:t h 1 r a week now, and for the
111,,-.1 part I am impressed by
1, h.11 I <;et>
The facilities are out1>,.:t'1•uc;,
the faculty seems capablt• ,inJ <;tu<l<'nlmot1vat1on genn.dlr h1i,;h (surprn,mgly. m the
t.1u· 1 1 1 tlw Evergreen aura of
,1\,11lt•m1eva>;uene-ss)
l lwrt• .He however. two ma1or
)'r,,l•lt•nh ,ii Evergreen that are
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very damaging to your new student reuuiting
I The professors Ju not have
l.,lllce hour<; and tht>1rsecretaries
c ,rnntit mal..e appointments
for
them Tti a v1s1ting student attempting to interview the !acuity this essentially means the
taculty i<. nonexistent For Evergreen tn be truly student onented, the prnh:, should establish
regular otfirl' hour-.. preferablv
l'Very day but at least every
other dav
2 Thl• library clo'-C'" nd,cultlu,ly early Some pPrl1t1n of the
library sh1.1uldremain open until
m1dn1ght every nlKht. mcludm~
weekends. lt only the mam floor
were l..ept open these extra hours.
1ust one or two employees would
be needed. Assuming these em•
ployees would bC'on work-study,
the cost tn the school should be
negliKible next to the service proviJed. I am tnld the reason for
the ~hort library hours is that
lew students use the facilities late
at night My bas1c impression
from this 1s that Evergreen is a
talcum powder school. with only
a handful of motivated students
who really want to learn. But
should Evergreen only cater to
the needs of a lazy, apathetic
maronty7
---"A Concerned Prospecl!ve
Transfer Student"
Testy
To the Editor:
This is a test.
1. Does the name "Pavlov"
ring a bell?
2. Is God deadl
3. Is anyone in your family
insane?
4, Which do you want, gond
grammar or good taste?
5. Some would consider this
test garbage, others art. What
about you 7
6. Can you justify your existence?
7, What purpose
do you
have?
8. Why don't you just get the
hell out of here?
9 You're afraid to make dcos1ons, aren't you 7
10 Cmon. answer the ques-
lions truthfully. What makes you
so specia\7
11. You'rt.>kidding, right?
12. Is it true that you will go
on to the next letter. and forget
this one immediately, or will it
haunt you for hours, days, or
t.>ven weeks. intruding on your
thoughts when you least expect
il, and upsetting your barely stable mental equilibrium 7
Faithfully yours,
Barney Googol
Hippies,
Underwear,
And Humor
Regarding the Jockey shorts ad·
I d1dn't know hippies wore underwear.
Michael Michelet11
The
Undie-World
To the Editor
Your parody on Jockey brand
briefs was great. We're still
chuckling about it down here in
the elevator shafts. Work down
here has its ups and downs, but
your sharp wit and timely inserts
make things go a little smoother.
What an idea. Taking your
pants off and playing in your
undies. Great. Really funny. I'd
like to see the look on that guy's
face when he decides to put his
pants back on after he gets out
of the water
Those boys look real cute
hanging on the wall, too. We've
got a couple of them up ourselves, Comic porno is real big
with us.
Hey, how about somt> girly
stuff next time? Of course, with
women the way they are around
here, 1t could get hard laughing
at that sari of thing, Might be
real emb.:rrasc.ing reading it in
men',:; sauna.
You foll..s deserve a pat c,n the
back and a scratch behind the
eJrs Keep up the fancy pnnting,
What will Yl)LJJoke!-lers thml.. of
the
Ol'Xt
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Faithfully yours
The Evergreen Shall Crew
Bill Dodger and Seymour Hare
Poet In Prison
To the Editor:
My name is Butch Bailey. I am
presently incarcerated al the U .S,
prison on McNeil Island in the
State of Washington. I am 30
years old. Black. and very beautiful. Born under the sign of Aquarius. In addition, I am 5'101/1.",
169 lbs. My eyes are brown and
my hair is Black. I also wear a
beard. I hail from Washington,
D.C.
I am writing this in hopes that
your paper will publish my letter
and poem, and also state that I
am a prisoner desiring correspon•
dence with any young lady at
Evergreen State College. I am
lonely and since my imprisonment (over five-and-a-half years)
I have been totally rejected by all
whom I once considered friends,
loved ones, and family, So in my
desperation I am appealing to
you and anyone on your staff to
assist and help me hold fast to
the outside life.
If it bears any significance. I
am a poet. I have been writing
for the past eight years. If any
young lady would like to read
some of my many poems, I am
willing to share.
Peace and love,
Butch Bailey, #36982-115
Box No. 1000
Steilacoom, Wa. 98388
Feddup
Is Fed Up
To the Editor:
If I hear another
Evergreen
faculty member use any of the
following words or phrases, I wlll
scream:
synergy"
"I hear what you're saymg"
"~- grE'al philosopher once c;a1d
··meaningful''
rap
"uptigbt"
man··
"exception
that proves the
rule"
"I know where you're coming
from''
I realize that this list may seem
far-fatched to some, bu, it's true
that many of the teachers we look
up to use these cliches and catchwords all the time. And it's disguSling,
Sign me.
Fola Fay Feddup
Blunder Wear
To the Editor:
Response to the Women's Fest ival and jockey shorts:
FOR MEN ONLY
There will be a jockey shorts
parade next Friday at 12:30 on
the Fourth floor Library. This is
a male-preferred event Admission at door only.
Please have proper credentials
ready,
Name Wi1hheld
P.S. I didn't know hippies
wore shorts,
No More Ms.
Nice Guy
To the Editor:
IT'S HARD TO
MAINTAIN SOLIDARITY
In a letter to the Women's
Center urging their participation
n the coffeehouse discussion on
he role of men in women's e~
vents, I predicted that without
participation from the organizers,
he meeting would be a bunch of
men cursing the darkness, My
prediction was largely correct. A
couple of men from the Men's
Center came down to try to
make us feel that we owed the
women their privacy, after cen•
turies of oppression. This triggered a pissing match between a
couple of self•styled revolutionaries and the Men's Center representatives on the meaning of
sexism, and the original discus•
sion topic was never adequately
addressed.
The coffeehouse discussion was
the subject of a boycott organized
by an unidentified
group of
women. My compliment to the
boycott organizers for mucking
up two good events, Ruthie Cordon quit singing early to allow
time for the discussion. The discussion was then torpedoed by a
self-appointed group of vigilantes
who stood at the door telling
women to avoid the discussion
because "It's a m~n·s problem,"
That argument
has about as
much validity as a contention
that rape and unwanted pregnancy are "women's problems."
Three women did choose to stay:
one of them was a fairly active
participant, opposing the exclusion of men.
The real question of the value
of exclusion has not yet been
addressed. It's pretty damn hard
to maintain solidarity with a
movement that refuses to communicate with you. As more men
become disconnected from the
feminist movement, the struggle
will become more polarized.
more antagonistic.
and much
much more difficult. When you'r~
up to your asshole in alligators,
it's somellmes hard to remember
that your original intent was to
drain the swamp.
Jim Lazar
WE
What's going on7 l mean. ,eally. At first I laughed at the uguments and controversy over
the Women's Music Festival. I
tried s«ing it from both sides
and both sides had good points.
But NOW, I no longer believe
it's a humorous matter Sounds
like infringement on the freedom
of speech deal. guys. I cannot
BELIEVE the thing,; that are happening. Trying to tie up the
phone at KAOSJ And also trying to put the fear of rape into
Commentator
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At The Bar
To the Editor:
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Radical feminist separatism is
a school of thought which professes unification and achieve•
ment through the elimination of
all opposing forces. It runs along
these lines:
The kids don't listen when I
tell them not to play in the street.
(I'm gonna break their legs so
they can't do it agair..)
The house has termites.
(I'm gonna burn it down.)
I can't go to a bar alone without getting pinched five time-s.
(I'm K mna exclude all men
from my rfe.)
The hostilities evoked by attitudes such as these are not conducive to changing the sexist
standard~ that caused the pain in
the first place .
It's easy to rationalize tht• separatist attit•Jdes women feel towards men. All women have experienced discrimination because
of their gender, Although the examples differ for each individual
the result is a snow-balling se~
of frustration In high school it
was the dou~le standard that
made boys ..men" for the same
thing that made girls "sluts." After college it was the tirst pro-motion lost because a male executive was looking for someone
with "broader horizons," someone who's body didn't make
them a baby risk.
Although there is reason for
changing the system which fertilizes discrimination, there is no
justification for hating the individual. Even the title of the movement suggests exclusion. If it
were a People's Movement, then
we could all work together to--
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POWERTYPING
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Nancy Ann Parkes
Witch Hunts
And Sexual
Polarization
352-8870
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P.S I especially liked K Albrecht'c; letter last week. It's not
that I agree with E'Verything she
said, but it shows a thoughtful.
independent approach.
RE, Frtt Speech
This spring I've been observing
the ··radical" scene at Evergreen,
and I find a lot of the attitudes
disturbing, even (to use an overworked term) reactionary.
If
Evergreen was my only exposure
to radical politics, I wouldn't be
a radical. There have been some
allitudes expressed that I can't
believe are those of supporters
of progressive causes. Some examples:
1. Authoritarianism.
Since
when is unquestioning, blind allegiance for a movement to have
outside support? The idea that
male supporters have no right to
comment on factions of tht.>women's movement is absurd. By
the same logic, socialists would
have had to support the Stalinist
bureaucracy in the Soviet Union
The anti·war movement would
have had no right to exist bt.>cause the people involved in 1l
weren't Vietnamese.
It's Just
authoritarian crap.
2. (Now that I've established
my right to comment further)
The spreading of fear doctrines
by factions of the women's movement. e.g. "all men are potential
rapists." This is especially bad
because it perpetuated the myth
that rape is a crime of sex and
not one of violence. It takes ii
out of the context of a violent
c;ociety. When this innuendo is
given a racial connotation we
can see its implications:
"All
people in the ghetto are thugs"
is rightly recognized as hysteriamongering, and you can see its
results in Boston.
3. Censorship. Demanding that
thl' CPJ not publish articles that
you disagree with is censorship.
Trying lo sabotage a radio program is censorship. The "straw•
man" argument is a subtle form
of censorship, as is slandering
pec1ple because they disagree with
you. Historically, censorship has
never aided any progressive
cause.
4. The list could continue, but
time and space don't oermit it.
So what about the Women's
Music Festival? I'd say it's an example of good intentions and
negative results. A concert "by
and for women." Fine. But the
event took place against a backdrop of witch hunts and sexual
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To the Editor:
on
8tRtegles fordeveloplng
pan dae calffl'!I
polarization.
Exclusionary
or
otherwise, the concert did not
seem like a benign event lo many
men who just happened to be
walking in front of the library
lobby. Vicious sneers and hisses
just don't make it as positive expressions. I think that the problems with the Women's Music
Festival (and to a certain extent
Vic Skagg's radio shuw) stem
trom planning purely bac;ed on
ideals and not from projected resolts.
cultural disease. We can punish
them unmercifully for it, or we
can involve them in our changes,
and show them something better,
INTERESTED
INPARTTIME
EMPLOYMENT?
TYPE
-T crm papers
To the Editor:
signed,
The Controversial
wards a common goal of equality. But is the Women's Move•
ment, and that means we're fighting against men. Fighting a despised stereotype through role reversal doesn't work. When we
take the altitude that "we're going
to teach those S.0.B.'s a lesson
by doing 1he same thing to them
that they'vt> done to us," we're
only succeeding in making people
feel so guilty and alienated from
us that they have a ~ational excuse to ignore the issues, War is
not going to achieve equality.
People can't work with their
hands if their arms are cut off
at the shoulders. If we exclude
men from our understandings,
,then they are not in a position to
work with us,
Although we can help a man
to change by pointing out his
own sexist attitudes. it is unfair
to blame any individual for the
totality of a cultural disease.
Chances are that the man who
nabs me at the local bar is just
looking for a bedmate. But may•
be he just needs someone to talk
to, some form of attention or ac•
ceptance, He grew up in a culture
that put him through twelve
years of compulsory education,
but never taught him how to
give and receive love. lf I slosh a
beer down his neck. that's not
going to teach him. If he were
taught to feel comfortable about
relating to women in an honest
manner, then he wouldn't feel
the need to oHend people for attention.
We have to be sympathetic of
men as we want them to be of us
m order to create ground for understanding,
Our interaction
with them is going to have an
inevitable effect upon their treatment of other women. If we can
sit down and relate our experience-. with a man, then maybe he's
Koing to go home and help a
lady clean some shitty diapers
If we take a stance of cold accusation and hostility,
he 1s
likely to vent his frustrations on
some other woman. We have to
listen to men's problems at the
same table that they listen 10
ours,
Women are not the only vie•
I ims of a sexist society. Me:,
have been victimized and deprivel-1 of the chance to better
their own understanding. They
have been brought up and fed
on the standards that frustrate
us, There is no reward for the
lifetime of ideas thal they have
been programmed
with. The
oppr~sor himself is enslaved. We
must look at the faulty system
which creates the individual we
hold accountable for sexist actions. Discrimination
against
women is perpetuated by antiquated laws that can be twisted
and rewoven at will. Advertising
promotes attitudes which oppress
members of both sexes. These
are among the things we have to
change, Men too are victims of a
Rhyme And
Punishment
To the Ed11or:
Tn Vic Skaggs:
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
If I were a Woman
I wtiuldn't "Fuck You."
Zerb10 Scarbezw
Let's Huddle
T 0 the Editor:
The recent Womens Festival
first provoked indifference 1n me
then resentment, anger, frustrat10n, sadness. and hope when I
began to realize that the furor
raised over it was at least evoking beginnings of rational thinl,,ing.
Regardles!:- of group and ind1vidual support for this concert
and ensuing criticism, I began to
see the glimmer of an opportunity for men and women to work
together. But before that can
happen, as was pointed out to
me. m!n need to take the example of these women who gathered together to support one anoth er and in turn initiate a men's
gathering in which men can learn
to seek 1he support of other men
Without getting into complex.
ities, we as men must recognize
that as a species, men and women have always lived together;
but the question that the Women's Festival brings out is: do we
really know who we are7 Myself. I find it extremely difficult
to relate lo my humanness with
other men other than by lockerroom jokes, sports, war stories
fantasies, bragging. cars. and
Playboy magazine. PE'rhaps another illustration would be to ask
contlnuod on r•..
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by Stephanie Coontz
I ast week. on the David Frost
.,h0w Richc1rd Nixon treated us
t\, his latest \1\/atergate
detense:
All ht'> actions were aimed at
endm~ the war 1n \'1emam, which
\\'d'>
being prollmied by the anti•
war mcwement Perhaps he said
humblv he was a little bit paran\,ll m burglanzinK oftices and
..ett1n~ the FBI and IRS on dis•
-.entt•r, but
paranoia 1n the
(au.,e l,t peace 1sn t so bad.
Thi-. -,tatemt'nl 1s ot course
patrntlv absurd
Nixon could
h,1\·e madt- peact- the day he took
,\t11ce simply by announcing a
U.S ....·1thdrawal lrom Vietnam.
H1!>ottens1ve against pol1t1cal
d1!>SE'nterswas designed to prolong the war in Vietnam, by discrediting and sabotaging thf ac11\'Htes at a movement that had
befi!un to mobilize ma1ority· sentiment a~,linSI ll.
But Nh:on s new tack has a
grain eot truth m it His domestic
pl1lic1esdid tlow from his foreign
rol1nes
\,\'atergate
was not
merely a domestic aberration: it
wa!> the logical outcome of the
government s attempt to pursue
a war ot aggression abroad despite the growth ot majority op•
rws1t1011at home In Ntct.-Water~ate \,:as simply a domestic extension ot the crimes and coverup~ ot the Vietnam war
It ts worth recalling the history
ot Amencan mvolvement in Vietnam From 1883 10 1Q40. Viet'•
nam was a French colony Durmg \r\''v\.' II the Viet Minh fought
\,'-'Ith the Allies against the Japanese In }046 they declared their
independence France fought to
kl'{'r \'1etnam until 1954. On July
21 J0S4. alter the defeat of the
Fremh th<' Geneva Agrc-ement
£'ih·cted a temporuy partition ol
the country into North and South
\'1etnam with elections leading
ti> rC'un1t1cat1onto be held in two
\'ears The U. ~ . calculating. 111
bsenhower swords, that the Viet
\11nh would \'IIJn • possibly 80
percent ot the vote. supported
D,em. who !'.el up a dictatorship
1n the South and who on July
20 1955. refused North Vielnam s 1nv1tat1on to discuss elections In 1958. more lhan two
vcdrs after the promi!'.t'd elections
had been withheld. civil war
broke out Diem's regime was
nN viable, and between 1963
and 1965 fifteen governments
went through Saigon. The U.S.
promised lo get out as soon as
South Vietnam could stand on its
tiwn two feet. Under the circum'-lanct"S, that was somewhat like
.tskmg an artificial arm to stand
l,n its own two feet At last,
h0wever. the U.S. found a "stablt-' puppet regime. Its vice-president. Ngyen Ky. declared in
JQ66 "I have one hero, Adolf
Hitler But Thieu and Ky were
nPI stable enough lo wm a war
1n whteh "the enemy" was their
,1wn p0pulat1on. U.S arms and
men c0ntmut-d to pour into Vietnam
By the time Nixon took office,
the U.S was involved in a fullscale war m Vietnam and the~
was massive opposition at home.
Instead of ending the war. howf',·er
thf' N1xon administration
played tor time, making token
troop withdrawals to pacify us
al home while stepping up the
war against the Vietnamese people and expanding it to Laos and
Cambodia.
Nol since the Romans salted
the earth at Carthage had a nation done what Johnson and now
Nixon did to Vietnam. By 1972
the U.S. was dropping 100 tons
of explosives every hour on Vietnam - ati area the size of southern California. One-fifth of the
land had been defoliated, most
of 11 by a chemical called 2,4,5 T,
wmch was known lo cause birth
deformities when women were
exposed to it. Two-thirds
of
Cambodia was a "free-fire zone, ..
where anything that moved was
presumed an enemy. Laos was
being subjected to up to 400 air
strikes a day.
But Nixon's domestic pacification program hadn't worked.
Thousands of Gls had joined the
dnt1war movement.
In 1970.
more than a million people demonstrated against the invasion of
C-lmbodia and the killing of antiwar students at Kent State. The
Pentagon ?apers reveal that the
pressure was beginning to be felt:
Policy-makers held back from
some contemplated
escalations
because they feared the massive
public outcry that would be
forthcoming. By 1971, 79 percent
of the American people opposed
the war in Vietnam.
These were Nixon's "enemies.'·
The roots of Watergate are to be
found in the government's attempt to silence dissent in order
to maintain a U.S. presence in
Vietnam. This, and not the antiwar movement. was the reason
tor the prolongation of the war.
As for Nixon's "paranoia for
peace ... the hypocrisy of Nixon's
self-defense is strikingly illustrated in documents that have
been obtained as a result of a $43
mill,on suit against Nixon and
the FBI initiated by the Socialist
Workers Party and the Political
R,ghts Defense Fund. These documents reve.il that the government tried to incite violence and
disruption in antiwar meetings.
hoping to undercut the impact of
mass mobilizations like April 24.
1971. which brought nearly a
million demonstrators
to the
White House.
Nixon's domestic crimes were
integrally related to his foreign
policy. This is why Watergate is
not a dead issue. For as long as
the U.S. engages in subversion
and aggression abroad, fomenting coups as in Chile or supporting racist dictatorships
as in
South Africa. there will be cover-ups and repression at home.
For there to be no more Watergates, there must be no more
Vietnams. The exciting lesson offered by the antiwar movement
of the 1960's and 1970's is that it
1s possible to mobilize the American people around such issues.
,tnd to win.
About the author: Steph.anle
Coontz., an Evergreen faculty
member, Is the former nation.al
coordinator of the National Peace
Action Coalition.
two questions of human history:
1.) Where have women sought
for strength, traditionally7 2.)
Where have men gone to seek
emotional support 7
Before men and women can
work together productively for
a "new age of humanity" it is
imperative for men to gather. to
tree ourselves from fears and superstitions, and unite for honest
strength.
John Michalovskis
Sexism And
My Grandma
To the Editor:
I understand that men are human beings. The purpose of the
Women's Music Festival was not
to put energy into hating men,
rather for women to unite with
each other. Women are very
powertul. When women are in a
women-only environment, most
of the time, the energy that is
alive is incredible. There is no
getting away from the fact that
if men were there, the situation
would be different. Since I've
been involved in the women's
movement, I have a definite need
lo be with women only. This
n(.'('d is as great as food and sleep.
I expect men and other women
1t1 rC'Spect women-only events,
and tCl try lo understand them.
.se.Jsm does exist. Men still
carry the same kinds of attitudes
that perpetuate toward sexism.
The women's movement has been
goin¥, on fM a relatively short
peneod of time. Women have been
ablt> to vote for only 57 years;
that 1s not even one century. My
grandma is 82-years-old and still
alive. For 25 of those years.
women did not have the right to
vt,te. let al0ne have control over
their own bodies. or be encouraged to do something other than
~et married, have children and
wait on a nl.ln.
Every day of my life, I deal
with se,x1stattitudes. When I talk
with women about our lives, I
discover that she has the same
n1ncern~ about sexism. We talk
from a positive start. acknowlt-dging that rape exists and that
the vJCtim was not being provocativt.·. al0n~ with all the other
myths about rape: a woman's
n;;ht It> have a saft.> and legal
.1horti(,n and also acknowledging
anti-lesbian attitudes. From that
potnl, we think of what we need
to do in order to change things.
When I relate with men. it's a
slow process of acknowledging
the existence of whal I'm talking
about. Most of the time, il's a
joke and they tell me that I take
myself too seriously. In my attempt to relate to men on the
subject of women's equality. I
have felt very drained and empty.
At work, thrtt men were sitting
in the same area, all laughing and
joking. One of them uid to me,
..Do women ever rape men 7" I
said that it was possible, but I
did not think it happened very
often. Then I asked, "If this was
a concern of yours, is it something you deal wirh on a daily
basis7 Are you extremely lock
conscious 7 At night do you avoid
dark strttts. or consent to stay
at home 7" He agrttd that rape
was not something that he dealt
with on a daily basis. All three
men were laughing, but I wasn't;
I was angry.
A few weeks ago. I went to
hear Susan Brownmiller speak
(author of Asalnst Our WiU).
There were some men in the
audience. I felt that it was valuable for men to participate. I
would like to see men at other
educational situations that concern rape. Often I am approached
by some.one who says, ''Men
aren·t so bad, do you hate men7"
I know that there are lots of men
who are Sood human beings, but
they still have the same attitudes
that keep women oppressed. I
have a lot of justifiable anger
towards men, but I do not hate
men.
ln the Women's Music Festival.
a woman sang a song about
forced sterilization of native A·
mencan and Puerto Rican women. It was very powerful. The
last line was. "And the knife shall
cut my sister no more:· The
songs that were sung were very
intense. letting out true feelings
ol anger, of change, and of being women. I believe that in or·
der for women to truly express
themselves, it must take place in
a safe environment. In order tor
w0men 10 lay all of the stuff
that's inside of them, we need
!>Upporl.
I do not see women-only gatherings as a temporary state. I §et'
1l as a very permanent way in
which women can relate to each
(1ther. It'.., a viable alternative 111
the pdlnarchal sol'iety that we
live tn. It m<'n ar<' sn concerned
db(1ut sexi,;,m, there are time~
when they can be involved in thl·
w11men~ m,,vt.•ment ,1:,d I support that invnlvemf'nl.
Stephanie Vikingstad Connel
Fire FjgJt_ters
Vs. The
Forest Service
To the Editor:
On August 21st, 1976. nine
people were terminated
from
their jobs with the U.S. Forest
Service. Eight of these people
were Evergreen students.
\.\'c
were all members of a regional
forest fire-fighting crew stationed
at the Hoodsport District of the
Olympia National Forest
On August 11th one of the
crew-members
was given his
two-week notice letter claiming
that he would be fired for allegedly "undermining the morale of
the crew:· Sixteen ot the 10 crewmembers wrote letters to the District Ranger protesting the action
by daimin~ thal rheir morale was
m•t being "undermined" by said
C'mp\0yee. The District Ran~t•r
fl'Ct'IV<'d twdve ot these letter~
(111 nnr d.Jy. and ('n the next day
( Au~ll'il 21st I the 1..rew-memiwr
was fired for "further undermining the morale of thP crew," and
eigilt other workers. all of whom
had written letters. were laid off
IN "lack of work due to a wet
fire season." The orders wer<' s.a1d
to have come from Washington,
D.C. but no other fire-fighters
on any other crews in the coun•
try had bttn laid otl "tor lack of
w0rk. ••
h was no coincidence that
we lost our jobs the day after the
01strict Ranger received the
twelve letters protesting the firing
oi one of our co-workers. The
right to speak and act to improve
working conditions and achieve
equality for women is guaranteed
by tederal law. Yet nine of us
lost our jobs for exercising this '
legal right. We spoke out when
we felt our safety was endangered
and we requested morning s.afety
meeting as required by Forest
Service policy. On one occasion
we were Sf!nt out to a fire that
was out of control. When we arrived it was dark. Many of the
crew- members did not have headlamps. Working on a steep slope
The U.S. Customs Court has ordered a 15. 20 percent
tariff on Imported hi-fl goods "to protect America's Infant
Industries" such as Zenith, General Electrlc, and R.C.A.
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with chain saw and axe is hazardous work, and to do it at
night without head-lamps seemt>d
a contradiction
of the Forest
Service's motto. "Provide for
satety first." We protested. but
were threatened with our jobs.
We expressed concern zbout
surprise inspections of our barracks and threats to close those
barracks due to alleged "violations" of "standards" which were
never specified. and of which we
were never infonn~.
We requested useful productive work
instead of purposeless busy-work
projects which needlessly waste
taxpayers' money and our labor.
We discussed what could be done
to improve the poor and sometimes unhealthy food served in
fire camps. We suggested new
exercises for our physical training program in place of old-style
calisthenics whP, sometimes do
more harm than good. Jn short.
we organized to improve our
working conditions, which was
0ur legal right. and for exercising
this right we lost our 1obs.
For the next three weeks we
did a lot ot work. We consulted
lawyers and labor unions and we
found out that as seasonal government employees we had no
rights. In fact, the only right we
had was the right to organize for
better working conditions so we
fought the government on the
only right we had. We picketed
in Olympia for two dar
Wt!
picketed in Portland !11r 1 dav 1n
front of the regiond I , ,tt 1u• Wt•
contacted news rr,ed1.i dnd n·
ceived coverage on thE.-radu1 television and in newspapers. v'Vt·
th,qjd~lly req:jved [!atio'l"J ",'ir<
coverage trom UPI. We pnn,ed
leaf1ets and circolated them. N'ost
of our days were sixteen hours
or longer. and we spent cloSt."to
$300 for experscs during thnse
three ....,eeks. But the most 1mportan1 thing we did was -.1u I,.
together and support each nitwr
emotionally and financially w~wn
necessary. After three week-.. 111
battle the Foresl SerVKe wa~
pressured enouJieh to hire had.
the eight laid off workers with
full back pay.
Many Evergrttner, will
be working for the U.S government this summer as se-asonal
employees. and it is 1i,iportant
for you people to reah. e that you
hdve very f<'w legal r,p-hts. And
even the ones you do have are
questionable as to their ability lo
help you. It is important 1(1realize that you are W(,rking for thE'
bigge5-t bureaucracy in thE' world.
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by Matt Groening
Editor
The Services and Activities Board made their ffnal budget decisions on Wednesda~~ May 25 for the 1977-78 academic yea ... Two
items worth noting are the Building Fund allocation and the lack
of alloution for Transcripts and Portfolios. The S20,000 placed in
the building fund is specifically earmarked for use by a student
planning group in the design of CAB Phue II. The S&A Board
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Press
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35. Sports Clubs
36. Student Theatrical
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37. Third World Women·s
Organization
38. Ujamaa
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40. Women's Clinic
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first issue I edited. which appeared on January 13, 1977. Much
of that paper was devoted to the
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by Karrie Jacobs
"Students toying with program
proposals for 1978-79 will find il
easiest to get the program rolling
and well-staffed if they have a
sketch of it in by fall quarter,''
--according to Assistant Dean Rob
Knapp. He emphasized the fact
that forethought is of the essence
in students' attempts al designing
their own curriculum.
Knapp
says that he realizes that it is
hard for people to think so far
ahead. but it is important to
allow time to find qualified faculty willing to commit themselves
to a given program proposal.
··Good people need notice,"
Knapp said, explaining that program selection decisions for 1978-
• Assistant , cademic Dean
and faculty musit..ian Bill Winden
will lecture on the varieties of
music created since the dawn of
civilization in LH Three on Wednesday, June 1. at 7:30 p.m. The
lecture is free.
79
Color television for sale; 12inch portable, two years old.
Asking $225 Excellent condition.
Call Rob,n al 866-5205.
Last we,J<'s COOPER POINT
JOURNAL carried a story about
the demo memo, President McCann's proposed rules for campus
dissent. A memorandum from
McCann and the Coalition apinst
~onstration
Regulations Stttring Committtt has since bttn revised. Where the memo had indicatod that McCann had agreed
not to present anything to the
Trusttts on May 20, it should
be undentood that McCann .actually agrttd not to present his
guidelines to the Trusttts at all.
So, the c:kmlo memo is dud-for
good.
occasion as the slimy, shoddy affair that it was, and the Dajly
Olympian later quoted extensively from it as a "typical" JOURNAL article, including the following: ''Dixy Lee Ray wore an emerald grttn synthetic potato sack.
It had embroidery on the wide
collars, and the design slyly
streamlined her potbelly so it was
hardly noticeable." The article
went on in this crude vein, which
upset quite a few people. The
Dally Olympian said the JOURNAL often bordered on the libelous, a statement which itself borders on the libelous, I suppose.
'Also in that issue of the JOURNAL was a two-page interview
with ex-Governor Evans, more
salaries, and a picture of President McCann which he said made
The other item which angered
people was a short, satirical takeoff on a women-only concert
which had occurred on campus
some weeks before ( the column
is reprinted on page 15 of this
issue). It of course stepped on
many sensitive toes. but it also
made many people laugh, as effective satire always does. I still
consider myself a feminist. but I
rn=tcll"..... _,..
t-<.c;'..'~
~{~i!:J
him "look like an Irish th\Jg."
what had gone on - defended
it. What apparently
irritated
them the most was a detailed
summary of a secret presidential
search committee meeting from
which I had been barred.
Also in that fint issue was a
list of the salaries of all teachers
and administraton at the college,
under the admittedly snotty head-
line, "What This Collego Needs
Is A List Of Salaries." In later
issues the JOURNAL listod the
salaries
student
of staff members and
employees.
A lawyer
soon triod to get the JOURNAL
to stop printing the salaries, saying it was an invasion of privacy,
but our legal advisors said the
salaries were public information,
and the JOURNAL kept printing
them.
The next issue, January 20, was
distinguished by a satirical frontpage article by "Society Editor,.
Brad Pokorny on Governor Dixy
lee Ray's Inaugural Ball, which
was titled, "Oil-Black Tuxes And
Slick Cowns." Pokorny's photos
and sarcastic prose exposed the
The next issue prompted an
administrator to ask ... Who are
you going to get this week 7" The
top story was "They Won't Leave
McCann's Leave Alone," which
concerned the controversy over
the president"s two-year paid
leave of absence. With that issue
the hate mail started coming in,
and it never quit for the rest of
the quarter. Most letters werr
amusing in their pure, vehement
loathing of the JOURNAL.
'Two very small items in that
issue caused the biggest reaction.
One was a photo of an anonymously-painted figure on a campus sidewalk with the words
"KILL RAPISTS" written across
the top. The photo's caption
ended with the line, "A woman
reportod to the COOPER POINT
JOURNAL that the signs read,
'KILL B.-.PTJSTS."' Many per·
sons were outraged by this appare-nt frivolity, and I was '.ondemned at various meetings as a
sexist who thought rape was
funny -1-hisbothered ·n::!r:iorethan
_anything else involving the newspaper. and I thought abuut it for
a long time. My response was
that the item was true; a woman
did report that the words read
"KILL BAPTISTS." I can under•
stand why ii was thought I was
making fun of rape by treating a
symbol of it with less than reverence, but I reject the view that
the caption was sexist.
Zero parody a lt•w 1-.-.ut~ l,,H l
We got lots nl c,m,phnlt'nl.1rv
calls and lf'lters fr,,m .,tudt•nt-.
administrators, commun11y nwmbers. and the legislature. We JI~,,
got a fe.w calls from p1swd- Pit
locals. and lost .m adver11ser l,r
1wo. The most absurd call ca.me
from a local businessman wh11
wanted to know why the JOURNAL didn·t make fun of the "hl,moS-l'xuals and Communists on
campus.·· Annther person haled
the Daily Zern because 1t w.as
"vulgar and offensive: I replied
that we were sat1r1zmg a vulgar
ancJ offensive newspaper. a publica' 1r)n with ~uch actual unbeheveable headlines as .. Kim"
Head Located,'' and ..Pygm1e<t
Put On Endangered Species List
Despite isolated criticism. the responS-l' to the Daily Zero was ex•
cellent.
This chronicle of JOURNAL
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believe no group which calls at•
tention to itself is exempt from
comment - satirical. critical. or
otherwise.
Other controversial stories included "'Illiteracy At Evergreen,"'
which reported that school-wide
tests showed one out of eight
Evergreen students read and
wrote below the ninth grade level, and "The Ethics Of Student I
Faculty Sexual Relationships.""
which detailed a relatively subtle
form of sexual coercion on col•
lege campuses. An ongoing conflict developed with persons who
felt the JOURNAL should be a
public relations sheet. Instead of
concern about sub-literacy at the
school. for example. the JOURNAL was criticized for printing
the statistics. The JOURNAL staff
maintained that a vigorous, lively
newspaper was the best thing for
the school.
Consistently, as it turned out,
the things we were most damned
for were also the things which
brought us the most praise. The
obvious example was the Daily
hassles seems trivial m retrosp t.
but at the time I sometimes tool,_
the criticisms far too S-l'rtously
Our critics included admm1strators. government officials. townsfolk. the Board of Trustees.
teachers, staff, and students.
which at a few times seemed
overwhelming, especially cons1d
ering the intensity of the hostd •
ity. My biggest mistakt was allowing the criticisms to surprise
me.
I knew the JOURNAL was
going to be an irritant to many.
.rnd even planned it that way. I
didn't realize how wildly successful it would be in that respect.
But enough intelligent students,
staff members and teachers
backod the JOURNAL up week
after week with praise and encouragement, and they were th('
ones who made the whole thing
worth it.
Poslscript, On the JOURNAL
office door is a sign which says.
·New Rule· No Crackpots Allowed.·· In shaky letters penciled
m below someone has wntten
"Define yor terms •• O1..ay If you
enter the JOURNAL 0H1ce with
your chest heaving, your no~:n]-;
flaring, and your voice scredming, the sign appl1e-; lo you But
don"! feel bad. You ve iot co:npany
Thank you. It ha~ been a pleasure.
Student Curriculum Planning
• The Reading and Wntmg of
POETRY will be one of the expressive arts included 1n the Collaborative Arts Consortium program for 1977-78.
lf you want lo study poet•
ry. read poetry. and be~m to
think about writing poetry. contact Sandra Simon. SEM 3170
• Ajax Ill. an academic program designed for mature women
interested in resuming their educations. will met!t on Wednesday
June 1 at noon in CAB 110.
Women interested m A1ax are
invited 10 meet the raculty and
discuss the fall schedule. Those
who cannot attend the meeting
are encouraged to call 866-6342,
866-6102, or 86'•--6751.
LLJCA5FlLM
IJD.Pf),,C)()lJ(TIC
scenario in my mind of a controversial, steadily-improving, nothing-is-sacred weekly publication
which would alternately astound,
amuse, and infuriate its readers.
"You can tell a newspaper by its
enemies," I used to sneer in the
old days, fed up with the newspaper's relatively sluggish, playit-safe editorial stance which offended no one and bored us all.
··No glorification of bureaucrats,"
the future staff used to assure
each other. We wanted a highquality. vigorous, often-satirical
newspaper which would make its
readers' hearts beat a little faster.
I had 'lots of ideas, schemes, and
5trategies to shape the newspaper
to these fantasies, and I was determined not to chicken out on
anything. I also felt we should
never take the whole thing too
seriously, to always keep in mind
the absurdity of working on a
tiny campus newspaper (total
circulation 3,500) at an ah:emative state college in the northwest
United States woods.
The actuality of putting out a
newspaper varied widely from
my journalistic visions, of course.
The original fantasies had bttn
fairly rosy, and I neglected to include in them all sorts of thorns
which went along with the tamest whims and ideas. The thorns
were everywhere in real life: a
limited budget, nasty letters.
daily compromises over one thing
or another, a skeleton writing
staff, the 'flu, bureaucratic runarounds, mechanical breakdowns,
physical exhaustion, legal hassles,
intense hostility. dirty looks, insults, screaming,
and general
misunderstanding. It was sometimes discouraging, but in all except the most mundane, tiring,
experiences, I was in a state of
exhilaration.
selection of Daniel J. Evans as
the new president of the college.
I wrote the cover story, "The
Governor Steps In," basing much
of it on interviews with anonymous sources. Two members of
the Board of Trustees claimed at
a meeting later that the story was
inaccurate and misleading (possibly because it made them look
sneaky), but others - who had
inside information and who knew
•
would be made this fall be-
cause the deadline for putting out
the catalog supplement is Christmas.
Organization and a show of
student interest would help any
proposal's chances of succeeding.
Once a curriculum proposal is
polished to its creator's liking, it
can be guided down two main
routes towards acceptance. First,
it could be steered toward! becoming one of a set of offerings
from one of the nine Advance
Specialty areas:, 5uch a5 Environmental Studies or Expressive
Arts. A "t of faculty memben
is reponsib)e for planning curriculum for tach area. A proposal
could be p.....,nted to on• of
thooo s,oups and porhaps mado
to flt In with their plans. Knapp
dncriba tho cloana',olo In this
pr«u making ...,.. that propooalo bolon, tho faculty groups
lfl fair coollicla ■tlun.
A pr_.i
an ■loo b. floated
through the so-called annual programs, a S-l't of programs which
are designed each year in response
to a certain set of opportunities
and desires. The deans deal directly with thoS-l' proposals as
they go through the yearly process of reconsidering the annual
programs.
Certain criteria are used to
judge the viability of a program
proposal. It is determined whether the proposed program would
be appropriate for full-time work
and whether it seems possible to
provide faculty. If there are no
faculty members on the staff who
are willing or capable of taking
on a proposal, but the need for
the program seems real, a visiting
faculty member can be recruited.
Knapp sees the use of short-term
faculty members as undesirable
because their newnes::. to the college and their temporary nature
may make teaching difficult for
them in Evergrttn's unusual atmosphere.
During the 1976-n academic
year there were six to eight programs or group contracts which
were either student-planned or
initiated: the Marxism contract,
Tho Changing Status of Homo--
soxual,, and Writing and Thought,
to name a few. There are a num-ber on t:op for 1977-711, including
a two-,qua.rttt program of Women's Studies and a group contract
on natural hoaling callod ITAH
1TH (ls Thon, a Ho■ ler In tho
HOUMl).
11w "17-711 Womon'a Studieo
program is '-ins plannod by lllvclonta Molly Fonythe and Kato
Albncht, who haw bN,, workIng on It alna the fall. They
irlitially got involved when Knapp
determined from the responses to
a rough draft of the curriculum
(known as the Trial Balloon) that
there was "a hole in the Women's
Curriculum.··
Forsythe and Albrecht have
primarily been trying to get feedback from a wide range of faculty members on ideas and methods of introducing Women's studies into the curriculum. Their
other goal was to find a faculty
member who would be willing to
teach a women's studies program.
After a great deal of searching
Margaret Gribskov
said she
would do it if they really needed
her. The extent and longevity of
the program hinges on the acquisition of funding for the hiring
of visiting faculty.
The drive for women's studies
was one of many moves to fill
holes in the trial balloon. Knapp
was pleased with the response
that the experiment got, and
found it a useful tool in curriculum planning, worth trying again.
Program planning is not always a successful venture for
students. Sometimes: potential
programs are rejected. because of
poor planning or lack of strong
student interest, and sometime
a faculty mnnber just cannot be
found. 'W• nttd to be honost,"
said Knapp. "If w• can't figun,
out a way to have faculty a:seociated with a program we can't
do that program. If tho propooal
comes in early. it giVfl us more
timo to find faculty."
In othor wonk, ii you've got
101M
program kins up you,
olHvo,tho timo to pull thm, out
and piott thorn togothor lo now.
distinction
of
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I am opening a used book store In Olympia. I wlll buy
used books and textbooks Thursday and Friday afternoons ( May 26 + 27)from 3: 30 to 8: 00 In the CAB building. You can also leave a messagefor me at 943-4229. I
will retum your call to make an appointment.
Olympia
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8
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Fiction IFnCGi1n@IID
Fic1
2 00
It was a good QS
A Sunday Drive
de~rees out
anJ in
the barn, hotter still
and no wind
The bugs had fled their holes
m the rritten rafters for their
lives
1he fleas had fled
to the roof, and were hopping
~mgerly
{ln six scorched feet.
Only the pigeons remained
-.v·eating and grunting
in irnde-scent clothes.
l:.ven their lice had gotten the hell
L1ut. gone wandering
t(lw.ird the Latin section of Healdsburg,
l alitorn1a
A Short Story By Thomas W. Keogh
luol-..m~ perhaps tor a nice cool
Its as hot as a nee,dle m a haystack
said Duke.
Huh7 Oh hi ... said Paul.
It s as hot as a needle lost m a haystack
would make an old wife (hot) (angry)
\.,·hen she 1s trying to get her
<.t1tch1ngdone in time:·
<,J1d Duke
t>mphat1cally.
) rp
Oh I understand.
(pm·ersat1on between the very youn~
.md the very old
\11\en .,tarts slowly.
l\1ul ~lanced around
\ \'hy don t the pigeons get out
and fly around1" he asked
rolling his head upwards
towards the loft
D11l--elooked at him lil--ehe was
...unstn,ke warmed over
H'-' c.huckled
Ou\...('was 1n the garage,
he wa-. .1lways in the old garage,
wheezing a song
en-authored by Philip Morns
dunnx the big band era
when Du\...ewas still young;
when he danced like tire
and c,moked up a c;torm
putting it
In the dark garage
the ~low of the c1garrette
tr.Jced arches
tn,m his ltps to h,s side.
ln the dark,
Paul could see old Duke
carrying his death with him
in the person of a brakeman
w.av1ng his lantern
in the night.
Duke whttzed his song--t he dank walls of the g..arage
whttzed back, moss growing
I rom grey membrann
l•I cement.
He movN:t slowly in there
ltkr ~n old car
straightening out
tl, park.
What was it about tt'w garage .
He kept his chinchillas in t~~
aind it wu his chinchillu,
his lif.~uvinp sunk
•nd dying
1n the heat.
He just stood I here
fanning them every so often
with newspaper headlines
of the wage freeze.
Duh kept mumbling,
"manmade rodents
then he told Paul
the chinchilla story.
"These critters are invented
MAN
invented them . . 1ust a ball of fur and
your reproductive organs. Just a big
hunk of pubic hair . . that's what all
them society ladies be wearin' out to
dinner. I started raisin' these in '54
that's when chinchillas were all the
craze. Now they ain't worth the half of
what I paid for 'em. I can't let them
loose because they can't get wet and
they cant get dirty . . or they'll die. I
bathe 'em with this powder."
Duke thrust the product forward. like
they do on T.V.
"I don't know why in hell man would
want to go inventin' rodents, anyways
"It's not so much the money
anymore.' he said. 'They cost too much
to feed. It's that I get the greatest
pleasure
from taking care ol them."
Du\...etanned twice and another
chinchilla fell over.
• After all, I made 11 through
the Great Depression.
I'll just wait until they're all dead.
I'll live on."
Paul imagined a dozen
ot them,
tla1tened and sewn togt>ther,
pressed between a large woman's
back
and a chair
Better to die in their own sweat,
he thought, trying to build a throne
to the noble death.
Paul skipped a couple of stones-free thoughts---down along the dirt of the driveway.
It was easy; easier than water.
Round ones, half IJaves
of chipped granite
anything goes.
Thry hopped like mute jackrabbits,
like chinchillas never could,
being thoroughly
handicapped.
Chinchillas are built like
chickens' wings.
A stone hopped toward the barn,
scattering clucking hens.
\IUI
Duke was letting them gnaw on the rnd
of his finger. A special treat.
Paul noticed that the yellow teeth
matched tM y•llow
ol the nicotine finger.
.7
Perhaps senility is just the ability
to see those buildings flying through
the air ...
The chinchillas were scratching
in their cages.
Paul imagined Duke's wife
(he rarely saw her)
sitting inside
somewhere,
always sitting,
and the pigeons cooped up
in the barn.
Duke tended to a chinchilla
as it did three quick sommersaults-•-hair standing on end---before the twitching flew off through the
air,
leaving a small, bug~yed
rug-like thing.
"Easy now, lover."
!\.lexican Hairless.
The ~reathing l,f insects
create?:>the br~ze
but there was no wind for them
1,, breathe
Oo de~rees 2 0 I
11.rnl\ anl-..eda weed to chew
It \\J~ overcooJ...ed by the sun
,rnJ 11 wa~ an overdone
hav~ed gesture but
1i-. shadow lett a thin cool strip
J11\\·n the middle of his chin
,rnd throat \iJ..e the slightest trickle
1.11 \•.:ater There was a bug
L,n the end of the straw
whl'5-f' outline flew away
tn.•m his chest; the shallow speck
\lt
.,haduw-water
at"~L1rbedinto the great dry
Cllntment
There wasn't much lett
1,t the old tarm
litt>
It' go around on a day
like this
are headirig you off
at the pass.
Duke turM<i towards him.
The eyN behind glaa
with obsolet• froltlft
like twin things of art
at the H.. Jdsburg library.
A funny kind of art
that seems to grow up in small towns.
They were studying him.
The eyes were. They were studying
and Paul was studying
artworking.
The eyes began to drift upward
and to the left,
as though being tugged at by memory.
Memory that lives on in the dark,
on the dark
side of the eyeball••
you can never really see it
but the mind can feel it-Duke rolled his eyeballs inward.
His mind patted them like a damp
sponge,
and he was refreshed.
To Paul. Paul could see the backs.
The backs of his eyes were
red with lightning veins,
crying rain and electricity, loud booming,
as Duke began to talk of the good times;
the Thirties-- the Depression-the Forties-the War-•
(all good hard times)
and then the eyeballs descended
to cloud over the Fifties
with small tall....
SC'lmething must have happened.
Paul was young, twenty,
but he could feel 1l faintly,
the understanding,
faintly as a peach-fu1..1.chin.
Duke lapsed into silence.
(DLJKE"SLAPSE! (THINKING)
Any workinR man will tell vou••-·
Just when you get used to telephone
operators
with tonsrls
tl,ey l,m.,e tht>1rtonsils rpmoved.
How If 1s whe,1 everything turns out
different
than you l1ad hoped or planned or
01ouglit.
Frustration drills deep
between the eyes:
a screw with a will
of its own.
gong crooked
into a bathroom wall.
Still. the towel rack and the toilet paper
are held up•-- life continues to function.
You wipe your l2S5
although not as aesthetically
as you had hoped.
A map of your tongue Would show
gr~ups of fast, buds lik,
bumps of towns
sectioned off,
separate,
yet everything you eat i.5garbled
togethe,and you drive through the suburbs,
the adv""cing suburbs,
(you know how it is)
the some the .samf':
you r«opiu pAJt buildings
(of th, ..dvancing suburbs)
tu though th•y "" /,.ping forth,
Paul was jusl a kid.
He shivered.
Duke and his wife:
harnessed to chinchillas and tied to chairs.
and bound to each other with life's rope.
Turning red, then pale
white, no circulation and numb,
old
(the skin's wrinkles are grooves
cut by this rope),
and also tied to the land.
and the land tied,
like a sleeping yo-yo.
to the sun;
the sun a tow-headed show-off
kid (like himself),
doing walk-the.dog.
Paul was about to go swimming.
He felt a twinge of badly.
It was still
hot out.
·why don't you and your wife
take the chinchillas for a Sunday
driver
Duke stopped fanning.
stopped moving his body
back and forth
like negation
and began to move his head slowly
up and down.
"Yeah, that oughta cool 'em off
alrighty!"
There were thirty-seven of them
left, 37 chinchillas,
and thirty-seven upsiE'-daisies uttered
like babies ushered
into the back of the pick.up.
"Paul's iust a kid;
a l11rpdsummer hand.
Wliat could he ever hope to understand_?
Who does he expect ·s gonna keep food
coming up out of the ground,
the way he spends his time j11st
running around?"
Paul went off swimming.
There was a pond back
in back of the ridge.
in the woods.
Paul met Emmy there;
their clothes were piled
on lop of each other.
They made love in the water
near the middle of the water;
there was a bright little
pile on the shore.
Far away.
The water ripplN:t out from their mo lions;
there was pleasure lapping on every shorr.
Dry stones were getting wet with their
pleasure
while tiny fish were watching
what they could see under the water.
Tiny fish were wriggling very fast
to remain still.
The water was shallow nur the middle,
the bottom was soft
silt.
Tht'y were making love;
their fttt were sinking in thr silt.
Emmy covered M,....11with a lily pad
and danced on the shore.
Theft wu a stick floating out
near the middle of the wate-r.
Paul thm. it th•~1
tion IFnCGi1n@IID
Fiction IFnCGi1n@IID
Fiction
Paul was throwing baskets against the barn
katuk katuk katuk
as the sun was going down.
The sun was turning orange, hot yel,
and the basketball
katuk katuk katuk.
Still no wind;
the birds were breathless
(as always at sunset)
and the basketball.
ii was flying
straight through the air without
the wind.
The only bird that was making sound---the woodpecker
tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk.
The bug!i-were back in the wood
and they were still very warm.
The woodpecker
tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk
the orange sun
the basketball
the pigeons in th(' barn window;
their hearts were beating very fast
katuk katuk katuk
Paul was throwing baskets against the
barn.
The black truck was- rattling,
rattling louder than the motor.
The old pick-up was throwing
brown dust from the driv(' (a cloud)
and rocks were in the cloud (hidden).
Duke and his wife were driving
towards Paul
up the dirt.
Paul was throwing ba:ic.ets there
still,
a::. it was growing dark.
No wind.
And still
hot.
The cloud of dust fell on the leaves
of the trees boardering and sticking
their roots out into the dirt drive.
The roots of the trees were making the
truck
rattle and thub
as it went over them
and the dust fell on the trees,
making them look like
antiques.
Duke sprinkled oldness
all around in back of him
as he passed along in the world.
The driveway went wide by the barn
so that it touched the barr., the garage.
and a work shed.
The work shed always covered with dust.
The old black truck went in a circle
all the way around to the garage
running over fallen
shells of walnut
trees with a loud crunching.
The truck slopped at the garage.
stopped rattling;
then Paul could hear its motor
which was quiet compared (to the
rattling).
Duke turned off the motor
and then he could hear Paul
katuk katuk katuk
against the side of the barn.
Duke jumped down from the cab
and crossed in front of the headlights
(it was growing dark)
to the passenger side.
Paul noticed ~n the headlights
a boyish &Kpression,
and thrn in the dusk
he did not see it.
Paul wonderN:t if the chinchillas were
saved.
Duke opened the passenger door in the
old style
that he was taught would give a woman
pleaisu~.
The door creaked and popped and
opened.
rusty hinges,
;md Duke·s wife
whose name Paul did not know evrn yet
ex«pt as Mrs. Wilson
climbed down deliberat•ly,
setting onr foot at a time
into the dust, as though,
Paul thought,
dipping into a bath.
Lik• tM powder bath of
chinchlllu.
The a,ges ...,,. plied up in the bed;
they w•re dark ond silent.
Paul wondered what had happened.
Arm in arm
in the muggy evening---the sweaty insides of their elbows
(rubbing together)
were making kissing sounds---they walked over.
Duke was laughing faintly.
Paul began to hear it;
it was not wheezing.
The chinchillas must have been saved.
Paul had a feeling.
a strange feeling;
that they were acting like school kids
made him bashful
He would not be so concerned.
He turned around.
Katuk katuk
the ball wept too hard against the barn,
causing a flurry of pigeons at the window
and the discharge of bats
from a black little hole
in the dark red wood.
The pigeons settled,
the bats dippled low
over the silver hair.
They were attracted to the silver hair
and were bouncing their squeaks off
Mrs. Wilson's head
and the basketball bounced past
Paul into Duke
at the knees.
Duke stooped slowly to pick it up
as Mrs. Wilson's head went round
in the air;
the last light of day
and the first light of the moon
were shining on her silver hair
and the bats were zooming
and Duke held the basketball over his
head
with one arm.
"Good evening young fella!"
Duke threw the ball toward the basket
but not very near.
A bat w-mt after it··-the bat bumped it in the air.
the ball fell to the ground
and all the bats were gone.
The old ones;
they were both laughing
the kind of laughter which was
continued from earlier laughing
that might have been interrupted by the
change
of a traffic light.
Mrs. Wilson did not say anything, but
she smiled,
she smiled and her eyes widened at Paul,
at the surrounding countryside,
the goats in the barn,
eyes widening,
the pigeons,
the hillside.
the bats now circling and zooming
over the hillside
(Mrs. Wilson could see them).
• her eyes were widening at the fading
purple
of the sky,
the first stars twinkling like candles ever
on the verge
of being blown out
by a huge cold breath sweeping
across the black expanse.
Mrs. Wilson's smile was widening at Paul.
She regarded Paul,
young Paul under the stars of the universe
that might go out
and under the bats zooming.
There was nothing to fear.
She regarded Paul,
just another one of God's children
to be looked after to be prayed for silently
(lest h• h.. r of all th• evils that might
befall him).
Mrs. Wilson made him nervous like that.
He turned towards Duke.
''How did rverything work out
with the chinchillas?
I gu... they'~ oll right, huh7"
''W•II, th•y'~ dead.
I guess th•y·~ all right."
"O.adl Whot hoppened7 I m.. n .
Duk• had short whit• hair.
Th• fint bl'ftU oil day
touched it.
Duk•' s hair bent forword,
the only thing in tM world
foint enollgh to be mowd
by such btteu.
"Yeah, well the little guys,
they were so hot and sweaty,
June thought that it might help to take
them---you know•-·· to one of them . . (small
gesture)
air conditioned shops
so we went to a motion picture in
town."
"First picture we've been to in
eleven years!" she said.
Her feet were digging
her high heels were gone in the dust
and there was water in her eyes.
Her eyes were glowing. They were blue,
Blue eyes, Paul noted. Blue.
Some water went to the dust.
was gone in all the dust.
Paul thought of Emmy and the afternoon;
water and feet sinking
in the silt.
"That new film with that Charles
Bronson fella .
DEATH WISH. I think i' was called.
Brou~ht the critters in there with us.
c.:iges and all.
Boy he was good.
But it was too cool in there for them;
the chinchillas caught a chill.
One of them got oul of its cage.
They found him afterwards .
you know we were looking all over
the theatre .
they found him after
the movie.
In back of the popcorn machine.
I think it went there looking for warmth
or food.
"I guess I won't have to worry 1bout
them
anymore.
Paul did not know what to s<y.
"Well, how did y,,u li)...ett-,e movier
"It was a damn good show," he said.
the good won out in the end;
that's what math·rs."
Paul looked at Duke·s wife
who was smiling.
"I certainly liked goini oul.
but all that violence .
she began.
Blackness was flying up from the east.
A car went driving by. A night-colored c,H
was throwing up a cloud.
The dust was red in back with the tail
lights.
The basketball was night-colored and had
wandered
off somewhere around
the barn like a skunk,
and it would be smelling of sweat.
ThE' old ones were pointing their heads
to lhe ground
and the feel were working around
back and forth and circles
in the dust.
Duke always polished his shoe~.
black ones, he polished the laces
and all, and they were alway<, covered
by the du::.t.
"Well you wont't be able to use them
(chinc:hillas)
as an excuse
anymore, .. she said.
Duke was rubbing his shoe!>ai;amst
thE"legs of his pants;
he was always having his pants launderel
and h1s head was pointed Inward the
ground
"I think I'll bury them hf'rt·
Yeah Right here ..
Well I'm going 1n," she c;a1J
She was hunchir1g,
the breeze was starting to me vr
thE"silver hair. It was silver
underneath,
also.
Duke put the white shawl around her,
like a fisherman
The shawl with woven hole<.,
and the flowers of her dre~..,c,howang
through.
She walked away lik,• that
toward the night-colo~ed huu ...(•
like a fish that was walkm~ 1n the net
ShE"had kissed him, he:- lip::. had gone out
like a fish when it goes •n
the air, and she had kis!ied him,
and she was walking aw,1y
The shawl was white but it was becoming
night-colored also
The screen door has its own sound
Duke was back m the garage
and he did not know what the garage does
to the sound that is in 11.
Paul heard him crying in there
He wa!i crying.
There was a stream on the side of the
barn;
this stream did not move m the summer
nor was it white in the night as in the
winter,
but it was dark and it was ~cattered here
and there
between the rocks
and trout were separated
from each other until the waler
was gone.
The stream did not last through the
summer
and lish came swimming up the stream
atter the first hard ram of tall.
Paul was silting by the stream
on a rock;
he did not move.
Soft bucking of the goats and crying from
the garage.
No sound from the stream.
There was work to do tomorrow
up the hillside.
Paul was thinking
that he was getting tired of the 106
and that he might go off somewhere.
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Wanted For Summer Quarter
Applications are now being accepted for the paid posi- ,
tions of News/ Managing Editor for summer quarter. The 'I
News/Managing Editor's responsibilities include writing and
assigning stories, editing copy, and guiding reporters. News-·:
writing experience and a good knowledge of Evergreen are
essential.
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You can get in as deeply as you want. It's also a good way
of finding out if journalism is for you. Test yourself.
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Experimental
Animation
Festival
What's the first thing you think
ot when you hear the word "ani•
mation1" Cartoons, nght7 Only
partly Although cartooning is
the mo-.t widely known form of
an1mat1on to Amencans,
there
Jrl'
at least ten other distinct
1-.mJ-. Most of these have a long
h1!,lory o! development and a•
ch1evement, jusl as cartoons do.
The alternative history will be
e1'plored th1,;;weekend in a festi·
val tif Experimental Animation
!1lms The "'how cons1~t!. of lb
,h11r\ tilms, ranging in length
/n,m lour 1t1 eleven minute~. and
ctl\'l'rin~ lhC' yf'ar, ]02I•1Q7b
Tht• ldm, reprL'<il'nla fJ1r sample
tlf
nt1n·tarto11n techn1quec;, 1n·
clud1n~ clav ,rn1mat1<10,coll.ige.
tht• unique
rin-,;;crcl'n n1ethod
oil-on plex1glas,. paint in~ directlr
on him and tnmputer animation
S1mw h1ghh~ht.., o! the show are:
frank Film (JQ73) - tht· hilar111u<,.
t Ja..,..,1c colla~e•an1mated
worl,.
Lapis I 1%7) • a c;ublirne n,m.
puh.•r ldm
Composition in Blue ( 1935) - J
rare arid e"'nllent ea,ly Gemr.tn
wnrl
Begone Dull Care ( 1949) a
cla~s1c Norman McLaren film
with c;ound by Oscar Peterson •
Ught 11°741 - a highly polished
ab~tract work, Grand Prize Winner at the 1075 Bellevue Film
Fe,;;t1val
Otht•r work.. in the program
mclut.le Arabesque,
by John
\-Vh1tnc-y,Sandman and Clay by
Eliot Noye,;;, and The Nose by
Alex1ell and Parker. Program
not~ with details and historical
comments will be .1vailable at
thl' door.
The tilms are being made available to Evergreen by the
Seattle Film Society. wh,c-h !;pon<,ored the exh1b1t. There will be
shl'lwmgs at 7 and 9:30 p.m on
Sunday, May 29 in LH 0fle. AdmiSSion ts an mflat1on-f1ghtmg SO
cent.;.
Eleven Evergreen students will
report results of a study they
have just completed on Woodland Creek to the Lacey City
Council on Thursday, May 26.
The students presented the report
yester~a~ to Thurston County
comm1ss1oners.
Working under the direction
of faculty members Carolyn
Dobbs and Kaye V. Ladd, students contracted with the State
Oep&rtment of Game spring
quarter to analyze environmental
effects of urbanization on the
small ruget Sound tributary
which flows lrom Lois Lake
throu~h the city of Lacey to Hendt>rson Inlet.
Their report, begun in April,
includes a survey of terrestrial
and aquatic plant and animal
life in and near the creek, and an
analysis of its water quality. They
also analyzed the chemical. external influences on the creek
and estimated the fish populatio~
of Woodland. The students also
conducted a random, in-person
public survey in Lacey and areas
adjacent to the creek to determine attitudes towards use of the
creek and perceptions of its valUC.
'THANKS!
for your support
this past year.
They plan to outline problems
affecting the waterway and suggest solutions in the Thursday
meeting. The Lacey City Council
meeting will begin at 8 p.m. tonight {May 26) at the Lacey
Community Center ( l l 47 Willow
St reel).
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Peter Rexford and John Wizardo ham it up.
This Is Radio?
It 1s not normal that two col-
lege students make and release a
record album. But Evergreen students Peter Rexford and John
Wizardo are known for their abnormalities. Their first comedy
album, This Is Radio?, has just
been released on the esoteric
Death label in Los Angeles. "We
tried to lampoon the whole radio
band, ranging from rock to country-and-western-which
pretty
much just means exaggeration,"
said Rexford. "Most of the time I
thin~. we really went off the deep
end.
The ideas for the record came
around early February when Rexford and Wiz.ardo realized a mutual interest in and admiration of
the radio. They
shared a common penchant for offe~ding people on a mass scale. "Why confine our humor to just ourselves
and close friends?" Wizardo demanded to everyone he met.
"Let'c; offenJ everybt1dy 1 Actually Rexford and Wiza,Jo thinl,..
few people c;h0ul<l ready be offended by the album. althnugh
they have deuded this 1~ their
last year in the NonhwC'~t !or
.1while.
The album, produced by Sunshine Snake Prnduct1ons, 1s a
lampoon of radio broadcastin~
that pretty well covers the entue
musical band Satirizing AM and
FM on side one, Rexford and
WizarJo portray Pete Marshall
and Jonny Magnus taking AM
hype to the limit with drum rolls
afte:- every sentence, sickening
jingles. and constant compressed
talking over everything that ep1tom11es the AM spectrum.
The comedy is funny, sometimes poignant, current, and controversial, with an age-old format
that will appeal to a public who
just might need a good taste of
the exaggerated realism that is
radio today.
Brief-o-rama
the friendofthe ra,ni)y.
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• Students, staff, and faculty are
invited to a farewell luncheon
honoring
outgoing
President
Charles McCann. The luncheon
will begin at noon on the fourth
Ooor of the Library next Tuesday, May 31. The program.
which features "surprises you
won't want to miss," ucording
to the invitation, starts at 12:45
p.m. and continues until 1 :30.
People are urged to bring an
appropriate
Evergreen farewell
card and "join in the fun." The
luncheon will cost 52, or you
can bring your own brown bag
lunch. Drinks and .. lad will b,
available a la carte.
• AH library material1 are due
June 3. Renewals b<gin Tuosdoy,
May 31.
• The Nlpria/ African Study
Abroad group contract will present a slide show of its activities
on Friday, May 27, at noon in
LH One. A question and answer
will follow the show. which will
last one hour. AdmiNion is fra.
• On Thursday, June 2. there
will be a concert of Renaissance,
Baroque, and classical music
presented at 8 p.m. in LH One.
• Registration
for summer
quarter will continue weekdays
until June 27 at 4:30 p.m., the
day the quarter begins. Summer
enrollment is limited to 600 students and classes are filled on a
first-come, first served policy, so
early registration is recommended. This can b, accomplished by
going to the Registrar's office in
Lib. 1101.
• Evergreen graduate
Kitty
Preston will present a solo piano
recital this Friday, May 27, at
8 p.m. in the Library Lobby.
She will perform works by Bach.
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Chopin,
and Debussy. The concert is free.
• The staff at the equipment
issue room in the CRC remind us
th.at all equipment Is due no later
than 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June
1. Late fines. ch.af11"abte to Siudent Accounts. will begin June 2.
You have bttn warned.
• The Women's Center is asking
for the return of all books and
periodicals, whether they were
checked out or not. It is very important for us to do an inventory
on our library and find out what
is missing. We are especially
looking for the return of a psychology book which was ju.st
bought a few wttks ago and
taken. We would appreciate it if
anyoM who has usred the Women's Center Library in the past
would check their own collection for any stray books or magWnes.
• Jim Douglas, mffllber of the
Pacific Life Community. will talk
about Trident and Bu,pr lnton•
live Summer. JuM 1, CAB 108,
at 7,JO p.m.
• The library has established a
,.... ... ch P"P"' file. If any studmts would like to add their
papen to the file. bring them lo
the circuJation desk.
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Summer Vacation:
It's A Lot Of Time To Kill
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Built For Two
tswerk
by John S. Foster
.>o wl H~Yl TO
"There is nothing new under
the sun." - old heathen platitude
60 &AC.lit.'T'O ~A"'r
St.f.AL"f
~L?
"lt'i a.lwayi raining!"
at Evergreen
-
boy
Robert Crumb, the creator of
Mr. Natural, now spends much
of his time playing in an oldtimey novelty string band called
the Cheap
Suit Serenaders.
George Crumb, probably best
known as the composer
of
"Voices of Ancient Children" and
"Echoes of Time and the River"
(Pulitzer Prize '68). has never
evidenced any interest in car,~ ..,, ....,
. .,
........
.......
t.
by Ray Kelleher
!t is not true that a well-occupied student must necessarily become retarded
( brain-damaged
idiotic, feeble-minded,
emot10nally disturbed, autistic) during the
idle c;ummer months. Those months need
n0t N' idle If admired in the proper perspective summer is a time of experiences
compacted as in no other season.
A LUSTY SENSE OF ADVENTURE
Perhaps the time is at hand for you
now and you've made no plans, e-s1ablished no routine that you face until resuming s1ud1es m the fall. For many this
1mp0se~ a sense of dread. For others a
schedule 1s an abomination and inhibits
nmsoousne:!>S.
When one re1ects the schedule approach in celebrating th{' sunny
m0nths_ s he must attack investigations
with redoubled discipline and a lusly sense
ot adventure. No observation, to the inc;;1~htlulstudent, 1sinsignificant. No thought
l'T teelm~ too adol~cent
or trivial for notin~
Rut really. What are you going to do
vourself7 It's a lot of time to kill.
It you £:nd y0urself bankrupt of inspiration,
the following suggestions may be
helpful For me they have proven worthy
rursu1ts. Granted, they may be discordant
\,1th many. but, should you be receptive
tl• llne use it as grist for the mill. Allow
v0ur fancy to take flight. After all, you
m.i\...evour own sauce and you have to
Sit'\\
1n 1t
TRAVELING
htremely popular year in and out. Ask
am -.un worc;;hiper When the precip falls
,,tt ,lt 1he co.ist .ind 1n the mountains the
tin' danier hits Extreme ii s time to "go
h'r 11' The question 1s. go where and
with
!ht> bE'ach and mountains are always
makE' for particularly nice
both are within a week's
thumbing distance from Olympia. But say
v,,u 1,·c1ntto go truckm' and really make
,1,, ,,Jventure of it. Then take a couple of
tr' •nth<. on the road. You mav desire the
t rt•t·dl,m of having your ow~ wheels. If
..., I "'uggest motorcycle-touring as one
dlternative.
There are drawbacks one should be aware of from the start. Motorcycles are
xtremely dangerous. Most are downright
insidious and would as soon kill you as
"-!art for you. which brings up another
rwint
motorcycles hardly ever run or run
attr,H t1ve They
h1t1 ~-h1~e-. as
0
so ~ou·ve.
like they're supposed to and when they do
they don't do it for very long. The unsophisticated may view you as overSt>xed
and threatening, for motorcycling has not
yet lived down Marlor. Brando, but the
enlightened will know that you are probably just an impotent or frigid escapist,
silently terrified of life and its stark realities. Identity confusion is as common to
motorcycling as dead batteries. but take
heart. The sport now has its own literature for you to find reassurance in.
ZEN AND THE ART OF
MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE
We need Robert Pirsig. We need his
titles. What beautiful music that makes in
the inner ear. A mantra by itself. You will
want to read it in preparation for the trip,
Pirsig puts the whole matter in a fresh perspective, The cyclist is a sentient being, an
ascetic, fluttering about in the nether
realms of consciousness as s / he mo Iors
down the nobler old stretches of back
country tarmac, feeding off a refined notion of physics in close interaction and
harmony with expanded sensual capabilities. No crude and wicked lash and pump
of horsepower does s/he harbor beneath
delicate entrails but a sophisticated causal
chain of physical events governed by principles of rotating and reciprocating masses,
gyroscopics, and the geometry ot momentum and motion. Pirsig slates his case so
deeply and lovingly on the subject of touring that, if.too carefully read, the real experience may never live up to it.
Your itinerary should center on locales
where you are least likely to "get the rubber side up and the shiny side down." as
the notion of dying has been so coyly put.
Areas with long, straight. level highways
having good visibility in all directions are
the be-st. Kansas is excellent. One could
waste away the entire season visiting spots
like Pawnee Rock, the State Industrial Reformatory for Boys, and the Iowa and Sac
and Fox Presbyterian Mission. Kansas
City leads the nation in manufacture of
vending machines. When in K.C. be sure
to visit the stockyards and the Truman
Sports Complex.
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READING AND WRITING
Perhaps you're one of those who don't
find his/her cup of tea in the road. You
Stt summer as a fertile period in which to
become better read and more fluent in
communication skills, but the lack of a
disciplined regimen leaves you torpid. You
don't know what to read or how to write
r,ea\ good.
If you're shutting yourseli inside while
the weather is at its balmiest, why not finally make that all-out, frontal attack on
the classics like you've been promising
yourself for so many years. Throw in a
good measure of healthy introspection.
Question the purpose of your existence.
Philosophically, is life worth living7 How
do you really know7 Why not forsake
your weak and cheery platitudes and find
out what the experts have to say7 It may
surprise you. Just to get you started, here's
a short sampler of the works I have found
most entertaining.
The Uliad .
Homer
The OdysHy . . Homer
The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca ...
Moses Hadas (trans.)
Faust . . Goethe
Either/ Or Vol. I.
Soren Kierkegaa rd
Either/Or Vol. II.
Soren Kierkegaa rd
The Portable Nietzsche
Walter
Kaufman (edit. trans.)
Knots .
R. D. Laing
Since your study will be unsupervised,
you're best off setting some concrete goals
for the weighty material you will have to
cover. Whet your appetite with a thousand
pages a week and once You find yourself
swept up in the fever of self-realization,
double it. Before you know it the temp
will once again be hitting the lower fifties
with consistency, and you'll have avoided
the tiresome chore of restoring your complexion to ils veiny blue pallor.
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During this time you should also be
working on your writing. Investigative
reading of this sort is useless if not accompanied by exhaustive written response
and recording of insights. Of course you
get your fill of essays and theses throughout the academic year. Remember, you
are trying to come to some truth regarding the nature of the self. You are retreating from all that is airy and pleasant in
the hope of coming to grips with your
own twisted and troubled psyche. Why
not flex your creative muscles and let your
dreadful imagination run away with you7
Try writing some existential poetry. No
one is ever going to rectd it anyway. What
is there to lose 1 If you are new to the craft
you may find this piece written in the
summer of my 20th year motiv.iting.
Waves wash the beach
my mind floats
but where is the 'answer
the turmoil ot a thousand contlicting
realities
lies naked and rank in the puke of indecision
and yet resolution is born buoyant
rising to the surface of foul pools
Go tell Aun1 Rhody
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Go 1ell Aunt Rhody
Go tell Aun! Rhody
head cheese is on special this week
It's easy. Anyone can do it, even you.
Kttp a journal and try to fill ii quickly
with anything. If you have one of the expensive hand-bound type, so much the
better, but use pencil. You'll want to erase
when you've finished.
If the study of classics in literature and
philosophy appeals to you as well as motorcycle-touring, remember that one will
only enhance the other and will make for
especially glib conversation in the chance
roadside encounter.
The possibilities for remaining mentally
refreshed and intellectually stimulated until fall quarter are limitless. I have but
touched on only lwo of the many alternatives. Whatever the case, try to nurture a
propensity for dramatic response to impulse. and especially to the insignificant.
Respond with energy to your own literary
pursuits. Reflect and relish isolated moments of insight as if time were standing
still. During no other season i~ there such
an opportunity to collect growth experiences and distill from them a sense of personal knowledge and perception. Keep
those vital juices gushing,
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A Young Person's
Guide To
Avant-Garde Music
by Steve Layton
The COOPER POINT JOURasked student composer
Steve Layton for a list of basic
records which a novice might u~
as a starting point to understand
New Music. Here is his report. •
I. Penderecki:
A Portrait
(Candide)
2. Messiaen: Turangalila
·.(RCA!
3. Boulez: Le Marteau Sans
Mailre (Columbia)
NAL
4. Xenakis:
Electro-AcouMk
Music (Nonesuch)
tooning. Is he dumb, humorless,
or what 7 George Romaosic, ancient child, post-avant-garde
composer, and Evergreen student, claims not to be a punk.
but he is suspiciously familiar
with the language of alienation.
His silence is my rest. We can
only ponder why he chose his
particular alias. If he were to
say "Why not7" .whal would
keep us from chiding him with.
"Why not Richie Blum 7" or
"Why not Arnold Schwarzenneger, for God's sakel" "Why notr·
indeed. Yet. for all of our impudence, George Romansic sits
quietly, as mudl a victim of the
avanl-garde as I am its sullen
witness.
5. Copland: Piano Variations
(Columbia Odyssey)
6. Varest: Ionization; Hyperprism; Octandre {Columbia)
7. Schoenberg: Plano Music
(Nonesuch)
8. Cage:
lndetumlnacy
(Folkw3ys)
9, Dodge: Story of Our Lives
CCR.I.I
10. Ginasten:
Piano Concerto (RCA)
11. Berhman, Ashley, Mumma, Lucier: Sonic Art, Union
(Mainst~am)
IMBIBING
At the end of last month Evergreen was the site of a regional
conference of the American Society of Composers. Partly because
ot economic realities, many "serious" composers teach at the college level, where they pass on
ideas and knowledge, collect a
salary, and still have time to devote to their own works. In this
respect they are better off than
even the most successful rock
musician. who sooner or later
will grow out or adolescence to
find his body ravished by hard
living, his millions in escrow,
and his two teenage sons wearing their hair long and playing in
a string f1Uartet. Incidental to
this conference were 'three nights
of musical performance. On these
particular nights I was imbibing
in popular culture elsewhere, but
for the benefil of those who did
attend I will not hesitate to comment upon what went on. This
"New Music'' we speak of. you
see, is an elitist fare, like any
delicacy, served up for those
who can stomach the stuff. It has
always been ~y nature to like
what others cio not, but I am still
surprised to find myself in the
nature that lends itself so well to
the "complete communion" of
the players. The work of the
white composer, written with
others in mind or not, is almost
always a lone stand. I think these
guys are alienated out of their
skulls, and that I can relate to.
From my perspective as rock'n' roller. I cannot only see a direct
tie between the "post-.ivantgarde"
and "art-rock"
(Eno.
Roxy Music, Kevin Ayers), but
with the dreaded punk rock as
well. Perhaps the expression is
less civilized, but in this observer
it strikes the same emotional
chord - dark and cerebral, starting at the base of the brain and
resounding throughout the body
company of predominantly white
middle-aged male teachers with
classical backgrounds who have
discovered the creative possibilities of machines. The New Music
is largely dependent upon 20th
Century technology.
Whereas
mathematics was always music's
companion. a modem-day compo,er might very well feel lrnat
without his electronic equipment.
ALIENATED
OUT OF THEIRSKULLS
An open question: Where do
women fit in the New Music7
Blacks have at least been accounted for. The black parallel
to the New Music, moreover, is
very interesting. It is, superficially at least, based much more
on African musical tradition and
the jazz experience. It is less adventurous in that the instrumentation is almost purely acoustic,
but gains tension and thus excitement in the improvisatory
allAKa 8HOa 11-
to the knotted stomach, the stiff
limbs, and !he chilled hollows of
the soul.
Those attending tht! New Music concerts heard not only dodecaphonic pieces for electronic
tape and digital computers, but
some peculiarly masculine expressions of our common emptiness. Generalizations accepted.
the paradoxes continue.
Boys
savagely beat out simple music
of little thought or technical virtuosity. The resulting minimalist
statement redefines the state of
the art, and reduces well-crafted
slick music to the level of muzak.
Men craft compositions using the
latest complex gadgetry after
years of formal music study. The
resulting minimalist statement redefines the state of the art, and
reduces well-crafted conventional
music to the level of muzak. The
results of both these movements
remind me of nothing so much
as the type of ancient Japanese
verse called haiku which describes
something from nature simply
and briefly as a universal.
It is a lovely flower
That grows wild in the woods,
One needs not see it
To know its beauty.
This is not a haiku.
l. If the avant-garde
movement were dependent upon that
which made it "new" and thereby
different than that preceding it,
the "post avant-garde" serves as
a clever term for the "serious"
music of the last few years that
is less concerned with new frontiers. With newness no longer
the premise from which all work
must procttd, the composer is
free to draw from sundry musical and "non-musical'' sources.
The idea of "old" as obsolete is
obsolete.
Note: This article may be performKI without prior permission
from the author under the title
"Gesamtkunstwerk
Built for
Two."
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FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, May 26
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH {30
min.) A documentary about Evergreen by recen1 graduate Mallhew
Hausle. A lot of talking heads, but
still a good film See artlcle elsewhere In this ,ssue. LH One. 6 30
p.m. FREE
Thursday, May 26
INTOLERANCE (1916) D W Grilllth's epic l'nade up ol tour stones
about
the con11nu1ng siruggle
aga1ns1 intolerance
The stories
which are 1old simultaneously
in
parallel ac11on, ponray the conlhcl
between Christ and the Pharisees
the war between Catholics ancJ Huguenots 1n 16th-century France. 1ne
destruc11on ol the Babylonian em•
p1re. ancJ the struggle between captlahsm and socialism 1n America
cJuring !he 1920s Gnll!lh was 1n•
vC'>tve(l1n every pan al the prOOu<:•
110n and supervised !he building o!
several vast sets. the mos, lamous
oo,ng !he lutl-s11ea rPphca of Babyinn The him cos1 almost S2 mdlmn to make (a slaggenng sum 1n
1nosE: days) bu! 1t tailPd commer
c1allv un11ke Grill 1th s eartoer Birth
o1 a Nation
CAB Co!IPeh0use
8 30 p m FREf
Frn:lay May 27
SABf>TAGE ( 1936 7b min l Con
s1ctered one o! th(' best n! A1ffe<1
tt11encock s lao;;f B•1t1,;;n r11ms lh•s
one cJeals with sab01eurs ,n Landor
and cont<:11111s
,1 par11cu1arly oistt.rD
mg sequence 1nvo1v,ng a small boy
unknow:ngly
rarry1ng
a bomn
through the c11v With
FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT n 940 120 mm ,
Tn1<; IS H1h;hc.ock"s seconcJ HOii',
wr1oc1 mov,e. and ,1 s last ancJ e~·
r;l!1n~ - rem1n1scenr ol h•s Bnttsn
thr,11..-.rs Its lhc s1ory ot an Amer
can 1ourna11s1(Joet McCr~a1 who ,.,
sent to Europe 1n 1939 to C:?vP.r1nP
pol11,ca1 s11uat1c.r, ano who tucomes involved w,1h i't,.;1 spies.
.6mong lhe h1Qhl1Qhl!> a,, at
tempted murder on top 01 the Wes,
minster Ca1hedral a bnll1an1 ,;;p
::iuencc m ar, 1solatPd Du!Ch wino
rn1tt ano an assassination seen( "
tt1e .,ov11ng rain EnmuncJ Gwenr- "
a mir,c,r role, out-acls everyon, "
n1e l11m 1nclJdmg Laraine Oa\
H,-.rl>ert Marshall GoorQP 5andi?r-.
,.l/"'111 Roberl Renchlef
Al<.1, Spoolo.
Sport
a sr,..)rl :,utl1cc1bv Ma,~
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Outc" an<"I Nor mar, Mel ar,•r
P·•.:senteu bv the Frida~ Note ro1r
5r~r es L 1-1 One 3 cHl<"I7 10 :, rr,
75 •~ents
Sunday. May 29
ABSTRACT ANO EXPERIMEN •
TAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL
(110 min) $111teen l1lms some o!
1hem dating back 50 years
LH
One. 7 30 p m
Friday. June 3
THE WESTERNER
(1940
100
min I An excellenl western cJHecleCI
by W11t1amWyler. with line pholography by Gr~g
To1ancJ ICltlzeti
Kane) Waller Brennan won a sec·
ond Oscar tor his ponrayal
ol
Judge Roy Bean With Gar, Cooper
Doris Davenpar1 Ch1tl Wills
and
Dana Andrews
Presentea by the
Ft1day Nile Film Ser,es LH One 3
7 and 9 30 pm . 75 cents
Thursday. June 2
ANOTHER OOOOAMNEO EVENING OF ART FILMS Th,s lime
mov,es aboul poets lnclucJ1ng Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Allen Ginsberg
Ted Rosenlhal. Rooert Frost and
Wacklord
$Queers CAB Coffee•
hOuse. 8.30 pm FREE
IN OLYMPIA
MURDER BY DEATH Neil Simon
,s as unfunny as ever With BABY
BLUE MARINE, a mystery
Lacey
()r,ve-m, 491-3161
KING KONG. wilh Jeff Bridges.
and THE SHOOTIST
with John
Wayne. Sunset Orlve-,n, 357-8302
NETWORK. an unsublle assembly of anti-TY chches, occaslonally
tunny Olympic Theater. 357-3'22
ISLANDS
IN THE
STREAM
George Sega1m a movie version ol
Hemingway·s
unfinished
novel
Capito! Theater. 357-7161.
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lQ. 7 Sunday
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ON CAMP:
THE ME 5110W f.. bunch ol works
by stucJents ._ :·•ary Ari Gallery
through Ju11t:''
FLU, X. U5 Tt-~~ oe•tormance
pieces held t'~ ,r v1.i ,a1 or grouo
appa1ntment alter M:.1 27 Fe,, lu•·
!her details call 866· ::;107
THE ENO OF THE STUFFfD ALBINO SQUIRRELS
L.,-;r
-'f• c
wanton destruction 01 t'le J>e e
mis Memorial Ga11e,y bv v1c1ov
hooligans has lelt dozen::. ot ar·
aHc1onacios 1n despair
SQu1rrels
wei-e rtpped open anCI lluni;: about
their s1ulf.ng s1rewn across the
floor and the late Mr Bemis himself was removed lrom his rest1n~
tank and mutilated surg1calty Sevei-al ot his 1mportan1 organs are in•
deecJ missing
A note left at the
scene. which authorities say 1s authen11c. gives cred11 to the CIA.
who were apparenlly on a rou11ne
foraging mission to gather material
!or lhetr sandwiches
The Joe Bemis Memorial
Gallery.
open 24
hours
Joe Bemis' final words
Well, that's it lor now. kids The
stuffed 1lb1no SQu1rrels dwindle to
a pathellc close. Remember
all
you need Is love, guided by knowl•
edge, reason. and a mahc1ous sense
of humor The enemies are solemnity. complacency,
and incompetence Aul wied~•aehen, my dumpUn~s.
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MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Friday May 27
PRELUDE DANCE ENSEMBLE a
dance group pertorm,ng
conterr
porary ballet CRC noon FAEE
Sunday, May 29
FOLK SING. a gatner,ng of people and songs gen:ly sway,ng lrorr,
side 10 side 1r, cosmic aoandon
CAB Cotleehouse J p m FAEE
Fnday. May 27
OPEN MIKE at the CAB Cc,l!ee
house. 6 30 pm FREE
IN 0LYMP1A
Fnday. May 21
808 WEBB AND DICK OWINGS
These two characters prese~ t Ar;er1can folk music. 1ncluct1nc; st•1ngband jazz. New Eng1and ccurtr,
dance tunes. ballads trorr thP Appalachian hills and l"Tl01e Appear•
mg at the Apple1am lor thE- t1rs·
time with their rare t.arp-gu11a1 ano
duet-sys1em concertina
Apple1am
Folk Center
220 East Union
8
8 pm
$1
Sa1urday. May 28
OPEN MIKE NIGHT Share 15
minutes ol your genius App1e1am
Folk Center FAEE
Tuesday May Jl
THE CISCO KIDS at Caota1n Coy•
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THE FRONT A tame atlack on
the McCar1hy WllCh•hunts ol lhe
195tTs. With Woody Allen and Zero
Mastel Slate Theater. 357-4010
ANO NOW FOR SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT A COi·
1age ol Monty Python skits re-sh01
!tom their TV series Very funny
M1ctn,ght showings Friday and Sa1
urday The Cinema, 943-5914
BUGSY MALONE A slimy mus1•
cal w!\n kids play,ng adu11 gangsters The Cinema, 943-5914
HERBIE GOES TO TOWN A
Volkswagen I Disney movie
Stans
June 7 (tentatively! Cap,101 Thea1e,
RANCHO DELUXE A sleazy com.
edyabout shooting cattle w11ha highpowered gun 1ust tor the thrill of 1t
Midnight showings Junf' 3 4 1ne
Cinema
THE ROCKY HORROR PtCTURE
SHOW Transe,ua1
1,an<;~es1,1..
homose11ual cul! mov;e M1dn1gh1
snow1ngs June 3 • 4 Tne Cinema
Cinema
ANO NOW MY LOVE A QF'"·J
,nE:il, 1n\ell,qen1 13r J n,.,,_., •n· .·., •
•"11 1rw, s101·f Di· ,ri.,. ma•,,, ' A
Man and a Woman
C.d v1<- ,_,.
!ouche The Cinema June 8 10
THE STORY OF ADELE H o-,
Francois
Trullaut
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Stuffed
PUP ART Wu figurines In the
shape ot young dogs by local artlals. Joe Bemis Memorial Gallery,
open 2-4hours.
ANTIQUE SQUEAK TOYS, rubber
ptaythlngs !or infants and young
dogs lrom the collectlon of the l•te
Joe Bemis. Joe Semis Memorial
Gallery, open 2-4hours.
AHTIOUE SQUEAK TOYll Exhibition ctosed for Npalrs foUowlng recent vandalism. Joe Bemis Memorial Gallery. regularly
open 24
hours.
NASTY ADULT NOVELTIES.
e1t•
hib1tlon from the pe<sonal cot1ection of the late Joe Be,ms. Formerly called "Antique
Squeak
Toys " Joe Bemis Memorial Gallery,
open 2-t hours.
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
Ovet" 22 rare white rodent• In comical poses by 1oc::a1taxidermists
Many of the carefully crafted animals make amualno noises when
squeezed. Joe Bemis Memorial
Galtery, open 24 hOura.
BTUFFED ALBINO IQUIRRELS
EXPOSED The oogerty-awaltld uhibltlon of atufted albtno aqulrreta l\aa
proven to be yet another example
of fraudul.,t ~telly.
The Uny rodenta on exhlbH .,. not albino, we
not stuffed, and In tact are not
.,., equlrrels. They are filthy gray
field mice that haY9 been dipped In
white paint. They do, however,
meke amualng
nolsea
when
aquHzed. Jo. Bemla Memorial
Gallery, op9l't 2◄ hou1'9.
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STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL
FETIJSES °"11" • doHn cunnlngly
bottled would-be 1qulrrela, arranged anlaOcally on the gallery
~ves.
aenoeu mute eYldence for
the "Right to Scampe(' o,ganlutlon. Lecturei wilt be given .,,,..,
t., mlnutN anCI tapes of baby
squirrell aqueaklng wlll be presented In an effort to play on your
emotion,.
Joe Bemis Memorial
Gallery, open 2◄ hours.
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l HE STUFFEO ALBINO SQUIRREL DO-IT-YOURSELF ETHNIC
JOKE KIT There were these two
Swedea titting In a rowboat out In
the ocean, fishing. One Swede
turrs to the other and uya, "Yump..
In' Ylmminy, Sven, do you see
what I aee7" And the othe< Swede
repllea, "I aure do, Ola!. II be a
atulled alblno squirrel, and It's alloatln' right toward usl" "We best
grab the oera and bNt the tar out
of the llttle aquirrel I" Olaf exclaims.
"Yusi a darn tootln' minute!" his
friend repllea. "It w. do that, !hen
WAITE YOUR OWN PUNCHLINE
HERE .., Joe Bemla Memorial Gal·
lery, open 24 hours.
CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO THE
STUFFED ALIINO SQUIRREL Dea,
Mr. Stuffy, My mother told me I'd
get a dime from the tooth fairy If I
placed a tooth I Md 1011 under a
plllow. I needed aome money quick
to buy one of your official Stuffed
Albino Squirrel Playthings .o I tOOk
a hammer and amaal'\ed all my
!Nth out. Not only did I not gel
any money, bul I hl:Ye to eat all my
lood through a straw. I NOt you
my teeth In ONpalr bul I received
no !Oy, not....,.
reply. Surely YOU
fee4 10me teno_,,...
for wee lime
me. Sincerely, Tiny Roy.
Deer Tiny, &encl13 more teeth
Write Mr. Stuffy at the Joe
8eml1 Memorial Dlycare 0.IMW)',
open 2• hou1'9
Albino Squ
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al s' Greatest
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
FIOURE PROMINENTLY IN OUR
OOVEANOA'S NIGHTMARES It's
not euy being a non-feminist, antlenvtronment female governor these
days. Not euy 11 111. The fruatra•
Ilona of running a state government
day after day get buried, repressed,
denied ... bul lhey all come out at
night, In the form of unpleuant,
ac:reamlng nlghtmarea: fired, un•
confirmed appointees clutching al
her desperately, Ralph Nader dine·
Ing nude on an overturned oll lank•
er, st..-vlng masses of bony folks
asking In unison what she means
by "survival of the fltteat," and radioactive Hanforcl Nuclear Fac:Ulty
WOOlers begging to shake her hind
... but It'• all worth II, ol cou~.
when you're the ld1 Amin of Wuhtnoton atate.
A.ddreas all love letters, hate
mal1, and exoeaa nuclear w111e to
the tale Joe Bemis, In care of lhe
Joe Bernie Memorlal Cryogenic Life
Support Gallery, open 24 houra. No
flath photos, please. All ho1 drinks
and hammers must be checked 11
irie door.
THE D0,IT,YOURSELF STUFfcD
ALBINO SQUIRREL AND SWINE
FLU VACCINE KIT Al grNt exP8"N and trouble the Cooper Point
Joumel hu dlacowwed that a local
virus, carried only by stuffed alblno
equlrrets, Is even more dMdly than
the dreaded upcoming awine flu
plague. In order to nip this Impend•
Ing epidemic in the bud. ao to
speak, we proudly present the
wot1d'1 first and only combination
Stuffed Albino Squirrel Flu/Swine
Flu Scnitch 'n' Sniff Vaccine:
Ju1t Scratch and Sniff.
Now you're Immune.
Next W"9k: Deadly aide-effects
from the above Scratch 'n' Sniff
vaccine. Joe Bemis Memorlat Free
Cllnlc and Gallery, open 24 hOura.
Foodat.ampa not accepted.
THE STUFFED ALINNO SQUIRREL ONE-MINUTE MYSTERY It
wu after midnight and Aodnne
Weinman'• birthday party we.11 almoat ""'9(. Moat of the Quee~.hf.d
dwlndild olf, but romolnlng behind
WW9 shapely An~•
Gl&:kler, the
dlamond heil'NI;
Prof. MIio Oe·
\INl"IUS, • aly lnteUectual; Aldo An•
deraon, a two-timing car thief; and
tho ._t, ktndly old Bemia,
•••bOxer. They ..,... admiring the
atuffed ajbino aqulrT91 which Roxann• had recelvtd enonymously
that aftwnoon, and .. Joseph Be·
ml1 pk:ked up the furry figurine fOf
• cioMt look, It auddlinly exploded
n hie face, killing him lnatantly.
Squlrre4 lhan:fa lhot Into tht other
unwary gUNtl'
euually-ldomed
bodlN, mefmlng moat of them fOf
lilt. Only Aldo Neaped unharmtd,
hoYlng darted behind the oota tht atufftd albino equl,,., wu tlrtt
fondled by the unfortunatt
Mr.
Semla.'
Each 1talnle11 steel Instrument 1s
emboased with the company's
tradematk and mascot, Mr Sluffy.
Batteries not Included. Joe Semis
Memortal Gallery, open 2, hours.
No weirdos, please.
REST EASY, DEAR READERSI
THE STUFFED ALBINO SOUIR·
RELS ARE BACK TO TORMENT
YOU IN A BRANO-NEW YEAR
FULL OF SURPRISES ANO LAFFS
- HOT A.NO SPICY, PERT ANC
SAUCY, SOFT ANO SQUISHY THE WAY YOU LIKE 'EM.
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SPECIAL
BICENTENNIAL
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL.I An
exhibition of unuaually mounttd rodent• hokllng tiny American flags
In .ch paw. Their hNda have bNn
dunked In rtd paint and their t_.l,
In blue paint, and tht re.ult 11
quit• 1tln1ng. MFf'Ndoml Fl'Ndoml"
the llttlt f .. ler'S Ntm to be uylng.
Joe Bemla Memorial Gallery, c>pel'I
24 houri.
THE STUFFED ALBINO SOUIR,
REL D0-IT•YOURIELF VASECTOMY KIT 0Yer"two dOZen experimental .....
. factory ~.
and
~ from the Stuffed
Alt>'no
Squlrrel Manufac1urlng
Empire.
Hits
WHAT YOUR REACTION TO
STUFFED ALBINO SQOIRRELS REVEALS ABOUT YOUR SEXUAL 1.0.
Week after week wt have been run•
nlng seemingly mea:1lngteas announcements of purported "art" e)(•
hlbltlon,
consistlng
mainly of
stuffed alblno squirre's m varying
stages of disrepair, Do you really
think lhere Is nothing benlnd tnese
trtvlal Ullle notices? Wrong, moron
Careful sclentilic research has revealed that the stuffed alblno squlrf91 Is an exceU.,,t gauge for determining pe,ycho•NJIUal dlaturbance
In lhe f'Nder. Think about H Why
are they "exhibillons·· of "squirrels"? And why are these "squlr•
rels" ·'albino"? And why. for Goc:l's
sake, are these "alblno" "squirrels"
"stuffed"?
You're catching
on
"quick." Next 111ue we will examine
readers' reacuons to the "cuddly"
llttle "nut-~therlno"
forest "creaturva." We take no respanslbillty
for the problems we diagnose.
Read· on If you dare. Good wishes
until next Ume - Or. "Stufly." Joe
"Bemis" Memorial Gallery, open 24
houl"L
ITUl'fED
FOR -EN
ALIIINO IQUtRRELS
ONLY Thia tho
Thurston County AII-Womtn Stufftd
Albino Squl"81 T,_llng
Tax-..,Y
and Guorilla Thoatr9 Shock Squad
wlll preeent an _.,.new, updated,
ltmlnlal re-lnttfl)l'9tatton of Shake-1peare'1 Othello.
Ma. Barbera
Slubba, a thundertlrlklng
lrHh•
woman from CtntraUa, takN the
title l'M, wh~ n
prepend for.
In her worda, "By running around
In the rain and telling a lot." In a
IUl'J)rlN IWltch at tht tnd Of the
play, ONdemoil~ wtll r1N from the
dlall and lad women In tht audience In a unified attack on the mer,
atupkl tnOUQh to haw lnalaltd on
bolng -1
al tho portormanc..
J-no
llomll -al
GallOfy,
open 24 hOuf'a.
THE BTUFFED ALBINO SOUIR•
REL HUIIOII TEST
Thia 11 a tNt. Raad the following
etory and anawtr the qUNtlona
bttow. UN tht ptnell aupplltd with
1h11 laaut. If you do not UN the
correct pencll, you flunk. The
story:
It wu Sun1hlne'a tlrtt month at
the commune, and aht wu gtttlng
WtfY weery. One day, whlle out In
baCk ptowtng, aht confeued
to
'faJOt htr dlaaatlafactlon.
YaJotf
held up a fNthtr
In reply, whl~').
rnNl'lf "Wait and .... " That night,
alttr chanting,
the commune'a
,_..,., Chan._, Nf"\Md Sunlhlne'a
troubled tMllnga and atood up to
make an announc.nent.
"Brott,.,
and at1tera," he aang out, "I haw
some good iwwa and t ha¥9 some
bad new.. Flrat the good news. We
will au Ott• chanoeof unoerwear."
Sunahlna'a face Ill up, "And now
the bad newa," Char11t continued.
"Ya,oe, you chAngt with Lotua;
Lotua, you change with Sunahlne ... "
Thia ato,y la not tunny becauN:
A. It hu nothing to do with
atufftd 1U>tno 1qulrrwf1.
B. It la w~
and offensive and
might n4Mdleaaly perturb atate
leglalattn.
C. Hlpplte dO not ....,. undtr•
-·
0. Communal atruoglea are not
funny.
8end m1 vttupenttve cr1Uciam,
thf9ata, and ao on, to the Joe
Bomia Golia<)-. open 24
hou<o. a nice dey.
OARY GILMORE WILL IE REINCAIINAT£D AS A STUFFED ALBINO a0Ull!REL, . , HOW'S THAT
FOR A DETERRENT? If I had been
at>oned, I wouldn't have been able
to grow up to watct, Gary GIimore
get executed. One small bullet for
a man, one glant atep bllCkwards
fOf mankind. If guna were outlawed.
only outlawa would be able to execute Gary Gllmot'e. TeH me, Gwy,
la thefll ,,_ wlll? Well, Johnny, I
ju1t IIIAII no1-1. Spitting up bloodi
What kind or anawe, 11 that? Bu1
Ural thlt
Important
mtsaage:
Mama, get tht hlfflmer, ther9'1 a
fly on Garv'•hNd. How many Mormono doN ii ,_
to lhoot Clary
OIimen? FtYli. Gary Gllmcn'1 favorite
convtraallon
atopptr:
"Raady, aim, flrt." Nu:11 Tht Jot
STILL MORE LETTERS TO THE
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL
Dear Joe Bemis·
I have Md 11 JOE BEMISI 111
Week tfter week t read your 1llmy
fifth and It Just about makee me
puke green t>'ood! 11! You're SICK
and UGLY and otSOUSTINO end I
heard a rumor tnat you KICK
KfTT£NS Ind boy I believe It 11t II
GOO DAMN IT you get the HELL
out of Thur1ton County before I get
IRRATIONALIIII
And wipe that
REPUGNANT SMIRK off YOUR
FACE! 111 I CAN'T COPEi! i! MIi
OOINO CAAZYIIII
Horneta are
flying around In my brain I! I I There
la NOTHING amusing about CHQC.
OLATE~YEREO OONUTSI Some
people have to EAT THEM ~
dayll!/111
Rnpectfully,
Sunshine
OearJoeBemla:
Bellew you me you're going 100
tar this tlmt. If you think you're
funny thtn you got another think
coming, it you uk
mt. You're
aboUt II funny a.a a on►ltQO«I
man In an .... kicking contNt, you
bUterd.
When I graduate COiiege
I'm going to be a patter and a
photographer. I'm going to take
photos of my pots. I have no !dee
what 11 going on and I reNf'II au
change. but I WIii write you .,.,,
.,,.,.._anyway.
Take care,
MonM«1100
AddrNa all hoatllt ,-mar1ta, bHter ln1ulta, lntol.-,t dlspatchN, caoograi,hlc ft'INNION, and fan mall
to the late Jot Bemla. In c.-. of
the Joe Btmla Mtmonal Oyogel'\IC
Life Support Gallery, open 24 houl'9.
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIR•
REL CONVERSATION STOPPERS
"S!ulled alblno SQulrrels? I don't
get it"
"I've got tour cats and three
dogs"
"I'm okay, you're okay "
"Nner touch a gin the1e"
"I quit 1moklno last week·
"I'm pr9Qnant"
"Who left this In the bathroom"
"Tell me the !ruth. Am I ugly?"
"What's your sign""
"I found II •
"Here's lhe r~lal
thermometer
- now what do I do with 1,.,..
"Where do you get all your
Ideas?"
Joe Bemis Gallery of Bores,
open 24 hours Spare change
brolhet"?
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That's All,
Folks
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