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Vol. 5 No. 26
June 30, 1977
Our New Tuition
by Mandy McFarlan
Greetings From The Legislature
by Mandy McFarlan
On June 22, thE' Washington
State Legislature ended the longl'"l c;cssion in state history, when
they finally adjourned !loine die.
The ma1(1r h0ldup was the state
budget. a 99 page bill which
makes appropriations,
and authorizes e-xpend1tures of state
agencies tor the next two years.
In other words. ii distributes the
<,tale's money to Jails. schools,
statt> programs, etc. The Evergreen State College has its own
place in this 9,216,911,000 dollar monstrosity. The state allotted
17.9 million dollars for the college, and 25 thousand for a study
lo be done by I he Council on
Postsecondary
Education,
on
Evergreen.
THE STUDY
The study was an unexpected
stipulation for Evergreen. It requires research on how to increase enrollment.
and lower
costs per full time equivalency
student. The clause which mandates this study, suspiciously re,;embles another legislative jab at
Evergreen. Its wording is unclear
Just Like om ...
Almost.!
.1nJ 1l set>ms to <li(tale tht' findin,1-;~
of the study by prematurely
u1min~ lo the conclu~ion that. in
nrdc-r to increase enrollment c:md
to k1wer student costs, the school
must
introduce
traditional
C(1ursc<;.So, what this my~terious
clause actually does j-. appropriate 25 thousand dollars to study
a question which il also answers.
If this study is another attempt
to "get" Evergreen, ii will not
work. Political games and Dan
Evans are old friends, and the
new president has already figured
out how such a study could serve
the school. According tl• Les Eldridge, Evergreen's legislative contact, Evans likes the idea for two
reasons. First, he has no fear of
the "traditional course offerings,"
because Evergreen already has a
mix of institutional modes which
are highly traditional, such dS
lectures, seminars, and lab work.
The feature of the study which
Evans sees as the greatest asset is
its informational value. This type
ol research can demonstrate just
how Evergreen works, and will
be written from an objective
viewpoint.
Such information
wt>uld le.id to d better llndt>rstan<ling of the school.
Le..,Eldridge feel-, that the conclusions of tht> stu<ly are not predetermined.
"Unusual wordin¥,
aside. ,rnyonl' doing the study
woulJ hc1ve the latitude to get
re.,ults, and wouldn't ncces,arily
n1me tel that conclusion." (The
need for traditional courses.) The
Council tor Postsecondary Education will do the study, and
!hey have not yE't reached any
dt>cisions as to whal the design
nf the study will be. Suzanne
Nt>ss, administrative assisl,rnl lo
C.P.E.'s
director, agrees with
Eldridge, and say!- that there are
no assumptions about the way
the study will turn out, and that
"the Council for Postsecondary
Education is generally favorable
to Evergreen."
THE ALLOCATION
The simpler, and more conventional side of the Budget for
Evergreen is its appropriation.
Evergreen's original request for
the next two years was23.686,(XX)
dollars, 5.7 million more than
was finally allocated. The legislacontinued on page 4
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Although the state workers'
strike, which took place last May,
dad not really affect Evergreen,
it did cause problems for some of
the community colleges. Crays
Harbor College and Lower Columbia College, for example. experienced difficulty staying open
during the short period that the
strike lasted. As a result, the
boards of trustees from a number of colleges requested that the
Office of the Attorney General
draft a resolution delegating the
necessary authority to the president to keep their institutions
operating during such a situation.
THE PARAMOUNT DUTY
The resolution that was drafted
by the Attorney General's office
was sent to Evergreen's Board of
Trustees for their \7onsideration
by Assistant Attorney General
Richard Montecucco. On June 22
the resolution was passed by the
board. It reads as follows:
WHEREAS, a strike by 51ate
employees is illegal, and
"WHEREAS,
the Board o~
Trustees of The Evergreen State
College finds that a strike by The
Evergreen State College employees would create an emergency
situation, and
"WHEREAS, it is the paramount duty of the Board of
TrustttS to ensure that the efficient operation of the college of
offering effective educational opportunities to its students is effectuated, and
"WHEREAS, the college has a
duty to make every effort to see
that regularly scheduled classes
are conducted, and
"WHEREAS,
the Board of
Trustees finds that in an emergency situation such as a strike
the best interests of the college
are served by delegating to the
President the power of the Board
of Trustees, and
''WHEREAS,
under
RCW
28b.10.528 the Board of Trustees
has the power under law to delegate to the President or his designee any of the powers and duties
vested in or imposed uoon the
Board of Trustees by law;
"NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that, in the event of a
strike or work stoppage or work
slowdown of ~ny nature or kJnd,
the Board of Trustees hereby del-
that .. It was rt·Jlly a f.:urlv rrn
v1nc1al prnnt of VI('\\ dn<l thev
<,1mp!y <leterrT1Jnt'J thdt }.(1ven
Non-residents
will suffer the
mos! from the first tuition hike
thdt we nee<l o tu1t11,n 1ncn·a'>l'
v.h11 c1s betwe('n n·,1Jt.•nt'> and
in Washington since 1972. On
n11n-re.,1dents shPuld ~kar thl' mJunt> 18, the state's House and
cre.i-.t'~ neces!.ary ..1nJ the dtu
Senate came lo an agreement on
'>111nwa'i rt.•ached 1,, lt·t 1t tall on
how to set Cllllege and university
non-resident'>
rh,, mta.-.uH·
tuitions. Al the four year colp;1<.<,n/the· Hou-.t· o~ 11 and tht'
lt>v,C'c,,,
including The Evergret'n
StJtt· C1,1\ege, Wa ...hington rf'<;1- Citnate 20 • 0
d<•nt:, h..1vl·been p,1ying $508 tor
PR[TTY SOFT DOI I.AR~'
a threl'-quarll'r sch(1ol year With
ru1t111n, Ind\
',\"\l·ll
d}.(..11:1
If
thl''-t.' nt'w mcrc..1,<''- thC' C(1"1,,1
I\\!>
'.'t•Jr<,,and (ould KIi c..r t'\Tr ..
tht.· 77 - 78 Vl'.1r will bt• 5501
11,(1 H'.H'> alter that Th, C (li.m
and <,tartm~ in th<' I-all (ll [078
,ii 11,r Po-,t<;t•<nndar\· idu1..,1t11,n
tu1t1011will ~" up IP Sol8 Th1.-, 1, ii! m,1k.t· rn t nnmt•nd,11 l"n
1'>d 21 6 •·;. 1ump m twc, yt·,u,
tht· K"\'t•rnor
,ind tht l1·.,.::-..L1·im
F1•r n11n-rl',1dt-"nh the jump will
Pn .dter,tt1,1n, ,,t tu1!1Pn-..,:ir:1 1 "['
bt• hi~lwr and will tal...t' pl.ice in
l'r.1t1n>-; !et·, b1·t11r1:,,..,\t·111h·r
!1
11-,ent1r('\y 1n the lir'>I yl'Jr OutCl! t'\ l'O numbn,-J
vt•J.r<.
! h,·-.,
llf-<,l.ite <,tudt•nh havt• bel'n p,1y
rt·t 1•m1·wndc11
:,,n-.. \\'di bt• r,1 ..,•1!
1n~ SI 360 J yl'.H
and <ilart1n~
t1n th, ••1wr.lltn~ u1<,I Pi 1n-.,tnH
Fall '77 1n J dramJl1( 45 8'';. 1n
111,n
1.11 '-!dlt'
un1n•r<,JII('', rh1...
cn_".JSt'the co<,l will lw $2 J0.J
t,,-..1 1,ill bt· dt"tt'rrrnnt·d bv thl
A TRUE COMPHOMl'iE
iit,u"t' ,ind <.wnJ!l' h1ght.·r t·dul.t·
It cnuld hav(• bt•cn wnrq• Ttw
t1c1n t Pmm1tte{•,:,,.tnd their tic.cal
St•nJ\l•·<;nng1nal prnp11,.il \o\t,uld
c11rnmitlt't'" .ilon~ 1•,:1ththt' statt>
h.1vc rJ1c.eJ 36 J mdl1nn dollar,
1n,t1tut111n-.t.ll h1~her education
lrom tuition increases in twc,
anJ the Cnunnl tor Po!>t!.econdyt.·.ir, by upping all tuition<; m
Jrv E<lucJIHm The rel0mmenda(lOt' ,tt•p The House', plan wnuld
tilln will tht.•n bt' approved or
have ra1..,ed 22.b millic1n of add1turned d{1wn bv the legislature
t1onal revenut.' by gradually m- . Onn· tht' ,,rwr,1ting cost of un1tro<lunng higher fees m a twover.,1t1es 1s established all cnllege
step plan. Tht' bill that cc1mE'out
tuitions will be based on a perof the conference committee is a
CC'ntagt>of that tigure. Non-resicomprom1,;e which will raise 31
dent undergraJs at W.S U. and
million from the gradual inU. W. will pay 100% ol that
crease<. for re<;1Jentc, and the imc0~1. resident studt>nts at th~se
mediate increases ftlr non-rt'<ilun1vers1t1es will pay 25 r~o At the
dent<i. There was <;11mecnn<itdt·rt11ur y('ar collt>ges (Evergreen),
Jtion nf an automalll escalator
re~1Jentc. will pay 20 "·i-- of that
pniv1~1on lor futun• hikes. but
amount All tu1t1ons will be based
the idea ol mand1tnry tu1t1nn m0n the univt'rs1ty cost<; including
creast·"- st•t c1II a loud <iutcry ol
tht• t{lur yt>ar ,rnd community
.,tuJent prott·c.t and 1t wa" excoll1•,1-;t•s
dudnl 1n the l1nal product. RepRerres<>ntat1ve Joseph Enbody
resent,1t1vt· Phyll1~ Erickson.
whl• wa<; .i member ol the conchairwoman of the House Higher
t<>rencecommittee says thec.t' inEducation Comm1llft' described
crt>ases may discourage out-otthe bill a~ "a true compromise
,;tate students but he cnns1Jer.-,
b('tween the Hou~e and the Senthe hikes "pretty soft dollars,
ate, one that I'- lair to students
when you consider that an 1nd1and taxpayers. an<l one that we
vidual will pay it ($2,JQ4 I tor
can all be proud of " Another
one year, and then ~et resimember of the n,mmillee summed
dency. lf only it were that simup tht> deliberation-. hy s.Jying
ple.
For A Strike
egates to the President ~d Vice
Presidents the power and authority to adopt, suspend, modify,
and/ or repeal any and aJI rules
and policies of the college, and
"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the Board of Trustees hereby
delegates to the President and/ or
Vice Pnsidents the complete and
absolute authority to make any
and aJI personnel decisions, including, but not hm1ted to, e1ec1sions to fire, discipline, demote,
hire, transfer, reassign, and/ or
otherwise effed the employment
of persons at The Evergreen State
College,
"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the Board of Trustees hereby
delegates to the President and
Vice Presidents the responsibility
to determine when a strike, work
stoppage or work slowdown of
any nature or kind has occurred."
'MARTIAL LAW'
At the board meeting President
Evans seemed uneasy about the
resolution, and was hesitant to
adopt it. He stated that he saw
the need for such a policy that
could be used by the President
between Board of Trustees meet•
ings. or alternately the board
could express a willingness to
come together in emergency sit•
uations, but he saw lhe proposed
resolution as being loo broad.
"That's martial law," said Evans.
in the discussion that took place
before the board voted. "We
should spend another
month
looking al it."
Richard Montecucco pointed
out that tht> Washington Federation of State Employees was in
the process of voting on whether
to strike or not. because they
were not satisfied with the salary
increase that was granted to them
in the 77-79 bud~et.
Board membt>r Hal Halvorson
moved that the resolution be
adopted in view ot the impending strike. He added that he
hoped that by next month's meeting the board could come up
with something better.
Robert Flowers, lhe most recent appointee to the Board of
Trustees. was not pleased with
the resolution and SUR.Restedthat
no action be taken on it. He was
displeased with the idea of the
board delegating all of its responsibilities away, ond contended
that it would bt: preferable to
have the President c.ill the board
together if a strike did take place.
In response to Flowers arguments, it was brought up that
the board had already delegated
lhE' bulk of hiring and finng responsibility to the school's Bud*
getary Unit Heads. and. m effect.
the resolution takes the power
out of their hands. rather than
the board's.
EVANS RELUCTANT
Evans assured the board that
in the case of a strike situation.
he fully intends to consult them
before taking any action He restated his reluctance to accept the
resolution as a final .-,olut1on tc,
the problems that a strike could
bring to tht> college, and said,
"It's a little outside my understanding of the way Evt>r~ret>n
has operated in tht> pas! I'm <.urc·
we can c0me to the next board
met>ling with a sign1f1cantly better approach."
T rusttt Herbert Hadley .,,a1d
that there was a need for mod('r•
ation in the rt'solution. thdt 1t
needed to be softer
"Not softer," repliE'd Evan'->.
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A Letter To Our Readers
To the Readers:
Not only is this issue of THE
COOPER POINT JOURNAL the
first of Summer quarter, but it is
the first issue produced by the
new JOURNAL staff. Replacing
Matt Groening, who has graduated and gone to Los Angeles to
seek his fortune, as Editor, is
Karrie Jacobs, former JOURNAL
Features Editor. The position of
Managing Editor has been filled
by Mandy McFarlan, who spent
Winter and Spring quarters working with the Capitol Press Corps,
learning the finer points of cynical journalism
and observing
government in action. Former
JOURNAL Secretary, Annette
Rickles, has taken over as Business Manager and Alisa Newhouse is the Production Manager.
Ad sales and Management is being handled by John Bickelhaupt.
I'm not sure if it occurs to people that the JOURNAL has a
very small staff, and that the two
editorial staff members cannot
possibly write the entire paper
themselves. We need WRITERS,
either as regular staff members
who will be willing to take assignments, or people who just
have an idea that they would like
to turn in an article. Writing for
the JOURNAL is a fine way to
pick up a few credits in an individual contract or internship, or
it can just keep your mind from
turning to mush over the summer. A larger number of writers
allows us to serve a wider range
of interests.
Letters to the Editor are due
on noon Tuesday of the week of
publication and will be printed
unedited unless they exceed 400
words. Letters longer than 400
words may be edited for length
if dictated by space limitations.
If you have an opinion that is
too lengthy to be expressed as a
letter, which you feel merits the
attention of the JOURNAL readers, you may submit it as a Forum Column. The Forum Column
is a space where any member of
the Evergreen community may
present a well thought out viewpoint on a topic of current interest.
Announcements are printed
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on Monday of the week of publication. The same deadline applies for items for the Arts and
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Cartoonists are encouraged to
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The JOURNAL will be appearing on alternate Thursdays for
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Wishing you an enjoyable
Summer in Olympia
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Upward Bound: Closing The Opportunity Gap
by Mandy Mcfarlan
"In this middle class environment, you need certain skills to
succeed, or you get washed away.
Young people have to become
responsible for themselves, and,
in this societv. vou can't alwav.c;
do that," says Phill Briscoe, Upward Bound director .
Briscoe, 34 high school students, and a 16-member staff,
are doing something to close the
"opportunity gap" for students
who come from families with low
incomes. The Upward Bound
program at Evergreen is giving
these young people a total change
of environment, and a chance to
catch up in school. The students
will be staying in Dorm C for six
weeks, while attending the classes
and other functions of the program. Upward Bound is a combination of summer camp and
school, with personal and group
counseling. The main emphasis is
on community life. For some students this is the first time away
from home and Evergrttn provides a good a\mosphere. One of
the young students expressed surprise at the friendliness on campus. "Yeah \hey say hi, hello,
good morning, and if they don't
say anything, lhey"II nod and
smile."
'CURFEWS ARE COOL'
The Upward Bounders range
in age from 14 - 18 and they
come from Tacoma, Olympia,
North Thurston County, Rainier ,
and rural Oakville. All of them
come from low income families,
and most are behind their peers
in Khoo!. Phill Briscoe describes
them as having high potentials
with low motivations, but the
Upward Bound program can
change the motivation factor by
providing a diverse and enjoyable schedule. They are here be-
Upward Bound student• at work.
cause they want to be here and
they exude energy and enthusiasm. "We are here to improve
on skills in school, prepare ourselves for college, and to learn
community living:" ,.._id one student. Then others chimed in.
"We are observing; it's like
school and camp, and it's fun."
"We a~ planning to have the
first Upward Bound yearbook,
and the famous Sidney Murphy
is organizing it."
'The high school counselors
suggested it, but we decided to
come on our own."
"The curfews are cool."
"You won't be saying that tonight."
"We go on good field trips,
like to the Snohomish River. We
go swimining and hiking. l fell in
the river. We have good trips."
I asked them how they lelt
about life at Evergreen and got a
slightly sarcastic "beautiful scene"
and "We've met some people at
Director Phill Brisco,
Upward Bound,tudent
the pool tables."
"One guy did a disco for us,
will he do ii aJ{ain tonight7"
"Most people are (riendly to
us, but SAGA (food service)
doesn't like us. They always ask
ifwe are Upward Bounders."
"One lady thought I was stealina the chocolate milk."
. On June lint, the program
cllanged its budget, and all personnel and there is still some
understandable confusion. (The
director couldn't find two classes.)
There are 16 staff members, making the student/teacher ratio about two to one. Six staff members are faculty instructors, and
the eight tutor-counselors
and
two donn managers are Evergreen students. Briscoe says that
the staff has pretty much agreed
that their main function is to
supply a supportive climate for
exploration of new behaviors in
academics, levels of involvement
with the program, personal a-
wareness, and self images. Another goal is to give the students
the skills needed to finish high
school. To judge academic successes, the staff looks at one
year's growth after involvement
with Upward Bound, and they
judge attitudinal
changes by
watching increased student involvement, and just by listening
to the students.
NO DRUGS,
NO ALCOHOL, NO SEX
Upward Bounders can earn
two or three high school elective
credits in the catch-up classes
and work on skill-building in
reading and math. In science,
they can study Biology, Chemistry, or Pacific tides. And they
can choose between Basic Writing
and Communication
Skills or
Theater and Media. The schedule
allows for no boredom. Regular
classe5 are held from 8:30 to
3: 30 every weekday except Wednesday. Wednesdays are reserved
for career orientation and workshops such as modern jau dance,
photography,
films, drawinf(.
sexuality education,
weaving,
and audio engineering. On weekends, there are field trips hiking,
camping and even exploring SeattlE'. As educational coordinator,
MargiE' FlandE"rs feels that it is
important that the students hold
responsibilities in the progr.1m
Sometimes students teach each
other in workshops, and in proJects. A good examplE' 1s their
Theater and Media class which
will do a radio show on KAOSFM.
"I. NO DRUGS 2. NO ALCOHOL 3. NO SEX.· are three
standing rules. When Upward
Bounders join the program, they
are aware of the rules which are
written in their Community Policy. There are curfews, and other
typical limitations for minors,
but the students are basically on
their own to make the daily decisions which are a part of every
college student's experience.
NOTHING'S FREE
The minutes from this student
meeting are a pretty good reflection of the Upward Bounder·s attitudes on life, community living
and themselves: "1. Be cool and
handle situations as they come
down. 2. Working
together
makes everything easy. 3. We
made an agreement that if you
can't handle it the way things are
coming down, go to a counselor
so that we won't make it bad for
•h .. ,.,w;t of us. 4. We got everything together as far as our meetin8_ i?oes for today! We lmow
that we are not gonna receive
nothing free. We will earn what
we receive and nothing more or
less. We will deal with students
that mess up. STUDENTS WILL
SCHEDULE ALL STUDENT
MEETINGS."
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lure didn't just stumble onto the
llgures; there was bartering. The
budget resembled a ping pong
ball as it bounced back and forth
frnm the Senate and the House,
and finally into a grueling conference committee for the last
compromises.
The story behind the budget
involves
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two
men
who
were
largely responsible for the final
product.
Representative
Bud
Shinpoch. chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, proposed the larger version of 4.5
billion dollars, which would have
funded state agencies more generously than its Senate counterpart. Senator Hubert Donahue,
the chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee,
was more
tight-fisted, and he promised his
constituents no new tax increases.
Shinpoch's budget gave Evergreen 18.5 million, and Donahue's gave 17.9 million. The
Houst' version was higher for all
stale colleges and universities.
When the two budgets locked
horns, the matter was sent to a
six-member conference commitlee. Usually the Senate would
give a little more, and the House
would give a little less in the final
compromise. This is exactly what
happened for the University of
Washington, Washington State
University, Eastern Washington
State College, and Central Washington State College. But for The
Evergreen State College and
Western Washington State College the figures remained at the
lower Senate level.
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NONCOMPARABLE
ACTIVITIES
According to Evergreen's budget expert, Bill Robinson, the
conference committee decided
not to give additional funds for
"noncom parable activities. "which
are the programs unique to Evergreen. The Council on Postsecondary Education based their
recommendation
for Evergreen
on a new funding formula for instruction which provided addi-.
tional funds for the noncomparable activities such as Cooperative Education and the Third
World Coalition. The committee
decided against using the new
funding formula, and Evergreen
received 17.9 million dollars for
the fiscal biennium beginning
July 1. 1977 and ending June 30.
1979.
The Strike Contingency Plan
lion is indeed a broad one which
delegates unlimited power to the
President and Vice Presidents in
the event of a strike. work stoppage, or work slowdown of any
nature or kind. It is also up to
the aforementioned
persons to
determine whether any one of
the circumstances is taking place.
The resolution leaves itself open
to many questions of clanfication. One such question was
asked at the June 22 Board of
Trusttts meeting by Associate
Dean of Library Service<. Dave
Carnahan. He asked whether, in
the case of a strike, action could
be taken against persons nol recognizing the strike. No one
seemed to know the answer.
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its annual three-day workshops here, get some after dinner exercise.
Individual Contracts Scrutinized
continued from page 1
"but more specific, more definitive."
A vote was taken and the resolution was passed by the board
lwo to one. Halvorson and Hadley were in favor and Flowers
was opposed.
Trustee
Janet
T0urtel101te, who was acting as
Chairperson. did not vote.
The strike contingency resolu-
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The Individual Contracts Dis•
appearing Task Force ( DTF).
which was charged by Dean Bill
Winden with the job· of designing
a document which would serve
as a comprehensive policy on Individual Contracts,
presented
their report lo Winden on June 14.
The DTF, which consisted entirely of faculty and staff. concerned itself with many of the recurring problems in the contract
system, such as the disparity between supply and demand, the
difficulties al contract negotiations between students and faculty members,
dissatisfaction
with the contract document itself.
which is neither "a good quasilegal document nor a good transcript document," and the unwieldy system of having contracts
reviewed by the Deans.
Although there were a number
of options presented in the synop•
5("S
of the DTF meetings, there
were only four points that the
group reacheCI a consensus on.
These were presented in the final
report.
First of all, the DTF accepted
the need for a change in catalog
format as expressed in Dean Leo
Daugherty's memo of June 2
which said, " ... My own solution to it is to put that tired old
sentence that always appears
buried somewhere in our catalogs
and supplements - the one that
says 'Contracts are not guaranteed to any student as a right,
and will only exist when faculty
resources exist,' and print it in
capitals, and in boldface, on a
single page, all by itself, surreutided by white space. I believe
that this needs to become the
commonly-shared
community
understanding, the ethos, because
we should also continue to affirm
that interdisciplinary
coordinated studies is what we do here
in the main. and that other things
art' <lone on the side."
The second point proposes that
Individual Contracts be presented
to prospective facuhy members
and evaluated during the quarter
prior to the quarter the contract
is desired for. This would allow
ample time for the contract to be
evaluated by a proposed committee of four faculty members,
and for the student to find an alternate course of study if he or
she cannot find a sponsor.1.
The third point concerns the
proposed committee of four, the
"Individual Contract Coordinators." Their job would be to keep
track of how many contracts are
available from the pool until
thne are none available, and
keep track of the kinds of contracts each faculty member is
willing to take.
The fourth point deals with
internships. "Internships are different." ii says. and goes on to
explain why.
Now ii is up to the Deans to
decide what to do about Individual Contracts, if anything.
The McCann Scholarship
On Wednesday. June 22. The
Board of Trustees voted in favor
of establishing
the proposed
Charles J. McCann Merit Scholarship, which would grant a full
year·s tuition to one or more senior students who have achieved,
as nearly as possible, the college's
goals for its students. The annual
scholarship will be the first of its
kind at Evergreen,
awarding
funds on the basis of academic
achievement rather than financial
need. Basically to be eligible for
the award a student must have
completed one full year at the
college, been recommended by
the faculty, shown the capacity
to work well with others and
demonstrated the ability to plan
and carry out a plan of study .
and dt1 1t well.
No procedures for selecting
likely candidates or awarding the
grant have been established as
yet but a task force will be appointed m the near future to consider the matter.
Presum.ibly the funds for the
scholarship will be provided by
The Evergreen Colleg~ Foundation. a private organization whose
Job is raising funds and friends
for the college.
What causes applicants who
are accepted to Evergreen to
choose not to attend7 Well. Director of Admissions, Gregory
Vermillion,
compiled the responses to a questionnaire which
is routinely sent to non-registering applicants. The following is
a sample of the responses.
Out of 110 surveys returned to
the Admissions Office, 59 indicated that the applicant had opted
not to attend sch0ol at all that
semester. Of the 51 who did attend another college, 18 attended
the University of Washington,
Eastern or Western. Ten went to
Washington community colleges,
two went to Washington private
schools, Seattle U. and Whitman,
four attended Oregon four year
state schools. and eight attended
out-of-state private schools including Columbia,
Hampshire,
Earlham and Concordia. Another
eight went to out-of-state public
schools such as the Universities
of Wisconsin, Santa Cruz, and
Hawdii. One applicant chose lo
attend the Maharishi International University.
There were many factors that
caused applicants not lo attend
Evergreen. such as specific curricular issues. difficulty with faculty, lad, ot structured basic
studies, and trouble with the
bureaucracy. The space for additional comments included state-
men ts such as these:
"No fisheries curriculum."
"Wanted an M.A. in mana,1,;ement and public interest."
"TESC should provide more
space for a journalism school ••
"I get the impression
that
TESC is a school only for those
with desires in specific areas."
"TESC faculty suggested applying to grad school instead
(without a B.A.7)."
"Too unstructured for basic
studies. may attend TESC next
year after gaining a background.··
"Never grit response to application."
"Bureaucracy overwhelming."
"Parents won't send me that
tar away··
..After discovering I couldn't
acquire a degree, you weren't accredited and the calibre of your
students. I decided against 1t."
"Tired of school."
"TESC sounded good on paper
b~11upon visit found it no different th,m c0nventional colleges.''
"Nt, intercollegiate sports.'
"TESC seems lo lack unifying
n1mmunity spirit that I feel 1.-.
cruci,11. W0uld suggest a breakaw.iv Imm the concept of isolatu,n and more people will not
only apply, but st.ay longer."
Tht' Admissions Office intends
t11 kl·cr on sending out "NunEnroll" cards, 1n hopes that the
inllHmation
will do ,l'mt·(lne
'>tim('wherC'some ~ood
Money and Power
Energy is the theme of two
projects, being conducted
by
Evergreen students and faculty
members. which have recently
received grants. On June 23.
President
Evans and faculty
member Charles Nisbet appeared
at a meeting of the Lacey Rotary
club in order to accept a grant of
$7,500 from the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. The
grant will fund the research and
publication of a book on nuclear
power in the Pacific Northwest.
Twenty Evergreen students wi!I
be involved in the project, and
will spend the 1977 - 78 school
year examining the entire nuclear
power issue, with all its potential
and its problems. according to
Nisbet. They will also study all
the existing and prospective nuclear power sites in the Northwest. The group. headed by Nisbet. will spend at least two weeks
in
intensive study with staff
members at the Bonneville Power
Administration
headquarters in
Portland. and at the Hanford
Nuclear
Reservation
outside
Richland. They also plan to work
with several private companies,
including Puget Power.
In a somewhat different ve111
Evergreen faculty members Richard Cl'llarius and Jefl Kelly have
ren•ivt·d a $67.(X)() gr.1nt ln)m the
N.Jt1un,1I Science Foundat1un to
c:ont1nut.'research that they have
bl·en doing on the possihdit1es
for budding ~,,lar energy dev1l·es
based on phornsynthesis.
Cellariu-. and Kelly spent 197677 working with research as<.ociate James Gaw, and six Evergr('('n student.. with a $65,(X)()
grant they received from the NSF
last year. This year's grant will
allow them to continue their resl~arch through Nnvember 30
1°78
Cell.Jr1us says the work, which
inv,,lv,,.., bnth biochemical and
bu1phy,1cal research. is an attempt to "build ,;;y,;tems which
h.1ve similar structures to photosyn thetic machinery and can produce h1~h energy electrons m the
• same manner that plants Jo
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JOURNAL seems to have centered around the Editor of the
KAOS Program Guide, Andrew
Buchman, and KAOS radio in
general. A KAOS Advisory
Committee meeting was called to
discuss the Program ·Guide, and
otht>r KAOS problems.
Committee meetings are usually, for some reason, a frequent
source of newsworthy material
for bored journalists. The fact
that the Advisory Committee has
limited power and that its true
function is in an advisory capacity to the Station Manager, did
not really matter. Nor did it
matter that the quorum, of five
out of eight members, was not
present. The meeting went ahead
anyway. In fact, that sort of
thing didn't matter when the
board functioned, with only two
active members, for quite some
time, last year.
lt wasn't even like the meeting
I attended a week later. At that
one, they were all there around
the table. The heavie,;. People
like Media Engineer Dick Fuller
and Dean Bill Winden, students
Steve Rabow and Dale Crouse,
community member Ed Michaelson and former Station Manager
Carl Cook, staff member Mary
Lou Reslock and state worker
Joe Murphy. At least Joe would
have been there, but was away
and, in his stead, Carl substituted.
The other time only Mary
Lou, Dale, Dick and Bill were
present. The committee meeting
became a meeting for those with
problems to air about KAOS,
who felt they had no other appropriate channel. KAOS staff
meetings are held every two
weeks and core staff (those directly running the station), meet
every week. but much was left
unsaid. People were unhappy about individual parts of the station's operation and also were
unhappy about the general direction in which the station seemed
headed. Questioned were the way
the Program Director's position
had been filled and the way the
selection meeting was advertised.
Other non-commercial stations
have staff members leave suddenly, as at KRAB in Seattle,
when the Station
Manager
walked out without notice. Other
stations have personality
and
identity problems too. as at
WBAI in New York, where the
Station Manager hired a radical
Program Director and the staff
took control of the station in
protest. But KAOS problems are
not that drastic yet. A Program
Director's
sudden departure,
which lefl blanks in the air
schedule for several weeks, has
been officially settled as a misunderstanding over her termination date, and a new person has
now taken over the job.
The lack of remote broadcasts,
and the failure of Toni Holm,
the Station Manager, to provide
a person in the position of Special Productions Director, were
also criticized.
There was also criticism of the
station's programming,
which
theoretically is the responsibility
of the Program Director, directed
al tt<e"station Manager. All these
things are, rightly or wrongly,
under the direct or indirect control of the Station Manager who
has the power to appoint whomever he or she chooses. In effect
the station is the program, i.\ the
Station Manager. Or, it has been.
Programming policy, at present,
states that KAOS is for people
with thoughts and ideas, but
without access to other airwaves.
Music should be "of artists and
types not already displayed on
other media''. and "local musicians not backed by tht' media
resource-s of large companies."
Diverw music,11 styln should be
included. News, and other public
affairs and information should be
"in depth" reports, concentrating
on local issues, thereby providing
a service unobtainable from commercial stations by having entire
events broadcast.
Joe, a previous Staition Manager, sees things differently. He
sees the station as "whimsical
and student-oriented." He thinks
that the function of KAOS is to
prov;de . for both the students
and the surrounding community,
in a major balancing act. but does
not believe the prnmt dittction
will do either school or station
any good.
Program Guides provide a
good comparison between stations. I found many of them displayed at KAOS. Th• station offers more jazz and classical music
than other types, but does offer
a selection of programs comparing favorably with those of other
stations. One notable exception
is radio drama, of which there is
none. Perhaps tapes of committee meetings could be aired to
provide this. A program does reflect too, the needs and awareness of the audience so when the
audience is seriously considered,
the resulting program should be
in balance.
The comparison of program
guides themselves produced a variety ranging from glossy to
newsprinted, and from basic to
elaborate, and to arty. They vary
widely in their information and
news-bearing
capacities.
The
June KAOS Program Guide was
also harshly criticized at the
meeting, largely because of its
possible tendency to alienate the
Olympia community.
What people were concerned
with was the content of the
guide. Only one person I spoke
to didn't like it personally. Toni
Holm, the Station Manager, said
that as a program guide, she
though! the issue was trash.
Other people had things to say
about it, but most were concerned about how others would
regard it. Carl, a former Station
Manager, tried to clarify the issue. "Is nudity the question 7" he
asked. "Had there been no nude
photograph
in that Program
1 Guide,
would this meeting be
held today 7 Some people have
said lhat the photographs were
obscene. Obscenity is that which
appeals to the prurient interest.
Those photographs couldn't appeal to a corpse. Nobody could
get hot over that. OK. So obscenity is out, then it goes back
into taste. Is it just in bad taste
in general7 The Program Guide
is a disgusting piece of shit."
Dale tried to defend the right
of the individual, saying that
people would not necessarily be
satisfied with Evergrttn either.
From the floor someone offered
that the nude pictures didn't
bother her because she knew the
women involved and knew they
were going to get "a bunch of
shit" about it, "and that's their
own fault." The only "shit" received was one staff member's
"nice tits . ." comment the day
after the guide ca.me out.
Some advertisen wrote to the
Advisory Committee to complain. but when 1 spoke to thfln,
none seemed particularly bothered
about the guide. All had similar
things to say. One put it this
way: "I would have let it go,
but I agreed with the gentleman
that called. He pointed out that
other advertisers were upset."
The advertiser wrote a letter to
the committee, complaining of
offensiveness and tastelessness
and gave it to the person who
called, representing himself as a
committee member. Altogether
five letters were solicited from
advertisers and in response several came in support of Toni.
At the meeting, complaints about the guide were attributed to
Judy Annis, public relations and
information officer for the school
and legislative liaison Les Eldridge, who was reported to be
absolutely livid when he found
that the guide went out on the
strttt. When I seoke to her, Judy
denied any control or interest in
the guide, other than that which
her position obliged. She was
disappointed that the June issue
didn't offer anything p;irticularly
to college and community relations.
I ltt Les off lightly •s ht w•s
due to go on holiday the following morning. "What made you
'very angry' about the guide)" I
asked. Ht didn't remember the
one I was talking about. My misunderstainding of his silence was
due to my failure to infer correctly its meaning. His "no comment" I took to mean that he
was embarrassed about the incident and wished to phone someone and find out what was going
on.
The manager of a local record
store commented "If people can't
take what they see, that's too
bad."
So, Andrew is no longer editor
of the Program Guide and KAOS
is g~tting on with its business under a new Program Director. A
Lakefair remote broadcast is the
next event on the calendar. The
Advisory Committee is settled in
that it should not deal with the
day to day running of the station, but delegates this responsibility to the Station Manager. It
does reasonably well and would
do better if it had a broader pool
of knowledge from which to
draw ideas. One of the faults
with the committee is that it is
full of remnants from former
KAOS staffs, and thus generates
opposition to change. There are
two self-confessed
streams to
KAOS philosophy.
Each acknowledges the other's aim but
puts emphasis in different areas.
KAOS, before the present Station Manager, was seen as a
growing, developing, community
radio organization by some. The
goal was a low key approach offering taste, restraint, and respect. acceptable to people in
their homes. Partly a u;aining
ground for professional
radio
people who want a solid reference, as well as the training experienCP. KAOS can provide.
Toni sees things differently. To
some, KAOS looked as though
it was in danger of becoming exclusive. Community
was involved, but only through pro~
grams organized by the radio
staff. They had no free access.
Not so much emphasis is now
put on technical awareness although the workshops training
new people are of as high a standdard as they ever were. The Station Manager's position is being
devolved of some of its previous
power and more democratic decision-making has been introduced. Continuity is needed, but
should ideally come from the station staff, rather than the committee, which functions best in
its present advisory role. That
way. the ideas will be gathered
from the audience and built on.
What the committee needs most
is dear thinken, not necessarily
radio people, but whose interests
lie in the station's development.
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Star Wars: A Technoid's Delight
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by Karrie Jacobs
Envision, for a moment, the
typical American "Family Room,"
circa }.964. You know the place.
It's goT a brand new monochromatic wall-to-wall carpet, probably.brown, and Danish Modem
furniture, and wood paneling on
the walls, and a long crack in the
paint job on the ceiling. See, the
bathroom is directly upstairs,
and the toilet keeps on overflowing, and you know what
that does to ~ilings. That's all
that Mom ever talks about during commercia ls, how the ceiling
absolutely has to get a new coat
of paint this year, or else ...
and why doesn't anyone ever jiggle the handle when they're
through, if you just jiggle ...
Then the commercial tnds. Oh,
yeah, commercials,
tel".ision.
There's a bl•ck and white TV in
the comer. It's a couple of years
before everyone, and I mean
everyone, gets a color TV, so
black and white is still acceptable. It's a 19 inch Magnavox
that Dad got cheap from his
friend in the motel business. Stt,
the motel was getting all color
TVs put in, so they sold their
black and whites. Sometimes it
makes people look real short and
fat like a fun house mirror, but
if you kick it it's 0. K. Oh, and
sometimes the sound goes on the
blink, but you know.
Now, picture The Kid watching TV. The Kid is eight years
old, and it's Saturday afternoon,
and The Kid is as curled up as
you can get in a Danish Modern
chair. The Kid is eating a Tootsie
Pop. and watching a grade B' science fiction movie on TV. It's a
movie about a green scaly creature that rises from the sea and
devours one of the world's major
population centers. It's great, I
mean really great. Then, after
that one is over, there's another
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one about these two planets ;at
war. There are good guys who
wear white space suits, and have
religion, and a beautiful princess
as their ruler. Then there are the
bad guys. They are ruled by robots and guys with German accents. See, the odds are in their
favor because they have all these
great weapons. It's a really exciting movie. Then The Kid's
older brother comes down and
spoils the whole thing. He is 16,
and thinks that he knows everything. Hes the one that told The
Kid that Shari Lewis's puppets
aren't real, and you can tell because they don't have any feet.
Inscrutable logic. He can ruin
anything.
He comes into the
Family Room with his copy of
MAD Magazine tucked under his
arm and says, "Hey, you know
those rocket ships are only plastic models, rightl See, there's the
fishing line holding it up," and
he runs over to the screen, so
The Kid can't see anything, and
points.
"No, I don't know that," says
The Kid, ··and I don·t see no fishing line. Leave me alone. I'm
only eight years old."
Now, picture yourself in a
plush big city movie theater. lt'i;
1977, and you have just spent the
last three hours sitting on the
sidewalk waiting in line to get in.
This movie better be good, because you deserve ii. The thick
velvet curtains open and the
lights dim. Here it comes! The
credits. "A long time ago in a
galaxy far away
STAR
WARS."
"Jesus H. Christ, will you look
at that," you think, "the Goddamn credits are sliding back
towards the vanishing point.
Thev're not rolling like normal
credits. No way." From that point
on you are enthralled. except f0r
one thing. There is this creep sitting behind you, this technoid
whiz-bang, who keeps on saying
things to his girl friend, or whoever that woman is that he has
his arm around. He keeps on
harping on about how everything
in the movie was done. "You see
that shot," he says, "that was
done with a ... , " and he rattles
off the name of some foreignsounding object and describes exactly how it produces the effect
that you saw ten minutes ago.
"Shut up," you think. He doesn't.
"Shut up dammit I" is the phrase
that keeps on going through your
head, and finally you can't take
it any more, "Shut up dammit I I
can't take it any morel" you say
in a hoarse whisper.
··Huhl"' he says.
"Shut up. I don't want to
know that stuff. I'm only eight
years old and I don't want to
know."
Why the hell did you say thatl
You're 21, and you know it. I'll
tell you why. Because Star Wars
is a movie scientifically designed
to bring out the eight year old in
all of us.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not
going to tear Star Wan apart
and intellectualize about it. That
would be like intellectualizing a•
bout Disneyland. In fact, that's
an apt comparison. Stu Wa.rs is
an amusement park, a theme
park for T rekkies who have seen
every Star Trek episode twelve
times ("This is 1he one where
Spock falls in love with a ... "),
and are in search of new thrills.
Star Wars is the Buck Rogers of
the 5<'venties. The plot is equally
predictable and the dialogue is
equally inane, but still there 1s
something irresistibly attractive
about the movie. You don't get
up and go to the powder room
in the middle of it. You sit and
watch and watch, and even
though you know that good will
triumph over evil in the end, you
get tense at all the right moments.
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cross between a vacuum cleaner
and a well-trained collie, and a
wizened old philosopher and exwarrior (Alex Guiness). set out
to aid a rebel cause struggling
against the evil Galactic Empire.
There is no question as to who
the good guys and the bad guys
are, because they tell you when
the opening titles roll off the
screen and into space. Our heroes
are joined by a mercenary pilot
named Hans Solo and his copilot who is an ill-tempered cowardly lion. Together they set out
to undermine the Galactic Empire, and save the rebels, who
are ruled by a beautiful princess.
After a lot of special effects and
computer animation, the good
guys win and everyone lives
happily ever after, that is, until
the sequel comes out.
Star Wars is well worth seeing,
but be sure to find a good theat~r
with excellent sound and a large
screen or it won't be worth your
while. Remember, despit, all
similarities, Star Wan is not TV.
Leave your older brother at
home, bring some Tootsie Pops,
find a comfortable seat and recapture your youth.
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Your intellect is telling you that
you are watching a very silly
movie, but your adrenalin is rushing. You are eight years old.
It was either Time or Newsweek that proclaimed Star Wars
as the new 2001. Just remember
that it was either Time or Newsweek that heralded Bruce Springsteen as the new Bob Dylan.
They were incorrect in both
cases. You'll remember that 2001
was a very enigmatic movie,
with a wry sense of humor. ( Remember Zero Gravity Toilets1)
There is absolutely nothing subtle
about Stu Wars. Everything is
very direct, very obvious. "ZAP!
BAM! BOOM! is what it should
say across the screen, just like
Batman, just like a comic book.
As a matter of fact, Star Wus is
a comic book, actually four so
far, as well as an illustrated
paperback.
The plot is very simple. An
earnest and brave young man
named Luke Skywalker (Mark
Hamill). accompanied bv an android named Threepio, who behaves like someone in a P.G.
Wodehouse story, another android named R2D2, who is a
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