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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 11 (January 26, 1978)
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Four-Year Education Plan In Works
The Cooper Point
Journal
The Evergreen State College
dympia.WA 98505
Vol. 6, No. 11 January 26. 1978
by Nancy Ann Parkes
Future Evergreen students may
have to outline a four-year plan
of study if an adaptation of faculty member Kirk Thompson's
Student Advising Proposal is instituted. The plan, made up of
three proposals, calls for student
advising, the establishment of a
pattern of expectations for students' progress throughout their
courses of study at TESC, and
the institution of curriculum
responsive to the results of the
advising. Faculty members decided Wednesday, January 25 at
an open meeting in Lecture Hall
3, to charge a DTP to study the
plan and make recommendations
to the Academic Deans concerning future implementation.
The official charge which will
be submitted to The Evergreen
Council reads: "The Members of
the Faculty present at the open
faculty meeting of January 25,
1978, intend the formation of a
DTP with the following charge:
Consideration of the feasibility, requisite modifications,
and means of instituting the
three proposals contained in
the document, 'Proposals from
the November 16 faculty meeting/ authored by Kirk Thompson."
The Council may make additional suggestions as to the
composition of the DTF, although their approval is not
necessary for the DTF to be
charged. Faculty members suggested at the Wednesday meeting
that DTF membership be made
up of faculty members, students,
and appropriate staff who would
represent the interests of Native
Americans and Third World
people, students over the age of
thirty, and transfer students.
Thompson said that he was
concerned about advising per se.
His plan stemmed from a
November 16 faculty meeting,
where Richard Jones and others
expressed a discontent with
obvious holes in TESC's curriculum. He feels a planned advising
program would benefit students,
as well as faculty members and
the administration in the area of
curriculum
planning.
Stated
Thompson, "We just aren't
teaching students to use the
college structure."
PROPOSAL I:
AN ADVISING PROGRAM
The advising program proposed
by Thompson suggests that all
students be responsible for a
written Educational Plan, "a selftailored statement of learning objectives and strategies," to be included in the students' portfolios.
Plan documents would be the
outcome of discussions between
students and their faculty advisors, and could be revised or updated at any time. Faculty
advisors would be responsible
for counseling students about
"any opportunities or consequences of which the student might
not be aware, and any lack of
coherence in the Plan."
Faculty member Willi Unsoeld
expressed a concern that Evergreeners be pointed to other institutions if TESC did not have
the best resources to fit their
needs. Paul Sparks felt there was
a definite problem with new
students coming to Evergreen,
because there is presently no
good buddy system to inform
them of their individual possibilities. "Many students go out the
door before they plug in to what
•they need," he elaborated.
There was a general consensus
that an advisor should be someone other than a student's
seminar leader so that the
student could obtain objective
responses to his/her ideas. According to Diana Gushing, this
would also allow students to get
to know their advisors well,
making counseling a more pleasant experience for both faculty
and students.
In the past, much of the
Academic advising at Evergreen
has taken place at the Academic
Fair. Those attending Wednesday's meeting felt that this is not
the best way for students to receive counsel, because the students end up talking to faculty
members about their own programs. Kaye V. Ladd commented, "It's like trying to advise
someone about buying a used
car in a used car lot."
Richard Alexander observed
that Thompson's proposal was
more important than ever because Mary Moorehead, the former Director of Academic Advising, resigned as of January 1,
leaving the office of Academic
Advising in a state of limbo.
It was the opinion of Paul
Sparks that an advising program
could help students eventually
gain admission to graduate
school, as experienced faculty
members are capable of showing
students exactly what steps need
to be taken.
PROPOSAL II:
A PATTERN OF
EXPECTATIONS
Thompson proposes that expectations of students should be
stated in "normative terms."
Under the plan, new students
would begin in an interdisciplinary coordinated studies in order
to become familiar with the
"fundamental approach to learning" at Evergreen. This would be
followed by an in-depth exploration in either an advanced coordinated studies, group contract,
or individual contract. Students
might then focus on practical
applications of previous academic
background, such as internships.
Graduating seniors, under Thompson's plan, would either integrate
learned skills in an advanced
studies program, or undertake
senior projects which "measure
up to the qualitative standards of
the world at large, beyond the
college community."
According to Thompson, the
students he has spoken with
seem to want more guidelines.
He stressed that no student
would have to adhere to the
guidelines; however, students
would be responsible to give
reasons for departure from the
pattern.
Faculty members present at the
meeting were concerned with
understanding the exact meaning
their signatures would have on
students' advising plan documents. The general opinion was
that a faculty signature would
indicate that the student had
thought carefully about his/her
plan and had considered available options, although it would
not imply advisor approval of
the student's course of action.
Richard Jones, who was in
favor of the proposal, felt it
would be healthy for Evergreen
to have expectations without
having requirements. He cautioned, however, that "If it
didn't work it would be worse
than if we didn't have it at all."
Willi Unsoeld wanted to delete
a sentence in part II of the plan
which read, "Study of theory
and method should precede
practical work, and internships
will normally be undertaken
only in fields where the student
has gained an academic background." He considers this contrary to Evergreen's philosophy
of learning which allows students
to learn by doing, and not only
by practical application.
PROPOSAL III:
A RESPONSIVE CURRICULUM
In the text of his proposal
Thompson states that Evergreen
Continued on page 6
SerA Board Receives CAB II Report
by Mandy McFarlan
The CAB Phase II Design
Team presented an extensive
report on the planning, user, and
building considerations it has
compiled concerning the proposed remodeling and/or expansion of the Campus Activities
Building at the January 25th
Services and Activities Board
meeting.
Within the next few weeks the
5 & A Board will have to take a
gamble in estimating a suitable
figure for the preliminary budget
to be allocated for the project.
The need for expansion and the
volume of incoming S & A funds
depend directly on the future
rate of increase in enrollment.
In April of 1977, the need for
a study on the possibility of expanding the CAB building was
brought to S & A's attention. S
6 A found that when enrollment
reaches 3,200 (the Admissions
Office predicts this will happen
within five years), groups presently located in loaned Library
building offices will be forced to
re-locate. These groups include:
the Asian Coalition, Evergreen
Folkways, the Evergreen Political
Information Center, the Ex-Offenders Coalition, the Faith
Center, the Gay Resource Center, the Women's and Men's
Centers, the Native American
Students' Association, the Self
Help Legal Aid Program and
UJAMAA. S & A also found
that the cafeteria in the CAB
building is already overcrowded,
and that students and staff feel a
need for a more useable community center.
On September 14th, 1977 the
S & A Board allocated 20
thousand dollars for supplies and
the cost of hiring an architectconsultant to organize a design
team of eight student interns.
The team was to research the
needs of the building users, investigate and develop design
ideas, and draft preliminary
drawings for phase II of the
building.
Jon Collier, the Architect-Consultant, says that now the design
team is at a point where it will
begin to draw up schematic
diagrams. The team will then
publish another report which
will include the schematics and
analyses of collected data. In the
meantime, building users should
contact the design team to write
up specific proposals in terms of
description and cost. The team
will bring these project proposals
to a Design Review Board,
which will be comprised of
people from the Design Team,
the Office of Facilities, and the S
& A Board.
The Design Review Board will
be responsible for approving
building needs and listing those
needs in order of priority. The
Design Team has already come
up with a tentative list of 46
needs which include (not in
priority order): a dance area
Joanne Mason of the CAB II Design Team
the presentation of art, a place
for people to stay overnight
when necessary, more variety in
food service, a place for children, and space for parties.
Members of the team strongly
encourage people to read the list
of needs and to respond if
something of importance has
been left out. (The Design Team
office is located on the first floor
of CAB across from the cafeteria.)
Much of the Design Team's
report is dedicated to technical
aspects of the existing building.
Since CAB was designed during
a time when energy conservation
was not a major consideration,
its mechanical and electric systems and its structure do not
yield maximum energy savings.
The team is considering the use
of solar heating because there are
ways of using the sun's energy
without installing large, expensive mechanical systems. The
report outlines possible means of
using skylights and heat-absorbing materials. Also explained are
ways to improve the energyefficiency of the existing CAB.
The report also contains all of
the user input data the Design
Team received from groups and
individuals responding to questionnaires, and from memos.
Most of the Team's information
is clearly spelled out in the
report. The most confusing
• section contains financial projections for S & A which depend on
the unknown figures of enroll-
ment, inflation rates, the size of
the bond which S & A will
"float" and the percentage of
interest that will be paid on that
bond. S & A asked the team for
a rough estimate dn maximum
cost of a CAB expansion and
one million dollars was given as
a very loose figure.
A consulting firm will be
chosen to work with the Design
Team next quarter and to later
provide construction supervision.
The Team's third quarter will be
spent in the design development
stage of the project; members
will then develop working drawings. The proposed schedule calls
for construction to begin in July
of 1979, and occupancy (if an
addition is built) by January of
1981. Collier will run an advertisement for the consulting firm
and a selection committee will
start interviewing after three
firms are chosen as finalists.
H S & A decides not to fund
an extension of CAB Phase I, the
building may soon be overcrowded and student groups may
lose their offices. On the other
hand, if they tie up too much
money in the project and enrollment falls or stays the same,
student services and activities
could be cut considerably. But
the general feeling at the meeting
was that if Evergreen doesn't
grow, the school is in serious
trouble and it won't grow unless
the students can be accomodated
when they get here.
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Support
Alternative Ed.
Conference
To the Editor:
An alternative education conference is now being planned for
May 12-14, 1978 to be held here
at Evergreen. Its purpose is to
unite people who are working in
alternative schools, are parents
of kids in alternative education
or are thinking of alternative
education for their kids, are
students in alternative schools or
are interested in going to one, or
who are interested in alternative
education for any other reason.
A wide variety of workshops are
being organized together with
lectures from various distinguished educators. The National
Coalition of Alternative Schools,
a networking organization started at the Chicago Education
Conference last summer for
schools directly involved in
social change, will be meeting to
organize a Northwest chapter.
The Washington Alternative
Learning Association will be
meeting also. This will be an
excellent chance for people
interested in alternatives in
education to get together and
share skills, information, and
ideas. It will also be a chance to
learn about starting schools,
alternatives to the traditional
methods for teaching classes,
alternative governing and decision-making structures for
schools, fund raising, and ways
people have dealt with prevalent
social problems such as sexism,
jacism, ageism, and sexual
minorities.
The conference is sponsored in
part by Cascadian Regional
Library (CARED. It is an
organization which networks
together people in organizations
in the Northwest working toward social change. Education is
one of their concerns.
The conference is now still in
the beginning planning stage. We
would like to receive peoples'
ideas pertaining to the conference. We also welcome people to
help us plan, organize, and
participate by facilitating workshops. We need people who will
work during the conference on
various tasks such as registration, networking, food, housing,
and childcare. In other words,
we welcome people to help us in
any capacity. If you are interested in helping out or just want
more information, we will be
meeting at Evergreen on Monday
night, January 30, at 7 p.m. in
Lib. 2204. If you cannot make it
to this meeting but would like to
help, call me, Debbie, at
456-6664 (working hours) or
866-3764 (evenings).
I hope there will be a big,
enthusiastic turnout.
Debbie Leung &
Sego Jackson,
coordinators
Them's Tries
To the Editor:
Hello. The masked reporter
from Computer Services, here.
All is still well on the terminal
front.
Just kidding. The real reason I
came out from under the
artificial lights is to tell the
world about TRIGS.
"TRIGS?" you say in surprise.
"I already know all about them.
I've seen magicians in black
cloaks pull rabbits out of hats,
and I've pulled dirty ones on my
kid brother like short sheeting
his bed when he annoys me. Or
do you mean the kind you turn
on Sunset Blvd.? I've heard
about those kind. And, hey, you
better take off your mask, for
you've misspelled tricks."
(Enough dialogue from the
reader) Anyway, I've tricked
you! Just kidding again! (All of
us masked reporters can't resist
anything.) You see, TRIGS
stands for: The Really Innovative (or Inventive) Computer
System. A certain group contract
down under the artificial light at
Computer Services has a mind to
design a new system, and an
even better mind to call it
TRIGS.
Of course, the computer
system we have now isn't bad.
It's called TXB. All of you who
leave daylight and frequent
Computer Services know all
about TXB: It's those minutes
that expire, right?
Wrong.
(That's what I used to think. I
applauded American technology
for devising a word to use for
the passage of time.) Actually,
alas, it stands for Time-Shared
Experimental Basic. (That's no
fun.)
But TXB, despite its strange
name, has been very useful. It
has gotten a lot of people a long
way and strung up a long list of
accomplishments.
Alumni Rick Speer designed
the computer graphics for one of
Channel 5 TV's logos. Three
other alumni now work in
Boeing's computer center. There
was a Wolf Study done on TXB
a while ago, along with a
Tusicks Moth Infiltration Study
and a crab population in
downtown Oly survey. In the
SPLU Labs you'll find computer
assisted instruction on TXB, and,
of course, there's the latest crazes
in the way of games: Civil and
Dungeon seem to be on top these
days, while last year Startrek
was big.
You don't have to do fabulous
stuff with them. Our computer
doesn't mind if you use it for
trivia (it's all the same to him)
(him?) (Her?) (It?). As a masked
reporter, I use it all the time.
Sometimes, after using a text
editor to write my evaluations,
I'll write a program to print my
name and ring a bell. Chuckle.
Hey, don't laugh at me, I
already told you I can't resist
anything.
Apparently, lots of other
Evergreeners can't either for the
terminal room at Computer
Services is usually hopping with
students. In fact (I also can't
resist dropping impressive facts)
TESC's Computer Services was
written up as having one of the
most student-accessible computer
systems in the country. Which is
true.
Excuse me, I seem to have
caught myself telling you all
about TXB, when I started by
saying I would tell you about
TRIGS. To tell your the truth, I
can't tell you about TRIGS. Not
because it's a secret (I wear a
mask because the bright sunshine
out here hurts my eyes). No,
because TRIGS at this stage is
only a conglomeration of ideas.
The bunch of us who are
designing it need to know what
you, as Evergreeners, need in a
computer system. We don't want
TRIGS to trick anyone. So, what
we will be doing soon is coming
to your classes and encouraging
your to fill out a questionnaire.
We want TRIGS to be better
than TXB, so come into Computer Services and be critical.
We want to hear from you!
Computer Systems Design
Group Contract
So Liberal
It Hurts
To the Editor:
Last week's CP] contained an
article about budget cuts and the
186,000 dollars we as Evergreeners must return to Dixie. In the
article a statement was made
that no operations were curtailed. This is very much untrue.
Many modules have been canceled, including my Introductory
Japanese Module.
Next year this school will
again be concerned about minority enrollment. Don't bother to
ask me where the JapaneseAmericans are, I might not be
here.
While I'm on the subject of
liberals that are all mouth, a
couple of weeks ago a notice
asking for a WASP roommate
was posted by SAGA. I realize it
was a joke. I was very scared
and very angry when I read it,
though. When I got to the "HA,
HA, HA" at the bottom all I
could think of was, "There's
another person that's so liberal it
hurts." If that person would
open their eyes they would see
how much bigotry there is in
Olympia. I don't think they
would think the joke was funny
then.
Sayonara,
Vernon F. Averill
Film Series
Has Ass Out
To the Editor:
The only problem I can see
with big events like the upcoming Dumi spectacle (aside from
the fact that there aren't enough)
is that they are invariably
scheduled for Fridays. This
particular Friday your local,
dependable Friday Nite Film
Series has its ass out a mile with
one of the best (and by far the
most expensive) films of this
year.
Please note: You can do both
—attend the film and get
blissfully drunk, too. After
Every Man for Himself and God
Against All, you'll probably
need to.
Peace, Love and Money
Gary Alan May
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Dissatisfied
With SAGA
To the Editor:
In the past couple of months
there has been a growing
movement of people vocally
dissatisfied with SAGA food —
both in the Deli and the
cafeteria. Since December, four
of us have been investigating the
possibility and feasibility of a
new ownership and management
in the CAB Deli. The research is
almost complete. A survey/petition is presently being circulated
to ascertain what you would like
to see happen in the Deli when
SAGA's contract ends on July 1.
Please sign our survey/petition.
We will be in the CAB Lobby
every weekday from 11 a.m. to
3 p.m. (through next Monday).
We are trying to reach over half
of Evergreen's students, staff,
and faculty. Help make it
happen; your opinion really
does matter.
Sigrid Black
Paul Fink
Rachel Katz
Attention
Wheats
To the Editor:
Dear Wheats:
About to embark on a new
denim covered monstrosity
would those of you interested in
supporting me in my latest
endeavor please bring your old
blue jean material in any shape,
size or form to the front room in
Graphics, Seminar 2150. Lots of
material is needed because I can
only use the choicest cuts. A box
will be waiting with thanks.
Loretta Sharpe
Concerned But
Anonymous
To the Editor:
I think the new logo for the
paper doesn't look like a
newspaper logo. It looks like a
funky newsletter. It just doesn't
look like a "cover page" anymore!
Concerned Reader
LetteitfD
Medicaid
And Abortion
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by John Keogh
Last Friday afternoon the Thurston
County Chapter of the National Organization for Women held a demonstration
in front of Olympia's Federal Building to
protest Representative Don Bonker's
support of the recently approved
Hyde/Flood Amendment to the HEW
Labor Appropriations Bill. The amendment prohibits federal Medicaid funding
for abortions except in cases involving
doing so they were turning the volatile
sentiments of their constituencies' antiabortion forces into political favor. They
must also have known that they were
taking an issue that has been legally
defined as medical and regulating it
according to moral judgement. But what
kind of moral judgement is necessary to
justify the denying of a legal medical
option to women who can't afford it?
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Women demonstrating against Hyde/Flood Amendment
women whose lives or health are
endangered by pregnancy, and instances
of pregnancy resulting from rape or
incest that has been promptly reported
to law-enforcement or public health
agencies.
President Carter, while defending his
support of the Hyde/Flood amendment,
made one of his stupidest remarks to
date: "Life is unfair," he said. It's bad
enough that the line was stolen (John F.
Kennedy used it to try and explain the
draft), but absurd, ridiculous that Carter
The protest was also meant to call
attention to the five-year anniversary of
the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that
abortion is a matter which should be
settled between individual women and
their physicians.
used it in an attempt to justify the
government's making life more unfair. I
find it pretty galling to know that this
man who sold the country on his
pompous ideals is now willing to take a
stand in blatant opposition to the
principles he so readily professes. The
Hyde/Flood amendment will cost American taxpayers far more in increased
welfare payments than it will save them
by reducing the cost of Medicaid. The
only reasons I can see for Carter's
support of- ffris legislation are his desires
to impose^his own moral beliefs on
everybody, and to solicit the favor of
such organizations as the Catholic and
Mormon Churches.
Abortion is not a comfortable issue.
There are no "right" and "wrong"
answers to the question of abortion. I
would never say, "I support abortion"
because I don't think the process is
ideally desirable; I would, however, and
will say, "I support the right of women to
opt for abortion if they so wish" because
I feel that in many cases pregnant
women and the life they carry face worse
fates than abortion if that choice isn't
available. Apparently the Supreme Court
agrees with this view. Nevertheless, it's
an uncomfortable issue that can be
argued convincingly from both the "pro"
and "con" standpoints.
In approving the Hyde/Flood amendment, though, our dear Houses of
Congress have managed to totally
transcend the real questions raised by
abortion: they have ignored the dilemma
it poses to the designation of human
rights, preferring instead to ensconce
themselves on an emotionally laden
plateau by tacitly registering their
disapproval of the entire issue. The
Representatives and Senators who supported this amendment knew that in
Washington State, amazingly enough,
is one of several states which still
provide funding for Medicaid abortion.
Considering the current political climate
here, though, this situation may not last.
According to N.O.W., "The funding for
this year hangs on the occurrence of a
special session of the Legislature this
spring." Judging from what I've heard, it
doesn't seem likely that such a special
session will occur. However, it's not too
late to register support for the continuation of state funding for Medicaid
abortions: if enough people do so,
maybe we in Washington State won't
duplicate the abominable performance of
our federal government on this issue.
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Greenpeace:
A Call For An Enviornmental Cease-Fire
by Nancy Ann Parkes
"... Our name suggests a
dream which can and must be
realized. If life is to continue to
exist on this planet, the wanton
destruction of wildlife must
cease; the dumping of poisons
into the oceans must cease; the
rape of virgin lands (what is left
of them) must cease. In short,
we are calling for an environmental cease-fire."
—Greenpeace Foundation
GREENPEACE
AN ORGANIZATION TO
PROTECT LIFE
Greenpeace is an international
•—v organization of people willing to
put themselves between the
hunters and the hunted.
In the spring of 1975, Greenpeace v o l u n t e e r s positioned
themselves between a pod of
sperm whales and the Russian
whaling vessel Dalyni Vostok in
an a t t e m p t to prevent the
s l a u g h t e r of the pod. Crew
members of Dalyni Vostok
hurled a 250-lb. explosive tipped
• harpoon just over the volunteers
heads. A crimson trail of blood
flowed into the water as the
harpoon plunged into one of the
whales.
This episode and others like it
strengthened the convictions of
Greenpeace members around the
world. They saw the need to act
j- h u m a n shields, to come
between animals of endangered
species and the men who seek to
U11 them.
But Greenpeace is much more
than an organization to save
whales. Where dolphins struggle
to escape a suffocating death
a m o n g t u n a fishermen's nets;
where harp seal pups are clubbed
to death; where nuclear power
p l a n t s loom as an imminent
t h r e a t to h u m a n k i n d , Greenpeace is in action.
The largest branch of Greenpeace in this area is located in
Seattle at 4534V2 University Way
N.E., 98105. (206-632-4326).
Even closer than the Seattle
chapter is Library 3225 on the
TESC campus, where Greenpeace has set up an office.
March 9 will be "Greenpeace"
day at Evergreen, according to
Guinnevere Nash of Olympia.
The special day will feature
slide shows, tactic discussions,
histories of past campaigns, lectures on the status of whales and
seals, and the film "Greenpeace
Voyages to Save the Whale."
THE SEAL SLAUGHTER
In the spring of 1976, 169
thousand newborn harp seals
were killed off the shores of
Canada. They are slaughtered
for their fur. Sealers receive an
estimated one dollar per pelt for
each of the seals they club to
death.
The 1976 total kill exceeded
the set quota by 41,000. Dr.
David Lavigne, an assistant
professor at the University of
Guelph, devised a method (using
ultra-violet photography from
the air) to take census of the
seals. He estimated that the
population of harp seals in 1975
was perhaps 700 thousand to 800
thousand, rather than the oneand-a-half million estimated by
other sources. In 1900 there were
ten million harp seals.
Despite the rapidly declining
seal population, the Canadian
government has raised its 1978
kill quota to 180 thousand.
Canada and Norway share the
commercial sealing industry. For
over ten years both governments
have been receiving thousands of
letters and petitions protesting
the seal slaughter. In response,
the Canadian government restricted pelt quotas in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence to sealers in small
boats, and landsmen. This limitation may have been instituted
because of the already depleted
seal population in that area.
Greenpeace protests the method of killing seals, as well as the
gross numbers of pups which are
taken annually. Dr. H. Rowsell,
who examined a sample of
carcasses from the 1975 kill,
found that three quarters of the
baby seals had incompletely
crushed skulls. Some of these
pups may have been skinned
alive.
In order to create pressure for
a halt of the seal slaughter, the
Greenpeace Foundation advocates a boycott of Canadian and
Norwegian goods. Foundation
members caution, however, that
targets of the boycott must be
informed of your decision for the
boycott to be effective.
Greenpeace offers two addresses if you wish to boycott
Canadian and Norwegian goods.
They are: The Honorable Pierre
Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of
Canada, House of Commons,
Ottawa, Ontario K1A OA6,
and, The Honorable Oddavear
Nordili, Prime Minister of Norway, Oslo, D E P, Norway.
Greenpeace volunteers act to
save the harp seals in much the
same way they attempt to
protect sperm whales. They
place their own bodies over the
infants who's lives are at stake.
This can not save all the seals
from death; what the human
shields can provide, however, is
publicity of the killing, and a
moment of soul searching for the
sealers.
Onlookers question the passion Greenpeace volunteers embody in their selfless actions.
Perhaps Brigitte Bardot conveys
the general fervor best in this
exerpt from her Labrador Journal, after a visit with harp seal
pups:
"...I'm sorry, excuse me,
Mama Seal, for bothering your
little one. I have come so far to
see him and I want to tell him
that he can count on me. I will
spend my life fighting for his. I
know, Mama Seal, that you are
filled with much love for your
child, that when the hunters
come to kill your little baby and
leave him skinned, that you stay
tuna to an artificial dolphin
herd.
Greenpeace advocates the continued boycott of tuna products
so that the industry will be
forced to once again "revolutionize" their methods without endangering the lives of dolphins.
two more days next to his little
body, trying desperately to heat
it and warm it and give it
milk..."
DEATH BY SUFFOCATION
Six million dolphins have been
suffocated in the three-quarter
mile long nets of tuna fishermen
since fishing methods were revolutionized in the late 1960's.
The prime dolphin kill occurs in
the waters of the eastern tropical
Pacific.
In 1969 William Perrin, then a
biology student at UCLA, opened up the dolphin issue to public
scrutiny. Curiosity as to why
dead dolphins were coming back
in the holds of tuna boats lead
him to explore the cannery area
of Terminal Island, California.
Perrin discovered that traditional
line fishing had been replaced by
a method involving large nets
which were closed off at the
bottom, and hoisted back onto
the ship by power blocks. Nets
extend as far as 400 feet down
into the water, making it
impossible for the dolphins to
dive out from under them before
they close.
Yellowfin tuna swim directly
below herds of spinner, spotten,
and common dolphins. Fishermen use the dolphins to spot
tuna schools. The relationship
between dolphins and tuna
remains a mystery, although
theories attempting to explain
the phenomenon attribute the
union to the animals orientation
processes.
When line fishing was utilized
by the tuna industry, dolphins
were protected from becoming
accidental victims of the fishermen. Tuna bite at anything
barely resembling a fish. Dolphins are able to discern hooks
from bait-fish by means of their
sophisticated echo location systems.
Fishermen have developed a
method of releasing the dolphins
called "backing down," which
involves running the vessel in
reverse to pull the top of the net
out from under dolphins. Although the death rate has been
cut by approximately 50 percent,
this method is inadequate considering that 425 thousand dolphins died in the nets of tuna
fishermen during 1971.
The Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 was passed by
both Houses of Congress, specifically alloting the tuna industry
a 24-month period of exemption
from dolphin kill quotas, while
requiring a cooperative research
and development program between the tuna industry and the
National Marine Fisheries Service. The act called for a kill of
"insignificant levels approaching
a zero mortality and serious
injury rate," after the two year
grace period had passed.
During the 1974 tuna season
an estimated 150 thousand dolphins were killed. The Commerce Department issued a
general permit to the fleet allowing the continuance of these
fishing methods, contingent upon
ongoing research to further
reduce the death of dolphins.
In a 1976 decision Federal
Judge Charles Richey ruled that
the Commerce Department had
violated the law by issuing such
a permit, and gave the tuna
industry two weeks to notify
vessels that all "porpoise fishing"
be immediately terminated. At
the end of 1976 the fleet and
killed another 110 thousand
dolphins.
Save the Dolphins, a San
Francisco based operation, is
currently researching a method
of tuna fishing which would lure
Rex Weyler, Greenpeace
SAVING THE WHALES FROM
LEGENDARY STATUS
The last whaling station in the
United States closed in 1970.
Whaling was outlawed in this
coutry in 1971; and the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (prohibiting the importation of marine
mammal products) was passed in
1972.
Substitutes exist for all commercial whaling products. The
oil from the bean of the jojoba
plant, a shrub easily cultured in
arid regions, closely duplicates
the lubricating properties of
sperm whale oil. Other commercial by-producuts of the whaling
industry include pet food and
cosmetics, both of which can be
obtained from other sources.
Foreign pelagic fleets continue
to send vessels to the North
Pacific and Antarctic waters to
hunt for whales, despite the fact
[Canada's harp seals)
that the whales face extinction.
The Greenpeace Foundation
took an active role in the
movement to stop commercial
whaling sii\5 (as documented j
in the beginning of this article.)
In 1976 Greenpeace's vessel, The
James Bay, once again intervened between a pod of sperm
whales and the Russian whaling
fleet Dalyni Vostok. This time
there were no harpoons launched. Publicity of the 1975 confrontation between the same two
crews forced the members of the
Russian fleet to leave the second
meeting without harming any of
the pod.
Greenpeace estimates that 100
whales were spared. In addition,
1300 were spared by the protection it provided along he North
American Pacific coast.
Subsequent voyages
have
saved small pods of whales,
while publicity generated by the
missions has put pressure on the
International Whaling Commission to reduce whale kill quotas.
Still, the 1978 quota has been set
at 6,444, only a ten percent
reduction from last year.
Greenpeace crew members will
be out again in the summer of
1978 on the ship The Ohana Kai,
which is now in San Francisco.
Boycotts on goods coming from
countries which continue in the
whaling industry (Russia and
Japan) have been established and
continue to accumulate support.
Campbell Plowden of the
Seattle branch of Greenpeace
says, "We are just beginning to
understand the scope of cetacean
intelligence. If for no other
reason than what we stand to
learn by communicating with
these highly sensitive beings they
should be saved. But like all the
life forms on this planet, whales
comprise an integral part of their
ecosystem. They have become a
symbol for life in the oceans on
which all life ultimately depends.
We are all interconnected. If the
whales vanish, the quality of
human experience will suffer immeasurably, and man's chance
for survival will be lowered a
considerable notch."
Students Headed For China?
T
by Mandy McFarlan
The students and faculty
members of Voices of the Third
World are planning a trip to The
People's Republic of China as
part of the curriculum for an
academic program. Rainer
Hasenstab, one of the faculty
members with Voices, says that
the idea for the China trip was a
collective idea within the program.
The group wrote up an
academic proposal explaining
why the trip would be beneficial
to students in the Voices program. The proposal states:
"Through our studies in the
program Voices of the Third
World it has become clear that
an understanding of the developing third world nations is
crucial to an understanding of
the changing world situation.
The People's Republic of China,
composing one fourth of the
world's population has emerged
as a leading voice of the third
world and therefore, has a
significant impact on the course
of modern history. . . . We feel
that observing and/or participating in as many aspects of
Chinese life as possible will
allow us to exceed the limitations
of books and other secondary
sources. Therefore, a trip to
China is our goal."
The thirty-three students and
two faculty members of Voices
would like to go ahead with the
Study in China program for next
quarter, but there are many
difficulties involved in planning
a trip to China, and there isn't
much time left for processing
travel arrangements.
Mary Moran, a Pacific Northwest representative of the U.S.China People's Friendship Association, is going to present the
4,
Evergreen request to the National Headquarters of that association this weekend. The request
will also have to be processed
through China, and then if it's
accepted, visas, passports, and
finally plane tickets will be
issued.
Helen Hinton, one of the
Voices students planning the
program, feels that there is a
good chance that the request to
go will be granted because the
program offers educational opportunities for the U.S. and
China. Since the trip will cost
about $2,400 per person, another
major obstacle will be finding
partial or total financial support.
Hinton is also optimistic about
locating grants. "First we'll
contact our own U.S. senators in
trying to get federal funds, and
we will also try to get private
funding. We may try Senator
Kennedy because he is interested
in China exchanges," she says.
DTP Studying
Library Operations
A DTP charged late last year
by TESC Vice President and
Provost Edward Kormondy is
currently reviewing operations of
Evergreen's Library.
Chaired by faculty member
Betty Estes, the Library Review
DTP is concentrating its efforts
on studying the effectiveness of
services offered by the library,
and on analyzing the library's
institutional management and
professional development of
staff.
According to Dean of Library
Services
Jovanna
Brown,
Kormondy charged the DTP
because, "it's desirable for a
service as extensive as the library
to be reviewed every few years."
Most colleges and universities
have standing committees to
supervise library operations, but
since Evergreen has no permanent committees, DTFs must
perform their functions.
A 1973 library DTP formulated a set of recommendations
concerning library operations:
the present DTP is charged with
assessing how the library has
met these recommendations.
Items in the 1973 report include: "The DTP urges the continuation of the circulation and
security policies now in effect
RAUDENBUSH
MOTOR SUPPLY
for providing access to library
holdings"; and, "Develop an
efficient cataloging system for
cataloging and processing the
backlog of holdings and for
f u t u r e acquisitions, consistent
with present commitments to
make use of technological advances. . . . "
In order to most efficiently
examine the effectiveness of the
library's services, the current
DTP has divided into five
subgroups determined according
to budget unit designations. Each
of the following aspects of
library operations will be studied
by a different subgroup:
1) User Services and Reference;
2) Circulation, Mini-Media,
and Media Productions;
3) Technical Services, Acquisitions, Media Engineering, and
Media Services;
4) Photo Services, Electronic
Media Services, Graphic Services, and Lecture/Recital Hall,
and;
5) Administration.
Estes is seeking student comment on all facets of library
operations; she will direct anyone interested in consulting with
the DTP to the subgroup(s) appropriate to his/her concerns.
If all goes as planned, 20 to 40
students will prepare for the trip
by doing preliminary studies of
Chinese history, sociology, politics, culture and languages while
still on campus. They will
probably travel via Tokyo and
Hong Kong at the end of April
and will be in China for 4-6
weeks.
Mary Moran described a trip
she took which was similar to
the one the Evergreeners are
planning. On Moran's trip, there
were four main centers where
her group spent the most time:
Peking, Shanghai, Kwangchow
and Hangchow. She described
her agenda as tiring because of
the many cultural events, museums and historical sites it
included.
Moran's field is mental health,
and while in China, she looked
at the different lifestyles there in
terms of mental health. "The
people are kept busy at every
step. School is from 8:00-5:00,
six days a week; after the 10th
grade they choose a way of life.
The National Council for a
World Peace Tax Fund has
launched a write-in campaign to
win votes in Congress for the
World Peace Tax Fund Bill (H.R.
4897/S. 880). If passed, the bill
would divert about $2.3 billion
annually of conscientious objectors' income taxes from military
budgets into a World Peace Tax
Fund.
A Board of Trustees composed
of 11 persons who have demonstrated a consistent commitment
to world peace and international
friendship and who have had
experience with the peaceful
resolution of international conflict would be chosen to administer the fund, which would
support research into non-military solutions to international
conflict, disarmament efforts,
relief of world hunger, and other
nonviolent activities that help to
prevent war.
A set of five printed cards for
supporters to mail to their Representatives, their Senators, the
President and the Internal Revenue Service has been prepared
by The National Council for a
World Peace Tax Fund. The
message on the cards is:
We need a legal alternative to
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Family and community ties are
GILA Thursday, January 26
strong. They are not allowed to
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go beyond 50 miles from home
Laurie Knutsen, Jane
Hoffman, Barbara
without a committee's permisMoreno, Sue Roberts.'
sion, a committee which they
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Friday & Saturday
select. Everyone goes to meetings
HAWKS January 27 & 28
for political study about twice a
veteran guitar teacher
week. Because of these ties and
of nationally
renowned Puget
this feeling of 'purposefulness'
Sound workshops,
they are not left dangling as
excellent vocals &
teenagers like our teenagers are,"
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she observes.
BENEFIT
Each Voices student, if the trip
Thursday. February 2
can be arranged, will choose
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Readings by
specific areas of interest and do
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intensive research on those areas
Performances begin at nine p.m.
before leaving. They will then
A one dollar cover will be asked
compare the knowledge theyve
to support the performers.
acquired on campus with reality
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in China. Communal life, educadowntown Olympia on the
corner of West Thurston
tion and child care, local and
Avenue and Capitol Way.
high level politics, the arts,
barefoot doctors (the Chinese
version of the paramedic), and
the changing role of women will
be investigated by the students
through first hand experience.
Urban and rural life will be
studied, and if it can be
arranged, students will stay and
work with the people in Chinese
communes.
When the Study In China
program returns to campus, they
want to share the China experience with the Evergreen and
the surrounding communities
through oral and visual presentations, a final report, a
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collection of essays based on
ALL ARE UNIQUE OR
students' journals kept on the
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film. The academic proposal
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describes the trip not as an end
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to the program, but as a
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beginning, after which the stuHOME A BASKET TODAY
dents will be able to bring back
a greater understanding of Chinese culture.
The Study In China program
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it still have a lot of work to do
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and may need some luck before
they get to China.
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paying taxes for war. The World
Peace Tax Fund Bill \H.R.
4879/S. 880} would allow people
morally opposed to war to have
the S2.3 billion of their taxes
which would otherwise go for
military purposes, used instead
for peace-related purposes to
benefit all.
The tax card sets and other
i n f o r m a t i o n can be obtained
from the National Council for a
World Peace Tax Fund, 2111
Florida Ave., NW, Washington,
DC 20008. The organization
prefers, but does not require,
that orders be accompanied by
the following payments: 25 cents
for one set, $1 for ten sets, $9.50
for 100 sets, and $85 for 1000
sets.
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR A STUDENT
ADMINISTRATIVE AIDE
POSITION
$3.30 per hour
15-19 hours per week
Job Description
Assemble and summarize
information on institutional
characteristics; for example,
student profiles, placement
data, governance histories.
Some filing and typing. May
also assist the Student Legislative Analyst in tracking
and reviewing bills and
performing other legislativerelated duties.
Qualifications
Good writing skills, some
research experience, ability
to work independently, a
thorough knowledge of The
Evergreen State College.
Submit resume and a
sample of expository writing
to Les Eldridge, Assistant to
the President. L 3ll4
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Smith Selected
Dean
Dr. Barbara Leigh Smith, Associate Professor of Political
Science and Director of the
experimental Centennial Education Program at the University
of Nebraksa-Lincoln has been
selected as Evergreen's new Academic Dean. Her term begins on
April 15.
Smith was awarded Masters
and Doctorate degrees in Political Science by the University of
Oregon in 1968 and 1970 respectively. She graduated from
Lawrence University in Wisconsin with a B.A. in 1966.
In her application for the Evergreen Academic Dean position
Smith wrote of her experience in
the Centennial Program: "My
experience at the Centennial
Education Program is probably
most pertinent to Evergreen. I
feel that Centennial and Evergreen have a great deal in
common, and my educational
philosophy accords well with
both..."
Smith was chosen for the
position from a field of 178 applicants, one of whom was her
husband, David W. Paulsen.
In her application for the
Deanship Smith also listed a
number of publications she has
to her credit. Among them are:
Technical Appendices to Characteristics of Civil Disorders, coauthored with Arthur Smith
(American
University
Press,
1968); and "The 1970 Elections
in Oregon," written with L. Harmon Zeigler (Western Political
Quarterly, 1971).
Women's Basketball:
GThicks Bury Raiders
The Evergreen State College
.vomen's basketball team took
heir first intercollegiate win this
\i>t Sunday at Saint Martin's
'avilion. Facing the quick Fort
; '.eilacoom Raiders, the Ever,:reeners used the heigth of their
wo forwards, Kate Steele and
, hryl Fejeron to take the game
"o-70.
High scorers were Kate Steele
w i t h 3° points, Cheryl Fejeron
with 31, and assists by Anita de
Give with 4 and Cathe Linn with
2. The team has a 1 win, 2 loss
record in the intercollegiate
league, but remains undefeated
in the Olympia City league.
Games are Mondays at 7:45
and Wednesdays at 6:30 in the
Old Washington Gym (Eastside
and Seventh). Come on down
and support them!
TESC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
OF INTERCOLLEGIATE GAMES
I j n u a r y 26
Februarys
February 10
February 12
February 18
February 25
February 28
Pacific Lutheran University 7:00 p.m.
Fort Lewis
7:00 p.m.
Fort Steilacoom
Pacific Lutheran University 5:00 p.m.
Saint Martin's College
8:00 p.m.
Fort Lewis
Lower Columbia Community College
(tentative)
'Home games to be played at the Capitol Pavillion.
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City league games will be played at the Old Washington Gym on
Mondays at 7:45 p.m., and on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.
thruough February 15.
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Continued from page I
should provide a "curriculum
which allows general expectations to be met and individual
plans to unfold." The procedures
for curriculum planning would
remain relatively unaltered, but
there would be much more
available data for planning a
good curriculum. A process of
advance planning by students
would allow for "an anticipation
of needs and an aggregation of
interests."
Thompson assumes student
plans would be available to the
deans so that they could begin to
deal with them quantitatively,
and that they would have a
much clearer picture of student
needs for any given time period.
He stated, "More cogent data
would provide more cogent
planning."
Paul Sparks stressed that gaps
in the curriculum would have to
be filled or the plan would not
work. "Too many individual
contracts are used as a bandaid," replied Thompson in agreement with Sparks' statement.
Richard Alexander
foresees
pressure on the contract pool
from seniors who are working
on advanced study projects. He
pointed out that TESC would be
obliged to provide specific programs and hold open slots for
senior contracts. In addition
Alexander believes the faculty
hiring/firing policy should be
revamped to meet students'
needs.
Chuck Pailthorp stated after
the meeting that he believed it
was the first time in Evergreen's
history that a faculty body had
charged a DTF. Although only
thirty members of the faculty
attended Wednesday's meeting,
those who attended seemed
genuinely interested in forming a
plan that would meet the needs
of both students and faculty.
Concluding the discussion of
the plan body, Thompson noted
that the most important reason
for such a plan was to "push
people to do work at a higher
qualitative level."
Faculty members pressed the
issue of student involvement in
any plan to be instituted, and
the DTF membership will be
drawn up in consultation with
the Evergreen Council.
Women's Soccer
The Evergreen Women's Soccer team is starting to practice in
preparation for spring league
competition. This year Evergreen
will have two teams playing.
One team will play in a highly
competitive division in the
Washington State Women's Soccer Association. The other will
play in a local Olympia league
which is geared more towards
less advanced skill levels. To
play in the spring competition
you must practice this winter!
The team stresses cooperation
and skill development in a fun,
supportive atmosphere. The
team welcomes women of any
skill level to join. If you are
interested in playing soccer,
contact Martina Guilfoil at
357-7666 or Lisa Oakley at
866-0303 for details.
Bulletin Board
KAOS needs engineers! KAOS is
looking for people skilled in electronics. Two positions are available for 15
hrs/week starting at $3.05/hr. For
more information, contact Dave Rauh
at KAOS, 866-5267. KAOS is also
looking for volunteers to fill the
positions of ARCHIVES LIBRARIAN,
PUBLIC SERVICE DIRECTOR, and
OFFICE/OPERATIONS
MANAGER.
They are important jobs that offer lots
of opportunity to work and learn in
the radio station. Again, contact Dave
Rauh at KAOS, 866-5267.
_
PETER CAMEJO, Presidential candidate for the Socialist Workers Party,
speaks on video tape about the contradictions of Capitalism, Thursday,
January 26 at 7:30 p.m. in LH 5.
On January 31, one of the nine
ECUMENICAL FORUMS ON INDIAN
TREATY RIGHTS will be held at the
First Lutheran Church, 4105 California
Ave. S.W., Seattle. The event will
include slide presentations of United
Indians of All Tribes Foundation and
Cook's Christian Training School. For
more information on this week's
forum, call 935-6530.
WHIT DESCHNER will give a slide
show on KAYAKING AND HIKING in
New Zeland, Australia, Fiji, Tonga and
The Samoas. It will be in Lecture Hall
5 at 7 p.m., January 30. Admission will
be free.
If we tbritfawe it, we wttlqetit.
DESIGNERS AND VISUAL ARTISTS
can submit original designs for a
poster to be used for the 1978 TacomaPierce County SUMMER POPS concert
series. The size of the poster will be
18" X 25", and it will be limited to
three colors. Judges will award $500
for the outstanding design. Entries
must be received by 5 p.m. February
17 in the office of the Tacoma Pierce
County Civic Arts Commission: 740
St. Helens, Med. Arts Bldg., Room
1315, Tacoma, WA. 98402. For more
information and specific guidelines,
contact John Carter at 593-4754.
On Sunday evenings there is FOLK
DANCING in the CAB Lobby starting at
7:30. During the first hour, folkdancing
is taught. On Wednesdays everyone is
invited to the first floor Library lobby
for SQUARE DANCING. Dances are
taught. Starts at 8:00 p.m.
The CRABSHELL ALLIANCE is
sponsoring an hour of folk music followed by a panel discussion and
question and answer period on various
aspects of nuclear power, to be held
on January 29, 2 p.m. at the Gnu Deli.
Also from Crabshell, AN INTRODUCTION TO CRABSHELL. For anyone
interested in becoming involved with
Crabshell, this potluck will be held at
Utah Jack's Restaurant on February ^
at 6 p.m.
February 1 at 6 p.m.
Beginning January 29, WASHINGTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGES,
in cooperation with the Washington
Commission for the Humanities, will
sponsor four monthly Community
Forums on topics concerning POPULAR CULTURE IN AMERICA. The
January 29 forum will deal with
POPULAR CULTURE: CREATOR OR
DESTROYER OF AMERICAN VALUES?
For information on time and place, call
(toll free from Olympia) Pat Kennedy at
(206) 736-9391 (Centralia College).
A BLOODMOBILE unit will be on
campus Thursday, February 2 to
receive donations. Volunteers from the
Puget Sound Blood Bank will belocated on the second floor of the
Library Building from 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. Health Services encourages
you to take the time to donate your urgently needed blood.
The Alpine Club and Outdoor
Education are sponsoring a used
OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT SALE to be
held on Tuesday, January 31 at noon
in the CAB lobby. Buy, sell or barter;
not for mountaineers only.
GINNY RING will be teaching a class
on changing eating habits. An introduction to alternative nutrition, class
support and behavior modification will
assist students in an absolute cut-off
of sugar intake. Sign up at Health
Services (Seminar Bldg. 2110). $20.
The first meeting is on February 1,
Library 1504 at 10:00 a.m. The class
will meet every Wednesday for six
weeks.
The LIBRARY REVIEW DTF meets
every Wednesday from 8 to 10 a.m. in
Lib 2205. The DTF will probably meet
weekly until early May.
The FEMINIST KARATE UNION
meets on Monays at noon in CRC 202,
on Tuesays and Thursdays at 5:30 in
CRC 307, and on Fridays at 6:30 in
CRC 307.
TESC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL has
scheduled weekly games through
February 15 for 7:45 p.m. on Mondays
and 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. These
are city league games which will be
played at Eastside and 7th street at the
OLD WASHINGTON GYM.
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mattress and liner with dark stained
frame. Brand new. Disassembles easily
for transporting. Offers over $85, call
866-5107.
MODEL AVAILABLE (male), days or
evenings, rates reasonable and negotiable. Call 352-4507, ask for Max. .
Have to sell a 1968 V.W. VAN. Runs
well, with no mechanical problems.
Asking for 900.00 or best offer. Have
no phone but you can contact Miles at
1506 Overhulse Road.
For sale: RAW WOOL. Best offer.
Call 352-9132 after 5.
loeco
Westside Center
352-0720
10 to 6
Mon. thru Sat.
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Beginning with our February 2 issue
the CPJ will publish a paid classified
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Entertainment
1900: Epic Comic Book Communism
by Nathaniel Koch
It is extremely difficult to
make a good political or social
film because the issues are complex and, to some extent, abstract, and have to be embodied
in human antagonists to make
them come alive. But then in
order to make the characters
both dramatic and human in a
90- or 100-minute context, the
issues usually have to be
foreshortened and over-simplified. In effect, the filmmaker is
caught between the Scylla of depersonalization and the Charybodis of oversimplification.
—John Simon
Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento (1900) is an ambitious failure. The director intended to
bring to the screen a story of
two men, bory on the same day,
at the beginning of a new
century, in the Emilian region of
Italy. One is Alfredo Berlinghieri
(Robert De Niro), the grandson
of the Padrone, a wealthy landowner who lives in a grandiose
country villa. The other is Olmo
Dalco (Gerard Depardieu), the
bastard grandson of Leo Dalco
(Sterling Hayden), who is the
patriarchal head of a large
family of peasants that live and
work on the Berlinghieri's land.
The film attempts to portray the
two men's lives in relationship to
the politics of the first half of the
20th-century. Namely the 1908
peasant uprising and strikes, the
effect of the First World World
War, the rise of Fascism in Italy
in the Twenties and Thirties to
finally, April 25th, 1945 . . .
Liberation Day.
It is evident, at the end of 245
minutes of film, that Bertolucci
has sacrificed the depth and
complexity of his characters to
make a political film intended to
communicate to a large, diverse
audience.
In an interview with Deborah
Young in Film Comment, Bertolucci explained his conception
and use of political filmmaking:
"In general, I believe that all
films, like all books, are political, in the sense that they either
accept or refuse the view of
reality that the ruling class gives
out as the correct perspective,
the true vision. To the extent
that you accept or refuse it,
wholly or in part, you make a
political statement, even if the
argument isn't strictly political.
. . . I told myself that it was one
thing to make films with political
arguments, and another to put
politics inside films. Two very
different things."
They are indeed. In 1900, the
Berlinghieri and Dalco families
are caught up in and influenced
by the political events and movements in Italy. But Bertolucci,
his brother Giuseppe, and Franco
Arcalli have created a script
where individual characters seem
to embody and represent the
philosophy of entire political
movements. The most blatant
example of this is the Black Shirt
Attila played as a toothy manipulative sadist by Donald Sutherland. The Berlinghieri forman
commits every atrocity you
would expect an evil fascist to:
arson, murder, homosexual sodomy with a child, murder-rape,
cruelty to animals, assault, and
the constant tormenting of those
less fortunate than he. His lover
and counterpart Regina (Laura
Betti) is scarcely better. She
barely contains her naked desire
for social status and power, and
her voice has all the tonal qualities of the Wicked Witch of the
West's from The Wizard of Oz.
(Bertolucci's homage to Hollywood of the '30's?)
What is sacrificed by portraying Attila and Regina as such
one-dimensional monsters is any
illumination of what it was
about the Fascist movement in
Italy that attracted a large
enough following to bring Mussolini to power in 1922. Bertolucci suggests it was in the
landowners interests to support
the Fascist!, "the new crusaders,"
but nothing more complex.
This simplistic treatment of
politics and characters carries
over to the "inherently capitalistic" landowners and the "traditionally communistic" peasants.
Bertolucci's idea of putting
politics inside the film here involves having key characters
spout the primitive beginnings of
a political philosophy. At the
Dalco dinner table, when Olmo
produces a coin he earned from
catching and selling frogs to the
Berlinghieris, his grandfather pro-
claims, "If it is yours, it belongs
to all of us." Fortunately, the
director has a sense of humor,
for earlier, when the hunchback
Rigoletto rises at the table to
share a poignant insightful observation on class struggle, he
receives a handful of food
thrown smack into the side of
his head.
If the film contains any clear
message, it is that the peasants
and landowners are both victims
of the social position and status
they are born into, and that
there will always be a struggle
between those who have and
those who need and have not.
When little Alfredo is born, Don
Alfredo Berlinghieri (Burt Lancaster) goes into the fields to
distribute champagne for celebration. To Olmo's grandfather he
offers, "Born together, must
mean something," and adds, "I
want mine to study law!" Leo
Dalco responds, "I want mine to
study thievery." Indeed, Alfredo
eventually becomes the Padrone
and law of the Berlinghieri land
and Olmo steals a gun and
papers from the landlord's study.
In place of interesting character development, Bertolucci is
fond of substituting well-worn
cultural myths about the corruptibility of wealth and power. The
Berlinghieris are a rich but sad
lot. The old Padrone is impotent
and envies the peasant's closeness to the earth. He dislikes
both his sons. Young Alfredo's
father (Romolo Valli) is a cruel,
petty man who treats the
peasants like property. The
other, Ottavio (Werner Bruhns)
is kind and generous but has a
fondness for cocaine, likes young
nude boys, and when his money
doesn't always purchase happiness he bemusingly bemoans,
"I didn't know that the search
for pleasure could be so tiring."
Alfredo is a well-meaning coward who is reduced to a helpless
shell when his wife Ada (Dominique Sanda) leaves him. It is
implied that "natural death" for
the Berlinghieris would be suicide.
In a similar mythic vein,
peasants are portrayed as being
strong, self-sacrificing, robust,
virile (large families), and courageous. Their social gatherings
are warm and joyous . . . the
envy of the Berlinghieris. Their
homes are poor and basic, but
comfortable. Their -political con-
victions (Communistic) are often
portrayed
symbolically,
as
through their seemingly unquenched enthusiasm for breaking into the "Internationale" or
an Italian folk song to build
collective strength. What Bertolucci has, in essence, created is a
film populated with an inept,
joyless ruling class, exploited but
resilient peasants, and the real
villains of the story: the violent
evil Fascists.
Had Bertolucci not been so
intent on reaching a mass world
audience with his epic on Italian
Communism, and concentrated
on something less ambitious like
the lives of one or two characters, 1900 might have avoided
looking like a leather-bound
comic book novel. The strongest
parts of the 4 hour and 5 minute
movie are those in which the
director allows his sense of
humor to enter a scene; where
characters relate as people, not
as opposing forces. Bertolucci's
filming of the sexual relationships is refreshing when compared
to the theatrical, self-conscious
scenes in say, Looking For Mr.
Goodbar.
Bertolucci is a master craftsman. The staging, cinematography (Vittorio Storaro) and
lighting of various scenes often
impart astounding visual beauty
to the film. But the fact remains
that the director has simplified
the politics and most of the
characters in 1900 to a point
where both seem hollow and
stagey. In America, Bertolucci
will be lucky if 1900 draws half
of the filmgoers who saw Last
Tango in Paris. So much for his
envisioned mass audience.
EDITOR
John Keogh
BUSINESS MANAGER
MANAGING EDITOR
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Mandy McFarlan
Dana Leigh Squires
FEATURES EDITOR
Nancy Ann Parkes
SECRETARY
i
Joyce Baker
Nathaniel Koch
ADVERTISING MANAGER
Greg Hutcheson
TONIGHT!!!!!!!
The American Zionist Youth Foundation Inc.
presents
BEGIN AND SADAT
IMPLICATIONS PAST AND FUTURE
John Rothman ^ an authority on foreign _.
policy and the American presidency will
begin his talk at 7r30 pm in LH 2.
TONIGHT!!!!!!!
7:30 pm
LH 2
Arts and EventsAinb
Arts and Events,
MUSIC
IN OLYMPIA
ON CAMPUS
KEETJE TIPPEL [CATHY TIPPEL,
1976) Based on the Nobel Prize
nominated memoirs of Nells Dorff.
Takes place at the turn of the century
in Amsterdam. Starring Monique van
de Ven as Keetje Tippel. (The Cinema,
943-5914; thru Tuesday, 1/31).
Old time country dancing? It's still
happening every Wednesday at 8 p.m.,
with live band and caller on the first
floor of the Library building. "Alive and
Kickin'." Donations appreciated.
At 8 p.m. on January 27, Evergreen's
"Explorations in Twentieth Century
Music" sponsors FOOTNOTE, a Los
Angeles trio which moves between
serious contemporary music, humorous sketches, jazz & ballet dance, and
multimedia effects, culminating in a
fine performance. The Olympia show
will include "MULTIMEDIA PRELUDES." performed by composer/comedian and dancer BILL MOULTON,
an ensemble in tango, and jazz and
modern dance interpretations by PIPER.
PICKRELL and JOHN STEINMETZ.
Admission $2.50; tickets at the door
(the Communications building). Contact faculty member Dr. Greg Steinke,
866-6064 for more information.
OH, GOD! George Burns plays God.
John Denver is a supermarket manager. Directed by Carl Reiner [WHERE'S
POPPA?]. (State, 357-4010).
THE DEEP (1977) A
couple
(Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Shaw)
on their honeymoon go scuba diving
off Bermuda and dog paddle into
ancient Spanish gold and a modern
cache of millions of dollars worth of
morphine. Almost half of this adventure story, from the bestseller by Peter
Benchly [JAWS], takes place underwater. Directed by Peter
Yates
[BULLITT]. Also starring Nick Nolte.
(Starts Friday, 1 /27 at the Olympic,
357-3422).
DUMI AND THE MINANZI MARIMBA
ENSEMBLE will return to TESC on Friday, January 27, sponsored by the
Volleyball Club. The ensemble recently
put out an LP on the "Voyager" label.
An evening of traditional and contem-,
porary African music, guaranteed to
keep you dancing from 8 p.m. to 1
a.m. on the 4th floor of the Library
building. Those wishing to consume
beer or wine should bring proper I.D.
Tickets $2 in advance and $2.50 at the
cloor. Advance tickets available at
Rainy Day Records, Budget Tapes &
Records, and The Music Bar, Inc.
PETE'S DRAGON Starring Helen
Reddy, Micky Rooney, Red Buttons,
Shelley Winters and Jim Backus.
Partially animated. From Walt Disney
Productions. (Capitol, 357-7161; thru
Tuesday, 1/31).
IN SEATTLE
TUESDAYS AT EIGHT presents thp
EVERGREEN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE, in the recital hall of TESC's
Communications building, January 31.
Directed by Greg Steinke. Evergreen
'acuity member. $1 general public, .50
students.
STROSZEK Written and directed by
West German Werner Herzog [EVERY
MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD
AGAINST ALL, 1975). An ex-convict,
an old man and a prostitute travel from
Berlin to Wisconsin to begin a new
life. Starring Bruno S. as the
ex-convict Stroszek. (The Moore Egyptian Theater, 2nd and Virginia, Seattle,
622-9352).
IN OLYMPIA
APPLEJAM FOLK CENTER hosts
PEACE, BREAD AND LAND on Friday,
January 27. The threesome plays "intricate originals, blues and contemporary songs in a most unique and
polished way." $1.50. On Saturday,
January 28, APPLEJAM presents BODIE WAGNER and LARRY HANKS in
concert. Bodie sings hobo, cowboy,
and train songs in addition to being a
fine yodeller. Larry sings traditional
American music and songs of Woodie
Guthrie. Malvina Reynolds, Leadbelly,
and other folk artists. $2. Located at
the YWCA, 220 E. Union. Main act at 9
p.m. Minors welcome.
CAPTAIN COYOTES presents CHILD
January 26-28. For two nights only,
(January 27, 28) COYOTES will feature
RUBY STAR, formerly of BLACK OAK
ARKANSAS (along with CHILD). On
February 1, JUNIOR CADILLAC picks
up the billing through February 4. 2410
W. Harrison. 357-4191.
GNU DELI hosts GILA, an acoustical
jazz band comprised entirely of
women, on Thursday, January 26. On
January 27 and 28, veteran guitar
player LARRY HANKS will offer "folk
and then some." HANKS is reputed to
be "one of the Northwest's finest
singers." Corner of West Thurston
Avenue and Capitol Way. 943-1371.
GRAPEVINE continues to spotlight
DEBBIE DODGE for "mellow, conversational music" through January 28. 4500
Lacey Bv. S.E. 491-7878.
THE GREENWOOD INN features the
group NATURAL HIGH on January 26,
27. The management says, "We prefer
to call it contemporary sounds for
dancing." On January 30, JORGEN
KRUSE & COMPANY resumes with
more contemporary sounds. 2300
Evergreen Park Drive. 943-4000.
RED KELLY'S, renowned for fine
jazz, highlights regulars FREDDIE
GREENWELL (on saxophone), WILLY
HOBART (on trumpet), and JAN
STENTZ (one of the Northwest's finest
vocalists), on Friday, January 27.
Saturday, January 28 is "Big Band
Night" at RED'S. BILL RAMSAY (on
saxophone) will join the regular band
members, along with other surprises.
3501 Capitol Bv. across from the
brewery. 357-4975.
RICHARD'S ROUNDHOUSE continues with SMYLE, a disco band,,
through f-ebruary 4. 4110 Market
Square, Lacey. 456-2222.
The OLYMPIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents its second concert
of the 1977-78 season Sunday, January
29, at 7 p.m. in the Tumwater High
School Performing Arts Center. Tickets
$2 adults, $1 students.
IN SEATTLE
THE SEATTLE OPERA production of
MUSSORGSKY'S great opera, BORIS
GUDONOV, begins January 26 at THE
OPERA HOUSE. Featured in the titled
role will be NICOLA GHIUSELEV.
Other Russian language performances
are slated for January 28 and February
1, 2. English language performances
(GIORGIO TOZZI will sing BORIS) on
February 3, 5.
JOHNNY MATHIS will perform in
concert at THE OPERA HOUSE,
January 27.
Dan Land
On Monday, January 30 at 8 p.m.
THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents MOZART: REQUIEM,
The Last Work of the Great Master at
THE OPERA HOUSE. RAINER MIEDEL
Music Director and Conductor, Choral
Preparation by ROBERT SCANDRETT,
with ASHLEY PUTNAM, (soprano),
ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor), CLAUDINE
CARLSON (mezzo-soprano), and JOHN
WEST (bass). Tickets $7.50. $6, and
$5. 447-4736.
For those of you who mourn the
passing of STAR WARS from Olympia's State Theatre, take heart. MUSIC
FROM OUTER SPACE, (A STAR WARS
concert) comes to the SEATTLE
CENTER COLISEUM Thursday, February 2 at 8 p.m. The extravaganza to be
performed by the SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will feature HICHAKU
BUCKLEY as Conductor and RAINER
MIEDEL as Music Director. For ticket
information call 624-4971.
IN OLYMPIA
COLLECTORS' GALLERY, 2103 W.
Harrison Ave., is exhibiting a show by
RICHARD KIRSTEN called "The Forces
II" until March 4. For information call
352-4771.
IN SEATTLE
The Artists Gallery, 919 East Pike
Street, will preview recent photographic works by KIM STEELE at an evening
reception, 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday,
February 1. 322-0111 or 324-0400.
The "GEORGE SEGAL: PASTELS
AND SCULPTURE" exhibition continues through February 19 at the Seattle
Art Museum, Volunteer Park/Seattle
Center. 447-4710.
DANCE
IN SEATTLE
ERIC CLAPTON AND HIS BAND will
appear with PLAYER at the SEATTLE
PARAMOUNT THEATER on Sunday,
February 5 at 8 p.m.
Here's your chance to see B.B. KINGi
perform before a small crowd. On
Monday, February 6, the TROJAN
HORSE will feature KING for two
shows, 8:45 and 11:30. Tickets are
$6.50 and $7.50 and can be purchased
at the TROJAN HORSE, 415 Lenora.
Olympia residents can send checks to:
Trojan Horse, 415 Lenora, Seattle, WA
98121. An advance phone call is advisable. 624-8848.
The flamboyant foursome THE
MANHATTEN TRANSFER returns to
Seattle for a concert at THE OPERA
HOUSE on Tuesday, February 7 at 8
p.m. The band's most recent album is
entitled PASTICHE. Tickets available
through the Bon Marche and usual
suburban outlets.
KZAM invites you to an evening with
CHICK COREA & HERBIE HANCOCK
in concert, Saturday, February 11, at 8
p.m. at the PARAMOUNT NORTHWEST THEATER. Tickets are $7.50, $8.
and $8.50 (reserved seating), and
available in Olympia at Budget Tapes &
Records.
ART
A new dance troupe called, "DANCERS" will make its first Seattle
appearance at the Opera House Tuesday, January 31 at 8 p.m. The 14member company is directed by
DENNIS WAYNE and funded by
actress JOANNE WOODWARD. Tickets
are available at the Bon Marche and
the usual suburban outlets.
LECTURES AND READINGS
ON CAMPUS
The Center for Literature In Performance presents an open reading with
featured readers GERALDINE McGOWAN and WENDY SCHOFIELD Thursday,
January 26 at the CAB Coffeehouse
(rm. 104) at 8 p.m.
TESC Faculty member DR. ELIZABETH KUTTER will lecture on, "THE
MEANING OF RECOMBINANT DNA
RESEARCH" in the second "Tuesdays
at Eight" presentation, January 24 at 8
p.m. in the Communications Building
Recital Hall.
JOHN ROTHMAN, noted San Francisco area lecturer, will speak on the
topic: "BEGIN AND SADAT: IMPLICATIONS PAST AND FUTURE" Thursday,
January 26 at 7:30 p.m. in LH II.
ON CAMPUS
Works by Pacific Northwest artists
MARGARET THOMKINS and ANDREW
KEATING will be featured In a joint
exhibit at The Evergreen State College
Library Gallery through February 5. A
selection of paintings from Thomkins'
"Retrospective Exhibit" and Keating's
"Color Xerox," a series of xerox-reproduced collages, are showing in the
Library Gallery from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 7
p.m. Friday; 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, and
1 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
THEATER
IN SEATTLE
MARCEL MARCEAU, the French
mime genious, will be performing at
the Seattle Opera House Wednesday,
-February 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are
available at the Bon Marche and the
usual suburban outlets.
MISCELLANEOUS
RADICAL WOMEN, the oldest socialist women's organization in the
country, will hold a conference
entitled, "A DECADE OF SOCIALIST
FEMINISM" on the weekend of January
27, 28 and 29 at the Admiralty Resort
in Port Ludlow, Washington. Speakers
include MYRA TANNER and JANET
MCLOUD. For information, phone 6321815, 632-7449, or 325-8258.
FILMS
ON CAMPUS
JEDER FUR SICH UND GOTT
GEGEN ALLE [EVERY MAN FOR
HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL,
1975] In the early 19th-century a man is
found on a square in Nuremberg. He
cannot speak and can barely stand.
The only clue to his identity is a paper
that gives his name as Kasper Mauser.
He is taught to speak, to read and
write and then is mysteriously murdered. Based on a real historical Incident.
Starring Bruno S. as Kasper Mauser.
Directed
by
Werner
Herzog
[STROSZEK]. (Lecture Hall 1, Friday
1/27 only, 3:00, 7:00 and 9:30, 75c).
THE HISTORY BOOK: PARTS 4, 5, 6
(1975) and DEN LANGE KEDJAN [THE
LONG CHAIN, 1972) THE HISTORY
BOOK is the collective title for nine
short films which dramatize a Marxist
interpretation of the last 500 years of
history. The series was originally
produced by Jannik Hastrup and Li
Vilstrup for the Danish Government
Film Office and the technique of the
films feature a combination of various
kinds of animation with live-action
footage (newsreels, interviews). Made
primarily for children. DEN LANGE
KEDJAN is the story of the construction of two buildings for U.S.
companies in Bombay, India. It
describes how female construction
workers are brought from South India
to work for starvation wages. The
women are left stranded in Bombay's
slums when the work is finished.
B&W. (Lecture Hall 1, Monday 1/30 at
7:30 p.m. and Tuesday 1/31 at 12:00
p.m.)
KURONEKO (1968) Written and
directed by Kaneto Shindo. A 12th
century Japanese woman and her
20-year-old daughter-in-law are raped
and murdered by a band of samurai.
Later, the leader of the samurai is
mauled to death by a seductive woman
who resembles his victim. Gintoki, the
husband of the murdered girl returns
home and meets the spirits of his dead
wife and mother who have been
preying on passing samurai. He is
ordered by his band's leader to get rid
of the ghosts. (Lecture Hall 1,
Wednesday 2/1 only, 1:30 & 7:30
p.m., free.)
DERSU UZALA (1975) U.S. premiere
showing. Directed by Akira Kurosawa
[SEVEN SAMURAI]. Grand Prize Winner at the Ninth Moscow Film Festival
and 1975's Academy Award for Best
Foreign Film. English subtitles. (Harvard Exit, Brdway. and Roy, Seattle,
352-4647).
JULIA a static adaptation of a story
taken from Lillian Hellman's PENTIMENTO (1973) that fails to penetrate
the depth of the writer's feelings for a
dear childhood friend. So the script is
beefed up with scenes showing
Hellman's (Jane Fonda) frustrated
attempts at writing THE CHILDREN'S
HOUR and her relationship with
Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards).
Director Fred Zinnemann is skilled at
recreating the suspense of Hellman's
journey into Nazi Germany to deliver a
package for the resistance movement.
The pity is that Jane Fonda and
Vanessa Redgrave are not given the
opportunity to fully develop their
characters within Alvin Sargent's limited screenplay. (Guild 45th, 2115 N.
45th, Seattle, 633-3353.)
THE TURNING POINT Herbert Ross
directs Arthur Laurent's flatulent story
of two women's long-term friendship
and rivalry. Anne Bancroft plays an
aging ballerina who is reaching the
point where she can't successfully
compete for lead parts with the
company's vounaer dancers. Shirley
MacLaine is her friend who isn't able
to resolve the fact that she quit
dancing to marry and raise a family. If
one can bear the women's obligatory
cat fight and a sappy romance between
the
Russian
dancer
(Mikhail
Baryshnikov) and MacLaine's talented
ballerina daughter, the dance sequences provide the film's most exciting
moments. Beautiful and impressively
filmed, they feature Baryshnikov with
Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Marline
Van Humel and others from the
American Ballet Theatre. (Varsity
Walk-In, 4329 University Way N.E.,
Seattle, 632-3131.)
1900 Director Bernardo Bertolucci's
[LAST TANGO IN PARIS] four hour and
five minute film. Starring Robert De
Niro, Gerard Depardiel, Dominque
Sanda, Burt Lancaster, and Donald
Sutherland. (Seven Gables, N.E. 50th
and Roosevelt, Seattle, 632-8820).
HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (1941)
Messenger 7013 (Edward Everett
Morton) Is sent to New Jersey to
collect souls. He makes the mistake of
sending boxing
champion
Joe
Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) to
heaven fifty years before his time.
When Joe is given another chance, it
is discovered that his body has been
taken from the plane crash and
cremated. With Claude Rains. (The
Rose Bud Movie Palace, 3rd and
Washington in Pioneer Square, Seattle,
682-1887).
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