The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 27 (July 13, 1978)

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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 27 (July 13, 1978)

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- Saving the farms

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• Volum~ 6, No. 27

Thurston
County's population of
101,000 is expected to almost
double in the next twenty years,
making it one of the fastest growing
areas of the state. Lacey, ten years
ago barely a town, now consists of
South Sound Center and traffic
jams. Olympia's west side is experiencing similar growth. But what's
growing? Not just population, but a
national phenomenon known as
urban sprawl. Development is leapfrogging out into the countryside,
consuming once productive farmland
for tract housing and shopping
centen.
As it consumes open space, urban
sprawl is usually at the expense of
agriculture. Land values jump and
this, coupled with intense competition from big agribusiness, forces the
small farmer to sell out. He needn't
move to the suburbs, the suburbs
come to him. In Thurston county,
there has been a 65 % decrease in
land devoted to farming since 1940.
The trend is now accelerating and
the question is, can agriculture
coexist with runaway urban expansion?
It was with this in mind that the
Thurston County Board of Commissions approved the formation of a
citizen's committee to study the
plight of local agriculture and make
recommendations on how best to
preserve remaining farmlands. Evergreen faculty members Carolyn
Dobbs and Niels Skov were on the
committee, and a number of TESC
students served on the project as
staff researchers. Last month, the 22
member committee published its
recommendations,
along with an
extensive review of local agriculture.
Agricultural land preservatioft Is
not an issue unique to Thurston
County. Virtually all urban centers
in the nation have witnessed the
disappearance of outlying farm areas
in recent decades. Various preservation programs have been tried by
other local governments, and the
committee reviewed all of them. It

opted to recommend a form of
zoning.
Under their proposed plan for
the county, -zones called Agricultural
Areas would be set up by petition of
60 % of the people living ln a
potential area. Once an Agricultural
Area has been established, then

- Bakke and Evergreen

July 13, 1978

there was a much better chance of
accomplishing
something if the
people out there wanted to participate-, rather thao if they were
forced."
Preservation programs outside
Thurston County have sometimes
included the direct acquisition of

Confronting urban sprawl:
Thurston County moves
to preserve farms
by John Seward
developers would be required to
prove to the County Planning
Commission that alternative locations for nonagricultural land uses
are not feasible. Although the plan
puts no absolute restrictions on
non~gncultural development, it can
act as a vehicle for giving developers
a bard time. It would also seem to
have symbolic value as an expression
of solidarity among the land owners
in a given area.
But the County Planning Commission considered a similar program
in 1976. Under the proposal,
agricultural zones were to be set up
in which the division of farmland
into residential
lots would be
restricted. When public hearings
were held on it, the plan met with
strong opposition from land owners
and was therefore dropped. Why
then did the committee recommend
a similar plan? Committee member
Bruce Briggs ~ys, ''The blj difference is, under our proposal the
zoning is a voluntary thin~. We felt

land rights. When a government
buys a farm outright, it is then sold
or leased to a private interest for
farming. Alternately, a government
can buy just the development rights.
The land owner would then still
have the right to sell the land or
pass it on to heirs but development
rights would remain in the hands of
the local government's agricultural
program.
Brigg., says, "We discussed some
of the acquisition plans being tried
in other areas, but there's no place
in the country that you can put your
finger on and say an acquisition
plan bas been running there quite a
few years and it works-right now
they're all just pilot projects. If this
zoning proposal we've got doesn't do
the job, then the door should be
open to an acquisition plan, but we
were concerned with the economics
of it-where are you going to get
the money for a program like that?"
Another committee
member,

Tom Casey, expressed stronger
uoubts about acquisition programs.
"People talk about it like ifs a tried
and true method-like
it's Santa
Claus or something. I hear Suffollc
County, New York, is running out of
money for their program already.
And then it sets a precedent-how is
It going to affect land you want to
preserve when you run out of money
and people expect to be paid? I
heard an estimate recently, that to
buy all the development rights in
Whatcom County would cost $200
million-their annual budget is only
$5 million. I think it can be a pretty
dubious way to go."
While various local governments
around the country are active in
trying to halt the disappearance of
farmlands, state governments, too,
are often into the act. Common
around the country is some variation
on the Open Space Taxation Act
instituted in Washington a few years
ago. Under this law, counties are
able to tax land according to the
value of its current production
rather than its "fair" market value.
With the sudden Increase In the
dollar value of his land, a farmer
finds his taxes rising correspondingly. The Open Space Taxation Act
can save a farmer up to 80 % of his
tax bill. But an alarmingly high
number of local farmers told the
agricultural committee that they
either hadn't beard of the program,
or didn't understand how they could
qualify.
As part of the committee's
recommendations, their report suggested an ongoing educational program in the county dealing with
agriculture. Says Brigg.,, "I think in
previous attempts at preservation
here, there wasn't enough education
for people to be aware of what the
proposals were trying to get at.
Preservation
is going to take
cooperation, and if we can educate
people, that's a step - in the right
direction."

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Hucks has hopes for S&A

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Byron Youtz is going to be provost (for a while)
by Barbara Swain
A pattern seems to be emerging in Byron
Youtzs life. Although he has served in a variety of
administrative positions, including acting President
of Reed Colle11:e,Academic Vice President of the
Colle~e of Old Westbury, and interim Dean at The
E\'ergreen State College in 1974-5, he has
consistently opted for a return to teaching. And
now that he nas been chosen to fill the position of
TESC Provost for 1978-9, he vows to be back in
the classroom in fall of 1979.
Youtzs plans to retain his faculty status at
TESC backfired when the Disappearing Task Force
char11:ed with nominating
a replacement
for
outi,:oing Provost Edward Kormondy was unable to
reach a majority decision on any of the five
finalists. The search ended in, May in a tossup
between internal candidates Maxine Mimms and
Willie Unsoeld and three outside applicants. Youtz,
Evergreen professor since 1970, was chosen to serve
as interim chief academic administrator until a
permanent replacement can be located for fall,
I 979.
The primary duties of the Provost's office
include providing academic leadership for TESC
and acting as spokesperson for the school on
academic matters. Youtz will assume ultimate
responsibility for activities of the academic deans,
faculty. library staff, registrar and student services.
He further will make final decisions on student or
faculty appeals on academic matters, act., as an
alternate in the President's absence, preside over
faculty hiring and firing decisions, and make final
revisions in the reports pertaining to academic
matters submitted to the Board of Trustees.
Externally. the Provost serves on an inter-inst.i-

tutional committee comprised of academic officers
from the state universities,
reports to the
Legislature on academic matters, and engages in a
variety of speaking obligations. A5 described by
Youtz, the Provost acts internally as a ~coordinating mechanism" for academic affairs and as a
"buffer zone between the outside world and the
unique and dispersed educational program at
TESC."
Despite his reluctance to relinquish his teaching
position, Youtz is actively making plans to taclcle
his full year's agenda. Major projects will include:
- Conducting
a self-study
of TESC in
preparation
for a visit by the Regional
Accreditation Board in fall, 1979. Youtz feels this
self-analysis is especially timely for TESC as it will
provide a means of reflection on two years of
experience with the long-range curriculum plan
and perhaps facilitate the provost selection process.
- Development of an integrative 5-year plan
for TESC which will in part confront the problem
of declining enrollment. Youtz will place emphasis
on designing curriculum attractive to potential
students. In light of what Youtz perceives as
President Evans' eagerness to make a pitch for
older students, through programs such as the
Vancouver Outreach, Youtz feels the demand for
programs such as these and other specialty areas
should be assessed.
- Continuing work on plans for a graduate
program. TESC is awaiting response from other
state institutions on its plans to initiate a Master of
Arts in Public Affairs graduate program which
must then be submitted
to the Council for.
Postsecondary Education for recommendations and
the Legislature for approval.

- Establishing a formal channel of communication, perhaps regular faculty meetings, which
will facilitate faculty input and participation.
Youtz has a personal concern that faculty feel as if
they "don't have enough voice at TESC."
Finally, Youtz plans to play some role in the
search for a permanent provost. He feels there has
been much concern In the past, especially on the
part of the faculty, about bringing in an outsider
who "may not understand
TESG's unique
educational
program, or fully appreciate
the
eagerness over inter-disdplioa,ry studies and collaborative teaching." The opportunity to develop a
better understanding of "who we are and what we
want" during the process of self-analysis and
planning next year, he hopes will allay some of
those fears.
Outgoing Provost Ed Kormondy argues the
advantages of bringing in an outsider to fill the
provost's shoes. Kormondy,
sharing Youtz's
sentiments, is resigning to return to teaching, but
also because he feels 5-l/2 years is long enough
tenure for an administrator in a new school. ''Too
many of us who have been here virtually from the
start, TESC is too familiar-like one of our own
kids," says Kormondy. "We can't look at It
critically." Youtz agrees it is time to have "someone
challenge us a little, ask questions we have to
respond to ...
Regardless of who takes over the provost's job
in 1979, Youtz insists that he will not just be
"making time" in the Interim. He feels there is
much he can do with his familiarity with TESC.
"And besides," he muses, "111 have to live with the
results of what I do ...

Bakke effect positive here-EVANS

The decision handed down June
28 came as a result of a suit by
38-year old Allan Bakke charging
that he was rejected from the
University of California at Davis
medical schoQI due to reverse
discrimination because he is white.
In a 5-4 decision, the high court
ruled that strict quotas as exist at
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Davis do constitute illegal discrimination. The court said, however, that
race can be taken into account in
future college admissions programs.
Affirmative
Action
Officer
Rindetta Jones, questioned about the
decision, said she didn't consider the
Bakke case an Affirmative Action
issue. ··1t was just one case
concerning one white man." said
Jones. "It was dealing only with the
matter of an admissions quota at the
University of California, not with
Affirmative Action." Expressing dislike for quotas of the type in the
Bakke case, Jones said, "A quota is
an Insult to every person for whom
Affirmative Action was written.
Goals and timetables have more
nexibility."

Evans, who has considerable
background knowledge on Bakke in
his role as mem her of the Carnegie
Commission, tends to agree with
Jones regarding quotas. "I don't
think that there was any chance at
all that the decision could have
come down clearly and totally

its ramifications, some measure of
support and considerable objection
by those fearing for the status of
Affirmative Action in all walks of
schooling and employment. Locally,
the Seattle chapter of The National

against Bakke," said Evans. ''The
unfortunate case is that the University of California's way of doing
things was just about the worst
method of putting
Affirmative
Action into effect."
The UC admissions program
reserved 16 of 100 openings each
year for economically disadvantaged
minorities.
Nationally, the Bakke decision
met with a mixture of confusion at

Decision, an organization formed
after the first California decision in
the case, is continuing their protests
by sponsoring a march this Saturday, July 15, at the Federal
Courthouse In Seattle.

Cooper Point Journal

Committee to Overturn

the Bakke

A rally to overturn the decision
was held on the campus of The
Evergreen
State College Spring
quarter.
•

July 13, 197>

allocating
among a variety
ol
student organizations and services
the portion of tuition fees designated

Life is not all S & A.

Another

conference,

While the cheerleaders
and
humanistic psychologists have come
and gone, Evergreen will play host
to a variety of other organizations
over the course of the summer. The
roster of conferences includes:
- Upward Bound. High school
enrichment to prepare students for
high school completion and education after high school. Through July
28.
Camp Murietta.
Weight
loss, exercise, dance, sports, etc.,
camp for girls 8 to 21 from all over
the U.S. July 2-August 18.
-Evergreen School District. Education retreat and workshop for
&dministrators
from
Evergreen
School District high schools. July
16-18.
National Marine Education
Association. Conference for persons
interested In Marine Education from
across the nation. TESC faculty
interested in boat building will
attend. Students welcome to sit In
on meetings.
Will be h·eld in
conjunction with the arrival In port
of the Tall Ships. August 6-12.
- Southwest Washington YMCA
Physical Education Society. Youth
conference with 100 participants, 30

and another ...

staff members. August 17-26.
- Retired Public Employees
Council.
Conference
on Aging.

August 14-18.
- Girl Scouts. Adult conference,
100 participants. September 8-10.

Evergreen goes sai Ii ng, cheap
Several weei<s ago two 44'
sailboats appeared parked in the lot
behind the Evergreen Maintenance
Shop. They were recently acquired
in response to the Marine Studies
program's
need
for
additional
vessels.
Jim Gulden located the ships
largely by chance while In search of
surplus materials for the "Evergreen
38", the research vessel now under
construction behind the Lab buildings.
Twelve
of the ships were
originally built as training vessels for
Annapolis Naval Academy in 1939.
When Evergreen acquired these two,
they belonged to a Navy officers
club in San Diego.
The ships were termed government excess property", meaning that

they were available free to any
federal agency, or to any state
agency with federal fundings. Evergreen qualifies in receiving funds
from the National Science Foundation.
The reconditioning
process is
expected to take place over the next
few years, satisfying the long-term
planning goals of the Marine Studies
program for "3 vessels ranging from
33-45 feet."

TV show debuts

Action proposal pending

allocations, doing office work necessary for Board functioning
and
maintenance,
and acting as the
source of S&A information.
S&A is faced with a tight budget
next year due to rising fixed costs.
last year's approval of the costly
CAB Phase ii Project and a limit
placed on S&A funds by the State
Legislature. Hucks plans to examine
ways in which campus organizations
can cut costs by "operating in a
manner supportive to one another ..
-sharing staff. facilities and office
equipment. In the allocation process
he hopes to start from the bottom
up, encouraging
the Board to
consider setting funding priorities
rather than, "spreading just a little
bit of money too thin."

Trustees meet
The Evergreen State Collel,(eJuly
Board of Trustees M.,-,ting will be
held in the Board Room located on
the third floor of the Library
Building today, July 13. Agenda
items will include the President's
report on the 1979-81 biennial
operating budget process and the
Intercollegiate Athletics Disappearing Task Force, approval of the
1978-9 S&A Allocations review of
the 1979-81 biennial capital budget,
and the appointment of the Acting
Vice President and Provost.
Public budget hearings will be
held in the Board room Thursday
and Friday, July 20 and 21.

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Wolf study carries on
by John Seward

For the last three years, groups
of students here have been studying
various aspects of the feasibility of
wolf reintroduction on the Olympic
Peninsula. It began in the Spring of
1975 when a group received an
A team of Evergreen students
$11,000
grant from the National
will make their television debut this
Science Foundation. Rodger Allen,
month In "Around Town", a show
park superintendent, had urged the
they've produced for Cable TV
foundation to support the project.
Channel
3 in Olympia.
Mike
Allen pointed out that park service
Cavanaugh,
Michael Pool, and
policy calls for "restoration of native
Geoff Young will present a series of
environmental
complexes
where
four or five Interview programs spotpractical,
at
levels
determined
by
lighting Items of Interest to Olympiahistorical
and
ecological
research."
area residents. The first show, to be
This first study group concluded
aired n!'xt week, will examine
that reintroduction was quite feasThurston County Headstart,
the
ible-the
park could support as
mysterious Mirna Mounds, and the
many as 80 of the animals without
NCA. churleadns ore but one of management of the Brown Derby
significantly affecting the elk and
Evergreen i many ,ummff
guni..
Restaurant.
deer populations. The group noted
that any further
study should
Include an assessment of public
reaction to such a move. In the few
other cases where reintroduction has
Two years ago In July, 1976, a proposal by
been tried, wolves have been shot by
then-president
Charles McCann to merge The
residents.
Evergreen State College Office of Affirmative Action
After grant money ran out,
with the college personnel office was called "putting
students continued to do follow-up
prostitution under the regulation of a pimp." The
work. Part of this involved
a
proposal wu hotly debated and then dropped. Now, a
continuing elk population census,
similar proposal by President Dan Evans has received
pursued at several sites In the park.
much of the same reaction. It was hotly debated in a
Last year, the local chapter of
Board of Trustees meeting June 8 and is currently In
the Audubon Society have wolf
limbo until school convenes In the Fall.
students a $400 grant for public
Evans calls the proposal a logical effort at cutting
relations of reintroduction.
Ada
the budget and Improving the efficiency of the
Davis, president of the local chapter
Affirmative Action Office. Affirmative Action Officer
says, 'Tm pretty sure the Olympic
Rindetta Jones, reacting to the possible merger, called
National Park people are thinking
it, "an emuculation
of Affirmative Action and a
pretty seriously of reintroduction.
stripping of its vitality." She felt that If the merger goes
That'd make it the only place In the
through, Evergreen would be out of compliance with
state where you could find wolves.
Affirmative Action guidelines in the eyes of the
Occasslonally
there's a few in
monitoring agency.
northeast Washington that stray over
Evans erp.-i
a determination to 10mehow revise
the border, but they're usually shot
the curn,nt structu.Nt of the office 10 as to somehow
by ranchen."
provide greater supervision for the Affirmative Action
Last year, a group from the
Officer.
school continued to work on the
subject, travelling around the penlnCooper Point Journal,
July 13, 1978,

Affirmative

by Brian Cantwell
The U.S. Supreme Court decision
upholding the instatement of Allan
Bakke in a California medical school
should have no deleterious effects on
the nature of Affirmative Action at
The Evergreen State College, aceordin~ to President Dan Evans. "It
is actually
supportive
of our
program in that it does uphold the
validity of considering
race in
recruiting and admissions efforts,"
said Evans.

TESC student Bill Hucks plans to
shake up the Services and Activities
(S&A) process a bit next year.
Hucks, appointed Coordinatft< of the
Services and Activities Fee Review
Board following the resignation of
Former Coordinator Pila Laranol, is
devi,loping plans for next year's
budget allocation process. In the
workings are increased visibility of
S&A Board activities, cost reducing
measures for student organizations
and perhaps a fresh approach to the
allocation of funds.
The S&A Board is responsible for

for the funding of sfudent activities
and services. The Coordinator is
responsible for moderating
S&A
meetings, selecting board members,
structuring the process for budget

sula giving slide shows to interested
groups on possible reintroduction.
Peter Nielsen of that group says
that the biggest problem would be
the likelihood that lone wolves cut
off from the pack would come down
out of the mountains and, once in
awhile, kill livestock. In Michigan, a
reinbursement
program has been
tried, but it seems funds aren't
available here.
Besides producing educational
materials,
the group last year
reanalyzed the original group's data
in light of further information.
Other activities have included behavior and ecology of wolves in
relation with humans, and attenance at symposiums and other
meetings. The group has found that
in considering wolf reintroduction,
they have needed to consider social,
political, ethical and legal factors as
well as more straightforward studies
of ecology.
Peter Nielsen says that the study
will continue in the Fall of '78. A
pool of related individual contracts
will be formed, led by two students,
a senior and a graduate. Nielsen says
five students are being sought by
application and interview to take
roles in the group's activities. Areas
of specialization
are to include:
social research and survey design,
wolf ecology and behavior, human
attitudes toward their environment.
predator-prey relationships, natural
history and environmental education.

Nielsen says that students interested in the study can contact
Evergreen Wolf Research at Library
3506 or telephone 866-3587. He says
that articipants can expect to survey
existing lit~rature extensively, observe wolves in captivity, meet with
local park and wildlife mana11:ers
and present slide tapes to interested
groups.
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Evergreen clear of South Africa investments
by Steve Roth
Recent protests at colleges and
universities

across

the

country.

includin!( the University of WashinJ,?:ton.ha,·e spurred interest in how
monies

at

educational

institutions

are in\'ested. The specific complaint
has been that schools had investments in corporations

with holdings

in South Africa. The interest has
spread as far as Evergreen. and a
report was recently completed for
th,· President"s
OHice on the
in\'cstment

policies of the Business

Office.
So does E"ergreen have investments in South Africa, or in firms

which are heavily im·olved there?
No. nowhere

near. According

to a

memo from Business Office head
Ken Winklev
to Dan Evans,
E"ergreen
i~"ests its funds in
securities with about as much risk as
the proverbial cookie jar.
In the case of the University of
\\'ashin~ton,

the monies in question

were part of a consolidated endowment fund. The fund is comparable
to the Evergreen Foundation, which
was created in August of 1976 to
solicit and manage private donations
to the college.
At this. point, the fact that the
foundation monies (the majority of
which are donated by parents) are

limited to the point that investments
in private enterprises hasn't been a
consideration. There just hasn't been
enough money. In addition, the
foundation finds it necessary to have
its money easily available, not tied
up in stocks, land, and private
investments.
Consequently,
the foundation
fun~ ,J!reJ,andled in the same way
as instlttitional or "public" funds.
These monies are subject to the Public Funds Act of 1969, which states
in short that public monies may only
be put into "no risk" investments.
These include repurchase agreements, time certificates of deposit
and some long-term government
securities.
Despite the neutral character of
these investments, the Evergreen
Administration has shown interest in
the subject.
As early as 1971
President McCann received input on
social responsibility in Investment.
More recently both President Dan
Evans and Vice-president
Dean
Clabaugh have requested information on the Business Office's invest-

ment policies. These policies are
those outlined by the aforementioned Public Funds Act, and allow no
real speculative investment.
The issue of human rights In
regard to the investment policy is
not yet an issue at Evergreen. At
other schools, mostly large universities, the issue is still being hotly
debated. The discussions have varied
widely. The University of Massachussetts chose to divest themselves
of approximately
50 % of their
holdings-totally
$680,000.
The
University of California,
on the
other hand, voted down all divestiture proposals.
If In the future the Evergreen
Foundatlon chooses to go beyond the
guidelines of the Public Funds Act,
and Invest speculatively, they will
act in cooperation with the Business
Office, the President's Office, and
the Board of Trustees in "establishing a comprehensive
investment
policy." The question of Human
Rights and social responsibility
tentatively will be a consideration in
that policy.

Civil disobedience:
Costs and consequences of moral obligations
by John Seward
Since last August, nearly 600
people ha,·e been arrested in the
~orthwest

for various acts of civil

disobedience in\'olved with nuclear
protests. After the drama of being
arrested by pri\'ate security guards,
or sheriff, deputies on horseback.
and sometimes being dragged bodily
away

in

front

of whirring

TV

cameras. what has the protester
faced behind the scenes in the maze
of legal procedure?
On August 6 of last year about
90 persons were arrested at the Trojan

~uclear

plant

at

Rainier,

Oreiton. So far. that's the only group
to have ma.de ii completely through
the courts; they were found not
guilty on December 19 last year.
During this trial, lawyers for the
protesters were initially allowed to
present testimony based on an
Oregon law called "Lesser-of-Evils."
By presenting expert testimony to
the court, the lawyers contended
that the defendants were innocent
because Trojan is unsafe and
protesters were justified in trying to
force close.
After three days of
hearing this testimony, the judge
ruled it inappropriate and told the
jury to disregard it. Hank Date,
who was arrested at a second Trojan
demonstration on November 26, says
jurors joined the Trojan Irecommis-.
sioning Alliance, the group which

organized the demonstration. The
defendants were eventually let off
the hook when jurors questioned
whether Portland General Electric
had the authority
to have the
protesters arrested on the Burlington-Northern Railroad right-of-way
adjacent to the plant.
Before the first trial was over,
the second group of protesters were
arrested at the plant, this time more
than 120. For this second trial, the
prosecutor made sure the protesters
weren't able to use the expert
testimony. "They had to rely on
personal testimony, people saying
why they were there," says Date.
"But it kind of made the whole
thing irrelevant since no once could
talk about the danger." The group
was found guilty of second degree
tre,spassing three weeks ago, June 26.
Sentencing has been set for next
week. The maximum penalty they
face is 90 days in jail and/or a $500
fine.
Mass trials seem to be the only
way courts can handle such situations. In the case of Trojan, it
would've taken four years to finish
the thing if one trial were held per
week. At the Trident demonstration
in Bangor, Washington, last month,
260 people were arrested. Attorneys
for the group have recently made a
pre-trial motion for a mass trial to
the U.S. Prosecutor in Seattle. H
held, it would be the largest in U.S.
history. According to one source, the
Seattle Center Coliseum is the only
facility large enough to hold that

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Trident protesters ;ump the-Jene~.
many defendants at once.
Jim Anest is a local attorney
acting on behalf of a number of
defendants arrested at the Satsop
demonstration where 150 protesters
jumped the fence. "Whether the
Satsop case will be tried In small
groups or all together is both a
political and economic thing," he
says. There will be a pre-trial
conference
tomorrow,
July 14,
according to Anesi, at which some
of these questions may be decided.
Although Washington
doesn't
have a Lesser-of-Evils
law like
Oregon, there does exist something
similar called a "Necessity Defence."
Hank Date gave his opinion that this
is ideal for "C.D."
trials In
Washington. Through the testimony
of experts, nuclear power is In
effect, put on trial. But, he says,
"It's not as likely to be allowed here
as it was in Oregon, because it's not
explicitly written into Washington
law."
"I have some mixed feelings
about what good civil disobedience
does," says Date. "If we're able to
put nuclear power on trial, then l
think it can be real valuable as a
public forum. Trespassing is no big
deal as a charge, but it does take a
certain commitment. There's alot of
uncertainty as to what's happening.
It's definitely not something you
should do just because you have a

Cooper Point Journal

free weekend.
Most of us feel
though, that we have an inalienable
right tu take action against something we feel is threatening."
Chuck Aires, arrested at Satsop,
says he thinks "C.D." is the only
way to go. "It gets us in the public
eye, gets us into the court systems to
argue against nuclear power, and it
causes economic problems for the
builders The Grays Harbor Sheriffs
Office will be sending the Satsop
people a bill for the cost of arresting
us, and hopefully, they'll end up
paying for It."
Jim Anest's opinion is that
continued civil disobedience may
iose some ·of Its. effectiveness. "l
think what's happened so far has
been good a necessary, but we need
to build a broader base. We're really
only gomg to stop It when tne
middle class understands the. situation. We're getting to· them now
with some presentations, but we can
get Into a tactical rut. The question
is, how much effort should be spent
on legal things and how much on
political things?"
Whatever the answer, it looks
like there will be more dvil
disobedience In the near future.
D_atesays he expects more at Satsop.
'There's also another planned for
Trojan on August 6 through 9. That
wUI fall on the 33rd anniversary of
the bombing of Hiroshima."
July 13, 1978

A faces shrinking funds, rising costs
by Daniel Farber
Don't stop by the Activities
Building next week to pick up the
Cooper Point Journal, the new one
won't come out until July 27th.
Don't expect someone to help you
with that sick looking two-wheeler
for 25 cents, or rent you camping
equipment for the same low price
you payed In the Spring to get away
from it all, or get you to the movies
for 75 cents. In fact, chances are
that if you want to do anything on
campus now, it will either cost you
more or deliver you less.

WHAT'S GOING ON
It's called a budget crisis and it's
here. Spring's Service and Activity
(S&A) allocations produced a spate
of cuts in services, activities, and
human rights organization that will
affect practically
every student,
employee, or visitor to Evergreen. "I
don't want to be pessimistic, but the
school is facing a budget crisis now,"
states Joyce Angell, former S&A
board member and participant in
the allocation_ process. "It's not just
our (student's) budget crisis, but a
collective one."
The school's money woes primarily center around the small siu
of the student body. Declining
enrollment means declining legislative support, spelling trouble to a
college whose maintenance
costs
• represent a major portion of its
budget.
For S&A, the reliance on student
enrollment is compounded by the
legislature's power to fix the fee per
student cost at '53 per quarter,
unchanged In the lasi •seven years.
This legislative
"disregard"
for
inflation has had serious effects on
the student budget already, "Over
the pas\ three years those budgets
listed in 'Operations'
(Recreation
Center, CAB, etc.) have consistently
required
a larger I and larger
percentage
of the total funds
available for allocation," explains
former Executive Secretary for the
S&A Board Steve Francis.
"In
1976-77 these budgets required 52 %
of available funds. In 1977-78 this
had risen to 63 % and for next year;
1978-79, these budgets will eat up
close to 71 % of the total S&A
money available, in spite of significant reductions and reorganization."
The takeover by "Operations" is
more than an alarming trend, It's a
fact.
Enter CAB Phase II to complicate things further. Funded by Sl!rA,
the proposed
enlargement
and

redesign of the Campus Activities
Building would be used to Increase
the capacity for food service and
other functions, make the building
a more livable structure, and most
importantly, provide student groups

The effects
Some of the chan11eson campw
due to the S&A budget cut, are
listed here. These are by no means
the only effects of the budget cut,.
There will be few new programs,
little development of e.rl&tlng ones,
and across the board salary cut,. For
complete S&A budget Information,
contact the S&A office, third floor
CAB.
Alpine Club: reduction In number .
of workshops;
Bicycle Repair Shop: elimination
of staff position, Increases In use fee,
but clean up and maintenance
people hired;
Campus Activity Building: hours
might be reduced;
Career Planning and Placement:
Job Days will have reduced effectiveness, no out of state e,cpert&;
College Recreation Center: reduced hours, Increases In towel, day
pass and equipment checkout fees;
Cooper Point Journal: cut to
bi-weekly, cut In pay creates staffing
problems;
Human Right, Group,: across the
board cut, or eliminations In staff
and travel;
KAOS Radio: drop Buslne,,
Manager, reduced service,, program
guide, and revenue generating
posslbilitlea;
Organic Farm: fewer tooh acquired. less money for greenho,ue;
Org,Jnlc Farmhouse: less money
to fin13h profect;
Self Help Legal Aid: 50 % staff
and service cutback, Increased
difficulty In getting an attorney;
Sports Clubs: aome may need to
raise their own league fee,.
now located on the Library Building's third floor a place to reside
when (or if) the school's enrollment
reaches 4,000 students,
faculty
offices then taking the space. And
the cost: $25,000 this year, and
$45,000 for the next 19 years or so,
a price today's students must fork up
for a future they won't share.
Just that issue was at the crux of
a dilemma felt by many during the
S&A decision
making
process.
Should services be sacrificed today
for the benefit of a secure future, or

S/ft

do we fund fully now and face
disaster tomorrow?
At the allocation sessions the
question was bantered back and
forth. "For me, it was a very
emotional and grueling session,"
Joyce
Angell lamented.
Lynn
Garner, Associte Director for Student Activities, agreed. "It is the
best, most open budgeting process In
the state, but it's painful." Especially
painful when the decision to go
ahead with CAB II resulted in
practically universal belt tightening.
"There was a particular group, the
rluman Rights' group," Angell and •
others wanted to note, ..that worked
exceedingly close together. I've never
seen a group process work as well
under such stress."
The stress was understandable.
The squeeze on services has already
begun. While "Operations" took a
4.5% cut in its allocation this year,
"Recreation
and Sports Clubs"
reduced $1,400 or 36.5% of its
budget, "Services.. lost 28 % and
"Human Rights" groups were slashed
34.2%. Only "Cultural"
groups
fought the rip tide, largely on the
decision to fund a pllid staff person
for the Center for Literature in
Performance.
Solutions to the funding problems appear distant or politically

improbable. The institution could
take over some of the costs such as
childcare which seems to fall within
its financial jurisdiction,
but it's
strapped for funds as well. When
asked about financial assistance for
the bus system, President Evans
would only reply, "We're looking
into the possibilities." The legislature
could increase S&A fees, but that is
also unlikely.
Once again, it seems to be a
question of finding the bodies. "H
there is anything that it all turns on
it would be student enrollment, ..
S&A Executive Secretary Bill Hucks
concludes. It is the one path toward
short-term and long-term financial
stability for S&A and the school.
It's called a budget crisis and its
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King County bucks buy development

rights

infusion of badly needed cash. A
basic formula will determine what
farmers will be paid for their
"non-development" rights-the
fair
market value of the land minus the
agricultural value. This averages out
to 75 % of the fair market value,
while the owner retains the land as
a source of farm income and place
of residence. Moreover, with the
possibility of future development
removed, farm land is taxed for its
much lower agricultural value.
In addition to the acquisition
program, the Office of Agriculture
has concocted what Tom Ryan terms

Continued on page eleven---

Evergreen involved

1n land plan

by John Seward

by Barbara Swain
Kin~

County

is undertaking

a

hold experiment in agricultural land
pre,en at ion. The core of the
program-purchase
of farm developrnent ri~hts-is
a national innovaturn pre,mth- utilized only in Suffolk
Count,.
:S:ew York. And while
1111plL•n1<:ntion or the acquisition
prowct ,till hinges on voter approval
.,1 ., 82.'; million bond proposal,
Co11nt, rirficials arc optimistic
about
p11hlic apnroval.
Conlmitmcnts
to
preserving
idl'ntifit•d certain areas for contin11ancc in a~riculture and stated as
.1 \!Oal. "the protection of certain
•~ncultural. flood-plain. forest and
111inl'ral re,ource areas from urban,, pt.· de, dopment." This goal was
r1·inforced b~· ordinances passed in
l!J,2 and 19,4. Despite these efforts,
ho,, e, er. ero,ion of the county's
J.Qricultural land base continued,
along with the number of active
farm operation,;; and shrinking emplo~·ment ~,pportunities.
To re, er~e a steady decline in
( '.ount~ agricultural
activity since
144.5. Kin)( County officials deter111ined more drastic
action was
11,·c,·"ari. In 1975 the King County
( :ouncil placed a one-year morator1111n upon
further development of
farm land to allow time for a study
of the problem and formulation of a
l'omprehensive
preservation
pro~ram. The first step of that
pro~ram, an ordinance identifying
agricultural districts to be thP. focus
of the preservation
effort and
,·,tablishing
a County Office of
Agriculture, was signed by County
Executive John Spellman in Februar1· 1977. Finally, last April, based.
upon the recommendations of farmers and land owners in the agricultural areas. Spellman proposed that
43.000 acres of prime farm land be

a "sexy" variety of agricultural
support programs. A "Bulk Commodities Exchange" will be held
daily at the Pike Place Market to
allow restaurateurs and farmers to
engage in direct farmer-consumer
'transactions. A··•i<:ing County Fresh"
logo wu1 De placed on local produce
in wholesale and retail stores to
facilitate consumer identification. A
demonstraiion farm/park has been
proposed which will provide a focus
on the county farm industry, the
agricultural
protection programs,
--

I<

eligible for a "purchase of development rights" program. The bond
issue, to be placed before voters on
the November ballot, will pay for
the acquisitions,
Reflected in the limited success of
past preservation efforts and the
County's long deliberations
over
adoption of the acquisition program
are the shortcomings and political
liabilities inherent in a variety of
legal mechanisms
employed
in
agricultural land preservation. Zoning, employed by many states and
counties
seeking to prevent
the
~pread of exurban development, was
seen by King County Office of
Agriculture
head Tom Ryan as
being, "ineffective unless there is a
perpetual political body interested
and able to withstand
public
pressure." Transfer of development
rights, which involves allowing a
landowner to shift his ability to
develop land from one site to
another, was feared too complex and
unenforceable.
Another option,
which was considered too costly, is
the outright or "fee simple" purchase
of farmlands which are then rented
back to farmers.
The purchase of development
rights, opted for by King County,
involves purchasing all rights from
the farmer except for possession,
occupancy and the ability to farm.
The (armer retains the right to sell
the farm or pass it on to heirs, but
subsequent owners are limited to the
same rights and subject to the same
development restrictions. Documentation of the rights in the title
ensures long-term farm use of the
land.
To individual
King County
farmers the issue may not involve
complicated
matters of land-use
management
or conservation,
but
more simply will mean a tangible
pages

Thurston farmers have their say

It may be hard to find good help
these days, but it seems the Thurston
County
Agriculture
Committee
didn't have any trouble, Evergreen
faculty member Carolyn Dobbs,
who gave the committee its initial
impetus
and later became
its
chairperson, says, "I worked with
Linda Hoffmann (of the Regional
Planning Council) on pulling together the proposal. When we were
first thinking
about it, it was
obvious that the planning council
didn't have the staff that would be
needed to help out. We'd had some
good experiences in the past with
interns, so we decided to locate some
for this."
Students
Jim Kramer,
Tom
Clingman and Gordon White then
formed a group contract, serving as
a staff for the committee. During
the three quarter contract,
the
students did a wide variety of tasks
for the committee, getting them Into
things like questionnaire
design,
technical land planning material,
cartography
and group process.
"From my perspective, they had a

Farm freah produu, craju, and
an opportunity to fawbone wUh
local farmers are available at the
Olympia Farmer's Market 10 a.m.-2
p. m. Friday, and Saturday, through
October 29. Entering Into II• fourth
year of operation, the market haa
relocated downtown next ta Wmern
Farmer', and acroa from Olympia
City Hall on Plum Street.
Anyone wwhlng ta ,ell farm or
garden produce, flowers, plant, or

really good academic experience,
says Dobbs.
"They were also
excellent emissaries for the school. A
lot of people on the committee
hadn't had the chance to work with
Evergreen students before and some
had questions about the school.
Their experience with the interns
changed them around completely."
Committee member and farmer
Merv Ward was also impressed. "In
a nutshell, everything they did had
practical value. They researched into
areas that we'd probably never have
gotten into; like in the case of the
maps. People thought at first that it
would be real easy to categorize
agricultural land-their
maps showed us that it was super hard. So
some of these benefits may be in
reverse, but they were really good
benefits. We were able to use their
information as a sounding board."
Along with the other projects
they carried out, the interns wrote
the bulk of a 94-page document the
committee recently published. The
first sections of this report detail the
local situation of farming. This
information was gathered and writ--Contlnued
on page-eleven---

Space can be rented for ,1. 00
minimum per car or truck or 50
cent, for a table or lea. Seller, mu.tt
aua belong to the Market organwitlon-membershlp
feu run $1. 00,2. 00 annually for a aupportlng
member,hlp,
JS.00 for Thur,ton
County growerr, and JlO. 00 for
other growers not ,elllng over 10%
out-of-date produu.
Crafkpeople
mu.tt take raporuibUlty for muffng
appUcable liceMng requlremfflll.
I

by Daniel Farber
"This farm was started a while
ago," grower Ina Lyons said as she
paused on what promised to be a
fine tale. "I have a neighbor lady,
her name is Cordelia Pervin. Her
grandad was the beginning of this
valley. He settled it, and the Indian
chief told him he could have all the
land that he could walk around in
one day, So he started at McAlister
Springs and walked all through here
in one day, All this was then cleared
and settled."
The "all this" Lyons talked about
was hundreds of acres of rich, fertile
agricultural land along the floodplain of the Nisqually River. The
1uture ol farming on that land and
other such lands in our area is being
threatened
by
intensive
urban
sprawl and rural development. "Oh
yeah," Ina Lyons responds, "people
are moving in, they're allowing the
mobile homes to come in." But she
adds, "the land that is farmable will
still be farmable" in the future.
Seventy-six year old farmer-gardener Jasper Martin has personally
experienced pressures of rural development. ''I've had people who come
in here wanting maybe a quarter of
an acre to build a house on it. Well,
I tell them, if I sell you that quarter
acre for $1,000, pretty soon it goes
into the auditor's office, the assessor
gets a hold of it and he raises the
value of the rest of my property."
But Martin once did sell a parcel
of his picturesque, partly forested
94-acre spread, "The fellow wanted
to put that house on it," his arm
pointing to a simple frame house 100
yards away. "I didn't have any
covenant in the contract or anything, I just sold it to him. He put a
house on it alright, and five mobile
home trailers right on it too,"
Though sharing some burdens
facing many other farmers
in
Thurston County, unlike the Lyons,
Jasper Martin is a part-time grower.
The small, part-time farmer is a
significant
part of the county's
agriculture. "I do it for a hobby,"
Martin smiles. "If I had to do it for
business, I'd go broke." Did he ever
do it for business? "I never did it
profitably," he laughs.
But farming is a business for
many in this urbanizing county.
Murray Weiks is an agricultural
graduate from Oregon State University. Along with his brother William,
he owns Evergreen Dairy, a small
commercial
dairy in southwest
Thurston County. Agriculture "is not
a way of life," he insists, "it's a
business, For myself, or anyone else,
we might want it to be a way of life
but it's just not economically
feasible. It's just big business, that's
all it is."
One of the "new breed" of
college educated, management conscious farmers, Weiks states, "As far
as myself today, the average person
in farming, we don't hive too many

problems ... You have to be on top as
far as management
antj working
with governmental departments are
concerned."
But Weiks is fully aware and
concerned about the problem of
agricultural land conversion, "We
have an abundance today, does that
mean we'll have an abundance
tomorrow? I'm very much in favor
of purchasing development rights
(see "King Co." story for erplanation), because it's the best land
which is being put under two feet of
gravel."
He also sees problems in the
movement towards enormous, centralized agribusiness production. "In
the 20's and 30's every t&wn had a
small dairy or creamery. The whole
thing was geared to smallness. Then
we got to the 50's and 60's and we
were told that bigness was the
answer. Well, I think what we're
going back in the 70's and 80's to is
smallness. The small businessman
has a very intricate part in this
whole thing."
But can small operations such as
Evergreen Dairy, compete against
large companies like Darigold or
Arden? "You as a consumer better
--Continued

on page eleven--

Cooper Point draws the line
by Dave Lear
America is expanding. Rural land
is shrinking. Suburbia Is ever-creeping. Shopping centers are being built
right and left. Front and back. As
the march towards urban expansion
goes on, the battle to preserve open
space-In the form of farmland or
simply undeveloped
greenbelts-

example of citizen involvement that
intensifies.
is becoming more commonplace
The effort to preserve agriculturacross America. It Involves many
al land in Thurston County Is only
tactics from which farmers can take
one facet of this large land-use
a lesson. And, Indirectly, It has been
planning struggle. Locally, Cooper
a major boon to small-scale agriculPoint itself has been the scene of a
ture: you can't plant a garden In a
major victory for a citizen's group
parlclng lot.
concerned with putting a check on
Formed In 1971, the non-profit
growth and preserving open space.
Cooper Point Association (CPA) set
The Cooper Point Association Is an
page seven.

out to draw up proposals and
guidelines for development of the
Cooper Point peninsula. The membership of the association consisted
of residents of the Cooper Point
area, those persons whose living
situation would change most drastically In the event of a massive
development project.
--Continued
on page eleven---

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C

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This is the friendly, friendly magazine
of the organization called Lifespring.

The provost process
and imbalance in the ranks
With the provost selection process in a muddle and the appointment of
Byron Youtz to fill the position for one year, Evergreen has entered a holding
pattern. In one respect, the situation is disappointing. There's lots of talk of
disputes about in-house vs. external candidates for the powerful position:
,ome fear dilution of the Evergreen philosophy and system, and others cry for
new blood. In another respect, the indecision on the matter leaves the
opportunitv open for Evergreen to make a choice that could significantly
increase its credibility as a leader in education: the appointment of someone
other than a white male to a top administrative position.
The top three positions at Evergreen presently are filled by Dan Evans,
Vice-president Dean Clabaugh and Provost Ed Kormondy, all white males.
Questioned whether that should be changed in the provost selection process,
Evans says quotas are an undersirable method to be incorporated in the
provost search. The Supreme Court decision on the Bakke case seems to
confirm that quotas are not allowable. It has been suggested, however, and it
,eems valid. that The Evergreen State College represents a philosophy of
innovative and progressive education that should put it to the forefront in
,hawing recognition for the value of diversity in positions of policy-making.
The question does not, indeed, necessarily come only under the rubric of
equal opportunity. Indeed, it is a matter of respecting and valuing the
diversitv that comes from different backgrounds, and recognizing the inherent
biases that come with being a white male in our society. Putting a woman or
Third World person or Native American in the pos1t1on would be not only an
action representing Evergreen's commitment to equal opportunity, but could
bring a valuable new perspective to the top echelon of decision-making.
According to Evans, the non-white, non-male candidates In the first
go-round were opposed as strongly by the women and Third World members
of the selection committee as by anyone else. Hopefully, the second round In
the process will again reaffirm the college's commitment to seelcing out
qualified and acceptable candidates from all backgrounds-and
when the
decision time comes again, the values of selecting someone other than a white
male should be given heavy consideration. Such an appointment could
represent both a reaffirmation of Evergreen's basic ideals and at the same
time bring in new perspectives desired by some.
Until then, for the next year the imbalance remains.

-Brian

Cantwell

Housing 1s paying them a lot of money.

Student managers are all
=====================by

Old time fun with Dixy
I

Dixy Lee Ray has been having a
lot of good old-fashioned fun lately.
When Governor James Edwards of
Sc>uthCarolina told a nuclear power
group in. Olympia that It was time
to do away with public hearings and
return to the old-fashioned way of
doing things, Dixy was In total
agreement. issues such as health,
safety and environmental concerns,
it seems, are too Important, too
complicated to be aired In the public
arena. Trust our elected officials we
must.

Reminiscing of the American
spirit of open job market competltion, Dixy ordered a redu6tlon in
welfare grants tor some 5,000
"employable",
healthy Individuals
from $212 a month to $60 a month
for food. While Ray argues that

many present recipients are employable, State Senator "Bud" Shinpoch,
the Legal Services Association, and
directors of shelters for battered
women are among those willing to
take issue with her. Dixy counten
that about half of those receiving
assistance are eligible tor jobs under
the Federally funded CETA program, neglecting the fact that only
97 CET A jobs are available state-wide. Take heart, the move may
have been an illegal one on her part,
and besides, It will help plug af
growing deficit In the Department o
Social and Health Service's budget.
In a recent off-the-job stint, Dixy
could be seen floating above the
Olympia area In a Goodyear blimp.
With all the hot air circulating
around the Capitol, its surprising she
didn't take off sooner.

-Barbara Swain

help women receive community services. The program has been providing
limited services for the past frive five
months. In that time we have seen or

Work for S & A
To the Ed1tor

The S&ABoard from last quarter has
chsbanded ~rnd a new Summer Board 1s
now forming The selection of Board
members will begin soon.
Part1c1pat1on on the Board provides
a valuable opportunity for involvement
1n
governance
at Evergreen.
The

allocation of student funds [S&A fees)
Is one real way students and other
Evergreen community
members can
affect their environment.
Anyone interested in being part of

the Summer S&A Board should contact
me in the Campus Activities office, ext.

6220

Bill Hucks
S&ACoordinator

•

Women's Shelter
Dear Editor
Thanks to the incredible amount of
community

support the Women's Shel•

ter Program of the Olympia YWCA is
now expanding services to women in
crisis In Thurston and Ma.son Counties.
Our exciting news is this: on June 16

we opened a central shelter called
Harbor House which will house up to
10 women and children. The purpose of
1his letter " to let you know how to put
women in touch with these .services.

The Women's Shelter Program "
aimed

at helpina

women

in crisis,

talked with nearly 100 women who
were experiencing crises such as abuse,
loss of employment, or eviction. For
some women it has been enough to let
them know that we are available to

help if needed in the future; for others

•

1n

the family

Steve Roth===========================

I'm wary. Actually, I'm a skeptic all the way from my curly locks to my
left big toenail. How could I be anything else?My brother has been a Moonie
for the past eight years, and I've had several friends taken to the cleaners and
back by the Sclentologists. Anyone with enlightenment for sale starts up a
flashing red CAUTION sign somewhere in the survival center of my brain.
So when I found out that the Evergreen Housing Office was paying $250
a head to put the dormitory student managers through a personal growth
training called "Lifespring", and that the CPJ wanted someone to check it
out, I f!:racio~ly volunteered my services. The immediate image that came to
mind was of a person springing from a diving board, smiling ecstatically,
oblivious to the vacant swimming pool below.
My first step was to talk to some student managers and other members of
the Housing staff who have gone through the basic training. They told me
lots of things. One said, "It's the quickest and most complete way to get a lot
of information about yourself and how you relate to other people. From all
the different trainings I've done, it's the most complete humanistic training
that I've ever seen." Another continued, "They give you the tools to become
more aware of who you are, and to feel good about it. For instance, they
taught me a form of meditation that I thought was a great way to relax-the
best form of meditation that I've ever learned." She couldn't say more about
the techniques. All trainees are sworn to secrecy. This is admittedly for
business reasons. If the training were commonly known, Lifespring would
lose business, and they freely admit that they are a profit-oriented company.
The corporation that offers all this is wedded to a non-profit group, the
Lifespring Foundation. The Foundation has two stated goals, according to
Allan 8. Ellis, president of Educational Research Corporation, and a
Lifespring Foundation member. The first goal is to, "bring our point of view
to the training and practice of the service professionals in our society." The
second is to, "bring the Lifespring point of view to the consciousness of our
civic leaders and the concerned public." In addition, they run some programs
in penitentiaries and for senior citizens.
The financial set-up and the relationship of the foundation to the
corporation are interesting, and apparently above board. The same set-up is
used in EST (Erhardt Seminar Training) and other human potential groups.
The corporation gives as much money annually to the foundation as the IRS
will allow (as much as they are legally allowed to deduct). According to their
brochure, 51 % of the corporation's gross revenues go to facilities, training
and offices. 8.7% is used for expansion. 34.3% is paid out in salaries, by far
the largest single category. Taxes take up 5.3%, and the remaining 8/10 of
one percent goes to the stockholders. Esther Winitzky, assistant area director
for the Seattle Lifespring center, whom I interviewed extensively, assured me
that, "no one is getting filthy rich." She added that the stockholders are
"living comfortable"-buslness
as usual.
The training itseli was put together by five individuals who kept running

into each other at ,·arious training programs. They all have backgrounds in
human growth and business training. (Lifespring offers training packages to
corporations on a contract basis.) Between the five of them they were versed
in 50 to 60 different types of human relations training, communications
theory, mind-power techniques, and transpersonal psychology. What they did
was put together a package, designed exercises that allow one to experience
the concepts, then marketed that package.
The basic training costs $250 for 50 hours in a six day period. The
interpersonal experience (IPE) is the second stage, and costs $650. The third
level is training to be a training coordinator, and is free. So the organization
regenerates itself. Once one has completed the basic program, he is part of
the "family" and is eligible to attend the evening workshops which are
offered two or three times a month on specific topics. There is also a weekend
workshop offered once or twice a year entitled "Prosperity and Abundance."
There are a few things that impressed me about the group and a few that
made me hesitant. These are personal feelings and speculations, and should
be taken as such.
First-34 % of the money goes to salaries, more than the cost of training,
offices, or facilities. This is particularly interesting in light of the fact that a
great deal of the work is done by "Training Coordinators" free of charge.
Second-the advanced training is much more expensive. Presumably people.
are more willing to pay it after completing the first stage. Third-there
is no
sliding pay scale, which works to the exclusion of low income individuals.
The best thing about the people is how much fun they have. I enjoyed
myself thoroughly during all encounters with Lifespringers. They are
interesting and interested, open and ebullient. 1 felt absolutely no bad vibes
about standing up and leaving the guest event whenever I felt like it. At the
same time 1 felt encouragement resounding off the walls to stay and sign up.
The enthusiasm and energy generated is astounding. I said to myself at first,
"Well, that's one of the Moonie's favorite tricks-be
all lovey-dovey." I
decided, though, that without the hard seli pressure, the techniques were
acceptable. Another disconcerting thin~ was the repeated statements, "If you
really want it, you'll be able to get the money." Shades of Scientology. These
people, though, were convinced of the statement's validity, and were saying
it for that reason. The technjques and abilities which are being taught
(Lifespring stresses their educational rather than therapeutic orientation) are
tremendously effective in sales and marketing, and, like most other things,
can be used to help or hurt. A friend of mine, a student manager who paid
for !PE herself after housing had put her through the basic program, said this
to me: "You get what you want from the training, and you use it for what
you want.''

Short of putting Dan Rather or Joe Mannix on the case, that's all I can
tell you. I still have some questions that may never be answered, but I've told
you those too. You can make your own conclusions.

we have provided emergency housing,
crisis intervention, and help in meeting

their legal, financial, and emotional
needs.

Last

month

we

began

our

Women's Sharing and Support Group
which meets weekly and offers an
opportunity for women to examine their
situations
in a group setting. The
expansion of our services this month
will enable us to house more women
and provide better coordinated services.
If you meet a woman who is
interested in receiving help from our
program, we encourage you to mention
our program and give her the number

of the Crisis Clinic, at 352-2211, our
referral agency.

If you would like to contact us for
business reasons, call us at the YWCA,
Monday thru Friday from 10-5 p.m., at
352-0593. Since good communication is
essential to a program such as ours, we
encourage all inquiries.

If you would be interested

in

helping our program, please contact us
at the YWCA. We need volunteers to

work at the shelter, as well as monetary
donations. Additionally, we need furnishings for the house such as pillows,

especially abused women, and their
children The services currently being

lamps, tools, kitchen supplies, mirrors,
and other items.

offered are emergency housing, crisis
mtervention,·referrals, and advocacy to

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Cooper Point
plan

Softbal I phenomenon
touching more bases

-Continued from page six.-.ThrQul(h the actions of the CPA,
unique, comprehensive
land proposals were chartered and developed, resulting in "A Comprehensive
Land Use Plan for Cooper Point,"
published in June, 1972. It was this
plan, approved ·by the CPA, the
Thurston County Planning Commission, and the county commissioners,
that served as a vehicle for the
county ordinance that went into
effect January
15, 1975. This
ordinance adhered closely to the
guidelines set forth by the CPA,
with only slight modifications in
allowable population densities.
The philosophy of the Cooper
Point Association is what makes their
plan and their actions unique in the
history of Washington state land-use
planning. Faced with the prospect of
several major development projects,
the citizenry
of Cooper Point
organized to assure the incorporation
of these goals in the peninsula's
land-use planning:
a) as little disruption as possible
to the natural features and processes
that characterize the area;
b) preservation of the semi-rural
open space character of the environment; and
c) response to real market
demands rather than encouragement
of unnecessary growth.
The guidelines set forth by "A
Comprehensive Land Use Plan for
Cooper Point" and put into effect by
county ordinance provides for zoning as the needs arise (rather than
predetermined beforehand) and is
based on site plan reviews. A site
plan review forces a prospective
developer to explain exactly how the
land will be developed and what
impact it will have on both the

'
by Dave Lear
Softball. hotdogs. apple pie,
Chenolet. Wait a minute) That"s
supposed to be baseball, hotdogs.
apple pie. and Chevrolet, isn·t it?
Well. e\'en President Jimmy is
plaving softball these days. Along
with countless millions of other
American men. women, and children. In fact. if one were to drive all
over America during this Summer of
·,a. on any given night and on
nearl~· every weekend, you would
find people playing, spectating, and
just plain "getting into'· softball, one
of the fastest-growing
national
pastimes.
Baseball is probably still secure
in it's position of American institutions, but remains to be mainly a
spectator sport. Softball, on the
other glove. can be played by just
about anyone (even Billy Carter)
and apparently this knowledge is
running the bases. And fast! The
11:reater-Olympia area shelters a large
population
of softball fanatics
including two Evergreen associated
teams. Olympia Town and Country
an~ Pete Lee Auto Specialist, but
lets first examine the technicalities
nf the game (for those of you
11nfamiliar with softball or baseball)
hefore the sociological implications
of the game are discussed.
Basically, there are three types of
organized softball, slow-pitch, fastpitch. and big ball. Among these,
slow-pitch is probably the most
common. although all three styles
have their followings (sandlot slowpitch is a favorite picnic activity for
the masses). The distinction between
the different styles of play are
simple. In slow-pitch, the regulation-size ball is pitched underhand
in a slow. high arch to the batter.
Big ball is the same, although, as the
name implies, a larger than regulation ball is used. Fast-pitch is a
faster paced game with the ball
thrown in a complete circular
motion over the pitcher's head and
underhand to the plate. The ball
travels at a much faster rate of speed
and in a flatter arc.
All three styles of play compete
within their own leagues, with each
league being subdivided into different levels of skill and experience.
The classifications are usually AA,
A. B and C, and where a team is
placed depends upon their previous
record and the athletic ability/talent
nf each individual
player. The
leagues are organized
by city
recreation departments which pro, ide umpires, field maintenance,
and general officiality. They also
Ut'Cide upon the official league rules
l!overning assignment, player eligibility. etc. The business of uniforms,
lt>ague and tournament
fees, etc.,
.ire taken care of by a sponsor which

shells out Jhe bucks for unis
(uniforms) and fees in exchange for
cheap advertising and publicity.
Wins by the team equal free media
publicity equals more business, while
losses equal, well ... the name gets
spread around and what the hell, it's
a tax write-off anyway.
Softball rules differ slightly from
baseball, although the basic play is
still the same. There are 10 softball
positions compared to nine for
baseball. Softball's extra player is a
second center-fielder.
A game is
played for seven innings in softball
unless one team is ahead by 10 runs
in the bottom of the fifth. If so, the
game is over.
The average softball field is 325
feet from home plate to the center
field fence (applicable only if there
is a fence. Some of those little
"'burgs" have converted cow pastures
into "playable fields"), a distance
easily within the range of many
home-run sluggers. Softball scores

tend to be high with 20 to 30 points
easily scored some games. When a
person makes ii to base, they must
stay put on the bag. There are no
lead-offs or steals in softball and the
runner must tag up on all fly balls.
Why do people play softball?
What do they get out of it? Well,
for many the answer is simply one of
recreation. For them it's a lot of fun
to play one or two games a week,
together with an occasional weekend
tournament. After all, it is a game.
People play it because they want to,
not because they have to. And so
they have a good time. Especially at
tourneys. A softball tournament, in
particular out-of-town tournaments,
escalate into big, big events. At the
Port Orchard tournament two weeks
ago, 32 teams, with an average
group size including friends and
relatives of at least 25 persons per
team descended on that little town
of 4,000.
The entourage
to a tourney
might include a Winnebago camper,

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tents, sleeping bags and a keg of
beer. Beer is the breakfast
of
champion softball players. Sometimes literally. It goes together with
softball as naturally as a ball goes
with a glove. Beer Is consumed, in
great quantities, to quench thirsts,
get up for the next game, let down
alter the last loss, or just plain get
drunk. Tournaments
provide an
excuse for an outing and the
participants party it up. (A KOA
campground with 20 softball teams
on a Saturday night Is definitely a
wild place!) There are strange festive
vibes in a little town on a tourney
weekend. One gets the feeling that
right then, at that time and place,
the most important thjng happening
in the world is softball.
After
experiencing that feeling, you almost
tend to believe it.
There are many varieties in both
the type of softball player and their
involvement. There are young and
older players, jocks, ex-jocks, frealcs,
run-of-the-mills,
work ball clubs,
friend's ball clubs, Heinz 57 ball
clubs. Competitive. spirit Is fierce on
some teams, while on others, the
players couldn't give a shit as long as
they have a good time. Kate Steele·
of the Pete Lee Auto women's team
(of which all but two of the players
are TESC associated) had this to
say: "Deep down I think we're all
competitive, but we're still holding
on to the old Evergreen philosophy
of noo-<X>mpetitiveoess."
Some teams make oo bones
about their competitive attitudes.

Cooper Point Journal,

This was a landmark decision in
that it was the first time the legal
right of neighborhood
groups to
have a say in local land-use was
recognized in court. The county
prosecutor's office was chided by the
Supreme Court for not representing
the residents of the county and
forcing the CPA to do so.
"It's the residents who know the
most about where they live and they
should do the planning," says Ron
Clarke. "Seeing a citizen's group
have some success has provided the
incentive for other citizens' groups
around the state. I've worked with
planning for 21 years and that's the
biggest difference I've noticed, the
involvement of these groups."
Since the advent of the Cooper
Point plan, many counties in the
state are now reevaluating their own
l'llld plans. Some have already
adopted similar plans, including Gig
Harbor and Pierce and Whatcom
Counties. The ripples from Cooper
Point have been far-reaching.
So. the next time you see a new
building under construction, or you
walk down to the beach and see
water and seagulls instead of a
12-story condo, remember, there are
alternatives.
People can allow a
developer to operate totally at his
discretion,
or they can make a
choice and have a say in what is
done to their neighborhoods.
In
these days of grass-roots American
politics, many people have decided
it's time to start talkinp:.

They are out there to win and at
nearly all costs. Physical contact is
welcome, even sought. Comments
such as, "Yeah, that's right run'em
over, let's kick some ass," or
"Intensity,
intensity",
are often
heard. During one game of Olympia's Town and Country's (3/4's of
this team are former students and
employees of TESC) with the score
12-5 in favor of OTC In the bottom
of the 7th, two outs, the coach of
the opposing team had the audacity
to yell at the batter, "Come on now,
Charlie, get a hit. Don't let us
down!" This is a fanatical approach,
and although there are some teams
playing with such a game philosophy, the majority of players just try
to do their best, striving for the
pe~al
state of "having a good
time._
_
If this article has Inspired you to
the point of softball Involvement,
then a fielder's choice is available.
Although its getting late in the
season, you still might be able to
find yourself a team to play on if
you're inspired to those heights. If
you'd just Hice to watch a game or
two, you can do that at either
Steven's Field, Fraoldln and 22nd,
Olympia, or at the Lacey Field on
Norse-Merriman
Road. Kate has
promised, "Defensively
we play
well, but we've got to get our bats
going. We're definitely improving,
we're getting better each game. Pete
Lee Auto has quite a bit of the
season ahead of them, as well as
several more tournaments." In an A
tournament last weekend at Ellensburg, the team placed 7th out of 32
total teams.
Olympia Town and Country is
soon to be wrapping up their season,
having played lour tournaments and
many games in a somewhat sporadic
fashion, superb at times and poorly
at others. Still, it hasn't been a bad
year, and the state of "good times"
was certainly achieved.
In going to a tournament in
Ellensburg earlier this summer,
members of the OTC team and
myself were hoping to find the
"American Dream." We found it
that weekend, and if you were to
experience the softball phenomena,
you might find the American Dream
as well.
Batter upl
July 13, 1978

Evergreen involved
in land plan
Continued from page seven

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"Most of our work we did on our
own," says Tom Clingman. "We
were involved in doing alot of
coordinating lcinds of work, helping
to facilitate meetings and sometimes
taking a direct role. During some of
that time I took the responsibility for
developing a computer format for
the questionnaires we sent out. I
really hadn't done too much in
questionnaire design-I drew alot on
the expertise of computer services
out at the college."
Another aspect of the Intern 's
work focused on what Clingman
calls "the global picture" of, agriculture. "We got our information there
from the U.S. Census Report and
various science and agricultural
journals-a lot of it's real current."
Their information shows that in
the last 30 years, farm productivity
in the nation rose by 70 % . This,
however, was at the cost of a 237%
·rise in machinery input, and a 900 %
increase in the use of chemicsl
fertilizer. Their report states the
"increased use of energy has in the
past allowed us to replace the
production lost due to the conversion
of farmland to other uses." But, says
Clingman, "Those last few units of
production have been really costly in
terms of energy-we seem to have
reached a point of di'lllnishing
returns." Considering the drastic rise
in the cost of energy that is
anticipated, Clingman says, "We're
not going to be able to Increase
production into the future. What we
can do is save the ground-there's
really no other alternative."
1,,1y 13. 1978

Traditional land use philosophy
and policy has been the practice of
zoning an entire area for future
development. Based upon population
projections,
an area is blanketzoned, establishing land value patterns in anticipation of upcoming
needs (and sometimes serving to spur
future growth). With the identification of specific parcels of land, land
values are inflated artificially, resulting in land speculation cycles which
effect the entire area. Once zoned,
an area is locked in to that specific
plan, allowing for little or no leeway
to meet changing market demands
and needs.
Enter the Cooper Point Association. Under threats of such scattered
development projects as the Westside
Mall and high-rise apartments and
condominiums on the point, the
CPA met the zoning policy head-on
and countered with some unique
proposals of their own. Under the
direction
of such overseers as
William Dexter, Ron Clarke and
full-time Association planner Russ
Fox (currently a faculty member at
TESC), the Association gathered
extensive data on all facets of
Cooper Point. The developmental
impact on wildlife, flora fauna, soil
erosion, and drainage were all
considered. The preservation of the
existing natural status of Cooper
Point was the overriding goal of the
CPA; through the Association's
actions, this goal has approached
Continued from page seven.realization.
hope so, .. Wei ks states firmly,
environment and the community.
"because you know what's happenSite plan reviews would also
ing in big business. They're not
require the developers to leave a
concerned about what you pay for
specified amount of open space if
the end product. My feeling is that
they want to build. The amount of
the consumer better become very
open space is determined by the
aware of what's happening
in
density of the given area; the higher
agricultural production."
the density, the more open space Is
required.
Bob Baird, a young blueberry
The highest density allowed is 12 farmer on Steamboat Island Road
who has much the same concerns as
family units to an acre, with some
Weiks about centralization and loss
areas only permitted two to an acre.
of farm land, views the future of
This is a higher density level than
farming here and across the country
originally planned, but the CPA had
optimistically. "Well, I see it going
to compromise on this point for the
plan to pass as an ordinance. 'That's
on at two levels. One level is going
the traditional struggle between the
to be the large scale chemical
people who live there and the
agriculture which will continue to
developers,"
according
to Ron get bigger with a smaller number of
Clarke, former Vice-President of the
people doing it. But at the same
Association and Local Planning
time, there's going to be another
Assistant for the state. Clarke went
development occurring. That's smallon to say, "One of the truly uniql\e
er farmers coming in and retailing.
features of the plan is the regulatio~
It's going to be more tied into the
of the number of dwellings rather
alternative systems of the co-ops and
than the type of dwelling. The
farmers markets which are both
guiding factor was the preservation
networks which are developing, and
of the land. That was accomplishselling at the farm. But it will be
ed."
different than the other system of
The land-use plan and the
agriculture because those people will
resulting ordinance have not been
not be interested in getting huge .. ,
without repercussions, however. The
they're more interested in being
CPA was involved with four court
happy. The smaller farmer will be
cases over zoning on Cooper Point in more diversified, and they will be
1972-1973. The most decisive of the
able to survive."
four involved a plan for high-rise
Farmers are also recognizing the
apartments and condominiums at
importance of serving local people.
the end of the point, to be called
The sharp increase in berry prices
"By-the-sea". The county planning
this year can be partially traced to
commission rejected the proposal,
but the decision was overturned in enormous demands from nationaJ
yogurt manufacturers.
But Ina
Superior Court. It was then appealLyons has a surprise
for any
ed to the State Supreme Court
where the original ruling was upheld corporate berry hoarders. "Well, we
could sell them (ras berries), but my
and By-the-sea slipped into the sea.

King Co.
Continued from page six,

and provide a public educational
resource. Suggestions for the park
range from crop testing
and
research, a petting zoo for chilrlr,:,n
to experimentation with 9:~ricul_tJ_r_a_lrelated energy conservation projects.
Publicity campaigns to attract seasonal workers, internship program<;:
for community college students, and
maps showing the location of farm,
selling directly to the public are
being planned.
Although
King County
has
experienced a decline in its agricultural land base as a result of urhan
~pra\\'l and economic pressures to
de\'elop, Ryan is optimistic that ··we
ha\'e begun to turn the tide.··
Racked by County Executi\'e John
Spellman and Council memben
Bcrnic:t Stern and Mike Lo\1,:ry-and
enjoying a sympathetic
ear from
Senator \Varren Magnuson in D.C.
-!he program has a powerful team
of supporters.
And with 58,000
acres and $40 million worth of
primary economic activity at stake.
those involved with the planning feel
their concern is well merited.

Farmers speak
husband says no. He says there ar,
people who come out here for year,
to pick their berries and we'll save •
patch for the pickers and for the
people who want fresh berries. W,
figure that the people were here first
so we serve the people rather that
the big companies. We do give then
what we have surplus, but th,
people come first."
To facilitate the survival an,_
enhancement of these small scak
farm networks, many growers anl1
consumers are beginning to appreciate their mutually dependent rela
tionship. Organizations
like th,
Olympia F.O.O.D.
Co-operati\',
and Olympia ·s Farmers Markel
which deal directly with loca
farmers, find themselves growin:
dramatically. "We doubled in siz,
last year," exclaims Becky Liebman.
manager of the Farmers Market.
"and this year there are just as mam
new people as old."
•
That the small farmer needs th,
consumer to survive is a more anl
more
accepted
notion
in th,
agricultural community. Their gos
now is to make the consumer awar,
of the importance of a strong loca.
farm economy. 'There is alot o'
farming going on out there and no
alot of people know about it either,
Bob Baird explains as he ponder
ways to change that situation.
The ability of people like Baird
Murray Welks and Ina Lyons t"
make consumers aware of agriculture could very well tell the futur,
of local farming. 'That's one reaso 1
l"ve sta~!"1 in this business as long a
I have, says Jasper Martin force
fully. "I want to see that farmers
market 11:etgoin and make it.··

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