The Cooper Point Journal Volume 7, Issue 1 (October 23, 1978)

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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 7, Issue 1 (October 23, 1978)

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23 October 1978

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•"Wilhln
the span of a ,Ingle
generation shopping centers have
revolutionized retailing more profoundly than any other development
in all the centuries
of man.··
-International Council of Shopping
Center,
• "ff you had to pick one tlung that
would typify civilization In the U.S.
in the 20th century, a front-running
candidate would be~he suburban
shopping
mall ... _
Walker,
busine•• edilor of t e Atlanta
Journal [New Tlmu]
•'Capilal
Mall will provide
Olympia once again with a social
center where nllighbors can meet
and greet each other-a
kind of
heart-for the community."- Virginia
Hendrick., local bu.in.,.. person.
With the opening of Capital Mall
this fall, Olympia joined the ranks of
the nearly 20,000 communities
across the country that have adopted
concentrated shopping plazas as the
modern hub for retail activity. The
development which is just a microcosm of a multi-billion dollar per
year "industry", is expected to house
96 shops and restaurants totaling
570,000 square feet and attract over
50,000 Southwestern Washington
shoppers per day. And like many of
its predecesors, the development of
Capital Mall has generated Its share
of local controversy, long advocated
by some, opposed by others and
creating a series of political and
economic conflicts.
Capital Mall is one of nearly
18,000 shopping plazas in America,
1,000 of which are larger than
50,000 square feet and some few
hundred in excess of 1,000,000
square feet. By definition
the
shopping centers can be described as
retail complexes owned, managed
and operated as one unit, planned
assemblages of stores Integrated and
orchestrated.
An even greater
soolologlcal
Impact is being attributed to centers
of the magnitude of Capital Mall,
however--'crltlcs forecut IOCtal-and
economic revolution in the "mallJng
of America", while the International

The modern mal I comes to
the Westside:

There's
something
happening
here...
by Barbara Swain and Brian Cantwell
Council of Shopping Centers speaks
of complexes which "rival the
palaces of medieval Europe in
brilliance, excitement and size.··
Over the past two decades,
shopping malls have emerged as a
familiar component of the suburban
landscape, a version of Main Street
on acreage removed from the urban
core. As Americans have migrated
away from city and town centers,
and subdivisions and housing plans
have blossomed, malls and plazas
have become the alternative
to
downtown business centers for the
nation's bedroom communities. Yet
the plethora of shopping centers has
not gone unchallenged-conflicts
have accompanied the development
of malls, pitting environmentalists
against businesspeople, developers
against government and raising a
number of vital land-use, legal and
economic questlom.
The transformation of a M-acre
tract on Olympia's West Side into a
regional
shopping
center
has
embraced many of these Issues.

Nearly 20 years ago a number of
local entrepreneurs
befZ;an ques•
tioning the long-term viability of
downtown as the center of business
activity. Some began pushing for
development of a shopping center in
an outlying
area after it was
discovered that unstable land and
concentrated
ownership of prime
real estate in the hands of a few
private individuals and a variety of
governmental entities made comprehensive urban planning questionable.
At least one plan for a downtown
mall fell through before the drive for
development of a shopping mall on
the Westside picked up momentum.
Owned by the descendants
of
Francis Yauger, a minister who
acquired the land from the State of
Washington around the tum of the
century, the present site of the mall
became prime real estate in the
1960's as the area's population
boomed and property taxes rose.
In 1968 Colonel Kenyon Yauger
and his sister, Ruth Porter. peti-

tioned the City ol Olympia to rezone
their land from residential single
family to planned unit development
(PUD). In 1969 the request was
granted.
but external economic
pressures and planning difficulties
delayed the project and the Yau~er
dan wa ..; forced to seek a series of
C"Xtcnsions of tht' PUD zoning
re1:1ut·<a.
It wasn·t until 1971 when the
project attracted
the interest of
Seattle architect John Graham. who
along with three Seattle businessmen
established a partnership for the
purpose of de,·eloping a shopping
center that the project got under
way. The Cr,1 11am
enterprise.
Olympia Highla,.<ls. however. soon
encountered difficulties in plans lo
construct a regional mall. office.
park and smaller retail complexes.
Olympia Highlands attracted the
interest of one large department
litore. the Bon Marche.
but a
compctin~ de\·elopment proposal of
land now occupied by the Thurston
Count\· Courthouse and the Greenwood ·Inn enlisted the J.C. Penne1·
Co. Since Olympia city ordinancec;;
require a developer to firml~ line up
at least two major department c;;tores
before issuance of a buildinc pnmit.
a stalemate resulted.
In the ensuing battle, the second
development enterprise.
Evergreen
Park. Inc.. filed a complaint in
Thurston County Superior Court
against three Olympia city commis•
sioners maintaining that approval of
Olympia Highland·, PUD request
should be rescinded because Evergreen Park was first to be granted a
zoning change.
But in 1974. Graham made a
move that made the Olympia
Highlands site emerge as victor. He
sold 65 acres of the land to one of
the nation·s leading shopping center
developers, Ernest W. Hahn. Inc.
Hahn joined forces with J.C.
Penney Realty of New York and a
fellow developer James J. Cordano
Associates of Sacramento, California
and the Olympia Mall Co. became
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New faculty

Proposal=
•"All Evergreen students must
complete four quarters of
basic Coordinated Studies."
•"All graduating seniors must
present some kind of
project or event."

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ilie "meaning of the Evergreen degree." He said
ihal "at this time, the Evergreen BA represents 45
Evergreen units of credit, and that the meaning of
lhal is difficult to grasp."
The requirement 0£ four quarters of coordinated
studies, as outlined by Youtz, would be in
programs which cross both disciplinary
and
divisional lines. Transfer students on a third or
fourth year level would be required to complete
only rnw quarter of such study.
The "terminal work", said Youtz, could take the
form of a senior project. recital, gallery show,
significant paper. competency exam, or whatever

down; some budget effects

ihis fall's modules suffered because
there wa~ no money to hire adjunct
faculty, so there were substantially
fewer that were not spin offs of full
time programs.
Facultv this summer met the cuts
hy leaching more students than they
'''L•rc being paid to teach,
by
,lwrtening their pro~rams from ten
to l'ight \\'Cek!-i
or hy reducing the

amount of credit given, Smith
explained.
Rob Knapp, Assistant. Dean added
ihal another faculty person qualified
to teach advanced video because of
ihe lack of money. Also. Knapp
continuPd, Evergreen would have
liked lo have hired a geologist, and

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crnd be~an budgeting for
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according
to Mike
H1e,·l1,". B11dgC'tOfficer.
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college now undcr·111,.Jh·d al 2100 ,;;tudents, mone\·
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to the legislature'.
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however, that
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for 1977-78. at 2303
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Ever~reen will return
IP!.!;i\lature becaul:ie of under1·r110ll111t•11t
ha'i to be taken out of
tl11·i,v,,trnctional budget since fewer
,11ult•nt, \\'ill not change the other
h11d1.!t·!., • requ i remcnts.
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H,trhara Smith. Senior Academic
11,·,111.
fl'li ihal the full time
,u·.ull'mil' cuts were minor as only
1 prni!;ram, were
t,,1
cancelled, "Life
"1 1.111 I),,, t>lopm•.:-nt
'.' and "Politics,
\ ,!1111•, .rnd Sncial
Changes", but
th.it
the ,,11111ner program suffered
\!t1·.1tl,
,1,
rtt•arh' all faculty were
.lllt-ctt'd I)\ h11di,!t.'t re1,traints. that
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would be worked out by the individual specialty
areas of the college.
While Youtz could establish requirements on his
own power. he is at this time waiting for further
faculty feedback and hopes to get student input
also. He then plans to take the proposals to the
Board of Trustees before an~ action is taken.
Youtz hopes to sound· out students on the
proposals in a meeting this Thursday together with
President Dan Evans and students who attend a
brown bag lunch in Room 110 of the College •
Activities Building. The noon meeting is offe~ed as
an open session fox fitucjent,s,tp talk, ,\o, ~l;w.,pr~i<le11t,
and provost.
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COOPER POINT JOURNAL

someone familiar with the technical
end of theatre to fill gaps in the
existing faculty composition.
Both Smith and Knapp saw the
greatest effect of the cuts on the
existing programs since they tended
lo be full, and on the faculty
individual contract pool, as this year
!here are fewer faculty available for
contracts.
Smith said that perhaps
the
faculty felt the budget pinch more
ihan the students as they no longer
have their own phone lines to the
outside world. On the other had.
Knapp saw that the emphasis on
program support services (program
secretaries and supplies) was an
improvement from last year's budget
when all the programs happened,
and there was little money for
services.
Last year there was a push from
the Organic Farmhouse
DTF to
ensure academic support for students
working on the organic farmhouse,
by hiring a faculty member, but this
could not be done due to lack of
funds. However. Gomer Roseman,
the student sub-contractor hired by
S&A feels that there is faculty
support
since all the students
involved at the farmhouse
are
sponsored by a faculty member.
Knapp feels that priorities in the
budget worked themselves out, but
that the crunch will come in the fine
arts as Evergreen will have to decide
what it is able to offer effectively, as
well as focus in on just a few aspects
of the human development field.
Knapps expects, "The things we
(Evergreen) do, we shnuld be good
at. ..
OCTOBER 23. 1978

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sign on

With the addition of 16 new
professors the number of Evergreen
State College faculty members totals
130. The 16 consist of four new
"regular" faculty-signed
to a three
year contract-and
the remainder
have agreed to complete up to one
year stints as visiting professors.
The four new regular faculty are:
Dr. Guy Adams, public administration; Sally Cloninger,
film and
television; David Gallagher, sculpture; and David Whitener, Native
American studies.
Cloninger teaches in the group
contract "Recording and Structuring
Light and Sound". She comes from
Temple University where she was an
assistant professor in the radio,
television and film department.
Cloninger
also worked
as an
associate editor of the Journal of the
University Film Association.
The group contract ''The Public
Sector"
has Adams as a new
instructor.
Adams most recently

Environmental
Center opens

lectured in public administration at
California State University.
Gallagher returns to Evergreen
The Evergreen State College Enviafter a two year absence. Last year,
ronmental Resource Center open,
he worked at the University of
today in its new location in tht·
Denver as director of the sculpture
College Activilies Building, room
program
and was an assistant
103, across from the cafeteria.
professor. He joins the Evergreen
Organizers of the center have ne"
"Art Consortium" faculty.
hopes for high visibility
and
Whitener
has served
as an
centralization of Evergreen resources
employment specialist for the Bureau
dealing with environmental issues.
of Indian
Affairs in Hoquiam,
There are currently nine active
worked as a public school principal
§' groups involved V-'ith the center:
and has just recently been project
: Alternatives for Community Acc:ess
coordinator of the Social Developr. (Cascadian Regional Library), Black
ment Corporation in Edmonds. At
:8 Hills Audubon Society, Crabshell
Evergreen he is involved in Native
j_ Alliance, Enerl!~ Northwest, GreenAmerican studies.
o peace, Institute for Research and
Along with these four are regular ~----------------__,
Understanding,
Live
Without
faculty and the 12 visiting proTridenl. Nisqually Delta Associalion,
fessors, Evergreen is drawing upon
.md the \\'ilderness Society. Litera20 local experts from business,
11Teon all kinds of environmental
industry, education, government,
.,....
ues will he available at the center
and the arts. These people are
,nd reprco.,entatives
from these
involved in late afternoon
and
~roups will be at the opening to
evening programs.
answer questions .
Two galleries in The E vcrgreen
-Andy
The Environmental
Resource
State College Library are operating
Cenler is tentatively scheduled to be
this year as part of a solution to past
open from 9 am to 5 pm every
security problems. A gallery on th,·
weekday.
fourth floor is open now to show
mainly
off-campus
shows
that
nt.'t'd
allocations there is optimism on the
hiKh security, according to faculty
part of Youtz. "We believe, but do
member Sid White, exhibits coornot ye\ know for sure, that the CPE
dinator. The second floor gallery
will support our request because it
will be used primarily for exhibits by
would allow TESC to provide
,1udents and programs.
additional service to the people in
As part of the change in gallery
this area, especially in state ~overnuse, White also hopes to van· the
ment," said Youtz.
usual fare in the second floor area.
Under the proposal, new facultv
The Self Help Legal Aid office is
"We are hoping to feature not only
positions would be allocated for the
holding a workshop on the land.
artwork," he explains, "but scientific
MA program. This would allow
person/tenant act on October 26, at
work or any work from programs
Evergreen to hire additional faculty.
4 pm in the lounge outside their
that would be good for display."
Youtz' present planning suggests that
office at Library 3224. Even·thing
The fourth floor gallery is open
current faculty members would be
one needs to know about rights as a
limited hours and will be supervised
tenant will be covered, including
rotated into the program for a time.
by students. Downstairs, the responsuch thing., as the responsibilities of
Youtz expects the impact of the
sibility for security will on those
the landperson
and the tenant.
masters program
on Evergreen
whose work is presented. "This will
rental agreements and deposits, who
undergraduates to be small because
also offer more of a human
is responsible for repairs, retaliatory
of the difference of students and
resource,·· points out White, "and
rent hikes by a landperson, and
their
schedules
between
the
make it more of a community
general information about moving: in
programs.
The MA program
is
gallery."
and out of an apartment. An~·one
expected to serve a great deal of
People with ideas for displays,
with legal problems or questions can
working students. Proximity to state
particularly
in relation
to the
stop by the office on Mondays from
government and the opportunity for
sciences or other discipli:1es, are
8-4. Wednesdays from 8-5, Thursinternships would be special attracencouraged to contact White.
days from 1-5 or Fridays from 8-5.
tions of Evergreen's MA program.
Youtz hopes the program will
continue
with "Evergreen-like"
teaching methods, but details have
yet to be discussed.~
"h rtstme
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Two galleries

instead of one

Grad study proposal pending
The Evergreen State College is
attempting to expand its academic
program, and submitted a proposal
for a Master of Arts Program to the
State Council on Poot Secondary
Education (CPE) in August.
Under the title of "Masters
Program in Public Affairs", TESC is
asking to open two programs: one in
Public Administration to begin in
the fall of 1980, and an~ther,
Environmental and Energy Policies,
to begin in the fall of I 981.
If the CPE approves
of the
proposal, a task fon:e headed by
Provost Byron Youtz will be formed.
") will see that the best pos.sible
planning task force is assembled,"
explained Youtz, "to do the professional job of putting the detailed
program together."
The task force will travel to the
legislature
in January
for their
approval, and to discuss a small
budget
allocation
for detailed
program planning during next spring
and summer. These detailed plans
must also be approved
by the
legislature.
Amidst all the approvals
and

Legal Aid
to help tenants

MANHRIN

Council report on college delayed
The Council on Post-Secondary
Education's
(CPE)
study
of
Evergreen completion date has been
extended to mid-November from the
original October I deadline because
of the unavailability
of some
information
before
that
time,
according to Bill Chance, Deputy
Co-ordinator
of Planning
and
Research for the CPE.
Chance further explained that the
Council will then evaluate the study
and hopes to make its final'
recommendation to the legislature in
early January.
The study mandated by the 1977
legislature instructed the CPE that
"Not more than $25,000 shall be
expended
to study and make
recommendations on the curriculum
and the costs of The Evergreen State
College. The study shall determine
the actions necessary to broaden the
institution's clientele base by Introducing traditional
undergraduate
and graduate course offering., and
reduce
the
Institution's
total
operating costs per ITE (full time
equivalent student) to the average
cost per ITE at the other three state
OCTOBER 23. 1978

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colleges."
The Council expanded the charge
to include the question of whether
the curriculum should be changed.
At the moment, the Council is
involved in analyzing the cost and
enrollment patterns at Evergreen,
the surveys of other colleges started
the same time as Evergreen, of
potential
students,
and of high
school counselors,
among other
information, and putting it together
into a cohesive report that Chance
feels should be ready for public
scrutiny in November.

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THREE

Seattle November election:
gay rights, police power, bussing on ballot
bv Barbara Swain

ities, as reasons, Perrymen resigned
Acting as initial spokesman for Save
last month,
leaving S.O.M.E.
Our Moral Ethics (S.O.M.E.), the
without
an
official
spokesperson.
pro-13 campaign organization, the
Public Disclosure Commission
pair spearheaded the movement to
records
reveal,
however,
that
repeal gay rights last spring.
S.O.M
.E
has
paid
Republican
Estes, a Mormon, objected to
political consultant
Jerry Shaw
homosexuality on religious grounds,
$4,200 for "Public J\elations counfrequently quoting the Bible and
maintaining that "homosexuality is seling". Shaw denies, however that'
he is managing the campaign, and
a sin."
has managed to stay out of the
Falk, who as section leader for
public limelight.
the John Birch society holds that
Opponents of 13 have taken a
organization's
highest
unpaid
variety
of approaches to ,heir battle
position, felt the campaign would
against the measure. The closely
liberal character. The three initi~impede a trend towards public
ti1 e,. numbered 13. 15. and 350
acceptance of homosexuality. He allied Women Against Thirteen
(WAT) and Seattle Citizens A gains!
rl'pn ..•sent anti-gay.
law-and-order
further contended
that the city
Thirteen
(SCAT) are attempting to
and anti-busing efforts. and while
ordinances
give
homosexuals
educate
the
public about "homo11tHll'
of the issues is unique to
"special privileges in empioyment
phobia"
and
13's threat!; to the
Sl'attle. a complex series of political
and housing, and that gay peop1e
rights
of
gay
people
and the Seattle
l'' ents
and campaign tactics has
actively recruit and sexually abuse
public in general. Citizens to Retain
added a local Oa,·or to each.
children."
Fair Employment, a more conservalnitiatil'e 13 would take away
(Opponents of 13 counter with
it·gal protection again:.t discriminaevidence such as that provided by tive organization including many
l ion in employment
or housing
research conducted at the Kinsey prominent citizens, is downplaying
lro111 ga~ people by removing the
Institute and by the Seattle Sexual gay rights and emphasizing threats
to civil liberties. Other opponents
"ord, "sexual orientation .. from the
Assault Project which indicates that
of 13 include such diverse groups as
h,t of groups protected by the
over 95 per cent of all child
S,·attle
Fair Employment
and
molestation is committed by hetero- the Jaycees, Young Republicans, the
Hou~ing ordinances.
Because the• •-sexual men and that some 90 per Church Council of Greater Seattle,
and the City Council.
Fair I-lousing ordinance
further
cent of all victims are female.)
Despite the intricacies of the
prott.•ct!> Seattle
residents
from
behind-the-scenes
politics, both
.. harassment
and intimidation ...
An interesting sidelight to their
Seattle
Initiatives
13
and 15, and
pa,sage of 13 - and deletion of the
involvement with Initiative 13 is the
',f:>:\ual
orientation
clause-would
fact that both Estes and Falk are State Initiative 350 will be posed to
in
de111 ga; people legal remedies for
veterans of efforts to upgrade police voters as separate issues-and
the
final
analysis
will
be
decided
on
grie, ance, enjoyed by other "minorpowers.
tttt·,
Estes became involved in his first the basis of merit and the effective\ third effect of 13 would be to
political
battle in 1974 in a ness of campaign public appeals.
Initiative
13 opponents
fear
tr.111,.ferenforcement power against
campaign to increase police fire
Seattle
may
suffer
in
the
wake
of a
.. 11t-nders of the ordinances of th,·
power above the standard issue .38
Office of \\'omen's Rights to thl'
calibar revolvers. In 1976, Estes was national anti-gay campaign which
Office of Human Rights. thus
accused by a former police chief of has already resulted in repeal of gay
rights laws in Dade County,
adding an e, en greater burden to
carrying "hot lead" or supercharged
St. Paul. Minnesota:
that agenc, ·, back lo~ of near!,· 400
bullets and was suspended from the Florida:
Kansas:
and
most
force for 30 days. Estes further was Witchita.
l U' l'\
recently,
last
spring
in
the
college
ordered to undergo psychological
...,pomorl'd b~ the Police Guild.
town of Eugene, Oregon. (Reverend
thl' ~eattle police force,·, union.
examination.
A nit a Bryant's
Falk also has been the center of Bill Chapman.
l111t1ath t.' 15 \L'(:ks to ,, ipe out a
much controversy while serving as minister and vice-pr~ident of Save
, 1111otin~ po lie, the Cit~ Council
a member of the Seattle police Our Children attended S.O.M.E.'s
Jl.l"L·d la~t sprint! limitin~ polict·
force. During the late 60's and early first ~press conference last spring.
11rlH.t.'T". ll\l'
of dead!~ ,,eapon,.
and organizations which Bryant is
70\. Falk held a nc,torious reputaTht· l!llL'nt of the Counc:,:
connected
with have donated
11d1n<11He,,a., to di\tin~ui,h
in
tion as a hard-line cop in Seattle's
Rob Fromm/9r11phlc
$10,000
to
the Initiative
13
1
University
District.
In
a
Seattle
111111 1111! rt•i,!ulation~ between
th('
campaign.)
Post-Intelligencer
article run last
,l.1ni.!t·ron<ines, of the su~pcct a,
contend. huwe\'er. that the effect of
A poll conducted
by GM A
ppo,t•d to tht' dan~erousness of the
August 6. Falk was quoted boasting
the
initiati\'c
if
passed
would
be
to
Research
Corporati~n.
of
Bellevue
1, \W (II crime. pre\'enting the use of
of his leather gloves with lead
limit local control over student
linings and spoke of his efforts to last month, however, indicated that
dt·adl~ force for property offenses.
assi,tnment in all Washington school
Seattle voters were inclined to vote
I: allo,,, the shooting of a suspect
"clean up"' the area. Pressures from
districts.
while
application
of
350
to
-., 1111 ·appears
to have caused tht·
then-Mayor Wes Ulhman's office down 13.
a city with an adopted desegregaOpponents of Initiative 350 must
dt'.ith or ,;;erious injury of another
eventually led to his transfer from
tion
plan-such
as
Seattle-may
be
light
their battle on the larger state1t·t\on
or
has
used
a
deadly
weapon
the
University
District.
1
uphill battle which
unconstitutional.
111 the committing of a crime.··
l.Jlst August, the story took on a wide front-an
A
!though
they
are
in
intent
and
results
from
another
GMA poll
Tlw Police Guild.
however.
tragic twist when Falk shot and
effect two discreet issues, the saga
indicate they might loose. Their
h1..•l1<•,
e\
the ordinance to be too
killed a young black named John
of back stage events surrounding
campaign
is of an informative
H•,tricti\'e and seeks to permit the
Rodney in a well-to-do
south
nature,
an
attempt to describe
the
Initiative
13
and
15
efforts
cast
,lwotin~
of any fleeing person
Seattle neighborhood.
Rodney,
reductions
in
local school district
an interesting and at times tragic
,mpected of committing one of ten
confronted by police looking for a
control
throughout
the state
perspective
on the connection
nimes-including
burglary with no
prowler, fled, and after ignoring
resulting
from
passage
of the
between
the
two
campaigns.
11 eapon-and
any escaped felony
orders to stop was shot fatally in
measure.
The
opponents
point
out
The
anti-gay
measure
was
the back by Falk and then
\1l~pcct.
that legal advisors to the Seattle
initiated by two Seattle policemen,
The official
ballot
title of
handcuffed before police called an
David Estes and Dennis Falk.
School District have warned that
Initiative 350 which will appear on
aid car.
the attempt to halt Seattle's first
Disclosed at a subsequent inquiry
attempt at mandatory desegregation
hearing were the facts that Rodney
may violate the United States
was
unarmed
and
mentally
Constitution
as state action to
retarded.
resegregatlon
schools.
Following the Rodney incident
Sponsoring the measure is CIVIC
and protests from Seattle's black
community,
S.O.M.E. began t_o (Citizens for Voluntary Integration
downplay the involvement of Estes Committee) which descends histori,i.,..,.,
cally, in part, from a local group
and Falk. Replacing them as public
CAMB (Citizens Against Mandaspokesmen was Wayne Perrymen,
tory Busing) which fought a middle
former black militant turned affirschool
busing plan in 1972.
mative action advocate.
OPEN 7 !JAYS A WEEK. II A.M.-2 A.M.
While each of the issues-antiWith
Perrymen
in
the
forefront
HOMEMADE
SANDWICHES
gay, pro-police power and antithe Initiative 13 campaign changed
FREE POOL All DAY SUNDAY
busing-has
surfaced
in hotly
its tone,
switching
from
an
SHUFFLEBOARD
contested emotional battles in cities
STEREO - SOUND BY CONDOR
emotional appeal to contentions that
across the nation, the appearance of
CARD ROOM
the existing Seattle ordinances
the three together on the November
endanger basic civil liberties. Perry,
ballot is se<-n bv some to be of
men further maintained that passa!(e
<p<'cialsis;:nificanc,; And each hold,
of 13 would not increase discrimina210 t: ~th Ase
potential
for .s1~nificant
impact
tion aJitainst gay\
11po11
what i, oftc·n tnml'd
th<
Citin'! mi1;inform('(I oppo..,1t1on
nation, ·1110\t lh·ahlc cit~··
from tlw hli.1<'1-.and \!U\ cor11mun
OCTOBER 23, 1978
COOPER POINT JOURNAL

A, ,dwol buses roll peacefully in
"H·atlll· thi, fJll-in
what may pron!
to he onc- of the nation·s
few
,11cct•,!\f11l dese~regation
programs
impll'mented
without
mandatory
court ordrr-the
city appears to be
Ii, ing up to its reputation as one
"ith
a penchant
for political
pro)!_re~sivism and reform.
A trio of ballot measures confronting
,·oters
No,·ember
7.
l11n,e,·er. ma~ bring
important
chanj!eS
to the cit\' S ostensibh·
0

the ballot statewide asks, "Shall
public educational authorities be
prohibited from assigning students
to other than the nearest or nextnearest school with limited exceptions?" Although the measure does
not contain the word "busing", and
although its fate will be decided by
\'Oters throughout Washington, the
intent of its sponsors is to stop
Seattle's new mandatory desegregation plan.
legal advisors to 350 opponents

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Review: A look at Woody's Interiors
hy Anni Geddes
Woody Allen's new film. Interiors
i, like ,pending
the day at a
museum. After a long day you are
tin·d hut you still keep coming back
to thl' same pictures over and over
again. \Vhen you get outside it's
~ood to breathe again.
And so it is with his lilm. As you
ha, C" probably heard this movie is
indt·t•d serious. My suspicions that
thi-. wasn't possible dissolved after
tlw Hrst few minutes. Yes. \.Voody
:\llrn can indeed make a serious
film :\nd his first one is stunning.
It h an excellent
mode and
difficult to critique. It reminds me
t<hl c\o,;;eh· of m,· O\\ n family. I was
thankful i was still aliw when I left
the theater. Undoubted!,· it will not
haH' this same personal affect on
most people. But if your parents had
,1 lllt'"'"'
divorce-or
you have C\"er
trii-•clt,; \ea"e something you couldn't
quilt.' ~et awa~ from-this
mo\'ie is
,un· to hit home'.
.\lien !(i,·e, us a simple plot. A
Jllall
di, orcin~ his wife after so
111.tn,
,ears. daughters
who are
,tru~·~u;1g to let go of home. and the
"oman
thc-,· revolve around. He
,, indi; his ~haracters around each
otlwr and i;hows us not so much
their lh es. but rather their interiors.
\\"e become intenseh· uncomfortable
.is hC' remind., us tOo nearly of our
O\\ n Ii, cs
It h a hard movie to
".,tch.
I ti, ,hot, arc framed in wide open
"hite5-a,
in the inside of a
m11,;cun1. There is much space. but
"t' are ah, a,·s insidc.
Ill' hanc~ ·his portraits of a family
a~ain,;t a quiet calm backdrop of
muted colors. It is then we are
allowed to see the turmoil inside.
Pieces of this film could easily be
"hown as photographs in an exhibit.
For the ,hots
themselves
are
carcfulh
arran~ed
as separate
pic'tures.· The movement in them is
...11btle
it is onk the interior of the
chara~ter that siir....
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Allen runs into trouble in a couple
of places. He relies too much on
Diane Keeton to create a character
nut of nothin~. He has given her a
..,tereot~ pical role. She is the
intelli~ent.
successful,
tortured
"riter who speaks in cliched tones.
It doe5n·t work.
.:eaton comes off sounding like
S1>11\ a in LoGe
and Death. If her
long line!<i had been a bit more
e,ou•ric and spoken with a Russian
acct·nt the two could have easily
"' itched places. Apparently Allen

became bored with her character
and just gave up working on her.
A second problem is his failure
to include an adequate amount of
humor. Perhaps he did not include
lighter sides of life because he was
overlv conscious of doing "serious
work·... A more rounded balance of
emotions would have given this film
a more believable tone.
However. we must remember that
Allen is switching from comedy to
tragedy. Although the line between
them is said to be fine, he must be
allowed to come full circle and
complete his work on the tragic side.
I imagine that eventually, like a
pendulum slowing down, his work
will balance out to provide a fuller
spectrum on life. And I must not
hesitate
to applaud
Allen for
switchin~ styles mid.career.
Such
courage I admire, particularly when
he has been so sue<.-essful in his
former style.
Allen does give us an incredible
portrayal of women. Eve, the "sick"
woman who is being rejected by her
husband, becomes at times a delicate
beautv we are afraid to touch. Yet
our n·rst impression of her is of an
austere old woman,
dressed to
magnify her ugliness. But Allen has
tricked us into seeing her china-like
qualities, for it is she who controls
her family and continues to warp
their lives.
Yet none of them are blameless,
for each of them chooses to follow
the path she has set up for them.
They struggle in the roles they are
allotted, they don't like what they
have become-but
they continue in
the patterns
they have always
followed.
Her daughters are trying not to be
the woman they have seen their
mother become. But they are
following in her footsteps and are
haunted by that fact.
The men in this lilm all suffer a
similar fate. The two son-in-laws
and the father all remain on the
periphery. They are not mothers,
sisters or daughters and they have no
sense of the pain their counterparts
are going through.
They are
connected to the mess, tied by cords
to Eve, hut remain aloof as if they
watch their lives from pedestals
above. They are sentenced to suffer
in silence , . . they can never
understand what is going on.
Everyone attempts to prolong and
prevent a wave of their life they
know must crash. They each repeat

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at some point during the film,
"Look. could we please just not talk
about it nowl"
Yet they always include the "now"
as if in tbe future this will all be
reconciled. Allen deals with this
inevitability not with a reconciliation but with an ending we all
expect. Such a reconciliation would
be a hard one to manage, and it is
understandable
why he didn't
attempt it.

Coontz attends
jubiliant NOW conventio'
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by Patti Hickey

Two thousand women from all
over the country met early ~is
month in Washington, D.C. for the
annual convention of the National
Organization for Women.
The event was marked by high
spirits as a result of the Senate
decision to extend by 39 months the
ratification deadline of the Equal
Rights Amendment. By a vote of 60
to 36 the Senate moved the final
date for state legislatures to pass the
proposed amendment to June 30,
1982. Formerly the date had been
March 22, 1979. The amendment
must be ratified by three-quarters of
the states in order to be added to the
Constitution and at this time three
more stateis are needed.
For N .O.W. this victory ends a
year of intense emergency action to
save the amendment.
Evergreen
faculty
member,
Stephanie
Coontz attended
the

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particularly recent cuts in abortion
funding and increased cases of
sterilization abuse.

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You will probably
throw up
emotional blockades, as I did, to
prevent this movie from affecting
you too deeply. I was thankful I saw
the film in Seattle and was able to
drive away from it afterwards. In
that way I could leave it behindlike the place where I grew up. But
I can never stop thinking about
home . . . nor the implications of
this lilm for that matter.

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OCTOBER 23. 1978

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By Mary Ellen Leary
Pacific News Service
The "fear factor" has become so
significant in the campaign around
Proposition 6, the initiative to ban
homosexual teachers from California's public schools, that "No on
6" forces have decided to publicly
confront the secret anxiety that is
haunting this political effort.
They have taken out a full-page
advertisement in V arlety and the
Hollywood Reporter asserting: "If
you like the blacklist, you'll love
Proposition 6."
Opponents
hope the ad will
expose the fear of future retribution
that has prevented many film stars,
musicians, advertising people and
wealthy "name" figures from identifying themselves as opposed to the
initiative.
"We're going to deal with this
thing head-on," said Michael Levett,
Southern California chairman of the
"No on 6" drive. "School teachers
aren't the only ones who have felt
they must keep their views on the
homosexual issue in the dark."
The initiative, sponsored by John
V. Briggs of Orange County, would
require dismissal of school teachers
and administrators "for advocating,
soliciting, Imposing, encouraging or .
promoting private or public sexual
acts . . . between persons of the
same sex in a manner likely to come
to the attention of other employees
or students; or publicly or indis~reetly engaging in such acts."
According to Levett, "The whole
outhern California community of
artists, whether straight or gay, is
apprehensive lest the blaclclist be
revived. Many are courageous and
come out anyway. But there is a
fear here that careers will be at
stake or a boycott be encouraged
again~t those who takes sides in this
issue.
This fear is revealed in the
contributions. Fully one fourth of
the money raised from a recent mail
appeal arrived in checks just under
$50. "That's the breaking point for
anonymity,"
Levitt said. "You'd
think we had a markdown sale
going, we get so many $49.99
contributions. What we are hearing
constantly is the fear that those lists,
which are public documents, will be
used in the future to harrass
supporters."
The Southern California campaign
headquarters lists its volunteers only
by their first names. And the
Northern California headquarters,
according to spokeswoman Andrea
Jepson, agreed to keep secret the
names of cameramen,
artists, ad
experts and film advisers who
prepare its television spots for the
anti-Briggs drive.
According to David Milmer, a top
campaign organizer for George
McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, Tom
Bradley and others, "The degree of
fear that has been stirred up by this
campaign is unique to this Issue. I
have never encountered anything
llke this In any previous political
experience."
His Los Angeles polltical consulting firm has lost several clients
since it began working on the
campaign against the initiative.
"In this wholesale attack on
homosexuality, the right wing has
found an Issue similar to the old
commie Issue of years back," he
said. "It Is insidious In exactly the
same way. It Is an imtrument for
smearing someone, and once ·•
person has been Involved, no degree
OCTOBER 23, 1978

of response can erase the harm done.
"You would hardly know we were
in a political campaign, where the
right to speak freely is absolutely
necessary. Suddenly people are
afraid to speak out."
Many people in the entertainment
industry are reluctant to give public
support because their sponsors might
decide they are gettinl( "too contra-

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revives black I ist fears
them down they each said the same
thing, that this is something that can
affect them In their careers."
But the publication of his statement was a turning point, Jaglin
said. "It woke people up. In fact, it
shook them up. We've gotten a flood
of mail, willing endorsements and
money in 51 or 55 dollar sums ever
since, people saying, 'Co ahead, list

'The Word Is Out' tonight
"The Word Is Out" is a film
featuring conversations and interviews with 26 people in their homes
and offices.
There
are some
touching,
some amusing
stories
about growing up, adolescence, the
first sexual experience, entering the
military, getting married or finding
a lover, and getting older. Some of
the people are shy, some outgoing,
some happy, others not. They are all
homosexuals.
For what is obviously aimed at
being a "teaching film" (gays and
lesbians are people just like anyone
else), "The Word ls Out" Is also

entertaining. It introduces people
who are llkeable and warm, as well
as providing light moments witt
such scenes as the San Francisco
Police vs. Cays baseball game .
"The Word Is Out" is being
shown at The Evergreen State
College in Lecture Hall One tonight,
October 23, at 7:30, and tomorrow.
Tuesday, October 24 at 10:30 a.m.
Admission is free, and a discussion
will follow the showing. Sponsors
are Evergreen Political Information
Center, the Cay Resource Center .
and the Women's Center.

versial," Mixner said.· Heterosexuals
are just as wary of involvement as

my name. I'll risk it.'"
As a result, Levett said, "It looks
now as though we will have an
impressive list of Hollywood talent
(at a mid-October
fund-raiser)
because we came out in the open
about this fear thing. Artists today
don't want any recreating of the
McCarthy era fear of clandestine
whisperln&S and blacklisting with
never any confrontation over the
reason. Alarm lest we're on the
brink of that has startled people."
Jepson, the spokeswoman for the
Northern
California
campaign
against Proposition 6, said that
despite that recent surge of support,
the campaign has not attracted
many large donors.
"We set our aim for one million
dollars to conduct a strong and

homosexuals, he added.
But some celebrities in the film
world, including Shirley MacLaine,
Paul Newman and Natalie Wood,
not only have lent their names to the
anti-Briggs effort, but also have
stated their alarm at the fear
pervading the industry.
Film director Henry Jaglin and his
wife staged a fund-raising
and
publlcity reception against Proposition 6 at their home on Sept. 9.
About JOO attended,
but, Jaglin
said, ·:.1had to fight for every one of
them.
Afterward
he told The Los
Angeles Times, "I was naive. People
I've always been able to count on
said, 'Absolutely nol' When I pinned

informative campaign," Jepson said.
"but so far we've got a bit less than
$200,000 ... It perplexes us that. so
many people who normally give
sizeable donations
are just not
participating."
One reason was suggested bi· Jim
Foster chairman of a "No on 6"
lund-;aiser for Northern California.
Many well-to-do gays, he said, fear
that the measure will pass and they
are saving their contributions for a
court battle.
Although not involved in the
campaign, Don Slater, head of the
Hollywood Homosexual Information
Center, said he has found people
"astonishingly honest" in expressing
their opposition to the measure. The
reports of fear, he said, present "a
bad image." "We see a tremendous
number of people-more
than we
expected-sticking
their necks out,
many very well-known people."
In that respect Levett said that a
tatement against Proposition 6 by
:onald Reagan. former lilm star and
,,rmer California
governor.
had
,ade a difference in the public
timate. "I think he is sensitive to
i,c tremendous invasion of privacy
this measure would represent,"
Levett said.
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Cooper Point history:

Local native tells story of moonshine
The

dictionarv

definition

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moonshine
is (~un-shine).
U.S.
l nf1,rmal: Intoxicating liquor made
l'ontran to the law. Moonshine is an

An1l'rie~n ~lang meaning made by
the li~ht of the moon.
The reason for me writing this
part of this manuscript is when I
"a, a ~ oung boy I saw my dad
nwkt· man~ gallons of moonshine in
the Cooper Point area between
\\.hitnt·, Road (45 Aw. N .W.) and
Little Cow Road (52 Ave. N.\\'.). I
ha, e seen the Federal Ai,:ents, and
the Sheriffs Deputies come to our
door ma,w times with a search
\\ arrant
~nd search our place
lnnkin~ for the illegall,· made liquor.
..;;linwtimes the, were successful and
ll'ft "ith m,· d~d in tow. other times
t ll\', \,•ft enipt,· handed.
The moonshiner
was a very
,p,•eial breed of person. He had to
ha,l' the nen·e to take great chances
"ith tlw la". and if he got caught,
lnok the jud)(e straight in the face
and lie like a thief.
In this part of this manuscript I
wish to go into the manufacturing of
the moonshine rather than go into
the w.-·s of the moonshiner himself.
One - of the moonshiner's prize
pn,ses,ions was his still, and he took
all precautions to keep it from being
J
target for one of the Federal
He, enue Agents favorite sports. I
d,,n·t think an agent enjoyed
.inything more than to have an
ill,·~al still in front of him and a
nroad ax in his hand. I have seen
stills that were full of holes made by
the re,·enuer's ax and he put just a.~
hi-,i a hole in the steel pressure tank
a, he did in the thin copper cans.
Some of the local moonshiners
tonk pride in their work, and turned
rn1t some of the verv best moonshine
a, ailable. When I ,;,as a small boy I
, i,itt-d ,ome of my dad's hideouts
,, atching him turn out some of the
ht·"1 moonshine ever made.
On,• of the first steps of the
111011n,hiner was to locate a safe
place to hide his still. where an
ample ~upply of water was available
and the still wouldn't be found bv
anyone. especially the federal agenls
or the sheriffs force. The location
\\ here the still was to be set up was
calkd a hideout or ~ache. After the
moomhiner found the place that met
all his specifications he was ready to
take in all the necessary supplies to
,et np the mash.
The first things to be taken in
,, en_•the mash barrels, brown sugar,
cracked corn, yeast, canvas, kero,c·ne lantern. and extra kerosene.
!low many barrels and how much
,upplies he took in the hideout
dc>pended on the amount of moon,hine he intended to make. The
,mall operator had either 35 or 50
~allnn barrels. The 50 gallon barrels
"l':-t.·
,Jrefer:ed over the 35, The small
npt•ra:or seldom set up over three to
fiH· hundred gallons of mash; his
intentions were to make enough for
pt'rsonal u,;;eand sell some to make a
fl'w extra dollars.
Althou~h many of the stills were
,l't up in the woods I have seen
I hl•m
working·
well in barns,
).!ilra~es. ct'llars, basements, large
,mokehouses. and even in kitchens.
After the hideout was found and
tin· supplies were carried in, the next
~h·p was to arrange the baneb in
,uch a fashion that the kerosene
lanterns could be placed between
I ht·m,
In mixin~ the mash the moonEIGHT

George Bowman was bom in a
log cabin on Cooper Point on April
17, 1926, and has lived on the point
most of his life. He has worked
"mostly in the lumber industry," in
sawmills and lumber yards, and now
drives a truck for the Thurston
County Road Department.
The following
is part of a
manuscript which he has started
writing "mostly for his family,
mostly to keep from watching
television," about the history of the
Cooper Point area. His father was
heavily involved in the business
about which this article is written,
and Bowman reports having seen
some of the largest stills in the
county when he was a young boy
during the depression. "Jobs were
few and far between,"
says
Bowman, "and many a good man
turned to bootlegging.
The customers were loggers and rough
types, of course, but also many
doctors and businessmen, too."
When prohibition ended, Bowman
says, many bootleggers gradually
went out of business. "But," he says,
"there might be some still around if
you wok hard enough."
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shiner put from six to eight inches of
To get the gasoline to the pres.sure
cracked corn in each barrel and
stove the one-eighth inch copper
added one pound of brown sugar for
tubing was screwed to the gas valve
each gallon of water. Then the
on top of the pressure tank and the
barrels were filled with water and
other end of the tubing was screwed
the one-half pounds of yeast were
to the generator. The generator was
added last.
a small unit on the stove that had to
After all the mash had been mixed
be heated to tum the gasoline into
the kerosene lantern was filled with
vapor before it got to the burners of
kerosene, lit and placed between the
the stove. After the stove was lit the
barrels. To keep the heat around the
burners kept the generator hot and
barrels canvas was thrown over
the gasoline was turned to vapor by
them. This was neces.sary to speed
the heat of the stove.
up the working time of the mash,
Now the can was set on the bricks
and it also served to keep the barrels
in a position directly over the stove.
from being conspicuous. It took
The can was filled to the brim with
about five days for the mash to work
mash and the dome placed on top of
out. When it was through working it
the can. Next the half inch copper
would test at about 32 proof or 16
tubing or coil as it was called, was
percent alcohol.
put in the coil barrel so about eight
After the mash was thoroughly
inches of one end was sticking
worked out it was time to take the
through a hole that had been drilled
still into the hideout, set it up, and
through the coil barrel about three
get it ready for the distilling
inches from the bottom. Then the
operation. The still consisted of one
coil was coiled around inside the coil
tire pump with a six foot air hose.
barrel four or five times. The barrel
one pressure tank, one pressure
was set on a stand high enough so a
stove, can, dome, eight feet of
crock or copper boiler could be set
one-eighth inch copper tubing, 20
under the lower end of the coil, the
feet of half inch copper tubing,
upper end of the coll was connected
gasoline, bricks, four inch strips of
to the small end of the dome.
cloth, five pounds of flour, a small
To keep the alcohol vapor from
mixing bowl, crock or copper boiler,
escaping from the joints of the still a
and a bucket to fill the coil barrel
paste of flour and water was mixed
with water. Although the bucket
and put on a piece of cloth which
was galvanized
the moonshiner
was wrapped around the joints.
never put moonshine in it for if
When the still got hot the paste
alcohol sat in a galvanized bucket
would cook on the still and seal the
very long it became deadly poison.
joints. I have seen th~ moonshiner
In setting up the still the first step
take a match and run it around the
was to put the pr~ure tank in an
joints to check for leaks. If any
upright position where it wouldn't
alcohol vapor was escaping it would
fall over. Next the fill cap was
leave a little blue flame. To stop this
removed and the tank was filled to
the moonshiner would add more
within 12 inches of the top with
paste to the joints.
gasoline. Then the fill cap was
The next step was to fill the coil
screwed back on tight to prevent
barrel with water, pump up the
air leakage. Next the pressure stove
pressure tank to about 40 pounds
was set on the ground about six to
pressure, heat the generator to the
eight feet from the pressure tank.
point where the gasoline would turn
Bricks were piled around
the
to vapor and light the pressure
pressure stove to hold the mash can
stove. At this point
all the
from two to three inches above the
moonshiner had to do was set back
stove.
and wait for the mash to heat to the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL

by Sonya Suggs

point where the alcolldl Would tu,m
to vapor, go down the coil and
condense to liquid form~ and he h-ad
his illegal moonshine being made.
When the first moonshine came
out of the still it would test at about
160 proof, but as the mash got
hotter more water vapor mixed with
the alcohol vapor, causing the
moonshine to get weaker. When it
got to about 40 proof the stove was
turned off and the dome taken off,
the mash dumped, and new mash
added until all the mash went
through the still.
When all the mash was distilled
the moonshine was called first-run
or rotgut. It was of such a poor
grade that even the worst of
alcoholics would frown on it.
To improve the moonshine it all
went back in the still and was rerun.
On the second run the moonshine
came out of the still at about 165
proof, and the distilling was stopped
when the liquor come out at about
50 proof. This was called the second
run. The impurities left in the can
were called tailings and were
dumped on the ground. The second
run improved the moonshine but not
to a point where it could be easily
sold.
To get the best grade the
moonshine
was once again put
through the still; this was called
third run. It came out of the still at
about 170 proof and was stopped at
about 50 proof. Then the tailings
were dumped out again and the
distilling operation was all through.
The moonshiner took his still all
apart and hid all of the parts in
different places so if one part was
found the entire still wasn't lost.
After the third run the moonshine
was about 130 proof. Thi,s meant it
had to be cut down to the desired
proof, around 90 or 100 proof. This
was done by adding warm water to
the moonshine, stirring and testing
occasionally until it )"as at the right
proof to satisfy the moonshiner.
The next step was to color it. This
OCTOBER 23, 1978

By Al Goodman
Pacific News Service
Ron Checchi is part of a national
dilemma.
A 34-year old butcher at a large
Safeway supermarket in San Francisco, Checchi learned his trade after
years of studious apprenticeship to
his father, Hugo. Today, Ron
Checchi runs pre-cut portions of
beef through a saw and reflects on
all the intricate butchers' skills he
knows and never uses.
"We were once judged by skills,
but skills don't matter anymore," he
says. "Anybody can be trained in
seven or eight months to run meat
through the saw."
Across town, Hugo Checchi, 61,
still works behind the meat counter
for a small independent grocer. And
he still carves by hand with almost
surgical precision the huge carcasses
of beef that hang in the meat locker.
Hugo says he's more than a butcher;
he's also the "public relations man"
who sells the meat to his customers.
"Less skills are required in a chain
outfit," says Hugo. "They get equal
pay, but they know less."
Yet most butchers, these days, are
hired by chain stores, not the small
independents. And butchers are not
an Isolated breed in the labor
market.
Throughout America, the need for
skilled workers is on the decline as
• jobs requiring little or no skills are
on the rise. It is a result of radical
and immutable changes occuring in
the U.S. economy-changes
whlch
some economists
and educators
predict could lead to massive
dissatisfaction and social upheaval
across the board of the U.S. labor
force.
A.s American industry continues to
autom'lte ~nil ,ewart bQtb skilled
ancl''/rnsldlled manufacturing jobs,
service sector jobs continue
to

expand and fill the gap. The
Congressional Joint Economic Committee predicted earlier this year
that by 1985, up to 80 percent of
the U.S. workforce
would be
employed in the service sector,
where skill requirements are at a
minimum and there are fewer labor
unions to protect wages.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
predicts that the fastest growing job
slots for the years ahead will be for
dental hygienists, flight attendants,
computer programmers,
teacher's
aides and realtors-none
of which
requires a college education. Labor
unions point to the increasing
demand for secretaries and clerks
"where paperwork is shuffled."
While
not all service sector
employment
is unrewarding
or
underpaid. the statistics show that in
general these jobs are characterized
by low wages, little or no security or
benefits, and little room for career
advancement.
And, says Patrick Mason, research
director of the California Labor
Federation, ..There is no incentive to
stay on the job." The poor pay and
lack of security or incentive has
contributed to growing legions of
migratory workers, drifting from one
poor job to another, from one city to
another, unable to put down roots
or provide
for a family,
say
economic observers.
Columbia University economist Eli
Ginzberg
notes that
although
national weekly earnings averaged
$176 in I 976, the average pay in
service jobs was just $146 and the
retail average only $114. And yet,
he says, three out of four new jobs
in the past 26 years have been in
these catagories.
The decline in skill requirements
has not only hit the high-skill areas,
such as butchers,
tool and dye
makers and other machinists. Auto-

mation has also "de-skilled" jobs at
the supermarket checkout counters,
retail stores and large commercial
chains.
Employees at some McDonald's
restaurants,
for example,
now
merely have to push fries or
milkshakes. The machines then do
all the computing and tally up the
change, an arithmatical task the
employe
once was expected
to
perform.
One McDonald's manager explained that it leads to greater
efficiency and service to the customer. But. says Chris Pipho,
associate director of research for the
Denver-based
Education
Commission of the States, "While the
manager of McDonald's might go
the Kiwanis and talk about kids not
reading or writing, in practice he
hasn't dont' much to help them use
those skill,:·
What has happened, adds Pipho,
i.sthat America has "created a lower
level of jobs where no reading or
writing skills are needed ...
The growth of this "lower level
.caste:· in turn. is a contributing
factor to the failure of schools to
upgrade. or even maintain. educational achievement. some educators
believe.
..In the past. it paid to do well in
school to get a better job," said
Henrv Levin, Stanford University
educ~tion and economics prof~or.
"Tndav
there's the feelin!( that
helter -j~bs represent so few, you
can't get them anyway:·
"I think (students) are aware that
college won't do what it used to do,"
said Rozanne Weissman. a spokeswoman for the National Education
Association.
the nation's
second
largest union. "Teachers have _bee.'.'
tellini,: us about less motivated kids.
This lack of motivation-perhaps
the result of the student's own

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awareness that most jobs are poorly
paid and no longer require much in

the way of skills-has produced just
the sort of job seekers who fit the
"lower level caste" of workers. The
rate of "functional illiteracy"-not
being able to read a newspaper or
fill out a job application-is
about
13 per cent of all 17,year old hi)(h
school students (not counting the
thousands who drop out annuall,·),
according to the federally financed
National Assessment of Educational
Progress. Functional illiteracy amon;.:.
hlacks and Hispanics is believ1·d to
be much higher.
And. while there has be.:·1 some
progress made on the functional
illitt·rac,· rate.... overall ed,1cational

,tanda;d,.
as reflected by the
Colle!,!;c Entrance
ExPmination
Board. ha, t.: tul.<_•n
stead ii~ leclining,
Rctwt..>cn l9WL and 197'1. a,·erage
,eort>s on th•: verbal p(Jrtion of the
Scholastic
Aptitude
Test ha,,.
declined from 478 to 429. a 12..5
perct·11t drop.
~foti,·ation
for education
ha,;:
,11ffered so badlv that mam· schools
arc now rcporti~g an a,·er~ge daily
ah,entec rate as hi1,1;h;\,;;2.~ percent.
Some l:'ducators :ue con,·inced that
the trend in the joh market a,, ay
from johs requiring:
skills and
education has indirect!,· helped to
lower overall educational ~~andards
hy easing the pressure on tt,e schools
and on tht· ~overnment ~o improve
thtlS<' standards. In ott:er word,,._ if
industn·
doesn· 1. need
skil 1 ed
workers: why b0.i1er to prod11ce
skilled students?
'There's a total lack of coordioJ·
tiun hetwe<·:, sc!1ools and the 1·,h
sector."' said the NEA"s \Vei~.r,an.

..Ifs appalling."
\Veis.sman's observation ar ,lies as
well to the other en,• of the
educational spectrum. th ,se oolkge
l.!;raduates who have a 1:quir,:-d hi~h
skills in order to fipd sati: f, ing, gnod
paying jobs.
Federal projection!-" indicate a
surplus of some 950.000 ccilege
graduates in relation to the market
for ~raduates cl•1rin~ the current
period of lfl-4-85.
Th,• Joint
Economic Committee laho, :-.tudy
released this y1·ar predich t ,at this
..clot .. of highly- educated grarl11ates
..will mean re:ativel~· few opp(1rlllnities for new graduates through t!1e
year 2000.··
Of course. what is happenin~ is
that these educated, skilled ,raduall·\ are accepting jobs \\ ell below
their skill levels as ,,dr,;;men.
secretaries and restaurant \\ orkers.
creating a kind of educated proletariat. But at the same timr. thev
are ..bumping down.. hi)(h scho~I
graduates
and the le" skilled
workers who normally fi;; such jobs
into what some economists fear will
be a permanent
underclass
with
virtually
no
prospects
for
advancement.

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George Bowman shows the tree that grew on the site of the log cabin.in
on

which

he was born

Cooper Point.

was done by taking a piece of oak
and shaving it with a carpenter's
plane until he had the right amount
of thin shavings. The shavings were
put in the oven and roasted until
they turned a deep brown. When
they were put in the moonshine it
turned a light amber. When it
reached the color wanted it was
strained through several thicknesses
of fine cloth, bottled and was ready
to be sold. This made the very best
moonshine money could buy.
In 1933 prohibition was repealed
OCTOBER 23, 1978

but this didn't stop the moonshiner
jammer, wagon train, and ox team,
for many years. The last still I saw
they have gone by the wayside, and
in operation in the Cooper Point
are now only legends in the pages of
area was in 1946. But now that the
time.
penalty is so severe and liquor is so
NAMES FOR MOONSHINE
readily available, the old moonBooze, Moon, Shine, Redeye,
shiner is no lon11:eraround. All of
Giggel • Water,
Tangle
Foot,
them that I knew as a boy have
Laughing Water, Fire Water, Kic-apassed on to their final judgment.
poo, Joy Juice, Mountain Dew,
Whether they are down making a
Stillacome Hiballs, Slow Death,
batch now and then for old satan or
Monkey Water, High Power, Stumpapologizing to the good lord for
Juice, And I am sure there were
their misdeeds, I don't know. The
many more.
moonshiner is like the old windCOOPER POINT JOURNAL

The result is a bleak picture for
those at both ends. but specifically
for the less educated minority ,·uuth,
who are hit hardest bv the crunch.
By the end of ·this century,
predicts Stephen Dresch. director of
the Demographic Studies Institute in
Connecticut. the undermining of the
··traditional
mechanisms of social
and economic advancement" will, if
current patterns
hold. lead to
..fundamental and socially traumatic
disruptions .. :·
The inexorable changes now goin~
on. he told the Joint Economic
Committee
will leave ..very few
untouched.'..
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NINE

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nearby and more are in the offing.
How does this all affect us as
human beings? U.S. New• & World
Report presents the statistics that,
second to home and work, Americans now spend more of their time
in shopping malls than anywhere
else. In Olympia, previously characterized by such stores as Sea Mart
and an aging South Sound Center,
the new Capital Mall will undoubtedly leave its mark of change.
Some economists speak of the
uniform growth of chain merchandising and similar mall-type environments in the U.S. as representing a
"nationalization"
that will make
Americans easier to Influence and
control-without
local flavor and
provincialisms.
For Olympia, and the Westside
especially, 1978 America has arrived
in full force.

Indeed. in the past two months.
~roundbreaking
has occurred for
two smaller shopping centers within
c-ne-quarter mile of Capital Mall, i"
addition to the already completed
Capital Village Center next door.
Also. in the past year, three national
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bards, singing their lyrics of faraway
We of the Olympia commun
loves and battles lost. Anyone who
have a newcomer in our midst: the
threatens
to disrupt
profit or
sprawling,
bustling retail center
efficiency
within
the
mall
is subject
which calls itself Capital Mall. This
to
close
scrutiny
(and
probable
new mall is part of a trend which is
exclusion) by the management.
fast sweeping the nation, a conThis means no pamphleteers,
sumer's dream of one-stop shopping
picketen,
or political speakers. No
-park your car and roam about,
ragtag
minstrels
with
open
choosing luxury and necessity from
Instrument
cases. No marriage
various merchants who proudly
processions, taking advantage of the
display their wares in a convenient
collected
multitude to share in a
rectangle of specialty stores.
couple's
new
happiness.
But wait! That's not such a new
In fact, mall management deteridea . . . isn't Capital Mall just a
mines precisely what will be allowed
modern remake of the ancient
under Its roof. There are to be no
marketplace, perhaps the agora of
pushcart peddlen, no hand-lettered
fifth-century
Athens,
where
signs, and no loud hawken shouting
merchants grouped together in the
the virtues of their products.
public square and the community
Security guards roam the halls,
flocked to bu ? You can meet our
ready to evict anyone who chal';),
lenges this authority.
Capital Mall is composed entirely
of retail outlets of large chain stores;
prices are fixed, there is no
possibility of barter or bargaining
with a clerk over a product's worth.
Bu·siness Is conducted
in an
extremely detached fashion. You
inspect the Item, examine the price
tag, and choose whether or not to
buy. An Impersonal clerk rings up
your transaction.
The human
element of the agora is lost; no one
will lower the price to entice you,
no one will talk you Into a purchase
friends In the Mall, browse among
if you are undecided.
the offered goods, become anonyDetached, Impersonal . . . these
mous in the crowds of shoppers,
are key words. They describe
watch all sorts of different people
Capital Mall quite nicely. This
drift by in their common search for
atmosphere of efficient commerce
the latest available wares. Still,
pervades all. Shoppers walk like
Capital Mall Is no agora-so".'ething
zombies through the mall, lured by
seem• Jacking, something Is different
neon signs and bright colon toward
about the general attitude ...
the deceptive warmth of stores.
As you walk into the climateUnllke the agora, with i
and
controlled mall, you are greeted by
succii en :s dllls.~wf noisy c I ren,
a sign which says, "Welcome to
ao.3 'loc -o.:a..t,--dapital
Mall is aCapital Mall. Sorry, no pets, p(e"":5"- stifllng, artificial environment.
Shoes and shirts required. Permission
Just the other day, a young boy
must be obtained from the manageexuberantly jumped over one of the
ment office to use this property for
mall's strategically placed benches.
activities other than shopping."
People were amazed and offended
Automatically, the mall has excluded
by his challenge to solemnity: "Did
much of what made for festivity and
you ,ee that?" "Takes all kinds .. ."'
gaiety in Athens' agora.
"That was pretty amazlnl( . . ." "If
You will not see dogs, cattle, or
It were my kid, I'd throttle
tethered goats wandering . around,
him ... "
adding their animal noises and
And, in planters atllxed to those
earthy smells to the general <:DD· benches, flowen were dying .

by Leslie Oren

from page 1 --the first enterprise in the area to
cnti(.'e two major department stores
tu participate in a mall.
Last summer the development was
rechristened Capital Mall Co. and
development commenced. Since then
other issues have arisen-traffic
problems. grumblings from Westside
businesspeople and residents and the
future of downtown Olympia. A
lack of comprehensive
land-use
planning.
social and economic
impacts upon surrounding
communities and the prospect of future
plaza and retail "strip" development
-among other problems-have been
cited as concerns by many.

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month of a "9 II" emergency
telephone
system In Thurston
County, residents of The Evergreen
State College campus should continue to use the 3333 emergency
number for fastest results from
campus phones, says Director of
Security Mac Smith.
The 3333 number goes directly to
emergency
services on campus
including Security and the campus
fire station, whereas the 911 number
involves an all-county switchboard

'Dining Naturally'
produced.
A big break came when a large
booksellers convention was held in
Seattle. They only got a booth a
couple days before the meeting but
recieved many encouraging words
and good advice. The Post-Intelligencer wrote an article about the
book and Seattle sales picked
up the next day due to the publicity.
Looking
back at the year,
Merrilee reviewed some of the steps
you must undertake to publish your
own book. First, to be capitalistic,
you must re,;earrh vour rP.Arlinu
market. For example, a "how to
repair your air conditioner" manual
may not sell so well in Alaska. Then,
concurrent with the actual writing,
check on the type of paper you want
to use along with coming up with a
cover design and have an idea about
the typesetting.
She emphasized the importance of
hiring an editor to review everything
you've done. If you think you can,
then do your own layout; "It was
rewarding-you
felt like you wrote
the book more." She also said it was
very important to find a reputable

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campus would have to be routed.
For any location off-campus, or
from pay phones on campus,
however, the new 911 system can
connect the caller with fire, police,
Medic One, state patrol and even
the Coast Guard and the Poison
Information
Center. Pay phones
require no coins to use this service.
Approximately 87 percent of the
county is now covered with excep·
tion of areas around Tenino and
Rainier.
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printer and bookbinder; a pooJ job
by either can ruin even the best
work.

Money
handlers
a~pointed
Appointments to The Evergreen
State College Services and Activities
(S&A) Board for fall quarter were
announced Octobr 18 by Bill Hucks,
coordinator.
Students appointed to the Board
were Dave Canning, Jo Charnas,
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Logg. There are still two students
alternate positions open and one
faculty position unfilled.
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Do we need requirements?
111a farn\1,- m,·,·ting

October

4. facult,·

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Willi

Whitewash in dorms

Unsoeld was the

Dear Editor,
What a sad day. What atrocity to add
to the evergrowing heap of administrational blunders. Numb, I say! And you,
Bob Carlson, you who are so entwined
with the people
. , I can't even ask
you why, the utter erroneousness slaps
me so hard. The crime has been
committed. Our humanity once again
takes a giant step backward. I refer of
course to the excorcized, blasphemized,
(is it too early to say} evergreenized
stairwell. All that effort, all the humor,
profundity, inanity, simplicity, insanity,
the questions, the answers, the quips,
quotes,
blurbs,
belches,
bitches,
nitches, stuff of hell and heaven, 1st 'ta
tenth. Shit. History, All nice and white
·n clean ·n god knows how ready for
nice mommies
and daddies
with
moneys and expectations
for the
landlords to take for a ride. Who cares
anymore what kind of ride we get. Who
but mommy 'n dear ol' cash in the
pants dad, who can glide on home with
confidence in whiteness, the evergreen
bulletin, and Jimmy Carter's teeth. I
hope I'm out-a-here before you android
WASP, get to settin this whole place
straight, and I do mean straight! Gee,
it'll be so nice around here with no ugly
green ivy on the walls, no pot smoke in
the dorms, the signs all reading 1traight,
that drug inspired mural out of the lib .
stairs, whited out, the buildings all
locked up, and those smelly students
out-a-here.
Nothing but nice, clean
custodians buffing up the showers and
restrooms, and ol' Dan leading a tidy
group of octogenarians around by the
moneybelts. I could shit. Better find a
restroom (and you better come check
after me too, ya never know what you'll
find written or smeared on the walls).

,pt'akl•r aµain!-it proposed new requirements for graduation from The
1:, t'T\!fl't'n
State College (ser page 2].
Till· rl'q11in·mC"nt that students spend a nummum amount of study in
l"n,,,-di,l'iplin:.u~· programs was discu~ed eight years ago in the planning
,1.11.!.t'' of tlw college. said L'nsoeld. a member of the original planning faculty.
\t that tinw_ the oft-nwntioned
fear was that a student would come here for
l,111r , t•ar!-i and rt•ct:-i\·e an E,·ergreen degree and never do anything but
i,.,ttt-r,
Plan1lt'rs \\ere a~hast at the thought.
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according

to Unsoeld.

it was then-President

Charles

\ll'Cann ,, ho quashed the mm·e for requirements. "Who are we," asked
\leCa1111... ,o sa~· "hat is right for any one individual in their education?" As
l """•Id posed it October 4. "\\'hat if a person does take four years of pottery
1w('(/s four years of pottery.
and then decides it's time to study atomic
1il1, ,ic,;l :\rt"' "P to say that"s , 11.:rong?"'
Pm, ost R~·ron Youtz·,; proposal has its merits, however. in helping to place
.1 n•c'o~nizable
meanin~ and ,·alue on an Evergreen degree, something that
ti,.- ~,·rwral public at times has difficulty doing. Youtz lists the advantages as
induding
that we commit ourselves to both breadth
and depth as an
111,titution. "·e are pressed to make Coordinated
Studies broad learning
npt·rit:nces.
and "t' press our students who over-specialize early.
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t to be O\t'rlnoked is the advantage of a more understanding
public at a
• imt• "hen the collt'ge faces critical challenges.
Thl' mo,·e is Ont that needs careful scrutinv and consideration of all fronts
li."' t'' t•r. Evergr .·en is. by definition
a0d reputation,
an
"alternativ;
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hether one prefers that term or not. A large part of that esoteric
image that ma,· be a 1960's has-been is that the college has NO
HEQURE\IE\'TS.
This is what E'"ergreen has been offering since its
inc-eption. and may be an important
part of the school's image.
\\'hill'
the proposal for these requirements seems to make sense. it is going
tn ha, e lo lw handled carefully and sensitively. Questions should be asked by
all. ··H0\\ i, thi, ~oing lo change Evergreen and its clientele, if at all?"
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Apologies
Th" editors of the Cooper Point Journal regret
lhat thi, issue was not ready to go to press on the
originall\" scheduled publication
date of October
19. Staffing
difficulties
and tragic
personal
circumstances
interferrcd
with
our regular
prodllction
schedule. This issue may be missing
somt! regular
features
for those reasons. We·
apologize for any inconvenience
to our readers
and advertisers.
-Cooper

A big 'What if ...

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"'TOO MANY CHANGes"

Point Journal

In the press conference held in his
office the spokesperson for the innovat 1ve southwest Washington
college,
cited the many reasons for these
changes
"We realized that we were putting
unnecessary hurdles in the paths of
people interested in furthering their
<>ciucat1on It has become apparent after
,f>ven years of working very hard to
< reate and maintain a fresh approach to
lt•c1rn1ngthat our structured admission
,1nci regIstrat10n process was not only
111,,µpropnate bui unwieldy
Although our programs have great
I1t•,1bd1ty and can often be combined
"1th one's employment,"
he stated,
(lllr
Pntry policies have often dist ourd~ed
mature
students
from
t•ntenng Registration has only been
µo~~ible during the week before classes

began each quarter whereas many of
our faculty would be willing to let
people enter the sequence of a program
or initiate an Independent Study Project
in mid quarter.
Now students
can
contract
and pay for the possible
number of units at any point. What we
are doing is changing
from a set
administrative rule to a faculty decision
situation, making continuous registration possible for our students' convenience."
Another
simplification
at TES(
Admissions is the elimination of the
Supplemental
Admission
Form that
required the answering of six essay
questions regarding one's commitment
to the Evergreen approach and was in
addition
to the Washington
State
Uniform Application required by all our
state's colleges and universities.
"We have simply come of age," said
the spokesperson. 'We realized that the
only criterion that was valid regarding
who should be educated, when and for
what reasons was up to the individual.
We hope this new emphasis on our
already existing policies known as the
"Special Student" and "Conditional
Admission" categories which do not
require transcripts
or a 2.0 grade
average in order to obtain credit will
open up schooling for more would-be
students.

"It is well known that many have
done poorly in school because their
self-motivation
was never given an
opportunity to flourish and then after
they had matured they were unable to
get admitted to a college because of
•
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t h e negative picture paont
Y
eor
gradepoint. At Evergreen those people,
young and old, can now have a fresh
start. We trust that the Evaluations
System will keep scholarly standards

high at Evergreen.
"We have watched the success of the
Seattle Pacific University tuition-free
entrance to Senior Citizens programs
since 1973 and believe it's time for
Evergreen to do the same. Including the
seniors at SPU has created a goodwill in
the community and enhanced campus
life and classes with cross--generational
communication.
Grateful seniors leave
gifts to the school and encourage their
grandchildren
to attend.
It's an
everyone-profits situation."
With post-secondary education all
over the world seeking fresh answers to
the problems posed by the yearly
shrinking in the number of 18 year-olds

as well as these same educational
institutions
becoming
aware of the
needs and potential of mature and
re-entering
students,
alternative
approaches like that at Evergreen and
her "sister",
Hamp,hire
College in
Massachusetts,
could
prove to be
extremely valuable.
'We have realized that we have a
model program here that could be
utilized in many schools world-wide to
the enhancement of the quality of
life-long learning to say nothing of
increased employment
potential
for
many men and women,"
said the
Evergreen representative.
- Diane Winslow

Editor: Brian Cantwell
Associate Editor: BarberaSwain
Photography Editor: Sonya S111191
Production Manager: Sherry Buckn1r
Business Manager: Ellzabeth Ul1h
Staff Writers: Leslle Oren, Anni Geddes, Patti Hickey,
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Artists:
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S&A and your money
Editor:
~he S&A Board spends your money.
If you attend
Evergreen tor three
quarters, S150 of your tuition will have
been spent by the S&A Board.
This board is mostly students; six of
them with one faculty and one staff
member. This Board allocates
over
S350,000 to different student groups on
campus. Only this year there is a
problem.
• S&A funds are used to operate two
buildings on campus. These are the
Recreation Center and the Activities
Building. The costs of these buildings
and some other budgets that are
considered operations are requiring a
larger chunk of the total S&A budget
each year. This year operations took
70% of the budget. The year before it
was 63%. It was 56% the preceeding
year. This means the amount left over
after
the essential
operations
is
shrinking
rapidly. This problem
is
accentuated by the S45,000 per year
bond payment S&A will be paying for
CAB Phase 11.
There are still some positions open
on the S&A Board. Come to the
meetings Wednesdays at noon in CAB

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To THECPJ:
Intercity
Transit has expanded its
service to the campus this year. The
bus now makes hourly
trips
to
downtown via the Westside I would
encourage more students as well as
staff and faculty to make use of this
energy-saving service
- Debra lanison

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lThe following is ii newspaper article
regarding ain imaginary situ.J.tion, by
Diane Winslow, ii June 1978 graduate of
HSC]
Editor:
The
Evergreen
State
College
announced yesterday that, effective
1mmed1ately, it would adopt policies of
open admission
as well as open
registration.
This means that now
anyone over 18 can enroll at TESC by
simply filling out a Washington State
Uniform Application and they can do
this at any time in the year, even
mid-quarter, with the approval and a
unit contract
agreement
from the
!acuity they seek to work with. Students
who want to add to previous college
credits have to provide transcripts but
others who want Evergreen credit alone
are not required to submit them. Now
too, Senior Citizens can earn credits at
TESCon a free tuition basis.

TWELVE

-Brent

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OC_TO-B-ER-23-,-1-=e~n

If you thought money has always
been tight. you haven't seen anything
yet.
-Bill Hucks
S&A Coordinator

McNeil writes
to whom it may concern:
I wnte to you m referen<e of poss1bh
receIv1ng correspondence trom one 01
the young lad1e1:,at your campu,
I <'Ima long way from home· ind th,,.,

OCTOBER 23. 1978

/
Is almost a dire necessity for me to
keep in touch with the outside world
I am approximately 6'3" and we,gh
200 pounds and black. Race is no
barrier for me. I am athletically inclined
and wish to broaden my experiences
with someone of the female species.
So. if you'll
please publish my
request, it will be greatly appreciated. I
remain .
Superlatively your,,
Don•ld Gunn
32284-138
P.O. Box 1000
Steilacoom, Wa 98388
PS. I am confined in the Federal
Prison here.

Is Olympia OK?
De:ar Editor: .
This is an unusual letter from a
person in unusual circumstances! My
request is one for info about Olympia
and I wondered, if any one had the
time, if they could write a note to me
about what it's like living in Olympia.
I am a woman alone with a small
baby living on Hadlock, which has the
reputation
of being
sort of an
"unfriendly town". People here are not
very outgoing, and I wish to move from
here to another town. I have no car,
however, and no way to check out the
tov..ns before I move. so as a last resort
I am wrrtmg letters to try to gf't an idea
of "'hat would bf' a frrend!v ~ooci town
to l1vt" In I am writing to you bf'cause

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,tudents at colleges are generally more
honest and ob1ect1ve and maybe some
--tudent at your college would have the
time to answer.
My basic question is· Is the town
friendly, pleasant one to live m where
there's love between neighbors and a
minimum of fighting, or is It other than
this? Is the town full of positive things
for young people to do or are the
teenagers pretty bored there? What is
there to do there that is wholesome?
Do you feel that people are kindly in
Olympia> Are the older people nice to
the young people!
Is Olympia
a
"clean-cut" place?
If anyone had the time to give me an
answer to this letter,
I'd be very
grateful. Thank you so much.
-JHn Jones
P.O. Box 441
H•dlock, WA 98339

Us folks invite you
Editor, CPI:
Us folks down here at Admissions
Iust wanted to tell all the readers of the
CPI that tours of the Evergreen State
College
are given every Monday,
Wednesday, and Fridav at 10·00 AM
and 1 00 PM The tours leave from the
Adm1,;;s1onsOffice and run about an
hour in IPngth they Me mtPrer.lmg
erlurat1onal, dvnamll
1nsp1rr\tmnal ,1nd
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down to Admission, and well educate
you
Sincerely,
The Admissions People

CPJ trite?
To the Editor:
This sure is going to be a swell year
The orientation issue was really neat
Evergreen doesn't sound "-luite what I
thought
it was like here
You've
pictured it as so cute.
We "Evergreeners
Shouldn't
Be
Bored," not when there is so much
"Fun Stufi You Can Get Your Hands
On " We can go "Shopping Cheap In
Olympia " Some of the housing 1~
"
Close and Cheap (Sort Of) .. Sort
on "Surprise, You·re a Minor What to
Do?" I think I'll throw up. You've even
cre.1ted a student body president.
Now that I've been told not to be a
sitting geoduck for the second time ,n
three years, and that Olympia cocktail
lounges are somehow classier than our
local bars, I'm sure vertigo is setting rn
But on the other hand, Brian, maybe
the image you portray Is accurate after
all. Disco dancing is the second most
popular leisure education class this fall
Polit1eal inactivity on campus seems
greater than ever
Listen Brian, lets c;tart a 1rc1tern1t\ at
I vergrf'pn You'll bf' sue h ,1 1:!<>0ci
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Ever wonder why Mona Lisa had
the highway blues (" ... you can tell
by the way she smiles." -Bob
Dylan)? Well, the reason is that she
had just consumed large quantities
of American road food and her
stomach was upset. Sound familiar?
Wouldn't it be nice if someone
took the time to find nice,
wholesome and nutritious restaurants and compiled a list of them for
the weary traveller? With the recent
publication of Dining Naturally in
the Pacific Northwest, two 1977
Evergreen graduates, Merrilee Pruitt
and Thomas Yesberger, have fulfilled such a need.
Their book, subtitled, "A Guide to
Vegetarian and Natural Food Restaurants", was conceived during a
.rip they took across the North
Cascades. In the authors' words, "it
occurred to us that . . . there was
not an alternative
guide for a
natural-food conscious traveler."
Through health food stores, telephone directories
and word of
mouth they were exposed to "more
good places to eat than we had
previously imagined,"
To be included in the book a
restaurant
had to meet severa 1
The menu had to offer at
some vegetarian
dishes of
comparable quality to the meat

choices. The prepared food was· to
be cooked -ideally with fresh natural
ingredients. However, because of the
remoteness of some of the areas
visited, mixed menus were acceptable. The feeling was that anything
is better than to have to squander
your money on places like, say, Joe's
Taco Heaven.
Three separate categories were
used to classify each establishment
they visited. These were "Vegetarian," "Natural
Foods",
and
"Natural
Food Selections."
The
prices listed are itenerallv reasonable
ranging from Walla Walla~ College
Place Dairy" where most everything
is under a dollar, to a "unique five
course experience," served up at the
Vitium Capitale" (and you'll have
to buy the book to learn what that
means) in Seattle.
Dining Naturally is organized into
geographical
sections with areas
listed from Vancouver to Oregon.
There are nice illustrations and an
index.
On the homefront, Olympia is
represented
with three listings:
"Gnu Deli," ''The Lunch Box," and
the "Rainbow Restaurant."
The book is available for $2.95 at
the TESC Bookstore, or by writing:
Dining Naturally, 8806 218th S.W.,
Edmonds, WA 98020.

-Andy

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homegrown product for Evergreeners
a good place to eat they noted it for
future reference. The idea of a book
seemed obvious.
In January of 1978 the actual
work began. To finance themselves
Tom and Merrilee had to borrow
money from a friend. Publishing
costs alone ended up near $4000 and

Thomas Yesberger and Merrilee
Pruitt began thinking about writing
Vining Naturally
a year ago
September. Both are vegetarians of
long standing and were frustrated at
oot bein1<able to locate good natural
lood restaurants even in a large city
lkc Seattle. So whenever they found

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costs or any salary compensation.
There was no guarantee for the two
Evergreen students that they would
sell a single book; mainly they had a
lot of faith and even more energy.
Visiting the restaurants
in the
Pacific Northwest did not take as
much time as one would expect. The
authors would dine like any other
customers and then tell the restaurant of their book plans. Cooking
techniques were discussed along with
a check on the freshness and quality
of the ingredients. Usually, _then,_the
restaurant staff would give them
names of other
natural
food
establishments in the area.
What took most of their time was
writing,
layout,
figuring type
and printing, along with the overall
design.
Another factor they had to work
with was that basically neither Tom
nor Merrilee
had any previous
experience
in writing
or selfpublication of a book. At present,
Tom is studying classical piano at
the University of Washington and
Merrilee is planning to apply to
veterinarian school.
Dining Naturally then was only a
part time hassle: he had to practice
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Halt way through they decided to
show' a skeletal
outline
to a
publisher. The book was immediately turned down. Merrilee feels now
that they should have had the book
closer to completion before letting
anyone see it.
Financially,
when a publisher
takes on a first book like Dining
Naturally, the authors can expect to
make very little, unless their book
turns out to be another Whole Earth
Catalogue which is obviously the
exception to the rule.
Tom did most of the layout. The
work was long and tedious. At one
point the couple put in over 40
hours placing corrected copy back
on the page by han~.
The
appearance of the book became its
strength-retailer
and distributors
were impressed.
With the firms who did the
printing and typesetting Tom and
Merrilee found themselves constantly
correcting small flaws and generally
haggling over minor but important
details: "If you know what you
want, insist on it." The book was
finally finished on September 10,
1978. Six thousand copies were

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excellent and some of the stars
(notably Anna Magnani) went on to
become
famous.
The film is
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dares to be humorous.
ORPHEUS-Only
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fantastic insanity that is a modern
day version of the Greek myth.
The angel of death is escorted by
cop-like motorcyclists, Orpheus ripsoff poems from hell via a car radio,
people go through mirrors, eel., but
It is all very coherent.
Made in 1948, the bombed out
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the subliminally Nazi-like escorts
must have had quite an effect on
French audiences when the film was
released. The final shot. when the
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own doom, i., one of the finest
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& HAVE NOT -I know this makes
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these two Howard Hawk, films I
liked better.
"His Girl Frida,··· is more of a
perfect film, one that i find flawless.
It's based on Hellman's 'The Front
Page". but Hawks put.\ a woman.
instead of a male. in the role of
Hildy the reporter. Rosalind Russd
is stunning in what is possihly the
strong:est role any woman has t'' er
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-Humphrey
Bogart and Lauren
Bacall together on the screen for the
lirst time (it was Bacall's first film)
Their chemistrv blended just right
and Bacall was ;ever better. despite
the fact that her sin$,.!in~ \ oiee is
dubbed bv Andv Williams. The plot
just seem~ to e~ist a~ an excuse for
Bogart, Bacall. and a drunken
\Valter Brennan to do their antics
111dmake both the "~ood guys" and
he evil Nazis look like fools.
The Five Worst
ADVENTURES OF GERARDJerzy Skolimowski's idiotic parod,· of
the Napoleonic wars is unbearable
hcrnnd belief. .\lost of the gags are
i11~rl'dihlv o;;adistic and nauseating,
,,nd the- character, are more like
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~o
,ndcr it was nevt.•r r• lea~ecl
THE .\IAGIC C.HRISTl.·\'-:\11nthcr one of those hip epic., "here
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mavhe those still in their anal ~ta~e.
MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT 0 -,lloward Hawks made a lot of great
film~ in his Ion~ career. and ,1,me
bad ones. He ,i.·as one of thnse
old-timers who just couldn·t gra,;;p
on to the 60's (this filrn was made in
'64) and his films from that ch·cade

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The Friday Night Film series is students in the 70's just don't want
still conducting a survey in which
to see themselves portrayed
too
our faithful audiences can rate the closely or realistically on the screen.
Bernardo (1900, Last Tango in
films shown last year on a one to ten
basis.
Paris) Bertolucc!'s second feature
In the last issue of the CPJ. Gary film, made in 1962, when he, was
22 brilliantly examines the state of
Alan May, the retirhg coordinator
of the series, gave his views as to afiairs of a young, upper-middle
what were the five best and five class communist who discovers that
worst films of the season Uune '77 to he'd too bourgeous to stay a radical.
He develops a "nostalgia for the
June '78). Having the dubious
present" and sees that people like
position of his successor, I thought
him can only live "before the
I'd get my two cents in with a more
detailed look at the five best and . revolution", not after. I first saw this
film years ago with a friend who
five worst. (Best and worst in this
had just quit the Communist party
scribe's opinion, anyway.)
and he flipped.
I figured, seeing whereas I'm just
Most of the people in Lecture Hall
starting out' as FNF Coordinator,
One this year walked out. Although
that this would also five people
it may be hard for some to get
somewhat of an idea as to where I'm
through the first viewing (believe me
at in my outlook on different kinds
it moves faster everytime you see it),
of films. And remember, don't take
this is one of the most important and
any of this too seriously, even if I
courageous films of the 60's.
do.
The Five Best
BONAPARTE AND THE REVOLUTION-Abel Gance's four and a
half hour epic of the French
Revolution and Napoleon's role in it.
Made in 1925, before sound came
in, this is certainly more advanced
than Eisenstein· in terms of editing,
camera movement, and something
else-soundl Although talkies would
not exist until a few years later,
Cance foresaw the phenomenon and
shot the film for dialogue silently,
then added the sound years later.
The slip synching comes across fine.
Besides its cinematic achievements
(including
cameras strapped
to
people's chests and horses, along
with rapid fire montage), the film
OPEN CITY-Planned
secretly in
stands as a valuable comment on the
Rome while the Nazis were occupynature of revolution.
ing the city, the classic is a
Although Cance may be wrong in
testament to humanity. Often cited
trying
to favorably
compare
as the £irst neo-realist
film (it
Napoleon to Marx, the scenes of the
actually isn't), it powerfully portrays
revolutionaries being betrayed and
1Ju, life of those active in the
wiped out by those they put in
underground resistance.
1'9..,'i,"'\ill'"fi~,tme ,u;.., ·vafoa:ble
Director Roberto Rossellini and
lesson to this day-from
Butcher's
crew (which included scriot writer
Lenin and Trotsky's crushing or
Federico Fellini and people actually
worker's rebellions in early 1920
active---m the umietgrouncl) had fo
Russia to what- is ·h11ppening- In·
develop film in bathtubs and fool
Cambodia today.
the authorities into thinking they
Napoleon curiously looks like Rod
were making a documentary.
Stewart, and Marat, Robspierre, etc.
The film was finished and released
all seem like 18th century yippies.
after the liberation
and had a
Ah, but who can ever forget the
profound and lasting effect on the
scene where Napoleon faces their
art of cinema. Never before had thi.s
tihosts in the assembly hall.
kind of newsreel
realism and
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION-I
naturalistic
acting been seen in
predicted that this one wouldn't be
movie theatres
throughout
the
popular here, and I was rightworld. The acting is uniformly
which is a shame. Seems so many

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