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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 7, Issue 5 (January 18, 1979)
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18 January 1979
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vergreen
Reaches Out
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by Tom Skjervold
To Olympia
Evergreen . . . Hippyhaven? The
far-out edge of a far-flung universe?
Four years ago, my "college
counselor" at Timberline High School,
way out in Lacey, told me the world
held better for me than this poor
excuse for a school. Well, now here I
am and I love it. My counselor was
dead wrong.
CONFRONTATION-Counselor, what
do you thinklll
I met a man who hails from
Tumwater High, Doug Riddels, who
tells a similar story about hiah school
counselors and Evergreen. Recently we
both returned to our respective alma
maters, the first time with our good
President, Dan Evans, to sell Evera,een
to the local hiah school students, and
then, a second visit to interview colleae
counselors, determine the impact of the
recruiting ba,-,.ge, and aauae
presentday attitudes towatds this school.
On our little reconnaissance trips we
learned that Evera,eenneeds to better
communicate its educational philosophy to the high schools and that there
is some local support for this
institution. The answers we aot to
specific questlo('s were remartcably
alike. For lnsblnce, both counselors
believe that students speakln1 to
students Is the best way to approach
the high school population.
When asked about the effects of
Evans' visit on Tumwater students,
counselor Doris Burke said "Evans
didn't effect students all that much.
They respond more to what other
students say about the collep."
Out at Timberline, Ms. Evelyn Roee,-s
told me Dan Evans was a "fine
1entlernan" worit\n1 well for the school,
but that "what really Impresses the kids
here is to see you students and listen to
what you have to say about the
school."
Both Ms. Roaers and Ms. Burt(e noted
that an ongoin1 problem is a lack of
understandin1 of the Everareeneducational processes amongst the local h!1h
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school students; they do not understand how evaluations can work in
place of grades and many seem to
believe that by producing an occasional
woven basket, students here maintain
good academic standin1. Ms. Burke
guessed that one to two percent of
Tumwater's students understand Evergreen's academic structure. In the
Council on Post-Secondary Education's
report this misinformation
matter
comes out as a major point where the
colleae could Improve its record of
recruiting local araduatlna seniors.
Do either of these hi1h school
counselors like or recommend Evergreen? Ms. Buri(e was on one of the
orlginal plannina committees, back
when there was nothln1 on this campus
but mud and quonset huts. "I've always
been sold on Everareen's educational
philosophy;
It's
excltlna
and
demandina." She has tauaht at a junJor
hlah school that pve written evaluations, and she feels that "not 1Mna
letter arades Is a far better w_ay to
evalwde."
Ms, Roae,, also sees [vetifee11 as a
aoodschool these days. "I know for
myself I would like very much to take a
class out there. There are locs ol aood
eduutional opportunities."
In talklna to Ms. RCllffl I $1,pposed
her own Interest in the colleae meant
she did recommend it to Timberline
students. "Oh, yes," she answered
emphatically, "but you know, it's their
parents who don't like E~eeu.
I'll
say, Why don't you ao to CWflleenr
and I'll ,et answers like, 'My perents
would never let me,' . or 'My father
would kilt me."'
Ms. Burt(e described a like situation
at Tumwater. Students listen to parents
and the parents believe what they read
In the papers. She told Doua that
student responses to a survey several
years aao"were direct quotes from the
Daily Olympian" and that "there's more
to education than aood concepts. The
bi1 problem Is the editor of the Daily
C
Pleue tum to pqe' e l•v~
.. And Nationwide
by John Bauman
Last Christmas break, over 150
students went back to their home towns
armed with packets of information
about Evergreen, to be dropped off at
their old hi1h schools. While doin1 this
many of these students had a chance to
talk about Everareen with teachers,
counselors, and perhaps more importantly, students.
But all this, says organizer Carol
Ellick, is only the beginnina. Far from
being a one time thing, she plans to
have students spread promotional
literature and aood feelings about
Evergreen over each quarter break.
Since higher enrollment Is of such
importance, this student-Initiated and
-run project could be a decldina factor
in the survival of Evergreen as we know
it.
Officially, the responsibility for
recruitment lies with Admissions, but
the staff at Admissions have their hands
tied in several ways. Thou1h a great
many students come here from out of
state, the school can do little
recruitment outside of Washinaton. No
public money can be used for this, only
privately donated funds. Thus official
recruitment is nealiai,ble out-of-state.
Even in Washlnaton, official representatives can only ., to a school to
which they have been invited. In
addition to these problems, one must
question how effective official recruitment proa,ams are. It has been shown
that most students here found out
about the school from personal
contacts with other Ever1reenstudents.
We can not rely on Admi"ions to
rescue Everareen from its "unknown"
status nationwide.
In order to learn from the experiences people had white disb"ibutina
Information, to discuss problems, and
to plan for the future, a foffow.yp
meetin1 will be held in library 4300 on
Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7:45 p.m. All
people who visited hiah schools during
Christmas break, or who a.re lnterestad
in doina so in the future, are uraed to
attend.
.In the Halls
of Justice
Editors' note:
One of the largest mass trials in United States history took place in Seattle
from DKember 26 te January 2, as the f«Jeral ,overnment brouaht to trial 181
persons charged with the crime of ~nterin1
the propo~ base of the Trident
Nuclear SubmarinJ and Missile System at Ban,or on scenic Hood Canal.
On May 22, 1978, nearly 300 persons jumped over the fence su"oundlng the
Ban,o, submarine ~,
to protest the Trident system and to call attention to
the Unlt«J Nations special ses.sionon disarmament schedu/«J.to begin in New
York the next day. The protestorswere arrested, but released uncharged in
Tacoma.They returned to Ban,or the next day and 181 of them, alon1 with
about 85 others, jumped the fence apln.
The 85 wt,o entered the base fot the first time on rhe 23rd had charges
dropped because of the difficulty of provinB trespassin1. The other 181 charged
with re-entry were found suilty on January 2. Sentencin1 will be on January 26,
and defendents face a possible sentence of shemonths in jail and a J.500 fine.
Tom Nogle, was a defendant in the trial. What follows are his trial notes ana
other observations.
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In 1977 the campaian a,ainst Trident had been g<)ing for several years and
had built some momentum. We had an office 1n the Labor Temple in Seattle
and we were beainnina to reach out to outlyin1 areas like Eugene, Portland and
Olympia. The May 22 Coalition came into bein1 durin1 that period. This group
of fifteen people, representina several pacifist and anti-nuke oraanizations (Live
Without Trident, Pacific life Community, Fellowship of Reconciliation), were to
take on the respon$1bllityfor a demonstration on May 22, 1978.
By doing this, live Without Trident, the parent oraanlzation, could continue
with the main part of the work-the dissemination of Information about Trident
to the woritina class and the middle class throuah benefits, leaflettin1 and
speakln1 engagements. Both orpnizations covered much of the same ground in
their activities.
The separatf attraction of the May 22 Coalition was that It placed limits on
the duration of one's commitment. I think I will, after a year of volunteering for
them, reduce my commitment and encourage other, to ,et involved. I may
work on the defense case of John Calambokldis and Patrick Barnes, who were
arrested on Christmas dar, which will confine my commitment to a small
number of people. I fee less intimidated that way and It 1ives us more
opportunity for air time, which we all appf'e<:late.
The Coalition was an active and movina. aroup, thouah their analysis was
limited by the dari(ness that always accompanies political practice. Sometimes
you really don't know if anything you are dolna is havinaany effect.
After the demonstration on May 21-23, we became immediately awareof the
dense maze that we faced next: the ensulna fecalprocess. We met across from
the last Exit coffeehouse in Settle at the American Friends Service Committee's
(AFSC) buildina. The results of the meetina were division and confusion. The
way the trial developed made me understand those sentiments more clearly.
As defendants we could probably have had the case dismissed, If we had
refused to stipulate (admit) to the evidence that the aovemment had to prove
their case. But If we rocked the boat by refusin1 to admit our aullt to the
re-entry charges, Judae Voorhees would have replied by refusing to hear our
defenses which were necessity (that our actions were justified In order to
prevent a 1reater harm), international law (the buildln1 of Trident is illepl by
defyln1 treaties, which Article VI of the Constitution defines as part of the
supreme law of the land), and the Canadian, or endan,ered nations, defense
(foreian citizens do not have any leaal recourse to prevent the harm which
Trident represents).
We were confused about the stipulation Issue. Some people wanted to aet
off, some dldn'L Most of the defendents who participated in the trial didn't
care if they wttre dismissed on technicalities found by our public defenders, Bill
Bender and Irwin ~hwartz.
In the end, the &ovet'nmentand public defenders dominated half of the trial
time with irrelevant arauments (only five cases were dismissed because of
insufficient evidence), and the debate that developed durin1 those two days
Plew tum to pqe eight
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Cult Dreams ...
To the Editors
Most good films have a "cult"
following. There are people who will
drive hundreds of miles to see "The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," and
basket case, who'll cry through every
show in a week's run of "Cone With
The Wind." What TJ appears to mean
by "cult films" is "popular films I don't
like
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like
Letters IL@~®~ Letters
JL~~
Siegfried
Kracauer
{a pioneer
film aesthetician who blames expressionist cinema for all that is wrong with
TJ saw it only once himself, but he
feels comfortable saying ". . . a lot of
;,eople were thoroughly repulsed by it.
(I must say, however, that probably an
equal number thought it was great.]"
I really don't know how to wrap up
this
diatribe
with
or
respectable critic.
Tha_nkyou for coming and taking a
hold of my life. Your soft touch and
color are so kind to my hard skin. I
know there are many others you could
have chosen, and probably will as time
goes on. But for now I relish these
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thorny husk. There are roses, but winter
ran never find them because of the
looks at them.
·Harold and Maude," and "The Ruling
Class • are popular is that people like
this kind of stuff-and
boy, is this an
old '-torv The great artists have never
been the most popular
artists-it's
dh, avs been the entertainers who drew
the ,1ud1ences
To the Editors:
I would like to take exception to TJ
Simpson's critique
of cult films in the
theme In common-that
insanity
wonderful and next to godliness."
Simpson
follows
that
by Doug Plummer
Tuesday evenings at eight o'clock,
the Patrons of South Sound Cultural
Arts and The Evergreen State College
sponsor
concerts
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phrase by
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class.
kind
of
enough
rhetorical
through
flaw
is
the article,
but what bothers me most is that
Simpson has adopted the pose of the
critic too sophisticated and perceptive
to tolerate even a momentary lapse
It's a little tough lo respond to TJ's
from
the
highest
and most serious
d1sm1ssal of "Fellini Satyricon" without
sounding like "is not" - "is too'', but I
standards of "cinema
as art." The
reason he can't seem to enjoy cult films
feel I must try He said: "Satyricon .
is that he lacks humor and the sense of
undoubtedly
his worst,
least
humanist, and most artistically corrupt
work " It's not
It's a quite literal
rend1t1on of Petronious'
Satyricon,
which Is a satirical history of Nero's
Rome-an inhuman and corrupt era if
ever there was one I think the reason
n's so popular Is that it is a humanist
tdm, and that it's a marvelous allegory
of twentieth-century decadence. Why is
his other stuff not so popular? lots of
It Is too depressing, and lots of it is
popular, far more popular than almost
any other truly great director's works
irony that goes with it.
1s
to "Cult Dreams
of the Midnight Audience," TJ equates
art" w11h"Chabrol or Godard" Chabrol
is doing all right these days, but he
hasn't changed much since the Sixties
Godard has not made a significant film
since the sIxtIes, or any dramatic film at
all since 1971. This tendency to think in
terms of the sixties caused TJ to miss
the boat at the midnight screening of
"Eraserhead"
"Eraserhead" Is all the things he said
"decapitations, nauseating dream
sequences,
fetus
stomping,
fetus
It Is
enough
grossness for a hundred Polanski films."
ln the middle of all this carnage is
Henry, a perpetually fearful, completely
helpless
pawn
in an exquisitely
horrifying world Hts refuge is a tiny
dppartment ,n an enormous, anonymous city bowel, in It Is a tiny altar he
fills with tiny wormlike dirt fetishes
searched out In dirtheaps and alleys,
and an oracular radiator, at which he
,;,tares for long periods,
dreaming
Henry's bodv Is a farm, or a plant His
head Is the produce, or the fruit High
quality pencderaserrubber
The
theme of Eraserhead may be
1nd1v1duahtv Is 1mag1nary," but I can't
sdy for sure Eraser head Is the product
of ,;everal thousands of hours of hard
worl and deep thought I only saw It
on~t~
If Simpson lacks humor and a sense
of irony, his "seriousness" aS a critic
probably gives him a positive aversion
Meet the Press
hedonism These three failings would
Show." I can predict his hasty exit with
some confidence, since I doubt our
honest and straightforward
critic has
ever seen the movie he dismisses as
being "beneath contempt." If he had,
he'd
have
seen
few
high
school
students in the audience and he'd have
felt awfully uneasy about calling it a
"kinky kiddy show." Kinky it is, but a
k1ddy show it is not. II is a parody of
After a long silence, the Cooper Point
Journal is now back in print as a
biweekly community newspaper. There
have been some changes during the
interim: the CPJ now has a new office,
CAB 104, and a new editorship. It is
now edited
by a seven-member
collective.
The new
collective
editorship
is
science fiction and horror films, but
delving into that genre doesn't mean
it's juvenile.
committed to making the Cooper Point
Journal a reflection of the wants and
needs of the paper's readers rather than
of the editors themselves. We're hoping
for a lot of people to be involved in all
If that Is the criterion, then I imagine
the enthusiasm for "Star Wars" gave
aspects
writing,
Simpson fits
graphics, typing, whatever.
purity
of
of 'ooncern about
cinema.
the
Further,
Simpson's
"kiddy show" was based on a British
musical which was voted the best
musical of 1973 in the "London Evening
Standard" annual poll of drama critics.
"Rocky Horror" is a musical, but it's
the most outrageous one you are ever
likely lo see It blasts cherished notions
of morality
and propriety,
and on that
count alone Simpson should have loved
it, since he apparently does not care for
middle class hypocrisy It's also a hell
of a lot of fun and it's easy to see why
the raunchy power of "Time Warp" and
Dr Frank N Furter's follow-op number
could get an audience
shouting and dancmR
on
its feet,
of TESC student presentations, each
detailing a different aspect of pollution
in Puget
Sound.
Michael
Price
presented the results of a study he
directed of heavy metal pollution in the
Sound, and its possible effect on people
using the Sound as a food source. The
second
presentation,
by
John
Calambokidis, concerned the impact of
pollution on harbor seals, as well as a
general study of their habitat and
activities.
Michael
Price was the Student
Director of a study of heavy metal
concentrations in fish and shellfish
and the possible nazarcls to people who'
dig and eat clams from the region.
Price's study, the first of its kind in
the state, covered the south central
Puget Sound region, from north of
Vashon Island to MacNeil Island. The
process was two-fold: first, to survey
people at access points to public
tidelands to determine the type and
amount of clams taken and consumed,
and second, to collect several species
of shellfish to test for concentrations of
heavy metals. The substances tested for
were mercury, lead, cadmium,
zinc, and arsenic.
copper,
The report was presented last year to
the Oreaon Marine Bioloaical Society
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and received
the Award of Excellence for the best
paper of the conference. This prestigious award Is usually aiven to, the
"best paper by a 1raduate or doctoral
students". Michael was a third year
student at the time of the study. Dr.
Kaye V. Ladd, faculty advisor for the
aroup, credits Everareen's structure and
interdisciplinary
approach for the
quality of the study.
The second presentation
of the
evening was by John Calambokidis,
whose group devoted over a year to the
study of the habitat and activities of
the Harbor Seal in Washington State
waters, as well as the measurement of
the impact of pollution on the seals.
Calambokldis beaan with a short history
of the harbor seal in this region.
The harbor seal population has been
steadily declining since white settl.,_
ment of this region. The period from
1923 to 1960 was particularly disasterous for the seal population. A bounty
is rather shallow, and might be applied
equally well to "Don Qiuxote."
precipitate him in a rush from a theater
showing ''The Rocky Horror Picture
of lectures
and
Communications
waters.
All he saw in "King of Hearts" was
that the insane were being misrepresented as beautiful and carefree. The
movie was a novel expression of a fairly
common theme (war is insane) but
art, after all, is in the expression.
Simpson's criticism of "King of Hearts"
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series
the
Price then mapped the levels and
distribution
of these metals in the
region. levels were found to be higher
north
of
Tacoma
and
around
Commencement
Bay than south of
Tacoma. At this time, the study
concludes,
It dol!sn't appear •that
people are exposed to hazardous
concentrations
of these metals by
eating dams and fish from these
to be a common trait of the middle
This
in
The season's first offering was a pair
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is
a
Building Recital Hall. The cost is just
one dollar.
I
cult films usually have the same
common
splarrer1ngs, blood flowing . .
a method for me to return
to you, should you want your
First of all, some of his observations
about the characteristics of cult films
don't seem to be original. I'm damned
if I can remember the source, but one
line
seems particularly
familiar:
people, who need better care, to be
bombarded with the hip, pop psychology of "King of Hearts". Yet "King of
In his mtroduct1on
To the Editors:
I'm open to input concernina the
concept
of developina
a public
relation, documentary
film demQnstratina in lucid fashion the potential,
of 'The Everareen State Colleae Experience' to either the local community or
the potential future alumni presently
scratchina their heads in far away
obscure corners within the Washinaton
locality.
Reply will be preferably
accepted typewritten any ol' way. Or
personal contact miaht be more fun for
us if you can manage a spontaneous
confrontation with me. Be imaginative,
careful, loving, and commital . . you
may be selected to demonstrate your
concept yourself! Put them in Don
Fassett's or Bob Filmer's mailbox in Lab
I first floor. Please address them to: Hal
Sweren CINEMA CONCEPTS•••• and
effort to be successful. Thanx much .
and keep yer tools sharp!!!!
Hal Sweren
the rock
observing that the "dangerous notion"
Is a "very middle class one." I realize
that for some students ''middle class" is
an insulting and damaging epithet, but
even the most ardent radicals would
hesitate to claim adoration of insanity
the Fr1day Nite Film Series."
Promo Films
include
contact
moments and feel warm within the
clouds that are our minds.
Love and kisses,
December 7 Cooper Point Journal.
H,n 1ng vvor~ed two years in a state
nwntal ho~p1tal, TJ is insulted by the
beal1t11ul, wise and fun-loving crazies in
i-..mg ot Hearts" Aw, come on, TJ. To
be sure, the film Is a little cutesie
and/or wh1ms1cal, but it's nothing to
get upset about It's about as offensive
to real wackos as "Winnie the Pooh" is
to grizzly bears And by the way, TJ, I
resent the implication
in these two
sentences
"It's an insult to these
Hearts" 1s the most requested film for
Kennedy Poyser
Dear moss,
does a rose, leaving only a dry and
Tl's second error In method is to
blame the films for the audience, a
mistake that Kracauer regularly made.
The reason that "King of Hearts,"
"Eraserhead."
Funk Rock
Cary Alan Mav
scrutinizes his subject with a glare that
withers its life and beauty as the winter
1t
zinaer,
anythina like that, so I'll try this: TJ
said: " ... a cu/f film generally does not
get good reviews from most critics
especiaJ/y the more respectable ones." I
don't want to debate this pc;,int, but
hidden within it is the basic difference
between TJ and myself. I don't believe
that there is such a thing as a
the world, including Nazism), TJ takes
himself a little too seriously, and
wav
a real
Finally, Simpson implies that the
films are all contemptible because they
are cult films. A film is not suspect
because it doesn't meet with immediate
success but later attracts a followina. If
this were so, then Bergman's films
would have to be thrown out with the
rest of the lot. You also can't discuss
cult films as a unit. I enjoyed "Rocky
Horror" but see few parallels with
Pollution
onPuget
Sound
of producing
the
reporting,
photos,
paperlayout,
There are open meetings
every
Monday at noon in the paper's office
when anyone can have input on
decisions, and find out what needs to
be done. Please also feel fiee to drop in
and talk lo us any time during office
hours, which are posted on the door.
We'd like people to become involved
in the Cooper Point Journal in whatever
capacity and to whatever extent they
choose, from typing a few pages of
copy to voicing opinions and suggestions as to the newspaper's direction, to
becoming a member of the editOrship.
And, of course, w•'II always be looking
for writers.
Once the new editorial staff and the
new office gel more reasonably settled,
we plan to provide skills workshops in
writing, layout, interviewing; whatever
people show an interest in learning or
teaching
that
has to do with
the
production of a newspaper.
After much worry and confusion {no
ad sales people, no business manager,
little experience). here's our first issue.
Let us know what you think of it.
We'd like to express thanks and
appreciation
to the many people
who've supported us anq helped us get
this far, including Brian Cantwell, Liz
Ulsh, Lynn Carner, people writina for
this issue, the staff of the Northwest
Passage,and others.
Again, let us emphasize that the
success of the Cooper Point Journal is
largely dependent upon the kind of
support it receivP.s. The CPJ has always
called itself a community paper, and
this
is
what
we
are
trying
accomplish.
Pearl Knight
• Alexis Jetter
Paul Fink
Pam Dusenberry
Robin Willett
Doug Riddels
Rob Fromm
T
to
was placed on the seal, for it was
believed
to be a threat
to the
commercial harvest of salmon. large
numbers were decimated. The seal is
now legally protected by the Marine
Mammals Protection Act.
The group, after making repeated
visits to seal gathering spots along
Puget Sound, estimates the seal
population of the state to be about
6,300, somewhat higher than previous
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estimates.
The population study was only one
aspect of the group's research. The
group made detailed observations of
birthing, mother-pup interactions, and
eating habits. They discovered that the
seal's food habits vary throughout the
state, and in none of their habitats do
they consume
salmon.
significant
In their pollution
group
tested
for
numbers of
impact study, the
concentrations
of
PCB's and DDE in the blubber of the
seal, to see if a link exists between the
presence of these substances and the
mortality
rate of the seals. PCB's are a
family of plastics used in industry that
have been found to be extremely toxic
and dangerous to the environment
DDE is a product of the breakdown of
DDT, the pesticide banned for most
purposes in the U.S. since 1972.
In 1974, however, in an attempt to
control the Tussock moth, one-half
million
acres
of
were sprayed.
known
to
Washington
affect
the
of
animals,
capabilities
substailces
forests
PCB's and DDE are
are being
reproductive
and
found
both
in the
Stone Thomas of Evergreen's Third World Coalition, reads Martin Luther King's
"I H_avea Dream" speech at a memorial service held Monday, January 15 at the
Capitol Rotunda, _celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. King's birth
Following the reading of a dedication from Governor Dixie Lee Ray ,n which
she declared January 15 Martin Luther King Day, Tom Dixon of the Tacoma
Urban League spoke on continuing the work of Dr. King, and a group of black
children and young adults put on a dance and fashion show celebrating black
harbor seal.
The highest levels of these two toxins
were found in seals in southerq__Puget
Sound. The highest pup mortality
occurred here as well. Still, Calambokidis said, the link is more suggestive
than proven. Abortions and abandonment
can
disturbance
be caused
by human
as well. More research is
needed to determine the cause of the
high'tf infant mortality rate.
Since, as Calambokidis pointed out,
much is not known about the harbor
seal, the group's observations added a
great deal to the current knowledge of
the animal's behavior. Dr. Steven
Herman was the faculty advisor tor, the
group.
Both projects were funded by arants
from the National Science Foundation,
through the Student Originated Studies
proaram. The SOS grants are awarded
to research projects, usually of an
environmental
nature, that are initiated
and directed entirely by students.
Evergreen does extremely well in the
tight competition for the grants, which
average $10,000 to $15,000. last year,
Evergreen received two of the sixty-four
grants awarded nationwide.
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first
time
contents of individual
at TESC, the
contractees' names confidential, and at
the same time allow exposure of their
ideas.
The contracts have numbers which
can correspond to a mail-slot system in
the CAB building. I am asking for help
on the mail system, from the people
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interested in the project.
The foreseen
benefits
of
the
offices (Academic Advising, etc.), and
to allow beginning
students the
opportunity to understand what it takes
to
prepare
contract.
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redesigning
the
anyone that is
pamphlet are to increase the awareness
of the student population, faculty, key
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and
from
and
mstItut1ons of higher learning
The pamphlets should be available
within the next ten days. They will be
located around the school, and there
will be a box at the information booth
for written opinions and criticisms.
Please lake advantage
of this
opportunity lo get to know some of the
ideas that are always around us, in
peoples eyes, their touch, and growth
We are here for each other.
contracts will be
available for perusal by students,
faculty, and friends. A publication has
been devised that will keep the
now working
building,
or
potential aspects of off-campus publicity! such as high schools and other
write
an
individual
This does not Include the
Sound Policy
Be~ause of the new Copyright Law.
the library has had to alter its polic\
regarding the use of sound recordings
At present the Library is functioning
under an Interim Policy, which states
that academic programs and contracts
will have priority in gaining access to
materials and listening rooms. Copies of
the policy are available on request at
the Circulation Desk.
So far, academic use is light enough
to permit other users access to the
listening room. Appointments can be
made on a week by week basis at the
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Halls of Justice
CommunityVolunteer Services
A Comment
by Pearl KniBht
The new location of the Cooper Point
Journal office affords a rather unique
view of the campus activities in this
building To get to this office, you stroll
past a curious display; a veritable
museum of modern Americana. First on
the tour is the T.V. out in the hall,
whKh always seems to be in use {right
now, it's tuned to a game show}.
Opposite the T.V. is the infamous
SAGA our friendly neighborhood food
monoPoly. Then comes the Environmental Resource Center {with a sigh of
relief). The rest of the hall on the way
to the (PJ's corner of the world is lined
on each side by the vending machines.
Above the din of the T.V.'s canned
laughter and SAGA's canned smells
comes the pounding of fists on the
vending
machines,
along with an
occasional
swift kick and a few
perfunctory curses from a mouth that'
had been anticipating ice cream, or
\ahem)
a Nestle's
Crunch,
or a
cigarette Then a iew- more punches
trom a hand that had at least expected
to get its money back, but received
only bruises in return.
At the very moment this is being
wntten there's a man out there in the
hall, apparently in cahouts with these
vending machines, emptying them of
their di-gotten fortune, and refilling
,hem with
with .
well, with the
stuff patrons try to get out of them.
After a few weeks of sitting here on
display at the end of this exhibition
hall. I've •Otten to wonder just how the
CPI office fits into this exemplary
collection of Americana (a light at the
end of a tunnel, maybe?). Hmm ... oh,
well-caveat emptor, folks. At least the
CPI IS free.
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Do you need work experience for
building a resume/ Are you interested
in working with people who share
common interests/ If so, then maybe
participation
in Evergreen's newly
reactivated
Community
Volunteer
Services. C.V.S., is for you.
Most
interested
volunteers
are
students. However, C.V.S. also welcomes faculty, staff, and members of
the off-campus community. There is a
wide variety of volunteer opportunities
available at many different office units
on campus (e.g., working with the
handicapped, doing repair and maintenance work, doing clerical assistance or
helping new students get acquainted
with Evergreen). There are many other
campus community needs that you as a
volunteer could help meet.
Volunteering differs from an internship in that neither credit nor pay is
awarded for your services. However, the
return for your service comes in other
significant
ways. Volunteering
is a
chance for the volunteer to get needed
field experience for career development. Others may want to explore their
tentative career choices.
Also, volunteerism
may lend an
opportunity
to develop
personal
contacts in a particular field. This is
beneficial in regards to receiving a
needed letter of recommendation.
Many employment applications ask for
information about volunteer experience
the prospective employee has had.
Volunteering can help to make you
marketable in a competitive job field.
Besides these employable benefits,
volunteerism can give you the opportunity to work with people who share a
common interest in helping to meet the
needs of the Cooperative Education
office. If you are interested in checking
out what volunteer opportunities are
available, please contact David Slagle
at the Co-op office, Lab I, telephone
866-6391.
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Olympia Women's
Center Expands
The Olympia Women's Center for
Health is expanding its services and
clinic
space to include
pregnancy
testing and counseling. The new clinic
will be held Wednesday, 1 to 3 p.m.
and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
starting in February. Call 943-6924 for
an appointment. The Center is open
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
from 12 to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Volunteers are still needed to help
get the new clinic space ready; they
also need donations of furniture, office
equipment and money.
The Center is having a dessert
potluck to celebrate their expansion
and first anniversary. It will be held on
Saturday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m. in
their office: Olympia Women's Center
for Health, 218 'I, W. 4th Street,
Olympia.
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Crisis Clinic
The Thurston-Mason Crisis Clinic is
recruiting
volunteers
for their next
training session to be held February 10
and 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. They are
specifically in need of people who are
available to work overnight shifts but
also welcome those who are interested
in volunteering their time for daytime,
evening, and weekend shifts. To receive
an application, send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to: Crisis Clinic,
P.O. Box 2463, Olympia, WA 98507, or
call the Crisis Clinic at 352-2211.
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Self-Help
Legal Aid
The Self-Help Legal Aid Office is
located on the third floor of the
Library, #3224, right next door to the
Counselling Center. We consist of four
staff members: Mary Jackson, Joyse
Angell, Steve Francis, Elena CuUfoil,
and one intern, Janet Gould.
As legal advocates we are geared
toward a. self-help approach in areas
where an attorney may not be needed
but the knowledge and information
needed is not available to the common
lay-person. We deal with such issues as
landperson/tenant, consumer problems,
adminis_trative law, simple dissolutions,
and many more.
We are now distributing a questionaire on possible
workshop
topics.
Copies are available at the information
center and in a folder on our door. We
would appreciate your response as they
will enable us to decide which
workshops would be most useful. Please
return your responses to the box at the
information center or slide them under
our door by January 25.
Our office hours are posted on the
door. Drop by if you have a problem or
if you are interested in knowing more
about the office and its function.
Watch for more through explanation of
the office in the next issue of the CPJ.
Thank you.
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was more in the spirit of a game of cricket than the New Age Revolution. I wish
we had the power to cut the two days of boring trivia out of the trial. We were
not quite conscious enough of the process to do that. I began to think that we
would have been better off to be alone in the room with the Judge, in order to
work on a more intimate encounter.
After the first AFSC meeting, a legal committee
was formed and
commissioned to keep the pro-se defendents (those representing themselves)
informed, and to plan the overall defense. We thought of it 35 a spin-off from
the May 22 Coalition, although none of the original members of the Coalition
were part of the legal committee (We set goals for the group. The meetings
were regular and well facilitated.)
Individuals petitioned to have the case dismissed on technical grounds;
groups filed to have a jury trial (under the Youths Corrections Act), and to have
the case reviewed by a grand jury. Later a petition was drawn up (five months
after the incident) requesting the court to abide by the Speedy Trial Act (STA).
The STA motion was never filed, because the court finally set the date for
December 26. The other motions were ruled out by the judge.
One day the legal committee decided to have a retreat, to help defendents
get in touch with the trial process. This extra task W35 unexpected, but it
seemed like a good idea. We decided on December 15-16 35 the date of the
retreat, since we were almost certain that the day of the trial would be the
26th, giveing defendants more inspiration for retreat attendance.
Eighty defendants (out of 181) met at Camp Casey on Whidbey Island. The
prepared the details of tl)e defense by forming three committees, based on the
one that had already been formed and had written trial briefs that were due one
week before the trial. We listened to lawyers, Fred Diamondstone and Carol
Shapiro, talk about the proceedings of the trial, and discussed publicity, the
mock trial, the defense, trial witnesses and the trial agenda. Personal
statements were arranged. We talked about jail and what it would be like. We
danced, ate and walked on the beach.
William Bender (the 35sistant public defender) spoke with us about the judge
and aspects of lhe trial. We saw once again our power and our lack of power.
We knew that he would pronounce us BUilty. It felt like being dead on arrival.
After the retreat, the legal committee handed the case over to the
defendants. It was good that we did that. I wanted to just sit and listen, and be
able to make my final judgment about whether or not I should completely write
off the halls of justice. Everything I had heard about the court system in this
country supported that judgment. Now I W35 to see for myself. This remains an
issue for me. I haven't decided if I am going to appeal the case yet, or to
submit and serve my time. This means another year of fraternizing with the
courts. Oh, my ...
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Introduction to Health Services
Edirors' note: This introduction
to
Health Services is the first article in a
ser,es. Sandra Piechocki is a volunteer
at Health Services. She, with help from
the staff, will write an article on a
health-related topic for each issue of
rhe paper
The phone starts ringing at 8 a.m.
and doesn't stop until after 5 p.m.
S<udents filter in all day, asking
questions, getting information. Everyone 1s busy, but not (too) worn out.
There is always a smile behind the
counter
No, tt's not the Campus
Activities office or the library or even
SAGA Health Services, located in the
unassuming first floor of the Seminar
Building,
provides
the Evergreen
community
with one of its most
important needs: good health.
Beyond examination and treatment of
general medical problems, Health
Services offers referrals to local health
care agencies {including naturopaths),
allergy injections (although not the
initial
prescription),
wart removal
clinics, blood pressure checks, workshops,
in-service
programs,
and
counseling in nutrition, alcohol abuse,
and stress reduction.
Students with medical problems are
seen first bv Janet Wolfram, R.N. If the
problem warrants an examination by a
physician, an appointment is made with
one of the clinic's
three part-time
doctors. Other staff members include:
Darlene Herron, Program Assistant;
Josie Thompson, L.P.N.; Mathew Clari<,
Medical Assistant; Denise Ben1ton,
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Clerical Assistant; and Tim Jordan,
Nutritional Counselor.
A special part of Health Sef\<ices is
the Women's Health Clinic. The clinic
is staffed by: Wen Yee Shaw, Women's
Health Care Specialist; Deanna Smith,
Clinic Coordinator; Three wori<-study
students; and over twenty volunteers.
The volunteers handle appointments
and lab work, as well as health, birth
control, and pregnancy counseling.
The Women's Health Clinic also has a
library of health related books, which
can be borrowed, and reference files
available for photocopying, on topics
such
as DES, midwifery,
and
menopause.
Much of the clinic's
energies
are placed
in providing
educational materials, and training and
teaching women and men about health,
sexuality, nutrition, and preventative,
self health care.
Self breast and pelvic exams, natural
birth control, and sexuality are a few of
the workshops the clinic
sponsors
throughout
the school year. The
Women's Health Clinic is opening its
doors wider to men at Evergreen,
inviting them to participate in more of
the clinic's functions.
Health Services and the Women's
Health Clinic are open to TESCstudents
(full or part time) only. Their hours are
Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to
11:30 a.m., and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Both
are located in the Seminar Building,
Room 2110, next to Campus Security.
For appointments
call 866-6200 for
Health Services, or 86lH>238 for the
Women's Health Clinic.
The Auxiliary
of Group Health
Cooperative of Puget Sound will award
S4,000 in health care scholarships for
the 1979-80 school year. The receivers
of the ten scholarships of S400 each
may enroll in heilfth oriented programs.
Applicants must' be a resident of
Washington State, have a satisfactory
scholastic standing be in need of
financial assistance, and agree to enroll
in an accredited school in Washington
State.
All applications
must be in by
February 14, 1979 and are available
from: Mrs. Lloyd Winther, Group
Health Auxiliary Scholarship Chairman,
2105 96th Place SE, Everett, WA 98204.
Phone: 206-337-3755. The winners will
be chosen in March 1979; they will be
notified in April.
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Notes on the Trial
The defendants check in; guards channel us around to seats. A~nda:
opening statements by counsel; government witnesses; counsel for the
defense ...
Jerry Diskin begins with the dismissal of two defendants for lack of evidence.
Diskin is the prosecutor-rumored
to be ambitious, vendetta-oriented. The
defendants object to being dismissed. Applause. The judge rebukes the
applause.
Diskin explains cut and dried information. The witnesses will testify to the
facts.
A mostly wooden room, veneer over pressed fiberboard; lots of early '70s,
globe-like lights on a cardboard ceiling; the rug on the floor. Diskin drags on:
''That evidence will prove beyond a reasonable doubt ... "
Howard Cornia, Commander, testifies to his responsibility for the physical
security of the base. The prosecution goes for simple physical descriptions of
Clear Creek Road, the old main gate, etc. The defendants grow restless. The
gr35sy knoll is here, the fence, there.
Ada Keith tells me that she thought Diskin made such a detailed case
because he lost 1351year's case In the Appeals Court, due to lack of evidence. I
think of fie,y speeches to say to the judge. He is bored with the procedure of
the prosecution. Technicalities. What is 18881 A picture of the fence. Sign:
Government Property, No Trespassing.
Cornia describes the demonstration. Occasionaly our defenders object to the
process of the prosecution. Four hundred personnel had been detailed for base
security; the prosecution tries to demonstrate the problems we caused the
Navy. The objection is sustained. They go on to explain the barring details,
proving we were kicked off on May 22, proving beyond a doubt that the
protestors went on the base.
Captain Greer gave the orders for arrest. He W35 only doing his job.
Bender develops the tactic of showing that the Navy was amply prepared for
the demonstration. He has Comia explain the Navy's position and what Cornia
was aware of: "No other entries to my personal knowledge . ." which our
public defenders would discount later with some other evidence.
The Commander admitted to Hal Darst of the defense committee, upon crossexamination, that progress on the b35e was disrupted. This is significant; It
shows that our actions helped to slow down development of the Trident system.
Darst also asked a particularly good question concerning Comia's responsibility
under international law. I thanked Darst for getting that question In.
Our attempt to have them take us seriously w35 played fairly well. I had
criticisms of the first Seattle Times articles fo, not taklna us seriously, though
they gavesomequotes on Wednetday !Nt showed that their attitudeschanged
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somewhat. They quoted Hal Darst, saying, ''There is a whole philosophy of
non-violence, and Schwartz is using an attitude of fear and intimidation,"
criticizing the public defenders. Darst said the problem was not just Schwartz
but the confrontation atmosphere in the courtroom "creating more of this fear
syndrome that created Trident in the first place."
The prosecution submits exhibits on defendants from 1977. The defense
(Schwartz and Bender) attempt to show the inability of the government to
prove their case on the evidence of barring letters and the testimony of those
who served them. Irwin interrogates the woman clerk and she answers as best
she can. "Do you recognize anyone in this courtroom?" "No."
The people who made the apprehension data cards (records of arrest) aren't
here to testify, so the cards can not be used as evidence, says Schwartz He
dominates the clarifying of the faulty evidence: "Indeed, the time of arrest was
entered as the arresting officer's badge number!" Diskin blames the defense
for dropping the files across Madison Avenue. "If there are any missing, it may
not be the fault of the government."
The court recessed on the first day at 4:30. Nast said later that he was
surprised that the judge didn't run over. The judge is definitely letting the
young lawyers, Diskin and Schwartz, fight it out, to the dismay of some
defendants and to the pleasure of others. It is the intellectual part of the battle
that fascinates us, and masks the classist and sexist images that rule in the
courtroom.
Marlene Willis made a statement at the meeting tonight that enlightened my
own interpretation of the event. She generated support, mostly from other men,
to draft a letter to the community (originally thrust at Schwartz) concerning
appropriate (politically correct!) behavior in the courtroom. Marlene is one of
the brave who make statements to help raise political consciousness. She did
tailor her statement of concern to the group, especially in the use of the term
"Rape culture," which I've always reserved for more intimate occasions of
complaint.
But Rape culture is appropriate-we've
already raped the face of Thurston
County at least twice (not to mention the rest of the world, and the people who
live on it, women in particular).
It was slow and hot inside today, even though it was cold outside.
The most memorable moment of the day was when several defendants
walked out of the courtroom with their mouths gagged. It was a symbolic
protest of the judge's refusal to grant us a jury trial. The judge ignored the
comment, or didn't understand.
"He is bending over so far his head is touching the floor," said one of the ten
federal marshals. The marshals were a joke, too. If they want to do something
about crime they should be in the streets organizing the unemployed. They all
tried to stay very cool throughout the whole thing. One of them told me to take
my headscarf off, five times.
ecution case 12/27: A Scene from the end of the prosecution case
Bill Bender stands shaking his head in dismay after asking the Security Chief
if he had adequate data in his files. This is in keeping with the atmosphere of
the defense and prosecution-hammering
out techni8cal agreements about
barring letters, data cards, pictures taken, the process; trying to embarass the
prosecution out of the courtroom.
Jerry Diskin is scrambling now and probably for the rest of the afternoon,
with other witnesses trying to prove his case. This is fruitless, says our lawyer; it
would take Diskin four weeks to adequately prove his case.
Pleas, tum to page eight
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Upward Bound's
View
6
A Conversation With Byron Youtz
by Paul F,nk
What
follows
is based
on
an
interview
of Thomas
Ybarra,
the
Director of the Upward Bound program
stationed at Evergreen. Our goal was to
discover
what Upward Bound (UB)
faculty are minorities, a very small
percentage are active in giving needed
support to Third World students. And
the prospect for improvement
is pretty
,;;tudents think of Evergreen and its
students But first, a little background
1nformat1on
dim.
Upward Bound students ranae from
being very straight to very (urban) hip.
Most of the students have much more
Upward Bound, a federally funded
conservative values and lifestyles than
In its Octol,er 23, 1978 issue, the CPJ
printed an article which introduced
Academic Vice President and Provost,
Byron Youtz's proposal for graduation
requirements: "All Evergreen students
must complete four quarters of basic
Coordinated Studies. All graduating
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proKram, 1s designed to benefit low
income
high school
students
not
making normal progress in school. Its
ob1ect1ve, through the use of one--toone tutoring and counseling, is to help
,tudents keep up with their appropriate
do TESCstudents. What Thomas points
~rade level as well as preparing them to
why you see so few black people at an
anti-nuke rally, think again.)
Thomas believes, as do some of his
follow-up to his proposal and as an
update to the events which have
students, that there is social pressure at
Evergreen not to dress well or pursue
has been edited for length. The entire
personal
hygiene.
This can be
contrasted with UB students, primarily
the Third World students, who tend to
dress very fashionably (when they can
aHord to).
To them, being hip means being
fashionable,
knowledgable,
and
CPJ office.
lompete well m post-secondary education The short term goal set for this
,;,chool year is to effectively eliminate
µro~rammat1C problems that lead to
,;tudents dropping out prematurely.
The
UB student
population
is
rhang1ng Two years ago, it was 70
percent black; now it's almost 50
µt:>rcent white, 50 percent black, and a
~mall number of Native Americans,
Asians. and Chicanos. The proportion
the tederal government would like to
-.e-e ts one based on the ethnic
d1str1but1onof the target area (this area
being a Circle with a radius of SO miles
""1th its center at TESC). This year's
student population is quite a bit closer
that goal. The program is funded to
serve 60 students. It presently has 50,
to
but new students are coming in.
Many U B students have not yet
passed the mystique of the syndrome
of authonty"
1n a college environment.
out, and what it is convenient for many
of us to forget, is that most ID'N income
note-So
the next time
independent. To some of us, it signifies
the pursuit of an alternative lifestyle.
Most UB students aspire to middle<lass
goals, while most Evergreeners do not.
But many of us seem to foraet that we
have the luxury to make a deliberate
choice to be downwardly mobile. Most
UB students see themselves on the low
end of the social status spectrum. Since
they have never existed at a state of
middle<lass ease, upward mobility is
what most of them desire. And it's
America's
has a point of beginning, an ending,
students. Many other state colleges and
Thomas, purpounded mostly by the
mass media, that teaches people to
constantly grasp for more.
(ed. note-It's one thing for me to
call upward mobility irrational-which
it quite honestly is from my perspective
-it's yet another thing to be critical of
those individuals who see the need to
improve their lifestyles and set out to
fulfill that need.) As Thomas Ybarra
points out, Upward Bound does not
make any value judgments about its
students, though the staff does tJy to
universities
pass on humanistic
TESC 1s very poor in that sense.
Evergreen's curricular structure is hard
to understand,
hard to trust. UB
-.1l1dents don't quite believe that an
~\er green degree is as valuable as a
degree from other state uni~ities.
And the press' frequent misinterpre--
tat,on of TESCcertainly does not help.
Evergreen has quite a severe lack of
~upport services for Third World
have a large variety
of
programs specifically targeted at Third
World students
The Third World
Coalition has done remarkable won<but
has received very little support from theadministrat1on. Evergreen has a miniscule selection of Third World programs;
value
orientation,
says
ideals, resulting in
an abundance of personal growth. The
system in which we all live is a reality.
We can't change that system overnight.
In the meantime, he believes, Upward
Bound can help students to achieve the
goals they set for themselves.
and although about 15 percent of the
Strassen
PART I
Steve: As you are well aware, your
proposal for graduation requirements
has been met with a very mixed and
Institutional Racism
at Evergreen?
by Patricia Hickey
A Third World perspective
of
Evergreen is not easity identified, nor is
it easily categorized, and above all, it is
not easily interpreted. I've attempted to
draw from a few conversations
a
viewpoint that I recognize as being
severely limited in both scope and
depth of treatment. As such, its value
may be restricted to that of catalyst in
stimulating further opinions.
The academic emphasis at Evergreen
is general ·liberal arts In the European
tradition. As a r~lt,
the culturally
specific Third World experience rarely
finds its way into prqirams. There is a
general feeling that this is partly due to
relatively static curriculum. The "Trial
Balloon" appears early in fall quarter
before programs have had a chance to
settle in and thus, it never receives the
critical attention it deserves.
Student Ernie Jones compared Evergreens' curriculum policy to that of a
this
is oarticularlv
the case in
programs he has been in which forced
him to seek the perspectives of Third
World authors on his O'Nn time.
Increasing the number of Third World
faculty was repeatedly mentioned as
being necessary to change the curncu lum. There was speculation
that
some Evergreen faculty demonstrate
"acddemic
unwillingness
arrogance"
in
to 5upplement
options
of Native
American
sponsor as a result of pure chance.
When asked what they felt were
"prerequisites"
to approaching
the
Evergreen system there was a general
concensus
that a high level of
motivation to reaffirm specific Third
World perspectives is primary. And all
felt that the ability to communicate
and adapt to a traditional Institutionalized "white" situation is essential.
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November of 1977. He attributes the
fact that he made contact with Lovern
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their
learning in order to /meet the needs of
Third World students. Co-ordinator of
the Third World Coalition, Stone
Thomas, feels this reflects the priorities
of the Evergreen administration which,
in his opinion, has repeatedly demoostrated "institutionalized racism" by
makina it economically impossible to
address the needs of Third World
students.
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indicates a general dissatisfaction with
the Admissions Office and Counseling
services for their lack of preparedness
in dealing with specific Third World
concerns. As the Admissions Otfice is
often the first contact a person has with
the college, their position is viewed as
critical. Native American student Pila
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you wonder
They feel the need for a structure that
and all the log,cal steps in the middle.
seniors must present some kind
project or event."
people don't have the luxury to step
back and critique our lifestyles. (ed.
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emotional response.
Byron: Yes-nor overly emotional, but f
would say mixed and generally thoughtful response.
How has student input served to
clarify in yourself, the position you are
taking on the proposal!
Well, I've been to two of those
forums and have listened quite carefully
to the various shades of the
discussion. I think-and I'm getting a
very clear picture that students find the
word "requirement" ""'Y objectionable.
I'm not sure why that objection to the
word "requirement." I think [ii) comes
in two ways. There's a little bit of a
knee-ierk reaction to [that). There
should be no sense of compulsion here.
The other part of getting away from
the words, that I heard clearly in the
second meeting was that if we could
state those as some kinds of expectations or sort of a pattern of study-that
this is the way the institution wants to
see, or wants to encourage 01 w.ants to
advise students to pfan their career
experience.
So as a result of that you have
become more clear in your purpooe.
We//, my purposes are the same. By
my purposes really are to address the
issues of the quality of the educational
experience here. /'m still striving to
achieve kind of a rv.o-fo/d educational
mission. f think students need-a//
students need-to have the breadth in
that program which is typical of the
way we view ourselves as an interdisciplinary and collaborative institution.
And I think students are missing a
11reatdeal of the Evergreen experience
if they can't-if
they don't get the
interdisciplinary
and kind of ream
aspect which this college has as part of
their educational experience.
And the other part I think is a very
clear characteristic of the best of the
Evergreen study is the chance to do
somethin11 in depth that you organized,
that you pulled together and present as
your thing, as your-sort of your way of
expressing what your educational goal
is. And that's what my depth requirement is-sort of a culminating event.
Now I stifl
think
those two
educational concepts are first of all a
valuable sort of way of desaibing what
the Ever11reenstudy plan [if you want
to think of it that wayL ought to be.
What it is that we specia//ze in, that try
to really encourage our students to
do-what constitutes for us the quality
of an Evergreen education. And it also,
by stating it in terms of requirements, I
felt that it also defines the meaning of
the Evergreen degree.
I feel myself that we have ei11htyears
of experience or seven years of
experience here at this place; it's
woefully
inadequate to have the
Evergreen degree mean only that you
have put in 45 units of work here. It
says nothing about the spread of the
work, the depth of the work. It has no
structure on it. It has no education•!
philosophy-at
all. It says nothing
about this place. That's what I'm trying
to say. That's what I want to get out.
In a lot of ways, I see your proposal
addressing that need. When Evergreen
was first established it was defined in
terms of "non•traditional",
"alternative".
It was defined in terms of what it isn't
rather than what it is.
Exactly-in entirely negative phrases.
We do not do this, we do not do this,
we are not this ...
But what do we do!
And the question is how to turn that
into a positive statement based on
quite a lot of experience. For me it's
afmosl a statement of belief, you
see-what is it this institution believes
in. And we believe in the importance of
interdisciplinary study of working in
team ways, collaborative ways with
your peers.
We believe in breadth, we believe in
going into something deeply, so that
you're good at something and you
choose what it is to display that depth.
One of the reasons for all the
interdisciplinary breadth requirements is
to know how what it is you're doing in
your in-depth work-how that impacts
on the rest of society. What, in modern
language, the envirorvnenta/ impact is
of your particular field of study. And I
think those are statements of belief that
this institution shares. And / think we
need to get that kind of message out.
Now is it more than simply eight
years of experience which has elapsed
since Evergreen', inception! At the
beginnina, the only requirement was,
and still is 45 units. I'm just wonderina
what sort of need was being responded
to in maldna such a varied kind of,
unspecific ...
One of [the two things] was that we
were ;,m coming Ol.t of the 60's, and
there was a great antagonistic feeling
about too many requirements and too
many mickey mouse things, that had
been part of that wlio/e sense of
rebeffion a11ains1society.
The other part of it is that I think we
really did-I mean at the beginningview ourselves as an experimental
operation. We were trying innovations.
We didn't know what kinds of things
would prove to be successful, and what
would not, and what modifications we
were 1JOingto have to make as we went
along.
I think it was in that sense that many
of us felt, most of us, that it was not
possible to make certain kinds of
requirements because we didn't know
how certain things _.e going to work.
We had this reaf sense of groping and
feeling our way into a new educational
acreage so to speak. We knew some
things we wanted to do, but we really
needed to test them out, before we
could require them. That's why I say
now we are at the end of the lO's, not
the end of the 60's.
I think we are much more clear as an
institution, on what are the valuable
things that have come out of our eight
years of experimenting and innovating,
trying things and reshaping, etcetera. So
therefore it's in that sense that I think
it's very appropriate for the institution
to reconsider some of those earlier
ideas. We are in different times and we
do have .somehistory.
Reaardlna
the phase that this
institution is goina through at this point
in time, I have an editorial written by
Norman Cousins In last week's Seattle
Times. It speaks very clearly to me. I
could read part of it and just see what
your response is:
Developing the Human Mind
'NEW YORK
problem
confronting
The
biggest
American
education today Is the increasing
vocationalizatlon of our colleges
and universities. Throughout the
country, schools are under pressure to become
job-training
centers and employment agencies.
The pressure comes mainly
from two sources. One is the
growing determination of many
citizens to reduce taxes-under-
standable and even commendable
in itself
but
irrational
and
irresponsible when connected to
the reduction or dismantling of
vital public services.
The second source of pressure
comes from parents and students
who tend to steer clear of any
courses of study that do not teach
people how to do thing.s attractive
to employers in a rapidly tightening job market.
The absurd notion is taking
hold that the development
of
skills does not also require the
systematic development
of the
human
mind.
Education
is
assessed not according
to the
someone
how to be a bookkeeper,
then that person is a
bookkeeper for file. The worst thing
you can do is to train a person for a
particular job that is identified as a
right now job.
So our whole educational principle
has been geared I would say in Mr.
Cousin's direction. Vvhat you focus on
is the process - so that as somebody
takes on the business of getting good in
something you make them aware-to
help them understand how it is that
they get good in someth,ng else and
take a different direction in their lives,
they are then ready to make it.
I'd like to refer to an article stating
because
that Fairhaven Colleg,e was fighting to
ability of an individual to come
stay alive. Essentially what's happening
into possession of all his or her
powers, but according
to the
is that enrollment has dropped from
261 to just over 200 within the past
tangible benefits the individual is
year.
trained to extract from society.
In this way, the vital juices are
addressing was exactly like you were
in danger of being drained out of
education,
especially on the
secondary
and
undergraduate
levels.'.
talking about-the
college
out
dissatisfaction
of
development of the
the uprising
of the
60's
and
and
addressing all those concerns. And that
And then Cousins goes on to talk
about a broad education and how
important that is to a student especially
on the undergraduate level to be able
to fall back on that.
I'm behind Mr. Cousins 100 per cent.
How if at all is Evergreen responding
to that vocationalization of education
in America?
Well I think that's something that we
keep trying to resist and should
continue to resist. In a way, Evergreen
is created with the whole philosophical
intent of del(eloping the human mind.
That is what being a liberal arts co//l!fle
means.
We've always vie'M!d ourselves as a
liberal arts college which affords people
the opportunity to develop important
specializations, but that the primary
thing-to be creative, to be responsible
for both your educational
futurf!>
directions and responsible in a kind of
a citizenship way.
fn other words, we're not trying to
train people
iust to vote only
Republican or Democratic, but to be
thoughtful about what it is, what are
the duties of a citizen in society-in
that large sense.
Norman Cousins addresses that in the
last part of his editorial saying:
'Under those hypothetical
cir-
cumstances, one might make an
argument against the liberal artsbut it would be like arauing
against education itself.
Thomas Jefferson was prouder
of having been the founder of the
University
One of the issues that the dean was
of Virginia
than
of
having been President of the
United States. He knew that the
educated and developed mind
was the best way to make a
political system wori<- a system
based on the consent of the
governed.
If this idea fails, then all the tax
dollars that can be saved will not
be enough to prevent the nation
from turning on itself.
I think that's very deeply imbedded
in the philosophy of this place, that
<;oncept-what it is, what our sense of
mission is.
. . . What we have to do is train
people to think, to teach themselves
how to /earn,
how to prepare
themselves for new opportunities. And
that's what the business of this co//l!fle
is.
And that means to me that you have
to train people in a broad way-to train
people to know how to do research
kinds of things, how to do certain kinds
of skill things, which would mean
expressing yourself we/f in writing,
expressing yourself well in discussion
[and] speaking; not be afraid of new
areas, not to be afraid of change.
The last thing we want to do is teach
now we're in a different time-and
striving toward vocationalization.
the
But it also seemed to be implying
that students do not know what they
need and that the dean was attempting
to show students what they need. And
I'm wondering if you see yourself doing
the same task.
I've always had the conviction, as a
teacher, that one of my obligations JS
to push students into things they don't
know they want. fn genera/, it's a much
larger intellectual world out there than
most students are in any way aware of
That's simply
a matter
of age,
experience and opportunities.
So I've always feh as a reacher that
part of my educational obligation to my
students is to push them hard. And re
open up horizons they didn't know
about- not to indoctrinate them or
force them into a particular direction,
but to show them what a wide
spectrum there is. And then push them
hard so that they test themselves
against different
pieces of that
spectrum -intellectual
activity,
or
social opportunities
or technical,
problem solving.
And I guess / trans/ate that into an
obligation of the whole co//l!fle. To
press students hard agaist their limitswhat they consider that they don't
need. And to help them break through
those perceived limitations ...
That to me is an important part of
the educational process and so it is not
adequate in my philosophy of education to simply /et studen.ts choose
entirely their own path of what they
want to do. Because I feel obliged with
some conviction to push them into
things that they don't yet know whether
they should prepare themselves for or
not.
Concluding, Byron affirmed that his
proposal
for
graduation
requirements
will be voted on by the faculty. He
justified this by saying that faculty have
been and will be here at Evergreen
longer than the students. Because
students are here for four years, these
sorts of decisions will not effect those
presently enrolled. Graduation n,quirc,ments,
if
accepted,
will
not
be
retroactive, but phased in gradually.
Such a decision will effect only
entering freshmen and sophomores
The proposal,
being academically
related, gives support to a faculty voice
in the matter. Byron wished though, to
encourage students to take time out 1n
their seminars and express to faculty
their concerns and responses to the
proposal.
- To be continued next quarterPart II of A Conversation with Byron
Youtz, will focus more specifically on
the role academics play at Evergreen
and how particular
learning modes
provide students with different educational experiences.
8
.EDITORIAL
Halls of Justice
Continued from page fiv,,
The "justice" here in this foreign room is restricted; detached from its need to
serve the people. It serves the government's interests and the interests of the
capitalists. This is a basic concept that must be understood in order to develop
a radical perspective about what must be done.
The uselessness of this trial is what is disturbing me most about this situation;
I am feeling hostile and helpless. This helplessness is the cause of guerrilla
activities. Our friend's button says, "There are only a handful of terrorists, but
they are everywhere."
The defense arguments begin
For the necessity defense we assembled the following witnesses: Charles
Grey, professor of international conflict and long-term peace activist; Robyn, a
pro-se defendant; Shelley Douglass, theologian and long-time activist; James
Douglass, her husband, also a Catholic theologian and peace activist; and John
Affolter, a defendant and organizer of affinity group communication networks.
The task of the necessity defense is to prove five separate points that make
our act of civil disobedience legally defensible, because we have exhausted all
possible legal means of changing a situation that represents immediate,
imminent harm.
My impression of the first testimony was that it demonstrated the naive part
of the campaign. Robyn said, 'World disarmament is our goal and with love we
can overcome the fear," and several other similar comments that would make
many of the militant atheists among us blanche. Affolter used a report from the
Stockholm Peace Research Institute that estimates the data of nuclear
holocaust, according to cycles of war, to be 1982. I found that section of the
testimony to be ineffective though I agreed with the immediacy that the
sentiment expressed.
•
Charles Grey represented us well by describing the history of the movement
and how civil disobedience had produced social change in the past. He cited
the examples of Cesar Chavez, Vietnam, Bangla Oesh and Czechoslovakia. He
made references to the American Revolution, women's suffraae, the CM strikes
of 1937, and the racial integration movements in the restaurants in the 1960's.
Diskin used the Coalition Handbook to question Grey's motives-especially
considering the moral crisis on the base and economic crisis in the court system
as stated objectives of the Coalition. Ada thinks that the government's strategy
will be to convict us of conspiracy in the future, as the campaign grows and the
government gets more desperate. Diskin certainly looked like he was doing this
with Grey.
Voorhees finally called Diskin off; the charge was re-entry, not conspiracy.
Diskin pouted for a good part of the remainder of the trial because of that
rebuke. He kept mentioning a standing objection that the prosecution had to
the whole direction of the defense.
Shelley Douglass described the palt she has played to keep the campaign
going, like consulting with Bob Aldridge, an ex-engineer for Lockheed and
expert witness for the defense, who quit his job as chief designer of the Trident
missile when he realized Trident was by nature a first-strike weapon system.
She said, 'We are growing to a point to where we can stop Trident ... We
can succeed."
Kent Alcorn described how he quit GE after five years of radio sales, dealing
with the Bangor base, because he realized that what the government was doing
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was wrong. This testimony showed the effect the movement has on people to
reorder their thinking about Trident. His testimony was very movina.
Bob Aldridge, our main expert witness for the international law defense,
testified, in· depth, for both the necessity examiners and the international law
examiners about the indiscriminate and auressive nature of Trident, Both he
and Mike Walke went away from their· areas of expertise as they testified
(which I entirely approve of after my Evergreen trainina in the interdisciplinary
approach). Voorhees restricted the testimony that was not formally expert, but
at least he got to hear it. Wallace, a professor of international affairs from
Vancouver, brought in environmental effects and the impact of nuclear war on
Canada, and especially on Vancouver, as part of the Canadian defense.
The beauty of the pro-se defense presentations was the demonstration of
control that we had in the courtroom. The defense attorneys, who. had
dominated the first two days, stepped down and our defense committees took
over. The process went very smoothly.
12/28: No Jerry Diskin
This is the final day of the trial (except for the judae's ruling on January 2).
The international law defense finished questionina a defendant who testified to
her decision to do civil disobedience, her preparation for it, and her thoushts
and feelings during the action. She was quite clear, especially in her statement
about the court's responsibility to abide by international law.
The Canadian defense has taken the stand to describe Canada as a threatened
nation. Their object is to demonstrate that they had used many different ways
to inform the the Canadian sovernment of the problem, before they committed
civil disobedience at Bangor,
Voorhees quietly uses his power.
Both Jim and Shelley Douglass have done a tremendous amount to spread the
word about Trident; much of it was done in Canada, and their testimony
describes run-ins with the Canadian Parliment and other various authorities.
The prosecution edges in a little more evidence to clean up the file
information case and Diskin makes his closing statement. I don't even listen.
The necessity defense aives a long ~nd sometimes rambling final statement,
and International law gives a somewhat more concise statement. Then Diskin
takes advantage of a period of rebuttal. Ten defendants make personal
statements; they are nice but have no effect on the case, I fear.
We leave for the Breadline Cafe and then Olympia, immediate after the trial
ends. What will happen to the movement in the future? We may t,y to merge
with a general socialist movement eventually. Let it grow for a while. I would
like to encourage you to build affinity groups with your friends and think about
effective civil disobedience actions for your political commitment. If all else
fails, read Thoreau for revival.
Epiloaue
One week after the trial, I am waiting for the sentencing. The ruling by Judge
Voorhees was made last Tuesday, January 2. At least Voorhees didn'trestrict
himself to only saying that our defenses were irrelevant, like Mcgovern, another
district court judge, said last year. I did truly think that after spending four days
with us last week in court he would have more than twelve minutes worth of
material. The mellow revolutionaries sauntered out of the courtroom making
jokes about what a rowdy group this was, and how much we really needed the
federal marshals to keep us in line,
I wish I could show you a copy of the ruling. It was a joke. He thouaht our
necessity defense was weak because we didn't demonstrate the proper dearee of
cause and effect by our demonstration of May 21-23; we didn't have a
reasonable belief that our action would achieve our objective; the government
isn't going to change its mind; the investment is too bi& now to stop
production.
Voorhees rejected the first strike capabilities argument by claiming that first
strike is an action rather than a capability, that what we have developed is
more accurate than ever before and therefore not as harmful and indiscriminate
as nuclear weapons developed in the past.
There are indeed treaties against nuclear and first strike weapons, but they
don't apply, because of the nature of Trident. The !:anadians need more
recourse to Parliment. If you cross our borders, you must follow our laws ...
Postscript
The battle continues. John Calambokidis and Patrick Barnes of Olympia
committed civil disobedience at Bangor on Christmas Eve. Others are planning
to do so in the future. We can only hope they succeed before our leaders pull
us to the brink of nuclear holocaust.
•
Journalism and journalists
have
always claimed and purportedly striven
to be objective in their reportina and
analysis of events. "Objectivity" is the
main selling point of most newspapers
and their reporters. While this objectivity is a noble cause indeed, and may
well be worth striving for, it is as much
an impossibility as findina a unicorn in
your bath tub. Yet, far more newspapers
have claimed to have attained objectivity than people have claimed to find
unicorns in their bath tubs.
Just what is being objective, anyway!
The American Heritage Dictionary says
it's, "Of or having to do with. a material
object as distinguished from a mental
concept,
idea,
or belief
. . .
uninfluenced by emotions, surmise, or
personal prejudice ...
based on
observable phenomenon; presented
factually."
The same dictionary's definition of
objectivity's antithesis, subjectivity, is,
"Pertaining
to the real nature of
something, essential . . particular to a
Riven individual: personal."
- Journalism
Cannot be objective
because people are not objective. The
way in which different people perceive
the same thing is subject to each
person's past experience and knowledge. People's perceptions are subjective. By the time a new, story gets to
the reader's personal perceptions, it's
already been subjected to and filtered
through others' personal perceptions.
For example, a UPI reporter is sent to
cover a story. Even before the reporter
is assigned to the story, it has been
affected by subjectivity; someone has
chosen what events in the world are
worth covering.
The reporter then goes out and
gathers the information through his/her
own perceptions. She/he has no choice
but to see things through her/his own
eyes; one can't borrow someone else's
eyes, ears, and mind. And even if one
could, who's to say the borrowed
appa~,tus would record a11y more
objectively than one's own!
The reporter's
story
of what
happened then goes to the press
service, which edits it It's then sent to
the newspapers, who may or may not
choose to print that particular story,
according to their perception of what is
and is not worth printina, and then ...
it goes to the newspaper editor,
who ... well, you aet the picture. It's
enough to burst the bubble of any
believer in objective journalism.
The point
here is simply that
objective
journalism
is impossible
because of the human factor. A main
point of departure between people and
objectivity is that the former has values
and the latter doesn't The two may be
mutually exclusive, and we can't get rid
of the human factor, you know.
This is not to say that journalism
should strive not to be objective. What
I'm saying is that rather than claiming
that there are unicorns in the bathtub,
?r worse, that journalism is objective,
Iournalists have the responsibility of
being honest about their subjectivity. It
IS the responsibility of newspapers to
realize this, and open themselves to
varied views and concerns. The Cooper
Point Journal is no exception.
by Pearl Knight
Strecker Resigns
William R. Hucks
When Bob Strecker hand-carried his
letter of resignation to the third floor of
the library, there was no one there to
accept it. It was Christmas break.
He resigned his post January 5 as
Director of Facilities of The Evergreen
State College. Bob had been with
Evergreen since 1969 and was promoted
from Facilities Engineer Supervisor to
Director
of Facilities
when Jerry
Schillinger vacated the position in
August of 1976.
Former Facilities Construction Coordinator, Dave West, will serve as Acting
Facilities Director while the college
conducts a search for a permanent
director. Security operations has been
reassigned to Business Manager Ken
Winkley's supervision for the interim.
Bob took a position
with the
Department of Transportation as an
engineer, a job he said he is looking
forward to.
'When I decide to act on something," he said at a farewell breakfast
January 5, "I move pretty fast." He
began his new job the next working
day.
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atarltuck'a coffees and teH
news digest 9
More than 172,000 signatures on
Initiative 61 - the Returnable Beverage
The Middle Income Student AssisContainer Initiative - were filled in early
tance Act recently passed by Congress
January with the Secretary of State.
Because the number of signatures is expected to increase significantly the
number of college students who will be
filed is almost 50,000 more than the
eligible to receive a Basic Educational
123,711' valid signatures required
Initiative 61 Is certain to be validated'. Opportunity Grant. The new legislation
expands the program
to include
As an initiative
to the legislature,
students from families whose incomes
Initiative 61 must be considered for
are between S15,000 and S25,000. The
enactment by the next session of the
income level for independent students
legislature.
has also been increased dramatically.
At a press conference in Olympia,
Evergreen's Financial
Aid Office
Steve Zemke, chairperson of Citizens
wants to encourage students who think
For Returnable Beverage Containers,
they rr.ay be eligible to apply for a
stated that, "There are many hidden
Basic Grant. Many students who have
costs associated
with the present
not been eligible for aid in the past
throwaway system in Washington State.
may now qualify for this federal grant.
Throwaways have increased solid waste
You can apply for a Basic Grant for
and garbagedisposal costs. Throwaways
the 1979-&I academic year between
have resulted in increased litter and
lanuary 1, 1979, and March 15, 1980
increased taxes for litter and trash
Application forms are now available 1n
pickup." He added, "Initiative 61 would
the Offic of Financial Aid
result in a net increase in jobs in jobs
The Basic Grant Program is an
in this state."
entitlement program, and while you will
Earlier this year, the legislatures of
be paid through the school, your
the states of Iowa, Connecticut, and
eligibility and actual amount of aid are
Delaware enacted deposit laws. The
determined by the Office of Education
Oregon legislature enacted the Oregon
Financial need is determined
by a
law in 1971 and the Vermont legislature
Congressionally
approved
formula
passed their deposit law in 1972. In
which is applied consistently to all
1976 the voters of Michigan and Maine
applicants.
passed deposit laws by a vote of the
Both part-time {two Evergreen units)
public. If Initiative 61 is not enacted by
and full-time students may be eligible ,f
the legislature, it will automatically be
they are a) determined
to have
placed on the November 1979 ballot.
financial need based on the Basic Grant
Initiative 61 would place a five cent
eligibility formula, b) are an underminimum refundable deposit on all
graduate student, and, c) are a citizen,
beer and soft drink containers sold in
national or permanent resident of the
Washington State.
U.S.
- Lacey Leader
Basic Grants for 1979-&I will range
from S50 to Sl,800.
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The films are free, the meetings in
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T e Last o Winterland
by Simon Scheeline
I arrived at the following opinion
with the help of a second viewing of
the concert on video tape.
Despite the fact it was New Year's
Eve, despite breakfast at dawn, despite
a bill that included the Blues Brothers, I
have come to the conclusion that I've
seen my last Grateful Dead concert.
I have many reasons for this
decision-one
of which was the price
of the tickets-SJO, (although it cost
me SS0). Foremost among these reasons
are the actions of Bill Graham. Uncle
8080, as Bob Weir so affectionately
calls him, is a bimbo in my book. Given
the exceptional circumstances of the
concert, I expected something special.
And the rumors that circulated for
months beforehand seemed to indicate
that others did also. Santana, Starship,
Clapton, Quicksilver, and the Allman
Brothers were just some of the names
dropped. Graham never said any of
these groups would show up, but the
last night of a concert hall with a
history as great as Winterland's should
surely have brought out the stars. If the
Band could gather the folks that came
to the Last Waltz, then surely the hall
they played cou Id have had as
_Some_thing's Happenin: __
ion Shakedown Street --~
by Doug Riddels/Rene Bressieux
The Grateful Dead have cranked out
vet another in their long line of albums,
their second on Arista as well as the
second they did not produce themselves Shakedown Street is produced
by Lowell George, soogwriter and lead
guitarist for Little Feat. Although
George's work is superior to Keith
Olsen's production on Terrapin Station,
the band's previous album, he fails to
capture the essence of the famous, or
infamous, 'Dead sound".
The Dead's studio work hasn't shown
much creative energy since the release
of Wake of the Flood in 1973 and Mars
Hotel in 1974, nor has it gone over well
with their ardent fans-those legendary
Deadheads.
The period since then has been a
time of personal exploration
and
experimentation, as each member o~
the band develops his own musical
identity. Shakedown Street's greatest
success lies in bringing these diverse
directions together, high-lighting individual
differences
without
sacrificing
the album's cohesiveness.
Bill Kreutzman and Mickey Hart's
interests as drummer and percussionist
lie in such exotic places as Africa and
the Middle East. The rhythms of these
lands, alien
to traditional
Western
music, are highlighted on the percussion piece "Serenaetti".
Hart's extensive jazz background also
finds expression in "France". "France"
and "From the Heart of Me" are both
well sung by Donna Jean Godchaux,
wife of keyboardist Keith Godchaux.
(She also wrote the latter soog.) Her
emergence as a lead vocalist and writer
promises new directions for the band's
future.
Shakedown Street features three cuts
sung by rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Two
of these, "Good Lovin"', an old '50s
rocker, and "All New Minglewood
Blues", have been part of the Dead
repertoire for years. I suspect that this
dearth of truly original material is
directly related to the direction Weir's
latest solo work has taken.
His most recent album, appropriately
titled Heaven Help the Fool, is slick,
soulless Southern California pop, and
live
performances
in
Seattle
and
Portland (as backup for the Garcia
Band) last fall were equally soulless and
uninspired (and not even slick). The kid
guitarist seems destined to become the
rock star of the Dead. This is not to say
that his playing has lost any of its
magic on stage with the Dead. The
creative energy of the band provides a
successful antidote to the LA. smoa
that seems to get into Weir's head
occasionally. His unique and spontan-
eous style is still the perfect foil to
Garcia's lead, and his playing has gone
through considerable development in
1ust the last year, expecially his growing
proficiency with the bottleneck.
The three new selections written by
lead guitarist (and acid avatar) Jerry
Garcia and Robert Hunter, lyricist for
the band since its 1966 origin,
"Shakedown Street'', "Stagger Lee'' and
"If I Had the World to Give", are more
noticeably of the old Grateful Dead
tradition. Garcia also does "fire on the
impressive a wake.
Stars did show but they stayed
backstage at the "family's" private
party. Graham, who played MC, didn't
even have the courtesy to introduce the
few stars who came on stage. Graham
also took the last laugh with an
Mountain", another of the Dead's old
st
a;~i~~h
they somewhat reflect
Garcia's maturing
help but be disappointed that the Dead
have once again failed to capture the
Dead sound on vinyl.
(Some Deadheads do not even want
the Dead to try. Several months ago I
',
overheard one fan at a Winterland
Dead concert, in response to rumors
that "Fire on the Mountain" would be
on the album, sav, "No way. The Dead
magic." That magic does not come
across on Shakedown Street.
Garcia's influence is less evident on
Shakedown Street than on previous
albums, and there is no outstanding
lacks guitar in general-a
sure sign of
co,opted rock. This is a shame, because
Garcia's playing seems to be getting
more tasteful with every perfoomance.
A dedicated
student as we'll as
performer of music, his style has
become increasingly complex and
subtle (not the thina for punk or heavy
metal freaks), incorporating reuae and
cajun influences with a wide array of
electronic gadgetry. Garcia's chief
influence, the kozmik sacrement, still
has its effect on his music, resulting in
the space improvisation for which the
Dead are most well-«nown.
However, on Shakedown Street this
major aspect of the Dead sound is
sacrificed on the altar of Commercial
Acceptability. It takes a special kind of
headspace to appreciate what appears
to some as meaningless noodling,
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...
alternatives.
Shakedown Street is a success as a
dance album, and indicates that the
Dead are once again getting a handle
on the production end of recording, but
I would not give it to a friend and say,
"This is the Dead." It is true that there
is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert,
and Shakedown Strttt is no exception.
Now don't get me wrona-1, too,
dress like a good member of the
proletariat. My jeans have holes, and
were designed by that distinguished
couturier, Levi of San Francisco. I, too,
wear a dingy brown coat and carry my
books in an even dingier blue
backpack. My 'dress-<Jp' clothes make
me look like some macabre cross
between an Indian princess and a
Russian peasant. I wear no scent
dreamed up in the laboratories of Estee
Lauder or Prince Matchabelli, nothing
to entice the man on the white stallion
into sweeping me up In his arms ,
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posts where Sgt. Bilku was stationed.
3. What famous children ·s TV
personality played Clarabell the
Clown on HOWDY DOODY?
4. Whose money did Michael
Anthony dispense on TH~
MILLIONAIRE and where did
this eccentric benefactor
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music, they could have played another
"But they played Dark Starl" Only the
first verse. "But ... " Enough buts. In
1979 when performers like Elvis Costello
and the Talking Heads are putting 100
percent into their music, there's no
reason why musicians as fine as these
give performances which are anything
less than excellent.
I guess if you're a dead head the
ohow must have seemed good. The list
of songs was impressive. I am alad I
finally heard "Terrapin Station" live.
The show did have its high points, like
"Johnny 8. Goode". But I've heard all
these· songs done better, much better.
Even the crowd wasn't as wild as usual.
I guess I expected too much.
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After being stoked by a surprise
showing of ~nima/ House, the Blues
Brothers, as one might have expected,
were excellent. Pushing past the limits
they set on Saturday Night Live, they
showed a rare streak of humility that
performers as they often lack. Their
band performed with a tightness ooly a
select crop of studio musicians could
provide. The set was short, since all
their
material
is contained
on
comedy wriler for what mythical TV show?
7. Sky King flew a twrn-en!!me
yU•Lf!!!!
six. Garcia didn't even break a sweat.
reside?
S. What was Sgt. Joe hiday's
badge number on DRAGNET?
6. On the original DICK VAN
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from U.N.C.L.E.''
I 0. Were the dugs who have
played Lassie male or female? Or
were both males and females
used?
11. What was the name of the
character played by Lloyd
Bridgeson SEA HUNT?
12. What was the exact familial
relationship
between
Adam,
Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright?
13. How did Jim Anderson earn
a living on FATHFR KNOWS
BEST?
14. Who was the first host of
THE TONIGHT SHOW?
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album.
New Riders of the Purple Sage gets
no mention in this article.
All in all I guess it was an OK
concert. Yet for all it could have been,
it wasn't enough. A dead head will
always tell you "there's nothing like a
Grateful Dead concert," and after
seeing this show all I can say is there
damn well better not be.
do not
and are
I like carnivals. They give me great
joy. much of which tomes from their
sensual onslaught of color.
I like individuals. Some people wear
orchids in their hair or paint their
finaernails in ten different colors. It
might be nice to venture out of this
closet of blue-and-brown sameness for a
chanae, and not just on Halloween. We
don't need to sell out to Sears and
Roebuck or Yves St. Laurent. Let's brina
back color, just for funl
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Which brings us to another matter:
clothes do fall apart, and, if composed
of natural fibers, they will eventually
decompose into harmless dirt. The
fasion industry insists upon appealing
oranae7
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There are, thouah, many things about
purveyors of 'fashion' which distress
me. Style Is treated as a product which
should become obsolete, and the
sooner, the better. My philosophy is
that if somethina is pleasing to wear,
and lovely to behold, it stays that way
until it falls apart.
usually machine washable and dryable.
Consumers, lulled by ease of care,
neglect the Iona-range ecological
effects of synthetic clothina.
These are very real concerns, and
have probably prompted the reactioo
which motivates people to dress so
dully in this community. Cotton, linen,
wool, and even silk do rot, and can be
fashioned into a million desians and
dyed at least that many colors.
Does anybody remember tie-die! Or
paisley! Or big, colorful flowers!
Whatever happened to purple, and to
I. Who lived at 1313 lllueview
Terrace in Los Angeles'?
I
I
and I stood on the corner of Post and
Stiener, with a dull throbbing sort of
bouyant feeling in my head, that I
realized what I had just encountered. It
to convenience-synthetics
shrink, never need ironing,
an
ability to free oneself from the limits of
4/4 time and mindless marshmallow
melodies. It is no coincidence that the
Grateful Dead are usually associated
with the counterculture, psychedelic
drugs, and alternative lifestyles. As our
culture becomes increasinaly polarized
between vacuous disco decadence and
blind punk rage, the Dead with their
"message" of Sixties acid/love/etc. look
like one of the few healthy and creative
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I am becoming a closet connoisseur.
representation of his talents. The album
.f /
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But, if the truth be known, I find an
endless sea of brown coats and blue
jeans a little bit tirina. It would be
heartwarming to the artist in me to be
greeted each day with a medley of
color, reflecting inventiveness and pride
in the wearing of clothes.
will never put 'Fire on the Mountain'
on a record. It's too special, too
.JJ
GlUIZ
2. Name either of the two Army
Patchouli-smelling and T-shirted, I
wander in perfect harmony through
these hallowed· halls. If questioned
about my attire (say, at a disco party or
a high school), I am fully prepared to
defend myself with healthy political
fervor. "You must aaree-the time has
come to shed these bourgeois trappings
and fight for a perfect social order . . .
Blah, blah, blah . . ." I· am popular
neither at disco parties nor at high
schools.
almost any Dead song. Yet one can not
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guitar style (compare
"Fire on the Mountain" with an old
bootleg of the same song), nooe of
these songs sound as good on vinyl as
they do live, but that could be said of
f, G-£oNS.
,!
It wasn't until the concert was over,
that by the end of the show everyone I
knew had moved as far as possible from
the band, to the top of Winterland!
.
Sad as it seems, the once greatest
rock and roll band must have smoked
too much paraquat. "But they've played
together for 13 yearsl" This is not
suitable as an excuse or reason for their
performance. "But they played six hours
through , .. " Sure they did, with such
exceedingly long breaks, and energyless
Please tum to page eleven
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PoL\T IC.S ...
amazing display of egomania. At the
end of the show calendars were aiven
away. I opened the calendar in hopes
of finding classic pictures of the great
bands who played Winterland, instead I
got pictures of Bill Graham.
There is bound to be somebody out
there who doubts the validity of this
article on the grounds that I'm
obviously hung up on the price of the
tickets. So what. I have a right to be.
We didn't even get a Happy New Year's
greeting for the incredible price we
paid. Tickets for the Last Waltz cost
S25, and we got Thanksgiving dinner
with the likes of Bob Dylan, Joni
Mitchell, and Neil Young served as the
main course. All I got at Winterland
was the sixties' oldest living flashback,
the Grateful Dead.
was, "Marin County's answer to the
sedative." Was it just a coincidence
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