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The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 5 (November 15, 1979)
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Lifeof Brian
By Sott Jamieson
MUSIC
FILMS ON CAMPUS
Friday, November 9
Thuraday, Nov. 8
The UJAMAA society presents Paul Schr•der's Blue Coller (U.S.A., 1978, 110 min.)
slarnng Richard Pryor. Harvey Keitel, and
Yaphet Ko110
.
This was screenwriter Paul Schrader's direc•
t0<ial debul (he did the screenplay for "Taxi
Onver") and, despite some flaws, It's an Im•
presswe effor1 (Schrader's direction Is a little
100 static ln some parts and there are a I~
tasteless scenes.) Pryor, Keitel, and Kouo give
excellent performances as three buddy•buddy
Delro1t auto wol'kers frustrated with their
union and env11onmen1. They successfully rob
the union sale t>ut end up wllh records of lh~
uruon s dirty business instead ol. money
From there. lhe caper comedy turns ln!o a
suspenseful allegory of betrayal and corruption In some ways, the fltm Is sor1 ol a modern day "On the Waterfront'" and the final
freeze-lrame 1s one of the most powerful
slatements against racism and caoitallsm ever
done In an Amencan film. Plus! Sleet Panthers a 1969 documentary about Bobby,
Huev'. and Co , and the ellorts of lhe Police to
eliminate them L HI., 5:30 and 6·30. Free
Frfdly, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10
The Northwest Women's FIim Conlerence
comes to Evergreen (In the Recital Hall).
Speakers, lilms, wol'kshops, llmlled ,eating.
Fnday-6 to 10 pm., Saturday-12 to 4 p.m.
and 6-10 pm SJ per seat or $8 for the lull
conference See related ar1Icle elsewhere In
th,s issue or call 866-6162 or 754-9432.
Friday, Nov. 9
Friday Nile Films presents MofVanl(England, 1966, 97 min.) slamng Vanessa Red·
grave and David Warner Directed by Karel
Reisz (Who"II Stop the Rain?", "'Loves of
Isadora'")
Back easl. and in olher par1s ol the coun•
try, "Morgan·· Is right up there with "King of
Hearts·· and "'Harold and Maude" a.s one ol
!he big '"cult'" l1lms, bul tor some reason Is
not seen much tn western Washjngton. Altha
1he1e·s regrettably some "C(!lY ls cool" stuff.
whal makes the lltm far superior to "King ol
Hearts," el al, Is Reisz"s stylish dlreclion
and editing, good characterizations. leftist In•
Jokes, Warner's and Redgrave's performances,
and scenes that are truly funny. Morgan Is a
sl1ghlly psychollc young tro1skylst. who has
1an1as1esol being a gorltla, and who employs
wildly comical schemes 10 win back his
upper-class wile Some memorable scenes
are Morgan v1sl11ng Karl Marx's grave with
his mother (who's a worklng-ctass commie):
crashing his e)(-wife's wedding on 1o_pof a
high building-King-Kong
Slyle, and ,maglnlng himself as the vlc11m at an abs.~rdlst
version al Stalin's 1930's "Moscow trtals with
his wile as the prosecutor. This was the lir11
lllm appearance tor both Vanessa Redgrave
and David Warner.
Plus! Steve and Dave Huss' Don't Fell Me,
the campus premier ol a new comedy short
produced and shot at Evergreen (you'll see
some ol your tav0<1le slars from the library In
this one), and a 1940'• Tex Avery cartoon,
Turttey Jeftcy. L.H.1. 3. 7, and 9:30. One dollar.
Monday, Nov. 12 and TUNday, Nov. 13
The Counseling Center presents A Thous•
and Clown, (US.A., 1965, 118 min.) s1errlng
Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Barry Gordon.
and Mar11n Balsam. Directed by Fred Coe.
Robards plays an eccentric non-conlormls1
trying to keep his nephew from being taken
by the chlld welfare bureau In lhls stagey and
no1-very-clnematic adaptation of the Broadway
play Most audiences are genuinely moved by
this semi-comedy, but this reviewer finds 11
too gllb and shallow !or comlor1. The lllm
tries to glorify non-conformity bul ends up
being very conformist ltsell. Before lls !ans
slart sending me hate mall, I musl admit that
Jason Robards' performance Is great and I
really loved this him as an adolescent. Also
notewor1hy are Barbara Harris as !he social
worker and Barry Gordon (whatever happened
to him?) as lhe kid Mon. 7:30 and 9·30
Tues 5 and 7 L.H I Proceeds go to help the
Counsehng Center
Wedneaday. Nov. 14
The academic him senes presenIs Jan
Kadar's Liff
My Father Toki Me !Canada.
How'• Bayou. a six-piece caIun band from
Seattle. plays at !he Gnu Dell at 9 Pm
$2 cover
KAOS Radio's semi-annual ten-day Maratllon starts today Tune In to 89 3. or calt
866-5267 for 1nlo and subscriptions
Larry and The Mondtllos are al lhe 4th
Avenue Tavern 1on!gh! and tomorrow night.
ana also on the 16!11and 171h
Folk guItanst A1 ■ n Blyth sings classics by
Malvina Reynoh::Js Wood-,. Guttme and others.
at The 01tier Side o! tne T1acks in Auburn.
s1ar1Ing at 9 o m . tor $2
Saturday. November 10
_
Solos, Duos and Trios featuring original
works by John Alkins. Mark Vale, Myra Metlord and others, at the Gnu Oeh tonight A
Gnu Music Benefit. starts at 9 pm, only S2
!l you missed How's Bayou at the Gnu Deli
carc.n them a1 AppleJam Doors open al
8 pm
$2 cover
Seattle Parks ano RecreaI1on sponsors a
cIassIcaI ana 1azz guIt3r chmc featuring Laur•
lndo Almeida at the Lcngslon-Hughes Cultural Arts Center -on , 7Ih and Yesler. starting al
2 pm
t1ci..e1s are S3. available al Peaches
Records and Tapes or at !he door
Picker Rick Ruskin comes to The Other Side
of lhe Tracks for a show al 9 p m Tickets
only S2
Wednesd1y. November 14
Leo Kottke and Jesse Winchester star at the
SeatPe Opera House Iomgh1 These two famed
p1cke1 songwnIers need no further inl1oductIon Try Rainy Day Records tor more info
Hall and Oates ana Stales come 10 The
Place !or shows a! 6 p m and 11 30 P m
ton1gh1 and 1omorrow T1ckeIs are available a1
Ben Marche and The Place
ART
Thursday. November 8
Clar'tr. College Faculty Show conlinues In
Gallery 2 through November 30
Pac1hc Northwesl scenes oy TESC lacully
memoer WIiiiam Wlnden will be 1n Gallery 4
until No,..emDer 25
Recent works by Mud Bay Potters Curtis
HHller and Susan Rowell conI1nue lhrough
No,..embe130 a! Ch1ldhoocfs End Gallery
Andrew Wyelh originals
and Nonhwest
scenes by Ramona H1mmerty continue at lhe
Collector"s Gallery unr1I November 30
Friday, November 9
lonesco·s lmoro•i&1tlon1 or The Shepherd's
Chameleon, produced by Evergreen Studenl
Product,ons opens IonIght at 8 P m in me
EJCperimental Theater Ad,..ance tickets are
only 51 S1 50 at the door
Sundey, November 11
Last chance to see lmpro-,lsallons or The
Shepherd's Ch•m•leon
in
the Experimental
Thea1er at 8 p m
MEETINGS. ETC.
Thursday, November 8
Maril Papwor1h describes his adventures
w1lh the S.mnler
at S.. program Noon in
the main Libra!"\' LObbv free
Abortion Support Group meeting, 5 pm .
Sem 3153. lor info call 866-6238
Larry Keymore pre!H!lnls a sllde show and
talk on his 10-day raft tnp down lhe T1l1hen•
,hlnl Ri•er In Alaska SIarts at 7 pm al lhe
REI Co-op In Seallle Frei:!
Friday. Ncw•mber 9
Ory Con a weekeno,long sc1-l1 extravaganza opens in Portland JOhn Varley, Richard
Ge,ss and Ursula K LeGuin WIii h1ghllghl lhe
ac1tv,tIes Fo, more into call (503) 761-6768
Sunday, November 11
The Black HIiis Audobon Society w,II take a
held tr1p w1Ih an emphasis on learning gu1~s
ano shorebirds Meet at 8 30 a m at Hawks
Prairie Inn near Mar,..1n Ad lntercl'tange
ib11111 from l-5)
Monda}, HOffmber- 11
E.P.I.C. meets at 5 om In Lib 3220
M.,,'s Suppor1 Groop's hrst meel!ng 7 o m
in Lib 3600 lounge F01 mere mlormat1on,
caII 943-640-4
Mad Mond•y Skateboarding Conlfft
starts
a, noon !Delay at me Olymp1s Skateboard Park
on Martin Way Events include pool riding,
trees1yte and crosscounlry S5 regis1ra1lon lee
, 5 due by 1O 30 a m Ladies free
For into
call 491-9807
WednHd•y. Ncwember 14
Fo,me, E,..ergreen Pres1den1Chartff Mccann
g,,..es a presentat,on on Publk: and Prtvate
Managers: If no! SlbUngs, at INII
Firsl
Cousins at Arnotd·s ResIauran1 on Soulh
Gap110IWay at noon $4 20 1ncIudlng a crepe
luncheon
l-9/!,, 103 mtn)
A highly acclaimed lllm based on Ted
Allan's remembrances of Jew,sh !amity Ille In
Montreal Shel in Ganada by a Czech director usmg some Israeli actors Winner of lots
ol awards
"Not for S1onehear1s'"-Mark
levensky l H t 1 30 and 7 •30 FREE I
By T J Simpson
,rs
BETTER BELIEVE
NOT A FILM!
The Theater of the Unleashed wltl continue
to present "The Bark Before lhe Bite!" (a RevoluUonary drama consisting entirely ol sounds
and scenls) to our brothers and slaters In•
carcerated In Security's death camps. We will
be al their so-catted "kennels" fN9f'1 nigh!,
hOwllng with righteous Indignation. Stop the
executions and forced sterlllzatlon!
All canines are Pollllcat p,lsoner-st Leuhes and
licenses are the product ol biped bourgeois
$0C1ety's oppression! For more conaclousness-ralslng
rhetoric-call
lhl Extremely
Fissed-off Institute of Canines 11 86&-6144.
Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry
Jones and the rest of the Mont_yPyth~n
brood are together again, invading movie
theaters with a biblical (sort oO farce
that embraces crucifixion, dismember•
ment and stoning people to deal~ as .a
few of its funnier subjects. Soon 1t will
be in Olympia.
"Brian" of the title is Brian Cohen, .a
young Jewish man who grows up in
Nazareth, Jesus' old neighborhood. He
hat.es the Romans and soon joins up w1~h
a terrorist group known as The Peopl~ s
Front of Judea (not to be confused with
The J udean People's Front, or any of the
dozen or so rival organizations).
.
From the moment he joins up ~1th
them, things begin to go w_ro?gfor Bnan.
He is sent on a night m1ss1on to pa1~t
graffiti on the Roman pal.a~e and ts
caught by a soldier who v1c1ously corrects his grammar. Later he is cap.lured
in a kidnap attempt and is thrown into a
cell with someone who's been hangin~ ~n
the wall for a number of years. Br1ans
cellmate assures him that since it's his
first offense, he'll probably "get off' with
a crucifixion. ("Nail him up!" he yells,
"Nail some sense into him!")
In due course, Brian is brought before
Pontius Pilate who talks like Elmer
Fudd, is rescued briefly in a space ship,
is mistaken for the Messiah, and finally
is sentenced to die on a cross. "Cheer
up," says the man on the crou next to
his, "Thing, are never aa bad as they
seem."
The hallmark of the Monty Python
group has always been to _make everything out of nonsense, and nonsense out
of everything. "Life of Brian" is no exception. It is a movie ?f isolate'! me>
ments. As such, it doesn t flow quite as
smoothly as other movies and it may
become a little tiring after about an hour
and a half. The show ian't blasphe~?us,
really, being more a parody on religious
fi.lmsthan a parody on religion. Far more
people are apt to object to the show's
macabre humor (such as the scene showing the Coliseum janitor, cl~anin_g. up
after the gladiators) than to its btbhcal
references.
Iranjan Student Interviewed
AFTERTHE
REVOLUTION .. •
By Larry Stillwell
..The fact that the Shah ia not being
turned over underlies two principles.
One is that there is an international tradition, in the post-Nazi era, of not granting asylum to criminals that were involved in genocide-like Nazis. And we
still see SS officers that have been citiz.:ns in this country, who are being
turned over to be tried, to get fair trials.
..And two is this fact that the U.S.. by
turning over the Shah to Iran, would
clearly be indita~ing a change in its
poliry .. and taking .over ~ diflerent. role
in the area, especially in the Middle
East, and in the Third World as a whole.
"But by refusing to turn the Shah in,
what they're doing is saying, 'We can do
whatever we want in any country, we
can commit any crimes that are needed
to protect our interest.s and then we give
assurance to those elements that they
can always come back to us and they're
always welcome.' And that was very in•
suiting to Iranians.
.
Ali Ramezani is an Iranian student tn
the "Molecule to Organism" program at
Evergreen. He has been going to school
here for a year and a half and will graduate this spring. Last summer he re•
turned to visit an Iran transformed by
revolution and saw first hand what most
of us can only n~ad and hear about. He
All Ramezanl, lraalu otude■t at. EVffp-ffn.
GRADSCHOOL
TWO MORE YEARS
AT EVERGREEN!
Womenon Top
Continued from page 1
towards the top. Up and down successive
bumps along the ridge, they. fiully
reached the summit at 3:30. Staymg o?IY
briefly they erected a banner proclaiming "AWoman's Place Is on Topi" and
descended towards Camp 5, which they
reached late that evening.
The second summit team-Alison, Vera
Watson, and a Sherpa-left Camp 3
toward the summit at the same time that
the first team began their descent. The
Sherpa became ill and the two women
decided to attempt the summit alone. As
darkness fell, they were seen a few
hundred feet short of Camp 5 and moving steadily towards it. They failed to
report by radio that evenmg, and th!re
was no sign of them at all the followmg
day. Then Arlene persuaded the two
Sherpas to return to the higher .camps to
offer assistance. The worst possible ne.ws
came over the radio late on the mornmg
of the 20th-the
women were deaa.
Their bodies were found on a serac
1200 feet below Camp 5, impossible to
recover. Back at base camp, Vera and
Alison's names were carved into the
stone memorial to the other eight climbers who have died on. Annapurna. The
team, incredibly shaken, then returned
to Ratmandu.
At that point, Ms. BIUJD'•slide presentation ended, and the floor was. ope,ned
up for questions: What was 1t like?
Would she go back? What did it PROV~
What was its significance to women_s
climbing, and to the climbing world m
general? The questions remained after
the
presentation
had
ended.
Part of the answer lies in examining
this climb in its historical contexL Women had been seriously climbing for ~
most a century before the womens
attempt of Annapurna. In 1890, Faye
Fuller, a founding member of the American Alpine Club, became the lint woman to climb Mount Rainier. Soon afterwards, in 1906, Fanny Bullock Workman
set a women's altitude record (23,300 It.)
by climbing Pinnacle Peak. Two years
later, Annie Peck did the lint ascent of
Huascuran Norte at age 59. Other
women's ascents include Dora Handy's
1912 climb of ML Blackburn in Aluka
and Helen Buck's ascent of Mount Sir
Alexander.
.
In the 1930's Elizabeth Cowles dtd
several first ascents in the Tetons. Over
in Europe, Loulou Boulaz participated in
the first ascent of the Grand Jorus
(1935). Thia climb ia especially intereating due to its highly technical nature.
"""Not only were women attemptrnrhighly technical routes prio~ to the l~t
five years, they were also mteres~ tn
high altitude climbs. ln fact, by the time
the all-women's team had reached Annapurna, three women had already stood
on the summit of Mount Everest.
Thus the Annapurna climb'• significance does not lie in its proving that
women can operate efficiently at high
altitudes. Nor does it greatly add to_the
technical achievements of women climbers. Rather, the true significance ~f ~•
all-women'• climb of Annapurna liea in
the challenge it poses: t~t of. doing
highly technical routes at high altitudes.
Thia challenge ia in the process of being
answered.
program, and planners, under the direction of Dr. Guy Adams and Dean Will
Humphrey■, set to work on the proposal.
When school opena again next SeptemThroughout the apring and summer,
ber, there ma7 be some new faces among Adamo and co-planners Gayle Rothrock
us and maybe some familiar faces back
Boyle, Victoria Ingersoll, Russell Lidman
again. It won't be open bouae or back-toand Thomas Rainey met to develop the
school days, but rather the launching of
96-page propoeal.
Evergreen'• firat graduate proiram.
At the same time a 16-person advisory
Tbooe studenta will be here working
board was usembled. Made up of practoward a Master'• degree in Public
ticing public admini>l.raton, the board
Administration.
•
included st.ate senators. representatives,
When Evergreen wu establiabed in
ma7ors, and public affairs directon from
1967, the legislature authorized the
the area. This board provided suggesaward of Bacealaureate and Muter•,
tions and recommendationa during the
degrees. Over the 12 yean aince that
preparation of the propoaal, aiding the
authorization, TESC bas worked to decore planning team in their effort to
velop an effective undergraduate curricushape the program to suit public adminlum and bu now taken a big atep '-ard
iatratlon needs in the state. Their reeomestabliahing a graduate program.
mendationa helped form an outline upon
Thia fall a drafl propoaal wu delivered
which the plannera could expand.
by faculty and adminlatntive planners to
A three-person review board wu alao
the Coundl for Pootaecondary Education
gathered, conaiating of Dr. George Ship(CPE) for conaideration and final legiaman, University of Wubington profeaaor
lative action in December.
emeritus; Dr. Geoffrey Cornog, SangaPuaage of the propoeal would enable
mon State University professor of Public
up to 35 atudenta to begin gnduate
Affairs; and Dr: Bayard Ca~•• George
work involving some 60 hours of academWashington Uruvers1ty UIOClate profesic atudr diretltil....t.o.w~ -'-'pl'O¥iding------of--Publie-Affair&.-'l'heir-¥ialta,
.,.......
rigorous, hifh-quality profeuional educaring near the midway point in the plantion in public adminlatntion, with the
ning process, and subsequent auggesaim of footering the continued Improvetiona, further aided the planner■ in their
ment of public service in the State of
refinement of the proposal.
Waabington."
With the aid of these two boards, the
Since UH17,serious th011ght has been
propoaal team came up with a detailed
given to the Idea of a gnduate ochool of
study of the need for such a program,
Public Affaln and in 1974 the Colleg-e•
how it would be inatltuted, the benefits
1
academic adminiatration initiated a aerie,,
to TESC itself, the region, the state, and
of informal dJacuuiona with the faculty
moot importantly tbe students themon the aubject of Introducing gnduate
selves.
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study opportunities.
Thia wu further reinforced by the
In preparation for tbla eventualit7,
publication of the CPE'a "The Evergreen
Evergreen inatituted "Management and
Study" in tbe fall of 1978. The study rethe Publlc lnterut" in 1976 to provide "a
commended that TESC work.to develop
good underrraduate foundation for entry
a program that "paid •pedal attention to
into graduate level management edthe educational need, of penon, auocucation."
lated with state government in 01:rmpia."
II)' the spring of thla 7ear, enabling
Current atate public admlnlatratora
legialation had been approved for the
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counLB 11imsell among the 90% of the
Iranian population that he says supports
the new government and it.s Islamic
leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
With the recent capture of the U.S.
embassy in Teheran by Iranian students
·and their holding of 65 American hostages there, tensions between the two
•governments have created a situation
where military action does not seem
totaUy impossible. Further, it seems that
nationalistic fever is affecting not only
the government& but also the people of
these two countries. There have been
cries for the deportation of Iranian students in the United States.
In Seattle, hundreds of people gathered for a pro-America demonstration at
which some Chicano youths were beaten
when they were mistaken for Iranians
because of their dark skin. The demonstrators carried signs calling Iranians
..camel-drivers" and "sand-jockeys."
At least one Evergreen graduate wu
there; he told me later "they sb011ldsend
'em all back to Iran," He was angry and
•honest: with loud emotion he told me be
was sick and tired of America being
made out to be ao evil and admitted he's
"never liked being ar011nd Arabo anyway."'
CPJ: When you see all these demonatntiona. like thia weekend, do 7011feel
an1 danger that it might build into a war
hysteria?
AU: Yeah, whenever you see the
prejudice and the biaa coming out like
thia and the government not acting 011t
of rationality, getting engaged in such
confiicta, this is a sign of war.
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CPJ: Do you feel afraid for your.elf in
this country?
Ali: No. I was surprised at the sugges•
tion of a friend of mine that I shouldn't
talk (in the CPJ). That was amazing. But
it doesn't scare me at all, it's just an
amazing phenomena.
Ali does not believe the American
hostages in Iran are in danger, either.
"The students who have taken over the
embassy have clearly indicated time
after time they are not going to hurt
them. Contrary to what the media here
says, they have had announcements,
they have said 'we are more revolutionary and human than to get Mtisfaction
from hurting our hostages.' In our school
of thought it is against our principles to
harm our hostages or prisoners.·•
CPJ: But obviously the threat is there
or else they wouldn't be hostages.
All: No, the hostage taking is merely a
political act, the only option left to a
people whose integrity is chaUenged.
They have no other channel to direct
their anger.
CPJ: Are you saying that under no
conditions w011ldthey kill the hostages.?
AU: That's it. And this is a new phenomena that came with the Iranian Revolution. People. for the rust time, are for
clean politics. Even the students, although they know this ia going to weaken their bargaining position, nevertheless they go so far as to say they are not
going to hurt them in any cue.
Ali claims Americans have an unfair
and distorted view of Khomieni and the
Iranian Revolution due to the bias of the
American press and governmenL He
Continued to page 4
HELP YOURSELF
By Alexis X. Je,ter
Problems with your landlord? With
your ex- or present spouse'! h some deaf
bureaucracy squeezing you for their own
mistake? The Self-Help Legal Aid Office
1s open and ready to help.
Staffed by four students trained u
para-legal advocates, the SHLAP office
(pronounce but disregard the P) is both
a walk-in clinic and a resource library.
"Self-help is the focus: What people can
do to help themselves, to avoid the cost
and powerleuneas of relying on the legal
establishment-or,
in the case where
they need a lawyer, how to be an assertive client.
The SHLAP office is nestled in a
barren corner of the third floor Library,
Room 3224. You don't need an aJ>point:__
ment:aRnough 11your situation is urgent
you can schedule one. When you come to
the office, a staff member will sit down
with you and have you set out the prob-lem in detail. S/be will then advise you
whether you can bushwhack through the
legal jungle your.elf, or whether you
really do need a lawyer. (In moot Landlord/tenant cases, for example, individuals don't need a lawyer; in a contested
divorce they'd be taking their chance■
without one.)
U your problem bu not yet seeped
out of the realm of self-help, both you
and the ataff member can then turn to
:the SHLAP reaource librlll')'. The office
ia •tocked with book■ and fileo on do-ityounelf dlvoree, amallclaima procedure,
landlord/tenant dlaputea, conaumer problema, contract dlaputea, traffic violations
, and other ......._ A new addition to_the
helves is an excellent Washtngton State
)elf Counsel series coverir.g consumer
rights, credit and bankruptcy IRw. wills,
women's rights, "You and the Police,"
and "Fight that Ticket in Wa.shic1gton."
Usually, there are still som<' questions
remaining after pawing through the files,
so each week the SHLAP staff meets
with a lawyer. Every case i.s discussed,
the relevant statute explained, and the
staff memtyr's action evaluated. It is
then the individual's responsibiHty to
contact the SHLAP staffer for the infor' mation.
It ia critical for both the SHLAP •taff
and the Evergreen community to remember that staff members are not
lawyer1; we walk the thin line of ·•paraiepl ad.v~,•
and eennot gi--e legal
advice. First, we're not competent to
give legal advice. Second. our office
would be closed down. And third, seeing
us u lawyers frustrates the purpose of
SHLAP, which ia self-empowerment and
the demystification of law. So come
,prepared to do a little research.
In some situations, individuals will
need lawyers. Cases involving litigation
beyond small claims court, divorces with
disputes over property or custody, complex contract disputes-these situations
!demand legal counsel and individuals will
be putting themselves at a disadvantage
without iL
If an individual i.s low-income, we'll
have them call Puget Sound Legal
AMiltance in doWntown Olympia for an
eligibility screening. Legal Aasiatance ia
a federally funded agency designed to
Continued to page 8
system in Eugene, Ore. They 1bould be
ver; receptive to Ideas from thoee of ua
who really use bikes.
Next time you just miss your death on
a bad stretch of road don't juat CUii intG
the wind. There are people ready 1G
listen 1Gwhat you say.
Here are some important numbers:
City Rd. Dept.
Don Sordahl, Supervisor
753-8362
County Rd. Dept.
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To the Editor:
Last month when I called in a complaint 1G both the County and the City
Road Maintenance Departments about a
dangerous road shoulder, I didn't expect
anything to happen. It isn't that it was
an unimportant complaint; Lhe stretch of
Mud Bay that I live on is filled with potholes. Sometimes it seems like more potholes than shoulder. I would guess that
there are 200 places that need work.
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OFFICIAL BIKE PATH, well, I consider
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mean some people won't want to get
involved with you sexually. It's a
chance you take. You have an obligation to let them know.
Talk to the Women's Health Clinic or
Health Services. While the information
there is probably not complete (because there's new information all the
time), it's better to read it than Lo
deny any problem exists.
For people who don't have herpes: I
suggest that you, too, gather as much information as you can. More than likely
you know someone who has herpes, and
there's a good chance you'll eventually
City Supervisor
Elson Marshall
753-8325
Good luck,
Todd Litman
Tc OF THE WEEK
Dear Olympia beers,
As useful beings I figure the onus on
us is to capitalize more on controlling our
excess. Last year the fueVelectricity bill
for the college dorms was approximately
$35,000-which was paid to Puget Power.
The energy you use today tomorrow can
be a nuclear plant.
Speaking of plants, I suppose (suppose
is the position one takes while supping)
that a logical diet for TESCers would be
soup and salad; it would make for greener brothers (not to mention that clam
chowder could make us souper gooey•
ducks).
Sincerely, a brother greener,
Tc Philips
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The revolution [ailed of course, becau1e
we lost our unity and that was moat
likely a capitalist plot but that's all behind us ~w. We need to quickly form a
new allia
with the strict and simple
purposes of .i_nkingbeer, sex, any way
you like it, the attainment of great
volumes of capital (come on; you must
have learned something in ten years).
more bed time and free movies. It will
not be all [un and games however; for
gloom and misanthrope threaten our
very existence (not to mention our sacred
institution). We shall take a radical and
undeviating
stand against the selfrighteous,
humorless,
inconsiderate,
cynics in the world and on our fair campus. If this description fits you (and from
what we·ve seen, it probably does), then .
beware after the new year rolls around.
Our goal is to see everyone happy. In
1980. you will be happy or you will be
beaten! "Get light or get out" is our
motto. We a re:
Saint Jude
The Wizard of Oz
and other bachelors
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The year is 1979. There is no humor.
There is no tolerance. There are only
cynics. The decade winds down dismally
boring in light of that sacred purpose,
once referred to as "The Revolution."'
EDITOR Larey Stillwell
ART DIRECTOR Randy Hunting
Tim Nesler
Mary Yolllll
HERE'S HELP
FOR HERPES
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To the editors:
ll was in April when I found out I had
genital herpes. It could have been a
traumatic situation, but I was lucky
enough to know a person who'd had it a
long time. She gave me information and
a lot of support.
For many people in similar situations,
it hasn't been that easy. They haven't
had people to talk to. either because
they don't know anyone with this sexu•
ally transmitted disease (STD), or more
likely, the people they do know are not
talking about it.
People who contract herpes have a
myriad of feelings, not the least of which
is ambiguity. There is so much doubt
surrounding herpes. In order to get a
positive diagnosis. you must go to
Seattle. Even if you have sexual relations with someone when the symptoms
aren't active, there's still a chance of
passing it on to your partner. The blisters can recur at any time, though that's
more likely Lo happen in times of stress.
It's been estimated that by the year
2000, 85% of the world's population will
have herpes. P&rt of the reason is that
unlike other STD"s, herpes is a virus,
hence antibiotics are ineffective in curing
it. There is no viable cure as yet.
If you have herpes, what can be done?
Here's a few ideas:
You need to take responsibility for
yourself. This involves taking care of
yourself. More importantly, it involves
a big responsibility to any and all
BUSINESS MANAGER Jon Todd
CALENDAR EDITOR W.. Eekenbers
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INTIMIDATING
By Matt Perkins
I support the red pen vandal.
Although I do not feel that events held
exclusively for women or men are necessarily sexist by nature, in the context of
this issue and this school community, I
support what might otherwise be un·
acceptable as the distasteful destruction
of public property. I do not believe that
the labeling of a posted event as "sexist"
truly degrades the event being adver·
tised. The appearance of grafitti on a
poster outside SAGA has probably not
convinced anyone of anything except
that a lot of people at Evergreen are
extremely uptight about the issue of
sexism in the feminist struggles of rad·
icals on campus. I found it refreshing to
see such a touchy issue approached with
a degree of humor, and to see less-than·
extreme views appear in public. Al·
though probably more widely shared by
the student population. these moderate
responses are unusual compared to the
more extreme feminist reactions which
usually ga.in exclusive attention. Why do
I feel this way?
When I came to Evergreen three
years ago I felt a strong support for
feminism. I felt that the womens' move·
ment was not limited strictly to people of
the female gender. but that men too
Would gain from the "advancement" of
women. Was this liberal belief naive?
Exlreme feminist writing at Evergreen
frequently expresses a violent hatred of
men, who are defined as THE Oppres•
sors. Those men who are most sympa•
thetic to feminist ideas while unsure of
their own role in such struggles, • are
particularly vulnerable to this sort of
attack. I have spoken with Evergreen
men who actually believe in their personal guilt as culprits in our sexist society. I
would like to think that I am still aa
open to the feminist movement as I was
when I came here, but I know that I am
not. Far too often for my liking I become
defensive, seeking refuge in a retreat
toward sarcasm, cynicism or disinterest.
I am not alone in erecting these protective defenses.
Radical feminism and sexism are traditionally among Evergreen's most uptight
issues. There rately seems to be any
room for moderation while extremist
views gain large amounts of attention.
One letter in last week's CPJ expressed
concern for the welfare of a person
caught writing on posters advertising
womens' events. Read the conclusion of
the letter from a woman angry about
violence against women on paper. Can
anyone truly condemn a person for re•
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REBUTTAL TO BERYL
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To the editor:
literature, because this is certainly the
are most receptive to Heryl's ideas and
Not all of us share the pess1m1st1c
best method i£ it can be used. (It 11 the
methods. That would be a shame. The
viewpoint that Beryl Crowe expresses in
only way to teach specialized, advanced
College might have to fire him then, and
his interview with Tim Nogler. The CPJ
topics in the sciences.) After half a quarhe's always good for an argument or
is not the place to argue all of the interter, we had gotten from 1940 to 1955 and
a laugh.
esting things he says. but they deserve a
had hardly touched on some of the most
Burton S. Guttman
partial rebuttal because that big headline
important matters. People who don't
Faculty (B1ology)
and all the conversation beneath it are
teach in the sciences, of course, don't
likely to have the unfortunate effect of
have this problem.
convincing many students Lhat EverOn the other hand, using methods that
green is somehow changing for the
are appropriate for us but which Beryl
worse and is no longer the place for
disapproves of, we can give our students
them-just at a time when we need to
an excellent foundation in the sciences.
keep those students with us. In this
We can bring them very much into the
To the editors,
sense, Beryl's notions have practical conmodern sciel'ltific paradigms that they
It certainly SE-ems a shamt! that the
sequences that scare me.
will have to live with, and students are
collective student body should waste
Beryl is a lucky man for two reasons.
well advised to come to Evergreen to
precious resources each day b) buying
First, he is employed by ·this institution
partake of what we have to offer. Furin a fairly secure position where· he has
thermore, we give our students the
coffee from Saga in styrofoam <'ups. Each
to do little but think-either
alone or
opportunity to learn about science in a
~ay when I go to the deli with my mug
with students. Second. the things he
much broader context, where they can
m hand I wonder that more students do
not make an active effort to stop this
likes to think about belong to a certain
consider the social. moral and philosophliterary - philosophical • political realm
ical implications of science.
wasteful use. Ideally Saga should offer
incentives, in the way of lowered prices.
where ideas develop anU 0.1.:cumulate
I applaud Beryl's definition of what a
for folks bringing their own cups. Howslowly. if at all-where the very notion
liberal arts education should be for-"'to
ever, to Saga, the cups are such a minute
of a progressive development of· know•
teach people what to do when they have
portion of the coat that they don't feel
ledge may hardly apply. This puts him in
nothing to do." But Beryl forgets that
they can offer a discount. In addition,
a position to take a certain lofty-dare I
the modern university inherits the tradithey feel they have been giving a con•
say "elitist," Beryl?-viewpoint. But it is
Lion of those universities that began to
cession to mug-bringers
by charging
also a myopic view.
proliferate throughout Europe at the
them small cup prices for an obviously
He bu been very successful at teachneginning of the Renaissance, and that
larger cup of coffee. So I encourage all
i.ng here through a kind of coordinated
they developed not primarily because of
habitual coffee drinkers to do themselves
study mode. It suit.a: him very well. He
a renewal of interest in learning for its
a favor: bring a mug and gel more coffee
and his students are happy with it. and
own sake but because there was a grow•
for the same money-it'll help in the
we all wish them greater success and
ing need for a new class of men who
longer run too.
happiness in the future. But it isn't the
would bi! frankly trained not only to
Amy Tolk
only posaible way of teaching. It bappeM
think but to do certain things, 1G take
to be eminently suited to exploring the
their places in a burgeoning new ,ociety.
sort of ideu that fucinate him. But
The great universities-Salerno, Bologna,
Beryl's myopia convinces him that everyParis, Oxford-were needed to produce
one ahoukl use it. that Evergreen wu
clerks, merchants, doctors and lawyers,
founded in order 1GUH it, and tbat the
not philosophers, poets and scientists.
use of other metbodo means that we are
This is still the primary goal of college
aD going 1G hell educationall7. He oees
and university education. Moot people
Editer CPJ
the use of other methods and a concern
have to earn their living through practiI must say hurrah to the women's
for other subjecto u an indication that
cal affair,. We who are lucky enough tG
center for their letter in the last issue
we are abandoning the liberal arto and
be academica sometimes for et that. Io
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There has been an abundance of the
nonsense, and rather dangerous nonsense
than a small clus of young men-the
women's film conference posters marred
at that.
sons of the rich and the noble-were in
by some masked marker. Well, they !l"e
By taking tbio 1tance, Beryl showo,
the position of having nothing to do so
not alone, because all of the recent hand
among other things, that ho has little
• they could benefit from the kind of
calligraphed Third World Coalition signs
conception of how a scientific paradigm
education we have to offer them in philhave also been given the same disrespect.
operates and how students enter it. He
osophy, art and science.
Many of the same sentiments voiced in
doe. not understand the development of
On the whole, I think we are doing a
the Women's center letter apply to
what Thomas Kuhn haa called ..exemfine job of awakening an interest in
people of color also. We have continually
plars"-mini•paradigma
that are used to
. these less practical matters among our
and systematically been excluded and
attack and solve problema of the kind
students. Unlike Beryl, I see nothing
denied basic human rights from the
that one deals with in mathematics and
wrong with their wanting to have somefounding of this country. To be called
the sciences. It happeM that there ill no
thing practical to do after graduation,
biased because we have tryed to unite
other way to teach theoe exemplan well
but I see moot of them emertrin~ from
and meet our need!! is ludicrous. It is al•
but through the use of the tezlbookA
Evergreen with that subtle difference
right Lo have segregation put upon us,
that be diodaiM: and far from dealing
that marks the liberally educated person.
but when we chooae that segregation
only with trivial que1UoM, the t.eztbooli.1
(Not all of them, mind you: we 1illl have
and begin to have some voice, then it is
that m7 colleague, and I u..-and write,
a lot 1Gdo.) But I 1ee Beryl'• pronooda·
not!
for that matt.er-<leal wilh matten that
mentoo as the sort of ill-conaidered millIt ii my difficulty, u a program ad
Ile at the bout of the 111bjoct. I have
chief that ls likely 1G turn away tbooe
mioiatrator, 1G make people of eolor
tried to t .. eh a whole group eootnet in
1tudento who can benefit most from
aware (let alone all the othen) of their
molecular biology by Uliog only ~l
what we are doing, eapoclally those who
culture aa well u other ethnic peoplea
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gel involved with someone who has it.
There have been two meetings this
quarter or a herpes support group. The
main success has been in people sharing
experiences with others in the same predicament. We plan on meeting again next
quarter. We encourage any interested
person, whether you have herpes or not,
to attend.
Stephen Charak
866-8034
QUIT DEFACING,
START TALKING
To the Editor:
This is my fourth attempt at writing a
letter or article to the CPJ this week
concerning the recent letters to the
newspaper concerning sexism, and the
now famous, but still idiotic post.er de-lacer. It has been a completely frustrating, and confusing experience. But two
things have become clear:
1) In trying to write my own views on
sexism, I inevitably find myself caught
up in my own experiences. I think it's
.almosL..imposaihle...-to .... it.e ~beul lhis
topic without inevitably offending some-body who draws some misconception
from what I write. Unfortunately, I can·
not respond to their misconception, and
my views become mistaken by others.
2) Sexism is a topic that needs to be
• d1?alt with, but it is not by defacing pos·
ters, nor writing letters to the CPJ.
I really wish that this clown who has
already gotten more attention than he or
she deserves would quit defacing posters
and start talking. And I hope that whenever this person does start talking,
• others will listen with an open mind to
whatever he or she has to say. It's somewhat maddening Lo hear all kinds of
accusations being thrown around, but
• still gel the impression that nobody's
. listening to anybody but themselves.
R. Michael Henry
that just so much bullshit and that nobody really cares about my safety on
those roads.
Well, lo and behold, wasn't I surprised
when I saw four new patches this week.
Now at that rate it wouJd take 50 phone
calls, one a day for ten weeks, to fix up
the one mile length that happens to be
bothering me now. Some people might
get discouraged. But it shows that some·
thing can be done. And why should I
have to do it all? Mud Bay Road is used
by lots of bicyclists. ,Bicycles are the way
to go these days. We will be respected
as a legitimate form of . transportation
when we demand it. Some of the road
shoulders that we need to ride on are
laughable, but now only we know that.
We will have to reach out to the people
who design and maintain roads, describe
to them what it's like to be out.side of a
car. We musl raise our voices loud
enough to be heard over the roar of the
internal combusUon engines if we are
going to break the cycle that gives cars
priority over bikes. Road maintenance
people will have 1Glearn what to look for
if they are to give us sa[e roads to ride
on.
So what can a bicyclist do? The roads
are divided among the city and county
-a=oad--11\ain'-enenee
depat tn1e11ts.'t"ou canuse a map to find out who is responsible
for any one piece of road. The people in
the road maintenance
departments'
offices are very nice. They will take
down your complaint, or you can try to
talk to t~e supervisor
who actually
makes the decisions. In Olympia his
name is Don Sordahl. There are different
supervisors for diJferent part.a of the
county. They are out in the field a lot so
you may have to call around 7:00 in the
morning. They are very nice over the
phone also. Nice but noncommital. They
don't understand bicyclists. I( you are
disappointed in the work you can call
Eldon Marshall, the city supervisor.
I understand that the Mayor of Olympia rides a bike now and then. And the
Director or Public Works. Al Williams
helped set up the very useable bike path
RIGHT TO
·SEGREGATE
ERE
sorting to anonymous tactics in such an
atmosphere?
I suppose that all or us will view these
issues more clearly after leaving Evergreen. I hope that my own support of
feminism will remain intact once I have
sorted through several layers or mud resulting from this political mess or extreme tirades. In the accepting manner
typical or the vast majority of Evergreen
students. there rises dangerously little
public resistance to extreme ideas. This
has the effect of lending credibility to
concepts such .ts the inherent guilt of all
men. People who disagree but cannot
find whatever it takes to speak out may
reel powerless. A person who preaches
such notions without challenge is not
required to truly examine or under·
stand their words. The uneasy political
atmosphere surrounding the issues involved with sexism and feminism is un•
fortunate indeed.
If we were not so uuick to cond!'mn
the proverbial. "them;" if the artificial
battle be.tween radical feminist lesbians
.tnd male oppressors on the Evergreen
<'ampus was portrayed in a more realistic
manner, and if the wielder of the red pen
did not need to rear violent attack, I. for
one, might feel freer to txpress and explore my opinions more regularly. Who
is standing on who's throat'/
cultures.
Actions such as marking
people's posters is divisive.
It is not so much a matter of voicing
an opinion; it is the manner in which it
1s done. Much time and energy went in
to designing those signs and posters; at
lust some respect should be dut- to
..,omeone else's work and property.
It is obvious that he ti assume it is a
white male) is keeping a lookout for us
rnd our activities. As new posters are
,,ut up, or previously marked ones are
repaired, they nre marked again in an
mk that can noL be erased.
If there I!< a difference of opini'ln then
plt•ast> comf' forward wilh it, let's do
something t:rl•ative and constructive with
this ~nrrl{y instead or destructive as it
has been 1."Xhibited.
April West, Coordinator
Third World Coalition
G'NUS!
Editors, CPJ:
Great Gnus the RUDAT people met
last week and decided on an alternate
location for the site of our new regional
performing arts center. The RUDAT
recommendation to the city is that the
center be located a block east of Gnu
Deli. . a superb location!
One of the significant factors in the
final site selection process was ..political
sensitivity" to existing businesses in the
area to be bulldozed.
So thanks, people. Thank> for your
verbal support and thanks for your letters to the city commissioners.
We
created Gnu Deli for you and now you
I-lave helped assure its continuing
~xistence.
Mike Hall
DEATH OF A r.ECADE
The CPJ is planning a speciol '70's edition for the laat issue of this quarter. We
are soliciting articles and reviews about
the put decade or the coming one. If
you'd like to contribut.e, please oee III as
soon as poulble.
IRAN INTERVIEW
Conlinued from page 1
says. for example, that as he sal in a
eafe in Trheran reading Newsweek's
aernunl of the strict banning of all music
in Iran, a man passed by him listening to
Bafh on a transistor radio.
..You <'Ouldn't help hear the music," h('
say~.
"t>Vl'D
though it was the religious
month, the month of fasting. when things
an• generally very quiet. But even more
important
"I read the international version of
Nt•wsweek and it(ni?t a piece on women,
aftN the revolution, whO worked for the
g-overnment. would be tested £or their
virginity. When I said this to Iranians,
they were shocked."
Ali claims such press accounts, which
dominate
our daily news about the new
rnnditions in Iran, are false. He says one
of Khomieni's
first acts was to give
womt•n the vote, something the Shah and
all his ··westernization" had not done.
Last summer, outside Teheran, Ali took
p:irt in the popular elections to establish
a new ronstitution. He says he saw
women \'Oting along with the men.
WomC'n. he says. are cboo1ing a return
tu traditional dress, not having it im•
posed on them. The freedom of women
under the Shah, according to Ali, was
··the freedom to buy western cosmetics."
The wearing of veils. he said, is only
happening in a region of Iran which has
alwJys been religiously very orthodox.
CPJ: What ahf'ut the suppression of
tht ~ft win~(.'
Ali· ..\i.:wally, one of the problems we
ha<l •af1er the Revolution) was there
,,N,
tn<1 many ,·oires. The leftists comini.. 1, ... 1 1he Soviet Union were the ones
,, h~1 "1•,lkPned Mossadegh (the govern·
mt>nt h(•iorf' the Shah) and provided the
,·i.:h, f'n·. ir..,nment ior tilt.' CIA to have
ll.;: • ,1u~.
.\nd tt'-f•r~ wt>re Jl.:;o the very pro-v, • • ,, ,, , ,:,,,,. chat I "'.,s so proud to
l.11 ► , .' 1i1, -..ummn. f' 1 leftists, equally
,, ilh • ,,1<-l,·ms,•···1oy". so 1.11..rhfreedom
thv
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unhealth.1 b(•cause for
:i ,., • ry t ~At ust came ,,ut of a revolu•
tir,11, then· n~..-..i be a rertain d~gree oJ
---.ti~11ily r(',t11red.
CPJ: But in general you think the lelt
has more freedom under K homieni then
under the Shah?
Ali: They have more freedom, they are
doing a lot better. but they are realizing
for the first time how isolated they have
beC'n from the masses.
CPJ: Are they bein suppressed,
though, and jailed for the spreading of
their ideas'?
Ali: Not at all.
CPJ: Is there rreedom of the press?
Ali: By all means ..
CP J: You had a brother who was in
jail under the Shah'? What was he in jail
for?
Ali: Possessing a book. A left-wing
book.
CPJ: And he was freed by the revolulton'!
Ali: Yes.
CPJ: And you were afraid to go back
until after the Revolution?
Ali: Yes. I was afraid I would not be
allowed to leave again. I was afraid I'd
be used against my brother.
Ali described how his rather was tortur<'d by the Shah's police whi.le Ali's
\iule brother was forced to watch. He
feels that after 25 years of police-state
brutality and murder, the Iranian people
are justified in their anger at the Shah
and his supporter, the U.S.
Ali: I need to give you a little bit of
background. In 1953 we had a CIA·
engineered coup. which is pretty much
affirmed now. for everybody . the first
case of successful CIA involvement in
the Mid East.
And they put the Shah back. The
Shah had been overthrown
by this
nationalistic guy who in this country
they made it sound that he was a communist-he
was by no means, he was
just simply a nationalist leader who tried
t.o nationalize the oil. That's where the
U.S. came in and took over the role the
United Kingdom had been playing there
for a long time.
·So in 1953 an unpopular leader was
imposed on the Iranians by force. Ever
since then, from 1953 to 1978, a conserv-
Put yourseHwhere
you'reneeded
ative estimate I heard wu that hall a
million people spent time in jails for
political reasons. And nobody knows the
numbero ol people that were killed . .. In
the last 14 months ol the Revolution,
60,000 people were killed (by the Shah).
So we have this background ... and we
still have hundreds of thouS&nds of crippled people who a.re still recovering from
the bullets, from the wounds.
After the Revolution, we had our
hopes up for the first time. that U.S.
imperialism to survive, it had to exploit
and manipulate new techniques. And•one
of them that made a lot of sense was
they had lo support nationalist movements, a nationalist governmenL It was
just an impossible thing to do, to have
the Shah there where he wasn't wanted
at all. with all those armies and billions
of dollars.
But they found that the U.S. wu con·
tinuing its policy of having a headquar•
ters (at the embassy) to monitor Iranian
affairs. And what was absolutely ignored
by the press in this country was the
arrest of two Americans in Teheran's
airport with two suitcases that in them
were microfilms of important things-not
onJy important buildings in Teheran and
other major cities but also the location of
schools, hospitals, government agencies.
So gradually Iranians-and
by all
mean:, they are anti-~oviet Union, t.hey
have suffered from the policies of the
Soviet Union as much as from the U.S.gradually lhcy ,tarted losing hopes. And
when tht' (no...- former) Prime Minister
:uf the new government) came to this
country, he was promised the Shah
would not be let in this country.
tihah is in no way an exception to
tradition. Hesse was a Na1.i. he was sick,
he was in London. he still is aging and
sil"k and he can get better health outside
of. prison but nevertheless he still is in
prison.
Khomicm gave a me"sage to the
envoy ol Pope John Paul II, a couple of
days ago, and he said thf'I fact we want
lht: Shah t.n be lried is not for satisfac'i..>n. We want him to have a fair trial.
Wf.>are even willing to go as far as
accepting representatives
of other nations concerned about him to come observe that he is going to get a fair trial.
Hut what is important is to find out sorqe
facts of who supported him and what
kind of support and how much support
he fot in his politics of Kenocide.
" feel very depressed now, seeing this
DANIEL
By Alexis Jetter
Where is Daniel Simons?
Or. some may ask, who is Daniel
Simons'! If you rode the Evergreen bus
this past summer or read the CPJ interview with him, you might recall Daniel.
He was that 86-year-old dorm resident
who'd patiently wait on the wrong side
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pale, SWP button pinned to his lapel. He
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word of his whereabouts. Some time
later, Admissions received a letter from
Daniel, explaining that he would not be
re"gistering and hoping they "weren't
worried" about him. Apparently, that
twinkly-eyed old lizard has cut town and
is basking in the Phoenix, Arizona sun.
I'll miss him.
So my plans of doing a second interview with Daniel have been sunk.. But I
do have a precious tape from my original
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thing, what it ho.o a~veloped jnto. Thel'
were willing to forget about the iiut.
Imagine, for aU these years we were
paying the price !or just the lad that the
CIA engineered a coup there. They
(Iranians) come out ol it and they had
such a clean attitude. And obviously in
this country they didn't exploit that.
They could have
the opportunities
were there.
The Iranian Revolution, the post·
Revolution, really has been the most
peaceful post-revolution era in any revolution. And the executions they make
such a big deal of were basi~lly execu•
tions of people affiJiated with the regime.
engaged in acts of genocide-not just·
killing one or two people-and torture,
this is what people could not bring them
selves to forgive. And Khomieni, ir
recent months, has pul a halt to aU
executions. said no executions anymore."
CPJ: Has the Shah been condemne<'
to death?
Ali: In hi.s absence, yes. There was a
trial. But they want to get their hands
on him and give him a fair trial.
CPJ: A lot ol people who realize how
bad the Shah was still can't agree with
what they see as the bloodthirsty, vengeful desire to have him back and execute
him.
Ali: Well, I personally am against
capital punishment but I didn't lose any
members of my family.
CPJ: What do you think ol Carters
order that all Iranian students report to
their local immigration office?
Ali: So lar it hasn't been bad.
they're talking about Iranians who are
here on an illegal basis. That's not bad
al all.
CPJ: You don't !eel that's a general
kind of racist attitude?
All: It i.sin a way, but it's very stupid,
more stupid than it is racist.
CPJ: I think it's stupid, yeah. It seems
to me it puts the hostages in danger,
that kind of anti-Iranian ...
All: They're not dealing with the main
question. Unless they take responsibility
-and accept that what hurts Iran is the
Shah being her&--they cannot deal with
it.
As the interview ended, a friend of
Ali's came in. In a lew days he's Oying
back to Iran. We joked that if he waited,
maybe Jimmy Carter would pay !or hia
deportation ticket home. But underneath
our laughter was an awareneu of the
seriousneas of the situation.
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SLOUCHING
TOWARD
OBLIVION
By David Joyner
About ten years ago a queer little
book appeared and began to make big
noises. It was called Sloadtlas Toward,
Bethlehem, and it was a strange book in
tha't though its subjects were contemporary, its spirit seemed to be making a
guest appearance lrom tbe eighteenth
century. The author, Joan Didion, di.splayed an aggressive scepticism which
evoked not beads or Vietnam, but rather
peri-wigs and chocolate houses. And
while she described henell as "physically
small," "temperamentally
unobtrusive,"
and "neurotically inarticulate," she thundered as only those Enlightenment egoe
could, thundered loud enough and otrong
enough to send people to their prayers,
thundered until she was taken seriously.
Now, a deade later, Joan Didion raise•
her voice again in a new essay collection
called Tho White Album.
In a sense thia new book i.s eimply a
continuation ol Slruchlna Towarda Betlllebom. Together they chronicle the life,
death, and aftermath of the 1960s. It
must be made clear, however, that these
essays are not sentimental recollections
of a bygone age. Both books are founded
on the premiae that certain characteristics ol the late '60• point to an ongoing
cultural deay, and the details ol tbia
deterioration are about u sentimental u
an artificial limb. There were the atudent
activista at San Francisco State College,
for example, who began rioting with particular issues in mind, but who, somewhere between the Dean's office and the
Huntley-Brinkley news team had losl lhe
poinL Were they rising for (a) an end to
the war in Vietnam, lb) an end to distortion in the media, or (c) Civil Rights? In
the end the answer is all and none of the
above. No one remembered. No one
cared ... Disorder was its own point."
Action derive, its meaning from the
idea which prompts iL In 1969, the connection between idea and action became
rickety at besL It surprises no one, in
fact. to learn that the year, and an entire
era, ended with an action for which the
only "idea" was destruction: the Tate or
Cielo Drive murders. But it is surprising
to learn that this vital link is still incom•
plete. In an essay called "The Women's
Movement," Ms. Didion illustrates the
division that exists today between reminist theorists like Shulamith Firestone,
and the women "who want not a revolution but 'romance,' who believe not in
the oppression of women but in their
own chances for a new life in exactly the
mold of their old life." The idea of the
movement, Didion says, is Marxist (with
women playing proletariat), but somewhere between Sh•Jlamith Firestone and
Ma maga1.ine the revolution ~ot lost and
romance took over.
The White Album is not a book for
those who are single-mindedly devoted
to either side of any cause or issue. Joan
Didion is an acutely rational woman who
remains steadfastly aloof from most of
the more ridiculous chatter that surrounds many social and political organizations. Like her hero Georgia O'Keefe,
Didion is a free-thinker, and not a.[raid to
say what she thinks in a spare, muscular
prose:
Ali ,1n~·~ a..:tual app1 chcnsiun of
what it ts like t'> be a woma.i, the
irreconcilable d1Herence nf it-that
. nse of !iv·ng Olll' ~ .~...t't"'"'l
life
uncterwa\.er, that dark mvol~;ement
with bloorl :\nd birth and deathcould now be •lc1·larn<l .m alid, unnecessary, one ne,·er lt·ll it at all.
Joan Didion is ··comm:t~C'd mainly to
the e,ploration of mor" ! di.-,tiocuons and
,mh1guities," and often this mednS that
-..he uncovers some nasty l'ontradictions
in the assumptions that anchor our lives.
Fortunately, her engaging style makes
~uch distasteful revelations more bearible.
Finally, for those of us who live in a
tiecade that died ten years ago, for those
of us who will soon be telling our children what it was like in the "good old
days," for those of us who haven't
realized it yet, The White Album is an
alar:n clock. In large red digital letters
it reads: 1979 and 50 seconds. Time to
wake up.
MASTER'SDEGREE PROGAM
SKAGIT NUKE DELAY
Ry Ben AleJurnder
Nuclear power in the Northwest sustainNi a sevf>r~ blow on Morday, when
1 he Puget Som1d Power and Ligh1. Co.
,u1noun,·ed thatl 1t is considering deferral
of its nuclear power pl.ant program for a
minimum of two years.
A luncheon meeting at the Washington
Athletic Club was the scene !or this
stunning speech by Puget Power President John Ellis. He added that the company is abo considering an alternative
proposal, to scale down their projects
from four to two power plants, eliminating one each from sites at Pebble
Springs, Ore. and Skagit County. The
company's stockholders will consider
these proposals at a meeting later
•this month.
This development followed quickly on
he heel• ol a Skagit Coonty advisory
,ote in which a resounding 72% voted
against the siting of a nuclear power
plant there. The turnout at Skagit
!;<}\!fill' pqlls was a .ffi:Ord...61-'l!>
gl tbe
county's registered voters.
The wrath of the local citizen» was
stirred up when Puget Power brought
suit against the County Commiuionera
in an attempt to stop the advisory balloL
The County Comm.iasioners are considering whether to extend Puget Power'•
zoning ordinance, and the company
argued in the lawsuit that a denial ol
this zoning ordinance would result in
"irreparable damage" to the company, u
weU aa increued coota. The Judg,, in tbia
cue ruled that the people ,till have the
right to vote on whether they wanted
nuclear power plahta in Skagit County.
Only four days before the cloee of
voter regiatration, the Count7 Commiaaioners announced that the que1tion
would appear on the balloL In lb- four
days over 3000 new voters signed up,
representing a 10% incnue in the total
number of registcn•<l \l'Oters.
In tht> face of this vvcrwhelminK sentiment, Puget Powe .. spokesperso11 Chris
Curtis emphasized tha't the comp~ny"s
action is not a reply t-c..•the Skag-it vo\oers.
"The Skarit votf· d1rln'1 directly affect
Lht'
decision of the company." Curtis
-..Lated. "It was affected more by the climate the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory
Commission) ·is operating in now and the
climate of the country al large."
Curtis was referring to the negative
climate towards the NRC and nuclear
power in general, which is a result of
such recent developments as the release
ol the report by the President's Com·
mittee to Investigate the Accident at
Three Mile Island. This report indicated
that as many as two-third~ of the na•
lion's currently operating nuclear power
plants may have faulty emergency backup sysUtms. It also recommended disbanding the NKC and completely re
structurinl!( the federal regulatory procedur.u,
_
"The NRC i~ in a very nuctuating envirorunent, and given that, we don't
want to begin something that may again
have to come to li bait" is the way Curtis
put il In the meantime, the company
will get involved in construction of coalburning planta around the Northwest.
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have also made it known that they would
like to have access to a program in which
they might eventually ~tudy the intricacies of advanced public administration.
Hopefully, the strong points in Evergreen's
undergraduate
programscoordinated study, comparison or new
information to current problems, and the
seminar mode-will heir build a s~rong
graduate program. Then' stre a numhcr
of MPA programs exi~1in~ at colleges in
this area but planners feel that Evergreen's progl"am Wlluld oe uniquely valuable to studcnLs becaw,f' of the sve<:i:tl
nature of the school's api,rnach to education. TESC could orfor grariuale students
an opportunity to work dosely with
operating public administration facilities
in Olympia for the purpose of studying
their operations and becoming involved
in internship programs during the advanced st.ages of graduate level study.
"We seek to develop the same traits in
our gfaduate students which have characterized Evergreen's
previous grad•
uates," says Dr. Adams. "We envision
graduates who become undogmatic citizens and uncomplacently confident individuals in a changing world. We hope the
program's graduates will work well in
situations requiring both group and independent efforts, who can communicate
effectively;- demonstnte
a better than
average ability to solve problems and
respond constructively to evaluations of
projects they undertake ... We hope our
graduates will continlle to exhibit exemplary sell-dire<:tedness and a keen ability
to analyze, critique and solve problems."
Program-related faculty would include
Or. Adams, Gayle Rothrock Boyle. Dean
1Jeannc Hahn, Victoria Hill Ingersoll.
Lowell Kuehn, Ru~sell Lidman. Chuck
'Jisbet and Thoma:, Rainey. Appltrnnts
,1re hf.>ing Sl)ughl to fill two positions
,·reatcd by t ht> program. These new
··Jculty members will also participate in
ihe leaching of under.{raJuate programs.
To complete the six-quarter program,
students
will be involved in such
management-orienleJ
pt o~rir1,
J~:
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:· ublic Policy ,rnd It:; lmplica111,n~.:~:ar,·
,iging Fiscal Resources, Th£' Po!1ti, . Jnd
r~conomic Context of Puhhc A<imrn;:,tra'IOn, and Managing Human flrsourct•~Admission requirement:, have het>n
,pecifically defined by the plannt->rs.
Applicants will be asked to l·omplete a
specially prepared application form. provide a set of transcripts of all colkge
work completed, complete the Miller
Analogy Test, submit a 2,000-word essay
on a current public policy issue, and
participate in a group interview. Planners view the essay as the most difficult
and perhaps the most important aspect
of the application process. It would require students to choose an issue, describe the problem and outline the steps
that might be taken to solve il.
Applications will be accepted pending
..ppl"OTltl by the CP£ in December.
Acceptance notices will be i.,.sued to the
rlTst 35students during Spring quarter.
Information concerning the MP A program can be obtained from the Admissions office.
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An armored van that blasts green•
colored water while blaring disco
music is the latest anti-riot vehicle in
use in South Africa.
Harry Brcialord, manager ol Hotline Equipment in Johannesburg, says
"The idea of combining water and
music came from South America,
where police found that burwta of
music and water help deluM the
violence and antagonism ol rioting
·.crowd.a."
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POLITICAL AND INANE
On Tuesday Nov. 20, from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. one of the largest collections of
political and inane bumperstickers ever
assembled in Olympia will be on sale for
the benefit of the Community Skills
Exchange. The Hannukah Christmas giltgiving season is once again upon us. Buy
one for yourself and someone you love
tor loathe). In the CAB Lobby.
INTENSE KAOS
KAOS FM radio continues its marathon with 24 hour-a-day programming
through Nov. 18. Tune in to 89.3 FM for
contributions,
r~quests, and general
craziness.
Recent high school or community
college graduates (within the paat three
years) who are returning t.o their home
town over winter break. are needed u
part of The Evergreen
Experience
Program.
The Admissions Office is willing to
train you as a Student-Representativefor-a-day. For further information, please
,top by the Admisaions Office.
TURKEY TROT
Susan Smith. Evergreen librarian and
coordinator of Media Services, will be
among ten delegates from Washington
State attending
the iiational White
House Conference on Library and Information Services on Nov. 15-19. That
week has been set aside to "be with a
book for a day" in an attempt to involve
all citizens in an effort to expand public
awareness
of library services
and
resources.
It's almost time to run for your turkey
again. The Evergreen
State College
Running Club will stage its eighth annual
"turkey trot"' for men. women and children Saturday, November 17, beginning
at 11 a.m. in front of the Daniel J. Evans
Library.
The run, a 2.7-miJe test, generates
prize turkeys for male and female winners in each of six age bracket.a. Second
place finishers can carry home a Thanksgiving chicken, third place runners win a
Cornish game hen, and fourth place competitors win a dozen eggs. In addition, a
number of surprise awards will be presented at the traditional Saturday race,
which carries a $2 registration fee to
help defray costs of the awards.
THE r.n:RGREE!'-1 EXPERIENCE
.-\re vou interested m talking about
yollr E\.ergreen experiences with current
high srhool and l'ommunily college
students'!
CAREERS IN SOCIAL CHANGE
Social Change Vacations will be dis•
cussed in Career Planning & Placements
third After Evergreen: Investigating the
Future workshop. People from the ACLU
MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
and two collectively run businesses will
be here to answer your questions about.
finding and doing politi~lly and person·
ally meaningful work outaide, inside, and
around the Syotem. Join us Wedneaday,
November 28, from 2-4 p.m. in CAB 110.
WOMEN AND THE LAW
The Northwest Women and the Law
Conference held October 26-28 in Salem,
Oregon, will be the subject of a Women's
Center Forum, Tuesday November 27th.
Alexi, Jetter, one of three TESC students who attended the conference, will
focus on recent developments in Lesbian
Cu,tody cases. She'll also share more
general impressions of the two-day event
AND-here's
the main attraction-will
tote along her tape of the Tereaa TrulV
Julie Homi concert, from their October 26th Salem appearance. So when
Alexis starts lo drone, you can just lean
back and wait for the music to slart.
Library 32~4 at noon.
HARD ROADS AND CANCER
Dr. Ruth Shearer, a research scientist
in carcinogenics at the Issaquah HeaJth
Research Institute in Issaquah, Wa.sbington, will give two lectures in LH 1 on
Monday, Nov. 19. The first. Nutrition aa
a Factor in Cancer Prevention, will be
from 10-12 a.m. From 2-4 p.m., she will
describe The Hard Road to Becoming a
Woman Scientiot. Both talks are free and
open to the public. Sponsored by the
Energy Systems Program.
Two Scenes from ''Seven Samurai''
By Erich Roe
The plot of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven
Samurai" is a relentless march toward
the hnal climactic battle. Despite its 3 1/rhour length, this superbly economical
film rarely slackens it.s mounting intensity. For me the most memorable scenes
are those which are the mo.st uneconomical-which seem lo linger in quiet pools
aside from the rushing mainstream of
the action. Two of these I'll elaborate on
here, relating them to concepts of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Kurosawa
has been called the most Western of
Japanese
filmmakers
and "Seven
Samurai" can easily be compared lo
American We.sterns (it was remade as
one: "The Magnificent Seven"), but in
these two scenes he di.splays a thoroughly Japanese sensibility (as far u one who
knows Japan only through its art can
tell).
The youngest of the samurai has fallen
in love with a young woman who had
been disguised as a boy by her mistrustful father. The two meet secretly beneath the sunlit canopy of the forest in a
field of blossorn.t. It is a tender, beautiful
scene as they begin with innocent play
and end by making love for the r1rst
time. The camera keeps a patient distance and a feeling of detached serenity
is evoked. Suddenly two other samurai
enter, reveal that bandits are nearby and
the first deadJy encounter between the
opposing forces ensues. With silent, chilJing prttision. two bandit scouts a.re
killed. A swift, smooth shift of mood has
taken plate with seeming "naturalness"'
and inevitability. We are reminded that
their affair is thwarted from the very
beginning.
"Mono no aware"' is suggested herethe aesthetic quality developed during
the Heian (9=12th centuries) era and
fundamental to the Japanese sensibility
ever since. It cannot be adequately defined in ra lional or didactic discourse.
but only alluded to; it is underatood only
through experience. Norinaga, an 18th
century theorist. calls it "a deep feeling
over lhinga." He continues: "Human feelings are deepest in k,ve ... the most profound and touching inatances of 'mono no
aware· are therefore moet frequently observed in love affairs" and ..man feels
more deeply when his wish is thwarted
therefore.
one commonly equates
·aware' with grief." "Mono no aware"'
has been translated as "gentle melancholy," "nostalgic
emotionalism"
or
"sensitivity to the beautiful sadness of
things." Not a purely subjective feeling,
it refers to a pathos inherent in the
beauty of the external world. a beauty
such as that of the autumn moon, inexorably fated to. disappear together
with the observer. It pervades this poem
from The Tale of Geajl:
"With flowers that fade, with leaves
that turn, they speak
Most surely of a world where all is
fleeting."
and this prologue from Talea of the
Helke:
"The sound of the bell of Jetavana
echoes the impermanence of aU things.
The hue of the flowers of the teak-tree
declares that they who Oourlah muat
be brought low. Yea, the proud ones
are but for a moment, like an evening
dream in springtime. The mighty are
destroyed at the last, they are but as
the dust before the wind."
Three samurai and a farmer carry out
an early morning raid on the bandit.a'
fort. While they set it afire, we see the
bandits inside, asleep with women they
had raped and abducted during their
raids. There is a short cut of a woman
aw.11.kening.She sees the names, yet in•
stead of warning the others or attempting to flee, she lies back down. Hallobscured by wlaps of smoke, partially
clothed in stolen ■ilk, she presenta a
beautiful but forlorn image. The unearthly aound of the No Dute renders th•
scene utterly mysterious. Momenta lat.et •
u bandit& are slaughtered and hurled
naked and haphazardly,
into muddy
pools, she emerge■ from the ■ moke, We
see her face and the farmer'■ in qui~
friendly
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By T. J. Simpson
OBRADOR.
Thio Friday, November 16 at 9 p.m. in
the Communications
Building Recital
Hall, Supplemental Events la spo080ring
a concert of new mu.sic performed by a
superb seven-piece group who hu been
satisfying a wide listening audience since
early 1976: OBRADORI
The group features the multiple reed
work of Tom Ruasell and Manuel Pinson;
trap, conga and percussion work- by
James Doney and Michael Olson; guitar
and billck box- by Paul Hjelm: Stephen
Luceno on bus and guitar and Pianist
Michael Moore. OBRADOR has played
throughout the west in concert and club
settings and with such artists as Don
Cherry, Colin Walcott. Jack Dejonnette,
Lester Bowie and the late Charles
Mingus.
NUCLEAR-FREE WALK
The people in Skagit County on
November 6th voted heavily against
building c nuclear power plant in their
county.
Bui the fight goes on.
A fundraising walk will be held Saturday, November 17th in Mt. Vernon,
Washington to raise money for legal
expenses to make certain the plant is
never tonstructed. It will start at Skagit
Valley College, East Parking Lot,, between 8 and 10 a.m.
If you would like to help by taking
part in the 20 kilometer walk or by
pledging support tall 757-4360.
cuts. There is instant recognition ana
pain in both. (Earlier it was revealed
that this farmer's "uptightness" was due
to his wife having been carried off by the
bandits.) She turns around and re-enters
the burning house. He screams and
lunges after her. A samurai restrains
him but is ■ hoL The other two admonish
the farmer that he has caused the needless death of a valuable fighter.
The wife's choice of death rather than
return to her husband may seem incomprehensible to Western audiences. Considering Japa.neae society's strong indoctrination of the fear of shame (espe<:ially for women) in the eyes of others, it
is understandable, if also excruciating.
Again the No fiute is heard, the drama is
"distanced"
from the audience and
imbued with an intense paradox or
austere beauty, grief and mystery.
At least a hint of "yugen" is conveyed.
..Yugen" was the highest ideaJ of medieval Japanese art. Roughly it means
..dark and obscure·· and wu used lo
describe the profound, remote and mysterious, that which cannot dirtttly be
grasped through words. It must be preceded by "aware" and Uke it. is intuitively sensed. "Yugen" was carried to its
zenith in the No theater, perfected by
Zeami (1363-1443). In the No drama
usually a ghost with the fate hidden by a
mask of severe beauty, appears to former lovers or friends and bemoans her
or his fate before departing this world
for some (urther unknown. A refined,
wislfy) sadness accompanies half-bidden
or suggested beauty, both el111ive and
meaningful. Zeami wrote that the ad.or
must have entered the realm of ..yugen"
to "bring it" to the audienee. "Yugen's"
meanings include "transcendental phantasm." elegance. gentleness, subtleness
and stillness. lnaeperable from Zen, it
~onnotate ■ supra-rational
insight into
10me quasi-mystic. sublime truth. Zen
poetry is used to allude to it:
"Life and death, put and preaent,....
marionette■ on .&.M>)'-R&f!e.
When the ■ trings are broken,
Behold the broken pieeea."
and • At midnight in Silla the ■ un is
brighL"
I don't really know what It means, but
I hope I've contributed to your appreciation of the film.
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Having already promised to review
Godard's Pierrot Le Fou, I now find that
I've set up an almost impossible task for
myself. To simply label "Pierrot Le Fou"
as a "complex" film is H.kesaying Joyce's
"Ulysses"' is about a man yearning for a
son. What makes things even more difficult is not really knowing what kind of
an audience will be reading this or
attending the film Friday. It appears
that many Evergreen fiJmgoers are unfamiliar with his works (even though his
"Masculin-Feminin"
was the secondhighest grossing film The Fiday Nite
Film series showed last year). Yet, in the
1960's, college students tespe<:ially the
more radical and "counter-culture"' types)
flocked to and responded to Godard's
fi.lms much in the same way students
respond lo Herzog in the 70's. However,
Godard has hardly been heard from in
this decade, and no one seems to forget
the cultural and political p&sl faster than
Americans.
Jean Luc Godard, along with Claude
Chabrol and Francois Truffaut, blazed
the way for the French cinema's "new
wave"' in the late 50's and early 60's. To
ning cinemascope color photography
helps the constantly shifting moods of
the film by using a lol of red in the
violent scenes, and green and blue in the
more tranquilized. In the party scene,
the screen is bathed in a different brightly colored lint for each shot. The most
amazing visua.l aspect of the film is in
the scene when we see Belmondo and
Karina driving at night with an insanely
rhythmic reflection of colored lights on
the windshield. The light& come from
both sides of the sc:reen, fly off al a tangent, then keep coming back to repeat
the same cycle. This effetl, combined
with the dialogue, is one of the most
pleasing displays of cinematic virtuosity
that fve ever seen. (Martin .Scorsese
was definitely inspired by this in "Taxi
Driver.")
As the film shifts back and forth from
comedy, drama, musical, and thriller,
Godard gives tribute lo those whose
works influenced him. Sam Fuller, a
grade-8 film director whom Godard
greatly admires. appears as himself, staling "'the film is like a battleground ...
love ... hate ... action. . violence ... death
in one word ... emotion.•· (In some
ways. this sums up "Pierrot Le Fou,"
too.) Nicholas Ray's "Johnny Guitar"
Je.aa•Paul Belmondo In "Plen<>t Le Fou,"
many min scholars (including myselO
Godard is the most import.ant and influential filmmaker of the last 30 years.
(His influence on the current German
"new wave" is unmist.a.kable.•) Godard
opened the door for new cinematic techniques and political and social themes.
1960's college student.s identified with
the sense of alienation, disillusion, and
radical humor of his work.s. Godard's
characters were often outlaws living outside of society, but had their own new
moral code, one that also struck a chord
with the 60's youth. Infused into this
were daring, experimental cinematic and
n&rrative devices, political protest. and
homages to other films and filmmakers,
poets. philosophers, novelists. etc.
All that I've just described in the preceding paragraph
is epitomized
in
"Pierrot Le Fou."' On the surface. it's a
story about a frustrated writer (Jean
Paul Belmondo) who meets an old lover
(Anna Karina) at a boring party where
people talk in slogans from T.V. eommercials. Disgusted with this bourgeois
life. he leaves the party and his wife
with the lover, only to fmd that she is
involved with a gang of criminals. They
steal some money and go off on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes hilarious odyssey along the French coast until the
apocalyptic dimu.
But it's the themes, jokes, literary
references, and cinematic devices that
give the film its rich complexity. Belmondo's name is really Ferdinand. but
Karina keeps calling him "Pierrot," the
name of a famous forlorn lover in Frt1ncb
pantomime. Ferdinand's rejection of the
name becomes a running gag in the mm
that keeps running even in the absurdist-tragit ending. Raoul Coutard's stun•('1 htS 1s especially true of K. W. l-assbinder and Wim Wenders. One would do
well to compare Fassbinder's
"The
American Soldier" to Godard's "Breathless" and Wenders' ''The American
Friend" lo "Pierrot Le Fou .. and thus
discover how much or the "originality"
disappears from these specific works by
the German artists.)
get.s at least two homages and metaphors towards Rimbaud's life and writing
are abundant. (The last part of the rilm
is .subtitled ..A Season in Hell")
Some knowledge of 1960's politita and
culture (this was the first film to blatantly attack the U.S. involvement in Viel
Nam), cinema arl, Bertolt Brecht, and
William Faulkner certainly does help one
in appreciating the film. Warren Beatty
asked Godard to direct "Bonnie and
Clyde" after seeing this film (he got
Arthur Penn instead), so it's nol sur•
prising that "Bonnie and Clyde"' is somewhat structurally and thematically similar to "Pierrot
Le Fou" and other
Godard films.
But most of all, ''Pierrot Le Fou" is
about the hopeless anguish of love and
the absurd impossibility of a free life in
modern society as it nQw exists. (I'd like
to add right here that the comical m1>
ment.s in the mm, to me, are far funnier
than all the Mel Brooks and Monty
Python opuses put together.) At the
time the film was made, Godard's marriage to co-star Anna Karina was pretty
much on the roe.ks. This bit of trivia
gives the film an added personal dimension, as Godard himself may have shared
Pierrot/Ferdinand's pain and rejection.
In ext.ensive int.erviews iD the 60:a.
Godard talfed about the endle98 possibilities of cinema u art and the meaning of
this mm. In bis works, form and content
are inseparable. Perhaps the rust lines of
Ferdinand's opening narration describe
"Pierrot Le Fou" the best,
"After he
had reatbed the age of 55, Velasquez
no longer painted anything concrete and
precise. He drifted through the material
world, penetrating it. as the air and the
dusk. 1n t.he shimmering of the shadows,
he caught unawares the nuances of color
which be transformed into the invisible
heart of his symphony of silence ... " After
seeing the film, one can see how that
quote relates to all of what has gone on.
(Note: "Pierrot Le Fou" was made in
1965, but not released in the U.S. until
1969 and is in French with English subtitles. It will show this Friday, Nov. 16,
in Le<. Hall one at 3, 7, and 9:30.)
For Whom
the Game
is Played
By Tim Nogler
The spec:Lacle unfolds at the massive
arena on Saturday afternoon. Tides of
humanity flow through the tunnels into
the oval structure .surrounding4the plastic green surface. Clad in velveteen
purple and sporting plumes and hi.gh·
buttoned boots, the marching band
stands in formation across the fake grass.
They perform directly to those people
occupying the stadium's south side: the
more successful university alumni, the
season ticket holders, the press.
The baton twirler. in her pristine
innocence. completes the final throw.
The cymbals crash in a climax of national
praise. and the band about-faces and
steps to the beat of drums back into the
student's section. They all are students.
Then onto the pseudo-field rush the
armored masses of hybrid men. Sixty
thousand voices respond lo their entrance in a deep rumble that fills the
·oncrele and steel-beam cavern. The men
form two opposing teams; one wears the
leep purple and Oashing gold of the
.. miversily. The visitors wear st.ark white
and sun yellow. their heads protected
with blood-red rrimson helmets. The
teams perform drills at oppo~ite ends of
the playing surface in preparation for alloul contact.
This event, with the splendor of a
three-ring circus and the cruelty of war,
forms the mecca of intercollegiate sports.
The st..andards by which all other college
sports are measured originate here.
College football cultivates the hope.
the desire, the yearning for the ability.
the right to victoriously declare, "We're
Number One!" So it is in every sport.
The concept of ultimate super1or1ly overshadows the simple display of dance-like
movement as a sports team completes its
synchronized act; the movement, however performed, musl bring a reward, a
gain, a score. Otherwise the horde will
vocalize their disapproval.
The team, as a result, brutally assaults
the climb t.o the top. On a sweep toward
the sideline. a runner for the visiting
team is crushed by three men. The runner lies prone. writhing in pain, and the
crowd responds with a collective cheer.
"Way to stop ·em. dawgs!"
While the afflicted player lS attended
to, the crowd refocuses its attention on
•the young women who dance and smile,
seducing cheers and generally providing
a distraction from the violence of the
:ame. The women all fit the same mold;
lender, lithe, firm, painted in tones of
.t.zure and rouge. Their short, pleated
-,kirts swish on their hips as they dance,
..xposing their underwear. The dancing
vomen who represent the visiting team
,·ome straight off the beaches of southern
i;alifornia. The dozen of them are honogeneous: long, blond hatr, dark tanned
1ces and smooth legs. The home team
h('erleaders are black, orit·ntal. blond,
<llue-tinted from a coating of paint. The
,tandard by which Americans measure a
woman's beauty originates here.
The huge crowd alternately
roars,
respondin)i{ to the action on the field. and
salivates, ht::artbeals quickening, as the
..Husky Honeys" dance the same routine
over again .
The players and the cheerleaders are
all students.
ThPy. perform for the
Wt•althy bat·ker:, of the university. and
t ht•y mu,t look good. The uniform'- worn
hy the playt-rs are perfect. glittering and
fla..,hmg with deep strong colon,. Shoes
Jre always white. Socks are pulled Laut
10 the knee, and not allowed to droop.
Bl'lween plays the young men lean their
1thl<"tic bod1e._ gracefully at ease. The
~ omen never stop smiling.
On this occasion, I sit in thf' stadium's
west end, close to the visiting band and
chC't-rlea<lers. with a less than perfect
vif'w of 1he game. The band pounds out
a rhythmic beat. apparently imitating a
troJan war march. The women dance and
<.mile. After a decade as a fanatic fan, 1
realize this game will be my lasl.
I have sat in places all over this 'ita·
dium, mostly the east-end bleachers.
There 1 watched games through a cy
r\one fr.nee. At the beginning of this
-.,•ason I sat in tho,;e bleachers. -.naked
oy the rain, and chilled by the "',nd. I
couldn't even light a cigarette: th(• wind
blew out my match. I looked into the
stadiums south sidP. where a roof covers
the seats, and m the most prott-cled
1rea, Section 24. a group of people sat.
boxed in individual seats, all wearing
black-tie outfits as if the game were a
king's ball. The.se are the people for
whom the game is played.
Evergreen may never field a football
team. The philosophy surrounding college sports, though, lS inescapable. 1·ndoubtedly, in years lo come, the college
will build a stadium. recruit superior
male athletes. outfit dancing women in
short. pleated skirts, and brutally proceed toward the top,
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