The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 8 (January 17, 1980)

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The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 8 (January 17, 1980)

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17 January 1980

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THE

COOPER

POINT

JOURNAL

THE
Vol. 8

No. 8

The Evergreen· State College

Olympia, Washington 98505

Manufacturi

17, 1980

isance?

By David Joyner
The extent to which Evergreen is
changing its "image" ia witnessed most
obviously by its publications. The 1980-81
catalog is an example, u is the recently
issued Eversnea Review. Most students
(quick to recognize compromise where
none exists) either expectorate puaively,
or become chokingly nauseous at the
sight of these publications. On the other
hand, the administration (aeemingly un•
aware of student disaffection) remains
well-pleased, basking in the warm light
of increased enrollments, and selfproclaimed "Renaissance." While 1tudents insist that publicationa like the
Everpeea Review are too llick, and a
misrepresentation of the overall community, the administration defends the
opposite opinion: that we are finally producing verbal and visual representations
worthy of this coUege.
As director of the Office of Development, editor of the Everp-eea Review,
and newcomer to the college, Susan
Washburn has some interesting, and
rather objective things to say about
Evergreen's image, and the role of public
relations in the portrayal of that image.
CPJ: Fint, what exactly is the Office
of Development. and what do you do
here?
SW: The Development Office was
started not too long after the college
opened its doors, in recognition of the
fact that we had to be eer up to aeeept
gifts, and that we might want to get to
the point where we'd like to encourage
them. That always happens, and it happens real naturally that someone will
either want to help the coUege, or it
could be aometblng tragic like the Evergreen student that died over the weekend and having a memorial fund established in her name. So we had to have
the structure or mechanism to receive
those gifts and acknowledge them, and
cultivate them for the future.
CPJ: So baajcally you accept gifta, etc.,
anything elle?
SW: Development is really a euphemism for fund-raising. You know, I don't
even know. rve been a fund raiser, rve
been a development officer for eight
years, and I would like to find out where
they got the name. It's just a gentle
word for fund raiser, I gueaa. And really
it is more than fund-raising. U you're
looking in terms of college-wide development and long-range planning It involves
helping to facilitate that long-range planning by seeing what the financial needs
will be and then exploring the sources
for that income.
CPJ: I noticed that the Booster Club ii
also affiliated with thia office. That
seems kind of odd.
SW: That's because the athletic 1taff •
which ia really nonexistent is 10 overwhelmed with the administrative duties
just involved in getting into intereollegiate athletics that some office had to
take over t~e reaponafbility for what
would become the athletic fund. And it
make, sense to have all college-related
fund-niaing crune under one place. CPJ: The Booster Club itself is IOID&thing not many people understand. Let's
put it tlrls way: it'• under attack. Ia thla
Booater Club any different from the
RA-RA type stuff that I remember from
high school?
SW: No. Baaically It', community
members who are just u pleued u anything that we're going into intercollegiate
atbletica. And for the moat part they
undentand the way that we have cboeen,
that we're not real kill 'em, knock 'em
dead. And I don't thinlt there's anything
wrong with RA-RA u long u it doesn't
get abaurd.
CPJ: The kind of gung-ho school apirit
that characterizes Booster Cluba lead• to
Continued to page ,

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Evergreen report card: A
By Larry StillweU
The n~grades college gets an A. Its
faculty has a sense of commitment. Its
administration is competent. lta physical
plant facilities are superb. Its Board of
Trustees meets regularly. Ita financea
follow applicable 1tate formulae. It•
atudents are a jof to meel And ita
faculty, administration, and atudenta are
dedicated to liberal arta "to an extent
virtually unknown in any academic community in the entire United States."
The college, of course, is Evergreen,
the letter grade is President Evans'
paraphrase, and the conclusions are from
an official report granting Evergreen full
reaccreditation for the next ten years.

The report, which baa received wide
media coverage locally, is overwhelmingly enthuaiutic in its evaluation of
Evergreen'• auceeas as an alternative
liberal arta college.
The college'• fundamental problem,
according to the report, is its low enrollment, aggravated by local population
trenda, llck of community acceptance,
and uneertain legialative support. But
"Evergreen ia a community wblch knows
what its mission ia, knows where it
stand• in all respects and hu identified
and I.aattacking Its 1ignificant problems,"
th e report says.
Tb~ report ~peatedly refers to Evergreens exceptional character and quality,

and while much of this can be dismissed
as rhetoric, it is significant that Evergreen is being so favorably lauded by the
official educational bureaucracy. Not only
does it give encouragement to those who
would like Evergreen to be an alternative "Harvard of the West"; it is also
valuable ammunition in the "Evergreen
RenaiSMace•· campaign to validate and
solidify the college's interdisciplinary
existence in Southwest Washington.
Following on la.st year's Council on Postaecondary Education report, which also
officially recognized and praised Evergreen's alternatjve approach to education, it constitutes high praise which
Evergreen's detractors will not be able
to dismiss easily.

AnalysisCongress
dodges the draft
By Ben Alexander

the ball wu preferable to taking an un- Service officials. These include the locaUon and regiatration of all eligible people,
Although the draft issue has faded out timely, unpopular stand themselves. In
of the public limellght in recent mooths, fact several representatives saw no con- through computerized records making
it is alive and kicking in the Whlte flict in voting for both the Montgomery use of state voter lists. They also include
and Schroeder amendments, for they an induction process whereby deferHouse. The mass media have portrayed
ments and exemptions would not be
Congren u being anti-draft. but the both had the net reault of taking the allowed until after an induction notice
pressure
and
the
spotlight
away
from
intenae politieal maneuvering allffl>unding the whole subject belies this image. Congren. The Schroeder amendment, wu reeeived. An individual would have
With ano~he:r election year in prop-eaa, particularly, conveniently avoid• thia 15 daya after the malling of the induction
notice to flle such a claim. Once a claim
potentially volatile election-year iaaue.
many legialatora are hopi,Jig to lideatep
wu filed, the induction would be tempoThe
preMnt
Selective
Service
plan
the controve"7 completely. However,
the P!'9sident, charged by Congrea, has calls for automatic draft registration in rarily delayed, pending a bearing. If the
been mveatigating the need for renewed the event of an emergency, through claim wu denied, induction would hapvoter regiatration lists. Both House tad pen automatically, unleas an appeal
draft registration and induction 1ince lut
wumade.
November. He mu1t report bad: to Senate Armed Servicea Committees have
When the Preaident reporta bacf to
demanded
that
Carter
abow
that
this
Congress by no later than February 9.
Congress
within the next month, the
plan
can
work,
or
reinltitute
tbe
d:raft
Thia will give Congren the chance to
appear to be bowing to Executive pres- regiltration. Their opinJoa ii dear in pouibllity of a new draft proposal is
their written notice to Carter, where quite real. With pre11ure from the
sure by renewing the draft.
Many amendmenta calling for draft they 1tate, "Both eomm.itteea have con- Executive Office, the Pentagon, and both
registration met their defeat on the cluded that this ambitioua plan will not House and Senate Armed Service Com~ le mittee., combined with the new aenae of
House Ooor on September 12. Among work and that ,.11,._..,
. urgency caused by the Soviet move in
tb01e was a propoaecl amendment by ......._ .. The pressure is on.
Afghanistan, Congreu may decide that it
The
Schroeder
amendment,
aa
an
Rep. Sonny Montgomery (D-MS), which
would have requi:red nrgilltnttmrw· ltm't" ...inteanl part of th. 1980 i>efeue-Avtho-. ia a poU1k&llyupedient t.ime_to rein,
on January 1, 1981. By votinr down thia rization BW.went into effect on Novem- state the draft. Beeauae of the limited
amount of time, many draft counseling
amendment, the Houae went apinat Ute ber 9. Some of the pointa that It require,
groupa strongly urge all eligible indlvidCarter
to
report
on
are:
recommendation of it• own Armed
e "the desitability and feasibility of uala to ltart compiling their draft claims
Service, Committee. An alternative proimmediately. Thia meana all men AND
resuming regi.atration."
poeal by Rep. Robin Beard (R-TN), to
• "eatablilhing a method of automati- women, age 18-2'. For further inforform a 2'-membe:r, congreuional comcally registering persons ... using mation and counaeling, contact:
mit.tee to study the i.-ue, wu alto re• Coalition Against Regiltration and
exiating
reco:rda."
jected. In1tead, the Houe adopted a
the Draft
•
"the
enactment
of
authority
for
the
measure by Rep. Pat Sehroeder (D-CO)
2'5 2nd SL NE, Wuh., D.C. 20002
Prealdent
to
induct
penona
regthat eliminated reai,ltration from the
•
Seattle Draft Counseling
ilte:red
...
"
1980 Defense Authorisation Bill, and
151' NE 45 IL
•
"whether
women
abould
be
aubject
aubatituted a diNctive for a Preaidentlal
Seattle, WA 98105 585-0300
to registration ... and indpet.ion."
study.
• Central Committee for Conscientious
• "the deaireabillty ... of eatablilhing
While th.is move wu widely heralded
Objectors
a national ywth aervice program."
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With
the
praent
1ystem
under
fire
came a challenge to Carter to p:rove the
San Franciaeo, CA 9'122
need for registration. Many CongNll- from all lidea, Carte:r is expected to look
(415) 566-0500
men apparently felt that l(iving Carter cl01ely at the propoub of Selective

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I ,ETTERS~-___.•

i
Cynical and Hopeless
Dear Editors.
After reading The Cooper Point Jour•
nal'1 wrap-up of the 1970's, I found it in
keeP.ing with the CP J format I've been
reading over the past five years-cynical.
Everything reported, with the exception
of the women's and environmental movement. left me feeling helpless. Almost
every aspect of the 70's was just written
off as meaningless. This includes literature. music, and cinema despite the fact
that most everything reviewed wus from
the latter part of the decade.
As much truth as there is in the
paper's synopsis of the past decade, it
seems to me as if the CPJ approach to
reporting is not much different or out of
line with the decade on which they
dump. It seemed to reflect that philosophy of apathy. It's strange that after I
finish reading a copy of CPJ, I feel
ar,gry, frustrated, and helpless. Yet after
finishing a copy of Mother Jones (anothf'r publication which depicts a view from
t~e left 1. I may feel angry, but I also feel
that I C'an do something about the inJustice being-reported.
The CPJ states that "People are
anxious about what the 80's will bring." I
would \'C'nture to guess that the 80's are
anxwus about what the people will bring.
An analogy I heard from an Evergreen
faculty to illustrate another point would
ht~ appropriate here. It has to do with a
runaway truck and the various methods
available to stop it. for those socially
ln\'olved during the 60's, social change
""as a thing where people needed to see
tangible results. and as a result. they
burned out or began to write for the
Cooper Point Journal. These can be compared to those who tried to stop the
truck by getting in front of it. It would
appear as if most just chose to step aside
during the 70's, It would be refreshing if
during the 80's people decided to become
involved more with the ongoing process
of social change. In other words, it would
rnakbe nice if they decided to jump in
the truck and learned to operate the controls.
Tht- women's .movement and the environmental movement-or the positive
aspHts of the 70's-are learning to operate those controls. They began getting
invol\'ed rnstead of just complaining
about things. It would be a breath of
fresh air if that began to cross over into
01 ht•r areas: it would be exciting if signs
of that became visible on campus.
Douglas P. Scrima
TESC Class of '78

Merry Accreditation
and a Happy New Year
Dear Editor,
I extend a Merry Christmas to the
Greater Olympia Community. In particular I extend congratulations to the
Truslees, the Administration, the Facul~v. Staff and Students of Evergreen
Stat.e College for having earned full
accreditation from the Northwest Associ-

EDITOR Larry StillweU
ASSISTANT EDITOR David Joyner
NEWS EDITOR Carol Tucker
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Pam Dueenberry
Tim Nogler
Mary Young

ation of Colleges and Schools. I am told
the College is now on a ten-year regular
review cycle, no longer a "new college"
but an important member of the Greater
Olympia Community. As Founding Provost who hired the planning Faculty I
view this as good news indeed that needs
to be shared with pride by all. It assures
a happy and prosperous
New Year
for all!
Sincerely,
David G. Barry
403 President St
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387

The Coope1 Point Journal

1s published

Rump's Lib

Daycare Dilemma
FROM: Sheila Redmond-Payne, Pres. of
Driftwood Day Care Board
We feel the TESC community should be
aware of this letter. At this time it is
probable that Ingrid Ossana will be admitted next quarter because of parents
now using Driftwood who will probably
not use it next quarter. However, other
parents needing day care will not be
admilled. Currently we have 10 parents
on a waiting list.
To Whom ll May Concern:
Aft.er having painstakingly arranged
my life as a single parent to the point
that I might be able to attend school this
winter quarter I rind that it probably
will be to no avail because there is a
waiting list al Driftwood House. a day
care center I can afford (barely) and outside day care centers are out of the
question because they are too high
priced. I really can find no words to
express my disappointment.
I read an article on the plight of the
Re-entry Woman (30-45) and what can be
done to a-;sist them in the campus paper.
Re-entry women of that age are likely to
have kids, and the probability that their

MANAGING EDITOR Ben Alexander
FEATURE EDITOR T.J. Si.mpeon
ART DIRECTOR Randy Hunting
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Lllaa Eckeroberg
GRAPHIC ARTIST Stella Marro
BUSINESS MANAGER Jon Todd

!acuity,

stat!,

rodents,

expressed are no1 necessarily !hose

and ex.

of The Ever

Qreen State College or ol the Cooper Po1nl Journal's alafl Advertising material preaen1ed herel
dOM not 1rr.ply endorsement by this newspaper Offices are localed In the College Actlvllles Build
mg tCABI 10,t Phone 866-6213 AU lellers lo the editor. announcements, and arts and event
items mus! be received by noon Tuesday and all articles by noon Monday lo, thal week's pubU
lion A.II con111out1ons must t>e stgned, typed. double-spaced and of a reesonat»e length. Na
w,11 be w11hheld on request The editors rese,ve the right to edll tell8fS and articles lo, length
content. and s1 le

predation day. Any student or faculty
member who would like to join with me
in saying thanks to the staff for their
contributions to the pleasantness of the
"Evergreen" atmosphere, please leave
your telephone number or address at the
information booth or at LIB 1208.
My intention is to in some way assist,
supplement, or hopefuUy provide lunch
on that Wednesday for all staff members.
Please cont.act me before January 31.
Billy Mongiello
866-6254

Who Is the Oppressor ?
Editors,
In reply to the apparent challenge by
some outspoken feminists who perceive
the lack of intellectual debate on the
subject of sexist women's groups as an
indication that there is no intelligent
opposition: It does indeed seem that alJ
of the reasoned arguments support t.he
tenets of feminism. I would Hke to
suggest that those who disagl'ee consider
your point of view so unreasonable that
it can't be taken seriously. The men on
this campus are supposedly oppressors
and the women oppressed. I don't find
that a very comfortable position to begin
any debate. How would any Jewish
people on campus like to begin a debate
from the point of view that they a.re part
of an international conspiracy bent on
world domination? I would like to say
that I often hear the free and beautiful
voices of women in song and often observe women holding and loving one
another. I sincerely believe that there
are many men on this campus whose
>poilll and -feelingrlnrvrbe-err-crampedby oppression and who can be considered
more oppressed than many of the women
on this campus. To include these men in
your accusations is to further an oppression that has not been free from the
influence of wbmen.
•
Kevin

Prisoner Pleas
To the Editor,
Lonely male inmate at Nevada State
Prison, age 20, would Like to correspond
with anyone willing to write. I need
friends. will answer all letters. Write to:
William M. Smith - 14280
P.O.B. 607 N.N.C.C.
Carson City, Nev. 89701

·Possible
Misinterpretation

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Editorial

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·why dowe get all the we i.rdos?!
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Faculty Guide or in refusing to print an with the title "Fuckin' Greener," so much ••
I•
article or letter not because it was criti- does it embody the adolescent flower
Dear Ed.,
cal but because it was either garbled and child/space•cadet mentality that drives
In the article by Andy Lindaay in the
incomprehensible or poorly written and one to prefer identification with the antiNov. 29 CPJ, he quoted Sande Sanders
uninteresting. Not that we've done very Evergreen punks in downtown Olympia.
as aaying that "People don't really go to
much of that sort of editing, but we've Come on, kid; you may be an artist, but
meetings unless they're really oppressed
done
some and we're going to do more.
you can do better than that.
and men just aren't oppressed in this
Anyone who consistently
read the
Now here's the latest in a series which
society,"
Letters
page
last
quarter
knows
how
appeared
faithfully in every issue last
This quote is open to a number of mistolerant we were. Until the very last quarter but wilJ no more after this. So
interpretations.
The intent would be
issue, in fact, I don't think we cut a many people have asked, "Why do you
clearer if it read "people don't really go
single
letter. And it showed.
print that crap?" that I've decided to
to meetings unless they realize they're
Some
issues
had
three
letters
about
trust my own tastes and banish this kind
oppressed, and men just aren't oppressed
sexism, few passages of which said any- of self-indulgent nonsense from the ever·
by sexism in this society in the same
thing new or original. Other letterJ tried tolerant pages of the CPJ for the rest of
way that women are.''
to make a point but were so badly writ- my editorship.
It is important that the intent of my
ten and so iUogically scrambled that one
"Hey, hey, CPJ,
statement be understood because ol the
co11ld
only
guess
at
the
author's
intent.
"Ain't it sad that you did it again? The
recent controversies over the Women's
Others expressed sentiments so stereo- main name refrain is spelled v. ithout the
Center and its role at Evergreen lJ1comtypically Greeneresque in their childish- final period. I have been Questioned
bating sexism. The coordinators of the
ness it was embarrassing. We printed about the Q. part by readers of the
Women's Center this year are attemptthem
all, out of fairness and out of the paper because you omitted the final two
ing to correct an anti-male image. We
lack of a good reason not to print them.
paragraphs of my last letter which exfeel that our job here is to help women
I
think
if
I
print
some
samples
we
plained how the Q is derivitive from
By
Lawrence
Stillwell,
Editor-in-Chief
overcome the effects of sexist oppression
received for Wa issue you'll see the Philips. According to M. Chang the only
•....this society and to help erase sexism
At the end of last quarter, I was reason we won't be printing these kinds reason that I wanted Hi as a school
the Evergreen Society as well as in
accused of taking ..payola" from Ever• of letters in the future. The following greeting officially was because the letter
>ociety at large.
green President Dan Evans and faculty incomprehensible
letter is not the ranks of the name Philips total 89 (i.e.
We feel that the Men's Center could
Robert Filmer. The atudent making the author's frrst; in fact, she refers to her p=l6, S=h etc.). But that was left out
be instrumental in helping men to over•
charge had written a Forum, which I had last letter, which we cut because it was of the letter I wrote and the last name of
come their sexist training. We feel that
edited for space and then printed, criti- equally incomprehensible and wt- were y was still signed on the letter 8+9=
we all ut!ed to stop oppressing each other
cizing Filmer's supervision of the ..Ever- tight for space. Remember: the following 17=Q in the American alphabet. Note no
and gain strength to struggle together
green 38" boat·building program. The was written by a eollege student. The period. The name is much more general
against our common enemy; the capitalday the paper came out he angrily punctuation and spelling are exactly as in sound that way for Tc Q is still spoken
ist system which uses sexism and racism
accused me of delllNrately editing out in the original.
as the sound 'tek.
as devisive tools to exploit us alt The
his critical pointa, of being in fmancial
"To The Editor:
"As far as Muhamed Chang is conWomen's Center invites all those intercahoots with the targets of his criticism,
"The new catalogue is very nice and cerned comma since Muhamed is the
ested in participating in a discussion on
and of being on a personal "power trip," everything, but it seems to that it would most popular given nJme in the world
sexism in society to sign up at the
He and his sidekick. who nodded and be more to the point to use some of that lthe Ayatollah is a bht1·k turban because
Center's office on the third Door of
looked tough the whole time. vowed the space you're trying to save by not print- of !hat significance) and Chang is the
the library.
CPJ would never live this down. They ing my last letter that criticized a CPJ most popular surname in the world. it
Sande Sanders
promised to plaster the school walls with article, to discuss the potential of reusing ,ould seem th,, name was devised so as
disclaimers and denunciations. I tried to old informational material to the extent
o imply commonness. If that i!ii so it
I have talked with Sande about this
explain. apologize. reason with them.·
of computing information: instead of nust be remembered that Chang is
and feel it weuld be unfortunate to let
but they took their skateboards and left. printing some information one year, and 'hinese and last names come first there.
the article's possible misinterpretation go
Not long afterward, Professor Filmer different information the next, with :'he Changer part should be first.
uncorrected. We are in agreement about
the fundamental causes of sexism and
called the office and, calmly but insis- someone in heaven deciding what needs
"As a final goodbye I would impart the
tently, spent nearly half an hour trying to be included. It is a well known experi- greeting that I usually say: 'All Right"
oppression in this society and feel it is
most important that people recognize the
to convince me not to print any more ence to end up with a glut. of information, followed by the phrase 'Some left.' I
criticism of the h<Mtbuilding program. He however, although Evergreen may not speak so when someone asks me "How's
larger political issues involved in sexism,
the ones t~at affect and oppress us all-a
was afraid we were intending to investi- be a university, it does try to represent it ·going" or some such questioning of the
system that puts profits before human
gate the charges made in the Forum. I a university type of education; and it is natural authorities
in life that we
needs.
told him we were, but stressed that our •xactly for just such conglomerates of meet
our explanation answer what
treatment would be fair, thorough, and nformation that I am writing a pham- things are about in life. Be that as it may
Andrew Lindaay
uninflammatory. He argued that any ,,Jett on basic Evergreen functions for
the main idea here is that nothing can be
criticism might discourage some of the
he student who wants to read a pham- a !I right unless there is something left.
important, big-money i::ontributions to ,,Jett instead of finding out "what's going Hope lives in the future. And mathematthe school. "I think it's very important on" at the College.''
1rally one of the ways to check logic is to
To the Editor,
that the paper not print that kind of
Now, what the hell does that mean? sum left from the right addition te.g.
criticism," he said. "I can't seem to con- The one we cut was even more incoher- algebra).
I'd like to clear up a small point because even though it is small, it is
vince you of that.
"
ent. Letters like that are fun for us to
"May things be all r;l('ht with you.
significant.
Of course he was right. He couldn't. read here in the office (in fact we pa.as
··r.S. This is an f•,i;ample of a fi.rst
No responsible journalist would agree to them around and have a good laugh draft piece of writing. My graduate
In your report on the S&A Allocations
something like that. Similarly, any self- reading them again and again) but they advice is to always redraft. except in
yo" indicated that "Sporta Clubs" rerespecting journalist would have to don't belong on the Letters page, except war. There it is better to stay completely
ceived an allocation of Sl.098 on Novemanswer the Forum author's ridiculous in a moralistic essay like this.
out of the disgusting ill wind. Omnia
ber 20. This is incorrect. "Intramural
charges of corruption. Only two days
To continue moralizing: behold the Ext.ares. See you in the Gooeydome."
Sporta" received this allocation and the
after I was accused, I overheard two following unsigned contribution, scrawled
Omnia extares to you too, buddy, and
distinction between these two Orienta•
students discuasing the Forum at a in black and purple and accompanied by may you somewhere find a sympatheti<'
tions toward sports activities is a vital
party. "Yeah, I heard the editor cut all a crude drawing of two yoga-postured ear for your ramblings. I hope the readn
one to make clear to the Evergreen
the real criticism out of this," one said. hippie types blissfully holding hands can see why we cut those two para•
community. Team sporta clubs (excluding
The other one had heard the same.
while the wind noats a feather above graphs he refers to, even if he was angry
Alpine and boat clubs) aervice relatively
I want to do more than deny that I their heads.
aboul it, which is what the grapevine
small special interest groups. Whereas,
took ''payola" and deliberately edited a
"Do we want to move underground? says. And that's my point: no one should
the Intent of the Intramural Program is
letter or article to make it ineffectual. Do you want to live underground? What expect that the Cooper Point Journal has
to service. the entire campus community
(I do deny that, of course.) I also want to can we do? The world problems are so aay obligation to print such nonsense. no
by offering a variety of organized, recredo more than assert The Cooper Point big. Larger than me, much larger than natter how important it is to the ego
ational activities. Although Sporta Clubs
Journal's right and responsibility
to the Evergreen Co~munity. I feel sad ,nvolved.
and Intramural Sporta may appear to be
investigate and print the story behind and bewildered. Sitting with friends disFrom here on in the CP J will be clean
the same on the surface, they are vastly
pubHc charges of student dissatisfaction cussing the revolution. We are artists, ing up its act. Those people who call, as
different in function and philosophy.
with any aspect of Evergreen life. In this lots of energy and empty hands. We someone recently did, wanting a "promThe Intramural Program for which
post-Vietnam/Wat.ergate era, no news• have the strength to change the world ise" that their article advertising their
S&A funds were recently appropriated
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will commence at the beginning of Winimportant function is to be skeptical and from war, from disease and deformity; to just have to accept the fact that that
ter Quarter. Individual, who would like
critical of those in power.
save us from extinction?
kind of sight-unseen promise is simply
to make suggestions about activities and
Beyond making those two, simple,
"Take a moment whenever your impossible to make.
events or who have questions should
contact me at 866-6530 (Recreation
obvious points as clearly as pos.,ibJe, I thought turns to the 'energy (events) of
The CPJ is not a shopper·style newsCenter 302).
want to defend the Cooper Point Jour- the •ao•a. Close your eyes and vi!:ualize paper. It is not an in•house newsletter,
Jan Lambertz
naJ's integrity against confticting expec- your own peaceful color and send it wide. indiscriminately open to all. It la the
Recreation Coordinator
tations like those above and others I Love one close to you and it will spread students' newspaper, but it is run by
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Editor'• Note: Tioe term "Sport, Caba"
munity-minded" u we have tried to be,
Thia is the kind of thing that gives and artista who have to exercise :heir
waa clrawa. verNdm from the SAA
we have no doubt made some enemies Evergreen a bad name. Someone sug- own judgment in trying to creste a good
Boanl'a daart Hplalniag Fall '79 allothis year, whether in defending the gested we should have just printed it
Continued to page 4
cation,.

1

Dear Editors,
Notice that your mornings no longer
include two rude jolts'/ Remember when
handing the parking attendant a quarter
was a simple, if not pleasurable, experience. Well ... we've made the home
stretch of your daily jaunt to school a
truly peaceful adventure again. Because
we removed that blatantly imperialist
example of authority-the
running~dog
lackey bourgeoisie bump. And gee, was

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College Views

Staff Appreciation
To the Editors,
I am interested in making the Wednesday closest to February 14 a st.di ap-

LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN: J. C. Armbruster, Greg Moo, Diane
Winslow, 8. E. Ballard, Greg King, David Innes, Pippa Coiley.
governors ot The Evergreen State

finances are low is pretty good too, one
of the reasons they (I) are deciding to
better themselves by going back to
school.
I hope someone out there will "hear,"
will feel what this means to me and
'!'ill help.
Ingid Ossana

who are working to bring these possibilities to fruition. The land belongs to
those who love her.
Eric Einspruch

Allan

Frank

it easy. It just goes to show we are all
powerful, all quite capable of smashing
the society that we know and love. Total
revolution NOW! The bump is gone.
Long live the bump.
The Bump Liberation Front (BLF)

The Motor Mentality
To the Editors,
The Motor Mentality still prevails.
Clearly. Otherwise we would not have
ended up with another parking lot. And
no, tomatoes don't come from the Safeway, they come from the ground.
The razing of the old Organic Farmhouse and subsequent gravelling of the
exposed land, ()(curring during winter
break, was a sneaky act of wanton destruction sanctioned by people who must
have never been cold for want of shelter.
nor hungry for want of food. In this day
of an ever-decreasing amount of arable
land, the destruction of fertile soil is an
intolerable atrocity. We need equitable
use of aU available shelter, and maximum
reasonable use of all available land. We
do not 'need another parking lot.
Similarly, the spraying of the new
farmhouse and consequent contamination
of the garden indicates the astounding
lack of insight exhibited by thooe making
these decisions, into the workings at the
organic farm. Even if the amount of
poison in the garden is minimal (acceptable to whom?), I find it incredible that
the health of those who work at the farm
is threatened in this way: the health of
students who are so desperate!)' sought,
and who pay to come here to explore
and to learn.
I understand that the one person who
tried so hard lo save the cid farmhouse,
and who brought the poisoning of the
garden into the open, will not be re•
offered a caretaker's position. Once th06e
who make these decisions realize the
extent of their mistake, they will begin
to see the apology they owe this man.
I am dis.appointed to see Evergreen
destroy one of its lrue practical, sociaUy
workable, alternative endeavors. The
~JF.a..nict'~~~-~- a 5~~st!ucti':~ _e!!~rt-~
present-day agricultural techniques and
attitudes. It is after such acta u these
that Evergreen's image as a school committed to environmentally sound principles seems to be simply a facade. It is
time that those who make such decisions
awaken to the possibilities at the Organic
Farm, and realize the dedication of those

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newspaper. Deapite the attitude prevalent on thia campua, the CPJ should not
be the servant of ..community consensus," for the individuals who direct and
write a newspaper must often run contrary to what that conaenaus claims to
be. We welcome advice and contributions
but need to remind our public that the
final prerogative and re■ponaibllity are
ours alone.
While we do try to make the CPJ fun
to read (witneH, for example, the photo
that accompanies thia editorial, our regular K-9 Kultur Kennel tidbit, and our
attempts at satirical feature articles, as
weU as the printing of weD-wrltten,
intelligently funny letter■), probably our
most central purpose ia to set the stan·
dard ror public discourse of issues and
events or importance to the Evergreen
community. To that end we have tried to
instigate debate and discussion about the
Faculty Guide. the evaluations process,
election issues, the Iranian situation,
sexism and racism on campus, the Ever•
green Council, the 70's and, most especially, the changing nature of Evergreen
itself. We have tried our best to make
our coverage of these issues aa interest·
ing and well•written
and thought·
provoking u possible.
We need help. however, as I'm sure
many of you will sarcastically agree.
Contributions are always welcome; our
hope is to produce a good journal that
covers a broad range of relevant subjects
and do this in a way that will create
increasingly more perceptive and more
informed discussion of those academic,

Interview

Continued

another more general question. To be
right out front, there is something really
annoying about the idea of an Evergreen
Renaissance, which is the heading for
the Evergreen Review. It aeems to be
tending toward that kind of uncritical
view where nothing is bad, everything is
lauded, and everyone walks around
blindly.
SW: First of all, the terminology came
from a beginning-of.the-year spet,eh that
the president gave to the faculty. That's
where we picked up on the word, and I
picked up on it more in terms of what
we could do with graphics, rather than
necessarily what we could do with the
term in terms of copy. And it's also a
terminology that Byron Youtz really
liked and felt comfortable with, and he
wrote the lead article. And I must say
that I don't think that that article was
slick or overly glossy. I think that Byron
talked about the things that were up at
Evergreen, but he also talked about our
wart.s, as he puts it. He also says that
we were in a period of declining enroll·
ment, that we had been at loggerheads
with the legialature continuaUy, that
there was a kind of general sense of dis•
satisfaction, and a.lso a sense that we
were no longer fulfilling our minion, and
that we've gotten that act together. and
it really is in some ways a rebirth of
Evergreen's initial minion and philosophy and a re-affirmation. I guess I'm not
real sure what the problem you had with
it is.
CP J: Well, lot's of people are afraid
that the kind of changes that Evergreen
is going through, the kind of look, and
happy talk, and jargon that's starting to
go on now will attract a different type of
person to Evergreen. and that that will
somehow change the quality of the

•

artistic, educational, and sociological
issues that are important to us all.
Tbe absolute deadline for contributing
articles is noon on the Monday before
Thursday's publication. Your words will
more likely see print, though, ii we see
your words sometime the previous week.
The deadline for letters, announcements, and the Arts and Events calendar
ia Tuesday at noon. Thia ia a firm and
fixed deadline. Last quarter a student in
a position of power called us at the very
last mintlte and acted as ii sbe had the
right to get her announcement in or el.N.
Please everybody! Noon on Tuesday.
Typed. Double-spaced. Everybody. No
exceptions. Ha•ha.
If you've read this far you're either
amazed at my arrogance or in agreement
with ii. You may be CPJ material) Or
you can be a participating reader, one
who at least cares about the campus
newspaper. This editorial hu been an
attempt both to explain what it's like to
work down here along•side the vending
machines (which usually don't work) and
to provoke some kind of response. Next
week we'll advocate mandatory remedial
reading courses for all students if that's
what it takes to liven things up. Hopefully. though, you'll be more interested
in our planned series or exposes on a
variety of Evergreen projects, programs,
and people.
Omnia ex.tares, everybody. And thanks
for the check, Dan. See you on the
maiden voyage to Hawaii. I'll have my
bags all packed before the organic pot•
heads and left.wing Fascists even know
what's hit them.

college.
SW: Let me say that I detect a note of
elitism in that comment. And it's hard to
avoid, but I understand what you're say•
ing. The Everp-eea Review replaces a
publication caUed Precu. One of the
problems with that publication is that it
doesn't articulate the college very well,
and I suspect that that's alway& been a
problem here. So we allow ourselves to
be articulated by those who know nothing about Evergreen. I tried to find a
format that would reflect what Ever•
green is all about. I came up with a
tabloid format that allows us to write
more copy, to get into a little more
depth. We aend thia to our outside constituencies, people who know Evergreen
and could be real good ambaasadors for
Evergreen if they had more ammunition.
This is the ammunition. And rm not
foolish enough to think that we should
send something out that look, like we sit
around here with rose-colored glasses.
On the other hand, I'm not foolish
enough to think that we should be sending out something that says Evergreen is
the pits. I think the publication should be
balanced, and I think we want to aend
out a publication that's kind of up-beat,
but at the same time recognize that we
have weaknesses. Public Relations isn't
necessarily covering up everything that's
wrong with your institution. On the
same hand, it is at least having some
control over how people perceive your
institution, because il you don't take any
control at all then you just let them do
with your h11titution what they want.
That's what we've done in the pa.sL
Essentially it's not compromise. It's
deciding how you want to play the game
your own way. Otherwise someone's
going to play the game with you, or
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Simpsons naive cynicism
This article is in response to T. J.
Simpson's article in the last CPJ entitled "You Really Can't Go Home Again."

By Greg Moo
Alter giving a lengthy hiatory ol hia
experiences in the anti•war movement,
Simpson launches into a cynical and con•
tradictory analyois of the left, the
women's movement, and why "the
revolution"
failed (Nixon beat Mc·
Govern!). He felt "alienation and hopelessness" upon realizing that "the dream
was over," and that attitude has per•
siated to thia day. Both hia idealism in
the 1960's and his cynicism now are
products or naivete. Simpson ntisunder·
stands what constitutes a revolution.
Revolutions occur when an overwhelm•
ing majority of people are moved by
their material conditiona and experiences
to overthrow the institutions of the past.
People do not take such actions lightly.
They vacillate, retreat, and search for
other solutions. They are confused by
right-wingers, and alienated by liberals
who betray them again and again. But
they continue to think and eventuaUy
they act. Revolutions are not made by

"liberal" Democrats beating Republicans,
nor are they overnight affairs made by
consensus.
Yet after a few years of demonstrating. hitchhiking, and eating drugs,
Simpson hu thrown up his hands and
declared the revolution's "demise before
its birth." Now he believes that "the
individual is responsible for his or her
own actions, no matter how oppressed
they are (there are some exceptions)"!!
That idea is a tot.al surrender to the
"'bourgeois society" that he claims to
hate. Are the starving children of Kam·
pu~hea and Nicaragua responsible for
their condition? Does that mean that the
50% of unemployed black youth in this
country are responsible for not having
jobs? Is a female colleRe l<)'aduate who
earns $1000 a year leas than a male hi'h
school dropout, not thinking pooitively?
Simpson's total ignorance of the reali•
ties of poverty and clas.s is shown by his
anti.feminist argument that "Rich, beau•
tiful women can easiJy control men if
they want to." He ignores the fact that
standards of beauty are sexist and arbitrary, while being rich is something out
or reach for most women who on the

average, earn only 5a% of what men do.
The anti•war movement was not a
failure, u Simpson would have us believe. It forced the U.S. corporate class
to back down from a colonial adventure
and the credibility of its government was
destroyed. The latest surge of feminiam
was propelled by the mass mobili2.ations
of the anti•war movement. Most impor·
Lant, that movement created an anti•war
consciousness in the American people
that exists to this day.
In 1965, LBJ stsged the Gulf of Tonk.in
incident and nearly everyone in the
country jumped on the bandwagon of
war hysteria. Within weeks there were
American troops in Vietnam and the
industrial war machine was cranked up
to full speed. We are witnessing a simi•
lar war-drive in the press today, but the
response of the American people is much
more cautious and skeptical. That caution and mistrust of the government is a
result of the anti.war movement of the
60's and 70's. When it ia added to the
anti•corporate sentiment that is building
because of the coming economic crisis,
the potential for a powerful movement
is clear.

... and a hotsk Trotsky to you!

"Hmmm ... it aays here that the Cooper Point Journal employs petty bourgeois
individualists to write slanderous remarks about me."
By T,J. Simpson
Alter first reading Mr. Moo's response of a sentence purely out or context. The
to my article, my first thoughts were to sentence actually reads, "Rich. beautiful
ignore such tripe. But the more I thought women can easily control men if they
about it, I realir.ed that I couldn't let his want to, although some around here
absurd accusations go by without a actually think that they're more op·
pressed than the average, white male
counter·response.
As it is with the
Trotskyist groups. or any other of the factory worker."
First of all, in response to Mr. Moo's
Marxist-Leninist sects hopelessly scrambling for power, Mr. Moo obviously has a comments, I agree that standards of
beauty are arbitrary, but not necessarily
tendency to twist and distort what
others say. Apparently my article was sexist. If it's sexist to think that some
other human being (male or female) is
no exception.
He first puts hia head in the nooee by physically beautiful, then we all might as
implying that I felt that the "revolution·· well gouge our eyes out. At any rate,
certain standards are going to exist in
!ailed becauae Nixon beat McGovernsomething that I never implied at aU. As any society or culture.
What I was talking about in the article
an anarchist (an anan:ho-syndicalist. to
be exact), I've never had faith in any is that there are women here at this
politician, capitalist or not. I wu simply coUege who come from wealthy families
pointing out that Nixon's victory was (that wealth ia often passed on to them)
certainly a very disheartening event. at who fit into some criteria of physical
the time it happened. for any progres- attractiveness that ia generally accepted
in Western civilization. Some o( these
sive.
people think that they're oppressed
He then goes on about my "naivete"
and misunderstanding of "what consti• simply because they are women, when
lutes a revolution." I can"t see how he they have gone to the finest or liberal
read my article, in which I wrote about schools, been raised by liberal parents,
my involvement with the anti•war move- have had all the material things that
ment and various left.wing groups since they've wanted, and have often been the
one in control in relationships with men,
the late 1960's as well as my experience
with union organizing and being a mem• when Joe or Mary down at the factory
ber ol the !.W.W.. and still think that I are busting their butts off for shit wages
could be 10 naive. I was reading the just so they can feed themselves or their
kids. Of course, women get the short end
works of revolutionary
writers and
studying ~Jmies..
ol nth.er teY.oht.. of..the allck more ·often· tlian ,mm -do;-bur
\ions when Mr. Moo was probably stiU it's the women who aren"t so privileged
knee-high to an icepick. It apparently and have to go out and prostitute them•
wouldn't hurt for him to objectively read selves as waitresses or secretaries, etc..,
some more revolutionary history. If he who are welfare mothers, or get married
really understand, what constitutes a out of necessity, rather than love, who
revolution, then I don't see why he's in are the ones truly oppreued. If feminism
ian't applied to the clasa otruggle then it
the Y .S.A.-a
ridiculously dogmatic
will become sell-defeating. Working class
organization
that tends to alienate
women are more often forced into being
workers rather than convert them.
more subnrvient than those trying to
I never said that individuals were
responsible for their conditions (they '"make it" in the competitive world of
aren't), but that they are re1ponaible for executives. Why ahould I care ii a
their own aedeaa. whether it's blowing woman io malting $1000 a year leH than
up a building, lighting back against re- a man with the same job when she's in
preaion and taking a risk on going to an upper-middle class income bracket
jail, looking for work, committing rape, anyway, especially when that's the class
shaving one's eyebrows, or whatever. Go we auppoaedly want to see overthrown?
There'• a difference between getting a
back and read it again, Greg!
raw deal and really being oppreHed.
In reference to my ..rich, beautiful
However, the major bone of contention
women" atatement, Mr. Moo quote• hall

between Mr. Moo and me would appear
to be over my reference to the Y.S.A. as
an authoritarian organization. Almost
every independent radical that I have
ever known (whether they were anar•
chist.s, Marxists. Wobblies, or whatever)
and even some other Trotskyist sects
\like the Freedom Socialist Party). consider the Y.S.A., and its parent organiza·
tion, The Socialist Workers Party, to be
authoritarian. Most anarchists consider
the Y.S.A. LO be authoritarian simply
because that group practically worships
Trotsky and Lenin.
The major failure of the organized left
in the past decade has been its inability
to learn from past mistakes. The initial
libertarianism of the New Left in the 60's
gave way to the outmoded dogma of the
Old Left i• the 70's. What the Y.S.A.
shares with other Marxist-Leninist
groups is a misguided or just plain ignor·
ant belief in the righteousness of the
Bolsheviks' role in the 1917 Russian
Revolution. I suggest that Mr. Moo read
Emma Goldman's, "'Living my Life,
Vol. II" and Maurice Brinton's "Workers
Control, 1917-21'" for a more realistic
view or the treacherous way Lenin and
Trotsky almost immediately betrayed
the workers who helped them get in
power and how from almost the very
beginning, the Bolsheviks turned the
revolution into a totalitarian.
statecapitalist regime.
In 1921, the workers in Petrograd and
Kronstadt were fed up with the atrocious
conditions the Bolsheviks made them
work under and went on strike. Instead
ol listening to their demands. TroLsky
sent his Red Army in and had thousands
of workers, including women and chil·
dren, slaughtered. This is a historical
fact (and only one of Trotsky's atrocities)
but when confronted with this, members
of the Y.S.A. will deny that it ever happened or will justify it by saying that
Trotsky was only trying to restore order
during a time of great turmoil. Apparently. they feel that genocide is o.k.
when it's being committed under the
guise of Socialism.
Mr. Moo also raises the ridiculous
notion that there i.aindividuaJ freedom in
Cubs. Anybody who believes that is
cil.her aJool o, ~-lia~, I e&t1·onlyncom·
mend Sam Dolgofrs book. "The Cuban
Revolution" an anarcho-communist view
of Castro's Cuba that includes writings
by Cuban revolutionaries and poets who
are either in exile or underground
because of Castro. The book also documents Castro's continuous accumulation
of personal power and his repressive
steps against the working class that
originally gave him power. (I wish there
was more space to go into this in detail.)
Even the S.W.P./Y.S.A. was extremely
critical of Cuba not that long a~o.
It seems that members of the Y.S.A.
are trained not to think for themselves.
but to memorize and parrot the party
line as it comes down from the S.W.P.
Of course the line may change often and
erratically. (I remember one anti-S.W.P.
song we used to sing at anti.war demon•
Continued to page 6

Simpson portrays himself as a "liber·
tarian leftist" who abhors sectarianism,
yet his individualism, and misrepresentation and slander of the "authoritarian
left" are reminiscent of Reader's Digest.
or some other right-wing literature. It is
certainly true that the crimes of Stalin
are unforgivable and that some "leftists"
justify repression in the name of Stalin
or Mao. But there is also a long and consistent opposition to such distortion of
socialism. from the Left Opposition in
the USSR to the collaboration of left
wing groups against violence and slander
in the movement today.
I am a member of the Young Socialist
Alliance (YSA) and contrary to Simpson's
portrayal. we stand unequivocally for
socialist democracy. But we also reject
the phoney individualism of people who
think that doing your own thing is some·
how a progressive act. They forget that
we belong to the biggest, most allpervasive organization in world historythe United States government. As long
as we all keep doing our own thing with
in the limits set by that government. we
are perpetuating its rape of the environ
ment. its denial of human rights to colonial peoples, ethnic minorities. and
women, and its destruction of the dignity
and quality or life for all working people.
I look forward to the eighties. Here·s
to the next decade, when more and r,ore
peoples of the world will win their rndividual freedom like the Nicaraguans a:1d
Cubans. by organizing to overthrow their
oppressors. Here's to a society based on
meeting the basic needs of its people
rather than building the profits of a frw.
Here's to the day when the American
people create that soc1e1y here. But we
can only do so by working together and
that means organizing.

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that he acted accordingly. One cannot
intermission the pupit to my left exited,
run a st.ate on morality alone. One must
howling something about "the Deans." I
instate a sense of adventure, of good and
took this opportunity to ingest another
evil. That is to say that we may be equal
Percodan, which I had obtained illicitly
in the eyes of God, but that does not
from the pupil who always wore green.
mean we are equal in the eyes of politics,
This semisynthetic derivative of morand we may never be. Creon acted with
phine, manufactured serendipitouaJy by
the righteousness of any good martyr,
Endo Laboratories, affected me in this
and paid for it. We can therefore excuse
way: it made me unbearably happy. I
Creon for his somewhat unscrupulous
giggled, knowing that if I were to owalconduct a.s far as burial rights are con- low many more of these in the next few
cerned. But can we excuse Antigone for days I would become hopelessly addicted.
sacrificing her life for such a guileless
For this reason I graciously offered the
and\ pitilul reason?" The pupil who pill bottle to my seminar leader, as if the
always wore green looked around the contents were malted milk balli,_
table for a response to his query and
"No thank you," he politel7 declined,
noticed that he had somehow been spir- "it might produce adverse effffts when
ited to Queen Elizabeth's court and that
combined with all the phenobarbital I
his seminar leader had craftily disguised
had for breakfast."
himself to look exactly like William
When order had linall7 been re1tored,
Shakespeare. The pupil who always wore I occupied the chair of the pupil whom
green reprimanded himseH and made a had had the unfortunate accident with
mental reminder to try mescaline next combustion so that I might be in a better
time ... Well." he asked, "can wer He pooition to inspect the pupil with the
wished quietly to himself that no one sexy nylons. Accordingly, the pupil who
would ask him to repeat what he had was undeniably pompous as be was
said because he had forgotten completely diligent and who constantly 1tuffed bis
himself, had in fact. forgotten the title of face with sweetrolls during seminar inthe piece they were discussing.
spected me. He then returned furio11Bly
The pupil who had read the play three
to his notes as it became apparent that I
times froze up st his opportunity to say had beaten him to this strategic pooition.
something intelligent before the time ran
My insides 1/egan to glow in a moot
out. "There are re Jny things to consider,"
euphoric mannpr, then to gently bum. I
he sputtered.
lit a Marlboro with relish.
Suddenly, the venerable seminar leadThen the bell rang.
er mitigated tensions by declaring a
short break in which members ol the
seminar could fill their bodies with
caffeine, nicotine and foodstuffs.
Continued
Seminar resumed when the pupil who
never brushed his teeth and always lost
strations in the early 70's entitled,
at backgammon declared that the play
"What's Your Line Today/"') If you disAntigone was Thornton Wilder's most
agree with them even slightly, you'll be
brilliant play. The 45-minute discussion
labeled a "petty-bourgeo!a individualiat"
that followed proved beyond any doubt
or
some such silly epithet. rve known
that, indeed, it wasn't even written by
people in the past deade who have been
Wilder. It was then determined that it
purged from the Y.S.A. simply because
was Ibsen's most mediocre play. I spoke
they didn't agree with some minor politup at that point and informed the semical position the party had on a seeminginar with cultivated ac.ademic indiffer•
ly irrelevant issue.
ence that, in my opinion, the play was
Another loathsome tactic the Y.S.A.
written by neither Ibsen nor Wilder, but
employs
is trying to take over whatever
that it was written by Samuel French,
left.wing group they can when the
whose name appears on the cover.
S.W.P. directive comes down to jump on
"How would you know?" exclaimed the
some bandwagon. A case in point was
pupil to my lelt, who was frustrated
laat year's takeover of the Olympia
greatly because ohe had !ailed to reach
Crabshell Alliance. (The Y.S.A. was
orgaom that morning. I replied by reachnever tot.ally anti•nuke until fairly reing over and extinguishing my cigarette
cently.) According to my sources. the
on her forearm. This caused the seminar
Y.S.A. attempted to monopolize and conleader to burst into an uncontrollable fit
trol Crabshell meetinga in such an intimiof laughter which took several minutes
dating way that it alienated the nonY.S.A. members so much that the chapter was dissolved.
Despite the destructiveness they infiic~
Almost ewerythlng under the sun . . .
upon the rest of the left, the Y.S.A. will
and RAINBOW . . . reduced to clear
never be any threat to the capitalist
system. Just look at a copy of the S.W.P.
newspaper, "The Militant" and try to
imagine the average American worker
being taken in by its almoot comical
Mention ~r brl ng In th Is ad and take your pick
rhetoric and its support for -lied
of any tube sock free with each pair of shoes
"IIOCialiat"dictatorship• in other parta of
purchased.
Soccer
the world~ And ..Y-5A member■ -e&A....be.
Batts
-s-peclal"s·
1m:1uue
.. _.
wor■e than Jehovah's Witnesses when
they managE to set their !eet in your
Brooks Vantage
. door, trying to sell you a "Militant." It
Tretorn Runaways
will seem like forever trying to get rid of
them, even alter you tell them that you
Oortex
Brooks VIiianova
think their politics suck and you don't
Rslnwesr
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want to buy a paper.
byG.U.T.S.
Yes, there is much oppression and
and Aacente
horror in this country, and even more
Thru Jan. 31.
that thi. country perpetrates upon other
nations. But we're not going to change
any of that with narrow-minded sellAthletic
righteo11Bness based on historical lies or
Bags
by making nuilances of o~nelves by
Puma
shoving worn-out propaganda into peoProud
ple■' faces. (Especially when that propaHNd
ganda is bad sociology combined with
zero psychology, as I stated in the previous article.) The road to progreuive
SubjtCIIO
change is in education and organization.
MttWeet NerTIIDII
Ml-NU
SIOCII
onHind
but replacing one dictatorship for another is just not my cup of tea.

"Yes, Antigone is a classic. What else
can you say?" remarked the pupil in the
sexy nylons as the seminar wiggled into
action.
"Why so?" I asked with cultivated
academic indifference.
The pupil with the sexy nylons
shrugged and squirmed fitfully in her
chair.
"Well," she replied, "because it's so old
and yet it remains alive. It is still performed by the players of today. It will be
performed by the players of tomorrow.
The story line remains significant to us
in our modern era such that the moral
message it carries still has deep effect
upon our values .. even now, in 1979."
"Maybe that's because it was adapted
so rffently. It cannot help but have a
modern ring to it," said the pupil to her
lelt. He had not even read the play. He
was under the impression that the play
was a French romance, written first in
the late 17th century. "Those French
really have a way with words," he
offered, quite pleased with his spontane•
ous insight.
The pupil directly across the table,
who never brushed his teeth, lit a ciga•
rette, much to the displeasure of the
pupil to his left, who was strongly allergic to tobacco and to the extreme dismay
of the pupil to his right who had quit
yesterday and wished very badly that
she could light one also.
The pupil at the end of the table
looked longingly out the window that •
wasn't there and never had been. He had
read the play three times and hoped
feverishly that he would think of some-thing intelligent to say before the time
ran out. The pupil who always wore
green sat next chair over and was so
blazingly high on LSD that the seminar
leader was changing form before his
very eyes. He was absolutely certain
that he had be<:ome a part of a huge
Picasso painting that hung in the wings
or a condemned theater in New York city.
"It's the chorus that bothers me," he
exclaimed with pupils the size of soccer
balls, "it seems almost too explicit. It is
as if it draws the conclusion for the
reader, instead of letting the reader
come to his own inference as to the relative morals of the characters involved."
He spoke on as his seminar leader became a unicorn, then a large domino, and
then a gigantic Amanita Muscaria mushroom. "We must therefore," he said
distinctfully, "take it with a grain of salt.
If we examine Creon's actions in terms

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AWARD-WINNING ART DISPLAY
The Olympia Chapter of the Northweot
Science Fiction Society will hold a general meeting 7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 19, at 503 S. Sawyer, Olympia.
Guests will include George Guthridge,
who writes for Aaalo1, Faata■ y &
Science Fiction and Galileo, and Kevin
Johnson, book cover illustrator
for
Warner and Avon. Evergreen student
Victoria Poyser, winner of three art
show awards at the World Science
tiction Convention in England this
summer, will have her work on display.
The evening will begin with a "chips
and junk food" potluck and will include
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people? Tsunamis, hurricanes? The globe
is a deaf. dumb, blind bystander.
The concept that the alien race is a
machine intelligence is a fascinating idea.
It is never developed. We should have
&eeo them. Close Encounters knew tha,
an alien appearance
was the whole
reason for the movie. Star Trek doesn·t.
Instead we see a Voyager spacecraft enshrined in a sinkhole lined with flipping
television screens. Gack. There·s no
kindly old wizard behind the smoke and
mirrors-just a piece of space junk.
V'GER, the probe"3 new superrational
consciousness, is looking for papa. It fell
into the machine race's lap after it was
reported "lost in a black hole." More
flummery. Such a passage would have
shredded it into atoms. The alien machines made this space-going ziggurat
because our consciousness has something
theirs doesn't: l ~ess it's love. This is

tions with our guests, and planning
caravans to SF Expo and Norwescon 3
in Seattle.
For more information, call 352-9201.
AIKIDO

The Olympia YMCA is offering classes in
the Japanese martial art of Aikido.
Three sessions of 10 classes will be held
over the next four months. The first
session is in session, but it's not too late
to join. Fee for each session is $15 for Y
members, S20 for nonmembers. For more
information cont.act Paul Becker or Cathy
Rapp at 357-9969 or call the YMCA at
357-6609.
AFTER EVERGREEN
Environmental advocates, a silviculturist, a marine researcher. graduate study
directors, and other professionals from
jobs related to the environment will discuss their work experiences with students at the "After Evergreen: Investigating the Future" workshops. Job
finding and graduate study are the topico
of two workshops thut will be held on
January 23, from 1:30 to 4 in CAB 110.
Contact Career Planning & Placement,
Library 1214. for information about this
and other workshops.
ENERGY FAIR

Coalition) a.re sponsoring the first annual
Northwest Regional Energy Conference
and Fair. The fair will take place on the
Western campus in Bellingham. on
January 19 and 20. Activities wHI center
around various demonstrations
and
workshops on current energy uses and
alternatives. The goal is to increase the
awareness and involvement of students
and individuals throughout the surrounding communities in decisions which are
crucial to our area's future.
CLASSES IN CHILDBIRTH
Four Preparation for Childbirth classes
will be offered at the Olympia Education
Center, 3700 Martin Way, during winter
quarter as part of the continuing education program of Olympia Technical Community College. Kathy Simmons will
teach a class from March 4 through
April 29, Tuesdays, 7-9:30 p.m. Carol
Music will also offer a class from January 31 through March 20, Thursdays,
7-9:30 p.m.
Topics will include nutrition, body
conditioning, family relationships, med·
ical procedures, breast feeding, Lamaze

anthropocentrism boomeranging back in
the worst way. The solution to V'GER's
yen to unite with the Creator is the Iliaandroid "merging" with Decker's human
consciousness.
It's presented as the
(excuse me) climax of the film. ln fact ifs
a cinematic monstrosity-a form of computerizeo necrophilia with angelic lightimages. We're left with the dangling un·
certainty of whether or not a higher
consciousness has truly been wrought.
We see the magician. his hat, no rabbit.
Danny Bakan tells me that the script's
potholes are filled in by Roddenberry°s
novelization. This suggests that the film
was drastically edited to give il a G
rating. Artistic quality is no match for
profitability. For good SF flicks, sec
Forbidden Planet, or The Day the Earth
Stood Still. Star Trek will go down in
movie history as a classic example of
how to screw up a still-nascent genre.

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will become of the corporate profits if we
find different ways to support ourselves
socially and to arrange our "little boxes"
so that we extend our family groupings
'and support systems and use our land
and power more wisely.
I see what is happening aS almost a
social trek westward. There have been
acts of heroism and pioneer bravery
demonstrated in people willing to break
from outdated roles to step into un• explored territory.
I compare the apparent apathy of the
70's to the stillness before an earthquake.
l believe the SO's will bring a social and
economic earthquake, but l also believe
that the rebuilding after such devastations has always left cities stronger and
more beautiful. I can't help looking for.
ward to this decade with great hope for
deeper, more meaningful lives being
possible for those that survive it.
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ACCESS for Re-entry Women Center

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All

RAINBOW

on the sense of isolation they had ereated and used it as a marketing tool. In
their aloneness people sought more and
more "comforts."
But now I think communication between people is opening up; we're learning to live with our machine age and
relegating our possessions to less im•
portance in our lives. The so-called
Women's Lib movement was the initial
outward expression of everyone's tor•
ment over an unrealistic way of life that
has been sickening our society. It started
with women determined to move to
positions of increased lile choices and
now we see many men fighting against
being relegated to competitive stances.
No one knows what it wiU do in this
country economically if increasing numbers of women and men demand mean•
ingful work, more options for part-time
employment and job sharing and are
willing to live on less to keep their lives
and families intact. No one knows what

STAR TREK

Marrisa .Zwick, former S&A Board involved in past allocations procedures,
coordinator. resigned at the end of 1979. is urged to attend. A1so, there is one
She has gone on to work for Represent- student opening on the Board, and anyative Barnes, a Seattle legislator who is one interested in it should contact Ellen
a member of the House Higher Educa• at the S&A Office, CAB 305, 866-6220.
tion Committee.
Replacing her as the new coordinator
is Ellen Kissman, long-time S&A Office
fixture. When asked how she felt about
the move into the back room, she responded, "TH really miss being the
center of the triangle out front. I'll probably be out there alot more than I
should be."
Ellen said that she doesn't have any
immediate changes planned. However.
she pointed out that next Wednesday at
noon the S&A Board is meeting in
!,IB 2118, to brainatorm ideas for the
spring allocations process. Anyone who
is interested, or who might have been
Ellen Kissman, New S&A Coordinator

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have mLBsed the political fervor of the
60's and. ~bile I was turning my life
around, rrussed even the apathy of the
70's, that rv~ got a good seat for the
social revolution of the 80's.
I think we're in for the most powerful
•~d profound revolutio~ of all time. It
will upset the econorruc structure and
value systems of this country and of the
world and it h':' already begun.
Before machines took the manufacturing responsibility from the homes and
communities a little over 100 years ago,
the nuclear family arra?gement did not
seem to leave the emotional bankruptcy
that we ~d all around us and on our
front pages now. There seemed to be
teamwork and equality in marriage and
despite the absence of leisure, there
seemed to be more general contentment.
But as women's and men's lives became
more barren with the move from home
manufacture to factories, those same
factories, to sell their products, played

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were going on in this country throughout
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was reminded that it was possible to do
that. It is possible for a person to be so
involved in their own painful reality that
the.y can't take on any more-not riots,
assassinations,
nor even Viet Nam.
Nothing.
Now I realize that I was part of what
was happening during those years. I was
a statistic-one
of a large number of
emotionally isolated women still wondering why the "wonderful" housewife/
mother role seemed so much like an end•
less, meaningless servitude. I also became one of a great wave of women who
believed we had more to contribute than
society's roles then acknowledged.
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Vol. 8

No. 8

The Evergreen· State College

Olympia, Washington 98505

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17, 1980

isance?

By David Joyner
The extent to which Evergreen is
changing its "image" ia witnessed most
obviously by its publications. The 1980-81
catalog is an example, u is the recently
issued Eversnea Review. Most students
(quick to recognize compromise where
none exists) either expectorate puaively,
or become chokingly nauseous at the
sight of these publications. On the other
hand, the administration (aeemingly un•
aware of student disaffection) remains
well-pleased, basking in the warm light
of increased enrollments, and selfproclaimed "Renaissance." While 1tudents insist that publicationa like the
Everpeea Review are too llick, and a
misrepresentation of the overall community, the administration defends the
opposite opinion: that we are finally producing verbal and visual representations
worthy of this coUege.
As director of the Office of Development, editor of the Everp-eea Review,
and newcomer to the college, Susan
Washburn has some interesting, and
rather objective things to say about
Evergreen's image, and the role of public
relations in the portrayal of that image.
CPJ: Fint, what exactly is the Office
of Development. and what do you do
here?
SW: The Development Office was
started not too long after the college
opened its doors, in recognition of the
fact that we had to be eer up to aeeept
gifts, and that we might want to get to
the point where we'd like to encourage
them. That always happens, and it happens real naturally that someone will
either want to help the coUege, or it
could be aometblng tragic like the Evergreen student that died over the weekend and having a memorial fund established in her name. So we had to have
the structure or mechanism to receive
those gifts and acknowledge them, and
cultivate them for the future.
CPJ: So baajcally you accept gifta, etc.,
anything elle?
SW: Development is really a euphemism for fund-raising. You know, I don't
even know. rve been a fund raiser, rve
been a development officer for eight
years, and I would like to find out where
they got the name. It's just a gentle
word for fund raiser, I gueaa. And really
it is more than fund-raising. U you're
looking in terms of college-wide development and long-range planning It involves
helping to facilitate that long-range planning by seeing what the financial needs
will be and then exploring the sources
for that income.
CPJ: I noticed that the Booster Club ii
also affiliated with thia office. That
seems kind of odd.
SW: That's because the athletic 1taff •
which ia really nonexistent is 10 overwhelmed with the administrative duties
just involved in getting into intereollegiate athletics that some office had to
take over t~e reaponafbility for what
would become the athletic fund. And it
make, sense to have all college-related
fund-niaing crune under one place. CPJ: The Booster Club itself is IOID&thing not many people understand. Let's
put it tlrls way: it'• under attack. Ia thla
Booater Club any different from the
RA-RA type stuff that I remember from
high school?
SW: No. Baaically It', community
members who are just u pleued u anything that we're going into intercollegiate
atbletica. And for the moat part they
undentand the way that we have cboeen,
that we're not real kill 'em, knock 'em
dead. And I don't thinlt there's anything
wrong with RA-RA u long u it doesn't
get abaurd.
CPJ: The kind of gung-ho school apirit
that characterizes Booster Cluba lead• to
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Evergreen report card: A
By Larry StillweU
The n~grades college gets an A. Its
faculty has a sense of commitment. Its
administration is competent. lta physical
plant facilities are superb. Its Board of
Trustees meets regularly. Ita financea
follow applicable 1tate formulae. It•
atudents are a jof to meel And ita
faculty, administration, and atudenta are
dedicated to liberal arta "to an extent
virtually unknown in any academic community in the entire United States."
The college, of course, is Evergreen,
the letter grade is President Evans'
paraphrase, and the conclusions are from
an official report granting Evergreen full
reaccreditation for the next ten years.

The report, which baa received wide
media coverage locally, is overwhelmingly enthuaiutic in its evaluation of
Evergreen'• auceeas as an alternative
liberal arta college.
The college'• fundamental problem,
according to the report, is its low enrollment, aggravated by local population
trenda, llck of community acceptance,
and uneertain legialative support. But
"Evergreen ia a community wblch knows
what its mission ia, knows where it
stand• in all respects and hu identified
and I.aattacking Its 1ignificant problems,"
th e report says.
Tb~ report ~peatedly refers to Evergreens exceptional character and quality,

and while much of this can be dismissed
as rhetoric, it is significant that Evergreen is being so favorably lauded by the
official educational bureaucracy. Not only
does it give encouragement to those who
would like Evergreen to be an alternative "Harvard of the West"; it is also
valuable ammunition in the "Evergreen
RenaiSMace•· campaign to validate and
solidify the college's interdisciplinary
existence in Southwest Washington.
Following on la.st year's Council on Postaecondary Education report, which also
officially recognized and praised Evergreen's alternatjve approach to education, it constitutes high praise which
Evergreen's detractors will not be able
to dismiss easily.

AnalysisCongress
dodges the draft
By Ben Alexander

the ball wu preferable to taking an un- Service officials. These include the locaUon and regiatration of all eligible people,
Although the draft issue has faded out timely, unpopular stand themselves. In
of the public limellght in recent mooths, fact several representatives saw no con- through computerized records making
it is alive and kicking in the Whlte flict in voting for both the Montgomery use of state voter lists. They also include
and Schroeder amendments, for they an induction process whereby deferHouse. The mass media have portrayed
ments and exemptions would not be
Congren u being anti-draft. but the both had the net reault of taking the allowed until after an induction notice
pressure
and
the
spotlight
away
from
intenae politieal maneuvering allffl>unding the whole subject belies this image. Congren. The Schroeder amendment, wu reeeived. An individual would have
With ano~he:r election year in prop-eaa, particularly, conveniently avoid• thia 15 daya after the malling of the induction
notice to flle such a claim. Once a claim
potentially volatile election-year iaaue.
many legialatora are hopi,Jig to lideatep
wu filed, the induction would be tempoThe
preMnt
Selective
Service
plan
the controve"7 completely. However,
the P!'9sident, charged by Congrea, has calls for automatic draft registration in rarily delayed, pending a bearing. If the
been mveatigating the need for renewed the event of an emergency, through claim wu denied, induction would hapvoter regiatration lists. Both House tad pen automatically, unleas an appeal
draft registration and induction 1ince lut
wumade.
November. He mu1t report bad: to Senate Armed Servicea Committees have
When the Preaident reporta bacf to
demanded
that
Carter
abow
that
this
Congress by no later than February 9.
Congress
within the next month, the
plan
can
work,
or
reinltitute
tbe
d:raft
Thia will give Congren the chance to
appear to be bowing to Executive pres- regiltration. Their opinJoa ii dear in pouibllity of a new draft proposal is
their written notice to Carter, where quite real. With pre11ure from the
sure by renewing the draft.
Many amendmenta calling for draft they 1tate, "Both eomm.itteea have con- Executive Office, the Pentagon, and both
registration met their defeat on the cluded that this ambitioua plan will not House and Senate Armed Service Com~ le mittee., combined with the new aenae of
House Ooor on September 12. Among work and that ,.11,._..,
. urgency caused by the Soviet move in
tb01e was a propoaecl amendment by ......._ .. The pressure is on.
Afghanistan, Congreu may decide that it
The
Schroeder
amendment,
aa
an
Rep. Sonny Montgomery (D-MS), which
would have requi:red nrgilltnttmrw· ltm't" ...inteanl part of th. 1980 i>efeue-Avtho-. ia a poU1k&llyupedient t.ime_to rein,
on January 1, 1981. By votinr down thia rization BW.went into effect on Novem- state the draft. Beeauae of the limited
amount of time, many draft counseling
amendment, the Houae went apinat Ute ber 9. Some of the pointa that It require,
groupa strongly urge all eligible indlvidCarter
to
report
on
are:
recommendation of it• own Armed
e "the desitability and feasibility of uala to ltart compiling their draft claims
Service, Committee. An alternative proimmediately. Thia meana all men AND
resuming regi.atration."
poeal by Rep. Robin Beard (R-TN), to
• "eatablilhing a method of automati- women, age 18-2'. For further inforform a 2'-membe:r, congreuional comcally registering persons ... using mation and counaeling, contact:
mit.tee to study the i.-ue, wu alto re• Coalition Against Regiltration and
exiating
reco:rda."
jected. In1tead, the Houe adopted a
the Draft
•
"the
enactment
of
authority
for
the
measure by Rep. Pat Sehroeder (D-CO)
2'5 2nd SL NE, Wuh., D.C. 20002
Prealdent
to
induct
penona
regthat eliminated reai,ltration from the
•
Seattle Draft Counseling
ilte:red
...
"
1980 Defense Authorisation Bill, and
151' NE 45 IL
•
"whether
women
abould
be
aubject
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I ,ETTERS~-___.•

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Cynical and Hopeless
Dear Editors.
After reading The Cooper Point Jour•
nal'1 wrap-up of the 1970's, I found it in
keeP.ing with the CP J format I've been
reading over the past five years-cynical.
Everything reported, with the exception
of the women's and environmental movement. left me feeling helpless. Almost
every aspect of the 70's was just written
off as meaningless. This includes literature. music, and cinema despite the fact
that most everything reviewed wus from
the latter part of the decade.
As much truth as there is in the
paper's synopsis of the past decade, it
seems to me as if the CPJ approach to
reporting is not much different or out of
line with the decade on which they
dump. It seemed to reflect that philosophy of apathy. It's strange that after I
finish reading a copy of CPJ, I feel
ar,gry, frustrated, and helpless. Yet after
finishing a copy of Mother Jones (anothf'r publication which depicts a view from
t~e left 1. I may feel angry, but I also feel
that I C'an do something about the inJustice being-reported.
The CPJ states that "People are
anxious about what the 80's will bring." I
would \'C'nture to guess that the 80's are
anxwus about what the people will bring.
An analogy I heard from an Evergreen
faculty to illustrate another point would
ht~ appropriate here. It has to do with a
runaway truck and the various methods
available to stop it. for those socially
ln\'olved during the 60's, social change
""as a thing where people needed to see
tangible results. and as a result. they
burned out or began to write for the
Cooper Point Journal. These can be compared to those who tried to stop the
truck by getting in front of it. It would
appear as if most just chose to step aside
during the 70's, It would be refreshing if
during the 80's people decided to become
involved more with the ongoing process
of social change. In other words, it would
rnakbe nice if they decided to jump in
the truck and learned to operate the controls.
Tht- women's .movement and the environmental movement-or the positive
aspHts of the 70's-are learning to operate those controls. They began getting
invol\'ed rnstead of just complaining
about things. It would be a breath of
fresh air if that began to cross over into
01 ht•r areas: it would be exciting if signs
of that became visible on campus.
Douglas P. Scrima
TESC Class of '78

Merry Accreditation
and a Happy New Year
Dear Editor,
I extend a Merry Christmas to the
Greater Olympia Community. In particular I extend congratulations to the
Truslees, the Administration, the Facul~v. Staff and Students of Evergreen
Stat.e College for having earned full
accreditation from the Northwest Associ-

EDITOR Larry StillweU
ASSISTANT EDITOR David Joyner
NEWS EDITOR Carol Tucker
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Pam Dueenberry
Tim Nogler
Mary Young

ation of Colleges and Schools. I am told
the College is now on a ten-year regular
review cycle, no longer a "new college"
but an important member of the Greater
Olympia Community. As Founding Provost who hired the planning Faculty I
view this as good news indeed that needs
to be shared with pride by all. It assures
a happy and prosperous
New Year
for all!
Sincerely,
David G. Barry
403 President St
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387

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Daycare Dilemma
FROM: Sheila Redmond-Payne, Pres. of
Driftwood Day Care Board
We feel the TESC community should be
aware of this letter. At this time it is
probable that Ingrid Ossana will be admitted next quarter because of parents
now using Driftwood who will probably
not use it next quarter. However, other
parents needing day care will not be
admilled. Currently we have 10 parents
on a waiting list.
To Whom ll May Concern:
Aft.er having painstakingly arranged
my life as a single parent to the point
that I might be able to attend school this
winter quarter I rind that it probably
will be to no avail because there is a
waiting list al Driftwood House. a day
care center I can afford (barely) and outside day care centers are out of the
question because they are too high
priced. I really can find no words to
express my disappointment.
I read an article on the plight of the
Re-entry Woman (30-45) and what can be
done to a-;sist them in the campus paper.
Re-entry women of that age are likely to
have kids, and the probability that their

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Who Is the Oppressor ?
Editors,
In reply to the apparent challenge by
some outspoken feminists who perceive
the lack of intellectual debate on the
subject of sexist women's groups as an
indication that there is no intelligent
opposition: It does indeed seem that alJ
of the reasoned arguments support t.he
tenets of feminism. I would Hke to
suggest that those who disagl'ee consider
your point of view so unreasonable that
it can't be taken seriously. The men on
this campus are supposedly oppressors
and the women oppressed. I don't find
that a very comfortable position to begin
any debate. How would any Jewish
people on campus like to begin a debate
from the point of view that they a.re part
of an international conspiracy bent on
world domination? I would like to say
that I often hear the free and beautiful
voices of women in song and often observe women holding and loving one
another. I sincerely believe that there
are many men on this campus whose
>poilll and -feelingrlnrvrbe-err-crampedby oppression and who can be considered
more oppressed than many of the women
on this campus. To include these men in
your accusations is to further an oppression that has not been free from the
influence of wbmen.
•
Kevin

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To the Editor,
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Prison, age 20, would Like to correspond
with anyone willing to write. I need
friends. will answer all letters. Write to:
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·why dowe get all the we i.rdos?!
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Faculty Guide or in refusing to print an with the title "Fuckin' Greener," so much ••
I•
article or letter not because it was criti- does it embody the adolescent flower
Dear Ed.,
cal but because it was either garbled and child/space•cadet mentality that drives
In the article by Andy Lindaay in the
incomprehensible or poorly written and one to prefer identification with the antiNov. 29 CPJ, he quoted Sande Sanders
uninteresting. Not that we've done very Evergreen punks in downtown Olympia.
as aaying that "People don't really go to
much of that sort of editing, but we've Come on, kid; you may be an artist, but
meetings unless they're really oppressed
done
some and we're going to do more.
you can do better than that.
and men just aren't oppressed in this
Anyone who consistently
read the
Now here's the latest in a series which
society,"
Letters
page
last
quarter
knows
how
appeared
faithfully in every issue last
This quote is open to a number of mistolerant we were. Until the very last quarter but wilJ no more after this. So
interpretations.
The intent would be
issue, in fact, I don't think we cut a many people have asked, "Why do you
clearer if it read "people don't really go
single
letter. And it showed.
print that crap?" that I've decided to
to meetings unless they realize they're
Some
issues
had
three
letters
about
trust my own tastes and banish this kind
oppressed, and men just aren't oppressed
sexism, few passages of which said any- of self-indulgent nonsense from the ever·
by sexism in this society in the same
thing new or original. Other letterJ tried tolerant pages of the CPJ for the rest of
way that women are.''
to make a point but were so badly writ- my editorship.
It is important that the intent of my
ten and so iUogically scrambled that one
"Hey, hey, CPJ,
statement be understood because ol the
co11ld
only
guess
at
the
author's
intent.
"Ain't it sad that you did it again? The
recent controversies over the Women's
Others expressed sentiments so stereo- main name refrain is spelled v. ithout the
Center and its role at Evergreen lJ1comtypically Greeneresque in their childish- final period. I have been Questioned
bating sexism. The coordinators of the
ness it was embarrassing. We printed about the Q. part by readers of the
Women's Center this year are attemptthem
all, out of fairness and out of the paper because you omitted the final two
ing to correct an anti-male image. We
lack of a good reason not to print them.
paragraphs of my last letter which exfeel that our job here is to help women
I
think
if
I
print
some
samples
we
plained how the Q is derivitive from
By
Lawrence
Stillwell,
Editor-in-Chief
overcome the effects of sexist oppression
received for Wa issue you'll see the Philips. According to M. Chang the only
•....this society and to help erase sexism
At the end of last quarter, I was reason we won't be printing these kinds reason that I wanted Hi as a school
the Evergreen Society as well as in
accused of taking ..payola" from Ever• of letters in the future. The following greeting officially was because the letter
>ociety at large.
green President Dan Evans and faculty incomprehensible
letter is not the ranks of the name Philips total 89 (i.e.
We feel that the Men's Center could
Robert Filmer. The atudent making the author's frrst; in fact, she refers to her p=l6, S=h etc.). But that was left out
be instrumental in helping men to over•
charge had written a Forum, which I had last letter, which we cut because it was of the letter I wrote and the last name of
come their sexist training. We feel that
edited for space and then printed, criti- equally incomprehensible and wt- were y was still signed on the letter 8+9=
we all ut!ed to stop oppressing each other
cizing Filmer's supervision of the ..Ever- tight for space. Remember: the following 17=Q in the American alphabet. Note no
and gain strength to struggle together
green 38" boat·building program. The was written by a eollege student. The period. The name is much more general
against our common enemy; the capitalday the paper came out he angrily punctuation and spelling are exactly as in sound that way for Tc Q is still spoken
ist system which uses sexism and racism
accused me of delllNrately editing out in the original.
as the sound 'tek.
as devisive tools to exploit us alt The
his critical pointa, of being in fmancial
"To The Editor:
"As far as Muhamed Chang is conWomen's Center invites all those intercahoots with the targets of his criticism,
"The new catalogue is very nice and cerned comma since Muhamed is the
ested in participating in a discussion on
and of being on a personal "power trip," everything, but it seems to that it would most popular given nJme in the world
sexism in society to sign up at the
He and his sidekick. who nodded and be more to the point to use some of that lthe Ayatollah is a bht1·k turban because
Center's office on the third Door of
looked tough the whole time. vowed the space you're trying to save by not print- of !hat significance) and Chang is the
the library.
CPJ would never live this down. They ing my last letter that criticized a CPJ most popular surname in the world. it
Sande Sanders
promised to plaster the school walls with article, to discuss the potential of reusing ,ould seem th,, name was devised so as
disclaimers and denunciations. I tried to old informational material to the extent
o imply commonness. If that i!ii so it
I have talked with Sande about this
explain. apologize. reason with them.·
of computing information: instead of nust be remembered that Chang is
and feel it weuld be unfortunate to let
but they took their skateboards and left. printing some information one year, and 'hinese and last names come first there.
the article's possible misinterpretation go
Not long afterward, Professor Filmer different information the next, with :'he Changer part should be first.
uncorrected. We are in agreement about
the fundamental causes of sexism and
called the office and, calmly but insis- someone in heaven deciding what needs
"As a final goodbye I would impart the
tently, spent nearly half an hour trying to be included. It is a well known experi- greeting that I usually say: 'All Right"
oppression in this society and feel it is
most important that people recognize the
to convince me not to print any more ence to end up with a glut. of information, followed by the phrase 'Some left.' I
criticism of the h<Mtbuilding program. He however, although Evergreen may not speak so when someone asks me "How's
larger political issues involved in sexism,
the ones t~at affect and oppress us all-a
was afraid we were intending to investi- be a university, it does try to represent it ·going" or some such questioning of the
system that puts profits before human
gate the charges made in the Forum. I a university type of education; and it is natural authorities
in life that we
needs.
told him we were, but stressed that our •xactly for just such conglomerates of meet
our explanation answer what
treatment would be fair, thorough, and nformation that I am writing a pham- things are about in life. Be that as it may
Andrew Lindaay
uninflammatory. He argued that any ,,Jett on basic Evergreen functions for
the main idea here is that nothing can be
criticism might discourage some of the
he student who wants to read a pham- a !I right unless there is something left.
important, big-money i::ontributions to ,,Jett instead of finding out "what's going Hope lives in the future. And mathematthe school. "I think it's very important on" at the College.''
1rally one of the ways to check logic is to
To the Editor,
that the paper not print that kind of
Now, what the hell does that mean? sum left from the right addition te.g.
criticism," he said. "I can't seem to con- The one we cut was even more incoher- algebra).
I'd like to clear up a small point because even though it is small, it is
vince you of that.
"
ent. Letters like that are fun for us to
"May things be all r;l('ht with you.
significant.
Of course he was right. He couldn't. read here in the office (in fact we pa.as
··r.S. This is an f•,i;ample of a fi.rst
No responsible journalist would agree to them around and have a good laugh draft piece of writing. My graduate
In your report on the S&A Allocations
something like that. Similarly, any self- reading them again and again) but they advice is to always redraft. except in
yo" indicated that "Sporta Clubs" rerespecting journalist would have to don't belong on the Letters page, except war. There it is better to stay completely
ceived an allocation of Sl.098 on Novemanswer the Forum author's ridiculous in a moralistic essay like this.
out of the disgusting ill wind. Omnia
ber 20. This is incorrect. "Intramural
charges of corruption. Only two days
To continue moralizing: behold the Ext.ares. See you in the Gooeydome."
Sporta" received this allocation and the
after I was accused, I overheard two following unsigned contribution, scrawled
Omnia extares to you too, buddy, and
distinction between these two Orienta•
students discuasing the Forum at a in black and purple and accompanied by may you somewhere find a sympatheti<'
tions toward sports activities is a vital
party. "Yeah, I heard the editor cut all a crude drawing of two yoga-postured ear for your ramblings. I hope the readn
one to make clear to the Evergreen
the real criticism out of this," one said. hippie types blissfully holding hands can see why we cut those two para•
community. Team sporta clubs (excluding
The other one had heard the same.
while the wind noats a feather above graphs he refers to, even if he was angry
Alpine and boat clubs) aervice relatively
I want to do more than deny that I their heads.
aboul it, which is what the grapevine
small special interest groups. Whereas,
took ''payola" and deliberately edited a
"Do we want to move underground? says. And that's my point: no one should
the Intent of the Intramural Program is
letter or article to make it ineffectual. Do you want to live underground? What expect that the Cooper Point Journal has
to service. the entire campus community
(I do deny that, of course.) I also want to can we do? The world problems are so aay obligation to print such nonsense. no
by offering a variety of organized, recredo more than assert The Cooper Point big. Larger than me, much larger than natter how important it is to the ego
ational activities. Although Sporta Clubs
Journal's right and responsibility
to the Evergreen Co~munity. I feel sad ,nvolved.
and Intramural Sporta may appear to be
investigate and print the story behind and bewildered. Sitting with friends disFrom here on in the CP J will be clean
the same on the surface, they are vastly
pubHc charges of student dissatisfaction cussing the revolution. We are artists, ing up its act. Those people who call, as
different in function and philosophy.
with any aspect of Evergreen life. In this lots of energy and empty hands. We someone recently did, wanting a "promThe Intramural Program for which
post-Vietnam/Wat.ergate era, no news• have the strength to change the world ise" that their article advertising their
S&A funds were recently appropriated
paper should have to prove that its m08t but what can we do to save the world money-making event will be printed, will
will commence at the beginning of Winimportant function is to be skeptical and from war, from disease and deformity; to just have to accept the fact that that
ter Quarter. Individual, who would like
critical of those in power.
save us from extinction?
kind of sight-unseen promise is simply
to make suggestions about activities and
Beyond making those two, simple,
"Take a moment whenever your impossible to make.
events or who have questions should
contact me at 866-6530 (Recreation
obvious points as clearly as pos.,ibJe, I thought turns to the 'energy (events) of
The CPJ is not a shopper·style newsCenter 302).
want to defend the Cooper Point Jour- the •ao•a. Close your eyes and vi!:ualize paper. It is not an in•house newsletter,
Jan Lambertz
naJ's integrity against confticting expec- your own peaceful color and send it wide. indiscriminately open to all. It la the
Recreation Coordinator
tations like those above and others I Love one close to you and it will spread students' newspaper, but it is run by
-1--.Da:U....eJICOUAtahd-&a-edU....-Aa~....,..
-lil«>--tv.-in-<lr}'-W•ee11e,~•
------......,,,ld-be--joumalisl9, editors, writer-s,
Editor'• Note: Tioe term "Sport, Caba"
munity-minded" u we have tried to be,
Thia is the kind of thing that gives and artista who have to exercise :heir
waa clrawa. verNdm from the SAA
we have no doubt made some enemies Evergreen a bad name. Someone sug- own judgment in trying to creste a good
Boanl'a daart Hplalniag Fall '79 allothis year, whether in defending the gested we should have just printed it
Continued to page 4
cation,.

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Dear Editors,
Notice that your mornings no longer
include two rude jolts'/ Remember when
handing the parking attendant a quarter
was a simple, if not pleasurable, experience. Well ... we've made the home
stretch of your daily jaunt to school a
truly peaceful adventure again. Because
we removed that blatantly imperialist
example of authority-the
running~dog
lackey bourgeoisie bump. And gee, was

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College Views

Staff Appreciation
To the Editors,
I am interested in making the Wednesday closest to February 14 a st.di ap-

LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN: J. C. Armbruster, Greg Moo, Diane
Winslow, 8. E. Ballard, Greg King, David Innes, Pippa Coiley.
governors ot The Evergreen State

finances are low is pretty good too, one
of the reasons they (I) are deciding to
better themselves by going back to
school.
I hope someone out there will "hear,"
will feel what this means to me and
'!'ill help.
Ingid Ossana

who are working to bring these possibilities to fruition. The land belongs to
those who love her.
Eric Einspruch

Allan

Frank

it easy. It just goes to show we are all
powerful, all quite capable of smashing
the society that we know and love. Total
revolution NOW! The bump is gone.
Long live the bump.
The Bump Liberation Front (BLF)

The Motor Mentality
To the Editors,
The Motor Mentality still prevails.
Clearly. Otherwise we would not have
ended up with another parking lot. And
no, tomatoes don't come from the Safeway, they come from the ground.
The razing of the old Organic Farmhouse and subsequent gravelling of the
exposed land, ()(curring during winter
break, was a sneaky act of wanton destruction sanctioned by people who must
have never been cold for want of shelter.
nor hungry for want of food. In this day
of an ever-decreasing amount of arable
land, the destruction of fertile soil is an
intolerable atrocity. We need equitable
use of aU available shelter, and maximum
reasonable use of all available land. We
do not 'need another parking lot.
Similarly, the spraying of the new
farmhouse and consequent contamination
of the garden indicates the astounding
lack of insight exhibited by thooe making
these decisions, into the workings at the
organic farm. Even if the amount of
poison in the garden is minimal (acceptable to whom?), I find it incredible that
the health of those who work at the farm
is threatened in this way: the health of
students who are so desperate!)' sought,
and who pay to come here to explore
and to learn.
I understand that the one person who
tried so hard lo save the cid farmhouse,
and who brought the poisoning of the
garden into the open, will not be re•
offered a caretaker's position. Once th06e
who make these decisions realize the
extent of their mistake, they will begin
to see the apology they owe this man.
I am dis.appointed to see Evergreen
destroy one of its lrue practical, sociaUy
workable, alternative endeavors. The
~JF.a..nict'~~~-~- a 5~~st!ucti':~ _e!!~rt-~
present-day agricultural techniques and
attitudes. It is after such acta u these
that Evergreen's image as a school committed to environmentally sound principles seems to be simply a facade. It is
time that those who make such decisions
awaken to the possibilities at the Organic
Farm, and realize the dedication of those

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newspaper. Deapite the attitude prevalent on thia campua, the CPJ should not
be the servant of ..community consensus," for the individuals who direct and
write a newspaper must often run contrary to what that conaenaus claims to
be. We welcome advice and contributions
but need to remind our public that the
final prerogative and re■ponaibllity are
ours alone.
While we do try to make the CPJ fun
to read (witneH, for example, the photo
that accompanies thia editorial, our regular K-9 Kultur Kennel tidbit, and our
attempts at satirical feature articles, as
weU as the printing of weD-wrltten,
intelligently funny letter■), probably our
most central purpose ia to set the stan·
dard ror public discourse of issues and
events or importance to the Evergreen
community. To that end we have tried to
instigate debate and discussion about the
Faculty Guide. the evaluations process,
election issues, the Iranian situation,
sexism and racism on campus, the Ever•
green Council, the 70's and, most especially, the changing nature of Evergreen
itself. We have tried our best to make
our coverage of these issues aa interest·
ing and well•written
and thought·
provoking u possible.
We need help. however, as I'm sure
many of you will sarcastically agree.
Contributions are always welcome; our
hope is to produce a good journal that
covers a broad range of relevant subjects
and do this in a way that will create
increasingly more perceptive and more
informed discussion of those academic,

Interview

Continued

another more general question. To be
right out front, there is something really
annoying about the idea of an Evergreen
Renaissance, which is the heading for
the Evergreen Review. It aeems to be
tending toward that kind of uncritical
view where nothing is bad, everything is
lauded, and everyone walks around
blindly.
SW: First of all, the terminology came
from a beginning-of.the-year spet,eh that
the president gave to the faculty. That's
where we picked up on the word, and I
picked up on it more in terms of what
we could do with graphics, rather than
necessarily what we could do with the
term in terms of copy. And it's also a
terminology that Byron Youtz really
liked and felt comfortable with, and he
wrote the lead article. And I must say
that I don't think that that article was
slick or overly glossy. I think that Byron
talked about the things that were up at
Evergreen, but he also talked about our
wart.s, as he puts it. He also says that
we were in a period of declining enroll·
ment, that we had been at loggerheads
with the legialature continuaUy, that
there was a kind of general sense of dis•
satisfaction, and a.lso a sense that we
were no longer fulfilling our minion, and
that we've gotten that act together. and
it really is in some ways a rebirth of
Evergreen's initial minion and philosophy and a re-affirmation. I guess I'm not
real sure what the problem you had with
it is.
CP J: Well, lot's of people are afraid
that the kind of changes that Evergreen
is going through, the kind of look, and
happy talk, and jargon that's starting to
go on now will attract a different type of
person to Evergreen. and that that will
somehow change the quality of the

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articles is noon on the Monday before
Thursday's publication. Your words will
more likely see print, though, ii we see
your words sometime the previous week.
The deadline for letters, announcements, and the Arts and Events calendar
ia Tuesday at noon. Thia ia a firm and
fixed deadline. Last quarter a student in
a position of power called us at the very
last mintlte and acted as ii sbe had the
right to get her announcement in or el.N.
Please everybody! Noon on Tuesday.
Typed. Double-spaced. Everybody. No
exceptions. Ha•ha.
If you've read this far you're either
amazed at my arrogance or in agreement
with ii. You may be CPJ material) Or
you can be a participating reader, one
who at least cares about the campus
newspaper. This editorial hu been an
attempt both to explain what it's like to
work down here along•side the vending
machines (which usually don't work) and
to provoke some kind of response. Next
week we'll advocate mandatory remedial
reading courses for all students if that's
what it takes to liven things up. Hopefully. though, you'll be more interested
in our planned series or exposes on a
variety of Evergreen projects, programs,
and people.
Omnia ex.tares, everybody. And thanks
for the check, Dan. See you on the
maiden voyage to Hawaii. I'll have my
bags all packed before the organic pot•
heads and left.wing Fascists even know
what's hit them.

college.
SW: Let me say that I detect a note of
elitism in that comment. And it's hard to
avoid, but I understand what you're say•
ing. The Everp-eea Review replaces a
publication caUed Precu. One of the
problems with that publication is that it
doesn't articulate the college very well,
and I suspect that that's alway& been a
problem here. So we allow ourselves to
be articulated by those who know nothing about Evergreen. I tried to find a
format that would reflect what Ever•
green is all about. I came up with a
tabloid format that allows us to write
more copy, to get into a little more
depth. We aend thia to our outside constituencies, people who know Evergreen
and could be real good ambaasadors for
Evergreen if they had more ammunition.
This is the ammunition. And rm not
foolish enough to think that we should
send something out that look, like we sit
around here with rose-colored glasses.
On the other hand, I'm not foolish
enough to think that we should be sending out something that says Evergreen is
the pits. I think the publication should be
balanced, and I think we want to aend
out a publication that's kind of up-beat,
but at the same time recognize that we
have weaknesses. Public Relations isn't
necessarily covering up everything that's
wrong with your institution. On the
same hand, it is at least having some
control over how people perceive your
institution, because il you don't take any
control at all then you just let them do
with your h11titution what they want.
That's what we've done in the pa.sL
Essentially it's not compromise. It's
deciding how you want to play the game
your own way. Otherwise someone's
going to play the game with you, or
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5

Simpsons naive cynicism
This article is in response to T. J.
Simpson's article in the last CPJ entitled "You Really Can't Go Home Again."

By Greg Moo
Alter giving a lengthy hiatory ol hia
experiences in the anti•war movement,
Simpson launches into a cynical and con•
tradictory analyois of the left, the
women's movement, and why "the
revolution"
failed (Nixon beat Mc·
Govern!). He felt "alienation and hopelessness" upon realizing that "the dream
was over," and that attitude has per•
siated to thia day. Both hia idealism in
the 1960's and his cynicism now are
products or naivete. Simpson ntisunder·
stands what constitutes a revolution.
Revolutions occur when an overwhelm•
ing majority of people are moved by
their material conditiona and experiences
to overthrow the institutions of the past.
People do not take such actions lightly.
They vacillate, retreat, and search for
other solutions. They are confused by
right-wingers, and alienated by liberals
who betray them again and again. But
they continue to think and eventuaUy
they act. Revolutions are not made by

"liberal" Democrats beating Republicans,
nor are they overnight affairs made by
consensus.
Yet after a few years of demonstrating. hitchhiking, and eating drugs,
Simpson hu thrown up his hands and
declared the revolution's "demise before
its birth." Now he believes that "the
individual is responsible for his or her
own actions, no matter how oppressed
they are (there are some exceptions)"!!
That idea is a tot.al surrender to the
"'bourgeois society" that he claims to
hate. Are the starving children of Kam·
pu~hea and Nicaragua responsible for
their condition? Does that mean that the
50% of unemployed black youth in this
country are responsible for not having
jobs? Is a female colleRe l<)'aduate who
earns $1000 a year leas than a male hi'h
school dropout, not thinking pooitively?
Simpson's total ignorance of the reali•
ties of poverty and clas.s is shown by his
anti.feminist argument that "Rich, beau•
tiful women can easiJy control men if
they want to." He ignores the fact that
standards of beauty are sexist and arbitrary, while being rich is something out
or reach for most women who on the

average, earn only 5a% of what men do.
The anti•war movement was not a
failure, u Simpson would have us believe. It forced the U.S. corporate class
to back down from a colonial adventure
and the credibility of its government was
destroyed. The latest surge of feminiam
was propelled by the mass mobili2.ations
of the anti•war movement. Most impor·
Lant, that movement created an anti•war
consciousness in the American people
that exists to this day.
In 1965, LBJ stsged the Gulf of Tonk.in
incident and nearly everyone in the
country jumped on the bandwagon of
war hysteria. Within weeks there were
American troops in Vietnam and the
industrial war machine was cranked up
to full speed. We are witnessing a simi•
lar war-drive in the press today, but the
response of the American people is much
more cautious and skeptical. That caution and mistrust of the government is a
result of the anti.war movement of the
60's and 70's. When it ia added to the
anti•corporate sentiment that is building
because of the coming economic crisis,
the potential for a powerful movement
is clear.

... and a hotsk Trotsky to you!

"Hmmm ... it aays here that the Cooper Point Journal employs petty bourgeois
individualists to write slanderous remarks about me."
By T,J. Simpson
Alter first reading Mr. Moo's response of a sentence purely out or context. The
to my article, my first thoughts were to sentence actually reads, "Rich. beautiful
ignore such tripe. But the more I thought women can easily control men if they
about it, I realir.ed that I couldn't let his want to, although some around here
absurd accusations go by without a actually think that they're more op·
pressed than the average, white male
counter·response.
As it is with the
Trotskyist groups. or any other of the factory worker."
First of all, in response to Mr. Moo's
Marxist-Leninist sects hopelessly scrambling for power, Mr. Moo obviously has a comments, I agree that standards of
beauty are arbitrary, but not necessarily
tendency to twist and distort what
others say. Apparently my article was sexist. If it's sexist to think that some
other human being (male or female) is
no exception.
He first puts hia head in the nooee by physically beautiful, then we all might as
implying that I felt that the "revolution·· well gouge our eyes out. At any rate,
certain standards are going to exist in
!ailed becauae Nixon beat McGovernsomething that I never implied at aU. As any society or culture.
What I was talking about in the article
an anarchist (an anan:ho-syndicalist. to
be exact), I've never had faith in any is that there are women here at this
politician, capitalist or not. I wu simply coUege who come from wealthy families
pointing out that Nixon's victory was (that wealth ia often passed on to them)
certainly a very disheartening event. at who fit into some criteria of physical
the time it happened. for any progres- attractiveness that ia generally accepted
in Western civilization. Some o( these
sive.
people think that they're oppressed
He then goes on about my "naivete"
and misunderstanding of "what consti• simply because they are women, when
lutes a revolution." I can"t see how he they have gone to the finest or liberal
read my article, in which I wrote about schools, been raised by liberal parents,
my involvement with the anti•war move- have had all the material things that
ment and various left.wing groups since they've wanted, and have often been the
one in control in relationships with men,
the late 1960's as well as my experience
with union organizing and being a mem• when Joe or Mary down at the factory
ber ol the !.W.W.. and still think that I are busting their butts off for shit wages
could be 10 naive. I was reading the just so they can feed themselves or their
kids. Of course, women get the short end
works of revolutionary
writers and
studying ~Jmies..
ol nth.er teY.oht.. of..the allck more ·often· tlian ,mm -do;-bur
\ions when Mr. Moo was probably stiU it's the women who aren"t so privileged
knee-high to an icepick. It apparently and have to go out and prostitute them•
wouldn't hurt for him to objectively read selves as waitresses or secretaries, etc..,
some more revolutionary history. If he who are welfare mothers, or get married
really understand, what constitutes a out of necessity, rather than love, who
revolution, then I don't see why he's in are the ones truly oppreued. If feminism
ian't applied to the clasa otruggle then it
the Y .S.A.-a
ridiculously dogmatic
will become sell-defeating. Working class
organization
that tends to alienate
women are more often forced into being
workers rather than convert them.
more subnrvient than those trying to
I never said that individuals were
responsible for their conditions (they '"make it" in the competitive world of
aren't), but that they are re1ponaible for executives. Why ahould I care ii a
their own aedeaa. whether it's blowing woman io malting $1000 a year leH than
up a building, lighting back against re- a man with the same job when she's in
preaion and taking a risk on going to an upper-middle class income bracket
jail, looking for work, committing rape, anyway, especially when that's the class
shaving one's eyebrows, or whatever. Go we auppoaedly want to see overthrown?
There'• a difference between getting a
back and read it again, Greg!
raw deal and really being oppreHed.
In reference to my ..rich, beautiful
However, the major bone of contention
women" atatement, Mr. Moo quote• hall

between Mr. Moo and me would appear
to be over my reference to the Y.S.A. as
an authoritarian organization. Almost
every independent radical that I have
ever known (whether they were anar•
chist.s, Marxists. Wobblies, or whatever)
and even some other Trotskyist sects
\like the Freedom Socialist Party). consider the Y.S.A., and its parent organiza·
tion, The Socialist Workers Party, to be
authoritarian. Most anarchists consider
the Y.S.A. LO be authoritarian simply
because that group practically worships
Trotsky and Lenin.
The major failure of the organized left
in the past decade has been its inability
to learn from past mistakes. The initial
libertarianism of the New Left in the 60's
gave way to the outmoded dogma of the
Old Left i• the 70's. What the Y.S.A.
shares with other Marxist-Leninist
groups is a misguided or just plain ignor·
ant belief in the righteousness of the
Bolsheviks' role in the 1917 Russian
Revolution. I suggest that Mr. Moo read
Emma Goldman's, "'Living my Life,
Vol. II" and Maurice Brinton's "Workers
Control, 1917-21'" for a more realistic
view or the treacherous way Lenin and
Trotsky almost immediately betrayed
the workers who helped them get in
power and how from almost the very
beginning, the Bolsheviks turned the
revolution into a totalitarian.
statecapitalist regime.
In 1921, the workers in Petrograd and
Kronstadt were fed up with the atrocious
conditions the Bolsheviks made them
work under and went on strike. Instead
ol listening to their demands. TroLsky
sent his Red Army in and had thousands
of workers, including women and chil·
dren, slaughtered. This is a historical
fact (and only one of Trotsky's atrocities)
but when confronted with this, members
of the Y.S.A. will deny that it ever happened or will justify it by saying that
Trotsky was only trying to restore order
during a time of great turmoil. Apparently. they feel that genocide is o.k.
when it's being committed under the
guise of Socialism.
Mr. Moo also raises the ridiculous
notion that there i.aindividuaJ freedom in
Cubs. Anybody who believes that is
cil.her aJool o, ~-lia~, I e&t1·onlyncom·
mend Sam Dolgofrs book. "The Cuban
Revolution" an anarcho-communist view
of Castro's Cuba that includes writings
by Cuban revolutionaries and poets who
are either in exile or underground
because of Castro. The book also documents Castro's continuous accumulation
of personal power and his repressive
steps against the working class that
originally gave him power. (I wish there
was more space to go into this in detail.)
Even the S.W.P./Y.S.A. was extremely
critical of Cuba not that long a~o.
It seems that members of the Y.S.A.
are trained not to think for themselves.
but to memorize and parrot the party
line as it comes down from the S.W.P.
Of course the line may change often and
erratically. (I remember one anti-S.W.P.
song we used to sing at anti.war demon•
Continued to page 6

Simpson portrays himself as a "liber·
tarian leftist" who abhors sectarianism,
yet his individualism, and misrepresentation and slander of the "authoritarian
left" are reminiscent of Reader's Digest.
or some other right-wing literature. It is
certainly true that the crimes of Stalin
are unforgivable and that some "leftists"
justify repression in the name of Stalin
or Mao. But there is also a long and consistent opposition to such distortion of
socialism. from the Left Opposition in
the USSR to the collaboration of left
wing groups against violence and slander
in the movement today.
I am a member of the Young Socialist
Alliance (YSA) and contrary to Simpson's
portrayal. we stand unequivocally for
socialist democracy. But we also reject
the phoney individualism of people who
think that doing your own thing is some·
how a progressive act. They forget that
we belong to the biggest, most allpervasive organization in world historythe United States government. As long
as we all keep doing our own thing with
in the limits set by that government. we
are perpetuating its rape of the environ
ment. its denial of human rights to colonial peoples, ethnic minorities. and
women, and its destruction of the dignity
and quality or life for all working people.
I look forward to the eighties. Here·s
to the next decade, when more and r,ore
peoples of the world will win their rndividual freedom like the Nicaraguans a:1d
Cubans. by organizing to overthrow their
oppressors. Here's to a society based on
meeting the basic needs of its people
rather than building the profits of a frw.
Here's to the day when the American
people create that soc1e1y here. But we
can only do so by working together and
that means organizing.

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of political effectiveness, we will find to subside. Sometime during this curious
that he acted accordingly. One cannot
intermission the pupit to my left exited,
run a st.ate on morality alone. One must
howling something about "the Deans." I
instate a sense of adventure, of good and
took this opportunity to ingest another
evil. That is to say that we may be equal
Percodan, which I had obtained illicitly
in the eyes of God, but that does not
from the pupil who always wore green.
mean we are equal in the eyes of politics,
This semisynthetic derivative of morand we may never be. Creon acted with
phine, manufactured serendipitouaJy by
the righteousness of any good martyr,
Endo Laboratories, affected me in this
and paid for it. We can therefore excuse
way: it made me unbearably happy. I
Creon for his somewhat unscrupulous
giggled, knowing that if I were to owalconduct a.s far as burial rights are con- low many more of these in the next few
cerned. But can we excuse Antigone for days I would become hopelessly addicted.
sacrificing her life for such a guileless
For this reason I graciously offered the
and\ pitilul reason?" The pupil who pill bottle to my seminar leader, as if the
always wore green looked around the contents were malted milk balli,_
table for a response to his query and
"No thank you," he politel7 declined,
noticed that he had somehow been spir- "it might produce adverse effffts when
ited to Queen Elizabeth's court and that
combined with all the phenobarbital I
his seminar leader had craftily disguised
had for breakfast."
himself to look exactly like William
When order had linall7 been re1tored,
Shakespeare. The pupil who always wore I occupied the chair of the pupil whom
green reprimanded himseH and made a had had the unfortunate accident with
mental reminder to try mescaline next combustion so that I might be in a better
time ... Well." he asked, "can wer He pooition to inspect the pupil with the
wished quietly to himself that no one sexy nylons. Accordingly, the pupil who
would ask him to repeat what he had was undeniably pompous as be was
said because he had forgotten completely diligent and who constantly 1tuffed bis
himself, had in fact. forgotten the title of face with sweetrolls during seminar inthe piece they were discussing.
spected me. He then returned furio11Bly
The pupil who had read the play three
to his notes as it became apparent that I
times froze up st his opportunity to say had beaten him to this strategic pooition.
something intelligent before the time ran
My insides 1/egan to glow in a moot
out. "There are re Jny things to consider,"
euphoric mannpr, then to gently bum. I
he sputtered.
lit a Marlboro with relish.
Suddenly, the venerable seminar leadThen the bell rang.
er mitigated tensions by declaring a
short break in which members ol the
seminar could fill their bodies with
caffeine, nicotine and foodstuffs.
Continued
Seminar resumed when the pupil who
never brushed his teeth and always lost
strations in the early 70's entitled,
at backgammon declared that the play
"What's Your Line Today/"') If you disAntigone was Thornton Wilder's most
agree with them even slightly, you'll be
brilliant play. The 45-minute discussion
labeled a "petty-bourgeo!a individualiat"
that followed proved beyond any doubt
or
some such silly epithet. rve known
that, indeed, it wasn't even written by
people in the past deade who have been
Wilder. It was then determined that it
purged from the Y.S.A. simply because
was Ibsen's most mediocre play. I spoke
they didn't agree with some minor politup at that point and informed the semical position the party had on a seeminginar with cultivated ac.ademic indiffer•
ly irrelevant issue.
ence that, in my opinion, the play was
Another loathsome tactic the Y.S.A.
written by neither Ibsen nor Wilder, but
employs
is trying to take over whatever
that it was written by Samuel French,
left.wing group they can when the
whose name appears on the cover.
S.W.P. directive comes down to jump on
"How would you know?" exclaimed the
some bandwagon. A case in point was
pupil to my lelt, who was frustrated
laat year's takeover of the Olympia
greatly because ohe had !ailed to reach
Crabshell Alliance. (The Y.S.A. was
orgaom that morning. I replied by reachnever tot.ally anti•nuke until fairly reing over and extinguishing my cigarette
cently.) According to my sources. the
on her forearm. This caused the seminar
Y.S.A. attempted to monopolize and conleader to burst into an uncontrollable fit
trol Crabshell meetinga in such an intimiof laughter which took several minutes
dating way that it alienated the nonY.S.A. members so much that the chapter was dissolved.
Despite the destructiveness they infiic~
Almost ewerythlng under the sun . . .
upon the rest of the left, the Y.S.A. will
and RAINBOW . . . reduced to clear
never be any threat to the capitalist
system. Just look at a copy of the S.W.P.
newspaper, "The Militant" and try to
imagine the average American worker
being taken in by its almoot comical
Mention ~r brl ng In th Is ad and take your pick
rhetoric and its support for -lied
of any tube sock free with each pair of shoes
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purchased.
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the world~ And ..Y-5A member■ -e&A....be.
Batts
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wor■e than Jehovah's Witnesses when
they managE to set their !eet in your
Brooks Vantage
. door, trying to sell you a "Militant." It
Tretorn Runaways
will seem like forever trying to get rid of
them, even alter you tell them that you
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Yes, there is much oppression and
and Aacente
horror in this country, and even more
Thru Jan. 31.
that thi. country perpetrates upon other
nations. But we're not going to change
any of that with narrow-minded sellAthletic
righteo11Bness based on historical lies or
Bags
by making nuilances of o~nelves by
Puma
shoving worn-out propaganda into peoProud
ple■' faces. (Especially when that propaHNd
ganda is bad sociology combined with
zero psychology, as I stated in the previous article.) The road to progreuive
SubjtCIIO
change is in education and organization.
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but replacing one dictatorship for another is just not my cup of tea.

"Yes, Antigone is a classic. What else
can you say?" remarked the pupil in the
sexy nylons as the seminar wiggled into
action.
"Why so?" I asked with cultivated
academic indifference.
The pupil with the sexy nylons
shrugged and squirmed fitfully in her
chair.
"Well," she replied, "because it's so old
and yet it remains alive. It is still performed by the players of today. It will be
performed by the players of tomorrow.
The story line remains significant to us
in our modern era such that the moral
message it carries still has deep effect
upon our values .. even now, in 1979."
"Maybe that's because it was adapted
so rffently. It cannot help but have a
modern ring to it," said the pupil to her
lelt. He had not even read the play. He
was under the impression that the play
was a French romance, written first in
the late 17th century. "Those French
really have a way with words," he
offered, quite pleased with his spontane•
ous insight.
The pupil directly across the table,
who never brushed his teeth, lit a ciga•
rette, much to the displeasure of the
pupil to his left, who was strongly allergic to tobacco and to the extreme dismay
of the pupil to his right who had quit
yesterday and wished very badly that
she could light one also.
The pupil at the end of the table
looked longingly out the window that •
wasn't there and never had been. He had
read the play three times and hoped
feverishly that he would think of some-thing intelligent to say before the time
ran out. The pupil who always wore
green sat next chair over and was so
blazingly high on LSD that the seminar
leader was changing form before his
very eyes. He was absolutely certain
that he had be<:ome a part of a huge
Picasso painting that hung in the wings
or a condemned theater in New York city.
"It's the chorus that bothers me," he
exclaimed with pupils the size of soccer
balls, "it seems almost too explicit. It is
as if it draws the conclusion for the
reader, instead of letting the reader
come to his own inference as to the relative morals of the characters involved."
He spoke on as his seminar leader became a unicorn, then a large domino, and
then a gigantic Amanita Muscaria mushroom. "We must therefore," he said
distinctfully, "take it with a grain of salt.
If we examine Creon's actions in terms

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people? Tsunamis, hurricanes? The globe
is a deaf. dumb, blind bystander.
The concept that the alien race is a
machine intelligence is a fascinating idea.
It is never developed. We should have
&eeo them. Close Encounters knew tha,
an alien appearance
was the whole
reason for the movie. Star Trek doesn·t.
Instead we see a Voyager spacecraft enshrined in a sinkhole lined with flipping
television screens. Gack. There·s no
kindly old wizard behind the smoke and
mirrors-just a piece of space junk.
V'GER, the probe"3 new superrational
consciousness, is looking for papa. It fell
into the machine race's lap after it was
reported "lost in a black hole." More
flummery. Such a passage would have
shredded it into atoms. The alien machines made this space-going ziggurat
because our consciousness has something
theirs doesn't: l ~ess it's love. This is

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Environmental advocates, a silviculturist, a marine researcher. graduate study
directors, and other professionals from
jobs related to the environment will discuss their work experiences with students at the "After Evergreen: Investigating the Future" workshops. Job
finding and graduate study are the topico
of two workshops thut will be held on
January 23, from 1:30 to 4 in CAB 110.
Contact Career Planning & Placement,
Library 1214. for information about this
and other workshops.
ENERGY FAIR

Coalition) a.re sponsoring the first annual
Northwest Regional Energy Conference
and Fair. The fair will take place on the
Western campus in Bellingham. on
January 19 and 20. Activities wHI center
around various demonstrations
and
workshops on current energy uses and
alternatives. The goal is to increase the
awareness and involvement of students
and individuals throughout the surrounding communities in decisions which are
crucial to our area's future.
CLASSES IN CHILDBIRTH
Four Preparation for Childbirth classes
will be offered at the Olympia Education
Center, 3700 Martin Way, during winter
quarter as part of the continuing education program of Olympia Technical Community College. Kathy Simmons will
teach a class from March 4 through
April 29, Tuesdays, 7-9:30 p.m. Carol
Music will also offer a class from January 31 through March 20, Thursdays,
7-9:30 p.m.
Topics will include nutrition, body
conditioning, family relationships, med·
ical procedures, breast feeding, Lamaze

anthropocentrism boomeranging back in
the worst way. The solution to V'GER's
yen to unite with the Creator is the Iliaandroid "merging" with Decker's human
consciousness.
It's presented as the
(excuse me) climax of the film. ln fact ifs
a cinematic monstrosity-a form of computerizeo necrophilia with angelic lightimages. We're left with the dangling un·
certainty of whether or not a higher
consciousness has truly been wrought.
We see the magician. his hat, no rabbit.
Danny Bakan tells me that the script's
potholes are filled in by Roddenberry°s
novelization. This suggests that the film
was drastically edited to give il a G
rating. Artistic quality is no match for
profitability. For good SF flicks, sec
Forbidden Planet, or The Day the Earth
Stood Still. Star Trek will go down in
movie history as a classic example of
how to screw up a still-nascent genre.

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relaxation and breathing techniques,
and infant CPR. One class will be held
after all the babies are born. It is recommended that women take the class
during the last three months of pregnancy. Students should telephone the
instructors (Simmons: 357-8276: Music:
943-34371 before registering.
Tuition for the one-credit course
is $9.35.

A coalition of student groups from
Western Washington University (The
Environmental
Center, 1'he Program
Commission, and the Eneru Awareness

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will become of the corporate profits if we
find different ways to support ourselves
socially and to arrange our "little boxes"
so that we extend our family groupings
'and support systems and use our land
and power more wisely.
I see what is happening aS almost a
social trek westward. There have been
acts of heroism and pioneer bravery
demonstrated in people willing to break
from outdated roles to step into un• explored territory.
I compare the apparent apathy of the
70's to the stillness before an earthquake.
l believe the SO's will bring a social and
economic earthquake, but l also believe
that the rebuilding after such devastations has always left cities stronger and
more beautiful. I can't help looking for.
ward to this decade with great hope for
deeper, more meaningful lives being
possible for those that survive it.
Diane Winslow
ACCESS for Re-entry Women Center

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on the sense of isolation they had ereated and used it as a marketing tool. In
their aloneness people sought more and
more "comforts."
But now I think communication between people is opening up; we're learning to live with our machine age and
relegating our possessions to less im•
portance in our lives. The so-called
Women's Lib movement was the initial
outward expression of everyone's tor•
ment over an unrealistic way of life that
has been sickening our society. It started
with women determined to move to
positions of increased lile choices and
now we see many men fighting against
being relegated to competitive stances.
No one knows what it wiU do in this
country economically if increasing numbers of women and men demand mean•
ingful work, more options for part-time
employment and job sharing and are
willing to live on less to keep their lives
and families intact. No one knows what

STAR TREK

Marrisa .Zwick, former S&A Board involved in past allocations procedures,
coordinator. resigned at the end of 1979. is urged to attend. A1so, there is one
She has gone on to work for Represent- student opening on the Board, and anyative Barnes, a Seattle legislator who is one interested in it should contact Ellen
a member of the House Higher Educa• at the S&A Office, CAB 305, 866-6220.
tion Committee.
Replacing her as the new coordinator
is Ellen Kissman, long-time S&A Office
fixture. When asked how she felt about
the move into the back room, she responded, "TH really miss being the
center of the triangle out front. I'll probably be out there alot more than I
should be."
Ellen said that she doesn't have any
immediate changes planned. However.
she pointed out that next Wednesday at
noon the S&A Board is meeting in
!,IB 2118, to brainatorm ideas for the
spring allocations process. Anyone who
is interested, or who might have been
Ellen Kissman, New S&A Coordinator

Trotsky

10"0,

have mLBsed the political fervor of the
60's and. ~bile I was turning my life
around, rrussed even the apathy of the
70's, that rv~ got a good seat for the
social revolution of the 80's.
I think we're in for the most powerful
•~d profound revolutio~ of all time. It
will upset the econorruc structure and
value systems of this country and of the
world and it h':' already begun.
Before machines took the manufacturing responsibility from the homes and
communities a little over 100 years ago,
the nuclear family arra?gement did not
seem to leave the emotional bankruptcy
that we ~d all around us and on our
front pages now. There seemed to be
teamwork and equality in marriage and
despite the absence of leisure, there
seemed to be more general contentment.
But as women's and men's lives became
more barren with the move from home
manufacture to factories, those same
factories, to sell their products, played

Bye,bye Marrisa

PRE-INVENTORYSALE
40"0,F

By OL&neWmslow
It feels very strange to have been
born female in 1938 but to have completely missed the turbulent events that
were going on in this country throughout
the 60's and most of the 70's. After reading the CPJ 70's commemorative issue I
was reminded that it was possible to do
that. It is possible for a person to be so
involved in their own painful reality that
the.y can't take on any more-not riots,
assassinations,
nor even Viet Nam.
Nothing.
Now I realize that I was part of what
was happening during those years. I was
a statistic-one
of a large number of
emotionally isolated women still wondering why the "wonderful" housewife/
mother role seemed so much like an end•
less, meaningless servitude. I also became one of a great wave of women who
believed we had more to contribute than
society's roles then acknowledged.
I believe, however, that while I may

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