The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 10 (January 31, 1980)

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The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 10 (January 31, 1980)

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31 January 1980

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Kramer vs. Kramer: no-fault divorce
By J. C. Armbruster

Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) come1
home from work, jubilant. His boss at a
New York a.d agency has just promised
him an executive spot. Joanna, his wife
(Meryl Streep). has a surpri5e for him,
too; 'Tm leaving you, Ted.
. I'm not
taking Billy with me, rm not a good
mother for him."
In the next hour we see Ted dealing
with the triple challenges created by
Joanna's flight. He must be<ome a fulJ.
time parent to six-year-old Billy (played
with charm and honesty by newcomer
Justin Henry), unsort the anger and feel·
ings of rejection both have, and keep up
the breakneck pace of his job.
At first Ted and Billy are smouldering
adversaries. Slowly, they accommodate
each other; they become a family of two.
This ocC"urs none too soon, for Joanna
now returns from California to claim her
son. A custody trial follows. Ted's loyalty
to Billy is tested when. in preparing his
defense, he neglects. then loses his job.
He quickly finds another.
In the rourtrOOm, Joanna and Ted per·
ceive the radical and healthy changes the
split has wrought in each other. The
judge rules that Billy must live with
Joanna. At the last moment. Joanna
realizes that she cannot destroy the new
intimacy between father and son. She
tells Ted: "I wanted to paint clouds in
the room Billy would have so he'd feel he
was at home-then I realized he already
was home.··
Kramer va. Kramer is a taut contem·
porary drama, Streep, Hoffman, and
Henry give us dazzling views of people
reconstructing their lives after the de•
struction of their family. Neither Ted nor
Joanna are cast as heavies-the marriage
that began hllppily foundered when they
inevitably grew apart.
For most of the movie, Ted and Billy
Kramer are in the spotlight. Hoffman

and Henry give us magnetic portrait.I of

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arts

MUSIC
Frid•y. J•nu•ry 25
Second City Chamber Seues presents a
concert ol Mozart, Brahms, and Bartotit at
B r .~ at Annie Wrlghl School General admission Is S.C,sludents and senrors are S3
Saturday, January 28
An elCclusive Northwest performance by
Mary W9tkln1. keyt>oardlat I singer I composer
Watkins dell11ers an outstanding performance
blending
styles from classical
to Joan
Arma1radIng lo blues/gospel
She easily
,a11slies the !ate Duke EI11ngton·s dictum "11
don'! mean a thing II It aln'l got lhal swing "
Two perlormances at 7 and 9:30 p,m, TESC
Recital Hal1 Tickets are S-4advance and S-450
al !he door With Watkins IS Abran
M•lcolm O.lgllsh and Qr9y La,...,, bring the
music of Ireland and the British Isles, and the
ballads stories, hymns, work songs, and
dance tunes ot the Appalachian Mountains
and the Ohio River Valley to the Gnu Dell The
music. otayeo on lolk Instruments. begins
at 9 pm
AppleJam presenls an evening ol lrlsh music
teatunng the Irish harp with Clalrseech pronounced "Klar-schuck"J
Chulle and Ann
Heyman from Chicago make a rare Northwest
appearance Doors open 11 8 p m Admission
IS S2
Gel hot with them I The HHle,,,
Th•
M99netlc1, and Larry •nd The MondeUoa.
Dence In10 lhe outer spaces of the evening.
Th1nos Qet going at 8 p m and last 10 2 a.m ..
Evergreen CAB building
Tickela avallable
Budget Tapes & Records, TESC BookatOl'e,
and Rainy O.y Aecoraa S3 advance and S3.50
at the door Sponsored by the Gig Commission
America's Mu1lc ls presen\ed at The ColleehOuse (Jrd lloc,r CAB lounge). 8 pm
ARTS
Thursday, January 2.4
Ch1ldh00d s End Gallery preeenlS Lot9tta
Sharpe Clothing !or a Mad Soul. and Cath•rln• Brlgden, Pastel Drawings,
through
the 30th
Pa1nIe, RlcNrd Kl,sten and waterco1orlS1
ChariN Mul.,.y uhlbll
wortii.s It Collector's
Gallery, lhrough the 30th
Hcr1nrd S.W•II. Nor1hwesl artist ExhlbU In
R•troapect. including drawings, walercolora,
prints, oils, and weaving~ al the Washington
Staie Ca_p110I,-,.useum. ·~ 1 w_ 21-1 A¥e ..
Olympia Through March J
Spirit of the T~r:
Fotk Art of KorN
tnrough March 28 al lhe Tnomaa Burke
Memori•I Washlnglon Slate Muaeum, Seattle
Mansk>fl Glau Coms-ny ol Olympla la
sponsonng a display of st9lned glass in
Gallery 2 In !he llbr1ry at E'191'green Through
January JO
An Open Poetry RMdlng Is presented by
the Arts Resource Cenler
lib J112 al
7 JO pm
Monday, January 28
Vkleo lnstall•Uon, new video an bl'oughl lo
you by the people ol Words, Sounds, and
lmaQes Grand opening a1 8 p m In Gallery 4
here at TESC Galle,y hours •re lrom 1~
(lally w. s & I people say "Don't Miu!"
Through February 14

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EVENTS, ETC.

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PNple: & Paper "-t,ou,cee
will CO'l9f how to
ther occupational lnlormallon, uN of c...,

you were a bad boy? ... I'll try and OX·
plain ... for a long time your mommy
must have been very unhappy ... because
I tried to make her into aomething she
couldn't be. She didn't leave becaUH of
you, Billy; 1he left because of me."
Director Robert Benton hu set out
not to show the death agonies of a divor<e, but the healing dignity and love
found all.er a false union collapaes. Each
character is developed with verve and
cl&rity. Dustin Hoffman's Ted ia a man

The prodigious advances made in Ted
and Billy's relatioMhip are neatly marked
by three breakfast
scenes spread
throughout the movie.
stunned by hia son's anger at being
The high point, however, comes in the
picked up late from a birthday party: he
courtroom. In these ac1mes Joanna talu
smears over their loss of Joanna with a
m her newfound autonomy and selfhollow breakfast pep-talk. Gradually,
respect with a powerful simplicity. Ted
however, Ted recognize11 the vulnerabilrecognizes in the new Joanna something
ity, sensitivity, and affection his son hu
of the maturity he baa won, and when
for him. He accepts Billy as a lull part·
Ted's attorney (played with bulldog
ner in his life. Their life together, spiced
elegance by Howard Duff) roars at her,
"Were you a failure in the one greatest
relationship of your life?'' Ted looka at
her and shakes his head: No, you
weren't. He has accepted the necesaity of
her breaking away.
Why is Kramer vo. Kramer ao good?
There is no single answer. The most
obvious is that the acting is topnotch.
Hoffman and Streep giv~ superb per~ fonnancea, and deserve Academy Award
.! nominations. The supporting actors,
:! particularly Jane Alexander (as the
_: sympathetic downstairs neighbor) and
c:iDuff, contribute to the poliah of the
Jroduction.
~
These fine actors make the movie, but
>. its content
also deserves
plaudits.
,-eKramer va. Kramer looks at a common
:.C 90eia) iU in our society which is seldom
:l' discussed: I speak not of divorce, but the
oocial pressures which lead to it. There
is the huaband'a isolation at work from
his family; the homemaker's Joos of self·
with toughness and tenderness, blossoms. bewildered by circumatances but deter·
In one vivid scene, Billy and Ted con- mined to save his dwindled family. Meryl eoteem. Both pressures contribute to the
front each other's mi.xed feelings for the Streep's Joanna comes from a form growing atomization of the family u the
missing mother and wife. It starts when clearly distinct from Hoffman's trade- living nucleus of civilized life. The movie
also touche1 on a related, more imporBilly challenges Ted's authority, and Ted mark intensity, but equally effective.
tant point. When a marital rift is inevicalls him on it. Billy explodes, shouting,
She draws from a range of emotions
"I hate you!" and Ted answers 'Tm all that suffuse her face and gestures with table, it doea not mean that the hope and
healthinesa of a family muat be sacrificed
you've got, you little shit." Billy col· an intuitive and unpredictable aptness.
lapses, crying for his mother. Soon after,
Changing relatioMhipe are developed • along with the marriage. Divorce is not
Ted looks in on him. It is then that Ted with admirable understatement. Ted's aJways a bitter end, but a better, more
realizes Billy's anger comes out of guilt,
acceptance of Billy's unflagging love for clear-eyed beginning. Kramer v■. Kramer
i., not about ultimate loe.s and suffering,
and not rebellion:
his mother is shown when he places her
..Did you think Mommy left because castoff portrait on hia son'• nightstand
but. redemption and renewal.
a father and son awkwardly learning to
love and trust one another. Ted at first
i., ignorant of Billy's standards.
He ia

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events

lr■ck

to grace I movie. Although II does
expose polltlc.l corruption and the Kingeton
Recording Industry, the film W0ft(1 beat as •
commenl on the conlradlctlona or Pop culture.
{Thing• have supposedly changed tor the
better. pollllcally, In Jamaica since thla fllm
was made.) Crude. raw, ' exhlltrating,
and
unusually honest. Lee. Hall one. 5:30 and
8:30. Only I dollar.
r,er

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Photo by Allan Frank

Friday Nlte FIims presents Claude Chabfol'a
Tha Nada Gang (France, 1075, 110 min.)
atamng Favlo Teatl and Mariongela Melato. A
pollllcal •llegory about a gang of lefl-wlng
terrorists who kidnap an American ambassador from a French brothel. However, II tuma
out that the brothel la owned by the pollce
a.nd the entire kidnapping has been turned.
From t~•.
Chabrol wu.vea an Intricate web
of auspenae In whlch he attempts to prove
thal ttle terrorlala, cops, and the government
we all Jaw• of the aame trap, althOugh he la
clearly more In sympathy with !he terrorists.
{In French with English subtltlea)
Plus!
Francois Truffaut'a LN 111,tona (France, 1967.
20 min.). Truffaut'a first allempt at mmmaklng
and a good one. Thia chWmlng tale of
adoleacence la !tie forerunner of ~tar Trullaut
film• about childhood. such as The 400
Blows" and "'Small Change." Lee. Hall one.
3, 7, and 9':30. Only a dotler.
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21
E.P.I.C. presents Tha Al .. ng Tide, I film
atx,ot the difference between life in South
Africa lor the Europeans and life tor the
Afr1can1. Explored are the roles of the multlnallonal corporations
and the lncreaalng
Intensity ol the ~ack protnt. P1tt1 ol the mm
contain footage smuggled out of lhe counlry
after the Soweto r1ota of 1078. lee. Hall one.
7:30. Free.

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A6aource Center, and UM of "lnlormatlonal
lnterviewa." Noon In Lib 1213. Sponaored by
Career Planning and Placement.
flactNtionaf Atta Cenler Open Houael Drop
In for a lour of the ahopa and a cup of coffN:
12-5 p.m. Localed nelCI to the fire 11at1on off
parking IOI C.
The lltm, Wind on the Waler, Vleione of •
Walar Rat at R.E.I. Co-op, Seattle, 7 p.m

F-y

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2!1

Pulllng tt Together ta a follow-up dla,cuaslon
on lnformatlonat
lntervle'!'[lng_ . ..No_oo Jn
Ltb 1'2"t3. ---sponsored by C.reer Planning and
Ptacement.
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ln_,.ted
in playing chNa? Bring a aet or
jua1 youraell lo "The Comer" (2nd floor A
dorm) Monday nights ate p.mBeginners are
welcome!
TESC CounHHng Center offers a miniworkshop lllled Worry Clinic.
3-5 p.m ..
Seminar 2109. Thia wCM"k.ahop, lacllltated by
Richard Rowan la free to TESC community.
JouJNltetlc Munching pr...,,ta "Luncl'I with
Dawe Ammona,
Aaaoclated
Preaa, and
MafVINt Gttbekow, Everg,-n faculty rnernber.
CPJ oflk:e at High Noon. E\IIJfYOM Wek:omel

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E....,g,-, faculty member S..,_.
Coontz
on WCNMll'a .,.,..,ty
and ....
VlolMoe. Thl1 ff'M lecture, aponaored by
Thurston County Rape AMlef, will be "-ct at
!he V.W.C.A. Frtendahlp Hall It 220 E. Union.
The talk begin• at 7:30 p.m.
.... 0...
111111Facllltated by Richard
Speak.I

Rowan and Carolyn Aneell, the goal ot thue
workshops 11 to form a play community.
Lib 1000 from 11:30 a.m. lo 1 :30 p.m. Free to
T£SC community.
WtdnNdey, January 30
a Couples Communication
WOftllhop
la
offered by the TESC Counaellng Cenler. Thia
workshop 11 offered lor peraona In retatlonshlpa who want 10 work on Improving their
communk:atlon and life together. ~5 p.m.
Seminar 2109. Free to TESC community.

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Vocations are the toplc• !or After EvergrNn
Worttlhopa sponsored by car.,.- Planning and
Placemen! In CAB 110 from 2-t p.m

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Snowshoeing
with Bill Prete, •t R.E.I.
Co-op, SMttle, 7 p.m.
D•dHne Notloa
The deldllne tor IUbmllllng event• !or the
calendar la 12 p.m. on the Tuesd1y before
an laaue.

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FllMS ON CAMPUS

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The U)ama,a Society praNntl
The Kerdar
n., Come (J....-..lca. 1973, 103 min.) atlfrlng
Jimmy CUN Ind ,.,,.,
Barkley. Dl,_,,od by
P9ny Henzetl. Jimmy Cliff playa a ~
out l'90QN ling« In Jamaica WhO get lmotved
In nwtJ..,.,_ traffk:kJng, kllla a cop, -,d then '
becomel • t~k hero whli. llvtng M • rugllt\11■,
The fllm ghJN ua • unique vtlllon of Ja,nak)en
ltfNI IUe • well M the bNI damn aou~

The Aaldemlc FIim Seriea p,...,,la
Ou ..
mane Sembene'1 Mandilbl (Senegal,
1998,
90 min.) Moat of Sembentl'a fllma _.. highly
acclaimed, bul get little upoeure
In thll
country. Here's a rare chanoe to ■- an
example ol African cinema.The atory 11 aboul
a man who encount.-. many deadend• and
hardahlpa whlle simply trying to cul'! a
money order. He finally react• wltl'I rage.
Apperently, thefe'1 I lot of metaphora her9.
Lee. Hell one. 1 :30 and 7:30. F,...
-T. J. S.
STRANGER THAN ANY FILM
"Dtd you tMW notice that when a dog 1,
panting, he ...-na to be 1mlllng. even laughIng at you? Weil, I know that thoN dogl
reaJly are ~bing.
And there's nothing I hate
more than I dog laughing at ma, •peclaUy
when I don't know what the Joke 11." Thua
spoke Hound Himmler, the wortd'1 mott
notork>u1 dogcatcher. Hlmmler captured au
the doga he could, lmpr1aoned them In concrete cages, and made them write letter1 to
Meh other about how they didn't llke NCI'!
other bec:auN or their duterent brwd1. He
would make them argu,e and dlNQl'N 01"1
thing•~
knew nothing about. ~.
It
really didn't matt•.
slnca dogs don't writ•
..._y wen (lt'a herd tor them to tit pencils In
t"-r pews) and none or the doga could rMHy
make much Nf'IN of each others' ecrewtlng9.
HrNt more wonderful fabt• Ilka this et the
K-0 Kuttur Kennell thla ...
M Rod Bloodhound gl"91 re.lino& of hll f,vo,fte WOfiile;.
Call ......, 41 for further Info.

THE

COOPER

POINT

JOURNAL

THE
Vol. 8

No. 10

The Evergreen State College

Olympia, Washington 98505

January 31 , 1980

Marketing & Affirmative Action

Shared bureaucracy at Evergreen
by Pam Dusenberry

Evergreen'• administration hu undergone a transformation. The 1ubstantive
changes are twofold. First, a n.,. top.
level poeition hu been CN!ated. the
Director of College Relations, who will
oversee the college's recruiting and ad·
wrtising effort& The aeeond chang,, in•
volves combining the offices of Personnel
and Affirmative Action.
These changes are part of Evana'
recent reorganmtion, whieh flatt.ened
the traditionally pointed administrative
hierarchy, and has made communication
and decision-making at the top level
broader baaed.
The Council fer Post-Secondary Education's enrollment guidelines, enacted
into law last yar, were a significant
tmt.ivation for the reorganization. Evergreen'• enrollment must continue to
climb, or the oollege will be faced with
oome dire fate. By creating channels for
00ntprehe05Jve andcoordinated p~ning,
the new organiation will help the col·
lege's recruiting efforts.
The new Director of College Relations
will oversee aD recruiting and advertising campaigns aimed at increasing enroll•
ment. In explaining the new dir,,ctor's
function, Evans wu hesitant to use the
t.erm "marketing" because, he aaid, "we
ought not to be marketing In (he same
,enae at leut that we market tooth·
paste or something of that nature. But It
would be foolish to aaaume that atudents
come to Evergreen juat by oomoois.
There is a responaibility to let people
know who we are and what we are and
why we do things the way we do."
Evans also said that some members of
the Evergreen community are fearful
that those conducting recruiting efforts
will portray the college as aomethlng it
is not. He also said that those involved
in recruiting efforts rear that Evergreen
will not respond to what proopective
students want to see offered at Ever•
green.
To ensure that there is constant comrr1.mication between the academic side of
the coUege and those doing the recruiting, Evans has formally established a
supervisory group, previously called the
Public Relations Advisory Group. It
exists, the president said, "to make sure

ADMIN15TRATIVE
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By Garth Gilehriat
ll you lived in California you would
know who Fritjof Capra ia. Hla name -ia
almost everywhere-on
conference roeters, in magazine articles, either about
him or quoting him. The "New Age"
humaniltic movement. which bu been
burgeoninr in California and, to a 1-r
extent, &crON the country, throughout
the "TO., hu adopted him u one of their
moot respected championa. Capra apeab
on whollatie health, on femiailm, on the
nuclear question: but moot often be

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that we clearly state to the out.side comnamity what it is we do and then make
sure academically we produce what we
say we're going to." The Director of
College Relations, when that pel'OODis
lored, will chair the group. It is made up
c:I a faculty memb!r, an academic dean,
Director of Adrrissions, Director of

Graphic Design. and Director of Information Services and Publications.
A somewhat controversial change that
ocrurred during the reorganization is
Rita Cooper's poait.ion a.s the combined
Director of Personnel ancJ Afflffllative
Action. Asked ii this combination did not
constitute a conflict of interest. Evans

Enrollment up!
By David Joyner
Because enrollment figures are up for
winter quarter, President Evans released
some $30,000 to bolster spring quarter
academic offerina-s. The money will come
from an enroUment fund set up by Evans
and his fiscal advisors last year to protect against declines in student enroUment. Most of the $30,000 will be used to
hire adjunct faculty for part-time courses.
Since the most dramatic increase in
enrollment involves part-time students,
and since the added funding will go
primarily to adjunct faculty hiring for

Physics and mysticism
F.dl-•• Note: Fritjol Capra wlD be at
Eve...,.een Febraary 7 ud 8. Tile Februry 7 ledlll'e wlD becia al 7:30 p.a. Ill
tile oeeoad floor library labby. TIie
-1nar
on February 8 wlD becia at
9:30 a.-. ill CAB 108. Stucl•I tlc:bu fer
lbe ledve ara S2.50 advuee ud ta at
Ille dNr (the po.la ....... ). Tkteu
lor the oemlaar an SI If pt1Ruaed with
Ille leet11n tlc:ket. U yoa bay oaly the
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tlc:ket......!M.J!rke_u tt 50 4P
lxli.eti
avallable at the Ev-kuk-.,
Ralay Day ,-,i.
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Center and Caapu Mlalatrlea.

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replied, ..I don't think so. Some suggest
that that's the case. that ir we have
Affirmative Act.ion problems they very
citen involve the Personnel Office and
that may be true
It's al.so true that
the Personnel Office is the place where
you can get the fastest and the farthest
in terms of Affirmative Action because
Affirmative Action, for the most part,
lies in hiring and promotion."
Academic Dean York Wong also commented on the new organization of Af•
firmative Action He pointed out that the
Affirmative Action Representative's
position is now Wried in the organizational chart, whereas before that person
reported direct,br to the presidenL Wong
also said it didn't matter. "'By moving
the Affirmative Action (Represent.at.JV~)
down the chart, does not necessarily
mean, l hope, that our concern for
Affirmative Acti>n has been reduced
even though potentially that could be
an interpretation."
Wong continued by saying that Affirmative Action, in the past, has not been
effective. Wong said, "As long as it
(Affirmative Action) affirms. I don't
care where it sit.s."
The CPJ asked April West, Third
World Coalition Coordinator, to respond
to the change in Affirmative Action, and
to the reorganization in general. She
replied that while Evans' idea of having
a broaJer repcrting base is very good.
the change in Affirmative Action has
been lobbied against in the past. ..It is
the feeling," she explained, "that the
C'ontinut-d on page fl

speaks on the subject for which he ia
most famous: the striking parallels
between the world view of modern
physicists
and that of the ancient
Eastern mystical traditions.
In 1976 hia book, Tllo Tao of Pllylka,
came out. People recognized at once that
Capra had thrown an important and exciting bridge acroes the chum which has
long separated the haughty, unreeonciled
roclts ot-rnOdern science and lradltlonal
religion. In hia book, Capra shows how
modern research in sub-atomic physics
has given u1 a picture of matter and a
vision of the universe which lines up
amuingly with the vision one finds expressed by Eut.ern mystics whooe tradi•
tion1 1tretch back. as far as three
millenia. In other word,. an agreement
of intuitional knowledge and aclentifie
knowledge.
Specific eoneept1 found in Taoism.
Buddhism, Zen and Hinduism, u well u
Ouiatlan My1ticiam, are mirrored by
the ob1ervation1 of modern nuclear
phy11ciata:the unity of aU thingo and the
tit.oral oneness of the UDiverse: the
relativity of time and space; the deluaion
of the physleal ■ensea; and the Inability
of ordinary language to capture reality.

modules, students can expect an inuea.se
in the number of modules spring quarter.
Full-time equivalent (FTE) student
enrollment is actually down lo 2,237
winter quarter, compared to 2,261 faU
quarter. Part-time enrollment, however,
LSup t,o 639 this quarter. as opposed to
600 fall quarter. While the increase does
not seem all that dramatic, it is up 14%
over last year at this time. Notable also,
is the fact that for only the second time
in Evergreen's sweet short lire, winter
quarter enrollment has topped that of
the previous fall. Total student counts

show 2,552 enrolled this quarter. com
p.1red with 2,514 fall quarter.
Besides allowing increased spending
on academic programs this quarter,
these figures al.so make spending on
necessary equipment possible. Computer
Services will be receiving about $25,000
in order lo purchase a direct disc computer, something Evergreen
ha! ap•
parently needed for some time.
Another $6,000 of the partially re•
leased enrollment fund will be used to
hire a replacement for faculty member
Mar) Hillaire, who is on sick leave.

Draft
workshop
tonight

Capra is now associated with the
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and lectures on Phyaica at the U.C.-Berkeley
campus. His beginnings, though, were
By Thom Richardson
80mewhal humbler. Capra wa.s born in
Austria and grew up on a farm owned
A recent poll conducted at the Univerand operated by his family. This "family"
sity of Puget Sound found a majority of
consisted of grandfathers and grand•
students there wouJd be willing to be
mothers, aunts and uncles and cousins a.s
drafted! If a draft resistance movement
well as his immed.iate .relation■. He eaUs 1-is to be effe-cttve, students like those at
the nuclear family the "reduced family."
UPS have to be made aware of the
The farm and the various aspects of
alternatives lo the draft.
family life were really managed, he says,
TONlGHT, Thursday, January 31. at
by three women: his mother, great aunt
7 p.m. in the Main Library Lobby, an
and grandmother.
Having grown up
open forum will address our respon~ to
within this miniature matriarchy, hi,
the President's
Initiative. Absolutely
i:resent stance u a feminist is empirical.
everyone is encouraged lo attend.
It waa in this aetting that he wu first
Speakers, including Glen Anderson of
introduced to myllical concepts by memthe Oly Fellowship of Reconciliation wiU
bers of his famUy, aome of whom wen,
give a short back.ground presenLation.
healers. As he punued hia education and
After familiarizing ourselves with the
..,...r in nuclear physics (he took bis
international
and domestic political
Ph.D. at the Umvenity of Vienna and
situation, we wiU explore our potential
did reaeareh in theoretical high-energy
responses.
AIJ suggestions
will be
pby1i<1at the University of Paris. U.C.
entertained.
Santa Cruz, Stanford University, the
We will abo initiate planning for a
University of Loudon and at U .C.·
much larger demonstration of our <>s>Berkeley) he beeame more and more
poeition to the draft. Please come to the
aware of the aimilarity of understanding
Main Library Lobby tbl1 eve ■ l ■ 1
at 7 p.m.
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·l,ETTERS

I
PURE TRASH
Dear Edilor and Carla Black.

So, B. E. Ballard's Jan. 17 CPJ article
"Seminar Ticket" was, through "poor
judgement" !refer to Jan. 24 letter "High
on Drugs") allowed to ooze out in drip·
ping: black ink onto the glorious pages of
lhe CPJ. Composed of highly unacademic
'-UhJt>Ct matter with sinister and evil

ply dissolved. I've heard that the Seattle
chapter, and others, suffered a similar
fate.
Crabshell was libertarian in structure,
as was the original New Left, but neither of them was coaacioualy libertarian,
nor were their immediate goals directly
libertarian. Libertarian structures without the support of a libertarian philosophy and program are always subject
to co-optation.

I

HAIL MARY
To the Editor:
Thank you, Mary, for your article in
last week's CPJ entitled "Something Old,
Something New.'' ... I think articles like
that are badly needed around here. I
applaud your decision and the stand you
took. The "enthusiasm"
of your

About halfway t~rough my incredible
journey to the depths of my beer glass,
about six people bustled in and sat down
with Ms. Coontz. I identified one as a
Greener, the rest I assume were also of
the same bent.
Within minutes the voices were in the
midst of a rabid conversation about the
merits of the criticism dished out by
T. J. Simpson about the YSA in the last
Cooper Point Journal. This in itself is

ovntones. thf' least you could have done
wa:-. to burn that piece of "pure trash."
F:q•ryonc I have talked to agret-s that it
v. as stnnly an act of ht>resy against our
,chool ;ind an insult to fellow geodu<.ks.
\\'I:: ;\,lllST :'10T allow this kind of mate

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that never once
haH I or any co-seminarees ever sniffed
ma.njua.na or drank hard c"ffee, much
lc-ss thost" other hard things. Sinccyou'vt• already published the Jan. 17
arllclt' and done irreparable damage to
our E\'Ngreen A+ Renaissan<."e sheen.
the least you could do is to deport this
radical Ballard lo the fort Lewis War
Games.
Lieutenant General Major Bob
1st division ·sensibility of
insiders who have pride and
belief in the mode of Education
at Evergreen and Nuke The Whales·
fan club
must

agree

CONSCIOUS
LIBERTARIANISM
To the Editor:
It's encouraging to see the 1980's st.art
with the kind of political dialogue that
has been happening in the CPJ in the
last few weeks. The 1980's promise to be
a period of militarism, economic stagflation or recession, and political polarization. The Sixties may very well look like
a picnic in comparison.
In much politicized times. people will
be forced to choose, to make a st.and. It's
absolutely essential that the options
people have be laid out, that all political
viewpoints
be fully discussed
and
criticized.
As Gilbert Craven pointed out in his
letter last week, the New Left of the
Sixties lacked any standards by which to
evaluate political ideas; it attempted to
be "pragmatic" rather than "dogmatic.'·
The result. of course, was that it was
infiltrated by the Maoist-oriented Progressive Labor Party. The New Left lost
credibility among leftists; the SOS. for
instance, degenerated into the politically
harmless terrorism
of Lhe Weather
l'nderground. Many leftists in the lale
Sixties began speaking of the New New
Left. which seemed remarkably like the
dogmatic and authoritarian Old Left of
the 1930's.
In a similar manner, the local Crabshell Alliance was "infiltrated" by the
Trotskyist YSA (the youth group of the
Sot'ialist Workers Party). Crabshell was
f'\ en more ad hoc than the New Left.
Faced with a small bloc of YSA members
who dominated discussions, voted as a
group. and opposed the consensus
decision making process, Crabshell sim-

EDITOR Larr_y.St.lllwell
ASSISTANT EDITOR David Joyner
NEWS EDITOR Carol Tacker
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mary Youaa
Pam Duoenberry
Tim No,ter

PINKO FAGGOTS
Editor'• Note: The followiDa letter wu
printed ID tl,e UDivenlty of Waulqton
Daily, tlte campu aew■paper, acl la re-printed wit!, penDiuloll. Tlae Dally luid
&110 r ■ a

Roser Strittmatter'• article
"'Dam.a the Torpedoe, • wludl wu 111oar
lut INH. We are prladq tlwi leUer u
u eumple of the klad of rnpHN
S&ritmatler'1artlde Wlald llave received
almolt uywhere but Everpea,
wltere,
it seems. nobody would ever write a
letter like tld■ .

nal \,rittf'n by int'ohnf'nt " 'Wt>irdos'"
to r,•ach llUr mothers and fathers, and
otht'r "non Evngrt•en
people." Also
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On the otber hand, libertarian goals
(freedom, a clan less society, human
liberation) will never be achieved without libertarian structures. That is the
lesson of bourgeois democracy and of
Marxism-Leninism. AU the "civil liberties" in the world do nothing to protect
the worker from the capitalist. and state
socialism does nothing to erase those
class divisions. The State and the
"owner" of the means or production
merely become synonymous.
The ends of social change must be in
harmony with the means or social
change. Consensus decision-making and
federations of autonomous affinity groups
must be seen not merely as tools for
social change, but as ends in and or
themselves.
The Left must choose between authoritarianism (liberalism, social democracy.
Leninism. Stalinism. Trotskyism, Maoism) and libertarianism
(anarchocommunism, anarcho-syndicalism. libertarian Marxism. guild socialism): while
these two wings can work together in
lhe short run. lheir goals and their
means are in the long run irreconcilable.
Our first step must be to explore the
meaning, the implications, and the history behind each of lhese theories. Then
we must look a't the situation today in
the world and within lhe Left, and decide how to harmonize our theories with
our actions, our ends with our means.
Otherwise, the results will be failure, or
worse, the wrong kind of "success.''
Doug Riddels
(an anarcho-communist)

MANAGING -EDITOR -Bee Alemd,..
FEATURE EDITOR T .J. Slmpoon,
ART DIRECTOR Rudy Hutlq
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

"sisters" did surprise me though. I am no
stranger to the feminist movement and
until I came to Evergreen I thought that
one of the guiding principles of feminism
was the right of every woman to make
decisions for herself, by herself, whatever the decisions might be. At Ever•
green however, it seems that in light of
their cause some of Mary's "sisters" have
forgotten this principle.
It is true that historically marriages
have been slanted in the men's favor.
But that has changed (thank God).
Marriages need not be a "dank abyss of
marital objectification" for either person.
However, women are not, and were not.
the only ones subjugated in marriage.
Women dominate and dissolve marriages
just as men do, and I have witnessed and
tried to help salvage some marriages
where this was the case; and these art>
oftentimes the most painful. I hope Mary
and her "hubby" have a happy life together and thank you again for your
article.
Walter Carpenter

LOOSE LIPS
SINK SHIPS
It was a dark night. I was depressed.
Real depressed. I went to the Rainbow
to drown my sorrows in a pitcher of Oly
dark. I tried to appear invisible and I
now believe I was.
At the next table sat Stephanie Coontz.
She was alone.

nothing to be excited about-the group
would naturally be defensive after the
hefty jabs Mr. Simpson poked at the
YSA. But it wu interesting to me to see
in print the following wordo-ttedited to
Tessy Rykin an~ Greg Moo:
"The dioeusaion between Young Socialist Alliance member Greg Moo and T. J.
Simpson bu degenerated into a campaign of personal attacks and slander
against the YSA. While we welcome
open debate among leftists of ide.. and
differences, we think that this kind of
derogatory infighting is lcounter]-destructive.
"While we have man_ydifferences with
other leftist groups, we recognize it as
useful and positive to respectfully debate
and discuss those differences. However,
we will not participate in slander and
sectarianism that harms the entire left.
Instead. we encourage T. J. and others
to raise their disagreements in a constructive fashion and to work with us.''
Why? Because the words above are
almost verbatim the words I heard that
night out of the mouth of Stephanie
Coontz. Why can't Ms. Ryken and Mr.
Moo write their own rhetoric?
Amber Lunch

The Modern U.S. Uberal

There is nothing more narrow-minded,
there is nothing more close-minded,
there is nothing more hypocritical thin
the modern U.S. liberal.
Manchester Union Leader, May 4, 1967

McCARTHYISM

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--REVfSI

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Watchdog the CPJII Poeition open for
student representative on Publications
Board. Occasional meetings, eventual
hiring of new editor and bu1iness manager. Contact President's
office by
February 6. Hold power over the power
of the press. Keep a critical eye on your
S&A money.

Uua Eckenberr

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To the Editor:
The article by Roger Stritmatter
("Damn the Torpedoes") was such a
moronic bunch of crap, if I hadn't been
laljJhing so hard about hia screwed up
facts, I'd have barfed over his even more
screwed up ideas.
Mr. Stritmatter if you could get your
facts straight maybe you could tbink
straight. It was hard to decide how to
admonish that drivel so I'U just dive in
bead first.
You bet Trident and the MX are a
qualitative increase in the potential of
our nuclear armaments. Big Deal. The
Delta II and the SS-18 now in full use in
the USSR are an even more qualitative
increase in their nuclear armaments. Our
nuclear weapons policy baa had to
change in order to survive.
Now, about your counterforce drivel
Why don't you get YOUR head out of
the sand? If Hungary, Czecboolovakia,
Angola, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan don't
give you an idea of what RUS8lais up to,
what will it take? How about a dozen
Slavic looking paratroops with red stars
on their helmet,, landing In yout baek
yard? Everyone knows that Ruuia'a ambition is world domination. When we
were all powerful, simple deterence
worked. Now that we are falling behind,
it will no longer work-hence "counterforce." After aU, tbooe guyo in the
Pentagon know a helluva lot more than
you do.
Okay, dude, let's straighten you out on
just a few facts you fucked up on.
You're full of shit if you think a Delta
II class aub is one-eigblb aa powerful u
our Polaris •uba. FACT: the Delta II ia a
virtual copy of our Polaria, but the missiles it carries are longer ranged, more
powerful and just as accurate u our old
Polaris/Poseidon type missiles. A Delta
can nuke your little home and mine from
the Arctic Ocean, where no U.S. 1hip or
SOSUS will ever get iL The reaaon we
have to spend $20,611.36 a second on
ASW is to protect our vital aea lines
which carry our oil against the over 300
Soviet attack submarines. Your use of
Carter's quote wu bulbhit-it concerned
only ballistic miasUe subs.
•
Face the facts, turkey, and deal with
reality.
Your synopsis of a potential U.S. firat
strike makes me ask this-Mr. Stritmatter, do you drop LSD? Are you on
drugo? It bas as mucb potential u a
Black Power demonstrator at a KKK
meeting. H present trends hold, WE will
be tbe ones quaking in our boota, not
the USSRI
.
As for me, bueko, when I get out of
oollege, I wanna join the Navy for four
years; that's 1461 days or 8',084 boun
of serving my country, the world'•
greatest. And when the Ruuians atart
World War m, I'm going to say, "Damn
the torpedoes, fuU 1peed ahead!" and try
to take aa many communist pinko faggot,, with me aa I can.
Stephen L.
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The myth of collectivebargaining
By Ben Alexander
Students' educations are on the line in
any action that involves coUeetive bargaining by the faculty. With the Northwest's strong heritage of union orpnizing, we need no reminder of the seriousness of a strike-the ultimate weapon of
collective bargaining. Whenever teachers
strike, the ultimate losers are tbe students. For this reason if for no other
the issue deserves close examination.
The di1cu11ion1 by President
Dan
Evans and members of the teachers
union on the subject of collective bargaining have been clouded and confusing.
Evans says that there is shared governance at Evergreen, and the teachers
respond that shared governance is a•
myth. All thia jawing ia completely ambiguoua, because colle<:tive bargaining is
concerned with specific issues like pay
and benefits, not with ethereal concepts
like shared governance. The real question is "how does Evergreen's government address specific issues, and is
coUective bargaining compatible?"
In a typically ambiguous statement
about oalaries, Peta Hend~rson said, "tbe
legislature decides on tbe total size of
the pie (but) the Board of Trustees decides how tbat pie ia cut up." The implication is that a coUeet.ive voice would
help teachers infiuence the Board's saJ.
ary decisions. Of course, Ibis blatantly
ignores the fact that salaries are set up
according to a pay scale which is part of
the Evergreen
Administrative
Code
(EAC).
This pay scale places teachers' salaries
according to a very rigid criteria for experience. Any changes in the pay scale,
the criteria, or a specific teacher's salary
require the prior investigation by a task
force. According to the Covenant on
Governance (COG), all affected parties
must be represented on the Wk force.
In the case that a teacher has a salary
dispute, there are three avenues for
grievance procedures: informal mediation, formal mediation, and finally, the
convening of a hearing board, if all else

LET'S THROW
UP TOGETHER
To the Editor:
If what is ailing you proves to be more
than the food you eat, the air you
breathe and the general ten1ion in your
body, then let's throw up together. You
may laugh, but I. not quite but perhaps
fairly cloee to it, am dead serious. Let's
face it, the future looks pretty bleak, to
put it mildly, and there are more than
enougb issues to be confused about (not
excluding your peraonal life). But confusion a.lone never gets us anywhere;
sometime, somewhere action takes place
whether we're conscious or in control of
it or DOL
You may or may not ehooae to judp
me u a peuimiat. worrier or aolicitor of
bad newa. Do what you will, I simply
want to avoid isolation of indivlduala

fails. In Evergreen's history, no teacher
hu ever requested a hearing board to
settle a salary dispute. Were this to
happen, the hearing board must include
teachers, students and administrators.
Thia ia no myth.
Henderson continues,
"should he
(Youtz) diaappear from the scene ... we'd
have no structural guarantee that our
voice would be heard.'' Howe.ver, we
have seen that, in terms of salaries, the
faculty DO have that structural g'Jarantee. A further examination of the EAC
shows extensive provi.aions for faculty
consultation on hiring and firing of
teachers, as weU. In fact, one is hardpressed to find an issue in which the
faculty voice is not guaranteed a hearing. A colleetive voice, however, is a
different matter comoletelv.
The COG document and the Social
Contract are the two major documents to
deal with decision-making procedures
and dispute settJements at Evergreen.
Typical of these documents are the following statements:
"Decisions and methods to be used for
their implementation must be handled at
the level of responsibility and accountability closest to those affected by a particular decision." and
"Decisions must be made only after
consultation and coordination with students, faculty and staff who are both
affected by, and interested
in the
issues. . " and
"The Evergreen community should
avoid fractioning into constituency groups
which replace rather than augment the
deHberations of bodies composed of all
major constituencies."
Statements like this go on and on,
setting the tone and attitude of both the
COG and the Social Contract. Collective
bargaining is an infraction of our own
governing rules, which make it perfectly
clear that such a technique should be
avoided at alJ costs. These rules reflect
the classic contradictions between participatory democracy, which stresses coop--

eration, and unionization, which stresses
confrontation. Probably this explains
why only 37 of Evergreen's 130 faculty
members belong to the teachers union.
If shared governance over specific
issues is not a myth here, then it is even
less clear why the teachers union is
clamoring for a collective voice. The
answer is in an explanation by Ken
Hasha, a faculty representative
from
Central Washington University, who
said, "Without collective bargaining we
just don't have the muscle to deal with
the legislature." The true motivation for
collective bargaining is to influence the
legislature about salary money, both
directly and through Evans' considerable
influence. Shared governance has nothing to do with it.
Faculty members who idealize about
the true nature of modern labor unions
have their heads in the clouds. True. in
the pa.st, unions have improved the lot of
many people, and unions like the IWW
and the auto workers have a longstanding progressive record-I do not
deny this. However much of an improve-ment they are on a rotten system, the
structure
at Evergreen
is another,
better alternative to that same rotten
system. The American Federation of
Teachers is a member of the AFL-CIO,
which has a far from clean record, and is
prone to the same money manipulations
game which we abhor in large corporations. Is this the kind of organization
which Evergreen wants to support?
Political poker is a time-honored
tradition, and Evergreen is no exception.
Unclear pontifications aboul who makes
the decisions here serve only to obscure
this reality. However, all the alternatives
have not been exhausted, and we must
ask if colleetive bargaining serves the
students' best interest, for students (lest
we forget) are the raison d'etre of Evergreen. If the faculty union wants to
gamble over pay, it is their business, but
when the stakes are the students· education, the stakes are too high.

who, like me, have a tendency to regress
into themselves when they feel threat,
ened by something they think is out of
their control, or are afraid for themselves and those they care for, or are
angry and don't know how to make that
a positive experience through expre5·ion. I have this concern because I see it.
!ready happening, namely in myself.
It is not an unrealistic reaction for one
who is questioning and caring about the
present state of affairs between all
iieople, native and abroad, and I observe
lhat I am not aJone in this. However, the
point is that too often I feel alone and
therefore helpless. and once in a while
I'll come out and say BOmething that rm
thinking or feeling and it will be received
and responded to in a way that tends to
eue the pain.
Now I'm not suggesting that thoee
who share the same concerns u I do all

get together and form a group that LS
supposed to take care of all of our
worries via psychoanalysis and Gestalt.
Yet it does seem worthwhile to &<"'know
ledge to ourselves and to others that ttis
possibly overwhelming bul very coo
cerned feeling is real and then to promote mutual caring, respect and even
action between us. This is not to intentionally exclude anyone who does not
have the same concerns, for the problem
is not one of excluding others as moch as
it is one of excluding ourselves. Last but
not least I would like to invite anyone
who wants to talk about what's been on
your mind and heart with me on Monday
and Wednesday afternoons
in the
Womens Center.
The dark. comes as I sit
staring out at things I
cannot see.
Marcy Ro!Mrtson

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Physics and mysticism (cont.)
that existed in the theories of modern
physics and lhe my1tical philosophies.
Fascinated by this and tensing the
importa nee of this relationship, he derided, finally, to do a thorough study of
the varioos Eastern traditions so that be
rright mak~ a specific comparisolL 11ae
Tao of Phyllica was the result. Here are
!1Jn1equoLes from Capra's book:
. the basic element.a of the Eastern
world view are also those of the world
view emerging from modern physics ...
F.astern thought provides a consistent
and relevanL philosophical background to
the theories of contemporary science; a
conception of the world in which man's
!J.'ientific discoveries can be in perfect
harmony with his spiritual aims and
religious beliefs. The two basic themes
of this conception are the unity and

interrelation of all phenomena and lhe
intrinsically dynamic nature of the universe. The further we penetrate into the
sub-microscopic world, the more we shaU
realize how the modern physicist. like
the Eastern mystic, has come to see the
world as a system of inseparable inter•
acting and evermoving components, with
man as an integral part of this system."
"In the new world view of modern
physics, the universe is seen as a dynami: web of interrelated events. None of
the properties of any part of this web is
fundamenLal; they all follow from the
i:roperties of the other parts; and the
~eraU consistency of their mutual interrelations determines the structure of t.he
entire web."
.. the discoveries of modern physics
point beyond the mechanistic, frag•
TrEnted world view, toward a oneness of
the universe which includes not only our
ratural environment but also our fellow
Wman beings."
I was fortunate t.o hear him give his

"Tao of Physics" talk in Lhe Opera House
in SeatUe laat November. As be walked
onto stage I was amazed that he looked
oo more than about 35, not at all the
,cholarly old gentleman that bad coalesced in my mind as rd read his list of
credentials. He began to talk and immed·
iately caught up the audience with bis
charming combination of quick wit,
boyish innocence and obvious intelligence. The talk became more and more
captiva Ling. I felt as though the audience
had all put on Safari hats and Fritjof
was playing tourguide, leading us on a
wonderful adventure i.nto the world of
the infinitely small.

The Lalk was laced with humor u be
described the paradoxes and contndietions physicist&face in their attempt to
understand sub-atomic particle&. "The
be8t physicists can do ia to aay theoe
particles have a tendency to exiat."
Actual slides of nuclear particle phenomena were counterpointed with slides of
figures from Indian, Japanese
and
Chinese mythology.
After the lecture I walked down on
st.age, where a group of questionen su.r-rounded Capra. Capra wu in the middle

LeGuin at Graduation?
By Lawrence StillweU
Timothy Leary may be Evergreen's
graduate speaker this year, lf anything
unexpected should happen to Ursula IC.
Le Guin, Gil Scott Herron, Jane Fonda,
Marge Piercy, ChristophP.r Lasch, <r
Maya Angelou, in that order.
If Le Guin accepts she will be Evergreen's graduation speaker this year; if
she declines the invitation, President
Evans will begin contacting those beneath her on the Ii.st.
The Graduation Speaker Committee,
made up of raculty, graduating students.
and staff tallied votes taken from about

a hundred graduating aeniors Wedneeday nighL. Le Guin topped other candidates with 48 votes, while her nearest
opponent Gil Scott Herron received 00.
Other candidates finished as follows;
Jane Fonda 28 votes, Marge Piercy 25
votes, Christopher Lasch 23 votes, and
Timothy Leary tied with Maya Angelou
with 22 votes.
Let us aU pray for the continued good
health and availability of Ursula K.
Le Guin, Gil Scott Herron, Jane Fonda.
Marge Piercy. Christopher Lasch, and
Maya Angelou. Evergreen, after all. is
nv place for FBI informers and basket
cat11es.

our

western society baa
put too much truat in rational scientilic
knowledge. We need to start to reopeet
the value of our non-rational capecitieo
and learn to cultivate them. An interM-ing quote; ·1 think the moot valuable
product of the apace program ia that
picture of the earth talten from apace.
That has done a lot to change people&
consciouanesa."
"It will be alow," be aaid. "The ooncepts are good, but more is needed than

of saying that

that. People'■ whole oonaciouanep baa to
change ...
I found thMe aame sentiment& later in
his book: "Tho fact obvious from any
reading of the newapapera, that mankind
has not become any wiser over the put
two thouaand )'BAl'I, in spite of a prodigious increue in rational knowledge, is
evidence of the impouibility of communicating absolute knowledge by
words." One d. Capra·• moot quoted
statement.a is, ..Science does not need
ieysticism and lllYSticiamdoes not need
science; but man nee-doboth."
Then his c011veraation turned to the
book he is now in the process of writing.
Its subject is the implications of the discov.eriea of modern physics for science
and society. (The book ia due to be pubished this year by Simon and Schuster.)
Modern society and the sciencea, be
said, are still hued on the old mecha,;.
i,tic world view of Newton's classical
physics, in wlich the world is a sort of
rmchine, made up of a multitude of separate parts. In it man conceives of him•
self as an objective observer aod man_,ulatea Ilia environment. Modern physics
iresenta a wholly different view of the
situation. Here the universe is seen as a
"harmonious organic whole whose parts
are defined by their interrelations."
This concept is, of course, at the heart
d. the wholi■tic health movement, the
ecology movement. the varioua humanirtic movement.a, and ia a premiae of
Evergreen'•
educational philoaopby.
People at Evergreen, speaking generall1,
are believen in all of the above, I told
Fritjof Capra tbat In oomlng bere he
"""Id be coning to a plaee which, in
many .. .._ embodied the prineiplu bia
book w u '°"'"'med with and that I
tMught he might be Interested In auch a
pau. He repliod that juot bet.re he received our Invitation a friend had told
Jim about ~green
and aaid that be
should make an effort to find out
about it.
When Frltjd. Capra eomes on Felrury 7, be will ledure that , evening
(l'hursday) on the Tao of Pbyaics. The
i>llowlng morning (Friday) Fritjol will
load a seminar on the impllcatlona of the
New Phyalca ir aociet1 and the ..,;e....,1.
Thooe who pli'licipate ""' lnvlled to
share their ideu and experie'1"91on the
subject with niference to their careen,
fields of Jtudy and in~reata. There will
be particular ,mphuia OD health and the
sciences concemed with health care.

Would you buy a used album
from this man?

By Twilly Cannon
With the <b.ft looming in the near
future, the isme of draft reaistanoe baa
been a center cl. conversation on campus.
Draft reaistana, has a long history, right
i., to the caq,us unrest which marked
the Vietnam era.
There are many legal method■ to avoid
military servioe. Due to the upcoming
revision of the draft law, advice on specific tactics f,:r avoiding service is of
trm'ginal value. However, certain general
advice, baaed upon experience with past
resistance movements is applicable.
The War Resister's League recommends that peq,le comply with the draft
law until they reach a point which,
morally, they can't go beyond. Seeing a
draft counseling organization is strongly
recommended for those considering
resistance. N<t all draft resistance is
illegal. Organmng, picketing or lobbying
legislators an, examples of legal methods. Applying for conscientious objectors
status is another legal method.
The right to apply for conscientious
objector (CO) ataLua has been guaranteed by sev,nl Supreme Court decisions. An Individual may apply if they
i,el a "religious, moral, or ethical" dictate against military aetvice. Persons
suettsaful in obtaining CO staiua may be
require-d to do non-<:ombatant military
duty-such as aidamen or orderlf.., or
perform alternative civilian service.
Some re■isten. however, find the
whole notion ol applying for the CO
status objectionable. Othecs feel the
need to make a personal lt&tement.
Whatever the reuona, many lndivlduala
Ind the legal methods of draft resiawloe
not reflecive ol their vieWI. Some lndividuala qwdd,y CNll4over the line to the
"illegar• method&of retlatanco.
Again, due to U.e upcomlng revision of
the draft la"" apedfic ad-rice io bard to
give. From put experience we do know
aome thinp. During the Vielll&m1ean
non•cooperator■ were impri■oned for
failure to NBiol«, provide a current
. addreH, cir refusal to unde,go a )lhyaical.
llesiatera who use "illegal" metboda, or
who were open and obvious about their
re■istaoce remived stiffer aentencee.
U paat experience is a guide, the
chances of being prooeeuted for resistance are small. Of the 200,000 plus
persona reported to the J mt.ice Depart,ment d urlng the Vietnam years, only
2,000 were """" charged in oourt, and
moot of these wen, acquitted.
For thooe few who were convicted, the
average sentence out of a possib!e five
years or $10,000was 11/1 yean. Thia was
mually coupled with three y...,.. al prolation. co·. who refused compulsory
civilian lerVice u■ ually received a twoyear sentence. Obvioualy, the penalties
indicate that resistance to the military is
a serious affair. What prompt& an individllal to take such a step?

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position of Affirmative Action should
report directly to the president instead
of going through another person."
Though Coop,r will now report directly
to Evana. Wea aaid that moot Affirmative Action investigative work will be
done by the Allirmative Action Rep~
sentative who reports to the Director of
Personnel and Affirmative Action, Rita
Cooper.
West thinb there would be a problem
if the Affirmative Action Representative
dulever find tlwt Penonoel'a...biriag. procedures did • fulfill Affirmative Aetlon
guidellnea. She aid, "It would be difficult, ah ould aomething happen, to go to
yo~r aupervisor, in thi ■ ca1e Rita
(Cooper), and ay, 'I think you're doing
this wrong.' "
Weit also aaid that the salary of the
Affirmative Amon Representative baa
been redueed. She bellevet thia ia because that p,ncm no longer report.a
directly to the P'ffldent. She point&to
thia u evide,- that Affirmative Action
is of leaser importance than in the past.
"They are ...n,y uklng a- lot fer the
a,-,nt
of money that U.ey're paying,"
she aaid. One qualified AfflrmaUve
ActJon Rep-tive
wu recent.l,y loot
because be reo,lved a better offer.
But Cooper her double role u a

War· j>roteoton burn draft cards before police at Oakland, California, Induction Center, October, 1969. While
incr-eaaµlg ~umben refused induction at home, soldiers in Vietnam began systematically re:tistinll orders and
"frapg"
superiors.

Some reaisten cite reasons such as the
need to opexpanding government
controlled regimentation. Others feel
that the SSS. auppoeedly an impartial
crganization, ia anconstitutional because
poor, minority or uneducated people are
more likely, to be oonscripted. Some cite
lhe cona:itutional prescriptions against
at.anding armiea as justification
for
resistance. Individuals, facing the demion of whether to resist, find themselves confronting the basic military
posture of mr nation.
Allegedly, our nation, through its
mlitary power, ia seeking a position of
detente. Under detente each nation
recognizes the ability of the other nation
to inflict unacceptable damage. This
possibility d. unaaeptable damage deters war, in the logic of detente.
Whether doten-ence occurred in ancient
Assyria. Tbe Aasyriana, upon conquering
a city would akin a man alive, and pla,e
mmin a cage at the city gate, u a warning to poosihle aggreuora. Well, the
Assyrians are long gone and, in the 2700
years since, we've eeen 1666 arms races.
All but 16 ended in war; those 16 auf-

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dares that war, an institution of man
since history began, has become oboolete.
Deterrence. with ita doctrine of mutual
assured destruction, has rendered it
such. Armies. once protectors of civilian
populations, now directly involve them in
lhe struggle. War, once the final arbiter
ol internationa.1 disputes, can no longer
perform its function.
Preparations for war, based upon the
idea that we are sovereign nations rely•
ing upon our military strength, is contradicted by the actual state of the world.
Rapid communications, increased trade,
world money markets, and other circumstances serve to bring us together.
The resister/pacifist is now analogous
to the third party in an old-time duel.
Both duellists have pistols loaded and
cocked. Botb are scared that it may be
their last day on earth. Both may wish
the duel could be called off. but pride
and protocol woo't aUow it. The situation
requires an interested. involved third
party to offer a hope of reconciliation.
This is the role which many draft resisters are now trying to play.

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lered economic collapse.
Draft reai..sta.ooecan be a tactic to prote.t the overall military mentality. Reftective of this mentality ia deterrence-an attempt by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to
solve the problems of nuclear weaponry_
And how do they do this? While each
!Jide acknowledges that war is oboolete,
they both devote their national man·
power and material to destruction. Many
pacifists se-e the current U.S. posture of
detente as a means of stalling while we
acquire a first-strike weapon.
Challenged with the failure of deterrence, officials of the Administration
respend that a standing army allows
them to make a Oexible, limited response
to imbalances of power. We can respond
to international situations by ..creating a
presence" they say, rather than "being
iJrced to employ our nuclear options."
The feasibility of limited war has been
doubted by many, including members of
the present Administration. Because. of
this, many resisters regard a standmg
army, not as a method of deterrence, but
as the first step in waging war.
Resistance, in the final analysis, de-

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BEFORE
boon for Affirmative Action. She ex•
plained that the moot efficient way to
accomplish AffirmaUve Action goal.ais to
make aure that the application pooi,, for
vacant jobo have auffident minority representation. Compiling the application
pools for the cluaified ataff la the aole
reaponaibllity of PononneL As Director
of both that office and of Affirmative
Action, Cooper explained, ahe can be
effective in aeeing that Affirmative
Action hiring guldellnea are followed
from the beginning of the proceu.
Tbe CPJ uked Cooper If her two roleo
aren't adveraary, in the sense that AJlirmatlve Action is suppoaed to perform
a watchdog function over the Penonnol
Offloe. Cooper aaid that such a percop-

lion does exist and that some pe-ople
have spoken out against the combination.
Cooper explained that her sphere u
Personnel Director ia not large; she is
responsible for overaeeing the hiring of
240 claaaified ataff poaitioru, on camp11&
She implied that her dual role does not
overlap moot of the time.
Preaident Evans explalne-d hia reuon
for the reorganization to the CPJ. "I feel
that I work better when rve got more
people to talk with and act with u a top
team," be aaid. Uoder the old atructure.
many adminiatnton reported to the
preaident through the two vice president&,Dean Clabaughand Byron Youtz.
The new plan moved four more top
adminlatratora onto the direct reporting

AFTER

level The result is a more complete flow
of information, not only to an from
Evans, but between top administrators
as well.
The four administrators who will now
meet regularly with Evana. along with
Youtz and Clabaugh, are Larry Stenberg,
Dean of Enrollment Services (whooe area
includes Admissions, Office of the Registrar, Career Planning and Plaeement,
other student aervicea and now Campus
Activities); Lea Eldridge, Director al
Community Relation,
(who 1erve1,
among other thing•. a1 Ever1reen'1
legislative liaiaon); Rita Cooper, Director
of Personnel and Affirmative Action; and
the yet-to-be-selected Director of Colleg,o
Relatioru,.

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6

Governance
without
government
that everybody's needa are being served.
One of the major goals of non-traditional
education is to nurture a feeling of
responsibility in individuals to the world
around them, and to help people learn to
more actively control their own di•
what's up; sometimes noL Sometimes we
hear about something too late to do any- rection."
SIN would rely on monthly forums
thing about it.
SIN (Student Information Network) i., composed of student representatives
rising out of this confusion. A group of 9elected by each ..,minar. Some of the
i.,sues this forum could address include:
!ltudents interested in seeing SIN take
curriculum planning, program coordina·
root are meeting every Wednesday,
10 a.m .. in CAB 305A. We're finetuning tion, governance, and program planning
and direction.
SIN's structure and setting the bureauGiven the constantly increuing discratic wheels in motion for implementing
Ulnce between students And the rest of
it.
The basi., of SIN i., a. position paper the Evergreen community, and the speed
written by the Symposium Study Group at which decisions are Oying around
oo Student Participation in Decision- here, the need hu never been greater
Making. (Copies available in CAB 305.) for coordinated student organization.
In thi., paper. the study group outlined Commit a SIN. After all, you deserve iL
Come to the meeting next Wednesday,
the need for such a network:
February 6, 10 a.m. in CAB SOSA.Or call
"Evergreen ... needs more than the
EUen at ~220
for more information.
u.5ual amount of fe-Hihack. to be certain

By the SIN City Committee
There's too much going at Evergreen
these days in the way of decision·
making; information Dows in a haphazard way. Sometimes we hear about

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HANDICAPPED
ACCESS
By Lliaa Eckeraberg
Doors are hard to open, telephone,
and elevator buttona are too high, and
the swimming pool is inaccesaible. These
are problems that handicapped atudenta,
faculty and staff face and one, that the
Committee on Acceu for the Diaabled
will be modifying.
The Committee, formed to handle
questions on handicapped access, is made
up of 18 people, including S handicapped
studenta. Their purpose i., to establish
priorities for work, review design work,
keep the campua informed of developments, and publish information on handi·
cap iuues.
•
The barriera that the campus' 38 plus
handicapped studenta and staff run into
are relatively few in comparison to other

Learn how to muckrake!
Investigative and interpretive journaJ.
i.,m will be the focu.a of a S~ring group
contracL MAKING NEWS, which will be
taught by faculty member Margaret
Gribskov. Designed primarily for atall
members of the Cooper Pemt J.....i
and KAOS, the program will have aev•
eral openings for other Evergreen
students.
Students in the contract will have

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NON-SAGA
BEHAVIORAL

BE A FED

SUPPORT GROUP

SCIENCE

The Professional and Administrative
Career Examination (PACE) must be
taken by people who want to compete
for many federal jobs that require a
bachelor degree. The exam will be given
in March and won't be repeated until
next year. The deadline to apply for taking the exam is February 15. Career
Planning & Placement, Library 1213, has
applications and more information.

CO-OP BENEFIT
Magician Dr. Mystical, the Karen
Silkwood Memorial Choir and the
Espresso Lady Carolyn Street will ~
among the many perform~rs featured m
a benefit for the Olympia Food Co-op.
The Gnu Deli. at the corner of Capilal
and W. Thurston, will be the setting for
the variety show on Sunday February 3
from 7-10 p.m. A $3.00 donation can be
made at the door; advanced tickeu sold
at the Co-op. Desserts and beverages
will be available.

CAMP EASTER
SEAL

Leadership
Institute
of Spokane
(L.1.O.S.) offers an M.S. in Behavioral
Science at Whitworth
College. Dr.
Robert Crosby of Whitworth will be here
on campus Thursday February 7 to talk
with students about L.1.O.S.
There will be a group session from
12-1 in Library 2401. From 1 o'clock on,
he will hold individual appointmenta in
the same room. To sign up for an appointment people must have attended
the group session.
For further information about this
visit., contact Career Planning and Place-ment, Library 1214, 866-6193.

CHILD CARE
PROPOSAL

The first meeting of the Non-SAGA
,upport group will be in the CPJ office
(down the hall from SAGA a bit) at
noon, Thursday, January SI. The pur·
poee of the group i., to provide education
and encouragement to all thooe trying to
free themaelvea from habitual SAGA
use. Let ua help you help youraell to a
better and more thrifty dieL Come share
Non-SAGA food. Entertainment will be
provided through the public reading of
Vonda's answers to SAGA survey
complainta.

ENDOMETRIOSIS

WOMEN
RECRUITS
The Women'• Shelter la recruiting.
Volunteer trallling atarl.a February 21.
Volunteers are needed for staffing
Harbor House, child-cate, publicity or
lun!l-raislng, public speaking and/or
transporting women. Interested? Call
Nancy at 352-0693.
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GOURMET SAGA?.
In view of the consumer's request. for
improvement in nutritional qualit:i at
Saga, the food service peraonnel ia requesting recipes. They must be baaedon
the following guidelines: low fat, low
sugar, low salt and high fiber, preferably
,uitable for large group, of people. Submit to: Vonda Drogmond, Saga Food
Service or Kri.,ti Morrish, Seminar 4121.

Research on case histories of endomelriosis is presently being conducted.
Women interested in sharing information
If you are interested in the developconcerning symptoms, treatment. and
ment of an on-campus center for drop-in
child care and/or have suggestions come possible causes of this condition will
meet in CAB 306 (lounge) on Tuesday,
to the ACCESS center, Lib 3510 and
Next Monday at 4 p.m: in room 3151
document your support by signing a Feb. 5 at 3:30 p.m. II you have had, of the Seminar Building will be tbe first
statement declaring the need o( such a have, or know of anyone suffering from of a aequence of four Monday afternoon
this condition we urge you to attend. For workshops presented for you to learn a
facility. A space is available but needs to
question~ or information, please call new psychological skill called "focuaing."
be furnished and staffed. Documentation
866-8009or 943-2339.
is necessary to assure the development
The "focusing" technique wu developed
over the last 15 years by Profeaaor
of this much-needed student service. If
Eugene Gendlin, a leader in the field ~I
you cannot come to ACCESS send a
existential paychotherapy. Focusing ,.
letter of support stating your particular
baaed on a fairly simple six-step set of
need or interest to ACCESS for ReThe Cooperative Education and Career instructiona designed to teach you to
Entry Women, L3510, TESC.
Planning Offices are jointly 1ponaoring a identify and change the way your perworkshop for atudenta on February 6, in sonal problems exist in your body, and
CAB 110. The purpoee of the workahop to let you solve, or dissolve, these
will be to teach atudenta how to multiply problems.
their career options through participaThe workahop will be led by Paul
tion in the Evergreen Internahip Pro- Beck.er, a former student of Gendlin' ■ at
On Thursday, January 31, there will
gram. Points of discussion will focus on the University of Chicago, and a newbe a Lifespring Guest Event at 7:30 p.m.,
internship development., re■ume writing, comer to the Olympia area. There ia no
fourth floor Library. Evergreen grads
informational interviewing, the role of charge for the fi.nt workshop; there's a
Murray Marvin and John Fernald will be
faculty sponsors, field aupervisors, and minimal fee of $10 for thooe w18hlng to
hosting and speaking about their experience with Li.fespring. For more inform&· much more. The work,hop i., open to all continue through the series of all four
interested students, from 2-4 p.m.
learning .sessions.
lion, call 453-0700(Seattle).

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opportunities to learn or improve basic
journalism skills, but will also study interpretive and investigative techniques,
according to Dr. Gribskov. Each student
also will have the option of receiving
part of his or her credit for internship
with the college newspaper or radio
station, or for specialized research.
Interested students are asked to see
or call the faculty sponsor. Her office i.,
LAB JI 3269, ExL 6163.

INTERN INFO

An East·•;• Seal Society representative
will be on campus March 4 from 114 in
Library 3121 to interview Evergreen
students for summer jobs at Camp
Easter Seal. Positions they have avail•
able include Resident camp counselors,
Out-camp counselors, Arts and Crafts
supervisors,
Waterfront supervisors,
Waterfront assistant.!: (WSI). nurses, and
cooks. People interested can contact
Career Planning and Placement (located
in Library 1214. phone 866-6193) for
more information about the jobs.

Capitol

,chools beeauae Evergreen ia newer than
moet. When built the ochool complied to
then-current regulationa. Due to higher
awareneaa of handicapped people, regula·
tions have become stricter since then,
however.
The priorities that have already been
set by the committee are to modify one
set of elevator, doors, restrooms. te~
phone, and watercooler in each building.
Thi.,, with providing lifta in the television studio and control rooma and the
swimming pool, and a portable science
lab station, will bring Evergreen up to
basic access standards.
The work, which mu.at be completed
by June 2, 1980, i., being paid for by
funds requested by the college from the
state in 1978.

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By T. J. Simpson
I didn't go to aee The Roee with any
expectations of seeing a great work of
art. I was in the mood for junk and junk
i., what I got. Yet, despite Bette Midler's
near-artistic performance, the film could
have been a more enjoyable piece of junk
and less infuriating in its weakest spot!.
The film ia directed by Mark Rydell,
best known (to me anyway) for his two
late-1960's films, "The Fox" and "The
Reivers." "The Fox•· (1968) was a plodding, pretentious adaptation of a D. H.
LaWT'encenovella and "The Reivers" an
over-sentimental, almost Disneyish ver·
sion of William Faulkner's last novel.
Actually, what Rydell did to Lawrence
and Faulkner is not as bad as what he
does 'to the late•60's rock scene.
The Rose is supposedly based on the
life of Janis Joplin. and although those
responsible for this film safely deny this,
there's just too many parallels to Joplin's
life. Naturally. the scriptwriters just
want the audience to think that Midler's
Rose is Joplin. but at the same time feel
that they can shirk from any responsibility for such notions. It's the oldest trick
in the Hollywood bsg.
The film opens majesticaUy, including
an airborne shot of a large, .screaming
crowd frantically getting off at a Rose
concert. (l was fortunate, I guess, to see
it in 70 mm and 6-track Dolby sound.)
After Midler fini.,hes her song for the
roaring audience, the picture abruptly
cuts to her dressing room where she's
aobbjng to her. manager (Alan Bates),
"What's wrong with me? I can't get high,
I can't get laid ... " (We never understand why she can't get high or laid.)
Then a bunch of reporters bust in and
Rose puts on a happy lace. One of them
aaka her "Wbat've you been doin' with
yer time, Roser' She gleefully replies,
"Gettin' high and ... " (snapping ber
fingers) " ... gettin' laaaiiid," to which
the reportero reapond with "Right onl"
or "IJ!righhtl"
"Oh Chriatl" I thoughL "How am I
going to watch any more of this?"
Luckily, that scene turned out to have
the worst dialogue in the film, although
the rest of it wun't much better.
From there, we get the old "poorgirl
destroyed by 1ucce11" story with every
cliche intact. The Roee may complain
about not being able to get high, but
boy, she sure can drink. She makes
W. C. Fields look like a teetotaler as she
guzzles down booze in almost every
scene. (There's more bottles in this film
than there are down at the Rainier recycling planL) Whenever she geta the
slightest bit pjssed off, sbe smuhes her
bottles against the wall and throws a
tantrum like a spoiled brat. You juat

wish that someone would kick her in the
teeth and tell her to grow up, then she
starts crying with those big, Bette
Midler's eyes and you can't help but feel
sorry for her. Mldler ia the beat cry er in

her dressing room, ■he is practically
seduced by her and they start making
ouL Forrest walks in during their embrace and all hell breaks looae, but we
never really understand what is going on

films since Giulietta Masi.na in "Nighls
or the characters' motivations.
of Cabiria."
I don't feel I'd be belraying any jour
Although the film is supposed to be nalistic or critical ethics by revealing the
set in the late 1960's, one would never wretched ending of this film. After all,
know it if it weren't for the obligatory
everybody knows Joplin died and how.
references to the war in Vietnam. Most But the ending of The Rose is the most
of the music is an odd mixture of 70's tasteless I have ever seen . .,
disco combined with the Broadway basRose returns to her small hometown in
tardization of rock that Midler is known the South for the biggest concert of her
for. Nowhere do we see or hear the career. (Joplin returned to her homepsychedelia that symbolized the era.
town for a high-school reunion a year or
Of course, every story of this sort
ao before her death.) When she gets
must have its lover, and the Rose finds there, she has a fight with her manager
hers in the person of a chauffeur she and takes off with her lover who ends up
picks up after being humiliated by a red- dumping her. Since she's now so upset,
neck country singer (obviously based on she shoots up a good quantity of heroin
Merle Haggard) who objects to her kind
using hi.I material Frederic Forrest, aa
the lover, gives the only other good performance in the film. But, like Mldler,
he's hampered b7 the scripL
By T. J. Simpson
In real life, Jania Joplin wu bi-aexual
Evergreen's Gig Commission reports
and (to -pul ii mildly) ·extremely promia- that last week's ..Heaters" concert wu a
cuous. Forrest is the only guy who we whopping success. Simon Scheeline, of
•aee the Rose go to bed with and there's
the Gig Commission, said that over a
one gratuitous lesbian acene. .Roee thouaand people showed up for the event
meeta an old high school chum who's the and approximately $1300 profit was
epitome of the Vuaar-type
bitchmade from the $3600 net gross. Scheecigarette holder, "nice" clothea, cheer- line feels that ..it was the biggest event
leader features, and all. She doesn't
ever at Evergreen. "People came from
aeem like the type a perennial looer like all over. We even got calls from AberRoee would ever be friends with at all. deen asking directions on how to get
(We do learn that Roae let heraelf get
to Evergreen."
.
gang-banged by the high-school football
Because of lut week's success. the
team.) Yet, unbelievably, when Rose Commission is planning on presenting
meeta this upper-claaa anachroni.,m in four or five more big events for this
year, and hopefully will be able to have a

in a phone booth (!) and triea to gel to
the stadium in time to· ntisfy the thousands ol fans wildly gathered there. Will
she make it? or course she does. at the
last minute.
She giv~s the performance of her life
(performing only one song), then rambles
on with the first song she ever learned
and drops dead on the stage from an
overdose. This might have worked in a
1930's film, but certainly audiences
nowadays are too sophisticated for this
sort of lurid melodrama. Midler gives it
all she's got in this scene, but even the
power of her performance can't save it.
Midler·s performance
and Vilmos
Zsigmond's cinematography (while nol
being his best) are the only reasons I can
think of for· watching this (ilm. Yet
Midler seems to be actually playing herself. It's hard to separate her from the
fictional character she's supposed to be
playing. Nowhere is this more apparent
than in lhe scone where she gets up on
the stage in a bar and does a number
with two female impersonators. One is
impersonating Midler, while the other is
impcrsonaling Barbara Streisand. It was.
after all, the gays and transvestites that
gave Midler her first push to stardom
and Midler ~tarted out by imitating
Streisand. The scene jusl mentioned is
really a (airly good one. but it seems cut
off from the rest of the film, like a scene
from "The Bette Midler Story" spliced
·1to the middle of The Rose.
I guess now we can expect more films
,,,ming our way that will be based on
11Lherrock idols of the late 60's who died
prematurely. Look n·ext for "Jimi and
.Jim" with Richard Pryor as Jimi Hendrix
.rnd Dustin Hoffman as Jim Morrison.
!"hen there"ll be "The Life or lhe Other
Brian" with Robert Redford as Brian
Jones. Of course, the big blockbuster will
be "Blue Moon" with Bob Denver making his big comeback as Keith Moon.
Anyhody got any more ideas?

More big gigs at TESC

Evergreen Phone-a-thon
By Susan Washburn,
Office of Development

7

Richard Cellariu,· and Jeff Kelly's
research project on aolar energy
conver1ion devices modelled after
photoeynthesi.,.
$1,000 in aeed funds for a Jazz and
Audio Institute to be held this
summer.
$1,000 in support of salary, program·
ming and discretionary needs for the
ACCESS for Re-entry Women's
Center.
Beginning February 11 through Febru-

ary 28. PHONE-A-THON '80 Headql:.arters will be set up in the Board
{oom. We'll be calling parent.s and alum•
ii all over the con'tinent.al U.S. to ask
.heir support of the. Annual Fund. lO
answer any questions they might have,
and to share Evergreen news. Liquid
refreshments and munchies will be available and the Olympic Games will be on
in color.
It's a chance to talk to 'Greeners all
over the country, have fun and help the

What is PHONE-A-THON '80? It is
not Madison Avenue, Jerry Lewis or the
local heart or cancer society.
It la an opportunity for the Evergreen
Community to come together collectively
for a common goal: to help raise money
for the College for activities and programa that are not adequately funded by
lhe State or cannot be funded with State
money.
Does the College need money? Think
about it! Do you know anyone who is
struggling financially to stay in school?
Perhaps you know a faculty member or
student who needs funds for speciaJ research or other creative projects. Maybe
you've noticed that the Library and our ~
art galleries are in need of acq uisitiona.
Or, maybe you're involved in a campus
organization that has great ideu, but no
money to implement them.
The Evergreen State College FoundaA SACHSM
en oconomlcal 10
11
.tion was e•tablished in-tffl--te eerve-u +-&iii~~rrrom1i/11io~i:o~wor1<~lbrii"l1e1:li·~-~~°';--J[1-the fund-raising arm of the College.
Juotbuzz IIOUnd town. Youoon po,1<IUII .
Make 1980 the year youThere are 19 men and women who sit on
about anywhentand rtde fOf' pennlN• day.
• Learn to play Folk, Classic and
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All f h
City or country riding 11 more tun with •
t e
r o overnors.
o t em are
SACHS. And only with lhe German--crafted
Flamenco style guitar
residents of Western Washington and all
SACHS moped will you get the famous
• Gain confidence to play your instru•
of them believe in Evergreen.
SACHS engine along wllh the 1turdy
ment in groups or individually
Last year, the Foundation made availSACHS frame. See your SACHS factory• Develop the ability to read music.
able $25.000 for 1cholarship1, helped
lrtlned
_,.,. 1lo, 1 1001
Sach•
it'a a kk:k In the QM ... crunch.
support the Tuesdays at Eight coneert
Ouatlly Countt ... SACHS
and lecture •eries, and provided seed
FOR INFORMATION CALL
funds for Betty Kutter and Bert GuttANY TIME 752-9847
1
man 1 molecular biology reaarch.
Last week, the Foundation Board
made the following granta:
Preaented by Robert Goodwin Studios
$500 for malling, gluaing and !ramIll., ....,
and Harp Shop, Inc.
Ing materia!J for approximately 20
4102 W. 16th
Tacoma, WA 98406
photographic donations.
Mon.-Frl. M
Sol. t0-5
$600 in interim operating funds for
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free concert, with a nationally known
music group, at the end of the school
year. It's the goal of the commission to
give the students back what they put
into it. The Commission also encourages
other students to get -involved with it;
they can use all the help and input they
can get.
The coming attractions will hopefully
include speakers as well as various music
groups. although Scheeline would personally like to see more "New Wa\'e"
rock groups come to the campus.
For too long, Evergreen has been
unable to support "big name" events.
Those in the Gig Commission seem con·
fident that they can chan'!e all that.

College. Why not g-et together ·Nith
faculty and students in your program or
ronlract and sign up for a night? Or, h()w
about campus organizations each taking
a night on the phones'!
Before you put it down, why not see
what il"s all about? WE NEED YOUR
HELP! Leave your name. local address
and phone number in one of the PHONE•
A THON '80 boxes or call. or stop in to
the Development Office. l.3103. 866-6565.

ddSunda

Special
1st & 3rd Sundays

Soup or Salad
Special Entrce $ 795
Dessert
Beverage Choice

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