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A trip to
LaMar's
By Leslie Oren
I was strolling down Quince Street on
lhe Eastside la,t Saturday, enjoying the
crispy-clear winter day. Robins sang in
leafless trees. and icy rooftops sparkled
with rare sunshine. Suddenly I saw a
lovely 'old mansion, painted blue, with
the words "Open House-Saturday, 10-5"
emblazoned over a window. I went
around to the front and was welcomed
by an "Open" sign. The door creaked
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open on an empty hallway leading
toward a rine oak staircase. I entered.
and a t.aU, gaunt man came into the
parlor from some mysterious recess of
this old house. Parlor and living room
were utterly devoid of people or furni-
ture. except this strange silent appari-
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Paintings both Oat and sculpted lined
thA stark walls. Thev werl! 11h11:,t,..t1
ellipaea of color, mootly, and some had
ink-drawn plants overlaid on the paint.
All were captioned witb celebrations of
God, and of growth, and all were signed
Gary LaMar. Presumably, it waa Mr.
LaMar himaelf here following me silently
with hia arms folded and his face grim. I
began to feel part of a surrealist
nightmare.
Aft.er a cursory glance at the ama•
t.eurish (yet intense) paintings, and a
true artistic appreciation of a sort of
womblike a,ulpture covered with ellips,
es, I Oed-too spooked to remain long in
such a thoroughly puzzling circumstance.
I thanked my host, who gruntecrthe finl
oound he'd made yet, and returned to
cool crystal reality once again-resolving
never again to venture into L&J.jar's
Gallery at the corner of Quince and
Olympia.
tion and a folding table set up for coffee.
Abraza: hot local jazz
By Leslie Oren
Lights go up on a tropical stage, castlong red shadows on opulent plant
life and a promise of the music to come.
The players appear and settle themselves amidst a plethor,a of percussive
instruments. One at a time. the drumbeats emerge-building added complexit, with each new rhythmic entrance.
The Recital Hall has been transformed
it is midday in the Congo and we are
witnessing a ceremony of sound as old a5
time. as old as the human heartbeat.
Suddenly. with a fluid ripple of movement. the players change parts and we
are back in this Twentieth Century. The
1:1g
drums continue to beat. insistent and
pervasive, while melody is carefully
layered atop their percussive passion.
Saxophone, bass, piano, trumpet, and
flute, weave their harmonies together
Hard lo believe thi., is the opening act,
hard t.o believe this is a loc:al band (i.e. of
this fair mini-city, Olympia). Mary
Watkins will have to wail. This reviewer
is far more compelled to speak of our
own Abrua. the folks who set stage for
Ms. Watkins' appearance at. TESC on
January 26.
Abraz.a was formed in May, born of a
"buic obsession to play, with other
women" and a hope lo fill the long sum-
arts
MUSIC
Frfday, Febful;ry i
Twisted Sister P1oducllons
presents
mer days with musical good timea. They
weren't exactly planning on. public exposure or profeMional gigs, but eventually were asked to do a benefit perform•
ance for Olympia's Theatre of tile
Unemployed. They have since played in
Portland, Seattle, and Olympia, moving
quickly beyond their initial expeetations.
Their sound blends unlikely elements
well: chubby African drums sit side by
side with sleek American traps, deftly
drawing upon the improvising traditions
of jazz, rock, and blues. They are united
by a strong desire to express the thirdworld roots of these fonno, and an equal
striving for originality-a need to create
and
events
A
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Twisted Sister PrOductions presents A Mur•
def of Crows, A Labor of Mot•, New Music
performed by Paul Prince, Brent Ray, Jon
Klagman. Alex S1anl. Cheri Knight, Chuck
Mitchell, SteYe Peters. with dancer Donna
Patio 8 p m Rec1lal Hall Free
S.tun:Say, F~ry
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AppleJam celebrates •Is 61h ann1versal')' w1lh
Ste¥e & Maurwn-blu&grass,
folk and contemporary mus1c pertormed by Steve Lehner
anci Maureen May Plus• Snake 011-llddle
tunes gospel and old-time music featuring
Ralph Hummel. Burt and 01 Meye,. Brad
Griswold and Earl Stanr. S2 Doors open
at 8 pm
Monday, February 4
An evening ol l11sh mus1c and song at the
Gnu Deli wtlh Clelr...ch.
Char1te and Ann
Heyman oe1!01m lftsh Harp and vocals
9 pm $2
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lnfom~Uon Md ~Uon
Fon,m on the
Dfatt. A pollllcal analy1ls OI our new t~n
potlcies, hlslory of the drait, women·, probable Involvement. Sc>9aker1 tentative llt,rwy
lobby, 7 p.m. Women. and 8Y9fYon•. encouraged to attend
s.-.•-s
FOOd Co-op ~II
al Gnu Dell f•turlng
& Jane Kaufman,
Cathy Rapp & Paul Becker, The Espreuo
Lady, Karen SIikwood
Memorlal
Choir,
Rebecca Horn, John Calaml>Okldle,
Jim
CubtMlge & Pal Cole, Anna & Jim In the
Co-op FolH•
Food and ~ ..,.uabie.
13 donation at the doOf
Or Mystical. Barb M.tno
are promoting It as belno the next b'Q "cult"
fllm. JudQe for yourself. P1usl A 1917 Chariea
Chaplln clualc, The lmmlgnnt. Lee Hall One.
3, 7, and 9:30. Only a dO,l■r.
Satunloy, F2
The Olympia Trident Resistance Group ~
sente a benefit showing of Woody Allen's
SINper (U.S.A., 1973, 88 min.). Woody playa
the parl-ownef of a he■Jth food reetaurant who
goa to the ~tal
In 1973 for • minor uloer
operation. The doc~
haYeto put him In a
deep freeze after the oe,e,auon ooes wrono
and he's thawed out 200 yea,• later In an
American poUce atate. O,lckena er. 12 feet
high, car'1i look llke giant plastic turtles,
banana aklna are u long u canoes, and
Woody Joins lhe undefground. 0'ene Keaton
plays a right..wlng poet In thla tlepeUck farce,
made before Woody'• more Nf'loua autobl<>
graphk:al phaN. New Yor1itTlmn ace crttlc,
Vincent Canby, In one of his more literate and
artlculale ,.......,_,, ttatn ''Sleeper la terrific."
Lee. HaH One. 7 and 9: 30. Only S1.25.
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E.P.I.C. present, Ftom SptkN to Sp6ncUee,
a documentary that anowathe plight of
Ctllneee-Americant from rallroed builders to
lhe sweetshop,. Lee. One. 7:30. Freel
ARTS
Friday. Februery 1
Collectors· Gallery presents New con-vn
by Ray Ho. arhsl ol reglonal reput1t1on, and
New W,tercoloB by Jerry Becker. painter who
d1v1des time between Wash1nglon and Arizona Sunday the 2nd from 1-5 p m . Ray Ho
will be al !he gallery to discuss lhe ellh!b11
On display through the 29th
S.turdey. February 2
Coslumes crafted tor a ¥ariety of productions go on display ,n Gallery 2 The exhibit
features 1he wonr. of e1gh1 stvdenls, whose
costumes are the product ot fall quarter protects Complementing the student woril are a
number of costumes sewn by professionals
ror Evergreen productions,
Including cos•
tumes from Chekov's "The Seagull" and playful garments from "Alice in Wonderland"
Exhibit 1emains on display through February 20
On the Boards, a non-profit arts organization. presents lnteffact Perlonnance s«iN
with Marlen Lewis The series Is designed to
showcase per1ormance artists who Interface
one art lorm w1lh another Marlen Lewis combines a video Installation wilh live perfOfmance en1111ec1
Publlc love Washlnglon Hatl
Performance Gallery, 8 pm .. 153 141h Ave.,
Seattle Admlaaioo SJ In advance. S-4 al the
door An intonnal seminar wlll take place with
!he artlsl Sunday, February 3 at 8 pm
Video lnslallatlom continues. A collecllon
of recen1 ¥Idea work exhlblled by studenls
and facully 1n lhe Words. Sound, and lmagea
program Gallery 4. through February 14
Howard Sew.au, Nor.thwNl attiat, bNbll
1ft
Retroapecl, Including drawings, watercolors,
pnnts, oils and weavlngs At lhe Wuhlnglon
State Capito! Museum. 211 w. 21st Through
March 3
EV£N'n
the music anew.
Abrua means "to embrace" in the
Spanish tongue. They who embrace us
with this music are; June Hoflman,
Hanny Soedibio, Barbara Marino, Kath•
rynn Lyle, and Cheryl Strange. On the
26th they were joined by Lorree Knul•
son on acoustic basa, who played with
some of the othera in the now-defunct
Gila.
Abrua. as a relative newcomer to
Olympia's mu.sicaJ scene, has already
added much to our tradition of exee)lence. These women are embracing us
with their gift of sound-a gift well
worth receiving.
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The AcacterNc Film 5■riea prnents John
Carpenter', O.rtl S111r(U.S.A., 1974, 91 min.)
Thia lmmenNly popula,ec:lence-fk:llon parody
has already achieved "cult" status. A crew ot
pot-smoking hippy astronauts casually drlfl
lhrough space blowing up planeta. The film la
really llke a secono-rata "Mad" magazine style
parody of "2001" and other lci-tl fllma. I aup.
poae you coukt call thia "coUege humor'' al
Ila WOOi!. In other word1, lt'a falr1y Juvenlle.
John Cerpenter (of ..HallOWNn" fame) made
lhlt while he waa atlll a tllm atudent at
U.C.L.A. Thel'9i le a br11Uantly suapenMi'ul
aequence with a !~footed
bNcf'I ball entrapping an astronaut In an 8'eva10f shaft and
comic book tent will llke the hOrnage to the
Slt¥er Surfer. Anyway, the conege aud~
generally Hem to lowe thla Him Lee. Hall One.
1 :30 and 7:30. Freel
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NOT A FILMIUT IS IT FUNNY?
He had Juat made the acquaintance of a
group of cltlzena. when an lnvlalbte dog began
to yelp and .,,., and howl and meke hlmMU
very dleag,....t,te,
wherwupon young Wllaon
said, much aa one who la thinking aloud:
"I wish I owne(t half of that dog."
"Why?" eomebocly -·
"BecauN I would kill my half."
The group searched hla fact with curtoalty,
with anxiety
but found no light therti, no
exprNalon that they could ~They felt
away from him aa from aomethlng uncanny,
and went Into Kl'vacY lo ~1,111 lllrn.. One
"'°•
ai@:
.. 'P9ars to be a fool."
- 'PMrs?" .. Id another. ''II I reckon you
Audltlone for an experimental mulU-medle
penormance bued on the blbllcaj legend of
Ullth: Adem'a Fltat Wife. 5 p.m., Experimental Theltt9. For Information contact Stephen
Temkin ae&-i.t90.
T-.F-5
The n..tre
of Tf11ftSfonneKone l)rNMltl
orlotnat plecN of eipwtmentaJ puppetry and
poetry. E~f'Mfl
graduatN looalne
Ming
Tong and RotMn Jamee perform In !hi• combination of dance, poetry, -risual art and
mime. Sponsored by lhe Arta Aeaource
Center. RecltaJ Hall, 7 and 8: 30 p.m. $1.50.
w..,_,,,._,,
The latNI In ew.. ~annlng and Plac:en"Mtnl
w<>Rehopl. Planning tor WOR. Today'• topic:
CerNr" P111nnfng VIII tnlemlhlpe.
2◄ p.m.
CAB 1t0.
FllMI ON CAlll'IIS
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The Fr\day Hite Fllmt preeenta Truck SIOp
•~
(U.S.A., 1W1'4,98 min.)atamng Lieux
Orettler,
Claudla Jennlnga, end Jennifer
Burton. Directed by Martt L.Nte, ("Tr1C.. 'a
Wedding"). A campy, t~ln--cheek
.. u,.
on eu rotes and ganoat• aina--truddngfllma.
Loedtd wllh strong women chllract.,.,
the
mm tellt the story of Anne (OrNat-,,
the
owner m a truck atop In a am•U New Mexk:an
town who doublee • • truok hl}aeker ~
whorenOuse operator. Shi run• etoul of the
L.A. mafia end hu to flOht them off. The film
has ,woet,,ecf ,...,. f'l"itewa and lie dlttr1butora
better say."
"Said he wished he owned half of the dog,
the Idiot," aald a third. "What did he l'ICkon
would become of the othaf half If he kllled hl1
half? Do you reckon he thought It would Uve?"
Mark Twain
Pudd'Meed Wlleon
Thia week and .,.,., WNk, l<-9 Kultur Kennels u:plorN the queetlon: Why can't people
take a Joke? The decllne In humor conac~
nne II one of !he fflOlt Nrioul probteme of
our time. If you too are wtoualy COi lOlffltd,
stay tuned to K-9 Kuitu, Kannel'• upcoming
column• and be aurw not to mlN K'"9 of
~.
about • bunch of .....,u~lo'ffno,w■rm
heaf1ed rabid doga In a dtear1«I kennel, and
Frtttof~the-Cetra'a lectu,. Thi Tao of IUecutta.
There'• Iota of tun things ooino on u tf'lla
college OON to lhe dOga.
THE
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COOPER
JOURNAL
THE
Vol. 8 No. 11
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington 98505
February 7, 1980
Student ads-alternative marketing
By Ben Alexander
An adverlisement to attract students
to Evergreen, written and paid for by
concerned students an.d alumni, baa
recently started appearing in a few
oationwide publicationa. The cluaified ad
is intended to reach a broader audience
than the new 1980,81 CatalOJ now
reaches, according to its authors. It ia
aloo designed to fill certain informational
loopholes in the Catalog.
The student organlzen of thia project
emphasized that the ad ia completely
funded by private contributiona. They
a1ao stress that they &N> attempting to
cooperate in every poulble way with tho
sehool in working out the detaila, and
that they see no conflict of interest belween their efforta and the, echoor1 campaign to bring in new studenta.
On the contrary, they aee tho ad complementing the tcboofs enrollment effort&. They feel that their ad, and the •
reply they will aend to reapondenta, will
aurn,ent the illfonnation already contained in the Catalog.
Tho studenta behind tho ad have already dia<uased the project with Academic Dean Barbara Smith and with
Dean of Enrollment Service1, Larry
Stenberg. "We don't want to have an
abrasive relalionahip with the administration; we want to work with them,"
stresses one of the organizen, Paul Fink.
"The ad doesn't misrepresent the achool
Actually, it is quite factual, and we don't
see why the administration can't at leut
feel neutral about it."
Both Dean Stenberg and President
Dan Evans were unavailable for commenL
News of the ad was initially broken to
Dean Sril!th by two of the student organizers, Nora St.ern and Guy Diamond.
Smith had mixed reactions. "The sincerity of the students was touching," she
asserted. However, her main concern
was that lhe ad might be misleading by
implying a depth of curriculum and an
abundance of faculty members that just
is not there. She pointed out the danger
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education at a nNG lnterdlsclpl/nary
,college: The Ev:' accr8d1te<1
state
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nclude
women' Y, appropriate tecpho1/Ilea/
s stud/e
no/ogy
Ing, eJCpressive
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C8tlon. EJCtens/arts, 0UfdOor edumum ace
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contact ~Slblllty. Intimate ja::1learn/
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COMMUNITY
A~RN needs o ORGANIZERSlow ,.~.. l'Qanlzers to wonc
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of rai ■ ing false expectations
in new
etudents.
The method of reaponse to inquiries
wu another issue raiaed by Smith. ''The
way you handle admissions inquiries is
potential dynamite," ■he pointed out,
referring to past experienttl with the
Teachers Certification program. In general, she felt that the students need to
work much more with the administration
and especially with the Admissions
Office.
Smith voiced apprehension that members of the state legislature and others
would misinterpret it as being staterunded, although that is not the case.
The ad is signed "Students and Friends
of Evergreen," which the authors felt
was quite explicit. Still, to eliminate any
possible ambiguity in the wording. in response to Smith's criticism the students
have changed the wording to "Studenta
and Alumni of Evergreen." The students
alao changed the word "radical," which
appeared in a January In TheA Timea,
t.o "empowering," in response to criticiam.
The image projected by cla.uified ad•
vertising was Smith's final concern. She
worried that the type of person who
reads such clusified ads is not likely lo
be a potentiaUy serious student. Al!o.
apparently when Fairhaven College in
Bellingham advertised in a magazine a
rew years back, the action was frowned
upon by Washington's academic community. In that instance. the school, rather
than the students, was funding the ads.
Fink responded to this concern, saying
"we wanted the whole project to have a
personal nature. Our major complaint
with the Catalog is ils totally impersonal
tone, so we decided to balance that.
There isn't a more personal method of
large-scale adverti!ing than classified,."
Smith thinks that lhe ads might not be
worth the cost, and suggested some alternatives which she feels might be more
effective. One such idea is to advertise in
high-school newspapers
and alumni
magazines, where the potential number
of students is great.er. A much more ambitious plan that Smith forwarded is to
submit an article to national publications,
rather than a classified ad. Though this
i., more difficulf,, Smith feels it would
permit an in-depth probe of the is5ues.
The ad was first ronceived of at a
Chanukah celebration
in SeatLle, at
•which Fink was one of many Evergreen
students and alumni. At that time the ad
went through many drafts. Fink then
brought the ad back to Olympia, where
it was further critiqued and revised.
Subsequently, copies of the ad were
sent to la Titeee Time• and Mother
Joae11 Mquine,
for publication under
their "Education" sections. The Mother
Jones edition of the ad is not due until
their April issue, and the students did
not expect to see the In These Times
edition until February. Much to their
surprise, In These Times published the
ad in mid-January.
At this point the students called an
t·mergency meeting to ready their reply
letter for the initial inquiries. These in(1uiries come to a private Post Office
Hox. so the organizer, will be able to
rount the responses and judge thf" ad's
•rfecliveness. Their response will include
a form letter which they hope will be
more personal than the Admissions Of
fice's correspondence. Handwritten answers to specific questions will also be
included, and the addresses will thf'n be
forwarded to the Admissions Offi<"e.
"Earlier that morning," said Fink, "I
had read the Catalog from cover to cover
and I found that I was actually very im
pressed. Graphically I thought it was a
disaster, but the content was really Spt><"·
tacular. IL doesn't shrink from talking
about Evergreen as a very political
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Olympia anti-draft forces mobilize
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By Jan Loftneaa
Po~ and surveys acroea the country
indicate that if asked by President
Carter, a majority of thia nation's young
people would be willing·(if not downright
enthuaiaatic) to be drafted and go fight
the Sovieta. But at Evergreen, and on
other tollege eampu1e1, the reverie
-ma to be true.
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ship of Reconciliation, opened a forum of
four speaken by saying that the time to
act is now. Andenon stated that the
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waa to actuall7 form the orpniaaUon
w11Rh7iiifori Oii iirght'liadnot emted.
and to inform people of tho current situatlon and where they might ■tand.
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proof is upon the individual. and preparation for lhe Draft
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Preaident bu the power to call for l"egli,
tration, but actual induction of the draft
needs Congreaaional approvaL He said
people muat lean heavily on Carter,
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Bonker, Magnuson, or other senators and
congressmen
fro.n each individual's
h0
tat.e
;':.: sen:;, of immediacy pervaded the
spee<:hes that followed. Andy Carter, a
conscientious objector, spoke on the
C.O. stal~• question and streased that
iust sendtng 10 your eard to the C.0.
Central Committee (which should be
done now to go on record at the earliest
possible date) is not enough proof for the
Draft Board that one aclually is a consci•
sew■ge
lJ?~a~l~~e
e!.~ore
·-~£~he
s~Y!£!!!-!~oved
dis•
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have been granted a 30-day contlnuaneo poual syst.em.
Thirteen Evergreen studenta may face of the eviction order on the grounda that
The eviction notice declared the dwell•
eviction from their canvaa bomea. Coun• ten day■ is not enough time to locate lngs in violation of the ·stat.e Uniform
ly offieiala served notice to ■tudonta liv• alternative bouaing. Thooe involved are Bullding Code and warned that they
ing in aeven tipis and a yurl laat Tuea- yiewing the pootponement with relief, could "not be used or occupied aft.er
day that they were In violation of local but ii ia likely that tho issue will be con· February 10." A spolteaperaon for the
health and building codes. The student& fronted again.
Department eaid that if the studenta did
were given until February 10 to comply
The recent action came aa a result of not move, then the cue would be turned
with the order. However, since tipia cancomplain ta registered
by neighbon
over to the proeecutor'1 office.
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not be brought to code, the 1tudenta may
a,rainat the dwellinp. The studenta were
The reaction of the studenta ranged
be forced to vaeat.e Or face poulble
cited for non-eomplianee with the Count7 from shock and indignation to resolute
arrest.
Sanitary code which requires every real• acceptance. Veteran tipi dweller Paul
EEl~;:r:.~!2;~:~~~:~:i
ways completely exempt from military
duty. They must register (like anyone
else) and sometimes must go through
basic training. For further information
on obtaining C.O. statue and an official
Continued on page 4
Fitch said, "We are being denied the
right to live as we do, not because we
a.re causing harm and not because the
authorities are concerned with our safety
or health, but because certain neighbors
and developers do not want us around."
Responding to a friend's disbelief.
John Willis replied, "This aame scene has
occurred over and over. It's the classic
confrontation between non-traditional life
styles and the restrictions of authority.
It was only a matter of time before this
happened."
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J,ETTERS
counseling, contraception, and abortion
to minor children without parental
knowledge and conaent.• "Child Abuse"
protect.ion includes protect.ion "from the
moment of conception."
And 1 under
"Family Law" it st.ates, "We oppooe the
ratification ol any Equal Right.a Amendment."
However you may view the futility of
auch conferences, or the obvioua election
year acrobatics of them, I urp you to
come. Abortion right.a are under aiep,
but that ii only the tip of TUG'• 1trategic iceberg. TUG's platform dearly indicate ■ an attack on all gain, made in the
past decade (however paltry), from
women's righta t.o individual freedom t.o
the separation of church and at.ate.
Registration is FREE, but JOU must
prueslllter Deadline ii February 15. To
streamline the proceu, pleue leave your
name, addreoa, and telephone number at
my mailbox in CAB 806, or call 88G-6220
with the information. And remember: it'•
just one day out of your life. You're
bound t.o learn quite a bit bJ coming.
Alexia Jetter
1----------------4
I
tee would have condeocended t.o make
coming! And so what? The day we go t.o "over here."
public and more subst.ant.iated than the
Kelly
McGrew
• wa.r there will be numerous reasons:
rumors that would have circulated had
with amplifications. clarifications and obthe !act.a not been printed. (Anyone who
fuscations abounding, u to why or why
seriously thinks charges that Leary ha~
not we should have a draft. Far be it
been an FBI informer are unsubstantiCPJfrom this observer to attempt to set the
ated is welcome to argue their cue in
It wasn't funny the first time. They record straight. Nonethele11, here are
the CPJ. Some people, after all. are still
said things like that in '56 to warn us off. some thoughts as to why we should have
delending Richard Nixon.) lrresponaibilll wasn't funny the second time. They
a draft.
ity? Abuae ol the first ame_?dme?t?
said things li.ke that in '66 to play liberal.
Mr. Stillwell:
A perusal of world hi.tory shows that
We're not arguing that any burnmg
The issue of the graduation speaker wu
It wasn't funny the third time. They said mankind hu frequently been at war.
social issue" wu involved either, but the
things like that in '76, knowing 200 years There are some exceptions and surely
put t.o a vote of the potential graduates.
public doe• have a right t.o know and
later we are still separate and unequal.
It
was
for
the
purpose
of
!.allying
tbil
some readers are well acquainted with
It still isn't funny in ·so.Racist jokes thoae caees. They are not however, the straw vote that the graduation commit- WANTS t.o know. This is the job ol a
newspaper. Use of the First Amendment
still suck.
preponderant majority, they are the few. tee met on 30 January. The committee
York Wong It seems to me that some of the first
written records are of war .. and they
continue unabated for 4000 years. War is
not inevitable;
it is, however, very
probable.
From the time wars began there have
been various and dubious means or enlisting the soldiers to fight. Sometimes
they were slaves. other Limes freemen:
Editor.
sometimes paid, others not. Volunteers
Tht.> Cooper P01nt Journal has . been
and conscripts
all means of raising
blatant!-.· racist in your January 31 issue.
armies have been tried. Many have met
bottom ~f page three.
opposition. We had riots in the 60's (both
Your appeal to student~ to wr!te !or
the 1860's and the 1960"sl regarding the
tht- CPJ statt>s that no two mmortty
males could ('ver equal the superiority of draft. There are indications there ma)
be riots in the 80's.
01w white male.
A draft is needed lo mainLain a stronf
You owe an apology. Cooper Point
defensive posture. Today's young people
Jt1urnal.
Sunshine L. Roze
are not volunteering in great enough
h-------numbers to provide such a posture. Util1Ed11or's Note: The individuals who
izing a lottery system of some sort we
created the ad in question ("Two Wongs
(.
could draft the necessary number of
Don't Make a While") apologize to anyom' and everyone. especially Dean Wong, people to bring our army up to par. In
addition to those drafted into the army
who mav have interpreted it as a racist
our other branches would gain enlistmessage". In retrospect, we can certainly
ments from Lhose people who {thinking
understand how it could be read that
they would get drafted) joined to get
way; what began as a simple, very
funny. pun on the names of two individ- thelr choice of service.
The draft will not solve our problems
uals seems to have taken on two or three
with the Soviet Union. Neither will conlayers of unintentional meaning. That
Dean Wong is Oriental or that Sid tinued concessions in the ge~polit.ical
White's last name is a synonym for arena. It appears they have a burning
"Caucasian" never occurred LO us in our desire to control the world. Not the
conception of the joke. Honest. Does Russian people mind you, their governanyone really think we would be deliber·
ment.
The purpose of the draft is not to raise
ately racist? Certainly one can't work on
"cannon fodder'' so we can rush into war
the school paper. or even just go to
with the Soviets. Rather it is to foreschool and talk with other students, at
liberated Evergreen and not be self- stall that war. While the Soviets are
vld nnes
conscious about how any innocent re- consolidating the grip on /dghanistan,
we should build our forces up so when
mark can be interpreted as another case
~ not abuse of it, and while it may be
they finish with the Afghans and st.art consensus was to not release the straw
of white. male racism or sexism.
the self-defined (unction of committees to
vote
tally
as
some
in
the
committee
Perhaps the joke's triple layers of licking their chops in anticipation of anwished to avoid creating possible embar- attempt to keep public information . to
other
conquest
they
will
have
to
remeaning account. subliminally, for its
rassment for a speaker choaen trom the themselves, it is the self-defined function
uproarious effect on so many people who group. This will not stop the Soviets, but
of newspapers to take the Fir■t Amendbottom ol the list.
it
will
buy
us
some
time.
passed through the office on layout
ment seriously. The CPJ sees no need to
One
must
admit
that
Americans
do
The Russians acknowledge only one
night. Or maybe it was just the late
thing-force. We tell them not to meddle have a fixation with the number l and apologize t.o anybody for this; in !act,
hour, But lo us it was no more than a
in the Middle East-yet we don't have . can tend t.o regard anything #12 H being we're thankful to the individual who
joke, a simple and somehow hilarious
leaked the information and proud of ourthe power to back ourselves up. We have inferior. The truth in this case being that
pun. Nothing racist was intended. We're
selves for putting in some last-minute
#12 is available and #s 1-11 are not.
let
our
mouth
overload
our
ass.
Why
sorry to have such ugliness Marr th_e
This issue was addressed to you and work to get the information out to the
should they listen to us? They haven'trPJ's reputation: we'll eat Crowe on this
public.)
because no American President (except you gave assent to the decision of the
one and our readers will lament that the
Wilson) has used force on them. Our committee. The decision to print the
CPJ just ain't what it Youtz to be.
political leaders haven't had the ability tally was irresponsible. Since the inforBut seriously. folks. we ARE sorry
and/or desire to stop Soviet conquest. mation is not pertinent to any burning
that our humor offended anybody and
The draft and the present American social i.sue and could indeed create unhope you believe in the innocence of our
mood wi.11allow us to withstand Soviet necessary concern, the public's right-tointent. We may be dumb but we ain't
know is outweighed by the potential
military
aggression.
stupid. I
We may not go to war. I hope we harm to be done.
I was further concerned over the ap- To the Edit.or:
don't. There is that possibility and
proach
embraced to obtain what paltry
The Regional Washington State Conshould it happen, true, I would rather we
ference on Families (one of six occurring
had adequately trained soldiers in suf- information was contained in the article.
ficient numbers to fight the first battlea You approached a repreaentative of the statewide) is slated t.o convene at TESC
while we gear up for war. I guess the committee in hopes that she would aup- on Saturday, March 1. It.a purpoee, u
defined by Preoident Carter, who called
way I'd sum up the draft i ■ if it comes to ply you with the dealred lnformation.
war it's better to have some people Though not important enough to dis- for these n&tionwide conferences. is to
To the Editor
The Draft is coming The Draft is ··over there"" before the fighting gets patch a reporter, the story wu consid- prioritize i.uuea of concern to the family,
ered to be import.ant. The lady reported
and elect delegate• to repreaent thooe
the opinion or the group and you gave views at the National White House Conassent. Later that evening, a gentleman
ference on Familie1.
came to your office with the subaequentWuhington
Right-to-Life group,,
ly printed material. It was incorporated
joined in a new coalition called TUG (The
with your opinion decrying one potential Umbrella Group) have already picked up
speaker u an informer.
1700 regi1trationa
in an attempt to
I contend that informing is like neces- swamp the conference with their~_!_ of
sity_ lt is neither .good nor bad. It limply "Ill~ Originally planned as a amall, 600MANAGING EDITOR Aleuad•
EDITOR I.any SUllweD
is. However, the wholesale use of un■ ub penon conference, the DSHS planners
ASSIST ANT EDITOR Devld Joyner FEATURE EDITOR T.J. Simatantiated material puts you in league now foresee a 1500 t.o 2000 peroon gathART DlRECTOR RudJ Butms
NEWS EDITOR CarolTucker
with the organization you appear to ering. And judging from TUG'• ..-ganPRODUCTION ASSISTANT
. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mary Youq
abhor.
izational capacity, it may well be anLIIMF..ek
..........
Your irre ■ ponaibility dell),anda an other Ellensburg.
P.. Due■ berry
Tim NoSler
apology t.o the graduation committee, the
TUG member group■ include Mor•
BORN-AGAIN PACIF'lSTS:"'11,arlene Goldstein. Kathy Davis,. David l?nes, Bru~e
potential 1pealtera and the public in moos, Mother on the March (MOM's),
Ballard, David Silverberg, Alan Frank, Daniel Hewins. Daniel Botkins, Maggie
pneral. The abuse of the right.a and Right t.o Life, and Women for Integrity
privilepa ol the fll"lt amendment 1hould in the Nation (WIN)-the group reapon1Resch, and the Graduation Speakers Committee.
not be condoned or permitted.
.
lble !or cloaing the St.ate Women'• CounThe Cooper Point Journal la pubtl&hed wNkly fOf the atudenta, IICUIIY, ataff, rodent&, and ex·
Don Howell cil. TUG's goals are 1pelled out in a
oovemOfa of The EYft<green State College Views expreued are not neoNaarUy thoN of The Everpaper called the "Wuhingt.on St.ate Progreen State College or of the Cooper Point Joumar1 1t■ff. Adwrtlalng meten■I pt'Nented here!~
[Editor'a Note: Paltry information?
don not Imply endorsement by thl1 new1peper Offices are located In the Col~
ActlvfOes Bui
Unsub1t.antiated material? The fact& in Family Statement of Principleo." Under
Ing !CAB) 104 Phone 886-e2'13 All letter• to the edltOf, announcement1, and ■111 ~ ....,,.
the article were correct and complete, "Parent.al Right.a" it st.ates "We ore unuem1 muat be received by noon Tuesday and all 1r11c._ by noon Monday lo, th■I 'MNk I pubUc.
down to the exact vote count of the alterably oppooed t.o government policies
hon All contrlbuHons mull be •~ned, typed, doubl•apeced
and ot ■ reuonable lenglh. ~
w,11be w1lhhetd on request. The editors reNfYt the right to edit lett.,. and wtlcles lo, lengt ,
frontrunning candidates. Certainly lesa and judicial deciliona which permit or
content, and style
paltry than the information the commit- promote government-funded 'service•· of
RACIST JOKES SUCK
1st AMENDMENT
ABUSED
WELL,
WE ARE SORRY
WOMEN: KNOW
YOUR OPPOSITION
DRAFT FOR
DEFENSE
SAGA MONOPOLY
I
To the Edit.or,
Well, I meant t.o respond t.o the rec:ently published food survey about Saga
while it was still lreob in the minda of
your readers, but since it wu run two
weeb ago I hope no one minds me commenting on old news.
The main point I remember grimadng
at was the one about Saga being overpric:ed, and Vonda reaponding that their
prices were comparable, or cheaper, than
other local restaurant.a. This auumes
that 1) Saga has real competition around
here, and 2) that they could be termed,
in the wildest of bad acid trips, a real.aurant.
For one thing, Saga has a contractual
agreement with the Collep that they
are the ONLY ones t.o serve food bore.
This is a monopoly (aimilar t.o Bell Tel,
but smaller). That's bad enough, but
what really irb me is that unless JOU
can drive, bitch, or buo t.o another eatery
in town, you are a captive comumer for
Saga. They have no real competition
here, and Ibey ralte in a very tidy profit
beeauae of t.bia.
The markup on product& ia the Deli is
incredibly high, Vonda's denials uide,
and it'a amazing that this situation has
By Daniel Hewina, former eare\aker
ol the Organic:Farmhouse
On November 7, 11179,the new farmhouse at the Organic farm wao sprayed
with a mildew retardent that bu poesibly contaminated the three-acre prden
at the farm. The subotance, known commercially u Addu:, and in the chemical
family of alltJI tin oxides, ii UMd in this
country u a fungicide, although it ia
used in Europe u an inaed.icide.
The effect& of this aubotance on humana la that it cause, brain damap. The
effect■ on an agricultural eeooy1tem IUcb
u that of the Organic: Farm are inealeulable. The apecific reoulta of it.a misuse at
the farm are, three montha later, aa yet
unknown.
There would have been no one to
question the ■ praying, and even no
knowledge of the damaged situation of
the farm had I not stumbled int.o a convenation with one of the contractors
applying the spray that day. At a diat.anee of 20 yards, be advised me not t.o
go up t.o the house because the stuff
being sprayed was highly toxic. He
added that if I did go up t.o the house, t.o
"keep my bead down and don't look up"
and it would be safe.
Immediately after this I phoned Dave
West. be~ of the Department ol Maintenance on campus, wanting t.o know
what the hell wu going on. He arrived
at the farm, blueprints in hand, only t.o
say that, yes, what was being sprayed
wu what Max Knaus, architect of the
new ~houae,
bad specified. And he
added, asauringly, that if Max had specilied it, it wu, of course, "perfectly safe."
Well I didn't feel safe in the least, so I
phoned Max Kna111.What I found was
that Max knew virtually nothing about
it; not the active ingredient nor the
effects that it might produce.
What this meant was that no one
knew what it was, what effects it might
have on the farm, or anything else about
it. With clouds of it drifting away from
the house and down the yard towards
the garden, I asked Dave West to have
further spraying stopped until we had
more information. He responded that he
BEAUX ARTS
REVIVAL?
To the Editor;
Da ocea::&4UUt.l-ln 1977 Evergreen hired a dance faculty for one year. Her three quarter
intermediate program wu full with a
waiting list. Other dance classes that
same year were also (ull
Presently at Evergreen there are ■till
no advanced dance programs. There are
more students who want danee in1truction and fewer faculty to instruct them
than in 1977.
We are currently cittulating a petition
t.o the deans requeat.ing that by nu:t fall,
Evergreen hire an additional dance faculty t.o teach a full time advanced dance
group contract.
If you are an experienced dancer and
would like to find out more about this
3
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Spraying biocides-outright negligence
gone
for people
so long.selling
Uwoul~
be wonderlul t.oon
have
different
foods '-------------------------------------------------in the CAB again, but the line they give
i.sue and sign our petition, please conus is that Saga bu a contract and that
t.act us at 866-1535.
the health 1t.andarda for theae "other
Dancers Seminar
foods" are questionable.
Well, it wun't so long ago that I got
lood poisoning at Saga after eating aome
lriea, when I had been perfectly healthy
(re!at.ively) beforehand. When I told her,
Vonda said something about Saga ptting a few cues like that before, period.
I gueaa the whole point t.o this tirade
is t.o let you know that if you support
To the editors & the community,
Saga (and who doesn't around here?) you
I sure bad fun at the Heaters. It
are supporting a monopol)', a sizable oeemed like everybody else did t.oo. Recorporation, and people who have no member Halloween? There were a lot of
vested intere,t in the health of their
spirited people there t.oo.Remember lut
cuatomen, unless it become• a big thing
winter quart.er? How long and boring it
which can't be pushed aside.
was. Isn't it funny bow February .often
Send pointed letters t.o Ken Jacob
seems like the lonpst month ol the
(College liaison w/ Saga) if JOU have year? Remember the Beaux-Arla Ball ol
similar thought.a or experiences, and ■top "777 I wasn't there, but heard it was
buying thinga at Saga until price& come greatl
down, and they become more responsive
This letter is a plea for somebody t.o
to the community at large.
get together a grand Beaux-Arla Ball
Ken Sternberg
this year and for everybodJ t.o attend. I
need t.o be entertained. Ya know.
Zena Lang
DANCERS'
DILEMMA
H 0RU •
·
1
ECSTASY WITHOUT
END
To the Edit.or,
This author has an idea. For a long
while, it was queationable whether or
not the idea wu worth presenting. One
wondered if this idea waa original
enough. Did everyone know about it
already? And yet, one was const.antlJ
noticing that this idea wu contrary to
and in dispute of so many of the concepta
being presented in television new ■. in
new1paper news, and in the daJ-to-daJ
converaationa ao entirely infiuenced by
media sources aucb as theae. Indeed, if
one bad an idea contrary t.o the notions
of news broadeutera, political people,
.jent, Bitty Roy.
Better yet, though, had an understanding and awareness been grasped by
everyone that things of this nature ju.st
should not happen. we would have no
need for a committee.
The achievement of thi. awareness is
indeed the direction we should go.
The second point is that once the
spraying did occur there was no respons•
ibility or action whatsoever ta.ken by any
person in the department! of Maintenance or Facilitie1 to investigate the
very real poeaibility of contamination.
Instead the investigation had to be done
by a full-time student. To me this signifies many things, the most obvious of
which is outright negligence.
Yet it signifies more than just this. It
signifies a deep lack of respect for the
Organic Farm as an experimental learning center of organic agriculture, while
(ironically) the farm is one of the very
few places in this counlry that teaches
what will prove in the near future to be
a necessary art.
It signifies a lack of concern for the
health and well-being of those who were
living and working at the farm at that
Lime. This lack of concern has posed a
severe threat to the health of those who
consumed some of the produce from the
areas nearest the new farmhouse before
the full extent of the possibility of contamination was realized.
It signified also a clear lack or understanding, an almost childlike naivete,
about the seriousness or inappropriate
chemical usage in the world today. This
I see two ~ain points revealed by this couldn't have been expressed more clearincident that are va.iuable to look at:
ly than when Dave West responded to
First. though it's common knowledge my questioning saying. "0£ course it's
that biocidea shoukl never be used on or ilfe. It wouldn't be on the market il'
near the farm (for obvious reasons), a 1t wasn't..,
lick of understanding on the part of a
So weeks and months of work, experivery few people caused this mist.ake t.o mentation, and data has been ruined. and
happen anyway. Had a committee been :he farm project has been at a vlrtual
functioning to review all environmental
standstill for three months. Hopefully
decisions on campUI (such as use of b~
the test resulls will arrive from New
cides), this could have been caught and Jersey within the next week, and hope-prevented. Such a committee, termed fully some constructive
changes will
the Environmental Advisory Committee come about because of this incident.
(E.A.C.) is now being revived by a stu-
couldn't do that. because these men had
•• job lo do.• So the spraying continued
and was completed that afternoon. Consequently, muc:b of the work at the farm,
and much ol the work of tbooe involved
in a cl111ter contract at the farm, that
afternoon churned t.o a bait.
Following the incident, it became evident that there was no intent.ion on the
part of anyone in the departmenu of
Maintenance or Facijities to investigate
the poeaibility of contamination t.o the
garden. Further, there was no committee
or group on campus designed t.o deal
with problem& of this nature.
Consequently, I ended up doing the
research I bad no bacltground for and no
interest in, other than to fmd out if the
project I was engaged in and t~e place
where I lived and worked had been
contaminated.
It was four weeks later (of research
and phone calling throughout the country) that any apeeific information about
Addex was obtained. Not many people
knew about this stuff, and the people
who did weren't very anxious to offer
what they knew. It wu a chemical expert in London working with the Tin
Research Institute, who, when t.oldof the
clrcumstances at the !arm, advised us of
the seriousness of the situation.
It was at this time that soil and plant
samples were taken by Kaye V. Ladd
and sent t.o the T.R.l. in New Jersey
with the Office of Facilities looting the
bill. Nearly two months later we've still
no results.
religious leaders, miscellaneous public
figures, and regular folks; then yes,
maybe this contrary idea WAS worth
offering to a readership's eye after all.
And not olfered just t.o a sedated or
localized readership, but to all who could
read and to all who were serious about
worded history.
One would like t.o olfer the idea that
..countries" and ..nationalities" do not
really exist. and t.o say that it would be
harmful and absurd t.o pretend that they
did exist. One would like t.o ofler the
idea that when we say, either angrily or
matter-of-factly, that someone is..lranian" and "comes from Iran," or that
someone is "Russian" and ..comes from
Russia," or that someone is "Poli.sh" and
comes from "Poland," and ao on; thi!
author says that these ways of speaking
about people are harmful and absurd indeed. Harmlul and absurd.
,
One can stare onward in disbelief at
those who see a photograph ol the beautiful earth as the planet ia shown to
appear from outer space ... and who still
want to start drawing human borderlines
an over it. As we may say that this is
absurd, we can find the same variety of
absurdity in map--mak..ingand in thoee
many textbook maps which so completely compose the "educational" proc:e11
(quotes int.ended) from intancy _t.osenil·tty. -A1ilihn ... how enllg tened would
earth's youngsters be if the "nation
notion" was never brought upon them?
We need only use the smallest po.-tion
of our imagination to realize that ..eolid"
claa1ifications of this world, merely humanoid claasificationa at that. can be so
euily abstracted. If the intenaity of
stubbornness will slow down £or a m~
ment. .. if we all take a deep breath or
two ... if we blow out the light.a and clooe
our eyes ... then we may again detect
the preaence of the poeaibly infinite
Unknown univene that auJTOunda ut in
any direction we point. This may be a
more practical per■ pective than one
might think. We might alao realize that
we barely know what "think" means t.o
begin with. Perhaps we may remind ourselves that we aU sleep. That we all
dream. That we all seek out the mystery
of love. Perhaps we may remind ourselves that we all sleep. That we all
dream. That we all seek out the mystery
of love. Perhaps we may remind ourselves that we all imagine.
The six o'clock news will not even
come close to showing us this. Nor will
the newspapers. Nor the magazines. Nor
the prominent puppets in the political
bulwark who seem to imagine very little
indeed. Instead, these media avenues
wish t.o bombard people so repeatedly
with concerns
of the only-threedimensional that people may suddenly
forget about the existence of anything
else. No kidding. Indeed, how many industrial wars and illusions shaU they
build within the "country" and "nationality .. notion? How many industrial wars
have they built already? •
It i. fortunate that, in a biological and
astronomical
sense, humanoid-bound
history has endured no more than a
split•second on the cosmic scale. So perhaps our brand of evolution is ready, in
many neighborhoods, for a simple change
from warfare-without•necesaity
to
ec.sta..sy-without-end. Our energies may
now dlrect themselvea to'tftrd the incredible po•<U1tialof k-no•iedge:-We lmve
all that we know. We have all that we do
not know, and that leaves so very much
room for growth. We have a universe ..
a multiverae ... enchanting beyond belief.
We need only •peak wi'.h the happy
children about the joys that we are wont
t.o lose.
And as for all ol the people upon this
world who would be cruel and abusive,
one can only wonder if they are ge{ting
any loving at all.
Andrew Herman
New Jeraey is a st.ate full of 1tinldng,
corrupt brutish blaclt and white aavaps,
many of whom live in a disgusting
jungle.
Manchester Union Leader, Oct. 9, 1972
4
Women fight porn
5
By Mary Young
Most of us would not call being beaten
black and blue a pleasurable experience.
Neilher would we get off on having our
throats slashed, our genitals maimed, or
our bones broken. Certainly the majority
would not. achieve orgasm at the moment
we were murdered. While some might
think Amputee Love evocative reading,
most would prefer Anais Nin ,to go to
sleep by.
Many people believe that the all•
pervasive media have the potential to
exploit real-world violence and obscenity
to the hilt. Reeord companies who pr~
duce albums with obscene/violent covers
and movie companies who promote films
with porno/violent billboards, playing on
the "manacles of love" idea, reach the
eyes and. if subliminal
suggestion
theorists are right, the consciousness of
at least every other American, children
included. That means you, maybe your
kid sister or brother, your mother or
father, maybe that eerie guy who leers
al you from behind the bushes across the
street, and maybe your grandfather or
grandmother.
WAVAW (Women Against Violence
Against Women) is a national organization that actively works to stop the
media usage of both sexually and physically violent images against women.
\\'A\' A \V believes that these images promote violence in the real world. Over 20
rhapters across the country have been
founded, inrluding a new chapter localed
here in Olympia at the Y.W.C.A.
WA\' AW-Olympia
believes
that,
through public education and consumer
al'l1vities.
the problem of violence
against women in the media will be
brought to the noodlight. Members want
corpora lions who use women in their
advertising to exercise moral responsibility. They plan to apply relentless pressure to local store owners and the companies who do business in smut by public
demonstration
and by the badgering
technique of concerned citizen letter
writing.
Since the formation of the L.A.-based
group in 1976. WAVAW have made
some significant changes in the responsi•
bility policies of movie theaters and
record companies who displayed porno/
violence. They protested and finally
persuaded movie houses in L.A. to stop
showing the "snuff' films (films depicting
the actual abuse, mutilation, and murder
of women-very popular with too many
people I.
WAVA W has also made national news
by staging demonstrations and press
conferences to protest the billboard in
California advertising the Rollin.((Stones·
..Black and Blue.. album. The billboard,
which showed a bound and bruised
woman saying, 'Tm black and blue from
the Rolling Stones and I love it." was
removed within hours after WAVAW
struck.
Recently,- WAVA W won what they
consider to be a •·major victory.'' Warner
Communications. Inc., owners of Warnew /Elektra/ Atlantic records, have,
after continually showing women being
chained. beaten, gagged, raped by one or
several men, and even being killed, on
their record covers, formed a new company responsibility policy. Warner has
agreed to halt all portrayal of violent
images in all of their ad campaigns. Campaigning with the argument that "the
use of these (violent) images in the
media. including record covers, billboards. magazine ads, and other places.
trivializes and condones violence against
women (and therefore) st.ands to threaten all women," WAVAW spokespersons
believe that a three-year-old WAVA Wincited mass consumer boycott widely
publicized nationally (by the media,
ironically) against Warner, brought
the decision.
WAVAW-Olympia
has been quite
active in the elimination of what they
think is disgusting
advertising
in
Thurston County. Besides the aforementioned
general
tactics
employed.
WAVA W recently went specifically after
Captain Coyote's Tavern. A band called
..Baby Knockers" was scheduled to perform at Coyote's in December. The band
passed out flyers around Olympia and
Evergreen promising a series of enterta.inment delights: breast wrestling. a
stampede by 200-lb. women. and barbequed Biarrans, to name a few. Al·
though the advertising wu done by the
band. WAVAW-Olympia maintained that
Coyote's was responsible .
Led by WAVAW, the Urban v,gue,
AMPEX
N.O.W., Associated Ministries, and the
Y.W.C.A. worked together to require
Coyote's to issue a policy of reaponaible
advertising.
A warning citation was
issued by the Liquor Control Board and
Coyote's responded by issuing a statement agreeing with the five groups that
Baby Knockers leaflets were tasteless
and obnoxious advertising
and that
Coyote's would monitor future ads associated with their name.
Critics of WAVA W's hard-line approach and stance on any portrayal of
women being romanticized, glorified, or
exploitt:d as vulnerable and humiliated at
the hands of violence, say that WAVAW
has gone too far. especially
with
WAVA w·s protest over lhe mm Pretty
Baby in which a young girl is shown
growing up, in the early part of the
century. in a house of prostitution and
eventually becoming a child prostitute
herself. They say WAVA W wants to
wipe out the portrayal of history as it
was and as it is and that WA VAW wants
rat
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C.O. card, cont.act Andy Carter in
A dorm. room 805, phone x5052.
A spokeswoman from the Women's
.Center. Sandy Saunders, talked on the
status of women in the draft. She made
the point that the government
has
alway1 had the power to draft women,
and that the passage (or non-passage) of
the Equal Rights Amendment haa no
relevance
to the draft issue. But
Saunders said that until Carter announces his decision February 9 on
whether or not he wants women drafted,
one can only speculate on where women
st.and.
She also related that people who are
considering a claim of homosexuality as
a way out of the draft should maybe
think again, as that claim may have no
effect on one's draft status and that
being a registered homosexual with the
government might make life less than
pleasant.
Pat Blumenthal spoke to the crowd
about her views on the political situation
that brought the draft scare about. She
said,"The issue today is not just the
draft or Russia in Afghanistan. More
than that, it is the steady build-up of
U.S. power structure to shore its flagging worldwide strength and lack of resource control."
She also accused the media of pushing
a war drive. Glen Anderson had made
the point earlier. using examples from
the Daily Olympian.
to oretend that real life situat.inn• rin nnt
exist; the critics l.!gue that we u the
public have the right to see what we
want to see, say and hear what we want
to say and hear. The issues of freedom of
the press and the license of art bave
been called on by these critics aa basis
for their argument against WAVAW's
judgements.
WAVA W members pose this controversy as a moral question: They are not
opposed to the portrayal of the art of
erotica (from ..eros" meaning love), in
fact they are in favor of iL As Gloria
Steinem writes in a recent Ms. article,
"Look at any photo or mm of people
making love: really making love ... there
is usually sensuality and touch and·
warmth ... people who are there because
they wut to be 9ut of shared pleaaure."
This sensuality raiaes thoughts of love,
well-being, and equality within people
and promotes positive examination of
mutual pleaaure, according to WAVAW.
Bui pornography, (from porne meaning
captive) depicts a clearly unequal sexual
force. Steinem says that porno "may be
very blatant with weapons of torture or
bondage, wounds and bruises, clear
humiliation, or an adult's sexual power
being used over a child ... or it can be
subtle, perhaps a very unequal nudity
with one person exposed and vulnerable
while the other is clothed." WAVAW
believes this "sensuality" raises thoughts
of SIM humiliation, violence, dominance,
and hatred with.in people and promotes
pain as pleasure.
While it is true that history and real
life are full of both eros and porne, for
the good of the society and the individual
the question is: In which camp will we
indulge our fantaaies? WAVA W-Olympia
and the local organizations who work
with them will continue to avidly work
to eliminate obscenity, pornography, and
violence from the media and to ensure
that the only campfires that burn will be
in our genitals-not on them.
The heavy turnout and enthusiasm
generated by the crowd last Thuraday
night indicated that most people at Evergreen are against the draft and are obviou sly very worried abollt it. The
second meeting held the following Sunday afternoon was unfortunately ·plagued
by the differ~nces between people want•
ing action NOW and others struggling
with the difficulties of forming a new
organization.
The many events and services planned
for the immediate to near future though,
should satisfy the disparate needs of all.
They are:
•
-Another rally or demonstration during the next three weeks to take place
downtown and on the Capitol campus.
-A letter-writing campaign aimed at
congressmen, senators. and representatives.
-A Draft Counseling and Information
Center to be located downtown and on
campus.
The Olympia Resistance to the Draft
Coalition also plans to link up with other
anti·draft groups across the country and
bring together other organizations in the
Olympia area who are not anti-draft
coalitions, but who are opposed to the
draft. The ORDC needs artists. writers,
and anyone with or without talent to
help their new-born organization.
Money is also needed, but more im•
portant, organizers say, is that everyone
who is opposed to the draft show hit
support. The next meetings are scheduied for Friday, February 8, 7 p.m ..
Lib 2100, and Monday, February 11.
same time and place.
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Cougar Lakes wilderness-a clear,cut issue
By David Silverberg
Much thanx to Bob Wazeka
and Chris ·Page
The late Supreme
Court Jus.tice
William 0. Douglas said that logging
Cougar Lakes would be an act of "official
vandalism ... Due to heavy industry lobbying this official vandalism might come to
paaa.
If you have ever been to Mount
Rainier National Park and have looked,
with wonder. over the pristene hills to
the eaat, then you have seen the Cougar
Lakes country. If by chance you l®ked
west toward the patchwork of clearcut
hills in the Gifford Pinchot National For•
est, then you have seen what a good part
of the Cougar Lakes country will probably look like in five years.
The Cougar Lakes area has long been
the focus of wil::lernesa preservation efforts and is well-known to Northwesterners. For some it is only "that picturesque
land eut of Mount Rainier.• Those of us
who love it, as well as those who hope
someday to visit it, do not want to see
lhis ,cenic area despoiled. Jta beauty and
serene wildness can o~ly be protected if
Congress designates it as a wilderness
area.
One of the participanu in the preser•
vation effort has been Douglas. Douglas
gN!W up in nearby Yakima And had a
home near the Cougar Lakes country. He
always spoke of the area with great
passion.
"The Russians have a saying." he once
asserted, "that every devil loves the
marshes where he was born. I was not
born in Yakilf>a, but I grew up in the
area and I was out in Cougar Lakes as a
kid ... It's part of my syndrome, I suppooe you'd say ... It's something I know
intimately, and it's congenial. It's filled
with nothing but beauty."
Douglas h.u been more than inspir•
ational in the Cougar Lakes struggle. He
toured the area with many Forest Service officials and together "!ith Senator
Henry M. Jackson helped cancel a Forest
Service timber sale on the North fork o(
Rattlesnake Creek, an integral part of
the remaining wilderness. William O.
Douglas died two weeks ago. His legacy
as a determined advocate of the importance of conserving wilderness shall live
on. There is serious talk or naming any
Cougar Lakes country the "William O.
Douglas Wilderness Area:· .
During the summer of 1979, Congressmen Pritchard and Lowry introduced a
Cougar Lakes Wilderness Bill in Congress. This bill, H.R. 4528, would establish
--a-270~cre-wtrclerness
1n
wo units
divided by the Chinook Pass Highway.
The area lays between Naches Paas in
the north and White Pass to the aouth,
about a two-hour drive from Olympia.
The entire region provides a spectacular and varied landscape. Rocky craga
thrust up lrom deep forested valley,
along the west side. The crest of the
Cascades is blanketed with alpine meadows amid hundreds of jewel•like lakes.
"It's part of my syndrome, I suppose
To the east in the drier ridges open
you'd say .It's something
I know
stands of pine rise high above ugged
intimately,
and it's congenial.
It's
eanyon floors.
congenial. It's rilled with nothing but
The recreational resources of the area
beauty."
are excellent. Fishing, birdwatching,
William 0. Douglas
hiking, horseback riding, rockhoundlng,
nature study, photography. cross-country
skiing, berrypicking, and hunting are
among the many activities that would be
protected by wilderness designation of
the Cougar Lakeo. Over 280 miles of foot
and horse trails, including ii long stretch
of the Pacific Crest trail, are included in
H.R.4528. Numerous campgrounds and
roads encircle the perimeter of the area
providing access to the wilderness.
Besides oulst.andinw scenic and recreational· qualities, Cougar Lakes features a
valuable variety of ecosystems. A dozen
separate vegetational zones, each dominated by a different climax tree species,
can be found. Few other places offer
such diversity, making the area both a
potential educational laboratory and a
significant genetic reservoir.
Wildlife is abundant: mule deer, blacktailed deer. elk, cougar, and a variety of
other mammals as well as birds and fish.
Reintroduction of the peregrine falcon is
a possibility. Preservation of the area
would ensure the availability of winter
range, shelter, territorial
range, and
calving areas for several key species, including an estimated 100 cougars .
Wilderness protection would also help
maintain regional water quality for the
city of Yakima's watershed and water
supplies, already in high demand, for adjacent agricultural lands. Logging, roadbuilding, and ORV use could endanger
the water resource, increasing sediment
load and raising Water temperature.
Few individuals will oppose any wilderness designation in the Cougar Lakes
area. However, powerful timber companies and other commercial interests
are seeking to minimize the size of the
area, hoping to obtain more of the public's forested land for cutting.
Representative Mike McCormick has
introduced a bill to establish a wilder•
ness of only 38,600 acres within a 138,000
acre National Recreation Area. The
N.R.A. created by McCormick's bill
would not protect the area from snowmobiles, tree cutting, or development
of roads.
Thus, the issue is how large a wilderness will be preserved. Will the few remaining low-elevation valJeys be lost?
Will the boundaries be drawn to allow
more roads to ihtrude deeper and deeper
into the core of the wilderness?
To fully understand the controversy,
one must be acquainted with R.A.R.E. II.
R.A.R.E. II (Roadless Area Review and
Evaluation) was the Forest Service program between 1977 and 1979 to inventory. analyze and make recommendations
on the fate of all roadle&s and undevelo_ped_ larrd Jell in the.. National_Fnrest.s
after decades of aggre11ive development.
Many environmental
groups. i.e.,
Audubon, Friends of the Earth, etc.,
sought to cooperate with the process,
but industry politicaJ pressure resulted
in a Carter Administration commitment
to doing the work hastily, setting an
arbitrary deadline of 1979 for recommendations on the management of these
areas-even at the price of doing a thorough or accurate assessment of management potentials.
In Waohington State only 14% of lhe
remaining roadJess acreages were recommended for wilderness management
The largest portion was "released" from
further consideration
and thus made
available for uses other than wilderness.
In contrast to H.R. 4528's two-unit
1ature, the Carter Administration's
,...ougar Lakes Wilderness proposal inludes no land north of the Chinook Pass
ighway-where
most of the timber is.
.'his "north-unit" includes the beautiful,
,w-elevation Greenwater River Valley
•'ith its popular trail system. Low valley
rails are truly an endangered species in
11eCascades.
The Forest Service says it opposes
.-ilderness designation in the Greenvater River VaUey because the current
1eavy recreational use leaves only a
limited opportunity" for solitude and
·rimitive recreation. Usually wilderness
·csignation is declared unsuitable be-·1use access is too dirricult, making the
,rea inappropriate for "dispersed recre.ltion."' In other words, in some places
there's too much recreation to warrant
wilderness
protection
and in others
not enough!
Except for the heavily forested valley
of the Greenwater, near~y H7ommercial
lorest in the area is or lo or moderate
imber-harvest suitabili . (A wilderness
iesignation would affect the local county
1mber harvest by 1.9%.) More than 40%
isn't commercial forest Land at all. Sevral factors contribute to this: short
·rowing seasons; soils that are infertile,
hallow and cold; and in numerous places
. high erosion potential. Thus where
trees can be cut others will grow back to
replace them only very slowly-if at all.
The Greenwater River Valley lies in
the 3rd Congressional District. So does
Olympia. Our Congressional Representative, Don Bonker, will have important
influence in the nature of the final wildernesa proposal In mid-March the
House Public Lands Subcommittee wilJ
hold hearings on the fate of Cougar
Lakes. They will be considering three
possibilities:
I. H.R. 4628 Pritchard and Lowry's bill
which creates a 2-unit, 270.000-acre
wilderness area, including the Green
water Valley.
2. The Carter Administration's Proposal creatinr a 120.000-acre wilderness, with no "north-unit.·· There
are already timber sales being slated
for the Greenwater Valley contingent upon passage of this alternative.
3. McCormick's bill which would create
a minimal wilderness area and would
essentially devast.ate the wilderness
quality of the entire region.
In March, the Subcommittee will issue
a recommendation to Congress for passage oL a .puticular bill. Congre.. will
then vote on it. This means a grassroots
support must manifest itself now. If ever
you cared for a piece of undisturbed
earth, write Representative Bonker and
urge support for H.R. 4528 with inclusion
of the Greenwater River Valley. His
address is:
209 Federal Bldg.
Olympia, WA 98504
or
1531 Longworth House Office Bldg.
Washington. D.C. 20515
or call his office in Olympia at 753-9528.
In the words of the late William 0.
Douglas. "Those who have that intimate
relation with the inanimate object about
to be injured, polluted or otherwise despoiled are its legitimate spokespeople."
This means us. This means you.
6
7
ESC101-lntroTESCStuGovt
By Carol Tucker
and Larry Stillwell
Evergreen
has no elected student
government. None. Moet colleges do.
Usually they are something ol a joke.
People laugh about student governance
at Evergreen too. but it's different.
It's different because it's an experi•
ment in a nontraditional form of decisionmaking. There are no elections and no
"
Student Group Section. where they are
nigh unto the kingdom ol True Power.
And, lo, it bu come to pus that they
have congregated together in the pastures of the CAB and conferred and become, temporarily,
a power unto
themselves.
The majority of Evergreen students
couldn't care leu about the. Evergreen
Council or the Services and Activities
(S&A) Board. The majority ol Evergreen
The majority
of Evergreen students
couldn't care less ... "
voting. Consensus democracy is the key
principle. Competition is out, volunteering is in.
•
But sometimes there seems to be
nothing except a vague set of halfforgotten principles and procedural bylaws to guide the neophyte volunteer
who. with idealistic intent born of belief
in democracy, plunges into the insubstantial morass of meetings and motions
which is student governance at Evergreen.
Some are swallowed by the morass
and become staff. Others escape back to
the secure haven of seminars and
lectures. Some find a way lo keep one
foot on the f-trm ground of academics and
one on the shifting sands of DesigninR
Task Forces, S&A funded organizations,
sp~,ntaneous symposia, and semi-official
study groups.
Those who succeed at this achieve, for
awhile. a unique position of power. They
participate in decision-making and are
often able to see their decisions become
realities. They shape the environment
which is Evergreen; they are the custodial shepherds tending the fields through
which the masses of students will pass.
These custodial shepherds, these caretakers of student power, represent unofficial constituencies.
They are not
elected, they are ch,_n, appointed. And,
verily. they have inherited the kingdom
ol the CAB and the Third Floor Library,
Student ad
students, rhetoric notwithstanding, could
not care less about college democracy
and are content to leave it to that small
group of individuals they sort of vaguely
recognize as somehow involved and
important.
Every couple of years, though, a wave
of panic and paranoia sweeps through
the disaffected muses and hundreds
gather for brief, excited spasms of input
and exclamation. The system shudders
and sighs and lights a cigarette over
quarter break and life goes on, with only
fond memories of something shared
between fri~nds.
Those who do the drudge work between participatory flings are the ones
responsible for keeping the communal
household together when everyone else
has been satisfied and gone back to their
separate rooms. These are the custodial
shepherds referred to above who dedi•
cated themselves, for a time, to the
idealistic goal of maintaining the mechanical and psychological support systems
that student democracy needa to stay
alive in between the infrequent blood
transfusions of mus symposia.
The Evergreen Council and the S&A
Board are the two standing bodies that
serve as representative ■tudent forums.
The S&A Board bu been here from the
start; it distributes student money to
various student groups. The Evergreen
Council is the moat recent incarnation of
International
varioua historical attempts to create •a
campus-wide governing body. Faculty,
staff, and studenta are all represented.
In an attempt to inform and involve
more students, Cooper Point Journal
editors recently oat down with several ol
the more active Council and Board members to explore the problem& and potentials of Evergreen'• alter,µ,tive form of
student governance. The following inter·
view is the result.
ing atroog student disaatisfaction.)
Bea: But that seems like one of the
problems that the Council bas to work
with, that nothing ever aeema to happen
until after the facL The pool problem
wu a response to a decision that had
already been made and the student.a
didn't like it, but according to the COG
(Covenant on Governance) the students
are supposed to be consulted about
decisions ~hat are going to affect them
before they're made .
Pippa: That's taking for granted that
'"The original idea was not to have
layers form, to have accountability clO!le the student.a have set up a way for adat hand, but u this place grows it makes ministration to consult them instead of
it jlarder for the administraton to be just calling arbitrary student.a into his
accessible, for the student.a .to be or· office, and the Council wasn't operating
(at tbe time of the pool decision).
gaoized."
Is student governance changing with
Bea: Do you aee the Council's role u
the times? This and other questions were malting student& aware of thoee deciaiona
asked in a recent interview of put and oo they can have feedbacl< before those
present representatives: Chria Fitzger- decisions happen?
ald, winter quarter Evergreen Council
Ellea: Yes, one of the things the Counmoderator; Pippa Coiley, fall quarter
cil should do is be a body of students
moderator; Rachel Katz. fall reeorder;
that the administration can locate. We
Ellen Kissmao, S&A coordinator, and talk about locatability and aceouotability
Mark .Young, S&A board member and and m7 job u S&A ,oordinator endo up
WAUS representative. CPJ interviewers
being that a lot because rm alwa79 upwere Larry Stillwell, Ben Alexander, 11.aire (CAB 3rd Door) and I get called on
Pam Dusenberry, and Carol Tucker.
for all t1!eae
things that are much more
Larry: My main question is: Why appropriate torthe Council
should anyone be involved? It seems to
Cull: But the Council doesn't have
me that the Council ia having so much any visibility. People who know you're
trouble getting organized. There seem to involved in governance still don't know
be constant appeala to the student body exactly what it is the Council doea. I
......................
"I just heard a rumor
that they're going to
build a football stadium"
to get involved that don't seem to have
any effect. It doesn't seem to be more
than a small circle of people involved.
• Pippa: You can't expect everybody to
be involved all the time but you do
expect them to know where to go when
certain things happen that they want to
have advice about or take action on and
not be alone. Maybe an imtitutional
decision, the pool lot' imtaoce. (Lut_
quarter, pool hc,un wen, limited, creat-
uaed to think it wu apathy, but more
than that I think that people juat don't
know what its function is.
Larry: What do 7ou see as the Coun•
cil's function?
Pippa: There is a groop now that is
trying to aet up a Student Information
Network (SIN). We feel that one of the
main functions of the Council is to aet up
some kind of information flow to students and b&cltagain. That ,rould be one
Continued from page I
place. It confront.a the problem of fnigmentation of education, and it confronts
the idea of competition. It makes perfectly clear that competition hu no place at
Evergreen. These are only a few ex•
amples of why I was impressed by the
Catalog. but there still are many loopholes. which we intend to fill with the
form letter."
Identifying these loopholes in the Cat·
alog, and assigning people to write sec•
tions of the letter wu the focus of the
emergency meeting. Fink described IOffle
of the aspeds of Eve~green which the
group is attempting to inform prospective students of:
""!The Catalog) !ails to mention any
student groups, really, or that S&A
funds are controUed by students. The
Catalog also laile to mention that faculty
members don't have tenure here, which
we feel is important,-a real plua. It
doesn"t mention the issue of teat.a at all,
and evaluations are only treated super·
ficially."
·•some of the things we will include i.n
the form letter are phone numben of all
the student groops, so that if someone
wants to call the Women's Center or
EPIC for example, from long distance, to
find out what is happening here, they
can do it. We think this is very valuable."
"We are going to explain how young
the college ia, and that it baa not undergone the 50-year bureaucratization process that other scboob have."
"The Catalog says 'the students are
predominantly from southwest Wuhington' and that is not true. They are using
,-idency figures to juatify that state- in visiting the school.•
Tbe~odraisingupectoftheproject
ment, so we will explain thaL •
is now being planned. The ado that have
"We are going to diseuu Evergreen',
philosophy, probabl7 enclosing some already been published were paid fot' by
photocopies of old Catalop. although individual contribution&. They ,.ru•ahow
this
that ia still up in the air. We ma7 also in- a movie and .. ll bumpenticlten
clude copies of aample evaluationa to quarter, to benefit theu- eauae, ,rhlch
calla itself "Studeata and Alomni of
ohow what a good evaluation looka like."
"We are going to mention the VA· in- Evergreen." They have no baDk account
c:lass-time lawsuit, so that VA people now and recommend tbt people who
have a sense of what'a going on. becauae want to contribute ahould aend cub, or
the Catalog does not mention thaL • (The checlu made out to cub to Grapevine,
Veteraoa Administration paued a reg- POB 2618, Olympia 98&0'7.
The primary targets for publication inulation laat 7ear that n,quiru all vets
tM ....,_, a.. Mapwho attend college full-time on VA clude W-lar
Seeondmoney to spend a minimum of 12 houn in dae and C...tel i'e ~class. The regulation ,ru aucceaslully &r'/ targets, mainly 10 becauae of their
challenged in District Court. but the VA higher ad rale9, include Ila.. the Nel ......
and the
is appealing the District Court'• decision Ywk 'l'laeo a.Cllr'.-tiu S.....
Maall«. The ;p-oup is
in the San Francisco Court of Appeals.)
"Orientation week is something we now considering advertising in atudent
newapapen· a.crou the eountry.
will stress u being valuable to attend,
The atudents •"Plained that Everunlike other school&, where it is not
green'• ad funds ma7 only be used for inworth showing up for."
"An elaboration of what it means to be state advertising, and they wish to reach
a wider audience. They are confident
in only one credit-generating program at
a time will be included, and finall7, we that the7 are keeping with the pblloso--pby of the IC!bool.
-'""ftleN
hi not a mot e
-will 10-entto.-tt,;arnudntren--argantze
their own programs. Abo, theTO will be motivated group of. student.a anywhere in
a P .S. that we are organizing places to the country. We want to continue to
attract that kind of critical student."
cruh, in cue respondents are interested
ALL WAn
function of the Council: instigating it and
keeping it going.
Larry: What would the Student Information Network do?
Pippa: There would be representatives
from each seminar or from modules that
have• a majority ol part-time students.
They would meet once or twice a month
and somebody would facilitate it and
money. Moat ol it goes to support the
CAB and the Rec center, and what's left
over supports all kinds ol other things:
CPJ, human right.a groups, intramural
athletics, et<:.
Right now they're chosen sort of by
luck. The Voluntary Service List is
suppoeed to be the major pool of people.
This quarter five people signed up for
" We stand likely
to fall into an elitist
kind of government"
throw out the decisions being made, the
DTFs forming, and pus this back to
the seminar.
Ideally it would be a way for cbooeing
members of the S&A Board, the Evergreen Council. DTFs, (Student] representatives to the Boardof Truatees, and
for the Alumni Association. so that there
would be a body that they would come
back to and be accountable to.
Rachel: The SIN would ideally provide
a cross-section of students and would get
a wide range of input from all the aca•
demic progTams.
Pippa: There would also be an advantage in bringing the decisions that are
being m,de right down to the seminar
level where people can develop more
sophisticated and considered responses.
Ellen: Yes, people can really think
about how they would lilte things to
be ... and come up with oometbing that's
more comprehensive.
Pippa: The philosophy behind SIN is
that by be<:ominga student at Evergreen
[governance I is one of the responsibilities
you ta.ke on. The students feel more a
part of iL There isn't u much separation
u with elected (student) officials.
Larry: How are S&A members chooen?
Ellea: The Services and Activities
Fees Review Board, six student.a. one
staff. one facult7, and the paid coordinator who doe• not actually sit on the
board, allocates $63 of every student's
S&A; four were already on the Board
and one bu graduated. Theoretically
that's where rm suppooed to go (for
potential Board me"'f"n) but I couldn't
do that.
Bea: What's the Voluntary Service
Li.st?
Ellea: Anyone who is interested in
doing some kind of service in the
decision-making area other than strictly
academics. The individual fills out a form
from the Information Center with what
they're interested in and it's filed there.
But there's no visibility for il There has
to be some kind of action ta.ken on the
part of the student.
Larry: Isn't it odd that there are only
five people listed to volunteer with S&A
when, unlike the Evergreen Council,
S&A does a very specific thing, i.e., hand
out our money?
Elle.a: People are only encouraged to
sign up when they ftrst get here, and
they usually only sign up !or things they
know about, so S&A, what the hell ia
that? There'• a little blurb but it's not
very descriptive. New students don't
know the isaues and haven't had a
chbce to orient themselves. And that's
the only pool I can go to.
P_, That's why SIN is really important. It'll provide an opportunity !or
every person in a program to find out
what a DTF is, what the Council ia, why
they're important, and why it's impor•
There was a young greener named ..
Honorable Mention
An ex-Greener prOfessor in tweed
Was asked why he suddenly fleed
He said with a wink,
"They'll learn how to think.
If only they learn how to read.··
-Danial Bannard
There was a young 'Greener named
Groover
Who bought a used vacuum
by
The Winner
Hoover,
Then appli,,d its so~ suction
To a con-genital function
And asked
ten credits for
Maneuver!
-Erich
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Lewis & Clark College, in Portland,
Oregon, will be the site ol the First
International Symposium on Anarchism,
beginning on Mondsy, February
18
(10 a.m.). It will continue through Sun·
day, February
24 (6 p.m.). ALL
EVENTS ARE FREE!!
Each day of the symposium will begin
with the showing of a film or other presentation (including the American premiere of three European anarchist documentaries), followed by a luncheon meet•
ing where papers will be presented.
The papers will cover a broad range of
anarchist theory, philosophy and historical' analysis. The authors are activists
, and scholars from as far away as
Montreal, Rome and Lisbon, and as near
..LS Seattle. (Two papers were written by
'llembers of the Left Bank Books collec:ive in Seattle.)
Afternoons will be devoted to round·
able discussions, including ..The lntellec•
~ual and the State." moderated bv Noam
Chomsky; "The Practice of AnarchoF'eminism;" "Anarchism Reconsidered;"
and many others.
Evenings will be filled with keynote
speeches, concerts, and dance presenta·
Lions. Keynote speeches will include
'Anarchism and Marxism," by Arthur
....ehning. Amsterdam; "The State and
Despotism ol the Mind," by Joel Spring,
University
of Cincinnati; "Anarcho•
;yndicalism and the Self-Management
lfovement," by Sam Dolgofr, New York:
.rnd many others.
Concerts will include spedal works
composed for the symposium by Maurice
Lemaitre (on a text by Isadore lsou),
Joey de Oliviera. and other composers Lo
.1e confirmed. One evening will feature a
punk rock concert by Portland bands,
the Neo-Boys and the Kinetics.
AU events are free, but those who can
Jford it are asked to pay a S20 registra•on· £ee ($15 if you register before Febuary 17). Checks may be sent to
INARCHY, Lewis & Clark College,
L,!_;
~~ 134, Portland OR 97219. Write to
t.he above address for a complete program, or call Doug Riddel& at 352-4861
for further information or to try to
arrange a carpool.
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Has a campus where veggies abound
The Nuts avoid sweets
And they rarely eat meats
But the Fruits eat each other, we've
found
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tant !or them to care.
Pippa: And I think moot of the people
do care, there juat hun't been I place
for them to plug in ... But ~l's not just a
matter of caring alt the time ... It's unrealistic to have the whole student body
on their toes all the time.
RMllel: It has to be sort of easy which
is too bad, but ... I just heard a rumor
recently that they were going to build a
football stadium ... Probably a lot of
other people are going to hear that and
they're going to say, bit<:h, moan, bit<:h,
moan, luck it ...
Ellen: Theoretically, with any kind of
decision that will affect the students, it
muat be discuased with the 1tudenta;
that'• in the social contract. Uni... it's
something someone's trying to ■tide by
like a football stadium. The problem ia
locatability and no one is ever sure how
active the Council is.
Cltrla: I want to appeal to the Evergreen community for volunteers. The
idea that nobody knows what (be Council
is, where or if it exists. is disturbing,
becauae I think there should be a revival
along with the introduc:tion ol SIN. I'm
putting together a massive campaign to
clothe the campus in the word that the
Council is alive. We need to find a place
for the Council to be more in the public
light ... The library (#3227) is the poorest
place for the Council because it's so removed from the central area ... rd like
to see the Council becoming an octopus,
involved in everything. SIN will be the
hub, students can get in, and chart the
course of the college.
Larry: What do you think about the
comparison of Evergreen government
and other four-year institutions?
Mark: Some people say ""What, you
don't have elections? How can it be an'
volunteer, and with the idea of non•
competition,
how do you get things
done'!" They think it takes forever to
reach a consensus ... I like a volunteer
government instead of an election. An
election tends to Ichoose) the best showman, not necessarily the best person.
Chrlo: If the SIN committee gets going
it wilJ take half an ounce of everybody's
effort to be involved. We stand likely to
fall into an elitist kind of government
because wherever you go the same
people are involved. They want to be
involved, they have the strongest voice,
and sometimes the only voice. Students
have no right to complain if they aren't
willing to stand up and say their
piece, too.
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Improve Saga!
Conversation with an artist
By Kristi Morrish
Food Service Advisory Group
Those of you food-eaters interested in
nutritional quality improvementa in the
TESC food service operation, now have
an opportunity
to demoa ■ trate your
voiced concerns.
During the week of February 26-29,
Saga has agreed lo make some major
changes in the food, baoed on U.S.
Dietary Goals cl low lat, low sugar, low
salt and high fiber. The Food Service
~dvisory Group will be arranging enVU'O~f!lental changes H well as daily
nutrition-awareness events and speakers
during that week. At the week's end'
you will be asked lo evaluate the projec~ ho~,,. ..
Those results will indicate to Saga
which, if any, of the changes you would
like to see incorporated into the regular
food service.
These are some of the major features
of the WHOLE-FOOD SERVICE Project.
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- Unnecessarily expensive goods and
services will not be used. The coel
of food will be used as a guide, but
not al the expense of adequate
nutrition.
- When a choice exista, fresh foods
will be used rather than processed
foods. All edible parts of foods will
be used for menu items and/or soup
stock.
- Proteins low on the lood-ehain will
be used, accompanied by hand-out
materials and education sessions for
the consumer regarding use of
complimentary protein sources.
- Alternatives
to "greasy foods"
- New salads, soups. entrees, des-.
serta. sandwich spreads, beverages
and snack bar features.
- Use of more ethnic foods
- Blue Herron and Old World Bakery
goods will be featured
- More nutritious ingredients in menu
OTE~-----------SOLAR ENERGY
FEAR OF FLYING
Women entering college after years of
child rearing, marriage and other roles,
experience
a multitude
of changeinspired anxieties. Besides a rather
easily understood fear of failure, these
women also experience a fear of success.
Success somehow brings on guilt. The
guilt grows out of placing one's self on a
higher level of concern and awareness.
Many women feel this causes an over•
whelming break in family patterns and
structure. Guilt can become a debilitative
factor in the re-entry process.
Shary Smith, A TESC counselor, will
answer questions on these emotional
conflicts as they pertain to the re-entry
woman student. This brown bag lunch
forum takes place on Thursday, February 7 from noon to 1 at the ACCESS
Center, L35l0, 866-6080.
SPORTS
The Re<:reation Center is currently
sponsoring intramuraJ sports, with three
on three halt-court basketball in the
pavillion. Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning at 7 p.m. Anyone interested in
playing, can sign up alone or as a team,
at the Rec Center. Deadline is Friday,
the 8th.
Contrary to the Evergreen
New9letter·s report, the Rec Center staff
explains that no interest has been expressed in five on five, full court basketball. Anyone interested in organized,
rive-person teams should contact the Rec
Center, at 866-6530. immediately. In
other sports news. Jefferson gymnasium
on the westside is open to Greeners on
Sundays, 7-10 p.m. The gym is only one
block off Division St., on Conger, easily
accessible by Evergreen bus.
Interested in solar or other types of
alternative energy? The third officiaJ
meeting of the South Puget Sound Solar
Energy Association will be held Tuesday,
February 12, at 7:30 p.m., at our new
office on 210 W. 4th St., downtown.
You'U be filled in on recent activities,
hear the story of one homeowners quest
for bank loans on a solar home and. if
you wish, help organize the office ... it',
that new! Your participation is welcome
For more information, call 764-8523, anc
ask for Jerry, Ann or Pat.
DRAFT STOPPERS
The community will rally to slop the
draft on Saturday,
February
9, at
Sylvester Park (downtown O~ympia,
across from the bus depot). Don't mias
an important chance to meet on this
issue. Speakers and entertainment will
be featured. The rally begins al noon
and continues to 4 p.m. Come and show
your support.
WOMEN
AND THE DRAFT
Want to help in gathering and providing information about women and the
draft? If you're interested in doing inter•
views, writing letten and doing research
on the effects the draft may have on
women and vice versa, please contact
Marcy al 866-6162, or stop by the Women's Center, Mondays and Wednesdays.
WOMEN RECRUITS
The Women's Shelter is recruiting;
volunteer training starts February 21.
Volunteers
are needed for staffing
Harbor House, child-care, publicity or
fund-raising,
public speaking and/or
transporting
women. Interested? Call
Nanc at 352-0593.
TUTORING
MEET THE
EXECUTIVES
If you want lo charge a DTF, or have
other business of interest t.o the Evergreen community, plan lo meet with the
Executive Committee of the Evergreen
Council The six-penon committee includes representatives of students, staff,
and faculty, and meets Wednesday the
13th, al noon, in CAB 108. The meetings
are bi-weekly; The agendas for general
Council meetinga, which happen on alternate Wednesdays, are planned al the
Executive Committee meetings. Bring a
draft of your proposed DTF or other
topic 81ld be prepared lo tell the Executive Committee about it. Time can then
be set aside for you on the agenda
and/ or sugnotions will be made that
may be of help to you.
NOMINATE
NOMINEES
AU student& interested in voting in the
March II Democratic and Republican
precinct caucusea can at.ill register at the
new County Courthouae, Building One.
Persons needing a ride lo regialer, call
Richard Joslin al 866-8502.
DRAFT TEDDY
TESC Kennedy for President Committee will hold an informational meeting
for all on Friday February 8 at 1 p.m. in
CAB 108. Ken Moslow, 3rd Congressional district coordinator, Kennedy for President campaign, will be the featured
speaker. Come ask questions _about the
candidate and the campaign. Information,
literature, buttons and bumperstickers
available. Refreshments.. For more information, contact Richard Joslin, ASH
#26, 866-8602.
FOR INFORMATION CALL
ANY TIME 752-9847
Presented by Robert Goodwin Studios
and Harp Shop, Inc.
4102 W. 15th
Tacoma, WA 98406
Evergreen veterans may now receive
tutoring in a new program offered by the
Veterans' Assistance office. "The service
is part of the GI Bill" commented VA
campus coordinator Willie Jackaon.
The tutorial program is designed lo
assist veterans in academic areas they're
having trouble with. The program will
help insure veteraM of full credit for
their academic work, according to
Jackson.
About 200 veterans are currently enroUed and receiving benefits at Evergreen.
The program will offer tutoring pri·
marily in the lundamentsls of math,
science and English. Anyone intereated
in tutoring or receiving assistance, can
contsct the VA office at 6254.
NICARAGUAN
SOLIDARITY
The Olympia Nicaraguan Solidarity
Committee meeta every Wednesday at
7:30 p.m. at the Food Coop, 921 N.
Rodgers. Everyone is welcome. The
group's goals are to educate people
about, and raiae money for, the Nicaraguan people and their new, post-Sonioza
government. For information call Kria
Hammer al 357-8452 or Neil Marshall
at 357-6851.
BROWN BAGS
Brown bag forums with the ACCESS
for Re-entry Women continue on Tuesday the 12th. Joan Conrad of the Cooperative Education Office will explain bow
internships lit into the education plan.
Also, Sue Culbertson ol the Volunteer
Office will explain volunteer opportunitie■ on campus and in the community.
Noon to 1 at the ACCESS Center,
Lib 3510 866-6080.
Dispatches
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By B. E. Ballard
A rather youthful writer parked hia
Smith-Corona at the kitchen table one
winter afternoon, double-parked a botUe
of gin beside it, and began drafting a
piece for a college newspaper. The
writer had never before drunk gin aa he
wrote, since chain-smoking cigarettes
usually did the trick most satiafaclorily.
There was to be an experiment. The
writer wanted lo see if the gin would
facilitsle his work in any way. He wondered intently about the appallingly
large number of writers who drank
themaelves silly all the time. He was
curious whether the alcoholism was a
product of the drive which exists in
a.rti.sta which forces their art, or whether, perhaps, it was something of the
other way around. It seemed that creativity was a fertile breeding ground for
aU sort.a of self-destructive devices.
The writer took a bubbling mouthful
of English gin. Although it tasted, to
him, like dilapidated pine needles soaked
in iodine, it had the immediate effect of
warming the very cockles of his heart. It
also gave him an uncontrollable urge to
light another cigarette, which he did only
to discover that there were two previous
ones stiU burning in the ashtray. This
amused him so much that he swallowed
more gin.
He thought. about one of the more contemporary authors that had tried this
same experiment years ago, back in the
1920'9. His name was F. Scott Fitzgerald,
and he found that it worked quite well.
lt was such a success, in fact, that he
kept it up for nearly 20 years. He would
begin a story in the same way as this
writer' began his piece for the paper. F.
Scott would then continue to drink gin,
ordering more, until his story was finished. AII that was left lo do then was
conveniently pass out.
As the writer drafted his piece he
imagined discreetly and indulgently that
he was F. Scott Fitzgerald, that it was
the roaring twenties now. instead of the
rickety eighties. The fantsay wu delightfully nostalgic. It was also frighteningly habit-forming, as most pleasant
daydreams tend lo be. The more gin he
drank, the more daring he goL The
writer 100n had the utounding gall to
believe that the life of Fitagerald paralleled his so closely that soon, he too,
wouid crack up. He became inexorably
entangled in his own device, aa il a spider with fly-papered leeL
He was fortunate, however, for there
came a sudden, unexpected knock on his
door which shattered this debilitsting
spell. He hopped lo his feet, nearly
blacked out, and swaggered lo the door.
He thrust it open dramatically to reveal
the figure of Thomas, an artist friend
from the past.
"Thomas," cried the writer in amazement, "what an unexpeded surprise!"
"Hello, Bryan," Thomas replied, "you
smeU like a gin mill."
"I am a gin mill"
"Funny, you don't look like a gin mill,"
Thofflas said tartly, grimacing at his
stale cleverness.
"But I don't grind gin, you see, I drink
it. It is the catalyst which allows me to
grind out necklaces of words."
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"Paste, Tom. You should know that.
Nothing but paste."
"Well, tell me what you're working on
Bryan. Another playr
"Nothing 10 romantic I'm afraid. An
article for the paper."
"And what's its theme, Bryan, its mes·
sage? Does it sparkle with metsphor and
symbol?"
"No, but it has a few nice gin stains.
You see, I'm trying to reconstruct the
environmental surroundings of F. Scott
Fitzgerald. It's an experiment. One can't
be without alcohol."
"Indeed. But why stop with Fitzgerald? Do you forget Hemingway and
Faulkner? What about Poe. now there's
a nice one. Get a casket or two. a couple
of rotting corpses, and a wheelbarrow
lull of bricks and mortar."
"Now that's going a bit far," aaid the
writer solemnly, "this is a serious experiment. Go for a beltT'
"I'll pass," declined Thomas. "I've
sworn off the stuff for a while. It was
starting to get the best of me."
"I couldn't agree more," said the
writer as he ingested more gin. "And
now, since you've initiated this inter•
mission in my work, tell me about what's
new with you. Have you some new
water colors?"
"I haven't touched a. brush m two
weeks."
"Thomas, how long has it been since
you stopped drinking?"
"About two weeks," said Thomas, "but
that's mere coincidence."
"Of course."
"I hale gin anyway. It tastes like crab
grass.··
"I thought it tasted like pine needles."
"Hmm," mused Thomas. He took a
tiny sip of the gin, rolled it around his
tongue. "Nope, it's neither. It tastes like
radioactive rainwater, if you ask me."
The writer then took a brimming
'llOuthful. The gin dribbled down his
~-hin,splattering his bow tie. "No, that's
not it either. It tastes.
it tastes
it
tastes, well it tastes green. Do you know
what I mean?"
Thomas took another slug. "Yes, it
definitely tssles green."
"Good. Now that we've got that settled, would you care for some tonic with
yours, or will you have it green, as I
prefer it?"
"I'll have it green. After all, it might
as weU be that color if we're drinking it
at this school." The friends chuckled appreciatively at this crack, not because it
was funily but, rather, because the gin
did more than taste green. It :nade life
unconditionally funny.
A half an hour later the painter and
! he writer bee.a.me disgustingly maudlin.
They talked of old limes, when the paint., had attended the greeri school, and of
times before. They had been friends for
knows what is reaUy going on.
I knew one guy, John, who had to
The old John Wayne movie images are
throw Viet Cong bodies out of a chopper
gone. When one outfit relieves another,
while it hovered over a South VietContinued from page 12
no one speaks to one another. There's no namese village ("This'll leach the town
private because he refused to cut the
exchanges like "Hey Brooklyn!" like
folk what happens lo Viel Congl") Herr
heart out of a dead Vietname■e and feed
there was in previous wars, only de- describes a similar incident in the book
it to a dog; American aoldien making
pressed silence. No one has any morale
and I wondered ii maybe John was i~
"love beads" out of the ears of dead
and hall the lime they don't know why the helicopter Herr was talking about or
Vietname1e;
Americana
senselessly
their fighting.
if that sort of stuff was so common that
shooting down an old man and a child;
There's no identifiable common enemy
it didn't matter anyway.
-sotd~en noncb.tauUy d:tittk:iug beet and ---0r purpo,e like-there
was if\......W2rld _()!_b_ervets I kn !!1joinf_dthe V.V.A.W.
listening to rock music in a helicopter
War II. Villages and their entire popula- (Vietnam Veterans Against the Wu) and
ftlled with rotting American bodies. and
lions are totslly deatroyed rather than the Communist Party. One even became
so on. Herr conspicuously, yet wisely.
"liberated." (At least we showed some a radical lerroruit (after all, he was
never moralizes or politicizes. The ,enserespect towards the French and Italians
trained lo kill and bomb).
lesa horror speaka for it.ell.
when liberating their villages from
But. lo me most importsntly. I flashed
There are thoee that argue that Vietthe Nazis.)
back upon an incident I hadn't thought of
nam wu no different than any other
Herr relates how he first heard Jimi for years. In the 1pring of 1972, my girlwar, who say, ..AU wars are the same."
Hendrix was while he was trapped
friend and I hitched from Bangor to
Herr showa ua that Vietnam wu indeed
behind a wall and under heavy f,re. A Waterville, Maine, for a two-day antidifferent. ..our first rock-n-roll war,'' u
soldier next to him put Hendrix on hia war action being conducted outside the
he puts It.
tspe player, figuring that the music halls of the Democratic Stste Convention.
Kida go blazing into battle stoned on would help pass the time.
We got picked up by two Air Force
pol or acid with portable casoelte recordI was never in Vietnam, but I wu In- guys coming down from a hue up north.
er■ at their aides blaring the Rolling
volved with the anti-war movement dur- They had just come back from Vietnam
Slones playing "Time 'Ia on my Side;"
Ing thoee years. Until I read Herr'• book, and were going back ooon. They bitched
news photographera charge into battles
I had forgotten some of the stories some and bitterly complained about the godon motorcycles in order to get better
of the vets I had known In the early damn anti•war protesters
who they
pictures; American force■ mi1takenly
aeventiea bad told me. Moat of the vet.a I thought had no respect for the American
bomb their own hues; the top brua con- knew didn't want lo tslk much about the lives being loet and were only concerned
tinuaUy lies to the press and never
war anyway.
with supporting the communi1ts. We
a long time. Soon Thomas, his eyes
drooping slightly, raised a question.
"What about your article, Bryan? I'm
causing you to be delinquent in your
duties. We must have no more of lhis
inane jabber. You must wrile!"
"But, Tom," drawled the wriler, obviously smashed out of his noggin, "I
haven't any theme. The piece isn'l going
anywhere. My imagination has fled without leaving any forwarding_ address.
Here. . read it-perhaps
you can offer
some fresh insight."
Thomas the painter then proceeded to
read the piece. He occasionally smiled.
but ended up wearing a frown.
"You need to bring in a controversial
issue, Bryan. A relevant topic. The idea
of alcoholic artists is vag:ue and incomplete. And anyway, it has nolhing to do
with this school in particular anyway.
What are you trying to say."
"Don't ask me. I'm a tad sloshed to be
,aying anything. Perhaps that's what I'm
.rying to say.""
"No, it's not," said Thomas, "F'ilzger·
dd wasn't loo sloshed to say something
·ven in his worsl momenls.'·
··that's debatable," said the writer. He
hen lost his lrain of thought completely.
·.fter a few minutes he shivered. ··Are
ou cold Tom? I think there's a draft
oming from somewhere."
··so do I." said Tom. ··but it's coming
om about 3000 miles away··
"Huh?"
"Have more gin. Bryan. 1t·s comrn~
1·omWashington, yes. but not the state.'·
"Ohhhh. I get it. The draft. But how
n the world can I work lhat in? No way.
!'d have to really force it.··
"Then force it. If they can force 11: you
·an force it."
"Well, whal are your feelings on it
anyway?'"
"Someone asked me jusl the other day
if I would fight in an upcoming war if it
seemed justified."'
"And?"
"Well," said Thomas lhe painter. ··1
replied: 'It seems senseless to shoot
people I don't know just because of their
nationality. I already know so many
people thal warrant dealh by merit of
their personalities. If you give me a gun,
you may find me shooting at lhose that
'-OU consider to be on our side.'"
°'That's certainly an interesting an•
,wer," said the wriler. "Would you mind
,' I used that?"
"Not at all."
"Thanks. I think it might lend an air of
.-reditability lo my article."
"I doubt that," said Thomas, ··but feel
Jrce."
They looked at each other and laughed.
t'homas had made a joke quite un1.:nowingly.
So the writer began typing again.
lrunkenly furious with his new idea. Hc•1ade mistake after mistake. He was
sloppy with alcohol. Then. after a hearty
swig of gin, he set down the bottle and
typed his last line. He hit lhe automalicreturn key and sent the carriage careening across its tracks. It slammed against
the bottle of gin, sending it crashing to
the floor. The bottle shattered, flinging
glass and gin everywhere.
The writer had forgotten he was
double-parked.
never had the hearl to tell them lhat we
were on our way to an anti-war
demonstration.
Later that nighl, we stsyed al the
V.V.A.W. camp. Alter most people had
passed out from the wine, a drunken vet
came over to my girlfriend and me. He
started talking about how much he hated
Nixon and the war, then he got into how
sorry he was for killing so many people.
At this point, he started sobbing uncontrollably ana askfng lor forglvenen.
We both put our arms around him and
held him up.
Here he was, feeling so ashamed for
having been over there, and I, somehow,
felt a strange sense of guilt for not having been there. That's how Herr's book
made me feel loo. While I was protesting
and getting out of the draft. I really had
no idea what the war was really like for
these (mostly) working class kids stuck
in it. The North Vietnamese victory was
more important to us, at the time.
The draft is coming back, and another
war may be inevitsble. Report& tell us
that something like 62% of the American
people support reinstitution of the draft.
including the majority of coUege student&. I think those fools had better read
Dl■ pat.chu and know what they're in for.
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