The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 14 (February 28, 1980)

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The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 14 (February 28, 1980)

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Howard Hawks'

His Girl Friday

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s "verbal slapstick" to campus

replied.
"Great Caesar's Ghootl" he bellowed,
I was sitting at my dMk in the CPJ "How many times do I have to tell you
office, catching a lillle cat-nap. A loud, not to call me 'Chief?"
"Sorry, sir. I wasn't thinking."
gruff voice, that I imm~diately recog·
"So what else is new? Listen, I've got
nized as belonging to the Journal's
a job for you. The CPJ needs money. We
editor, rudely woke me up.
"Simpson!!!" he snarled, with the wanna put out this satire issue, see, and
sahva from the rotten cigar butt in his I was wondering if maybe you had some
mouth running down his chin. "Simpson! idea for a film we might show for a beneWake up, you lazy bastard! I've got a job fit. Something that has to do with newspapers, like maybe Between the Line•.
for you."
"Nah, that's too expensive. Hey, how
"Sure. What is it, chief!" I timidly
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MUSIC
Friday, FM>ru ■ ry 22
Gig Commission and KAOS c1>spons0< an
evening ol dance music wl!h the Beeker■,
Pink S.Ctlon, and Minimal Man. The bands
feature Evergreen grads George Aomanslc and
Mark H Smilh Fourth floor library 9 p.m $2
lor the public. $1 for KAO$ subscribers.
Friday •nd Saturday, February 22 & 23
Gnu Deli presenls Begga,'1 Rant. a new
1oca1 band The string band plays lraditlonal
music ol Scotland, Ireland. and England and
French count~ dance tunes 9 p.m $2.
·' DkSdy band hits Allen's Say
The Oly Wah
Goulash Review with lolk. jazz and swing
mu.!uc fealuring Pat Cole on guitar, Paul
Tinker on bant'o and sax, ■ nd Sue Randall on
vocals 9 p m $1 50 I D r9Qu1red
Saturday, February 23
A blue-grass band from Sealtle. Union HIii,
comes to Applelam The band features baas.
ban10. llddie. guitar and mandolin 220 East
Union 8 Pm $2
Tueaday. February 28
K ■tl■ Finn and Friends play blues. conlemporary lolk, and 1az.z m the Tuesdays al the
CofleehOuse ,enes Around 8 D m CAB 306
F,ee
Ron Hudson, nationally famous guitarist,
performs 1n the Recital Hall Tickets are $3
general admission, $2 for students and senior
c111zens 8 pm

EVENTS
Thul'lday. FM>ruary 21
Cougar Lakes Wilderness slide show. presented by student David S11V9fberg, noon and
6 pm. lec1ure Hall 4 Donations apprecialed
Environmental Resource Center sponsors a
Benel11 sciuare dance. 8 Pm.
fourth floor
library S1 Refreshments
KAOS broadcasts a cultural and educa!lona1
program abOul Nicaragua Also, at 7 .30 Pm .
an educallonal torum on Nicaragua wUI be
held at the O!ymp!a Community Center 11>
caled on 1314 E 4th St Speakers will Include
Teresa Alexander, a former Nicaraguan who
tied lhe Somozan regime, Father Clark. a
Jesuit who had a missionary In Nlcaragu■,
and a speaker on the Unl1ed Slates' role In
L.1 1n A-1-•
Friday, February 22
Evergreen sponsors the NW Small College
Champlonahlpa Swim Meet, al lhe pool trom
10 am to 3 pm Along with Everoreen, competitors will Include Portland Community Col•
lege. Hlghllne Community College and Fort
Steilacoom Community College.
The Otympla CommlltN A91lnst Regi■tranon ■nd the Draft is sponSQnng • discussion
on the economic tmpllcallons of the presen1
world situation. the Leglslatlve process and
whal ,s ha.ppenlno wllh drafl reglatratlon t»lla

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5 30 CAB 108.
S.turd■ y, Februlry 23
The Evergreen Gay Resource Center pre-sents Culture Shock, a tw1>person !healer
company from Lancastltf, PA, who wlll conduel a er.hour workahop on creeling theatrlcat
scenes lrom personal e,tper\~.
Admission
is S5 regular/SJ llmlted Income.
A demonatratlon against reglatratlon and
lhe draft. sponsored by C.A.R.0. (Committee
Agalnsl Registration and the Oral!) will be
held at the Federal Bulldlng In Seallle. The
event Is scheduled to begin at noon with
speakers from various organizations. A march
to Weal Lake Mall wm follow.
Sunday, FebNa,y 24
In a benelll lor the Gay Resource Cenler al
Gnu Dell, Culture Shock wlll give a special
performance. Also featured Is an origi~
poetry reading by C8.rolyn Street. songs from
musical !heater by Scoll Stenshoel and lolk
music by Ken Shulman,
plus more. $2
8 30 Pm.
Musicians Jane and Barb from Abraz.a, 3-0.
and Amethyst Galleon wHI perform In a beneIii tor Nicaragua. at Allen's Bay Goulash
Review Also a par1 of the benefll will be
poetry, slldea. and historical
Information
about evenls In Nicaragua. 7 p.m.
Dancer's Sotldarlty
Potluck
6:30 p.m
ASH 66. Galt 86tr1535 Of 866-7045
C.A.R.D. will be holding an educational
meeting fOf anyone lnterea~ed In organizing
educational materlals about the drafl 9 a.m.
1623 Conger
Monday, FebNary 25
Hula Dance Workshop.
2.30-3:30
CRC
Multi-purpose Room 307 Georgette Chun wlll
leach a w~shop
lnlroduclng tradl!lonal hula
movement and folklore. Thia Is free and open
to al118Y91sol dancers C.11866-1~ for more
intormalion
The Counseling
Center otters a miniworil.shop on Procrastination. 3 to 5 pm
in Seminar 2109.
Mazen Abdul•Kadef. a Patesllnlan sludent
from the Un1Y9<sltyof Washlnglon, will be on
campus to speak on the current situation in
the Middle Easl. He wlll cover • variety ol
toplca on an Informal buts. 7:30 p.m. l.H.1
Spon
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Fr■e
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Task forces W<>nllng on varloua activities
ao,ilnst the drafl wlll come to09ther to report
on the week's progress. Everyone Is Invited to
the Umbrella Gtoup Meeting beginning at
5 30 Library Lounge 3500.
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Thuf'llday, FebNa,y 21
Photographs by Maraha Bums. Seattle freelance photographer, continue on dlaplsy In
Gallery ,. Al.ao on dll,play are Jlthoglapha--by

Thomaa Johnalon, head of the printmaking
program at Western Wuhlngton
University.
Through March 9 ,
FILMs·oN CAMPUS

Thur■day,

Ftbruary 21
The Ar1a Anource Center presents Bernardo
Bertoluocl'a Laat TllngO In Part• (Italy/France,
1972, 129 min.) st amng Marton Brando, Marla
Schnelder and Jean-P1erra Leaud • One of the
mos! revolutionary worka of ar1 8"t9f' put on
celluloid. No o ther film hu so devutatlngly
and percepllvely explored the tenalons of
male-female rfKatlonahlpa and !he tor1ured
r•yche of, t~-•llenated
maled. Brando,·•,, perormanc«i s t, .. greatest e¥9I' one on m as
he hopelesaly attempts to fi nd the meenlng of
Ille In the anua of the SOUi. Bertoluocl'a o ther
1900 • lefo,.
th •
lllms (The Conformlat,
Re¥oluUon) are more blatantly Man:lat, but
th e subUe Marxism of "Last Tango" 11 more
elfecllve. At Its core, "Lut Tango" 11 about
the lmpoS!ilbUlty of true low, freedom, and
responalblllty In• capltallat aoc:lety, but after
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being represenlallve of Bert~uccl, Of'
Goctard. and the hlSt ory 01 the cinema, Ju•t aa
eech camera movement aod Image recalls
von Sternberg aM early Fellini.) This one gets
my vote 18 lhe moat Important (a nd beat) mm
1 the 7o•s. L.H.I. 3 , 7 , • nd 9 : 30 • Only a
dOllar.
Frtd■ y, FebNary 22 and Sunday, FebNafy 24
Friday NIie Films present• Brian De Palma's
Slatw■ (U.S.A., 1973• 92 min,) Slarrlng Margot
("Lois Lane") Kidder • nd Jennifer Salt. Mu st c
by Bernaro Hermann. Back In the late 19BO's,
8 young Brian De Palma made fllma about the
counterculture • nd the drafl (OrMtlnga and
HI, Mom) with an unknown actor named
Robert De Niro. In the 10's, he alerted making
suspenae and horror fllmi Influenced by his
idol, Alfred Hltchcoek. He even coaxed Hl!ch•
cock's compoaer, Bema rd Hermann, 10 do
musical acorn for him. De Palma'a films
(Carrie, The Fury, ObNMion) display I rare
genius tor structure, editing, and stor,telllng.
Many critics th1nk Sis..,. 11 hla but tllm aoo
some people tell me tha t It's the scarleat fllm
they've 9Y9f SNn (but I'll always ha¥I • apot
In my hNt1 !or Cenle). Jennifer S.lt playa a
reporter who wllneaaes a murder, but no one
will belleYe hef'. She hires a comically eccentrlc detective 10 help her prove the murder
really happen■d Then there'• aomethlng
about Margo! Kidder havtng once been the
belier halt of• pair of SlameH twlna, bul ahe
pone■■•• _.he f'l'Mnda of both women tt

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Vol. 8 No. 14 The Evergreen State College

A position paper outlining potential
area■ of academic expansion to accommodate enrollment increase■ mandated
by the state legislature bas been submitted to the faculty by Academic ViceI
Preaident and Provoot Byron Youtz.
The report, titled "A Five Year
Growth Plan for Evergreen" warDOthat
"careful planning" is necessary to protect
traditional Evergreen values from the
consequences of rapid growth and is int.ended l.o stimulate diacuaaion toward
that end. It auggest.a a general out.line
of bow Evergreen should develop it.a
undergraduate and graduate progra,na in
the next few yeara and propoeea that tbe
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college should offer continuing education
courses throughout ■outbweat Wubing1.on"beginning almoet immediately."
Yout.z says the continuing education
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cooneo would probably not be tradi,
tional Evergreen programs but says be
"d- not believe fo, a miDute that these
could not be done in a special Evergreen
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way." The eJ:tent l.o which the counes
have ■n "Evergreen atyle" to them. be
says, could depend on how many current
Evergreen faculty are willing to undertake tho off-campua uaignment.a and
bow many new adjunct faculty, unfamiliar with the Evergreen approach, need the college, Youta' report saya. Youtz
aaya he "w1ll have to appoint a Director
to be hired.
of Continuing Education in the very near
The legialature'a Council on Poatfuture,
simply to earry out our
Secondary Education bas mandated
obligationa."
"primary r09F ailJillty• for OY..--ina'
coatinuing education in all of aouthwest
Other areaa of curricular expansion
Wublngton l.o Evergreen; tbe teaching outlined by the report include: The
of 1uch courses ..ii not a queation of addition of one new graduate program
choice but ■ question of obligation" for each year for the next four year■ with a

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February ~8 , 1980

"steady state" enrollment of 50-M students each after the first year; the development of undergraduate programs
and Specialty Areu in line with the
Lon«Raqe Curriculum Plan of 1976,
the implementation of which had been
abandoned beeauoe of ■uboequent declining enrollment.a; the addition of new
"special certificate options" in fields such

as Medical Technology and Registered
Nursing to on-campus offerings; and the
modification of existing off.campus pr~
grams, such a.s that in Port Angeles, and
the creation of new ones.
"Explicit guidelines" are necessary,
Yout.z says, to insure that the dt!velopment of certificate options in close conjunction with the offerings of the area's
community colleges does not endanger
..the central part of our own curriculum"
or Evergreen's "principal commitment to
liberal education." Such guidelines would
"Both limit and help define" the certificate programs that Evergreen would
offer.
The theme of protecting Evergreen
values and programs runs throughout
Youtz' report; at the same time the
necessity of rapid growth is viewed as
both an obligation and a.n opportunity.
The primary general task for Evergreen.
as sketched by Yout.z' "Five-Year Plan,"
is to expand into "long desired service to
Southwest Wuhington without endangering our nationalJy recognized contri·
butions to ionovative higher education."
He says:
"Thus, we are forced to become a
more 'regional' institution. But at the
same time, we must not lose our appeal
on the national scene. After all, that is
currently our major strength and signifi•
cance. We therefore have a genuine
dilemma, and it is a dilemma which can·
not be solved by 1imply doing more of
what we already do."
The faculty will begin discussing
Yout.z' position paper at their Wednes•
day, March 5, meeting.

12 TESC students tried for Trident protest
By Ella Blaclcwood

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The I.rial of 38 protest.ors, including 12
Evergreen atudents who were arrested
last October for trespassing
at the
Bangor Naval Base began Wednesday in
Seattle. After an unprecedented decision
by a U.S. District Court judge, defendants under the age of 26 (including all 12
Evergreen atudent.a) will be tried under
the Youth CorrectioDO Act. Under the
act., defendant& are entit.led l.o a jury
trial but are also subject l.o poosibly
greater penaltiea than the maximum
$500 line and ,ii montha in jail since
prison aentencea are indeterminate.

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Cruisin' for a bruisin'
By T. J. Simpson

Cnmlq bu come l.o Olympia and hu
brought all the controversy aurrounding
the film along with it. G■y right.a organizations are asking people to boycott the
mm on the buia th■t it preaent.a a dia1.ort.ed, aadiatic. and at.erotypical view of
the gay community.
Local gay activists (moetly women)
picketed the lllm--el-~pitol-Mall
lut
weekend, but were dispened by the
police after being threatened with an-eat.
The mm is being boycotted in Seattle
and other citie■ throughout the country
u well
The controversy started lut au.mmer
when columniat Arthur Bell of Tlte
Vlllap Velee, got hold of one of the
early draft.■ of the scripL Thia wu at
the aame time that Cnlaliiswu being
filmed in Greenwich Vlllap. In his column. Bell claimed that If the film wu
releued, It would have an extremely
dangerous effect on the gay community
nationwide. On t~ buia of what Bell
revealed about the script, out.ragedpya
tried l.o halt production of the film with

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wouldn't be fair to revNI what happen• at-ter
that. Ptual Soda Squid, a 1930'a Ub twet1ta
car1oon. Friday at 3, 7, and 9:30. Sunday at
7:30 only. L.H. 1. Only I dollar.
Saturday, F.,,.ry
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The CPJ present• Howard Hawk.a' Hts Gift
Friday (U.S.A., 1a40, 95 min.) starring cary
Grant, Rosallnd Russell, and Ralph Bellamy.
Baaed on the Hecht•MecAr1hur play "The
Front Page." (See the review elaewhere In thla
0ndoll
1, 7 and 9 p.m.
Issue.)
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FlbNafy
2,4
Alter Slsten, at 7:30, the phantom prc,Jectionlat prNentl The Thin Man (U.S.A., 1934,
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am r-uwwo,1 yma oy,
and Maureen O'Sullivan. Bued on the nowl
by Dashlell Hammett. Directed by w.
Van
Dyke. Although poor1y directed, 1h11classic la
still
lot of tun. (Besides, It haa a witty acrtpt
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and Powell and Loy are de!IQhttul.) This was
the first of what later became• aerln of Olma
(and a popular T.V. serln) about an urbane,
heavy-drinking detective, his wlN wife, and
their dog, Astor. Thia 11 the bell of the
aeries, In which Powell nonchalantly shoots
h
the
tree wtI
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BB ornaments
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30 Chrlatmas
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only
reel
Wectn.day, FllbNary 'l7
The Academic FIim Serles preaenls Jean
Vlgo's Zero for Conduct (France, 1933,
« min.). A group ot young boyl In• Fr~h
boerdlng achool rebel against their concUUona
and midget hNdmut•.
Thia lllm had a profound Influence on F~•
Trutfaut and
others In the French New Wa\l'I. It waa Ntm8de
in 1989 by Undaay Anderson, who expanded
the ortglnal mm and concepta, entitling It
If
Vigo was the ton of a famou1 enarchlat
whO died In priton a!'ld
tor Conduct la
one of the key works of !he Anarchist Cinema.
It was banned In France untll 19'5. A yMr"
all9f the tum wae made, Vigo died at the IOI
of 29 •fl• having completed only three t11m1.
z..rofor Conduct Is strange, e1tperlmental,
somewhat aurreallatlc, and poetic. 11·1not tor
the Impatient viewer ekpectlng aomethlng
convenllonal.
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72 min.) directed by Abram Room. A allent
sovlrtt comedy "aimed at 1hocklng male
sexual complacency and ti,■ femate acceptance ol abortion."
Thia tllm dHl1 with
women·• llberltlon
In th■ Soclallat IOcial
ladder and Is even a llltle crttlcal of the 1920'a
. SoYlet aystem. It was made during !he heyday
ol Aoaslan cinema bet~
Stalin crushed
artistic expresalon with "Socl1ll1t ANllsm."
l.H. I. 1 ·30 and 7·30 Freel
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never heard of me (there must have
about Bia Girl Friday?
been someone ehle in the room), she had
"Whazzat?"
"It's an old comedy clasaic baaed on this l.o aay about Hla Girl Frlday-"Thil
'The Front Page' and directed by peculiarly American genre of verbal slapstick was admired throughout the wo,ld
Howard Hawu. You know, the guy that
did Tlie Bis 8leep and Te Have 1111d for its vitality and freshness, and envied
Have Not. I think it's the beat American because of its freedom from certain kinda
of political censorship ... The target in
Sound comedy ever made."
" 'The Front Pagel?' Hmm ... I read all these impudent, irreverent comedies
that play in high school." He picked his wu always America itself; perhaps no
nose for a second. "Sure, that sounds other country could so freely criticise
and satirize itseH. Ironically, this wu
good. Get on it and see if we can get it."
I leaped out of my chair. "Yeasir, lost not because of governmental pressure but because of box.office presa~
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the fear of giving offense."
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I agreed with her, Bia Girl Friday cer"Sorry, chief."
"Why you-"
tainly does represent
a "peculiarly
As I stumbled over the moldy coffee American genre." Chaplin's and Keaton's
silent comedies were universal. There
cups and stinking ashtrays that littered
the floor, he threw hJa Thesaurus at me. was nothing about them that wu really
I managed l.o get out the door in time l.o particularly "American." KCaton's main
avoid being hit. but the Thesauras con- theme was man against machines and
tinued to sail right into the secretary's
the forces of nature, while Chaplin's was
man against the forces of society and the
noggin as she was typing. She received
three stitches and loot two days' pay aa economic system. As for the other
"Kings" of Hollywood comedy in the OO's
a result. The chief is certainly no one to
and 40's, Lubitsch's "touch" was disbe around when he's in a bad mood.
tinctly European; the Marx Brothers'
As I wandered down the hall, past the
posters and dirty dishes cluttered out- surreaJ antics hardly reflected "the real
side of SAGA, I wondered why I said world"; W. C. Fields was hampered by
that His Girl Friday was the best Ameri- lousy, third-rate scripts except when he
got a chance to do his own routines; and
can "sound" comedy. The more I thought
Preston Sturges' characters were a bit
about it, the more I convinced myself
too "lovable," even though his films come
that I was right.
I then called up my good friend, close to fitting into the same category a.s
Pauline Kael, to see what she had to say
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The non-jury triaJ of 78 demonstrators
over the age of 25 began Monday_ AU 73
were convicted of t.reapuaing on Tuesday. Thia came aa a blow l.o the 38
younger defendants, who have prepared
a similar defense.
Theae defendants also submitted a
"neceasity defense," but Judge Thomp!!Onrefused to hear it. He ruled that
there were other options available l.o the
protestors, and added, ..no reasonable
person could expect such action to produce a different view of nuclear warfare
than previously adopted by the Congreas
of the United States-"

Thompson further elaborated that the
court should not hear arguments or the
nation's nuclear weapons stand. '"This is
not a forum for debating America's
nuclear weapons policy," he said. The
judge did let the defense bring 7 witnesses to the st.and to make statements.
One of these was Hiroshima bombing
survivor Mary Fujita. She related the
effects of the bombing l.o a crowded
courtroom. "The whole city was darkened. Many thousands of homes collapsed. The beat burned the clothes off
people. Whole bodies were burned.
There was smoke. Fires started in the

News and Analysis

angry demonstrations at locations where
it was being ■ bot. Director William
Friedkin ('nHt Freach c..-tlN,
Tlie
Eserdat) started making changes in the
!IO'ipt in response l.o the controversy,
but apparently to no avail Distributors
refused l.o touch the finished product
unleaa it wu given an "X" rating (which
is financial suicide for commerdal Hollywood films these da a ao
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cnoppea out t e more objectionable
scenes l.o give it an "R." Gay groups
were rdused copies of the liDal script,
but decided l.o picket the film (without
having seen it first) upon ita releue
anyway.
Review■ of the film have been unanimoualy negative, but moet.ly on artiatlc
grounds. Andrew Sarris of TIN, V-..
v... (the paper that started the controversy in the lint place) 11.ated that the
conb-oveny bas come to ■n anll-climu
and he couldn't tell If tM film wu anti•
PY o, not. Frank Rich of Time found
the film to be a meu, but not threatening l.o pya.
ru admit that I had th- reviews and
Photo by Dick Mllllg■n, Courte■ y of Dally Olympian

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Hello back there to anyone and everyone we know /knew. We are both well
and happy, still academieally occupied (I
am futlshing a muter's degree in historical musicology and Daniel U: working on
one in American history), and-surprise,
surprise-we even like it here. There's a
lot we miss about the Pacific Northwest
and a lot to be said for that part of the
country, but likewise much to be said for
these parts, too.
If anyone wants to write, we'd love to
hear from you. (Yes, there really is a
Mt. Rainier, Md.I) Please keep sending

veillance. This seems like a gigantic
wa.ste o( money and time, especiaUy
when assaultive acts and violence against
women often go unanswered. We ask
OPD: To what extent is the gay community under investigation or surveilt,nce? Does the investigation include
surveillance of private property or infiltration o( gay organizations? Are you
using the incident at the bathhouse as a
justification for general surveillance of
the gay community for any reason now
or in the future?
We demand that the police be account-

WHY I AM AGAINST
THE DRAFT

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Dear Editor:
Remember Kent State? What a nationwide wave of campus protests that
caused. The daily news reports conveyed
a sense of turmoil bordering on insurrection. Hundreds of college campuses went
through a paroxysm of rage, riot, and
arson. By the end of the first week after
the kntings, 450 colleges and universities
were closed by student or faculty strikes.
Before the month was over. the National
Guard had bee" called out twenty-lour

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I am against the draft because it promotes conventional non-nuclear wars
suC'h as Vietnam. And because conventional ...-ar kills young Americans.
Sincerely,
Ron Weigelt

GAY PEOPLE ARE
ALWAYS VICTIMS

you wrote the silly. offensive, and rascist
headline "Two Wongs Don't Make a
White."
No doubt Dean Wong also thought
that he was being very clever when he
ended his letter with the silly, offensive,
and heterosexist line "Racist jokes still
suck.."
Asians are tired of being the victims of
white racism. Gay people are tired of
being the victims of straight bigotry.
Racism and gay-baiting are both forms of
bigotry. Bigotry always stinks.
Dan Tamsky

'I°" N,E',\Nn

IS 'nt~T

On November 15, 1969, 125,000 people
met to yell "peace" in San Francisco.
While some 250.000 people met in Washington D.C. From January 1, 1968 to
January 18, 1969, 14,958 American men
were killed in Vietnam, and 95,798

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still miss) without seeing the racial connotations is enormously revealing about
how this person ..sees." And his user•
tion about its "uproarious effect on so
many people who pa.. ed through the
office on layout night," far from getting
anyone off the hook, only condemna
those "many people" just as it does him.
That "lots of people think ... " is no defense of racist behavior. It-'s evidence.
That kind of consciousnesa, that mentality ,imply reOects the pervuive and
growing ethnic arrogance of white Americans these days, even here at ..liberated
Evergreen." Witness the Seattle P-1
article of 2-16-80 describing a race eonDiet ,timulated by the student newspaper at Yakima Valley College; check
out the P-1 article of 2-18-80 describing
ethnic slur, and "slips" by Ronald
Reagan and bis wile on the presidential
campaign trail. Every •ingle one of those
people either bas claimed, or will claim,
absolute ·innocence of intent. AJas, more
than one of them (heaven forbid!) is
likely to make the tiJ:ed "some of my
best friends ... " claim, even in this year
of our lord 1980. Boring! Boring! Here's
the point: oucl, bUad "laaoeence" lo lwadamentally d.angeroua, even deatractive.
It permits a wide range of racial slurs,
slights, and insults to go "unnoticed." It
enables people to be "surprised" at discrimination. It allows them the luxury of
"ignorance" as pogroms and armageddons occur right outside their doon. All
the while, "no one means .... " Such
"honest errors" we don't need; they've
killed us too long already.
Since racism itself is not a debatable
issue, as nuclear energy and the draft
are, the only real remaining issue is
what is to be done. The Yakima College
Board of Trustees is requiring broad
racial sensitivity training at YVC. Ronald
Reagan's henchmen will doggie-pan up
his droppings while he duhes for the
White House. What are you going to do,
LWS? rd suggest that you begin by
standing up and taking your medicine
(you've earned it). Acknowledge your
error directly. Then clean up your act.
S. R. Martin, Jr.
Member of the Faculty

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Olympia Police Department
8th and Plum
Olympia, WA 98501
Chief Wurner,
Several women and men in the Olym·
pia gay community have met to discuss
the recent "bathhouse" arrests and their
implications for gay people in the area.
While we do not condone these alleged
acts, we know gay people are always the
victims. And now these three men have
been victimized by the oppression which
causes economic loss, fear, and isolation
for all gays.
We are disturbed by claims ot a
··homosexual ring'' and the inference that
a witchhunl will be conducted-calling in
gay members of the community for questioning, lecturing and possible charges.
The police reports and sensational media
accounts have contributed to an atmosphere of hostility toward gay people, as
well as fostered myths about the immorality of homosexuality.
We have a number of questions for the
Olympia Police Department which we
lhink deserve a written response:
We know a double standard exists in
I his society for the rights of women and
men. and for heterosexual and homosexual conduct. Heterosexual men proposition women daily in public, yet are not
arrested. The legal definition of what
constitutes lewd conduct is ambiguous
and its enforcement selective. We ask
OPD: What specific acts constitute lewd
conduct? What public displays of affection between two people of the same sex
C'Onstitutea lewd act?
The statements of the police indicated
that the gay community was under sur-

able for their actions toward the gay
people in this community; that they s~p
all witchhunts, crackdowns. or surveillance; and that they try to prevent the
possibility of brutal attacks on lesbians
and gay men to which they contribute by
their statements.
Earnestly yours,
Olympia Gay Rights Coalition

STILL ACADEMICALLY
OCCUPIED
To the Editor:
My, my, my! Look what we found in
our mailbox today-a C.P.J.! It i.s admittedly a welcome surprise, but how did
we warrant this unexpected windfall? It
is not only totally unexpected, but the
issue which we received is almost three
months old. Not to complain, but there
must be an explanation.
It is certainly interesting to read about
the goings--on back there in Olympialand; strange how some things (as refleeted in the C.P.J., anyway) seem to
never change-at least some of the controversies in the C.P.J.s of four and live
years ago are ,till being thrashed about
today.

the C.P.J.-it'• good to keep in touch,
however tenuously. It would be nice iI
the issues could be a bit more current, if
that could be arranged.
Kitty ('74) and
Daniel ('78) Preston
3104 Windom Road
ML Rainier, Md. 20822
My sincere apologiea,
I was very late in getting out the
issues for fall quarter to our subscribers.
The reason for this was that we were
having severe ad sales problems and because ad sales account for half of our
revenue and ,ubscriptions account for
only about one-percent of our revenue, I
decided to concentrate on advertising
and make subscriptions a lower prioritv.
You will be happy to learn that every
issue this quarter has gone out reasonably on schedule but pleue be patient
and remember that even when they get
mailed on time the post office has about
the same priority for third-class mail as
the IRS has with tax-refund checks (that
is, very low). So please allow six weeks
for your copies to reach you in Ma.ryland.
Thanks for writing,
Jon Todd, Business Manager

SILLY
To the Editor:
Your reply to Dean Wong'• letter in
the Feb. 7 isaue shows that 7ou thought
that you were being very ,·~ever when

EDITOR .Larey Stillwell
MANAGING ~Ill~
Alezendor
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ART DIRECTOR Randy Hudq
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mary Yo11111 ASSISTANT
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Pam Dv1t1aberry
Tim Noeter
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Charlene Goldstein, Sally Anderson, Doug Plummer, Magle Reseh, Unda lffrlJ,
Ric~ the Cartoonist, J. C. Armbruster, Greg King, Erich Roe, Howard Hawke, tile
Daily Olympian for their pholA>and friendliaeoa, and I. F. SIA>nefor eontl.■ 11111
inspiration.
The Cooper Po,nt Journal is publlshed weekly tor the students. tacully, s1afl, roc:tenta, and exgo..,ernors ol Tfle E1tergreen State College. Views expreseed are not necessarily those of The Evercpeen Slate CoHeQe or of the Cooper Point Journal's staff Advertising ma1erta1presented hereJn
does not imply endorsement by this newsp,pe, Qtflces are located In the College Activities Bulld1ng (CAB) 104 Pflone 88&-6213 All letters to the edlt0<, 1,nnouncemenls. and ar1s and eventa
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will be w1ttit1eld on request The editors reserve the right lo edi1 letters and ar11cles for length,
conlent and style

GROWING ETHNIC
ARROGANCE
To LWS from SRM,
To keep the "public condemnation" of
the recent CPJ ad (1-31-80)and the subsequent "apologies" from drifting off into
the air of mystified innocence surrounding the whole business, I decided to
write this angrily instructive letter.
Wong's reply was too kind, Marr's too
abstruse. Roze's and Murphy's were
more to the point, but no one has yet
made my point.
The ad it.,elf was a blatant expression
of profound and still acknowledged
ethnocentrism (Murphy called it "monoculturalism," i.e., racism). Period. The
"Well, We Are Sorry" statement of
"apology" (2-7-80)was more than defensive and "self-justifying." It wa• insincere in the worst way and petulant
be,ides, ultimately blaming the victims
for taking the ad wrong in the first
place, an age-old racist pl~y. The second
"apology" (2-14-80) was a little less
peevish, but still essentially dishonest,
,uggesting that the "snideness" and "disrespect" in the first statement might al.so
have been in the reader's eyes, presumably as the original recognition of
racism had been.
That the CPJ editor (LWS) could have
looked at the image, of Wong and White,
juxtapooed them in the layout and perceived the "humorous" import (which I

There may very well be PAID jobs
open at the CPJ next quarter in both
the Writing/Editorial
and Graphic/
Product.ion areas. If you're interested,
come in and talk with Randy Hunting,
Larry StillweU, Ben Alexander, or anyone else.

THANKS, HOWIE

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Dear Larry,
In the long run. I rate controversy
over entertainment. A good editor writes
what be think,, not merely reOects what
the readers think. So let the argument
and opinion be a measure of appreciation
as much as the applause. You've got my
respect for doing your best at a difficult
tuk.

Sincerely,
Howard Cannon

GOD SPEAKS
To the Editor:
Call me arropnt. Call me an idioL Tell
me bow my foolish mind (or lack thereof)
is mired in blind hypocrisy. SbiL Yeah,
tell me, for I am donning the robeo of
God, and this is my message to that
mindlesa flock of sheep called greenen.
Tiny capwns of sinking ohipe, adrift in
a ..,, of delusion, delving into profound
truths with thOle pelagic motes that you
eall your braina. rd uy the problem of
the average greener is an innate inability
to think. It's much euier to paint up
your face, eat aproula and earthworm
extract, and IIO&I' off into the blioaful
nirvana of the 1t1venth utnl plane while
intoning Gregorian ehanta.
Evergreen seems to be a haven for the
menl&lly incapacitated, a place where
student.a eanexplore the depthi of t •
inner oelvea, and discover just how little
is there. Greenen are the true hollow
men (and wimmin). Ignorance ia truly
bllu; rve never seen 10 man7 bliuful
people.
Let's go on a ■ hort intelligence bunL
Look over there, a group of brooding
militant leminiala and lesbianal "Men are
all the same; violent. over-aggreuive,
.always seeking dominance, they even
have a lower men-penon- alltyr Tbe7
amlled amugly, spitting on the eorpoe of
some poor, inferior guy that they had
just killed. No braina here.
Oh, looltl A herd of mindleu acidheads howling at t_bemoon. What'• their
favorite occupation? Oh, not much, gen-

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FORUM---A Fare thee well to Evergreen
Goodbye, Evergreen.
olutionary function: you have given me a
"Goodbye": a eontraction of "God be Vision-an Academy, a College. Arts and
with ye." Words of departure, a wiah Sciences with capital letters. I see at last
that you fare weU on your separate
what the College once was, and therefore
journey.
I must leave you. I haven't the strength
To the holy person, with faith, these to drive the moneylenders from the
words beseech you to follow the "Path temple, so in,tead I leave them their
of God": the Way of Tao, the anarchic empty shell.
Truth of Surrealism, etc .... Even the
Evergreen, you are morally bankrupt.
path of punk rock, ii that ;. where your In the name of Art, I condemn your
art commands you.
aesthetics. In the name of Architecture,
To the blind believer, these words I condemn your construction. In the
mean "May God follow your path." A name of Ecology I condemn your plastic
token of luek; it arises from the inability :md your garbage. In the name of Politito deal with Fate on a Personal level. I cal Science I condemn your administracondemn the system that gave you birth, tion. In the name of Eros I condemn
Evergreen, for that inability.
your patriarchy. Even in the name of
To most writers of letters, the words Economics, your system's own "Dismal
are a mere formality, a way of saying "I Science" (dismay of what?), I condemn
am leaving." I condemn the system that
the motives of your membership. In the
gave you birth, Evergreen, for taking
name of Anarchy I condemn you.
the saCl'edness out of those words, and
To condemn is to declare that you
out of all words.
have strayed from the "Path of God"
I am leaving you, Evergreen, because (your patriarchal bastardization of the
you have successfully served your Rev- Tao, which your rationalism cannot even

recognize). Without malice, but without
doubt.
I leave you, Evergreen, in order to
pursue the dream of the College: and to
pursue it by tearing down the edifices
that spawned you.
I reject the reductionism that destroys
your Science, even the most sacred
Science of Revolution. I am no longer a
revolutionist
(a manipulator of the
muses). I am a Revolutionary; direct
action is my Karma- Yoga.
I reject the trivialization that destroys
your Art. I will no longer be part of the
always-paying Audience.
I thank you, Evergreen, for giving my
my Vision (my Seeing, which you vulgarize as hallucination). Dare you be
shocked that I wish to destroy you?
With love,
Doug Riddels

(P.S.-Karl: the idea does come first.
Anarchy must be Seen before it can
become real.)

1.-------------------------------------------------erally they just sit around giggling and
hooting at any mention of marijuana that
comes over the television. No brains
here.
What have we here? Oh, it'• merely a
nock of raucous political "activist.,," crying for revolution ... We must replace this
corrupt form of government with another, power to the people no matter
how· idiotic and incompetent they may
be!" No brains there.
Oh my, look up on the roof of A dorm,
a eovey of pseudo-mystics! Pray tell,
what is the solution to all the world's
problems? "Oooommmmmm .... " Oh,
really? Well thanks. No brain• there.
"Save the environment! No nukesf
Support Greenpeaeel" oh you greeners
kk'e wise ones indeed, you know bC1wto
solve these problems: buy a bumper
sticker or two, send five dollars to the
Sierra Club, and make another tofu sandwich. Oh, occasionally a few will go so
far as joining a protest "celebration" up
at Bangor. What silly little fool,. You'd
patch op your shoes, but continue walking aC1'088 the coab. Bitching about
minor symptoms while ignoring the
eause, though this is of course understandable since it's the easiest course to
take.
Oh, I almost forgot-some of you have
the answer: a world of love, cooperation,
and peaceful brotherhood-total security.
Ah, there's the word. The seething
mus .. , insecure and frustrated, are tty·
ing for the world to be brought down to
their bland and ,tagnant level. Never a
thought to change tbemaelvea. Both the
problem and the oolution lie in that
shriveled organ in.side your bead that
bu atrophied from lack of use, kept
happy and oeeupied with vision ■ of
heaven and other drug cult induced

dreams.
Most greener• just sit and stagnate,
though ■ome of the "reactionaries" at.and
around and bitch, using worn out theme•
and diebes, getting nowhere. Hold your
banner high, oh mighty Keepen of Originalit7's Flame, strive, nay, fight your
way into brave and bold new arenaa of
thought-just be careful not to ■tumble
into the tbOU1&Dd1of "leaden" who
stagger ahead of you on that beaten
th. There ou ait, dreamin of the

sixties, envisioning yourselves u the
~-;iors of Man-oopsl-Peoplekind.
Pardon me if I chuckle as I watch you stride
fiercely off into the shadows and fall off
the horizon.
Let me say that if greeners have no
other redeeming value, at least they
show how shallow and meaningless
people can be. Certainly you'll forgive
me for feeling like a god among the parasites. Oh, what's that? You want to know
how you ean be a god too? Just look at
yourself and see yourself for the silly
ass that you are and laugh, even though
it's not all that funny. Don't worry, I
hear those of you who scorn my type of
godhood, ah, the hollow men (and
wimmin).
Well the !rightful gloaming draws
nigh, and I see that you are still running
aimlesaly, so rll just leave you to your
festering minds and hope you die peacefully. That's the end.
Amen
uh, pardon.
Apersons,
God

THE ARMY CRIPPLES
YOURMIND
To the Editor;
I just read the letter from the "Vets"
who support the armed forces because
they foster lriend,hip. The friendships
one makes in the service can be long
lasting. They can also be ended very
quickly-by a bullet. Being in the Army
in peacetime is a wonderful civil service
job: good pay, lots of security, fine
benefits. lleing in the Army in wartime
gets you killed, or cripples your mind
when you have to kill someone else. Let
ua not forget that the function of an
army overaeu ii to conquer.
I am a ve!Alran. I wu discharged u a
eonacientioua objector alter two and a
hall 1ean of aetive duty. I made great
friends, friends that I retain today, but
cannot condone an inherently evil institution on that buia.

GOT NO FAMILY
Dear Editor,
I hope this letter reaches the hands of
a very understanding person. Because
this letter contains a very serious problem, at least in this writer's opinion.
I am a 23-year-old male incarcerated at
the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. I've got "No" family & don't have
anyone else to write. I am very lonely &
could use a few friends.
Therefore, I send you my problem in
hopes someone with a kind heart print!
this ad in their next issue.
My family passed away since my serving this short sentence. I've got no one!
I've tried every other college without
luck. However I still hope luck is with
me now. I still hold hope in this attempt
in containing friends! Thank you!
Sincerely yours,
Mark Gaines
23-year-old male incarcerated
at
Northern Nevada Correctional Center.
Needs someone with heart to write.
Have "no" friends-Life is lonely now.
Thank you!
Mark Robert Gaines
P.O. Box 607
NNCC
Carson City, Nevada
89701

JUST NOT RIGHT
Right or Left, our reader's always
Right. But not when the letter is unsigned. Look folks; you've made the CPJ
letters column the biggest on-campus hit
since Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance. But you've got to st.art
signing these letters or we may have to
stop printing them. Otherwise we open
ourselves to possible lawsuits. We love
angry and/or silly letters but they've got
to be signed. Names, of course, can be
withheld to protect the innocent. And, as
always, we reaerve the right to edit. All
letters should be typed and doublespaced and in by noon Tuesday. Thank
you.
The Editor

Begining nexLq: .....=.e.i:c..i;..w,'---CPJ will be soliciting
scholarly
papers involving program themes.
Papers should be comprehensible
to those outside the writer's
,
particular
academic discipline.
If interested,
come chat with us
at CAB 104.

• it t ers

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McPhee's writing glows from within
By J. C. Armbruster
John McPhee belongs to that select
..rwcies of writers-among
them Tom
Wolfe-who are masters of the novelll'ngth Journalistic essay. While Wolfe
'-Pl't'ializes in magnifying the flash and
t•xub(>rance of outre groups (The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test} or dissects folk
heros , The Right Stuff. dealing with the
..:-ene-;1sof the Original Seven Mercury
.J.stronauts). McPhee tracks rarer, littleknown men and pvents. He writes with
the force of an underground river rather
than with that of an exploding volcano.
His latest work, Coming into the
Country (1979, Farrar, Straus, Giroux) is
his fifteenth book and a portrait of
modern Alaska and notable Alaskans.
McPhee writes by observing the lives
of individual Alaskans with loving detail.
The topics he deals with in all his books
t thirteen so far) fascinate by their com•
plexity and their crystal•clear style.
McPhee can pluck out just the right
comment from hours or conversation and
describe the clarity of water in an
Alaskan stream, so that the heart beat
o! that existence is heard by the reader.
In Flannery O'Connor's words, he "uses
his reason t..o find an answering reuon
within the subject," melding anecdote,
history, and personal experience into an
organic whole:
"'For Donna Kneeland, as many as five
months have gone by without a vist to
Eagle. and much of the time 1he is alone
in the cabin, while her man is out on the
trail. She grinds wheat berries and bakes
bread. She breaks damp skins with an
old gun barrel and works them with a
metal scraper. A roommate she once had
at the University of Alaska went off to
"the other states' and left her a hundredand-fifty-dollar Canadian Pioneer parka.
She has never worn it, becausealthough her cabin is in the coldest part
of Alaska-winter temperature1 have yet
to go low enough to make her feel a need
to put it on. "We've had some cool wea·
ther,•· she admits. "I don't know how
cold, exactly, our thermometer only goea

to fifty-eight (below)." When she goes
out at such temperatures to saw or to
split the wood she survives on-with the
air sixty degrees or more below zer(rshe wears a down sweater. It is all she
needs as long as her limbs are active.
Her copy of "The Joy of Cooking" previously belonged to a trapper's wife who
rroze to death."
Coming into the Country is a continu•
ation of McPhee's writings on nature
studies and conservation. He has written
a profile of Euell Gibbons (with whom
McPhee gained weight on a six•day
foraging expedition across Pennsylvania).
Conversation• with tho Archclruld is a
study of David Brower. past president of
the Sierr& Club and present president of
Friends of the Earth.
But it would be missing the point by
half to say that McPhee knows only one
topic. He has written on the Florida and
California orange industries (~).
a
technical drama on the development of a
lifting-body dirigible (fte Dolt.id hap·
liiD Seed), and on the vanishing Scottish
islanders' life on his ancestral homeland,
Colonsay Island ('1'110 Cniltor ud the
IAlrd). The pungent personalities he

G<aphlcbyDa,ldlnnes

finds are the hubs of his stories. Hi!i
objectivity allows the reader to see the
ironies and singularities of each place,
each event, without polemic, without any
authorial tone except an analytical devotion lo his subject. In Laird, for
example. Mc.Phee uses his selective ear
to place anecdote and observation within
a distilling prose, capturing the strength
and fey humor that distinguish life in the
outer Hebrides:
"Crossing Big Lookout HiU in Scalasig,
I met David Clark, who had been cutting
J}eat. He was replacing chunks or sod.
'You replace the turf, lilte a good golfer,'
he said. 'Not many people burn peat on
Cokmsay any more. Our p;.eatis not of as
good quality as the peat of Islay. Everyone burns it there-ministers,
doctors.
But ours makes a good glow. If you get
good weather, it dries just aa hard as
coal. And what's wrong with a good fire
and a book, if it comes to thatr
"Parliament, concerned on!)' that no
repetition of tho Highland clearances
should ever occur, bu preserved certain
fragments of the Middle Ages in something like a gigantic block of clear plutic,
and inside it is Donald Gibbie (the

crofter, i.e. tenant farmer). The laird, for
that matter, is in there, too, set u is
Donald Gibbie, within what bas become
the grand anachronism of the Highlands.
'Some crofters don't work their crofts,'
Donald said. 'They have a cow, a few
sheep. That is all. My lather was always
one for working the croft. When I took it
over, I kept it going. It's not right to let
the land be negle<:ted. I'm quite happy
here. I make out, so long as the shore's
handy, and such like. But if you expect
many things in life, crofting isn't the
way to get them. Crofting cannot keep
up with the times. Most people expect
more than the necessities or living now.
And crofting is not a livelihood. It's an
existence.' "
McPhee can breath the fresh air of
immediacy into any subject. His prose
style is nearly flawleaa, fluid, packed
with the foibles and strengths of his subjeets. McPhee is a student of the
quintessential qualities that glow from
within a person's livelihood, profession,
and life.
Let me recommend one further work:
The Carve of Binding Energy, published
in 1974. The book examines Theodore
Taylor, a designer of fusion and fission
warheads during the heyday of the Los
Alamos project, who today is a critic of
inadequate industrial safeguards on
weapons-grade fissile materials. Curve
is a brilliant view of our dilemmas in
policing the nuclear power industry,
while it traces one man's travail beyond
the nuclear wasteland he helped devise.
McPbee is a bear for detail. He spends
weeks and months becoming familiar
with his subjeet. Tackling unfamiliar
topics and developing them is a t.uxing
and sometimes perilous task. In the February 19th issue of the New Yorker,
McPhee unveiled his m~t recent subject, an anonymous cordon bleu chef,
located "somewhere" within the Boston·
Washington•New York triangle, who
McPhee represented as the superior of
the best chefs of those cities.
Restaurant critics and chefs alike were
appalled. They started an outraged manhunt to find the chef. He turned out to
be the operator of a small l'Of,daide U!D,
a barely competent chef. McPbee ended
up with journaliatic cream pie on bis face.
McPhee's most recent foray into a new
field should give other writers pa118e,
just u his ,welling corpus of finely
wrought prose still evinces our admintion.

Japanese accountant to teach here
By Ella Blackwood
Dr. Hiroshi Yoahida, an internationally
re<:ognized expert on the philoeopby of
acrounting and international accounting,
will spend Spring and Summer Quarters
teaching al Evergreen u part of a Fulbright lect.ureahip. Yoshida, who currently teaches at the Kobe Univenity of
Commerce in Kobe, Japan, will arrive in
Olympia on March 23 to join the faculty
of the Management and the Public
Interest program.
Yoohida, 63, holds a Doctor of Busineaa
Administration from Kobe Uqivenity,
which is located in Washington's "lister
state" in Japan, Hyogo Prefecture. He
hu been a Profeaaor of Accounting at
Kobe University since 1960, bu written

general topic planned for the program
during Spring Quarter la "Organiu.tional
Policy and Strategy" and Yoshida is
expected to leeture on the social role of
the accountant in oociety. Plans alao include reading Japu u N-llor 0.., a
somewhat controvenial book on Japanese society, and doing a cultural comparison. Yoohida will also be offering an
evening module entitled "Socio-Economic
Context in Accounting: The J apaneae
Perspective." Other plana include vlaits
to the Management and tho Public
Interest program in Vancouver, lectures
at Eutern Wuhington University, and
poosibly presentations to local community groupa. Plana for the summer quarter
are still underway.

nine book■ and numerous articlea on
various upects of accounting, and bu
beld viaiting fuulty pceitiona at the
Univer1it7 of Wubington'1 Graduate
School for Busineaa Administration and
the University of California at Berkele7.
His intereal in Evergreen stema from a
11178visit to the campua. As a co...,_
quence of that viait, Yoshida applied for
Fulbright funding to viait Evergreen on
a more extensive buia and wu awarded
a two-quarter lectureship. Yoabida ia
Evergreen'• firat international Fulbright
scholar.
Yoobida will join the Management and
Public Interest program tbi1 1pring,
working with coordinator Gary Ra7. The

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Sun deck proposed for 'A' dorm
•By Ben Alexander
Housing ia considering building a sun
deck on top of ..A" Dorm, a move with
much popular support by dorm residents.
This is one of several proposals designed
to solve the problem of students climbing out on the roof and thus posing a
safety hazard.
Other propoeals include building an
iron cage.like structure on the existing
balcony, to prevent students from clambering onto the roof, and building a
glassed•in "Solarium" stru(:ture that
would act as a social space and sun room.
However, some type of deck structure is
favored by many of the dorm residents.
Two different basic propoeala for sun
deeks are being strongly considered. The
first proposal involves construction of a
square detk on top of the elevator shaft,
with a spiral staircase for access. The
second proposal suggests construction of
two separate decks above the existing
balcony, with ladden for access.
The first propoeal, for a deck above
the elevator, would cost about $18,000 to
build, according to anhited Jon Collier.
The second propoeal would cost between
$8,000 and $15,000. If one of these pro-

pools seems to have popular support,
Housing will probably foot the bill.
About 80 dorm resident.a crowded into
"the Corner" in "A" Dorm Tuesday night
to discuss the alternatives with Collier,
who was originally contacted about the
project by Housing Dire<:tor Ken Jacobs;
last November. In an ironic reversal of
the classic meeting process, Collier shot
a rapid•fire series of questions at the
audience.
"How many of you students live in the
other dorms?" About hall of those
present responded affirmatively.
"How many of you come over here to
"'A" Dorm and go up on the roof when it
is nice out?" There was another resound•
ingly affirmative chorus.
"II we built a deck, how many of you
would use it?" Everyone in the room said
yes to this question.
"What about the fourth floor of the
Library? Whal is wrong with tbatT' One
student exclaimed that the view from
there was poor, that there were too
many trees. Another student added that
from the edge of the Library roof, where
the view is good, there is as much safety
problem as the dorm roof presents.
Through a series of questions and

explanations Collier drew out the main
sentiments about why students get on
the roof, and about what the preferable
alternatives are. Most agreed that the
main motivation for going there at all
was for the view, rather than for sun or
air. In the further discussion of propos·
als, preserving the view wa.s the highest
priority.
Students were split on the question of
which open-air deek proposal is better.
Many students felt the over•the-elevator
proposal is preferable, because it gives
the best view and the most noor space.
These students also felt that it is the
most likely proposal to prevent students
from climbing on the roof.
Other students felt that the second
deek proposal is better because it is
safer and cheaper. Another point made
in its favor was that it is architecturally
more aesthetic.
The other proposala met with generally negative feelings from the audience.
The iron cage proposal waa too jail-like,
and one student pointed out that you
could still get on the roof from the ninthfloor balcony. The glasa solarium idea
had some support, but many felt that it
would be like a terrarium-too hot when

it g sunny and too gray when it rains.
However, this idea has the advantage
that it could be made into a social space,
Collier pointed out.
Many students expressed that the
meeting had been quite beneficial. Suggestions came up and were construe•
lively discussed. The important issues
were identified, and most of the partici•
pants left feeling satisfied.
In a short interview following lhe
meeting, Collier explained what would
happen next. The pros and cons of these
.proposals will be weighed against the
demand for other social spaces in the
dorms. which Collier termed a "crying
need."
He also pointed out that a number of
problems still exist with the current proposals. "There are stW construction and
building code problems. " he said. "and
no one solution is falling neatly into
place." However, he felt that the meet•
ing had accomplished its purpose in
identifying student sentiments.
If any students have further ideas or
input, they may contact Ken Jacobs in
the Hou.Jing office on the 3rd floor or
"A" Dorm, or call him at 866-6194.

Naturalism blends aesthetic with scientific
By Tim Nogler
"Modern students tend to think of
natural hi.story as an archaic thing,"
commented Dr. Steve Herman, Evergreen faculty member and naturalist.
"They think that in order to study the
bald eagle, for instance, you must attach
a radio transmitter to it. Or to study the
growth rate of plants, you mu.st use
sophisticated equipment."
To promote the old technique of field
observation, Dr. Herman and colleague
Dr. Al Wiedeman-n plan to form a
naturalist's club. "Here at Evergreen
we've built a tradition of natural biatory
studies, and it's time to organize that
observational effort," explained Herman.
"Observation is the kind of thing that's
possible without the aid of modern
technology."
A club would perform the function of
organization by providing an opportunity
for formal presentation or member's field
work. Papers compiled on the basia of
field observation would be presented to
the group. The club would also take field
trips to various spots in the NorthwesL
"My feeling is that it will be organized
along the lines of classic 19th century
naturalist's clubs that were present in
England,• said Herman.
Herman further explained the reason
for emphasis on natural history as

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from observation and accurate measurements. Biologists have tended to come
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student self.discipline. and encourage the
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"Naturalism blends the aesthetic with
the scientific. That's something that's
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From Gilbert Salcedo: All ~
fer 8 teer What are the nile1 for a
good seminar?
I. Be willing and prepared to diacuH
ideu and ra.iae Questiona bv com-

pleting the required reading and
writing beforehand.

2. Listen attent.ively to what ia aaid by
others and take notes on the general
discussion.
3. Speak in turn and allow sufficient
time to the other person for expression of his/her point of view.
4. Try to address an idea or argument
by addressing a particular individual
in the seminar. Avoid addressing
the group in generaJ; such com•
ments typically fall Oat.
5. Respond act.ively to what another
has said before you contribute your
own thought. Clarify the other's
meaning by brief reiteration.
6. Actively concentrate your attention
upon the topic at hand and do not
let your mind wander. Think deliberately about what ia being said.
?. Do not eat, drink, smoke, chew gum
or engage in private conversation.
These are examples of private selfindulgence which subvert the purpose of seminar and are therefore
counter-productive and completely
out of place.
These are the questions which ought
always to be in mind when you come to
seminar: Am I helping to meet the purpose of seminar'/ If not., what can I do to
contribute to the general effort? II we
have drifted from our purpose, what am
I doing about it? Will I permit myself to
become gradually frustrated, angry,
desperate, and bored? Or will I cultivate
a renewed senae of purpose by working
toward an etiquette for seminar?
It is not fair of me to pick on one
person who is in the log about seminar.
Most of the Evergreen student body is
in the fog. I would even venture to say
that the mists of mystification are creeping upon some faculty members.
So why are we all here, at this haven
of pedagogical innovation, if we are
going to let the quintessential seminar
rot away into the oblivion of lethargic
regurgitation? Why do we bother to defend ourselves to Olympia, the legislature, our pa.rents, if we will permit subversive sluggishness to erode our seminars? And why indeed do we brag about
being so different, so progressive, so
innovative and so experimental ii we are
as passive about pursuing the Evergreen
dream as a.n old car is about rusting at

Lazy passive globs can't seminar
By Mary Young
..I don't give a damn about semlllar!
I'm here to learn!"
That tirade, delivered last week in my
seminar, quite frankly frightened me.
Not solely because it was delivered so
forcefuUy and not singly because the
seminar is (supposed to be} the eore of
an Evergreen education. I was flabbergasted because this person is a full-time
student in an advanced group contract
and he could not connect '"learning" with
"seminar." In other words, he wanted
facts, not all this esoteric hooey. I had
forgotten how all-pervasive old-style rote
education is and how it encourages us to
be lazy, passive globs. I had forgotten
that the hardest thing about an Evergreen education is that we have to do it
ourselves.
So what is the definition of seminar?
Webster's Collegiate says seminar is "a
group of advanced students studying
under a professor with each doing orig•
inal research and all exchanging results
through reports and discussions." Notice
the active "ing" verb endings. Seminar is
not lecture, it is not class, it is not cafe·
teria, nor a boxing ring. nor is it recess.
While I have not completely kicked the
sloth habit, I am a neophyte seminar
freak. I believe that. in the words of a
recent CPE reviewer, the seminar at
Evergreen is an active verb. So is learning. What is discussed in seminar is not
as important as how it is discussed. Anybody can lay back. gorge-out on facts.
throw them all back up Roman-orgy,
style. gulp down more facts next quart·
er
. To seminar is hard work. It is not
a vegetable garden for the corpulent slug
to leisurely munch its way through. A
seminar is our grey matter's monkey
bars, and hang upside down by one
medulla oblongata we must.
Budding journalist that I am. I raked
the muck and came up with some int.er·
esting opinions of a very few people on
just what a seminar is and what appropriate behavior is expected. If you think
that all you need to do to seminar is to
fall out of bed, stumble across Red
Square. and land in your seat with a cup

of coffee by fifteen after, you had better
keep reading. Believe me, as elemental
as it may seem, even if you are the type
who reads the book every time, never
eats sweet rolls, never smokes, drinks
coffee, interrupts, changes the subject.,
or spaces out, or if you are the teacher,
you too should read on. These rules are
for everyone.
From David Marr, modified by Leo
Daugherty.
Seminar,:
Preparation,
Participation, and Uoea:
1. Complete assigned reading prior to
the seminar-always.
2. Take notes on the assigned reading,
and bring these notes, along with
assigned texts, to each meeting of
the seminar. Such oote1 are of two
kinds: paraphrase
(glosses}. and
comment.

3. Be on time. If you muat be lat.e, do
not join in the discussion until you
are certain that you know exactly
what is being discussed.
4. U a topic or focus is announced or
asked for, be certain that your comments are on that topic or focusnot drifting off from it or up, up,
and away from it.
5. Take notes on tbe diBCU.Hioa.Taking
notes in seminar is evP.n more important, sometimes, than taking
notes in lectures. One use of such
notes is to remind you, an hour after
you wrote something down, that it
might fit i.n the discussion nowwhereas it did not fit when you first
thought of it and jotted it down.
6. Seminars do closely resemble orchestra rehearsals. They are working sessions, full of false starts,
much practice, and some extended
nights of analysis and synthesis. But
the analogy with the orchestra
breaks down in one interesting and
crucial respect: seminars operate
with no equivalent to a musical
score. Indeed, it is precisely something like a musical score that gets
"composed" in the course of the
seminar.
7. Seminars are therefore forums in
which issues are raised and explored, but not necessarily resolved:
they require you to think, to practice the skills of analysts and Tylr·
thesis, and to try for the experience
of leaving them with more and better
ideas than you came in with.
A letter from Richard Alexander to
Lin Foa of the Vancouver program. A
seminar should:
1. Provide a forum in which each individual student is encouraged (perhaps even forced) to take personal
responsibility for a major contribution, thus leading the student to
mast.er the skW. necessary for:
-Independent research
.
-Co'herent organization of thoughts
and findinga
-U..,lul pre..,ntat.ion ofthia material
-Peraonalwng this work, ao that it
become, an expression of that student'■ individual learning goala,
experience

-And thus further the goal of the
students taking charge of their
own education forthrightly, and up
to objective standards.
2. Provide a situation in which the students u a sroup can eventually take
charge of their own education u a
gnup, thus furthering skill in group
organization, group research, group
presentation. I want the students
cooperating with each other in work
that meets the group's needs, and
within that the individual needs of
each member.
3. Conversely, break the students dependence on the faculty, and to
short circuit aU those little games
and tricks mastered from so long by
students
whereby they get the
faculty to do all the work and all the
thinking for them, and avoid putting
themselves on the line.
4. Incorporate into the seminar tasks
which neee■aaril:y require writing,

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The story about the dragon
By Lila&Eckeraberg
You've probably passed sections of the
Dragon Mural many times. Like othera,
you may wonder about its creation
and/or why people would vandaliu it.
The Dragon Mural was painted in the
spring of I 972 by students in the Man
and Art program. The purpooe of creating .the mural was to have something to
look at other than blank concrete walls
and to give Evergreen student.a a sense
that the building was theirs to respect
and enjoy, as it was the only completed
building at the time.
The painting was done by 13 students
I10 from Man and Art and 3 from other
programs) and 4 faculty who supplied
time, paint and various styles to making
the mural. The mural took about three
months to complete and resulted in an
image made of different people's images
of what a dragon represents.
The dragon winds its way through
earth, water, fire and air. It changes
from one style of dragon to nnother and
in places is no more than a representation of an idea of a dragon. The style
changes every few feet yet does so
• smoothly, making it apparent that it was
well thought out.

What hun't been well thought out is
peoples' vandalizing of the mural. Gordon
Beck, who spon.ored one student who
worked on the mura~ thinks that the
people who write gralfit.i on the mural
do so becauae they don't respect it due
to lack of knowledge of its creation.
Moet of the gralfit.i is of the type that
can be found anywhere: stupid sayings
or smart-slecky remarks. Some of it is
"Evergreen politically correct correcting," such as the addition of "wo" to the
word "men" in a quote from William
Bla.l<e.
Gordon Beck fnts to have a plaque
explaining what
e mural is and who
did it. Beck wo"l also like to have the
mural restored.
and Jean Mandenberg are looking for a couple of students
interested in learning restoration processes and applying them by restoring
the mural. If you're interested contact
Gordon Beck or Jean Mandenberg about
a possible contract Spring Quarter.

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reading, research (of all sorts),
verbal communication both oral and
written, and cooperation-for it appears to me that these are absolutely necessary skilla for living productively in our society. I am every day
more and more convinced that
clarity, precision, logical conaistency,
breadth of factual information, and
skill in ferreting out information and
ideas from resources-are
major,
fundamental, and utterly pragmat.ic.
To the degree that we do not teach
these thinga to our student.I and to
the degree that they fall of Individual mutery, to that degree our aca-

the bottom of a cliff/ We all know how
good it can be when seminar works. It is
your fault when it doesn't.
And whatever happened to my fledgeling seminar? Well, there wu more yelling, more scolding, more debate, more
muttering, more hogging the stage, more
relinquishing the Door, and ideas, ideas,
Dying off the walls. Suddenly, as we
floundered for 1ummary and closure, out
of the cloaet came gin liuea and apiee
cake. Together, In the spirit of cooperation, we raised a joviaJ glau to a new
marriage in our group.
Now I ult, is this or is thia not
learning?

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ANTI-DRAFT
The Olympia Committee Against the
Draft (O.C.A.R.D.) is currently involved
in developing a community draft information and counseling service, in providing information to hi1h school students
who wish to organize opposition to registration and the draft, and in planning a
rally at the State Capitol in March,
among other things.
Help is always needed. Several task
forces are meeting weekly to approach
specific issues related to opposing registration and the draft. Task force meetings that anyone can get involved in this
week are:
-Educational Materials Group, Sunday.
March 2. 1623 Conger, 9 a.m.
-High School Outreach Group, Tues•
day, March 4, 2509 Division, 6 p.m.
There will also be an educational meeting to discuss the world situation and the
('urrent status 0£ draft legislation today,
Thursday, February 28, at 6 p.m. For
the location, call Souix at 943-8491.
The next O.C.A.R.D. general meeting
will be Monday, March 3, in LIB 3500
loung-e. at 5:30 p.m. On the meeting's
agenda is the rally planned for March
and a discussion of the Persian Gulf and
Afghanistan situations.

International Women's Day celebration
By Sunshine L. Roze and Judy McNickle

HELP WOMEN'S DAY

YEAR OF THE COAST

The Evergreen State College Women'•
Center and Access for Returning Women
are planning a day of Celebration and
Events for International Women's Day
on Friday, March 7. There will be a free
concert in the morning, an all women's
run and a film festival in the afternoon
and evening.
Women with all types of skills are
needed to help with the actual day's
events. If you have some time and
energy that you would like to put into
this women's celebration please contact
either Sande Sanders at the Women's
Center or Diane Winslow at the Access
for Returning Women's Center. Specifically we need women to help officiate
the run, make signs and do typing for
rlyers. public service announcements,
help set up al the concert, do si.lkscreening, etc. For more information, call
866-6162, 866-7268, or 866-6080.

In r«0gnitlon of the "Year of the
Coast" the Planning Commissioners for
Mason County and the City of Shelton
and the Mason County Shorelinea Advisory Boa.rd are sponsoring a public presentation on shorelines and how· they
work. The discussion will be at 7 p.m.,
March 4, at the P.U.D. Auditorium at
3rd and Cota Streets in Shelton.
Mr. Wolf Bauer, a noted shore resource engineer, will present a slide
show and discuss the shoreline systems,
how they function, and the do's and
don'ts for development.
According to Dave McMillin,Chairman
of the Shorelines Advisory Board, "The
program should be an excellent one for
all of us who enjoy living in the Puget
Sound and Hood Canal area, and I hope
that people -will take advantage of it."
The program is open to all interested
citizens and coffee will b., available.

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COOP
POTLUCK/DANCE

MORE JAZZ
FOR EVERGREEN

Working members and rriends of the
Olympia Food Co-op are invited to a
potluck/squaredance
on March 1. at
7:30 p.m .. at Rignall Hall on Steamboat
Island Road. Carpools will leave from the
Co-op, 921 N. Rogers, and from The
Evergreen Stale College circle al 7 p.m.
sharp~ To get to Rignall Hall, go north
on HL. 101 and exit at Steamboat Island
Road. Go north 7 1/t miles, t.ake a right
on l'arquart Road: the hall will be
dm·ctl.'" on the left.
Brin'{ a potluck dish and your dancing
sh°"!!!

The city of Olympia has become the
home of a quite respectable jazz scene.
In recent years, some fine groups, such
as Obrador, Gila, and Abrua, have been
formed with Evergreen-graduates
and
people from the Evergreen community.
Six months ago a jazz saxophone player
named Berl Wilson moved to Olympia.
He has made an excellent addition to
Olympia's growing jazz culture. Berl has
developed a complete mastering of his
instrument in the 25 years he has been
playing. Many local jazz musicians think
Bert Wilson is one of the greatest saxophone players alive today. He has
played on albums by John Coltrane,
Alice Coltrane. and Sonny Simmons.
Evergreen will get its first chance to
see and hear Berl Wilson in concert this
Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall
when the Gig Commission brings him to
the campus. Tickets are $2 in advance,
$2.50 at the door: they're available at
the Evergreen Bookstore.

Evergreen has been selected as one
subject in a "Study to Assess the Extent
and Nature of Discrimination Perceived
by Protected Group Members." The
study is commissioned by the Offices for
Civil Rights of the Department
of
Health, Education and Welfare. and will
take place April 2-8. It will focus on
members of "protected groups," defined
as women, the handicapped. Blacks,
Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans,
who attend selected schools of all levels
throughoul the U.S. Evergreen is the
only institution in Washington that was
rhosen.
"Th~ purpose of th,, study is to learn
directly from those affected by discrimin•
atory actions what kinds of discrimina
tion thc>yfeel they experience and which
of thes<> have a critical effect on their
livt.•s."c;ays a lelter from CRC Education
and Dۥvelopment. Inc., the company con
<lucun,I,{the .c;Ludy.
April West, Third World Coalition Coordinator. explained Lhat those doing Lhe
~tudy al Evergreen will i11terview eight
students. faculty, and staff from each of
the groups !isled above. West said that
student
groups representing
those
groups lo be included in the study have
already been contacted. Anyone who is
interested in the study can contact student groups or the Third World Coalition
for further information.

SHLAP TAKING
APPLICATIONS
Self-Help Legal Aid Program is taking
applications for the poeitlon of paralegal
advocate until March 31. New advocates
will train during the last eight weeka of
Spring quarter on a volunteer buis and
will assume responsibility for coordinating the office in Fall, 1980, on a paid
basis.
Self.Help Legal Aid Program is an
information/referral service and a legal
resource library for the Evergreen community. SHLAP's functioa is to demystify the law; advocates decide
w!)ether a case can be handled with
"self-help" remedies, or if it requires the
services of an attorney. In either case,
advocates clarify the laws involved and
outline the resources available to the
client to resolve the issue.
All office responsibilities are shared
equally by the staff. Advocates interview clients, investigate cases, meet with
SHLAP's le,al adviser weekly, and
maintain the office, among other things.
Applicants must commit themselves to
working the entire 1980-81 academic
year. Applitations
are available' in
SHLAP's office, LIB 3224. For further
information, stop by the office or call
866-6107, Monday through Friday,
9 a,m_ to 3 p.m.

WINTER
FESTIVAL
The Third World Coalition will present
a Winter Festival of Ethnic D&nce and
Music March 5. The celebration will
begin at II a.m. in CAB 108 with a slide
show of Coastal Indian Dancing, presented by TESC student Lena Dunstan.
In the €-A-Blobby-,rt-11,·IIOa.111,, stadtdtll
from the Wa He Lute Native School in
Nisqually will perform their native dance
in traditional costume.
At noon, Wa He Lute will have a
benefit fundraiser for their athletic fund,
at which Indian lacos and tee-shirts will
be on sale. Also at noon, Georgette Chun
will perform several Hawaiian hulas
accompanied by TESC student Steve
Bader, Asian Coalition Coordinator, who
has performed professionally for several
years.
At 1 p.m., the festival will conclude
with the sounds of marimba music performed by f'umi.
This event is free and open to the
public. For more information,
call
866-6034.

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the Woman," a 58-minute show produced
by Jill Godmilow and Judy Collins, offering interviews with the internationallyknown conductor; and a 63-minute showing of "In the Best Interests of the Chil•
dren," which depicts the lives or eight
lesbian mothers and offers what its producers call •·a direct challenge to the prevailing myths about the lesbian as
mother."
Sponsors of Friday·s programs have
also organized transportation for interested local residents who would like to
attend a Bellingham concert Saturday,
March 8, featuring musicians Teresa
• Trull, Julie Homie, Pat Parker and
Sweet Honey on the Rock. Buses will
leave Evergreen at 4 p.m. Saturday for
the 7:30 p.m. Western Washington University concert, which carries a $3,50
admission charge.
Children are welcome to attend all of
the Evergreen events on Friday, and
sponsors invite women interested in
showing or selling their arts or crafts to
contact the Access Center for Re-Entry
Women, 866-6080.

Preparing for their roles in the
upcoming productions of "Man of
La Mancha" are Quixote's horse,
played by Tim Blair of Kirkland:
Don Quixote, performed by Faculty
Member
Charles
Pailthorp;
his
faithful companion Sancho, played
by Bellingham student John Malla-

han; and Sancho's donkey, performed by Kate Dresen of Seattle.
The musical will be staged February 28, 29, and March I, 2, 6, 7,
8, and 9 at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater at The Evergreen
State College.

By Carol Tucker
At the Student Information Network"s
first meeting this week, 28 students
shared insight into governmental processes at Evergreen,
the Evergreen
Council, and the function of the proi,'./,sed
Network. The vast majority of representatives from seminan agreed that the
SIN propooal is worthwhile for several
reasons: as a structured center for information, as a pathway for intra-seminar
communication. to expose new students
to opportunities, and to confront various
issues of student concern.
Growing out of a propooal by the
Study Group on Student Participation in
Decision-making, SIN received official
support from faculty at the Jut faculty
meeting. Faculty were asked to oeek
volunteers from their seminan to attend
the first SIN meeting. Judging by the
number of attendeea, either faeulty forgot to enliat atudent participation or trtuden ta forgot to attend. The overall

Two new s<hools of psychology have
begun to blossom in the last ten years.
They concern the use of body movements and mental visual images as a
means of altering psychological and
physical patterns. These studies are
being applied to many fields. In education they can increase memory, comprehension and creativity. In therapy they
can alter psychological patterns. In
health are, visual techniques are being
used to cure cancer and other body disorders. While the leading authorities in
the field of body/visual techniques might
be Jean Houston, Robert Masters and
Moshe Feldenk:rais, their work stems
from people like Merleau-Ponty, Reich,
Jung a.nd a host of other European
psychologist.a. If you are interested in
creating a group contract for spring, to
study and work with these ideas and
thinkers.
contact Guy Diamond at
866-5208, soon.

The campus recytling program is
sponsored by the Housing Office. All
money taken in goes towards both improving the program and other student
activities. Collection areas are located on
every dorm noor. For those living off
campus, the recyclables may be left in
front of the sheds located in the lower
dock area or A dorm. The following is a
rundown on how to rec.Ycle and what to
recycle: Glass: Please remove all metal
rings and save with aluminum. Save jar
lids with tin cans. Please rinse. Labels
may be left on, Broken glass should be
BOOKS
sealed in another jar-we tut our hands
if you don't. We accept returnable deAll library materials are due March 14,
posit bottles. Metals: separate tin cans
from aluminum. Aluminum cans have no 1980. Renewals began February 26; the
side seams. Rinse cans out, remove both next due date is June 4, 1980.
All Media Loan equipment thecked out
ends with a can opener, and flatten.
Please rf'move labels. Screw tops and for Winter quarter are due March 21,
pop tops are aluminum. Tin foil is O.K. 1980. New check-outs begin the first day
and T.V. dinner trays are aluminum, too. of Spring quarter, March 31, 1980.
We cannot take spray cans, juice cans or
oil tans. Paper: Newsprint-please
bundle and tie with string if possible.
Notebook, ledger and other non-shiny
lightweight paper go in mesh bags. We
do not take egg or milk cartons. Let's
keep this little corner together. Concern
If you have received a National
is survival. Any suggestions welcome.
Defense/Direct Student Loan while attending Evergreen and you plan to graduate, withdraw, or go on-leave next
ALTERNATIVE
quarter, you are required to go through
an NDSL Exit Interview before leaving.
AGRICULTURE
Please cont.ac~Receiv.able--PROPOSAr
Department at 866-6448 to make an
Alternative careers in agriculture will appointment for an Exit Interview.
be explored by a panel of six guest
speakers. rahging from an Olympia
organic farmer to a representative of the
State Department of Agriculture on
COOPER
Wednesday, March 5, lrom 2 to 4 p.m.,
TEMPORARILY
in room 110 of the College Activities
Building at The Evergreen State College.
REPLACES CLABAUGH
Sponsored by the Olfice of Career
Planning and Placement., the free, twoRita Cooper, Employee Relations
hour session ij designed to share inform- Director, has been appointed as acting
ation on alternative agriculture with
vice president for business. The appointinterested
Evergreen
students
and ment, effective immediately, fills the
community members.
vacancy created by the death of former
For further information, contact Ca· Vice President Dean Clabaugh on Febreer Planning and Placement, LIB 1200, ruary 9. Cooper will continue to direct
866-6193.
the Offite of Employee Relations,

poet Teresa Stone and dancer Marcia
Tate, formerly of the "July 26 Choreo
Poeta" group,
The athletically-inclined are then invited to participate in a 3 p.m., threemile run around the college campus.
Registration is SJ and begins at 2:30 p.m.
in front of the Evans Library. All entrant.I wiU receive limited editions of
free T-shirts labeled "Women on the
Move."
Also set for 3 p.m. ~ the beginning of
a Women's Film Festival in Letture Hall
Four. Featured showings include: a slide
production on "Women Against Violence
Against Women;" "Killing Us Softly," a
film depicting the exploitation of women
in advertising; and "Keep ListeningWilderness Trips for Women," a slide
show.
Following a hail-hour break, the films
continue at 5 p.m. with a 00-minute
movie. "Salt of the Earth,.. a semidocumentary on the year-long strike by
Mexican-American zinc miners.
The day's events conclude with the
7 p.m. showing of '"Antonia-Portrait of

CouncilandSIN
continuetofalter

THERAPY GROUP
CONTRACT

There will be a strategy meeting for
the \\'ashington State Conference on
F'stm1,t•.;; today. Thursday, February 28.
at I 1•.m. in CAB 108. Only THO~F:
A!.Hf:.-1nY REGISTERED for the COi'
frn•nc, .;;hould attend. Role-playing will
be do:-w to understand the prioritizing
proce!'-~for \'Oling on issues.
For more information, contact Alexis
Jetter. CAB 305, 866-6220.

HEW
STUDIES TESC

The Women's Center and Access for
Reentry Women are sponsoring an International Women's Day Celebration on
Friday, March 7 at The Evergreen State
College.
International Women's Day began in
the United States almost 70 years ago
when thousands of garment workers of
different nationalities went on strike for
better working conditions and against
child labor. The garment workers atrike
mobilized over 20,000 people. Joining
with the garment workers were other
women who had been fighting for women's suffrage and protective labor laws.
Two years later at an international
socialist conference in Denmark, that
day was declared to be an international
working class holiday to commemorate
this strike. Since then, it baa been celebrated all over the world.
The free telebration, organized by the
Women's Center and Access for ReEntry Women's group, begins at 11 a.m.

Friday with a Women's Jazz Contert aad
condudea at 10 p.m. with the final showing of two films, "Antonia-A Portrait of
the Woman" who gained fame aa an
orchestra conductor 40 years ago, and
"In the Best Interests of the Children,"
produced by California's Iris Film
Collective.
The jazz concert, set for the secondfloor cafe in the College Activities Building, features music by the Lyle-Cruse
Trio, with musicians June Kauffman and
Lorree Knutson from Olympia's Abraza
band, and pianist Kathryn Lyle. In
addition, jazz trumpetist BarbaraDonald
will perform, along with vocalist Betty
Harris.
Indian women's rights and the meaning of International Women's Day will be
explored by Native American activist
Janet McCloud in a public talk at
12:30 p.m., also in the Activities Building. Her presentation will be followed at
l p.m. with a "cultural celebration" of
women singing, dancing and reading
poetry, highlighted by performances of

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participation was encouraging, however,
and three committees were formed by
volunteers to create the bylaws for a
SIN structurei organize the next agenda,
meeting place, and participants;
and
investigate curriculum planning and
COGIV revision,
SIN put a gleam in the Evergreen
Council's eye as the council looks forward to the instigation of SIN in hopes
that it can expand the volunteer pool. A
lack of participant.a, snow, and a holiday
have left the Council previously inactive
this quarter, but this week the Council
suspended a quorum rule (fifteen members must be present for official meetings) and proceeded to meet informally,
biting into issues of concern: 1tudents'
rigbta to, privacy and housing, It waa
optimistically noted that there were
mono studenta present than staff or
faculty (staff previously have held the
record for keeping the council afloat.)

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involved in the development of the Teat
tween the crime and the harm.
Ban Treaty, will diacuao the effectiveness
city, I had no pla,e to get away. But 'I
U.S. Diatrkt Court Judge Gordon of civil disobedience. They will attempt
started running, - Her eloquent teoti- Thompson, Jr., argued that the only way
to prove that civil diaobedie_nce does
mony bNJught many to tean,
he could oee this defenae as applicable to work and ia not just a symbolic gesture.
The under-26 demonstrator&, who will the case was if "your brother wu on the
ad u their own lawyers, have spent other aide of the fence and was about to Dr. Owen Wilkes, a weapon.oanalyst and
months preparing an elaborate defense be run over by a truclt and you climbed international law expert for the Stockbased l)pon the Idea of a "neceaaity over the fence to aave his life." Defend- holm International Peace Resean:h Indefense," claiming that their actions at anta countered that this wu indeed the stitute, and Dr. John Fried, an expert on
the nuclear aubmarine base WOR juoti- case but the danger wasn't a truck, it international law, will diacuss Trident as
a "first-strike weapon" and bow Trideat
fied. They will try to pNJve that their wu a nuclear weapon.
illegal actions were neceaaary to prevent
violates international laws. Dr. Ruth
The defendanta have arranged for a Weiner, profesaor of EnvironmentaJ
greater harm from occurring. They will
number of expert witnease, to testify Studies at Western Washington Univeralao try to prove that the harm wu
but it is not known at this time whether sity will speak on the environmental
imminent; that there was a reuonable
Judge Thompson will allow their teati- effect.a of radiation in Wuhington.
belief that there were no alternatives
left to prevent the greater harm; and timony, Dr, Ulyaeea Doss, a civil rights
Judge Thompson hu augpsted that
that there was a din,ct relationship be- activist, and Barbara Reynolds, who wu
he might be willing to listen to the

witnesses' statements but not necessarily
admit them as defense testimony. No
definite decision has been reached at this
time. Many of the defendants will offer
their own testimony and the defense
hopes to be able to have past Trident
~emonstrators testify to reassert the
lack of alternatives to their actions.
Defendant Holly Hill said, "If need be,
I'd be willing to testify but I'm not too
nervous because it feels kind of predetermined." Defendant Karen Ahrens
admit.a that the whole court process is "a
little intimidating" but she also aaid that
despite a probationary
warning that
prohibits her from entering the Navy
hue for three years, "I know I'm going
back over the fence."

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American Gigolo is a movie for female sexists
By Jan Loftneu
People should always tru,t their better instincts when ■electing a movie that
they niust pay to see. ''Truck Stop
Women" I hear, is a good example of the
masses falling for hype and trusting
"peopl who know" when ordinarily, that
title alone would be enough to scare any
thinking person away. This w·eek's
example is Amerieu Glplo, a movie I
assumed to be a pile ol trash from the
title, cast, and advertisements, but got
sucked into by the proddings of two
overweight film critics from Chicago.
Richard Gere portrays the American
Gigolo and spends much of his time driving a Mercedes convertible
between
Palm Springs and L.A. or laying out all
his clothes and mixing and matching his
shirts and ties. Lauren Hutton, known to

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cute white behind, and there is one coy
scene where he and Hutton roll around
on blue sheets showing a lot of back and
Hutton's honey chest. but these are only
hints. Before and after, but never during
seem to be this film's policy.
Now I know that if all I want to see is
sex I can go out to the Sky-Line Drive•
In, but "American Gigolo" doesn't !ail
only for its lack ol erotica. The !act that
he's an American and a gigolo are incidental to the plot. He's accused ol a
murder he didn't do, a laughably trite
device to make a story where none
exists. This is intertwined enough with
the gigolo part so that maybe some
people won't notice and realize that the
same thing could happen to a Mexican
bartender.
The film fails in that it
chooses to deal with a sensational prob•
lem instead of a more realistic dilemma

that a gigolo might have. At one point,
h~ expresses his worries that one day he
will not have the physical attraction and
capability to continue h~ work. A real
problem, a human problem that could
have been developed. But that would
mean an older actor and the main point
or even making the movie was, I guess,
Gere.
Which brings me to the sexist subject.
This i.s a movie for female sexists. The
guy's got a great body. blow-dried hair.
that rugged look, and labuious clothes.
We get to see him work out in only his
shorts, and as I said before, his cute
white behind. If that kind of man appeals
to you, go see it.
But, if an intelligent script, interesting
plot and believable acting appeal more,
never trust a critic. They know less than
you do.

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other preconceptions in mind when I
went to see the film (don't worry, folksI had my CPJ press pass and didn't have
to pay a nickel). I had also read the leaflet describing the lilm that had been
handed out by the Olympia Gay Coalition
and is currently
posted all around
campus. (The side of the leaflet that
describes the film is also being used in
Seattle). However, my biggest preconception was my attitude towards recent
pickets and boycotts ol other films by
whatever religious, ethnic, or political
group that happened lo be offended.
I've always preferred to decide for
myself as to whether a film is sexist,
racist, or whatever, rather than being
told how lo think by some misguided
zealot who hasn't even seen the film.
Just look at how the right-wing Christians picketed the IJfe of Brian when the
film was actually a satire on left.wing
politics. Certain chapters of Women
Against Violence Against Women boy•
cotted such harmless ftlms as Pretty
Bab7 and Halloween, making them out
to be something they weren't at all.
Then there are those who would like to
ban Lut TID Parla (a revolutionary
'While the victim sucks him of!. Stuart
work of art. I feel). And who can forget brings the knife down with deliberat.e
the Pink Fhmineo•fiasco here at Ever- venomous force, as the peep show screen
green two years ago?
depicts, in extremely grainy close-up, a
Gay people do have a good case man grimacing in orgiastic response. The
against Cndalns, but they are going shadow of the imile hand going up and
By Doug Plummer
shadow intermingle, ·and with the 5th ognizable shape is -only a thing to drape
about protesting the film in a way that I down appears across the peep show
In Gallery 4 right now are two groups
print, the piece beeomes a rich. full-color the lines on. a coathanger to structure
think will only hurt their cause. None or screen. The victim's (ace is gasping in
of work, each of which deals with a print with layers of color and line.
the element.a. These aren't pictures of
those picketing the film at the Capitol lrenzy. Grainy close-up ol buttocks being
single theme and ext.ends it to a variety
The paper supporting the print most dumb things like poet.cards and slides;
Mall had seen the film. I suspect that whipped on the screen. A rush ol blood
ol limits.
strongly takes a role in the print follow- the ideas embodied in those objects exmost of the information on their leaflet explodes against the image on screen,
Tom Johnston is a printmaker teach- ing this series. The paper has bits ol pands the possible meanings, but what's
(the same one I mentioned earlier) came the screen suddenly goes dark a., the
ing at Western Washington University
flowers and lerns embedded in it that most significant in this body of work is
from Arthur Ben•s article and early reel runs out.'
in Bellingham. He was at Evergreen last
intermingle with the colors of the print. the diversity of treatment of a single
drafts of the script. In the leaflet, the
"As his investigation
progresses,
week for a workshop, out of which came
A large watercolor is yet another exten• thing.
following synopsis or Cruising is given:
St.eve Burns loses interest in his woman
a 4-color lithograph printed in Ever- sion of the same theme, but perhaps the
The photographs of Marsha Burna are
"This film graphically depicts the friend and becomes absorbed by the
green's printmaking lab. This print is an most complete single image of any in the little different in approach than Johnsexual mutilation and murder of gay men sordid world that Friedkin portrays as
edition of 20, and are being sold to bene- show. There are layers upon layers ol ston's prints. Both are exploring a single
commited by 'Stuart,'
a deranged
the authentic gay scene. Ultimately
lit the Evergreen galleries.
color and bright colors muted by sue- theme, both use highly formalized strucartist/student who cannot accept his own
Burns tails Stuart to a city park at night.
Johnston's work is nearly without rec• ceeding layers, out of which leaps the
tures. Her subjects carry significant
hom~xuality.
Stuart is shown commit•
The psyche of Burns and Stuart begin Lo
ognizable content, in terms ol being deckie-edged souvenir in startling clarity. emotional weight, more than Johnston's,
ting a series of gruesome homicides in
blend. As Friedkin describes it in the
drawings ol something besides an idea.
Much of the show, the series in partic- 'but still she is utilizing people in her
which he st.abs his sexual partners at the
script, 'It is as though their personalities
Here the idea is "souvenir," and the
ular, are etchings, and some information
photographs first as object.a in an &r·
moment of orgasm and then slices off and attitudes are Jcx:ked together. They
visual structures used are that of post•
may be helpful. A traditional approach to rangement of form1, and ■ econd as
their genitals and stuffs them in the vie• engage in suggestive repartee as the
cards and slides. A souvenir is an im• printmaking is that once the etching
vehicles for emotional content. What ■he
tims' mouths. The police enlist a seem•
sexual tension builds between them.
pression or a record or a place, meant to
plate is worked and rendered to t11tiafae· has over Johnston is an easier reeogni•
ingly wholesome young cadet named
They move to a dark tunnel, strip for
be a concrete reminder of an ephemeral
tion, a number of identical impre11ions
tion. in that we are more uaed to dealing
Steve Burns (played by Ai Pacino) to sex, and then. Burns slashes Stuart's
experience. These prints are an "impres- may be pulled. Johnston's work illumin- with information preaent in photographs
enter the 'gay scene' as a decoy to
throat with an identical steak knife Lo
sion" ol a form, taking oni1 the visual at.es another aspect of the medium, illus- becau.e of lifelong contaeL
entice an attack by 'Charlie Chop-Off as that which Stuart had used on so many
structure of a shape and extending the trating ext.enaive involvement with the
It'a easy to label adjectives to Burns'
the police have dubbed Stuart.
other gay men. Friedkln's script then
idea to its limits in etchings, drawings same plate and the evolution of the photographs: aloof, unaeHconacioua, dia"In a typical scene, a New York gay
comments:
and watercolors.
image. What may be seen from a group quieting, threatening, macabre. Instead
club is portrayed in the film's script
"Burns looks at his dying victim. He"s
The work is arranged to show the ol similar imagesis an important adjunct of a traditional approach to portraiture,
(dralt 3) as follows:
done his job. He's made his choice, and
sequence from one print to another. In to that contained in a single image alone. whereby tbe -nee
of a aubjeet iJ,
'In the dimly lit back room, a series o(
he's a civilized member of society. He's
one set of eight that ends in a rich color
Theae worlta are IO abetract lhat they
IOllgbt, i3urna' aubjeets are almost totall1
2x4's is arranged from floor to ceiling, released.'
piece, the concept iJi stated firat in a hall- may seem inaccesaible to a lot of people. reOective of the photographer and her
from which, suspended by chains, ~ a
"The film closes with the promotion of
formed, crude state, but with all the Do you really have to intellectualize art
lantasiea. Human bodiea are a prop and
leather saddle, wherein a naked man Burns, the discovery of the body of a
formal elements present. "Souvenir" is to underatand it, and does that diminiah u malleable and arrangeable u an1
(but lot his boots) is being worked over gay man whom Burns had befriended
scrawled across the middle, a ahadowlike its value? Why can't it juat go 1tralgh;t:._~otb~er=--:ob~·~c,in'!!..!h,,e,.r:"1.,t-.,_ud..,t'io'--ln":'te':n'-'·¥or,.,,c/.P~an""ce"'•'slowly by a bearded m~
a-1e&t.h.er_ during -his inveetigation, and the--impliarea obocu1es tire· 'llppet'-righ~ eo"'r"nea1r.-,-r.to"tbenea aua
11 no ifo g
are aecond in popularit1 to
vest. Other men stand around watching,
cation that Burns was perhaps a new
and regular series of lines overlap and ferent than any other diaclpline where
people in completing formal arrang•
saying nothing. Several couples are also 'Charlie Chop-Olf on the loose."
form the ground for a roughly sketched it'• useful to know something ab.>ut what
ments. In a suite of 1ix printa displayed
grouped about engaging in lellatio .. .'
Hardly one word ol this is true. Let
postcard.
you're obeerving to more fully under- together, bodiea are in poaitiona auggeat:•~he film_'s d~ec~r and. scriptwriter:
me now acknowledge that CndRDg is a
Through the sequence, the central stand iL For example, I could look at
ing death or tormented sleep. In a group
~ilham Fr,_ed,km ( Boys m .the Band, terrible movie, but handing out such
areas become more and more defined in invertebrate■ in Eld Inlet at low tide and of three, the aame lllfln gszea downward,
The Exorcist) leaves nothmg to the completely false information, even i.f it's
a variety ol ways: one kind of line is admire their beauty without knowing a his laee in 1hadow or glancing at the
imagination. One brutal murder in a for a good cause, is as irresponsible and
suctteded by another, different papers thing about them. But knowing bow the1
viewer In a diaquieting way. They are
peep show is 'choreographed' as follows:
stupid as the film itself.
adhered to parts of the print define are structured, how they get their food, superbly crafted works in a fine photoareas of color, textures vary. Something how the1 fit Into an eeosyatem and if graphic print tradition, but u a whole
to remember la that this is the same they're edible, expand• m1 ability to the abow laclta a feeling of a unified
etching plate, or plates, being reworked utilize that experience. Art should not be statement, in that tllere is no statement
again and again. There are over 50 inaccesalble, but sometime■ ita hard to and resolution of a problem to the extent
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pre■!nt in Johnston'• work.
craftsmanahip in the prints is high.
soureea and aymbola and process can
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After three prints in this series, the only make it more likely that more librar1 building, and ia open afternoons
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tighten, and 3 dimensional apace asserts
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us all as The Revlon Model, plays the
classy lemale lead and says seductively
to Gere on their first meeting:
"I just want to know what it would be
like to luck you."
"You got me wrong lady," he replies
defiantly, "I don't do that!"
The dialog reaches other heights, but
first of· all, why does he say that? He
fucks women throughout
the entire
movie and was never known to turn
down an obviously rich and potential
client. The reason for his unusual reply,
I think, is to warn the audience: There
will be no sex in this film.
No sexi?I But it's called "American
Gigolo" and that's what gigolos do and
it's got an "R" rating and I paid $3.50 to
see some sex!
WelJ, sorry. We do get to see him out
of bed with no clothes on, exposing his

The film begins with a disclaimer
stating that the movie in no way ;epre·
sents the homosexual world, only an
isolated segment or it. Burns' boss on the
police force tells him, "These aren·t
ordinary gays you're going to be with.
This is the S&M crowd. It's another
world altogether!" (This gives you an
idea or how bad the dialogue is, too,)
Yet all we see is this S&M underworld. In the bar scenes. which are the
most offensive in the movie, we see
leather-clad homosexuals necking and
performing sodomy in darkened corners.
(This is the closest things ever come to
being as described in the leaflet.) A
friend from New York tells me that such
things and places actually exist in the
Big Apple. Although I'm sure all kinds of
weird, kinky things happen in such
places. I doubt that it could look as
ridiculous and dumb as it does in the
movie. By not showing anything positive
about homosexual life, I'm sure the film
will help to reinforce bigotted attitudes
towards gay people-that is i( anybody is
stupid enough to take the film seriously
in the first place. Friedkin also may be
creating a new gay stereotype. Instead
In the first place, anybody who knows
of the lisping. limp-wristed effeminate,
anything about movies would know that
we now have the macho, leather-jacketed
such incidents as the ones described
hoodlum-type gay. I l~ink it's fine to
above would never be allowed in an '"R''
show things the way they really are, no
rated movie. Nowhere in the mm do we
matter how sordid and negative they
see (or hear oO any genitals being
might be, but the world of Cruiaing is
stuffed in victim's mouths, nor do we
just
too one-dimensional and one-sided
actually see any sexual mutilation.
for me to accept.
Stuart, the murderer is never referred
The film is really more anti-cop than it
to as "Charlie Chop-Olf' and the scene
is anti-gay. The police are portrayed as
in the New York gay club that is de•
ruthless, sadistic bastards. One cop even
scribed simply isn't in the film. The peep
forces a transvestite to go down on him
show scene has no "man grimacing in
in his patrol car. (Is this realism?)
orgiastic response," nor most of the
The question remains. however, just
other stuff described. What we mostly
how effective is it to pickl'l and boycott
see in this scene, and the other murder
: he film'! F'riedkin and producer Jerry
scenes, is the knife, some flesh, and
Weintraub must have realized that thev
blood-something that is no more brutal
certainly
had a dud on their hands and
than the sort of things one sees in horror
were counting on the publicity and con
lilms like Repuloion, Paycho, Slaten, and
troversy surrounding the film to sell
the Hammer "Dracula" films. The viewer
tickets. If it wasn't £or the controversy
can't tell if Burns' and Stuart's psyches
caused
by the gay organizations, I feel
actually start to blend, and Burns does
that the film would probably have passed
not kill Stuart at the end. He simply
by unnoticed and died a quiet death. The
wounds him in the shoulder after both
things described in the leaflet will no
men draw their knives at the same time.
fhen the scene cuts to a hospital room doubt attract some people to the film
where the cops are trying to force a con- who normally wouldn't go to it (and boy,
will they be disappointed). Cruising is so
fession out of a recuperating Stuart.
incredibly bad, people shouldn't even
The ending of Cruising is so confused
waste their time calling attention to it.
and ambiguous, no one will be able to
Such
actions will only help the producers.
figure out what really happens and probIt's a !act that gay people suller lrom
ably won't care to either. The film con•
harassment and discrimination every day
tains almost nothing that will please any
audience. There is no suspense, no of their lives. Yet, ironically, there's
psychological insight, little actual sex, been a number o( fine, positive. and
realistic films about gay life made in the
the violence is tame when compared to
past
decade. Cndeing certainly repreother violent films, and there are too
many loose ends left dangling. Al P-ffln<> sents a cultural and artistic r~ession.
even gives the worst performance or his Gay acftv1sts woufd be better olf calling
career . .Actually, I wish that the film did attention to these more positive films
than stirring up publicity for garbage
have some of the things described in the
leaflet. It would have been a lot less dull. that's best left ignored.

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