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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 3 (October 20, 1977)

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Holly Near And Mary Watkins
In Concert

by John Keogh

The Bill Evans Co.
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Holly Near ond Mory Wotkins
H1\lly Near and Mary Watkms
appe.Jr in concert on c<1m•
Pll" Tuesda}', Oct. 18, at 8 p.m.
Nt'.Jr whl1 de-.cr1be-. hcrselt as
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,ind ..,11u.1I1s-.ue-. depictin~ the
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'i1n1t' -.hew,\., 1.tst seen m Olymp 1, 1 twt1 yt.'M'- a~11. Holly h<1'>be{1111wrnon· woman-identd1ed.
,1dding mu<.1c which fncuses on
w11mt'n., live-. 1(1 her rept'rtoire
,,t pt.·rs1mal and political music.
Mary Watkms. a compost.·rr1,m1..1 \-..·di accompany Near m
,1JJ111nn !(1 performing her own
w1,rk. While her background
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primarily classical, Mary's frlCus
1-. nnw on womt>n's music.
She
hJ" h1r the p.J...i year performed
w,th I ht> w11mt'n of Olivia Rec11rd<,,a nat1onal women's recordin>,:rnrnp.rny. She was m Olymp1J dllrtn>,: the Northwest Worn•
t'n, Mu,;;u Fes11val last May, and
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Also. at noon Tuesday. there
,,,nil be a workshop of skill sharing for women n;,usicians, singer<,. and interested women cultur.Jl workers. It will be led by
Near and Watkins (for women
nnlvl, in the Board Room, Library 3112. Th0-.e attending
!>hould bring instruments and vocal cords.
The Nl'M Watkin., concert is
presented by a g,rnup of five
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women's music and feminist artists to Olympia and the Northwest. Fret' child care 1s oftered:
advance
n0t1ce is requested.
Tickets are SJ 50 and .ire available at the l11llowing Olympia
l.:Key locJt1ons: The Evergreen
Stal(' Collt>ge Women·!, Ct>nter,
Budget Recmds and Tape~. Yenn<'y·-. Muc;,ic: The Music Bar
Rainy Day Rt>cords. A limited
number of tickets will be sold at
the door. Fl,r more information
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Apple Annie's - Out of Sight Studio has opened insight ... right on
5th Avenue in downtown Olympia
across from the Capitol Theater.
The name of the new boutique is

Ukl/J~ute
Do stop in soon. Open daily except
Sunday at 10:30.

October 20, 1977

The Evergreen State College

Vol.6 No.3

The Admissions Department of
TESC is currently facing a serious problem. While student applications to the school and overall enrollment have declined during the past year, it has become
apparent that Evergreen badly
nttds a tightening of academic
standards.
A total of l,303 complete applications were received for the
Fall Quarter of 1977, of which 76
were withdrawn.
leaving 1.227
actual candidates
Last year,
1.297 Fall Quarter applications
were completed and left standing. Despite this drop, the Adm1sc;1ons Department re1ected 44
dppl1catinns
this year, versus
only seven 1976 rejections
V1ck1 Iden-McKinley.
Admis,;;1ons Program Assistant, attribbutes the increase in rejected applica\111ns to a "more consistant
adm1s.-.1ons policy • She explams
that,
Regardless ot fluctuating
demand for new <.tudents at Evergreen an application should be
t'valuatnl .iccorJ1ng tu standard
trllt'fla ,
C-DllAW ASSESSMENT
In light t\l the ,;;urvey condulled last fdll by Evergreen·s CDRAW (Center
lor Develop•
mental Redding and Writing)
prn~ram thi.-..toughening of adm1,;;c;,uin,;;
<,1am.l,1rd,;;-.eems wt>II•
1u-.tliied
According
t0 Jack
Wd_.,b Director ol L-DRAW
l .200 Everireen
students were
administered
what he calls an
m-.lniment ul assessment" de">114nedto measure their reading
and ,.-.,rritingskills. Twenty percent ol the students participatmg
in the survey tested at belown1nt h-grJde
lt'vels
Approximatt>ly 40 ol the low-scoring stu·
dt>nts. werl• later tested more exten.-.ively by C-DRAW. and their
results again were without exception below ninth grade levels.
c;,ome\)f them far below.
The results of C-DRAW's survey were challenged soon after
their release. Skeptics pointed
out that the examination used in
the study was extremely brief.
and that a large number of particip<1ling students might have intentionally
botched the tests.
Webb admits the project was intended only as a means of gaining a "rough assessment" of students· reading and writing abilities. so that those m need of

The Admissions Dilemma:
Quality Or Quantity
remedial training might be offered help. But onE' aspect of the
,;urvey's findings is so alarming
that it can't be simply rationalized and shouldn't be overlooked:
S0me of the students who were
tested extensively by C-DRAW
alter faring poorly on thE' onginal tec;t could not read 0r write
al dll
As stated m thE' 1977 79 Bulle-

tin. Evergrttn's admissions policies require students seeking admission to TESC on the basis of
high school transcripts lo either·
1) have placed in the upper half
of their graduating class, or 2)
"show evidence of their ability to
succttd at Evergreen by submitting lest scores. letters of recommendalion from persons who are
in a position to give a professional judgment, and other supporting data as requested by the
Admissions Office."
Applicants attempting to transfer lo Evergreen from other colleges or universities must have
"successfully
completed
15 or
more quarter hours of credit (or
the equivalent)."
Applications
based on G.E.D. (General Educational Development)
tests are
considered providing the appli-

cant is at least 18 years ot age.
ADMISSIONS DILEMMA
It seems probable, considering
the results of last year's C-DRAW
survey. that the Admissions Department has in some cases bttn
ra1her lax in adhering to these
guidelines. Evergreen's state funding 1s dependent on enrollment
levels, and thf' college has n·cently been threatcnt'd with do-

sure by the Washingtnn
State
Legislature, so the Office of Admisswns obviously has had reas0ns 11, accept applicants
not
meeting with their professed
standards
As well J'> contnbutmg to Evergreen·s enrollment sta·
ttstics. such a \nose admic.sion~
program has quite possibly dam·
aged the school's academic credibility. A further lowering of academic standards could result in a
further decline in applicants, forcing the Admissions Department
to tither sacrifice enrollment for
the sake of academic quality, or
vice versa.
The Office of Admissions' re1ec1ton of 44 Fall Quarter applicants this year can be interpreted
as an effort to stdrt gradually
dealing with this dilemma. While
over 95 percent of the 1977 candidates were accepted. ti would

b(' unrealist1f' fm the <;chool to
adhere to a code nf standards
that woulJ cut enrollment to a
p(lint where 11s ex,..,tenf'e would
be jeopardi1ed
If one a<,,;;ume5
the skills (if new applicant,;; to be
no further advanced in general
than thn-.e of students already
enroll(·d 1n l:vergreen 1t becomes
Phvi,1u<. that c;omt' less-th,1n
quc1l1'1ed c.indidate,;; mu,;;t -.till b('

g.11ning admittance
lo TESC
l'rt:c;;umably th\1'>t' whP were rl')t'rlt•<l repre~ent the port11rn m1t
at all able ll1 handle cull1·Ke-level
wtirk
AUSTRALIAN REJECTION
During the course of preparing
this articlE', this reporter met and
:.poke with one of the 44 applicants who were rejected for Fall
Quarter enrollment. His name 1s
Randy Koch. and he was, I think.
understandably
upset at having
been denied the opportunity
to
continue his education at Evergreen. Randy told me he graduated from Mount Lawlay Senior
High in Perth. Australia in 1971.
He has since served two years in
the U.S. Navy, during which
time he attended Quartermaster
A School in San Diego, California, where he studied navigation.

Hl' passt:d all his courses tht'rl'
and subsequently spent a ye.If
Jn<l a half <,ervmg as a Navy
nav1>;atur m the PaC1f1c Randy,
Jppl1cal1nn
to l:vcr~reen
wa<,
wmpletE'd in ume tn be granted
lull con ..1dt>rat1on and 1t was reiected
Mr Koch c;,J1dth1' reason given
h1m bv tht· Admissions Dt'part·
mt>nl lor h1<,rerect1nn hod lo do
with a d1plnmat1c dgreement between thl' L1n1ted Statec;, and Au.-.t r,il1a Upon graduating
high
<,Lh1,ol all Au'>lral1an <,!udentc;,
\l\h,, desire tn entl'r t.ollege are
~1ven a "it·ne,; nt Leavini and
~latr1cul ..1t1on Exam.., In nrder
hi
quJlitv !or adm1~-.1nn lo an
Au<,tr,1lian ct1l!ege l•r universitv
d -.tudl·nt must p.i.-.i;;at lt>a'>tthrt:t'
nt thf,,;,p exam"> Randv pa,;.,eJ
nnlv ,int' The L' S anti Au'>
tr.111.in~Pvt>rnment-. ht' t1)ld m('
h,1ve an Ji,;reE'nwnl which t''
cludt>, Au-.tralian <.!uUt'nl<, \,;h,,
c.h1nt qu;ilitv h1r dtcert,rnct' at
Au-.trJl1.Jn n1llt-,i,:e.-..
tr\,m l,bt.11n
1nK thr1r edu(.Jtinn<. dt L c,
-,chrn1I-. Hut R.11uh hd'- bn.·n ,l
<1t1n·n ,it 1ht· L' "-i '-lnll' birth
Jnd 1-. turri·nth .1 IP,.:,il ft:''>ldt·nt
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tnnt1rmt•d R.JnJv, -.i.,r, t,1 tht
1·,1t·nt t•I \l'fltvmf h._ 1 l.11m th,1 1
ht• \\'cl'- n•11•ctt•d h1·1 ,n1-.1· ,,t h1-.
I (',l\'lng ,inti \,l,1tr1uil,l11,1n r ...
.,m '-{11r('-. but '-.lid tfw1r lltll
<,1,1nw,1-. b,l'-t'd t•n .1 li,tm~ ll!
!nr,·1~n E'duc.1!1(ln,il £'qu1v.1lt•n·
11·, !ht·\ 11'>t-t,,r n•l1•rt;-nr;•\,h1-n
c,·alu.1tm~ <.,tudt·nt'>edul •ted Put
'>Ilk
thl' l 1 S AtLnr<lmg 11, th1,;;
m.Jnu,11 .1n Au ...tral1an '>!uden!
mu ...t r.i"" at lt-a..t thret' I eav1n~
l::x,:im... llpl1n graduating
lrt1m
h1~h ,chrnil t{1 attain an educatH1n,il 1,,vrl t>qu1valent to gr.1du,1l1nn lwm a U S h1ih c;ch1wl
A<lm1.-...-.1omal<.<.,uintends
that
whdt.· ~Ir K11ch-. dpplicat1on did
mf'nt1nn his m1lttarv c;,erv1ce n,
record ,,t his Navv ,;choolin~ wa<.
included
Although 11 1s dollbtful tha•
Randy Koch s case is typical
among this years re1ected EvE'.-green applicants
1t turther emphasizes the Adm1ss1tms Department's failure !() come up w1th
accurate assessments of candidates academic skills Perhaps a
stronger relianct' on personal 1nterv1ews and test scores would
remedy the s1tuat1on, apparenth·
a ta\'orable high sch0ol transf'npt
1-. no longer prtwf l,t a student "
,1bd1ty Ill ,;;ucceed m colle~f'

The Geoboard, The S&A Board.
And Maybe A Student Union
by Mandy McFarlan

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There will be an open meeting
at Noon on Friday, October 21
m CAB 110, at which six students will be chosen to serve on
the Services and Activities Board
and 15 students will be chosen
for the Geoboard. This meeting
has been scheduled under the assumption that on Thursday, the
Board of Trustees will adopt
COG Ill along with its outline of
the new Geoboard. Those who
are interested in being on the
formation of either of the boards
must be al the meeting. Anyone
who attends the meeting will
have voting power in choosing
the new members.
Friday's meeting was arranged
by a group of people who have
been making "political"
plans
based on COG Ill's changes re-

garding student organization.
The establishment of a student
union is included in those plans.
Perhaps
the most significant
change made by COG Ill is the
inclusion of the Geoboard,
a
more powerful replacement for
the Sounding Board. The Sounding Board which was not authorized to take positions on issues
like a referral service and discussed solutions
to problems.
One student describes it as "hot
air and a waste of time."
COG Ill states that "The Geoboard, which will meet at least
biweekly,
shall constitute
the
forum for discussion and advice
on issues affecting the college."
"The Geoboard will also have a
'watchdog' function as the place
where our principles are reiterated
and our actions are weighed for

compliance
with those principles
. " The document
also
gives the Geoboard five types of
action to be determined by role
call vote. Tht> Board can comment on an issue, give a vote of
confiJence to express satisfaction
with a course of E'Vents, vote no
confidence, refuse to consider an
issue (this requires a two-thirds
ma1ority vole). or cast a vote of
censure against a person (this requires an accompanying text explaining the censure and a two•
thirds majorily vote). Whenever
pertinent. the record <'f voting
action taken by the Geoboard
will be used during Evergreen·s
administrative
evaluations.
and
all DTFs dealing wilh non•trivial
matters will consult with the Geo-board. By taking stands on current issues. the Geoboard may or

may not become a powerful political force at Evergreen. Its decisions will be madt' availablE' to
the public For now. COG Ill
states only that the 15 stlldents
on tht' Geoboard who will constitute half of the board, must
somehow be chosen by the student body.
The S& A Board is made up of
six students, one staff person,
and one faculty member. Approximately one-fourth of each
student's tuition goes lo S&A,
and they decide how to allocate
those funds. The Board of T rustees can veto their decisions, but
this power is rarely exerciz.ed at
Evergreen. S&A now funds about
35 different groups, activities and
buildings on campus. This money
is supporting
human
rights
groups, the REC center, the De-

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sign Team for CAB Phase II and
1t pa1d for the Organic Farmhouse The COG document state,;;
that the method of selection ol
the .-.1x students
S&A board
members 1!: up to the e-.ecut1ve
secretary
Executive Secrelarv
Steve Francis say., that 1n the
past ht' used the computer" random program as a method ol
selection He does not w1c;h to
-.elect the ne"'t group by himself
and the only hm1tat1on-. he 1,;;
plltting on tht' decision 1s th.it af
firmat1VE' action guideline<. are
followed
Another difference in COG 111
which opens up ch<l1CE'~for thf'
<;tudent body 1s the rewording d
COG !l's "The Evergrttn cc1m
munity should avoid fractioning
into decision-making
constitultlntrnueJ ,,n pd!,;t' 4

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stained glass, etc
for VAL-DENA S WORKSHOP
Opening Nov 1st
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In reply to the letter in \he
October 13 CPJ by Valerie SoJanis:
Steve Willis

To the Editor:
My name is Ted Weiner. I am

presently incarcerated in Arthur
Kill State Prison for possession
of L.S. D. This being my firs\ offense, the tension and loneliness
of prisoi1 life has taxed my control to the limil.
I wish to correspond with any
student willing to write and help
ease a troubled spirit.
Thank You,

Ted Weiner 76A-3002-B-4
Arthur Kill Prison
291 I Arthur Kill Road
Staten Island, New York
10309

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PARKING ON

There will be a COOPER
POINT JOURNAL slaff meeting
this Friday, and every Fnday, at
I ,00 p.m. in CAB 306. Much of
the planning for the upcoming
issue will take place at this meeting. and anyone intert>Sted in
writing for the paper 1s advised
to attend.

SATURDAYS

AFGH.ANIE
l<OOCHlf:
DAESS INOt
VlOU.All 'f

Clear Cutting
'~merica's Renewable Resource"
Responding To
The Military
Mentality
I 1' lhl' Editor
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to 1oe lewis s "Untht> Military Men-

vou G I dou~hboy poilu. who
..,omeh,,w have thr notion that
your C,Hl..,t' 1s special. be 11 democracv der fuhrer, the motherlJnJ <.,IJlt''>1)( 1alism, the people,
or whatever else the bosseo; are
calling tht'm~elves
To die tor what you believe
ma)' ht, an honor, but to kill,
maim, torture (and die) for a fantasy 1s a tragedy
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b1..•.:autitulto me You ve obviously

rut a lot ot thou~ht and energy
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m,tn\' other !.<1ld1ers m history
,1h1,u1 who you re really fighting
,rnJ dvmg) for You wrote

.ind m phvs1cal reality there are
m,m, peopll' 1n this world who
h,,uld Kladly trade any number
,,t human lives tor material
g.11n
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and protecting

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\\(1uld nnt st.and by a loaded rifle
11 u lo\ t><l1ine
was bemg tortured
1,1n 1! , your boso;e.., who have
!t.11n('d '.h(' torturer
in V1etn,m1 in ( hde .tll ov('r rhe world
•\nwru.an h1..,tnry 1<,a brutal
lq.:,u. v ill imper 1ahst1c.wars Look
.11 !ht.' map
J?ead betwttn the
!int'<. 111 1hr propagand.t they fc-ed
,·i•u l 1n1tc-JState!o interference 1n
I t,,d.., startt>d tht> \.1exican \Var
I ht• ;-..:,111ve
American population
"'•'" lrt·.lted with, lied tn, be'tJwd
and tina!ly wipt'd out
Tht· \'I.at with Spain ,;tarted on
•r:;mrt·d up <.h.uge.., that were
r1J1tul,111<,much le.,., provable
I !11ln .ir11<,r from a chaotic ec.onurna uind1tton created by 1rre
"rPn..,1hle ,mJ ~ret>dy c.ap1tali-.ts
lmrc•r1.tlist1t l.ip.tn faced with the
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t·< nnnm1c o;tranglehold
r,l'rtt•d
hy the U S had no re' ,,ur<,f'hut tn counterattad, mdat.irilv Alter e..teh war for frced,,m the United Statt>S has in' t1·,1,ed 11<, n,1,,ni~
but more
1rnrPt1antl)
ha., 1ncreao;ed its
n,,n,•m1c d1,m1natmn And 1n
di th,,.-.e w.ir, ,;pilling your own
,ind t'.H h 11! her ,; blutld ( as well
., ... ,1nv c1vd1.ins unfnrtunate
rn,•11>,:hIt> t:>e in your way), JS

Faculty With
Time On
Their Hands?
ro tht• Editor

While looking over the final
count of enrollment pt't faculty
program I found holes of nonactivity Many programs are far
bt-low their capacity and yet that
c,lack was not picked up through
1nd1v1dual contracts
Granted,
..,ome faculty part1opate tn more
than on£' program and some
lt'Mh modules, but what would
th,,y hJve done had .all theu
u1mmJtments filled to capacity?
\Vould the)' be less capable ot
pt·rtormmg their educative functum7 Are the faculty really too
imompetent to handle their full
loaJ7
I! 1<;my understanding faculty
are obh~ated to take on ind1v1duJl contract, when theu pro•
~ram .. .ire not full But I ~now
nl many students who attempted
lo t1bld1n contracts with <.,omeof
tho'I.{'faculty and were lold they
weren t taking 1..ontract<, Many
time., the rc-<:,ultw.i.-. a capable
<,tuJent enrolling tn a program
ht' or she 1<; not happy with.
wasting what a student 1..ons1ders
dearly paid for time
The reason many students enroll at Evergreen 1s due to the
md1v1dual contrdct study mode
Contracts are ~pec1ally useful to
students desmng participalion 1n
an 1nl<'msh1p Internships are <'X·
tremely important for on the 10b
expent'nce and usually involve a
sub-contrdctor.
rel1ev10g faculty

of much of the educative work.
Many times inlnnsh1ps help a
"..ludent obtain education not oflered in Evergreen·s curricula.
For example, there are many in•
J1v1duals involved in law enlorcement who study through internships because there are no
proi,;rams covering that field of
interest
So, while 1ndiv1dual contracts
can fulfill a definite need, it appears the faculty are reluctant to
carry them. I've heard a lot of
complaining
that students are
la1y and not willing to fulfill
their commitments
with contracts, but cannot the same be
.-.a1J of faculty7 It seems to me
that faculty need to be reminded
of their teaching commitment to
the needs of the students, and
not to convenience
Sandra Frt'eland

Chromosomes
And Baseball
To A Lost Cause?
Im wntmg m rebullal to Valene Solanis s letter to the editor
m the Octobt>r 13 issue in which
she c;tated that men were an "in•
complete" gender and "emotion ally crippled
due to the XY
chromosome trait
It ..,eems Ms Solan1s ha,;
learned the t<'chnical facets of her
b10l0Ky lesson m chromo!oome
structure but has failed to pt'r•
re1ve the abstraction 1n its proper
conte'ICI Granted,
males will
never fttl the pleasures of pos•
<,.e<;sin~
a !oet of breasts and will
never directly feel the 1oy-, of
childbirth, yet Ms Solanis 1s ignoring thl.' fact that males do
posse<.s something vital to the
human Spt'C1esand of which she
seems particularly "envious" As
tar as being "emotionally crippled 1s concerned, male's XY
trait in no way hinders their intelligence, all humans have problems and d1ff1culty dealing with
them, so 11 hardly seems fair of
Ms Solan1s to exclude herself

•

and the whole of the female gen•
der
At any rate, I do hope (for the
sale of sanity) that Ms. Solams's
outlook 1s an exception not a
summation, and that the YankttS
take the series.
BPBJ
B.S. LOVE ME7

Genes,
Genes,
Genes
To the Editor:
Dear Valerie,
In response to your X Y chromosomes theory. That may be
true but there are two sides to
the story. Maybe an X chromosome is a mutant of a Y chromosome and females are merely
walking mutants with a little
something added on.
But please, Valerie, next time
you write one of your "scientific
theories" try to remember to
undo the/lastic bag tied around
your hea . Being a scientist you
should realize that lack of oxygen
to the brain for prolonged peri•
ods of lime causes brain damage
Signed,
The person from Glad,,,

Hand Me

Down
Genes

named Sue•· complex of yours.
M.lybe ynu ought to ch,rnge your
name to VJlentme
Strech Mymann
P S A dosed letter to Val and
all other Evergreen Ex/Non leminists You know who you are,
the ones really depressed over
the ·•mcomplett X complex.· Dry
your eyes and kttp them open,
because before long you will be
contacted concerning your membership m Evergreen's newest coalition:
"The Men Evergreen
Neglected," we·II be calling ourselves ··The M.E.N ••
Next week I will tell my tale
of how Evergreen converted me
from feminist supporter into a
true male M.E.N. member. So
until then remember 1f you don·t
think girls are t>xplosive try
dropping one
SM

For A
Good Time

Call ..
To the Editor

I am interested in forming a
heterosexual
coal1t1on here at
TESC After all, we are a minority Anyone who might be interestt'd in such a union can meet
me on Red Square at S p.m this
Saturday and we will shart" some
-,c,c,al 1nterc~1ur~eon the sub1ect
Name withheld
due to fear of
lynching,
37-ZJ-38

To the Editor
Val its unfortunate that your
Jean!o were aborted so early m
ltfe, but don't feel too badly a
lot of the guys had to wear their
sister's hand-me-downs.
I want
you to hang out there fella and
grab hold of the far-out life
available lo you here at Evergreen. At this school the only
emotions that warrant restnct1on
are the realistic on~. see you're
off the hook already. Also, don't
fttl too badly about that " a boy

FORUM is a column of com•
mentary on issues of possible
interest to the Evergreen community. The column is open to
any individual or group on campus. The opinions expres~d in
FORUM are solely the author's
and do not necess.a.rily reflect the
opinions of the college or the
staff of the COOPER POINT
JOURNAL.
by Marty Biedermann
l:veryone 1s a little nervous.
There l!o a hornets' nest beside
one of the 'boalercocks· m the
hll!-<'. I, myself, am nervous excitement in the central gut. I
climb over the small ridge top lo
S(.'(' what's going on. A bird soaring off to the North i,.n loops.
Back and around ...
what are
its markings? A hawk 7 Not a
vulture, that's for sure. Baldy,
maybe7 Yes! ... the white tail;
the dignified, proud and white
head. A gesture of overseeing the
business. What 7 Perhars
the
spmt of Uncle Sam himsel .
"Get back behind the line.
Here they come."
In businesslike
haste ((earl,
two men skitter by with drip
torches (cans containing a diesel/
gas mixture). At the tip of a stem
1s an ignition post with a candle's
o;erene flame upon ti. There 1s
'>omethmg of a symphony in the
way the flame drips onto awaitmg branches, slash. Surprisingly
poetic. Why7
There are about 25 or 30 acres
here which are burning for economic purposes. The eagle ts
),IOrie· but undoubtedly not far
enough away to be out of sight
in the clear cuts. There are about
775,000 acres in the Shelton district of the Olympic National
Fore'it Most of JI has been logged
(e'l<cepl the very inaccessible)
Forty pt"rcent of the land now
cleared has been replanted Sixty
pt'rcent has not
To describe what happened 1s
pointless. About fifty acres were
burned in all, creating a manmade ··cloud" as far as the eye
could see. We were burning two
"units" (parcelled off chunks of

ALL WAn

acreage) and there were other
"controlled burns" going on nearby. My crew was busy putting
out small spot fires in a section
of young growth trees ("reprod."
in the trade). We were there until
dark when the sky was Hell as
the sun went down. Our evildoing on the hillsides was evidenced by a city lights glow effect; a model Dresden of our
own.

1FORUM

TIIAtlCL

The next morning. we made a
recheck sweep through our trees.
We found no smokes. The island
of young Doug· Firs had sur·
vived the surrounding inferno.
On the way back to the road, we

and bemused rabbit and humanely removes him to the unburned side of the fire line. We
begin down the hill in zigzag
formation.
Devilish luck. Devilish job. I
am victimized once again by the
great goddesS Hypocrisy. I carry
out my duty as it brings cold,
hard cash. Money. Life.
The units have been rated for
fuel" content. Over a ton of logs
and branches per .acre will be
consumed by crazy flames of
waste. Heat given off, smoke in
the air; again and again. "High
yield forest" thrives and survives
another stage ol tree plantallon
misery.
Look at all the naked, crying
land. This is government land.
The people own the land and
lease it (probably through little

"Over a ton of logs and branches
per acre will be consumed by
crazy flames of waste."
wondered what our assignment
would be for the remainder of
the day. Back at the truck we
grabbed a bite to eat and were
told that we would light the fires
now.
We filled our drip torcht.>S;
about one-third hot fuel (gasoline), and the other two-thirds
diesel. (I don't want to light. Personally. I figure that the entire
procedure is a tad bit immoral;
like an infantryman taking up his
M-16 to do his "work.") We
drive down the road to do combat. Yellow, fire-retardant shirts.
silver hard hats, plastic goggles, ,
perhaps a bandana like the bandits wore in the old West. We
lest the torches.
A last gaze over the terrain.
We are up fairly high - maybe
four or 5,000 feet. We are surrounded by clear cuts, rathful
economic ecodisaster defoliation
Thank God the bald eagle can
brave the man-made ruin and
muster a living out here
There are many blue grouse,
three of which would be subsequently eaten by my comrades.
A friend catches an exhausted

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choice ol their own) to the Simpson Timber Company. A rare
]()().year lease - do what you
want. Ravage and rape if you
please .
Much of the wood 1s
exported to our allies in Japan
who want ( 7) Westernized.
wasteful housing like our own.
Plywood. Houses which can be
expected to stand for perhaps
one-third as long as a house
should be built to stand. Bland,
cold living boxes. A place to take
your shoes off and let the TV tell
you what to buy. Toilet paper lo
keep you clean. Wastepaper to
keep the bureaucratic
serpent
eating its own dizzy tail. Computer read-outs spewing more
control.
A stage of fire, and what for
us7 The 'iame7 Fire bombing

PERFECT

Dresden.
elimHiroshima
"so it
ination of nuisance .
goes."
Wood everywhere.
Treated
properly by a true culture it can
be a work of art. A craftsman
can put love into a piece of wood
and much pleasure be denved in
1\s beholding.
Plywoodl Chipboard? Yech! Fire!
It's the taxpayer'<, land a National Forest. Trees can be 'Amer1cJ's renewable tl'<,ource" without cle.ir culling
.-.e\ect1V<'
cut
t1ni. tor mstdnce Needles,; e~
port<, 10 toreign countnt-s (havt·
you ever seen the thron~._ of Jap.1nesl' ships loading in Coos Bay
Oregon?). ·Selective cutting entails practically the same number
nf jobs. but with ··an eye to the
future·· It'~ about time we start
J referendum
lo stop the S1mpson Timber Company and others
from devastating the land. It..,
time we Stt sanity enter the
realm of woodland management.
Marty Biedermann is currently
Individual Contract at [ver~reen, studying linguistics with
Richard Alex;;ander. He formerly
worked driving a water tank
truck for the U.S. Forest Service.
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File & Complete a Job Apphca
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Dale: Tuesday. October 25
Time: 3:30 5:00 p.m.
Place: Library 1213

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MANAGING EDITOR
Mandy Mcfarlan

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The COOPER POINT JOURNAL la publlat.:f

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Next Question
Q How do you tell a male
chromosome from a female chromosoml'7
A You pull their gentS down
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1mID~mi~~@it@~CaD1pusNotes.
You Too Can Be A Winner
What This Building Really
Needs Is A Golf Course.
Student planning of CAB 11 is underwa""y, and Monday morning
the committee in charge placed a large suggestion sheet in the main
lobby of the existing CAB. According to the design committee, CAB
II will be either a "redecoration or renovation" of the present buildin·g, or possibly "an actual addition." If all the suggestions offered by
the Evergreen community are to be accommodated, however, the design team might consider a new building about the size of Rhode Island.
Most popular among the facilities already suggestffi are a bar or
tavern, a coffee house, and a large wooden dance floor. Other ideas
include:
- an expanded, more func- an anti-gravity chamber
tional KAOS
- a varied and interesting as- an ict>cream parlor
sortment of potted and hanging
J barbershop and shoemakplants
er
(
the
people around here need
- a 24 hour sandwich shop
,11
- a fountain: large, swim- a specia 1ty ,;hnp ol exotic
able, and public with waterfalls
drug~
and slide~
DON"T EXPAND
- a rollE'r coaster
- astroturf and 1.1tu111-.
- an auditorium capable nt
a l.ir~e. comtnrtablt' loun}-:C
,;eating 1,000 people
w1th lot:, ol cu:,h1nn..,
- a massage parlor
a med1um-,1zeJ pipe organ
expanded offices for S& A
J hostel
Board and Geoboard members

BANANAS

HEY, DO YOU KNOW
WHAT WE NEED?
NO?

The Bloodmobile Is Coming

WELL, I'll TELL YOU.
First of all, we need WRITERS,
ones who are willing to take assign men ts for news articles, as
well as ones with brilliant ideas
of their own.
Next, we need a PHOTOGRAPHER to take news photos
on an assignment basis. Also we
need "ARTY" PHOTOS for our
Arts and Events column.
CARTOONS would be nice,
too.
the
INTERESTED 7 Contact
Cooper Point Journal in CAB
306 - 866-6213.

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bulletin board tor those who
wish to make an appointment.
Information on the PugE't Sound
Blood Program and Guidelines
for Blood Donors will also be
posted. Health Services encour·
ages you lo take the time to contribute. All blood drawn will be
used exclusively
in Thurston
County. For mort' information
contact Health Services, Seminar
2110, phonec 866-6200.

Geoboard Continued

Continued from page I
encies with some form of government; e.g., faculty senate, student council." which now reads
"The
Evergreen
community
should avoid fractioning
into
constituency groups which replace rather than augment the
deliberations of bodies composed
of all major constituencies." Students are already setting up a
student union, or organization.
which will act as a watchdog for
the S&A and Geoboards. This
organization will also lobby for
student interests. It is still in its
early planning stages. There is a
meeting concerning the student
union on October 28 at Noon in
CAB 110.
These changt"S in governance
have, so far, inspired six student
meetings. The first. held on October 12, was attended by about
30 people who discussed the selection process for the Geoboard,
the S&A Board, a student union,
and tht> problem with finding
people who are willing to work
on governance at Evergreen. A
man who had recently graduated
was at the first meeting to share
his observations
and recom·
mendations based on his experiences with political student organizations at Evergreen. He fell
that quality representation
is
more important than quantity
because. "We. as Americans,
have poor political socialization
so we tend to farm power over
to others." He went on to say
that "because of apathy and the
feeling that decisions won't go
through the administration" and
'"because of the transiency of stu-

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WITH THE OOVEANMENT OR
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN
PUBLIC AFFAIRS?
At1end Governmen1 and Publlc Adm1n1s1rat1on Job and Graduale School In•
lormallon Day
Wednesday, November 2
9 00 am • 3 30 pm. Lib 3112
Conlacl Career Plar.nlng & Placemen!
tor more inlormalion
library 12U. 866-6193

The bloodmobile unit will be
on campus Tuesday, October 25,
1977 to receive donations. The
procedure includes having your
blood pressure checked, hemoglobin level tested and blood
typed.
Volunteers
from the Blood
Bank will be located on the second floor of the Library Building
from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 r-m.
An appointment sheet wil be
posted on the Health Services

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dents" quality should be the
grt>ater consideration, He concluded, "Don't get hung up on
numbers. You need leadership
and a program, or some kind of
organization." The group generally agreed with him except for
one student who felt that everyone at Evergreen should be able
to vote on board selections and
tht> student union by ballot.
"Why don't we just have a referendum1" he asked. He met with
great opposition and responses
like "There isn't enough interest."
"What will keep it from being a
popularity contest1" and ''The
people who are here now are theonly really interested people who
will stick with it." There was
even some discussion on selecting
the Geoboard members immediately at tht> first meeting. Board
selection suggestions were given.
such as registering voters, having
candidates submit resumes, and
forming a selection committee.
Finally it was decided. after a
series of vott>s, to hold a community "fishbowl" meeting (Friday, October 21), with candidates sitting in the middle to answer questions. Voters (anyone
in the "audience"). will sit on the
outside. Students who attended
the first meeting also decided to
approach academic programs and
special interest groups to get a
good cross section of voters.
A task force then met on October 16 to set and define the
composition of Board members.
They decided that close to SO
percent should be women. And,

tor tht' Geoboard, a member
should come from each of the
following groups: The Asian Co~
alition, Ujamaa. The Gay Center. the Women's Center, and
NASA. For the S&cA Board, the
planners are encouraging
the
"Third Floor Groups" to choose
three representatives.
The third meeting was basically a brainstorming session on
the student organization. Student
interest was already starting to
dwindle and there were only
about 15 people present. Some of
the ideas for the duties of the
union are: to collect information
on student concerns, lo offer
continuity to the student body,
to increase effectiveness of student-planned curriculum, to pro~
vide a place for students to discuss concerns and to insure direct student involvement in issues
which involve students. Another
meeting was held to discuss the
student union. and proposals
were discussed. They have decided that they want a group,
not necessarily a rt>presentative
group, who will lobby for student intt>rests and facilitate student involvement
in decisionmaking at Evergreen. On Octo•
ber 28 at Noon in CAB 110, another meeting will be held to discuss proposals on the student
union.
If you are interested in the
Evergreen community or where
one-fourth of your money is going, go to the Friday meetings.
If not, there are at least 15 people who will make decisions for
you.

Here at the JOURNAL office
we get vast quantities of mail,
ranging from letters from irate
readers to the Christian AntiCommunist Crusade newsletter.
We also get a number of announcements about contests that
college students can enter, and
we figure that it's about time to
share that vast wealth of information with you.
A five hundred dollar prize is
being offered by Preventive Medicine, the journal of the American Health Foundation, to the
student author of the best original paper on the subject of preventive medicine. The deadline
for receipt of papers is January
31. A $200 runner-up prize is
also being awarded, and all students enrolled in undergraduate
and graduate courses (except
postdoctoral students) in the following fields are eligible: medicine. dentistry, public health,
epidemiology.
pharmacy,
life
sciences, nutrition, the social and
behavioral scienct"S, economics,
law, and business.
Winning
papers will be published in Pro-

ventive Medicine.
For information on this contest
writt' to: The Editorial Office,
Preventive Medicine, American
Health Foundation, 1370 Ave. of
the Americas. New York, N.Y.
10019.

A student contest in film-making and critiquing called FOCUS
'78 is being sponsored by Nissan
U.S.A., distributor of Datsun
automobiles. This competition is
divided into lwo categories:
Film-making and Film Study. In
the former. entrants may submit
films in the animated, experimental, documentary, or narrative genres. Entries in the Film
Study category should be re•
views of commercially released
films, comprehensive critiques of
a body of work by a particular
director, screenwriter,
editor,
cinematographer
or performer,
or comprehensive
essays on
particular film genres. All material must be submitted on a noncommercial basis by students enrolled in U.S. schools before
February I, 1978.
First place winners in each cat-

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International Publications, of
Los Angeles, California is sponsoring a creative writing contest
with cash prizes of $100. $50.
and $25 for winning short stories,
essays. or other pieces between
250 and 1,CXX)words. Each en~
trant will receive a free copy of
COLLEGE CONTEMPORARIES
magazine, so everybody wins!!
To get your rules and official
entry form, send a self-addressed
stamped envelope to: lnterna·
tional Publications, 4747 Fountain Ave., Dep't. C-3. Los Angeles, Ca. 90029. The dealine for
entries is November 5. Don't enter this one'if you're concerned
about copyrights.

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ABOATION SUPPORT GROUP, on 01>·
portunlty lo snare your exper~
and
leetlngs about at,o,Uon•
with other
women. Wa ask !hat only women attend ( I his time) lo crute a personal
and supportive
atmosphere.
Pleaae
come on Oclot>er 25. Tuelday .....,,1ng
at 7·30 in the 8oen:t Room, Lib. 3112.
Classes wlll be held In the 1rainlng
ol tw.11 Mlt-examlneUon
on Friday,
NQYelllber 4, and Friday, December 16,
1977 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon al the
Washington
Natural Gas Company,
3120 Martin Way The class size Is limited to 25 Four spaces have been as•
sured to TESC tor lhe November 4
class The deadllne tor s1gmng up tor
the November 4 class has been sel !or
October 24
To insure early cancer delect10n,
Health Services strongly advises all
women to be aware and hopefully par•
tic,pale 1n this program Please contact
Health Services to sign up lor 1he class
or to obtain turther 1nlormat1on Health
Services Sem1na1 2110. phone
866·
6200
fhe Women·s Cente, 1s a place ol
meeting. support
inlmmar1on. and resource relprral lor atl women 1n !he
Evergreen and Olympia community
It
is stalled and run by Evergreen women
o! a vaflety ot ages bacl<.grounds. ana
o! pol1t1cal and se..iual onen1at1ons
We arc comm1lled 10 lhe growlh and
suppor! ot women to providing educa·
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Beginning the week ol October 19
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7

Media At Evergreen, Media Everywhere

An Interview
With Visiting Faculty Member Rich Muller
bv Karne lacobs
R1c.h Muller 1s the Director of Educa•
•1,•n.11Technologv at Hamp~h1re College
.m mn<•vc111ve. t')(penmental,
and very
1 '-rt'n ...
1\'t'
private collegt' m Massachu•
'l q..,
\\ h1ch WdS created about the same
tmw J'- and 1s tre~uently compared to
1-,t•r~reeni He 1s currently spending h,s
\('M-lnng ,;abbat1cal as J half-time vis11tn~
1acultv member here He 1s working
rnmJnlv ,,·1th v1de0 students and that
m~-.._1certainly 1s a novelty
having a
,~died taculty member doing video here
\1uller., plans tor the upcoming quarter,
.1 htlll' phil0s ...
1phv on the state of the tele, 1,1,m medium and some talk about
I iJmpsh1re .ue am11n~ the things included
:n thC' hillowmg

interview

Tht> n-..nversation t00~ place much too
t·.irlv c1 n a t\.tlindd)' morning and began
\\ 1th a notahle similarity betwttn Hamp...h1re and Ev('rgreen Its as hard to find
1qndt,w'- that are de-.iined 10 open there
J" it 1., here The 1nterv1ew was obviously
11tt tl, a lint' <.t.1r1
JOURNAL: Lould you expldm a little
abnut \\ h,it \ nu are going to bt> doing at
( ,·eq,::r<',·n,
\1Ull[R:
\,\,'ell the tirst thing you
1 ulJ
J...ntw,:1c. that Im here on a half
1rnt'aprn1ntrnen1 Hdlt ot my time 1s mine
• ·1 -.ahhat1<...ilre,;;earch ,rnd slufl I want
i,
d1, l1n m\' 111.,,
n ,rnd half belon~s to the
l i•llt>~t' \\'hat
I Vt' ,1rranged 1<,a <;Chedule
·.,hen· I 1.. ,,r\... 11n Fver~rc-en-related thing.,
1n1· littlt at all JunnK the Fall quarter
.+Put h.1lt the lime durm~ \.-\1inter and lull
11mt> in the Spring. which awrages out t0
11,111 11mt•n\'f'r
tht• vear Whal I want 10
1,ind ur Jt11nK1s work.mg with a group of
p,·,1ple Junn~ Spnni,; quarter on a very
in11:n<,1vrJncumentary telt>v1s1on pro1ect
1..lmh 1,111'>t'l' the light of day either in
•,r.,..1d<.J'>t1nior cable-casting, <.lf some
~ ind ol pr{1lrv~1onal d1stnbut1on One of
·ht· rea-.ons why I try to arrange my time
1hJt way 1., because all that takes a lot of
~rnundwork and spade work, and know!0.1( wh.at can bt> dnne al Evergreen, and
,..h.11 th£' rw,-.ible contacts are with the
l'r"tt'-.-.1onal medad community, in addi!tPn
111 v,orking up d rc.a~onable sub1ect.
In 1h1• Winter I m of two minds I'm
1 .. n-.iJl'T,n~
d111ng <:.everalkinds of things
\\h,11 I 11n~mdllv thought I would do 1s a
m,ill w,1up <.ontrdct with people who
,,l1·nt1t\ th£'m..,dve., dS hav1n~ 1elev1s1onor
·•1nli.1t"-.pent•nce d(1in~ .,nme rt'a<ling that
11nh,1r-.1ht'V hJdn t dnnt• betnre, working
•n -.-,mt· rr11hlt•m<,with the medium that
·hn m1~ht n11t ret have h.id pn,;,ed or had
t" "''h-r
and Jpmg some of the basic
pl.mn1n~ ).;r,1unJwor\... select10n of a topic,
,,l,·nt11Ll.1tu1n111resources and the like for
dH" Spring in hope., that some of tht>S(
pt'l1plt•1...,nuldc11n11nuenn into the Spnnp
,u t1v11v Im now considering domg some•
thin~ lil..C'th.;it but 1n,;tead, aimed not al
,1 p11puldt1onol s1udents who would 1dent1h tht•mselvr ... as having a lot of exp<>n·
t'Olt' wtir\...m~ w11h a group ol people who
\,,,uld c11ns1Jt"rtht'mselvtS less e:xpenenc~
\\1th tt•lt'v1s1tm In the Fall I'm simply su•
l't'T\'1-.m~
a numher of contrac1s

JOURNAL: You're still working at
Hampshire 1n theory. What did you do or
.Jr('
you domg there 7
MULLER: This year I'm on sabbatical
leav?{.t;,omHampshire which means I havt"
no fonl.al responsibilities to tht" coll~.
l
have a ioint faculty administrative appointment at Hampshi~ which means that
half of me, m throry. is a teacher and half
of me in theory is an administrator. My
teaching half is in tht" School of Unguagt"
and Communication at Hampshire and the
work I do is about evenly divided betwttn
laboratory or studio activity with the
media, prrncipally trlevision,
and the
other half 1s classroom seminar kinds of
considerations: the effects of the- mt'dium,
the technological futures and what kinds
of interplay that has with the social. eco~
nom1c, and political problems which surn1und the television medium in tht" larger
<;ociety. My administrative half is ~pon<;1blefor the college's media activities and
I worl 1n the context of the college's library, very much as people involvt'd in
media here do
JOURNAL: What k,nd of response
have you gotten so far to your being here1
Have there bt>cn people pounding on your
door trying to get contrdcls or has it been
relatively quiet 1

h

MULLER: There have been times of
hoth really. I think I experienced what I
gJther 1s an annual panic of people trying
to get contracls I tried to be as stra1gh1lnrward as I could at the outset about
what I did and didn't want to do m the
l·all. I considered my time in the Fall principally my own, and I would take on only
a lew contracts with as much the motive
(11 educating
myself into Evergreen's ways
d!> of working with the students.
I think
Ive spent as much time talking with and
eventually not sponsoring contracts with
him people as l have with telev1s1on people I'm not sure 1f that's because the only
list that I know has been circulated to
people identifies me as being interested in
·1iin documentary Another reason is beause the grapevine assumes that people
interested in media are interested tn media
which, in my case, 1s true
JOURNAL: Then, you re not doing film
at all 1
well
MULLER: I
I am I hadn t
intended to Im sponsonng one contratt
which 1s with someone who would iden.
t1ty himself as a film person principally
and working as a subcontractor on two
others which are defm1tdy film contracts
where my role 1s to work with people d1rec1ly on the development of a particular
tdm pro1ec1 I'm also sponsonn~ what I
K.11her1s called in Evergrc-en terminology
d <.luster contr,1ct
JOURNAL: Somebody calls 1t that
MULLER: Someone I old me that's what
1t was, and if thats whal 11 1s, 1ha1's what
11 1s It's three people working togetht"r
on television 1oumalism Mike Poole,

Zach Kittel and Larry Quarrels, Vidro
Free Evergrttn, are getting together a once
every other week feature ne-ws program
on issues relevant to the Evergreen community, which airs t"very otht"r Tuesday
night on Channel 6 at. I believe, 7 o'clock.
JOURNAL: How did you find yourself
corning out to Eve-rgrttn 1 How did that
hapJ"'n7
MULLER: Wt"II. sevt"ral things came togt"ther there. Hampshire college and Evugreen were plannt'd at about tht" same
time, in the- late sixties. There was a lot of
communication between the planning staff
of Hampshire and the planning staff of
Evergreen and since l'vt" bttn at Hampshire since the beginning, or ~ore
the
~inning,
l knew about Evt"rgrttn and
know many of the things that were going
on, and had wantf'd in some way or other
to visit Evergreen to see how things were
turning out. There ha.s been a lot of talk
about exchangt" of faculty between the
two institutions. So far as I know, an actual one-for-ont" exchange where some-one
from Hampshire comes here and someone
from Evergreen goes there hasn't yet happened. That's one of lhe other rusons. I
know Evergreen was working on educational ideas which were inte~ting to me-.
I also simply wanted to spend some time
m the Northwest which was an area of
1he country that I wanted to get to know
better
JOURNAL: Well. I was wondering, because Evergreen has all this video equipment and its had a lot of problems with
people getting access to it, having actual
hands-on expenence with it and I was
wondering if you were brought in with
that m mind
MULLER: I have no idea. I now know
more than I did last October which is
when I approached Evergreen about the
poss1b1lity of spending a year here on a
part-time basis. I know more than I did
about the problems that people think exist
about media teaching and media equipment. but where any of that played into
the deans' decision to let me come here
for a year you'd have to ask them.
JOURNAL: What k,nd of feedback
have you bt-en getting aboul the media
situation ht-re, the video situation7
MlJLL[R: I spent from the second week
in August through the orien1a11on period
here wandering around in one way or another saying to anyone who would listen
to me, "Tell me about media at Evergreen." which was fascinating because
people said all kinds of things from the
enthusiastic to the libelou~. And m many
ways I've gotten an earful I don't know
whether I have a general charactenzat1on
of the media "scene .. here Are there particular things that you're cunous about7 I
don't have any ··media at Evergreen is
clearly
this way" kinds of feelings
It's a complicated kind of scene all bound
up in individual needs as much as institutional policies and histones, as much as I
can figure out.

JOURNAL: I don't know what kind of
equipment Hampshire has or how they
handl" its distribution or who use-s it but
it seems that around ht"re some people occasionally get to use the color studios, and
things like that, and other people don't,
and some people get awfully frustrated in
the attempt. and l was wondering what
kind of impression you got of all that.
MULLER: I'll tell you the impression I
have as far as talking to the people who
run,
. well no, talking to evt"ryont", is
that the basic problem with getting accns
to the more sophisticatM television t>quipment simply has to do with the fact thal
people need training in how to use it, and
I suspect that what might have happene-d
is that people didn't fully appreciate what
ii took to learn how to use it properly,
and when they went in and said "Ht'y, l
want to do a color TV show," and someone said "Do you know how to do this1
Do you know how to do that 1 Do you
havt" a crew togdher7" All of th~ questions have to follow when someone says,
"Ht"y, I want to publish a nt"wspaper," for
example. Some ~ople may have bttn put
off by that, and interpret~ that as lack of
cooperation or being hassle-d by tht" system. As nearly as l can tell, the rt>quirements for access, particularly for the more
sophisticated equipment, are at least by
my lines rusonable, and art" certainly in
line with what we do, for what that's
worth, since l've been involved in drawmg up those guidelines. The problems
with the less sophisticatM. with the portable equipment and that kind of thing, I
think simply is the problem that all institutions share, like Evergreen and Hampshire: It's getting old, and it's getting unreliable, and tht" difficulties of maintaining
an adequately supported revolving replacement pool. as nearly as I can tell.
Most porta-paks for example were bought
at about the same time, or at least within
a very narrow time scale. Porta-paks were
not designed for the kind of heavy institu •
llonal use that they are now getting. They
are simply not dl"Signed for that. They are
plastic, not metal They're getting old.
Some of the frustration of dealing with
the equipment I think is simply that fact.
Evergreen and the people who use the fa.
cilities, and the people who make budget
allocation decisions, whoever and whereever they are ( I have no idea how that
works). simply have to come to terms
wtth
. If they want a program like that
to operate, then they have to provide for
equipment replacement, as well as initial
equipment purchase. That's a problt"m
which 1s by no means unique to Evergreen It 1s a problem for us al Hampshire, I used to work in the State University of N Y system and it's a problem
th('fe, and it's not alone media equipment
problem. It 1usl happens that media equipment 1s popular. doing things with mt"dia
1,; fashionable, II gets used hard. There's
kind of a mystique about the porta-pak
Any old body can use it with no training
- well, with minimal training and they
get used hard.

JOURNAL: What k,nd of background
did you havt" in media, before you were
at Hampshire, or what 1s your background
m general7

MULLER: Well, I'll start working backwards professionally. Before I was at
Hampshire, I was at State University of
N. Y.. the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse My responsibilities there were to Sf'!
up a unit in the medical center which
would provide support services to the
teaching and clinical departments for photography, film. medical illustration and
graphics television and instructional rt"search support. I was there for a little
over two yt"ars.
My graduate work was at Syracuse
University, where l was one of the first
~pie
through an intH·clisciplinary program in communications sponso~ jointly
by a number 0£ units within the Univt"rsity. My degree was housed in the School
of Education. I did my undergraduate
work at Amht"rst in psychology. And
along through that. my whole undergradua tt"-gradua te caret"r, l supported my
habit by working for a number of radio
stations and somt" closai circuit operations, and just doing all the things you
have to do to pay for it
. and also get
some experience.
JOURNAL: What kind of work did you
do in radio7

MULLER: A number of things. Well, I
spent, I wasted, many fruitful hours at
the undergraduatt" radio station at Amherst, mostly news and SpKial evt"nts. Tht"
high point of my career there was when l
coordinated the pool audio coveragt" when
John Kennedy camt" to Amht"rst in October of 1963 to dedicate tht" Robert Frost
Library. We fed a number of stations live.
We fed UPI audio. We felt very good
about it all.
JOURNAL:
powerful

You must have felt very

of my ideas about what media in general
could or ought to do out of that experience, although ii was a heavily commercial activity with all the limitations .
and opportunities that implies.
JOURNAL: Do you have any ideas on
where television could go or should go or
any fantasies of wht"re you'd like to Stt
it go7

MULLER: Oh, everybody does. I could
teach wholt" courses on that. Television as
an institution is probably one- of tht" two
or thrtt most powerful institutions in
modt"m socidy. It's right up tht"rt' with
govemmt"nt and it's right up thert" with
the education.al system. As to why that
is, I think that's a very complicatf'd historical political economic kind of question. but the shttr fact of its saliency in
the culture means, I think. that even ~pit" who don't stt themselvies as working
professionally in the medium or in the
business owe it to themselvies, and to the
~t of us, to dt"velop somt" basic intelligence about what it is and how it func•
lions, if for no other reason than to be
intelligently critical viewers, or to deal intelligt"ntly with the problems of their children using it. That's why. for example. I
think that institutions devoted to general
education, like Evergreen, like Hampshire,
like any other place I can 1hink of, should
provide curricular opportunities to deal

tough we can now watch the Olympics
from Japan live. which 1s just fine, but 1s
not the kind of dramatic change that 1f
you read what people were saying would
bt> likely or possible when live interconnection of continents was possible. What
satellites have done is revolutionized point
lo point communications, and the cost of
it. more than they have broadcast communication. That's internationally.
We
haven't yet really fully developed the potential of domestic satellilt" communication. Basically what satellites do is make
distance irrelevant. You go up and you go
down. That's the basic cost. And the distance between th~ two. the two ground
points, becomes much less important. And
there are all kinds of differences that could
make, but I guess I don't see all of lhe
support systems developing in orde-r 10
make some of those differences real.
Cable tt"levision is a pKUliar business.
A while ago cablt" television was tht" last
best hope of t"very political reformer or
radical going. h was going to put control
back in the hands of "the people ... And
like all kinds of abstractions that ckal with
..the people," that one turned out to be
pretty complicated and not to work precisely the way ~ople who thought they
had one true clue on how it would or
should work . . It hasn't happened that
way And in a few isolated instances some
of the things that were talked about have

"Basically what satellites do is make distance irrelevant. You go up and you go
down."

MULLER: Oh, let me tell you
JOURNAL:
feeding the .

a little college station

MULLER:
with the White House
telephones that spring up like magic
wherever the President goes. A month
later Kennedy was shot and because his
appearance at Amherst had been one of
his last public appearances, there was a
reasonable amount of interest in what he
had said and done al Amherst when he
was tht"re. during that five or six days of
incredible media coveragt", following the
assassination in Dallas. l was involved
with some of that. l did a Summers, and
sort of for awhile, not Summers . in
between things, workt'd for a group of
radio stations around the N. Y. city area,
which were then known as tht" Ht"rald
Tribune radio network. Those stations
made their bread and butter in doing local
news coverage and in doing reporting.
Triple A time was between 6 and 10 a.m.
when people were gdting up, driving to
the station, and waiting for trains, and
gelling on trains, or having driven with
their spouse to the tram, had gone home
and were getting the rest of the household
organized. For a relatively small-time operation it was a marvelous grounding in
1ournal1sm. because although the issues
were not earthshaking in national terms,
11 was local journalism.
It was zoning
board and school board, and some police
stuff - but that wasn't very interesting lo
anybody. Basic local journalism. and I
learned a lot from it. Those stations did
and still do, although they're not ownM
by the Herald Tribune or operating as a
network. provide a very valuable community service. I guess I developed a lot

with television. That's what I basically see
myself domg, both hrre and at Hampshire, rather than contributing specifically
lo the pre-professional training of people
who wish to be eventually out there in
front of the cameras or literally or metaphorically, with their finger on the switch.
ln terms of what actually trlevision does
to us all, it's very easy to say it's all dreadful and I don't think that's true. It's very
easy to say it is a product of our economicsystem. and because the economic system
has inequalities built into it, it's going to
do nothing but magnify those. And that's
only partially true. It reflects in many
ways the complexities of tht" culture that
we are living in with all of the contradictions that .are there. but at the same time
helps create the contradictions. I don't
think television is going to change dramatically. A couple of years ago, l thought
the possibility for dramatic change in television was real, that technological changes
like cable television, like satellite distribution and like video disks or video cassette.
or the number of different technologies
that are coming up onto the market which
permit basically treating television like an
LP record; that some combination of
those or one of those would begin to effect some dramatic changes in how people
view television and what they turn to it
for. l don't think that. I still would like to
think that. but I guess that I don't any
more believt" that it's going to happen
either as quickly, or as dramatically as I
thought it might. Satellites in some ways
are in full use now and l don't thmk that
we've seen any dramatic changtS. The
world has not grown closer together al-

happened, but they take enormous amounts
of organiza11on, a lot more professional
support
Sometimes, that professional
support does nol mean professional media,
media professionals applying their trade,
as much as it does a skill much more akin
to community organizing, to get worthwhile locally-based community service activity going on cable
JOURNAL: Aside from the fact that
Hampshire 1s pnvate and on 1he East coast
and Evergreen is public and on the West
coast. what kind of differences or similarities do you see1
MULLER: Evergreen relies on, defines
as its requirement for graduation. accumulation of a certain number of credits or
units. I forget what the magic number 1s,
but there's a magic number. Hampshire
defines as its requirements for graduation
the successful completion of a series of
what we call examinations without regard
to course enrollment or length of time of
residency.
JOURNAL: What kmd of exammat1ons
are you talking about 1
MULLER: There are six examinations
.md I pul 1he quotes there very careful!~.
because m many senses they are not what,
in the normal sense. certainly not in any
sense m the traditional high school senst",
what one thinks of as examinations We
ask that students design what usually
amounts to a project m each of the four
major curricular areas of the collegt", which
art" Language and Communications, Hu-

man1t1e., .ind Arts, Social Science, and
Natural Science. The student designs a
pro1ect and executes It successfully which
shows a reasonable basic understanding of
how people in that discipline go about
asking questions and answering them. The
pro1ect can take the form of something
that looks like a longish term paper, to
something that looks like an exh1b1t1on of
photography accompanied by a d1scuss1on of the exhibition with a committee.
on to all kinds of weird and wondrou.,
forms. So, that's four of the six examinations, or what we call Div1s1on One Exams The Division Two exam is done at
the end of a period of time which we call
a concentration roughly equal~ to a major in lots of other curriculums. The differences between a concentration and a
major is that we ask again that the stu ·
dent design it. As with an examination
what designing a concentration means 1s
outlining a series of courses and indt"pt"ndent studil"S and internships, and all kmds
of things which together constitute the exploratton of a field of inte-rest. That penod
of time is wrapped up in an event which
is called the Division Two examination
which in most cases is the student and the
committee which he has gotten togetht"r to
guide his choices getting together, looking
at what's going on rt"trospectively, talking
about what's going to go on later in the
student's life and
career,
or both. Division Three at Hampshire is a substantial
independent project which can range from
a fairly traditionally organized senior thesis which has long been a part of lots ol
liberal arts colleges· curriculums to
. the
sky's the limit agam, that period of ltme
ends m a long paper or report or a something-or-other in which a student and the
comm1tttt whJCh hz:; been gu1dmg their
work sit down and look at whats doing
Comments .ire wntten Those are exams
The first wdy not to pass an exam 1s 1<1
have your proposal for an exam retused
which deals with the ability of the student
to identity significant questions. Some ot
the most interesting . ..ind in some ways
the most stressful conversations at Hampshire come when a student 5ays to a lac·
ulty membt>r, "I want to do an exarn1n.111on in Natural Snence and here 1s the
question that 1 want to explore." and the
response of the faculty member 1s Im
glad you want to do an exam1nat1on but
that's a trivial question '
The most important difference betwN!n
the two institutions is Evergreens commit•
ment ( I thmkl to the notion that people
should only do one thing at a time, the
notion of the program, the Coordinated
Studies program
Life di Hampshire feels very fragmented
a lot of the time for students and for fac·
ulty, .rnd one c1I the principal things I
want to accomplish. and one of the pnn
ctpal thing,; I m trying to accomplish on
my own time this Fall at Evergreen 1s to
get a reas0nable understanding of how
programs work, how they Jre planned
h<.iw they really wor\.... how they evolve.
as the !acuity and the students get together
and the 1n1t1al plan getli modified m ILght
ol who the people re.tllv are With th.tt
aim m mind I .tm this Fall s1tt1n~ in as
kind ol a ghost ll,urth fac-ulty membN on
the Outdoor Ed proiram
It there had
been a Coordm.ited Stud1e<, program m
the media area I probably would havt'
Joined the staff ot 1h,u dnd dl1ne that. but
smce tlutdoor educatum 1,; <,ort of a M>C
ondary mter~t ot mine
Its '>ometh1n~
that I hope lo be able to work in more at
Hampshire, that I have worked 1n in the
past ,1nd I m serving both of those aims
by doing that

How Successful
Is This Year's Curriculum?
t \1 1\, -.u(u'-,..,tul .Ht' b·t•r~reen s group cont ran,;; and coordinated studies programs this year? The
l t•upC'r Jl.,mt lt,urn.11 1, pnnttn~ this questionnaire tn an attempt to obtain from students and fac-

ult-, nwmbt~r-. 1nn1!vt•d 1n h(,th types nl study their opinions regarding the effectiveness of this year's
l'lt•,ht' JOS\>Jer .1nv 1lr all llf the queslions relevant tc, you. A box for responses will be
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Queslions

for students:

11 \\'h,1t pr11~r.1m Jrt,> you currently enr(,lled tn. 11any7

21 H11ww1•uld \l('U rate tht:' perk,rmanct' of your instructor(s)7

_\l .-\n· v11u plt'ased with the curriculum included in your program? Do you think the reading list
ch~,,en ~

h .1 ... 1,·e!I

➔ 1 Do vou thin I-.. your program involves about the right amount of work. too much, or not
t'nl1u~h7

Sl Do you feel you~lf to be in a learning situation better than that which you would have en•
countered al a mori.>traditional college?

bl How would you changt your program if you had tht chance?

Que,;tions for faculty members:
\\'hat pro~r.Jm dr1 vou teach. 11any?

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"' Ar£' vnu '>al1'itledwith the subject matter you re teachmg7 Would you alter
l'nlni.!.!{1teach anc,thN pro~ram with the same ob1ect1ves7

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bl DCl you think Evergreen students have a bt>tter, worst", or relatively equal chance of obtaining
v.Jlu.iblf' educa11on here ao; they would at a traditional college with similar resources?

The First Punk
Journalism
Article
by D Arthur MacArthur
Hello? Hello 7 ls this thing
turned on7 Testing, one, lwo,
thrtt. HEYi!! I'll be damned. Just
like they said.
My name is Arthur MacArthur,
I'm a writer, new on the scene,
and I'm hot. Wasn't planning to
write for the paper this fall. but
they talked me into it. Everybody knows the JOURNAL needs
writers and they're loaning me
this space just to ~ort of give it
a whirl in. As they say at Harrah's, it's a thrill to be here. A
one, a two, a one, two. three,
wellletsrock.
Competition for atlention, especially for the readers' attention, is hot and heavy around
campus. I mean, for a non-competitive sort of place (or span I
should maybe say). of course. I
think we're all a bunch of under•
achievers who worry about it
and, likf' the chubby little fourthgrader at the end of the diving
board, can't go through with it
unless we know somebody is
watching. Maybe you've noticed.
First off, there's all of tht ma•
terial the college sent you over
the summer to go over before
school even started. St hont'St
now: how many of you signed
up for medical insuranct this
year by default 1 Or would have
if nobody at the Rl"gistrar's had
reminded you about it7 Ytah.
Fine print kills. I don't think I've
met an Evergrttntr yet who's ac•
tually sat down and read the catalog all the way through. Not
the catalog supplement.
mind
you, the catalog itself. Small
wonder no two people can agree
for mon than fiftttn minutt'S on
what we're about.
So boffo keen, you got all your
forms filled out and sent to the
ri&ht offices, hopefully without
having signed away your first•
born male child in the process, at
leas! unknowingly. Swell. You
show up on campus and whal
hits you next 7
The signs. Notices, mv1tations,
ann1,unct-'ments, request.-., commanJ~. press releases, s1~n-up
c,het'lc, vou name it II vou can
mJl-..t•a- c,1gn nut ol 11 II<. beC'n
up .1 wt·el-..alre.Jdy Tht•y'rt• evf'r\'•
whl'rt', Pn the wall~. !ht• bullelin
h11.1rJ.., tin tht> door., nl huild
ing, .ib,,vf' thl' unn,,I.., .11111Vt·r
I hi'rt'.., n<' 1-!,t'llmg ,1w,1v ln1111
1h1·rn 1,nlt' v1•l1re ht•rl'
\\'hat J11 WC' g1,17 \,\'(' ~ot prn
gr,1m .,c-ht.>dule<.,
c,heet,;; 1h,1t tell
l1llat· ht,ur~ notices .1bout mod
u\C'..,and Leisure Ed course, We
g111 '< hedules for film senesec,,
1nntat1l1no; 111 p0tlucb.
loll-.
Jances.
natural
healing and
dream reflection workshops. We
K<'Imeetings for women's groups,
meetings for men·s groups, as•
,ert1v<'ness training for canines
(not '"dogs," please). We got an
Alp,nr Club. a Third World Coaltuon. a Faith Center. an Ever•
grHn Christian Fellowship, a
Transcendental Mt>ditation Qf.
fice We gol an Office of Career
Planning, a Gay Resource Cen•
ter, a Women's Clinic, a $('If.
Help Bicycle Clinic for bicycles
at the end of their chains. We
got EPIC, ECOE. NASA. SAGA,
KAOS. S&A. the CPJ. And
don't forget, everybody should
look over COG JII.

What the fuck. right7 That's
what I say, is what the fuck. Ev•
erybody's got signs up and no
way can you read them all. I
know its the way democratic institutions art suppoSKt to wvrk,
but it doesn't make any sense
and it's not working.
Some
groups even have their own bulletins or newsletters, or else they
send out Flyers every now and
then to let us know "what's go-

mg on," as if we cared. You jusl
can't keep up. Nobody's admit•
ting it, but you can't, there·s no
way to keep up. Tht- important
things, the things you really want
t<' know about. get Josi in the
blizzard somewhere.
Twentyfive hundred people with 2,5QO
axes to grind; there's too much
screaming and not enough honest
appraisal of the situation.
I have to admit, though, that
my absolute faves a~ the bulletin board notices. The Evergrttn
classifieds. Prices are usually
pretty reasonable and you can
generally find whatever
it is
you're looking for: rides. room•
ies, places to rent, textbooks,
records, pets, clothes, cars, bikes,
camping equipment, you name it.
The one I'm waiting to see is:
Good quality Mexican dom.
$8/ounce
Really good herb, just need to
make ii back to Decauter
by the ! Ith.
866-5113, ask for Howie.
Or maybt' from a dropout of
Richard Jones' Psychohistory
program:
life•scripl for sale.
Original owner. 67,CXX)miles.
Nol much to look at. but
runs well.
Good transportation. $450/offer
or will trade for something a bit
more-mellifluous. Call Linda,
866-7353 - 533-2769 alter 5.
Pretty soon your roommates
art getting into the act and it
starts to get on your nerves,
right? It's taken them a couple of
wttks to get books on the shelf,
their clothes out of boxes, and to
have rearranged the furniture in
each of 114 positions mathemati•
cally possible to have arranged
the furniture- in, and pretty soon
the print«! material, the really
heavy stuff. starts to go up.
Newspaper articles on the bulletin board, poems on the door.
Irreverent Chinese sayings in the
bathroom. They start coming at
y11u with magazine articles, ec,•
<.dysby Dons Lessing, last year"<.
term paper; they ftlrce-feed you
inurnal entries, letters from fornwr hivers. and crummy po<'try
..,n vou c.in star! unJer<;,tandm~
hl•W they t1ci....·•and y11u w<1nt
111 .,t.rt·,1m r1gh17 N111 he<,1u"t'
v11u d11nt 1...Jre neu?-..,.1nlv al
thPu!,-:h ..,nmet1mP'- v11u reJllv
d,m t but bl'cau,e vou Tl' PVt'r
lt1adt•d Y11u have l0l'
much
w11rl-..c,;peciallv n:,1d1n~ tn ,fo
,drt'.idv but the printl'd mat!t'r
never .,,or~ comm}-\, nt1t t•v('n tnr
,l ..,econd You·re o;1ckanJ tired
(11 re,1Jm~ and you Just want t11
eat Jmm•r nr c,]eep or maybe talk
lnr awhile but you know you
,;hould be polite because, altf'r
all, it's only been a couple 111
weeb and you don't want your
roommates hating you already.
<.o either you sit there like a
woman and read what they'vf'
handed you or elSE"you take ii
like a man and sit there and pre•
tend to read it, but really you're
sick of it and just want to scream,
eat dinner and go to bt'd. Am I
making sense7 You're exhausted
and you know that if it doesn't
let up soon, you're going to have
to scream, maybe pretty loud,
and ii will be embarrassing
What to do7
I say start screaming. Everv•
body else is. A person can only
be expected to take so much.
Last year I took it without saymg a word, the whole goddamn
year. This year I'm not, I'm
screaming, out loud even. I didn't
even know l had it in me, neither
did my friends or family. but I
do. You'd be surprised how different it makes you fttl. Boy do
I have it in mt and it fttls so
good to get it out.

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William S. Burroughs in a photograph from Cobble Stone Gardens.

Images Of
The Stark And Surreal
COBBLE STONE GARDENS by
William S. Burroughs, Cherry
Valley Editions 1976, paperback
$3.00.

by Mark Smith
William Burroughs has been
called a lot of names over the
years, and every critic that has
ever said anything about him has
been right. He has been called an
existentialist who "proclaims the
essential absurdity of life and reduces it to a flash series of cruel
and often pointless charades."
His books have been called "ovtr·
dressed and completely indigestible dinners."' Naked lunch, his
first publish«! novel, was proclaimed as a masterful statement
against capital punishment and
at the same time a "disgusting
piece of pornography.··
Most of his books have an underlying thread of 15 years as a
heroin addict holding them to•
gether. He also likes to use science fiction such as spaceships
powered by copulation,
frog
people. lesbian agents with penises grafted lo their faces drink•
ing spinal fluid, and "sex skins"
that devour people in the ulti•
mate ecstasy of death. Violence.
sexuality and depravity, all play
major roles in his work.
I should also louch on his political thinking which is fairly
unique. He states in The Job that
abolishing the whole concept of
the nation and that of the family

offer the only feasible solu'tion
for the future. Unfortunately (or
fortunately) he doesn't give any
tangible solutions besides these.
But he does feel that nothing can
be accomplished by nonviolence,
'"The only way I like to see cops
given rlowers is in a flower pot
from a high window."
The reason why I dredged all
that information up is because
Cobble Stone Gardens is hailed
as an autobiography, and I do
feel sort of guilty being so vague
about such a complex character.
1

Cobblt Stone Gardens starts as
childhood memories of St. Louis
in the 1920s, but as the pages
melt away so does all feeling of
time and place. Burroughs is off
on another fantasy and this time
he has outdone himself. The
scenes change from a cop running
out into the street and shooting
indiscriminately into the crowd
( the most surrealistic act 7) to a
queen administering a dihydrooxy• heroin enema, to "a family
in the last stagfS of the earth•
eating disease, their skins black
and their faces covered with filth
and thick sticky green saliva."
The images are stark and surreal, "One old woman was
crooning insanely as she made
mud pies ... " Reading this book
evokes the same feelings as hold•
ing your breath too long under
water. getting a strong electric
shock, eating avocados, and falling off a ladder. In other words,
you gasp for air, your heart
pounds, your mouth is dry, and
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Don"t get
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it's necessarily unpleasant, ii just
takes geltm>; ust>d 10 If William
Butroughs was a photographer
his photos would probably look
like Jerry Uelsmanns'
Again Burrough!!. h1oks at the
world through the eyes of a heroin add1c1, '"The shadow of a
great monkey flickers across his
face in the northern lights, or
was it only a trick - the artificial
northern lights turned on for the
tourist season bathed everything
in a picture post card glow."
(Which is not a great example
but I like it.l
Throughout the book are pictures of large groups of people
doing different things: a group
of soldiers marching. a group of
dadaists dadaing, a group of policemen clubbing. or just people
al the beach. Thest' picture<; don't
seem to have any relation to the
book, except lhat they are there.
Why Burroughs choS(" these pictures is beyond me, but they are
very entertaining.
This is probably the most rea<lable of all of Burroughs' work. It
is short. 53 pages, and embodies
much of the imagery, language,
and style of his other lengthier
novels.
In my travels around this summer I have found this book fairly
hard to come by. Mainly because
it is published by a small press
wilh the support of a National
Endowment for the Arts grant.
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Dancing To An SRO Crowd
'
Greg Lizenbery steals the stage
as a female dance instructor, leotard and all. He is the most versatile member of the company,
serious in one routine and incredibly funny in the next. Body
language lives. The final routine
is "Tin- Tai." an Indian term
meaning 414 rhythm. The dancers are in body suits, and as the
dim red light shrouds the stage I
get visions of primitive tribal
ritual. When the dancers bow,
an ovation begins which lasts for
at least five minutes, with the
dancers beaming the whole time.
The woman we all have to
thank is Pam Schick. Half or the
performance was paid for by a
grant from the Washington State
Art Commission, the other half
by ticket sales. There are ten
dancers in the troupe, eight performed tonight, and six go on
tour. Stage setup and lighting
was done by Evergreeners, under
the supervision of Denny Kotcha
and they did a superlative job,
taking three days to complete all
the setup. It was a pleasant evt.>ning, and we should hope for
more of the arts to be presented
at Evergreen. It is obvious that
the students are willing to support more of' the same and if
only we could snap our fingers
and get a real, permanent stage.

Story •nd Photos by Marc Zaller
T.11,..t• 21. stop 17 OK,
give
nit· l ";' and 22
The lights go
lr\,m ,1 tluorescent blue to bright
1,

hilt' Jnd then

dw

c1

n1mb1nation

of

It., thrt'e t' clock on the
...,,11ur\!.n· t't the pertc.,rmance
I \1\'1d
tlw lt'thnic.11 directnr.
is
:11,1k1n~
rt•,Hlv
tor tht> eight
,, , l,,d, tt1rt,11n
Tht' Bill Evans
l \111l c (. ,,mp.rnv will be pertormn 1• ,n tht• I 1l•rary l0hby on a
",1kt-.ht11
,t.i~t.'
Evergreen fac•
,,!I\ nwmh•r PJm Schiel,, 1s bus,\ takrn~ \,lie ,,t J dozen last
111nutl' h.rn~ ur,
She hnds !Lme
·, 1.111,..
h•r .1 mt,ment
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:; 1 I\ ,rn-. [l,incr lt,mpany tour..,
1'
t·..i,t
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n1t1r.ths ot the year
1:hl :h1, i.., thl•1r last rertnrmance
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'-ll hit.I-. 1, .rn as-;onate
of
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d.inu u'mrany
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• ·it'
pt·r,un Ill than I-. tor havmi
• 1't'rn
pt>rt1,rm ill F\·er~reen Not
-~h ,l,,t'" ,ht• teac.h at Everireen.
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-.iw 1ec1chec;;at the dance
m1~,1n, , ,th1H,I in Seattle
I~, 1·1~ht t' clock the theatre 1s
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SRO The cr0wd looks like matun·d rPcl-..-g11l'r<;,and they an'
11\'l•rlltlwin~. A little reminiscent
11! -.(1mt·nic\... nmcert,;. The open•
m~ numl~t'r ,.., lucid,
a,;; Evan..,
pt•r!11rmo;,J -.11!0 Greg Lizenbery
pt:r!t1rm-. hi'- ..,n[o heautifully, Jnd
tht· rnutm(' em.le; with tour danct'r"- gracefully interacting. Mo-,1
Pi t!w ,1ud1enu• claps ..
rnd a !t:"w
,,t !ht' htiund dog.., ho...,,J
A o;,h11rtmterm1ss1on. and tht>
..,lagC' bC'.lm.., bright a._ Evanc;,
t'mergC'.., Cd'-U<11ly
Jttired m beige
,lt1d,<. cream shirt. and be-.t ot
•111 I,Ip sht1es He was great, and
It'\, in the audience let him go
unarrn.'( 1a1ed. V1v,1 Ac;1a1re.

bnn~ 0n Gingt'r. The next numhcr wa~ an add on. and looked
li\...t' 1t ·Brown Sugar" was the
i1nlv amateur number of the evenm~ A<..the SO., boppers danced
11nt'
n1uld <it'nst' their nervousneo;,.., and Wl' all sutfere<l lrnm
tht' AmC'r1tan Gratf111-Happy
l),1y-. llVt•rkdl.
Next Evan._ come~ out m a
perlet t light blue tennis outfit
A.;, he dance.., with racket in hand
we n1uld only laugh at the par•
ody lln '-l'C1altennis. It is a beaut dully chl1n•ographed
routine.
and Evans dances with grace and
J touch of satire.
• ThC' Legacy" integrates dance,

Near And Watkins
,,.ilk1n an•und 1n little
dnd I ntver t•ven lnew
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t1cting, and music supremely. h's
J play without
words, inspired
by pictures of Utah Mormon
poly~am0us families of the late
1800'5. The music blends well
with the incest and polygamy on
<;!age. Regina Decosse is outstanding as the bitter second wife
and Bill portrays the hypocritical
rightousness of a Mormon min1<;terflawlessly.
Another intermission, and yes
we can move if we don't mind
stepping on people's hands and
!eel and falling into unfamiliar
laps. This place is really jammed .
"Ashtabula Rag" is the most hum,1rous routine of the show.

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c ht11r f Near kept everyone haprr though, by mcludmg us all
h Jbout fivt> 'ieconds, she had
tht' audience singing fairly complicatt>d part-. This is her forte
\N1th her t'ye-; <;milmg and her
voice sounding its best, sht' d1ret.tt•d while ,;mgmg an 1mprov1..,,1tu1nalharmony
Near and Watkins worked we\1
a team, and the piano accompaniment was very well thought
out Watkins, who now has an
album of her own out, almost

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Mary Watkins
stole the show with her piano
c;olos She is a very unassuming
performer who must have at least
three hands on the keyboard.
When I t0ok the ass1~nment ol
reviewing this concerl, my first
thought was "Oh no, another
E"er~ret>n women's thing " ( I
have never before attended a
·women's thing" except for two
years of Catholic high school.) I
was afraid that I would be reviewing a movement instead of a
concert. In any case, I decided to
attend the "Workshop for Worn-

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en" which was led by Near and
Watkins. on the day of the concert. The workshop was a combination of song and discussion
concerning women's music. Near
fttls that women's music "should
not depend on the big record
companies," and that it should
be strong "al the grassroots." She
also suggested that a women's
choir be started at Evergreen.
( She was successful. the first
meeting is on October 31. at 5 in
the library Lobby.)
The concert was not only for

fatted
makes
which
of our
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ON CAMPUS
Friday, Oclober 21
KID BLUE (1973, 100 min.) First
I'll tell you who's in 11. Dennis
Hopper, Warren Oates. Peter Boyle.
Ben Johnson. Janice Rule and lee
Purcell Does II sound Interesting?
Okay. now I'll give you a capsulized
plol descnptIon
A no1orious fall•
ure of an outlaw. by 1he name of
Kid Blue. Ines to go straight In
Texas and provides some substance
to a film described by former Friday Nlte Films Coordinator Don
Oapp as. "A humorous commentary
on lhe dea1h
the 0kt W..t 1 the
coming of statehood for Texu, and
the lndustrlal Revolutlon ol the
1900's Still Interested? Well, 11'.s
showing ln LH one at 3, 7, and
9: 30 p m along with a Laurel and
Hardy short,
MEN O'WAR,
75
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THE WOMEN'S FILM SERIES
! For Eniryone) ls still going on at
the Guild 451h. If you're Interested
cal\ the theater at 633-3353to find
out exactly what is showing and
when
NORTH BY NORTHWEST and
THE THIN MAN are showing this
weekend as par1 ol the MGM Classics series al the Harvard Exit in
Sealtle Mount Rushmore makes a
cameo appearance In NORTH BY
NORTHWEST. and, and
Oh,
skip 11 The Harvard Exl1, 325-4647

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POETRY
IN OLYMPIA
CANDACE STREET and SADIE
CROUCH read theH work at the Gnu
Deli Sponsored by the Evergreen
Center for literature
in Performance Thursday. October 20 al 8
pm . S1 00

MUSIC
IN OLYMPIA

Tuesday, October 25
SURRENDER TO EVEREST: AN
ACCOUNT OF THE 1971 INTERNATIONAL EXPEOITtON Is belng presentecl by the Alpine Club General
information abou1 the Alplne Club
will be avallable LH five, 7:30 p.m.
Alpine Club members tree, 25 cents
donation 01herw1se

In Harmony

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women. The number of men Ln
the audience almost equaled that
of an average concert audience.
During the workshop when Near
was questioned about segregated
concerts, she said that women
being togt>ther is a positive, Lnclusive thing, but also a very difficult concept for both men and
women to understand.
"At a
women-only concert, something
special happens. Part of me is
sad when that's denied
Ideally we'd have a mixed c.oncert
first as an outreach concert to
reach new women
not 1ust
liberals
and we'd talk to
women ab0ut feminism and lesbian culture .
Then we'd give
a women-only
concert .. Amy
Horowitz.
the organizer-producer for Near and Watkms,
added "Three hours in one night
1s only a tiny space for women •

"Something special" did happen to me at the workshop. I left
feeling a little happier and got
the chance to exercize my long
unused vocal cords by sharing m
song. I still have trouble acceptmg the validity of a women•
only concert, but I can't help but
wonder if the concert would have
been much different thal way. I
guess I secretly wished that Tuesday's concert could have satisfied my curiosity.

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Wednesday, Oclobef 26
EARTH (Russia, 1930) Directed
by Russian writer, director. former
Ieacher Alexander Oovshenko, this
lllm Is an epic drama on the relallon of man to the soil LH one.
1 30 and 7 30 Free

1N OLYMPIA
BAD NEWS BEARS BREAKING
TRAINING
Cute baseball
team
which no longer stars Ta1um O'Neat
goes to the Astrodome (eel your
hear1 oul Seallle) for some ridiculous reason Send the kids and lhe
dog Slay home and watch TV or
clean the goldfish bowl capitol
Theater, 357-7161
STAR WARS 1 retusa to keep on
wnl!ng llllle blurbs aboul thisGoddam movie The "force" has been
wtlh the Stale Theater tor so long
that 11 has ceased lo amuse me.
357-4010
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT and
MY NAME IS NOBODY continue at
the Olympic Theater Whal more
can I say? 357-3422
CABARET comes to lhe Cinema
tor a one-week stay 11 you have
never seen 11. go and stare at Joel
Gray's mouth
Im serious
Liza
Minelli IS In 11 too Ifs a little Hke
NEW YORK NEW YORK. but not
really, 943-5914

JERRY MICHELSON formerly ot
OLD COAST HIGHWAY play! harmonica and piano. sings from time
to lime and Is '"Innovative and
friendly" (for what that's worth)
LISA MC PHADOEN wlll be singing
loo. Friday, October 21 at Appleiam, 220 E. Union, $1 50 admission, 8 pm.
CHARLES LYNN on gul1ar and
vocals, with ERNIE LOVATO on
musical saw, play some folk and
btues at the Gnu Dell October 21
and 22 Doors open at 8. cover is
S1 00 capitol Way and Thurslon
( towards Sea Mart\.
ELSEWHERE
The PERSUASIONS srng acappe11aal the Rainbow Tavern In Seattle lhrough October 23.
CLIFTON CHENIER plays Cajun
music al the Rainbow Ta'l&r"n in
Seattle October 24 and 25
TOM PETTY ANO THE HEARTBREAKERS play the Paramounl
N.W. October 27
BUFFY
SAINTE-MARIE
and
R~HIE HAVENS play a benel!I
concert !or the United tndlans of
All Tribes Foundation al the Paramount October 22
NEIL JOHNSTON ol Tenino, one
ol lhe originators ol the Tenino Old
Time Music Festival plays a wide
range of folk music October 22 al 8
P m in a concert sponsored by lhe
Sunny Side Folk Ar1s Center The
concerl w1tl be hetd at Evergreen
Playhouse. 226 W Center Sl Gen
tralIa, S1 00

ART

ON CAMPUS
LIQUID SPACE Is a mult1-med1a
production pholographecl in Washington and Oregon in 16 and 35 mm
slldes, above and below waler October 21. LH three. 7 30 and 9·30,
free

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ELSEWHERE

2419 W. Harrison

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A SUl"'ffly of AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY is just a hop, skip, and
a Jump away at the Tacoma Ar1
Museum, 272-4258.
An exhlbi1 ol caricalures
by
DAVID LEVINE (oJ EsQuire fame) Is
at the Frye Art Museum in Seatoe
622-9250.
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based on Images of her deed bJrd
will be exhibited at The Artists Gallery, 919 E. Pike St. In Seattle starting October 26
THE SCHOOL OF PARIS: DRAWING IN FRANCE is the mam exhlbtl al lhe Modern Ari Pavilion al
Seattle Cente, (447-4795) II features a group of w..-ks by Matisse,
and includes drawmgs by Chagall,
ArchIpenko,
Leger, Picasso and
others Conceptual art pieces by
Alan Sare! and photographs from
Seattle are also on display al the
Pavlhon through November 6
PAINTS
BY IMPRESSIONIST
PAINTERS are at the museum In
Voluntrer Park In Seattle lhrough
October 23
NATIVE ALASKAN ART at the
Snow Goose Gallery Thursdays
tnrough Saturdays, 1 - 5, through
October 29, 4220 NE 25th, Seattle.
162-3401

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ELSEWHERE
BALL OF FIRE (1941) A comedy
dlrec1ed by Howard Hawkes (BRINGING UP BABY, HIS GIRL FRIDAY)
In which Gary Cooper plays • Hngulsllcs prole,sor who wl1h the
help ol seven other professors, Is
compUlng a slang dlctlon,ry
They
are assisted by a dance hall singe,
(Barbara Stanwyck) and her cronies
October 20 - 2J al the Rose Bud

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IN OLYMPIA

MOONLIGHTING is a play wrll!en
and performed by LILITH, a women·s theater collective from San
Francisco. on their llrst Wes, Coast
tour The play deals with lhe SIX
members of the casl's experience
wllh wOrk and Includes humor,

OTHER STUFF
WASHINGTON STATE MOBILIZATION FOR SURVIVAL conference on training and strategy lor
groups and lndlvlduals who wan1 10
work. on the Moblllzatlon tor Survival campaign will be held lrom
9 30 am to Q 00 p m in CAB 110
on Saturday. October 22

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