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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 5 (November 3, 1977)

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'November 3, 1977

The Evergreen State College

Vol.6 No.5

The Flight .Of The Trial Balloon
s, L"<JacoS,
Evergreen's curriculum
is a
source of much frustration and
consternation to students here. Its
eccentricities and inadequacies
please and entice some and leave
others facing an academic dead
end. Approximately a year and a
half ago, the Long Range Currieulum Planning DTF was called
together in an attempt to find out
exactly what had to be done to
make the curriculum reflect students' actual nttds, and to make
it predictable enough to let prospective and incoming students
know exactly what they were
getting into. The DTF found
widespread demand for increased
predictability and continuity in
the coll~e•s program offerings.
The institution of nine Advanced
Sp«ialty Areas and Basic Pro•
grams, constituting 60 percent of
Evergreen's curriculum,
to be
planned two years in advance,
and the publication of the catalog
supplement by January 1 each
year, wef'e two of the DTF's recommendations which have been
implemented. The early supplement publication date puts stringent deadlines on curricuJum proposals from faculty members as
well as from students. A rough
draft of the 1978 - '79 curriculum
was assembled last month and
surfaced on October 14 as the
"Trial Balloon."
This metaphorical balloon was
launched in an effort to solicit
response from students on the
rough draft of the curriculum.
The Trial Balloon, which takes
the form of a collection of program proposals tacked up in various locations around campus.
was responded to by 240 students
(roughly ten percent of the student body).
POINTING OUT HOLES
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ideal received some enthusiastic
support. The Novel Experience, a
program which will combine the
study of a group of American,
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Knapp read each of the filled
out questionnaires himself. and
said that the survey was responded
to sympathetically.
"Certainly there isn't anything
'revolutionary' in the respon~."
he said, "but some individual
:omments will affect the way a
>rogram is written."

what program or specialty area
interested them and why. They
were also askt:d to sugge,st improvernents for that program,
and to point out holes in the
draft of the curriculum.
Assistant Academic Dean Rob
Knapp described the responses as
"uneven," stating that some ar~as
attracted more attention than
others. About half the responses
in the survey were to the Environmental Studies programs that
were proposed, and many of
these were favorable, indicating
lo Knapp that the Deans' choice
in emphasizing Environmental

Studies in the curriculum was a
good one.
Some of the strongest complaints were made by students
interested in the Expressive Arts
specialty area. The lack of crafts
and fine arts was lamented in a
number of the questionnaires,
and one student complained of
the abundance of "funk, pop, op
and trash art," and criticized
Evergreen for having "so few
good teachers/artists who stress
composition, design, and craftsmanship, and are interested in
developing the basics of art for
the students. We need teachers:·

the response said, "who teach
the basics, and not putting lip:ht
bulbs in figures' bellies for shock
value."
Knapp asserted that because of
comments made in response to
the trial balloon introductory
visual arts will be built into the
Collaborative
Arts proposal
which fonnerly included just theater, music and dance. Crafts
will also be incorporated into the
curriculum for '78 - '79 in a man•
ner determined partially by the
success of the current craftsmanship program.
Another hole in the curriculum

Some student proposals for
::;roup Contracts have come out
,f the Balloon. Two, Decentral.Lation As a Form of Social Organization, and Traditional and
Non-Traditional
Therapy, are
likely to materialize in nex1 year's
curriculum. Another one, Political Economy of Women. is in a
preliminary state.
Some holes in the pr~verbial
balloon will undoubtedly
be
stopped up with Individual Contracts, and others will just be
vents for frustration. Essentially
the balloon is a tool designed for
fine tuning. rather than major
overhauls. and as the old Evergreen adage goes, "Well, it's better than nothing:·

Elections Are Coming November 8

The Candidates
by John Keogh

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( Or How ToEat $60 Worth Of Bagels For Free)
Actually, now you can eat breakfast, lunch, dinner or anything in between on our plan and save a
bundle of money. Here's how it works:
The College is offering a new food contract scrip plan, available to students, staff and faculty alike.
You simply buy a book of transferable coupons (transferable meaning that friends and co-workers
can share the cost and reap the benefits together), and use them for one quarter of the academic
year. They're good at the cafeteria, snack bar, coffee house and even the deli. A full book of scrip,
for $300 worth of food, costs only $240 (that's a 20 % savings into your pocket). Or, you can invest
in a half book, redeemable
for $150 worth of food, for a mere $135 (a 10 % discount). Good deal, eh?
The fall quarter scrips are on sale at the Housing Office (just ask for Linda).
To find out more about those free bagels (and the entire plan), drop in at the College Housing
Office, "A" Building, Room 220 or phone 866-6132.

Six local candidates will vie for
election to the three posts on
Olympia's City Commission next
Tuesday, and as none of them
are incumbents the winners will
form an entirely new commission
when they take office in January.
Running for Mayor are Bob
Lovely and Lyle Watson; for Finance and Accounting Commissioner. Bob Hemess and Ron
Rants; and for Commissioner of
Streets and Public Improvements,
Rita Robison and Bill Jacobs.
Olympia municipal elections are
conducted on a nonpartisan basis, meaning candidates
must
compete for office without the
benefit of party endorsement or
affiliation.
Although each of the posts on
the City Commission has a different title, they actually entail
equal responsibility and power in
the governing of Olympia. All
commission decisions are based
on majority votes of its mem•
bers. The following is a brief
portrait of each candidate:
CANDIDA TES FOR MAYOR
BOB LOVELY
Bob Lov•ly fttls that many of
the problems Olympia is now

faced with resulted from poor
planning. His top priority, if he
is elected, will be to establish
adequate, long range planning
for the city's future. Lovely sees
the projected West Side traffic
dilemma as a prime example of
this lack of foresight; he feels
that a solution should be found
which gives "a lot of consideration to the present neighborhoods
in that area," Two measures he
would work for are the building
of a full interchange at the Black
Lake Boulevard/ Highway 101
intersection, and the extension of
Cooper Point Road to connect
with the Mottman interchange,
providing another corridor of
travel between West Side and
downtown Olympia.
Lovely thinks the City Commission should be expanded to
include five members instead of
three to give the citfl'z.ens of
Olympia better representation in
government. The present three•
member commission format expires in December, 1978, and at
that time Olympia residents will
have a chance to retain, modify,
or reject it. lovely would lobby
for a change to five members because he fttls it would provide
for better handling of the comContinued on page ,

The Issues

by Mandy McFarlan
The Washington State General
Election is on November 8 from
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. I have
outlined here, I hope objectively.
the ten issues which will be before Washington's
voters on
Tuesday.
lnJtiative Measure 335 (anti
pomography)Official ballot title,
''Shall places where obscene Hims
are publicly and regularly shown
or obscene publications a principal stock in trade be prohibited)"
This initiative, if passed, will
bring Washington State law into
conformity with the decisions of
the U.S. Supreme Court. As the
law stands now in Washington, a
legal or moral nuisance can be
forbidden or ended. The only offense currently considered a nuisance is maintaining a house of
lewdnns, assignation, or prostitution. 1-335 would expand the
state's definition of a moral nui•
sance to include places where
lewd films are publicly shown,
places where lewd publications
are a principal part of the stock
in trade, illegal gambling in public places, drunkenness, fighting
and breaches of the peace. 1-335
states that the Attorney General.

Prosecuting Attorney, other officials or any citizen of the county
may bring an action to the Superior Court to have a location
declared a moral nuisance. Civil,
rather than criminal action would
be taken against owners or those
involved with a "moral nuisance." The court could terminate
the conduct and may require a
bond to assure that the nuisance
is discontinued.
Proponents say this will stamp
out only the hardest-core porn.
and magazines like Hustler would
be left alone. Supporters also say
that this allows anyone who can
post a bond to close a grocery
store. Anti-335 people feel that
the initiative promotes censorship and that prohibition will en•
hance organized crime.
Initiative Measure 345 (to take
off food tax) Official ballot title,
"Shall most food products be exempt from state and local retail
sales and use taxes effective July
I, 19781"
This state levies a sales tax of
four and six•tenths pucent of the
retail price of tangible personal
property. Food products have
not bttn exempt since 1939.
1-345 would make "food products" exempt from this sales tax
(This would not include food

bought in restaurants). The state's
sales tax revenues would be reduced by $189.6 million in the
fiscal year July I. 1978 - June 30,
1979, unless the legislature finds
new sources. (Some of the suggested new sources include a state
income tax, a lottery and a gambling area in Washington.)
1-345 supporters say that since
food is a necessity. this is a regressive tax which hits low income families hardest. Opponents
feel that the tax should not be
eliminated before providing re•
placements for the lost revenue.
They say that the budget cuts
would be taken from schools and
public assistance programs.
Initiative Measure 348 (against
gas tax hike) Official ballot title:
"Shall the new variable motor
vehicle fuel tax law be repealed
and the previous tax and distribution formula be reinstated?"
Revenue from the gas tax,
which is now eleven cents per
gallon. goes toward highway expenses. After June 1, 1978, it will
nuctuate between nine and twelve
cents. If 1-348 passes, the tax will
remain at its 1967 level or niile
cents per gallon.
Those in favor of 1·348 say the
Continued on page 4

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Hearings on this issue will be
held in Yakima on November 1617 Testimony 1s needed both m
person or in writing. I have more
1ntormat1on collec1ed by National
I and Fnr Peoplt' on this issue.
(all me !or their literature 866'704
N11w 1<, the l1m1• to show dCl!Vt'
,;,upport inr ,mall tarm,
\'ote N(wember 8 t0r l111t1at1ve
i\h~a..,ure so and write to Ce-cil
Andru..,
Debbie Leung

Pink Flamingo

matter, but I must also assert my
llWn rights.
It people are really concerned.
I would like to propose a d1scus..,10n to follow the last showinF
where everyone can express their
feeling~
chns gauger
director: the Flamingo
Justice League

Wanna Just
Bite ?

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111 160 acres in size where the
nh ner i, a resident on the farm
Pn,l1ns with large landi'-.old1ngs
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pr1\'il£>Ked they agree in a contrJc.t w11h the government to sell
1 hdl land
w1th1n 10 years into
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fht> re-;1<lency requirement has
n1•t bt.'t'n enforced by the Bureau
1>t l{eclamat1on since 1916 ~cret..1r\' of Interior Cecil Andrus has
1-.,u1.:d .1 c.,et of proposed new
rult·, lnr the Bureau of Reclama!1<•ntu u-.c 1n the d1stribut1un of
d11·,t• IJnd-. which are a step to\\,lrd tht• 1•nlt1rc.fmentof the law
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Ethics
To the Editor:
As director of th( Flamingo
Justice League, I object to the unabashed attempt al censorship of
the Saturday showing of "PINK
FLAMINGOS" through the removal of posters and publicity
and the threat of demonstration
by a minority on this campus.
I feel that this attempt to stifle
the film thrr:,ugh these activities
1s both inappropriate and unethical. I have a right to put the
posters up and to have them remain so. as well as a right to
present the film.
I object to the dogmatic assumption on the part of this minority that they have the right to
dictate what shouldn't be presented to the Evergreen community.
An obvious demand for the
film exists, exemplified by the
frequency with which it appeared
as a suggest ion for Friday Night
Films. and I think that alone is
reason enough for the showing.
My concern is not with the
content of the film I booked ii
becauSt' the title was pertinent to
the Flamingo Justice League, becau\e 11 1s controversial
and
dv,mt-garde and because of th1c;
dem.m<l
I dt"fend everyone's right to
thl'IT op1rn•m on thn, or dnV other

fo the Editor:

I'm a new student al Evergreen
this yrar. I like it here except for
one thing, SAGA. I bought the
three hundred dollar meal plan
at the beginning of the quarter.
They said l'd save sixty bucks.
but they forgot to tell me that if
I ate $300 worth of food at SAGA
that I would seriously endanger
my health. On weekends, eating
at SAGA is like b<ing locked in
a McDonald's.
Now I know it's a joke to talk
about improving SAGA, but
since I have a good sense of humor I'll try anyway. To begin
with. SAGA is not a part of
TESC It's a private company
that leases the cafeteria and the
delicatessen from the school in
the hope of offering a good food
program to the students. SAGA
has a closed market, Olympia
being eight miles away, making
them a monopoly. People tell me
that I can go into town to get
food, but that's like saying that
the phone company isn't a monopoly because if you don't like
11 you can send somebody a letter

At most colleges if you don't
like the cafetena you can laugh
at 11 and walk a couple of blocks
to a restaurant. Here you have
to ride a bus into town, bring the
food back to the dorms. and
cook your own lunch Not too
fun 11 you only have an hour be-

tween classes.
They say "friends and co-workers can share the cost and reap
the benefits together."
but I
haven't found any friends, coworkers, or even hostages that
would be crazy enough to eat
there The only people who are
willing to share art>those who already have the meal plan. Why
can't SAGA make their meal
plan last the whole year7 Because
they know that they would lose
money, whether the students
drop dead from malnutrition
doesn't even enter the picture.
Now I'm not saying we should
blow up the cafeteria ( though it
would be fun). I just would like
to see some businessman from in
town come out here and set up a
grocery store with fair prices (at
the Deli it cost $1 .SO for a quart
of orange juice). Let's give SAGA
some competition and see if they
still can rake in a million bucks.
l would also like to start a stu•
dent food information group. At
the beginning of each quarter (es-pecially the fall quarter when the
new students come) we could give
the students some facts about the
different choices they have. I'm
sure that if the ~ople of this
campus know what's going on
they won't let SAGA rip us off
anymore.
Jeff Joli
Telephone #5124
Dorm C Room 214

to give you an opportunity to
expose yourself. so to speak.
D.W.

Barefoot
Baseball and
Other True
Stories
To the Editor.
Interesting article on Sports at
Evergreen. It's hard to imagine in
this "master plan" somethin~ like
football and soccer here. There's
even a plan for an extension for
a full-sized basketball court on
one level and an area for martial
arts on the other level. I suppose
competition would be inevitable
to some degrtt. But take baseball
for example, it's possible to compete only with yourself and not
against the other team or even
against your own teammates. I
could just see Evergreen challenging Japanese baseball teams. even
if they do play by slightly different rules. l used to play sandlot
baseball and everyone played
barefooted. Did you hear what
Reggie Jackson did in the World
Series1 Three home runs in a
row which ties Babe Ruth's rec•
ord. He also got him~lf in trouble for assaulting a 13 year old
fan.
John Haskins

Expose Yourself •
To the Editor.

If perchance it has been your
ill luck to have connected with
this jewel of a campus and haply
to have become tightly lodged
in a program preventing your
exposure to all of Evergreen's
shimmering facets and betimes
feel a vague unrest about this
lack, felicitously the Admissions
Office has set up tours for Mondays, WednesJays and Fridays

Announcements and Letters to
the Editor will not be printed unless they are submitted typewritten and double-spaced. The deadline for announcements is 5 p.m.
Monday for publication the following Thursday. The deadline
for letters is noon Tuesday for
publication the following Thurs•
day. Got that7 Announcements
- 5 p m, Monday. Letters Noon. Tuesday - DOUBLESPACED TYPEWRITTEN.

by Karrie Jacobs
son. applying
contemporary
community
standards,
would
The offical ballot title of Initiative 335 is, "Shall places where
find, when considered as a whole,
appeals· to the prurient interests;
obscene films are publicly and
and (b) Which depicts or deregularly shown or obscene publications a principal stock in trade
scribes patently offensive representations or descriptions of: (i)
b< prohibited?" This title might
Ultimate sexual acts, normal or
lead you to think that by voting
perverted, actual or simulated;
yes on 335 you are voting for a
or (ii) masturbation, excretory
law that will shut down a spefunctions, or lewd exhibition of
cific type of business throughout
the state of Washington in some
the genitals or genital area." The
initiative gon on to state that it
uniform manner. This is not
does not apply to things of "seriwhat the initiative will do at all.
Initiative 335 is touted by its
ous literary, artistic, political, or
scientific value." It mentions also
proponents as one that "hits hard
that "lewdness"
includes all
at places that specialize in films,
meanings assigned to it under
magazines and books that depict
the common law, broadening the
explicit sex acts between adults,
adults and children, and even
definition further.
human beings and animals." PerAll theoe things aro to b< determined by one judge on some
haps th• laws will l,., hard hitting
but it is interesting to speculate
basis or other. It oeems INI this
law could allow any place of
on who and what will be caught
by those blow,.
business, and any publication or
film to b< lab<led as "l,wd matThrtt thirty-five allows any
ter" and thus be censored. After
citizen who can post a five hun•
dred dollar bond, or a prosecutall, one man's art is another
man's toilet paper.
ing attorney, or a city attorney
to request that a judge shut down
It is a dangorou., law. At best
a place of business because it is a
it will create a black market for
"moral nuisance." If the judge
pornography
in Washington,
(there is no jury involved in this
probably controlled by organized
crime, the force which 335 proprocns) decide> t~t th• sal• of
"lewd matter" is a "principa.l"
ponents claim to be thwarting.
part of the store or theater's busiAt wont the law couJd be emness the place can be shut down.
ployed to ceruor books or maga"Principal" is not defined in nu- - zin,s which an, politically Qbj,cmerical (or any other) terms in
tionable, or ju.st ob;«tionabl,,
the initiative and is left up to the
period. in a.~ way, shape, or
judg• to defin•. It could m•an 85
form to~influential
citizen.
percent or it could mean five. A
~ term cmsorship is not to
judge in Spokan• might ch~
be found anywhere in the initiato close a store which selw-fe'wd
tive document, but censorship is
matter'' as ten per-«l'O:of its busiWNI 335 is all about. The sensiness, while a judge in Pasco debilities of a few. or evm the sencidl"S that 45 percent is not a
sibilities of a great many are dic"principiil" portion of a store's
tating what can and caMot be
business.
read or viewf'd. Despite the
The whole business of !~slatclaims of those supporting 3J5
ing people's social consciousness
that the initiative only applies to
is a peculiar one. It brings in
hard core porno, the terms of it
some interesting tenns with duare broad enough to shut down
bious definitions;
take "lewd
a theater showing New York,
matter" for example. "Lewd matNew York or a store selling mass
ter" is defined in the initiative as
market paperbacks.
"Obscene matter." That tells us a
Three thirty-five is an attempt
lot. doesn't it. There's more
by an unhealthy society to eradithough. It also "means any mat•
cate a symptom of its disease,
ter: (a) Which the average ~rrather than looking for a cure.

Re orm1ng
The Tax Structure
by John
Washington voters will decide
in the upcoming state ele-c:tions
whether or not the current tax on
retail sales of food should con•
tinue as a source of public revenue. Initiative Measure 345, as
it will appear on November 8
ballots, proposes that " . . most
food products be (made) exempt

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mated $189.6 million in public
revenue for the fiscal year July 1.
1978 through June 30, 1979. Opponents of Initiative 345 contend
that this loss of funds would
cause an increase in other forms
of state taxation, and force a reduction in state spending. The
"statement against" Initiative 345

ALWAYS
A
SALE AT
BUDGET

Initiative 345
from state and local retail sales
and use taxes, effectiv• July !,
1978."
This initiative offers the citizens of Washington a chance to
partially reform the inequitable
tax structure now used to collect
>tale fund>. The tax on food >ales
coUects state ~enue
more-or1... equally from individuals regardless of th,ir ability ,tt, support the Stat• Treasury, jMOd
purchases consume a fat,,-gieater
pefCffllag, of low ~me
individuals' persC!JNl'f wealth than
that of hi"'' • ome pef'lOns. The
food
refore placa a gn,at,r
n on the poor th.an on the
rich, and incnases the dis~ty
of wealth-distribution among the
state's citizens.
The food tax is also counterproductive because it discourages
eating. Retail sales taxes, in the·
ory, redua
the' public's consumption of any taxed commodity_ While taxes on the sale of
gasoline, liquor, and cigarettes
place more hardship on low income individuals than they do
on persons of greater wraith.
they can be justified with the argument that it's desirable to discourage consumption of these
products. It hardly Sttms wist,
however, to in effect tell the citizens of Washington State, "You
should eat as little food as possible, becaust the more you eat,
the more you are taxed."
Rep,al of the food tax would
cost Washington State an esti•

in the voters' pamphlet claims
that low income individuals
would suffer most from re~al
of the food tax because they are
most dependent on the state serv:
ices, such as public assistance,
which might be curtailed if this
source of ::,Lalerevenue were termin::,.ted. Whether or not passage
of Initiative 345 would actually
reduce the funds allocated to
state services is unclear, but the
low income citizens of Washington can't afford to continue these
programs at the expense of retaining an unfair tax structure. If
the programs are necessary they
will continue regardless of what
methods are usrd to collect state
revenues. Even if services vital to
the poor are cut back temporarily, rep,al of the food tax would
ultimately benefit low income
citizens by forcing new forms of
state taxation. One can scarcely
imagine a tax that would be more
~rmful to th• poor than a levy
on food sales.
Washington State currently
collects no taxes on personal and
corporate income. The creation
of graduated income taxes in
these two areas would be the
fairest method of collecting the
funds necessary to maintaining
state government and its services .
Citizens should be taxed in accordance with their ability to
pay, not equally without consideration of their financial status.
The sales tax on food is a BAD
tax. It should be re aled.

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The Dangers Of Dialectical Materialism
by James Thomas
Intellectual growth requires diverse contexts. Social Origins of
Art and Ideology claims the exelusive status of the advanced
humanities yet operates by a perspective that oversimplifies the
complexity
of ideas. Titular
claims and the actual function of
the program are thus in enmity. I
joined the program to engage in
the immen~ challenge of ideas
through abstract conjecturing
and seriously imaginative analysis by which ex~rience is validly compressed into education. I
left the program because I wanted
neither to be ;.n accomplice to
nor a victim of systematic reductionism.
There is inherent in the program's design a tendency to ex•
plain ideas solely by illuminating
the causal conditions that influenced the idea(s). This tendency
is supported by a sect of pious
student materialists, who, allied
with Marxist didactitions, effeclively eclipse the meaning of
ideas Using dialectical materialism. the essence of ideas is deceptively determined by their
material antecedents. The subject
of thought is never ideas themselves, but only the social or
material "origin(s)" of ideas. If
this rendering of ideas were adjacent to the contemplation of ideas
themselves, the program would
be intellrctually
enabling, not
crippling. However, the pro-

gram's "philosophy" rests (laxly)
on the assumption that ideas are
not entities in themselves since
they are not measurable; but
rather ideas are the inconsequential residue of a material-socialcausal condition. This conviction
is confining, and the modus operandi all too simple ...
and
simplifying.
Undoubtedly, social and material conditions influence ideas
immeasurably (~rhaps entirely
immeasurably), but mustn't we
first ask what the culmination of
those influences is, and study
that 7 Indeed, comprehending the
idea must prrcrde the illumina•
tion of ancestral factors which
influenced the idea. Otherwise
one becomes aware of numerous
influences but is ignorant of that
which is influenced. How can
one study the influences on ideas
without first comprehending the
ideas themselves? Instead of concentrating on the ideological or
artistic culmination of a culture,
the materialist investigates only
the determinantness
of socialeconomic relations implicit in
ideas. Operating alone, dialectical materialism is a closed system
of thought which takes offense at
abstract conceptualization
and
diverK interpretations.
Social Origins discourages
prismatic penprctives
because
they perceive too much of the
reality of irreducible divenlty.

Instead, the program engenders a
mechanical predisposition, fully
accommodated by the sole modus
o~randi - dialectical materialism. As a rendering machine uSt'd
for reducing ideas to causal origins, dialectical materialism is
not properly regarded as one tool
applied to a 1ubJect requJring
~y;
it is improperly wielded
as a weapon against the diversity
of intellectual conjecturing. mechanically reducing and concluding what should be left as incon•
elusive. {Even the program's title
insidiously predisposes one to reduce diverse influences to determinating "origins.") This predisposition is deceptively limiting;
the kind of perspective
that
donn't allow one to return to a
painting in wonderful awe at its
implications. The painting h.as
already been "concluded" as a
nexus of material and social origins. Dialectical materialism can
transform an art gallery or a
masterpiece of prose into d featureless delineation. Delineating
the causal occasions of art and
ideology is tenable to limited degree, but this method should not
be regarded as a magically conelusive encompassment.
It is,
rather, a one-dimensional rendering into which art and ideology cannot fit (and shouldn't be
crammed).
I mtreat the materialist to step
outside of his dialectical church,

whose explanatory framework is
so seemingly interconnected it
becomes godly - and easily believed.
To tempt impressionable minds
to reduce art .and ideology to a
rational delineation which usurps
diverse interpretations mandates
admonishment. We must heed
the perspicacious words of Neil
Pritz, who called this usurping
reductionist tendency "the 1984
of Academia; a form of intellectual automation." Before plugging
in the dialectical rendering machine, the ideas intended for
processing must be confronted in
several contexts by diverse interpretations. otherwise the mind as
an active worker will be displaced.
Admittedly my observations
are derived from only the initial
three weeks, and my analysis
perhaps from a uniquely bad or
intolerant relation to the program. but conditions so persistently worsened into pattern that
my conje-c:turing about the possible bleak future of Social Origins
became admissable - nay, necessary, Many students. particularly those subject to my vituper•
ation will not agree with this
analysis, not having ~rceived
th.at the method of the program
limits one to illusionistic oversimplification. Yet many others
sadly but passively concur, and
hopto for better days.

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m1t1ees involved

Olympia
~i1\·ernment, and avoid the clum-.1nes~ of a seven-member
City
l l,uncil format.
The proposed annexation of
rnuch of the West Side into
l)lvmp1a City limits is another
1-.,ue which Lovely thinks should
l't' handled w11h careful planning.
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LYLE WATSON
I vie Watson's main concern
,lhi.-'u! Olympia government is
ht' issue of citizen-participation.

.\c. t,.-tayor of Olympia. he would
meetings of the
litv Commission and pre-annPunce their agenda. He would
.1!,;;11 call a public hearing on the
,,1h1ect of modifying
the city's
l,..,mm1ssion form of government.
,ind respond appropriately. "If
then' s sentiment for expansion
l1r change in the form," Watson
...,y~ "I would have no reluc•
:ance whatsoever to put the issue
11nthe ballot and go along with
the ublic sentiment."
1n<.t1tute evening

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atson
\ \ at,on considers the issue of
.1Jt'quate West Side fire protec•
t111n a matter ot ·•very high pri•
11nt,·
He favors the construe•
11l1n nt a new West Side fire sta•
•111n al a cost of s.everal hundred
C pntinued from pa~,c,
h1t,..e1s unnecessary and that the
t.n
will alway: seek its highest
level w1ti, inflationary pressures.
They feel that the gas tax is re•
~resS1ve. In opposition, it is ar•
gued that Washington cities have
already paid for federal matching
funds which the State Highway
Department will fail to qualify
for 1f the initiative passes. And
opponents say that 1•348 would
cause more traffic fatalities be·
cause of poorer road conditions.
Referendum Measure 39 (eases
voter registration laws) Official
ballot title: "Shall certain changes
be made in voter registration
laws. including registration by
mail and absentee voting on one
days registration?"
A person must appear before a
registration officer in person to
register to vote. In Washington.
you must also register at least 30
days prior to the election you
wish to vote in. Referendum 39
would allow "postcard" registra•
t1on (mailing in a completed
form). This referendum would
also allow late voting (during the
pre-JO day period) through ab,;entee ballot.
Supporters say that this will
remove unnecessary restrictions
on voting. and that this will help
those who do not have easy ac-

thousand dollars. On other West
Side issues, Watson feels improvements should be made on
arterial streets so that traffic can
be handled without disrupting
residential neighborhoods,
and
advocates improving the present
water distribution
system. He
thinks annexation of areas to the
weet of"Olympia's city limits is a
"logical plan of growth."
The parking situation in downtown Olympia has been discussed
at length by the various commission candidates, and Watson suggests that a committee be ap•
pointed to consider the prM>lem.
In his opinion, providing perim•
eter parking lots for downtown
and state campus employees
would improve matters consider•
ably.
CANDIDATES FOR FINANCE
AND ACCOUNTING
COMMISSIONER
BOB HERNESS
Bob Herness places top prior•
ity in the immediate duties of
Olympia government on providing better fire protection for the
West Side area. If elected, he
would work toward a temporary
reopening of the old fire station
near the Garfield School until a
more centrally located station
could be built. He warns, how•
ever, that "The present Commis•
sioners and City Supervisor have
indicated thal the problem is not
as great as it seems 10 be, and
they are not planning to open
the old West Side station at the
present time. We may find that
the 1978 budget does not include
funds for that, so the new com•
mission's hands may be tied as
far as 1978 is concerned unless
we are able to find additional
monies and have a budget exten•
s1on.
Herness has suggested that an
agreement might be reached with
the Mclane Fire Department
whereby they would respond to
fire calls in the West Side areas
furthest from downtown Olym•
pia. Olympia could cut the time
needed to reach outlying West
Side areas with fire fighting

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equipment.
Herness, like Bob Lovely, favors the creation of a five-member
City Commission when the present format expires late in 1978.
He feels that different communities within Olympia should be
represented on the commission,
and would advQS'.ate the establishment of five districts, each of
which would elect one Commissioner.
As a solution to West Side
traffic problems, Herness has
proposed building new road
which would run from the Deschutes Parkway to Black Lake
Boulevard, paralleling the rail•
road tr.icks and Percival Creek.
RON RANTS
Ron Rants considers resolution
of the controversy surrounding
construction of the multi-level
downtown parking garage a matter of prime importance.
He
would use the influence of his
commission post, if elected, to
expedite building of that garage.
Rants says he foresees "the downtown area as becoming a profes•
sional, financial, and cultural
center as well as a shopping center . . We are fortunate in having several thousand state workers within walking distance of
downtown and I think we can
satisfy their shopping needs."
Rants also sees adequate funding for the ,new Olympia Library
and resolution of West Side traffic problems as priority matters.
He favors limiting West Side
traffic through established neighborhoods, preferring the use of
Highway 101. along with one or
more new arterials, as access
routes to the new Capital Mall.
In addition, he advocates an im•
proved mass transit system for
Olympia.

CANDIDATES FOR
COMMISSIONER OF STREETS
AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
RITA ROBISON
Rita Robison is an Evergreen
graduate ("l5) who will work lull
time at her commission post if
elected, even though it's consid•
ered only a part time job. "I

think the demands of the job are
becoming more and more complex," she says. "It's been a job
that retired businessmen have
held, but it's getting more and
more difficult for it to be a part
time job ... As a full time Commissioner I could work with the
State Legislature for legisl.1tion
that would benefit Olympia."
Robison views citizen participation as an important aspect of
city government; to increase it
she would seek citizen comment
on key issues, set regular office
hours, and solicit broader representation on citizen boards and
advisory commissions. She advocates evening meetings of the
Olympia Commission, and would
like to dispose of the "pre-meeting meeting" during which the
current Commissioners
sometimes settle on their decisions privately before conferring with the
ublic.

Also high on Robison's list of
priorities are fire protection and
improved means of dealing with
traffic congestion for the West
Side, and efforts to revitalize the
downtown area. She supports the
development of additional waterfront recreational facilities down•
town, and favors construction of
the multi-level parking garage.
Increased investment, Robison
feels, would do a lot to enhance
downtown Olympia; she would
work with business people and
citizens to locate interested in·
vestors.
The City of Olympia currently
refuses donations of land to be
used for parks unless the offered
parcels are larger than five acres,
because small parks are expensive

The Issues Continued
cess to registration places. Oppo·
nents feel that Ref-39 leaves a
large margin for error and fraud.
Referendum Measure 40 (Worn•
en's Commission) Official ballot
title: "Shall a state Women's
Commission be established by
statute7"
A Washington State Women's
Council was created by an executive order. The Commission,
which will be a statutory replace•
ment to the Council. has already
been approved by the legislature.
The Women's Commission will
come into existence if this referendum is approved by voters.
Supporters say that women
need the Commission to help ensure equal pay for equal work,
equal credit opportunities, equal
retirement benefits, equal protection for women under all laws,
and homemaker's rights. Those
against the new Commission say
that it will be an unnecessary
costly new bureaucracy.
Initiative 59 {Family Farm Water Act) Official ballot title:
"Shall new appropriations
of
public water for non-public agri•
cultural irrigation be limited to
farms of two thousand acres or
less?"
Under existing law the Depart·--"(

RAUDENBUSH

ment concerning district courts)
ment of Ecology issues permits
Official ballot title: "Shall the
for new water rights for comlegislature be authorized to grant
mercial agricultural
irrigation
district courts jurisdiction over
purposes, when it finds that there
cases involving more than one
is water available. This initiative,
thousand dollars1"
if approved, will add parameters
Courts of limited jurisdiction
to the department's issuance procannot handle cases in which discedures. Public water permits
puted property value is more
could only be issued in four clasthan one thousand dollars. This
sifications: 1) The holder could
rule was set in 1952. SJR 113
only use public water for one
would permit the legislature to
area of not more than two thouincrease the amount to three
sand acres of farmland. 2) Holder
thousand.
could have more irrigated land
SJR 113 eases crowding and
provided that, in ten or twenty
expense at the superior court
years, he/she transfers controllevel. The amount may be less
ling interest of land sections to
than three thousand dollars.
persons who are qualified to hold
House Joint Resolution 55 (pro"family farms." 3) The holder
posed constitutional amendment
can be a "governmental entity."
concerning transportation rates)
4) "Public Water Entities" can
Official ballot title, "Shall the
hold policies.
legislature be authorized, but not
In support of Initiative 59,
required., to estabHsh reasonable
some Washington residents feel
rates for both passengers and
that with water as a limited refreightl"
source,
irrigation
allocation
The constitution requires the
should develop small farms inlegislature to establish maximum
stead of promoting large corpo•
rates for transportation pas.sen•
rate farms. Those against 1-59
gers and freight by common car•
feel that it will limit potential
riers. HJR 55 would remove the
jobs. and go against a free marmaximum rate setting requireket economy by limiting the size
ment. Instead, it would authoriu
of businesses.
the legislature fo establish ruSenate Joint Resolution 113
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Jacobs' campaign is heavily
supported by Olympia's real estate interests. When Rita Robison
remarked, during KAOS FM's
candidate forum, that her cam.
paign had received no donations
from real estate people, Jacobs
replied, "I don't boast about peo•
pie who are unwilling to support
me." He feels that future development in Olympia should be
conducted "in an orderly fashion
that does not disrupt the community," and would not support
Olympia's annexation of West
Side areas "in the case of assisting developers at the expense of
neighborhoods."
Jacobs feels that the old West
Side fire station should be reopened immediately. He advo•
cates the development of a "master plan" of fire protection for
the entire City of Olympia which
would include provision for ade•
quate West Side fire protection.
Oo the issue of traffic problems
which will result from comple•
tion of the Capital Mall, Jacobs
feels "the ultimate solution lies in
improvement of freeway access."
To alleviate the downtown
parking situation, Jacobs favors
the elimination of parking meters
and would like to experiment
with diagonal parking in some
areas.
The reasoning behind this pro•
posed change is tu make regulatory laws less restrictive to allow
greater flexibility in the economy.
Opponents of HJ R 55 claim that
it would be anti-consumer because bus or freight companies
could not lower prices.
House Joint Resolution 56 (proposed constitutional amendment
concerning transportation rates)
Official ballot title: "Shall the
constitutional
provision
that
transportation charges to given
destinations may never exceed
charges to more distant destinations be repealedl"
HJR 56 would allow the Utilities
and Transportation Commission
to set rates which take into consideration actual costs instead of
mileage ..
Hou1< Joint Ruolution 57 (proposed constitutional amendment
concerning carriers) Official ballot title: "Shall the constitutional
prohibition against the common
carrier doing the carrying sharing
the earnings with another common carrier be repealed?"
Railroad companii,es and other
carrier companies cannot contract with other companies to
share earrungs. HJR 57 would repeal this prohibition and allow
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It has been said that there are
so many signs on campus that
some people are afraid to even
try to dredge through them.
Somewhere buried in those millions of announcements are posters for concerts sponsored by
"Explorations in 20th Century
Music: A Composer's View," a
group contract.
The first concert, which was
on September 27, featured Phil
Rehfeldt and Barney Childs from
Redlands University in California. The concert had a surprising
variety of new musical styles
ranging from a piece for film and
clarinet to the haunting and deli•
cate "In Delius' Sleep" by Harold
Budd. It was some of the most
accessible new music I have ever
heard. It was not, as some peo•
pie believe, necessarily dissonant
or incomj,rehensible.
The second concert sponsored
by the contract was of Evergreen
performers and composers. The
concert had an interesting blend
of early 20th century pieces and
those of Evergrttn students. The
concert opened with a beautiful
electronic composition
by Eli
Whiting followed by such notable
performances as Andrew Templeton on classical guitar, Judith
Cohen playing "The Out-ofDoors Suite" by Bartok, and a
surprising set of harp pieces
played by Rita Sammons.
Like I was saying before this is
very listenable new music. And
you shouldn't feel bad about
missing those concerts because
there's more to come.
Friday, November 4 at 8: 00,
Jennifer Reinhart will be featured
playing avant-garde music for
piano. I heard her play last year
at the ASUC composers' confer•
ence and I was, as they say
"blown away," she plays as if in
a Dionysian rite. Lots of power,
lots of emotion (you should see
her bang a tone cluster).
The works she'll be performing
are George Rochberg's nach bach.
Four Pieces by Greg Stienke,
Cocktail Mu1lc by Salvatore
Martirano, John Reinhart's Motions for piano and electronic
sounds,· John Cage's Music for
Prepared Plano, Karlhientz Stockhausen's Klavientucke IX, and
Three Plano Pieces Op. 11 by
Arnold Schoenberg.

Also Thursda) at 8,00, Keinhart will lead discussions on technique, performance, problems,
and other aspects of new music
for piano. This workshop is free
and open to the public.
This concert is only 50 cents
for students and senior citizens,
one dollar for others. And considering the relative lack of things
to do here at Evergreen, this is
an excel.lent opportunity to pretend you're cultured.

Sunquist Marine La oratory
Courses Offered
The Leona M. Sunquist Marine
Laboratory at Shannon Point is
offering a series of "intertenn"
(between quarters) courses this
year for which Evergreen students are eligible. The next course
in the series will be held from
December 19 through 23, 1977,
and will be a "Survey of Coastal
Fishes.'' lnterterr., courses planned
for the future are, "Survey of
Marine Algae," "Survey of Coast•
al Vegetation," and ''Survey of
Marine Invertebrates."

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wool hunting coat by white stag
- double shouldered
- built-in cargo pocket in the back
regular $65 reduced to $50
wool jack shirt by white stag
regular $52 reduced to$40
wigwam wool socks
wool caps and mils
special: all knives reduced 20%
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WIii be held Novembef 7 It 12 noon In
Lecture Hall three.
Temple Beth Hattlloh on the corner
of Jefferson and 8th Streets downtown
will have a 6:30 service and a 7:15
Jewish communal sabbath potluek on
NO\lember •. Cal 1 Allee Becker, 352.
~ If you wish to attend. All 98t'\lices
are mto,mal an1 a mixture of Hebrew
and English. There's lots 01 singing
and a community aplrtt.
Olympia Food Coop Is holding a
..-ghettl dinner to help finance COSTOFs tnfU11tt.. SU. The Initiative would
remove sales tax from food. The dinner
wltl be held this Sunday. November 6,
5 • 8 p.m. at Olympia Community Center, 1314 East 4th, Olympia.
The Kitchen Band, a mualcal group
composed of aenlo, citizens, wlll provide entertainment at the dinner.
The dinner la open to the publk:. Fo,
addltlonal Information contact: Anna
Schlecht. 357.5u5 o, Bob Zelgler, 9438258.
WANTED: Station Manager to,
KAOS•FM. The Station Manager
must be II reglatered student al
TESC. Appllcanta
should have
some background and experience
In non•commerclal
community
broadcasting. The Jot> requires a
serious full time commitment.
AppllcaUona ahould be written
and Include a atatement of expe,rl•
ence and lnttw91t u well u address
and phone number.All appllcatlona
should be submitted to Lynn Garner In the S&A office, CAB 305,
TESC, Olympia WA 98506, by November 9, 1977. The KAO$ Advlaory
Committee wlll meet on Of about
NOYember 15 to aelect the new

The WOMEN'S CUNIC Is sponso,lng
the second get together of the ABOR·
TION SUPPORT GROUP. AH women
are Invited to come to shar8 feelings;
to give and receive aupport, Please
come on Thursday night, November 10
at 5:30 In the Boerd Room, Lib. 3112.
There la a new place to discover at
The E\19fgreen State College this year
- The Aah Centef. The Aah Center Is
the campus mlnt•t,y opportvnlty here
at Evergreen. It Is not II huge place, but
ra.1hera cozy one bedroom apartment
rented Ill the Ash Tree Apartments (L·
1Cl3). It la a plaoe developlng ectlvlty,
converaatlona, Information and coun•
seflng. The Aah Center la funded by
the local Olympia community and by
lhe state agency - United Mlnlalrles
In Higher Education.
The people In Charge of production
at the Center are Tricia Hamllton, adjunct faculty and minister In the Con·
gregatlonal Oenomlnatlon and Bud
Cook, a student Intern with special
akllla In program development and
counseling.
The door la open from 10 - 5 Monday
through Frtday. Join us fo, a hot drink.
conversation. or Just come and get acquainted (phone 6145).

-will take and
officethe
In -mid to aelected
late December. Pay Is $3.05 per hour tor
15 hours a week. For more lnf<>rma-,
tlon contact Toni Holm at 88&•5287.
The TESC Gay Aeeource CW!ter
Is allve again I We will be meeting
on alternate Wednetdaya. The next
time 11Wed. NOYelllber 2 at 7 p.m.
In Library room 3210. For frw child
care, call Grace at 352•3814 before
Wedneeday.

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forms which contained space, but
as that which divided and manipulated soace, creating "illus10ns•· of form. This fascination
v,tith implied form and illusory
-.tructure has led Maki to examine .rnd account for phenomena
produced by his sculpture as an
inte~rated vanable in the concep-

the space around them. Gesture
towards enclosure is less than in
past work and more subtly intonated. The wall relationships
and termination of the triangle at
close to ground level, allow us to
experience the trapezoid as having positive space on both sides
of the wall.

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by Steven Thompson
The sculpture
Trapezoid
5quare. 1s a pivotal piece in the
\q)rl-.. of Robert Maki. Maki.
h'hose sculptural concerns, since
the late sixties, have been with
works of monumental scale. His
,culrture 1s characteristically austere and dark in color (most have
been painted black). stemming
tr0m his interest in creating forms
that would induce an "implied
~el,met ry." as Maki has called it.
\lal-..1speal-..s of using his planar
tl'rmc. to "articulate" space, to
•nterpolate within their immediJte environment.
First appearances
make the
worl-..out to be of minimal form,
and of sensibilities which create a
1eeling of remoteness, of internalization of the ideas which the
h·ork Sttms to be exploring. This
apparent difficulty of the work
1,; c0mmonly a lack of commitment on the part of the viewer,
e,pect1ng a degree of "entertainment'· in anything art-related.
The sculpture demands much of
the viewer and it 1s with time
,rent that a growing intimacy
mal-..es the work increasingly
available. The same risks, honesty and openness in dialog are
required by the work as in the
establishment of any intimate relat1onsh1p

t1on, the act of perception becoming an act of completion.
To this end Maki works out
his ideas as scale models in cardboard, enabling him to work out
meticulous problems of scale and
shape relationships. He incorporates a camera and resulting photographs to study the effects of
visual co'mpression and the action
of light and shadow, which play
an extremely important role in
his sculpture. Maki speaks of his
work as being "restructured" by
shadow. A shadow acts with all
of his pieces as an extension of
the planes into the space which
surrounds them. Fault is found in
the placement of the sculpture
because there is no direct sunlight
hitting it, weakening this capacity
of the piece.
The element of scale is of criti·
cal importance to the success of
..Trapezoid Square," as in all of
Maki's work. Scale is inclusive
of dimensions of the work 1h relation to wall thickness, the piece
m relation to its surroundings,
and an equitability between the
dimensions and the ideas behind
the work.
The sculpture,
though extremely low in profile and of
modest dimensions, retains Maki's
penchant for monumentalism
through his formal understanding
and use of concept and scale,
making maximum use of each.

,1ak1's choice of half-inch steel
'planes" is the result of his early
interest and commitment to the
concerns of form and structure.
'1ak1 found that the use of planes
l,r walls or calculated thickness
resulted in their being seen not as

The planes, with minimal displacement, divide and activate

Trape:zoid Squue
The nearer perspectives give
an entirely different gestalt than
at some distance away. At 20
feet the dark planes visually compress into broken geometries of
shape. Edges which appear as
narrow bands of reflect~ light,
divide and interrupt the dark
flattened shapes. Viewed at close
range these ~es
step up or
down in height as they join adjacent walls, depending on the direction the work is read, creating
a linear series of intervals and
interruptions. These emphasize
the sudden contrasts, of scale
and contact, which occur among
the four planes.
The sculpture compels the
viewer to recapitulate the kif\d of
conceptual process involved in
the arrival of the piece in the artist's studio, in order to extend
the work's implications. Maki's
sculpture is uncharacteristic of
Northwest work. making no concessions to literal or figurative
associations. so common of this
region's work.
The work stands: Distilled and
absent of stylish markings, exuding a conceptual strength and
highly structured abstraction of
c;pace. It is a grand example of
the challenge of modem sculptural concerns bolstering confidence in Washington's one percent for the Arts' ability to actualize work of real importance.
Steven Thompson is a Kulptor
.rind printm.riker living in Olympia.

by William Cubbon
Grahm Parker and the Rumors'
new album blasts New York
shuffle. I can hardly breathe.
This damn cold took me by surprise - but my cigarette's still
burning. I'm going to talk about
this new sculpture of Maki's for
the sake of some half sane discourse about the piece, the art.
If one more person says something about how much it cost I'm
going to (let Parker say it) "tear
your playhouse down." Art is
business, just like everything,
and in this country a man has a
right to make a buck, even artists. Now, enough economics,
let's deal with this mother piece
as an art expression .
Minimalist sculpture strives for
a form with the least possible irregularities, an immobile space,
neutral, and when done well offers staggering presence of balance, assuming simplicity. total
form, total space - but you still
wouldn't want to hug it. When
done poorly it stinks, becomes
base geometry or a monumehtal
artifact.
Inevitably
dogmatic
forms, lost in the ideas of aesthetic minimalism become the
property of copiers, trend followers, or people who think
buildings are sculptures and that
they have something to do with
modem art.
"Object or Minimal sculpture, if nothing else, is a rejection of 'open' sculpture,
pseudo-me<:Nnistic
sculpture, 'dynamically'
poised
sculpture - or any of the
other forms of latent kineticism that have characterized
thrtt-dimensional conceptualization. Object sculpture
admits to being itself nothing else.
Conceived intellectually. Object sculpture depends on its lack of associated meanings and trivialiud
fonnat for an identity. It
does attempt
to present
meaning as a series of pe:rceptua I experiences."
Jack
Burnham Beyond Modrrn
Sculpture
Maki has been doing his brand
of minimal sculpture on the West
Coast for ten years now. While
most minimalists are very involved in expounding upon their
works, Maki has remained silent
(al least in print). Not wanting
to get involved in justifying his
works, he says. The point missed
is that justification is vain where
attempts at lucidity might very
well help us to relate to the

work.
Well, I guess we're on our own
except for the title: ''Trapezoid
Square."
"Trapezoid: geom. a quadrilateral plane figure having
two parallel and two non
parallel sides."
"Square: A rectangle having all four sides the same
length."
The bottom perimeter of the
sculpture is a square, the top a
trapezoid. The space defined by
the sides is the form of the transition from square to trapezoid.
Funny that such a static form
could represent an evolution (a
restructuring). We see four vertical planes intersecting at corners
while simultaneously a horizontal
plane is sliding up and down
changing from square to trapezoid and back. Yet this is all an
illusion.
Merleau-Ponty
speaks
of
watching a cube in perspective.
While knowing that ideally it has
six sides and twelve edges he
states, "I cannot see a cube as
its geometrical definition presents it: I can only think it." We
don't see it, we perceive it. This
is abstract formalism. There are
no horses or rabbits or confed- ,
erate generals here. Pure delineations of form.
So what, who cares7 It ain't
pretty and you don't really find
these investigations interesting.
This is and has been the main
problem with abstract minimalism. In abstract expressionism
there's at least guts, emotion.
This minimalism is so dry. Yes,
it's very academic, like some
complicat~ philo,ophical question. It's art's art. You have to
go to it and use your brains as
well as your eyes.
Certainly this minimal art is
out of most people's league and
if there is a criticism for it being
on Evergreen's campus it must be
the piece's inaccessibility.
But
Iordy knows, TESC is isolated
enough, and for that reason
Maki's piece is refreshingly stimulating. Just to talk to all those
upset or confused by the sculpture is inspiring. While I am not
an authority on minimalism, it
was my hope to shed some fresh
light on the discussions. Hopefully Maki's forthcoming show
will continue to expand the horizons and possibly will expound
upon his philosophical/ aesthetic
base.
Willi.rim Cubbon
recently
showed "Relayer" paintings on
campus and is expKted to next
be !lffn In Afrlu.

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LONO DAY'S JOURNEY INTO
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WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964,
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Saturday. Novembef 5
PINK FLAMINGOS The Flammgo
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Monday. November 7
SANDY
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the struggle of two lesbian mothers
to keep the1, children against claims
by their former husbands that they
are unlll mothers Sandy Schuster
and Madeleine Isaacson wlU speak.,
7 30 in LH one. Also showing
Tuesday. November 8 at noon
Wednesday, November 9
SHOESHINE (Italy. 1946) This
film was dlrec1ed by Vittorio de
Sica and shot in the streels of
Rome wllh non-prolessional actors.
ti tells the story ol two young street
urchins who w0111.as shOeshlne
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LINCOLN CONSPIRACY
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lrendy subject). If you llked the
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Capitol Theater. 357-7161.
JONAH WHO WILL IE 25 IN THE
YEAR 2000 Alaln Tanner's excellent
film about the llte and times of a
number of friends/acquaintances
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make them
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Marian Brando as Stanley Kowalskl
and Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois
batlle It out. Ella Kazan's 1951
adaptation of Tennessee Williams'
play. November 3 - 6 at the Rose
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JULIA baaed on UIHan Hellman's
ute and times, starring Jane Fonda,
Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
and Hal Holbroo+t. Gulld 45th In
Seattle, 633-3353.
MUSIC
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JENNIFER and JOHN REINHART·
wltt give a lree worl(shop on plane,
technlQue performance. scoring and
geOMat problems. Thursday. November 3, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. tree
MAURICE ANDERSON "The foremosl pedal stE!el gultarlsl in the
world ... according lo Tom Foote,
wltt be In concert November 8 at S
p m in the Second Flo?r Ltbral)
Lobby. CHUCK 0EARDORF and
DAN ADAMS will be playing with
him Admission Is $2 50
JENNIFER REINHART will be
playing New Music for Piano with
works by Stockhausen, Schonberg.
Cage. Rochberg. Marttrano. Steinke
and Reinhar1 Friday. November 4.
B pm. Rec11aIHall, 50 cents
IN OLYMPIA
CLASSICAL MUSIC will be lealured on November 4 and 5 at the
Gnu Dell. Capitol Way and Thu1
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A benelit concert sponsored by
the Thurslon County Coalition 101
Women's Rights Is being held at
the Gnu Dell November 9 at B pm
Performing wilt be JAN STENTZ, a
prominent jazz vocallst who appears
regularly at Red Kelley's. She wlll
be accompanied by JACK PERCIFUL on the piano. THE CO-RESPONDENTS wlll perform a theatrl·
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sement. GILA, a local women's Jazz
group wlll be playing original compositions, their own arrangements
ol standards. and folk metodles
from other cultures. BURT and DIANE MEYER. members of a group
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American and Irish folk songs.
Donation wllt be $-4.00 at the door.
Reservations are suggested
Call
Jan Bynum at 491-9588.
SWINGLAN0 EXPRESS Is playIng a benefit dance for the YWCA ·s
Women's Sheller Program It will
be a .. Big Band Era" event held at
the Old Washlnglon Junior High
Gym complex at Legion Way and
Eastslde Street. Proceeds will go
toward the opening of the shelter
November 11 al 8 p.m Call 3520593 tor more Info
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THE ROUND TOWN GIRLS Debby
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alnglng old songs at the Sunny Side
Folk Arts Center on Saturday, No-

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JERRY JEFF WALKER and JOHN
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University on November 4 In Tacoma.
Also on November 4 THE AVERAGE WHITE BAND will be playing
at the Coliseum In Seattle.
One more tor November 4, COM•
MANDER CODY and DAVE BROMBERG will be at the Paramount In
Seattle.
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL ALL
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EDISON will be appearing at the
Opera House In Seattle Center on
Sunday. November 6 at 8 p.m.
RANDY NEWMAN and STEVE
GOODMAN will be at the Paramount
November 11.
DANCE
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featuring workshops, films, exhlbi·
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SQUARE DANCING wtlh a live
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FOLK DANCING
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POETRY
DON JORDAN and BILL HOTCHKISS read In the Board Room. Library 3112, November 4 at 8 pm
SANDRA MCPHERSON wII1 be
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Som
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Tl-GRACE
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THEODORE and BETTY ROZAK
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