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The Birth Of The Unnamed Student Organization
Commentary by Steve Francis
Only
ween
tti
I0°'r, {240) of the Ever•
community
took
the time
fill out a responst' lo the Trial
B.11loon (the rough draft of next
vear·s curncului;n). Only onehdlf of one percent had the ent'rgy to show up at tht> specialty
area meetings Something's terribly wrong when the opportunity
that students do have to influence
what's being <1ffered here next
vear 1snt tdl,.en advantage of.
We who have i>oured the found.:ition for a !'.>tudent organization, refuse lo believe that this
J1smal respl1nse stems from lack
,,,
mteresl
How
can
someone
n,,t be interested m tht> program
-.t>lectiontor next year? This pititul turn~,ut I!'., J warning signal to
a much larger problem· People
in this community
feel powerless
change the areas that directly
.11tect their lives. The COG document ( the governance document
,lpproved at the last Board of
Trustee~ meeting) clearly states
11, the intr1,duct1on
"Deosions
mu.:;t bt• maJc Lmly after consul•
!,1:1l1nand llll..,rdmat1on with stu·
dt:nt.-. lacultv and staff who are
both atfec.tt>J by and interested
111 tht' 1,..,ut",t>xcept on those rare
,,1 l ,l..,1(1n.:.
in 1, hJCh circumstances
d,, nnt ,lllt>1, !l1rmal consultation
"1th th\,,e t11 be affected
This
,,r~Jn11,Jl1l1n1'- Jn attempt to ac.~
~urt' th..11 thl''-t'
1deab are earned
,,ut 1n r1 r,H.llll'
!t, 1mpf'rt,1nt to the future of
her~ret'n
th.it students be in·
vulveJ in directing our communlt\
It, s1mplv good practice to
include evervl..,ne who 1s involved
1n a Cl,mmtinitv in its planning
There, a d1!terence between l)
the 1-.md Clt control represented
bv pnwer ,rnJ money. where 1f
nnt•' per.-.Cln tal..es some
c.0me•
h,,J\ has le..,s and 2) the kind of
c 11ntrl,I onf' /eels in an environ•
men! s he !eels comfortable and
familiar with. where each person
!<1
1n control helps everybody feel
more in control. This second ap•
prnach 1s the goal of this organizatton.
We need a name for .:,is whatever• it-isl Any creative ideas
lur\...ing out there77 There will
bC' a suggestion box next to the
lntormation Center. Get out your
pens. Please come to the introductory meeting on- FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 18 al 12:JO in the
COFFEEHOUSE (by SAGA).
The following byb.ws were
drafted by a group of interested
students at a meeting on Friday,
November 4. The phrases in parentheses Mid bold-faced type are
remarks by two students, Steve
Francis and Rob Fellows, who
participated
in the meetings.
Hopefully, it will clarify the intent of the proposal.
Proposed Bylaws (sic)
We believe that students must
constantly remind Evergreen of
its goals as an alternative institu·
tion. Our schoDl's existence relies
on our involvement in planning
our educatHm and our community.
PURPOSES:
To faohtc1te direct student m·
volvement in decision-making aftectmg students, both on an m~titut1onJl level, and in academic
programs
T ll gather information about
the c0ncerns of students.
To take stands on issues and
ac11velv !>upport speC1fic interests
we tee\ to be important to slu·
dents as a whole.
We want lo make very dear that
the organization wouldn't try to
"represent" students. We recognize that the members ca.n only
represent themselves but it's important that the organization determine what the needs of all students are rather than becoming
another special interest group.
To represent the concerns of
member students.
To provide resources for students involved in TESC decision
making.
To ensure that the needs of
third world, gay. women, and
other minorities are reflected in
Evergreen decision-making.
To enswe is a vague term. It is
up to the people in the organiution to act if they fttl the nttds
are not reflected in Evergreen decision-ma.king.
To move toward a balance between students, faculty, staff and
administration in planning and
directing Evergreen.
To work toward eliminating
antagonistic power relationships
between students, faculty. staff
and administration.
This is a recognition of two facts:
1) such antagonisms do occur be-cause the directing and planning
of Evergreen is NOT balanced
.ind 2) that all four constituencies
have a common goal, to make
Evergreen a better place in which
to learn, and thus are not really
distinct groups. The separation
occurs when the decision-making
is not balanced.
MEMBERSHIP:
Any student at Evergreen who
agrees to these purposes may be
a member. Membership is established by signing a membership
list. Anybody may attend meetings, but only members may par·
ttupate in decision-making.
This is not meant to exclude anybody. If one is a member, s/he is
less likely to just walk out of a
meeting when s/he doesn't agree
with what's going on - that's
what leads to a narrow focused
interest group. Also, everybody
doesn't have lo go to every meeting lo be represented by the organization. It's basically the same
as a mailing list. Any student
who's interested should feel welcome to sign up and receive the
newsletter, so s/he can show up
when something important is being discussed.
MEETINGS:
There are two types of meetings that can make decisions:
regular and special meetings.
Regular meetings: Meetings
will occur at least once each
month for regular business.
Regular meetings will include:
.. - Review of agenda (setting
time limits if necessar~y) and
choosing a new recorder.
- Reports by students involved in decision-making, and
discussion.
- Setting priorities for organizing.
- Creating
task forces,
workshops, action groups, etc.
- Any budge! decisions.
- Directing the office.
There is no quorum for a regular business meeting; however.
a newsletter will go to all members before each meeting informIng them of decisions to be made,
and including malerials useful to
decision-making. (The newsletter
is primarily the responsibility of
the recorder and the two facilitators.) Agenda items not announced in the newsletter may
not be acted on unless SO% of
the membeTs are present. Forums
may be called at any time, but
cannot make decisions for the
organization. Forums are a good
c.tarting point for calling a special
meeting.
In general, meetings larger
lhan 20 will be held silting in
groups of six to e:ght. At these
meetings, discussion will happen
in small groups. After each small
group reports on its discussion,
decisions will be made in the
large group.
Every meeting will have a recorder and two facilitators. At
each regular meeting the previous
recorder becomes facilitator, a
new recorder is appointed, and
one facilitator is rotated out.
each only
CLASSICAL
bach
beethoven
dvorak
e1r
The Evergreen State College
November 17, 1977
Faculty Express Curriculum Concerns
En Masse
by Mandy McFarlan
son later caml.' ur with -,t'vt'rcll
'>uggestions 1ncludm~ an advi-.
1ng-plann1ng "t:""'>!(ln at wh1c h
,:;tudent'i. <luring tht: !1r,1 wee\... Pt
edch ye,H would m<1\...t>
tDur vt·.:ir
plam He descnbf•d d rough rl<H1
!or pol1tv setting. Tht" woukl m·
cluJe allowing intern'ihtr.., nnh
after thenrv '>tudv .rnd requlflng
a basic program ft,r t1ll ne1, ...iudl.'nt.., Thnmp~on !eel.-.that the<-e
lypt:'~ nt change<, could bl"l'
the
prll<.l'C.!>
nf curriculum p!,c1nnm~
There were '>Omt'\'l'f:," 1ntl'rt""I
1n1o;comml'nt, and l,h,t-rvat 111n-,
cxrre,se<l Jt the mt"et1ng Op1n
ion<;were diverse dnd manv ..,uhiect'i came up hir e--.:.:1mplt·
Dav1J rnwel! fet·I... thJt f:.\'t:'t
green h,1'> a con..,erv.1t1ve -.tu
dent bod~
and th,..11...1udt-~t<.
lend lo lrt'al.. (lU\
1,:ht·n tJll..m,1.;
ab11ut 1ntt-rd1..,ciplin,H\ t>dut,ltion
and that m11,1 cif thr c;tudent...
need tn ht- tauKht abt-ut their ed•
uc,1!1nn.., P(lwcll al..,o <,lated that
he hJd gllllt.'n practitally no ad·
m1n1..,trJl1Vt'ht.·lr with curnc.ulum !'(•It' S1ncl;m tee]-; that as a
n•-.ult ill the enrollment problem
tht.· la1..ull\· m,,y have lc1-.tta1th 1n
tht· admin1str.it1on
In "Pile ol all the turmc1d and
u1ntu ...u1n tht• meeting enJed ,,n
,tn 1..1pt1m1st1C
note Pc.,,;;1tiveC.U~·
~e,11ons were made and man-.
of the pt•c,rlc>who c.r(ikf' \·1111 ed
an approval ol the larg£• mt't'l
1ng. Sandra Simon suggested that
the faculty keep lines of commun1Cation open. It was decided
that a monthly lar~e facultv
meeting could help the curncu •
lum s1tuati0n. Toward the end nl
the meeting, Rob Knapp said
that now deans and faculty are
at the stag(' where they can d1'>•
cuss concrete ideas They have
until the Spring to come up with
new ide.:1sfor ne~t year The next
meeting will be t..,n or arnund
November 30
ROCK
chiffons
the doors
11m1hendr1x
etc
Transcript Fees:Will The Students Pay ... Twice?
assorted
records
1.99
limited time only
TALKIES & MOVIE
SOUNDTRACKS
"the selftsh ~pant" by
oscar wdde
"the lone ranger"
radio plays
the odessa file"
Vol.6 No.7
Abtiut 75 of Evergreen's faculty members met for a frequently
emotional discussion on curriculum on November 16. Because
the !acuity has recently shown a
great deal of concern about Evergre-en·s former, current, and future development of curriculum,
Assistant Academic Dean Rob
Knapp decided to hold this large
]11eeting instead of the smaller
dean's i,;roup meetings previously
planned.
Richard Jones began the meetmg by expressing his total dismay regarding Evergreen's last
couple of years. He stated that
by his standards, Evergreen had
developed into a "second rate
state college, .. and that he would
leave after next year, possibly to
teach at the University of Oregon, unless Evergreen sh'ows
"any sign of turning around."
Jones gestured with his fingers
and sJid. "we are that far from
going under." He stated that
three years ago. he would .have
recommended
Evergreen as a
good risk for an incoming student, and that he used to support
the idea of graduate studies at
Evergreen But now, he feels that
the college isn·t even providing
high quality undergraduate work.
In essence, it 1s next to impossible lo succeed at the undergraduate level
It's getting harder
and harder to gel a well-designed
program through the way you
want it." He also explained the
frustration of planning a program, and then experiencing difficulty filling it because of the
enrollment problem. He and the
faculty whom he will work with
next year plan lo personally recruit up to 80 new students for
their program. Jones also spoke
briefly about individual contracts
saying that a successful contract
RECORD SALES
,;;pecral ,:;hipment of ONE THOUSAND
These three, along with any staff
and others who wish to, will set
the agenda for the coming meeting. As much as possible the
agenda will be determined at the
previou, meeting, but any member may add an agenda item up
until a week before the regular
meeting.
The consen~us process will be
used to reach decisions whenever
possible. Concensus means that
everybody agrees they can live
with a decision, rather than that
everybody is in favor of it. If, at
any time, three-fourths of the
members present decide that concensus is inappropriate, then the
decision will be made by a threefourths majority vote.
To reach concensus the following procedure
is recom•
mended: When it appears to the
facilitators that all points of discussion have been aired, s / he
should ask for a test vote. If
there is substantial agreement at
that point, the facilitator should
try for concensus.
All decisions must be published
in the next newsletter including
all dissenting points of view.
If funds are available, an office
staff should be hired to:
- put out the newsletter in
consultation with the recorder
and two facilitators,
- keep all files that might
be helpful to student organizing.
- be in the office at a certain time each week in order to
make the organization visible and
to fulfill any reasonable functions
assigned by the business meeting,
- coordinate
volunteers
willing to aid students who need
help working with any part of
the Evergreen bureaucracy.
These agreements
may be
changed at any time by the standard decision-making procedure,
if the proposed change is an•
nounced at the previous meeting
and in the newsletter.
by John Keogh
etc
fher<' are small gems hidden among
the etceteras
CHRISTMAS GIFT BOOKS
king tut - two lavishly Illustrated
volumes
god's images - a new tllustrated v1s1on of the brble by 1ames dickey
t_b..~.Elbum cover album - by roger
dean and h,pgnos1s
high level wellness - an alternative
to doctors, drugs and disease
man's body and woman·s body owners manuals
hobbit madness
the s1mar1\11on
tolke1n. a b.!.Q&_raphy
the hobb11 posters
the tolkem companion
two-sided hobbit Jigsaw puzzle
boxed sets of paperback books
doonesbury, agatha christie, the foxfire book, samuel r delaney, kurt vonnegut. etc
hand Illustrated by marvm haves
from god's images
As a result of an S&-A Board
decision last Spring to stop fund•
ing Evergreen's student transcript
program the college must come
up with a new method of financing transcript production before
the end of Fall Quarter.
The Board of Trustets
on
Thursday. November 10 reviewed
a proposal by Registrar Walker
Allen which would require students to pay five dollars for each
copy of their transcripts and one
dollar per page for transcript or•
ders totaling less thc1n five pages.
During consideration of this proposal S& A Board member Donna
Hayes presented a memorandum
to the Board of Trustees request•
ing that no action be taken and
that a DTF be charged to investigate alternative means of funding
the transcript operation.
The S&-A memorandum ex•
pressed objection to the lack of
publicity concerning the tran•
script fees proposal, charging that
ii constituted a violation of COG
Ill. Although the Board was not
planning to vote on the measure,
ii had in no way been made public before the November 10 meeting. Allen stated that he had "no
objection" to the formation of a
Matthew Smith expresses his viewpoint at
held on Wednes<lay.
requires a lot of hard worl... and
that perhaps laziness was becoming a faculty trend,
After Jones spoke, opinions
and suggestions were exchanged.
Most who spoke felt that prob•
lems do exist with the curriculum
and the way it is planned. Some
~aid that they saw the meeting as
d cro:!l~roads,
where change- will
take root. Much of the discussion
was on the size of faculty teams
in coordinated studies programs,
Will Humphreys, an academic
dean, feels that smaller teams
are more functional, and that a
greater number of separate groups
of study will allow advanced stu·
dents and seniors to be free from
basic work. Those who disagreed
with his points argued that interdisciplinary
studies require a
broad spectrum of information.
The discussion then turnt>d to
curriculum in a more general
DTF to investigate the problem.
He told the Board of Trustees he
would_charge a ~TF to study al•
ternallves to his propo~I a~d
f?rmulate :ecommendallons
m
lime for their December meeting.
S&A SUPPORT
Until last year the transcript
fund was supported by S&.A's
contribution of one dollar per
enrolled student per quarter, as
was arranged by the Board of
Trusttts in the original planning
of Evergreen Due to the length
ol Evergreen's
narrative Iran•
c.cnptc.. however, the cost of
processing orders was exceeding
S&A'~ contributions to the fund
In response to the net>d for more
revenue Allen approached the
S&A Board last ~ring and requested they increase their funding of the program by SO cents
or one dollar per student per
quarter. At this time the S&A
Board decided to stop allocating
any funds at all for transcript
production.
According to Steve Francis,
Executive Secretary of the S&.A
Board, the decision to cut off
funds for the program was based
on the inequality of paymentsversus-benef its ii imposed on
Evergreen students. WhilP some
sense. Matt Smith sJ1d that the
fJculty aren't using their imaginJti0ns becau~e nf the rush involved with planning during Fail
quarter. Smith ,;;aid thal they are
being pressured and are designing unadventurou~ department•
like programs in specialty areas.
It wac. generally dgreed that Fall
i.., 1/ie bu:,ie..,I qudrlf'r bt'caust'
current programs are just taking
shape.
Several people thought of fairly
concrete suggestions.
Andrew
Hanfman expressed a d~ire for a
definition of academic proportions. He felt that it should be
made clear that "individual con•
tracts are not a main mode here.··
David Powell's opinion on contracts was that there should be a
smaller number of individual
contracts allowed because the
large present number of students
in these contracts have "ripped
students ordered transcripts in
large quantities, others made no
use of the service al all and were
consequently paying for those
who did. Francis also tf"f'ls that,
"Ideally, the transcript operation
should be funded bv the institulion, not by students.'"
Allen and Dean of Enrollment
Services Larry Stenberg requested
on July 28 that the S&A Board
reconsider its decision not to
fund the transcript program No
money was available lo supplement tht' transcript fund, and
they were concerned that studt>nts would be unduly burdened
if required to pay the full cost of
reproducing their records. S& A
then agreed to allocate thirtyseven hundred dollars to support
the fund until December 19n.
They also encouraged Allen to
try and find a fair alternative to
S& A funding of transcript production, and asked him to consider the possibility of hiring a
student to replace !he classified
staff member currently employed
to process transcripts.
Unable to find any alternative
to billing students for the full
cost of reproducing their records.
Allen drafted the five dollar fee
proposal that appeared on the
November 10 Board of Trustees
was
off the institution and themselves ... Powell !eels that only the
student!> who prove to h<' rc,Hly
should be allowed to have 1nd1v1du<1Icontracts.
There were arguments f~1rJnd
against
traditionalizmg
I eo
Daugherty brought up ex.faculty
member Merv Cadwallader's re·
structuring suggt>~tinn that F.vn•
green establish "good courses on
one side. and good coordinated
studies on the other side of the
college." Daugherty also lamented
that there is no understanding of
the reasons behind the Evergreen
system of studying one area at a
time among tht' faculty as a
whole, let alone among the students.
Kirk Thompson
slated that
since Evergreen's opening, times
have changed and that the faculty has not designed programs
to change with the times. Thomp•
agenda. He considers the idea ot
hiring a student to process transcripts unfeasible. "Students are
here primarily to be students,'"
he says ··and as a result have Jess
accountability to their jobs than
staff members."' Allen also points
out that two or three students
would have to be hired part·time
for the job, and. considering the
amount of time it would take to
train them. very little money
could be saved.
PAYING TWICE
Students. through tht> portion
of their tuition which gOt>Sinto
the S&A fund, have been paying
the cost of transcript production
since Evergreen opened. If the
Registrar's Office starts charging
individual students the price of
processing their transcripts it will
mean that those making use of
the service will have to pay. and
those not using ii won't. It will
also mean that students who
have been supporting the current
arrangement for up to three years
will have to pay to get copies of
their transcripts;
no provision
was made in Allen's fee proposal
to exempt them from assessment.
Allen views this apparent in·
equity as part of a larger problem; inadequate funding for stu•
dent services in general. ··one
way or the other the student l'i
going to have to pay for it {the
transcript program),
he sayc.
"If money is taken out of operating lo pay for this some other
service 1s going to be cut. Allen
feels that other operations. such
as Health and Counseling Services. are already functioning with
too little mc1ney because the
Student Services budget 1sn t
large ennugh.
Hopefully the DTF invec.t1gat•
ing options tor funding the tr.1n
c.cnpt program will find s<.1meal
ternat1ve to imposing the full fnc;.t
on 1nd1v1dual s1uden1,
The
yearly cost of procec;c.m14tr,m
scripts, about $15.000 1c.min1mJl
in comparison
to Evergret>n,
total operating budgf'l But 1t"
nCl big ,;;ecret that the college<,
finances are too tight now and
t1ghtenin~ Unless some nch uncle
comes along and bails u<; out 11
look,;; as though Walker Allen
will be proved right· ·one way
or the other, the student is going
to pay
." The real question.
though is this: Will the student
have to pay twice?
Editor's Note: The first meeting of the Transcript Fee, DTF is
on Friday, NovemMr 18 at I :30
p.m. in library I J 18.
gnus
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Continued from page' 2
first time that I've u~lt frustration
about Evergreen'j w~,y of handling language learning. fellow
students, please pay attention to
an area that is sadly lacking in
emphasis here. Communication
is the most important thing we
can devote our energies tol
Anita de Give
Third World Focus on
Early Childhood Development
Lost
And Found
And Lost
I'm No Lady
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through
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thP'>e wh0
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<,trut,.;·
wt:'rc
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~dthercd
h'
.ippldud the !on~ nverdue admt1n1<,hment
ot p1l1u<, matenal1<,tc,• It vour rc~ponse dpproached
either nt the.,e ell.tremes
pau!K'
lt"'r 1ust a ml,ment lo reconsider
,vhat rou read
I ~ot very little out
not
even alter retlect1
t1on Only one t
came across
loud and clear and I think thal
1t 1s the only thing s.a1d James
Thomas 1s d1ssat1sfied with a
cour!>e m which he mistakenly
enrolled. Period. Certainly, he
makt>S flowery insinuations regarding the dastardly effr-cts of
d1alect1Cal materialism: Adher•
t'nce to the methodology sup•
posedly cripples the intellect,
s1mplif1es awe, reduces wonder,
and rots the brain But he does
not support hi,s contentions with
evidence, prdernng to rely on
"abstract con1ecturmg" and mmdboggling analysis. A lady might
gently call him obscure; I call
bullshit It 1s James·~ very inabil·
1ty to successfully arllculate his
discontent thal forces him to
couch his argument m pompous
Vt'rb1age
( As a fnend points out, only
.11nobscurist could fmd anything
in'iidious in the program title In·
s1d1ous• intended to entrap, advancing 1mpercept1bly or se•
cre-tly Come on, James Soci,11
Origins of Art ,1nd Ideology 1s
among the more explicit headmgs)
So what 1s dialectic.al matenal•
ism as an academic ··modus op•
erand17' S1mple - or s1mplifymg
- 111s not It 1s a dynamic and
rigorous system of analysis,
which. contrary to Jam~·s claims,
aCludlly serves to demystify so•
Udl phenomena Of course, this
demands commitment to d1..c1•
plmed thmkmg, and granted, 11
1s not f'asy to Sf'minar around
But d1,1lt'l t1cal mat(>rial1,;m 1-,
llll'rt'
th.:in .i ,chl,la~ILl pastime
Th,., Jvnam1c an.ilv°".-1..,
l'I ,oc1al
rl'l,111,11,-.
,n•I-.-. fl' <1nswer whv
th1n).:, h.lppt·n the ,,,av th(>v dn
,ind
hv tht' wav
<loes prettv
\••t'l1 .it 1u"'t that Thu,; 1tc. U'-(>·
l;dne.,, a., Jn analvt1cal tool (>X·
:l•nd... t.1r ht·vnnJ h1,toncal l'\.·
pht.lt1Pn Tlw ll1~1cdl extension
,,I thl' mt·lhl1dnlngv
,u~gest-,
av-
1.'nuc.. 111r ",(1c1..:11
chal'l~e iodJy
\'I. hC'n .lpplied
ll'
contemporary
prnblt'nh
Anv dnalvs1s wh1th
J1rectlv n,ntrnnt.., cau,;ality by
nc-ce,~1typoint, l(l th(> oriims ol
<,t1ual phenomena or structure
Likew1~t·. 11 may be used to re•
veal the sources ot current probl(>ms facing our • society,'' and 11
lays the foundation £or political
..1rategy Herem lie the real ··dangers,·· 11 one chooses to regard
them as such. James's fear that
ideas are robbed of some fashionable dignity deserv6 merit.
for a contemporary application
of dialectical rllaterialism unmasks the ideological assumptJOns that we, too, labor beneath.
DeAnn Rathbun
Social Origins of Art et al
Oh, What A
Clever Phrase
To the Editor·
Dear Mr James Thomas,
Re your article "On the Dangers of Dialectical Materialism "
It would have been more appro•
priate if you would have named
the article "On the Dangers of
D1arrhe11cal Met1culism "At least
you gave us a concrete example
of that tendency
Thom Thacker
The Materialist
Assumption
To the Editor:
In response to "The Dangers
of Dialttt1cal Materialism·· (CPL
Nov 3) ) disagre, that " .
the
method of the program (Social
Origins of Art and Ideology) lim-
its one to illusionistic overs1m•
plification" and, somehow. as
pious ~tudent matenalists·· we
arc intellectuallv cloistered within
a ··dialectical church •• This claim
1s completely backwards
I hdve had a consummatel>
worthwhile educational expenenc(' tor three rt>asons· tirst, as
James pointed out. mtellectual
growth requires diverse contexts
We have developed a way of in·
terpreting history which, though
labeled "radical. • can be shown
to explain the formation of con•
temporary institutions at least as
completely and effectively as the
more traditional "God in the
Machine·· or the stacatto "pick
the most important date" methods. This innovative and con•
structive way of viewing history
provid"5 the very diversity Jamn
insists we lack. Choosing to learn
material by an original perspective is enormously stimulatirtg
and powerful - the tension of
conflicting
models defines a
wealth of altemativ"5 we can use
to be effective and thoughtful
mf'mbers of an awakening state.
S«ond, studying sequenc"5 of
facts rather than singulu events,
that is, studying primary material
rather than sifted, attenuated
opinions (James's "Jde.11s") has
given me a more flexible tool of
inference and prediction since l
constantly test hypothesis with
determining antecedents rathf'r
than thrashing around either rejecting or accepting someone's
pet bias with little more formal
analysis than gut-level apprehension
Third. making assumptions
about the way to study history
has helped me to be a more active participant and lumer in
the program. The "booming,
buzzing confusion" which confronts a newborn child, as William James put 1t. 1s made into a
richer experience, not a lesser
one. when a system of differentiation, a way of ordering sense
experience is accepted, first by
faith, and later, as our pool of
distinctions
grow, by reason.
When I began this program I
needed a way of coping with the
tremendous volume and breadth
of our reading and lr-ctures. The
materialist assumption has given
me a way to express my thoughts
clearly and organize my reflections in detail.
I don't know whether the "social-causal'" interpretation is true
or not, but the test I have app\i(>d
with success to our program's
motif is "do the answers come
with easy finality, yes and no,
good or bad - or do I struggle
to create tentative and explora•
tory themes which change and
grow with time and experience?"
Maybe.
Grady Ward
A Fairly
Sad Tale
To the Editor:
Is Evergreen guilty of tests
and grading1 For the last two
quarters at this institution I have
received no credit for the work
I've done, And I can't understand
why f'ither. Both quarters I regularly attend~ IKtures and seminar, participating in both. And
since I read all the books 1 can
only presume the difficulty lies irl
the term paper. Both quarters,
instead of turning in a ten page
typed test I turned in a three to
four page fairly (sic) tale. I suppose I could have watered if
down to ten pagn but it's quality
not page number that's important
anyway. Also I don't believe stu•
dents should be forced to write
faculty evaluations. If they don't
have something conslructive to
Sdy, why the coercion? I hadn't
been forced so I probably would •
have wro.te th-~eeso I gave it verbally inslead
John Adams
Editor's Note
'Simply False'?
To the Editor
Nancy Parkes' series on Individual Contract Study at Evergreen is a welcome relief from
Pink Flamingos, S1rike Policies,
and other distractions to lf'am•
ing.
I'm troubled, though, by the
Editor's Note attached to the article. It imp\i(>sthat the Academic
Deans rushed out a "bureaucratic
memo" concerning deadlines for
filing contract~ as a ·respon.se
to Nancy's work This 1s simply
false A~sistant Dean Bill Winden
prepared the mt>mo a~ a first
,tep in a series ol moves we are
going to mal-.e to firm up !he
contract mode. He ls.new nothing
about Nancy s work at the time
he drafted tht> memorandum.
For students who missed 1t~he
memo announces that beginning
Winter quarter, contracts must
be filed with the appropriate program secretary before registering.
That is, th" contract must be
written and signed by tht> sixth
day of classes. This change was
recommended by a DTF on Contract Policy which Dean Winden
set up last year. It's only one of
several changes in the works.
People who are concerned about
the matter should stop by the Information Center and look at the
full DTF report. The Deans have
not yet accepted all of the rec•
ommendations in it and we're
still willing to listen to other
viewpoints.
Will Humphreys
Academic Dean
Frustration
And language
Learning
To the Editor:
Last wttk I presented a proposal to thf' deans for a Native
American language module. to be
starting Winter Quarter. In view
of the total lack of such instruc•
llon, the student interest shown
which warrants a language module (ten "credit-generating·· students). and the availability 0£
teachers in the area for either
Muckelshoot or Lakotah, I saw
no problf'm in gf'tting this off the
ground. Instead. I was politely
told that there wasn't enough
money to hire an adjunct faculty
and that my proposal would
have to hav" the support of a
..spec131 interest" program in order to be considered. It's not the
Contmued on page 3
Dunn~ that last Veteran·s day
vacation my dirty creme colored
,1rmcha1r disappeared from Seminar r0om 4155 My father said I
u1uld borrow 11, and my intent
wa, to provide a comfortable
<;t>JInext to our group library
Well 11 i,; gone. Somebody took
11 h,r their own. At the same
t1mt· an acoustic amp disappeared
from this room, which is by the
way a k(>y lock entry. Well, the
amp hds been returned by the
people who borrowed 11 from the
Chaut,1uqua program, and my
wish 1s that my father's dirty
crE'me colored armchair will too
be returned by its born.lwt'r
Al~o I have lost a brown dou·
ble pocketed leather change purse
with my mother·s name inked on
th(' ins1<le Please r(>turn it, reward 510.00 al 866-5160.
Name withheld on request
Democracy
Burn-Out
To the Editor:
A lot of things are, happening
at this school that students don't
know about or aren't involved
in. (I'm sure that some of you
have noticed this.)
Some of us think that a basic
premise this school is built on is
that our education and our community will mean more to us if
we're involved in it. Most of us
don't have time to be involved
as much as we would need to to
keep up - one meeting leads to
another. People bum out and we
begin to slide back into being a
traditional institution.
DTFs are a pain. They're an
energy dram. So is democracy.
Our culture doesn't seem lo have
the energy for it. It's easier to do
what we've been brought up to
do - let somebody else direct
things for us. We can·t understand all the technical stuff anyhow. right7 Others have been
highly trained in making value
judgments and decisions for us.
In any case, deep down we
know how we feel when we realize we aren't in control, that
tht>re are no programs we want
10 take. there are people expertly
guessing all our needs and not
asking us
Many of the ideals of this
school are (continually)
being
threatened. Ed Kormondy has
initiated a search for a prof6-
RARE &
FINE TOBACCO,
CIGARS
Olympia's
largest
Walk-in
sional administrator for the position of dean ( this person would
be a teacher, but would not be
familiar with Evergreen or its
personalities). That position has
always been a rotating faculty
position. Dan Evans has called
together a group of top administrators to make recommendations
about a five year plan for the
school to increase enrollment. It's
only an advisory group, but
that's exactly why we have a
COG document and DTFs - to
make sure different constituencies
in the community are involved in
advising administrators on important matters. And students
ar(> continually not involved in
curriculum
planning
(though
there has been effort towards
this). Instead of finding ways to
involve students, this year's bulletin has added a new sentence:
. essentially, the develop•
ment of curriculum is a faculty
responsibility; and all students
who enroll here should be in basic agreement with this institu•
tional tenet,"· whereas old catalogs gave the impression that the
school was trying to encourage
student involvement and initiation of programs. This sentence
was ironically placed next to pictures of the Evergreen Teach-in.
where about half the school was
involved in a prote,st of the lack
of student involvement m curriculum planning and governance
two years ago. The decision to
change the catalog, rather than
to change the planning process
was made to avoid student dissatisfaction once we arrived (it
was well intended), but it certainly wasn't influenced by student concerns.
The student organization meeting on Friday is .:iiming to help
students l,e mvolved in decisions
made at Evergreen, and to h(>lp
preserve the ideals of this school
in providing public alternative
higher education. Our str(>ngth
as a school rests in our strength•
ening and affirming our original
ideals Otherwise we will only be
mediocre.
The student organ1zat1on will
only meet once or twice a month.
and one doesn't have to attend
every met>ting lo participate. A
newsletter will announce any decisions to be made ahead of timt>.
A lot of students have been
concerned about these issues over
lime - I really hope they'll all
be at our first meeting tomorrow
(Friday) at 12,30 in the CAB
Coffe,house.
Rob Fellows
Meaningful
Dialog
and Lunch
we offer on the issues of our day.
After all. we live in America,
where one is generally labeled
··extremist" for simply describing
this country's economic system
as "capitalist," not to mention
··monopoly capitalist."
We also believe. however. that
some of the criticism has been
pertinent Jnd weU-founded.
There have been times, for example, whe, members of EPIC
have allowed their frustrations
and anger to surface m ways that
have be(>n int1m1dating. s1mplis•
l1c, and close-minded to others.
While one needn't look tar to
lind due cause tor this anger, anJ
while anger can be a very pos1t1ve forct' it can also be quite
damaging
Furthermore. EPIC"s programs
have, at times. been s1mplis11c
and uncntical. lending the im•
pression that junking capitalism
will be some sort of panacea It
won·1. It's obviously more com•
plicated than that. Sometimes
though. it',; easy to slip into such
a posture, particularly when ones
env1n1nment ~ems l'1ther to cyn·
JCally a(C('pt or uncritically com•
promise with tht' ~tatus quo
It 1s w11h these thoughts in
mind that EPIC 1s postponing
temporarily any plans tor n(>xt
quMt(>rs Film I Spt>aker Serie~ until wt' have heard and con,1dered
the cnl1etsm., and pr.t1<;ethat we
are h(>reby inviting people to offN rei,;ar<lmg EPIC m general
and the Film Speaker Series in
particular.
We do 50 with the reco~nillnn
that our cntics will repr(>St'ntper·
spect1ves ranging from supporters
with tactical differences to opponent, who disagree entirely
with our general purposes as well
as our method,
We d0 so also with the under•
standing that in the past criticism
of EPIC has generally been found
in the letters-to-th(>-editor columns of th(> CPL thereby pre•
duding any meaningful intera\.·
tion and dialog between EPIC
and tis critics.
In the interest of ~tahltshmg
personal contact and fomenting
real dialog. therefore, we invite
you tC"l10m us for lunch at noon
on Monday. November 21 in
CAB 108 and at 5,30 pm. on
Tuesday. November 22 in the
th1r<lfloN lounge outside of Lib
3220 lo prov1d(> U!> with your
cnt1cal ,upport. We will also b(>
circulating quest1onna1res. in case
you cant make it to either gathenng.
Thank you.
EPIC.
Evergreen Political
Information Center
Who Us?
To the Editor:
EPIC has probably incurred
more public criticism and hostility in the four years smce its
formation than any other group
on campus, except maybe the
administration
We in EPIC believe that some
of this response is to be expected
1n light of the leftist perspective~
To the Editor
Re: the November 10 CPJ:
Since when do you have front
page editorials?
Caroline Lacey
Funny Little
Noises
To the Editor:
In answer to your letter in the
HALLMARK CARDS, CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS. WRAPPING PAPER.
RIBBONS, BOW~T •~~.~WHATN~T
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\
HENDRICKS
DRUGS
WESTSIDECENTER
'M3·l31·1
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end Tale ...
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Hows, I a.m. -11 p.m.
~
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1( Ll'e Gt
Tole painting •
Supplies • C/aues
• Party, block tee •
Slushy • Beer • Wine
• Picnic,
party supp/tu
JaJ Jr.11 II S57-7JSI
CPJ last week. This is to the person N persons who wrote it and
advocate it.
I've worked at Evergreen for
an excess of five years now. In
the past two years the food in
Saga has changed such to make
me believe that you are hassling
and givmg out misleading information in referenct' to Saga and
the Deli.
I would like to t>xplain the
progress of preparing food for a
large group of people such as
Saga does They have to serve
food for the majonty s taste and
they do a splendid 10b of serving
a variety of food for all of us.
The food cannot be over seasoned which all large units of
cafe typt' s(>rvmg have to do I
for ont> am very tired of you and
your friends hassling this fine
gr.oup of people who are trying
to do for the best of all of u., At
the start of every year, th(> food
1s very good until you and your
friends tak(> your little blow horn
dnd mak(> funny little noises
about Saga. I would appreciate
you leaving them alone and 1f
you do not like the food please
go elsewhere. And in reference
to the Deli in the last two years
Saga has attempted to put all
varieties of food and drink (health
foods) for the conv(>nience of
everyone on this campus. If you
would like to complain, why
don't you complam about the
people who sell their goodie,s on
the second floor of the CAB
Building which are not refngerated or inspected by a government inspector. I for one am not
complaining about these people.
I think people have the right to
buy without some radical group
of people trying to tell them what
they should or shouldn't buy. I
myself am appalled at th(>idea of
you trying to tell me what I
should eat. I am 52 years old and
have been doing very W(>IIfor
myself and hope to continue
without any help from you and
your group .
In conclusion. if your group is
'-O
interested in the welfare of
Saga, why don't you look into
the perpetration
against Saga
such as shqplifting in the Deli
.md the rip oH of food in Saga.
Leonard (Smokey) Hulet
We
Don't Know
Either
TVRKEY&
JAZZ
Thursday
'.'Jovember 24.
Tim Eickholt. guitar
~ike Canfield. ha...~<1
Turkey ll{U(>SS
whal kmd of
soup we're havma- t.omorrov.."'1
Umner 10 th(>traci1l1onal
manner
BLVES
Friday, Saturda~
'.':ovember 25, 26
(Jne of th(' Northwesl"s fint-:-t
trad1t1onal blues players
Slide gu1tar. tweh·e .,.ring
vocals and oni;cmal"
Mike Dumodtch
POETRI'
Thursday
'.'.'O\'ember I 7
Spon!-Oredhy F.wrgr(>en\
Center for Literature &
Performing ArL~.Ol)(>nmike
poetry readings All 1>0C"L.,
welt'ome
TRADITIONAL
IRISH
Friday, Saturday
November 18, 19.
Wild Reisewith Jan
Klumph playing the exotic
chromatic hammer dulcimer
Michael Dowers on 5eu1tar
Performances begin at nine pm
A one dollar cover will be a.ske<l
to support the performers
GNU DELI 1s located in
downtown Olympia on the
corner or West Thurston
Avenue and Capitol Way
Serving fine soups.
~andwiches. desserts.
imported beer. and wine.
from eleven a.m. lO
eleven p.m Monday thru
Saturday.
~andw1ch orders may be
called in at 943-1371.
(;.vJ,[
T 0 the Editor
I have been puzzling over the
qu(>-;t1on uf homosexuality for
two wC'eks now. The other day I
heard a radio talk show and one
ol the panelists said no one really
know<; why homosexual,
are
what they are. I thought about it
and thert' seems to be more than
that of 1ust cho1C(>. One thing
that the tall-. sh<'w d1dn I cl(>arly
<l1,tin~u1,h wa., the question of
b1s(>xual. I gu(><;Sthe way 1 feel
ab(,ut 11bic;;e'<u.al
es geht: h(,mo<;t•xual- I Jon I 1-.miw
lohn L. S1edersun
l~ll'ORTED CAR PARTS
"'
I >1,-;n >LIili In Sill<
1,'111..,
on all non-sate llems
trom
620 e 19Qlon way
open 7 days
214 W. 4th
943-9181
5
by k.trne
Rodriguez
Jacobs
Is Fourth Admissions Director
flw tl1urt h l11rec11,r l,t Adm1~in ,1 't'\ t'n \T,1r penl,d
1-.
, uirt.·ntl\ 1n h1~ ',{'t11nd week 11!
\\1'tk .11 h1.., l,tt1ct' lm the ltr'-t
Wht1n Rodri~uez was asked
wh.11 he tt•lt the rt',·tson was that
he wa::, cht,srn uver the other applic,rnl~ ur whether hf' was particularly quJlifieJ tor this posit1un ht• replied
Id like to think
-,n but really wuldn't speculdte
<'n tht.• mattt•r. Lury Stenberg,
howPver Jid h.ivt• something to
say. Ht• inJicc.1ted thc.1t there were
some la1rly solid reasons for
ch0os1n~ Rodriguez for the job.
First llt all, because ot his previc1us po::,1t1l,n, Rodriguez has a
wMk1ng kn(iwledge ot the communit} n11\ege system. which is
tht.• largt.·~t teeder population for
Evergreen
An obvious rea!-\.1n,"
-.a1J Stenbrrg Hi!".credent1.tJ.., ar ..
l.1utstand1n~ . .tnd in (hed,ing out
Rl1Jrigl11'l.., credential~ thl' select um c,,111m1ttt•etound ther., to be
n1n-.1,tently t•,<.ellent
1'>.it.•1
:inlv
\\l'rt.'
h1-. rl•lerPnces ,'.;t.10J on
p,1rer Stenberg went on to say,
l-iut he ha, an excellent rapport,
.rnJ \.'I, a.., high Iv respected .ts a
proit'-.-,1l1n,1Ib\ lauilty. <;talf, and
Jdm1n1-.1r.1th1n ,1! ~W Oregon
r1,.:.ut·1\\",l'- Lh1,.,en
tl,r the r11,1!1l•n trl,m ii r,K,I (ll aprro'<tmJtt'h 25 arplic,rnb
He 1, replJlln~ Cre~ \'ermillil,n who lt>tt
tilt' L111lt•~eJlter 1,•t1rl-.1ngin AJm1-.-.11in,t,,r .1 year. to t..:il...PJ 106
1n ..lnl,tht"'r lleld i,·1th an increase
in pa, a, 1, ell ,h J nt'w chcillenge
l\l•lln~ut'l 1,a.., tt1rmerly the D1a•ct1'r l,t .-\dm1!l.~1ons and Rec,,rd-; at St,uth1,e::.t Oregon Com:~1unit\· Collt'Kt' 1n Coos Ba)' J
,dh,{•I with rou~hlv 3 700 ~tu,luit-,
Rl,dr1gue1 Jl-,l, did a very
thorough
ll'b lil l1nd1ng out
..ibPut Evergreen
according to
Stenberg.
and impressed
the
,l rt.•t.•nmg n1mrrntte<> more
than
..inv other candidate ,in that level,
,rnd he wa3 clearly able lo articulatl' 1vhy he was excited about
w11rl-.1ng al .i placC' like Ever~rC't'n Stt:"nberg listed a few other
rea~ons mcluding Rodriguez's intt>rt:"'>Im helping pt>ople gel acCC'_:>::,tu a college education,
and
hi~ n1mmitment to maintaining a
relationship with the faculty.
I ht' Jt1h l'I Direct\1r
.. 1,,,,..,
jl
Evt•r~rt't'n
1~
Adm1s-
l1i
not an easv
,•nt' .1u.ord1ng tu Dean ol Enrollnwnt Services, Larry Stenberg,
.mJ \'\'llh the pressure on to Jttr,HI JnJ retain as many
new
,tuJenls
unJer,tand
a::. ro~sihlt',
why
its easy• to
Tht> duties
of
tht' pns1t10.n include attracting
ne\\' ,tudents h.\ the n11lege pl,innm~ 11r~cin1zmg and directing a
rt'1..ruJ11n~pru~r.am aimed at gainin~ 1ncn•,1~t•d enrnllment
of stu,l,:nt., ,1! tht' rate t1t 200 per year
,u1't'rv1 ..mi-: n1un~elm~
ol
pros-
,tudent, and r~rents and
dw rt'\"lt'\\
t'I ren,rds L•I pro~pect1\ t ,tudent-.
The pos1t11..1n al,;;11
h., .. dw ,1Udh1ntv lt1 accept or
,h•m ,h.lm1-.,1,1n ot "-tudents w1th1n h,,,1J ~u1dl'ime, 11utlined bv
! h, l'rt·,ident
\'ice Pn•,;;1dcn1-.
.ind l)t•.rn l'I E:nrl,llmPnl Service-.
!'t't
11\ l'
-.1,•n,
When as!~ed why he applied
for the Evergreen position, Rodnguez said that he was interesled
in the kind of different academic
atmosphere that seemed available
here. He also views it as a good
professional move from the community college level to the four
year level.
Rodriguez declined making any
contribution~ to Evergreen's latest
McF<1rlan
The rac.,,1~t> nt Initiative 345
\ h1Lh remo\·p.., the ,;tate sales tax
r(,m h,\1J h._:i..,c1lread}' had an
tll'(
t cm Thc Evergreen
St.-ite
11lle~e 1n the l()rm of a hrnn~
rt'E'Zl'
and dPpendmg on the
,n~1slature.., deu,111ns. the ln1t1a'1\e n1uld c-.:iu'-t' a -.ub,;;tanlial reluct1nn 11n !h(' n1lle~e s budget
Heg1nning !uh· 1 the tax will be
:..ikt:'n 1dt Pl h1{1d which 1s purha-,t•J in grncery store.-. ( nl1t
t-'-laur.int l<1od1 Thi,;; mean,;; a
,tc1tt' ,ind !l1Lal rf'venue l()s,;;ol c1n
,•,flm.ltt:'d SJ80 t> million tor the
• ,;ol \t'.lr July 1 1075 to June
~O 1,u70 School-. and public as1,t,1nct· rrn~ram<. !Tlay sufler the
1'1
, t rum the lost revenue
be.,uw
the leg1slaturt:' may cut
•heir allot men ts. Dunng the last
,t .-ic.l..1!1\"t'
'>l'">S1onEvergreen rell'l\t•d 11, t1,c1 \"l'ar
l1perating
tlud~t.·t !1~ure lrom th" state
1•,:h1ch ,... S5.7 m1ll1nn less than
the <.olle~e,:; ong1nal
request
Further tutc;. m Evergreen·s bud~et {(1uld change tht' school"s
rubl1c relations
slogan from
alive and growing" lo "still liv1n~. but broke
If the legislature
\,·ere to simply d1v1de the revE"nue
IP<.> and cut each area propor-
Rodriguez sees his job as one
with potential both professionally
and in tnms of personal growth.
"I think that it is a good challenge
On the subject of the criticism
that has been directed af the ad-
On the question of admissions
standards, how they are set and
enforced, he said that he doesn't
know how they arE" set but that
it is the job of his office to make
sure that the standards that are
set are enforced. "We are going
to be looking at s1andards,
he
mentioned.
that the institution is in the process of evaluating itself. It's excVing to be a part of."
1
t1onately, Evergreen would lose
~omething between 750 and 800
thousand dollars. Washington's
votl'r~ felt that the annulment of
the ftiod tax is wor1h the risk of
largt• cutbacks in state programs.
Vol<''- tallied 47o,o5o !or 345, and
403,0SJ "no•· votes in the unoff 1cial rt:.'turns. In response, Governor Ray pland a freeze on state
hinng and other statP expenditures to save money The fre-e1e
wcn1 into ('ffect on November 10
and wdl e,tend indefinitely.
THE FREEZE
R,1y'-. hiring freez(' is an execut1vt· order which aprlies to Evergrct•n and all state schools. Ray's
e,t>cut1ve order est,1blishes some
gu1del1ne., for hrnng such as al!Ctwing n<1 more than 50 percent
t1f already funded positions currently vacant or vacated during
th<.·freeze to be filled in addition
to est.:1blishmg no new positions.
She has also called for limitations
on personal service contracts, reduced cwert1me. postponement of
non-critical equipment purchases,
rroh1h1tion of out of state travel
by state employees
(on state
money) and limitations on in,:;tate travel
Rita Cooper. Evergrttn's Per~onnel Director
says that the
Stabs At Increased Enrollment
''I'm trying to get into the classroom so that I can get a better
appreciation of Evergreen," Rodriguez said, "If you go to a different institution you don't have
to go to organic chemistry to
know what organic chemistry is
like. Hert" we need to understand
the workings of the system."
Rodrigue, 1s currently suffering from a case of "information
overflow,'· a disease common to
all new arrivals at Evergreen,
and it is certainly too early to
expect answers from him to the
questions that one is inclined to
ask of an Admissions Director.
It. for example, is too early to
ask what changes, if any, he
plans to make in lhe way the
Admissions
Department
goes
about its business, but I tried
anyhow, and Rodriguez rE"plied,
'Tm cautious by nature. Change
for the sake of change isn't good."
Atn~ldo Rodriguez
administrative sport, a competition in inventing ingenious ideas
to attract new students and in,:;tcad said that there needs to be
a "good understanding"
rather
than just guesses at why students
are nol coming her@ in the e){pected quantities. He added that
we don·t rE"ally need to know
The Food Tax, Evergreen,
b\ \tandy
those answers to move on recruiting students. "Faculty and
staff are very interested in making Evergreen a viable alternative to people in Washington,"
he said, and mentioned that he
found it puzzling that so many
out of state students are attracted
to Evergreen.
missions department in the area
of efficiency, Rodriguez had little to say, it being only his second week on the job. but he did
mention that he would be interested in hearing from students,
·''particularly
ways t-hat nttds
have not been responded to, and
how to respond better."
And The Hiring Freeze
language in the freeze order is
unclear. The 50 percent of funded
po~itions mentioned could mean
monthly or yearly positions; this
may or may not include temporary positions. Cooper says that
tht· 3tatt"s Otilce of Fiscal Mc1nagemcnt will probably
rewrite
tht.• ,1rJer lo clarify its intent. For
now. each vacant position will
b('
reviewed, and the college will
try tn loll{,w the guidelines.
Ray will make further considerations; she plans to meet with
the legisl.itive leadership on Novc>mber 25 to examine possible
cutbacks in the state budget.
TAX REFORM?
The Washington
state sales
tax, which was only two percenl
when first enacted in 1935, did
not cover food. All food sales
became taxable in 1939. Since
then, the legislature has increased
the tjlX six times. Now the tax is
5.1 percent statE"wide, and 5.4
percent in areas where more is
added for transit purposes. The
average per capita savings resulting from this tax lift will be four
dollars and sixteen cents a month.
Those who supported the initiative maintain that a sales tax on
food is regressive because it is a
non-voluntary
tax which hits
low income families and senior
citizens with fixed incomes the
.hardest. Supporters also feel that
since the tax won't be lifted until
July 1, the legislature will have
enough time to either find other
tax sources, or to create a total
tax reform. But educators and
school administrators
fear that
the revenue loss from the passage
of 345 will bring back the need
for special levies for funding education. ThE" initiative could end
up in court. Representative Will
Knedlik. a Democrat from Kirkland, went to court before the
election to challenge 345 on the
grounds that the people can't
take away the legislature's power
to enact a budget and devise a
revenue system to balance it.
Knedlik was thE"n told that the
Judiciary can'! act on an initiative until it becomes law.
Revenue in Olympia, Michigan
had the most successful lottery in
fiscal 1976; it cleared $106.8 million.
Representative
Frank
Warnke, a Democrat from King
County, has advocated that a
gambling area be established in
the state to increase revt>nue.
Some of the state·s Democratic
leadE"rship have been talking
about suggested cutbacks in the
legislative operating budge!. If
new sources are not tapped, or
provE" insufficient, the sales tax
on non-food items and/ or the
business
and occupation
tax
could be boosted The establishment of a personal graduated
state income tax,~ which was an
unsuccessful measure last session.
may be reconsidered. There are
many speculating on what could
happen. Some feel that schools
will suffer.
Before 345's passage, its supporters stated that national lax
experts had described Washington as having the most unfair tax
system in the country. By voting
to eliminate the food ta.x, the
voters indicated that they do
want change in the tax system.
Unfortunately
state-funded programs and institutions such as
EvE"rgreen may suffer a substantial financial blow in the process.
In the meantime, the Governor
will probably call the legislature
into special session sometime in
February and the politicians will
have to grapple, again, with last
year's budget. There are a,lready
suggestions
on alternate
tax
sources. One idea is to establish
a Washington State lottery. Lotteries are legal in 14 stales. According to the Department
of
The Conceptual Art Piece
Of The Week
An "Evergreen Art Happening"
took place yesterday (Wednesday, November 16) inside of the
Tnpezoid
Square, the Robert
Maki sculpture which stands in
front of the Communicalions
Building. Perpetrated
by Paul
Fink and Ann Metheny (who describes herself as reactionary, destructive and" a pyromaniac), the
event drew few spectators but
three 35 mm cameras, two portapaks. one 8 mm camera, two security officers, one fire engine,
one fire chief's car, and one
Medic I unit.
What happt>ned was this: At
approximately
1 :OS p.m. Metheny brought
a balsa wood
"sculpture" and placed it on top
of a five gallon metal Grttk
Olive can in the middle of the
Trapezoid Square. She doused
the wooden assemblage with kerosene and set it on fire. Security
promptly called the fire department, who came and put out the
small blaz~ and Me!_heny and
Fink were reprimanded for creating a potential hazard. Apparently they neglected to get a fire
permit, a necessary item for any
such "art" piece on this campus.
One spectator was heard to
comment as he wandered away,
"I knew that sculpture was worth
something . . we can have a
barbeque."
In cooperation with the Thurs1onMason Health Department, TB lnllng
Is r)0W evallable through Health Ser\1lces by appointment. Appointments
can be made Monday through WOOnesday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. In Health Sef\1ices, Seminar 2110 or by calling 866S200.
TB Is still presen1 and au persons
should be testeci every two years Students traveling abroad should be tested
every year.
A workshop In deYele,plngyour own
sludy goals inlo an lndlvldu.l Contracl
will be ~lfereci WOOr,esday,November
23, by Academic Advising Bring a
pencil to LIB 2504 at 3 p.m and plan
to work un!l1 5. Attending the panet
discussion on indlvldual contracts November 17 would be helpful (but not
necessary) for lhls workshop. This wlH
be repeatOOIn shortenOOform on December 7: Academic Information Day.
Academic Advisingwill offer a workshOp In Wr1tlt19 1 Seit Evaluation-on
November30, from 3 to 5 in LIB 2118
- especially lor students new to evaluating themselves, bu1all are welcome
0...m-Brain:
Recent Scientific Research Into the Nature ol Right Hemisphere Though!. This free presentation
by Edward McOuarrie,ad/unct member
of the faculty, wUIexamine old fallacles
and recent discoveries concerning that
hall ol the brain which Is believed lo
control non-rational thought procn ....
Ed has been researching this !OpieevtH"
since May of 1976, when he had a
dream about 11. November29, Tuesday,
3 30 p.m., CAB 108.
The Women's Clinic is sponsoring a
workshop on WOMEN,NUTRITION
•nd
SELF IMAGEon Monday, November2,
In lhe Board Room, LIB 3112, at 5:30
The wort<shopwUIentail how the mOOla
mftuences women's eating pallems,
women's nutrlllonal requirements and
take a simple took at biochemical and
physlolog1calaspects ot nutrition
IHOUSE OF
•
.•
VIOLINFOR SALE - German made
- full size. Nice condition. Must sell,
$150 or best offer Gall Harry at 4916439
MOUNTFORAKER- SOUTHWEST
RIDGE: A Benefit Slide Showing tor
Alalb'I
Endangered
WIid Lands Last spring tour Evergreen students
succeeded in attaining the summit of
17,400 toot Mount Foraker In Alaska
via the previously unclimbed soulhwest
ridge. The four - Nancy Goforth, Eric
Leroy, Chris Uddte and Murray Marvin
- wlll present a sllde show ol the
cllmb on Tuesday, November29 at 7:30
p m In Lecture Hall 5. Prior to the
show, there will be a short discussion
of the grave prospects lacing Alaska's
wild lands In the present Congress. A
A lengt~ list of "action items"
desigrt'Pd to improve Evergreen's
enrollment
picture for Winter
and Spring Quarters has been
compiled by the President's Office as a result of a special work
session held on Tuesday, October 18. The session, attended by
members of Evergrttn's administration, faculty, and staff, was
called because the college will
have to refund $185,000 of its
state-allocated
funds if enrollment doesn't reach the minimum
level imposed by the state legislature before the end of this academic year.
Participants in the work session were divided
into four
groups dealing with curriculum,
retention, recruitmE"nt and special services. Vice President and
Provost Edward Kormondy has
organized suggestions generated
by these groups into a set of assignments delegating responsibility to various individuals on
campus.
Assignments relevant to curriculum include:
- Add marine biology GC,
spring
- Modules around King Tut.
tall ships, academic filrn series
- Packaged TV course
Some assignments concerning retention of current students:
- Make faculty aware of situation and plans
- Reduct" faculty signature requirements
- Involve students
in next
year's curriculum design
- Rap-sessions in dorms and
ASH
- Constitute DTF on campus
isolation and atmosphere
- Increase visibility of financial aid counseling
Recruitment assignment<; include:
- Fdculty visits to community
colleges and other sites (with Admissions)
- Faculty lectures
m high
schools
- Noon-time and off-camru,;;
modules
- Re~istration by telephone
- Contact
non-traditional
schools for waiting lists
- Professional
TV/ advE"rt1<;ing campaign
- Remove parking fet> effec-
live 4 p.m. daily
A sampling of special services assignments:
- Clarify language in all publications
- Use of vernacular (courses,
etc.)
- Day care intE"rnships:more
visibility and faculty support
- Inauguration of President
- Develop special events for
high school groups
- Institute
Security
escort
service, especially at night.
We at the Cooper Point Journal, in response to this crisis, recently held our own work session to generate possible answers
to the enrollment question. Here's
a list of our recommendations:
- kidnap Olympia-area
high
school students and enroll them
at Evergreen under fake names
- dry up the climate around
hE"re (this should
have been
looked into long ago)
- dump some construction
sand on the Evergreen beach, install a wave machine in Budd Inlet, and enter Evergreen in an
intercollegiate surfing league
- buy a Seattle TV station
and devote al least one-half of
ils programming
to Evergreen
news
- contribute $1,000 each, per
month, to the Editor of the Daily
0, the Mayor of Olympia, and
the Governor
of Washington
State
- buy a fleet of Cadillac limousines and chauffeur Olympia
natives to night-time modules
- organize a "President-for-aMonth"
program.
send Dan
Evans to Harvard on leave, and
invite such luminaries as Bob
Dole, Bella Abzug, and Mick Jagger to participate
- institute
a post-doctoral
graduate
program as soon as
possible so Evergreen can sponsor international
seminars on
economics and nuclE"ar physics
- elect a Homecoming Queen
each year
- bury a case of Canadian
Club on campus and publish a
confusing map in national magazines
- kttp repeating ··Evergret>n
and Harvard" in the same breath
and in that order.
Women's Fair
At least 45 local Organizations
ar,d agenciE"s with services especially helpful to -women. will
gather for a Women's Resource
Fair on N6vember 29 in the first
floor Library' Lobby from 11: 30
a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. The fair 1s
sponsored by the Aiax Compact
academic program, and Aiax faculty members Carolyn
Dobb.,
and Carie Cable say that the
groups whose act1v1ties "'prov1dt.·
help and encouragE"ment to women" have been invited to part1etpate in the fair and describe their
classes, friendship and supporl
groups and other special serv1Ce3
Scheduled to part1c1pate are
the YWCA and its programs ot
Rape Relief, Women's Shelter
planning pro1ect and Work Options for Women, and religious
groups including
the Church
Women
United.
Associated
Churches, and Evergreen's Campus Faith Center
Community
Mental
Health
staffers will explain their services
including Divorce Lifeline. the
Union Street Center wdl d1scu<;-.
its efforts with young people and
families and the South Sound
Council for Children will tocu3
on what it d~ for youngsters
Other organizations which will
take part in the information fair
include Crisis Cl1n1c, Family
Planning Clinic, Parents Anonymous, Legal Aid. Alanon, Alateen, St. Peter's Aux1liar'./. and
numerous services provided by
Evergreen.
Last Chance
December 1
There will be no JOURNAL
next week because it's Thanksgiving and we at the JOURNAL
need something to give thanks
for, such as a week off. It should
also be noted that the next issue
which will appear on December I
is thE"last of tht quarter. It's your
last chance to get your announcements, letters and articles (7) in
before Winter breal Space will
be limited and items will be
printed on a first come, first
served basis. In other words, 1t·s
nE"ver too early. Just remember TYPEWRITTEN.
DOUBLE
SPACED.
hat will be passed to gather donations
to help the Alaska Coahtlon
Women's R~t•:
• Forum - November 22, 7:30 p.m., Gar11eldSchool,
325 N. Plymouth. Including a report on
Houston IWY Conference, Speakers on
Civil Rights and Abortion Rights, 1/lolence Against Women, Minority Perspectives, Chlld Care, Recent Attacks
on Women's Movemen1.Women's Music, Group discussions. For child care
call: 352-!1184.
IS THERE LIFE
AFTER GRADUATION?
Attend Job and Graduate
School Information Day on
Wednesday, November 30,
from 9 • 3:30 p.m.
To Register: Contact Career
Planning and Placement , Library
6193.
1214, phone:
866-
C_QLLECTORS'
"{,ALLERY
Decor rtems for home
& business
Tues• Frt
11 00-5 JO
Sat
Thurs
11 00 - 5 00
11 00 - 9 00 p m
also open bv appointment
352-4771
Westside Mini-mall
(next to
Skipper's Fish & Chip<)
The Peace Corps and Vista are alive and well and
waiting to talk to you.
~
K.urie h1cobs
Information
on overseas and United States
volunteer
openings beginning 1978 now available.
........
See our representative
at the Olympia Community
Center. 1314 E. 4th Ave., Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 only,
1:00 • 6:00 p.m.
. .
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humd1.:1te LJrne White
;,-..,-, h11.dlv ,rnd rh, 'lldll\'
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1·n:
,1!t111
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tht' prnm
.He depicted
with
',\\,ukl
hc1Hlh t,,no;;;it.ler tht•c;;e d<;
v.1r~ mg Je~rees 1.11realism,
hu,ot!nbutec. ,et whC'n Carne wa,;
mnr
,ind cruelty.
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't
Tl•J,.•1...ed t,,r
Hal\0wt>en
thio;
1.-. t'nl,rngled
10 the prnnt thal
, e.11 I len·t•nth
s11u~ht tP lure
m{l<.I c.nt1c<, declined to comment
.in unc.u-,rt•ctin~
tnend
thr,1u~h
1•n !ht· tharocter's
believability.
the d1-..t1ro;;;
t 1 t the theatt'r
10 exTht· n1itJble
e'<ceptions
being
penenc.e the nchne-,, 11! the tilm,;
Su-;an 5chenker in Take One and
demt1nic. \,:11
K.1ren Stc.1b1nter m Mother Jones.
( .1rr1t· ,., the awk ......
.ird syntheStabinter 11b,;erves, • Screenwriter
-.~ 111 t\.'\.·1, tami!1ar
tilm genre,;
I awrt'nc-e Cohen has a vicious
Pit· h1unJat1nn being the goth1c
in-,ight into the petulant
cruelty
h-rr11r tl1cl.. \vith Jn abundance
lll
vouni
women who have been
• "!Pod
v10lence and the uc;;u,11
bmught up to compete with one
,
1 r.:t
and reli~J(IUS overtnne ..
an11ther and elevate
their self• ,, :h, llirect,,r Brian de PJ\ma
1ma~e by debasing someone else.
1 J-.. ).'.r,Htnl
the practical
10ke..,
The pity 1s that Director Bn.1n de
,,111rt
,1nd <;tere11typ1cal Stl,ck
Palma is not makmg a film about
1 h.irJt tu'- that C(lmE'dy thrives
these women,
tht>y are mere ac,n \\ rJt rt',ult" 1<, the turbulent.
cec;;sm1es m a story that is every
1d1c.l,l,,u-.
11,n ,,t wallflower
611 ..1.-. prepoc;;ternus as it sounds:·
l ,lml'
\\ hilt·
whu we gradually
Susan Schenker
adds,
•
t·,:irn
rn,<.e-.,e,
a\,·e,ome
teleCarrie
brings
up some
issues
...1nt't1c Jll'\\er,
about ott1tudes
towards
ynung
'-,c rt·emntll'r
La\-vrenct> D Cowomen
King's novel transcended
'Tn mnveJ Stephen King c; novel
'ilJtements
and
assumptions
m,m
a ;\le\•.: En~l,rnd
town
t0
ahout
wt-..men, while
the film
-..unn, 'iterde Southern California
.-.eems to concentrate
on them.
fht' tilrn openc. with a sumptuous
Are we really to believe that the
IP\'\
mnt1on sequence m a high
girls m Carrie, the film. actually ,
-1 h"11! locker rnom
AflN
bob£'x1st7 Why are the males nice
bl1n>-; tht' game point m her gym
~uy.-.7 Why c.1re the females the
_1).:a.,._., volleyb.:all
i,;ame
Carne
ones who are crazy
1"
r ~i,;w
Sp,1cekJ 1s taking a nice
Both women
raise important
·11ng ,howt'r
The camera follows
points. but seem to take the film
t tr
hands a.-. she washeo; her
far too seriously.
I doubt de
!rl'(.l..]l,cJ tace. breosls, and long
P.1lma intended
to make a film
lt•~.., A'- the water running down
with
strictly
believable
female
hn inner thigh begins to turn
(or male) parts. We expecl horror
rt•J lame"
languid
expression
films to give us characters
just
0
MANBARIN
ffEDSE
believJble enough so that we 't_an
o;uspend judgment and participate
in our own fear. Carrie is more
likt• Night of the Living Dead, in
this respect, than say. The Exorcist where the terror and revul..,1on ol the possession 1s in direct
propnrtinn
ln how typical
and
bel1ev.:ible we find the characters.
11rian de Palma s sense of comet.Iv in Carrie has made it possibl,· tor ,-..ne character
to affect
tht' vit>wer in -.tJrllingly
difterent
\.'\..IV..,
C.1rrie~ maniacal
mother
LJ~
he Jn unusually
cruel c.1nd
tw1<;tt•d woman, but Piper Laurie's
ch.:iracter1£ation
steps over
the
!me inh1 comedy when she pas-.111n,1tely tells her Jaughter
the
,t·etly details of her conception.
William
Katt who plays Tommy
Rn~-..CJrrie ._ datt' to the prom,
1..,c;;trnn~ly reminiscent of a young
ffobt•rt Redford. He plays his role
with the pt>rfect .:1mount of sappy
-,mcerity that 1s both nauseating
,ind endeJring.
Th,,
duality
m character
1s
m,,st Jppr1rent
1n Carrie
Sissy
SpJcek mc.1kes the p0tenti.ally
ridiculous role of "tormented
wallflnwer turned avenger·· seem ent1rt>ly plau~1ble. Spacek's transt.,rmatit1n
trom
~lated
prom
queen to th(' blood-soaked
bugt've<l Angel ol Death becomes alm{1st tr,1i1t. Jue 1t1 her intense
Jnt.l contwlled
perfurmance.
Spacek has slated," Because of
the o;ubject mJlter, I had a lot of
re!'>ervotions,
.:about the shower
.:.cene, the bl0od scene (and) the
J..niv~ scene. But Brian (de Palm.:i) nt-ver sees things from only
one angle. He has an enormous
tomt'Jic
.,.Jc tc, him, and I like
his approach to horror. I thought
lhis would bt> the vehicle where·
he could merge the two more
thon in any other film he'd done."
Imbuing
the characters
with
exaggerated mannerisms,
de Palma creates a world where a satiric,illy
sentimental
high school
dance transforms
into
a slow
motion telekinetic
massacre. The
apocalyptic
holocaust
that
is
visited
through
Carrie
is too
methodical
to be frightening
and
too violent to be funny. We can
only helplessly
view the absurd
tragedy of Carrie as she cataton1cally slaughters
the guilty
and
innocent alike.
Most critics were quick lo spot
Director
de Palma's imaginative
USt'
of religious symbolism.
A
pulsating mirror in Carrie's room
reflects the dour image of Christ
1ust before
it is telekinetically
shattered. A huge carpet tapestry
of the Last Supper hangs on the
wall overlooking
the White's dinner table. A cell-like prayer closet contains
a ghastly
statue of
the crucifixion;
a bloody
Jesus
impaled with arrows,
grimacing
with glowing electric eyes.
At the film's
close, as Mrs.
White orga~mically
shudders to a
C:
•
revolting
death,
similarly
hung
and crucified with various flying
kitchen
utensils, and Carrie lies
mortally
wounded
in a horrified
heap on the kitchen
floor,
one
begins to wonder
who is dying
for whose sins7
_
Christianity
has become an illogical sinister force of death and
destruction.
Carrie's
telekinetic
powers were the evil workings
of
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some larger entity. As if to reinforce this point, the camera in a
parting
shot closes in on tht'
menacing statue of Christ - the
crumbling
house is being swallowed by the earth and Carrie
silently
cradles
her crucified
mother in her arms - the burning sunken eyes of Jesus reflect
Director Brian de Palma's comedic sense of heavenly justice.
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FILM
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (19-42, 99
minutes) A comedy directed by
Ernst Lubltsch and starring Jack
Benny. Carole Lombard, Robert
Slack and Uonet Atwlll. A Pollsh
acllng troupe gets caught up In the
resistance. Many lalse mustaches
and beards get pasted on and ripped
ofl As HIiier comedy goes, It's
pretty lunny. II I didn't have Nazi
nightmares., I would have laughed
more. II I wasn't about to miss a
bus, I would have tlked It better.
Lombard Is wonderful, Benny plays
a ham, so what else Is new? Good
tor the giggles, good !or Lombard.
good because !here Isn't a single
Polish joke. as such. In the whole
movie Also. a short by Richard
Lester,
RUNNING,
JUM~ING,
STANOING STILL. LH one, 3, 7 and
9 30, 75 cents
THERE IS NO CRISIS IN SOWETO Is being shown by the Co·
alltlon Office Friday, November 18,
at noon in LH 5
TRIDENT: THE ULTIMATE FIRSTSTRIKE WEAPON Is a shde tape
01esenta11onIllustrating !he United
States· tragic triad and its recent
nuclear policy sw1lch BOb Aldridge,
a former aerospace engineer who
resigned from Lockheed will discuss the growing res1s1ance10 Trident and military spending In general LH one, Monday, November
21. 7 30 pm and Tuesday, November 22, at noon
THE SINS OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK Is the main feature In an
evening ol classic American comedy presented by the American Humor Tradition mOdule. Harold Lloyd
stars In this long unavallable lllm,
directed by Preston Sturges, Also
lwo shorts, Buster Keaton In ONE
WEEK, and !he Keystone Kops In
OUR DAREDEVIL CHIEF Tuesday,
November 22, LH three, 7 p.m. Free
THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (1955)
1s a Japanese film directed by Kenjt
Mlzoguchl. Only a handful of the
eighty !Urns that Mlzoguchl directed
have been shown In the West (THE
LIFE OF OHAAU !or example). His
aarty films dealt critically wilh problems of modem society (the 1930s)
bul wllh Increasing natlonallsm and
restrictions on subject matter In
later years, he turned to per!Od
dramas. November 30, LH one,
1 JO and 7:30 p.m.
S LIDESHOW
ON
MILITARY
SPENDING lrom Santa Clara County, Callfomla where the largest concentration ol mllllary spending In
lhe country Is found. LH one on
Monday, November 28 al 7:30 pm
and Tuesday, Novemt>er29 at noon
IN OLYMPIA
ANNIE HALL Woody Allen's besl
movie stars Diane Keaton as Olane
Keaton and Woody Allen as Woody
Allen. If you haven't seen It, go see
It (even ll you don't want to). It's
LOVE STORY wllhoul leukemia
(Well, that Isn't quite right, bul
)
Also PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM In which
Woody Allen IS led around by the
nose by Humphrey Bogart and Diane Keeton Capltol Thealet", 3577161
THREE WOMEN Is a movie thal
was inspired by a dream, and It has
all ol a dream's inconsistencies and
power A beautlluUy made movie
with striking Images. Directed by
Robert Allman and starring Shelly
Duval, Janice Rule, and Sissy Spacek The Cinema, 943-5914
CARRIE Is sllll showing at the
Olympic It sitars Sissy Spacek In a
different sort of dream Well made
and terrifying (now wait, haven'! I
hNrd thal phrase somewhere before?), 357-3-422.
STAR WARS The reason this
movie has been showing at the
State for so long Is !hat the old
projectionist quit and they can·1 for
the Ille ol them, figure out how to
get lhe damn reel ofl the pr0Jec1or.
All techn!cal assistance wlll be
warmly and gratelully accepted.
State Theater. 357-4010.
IN SEATTLE
MAX HAYELAAR IS having Its
American premiere at the Moore
Egyptian Theater In 5eattle. The
mm Is based on a nineteenth cenlUry Dutch novel which Is an eQiJIValenl, ol sons. to Uncle Tom',
C.bfn. II Is based on lhe European
takeover of Java and gives a vivid
picture of village Ille. The lllm Is
superb visually and is well worth
seelng. Moore Egyptian Theater,
622-9352.
JOURNEY INTO FEAR a 1943
thriller starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles and
Agnes Moorehead, Is showing at
the Rose Bud, November 17 - 20 It
will be followed by NOTORIOUS. a
Hitchcock favorite starring Cary
Grant and Ingrid Bergman as counterspy agents In BrazU wort(lng In
connection with an ex-Nazi agent.
played by Claude Rains, and tus
pals November 24 - 27 and Decembet' 1 - 4 The Rose Bud Movie Palace, Pioneer Square. 682-1887
LOOKING FOR MR. GOOOBAR
in which Diane Keaton Plays a barhoppmg teacher Iha! gets murd&fed
is playing In Seattle. But never fear,
it contains violence. so 11 will be
coming 10 Olympia soon Cinerama.
223-3983.
MUSIC
EVERGREEN
PERFORMERS,
COMPOSERS ANO CHOREOGRAPHERS CONCERT Is being held
In the Recital Hall on November
29 a1 8 p m. 11 features original
acoustic and electronic muslcal
scores, music from !he early 1900s,
and dance wonts choreographed by
students Admission Is 50 cents !or
students, children and senior citizens and one dollar lor everyone
else.
CLIFF PERRY and RICHARD
SCHOLTZ play polished bluegrass,
old llme 1111dcountry on guitar.
mandolln, dobro, autoharp, and
dulcimer. November 18 al Applejam, 220 E. Union, 6 p.m., $1.50.
SNAKEOIL features a string band
and bluegrass music played by Paul
Roberts, Ralph Hummel, Burt and
01 Meye<, wilh a speclat mystery
guest. Applejam November 19,
$2.00
OPEN MIKE night al AppleJam Is
November 25. Sing, Juggle, tap
dance or tell bad Jokes l!'s a first
step to stardom Optional donation,
8 pm
JAN KLUMPH on the chromatic
hammer dulcimer and MICHAEL
DOWERS on guitar wut play lradltlonal lrlsh music at the Gnu Dell,
November 18 and 19, W. Thurs1on
Avenue and Capttol Way One dollar, 9 p.m
Two turkeys playing jazz, TIM
EICKHOLT and MIKE CANFIELD
will be at the Gnu Dell on November 24 One dollar, 9 p m
MIKE DUMOYITCH plays lradltlonal blues on slide guitar, and
twelve string. plus s little vocalizing Gnu Dell, November 25 and 26
Surprise, surprise, JESSE COLIN
YOUNQ wlU be playing In Olympia
(cultural capital ol the great Nonhwesl) on Tuesday, November 29 111
8 p m In the Capital Pavilion Tickets are $6 00 al the door and $5 50
In advance Tickets are available at
lhe Gnu Dell. Budget Tapes and
Records, and Rainy Dey Records
Also appearing Is KARLA BONOFF
who wrote songs and sang backup
for Linda Ronstadl, Bonnie Raitt
and Wendy Waldman Now she's
out on her own.
ELSEWHERE
JONI METCALF also known as
the ··scat teacher" 1s singing along
with the eleven member CORNISH
VOCAL IMPROVISATION ENSEMBLE at The Other Side of The
Tracks on November 17, 106 W
Main St in Auburn
HERBIE MANN Is playing al !he
Paramount ln Seallle, Novembe1 16
RANDY NEWMAN and STEVE
GOODMAN are playing at the Paramounl in Seattle on November 19.
BLUE OYSTER CULT with BLACK
OAK ARKANSAS are playing at lhe
Seattle Cen1er Arena November 20.
PHOEBE SNOW and KENNY
RANKIN are playing at the Paramount November 21
THEATER
LABOR PAINS. a women's play,
and TOP CATS ANO UNDERDOGS,
a men's play. are being presented
by the Family Circus Theater Collecllve in a performance sponsored
by EPIC, the Women's Center, and
!he Gay Resource Center Thursday
November 17, 8 p.m Library Lobby
One dollar lor most people, 50
cents !or sen,or citizens and children
YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE
BROWN is being per1ormed by developmentally d1sabted adults from
lhe Bayview Inn, 1n the Recital Hall
There will be an open dress rehearsal on Thursday, November 17
al 7 pm. and performances on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m
Bill MOELLER will perform 1n
the character of Mark Twain at Apple/am on Saturday, November 26
at 8 p.m., $1.50.
RADIO, TV
VIDEO FREE EVERGREEN present s the Tueaday Magazine on November 22 from 5 p.m. to 6 the next
morning (it wlll be shown many
many limes In that period). The upcoming program features a IOOk at
sports. publlc participation in the
news. and dance at Evergreen. On
campus cable, channel 6.
THE KAOS MARATHON MARATHON continues In Ila efforts to
raise money. Special programing
Includes CLIFTON CHENIER ANO
THE RED HOT LOUISIANA SWAMP
BAND playing Cajun and Zydeco
music. recorded llve at the Rainbow
Tavern. November 19 at 10 p.m.,
89.3 FM.
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