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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 8 (December 1, 1977)

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Do It Right The First Time

Disposing Of Alaska's Federal Lands
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our Senator Henry Jackson as
chairman of the Senate Energy
.-ind Natural Resources Committee seems to be doing very little
to promote d1scus~icm of the
matter The battle 1s sure to get
worw
Other rival bills have

been proposed which either omit
vital areas from the protective
status they deserve, and/or propose much state control over the
fate of these national interest
lands - and the state of Alaska
1s not known for its enthusiasm

in promoting parks, wilderness
areas and wildlife
refuges.
Amendments to thwart the intentions of HR 39 and S 1500 are
sure to be proposed. Representative Don Bonker is likely to vote
for HR 39, but so far he has not
endorsed the bill. f't.would greatly
help the bill's chances in the
House if Bonker co-sponsored
HR 39. Similarly, letters to Senators Jackson and Magnuson e11couraging them to support S 1500
would be most helpful. Jackson's
position on the whole matter will
weigh heavily when it comes up
for vote.
Congress 1s mandated to deCJde upon the eventual use of all
the federal lands in Alaska by
December 1978. Given all the
other pressing issues before Congress. 14 months 1s a very short
time
More information and the opportun1ly to ask questions will
be available at the "Mount Foraker - Southwest Ridge" slide
show Tuesday, November 29 al
7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall five
Since the critical votes and
.imendments will be made per·
haps as early as December of this
year, efforts are being made to
build up a large force of letterwriters now. The most important
item i~ to expand the emergency
telephone tree, so that lt'tterwriters can be alerted immediately whenever critical moves occur in Congress. Anyone interested in helping along this line
or in any other way can contacl
Jim Gaw in LAB I 3011, 8666726 or 6700 just Jbout any time
dunni the wet'I,.. for questions
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December 1, 1977

Vol.6 No.8

Resource Fair
by Mandy McFarlan
Evergreen's Ajax III Compact
sponsored the Women's Resource
Fair which was held at the college on November 29. At least
thirty representatives,
mostly
from Olympia-based. organizalions. set up tables in the Library's first floor lobby to display signs and brochures describing specific community services.
The groups included the Olympia
Child Care Center, Community
Mental Health, Divorce life Line,
National Organization for Wornen. Gay Resource Center, TESC
Women's Center, TESC Bookstore, Olympia Technical Community College, Thurston County
Association for Retarded Citizens, Alanon, Community for
Christian Celebration, Thurston
County Urban League, Head
Start. and the Women's Shelter.
The Library lobby buzzed for
two hours as concerned and inquisitive. women shared~ and
sought out information.
The first bit of informatic,n I
picked up held a surprisingly extensive list of services. This was
the Crisis Clinic's "partial list of
community resources in Thurston
and Mason Counties"
which
named eighty-seven
services
which •fell under the headings:
Emergency, Counseling, Child/
Youlh Services, Senior Persons,
Minority lnform:atlon. Communily Nttds, Employment lnforma-

tion, Handicapped
Services.
Emergency Needs, Legal Assistance and Health Services.
As I wandered from table to
table picking up pamphlets, I mcountered women of differing
ages whose interests ranged from
food preparation to political lobbying. I learned, for example,
that the League of Women Voters
has bttn in existmc._. since the
1920s, and men were not allowed
to join until thrtt,t'ea.rs ago. The
League, like many of the other
organizations.
is supported
through dues and fund drives,
but is not conside~d a nonprofit
orga.niz.ation bea:u,e of political
stands taken on naticnal, st.ate,

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and local issues.
l also visited the National Organization
for Women table
where Kaye V. Ladd, the Thurston County NOW Chapter representative and Evergreen faculty
member described that organization as "the most radical feminist
organization in the area." She
explain._.d that differ ...nt chapters concentrate on different activities. Formerly a Boston memher, Ladd recalled when that
chapter won a lawsuit against the
telephont> company. In this area,
NOW does a lot of lobbying on
issues such as g.av rights and the
Women's
Commission.
Ladd
claimed that NOW is "working

the hardest and going broke" for
the equal rights amendment
Most of the groups were not as
political as the LWV and NOW
The Crisis Clinic offers a twentyfour hour a day telephone counseling service and some face-toface counseling. Information Coordinator Sara Bassett told me
that the former location of the
Cns1s Clinic was al Evergreen 1n
one of Dorm As larger rooms
(They prefer keeping the location
conf1dent1al ) This Clinic's phnne
service offers an anonymou~
chance for those who are reluctant to seek help in person
The most memorable
table
which I visited during the wornen's resource fair was that of the
Senior Center of Thurston County Although I had noticed the
Center in Olympia before the
fair, I had never connected the
building with people. The Retired
Senior Volunteer Progr.am(RSVP)
is affiliated with the Center for
anyone over sixty who wishes to
share experience or talent with
members of the community.
Marjorie Yule from the Senior
Center explained that it is run by~
some staff members and volunteers. There are also two intt'rns
from Evergreen working there.
When I told Yule about my surprise at the large number of community services available in the
Olympia ar('a, she said "Ifs sort
of internting how many organizations have come out recently

Tomorrow's Curriculum

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Curriculum planning for the
1978 - 79 academic year is nearing its final stages. The new Catalog Supplement, which will list
and describe annual programs,
basic programs, and advanced
specialty areas of study, is now
being typeset. At this date, there
is little space left for additional
program requests. Assistant Dean
Rob Knapp says that about eighty
percent of the faculty are committed to specific programs and
group contracts for next year.
The supplement, however, will
list only prime sponsors and coordinators because some faculty
members are not definitely set in
programs yet.
Knapp feels that planning is
going along smoothly. His office
holds proof of the hours spent
on solving the curriculum puzzle.
The most outstanding piece of
evidence is a large wooden rack
which holds index cards in rows
with printed faculty and program
names.
The rack resembles a war game
in which people (cards) are easily
pushed around and regrouped. (It
is almost tempting to shufAe th ...
cards to see wheJe everyone
would land.)
One of the significant changes
for next year, to come out of the
planning, will be an increase in
the size of the individual contract
pool to possibly eightttn faculty
members. A recent faculty mtttin.g confirmed Knapp's feelings
that there was faculty concern
with unbalanced subject distribution and an insufficient number
of faculty available to take requested individual contracts. To
help compensate for a lock of
sponsors in the human servicn
area, a group outreach program
has bttn established for next year
for people who are already work~
ing in counseling areas. Other

changes are being mad._. to relieve individual contract problems.
Curriculum planning has been
going on all quarter; the process
began during the first week of
classes with faculty planning
group meetings. At that time the
deans gave general suggestions to
the faculty as to how many programs should be created under
subject areas. These faculty/
dean proposals then went out for
student review in the trial balloon. After the deans read the
student suggestions, there were
further negotiations. For example.
when the balloon brought to the
deans' attention the lack of an
advanced theater program, Alternative ThealH was created.
Thrtt of next year's program
proposals were planned by students. One group of students
wanted to study dance and movement therapy. They discussed
their proposal with the deans.
Greg Portnoff, a faculty member
expressed interest, some changes
were made (verbal therapy was
added), and the result was a program proposal called Psychological Growth: V•rbol and Non••rbol ApproachH. (With student-planned programs, Knapp
says that just as with facultyplanned programs,
there are
never any promi&n, but it is bnt
to have more than one planner,
and planners should be willing
to work hard and negotiate. It is
also a good idea to have support
which proves that the program
can be filled.)
When Knapp was uked if the
hiring would adveraely affect
next y•ar's plan,. he llftffledmore
conCfl'lled about Evergreen', tight
budget situation. Th• following
are sneak previews of a few of
next year's programs:
French Culture:
language,

Myth and R•ollty !Susan Fiksdal
and Susan Aurand) During the
summer of '78, French will be offered at beginning and advance-cl
levels. Later. anthropology, linguistics and language study will
be used in looking at French civilization, past and present. The
goals include tht acquisition of a
working knowledge of the French
language and the analysis of
some of the forces which influence a society through comparisons. During Winter Quarter. the
Age of Classicism and the Revolutionary Age of French history
will be studied. In spring. individual research pro1ects will be
conducted in France.
Decentralization: Based on the
belief that social, political and
economic structures are becoming increasingly and detrimentally centralized, the goals of this
program include, "1) gair\ing the
background knowledge and practical skills we need in order to
create decentralized and humane
social/ political/ economic structures; and 2) applying
this
knowledge to our own lives and
to our communities by initiating
action projects." After traveling
the Northwest and researching
decentralist
concepts, students
will explore the possibilities of
establishing organizations
such
as a community-b.1sed
credit
union, a self-help housing cooperative, etc.
l)ynamlcal Sy1tnn1: Trus program will explore, in depth, a
series of real systems such as a lake, a crystal, or an oscilla.
Topics in chemistry, math and
physia will be covered in realistic
.. ttings. Students will spend the
first two quarters on mechanics.
eiectroniu,
thermodynamics,
complex variable theory and
1-ouner methods, linear algebra
and matrix theory, linear and

for women and older people
After a brief pause wt• bt1th
,ounc..led s1multant-ou,I,
v. ith
Its .ibout time
The fair wa<, 1ntnrmJt1vtwondered why it \\JSn t ht-Id nn
the sec.onJ llt,or wht>re attendJnct·
would hJve heen i,:reater I hadn 1
prevu1u•;lv t'Ven he.-ird of the
Fem1n1c,t Karalt' Union
The
Olympia D1voru· Counseling Jnd
Referral St'rvice or the Office ol
Voluntary .Aictlon If v,,u mi..,..,t'd
tht IJir dnd have .-i question or .1
probll'm. 1he Cr1c,1sClinic. at 35:!
2211 c.Jn l<'t vnu l,..m,v. ,,.,hc1t
.,en 11..es
art' dvadahle in the drt:,1
dnJ which <,t-n·1ce can hec;,t d<
commod.ue v0u
Tht c,pc1n•{or~
nt Lht- IJ1r drt' 1n
a group contract calleJ AJJ'<
Compdct Ill You and l l\Ur Commun1ty A1ax 1s designed tor
older women who are either reentering, or about to leave scht10)
There 1S a strong emphasis on
part1c1pallon m community alfairs. Faculty member CJrolvn
Dobbs says that Aiax also pr·ov1des a transition period during
which seniors can look back on
their educations to plan the fulure. One of the contract's objectives is .to expose various possibilit1es open to women for effecting change in the community
by studying the actions of female
leaders in this area. The Womens resource fa'ir, said Dobbs
brought the r..ommunity to Aiax
and Evergreen, and vice versa

Today

non-linear differential equations,
quantum mechanics,
inorganic
chemistry, control theory. analog
and digital computer techniques,
use of the computer, and other
related subjects. (This program
and Introduction to Natural Scienct's will replace FONS.)

Recording
and Structuring
light and Sound: This is a group
contract which will provide students with a background m technical and aesthette aspects of the
mov1n~ and electronic image
Dunn~ Winter Quarter. students
will produce a film or videotape

Contract
Deadline Set

Speed, cooperation, efficiency contracts until they have been
and advanced planning will be signed by the appropriate ~ec.n
necessary to comply with the tary
new Individual Contract cutoff
De.rn Bill Winden h(1re'- 1h.11
date which goes into effect in this will get the negot1.111onrr1•t
Winter Quarter. January 12 is the ess done with early and \,·ii
last day for the drafting and sub- leave more ot the quarter trt·t•
mission of a.JIcontracts. This rule for actual school wor~ The 1deJ
is part of an effort by the deans behind this deadline 1s to all11w
to respond to the report of the the deans to spend the entire sevIndividual Contract DTF which enth class day reading over the
was circulated last summer.
contracts. and pulling thos-e 1n
On a memo dated November 7 need ot adjustment A week bethere was a three-part plan for yond the seventh day will be alaltering the way contracts are lowed for any necessary alteradealt with by the deans and fac- tions Traditionally, according to
ulty. hem one stated: "The sixth Winden, contracts get to the
class day of each quarter, 5 p.m. deans in the middle of the quarwill be an absolute cutoff after ter, or even towards the ~nd ot
which the program secretaries the quarter. much too late tor
will not accept contracts from the deans to do anything about
anyone - faculty. staff or stu- otherwise forseeable problems
dents. The final date in Winter (i.e.; the need for special equipQuarter, 1978 will be January 12. ment) in the contract
Once the contract and registraAcademic
Advisor
MMy
tion card have been signed by Moorehead fears that the strin~
the student and faculty, program gent deadline will cut into enrollsecretaries will compare the de- ment. especially where advanced
tails of each contract with details new students are attempting to
shown on the registration card. negotiate a contract
_If the duration of the contract,
Currently it is common practhe number of units indicated, tice to have a sponsor sign the
and .111other details are in agree- green card and register and fill
ment, progr.1m s«r ...taries will out the contract form later.
sign the grttn card. The Rel!!iis- The deadline has not bttn well
trar's Office will not accept reg- publicized and confusion 1s likt-ly
istration cards for individual
to ensue next quarter

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·\ p,1rtmg ol my views
1 I do not thml-. that Ever<!ri.'en has b1?come a secnnd rate
,tdtl' (nllege I do think that 1f
•ht• (urr1culum prnpnsed for next
\ ear 1, an md1cat1on ol wherf' we
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tlt·r1n1:. ,uttc,,;,lul programs of
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11d
l wnndered Ii th1c, may be
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causes of
•f t· dr1t! tr,,m cnl!aborat1ve teachn),.'.·,, md1vrduali'>t1Cteaching
-i. I J1d not <,ay that I was,
o1-.1nkmg nl !eavm)( Evergreen the
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di the L'n1vers1tv o! Oregon
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l \ l"llinK rr0fe5c;or,;;h1r at Or1 ~"n
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r,·m.1r~...\\cl<, thdt thl' m011ves beh1n,l tht> ..,h1ttaway fr(lm collab,,r,1!1\t· tt'<1ching c;hould be con' 1 111u,
\lnt•<, rathE"r 1han uncon,1 111u.., 1\nec; Tht>re may be sound
11·.i-.11n,\'l.'h>• we art> changing
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I pri,f-.af-.lv wnuldn t like them
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'"\1nd 11h.ic;-.1mply not been expl.irnt•d t" my sat1sfact1on why
\\t• h.1w lh.Jn!(ed course. and the
111rr1culum proposf'd for next
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Recycling has appeared
at
Evergreen oncl' again. On each
d(lrm floor the hall closets are
lull of boxes and signs pointing
the way I am glad to see their
appt>arance; arising out of the
depths of the unconscious tn become the consoous
universal
archetype of the ev('r-needl'd rt>b1rth of th<' old and wasted into
the new and strong.
When 1 criticize and demand
the changt' of some individual.
~roup, <;late. national. world.
universal or Evergreen policy or
program I am consistently contronted w11h the cry, ..What can
we put into 1ts place7 We don't
have the funds or the time to
work with alternatives." It is then
that I whip out my 50 page study
pro1ect that lays out the alternative plan
I ~tit this plan trom the expenrnce I had gained m experimentdl altl'rnat1ve-hv1ng projects that
<,(,me folk<; were willing to put
t1m<'and thought mto. Recycling
dt Evergr<'en 1<; such an experim<'nt It 1s not a new idea but
tor m.any of U3 11 is a newly added
d1m<'nsion to our lives I set> recycling as an example lhat positive change can occur It appears
10 be a small. insignificant procedure. but m tht> reality of our
Earth 1t 1s an essential change,
for 1t 1s not just recycling this
and that but it is a change in
conc,oousness that displays a holistic view of the world and a
concern for nature and our
fnends If wt> have any hope at
all in an abil1ty to change the
Earth for the better then it follows that now is the time to gain
practice and assurance of our
power.
On this material plane we call
Earth I believe 11 1s possible that

we can construct a living-system
that sat1sf1es all requirement,; tor
1\ur lives both phy!->ically and
<ipiritually I am endorsing recycling as a s1~n and symbol ol the
lundJmental change in our ...
-on'>Clnusnes~01 the world and ourselve!-,that will lead us to a holistic Earth. It show!. our ability
to chan~e. our willingness to
learn and practice what we
preach.
Russell Davis

Offensive,
Opinionated,
and Distasteful
To the Editor:

In response lo 1he Cooper
Point Journal's Arts and Events
page, I would like to say that I
find that seclion extremely offensive. The descriptions of campus and community happenings
are non-protessional and opinionated, making il hard to derive
a clear picture of upcoming
events. Specifically, I shall use
the coverage of Woody Harris'
concert at Applejam Folk Center
in I he November 10th issue. It
reads, ..Woody Harris plays guitar in the intricate picking styles
of Fahey and Katke. He has a
small label album out which he
will probably
plug
Two
bucks" As the coordinator of
Applejam and thf' person responsible for getting news releases to
the local media. I have to trust
those various forms of media for
accurate. realistic coverage. Also
as coordinator.
I know more
about the acls I book than I assume the recipients of the news
releases do, and I object to your
changing the meaning of what I
write. In the release I wrote about
Woody Harris, I mentioned he
has a record out on the Kicking
Mule label not to be boastful on
his part. but merely to inform
the public that he is no amateur.
Peoplf' who are familiar with that
record label will realii.e the caliber of musicianship Woody must
have to be recorded on it To

those not familiar with the label,
mentioning that a performer has
recorded can serve as an assurance of quality, Furthermore,
what is wrong with plugging
one's records? Many musicians
rely on record sales and concert
profits to support themselves.
Besides. buying a re-cord straight
from the artist is often cheaper
than buying it in a store, not to
mention the difficulty of finding
obscure label re-cords.
Your coverage of events is neither funny, as it appears it is trymg to be, nor terribly informative. Instead, it 1s shockingly
non-professional and distasteful.
I would hope that you would
open your eyes and take an ob1ective look at whal you are
printing. Evergreen does not need
a sloppy newspaper for representation in this community. Comments? Explanations?
Debby Nagusky
Coordinator, Apple1am and Evergreen
student

Aamingos
And
Rape Culture
To the Editor
A,;; members of the rink Flamingo demonstralion we feel it
appropriate to reclarify our position There were many errors in
the CPJ front page article and
the many letters which followed.
Most of the more salient of these
were clarified in Barbara Taylor's
letter of the same issue. We realize that we made mistakes and
fttl the turmoil created over these
mistakes obscured the important
issues at hand; rapism, censorship, humor, and art.
One further point needs to be
stressed about our actions and
lhe issues. The idea of a man
raping a woman is not a trait of
human nature. Rape is a result of
culture. Rape culture surrounds
all of us in the form of ads, public education,
television
and
movies. Some examples of myth
perpetualin~ movies are Straw

Dogs, Clockworl.. Orange, Last
Tango in Paris, Gone witb the
Wind. and Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid These blatant examples are no more dangerous
than the subtler ones we encounter daily. We realized this. We
were plagued by the question as
to how people confront such allpervasive aspects of our society
as rape culture without an unduly narrow focus on any particular manifestation. Pink Flamingos was not the epitome of rape
culture but it did make rapists
and exhibitionists into "funny
people." It is presumpluous for
1he males who wrote last week's
letters to say that because they
did not feel degraded that it was
"not
degrading to any minority ... We felt a need to express our feelings about the film
and the attitudes of the people
who promoted it. However, by
demonstrating at Pink Flamingos
we did narrow our focus to that
film. We hope now that the focus
is widened and that all future attention will go to the issues of
rapism, censorship, humor, and
art.
The CPJ spaces for lettE'rs to
the editor seem to be conducive
to unconstructive,
paternalistic
shots (as evidenced by the frequent use of "kids'• and "ladies")
and not to constructive criticism
and thoughtful discussion. For
this reason we feel a public forum
where more complete conversations could be carried out would
be more fitting. We are trying to
obtain the film Rape Culture and
will announce soon a time when
people can view the film and discuss the issues raised around
Pink Flamingos.
Caroline Lacey
Regon Unsoeld
Bard Taylor
Pierre Dawson
David Plotnick
Geneiveve M~uel Miller
Marlene Willis
Krag Unsoeld
Mary Fitzgerald
Roxann Daily
Libby Skinner
Jody Ehrlicman
Cindy McDill

Not-So-Grand
Pianos
To the Editor:
In January, the pianos that are
currenlly on the fourth floor of
the Seminar Building will be
moved to the new Communications Building along with several
other brand new pianos. Although the old pianos will be retuned, not much can be done to
repair the incredible amount of
damage that has been done to
these instruments by student's
who've used them.
Besides the rather obviou!-, cigarette burns on the keys and
frames of the instruments. there
are chunks of wood missing, assorted scrapes, coffee and tea
slains, damaged sound boards,
and non-functional (or close to
1t) foot-ped.:ls that have been
ruined by "stampers" (people who
stamp on the pedals rather than
merely press them down with
th<'ir feel). Besides the conditions
ol the actual pianos. the practice
ro(lmS in the, Seminar Building
are filled with Cigarette butts,
tood laying around. garbage. etc.
Evergreen has some of the best
piano facilities in the country.
Mo!-,t music-piano departments
have very tew pianos - much
less granU pianos - available to
their students. Even then. one
has to be a piano "major" to
have access to them. Even wellknown music departments such
as Eastman or U. of Indiana have
their piano students practicing on
old upright pianos unless they
are fortunate enough to have
special access to their faculty's
offices.
If the disregard and abuse of
the piano-music facilities that we
are fortunate enough to have relatively free access lo continue to
occur, our new practice rooms in
the Communications
Building
will be in lousy shape within a
few years lime.
So if you're thinking of using
a piano, even if it's jusl to "mess
around" on, leave your cigarettes
and food somewhere E"lse, and
remember thal a decent grand
piano costs dose to $1,000 a
foot.

loss of much needed bucks. During this time, and in their haste
to arrive and assist at what they
assume is an emergency, they
could become involved in an accident. Also, it immediately takes
lhe Aid unit and Engine out of
service making it al least temporarily unavailable for a bona
fide medical or fire emergency
elsewhere. Lastly, we are all feeling the budget crunch and every
lime we roll it is estimated to
cost approximately $200.00.
Hopefully, before we at least
become participants in similar
type productions, a little more
forethought will be given to the
overall chain of events.
Thank You,
Paul Pedersen
Assistant Chief
and Members
of your fire department

How About
In Your
Potted Palm 7
To the Editor:
This is an open letter to Paul
Fink and Ann Metheny:
What if I have an art happening on your funny pants or your
way-out Italian shoes7 What if I
have an art happening on your
mother or a picture of your dog7
None of these things mean anything to me.
Lynda Barry
P.S. And don't you try to explain yourselves lo me. You jive,
and you know you jive.

One
Happy Letter
To the Editor:
Can you believe this title .
Human Development in Psychohistorical Perspective7 It took me
all summer to memorize that
whopper. Had I bitten off more
than I could chew7 I'm a single
mother, new in town, just making the bills at the end of each
month, and I'm going to cut it in
college with a bunch of young
adults 10 years my junior7 Have
you lost your head, girl 7 Who
said that 7
Oh God, the words that come
out of their mouths.
sereptilious; specificity; the dialectic of
overlapping
mumbo-jumbos.
What ARE they saying? Damn.
where's my dictionary. I hope
nobody saw me leave my first
lecture that first day. I really got
sick to my stomach. Am I going
lo fit in here or am I just conning
myself again 7
I'd heard so much about Evergreen: "You can be who you really are here ... The professors
are into relating on a personal
level with the students (no, not
that kind of pusonal. I must be
overloading on Fft'ud)
Without the standard grading pressures you can free up to concentrate on lhe area you are truly
interested in .... Sure, sure,
sure. The praises were endless,
but would all this happen to me7
My class is Human Development in Psycho-historical
Perspective. I have two book seminars a week and a dream reflection workshop on Thursdays.
The first weeks were strenuous,
awkward onn. Would we ever
get past those first obstacl .. 7 Almost all ot us were experiencing
the growing pains of taking responsibility for our thoughts t1nd
actions in class. The instructon
w•~ there, y.. , but they made it

ludith
Ssbw
Trapezoid
Consequences
To the Editor:
Last Wednesday the Campus
fire station responded
to the
"Trapezoid Happening." While
we appreciate and respect an individual's right to express their
opinion, we do not feel that
others should be placed in jeopardy by those who may not
fully understand the consequences
of their actions. Without coordidination and/or
authorization
of affected agencies, serious consequences could result. Since we
have found most Evergreeners to
be responsible individuals
we
would like to explain how this
incident had a negative impact
on the fire department.
The campus operated emergency ve hie Jes a re cu rren I I y
staffed by only two full time personnel and we rely heavily on
our student and volunteer firefighters for much needed backup support in emergency situations. When an .1.larm is received
an alert is also transmitted to this
volunteer force who respond to
the emergency in their own vehicle or other fire department
equipmenl. This response pulls
them aw.t1y from their classroom
or place of work resulting in lost
productivity and in some cases

.

raO)r
c ear t at it was our s ow.
that point the only saving grace
was the knowledge that the instructors had to read the assignments right along with us. It
made me feel better knowing they
were suffering too. Somehow I
had imagined that after classes
had ended for the day, the faculty would bound off into their
sportscars and scurry off lo play
golf or sip wine in a chalel somewhere.
After a while, we began to
trust one another. Our reading
this quarter is predominantly
Freud and Erikson with a dash of
Shakespeare from time to time.
The reading is interesting bul it
wouldn't
have had nearly as
much impact if we hadn't had the
opportunity to apply it more personally to our lives and one another. People began to reach inside themselves and tap their
own experiences to aid in making
the psycho-analytic process come
to life. We were creating a new,
breathing entity. The entity of
trust .
Trust in one another
and eventually, trust in ourselves
and our opinions. If we were
t.,rong we began to realize that
our abilities to understand would
improve in tht" future. There were
no judgments. We were accepted
Our instructors were careful in
their guidance to nurture those
aspects in us that would draw
out our positive, creative expressions through introspection. Then
they took it a step further by
providing the atmosphere
we
needed to attempt and learn how
to apply it to one another in the
seminar and workshop encounters.
Prose, poetry and short stories
began flowing from our pens.
Our ties to one another became
even stronger. This venture has
changed our lives. Made us better, somehow. We all know it
because ii is so obvious a transition to us that we talk about the
phenomenon quite ohen.
I guess the whole purpose of
this letter is to say thank you.
Thank you for a most beautiful
experience with a group of individuals I'm learning to care for
and to call ..friends." And what's
equally as important is that now,
I know there are even more possibilities of growth and awareness to be met, challenged and
dealt with outside the classroom.
The adventures are endless. Uh
oh, h's 10:30 p.m. and I've still
got to finish "Young Man Luther."
Whal does th.al word dialectic
mean? Damn, where's my dictionary
thanks Evergreen.
Teresa Love
cc: Daniel J. Evans, President
Will Humphreys, Senior
Dean
Rindetta D. Jones, Director
Affirmative Action/ Equal
Opportunity
Richard Jones, Professor HuDevelo3menl

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Family Circus

Out $400
To the Editor:
Hello, it's us again - Family
Circus. First off. we'd like to say
we had a warm and f'nriching
five days in Olympia. The supportive audiences and workshop
participants gave us much. helping us make our work what ii is.
The tour was clouded. however.
by one unhappy event, which explains this letter.
This is our plight. On Saturday. November 19th, we did a
show at the Olympia Commun•
ity c~nter. Apparently,
there
was misunderstanding about our
nttds and we found ounelvn
having to borrow a sound system
at the last minute. With the kind

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elp o Tom
acker (Men's
Center) we were able to "take
out" the necessary equipment
from TESC mini-media, including four mikes, mike stands and
cords. Late that night our van
was broken into and the above
equipment. plus a guitar belonging to a collective member, were
. taken. The estimated total value:
$400. Ouch!
This type of expense is not
considered in our monthly budget. We also carry no insurance
covering stolen property. (We
are looking into it as a result.)
But for the time being we're out
$400, and that's where you come
in. We're spearht"ading a fund
drive to raise the money. and we
are asking our Evergreen sponsors and the student body at
largt> to help us. We come to you
both because we believe we discovered many new friends and
supporters on this tour. and because we received less than half
our normal fee for the Evergreen
performance.
If ynu have any ideas about
raising money. other than this
general appeal, please conlact us.
Donation<; should be sent to the
address below. Thanks.
Family Circus Theater
Collective
221 SE 11th, Portland

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Shrinking
World
To the Edit0r:

Witness today we have hundreds of stuUents here busily engage<l. Engaged in what 7 In summin!( everything up. Thousands
mllre scholars across the country and the globe pursue this lifedefying task. And the "task" is
only a formal analogue of what
goes on in all walks of life TV
and movie scenarios schemalize
life's charades And as if that isn't
enough. our very life processes
are simulated on computers and
in medical labs. and our whole
musical history is getting laid
away on tape
But think, only think a minute
of how once everything is summed up. we will have nothin~
lefl to do but stare blankly into
space and our souls will evap0rate from our bodies for which
they havt> no further use. Are
you ready for that7 I'm not. No
we're not ready for that.
These days, even the sloppiest
act of infinitesimal creation 1s
preferable to the grand swooping
SUMMING UP. Down with biology, psychology,
anthropology, theology. and all the various other -logys that clog our
lives. If you like logic, keep it
pure. Please no more models of
human behavior. And for God's
sake, no more realistic novels. If
you are reading for the truth.
forget it. If you are setting it
down in writing, lie a little. And
if you are stuck with the job of
teaching one of these unhappy
subjects, suffer to be as abstruse
as possible. Tomorrow may have
a chance to squeeze through yet.

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This Is It
This is it. gang, the last issue
of the quarter ... and I thought
it was still September. This 1s
also my last issue as Editor I dm
going to go gel a job at Arctic
Circle. John Keogh 1s movmg
from Features Editor to Editor.
I'm sure he will learn to enjoy it.
Mandy Mcfarlan is remaining as
Managing Editor. She isn'I terribly ambitious, bul she's the sanest
of tho bunch. The JOURNAL will
reappear in January and it won't
~ my fault.
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Re: The Evergreen
FORUM is a column of com·
nwntary on issun of poS$1.bl«
inltrnl to the Evugrttn com•
munity. The column ls o~
to
any individual or group on cam•
pus. The opinions exprnted in
FURUM an solely tM author's
and do not nKnsarily reAect tM
opinions of the coU~ or the
,,.ff of th• COOPER POINT
JOURNAL.
bv Diane Winslow
Whats with these students that
th•> drparently puzzled, frustrat•
t·J C',hausted taculty are teachtn~ llf m '>Orne cases, are not able
t,~ach l In the November 16th
rnet>ting ont' !acuity membt-r said
t11

the .,,udents here now are not the
.,.inu· a<; those that came in the

earh 70:i-when the school opened
Th\l..,t' were serious students pl,lll1<.Jl\y aware and with senou!,
\,1mm1tments lo goals Many had
'>t't'n U S p1.,litics at their worst.
h.lll ll1-.! their naivete watching
their ~,,vernment's handling of

\'1et :'\.im. There were activists
\,h,, hored now to change tht>
-.v<,,temlr~1m the tn!.1de There
were n1..,-nonscnse young women
hhl1 h.id grown stck to death ot
bt 1n~.-.en1nd-rate influences, even
in
the activ1!,t movement scene
little more than the secretaries,
nur..,l'.., mothers and slaves to the
m11\t>ment men. Work.mg people
...notched up the opportunity to
1mprnve their pos1t1ons They
came t0r man\' reasons - they
1,l'rt' a motley group - bul they
were ~eriou,
The student., we have now
-..11d
th1,; !acuity member. are
ar<.h-conr;ervat1ves They don't
believe in alternative education
mode'> They plead for courses
anJ grades and structure They
dl,n t know what they want to
le.irn They have no focus or
dt't'P craving for k.nowledge. The
thin~ they hate the most is exrr('<i<,tn~their personal beliefs or
their own real opinions. if they
~avt.· ever developed any They
ire very good at intellectualizing
,rnd .-.pouting the dogma of their
various supposed fields of inter•
est
From whence come these stu•
Jents, who fulfill the require·
ments of V\lashington s other
State Colleges so adequately and
blithely but who at Evergreen
lead to the early balding of their
lt'c1chers through the tearing of
ha1r7 How did the come to be,
0

tht"M' play actors in full denim
costume, with their "anything
goes as long as it's weird'' attitude and its brother, "It's great
to get highly emotional and defe.nsivt' as long as it's over trivialities.'" Why don't these bon vivants look different from one another or act in different ways
sometimes? Do they have any
concept of the "Evergreen Dream"
and tht' diversity it should proliferate 7
In this faculty meeting the
"'Dream .. kt'pl coming up like a
will•o· -the-wisp rising out of a
swamp. An occasional faculty
member would.grasp for it or try
to describe or defend the hazy
v1s1on. Someone said that Coor•
dinated Studies sharpen faculty
abilities. That in this mode they
can play oH of each other's ex•
pertiSf and be stimulated and
broadened while everyone (faculty and students) in the program
can potentially get caught up in
the learning experience. Some
said they were doing themselves
and the students a disservice by
not planning earlier and allowing
much more tame for 11. Others
said they felt Evergreen was due
for some courses beyond the
Module scop<> to make every
basic sub1ect available in either a
Coordinated Study manner or as
a Course. Still others were almost pleading that it was so nee•
essary that at least one state
school operated in an alternative
way: ..We must educate them
about the way we're educating
them
··We'll counsel them each, one
by one. and require a four year
plan beginning with Coordinated
Studies and after that broad exposure to a field we'll encourage the focusing-in
through
Group Contracts and finally, for
some, an Independent Study pro·
gram.
"We'll make this system work.
dammit."
And so a faculty who them·
selves were taught in courses,
kept in line by grade point aver•
ages, locked from exploring fields
of interest by lack of background,
who were moved along the con•
veyor belt of higher education
until they fell out a slot into the
world as the "educated," try now
lo hold onto a diffen-nt concept
for a basically drippy, unappre·
oat1ve group of adolescents.
I make these observations from
the view oint of bein a student

who is about the age of most of
the teachers at Evergreen. I bring
to my college experience some
knowledge of the ways and times
these students
have grown
through to this point as well as
having a subjective knowledge of
their parents' experiences. Most
of their parents were embalmed
in the 50's .. None of us knew at
the time we had been carefully
prepared to roll out into roles so
tight that options just didn't sur•
face in our minds. The guys were
going to trade in their white
bucks, tight pants and duck's ass
haircuts for business suits and
striving toward possessing as
much as possible; we girls (no
one knowing us could ever call
us ..women") were to get married and be happy with our children and the possessions our

FORUM
husbands brought back from the
hunt. We were kind of an experi•
mental generation - the first to
be quite so brainwashed into
what they started calling the
"American Dream" after the Secon~ World War when the men
that were lefl came back from
overseas and wanted women to
not only get out of every work
sphere but to also forget they
ever kept the country going in
their absence. So by the SO's the
propaganda to keep women "in
their place" was rolling out of all
the presses, hidden in every
movie, blatant on every billboard
and we bought 1t.
What did that experiment m
human nature prove in the long
run7 What did it do to those men
and women, to their marriages,
hie-styles and, yes, to their children 7 The suburban housewife
has become a stereotype - the
subject of cartoons - we all
know she's got every convenience,
dresses well, spends hours carting
her kids around to their lessons
and activities and that she's lonely
and miserable and sometimes alcoholic. That's the young ones the old ones don't even have the
children's activities to fill their
empty hours. They bought the
whole dream - so why isn't their
womanhood fascinating to their
husbands? How could the "Total

Dream
Woman" be a rip off when we
now have such a large husbandled group of women who swear
(and rant) by it. l know well the
anger and the confusion that
could make a group of women so
vulnerable to being u5ed like that
by economic and religious inter•
ests. They believe what they're
saying. They truly hope their
husbands will love them and that
their children will turn out well.
ln the SO's the whole "Religious
Ethic" and the fields of Philosophy and Psychology, to say
nothing of Dr. Benjamin Spock,
told us how we had to live and
raise our children in order to
earn the reward of success. We
hovered over our children for
want of anything else better to
do and we spanked them some
but were pretty confused about
their ego formation so we changed
our tactics toward their discipline
a lot.
They caught on in a hurry that
we were unsure and they also
realized we were unhappy about
something and they thought it
must be them. Mostly we avoided
each other under the ruse of to·
gethuness. So the mothers with
empty lives spawned a lot of
needy, undisciplined, inadequately-matured kids. Some of us
mothers were lucky enough to be
traumatized out of that "nest."
We can only hope that our children will now realize their lack
and be able to form wills of their
own and maybe experience the
adulthood/personhood
that their
parents put off so long.
There seemed to be a lot of
questioning at the faculty meeting about "Are we doing a good
thing here at Evergreen if it feels
so horrible?" Housewives who
return to school and feel anxiety
wonder if they should try to continue. Students in an alternative
mode education (most for the
first time) wonder if they should
have to experience such painful
frustration and then go looking
for someone to blame it on. But
Rollo May is one of the Psychologists who believes that humans
must experience anxiety in order
lo grow:
"Anxiety occurs al the
point where some emerg·
ing potentiality or possibility
faces the individual. some
possibility of fulfilling his
existence; but this very pos•
sibility involves the destroying of present security, which

thereupon gives rise to the
tendency to deny the new
potentiality."
Rollo May, Existence, A New
Dimension in Psychiatry and
Psychology, p. 52.
So I'm saying that we're up
against tremendous forces here
at Evergreen in the great trend
toward the sameness of all things.
We might have to stand against
mom's apple pie and for human
rights in order to preserve every
person's right to maturity through
choosing from options. Maybe
the male faculty will have to listen to the women faculty and
open up that "marriage" to real
equality. Maybe the Deans will
dare to really rap with the fac•
ulty and maybe everyone will let
Dan Evans play on the team so
he doesn't get so lonely he starts
hallucinating
about football
teams, stadiums and Evergreen
being loved by Olympia's rednecks.
So if the dream that raised this
field of non-poisonous,
nonhallucinogenic mushrooms overnight in this soggy Cooper Point
forest and called it The Evergreen
State College has any validity it
must be kept alive until it is utterly impossible to do so.
I personally know that one can
get free from the most pervasive
of brainwashing (with a lot of
help from my friends, as they
say) and I know it's possible to
get serious about decision-making, responsibility
and actual
thinking, at an·y point in life that
one is forced into it. I could liken
the pain of these kinds of changes
to a rocket's re-entry into the atmosphere - the intensity of the
heat and the pressure. Or compare it to childbirth and the
steady progression of discomfort
that there's no turning from once
the process has begun.
That's why I'm hoping the energy in this school is turned lo·
ward keeping alternatives available and why I hope the faculty
and students will realize the hidden problems in both their backgrounds and to still persist until
we see a profusion of Evergreen
graduates bringing about healthy
attitudes toward learning and
making many an unstructured
dent on society.
Diane Winslow is a 39 yu.r
old senior at Evergrttn. She is
currently enrolled in the Ajax
Compact Group Contract.

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You ve heard Karla Bonoff's songs before ··Lose Main:·
Someone to Lay Down Beside Me: and 11Hes Ever Near
h1ghl1ghted Linda Ronstadt s last album. Hasten Down
thf' Wind
Horne closes Bonnie Ra1tt"s newest album
These lour songs along with six previously unre
corded comoos1t1ons appear on her hrs! Columbia
album.· Karla Bonoff'
Crawdaddy raved. Her songs have the timeless
ff'el ot class,c5 while PlaylxJycalled them ... sens1t1ve,
moving and elegant'·
Everyone agrees that Karla writes wonderful songs
Her vo,ce 1s the ,nstrument her songs were written tor
"Karl.a Bonoff."On c.Mumhia Rc'-·•m..J,anJ T."lpl''·

by Nancy Ann Parkn
" ... It must be pointed out
th.at while a husb&r1d can beat,
slap, or threaten hi1 wilt, there
are 'good d.1.y1.'Thoe days tend
to wear away the effects of the
beating. They tend to cauH the
wife to put nide the traumas And
look to th• good - first, becauH there ls nothlng else to do;
HCond, bttaUH there is nowhere
and no one to twn to; and third,
because the defeat is the beating
ond th• hope Is that It will not
happen again ... "
(Excerpted from Del Martin's
"Battered Wives," Chapter One.)
A SHELTER FOR WOMEN
IN CRISIS
Lauren Herbert, Colleen Spencer, Kathy Haviland, and Susan
Davenport have been working at
the Olympia YWCA for more
than a year to establish a shelter
for battered women in the Thur•
ston / Mason County areas.
The original six women of the
"Women's Shelter and Support
Services Planning Task Force" recently published a plan documenting the need for such a shel•
ter under a federal grant from the
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, authorized
under the Drug Abuse Office and
Treatment Act of 1972.
According to Lauren Herbert,
the shelter will open its doors as
soon as the Task Force has obtained necessary operating funds.
The shelter will offer temporary,
safe housing for women and their
children. Counseling
will be
available to women in tran.si•
tional crises, and the staff will
offer assistance on behalf of
women who need to obtain other
social services. In addition, the
Task Force members hope even•
tually to offer workshops in response to community women's
needs, such as Carttr Planning
and Assertiveness training.
WHY A SHELTER 7
Since January 1, 19n sixty•
three incidents of domestic violence involving battered women
have been reported to the Thurston County Sheriff's office.
(These statistics do not account
for abuse cases within city limits,
i.e.; Olympia, Tumwater, Ulcey,
etc.) The FBI estim.ates that ac•
tual figures concerning abused
women are ten times the amount
of those reportN: This indicates
that approximately 630 women
have been physically battered by
their mates in the Thurston
County jurisdiction within the
past eleven months.
According to Dr. Lenore Walker of Colorado Women's College,
the abuse of women, or battering
is cyclical in nature. Initial abuses
are typically verbal, and may in•
volve minor elements of physical
force. Th, man gradually becomes aware that the woman will
tolerate being beaten (to the extent that she will not leave him)
and the abuse grows more severe. Emergency room statistics
do not accurately
reflect the
number of cases requiring hospitalization. Commonly, the bat•
tered woman will attribute her
injuries on a written report to a
fall, or other household accident.
Most professionals believe that
physical battles between couples
stem from heated arguments.
Psychologists point out that partners who know one another in·
timately can, and will attack the
other's vulnerable or weak spots
during the course of a verbal
battle. According to this line of
reasoning, the man would assault
the woman bttause he had bttn
verbally attacked or demeaned.
J.J. Gaylord's 1975 surv<y,
"Wife Battering: a Preliminary
Survey of 100 cases," points out
that this often is not the case.
Seventy-seven
percent of the
women whom Gayford surveyed
reported that verbal disagreements did not usually precede a
physical a ... ult. Although th•
woman may serve as a functional
trigger for the man's violent aggression, she is not the cause.
According to Del Martin, "
The battering husband is likely

Battered

to be a 'loser' in some basic way.
He is probably angry with him•
self and frustrated by his life."
Statistics verify that many men
who batter their males have
themselves been battered children, or have grown up in homes
where the father has abused the
mother. In his study entitled
'"The Violent Home," Richard
Gelles found th.at children who
have witnessed negative forms of
parental aggression are more
likely to engage in violence with
their spouses than those who
have not. The violence is passed
on from one generation to the
next.
The phenomenon of wife abuse
is not exclusive to any particular
economic
grouping.
Morton
Bard, author of "The Study and
Modification of Intra-Familial
Violence," compared the number
of wife abuse cases reported in
the 30th precinct located in West
Harlem. New York City, to the
number of cases reported in Norwalk, Connecticut - an area
with approxlm.itely
the same
population. The West Harlem
community is a largely black,
lower-income area; Norwalk is a
predominantly white, upper-middle class area. The reported incidence of wife abuse was roughly
the same in both communities.
'TILL DEATH DO US PART'
Our culture dttms marriage as
a sacred institution, one not to
be interfered with by persons
outside the union. It begins in
the ceremony itself with the
words "let any one who ha, jusl
reason lhat this couple not be
joined speak now, or forever
hold their peace." No one speaks
and unfortunately
many hold
their peace. Battered women report that neighbors, clergy, family members, and even police did
not intervene during their crisis
situations.
Police express an unwillingness
to get involved in marital disturbances because they fear for
their lives. According to the FBI.
one out of every five police officers killed in the line of duty in
1974 died while attending to domestic disturbance calls. Officers
are encouraged to serve as mediators rather than as law enforcement agents because of the risks
involved.
The Police Training Academy
in Michigan illustrates the pro•
cedure for handling domestic dis•
turbances. Among several items
of advice, prospective police are
recommended to "Avoid arrnt ii
pomble. Appeal to their vanity;"
"State that your only interttt ls
to prevent a breach of the peace; "
"Explain that attitudes usually
chanae by court time," and as a
final piece of advice, "Don't be
too harsh or critical."
The ramifications of this are
grave. If and when the woman
does call for aid, the oflicer(s)
will attempt to "calm her down."
The batterer will be enraged and
humiliated because the police
have been called to enter "his"
home, and will likely vent his
frustration upon the woman.
Often the woman will call
when she fears being badly beaten
or even killed, only to be told
that the police are powerless un·
less the crime has already taken
place. She can obtain a ~train·
ing order through the court; a
legal piece of paper which orders
the man to stay away from both
her and her place of residence.
Although many such restraining
orders are issued, few arrests are
made for their violation. Once
again, the man must be caught
in the act of violation or the po·
lice are powerless. A mere piece
of p;iper is unlikely to convince a
confused and angry man to stay
away from his wife, and when
the violence does occur It may be
too late. FBI "Uniform Crim•
Reports" show that domestic violence accounts for one-fourth to
one-third of all homicides.
Children living in homes of
this type are also endangered. Of

Women

the women in Gayford's study,
for instance, 37 percent of the
battered women reported that
they abused their children and 54
percent claimed their husbands
did so. In an article about bat•
tered children, Serapio R. Alba
projected that 37.500 children
may be badly hurt by their par•
ents each year. ln addition to inherent physical danger, these
children face the inevitable re•
suits of the role modeling process; they are likely to repeat and
approve of their parents' behavior patterns.
A dangerous number of Amer•
icans register approval of marital
violence. A 1968 Harris
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failed.
Frequently this is why battered
women remain in their marriages
or partnerships. They don't want
to be deemed social failures. They
fear that friends, coworkers, and
members of their own families
will blame them for the demise
of their marriage. In addition,
many battered women suffer
from the misconception that they
would fare no better with other
men; they believt' ..,hat's just the
way men are.
No matter how bad the beatings, the good times between their
occurrences can lead a woman to
stay with her mate. Commonly.
facets of the relationship

,1
representative
adults
showed that one.fifth of the pop•
ulace approved of slapping one's
spouse on "appropriate
occasions." Sixteen percent of those
polled with •ight year, of schooling or less registered approval,
and 25 percent of those polled
with a college education or better
approved of a husband slapping
his wife.
The battered woman faces both
social disbelief and rejection. Until recent years, rape was spoken
of as a crime perpetrated by the
victim. The woman was blamed
for provoking the rape in one
manner or another, or ..asking
for it." On rare occasions a
woman may precipitate a beat•
ing. For example, once she knows
that subsequent
beatings are
likely to occur she may "pull the
trigger'' herself so that she is pre•
pared for the attack. She may
prefer this to fearing a beating in
her sleep, or she may feel that
inciting the man to attack her
will protect her children from
physical hann.
The victim of wife abuse does
not enjoy, and does not ask to be
beaten. Yet legally and sociaJly
she must prove that she did
nothing to warrant the attack.
Although the man in question
should be presumed innocent un•
ti! proven guilty, the burden of
proof should not be placed upon
the battered woman.

still work. During the contented
hours this may seem sufficient.
The woman can get caught up in
how things used to be, and she
learns to weave intricate fantasies
about how they could be that
way again. Largely, she hopes.
She hopes that she will not face
another beating, that the man
will be good to her; that her
nightmare will end.
Even when the battered woman
thinks about leaving, her lack of
alternatives can hold her prisoner
in the home. Women lack the re•
sources they need to set up their
own living situations. The rich
woman is no better off than the
poor woman when the bank account is listed in her husband's
name. Many times a battered
woman has no place to go, and
no money to get there even if she
did.
If no shelter exists in the area
where she resides, her only im·
mediate alternative may be to
stay for two or three days in a
cheap hotel or boarding house.
(Municipal or county funds are
generally available for this.) Even
then, it can take- as long as three
weeks for her to get emergency
food allocations. Women worry
about the effects "leaving" will
have upon their children, and it
sometimes takes a while for them
to see clearly that leaving will
have better long•range effects
than "staying."
Little is available to women in
the way of job training. Federal
programs such as CET A help to
alleviatr. some of the problems,
but relatively few private employers offer on•the•job training
with substantial pay. If women
are successful in securing em•
ployment for themselves, they
have yet another hurdle to cross.
There is an extreme lack of com•
petent, low-cost day care in this
country. Mothers who THort to
Welfare as a means of support
find themselves subject to public
scrutiny and disdain.
Few men are tried and convicted of ..wife abuse." District
Attorneys report that a tubstan•
tial number of women who inJtla.lly agree to prHt chugn back
out during lhe courH of legal
proettdlngs. Most abuse cases in
the state of Washington are tried
as "Simple As~ult" (Washington Criminal Cod• 9A.36.040).
the penalty for which is "impris•
onment in the county jail for a
maximum term fixed by the court
of not more than one year, or by
a fine in an amount fixed by the
court of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment
and fine." (WA
Criminal Cod, 9A.20.020)
Women are reluctant to press
charges l,e,cause they are not

WHY SHE STAYS
The woman in American soci•
ety has been taught from early
childhood to play a passive role.
She hasn't been educated for eco-.
nomic survival; rather, she has
been brought up to believe that a
man will provide for her. Media
stereotypes reinforce the role of
domestic servitude among wom•
en. ln not-so-long-ago times, situation comedies such as ''Donna
Rttd" and "Oul• ond Harri•t"
frequented the screen with delir•
iously happy housewives who
became ecstatic at the thought of
owning a new vacuum cleaner.
Now, the media heroine is allowed a part-time job (as long as
it doesn't interfere with the kids)
and she has a MASTER CHARGE
card. Faces have changed, but
the story lines remain basically
unaltered. Today's media heroine
is still subservient to men, and
she is acceptant of her lot.
Society primes females to fulfill a household rol• through advertising, parental example, education, and the media. Women
are expected to see not only to
their children's nttds, but to their
husbands' as well. Many women
enter marriage expecting the romance to endure; whffl it does
.,ot. when the marriage has failed,
the women often feel they have

seeking revenge, and they don't
stt the batterer being helped by
a jail term or a fine. If counseling
were a mandatory part of the
sentencing, more battered women
might press charges.
The 1973 "No•Fault" divorce
law in the state of Washington
has made it less difficult for
women here to obtain a divorce.
Matters are more complicated in
states where No-Fault doesn't ex•
ist. In Virginia, for example a
woman cannot obtain a divorce
on the grounds of physical cruelty. According to Gloria Belleview of Thurston County Legal
Aid, even in states such as Washington and California where NoFault divorce laws exist, the man
can contest the divorce on set•
tlement grounds such as custody
of the children. Some battered
women fear custody battles and
choose to remain in the home
rather than risk losing 1he1r children.
The most overpowering reason
a woman has for remaining in a
relationship despite battering. 1s
fear. The hysteria following each
beating leads to a certain kind of
inertia. She fears the unknown.
she believes, at times, that being
beaten 1s better th.an isolation
She fears blaming th·e man for
his own hostile actions because
that blame carries the greater 1m·
plication that she is unloved.
Commonly, the battered woman
fean that her ex-mate wilJ follow
her wherever she goes.
THE BATTERER
As very little case history 1!.
available on men who batter
their mates, it is necessary to
view the broader sociological
background
from which they
come, and to speculate upon its
effects. Men suffer from social
stereotypes as much as women
The macho media figure depicts
an eternally strong provider; he
is a tough guy, and he doesn't
take any flack from "his" woman
Violence, in the United States, 1s
portrayed as an acceptable form
of aggression through advertis·
ing, the media, and the educa•
tional system. The male in such
a society cannot help but be
brainwashed to accept the given
stereotype.
Throughout the course of history the military has depended
on machismo. WWI, WWII.
and the Vietnam War all helped
to reinforce the concepts of door-die manhood among American
men. The winning of a war is de·
pendent upon a mass identity
which negates healthy emotional
outlets for aggression. During the
war. a soldier's life may depend
on machismo. When the battle is
over, however, he still retains
the wartime identity, and may
vent his "power and machismo"
in an unhealthy manner on his
wife and children.
ASSISTANCE
- THE CRISIS CLINIC: The
Crisis Clinic can explore available resources with women needing shelter, counseling, or both.
Often the clinic will aid in trans•
porting women to shelters in Ta•
coma or Seattle. The clinic can
also direct men to counseling
services. The crisis number 1s
352-2211. Individuals who can
provide temporary housing to
women and their children should
call the business office at 3522220. The locations of volunteer
housing are kept confidential.
-WOMAN'S
SHELTER AND
SUPPORT GROUP: The shelter
is still in a developmental stage
and cannot handle crisis situations at this time. According to
Lauren Herbert, there is a lot you
can do to help the shelter get off
the ground. They need Task
Force members to write grants
and facilitate further planning;
for example, someone to plan
day care. Anyone with even a
small amount of spare lime can
assist the shelter. The shelter has
material needs: money, storagespace, a vehicle, and useful home
furnishings can be donated at
this time. Call th• YWCA at
352-0593 if you can donate time,
or materials.

7

Three Programs
(Boats, Trees, and Music)
by John Keogh

One of the nice things about
Evergreen is the interesting vari•
ety of subject matter students
cover here. This article would be
either impossible to write or too
boring to read at most schools:
Who cares, for instance, what a
Cellular Biology 200 class learns
from its text and lectures7 Would
anyont> read an article on. "What
I did in Introduction to Psychol-

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ogy)"

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Students in the following three
programs have been engaged this
fall in some rather intriguing
learning experiences.
Here's a
brief summary of what they've
been up to:
Vancouver and Puget
This Coordinated Studies pro-

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ciological, and historical nature

Participants

in the study con-

of Puget Sound. In a typical field

eluded that, due to the effects of

operation they will sail around
the Sound until they find a shore
area that looks promising for exploration. They will then sel up
camp and begin research, compile and record information, and
return to campus to analyze their
findings.
Applied Environmentill Studies
Students in this program have
spent the Fall Quarter working
on three "case studies" of environmental management in West•
em Washington: "Clear Cutting
and Timber Management in Shel•
ton," "Management of the Water
Supply in Olympia," and "Coal
Mining and Power Utilization in
Centralia."
On Tuesday, November 29 the

logging on water activity, it is
important for "buffer zones" to
be maintained along the edges of
large streams and rivers. The retention of trees in these areas reduces the impact of increaied
runoff on stream and river levels.
But since, theoretically, no more
road building is necessary for the
harvesting of old-growth trees
than second and third-growth,
the retention of old-growth is
unnecessary, in most areas, from
the point of view of timber yield.
They did point out, though, that
little is now known about the
rates al which lost nutrients are
restored to the soil in logged-off
areas. It is possible that. in the
future, nutrient levels will fall to

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During
the
past
school
year
we advertised
regularly
in the i
Cooper
Point
Journal.
..;.
Some students
used our
service;
others
decided
we were too expensive.
Let's
face
it.
With the cost
of our word
processing
equipment,
salaries,
office
rental,
etc.,
we cannot
(with
one exception)
compete
with
the price
of someone
sitting
in his/her
home with a typewriter,
The excertion
is the situation
in which a
paper
wi 1 go through
several
revisions
~efore
final
submission.
With a home typist
each revision
is typed
from scratch
-- you
pay the
full
price
each
time,
With our
equipment
you pay full
price
.only for the
first
typing
-- subse~uent
revisions
are at
the
much lower
revision
rates
because
we
recorded
the original
on magnetic
disk.
Aside
from the above
lower cost
situation,
there
is only
one other
reason
you might
prefer
to use our service:
quality.
we never
use erasable
bond
that
smears
so
easily
(we make our
corrections
on a TVlike
screen
before
we print
out on paper).
And we never,
never
erase,
white.a...out or
overstrike.
--The typed characters
are sharp,
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(carbon film
ribbon)
and either
pica
or elite
in your
choice
of several
type
styles.
our prices
depend
on the
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of line,
whether
pica
or elite,
and the volume.
A
6-inch
line
in pica
( 10 characters
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line
in elite
( 12 characters
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inch)
is 13 cents•.
Shorter
lines
and documents
with
over
200
typed
lines
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In situations
where
quality
and accuracy
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unimportant,
your
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as your
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POWER TYPING

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Evidence that the Twentieth Century Musk Proaram hH been

Scratch &Sniff:

Boston Clam
Chowder

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Vegetarian
Vegetable

Canadian
Cheese

Black-Eyed
Pea

Announcing Saga's grand opening of their serve-yourself, homemade soup
bar. It all starts lunchtime, December 9th and will be a regular menu feature. Besides the soups mentioned above. there'll be such gastronomic
greats as chili, lentil, minestrone and mulligatawny (with apples, curry and
chicken).•
'Our apologies to the sniffers who sniffed but smelled nothing. Our printer
made a mistake and printed our micro-encapsulated smells on the wrong
job. ( You know anyone who needs 2,000 tennis shoe brochures that smell
like Canadian cheese?) . . . Anyway, to really smell the great smells of
Saga soups, visit their new soup bar and sniff for yourself.

gram has devoted much of its
time during Fall Quarter to the
construction of four wooden sailing skiffs Once the boats are
completed (sometime early 1n
\.\linter Quarter) the 38 students
Jnd three faculty members in·
v<,lved will U'-E' them to explore
,rnJ -.1udy l1 uget Sound.
The sk1fb are presently under
construct1on al the downtown
Olympia
warehouse
of Carl
Brownstein. wh0s been employed
by Evergreen to prepare their dec,ign and as~1st 1n their building.
Bwv,.:nstein bac.<•d his pl.ins tor
th£" vec.sel-.on a vanety of cralt
1.o1lled·cutter ...••Tht>"t'-.leek boats
u...1.·dh1 rau--' lrom short' tn meet
mcnmm~ whalin~ ship.,. and '>t'cure the nght to unload their
cargo Bl'cause the larger c;h1ps
awarded their business to the first
cutters that reached them. they
were built primarily for speed.
Vancouver and Puget's sk1Hs,
when completed. will be 21 feet
long, 4 1/1 feet wide. and equipped
for both sailing and rowing. Each
vessel will carry four people at a
lime. They will sport 90 square
loot mainsails. mizzens of ap•
proximately 50 square feet, and
tour rowing stations apiece. Although the craft will have no
holds or cabins. students in the
program are working on the design of a canvas cover which
would protect their gear in bad
weather and allow them to sleep
on board, when necessary.
During the winter and spring
Vancouver and Puget students
will spend alternate wttks exploring the Sound and studying
on campus Their main goal in
the field will bf tc, learn about
Puget Sound's natural history.
T 0 this end they will gather data
on area species including plants.
animals and humans
Other area<:. ol "itudy in this
program include literature (much
ot 11 manne oriented) and 1our·
nal writing. Students have been
keeping Journals dunng the fall
and will use them. once in the
field, to record observations and
data rl'lated to the b1olo~ical so-

group studying Shelton timber
management gave a public presentation of their findings. Their
project centered on a partnership
between the Simpson Timber
Company and the U.S. Forest
Service in Shelton, which grew
out of a piece of Federal l~gislation, passed in 1944, called the
"Sustained Yield Management
Act." In 1946 the Simpson Company and the Forest Service
signed a land-sharihg agreement
designed to insure the sustained
yield of Shelton area forests. The
agreement allows Simpson sole
rights to timber harvesting on
Federal lands around Shelton,
and in turn guarantees that milling of this timber is conducted in
and near Shelton, thereby insuring the community's economic
livelihood.
This arrangement,
however,
has resulted in significant depletion of old-growth forestation in
the "management unit" it encompasses. It is projected that, at
current rates of harvesting, all
the old-growth trees will be gone
from the unit within 15 to 20
years. With this in mind the AES
group set out to determine
whether the elimination of oldgrowth will adversely affect the
ongoing timber yield of forests
arol!nd Shelton.
Members of this project studied
the effects of timber harvesting
on the two basic prerequisites of
continuing timber growth; ade•
quate supplies of groundwater
and chemical nutrients.
They
found that actual tree•removal is
not so important to these factors
as are the side effects of logging.
Roads, which must be built if
felled trees are to be efficiently
transported out of tli~ forests,
tend to interrupt water flow, both
on and underneath the surface,
and yarding techniques (used to
transport loy,s to the roads) also
disturb
the natural
flow of
groundwater. Since most nutri•
ents necessary to tree growth are
suspended
in and carried by
water. these alterations also have
an effKt on their availability.

Larson

subject

to

change.

here.

a point where artificial fertilization will be required for the continued growing of timber.
Exploration in
Twentieth Century Music:
A Composer's View
This Group Contract for composers and performers of music
has dealt with both music history
and theory in classroom sessions
during the Fall Quarter. Students
have also pursued supplemental
activities such as private lessons
and individual and ensemble performance.
··Exploration" seminars have
been based on broad coverage of
20th century music: ils roots in
19th century music. prominent
composers, etc. Each seminar
was led by a different student
and covered a different topic.
Harmony, form, rhythm, composition styles and influence
from literature.
painting and
sculpture were all themes for
seminar discussions.
The "Exploration"
program
curriculum has featured weekly
lectures and three-hour "listening
sessions," during which students
listened to material pertinent to
the week's discussion topic. In
addition, each student has par•
ticipated in one elective class in
such areas as composition, calligraphy, electronic
music and
choir.
Fall Quarter activities of this
program culminated
Tuesday
evening, November 29 in a performance presented in conjunc•
lion with students from The
Dance Contract. Playing to a
packed house in the recital hall
of Evergreen's Commumcations
Building, program members performed modern music ranging
from a solo piece on the gong
and tam tam by Steve Layton. to
an eight-piece rendition of an
original composition
by Jim
Stonecipher. It was quite an im•
pressive show, and demonstrated
the obviously high level of en•
ergy these students have devoted
to their work.

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Two Views Of The International
Women's Year Conference
by Donna Hayes

The International
Women's
Year (IWY) Conference that was
held in Houston, Texas from the
18th to the 21st of November

is

\wer. It was great l Since I've
be-en back. I've read magazine
and newspapt"r articles, sttn TV
reports. and heard radio news
repNIS. Most of the reports have
ht-en fair and impartial. showing
l--11th sides without
seeming to
!J\'c•r one view over another.
Wednesday, I heard an editori.1\ rPport
on KlRO, TV 7 by
l,rE's1dentol KIRO Inc., Lloyd E.
C00nev Mr. Cooney gave a very
h,a,ed • editorial view on what
h.id happened He did not say
,rn\'thing po,;;itive about the conTt·reme

He

1mplit>d

that

the

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nil!111n d1,\lars spent on the con'trt'nlt'

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total waste. He felt

•h,1t tht w('1m('n at the conference

,lid nl,t reprt>sent the ma1ority of
·he w0mt"n 1n America This is
untrul'
All v1ewpo1nts wert' repre-

sented at the conference. The
makeup of the delegates was as
follows: Asian/ Pacific Island
women, Black women, Hispanic
women, White women, Native
American women, low-income
women, lesbian women, wealthy
women, degree holders, Ph.D.
and MA degre, holders, high
school diploma holders. speakers
of English, non-speakers of English, heterosexual women, men,
women, teenagers, older women,
middle-aged women, deaf, blind,
and handicapped women, aunts.
grandmothers, teachers, Baptists,
Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Episcopalians,
city women, rural
women. housewives. Republicans, Democrats, professional
women, business women, John
Birch Society, K!u Klux Klan,
American Nazi Party, students,
etc
There was also a group of men
and women delegates whose purpose for coming to the conference was to defeat every resolution. Tht'y were definitely a minority at the conference and

found it hard to be heard since
this was possible only if one
could get at the head of a line in
front of a microphone.
These women and men were
approximately
80 % Mormon,
John Birch Society, Klu Klux
Klan and American Nazi Party. •
The other 20 % were mainly ultra
conservative Catholic women.
Whatever anyone says, I do not
believe that this group represents
a majority of American men or
women.
The delegation from the state
of Mississippi was the only delegation that was all white. Mississippi had five men delegates who
are members of the Klu Klux
Klan, and the majority of the
women delegates from this state
are wives of Klu Klux Klan members. Mississippi was not the
only state that had men delegates, I 'do not know the number
of men delegates there but the
rest of them did not come to the
conference to defeat the resolulions.

Facing The "Friendly Atom"
by Henry Date
51" Evergreen students were
.irrested Saturday along with 117
l,ther opponents
to nuclear
power They were charged with
,ernnd degree criminal trespass
and face a maximum penalty of
J 5250 fine and/ or thirty days in
1ad The incident took place during nonviolent
direct action
against the T ro1an nuclear plant
located across the river from
l(,ngv1ew Washington)
when
members of the Portland-based
Tro,an Oecommiss1oning Alliance
Jttemptt'd to blockade entrances
tc, tht' electrical generating facil1tv. This action comes hard on
the heels of previous occupations
ol nuclear plants, including the
August 6th demonstration
at
Trojan, incidents at the Diablo
Canyon. California site, the San
Onofre, Californ:J !ioiteand the
r,ccupation of the Seabrook,
N H site earlier this year.
There is growing dissatisfaction with nuclear power on regional. national. and global levels. In Western Europe occupations have held up construction
as long as eighteen months, and
_grass roots organizations gather
strength yearly. The United States
has seen mild concern tum into
outright acts of civil disobedience
as people become more aware of
the hazards of the .. friendly
atom" and find that their ability
to influence the decision-making
process is minimal at best and ineffective in any of the avenues
normally provided.
Some of the strongest arguments against nuclear power involve questions about the longterm effect of low-level radiation. provisions for disposal of
high-level radioactive wastes,
safety systems and the possibility
of acndents, effects of centralized
energy on democratic control.
monopolistic energy companies
and the regulation of rates, lack
of insurance coverage in the event
ot nuclear accidents, the high
wstc; and short life span of nuclt>ar power plants, the potential
tnr the sprt'ad of nuclear weapltnS, the paucity of jobs created
by the nuclear industry and the
endurmg question of whether we
rt>allyneed the energy at all.
Alternatives exist which are
environmentally safe and econom1cally sound, The potential
hlr conservation without apprenablt> sacrifice in the standard of
living is grdt. One reason that
alternatives have not bttn given
widespread application is because
there is little profit in them for
the large energy corporations,

Marchlns to T roJan.

and profit is, of course, the reason energy corporations are in
business.
Much can be done by individuals and groups to counter the
unwanted proliferation of Nuke
plants. Self education on nuclear
energy and the alternatives is
fundamental.
Participation
in
groups such as the Crabshell Alliance is helpful in continuing
personal education and in spreading accurate infonnation to people who are inundated by corporate propaganda.
Action is
needed at government hearings,
in writing letters to the authorities, and in peaceful agitation
for energy reform.
Support for the 86 participants
of the August 6th Trojan occupation is needed when their trial
begins on December 12. Each occupier pied "Not Guilty" and has
asked for a jury trial. Part of the
defense planned involves the
"Choice of Evils" statute which
holds that it can be "justifiable
and not criminal .. to violate one
law (in this case trespassing) if
"That conduct is necessary as an
emergency measure to avoid an
imminent public or private injury; and the threatened injury
is of such gravity that, according
to ordinary standards of intelligence and morality, the desirability and urgency of avoiding
the injury clearly outweigh the
desirability of avoiding the injury
sought to be prevented by the
statute defining the offense in issue ... " Chances are that nuclear power will be on trial, with
expert witnesses testifying to its
dangers.
The 123 recent Trojan demonstrators, after undergoing what
the Oregon Journal referred to as
"one of the most biurre set of
legal proceeding5 on record"
were relea~ on a penonal recogniunce/ ma55 bail arrange-

ment. Bail money and funds for
their legal defense are now being
raised by anti-nuke
groups
around the Northwest.

In the Olympia area the Crabshell Alliance is working to halt
nuclear proliferation, conducting
educational workshops and serving as a clearing house for nuclear information, anti-nuke organiz.ations and ongoing resistance around the country. For
more information
contact the
Crabshell Alliance office in Library 3225.
Nuclear Notes and
Upcoming Events
1. Help Crabshell Alli>nce organize for the upcoming occupation of the Satsop Nuclear plant
site planned for late June. Meetings are held Wednesdays at 7: 30
p.m. at 1007 W6t Bay Drive,
Olympia.
2. Participate in the teach-in on
nuclear energy sponsored
by
Mobilization for Survival on December 3 in Olympia at the First
United Methodist Church, 1224
E. Legion (comer of Legion and
Boundary).
3. Attend EPIC's presentation
on nuclear power December 5 at
7:30 in Lecture Hall 1.
4. Write to the Secretary of the
Commission, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, D.C.,
20555, asking that an Environmental Impact Statement be prepared for the requested expansion of the Trojan Nuclear Power·
Plant waste storage facility. No
statement will be made unless
public pressure is felt. It wouldn't
hurt to include any other feelings
you might have regarding nuclear
power,
5. Write letters 10 the editors of
local newspapers expressing concern over the 5afety and sanity
of nuclear power.

by Sutapa Basu
The most educational
thing
that happened to me in this
country since I have bttn here
(3 years) was attending the National Women's Conference in
Houston. This national conference was one of the largest g.itherings of women I have ever seen
and I believe this was also the
largest gathering ever held in this
country.
There were 30,000
women and it was fascinating for
me to see all of us work together
to reach the same goal and that
is "equal rights for women." Here
I have to admit that there were
opponents of equal rights for
women present, including some
of the most openly racist, sexist,
anti-working class organizations.
The real debate between ProERA and the Anti-ERA forces
took place in Houston.
The main purpose of this conference was to bring out the real
issues, to expose the reactionary
program of those who oppose
women's equality, and to show
that the majority of women want
their rights now. Also, to let the
. U.S. government get the message
loud and clear that millions of
women are not going to whisper
in their ears any longer. Instead,
we are going to be militant and
"we are going to be very unladylike" in demanding our rights.
"This conference was designed
to come up with recommendations, labeled as 'National Plans
of Action' to be submitted to the
congress, and many of the recommendations are positive." At
the conference, the forces favoring the Equal Rights Amendment
managed to out-vote the opponents to pass their r~lution
as
related in the National Plan of
Action. As soon as this resolution was passed, tears of happiness filled thousands of women's
eyes. Happiness captured the
coliseum - shouting, cheering
and singing "The ERA fight was
won tonight. deep in the heart of
Texas."
All the resolutions in the "National Plan of Action" are very
important and affect most women's lives. The three other resolutions that were my greatest concerns were: minority women's
rights, reproductive freedom and
sexual preference
concerning
abortion and gay rights respectively.
Both the above issues went
into intensive debate between pro
and anti-women and a very few
President Evans wlll be addressing
the atudent body wllh a ,tate of the
coo-.
~ on Friday, December
2 at 12 noon on the fourth floor of the
library, room 4300.

A consciousness raising tor dlabetlcs and t,ypoglycemll
Is held 9Yery
Monday In Library 3500 lounge at
6p.m.
Peter Jones wlll pr.sent a 1lldl coltec:tlon that he helped develop concerning the history, culture, economic
structure and polltlcal condition of
Namibia - an lntematlonel tenttor,
(South West Africa). He will dlecuaa
western corporate Intervention, the liberation movement and the resistance
to llberllllon. Decembet' 1, LH one,
7:30 p.m.

What etfectt hrle ~ had on
ld9nce? How might women affect science? What are women scientists up
to today? How equlahed are women In
science hlstorlcally? Do I, u a woman,
want to study or pursue a career In
some aclenc:e field? How pervulve Is
se,i:lam In science? In aclenoe careera?
la there a need to look et women In
science?
au.t-1tlon1 and thoughts such u
above wlll be the aubJect of dlacu11lon
at a drop- In (and pleue atay) meeting
from 11 a.m. • 1 p.m. on Monday, 0.cember 5 In the CAB coffeehouse. This
meeting wlll help determine If women
are Interested In having a Women In
Sdenol Con....,._
here winter quarter.
what luuea we'd llke to deal with at
such a conference, and hOw we'd llke
to do It. If you can't come to the meetIng even lor a llltle whlla, Jot down
your Ideas. tuogeatlont and questions
and give them to Elalne BIiia at Car.er
Plennlng and f>'acement or 10 the Women's Center, LIB 3215. TeH your oflcamput women ec~llat frlenda too.

men that were present on the
delegate noor. The anti-abortion
movement argued that "Abortion
is murder, that fetu~ and embryos - even, pr6umably eggs
at the moment of fertilization,
are human beings with a right to
life." The pro-abortion
movement had equally valid arguments as one stated, "We do not
hold funerals for dead fetuSd or
consider a miscarriage as traumafic as the death of a baby,
Pregnancy involves a uniquely
intimate relationship: the pregnant woman is required to nurture another organism with her
own body. Pregnancy and childbirth are inherently a strain on a
woman's system ('labor' is precisely that): complications can
be distressing, unhealthy, even
fatal. Having a baby transforms
a woman's body, often causing
permanent physical and metabolic changes. Physically, too,
pregnancy and birth are an absorbing. exhausting affair. Even
women who want babies and are
eager to experience pregnancy
often find it difficult. For the
woman who must bear pregnancy
against her will, pregnancy is a
nine-month
rape, a barbaric
form of involuntary servitude." I
personally feel women should
have the choice and the ,right to
decide whether she wants to keep
the pregnancy or not.
The sexual preference resolution contained a lot of controversial views. Lesbians were a
minority in the crowd, yet the
sexual preference resolution was
passed by a majority. The reason
for this was most delegates present on the noor believe in freedom of choice and support the
lesbians (rather, the women who
wish to be a lesbian or love another woman). When the lesbian
resolution was passed, it was another incredibly happy sight.
Women cheering and hugging
each other - it was like thousands of birds set frtt after a
long period of being caged -- at
last on their way to frttdom.
Joy, sadness, frustration, anger
and a range of ~motions have
been experienced
by me and
thousands of other women at this
conference. I was overwhelmed
by the unity of the women of aJI
color, creed, religion and age.
This has been one of the most
beautiful experiences of life for
me.
Yes, unity is the key to suecess.
Flnanclal Aki chedla for winter quarter w\11 be disbursed to students on
January 11. 1978.
KAOS la looking for a Bu1h•M
Manage,, and a Program Dll"llCtor. The
Business Manager Is In charge of the
budget, both Its ongoing operation and
the yearly preparation for the S&A
Board. The Bualneaa Manager Is reaponslble for all tlnanclal paperwOOl
for the station.
The Program Director 11 responalble
for all material aired on KA.OS. The
Program Director makes all decl1lon1
relatlng to air echedullng, d9Y81opa
programming
policy In con)unctlon
with the station's core ataff and keeps
air lime vaca.nclee lllled.
Bualnesa Manager la paid 12.95 per
hour lor 10 houri• week, and Program
Oirecl0< Is paid $3.06 tor 15 hours a
week. Appllcatlona should be submitted
to Dave Rauhat KA.OS, 8&6-5257.

..GILA," a women'• jazz quartet, will
be performing Friday December 2 In the
Evergreen Coffeehouse (tlrat floor CAB)
at 8 p.m. Oflglnal
composl!lona,
standards, and ethnic Influences.
Dance WOftthop taught by O.nlel
Marra December 2 at 10 a.m .. Oacember 3 at 11 a.m. Coat: $5 tor BOTH
classes. Register at 9:30 In CRC Muiti-Purpose Room on Friday, Oecembe< 2.

The Board of Tn..._
wlll meet on
December 6, 1sn; among other Item 1,
the Truaten will conalder • revlalon to
our petting pollcy and al10 to the polIcy for student ffnandal obHgatlon.The
hearing wlll commence at 10:~ a.m.
on December 8 In the Board Room
3112 of lhe Library. All lnt.,...ted pe,8001 may submit their view• either
orally 0< In writing at that llme.

Campus Notes

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Dog Days For Canines
Dogs (and dog-owners) beware! I Evergreen has a new Animal Control Officer. Security has
hired Evergreen student "Mobile
Mike" Sofen to fill, as of November 21, the Animal Control position that had bttn vacant since
the beginning of Fall Quarter.
According to Mac Smith, Director of Security, the part-time job
remained unfilled for so long because nobody applied for it.
Sofen is now responsible for
enforcing Evergreen's "Pet Policy," which states that all pets on
campus must be under direct
control of their owners at all
times. Animals roaming the campus unattended or left tied outside buildings are in violation of
this rule, and subject to confinement in Security's kennels.
Sofen observes, however, that,
"It's a real low-key operation.
We're not out to ruin anyone's
dog or anything, but if a dog is
on campus unattended I have to
take care of it."
When he does find a dog loose
on campus. Sofen is required to
lock it up in the kennels until its
owner appears at the Security office. Security spent $1500 over
the summer to build large new
kennels equipped with shelter
and water for impounded dogs.
No fee is charged for the release
of pets. The first time a student's
dog is captured he/ she must read
Evergreen's and Thurston County's pet ordinances and sign a
form stating he/she understands
and will abide by the laws.
Each time a pet owner reclaims
an impounded pet Security checks
its files for previous violations.
Second-offenders are required to
repeat the signature process in
order to obtain their dogs' release, and a record is made of
their infraction. Third offenses.
though, are considered possible
violations of Evergreen's "social
contract" with students. In such
cases Director of Housing Ken
Jacob writes the offending stu-

den I a letter informing him/ her
of the possible violation, and
pointing out that students not
abiding by their social contracts
are subject to disenrollment.
Dogs not reclaimed from Security's kennels by 4 p.m. are
transferred to the Animal Control Shelter in downtown Olympia. If Evergreen Security transports a dog to the downtown
shelter, its owner is charged four
dollars for its release, plus an
eight dollar license fee unless the
dog is already licensed. But if
Animal Control personnel drive
to Evergreen to pick up the dog
its owner is charged a twelve
dollar service fe-e. In addition,
dog-owners who reclaim their
dogs from the downtown shelter
later than two days after impoundment are charged a one
dollar-per-day boarding fee.
The Animal Control Shelter is
required by law to keep dogs for
retrieval by their owners for 48
hours from the time of impoundment. After this period dogs are
made available for adoption by
anyone. Any dog that spends
four days in the downtown shelter without being reclaimed can
be put to sleep.
If all this seems like much ado
over nothing much but
. well,
consider the following incident,
which actually took place at
Evergreen last year: A large German shepherd decided, as dogs
often will, to stake out a piece of
territory and guard it. This particular dog, however, chose the
Library building for its own. It
blocked off an entrance and
threatened anyone who dared
pass with its teeth. When someone finally did try and get by, it
used them. The victim sustained
a bite which punctured his skin;
the dog had to be restrained with
a lion-trainer's noose, quarantined, and tested for rabies. Human /canine relations had been
damaged again. Will the varmints
ever learn 7

S&A Board To
Allocate Funds
On Wednesday, December 7
the Services and Activities Board
will review proposals for approximately $6()()() which remains in
the S& A Discretionary
Fund.
The proposals range anywhere
from a documentary on the Third
World Bicentennial Forum held
al TESC several years ago to
sports clubs.
At a meeting on Novembt"r 30,
the S&.A Board decided that anyont' may vote if they stay for the
entire meeting, though final approval of all the budgets will be
made by the S&A Board. S&A
Board member Joyce Angell
stressed that the S&A is not in
an adversary relationship with
the rest of the students at the
college. "We want to maintain a
community feeling at the meeting." The other Board members.
Charlene
McQuarrie,
Philip
Jones, Donna
Hayes,
Dale
Crouse, Mary Kalihi. and Joyce
Baker agreed. The meeting will
be held in Library 2118 al 9 a.m.
and is open for anyone to attend.

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Meet( Finally)
The first meeting of The Evergreen Council will be ht'ld on
December 7 at 8:30 a.m. in CAB
108. Agenda items will include
selection of a moderator and recorder, identification of "staggered" terms, selection of a regular meeting time, and t"lection
of the executive committee. The
Evergreen Council is the creation
of COG Ill which replaces the
Sounding Board. It is made up of
tudent, facul1y, administrative
nd staff representatives.
The
meeting will be convened by
President Evans.

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Keog
Selected Editor
The Publications Board chose
John Keogh as the new editor of
the Cooper Point Journal on November 28. Keogh served as Features Editor during Fall Quarter,
and was chosen over two other
applicants. Pub Board member.s
are Leo Daugherty, advisor to
the paper, Paul Marsh, faculty
member, Rindetta Jones, staff
member, Mike Layton, professional journalist with the P.1.,
CPJ Slaff member Mandy McFarlan, students Curtis Milton
and Gretchen Sorensen, Judy
Annis, College Relations, and
current Editor Karrie Jacobs.
Daugherty, Jacobs and Annis are
non-voting members. Sorensen is
chairperson.

A Political Gift
The Olympia Mobilization for
Survival invites everyone to attend a community Teach-In on
disarmament,
nuclear power,
and human needs. The Teach-In
will be held on Saturday, December 3 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
at First United Methodist Chut't:h
at 1224 E. Legion in Olympia.
Do we really need large military budgets and nuclear power
plants in order to provide jobs?
How serious is the arms race,
and what can be done to reduce it 7
These and other issues will be
explored through slide shows.
speakers, workshops and other
presentations, which an~ scheduled throughout the day. Come
when you can and stay as long
as you want.
Lunch and child care will be
provided.
Tht> Te.ich-ln is sponsored by
a number of community groups.
including the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Evergreen Political Information Center, the Unitarian Fellowship of
Olympia. the Olympia Trident
Resistance Group, and the Olympia Friends Meeting.
Please mark that date and plan
lo attend the Olympia Mobilization for Survival Teach-In on
Saturday, December 3, at First
United Methodist Church, 1224
E. Legion.
For more information
please
call 491-9093, 352-1052, or 8669339.

This innovative program was
made possible by a grant from
WHICHE for North's work. It
will be slanted toward a meaningful experience to the student
rather than ..product-oriented."
Nevertheless it is to be hoped
that poetry will be offered another small press voice and that
Evergreen will be able to offer
tht" student and the community
another unique program.
North may be contacted for
further information in Lab 0233
at the above days and hours until
December 15. She will also be
present at the Decembt'r 7 Academic Fair. Interested people who
may wish to enroll in January
should come to Lab 0233 January
4. 1 to 3 p.m. or 7 to 9 p.m. that
evening.

Motion Ocean
On Campus
The Motion Ocean dance
troupe will be at Evergreen from
December 5 - 9 .
On Friday, December 9, Motion Ocean will end its residency
at Evergreen with improvisational
events throughout the day and a
workshop in the afternoon. During that week there will be a gallery showing of videotapes of
Motion Ocean and prints from
the video by Michael Orin,
Graphic Collaborator, in Mini
Media, Library 1302 from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Friday's events are "Fishbowl"
from 10 to 11 a.m. in the racquetball courts. Does a Chicken
Have lips? from 12 to 1 p.m. in
the second floor Library Lobby,
and Dressed for Rain from 2 to
3 p.m. outside the West entrance
to the Communications Building.
These events are on a comewhenever, leave-whenever basis.

Prompt attendance is not requirt"d.
The workshop on improvisational movement will be held 1n
the CRC multi-purpose room
from 4 to 6 p.m. - please be on
time for this one. One dollar donation requested.
Motion Ocean is a dance quartet, exploring movement collaboration
and communication
through improvisation.
Mary
Baker and Paul Loper are Evergreen students in the dance contract, Annette Duchesne and
Stanley Knaub are Comish Institute studt'nts. Michael Orin is
a print-maker
who captures
dance in stillness and makes the
group's T-shirts. These students
have been working together for
the past five months after dancing with each other at Cornish
last year, where they met.
This Evergreen residency is
sponsored by Pam Schick, Dance
Contract Coordinator.

'BUSINESS MANAGER
,Nathaniel Koch

Karrie Jacobs
MANAGING EDITOR

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Dana Leigh Squires

Mandy Mchrlan
!JA TURES EDITOR
John Keogh

ADVERTISING MANAGER
Robert S.awatski
The COOPER POINT JOURNAL Is publl•Md weekly for the 1h.idenl1, leculty,
and ,tall ol The EY1r9f'Mfl State CoUege, Olympia,, Wuhlngton 98505. View, IX•
Pf"Md are not necesa.artly thoH of The Ewergf'Mfl State CoUege. AdYertlslng materlal prnented herein don nol neceHartly Imply endotNment by thl• new.peper.
Offlc.s are located In the College AetlvlUH Bulldlng (CAB) 305. N.,.. phone:
868-8213. Actvertl•lng and buslneH pf'toM: 888-8080. Letten pollcy: All ~It.en to
the edl!Of must be l'K&lved by noon TUffday lor that wee61'1publlcatlon. Letten
must be typed, double-tpeced. and 400 words or INa. Letten e,i:ceedlng 400
words may be edited for length. Names will be withheld on '9qUftt.

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Its A Nice Place To Visit But Get Me Out Of Here
by Kame Jacobs
A driuly Sunday afternoon in
late November - time to think
about Christmas break escapes,
11me to lace up the old traveling
shOf'S.Toni is from Ohio, Yellow
Springs home of Antioch and her
mother's Chocolate Chip Cooklt"S,
Dale is from Bremerton (a
native son with an Aunt Effie
who makes marvelous cookies
nght here in the Evergreen State)
but his plans include heading east
ll1r
Yellow Springs chocolate
<.hips. My own roots are in New
lerSE'y.not to mention my motht'r., scrambled eggs. So it seems
that our destinations are clear;
it.-. 1ust a question of getting there
\.,'1th a minimum of money and
>,.:net We sit around

an apart-

ment m the dorms munching on
1..hoco\ate
stars from Foodtown
.rn1..lscheming. I have decided
that It would be fun to get 10
'.\Jew ) ork (dn embarrassed New
!er<;t'\'1tes term for home) by way
i,t L.,, Angeles I have always
\\,lntt>d ll' go to Disneyland.
T,,n1 hds decided that a fourteen
,Li\
tram pass would be the perrt·ct means 0t transportation
\,hde I favnr the automobile.
\\ hile discussing the means of
>,:t'ltmg there we begin to realtze
that nl,ne ol us are particularly
.in,1l1us to reach our fmal destina11t1ns
quickly. and that gelling
1'ut of Olympia 1s actually more
1mrortant than gt>ttmg to any
,'ne place. So, amidst chocolate
-.1.arsand modular furniture our
l,mtas1es form
If we only had a car .
mu,e

We should buv a VW MicroToni 1~ ont~ something.
Buv 1 7 I spulter "That takes
'nc,ney
But 1ust think
Toni conlmue,
11we had d VW MicroHus
And thus. tht> means of transp<..'rtat1on becomes a given We
Bu!t

now own the ideal fantasy allpurpose youth-oriented in memory of Alice's Restaurant mobile
home. Thirty-five miles to the
gallon, no sweat: a set of chains
with clear instructions including
diagrams; an AM-FM radio and
eight track machine; and on top
of that it never ever breaks
down, not in Montana, not in
the Mojave, not noplace. Off
we go.
"So we're going to Los Angeles
first, right7 Two days in Disneyland, sunburnt noses and Donald
Duck T-shirts. Where next7"
Bit by bit our itinerary forms;
afler L.A. we go to Phoenix,
Arizona to get a guided tour of
the local cowboy bars; then on
to Amarillo. Texas where the
best cowboy hats anywhere are
reportedly found
"Tulsa t" I exclaim. looking up
from the road atlas, "We've got
to go lo Tulsa."
"Tulsa7 What's in Tulsa7"
Dale wrinkles his nose.
Before anyone can stop me I
burst into song, "Oh, take me
bad. to Tulsa I'm too young to
marry Take me back to Tul-

sa
Wh1zzzzzzz. Plop. A chocoli\,te
star sails across the room and
lands 1n Decatur, lllino1s. I take
the hint
We continue north and east to
St Louis, Missoun supposedly to
v1s1t a friend destined for stardom right there in the Mid-West
but really to go gape at the giant
McDonald's arch. Then we head
to Yellow Springs for the previously mentioned chocolate chip
cookies, to Columbus to buy
postcards. lo New Jersey for
breaklast. to New York City for
a ~arl1c pizza and Heiniken beer,
and back West to Oly.

What a lovely trip. Don't you
wish that you had the means to
wander with such careless abandon? Don't I wish that too7 Such
fantasies, however enjoyable will
get me nowhere, not evt>n to
Lacey, so I found myself taking
the practical aspects of a midwinter journey into consideration
and made a few phont> calls.
Here's what I found out:
While it seems to be getting
cheaper and cheaper to fl:9 from
New , York to London, flying
from point to point within the
United States is no bargain. I
hear that one airline has introduced a fourteen day air pass
(similar to the Greyhound Ameripass) for the low budget jPtsetter. This little item goes for
roughly $300 and details are no
doubt available from well-informed travel agents. Other than
that there are few escapes from
high-priced plane tickets within
the United States. You'll bt>
pleased to note that it costs a
mere $39 dollars to zip from
Olympia to Walla Walla via
Cascade Airlines. but is it worth
it 7
If you wanted to fly from Seattle to New York the standard
round-trip coach fare is $422.
There is. howt>ver, an excursion
fare of $338 round-trip. Going
excursion rate means that you
must stay at least seven days but
no longer than thirty, name your
dates of departure and pay for
your tickets at least two weeks
prior to your flight, or ten days
after you've made the reservation. If, for example, you were
heading to Kansas City it would
cost you $229 excursion versus
$286 regular. Excursion fare is
also known as Freedom Fare (a
bicentennial leftover). depending
on the airline or travel agent.
If you are heading any distance
Easl and have a destination in
the Northern part of the country
in mind, it might make sense to

check into the Canadian planes.
They still have stand-by youth
fare there, and if you fly between

Monday and Thursday and don't
do it between December 19 - 24
or January 2 - 4 it will cost 5124
to ny from Vancouver to Montreal.
Canadian trains are also less
expensive than the American variety. If you leave before December 17 it costs $102 from Vancouver to Montreal, where Seattle to New York costs $173 via
Amtrak. The cross country journey takes roughly three and a
half days by train and the trip
can be either very interesting or
dreadfully boring. Take a copy
of Don Quixote or The Simarillion, knit a scarf, inhabit the
club car, make nose prints on
the windows. Travel is fun.
For $295 you could spend thir•
ty days roaming tht> country by
rail. or spend $250 for twentyone days, or even get fourteen
days of Amtrak bliss for $185.
Oh, and there's always the
bus .
Yes, you can go anywhere in the country (not counting states numbers 49 and 50) for
$75 and there are various lengths
of passes available as well. Just
remember that when you purchase a Greyhound ticket you
are selling your soul. Each spacious "Scenacruiser"
comes
equipped with a restroom in the
rear, a puking drunk in the aisle,
and a crying baby up front.
In employing any method of
public transportation
around
Christmas time you should be
prepared
to face an endless
stream of piped-in music of the
season as well as an inordinate
amount of fellow travelers. It is
quite possible that in any given
vehicle there will be no room for

you, so reservations are good in
cases where you can make them,
and being close to the front of
the line is helpful otherwise.
There are also a crop of "alternative" bus services with names

like Grey Rabbit, and Purple
Cow. The bus line which is currently advertising around campus
is called Green Tortoise and they
tout a comfortable bus with ice
boxes and sleeping areas. The
bus leaves from San Francisco
several times towards the middle
and end of December and stops

al El Paso, Memphis, D.C.. P~iladelphia, New York and Boston.
It costs $75 for a one-way trip to
N. Y., the same as Greyhound
but it's hipper. I have heard horror stories about that type of bus
line, and some good things as
well. One articlt> I read told of
numerous breakdowns in remote
parts of the country and crabs in
the sleeping quarters.

Another alternative is People's
Transit. which is a ride-sharing
network that you pay $15 to join
and they connect you with riders
or vehicles. They have been
known to arrange rides for people in private planes and other
novelty treats. If you are interested in joining you can enlist in
1he S&A office !CAB 305).
One last piece of advice is
never underestimate the power of
winter weather to screw up your
plans. Sea-Tac gets fogged in,
cars get stuck in the snow, slide
on the ice, and on occasion get
swept off the road by strong
winds, train tracks get buried,
and thumbs get awfully cold.
Wherever you're heading, be it
Chehalis, Muskogee, or Hohokus,
New Jersey. have a painless journey and a nice new year.

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You are invited to Saga's
fancy ( tablecloths & all) traditional Christmas dinner
that's now become a buffet lunch.
There'll be carved roast beef & all the trimmings,
& music & decorations besides.
Treat yourself, & maybe even a friend,
to an enlightening lunch,
,
& savor a little Saga Christmas class.
In room 108 of the Campus Activities Building
on Tuesday, December 13th.

FILM
ON CAMPUS
Fridav. December 2
THE KNACK (ANO HOW TO QET IT)
(1965, 8-4 minutes) This Richard Lester
lilm Is a "mid-sixties period piece" according to sometime JOURNAL fltm
critic Nathaniel Koch. Some people
think the movie Is funny, some It's very
tunny. z.any even. It's about a lonely
guy and his roommate (a cross between
Roy Oberson and James Dean says
Koch). The roommate has . got the
"knack" and the lonely guy doesn'L The
roommate says things like "Glrls don't
get raped unless they want II.'" Koch
shakes his head sadly and says, "My
how we've changed" (since the sll11ies
that 1s) LH one. 3, 7. ana 9 30, 75
cents
Sunday, December 4
STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1927, 75
mmutes) A silenl ftlm directed by
Charles Reisner. starring Buster Keaton
as the son of a steamboat captain who
is placed al the helm. This mm Is reputed to be one of Keaton's funniest
features and contains the legendary
cyclone disaster
scene. Atso 5000
FINGERS OF DR. T (1953, 88 minutes)
A fantasy film scripted by Dr. Sueu
about a boy who falls asleep at the piano and dreams that he Is being held
captive 1n the fortress of Or. Terwllllker, a mad piano leacher. Terwllllker's
plan 1s to Imprison 500 little boys at a
very long piano to play a concerto tor
5(X)Q lingers. A memorable lilm, perhaps responsible tor my complete lack
of musical talent. Also a short, WHY
MAN CREATES, a Washington Stale
FIim library favorite, a combination ot
animaUon and live action In this award
winning lllm. Admission Is one dollar
10 benefit the completion ol a studentmade fllm, CARL, THE FABULOUS
SNAKE LH one·at 6 and 9:40 p.m.
Monday, December 5
NANA, MOM AND ME (197-4,-45minutes) A freewheeling documentary e,camlning the relatlonshlp between fllmmaker Amalle Rothschild and her molher and grandmother.
Also. LIVING
WITH PETER (1973, 22 mlnules) A film
that documents
lllmmaker
Miriam
Weinstein's personal dilemmas with
the man she Is living with and the Idea
of marriage. Free In LH one, I pm.
THE LAST RESORT documents !he
occupation by the Clamshell Alliance
ol lhe Seabrook nuclear power plant
site In New Hampshire last spring
Members of lhe Crabshell Alliance will
be on hand 10 discuss actions being
taken agains1 nukes In the Nonhwest
LH one Mondav at 7:30 o.m and Tuesday, December 6 at noon
A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE (1976,
60 minutes) An expose of Florida agribusiness and lhe power It holds over
the lives of Florida larmworkers. This
lilm Is compared to the 1950s Edward
R Murrow documentary HARVEST OF
SHAME on poverty among the citrus
wor11.ers. and n shows the lack of
change In conditions over a twenty year
oerlod LH three, noon.
IN OLYMPIA
DARBY O'QILL ANO THE LITTLE
PEOPLE A Walt Disney movie about a
man who !alls Into a hole and encounters people somewhal smaller than
himself. Caoltol Theater, 357-7161

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GREASED UOHTNINO stars Richard

Pryor aa • racing car driver. Atao stars
8-u Bridges, Pam Grier, and Cleavon
little at The Cinema through december
8, 1143-)i9U.
JULES ET JIM (1981, France) Truffaut's study of the friendship between
two students and their long-laatlng atlractlon to the same woman la the aulr
stance of this classic tllm. See ii If you
haven't already .
maybe 8't90 again.
The Cinema, December 7 - 10 (or 11).
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957. Sweden) A lilm directed by Bergman aboul
a professor who recollects hls past
while -travellng in a, car to receive an
award and reveals various facets of his
personality en route. The Cinema, December 11 or 12.
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM starring
George C. Scott is an adventure mm
with boats, fish and bad guys, and
THE BAD NEWS BEARS BREAKING
TRAINING is a sequel 10 a successful
movie iibout cute tittle kids playing
baseball. In lhe last movie one ol the
cute tltlle kids was Tatum O'Neal and
she drew an audience. The sequel reolaces Tatum with the AatrOdome. Not
a bad trade. Olymplc Theater. 357-3422.
STAR WARS This happy llltle movie
has been at lhe State for as 1org as I
have been editor of this paper. Maybe
our fates are tied. Maybe there Is some
cosmic significance. t hear that the
State's copy of the film Is getting a tittle frayed around lhe edges. I hear that
I am getting a Uttle frayed around the
edges. Pretty cosmic, huh?

UN CAMPUS
THE MESSIAH by Handel will be performed by over seventy-five student
and community vocallsts In the library
Lobby on December -4. The concert will
be direr.led by Dr. Wayne S. Hertz. an
adjuncl !acuity member and wlll feature
solos by Mary McCann Zamora, soprano; Joan Winden. alto; Brother Alfred Woodard, 0. S. B .. tenor: and Wllllam Wlnden, bass. A lourteen piece
Siring orchestra will be providing accomoanlmenl, e p.m.
SANORA and HICHARO HAHN, musicians from the University of tdaho,
wilt perform Blllingsley·s Sonata for
Flute and Plano, Prokofiev's Sonata !or
Flute and Plano In O major and .Jlher
pieces in a concert In the Recital Hat/.
Composer WIiliam Bllllngsley wUI be
present earlier In the day to lalk on
music composition. The talk will be at
10 a.m. and will be lree of charge. The
concert wm start at 8 p.m. and will
cost lilly cents for students and senior
citizens and one dollar general. Oecembe,

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IN TOWN
STEVE. KELSO at the Gnu Deli December 1 One dollar
HURRICANE RIDGE RUNNER. a
string band al 1he Gnu Dell December
2 and 3. One dollar cover.
ELSEWHERE
MESSIAH SINO-IN Is a communitywide even1 being held in Seattle on
September 19. The Idea Is that the au-

dlence, whoever they may be; young,
old, talented or tone-deaf, are conducted In a chOrus of Handel's Messiah. It's being held at Seattle Center
Opera House and tickets coat $5.95
each, 8 p.m.
SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
wlll perform works by Benjamin Lees,
Wagner, and Debussy on December 7
at Meany Hall at the University ol
Washington, 8 p.m.
JOAN ARMATRAOINO at the Paramoun1 In Seattle December 1.
JOHN LEE HOOKER at the Rainbow
Tavern In Seattle, December -4• 6.
JEAN LUC PONTY at the Paramount
December 9.
DOLL V PARTON at the Paramount
December 16.

The Journal needs writers and
photographers to assist in production of the paper during Winter and Spring Quarters. The position of Features Editor, which
pays $2.80 per hour for 15 hours
a week, is currently open. Anyone interested in applying should
submit a resume and writing
samples to the Journal office before 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 5.
In addition to a Features Editor
we need people willing to work
on a regular basis as "staff" writers and photographers. We are
presently trying to make arrangements that would allow one or
two of these positions to also be
paid. Regardless of our success
in this endeavor, students selected for the jobs will be mentioned on the CPI masthead, and
could receive academic credit for
their work by obtaining individual contracts. Again, applicants
should submit resumes and samples of their ·work before 5 p.m.
January 5. The quality of the
Journal depends directly on student input. Please consider devoting some time to it so we can

have a lively, interesting paper.

DANCE
!SRA.Ell FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL
with VICKI BESTOCK. The third In a
series of four festivals mainly held at
!he Olympia Community Center. Events
on Friday. December 2 Include a film
YEMENITE DANCERS, performance of
Israeli dances by a Seattle dance troupe
and participation dancing till midnight.
Events start at 8:30 p.m., $2.25 for the
whole day. Workshops and seminars
will take place Saturday beginning al
10 a.m., followed by an Israeli dinner
at 6:30 p.m. A festival pany will take
place at 8. The day's workshops cost
$3.00, the dinner (al Friendship Hall)
COSIS $4.75 and the party $1.00. Th&f'e
Is also a wee hours after party lor
$1.00. cau ~3-9803 for further Info.
THE DANCE CONTRACT ts holdlng
an Informal presenlatlon ol student
compositions and choreography on Friday, December 2 In CRC 310 at 1 p.m.
The campus ls cordlally Invited to go
see the work the contract has been doing this quarter and to participate in
open lmprov and boogie at the end.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL In ballet form
Is being presented by Ballet Nonhwest
A forty-eight member cast wlll dance
the Dickens classic 10 the music of
Gustave Mahler. Performances will be
on December 8, 9, and 10 at 7:30 p.m.
and on December 10 and 11 at 2 p.m.
Admission is $2 for students, $1 !or
children under twelve and $3 for everyone else. Library Lobby.

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THEATER
THE CHIMES by Charles Dickens is
being presented In the Recital Halt on
December 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 at
8 p.m The two hour prOductlon Is directed by Alnara WIider and performed
by lhe English Theater group contracl
The story ponrays the dreams of a poor
por1er about his young daughter Tick•
ets are two dollars.
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR Is a set of
three short plays, PINOCCHIO'S FIRST
TRICKS, THE RELUCTANT DRAGON,
and THE HAPPY PRINCE. It Is being
performed
In the Communications
Building December 3, 10, and 17 at
2 p.m. One dollar for children and senior citizens, two dollars for others.

UCLA Graduate School
Recruiting

A representative from the University of California, Los Angeles, will be on campus to speak
with students interested
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UCLA graduate study Wednes
day, December 7, 10. 3 p.m.,
Career Resource Center, Lib.
1213. Contact Career Planning
and Placement at Library 1214,
866-6193 to register.

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