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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 19 (April 13, 1978)

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TESC To Get
New Provost
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Evans To Faculty:
Enrollment Crucial

by Nancy Ann Parkes
·•~ of this week I fftl almost
fully attunedto Evtrgtten," said
TESC Praidmt Dan Evans at a
r,cord turnout faculty meeting
on Wednosday, April U. During
the two-hour "state of the
college" addreu, Evans spoke in
his administrative capacity as
Evergreen'• President, as a tea.coo in TESC's Management and
the Public Intern! program, and
as a student enrolled in a
beginning pottery clau.
The predominant
topic of
discussion at Wednaday' s gathering was Ev_.,•,
bacbliding
enrollment statistics. Although
enrollment is a much worn
1ubject among the campu1 community, Evana emphasiud that
the college's future 1taliltics of
FTE (Full Time Equivilant) students would ultimately effect
Evergreen', position with the
legislature:
'1 can tell you from experience," said the former governor,
"nothing will speak louder to
them thana potentially growing
enroUment."
Evan, aaid he

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investment corporations. Monies collected from renters help to pay for head office
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Campus Housing. We're not in it for the money.
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regretted that Evergreen'• budget
allocation would b, baled upon
the number of students taught,
rather than the quality of
education provided by the Institution.

Evergreen has ,uffered a drop
of 264 11udmts betw .. n Winter
and Spring Quarters. The newly
released spring enrollment figures
show 2,114 FTE ,tudents, in
contrast with last tfftn's 2,378.
Evans partially attributed the
drop in enrollment to a recent
ruling requiring all individual
contracts to be finaliud by the
sixth day oE each tffm. Those
students who could not meet the
,tringent deadline or find programs that inteftsted them slmpl:.-left Evergreen.
Evant slrtlsed that students
who are already enrolled at the
college should be the focal point
of next fall'1 enrollment campaign: "An Important arena for
us to be working in during the
course of Spring Quarter i, for
each member of the faculty and
staff to do what we can for the
studmll who are already here."
The president felt currently

ahn Appointed
ss istant - Dean

The appointment of Faculty
Member Jeanne Hahn to a
two•year
term as Assistant
Academic Dean was announced
Monday by Vice President and
Provost Edward Kormandy. In a
memo, Kormandy wrote "Jeanne
has shown those attributes which
indicate that she will be effective
in this role and will continue to
contribute to the resolution of
tome of our continuing areas of
concern. She will join a strong
team and bring additional
llrength to it."
Hahn was appointed to the
tw~year term effective Septt111-

choice between of Hahn and
Kaye V. Ladd wa, a difficult one
for him and the consulting
group, stating: "I sincerely hope
that Kaye will try again (for the
position),
she has a lot of
potential
and
professional
strength."
Kormandy noted that this was
the third year of the' selection
process and of the a11i1tant
deanship, and that he was
satisfied that it was working
effectively. "Thus," he stated, '1
am recommending that u of
next year, the selection prooess
be delegated to the Academic

enrolled ,tudents should be
sina!rely questioned about their
prefettnces and future aca<kmic
needs.
Another focal point of the
president's address to the faculty
was Evergreen's pending applia•
tion for a graduate school studies
program.
According
to Vice
President and Provost Ed Kormondy, TESC had intended to
"embark" on the graduate pro.
gram as early as 1972, but the
college administration
decided
that it was too soon to make
such a move. Kormondy said
that some faculty mt111bers"still
feel quite strongly that Evtrgttffl
should never engage in graduate
school programs."
Because othff schools have to
file separately for each degree
program, It would be unlikely
that Evergttffl could obtain a
blanket graduate studies program
ttsulting in a general Master of
Arts degree. Therefore, as Kormoncfy explained, Evergreen',
pending application for a grad-uate studies program will be
focused on the field of public
affairs. M the proposal "takes
better shape," it will be circulated among the faculty. Kormondy expressed hope that the
finished proposal
would be
approved by 1979 so that the
graduate program could begin as
early as the fall ol 1980.
Evans also discussed contra.
versin concerning the current
search to fill the position of Vice
President and Provost. Of the 30
applicants remaining after the
initial "sifting" process conducted
by the hiring team, only two are
members of the Evergrttn community. Evans related that several faculty mernben had approached him with the concern
that the position be filled by an
in-house candidate who already
hu a working relatlonohip with
the-existing faculty, as well a, a
firm ur.derstanding
of Ever-

by John Martin
The Evergreen State College is in the process of scrttning
applicants for the job of Vice President and Provost, which will
be vacated as of July 1 by Edward Kormondy. Over one hundred
applications wen received by the college, and Evergreen Faculty
Members Maxine Mimms and Willie Unsoeld are tho only two
"inside" candidates. TESC President Dan Evans expects to
aMounce an appointment by April 30.
According to Assistant to the Provost Jean Jacob, the
e:ight-men•and..ejght•women screening committee is comprised of
faculty, staff and students. At an April 15 meeting 52 of the
original 113 applicants were screened out for failure to mttt the
criteria of ,election the committee had previously decided on.
Some examoJn, of the selection criteria. which was set at a
March 16 Screening Board meeting, include intellectual integrity,
exttllena as a teacher and scholar, administrative experience in
higher education, and an abiJity to relate to external affairs such
as the community and interinstitutional business. Jacob was quick
to point out that the committee has not screened out any of the
original 45 Third World .ipplicants. The second screening of
applicants wilt take place at an April 19 meeting of the Screening
Board.
Although Mimms and Unsoeld are the only Evergreen State
College applicants, five other Evergreen faculty members were
nominated for the position. Jacob states that the others, including
Mark Levensky and Dave Hitchins, chose not to leave their names
in nomination because ··they felt that the job wasn't for them or
that they were happy with their present positions."
Mimms, who is currently teaching an Evergreen program
entitled "A Seperate Reality." told the CPJ that she accepted the
nomination because "I have an ego," and after twenty~ight years
in the field of education and government she also feels she has the
necessary experience.
Unsoeld too has many years of experience in the field ot
education, induding being on the original Evergreen State College
planning faculty. Unsoeld accepted the nomination out of "a sense
of duty" towards the college. He is currently teaching a program
entitled "Peace, Conflict and Social Change."
The CPJ asked both Mimms and Unsoeld about any changes
they would make as Vice President and Provost as far as
curriculum or faculty are concerned. Mimms felt that she would
make chanaes but was not sure at this time what changes she
would make. Unsoeld said he has learned "the harsh lesson of
how to facilitate, and would leave a good part of the academic
planning to faculty, staff and students."
In response to the question of what they thought the
community's feelings toward Evergreen were, Mimms told the CPJ
that the people she comes into contact with feel the college is
"excellent," and she also feels that "Evergreen will never die unless
we kill it from the inside with our own smugness and isolation.''
Unsoeld believes the State of Washington to be ,·ery conservative
and that many high school counselors unintentionally discourage
students from coming to Evergreen because they don't understand
Evergreen's unique type of education.
When asked if she would continue teaching if appointed Vice
President and Provost Mimms, who teaches a group of students in
Tacoma, said, '1 will always teach my students in Tacoma."
Unsoeld would like to teach a Basic Logic Module, a pet project
he has been working on for some time. Says Unsoeld, ''I'd have to
keep my hand in teaching just to kttp my sanity."
Neither
Mimms nor Unsoeld would feel any great
disappointment at not being appointed Vice President and
Provost. Unsoeld states that he really didn"t look forward to the
nomination as he feels that teaching is the center of his life, but if
he did receive the appointment he would give it his "best shot.··
Mimms states that "lf I don't get it this year I'll get it the
following year. I'm never leaving here." Mimms also went on to
say, "Eventually I'll become Vice President and Provost or
President of Evergreen. l have a legacy to leave.''

green's goals and history.
The president
would not
indicate whether or not he
leaned towards ,illing the position with an in-house candidate.
He did inform tho faculty that
their concerns could be voiced to
the screening committee, and
would be highly considered in
the eventual selection which is
expected to be announced by
April 30. Evans has made an
effort within the past few
months to make personal contact
with many TESC faculty members, often inviting smaU groups
to his office for informal
discussions. "I found that there
are many more sherry drinkers
than coffee drinkers on the
faculty, particularly after four
o'clock," he said jokingly.
President Evans feels. that
legislators
who are hesitant
about Evergreen don't yet un·
derstand how the college func•
tions. 'We have a story, perhaps
not very well understood, and
perhaps not even completely
told." Evans added that there "is
a significant amount of good will
towards Evergreen in the lqislature." A good portion of that
good will could be a result of
Evans' meetings with 75 mem-

bers of the legislature since he
has assumed his post at Evergreen .
One member of the faculty
asked Evans if Governor Dixy
Ltt Ray had come to know any
more about Evergreen than she
did when she came into office.
"TII ,ake tho first, filth, tenth.
and whatever other amendments
I can find on that one," Evans
replied. In a more serious tone.
he expl'lined that he planned to
meet with the governor in the
near future to discuss Evergreen,
and mentioned
that she had
recently pointed to Evergreen's
faculty retention plan as an
alternative to the traditional plan
of tenure. "She was also excited
to learn of our Vancouver
Outreach program," said Evans.
When questioned about the
feasibility of intercollegiate ath•
letics at Evergreen, Evans replied: "Football would be a total
disaster, financially. Basketball is
an impossibility without a court.
We could come up with a new
sport and become champions in
the first year," he mused, "and
we might be able to go as far as
purchasing gym shorts and swim
suits."

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Letters(O)J:P)llIIDll@IIDLetters~llIIDll@IID

You Can Say
That Again
To the Editor:
To the person named A.M.
Kratz· Would you please rewrite
your letter to the CPJ on 4/6/78.
Us mortals down here on planet
Earth would like to know what
you mean.
Julie Hubben

Mindless
Hate
To the Editor,
As veteran Evergreen students,
we have watched this school
decompose into lethargic lumps,
laced with grim little groups of
mindless hate. Keep it up and
you'll bury this place yet. Please,
try not to understand
your
neighbor too quickly.
Yours,
Steve Willis
and his friend,
Jobbo Bonobo

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Prints

Kidnapping

Rename The
Dorms Too

Offensive

To the Editor:
Late last week I "confiscated"
a one quart bottle of Deep Fruit
Red Liquid Food Color (better
known as Red 12) from thtSAGA kitchen. The production
of Red #2 has been banned for
quite a while in this country
because it was found to be
carcinogenic, but, unfortunately,
it is still legal (although not
ethical) to use up existing stocks.
I resent proven cancer causers
being added to my food. Red #2
is commonly
used to make
chocolate look richer and natur•
ally reddish foods look even
brighter.
I feel that SAGA
should be more responsible in its
choice of foods and ingredients
than it presently is. And to
s·ACA-to
whom it may concern: Please don't attempt to
acquire more of this dreaded
substance, for 1 fear it will also
mysteriously vanish.
Another Anonymous Kidnapper

To the Editor,
If Dirk Park's prints were
taken because they were offensive to anyone, I now agree. Not
because of what the pictures are,
but because 1. find them very
offensive in the Cooper Point
Journal. A gallery setting may be
appropriate.
Ann Brown
Staff

Me And Ernie
Did It
To the Editor:
Hal Hal We sure pulled a fast
one over on you guys! It was me
and Ernie who stoled them
beaver shots and then we made
it look like the Amazons did it.
Yuk! Yuki
Lester
P.S. We want you to know that
we're having a great time with
them. (The pictures,
not the
Amazons!

try something

Thank You

To the Editor,
HEY.
Like wow, I groove on the
new names chosen for campus
roads. It's easy to get behind
together names obviously chosen
by someone so in touch with the
Earth's aura. WiJd Currant Loop,
Fireweed Drive,
talk about
mellow! Perhaps while we're at it
we could rename some of those
structures unfortunate enough to
have been named in the archaic
period of the early seventies.
Remember dorm "A"7 Bland
huhl Maybe something of the
likes of "Olympic Vista Tower''
would be more in keeping these
progressive times, or how about
"Sun view Patio", "Hidden Hemlock Den"7 The possibilities are
endless ...

To the Editor,
Thank you for writing the
• editorial entitled "Where Will
Housing Money Go7", which
appeared in the last issue of the
CPJ (April 6). In light of tho fact
that "'Evergrttn Campus Housing
has earned $60,000
in net
revenue over the past year," I
suggost that tho CPJ stop
printing the inane and now
known-to-be-untrue
advertisement for Housing, "No Fat. No
Profit.", which usually appears
on the last page of the paper.
I would appreciate a follow-up
article on how this money is to
be used when its outcome is
decided, along with advice as to
how to have input into the
decision, if possible.
Thank you,
Bluo McRight

To

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I suggest that the next time
Preacher Ray or anyone else
from his space warp shows up
on campus, that we confront
him with his most secret desire:
some nails and a cross!
Ernie

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time one is inclined to agree, as
long as the tanks get moved.
The park is on city land, but
over half the peninsula is owned
by the Port of Olympia.
a
corporation owned by Thurston
County.
Irene discussed
the
Continued on page 6

EUITOR
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Society For The Preservation oi
Julia H. "If there are two o{ us,
it must be a movement."

neu,
over JO j'illings to choose j'rom
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industrial use, and that's what
this area is zoned for. But since
aquatic lands are managed for
the benefit of the public, it's
contradictory to build things that
completely obscur,e the view. We
have so much water here in
Olympia, we need to focus on it.
It's a tremendous drawing card
for the community. That's why I
backed the waterfront park."
We got· back in her car and
continued the tour, driving back
toward town by a different route
this timt. Just past the Fiddlehead Marina a group of young
people were cooking lunch-hot
dogs over a plle of burning
scrap wood.
Soon we arrived at the north
end of the new park, which so
far consists of a fairly elaborate
boardwalk about three blocks
long. The park will eventually
provide temporary moorage to
visiting pleasure boats. Irene was
enthusiastic:
"This is a vast
improvement over the old ware~
houses that were here. The park
provides a service to people from
other communities and it'll bring
money into downtown Olym~
pia."
Next to the boardwalk, one
can't help but notice Keith
Kisor's fuel storage tanks on the
other side of a barbed wire
fence. Kisor was Commissioner
of Public Works in Olympia ,t
the time the park was planr.ed.
His fuel tank lot is now prime
land for development. Presumably, the value of land th•:re will
increase to the point ,,here it
will no longer be economical for
him to store fuel there, and he
will be forced to either sell or
lease his land for other purposes.
Irene had little to say about the
matter, but did ol-,serve that "At
least we have our park." By this

To the Editor:
We want to know what the
fuck is going on and who's in
charge.
Sincerely,

Milkshake*

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Olympia is in the final stages of
getting permission
to start a
massive development project on
East Bay. On the whole, tho
project has met with a positive
reaction from the community. It
will entail the filling of an
additional thirty acres on the
Port Peninsula, and the dredging
of the bay. A public marina will
extend from near the bight of the
bav almost to the point. A hotol
and stores will be built, and
more cargo space and land for a
sewage treatment plant will be
created. An additional compon·
ent of the project will be the
construction of an access route
from Interstate Five to the Port,
thus re-routing
truck traffic
away from downtown.
I recently toured the area with
Irene Christy,
a long time
resident of Olympia who has
been extensively
involved in
studying the waterfront with the
League of Women Voters. As we
drove past empty lots and stark
old buildings, she pointed out
warehouses that once held saw
mills. Sea Mart was once a
cannery; a little further out there
was once a WW- II ship-building
yard. We drove past the few
remaining industries: Graystone
Cement Company, a pole treatment plant and a mobile home
manufacturing company.
We continued
into the log
storage area, where nothing is
visible but huge stacks of logs
and piles of debris. It was a
beautiful day on the inlet. Three
or four sailboats were headed for
open water, while gulls drifted
on the breeze. One is- struck by
the contrast between this little
peninsula and its surroundings.
Irene Christy was optimistic
about the area's future. 'I'm not
against having areas set aside for

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At fiut,
it was mostly
mudflats-streaching
at low tide
from Tumwater Falls to Priest
Point. The waters of Budd Inlet
were inaccessible to large, ocean
going vessels. Various schemes
were attempted in the late 1880's
to change this situation.
An
ocean dock was built on the west
bank of the inlet, and used for
transferring
cargo to smaller
boats that could take it downtown. An almost-five---thousandfoot wharf was built from the
foot of what is now Capitol
Way, extending out into the
inlet. Within ten years, the
wharf was destroyed by worms.
Finally, in 1891, the Anny Corps
of Engineers began the task of
dredging the harbor. By 1911 the
channel was clear, and much of
what is now downtown Olympia
had been created out of fill.
Thus began the history of
downtown Olympia north of
State Street. Since then, the area
has gone through
numerous
changes before finally reaching
it's present state: the mini-industrial wasteland apparent to the
casual observer. Used car lots
and rotting warehouses a stone's
throw away from a downtown
center are a sure sign of Urban
Blight, a problem even Olympia
hasn't escaped.
As one drives down Fourth
Street. the point of land where
vacant lots, fuel tanks and
thousands
of logs stand is
literally behind the scenes. Yet
the activity (and inactivity) on
this point is intrinsic 10 the
town's character and economy.
There may be some bright
spots amid the rubble. The
much-touted waterfront park is
nearing completion at State and
Fourth Streets, and the Port of

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Washington

Tllo~-

Murder

Statutes

by Nancy Ann Parkes
On March 13, nine Washing·
ton Supreme Court Justices
(onvened t0 hear drguments
u1nn'rnmg the constitutionality
ol th~ states
second·degree
murder statutes. Those argu·
ment<. centered around whether
thl' !>late should adopt the
u1ncept of "merger", which is a
rule excluding second.degree
.ii;-.ault as a precedent
for
lt:'inny-murder. In other words,
merger would prevent the accust·J trom being convicted on a
chJrge ot felony murder because
he <ihe was tound guilty of the
unJerlymg assault.
The briet ot the Rt>Spondant
trws.t>culmg attorneys) in this
(a,e contends that merger is not
J
matter ol constitutional dim1ms1on but rather a matter to
he decided by the legislature:
It any change is to be made,
11 15 respectfully submitted that it
sh1..-,uld
come trom the legislature,
which during 1he regular and
e'<traurdmary sessions of 1977
had before it proposals to delete
<.e(ond-degree assault from the
second·degree felony murder statute
The Respondant
also
claims that "by refusing to adopt
merger in the new code, (the
legislature) has indicated its
mtenl in this area."
According lo the attorneys for
the prosecution,
only seven
states have expressly adopted the
merger rule, and those states
have done so "primarily because
of a need to preserve the
gradations ot homicide as pr<r
vided by the peculiar statutes of
those jurisdictions." In contrast
with the Respondant's findings,
the
Appellant's
attorneys
tElizabeth M. Schneider, Susan
B. Jordan, and MarY Alice

Questioned

of the merger rule, would be
unable to consider the intent of
the defendant; eg., whether she
viewed her actions as self defense
or defense of her children, or her
mental state at the time of the
shooting. They could determine
where, when, and how, but
never question why she shot
Wesler. In fact, they would only
have to find the following to
tum in a guilty verdict: "That
the defendant did wilfully and
unlawfully commit the crime of
Second Degree assault by assaulting William E. Wesler with
a weapon or other instrument
likely to produce bodily harm;
that the defendant committed the
assault in Spokane County, State
of Washington, on or about the
12th day of August, 1972; (and)
that as a result of said assault
the said William E. w.. Ier did
receive wounds from which he
died on or about the 12th day of
August, 1972."

Yvonne Wanrow
Theiler) contend that all other
states with a statutory scheme
similar to Washington's
have
adopted the merger rule.
If the Supreme Court fails to
adopt the merger rule, Yvonne
Wanrow could be tried and
possibly convicted of seconddegree murder regardless of
whether or not she intended to
kill William Wesler in August of
1972 (see box).
Presently, Washington's aecond-<legree murder statute (RCW

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Ian• Beelby
9,48.040) provides the following,
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\ustifiablet is murder in tb.~
second degree when
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Donald Brockott has charged
Waruow under subsection (2) of
the above statute. She will be
tried on this charge if the
Supreme Court rejects merger,
and the prosecution
will not
have to prove she intended to
kill w .. Jer, only that he died as
a result of an underlying crime;
that of felonious assault. Count
one of that charge reads:
'That
the .,.id defendant
YVONNE L. WANROW, in
County of Spokane, State of
Washington, on or about the
12th day of August, 1972,
then and there being, did then
and there wilfully and unlawfully, without excuse or justification, and while engaged in
the commission of the crime of
ASSAULT IN TI-IE SECOND
DEGREE made an assault
upon WILLIAM E. WESLER
with a pistol loaded with powder and shot which she fired
at, upon and into the body of
said WILLIAM E. WESLER,
and by the manner and means
of aforesaid inflicted upon the
body of Yid WILLIAM E.
WESLER did then and there,
on or about the 12th day of
August, 1972, die."
The jury, without the benefit

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Allowing Wan row's case to be
prosecuted on a precedent of
felonious assault would also
distort the distinction between
murder and manslaughter under
Washington state law. In their
brief to the Supreme Court
Appellant's attorneys contend
that the basic distinction between
murder and manslaughter is the
"element of intent to kill." The
Appellant supports this distinction by citing precedent cases
where both "the Supreme Court
and lower courts of this state
have consistently
held that
manslaughter is the appropriate
charge where a felonious assault
results in death, and where
intent to kill is not present."
The Respondant a,gu .. , however, that intent to kill is not the
only distinction between murder
and manslaughter. For a proper
clw-ge of ~ughter
the act
resulting in death would have to
be unintentional and not ~lonio\15. Thettfore, the Respondant
contends that " ... an unintended
death resulting from a felonious
act, such as second degree
assault, is not manslaughter."
The Respondant's interpretation of the law invites the dangtt
that the causen of all unpremeditated and unintended deaths
could be punished for oeconddegree murder. For example,
although the court has previously considered hunting accidents
resulting in death to be manslaughter, a prosecutor could
charge second-degree' murder
based on subsection 2 of the
murder statute, on the precedent
of the assault itself.
CONSTITUTIONAL
VIOLATIONS
In 1956 the Washington State
Supreme Court ruled that a
"statute which proscribes different punishment
or different
degrtts of punishment for the
same act committed under the
same circumstances by pttsOns
in like situations is violative of
the equal protection clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment of the
United States Constitution."
Yvonne Wanrow
will be
deprived of her right to equal
protection if Prosecutor Donald
Brockett is allowed the leeway to
choose between charges which
have substantially different penalties. The penalty for man-

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slaughter in the state of Washington (RCW 9.48.060) rang..
from a fflinimum of one year in
a county jail to a maximum of
20 years in a state penitentiary
or a fine, while the penalty for
second-degree murder
(RCW
9 .48.040) requires a "minimum
imprisonment in state penetentiary of ten years."
Without the merger rule, at
this juncture, the prosecutor not
only has the perogative to evade
the issue of intent to kill, he has
the power to determine the
severity
of the charge.
A
prosecuting attorney for the state
would be likely to charge al)
deaths resulting from felonious
assault as second-degree murder;
the job of a prosecuting attorney
is to prosecute to the "fullest
extent of the law."
In addition to equal protection
violations,
failure to adopt
merger would violate the defendant's right to a fair trial as
guaranteed by the fourteenth
amendment of the United States
Constitution.
This
violation
would exist for several reasons.
ln accordance with the Washington State Constitution as well
as the United States Constitution, the accused "has the right
to have the jury pass upon every
substantive fact going to the
question of his guilt or iM<r
cence." Intent to kill is a
substantive fact when considering the severity of the seconddegree murder charge. Without
the merger rule, intent is
immaterial.
The Amicus Cariae for the
Respondant maintains that the
defendant's right to a fair trial
would not be violated, ''Under
the Washing ton ~lony-murder
rule, all elements of the underlying felony must be PfOved
beyond a reasonable doubt by
the prosecution, including the
intent element. All defenses,
including intent defenses, are
available to a defendant, as weU
as self-<lefmse when the under1ying felony is assault. The
prosecution is not ttlieved of its
burden of proof with respect to
any defenses asserted by a
defendant. Furthermore, the felony-murder rule does not impose
any different burden upon a
defendant with ttSpect to raising
defenses to felony-murder than
to any of the underlying
felonies ... ,"
The prosecution would only
be burdened with the issue of
intent to kill, however, if it ~ere
raised in the defense process;
thus violatins the defendant's
right to due process of law. Both
the United States and Washington State Constitution guarantee
the accused a privilege against
self-incrimination. The defendant
could be lorced to incriminate
him/her,elf if it were solely the
responsibility of the defmse to
question the issue of intent.
A defendant might choose not
to take the stand for numerous
reasons. Yet if intent to kill can
be assumed or transferred from
the commission of an underlying
assault (which it can without the
merger rule), rather than proven
''beyond a reasonable doubt",
the defendant would be virtually
forced to take the stand.
The nine Supreme Court
Justices could take up to a fuU
year to rule on the Appellant's
appeal. Wanrow's lawyen are
hopeful, but caution that a
ruling in her favor would not
necessarily end the case of State
vs. Wanrow.
One thing is
certain, if the court rules in
favor of tb• Respondant, Yvonne
Wanrow, the possibility exists
that she would be tried, convicted and tentenad to ,erve over
ten yean In a State penitentiary
for what she beUeved wu an act
in defense of th• bodi.. and
minds of her children.

Wanrow's
On the morning of August 11,
1972, William Wesler sexually
assaulted
Yvonne
Wanrow's
nine-year old son. That evening
Wanrow and Shirley Hooper
maintained an all-night vigil,
huddling together in Hooper's
home on the Colville Indian
Reservation. The two women
feared that Wesler (known in the
community as "Chicken Bill"
because of his record of child
molestation) would break into
the house and carry out his
threats to further assault their
chi)dren.
Twenty-four hours earlier,
Hooper's seven-year old daugh•
ter had identified Wesler as the
man who had raped her months
earlier. Upon learning
that
Wesler was responsible for her
child's harrowing experience,
Hooper immediately requested
that the police place him under
arrest. She was told that no
action could be taken until the
following Monday. The police
suggested that during the interim
she dust her window-ledges with
flour so that Wesler could be
easily identified if he attempted
to break into the house.
At daybreak on August 12,
Wesler staggered into the Hooper
home
visibly
intoxicated.·
Wanrow subsequently shot him
with a 25 caliber pistol, beliwing
at that moment that the gun was
her only means of protecting
herself and her
children.
Wanrow also shot Wesler's
drinking
companion,
David
Kelly, who had ent,red th,
house only seconds after him.
Wesler died from hi.$wounds.
Shirley Hooper immediately
called the police to notify them
of the shootings. Wanrow took
the phone away from her and

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The interview will take plaa
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described the incident, unaware
that her voice was being taped.
She was not informed of her
rights under the United States
Consitution at that time.
Yvonne Wanrow was brought
to trial before an all-caucasian
jury of five men and seven
women. On May 13, 1973, she
was found ·guilty of seconddegree murder, first-degree assault, and use of deadly weapon.
She was sentenced to serve 25
years in the state penitentiary.
On January 7, 1977, the
Washington
State
Supreme
Court reversed Wanrow' s conviction. The reversal was issued
because the conversation
between Wanrow and the police
which transpired immediately
following the shootings had been
admitted as evidence in the trial
in violation of a Washington
State statute prohibiting such
admissions.
In addition,
the
court ruled that the jury had not
been properly
instructed
to
consider Wanrow' s actions "from
her perspective,
at that moment ... " (During the 1973 trial,
Spokane County
Prosecutor
Donald Brockett used the -tape
recording to argue that Wanrow
was not appropriately "hysterical" at the time of the shootings,
thereby implying to the jury that
the assaults had been calculated.)
Following the 1977 rev•=l of
Wanrow's conviction, Brockett
decided to retry her on a charge
of second-degree murder based
on second-degree assault. Under
this charge,
she could be
convicted of second-degree murder if a jury found her guilty of
the assault, regardless of whether
or not she had intended to kill
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scheduled for October of 1977.
Wanrow's trial is still awaiting
a decision by the Washington
State Supreme Court concerning
the constitutionality of Washington's second-degree murder statutes. Her attorne)!s filed the
appeal on the reasoning that, as
presently charged,
Wanrow
would be denied equal protection
under the law, trial by jury, and
right to due process. A decision
could come as late as March of
1979, seven years after the
morning Wanrow shot Wesler.
The Spokane county prosecutor
retains the option to recharge the
case, even if the Supreme Court
rules in Wanrow's favor.
The Colville Indian woman
has turned her six-year legal
ordeaJ into a1~ational crusade
for the rights of women and
children to protect themselves
against rape and violence, '1
think that the polic• when called
upon should listen to women
when they need help, especially
in rape cases. Oftentimes women
don't report it just because the
police don't believe them and
tum it around to make the women look like the criminals. I see
some errors there-I would like
to see that the women are protected; that the rapists aren't just
slapped on the hands, and that
it's not condoned like it has
been," Wanrow explains.
Yvonne Wanrow is presently
continuing her education as an
individual contract student at
The Evergreen State College.
Sponsored by faculty member
Mary Nelson, she is researching
the cultural backgrounds
of
various Indian tribes. as well as
keeping a log of her many
speaking engagements across the
country.

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ln Lecture Hall 3. More Into-call
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beginning Aprll 18th. An open gay
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5:30. Both wlll be In the GAC lounge,
Lib. 3213. They are Intended to be
opportunities lo discuss Issues In oul
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Geoduck Fleet were launched on
Wednesday,
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F1ddlehead Marina in downtown
Olympia. The boats were conslructed during Fall and Winter
Quarters by thirty students in
the Vancouver and Puget pro~ram
The boats were designed by
C.HI Brownstein. a former Ever~reen student who supervised
their construction.
They are
twenty-011e foot long replicas of
eighteenth century English pilot
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Junng their early explorations of
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the,r day they were outlawed
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English Channel to escape Revt>nue Cutters.
t-.lost students involved in the
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r0ds and were clipped and
hammered over to form rivets.
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sound. The boat construction
was funded by individual student
contributions of $75 each. The
boats are now valued at $2,800
apiece. After Spring Quarter.
they may be loaned to the
college for academic program
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Port's East Bay Development
plans, "The Port i, charged by
the state with economic develo~
ment-that's
what's so fascinating about it; they can do so
much for the city." Again, she
was enthusiastic. She believes the
project may vitalize the ill-used
lands between Fourth Street and
the Port. "This may be the
beginning of a geographical tie
between the waterfront and the
city. It should also help counteract the effects of the new mall on
the downtown area.''
The Port of Olympia is one of
more than thirty in the state that
were organized under a 1911
state law. Port Manager Gene
Sibold explains, "The Port was
originally established to provide
the local community an ocean
outlet for their timber products."
Today the Port's holdings include more than 300 acres on the
Port Peninsula,
the Olympia
Airport, and some industrial
lands adjacent to it. While the
Port acls as a landlord to a
number ot industiral
plants,
Sibold says that 90 percent of its
business is still shipping. In an
average year more than twenty
vessels dock at the Port's
terminals.
On Monday it was the Toyo
Maru-173
metrrs long and
weighing 23,983 tons. In the late
afternoon 1 stood around in a
wind storm and watched as
longshoremen loaded logs. Mobi le loading
machines
with
crab-like prongs picked up the
logs and deposited them before
the ship, while men (and one
woman) put chains on them. A
boom on deck, reaching
a
hundred feet above the water,
then hoisted them up.
I deliberated whether or not i
would be thrown oH if I went on
board. Finally I stumbled up the
gangway, and was immediately
greeted by a Japanese sailor. "ls
the captain around?" I asked.
"Uhhl-captainl ... Ahh-oh, captain!"' He shook his head and
gestured for me to follow as we
went up several nights of stairs.
The smell of diesel fuel mixed
with dinner cooking in the galley
pervaded the air. I'd always
wanted to go to Japan, but for
the moment anyway, this would
suffice.
By now my guide had looked
in several rooms, but no captain.
He was not on board. Instead I
was taken to Chief Mate Osamu

Shime, or Shime Osamu, depending on which h~misphere he
happens to ~ in (in Japan, the
family name is given first.) I
asked him if he ,poke English.
He replied with a laugh, "Slowly." No one even bothered to ask
if I spoke Japanne. The interview was rather difficult, and a
language barrier makes for poor
quoting. He told me his ship, a
part of the Shinto Line, hails
from Tokyo. He lives in Kusyu,
a suburb. The ship's voyage
from Japan to Olympia took 14
days, and he will make about
four hundred American dol\ars
for each week of the trip.
The T oko Maru would ~ in
Olympia for one week; what
could he do for funl "Only
eating and drinking ... only!"
Shi,ne didn't specify what other
possibilities the second "only"
referred to. I looked around his
cabin, which apparently served
both as an office and sleeping
quarters. On his table stood
several jars of Planter's Peanuts
and a small tray filled with
Rothman's cigarettes. He rummaged through some papers to
produce a specification sheet on
the vessel (in English). Had be

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the area has been deteriorating
for some time. "I like to think of
it as the Olympia waterfront
having gone through a fifty-year
era," he said. "There were some
of the first plywood mill, in the
nation here. The lumber products were going to an Atlantic
market, but then a technology
emerged which allowed plywood
to be manufactured from the
smaller diameter logs found in
the South East." Mills that once
handled logs in the water became
obsolete as saw mills became
land-based. The buildings deteriorated. Sibold also said technology changes have effected the
cargo industry. 'The cargo is
loaded with such speed today,
you need ten times the cargo
storage space that you had
fifteen years ago to operate
efficiently."
All this, of course, lead him to
talking about the Port's development project. 'When it became
obvious that the waterfront was
in decline, we got involved in
updating the use of Olympia
Harbor, We came up with the
East Bay Development project."
The project will cost about nine

by S. Ryals
SONGS
OF THE
FIRE
CIRCLES is an epic poem, a
complex profusion of images and
songs delivered to us as a single
vision. The work was drawn
together over more than a dozen
years and deserves possibly
another 12 years of consideration
by the reader. The author, K'os
Naahaabii/Oon Jordan, recorded
the SONGS from a fasting vision
he experienced after over a year
of convalescing from a meeting
with near death. He'd fallen
several stories off a dam project
where he was a high steel
worker, and says that as he fell
he watched his body drop from
some separate vantage point.
This sensation
is apparent
throughout the dream he records
in FIRE CIRCLES.
Watching the movement,
Sighting the anxieties
Of free-falling into a space
With no end, and in the
rapture
Of endless expanse, a word
~gan
To manifest its meaning.
It is a vision of fierce colors,

muted shades, a repetition of the
hues of fire: red, yellow. black
and white, reeling in a deep blue
universe. They are colors in
conflict, representing the four
races of humanity in struggle,
never making peace. The recurring theme and sensory impact
of the poem is one of struggle, of
chaos, war, and profuse, seeming unreconcilable conflicts and
contradictions. The imagery creates this sensation from the very
beginning of the dteam, describing motion that is at once subtle
and overwhelming.
The air became granular
Blue-black powder
Tinged with yellow pollen
Swirling
With only minimal
movements.
Straining to see
What was not...
There came a faint
Ever so delicate a gestureIt seemed to be on the
horizon ...
Infinitesimal ...
Imperceptible.
Or was it elsewhere7
It moved aga,in...

There!

been in Olympia ~fore7 "Oh.
many, many times!"
Shime told me the ship had
made a call in Port Angeles to
pick up a pilot before entering
Puget Sound. When it returns to
Japan it will discharge it's logs at
three ports: Hirao, Kago Shima,
and Nagoya. "You've uh, heard
of Kago Shima7" "No" (should I
have1). There was more that I
could have asked him, but, I
someh0w felt that I was invading
his privacy.
We exchanged
thank-yous several times and I
left the cabin, getting lost before
finding my way off the ship.
Gene Sibold gave me a partial
explanation of the phenomenon
of Japanese ships regularly coming to Olympia, "There's a law
on the books which says that
shipping between U.S. ports
must~ done on U.S. ships. Up
in B.C. they can ship cargo to
the Atlantic market on foreign
vessels at a much cheaper rate.
In the meantime, the Japanese
have had a rising economy so
we've picked up their demand
for wood."
We talked al1out the Port

million dollars.
Up to two
million will be paid by state and
federal aid. It is anticipated that
the remainder will be paid by the
Port. "We've been off the tax
roles in Thurston County for six
years now," said Sibold, "and
we hope to stay that way."
The hope is that the project
will have an overall effect on the
downtown area. Sibold thinks.
"the marine development project
will have almost more indirect
benefits in the renewal of the
downtown area than in its direct
benefits to the port itself:·

intertwined messages. I hroui,;h
out them there 1s a cry tor peaet•.
mercy, and tranquility, yet m
the Pnd as in the ht-ginning 11 1s
not easy, We s.ee.
... all emot1ons/Wh1ch
stifle
thoughts of men I And yet as 11
enveloped/In a skein of tran!>parency /Was the feeling of
tranquility./Not
a peaceful
lranquility, /But a tranquility
sttmingly at war with itself

A shadow upon shadows.
Emptiness expanded
Swelling, collapsing as if
The rhythmic breath of an
expectant Universe
Was felt on every nerve,

in it moved,

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Sponsor Forums
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ill hold a series of open forums
pril 18, 19 and 20 to exchange
information
regarding
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ompson's academic advising
proposaJ with Evergrttn community members, The meeting
will ~ informal. and will toke
plaa from noon to I p.m. in
CAB 108.
Thompson· s proposal calls for
structured,
long range educational planning for all Evergreen
students, a pattern of general
expectations to be considered in
that planning, and increased
faculty involvement in academic
advising. The DTF was formed,
at the request of a group of
cult memben
to stud the

Blue Universe

proposal's feasibility, determine
needed modifications, and develop a formal plan for it
implementation.
If implemented, Thompson'
proposal wou.Jd have a majo
dfect on curriculum planning at
Evergreen. For this reason th
DTF is interested in, and pl
to give strong consider-eation to,
the opinions of the college'
faculty,
students
and staff.
Anyone unable to attend th
upcoming forums can submit
written comments on the proposal (copies are available at the
Information Center) to either the
Information Center or the Academic Advising Office, Library
1211.

This imagery is unnerving,
and appropriate to the purpose
of revealing all the blades of
conflicting cultures, races, religions and words that press the
poet in multiple dizzying directions. He draws his symbols and
imagery from many cultures:
Native American, Anglo, and
Hindu. Some of his philosophical
statements are lucid and piercing, and some of them sound
like nonsensical fragments from
a thousand sermons from equally
as many religions.

Author K'os Naahaabii !Don Jordan/.
the criminal. It illustrates the
feebleness of religious words in
the face of violent actions. and
indeed shows them as inextricably intertwined.
The Seven
Hells of the Seven Fire Circles
are named Charity, Faith, Sincerely, Honor, and other words
that usually describe ideals in
Christianity. The Hells are illuStrated with parables in which
these "qualities" are excercised
with falseness, ignorance, and
insensitivity
to
differences:
A fundamentalist
congregation
clucks and shakes heads over the
visionary suicide of , a Native
American girl. A priest blesses a
man and condemns him to death
in the same breath. People are
reduced to fighting viciously
over a tom shirt, a pair of
boots.

A section of the poem deals
with the Priest and the Sinner,

The SONGS have no single
resolution, no easy answer, but
contain
many complex
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Several people were important
to the making of this book. They
include Bill Hotchkiss, Darrell
Farre, Mary Nelson and Don
Jordan's children. The bool....,
introduction
tells about these
people and the process and
·support that crec1ted the work. It
gives us insight mto the poet and
a key for understanding some c-f
his poem.

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clothes ...
Cool cotton
gauze.
bright coloro

& fun

.. So now I must close my
eyes and sprawl cruciform
On the floor of the sky. on the
roof of the earth.
And sing my prayers as they
come to me ..

///\:::::;

Since the plan's inception in
1971 it has been the subject of
some controversy in Olympia.
Charges were made that the Port
failed to seek public input before
seeking the necessal3/ permit. It
nov,, seems that most of this is
settled, and the local permits
have been obtained. It's expected
that the Army Corps of Engineers will approve the project by
late 1979, and it will be
completed by the mid-<eighties.
Most Evergreen students, however, will never stt it.

styles.
Great to
show off
that new
tan.

The poem ends with a quote
from "Prayer By Moonlight" by
Bill Hotchkiss, which leaves the
poet doing the only thing he can
after such a violent rebirth:

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