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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 6, Issue 29 (August 10, 1978)

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15,000 comics
and lots of art
on 4th street
Taking comic books seriously is
something that's never occurred to
most people. True, once a year or so
they hear reports of some comic
book conference in Oskogee, but
they just can't relate it to their own
lives. Now, however, it's hitting
closer to home. Two weeks ago,
~ike Ross opened a comic book
shop on Fourth Avenue in Olympia
called Four Color Fantasies. 'Tm
trying to cater to the collector,
rather than just kids," says Ross.
"There's a bit of a subculture
involved."'
Ross has 15,000 comics in stock
now, dating from about 1930 to the
present. Besides these, he is carrying
a line of !antasv art books, sci-fi
pulp
a_nd fantasy
paperbacks.
"There's alot of esoterica around
here that anybody could pick up
nn ... says Ross. "Ducks, for example,
are still very in," he says, pointing to
d poster of "The Disco Duck" from
Saturday Night Feathers.

"People always dwell on the
money end of this business," he says.
"I don't have any of the real
expensive stuff here, but I do have
some very good collector's items."
Ross says that nobody should get
into collecting just for the money.
"People should really enjoy the art
form, and maybe even the stories.
Some collectors like to follow the
history of a certain artist, particularly one who becomes a fine artist."
Ross thinks comic book collecting
compares favorably with other,
more common pursuits. "I think this
type of thing is a hell of alot more
interesting
than coin or stamp
collecting. It's like anything-T. V.
or movies-90 percent of the stuff
put out is pretty much junk, but the
other ten percent, well, that may
just be transcendent in its own way.
In this town, I'll sell that 90 percent,
and the other ten."
Ross says he's been considering
opening a shop in Olympia for a
couple of years, and feels pretty
good about it. "One of the nice
things about Olympia is, unlike
Seattle, there's a whole lot of
unsearched attics with old comics
floating around-111 pay top dollar
for them."

Open-air
theater for kids
Upholding the age-old tradition,
ol summerstock, a group of former
and current Evergreen students have
been staging children's
theater
performances in Olympia's downtown Sylvester Park since the
beginning
of July. With one
production completed and three
othen yet to be performed, the
opportunity still exists to witness
their theatrical talent in action.
The troupe,
which remains
nameless at this time (suggestions for
a name are welcome), consists of
graduates Terry Simpson and Chaz
McEwan
and
students
David
Greenfield, Daniel Johnson, and
Valerie Warden. All have associated
together for the past couple of years,
but it was only this summer that the
actual troupe was formed. "We're a
semi-professional group and this is
our involvement in the community.
We live here and this is what we
like to do," stated
McEwan.

"Basically, we're trying to establish
ourselves as performers in Olympia "
added Greenfield.
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Forest Child, the current production, is an original play by Ariel
Greenfield, David's sister, as are The
Haunted Well and the upcoming
Weaven. The final production of
the summer series, Lafcadw, was
written by Shel Silverstein.
In
addition to using original material,
the troupe also practices unique
theatre management. Both the cast
and director
are rotated
each
performance, allowing for different
input, plus a leeway in absences.
Besides acquiring
experience as
performers, the troupe seems to be
having a good time as well. "I feel
really happy. Performing is really
good. It's really hard work, but it's
worth it," noted McEwan.
The children's theater series will
continue into August, with the
schedule being as ·follows: Forest
Child, July 28, 29; Weaven, August
4, 5, 11, 12; Lafcadw, August 18,
19. Show times are 12: 00 noon on
Friday asnd I :00 p.m. on Saturday
(except the August 12 show, at
11 : 30 a. m.). Sylvester Park is
located at the corner of Capitol and
Legion Way.

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IN OLYMPIA

Two weeks of rock and roU .,.
coming up at CAPTAIN COYOTES.
DANCER wlll play through Saturday,
July 29, HOT STUFF wlll be INturwd
August 2 through 5, and FfVER wlll
play August
g through
12. Call
367◄ 191.

The GNU DELI will host JEFFREY
MORGAN and his explO<IIIOfY aound1
Friday, July 28, and Saturday, July 29,
at 8:30 p.m. Cover ii S1. Call
943-1371
Four•plece disco and top 40 band,
NATURAL REACTION will play at·
STEFA.NS ON BUDD INLET through
August 6. Music start, at 9 p.m. ftefy
night except Mondays. No cover.
More disco and rock at RICHARDS
ROUNDHOUSE with CITY LIFE through
August 5. 9 p.m. through 1 :30. $2
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MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE In folk
and cabaret style accompanied by llw
mus~ wlll be performed by IBIS et
APPLEJAM on Friday,
July 28.
Saturday, July 29, Applejam will
sPontot a WOOi.shop In .chantey
singing anel n, history to ~nclde wllh
1he arrival of the TAU SHIPS In
Seattle. MA.AK BAIOOHAM, whO 11
IMChlng the wOB.ahop, wlll 9lw a
concert ol traditional American and
Brtllsh Isles muelc Saturday 9Y9111ng.
Persona Interested In the WOf1tahop
should meet at the YMCA, 220 Eat
Union at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Coat 11

OLYMPIA, COOPER POINT & THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE

After one year, Dan Evans has something
to fume about-but
he's still hustling
by Brian Cantwell
Ater
one ~ear as president of
The Evergreen State College, former Governor Dan Evans has had a
solid lesson In what it's like to be on
the other side of the fence from "the
establishment" -possibly more than
he'd prefer to know. As new
executive administrator and head
public relations person for an
"al~ernative" school that has ridden
a rough road to public acceptance
since its founding, Evans has fa~
a barrage of questions and attacks
on the college that· he is angrily
calling this week, "the price we pay
for being innovative."
The criticism has come in the
form of serious questions raised by
agencies concerned with the vali(jity
of Evergreen's education, together
with what Evans sees as a
"heightened interest" by the press in
the maverick of Washington colleges, tending to put otherwise
routine matters in the headlines.
The latest headlines ca'me last
week saying the state auditor
"couldn't find" ove, a million
dollars worth of TESC equipment
in an audit now being completed
for the 1973-75 biennium.
~vergreen
Isn't accused in the
,audit of misusing or misappropriating· "!jUipment, according to Galen
Jacobsen, chief examiner for the
division of departmental audits of
the Auditor's Office. It's just that
the college's accounting techniques
on equipment need "stTengthening".
Last winter, another
attack
came when the U.S. Veterans
Administration
decided
to cut
full-rate G.I. Bill payments to

military veterans attending Ever-·
green unless they could prove they
spent at least 12 hours per week in
scheduled- classes. The
agency
viewed as a sham some of the more
independent • methods
of study
popular at the college. Evergreen
got a court injunction against the
benefit cuts. The VA has filed an
appeal.
Then, earlier this month, a story
ran in Seattle newspapers that State
Fisheries Director Gordon Sandison
was refusing job applications from
Evergreen graduates, implying that
they don't meet department standards academically.
Days later, Sandison denied the
report, saying it is merely a matter
of Evergreen graduates who apply
for a specific "Fisherlts Biologist''
job with his department possibly
needing more course work than
th"y are gettinl(. At present, the job
specifies a ~achelor of Science
degree requirement, something not
offered at Evergreen.
Before that correction was made
in the press, however, the Seattle
Times ran an editorial using the
Fisheries story to raise the question,
"Is the school, with its lack of
traditional
course offerings and
unconventional grading and graduation requirements, of limited use
to today's college student?"
Evans and others connected
with the school feel Evergreen is
belQg treated unfairly. 'Tm about
ready to blow my stack," said
Evans in an interview with the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Au~t
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He assails the news media for
blowing Evergreen ·s problems way
out of proportion. "We simply have
more visibility," he explains this
week. "Something that would go
unnoticed at a more ordinary
institution gets bigger play here
simply because we are an innova:
tive and unusual school." Evergreen's legal counsel,
Assistant
Attorney General Richard Montecucco, attorney in the Veterans
Administration case for the school
likewise has contended that this lay~
behind the VA situation. He says
the VA is "closing its eyes to
violation~ of the regulation elsewhere in the state" and
is
"attacking Evergreen because of its
unique or non-traditional program."
Beyond this, however, serious
questions have been and continue to
be raised about the basic philosophy
and educational approach at Evergreen. How does the school's
yearling president respond to such
questions as raised in the Times
editorial?

IN OLYMPIA
011 painttnga, wat.-cokn,
pnn~
and tculptutN by NOfl'TMWEST AflT.
ssn .,. t•tured by the w~
TON ACADOIY OF Altn. L.oc:otOd
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the corner of Martin Wr, and Heneley
StrNI, the gallery 11 Ol)erl from t a.m.
to 9 p.m. Monday thf'ough Fnday, 9
a.m. to !5 p.m. Saturdays end noon to
5 on Sundaya.
C£11AMICWOIIKI by Suun -I
and Curtlt Haefer end ETCHfNGa by
Suun CMaUan .,. on exNbit et the
CHILDffOOD'S
END QAUIJIY, 222-<th
Avenue. Beginning Auguet
Nancy
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drawlng1, pr1ntt and col~
and Pouy Stehman'a jewelry wlll be
fNtured. Hours .,. Mondey through
Seturday, 10:30 toe p.m.

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this picture? The State Auditor can't.

IN SEATT\.E
The new IA.YARD GALLE"Y
S..tt~ hu opened with I ahowl

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"Evergreen is of 'limited use' to
students?" asks Evans. 'The University of Washington is of limited
use. Every school is limited," he
responds. 'The question Is what
your goal is, whether that's a useful
goal, and how well you're accomplishing it. I -think Evergreen is
aimed at a very important goalthat of providing through
its
, methods the opportunity for students to stretch themselves and to
be far more than they are able to
be In a more stereotyped and
standardized, homogenized education that you find in the typical
coll e or universi ."

The college does not have
enough history, Evans feels, to
establish credibility with its adversaries, but is slowly gaining on that
score. "Every time our graduates
get awards. or entry to graduate
schools, or succeed at becoming
something thev want to be. the
more solid w-e are,·· he claim~.
Vindication will come with time. he
feels.
As a hedge in the meantime,
however. the former state executi\'e
has quietly been making more and
more acquaintances and contacts in
the state legislature in the past six
months. He has hopes that a study
being done by the state Council on
Post-secondary Education, ordered
by the 1977 Legislature to study
how the school's clientele could be
broadened by the introduction of
traditional course offerings, will be
supportive
of Evergreen.
That
report is due October I. And he is
looking to November elections to see
the makeup of a new legislature
that may have as many as 30 new
members.

Overall, the make-up of that
, legislative body and how much they
are influenced by either the press or
the former three-term governor may
make the biggest difference in the
future of The Evergreen State
College. It is they who must, in the
final run, be influenced that the
. school's innovations are of adequate
use to Washington college student,
if the school as it now exists is to
have a chance to establish a lon~er
history.

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Journal adds
Pacific News

The auditors visit the registrar.

53 don't 'I ive' here an mo
by John Seward
l.nstead of that postcard from Aunt Tilda
, nu \·e been expecting, suppose the mailman
,lt•liwred an unexpected bill to your door of, say,
'-c.000? Something like that happened to 53
,t11dents of The Evergreen State College last
111011th""hen they had their residency status
,·hanged to out-of-state. The Office of the
lkgistrar has charged them retroactively for the
lifference in tuition. rumored in some cases to be
,,, high as $4,000. For each year a reclassified
,tudent had been paying in-state tuition, the bill
""ould amount to Sl,365-the difference between
in-state a nd out-of-state tuition.
The situation developed when the State
\uditor's office cross-checked the registrar's list of
rn-state students with the parking permits at the
l'ampus security office. Fifty-three students listed
•s residents had cars registered out-of-state.
Judy Huntley of the Registrar's Office says
the billing came in response to the Auditor's
investigation. "Part of this was just a misunder,tanding of the law," says Huntley. "The only ones
who'll be in trouble are those who've out-and-out
falsified information on their residency application
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torms."

Huntley says that part of the problem stems
I rom a change that was made about a year ago on

the residency application forms. The old forms
<1skedif students owned a car. The new forms ask
1f a student owns or has access to a car. In either
c-ase, if the car is registered out-of-state, a student
" disqualified as a resident.

Huntley advises students to appeal the decision
to the State Attorney General's Office. She says
they are trying to process individual cases as fast
as possible.
Assistant Attorney General Richard Montecucco says his office advised the Registrar that, "to
the extent (students') information was incorrect or
falsified, their residency should be changed until
the situation could be explained." Montecucco says
that students appealing can expect a certain
amount of leniency. 'To the extent a student is
substantially correct, then we'll give them the
benefit of a doubt."
The cross-check of lists came as a result of the
state audit of the school currently being done.
State Examiners currently working on-campus
refused to comment on the methods they used in
this case. Galen Jacobson at the auditor's main
office was willing to say, "We have certain
procedures butlined in our manual that are very
general. The examiners are very experienced and
they adapt other methods as circumstances arise."
The method used In this case was a somewhat
arbitrary one, and Jacobson admitted, "It takes a
little more checking than just that, but it provides
a starting point from which to
more." Jacobson
refused to discuss any other
eUiods, suggesting
that, "people would beco
aware of our other
methods and then try to rcumvent them."
A random check done by the Journal indicates
that most of the students involved simply didn't

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know of the laws. "It kind of pisses me off," says
one. "I have no intention of going back to
Oklahoma when I get out of school, and they've
doubted me every step of the way." This student
had filled out a residency application about a year
and a half ago, before the new forms came out.
Her car belonged to her mother and was
registered in Oklahoma. She received a bill for
$1,600. On top of that, she's not sure if she'll have
to pay back a grant she got as a resident last year
for several hundred dollars. If her appeal doesn't
go through by August IO, "I'll have to go to
Accounts Receivable and say 'look, there's no way
I can come up with that kind of money." If she
can't get her resident status back, she won't be
registering next fall for simple economic
reasons-it would be too expensive.
Another student repeated a similar story. "I
applied for residency In September of '76 and it
was granted with no problem," he said. "I had a
car, but It was registered in my mother's name."
Last spring, the student got a parking permit from
Security, and in July, he got a letter from the
Rejtistrar'.s Office askinv: for a CO'DVof the car's
registration. "I refused. I didn't own the car
when I established domicile, so why should I?"
When the college revoked his residency, he was
presented with a bill of over ,2,000. Since he's
graduated, they are withholding his diploma. A
woman he lives with came from the same state
and applied for residency at the same time as he,
but she is legal because of technicalities.

Educators confer to further 'marine literacy'
by John Seward

professional conferences is according to coordinator Thaye~ Shafer
"to discuss common problems and
programs, goings-on that members
are concerned with, and to address
issues of common interest ...

Marine education may seem at a
glance to be an obscure concern,
but the association says that it
should be placed on the same level
as reading, writing and arithmetic
in the public schools.
The association feels that the
future of the human race may
depend on the ability of educators
to educate the public to an
acceptable level of what they call
"marine literacy". Shafer paints out
that most of the world's surface is
water, and water is responsible for
life as we know it on this planet.
The association consists of a
group of professionals involved in
all areas and levels of marine
education. According to Thayer, the
conference-goen
are into such
divergent areas of instruction as
scuba diving, graduate oceanography, elementary and secondary
education and more. "Most 'people
are hound by a dbclpllne or specific
level on which they operate," says
Shafer, "but luMpectl,e of that,
then, are thing, to be shared."
The association acknowledges,
says
Shafer, that there Is a lack of
Marine educcton play -«>und~ff'. a ganu, to b. -"
ln
§t<Catlon
communication
In the field of
at IM ~~ leoel. TM ganu, ~ IM lmpon1111<¥of autMo
marine education, rsulting in a
--"on
amonc
an1mai.. Plovers~ an and shortage of material, avallahle for
llim olaon II fWlrlcl«:I. A oatVty of nowmabn an1 ltanded out, hDo of
classroom use. The association has
,ocla. TM object of IM ga""' ii Jo, players lo 1ocau IM nol#makn Uh
been attempting
to solve this
tl1rlr own.

The annual conference
l\ational
Association of
Educators is being held
E"er~reen State College
August 8-12. Its purpose,

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Marine
on the
campus
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problem by establishing several
depositories of materials around the
country from which educators may
draw from while setting up a
marine education program.
Why did the association choose
Evergreen as a site for a conference
which has drawn people from all
over the continent? Thayer says,
"We came here because it was a
good location
for a working
conference, the facilities an, marvelous. We wanted to have a
conference in the Pacific Northwest
so that we could enoourage and
rtimulate various educational programs that are just getting started
here." In particular, Thayer mentioned the Northwest Marine Education Association, both of which,
.according to Thayer, are only In the
embryonic stage.
The oonference Is holding an
extensive array of worbhops and
lectures during its five day run.
1vorbhops will deal with all levels
and phases of marine education.
For example,
one Is entitled
"Handicrafts using Marine Materials," another deal, with vocational/
technical upeca of marine education, and a third Is entitled
"Simulation of Oceanic Magnetic
Anomalies."
AUGUST 10, 1978

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Kormondy
to develop
faculties
"It is generally acknowledged
that science faculty obsqlescence
will be the single most pressing
problem in science education duf':g
the next ten to fifteen yean.' In
resJ)!lnse
to this problem, former
Pro~ost Ed Kormondy will assist
The National Science Foundation
this fall in reconsidering its Faculty
Professional Development Program.
The Faculty Professional Development Program (FPDP) must be
restructured to try to benefit a
greater number of college teachen·
of
Science
and
Engineering.
Kormondy will be one of several
staff members whose responsibility
it is to make some changes at
FPDP. He will be located at
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

His leave Is from
through Summer 1979.

Fall

1978

Beginning with this issue, the
Cooper Poinl Journal Is now
subscribing to Pacific News Service
(PNS), an International newsgatherlng organization based in San
Francisco. The Journal will receive
five mailings per week of articles
from Pacific News, which deals
mainly with "original, innovative
perspectives on trepds and futureoriented issues," according to Managing Editor Sandy Close.
Having originated as a news
source covering mainly Asia and
Indochina, PNS now has writers all
over the world and attempts to
offer more In-depth, regional analysis than some more established news
services. "We get articles from a
broad range of people," says Close.
"Rather than depend solely on
established ·journalists', we go to
people with knowledge and expertise, and we often do much editing
to come up with articles from
people who otherwise might not
write for a newspaper."
Pacific News serves 210 subscribers in the United States, including
the Wa.,hingfon Pon and other
large city dailies, but with an
emphasis on smaller newspapers.
Subscription cost is, based on
ability-to-pay.
The Journal will
receive the service for $20 per
month.

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There are two candidates in the
22nd Legislative District for Position
#1. Republican candidate Jack
Brennan is running against Democratic Incumbent Mike Kreidler.
For Position #2 there are three
candidates. Neils Skov and Ron
Keller are competing
for the
Democratic seat. Jerry Gray is
running as the Republican candidate.
Besides voting for state reps,
there are other positions to fill such
as: Sheriff, Supreme Court Judge,
County Assessor, County Auditor,
County Coroner, Prosecuting Attorney, Treasurer, and District Fire
Commissioner.

Work-study
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coming up
As budget head of Recreation &
\..ampus Activities, Lynn Garner
will recommend positions for work
study at TESC before the end of
this month. The SlieA Board will
take action on her recommendations, either approving or disapproving of those choices to be
funded.

Register
to vote

Work study is funded in part by
the federal government. There is
$28,289 for use in jobs related to
recreation and campus activities.
The federal share of this amount is
.$22,631. SlieA will provide the
difference of $5,658.

This summer's deadline to register to vote for fall elections is
August 19. You can go to the City
Wall in Olympia, or to the Auditor's
Office In the Courthouse to register.
There are several high schools in
Olympia at which to register, and
the public libraries of Olympia,
Tumwater.
and Lacey are also
available.

Recreation lie Campus Activities
is just one part of the allocations.
There are nine other programs for
which work study positions will be
funded. Those programs
under
Recreation lie Campus Activities
include all the student groups, such
as service groups, sports groups,
operations, and cultural groups.

Gila's Fourth Annual Jazz Cruise!
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Boat leaves Fillhennan'a Tennlnal at noon, Aug. 12th.
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WESTSIDE CENTER

CPJ goes
uptown with
newsstands
The Cooper Point Journal was
recently the recipient of five used
newsstands, donated by the Daily
Olympian newspaper. The newsstands are currently set up at
locations around The Evergreen
State College campus as well as in
Olympia and Lacey.
Elizabeth Ulsh, business manager for the Journal, explains that
the newsstands are part of an effort
to increase circulation
of the
newspaper both on and off campus.
The Journal is better available to
the public, while also increasing the
attractiveness of the paper," says
· Ulsh. "I plan to find the best
distribution points in Olympia so
that this paper can reach as many
people as possible." The need to
increase circulation is part of the
paper's effort to become more
independent of student funds in the
face of a school budget crisis, she
explains.
The newsstands are located now
outside the College Activities Building and inside the Evans Library
lobby, as well as being situated
outside Oavis' Brown Derby ResI taurant
and Ralph's Thirftway
, supermarket in Olympia, and at
' South Sound Center in Lacey. The
, paper continues to be offered fr.,: of
I charge.

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Clearing up the confusion
and the Auditor's Office
statement presentations .., and, second, that "accounting techniques
for
equipment
control
need
strengthening."
The basis for the confusion is a
statement In the report that a
difference of $1,156,536.67 between
equipment accounts on the June 30,
1975, balance sheet and those listed
on the master Inventory was
"difficult to reconcile." No mention
was made of lost or stolen
equipment, but, rather, that bookkeeping methods at Evergreen made
it difficult to account for the
equipment. As noted by President
Evans, ''The auditors report doesn't
speak at all to missing equipment.
The difficulty of 'reconciling' is just
that-you
have to go clear back to
the original purchase records on all
of the equipment and pick out
which ones were inventoriable and
non-inventoriable and then check
out where the descrepancies lie."

by Barbara Swain
Much
confusion in the press has
emerged in the past two weeks over
the findings of the State Auditor in
its examination of The Evergreen
State College's 1973-75 budget. An
article run in the Daily Olympian,
Jul)· 31, hinted at a loss of up to
~I.I million worth of equipment,
while other publications indicated
that Evergreen was under fire from
the Auditor's office. Yet the
Auditor's report,
which TESC
President Dan Evans called "a
.rather brief' document for examin.itions of its kind, contained only
t" o general recommendations: first,
that "greater attention to detail
,hould be provided in' financial

Behind the boolclceeplng mix-up
is even more confusion generated by
conflicting inventory
accounting
regulations imposed upon Evergreen
by two state agencies. The Department of General Administration
allows the college to charge certain
"fixed • and
non-inventoriable"
equipment to the general ledger
accounts without placing it on the
master inventory list. The Office of
Fiscal Management, on the other

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Fish story
Heaping
abuse on The Evergreen State College is nothing new
for the press of this state, they
seem to do it without even thinking.
Recently, another story got twisted
out of shape and run in the Seattle
papers.
This time it concerned the State
Fisheries Department.
A U.P.I.
reporter had contacted State Fisheries Director Gordo!\ Sandison and
written a story which said flatly,
"(Sandison) is refusing to accept job
applications from Evergreen graduates." The ~tory appeared July 29.
A couple of days later, on July
31 . the Daily Olympian ran a front
page headline, "Sandison says TESC
graduate story inaccurate". But a
lew hours earlier, the Seattle Times
had come out with an editorial
based on the story that viewed the
college in a very negative light.
Sandison had told the U.P.I.
reporter that in order for an
applicant to qualify for the job of
fisheries biologist, a Bachelor of
Science degree is required. This job
title accounts for only a fraction of
the positions in his department. But
,ince Evergreen doesn't give B.S.
degrees, graduates don't qualify on
paper as fisheries biologists.
For years, The Fisheries Department has resisted efforts by the
college to get this arbitrary requirement changed. Finally, Vice President
and
Provost
Edward
Komondy asked If an agreement
could be reached through the
Attorney General's Office. Sandison
daims to have learned of this
situation about two weeks ago, and
savs that now officials from his
d.;partment and the college are '
meeting to work out a system
whereby
TESC graduates
can
formally qualify as fisheries biolo~i%b

McDaniel, of the Olympia

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about Evergreen
hand, requires that "subsidiary
ledgers or accounts agree with their
related control accounts In the
subsidiary ledger."
Translated, this means that In
following General Administration
(GA) regulations, Evergreen declined to place certain items on both
ledgers, and under Office of Fiscal
Management procedures, this showed up as over $1 million worth of
unaccounted-for equipment. Types
of equipment included In this sum
were the vault In the Business
Office, walk-in coolers In the
kitchen, drapes in the library and a
number of floor coverings. According to Evans, these are items that,
"no one in their wildest dreams
would put on an inventory list."
Further compounding the confusion over the audit are a chain of
events and a series of articles run in
the Daily Olympian last February.
Mix-ups in a transfer of equipment
from the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction to Evergreen,
conviction of former TESC mediamaintenance
technician
Jim
Rousseau for illegal possession of
Evergreen equipment, and finally, a
series of articles written by Olympian reporter Jan Stewart concerning careless treatment and loss of
Evergreen media loan equipment
has placed the college's extensive

inventory of supplies In the public
limelight. And although there were
no connections between the past
events • and the Auditor's report,
Evans maintains that the Daily
Olympian made "every attempt to
tie the media loan affair together
with the audit."
Evergreen now faces discussions
with the Office of Fiscal Management and GA to develop procedures
which will allow them to reconcile
the record keeping system differences. But contrary to what has
been indicated in the press, the
search for the "phantom" equipment will be a routine accountant's
chore, executed in the bowels of the
Business Office.

by Rasa Gustaitis

mid world-wide controversy
about nuclear waste disposal, an
even tougher problem has arilen:
how to get rid of a used-up nuclear
power plant that will be too hot to
dismantle
for decades without
exorbitant expenses and hazards.
The 100-megawatt reactor In
Niederaichbach,
Germany,
was
closed in 1974 because of defects.
Since then it has been under
24-hour guard because, despite
Immediate removal of the uranium
that fueled it, the entire Installation
is permeated by radio-activity.
Authorities plan to maintain it
under guard at least 25 years, at a
cost of 150,000 marks ($75,000)
annually.
Similar radioactive ghost fortresses are lllcely to proliferate In
Europe and North America as
nuclear plants reach the end of
their life span, estimated at 30
years.
In Western Europe, about 16
plants are expected to be perman-

In Seattle, they're voting
on equal rights for gays
by Barbara Swain
Last winter Tom Richards filed
a complaint against his next-door
neighbor
with the Office of
Women's
Ri~hts
in
Seattle.
Richards had been confronted by
posters stating, "homo goes with
milk-not
with sex", and, "Save
America, kill a queer" when he
ventured out of his residence for
nearly six months. ln October, he
and his two roommates began
receiving messages, broadcast over

the press: analysis of a moot point
U.P.I. bureau, was the author of
editor of the Seattle Timu, thinks
the journalistic gem that started the
Evergreen bas "a long way to go to
misunderstanding
In the press.
prove itself to the people In this
When contacted initially, he said
state." Ironically, Insofar as his view
there couldn't be any confusion on
is correct, his paper can be seen as
what his story was about. ''The lead
partially responsible. How would he
of my story said specifically,
define the Timu' editorial policy
fisheries biologists! I thought we·
towards TES~? "Over the last
were talking about that right down
several years, our policy towards
the line." When It was pointed out
Evergreen hasn't been antagonistic,
to him that nowhere in his lead did
but what I'd call a questioning one.
he include the term, and only once
We're curious about several aspects
in his story did he mention it (and
of the school." He then reeled off a
then it was in reference to some
list of the thingJ he felt are wrong
background information), he rewith the place, suggesting that he
plied, ''Well, you can't put everyalready has all the "answers" he's
thing in the goddamned lead!"
interested In.
Eventually, he got to the verge of
Cliff Rowe, a fixture at the
admitting that there may have been
Times for many years, was the one
some. problems with his story. "If
who actually wrote the editorial.
there was a mistake, it was partly
Why? "I don't know," he said. "We
my fault, maybe I didn't write the
try and comment on what's In the
story quite tight enough."
news, other than that, there was no
He said he was unaware of the
particular motivation."
Tlmu editorial. Having written
It isn't surprising to hear that In
editorials for a living In the past, he
the daily grind of an editorial
says he makes it a point never to
writer, motives are given little
read them In any paper. When
consideration. But Rowe seemed
informed of it, he responded, "It's
unaware of the consequences of
unfortunate that's the way It went.
what he'd written. He says he
That's one of the problems I have
doesn't think the. press plays a direct
working on a wire service-when I
role In the Image-making
of
put out a story, I can't help what
Evergreen for the people in this
happens to it,"
state.
The Times editorial gave one
Why, then, did Rowe suppose
paragraph to the fisheries story.
the school's reputation 19 substanAlthough it referred more accurtially better outsid,e Washington
ately to the facts than did the
than
In-state? "I think that's
U.P.I. story, its terse treatment
because people from outside the
Invited misinterpretation by readers.
state don't get exposed to the
From fisheries, it launched Into a
criticism-largely
from the legislageneralized speculation on what's
ture-that
people here do. A lot of
wrong with TESC. It's last parapeople In the government make it a
graph consisted of a florid and
point to find out what's wrong with
gloating description of what might
the school, even the silly things.
happen
to the school if the
The press just reports that."
legislature's committee now studyRowe named a few other areas
Ing the school issues a negative
where Evergreen has had problems
report.
with acceptance, but avoided giving
• Herb Robinson editorial
a e
the ress an r
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in-state Image problems. "I don't
think my editorial was bad press for
the school, bell no! The Issue was
negative, but I avoided making the
editorial sound too negative."
Yet most readers around Evergreen found his editorial a slap in
the face of the school. Could it be
that Rowe has some personal bias
against Evergreen? Rowe seemed to
have difficulty making up bis mind.
His view of the place seemed to be
one of damnation with faint praise.
"I have no personal bias-I
l.ik.e
Evergreen." Rowe says he's taught
around Seattle and even sent a few
of his students to TESC. "I wish I
could go there myself," he said. "It's
a beautiful place-but then I don't
think 11has unlv~rsal appeal."
Boll McDaniels;
the U.P.I.
reporter responsible for the· Initial
Sandison story, also claims to like
Evergreen. 'Tm not anti-Evergreen,
I've even taken a couple of courses
there and enjoyed them."
Why then, with everyone concerned saying they like Evergreen,
did the school receive all this
uncalled-for bad press recently? In
this
particular
case,
Gordon
Sandison offered a possible explanation, "I think it was just the
weekend and there was no news."
He told the /oumal, "An inadvertant remark on my part may have
led to the story."
The Seattle papers, to say
nothing of the f)aily Olympian,
often find themselves starved for
local and regional news. Finding
themselves In this situation, they
•often elevate obscure or Irrelevant
news stories to inappropriate proportions. And then Evergreen can
always be called on to sell a few
copies. Supposed scandals, or anything that can be made to look like
one at TESC makes a big hit with
AUGUST 10, 19711

ently put out of action by 1990. In
the U nlted States, 60 to 70
small-scale installations, most of
them experimental and prototype
plants, have been decommissioned
so far, But 71 commercial plants,
mostly of 1,200 megawatts, are now
in operatloti and eventually will
have to be put away, posing
unprecedented problems. "Entombment" is one disposal method under
consideration, according to Carl
Goldstein, assistant vice president of
the Atomic Industrial Forum. It
Involves encasing the entire plant in
cement for a hundred years and
rigging it with intrusl:>n alarms.
Or the plant could be guarded
round-the-clock for a century, then
dismantled, he said. The term for
this alternative Is "mothballing."
"Utility companies don't think
this would be a terrific' burden,"
Goldstein said. Some, he said, are
planning to put money away for
decommissioning costs.
Goldstein estimated that such
costs for a large single reactor

stereo speaker wires strung on the
exterior of their house, saying, ..Die,
die, Die you degenerate scum
queers." Richards, who lives in the
north end of Seattle, is gay.
For Richards-as
for many
Seattle residents-Initiative
13 will
be a decisive measure on the
November ballot. By deleting the
words "sexual orientation" from the
list of groups protected by the city's
Fair Employment and Open Housing ordinances, the proposed measure would
take away legal
protection against discrimination in
employment or housing from gay
people. Because the fair housing
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about 6 or 7 percent of the plant's
on dismantling.
cost. But entombment costs of one
To avoid contamination
by
reactor, at Oyster Creek, N .J., has
radioactive dust, the facility was
been estimated by industry sources
first encased in concrete, then
at half the construction costs.
flooded. From 1972 to 1973 diven
Immediate dismantling, if posswith acetylene torches took apart
ible without hazards to workers and
the equipment underwater.
people In the area, would run much
The cost of that job, $6.5
higher.
million, suggests that dismantling a
The only power plant to have
1,200-megawatt plant would re•been dismantled fully In the United
quire $260 million. But with
States so far Is at Elk River, Minn.,
inflation continuing, it could go
and the cost exceeded construction.
much higher.
That 30-megawatt demonstration
The alternative would appear to
facility, only one-fourth the size of
leave the mammoth power plant
commercial reactors now coming
ruins standing, to be dealt with by
into use, was passed to the
future
generations.
Dairyland Power Cooperative by
In
Germany,
officials have
the Atomic Energy Commission. It
looked to salt caves as possible
was shut down by order of the
future power plant disposal sites.
state's pollution control agency
But local authorities have begun to
because it leaked.
resist radioactive dumps.
The AEC planned to entomb the
installation, but the cooperative,
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ised the AEC would restore the site
(Rasa Gustaiti& i&an associate editor
to original condition when the
of Pacific News Service.)
protecting Seattle residents from
..harrassment
and intimidation•·,
passage of Initiative 13 would deny
gay people, such as Richards, the
legal remedies enjoyed by other
"minority" groups. Finally, the
280 anti-nuclear protestors were
initiative would transfer enforcearrested during a four day demonment power against offenders of the
stration this week at the Trojan
ordinances from the Office of
Nuclear Power Plant. The plant,
Women's Rights to the Office of
located In Prescott. Oregon, has
Human Rights, an agency already
been closed down since early
overburdened with a baclclog of
March, when the Nuclear Regulanearly 400 cases.
tory Commission decided its walls
didn't meet earthquake resistance
Initiative 13 is sponsored by a
specifications.
group called Save Our Moral Ethics
All demonstrators accepted ar(S.O.M.E.), led by Seattle Police
rest peacefully, though many would
Patrolman David Estes and his
not walk to the buses and were
partner Dennis Falk. Estes, a
carried by police. The protestors
Mormon, is involved in the camwere charged with second degree
paign because he feels that "homotrespass and bail was initially set at
sexuality is a sin."
Falk is
$2,500 for each person. Bail was
contending that the ordinances
later lowered to SI ,000, and
presently give homosexuals "special
members of the Trojan Decommisprivileges" in employment
and
sioning Alliance have hopes that the
housing, and that gay people
judges will go even lower.
sexually abuse and recruit childrtn.
About seven jails in the area
S.O.M.E. gathered 27,000 signawere used to house protestors. As of
tures on petitions to qualify the
Thursday afternoon, many were
initiative for the November ballot,
still locked up.
and Falk believes that 95-98 % of
the police force are behind them in
their effort.
St. Paul Minnesota, Wichita, Kansas, and most recently last spring in
Initiative 13 is allied with a
the college town of Eugene,
national anti-gay campaign launchOregon.
ed by a group of closely coordinated
In light of the recent defeats of
right-wing groups. Last spring,
gay rights measures, West, among
Reverend Bill Chapman,
Anita
other opponents of Initiative . 13,
Bryant's minister and vice-president
fear the battle will be "a long uphill
of Save Our Children, attended
fight." Yet Seattle is known by
S.O.M.E.'s first press conference.
many in the gay community as
Another organization
in which
being a relatively progressive city
Chapman holds a high position,
concerning gay rights. And, as
Protect America's Children, Inc.,
noted by one member of the
donated $3,000 to S.O.M.E. ReCitizens to Retain Fair Employpeals of gay rights laws have
ment, "it's up to Seattle voters in
already occurred throughout the
November to see that it remains so."
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Evergreeners on the
defensive, reasonably so

This man's followers say if 80,000 of us
meditate, it might be sunnier around here

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woes of being an editor. The woes of having your budget cut. The
woes of The Evergreen State College.
They're relatfd. When the school has problems attracting students and
faces a hostUe press which compounds the problem, money gets tighter.
Budgets for the school in general are slashed, and department heads,
,•mployees, students, faculty and just about everybody start feeling the
pressure and noticing the cutbacks.
For a student-funded organization like the CoopeT Point Journal, it
means fewer and lower salaries, fewer issues, and other problems we've
,poken of before. For the editor, it means ulcers and headaches putting out
, paper with minimal or less than acceptable resources. The Journal staff
has long been laughingly understaffed and underpaid and overworked (they
"'ill tell you), but there reaches a point where one may eventually stop
laughing and no longer have a newspaper.
This is not a plea for sympathy. The same situation exists for every
,tudent organization, and for services all over the Evergreen campus. It is a
,ad commentary to observe the number of signs on doors that say, "Sorry,
due to budget cuts, our hours have been cut .... "
The point is that things like budgets and the situations that influence
them are related to things like the personal frustration people in their jobs
feel as quality suffers from limited resources. Most people want to do a good
job and have a personal feeling for the Importance of their work.
When the institution that essentially it the resource comes under attack,
tt starts to hit home for the people who work there. When newspaper stories
like those that have come out recently about The Evergreen State College
are written, it doesn't help recruit students for a school that already is
hurting, it doesn"t make politicians any more generous at budget time, and It
doesn't help solve the frustration that many people here feel In their
attempts to stUI offer a quality service in their work. Instead it compounds
the problem. When the newspaper stories are flatly erroneous, spreading
undeserved negative criticism, It starts making people angry.
It may appear that some people at The Evergreen State College are,
hecoming overly sensitive to criticism. But for a college that has received
more than its fair share of slams by the press, It's understandable that people
are feeling defensive. To many, it is becoming a personal issue.

-Brian

Madder than what?

Cantwell

5) If these are 'followed, Arlyn,
Edna, Ginnie, Hal, Kathy, Kathy, Kathy,
Jan, and Judy will have a moment to
breathe.
Stephen Ch•rak

Dear Editor:

Re News story "Sandison says TESC
~raduate turndown stories inaccurate",
Oa,ly Olympian, August 2

'"Madder than sp1t"l?l??II I wonder
this was another of the Daily O's
m1spnnts
Undoubtedly our president

Volunteers can
save lives

11

was madder than shit.

M•dder th•n spit myself,
A.M. Blumer

Dear CPJ;
Last issue you ran an article, a very

good one at that, on the newly formed
Student Firefighter's union. The article
was based primarily on an interview
that one of your assistant editors had

Registrar woes

with me, and so I feel responsible for
most of the information

in the article. But I also feel respons--

Dear pe-ople:
As a student who has worked at the
r{eg1strar's office, I feel I am in a good,
1>0s1t1onto offer some suggestions to
\tudents, suggestions that will save a

lot of time and headaches for the
,tudents and the staff of the Registrar.
1) Include your ID number with
l~very form you fill out. This will save
mfinite amounts of time and possible
confusion
2) Include your name on all forms.
It's amazing how many times people
, omplained about something not being

rlone, only to find it was because they
lorgot to put their name on it.

3) The transcript fee is U.50. It's a
,,,ct of life. The stott didn't set that
~,rice and there's nothing they can do

.,bout it. THEY aren't makina money
lrom it.

4) While most of the questions

,,sked are reasonable, some of the
,tupidMt

inquiries

I ever

heard

are

directed .i the stoff. Three days before·
~r.,duation, someone called and asked
"'~ what the -•the,
was aolna to be
l1L.t>on graduation day.

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that came out

ible for some apparent misinformation

that came out in that article and would
like to take this opportunity to straighten out a possible misconception:
the
volunteers of this fire district are in

fact capable of dealing with suicides
and drug problems... They are an
invaluable part of this community. My
point in the article was that the
Student Firefighters, being students as
well as firefighters, are better able to
provide a certain amount of emotional

support to studentJ who are in need of
some kind of medical attention
(relatively few of those calls beina drug
and suicide related). I personally have
assisted on seven or eiaht emeraency
calls which have involved people that I
knew directly ... and this applies to the
rest of the Student Firefiahters as well.
I hope • that this letter provides
clarity for those who need it.
Sincerely,

Brian strecker, prealdant
Alloclatlon of Student
Flrefls),ten

TM Society aims
for Washington utopia
by John Seward

be

Who Evergreen serves
Evergreen
has the highest percentage out-of-state student population of any school In the state of
Washington at the undergraduate
level. The figure fluctuates between
20 and 25 percent. At other
Washington universities, It hovers
around
10 percent.
Many of
Evergreen's critics point to these
figures as yet another fault of the
school, saying it doesn't adequately
serve southwest Washin~on. But
diversity in a student body can
usually be taken as the mark of a
good school. If any generalizations
can be made about the TESC
student body, it's that It is diverse.
Accounting for the high out-ofstate student population is the fact
that educators outside Washington
are eager to acknowledge Evergreen's
high
standing
among
schools, while the Washington
press, local legislators and high
school guidance counselors continually vilify It.
As an institution, Evergreen's
significance is as much national as it
is regional. But as a state school, it
has a mandate to serve Washington
in general, and the southwest
portion of the state In particular. If
the school's detractors and critics
mean the college doesn't serve
southwest Washington only, then
they're right, Evergreen, by design,
has never had a narrow appeal, but
a broad, and at the same time
selective, one.
Evergreen should cater to the
people of southwest Washington up

to a point, but It should never be
asked to sacrifice its unique nature
as an Institution by doing so-it
should never become "Sou th west
Washington
State College",
If
TESC wants to keep its national
reputation as a fine school, then It
must build on it rather than spend
too much of Its energies figuring out
ways to attract more students from
this area of the state.
Of course the school has an
obligation to the people of Washlngton-state
tax dollars In large
part support the school. But simply
by virtue of Its geographical
location within the state, and
substantially
lower tuition
for
residents, it is meeting Its obligation. Further, the In-state students
and a great many from out-of-state
remain here after graduation and
contribute their talents and education to Washington. Asking more
than
this of the college is
unreasonable.
Yet the legislature goes further,
saying that no money may be spent
on recruiting students outside the
state. We say, that if recruiting is a
viabl~ way to go In the first place,
then geographical restrictions on It
should be lifted. Due to legislative
guidelines (another story In itself),
the school needs to continue
growing. With its ready acceptance
out of state, It only makes good
economic sense to recruit students
there, getting a better return on the
dollar.

- John Seward

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Transcendental Meditation
Society is trying to make Washington into a perfect state. According
to Julia Guttmann, a TM teacher
who works out of The· Evergreen
State
College,
His
Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi predicted
that when a certain percentage of a
population meditates according to
his technique, dramatic changes in
the quality of life for everyone wUI
occur. This prediction has supposedly been borne out by research at the
society's university in Iowa.
The group says that when 2.5 %
of a population meditates, perfection in society is achieved. An
improved quality of life is defined
by the group as a decrease In
negativity and an increase In
positivity, says Guttman-a
somewhat vague definition. When pressed for further details, she enumerated some of TM's goals.
Reduction of the crime rate is a
favorite of TM - ditto George
Wallace. There will be fewer
strikes, lower unemployment, less
pollution and more domestic ha.rmony. Traditional values will be
restored, says Guttmann, and there

I

will be more attendance at churches
and cultural activities.
On top of that, the weather is
supposed to improve. A spokesperson for the group, Bob Warren
at the Seattle TM Center, says he
expectJ more sunshine for the state
of Washington. Then it was pointed
out to him that less rain here means
forest fires, crop failures and power
outages-a
potential catastrophe.
He revised his forecast. "Whatever
it takes to get nature Into balance,"
he said. Farmers, and people who
like electric lights can feel relieved.
Guttmann
says, ''This is a
sociological experiment, What happens when 2.5 % of the people in a
state meditate?" Warren went even
further by claiming th:, world has
already reaped some of the benefits
of TM. "We're proclaiming simply
that the consclousnes., of the world
is rising as more people are
meditating."
In order to accomplish the
wonderful goal of bringing Washlngton to perfection, the society has
shipped in over 300 of what they
call "Flying" Executive Governorsof

the Age of Enlightenment to sp
the process. The Governors are
advanced teachers of TM. All of
them, according to Warren, can fly.
When two of the flying governors
working out of TESC, Guttmann
and Stellavera Kilcher, were asked
for a demonstration
of these
unusual powers (otherwise known
as levitation), they declined. "We
don't want to turn this thing into a
circus," they said. (Curiously, I
heard the same words used in
response to the request put to a
couple of TM teachers in Massachussetts over a year ago, leading
one to suspect teachers receive
extensive training in P.R. lingo).
Guttmann seemed slightly flustered.
"When we're all flying through the
sky, there won't be any question of
demonstrating."
Warren says, "We're Inviting
people to take an intelligent and
responsible look at our claims." The
group feels the effects of TM on
society are so strong that, according
to one of TESC's own executive
govs, "Even if we didn't teach
anyone,
the presence of 300
advanced teachers In W ashlngton
would have an effect."

here is little question that TM
isn't beneficial to some degree. so if
you want 'lo take lessons, well, like
everything else it will cost you more
than it used to. College students
pay $150 for the basic course. It'll
cost you fifty bucks more if you
alreadv have a B.A. or don"t want
one. Single folks pay more than
married-a
legally wed pair get
enlightened for $300, but singles
pay $200 apiece.
That's
not
discrimination against singles, says
Guttmann. "We're just trying to
give couples a break."
And if you're really into it, you
can learn to fly. That costs several
thousand dollars and many weeks
time. TM'ers stress, though, that
flying is just the outward manifestation of the profound orderliness
brought about by advanced study.
Three hundred Executive Governors of the Age of Enlightenment
may sound like a circus to you and
me, but TM afficianados are known
to take themselves awfully seriously.
Anyway, self-propelled flight could
go a long way towards beating the
high cost of gas (where's Tinkerbell?).

I

A 'tacky' land proposal for Kaiser Road?
by John Seward

The people on Kaiser and
Overhulse Road on Cooper Point
are going to see some drastic
changes in their neighborhood
within about a year if they don't do
something about it. A man named
Frank Tobinski, a local real estate
developer. is proposing to put up
housing for almost 175 families
there on 35 acres. The land is
adjacent to Evergreen Parkway,
directly across from a portion of
The Evergreen State College campus.
Thurston County Regional Planning Director Jesus Molinet says his
office is requiring Toblnski to
submit an environmental impact
statement and site plan on his
proposed project. Molinet explained
that the impact statement should
address all areas of possible Impact,
Including social. ''There's the fact
that you have a proposal for
multi-family use In an area where
the services for that kind of thing
don't exist," says Molinet. "It's one
thing to put college housing out
there, but another to have just
public housing." Mollnet noted
po5Sihle problems with drainage
that could be created by the
construction. About 20 acres of the
site are either out-and-out swamp,
or have poor drainage. Building the
ho111mthere may caUJe Kaiser Road
to flood In wet weather,
At a hearing on the project at
AUGUST 10,, 1978

the Thurston County Courthouse
August 2, about a dozen local
residents showed up to voice their
opposition to the project. Toblnski

more than most of you could
afford I"
At this point, it's unclear
whether Tobinski will be allowed to

they can adjust the zoning if they
want."

Fox also says he doubts whether
a site plan with so many houses on
such small acreage could be
developed satisfactorily. "I suspect
with lots that small they're not
11;oing
_,to be able to do it with any
sense.

Jirn Horner, a resident of Kaiser
Road.

Will this. ••• • • • • . have lots of these?
attempted to refute their rather
emotional objections saying, "I
wonder where you all were when
the Evergreen colleg~ was being
built?" Most of the residents
appeared to be associated with the
;college. Some objections were raised
'because of the nature of what
Tobinsld proposes to build: what In
many cirles is called "tacky,"
otherwise known ~• low-cost hoUJ-.
ing. Tobinskl said at the hearing,
'"I'here's no such thing as low-cost
. housing today. It costs at least
$35,000 to build a house and that's

:follow through with his propo5al.
iThe Cooper Point land ordinance
•concerning that area would seem to
rule it out, yet the land does have
the proper zonin2.
Russ Fox, a faculty member at'
·TESC and member of the Cooper
,Point Association, explained, 'The
philosophy of development where
.they just want to divide up the
land Into little bits Is contrary to the
Cooper Point ordinance, so that's
_got to be resolved. Just that would
,seem to be enough to deny It. But

COOPER POINT JOURNAL

is trying

to

or~anize

some

kind of opposition to the project.
He·s been circulating a petition
protesting the proposal. "Thus far
we've got about 85 names on it. We
expect to have more after we get to
another section of Kaiser Road."
Horner says that very few people
have been opposed to what he's
trying to do. "A couple said they
didn't want to support something
like this because it would affect the
value of their lands adversely. Mrs.
Kaiser (the original owner of the
land) just said she was opposed to
regulating land use."
Once the environmental impact
statement has been completed to the
satisfaction of the Regional planning
council, a second public hearing on
the question will be held, The date
for this has yet to be announced,
but the Impact
statement
Is
expected In about two weeks. More
Information can be obtained by
calling the Thurston
Regional
Planning Council at 753-8131.
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