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A.vote for a woman is a vote
lt remains easier for a millionaire
than for a woman
to get into
Congress. At last count, 18 senators
admitted to being millionaires.
The current imbalance reflects the
malt>•dominated nature of politics
lrom the founding of the American
rqrnblic. For the first 129 years of
this nation, it \ vas easy to keep
c-onnl hecaU!-.t'there were no women
at all in Congress. Montana, one of
,e,·eral states that grantPd women
the right to vote before 1920. elected
lhe first ,11,•oman rcpresentati\·e in
1917. She was Jeanette
Rankin,
consider<•d au oddball because the
first \Ote ,he ca,;;t opposed American
cntn· into World War I. She was
not • r<'-clected. After the suffrage
amt>ndment to the Constitution was
ratified. women be!(an trickling into
Washington. But the trend never got
past the rivulet stage.

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II hen the 96th Congress convenes
, January, the 100-member U.S.
.. ate probably will have reverted
, tts status as the most exclush e
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Of the total 9.591 members of the
House in the entire history of our
nation, only 87 have been women.
Of 1.728 senators. nnlv 13 have been
women. For long stre.tches of recent
tune. there have been no women in
the Senate. The current two women
,enators-Muriel
Humphrey
of
Minnesota and Marvon P. Allen of
Alabama-)tot
there ·the wav most of
their predeccs.or,
did: tl;cy were
appointed
a~ temporary
replacemonts for hu,bands who died in
office.
It is a rcOcction on the process
rathl"r nn the woman.
some of
whom
turned
out to be able
le1.(islators, that widowhood became
one of the surest routes to Congress.
More than a third of the 100 women
who have served in Congress were
appointed because they were widows
of members.
Men still make the rules in
politics, with establishment power
and money remaining
dominant
factors in electoral su~.
In the current congressional election campaign, 45 of the 89 women
who entered
the major
party
primaries
won nominations.
Of
these, less than half-15
of the 18
women
in the
House
seeking
re-election
and several
women
candidates running in open contests
-are considered likely to win. The
24 women running against incumbents are not given much chance of
succeeding
though
upsets
are
possible.
In the Senate campaign,
Sen.
Humphrey chose not to stand for
election and Sen. Allen lost in the
primary. Of the two women who
survived Senate primary races, Jane
Esking, a Tennessee Democrat who
spent $100,000 of her own money to
win nomination, is up against the
probably unbeatable Sen. Howard
Baker,
and Kansas Republican
Nancy Landon Kassebaum is in a
close contest with former Rep.
William Roy.
Why aren't women making it to
Washington in larger numbers? Not
many can afford the increasingly
high costs of campaigning. (Americans for Democratic Action estimates
an incumbent of Congress spends
close to $1 million to defend his
seat.) Also, more and more millionaires are running for office. In my
off-election year race for a House
seat last February, my Republican
opponent,
heir to a supermarket
fortune, outspent me three to one,
and he won narrowly. He spent
$330,000 in about three weeks.
Women
candidates
are often
caught in a Catch 22-they
can't
raise much money because they're
.not expected to win and they can't

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raise much

Not many women arc encouraged
to run for office by party leadership
or clubs or the '"old buy"' network.
The political
establishment,
big
business and the unions don"t seek
out women candidates and rarely
help those who run on their own.
But just as important as any of
th.,,e factors is that the underrepresentation of women in government L~ not ~t..en hy liheral or even
radical men as a stirring civil rights
issue or an affront to democracy.
There is little sense of outrage about
an all-male Senate or a largely male
House voting to deny Medicaid
benefits for abortion, an action that
exclusively affects women. Nobody
exclaimed at the irony of women
having to watch the ERA extension
debate in the Senate from the
balcony, which is where we came in
two centuries ago.
Aside from the
efforts of the National
Women·,
Political
Caucus,
the Women's
Campaign Fund and the National
Women's Educational
Fund-all
devoted
to increasing
women's
participation
in government-none
of the national reform groups or
liberal organizations has gone out of
its way to encourage women to run
or assist them in their campaigns.
In arguing for the necessity to
have significant numbers of women
in Congress-a
goal that I would
consider
non-controversial
in a
sell-respecting
democracy-I·
often
encounter the defensive "You don't
expect me to vote for a woman just

because ,he's a wtJrtidh" resptlH9e:
The answer is, "Of course not.
But if a liberal woman and a liberal
man are in the same race, I'll pick
the woman, and I'll help her too."
The sad fact is that I have had only
a few opportunities in my life to
vote for any woman in any office.
A Gallup poll in September 1975
reported that 71 percent of Americans feel the country would be
governed as well or better with more
women in public office, and 73
percent said they would vote for a
qualified
woman
for president.
Eighty percent said they would vote
for a woman
in Congress,
£or
governor or for mayor.
Too bad that only a small
minority of Americans ever get the
chance to vote for a woman. We
might find out that what's good for
women is good for America .
[Bella Abzug Is a former Congreasional repreaentative from New Yorlc
and co-chair
of the National
Advisory Commlllee for Women.]
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The EwergrNll State College, Olympla, WA 98505

VOLUME 7, NO. 3

Novembrer 20, 1978

THESITUATION
After a short demise, the Coopor Point
Journal is publishing again. Althouah the
schedule may be erratic and the coverase
might not be as thorough ., it should be,
Publication of the Journal wu halted
Nov. 2 by Editor Brian CantweU in
protest over the lack of support the p.,per
was receiving. The two associate editor
positions were vacant, writers were
scarce, an~ Cantwell felt it was unfair to
the community to continue producing a
sub-quality paper under such conditions.
A5 a form of protest, a final issue of the
paper was produced announcing jokingly

that the stalling problem had been sotff<I
through cloning.
At the meeting with the College
Publications Board law- that afternoon,
Cantwell p~ted
the 1ituation at the
and

expressed

desire to work

cl05"ty with the board and the remaining
Journal

staff

to find answers

to tht:

chronic staffing problems. He felt that
more aadanic
support was needed for
the p.,per in the form of college faculty or
staff to work closely with the p.,por,
providing instruction, advice and academic credit. More community 1upport of
the paperwu alao ne,eded, Cantw•.11felt.
Cantwell expressed an tnterett in
publishing one final Issue of the papa- at
the end of the quarter, but the
Publications Board wu conC1!rnedthat
suspending publication would Inflict
permanent injuri.. on the Journal. The
board encouraged Cantwell to attempt

A staff meeting Nov. 13 at noon filled
the Journal offlc:1!with concerned and
interated atudents and faculty. Although
many had never writlffl for a newspaper
before, they eaguly accepted the challenge of producing the next Journal. The
p.,per you are reading is the result.
This Coopor Point Journal is far from
perfect. We att an e•r staff with limited
time and resources. Many things are
probably missing that no doubt should
have been included in this week's paper.
We apo]oglu.
Our purpose at the prnmt time is to
merely l:.ttp the Journal operatinguntil a
new editor can be elected for Winter
Quarter. Hopefully, the staff which is
presently doing such an excellent job now

publication
of another
issue after
soliciting .new staff.
After considering the comments of the
board, CantweU chose to resign. Mttting
again on the morning of Nov. 9, the
Publications Board acapted the resignation. Curt Milton agreed to coordinate
publication of the next two editions of the

will continue past the end of the quarter
and possibly more wilJ join in.

p.,por provided staff could be found.

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The Journal"s problems are by no
means solved and the story does not end
with the publication of this week's paper.
Although we have found an eager and
willing group ·of writers. work must
continue to find a steady source of
academic credit for those persons willing
to work at the Journal on a full or
part-time schedule and who need such
credit. Faculty willing to work with
beginning writers to teach them the basics
of print journalism must also be found
and encouraged to lend their time and
talents.
The nature of the Journal's existence is
also in question and must be properly
discussed and decided upon. Once and for
all, students must answer the eternal
question, 'What do .people want to see in
the CPJ1" This process can begin now and
should be formally initiated once a new
editor is chosen. Many students are
questioning the organiz.ational structure of
the Journal. noting that it may be at the
root of many problems. They would like
to see a collective editorship introduced.
The feasibility and desirability of such a
move must also be discu~.
To summ.ui.u, non, of the Journal's
major problems have been solved as yet.
We"re publishing now simply to kttp
interest up and to try and develop a new
source of writers. Before the Journal can
lead a safe and secure life, many, many
problems must be identified and solved.
The problems won't go away by ignoring
them. Now, more than ever, the Journal
needs your help and attention.
Please get involved. Our phone number
is 866-6213. Drop in whenever you've got
some spare time. Due to our own
academic commitments and the lack of a
large permanent staff, there may not
always be someone in the office. Don't be
discouraged. Leave a note and we'll get
back to you.
-Curt Mi1ton

the Journal is here again, and that is a
minor miracle by itse..lf.

Journal

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Trustees consider sports and strikes
by Amy Stevenson

A multi-part agenda and o lengthy
meeting wett the order of the day for
the Evergr<en Boardof Trustea at their
monthly meetingNovember 13.
Over a dozen It...,. wen, taken up by
the board during the meeting, which
lasted from 10,30 a.m. to weU put
4,30 p.m. Important cledslona were
mad1 concerninz
the strike policy,
intera>Ueglote athletics and the CAB
Phuo II project. (See accompanying
article for CAB Phase II).
The next Boord meeting is ,cheduled
for December 14 at 10,30 o.m. in the
Board Room of the Library, Room
31U.
The latest round of debate over
Evergreen·• strike policy leaves the

matter still up in the air pending further
action by the Board.
Prior to 1977, Evergreen had a low
key policy of how lo deal with o
faculty llril:.e. That policy called for no
replacement of work.en or sanctions
against worker. in the event of a 1trib.
In 1977, with the threat of a llrib in
the air, the Boord called on Evergr<en'•
1tat• attorney general, Richard Mont~
cucxo, to drah a 1trlh raolution. The
resulting raolution takn • hard line on

strikes and states that "in the evmt of a
strike or work stoppage or work
slowdown of any nature, the Boord of
Trustees
hereby delegates
to the

President and Vic:1!
President, the power
and

authority

to adopt, suspend,
modify, and/or repeal any and all ruin
and policiH of the college." It further

raoives that "the Boord of Trust...
delegatn to the President and VIC1!
Presidents the complete and absolute
authority

to

make

any

and

all

penoMel decisions, including but not
limited to, decilions to fire, discipline,
demote, hire, transfer, reassign and/or
otherwise affect employment of penons
at TESC."
Not surprisingly,
this policy was
unacaptabte to a large number of
penons, including President Evans and
oome memben of the Board.

Sina, 1977, the Board hu _,,
extensive

alternative

strike

two

policies
propooed. Each hu met with little
enthusiasm. After two yean of contn>versy, Evergreen still oporatn on the
basis of Montecucco's original raolution .
During lut Monday' 1 Board meeting,
Assistant to the President La EI~
brought up the oecond proposal of a

new strike policy before the Board. The
Board
remained
unsatisfied
and
requested Montecucco to draw up a

compromue policy incorporating the
best of the various

proposals.

No

specific timetable wu let for comp!~
lion of a new strike policy.
(Editor's note, A more In-depth
analy,i1 of the strike policy will be
forthcoming in the not
Journal, Dec. 7.)

Pete Steilberg,
Recreation

issue of the

the Director

and Campus

of

Activities,

brought a progress report on intercollegiate athletia before the Board. He
had researched

various

sports

and

concluded that the low-budget 1port1
were the most reasonable to punue in
the near future. Tho,e sports that he
encouraged included voUeyball, tennis,
track. and swimming. Of t"-,
he
condu~
that swimming was the mo,t
worthy of consideration. The Thunton

Olympian Swim Club, TOSC, has
expressed

interest

in a joint

co•

operation with the College in developing a competitive team. He abo stated
that TOSC wu willing to offer
substantialfinancialsupport.
AJ for soca,r, Stellberg felt that this

sport could easily be directed towards
intercollegiate
competition.
At this
time, TESC has nearly one hundred
students involved in this sport. The
existing soccer club plays smaller

schools (Gray, Harbor, St. Martin's).
The Board Sttmed responsive, hown-er.

the budget must be carefully laid out by
Steilberg, who promised to bring it to
the next mttting.
Th, Board of Trustees
clearly
believed that an intercollegiate athletics
program would promote public relations as well as increase both public
and Evergreen spirit. Surprisingly,
several of the Board exprff.SM a pure
sentiment: competition for the sake of
play. Others
were interested
in
winning, in recruiting the best athletes,
and in using them as tools to create a
new Evergrttn image.
AJ it stands, Evergreen has little
athletic credibility among the com-

munity. Othon felt that If Evergreen
could )ust show itself on the sports
page, then public relations would
miraculoutly improve. ln this way, tM
recruited athletes would simply be
pawns to aid Evel"gJ'ftn's sorry image of
Continued on page 3

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COOPER POINT JOURNAL•NOVEMBER 20, 1978

CHANGING WOMEN'S
ROLES STUDIED
Changing women's roles around the
world will be the subject of a modular
course titled "Sex Roles in History," to be
offered winter quarter. It will be taught
by Stephanie Coontz, who will examine
the origins and development of sex roles
\l\lestern civilizations from primitive
times to present. Evolving relationships
in

between women and men, and the way
those relationships have been portrayed in
literature, will also be covered.
"Sex Roles in History" is designed for
teachers. advanced high school students
and other interested members of the
community, as well as for Evergreen
students. It will be taught Wednesdays,
beginning January 3, from 7-10 p.m. in
LIB Jbl2.
For further
information.
contact
Stephanie Coontz, LIB 1506, 866-6702.

EVENING AT
THEATER PRESENTED
P.C.B. Productions, a TESC independent contract
acting company,
will
present "An Evening at the Theater" the
first two weekends in December. Three
one-act plays will comprise each evening,
which will open with George
S.
Kaufman's comedy, "lf Men Played Cards
As Women Do," a tale of role reversal. A
murder mystery by George W. Cronyn
called "A Death in Fever Flat" follows,
and "A Good Woman," a comedy by
Arnold Bennett, concludes the presentation.
The productions
are produced and
directed by Paul Cameron Bowyer, and
will be performed by Mark Dutton,
Bennett Fuchs, Amy Fowkes, Tom
Lindsey, Kara Neff, Gary Strandt, and
Douglas Wright.

"An Evening at the Theater" wi11 be
presented December 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10
at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater of
the Communications Building. Tickets are
$2 for general admission and $1 for
students and senior citizens. They are on
sale now at Budget Tapes and Records,
Rainy Day Records, Yenney·s Music, and
TESC Bookstore.

NOVEMBER 20, 1978• COOPER POINT JOURNAL

DOG DREAMS

FILM SERIES CONTINUES
The "Ascent of Man" film series is
being presented Thursday evenings at
7: 30 in Lecture Hall One. The fifth in the
series of 13 films will be shown November
30, and the series will continue winter
quarter. Bring a poem or two: there are
poetry readings after the films. The
evenings are present~ by the Center for
Literature in Performance.
CHE2

GUITARIST TO PERFORM
Classical guitarist Ian Mitchell of
Portland, Oregon brings his talents to The
Evergreen State College Tuesday, November 21, with an 8 p.m. concert in the
Recital Hall of the Communications
Building.
Mitchell, director of Lewis and Clark
College's guitar program, will present
works by composers Bach, Tedesco,
Couperin, Chana and Barrios in his
Tuesday evening concert sponsored by a
group of Evergreen students.
A seasoned performer, Mitchell has
studied with renowned classical guitarists
Michael Lorimer, Philip Rosheger and
John Mills, in addition to staging concerts
throughout California, Washington and
Oregon. Before joining the Lewis and
Clark faculty, Mitchell taught guitar at
Western Washington University while
completing
his master's
degree in
performance.
Tickets to his November 21 concert are
$2 general admission or $1 for students.

APPLICATIONS
FOR EDITOR
of the Cooper Point Journal are now being accepted.
The position of editor will be open starting Winter
Quarter. The position is a three quarter job but
candidates may elect to serve only a portion of that
time (not less than one quarter) if they so desire.
Resumes, including a sample of your work and a
statement indicating what your plans for the Journal
are should be turned into President Evans' office not
lat~r than 5 p.m. December 4. Candidates must be
present for an interview with the Publications Board
starting at 8 a.m. December 7. The Board will be
meeting in Library 3112 for the purpose of selecting a
new editor. Previous journalism/editing
experience is
helpful but not required to apply for the position.
Candidates should be prepared to spend 45 to 70
hours weekly on the job.
For further information,
contact the Journal at
866-6213.

Members of The Evergreen State College
Board of Trustees confer with S&.A
director Bill Hucks during last Monday's

RADICAL WOMEN MEET DEC. 14
A report on socialist femlnJsm as a
growing nationwide movement will be the
focus of the Thursday, December 14
meeting of Radical Women. There will
also be reports from several chapters of
Radical Women across the nation. The
meeting begins at 7: 30 p. m. For further
info:mation,
contact Mary Reeves;
address and phone numbers are below.
Also in Seattle will be a public forum
on "Revolution in the Revolution: The
Global Defiance of Women," on Saturday, December 9. The theme of the forum
will be the role of women as a central,
dynamic force in European, African,
Native American, and Latin American
liberation struggle1. There will be an
International Dinner at 6: 30. The event is
sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party.
For further information, contact Guerry
Hoddersen.
Both events will take place at Freeway
Hall, 3815 5th Avenue, Seattle, 98105.
For information, child care, or transportation call, in Seattle, 632-7449 or
632-1815.

Family
film,

Circus,

dance

INTERNSHIPS OFFERED
The Office of Coopuative Education i5
offering four poid lnturuhlps In journal·
ism for this summer in Seattle. The
Summer-Reporter Internship is an excellent opportunity for aspiring journalists to
gain experience in the field.
The intern will be assigned to the dty
desk and given daily assignment,. In
addition to these general reporting jobs,
time may be spent in the student's area of
choice such as special "beats," copy desk,
sports, etc. The intern will be encouraged
to suggest stories and features in addition
to regular assignments. Also, the intern
will be requi~ to write an evaluation of
the Summer-Reporter program.
All applicants must be Washington
State residents and of junior or senior
standing. She/he should be able to
demonstrate a strong interest in journalism through past or present work on a
student or other newspaper. Selection of
the interns will be based on lhe student's
ability to think and expres her/himoelf in
writing;
samples of t.he student's
published work will be reviewed during
the selection process.
Applications art due by Oeamber 1,
1978. For further information contact the
Office of Cooperative Education, LAB
1000, 86o-6391.

scheduled

The Family Circus will be on campus
Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. Sponstred by the
Women's Center, EPIC, the Men's
Center, and the Gay Resource Center,
there will be an admission charge of
$2.50.
Next month the Men's Center js
planning
to • show the film "To
Ourselves, Our Sons and Our Fathers."
Call the Men's Center for time and
place.
The Women's Center, Men's Center
and Gay Resource Center are jointly
planning a dance for the end of this
quarter. '1ron Horse" will play for this
benefit for the Olympia Women's
Center for Health on Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.,
fourth floor of the Evans Library.

Community
JOURNALISM

exchange

mttting. The Board agreed to discontinue
plans for CAB Phase II temporarily.

skills
opening

soon

For anyone who has ever wished they
could reduce the costs of repairs, learn a
skill, or meet other people in the
community
who are interested
in
swapping services, the Community Skills
Exchange may be the answer. Fashioned
after the Community Energy Banlc: in
Eugene, Or., the Community
Skills
Exchange is being established
as a
member-controlled
clearinghouse
for
pN>ple with service to offer each ot..Mr.
Presently in its formative stages, the
Community SkiUs Exchange io in the
proa,ss of recruiting membership from
individuals,
sroups, and institutions.
They would also encourage and gladly
accept any input from intetttted individuals. An informational meeting will be
held on Wednesday, December 6 at 7
p.m. at the Olympia Community Center,
1314 E. 4th Ave. For more information
please call Paul Fink at 866-1087 or
Maureen Fitzgerald-Krupke at 352-9910 or
943-9691.

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being a hippy college without any
brawn. The existing soccer club would
not suffer and couJd work out with the
recruited team, which could hf' mutually beneficial.
Lastly, cross-country
running was
well regarded. Evergreen'• running club
sponsored last summer's Lakefair Run,
and this event was very succnsEul with
roughly four hundred participants.
However, cross--country runnen who
are seriously competitive need to run
y.. r round and often In the spring tum
out for track. Until Evergtten builds a
440 yard track, this id.. ml on the
back burner.
The Board uked Steilberg to arrive
at some hard figures so that financing
can be arranged without biting into
Sa.A funds.
Any students who are interested in
promoting or denying this plan for
intercollegiate athletics should go to the
next Board m .. ting. meet with Steilberg, or voice their opinions so that the
Board knows what the students are
thinking. As it stands, President Evans
felt that most students were undecided
and that a small few were against the
issue of intercollegiate athletics.
Students are encouraged to make
their opinion.a known as this issue could
change the complexion of Evergreen far
into the future.

by Laurie Frankel
The Services and Activities (Sa.A)
propo .. l to alter the scope of the CAB
Phase II project, the planned addition
to the CAB building, due to declining
enrollment and rising construction
costs, was approved at the November
board of trusttts meeting.
In spring of 1977 the S6tA board
allocated $20,000 to a building design
fund after reviewing KAOS staff
member Lee Chamber's proposal that
an addition to the CAB building should
be build with the aid of student input,
and finding that there was a need for
the addition due to predicted increased
enrollment creating a lack of office,
social, and cafeteria space.
During the fall of 1977, in response
to the proposal a design team, eight
student interns and Jon Collier, Sa.A
hired architect-consultant, formed for
three reasons:
"l. To develop the program and
design for an expansion of the existing
facilities to meet the needs of the users
of the building.
2. To analyz, building technolog;es
and energy conservation methods in
terms of life-cycle costs.
3. To analyze the cost estimate of the
proposed expansion in relation to the
proposed budget establishing priorities
as required."
In order to assemble the necessary
data the design team decided to m.. t
with all the CAB building users and to
work under the supervision
of a
building user committee as well as to

do work in three stages consisting of
the research and program,
simple
plans, and design development with the
selected architect~ngineering firm.
AftH studying the data the team
decided that there would be a nttd for
remodeling and adding to the CAB
building since enrollment predictions
estimated that the college would have
about 4500 students by 1986. This
enrollment increase would create a
demand for more cafeteria and social
space and offices as student groups
would be forced to vacate their third
noor library offices to make room for
additional administrative and faculty
offices.
After reviewing the design team's
.inal report that $650,000 would be
nttded to remodel and add to the CAB
building
the 1977-78 S&A board
decided to fund the project from the
$100,000 set aside for CAB Phase II
from S&A funds during the fint few
years of the college, the $20,000
allocated for design costs and to float a
bond (essentially borrow money from
private source1). committing S&.A to an
approximate debt of SS0.000 a year.
S&A coordinator Bill Hucks' proposal at the November 8 Sa.A board
meeting ask~ that "the scope of the
CAB Pha,. II project be changed"
quickly as "approximately 45 percent of
dnign costs are for working drawings
and these have bttn started rather
recently."
Hucks stated that "the need for
alternate
student space is highly
questionable" as "space analyst Kris
Robinson estimated this nttd at an
enrollment level of 3500
(full time
equivalents) or above" considerably
higher than this year's enrollment figure
of 2100 that declined from last year's

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figure of 2300.
According to the proposal. "The state
of S&A finances is already in enough
jeopardy without a substantial debt
service due to the enrollment reduction.
S&A's revenue was reduced by $29,000
from last year's level due to the 200 less
students this year.
Hucks' proposal also states that "the
funding of CAB Phase II requires a
significant enrollment increase yearly."
and that "it appears that S&:A can not
afford a $550,000 bond debt in its
present or near future state."
Hucks suggests
that there are
.,numerous alternatives, from assuming
a smaller debt to using only the S&:A
cash reserves of roughly $130,000
minus costs to date."
1n the proposal to the trustees the
Sir.A board "Expects to have an
alternative plan for Trustees approval
by the January trustees meetinJt.".
The S&A board decided at last
week's meeting that it needed to discuss
exactly how much money it can
obligate for the CAB Phase II project in
order to stipulate some guidelines for
the designers and engineers to use in
making the formal i_,lans.
The discussion about LAl:1 Phase II
with Bob Strecker, Director of Facilities; Jon Collier, CAB Phase II
architect; and Dean Clabaugh, Administrative Vice President was tentatively
planned for the S&A November 22
meeting.
Bill Hucks stated "essentially all the
Sir.A board needs to do at this time is
to decide how much should be spent on
the project," taking into account the
enrollment decline that led to the
absence of need and funds.

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LET US HAVE
SOME CONTROL!
To the Editor:

During
the past few weeks at
Evergreen,
the issue of grttduation
requirements have been debatM both by
students
and the faculty.
But an
important issue that I am very much
concerned with. and that has not been
addressed,
is that students have no
control over this decision which could
effect them profoundly.
Last week I attended
the forum
sponsored by the Evergreen Council on
gradualion requirements. Although my
first impression was favorable due to the
strong turnout of students (the largest
group to be angry and involved since a
drug bust in the dorms last spring) and
the sometimes heated rhetorical discuss10n. I was soon disillusioned when I
realized that the forum was simply a place
tor the students to complain and that the
proposal will be voted on by the faculty
and their recommendation given to the
Board of Trustees, who have the absolute
.iuthority to mal,(e this decision.
The only imput that the students will
have on this decision is 1) voicing their
opinions through the forum (any board
members there?) and 2) through their
faculty (who have their own needs and
concerns to consider).
In line with Evergreen ideals, I urge the
board members to take seriously the
reservations and will of the students.
Let us have some control over decisions
that directly affect us!
-Bill F,rris

SPORTS PROGRAM
UNWANTED
HERE
To tht! Editor:
1 was reading an article in the Nov. 14
issue of the Daily Olympian concerning
intercollegiate sports at Evergreen. This
was a hot subject here last year and the
potential for the development of intercollegiate teams was investigated by the
administration, and a DTF was forme-d to
study the matter. My impression was that
such a venture would never be supported
by the student body, or be financially
viable at Evergreen. I believe this feeling
is widely held within the community here,
both by students and administrators alike.
In the news article I read it was
reported that the Board of Trustees of the
College had instructed Pete St,ilbug to
form a task force of faculty and staff that
would come up with a plan to implement
the school's entry into full scale athletics.
When board member Robert Flowers
asked if there was anything other than
money in the way of such a scheme he
was told by Steilberg that money was the
only obstacle. In the same article there are

NOVEMBER 20, 1978• COOPER POINT JOURNAL

several statements made that, to put it
mildly. are very contradictory of each
other, and others that are totally outside
the realm of even the lowest degree of
insight or intelligence.
It is estimated that an initial expenditure of •bout $69,000 would be required
to set the sports program up, and that,
according to St,ilberg, perhaps up to
one-third of that sum wouJd come from
student activities fees. I don't want mY
tuition going into this and J think that
most students here feel the s.ame way. In
fact. in the Olympian
article, both
Steilberg and President Evans were quoted
as saying that student sentiment was
strongly opposed to th• issu•. Steilberg
said that 85 percent of the student body
was opposed and Evans said h• felt 60-70
percent were against it.
Most everyone
is aware of the
"enrollment crisis" here, and there Sttms
to be a new strategy announced every day
about how the school is combating the
problem. My lttling is that a school with
an enrollment crisis is like a drowning
victim: they'll try anything to change
their current situation. I don't think that
such a person or school can deal very

Just what should be done with the
Cooper Point Joumal7
Obviously, problems aplenty plague the
Journal. Many ways to resolve them have
already been discussed. What do you
thinkl
The next issue of th• Journal (Dec. 7)
will contain a forum for students, staff
and faculty to air their opinions about the
late of the CPJ. Should the Journal be nm
by a collective management? What do
rationally under such condilions, and that
they would be better off not to jump to
anything too hastily, lest they find
themselves in a worse spot than when
they started.
Hal Havorson, a member of the Board,
was quoted as saying the reason for
intercollegiate sports at Evergreen, "is not
for increased enrollment, but to give the
students and community something to
cheer for and l'o read about Evergreen on
the sports page for • change." W,11, I
don't want to read about Evergreen in the
sports section, and I don't think such
desperate, foolish movH will h,lp the
school's enrollment. I would suggest that
before huge amounts of money a.re spent
on sports that they be put into what this
place is about (at least on paper). By this
I mean hiring a few faculty who know
what they're doing and who care about
their students, particularly in the li,lds of
art and music. If there were more
programs offered like "Psychological
Growth," "Recording Structures in Light

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As Associate Editor of the Campus
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Amy Stevenson,

& Sound," and th• "Studio Project" we
IT WOULD BE
might find people w•nting to com, h,n,.
As it looks now, there are going to be: SENSATIONAL!
students flocking away from hen, in very
short order unlns they find th•t their To the Editor:
lttlings and desires an, given •ttention by
I have • suggestion. What if, at the
the powers th•t be (Evans, Clabaugh, th•
beginnJng of uch quarter, all people who
O.ans, •le.).
have individual contracts write a paraIn closing, I'd lib to urge anyone with
graph or less •bout what they'll be doing.
opinions on this matter to organize: and
You con publish
th• 400 or so
make your fftlings known, .. pedally to contributors and it would be sensational!
the Board of Trust....
I would also
Our school is filled with id•as and
encourage: those on the staff and faculty
psychedelic pursuits, but just lib the
hen, to spulc out on this, and not let magical door of ecstasy, it is always there
Ev,rgn,m become more traditional than it at all times, we just have to find th• right
is now (which is plenty). We can make
key.
our school living proof that you can be
Then, if you want to find out more
different •nd altttnativ• and still prosper.
about someone's particular harmony, you
-Ken Sternberg
can just go over to an academic dean.
They read them all and know what's

you want to see in the Journal: news1
in-depth features? issue oriented reporting? new journalism?
Let us know what you think by sending
a short, concise letter stating your opinion
to the CPI, CAB 306, Th• Evergreen Stat,
College, Olympia, WA 98505. We'll print
excerpts from as many letters as we have
room for. To be considered
for
publication, letters must be typed, doubl,
spaced and in our h•nds by Dec. 1.

peruse your pages to see what the
competition has to offer. As a former
lif,long resid,nt of Olympi•, I took
particular interest in your story concerning the new Capital Mall. Having
been born and raised within a mile of
where the beast no sits, I have seen firsthand a number of qualitative changes in
the environment of Olympia's west1ide;
few, ii •ny, for the better.
All of th• placa that I used to play in
and interact with att rapidly turning into
extensions of the American Nightmare.
The woods and grass areas are being
replaced by low cost (rhymes with sl,azy)
housing, parking lots and Hamburger
Rows as far as the eye can see. Many of
the strttts are usually tom up for one
reason or another.
and the traffic.
congestion
that inevitably
ensues is
frustrating and ridiculous.
I gu'5S the point that I'm trying to
make hen, is that I've known for years
that many of the citizens of Olympia bit•
the big one on a n,gular buis, and I'm
thoroughly disgusted about the fact that
they'v• managed to make th• geography
of th• westsid• n,llect their penonalities.
Your quote from Vil'l!inia Hendricks
f,.tures an analogy about the mall being
"a kind of heart for the community" is
n,ally not too far from the truth. It's just
that th• "hurt" ii RVerely infected with •
cancer th•t i& turning everything around it
into the bowels of the body community.
Things could be wone, however. Dixy
could hov• used the sit, when, the beut
lies to construct a nuclear power plant or
for· nuclear waste ttorag-e.
To put even more perspective on the
matter, ii you think things are b•d In
Olympi• (and I do), you wouldn't beli•v•
10me of the things that go on over hen, in
Ell,nsbel'l!, That's another story, however; just be sun, to thank the diety of
your choice that you'n, thett and not
hett.
You've gor. a good newspaper
at
Ev•l'l!rttn; kttp up the good workl
Signed,
Just Another Ali,nated
Citizen of Earth,
Jody D•ighneault

happening.
It's just us students that don't know
what's going on.
Neill Kramer
(Ed. Note: Responses concerning Neill's·
proposal should be sent in care of the

Cooper Point Journal.

STUDENTS,
GET OFF YOURS
To th• Editor:
The recent action taking place in Red
Square points out some necessary issues
that I think should concern students. It is
disappointing that with th• exception of
the few students who planned th• forum,
no one emphasized the role that initiative
piays in developing community life. It is
particularly discouraging to 11tt a v•riety
of•1pealcefs"'1!'olnf to' ffl•• fll'ui:tural
problems
that keep students
from
organizing, participating, or otherwioe
engaging in the collective Iii, of the
campus.
In the instance of the Trial Balloons,
students did not participat, in this proc:eu
becaUJe
they wen,n't properly informed,
nor can the low response
to this
curriculum planning effort be •ttributed
to othff de:ficie:nciesin the structure of the
process itself. All criticisms that were
directed at other forms of participation
that require some measure of social
responsibility clearly, wen, missing the
mark.
The common tendency to externalize
the problem of non-participation
In
student groups or •ctivitin that directly
influence students, such as curriculum
planning,
to structural
problems,
is
cl•arly • sign that th• situation is growing
worse. Apol"l!iZing for apathy by making
suggestions
that coordinated
ttudies
programs don't build in time slob for
meetings, etc., that thett ii iNufflcient
time to ~ involved in student organizations outside program activitla, or that
the information system is inadequate, are
aJI attempts to remove oneself from
complicity.
A more critical appraisal
of the
problem of public lazinesa should focus
on why student, lack the initiative to
become involved in community
life.
Clearly, all ideas that lmpooe additional
structure to coerce involvement should be
ruled out as ineffective; they only oerve
to ffllde what little student inltlatlve
Oldsts. Initiative, in short, comes from
within oneself, and has little to do in this
particular situation with the structures
that make community involvement convenient. While initiative
usually Is
considered an Independent effort, In
political matters, It al11101talways rnults
in something publicly uaefu.l,
Expecting Admissions to develop a
propaganda effort that will raise the full
time enrollment to a point that would
insure funding for student groups ii a cue
in point when, rdlana, upon the 1tructun,
could prov• defeating. U the students who
wen, convinced of the outstanding quality
of Evergreen'• programo would make a
point to convey this to an eligible, and at
least partially ideali1tlc, individual whooe
future could include an education at
Continue-d on page 5

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letters...

Continued from page 4

Evergreen, then we would all 11tt th•
results through the pn,sence of mon,
bodi,. n,giltering each quarter.
The enrollment problem becomes an
economic one. when money initially
t~ed
for student groups is cut in
proportion to th• declin• in full tlm•
enrollment. However, it is doubtful that
this problem will be alleviated by any
new structural gadgetry, but instead by
focusing on th• psychological probl,m of
how these existing structures
repress
initiative.
The only thing that ne,ds to b,
redesigned or restructured is th• attitud,
in which one a~ounts for one's actions,
or in this case, inaction. One can't impose
a community feeling on a group of people
who, through their inability to commit
themselves, don't understand initiative,
one of the basic assumptions of the
college.
The strength of the group still has to be
measured in terms of its weakest link,
which are those who fail to recognize the
power initiative can carry when applied
to making program proposals, organizing
benefits, or working within the concerns
of the many disparate interest groups on
campus that offer a feeling of community.
In short, on• cannot expect th• collegt,
to get off its public ass, if the stud,nts
don't get off theirs.
Douglas R. Mclaughlin

Staff

Meets

Tuesday
Th• next Journal staff meeting will be
Tuesd•y, November 21, •t 3:30 p.m. in
the Journal office, CAB 306. Purpose of
the meeting will be to ,valu•t• this week's
paper and make plana for the next edition
of the paper scheduled for December 7.
The Journal was ovenet this week.
Stories held over will be used next issue.

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by David Snyder and Doug Riddels
W,11, folks, hen, w• go again.
Have you noticed that every year
about this time an article comes out
about a group of students who are
concerned about the lack of community
spirit on campus and the need for a
greater student voice in decisionmaking, and who are attempting to
build an organization to mttt. those
needs] Th• fact that it is happming
again this year says som~ing
about
students' concern about these issues at
Evergreen, but it says something more
about students' failure to adequately
deal with these problems up until now.
This year's attempt began as an open
community forum on Thursday, Nov•
ember 9, call•d by students Mark
Chambers and Carolyn Don,y, coordinators of the Faith and Alternative
Communities Center (formerly the Faith
Center). Several hundred students
gathered on Red Square to discuss their
lttlings •nd ideas about the lack of
community at Evergreen. The large
turnout was due in pa.rt to the sunny (I)
weather and in part to Chambers'
meeting with the faculty to request that
they juggle their program schedules to
permit attendance by students at the
11 :00 a.m. forum.
Since the November 9 forum, there
have been two more meetings, in CAB
108 on November 14 and in the library
lobby on November 16. Then, will be a
third tomorrow Tuesday, November
21. These mttting,, att,nded by 30 to
SO students,
have been trying to
develop concrete strategies for bringing
Students together and to give them a
voice in campus governance.
Students' comments at the November
9 forum ranged from specific proposals
for changes
(e.g.,
in curriculum
planning or individual contract support
groups) to more general solutions such
as smiling more at one another and
picking up cigarett• butts.
Ideas brought
up at the forum
generally fell into one of four areas: 1)
the need for better communication,
both interpersonal and structural (e.g.,
the CPJ or th• Info Center); 2) student
responsibility for the community environment; 3) the problem of students'
energies being focused entirely in thrir
progr•ms; and 4) the need to broaden
Evergrttn's outside support. Some of
the specific items were:
For communication:
•Regular community forums for brainstorming and sharing community needs
and ideas for solutions.
•Task groups to act on community
need1 (perh~ps coming out of the
forums).
•A dinctory of individual contracts, to

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bring those students together as a group
and into the larger community.
•Support groups for individual contract
students.
.Organize
student/faculty
interest
groups to create good coordinated
studies programs.
eGet involved in the S&A Board and
other existing channels of communication.
•An inter-program group representing
all the programs on campus to share
program happenings and perh..aps begin
a networking
for inter-program
activities.
•Have a student-operated coffeehouse
"in the best sense of that word."
•Keep the CPJ going. Besides suggestions from several people as to how the
paper could aid in building community,
students from the Decentralization
program (including yours truly) announced their interest in working with
the CPJ. A major difficulty until now
has been finding academic support for
students working on the paper.
•listing of all program lectures that
could be opened
to the whole
community.
•Personal mailboxes for everyone on
campus.
For community environment:
•To d«orate and renovate the environment as we see fit, such - as murals on
the walls of the CAB building.
eOne student is trying to initiate a
program that would give community
performances
(perhaps weekly). For
inlor call Danny at 866-5101 (on
campus).
•The Environmental Design program
will help any program or student group
design their space. Phone 866-2223 (on
campus).
For reaching
outside
of our
programs:
.Cive space within programs
for
involvement in the community.
•Programs
with common interests
should come together, both academically and socially. lteraction could
include common lectures,
library,
pi'ojects, etc.

•Bring the curriculum planning process
into the programs.
For broadening support:
•Brea.kfuts in Sylvester Park. Generally
making ourselves more visible (in a
friendly way).
•Encouraging high school students to
come to Evergreen. One idea being
developed is a promotional packet that
any student could take back to his/her
old high school as part of a recruitment
pre&entation. For more info cont.act
Carol at 866-5183.
Other id,as an, aln,ady being worked
on as well. A group of stu~ts
are
fleshing out the details of a proposed
inter-program liaison group, where one
student from each program would meet
bi-weekly to share information and
perhaps coordinate common activities.
The Environmental
Design, Housing
Design, Alternative Energy Systems and
Decentralization programs have formed
a consortium to work on common
projects, share resources and learn from
one another.
"As You Sow," the
alternative agriculture program, will
enter the consortium in winter quarter.
One student, Neil Cramer. is trying to
put together a directory of individual
contracts.
The two community meetings on
November
14 and 16 have not
produced any concrete proposals as of
yet. The students at these meetings
have agreed to continue
meeting,
probably once a week, and hope to get
more students to attend. The next
meeting will be Tuesday, November 21
at noon in the library lobby. At the
November 16 mttting, the· history of
previous forums and similar student
organizations was discussed, and the
November 21 meeting is scheduled to
begin with a review of the by-laws of
the Unnamed Student Organization,
which was born and die-d last year.
Whatever they decide to organize, be it
forum or student union or task force
or weekly dance (or all of them, or
none), they hope to not repeat the
mistakes that have le-d to so many
previous failures.

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NOVEMBER 20, 1978• COOPER POINT JOURNAL

Monroe·excites

School officials plan legislative strategy
by Mark Stumpf

Details of The Evergreen
State
College's strategy in the battle of the
bucks in the coming legislative session
are still under development, indicated
Les Eldridge, assistant to the president.

last week. While that battl• plan may
never be for public or student
consumption.
the challenges facing
Evergreen's two-pronged tabbying team
of Eldridge and President Dan Evans in
maintaining the college's budget and
present structure are clear:
• Convincing legislators, in a general
sense. of "the realities of what happens
here." Eldridge sees the most important
aspects of Evergreen's reality-contrasting with "the way we're perceived
on the outside"-as
the fact that
students here are satisfied with the
education
they receive,
that the
program is "academically rigorous,"
and the college's "high percentage rate
of both job and graduate-school
placement."
• Persuading lawmakers the college is
dealing seriously and effectively with its
newest and most potentially damaging
headaches, enrollment that has declined
for the past two year,. ''In general,
we're, for the first time, taking what I
would describe
as a marketing
approach to our enrollment problems,"
said Eldrid2e. He will emphasize that

the "very -complex process" -not
yet
complet-the
college is punuing with
its enrollment DTF (disappearing task
force) will reveal why students do or
don't come here and why they le.rive,
and thus how the college can attract
more.
Higher-education institutions across
the state are facing a tougher legislative
climate this year, Eldridge agreed.
Though state revenues have exceeded
earlier expectations,
Eldridge noted
there is no surplus of monies when the
changed priorities of the governor and
legislators are considered. Last week,
for instance, Governor Dixy Lee Ray
said she'd like to see the 'increased
revenues used for full state funding of
basic education in common ,chools and
to provide property
tax relief for
homeowners-not,
apparently, to fund
higher education.
(Dollars-and-cents
details of the
governor's intentions won't be known
until December 20, when her legislative
budg,t request will be mad, public.
Eldridge would say only that TESC
representatives got a "very cordial"
reception before the governor's staff in
presenting th• school's own reque,ted
budg<t.)
As of late last week, several factors
lik,ly to d,term.ine the t<mp,ram,nt of
the two legislative houses were still

undetermined. Democratic and Republican caucuses were meeting last
weekend to hammer out a committtt
and leadership structure in the state
House of Representatives
that will
satisfy both partin. which the tte•nt
general election left balanced
in
numerical strength. Until the chairmanships are assigned and J,ad,nhip s,t,
Eldridge said, it is impossible to assess
the scene there.
Eldridge views the state senate
situation optimistica1Jy. '1 suspect it
may be a bit more stable" than in years
past regarding high,r education, Eldridge said. "I think th, High,r
Education Committee is a good one. I
think most members of that committee
are pretty
well acquainted
with
Evergreen and understand
it fairly
well." He sizes up the crucial Senate
Ways and M,ans Commitltt, which
controls the budget, in the same way.
Both houses of the leg!slature are
likely to be aff<cted in th,ir vi•w of
Evergre,n by a study by th, Council
for Post-Secondary Education scheduled
to be rel,as,d this wttk. Gay!, Norris,
that agency's executive coordinator,
said at a l,gislativ• h,aring in October
that research for th, study has included
survey of potential,
current
and
graduate students, a survey of other
colleges ,stablished at th, lim• Ever-

green was founded, and analysn of
Evergreen's "academic program structure" and costs. With th, tteommendations the CPSE makes from its research,
the report promises to carry sizable
w,ight. ITh• CPJ will report on It next
month.)
Tight money isn't rik,ly to caus, th,
state's colleges to compete with each
other for the scare, dollan, Eldridg,
seemed certain. "The higher education
institutions of the state have always
worked tog<ther," Eldridg, said. "Eachg
institution is well aware of the fact that
the higher education system in the state
is a well-balanced one and any interinstitutional squabble, are bound to be
detrim,ntal."
Eldridge doesn't consider student
involvement pivotal in the school's
relations with state govemmmt, but
he's not against student lobbying
efforts. To be eff<ctiv•. "it should com,
from students who are constituents of
the individual legislator or (to legislators) who have particular internts in
th• stud,nt's fi,ld. Stud,nt ,Hort•
should focus not on t,chnical matters
such as th, colleg•' s budg,t," Eldridg,
said, ''but what th• academic procns of
the college has meant to them
personally. 1 encourage it."

Comic book
convention is Nov. 26

PEACECORPS
and VISTA
The toughestjob
you'II ever love

Olympia's lint comic book and adence
fiction conv,ntion will be held Saturday,
November 25 at 207 East Fourth, acrou
from th• State Theater. The all-day affair
begins at 10 a.m. and continues until 6
p.m. Admission is 50 cents; call Mlh
Ross at Four-Color Fantasia (943-3375)
for table rates or mott information.
The main attraction will be a "fie..
market" of comic books and science
fiction post•rs and pap,rbacks. Coll<ctors
from th, Pugd Sound area will meet to
buy, .. 11, and trade works by their
favorite writen and artists.

Peace Corps and VISTA volunteers are people pretty much like you.
People with committment and skills who have assessed their lives and
decided there must be more to life than just holding down a job.
The problems that our volunteers deal with overseas and here at home
aren't new. Such as the cycle of poverty that traps one generation after
another because they're too busy holding on to get ahead. The debilitating effects of malnutrition and disease. Education that's either too little
or none. Skills that are lacklng, and the means to~ them too.

by Sue Randall
Then~ are some performers who remain
great and are held deep in the soul of
music lovers everywhere. Such a musician
is Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass.
TESC students and bluegrass lovers from

all over Western Washington met Bill
Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys in the
Library lobby on November 5.
Early in the fall term the students in the
Country Music contract, inspired by Tom
Foote's sponsorship,
started the show

DTF considers
marketing plan
by Brian Cantwell
A disapp,aring task force (DTF)
aimed at dealing with problems of
enrollment at The Evergreen State
College has been meeting weekly since
early October to discuss such topics as
Evergreen's
public image and the
formu.Jation of a comprehensive plan
for student attraction and retention.
In a mttting last Wedn<Sday, the
group gave th• go-ahead to Dean of
Enrollment Services Larry Stenberg,
task force chairperson, to punue the
invitation of an outside marketing
consultant for an exploratory discussion
of ways to promote the college in the
immecliate future.
The proposal to hire a consultant,
made in th, Nov,mber 8 meeting of th,
DTF by Administrativ• Vice-preident
Dean Clabaugh, was mad, th• subj<ct
f,oj.,4,ort]l,e,,,.,ia' W::i9 I'
l>y the group
alter a strong indication of support by
DTF m,mber Judy Annis and othen.
Evergreen has always relied on its own
in-house resources for dealing with its
image problems, said Annis, director of
Evergre,n's Office of Colleg• Rdations.
'We have been incestuous in what we
hav• done," sh, said. ·w, nttd an
outsider to help."
Academic Dean Will Humphr,ys
supported the move, saying h• has been
"shocked" at how President Dan Evans'
attempts to sell Evergreen hav• failed.
"When Evans has att,mpted to pnesenl
a simple, clear image of th• college to
Kiwanis Clubs and high school classes,
h•' s gotten feedback that shows peopl•
just aren't
understanding,"
said
Humphreys, "and he is a pro at it."
Humphreys sugg,sted that th• final
solution might rest in the bringing in of
som,on, "of th• like of people who sell
McDonald'• hamburgers."
Th• task fora,, compoted of administrators, faculty, staff and students, has
been divided into four subcommitt,..
to d,al with diffettnt aspects of th,
enrollment situation. Topia to be dealt

with by the committees
are: (1)
Academic structure, curriculum design,
and supporting services; (2) Systematic
enrollment planning; (3) Internal and
external public relations and communication; and (4) Campus environment
and student retention.
Stated goals for the various subcommittees include: (1) to protect the basic
academic design of the college limiting
propos,d changes to action that will
influence recruitment and retention of
students and redesign services to further
support of the educational mission of
the college and to improve responsJve-ness to student nttds and concerns; (2)
to determine clientele the college wants
to serve, establish the college's marketing positioning in relationship to
that clientele and develop a systematic
plan for r<cruiting students; (3) to
'@Sl.ly improve lines of cornmWUCaUon1"'
among all campus community members
and the college's vari.ous audiences by
developing and transmitting information that identifies the coUege in clear,
concise and consistent terms; and (4) to
determine major influences within the
campus environment
that impacts
students' lives and develop plans to
increase positive influences and to
reduce negative ones.
DTF m,mbers include Mary Ellen
Benson,
Marilyn
Ward;
faculty
mm,bers David Marr, Mary Nelson,
Duke Kuehn, Ginny Ingersoll, Burt
Guttman, Greg Steinle,, Nancy Taylor;
Administrators
Les Eldridge, Larry
Steinberg, and Arnaldo Rodriquez;
Staff m,mbeni Barbara Cool,y, Judy
Annis, Tomas Ybarra and Stone
Thomas; students Bill Hucks, Tom
Richardson, K,vin Shultz and Dian,
Grise.
The task force will continue to meet
through fall quart« on W,dn,sday
mornings from 8 to 10 a.m. in Room
2118 of Th• Ev,rgreen Stat, College
library. Th, mtttlngs are open to th,
public.

rolling. Ticket outlets were established
and posters were plastered from Aberdeen
to Tacoma. News was flying aboul a
touch of the Grand Ole Opry coming to
Evergreen.
Being in the Country Music contract. I
had the opportunity to participate in the
making of a show. My friends and I in
the contract shared a mounting enthusiasm for the night when Bill and the
Bluegrass Boys would roll into Evergreen
in the customized bus that has become
their trademark. When they waltzed on
stage Sunday evening, a sell-out crowd
joined us in our excitement.
Kenny Baker on fiddl,, Butch Robbins
on banjo. Randy Davis on bass, and
Wayne Lewis on Guitar, joined Bill's
percussive mandolin and drove two hours
of some honest Bluegrass north. Tunes
like Kentucky Mandolin, Orange Blosson
Special, and Monroe's own Uncle Pen
filled the hall with bouncing m,lody.
Bluegrass fans were clapping and singing
along as Monroe led them U, Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot. Gosp,I tun,s played an
important part in Monroe's repertoire and
he put a touch of country soul into every
word.
His high tenor voic, drifted through th,
crowd as he was joined by the Boys in
some fout-part
harmony. Butch was
doing banjo breaks, and Kenny's singing
fiddle filled in where Bill 1,ft off. Our
own Tom Foote playing banjo and T .C.
Rinkins on liddl, w•re pulled willingly
from the throng to put a dash of
Evergreen into Monroe. The energy was
at its peak and my friends and I were
living it.
I had an even better experience the nexl
day listening to Bill Monroe in semin~r.
Tom Foot• led a talk show with Bill as
special guest. Bill answered questions with
an honest humor that relaxed his audience
immediately. Monroe told of his beginning in music. He was from a musical
family, eight children in all. His mother,
who played the fiddle and sang died when
he was under ten years of age, so he
started life working hard.
When it came to picking the instrument
he wanted to play, he had to compete
with his two older brothers, Birch and
Charlie. Birch grabbed the fiddle, Charlie
the guitar. and little brother Bill was
furnished with a SJ "tater-bug" mandolin.
He knew he had to excel and he certain! y
did. Bill spok• highly of Arnold Schultz,
a fiddler who greatly influenced his love

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we CAN promise you. There will
be plenty to write home about.
iCINFORMATIONs
Tuesday and Wednesday
See our representatives for details
November 28-29
on current and future openings.

PEACE CORPS ALM & SEMINAR
Wednesday, November 29
noon CAB 110

for the blues of the deep South.
When asked the role of the banjo in
Bluegrass. Monroe quipped, "Well, I
think the banjo's helped Bluegrass and
played a great part in Bluegrass music,
but I think Bluegrass played a bigger part
in lhe banjo. If it hadn't been for
Bluegrass, there wouldn't be much banjo
playing today."
He spoke of the
dancibility of Bluegrass and how it drives
people to move freely to its song,
encouraging square dancing, one of his
treasured pastimes.
The workshop that tallowed proved to
me the integrity of this man. He patiently
and professionally showed me the do's
and don't of mandolin performance.
Carefully. he placed my hand in the right'
position on my mandolin and opened my
mind to his relaxed technique. Being very
sure of himself instilled an even greater
confidence in my own capabilities.
The Bill Monroe experience
was
fantastic and will be long remembered by
everyone taking part in the show. All of
the Country Music people and Tom
Foote, our undaunted sponsor. would like
to thank the Sound and Lighting crews
for a smooth show, a thanks well
deserved. And to the Country Music folks
themselves, thanks for letting me share
this beautiful space with all of you. \"/e
never could have pulled it off without
Tom Foote's learned touch.
Most of all-Thank You. Bill Monroe
and the Bluegrass Boys.

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VISTA FILM & SEMINAR:
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