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Part of The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1 (October 18, 1979)

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rollerskate videodate
by Michael Everett
I was only trying to locate a
oontexl for my rollenkate videodate
and to take reaponaibility for sharing
a romantic evening together. That's
why I brought her to Steve's
Macaroni Palace.
It bad the makinga for a far out
experience. I wu dressed in my best
three piece pin-at.riped jogging suit
with custom made $87 Saturn Xll
atomic running shoes. She was
wearing canary yellow hydraulic
suspension rollerskates, black velour
official US Olympic espreaao drinking
ur,nrunning aborta and a sky blue silk
t-shirt with Mork and Mindy iron-ons.
We looked terrific.
We rode on our ten speed Italian
racing bikes down into South Seattle
where the unfinished 1·90 extension
runs its access ramps off into mid air.
It was at the very end of one of
these aborted exits that Steve's
Macaroni Palace squatted in all its
cosmic splendor. That's why all the
ads for the place said, "Steve's
Macaroni Palace, Just one step to the
sky."
The Palace was formed out of a half
a dozen old VW 'busses all welded
together. The entire outside; top,
front, back, sides: was painted like
enormous album covers, all from
records released in the sixties. There
was "Surrealistic
Pillow" by the
Jefferson Airplane, "Electric Ladyland" by Jimi Hendrix, "Buffalo
Springfield Again" by the Buffalo
Sprinfield, "Anthem of the Sun" by
the Grateful Dead. "Cheap Thrills" by
Big Brother and the Holding Company. I could go on and on.
··oh. wow,"said my rollerskate
videodate, "It's a relic of the sixties!"
"You bet it is!" I said as we went
in.
Inside the place was decorated
entirely in anti-war memorabilia,
except fo'r one corner where a faded
poster of Neil Young hung sur·
rounded by burning multicolored
candles and sandlewood
scented
incense.
Oddly. there were no other customers that night so we were able to sit
at the tsble with the best view of 1-5
and the King Dome.
"How quaint." said my rollerskate
videodate.
Then Steve himself came out of the
kitchen to t.ake our order. Steve is a
young guy of medium height and a
slight paunch. He has long hair and
an enormous
beard that nearly
obliterates the rest of his face. He
wears faded blue jeans. a workshirt
and a denim jacket.
"Hey man," he said, "What can I
get you'!"
"What have you got?" I replied.
''Uhh, macaroni and cheese and,
uhh. that's all..."

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my favorite cause, next to the Hunger
Project."
"Mine too," I replied.
Then Steve came back out of the
kitchen carrying a block of cbeeae on
a plate and a gnter. He banded the
stuff to me and aaid, "Hey man, do
you mind gnting the cheeaer
"Grating the cbeeoe?I Why don't
you do itr
"Hey mellow out, man, no need to
get hostile, rve got to oook up the
macaroni." Steve looked offended. He
stomped back into the kitchen.
So I grated the cheese and after a
while Steve came back out with the
rest of our dinner.
.
"Here y'go. don't eat it all 1n one
place," he said. My rollerakate
videodate giggled!
··while you are enjoying your
repast, I shall condeacend to tell you
of my vision."
"Your vision? Ooohl" said my
rollerskate videodate.
"Yea, my Vision, with a capital V:

"What have you gotr
"Macaroni and cheeae."
"For deaaertr
"Yeh, I pour chocolate aauce on it.·
"Choeolate aaucer aald my rollerskate videodate, "That' ■ my favorubh ...'' Suddenly her eye■ went
blank, her face froze, and ■ be
aereamed, • Arrrgbbl I can't take it
any morell I HATE CHOCOLATE
SAUCE. PERRIER TASTES AWFUL. Mork ii stupid and Mind:, la
ugly! The sixties are boring! The only
thing worse is the seventies! I don't
care about whalea and Werner Erhart
la an assl" She bolted from her chair
and akated toward the door.
"Hey, uh, like that's the back door,
so, uh ..." aaid Steve ...
But it wu too late. She skated
right out the door and over the edp
of the unfiniabed ramp onto the
oncoming traffic of 1-5.
Like I aaid, I was only trying to
create a context for my rollerakate
videodate in order to take the
reaponaibility for sharing a romantic
evening. That'a why I brought her to
Steve's Macaroni Palace. But now
she's a long red smudge and a few
ball bearinga on the highway.
I looked up at Steve and aaid,"I
guess she wasn't willing to take
~sponsibility for her oontext."
..Bummer," said Steve, u be went
to get the dessert.

by Timothy Nogler

2510 Enrolled!

by Pam Dusenberry

The third week of sehool la hero, and
all seasoned Evergreenen are undoubt,.
edly awaiting with bated breatli 't!!e announcement of tbia fall'■ enrollni~nt figure,. Well, follu,, here it ial Regiatrar
Walker Allen, the follu, in hia office, and
the computer have done their work. The
preliminary official headcount of enlightened individual,, enrolled at tbia hallowed
and besieged lnatltution ii 2510. That ia
the second highest fall enrollment figure
our college baa ever bad in its eight
short years of life. But only by o■e atudent:fall 1976'a figure wu 2509.
Now, for the ramifications of thia disoovery. First, 2510 people tranalatea into
a 12.6 percent increaae over lut fall
That'■ a fair amount for a college that
baa been suffering enrollment declines
for two years, in a time when college en•
rollments all over the oountry are falling
and alternative inatitutions are dropping
like Dies.
Another way of stating that Evergreen
baa 2510 1tudents ii to say that it baa
2250 FTEa. FTE stand& for full.time
equivaloncy, which ii the atandard measurement of enrollment at a school F'TEs
are uaed to avoid the ambiguity cauaed
by some students being part time and
othen being full time. To get the figure,
all the credits being taken in a quarter

are added together. Then this is divided
by 15, the number of credits that oonsti•
tutes a full load.
In relative terms, the fact that the
school baa 2260 FTEa ia good, but nol
quite good enough. Last year the state
lef;islature mandated that Evergreen
have an average of 2300 FTEs for the
1979-80 academic year. Usually-but not
always-@'nrollment declines from faU to
winter and lrom winter to spring. But
rather stiff odds were conquered ~f getting the enrollment to where it is now,
so perhaps the upwahl trend will oontinue. Allen, for one, is oJ)timistic. And
even if enrollment doesn't reach 2300
F'TEs this year, the legislature has af.
lowed the college a "four-year breathing
space" to reach 3500 FTEs by the
1982-83'year.
All this suggests that someone must
have been doing something to get all
those new students here. Indeed, many
people have been doing many thinga
with that aim in mincl. In Response to
the Council for Post-Seoondary Education's report and the legislative man•
dates of last year, the faculty and administration have been working to institute
more ■ tructure into Evergreen's cu.rricu•
lum- Efforts have been made to improve
and perhaps change Evergreen'• image
through various publicity and recruiting
campaigns. But that's another article ..

Now for all the statistics lovers out there, here's a breakdown of
that magical 2510. Thia fall'• figures do not total exactly. Allen ex•
plained that tho computer bu loot 20 peojJle, but that the buga would
be ironed out soon.

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Sunday, Sept. 30-Cbarleo Chaplin'•
The Gold Rull (1925) and tho elaaaic
short The Red llallooa. 7:30. CAB
llO. Free.
-Friday, Od. 5-Jamea Cagney and
Jean Harlow in Tllo hblle Eaemy
11931) and "Space Patrol" (early TV
episode). 3:00, 7:00 and 9:30. Lecture
Hall I. $1.00.
Sunday, Od. 7-Cbarlea Walter's
1964 muaical TIie 11e+keW.
Molly
Bro... starring Debbie Re,ynolda and
Harve Preanell, with a abort Tbe
Robber WIie ea.. te Dlaaer. 7:30.
CAB llO. Free.
Friday, 0d. 1%-Aldra K uroaawa'1
lint color film, .,.._
lla-Doa (1970).
Lecture Hall I. 8:00, 7:00 and 9:45.
Special Sunday show Oct. 14 at 8:00
p.m. $1.00.

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Sunday, Sept. 16-Tbe Great Radio
Comedlaa1. 7:30. CAB 110. Free.
Sunday, Sept. 23-Alfred
Hitchcock's Tlie"MiiilVlio"KaewT• Mud,
11934version), with Heck!e & Jeckle
in Hltcllldken. 7:30. CAB 110. Free.
Monday, Sept. 24-The Mari Brothers in Bone FeaU.en, and Reefer
Madn.... Lecture Hall I. 7:00 and
9:30. $1.00.
Wednflday, Sept. 28-Werner Herzog's Ev• Dwar& 8uned Small and
Jack Webb's Red Nip-..
Lecture
Hall I. 7:00 and 9:30. $1.00.
Friday, Sept. 28-Jamea
Dean
Double Feature with Elia Kazan'•
F.a■ t of F.dea and Nicholu
Ray's
&bel Wltl,eat A CaaN. 3:00 and 7:30
only. Lecture Hall 1. $1.00.

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be right back." Steve darted into the
kitchen and came out again carrying a
bull born.
"Brethren!"
be yelled into the
mouthpiece, "Listen, and I ■hall tell
you of the prophet St. Mabaviabnu
Neil Young and of my great
re1ervation1,
I mean revelation,,
about him. Now, one day, not too long
ago, I waa looking through the Y'a of
a local record store. Suddenly, I aaw a
great light and out of u..t llgbt a
viaion of Neil Young appeared. And
be bore a mighty 1- PauL And be
playeth unto my ean a medley of Illa
early bit ■, 'Down by the River,'
'Sugar Mountain,' and 'Heart of Gold.'
There waa much blowing of 1peaken
and breaking of ■tringa, And then a
great voice ■ poke above the din. And
the voice aayetb, 'Thia la Neil Young
who never oleepetb. Look upon him
and follow him in all of Illa wa:,a. fer
he ia sore hip and knoweth the path
of rigbteouaneaa,' and then the vi.lion
faded and ever 1ince that moment I
have done aa the voice commalMlad
and followed St. Mahavilhnu Neil
Young in all bla wa:,1. Amen.•
M:, rollenkate videodate and I put
down our cbopollcb and applauded.
"Thank you, thank you. It' ■
notbing,"aaid Steve. "Now bow about

"That's all?"
"Yuh, well, there was some leftover
spaghetti but I heated it up for lunch,
y'know, and uh, ate it."
"Oh," I said, "I guess we'll have
two of them then."
"Groovy," said Steve, "Anything
else?"
"Anything else?! I thought that was
all you had."
"Well, like, do you want anything
to drink, y'know."
"What have you got?"
"Perrier."
"'Oh, my favorite," said my roller•
skate videodate.
"We'll have two of them, too," I
said.
"Farrout," said Steve and he went
back into the kitchen.
So far the evening had been going
just right. I turned to my date and
said, "Hey. did you hear about the
beached whales down on the Oregon
coast?"
"Whales," she said, "Ohh, they're

Vol. 8 No.1

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Students direcl from high school
lst,.year atudenta not direct from high school
Transfer students
Returning atudenta (from leave or longer absence)
Continuing students•
Speoal atuaen- , ..v,, ......
~Total
Full-time females
Full-time males
Part-time females
Part,.time malea
Third World students
Percentage of non-residence

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156
93
98
663
594
212
226
1097 -tons--239
361
2322
2510

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948
241
196
209
23%

979
914
403
194
182
23.7%

•Tbeeefigures seem to point to a drop. But 1065 is actually a larger
percentage of the students here in 19']8-79 than 1097 la of the students
here in 1977-78.It's all of one percenl'biggor.
The moat noticeable of all these atatlstica are that the Third World
student population hu declined oonaiderably and that the percentage
of nonreaidents has actually riaen, despite all the publicity that baa
been done in that area_

Bumper stickers are a popular way to
express an opinion, make an appeal or a
joke. "Stop violence against women" is
an appeal made on a bumper sticker. Ir
guns are outlawed, only outlaws will
have guns•· is an opinion. ··save Nisqually" is an environmentally
conscious
appeal. "We don't care, we don't have
to" is a radical finger.shake
at big
business.
From among these slogans, commonly
seen on campus, comes a new opportunity for greeners to display their feelings:
"Go, geoducks!" The go geoducks sticker
announces the arrival of intercollegiate
competition at Evergreen. The slogan. it
seems, represents the hope that Evergreen athletes will compete aggressively,
and do well at this new level of competition.
In the past, sports at Evergreen took
form of participatory events, including
hiking and other outdoor activities. Women's and men's soccer and volleyball
clubs formed and competed in local
leagues.
Pete St.eilberg, Director of Recreation
and Campus Activities, in an early morning interview last week, talked about his
job and the role 61 sports during Evergreen's infant years.
'"The reason the administration hired
me was the breadth of my experience in
rffreation,
not . in athletics. I had a
!ltrong outdoor background, in climbmg
and that sort of thing. It was Willi
Unsoeld's influence, it was felt that a lot
of the program here should be oriented
towards the wilderness." Steilberg continued. "At that time, I did not want
spectator sports, I wanted participatory
sports."
With the inception of intercollegiate
sports. and the need for community spir•
it and spectator support, the emphasis
shifted. Steilberg commented, "My
views have changed somewhat simply
because I think in 1971 the school tended
to be elitist. We were an intellect.ual
stronghold. We were an island down
here in a pretty conservative community,
an island of radicalism in this sea of
conservatism. The legislature and the
community, &Jong with bad press, put
enough pressure
on us; we had to
change."
That change came about, Steilberg explained, "at a meeting Dan Evans had at
the Tyee, dealing with way• of increasing the enrollment and appealing to
Southwest Washington reaidenta. Sports
were discussed and were not met with
too severe criticism. Any sports program
that applied for funds, historically,
through the S&A Board, has received
limited support, and sometimes got a
pretty cool response. The S&A Boardsin
the past have always said, 'we don't
really want to emphuize sports, that's
not important in this society.' They're
still saying that.
The initttuUon (the president and the
Boa.rdof TJ;uateea)decided it would be
beneficial to get into athletica to serve
Southweat Washington. Given that it la a
conservative community, and eonaerva•
tive communities emphasize 1porta. it'•
just a way of generating oommunity
spirit."
When I uked Pete if the dedsioo to
go intercollegiate wu a way of conforming to standard inatitutiona, he aaid,
"Yep. It's a way of convent;on,Hzing,
selling out. Definitely a way of becoming
part of the main atream."
Two recently hired men coordinate the
lnteroollegiate aoccer and awim teams.
Ivan Ra1nevich (i -fan ra1-ne-vicb)
coachea aoccer. Originally from Yugoslavia, Raznevieh played profeoaional
soccer in bia homo oountry. After a few
years playing and coaching in Oregon, he

arrived in Olympia a monlh ago. Don
Martin directs both Evergreen
and
Olympia hig·h school students in swim
ming. Martin also teaches history at
Olympia High School.
Raznevich talked about his first impression of Evergreen. ..It is unique.
Students get to know each other and
are friendly very £ast. It reminds me of a
communal situation. I was born in Yllgi>"
slavia and a sort of communal lifestyle
exists there."
In defining the role he feels intercollegiate sports plays. Raznevich said, ..It
is very important that the school has a
representative team, regardless of the
student's political philosophy. The school
name will be known easier by the sport:·
Ivan's major job this year, since league
play doesn't start until next year, is recruiting. ·•1am looking for a total athlete.
with physical and mental coordination,
and a great sense of soccer knowledge, a
character with an excellent attitude
toward soccer, his team, his school. A
self-disciplined person with high determination." The empha5is seems to be on
fielding a powerful team. "Of course.
otherwise I would be pressed for my job
as a coach. Without alJ the factors men•
tioned above, it is hard to succet>d in almOSt any venture, in any kind or £ield.
Without self-discipJine and determination
it doesn't work."
Standing at poolside in the stifling
heat and humidity, Don Martin de~cribed
his coaching philosophy. ··in s¥i;imming,
you put yourself through mental and
physical conditioning. The experience
carries over to the classroom, and to life.
I enjoy competition and I enjoy trying to
win. If you can't win. you can get personal satisfaction from doing the best
you can.'' Don commented further on
competition, '"Winning is important in
showing the school in the right light. We
can win respect by performing at our
best. If we perform, we're going to win.
We're going to win."
Jan Lambertz, newly hired Recreation
Coordinator, participated
in intercollegiate athletics during her college years.
"Between '65 and '69, women's athletic
programs were considered truncated
men's programs," she commented. Evergreen, she believes, has a chance to form
a balanced program, unlike institutions
with heavily inflated men's athletic
budgets.
Concerning
the role of spectator
sports in the community, Lambertz said,
"My attitude towards sports in general
is that there should be recreational
value, no matter what level you're participating on. The drawback in spectator
sports ia that I think it appeals to a
group of individuals who become spectator people." She continued, "I think the
people in the community have to collectively decide the role of spectator sport.5.
I don't think there's anything wrong
with the •~tator
el ent_i.n._a__apru:!.._lt
·-iuat happens to be that spectator sports
are the sports that get involved in questionable activitiea, like buying athletes,
or being big-time businesses, or existing
for purpooes other than the enrichment
of the community. The onus shouldn't be
on the apectator element, it should be on
how you keep your house, how you run
your activities."
What about student input? Don't you
remember? La1t spring, following the
decision to go intercollegiate. a campuswide vote was taken to elect an official
maacot. Particular adminiatrators felt the
original mascot, the geoduck, lacked
dignity. Of the votes cut, a little over
90 percent favored keeping geoducka.
According to Steilberg, the Boa.rdof
Trustees "elected not to approve the
mascot. What they ele<ted to do was
make no decision."

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To the Editor:
EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING
A p<>t't is one who creates sacramental
relationships that last always. Poetry
t,,,gins with the KADOSH KADOSH
KADOSH of the angels. It begins with
thighs and lips of random women. It begins with the imperceptible movement or
a small stream over its rocky bed. It
be-gins with Sherlock Holmes and ~sho.
with every being or impulse of bemg to
notice. to be aware, to connect each
thing with each other thing. It h_appens
in the t"ar
No system. "Accepting the
universt" as his bride. let a man attend to
each thing as it arises. and speak to it
what rises in him to be said. Scorn nothing." Write everything.
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To the famous editor.
The Curriculum Planning article I
wrote for the Orientation Issue was
wrong in many respects. It was a fairly
complete guide Lo Lhe curriculum plan·
ning process last year, but I'm writing to
apoiogiz.e for not checking to see_ what
had changed. This year, the curr1c~lum
planning process bu changed cons1derablv. and I strongly urge everybody to
rea·d the interview Ben Alexan"der conducted with Jeanne Hahn. elsewhere in
this issut>. to get the correct information.
-Rob Fellows

GOOD GNEWS
CPJ
i·d likt>to express a gnote of thanks to
all the people in the evt>rgreen communit v who have written Lo the city comm,~!'iioners in support of Gnu Deli's contrnuing existence.
.
The commissioners have been rece1v•
ing up to a dozen lettt>rs a day for several wt>eks now and it's having an effect.
The mayor got curious enough to stop by
for lunch this week and some RUDAT
ff)lks stopped by to check out the musical
performances a couple of times. Also.
there• has been a lot of talk lately about
possible alternative locations for the per
formmg arts cent<'r that would leave
Gr.u Deli intact.
So, Lhanks your leuers are definiteIv ht>lping. The RUDAT organization will
be making a site recommendation to the
1,:1tv on or about the 23rd of October, so
th;•re ,._ sull time for public comment.
Lt>tters can be addressed to city commissioners. City Hall, Olympia, Wash. With
your help we can keep the Gnu Deli per·
forming arls c-enter alive and still find a
spact> for the city·s performing arts
c-enter.
Michael Hall
Sav,

BORING
Dear CPJ and Michael Everett,
It isn't the 60's and the 70's tha1 are
borinK, but rather people who don't
understand any deeper lhan the superfic-ialaspect of things.
Kevin McMickle

GREENER CEMENTAuW
Dear Ready People,
Last year during the election that
determined the gooey duck as TESC's
mascot and green and white a.s our colors, I feel I have to question the reportage of the final ballot. I know I didn't
write in "slugs" as a competitor for the
ducks (or the gooeys), though that may
have happened since slugs have a higher
currency with the campus. Why many of
them have given their lives to the paths
of the Greenery. But I did have a write·
in vote for the colors, and, to paraphrase
Conant. since a gooeyduck doesn't advance unless it sticks its neck out. I
advance my vote here for green and
cement. I pine that the green is evergreen in that yew and fir have various
spectrums. And cementality is more than
white, many slony colors compose our
walls and routes.
I both agree and disagree with the
question Ashleigh Brilliant asks: Our
votes are valuable, why waste them on
any of the candidates? In holding w!th
that con/pro counsel. I voted both with
the Administration's
candidacies and
with the valued write-in vote. At least
my vote could have been t.a.Uied.It was
the first one received-I know because
the day the paper came out I vot.ed and
turned my vote in personally at the rec
bldg. office of reception. I don't ask anyone necessarily be agree'n that green
and cement be in mental vision, but a
green thumbs•up could (should) have
been given the Nllot. It is only due to

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EDITOR Larry StilJ,.eU
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Tim NOIJler
ART DIRECTOR Randy Hunting
Mary Young
BUSINESS MANAGER Jon Todd
Bea Aleunder
CALENDAR EDITOR Llloa &keroberg
Pam Dueonberry
Friends of the Family: Juliet Remley, T.J. Sim_,
King, Eric Martin, Shirley at Graphic,.

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the sensory intake of the college that it
was advanced, ·that ballot, and I am surprised that the only recognition it received was censory.
Do you think if Eve had a say in the
coloring of Eden, sfte would have opted
for Eve•rgreen?
TZ Philips
TESC A912a

HONEST AND SINCERE
To the Editor:
TO THE FEMALES:
Blond hair, blue eyes, white male,
age 28. down doing time but getting
short. WANTED: Good-looking ladies to
write. I am looking for one that would
like to start a relationship of some kind.
I am looking for the right kind of lady to
be my lady when I get out.
Must be honest and sincere. Write:
Darrell Haine #229764
Star Rt. #1 Box 2500
Forks, Wa. 98331

MOVE OVER, CARRIE NATION
To the Editor:
By having alcohol at the Co-op benefit
dance Saturday. October 6, I waa of•
fended on two fronta, both of which I
feel the Co-op and the community at
large should deal with. I) Consuming
alcohol is contrary to striving for health,
which I assume the Co-op is trying to do
in offering
organic,
non-packaged/
prepared foods. 2)Encouraging alcohol
consumption is abusive to people who
are struggling
with their alcohol/
~ical
dependtn .
I suggest that the Co-op not forsake
principles in its pursuit of money. I
suggest that the Co-op be sensitive to
the devastating effecta of alcoholism and
its pervasivene!ffl in our society and not
have alcohol at any of its functions.
Sincerely,
Becca
Todd

ARROGANT AND INSULTING
NONSENSE'
The Editors
Cooper Point Journal
Campus
I am appalled, offended and outraged
by your arrogant, high•handed action lD
again publishing a series of so-called

Sincerely,
Burtori S. Guttman
Member of the Faculty (Biology)
cc: Dan Evans
Byron Youtz
Will Humphreys

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should never have been published in the
first place.
I do not know what recourse we facul•
ty members have to protect ounelves
against this • dangeroWI action, but b!
sending copies of this letter to appropriate CoUege officials, I hope to uncover
one.

"faculty evaluations" in the CPJ under
the guise of a "guide to the faculty." I
am not sure there are words in the
English language to expreas the irre•
sponsibility and childish lack of judgement you have exhibited. In fact. I
charge that in so doing you have placed
yourselves
outside the conventional
boundaries of acceptable conduct by
members of the Evergreen community
and have betrayed the trust normally in•
vested in the office you hold.
This College has a faculty evaluation
system. While it has defecta, they are
being repaired. The system requires that
faculty members get a full, representa•
tive set of evaluations from their students and their colleagues each year and
that on that basis they try to improve
their conduct as faculty members. Few
colleges. in fact. have such a system.
Had you been interested in creating a
genuine, honest, useful guide for students, you might have found a way to
tap into that system and to acquire a
full, reasoned, representative picture of
each faculty member on the basis of information-generally
acquired over sev•
eral years-in his or her portfolio. You
did not choose this route. You chose to
be cute and sensational. You again used
a tota11y unrepresentative
sampling
drawn from the few students you were
somehow able to contact-students
who
have very limited views of a faculty
member's work and typically have some
kind of axe to grind.
I could almost guess what atudents
contributed the paragraph about me; it
happens to be baaed on the experiences
of a few students with me this put year,
when there were complicating factors
that you couldn't possibly have inaighta
into. It totally ignores moat of my seven
years of Work here. It contains tot.illy
untrue statements about me and my
work with beginning studenta that will
seriously damage my efforts to work
with such students this coming year,
perhaps by scaring them away from my
program. I am sure your evaluations of
others are equally accurate and equally
misleading.
I do not know what action you could
possibly take that would do greater
damage to this College than to continue
to publish these pieces of arrogant and
insulting nonsense. Nor do I know any
action you could take that would undo
the damage you have already done. Your
cuual advice to new student.I to ..take it
with a grain of salt" is more irresponsible stupidity; if something tella you that
your evaluations are not good enough for
new 1tude11t1 to take oerloual.7, they
cont. to page 3

Editor's note: It would be easy to dis•
avow the· Orientation Issue's controversial faculty guide since it was put togeth•
er under the editorship of last year's
staff. However, much as we regret any
real harm that past or future guides to
the faculty may be responsible for, we
feel the concept is a valuable one and
deserves to be continued.
We have been urged to complete the
guide this fall by evaluating those faculty
who were missed in the Orientation
issue. We hope to do that but are willing
to consider the objections and suggestions of all members of the Evergreen
community.
We would like to know: how do other
faculty feel about their own evaluations
and those of their colleagues? Did new
students find the guide helpful and did it
prove to be accurate, as best u they can
tell so far? Do experienced students
agree or disagree with what was printed
about faculty they are familiar with?
It is our guess that the vast majority
of students and faculty would disagree
with Burt Guttman'• angry attack on the
faculty guide. Thooe who were involved
in its compilation know it was done with
great attention to the principle■ of fairness and consideration for personal feelingo. An effort waa made t<; tone down
the most critical evaluations submitted
and balance them with pooiUve statements. However, the truth, whether
complimentary or critical, deserved to be
conveyed aa it waa perceived. AU in all.
the evaluations were not very devutat-ing; many were quite laudatory. The
question is: were they aecurate?
Every effort was made by the editors
and staff to be both fair and accurate. No
doubt mistakes were made but to say
that its publication baa alienated the
newapaper staff from the rest of the
community is nothing but peroonal overreaction due, no doubt, to the painful
side effects of one very normal and
simple approach to faculty-student N>lationships.
In regard to Dr. Guttman'• letter and
the question of accuracy; it will be remembered that besides praising him for
Ilia contagious love of science, hi..s impresaive knowledge of biology and his
sincere concern for his students, the
guide said he "takes criticism too personally, some say he can't take it at all." No
doubt his pusion for his work and hlS
students is of a common nature with his
passionate concern for what be believes
to be an injustice committed by the CPJ.
We can only apologize for any hurt feelings and reiterate that we feel no injustice was done. His response hu proven
the truth of at Ieaat one critical aspect of
his own evaluation. □

A Pause in the Day's Occupation ...
by Sandra Simon
Rumblings about the Cooper Point
Journal'• intent to do another faculty
eValuation issue reached me in August.
By early September, loyal students
would call late at night or come tapping
at my office door to Jet me know how
my profile was shaping up. Soon it was
clear that my teaching career was becoming the occasion for thrusts and
parries among my former students:
"Marvellous" said one. fending off the
attack of "devious;" "imaginative, like
hell," said another driving his opponent
back with "rambUng and incoherent." I
began to enjoy the theatrics of it all,
often indulging myself with fantasies of
different otudents I knew climbing the
stairs to dump their adjectives on the
editor's desk. In the midst of one particularly good moment involving exten•
sive red-pencilling of a student known to
have malice in his heart, I remembered
the Journal office had moved. His ascent
immediately became a descent.
The anonymity of faculty evaluation
surveys does not bother me. A wellturned phrase should be in the public
domain. I can even tolerate reading
snipes at faculty members I somewhat
admire. In fact, I think such evaluations
are u much fun to read as Tbe National
Enquirer. With both, you can peek your
way through all the gossip believing
what you want, while still denying gen•
era! creditability. But student editors
should learn something from the publishers of Tbe National Enquirer. Nowhere in those pages are we told that
what we are reading may not be truthful
or that there may be more reliable
sources elsewhere. Yet every faculty
evaluation survey I've seen prefaces it•
self with some kind of disclaimer. If
some of the comments in the last issue
may be nonsense. then it's common sense
to start entertaining the proposition that
maybe it is the women students them•
selves who are unable to work with
Dave Powell. Certainly "Nd sense" has
oomething to do with telling new students that Tom Rainey has trouo1e wnn
eye-eontact.
U we are to consider the publication of
solicited evaluations of faculty as a form
of consumer protection (".,ew students
have a right to know what they're get•
ting into before they're in it"), the instigator, compiler, and publisher of that
survey should accept the responsibility
of defining at some length what product,
service, or process the survey speaks to.
I would like to see students at TESC
take advantage of the opportunity the
Joanaal offers to discuss publicly what is
a good lecture, a supportive tutorial, an
honest evaluation. But more importantly
I would like studenta to stop assuming
that any educational experience is a
pacltage shoved in their shopping basket
by some teacher, and that their only con•
trol over shoddy goods is changing to a
different market.
For thoae students who do adhere to
the theory that "the faculty member you
end up with determines much of your experience," uk to see the portfolio of all

faculty members whose progfam you are
considering. Many faculty in fact bring
their portfolios to the Academic Fair.
Students at Evergreen do have closer
contact with th&U" teachers than they
would seated five times a day in a 500person hall. But the nature of book seminars and workshops so common at Ever•
green means all those students sitting
around you also will "determine much of
your experience." When students ask my
advice on what program to take, I'm usually templed to tell them to look at the
portfolios of all their fellow students.
When the Journal counsels students to
"ask Evergreen veterans for more detailed information," I have no difficulty
envisioning someone like Beryl Crowe
leaning back in his chair with cigarette
in hand telling the inquiring student pre•
cisely which classmates to steer clear of.
For the last several years. J have wondered at the logic which encourages students to think of themselves as their
teachers' "co-facilitators," which interprets the publications of evaluations of
teachers as evidence of student emancipation, but which would scream lawsuit
if faculty printed anonymous or even
si8"ned evaluations of students. As soon
.i.s I heard of the shotgun survey being
conducted by the Journal, I olfered to
conduct a hurried, controversial faculty
survey of "the totally incompetent and
best available" students here at Evergreen. Of course my offer was not accepted. But why should faculty get the
hard sauce, while students get to be
saucy'!
The students who think of me as arrogant will not be surprised that I have
the answer. One of the negative effects
of the 60's on the young's mentality is to
allow them to jump in and out of a legal
minor status at their will. Such a status
to them implies class membership. At an
institution which preaches account.ability,
students participate in anonymous evalu•
ations because they convince themselves
that their particular interpretation is in
fact a collective interpretation; individuaJ
responsibiHty then becomes the public
-.Lalement we see prefacing the "2nd
Triannual Guide to the Faculty" insisting
on it.s usefulness in one sentence and
denying it in another. I no longer feel a
need to accept the declaration of innocence or voices pointing out corruption of
others.
I am intrigued by the editor's assurance that an slander has been edited out.
But slander has nothing to do with anonymous contributions or hurried compendiums. Slander implies an acceptance of
agent and intent.
I hope there will be a 3rd Triannual
Guide. I hope play and gamemanship will
be ingredients. But I expect the students
to realize that they can't pretend to be
playing a game when the responsibility
becomes too heavy for them.
Sandra Simon
(Editor's Note: The CPJ would welcome any evaluation, by name or by
type, of Evergreen studenta that Sandra
or any £acuity member would care to
submit.)

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Evergreen Council
by Larry StiUwell
The revival of the Evergreen Council
is underway. President Evans addressed
this year's first Council meeting of student, staff and faculty representatives
Wednesday, Oct. 17.
The Council had laded away last winter after several unsuccessful attempts
to gather a quorum. Evans has indicated
his "strong support" for a functioning
and effective Council.
While stall and !acuity held elections
to choose representatives to the Council,
present student Council members are
volunteers who will serve on an interim
basis. The Council's only paid staff mem•
her. Rachel Katz, and other student organizers of the revived council hope that
more permanent representatives can be
chosen soon.
If all goes as planned, this would be
done through organization on the academic level. Seminars and contract-pools
would select representatives who would
then meet in groups according to Specialty Area. These groups would select a
representative to the Ever~n
Council
and one to a Student Forum.
The Evergreen Council was established and authorized by COG Ill, the revised campus governance documenL The
new initiative to revive the Council received its impetus from last spring'•
student-generated Symposium. Out of
that Symposium came a position paper
from the Study Group on Student Parti-

cipation in Decision Making.
It is that position paper which is being
followed as a •guide toward reestablishment of the Council. At a student meeting held Oct. 10 to select Council members, Special Assistant to the President
Les Eldridge commended the group's
efforts to follow the position paper as
"the first attempt to comply with
COG II.
Eldridge and students at the meeting
voiced agreement with the position paper's assertion that incentives must be
offered to encourage participation in the
Council.
Evans told the Council's first meeting
he hopes it will serve u a forum for the
advancement of position papers and the
discussion of campus-wide issues. He also
ID'ged and requested faculty aaaistance
in aiding students' selection of permanent representatives.
Two other administrators brought business before the Council meeting. Provost Byron Youtz is charging a Professional Leaves DTF. Administrative Vice
President Dean Clabaugh ia charging a
DTF to review the college's daycare center guidelines.
Both brought their
charges and propoaed DTF membership
list& to the Council !or consultation and
ratification.
One of the proposed functions ol the
Council and the Student Forum is to
..watchdog'' the activities of DTF's and
adviae those who charge them.

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The "Study Group on Student par·
ticipation in Decision-Making" was
formed at the April 1979 Symposium
on Evergreen's Future in order to
suggest structural ways to involve
students in decision-making at Evergreen. Presented here is a synopsis of
the position paper this study group
produced. It was hoped the propooals
presented in this paper would be
acted on an introduced by Fall quarter 1979.
Introduction
-One of the major goals of nontraditional education is to nurture a feeling of responsibility in individuals to
the world around them, and to help
people learn to more actively control
their own direction. These are best
achieved through experience.
The principles set forth in the COG
are idealistic: decisions should be
made at the decision-making levels
closest to those affected by the decisions, structures shouJd attempt to
avoid oligarchies, the locus should be
on communication rather than power
and on concensus rather than majority
rule. These are important goals, and
any governance system at Evergreen
should refiect the basic principles set
forth in the COG.
Prindpln. We propose a structure
that we feel addresses these problems
and is in accord with the COG.
-There should be a method of actively
formulating and expressing student
concerns at the institutional level.
Function ■. Major functions of the
Student Information Network would
include:
-Curriculum Planning-student.
Specialty Area groups would parallel
those formed by the faculty in working on next year's curriculum, and all
levels of the Network would be involved in--<:urrieulum-planning-at.-dif
•.
ferent stages of the planning process.
-Governance Activities-concerns
of
students could be represented by student& on the Student Forum. Through
regular updating ol the Voluntary
Service List and through other
means, students could be found to
serve on campus governance groups
(DTFs, etc.).
Selection of Student ■. Students
should be selected to the Evergre<in
Council in the same way they are
selected for the Student Forum; one
student (other than the one already
selected !or the Student Forum) from
each specialty area.
Student participation ia not only
something a student might want for
his own benefit.. but -etlilac
die
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either in money, recognition, credit,
or a feeling of accomplishment worth
the effort muat be offered to get
participation.
The Evergreen Council sullers lrom
a severe sense of uselessne11. lncen·
tive is low to stay involved because:
-The Council bas no authority-the
Council ia not informed about campus
issue, and ia not in a position to
make decisions that will be heard and
respected.
-The Council is not clear· about its
role-even if the Council were heard
and respected, it's not clear what it
should do.
We suggest that the purpose of the
Council be clarified as follows:
The Evergreen Council should serve
as an advisor and watchdog for all
major decision-making at Evergreen.
It should be aware of all major decisions being made and how they are
being made. The Council should watch.
to see that the COG is being followed:
Is the decision being made at the
right level of decision-making'/ Are all
the proper people being consulted
and/or involved- adequately? In any
case where the Council feels a deci·
sion is not being made properly, it
should comment on what changes
need to be made in the pr()('.:esato be
in line with the COG: and then continue to monitor the decision until
it's satisfied that the decision is being
made properly.
lmplemeatatlon.
The first year,
particularly, the process would need
the support of the faculty to begin.
The Network would be initiated by
selecting one student from each seminar, contract pool, or course; to reJ>,
resent the seminar at their Specialty
Area group meeting. Faculty could
help lacilitate thia process. At that
mu.Uo.g...up.r.u.eJl.La.till.aJJ..o~
chosen to represent the Specialty
Area group at the Student Forum.
Pouible Cbangeo In COG IV
We recommend two posaible considerations to the COG IV DTF given
the acce;tance of proposals presented
in thia paper:
-Legitimacy to the Info Networkimplementation of the network would
be easier if it were accepted u official business of the College.
·Expanded Role for the Evergreen
Council-watchdog and advisor may
not be euential enough lunctiona to
maintain the levels of interest and involvement necessary for the Council
to be effective. Consideration should
be given to enabling the Council to
take action when campus governance
procedures are not being followed.

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Curriculum
Planning Changes
by Ben Alexander
For many of us at E'iergreen. a new
list of programs to appear in tbe· 198().81
Catalog waa the first indication that the
curriculum planning proceaa _bas changed
this year. This summer President Dan
Evans directed that the Catalog and
Supplement be combined and· published
by the start of the fall. Thia move ia d ..
signed to help recruit new student& early
in the school year.
Flexibility and opportunity for student
input have long been hallmarksof Evergreen'• curriculum planning. The old process focused student participation on the
"Trial Balloon"•• preliminary curriculum
propoul which was posted, centrally on
campus. Gone is the antiquated trial
balloon, which was widely misunderstood
and often drew a disappointingly small
response. Instead, Specialty Areas will
hold student meeings every April to initiate program planni,ng for one and a
hall years away. (Specialty Areas, !or
the uninitiated, are subject areas which
vaguely corre•pond to other schools' departments.) Most of the preliminary
planning wiU happen at these meetings.
"One hope we have far these Specialty
Area meetings for students," states
Academic Dean Jeanne Hahn, "ls that
students can influence the content of
specific programs more than they have
in the past."
The ideas generated in these meetings
will then be further relined at a !acuity
retreat. Here, the basic curriculum will
be designed, and coordinators will be
assigned to some programs. Next, thu
proposal will be opened to further response from students. This is a new
avenue for student feedback. Previously,
this planning was done in the early summer, and when faculty returned "There
were no student.a here and there wu
really no way to get student reaction to
the curriculum until the 1a1J,"according

to Jeanne.
At this point in the planning there are
stilf a number of ways to influence the
curriculum. A certain number of annual
programs will be left open !or ideas that
don't belong in Specialty Areas, includ•
ing some student-initiated
programs.
Also, a large number of teachers wiU be
assigned to the Spring Individual Contract faculty pool. Some wiU be available
specifically !or student-generated Spring
contract. and programs.
•Many advantages of the new system
can not be realized in the 198().81curriculum, because it has already largely
been planned, with little student input.
Next year's curriculum is posted on a
brand new permanent display in the
library. Students should peruse the
offerings, and if a program interests
them, they should contact the program
coordinator with any questions or ideas.
In this way, student& may become involved in the more detailed planning of a
particular program's contenL U there
are no programs of interest, ..you might
want to think about developing your own
(program), in which case you should
speak to an Academic Dean, and I would
probably be the one to talk to." remarks Jeanne.
One pos•ibility !or student planning
that is fairly new is the concept ol cluster contracts. A cluster contract is a
series of cloaely related individual contracts that are handled collectively by a
single faculty sponaor. Laat year's Ever•
green 38 project is an example of a clus·
ter contract. While there are no formal
procedures to set up a cluster contract,
the !acuity and deana are aware that
they are an increasingly viable alter•
native for small groups of students who
have similar academic interests.
Some changes in the shape of the
1980-81 curriculum have accompanied the
new planning process. There is only one
Annual progr~m offering slated for next
year. Jeanne/explained that "the whole
idea of Annual programs is that it's an
area where spontaneous needs are met,
and it's not an area that you can plan out
too far in advance. That's why we tend
to hold back on the Annuals: so tb06e
programs can surface between now and
the Fall."
Another change in the shape of next
year's curriculum ia the marked increase
in the number of programs being repeated from this and past years. The !acuity
last _,Year made a commitment to repeat
certain basic programs, such a.s Political
Ecology, in an effort to stabilize the
course offerings. Specialty Areas, too,
are beginning to repeat programsespecially entry-level ones. This t.rend
makes the curriculum more predictable,
but Jeanne feels "we haven't developed
such a large number or repeating progra.ms that it's snuffing out room for new
and spontaneous programs. We are trying to strike a balance between the two."
In general, the new system offers at
least as much, il not more opportunity
for student involvement than the old
system. The only disadvantage is that
student& will have to look even further
ahead, planning !or the school year •till
18 months away. However, students will
be in a much better position to do just
that. Jeanne enthusiastically asserts,
"the new syatem makes much more
sense. Student& wiU have time to think
about the curriculum in a way that they
really couldn't at the beginning ol the
year. It will be a much, much better
process!"

Members of the Council
New members and alternates of tbe Evergreen Council.
STUDENTS

Deborah Mersky
.Joe Bar.wk-

Linda Bookey
Greg King
Mike Henry
James Garey
Rob Fellows
Pippa Coiley
Chris Fitzgerald
Kim Craven
Randy Hunting

Peggy Cahill
Rachel Katz

Maxin e Mimms
.-.Be.tay.J}iffendahl
Richard Cellariua

Judy Huntley
Betty _Har.ti!__
EXEMPT STAFF

CLASSIFIED STAFF
FACULTY
Carolyn Dobbs
Larry Eickstadt
Charles McCann
Susan Aurand

Bill Zaugg
Walter Niemiec
David Judd
Pat Spears
Donna McMasters

Gail Martin
John Aikin
Mike Bigelow
Stone Thomas
Pres. Evans
(or designee)

EXECUl'IVE COUNCIL
The Evergreen council needs one more
student representative. Students interested should contact Rachel Katz at

866-6005.

Pippa Coiley•Moderator
Rachel Katz•Rerorder
Greg King
Bill Zaugg
Mike Bigelow
Ma.xine Mimms

Faculty Meeting
by Mary Young
Lively controversy prevailed at this
year's first regular faculty meeting October 10. The issue was whether to affirm
one of the college's founding ideas-that
a student should be engaged in lull-time,
interdisciplinary, integrated study- or
to permit students to take an unlimited
number of unrelated modules. A.1s6 under debate wa~ which academic disciplines should receive priority in faculty
hiring.
The debate over modules began when
Chairperson Byron Youtz introduced a
paper entitled "Query Concerning Full
Time Students Enrolled in Modules."
This paper called !or the ratification of
the founding principles of Evergreen
study and proposed various alternative
positions should the (acuity wish to
amend the interdisciplinary, integrated
principle. The current policy and practice is to allow one unrelated module for
full-time programs and two as part of an
individual contract.
The room erupted with demands for
the defmition of ..related" and ."unrelated." No definition was agreed upon.
Peter Elbow called for a straw vote as
a means to search for an upper limit'. He
posed: "Could all student& take at least
up to 25% non-program credits?" There
was wide disagreement;
some maintained strict adherence to the founding
principle while some were in favor or
allowing full time, unrelated, modular
programs of study. A vote was taken
with 30 faculty answering yes, 8 saying
no, and 2 abstaining. These result.a were
quickly lnet in the din of discontent,
K.V. Ladd, who had abstained, Insisted
throughout that reaffirmation
of the
founding principle be confirmed before
any other issue be discussed. There was
no base to work from, no rule to amend
il this was not done, she said. A majority

NEW TRUSTEE
Herbert Gelman, 45, an attorney
and resident of Tacoma, has been appointed to The Evergreen State College Board of Trustees. A gradu.ale of
the University of Washington Law
School, Gelman has been in private
practice since 1966 in Tacoma. Gelman
is Vice Chairman of the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Committee, Vice President or the Lakewood General Hospital, Vice President
of the Family Counseling Service of
Tacoma and serves on the ParklandSpana way Citizens Advisory Committee. Replacing Halvor Ha.lvorson,
Gelman's appointment is effective
October I. 1979 and will expire September 80, 1985.

vote was quickly held: there were 32 in
favor of rea(firmation, 3 opposed, and 4
who at.stained. After the vote, the matt.er was dropped because or time limit
ations and the meeting went on to an
other controversial subject.
A handout entitled
""Disciplinary
Priorities for Possible Faculty Hiring"
was prepared for the meeting by Academic Dean Will Humphreys. Through a
mix up, the memorandum had not
reached the faculty prior to the meeting.
Humphreys quickly outlined the paper's
content.
First he announced that two faculty
positions were open and that a possibility
of three further regular positions might
open when the tenth-day enrollment
figures were compiled.
Humphrey's priority Ji..,t,arrived at by
the ·dea'ns and provost. included three
areas_jh social science and five in science.
This left three to the art... and -two to the
humanities.
{mmediate objection was voiced by
several faculty about the management/
economics program, which is the first
area of hiring priority. Earle McNeil
stated that students in the management
progra.m.5 have complained to him about
the lack of a humanities component.
Margaret Gribskov argued that the humanities have often been ignored at
•Evergreen and are being virtually ignored now. "Priorities must be rearranged,'" she said. A separate discussion
about priorities and especially the management program was planned for a
following special meetinK.
Educ.ttion is what college is all about
and the dt•bate over quality education is
very much alive among Evergreen faculty. These and other related issues will
undoubtedly be at the heart ol the debate as the academic year gets into full
swing.

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Christ lives inside them. Well, what does

that mean? I've talked lo manv people
whom Christ lives inside: I haven't met
one who would want to trade places with

Coordinating Commission have reached

Christ ... I'm not a patriot to any creed. I

an agreement whereby 125 residents

believe in all of them and none of them."

of Vancouver, WA. will be allowed to
attend Portland State Univeroity at
resident tuition rat.es. ln return, resident. of Oregon may attend Clark,
Walla Walla, and Lower Columbia
Community Colleges at resident rates.
The Evergreen State College's Vancouver program will also be included.

The man who said that ear1y last year
and who first introduced his classic song
..Gates of Eden" at a 1964 concert u a
"sacretigious lullaby" is now a born-again
Christian. Dylan doesn't write songs like
..Gates of Eden" anymore, but one can't
go on doing the same thing forever. He

Bob Dylan, Playboy interview, 1978

has changed with every album but age

Should either state receive more stu-

has taken its toU. Dylan's new album is
not the masterpiece that jerks like Jann
Wenner proclaim it to be, nor is it the
piece of shit that the mostly younger
detractors would have us believe. To be
able to appreciate its good qualities as
well as realize the bad, one has to look

dents than it sends, accounts will be

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fourth-floor library room, two Seattle
bands (and possibly a third) will play a
benefit dance. The proceeds will go to
Live Without Trident lo help fund the
action planned Oct. 28-9.
Who is the Enemy? They are a new
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students.

SINGLE PARENT SYMPOSIUM
A Single Parent Symposium, aimed
at establishing support groups in conjunction with the YWCA, and at pr~

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viding an effective information and

referral network for local parents, will
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Rumora of campua diaaatiafaction with
the SAGA food service here on camp111
will be put to the teat next week. Monday through Wednesday, October 22-24,
student&, ataff and facult;r will find themselves the target of a campu.wide Food
Service Evaluation, part of an overall
Food Service Design Project. U the
asse11ment points to the need for
changes, those ,~anll"tl could be implemented, in cooperation with SAGA, u
soon as possible, according to Kriati
Morrish.
Ms. Morrish has been hired by Evergreen to conduct the "needs assessment"
of SAGA. She says the three-day use of
interviews, petitions, photographs and a
questionnaire distributed around campus

is the Design Project's method of determining the need for changes in the food
service.

PROJECTILE
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AND WEATHER INVERSIONS
In recent weeks, artill ry explosions
rocked the Olympia area. Windows rattled and the ground shook. The expl~
sions occurred during the day and night.
frequently waiting greener• from peaceful sleep.
The noise originated from Fort Lewis.
Captain Henderson, with the public relations office at the fort, explained the
source... The noite comes from projectile
explosions, during unit proficiency exercises. The unit. are firing at a targeL
The projeciilea are 155 mm weapons."
Henderson says units teat their accuracy
at night because, in a wartime situation,
the unita mual be able to shoot in the
dark.
The recent scourge of noise results
from weather inversions, according to
Henderson. "It's theae dang weather
inverlions. the noise has a tendency to
stick to the ground." The Captain added,
"'During September and October units
apply for qualification training." The
result ia more projectile explooions, and

Slow Drain Comin'
he had totally sold out. Looking back
now, those albums really aren't so bad
(especially the underrated "Self-Portrait,"

which he plunged into his Jewish roots
and became a "Born-again" zionist. That

which was really an extension of the

his Christian one won't either. (It must
be noted that 1970's "New Morning" had
its praises to the glory of God also.)
The new album is much better than
his last studio release, "Street Legal."
though it doesn't have anything as lyrically powerful as "Changing of the
Guard" and "Senor," the only two really
good songs on that album. Musically, it's
his best since "Blood on the Tracks," al·
though I wish he would stay away from
horns and female baC'k-up vocals. He
doesn't need them. His voice is the best
that it's been in years, recalling the
brittle, tinny. soul-piercing coarseness of
his 60's vocals. Dire Strait's
Mark
Knopfler's hard-edged. angry guitar licks
may even be more ~uitable than Mike
Bloomfield's or Robbit· Robertson's were
on the old albums. I )ylan has always
preached before, wht·t her it was rebel
lion or indignation, yf'I here his sermons
seem unacceptable because of the Chris
Lian. repent-or-you-will-go-to-hell mt's
sage. Actually. lhe preafhiesl songs
work if one overlooks the blatantly reli
gious lines (admittrdly, Lhey can be hard
to overlook).
The tit.le song is easily the bcsl. al
though not up to par with his best .songs
of the 70's like "Idiot Wind" anrl "Sara."
If taken 04t of context from the rest of
the album, one would be hard-pressed to
find any blatantly Christian messagt> in
t al all. IL's Dylan snarling back, som(>
times cryptically, at a world gone wrong
and getting worse, but there's something
better (the slow train) coming 'round the
bend. The metaphor conjures up ima.l{es
from earlier American folk SOnf-!s and
lore, including Dylan's own 1962 boot·
leg classic "I'd Hate to be You on That
Dreadful Day," (a song about nuclear
holocaust) and Elvis Presley s first big
hit, "Mystery Train." Knopner's guitar
work here is devastatingly effective for
those not brought up on the Ramones or
the Clash, and who sometimes prefer
more subtlety in Rock 'n Roll music.

things he did on his first album). but
they are still his weakest. During that
period, Dylan was a happily married
man, content to raise kids, live in the
country, and sing about it.
The subsequent albums have shown

that, like Chaplin's films, each Dylan
album must be taken as a chapter in a
continuing autobiography. "Slow Train"
fits into this scheme of things very well.

Dylan hit his high point in this decade
with "Blood on the Tracks" only alter
misery returned lo his life. After the

SWW TRAIN COMING
BOB DYLAN

course, it helps if you grew up on his
music in the sixties.)
As early as his first album, the toooften overlooked 1962 release simply en-

titled "Bob Dylan," the then 19-year-old
Zimmerman explored the gospel past of
American folk music with lively, unique
renditions of '"Gospel Plow" and "In my

Time of Dyin'." Although he wrote only
two of the album's songs, he revitalized
American folk music with his intense
versions of songs learned by listening to
old recordings by such performers as

Woody Guthrie, Roy Acuff and the
Everly Bros. and by old blues maaters
such as Leadbelly, Bukka White, Blind
Lemon Jefferson and Jesse FuUer. No

one objected to those gospel tunes on
the album because Dylan, who originally
came across as a mixture of Woody
Guthrie and a Jewish James Dean, o~
viously wasn't preaching Christianity
anyway. He was reexamining and re-interpreting his own musical root., and
influences, as well as America's, much in
the same way artists like Ry Cooder and
Doc Watson are still doing nowadays.
Watson's old•time religion is euier to
accept than Dylan's current fll'e-andbrimst.one because his roots are sincereJy
in the old gospel music. What dismays

Henderaon explained what happens
when he receives complaint&: "When we
get too loud, someone from the outlying
area will call and say, 'we're really ptting it over here.' U we gel enough calla,
we limit our firing."

many of us about Dylan right now is that

AS YOU SOW-MEETING

unevenness of "Desire" and the beauti•

fully ravaged punk of "Hard Rain" (both
1976), his personal life continued to gel
worse, 4nd last year he disastrously
played around with being a Neil Diamond
Las Vegas type, parodying his earlier
songs on a live album and hitting the

pits with "Street Legal."
His inconsistencies and the different
phases of the last decade range from the
family man-farm life period to the orig·
lllally hoj>eful and welcome Kerouacinspired Rolling Thunder Revue Tour,
to dabbling in film making, lo Las Vegas

hype to Christianity (and the personal
changes tr.e's recorded in his songs inbetween). Most important in respect to

"Slow Train" was the 1970-71 phase in

there is nothing worse than a ..bornagain" Christian. especially one who is
Jewish and was never Christian to begin

Fred Stone, faculty organiz.er of Aa
You Sow, a three-quarter program beginning in January, will be holding a
planning meeting for prospective atudenta Wednesday, OcL 24 at 10 a.m.
at the Organic Farmhouse.

witlt.
After the first album, Dylan started
writing all his own songs himself. He
took us from the humor and angry pro-

test ballads of "Freewheelin'," "The
Times They Are A Changin' " and
• Another Side" lo the psychedelic punkism of "Bringing It AU Back Home,"
"Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on.
Blonde." (I'll admit that I'm among those
who feel that those last two are still the

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greatest rock albums ever released and

that "The Times They Are A-changin' "
is still the ultimate protest album.) In
1968 he returned lo folk music with his
last great album of the decade, "John
Wesley Harding." That album had it.

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share of biblical overtones but they were

mainly Old Testament oriented, and the
poetry and imagery was more Faulkner-

ian than anything else.
In his pre-"Nashville Skyline" 6U's
albums, Dylan w•• the revolutionary
guiding force of that generation. Youth
could identify with hia daring and intro-

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"We know where this system is

going. We know it's going into deeper
criais. We know it's heading toward
world war ... We're going to raise
that banner of revolution up ... We're
gonna say, let'■ go out, and let'a not
only die but let'• kill to make revolution. . . ..
•

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Chairman of the Central Committee
Revolutionary Communist Party

phase didn't last loo long, and hopefully

back upon Dylan's earlier albums. (Of

more noise.

first

7

But being one who views berng born
again into Christianity as more of a curse
than a blessing, I find Dylan's recent
conversion quite distressing, to say the
least. Ir I didn't feel that Dylan was one
of the major artists of our times, I
wouldn't have bothered to write this
piece or even listened to the album al
all. It d·oes bother me that the person
who once wrote lines like " the ghost
of electricity howls in the bones of her
face" is now doing things like "God gave
names to all the animals." 0 r that the
one who once could mix raw. earthy
Rock 'n Roll and folk music with images
comparable to the best of Faulkner,
Fellini. Bergman, and Brecht could sink
into overproduced
and simplistic
sermons.
Yet despite all it's faults and aggrava
tions. I still like "Slow Train Coming,"
even the silliness of "God gave name~ to
all the animals." Why can't Dylan do
simple. silly, enjoyable songs if he wants
to, as well as the complex ont·s'.' IAnd
there is more rnmplexity in the new
album than what al first meets the car.1
After all. some of tht• best and most t·n
Juyable early Ro<:k 'n Roll sonK.., were
µretty silly and -.imple.
I wouldn't recommt·nd ··sJo.,.. Train" to
youn~er rock ·n r"li lans. ec;pet·1ally lhr
punks and new w ..\NS. il 1c;esst'ntially a
work that can onl.\ Ix· aµprec1ated by
older or long·limt' Dylanologisls.
I
wnuldn'1 eipeC'l th,· punk, ne" .,._averc;to
like the nE!walbum al all, hut just wait
ten years from now and see t t hetr cur•
rent idols are still around or have gone a
similar route to r>ylan·s (T1, be fair to
new wave, Elvi-. ('o-.tello's first thrPe
al hums art> u-.: Kood. 1f not bet tr-r. than
O_vlan·, first lhrt•f'. Let's hope that he
n1n keep it up.I
Dylan is not 19 or ~4 anymore. dnd he
C'an't bt> expected to act like he 1s r\t
lt.•ast he is a survivor and not J mar!~:
Hut 9ubmitting oneself to ('hri-.:1, 1•-.ptcially in Dylan's case, seems µitif·Jlly self
df'feating. Is turning to Christ any better
a solution than the type of dt',f)(•rauon
he referred to las, year whf'n h•· said.
"Like. J, haven't rome to the plare I hat
Rimbaud camt• to when he decided to
stop writing and run guns in Africa"'!
"Slow Train Coming" reflects an ultimal{-'
act of hopelessness and may be the last
brick wall in the dead end of the 70's.

protest, frustration, optimism, absurdism and nihilism. We could identify with
him in the same way 60'1 youth identi-

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fied with James Dean and Elvis Prealey.
What a shame that the 70's generation
may have started getting familiar with
Dylan through the pap of "Nashville
Skyline" and "New Morning." I wu one
ol-thooe-in the-early-Ws-who turned-his
nose up at the "news Dylan, and believed

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