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Part of The Cooper Point Journal, Volume 8, Issue 23 (May 28, 1980)

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Olympia History John Bagnariol

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SHIRTS OFF TO YOU

I CONSUME
TiiEREFOREIAM
Dear Larry,
Time wu when Evergreen wu heaven
on earth but now that we have sinned
we are no longer God's ch~n university
students.
As I heard recently-now the 'chicles'
at Evergreen look like 'chicks' if shaven
lega are here can sororities be far behind? Why it was recently repeated to
me, by a trusted friend, that some
women are wearing bru!
As the ivy climbs the walls will it replace student climbers?
Uthe pigeons are allowed to multiply,
and the propoeed Daniel J. Evans football field goee up, how will we be able to
distinguish Evergreenen from the U. of
Dub?
Part of the Evergreen experience
should be the tranacedence, like of
having to conform to the alternative lifestyle, like.
I mean, baclt in the sixties, we all
loved each other (except for the squares)
and did acid and stuff. Now tboee kida
wut the draft. Well sorry I rambled.
How did we tangent off to thia anyway?
Anyway, what I mean. ia that lib you
should be answering some of the1e questions in your student paper. Instead of
some dumb crap about facility hiring and
stuff about people of color. I mean like

when your tripping we're all the same
color.
Keep on sproutin'. Keep the faith.
Love
Andy Mouse
P.S. I consumer therefore I am
American.

REGGAEIN lHE
MEAOOW
To The Editor;
"Clearly, then, reggae is subversive
and dangerous and perhaps ought to be
forbidden. Reggae is outlaw music, primitive and tribal Reggae is hypnotic,
trance music. Zero degree muaic. A cultural shock wave emanating from the
Carribean, just ninety mile, south of
Cuba. And u a matter of fact, reggae
music is forbidden to a certain extent in
its homeland, Jamaica." With some
reggae banned and the rest receiving
only limtted air time (between midnight
and dawn) Jamaicans look to the now
legendary "sound system" aeaaiona for
staple Reggae music. "More often than
not the soupd sy1tems were eiten■iow
of record shops. whoee owner borrowed
a van and loaded it with the biggeat
apea.kerathey could find, a eouple of
turntables and set up in somebody's
backyardor in a country market on a
Saturday night."
Tomorrow (Friday) it will be "Sound
System Session." Olympia 1tyle. A large
sound system hu been reserved for the

event, and Iota of effort hu gone in
finding enjoyable and valuable dan
muaic. Bob's Record, of Seattle ia p~
viding a good portion of it. He ia the
regional ouUet for Reggae imported from
Jamaica. A Rastafarian-style dinner will
be served at 7:30 for about $2.60.
The dinner will be three part■ with
stir-fry-vegie (fresh coconut. cabbage,
carrots, hot pepper, onions, Plantain and
tomatoes). Bean.a I-Tai, salad and, we
hope, aprouted wheat bread complete
the fare. Proceeds will go toward purchasing records from the "Smile Jamaica"
radio program which is broadcut on
KAOS-f.m.every Saturday tr,,m5-7 p.m.
A local A~uban
style drumming
unit, including Jane Koufman. James
Doney and Micheal Olsen, will help to
get the blood flowing ■tarting at arow,d
■ix o'clock. Many various percussion instruments will be available for a group
aea■ion later. Admisaion ii free and
everyone ii invited. Help will be greatly
appreciated 011 the day of the event. Set
up will begin at 8-9-o'clock a.m. and will
continue through the day. The meadow
is located Mrtli of Driftwood road and
between the CAB 1ervice road and the
Library service road. Look for the red,
yellow and green sips. Volunteen are
also needed for an escort service. Call
the womens center and leave your pb.
number. Clear weathu will provide a
hot aun and a bright moon. If it rains,
the event will ~ppen another time, if so
desired.
Martin Veveria

Under your type of curriculum, it is
important to keep in mind that you will
be teated and judged more strictly and
with greater skepticism than students
graduating from a conventional curriculum. Therefore, what you make of yourself (how you uae your time), is the
bottom line, isn't it.
Your May 22 front page story ii sad
but neeeuary. It lacks only a police
artist's composite sketch. The editorial
letter to the editor by Becky Cubbage in
your May 16 issue makes some good
points, though overplayed in my opinion.
Let'• ■ay women have to be more di.
cteet about where they go and with who,
that doesn't mean ■cared to death.
On page 8 (May 22 i.uue) the costs
listed for choosing a new Dean are outright absurd!
1. Catalogs to mo■t candidates neceaaary? Hardly.
2. Special secretary-that's a new one
to me.
3. $1200 for a mimeo type notice?
4. New York TimeJ ad neeesaary when
the chronicle for H.E. wu used? Hardly.
If every ■cbool did business tbla way
we'd have to close the doon of ever
more colleges. $8,817+ wow.
Keep up the good work.
Glenn Showalter

To Editor:
Regarding the great controversy surrounding shirtlessneas at the Food Co-op,
it seema rather preposterous to view the
public display of the ahirtleu male torso
u a "blatant example" of male "privilege." Are Co-op members really that
desperate to find something on which to
hand their issue? Freedom is the absence
of inhibition or coercion. It'• not a privilege, but a right, i■n't it? It w:prb down
the other aide of the seale. . . . Women
can't go 1birtleu in public. That's a
"hassle." Men can, therefore no "hassle,"
and hence ... freedom, not privilege. But
at the Co-op-Equal oppression for aW
Democracy at its worst. So, ju■ t keep
your shirt on Tom, maybe they'll come
around.
As for the politically correct Allen
Levy's reply to Tom Flynn's letter, Allen
questions Tom'■ ability to reason and hi■
use of the language. I urge Mr. Levy to
consult Ida dictionary and ponder the
word "satire."As for his offen.eeat what
he calla the displays of a "Great Puckered Alabold," I find that a trifle hypo,
critical. In fact, the tone of the entire
responae auggesle it wu somehow written while the author atraddled a bottle
of lemon juice. It reminda me of an
ancient high-school principal. righteously MY 1REE OF
lecturing me through tight lipa on my AND DESPICABILITY
refusal to follow the absurd regulationa
of that pitiful institution. Now tllere wu
a real uaholel As for Allen', use of the To The Editor;
"Farewell. you all"
word "trub" to characterize an amu.
The fool l})ea.ka, My worda will never
ingly eynical satiric piece, I would like to
fOCU2on another common meaning of be locked away. My determination
that term for a moment. and ■aggest be towards' self-preservation in an all too
deposit his notions of "political correct- powerful system of cute can never be
nea" there. Thia popular intellectual enveloped in dark ignorance.My tree of
phenomenon ■eema hardly becoming of humility and despicability shall alway,
thoae involved with a p1,ogreuive insti- bear the golden fruit of w,derstanding.
I put the question of power to you.
tution 1uch u Evergreen. and belonga
back in the mental dustbin it came out both student&and faculty, who do you
think truly bu the power within that
of. Air conditioning for the mind.
So, Tom Flynn, I take my shirt off to institution known u T.E.S.C.? Evaluate
you. I find your article •ery refre■ bing your actual potential power apinst your
in what Mems at times a puddle of re- ever-growing question mark within tht •
dundant intellectual conformity. But 1y1tem. Hopefully, your essence of beingthen, compared to 'the rest of the world, will not be di■illusioned by a realization
the greater Everp-een community is a in truth.
All this may sound like silly riddles
very ■mall place ...
coming from an angry, confused young
Wallace Leake man. Bullshit. For thoae who didn't know
me or see beyond your "Muter Charge"
visions of "harmonious," my words will
1HE DEAN
be riddles. But for tboae who did know
Dearl4r1 Stillwell.
me, please, there are rough decisions to
In V1.11ting
your campua over the put
be made in the near future, be wuein
few yeara I noticed thia week a little forming your own questions.
more responaib11jattitude on the pan of
I will be pby1ically free someday and
some of your ltudent■ and a cleaner hopefully, I may have the lut crying
campus than some of the more conserva- tear.
tive institution■ rve visited. While your
Charles McCord
curriculum philosophy ii not "my 1tv1,,•·
"There is no sun without shadow, and
I left with more positive feelinl!'l»tr1. ,
.. es. ential to know the night."
my first visit years ago.
•
Camus

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Political bigwigs caught in Gamscam
machines; b) c:ontrollingthe distribution
and
• • : ol slot Jl1IChioes
within the
State~ashirJp,d
and c) pinina
Washingtoo Seate Representative and
political oi&ca and oi6cial positioo.sfor
Democratic Speaker oi the House. John
~ financialpin .• '
Bagnariol and Gordon
Walsren,
Begnariol and waJ&ren.
both highly
Democratic Senate Majority lader have
powerful in the state political structW'e,
been accusedby the iederalgovernment oi
did allefedly, "aid and assist the en·
using the poweroi their officesto eq,and
terpri,e through the power andinfluence
and control gambling in the state oi
ol (their) oilia(s)'' by •'providing
Wasbin,too for their own penooal
di.rectioo;receiving monies; advisin&
on
finaod•I pin. Abo charged is Patrick
leplative matters; using State facilities
Gallagher, a long-time lobbyist in
and resources in furtherance oi the affairs
Olympia. On April 17, a iedera1 inoi the en~;
using (their) oi1icia1
dictment was issued by U.S. Attorney
position
to
influence
washingtoo Seate
John Merkel charain, the three oo 29
regulatory
a,mdesi
and
working b' the
counts ot extortion. bribery, mail ·fraud
pusa&t ol legislation favorable to pm·
and failure to comply with the state's
blin&interests (So-cal) believedby (them)
w
Public Disdoeure I.Aw.
to be asaociated~ or.-niz,ed crime. . . ' '
The .. ,ting"
operation, • which
Patrick Gallagher, who is a long-time
ultimately turned into a major political
friend ol Begnariol•'served u &\mtpwl,
scandal,beganin Vancouver about three
pbetween andspokesman'' aa:ordina
to
yars a,o. Vancouver policeinitiallywere
the indictment. His role was to arran,e
checking out local gambling violations.
meetin,p, deveJopa plan to legw.e catain
When they became smpidous that
types ot gambling, receive rnooies, and
or,miz.ed crime miahtbe attanptina to
assist in negotiating the amounts and
infiltrate the city's $4-millioa-a-yearlepl
manner oi payments to be made by
chlina
t- 1sinrs,,. they called b' help
aarnblins interests to members o1 the
the Wasrun,too State Patrol
enterpri,e.
Orpniud
Crime In_telli~
Unit
The primary objective ol the ••en·
(OCIU). Says Leland -Davis, Vancouver
terprise'
' WIS to get slot machines and
Police Clue(, •'The problem we fM:ed .
casino-type
garnblina legallud
in
initially was that we needed undercover
:WashingtonState, char,a the iederal
aa-dty
to 80 in and confirm our
govermnent. The three aJ1eaedly
COO·
suspicions. The ocru conducted an
spired
to do this through a slowlyevolving
inveu,atioo and, omfirmed that the
IUies <i legislative moveswhich would
iDep1acts weretaking place.··
gradually solu!l up the public to acapt
The OCllJ is not UChnially I law
lqlJir.edaarnblina,
On Nov. 2, 1978 (in a
enbcemem
qmcy, however. When
conversation
alleaedly
taped by the FBI)
their investigatioo coofirmed that federal
Gallagher
told
Hal
Reed
•'That John
laws were beingviolated, they calledin the
Bapriol
could
make,
change,
or stop
FBI.
Repreaentative John Bagnariol.
Jawsand(he) was the key to the future fer
The FBI WU becoming di.,c::owqed ~Speaker of the Houae
their common hopes andpis'' and that
C1Vf!t the pa.pects uf crackin, their cue in
he could •'soften up the Republicamfor a
early 1978, when apt HaroldW. H,eald,
Aa:ordins
to the indictment, the phony pmhlin3 bill.''
posin, u .. Hal Reed" - ttpre,entative
company
So-Cal,
hesdquarttted in :sen When Bagnariol was introduced to
ol. Calibnia carpontioacalled So-cal Reed (by Gallagher) he advised "That
met DonaldBuss,a Vancouver cardroom Francuco, was strictly an undercover
if he werenot rtt1ected as Speaker ol
owner. On June 20, 1978, Buss andHal operation established by the FBI and even
the HOUie... , the desired gambling
''purported
to
be
cootrolled
by
persons
Reed Bew to Olympia where they met
legislation could be gotten through the
with Patrick GIJlaat,rr,then a paid associated with orpniz.ed crime and HOUieol Repmematives' •.
lobbyistb' the state CardroomOwner's involved in pmbling activities oo the
Likewue, Walgren advised Reed oo
west c.o.st ...
Aaoc.
their
6nt mfflina.(Nov. 8, 1978) "That
The three, Bagnariol, Walpn and
At thatfiat meeting,u.nclmxmr
agent
he
1,.-eed
that the gambling laws in
Galkgber,
aJledaedly
formed
Ill
"enReed aDeaedlytold C-J4llqber that his
Washin,too
State could be changedin
company,
So-CaJ.
WU dttl:festecf
in getting lttprise" fer the purpose ol "a) le,a1wna slow-., .•'
involwd in the gunblin, t-tsinm in this and <Xllltrollingcertain unlawfulprnblin,
Durin,a meetingoo March 21, 1979,
... Acxoniina
to the iedera1indictment, within the State ol Wasrun,too, including,
tl!f'
three dixussed with Hal Reed their
C•u.,t,e, replied.. that he bad snenJ but oat limited to eq,andecicardroo111
piaru
,JC' apindina
pmblins in the state.
pm~.
casino
gambling,
aud
slot
ponrful politicalfriendswho were in·
By Kathy Davis

tereSted in exi,andina
and controlling
pmblins within Wuhingtoo State, and
that Hal Reedcould be introduced to these
politicalfigures.·• •'Garn,cam'' (short for
•'prnblins scam'') WIS underway.
The 7()-pege indictment rucn like a
script from an old episodeoi ' 'The FBI''.
It de,cribes the set·up oi the "stin&"
operatioo. Transcribed are about 150
conversations (over 100 hours ot tape)
reoordedby eJectrooic snooping devices
strapped to the bodies of undercover
•
...____
''Hal Reed''
agents. MeetlOp
~w,c,c:u
and "Vic Spann" (actually FBI Special
Aaent Graham Desverni.oe) and their
tar,eta took placeover a period ol about 2
years in snenJ cities in and out oi
ashin,too State.
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(con't)
po.,ition as Speaker of the House, sayins
positioos oo all the various Seate com· So-Calbas beena set·up from the first.''
•'I must consider my obligations to the
Ructio,ss
mittees.
members
of my caucus and my petty''
Walgren, Bagnariol and Gallagherhave
The scam allegedlyplotted by the two
and • 'until my reputatioo is cleared, I
powerful lawmakersand their front man all pleaded "Not Guilty" to the char
was bound to gmmte a coosidenble filed against them. The trial is ~ believe I owe it to my caucus to step
amount ol money for each ol them. At to be,tin on June 23 in Seattle. The down.''
Gordon Walgren bas refusedto give up
one point in their dealinp, the iederal de6enseis likdy to claim that the three
his
post as Senate Majority Leader.
government charges, &gnariol suggested were •'entrapped.•' (see box elsewhere).
"Yeah.
there ~ is some damagie"
•
'They
were
basJ.ally
persuasive.
1
bey
that they buy a corpontioo in the Cayman
ls1mds (notorious as a tu and rnooey kept calliq me after our first meeting. to other Democrats, he said. "But I'm
shelter) as a way to bide the rnooey they They just kept asking and asking thiJl&,,'' not sure it would necessarilybe cumt by
expected to earn. He saidthat a friend ol said Patrick Gallagher in an interview my leaving.''He bas been adamant in
"They were accusing Gov. Dixy l.tt Ray ol
his, a s.nDie~ bu.~inessrnan,bad such with the Post·ln~.
an arnnganent. Bagy set up a mttting trying to get me to say something bad into rnutenninding the whole operatiooin
betweenhis &iend,biiqseJf and Hal Reed the tapes. The tlCtia they usedare illepl. order to elimiNte her politicaloppositioo.
in Sin Francisco in which the friend I can be lured into anything. I'm too He also says that U.S. Attorney John
es:plained the operation ol a Cayman talkative.1,guess I'll find out bow talkative Makel •'is out to get me.'' •'Check hick
when we hearthe-tapes.'' He saidthat the oo the record,'' he says, • 'Durina the
Islandcorporation.
- Though WaJ&rmWU interested in the FBI a,mJS ''seemed like nice, honest coune ol the Legislatutt, 1 did not spoosor
nor assist in spomoring" any leiis)atioo
Caymao Island deal, he allegedly
dealiqs with pmblift8.
Nor did f receive
sugested to Hal Reed that another
any
cootributioo
from
samblin&"
for my
possibleway for So-Calto get IDOOe)' to
~ign.''
him would be to buy a trucking company
Gov. Ray says that, thoup she was
owned by WaJ,ren wonh about a quarter
•
kept
i.nbmed of the progres.1 ot the inol a milJiondoUars; this would •'provide
vestigatioo from early 1978 co, she wu
So-Calwith a corporate structure in •
not directly involfed in initiating or
,egulated ~.
•' He said he un·
directinsthe operation. •'I WU oat in~ that S<>-Cal
was not payinJhim
timately involved in • day-to-dayoperation
money b' oothina,
indicating that they
at all,'' she said in a pres.,~ oo
were •'not getting a virgin.·'
April 3, a day after the cbar,a bec:lme
At various times throughout the
public. ''From time to time I wa brie6ed
undercovff operation, the targets of the
and
kept appraisedol the cooduct andthe investiption became
suspiciousthat they
development oi the investigation.' ' She
Weft bein, set-up. The indictment states
said that she "can• t pinpoint" W¥0
that oo Dec. 8, 1978 Galkgber informed
euctly she was informed that Bagnariol
Hal Reed that •'his pys are coocemed
and Walgren were involved.
about the identity ol So-cal; and just to
When asked what the dlect would be oo
aJ1rviatethe concern, a check willbe made
Democntic campaignsin the state in this
with the State of Caliiornia 00 in·
eJectioo year, the DernoaJtic Gov.
oorporation papers." A mooth later,
replied, '' Any kind oi charge leveledis
Gllllther indicated that .''WaJ&rm bad
c:hecbd them out and e'ffl'}'tbin&seemed Senate Majority Leader Gord~n Walgren bound to hJve some elect in people's
percepti<Jos.But I think we must emfine... Nearly • year later, however,and wife Sut.
phasize•Jlinand apin that the ooly thin8
GaDagher~ Reed that he still believed
that thereWU I 30CX,cbaoce that Reed young men" and he insisted that "ab- that is reallyirnpcwtantis the evidencethat
is or will be produced and the dedsims
WU settin&
them up and that Walgren solutelyno'' mooey was exchanged.
that are made eventually by the courts.
Just
15
minutes
after
Jearnin8
that
he
thought the chanceswere cloaerto 10CX>.
racketeering And I would urge that peopletry oat to
The iederal Absam investiptioo (see bad been indicted on Ciederal
bo:Rdarticleebewbere)
whichbrokeearly char,a, John Bapriol addressed the specu)ate. It's ooly beingfair to the people
this year brought Oil incttued ner- YMCA Youth Legislatutt in the House involved,• L Respondingto char,a that the
vousnessarnoq the trio. On Feb. 12, chani~. • 'I'm not here to plead my case investiptioo bas political overpies
1980 Walpn
allegedly broke oif a to you, even though I happen to think I'm because oi it's timin,, the Gov. said, "We
here with a matter of law
meeting with Hal Reed because ot his innocent oi these crimes,'' he told lhe
We're cc:ioceroed here with
u>ocm1 over Absarn. He said it did not group oi 350 young people. "It's a So<>ei
change his attitude but "it did givepause system. Our democracydoes work. Right ~ o( whether crimes have been
for coocernandhe wu not ~ to say now I have a little prob&em.I'm sorry for commi-. It's not political.'•
• Everything appearina in quotation
fflY much.'' Gallagherlater told Reed ~problem.I've entoyed my career. But
marks is quoted from the iederal in·
that ''Gordon Wap
is concuned it might not be over.'
Bagnariol has stepped down frool his dictment.
aboutAbee.am
andhas half suspected that
conUnued on page &

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Dixy gambles on voter sentiment

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Gam$cam
continued from page 6
According to the indictment, Gallagher rdationship is where everybody makes
advised,•'That gamblin&Jegislatioohas to money.''
be innocuously written and perhaps the
On Dec. 4, 1978 Gallagher allegedly
way to do it would be to move behind the told Reed that they should agree "on a
guise of the private clubs, let them get out percentaBC of the profits from expnded
&oot 00 the point by extendins
their gambling to be paid to Bagnariol, Walgren
casino nisbt privileges•• and • 'That a and Gallagher to be split three ways' '.
cbanae in the gamblin& rules must be They later agreed oo 18%, meaning that
ptly slipped by the people.••
eachof the three men would rake in 6 % of
Walgren said "That the Legislature So-Cal's profits. When asked by Vic
should continue to be watchedto see if Spann if the 18% arrangement WU
there were an opp<lf'tUDe time to move satisfactory, Baggy replied,"Yeah, we've
legislation,and if the time came along it talked about it, Vic, and that's fine."
should be ,rabbed;that he would do so if When Walgren WU asked the same
the opportunity
presented itself.''
question by Spann. he answered, • 'I'm
Bagnariolallrgedlysugested, •'That it satisfied with everythin&. The ooly
would not bun to have the legislative concern I have is when and bow to do it.''
assim.nt do a little researchandbe readyif
an opp<lf'tUnityto chan,e the gambliJ18
lawscamealong.'' When Walgrenfretted
that the assim.nt might • 'talkto much,''
Baggy usured him that the "a.ssisunt
woulddo just whathe wasaskedto do and
that he would have no idea why be wu .
doins the research.''
In later meetinp, Bapriol assured
Hit Reed that •'slots are going to come;
that house banked sames
would be the
fint thing pu,ed by the Legislature,
followed c1melyby slot machines.'' And
Wl18renadvised •'That there is no
questioo that in order to pass legislation
oo house becked games or slot machioes,
you need control of both the Hou.,e and
the Senate" and "That durin, the '80 or
'81 ~ be would still exert some
influence in the Senate; he could still hold
up his end."
This kind of legislative influence does
not comecheap, of coune. & Gallagher
supposedly tdd undffl:over apt Reed
durins one of their early ~.
·•John
O.priol and Gardon wai,ren have to
survive
npa,.sioo of gambling, they
have to be around afterwards, they have to todo it."
profit from it and anyooe who does not
In addition. So-Calallegedly financed
realiz.ethat will never accomplishit'' and various trips made by the two legislators
that tbC'v••~ the~
who will deliver and the lobby;.stto meet in cities outside
the votes and when they do, it will have to the state. Gallagher accepted $400 for a
bewell worth their while.••
trip to San Francisco and $700 to cover
AccordinB
to the indictment, a dealWU travel and st.aftexpen.,esfor a meeting in
muck in which So-Cal would pay Las Vegas.
C'◄ lkat,er Sl,000 a month u his itt'-asa
On Oct. 11, 1979, the federal
lobbyist. Severaltimes aYf:C tl'ie oouneof 8()VfflllDfflt charges, Bagnariol ac:cq,ted
the operatioo, Hal Reed ,ave Gallagher S5,000 from Vic Spann in the men's
which Gefkaher would sup- room d the Genoa Restaurant in Por~ •'pass ~t to legislatOts.'• Durin, tland.
B"Y"'K II Gov.mo,
his fint meetulg with Reed, Baggy
alJetecfly said that ''The only gOOCI During a mttting on June 24, 1979 in

w

u.,oo

By Kathy Davis

Nape, California, Gallagher supposedly
told Hal Reed and Vic Spann that "the
ideal way to expand gambling is to elect •
Governor like John, expand the Gambling
Board under the claim of tighter cootrols
on gambling. which would mean that two
more people could be placed oo the
Commissioo immediately. Also, one
person bounce off and one person
becomes Chairman, which means that the
Govemor bas four votes and away he
goes. He can do anything he pleases.But
everything that is dooe must be publicized
- you bring in the pres.,and always wock
under the guise of tighter controls in order
to guaranteethat the State stays free from
criine. ''
On Oct. 1, '79 says the indictment,
Glllagber met with Reed to inform him
that Bapriol wou1d, indeed, run for
Govemoc and that WaJs,eo was going to
run for Attomey Geoml He allegedly
told Reed that his organization (So-Cal)
''never bad an opportunity to get involved
so high up and 50 dose in, and ao intimate,
so early - Baggy and Gordy are up for
,rabs, the-question is who is going to own
them, because campeigm cost money."
G;Jlagber inquittd whether Vic Spann
would be illtaested in "undetwritins a
pan of the CO.SUof the campai,n. Someone
is going to. The people who give the
money at the first usually own the can..a:..t..
"
uauate.
11agherwent on to suggest that Hal
Reed "could have a Governor ior eight
yearsfor a total outlay of about $5,000 a
month ot a total investment of $60,000
in one year. The investment would /Ny
lb. G<w,,wo,, So-Cal
would haveaneisbt·
year Governot that no one would know
about, all aintxts must be totally sewred.
and So-Cal would haw • slllU. John
e.grwiol needs So-Cal to be the ~
blckin&that no one knows about in the
GoYt!l'DOtScampaign.''
On Nov. 26, according to the indictment, Gotdoo Walgren infcnned Reed
and Spannthat he figuredbe neededabout
$250,000 for bis campaign. He wmt oo
to say that he had proposed legislation
requiring ••all State agencies and commissioos to submit propoaedregulation to
the Attamey General's offic.%for inspection" and that this would "provide
the abilityto knock out regulations before
they go into effect.'' He abo sugested
that as Attorney General be would have
the power to appoint lawyers to key

c..

Gov. Dixy LeeRay used to think that
legalized casino gamblin&in Washington
was • pretty good idea. Now she's
changed her mind
At a convmtioo of car dealers in
Ot-eanShores back in July 1977, Ray
said, • 'This would be a fine place to have
the first ~type
gamblins in the
state, and I will do eYa')'thins I can to
support that program and help it move
aJon&
.." She {ffllinded the group that
pm~
would attract free spawting
tounsts to the area, adding ••After all,
we can't eat the scenery.' '
On April 17, howner, just days after
~ ncketeierins charges were &led
a,amst two top legislators (see main
story), the Gov. wued this statement
&om her pm., office: '' Appermtly the
~ bas been, basedon Atlantic
City and Nevada, that the two (casino
pmbliflaand organized crime) cannot.
be ,eperated. Thettfott, I must ops,os,e

cm~

casino-type

blina-"

Gordoo
one of those indicted, says, ''She WU all for wide-open
casioo Pfflblins and 50 forth when she
ielt it wu popular and the majority of the

people were in favor. Now with the
investigations and the accusatiom she
it,iJillud, she leel.sit is time to get off
gamblin&. and. be anti-gamblins. The
governor tS 50 mtent oo beiQ8re d«:ted
she '_ll c~
her position oo . any
~ wue to go alcog with
prevailing publicattitudes .••

1

Senate,wouldhave allowed the state to
take aver a iedenl tu which will'
become void oo June 30. The tu oo;
coin-operated gambling devices would!
have added $612,500 annually to the
~te ~The governo,'s veto also
Wipes out • state tu of $200 per device
lea~
coin-<>pented
- gambliJ18 ~

Wubiogtoo abaolutely uotued. The
Ac:conling to records oo tile with
govanorsays that she vetoed the bill
the Public Disclosure ~ Gambling
because it cootaioed a~
to •'slot
~om,
Dixy LeeRay's campaign
macbines'' which are still illepl in the
comnuttee accepted • cootributioo of
state.
S1,000 from owners of a Vancouver
"It 50UDdslike she panicked," says
cardrocm in May, 1978. Allen
Goldbers and Alfred W-utter equa1 Rep.- Helm Soma,WN,Democnt from
Seattle. "She just pve • bi&
tu breakto
shareholders in Vancouver Eo~
who run these
Inc. - the of6cial contributor-are a1so tawrn owners and~
pines.''
~ of The Frootier. Lastyear The
wai,reo blasted the .-,. ,..n; .... ••
Frontier was the hi&best
earnins car••-~
'"""--elt
111UUJJ1'11
men than a stupid,politically
droom in the state,~
$89,269. ln
motivatmaction.••
J~uary of this year, Gddbers and
Seo. Lorraioe Wojahn, a Tacoma
Wanter contributed $100 each to the
governor's campaign.~ •ys that Ray c:ban,edher
mind OD pmbliog ''only after she
News of the cootributiom, coupled
burned. The publicity about her ~
with the goyaooc's ttcent veto of a
the ,arnblina bill and the di9coYery
that
gambJins tu bill, has brought suspicion
her ft d«tioo
committee acapted
and open criticism from political ~ in two diflemit years &om
colleques. Tbe bill, which was passed Plllblioa raowca - that's the reason
98-0 in the House and 36-4 in the
sheapparently c:ban,edber mind.,,

Stings, scams, and illegal entrapment
ByMart Powell
The magnitude of the government
'sting' that resultedin "Gamscam" and
subeequent char,es apin.,t &priol,
w~
and Glu.,ber. is peanuts i,n
compuisoo to • ftCl!tit indictment in
Wasbinatoo D.C. labelled Operation
"Abeam" (short for "Arab Scam").
There are, howe.-er, str003 similarities
in the methods used by the u.nden:over
FBI a,mts in tettin, up the' indicted
mm. For drfendants of both operatiom,
the centnl quesdoo is: Wae they
iDepDyentrapped?
Operation Ablcam involved the
K?'l"'9nc(OD videotape) of S,0,000
.-a by four U.S. Coogra.,men.
$25,000 by Coagressman Rkbard Kelly
of Florida.and promises to a U.S.
Senator of interests in a titanium mine.
In ~ for the ~ accepted, the
pol,tidaos were to gave their services in
beJpna to introduce, le,watiocrthJr
would help • ~ Arab shiek
promote
his business
interests.
Coa,ressman Kelly stated oo oetwock
television that be was doing his own
private undercover work when be accepted the $25,000.

Re6mina
to Ahscam, Asmtmt to the
Locally, opinions vary oo the tactics
Attorney General, Philip Heymaoo
used by state government agencies to
says: "h was the corrupt midcflemen set-up "stin&' • operation,. Ro,er
who ~ oeitber'qeots oor employees
W-mten, direct« of the AUU, says that
of the Federal Govemmmt. .. who
the (state civil liberties uoioa) 1w
iJuti&ated the set-ups bc:twm. uo''strooareenatioos about whether the
dm:over FBI~
and the poli~.
panmmt
is io tbP haasmes.,
of aatin&
A 1976 -decision by the Supreme
~'' W-mterssays the AUU policy
Court established rules determinioa~ that the ''governmeot should oner
when entrapment can be med u a
•mdpte • aime.'. Commentin, Oil the
deieme. It does not matter wbdher the
operatiom, W-mter •ys,
crime WU a ettabOO of aowrnment
• • • if there WIS DO other aimina)
agents. Rather, the High ~ derision activity esapt for the (scam) created by
oo entnpne:ot ••... tocu.s oo the
the FBI,then tt·•
"
intent ot pttdi,pasitioo of the defmdant
to commit the aime .••
Kiof Qiunty Proetaitor Norman
Malena,
however' believes that the
Abeam -.od C•!D101m both in'sting tecboique is ooe of the iew dvolved &c::titious
entities: a ooo-aistmt
tecti\le ways to attack government
Arab sbiek io Abeam, and a phony
caaupdon. Rderia, to stiri, operatiom
corporation
called "So-Cal"
in
in ,eaen1. Malena
says: ''The stin&
Gtm.,cam. Bribery Lawsdo oot b:bid
ucbniQue is ooe " the ffl'Y iew toob to
receiving "anythio, of value" if the
attack ~t
oomaption at a bi&h
money is not taken in ncbanp for '1any
leYel.
type of technique bas been
official act" Ol "in relation to" any act
med ior decadesto tackle buralio&
rinp
involving the fiederal government. In
aod dtuaIC!bemes
and there 1w been no
both operatioos there Wtte DO official complaint pre,ented about using it. If it
acts perlorrned because neither enis fair there, it is fair in gettins at
tttprise was real.
government corruption.''

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The cast of characters
Walgren

Raggie
The6eelina
amona
most peop&e
familiar

Volcano
interrupts
Walk

By Ben Aleunder
Gordon Walgren was serving his filth
term as state senator from Kitsap' s 23rd with JohnBepriol is that be is a very
Id membera of the Walk for Survivai
District when the Gsmscam charges were eftective politicalltader' who hunaaround apJll'OWled the Trojan plant on the
brought against him. He is the Senate the wroo, kind d people. Republican 11lorM of the Columbia River, Mt. St.
Helena erupted a &8,000foot column of
Majority Leaderand indicates be will not Seate Attorney Slade Gorton said d
■team and aah. wreaking havoc with the
leavethat post. Walgren also servesas city Bqnariol: ''I'm socry Blgie got caught
Walk'• planned route. U the walkers
attorney for Bremerton and Pon Orchard up in this. -He hid d!velq,ed into a
followed their original route up Highway
eftective leader."
on a retainer basis. Noted for bis ability to thoushtful.
,11, accordlng to Paul Fink of the
John
Bcgnariol
is
said
to
have
four
lellm quickly' wa1grenbas similarlybeen
labelleda lover d the spotlight. He had cbanlct.ertraits that befit bis ima,e as a advance planning group, the ■tate patrol
threatened to "eaeort ua (the membera of
planned to run fat the state office d at- politicalleader: be is loyal. cool under &tt,
the Walk), and not where we wanted to
bas
a
lot
~
pts,
and
is
touah,
tendertorney general.
go."
In 1968 and 1%9, Walgren was ac- •toup, in administering bis policies. His
Departing from a abut-down Trojan
career
background
is
perhaps
indicative
d
cused ot a conflict d interest. The 1968
plant (a fact that baa been ignored by •
accusation resulted from bis involvanent these traits.
the local newa media), the Walk
B-,nariol is the soo oi an Italian imas a retainer for the Kitsap County
continued along the Columbia River and
and arrived In LollgvieW OD Friday. In the
Amusement Co. while working as a mipnt. Ht c:hole to bqo coUete
legislative committee member in- throughout the 1950's be moved upward
meantime, the advance planning group
a variety oi jobs. indudia,
part
vestigating crime in King County. The tbrouah
travelled to Olympia, eehedollng event■
Amusement Co. bad a pinbe.11
operation in time org,niziq job with the suet.~
all along the way. Unbeknownat to the
group In Loqview, the planning group
King County. In 1969, WaJsren spao- union, and then smty impectcr 6rst with
detoured the route from ,11 bedt out to
sored a l>ill allowing cities to annex the ~ Depertment oi Labor and then
Rte. 101, to walk up the cout, which
property by a city council vcn. At that ice Boe.ins•
Bapriol moftd imo the
teemed the only feuible alternative to
time, he was payed $781 per month as insurancPbusinew in 1960 andtoday still
waitins Indefinitely for the voleano to
co-owns
an~
compu,y
in
Rentoo
Bremerton's city attorney.
cool off.
Wa)pn was elec:t.ed
as a State Senatot with his wile.
While Walkera in Longview debated
Bapriol's
political career began in
in 1968. He allignedhumelf with Senate
the merits of the advanced group'• pJana.
Majority Leader August Mardesich and 1966 when be WU elected to the state
waa in Olympia. making preparalt WU duri.o, Fink
was named chairman ot the transportation House oi ~ws.
t!ona {Of' their arrival here OD Monday,
this
time
that
8tpariol
met
C•JJaahtt
committtt. In 197,, Mardesich, under
june i Three days of diacuaiona.
fire, stepped down from the position of and ex-Houle Speebr Leoaard Sawyer.
UU4ll'ID&U01l
tab!el
8Jld pmea,
will
Majority Leader and Wa)gren took bis Sawyer left the capitol as Houle Spam
culminate with a square dance on Friday
with rumors that be had made a aeaet
place.
night. Then on Saturday, June 7 (Super
Walgren was reportedly involved in a deal with contnct1 ice the West Seattle Saturday) the Walk will leave for a day
in Seattle, eventually arriving at the
state gambling probe in 1977. Private bridge. Bepriol' SuCXeeded Sawyer u
Spam and says be will Deffl'
Bangor Naval Bue, where they will
Investigator Pasquale • •Paddy'' Calabrae H~
claims be talked with WaJsren for 45- for,et the friendshipoileftd by Sawyer-and proteat apinat the Trident mJailea and
aubmarinea 1peclfieally, and nudear
minut.es and said the senator was in- C•1Jagher when he ws a freshman
arma in general. Here ia their tentative
terested in 5fflD8
gamblingintrochad in lqislator. Seate Senatcr King Ly,en d
the state. Calabrese·believes that John Seattle says, ••Bagnariol WU always aehedule for Olympia:
Monday, June 2 - arrive in Olympia.
Merkel, the U.S. Attorney in Seattle Sawyer's~.••
O.pariol bas fallen into seYa-al Stay at Orpnic Farmhouae.
responsible for the prosecution d the
Tueeday, June 8 - 7:80 pm. Round
three indicated 'Gam,cam' men, may potholes sun bis election as Hou,e
table
dileuaaion: "What About the
have gotten backpmd informatioo from Speakerin 1976. In 1977, while dnftia,
RlllaianaT' Topiea related to world
the 1977 probe to st.art a scmn on 1-gislcrioa ice the :AdolphCoon Brewiq
armament. United Church. 11th Ir
Co. be wu It the same time applyiq ice a
Wa}sren.
Wuhin,ton St. •
Jim McCabe, Gov. Ray's network to locaJ Coon distributcr'Ship ice seven!
Wedneaday, June 4 - 7:80 pm. Round
federalagmcies, said that befatt WaJaren tavems be owns. In 1978, be was bit by table diaeuaion: "Stratesies for Diaarmfiled to run for officed the state attorney the lnt.emal Revmue System with failina ament" United Chureh.
•
general, be would be "blown out d the to ffl)Ott two hJsin saes be bad ftl0elltly
. Thund&y, June 6 - 7:80 pm. Diaeuawater." In ~ to this stalffllfflt, pun:bued in Rmton. He bad to pay aion: "What Can I Dor United Church.
A.lao.Non-violence Training at Organic
McCabe said WaJaren misbtbe involftd S14,000 in back payments.
Farmbouae, for potential Walken.
in ex-senator Robert Perry's implicatiom
Friday, June 8 - New Games all
d other participants d tu evasion. Perry
afternoon in aoeeer fieJd,or in CAB mall
is now in prison on ~ tu evasion
if it rain■. Potluck dinner in CAB mall
charges.
Square dan'-'C in CAB all evenln1,
Saturday, 1 uu., 7 • Walk through Red
Square, depart for Seattle .

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..

A day with Dan
By Ella Blachood
pound.a hia gavel "Could ~ all ra.ile
"You are all memben of the televiaion 7our handa if you hav• an empty seat
generation." Prealdent Dan Evam besfDt next to you for theN two ladies?" We
hia apeech to loeal high IChool.honor find Nata acroee from each other and
■tud•nta in Cheballa,"...ao rm gomgto
aettle down to try the varied delieadea
apend a minute or two on a commerdal." of the Chuekwagon buffet. Just u we aft
Tbe 1arp groap of pum,. ~ down, the head Kfwanlan rap1 hit water
and eanapd high ac:hoolstudata
slaaawith a 1pOOD and 7ella, ..rd like to
on hit Hert word. After all. w• have introduce you to Chuck Wosinaki. Lewia
here a fcinner governor of ~ atate of Count, probation officer. I hope DOile of
Wuhington. Not juat any pernor
you will ever have to meet Chudt
either. Daniel J. Evana ......,_
in forman:,1 Chuck will now lead ua in the
Waahinston for twelve yean. Our own 80III' and the pJedp ...
Franklin Rooeevelt.
Chilek lead■ ua in a awaing NDditfon
Before we drin down to Chebalia wWa ol "My Count;ry T'9 of '1'11ee"
and the
Evan.a,I try to remind myaelf that he'a Pledge ol Allegiance. TIie flub of
just another 1117,jut the preejdent of a patriotism ii appropriatet, foUowed b7 a
■mall liberal art■ collep. It almaet
qalck pra,- from the loeal padre. We
wcrb. '!'Mn Larey Stenberg ealla aa Nttle don to •t again but the ....
we're on our wa7 out the cloar. R• t.lla warden ta introdadq Dan Evana ao I
Evant that President Carter, who..ie in have to forep the feut to take notea. (U
Pcriland. jut referred to Wuhington'1
I miequote anyoae, rm trul7 WffY t>ut
governor aa "Governor -Enu"
in there are mulled potatoes all over m7
commnta reprding
the dieaatroua note..)
eruption of MOll.Dt St. Helena. Even
Evan.a apeab of the "Evergreen of the
Jimmy Carter can't pt it right.
future," which be aamee ua ia
8o we hop into Evana'a allver Celie& "unuaually prepared for the ao'a." Be
GT and ant off to a Kiwanla lllMtfns
in atanen the andlence with ■tatiatla.
Chehalia where Evan, will addnN the .AdJDI
..... CSN up 804M.and appUcationa
cream of the high ac:hoolerop. AA we are up BO'lb. A nclJwncl, J'anah
drope her jaw.
approaeh th• town. a large bDlboud Fawcett loobllke
with the aeowliDgface of Unde Sam teDa Evergreen baa received two. count 'em
ua to "pt out of the U.N." E\-au two. National Sdenee Foundation grant■
mumblee aom.ething about "rfabt wtn,." thia year, making TE8C number one Jn
I know thia ii a rural area, but I NDN
the country in NSF grant■ received over
be ian't ~ pooltry.
a ten year period. A pud17 mother
Yes, tomorrow I.a a very precious
We arrive at ow deattutlon: Roy'a elbon
her daughter and nocb in thing, he IUJIUI up. And when it comes
Chuekwagon, a eultural boupot elWng in appreciation.
time to leave tllil earth. u we all must
the ahadow of Chehalia'a two ,tor:, Yard
Enntualt,, Evau mov• off the topic do, Evant aolemnly ■ay■• I hoee your
BU'da aton.. We an IJ'Mtedby a pm•
of Evergreen to addna the high epitaphs will read: ..He or she made a
warden and Nveral Kiwamana.
who look achoolerof tlle futw.. Be tella them that difference."
like they juat stepped •out of a a.an yeaterclay'a war babiea will be tomorEvana ia given a hearty round of
catalog. rm at.Illnot aure wh7 the pme
row's puota. In ... nee, be aaya that appJaue and the meeting breaks up. We
warden waa U.... Att.r Eva.DI'•
apeech, we'N all growing older and prettJ IOOD aceoet two of the more articulate looking
I aated hJm where he wu from. '"The JOU ■tudenta will have to lf'OW up too. honor ■tudenta and aat them what they
Deparbunt of Game," 1MnpUed. 'Tm a None of the atadenta aeem too exdted
tNufht of Evana'• 1peech. ..I dunno, it
game warden. Do you bow what a by that proeped. Evan, a,-eulatee OD waa good," aaid one. "Interesting," ■aid
gamewant.nl.aT'
what life will be lib in the year 2000. another. I aaked the lalDe pair what
I tltoqbt about it for a minute and "You will be at the peak of Joor work they thought of Evergreen. The girl,
aid, "I think ao. I Uled to wateh Yoei force eapadty ...yoa'li be the tu payera who happened to be the previoualy
Bear eartoona." Tbe game w&NMn and dedlllon maken in how thoee tu.a
mentioned NClhalred Farrah Fawcett
pondered that and aaid, "Well. I think he an spent." Tile tu p-,en of. tomorrow loolwlke, ■aid, "It wu the fint time rd
wu a park ranpr."
dOD't... m worried. 1n fad, they look a heard of it." The bo7 grinned aheepiahly
Two Kiwaniana alndlle for our Ja,-Ja. blt antsy to pt
out of Roy'a and aaid, ..I hear it's real liberal there." I
We are quk.kq festooned with oreluda. Cbaickwqoa and pt back to whatever it want.cl to aat them what their plant
courtes7 of B.uny'a FJarfst. Cheballa, la hODGI'
atadenta do.
were for the year 2000 but we were
Wubwgton. Enu le sr-ted wWa a
In the year 2000, Evan, ~ aome of JOlingEvan, in the crowd.
_
mixt6re of awe and down home you will be tlle ap John F. X.nnedy
Evana politely break.a looae b-om a
hoapitality. Tbe game wardenamlleeand wu when he WU eleded pnlldent; 19 elmtet' of jcma.l Kfwanianaand we head
often us tome tieketa, "Lunch ill OD ua, year olda will be tbe .,. I wu when I back to th• allver Cellea. With all the
ladiee."We amble down tbe baffet table WU eJeeted IO"ernc:w'; and junlcr high Dowen, doubleknit auita, and Sunday
and pile our plate. high with molded abool 8tudentaaril1be aa old aa Thomaa dnue1, the parking lot look.a like the
jello aalad and meatloaf. Dan Evana ,oes
Jeffm
wu when 1M W1"0&ethe aftermath of a Mother', Day tea. I am
for the greuy ribL
Declaration of lnde,-ndenee. Several of ■uddenly greatly- relieved to be back on
The room ia packed with loeaJaand the the KJwaniana wlllkJe th.tr browa in 1-6 headed north toward Evergreen,
head Kiwanian (The Big KJwahna?) c:oDell'D.
where things are indeed --reaJliberal"

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Cooper Point fought suburban sprawl
By Je&rsoo Allen

One weekago I awoke to the tluctuating
whine ol. chainsaws. Outside, alder trees
crashed to the ground and • yellow
bulldottr tott at the earth. Later in the
week Jim Williams of Western
WashingtonRealty told the CPJ that he
and othersin a generalputnershi.p••did
not have any irnmectiatrplans'' and that
they were just cJeanin, out the ten acre
J«tioo behind A.S.H. Williams did say
that more student housing was a definite
possibilityfor the land.
''Effl'gtten was the stimulator ol. all
the land speculationthat happenedaround
here," said Russ F01, EverJffl!Dfaculty,
in a recent CPJ imuview. "The land
values shot up immediately after the
location of. the coUege WU announced
(1967). From being in the nei&bborbood
ol. five to eipt hundred dollm an acre,
within two to three }'t!U1 land WIS seDin,
for eight to ten thousanddollarsan actt.''
In October ol.1971, the ooDe,eopmed,
and 900D there were requests ior rezooiq,
in order to build two deYdc,p]>fflts. One
was ailed •'By the Sea.'' and was slated
to be built north ol. the colleaeThe
second, "Peace Acres" was propo,ed to
80 in directly south ol. the campus ca
Overbube Road. Thae lctioos spemd
the fannatioo ol. the C.ooper Point
C.P.A. requested that the approvalol.
tbete proposals be held ol.funtil they CXIUld
tbete proposals be held ol.funtil they could
comtruct a land use plan. Fox was hired as
a ~•
urban planner in January of
1972. In six months, membership in the
C.P.A. ro.,e to no penoos and they
Aerial photo of Cooper PoinL
completed the Comptthensive Land Uae
Plan for Cooper Point. In Juneol. 1972 plemented.The physical characteristicsot
they presented the Plan~ the Thurston the land (rather than population
County PlanningC.omm.ission.
who then projections) serve as determinants oi the
nmrnmeoded the Plan to the Board ol. uses permitted in the Plan. Also, the Plan
County Commissi<Joers. The axn- developedout of. I process of citizen in·
missiooersadoptedthe plan in September volvement, rather than as an outsiderol. 19H. They abo passed a z.ooin&
«· prepared guideline. • 'The recomdinance which providesa baaeol.laws for mendations and densities were first
the Plan.
•
developedip a ccimpromiseota wide range
The Comptthensive Land Use Plan for ot values and desires ot the people,'' said
Fox.
CooperPoint states oo pqe 15:
' •While we resliu that mott intensive
There are two variables in the efuse ol. the land is inevitable,we do not kctiveoess of the plan, in regulating
want these chan,es to produce an en- growth, acxordin8
to Fox. First, the
vironment that does not respect the wiDin,nes,,of theprosecutor's officeto ict
physical limitations of the land and on violationsof such guidelines, and
pmerve the cbancter ol.the area.•' The seooodly, the attitudes of the three county
Plan implementedalternativesto land use commissiooiers,
whoareelected every two
planning, in order to skin the ind- years.
lectivmess ol. traditional land use planDuring the early seventies, Michael
nina,For example, the Plan states that the Myers, an a,ent for different buyers,
residents are not coocemed about where mana&ed
to collect 440 acres of land south
land uses are located, such a z.ooin&,
u
ot the colqe in difiettnt parcels. Through
much as how and when they are im- a seriesol.sales, Myers artificially inflated

continued from page 10
designation permitting one dwellingevery
Point Road. So lar, 113 dwelling units 7200 square feet (or six per acre).
have been built. These are just a few
Residents in this annexation protested
examples. Contractors have had varying these problems with no results. Ann
degtte.5 ol.successin receivingapprovalto Gutjahr, who lives near the annexed area,
build. Sewer systems are ooe controlling told the CPJ that citiuns submitted letters
factor; another is soil conditions. For and spoke at the city commissioners
example. the site on Adams Road for hearins, but that • 'it was kind of futile.''
Squirrel Run, a proposed 156 acre
The Plan for Olympia is a guideline for
development, is rather swampy, and will the Planning Commissioo.In the optimal
pose problems in waste di,:,osal
Land Use section, it states this about the
Some Cooper Point residents are en- annexed area: •'The Gras., La.kedrainage
countenns problems with the growth ol. area, mostly between Cooper Point and
West Olympia. Foe examp)e, a large Kaiser Roads, bu severe settling
section ol.land containing Grass Lake was problems, also is subject to Booding and
annexed into Olympia city limits in seasonal hishwater tables, and has ,oils
November ot 1979. The anoe:utioo with severe limitations for roads,
involved 225 1CttS between Kiiser and buildiQ&'. and septic tanks., ' Gutjahr
Cooper Point roads, and was proposed by esplainedthat the developmentwould also
Jesus Moulinet, an agent for West Park be limited by the Shorelines Manasement
Development Cooipany and Fmt City Program, which ratricts building near
Equities, who have the option to buy and environmentallysensitive areaslike Grass
develop 162 acres in the section. The La.ke.
minutes ~ a November, 1979, public
TheCpopei-P • t zoning ~ will
hearing oo the annexation state that the soon be replaced a county-wide zooing
pwpme ot the annexation is to develop ordinance. • 'The commissioners, for the
162 acra as a planned unit development past frw months, have beengoingover the
utilizins city services. To get a section ot ordinance, section by section, and
land annexed into the city limits, one must changing it substantially,'' said Fox.
own or have the support ol.the residents
Apparently two major groups have been
who own 75 % ot the assessed property
trying to in.tlumcrwhatgoes into the new
value.
.
ordinance. The Thurston Land Use
The boundary line for the annexation Federation, primarily a group ol ttaltors
was drawnaround a certain 20 acrearea, and developers; and the Allied Neighcteatina an island of county. lt seems that borhood Association, an umbrella group
it was drawn this way to l"elCbthe 75 % of localcitiuns' ocganizations.
wes.,ed
valuation requirement, not
•'The ~.
(in its) new version is
because of valid p1annins reasons. Islands much more to the liking of the~
Use
such as these, usually made up of residents Federation and much less to the liking ol.
who refuse to petition for annexation, the neighborhood groups, which is the
create service problems with police and reverse of what it was a couple months
fire departments. Another problem with •BO,'' said Fox. •'The new draft, from the
this anneutioo is the zoning for the 225 pers~ve
ol the neighborhood groups is
acre area chanse<f
from the county COOSlderably
weaker. ~o.wbly it raises
desiption of 0-4, or a maximum of four some of the permitted densities.''
dwellings per acre, to R-S, a city zoning
The Thurston County Zoning Or-

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the value of the land. "Even though it's
potentially, ecologically the most
developableland (on Cooper Point) it's
affected by this economic manipulation
that hasleft it's value artificially intlated
and it's legal ownership sometimes quite
confusi.ng,''said Fox.
Myers' proposal involved 3,800 units
with I shopping cttlter in the middle.The
proposal was denied by Thurston County
officialsin 197 3. The reason for the denial
in the county courthouse rt'Cordsstates
that the Cooper Point Plan permits a
muimum ol.1600 units.
"By the Sea" was finally accepted in
1975 by county dfficialsunder the-name
oi "Vista by the Sea" after the density
had heal redoc-e<i
by ~half. GoldCrest,
a large development, WU AJJ.efOVedby
Thurston County in 1974. It involves
1,076 dwelling units, a mix otmultifamily
and single family complexes, on 237 acres
of land south of the college on Cooper
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R/UDAT sparks new life in Olympia "
By Carrie Gevirta
"The reality of Olympia la that of a
"Meeting Place", a junction of natural
element&, peoplea and tran,portation
networks. Human interaction between
racea.countnea, and rectouI groapa bu
reaulted in a cohesive blend of eulturea
and architecture. A.a boat dty to the
Capitol of Wubington. Olympia'• beautiful natural setting la the focal point of
the governln1 procea and the heritage
of our State."
R/UDAT theme I\IIHommittee, ~
ber, 1979.

Olympia in the early Thirties

Qlympia.

Pastand Present

Eastside, Westside,all around the town
By Jan Loftneu

A few week.I ago, I drove put the
Jafco store out by the Capital Mall and
loai my sense of dlrec:tion. "Where are
wer I uked looking around wildly for
aome familiar landmark. I bad never
Men tboee tacky shops. fut food restaurants, and gu station.a before in mj life,
and I grew up in thla town.
•..It'• the new Jafco shopping center!"
replied the driver. I then spied VIP'•
acrou the road and the trailer park up
on the hill. Oh yea, VIP'• and Mark 'n
Pak West and thoee apartments up behind the trees. How silly of me.
The site Jafco 1tand1 on now Uled to
be a swamp that dried up in the summer
and lay beyond the outer limits of Olympia'• Westside. Not much more than ten
years ago there wu never really any
reuon to go to the West.aide: it bad DO
college or- shopping mall. DO McDonald'•
Oft Piaa
Hut, no banlta Oft dentiata, no
Radio Shack or 7-Eleven. Jlllt a tmall
brick hospital called Sl Peter'• ·at tne
top of the 6th Avenue hill. th. Wesuide
Center and Rowland Lumber. And oh,
the bowling alley behind Petenon'1: if
anyone wanted to go bowling in Olympia,
that's where be went.

The put ten years bu changed the
Westaide and all of Olympia in many
ways, but the put tw•ty bu eeen a
•mall. centralized community spread out
in all direction1 and the face of the orig•
inal town very nearly diaappear.
In 1959, Olympia'• first step toward
major change and development came in
the form of Interstate Five. Now the
town had quick and euy accea to
SeatUe and Portland, displacing the old
route (99) which, going north, took the
motorist down through town on Capitol
Way, up 4th Avenue and Martin Way
and all the way out to Niaqually. Only
one hour to SeatUel
Mayor Neil McKay formed "The Committee of the Sixties" in 1961 "to study
the many demanch for improvement& to
keep Olympia abreut of our rapidly
_changingtimes." One of the Committee'■
major projects wu the development of
Capital Lake Park at 6th and Water. BeTore tbe park wu built in 1986, a welding works occupied the block and wu
one of the dty'1 major eye90l'ea.
Across from the park on 6th Avenue,
"Olympia'• first skyscraper," the Capital
Center Building with nine (count 'em)
Doors wu erected in 1985. Down the

block, Kentucky Fried Chicken came
along two or three yean later. The
neighborhood WU changing fast.
At 4th and Water, connructlon on
Percival Landing Park wu completed
around 1978. The pleuant dock and
boardwalk overlooking the yacht dub.
Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountain.a
hardly resembles the hldeoua wall of
rotting wood that lined Water Street before the Copeland Lumber building wu
destroyed in 1966.
In 1971, before the "Evergreen lnflu-'
ence" moved onto ,th Avenue, the Child·
bood'a End Gallery opened a store on
Capitol Way between Penney's and
Hallmark'•· A long and narrow entry
hall served u ita pllery and led to a
amall room in the back wbich dllpla,ecl
candles, jewelry, leather and clothln1.
A wood ataireue apinled up to a loft
that held a single waterbed. Wubington Natural Gu occupied the bulldlng
Cblldbood'1End ii now in and other such
nondescript buainuaea called 4th Avenue
home: the Rainbow uaed to be a grocery
store and fish market and Utah Jack'•
wu a meat market.
Now up a block to New Life Mercancontinued on page 1'

Olympia la in a period of controveny
and change. It will either join the
booming wnt cout metropolla or
Npar&te it.elf, harping OD tta unique
capital cit7 Ntting OD the water.
For 7eara O}Jmpiana have been
coneerned about their city'• future. In
April. 1979 a RegtonaVUrban Deslp
A.aa.tanc:e Team (IVUDAT) apent an
inteuive weekend atudJinl O}Jmpia'1
environmental and urban problema. The
problema addreued relate to preaerving
tbe dt7 of Olympia. land uae pattern.a
and regional growth atratepea. traffic
eonpation and puk.inr, and the port and
other waterfront ad.lviti..,
The R/UDAT umt.anee la a commanit7 NrViee of the American lnatitute of
Arehfteeta (AIA). When a communit7
...b advice the .A1A Nlecta a team of
proleuionala with a apec:Ukexpertiae in
the nec:u11ry areas. The7 muat promile
not to acc:ept commluiona or further
empto,ment throup the atud7.
When the R/UDAT apent a weekend
oblerving O}Jmpla. Viki Caparoon. an
ETel'll'"D
student currently enrolled in
tbe Nature of Community 1)l'Olft1D,
interned with them. She sta7ed on with
the newly formed R/UDAT offlee after
the team completed tta study and
dlapened. Caparoon explained that the
study bu turned into a aerie1 of
~ which foeu on 1pecille
anu, nch u the waterfront bouatq,
parting and tnflle. finance, and a Nriea
of tbemM.
The aub-commif.&a,N
conaiat of pern•
ment offldala. town.apeople and merchanta. They are all bued aroond the
theme committee, which ....
three
important anglea to their wort: eoncept
and interpretation. activitlea and eventa,
and ph71ieal chanp.
Tbe "eoncept" part of the theme

committee propoeea that:
''The overall theme for Olympia muat
be that of a 'Meeting Place.' lnitiallJ one
between land and bay, river and shore,
later u a c:rouroad in a great
tranaportatfon network-from the Cowlita
and Oregon Traila to Interstate 6. We
were a meeting ground for civilization
and wilderneu, Indian and White aodety ...
and hiatorically U DOW, an intern&•
tional port. ....
"To translate these identified realitlea
we propoee movlni to a people oriented
city, filled with meeting placea, one that
aervea u the interpretive center of our
State to viaiton and u an excitlng and
unique "people place" to local and 1tate
reaidenta.In doing thla we hope not only
to revitalize our city, but allo to aerve u
the focal point for Statehood Centennial
activitfea in 1989."
Some of. their recomendatiou lndude:
"The creation of a county flag plasa in an
open area (our choice-Capitol and 4th)
and banner corridor (our choice-Capitol
Way) lln.ki.ng the Capitol grounda and
downtown. the location of a farmera/fiab
market for local products in the
downtown area, one large open apace in
downtown area for ethnic celebrations,
and a hiatoric preservation staff penon
in the City of Olympia Planning

~men~
are many other wide
spread of interests.
Th• "activitiea and events" aeetlon of
tbe theme committee la ereating annul
eventa that would brinf the eommunit7
together out of the context of. daily life.
Caparoon added, "I workon commltteee
u well u on apec:Uk project&. For
in.atance rm working on a Nriea of
concerts for Friday DOODI ID 87lveeter
Park throughout the aummer...We're
allo working on a demonstratlooproject
on Water Street ~een
4th and 5th
where we'll demoutrate pedeetrian and
vinal improvements with plantlnp and
street furniture. We're just bringing the
■cale down to pedestl'iQ level"
The final .part of tbe theme eommitteea goala are ID co~
with the
final R/UDAT report whidlatatee:
"The ·aeer-et to mum, downtown
Olympia a place when people will want
to come and where the7 can both
concluct buaineu and eajoy t.hemNme la
twofold:
1) Having the right kind of activitiea in
the downtown. and
2) Creating an attractive
physical
framework for theee activities."
continued OD page 1'

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continued from page 13
They hope to make Olympia a more
"people-oriented" town by limiting some
areas to pedestrians only. They will
create streets where a single traffic lane
and diagonal parking can make room for
extended sidewalks, public sitting or
gathering areas and extensive tree
planting. Also among their ideu are a
major 400-000 car garage, a performing
arts center, and a convention and
meeting facility. They want to create
visual links between downtown and the
west.side and make the town a more
accessible place to live or visit.
All of the changes will take time,
consideration and support. They will
have to go through the approval
processes with the city before major
changes are made. But the merchants of
Olympia seem very pleased with the
R/UDAT input. In fact, it was virtually
impossible to find a negative opinion.
Vern Miller of Betmans Men's Store
on 5th and Capital expressed his
feelings, "Regarding R/UDAT, I think

the concept is great. I think the
committees have worked bard. I agree
100% on beautification of downtown
Olympia, which I do not feel is dead. l do
however think if we're going to have a
viable downtown bllSiness district we
still need more parking. And the malls,
at least u far as our business is
concerned, have not hurt us anywhere
near u much as lack of parking. Until
we have adequate parking you'll see
bllSinesses like mine closing the door and
out in the hitherland ..."
Rick Panowicz, president of Dries Inc.,
who wu working in the family jewelry
store on 5th St. remarked, 'Tm very
enthusiastic about (R/UDAT). It's the
first o,.rga~ approach to the problems
that exist. In the past it has always been
2 or S people on one tangent. But here
they've approached it so people would
have a good sound buis for understanding what's happening and why it's being
done."
"I still think there is a definite parking

problem in downtown Olympia. If we
could eliminate that and make it easier
for employers and employees to park
slightly off from the downtown area,
business would benefit."
Ann Bucks of Bucks Fifth Ave. spoke
with an extremely positive attitude. "I
think the community involvement has
been very, very busy and successful so
far. They've been very well recieved. I
think the community has been excellent,
more than good.
"I don't think parking is the main
problem. I thinlt it's a lack of interesting
stores. If there's many interesting
stores, people will come if there's
parking or not. You have to walk further
at the mall than you do down here. You
have to walk two or three blocks at the
mall just to get in, and once you get in
there you wonder why you went. ..Our
business has tripled since the malls have
been put in because there's no quality
out there. I think the malls made
downtown Olympia."

TheEvergreenVillages_

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Students redesign community hall
BySabaEwin&
You've probably pused it hundreds ol
times oo your way to and from ,chool.
The inocxous pa 8ffl!D l(llttmeOt
buildin8s
at so, Division are Bverp,en
ViJlaaes, one of Olympia's three low
i.ocomebousin, projects. The majority ol
residenu are sia,le mothers, welfare
ttdpients, old peapie
OD fixedincomes and

16

Vietoerne,e and Cambodian tt!fuaees.
We dilcoffl"ed Bffl'p,en ViJlaaeswhile
Jookin, lot • pro;«:t site to Jal tbe ~
economic, environmental desi,n mec.y
from our ,roup cm.tract, The Practice and
SocialAnalysis ol Desip. One theme ol
the pr08f'IOl bas been • c:ompari,ao ol out
economic System with the physical
strUCtmis
ol this cultutt. In penicu)ar, we
have examined the imloence ol pro&t

motimioos00 housingdesip.

Olyhistory
continued from page 12
tile, formerly The Mottman Mercantile
Company. Mottman's was Olympia's first
department store. Built in 1890, it employed a unique method of cub transaction: old-fuhioned wire basketa would
toil along lines from the clerk's counter
up to the mezzanine office on the second
floor carrying cash and receipts to the
bookkeeping department. The store llSed
this method, unimaginable u it may
seem, even into the mid-sixties. Mottman's officially closed its doors in 1972.
Nothing happened there until New Life
set uo shoo in 1978.
Across Capitol Way from New Life
stands the Dicker 'n Shop, one in a succession of many businesses that have
occupied the building since the Gillette
and Guffey Drug Store closed in 1968.
Gillette and Guffey wu long a standard
fixture of the "original downtown" area.
On the parking lot next door to the
Dicker 'n Shop once stood the GealerMcNiven furniture store. It burned down
in 1973. Virtually nothing remained of
the store after the blaze and the only
thing they could thinlt to do with it wu
pave it over.
Next to the parking lot on State and
Capitol stands the original home of the
Daily Olympian, built in 1925. The paper
moved up the hill in 1972, but the
slightly historic structure remains and
now houses a computer business.
In 1965, downtown Olympia started to
die, and the disease wu South Sound
Shopping Center in Lacey. The only store
to move out to South Sound from downtown wu Sears, which had been located

on the corner of Legion and Franklin about it because there was never any•
(now the Wuhington State Department thing in town one wanted to see and we
of Personnel), but the impact proved never got films until two months after
tremendous. Everyone wanted to shop at they were released. But how does a comPeople's and Pay 'n Save. The friendly munity deal with 11 new screens (three
,mall town stores like Gillette and Guf- at the mall, six in Lacey, a.nd two more
fey were forced to close. Hendricks' at the State) in the past two years? The
Rexall (next to Peterson's in the West- Olympic, once known for its "claaay"
side Center) used to have another store films even resorted to pornography for
at 5th and Capital (now Hibberd & Cole), awhile and the State's interior baa been
but saw no profit downtown after '65 mutilated in an effort to compete by
and closed up a year or two later.
housing three screens in a theater meant
Penney's and Miller's have been strug- for one. (It used to be kind of a neat old
gling along, especially since the Capital theater. A good project for some
Mall opened. These two stores were the Evergreen student would be to turn the
backbone of downtown Olympia for Olympic or Capitol into what The
many years and provided economy Cinema used to be.)
(Penney's) and clua (Miller's). The two
The Capitol Campus bu also played a
complemented each other; inatead of major role in the growth and change of
competing for customers, they shared Olympia. Twenty years ago, the campus
them. Miller's reputation declined rapidly extended only to the west of Capital
in the seventies and Ls hardly the high- Way. On the east aide directly across
claaa store it uaed to be. Because of the from the fountain stood the original
new Penney's at the mall, the downtown Olympia High School, which was
store is supposed to be closing soon, and destroyed in 1962. Next to that were the
Miller's will undoubtedly follow.
Capitol Apartments, destroyed in 1970
Fortunately, the revitalization of 4th along with a vast neighborhood of older
Avenue and other spots like the Gnu homes to· make way for the monstrous
, Deli and the Hotel Olympian (which Highways Buildings, freeway entrance
houses the Herb and Onion and the and underground parking garage.
Creative i) has put brand new life into
Luckily, the neighborhood south of the
the downtown area and has made it Capitol, where I grew up, baa recently
more than just a througbway for traffic been declared a national historic landgoing from Jafco to K-MarL
mark, saving it from death and
One area of downtown business that destruction. It is one of the few areas in
has just recently been struck by subur- Olympia that hasn't changed. Mv pa.rents
ban development has been the movie couldn't have imagined the changes in
theaters. For years and years and store for the small, quiet town they
YEARS, the only theaters in town were moved into in 1957. One could contend
the State (with one screen), the Olympic that Olympia is ,tW small and quiet, but
and the Capitol Everyone complained then, I'm not from New York.

Residents of Evergreen Villages in front of their new mura.1
Bffl'l"'l!D Villqes is privately owned
by Cooiier Developen. They pay an
Our efforts to find IG1lts to work with
the school's greenbome.
mremely low inteiat on their mon,a,e
us oo the redesi,n project failed, so we
We are currently finisbin3 the last ol
which is guarantffll by the U.S. c:cmpromiled ow- U9eNlesign ideals and
our projects, air' stylr benches with a
Department ol ffousinsand Urban went ahead anyway, hoping our example
fold down table and five 10x6 loot canvasDewlqicnent. Rent iDCttWS mmt by would eocowag,c peaple to join us. We
covettd foam panels which will encbe
deued by HUD, which establishes the found a p,en rua lot $20, patched it, the 6ttplace and bench area.
rent bued OD I slimlg scaleICt'ClCdins
to placed it in front ol the 6ttplace and
We weren't the first to undertae a
iocxme.
moved umcbain around it with • coffee project at Everp,en Villa,es. Lat 'JSf a
Wbm we found there was a Com- table in the middle.
group from the Decmtnlizatioo propm
munity Hall at Bverp,en ViJla&eswe
Of all the VilJaae
residents, the cbildrm surveyed the residents to detfflnine their
realized
thepotffltial to test the CClOa!ptoi u,e the ball most. They have after ,chool needs and interests. This summer
students from Energy System hope to
~ mvirooment. The com- SDICb and activities there, so we Wett
ra-eve a $ ,o,000 grant from Southern
munity baD wu • larae, 'nCOOUS room abk to get them imot¥ed in • mural
8ooded with imtitutiooal 8ourescent project. We helped them ·paint two murals
Puget Sound Solar Energy As.1odatioo to
Jiabdna.
Surely there would be nine« tm oo roUina
panals which they covered with
build • community solar greenbome.
people
in the Villqes who would be abstnct hou,es, Bowers and funny
& the quarter draws to a close,so does
mtieraeiedm
their comblunity ball animals.
our project. We have Joos
since ,J.ve11
up
men combtable and thettby more
We took the children on a bus to go to many ol our idealistic pis ol • user
usable.
•
the Evergn!a1 belch. Several cbildrm bad designed ball, recognizins that 6fum
The community ball is a muhi-pwpoee never been to • belch befote and easerfy wttks is too short • time to stir actift
roam lefflDI cbutdl ,roups, The asked questions: If the water disa1,pean community
support. EVY AP will
Femimlt Kame Umco, and fbe Fat when I pour it in'"tbil hole, bow came it cootinue andpubapsstudent involvement
Mama DmceCius. Most imponantly, stays in the inlet? Why is the boat getting will cootinue also. There are Ices ol
the ball ~ the B"?:1'1 Villqes further away? (the tide WU comin3 in). projects waitin&to happen; follow thtousb
Youth
aad
Adult
an Does the tide t:ome up here making it low is essential and disillusionment is par b
the course.
~nizetion
initiated by a resldeot to tide 00 theotherside?
Jbis WU I rewardina
'experience,
but
encoun,e • community ol support and
lelfreliance.
then came impmdiq
deadlines, no
andcoofusioo about
Y/ewere ftll prepared lot our first materials or
pubkized "AB Resident" community what Cooiier Co,pontioo would permit.
/. ,
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baD ,edaip IDN'tina,
No one came.So The R!ll)C)ddin,
woodwork
in Allens Bay
we aumded the
monthly potluck Goolnb and the Gnu Deli provided us
/'
'
I •
and met our proapective co-workers lot with tan,ihle ex•mples ol our plans which
the tint time.
we could show the manasen
lot their -The patluck was anuncomb1llbly real, app'Oftl. They liked the idea and bepn
if stienot)pical. cootrut oi a!tiernative to sugest other improfflnents we might
meke.
~ studrrm and low income midents.
I Jet my stir-fry amoo1 the macaroni
With donations of rough cut cedar mill
salads and ffli frosted valentine cakes, ends we panelled two walls. Resident Roy
2101......
thm took my place at one of the long Lrwis helped us build two indoor planter
tabla
botes which wt filled with cuttings &om

ma,

mmoa

::aram,

money,

patioI salon ,.
~

vw.,a

-~.

.....

17
16

Students caught in hJnt

"'It was so sudden an d seeming
. 1y fi·n·al."
ByMaryYoung

mushroom outing."
By the time their breakfast wu
human Jou, in term, of 'it could happen finilhed and the group of thirty wu
getting organized to go out it wu 9:16.
to me' ...On the T.V. in Yakima. life wu
going on u usual; cartoo111, baseball It Said Pat. "We were going to go at 9
really ,truck me 'there's actually human o'clock pouibly up on a ridge between
tragedy going on'. That so many people Saint Helens and the campground." !J'he
kept on going u usual is kind of ridge, Pat said, wu up a steep rocky
frightening to me. They apologized on road that had sharp drop-offs on the
aides. There the group would have been
Yaltima T.V. for interrupting the
ballgame for new, bulletins." Yakima in a clear-cut area. where morels like to
was already blanketed in the suffocating grow, much cloeer to the mountain.
It wu then, about 40 minutes after
black-grey uh with great clouds of it
Mount Saint Helens first el'Upted, that
continuing to fall
When Pat Deschene impulsively de- "we noticed dark. ominoua douda
cided to go morel mushroom hunting approaching from the we1t. Thinking we
with faculty member Mike Beug'a leiaure were in for a good thundentorm (we
education clua that Saturday before could hear diatant rumbling which we
Mount Saint Helena erupted, she was interpreted u thunder) we buniedly
looking foreward to a peaceful weekend broke camp. I remember commenting on
in the mountainl. Time to wind down a how my aenae of smell had become
bit from the tensiona of the end of the keener.
"J\ISt u we finished loading up the
quarter; time to give herself some fun
gear into our cars the cloud, broke. But
hunting "the aought-after morell ...in the
heart of morel country," at Clear Lake, the rain wun't wetl I looked down at
the picnic table and saw grey 1pecb. It
IOIDe'5 miles eut of the mountain.
Sunday morning, May 18th, broke suddenly dawned on U1 It wu uh. Mike
with a chill in the air. Pat, who wu still wu quick to act. "lt'.a uhf" he yelled
uvoring the excitement of the bunt and acrou the camp, · "The mountain's
the utllfaction of the gourmet mush- erupted. We gotta get out of here!"
room potluck from the day before, woke Within 80 seconds we were on our way
early from a good 1leep. As 1be didn't 'OUtof the camp."
For some memben of the group, Pat
have warm clothe, to wear, she decided
to ltay in her aleeping bag awhile and do included, the reality of the danger and
the diluter that wu about to shower on
IOIDe chemistry homework. "Mike and a
few othen had gone on a walk down by them and that aection of the world wu
Clear Lake, cloee to our camp. Boon tb,ey immediately incomprehendable. "There
were two women who started collecting
were blackwith information on an a.prey
nest they had visited. We were already the muabrooma around the camp. The
late getting ,tarted on the day'• urgency didn't get through to them."
"It wu

so sudden and seemingly

final. ..You really don't think in terma of

These two women were temporarilf lost.
separated from the group, but eventually
turned up stranded at a lodge at White
Pus.
Speeding away from the campground,
the car Pat wu. in only stopped long
enough to tell the otben to head further
east for Yakima. "We weren't aure at all
we were going the right way ...we bad to
, act on instinct."
But, "the cloud wu gaining on 111
much faater than we had upected..:
within minutea the delusion (that they
could get away) wu ,battered u the
cloud overtook ua. We could aee a pat.ch
of blue to the eut and I remember
watching in amazement u it diaappeared. We had only gone a couple of
mile, when we were enveloped in the
cloud. We covered our mouth, and DONI
almost immed.iately. The skies were
really diaturbed. Ju.st 10 minute. earlier
rd been 1nlffing the a.Ir, excited by the
idea of a thundenbower. My udtement
and amazement never left but a terrible
dread of the unknown and fear of the
force being demonatrated all around
accompanied me on th41long journey to
aafety in Yakima."
The oppreasive cloud of blaek uh that
covered them wu "almoat a void-we
were in total blackneu.1 lloutroua
lightning with long, long ltreab and
great jagged edges frequently' snapped
all the way acroea the sky." Deafelling
claps of thunder boomed all around
them, Pat said, and fiNballt. molten
rocb, streaked like glowing red-orange
shooting stare with long, fiery ~
toriea over their car and all around

them. "They aeemed so cloee," 1he said, when there were can ahead ltirring up
"I turned and looked back acrou Clear the dust. We were just one car in a long
Lake to where we were camped. I wu caravan of campen trying to make an
1tartled to aee a large fiN near the lite escape from the 20 mile 1tretcb of
of the oeprey n.eat. rm sure the campgrounda. and the campgrounds
were full. It wu enough to make me
campground we were at got burned."
"Mike wanted to ltay clear of the really wonder if I would live through it
lakea in cue large molten rocb were to all"
By midday, Pat'• group reached
superheat them and cause flooding
(Spirit Lake did boil). He also mentioned Naches. It wu "black u midnight. dark
the poaibllity of a pouonout pa cloud and deMrted, no lights anywhere," Pat
coming our way" (a 700°C cloud did roll recalla. "It wu a pec:uliar, almoet eerie
down the west side of the mountain). It sight to pua through an evaeuated ~wn
wu tllen that Pat reallsed the inteue that wu 10 dark in the middle of the
danger she and the otben were in. day." We kept uking, "Where are the
"When I 6nt realized bow dangerous it peopleT' Every once in a while we'd pus
w.. I got to that point of relinquishing by a restaurant and aee people holed up
myaelf to what wu going to happen. I inllde."
Pat's group CODtin\ledto drive toward
remember thinking about dying. I
thought about what it would be like If Yakima. '1'be road between Naches and
we ran off the road, went into the lake, Yaldma wu a divided highway so we
or went off one of the drOIH)ffawe were bad more room to wander left and right.
driving along. Mike urpd ua to pray and Even ao, we ended up half way in the
that I did-to whom rm slot 1\IJ'e, but I ditch once," said Pat. Yaldma wu dark
prayed anyway. Despite all our ideol- with uh when they arrived, but there
ogies. wben it comes right down to it, were lightl. They .topped at the first
we all want to believe that someone ii motel they came to. "The bright red
(vacancy) light sure wu a welcome
ln)ing to look out for ua."
"Then it wu a matter of concentrating light."
on the road and getting out of there."
Pat wu strongly impressed with the
The twenty mile drive U> Yaktma took hoepitallty of the people of Yaldma who
three hours, uJd Pat. "'Jibe drive wu
bad aet up Red Croa ltatioDI and food
treacheroua and fatiguing. We crawled 1tope. "You bear all these storiel about
along u fut u we could in the fog-like how people aren't friendly anymore, but
base of uh. It really took nerve to drive when it comes to a time of criais, that all
in that. We bad no Idea what wu in the cbangea. (The kindneaa) put me at ease;
uh ... but we didn't have too much it made me feel a whole lot better."
trouble breathing."
The ownen of the motel where Pat
While Pat kept a watchful eye on the and aomeof the other mushroom bunt.en
right side of the road, Mike looked out ended up not only gave them a dilcount
on the left. Pat called it "driving on on their room, btat bought and cooked a
faith." "We didn't have radio 80 we bad huge picnic meal of potatoe salad, baked
no Idea what people were beinl adviled beans, cbicked, ham.and coffee for their
to do." They could only occuionally stranded gueata. They even gave them a
catch glimpaea of the center line and jiffy cake mix and aome candles for a
IOOletimes there were car tailligbtl to birthday cake for Mike.
follow. "Aa everytblns diuppeared into
The managen' helpfulneu wu "cergrey-black it wun't bard at all to loee tainly appreciated" said Pat. "I bad all
track of the road completely, espec:iaUy that 1tuff in my hair. I went to borrow

some 1hampoo but the lady said that it
wouldn't work. Her kida uaed Tide
detergent to get it out. She gave me a
cup of the Tide and it all came ouU"
That the eruption of Mount Saint
Helena wu so frightening, 10 my1terious, so unexpected, and that it left her
so vulnerable, 1uta in Pat'• mind. "I
keep thinking back on the complete
surpriae, the magnitude, the extent of
the plume. I didn't have any idea rd be
affected in that way at that range. We
were only a few people affec:tedout of.IO
many more...J think of the oeprey faat,
of the place we were camping. Tfiere
were a lot of wildlife wandering around
in 1hoclt on the mountain; they were
quite bewildered by the whole thing. I
kept thinking about which onea would
aurvive and which wouldn't.. .Jt lightened
up a bit in Yakima to a lighter dark grey
and the birds ltarted singing again u
though it wu dawn."
Monday morning the mUlbroom group
decided to bead aoutb along the
Columbia river and up through Vancouver to Olympia. "It wu IUch a
strange feeling, "commented Pat. "to
come out of that. only 10 miles out of
Yakima, into a colorful world. It wu
such a relief to see green gnu and blue
sky after spending so many boun in the
greyneu. It wu 1tnnge to thinlt that
the place I left wu all uh and grey akya
and an uncertain future."

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19

Ronald Re~gan: the return of the right
By KenSilverstein
didn't become a Republican until 1962,
prospect ci Ronald Reagan
be campaigned for Richard Nixoo in
winninsthe November presidential 1960. In 1964 be worktd for Barry
electioo is becomingmore and more oi a Golchrattr.In 1966 be was ready to run
likelihood as the primary campaign
for public ot1e bimvlf, and cballeng,rd
approldtes its cooclusioo. & Caner's
Pat Brown in the California gubersuppon dwindles, and the independent
natorial race. He woo by a landsli~ and
campaign oi John Andenoo pins
thus bepn a cootrovmial eight year
momentum(which is a cause and e&ct
reign u Governor oi the nation's most
of Carter's demise), Reagan's dectioo is
popubts state.
no looger the impossibility it seemed
Reagan frequently sites bis record as
only a short time •sc>•
Due to this fact, I
Governor when questiooed about bis
would like to review the put record. and
quali6catioos for the presidency. He
present currmt stands, ot the man who
ckio)s to have rd0nned the welfare
may be America's oat PffSl(lent.
systan, cut tua,
and stopped the
Ronald Reapo pduated from Eureka
growth in the state bwauaacy. Tht
Collqe. • small Cluistian ICbool in
facts though. don't back up Reagan's
lllinou, in 1932. After pduatiq
be
contmtioos.
movtd to Davenport. Iowa, where he
On wdfatt ttbm, be claims to have
broadast the pines oi the Cliia&O saffCi$ 2 billion, reduced the rolls by
Cubs. In 1937 a former c:oUeque 400,000 people, and made sure the truly
recommended
a 1CteeO test with Warner
needy Sot increued beodits. Ir is true
Brothers (Reaganbaddcoe a little 1Ctina
• there wett savings, but $40 million is
at Eureka); Reapn followedth.tough and
probably a men .accurate &sureas
WU hiffli Oil at $2()()a ftlS.
re,uds decreased expendirutts. It is also
He subsequently appmml in ~1" true the wafare listsshonmed, although
the decline was primarily due to the
movies, includin& Brother Rat and a
«onomk recovery at the time. The
&by, Bonzogoes to Colie.e,
The Voice
of the Tunle, and Hdlcats ot the Navy. upturn in the business cycle occurred
In King's Row, he payed "Drake
nationwide andas a result, moat states
McHugh, a small town playboy wbme exper~
~ reductionin the number oi
welfare reapeots.
legs wett amputated by • ~
doctoc. Reaganbad to wake up, CUCOYer' In fact, Reagan pushed throuahthe
his mutilated body, and cry "Where's
1a1J1!St
tu
inmue
in Califomia's
bistcry. S.ys Business Week: .. He
the rest oi me?'' That line becamethe
title oi bis 196 ,- autobiostaPby.
IWud olf with •
billion tu bite -,id
Dwin&bis ,an in Hollywood wound up increuina
income tua from
Reqan 's cunmt political c:omenttism
a muimum oi 7" to 11", andsales
began to~.
Up until around 1947
tue from 4 to 6 ams per doUar.He
be considered himldf • New Deal
also
abandoned
opposition
to
Democrat, whenin Hollywood however,
withboldina
oi state income ~and servio, as pmidmt oi the Screm
Durioabis eight years in c&e,
Actor's Guild ("from which positiioo be
CaJibnia•s per capita tu burdenrose
ob9ened Communisttactia 6ntband.•• from $244.64 to $488.19 ... "
ICCOrdiog to William F. BuckJey.s
The &gwes abo contradict
Rea,an's
Natiooal Review) Reagan's cooftf'lioo
claim to having stopped the growth in
began.
state aovemment. Dwinsbis eight:,srs
In 19:54,with movie o&n ~ and far
in ot1e the number ot state employees
between, be accepted an c&- to host
grew by over4~,ooo
people. When be
GeneralElectric's PlayhouseTbeattt, a entered oilice, ooe out oi rvery 120
television an~.
•'Tht deal allo
residents wu on thestate payroll;
when
included speakina
t.oun to GE plants 11 be ldt, the munber badiocaewd to ooe
pat ot the company's employee and out oi t'ffl'J 103 residents.
community•reladoas propm. Ra,m
Dwinahis two tams u 8(>ffl'll0f
began by talkin1 mostly about
Ra,an roosistmdy said that his
Hollywood but the GE 11ndieac:es
nntad
"number one priority" was cuttiq the
to he9J' more and be band bimtelf
cost oi ,owmment. One ot his first acts
developins opinioos oo other sut,;«ts.' '
as r,ovemor was an across the board
(National Review)
spendin&
cut ot 10", a move which
severely damased the sta~•s mental
In the sixties Reapn bepn puttin3 bis
new ideas into practice. Although be
heslth J>f'08fUDS
and ot which be has
~

u

said, ''The best hatchet job they can do
oome is in mentalhealth.••
Reagan WU ur,ed to visit the State
mental health facilities many times; be
refmedon the pmds that be wm 't an
expert. Hia ltaod on this issueprompted
the ioUowma
odwn,
at ooe ot

Ra,m's prascoldetans;
"QUESTION: Governor, JOU say
JOUare aom,
to Loi Alamosto tee the
atmlic plant, becameJOUwant to ,et a

&ntbaod look u • Rqent (oi the
Uniwnity ot Calibnia). Yetyou don't
want to visit, •Y, • state mental
hospital .. beca111eJOUdon't ieel JOU
are qualifiedin that field. What is the
distinctioo;are JOUmore of a tdeori-t?
REAGAN: Well, I think JOU are
tryin& to coq,ue apples and ana,es.
IncidmtaUy,speaaa,ot that, I owe the
Governor ot Pennsy~
.-- cue oi
ana,es ... I haft not been immune to
Jookinaat imdtutiaos ot that kind. I
haft been in a number oi mental
hospitals, not since l',e been Goffl'DCIC.
The thin, that we-are caHaa
with is
factualinbmaioo 00 the part oi dliele
institutioos. . . .. (RM,t,,, nd RM/ii,,

Pat Brown.pqe 83)
~ allo made latte am in
education prosrams. In 1968 Mihm
Schwanz,omaom,
V~ottbt
School Board oi Bducerion, called
Reapo''tbt,r.ustdesuuctiw~
and enemy ct pulltic ednc•don ~ 50
years''. In 1961 alone, Ree,m fttGed a
bill to help tiftedcbilckm of diledvanta,ed families, • biD to ..
the
minimum seJeryottacben to $6000 •
year, and • bill to pnmcte· ~
educ:•doo
to pcMRJ area
cbulkm. He allo ti immed down the
Needy Childrm 's School ~
PtofltllD frun 15 mllliGnto $500,000,
,nemy wnidnathe ..
of the
proa,em. a..., didn't ftlO the biDin
its entirety beceme oi the edftf'le
political reaaioo such a !DCM would

arema

undoubcdy baYecamed.
lDrirnwly tbouah,afterall the blidtet
cuts

and

all

the

talk

•bout

"ecooqcniq"

aa,.n•s
1970-71
bucfaet
oi $6.48 billion.,. tbe .....
in
the state'• bilbxy. CcMriDa
tbe 00lt ot
the bllCieet
led to ldll . bieber
taa.
lraoic:elly,wbBt pemmmt QJltl weft
incrieatliq. pemment letVica ~

beinareduced.

Clearly.Ra,111's record as tpmn«

does not estabmb him as ooe
decades arest bumeoiwiem.

ot the
His

• current stands011 the issues aren't what
you• d call encouraging ei~.
Bri_~Y,
his positions oo the m•JOf' political
questions ot the day are summed up
below:
0./•,i.s,: Reapn says we need to
increue our military apabilities •'so no
nation 011 earth dare raise a hand against
us••. To this end he suppon.s production
ol the B-1 bomber, the MX missile
system, the neutron bomb, and the
Trident submarines. He is opposed to
the SALT ll treaty ("Oetente is naive")
and favors .-complete resurrection of the
CIA. He also wants an inc.ttased U.S.
pmence abroad, with possible new
military bases in Oman, Somalia, and
Pakistan. He would commit U.S. forces
to ddend the Pcnaan Gulf.
Reagan is opposed
to resumptioh of
the draft.
£,urgy: Reapn doeso 't believethe oil
companies are makingexcessive pro6ts.
He is oppqsedto the windfall-pro6ts tax,
and !Pon the ~te
·decontrol of
oil,.gasoline, andna.t~. ~ prices. He
is a firm supportt(.~ nucl,ear~ and
believes we sh0\1ld· ~ .'(iith ~
development ot syn~~Retgan also SUppbctS the development

otsolar energy.
Labor: Union members aren't exactly
natural allies
ot Reagan. He is opposed to
labor law rdonn, wants to revoke the
minimum .,.
to stimulate hiring
(when questioned ·about unemploymfflt

Reagan points to the want ads as proof
that more than enough jobs exist), and
would like to bring the un.i.ons under
anti-truSt laws. He was also opposed to
the Chrysler bailout.
The economy: Reagan's economic
policies are based on a total reliance on
the tree market. The cornerstoneof his
plan to save the economy is a 30% tax
cut tor business over 3 vears; he also
wants to eliminate double tuation of
COf{>Onteprofits and dividend,. R~
favors a balanced budget, by a constitutional amendment if necessary, and
supports a freett in federal spending except for defense. Reaga.r:i~ it is
possible to reducr taxation, mcrease
defensespending, and still blllance the
budget.
Women 's rights: Reaganis opposed
to
the ERA and favors a constitutional
amendment outlawing abortioo, except
when the mother's life is in danger.
Mmority rights:Reagan is against
affirmative action and opposed
to school
busing.
Gay rights: Althou~ he ~ ~
Briggs Amendment m California(this
would have made the practice or advocacy of homosexuality grounm for a
teacher's dismissal). Reagan says he
would have no avowtd homosexual on
the White House staff.
Capital punishment: Reagan is a firm
believer in capital punishment IS a
deterrent to crime. He allowtd the
execution of the last man to die in
California's gas chamber. Reagan
refused to attend the man's clemency
hearing due to a prior comrnittment the academy awards dinner.
Political
"experts"
point
to
America's new conservatism when
asked to explain Reagan's ascendancy.
But this allegedconsavatism is mott
myth than reality. According to In These
Times, a 1976 poll "found that '.57%ot
those who described themselves as
conservatives
thought
the federal
government was spending too little to
improve the nation's health, 46 or
4 7 % ... felt the govemmfflt
was
spen«;ii?g~~ little to solve the probleou of
the abes. -·
•
This year polls found that 80" oi
Americans felt the government should
do more to help the poor and elderly,
7 l o/o(with only ~ o/odi.sagtfflllB}ot the
ixople felt ••the quality of lifr would be
better •if business were mott ac·
countable to the public foe it's
decisions',
and ... 25 o/o of the
American people favor oational.iz.atiooot
the oil companies.''
What then accounts for Reapn's
apparent popularity? There are 3 major
facton benetitting -Reagan in electioo
year '80.

l. Jimmy umr: Carter is so bed
people are ready to vote for Reagan.
2. L,d of II credil>l4
lllu"'4liw: Every
4 years Americans get the chancr to, IS
John Anderson puts it, "throw the
rascals out.'' With the economy in the
shape it's in and American prestige
abroad at a low point, peopleare anxious
for change. And w~
do people tum
for change? In a two patty system the
only realistit choice is the oppositioo, in
this case the Republicanpatty. This
year, bow~er, things ~ be slightly
difterent. With polls showing '.58" ol
registered VotttS unhappy with the
prospect of a Rea~-Caner nee, J~
Anderson just ought pull off an mCffllibleupset and win the election.
3. Swut Ta/j: Reapn is the only
candidate who's telling the .American
peoplewhat they want to bear - that we
don't have to sacri6ce or conserve;
America can still be Number One
economically (and militarily) if we just
stop stranBlinl our economy with
needless ttgulatioo and red tape. All we
need is an infusion ot good old free
ffltttpnse and we'll be 6xtd up in no
time.
•
All the other major andidates are
somewhat more realistic.
Quotations from Owrman Reagan

0,, tlM Sbtlb: "Believe·me, this was•

progressiveregime.••(1980)
o,, #tl&lur •'"1'gy: "I think it's time
those nuclear power demonstrators take
their signs and sc>
home.'' (1980)
0,, 11idto tlM citiu: ''I include in my
prayers ~ day ~ the frderal
government will not bail out New York
City." (19n)
0,, V;.t,wm: "We could pave the
wholecountry and put parking stripes on
it and still be home by Ouistmas .• '

(1968)
0,,
tlM '"""'/Jlo~.a:
"Unemployment insurmce pc'9Yides prepaid
vacatioos b' a. sepnauot our society

whichhas•lt•wayoiWe.''
0,, •• ,,,.

(1966)

s,,,.1notus.
W,.ratiofl

,Am,y'sJoodg;uuw.y to tlM poor:"It's
just too bed we can't have an epidemic oi
botulism." (1974)
o,, cmnp,u tktMflStrators: •'U it takes
a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No
moreappeasement." (1970)
0. tlMgb#Up ~IIJt!,as ;,, tlM 60 's:
•'Thew.ad ae ~ riocs coon«ted
with"civil"~ 'ui 1117way. Thee are
riota'oi die lawbreakersand the mad

dotslf)limt the peqa.''

( 196.7)

O. tJM••fliro,.,,,.,u: "115,000 acres

oi tr-eesin the state partsystem is a lot to
look at. How long can you look?"
(1966)
0,, w./f11,.: •• . . . this cancer eatins at
our vitals." (1967)

10

20

Mobil's Ideol~cal Defense

Oil ads full of bull

By Pam Duaenberry
fixed if the government would almply
"Something to celebrate" is the head- keep ita evil tentacles out of the affaira
line for a Mobil advertilement that ap- of private enterprise. •
One of the ad'1 allegations is that "a
pqred in the April 22 iaue of the
a.tldu
8deace M1lllw and eeveral free market ...foetered the ideal of a
other major newapapera. The ad does limited government where individnal
not promote oil or even direetly defend freedom and opportunity are aceorded
Mobil Corporation or oil companin u a the paramount value." That Mobil would
group. Mobil Uled the 7 by 11-ineh apace make such a statement ii abaurd,
to detend free enterprille and to remind considering the hiltory of bow jbe oil
Amerieana that we indeed have aome- companie1 have reaped their profita. The
thing to celebrate in the excellence of oil corporations could not have made the
killinrsa they have in the put thirty
our economic 111tem.
The appearance of 1uch ideological. u years without the help of their frienda in
oppoeed to commerdal. advertising in government.
The partnership of the oil companiea
reeent yean Wuatratea that corporationa
feel preaaured enough to juatily them- and the U.S. government goes back to
•lvn. Americ:an couumen' • rliinr ab- the turn of the century, but it becomea
moet evident in the yean lhlce wwn.
ftorenee of the profiteering of hap
multinational corporatiom preeipitatea In TIie C..tnl ef OI, John M. Blair
deacribn bow the government baa
thil defenalvenea.
Mobil', ad ii a fine example of helped keep American oil prica above
corporate propaganda Uled for ideologi- world price, by limiting the amount of
cal eelf-defeue. It eeta out to penuade oil that'• produced. The reuoning behind
ita readen that the capitalilt .,.tem ii limiting oil production la that when the
working aeecircUng to lta tndttional supply of oil never exceeda the demand
ldeala of eompetition and penonal for it, pricu will not I.all below their
liberty. Without mentionblg Mobil once, -~t
level Bu\ if an7 exceu oil
the ad 111&vely
lead.areuen to believe appears on the muket, then ,appliers
that Mobil ia indeed one of capttalilm'1 have to compete for cu.atomen, una1ly
great 1aceeea ltoriN and that Mobil through lowering their prieea. Tb111by
adberea to the ruJea of the game u the limiting oil production, the price of it can
ad laya them out.
be kept artificially high.
Rigid control of the amount of oil
"Something to celebrate" ii written
with pedigreed pod humor and a homey that'• produced cannot be done by the oil
lack of COIT9CtIJ'&IDDW',Ita content ii industry iteelf. Al Mobil lnforma III in
the 1tandard pNH:apltalfnn argument: the ad, there are 10,000 producen and
the worldnp of free enterpriee breed 178 refiners in the world. U all theee
Jobeand elevate the comumer to chief companin got together to decide bow
economic cleeiaion-maker. Economic much each of them could aupply, the
growth makea poatble the attainment of colluaion would be too obvious. Besides,
afDuuee for more people. Mobil ana- it ii difficult to Imagine them agreeing
bubed]y calla thil ideal qatem "demc>- on bow to 1pllt up the market. • • • .
cratle capitaliam" and impllea that if it
It ia thus very convenient that the
iln't working perfeetly, then It can be government. wu willing to inatitute an

elaborate mecbanilm for allocating oil
production. The proceu bagina with the
Bureau of Minea, wblcb eatimatea future
oil demand. Then the Intentate Oil and
Gaa Commiufon clictatea to oil-producing
atatea bow mueh they can produce. Each
state baa ita own apney for determining
the amount of oil each company in the
state can produce, and for making
companieaadhere to the llmita.
In the ad, Mobil deac:rfbn the
American economy u "a 1yatem of doing
buaineu-we like to Wu of it u
'demoeratic capftallam'-that waa unnrpueed u a meau of erMting and widely
distributing pocla and health and weutb
and individual opportunity." The~
mental FOCN9 of limWDgoil produedola
baa hardly aecorded the other •hooeend1
of littler pet,oleum produeen ..inclMdul
opportunit.7" in produc:ing for the
American market. In cUNting to the oil
eompanies bow mueh oil they eould
produce, oil and pa pricN were not oaly
kept artUleially hlsb'but alao amaUer
producen wen prnentecl frola eompet.
Ing with the major&. ThJa la hardly a
pod example of democratic tapttaUem,
whlcll b7 cldaWon ii a he marbt
econom7 in wbiebthere••
~
ment or ecrporate intervea
and
where all indiviclualaare aeeGNlle4\equal
.., in ~ fanetioning of the
ty,
both poliUeally and eoon-.k:all1. The
allocaUon .,.iem the IO'f4}J'DIIMD
carried out for big oil la reminlaeent of
atate aoci•Vamnther than democ:ntle
capitallam.
"SomethiDJ to celebrate" ...
OD to
aa7, "Let'• ,tve aome thoupt toda7 to
democraq fteelf-and bow I he market
econom.7 that emhriDN the )d.,
of
libert7 and penoaal c.hoMe.
..pew into
the lar... t and ltron,-t
ecoDOlll1 in
hiltor, ...." It appean that the penonal
choke of anyone •IN certa1nly waa't
honored when the Seven Sisten-MobO,
Exxon. Texaco. 8ocal.Gulf.Ro7al Dutch

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at leaat the aame amount.
Then
came
the
Organisation
of
Shell. and Britilb Petroleum-uptured
One could at leaat hope that the
Petroleum Exporting Countries. Though
the foreign oil market.
exorbitant
profita of the multinational oil
OPEC wu firat formed in 1980, ita claim
In the early 1960'a. the Seven tittien
eorporatiom ii beinl( put to good use.
to
fame
eame
in
lffl
when
it
ralaed
the
cliaeoveredthat moat foreign oil could be
ad says oun ii "a 17atem that baa
produced much more cheaply than price of ita oil almoet fOOper cent, from Mobil'•
made the euatomer the supreme arbiter
$8.01
to
$11.86
a
barrel
Contrary
to
American oil So tbe7 went about
in the marketplace-where the producta
monopolizing that oil IO\ll'Cl9. Tbroush Mobil's contention that economic growth
you prefer can thrive .... " Many Ameriii
pod
for
everyone-a
clever
way
of.
contraetl with oil-ex_portingeountriee
can conaumera would prefer cheap and
•Jing
that
what'•
good
for
Mobil
ii
pod
and with the help of the U.S. State
renewable energy to dependence on oilfor
America-the
Seven
Bilten
uaed
Department, the Seven Slaten effectlv•
yet we are not even given the
OPEC'•
price
riNI
to
further
their
own
ly kept other oil compeniM from
opportunity to 1how that preference.
interesta.
Fint,
they
hid
an
inereUe
in
eatabliahing foreign aoureea.And aince
A look at Mobil'• inveatment record
their
tarpt
profit
percentagea
behind
the price of oil in the U.S. wu
shows it ii not invnting much of ita
OPEC',
inereaan.
Euon
led
the
way
by
maintained at a level above world
profit• in further oil exploration or
ita i.rpt percentap from 12 to
market pricea, the Seven Slaten made raiainc
alternative energy reeearcb. In 1975,
even birger profita by eelVng foreign oil 14 - 18 per cent. The 11.atenfollowed auit when exploration b7 the major oil
1bortly
afterward.
in America.
Moat people believe the oil companiea corporatiom wu up an avenge of 19.1
BJ the mld-UNiO'a,the ~Seven Slaten merely
puNd on OPEC'1 priee inereues per cent, Mobil'• wu down 17 per cent.
were importing 10 much fcnip ~ that
when
the
price of paoline 1bot up in Inatead, Mobil baa inveated billlona in
exc:euee we.re appearing OD the market
1174.
But
had
they done 10, their per- "diversification:" it baa bought Montgomand oil prieea in the U.S. showed lipa of
ceatap
of
profita
would have remained ery Ward and controling interest in,
1lipplnc. Then the major oil eorpantione
in the Jut few
the
aame.
Enon'•
tarpt profit level l;ontainer Co~tion
did a very clever thing. The)' joined with
years.
averapd
12.8
per
cent
from
1988
to
other domestic produeen in eomplainlq
Mobil's "Something to celebrate" ad ii
that cheap foreign oil wae weekeaing 1972. In 117'9 Enon'• return wu 21.8 aupr coating for the realltln -,f big oil'•
per
cent.
That
aame
,-r,
the
lix
corpc>prieea in the U.S.◄ffD thoup the7 ..,.
bad behavior. The fact that the oil
the ones importing it. The government, ratiolll f« whom llpree were available corporatlom and the federal government
bed
tarpt
PJOftta
of
16.9
per
cent.
Their
responsive orpn that it ii. pat a
conspired (legally) to cbarp American
mandatory import quota OD foreign oil actual profita averaged 19 per cent.
conaumen $6 billlon a year more for fuel
The
NeODd
way
the
Seven
Silten
that limited importa to 12 per cent of
hardly 1upporta Mobil'• contention that
uaed
OPEC'•
price
riNI
waa
to
move
the
total U.S. comumptioD. The quota
democrat.lecapitaliam reaulta "in a better
loeul
of
protlt-maldng
away
from
proworked with the prodDctioDcontrola to
1tandard of living for every American."
limit the amount of oil npplied to duction toward refinlDg and marketinr
Stealing $28 from every peraon in
by
raking
prices
at
thoee
ataps.
The
comumen-and once apin prieea were
America every year for over a dec:ede
maintained at hlgb levels. Thu the reuon it had been primarily in produc- certain17 helped the oil companlel pt
tion
wae
that
production
bad
the
moat
Seven Si.aten were able to bu7 cheap
rich, but it didn't do much for you or me.
foreign oil, import it to the U.S., and tax exemptiom. But with the oU-produe- Mobil may have aomethin1 to cei.
lng
countriea
mak,ing
noiaea
about
ttJlit here at inflated pricee.
Ita profita increued 106 per cent
Between the import quota and the nationalllation and with the oil CGl'_POI'&· brate.
ln the first three month.a of 1980 over
tiona'
preferential
tax
treatment
being
domestle production limit.. economiat
condemned in Con....-. the oil com- the aame period Jut year. But that ii
M. A. Adelman eetimatea, American
different from uying_ the majority
comumen paid an extra $6 billion a yw.r panies realised tbeir reliance OD the quite
of
Americana
have aometbing to cei.
crude
oil
produetion
mp
for.
making
for oil producta dwiq the late 19&0aand
brate. Why 1hould we tout a 1yatem
'808. Mobil'• ad aaya. "Let'1 tout a molt of tbeir profita wu no longer safe.
The relati.omblp beiween OPEC and that retponda more readily to the need.a
1y1tem of economic co,mpetition that haa
the multinational oll eorporationl i1 of big oil. and. big buaineu in pneral.
,purred 10,000 different firma to eiplon
1ympathetic, not adverul'J, aa Mobil and tli,an to the need.a of . conaumen? We
for and prod~ petroleum. 178 dilf.,..t
nothing to celebrate.
companie1to refine it and more tball 700 her ai.aten wouldhave III believe. Both have
Sources:
John M. Blair, TIie Cemnl ,I.
OPEC
and
the
oil
companies
benefit
b7
to produce coal" Bad tboN thouuncl1 of
OI. (London: Pantheon Boob, 1978.);
produeera and doum of refinen actually blgber prices. When OPEC railee ita Blllineaa Week; Buaineu and Society
been competing with the majors. that $6 pricel, eaeh oil-exporting COUDU'Jmakes Review: Cbriatlan Science Monitor; The
more mone7. It Jivea the oil companies a
billlon a year exceu coet' to couumen
convenient exC\199to raile. ita price9 by Nation, Wall Street Journal.
could have been eliminated.

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One of the best mindsof hisgeneration

Allen Ginsberg,

granddaddy

Stafford's poetry is
simple and powerful

of beat

By Neill Knmer

to involve the reader in· it, in all its imln the early fifties,• new poetry bepn perfections and impurities, rather than
to-develop.The old structures could not offering him a (supposedly) pe~
and
coot.eodwith what Robert Duncan terms perfect work for contemplation
"·.. • multipbasic modem man IS ~ judgement, and evaluation."
'
~inintoi:story~.culture
for the first
This i.s not to say that tradition i.s
And al~gh
obsolete. To quote Jerome Rothenberg,
traditionalists like . James Dickey editor of. T,chtucins of the SaereJ,
denounced the ~81D8 Sty~ ~ '·~
• 'When we understand tradition IS ID
death ~ all authenac opres.,1011 m this active fotce we are able to make puine
~tlon'
': ,by 1964 Dickey himselfbad • use ot the' discoveries ot archaelogists,
.. discovered. the open-formed poem IS linguists, anthropologists, historians, and
• poem which would have none of the translaten ...The spread ot information
~tness
of.~t of.those poems we call about the past and the culturall remote
works of.art but would have the capacity has made the present gen,eratiOO:in Gary

Of course, one penoo can never take
the credit for such • dramatic chao,e in
cultutt. At the time, such fi&uttS
as Jack
Kerouac, W-tlliam Burroups,
Neal
Caudy and Gary Snyder were equally
responsible b whatWU then calledthe

''Sen Frandlco Rea,;""""',' ' « the
..'BeatGeneration.
••
But the di&rence between Ginsberg
end the other poets of.the en bu been bis
~ in politics!-ie.dina
the early
Flower POftl' muches in Berkeley
(196'), ettendins
the Fust HWDID ~
in Sen Frencisa> (1967), tesdfyiq at the
U.S.Senett heariqt b the lepJiurioo of.
psycbtdtlic:s, beina tearpaed
while
chant.in, AUM at the Lincloo Park
Yippe tiie-Ftsdval at the Oiicqo 1968
DemocraticConfflltion. end just recently
nmposin, • Plutooian Ode and gettin,
errescedtwb •i the Rocky Flats Colorado
Nuclear Facility.
His travels durinathe fifties incluckd
Mexico end Taogiers. mercbent marine
,ea trips to Africa end the Atctic, andhalf
• yearin
Bolivia.aoc1Peru. Durin,
meseJm"S be aperimmted with the
poetic ~ of. psycbedelicdrup and
deYdoped an acquaintaoce with Dr.
Tunothy Leary which lastedwell into the.
sixties.
In 1962 be took up residenc:ein India,
visited Viet Nam, Jepen, Cuba, Russia,
Poland, and, attended• 1961 May 0.y
mebfatian in Czecbosloyuia IS Kin, d
May (Kral Maja)es),honoredby 100,000
Pra,ue citir.ens. In 1973 Gimber3 bepo
NW:bin, poetics at Naropa Institute.
where be has remained • faculty member
of. the Jatk Kerouac School of. Disem·
bodiedPoetics.
Besides ••Howl'', Allen Ginsbet1 has
writtm twelve other books of.poetry, 10
boob " prole, produced ' record albums
(mdudin, William Blake's Sovs of
lfltlOCltlU),
and bas been included in
numerous anthalogles, magazines, and
peoplesmouths.

Snyder's words, 'the first human beings
in bi.story to have all of. man's culture
available to our study' and to be 'free
enough of. the weight ot traditional
cultures to seek out a larger identity.' • •
And so, as the networks of.lmowJed8e
began to spread across the globe and into
the past It the same time, lansuaBt itself
had to change accordinslY. In 19~6, in a
cak in ~ Franruco call "Six Gallery",
Allen Gimberg read the poem ••Howl''
and, according to Ebbert Faus, editor of.
ToWIJ1'd.sII N,w Amuictl,s Antics,
"virtually
launched
the
Beat
movement.''
Howl
f SIIW th. but miltds of my g1tl4r11ti(),s
tkstroyuJ by mad,uss staroi,sg hysurictlJ

awe.

"4/ud
draggi,,g th.mseJws through th. ,ugro
struts aJ daw,, Joo•mg Jo, a,sa"K'Y fix,
""g!lhu.tud hipsu,s buniillg /or t!H
ll#Ci.#1 huv,,,Jy CO#,u&tU># to the sl4rry
dy,,4mo ;,, the machi,u,y of ,right,
who ~veny a#d "1Uers a#d hollow-eyed
1111dhigh sat "P smo•i"K ;,, the s"p.,1111t,,,,,aJ
darbus
of cold-W<1ur flats

/k>lll;,,i
across the tops of ciJ~s cor,templlltingjazz
who hiaredtheir braim to H,av,r, uruk,
the EJ. arid SIIW MohammMiat1 ang,ls
s"1gg,n,sg or, UNme11t roofs illumi"4Ud,
who JJtl.Sw/ throuzh universil~ with
rtuJid1'1
cool eyes haJJuci"41itlgArk4'6SIIS
111111 Bla.. -light tragedy tlfnDng th.
scho'4rs of W<lr,
who were up.lkd from t!H aud.m»s for
crruy 11,ulpublishing obscen, O<kso,s t!H

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By Neill Kramer
The intention of thil article ia to giYetboee of you who have not read the worb
of William Stafford, thia year'• rnduatlon apeaker, an unclemandin1 of tile
individual, bi.a pbiloeophy, and the nature of Ilia poetic esperienee. To quote
Stephen Stepanehn, author of Aamvn ......, S.. 116
"He ia • poet of Emtentlal lonelineu and Western ,pace. Be 1N1U to write
out of an autobiograplucal impulae, a need to deKribe and widemancl Ilia penonal
experience of the IDOWltaina and fcinsta of tile Far Weet .. . The teduliquela not
daaling-there are no verbal ftrewotb-but Stafford cleeeril,ee tile objeda of Im,
world carefully and eudlf: be bu the power to aee, the patience to wait for Ilia
fMicbta, and the ability to eonatruet atrong atrueturM of IOllDdand mNinin1."

P....tlnaet.ra
A 1torm that needed a mountain
met it where we were:
we woke up in a gale
that w11 reuoning 1riChour tent.
and all the penuaded 1now
.treated along, gueuin1 the ground.
We turned from that curtain. down.
But 101Detimewe will turn
•
back to the curtain and go
by plan through an unplanned atonn,
d.iMppearinginto the cold,
meanings in aeareh of a world.

from Traffllnc ....

die Dan. 1982

In tbia poem Stafford ii approximating bi.a life to • atonn. Lop la blowin1 at
hil tent (the foundation of bis habita), but even logic ia ~ !ta own iDt.n•
tiona. He turna away, hoping to once again return (aeekin1 tbe Truth tbroqla a
rational proceu), but realize• the infinite randomneu of Ufe,and the impoeafllilitJ
of true knowledge.
The taak of writing ia a diffieult and unpreclJetableart form, and for thia reuon.
unfair to analyze. >J Tbomaa Mann aaid in hil boM.A ..._
If lly LIie (lteO):
"The truth ia that every piece of work ii a rulisation, fragmentary but complete
in itlelf, of our individuality: and thia ltiAd of reaUution la the aole and palllful
way we have of gettin1 the partieular experience-no wonder, then, that tile
proeeu ia atlended by 1urprues."
And II William Stafford eloquently 1UIDIDAriset,
"Let one by one tbinp come alive like flab
and awtm away iDtotheir "-tun wavea."
The efficiency in wbldl Staffotd UNI wCll'dato pt Ilia point acroe1 la perlaape
the one gift that aeparatea him diatinetly from other poeta. >J • lon1-term rNi♦
dent of the Northwett. the influence of wOclernea. leuona learned far from ~
.areapparent in hil •tf~.

0-.W.
The leut little IOUnd aeta the coyotel ~alklng.
walking thtt ed,e of our comfortable earth.
We look inward. but all of them
are lootingtoward 11111 they walk the eart".
We need to let animals100Nin our hOUMe.
the wolf to ncape with a pan in bia t.eth.
and atreama of animua toward tile hOC'boa
radng with aometlimg ailent in each mouth.

For all we have taken iDto our tNplng
and poliabedwith OW' bancbbelonp to a truth
greater than ours, in the animat.' keepin1.
Coyote, are circUnc around our truth.
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localMtmdans

Caught

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ID

the new wave undertow

By )oteph Clements
The outlook foe Olympia musici•os
h~
to en~ the world ol all-night
recordin&
sewoos ■od world tours is
hrc:m,in, all the more bleak. The music
industry today, some ol them say, is
caught in the midlt ol turmoil due to
f■llins record sales ■od the growing
oumber d indrpendent labels producing
and seDio, New Wave rock.
''What this meam, '' acconlio& to Bob
Wtlsoo,selkaugbt Olympia suitarist.''is
that the style ol playing that I've
~ OVtt the years is worthlessto
me now. In other wonk, the type ol mmic
I enjoy plaJins and that I've pr■cticed to is
no lon,er in demand. The demo record
Clfflp•oia brought di,co Ibis and DOW
this New Wave crap. Mearun, l either
chanfemy IUJU>3
style to punk rock oc I
wait until the industry 6eelsthey'd like to
risk it oo me.''
What the record industry talent scouts
used to look for were sm,er-sooprlters.
These were people who wrote their own
m■taial and could produce themselves in
the studios.c...rgonethat Bob fills quite
easily•But when dixo came aloq, the
musac was usually 16-bar formula
repetitioo, the bend usually ~ ol
studiornaisiciam and it was the en,inett,
rather than the perbmer, who became
the star.
~ is what an,,en many local
musaaans who have ,own up in tbe 60's
and 70's, when~ were
the main in8uence on their styles.
"Now that they'tt a dying breed,"
says Brian Swindler,Olympia violinist,
• 'we tmd to din, cuh:ishlyto the bands
that we idolized.Bends like Kansas,
where
Robby Scenhardt plays violin. We'll

probably keep plafin3 their albums and studin sessioos.
jamming to their soap loo&
after they 'tt
Bill A~,
another Olympia ,uitlrist,
gone. We 8rf!Wup with their records OD has been wtth or tried to form several
our turntables ■od as such.we identify di&reot bends in the put four years,
with the instruments the individuals play. without much successuntil recmtly. He
And when new bends come along, SUtt
has med the four-tnck studio in the
some or most of us will list.ento ■od like 1.abrarybuildi'\t at Bver,reen OD various
them, but they can never really ttplace ocasiooa, with ■s,ista,n from Brian
those we srew
up with.''
Swindler and Jdf w■de, a percussionist, in
ID efbt to compile I demotape.
r------------Bill had this to spy: "Bands1tt I frap
thiJ\t.The cbernistty has to be n,bt and
you must all pull totetbet'
for the same
10;11
or it woo 't wort. As b makins
it, at
this point, you either need coaneaioos or
your own studio equipment. Neither of

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Olympia,etc. b ya.rs now. They must
have OVtt SI0,000 in equipment alone.
And yet they've DeWf' been in the studio,
even thouab
they have more than enoush
smoothmatfflalfee ID album.
The cost is
just too hiab,. '
The cost is

This is -apemive, since it may take
anywhere from three weeks to two
month, to art 811 album. Then I master
di9c must be cut end suted, mother dixs
presaed from the mascer,and albums
The ttlSOO foe this •bancb,ment of presaed from the mothers, •t the rate rl
~ten
by the industry is the l,~
aood
per mother. Not to
recent .influx and public accepcmce of
mentiOO CURtU!S, md 8-tnck tapes.
~ew Wave bends. These bands ttquitt
The COltS att stagerina. That's why
little IS far as productioo .cmts 1tt cmlocal 0tusid1nt IDd bandswant c:oouw::ts
cemed, and upoo album
bqin to
oo labels. FaiJioathat, some Jean
show pdt almost immediatrly.This is
tecbniqua md try to ,et ICICaS
due to less complicated musicalmatfflll (a reccxdina
to studiosat Ever,reen.
Without
heavy resursence ol ~0's-60's rock'n'roU
Ever,reen. they say, they'd neverhave•
influences) and sbocur, less mmpliated
chance It actual studio time.

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ardent auauJt reformer. Reading out of
context. thOH of narrow morals might
label it pol'llographic. yet the unabuhed
By Lon Price
sexuality in the book become. integral to
undentanding its inhabitants and their
Myitie, Thunday in Fall. Georgia. On frutrationa. If you are a man, at all
Sunday morning the Annual Rattlenake
conditioned by thoee pervuive roles of
Roundup will be,m. A Feut el 8-kea
•cceptah!e male behavior, you cannot
encompaues thil weeJteDCI.
help but be touched by this book.
"She felt the lll&ke between her Throughout the book, Crews deall with
6reuta, felt him there, and loved him the need to prove oneself; he does not
there, coiled, the deep tumeeeent held limit thia competitive tension to men.
rigid. ready to strike. She loved the way
The book focuses on Joe Lon, a high
the ID&ke looked aewn onto ber V-neck school gradua~. The novel traces Joe
1Weater, his hard diamondback pattern
Lona atrugle for purpoee •gain.It the
1hining in the 1un. It wu unaeuonably
backdrop of his small southern commun•
hot, almoet 1ixty dep-eea. for early ity. Both tbe dialect and the narratlv41
November in Myatie, Georgia. and sbe voice are laced with regional flair.
.
could smell the light muak of her own
Before graduation, Joe Lon epitomiJed
sweat. She liked the neat, liked the the Boes Rattler, a champion in Football
way it felt, 1Ucltu IOil, in all the joints •~ Love. Now he sells bootleg_whiskey
of her body, her bona, in the firm in his deaf daddy's storefront. Bernice,
1lldlng muaclea, tell.led and locked now, his cheerleader lover, went to· college;
ready to 1pring•to ltrike-when the band her father praeticea medicine.
behind her fiNd up the ldlool song:
Rattler Roundup time, Joe Lon rents
'Fight on Deadly Rattler:t' of Old Mystic the land around his d9uble wide mobile
High'."
home to. campers from oot .of town,
That first par
h fro
Harry Confuted and wlthoU:tgoals, he ~ n6 •
Cren' recent nov:f'<f 976) e:emplifiel • ·future. Prev~y,
~ and aes: •i~
the adroit cratt.manaltip evident through- ~~ compriaed his life. Now, with no
out the book. tlJpgtng could deac:ribe direction,. be feel:- angry and unfulfilled,
the ,tyle Crew, uau to carry the reader trapped: by hit .wife, her Ngglng
smoothly and relentleaal towuda ell· breasts, and their two babies. Confined
mas:. Divided limply 1nt1 two part.I, it by -his stagnated 1pirit, Joe Lon's vital
provides the greatest impact when ~ead phy■ical healtb de~dl
es:ploeive rein one or two ■ittinp. In the vein of a leue. He drinb heavily. Wben Berenice
good adventure novel. it takes -determin- ,comes home for th e Roundup, •he
ation to put it down.
reinforces th e PP between his focused
I 1trongly recommend a Feut ef put and path le11 future.
8MkN. not for the lifeatyle •pou.aed by
"He quit talking becauae he had
its characten, but for ita npreeentation
gradually become aware of a boy about
of a reality you may not have known. or hia own age who had strolled up and wu
one you choee to forget, and doea it well. now standing at Berenice\, ,boulder. The
Some •t Evergreen may be outraged boy leaned forward to look at Joe Lon.
by the book, for the liv• it portn19 are Joe Lon dialiked him immediately,
ravaged by aes:ism. In eontrut, it treata disliked the soft look of hil face, the way
rape with a compuaion and e(fectiveneu
his lower lip seemed to pout, and
w.hidL w®Jd pleue even tbe most dl11ik.cl ,he eyee thM-weul&--IIHe been

beautiful bad they belonpd to a girl
Bot it wun't juat the boy'1 face, or the
slight, slope chested way he 1tood. Joe
Lon could have 1pat on him for the way
he dreued. He'd aeen guy, dreued like
that before and he had never liked one
of them: double knit tangerine trouen,
fuzzy bright-yellow 1Weater, white shoea,
and a goddamn matching white belt. Bil
hair wu neatly cut and looked u though
he bad slept with his head in a can of
Crisco.
"Berenice saw him watching the boy
and introduced them.
'Joe I,.on Mackey, thil ia Shep Martin,
from.the University of Georgia.'
• 'ShepT Aid Joe Lon. Shep wu a
fucking doga name wun't it?
'Actually, its Shepard,' Aid the boy, in
a voice that 10unded like a radio
announcer. 'Many men in my family are
named Shepard, my father, an unde, my
grandfather, like that'
'No kidding?' said Joe Lon.
'SJiep ia on the debating team up at
Georgia,' said Berenice Sweet.
'Oh,' llid Joe Lon.
He had never been Introduced to
aD7o~e on a debating team before and he
wun,t sure what to NY beeauae he
wun t real •~ what i1 wu. °J>r-."':-11bly
some fag foreign game like aoeeer.
Anybody that'd play ■oceer would 1uclt a
dick. that's what Joe Lon thought."
Beyond its excellent entertainment
value, there es:ilts profound lipificance
in Crews' portrayal of fuij)ity and
pointleasneas. All around. people are
reacting to theae 1ymptoma, many by
looking to the put. Some example. of
acc,ptabl-, put goo include: ltamping
o- communi.■ts, a wife and k.ida,a new
car and war. A F..ef 8-IEM
dQeUmentsJoe Lona reapome to aimleu•
nesa. Though Crews provides no answera, we would do well to look at tlie
picture Crews paints: searching eloaely
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Review of Evergreen film audiences
One ci the hardest tbinasis
• to
satisfy the majority of the .&lm:'My
haviq studied61m., and diffl:tcn fot OYa'
a do1.enyears.3ftin, a 6ewtho.isand 61m.,.
and all that doesn't meana lick of shit if I
don't try to pa,e the a~
too. Some
peoplejust want "entatainmeot" while
others just want an. ''Bntfflainmmt"
o&m mean., baviq films that may be
,_, .. ;tt •. '•1
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no matter bow meaninglen and
Dar Mom,
poorly aafted they are. ••Art'' oltm
Sorrythat I baYm't writtm to you in so means an~
in a ioreip languaae
with
Ion,. You'll be surpri,ed tobmr-tbat I've subtitles and hu some "mNrring" no
been ,cina to coDe,efor the last tJne mattu bow pretentious it is. I ieel tbat
,_.. It a paain Wabingtoo state called directorslie HowardHawb, Alfred
The Ete1jita1 StateCollNP.
f-liu:bcock,and Billy W-dder
baff made.
I ,ot a aoodwork-studyjob, at the ''entatainina'' 6lms thatare everybit as
bfainnin, ol Fall Quarter in '78, u the mearringf111andartistica tholeby Jn,mar
''coardinatm'' ci dus film series called Bergman.Mu Opbuls,and Carl Breyer.
the "Friday Nite Ywm." I have to give If a film is pod, it's obviously enup the job this comina
fall'cameit's time tataiDina
and wakmde, ffl!ll it it's
b .tc•O&Ge meto have crack1t it. dealingwith plttucp-"c:111
themes imtad
(A::,:
I don't knowwho.) I aet to ci actionandsuspeme Yet some people
pick
arderthe moviesforewry week willcane to a tilm like RomanPollqski's
andleeiDa
all tholehundred, ol hundreds Th T,-, apec:aq
to aee a realP'/
ol moYiesbeforeI came here (a, ftll u andescitinchorrormoriemd walkout in
bavin&
rad all mat Andrew Sarris and boredomduringthe 1nt halfbout became
Pauline ICael)sure camein bandy. But, Polanskii, stiD~ up bi.1themesand
the audiences sometimesaresure ward, -cbanctair.atiam-(1ritbout which the
tJiouab.
borror in the &Im's leCmdhalf would
/u you 1cnow,
as fart.ck a when I wu have no elect oc mearri"&).
If they stayed
6flem
I
med
to
bitcblrike
iothe
the
moYie.
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up
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Umw,
~ Maine to atuc. m,-1 an
ft ,ot whatthey~
for.
you justcamewou,ti.,'
all tbme Fellini, Ber,nrm. and Godard
But then there'sthole who aqe to the
"I lcnow,but what's the &Im?"
(and such) movies they'd be sbowiaa
aD film for ''imeDectual'' oc ''anistic''
And I'll
say somethin1
like,
the time. Only mm,.... antbme frat reaom, but lmff·wbm tbe action 0ll the
··~,,
rats in the auclencewho ftft campeb:ly ICfteD • beco•ues too inteme. How is
• 'What's it about?''
immature and obnoxious. ute. I Polanski(or any othet'filmauabr) ,oing to
"Look, I'm busy fi&btnot1. Here, read
nmember cmemovie.caDedTl# D,,,,,,.d ,et their point ac:raasif people arm't the poster. -Tells,. aDaboutit.'.
(clla'led bJ litdrino Vilcounti and willina
to tab twoboun cl' their time to
''But I don't have time to rad polCffl.
starred Dirt Boprde) tblt was nud • understm4« lflPlldate
it? 1 don ·t mow, Can't you tell me?"
"X". ADthe frltties sbond up tbiakiq
Mam, but 1'-.e Deffl' been'able to unYep, that's riaht.Mom. Here I am at
they wre pma w a p,d GftJIDOfie. derstmd why peopleWl1kout ol movies, this colle,eand f &ndout SOME P!OPLE
but imcmd11W a dne-baur "an" ilm nm when they are t.d.
•
CAN~TREADHI
aboutthe rile ol Namm in Germany and
Dwina
cae beautifullyapiring ane
Not anly that, but they dan't listentoo
~ dee.......,. ci the upper-dal. Tbcy ia F.W .. Mumau'a s.,,,;,,.,(the cae
well either. When I ask than not to Fout
bmed.booed, lllu,btd. and threwpopcorn wherethe IDlll wa about to murder bis the side doon when it's still dlJJiabt
baas It the ICfteD cbiaa tbe aood rie CJDtbe boat)dliajerk mthe frcnt row outside {which c:mas the ICftm to
dlllDltit put1 and cldn't wm 1aup Imped up and made a cia,usced ''n11p•'wbite-oot' '). someone willdo it anyway,
duriaatbe funnypans.Thiasort ol thin& berry'' It theICfteD. Thea be bmd me, two minutes biter. Ask than not to briaa
NFPelle.f quite oflBl and it would in- sium, in my Nit, and obn-adomly their dois, and whatdo they do? Bring
furilte me.
•
der•wAded
bis dollart.ck. Alw:rI toldbim their dois, cicoune, aact
Ilk me why clap
'WbenI came to Eftl'llffllt J tbo.i,ht tblt I bid a1fflldyt11imtbf cubbax t.ck atm't aDawed
inside.I tld1themabouttbe
that tbe audifflla Nemed • 1ot men to Security (that'• •what they can.the
~ q hid dian1a QD
~ just
IOf'NsticMed .ind mature. Effll tbouabcampus a.,. here) be made w
rude time
bebe the filmbe,- andeva:,bodyhid
they-to lib bei,n h llkft. lOme «liPMffltand ,t.Wlpd out the door.
to leave(.painc) until if ... delaed up.
ol ~ peopewould be better'off 1t the
I tell ya Mom, someol tbe9e people Dop abo do tbina, lib ....
in frcnt
UDMnity ol Maine in a &It. The 111111tlive in a q. AflB' puum,up a of the ,crem, vilc:ioully ''pad'' the
•JClimcet here mDy are (ior tbe mast hundred poaten all over campus each &cm~ from the outside (makingit
pat) a lot amaner, buuf1er bmaacbc:ma week for the upcomi? 61m, I still ,et
extremelydif6cuJtto ,et put than). and
abouta buadred &lms b 'em and wat- peopleeach weekwho' cometo the door get lastin the lecturehall. One m,bt. I
cbiaa 'em (the audienca) each week, I a the &Im is aboutto start and ask me bun my,df by trippiq over a lastpqppy
still haft a hard time ~ to &pre out "What's the &Imthis week?"
in tbe dut aad~
l pic:bd it up it
tr&re t&y'rec:omm, . .
"ThM's postm & at id'ova the door pissed CJYa' ffle.
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'They can be as narrow-minded and as
stupid as the University of Maine
audiences when they're watching an old
movie. Socialmotts and conditions have
cban,ed a lot in the past ~O years, and I
think most peopleare aware of that. But
eva-ytimc a character in a 30s or 40s
movie makes a statement that sounma
little sexist (even if it isn't), • sw,i6oiot
number of averaged brats have to hiss
their beam olf, oltm drownin1 out the
'dialoguefor the next minute. It's IS if we
always have to be made ''aware"~ ol
sexism (or any other kind of oppression)
even though most of us are aware that
we're watching an old film that may oot
be 100% politicallycorrect but does have
other values.
There's also a tendency to laugh and
hiss at such "hilarious" and "c:&uive"
subjects IS love and ~ge.
I remember
during ~/
&4,e (you know, the one
with J..-s Dean), there wa., a ~
whereJulieHarris asked Dean'sbrother,
••Am:1, when are we 8()ing to get
matried?" and half the audience either
laughed '"hnterlally or hissed. The fact
that the someWIS sina!tt and took place
in 1917 made DO difiereoceto them.
Everydme the word ''love'' ...-4
in .
t"'l'l"-"up
the film someone bad to laugh. It seems
they're too immature to aclmowliedae
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W, /Ofllld IIH foJJo&lli#g'41m
wbi/4 rifli,,g llm>,-gbS.,,pso,, 's 'ofdgoit,g' "'4il box. W, fo""d ii piu ;,,.
l#UUllg ad lbo"tbt it sbo"1dIM~
u a miel.. Plus, j>ri,,l it ;,, II# tuJd
issw "' ,Jul - TIH Commitua lo
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emotions or put them in the riR)ltcuutrxt.
Kinda like when I was a kid and I'd be
watching a TV show with you and Dad
and turned my head in embarassment
everytime a couple oo the screen would
ltw. I know that a lot cl these peopleare·
still basically kim, but hell. I never
laughed at such things even when I was
16. Somepeople at that show whoiiud
the film, had to leave because the audience
was being so childish.
The people that come to the films
regularly are usually quitr percq,cive.
considerate,and appreciative. It's the ones
who don't come that oltm that can be a
pain in the ass. (There's a lot cl people
each week that doo't come vrry often.)
When you show really popular stuff is
when you get all sorts coming out cl the
woodwork,the sorts that only see ooe oc
two filmsa year.
Well, I'm running out cl time. Maybe
next time I writr, I might trll ya about
some ol the other tbinp that have
happened to me in the last ~ years like me getting married, losing my leg in
the accident, and about this volcano ~t
might wipe out the town where I m
~So, say "hi" to Did and lhe
family.My health is comparativelyfine.
All for now.
Love,your soo,

-T.J.

"My Brilliant Career" has spunk
By Betsy Winter
Oraon Welles reputedl1 like• to tell
that be turned down Harvard after being
accepted to eehool there. Who hun't
been counaelled to setUe for something
unacceptable because "you'll never be
able to do better?" Even if ,the book is
never published. the great discovery
never made. perhaps the risk and hard
work are their own reward. Integrity
can't be 1ettled for.
My Brilllaat Caner, DOW playing at
the Lacey Cinema, addresses that
amongst other iasues. Set in Victorian
Australia, it's 'about a young woman
forced to choose between family and
career. (Why ia that choice such a
dilemma for women and rarely even a
queation for men?) Sybylla Melvyn,
played gloriously by Judy Davi.I, bu a
whole network of women giving her
advice-which Is unanimous that she
should give up her ridiculous notions
about a career and marry in.stead.
One suitor is such a nerd, he's
laughable. But another, Harry Beecham
(Sam Neill), Is a bright, wealthy,
debonair young man, and not so easy to
dismiss. Neiff111 pe1 fut mauee hr remini·
scent of Jack Nicholson's better work.

He's captivated by Sybylla'a apirit and identified reaouy with moet of the film.
independance. After one genteel dinner
The ending is happy, though decidedly
party, she surprises everyone by singing not fairy tale happy. Few of ua will ever
a bawdy air she learned "at the pub, of find such an ideal romance, or have our •
course." In the end, ahe opta for a first manuscript published. Still, Sybylla
career. She tell& Harry, "I want to be a Melvyn's apunk la eneouraging.
writer, or at leut I want to try. But I
Director Gill Anmtrong makes excelmust do it now, and I have to do it lent use of her perfonnen' charaeteriualone."
. "<t ,,tlons. s'"' bu a flair for the quick
A running, laughing, guping pillow- aidelon1 glance, the aupreaeed laugh, the
fight highlights their courtahip. It provee mt.ant . of.,.~_ye contact. and all the
you don't need to be explicit to be erotic. 0..~g moine13tsof nw emotion before
That scene alone la worth the $8.50 pl'Qpel' behavior takea over. She is
admisalop price.
effective In giving the formal Vlctoria.n
The aupportlni cut la good. Harry's behavior/settings a contemporary feelAunt Augusta (Patricia Kennedy) who Ing. Nicholas Beauman's editing breathea
bu never married, tella Syb:,~ "Do aparkle into the IICl'ipt'1humor.
you think you're the fint female ever to
Eleanor Wlteombe wrote the eereenentertain auch notions? Lonell.nea la a play for IIJ 8rlllut CuNr, adapteel
terrible price to pay for independence." from a novel by Milea Franklin. In It,
The formidable Victorian matron bu Sybylla bu contact with many cluaea
depth,___
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and atrata of 1890'• Australia, enough to
Victorian timea aeem alien to today'• •1 baikla NDM of the country u a whole.
social mores, but there's m<'ft in • ' •M; W,.-l ~ won ab Auatrallan
common than we'd care to admit. The ~~ ~ indudlng Beat Picture
1houlda and ahouldn'tl direeted at ae4qReti! •,
A H-yea.r-old friend,
Sybylla atill hover near the surface who w
be a wife and mother
today. Women who upire to non- when he grows up, rated It a "10".
traditional rules are ltllhcoffed ■t. The Films of aueh «1uali'1~
~-Oqmpia.
doubtl Sybylla felt are rampant. I all too rarely. Don't miss it.

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OTE~---AMERICAN CIVIL

LIBERTIES
UNION,n
The newly formed Olympia chapter
of the American Civil Liberties Union
of Washington will be holding ita
initial meeting on June 2, UNM>,at
7:80 p.m. at the Timberland Regional
Library in Olympia at E. 8th & S.
Franklin. The public ia invited to
attend.

The featured 1peaker will be
Kathleen Taylor, the new Executive
Director of the Washington State
branch of the A.C.L.U. The meeting
will aleo feature a panel of local
speaken diacuNing civil liberty ialuea
pertinent to the Olympia community,
including the ERA, the draft, and
abortion.

TAI Oil SOIOOL
FORMING
Tai Chi ia a wholiltic approach to
health. emphuising the relaution of
the mind and body and the focusing of
one'■ energy into the center-the chi
Perhapeyou have 1eenthe clua here
at Evergreen practwng above the
main . lobby of the library. Theae
tMebinp are brought directly from
China by Muter Huang Wen-Chih,
who atudied in China.
lf you would like to learn nion
about tai chi or the other forms that
would be taught, contact Harold at
867-9281.

WOMFNARTISTS
The Thurston County Chapter of
the National Organization for Women
invite■ the public to a apeeial monthly
program, a alide-tape ■how titled
"Women Artist■ from the 10th to the
17th Century, A Social W..,."
Tbe
program will be ahown on May 29th,
7:80 p.m. at Friendahip Hall. YWCA
220 E. Union Ave. Olpnpia, b7 Teuy
Ryken a long time women'• righta
activiat. and NOW member.

ZINC NlITRITION
PROJECT
"ZINC NUTRITION: DIETARY INTAKE AND UTILIZATION, a put
funded by the NatioDal Sdenee
Foundation Student Origina&edStudies division to be conclueted at the
Evergreen State Collep, ia requeating Olympia community memben to
volWlteer u aubjeeta for the atlldy
this aummer. Zlne hu been found to
be one of the maay trace elementa
required for the malnteunce of
health in hunwaa. Tbe foUowing
individual■ can not partieipate: illdividuala under 18 yeua old, women
who are prepant, and iDdlwtuala
who are conaldered handicapped.
VolWlteering u a ,ubjeet for the
zinc project ia an excellent opporillllity to learn about, your dietary line
intake and your diet in pneraL The
atudy will-'begin on Jaly T, 1980.
Applkationa are available out.aide of
room 2058 in Lab Phue I or through
Deed MeCollu.nat Bealtll 8ervicN.

ORIENTATION
Pl.ANNING
All intereated atudenta are eordlallJ
invited to an open meeting to plu
next fall'• orientation calendar on
Monday, June 2nd from 2-4 p.m. in
Library 2206.

GRADUATION
1'he 1980Graduation C-.mony will
be held on Sunday, June & on Red
Square. It will be held in the CAB (If
it nine). Cheek-in for ,raduatee ■tart■
at noon. BriDg food for the Giant
Potluck. whleh at.art■ at 1:00. The
ceremony bepna at 2:00 and lute
about two hours. Everyone la weJeome. Gnduatee ahoold reeeive a
letter explainias the de&aila eul,
next week. lf you eu,
fellow
graduate, p~
come to the relleanal Wedneeday, Jwie ,. at 9:00 Lm.
■harp at the bue of the doek tower.
Queitiobit Coiitltt t:111Rqfittit'i
Offiee ~180.

PROP SHOP
Don't throw that luy ausy away,
nor that toy, umbrella or lampehade.
Give them to TESC Theater prop
ahop. Gin them a call at 886«)75 for
mere details.

C111ZEN'S
pAR1Y
MEETING
On Thunda:,, May 29 there will be
aew O\:,mpiaclaapter
ol the CW.n'a Party. Two members
of the Seattle ellapt..., who atteaded
the foanctin1..-vention. in Cleveland.
will talk about what they're dom, in
Seattle od what we can do in
oi,m,. to pt a chapter P-111hen.
The meeting will be at 1521 Bowman
Street (1 block up from the Co-op)
and will ■tart at 7:80 p.m.
a meedq ol the

ORGANIC FARM

POSITIONS
Two paid po.ttlona are available at
the Orpmc Farm. A caretaker job,
poaibly a live-in la available begin•
Ing June 10th. Contact the Offlee of
Fadlltles or the current caretaker■ if
intereatecl. AJao luring for the new
Farm Coordinator poaitlon will take
place in late Ju.ne. Thil job bep
July tat. For a job cleecrlption and
more information contact the preeent
earetalten at d181 or the Coop- Eel
Office. Women and minoritiee encour•
aged to apply.

KAOSJAZZ

MARAlHON
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marathona. .Tua, from Dbdeland to
Avant.garde, will be fMtured thia
weekend ■tarting Friday mominf and
endin«late Suaday nlghL KAOS
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By Larry Stillwell
"It ia unfortunate that the CPJ hu
been 1uccea1ful at offending a wlde
' from ••
...uden..•variety of campua peop,e,
and faculty to ataff. It hu created a
reputation of being unreapoulve and
negligent in lta rapolllibility to aerve
the total college population.
"It will be inter..tmg to ... who the
Pub Boud Nleeta thil Tlluraday u the
new CPJ editor next fall Hopefully, it
will be a peraon with a rreater
eenaitivity and commitment to all the
human iaun prevalent on this campua."
April We.t
Coordinator, Third World Coalition

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Raciat~ Sexiat. Nasl-lilte. Arrogant.
Cynical. Selfiah. lnaiacere. Dilhone■L
Snide. lnaulting. Offenaive. Anti-Eve~
rreen .. Inaenaltive. Negative. Trite.
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Jn.ponaible. ~ radat and eynica1one
more time. AA editor of the Cooper Point
Journal this year I have been ealled all
tbeae thinp. Now that the aebool year
and m:, editorship are ending, rd Ulte to
indulge in a bit of retroapective ~_::~..:..:..-..:..----=-eelf-.valuation
without, hopefully,
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any more defenaive
than integrity
demands.
When you write for public conaumption you make your miltakea ln public.
You expoee younelf, your abilitiee. and
your value■ to public erfticism. Anyone
ln a poaition of l'Mpon■lbility, public or
private, who la aenaitive to the effecta of
their aetiou and dedaion.a,It.now, how
paradoxical and fruat.ratiq thia can be.
lt can alao be wonderfully exhilarating
when you do your.,.job well and your
worth la publleall:, reeopiled.
But even the thrill of battle can be
exciting. Any good newapaper make■
enemies u qwcltly u it make■ frienda.
From our vwy firat ialue we were
aggreuive, defending the Orientation
it1ue'1 Gulde to the Faculty and
attaeltinJ Bob Dylan'■ born.again Christi·
anity. B:, our NCODdialue we were
under Nip on both thoee fronta.
Our next two ialuea.,besldee informing
readen about lmportant ballot ialuea
and editorializlng in favor of the bottle
bill, carried interview, with faculty
membera Richard JonH and Beryl
Crowe whleh railed vital queationa about
Evergreen, ita identity and lta plll'p(IIN.
Clearly the college haa reached an
important, tranaformative period of its
life and the relevant ialuea need to be
publically diaeuaaed and debated. Our
artxlea on evaluation, governance, seminarlng, faculty meet1n11, curriculum

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we cllcl set out to provoke debate. We
we.ren't senaationaliatic. We Nparated
news from opinion. But any good
newspaper challenpa uaumptio111 and
tries to shatter mental complaeeney. And
here we come to the real iaaue, for ln
trying to do that we have made
ouraelvea unpopular. Even liberal■,
leftists, radicals, and New Ap eounterculturiata would prefer to float aloaf and
have 'their campus peper mere!:, echo
their own preconceptions. We all would,
realiy.
I have tried to avoid the "hooray for
our aide" approach that would be eo euy
to take at Evergreen but whleh would
create a totally inaipid, bland, and
repititioua newapaper which no one
would really Ulte but whleh no one
really dialllte, either. I think we have
done the people at thia collep a much
greater eervice by being critical of their
cherished radic:aliam than if we had
merely let ounelvea be a propaganda
sheet for their causes. No doubt we
have been 1een as reactionar:,; we
conaider ounelvea far mCJNI
radieal than
those
here
who
wear
the
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proudiy. Evergreen hu bred name
lta own

kind of non-eonformiat conformity and I
Up through our large end-of-thehave done my beat to uae the editorial
seventie1 issue it didn't seem we were aspect of the CPJ to challenp that COD·
too unpopular. The CPJ "Winter
formity. Not juat for ita own aalte but
Offenaive" began in January with my also becauae so much of what pueea for
sarcastic editorial attack on illiterate, truth arowid here ii ju.at plain wrong.
illogical. incoherent letters from "weirdCharges that the Journal hu been
os" and TJ Simpson's criticism of the unresponsive and negligent in it•
YSA and the resulting great leftist
·reaponai'bility are pure bogwuh. Every
political debate which filled the letters
specific incident battered about in va,ue
column for weeu.
. .ted
generalities by Uu,eewho feel negleeted
Nothing I wrote all year ellici
u
can be anawered for and Ju.sUB-d.
We
many verbal congratulation.au "Why Do have made miataltH. I have made
We Get All The Weirdos?" The general miltakea. But I l(now what kind of CPJ
reaponae was: "It's' abou~ time S?mebodY • wquld have been prodµced if our aitiea •
around here said that. But m many • ~ had their way and It'• not a pleuant
people'• eyes the. paper _wu conunit~g
thOijJht. . •
.. •
ucrlle,re. Attackjn& weirdos. Atta~g
The wonderful thing about' America,
leftilta. Criti~t
.f>ieketeraof ~:
and Evergreen, ia that ao,one can grow
Criticizing Friijof,. C._pra and a t ai chi up to be editor of their college
instructor. Failing to report the aati- newapaper. I never dreamed, when I
draft rally as entlausiutically u some of first caQle here that I would encl up
ita participants 'Wouldhave liked. _By~he with the job. It'~. an inc:redibleexpert.
middle of the quarter .it aeemtfd, Judgmg ence and" I atrongly recommend iL It'•
by the letters column, t}lat no~y lilted exciting, inteDN, educational, eontrous. Friend■, even casual a_cq':"-1'1ta~ veraial, impo-■ible, ridiculoua. madden.
would uk with concern how I.· ~ ing, depreuing, creative and fun. I loved
taking it. Every Tue99ay, .when the it, and rm eo glad it'a over.
letter■ came b, and articles. ,till weren't
I juat hope that once all the
written, I'd think about qwtting. Every -etnttov.-.ea have died down and my
Thundav morninit rd reeonaider.
nafue ita't •on the ataffbox or on the
While I should first point out that we arllel• net M>meODe elte la reaponaible
dW cover the im~nt
campus and fot~Vati lousy Uttle rag ...well, what I
off-campus news fatrly, objectively, and mean la, once it'■ all over and rm jU1t a
-,iptllinlllll1nlntn'rg7anndRt-t1tbll1ertiteae1111R1.tne!ll'1"1r-.ieelll'1rtt:ififiuea~titi,oinni---tul9--ta.eeeet11lfr~•Mil.ehlyHllu-.-.iw,ee~eo110wd
(go ~ack &ild aegular 1tudent aaain, do you think, a&
program have all been aimed at that read our news coverage and see for of you...do you think we can ■till be
goal
youraelf), I should also make clear that friends?

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Make 1980 the year you• Learn lo play Folk, Classic and
Flamenco style guitar
• Gain ~onfidence to play your instrument in groups or individually
• Develop the ability to read music.

E.Y!NTS

ARTS
Thundly. Mey JI
A )Uf1edlhow of mixed media by gllldua1Ing
EVWQtNn 1tudent1 11 In Gallery Two of the
E4en1 Llbtary.
fltday, letuldly, Sunday, Mey IO, 11, and
Junl1
FalrtllYenCollege ~II
the "-IMMCII
Al1I F"'9 on the WWUcampu1 In Bellingham.
There will be rnualc, poetry, dance, dl'IITII,
wontahopa, demon1tratlon1, games and ac:ta
of all aorta.

......,,June2
Ma NW Student Gallery ahnounces their
flrat annual 1I1-medle juried fine arts show
through June 211.Art1 NW Student Gallery la
locat.d In the Pike .,._
Martcet, Seattle, II
1&00 W..tem AYellue and 11 open Monday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
r'lfday, .,_,
An exhibit of handbullt, burni1hed, and pltflr9d pottery by Melanie "-mlo, at Chlldhood'1 End Gallery In Olymple, June ~Opening la June ti, 1-e p.m.

MUSIC
'"""9dly, May 21
.
A'"' Jazz~
fNlurlng Red Kelly, Jan
and Chuck Slentz, Jack Perciful, Oon Chan,
and Lalrd 8euer at noon In the Recital Hall.
flfday, MeylO
The Gnu DIii pqNnte a night of fine drama
with eololat Tad Aoltum 1tartlng at 9 p.m.
AdmlNlon le 12.
The Oly Rqot1 Rockera Aaeoelatlon will pr.Nl'II an Alt
Picnic: In the
ITINdow from 5 to midnight. Admlaalon la
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Sl"OI'/ Songwriter Lorie Jeen Ot'ozdenllo
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An awning of mualc with Chrtsto,lh,er 0aYlo
KUMIIIand ~ "lfflltt.. These

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and visions from the 14th to Iha 2111 (I) centuries with their truaty rec:ordeB, harplachord,
and ,_ lnatrumenta. ti p.m. The Rlcltsl Hall.

Fitday, Illy 10
Friday Nita Fllma presents JNn Renoir"s La
letl Hllfflefne (The Human Beul) (France,
1938, 99 min.) 1tarrtng Jeen Gabh1, Simone,
Simon, Fernand Ledoux, and Jan Renoir.
Based on a n&vel by Emile Zola. Made betLuc Bldeau, Mlou-Mlou, and Jacques Danie.
Thia highly ac:clalmed lllm attempta to portray
eight leltlal/ counterculture veteran, of 1988
trying to cope with Ille In the 70'a. Despite
good dl19Ctlng and aomegood acenes, Tan""'' film la uncon¥1nclng and too cute for Its
Frtday, May IO
Grand llluslon and Rut. ot ttte Game, this 11
Devld deMoulln from The Institute for
one of Renoir's moat lamoua and highly
Alternatlvea, wlll give • lec1ure and lead a dlaaoclalmedlllme. Gabln playl an ak:ohollc rallcuaalon on '"The Nature of Intellectualism and
Wwt mechanic, with homlcldal tendenc:IN,
the Repression of Creativity u It relates In
who becomn the lover of the wife of a
Education." The lecture will be In Library
crooked railroad executive. The clue confllct
Lounoe 3500, 7 p.m. Admlaalon wlll be $1.
here 11 shown on Individual terms, and
Frtday artclS.tuniay, May 30 and 31
Renoir's cu1tomary poetic naturalism 11 comEducators from 22 ststea-lncludlng 11 Nit
bined with a ,moody r•llsm. Plusl The orlgof the Mlsalaalppt-are among 59 representelnal preview tr1ller to the 1925 Yef'lion of
tlvea acheduled to l)fesent profHlllonal papera The Phantom of the Opera (with Lon Chaney)·
to the third national conferene. on Teaching
and .a complete sequence In color. L.H.I.·
3, 7, and 9:30. Still only a dollar.
Public Administration at TESC. Oetall1 available from Or. Adams, Library 1414, TESC.
Frtday, June II
Oty'a Center of Folk Music and Art Is pr.Friday NIie Fllme presenta the laat fllm of
the quarter with George Cukor'I Holldlly
aentlng a bluegrus lastlval at the Tumwater
(U.S.A., 1938, 94 min.) atarrlng Katherine
High School ,tarting II 8 p.m. on Friday and
9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Hepburn, Cary Grant, Dorla Nolan, Lew Ayrea,
and Edward Everett Horton. 8ued on the play
by Phillip Bany. One of the greet "acrft'bell"
Saturday,May 11
comedies of the 30's by the aame director and
A dance In Iha ballroom of the Holet
writer (and pretty much the same cut) of
Olympian fNturlng the mu1lc of Obrador from
The PHledelphla StOfY. Grant Is. liberal 9 to midnight. Admlaalon la $3.
gaoad to a girl In a family of anotty RepubliAn original thNter production llluatratlng
cans. WIii he reelly marry her or fall for the
A Slice of Ute through uae of mime, mualc,
u-tlonal
1leter (Hepburn)? WIii Roos.
oomedy and drama wlll be ataged by two
vett get reelected? Pluel Corny c-to
Evergl'Nn students at 8 p.m. In the Experi(1943), a Warner Bros. aatlre on 011ney'1
mental Theatr1. Admlaalon la $1.50.
FllfttNla, atarrll'lg Bugs Bunny, Elme< Fudd,
and Portly Pig. Buga' death maktoethis
FILMS OH CAMPUS
a masterpi-.
L.H I, 3, 7, and 9:30. Still only
a dollar.
Thur9day, May 21
Coming Up
Thad Curtz and Co. present Alain Tanner',
The Olympia FIim Society kicks off Its first
Jonlllt Who WIil .. 26 In ttte Var 2000 (Switzallow with two greet Alfred Hitchcock clll9'1and/Fl'lnOI, 1978, 110 min.) lla(ring Jeanalcl, TN N Slepe (1936) and FCM91gncown good. For a fllm abqut w.-t. Eurol)Nn
apondent (1940. The show 11at 7:30, Sunday,
~ Age eccentrics NIiiing
,,,.,,,_1Ive llf•
June 15 at the old Olympia Jr High on the
styles, It's curloualy -lat.
(l'he women charcomer of East11deand legion Way. Admlaac:tarscome off II being rather rillndl•• and
alon 11 12.7& for non-members and $1.25 for
ani moetly preoccupied wllh kinky Mlt.) AnyFIim Society members. (Why not help lhe
way, I'm wllllng to give It a aecond look Juat
FIim Society become• eucceas?)
for the Roa-..
bits, butJ.J11.1Lfftl that Joan
The flrat Frida~ Nita FUm of summer quarMlcklin Sliver's a.tw
ti. unee (another -tifwllTT,e
John uelon's Fal~l'
. w,
1978 fllm with theme1 almllar to Jonatt'a) 11
Stacy Keech, on June 27 Have a nice. ash•
far superior. L.H I, 7 and 9:30. Only $1.25.
laden summer
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Thul9Clay,May 29
ACCESS Center prNents CETA counaeior
Jeri longecre dltcuHlng "the job marllet and
women ovw 30" at noon In Lib. 3610.
Brent lngl'MI will dlacuaa graduate programs at ,Antioch West In Ecoeywttm Manegement and Appn)pflale Tect.. fOloty from
1-3 p.m. In CAB 110.

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Nlu&ed air and waterf ~ Welfare s-,taaa to Illa"9■1Jnal
Bloat.eelpve11•11eot?Ou llneaf ~ priest lulcldal 81'1111ncef
Alter years of getting no solutlona from Republicans or Democrata,
a KTOUPof us decided to do something about It. We l&Sueda call on
August 1, 1979,to create a flew American polltlcal party: The Citizens Party.
1bousands or Americans have already responded.
We don't think t.he American people must "lower their expectations" we believe our problems can be sdlved.
It's now tJme to bulld fort.he 1980elections and, more Importantly,
for the long run beyond that.
We believe In the principle of economic democracy.
We will work COWU'd
lbeae pa.la:
• Stable prices for the neceasltlea of life: food, fuel, housing and health care.
• Public control of the energy Industries.
• Rapid phasing out of all nuclear power. one 1bree Mlle Island ls enough I
• A strong push -not Carter's llp service- for the tranaltlon
to solar power and energy efficiency.
• A renewed commitment to human rights, at home and abroad.
• A sharp reversal in military spending and conversion from weaponry to
uaeful production.
• A ruaranteed Job for everyone able to work.
• Strong support for small business, t.he family farm and community Initiatives.
• A program to put the giant, multinational corporations that dominate
t.he economy under public controls.
Join us now!

THECITIZENS
COMMITTEE
(Partial hSltng)

RulhAdams

EdBarkley
Richard
Barnet
JuhanBond
Robe11Browne
Barry Commoner
Jell Fau•

Judge AngelGunierez

AdamHochschlld
v.wterJohnson

MlggieKuM
Ac;nnce Mc:Donlkl
Paul PoulO$

OonAose
EdSa(jowsk,

FrankSlln10rt
StudsTerkel
StanleyT~
~ Lucius.WIiker
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PelerW!llss

Olair
Harrt81Barlow

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