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Part of News Release (December 16, 1974) New Winter Course offerings at TESC

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NEWS

The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington

for immediate release
December 16, 1974

98505

for further information
Judy Annis, 866-6128

Nine modular courses will be offered Winter Quarter at The Evergreen State
College to part-time and auditing students, according to Academic Dean Rudy Martin.
An introduction to these academic programs

especially designed to serve

adults from the immediate college service area
7 in Lecture Hall Two.

will be held at 7:30 p.m. January

Martin said the special "Living Catalog" presentation will offer

interested persons an opportunity to meet faculty members and discuss academic
program content.
Registration for the one-credit modules, which are equivalent to four quarter hours
of credit, will be held January 8 from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and January 9 and 10 from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Office of the Registrar, Seminar Building.
Module offerings include:
Faculty Member Lee Anderson;

Introductory: Phys Lcs offered Tuesdays and Thursdays by
Philosophy of Science, offered Mondays and Fridays by Faculty

Member Will Humphreys; Calculus with Analytic Geometry, offered Mondays and Thursdays by
Faculty Member Charlie Lyons; Mathematics for the Uninc1ined, offered Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. by Faculty Member Richard Brian; Pre-Calculus Mathematics,
taught by Faculty Member Fred Young; Introduction to Organic Chemistry, offered Mondays
and Wednesdays by Faculty Member Michael Beug; Basic Ecology, offered Tuesdays and Thursdays
by Provost Ed Kormondy; Autobiographical Writing, taught by Faculty Member Earle MeNei1;
and Stage Lighting, offered Thursdays by Keith Smith.
Registration fees for persons interested in earning academic credit as "special"
students are $80 per module.

Auditing students --- those not wanting formal evaluation

or credit --- may enroll in the programs for $20.

Interested persons should contact the

Registrar's Office, 866-6180, or the modular course intstructors for more details.
Dick

Nichols,

Infor mation

Director
Services

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The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington

98505

for immediate release

for further information

December 6, 1974

Judy Annis, 866-6128

The Evergreen State College has been placing students in private businesses, governmental agencies and social service organizations for credit-generating internships since
the college opened in the fall of 1971.
Now, in a cooperative effort between the Evergreen Office of Cooperative Education
and the Thurston County Probation Office, TESC will help place persons found guilty
of minor legal offenses in those same agencies to work out their sentences --- not
to earn college credit but to provide a community service.
Ken Donohue, director of Evergreen Co-Op program, said his office is contacting
more than 300 public and private agencies throughout the state to gather names of
those organizations which are willing to cooperate in the newly created Thurston
County Minor Offender Program.
"The idea ," Donohue says, "is for those persons found guilty of a minor offense
to serve their time helping in their local community, rather than behind bars.
"Co-Op is helping locate those agencies which are willing to accept the unpaid
aid of the offenders for an amount of time determined at their sentencing."
The offenders --- often youthful violators of laws regulating marijuana, alcoholism
or traffic --- serve at the agencies in lieu of a short jail term.

Their service has

to be in their home area, which is often outside of Thurston County, so agencies need to
be identified throughout the state.
"We sometimes have offenders from as far away as
Thurston County probation officer explains.
locate positions

Spokane County," Valerie Shewp,

"Our office doesn't have the resources to

that far away, so we looked to Evergreen for help."

TESC has placed more than 1800 interns in 800 agencies in the past three and a half
years, Donohue adds.

"And," he says, "we're delighted to have this chance to share our

resources with the county in this way."
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