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Part of News Release (March 1, 1974) The Office of Cooperative Education at TESC was selected to participate in a national study on cooperative educational program structures

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The Evergreen State College

NEWS

Olympia. Washington

98505

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 1, 1974

For Further Information
Judy Annis (866-6128)

The Office of Cooperative
study of cooperative

Education

education

has been selected

program

structures,

to participate

according

in a national

to Co-op Director

Ken Donohue.

The study, sponsored
University,

is expected

a means of defining
Donohue

says.

allocation

The profile

representation
developed,

co-op programs

and

"in a new and innovative

in the federal

guidelines

way,"
for

for study from among more than 800

across the country offering

to Dr. Bob Downing,

Donohue

cooperative

education

continued.

head of the HEW team which visited

inclusion

for the increasing

particularly

by Northeastern

funds.

as part of their curriculum,

"Evergreen's

and conducted

of existing

co-op education

program was one of 42 selected

And, according
last month,

a new profile

could lead to changes

support

and universities

experience

to provide

or redefinining

of program

Evergreen's
colleges

by the U. S. Office of Education

in the study will provide
number of innovative

co-op programs

on the West Coast."

Dick

Nichols.

Infor mation

balance

Director
Services

the campus
as well as
now being

The energy crisis--predictable for decades--is real, it's serious and it will stay with
us until the American people become convinced they must reduce their addiction to the
wasteful uses of natural resources.

That was the message that rang loud and clear this

morning as tRegional Federal Energy Administrator Jack Robertson opened a day-long
Energy~~"

•• ~Symposium

on the campus of The Evergreen State College,

Addressing an

overflow crowd of public officials, energy policy makers, private citizens and students,
has dominated
•.
-Robertson carefully outlined the«(history of the crisis that suddenly
e news of
the world. "At current rates of.-ruse,"Robertson said, "We have already passed the peak
years of natural gas and oil production." "Energy has been a bargain in the United States,"
)I
petro Ie
resources
he continued and we've used
in was e ul ways, we're addicted to it and the withdrawal
symptoms are painful." Describing the Arab oil embargo as a blessing in disguise,
~ut now will be comRelled to achieve national in~endence
to meet energy needs,
Robertson ovservea that "we've been headed down a dead end' in the use of t e resource,
"If

mour addiction is so q;djectand if we can't face some inconvenience then we may

face the loss of national independence," Robertson warned his audience.

He said America's

economy is large enough to develop conservation and pew energy source programs to achieve
independence.

He even suggested that if the embargo is lifted, the United States might

well consider refraining from further importing so as to ~asten
independence within a free market system.

t~ar 2 F(a return to

Robertson said that--in addition to

conservation efforts and searches for new energy sources--a nationwide priority on
recycling holds much promise, thus reducing drains on resources, helping battle environmental
damage, and cutting energy requirements.

He observed that metal recycling, for instance,

requires less energy than producing materials from the raw state.

He warned, however, that

such new programs will require great resolve on the part of the American peowle and new
federal policies that don't penalize recycling ~illI~~nd

other conservation efforts.

He

indicated that the United States will continue to face rising prices, and, to protect the
poor who aren't able to absorb those prices, the ~ation
vigor ~toward

will have to work with equal

progr~ms to help those wi~h limited financial resources.

If we don't

accept the challenge, Robertson observed, America. faces the prospect of becoming a~~aA~~.
"have not" nation within 15 years.

-0. ~.

SEVENTH
OLYMPIA,

AND

FRANKLIN

WASHINGTON

98110.

NEWS RELEASE

FOR RELEASE

for further information

March 4, 1974

Paul Jeffrey 866-6413

Michael Contris, Olympia journalist and professor of literature at
St. Martin's College, will discuss "That Was The Library That Was," Thursday
night, March 7, at 8 pm in the Lacey Public Library.

His talk will begin

the second in a series of eight public forums about the nature of local
library services.
The Thursday forum will be a discussion of the historical development
of the library in Pacific Northwest communities, and the effect this
development has had on the Olympia area.

Part of the project "Education:

The Public Library and the People's Needs," a community effort organized
by the Friends of the Olympia Library and The Evergreen State College,
the series is funded by the Washington Commission for the Humanities.
Joining Contris in the public forum will be Marvel Guerin, Olympia
business woman, and Joel Gould, former banker and a civic leader.

Also

participating will be Ken Balsley, Bev Butigan, Al Christiansen, and
Karen Fraser.

Ron Rowe, a local architect, will moderate the discussion.

The public is invited to attend Thursday's forum at the Lacey Library,
which is located at 4136 Market Square in Lacey.
refreshments will be served.

-30-

The forum is free and