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Vol. 3 No. 23

The Evergreen State College Olympla, Washington

April 24, 1971

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REDMOND DEFINES
DUTIES
To the Point:
This is in reference to the recent article
"Security Chief Marrom to Resign" which
appeared in the Cooper Point Journal of
10 April 1975, quoting Security Chief
Rod Marrom in reference to a felony
theft: "They wouldn't touch it with a ten
foot pole." Please be advised that it is our
duty to protect the lives and property of
all persons in Thurston County, and we
shall be very glad to respond to any and
all criminal offenses at The Evergreen
State College, or any other place in
Thurston County that counts on us for
Law Enforcement.
If TESC personnel have been misinformed and encouraged not to report
criminal offenses, I would like to correct
the situation and encourage all personnel
to report any and all offenses, including
out-of-town students without local families. .
I am primarily interested in felony complaints, but we shall investigate all complaints of a criminal nature. We shall conduct all of our investigations in conjunction with the College Security Department, or other college authority, as desired.
In addition to disseminating the above
to faculty and student body, please advise
all personnel that they may definitely utilize "Operation Crime Check — 357-6668"
if they wish to file a report anonymously.
All crime check calls are investigated to
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the best extent of the information furnished.
In addition to the above recommendations, I should be very glad to have a
deputy sheriff hold "office hours" at the
college, perhaps a day or afternoon each
week. The deputy would accept complaints, furnish information, provide
forms, etc. This deputy could be a detective, a uniformed patrol officer, a community relations officer; it could be a
male or female officer — or both.
Perhaps the "office hours" could be
held at the college Security Department.
Other possibilities of cooperation and
joint projects may be workshops, internships or training of security personnel.
If I may assist in any of these matters,
please let me know without hesitation.
Don Redmond
Sheriff

FIXING THE BLAME
To The Point:
To the Revolutionary Student Brigade:
Did all of you write the letter, or did
only one of you? Why not sign your own
name, rather than hide behind the easy
name of an organization? Hitler's Brown
Shirts and Rumania's Green Shirts
thought they hid in anonymity, but did
they really?
Why you see fit to reiterate, as you
say, what has been told to us "Day after
day . . .", I can't really see the reason for,
except, yes, that must be it ...
, "Super powers: Hands off the Middle

East! We won't fight your imperialist
wars! Victory to the Palestinian people!"
I shall take you slowly through the
gaps" your education has left you riddled
with . . .
1. TERMS "Jew" and "Judaism" are
not synonymous with "Zionist" and
"Zionism." Judaism is the religious and
cultural background, heritage, if you will,
of the people called the Jews. Zionism is
the belief that A) the ancient land of
Israel can be redeemed from the barren
waste it has failed into since the Jews
were forced into exile. B) I am a Zionist,
because I believe that the Jews have a
right to their own land, instead of remaining victims of persecution the world over
(and that includes America). So, it obviously follows that a country (predominantly Jewish), governed by Jews, Arabs,
and Christians, cannot possibly be a
•"Zionist (I shall leave out 'imperialist' . . •
. . that is too absurd) government." The
tenets of Zionism are not the dictates of a
governing body of law.
2. LAND Argument: "The Jews came
into Palestine, which had been an Arab
land for hundreds of years, drove the
people out and occupied it for themselves,
as did the white men in. North America
and in South Africa."
The analogies with North America and
South Africa do not hold true because the
Jews returned to a land to which they
held a valid historical claim. Furthermore
what land they possessed by the time the
State of Israel came into being in 1948
had been purchased from Arab landowners. The data, available to you on maps,
shows that what the Jews controlled of »
Palestine by the end of the War of Independence in 1948 was either purch'ased
from former owners, left behind by Arabs
who fled during the war (more of which
later) or had belonged to the British Mandatory Government (70 percent of the
total area of Palestine was in this category) which had taken it over from the
previous Turkish government and which
in turn gave it over to the Government of
Israel.
The Government of Israel has offered
compensation to the owners of abandoned
property but cannot permit its return to
them because things cannot return to the
status quo ante 1948. The return of the
land to those who owned it prior to the
Arab invasion of Israel in 1948 would
mean dismantling the country, and no
country will permit itself to be destroyed.
You cannot start a war, lose it and then
demand that the conditions revert to, what
they were before you began it.
The fact that Arab students in this
country tell us that they can see the
homes their families once lived in now being used by Jewish settlers is a telling one
in debate but leaves unanswered the
major question for Israel:
Would these same Arabs, permitted to
return to their former homes, do so as

loyal citizens of Israel, bound to its laws
as are other citizens of the nation, or
would they return as Palestinians, intent
upon the destruction of Israel whose legitimacy they do not recognize?
The answer is self-evident and so must
be the reply of the people of Israel who
have offered compensation for land and
property, but who will not offer themselves up for the sacrifice.
3. REFUGEES Argument: "The Jews
drove the Arabs from that part of Palestine which they occupied by force and
have refused to allow them to return, inflicting great hardships upon them and
creating even more refugees in ensuing
conflicts. Nothing shall deter the Arabs
from returning to their ancestral homes
even if it takes as long to drive the Jewish
invaders from Palestine as it took to do
the same to the Crusaders."
The causes of the refugee problem are
complex and neither side is totally blameless. The refugees left for many reasons,
chief of which were these:
a. Many left because they were afraid of
being caught up in fighting in which, as
civilians, they could not defend themselves. This is a principal cause of all
refugee situations in war time.
b. Many left because they were advised
to do so by the Arab military
commanders who wanted them out of the
way when the fighting began. Battles are
difficult enough to wage without having

to worry about your civilian population
as well.
c. Many left because they had fought the
Jews for years or lived in villages which
had done so and they were afraid of the
possibility of massacres by the victorious
Jews, this being the long established pattern of conquest and reconquest in the
Middle East (and, to be fair about it, in
the rest of the world as well).
There is little point in trying to fix the
blame for what took place a quarter of a
century ago; there is evidence enough on
both sides to support any argument. The
problem to be solved is what to do about
the situation today.
What has taken place in the Middle
East is a population exchange: the same
number of Jews left Arab countries and
entered Israel as Arabs left Israel and entered Arab countries. The Arabs who
went to Arab states were left to survive
on international charity. The U.S.A. has
contributed nearly 70 percent of the funds
for UNRWA's regular budgets. The total
Arab contribution (since 1948) was, as of
1972, only $8Vz million. The Soviet
Union and the Societ Bloc have contributed nothing whatsoever. From Israel,
with direct contributions and services, $3
million each year. Jews who went to
Israel from Arab countries were taken in
and made viable self-supporting citizens
of the new state.
Once again the question posed above
must be asked: would the Arabs return-

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ing to Israel do so as loyal citizens of the
state, or would they return sworn to its
destruction. Anyone familiar with the
statements of Arab leaders and the Palestinians knows the answer to that question.
So where are we left?
You don't like it. Neither do I.
You won't fight. But I will.
In a lifetime of study, we could never
learn all there is to know. But try to learn
a little before you go about ranting general, irrational, and unfactual statements
that you know little or nothing about.
You're having your Third World Coalition ; we are having one on Jews, Israel,
and America.
How many of you will come, and
rnayBe learn something?
Melissa Kaplan

BACK TO MOTHER
To the Point:
Creative thought is the distinctive human quality.
So why does the Journal publish (such)
inane trash as Dawn's article (April 17
issue)? Why does the Journal reject material submitted by students dealing with
world economics and politics? What is
this fixation upon all material having to
center on "Evergreen community" "cam-

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pus happenings" — whatever these nebulous terms mean? When is the Evergreen
campus an island unto itself, somehow
apart from the rest of the world?
Such policies of any periodical are
criminal. The ability of students here and
others everywhere to even survive in this
period is based on what knowledge of the
world situation that we can develop to
fight this world depression.
Dawn's article is much better titled
"Towards the Ostrich Perspective." Let's
all stick our heads in the sand — first
we'll do it in our own backyard, then
we'll create a separate place and maybe
tomorrow (if we're "healthy" and if we
have lots of "leisure!") — then we'll deal
with the real world!
No, Aubrey, You can't equate communist tactics with nazi tactics — not in Germany in the 1930s, not now. Your attempt to do so reveals only your muddled
emotion-clouded misunderstandings of
reality (truly you must perpetually waddle
through life in the proverbial "night in
which all cows are black"). Quotations
from impotent fools as Camus, from
scumbags as Neill cannot camouflage
your intellectual shallowness, Aubrey.
It would be so simple if we could all be
children — simple, innocent ("innately
honest") children, wouldn't it Aubrey —
just go back to the womb, back to mother
and her chicken soup. But the case of
Lord of the Flies, Goldner's contribution,
will not allow such myth to proliferate.

Children are only the seeds of potential
humanity, undeveloped minds as of yet
— nothing magic about them.
„ No, Aubrey, I am not cynical but I am
vicious in this exposure of your disgusting
article. It is misleading, morally cowardly
and worst of all — it is wrong!
I think humanity can win the struggle
against this world depression. We have to
center ourselves in universal terms, in
world important terms — this is the only
way our struggle has any worth; has any
meaning.
We have to take responsibility for our
words and actions, for the development
of our minds, and most importantly for
the political organization of the only
human constituency — the working class.
The first thing to do is pull your head
out of your ass.
.
,
Mike Duree

INDOCHINESE VICTORY
To the Point:

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Phnom Penh has been liberated! Just
over a week after the puppet dictator Lon
Nol skipped out of Phnom Penh airport,
tears streaming down his cheeks and rockets exploding around his ears, the liberation forces of Cambodian people, led by
the Royal Government of National Union
of Cambodia (GRUNC) have entered and
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Martin Speaks
Quinault II Slated
By RUDY MARTIN
It occurred to me as I wrote this that
while my name has been cussed and
discussed in the pages of the Cooper Point
Journal and elsewhere, this will have been
the first time I wrote something expecting
it to be printed there. So be it.
To begin at the beginning, the program
for developing our curriculum that I and
the other deans have argued for has had
its roots in a body of pedagogical ideas,
some results of which can be easily
articulated. That body of thinking
evolved out of Evergreen's curricular
history and some current notions as well.
It has included:
(1) the decision to make good use of
what we have learned from each previous
year's experience and of whatever new
ideas that have occurred to us.
(2) the reaffirmation of our commitment to interdisciplinary study by
increasing our emphasis on the coordinated study mode.
(3) the felt need to assure curricular
continuity, both within each year's
offerings and on a year-to-year basis.
(4) the desire to offer sound academic
work on three distinct levels of competence; i.e., introductory, intermediate,
and advanced levels.
• (5) the intention to offer a balanced
spread of work among the disciplines at
each level of sophistication.
(6) the firm conviction that more
flexibility (increased long-term and shortterm options) is necessary for students
and faculty.
(7) the absolute necessity to build skill
development into the very fabric of
curricular offerings.
In the first year I was at this desk, we
deans and the program planners made
some specific and significant modifications
in the teaching/learning pattern of
Evergreen;
(1) We stressed the need to include
"inter-cultural," "inter-ethnic" concerns
within our conception of interdisciplinary
study.
(2) We worked to develop more and
smaller coordinated studies than the
college had offered in the past, with
particular emphasis on more and better
advanced-level programs.
(3) We encouraged program designers
to include internship options within the
framework of their program plans.
(4) We decided to offer areas of
"continuing" study (not specific offerings,
April 24, 1975

but areas—Pacific Rim and Third World
Studies—within which to offer some work
year after year).
(5) We formed the "Contract Pool" in
place of a group of faculty and students
assigned only to individual contract
study.
(6) We encouraged more teams to offer
individual contract study options within
the context of coordinated study and we
tried to reserve group and individual
contracts primarily for advanced work.
The academic goals/aims/plans, call
them what you will, were based on ideas
that came from a number of places. We
started with the report from the original
Quinault Group. Whatever its limitations,
that piece of work still constitutes the first
piece of long-range curricular thinking the
whole campus has generated since the
planning year.
When the time came this past fall to
begin the program planning process, I
resolved to build on what we had done
already, instead of starting all over from
the ground. The other deans, the Provost,
and various other community members
supported that view. After meetings with
the deans and different other people on
campus, I wrote another report proposing
a few additional wrinkles to be overlaid
on the previous year's work. They were
the following:
(1) The notion that we should think of
academic planning as a year-round
process in which the deans would accept
program proposals whenever they were
generated, thereby relieving some of the
anxiety people feel when asked to plan for
a future year while they are deeply
involved in the current one.
(2) The idea that we should do some
thinking about two-year curricular plans
rather than just one as a means of gaining
stability without rigidity, giving students
and faculty the opportunity to make some
of their plans well in advance, helping us
anticipate faculty needs, helping us recruit
even more of the students we'd like to see
here, and helping us arrive at a more
rational method of expending our limited
resources.
(3) The view that we should make
external options (i.e., off-campus program
offerings) a planned portion of our
regular academic program, with faculty
and resources assigned to them and with
them set up to run as timed experiments.
(4) The recommendation that we repeat
some of the academic offerings of the past
(approximately 50% of each year's
offerings).

Since this last point is something of a
departure from past practice, it bears a
bit of amplification. I wrote in a memo
published on November 8, 1974,
The reasons for such a position are
numerous and easy to understand: [1]
much of what we've done here has been
excellent. Any one of us can recollect
teaching/learning experiences that were
[or in some cases should have been]
dynamite. Let's offer them to other
faculty members and students. [2]
planning the entire curriculum yearly
tends to institutionalize a needless, if not
destructive, quantity of ad hocism in the
core of our academic design. That's
unsettling, if not dangerous. [3] developing our whole program every yean
consumes enormous amounts of time,
energy, and resources at inopportune
times. And too often it results in less
good programs than we're capable of
offering. [4] Evergreen is mature enough
to use its academic history judiciously.
As I look back over two years of
curriculum planning, I feel like we're
making good progress. There are still
some problems we need to solve. We
have pretty good continuity in next year's
offerings, but the balance is a little off.
There are still a few gaps that need filling
and we have too few short-term options
planned for next year. Despite flap and
flak, my assessment is that we're moving
along nicely, and I'm glad to have had a
hand in the process'.
As I look ahead to our long-range
planning talks, several particular items
come to mind as ones I hope we'll think
and talk about. I'll simply list them here
and plan to go into them in more detail at
Lake Quinault and on campus after the
retreat.
(1) I think we should retain our current
priorities among modes, i.e. coordinated
studies, group contracts, individual
contract, and modules, in that order and
for pedagogical rather than whimsical
reasons.
(2) I think we should determine those
subject matter areas in which we have, or
can get, particular strength and emphasize
them—out front.
(3) I think we should increase the
number of support modules we offer.
(4) I think we should make good use of
disciplinary planning groups without
backsliding into dread divisions and
departments.
(5) I think we should add business
subjects to what we teach/learn.
(6) I think we should devise ways of
better integrating all aspects of communication studies into our total curriculum.
(7) I think we need to make up our
minds about how we want to teach/learn
foreign languages.
These are things on my mind right
now. I'm looking forward to our
discussions, and, as usual, I'm willing to
talk with whatever folks are interested in
talking seriously about these questions.
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NEXT YEAR'S SUPPLEMENT TO BE RELEASED SOON
8,000 copies of the Evergreen Catalog
Supplement for 1975-76 will be released
by Monday, April 28, at the latest,
according to Academic Dean Rudy
Martin.
The supplement which is mainly
designed to describe the Coordinated
Studies programs and Group Contracts to
be offered in the ensuing academic year
is...the best that we have produced,"
according to Martin. The supplement was
typeset this year to make it more
attractive and easier to read. A
description of each mode of study at
Evergreen accompanies the regular program descriptions. The supplement also
contains important policy information on
such subjects as Affirmative Action and
Completion of Academic Work and
Completion of Credit. "The inclusion of
this sort of extra material in the
supplement," Martin stated, "will become
increasingly necessary now that we are
publishing the bulletin every other year."
For the regular academis year 8 basic
programs, 5 divisional programs, 7
advanced programs and 34 Group
Contracts will be offered. Some of the
titles include: Working in America,
Foundations of Natural Science, Love in
the Western World (Coordinated Studies),
Jews and Israel, and The Social History of
Women (Group Contracts).
Dean Martin pointed out that the
curriculum is weak in a number of areas.
There are not enough basic programs;
there are too few options in the media
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area, there is an insufficiency in the
foreign language area and there is a
shortage of short-term contracts and
programs. Martin also commented however, that the planning process is
"improving".
Affirmative Action is the first topic
dealt with in the supplement due to the
insistence of Martin who attributes this to
his "third world consciousness" and who
objects to the usual method of having
Affirmative Action "tagged on like a
fucking footnote." This two page statement reiterates Evergreen's full commitment to Affirmative Action goals.
The supplement also contains the newly
revised policy on the awarding of
academic credit; revised as of March,
1975. The policy puts more stringent
requirements on both students and faculty
in the completion of evaluations. Students
must complete all work including a
self-evaluation by the final day of the
program or contract. Faculty have two
weeks following the final day of the
contract or program in which to produce
evaluations of their students. If a student
is late in turning in materials the sponsor
must either grant the student partial or no
credit, or give the student an incomplete.
A student who receives an incomplete will
have two months in which to hand in the
missing work and have the incomplete
removed. If after two months the student
has not changed the incomplete, the
Registrar's office will enter a 'no credit' on
the student's transcript.

EDITOR, MANAGING EDITOR
RESIGN
A new editorial staff has taken over at
the Cooper Point Journal, following the
surprise resignations of Editor Sam Solomon and Managing Editor Aubrey Dawn
on April 18. Ralph Smith, n second-year
student who served as news editor under
Solomon, has become the new editor.
Brian Murphy, who served as editor in
Fall 1973 rejoined the newspaper staff to
become news editor.
Solomon came to Evergreen in Fall 1974
and was appointed Editor of the Journal
Winter Quarter 1975. During his tenure,
he received a great deal of criticism for
his innovative editorial policy, and once
had to appear before the Publications,
Board to defend himself to his critics.
Neither he nor Dawn gave an official reason for their resignations.
The Publications Board, which is
responsible for appointing the Business
Manager and Editor,, has not met since
Solomon's resignation. The Publications
Board Document, which outlines governance procedures for the newspaper, specifies that if the editor resigns then the
managing editor should, assume his position. It does not indicate procedure for a
dual resignation. The Publications Board
is planning to meet within a few weeks.
The Photo Editor of the newspaper,
Frank Solomon, the brother of the editor,
also resigned April 18. Neither he nor
Dawn has been replaced.

SEATTLE POET WILL PERFORM,
LEAD WORKSHOP
Aaron Dumas, Seattle actor, poet and
playwright, will stage two presentations
and three workshops at Evergreen the
week of April 28.
Director of his own theatrical troupe at
the age of 19, the 26 year old Dumas has
published two books of poetry and numerous poems in literary magazines.
Dumas says his poetry offers "reflections
of the lives of all persons, not just blacks,
but from a black man's point of view."
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He will read selections of his poetry
May 1, and present sequences of his newest play, "After Midnight," May 2. Both
presentations are set for 8 p.m. in the
Library Lobby.
He will also offer three afternoon workshops: one on black literature April 28, a
second on creative writing April 29, and a
third on drama April 30. All of the 1:30
p.m. workshops, as well as his two performances, are free and open to the public. Workshop locations will be announced through the Info. Center, 8666300.

lightenment. There will also be a
group meditation and a potluck
picnic outside.
Mon. Maharishi and Merv Griffin dis4/28 cuss T.M. on a 90 minute special
on TV at 10:00 am on channel 4.
Mon. & Refresher Course in ASH C-27 at
Tues. 7:30. Everyone is invited to at4/28 & tend. This is a chance for medita4/29 tors who have stopped or are irregular to get a fresh start, and is
also for those who have questions
or things to discuss. It is valuable
for all meditators, providing a
deeper knowledge and experience
of T.M.
Wed. Preparatory Lecture and discus4/30 sion on Transcendental Meditation. This will be the time to bring
up any questions and comments
on any aspect of T.M. To be held
in Lab 3033 at 7:30 pm.
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AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT DAWNS
In celebration of the "Age of Enlightenment," a week-long series of meetings will
be held on campus for students and
Olympia residents who are interested in
practicing Transcendental Meditation. The
"Age of Enlightenment" was forecast by
the founder of Transcendental Meditation,
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in Switzerland,
January 12. At that time he stated that
within weeks, one percent of the world
population would be practicing meditation. This, he believes, will lead to an age
of peace and order for all mankind.
Coinciding with the world celebration,
Evergreen meditators have procured Lib.
3222 for all who wish a quiet place to
meditate. Group Meditation will be held
every day at noon.
A list of the celebration events follows:
Thurs. Preparatory Lecture in Lab 3033 at
4/24 7:30pm.
Sun. Special Meditators' Conference at
4 2 7 1:00 pm in Lab 3033 with a color
videotape of Maharishi inaugurating the Dawn of the Age of En-

In the last issue of the Journal, and in
many of the issues previous to it, there
were an enormous amount of misprints. It
would take too much space for the new
editors to go through each item that
caused misrepresentation of an author's
viewpoint.
In response to a memo from Neil
Marshall, whose article, "How Evergreen's
Employees Get Fired," appeared in the
April 17 issue, we would like to point out
that a serious misprint did appear in his
article. At the bottom of the second
column of his article appears the line:
"McCann and the Board of Trustees
accepted this revised plan, and are not accountable for it . . ." In fact, they are.

mer category, McCann declined to implement a suggestion for expanded employee
access to the Health Center for legal reasons.
A full listing of the new employee
benefits, many of which will apply t<3 students and temporary employees, is available at the Information Center.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• KAOS News Director's job is now
open. Send applications to KAOS CAB
304 by Thursday May 1. For more information call KAOS at 866-KAOS.
• Food Stamp interviews are again available on campus. The Department of
Social and Health Services is providing a
representative, Adlena Cunningham, who
will be here Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
for Food Stamp applicants. The interviews will take place in Financial Aid, Lib
1212, and appointments can also be made
there or by calling 866-6205.
• Open graduation planning meeting —
noon Thursday in CAB" 110.
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By MILLIE BROMBACHER
Broken, collecting dust and representing
$2500, approximately 45 still-photography
cameras await shipment - some since last
January - in media repair. Why?
Insufficient funds.
"Our basic problem is that the current
budget for repair cannot support the usual
equipment wear-and-tear, purchases and
inventory stocking," reasoned Al Saari,
media engineering budget head. "We also
have a shortage of manpower. Two
technicians are expected to be proficient
in repairing thousands of equipment
pieces with hundreds of varieties."
The $2500 does not include shipment,
labor or insurance costs. The cameras, for
example, must be sent to the Seattle
Phototronics firm. The money is also not
representative of other equipment needing
repair parts. Two Porta Paks, a Sony TC
tape-recorder and a McKenzie dissolve
unit along with the still cameras total
April 24, J975

approximately $6000 necessary for
repairs.
In a March 13 memo to Library Dean
Jovanna Brown, Saari stated that an
already inadequate media repair budget
was compounded with a tremendous
equipment cost increase and that the
equipment utilization factor had also
increased progressively during the past
three-years.
Requesting $10,000 for equipment
repairs and shop efficiency, Saari says: "I
don't know what the solution is; we
either need more money to fulfill our
requirements or must cut-back in
services."
Brown agrees. She is especially concerned as the lack of repair monies reflect
extensively on the library's Media Loan
service.
"The media loan section here is unique
since Washington State colleges do not
usually have a media loan," she stated.
"Most places only provide audio and

visual aids to faculty members and
students do not have access. We might
not be able to afford this service because
of Media Repairs budget cut-backs."
$50 a Fix
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"Still-photography cameras represent
one of our biggest problems," begins Jim
Rousseau, lead media technician. "The
cost of repair-work is estimated at $50
each with an everage eight-weeks to
eight-months repair work and shipping.
We receive about five cameras per week
from Media Loan needing repair."
"The greatest percentage of damage
results from frequent usage, normal wear
and age—the cameras, especially, get so
damn much usage that they wear-out
rapidly. We also get our share of cameras
damaged through- rough usage, but the
people caught damaging them are liable,"
he concluded.
A "critical item," cameras are much in
campus demand. All programs here utilize
still cameras to some extent and, at least
eight programs use them on a regular
basis; yet, more than 50 percent of the
Media Loan cameras are out-of-order.
According to the media loan chief Yves
Duverglas, 30-40 cameras are checked-out
Fridays alone and, as many as three or
four people, may use a single camera each
day.
Duverglas mentioned that his staff
conducted complete maintenance on
cameras Thursday and, every time a
camera is returned, he adds, "it is
impossible to do little more than minor
clean-up work as there is no one on
campus qualified to take a camera apart
to clean it."
Proficiency Cards
Several precautions have been taken by
Media Loan to ensure equipment protection. A "proficiency card," which certifies
its holder as competent, became effective
last Jan. 13. The card must be presented
with a current campus service card before
various equipment may be borrowed. The
card-holder demonstrates a basic understanding of cameras and camera manipulation through a seven to 15-minute
verbal test.
"The card is good as long as its holder
is here," explains Duverglas. "It is not
meant to hassle customers, in fact, it is
more work for us; however, we've got to
have more working equipment without
worrying too much and equipment
proficiency insures this."
The proficiency card has proven
valuable, according to Rousseau, and
there has been a significant decrease in
equipment damage since its institution.
Still another precaution is a "do not issue"
list of those people with outstanding debts
for damage and equipment.
These precautions represent only a
"drop in the bucket;" the real concern
remains with the Media Repair budget.
Says Brown: "We must ask ourselves
whether we can afford to continue Media
Loan. There are many questions we must
answer."
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Mayday
By Kraig Peck
and Eva Usadi
Thanksgiving, Mothers Day, Memorial
Day, Washington's Birthday, New Year's
Day, Columbus Day, and Labor Day are
holidays that appear on all of our
calendars. For some of these occasions,
schools lock their doors, factories stop
spinning, and only typewriters and bored
furniture remain in dimly lit offices across
the nation. The banks and insurance
companies continue to flash the time on
outdoor clocks and lightboards, but inside
they are empty except for the guards and
the money.
On the outside, people celebrate; we
have been given an "official" holiday, a
"sacred" day, away from those with
whom we work and study, to spend with
our "private lives"—our friends and
family. Congress offers us "Labor Day"
on the Monday of their choice, and if we
have a job we are to be thankful for their
creation of a day off. Time belongs to
those who own our institutions: they set
our alarm clocks each night, and choose
for us the days to be celebrated, the
events which should be meaningful to us.
Yet these holidays offer us little
meaning. Some of us find it hard to
celebrate Thanksgiving knowing that the
same Indians with whom the Pilgrims
feasted were later slaughtered. Even New
Years Day is rendered meaningless in a
society where our time largely belongs to
others, our "employers" who employ our
years and weeks for the benefit of their
bank accounts. And Memorial Day means
something quite different to those who
realize that so many young Americans
died fighting for new markets and cheap
raw materials.
May Day is a different kind of
celebration. While to some, it is a ritual
enactment of pagan spring rites, most of
the world celebrates May Day as
International Workers Day, a day of joy
and determination, a celebration of the
process of building a new world. Yet
because so much of our history has been
hidden from us, few Americans understand the meaning of this day. May Day
is not recognized by Congress; in fact,
the only way to get the day off is to call
in sick or skip school! Richard Nixon has
even declared May 1st to be "Law and
Order Day"!
April 24, 1975

Striking miners in Sherican, Wyo., block company truck. (1975)
May Day grew out of the struggle, by
American workers, for the eight-hour
work day in the late 1880s. May ], 1886
marked the beginning of a national strike;
in Chicago, workers of every trade, and
many different nationalities (Poles, Germans, Finns, Jews, Russians), gathered
together to demand an eight-hour day.
Over 40,000 workers struck and twice
that number were in the streets in
Chicago that day. In New York, 25,000
people marched to Union Square. In
Detroit, 11,000 people joined the march.
Throughout the country, 300,000 workers
struck for the eight-hour day.
The nationwide strike was successful:
185,000 workers won the eight-hour day
with no loss in pay. At least 200,000
more won a ten-hour day for 12 hour
wages.
However, because of the tremendous
strength of the people's movement, those
days in early May 1886 are most
remembered for the events which immediately followed the workers' victory.
In Chicago, on May 3, 6,000 people
assembled to support the McCormick
Harvester factory workers who had been
striking for several months, and had been
periodically attacked by the police. As a
few strikers broke away from the rally to
try to stop some scabs from entering the
factory, the police attacked the assembly,
killing one worker and leaving several
others seriously wounded.
Immediately after the rally, a protest
was organized. 1,300 people demonstrated
their outrage at the murder. They
assembled in Haymarket Square, in the
downtown Ciiicago area. After several
leaders spoke, it began to rain and the
crowd started to disperse. Suddenly, a
large contingent of police appeared. Then,
a bomb exploded in their midst; several
policemen were killed, others were
wounded. The police responded by firing
into the crowd, killing at least one
worker, and injuring dozens of others.

It was never determined who threw the
bomb, although it is'suspected that it was
a hired provocateur in an attempt to
discredit the eight-hour day movement,
attack the workers, and discredit the
leaders.
Six of the leaders of'the eight-hour day
movement were immediately arrested, and
charged not with throwing the bomb, but
with being "accomplices" to murder
because they had created the "atmosphere" in which the bomb was thrown.
Four of the leaders were hanged on
November 11, 1887. 6,000 people
marched in their procession, and hundreds of thousands lined the streets in
support.
News of the Haymarket Massacre and
the victory of the eight-hour day
movement spread throughout the world.
Working people in other countries took
up the fight for the shortened work day.
Since 1886, May Day has been
celebrated internationally. In many European countries, people strike, and march
through the streets, dancing and singing—
demanding an end to all oppression. In
China and other socialist countries, it is a
national holiday and no one works.
Instead, they celebrate, with theater,
music, and dance, the victory of workers'
rule in their countries!
The May 1st celebration is not only for
"factory workers" or "nine-to-fivers".
Across the world, students have played
an important role in the movement to
create a society in which people can
determine how they want to live.
Furthermore, a quarter of the students at
Evergreen presently work on campus, and
many others are forced to work
elsewhere. For most of us, our post-graduation lives will largely be spent working
at alienating jobs that we take solely for
the purpose of supporting ourselves. But
there is a growing movement to created
the possibility of a truly human existence,
and May Day is our day to celebrate it!
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During the next three days, Third World brothers and sisters will be gathering from &£!
across the nation and around the world to celebrate the Third World Bicentennial Forum,
welcome you to the Forum, for you are the Forum. You will be introducing the issues
ideas, creating the dialogue and hopefully plans for the future. — Third World people i|
v?;-helping each other, our right to self-determination.
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| The Forum is not intended to be just another "conference." We know how those go. We i%|
v^rall have different needs that can be addressed at this forum, and we all have different j£
>i working solutions and the right to express them.
S
It's time for some serious work. There are questions to be answered, prioritizing of ^
issues and the demonstration of the programs we have created. It's also time for us to cele- ™
brate, to celebrate and share some of the oldest and richest cultures in the world. We
don't need to have red, white and blue shoved down our throats as America celebrates its
..^bicentennial. It's time for America to recognize our bicentennial, the Third World Bicen<|i|tennial Forum.
So let us all meet together for the next three days. Let us share our ideals and put
^ogether our imaginations, to work, plan, sing and celebrate.
Welcome to the Third World Bicentennial Forum.

I

FRIDAY 4/25
9 am REGISTRATION BEGINS —
ALL DAY IN CAB BUILDING
LOBBY
10 am Opening ceremonies, Native
American Spiritual Gathering — LIBRARY — MAIN LOBBY
11 am Who Rules America: A Radical Economic Analysis — Peter
Kwang — Lib. 2129
Exploring the Philosophy of
the Third World — Hedar Reghaby
& Cruz Esquivel — CAB 110
12 noon - LUNCH BREAK
1 pm PANEL Discussion " 1 turd
World Women" (Third World
Women's Organizations, Involvement in Liberation Movements and
the women's liberation issue) L H 4
Wounded Knee: Before and
during the trials — Lib 2419
Legal Aid and Asian Counseling Problems — Asian Counseling and Referral Service, Seattle —
Lib 2129
2 pm Ethnomusicology — Dumi
Maraire — Lib 1417
Community Health Care Programs — Asian Free Health Clinic,
Seattle — Lib 2129
Solo vocalist Enid McAdoo
performing in the Main Library
Lobby
Asian Coalitions: local, regional and national — Art Wang —
Lib 2419
3 pm PANEL Discussion "Racism
between Third World Peoples" (This
panel is open to attendance by
Third World People only.) — L H 4
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** Schedule •«*
Bi-lingual Education — Maxine Chan — Lib 2129
Career Counseling — Amy
Garca & Teresa Cardenas — Lib
2419
4 pm Health Care — Graciala Cisneros — Lib 2419
Third World People in Media
— Karen Denard, Art Morrison &
Andy Reynolds — CAB 110
5 pm - DINNER BREAK
Dinner served 4th floor library building, dining facilities 4th
floor and 1st floor lobby of library
building.
6 — 6:30 — Recap Session
6:30 Teatro del Piojo performance
Main Lobby Library building
7:30 Poetry readings, Main Lobby
Library Building
Rita Trujillo, Laureen Mar &
Erskine White
9 pm Samoan Fire Dance — Danny
Pritchard, Main Lobby, Library
Building or outside if weather permits
10 pm Mixed Emotions — Library,
Main Lobby — Dumi Maraire
SATURDAY 4/26
9 am REGISTRATION CONTINUES in CAB lobby, register here for
housing, food and workshop space.
10 am East Coast Asian Movements
— Barbara Tsao, New York — Lib.
2129
PANEL Discussion "Health
Care" — L H 4
11 am Third World People in Amer-

ica: Dialogue and alternatives —
Velma Halliburton — Lib 2129
Theater workshop by Teatro
del Piojo — Lib 3234 & third floor
library mezzanine, for practice
12 noon - LUNCH BREAK
1 pm PANEL Discussion "Justice"
-LH4
Asian American Movements
and Political Ideology — Gary
Young Kim — Lib 2419
Poetry workshop — Rita'
Trujillo — Lib 2129
Theater presentation by
Third World Women's Coalition,
University of Washington (10 Minutes) — Main Lobby, Library
Theater/Dance workshop —
Mike Perez — Lib 3234 & 3rd floor
library mezzanine, for practice
2 pm PANEL Discussion "Alternative Education" — L H 4
Treaties and fishing rights —
Sid Mills & Fred Lane — Lib 2419
Dance performance by
J.O.M. Native American children —
Main Lobby, Library
Afrikan Liberation Struggles
— Thurmond Burgess — Lib 2129
3 pm Community Organizing —
Tomas Ybarra — Lib 2205
Behaviour Modification and
Psychosurgery — Mitsuo Takahashi
— Lib 2129
Chicano Literature and Education — Gary Padilla — Lib 2419
Dance performance by Mike
Perez — Main Library Lobby
Native Americans In and Out
of Prisons — Dog Nedeau, Sally

NoHeart Fixico, Phil Lane and
Jackie Delahunt — CAB 110
4 pm PANEL Discussion "NUTRITION" - L H 4
Education and the Internal
Colony: The Chicano Experience —
Francisco Hernandez — Lib 2205
Third World People in Communications — Rita Fujiki & Mayumi Tsutakawa — Lib 2129
Contemporary Problems and
Solutions in the Native American
Community — John Chiquite & Ramona Bennett — Lib 2419
UJAMAA Main Lobby, Library
5 pm - DINNER BREAK
Dinner served 4th floor library, building, dining facilities 4th
floor and 1st floor lobby of library
building.
6 — 6:30 — Recap Session
8 pm BENEFIT CONCERT —
Buffy Saint Marie & Floyd Westerman — Admission: general public
3.50, students 2.50, senior citizens
2.00 and children under 12, 1.00.
SUNDAY 4/26
10 am Native American Spiritual
Ceremony to be followed immediately by A BRUNCH
12:00 Afrikan Folk Tale Reading by
Charles Canada, Main Lobby, Library
Cuba: Veneeremos Brigade
— Karen Bass & Larry Gossett —
Lib 2129
1 pm PANEL Discussion "Labor"
— LH4
1:30 CLOSING PERFORMANCES
2 pm Poetry, dance, theater (Reymond Turner, Dumi Maraire, Joe
Brazil, Joe Henderson tentative) —
Main Lobby, Library

f GRIM f ILA4S
These films will run every day of the Forum from 11 am to 5 pm:
AS LONG AS THE RIVERS RUN (62 min) 1971
This film was made between Autumn 1968 and Winter 1970. It deals with the confrontations between Native Americans and game authorities over fishing rights in Washington
State. Scenes in this documentary include: Frank's Landing in the Nisqually River, "fishins" on the Puyallup River and the capture of Alcatraz Island in California.
A SONG FOR DEAD WARRIORS (25 min) 1973
This film is the first dealing with the Spring 1973 Wounded Knee occupation by the Oglala
Sioux and A.I.M. Russell Means appears in the film to discuss the reasons for the occupation and the philosophy of Indian self-determination. Chief Charley Red Cloud and Medi-•
cine Man hrank Fools Crow speak on the true laws of the Sioux and the abuses of the BIA. '
FINALLY GOT THE NEWS (55 min) 1970
A documentary on the worker's view of conditions inside Detroit's auto factories and the
efforts of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers to organize an independent black
labor union.
A LUTA CONTINUA (32 min) 1971
The most comprehensive and best introductory film to deal with the national liberation
movement in Mozambique, South Africa. The film explores the historical background and
economic interests of Portugese colonialism in South Africa.
CHILE WITH POEMS AND GUNS (55 min) 1973
A film about the military coup in which Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government
was overthrown. The film has a perspective of the three years of Popular Unity government not found in American news media. The nature and extent of U.S. corporate and
government in Chile's economy and political arena is explored.
ATTICA (80 min) 1974
A highly dramatic film investigation of the 1971 Attica Prison rebellion that ended in
massacre The film presents a view from both inside and outside the prison. Both the side
of the prisoners and the National Guardsman is shown. The film begins with the events
and conditions that led to the rebellion, follows the negotiations and rebellions to the aftermath — the reaction of people on the outside to the demands of the people on
inside.
•
continued on next page

These photos represent the varied art forms found in the Third World Bicentennial Forum Art Exhibit in the Library Gallery. The
collection includes the works of many of the most promising Third World artists in the United States. A great part of the collection
comes from artists in the San Francisco area.
After the Forum the show will travel to the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle and then to other cities in the U. S.
In addition to the Library exhibit, a number of silk-screen posters from the La Raza Silk-screen Center will be displayed in the old
Library fourth floor cafeteria.
April 24, J975
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By TI FLEMING
For me, the Third World Bicentennial
Forum is a measure of how far we, as
people, might go ... and how far we
have to go.
How far do we have to go? Recently I
was in San Francisco, living in Chinatown, a world apart from California. The
area seems oblivious to change — houses
stand wall-to-wall on narrow and steep
streets that teem with people. Parents
bring the newest child out to be admired.
Grandmothers carry children on their
backs in cloth slings, children roller skate
up and down the hills.
Tourists still wander down Grant Ave.,
carefully trying not to stare. A bald man
stopped by a Baskin-Robbins shop and
said, "In Chinatown this is 'Locky Load'!"
I glared at him, feeling like a one-person
Mau-Mau squad. A woman about a foot
from me shrilled, "How can they want to
live like this!" They is me — I wonder if
she thought that I didn't understand
English.
Maybe I don't understand the white
middle-class version of English, the dialect
that assumes that all people aspire to
white middle-class language and values.
Many people of many races do strive for
these kinds of values, but not all people.
Until' recent times, members of the
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Personal
Bicentennial The Forum will bring together people of
chosen to retlect heritage, then the individual was often at odds with society.
Kids who wanted to succeed outside
Chinatown lived dual lives. Ironically, we
wore jeans and ate at McDonalds. On the
other hand, we came home, were polite to
elders, and studied conscientiously.
Being "Americanized" meant a blending
of two cultures. But to be "American"
meant giving up one life-style for another
— becoming an Uncle Tom, a Banana, an
Oreo. But it was difficult enough to try
and cope with a changing world. But it
was harder to realize that "success" in
American terms meant having central
heating and two bathrooms when all
you'd known was a knocking radiator, a
toilet down the hall, and a galvanized tub
in the kitchen on Saturday night for a
bath.

various races and life-styles to meet, discuss, and reflect upon the alternatives to
our present society. Cultures and spcieties
change. Recently, emphasis has been put
on retaining a "native" culture within the
context of white society. Whether or not
this idea is feasible remains to be seen.
But a step forward has teen taken, the
myth of "melting pot" is being explored.
Asians, Blacks, Native Americans, and
Chicanos mixed with white society does
not make American stew. We have gone
far to realize this.
But we still have far to go to find a society that reflects the contributions of all
the populace.
The Forum is for the people — all
people — but more importantly, it's fpr
me.

The Forum: A History=

The FORUM was conceived by a group of Evergreen students — representing the
various ethnic coalitions on campus — during the summer of 1974. They met to discuss
planning events for the Bicentennial, and became aware of the unique and vital role that
such a FORUM could play. Subsequently an ad hoc planning committee was formed to
test the community's reaction to such a project. The College reacted favorably and sponsored an exploratory trip to the major Third World community centers from Washington
to California. With a meager budget and volunteer help, the FORUM Committee designed
posters and introductory brochures, flyers and leaflets, and scheduled- meetings with over
100 groups/individuals on the trip. The reactions from Washington to the Bay Area were
almost unanimously in favor of the FORUM. Numerous organizations agreed to serve as
information centers; many will send participants to the FORUM.
The organizational structure of the FORUM consists of a TWBF Committee and a
FORUM advisory board. The Committee is composed of 18 students. Several are earning
academic credit through sponsored study contracts, most are volunteers who devote from
5 to 20 hours a week organizing the FORUM. The FORUM Committee is responsible for
all policy decisions, and fulfilling logistical tasks including finance, program, scheduling,
food, housing, transportation, art and cultural events, media and public information. The
FORUM advisory board is a group of eight Evergreen faculty and staff members. The,y
represent the Administration, student activities office, academics, computer services, faculty sponsors and academic departments. Advice, criticism and the facilitation of tasks are
the primary duties of the advisory board.

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Byron Finally Heard
By MARY HESTER
The All Campus Hearing Board, at an
April 20 hearing, reversed Provost Ed
Kormondy's fall quarter decision to disenroll second-year student Jerome Byron.
The board also recommended several
policy changes which will have impact on
future hearing board meetings and disenrollment procedures.
Byron was disenrolled at the end of fall
quarter, according to Kormondy, for violating Evergreen's Social Contract's
standards of "reasonable conduct" and
disrupting the learning process in the
group contract "Towards Expression in
Poetry" taught by visiting faculty member
William Burford. Byron was later reinstated at the beginning of spring quarter
by Superior Court Judge Henry who
ordered a hearing take place. Previously
the All Campus Hearing Board had refused to hear Byron's grievance on the
basis of insufficient grounds.
In their April 21 memo the board stated
the original disenrollment was void
because
— informal mediation, as required by
the Committee on Governance Document
(COG) never occurred between Burford
and Byron,
— "reasonable standards of conduct"
which Kormondy cited in his December 6
disenrollment letter to Byron "did not
April 24, 1975

sufficiently inform the petitioner of the
charges againsi him" and,
— the evidence presented by Kormondy
at the hearing "was not sufficient to substantiate" alleged violations of the Social
Contract.
Concerning future disenrollment procedures and hearing board policies the hearing board made several recommendations:
— students receive a hearing before disenrollment occurs,
— the burden of proof lie with the person seeking the disenrollment,
— the question of how to insure oneto-one and third party, informal mediation be answered before another hearing
board convenes,
— urged all administrators in disenrollment procedures to cite specifically how
the Social Contract was violated and,
— hearing board procedure follow state
statutes during disenrollment hearings.
The Hearing Board affirmed Kormondy's authority to disenroll students but
also noted that "this must be done in accordance with the procedures as well as
the substantive due process guaranteed in
the COG document."
It urged all administrators in disenrollment hearings to cite both the violated
portions of the Social Contract and the
specific acts of the individual relating to
the violation. "Violations of this contract
must be noted so the student knows
where her or his violations occurred and

can be prepared to present a defense in an
open hearing of the grievance."
The Hearing Board also stated that
"meaningful efforts should be made to
conform to the statutes of the state toncerning disenrollment. Evergreen's procedure must follow the directives of the pertinent Revised Code of Washington
statute (RCW), or any disenrollment will
be meaningless in outside court action."
The procedures utilized by the hearing
board on Monday were brought into
question several times during Byron's
April 20th hearing. At one point in the
hearing Byron's attorney John Braithwaite
questioned, "Are you going to utilize state
law or informal procedures?" Kormondy
later angrily retorted, "This is not a court
of law."
In response to the Hearing Board deci- '
sion Kormondy stated, "I do not intend
to appeal it to the Board of Trustees . . .
it was a peer group decision." He continued, "If issues and answers with
regards to students' rights came out of the
hearing — all to the better."
Kormondy also commented that the
college hearing board procedures will
probably have to be modified to conform
to the requirements of state law.
John Foster, coordinator of the Ombuds/Advocate Office stated after the
hearing board decision that the O/A'
office will recommend to the Hearing
Board Procedures Disappearing Task
Force that the hearing board begin to follow the guidelines set forth in the State
Higher Education Administrative Procedures Act 28B.19. The purpose of the act
is to provide a uniform framework for the
conduct of hearings which affect the Substantial rights of individuals in higher education institutions.
•
The Hearing Board in their memo also
stated several reasons why it was "difficult to make a decision." They wrote they
were "forced by the Thurston County Superior Court and Assistant Attorney
General Richard M. Montecucco (Evergreen's legal counsel), to convene" without being informed of Byron's specific
reasons for requesting a hearing. Also,
there was no response to Byron's grievance by Kormondy and "no clarification
of the charges prior to the hearing."
Other reasons cited were that informal
mediation, the first step in settling disputes according to the COG document,
never occurred between Byron and Burford and that Burford, now residing in
Texas, was not present at Monday's hearing "thus making a judgment of his role
and responsibility in this case difficult."
Byron is currently suing The Evergreen
State College in Superior Court for suspending him without a hearing which allegedly violates RCW 28B.19.
The Hearing Board members who decided the issue were students Neil Bogue,
Corrie Hiaght, Ellen Mosier, staff members Chas Davies, Gail M a r t i n , Al
Spence, and faculty member Ron Woodbury.
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Feds Bust Printshop
By JIM FEYK
An investigation into the illegal
reproduction of a batch of prestamped
postcards here is being conducted by the
U.S. Postal Service. The investigation was
initiated last week after a distribution
clerk in the Olympia Main Post Office
discovered that he'd been sorting bogus
cards. Although no formal charges have
been filed, an Evergreen student and the
employees of the print shop may now
face federal felony charges. The impression that some school administrators have
however, is that no charges will be filed.
Potentially, the charges are very serious
indeed.", said Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh last Monday after
attending a meeting with the investigators, lawyers, and persons directly
involved. Speaking with Evergreen student William Hirshman during a interview
for KAOS radio station, Clabaugh stated,
"If it had been done willfully or with an
intention to defraud, not only could there
be serious civil penalties like confiscation
of the press, but there could also be
extremely serious criminal penalties
brought against people involved in the
reproduction and also in the mailing of
the documents. But as it developed, and I
think that both the postal inspector and
the secret service representative were well
convinced of this, there was no intention
to defraud. The printing resulted, I think,
purely from thoughtlessness and the using
of another student, working under a
faculty member, of the cards, was done in
totally good faith, thinking that they were
valid cards. It's still possible that the U.S.
Attorney's office in Seattle could file some
charges but I'm under the impression
today, having talked to the people, that
there will be no charges filed. And no
serious harm will come of the event."
The counterfeit cards originated sometime over a week ago when a student,
working on an individual study contract
with Faculty Member Maxine Mimms,
designed an invitation to an informal
coffee, tea, and discussion session that
was to be printed on the back of a
postcard and sent out to Olympia area
housewives. The student, took the card to
the school print shop where both sides
were reproduced into 200 copies.
In sorting the mail later, a postal
employee noticed that the stamp imprinted on the postcard was done in black ink
instead of the customary red and the
already sorted cards were pulled out and,
presumably, a postal inspector was then
called in to investigate. Since the student's
name was given in the message and the
invitation referred to an event at
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Evergreen the investigators must have had
little difficulty in determining where to go
first.
The afternoon of the 17th, U.S. Postal
Inspector Gerald R. Siler and Secret
Service Agent Eugene H. Hussey arrived
at Evergreen where they first went to
Maxine Mimms' office, supposedly to find
the student responsible for mailing the
cards. When the Journal questioned
Mimms about the event, she responded,
"I really don't think this is anybody's
business. I don't think there's any level of
maturity (at the Journal) to cope with it."
Little is known, therefore, about the
event, although one could surmise that
the agents flashed their badges and the
student was read her rights. At least that's
what happened a short while later when
the agents descended upon the print shop
in the library building basement.
In recounting the event, Dan Meier
explained that "she (the student) was just
a confused student helper, and we
certainly weren't at fault. I wasn't making
any profit on it...and Carlos wasn't...and
Howard wasn't "
The next day, Friday the 18th, the
agents searched records and files in an
effort to determine if violations had been
occurring before. As a result of this
search, a different violation of postal
regulations was investigated concerning
some mailing done by the Third World
Bicentennial Forum.
On Monday, the 21st, a meeting was
held in the Business Office. In attendance
were the two agents, assistant to the
Attorney General, Richard A. Montecucco, who is representing the school,
Dean Clabaugh, Maxine Mimms, Mr.
Jacobsen from the State Auditor's Office,
Arnie Doerksen, the school's Purchasing
Agent who is top supervisor of the print
shop, Howard, Griffith, Meier, Ortiz, the
student and her attorney, Carol Fuller.
According to the accounts of witnesses,
the agents quickly impressed everyone in
attendance of the seriousness of the
matter. When Mimms expressed a
nervous chuckle, it was cut short by the
cold glances of the agents. The student
who mailed the cards appeared shaken
and refused to sign anything. The agents
described the specific charges that could
be filed and the penalities that could
result from convictions. In effect, these
are: (1) the mailing of counterfeit stamps,
(2) the making of a plate for counterfeit
stamps, and (3) reproducing counterfeit
copies from the plate. Each charge carries
with it a maximum fine of $15,000 and 15
years in prison.
When questioned later about whether
print shop employees were ever given any

counsel about what is legal to print,
Doerksen remarked, "Anyone with a third
grade education knows you can't print
currency." Asked if he thought that there
was any intention to defraud, he replied,
"I think the Postal Service recognizes it as
a very bad case of judgement."
Doerksen went on to explain the
circumstances regarding the mailing violations of the Third World Bicentennial
Forum. Unrelated to the counterfeit stamp
fiasco, the violations involved the alleged
misuse of Evergreen's'Third Class Bulk
mailing permit. According to the Evergreen Administration Code, "this type of
mail requires a postal permit (Evergreen
Postal Permit 65) and may be used only
when 200 or more pieces' or 50 pounds of
the same material are to be mailed at the
same time. Form letters must be identical,
except for date, name, and addressee,
which, along with the signature, may be
filled in on the form. All envelopes must
be of the same size, and shape and must
contain an identical number of enclosures." What happened, evidently, was
that there were two mass mailings of
Third Class Bulk flyers in which 1200
were sent once and 600 were sent later.
Sometime later, two flyers that somehow
got separated from the first two mailings
were sent out alone. Then, two number
10 manila envelopes containing personal
services contracts were also mailed with
Third Class Bulk mail permits. The first
two flyers were supposed to have been
with a group of 200 or more, and the two
manila envelopes were supposed to have
been sent First Class. In regard to this,
Doerksen said, "If people are going to
abuse the Third Class Bulk mailing
permit, they will jeopardize its use for the
rest of the school." He added that the
consequence of the loss of the permit
could mean an increase of $20,000.00 in
postal expenses for the school.
"There's no indication that we'll be told
anything at all," said Doerksen, answering a question about when he expects
notification of determination of the
investigation. In response to the same
question, Montecucco expressed optimism
when he said that he hoped "they would
advise the college in a week or so." In the
meantime, Faculty Member Hap Freund
has agreed to represent Carlos Ortiz, the
Third World Bicentennial Forum faces a
possible a u d i t , and the investigation
continues.
„
I ooper Point Journal

continued from page 7
• Hearts and Minds, a social commentary
on the Vietnam war so valuable a
competing theatre owner has taken out
ads advising viewers to go and see it, is
now playing at the Varsity Theatre in
Seattle. The Academy-award winning
documentary, produced by Peter Davis
and Bert Schneider, shows at 7:15 p.m.
and 9:20 p.m. Students may contact the
Women's Center for rides to Seattle.
• Financial Aid will be closed all day
Wednesday, April 30, for a staff retreat.
If necessary leave a message and someone
will call you on Thursday.
•A SUMMER WOMEN'S FESTIVAL will
be held for all women to share skills,
ideas, activities such as carpentry, healthcare, canning, crafts, music . . . Come to
a POTLUCK PLANNING MEETING
April 28 at the Y.W.C.A. 6 p.m.
• Faculty applicant Jaime Mendoza,
Spanish instructor, will be in an open
meeting between 3 and 4 p.m., Friday, in
Lib 1217.
• Volunteers are needed to help with
child care for the Third ^orld Bicenten:
nial Friday April 25, from 9 a.m. .to 10
p.m., Saturday April 26, 9 a.m. - 10
p.m., and Sunday, April 27, 10 a.m. - 5
p.m. We will attempt to make Saturday a
"Men's Day" however, volunteers are
needed for any or all of these times. Contact the Men's Resource Center, Lib 3211
or call 866-6569.
• There will be an informational meeting
for those interested in working on the
Heavy Metal Pollution S.O.S. grant,
Tuesday, April 29 at noon in Lib 3042.

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:• A "Self-Help" Bicycle Repair shop hasopened in the basement of the library
building to help students with busted
bikes. Chris Maynard, head of the organization, advises students that "All the
tools aren't in yet, but there is someone
down there to help people."
• All students interested in joining the
group contract, "Humanistic Psychology:
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will be offered Fall 1975, must fill out
"mandatory questionnaires" before they
will be accepted into the program, according to faculty member Wini Ingram. The
questionnaires can be picked up at Ingram's office, LIB 2209.
• Counseling Services will sponsor two
workshops during May. The workshops
are on "The Art of Knowing Self." The
first will be held May 2 to May 4 while
the other workshop will meet each Tuesday, from May 6 to May 27. The groups
will be limited to 20 persons and will include meditation, dream reflection, clay
work, writing and mandala drawing. Registration is $20. For more information
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• Lois Roth, supervisor of Reading for
the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, will conduct a workshop on the
Teaching of Reading May 1 from 9:30
a.m. to 2 p.m. in LIB. 1612.
Persons interested in attending the free
public workshop are invited to contact
the Timberland Regional Library at 4918475 or the Evergreen Library, 866-6262.
• Smoking is officially prohibited in the
college library according to a new regulation issued by the state Public Health
Commission. The regulation became effective April 15 and the library has designated one of the upstairs study lounges as
the only official "smoking area." Signs
suggesting that people not smoke have
been ordered from the state and will be
posted in the library as soon as they
arrive. According to Librarian Susan
Smith, the library personnel will not be
responsible for intervening if someone illegally smokes.
• The American Zionist Youth Foundation is presenting a workshop on "Israel:
The Jew and the Middle East." The workshop held Friday, May 2 through Sunday,
May 4. Registration for the workshop will
be Friday, May 2 at 5 p.m. in CAB 110.
Registration will be $12.50 and includes
meals from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. Details of the workshop's events
will be forthcoming. For further information contact Ted Gerstl at 866-6616 or
Melissa Kaplan at 866-8464.
• Students interested in summer jobs can
get help by writing to Scientific and Professional Enterprises, a research company
doing work in that area.
Enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope and mail to:
Scientific and Professional Enterprises
College Division
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Palo Alto, California 94306
• Ralph Nader will speak on the Public
Information Research Group, (PIRG) at
Pacific Lutheran University, Tuesday,
April 29 at 8:30 p.m. There will be some
transportation available. For further information call 866-6597, 866-6605 or 9432066.
• The Publications Board will meet Friday, May 2 at 1 p.m. in Lib. 3121.
Evergreen will have its own Mayday celebration on May 1 in Red
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freed Cambodia's capital. Lon Nol's tears
were certainly not for the Cambodian
people. For the last four years the vast
majority of the people and countryside of
Cambodia have been united under the
GRUNC's leadership in fighting to oust
Lon Nol and the U.S. from their country.
This victory makes it clear that while
the imperialist superpowers, the U.S. and
the Soviet Union (the Soviet Union actually insured U.S. arms shipments to Lon
Nol!) will always resort to war to protect
their holdings in other countries, they
cannot defeat the people when we are
firmly united around a common cause. In
Vietnam and Laos the people have demonstrated time and again their support of
the armed struggle for the liberation of
their countries from imperialism. The latest military hardware, whether it be Boeing bombers or Dow napalm are totally
incapable of stopping these victories of
the people.
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torture, murder, and repression by the
puppet governments of South Vietnam
against the masses of Vietnamese is on its
way out!
The American people have good cause
to celebrate the liberation of Cambodia
and the downfall of the Thieu regime in
Vietnam. For the victory of the people of
Indochina is also a victory for us. The
American people built a mass movement
against the U.S. involvement in Indochina
which encompassed millions and included,
along with students, thousands of veterans, active duty GI's and workers, many
of whom were of minority nationalities.
We can see more clearly than ever before
that the American people and the Indochinese people share a common enemy —
the U.S. monopoly capitalist class — and
a common destiny — liberation from the
chains of oppression and exploitation.
We can see from Vietnam and from our
own growing struggles here at home that
the imperialists are in fact very weak,
whereas the strength of the people is
growing day by day. Strangled by the
deepening economic crisis which their
own system inevitably created, the corporations and the government are launching a series of vicious attacks on the
working and all people in this country, attempting to make us bear the burden for
their desperate situation in the form of
massive unemployment, skyrocketing
prices, slashes in education and social
services. And, once more, they are threatening a new world war, this time in the
Mideast.
But the people at home are fighting
back. The American people are building a
mighty movement that will signal the end
for Kissinger, Rockefeller and their whole
class. We won't fight in their imperialist
wars any longer. We will fight against
them — to wipe out this system where
people are only of use to the capitalists
when we're making a profit for them, and
getting thrown out on the streets when we
can't serve them in any of those ways.
So yes, we're proud to celebrate the
victory of our friends, the people of Vietnam and Cambodia. And as we celebrate,
we will look forward to the day when the
people of the whole world will be celebrating the end of oppression, exploitation and war forever.
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RAPE PREVENTION
To the Point:
Several books have been published in
the past year or two on Rape and Rape
Prevention Tactics. Most could be
"criticized" only for the lack of "most
current" statistics, legal revisions, etc.
Most try to help the rape victim and
potential victim deal with her options, her
feelings, and the world around her.
Various methods are detailed to help
eliminate the philosophy which encourages Rape.
Perhaps because these books have all
been either good or excellent, we have
failed to stress one over another, with the
attitude "They're all good." Unfortunately, this is no longer true" since the
publication of the book and film "How to
Say No to a Rapist and Survive" by
Frederic Storaska. Members of Rape
Relief unanimously reject the majority of
the ideas, attitudes and techniques
prescribed in his bdok or his film.
Although he may have minor "tools" in
"his program" to help potential victims,
his presentation is so insulting, sexist, and
full of mis-information, the validity of
these tools is questionable. The author
seems to be a profiteer with little regard
for the consequences from his attitude of
placing on women additional guilt, sexist
solutions, and the denial of rights of free
people.
There are other alternatives, exemplified in such books on rape as: "Rape How to Avoid it & What to do about it if
you can't" by June and Joseph Csida;
"Against Rape" by Andra Medea «&
Kathleen Thompson; "Stop Rape" by
Women Against Rape; "Rape: Victims of
Crisis" by Ann Burgess & Linda
Holmstrom; and "Rape: The First
Sourcebook for Women" by Noreen
Connell and Cassandra Wilson.
Rape Relief is currently presenting a
discussion series, beginning May 7th with
"Rape Prevention through Child Rearing".
These will be at the YWCA, 220 Union
from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Other
discussions to follow: "Self Awareness/
Self Defense" - June 4th, "The Rapist and
the Rape Victim" - July 2, and "Rape and
the Law" - August 6. For further
information call YWCA - 352-0593.
Rape Relief
Linda, Mary, Nora, Marlene, etc.

Applications are being taken for the editorship of the
Cooper Point Journal for fall quarter 1975. Those persons interested should submit their applications to
Margaret Gribskov in Lib 1602 by May 20. The selection of the new editor will take place at the Publications Board hearing on Friday, May 23.

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Frankenstein and Brooks ham it up

Young Frankenstein;OId Lines
By ROBERT W. MC CHESNEY
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein has received a great deal of press coverage in
the past few months and has finally come
to Olympia. To the avid film-goer a comedy is generally a "must see" unless it
plunges the depths of stupidity. Thus we
find people far more responsive to mediocre comedy than mediocre drama. This
is because while comedy often reveals
flashes of genius, second-rate drama tends
only to accentuate its idiocy. Furthermore, the past decade has seen fewer attempts at comedy; thus the few films of
this nature that are released often find
thirsty and enthusiastic audiences. However, 'Young Frankenstein is a very disappointing film and the only satisfied viewers will be die-hard Mel Brooks fans or
horror film freaks.
Two tendencies have developed within
Him comedies over the years. One is the
"story-line" tendency which emphasizes the
script and does not allow for slapstick or
"one-liners." Examples of this range from
Doris Day situation comedies to films like
MASH. The other tendency is that of
"forget-the-story" while emphasizing mimicry, slapstick and one-line jokes. Examples of this range from the Three Stooges
to the Marx Brothers.
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The recent films of Mel Brooks tend to
vacillate between these tendencies. In The
Producers he stayed close to a clever plot
while in Blazing Saddles he abandoned
the story at will in order to get laughs.
Young Frankenstein is situated somewhere
between these two; unfortunately the plot
lacks the originality of the former while
the film in general looks stale in comparison to the fresh vitality of Blazing Saddles.
The story takes Dr. Frankenstein's
grandson (Gene Wilder), who is a professor in the United States, back to Transylvania to carry on the experiments of
his grandfather. The fact that Dracula,
not Frankenstein, came from Transylvania
is quite academic. In the family castle
young Frankenstein attempts to bring life
to a dead body with the aid of a hunchbacked Igor (Marty Feldman) and a
buxom assistant. Finally the "monster"
comes to life (played by Peter Boyle) with
a half-wit brain only to terrorize the villagers. A chase scene climaxes the film led
by a wooden-armed cliche of a policeman and finally everyone lives happily
ever after.
Historically great comedy has been that
which is able to expose the follies of the
times; the way people think of themselves
or roles different people play in society.
This comedy extends from the Ancient

Greeks, to Moliere, to Keaton and Chaplin in our century. It succeeds by looking
at reality from a different approach and
by carrying personalities and ideas to
logical, yet ridiculous, extremes. In American film today Woody Allen comes-closest to this ideal while among stand-up
comics an entire new school has developed along these lines, and features persons such as Richard Pryor and George
Carlin. This school deals with reality and
human experiences honestly and draws
laughter from the recesses of our emotions
and our intellects.
Mel Brooks, who along with Gene
Wilder wrote the screenplay, occasionally
shows flashes of genius and is a very talented director. However, most of his humor is childish and redundant. Instead of
dealing with human experience in all its
richness and irony Brooks appeals-to our'
sexual and ethnic prejudices. Instead of
revealing them for the sham they are,
Brooks plays off them for the quick laugh
and the quick buck. His style is often the
"telegraph" method where the joke is obvious well before the ^ punch line so that
by the time the joke is completed you're
wishing it had never begun. Brooks insults his audience by reiterating humorous
points after the joke has been made.
Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks falls
under the realm of "escapist" comedy.
This is the idea that since laughing is fun
while life usually isn't, people go to comedies to have fun and forget the world. In
"escapist" comedy the point is to get the
greatest number of paying customers to
laugh by any means necessary. However,
the entire proposition of "escapist" comedy is a nebulous one. Laughter is an
emotional capability and one of human-- .
ity's greatest assets. It should not be relegated to the darkened theatre while the
"stiff upper lip" is our greeting card to the
world. Comedy should seek to integrate
our emotions and our thoughts towards
ourselves and our environment by creating funny situations we can relate to in a
real and meaningful sense. By laughter we
must enjoy ourselves but we should gain
some insight into ourselves. This is where
; comedy leaves the realm of "just-anotherbusiness" and enters that of art.
If Young Frankenstein made us laugh
heartily even its "escapist" guise would
not prevent us from recommending it.
There is talent but it is squandered on a
backlog of second-rate jokes. Both Gene
Wilder and Marty Feldman are real professionals at comedy acting. The movie is
at its funniest when it satirizes the stereotyped horror film. However these movies
were pretty ridiculous to begin with and
constantly lampooning them grows a bit
tedious. Young Frankenstein also scores
points when it ridicules itself somewhat
like a TV variety show skit ridiculing a
situation comedy. This is the strength of
the film but also its tragic failing; Brooks'
humor is that of a creative television
scriptwriter, not that of a serious comedy
film maker.
Cooper Point Journal

CULTURE GUIDE
OLYMPIA

In Concert

Extra, PO Box B, Seattle 98109.
Maid's Tragedy, presented by
the UW School of Drama in the
Glenn Hughes Playhouse through
Saturday 5-3. For ticket information call the UW drama department.

In Concert

Cinema
Friday 4-25
Friday Nile Films: Hour of the
Furnaces. L H 1.
Sunday 4-27
Evergreen Coffeehouse: The
Chase" starring Marlon Brando,
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.
Shows at 7 and 9:30 p.m. ASH
Commons.

Florence Mesler, lyric-spinto
soprano will present arias from
American opera. Meany Hall,
UW, 8 p.m.,
students $1,
others $2.

on their homestead farm. Doors
open at 8 p.m., open mike at
8:30, admission $1.

Saturday 4-26

Chick Corea will appear in concert with Larry Coryell at Paramount. Show starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets $4.50, $5 and $5.50. All
seats reserved.

Saturday 4-26

Monday 4-28
EPIC Films: Operation Abolition, concerns the struggle by the
National Committee Against the
House Unamerican Activities
Committee Shows at 1:30 and
7:30 p.m., L H 1. The film will be
followed by speaker Lyle Mercer.

Friday 4-25

Friday 4-25
Applejam: The first half of the
evening will be filled by Bob
Bovee and his harmonica, and
maybe some banjo. For the
second half Judith and Michael
will entertain with songs of life

Applejam: Snake Oil, a local
string band, will perform with
mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass,
dobro, fiddle, and vocals. Doors
open at 8 p.m., open mike at
•8:30, admission $1.

by Ingmar Bergman. Shows at
7:30 p.m., 130 Kane Hall.

Sunday 4-27
Tuesday 4-29
Academic Film Series: Claire's
Knee, shows at 1:30 and 7:30
p.m. in L H 1.
Wednesday 4-30
EPIC Films: Hanoi 13, shows at
1:30 and 7:30 p.m. in L H 1.
The evening show will be followed by speaker Diane Jones, a
member of the Indochina Peace
Campaign.

Jeffrey Van, classical guitarist,
will perform at 3 p.m. at St. Martin's College, and again at 8 p.m.
in the State Capitol Museum.
Malvina Reynolds, a 75-yearold folk singer from Berkeley,
performs her own songs at a family concert. Show at 7:30 p.m. at
the Theatre Art Nouveau, 911 E.
4th St., admission $2 for adults,
$1 for children.

Art

Ongoing
Capitol Theatre: Chinatown.
Phone 357-7161.
State Theatre: Young Frankenstein. Phone 357-4010.
Information on the Olympic
Theater was unavailable at deadline. Phone 357-3422.

Saturday 4-26 through Saturday
5-77
The Lewis County Art League's
17th Annual Open Exhibition will
be open in the Chehalis Library
Gallery in the Civic Center.

Saturday 4-26

ASUW Major Films Series: One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, starring Tom Courtenay.
King Rat, starring George Segal.
Shows at 7:30 p.m., 130 Kane
Hall.
Sunday 4-27

A S U W Sunday Film Series:
Sleuth, starring Lawrence Olivier
and Michael Caine. The Last of
Sheila, starring Raquel Welch,
Dyan Cannon and James Mason.
Shows at 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
in 130 Kane Hall. Admission is $1
for students, $1.50 for others.

Theater

Theater
SEATTLE

Thursday 4-24

Friday and Saturday 4-25, 26
Send Me No Flowers will continue at the Olympia Little Theater. Shows at 8:15 p.m. Tickets
are available at Yenney's Music
Company or at the door.
Oklahoma, one of the famous
Rogers and Hammerstein musicals, will be presented at St. Martin's College Abbey Theater. Tickets are $2.50, available at the
Abbey Players, Yenney's Music,
and Acorn Decor.
The Odd Couple will be presented by Timberline High School
Drama Club in the school lecture
hall. Tickets $1.50.

Cinema
Thursday 4-24
The Rose Bud Movie Palace:
Libeled Lady, a 1930's comedy
starring Jean Harlow, Spencer
Tracy, William Powell and Myrna

Kyogen, the National Comic
Theater of Japan, will be featured
for the first time in this country
with poetry, acting, and pantomime. Show at 8 p.m. in Meany
Hall, UW. Admission is $3.50 for
students, $4.50 for others.

Ongoing

Loy.

Friday 4-25
ASUW Major Film Series: Repulsion, directed by Roman Polanski. Hour of the Wolf, directed

Joe Walsh is appearing at the
Seattle Center Arena with Pretty
Things at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50
in advance and $6.50 the day of
the concert.

2nd Stage: Valerie Harper and
Anthony Zerbe will appear in two
one-act plays, Lunchtime and
Halloween. Mail orders only, admission $4. Write to 2nd Stage

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass will be performing at 8
p.m. in the Seattle Opera House.

Monday 4-28
Supertramp, with special guest
Chris De Burgh, will be appearing
at the Moore Theater at 8 p.m.
Tickets $3.50 in advance, $4.50 at
the door.

TACOMA

Theater

Friday and Saturday 4-25, 26
Sheep on the Runway, a political satire by Art Buchwald, is being performed at the Tacoma
Little Theater, 210 N. "I" St. For
reservations phone BR 2-2481.
Arts Festival

Friday and Saturday 4-25, 26
Art, sales, demonstrations,
classical guitarist Jeffrey Van,
children's workshops and a homemade bake shop will all be featured at the art festival to be
held in the First United Presbyterian Church, 412 W. Pioneer St.,
Puyallup. Open from 6 to 10 p.m.
Friday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, admission 50 cents.

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