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The Budget Crisis

The Evergreen State College

Olympia, Washingtoi;l

Vol. 3

No. 11

January 9, 1975

COOPER ·POINT JOURNAL
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EDITOR
Sam Solomon
MANAGING EDITOR /
BUSINESS MANAGER
John Foster
NEWS EDITOR
Kim Goodman
CULTURE EDITORS
Nicholas H. Allison
Knute Olsson H.G .S. Berger
COMMENT EDITOR1
Aubrey Dawn
PRODUCTION
Liz Orred
Ingrid Posthumus
ADVERTISING MANAGER
Gary Peterson
SECRETARY
Carol Welch

GENERAL STAFF
Richard Cowley, Jim Feyk, Tom Graham,
Matt Groening, Mary Hester , Wendy
Kramer, Demian A . Porter, Kathy Rich,
Lynn Robb, Eddie L. Spatz, Glenn Willett.
Faculty Adviser: Margaret Gribskov

The Cooper Point Journal is published
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Views expressed are not necessarily those of
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COOPER POINT JOURNAL
The Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington

Evergreen~

Budget

No. 11

January 9, 1975

pageS

"I hope you will emphasize the fictional nature of this exercise," said President Charles McCann to Evergreen's budget heads after they had drawn up
the vastly cut back 1975-77 biennium proposed budget at a meeting last
Dec. 23 .
The meeting was called in an effort to comply with Governor Daniel Evans'
proposals for the state budget. Although a glance at the document
produced at that meeting might inspire the threatening feeling of a
rug being pulled out from under the
college's feet, the mood at the
meeting was not one of panic or
fear, but simply of grim determination to make cuts where necessary
but not cut the heart out of any of
Evergreen's budgetary programs.
Evergreen must face the prospect
of significant cuts in many of the
campus support services . Some of
the services likely to be hardest hit
are the library, academics, campus
activities, counseling, t~e business
office and computer services.
This week's cover story, researched
and written by John Foster and
Knute Olsson Berger, explores the governor's proposed budget, Evergreen's response, and its likely disposition in the state legislature, where the final figures will be agreed upon in the coming session .
COVER STORY ... ............. ................... ................... .......... ........ ... ..... . v .... PAGE 8
JANE FONDA AT EVERGREEN

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Departments
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Announcements . . . .
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Culture Guide

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This week's cover photo was taken by Richard Cowley and shows
Evergreen Presid(!nt Charles McCann comparing the g~1Jemor's budget request with the
current allocation level during the Sounding Board meetmg of /lm . 8.

Drawing , this page, by Lynn Robb .
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Jane Fonda
BY WENDY KRAMER
She stood near the back of the crowd,
leaning against a poster of a wounded
Vietnamese child: "In this year, nineteen
hundred and seventy-one, more civilians
are being killed and wounded in the
countries of Indochina, and . . . " Nobody
recognized her. Nobody realized she was
Jane Fonda.
· After a brief introduction, Ms . Fonda
rose to speak about the continuing United
States involvement in Southeast Asia, and
the group she was representing - the
Indochina Peace Can;tpaign. First she
apologized for the absence of Tom
Hayden by telling the audience he was
taking care of their son Troy who had the
flu. There was a scattering of applause.
She· spoke with a softness, yet was very
eloquent and intense . Her thoughts
seemed disor.ganized but she knew what
she was talking about. "There is no area
in the world as strategic for American
military involvement than Southeast
Asia," Fonda said. "This is the first time
in the history of our country that we are

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losing our sphere of influence. "
Fonda also said there was a possibility
of renewed U.S. involvement in Southeast
Asia, citing reports of the movement of
U .S. warships from the Philippines south
towards Indochina . "I know it seems
difficult to believe this is possible. Ford is
conductmg a covert presidential war.''·
"The struggle of "the Vietnamese people
is the same as the struggles of the people
of the Philippines, the Guatemalan
peasants , the Thailandese, the South
Africans, the Indians at Frank's Landing
struggling for their fishing rights, " Fonda
continued. " After all these years the
Vietnamese are still struggling. The
Vietnamese are saying to these majorities
around the world that it can be done" .
Looking out at all the students gathered
to hear her, Fonda reminisced about her
own days in college . She spok,e of the
"glassy-eyed" look most students seem to
have, "trying to figure out what they
want out of life. There seems to be a
numbness . Students are sold a dream that
many of them still almost believe". She
seemed to be drifting back in time into
her own thoughts . She continued by
saying that the problems in this country
were compounded by the increasing lack
of jobs.

"The working sons of working parents
are sent to fight the wars that do no't
enrich their parents. They see no future
for themselves here, there are no jobs, so
they go to war". The audience laughed at
her description of the army posters, with
their "stars and colors" telling men to
enlist. ''You can walk down the streets of
Los Angeles and there is a large picture of
someone looking just like you telling you
there is always a place in the United
States Army".
Then Fonda spoke ab out the efforts of
IPC, the Indochina Peace Campaign, in
pressuring Congress to cut off funds to
the regime in Southeast Asia . "In the last
year we have cut one and one-half billion
dollars from the military budget. We are
learning ' how to use power. We are
growing up. We are a movement that is
ending the war".
She lowered her voice and said
intensely, "We are so close. If we can
accomplish this year what we accomplished last year we will have won this

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Cooper Point Journal

MOSS JOB DECISION CONTESTED
"I request you to reconsider the deci~ion
to allow John Moss to occupy the dual directorship (of Auxiliary Services and Personnel) without opening it up to hiring,"
stated faculty member Hap Freund before
a crowded Dec . 14 meeting of the Board
of Trustees. "The director of personnel is
a critical position especially with budget
cuts impending ... to make an appointment in this manner creates serious morale
problems."
Moss was appointed on Nov. 13 in a
controversi'al decision by Administrative ·
V~ce-President Dean Clabaugh to replace
D1ann Youngquist as director of personnel
in addition to his duties as director of
auxiliary services.
According to Clabaugh, the decision to
combine the positions was made in order
to obtain a more "productivity-oriented
management" and in anticipation of an
"austere budget for the next biennium"
(See Journal, Vol. 3, .No. 9, Nov. 21,
1974).
In the recently revealed governor's budget of 1975-77, the position of director of
auxiliary services was abolished. Clabaugh, however, stated he was not aware
of this at the time the appointment was
made.
Since the time of the appointment; segments of the community have expressed
dismay and disagreement with the procedure of decision making and the decision
itself. Freund presented the board with petitions containing approximately 150 signatures requesting the trustee members to
·~verrule and rescind Dean Clabaugh's
decision."
The controversy over the appointment
was further complicated by the issue of
affirmative action.
"A considerable amount of Evergreen's
administrators, faculty and also staff
don't seem to distinguish between affirmative 'thought and affirmative action. Opportunities to operationalize the action
seem to be passed up for the lip service
and the rhetoric in terms of affirmative
quality," stated counselor Le Roi Smith.
At the meeting Freund cited a letter
from Jim Carrol of the U.S. Department
of Health , Education and Welfare which
stated that the decision to combine the
two positions, in effect, creates a new job
and must be opened up to competition especially as regarqs women and minorities.
Freund concluded his statement by calling the decision an affront to non-whites
and women and "to all of us who are concerned with affirmative action. " When he
asked those who were opposed to the appointment to stand, almost everyone in
the room rose.
"The concerns need to be mediated . If
mediation isn't successful then the issue
would go to the all-campus hearing
bu ar.d , " responded President Charles
McCann when asked how ·the problem
cnuld be rl'~(lh· l' d . "Tiw n it th ,11 was not
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Campus News

Dean Clabaugh
successful the issue would be brought to
the campus court of final appeal which is
the Board of Trustees ."
Freund asked McCann if he supported
the "method of decision making in this
case."
McCann answered, "I was consulted
about it and it seemed to me, whether an
error or not, at that time, that there had
been an appropriate amount of consultation. "
Clabaugh listed, when interviewed, the
persons he had consulted in making the
decision as McCann , Assistant to the
President Les Eldridge, Dean of Student
Services Larry Stenberg, former Director
of Personnel Diann Youngquist, Director
of Facilities Jerry Schillinger, Acting Di-.
rector of Development Don Von Volkenburg, Business Manager Ken Winkley, Director of Public Relations Dick Nichols
Affirmative Action Officer Rindy Jone~
and the State Attorney General's Office.
At the trustee's meeting Affirmative Action Officer Rindy Jones, one of those
consulted , charg-ed that the decision

"tends to set a very dangerous precedent
in the way we hire people. " She added
that the Govern o r' s Executive Order
11246 points out that "we need to move
toward utilizing more women and nonwhites in the area of employment."
Tom Dixon, Board of Trustees chairman, then told the audience, "The process
was wrong ... the decision was wrong . ..
I'll sign one of the petitions . . . When it
comes time tp vote, I'll vote against it. "
The Board has postponed their next meeting until Jan. 23 in hopes the dispute
would be settled by then .
Formal mediation between Dean Clabaugh and a tentative list consisting of
Academic Dean Lynn Patterson, faculty
members Hap Freund, Naomi Greenhut
and Nancy Allen, staff members Bonnie
Hilts, Patti Allen, Robin Erhart, Ed Evans
and Lee Chambers, and students Perry
Pittman a nd Tina Ware , has been
scheduled fo r 1 p .m. Thursday, Jan . 9 .
In agreeing to mediate, Clabaugh stated
there would be no limitation oh the topics
discussed in mediation, including the issue
of a ffirmati ~e action .

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DEANS OUTLINE PLAN TO
CURT AIL INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTS
Included in a Jan. 2 memo to program
planners from Rudy Martin and the other
academic deans was a proposal to reduce
the number of individual contracts offered
during the 1975-76 school year, perhaps
starting with a trial reduction this spring
quarter.
The deans presented' a variety of reasons for their proposed change, starting
with a concern for academic excellence.

"Stated bluntly then," read the memo,.
"the quality of work we and our students
have done in the individual contract mode
tends to be less uniformly superior than
we'd like to see it be. "
In addition to academic concerns the
deans cite staffing problems, unnecessary
duplication of effort, and difficulty in assigning faculty to areas where their expertise can be best utilized.
"First, we want to limit the number of
individual contracts available to a maximum of about 15 percent of our student
body (that would be about 400 for next

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fall - last quarter, 577 students were on
individual contracts) ; it would mean 20
or 25 FTE (full-time equivalent) faculty
would be individual contract sponsors, "
said the deans in their memo, after explaining their rationale. They go on to
say , "Second, we'll pull some people together and devise a proposal method
through which students will enter individual contract work. It might work something like this : Students could work with
faculty to develop a project and supporting academic work, present the proposal
to one · or more faculty who could assess
the. project and accept or reject the proposal, students could write up accepted
projects as contracts and enroll in them
by card through the Registrar's Office.
When all the cards are gone, that wo'iiTcf
be all the individual contracts we could
handle."
This proposal seems to conflict with the
presentation made by Academic Dean
Charles Teske to the Board of Trustees.
According to the Jan . 3 issue of the
campus Newsletter, "Onecfourth of the
fall quarter Evergreen student body carried
individu·al contracts, involving a total of
87 faculty and 24 staff members . In a report delivered to the December Board of
Trustees meeting, Academic Dean Charles
Teske said that Evergreen is 'doing for
one-fourth of our students what other
schools do only for the very elite of their
students."'
Among the other effects a reduction in
individual contracts would have on Evergreen, it would seem that the deans' proposal is meant to restrict the individual
contracts to students who would do more
"uniformly superior work," which could
mean the "elite" of Evergreen .

PRESCOTT COLLEGE
CLOSES DOORS
Prescott College closed its doors Dec.
18, 1974. Prescott was a four year alternative college in Arizona that offered
evaluations instead of grades, individual
-contracts, and theme group studies . Evergreen is admitting up to twenty former
Prescott students as part of its support of
alternative education . Evergreen and Prescott were both members of the Network
for Alternatives in Undergraduate Teacher
Education, which sponsored an exchange
program that includes many of the nation's alternative colleges .
Financial difficulties closed the school.
The Phillips Research Foundation of Lombard, Ill. , viewed as the savior of Prescott
College in early November, ·was seen in a
different light after over a hundred thousand dollars worth of their checks
bounced. Most of these checks were written to cover faculty and staff payrolls ,
The Phillips Foundation also failed to pay
the college insurance bill.
A provisional Prescott College is expected to open January 20 with approximately 90 students attending classes in
the homes of faculty .
Cooper Point Journal

CHUCK HARBAUGH
DECLINES FACULTY POSITION
Chuck Harbaugh has refused the
faculty position offered to him by
Vice-president and Provost Ed Kormondy.
A letter from Harbaugh to Kormondy and
the Cay Resource Center explainin~
Harbaugh's reasons for turning the
position down is in the mail as this issue
goes to press.
Harbaugh was recommended for a
faculfy position with the Developmental
Learning coordinated coordinated studies
program, and initially rejected by the
deans . The deans reasoned that Harbaugh
who is gay, was too outspoken an
advocate of gay rights. After an informal
mediation session between the deans and
representatives of the Gay Resource
Center Steering Committee and the
Ombuds-advocate Office , the deans
rever~ed their decision, and recommended
him to Kormondy for hiring. After some
delay, Kormondy agreed to hire Harbaugh, and Harbaugh refused the offer.

Tom Hayden, explaining that he was at
home with their sick son . She spoke in in
easy , rambling manner touching on
various subjects, but stayed close to the
theme that the United States needs to
withdraw its military and monetary
support from South Vietnam, and use the
funds saved in other, more vital areas .
"Introduction to the Enemy", a film
showing Fonda, Hayden and their son
Troy touring North ' Vietnam, followed
Fonda 's remarks . The film contained
personal impressions of the North
Vietnamese .

counseling skills to the students.
The four students, Sarah Garraty, Leo
Wesley, Nick Ledbetter and Wendy
Kramer began researching areas such as
food stamps, welfare assistance, debt
counseling, child custody, divorce, small
claims court, misdemeanor and felony
cases, and any other areas where students
need assistance . Their office is in the
Library building; room 3227. They are
open Monday through Thrusday from 9.
a .m. to 5 p.m.
The office is open to students only and
is partially funded by Student Services
and Activities (S&:A) funds .

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JANE FONDA AT EVERGREEN
ApproXi!pately 700 persons, mostly
Evergreen students, greeted Jane Fonda in
the Library lobby January 8. Fonda was
speaking for the Indochina Peace Campaign as part of an all day presentation,
"Who Is The Enemy? ", sponsored by the
Evergreeen Political Information Center.
Preceding Fonda in the schedule of
events were presentations by the Vietnam
Veterans Against the War and Winter
Soldiers Organization (VVAW / WSO)
and the Katipunan Ng Mga Demokratikong · Pilipino (Union of Democratic
Filipinos-KDP) .
Members of the YVAW / WSO spoke
about the need for decent benefits for all
vets, universal and ~nconditional amnesty
for all war resisters , one form of
discharge for all vets. They also argued
for the full implementation of the Paris
Peace agreement, and an end to the Thieu
and Lon No! regimes in Southeast Asia.
"Only the Beginning," a film centered
around the VV A W / WSO-sponsored
national demonstration in Washington,
D.C., the largest demonstration ever held
against the Vietnam War, mixed scenes of
protest and veterans returning their
medals with scenes of United States
violence in Vietnam.
The KDP presentation was highlighted
by a cultural presentation by Filipino
singers, and an informative slide show on
the plight of the Filipino peoples.
Jim Page, ballad singer from Seattle,
held the crowd together in time preceding
Fonda's arrival. Page sang three songs,
including his ballad about the hollowpoint
bullet which he sang for the Seattle City
Council.
Fonda appeared with~ut her husband
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Fred Young

FACULTY MEMBER DIES
Faculty member Fred Young, 57, died
Dec. 28 after suffering a heart attack. He
was the first person named to the Evergreen faculty , and served as a member of
the planning faculty during the college's
formation . Young was on a leave of absence Fall Quarter. Last year he was a
member of the Power and Personal Vulnerability co-ordinated studies program.
During the 72-73 school year he took individual contracts, and in 71-72 he ' was
on the faculty of the Causality, Freedom,
and Chance co-ordinated studies program.
He is survived by his son Ralph.

LAWMAKERS/LAWBREAKERS
OFFERING LEGAL AID
Four students of the Lawmakers/ Lawbreakers coordinated studies program
have opened an office on campus to offer
information and help to Evergreen
students with legal problems .
The office is called SHLAP, Self Help
Legal Assistance Program, and came
about due to the many legal problems
students were bringing to faculty member
Hap Freund. Freund, a lawyer and
member of the Lawmakers/ Lawbreakers
program, chose the students and gave
them training in legal research. Larry
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BY JOHN B. FOSTER and
KNUTE OLSSON BERGER
"We can expect a budget where we'll
have to cut some things that are nice but
not essential - we may even ei:Jd up cutting the essentials ."
So sa id Evergreen's "representative" to
the Washington State legislature, Assist-ant to the President Les Eldridge who, in
these words, summed up the probable impact that Governor Dan Evans' newly released budget for the 1975-77 biennium
will have on the college.
The govern or's budget proposal, which
·is subject to review and revision by the
legislature coming into session Jan. 13, is
not, in the eyes of many state legislators,
one that reflects the increasing call for fiscal austerity . But the governor's budget
proposal makes few recommendations for
increases. T he tone is one of holding expenses at current levels or cutting back
where reductions are possible. There are
few exceptions. However, Evergreen's proposed opera ting budget for the next biennium, contained in the governor's proposal totaling $17,511, 654 (an increase of
21.8 percent) is an exception, the only
four- year state college budget to receive a
boost. But even with this dollar increase
Evergreen seems to be headed for hard
times in the next two years.
It became appa rent at a special college
hearing on Dec. 23 that the proposal as it
, now stands is not sufficient to keep the
college operating at current levels . The
open hearing was held so that campus directors and deans representing the various
administrative and service sectors of the
college could report on how the governor's proposal would affect their areas .
The prospects do not l~ok at all good .

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The
Budget
Crisis
Most of the budget increase will be absorbed by a 200 student per year jump in
enrollme~t during the biennium. Furthermore, at current inflation rates what small
dollar increase is left over will not be
enough to cover college expenses.
Coupled with other cuts, the budget is
one that, if passed as is, will insure major
reductions and cutbacks in nearly all college sectors . What is even more disturbing
is that in the past the legislature has never
voted to increase the governor's recommel)ded allocations but has , as a general
rule, chosen to make further cuts.
"When the legislature goes home we
may have these dollars," said President
Charles McCann, "but if history repeats
itself it will be something less than these
dollars. " With a governor's proposal representing the top line figure the college
can hope to get being insufficient, and

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further,- possible major cuts looming in
the coming session, Evergreen administrators are attempting to determine where
the cuts shall be. Yet until the legislature
makes its decision all the plans and proposals the administrators come up with
must remain tentative, and can only be
small indications of what is yet to come.
One ma jor cause of cutbacks falls under
the formula method employed in the construction of the governor's budget. Allocations for four main sectors of the college
are determined by formulas. These sectors
are : instruction, the library, student services, and physical plant and maintenance.
The formulas for these areas are determined in part by student use and enrollment. Due to its status as a new four year
college, Evergreen has previously benefited from a higher formula percentage,
particularly in the area of student services. But now, with Evergreen's projected
enrollment passing the 2,500 mark, ·the
college will have to fall into line with
other state colleges . This means a decrease
in the amount of money allocated for certa in college sec-tors that have been
allowed to operate over the pasE few
years at a level higher than other state
schools.
Another problem is that the college is
operat ing at a non-economical level.
While certain fixed costs are present that
equate Evergreen's costs with those of
other four year state institutions, the funding based to a large extent on the number
of students does not always reflect this.
Evergreen's administrative overhead is
nearly twice that of other state colleges on
a per student basis. Evergreen will not be
on a par with these other colleges until
enrollment reaches between 4,000 to 4,500
students. With an administrative staff too
large and costly for the number of students, there will have to be cuts in this
area.
In some areas Evergreen is also suffering because of funding previously provided in areas outside the for'm ulas (noncomparable areas). Funding for these pro~
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Students, staff and
ty
ten as
Administrative Vice-president Dean Clabaugh outlines the 1975--1977 biennium
budget at the Jan. 8 Sounding Board
meeting.
grams, such as recreation and campus activities, auxiliary services, the organic
farm, the women's commission, and the
day care center were cut across the board.
Since these areas, with the possible exception of auxiliary services as a separate
area, are important and essential functions, funding for them must come from
other . areas within the college. This will
mean less money in those areas for which
the money was intended as well as hardly
providing a system for adequate funding.
At the Dec. 23 meeting Evergreen's directors and deans gave their reports as to
how the governor' s proposed budget
would affect their areas, assuming no further cuts by the legislature. By area, this
is how it looked:
Administration and General Expense The governor's budget asks for a $19,468
increase in funding with additional expenses. running over $67,000 during the
biennium. This would force a drop in personnel by eight full time equivalent staff
for each year of the biennium.
Library -According to Jovana Brown,
dean of library services, the budget situation is "forcing the library into the traditional confines of a library, and this is
very bad for Evergreen." The Library
will have to store approximately $100,000
worth of equipment because of a lack of
maintenance funds. Other possible consequences include .an $80,000 cut in media
services and the possibility of closing
down the TV studios after one quarter if
academiC support is not received.
Academics - This is the one area that
is well supported 1n the governor's

Legislative .Prospects
BY KNUTE OLSSON BERGER
The ceremonies that will bring the
legislature into session at noon Monday,
Jan . 13 will signal the beginning of what
may prove to be a long battle over the
state's budget. In a time of high and
ever increasing inflation, job layoffs,
arid staunch public resistance to further
tax increases, the legislature will have to
appease the public and at the same time
keep state government operating without eliminating the agencies, institutions
and services the public demands. Evergreen, as a state institution and a controversial one at that, finds itself in the
middle of this crunch.
The college's legislative strategy,
spearheaded by Assistant to the President Les Eldridge, is to block any cuts
beyond what was proposed in the governor's budget and restore to the budget
money intended to ease Evergreen's administrative costs into line with that of
other four-year state colleges .
"Our aim is not to take any further
cuts. There are a couple of areas where
we can point out that some of the cuts
in the governor's budget were unfair to
Evergreen compared to other institutions," said Eldridge. These areas include the administrative "phasing" costs
as well as cuts in the noncomparable
areas (see main story this page). But
Eldridge's hopes are fairly dim . "The
, overall tendency of the legislature will
be not to restore. If they restore anything to the governor's budget it will be
contrary to past history."

Compounding Evergreen's problems
in addition to the state's economic
crunch is that higher education as a
whole and, by virtue of its youth and
controversial nature, Evergreen in particular, are not at the top of every legislator's pri,ority list.
"Most legislators don't have an abiding intent on Evergreen above anything
else, " said Eldridge . "There may be reinstatement of funds someplace, but my
guess is that it won't be in higher education."
Representative James Kuehnle (R-Spokane), a longtime Evergreen foe, summed
up his feelings this way: " I am absolutely in total disagreement with the
·governor's budget as far as spending is
concerned . .. . We need to scale back
government even to discontinuing programs we didn't really need anyway .
My position (in regard to Evergreen) is
that it has to have different management or be shut down . The taxpayer
should not be called on to support a
place that's nice to go to for a few
years, to while away time at ; a sandbox for those delinquents ."
But Eldridge believes that the very
things that make Evergreen unique will
be the strongest points in its favor at
the legislature.
"We need to argue that Evergreen is
unique among higher education in the
state, and it needs the opportunity to
continue its growth so that the legislature can determine, after some degree of
time , whether the experiment is
work ing. "

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proposal, however there may be changes
due to budgetary strains. As Academic
Dean Charles Teske put it, the pr-esent situation "forces us to do without things
that we planned on doing and even things
we are currently doing." Cuts may take
place in the area of faculty salaries and
benefits. Teske anticipates a five percent
cut across the board . This will take place
. in the form of decreased faculty hiring
rather than actual salary cuts. According
to Teske the college is losing its battle to
retain its 18 to 1 faculty-student ratio.
Twenty-one to one is a more likely figure.

Computer Services - Describing his
budget as a "surrealistic and doomsday
budget, " Director of Computer Services
York Wong expressed himself on one of
the most substantially cut areas of the college . The $392 ,000 redu ction leaves no
money for equipment, a proposed decrease in computer ti me by 20 percent, a
22 .5 percent drop in professional staff,
and a SO percent drop in student employees .
Student Services - Perhaps the hardest
hit program in the governor's budget, student services was cut $151,000 . The entire
area of Recreation and Campus Activities,

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being non-comparable, was completely
eliminated and must receive other student
services, academic, and possible Student
Services and Activities (S&A) money to
survive. Significant cutbacks are also
probable in the counseling area where, in
the second year of the biennium, counsel. ing will be operating at 37 percent of its
present level.
While these estimations are, in the
words of McCann, of a "fictional nature"
they do point up the s-eriousness of Evergreen's problem. But, as if it were not
enough , there are two other factors which
make the outlook even more gloomy and
unpredictable .
There is concern on the part of administrators that the legislature may seek
more control over the allocation of college funds , thus reducing the control administrators have . over the juggling of
money from one area to another to help
relieve other sectors. Several proposals
will be before the legislature which, if
passed, may determine just where all "cuts
will occur without Evergreen administrators having much , if any, say. Some administrators have "the feeling that some
proposal of this kind is likely to be
passed . This throws another log on the
fire of uncertainty . It may make any
move by Evergreen administrators of a
"fictional nature."
Another area of concern is less than uncertain, and depends -upon just how much
the governor's proposal is slashed. It is
now evident that Administrative VicePresident Dean Clabaugh's program of attrition management (leaving positions
open when they bec"o me vacant by individuals leaving voluntarily) will be inadequate. The current level of staff attrition
has gone down. Fewer staff members are
leaving due to the state of the nation's
economy . Clabaugh now admits that
there will indeed have to be a reduction in
force of some kind . As the proposal now
stands there will have to be some pe<,Jple
let go, but the number of people to be
riffed and just what areas those firings
will take place in is up in the air.
One proposal to fight against massive
layoffs as well as reducing operational
costs is to reduce some positions from fu]l
to part time, e.g. employees working 10
months instead of 12. Yet· there is some
question as to whether the college has
enough money to pay unemployment
benefits for the number of people that
would have to be laid off under this plan .
The feeling is that there will not be, and
this further enhances the possibility of a
major reduction in force.
So, at the present time no one seems to
know, or even care to predict what the
legislature will do, and it is the legislature
that will ultimately decide Evergreen's fate
during the next two years. But in light of
the state's financial difficulties Evergreen's
outlook for the next biennium seems
bleak indeed. As one less than hopeful administrator said, "It's gonna ·get tough
here - it's gonna get tough."
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I'm a lifer with hope for tomorrow.
You 'll never hear me beg, And you'll not see me borrow.
I only ask for what is right ;
That when I walk into the sunlight,
You'll not fill my cup with loneliness and sorrow .
I'm a lifer with hope for tomorrow .
You 've seen my every shame - but not my inner sorrow.
My seeds were seen when sown,
While yours remain unknown :
So I ask only a chance for a better tomorrow.
To the man on the street who has never sinnedThat is only for God, not for mere men.
You can offer me your hand,
But you need more help than me, my friend ,
'Cause a man is never more than just a man.
We are all doin ' life inside or out,
And each of us must find that it's all about.
There 's no life when there's no hope :
So show me Freedom and some Hope ,
For I ask only a chance to try it out.
The road ahead may be long and rough ,
And the rules to heed may surely be tough;
But just a man I will remain
With a heart, a hand, and brain .
As for courage, I'm sure I'll find enough.
- Lifers with Hope , by Gary Williams
Although much has been written about the problems faced by
those who attempt to re-enter American society after long prison
sentences, the men in the Lifers in Exodus club at the Washington
State Penitentiary feel that this song captures the essence of their
plight. Despite rehabilitation programs, over 80 percent of the
persons released on parole eventually return to the pen.
As we sat in the meeting room of the minimum security building, I listened to these men speak in quiet voices about fear; fear
of not being paroled when they are ready; fear of not being able
to re-adjust to society once they are set free. The men spoke of
parole officers who are not aware of the world behind the walls,
and of, their own confusion in trying to comprehend the outside
world they must return to.
Most of the 27 members of the club were convicted of murder

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in the first degree, and most were 17 to 19 years of age when they 'were arrested. Ed, one of the more articulate members of the club
(the P.R. man, naturally), spoke of having spent the last fifteen
years behind bars trying to understand what made him kill his
young wife and her mother and father . He said he thought he had
it figured out when he was 19, but that he thought he had everything figured out then . Now, at 34, he feels that he's farther away
from understanding the young man who committed the crime
than ever - but he keeps trying. Ed, who is currently serving
three consecutive life terms, believes in the death penalty for repeated offenders "because by setting a repeater free the system
condemns someone on the street to death, and by putting him
back in prison condemns someone behind the walls to death."
Each of these men has a different story to tell, but they all -~gree
on one point: the Washington State Penitentiary is the worst
prison any of them has served time in. They call it the "nut-farm,"
or the "looney bin, " or the "circus. "
It seems, from the description of the prison by these men, that
lack of structure is the worst problem there. While other prisons
have clear-cut rules, restrictions, and regulations defining the lifestyle of the inmates, the .pen at Walla Walla has none. Since the
prison strike which occurred a few years ago, the administrators
have backed off in their involvement with the structure of the
prison soCiety. Rules are arbitrarily enforced and arbitrarily made:
Most of the inmates are armed · for self-protection - not with
homeinade weapons, but with long-bladed pocket knives, switchblades and the like. The guards, according to one lifer, don't care
of the inmates stab anyone - "as long as we only ~tab each
other. "
The paranoia and confusion is perpetuated by the prison administration, which alternates between allowing self-governance and
changing official policy arbitrarily and without regard for the
needs of the inmates who are directly affected by the change, according to one club member. He added that "policy is invented on
the spot by anyone having the physical or economic power to
back it up. "
.
As a result of the prison's oscillating "structure of no-structure,"
freedom has become a two-edged sword at Walla Walla, and the
men are never sure what the rules are until they break one:
As the "turnkey" unlocked the gate to let us out, one of the
men asked if l was coming back. Before stepping out into. the
crisp fall night I thought about it for a moment and said that I
would try to make it back after the snows, to which he replied,
"There's no hui:ry, we'll still b'e here. "

Drawing, above, is titled "Interim" and was drqwn by Joseph
Albers in 1942.
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S&A MAKES ALLOCATIONS
The student Services and Activities Fees
Review Board (S&A) allocated $39,598 to
23 campus organizations on Dec. 13. The
allocations followed two days of hearings
on budget proposals . $16,903 was set
·aside for allocation during winter and
spring quarters .
The Third World Bicentennial received
the largest allocation - $7,500. Other
large allo~ation recipients were : KAOS
radio - $6,957 ; the College Activities
-Building Operation Support budget $4,865; the College Recreation Center
Operation Support budget - $3,547, and
the Yellow Brick Road Travel Center ·$2,000. The College Recreation Center
budget includes two work study positions,
and the Activities building budget in'dudes funds for video equipment and
concert lighting.
: The rest of the allocations, by amount
.funded, are: Bicycle Shop - $1,500; Ev·ergreen Political Information Center ·$1, 145; Duck House - $1 .200 ; Spritual
: Symposium - $1 ,000 ; Veteran's Associa. tion- $1 ,000;Theatre 1Dance- $1.000;

Women's Center- $915 .: Outdoor Equipment - $882 ; Art Works - $600; Day
Care Center - $500; Men's Resource
Center - $500; Coffee Hou.se - $418 ;
Amnesty International - $400; Self Help
Legal Aid - $288; Evergreen River Rats
- $245; Soccer Club - $150 ; Evergreen
Men's B~sketball - $88.

TWO NEW FACULTY MEMBERS
JOIN WINTER STAFF
Two new faculty members have joined
Evergreen ~his winter. They are Stephanie
Coontz, replacing Dave Hitchens in the
coordinated studies program tiuman
Responses to Human Documents, and
Robert Perry, an addition to the Marine
History and · Crafts coordinated studies
program . Hitchens ' is on a leave of
absence from Evergreen and is teaching at
Murdoch University in Austrailia.
'Tm here because of an opportunity to
teach and learn at the same time, " Coontz
said. She feels the aim of learning and
teaching is to "investigate how you fit
into the world in order to change or
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anti-war movement, and is a well known
socialist. She further describes herself as a
"Trotskyite" which she defines primarily
as a socialist viewpoint opposed to
Russian Stalinism . "Everybody brings
politics to their teaching but I don't think
that should affect my teaching more than
anyone else's political bias."
She has recently finished editing a book
called " Life in America Today : Private
Profit! Social Loss", and is in the process
of writing a book about the origins of the
cold war.
Robert Perry, an independent yacht
designer has been appointed to a visiting
faculty position . He is helping the 80
students in the program to design a 38
foot sailing combination fishing craft,
which the students plan to begin building
by spring quarter.

ENVIRONMENTAL
RESOURCE CENTER FORMED
A new ·student organization, the Evergreen Environmental Resource I Research
Center, has completed initial planning
stages and hopes to become fully operational by mid-January . The Center, which
is being coordinated by students Don
Blanchard, Loren Hillsbery, and Chuck
Albertson, plans to provide Evergreen and
Olympia community members with central access to a wide r~nge of environmentally related information and resources .
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The Center's organizers, who have
applied for S&A funding , hope to develop
a service-oriented organization with maximum student involvement. They will hold
a meeting at 3 p .m . on Tuesday,
January 14 to . discuss participation in the
Resource I Research Center and its activities . The meeting, to be held in the third
floor CAB lounge near KAOS, is open to
anyone interested in environmental activism and related areas.
Development of the legal, technical, and
tactical 'tools necessary for constructive
citizen action in environmental areas is
the Resource I Re search Center's stated
goal, along with creation of a research
base for people wanting to pursue specific
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
• The position of ad salesperson for the
Cooper Point Journal is open for
applications. Persons interested should
contact John Foster or Gary Peterson in
CAB rm. 306.
• There will be a four-day symposium on
Community and Spiritual Life at Evergreen Jan . 23-26. There will be a series of
lectures, panel discussions, films, workshops, art shows, and concerts by the
Dance Gallery and Sufi Choir. A meeting
is scheduled for all those interested in
helping with this four-day event on Jan .
9 at 7 p.m. in Lib. rm . 3222. Anyone able
to house some of the people coming from
out of towm may call 866-6476 or drop
by Lib. rm . 3222 .

e The First Evergreen State College
Kayak Slalom Race will take place at 10
a .m . on Jan. 11 in the college pool.
Participants will be here from the
Univf;rsity of Washington, University of
Oregon, and various boating clubs in
Washington and Vancouver B.C. If time
permits there will be an additional team
Further information can be obtained from
Chris Walters, 357-3454, or Nancy Jones
at the Outdoor Kiosk.
• C opies of Rainroots, the fall literary
supplement to the Cooper Point Journal,
are now available at· the Journal office,
CAB rm . 306, and the Campus Information Center

"The IPC was formed in the spring of
1972 during the spring offensive . We felt
the anti-war movement was weakening
and turning to other things . It 's a
grass-roots organization of many things,
like the old teach-ins. "
She said the basic platform of the group
was to free all political prisoners, to
implement the Paris Peace Agreement ,
and to cut all aid to the Thieu and Lon
Nol regimes in Southeast Asia.
"American Food for Peace funds are
going tQ build and man prisons. The
international police academy in the United
States still trains South Vietnamese police.
We are still involved", Fonda said.
When asked if she thought the future
Congressional investigations into the CIA
might reveal this to the American people,
Fonda replied, "It's very possible. No

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branch of government shough be involved
anywhere tampering in foreign affairs" .
She was asked if she felt the American
people cared anymore about Southeast
Asia since there are no American men
being killed. "If it was discovered that
there was still direct U .S. involvement,
they would care . With inflation, high
food prices and the like, South Vietnam is
not a major focal point of concern for the
American pe o ple. We cannot let th.e
government sweep it under a rug" .
You could see she was getting tired,
and the flu was taking its toll on her
strength. "I consider myself a mainstream
American. I'm not a member of the
radical fringe", she continued . "I think the
Bill of Rights is worth fighting for".
As the interview drew to an end, Fonda
said softly, as if thinking about all she
had said, "If I can change, anyone can".

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:Cinema I Matt Groening

0, LUCKY VIEWER!
meets corrupt police, greedy tycoons, evil
politicians , and mean winos. He is
tortured at a secret government atomic
research center, narrowly escapes a mad
scientist who grafts human heads onto the
bodies of farm animals, and gets sent to
prison for five years. And ' this doesn't
begin to tell you all that goes on in this
epic film .
The movie is funny and melodramatic,
and although it is crammed with
propaganda about the excesses of capitalism, injustice, and so on, it remains very
entertaining to the end. It's simple-minded
and full of cliches, but the cliches are all
intended and merely add to the fun. The
movie borrows ideas from many sources,
including Yellow Submarine. Candide,
Godard, A Clockwork Orange, and Blfz.
Part of the game is to count how many
things in the film come from somewhere
else.
The cast is wonderful. McDowell, who
played Alex in A Clockwork Orange, is
perfect as the naive Mick Travis. The
other actors do well also, and many
appear in two or even three different roles
throughout the film. Alan Price performs
the rock music score and appears on the
screen at key points during the movie to
sing insipid lyrics that reflect somewhat
on what is going on in the story. He and
his group serve as a Greek chorus, and
while the music is less than challenging, it
does help give continuity. And that's a
small Price to pay for three hours of
entertaining propaganda and good black
comedy .

The Evergreen community is in for a
:treat .with the upcoming Friday Night Film
·(delayed to Saturday January 11) offering
:Lindsay Anderson's 0 Lucky Man! This
~ English comedy-adventure already has a
·small but fierce cult following, and it
deserves to be seen by a much larger
:audience . It is a long movie -- over three
' hours -- but it continually surprises and
;fascinates. For fans of Anderson's .
:previous movie, If ... , 0 Lucky Man is a
·must.
The movie was based on an idea by
:Malcolm McDowell, about a young coffee
salesman and his rise to fame as a pop
' star. David Sherwin . who wrote the
screenplay for If ... , revised McDowell's
story (originally called Coffee Man) and
came up with the screenplay for 0 Lucky
Man! The two movies have · much in
common. The hero of If. .. was Mick
Travers (McDowell) , who machine-gunn: ed his teachers and found a niche in the
:hearts of young film-going rebels everywhere. In 0 Lucky Man! the hero is Mick
Travis (again played by McDowell), who
after some outrageous adventures winds
up getting slapped by Lindsay Anderson
(playing himself) at an audition for a
movie suspiciously similar to If ...
Mick's saga begins when he is a
trainee-salesman at Liverpool's Imperial
Coffee Company. After one of the
company's top salesmen disappears in
northern England without a trace, Mick is
sent as his replacement. A wide-eyed
innocent whose only goal is to succeed,
Mick stumbles through countless disasters
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around the world and discovering
themselves . Based on a true story .
Olympic: The Man With The Golden Gun, the latest James Bond film
with Roger Moore in the title role, has
all the stock ingredients of its predecessors (chases, beautiful women, shooting, slick production) but Moore fails
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burning up a skyscraper. Slickly executed trash .
Saturday . 1-11 ....
Friday Nite Film : 0 lucky Man!-Malcolm
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Saturday this week . See review o n
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Tuesday , 1-14 . . . ·
Academic Film Series : The Gladiators, a recent and well-made science
fiction flick directed by Peter Watkin .
Thursday , 1-9 . · · ·
Future Shock, a 35-minute film based
on Alvin Toffler's bestselling book
about the acceleration of change in the
modern world and how to cope with
it, will show at the Lacey Public Library at 8 p.m . The film is narrated b y
Orson Welles .
Monday , 1-13 ....
A series of films on Asia and Africa
will be shown this week at the Olympia Public Library, beginning at 7 p.m .
The Monday films are "Afr ica, the
New Day ," " Selamat Datang" (Indonesia). " Batek" (Malaysia). and "Now,
West Africa ." See Wednesday listing
for others .
Wedn esday , 1-15 . · · ·
More films about Asia and Africa a t
fhe Olympia Public Library: "Journey
to the Sun" (Afri ca ), " Farawa y Places,"
" Haryana" (India ), and " Destinatio n
Thailand ." The films begin dt 7 p. m.

Radio
Ongoing . ..
T his week the CBS Radio Mys tery
Theater is presenting adapta tions of
the stories of Edgar Allen Poe, in celebratio n of its first full year on the air.
The program , which is heard nightly a t
10 : 07 o n KIX I-AM and at 11:00 on
K! Xl -FM, is direc. ted by Hi Brown,
w ho directed such classic radio shows
as 'The Shadow ," and is hosted by E.
G . Mars hall. Thursday "Berer. ice" will
be presen ted; Friday, "The Murders in
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In case you'd forgotten ...
Evergreen's COG ·Document, which establishes the rules by wh!ch the community is governed, makes some of the fo-llowing provisions:
- Those persons involved in making decisions must be held accountable, ·
_should be locatable, and, most importantly, need to be responsive.
- Decisions should be made only after consultation and coordination with
students, faculty, and staff who are affected by and interested in the issues,
while recognizing that administrators are affected by various accountable
restraints. ·
- In cases of conflict, due process procedures must be available and will
be initiated upon request by any member of the campus community.
- (The Evergreen System) calls for the conlinuous flow of information and
for the effective keeping of necessary records . . . (and) attempts, in every
instance, to emphasize the sense of community and to require members of
the campus community to play multiple, reciprocal, and reinforcing roles
in the campus community enterprise.
Last summer a group of students, meeting to investigate
governance systems at Evergreen, concluded that "there exists
a wide gap between Evergreen's stated philosophy and its
present reality;" that "this gap has resulted in factionalization
between staff, faculty and students," and that "existing avenues of governance, decision-making, record-keeping and information dissemination have been inadequate."
As a result of their deliberations, an "Ombuds-advocate Office" was established. Since November we've handled a variety of cases, ranging from the non-hiring of faculty members
on sexual-political grounds, to problems arising over facilities
usage, to student disenrollment. We've spent hours attempting to locate the authors of ambiguous policies. And we've
learned how in1Portant it is that Evergreen come to understand the words " locatable" and " accountable."
Our office in Library room 3228 (right across from the new
Self Help Legal Assistance Program office), is open weekdays
from 10 a.m . to 4 p.m . Staff, faculty or student- if you have
a problem you need resolved, a question you can't get answers to, or are interested in working with the office (we're
going to need lots of help this quarter), stop by the office, or
call us at 866-6496.

Feeling shafted?

Come see us.