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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE

OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON 98505

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

cooper P,Oint
Volume 2, Number 11

December 7, 1973

~ , Is student activism

alive at Evergreen?
by Leslie Layton

Bogart:
the myth of myths
by Knute Olsson H.G.S. Berger

· Barbarism in laceyEric l. Stone on wrestling

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cooper P,Otnt
The Cooper Point JournallS
published hebdomadally by
the Publications Board and
the Evergreen community.
Views expressed are not necessarily those of The Evergreen State College administration. The Journal newsroom is room 103 in the
Campus Activities Building,
phone (206) 866-6213. The
Business offiee is in room
3120, Daniel J. Evans Library, phone (206) 866-6080.
We welcome Letters to the
Editor, but we can't always
print all of them. Your letter
will have the best chance of
getting printed if it is brought
in on Monday or Tuesday, and
if it is typed and double
spaced.

CONTENTS
NEWS ...................................... 3
LETTERS .................................. 4, 5
KAOS REPLIES ............................... 7
NEWS BRIEFS ............................. 8, 9
EDITORIAL PAGES ....................... 10, 11
STUDENT ACTIVISM ..................... 12, 13
HOLIDAY SEASON ....................... 14, 15
NEWS .................·.................... 16
WRESTLING ................................ 17

STAFF

Editor - Jill Fleming; Business Manager - John Praggastis (the Greek); Editorial
Editor - Eric L. Stone;
Assistant Editors - Colleen
Hunt, Kevin Hogan; Entertainment Editor - Gary
Plautz: Staff Writers Debby Shawver, Leslie Layton; Staff - John Enlow,
Chuck Hauser, Cathy Holt,
Leo Y. Kono, Dana L.
Campbell.

PAGE 2

GUEST COMMENTARY:
FOCUS ON CHILE ....................... 18
BOOK REVIEW .............................. 19
BOGART AND THE MYTH
OF MYTHS ................................. 21
NWCULTURE .............................. 22

llluminaries discuss dome stadium
By Dana L. Campbell
On Monday, TESC group ·
contract "Power and Decision
Making" hosted a panel
discussion by an unlikely trio
of Seattle public figures.
The invitation to discuss
the King County Dome
Stadium and the decisions
leading to its existence was
extended to King County
Executive John Spellman,
former Seattle Mayor Dorm
Braman, and Seattle businessman Frank Ruano.
Arriving earlier than the
1:30. p .. m. meeting timj:l, .
· Frank Ruano addressed 'tiie
audience of, perhaps, 20
people. He outlined his
participation in the Dome
Stadium controversy, citing
the many times he fought the
decisions of elected officials.
He later commented that
the public has an obligation to
fight a decision if they feel it is
wrong even though the
decision has been made by
elected officials. He added
that government officials tend
to supercede their own power
by using their offices to swing
decisions. He cited Mayor
· Braman's commission of
downtown businessmen who
blocked early decisions on the
Dome Stadium, as one example.
With the arrival of Spellman and Braman the discussion moved to decision making
processes in the public arena.
Braman, who served on the
Seattle City Council from 1953
to 1964, and then as Mayor of
Seattle until 1969, attacked
the public initiative form of
correcting decisions made by
elected government officials.
He said, "the public, after
electing an official, should Jive ·
with his decisions."
He added that "individuals
in elected positions should
have the courage to stand up

to pressure groups." He said,
"The public cannot make
these decisions because they
are subject to emotional
appeals." He feels that public
input should end in the voting
booth, that their decisions
should be made then, and not
in reaction to decisions already made.
Spellman, who has been
King County Executive since
· 1969, discussed legislation
surrounding the Dome Stadium. He outlined the criteria
used by his office and the
State Stadium Co~ mission.
for the site selection.

When asked about the role
·of professionai pl11nners in
making executive decisions,
he said that decisions are
made by government representatives after presentation
of experts' facts as applicable
to law and zoning. He said,
"All decisions are made
independantly after recommendations by citizens and
planners."
Spellman ·was questioned
about his planners and their
affiliations with private industry, and .whether this effects
their recommendations: He
t.hen detailed his staff and

their qualifications, stating
that none are now or have
ever been involved in private
industry, inferring that all
recommendations are thus
purely objective.
Spellman was also asked
about his reported objection
to sitting on the same panel
with Frank Ruano. He said, "I
have been intimately involved
with Frank for many years. If
we ·can get nowhere in
private, I see no reason to
debate it in public."
Ruano was responsible for
leading recall petitions
against Spellman after his
election and re-election.

Second try for coffeehouse
The reason to have a
coffeehouse is greater than
offering a haven for just liquid
speed freaks. It becomes a
rendezvous for lovers, a
refuge from roommates, a
dark and clandestine hideout
to watch people while pretending you're not watching
them, a mellow place to
entertain and be entertained.
A coffeehouse offers, most
importantly, a place for one
just to be.
Evergreen's fall quarter
coffeehouse is now closed due
to the Jack of student enthusiasm, which would have generated its use. Next quarter, a
second attempt at a house will
be made, this time located at
the Driftwood Daycare
Center, in front of the library
on Driftwood Road.
The Daycare Center is one
of the few places, besides the
dorms, that can remain open
after 9 ·p.m. It is close to
campus without being overly
institutional. In its beginning,
the house will be open three
nights a week, Friday
through Sunday, 8:30 p.m. to

m1dmght, with scheduled
entertainment planned for
each evening.
Plans now are for two
nights being set aside for
musical entertainment, the
third, a movie night with oldtime serials and student's
reeled off.
We need help from people

who would be interested in
superv1smg the house,
supplying goodies to eat,
selling them, and picking up
after closing. If interested in
doing anything for the house,
get in touch with AI Rose in
CAB 305, Carrilu Thompson
at 943-9711, or Marti Shoman
866-2228.

Fake memo circulated
An official looking memo
from the "Environmental
Adjustment Board" was circu. lated on campus earlier this
·week. The memo stated that
due to the energy crisis, the
school would be closed on
Dec. 7 and 10. Although the
memo appears official, it is
not, and school will operate as
scheduled on those days.
There is no officially recognized organization known as
the "Environmental Adjustment Board", and efforts to
determine the source of the
memo which was distributed
to various program secretaries has proven futile. Admin. istrative Vice President Dean

Clabaugh doubts that the
memo wiU be taken seriously,
and termed it a "clever joke". ·
There is some speculatiOn
that the memo is the work of
the mysterious "Coalition for
a Humane Evergreen Community", whose unnamed
members earlier threatened
to disrup the administrative
process of the school if there
wasn't a change in the fee
pay!!lent deadline.
Clabaugh doubts there is a
relationship between the two
groups, because the recent
memo is considerably better
written than the earlier
statement from the coalition.
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·TO
THE

LETTERS
Annoyed
at ASH
article
To the editor:
We did not originally plan
to submit the following letter;
it was written over l,l fifth of
rum simply to unleash our
~ostilities in a non-violent
manner. But in the last couple
weeks, we have become
aware by questions from
friends and many ASH (Adult
Student Housing) tenants how .
misleading the article by the
editorial editor was.
We wish to express our
,dissatisfaction with the recently published article, "Rocking the Boat at ASH" (Nov. 9,.
1973). In the first paragraph,
Ia cause-and-effect relationship between the meeting and
!the manager's resignation.
:was implied; but in fact, the
managers had decided to
.resign before they had knowledge of our efforts to
organize ASI:l tenants. In a

EDITOR

could expect the remaining to
later. paragraph, there was a
be acted upon. This meeting
quote by the manager John
was set up by the district
Sandberg concerning "the
silent majority" and "the five
manager in the hope that an
advisory board including tenper cent or so who are loud
ants would be created. It was
and obnoxious and don't pay
his idea, not ours, that this
rent and bitch all the time."
Since we were the only
board participate in the
selection of the new manatenants cited by name in the
article, and we are obviously
gers.
not included as part of the
To us, there is no greater
"silent majority," this strong·
inaccuracy in newspaper rely suggests that we are part of
porting than quoting out of
the five per cent. We were
context, which was the case
told by the Sandbergs that
when Karin stated, "A high
they were not thinking of us.
level of militancy is pretty
So much for the implicahard to sustain at Evertions. Now, the inaccuracies:
green." It was a sarcastic
The meeting between the
remark not meant to be
tenants and the district
quoted, and without the
manager and V.P. of ASH
surrounding conversation has
corporation on Oct. 31 was not
been often misunderstood.
"basically a bitch session."
In the future, we hope that
Although the meeting ended
reporters will take the resin an argument between a
ponsibility to feed back their
couple of tenants and the ·. analyses to those they interdistrict manager, some proviewed to prevent further
misinterpretations.
gress was made. Each grievance was considered separa- ,
tely. Explanations were given
Susie Drumheller
for many regarding what had
Karin Shorett
been done or what coul~ not
Mary
Opgenorth
be done about them. We 'were
given a definite date when

we.

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.I

E.L. Stone
defended?
ro the editor:
The Evergreen State College does have its faults, one
of them does not happen to be
Eric L. Stone's "assholishnes." The institutionalized
values of the Evergreen State
College are easier to predict
than the inevitability of
Monday falling after Sunday.
Diversity is one characteristic
that this community is in dire
need of. I think that we all
should appreciate what an
essential factor Eric L. Stone
and his controversial articles
are to the Cooper Point
Journal, ·and in fact to the
entire Evergeen community.
It has always been my
belief that a good journalist is
one who evokes a response
from his readers. It is
impossible to deny that Eric
L. Stone does in fact ignite a
strong rPaction. I find it

difficult to imagine what the
letters to the editor section of
the CPJ would look like
without such a person as Eric
L. Stone. Page 4 and 5 of last
weeks journal was absolutely
littered with his name as
previous issues have also
been.
If it wasn't for Eric and his
self-prostitution for our own
benefit, who would there be
to write letters about. Do the
people criticizing his approach
have their heads so far up
their asses that they can't
even see that. Eric's reverse
psychology is working.
Nancy B.
Zanne S.

SAGA
unfair
To the Editor:
Quite a few days this year I
shelled out nice hunks of
money to eat a hot meal at
SAGA food service. (it's
really quite a nice alternative
to cold Campbell's soup undiluted and straight out of the
can)
Now, when I went to get a
meal last Thursday, (ed. note:
several weeks ago) a clean-cut
blonde man about my age
who!<e name was Craig was
handing out green questionnaires seeking feedback from
SAGA's subjects on the food
service. "Far out", I thought,
"they're actually looking for
feedback, they're gonna listen!"
So, as I passed Craig, I
stuck out my hand to receive
that nice feedback form. But
he didn't hand me one. So, I
asked him if I could have one.
Craig said no, I wasn't an
enlisted member fulltime of
the SAGA grits plan. First it's
segregation now it's Mastication Without Representation.
I get the feeling folks like me
aren't wanted 'round there.

TESC
auto

capers
To The Community:
Puring the past few months
the Security Office has received several complaints
regarding traffic violations
committed by persons operating our motor pool vehicles.
Private citizens who observe
the alledged (usually speeding) violations have been
notifying the State Patrol who
in turn advise us. This causes
a detrimental situation for a
couple of reasons. If the
violation is substantiated it
will usually result in the
violator losing state driving
privileges (depending on the
seriousness of the offence). If
the complaining party wishes .
to pursue the matter criminally, the accused driver may
be forced to stand trial on the
charge. Still another factor
we should consider is that
when we violate traffic laws
while driving one of the
college cars it reflects very
poorly on the college in
general; as we are representing Evergreen in a manner of
speaking, by display of
Evergreen's name on the car
door.

The motor pool vehicles
exist.for the legitimate use by
Evergreen peaple. I would
ask that we conduct our
driving so as not to put
outselves in a position of
losing our driving privileges,
nor causing ourselves legal
problems while driving these
"highly visible" vehicles.

Deputy cutbacks
deputies within one month.
To the editor:
Although the deputies are
The Law and Justice
paid no overtime, we depend
Building will be constructed
on them to be called in to
at the cost of your personal
assist in disasters, surveilsafety. The County Commissioners have stated there will · lance of rock festivals or
emergency situations. With
be a severe cutback in the
such a drastic reduction in
Thurston County Sheriff's
numbers, there will be no
Department Budget (as well
deputies available other than
as other county agencies).
those on duty.
Currently there are 59
To ensure the protection of
deputies to cover the three
you
and your family, support
districts of our county, the
your sheriff by petitioning
jail, and the sheriffs office on
against the Law and Justice
a twenty four hour a day, 365
Building at this unreasonable
days a year basis. We are
cost.
faced with releasing 25 per
Crysti Hitch
cent - 33 per cent of these

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Say goodbye

JiII
This is the last issue of the
Cooper Point Journal that I
will edit. I am not sorry I was
editor and I am not sorry I am
leaving. I can't say that I
enjoyed it all; I don't like
catching flak anymore than
anyone else does. But, if we
never wrote anything that
caused flak, we wouldn't be a
newspaper worth reading.
A newspaper is a funny
business; you spend a lot of
time going out of your way to
gather information, slaving
over a hot typewriter, writing
a story, editing copy, and
then see it published only to
be denounced as a fascist/liar
/pervert or illiterate dork. Is
it worth it'!
I think so.

Gary Russell
Security Office

Roger Roberson
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11:30 to 7:00
Monday thru Friday
Closed Weekends
In the CAB Next to the Bank ·

KAOS finds flaws
Dear Mom,
I got a radio show today. It was so easy I couldn't believe it. There were only about sixty other people
thP-1·e waiting in line, but I just walked up to the front and
said, 'Give me a radio show cause this is a college radio
station, and I'm a college student.'
I told the station manager I wanted a primo time slot
fo.,. my rock 'n roll show. He said he'd have to bump a regular to yive it to me, but that was okay, the regular
WIJuldn 't mind too much. Gee, I never realized radio was
so easy to get into. Listen to my show sometime.
Love, Freddy Freshman
A true story'! Of course not.
Kevin Hogan's article on Radio at Evergreen (CPJ
11 / :30!7:3) had some major flaws and inconsistencies.
KAOS will never be what Hogan terms a "real radio"
station if "real" means traditional. KAOS is already real.
It is the only real alternative to commercial radio in
Olympia.
Regardless of what Mr. Hogan would like to think,
there arc no short cuts to getting on the air. What it
takes to get a radio program is a commitment to work and
some individual initiative . .. not brownie points with the
music director as Hogan suggested.
There are five necessary steps before you can get a
radio show. They may take some time, but they are relatively simple:
I . Talk to the program director about your ideas for
radio (15 minutes)
::!. Apply for your provisional broadcast license (10 minutes)
3. Make a demo tape (1-2 hours)
•I. Learn· the basics of using studio equipment (4 hours)

5. Schedule your program with the program director
(15 minutes)
The only lengthy process in getting on the air is
waiting for your provisional license . . . usually 2 - 3
weeks.
You may not get your 'primo' time slot immediately,
hut there are still many good program spots available.
('ontrary to Mr. Hogan's "True Story", nobody has ever
been offered as inconvenient a time slot as 3:30a.m.
In addition, Mr. Hogan never completed the last three
steps requisite for getting a program time, so his analysis
of "breaking into radio" is incomplete and inaccurate.
Hogan's description of the KAOS staff meeting is also
inaccurate. They are not "bitch sessions", although some
of that necessarily happens. They are a time for the
entire KAOS staff to assess the direction and growth of
the station. If Mr. Hogan were to attend more than one
KAOS staff meeting, he might not be so quick to pass
judgment.
Hogan puts down the "ego originated" energy at
KAOS. The truth is, it would be impossible to run a radio
stP~ ion without creative egos. If Hogan thinks egos are
negative or bad, what can we say'?
We invite Mr. Hogan and any other interested members of the Evergreen community to talk with any of the
KAOS staff about getting on the air. It's not nearly as
hard as Mr. Hogan implies.
Lee Chambers, Station Manager KAOS Radio
Dean Katz, Station Manager, ret.
Mich11el Hall, News Director, ret.
[Ed. note - 3:Ju a.m. was ...n honest mistake made
somewhere between us and the printer. It should have
been 9:90p.m.)

10 modular courses slated
for winter quarter
Ten modular courses will be
offered winter quarter to all
interested full -time, part-time
and auditing students, according to Academic Dean
Charles Teske.
A "Living Catalog" presentation on Dec. 12, 7:30 to 9
p.m. in Lecture Hall three will
give prospective module students a chance to meet faculty
members and discuss academic program content.
Modular offerings include:

Education and Contemporlll'y
American Society, taught by
Bill Aldridge; Peoples of the
world by Eric Larson; Problems in philosophy by Mark
Levensky; Sociology of
everyday Life by Karin
Syverson; Survey of Oeeanography by Peter Taylor;
History of American Cinema;
from 1919-1941 by Gordon
Beck; Ceramic Process by
Peggy Dickinson; Calculus of
Elementary Functions by

George Dimitroff. All of the
instructors are TESC faculty.
A module in Organic Chemistry will be taught by Paul
Jacobsen who is a professor
on leave from Tacoma Community College.
There is no fee for full-time
students taking modules.
However, they must have
made arrangements with
their faculty members concerning evaluations and credits.

.Kegistration fees for persons interested in earning
academic credit as "special"
students are $80 per module.
Auditing students--those not
wanting formal evaluation or
credit--may enroll in the
programs for $20. Interested
persons should contact the
Office
of
Admissions,
866-6170 or the individual
instructors for additional information.
PAGE 7

Brieflr_

Campus news
A special attraction in the
on-going senior seminar "Is
there ll Hfe after Evergreen?"
will be a session with five
Evergreen grads who have
answered the question "yes".
Participating will be:
---Ken Balsley, currently a
reporter for the "Lacey Leader".
---Terry Billedeaux, who is
an Outreach Worker for the
Longview Alcoholism Center.
---Paul Dwayne Slate, who
works for the Committee on
Education of the Washington
State House of Representatives, as a research analyst.
---Cristi Painter, employed
as the Executive Secretary
for the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America.
---Ed Doane, who is selfemployed in several areas.
The seminar is happening in
CAB 110 today at 1 p.m.

The Services ud Activities
Fees Review Board will meet
nee. 12 in Lib. 3121 at 3
p.m. Proposals should be
submitted by 5 p.m. Monday,
Dec. 10 to Susan Woolley in
CAB305.

All students should have
received billings for winter
quarter. Tuition must be paid
by Dec. 14. If you have
questions about bills come
into Student Accounts.

Audio Evaluation session --Dec. 12 from 10 a.m. to noon,
TV studio (Library 1324).
Listen to sound recordings
made Fall Quarter by and/or
of Ewrgreen students. Open
to all ... Ch;trles Davies.
PAGE 8

Ex-Evergreener Steve
DeJarnatt is one of five
winners in the Regional
Student Film Festival held at
the Pacific Film Archive,
University of California at
Berkeley, on Nov. 24.
DeJarnatt's prize winning
film is "Out on the Periphery". He will go on to
complete at the national level
in mid-December. It is sponsored by the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences and by the National
Association of Theater
Owners.
DeJ arnatt is currently
living in Seattle.

Campus
Security
announ<"es that their electronic engraver, which is used
for marking valuables with
names or social security
numbers, has arrived and is
ready for use.
Smaller items such as
radios and typewriters can be
brought over to Security in
Building 201, or if the item is
too hig for that, Security will
come to you. Anyone living in
the dorms, ASH, or even off
campus and close by, can
arrange for Security to hring
lhe engraver to your home,
by calling them at 866-6140.
For those who live farther
away the Thurston County
Sheriffs office offers the same
service.

The Office of Cooperative
Educlltion will be closed
between Christmas and New
Year's Day (Dec. 24 through
Jan. 1). The closing will
enable the College to conserve
on energy during what is
normally a slow week for the
office anyway.
Students wishing assistance with internships and
volunteer activities for winter
quarter should contact the
Co-op office before leaving for
the Christmas break in order
to allow time to work out
placement details prior to the
beginning of the quarter.
Internship agreements and
other forms may be picked up
at the office between 8:00
a.m. and 5:oo p.m. Monday
through Friday before December 24 and after January

2.

A national film award has
been presented to two students at The Evergreen State
College for a five-minute
movie they completed a year
allO.

BeUvueites Rich...-d Speers
ud Fruk Foster received a
CINE Eagle award from the
Council on International NonTheatrical Events, a voluntary, non-profit organization
which selects films produced
in the United States for entry
into world competition.
Entitled "Phosphenes," the
award-winning film is a 16
millimeter color/sound production which shows a small
boy's discovery of phosphene
sensations. It will be sent
overseas to represent U. S.
film makers in international
competition.

Marcel Electra Zome has
been named to serve as
director of the Gay Resource
Center. The position was
formerly held by Helen
Gilbert.
Zome said of Center goals,
"Our goal is to intergrate
sexual differences in curriculum, staff and faculty at The
Evergreen State College."

The library announces that
books should be returned or
re-newed prior to Dec. 10.
Long-term media equipment
loans art> due on Dec. 14.
Persons with year-long loans
should bring their equit>ment
in for maintenance.
Media Loan would also like
to announce that they have
chain locks available for
bicyclt>s.

KAOS radio presents Billy
Joy ud the No Toy Boys and
Russia Monday Dec. 10 from 8
p.m. to midnight in the second
floor lobby of the Library.
Donation is 50 cents and the
proceeds go towards a new
transmitter for the radio
station which will enlarge the
listening area.

The Union St. Center needs
help. It needs volunteers for;
1. In house activities, 2.
para-professional work, 3.
outdoor rec., 4. indoor rec., 5.
tutoring, 6. youth employment, 7. publicity, 8. big
brother & sister, 9. office
work, 10. maintenance. If
a11vone is interested in doing
work i,; :!flY of these fields,
contact Harry Senter at
943-0780.

The Society for Creative
Anachronism, an organization
that studies medieval history
arts and crafts, and fighting
techniques, is looking for
10-20 old members that have
lost contact with the group.
Herald Barb Hunter and
Sceneschall Frances Sampson
are reviving the Olympia
chapter of this world-wide
organization.

The Veterans Affairs office
is currently organizing a
tutoring program in all academic areas for both veterans
and non-veterans. The Veterans Administration will pay
for tutoring for veterans and
some dependents, from $50 up
to $450 per month.
Tutors can be anyone with
proficiency in an area, and can
teach others about it. The
program is beneficial to both
the tutor (financially) and the
pupil (academically). Nonveterans can be tutored if
they can pay for it, or if they
can work out a trade of skilJs
with the tutor.
The Veterans Affairs office
is facilitating the program
and will attempt to find tutors
or tutorees for all who request
them. They are located in the
Student Services area, Lib.
1209, phone 866-6192.

The Minority Coalition is
sponsoring an "Ethnic Film
Series" for the rest of the
school year. This series will
feature films by and/or for
blacks, Chicanos, NativeAmericans, and Asian-Americans. They are designed to
promote a cultural awareness,
the organizers say.
Future plans may include
films catering to the needs
and interests of women and
gay people on campus. These
films will be shown at noon on
Wednesday's. For information on what films are to be
shown, and where they will be
shown, call Sally at 866-6024.

A women's basketball team
is being organized for winter
quarter to compete against
local teams. A high level of
skill is not required, and it is
not highly competitive.
All interested contact
Susan Miller CRC 305 or call
866-6530 to sign up by Dec.
31.

The Community Mental
Health Center is opening a
new Day Treatment Center
whose activities will be centered around the making of
various crafts. They are
looking for donations of
material: wood scraps, scrap
material, thin tin cans, yarns,
ribbons, and anything else
that might be useful.
A collection box is currently
located in the CAB. Material
pick-ups can be arranged by
calling 943-4760.

A benefit movie for the
<·ofl'eehouse, In Search of the
Ancient Astronauts and the
(~osmic Zoom will be shown on
Monday, Dec. 10, .at 7 and 9
p.m. in Lecture Hall One.
Donation is 50 cents.

During Winter Quarter I
am hoping to work with 4 or 5
students on Individual Contracts. I am willing to work
with students who are interested in education and teaching and/or who want to
improve their own reading
and writing skills and would
consider doing this by tutoring other students.
If you are interested in a
contract of this nature you
should expect to read in the
areas related to your teaching
and tutoring experiences,
with other students under my
direction and help me to
diagnose students with skill
deficiencies, and become
acquainted with materials
available to improve reading
and writing skills.
If you are interested call
me, Lorraine Marshall, at
866-6078.

Resident Aides
listen, help
"A false sense of com munity and independence
have created social problems
at Evergreen that we must
recongnize." Roommate conflicts, loneliness, boredom,
frustration, are all problems
commonly experienced by
most students at some time,
and are part of what created
the need for a resident aide
service in the dorms.
This service is available
now in room 216 of dorm A
every evening from 6 p.m. to
2 a.m. Students are welcome
to drop in just to relax or talk
to other students, and a
resident aide is always available to listen to someone who
needs to talk. The resident
aides, all dorm residents,
have listings of campus phone
numbers and other useful
information available.
One of the aides, Gail
Tanka, described their service as, "neither that of a
counseling office or that of a

coffee house." It fits in some
place in between; the resident
aides have tried to create a
friendly atmosphere that
makes it easy for people to
drop by.
The structure of Evergreen
makes if difficult for many
students, particularly new
ones, to meet people. Residing in the dorms does not
guarantee opportunities to
find friends, and many programs lack the cohesiveness
that makes it possible for
students to relate on a level
other than academic.
Many students find pressures at Evergreen, such as
evaluation week, difficult to
cope with. During this time
the resident aide service is
particularly needed.
The aides are not trying to
be professional, but meet as a
group once a week, and with
the counseling staff once a
week to discuss how best to
make their service responsive
to student needs.

Winter mountaineering
courses scheduled
The Evergreen State College, through the offices of
student recreation and activities, presents courses designed to prepare all interested for winter mountain
travel, camping and climbing.
Five two-hour discussion
sessions, two day trips and
three overnight weekend
outings with resource person
Bob Jensen comprises the
Winter
Mountaineering
course with suggested topics
and activities covering snow
cave building, crevasse rescue, belaying, use of
crampons and ice screws.
Four four-hour sessions, or
a weekend intensive outing to
!'Over waxing, diagonal stride

and other flat track techniques, varied terrain skiing
and
emergency
snow
camping, will be offered to
develop an instructional basis
for coming ski touring activities.
Both winter mountaineering and ski touring courses
are open to student, faculty,
staff and community members. Sign-up and further
information for
winter
mountaineering is in the
College Activities Building
room 305 or call 866-6210 or
866-6027. Sign-up and information on ski touring lessons
is in the Campus Recreation
'Center room 302 or· call
866-6530 or 866-6027.
PAGE 9

Editorial
The Grinch makes a
comeback
Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace,
goodwill, harmony, happiness and even abundance.
Not this one. We seem to be confronted by a
Christmas shot through and through with shortages.
Christmas decorations lining the streets of the
nations towns have gone non-electric for the first time
almost since Edison invented the incadescent globe.
Department store Santa Claus's just might be a mite
thinner this year due to food prices. Christmas coats
may have to be unwrapped before the day itself to
keep their recipients warm in houses with too little
heating oil. Will St. Nick have to rein in his reindeer to
50 mph?
Christmas this year is short on electricity, food, fuel
and numerous other "indispensables." A traditional,
non -electric Christmas has become a matter of

Shortend of

the dipstick

~~~~:-e:-

In 1972, major oil companies
in the United States were
beset with innumerable difficulties. They found themselves being tossed out of
country after country, and in
some cases nationalized.
Standard Oil Company of
California for instance was
kicked out of Peru, was being
muscled out of Libya, lost out
on several South-East Asian
offshore drilling bids, had
labor problems and generally
suffered one of its worst years 1
ever. It turned a tidy profit, it
always does.
So far this year has
supposedly not been good for
oil. There is an "oil shortage"
and with the Mid-East War
<:t irrinl!' thing-s up in that part
PAGE 11.1

of the world, the flow of
Arabian oil has come to a halt.
Costs to the major oil
companies are rising rapidly,
production is supposedly diminishing, distribution is
dwindling and there arEl
governmental price controls.
During this dreadful year of
1973, oil company profits are
skyrocketing.
If, as is daily drilled into our
heads, this is a bad time for oil
products, why then isn't it
also a bad time for oil
companies? Is there a real oil
shortage? Or is the "shortage"
simply a new means by which
oil companies can wiggle out
of their sociental responsibilities to make larger than ever
profits?

economics rather than choice. The horn of plenty
seems to have run dry.
Government and business are fast running out of
honesty, ideas and there is becoming a noted shortage
of good excuses as to why. Yes indeed, a very
interesting Christmas is taking shape. The ghost of
Christmas' past must be getting some kind of hearty
laugh out of this current manifestation of the holiday.
The "Grinch" has apparently once more stolen
Christmas and a smirking Scrooge keeps telling us to
make do without.
Well maybe a traditional Christmas isn't such a bad
idea after all. Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas and
all the best for the New Year!
The Staff
Until recent months, oil
companies were somewhat on
the run. They were being
forced to comply with reasonable and necessary standards
in the fields of pollution.
quality control, prices and
other areas which were
dictated by public and governmental outcry.
Despite their profits, oil
companies have traditionally
paid only token taxes if any.
Work had been begun to
reform tax laws to allow these
corporations to pay their
share of taxes. Due to the "oil
shortage" that work has
stopped. Pollution controls,
finally beginning to be even
mildly effective, have been
relaxed. It has been seriously
proposed to completely drop
all pollution controls and
standards until the "crisis" is
over. Octane levels on gasoline are plummenting while
prices are spiraling.
Recently President Nixon
even went so far as to suggest
the possibility of non-enforcement of anti-trust/anti-

monopoly laws against major
oil companies.
Already if the economics of
Exxon Company (formerly
Standard Oil of New Jersey)
were converted into figures
resembling a Gross National
Product (GNP), it would have
a GNP larger than that of all
but five countries on Earth.
The spectre of Exxon being
allowed to pool its resources
with Gulf, Union, Texaco
and/or Standard Oil of Calif.
is a terrifying one indeed.
Once again the question
must be asked, "How is it that
oil troubles can work to the
advantage of oil companies?"'
Is there a shortage at all?
This year, the foreign oil
business and exports of oil
products by United States oil
companies has tripled in
volume. If there is an oil
shortage where is all that oil
coming from? In many
countries of Europe, a gallon
of gasoline sells for well over
the equivalent of a dollar.
Oil I'Omnani~s point to the
[cont. next page)

steel to aluminium cans. Now
almost all canned beer comes
in aluminium cans.
Aluminium cans are the
most ecologically disastrous
product to come on the
container market in years.
They take a tremendously
great amount of energy to
produce, the product will not
rapidly deteriorate in the
environment, so it remains a
can until melted down. And
aluminium can't be seperated
electromagnetically
from
other garbage. (Several large
cities already use this method
to reclaim steel products from
their dumps.)

The selling
of ecology
The April 23, 1970 issue of
the New York Times had on
the front page a full length
banner headline: "Millions
join Earth Day observances
·across nation". Underneath
the headline was a picture of
what was described as a
"joyful" crowd jamming 5th
avenue for one of the biggest
pep rallies since the end of
World War II.
Earth Day represented the
christening of the ecology
movement, the final shove of
eco-awareness into the mainstream of American thought.
It also represented the plucking of the apple.
Unlike previous movements
and causes, in the environmental movement there were
no battle lines being drawn,
for no one could be identified
as the enemy. The movement
was welcomed by all; even
President Nixon gave his
approval to the activities,
although he refrained from
participating.
Aside from a small minority
of dissidents, who claimed the
observances were a conspiracy to divert national attention from the war and other
pressing issues, everyone was
an ecology activist. Fro'!l the
person with the "Ecology
Now!" bumpersticker on his
car, to the giant corporations,
we finally had a cause we
could all join in. Opposing
ecology would be like opposing motherhood. As Saul
Alinsky put it; "The environment represents a nice, good
middle class issue."
But before Earth Day had
even begun, the environmental movement had lost its
innocence.
The
money

changers were in the temples,
and hypocrisy was rampant in
the streets.
A bubble dome was constructed on New York's 17th
avenue which featured filtered "clean" air for people to
breathe. The display wasn't
open for more than a half
hour, before the air was
polluted with marijuana
smoke. Some of our biggest
corporate polluters formed
offices of "environmental
affairs", designed to promote
images of being aligned with
the ecological movement.
Ecology has become a
profitable target for opportunists. Ad agencies have
turned from the exploitation
of sex to the exploitation of
environmental awareness.
Porsche and Grape Nut
Flakes are advertised as
"back to nature" products.

Colonel Sanders chicken
boxes are now labeled as
being recyclable, yet they're
obviously designed as a disposable container.
But the biggest fraud put
over on the ecology movement had to have been pulled
off by the aluminum industry.
Running full page ads
stating their stand against
pollution, they were moving
to capture the can business of
the brewing industry. Aluminium cans were advertised as
being "recyclable", and with
the uttering of that magic
word, the faithful flocked
to back the conversion from

Aluminium companies only
advantage towards recycling
is that they pay a greater
price per ton than do steel
companies. But if there was
really any promise of a
significant amount of aluminium products being recycled,
d."' you think they would have
bothered to bring it to our
attention?
A bill currently under
consideration in the state
legislature, HB 700, is
another of the ecology movements knee jerk reactions.
HB 700 is patterned after
Oregon's highly publicized
"bottle bill". The measure
would require a deposit on all

beverage containers, and
would promote the use of
reusable bottles rather than
recyclable containers.
It would be foolish for us to
expect the measure to be
anymore than marginally
effective in reducing litter and
conserving energy. The measure is dependent on raising
the level of people's consciousness. No legislature that I
know of has ever been able to
accomplish this. What HB 700
is advocating is a partially
closed system, for even
proponets of the bill will
admit that we can expect only
around 60 per cent of the
bottles used to be returned.
(The current figures in Oregon are closer to 40 per cent.)
What needs to be done is to
bypass the obstacle of the
consumer, and move towards
a totally closed system utilizing our higher levels of
technology rather than our
lower levels of collective
consciousness. Steel cans represent only one possibility for
a closed system. Steel cans
can be magnetically separated
from garbage and ditches.
Glass and aluminum can not.
There are other possibilities '
as well. Let's hope that HB
700 isn't another mistake
pushed off on us in the name
of ecology.

the dipstick
(from preceding page]
-

"terrible oil shortage" in
Europe, a shortage apparently in spite of the increased
oil products business in
Europe by United States
;corporations. In Europe the
price of oil has always been
high, with the "shortage," the
price is heading for the stars.
There are big profits to be
made in Europe. The same
must also be said for Japan.
If there is no real oil
shortage, where then is the oil
which isn't being distributed
kept'! Who knows? For years,
oil companies had boasted of
1

their tremendous oil reserves,
both in the ground and
already out of the ground and
into tanks. With new wells
being opened, with old ones
working overtime, the oil
reserves seem to have pulled
a vanishing act, thusly
creating a shortage. A shortage which seems to only work
to the advantage of those it
should first hurt.
Just the other day I
overheard someone in a coffee
shop say, "If I were the
President, I'd nationalize the
bastards!"
PAGE 11

Activating Evergreen:

'A taxing process '
By Leslie Layton
PoUtiealizing our enviroment

Student activism on the
Evergreen campus is difficult
to report on. It is difficult to
find. It requires searching.
After talking with several
politically active students, I
felt that I had possibly
scratched the surface of the
syndrome of "apathy" we hear
so much about.
A calmness pervades the
campus. Among the few
student activists there is a
felling of frustration with the
unpoliticalized students Evergreen attracts, and the
difficulties in a::.tivating
against anything concrete in
the Evergreen community,
Student Reymond Turner,
involved in implementing a
better recruitment process,
described the students here
as, "ruggedly individualistic."
"Are they apolitical,'! I
asked.
"No", he replied, "Mao Tse
Tung stated that all thinking
is by nature political, and is
branded by its class. The
majority of students here are
politically reactionary." Most
of the people I talked with feel
that too frequently introspection excludes the examination
of the larger forces affecting
our lives, and as a result leads
to the acceptance of the status
quo.
Bob McChesney, a student
in the Revolt in/by Economics
group contract and one of the
students involved in the
circulating of the NonWhite/ Arts Petition, feels
that the importance lies with
understanding that introspection is a middle-class luxury.
It may be one that we can
PAGE 12

afford now, but may not be
possible under a fascist
government.
"It is imperative that we
understand that our society is
ripe for fascism; any historical
examination will reveal that
conditions making fascism
possible are present in this
society," he said.
Ned Swift, a Revolt in/ by
Economics group contract
member, described political
activity on this campus as,
"small, diffused, and token."
The number of students that
seem to be interested in
political activism is small, and
their politics are diffused.
"The type of student that is
attracted to this school, the
location of the school, and the
general tonality here create a
lack of political awareness."
Most of the students I
talked with agreed that it is
essential that Evergreen students increase their awareness of the political conditions
we arc living with. To quote
one individual, " ... students
are neglecting the realities of
the future-it is crucial that we
understand the relevance of
our actions. We must understand the myths built into our
culture and their origins, and
confront the contradictions of
our society that cannot be
rationalized away sensibly."
Democracy as a "protector
of the free world" is a loaded
myth veiling the fact that we
not only protect and support
dictatorships in various nations, but we have participated in the toppling of
governments that lean towards leftism or nationalism
in several instances, (i .e.,
Chile, South Korea, the
Phillipines).

Historical study reveals
that no ruling class voluntarily gives up its power; and
that violence as a means of
revolutionbdng our own nation is presently out of the
question.
Although most Evergreen
students appear cynical about
thl' United States government, we must look for the
nature of our oppression in
order to lead meamingful

Student activism sprung up
in the sixties, when students
at Berkeley, San Francisco
State, and otht>r schools
began to realizl' tht•ir· powerlessness. From demanding
that ed ueational institutions
mt•et their nt•t•ds. they moved
towards a broarlt>r basis of
politil"al awareness.
Conn•ived ol' at t ht• apt•x of
1 ht• studt•n t movt•men 1. it
sl'Pms ironit· that tlw IP\PI ol'

'... our society is
ripe for fascism'
lives. McChesney believ-es
that, "Introspective means of
obtaining spiritual freedom is
relevant only up to a certain
point. As long as we live with
the present economic realities, we exist only as property
or labor in the eyes of the
slate."
Until we re -define the
socio-economic structurejn
terms of our own needs, we
cannot be led to believe that
conditions will improve with
more elections. There has
been no re -distribution of
wealth since the turn of the
century, and although there is
more wealth on the whole, the
same per centage is rising to
the top.
To paraphrase Angela
Davis," ... we are in the belly
of a monster." To learn how to
best take action to affect the
"monster" motivated a group
of students to organize the
Northwest Symposium on
Chile. The group will make
use of Evergreen facilities to
create a forum to broaden
awareness of our relationship
with Chile.

participation in Evergreen's
own governance system, and
partil"ipation in a broader
political sense, is so low.
Many pt>ople seem to feel that
political awareness is significantly lower here then at
schools they have previously
attended: if so, do students
bel"ome too comfortable here"!
Sandra Simon, a Power and
Personal Vulnerability faculty
member, mentioned that "at
WSU students would flock to
thl' registrar to see if their
credits could be counted
so that they could graduate
early. Here students want
their credits counted to make
graduation as far in the future
as possible."
These general feelings of
antagonism are •exemplified
hy acts of vandalism, bathroom-wall graffiti, etc. Here
students only appear to
become hostile when something that "is rightfully
theirs" isn't given to them.
She remarked that students
obviously feel co!Pfor~able
enough "to leave messes and
not clean up after them-

selves," refPrring to overturned ash trays, <'igareltt•
and candy wrappt>rs, ell' .. h·H
in the seminar rooms after
s1•minar. Sht• susp<•tls that
studl'nts "think I hal an a!'l of
asst•rtion is an al'l of ag-g-rp;. sum ag-ainst t ht• Everg-rt•t•n
<'ommunity.
Oth<•r studt•nts ft•el, how t•vpr, that u n -antagonist i«'
fpeJings towards the institu tion aren't important ulti malPiy to becoming- politically
stimulatPd. "f<~vNgreen is an
Institution, and in any instilu llon sonw fH'opiP an• g-oing to
IPI'I aliPnall'tL''
Johanna Nit~kl•, observed
that politics is a vpry seperate
thing for most people around
hl'rt•, rather than a part of
lift•. :-\hi' pointed out that
tht•n· ha\l' lwen very small
audit•IWI':-. for some political
speakers, and that not a large
numher of women are involVPd with the Women's Centl'r.
:-lht• hopeo; to get a greater
response to the Women's Art
FPstival. which will begin
Avril7 and run for a month. It
will feature female artists in
the visual and performing
arts, some well -known, some
less well-known because of
the sexual suppression of
female creativity in our
society.
Johanna feels no commitment from students to effect
change. Much of her experience in consciousness-raising
work has been negative.

COG llpllthy
Student participation in the
amending of COG was very
small, and when students
were asked to interview
candidates for the registrar
few showed up. She feels that
academic programs function
exclusively of school events,
and that they need to build in
an awareness of these things.
She sees one of the major
problems as that of enrollment and the raising of

oul of-st att• tuition and the
lmul ing of t ht• number of
out of statt• studt•nts admit! I'd. as ladles of the state
giiVPrnnwnt
to
keep
IO: vNgrN•n provim•ial. Johanna ft•Pis that ther<' has been a
..,mall hut signifi<·ant begin ning in politieali~ing Everl!fl't'n .
Petition
Tht• Non -White / Arts Peti
11on r<•t'Pntly «'ireulated among si'Vl'll or eight coordi nal!'d studit•s programs, and
rt•t'Pived from :JO to 15 per
t'l'nt of mPmhl•rs' sig-natures.
Tht• numht>r of non -white
sl udents was lo theoretically
inncast• hy om• pPr cent each
yPar, until a 25 per eent quota
was rt•a!'hed.
This 1:--: hased on the
a:-.sumplion that Evergreen
ollPrs a type of education that
diwrst• groups of people can
henl'fit lrom, that it should be
a reflection of larger society
to provide a more realistic
learning experience.
Bob McChesney stated
that. " ... part of the reason
for the low level of political
awareness here is the small
number of non-white stu dents." He does not believe
that the nature of the
structure of Evergreen itself
impedes political education.
The students that have
produced the petition are
using mechanisms set up by
the l'ollege governance system to try and effect the
actions of "locatable and
aecountabll' individuals" to
increase non-white enrollment
ment, and the number of art
faculty hired.
Tamara Swift, a student in
the Theater / Dance coordinated group contract, feels
that there are no real
decision-making outlets here,
and as a result the only
organizations students can
turn to are non -white groups,
the Women's Center, and the
Gay Resource Center. Be<·ausc of the youngness of

Campus Activists - Lionel Spears, [L I Prime Minister of
Ujamma, & Reymond Turner, [R) wh~ is in_volved ~th the
Non- White/Arts Petition, at a panel dtScusswn orgamzed by
Turner, of Samuel F. Yette 's book The Choice.
Evergreen it is essential that
the governance system be
tested.
"If the theories behind COG
are ineffective, it must be
ehanged before Evergreen's
hureaucracy becomes even
more institutionalized," she
said. She feels that Evergreen's outward friendliness
and receptivity make it
difficult to locate coercive
procedures more overt at
other institutions.
M~&lice in BlunderlllDd
I have discussed student
activism, in terms of the
Evergreen community, in
very traditional terms. The
play presented Dec. 1, "Malice
in Blunderland," raised some
serious questions.
Evergreen is not a traditionally structured school, but
the people that attend it are.
Student activism in the
traditional sense implies the
assumption that there is
something or someone to
activate against.
Much of the activism I see
occuring within the Evergreen community is of a very
traditional nature, (i.e., Coalition for a Humane Evergreen
Community). It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you look for

a conspiracy you undoubtedly
will find one.
Thi s is not to deny
Evergreen's own corruption;
it is to suggest that we are all
faced with a dilemma, the lag
between our own psychology '
and Evergreen's theories.
The social contract is based
on a system of trust. We have
never before had reason to
trust an administration. As a
result of this dilemma I see
many students denying their
responsibility.
At a Cog meeting De. 6, at
least four students expressed
the need for an omnibus
person, someone to do our
work for us. I have heard
complaints about the lack of a
student body, a student
organization, needs expressed
that sound dangerously close
to student government.
A survey conducted last
spring suggested that at least
85 per cent of the Evergreen
community has never read the
COG document, and probably
doesn't have a vague idea of
the social contract.
"For Part II of "Student
Activism", wait in suspense
for the next issue of The
Cooper Point Journal (probably Jan. 11)
PAGE 13

Holiday gift giving ~·
on a small budget
by Colleen Hunt
Those of us with small
budgets for holiday gifts tend
to think of do-it-yourself
' 'presents that don't require
·much money. Also, hand:.made gifts are greatly prized
in a fast-paced age like ours. ·
Here are a few ideas of gifts to
make, but use your imagination!

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Burn It
Two simple candle-making
techniques employ sand and
molds.
' · First, sand candles. Put
sand in a tub, box or other
· container at least six inches
' deep and as wide as needed
'· for the particular candle. Wet
the sand so that it sticks
together, but isn't water
soaked. Scoop out sand in
the desired shape for your
candle.
Pack it down and poke a
wick into the sand at the
bottom, winding the opposite
end around a pencil or stick.
The pencil keeps the wick
centered. Pour melted
lcolored or scented) wax into
the shape, taking care not to
disturb the wick. Most people
don't have thermometers to
test the wax temperature, so
just make sure the wax isn't
hot enough to begin smoking.
After the wax is hard,
(overnight to be sure) dig the
randle out. To prevent the
sand from falling off, melt
soml.' wax and dip the outside
oft hl.' randle to coat it. Make a
m:wrame holder if you like.
PAGE 14

Another type of simple
candle is the mold candle. Any
smooth-sided container that
you will be able to get the
hardened candle out of will
do. (Avoid tin cans, you may
have to saw them off). Some
oil on the inside of the
container help removal. Melt
wax, color and scent it and
pour. Some ideas include
layered candles; solid color;
those made with flowers
around the edges; put cubes
of solid wax of one color in the
mold and pour melted wax of
another color over the cubes
-again, use your imagination!

More Suggestions
If you sew, (or if you don't,
learn) make pillows, stuffed
animals, embroider on work
shirts; work with 1eatlter;
learn to batik; pot plants and
make macrame hangings.
Carve wood; make paper
from different fibers; weave;
knit; make stationary; throw
pots,- make jewelry; fulfill
your fantasies!

beads, decoupage mediums
and kits for making various
projects.
Sea Mart is also a source for
materials, and check out art
supply and stationary stores.

Eat It
Food never fails! Some
suggestions are breads,
(yeast or quick breads)
cookies, candy, cake and rolls .
Experiment with different
types of flours, whole wheat,
rye, oat or soy; try using
honey instead of sugar for a
different taste. You can get
these things at the Olympia
Food Co-op (4th Avenue by
Food King), The General
Store on Kaiser Road, and the
Red Apple Health Food store
in the Westside Center.
Teas also make good gifts.
Teas have healing properties;
read the literature and experiment with some you haven't
tried. Find an interesting
container, fill it with tea, and
give it to a friend.

Supplies
The closest place for supplies is Childhood's End
Gallery, 507 S. Capitol Way.
They have beads, macrame
supplies, clay and pottery
tools, (with a discount on clay
for Evergreen students), the
least expensive candle wax in
Olympia, and they have
co~tacts for ordering almost
anything wholesale.
Two other places are
Ameriean Handierllfts in
South Sound Center, and
Laeey Hobby Supply at 4008
Pacific Ave. SE. These two
outlets have artist supplies,

Frame It
Fabric or yarn eollllges can
be made with scraps or
remnants from any department store. Paper collages
from magazine pictures or
just little things you find
make interesting frameables.
Keep your eyes open at Thrift
shops of rummage sales for
unusual frames and other
makings for gifts.

Deeoupage is the art of
pictures on wood. Varnish or
any medium that dries clean
can be used. Glue the picture
to the wood, making sure
there are no air bubbles, then
varnish again and again until
it suits you.
Photographs make excellent gifts. A picture of or by
you, old photographs, or just
an interesting shot you like
are some examples.

Everyone is invited to help
decorate the CAB Christmas
tree with hand-made creations. Materials are available
at the Info Center.

Christm as
The foUowing are students'
thoughts on Christmas, Chanukah, and the holiday season
in general. We saw this done
in Ms. magazine and have pilfered the idea. We printed
these anonymously so no one
would be inhibited. The writers are all members of the
Language, Culture and Writ ing group contract.
Last Christmas our family
decided not to spend money
on presents but decided instead 1o exchange personal
valuables, some old and sentimental, some fairly new and
simply unused. This Christrna!" the family is scattered all
over the world and there will
be no centrally located celebration.
Last Christmas's gifts will
have to suffice for this year.
Somehow with the prizes and
glitter that seem more inflated this year, the feelings
left from last year's exchange
remain strong and are enough
to fill the hole left by not
being with one's family at this
time of love and celebration.

•••

I like Christmas; it is a time
of year where I feel I am in
proximity with my friends,
myself, my community, my
country, and compassion for
other things not mentioned.
I love the Christmas tree; it
is one way for a family to
really be together. It also is
an illusion of something beautiful, that lasts longer than
most illusions.
Festive foods are last on my
list of what is good about
Cht·istrnas, but who shares
what you have to offer is truly
to me.· - my idea of Christmas!

•• •

Christmas is when I have to
endure my relatives. For
some reaso'n, despite the fact
that they're Jewish, they generally ignore Chanukah. Long
about Dec. 26 they usually
gather somewhere or another
and get wiped -out drunk so as
to avoid having to spel'.k coherently to e:1ch other.
When I grew up in Los Angeles, it also meant worse
than usual traffic jams and being elbowed by Christmas
shoppers in all the stores.
Generally I like Christmas despite itself.

•••

Christmas is a capitalist
holiday.

•••

Christmas is a time when I
would like to be home.

•••

Christmas used to symbolize quite a different image for
me than now because of my
changes in religious belifs.
Now I like it just because of
the warm Christmas spirit
that flows around this time of
year.

•

IS • • •

kissing people, drinking eggnog, dressing up, family traditions, visiting politely with
relatives I ca.n't stand, babies,
and .telling people about the
new innovative school that I
attend.

•••

Christmas is just another
day of the year. No more, no
less. Except it's usually too
cold and, here in Washington,
too wet. Presents are nice but
I'm too poor to buy any this
year and too lazy to invent or
create any so I don't expect to
~et any. I anticipate spending
Christmas Day in a boxcar or
a flophouse or, most likely, at
my parents' abode.

• • •
I never knew why it was
call christmas. christmas?
dictionary says festival in
commemoration of the birth of

christ. where does the word
mas come from'! happy birthday to christ happy birthday
to you.

• • •
When I was small Christmas was a time of great excitement and suspense. Each
year the element of suspense
has lessened as my sister and
I bargain for gifts - I'll give
you a record if you give me
one - all you have to give me
is ski lessons - this bartering
has made some of the excitement disappear.
But Christmas is still a
warm, wonderful time of
year. My sister and I still try
and walk home from Christmas eve se'rvice without our
candles blowing out, and we
still get up at dawn to open
our presents.

•••

•••

the synthetic joy
of giving/gotting
the mass-produced,
foil-wrapped object of
invisible affection

•••

The old man in the white
room, who stands gazing
across the plain of black night,
looks to the west, graying and
moving towards the line of
life.

•••

Winter descending, to bring
quiet to the wilds and elaborate preparatory bracketing
to us.

•••

I like opening giant presents, eating frosted cookies,
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Myers reps speak
Tuesday three representatives from the Myers Corporation spoke to members of the
Introduction to Urban Planning module. The Myers
Corp. acts as an agent for
private investors who own
440 acres directly south of the
Evergreen campus.
The module 'has speakers
weekly, but before Tuesday
they had been, says Carolyn
Dobbs, faculty member
mostly professi9nal planners.
The purpose of inviting Myers
people to speak was to give
the other side a chance.
Myers' plans for the acreage include 130 acres of open
space, 25 acres for a "convenience" center, and the rest
devoted to multi-family housing. They stressed that they
were not building a shopping
center, but just necessary
"conveniences." The acreage
alotted for this purpose is
twice the size of Westside.
Dobbs said, "To me that is a
shopping center."
Most of the heated discussion was over Myers propos~
densities for the 440 acres.
They want to have 9.8 family
units (the average family is 3)
per acre, while the Comprehensive Land Use Plan for
Cooper Point has most of that
area marked for suburban
density residential or 4 family
units per acre.
The Myers people feel it
would be a simple move to
switch the densities around so

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as to accomodate their development. They would like to
get a rezone under the
current Interim Zoning Ordinance, which would be much
simpler than amending the
proposed Cooper Point Density District Ordinance once it
goes into effect.
Their ammendment would
involve zoning their property
as meduim density residential, or 10 family units per
acre, which is how a strip of
land around the east and
southeast edges of the campus
would be zoned under the
Cooper Point ordinance. (ASH
is part of this strip but was
granted a rezone under the
Interim Zoning Ordinance and
has 20 units per acre).
The Cooper Point Ordiance,
written by the Cooper Point
Association, is scheduled for
hearing on Jan. 7 and could be
adopted within the month if
Myers doesn't succeed in
hlockin~t it.
Dobbs says that Myers will
bluff as long as they can. "We
have one court case outstanding with them already," she
said. "They'll keep pushing,
hoping that we (Cooper Point
Association) will run out of
money."
Myers' densities are based
on supposed incoming population to the area, based on old
Evergreen enrollment projections, of 11,500 students in
1958 which now seems unlikely.
SHADED AREAS
ARE LANDS
THAT THE
MYERS CORP.
REPRESENTS

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TESC students perform
modern theatrical ballet
The Theater Dance Coordinated Group Contract is
presenting six performances
of a ballet based upon Lewis
Carroll's, Alice Through The
Looking Glass, this Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, with
.curtain times at 2 and 8 p.m.
The charge is 50 cents for
student and $1 for non-students.
The ballet is choreographed
by Bud Johansen, faculty
member, and features Jennie
Dearborn as Alice, Keith
Burns and Mike Steibers as
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Wendy Kotz as Humpty
Dumpty, Cal Kinnear and
Tom Schwartz as knights and
Mark Schwartz as the
swordsman. Other cast members include Mike Foreaker,
Olaf Erickson, Lynn Johnson,
Jill Lorenz, Kate Iiams,
Shelley Morse, Kim White,
James Flack and Maggie
Sparkman plus a group of
"flowers" from Olympia area
ballet classes.
The ballet is one act, no
time-out for popcorn, and
lasts about 45 minutes. The
scene opens with Alice in her
living room playing a gentle
game of chess, but soon she
find herself on the other side

of the mirror watching the
Madhatter and the White
Rabbit go at it with Pawns
and Queens and Rooks and
the like.
Then the Jaberwock enters
menacingly, soon to be cut
down by a very strange
warrior, and Humpty Dumpty
soon to be broken up into egg
salad. The walrus and the
Carpenter have an oyster
lunch, Alice dances with the
flowers and then comes what
is the big crowd-pleaser, a
mess of bugs.
The insects go through
some very difficult ballet
maneuvers, a get-up and
cheer number for the audience, and it is this part which
lends the play its aura of the
fantastic. After the insects,
several swordsmen do some
hacking at each other and
Alice is won by one of them.
The Red Queen snubs her at a
•banquet, which she soon puts
an end to by kicking the table
and spilling the guests.
The project has been
underway for the last five
weeks, and makes use of
mime and theater talents as
well as ba1lei.•it is well worth
your time and money
Uhuek Hauser

Wrestling

Monday night savagery
byword for this match. Tiny
L.ittl(', <'O<'ky and self assured
wins it to the delight of the
fans. The midgets attempt to
escape baC'k to their dressing
rooms and are immediately
surrounded by adoring l'hild /
fans who drawf them. Tiny
Little managl's to slip out
through the legs of his fans,
hut Little Atlas patiently
signs autogr:tphs for those
who bend over to hand him
pen and paper.
The promoter, in a hlue
douhlP knit s
by Eric L. Stone
Arman Hussian was edu~ated at "a military academy
in Oxford, England ... for a
~areer in politics." He intends
to enter politics in his
homeland of the Sudan when
he retires from his current
profession. Currently Arman
is employed full -time as the
Northwest Wrestling Champion. Monday night in Lacey,
at the Capitol Pavillion, he
was pitting his championship
against Ray Steele in a 20
minute, or one fall, match.
Wrestling at the Capitol
Pavillion isn't exactly the
same kind of wrestling one
would see in the Olympics or
in a college gym for instance.
It is what is know as "catch as
catch can wrestling'' and the
name describes the sport
pretty accurately. With grimaces, gnarling, gnashing of
teeth, spitting of invectives
and other assorted accompaniments, the wrestlers don't
quite lock in mortal combat.
Rather they jump, knee,
elbow, kirk, pull, punch,
stomp, gouge and generally
do disservice to their opponent. Hitting below the belt,
gouging at the eyes and
choking for longer than three
s~c·onrls are all considered
fouls. Very seldom, despite all

the visible mayhem, is any
blood drawn. Arman says this
is due to, "training of the skin
and surface blood vessels."
Throughout the five events
of the night, the crowd is
genuinely savage. Parents,
their children on their knees
or by their sides, yell "Rip 'em
apart!" "Go back to Canada,
you bum!" (yelled at a
Candian wrestler named
Lumberjack Luke), a blood
lust glinting in their eyes. The
fans are not unlike sharks
circling a hunted whale. At
one point an unpopular
wrestler tumbles out of the
ring and the fans begin to
close in. They are held at bay
by two security guards who
also receive their fair share of
abuse . These are normal
people, the populous of Lacey
and Olympia. Even I find
myself yelling, "Rip 'em
apart!" "Stomp 'em!"
The half-time special added
attraction is a match between
Tiny Little and Little Atlas,
two midget wrestlers. Tiny
Little is four feet tall and
enters the arena ·w earing an
ominous black cape. His
opponent Little Atlas attired
in overalls, stands about four
feet four inches and has
proportioinately massive pectorals. Tomfoolery is the

greying carnival mustache
and gleaming eyes behind an
aneient pair of wire rims,
announl'es the next ticket, the
lwll rings, and the slaughter · ,
on the mat resumes. Bobo · •
Mongol, Turkish and looking . ,
as though he was spaced out .; :'
on (•VPry kind of wierd drug ··2
imaginable, works his vioIPnc·p on Padrly Ryan, an
Irishman in green trunks.
Mongol gets t•ven higher off of
his Mongolian Death Grip, a
pinl'h at the neck of poor
I
an, not unlike what

•..

Mr . Rpock used to do to his
enemies in Star Trek. After a
while, "his Irish temper
raised" Ryan latches on to the
knot of hair at the center of
Boho Mongol's head and the
crowd goes as a friend of mine .•
puts it, "apeshit."
Back sitting around with
Arman Hussian, who finally ..
won his matC'h against Ray . ,
Steele, a fan comes up to say
hello to Arman. "Hey
Arman," he says, "do you
know if Calhoun is still alive'!
You know who I mean, the big
Haystack'!"
Arman, with the look of
someone who has other things
on his mind says, "I don't
know man, I just don't know!"

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Guest c'o inmentary/

Chile; Socialist democracy falls
by John Foster
The 'Republic of Chile , long
known as "the England of
South America", erupted into
a storm of violence on Sept.
11, 1973, putting an end to
four decade s of pe aceful,
democratic rule . The President, Salvador Allende Gossens, died in his office as military jets bombed the presidential palace. Alle nde 's death
was followed by a period of repression, bloody even by
Latin American standard s ;
the number of deaths esti. mated as high as 20,000.
These events marked the
end of the Popular Unity coalition government which had
risen to power in the elections
of Sept. 4, 1970, under the
leadership of Allende, and had
represented the first major
experiment in democratic
Marxism-Leninism in the
world . Regardless of one's
political persuasions , these
occurrences in Chile have an
importance that extends far
beyond the boundaries of that
long and narrow land.
Both the basis for the development of political stability in
Latin America, and the future
of democratic socialism in the
world as a whole are called
into question by the rise and
fall of the socialist Popular
Unity government.
Except for a number of military insurrections in 1932, at
the height of the Depression
era, Chile had, until recently,
been largely untouched by the
violent popular and military
uprisings that have swept
across the . face of Latin
America. In contrast, the
other 18 Latin American republics (excluding Mexico) experienced 101 cases of. illegal
changes of heads of state in
PAGE 18

the 35-year period between
1930 and 1965 .
Most of the Lat in American
nations have highly stratified
social structures . This mequality in wealth and position
is primarily at tributable to
th e fe udal in s titution s of
Spain and Portugal that have,
to some extent, persisted in
the Western Hemisphere .
Furthermore , Latin America has been the victim of a
great deal of foreign intervention, primarily by the United
States . This foreign interference has contributed directly
to social disruption in these
countries .
One of the great ironies of
the Lat in American situation
is that they cannot easily deal
with the problem of the distribution of wealth in their
countries without hazarding
U.S. intervention . The Latin
American econimies are so intertwined with that of the
U.S. that they cannot carry
out much change without
coming into conflict with U.S.
interests; the more radical the
change, the greater the conflict.
It is no wonder, then, that
the U.S . has quite often interfered in Latin American affairs, usually on the side of
the conservative, counterrevolutionary elements. In
quite a number of cases, such
as in the Dominican Republic
in 1965, the U.S. has resorted
to direct military intervention. But more often, the
State Department has re.lied
on covert (C .I.A.) intervention or on economic pressures.
The latter, and perhaps the
former as well, were utilized
1in the case of Chile.
In response to Chile's nationalization of the copper
industry, the U.S . cut off al-

most all sources of credit from
bot h Am e ri c:~ n and Internat ional lendin g institutions,
s uch as the Export-Import
Bank and the International
Monetary Fund . Chile found it
more and more difficult to obtain the dollars it needed for
foreign exchange purposes .
All U.S . foreign aid to Chile
stopped except for military
aid, which increased. In addition, several of the European
nations placed t emporary embargoes on Chilean copper at
the request of the copper companies.
It is , l here fore , apparent
that a considerable amount of
Latin America n political oscillation is due to pressures
placed on it by the U.S. and
ot he r adv anced nations . To
the extent that this is true,
Latin Americans are placed in
a terrible position. There is no
real possibility of self-determination in the face of military and economic pressures
from the ad vanced nations.
As long as the Latin American
nations are presented with
that kind of alternative, democratic governments will find
themselves caught between
the needs of their people and
the needs of the industrial
powers.
Many of the differences
among world socialist movements are based on the issue
of democratic socialism. Karl
Marx contended that the proletariat would have to seize
control of the means vr production through violent revolution. Other socialist theorists have contended that the
revolution could be accomplished by non-violent, democ r ~tic means . The Popular
Unity coalition in Chile , led
by the united Socialist and
Communist parties, was the

first Marxist party to gain
control of a national government through the democratic
process. It thus stood out as a
historical experiment in the
eyes of socialists around the
world.
The fall _ of t he Popular
Unity gove rnm e nt to the
forces of counter -revolution
will undoubtedly give more
weight to the argument that
th e bourgeoisie will not just
hand over its power , even if it
must resort to i11egal measures to retain it. Almost all
s ucces sful r ev olution s have
had the ac tive s upport of at
least a part of t h~ military.
Perhaps a peaceful revolution
is a contradiction in terms . At
any rate , t he episode of Chile
makes it clear t hat popular
s upport is not enough if one
wants to create a revolution .
More Latin American re volutionaries will almost certainly
find the violent course to revolution appealing now that
Allende's "Chilean path to So- •
cialism" has crumbled.
The Chilean revolution and
coup d 'etat will have an
immense influence on the future of Latin American development and on socialist movements a round the world .
Meanwhile, Chileans mu st
·live under the harsh rule of military dictatorship. Per haps they too will now choose
the violent road to revofution.
~- --

John Foster is a member of
·he organization committee
or the Northwest Symposium
?n Chile. The views expressed
in this article are his alone.'
The symposium itself wiU be
~ o nduct e d in an objec tiv e
manner, inc orporating as
m any points of view as
possible.

Evergreen author:

State government criticized
Employment
inequities
'rhe book is not to be sold on
exist between whites and
the stands but, rather, to be
non-whites in Washington
distributed to key people and
State Government. This is the
agencies in the state for free.
major thesis of a book
Copies will be available on
campus for interested parties,
recently completed by Everhowever.
green student Gerard Bap"There are several reasons
tiste.
Baptiste's book, The Vertiwhy I decided to write this
cal, Horizontal Division of
book," said Baptiste, "but t~e
main one is that I discovered a
Non- Whites and Whites in
degree of inequality, a racial
Employment in Washington
State Government (which the
gulf, in employment in our
author admits is a rather long
state government. In the
title), is a report to the
book, I present the facts, and
some opinions, but the facts
Governor on the progress of
the state's Affirmitive Action
speak for themselves."
policy. This policy is an ·
Many of the facts presented
offspring of the Civil Rights
in the book are extremely
Bill of 1964, the purpose of
controversial, Baptiste said.
which was to outlaw any
It is the first in-depth study
discrimination in employment
this sort in Washington State
because of "race, color, creed,
history and it is carefully
origin, sex, handicap, or age."
documented.
The Affirmative Action
"Those minority persons
policy was ushered into
involved in state government Gerard Baptiste. The author ofa new book condemning hiring
practices in Washington State goverment.
existence by Governor Dan
are usually employed in
Evans in August 1972. It was
powerless, non-policy making
"Everireen - motivates the
ilverage monthly salary ro;
designed to provide equal
positions," Baptiste said.
individual student to accomwhite government employees
employment practices in state
"This means minorities are
plishment," Baptiste continis $759 but for blacks, at the
government. Baptiste connot only excluded from equal
bottom of the racial pay scale,
ued. "This is a revolutionary
tends, however, that the
representation in state
it is only $620.
institution. I have received
1
policy is not solving the
government but are also
invaluable experience about
With these and other such
problems of minority underexcluded from participating in j
the workings and power of the
facts, Baptiste's conclusion
employment in government
the shaping of their own 1
about · inequities in state' political system."
and may, indeed, be hindering
destiny."
Baptiste is presently . on
government between whites
any progress.
Perhaps more importantly,
internship, serving as a
and non-whites appears valid.
Baptiste, a senior studying
Baptiste shows why nonHuman Resources Assistant
political science, began this
whites do not control posiin the Governor's office. He
book while on internship with
tions of importance in govern&ptiste also acknowledged
has recently been asked to
the Thurston County Urban
ment as he analyzes the
a debt to Evergreen for the
assist in the writing of a new
League last year. He finished
gentle manner of racism used ·
writing of the book.
·
Affirmative Action Plan for
it this past summer. Printing
by the state.
"This school gave me the
the Governor. Future plans
of the book is scheduled to be
In his research, Baptiste
opportunity· to contribute
consist of graduate school at
completed next Thursday and
uncovered some revealing'
something to the entire state
the University of Idaho, a
Baptiste says copies will begin
statistics. The termination
of Washington," said Baphoped-for career in politics,
to be distributed the first of ' rate, for instance, of black
'tiste. "At another institution, ·
and a desire "to make things
the year.
state government employees
I probably would not have
· better for my people."
The Minority Coalition proin 1972 was 10.68 per cent.
be~n able to attempt to solve
· Gary Plautz
vided the approximatelY'
For Native-Americans, it was
the employment aspects be$1100 required to print 850
11.32 per cent but fot whites,
tween whites and non-whites.
copies of this 126 page book.
it was only 1.95 per cent. 'l'hP.
Onlv here."

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Bogart: the myth
by Knute Olsson H. G. S.
Berger
Sydney Greenstreet stands
by the fireplace, sipping a
drink, "You can always get
another son, but there is only
one Maltese Falcon." And
there is Peter Lorre, being
dragged from the nightclub
by police, screaming, "Rick,
Rick, help me Rick. I'm innocent ... innoce ... " Lauren
Bacall reaches out, moving
the match in a stranger's hand
to light her own cigantte,
"Have you ever been bit by a
dead bee?" And there are
countless others who talk,
drink, and plot in a haze of
smoke, beneath fans turning
slowly overhead in humid
tropical evenings from Algiers
to Haiti, from Panama to
Mexico City.
And holding them all together, holding a drink, tugging at an ear, cigarette hanging limp in the mouth, is the
man who brought them all
into being, in a way. He
moves around, stubborn, in
full control of any situation,
saying the right thing, making
friends with the right people,
recognizing evil when he sees
it. He knows when to use his
gun, he slaps a few people,
makes few mistakes, and in
every bar the piano player
plays the tunes he likes to
hear.
Sign of a true myt.h
The myth is Bogart. The
others, Greenstreet, Lorre,
and the rest, make up the
eerie world in which he plays
his scenes, lives his life. He,
and most of the others, are
dead now, and the scenes they
play are old and relatively
few. But the bits and pieces of
the eerie world that survive
still are desirable. And that is
the sign of a true myth.
Because they live on the
screen, and remain so firmly
planted in the mind, one

thinks, at times, that they exist in reality, exist beyond ·
myth, and one feels unfulfilled, incomplete until one
searches and finds out for certain if they really are, finds
out if in the places that have
been touched, Casablanca,
Key Largo, something of the
myth still lives there, is there.
One hopes that in these places
the myth will no longer be a
myth, but that the myth will
become real.
Key La.--go
Hanging far below continental America, the Florida
Keys stretch into a sea that is
neither the Atlantic or the
Caribbean. The southernmost .
part of the 48 states, they
seem not wholly a part of
America with the warm, clear
blue sea surrounding the
small, palm -covered islands
where one can hear Dutch and
Spanish crackling over the
radio from the Antilles.
Yet they are not wholly
part of the West Indies either.
They are full of Americans;
there are supermarkets, and
if one turns the radio dial a bit
further, Miami radio stations
blare through the speakers.
There is a disorienting mix between tropical primitivism
and American commercialism;
between the romantic, and
what is, for most Americans,
everyday. There is contrast
between the bare, tan bodies,
and those in Cadillacs and
business suits.
There is a Humphrey Bogart movie titled Key Largo.
At one time the eerie world,
the myth, touched this place
and marked it. Located on the
northern part of the Florida
Keys, an hour's drive from
Miami, a little longer from
Key West, it is one of the
most accessible of these
places, being closer than
Casablanca and South America. On the map, it is a very
definite and tangible place,

of

myths

being marked by a small dot
as all cities are, but in reality
it is not as easy to find as the
map might indicate.
Driving south from Miami,
one first crosses a bridge to
Largo Key, the island which
the town is on. As one drives
further, small towns divided
by the roadway, stores, shopping centers appear. Many of
the businesses are named
"Key Largo this" and "Key
Largo that", even far outside
the town itself, and one is not
quite sure just when one
comes to Key Largo, the
town; one is not quite sure
where the trail ends. At some
point along the way, one must
make a decision, perhaps at
the place where the "Key
Largo" signs are the most
dense, and stop, and then be
there.
"The Caribbean"
Once in Key Largo the
seeker must find a place;llle
place, that is the most
touched, the place out of all
others where the myth will be
reality if it will be at all. A
small dingy bar, "The Caribbean", seems the most likely.
It is one of the oldest buildings to be seen. It is dark, and
set back from the road.
Inside, 10 or 11 people sit
around the square horseshoe
bar. The room is open and
dim. It is smoking, and the
night is humid, but there are
no overhead fans turning, no
piano player playing low love
songs. There is a quiet juke
box in the corner, and high up
on the walls, dark, faded, are
pictures of the stars of "Key
Largo". High in one corner,
Bogart looks down on a few
bar stools. But the talk at the
bar is loud, and someone is
telling a story.
"Hell, I bought this piece of
real estate near Orlando for a
buck an acre about ten years
ago. I sold it later for about
sixt.een bucks an acre, and I

was glad to get rid of it and
make a profit. Well, hell, I
hear it's now selling for a
thousand an acre ... "
The storyteller is named
Joe, and there is another Joe
sitting at the bar with his
wife. She resembles a mop.
Joe storyteller is in real estate. Joe with the mop is a
fisherman. More stories and
jokes come from the storyteller, and no one else can
speak, and some would like
to. He pauses while he gets
one last drink.
"Well, I gotta be going. My
wife'll have a heart attack.
Home sober twice in one
week. I wa8 in a bar last
week, as I left, a fellow said
'Who was that loudmouth'!' ..
. ." He tells another joke,
tosses down a drink, arid
leaves with a silent frierid
among many hearty goodbyes.
Out in the night again, the
seeker may begin to evaluate
what he has seen. He has
made the pilgrimage, he has
been to the touched place, he
has seen, heard, smoked,
drunk. He has been. Outside
in the humid night, a cool
breeze begins to blow off the
sea. It comes and refreshes.
The myth remains a myth.
The eerie world, a part of it,
remains. A few of the characters are real, sitting around
"The Caribbean" bar in Key
Largo, but the force, the·
power that draws them all together, is gone. It does not
even linger in the faded portraits on the wall.
One's mind turns to other
places, Casablanca, across the
Pacific. But those places are
far away, and maybe they are
safer that way. Maybe there
the myth lives. Maybe in
those places the myth becomes reality. But, driving
toward Miami, one realizes
that that is the myth of
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thru
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7,
in
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Group,
and
tomorrow at 8:30p.m.
Plaza Cinema II).
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Library.
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Cottage Honeymoon" and
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"Catching the Asian Carp".
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Crosby and Nash
TESC Lecture Hall 1, 7 and
SEATTLE
Lucky MilD" (Neptune); "SidMon., Dec. 17, 8 p.m. at
9~30 p.m., tonight, 50 cents
Helen Keody ana tne romLer
dhartha"
(Var-;ity);
"Jimi
Memorial Coli•;eum. Tickets
admission.
Sisters - At Seattle Center
Hendrix"
(UA
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70).
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advance, $6 day of •;how .
Wedne-;day Night Films,
Arena, Fri., Dec. 7 at 8:30
Seattle Art Museum holds
Doc Severinsen witb toe
"The Thin MilD" and "Holip.m. Tickets $3.50 to $5.50
its annual Holiday Party and
Oregon Symphony Orchestra
alay". Lecture Hall 1. TESC,
and available at the Bon
Open
Hou-;e
Sat.,
Dec.
15
- Sat .• Dec. 8 at 8:30 p.m .•
7~30 p.m. on Dec. 12.
Marche and outlets.
.
from 2:30 to 4:30. At the
Sun., Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. Civic
Movies: State Theater:
Funkadelic and Osibisa
museum in Volunteer Park
Auditorium and tickets from
."Emfannts" and "Sky over ,
Tonight, 8 p.m. at
Free.
$4.50
to $6.50.
Holland''. Capitol Theater;
Paramount Northwest. $5.
"Charlotte's Web" and "Scalal:amerawork
Gallery pre·
David Crosby KDd Graham
wag". Olympic Theater; "Pat
sents works by Tom Howard.
Nash - Sat., Dec. 15, 8 p.m.
Garrett KDd Billy the Kid" and
TACOMA
Thru Dec. 15. ~255 NW
at Paramount Northwest. $6
"Deaf Smith and Johnny
Gietzen and Baker
Northrup St..
advance, $7 the day of the
cla•;•;ical guitario;t, at Court
Portland Art Museum pre•;how.
"C" Coffeehouse, 914 Broad: Dance with Jonah's Whale
•;ent•; "Indian Miniature
Quicksilver - Dec. 31
way (downtown). Tomorrow,
-:- Tonight, 9 p.m. to
(New Year'<; Eve) from 10
Painting", an exhibition. This
9 p.m., 50 cents.
ll)idnight, main library lobby,
p.m. to 2 a.m. at Paramount
exhibition features the
Movie•;: "The Optimists"
5() cents.
Northwest. Tickets $6 adMughal and Decanni schools.
: "Coppelia" staged by the
vance, $7 day of •;how.
and "Harold and Maude"
Thru Jan. 20, 1974.
Qlympia Ballet Guild. Tonight
and tomorrow at 8 p.m. At
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Theatre Art Nouveau, 911
East Fourth St. $1.25 student•;, $2.50 others.
Theater and Dance Coordinated Group Contract appear, followed by the Bay
Tonight, the airwaves will
at 8:00 on channel 13. The
Performing "Alice Through
Area-based Tower of Power.
be
filled
with
the
sights
and
Seattle Sonics play basketball
the Looking Glass" tonight
Bonnie Bramlett follows them
sounds of rock music, as
at the same time on channel
and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the
and the evening's entertainusual.
No
less
than
four
hours
11. And at 10:30, one of the
Recreation Center (Multipurment concludes with some
of rock and roll will be aired at
classic "Dragnet" episodes
poo;eRoom).
hard rock sounds by Stories,
·different times of the night.
comes your way on channel
Childhood's End Gallery
who have left us with such
The
evening's
fare
begins
11. This one features Friday
pteo;ents cerauiic sculpture by
works as "Brother Louie".
"Rock
with
Don
Kirshner's
and
Gannon tracking down
Tom Auguo;tinzy and others.
On NBC's "Midnight SpeConcert" (channel 11 11:00).
Brother William whose religThru Jan. 5. 507 S. Capitol
cial" (channel 5, 1:00), a
Appearing are Billy Joel, the
ion is "concerned with legal- ·
Way.
number of heavies perform.
Isley
Brothers,
Poco,
and,
izing the sale of marijuana and
Crafts by NW Indians,
The Four Tops are hosts and
happily
enough,
the
MahaLSD."
Eskimos, and local craftsvishnu Orchestra is scheduled
guests include Shawn PhilPlenty of light entertainmen at the Art Gallery of
to play "Dream", a song that
lips, Todd Rundgren, John
ment tonight.
the State Capitol Museum.
Mayall, and Dr. Hook and the
knocked us dead at their
Beginning Dec. 9, hours from
Medicine Show. For all you
recent Seattle engagement.
1 to 4 p.m., free.
Mott and Hoople fans, they
ABC's "In Concert" (chanf'olk Dancing (TESC) every
also appear.
nel 4, 11:30) features chartThe Ujamaa society is
Sunday in the Multipurpose
There are a couple other
topper Joe Walsh performing
presenting "Ajtity" a philoRoom and on Tuesday on the
events of note if you plan to
some of his greatest hits,
sophy in the form of a play, on
2nd floor of the CAB. Everyspend the nil!ht in communion
including the famous "Furik
Wednesday, Dec. 12, from 7
one welcome, teaching in·with a machine. t\ tsogan
49". Then. thosP knokv
p.m. to midnight, in Lecture
eluded.
flick, "Dead Reckoning", is on
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