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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE

OLVM·co·oper · P.Oint ·

NON.PROFIT ORGANIZATION

January 11, 1974

Volume 2, Number 12

INSIDE
11
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Fil1 er up''?
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Gary Plautz on
the gas crisis
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Fast. talk at the Tropics
Kevin Hogan at an auction ·

The obligatory article
· L.Y. Kono in search of the comet

Alcatraz/ curriculum planning
and more!

INSIDE

WRTERS
PHOTOGRAPHERS
ARTSTS
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the Journal would
like your help!
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·Staff meetings-Fridays at
at 1 CAB 103

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cooper P.Oint
The Cooper Point Journal IS
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 office 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
gr:tting printed if it is brought
in on Monday or Tuesday, and
if it is typed and double
spaced.

STAFF
Enitor - Eric L. Stone;
Manag-ing Editor - Gary
Plautr.; Production Manager John Prag-g-astis; Business
Managet· - Vincent Pepka;
Faculty Adviser - Margaret
(;rihskov; Contributing Columni-;t (Ed. Rt>t.) - Jill A.
Flt•ming-; Production & Writing- Stal'f Knute Olsson ILG.
S. ll(•rg-t>r. Pat Bi.shop, Dana
L. ('amphcll, sw~an Christian,
Kt•vin Hogan, L. Y. Kono,
L!'sli(· Layton, Brian Murphy,
Joe Murphy, Pat Stennett

CONTENTS
LETTERS ................................. 4, 5 .
NEWS BRIEFS ............................... 7
EDITORIAL PAGES ......................... 8, 9
PHOTO ESSAY I ALCATRAZ ............... 10, 11
GAS CRISIS ....... : ..................... 12-14
TROPICS BALLROOM ....................... 15
KOHOUTEK ................................ 16
STATE GOVERNMENT ...................... 17
GUEST COMMENTARY:
FOCUS ON CHILE ........................... 18
CURRICULUM PLANNING ................... 19
MUSIC/ JCOA ............................. 20
ART REVIEW/ PALMS ....................... 21
NW CULTURE/ TV REVIEW .................. 22

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HI I'm l'at t:llshop the new art editor. I'm the person who decides what pictures go on this page. Would you like to be famous too?

LETTEAS·~~~···E'Di.
Crime?
Dear Student:
We regret to notify you that you have
been disenrolled because of failure to pay
tuition for Winter Quarter by the
December 14 deadline. We realize that
this is probably an over sight on your part
and it is imperative you act immediately.
You must contack Kingsley Kan at the
Student Accounts Office between 2:00 and
4:00P.M. on January 3 or January 4. If it
is not possible for you to come in person,
please call during the same time period.
The phone number is 866-6447.
Morton Greenly
Assistant to the Registrar

Prosecution
To All Students:
The above letter was sent to many
registered students. This letter was not
an official notification, but was an attempt
to create an administrative problem for
my office.
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.Many students expressed concern and
experienced mental anguish over the
holiday season because of the contents of
this letter. Some students may still
believe this letter was sent by the College.
It was not.
Parents and students alike were placed
in a very upsetting situation. This attempt
to get at the bureaucracy in fact hassled
more students and had a more harmful
effect on these students and their families
than its impact of this office. We spent
time in answering inquiries, but students
were anguished and angered by having to
spend their precious time to make the
inquiries.
If this is the humane treatment from
those who would use this word in their
name to promote their cause, then my
definition of humane differs greatly from
theirs.
Again, I must remind this person(s)
that there are methods of bringing their
grievances to the members of the
community without issuing ultimatums. It
is unfortunate that some students must
suffer because this group chooses to take
these tactics. I regret that any community
member must suffer because some
members will not discuss their grievances
openly.
I or any other member to which past

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letters were written are still open to
discuss these matters in a productive
manner.
Kingsley Kan
Student Accounts Supervisor

Defense
To the Evergreen Community:
At the beginning of Winter Quarter,
five hundred Evergreen students received
a phony notice that they had been
disenrolled. This was the result of our
activities. We wish to explain.
Administrators at Evergreen have a
free hand to make whatever decisions
they choose regarding our school lives.
We can go to the Sounding Board on an
issue that concerns us, but all we get is
'administrated'. No changes occur (we
have challenged the Administration to
publish in this paper a list of decisions
significantly modified as a result of
Sounding Board activity). We are helpless
to modify any decisions regarding our
school lives.
The Coalition for Humane Evergreen is
a small coalition of students, administrators, and faculty members who have

.:hosen to change this situation. We are
:.!ttempting to wrest reasonable decisions
!rom the Administration by disrupting
administrative processes until they meet
11ur demands . The phony notice 'received
!1y the students resulted in a significant
rlisruption of administrative procedures.
We deeply regret the passing anxiety
r:aused the students who received the
notices. We reasoned, however, that no
long term harm would befall you .
We found that in Oregon it is
apparently illegal for schools to demand
tuition payment before the first day of
dasses. We have demanded similar
!'easonable treatment at Evergreen. If it
is not · forthcoming, we will continue
disruptions. We urge all interested
11arties to support our request regarding
fee payment deadlines. No more students
-;hould ever have to drop out of Evergreen
l.ecause they are not allowed to work and
.,arn money during breaks between
1erms.
The Coalition for a Humane Evergreen

Public
Opinion!
To the Coalition for a
Humane Evergreen Community:
Humane to whom? Humane FOR
.vhom? Both my wife and I, and many of
<lUr close friends, all Evergreen students,
were caused much concern and aggravation by your self-centered, conceited, immature behavior.
In the future I hope you will remember
;hat I, and all the other· students, ARE
Evergreen. Without students, as this
>chool seems to know, the college is just a
>et of buildings. After so much threat
irom the legislature that they would turn
;his facility into just buildings, I would
10pe that anyone wanting to be here,' as a
\1EMBER of the COMMUNITY, could
1ppreciate our precarious situation and
COOPERATE with the community - not
1ttempt to subvert it!
It is my hope that your action will not be
repeated (save your stamp money for tuition -you certainly have a lot to learn),
and that the reaction to it will convince
you that you are NOT members of this
community, let alone representatives of it!
If your intention is to continue to disrupt the school/student body, then I wish
to give you a free lesson - you have just

perpetrated FRAUD by use of federal
mails (a federal offense), misrepresented a
state agency (a state offense), misrepresented a federally funded agency (another
federal offense). You're really doing well.
If you haven't guessed it by now (and I
have reason to believe you may not have
that ability) you also REALLY PISS ME
OFF!!!!!!!!!
Finally, I have a request of you. Please
go home, you're not ready for a college
-education - especially the one that Evergreen OFFERS!
David Lloyd Lazar

library thefts

Parking
To: The TESC Community
The fall quarter parking problems are
now behind us. It is hoped that by now
everyone knoW's where the prohibited
parking areas are as well as those with a
time limitation on parking.
In the future we will be enforcing the
campus parking regulations a little more
strictly so don't throw your good money
away paying tow truck fees. Please use
our free authorized parking lots where
there are paved sidewalks and pathways
leading to all buildings.
Carl Renshaw
Parking Foreman

To the 98%:
We are being ripped off. I'm afraid a
few people are going to affect some very
serious changes in the way this community can live. The occurrence of theft in the OPEN REQUEST:
library has been increasing. Library
Would s omeone _please take the
materials and media equipment represent responsibility to publish a literary (poems,
the material losses but the tragic loss to prose, drawings, maybe photos, etc.)
you and me will be loss of our freedom to magazine.
use college resources without tremendous
Delbert Grenz
hassles, silly games and put downs that t;;;;;-;;;·;;-;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~~
exist on most other campuses.
The person at the library door telling
you to open your pack, turn out your
pockets, or step in front of the electronic
surveillance detector is not here yet, but
he is getting closer all the time.
The people who pulled out the
headph9nes in the listening carrel or
walked out with the music cassettes or
stole the reference materials are not only
depriving us of those things we need to do
our work, but are also forcing more and
more restrictions that we are all going to
resent.
What do we do? - start putting more of ·
our limited budgets into bigger and better
surveillance systems? Let each of us
consider the value that we place on our
privacy and our integrity and not accept
that this place has to go the way of others.
~
What is it to be? - 40% for national
defense or 100% for student needs. It
seems to me that we still have a choice.

literary mag

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Dave Carnahan
Associate Dean of
Library Services

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Briefly

Campus news
Hearings on the proposed College
Affirmative Action Plan are in progress.
Read•a copy of the plan and give us your
ideas at the hearings or write your
suggestions and deliver them to the
Affirmative Action office, Library 3223.
The hearings are in Lecture Hall 3,
today from 12 to 1:30 and in the Library
lobby, Monday, Jan.14 from 12 to 1:30.'

KAOS has openings for students
interested in radio. The post of music
director is available and there are also
openings for people interested in radio
journalism and news reporting. Contact
Lee Chambers, station manager of KAOS,
third floor CAB.

The Women's Consciousness Raising
GrourJ will get together for the next 2
Mondays at 4 p.m. in the Women's Center
(rm. 3213). All women are welcome to
come.

A workshop on Drug First Aid will start
Jan. 16 (Wednesday) in CAB 108 at 7:30
p.m. The workshop will run about six
we.eks on Wednesday nights and will
cover such topics as: Drug Pharmacology,
Basic Crisis Intervention, Overdose Care
and Bad Trip Handling. There is no fee, all
that is required is a notebook and pen. For
further information call Nancy Nelson at
352-2458.

The Activities Office announces a
Women's Gymnastics program beginning
Wednesday, Jan. 9th. The group will
meet from 7:00 ·8:30p.m. Mondays in the
Recreation Building multi-purpose rootn
and Wednesdays in the Steam Plant Gym.
TESC students will pay a fee of $10.00
per quarter; faculty, staff, a,nd their
dependants will be charged $12.50 per
quarter; and women from the Olympia
community will pay $15.00.
Interested women should contact Mary
in the Activities Office CAB 305 or
866-6220, for registration and more
in formation.

There will be a meeting for Pre-Health
Science Students Jan. 17th from 3-5 p.m.
Let's talk about why you want to get into
hf'alth careers, etc; the meeting will be
held in Lib. 3111.

There will be an Organic Farm meeting,
Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 12:30 p.m. at the
Organic Farm. If you're interested, but
can't come, call866-6161.

There will be a meeting of all interested
people in the messy arts area in the
basement of the library, Tuesday, the
15th, at 1:30, to discuss possible
workshops, distribution and purchase of
.clays and glazes, access to the facilities,
and to reschedule supervisory hours. The
messy arts area is a good facility and we
want to encourage everyone who is
interested to attend the meeting so we can
make plans that utilize this area to the
fullest advantage.

A weekly seminar on the works of
Norman 0. Brown will be offered this
quarter. Charles Pailthorp will lead the
discussions beginning Monday, Jan. 14th
at 1:00, in Library 3403. The seminars will
begin with "Life Against Death", then
"Love's Body, Closing Time".
Anyone with the interest, energy, and
persistance is welcome to attend.

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The folks of the Visual Environment 1
Group will be meeting Wednesday Jan.
16, at 2:30 in the magazine area on the 3rd .
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floor of the library.

The people and a marriage in a 'U/ork 1
center for the mentaUy retarded are the I
subject of a photographic exhibition by
Don Heiny. The exhibition is sponsored by
the Psychology in Community Group
Contract and the Visual Environment
Group. The show begins Sunday, Jan. 13
and will continue until Feb. 2. It will be
situated in the Library.

The Evergreen Coffee House rides
again, now residing in the ASH Commons.
It will be open Fridays, Saturdays, and
Sundays from 8:30 to midnight beginning
Friday night, Jan. 11th.
Friday and Sunday evenings will
feature live entertainment and open mike
performances. Saturday evenings enter·
tainment will consist of films featuring
Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and
the Marx Brothers .
Assorted coffees and teas will be
available to those who furnish their own
mugs (stored free of charge) and bagels
and cheese will be the regular fare.

•••••••••••••••
In a late sports flash, the Evergr·~en
Geoducks, a basketball team, destroyed
Bigelow's Office Supply 61-60 in a City
League game Tuesday night. Two free
throws made by Dustin Wilson under a
critical one and one situation in the final
seconds clinched the victory for the
now-elated Geoducks.

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Editorial
Students should take priority
•
In a memo dated July 24, 1973 from Ed Kormondy, VicePresident and Provost, the subject of which was "Facilities Use
by Non-registered Students" it is asked that the recipients of
the memo (Dave Carnahan, Don Nickolaus, Jim Johnson, John
Munro and Don Humphrey) review current policies and procedures~ "so as to assure that first and primary access to resources and facilities is made available to currently registered
students or those wh~ are engaged in workshops for which they
are paying a fee."

In a more recent memo from Kormondy dated Dec. 10, 1973
to the Publications Board, he defined the three categories of
student that TESC recognizes, (Regular - full or part-time,
Special and Auditor). In its last paragraph the memo further
stated, "In my opinion, only a Regular student (full or parttime) should hold an accountable and locatable position, since
such a student is a 'permanent' member of the college for whom
space is reserved. One cannot hold accountable a 'temporary
student' (i.e. a Special student) any more than one can hold
accountable a task force after it has disappeared."

Whether or not a non-student can hold an executive position
in a student organization or facility at Evergreen is a question
which has come up recently in at least two important instances.
During the selection process for the post of Editor of the
Cooper Point Journal the memo of Dec. 10 from Kormondy was
apparently one of the factors which influenced the final decision
of the Publications Board. It was brought up that one of the
candidates was a special or non-student, and it was argued that
a non-student couldn't hold an executive post in a student organization.

Just this week at KAOS there was a minor furor when a "nonstudent" was chosen over a student for the post of Program Director, the number two spot at KAOS. It was argued in support
of the decision that KAOS was a community radio station and
provides services to the Olympia Community as a whole, not
exclusively to the college. Consequently, it was argued, the
station must utilize people from outside the college as well as
students.
The opposition claimed that the radio station is a learning
tool of the college and paid for by student and other college
funds and therefore must give preference to Evergreen students for executive positions. "If I, as a non-student, can come
out to this college ~nd be given an important, educational post
on the campus rad1o station without paying any student fees,
why should I bother paying tuition when apparently I can get
the same thing free?"
A final and definitive decision on the eligibility of non-students for executive positions in student organizations must be
made. The Cooper Point Journal urges that the decision be
made in the spirit of the two memos quoted from in this editorial. However the memos do leave a good deal of room for interpretation and the decision must be a clear and precise one
which will provide a functional policy for dealing with problems
of this sort in the future.

The Journal strongly urges that in no uncertain terms a
TESC policy be made restricting the holding of executive posi·
tions in student organizations and facilities to full or part-time,
fee -paying students of The Evergreen State College.

The Staff

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starting a weekly column of poetry. Once
you turn these pages, you'll see a
photo/graphics feature. Every week at
least two pages will be set aside for
non -verbal forms of journalism. (photoessays, cartoons, etc.) You too can
contribute to these pages, just talk to
John Praggastis, our Production Manager, first.

Eris L. Stone

What's up,
Eric?
It's now another year, another
quarter, and the Cooper Point Journal,
(previously The Paper), now has another
Editor, (its third since September), me.
Now some of you will be delighted to hear
that. Others won't be quite so joyous. I'm
not really sure how I feel about it yet.
A lot of things have gone on in these
pages since Sept. '73. The Paper irritated'
a number of people and pleased some
others with numerous articles, many by
myself. At least for a change people were
reading it. The format changed and so did
the name. We only had two people in the
office who didn't like the new format and
only three who owned up to liking the new ·
name. Only two of those who complained
about the new name of the paper liked the
old one better. No one came up with any
other ideas.
The Cooper Point Journal has instigated a number of changes in its content.
Its scope has gotten a little wider. A little
too wide for some peoples tastes even. We
have done more and more articles about
the community, the state, the country and
even the world. In this issue we have gone
so far as to include one about the universe.
(see "The obligatory article about
Kohoutek") Some people want to see mQre
about The Evergreen State College again.
Well, we'll try.
This issue of the CP J will inaugurate
some more changes, for the better I hope.
In the spirit of the fact that communication comes in a myriad of forms we are
beginning to utilize a few new (for us)
types of media, with this issue. On these,
the editorial and column pages, we are

By way of summing up, let me say that I
hope the Cooper Point Journal proves
itself to be informative, entertaining and
provoking. Also if you want to come in and
say hello or anything, we, at least in most
cases, won't bite.

Jill A. Fleming

Let 'em use
mad rona
bark

entines are if paper hearts fall victim to
the shortage.
Lack of paper could cause some definite
changes in our technology . It will force development of artificial paper pulp, as well
as increased emphasis on verbal communication. In Teg's 1994, a futuristic novel,
the world switches from an industrialbased society to a communications-based
society. With lack of paper endangering
some printed communications (mainly
magazines and newspapers), communications could undergo some major changes.
Perhaps these changes are the first herald
of major societal change. All this coming
from not enough paper. It's amazing what
one shortage will do.
The paper shortage will probably never
be more than a minor discomfort (less
magazines) to most people. It might do us
good, though, to go back to using one-ply
toilet paper, cloth handerkerchiefs and
napkins and writing notes on label backs.
Maybe we better start recycling.

walking the fine line
of political schizophrenia,
Everyone's got a shortage these days. i bend the carefully taught values of childhood
Canada has a coin shortage. Eastern to fit the recently learned rules of experience.
Washington has a toilet seat shortage. analyzing,
The puplishing industry has a paper shortcriticizing,
age.
picking thru the adolescent dreams,
i adapt the role
,This last shortage brings quite a few
to my interpretations.
questions to mind. For someone who grew my painted eyes, my shaven legs
up throwing away paper as fast as I could
are not the issue here ...
~ribble on it, it comes as quite a surprise.
the several hundred years of wasted women
At summer camp we used to write with
bring the pain,
charcoal on madrona bark peelings, but I
the glaring put-down
born of attitudes and institutions
never thought that we might have to
write the great works of our time.s on that ,
c~use the anger·
red, crumbly stuff. The shortage of paper Its hard to fmd t~e framework
isn't quite that critical yet, but who knows
.
of my bemg.
.
how severe any of our current crises will
I cannot tear apart the me I know IS there,
become?
but wading through confusion of philosophy
has brought me to a certain militance ...
the kind that only shows
Who is going to get first dibs on paper
through knowing me.
as the supply diminishes? Does Nixon get
it for interoffice memos?·Or does the Pen- Dana L. CampbeU
tagon get priority in the name of national
security? Will the classics take precedenc~
Ed. note - ideas and observations are
over pornography at the publishing
communicated in a number of ways,
houses?
poetry is one of them. Consequently the
CPJ, starting with this issue, wiU provide
Soon reports of salespeople being
space for poems of topical interest, which
mugged for paper bags will become comexpress ideas, opinions or observations.
monplace. Dogs will be forced outside in
Readers may submit poems taking note uf
the cold and dark to perform their bodily
the fact that this space is along the lines of
functions. No one will know who their vala column, rather than an art exhibit.
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by Gary Plautz

The gasoline crunch is upon us. By now,
this fact is extremely clear to most Amer·
icans. They are being forced, for the first
time, to view auto fuel not as a commoditv
placed on Earth for cheap, unlimited use
whenever the urge strikes but, rather,
something a person has to pay dearly for,
something that must be conserved. This is
a staggering, frightening reality to a so·
ciety based on the automobile, airplane,
powerboat, a society whose avowed goal
is two cars in every garage (maybe three
if you're lucky).
Americans are beginning to feel the
strain of not having the gasoline they
crave. A service station attendant in Oakland was shot when he refused to sell an
irate motorist more than the ten gallon
limit he had imposed on sales. In Florida,
a customer tried to punch a filling-station
owner, saring "I'm going to get some gas
if I have to kill somebody." Long lines,
gasless Sundays, skyrocketing prices, and
ten gallon limits are eroding away at the
American Dream.
Here in the Olympia area, we have had
things fairly easy, at least in comparison
to that gasless desert 100 miles to the
south, Oregon. But the crunch has hit us
in no uncertain terms. Prices for regular
ga:,; at some self-service independent stat ion:,; havt- jumped to as high as 46.9 cents
a ~allon. Independent stations, those not
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directly owned by one of the major oil
l'ompanie:,;, are being forced to close right
and left. The stations that are open are imposing quotas on daily sales of gasoline,
making it almost impossible to buy gas
after 6 p.m. And some predict even worse
times ahead for gas-hungry Olympians.
January to be dry
Stuck between the major oil companies,
which garnered record profits last year,
and the consumer, who paid record
amounts for gas last year, is the gasoline
dealer, the service station owner. Pumping gas has never been a money-making
proposition but most stations managed to
break even, making their profits on car
servicing and sales of other auto items.
But with the advent of gasoline price increases from the oil companies to the
dealer an<! freezes on pump prices, it is
the rare dealer now who can claim he is
breaking even on his gasoline.
Bill Hardcastle, owner of Capitol Chevron in Olympia, is the Second Vice President of the Evergreen Gasoline Dealers
Association. He predicted that this month
and February will probably be the hardest
for the dealer and the consumer.
':.By the end of January," said Hardcastle, "gas will be hard to come by in this
"town. The stations are allocated only so
much gas and when this runs out, there is
no gas to be had until the first of
February. As it is, we are already starting

to impose daily quotas on gas sales so we
can try to distribute our remaining supplies of gas evenly through the month.
Still, the end of the month will bring hard
times:·
Hardcastle said most stations in the
area are operating on self-imposed daily
quota systems. Because of this, it is extremely difficult to find pumps open in this
town after 6 p.m. and many stations are
closing by 3 p.m. He also said that, perhaps, before long, stations will be forced
to close by noon.
Because of the potential short gas
supply at the end of the month, Hardcastle said station attendants are becoming more particular whom they sell gas to.
Regular customers receive a higher priority for sales than others and this may
become more prevalent as the end of the
month approaches. Doctors and other
emergency personnel are still able to buy
gas whenever they need it but such people
are being warned to take precautions
against becoming trapped without gasoline.
"One of the reasons I see January as being a rough month," Hardcastle said, "is
the influx of people caused by the legislature moving into town. In addition to the
legisl~tors themselves, there are secretaries, loi.Jbyists . literally thousands of
new people in Olympta, m~"ll. nt-eding gasoline."
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~~where

did all that gas go?
The gas that used to go to the station
down the street before it closed, where
did it go? Not here."
-Bill Hardcastle, owner/operator of Capitol Chevron and
Second Vice President of the Evergreen Gasoline Dealers
Association.

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Hardcastle pointed out that any attempt
to conserve supplies of gasoline has to
stem from the motorist. He urged that
people limit their driving, cutting out the
neeuless trips, and planning their necessary drives to be as economical as possi·
b'le.
As far as possible gas rationing, Hard ·
castle said the stations already impose rationing of a sort, what with daily quotas
and Sunday closures. However, he said,
rationing may become necessary to insure
an equal amount of gas for all motorists.
Because of the gas shortage, station
owners are being forced to lay off some of
their employees simply because a station
with decreased gas sales can't afford four
people on the payroll. This is true at Hardcastle's station and most employee-service
stations. Self-serve stations, of course,
escape this problem and are, in a large
way, responsible for cutbacks at the other
stations.
Shortage partly contrived
Hardcastle feels the gas shortage is, at
least in part, contrived by the oil com·
panies. The oil shortage, he said, has en·
abled the companies to get the environ·
mentalists off their backs and effectively
do away with the independent stations.
He said last May he found it difficult to
believe there was a shortage.
"The companies are also charging us
money for equipment they used to give to
us," said Hardcastle. "For instance, we
used to get $65 a month from Chevron to
keep our restrooms clean. But they've
eliminated that and we have to supply all
the bathroom equipment ourselves. We
even have to charge for maps now."
With a 20°,V cutback in refinery production and the closure of so many gas stations, Hardcastle said he can't understand
why there is a shortage.
"Where did all that gas go?" he asked.
"The gas that used to go to the station
down the street before it closed, where
did it go? Not here."
The customer should realize the dealer
is not at fault for the rising prices and
small supplies, said Hardcastle. The customer should also challenge the federal
government to adopt a viable policy on
gasoline and explain the current situation
fully, he said. Writing your congressional
representatives, he added, is the best way
to accomplish this.
"The government has a large part in
this problem, too" said Hardcastle. "The
federal government and the oil companies
just forgot to talk to each other. They
weren't thinking of the people."

Hardcastle closed his station down at 3
is apparently not receiving enough oil
p.m. Tuesday, the day we talked to him.
from this area and, hence, is in dire
He stayed in the garage after hours in the
straits, necessitating drastic steps on gas·
oline controls such as the new program
freezing cold to work on his truck.
"I wouldn't recommend anyone hanging
Governor Tom McCall recently instigated.
around gas stations after closing time," he
'Crazed, hooked nations'
The highest price we found in Oregon
said with a smile. "People better keep
· away from the pumps at night because
was 59.9 cents a gallon for premium gas.
some owners might shoot."
Here in Washington, the Internal Rev"Yes, times are hard," he added.
enue Service reports prices up to 57.9 for
The Oregon blues
premium and 53.9 for regular. They have
also r<>ceived reports of dealers charging
At least, though, times are not as hard
here as in Oregon. We traveled through
customers double of what reads on the
Oregon recently and the state was a gas·
pump. What is amazing about this is that
the customers are supposedly being told
less. car-less hell (or maybe heaven).
Driving through Portland on a Friday
hef9rehand that this is going to happen.
morning, we realized we needed gas. A
Th~huy the gas anyway.
»ere at Evergreen, a good number of
station was open but the lineup was an inst~ents do not own cars so the gas shortcredible six blocks long.
Panicked. we drove back to Vancouver,
liKe (joes not directly affect them . But the
that oasis of gas in Washington. However,
l'l'nm·h is upon them, too.
"I've found it much harder to hitchhike
hundreds of Portlanders flocked over the
border to purchase gas and the lines there
tlwse days," said David Anderson, Evergreen student. "It seems people are bewere just as long as in Portland.
Finally we did find a Mobil self-serve
coming more possessive about their cars
and, after a two hour wait in line, we
as a result of the shortage. Now, car own·
ers are spending a substantial amount of
topped it off and took off.
· The atmosphere in Vancouver was
money on gasoline and they're beginning
rather tense. Washingtonians were mad
to feel a certain amount of resentment
at the Oregonians and the Oregonians
toward the hitchhiker. I can envision the
duy when I hitch with my thumb out and
were mad because they were in Washing·
ton. People mumbled under their breath.
gas coupons in the other hand."
"God bless the oil companies," yelled a
All the hard-fought battles won by ensoldier out his window as he disgustedly
vironmentalists are being lost due to the
shortage. Restrictions on the Alaska pipeleft the line.
Through Oregon, dead cars littered the
line, off-shore drilling, and pollution
side of the road. And, by nightfall, few
standards are being repealed in order to
ullow the oil companies to produce some
cars remained on the highways.
Coming into Roseburg at 7 p.m., we did
more of that oil as easily and economically
not expect to find gas. But I asked a serv· as possible.
ice station mechanic and he dazedly told
In many ways, I'm pleased the gas
me to go two blocks and turn left.
shortage has occurred. It may force AmerTwo blocks to the left was Fast Gas. A
icans (all "progressive" nations for that
six-block line. Pouring rain. Cold.
matter) to seriously analyze the validity of
A carnival atmosphere pervaded the
their lifestyles, the consumption society.
whole situation. Everyone was filling
And the shortage may also tend to radi·
their tanks and many were also filling excalize certain segments of the population
tra gasoline containers. People were so- ,
usually not susceptible to radicalization.
cializing, discussing, and complaining with
Look at the truckers. When the complicity
their friends or other people they met "at
and contrivances of the oil companies are
the station." Fathers brought their sons to
revealed to people, perhaps their conhave them experience a tragedy first
sciousness will be raised. It is a hope, at
least.
hand.
About 15 years ago, the poet Gary SnyWe waited four hours for gas.
Oregon was like that when we came ,
der wrote a poem about an oil tanker he
back through the state at the beginning of
was working on at the time. This poem is
this month. The problem with the state is
called "Oil". The last four lines of the
that is the last area to be supplied. There
poem describe the ship's cargo.
are no refineries in Oregon and the state
hearing what all these
gets most of its oil from the Tri-Cities area
crazed, hooked nations need:
in Washington, which is where the
steel plates and
so-called Salt Lake pipeline ends. Oregon
long injections of pure oil.
Crazed, hooked nations indeed.

American Heritage dept.

Fast talk at the Tropics

by Kevin Hogan

The palm trees are still painted on the
walls at the Tropics Ballroom. Behind the
church pews and the game trophies which
pose from the entryway lingers the
imagery of the depression dance marathons which drifted over the boards in
years past.
The Tropics Ballroom was b~ilt in 1925,
and has seen many acts come in and out of
its doors. Besides being the site of state
and regional walkathon and dance
marathons during the thirties, the Tropics
has hosted wrestling matches (there is
still padding over the ring site where
wrestlers' heads had occasion to meet
with the rafters) as well as some of "the
wildest dances ever to hit the Northwest".
During the late fifties and early sixties,
the Tropics was the stomping grounds of
such local heavies as the Wailers, the
Kingsmen, and Merilee Rush and the
Turnabouts, as they slipped to the Southern depths of the Seattle-Mercer dance
circuit.
Although the outside appearance of the
building has deteriorated somewhat, the
Tropics has found a new life in recent
years, and is still a bargain for a night's
entertainment, as well as lots of other

things. Every Thursday night a small
crowd of local bargain hunters gathers to
watch auctioneer Cliff Nichols and his family auction off a weekly collection of new
and used merchandise.
Roughly around seven o'clock, Nichols
steps up to the podium and warms up with
a rapid fire welcome. The merchandise to
appear early in the auction attracts little
attention as it is usually used merchandise
hauled out of somebody's attic and
brought in on consignment. The floor man
holds up a battered camp cooler inside of
which is a disassembled silver Christmas
tree.
"Andallrightnowherewehavearealfinecam pcooler. . .andw hat' sin there, lookslike
aChristmastree. . .arealprettyChristmas
tree. . .and now who'llgivemeatwohundreddollarbill?
.
Nichols always starts out looking for as
high a bid as possible for, like most auctioneers, he is paid on a percentage of the
final price. One of the most important
hidden talents that an auctioneer must
have is a knowledge of an item's value on
t.he retail and auction markets. If the
bidding opens too low, an auctioneer faces
the possibility of losing a good deal of
money on an item. Unlike many auctioneers, Nichols' sales are usually "without
reserve", which means he will sell on the
second bid, so once two people have bid on
an item, he will not withdraw it. At a
recent sale, Nichols ended up selling an
antique oak table for $75, and as soon as
the bidding was over he offered to buy it
back for .$85.
Much of the stock that is sold in the
Tropics is furniture and appliances, much
of it from bankruptcy stock, in addition to
the many antiques that Nichols travels
100,000 miles a year collecting from his
network of "pickers".
Nichols became an auctioneer by following in the footsteps of his father. In the
middle of a recent auction, Nichols
stopped the action and brought up his
three-year-old son to auction off an item.
This is how he was introduced to the profession, and some day his son will probably be doing the same thing.
Nichols grew up in and around livestock

auctions, which have somewhat more of
an intensity and businesslike importance
to them, being a cornerstone of our econ·
omy. The livestock auctioneer uses what
is called a chant, which is a rapid bidding
call rising from the diaphragm. Chanting
is usually difficult for anyone but a professional bidder to understand, and is
used little in furniture and country auctions where the calling is centered around
the throat.
One of the interesting aspects of the art
of auctioneering is the relationship that
develops between an auctioneer and his
audience. An auctiopeer is a performer in
the world of commerce. In much the same
way that Mick Jagger struts out on stage,
hands on hips, electrifying his audience,
an auctioneer's job is to gain control of his
audience. A good auctioneer can get his
audience so caught up in the sale that he
can get bids that no person would dream
of paying on a retail market. At a recent
state vehicle auction, the auctioneer had
people competing against one another so
intensely that he was able to get several
thousand dollars for trucks that didn't run
and never would run.
The trick in bidding in such large auctions is to avoid being hypnotized by the
auctioneer's act until he gets around to the
item you want to bid on, then put on your
own performance and show him up. At a
recent vehicle auction there was a school
bus being auctioned off. When the bidding
was opened, a freak rose in the rear of the
crowd, jumping up and down on top of a
truck, bidding wildly and distracting attention from the auctioneer. Everyone in
the crowd turned and laughed, but they
weren't going to bid against this lunatic,
no telling what he might do. For a short
two-minute act, he got his item at his
price.
The Tropics is the only auction barn
within a thirty mile radius of Olympia, although the state has periodic auctions at
the Dept. of Natural Resources complex
on Martin Way. There are numerous auction barns in Seattle, and there are a
couple in Centralia. Even if you're not interested in buying anything, an auction is
a great deal for a night's entertainment.
PAGE 15

The obi igatory
-article about
Kohoutek
by L. Y. Kono

I'd been standing on the lOth floor
balcony of dorm 'A' since about 5:30p.m.,
last Monday night. It must have been
around 14 degrees that night. Of course,
now your're all sitting on the edges of
your chairs wondering what this article is
all about.
What this is, is an article on Kohoutek.
Well, 110t exactly on Kohoutek, it's
actually on the people who were watching
for the comet. Well, that didn't quite work
out either. You see, there were some
people around that night, about 11 at the
highest count, however they weren't as
interesting as I thought they would be. At
least they weren't as interesting as me.
Anyway, I was up there for our story on
the comet. I mean, every other publication is running their articles on Kohoutek,
we have to get ours in. Commercializing a
comet to sell your products ... Now, time
for that ever so familiar question to arise,
"1s nothing sacred, anymore?"
Rumor had it, as rumors do, that it was
a plot thought up by Nixon to get our
minds off of Watergate. No way to check
out the rumor, at least for us, sorry to
say. Yo\1 know, if ol' Dick is responsible
for this, it stands to reason that he must
have had some pretty good connections to
be able to pull this one off. We just might
be better off keeping him on as President,
especially if he can continue to provide
free entertainment when none of us has
any money to be able to go anywhere.
A second rumor had it as a plot by the
telescope people to sell their products.
Somehow the first rumor and this one
see~ _to fit together. First, a plot to
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detract from Watergate, then while
you're plotting you might as well make
some money off it. It's also a good way to
keep the economy going; people buying
telescopes, clothes, gas, etc., etc.; all in an
effort to see the comet, if it exists of
course.
A third rumor had it as a plot to get rid
of the Children of God. It must have
worked, I heard they all went to Europe. I
suppose they are disappointed the comet
never hit the earth; at least I haven't
heard it did. I'm not really sure though; if
someone knows, please write. There isn't
much chance the comet is going to crash in
to the office of the Cooper Point Journal;
so quit hoping. You other people can quit
worrying; the comet has gone around the
sun and is heading back towards space.
Kohoutek had been spotted last spring,
near Jupiter, as it headed towards the
sun. It's irregular shape and other factors
caused scientists to predict quite a
spectacle. As you by now know, this didn't
quite come true. The comet is up there,
though. The night I spent in search of it,
did end with my actually seeing it--at
least I think I did, that's what they told
me.
It was in the southwestern sky, above
Venus and on a parallel line with Jupiter. I
was told that it would appear as a
greenish light with a slight tail. I only saw
a faint dot in the sky, and I wasn't even
sure that it was the comet.
In an effort to find out why, what for,
and how come, etc., I went to talk with
Sig Kutter, of Man and Nature. He
informed me that scientists had predicted
the comet was going to be so big because
it had been spotted so early. The reason it

wasn't that big because, as near as I could
make of it, the comet is pulled towards the
sun by gravity. As it nears the sun the
pull becomes stronger, thus the comet
moves faster and faster, heating up in the
process. As it heats up the solid part of
the comet turns to gas, forming the tail.
Solar wind (electrons-protrons) and
solar radiation (the sunlight you see)
drives the tail away from the sun. (I'm
beginning to feel like Jules Bergman
trying to explain all this stuff.)
Scientists have a theory on the creation
of. the comet. Apparently when the
planets were formed the leftovers
collected into these balls of matter,
forming comets. By studying the comets,
they hope to learn more about the origins
of the solar system.
A lot of people were disappointed in the
comet. For those of you who missed it and
won't be around in a million years or
whenever it comes again, Haley's Comet
is coming. Remember this will be your
second shot. It's not everybody that gets a
second chance at looking at a comet.
They're very shy things. They hardly ever
do any visiting around this edge of space.

Did you ever look at the stars and
wonder where you were? A class in
Celestial Navigation is holding its first
meeting at 8 p.m. on Jan. 15 in CAB 108.
A sextant and previous experience are not
required. All that is needed is addition
and subtraction.

Olympia is the State Capital;

•

Legislative p rev1ew
by Brian Murphy ! ..
The special session of the le~lature
that begins on Monday, Jan. 14th isn't
expected to run for very long but it should
hold more than its share of activity.
During the session, predicted to last 30
to 40 days, legislators will deal with
several of the recurring major issues and a
few new ones. Many of these will directly
effect Evergreen students.
Supplemental Budget
The Governor recently presented the
legislature with his request for a
supplemental budget for the 1973-1975
biennium. Included in the request is a sum
of $225,000 to cover enrollment increases
at TESC and $6.8 million to build a
Communications Building here. There· is
going to be a definite fight over the
budget and TESC could well be effected.
The supplemental budget would leave
$11.3 million in excess revenue. Governor
Evans has suggested that state liq~or
taxes be lowered to offset the excess.
Democratic leaders say they feel that this
is a possibility, however, they said the tax
cuts should be made in whatever way
could generate the most j~bs. .
· 11,
Stop Hitch-hiking
A bill sponsored by Senator Ted
Peterson (R-Seattle) calls for an end to
hitch-hiking or any type of solicitation of a 1
ride. Peterson's bill is prompted by the
rape-murders of a Seattle 14-year-old and ,
a Bellingham 20-year-old. Both murdei'!S'
oceured while hitch-hiking and remain •
unsolved. An initiative to making thumbing a ride illegal has also been started.
Laadlords Regrouping
The landlord -tenant bill passed last
se•;sion may face another duel with
unhappy landlords. Neither side was
really satisfied with the measure that was
approved, but that, as one member of the
IAJw-lncome ·HoU!Jing Coalition put it:
could be the mark of a successful

compromi•;e."
Neverthele•;<;, •;orne King County landlords are not willing to let it be. Although
the majority of the state landlords felt
that they could "live with it", one group
that di•;•;ented hafl allegedly put together
$10,000 to aide a campaign to modify the
law.

Tiger Farms
An interesting bill has been placed in
the hopper by State Senator Jack Metcalf
(R-Mukilteo). The proposal would classify
Bengal Tigers as fur-bearing animals so
that they may be raised for their fur as are
minks, ferrets, foxes, etc. The tigers
would even be branded. Anyone looking
for some adventurous summer work?

Women's Council
Passing of HJR 61, (t.he state equal
rights amendment), in 1972 mandated
that all laws and regulations as they effect
women be constantly under evaluation. To
accomplish this, a bill filed in the House of
Representatives would create a twenty
person Women's Council.

Along with these proposals have come
some other interesting issues that we will
follow up as the session progresses. The
Governor's request for control over fuel in
the state, the public disclosure law,
proposed changes in t he state's mental
and correctional institutions and any other
items of interest will be followed up.

EPIC surveys legislature
There is a new intelligence agency at
work on campus. Their mission: to lift the
veil of mystery that surrounds the Wash ington State Legislature for the benefit of
mankind and all other interested parties.
This group is called E.P.I.C. (the
Evergreen Political Information Center),
a subdivision of the Democracy and Tyranny Coordinated Studies' Program.
E.P.I.C. is, in a sense, the child of a similar organization on campus last year, the
Citizen's Action Network.
"The purpose of E.P.I.C. is twofold,"
said Sean Jones, representative of the
group. "First of all, we want to gain an
understanding of local politics. Then, we
want to pass along what we uncover to
anyone who is interested. The readiest example of the political scene is, of course,
our very own legislature. Through close
reading and careful observation of the

process of lawmaking, I'm confident we'll
get more than we bargain for."
Jones said, due to E.P.I.C.'s limited
membership and the massive number of
bills the legislature handles, that the ,
group plans to sift out and pursue only the
key legislation dealing with matters of
"consequence''.
"We want to be considered a resource,
center for students interested in what's
transpiring in the legislature," Jones explained. "We'll keep the campus abreast o~
any hot flashes through existing media
services but we urge students to take the
initiative to call on us if they have any
questions about the Washington State
Legislature or its affiliates."
The community can probably begin tQ ·l
use E.P.I.C. around the second week of
January, Jones said. How and where
people can contact the group will be made ,:
public as soon as possible.
I

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Guest commentary
•

A violent lesson
by John
"H• · 11'1111 ,.,,.,.;1'.~

11

Chile

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1'1'/>o/utiou olll!l /wit Wti!J is olll!l digui11g hi:>

1111'1/ !/1'111'1 '.

Sai11l-Ju.~t.

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Tht• militar.v junta that Sl'it:l'cl powt>r in Chilt> on St'ptt>mber
II. 1!17:1 ha:- dt•monstratt•d a lt•vt>l of barbarou~ rrut>lty that
makl'' ~lll'h didatnr~hips as t hn~t· of Greet•c and Spain look mild
h.v l'olllpa rison. In t ht• ft•w wt•t•ks sin1't' t ht> coup over 10,000
Jli'OJIIt• havl' ht•t·n t'Xl't'lllt•d, thousands tortured, and thousands
of ot h1•1·s hPrd1•d nff to pri~ons and detainment camp~. One
N•·" swt•t•k rPpOI'II'I' saw :?, 796 t•orpses in a single Santiago
mni'I{UI'. Nor· havt' t ht• atrot·ities ended. General Pinochet, the
h·adt•l" of I h1• m•w government. ha~ vowed t.o exterminate
Marxi!oom in ('hilt•, wht•re it has over one and a half million adhl'l"t•nts. Om• 1·an st·an·ely imagint> the amount of pain and suflt•ring- that has hN•n unleashed on this once peaceful country.
The real tragt>cly nf the rt>t•ent events in Chile, however. is
far darkt>r than t•onsideration of these atrocities by themselvt•s
may indit·att>. The coup represented not only the fall of demot··
rat·y in what was tht> most democratic of the Latin American republit·s hut also the demise of a government that was attempting tn find a pl'aceful transition to a better, more equitable sol"ial world that would have more fully met the needs and aspirations of its people. The Allende government was t.he first major
national t•xperiment in democratic Marxism-Leninism in the
worlrl.
Tht•rc have been a number of explanations given for the fall
of the Popular Unity coalition government led by Allende, the
most l'nmmon being that it was a victim of its own economic failures. Closer examination, however, reveals that the Allende
government at no time except, perhaps, during the first initial
six months while it had the advantage of surprise, had real control of the economy.
From the very first the cards were stacked against the Popular Unity. As Regis Debray and other Marxist theorists coldly
poinh·d out, one cannot simply expect that the ruling classes
will pC<I('efully relinquish their power even if one utilizes demol'l"atic institutions. Allende obtained increasing amounts of popular support. In fact, one week before the coup on the third
annivl'rsary of the Popular Unity government, one-tenth of the
( 'hill'an population paraded in front of the presidential palace in
sUJiport of the president. Yet, Allende's objectives came into

d1n·•·t t'ol1fli1·t with thl' relativ~ly ~mall but powerful upper and
middl1· da;;s ;;I rata of the Chilean social classes, the largely
c't\11"1'1"\ at iw militury. multi -national corporations, and the
l .s. ~o\' t•l·nmPnt. Thesc ·opposition groups combined in· an un oflin;tl allianc•t• that l{'cl to ·tHe final fall of the Allende govern1111'111.
Tlw ('hih·an up"p{'r classes organized lockouts and neglected
I h1•ir l'slalt•s. The military began to conduct raids on leftist org-anizat inn~ h<llfway through last year in s·e arch of armaments.
Mull in at innal eorporations exerted their enormous influence on
t ht• l lnitt•rl Stat{'s and other national governments. ITT artuall.v ol'fl'l"l'd to finant•e a roup d'etat in Chile. The huge copper
olig-opoliPs that had their properties nationalized managed to
nhtain temporary embargoes on Chilean copper in a number of
impu1·tant Europl'<m nations.
The l'nit<'rl States in conformity with its "low-profile" policy
in Latin Amt'rit•a re~orted to economic pressure and political
"I all\ t•rsion l'at ht>r than outright military intervention. No
ful'l ht'r loans wt•rp g-ranted by the U.S. or international lending
inst itut inn" to ('hilt' despite the fact that Chile is dependent on
fn1'1•ign loan" to finanl·e it,; enormous foreign debt. It owes 3
hilliun dolla1·s to the United States alone. Furthermore, Chile
found it st•lt' in l'normous finanl'ial difficulties since the world
pric·l' of l'OJIJII'I" whi1·h accounts for o\·{'r 80% of Chile's exports
plum nwt t•d.
Althoug-h thl' U.S. g-m·t'rnment cut off all foreign aid to Chile
it slt•ppNI up military aiel con;;iclt•rably. President Nixon actuall.v I'I'IJUI'»lt•d that military airc1·aft be sold to Chile. In CongTI'"" 1h1" wa~ 1111'1 b~· hlank hl'wilderment. In response to their
inqui1ws I hi',\'" l.'rt• tolrl that the Chilean military was apolitical.
It "1'1'111~ that t lw ;ri~ was provided to remedy this fact.
All in all, tl11• stqry of the fall of the Allende government is
onl' whil'h is hi;;lori1·ally important. It has widespread ramifications ""it h rt•garcls ~o the very possibility of constructive politil'al and (•t·onomil' t•hange in Latin Amerira in the face of the vast
arra,v of counh•r-revolutionary forces. The lessons of Chile will
almost t'l'l"lainly t•ncourage violent revolution in Chile and
ahmad. Cl'rlainly, 1 no peaceful reyolution can withstand a
violt·nlt·ounter-revolution.

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Curriculum for next year,
already
by Leslie Laytoo
curriculum proposals, the deans will be
An academic fair displaying curriculum
attempting to improve means of tabuplans for next year was held last
lating responses, and will seek proposals
Wednesday in the library lobby. Coordinafor group contracts and modular studies.
tors were present to talk with students
Group contract proposals arise from or
augment past or current curricular
interested in their program ideas, and
offerings, or arise from com~ined studentstudent response forms will soon , ~e
available that will determine the final
faculty interest.
Curriculum changes were achieved
selection of programs.
Student input is not only desirable, but
primarily through short-term task forces
(committee!' working within the faculty).
necessary for a curriculum to be designed ,
that will meet our needs. Most students
One of the major changes will be in the
have been t•onfused about how and if they•. ,
availability of individual contracts. "We
are not reducing the number of contracted
can exert input, and how the curricuLum
evolves.
studies, but are seeking other ways to
handle them, to make contracted studies
Dean Rudy Martin, spearheading the ··
curriculum planning efforts this year, , more related to the total curriculum,"
Martin explained. Contracts will assume
emphasizes that the curriculum will not be , ,
created "by plebiscite".
an advanced level of skill and will require
"We constantly seek community input,
students to "Show cause" before they
but, in the long run, the faculty must 1
enter that mode of study. Fewer faculty
design the curriculum," he says. "The~ , 1
members will be assigned to contracted
must plan programs. That's what they're . • . study, but some coordinated studies may
trained to do. The deans then select the,
have contracts designed within them.
programs."
"Throughout the process, community ,' 1',
The curriculum changes have resulted
input can and does influence the. ,
in a greater emphasis on Coordinated
curriculum", he continues. "No single
Studies. They hope to involve about 75%
factor operates in isolation, but we don't
of faculty and students in Coordinated
design the curriculum by plebiscite or
Studies programs, instead of the 66%
popular ballot. It's not a product of
currently involved. It has been recomcommunity consensus, but of faculty .11, mended that programs be made smaller;
planning with community input."
basic programs should involve four faculty
' ' instead of five and 80 students instead of
' 100 or more. Advanced Coordinated
Present plans for the curriculum are 1' Studies programs normally would involve
the product of intensive work by the four ' 1 1 three faculty and 60 students.
academic deans and the faculty who
formally began their task last October. It
has developed earlier this year then ever '
, Another task force recommended that
before, and the 1974-75 curriculum should
there be more upper division than basic
programs, and worked out a proportion of
be available to students sometime in
March.
advanced to introductory programs.
Martin and the deans eliminated many
It was agreed that programs should fall
proposals, ". . . but we left in more than
within four basic academic areas: natural
we <>an offer next year so that we can
sciences, social sciences, humanities, and
receive input on as many programs as
the arts.
possible:· Evergreeners should limit their
Gaps exist presently in advanced
reactions to what is already proposed.
programs with a math and natural science
While Evergreeners are studying the
emphasis and in art programs. There
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should be more opportunities for foreign
language study and communications
work.
One group recommended that Evergreen establish a "divisional" program in
each of the four broad academic areas.
They also felt "specialty" programs could
be offered in several general areas of
study every year "for a few years".
Martin hastened to explain that "specialty" programs don't refer to one
program which is repeated year after
year, but to a general area of study in
which students may assume some
relevant programs, (i.e., communications ·
radio-television, journalism, creative
writing), will be continued.

Task forces reviewed program histories
and all former program proposals, and
isolated areas in which Evergreen can
offer continuing programs, such as
environmental studies, communications,
Pacific Rim studies, anti non-white
education. They focused on model
devt-lopment--on ways to design and
structure Coordinated Studies--and they
examined what kinds of contract ancl
modular studies compliment or complete
Coordinated Studies programs.
The task forces delivered their recommendations to the deans who synthesized
all the reports and presented them back to
the faculty throughout Fall Quarter.
The deans will begin selection of specific
programs Jan. 14, which they will present
at the first Winter Quarter faculty work
week, Jan. 28-Feb. 1.

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Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 16th, the
Career Resource Center will present a
weekly Graduate School Rap Session with
Helena Knapp. The discussions will run
from 3:00-5:00 p.m. every Wednesday in
Library 1221.
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Jazz Composers Orchestra Association:

Can iazz survive
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by Joe Murphy

In reviewing the literature of jazz, both
nrigin and development, it soon becomes
apparent that innovation and exploitation
s'hare more space than they exclude. The
realities of racism, economics, factionalism, and artistic prejudice have prevented
musicians from Jelly Roll Morton to Cecil
Taylor from gaining access to a public that
can appreciate both artistically and reward economically the vanguard creations
'hese individuals offer.
The problem is one of both survival and
exposure. How can the musician continue ·
to innovate when faced with the prospect
of, as in Cecil Taylor's case, washing
dishes, or, as in the case of Charles Ives,
being an insurance broker? Musicians who
hope for eventual recognition within their
lifetimes on a commercial/ survival basis
must face either the co-option of forty -five
minute night club sets, or deal with the
politics of record company sharks whose
job it is to maintain the precarious balance
between talent and bucks . For the artist
striving to maintain both · identity and
integrity, these prospects loom ever more
threatening than a sinkful of dirty dishes
or a broker's desk.
Compounding the problem of basic survival is the aspect of exposure. Without
exposure to a wide range of the public it is
impossible for the musician to determine
whether or not an audience exists for the
music he or she creates. Faced with the
)Uggernaut of America's music business,
many musicians have chosen to take their
talent to the European countries where
appreciative and receptive audiences
;fflsure work and exposure, validating in
part Ornette Coleman's statement, "Jazz
i~ too good for America".
.It was not until Fall, 1964 that any attempt was made to rectify the problems of
finance and exposure under the auspices
of organization. A group of younger jazz
musicians, under the direction of trumpeter Bill Dixon and ' composer Michael
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Mantler, formed what was to be the first
incarnation oi the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association, calling it the Jazz Composers Guild. The Guild was to provide an
intermediary bargaining coilective to pro·
teet the musician from exploitative practices while giving artists room to work
producing their music.
In its first phase, racial tension and lack
of commitment combined to bring failure
to the Jazz Composers Guild, but in 1966
many of the same individuals recouped to
form the present day Jazz Composers
Orchestra Association.
JCOA is a nonprofit collective based in
New York City. It exists to provide resources for both the musician of new
music and his/ her audience. Among' the
many facets of its program are commissions for new works to be performed by
the Jazz Composers Orchestra, workshops and concerts and recordings on the
JCOA label, among them being Carla
Bley"s and Paul Haines' "Escalator Over
the Hill", and Don Cherry's excellent "Relativity Suite". As a nonprofit organization, all profit from recor(iings channels
back into the improvement of facilities and
funding of commissions for those individuals belonging to the association.
As a corollary of JCOA, the New Music
Distribution Service was formed in 1971.
It exists to distribute music that would
otherwise remain inaccessible through established commercial outlets, for instance
imports and small record labels producing
vanguard musics.
New music is an important communic<Jtions tool, and, as good as the Mahavishnu
Orchestra is or deserving of praise as
Weather Report may be, they exist as
only one side of the innovators' picture in
new music, that side sold to you by the
promotional schemata of large record corporations.
The Ja1.z Composers Orchestra Associa·
tion/Ncw Music Distribution Service is
the closest thing in existence to direct
lines on music being created today.

Wheth!!r you hear the music in its original
form or wait until it has channeled down
through the commercial vortex is up to
you and your interest in music.
The address of the JCOA/NMDS is
New ' Music Distribution Service, 6 West
95th St., New York, New York 10025. For
fifty cents they will send you a current
catalog and ordering information. My ex·
perience with them has been that their
service is fast and efficient, usually you'll
receive your order within ten days after
mailing it. So there you have it, a soul't!e
of new music for yourself that also supports innovation among musicians. Happy
Listening.

Tlte Evergreen State College Jazz Ensemble will participate in the 1974 Invitational Jan Festival at Portland, Oregon's
Civic Auditorium .January 12 at 7:30p.m.
Directed by 1-~vergreen Faculty Member Don Chan, the 22-member group will
pt.>rform in ('Oncert along with bands from
CentJ"al Washington State College, Clackumas and Lane Community Colleges,
Clark Collt-ge and Hudson's Bay High
School.
l'el"sons interested in attending the festival ean ("Ontact Evergreen student Rick
Gill'Oy. publidty manager for the band, at
866 - 8~76.

A second big Jazz Band is forming at
Evergreen and is in need of musicians.
The band is rehearsing Wednesday and
Sunday nights from 7 to about 9:30 p.m. in
Lib. 4004. Specifically the band is in need
of: Saxophone players, also trumpet,
trombone, rhythm section, drums.
electric bass, guitar and piano players.
Interested persons should come to a
rehearsal, and for further information ean
contact Will Humphreys in Lib. 2603, ph.
866-6656.

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Art review

"Paradise Isle"
in the library
It seems that Bert Garner and Ann
Focke are responsible for a great deal of
the liveliness to be found in Seattle art society. They run a sort of superior artists'
clearinghouse; if you're new in town, they
can probably tell you if there are artists
with similar concerns to yours or even collectors interested in your kind of stuff.
During the mounting of Bert's current
show in the TESC library, Doug Kahn,
the Exhibits Coordinator, showed me
some examples of other work in various '
media, including 25 minutes of Bert and a
friend on videotape. All they did was
stand on the floor, swaying almost imperceptibly with fatigue - unless they were
pretending to be palm trees.
The only reason I mention any of this is
that Bert Garner appears to be interested
in many different aspects of art, both to do
himself and to help other people do. His
work from five years ago is shallow, and
maybe his all-embracing approach explains it.
So, what's in this show.
Well, palm trees. Some of them are
painted on canvas. Others are built up out
of such odd materials as palm-tree trunks
and coconuts. One is made of gold.
There is a large show of hands - palms
I should say - with little palm trees
bitten out of them, made by Bert's friend
Alan Lande. There are two different
things at work in this piece. One of them is
a verbal pun: palm/palm, get it? Sure.
The other is the old business of presenting
one image many times. What Alan did was
to make a picture of a hand-palm with a
palm tree on it and then Xerox it 63 times
and pin a1163 Xerox copies on the wall in a
sort of brigade. It's pretty. I don't think
the number 63 has anything to do with
palm trees. It isn't boring to look at. It's
slightly boring by now, to think about.
Then, there are three frames with
photographs in them. When Bert had his

gold tooth put in, he had the dentist,
Tommy Tooth, sculpt a little palm tree on
the side of it. Then Alan Lande and
Robert Teeple took some pictures of the
little gold palm tree. One of the photos is
quite nice to look at, since it's so close up
that all you can see is gold and pink.
There are quite a few diamond-shaped
paintings. Though carefully crafted, they
are bad. Each one shows palm trees on a
shore, with little stylized waves to the
right and a sun or moon in the sky above
them. The trees cast a shadow on the
sand. The color areas are pretty much
equal in size, which keeps the composition
from being exciting. The line of the beach
cuts in front of the waves, instead of the
reverse. I don't understand this, unless
it's an arbitrary way out of having to make
foam, or maybe he likes the incredibly
awkward diagonal line that the beach/
water juncture makes, and doesn't want
to modify its violence by ragging the edge.
Maybe this violence is some kind of statement. If I get it, I don't like it. It hurts,
and I don't think I deserve it.
There are two distinct types of color
scheme in the paintings. One is moderately interesting and one is dopey, given
the basic drawing. The dopey kind is the
kind where a relatively normal blue/
green/yellow /brown combination is used.
These paintings look like cruelly hardened
conventional landscape paintings. The
better kind of color scheme is to be found
in three paintings: "Aunt Arlene's Second
Honeymoon", which is pink/orange/purple; "Rococo Isle", which is lots of pinks;
and "Sentimental Journey", which is all
purples, soda pop pinks and whites.
These three carry a certain funniness
and campiness to some kind of logical extreme. They remind me of those cheap
two-color scenes that people used to print
on low-grade restaurant china, bad upholstery fabric, bus station walls. The cute,
corny drawing carried by sugary color is

consciously entertaining, or at least consistently entertaining. This concept has
been lovingly and vigorously exploited by
more recent artists. Five years ago, when
Garner painted them, they probably
carried more weight.
Recently Garner began to make palm
trees. Figures of palm trees, like other
people make figures of women.
"Paradise Isle" is a funny mix of real
materials and fake. The real trunks of the
palm trees are jammed into man-made
holes in real coconuts. The palm fronds
are green plastic. The hairy stuff around
the coconuts is sold by the yard
somewhere and no one tried to make it
look like it wasn't. The sand has this winter-wonderland/ Bali-Ha'i glitter on it.
Subtle, seductive electric moonlight
shines on the whole arrangement. Concep-.
tually the thing is fairly arresting. Also
it's pretty. In a sort of peculiar.
disorienting way it's sweet to walk in out
of this weather and see a couple of moonlit
palm trees growing in the library. Especially since someone has taken the
trouble to scatter blue glitter on the beach
so it'll look like it does in the movies,
where palm trees usually grow.
I am able to dismiss Bert Garner's paintings fairly easily as facile "why-not" art the kind that many of us do when we see
the dumb stuff other artists are getting
away with and even making money on.
His built palm trees I'm not so easy with.
This may be because I'm more familiar
with painting, but who isn't? In any case,
for ·me they are touching as well as funny
in a way that the paintings are not. The
paintings make the show more aggrc•ssive, but in the end they provide little
more than a flashy backdrop for the trees
themselves, somehow transplanted in
cleaned-up circumstances, still bathed in
the alien light of home.
- Susan Christian
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OLYMPIA
Friday Nite Movie, "491" by Vilgot
Sjoman. TESC Lecture Hall 1, 7 and 9:30
p.m., tonight, 50 cents admission.
Wednesday Night Films, "Orphee" and
"The Fugitive Kind". Lecture Hall 1,
TESC, 7:30p.m. on Jan. 16.
Movies: State Theater: "Magnum
Force" and "Two Lane Blacktop". Capitol
Theater; "Cinderelkt" and "Charley and
the A ... gel". Olympic Theater; "The Way
We ·were".
"The Family Man" presented by the
Olympia Little Theater. Friday and
Saturday at 8:15.
Bert Garner presents "Palms". a
one-man exhibit. Thru Jan. 19 in the
TESC Library Gallery.

Barry McGuire at the Evergreen
Christian Center, 1000 Black Lake Blvd.
Tonight at 10 p.m. (youth only?) and
Sunday Jan.13, all day.
The Sunnyland Band at the Library
lobby. Friday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m.
Linda Allen, folk singer, on the 3rd floor
of the Library, Monday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m.
Folk Dan.--ing (TESC) every Sunday in
the Multipurpose Room and on Tuesday
on the 2nd floor of the CAB. Everyone
welcome, teaching included.
SEATTLE
Northwest Collegwte Big Band Festival at the Center Opera House. Tomorrow
at8 p.m.
Linda Ronstadt at the Paramount
Northwest, Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 8 p.m.

Turning toward
the nightmare
Inevitably nightmares of some deeply
born feeling, or sense of destiny lead
toward fulfillment of that very thing.
Whether it is that sense that guides one's
life, or destiny itself, it seems to matter
very little.
F. Scott Fitzgerald had a nightmare,
and it is no secret to his readers. He was
perhaps the most honest and thinly
masked writer of his generation. In this
work one can watch the turning down, his
nightmare as he approached it. His visions
of lost youth, of gradual decline and failure were not sharp.and rigid, but rather
they were throbbing themes that ached
inside his work. He could not pinpoint the
amorphous thing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last of the
Belles, aired on ABC T.V. Monday, Jan. 7,
presented an interesting view into the
process of Fitzgerald's problems. Contrasting a period in Fitzgerald's life with a
dramatization of one of his stories, one
was ableto follow the line of progression
that brought him from the gay youth of his
soldiering days, to the uninspired "spokesman'' for a generation that was no more. It
is in his view of his youth that Fitzgerald
allt-mpts to re-trace the paths back to his
,;nuJ'<'e of fear.
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The Last of the Belles, the 1929 story
dramatized, formed the bulk of the program, and proved its strongest part, for
here was Fitzgerald himself, re-tracing,
narrating from the past. The biographical
portion of the program, starring Richard
Chamberlain as Scott, Blythe Danner as
Zelda, formed the weakest link, but by no
fault of the actors. Here was Fitzgerald as
interpretation, speaking his written lines
as pieces of casual, spontaneous observation, and dealing childishly with a complicated wife. There was no lack of atmosphere or contrast as the Fitzgeralds were
set against a background of false gaiety,
lonely train whistles, and flippant black
bottom music. There was no difficulty in
identifying the actors with their characters. nor was there a lack of poignancy,
but there was a loss of depth, and the reasons for it all.
The achievement of this show goes
beyo~d its fine production and acting. It
lies in the fact that the show was done at
all; that someone thought it worthwhile to
bring this tragic writer and his circumstance to the T.V. screen and the general
public, and give them a flavor of a man
turning toward his nightmare.

- Knute Olsson H.G.S. Berger

Tickets are S5 in advance.
JuillWrd String Quartet at 8 .p.m. at
Roethke Auditorium on the U of W
campus. Wednesday, Jan. 16.
Woody Herman and his herd in concert
Friday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. at Shoreline
Community College. Tickets are $3.50 and
$4.50.
Commander Cody and his Lost Planet
Airmen and Ramblin' Jack EUiot at the
Moore Theater. Sunday, Jan. 20 at 7:30
p.m. Tickets are $4.50 and available at the
Bon Marche and all other outlets.
"Sty of the Blind Pig" performed by
Black Arts West. Tonight and tomorrow
at8:30 p.m.
Early epochs of Chinese and Japanese
art are being exhibited thru Jan. 13 at the
Seattle Art Museum.
Motorcycle show at the Seattle Center
Exhibition Hall, 6 to 11 p.m. tonight.
Movies: "Executive Action" (Northgate); "The Sting" (King); "The New
Land" (Harvard Exit); "The Seven Ups"
(UA Cinema 70).
TACOMA
Linda Water/aU and Max Peters -- At
Court "C" Coffeehouse, 914 Broadway
(downtown). Tomorrow, 9 p.m., 50 cents.
Elayne Levensky will demonstrate
working with stained glass. Monday, Jan.
14, 7:30p.m. at the Cave Coffeehouse on
the Pacific Lutheran University campus.
Movies: "Siddhartha" (Guild 6th Avenue); "Jonathan Livingston SeaguU" (Villa
Plaza Cinema I); "American Graffitti"
(Villa Plaza Cinema II).
PORTLAND
Big Band Jazz '74 --Tomorrow, 7:30
p.m. at the Portland Civic Auditorium.
This festival features big bands from
colleges and high schools around the
Northwest including the Evergreen Jazz
Ensemble. Tickets are $3 and $4.
Woody Herman and his herd -·
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. at Gresham
High School.
Bergman's "Winter Light" at the
Northwest Film Study Center, Portland
Art Museum. Tomorrow at 8 p.m.
Camerawork Gallery presents works by
Prentice Price. Thru Jan. 12. 2255 NW
Northrup St.
Portland Art Museum presents "/ndwn
Minwture Painting", an exhibition. This
exhibition h!atures the Mughal and
Dc-<•anni sd.11nls. Thru .Jan. 20.

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