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the Evergreen community.
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Despite all previous attempts
at doing so, a newspaper
cannot be run without deadlines. We at the Cooper Point
Journal have deadlines to
meet in regards to our printer, typesetter and even ourselves. Consequently, if the
community wishes to utilize
this paper, it also will have to
meet certain deadlines. Articles which are solicited will
have deadlines assigned with
them and those deadlines will
of course vary as to when they
are due. ALL DEADLINES
ARE TO BE CONSIDERED
AS ABSOLUTE! That is why
the word "dead" is part of the
word "deadline". Deadlines
relating to non-solicited items
from the community are as
follow:
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CPJ)
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Symposium Sup.)
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CONTENTS
LETTERS

4,5

NEWS BRIEFS

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EDITORIALS/COLUMNS
PHOTOS

8,9
10,.11

"LET'S MAKE A DEAL"

12

MAYHEM & POISE

13

OLYMPIA AFTER-HOURS

15

JOHN FOSTER ON COG

16

LIBRARYTURMOIL

17

GUEST COMMENTARY

18

TESC BUILDING BUDGET

19

REVIEWS

20,21

NW CULTURE/BEST SELLERS

ness Manager — Vincent Pepka; Editorial Editor — Kevin
Hogan; Faculty Adviser —
Margaret Gribskov; Contributing Columnist (Ed. Ret.) —
Jill A. Fleming; Production &

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Family Portrait, Point-No-Point - by Bill Hirschman

LETTERS to the EDITOR
Community chastised
To The Community:
Yes We Have No Community
The Evergreen State College may be a
place to come and learn but contrary to
popular belief it is not a learning
community. The Northwest Symposium on
Chile gave this institution its first
opportunity to implement its words into
actions. The Symposium offered tremendous individual growth together with the
opportunity for wide-spread community
participation. The Evergreen learning
community declined this unprecidented
event.
There was an impressive showing of
students from various schools as well as
numerous other participants. (An estimated 1300, including those from 26
various universities.) But where was the
Evergreen community? Where were the
faculty, our "co-learners"? Where were the
students? Where were you?
If seminars are the only place where
learning and sharing of that learning
exists, then we have no right in calling
ourselves a learning community. As
defined by Webster's Third New World
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Dictionary, "community - a body of
individuals organized into a unit or
manifesting, usually with awareness, some
unifying trait. . ." and also ". . .in order
that there may be a community, there
must be conscious and purposive
sharing.".
It is unfortunate that the majority of the
faculty failed to see the importance of this
event and continued in their "Business as
usual" routine. It would have been an
unexpected pleasure to see the postponment of scheduled seminars and lectures.
This might have encouraged students to
attend and support this student developed
symposium.
Where was the reknown Evergreen
flexability and initiative?
The Symposium was, indeed, a valuable
learning experience for we we few, (very
few) faculty, staff and students who
attended. We wish to express our
admiration and gratitude to the students of
the "Revolt in and by Economics" group
contract and their faculty member, Chuck
Nisbet, who have, through their efforts
demonstrated their interest and belief in
the Evergreen spirit by sharing with us
their learning experiences in presenting
the Chile Symposium.
Patrice Scoggins
Johanna Nitzke

Symposium plaudits
To The Editor and the
Evergreen Community:
I must congratulate the seven members
of the Latin American Study Group and
the Revolt in/by Economics group
contract on the high quality of the
Northwest Symposium on Chile. I feel I
gained more useful information in those
two days than I have in a full year of
certain classes. I must admit that
originally I intended to participate in only
a few of the events. I got so caught up in
the excitement and stimulation of thought
I attended, in the end, as much as
possible. If anything was relevant to a
community based on change;, such as
Evergreen^, this symposium was. The
realization of the magnitude of US
involvement in the fall of Allende is
important to grasp as citizens of such a
corrupt, money thirsty society.
I am disappointed in the faculty
attendance or lack of it. I don't believe
more than a dozen participated in half of
the presentations. I am annoyed especially with those faculty that are
politically oriented, although all should
have been a part of such a tremendous
learning experience. I am at the point of

saying Evergreen should have stopped
Dushing paper for one day so that the staff
members could also have been a part of
Evergreen's real potential. I doubt if
anyone on campus would not have learned
something. If they knew it all „ perhaps
they too could have enlightened the rest of
us from the podium. Maybe in the future,,if
as relevant a symposium occurs againeveryone will take advantage of what a
learning community is capable of giving.
Again my deepest gratitude to the
sponsors for giving me an opportunity to
learn the truth.
Diane J. Brennan

Library thefts
To the Editor:
The Library has a big problem, and its
problem is also ours. Sadly, it is being
ripped off for thousands of dollars worth
of books, periodicals, and media equipment. The College cannot responsibly
stand still for this any longer, nor will it.
Dean Dave Carnahan wrote a letter about
the problem, which was published in this
column a couple of weeks ago. Since then,
I have talked with Susan Smith, who
directs the media operation. Both of these
administrator-librarians are gravely concerned, primarily because they see just a
little bit up the road to the inevitable
result of the theft: guards at the doors and
everything locked up tight.
The Evergreen Library is one of the
most pleasant, most humane college
libraries I have ever worked in. I would
like to see it stay that way, if it is not
already too late. And there is an
over-riding issue, too, which is of
paramount importance to all of us: i.e.,
we've got to prove to ourselves (not to
mention to the taxpayers) that the
Evergreen brand of academic freedom
works. For most of us who live and work
here, this is already proven. Yet the
problem at the Library glares back at us.
And the library is the material heart of any
institution of higher learning.
Writing a letter-to-the-editor isn't a
thing I like to do very much. Such letters
rarely do any good anyway, except to
provide therapy for their authors. So I
have asked myself what I'd like this letter
to accomplish, and I've come up with two
"wishes" for it: 1) That it might convince
anybody reading it that this isn't "just
another problem," because it isn't; 2) That
you might try to do something about it, no
matter how small, if you're convinced. It's
a Bad News situation, and one which
threatens us all. If I weren't convinced
myself, I wouldn't be writing. So I hope
you'll do what you can.
Leo Daugherty

Audio collectors
To All But A Very Few:
You and I continue to have a problem,
someone has decided to build an audio
collection at our expense. This past week,
we lost 55 or 60 audio cassettes from the
collection. We think it is the same person
who has taken most of the cassettes.
What this means to you, is the
unavailability of those materials for you to
use and enjoy. It also pushes me closer to
the decision of having someone stationed
at the front door hassling you before you
can leave the library.
What it means to me is I have to spend
library money replacing materials we
have already paid for so I won't have that
money to spend on new things for you to
use. I also have to spend my time trying to
catch the SOB, a game I don't particularly
enjoy.
If you like the kind of library collection
we are trying to build, if you like the open
nature of the collection, please give me a
hand. Remember to check out materials at
the circulation desk if you take them out of
the library. Also, if you see someone
pocketing cassette tapes or other materials from the library collection, ask them
just what they think they are doing or let
me ask them - after all they are stealing
from you.
Dave Carnahan

Basketball
hoarding
To the Community:
If I could have a small portion of your
time, I would like to talk to those people
with a small portion of mind. As a student
of Evergreen and a refugee of the recent
holidays, I've brought the matter of
requesting a basketball from the Campus
Rec. Room to the attention of this paper
and to the people guilty. A quick check
with the Rec. Room for a period of three
weeks achieved the standard "I'm sorry
but they're all out, being used." Only of
late did I find out that, indeed, they were
on loan and they were all overdue by
periods of up to a few months. The
numerous 'please return' notices went out
and as usual nothing returned. I began
wondering if C.R.R. had any power to go
and apprehend any overdue equipment,
but was told that they didn't.
Alas' I put it to you, in the spotlight of
the basketball court, and I ask for myself
and my friends, the simple pleasure of
having a C.R.R. basketball for a while.
You can have it back on the due date.
Robert Daunais

Real Affirmative
Action
To the Editor:
"Quote from Edward R. Murrow
from Prime Time
by Alexander Kendrick
pg. 402
"The Albert Einstein Award also gave
Murrow the opportunity for another
provocative statement about current
affairs. He spoke of the Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University, the first
medical school under Jewish auspices
established in the"United States. He had
found the admission application a unique
document.
"I am not asked to state my race. No
questions are asked about my religion or
nationality. No photograph is requested.
The college is not curious as to my
parents' birthplace. I am not required to
give my mother's maiden name. You will
have difficulty in finding a similar
application from any other institution of
higher learning in this land.
"They are interested in what academic
trails I have followed, and where I
propose to go; interested in my qualifications, rather than my ancestors. This, I
suggest, is the essence of that overworked
and often distorted phrase, academic
freedom, which doesn't apply only to
professors, but means the right of
scholors to persue the truth wherever it
may lead them."
This memo brought to you in the
interest of truely affirmative action.
Miss Patricia Bishop
To the Community:
There is currently a D.T.F. investigating the financial support and general use
of The Evergreen State College Organic
Farm. If you aren't aware of this, you
should be. As trite as it may sound, the organic farm is your farm and, in my opinion, a necessary part of the Evergreen
Community. If you don't know about the
farm come and visit or call Tom Knipp and
Marc Ross at 866-6161. Background
material about the farm is available at the
farm for you to look at.
If you want the farm to stay then support it now! Encourage faculty and admin
istrators to incorporate the farm in the
academic programs. The future master
plan has other plans for the farm. Would
you prefer a parking lot or dormitory
apartments on the farm site?
Please respond in any way that you can,
by letter to the CPJ or to an administrator
as to your feelings about the future of the
farm.
Marc Ross
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Briefly

Campus news
A free public lecture-film presentation
is being offered at TESC each Thursday
evening from 7 -10 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1.
Evergreen faculty member Gordon
Beck presents the evening lecture, always
dealing with the topic "American Cinema
Between the Wars (1919-1941)", which is
accompanied by an appropriate full-length
feature movie. The series will run through
March 21.
Any students interested in planning a
group contract for next year entitled
"Marx and the Third World" should meet
next Wednesday, Feb. 13, in Lib. 1416 at
noon. If you can't make the meeting feel
free to contact Ned Swift at 6300.
Organic Farm meetings are being held
every Wednesday at noon down on the
farm. The public is invited to get involved.
Contact Marc Ross at 866-6161 for more
information.
The Women's Poetry Cooperative needs
poetry, short pieces, drawings, or whatever for a book they are building. Sign up
now in the Women's Clinic, Lib. 1222 and
talk to Lynn Mercer. The deadline for
printing this quarter is Feb. 15, so hurry.
KAOS radio is setting up a KAOS LISTENERS PERSONALS GUIDE in which
Evergreeners are invited to advertise freebies, lost and found items, and ride solicitations or contributions. Information
should be given to the KAOS people several days early. Forms are now available
at KAOS on the 3rd floor of the CAB.
People interested in taking a basic accounting module spring quarter should
contact Ed Alkire in A-822 or at 5005, or
Fauline Main in Lib. 3233 or at 6077.

Graduate School Rap Sessions are being
held weekly in Lib. 1221. Interested Evergreeners are asked to attend on Wednesdays from 2 - 4 p.m.
The Evergreen College Community
Organization (ECCO) is sponsoring the 1st
annual Mardi Gras Dance to be held
Friday, Feb. 15 at the Skokomish Room of
the Tyee Motor Inn. The festivities will
begin at 8:30 and costumes are encouraged. The fabulous Don Chan Quartet will
entertain and a late night buffet is included
in the $5 per person ticket price. Tickets
are now available from the ECCO Board, at
Yenny's, at the Evergreen Bookstore, or
from ticket chairpersons Jean Skov
(866-4068) or Carole Layton (866-4068).

Students interested in internships at
EXPO '74 should contact the Co-op office
now, Students are needed to work as staff
assistants with the Smithsonian Institute
on a six-month Folklife Festival of
Northwest United States and Canadian
Cultures. A 3 month commitment is
required and a salary of $150 per month has
been set.
This is an excellent opportunity to get
acquainted with the variety of cultures
present in the Pacific Northwest. For more
information contact Judy Dresser or Dan
Swecker at the Co-op office (6391).
Plans are now underway for the 1st
annual Mud Bay Highland Gathering to be
held at the Evergreen State College. The
Mud Bay Highlanders now consist of nine
members who desire to raise interest in
the ancient Celtic performing arts of
piping, dancing, and singing. Campus and
community members are invited to a
general meeting and practice session to be
held Thursday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m. Anyone
interested in participating or just enjoying
the music can contact Rick Holmes at
866-5125 or in Lib. 3307 for location and
more information.

Three-dimensional, visual, and performing arts contributions are needed for the
Evergreen sponsored Women's Art F.estival. TESC women should contact Linda
Eber at 866-4667 or Jan Goodrich at
866-5131. Olympia community women can
contact Alice Schurke at 866-1628 for more
information and/or contributions. Meetings will be held Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in
the Periodical Lounge on the 2nd floor of
the Library lobby, for women interested in
participating.
The Matter of Survival program will
have room for more students during
Spring Quarter. The program is planning
to conduct four cultural studies: The
Natural History and Native American
Culture of the Pacific Northwest (contact
Al Wiedman, 6707), Farm/Toum/City in
America (contact Russ Fox, 6671), Mexico
(contact Medarde Delgado, 6706), and Wall
Street (contact Pris Bowerman, 6705). If
interested contact the appropriate faculty
sponsor for additional info, this week!
Photographers desiring feedback on
their work are asked to meet Wednesdays
at 3 p.m. in Steve Bellinger's office in CRC
302. For more information contact Steve
or call Russell Culbertson at 943-7629.

A Men's Consciousness Raising Group is
being formed now. The group will meet
Sundays at 7 p.m. in dorm B-506. Drop by
and check this out.
A hearing on the Satsop Nuclear Plant
Site will be held Monday, Feb. 11 at the
Oakridge Golf Course Restaurant, Satsop,
Wa., at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. This is a chance
for the public to discuss concerns of the future of nuclear power in the Pacific Northwest.
Call Cindy Swanberg at 943-5928 for
more information and car-pooling.
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Editorials
Drowning in
their own
"Right On s"
The Evergreen Latin American Studies group and all involved in the Chile symposium are to be commended for their
comprehensive and well balanced presentation which made the
Chile symposium one of the year's major educational events.
It is unfortunate, however, that some members of the community did not appreciate the group's efforts to present a diversity of opinions so that an exchange of ideas would be possible.
During Friday afternoon's panel discussion those who apparently consider themselves self-appointed exponents of political
awareness were well represented in the audience. This faction
came to the surface as they attempted to interfere with the
speech of Joseph Hamwee, who represented U.S. business interests and was obviously not pro Allende. Hamwee's presentation was interrupted several times by boos and persons demanding that he not be allowed to continue. He was insulted
and threatened, (one person advocated shooting him) all for the
heinous crime of voicing an 'unpopular' opinion.
We at the Journal do not agree with Mr. Hamwee's position,
but we do believe he has a right to be heard on this campus
without facing threats and insults. It is a poor reflection upon
the image of this community if ideas contrary to the accepted
values cannot be aired.
It is not really an issue whether or not the speaker was a
jerk, the issue is if we are going to allow unpopular ideas to be
aired within this community. There are far too many people in
this community who consider an exchange of ideas to be the
echoing of their own opinions punctuated by their own cries of
right on.

Jill A. Fleming

The Army
takes to
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Whafdya
mean buddy?
To function as a community Evergreen needs identifiable
goals. The COG II document does this in part by defining how
Evergreen should be governed. Various DTFs recommend procedures in policy-making (what to do about graduation, dogs, et
al) but they set goals for a very small'part of the community.
What is really needed before we can project long range'goals
for the future is a definition of terms. Specifically, we need to
define what is interdisciplinary.
At a school that is committed to interdisciplinary study it is
strange that no one knows what it really means. To some faculty members it means that they apply their'knowledge in one
field to several others. To other faculty it means dabbling in
several areas.
What does it mean to students? Does it mean we study music
because we want to know its effects on plants? Or applying philosophy to literary characters? Or does it mean a series of what'
in essence are classes in the P.O.R.T.A.L.S. program?
We are not objecting to any program now offered at Evergreen. We do object to the use of interdisciplinary as a catch-all
term. A good definition, and the community's knowledge of this
concept, is necessary to advance Evergreen's alternative
modes of learning in the educational world.

A little known defense activity is
being carried out at Crystal Mountain, a
local ski resort. Apparently, the Army
does not feel secure equipped only with
nuclear bombs, ABMs, nerve gas and
napalm. To back up these modes of
destruction, should they fail, the Army is
training its men to combat the enemy
from the ski slopes.
As unlikely as a ground war in Siberia
seems, the Army, like the Boy Scouts, is
prepared. Every Monday a new batch of
soldiers arrive at Crystal to learn, in just
five days, how to snowshoe, cross-country
ski and downhill ski. A rather ambitious
schedule for our boys I'm afraid.
Besides being poorly equipped (cable
bindings, wide wood skis for both types of
skiing and lace boots that lack adequate
support) the soldiers have other obstacles
in their way that keep them from
following the Swiss Army's tracks.

The Army refuses to issue goggles to
the troops, so that most of them can't see,
much less ski. But as one soldier said, "If
you can't see it coming, you're more
relaxed when you fall."
The instructors realize how hopeless
the situation is. One said that they spend
most of their time on downhill skiing,
since they figure the soldiers can pick up
the snowshoeing and cross-country skiing
by themselves. To those soldiers who
already know how to ski the week at
Crystal comes as a welcome change of
pace.
The civilian skiers are generally amused
by the military skiers in baggy green
uniforms and on sub-standard equipment.
Green blobs dot the slopes as our boys
crash and burn.
If war breaks out or the Alaskan front,
don't call out the Army. I think we'd have
a better chance if we let the pipeline
builders defend us.

Kevin Hoqan

Gasoline

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shucksterism
Sunrise New Years day.
The new year breaks with the
iridescence of a rum-tinted glow over Mt.
Rainier. My good friend/ex-best enemy
lies curled up on the seat next to me in the
cold. He stops snoring, and a fear comes
over me that he has frozen to death. I shake
him and get a reassuring groan. The sun
has never been so welcome; with nighttime
temperatures hovering near zero, we've
been stranded for three hours just north of
Seattle on 1-5. Out of gas. It appears that
this may be a preview of the year to come,
as '74 will most likely be known as the year
of the gas shortage.
Although no official gas rationing
system is yet in effect, de facto gas
rationing is already here in the form of
higher prices. As one station manager told
me last summer when I asked him about
the impending gas shortage, "We won't
limit our sales, we'll just raise our prices
and ration gas that way". It is becoming
apparent that this type of reasoning is at
work in all levels of the oil industry. A
spokesman for the American Oil Co. stated
that he believes Americans will accept 50
to 60 cents a gallon as a fair price for
gasoline. A fair price, indeed.
While gas prices have skyrocketed in
order to insure oil companies of making a
profit, (in a year when oil company profits
have soared to record levels), who insures
the average citizen of making a profit?
Recently, a full page advertisement
containing a denial of excessive profits was
published in nearly every major newspaper in the country, (with the exception of
the Cooper Point Journal) by the President
of Shell Oil Co., Harry Bridges. It escapes
me how a company can afford to pay for full
page, cross country advertising to state
that they're not making windfall profits. I

wish we had that kind of money to throw
around.
Last week representatives of the major
oil companies appeared before Sen.
Jackson's permanent investigations subcommittee. Jackson pointed out that oil
company profits have skyrocketed while
production has remained stable. The oil
barons' arguments that '73 profits only
appear to be excessive due to marginal '72
profits apparently failed to convince the
committee. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff
accused the oil companies of cheating the
American public, and encouraging gas
hoarding by frightening people with
shortages. "People are stopping at every
gas station they pass like dogs at telephone
poles," charged Ribicoff.
While many skeptics claim that a gas
shortage doesn't exist, we must face the
realities of the situation and prepare for
the worst. Senator Henry Jackson
recently proposed subjecting the nation's
oil companies to federal charters, a move
which some believe to be just a step short
of nationalization. As much as I hate the
s.o.b., I have to agree that Sen. Jackson is
aware of the problems we are facing and is
moving in the right direction.
In his state of the union address,
President Nixon firmly stated that we will
use gas rationing only as a last resort in
dealing with this crisis. Apparently, the
President is in favor of letting gas prices
take the place of rationing. Only the upper
classes will be able to afford to buy gas.
As distasteful as it may seem, rationing
is the only fair way of dealing with the gas
shortage. If it is coupled with mandatory
price reductions and administered
according to needs, we should be able to
insure that gas is available to everyone
who needs it at a reasonable price.

straight and solidly
independent
a human being first
iam.
next a female born
and learned,
a woman-figure shadow
of society ...
asking why
and screaming "What the fuck is going
on here?"
A mind of contradictions
pleading, yet denying
what is self.
A biology of function,
a service deep within ...
when will i be more to me
than what i am to him?
Worlds of modern science
democracy, technology, and culture
over all...
a place for me to be for me
and you my sisters standing by my
side.
Creation of or from or for
i'm not your toy
or something to be molded,
plasticised,
and tightly screwed in place,
i'm a human being first,
a single solitary entity
for no one's use
exclusive unto me.
icry
for all the women
hidden in your empty dreams
•
your empty lives
devoid of satisfaction in our sex.
for i am female
bound by ropes of a male society.
Dana L. Campbell
Students with advanced skills in photography, writing, narrating, and graphic
design who want practical experience in
preparing public information materials
are invited to join a public information
group contract and internship cluster
spring quarter. Sid White and Margaret
Gribskov, faculty members for the contract, are seeking 20-25 students with one
or more of the skills listed above. Students will have the opportunity to improve their skills and acquire new ones, in
addition to learning about the field of public information.
Interested students should contact
White, at 6276, or Gribskov, at 6639, as
soon as possible.

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It is ridiculous
what airs we put OTI
to seem profound

while our hearts
gasp dying
for want of love..

Wm Carlos Williams

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photos
by

Linda Eber

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In search of after-hours Oly
by Pat Bishop
Although there certainly are assets to
living in this teeming metropolis that dominates Thurston County, the late night
scene does leave a bit to be desired. The
staff of the Cooper Point Journal, thought
by many to be regularly out to lunch, have
made a systematic and quite thorough
study of the slim pickin's by way of latenight eateries that Olympia and environs
have to offer. Although this might dubiously be termed advertising, consider it
a public" service for those still able to
afford the gasoline for the luxury of a
midnight tryst with a chum.
First and foremost has to be the
Restaway Restaurant at the truck stop in
Tenino, just a way down 1-5. You'd have
to look hard to find a better piece of Americana, there's even a song on the jukebox
entitled: "A Radiator Man from Wasco,"
the key lines of which are: "They write
lotsa songs about truckers; well, radiator
men got women waitin' too."
The clientele, as might be expected, are
mostly the Kings of the Road, sometimes
with their womenfolk on bowling nights.
Take special note to appreciate the decor,
plush velour rugs depicting such favorites
as running horses, giant flamingos, and
the last supper; along with cleverly fashioned wall ornaments made out of tin cans.
It does have cheap, hearty food. Staff reconmends the amorphous berry pie, the
.lili size, and the waitress Patricia.
Next comes the Rib Eye in Lacey.
There are two, the one on Pacific Avenue
is Editor's Choice. A true paradise for the
camera buff, the Rib Eye has the most
colorful collection of odd folks to be found
up at any hour. Several guerilla theatre
advocates from Evergreen have tried
numerous times to disrupt business as

usual in the wee hours there, only to be
shown up by the regular customers who
were twice as bizarre.
A great place to pick up on ways to get
rich quick, or to learn about wife-swapping
in the suburbs and trailer courts. Staff
recommends their clam chowder, burgers,
buttermilk pancakes, number six, and the
waitress Lucille.
Last, and sadly least, is the Voodoo
Room at the Bailey Motor Hotel on Martin
Way in Lacey. You can't beat the atmosphere, soft lights, bats and tarantulas
painted on the walls, and a bar next door
so that even if you're under age, you can
overhear the patrons telling the same

jungle jokes they've been telling for the
last twenty years. No^staff recommendations for food, it's menu roulette here, but
the waitresses are interesting. The last
time we were there a grandmotherly sort
told us all about how she was preparing to
run away from home.
So there you have it, the product of
grueling gastronomic investigative reporting. Bon appetite.

(photos by stone)

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f T.E.S.C...

A

errors

A considerable controversy has arisen
during the last two weeks associated with
the final drafting and preparations for
ratification of the COG II document. As
long ago as June of 1973, a DTP was
formed to reconsider and, if necessary, rewrite COG II. It is quite apparent after
examination of COG II that the DTP
simply has not dealt with the most important deficiencies of COG I. Because of this,
there is little chance that COG II, as presently proposed, will meet the needs of the
college community.
COG I, for the most part, reflected the
high ideals and innovative structure of the
college. It was from the very first a novel
experiment, utilizing DTFs rather than
standing committees, and consensus
rather than majority rule. It has been
seen, however, by numerous members of
the Evergreen community over the course
of the last two-and-a-half years as a statement of general policy to be conformed to
when convenient, and ignored when not.
Perhaps the greatest defect of the document was that it necessitated direct participation by community members in the
governing process without providing for
sufficient mechanisms to facilitate that
participation. Members of the T.E.S.C.
community, whether because of dedication to their studies, lack of information,
or just plain apathy, have failed to take an
active part. Participation has been hampered in some-cases by lack of knowledge
of how to take effective action in face of
the college's bureaucracy.
Without full community commitment
the obstacles to effective implementation
of the COG document have been enor-

mous. Many of the difficulties lie in the
area of interpretation. In the introduction
to the document, under point four, as rewritten for COG II, it is stated:
"Decisions should be made only after
consultation and coordination with students, faculty and staff who are affected
by and interested in the issues, while realizing that administrators may be affected by various accountable restraints. "
The entire statement is quite ambiguous. Institution of the policy of consultation becomes dependent on the decision
maker's understanding of the relative importance of the issue. After all, decision
makers could not possibly consult those
affected for every single decision made.
Furthermore, how does an administrator
know who to consult? With such nebulous
wording it is no wonder that the document
has been ignored. Indeed, with no provision for implementation this point will almost certainly be violated more often than
upheld.
To solve some of these problems a number of people made some concrete proposals. A group of eleven, consisting of
Susan Wooley, Mary Ewing, Dave Siemens, Grant Bunker, Perry Newell, Anne
Lewin, Ned Swift, Al Rose, Lynn Garner,
Johanna Nitzke and Mark Peterson originated a proposal to have a position of
Governance Facilitator incorporated into
COG II, whose duties would be to provide
information on COG and to supervise its
implementation. This person would also
serve as an advocate "to represent individuals or groups when they feel they
cannot represent their own interests".
Peter Elbow proposed that there be a
weekly press conference to solve the information problem.

The Thurston County Sheriffs Department has initiated a new mobile
sub-station that will periodically visit the
towns of Yelm, Rainier, Tenino, Bucoda,
Grand Mound, Little Rock, and Maytown.
The van will' be manned by senior
personnel, equipped with all forms and
permits, and designed to take the Sheriffs
o< Vice to the people.

The Mobile Unit will be on a trial basis
for 2 months and, if successful, may be
expanded to include Steam Boat Island,
Cooper Point, Boston Harbor, Johnson
Point and Nisqually. Visits to shut-ins on
an individual appointment basis are also
being, considered.
For more information, you can contact
Sheriff Don Redmond at 753-8100.

by John Foster

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Helen Hannigan, Ross Carey, Larry
Stenberg and other members of the DTF
concluded that these measures were unnecessary since the Sounding Board members could fulfill these functions if their
pictures were made available at the Information Center, so that they could easily
be identified. Also, members of the DTF
agreed that as far as they were concerned,
since they are not a decision-making body,
the document has already been ratified.
This supposedly took place during open
hearings held on the subject. These open
hearings, however, were not publicized in
the newspaper and it was never
announced that their purpose was to ratify the document. The COG document explicitly states that changes must be ratified by the members of the community.
On February 1st the issue was taken to
the Board of Trustees. Because of the
large amount of disagreement that was
evident at the crowded meeting, the matter was tabled until the next Board meeting, which will take place some time next
week.
The whole issue of governance at Evergreen is extremely important with regard
to the college's continuance as an open and
harmonious community. Deficiencies in
the community governmental system
could lead to considerable polarization at
the college. Such a situation might endanger the entire idea of Evergreen. Consequently, it seems advisable, as many
have suggested, to create a new DTF that
would search for an immediate, and at the
same time tolerable, solution to this problem.
First drafts of Evergreen Self-Study reports have been completed. Copies of the
drafts for Auxilliary Services, Student
Services, and Admissions will be available
for review at the Information Center.
These are the rough drafts of the report
that will be presented to the team that
will visit Evergreen this spring to evaluate us for full accreditation. If you have
any comments or suggestions about these
drafts, please address them in person or in
writing to the specific area of concern or
leave suggestions at the Information CenIter.

Turmoil in the library
by Tom Graham
The Library just might turn upside
down. Some members of the library staff
and other Concerned Persons of Evergreen are contesting the selection of the
Dean of Library Services.
The Library Dean Search and Selection
Committee, a DTP, interviewed four persons, and recommended two candidates to
Vice President and Provost Ed Kormondy.
One of the candidates was a man, the
other a woman; both were Caucasian.
Kormondy collected additional recommendations and impressions of the two candidates. He also visited their present job
sites to talk to the candidates' staff,
co-workers, and supervisors. With this information in mind Kormondy chose the
man.
The Concerned Persons of Evergreen
believe that the woman should have been
chosen under Evergreen's Affirmative
Action Policy. They cite data supplied by
TESC's Director of Equal Employment/
Affirmative Action indicating Evergreen
is top-heavy with Caucasian males in official and managing positions.
Ed Kormondy feels that he is committed to the Affirmative Action Policy, and
Equal Employment, however he feels the
college has a deeper commitment to "provide the best resources possible to supplement the academic programs". The needs
of the Library were a much more powerful
force in his decision making than the Affirmative Action Policy.
Kormondy summarized his memo to the
Concerned Persons of Evergreen with this
statement. The names have been replaced
by "his" and "her". "It is his proven ability, a recorded track record of greatest
merit which became for me the crucial element against her most considerable, but
nonetheless yet largely untested potential."
The Concerned Persons of Evergreen
believe that the abilities of the two candidates are close enough that the Affirmative Action Policy should have been the
deciding factor. They feel that the woman's teaching experience, her two masters
degrees and her doctorate made her a
preferable candidate, since the man had
little teaching experience and only a masters. Kormondy included in his definition
of Affirmative Action a consideration of
past inequalities, yet the Concerned Per-

sons point out that Kormondy made little
effort to determine if the woman had had a
fair chance to gain the necessary experience. They believe that Affirmative Action was considered until the final stage of
selection, and then waived, invalidating
the entire Affirmative Action process.
The Concerned Persons of Evergreen
would like to see non-traditional measures
of potential success used in the selection
process, because traditional measures of
success have become part of the discrimination process.
The Concerned Persons of Evergreen
have followed the grievance procedures of
the COG document. Following an initial
exchange of memos they met informally
with Ed Kormondy. They are now preparing for mediation, the next step in the procedure. Essentially, mediation is a formal
meeting between the two parties in which
a mediator facilitates a discussion of the
issues.

The Concerned Persons have also met
with Larry Omo and Barbara Laners of
the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Their
meeting dealt mainly with a clarification
of Affirmative Action, however they did
receive additional information on how to
make a complaint to the Office of Civil
Rights, or funnel information into the
OCR.
Hegardless of the outcome there is going to be a definite impact on the college.
The grievance procedure of the proposed
COG document is facing its first general
test. Both parties in the problem realize
that a more definite statement of the Affirmative Action Policy could have
averted the misunderstanding. Ed Kormondy stated, "The more precise we are
in our policy statements, the less likely we
are to run into questions regarding procedures." The informal discussion, and the
mediation will help establish precedents
for the new Affirmative Action Policy.

Administrators Students rap a little
• by Knute Olsson H.G.S. Berger
"I don't really see that the goals have
changed since 1968 except in that they
have been refined," said Dean Clabaugh in
an opening statement at a meeting billed
as a Student/Administrator Rap Session.
The meeting, held Tuesday, Feb. 5,
brought together some thirty or forty interested students with key Evergreen administrators, such as Charles McCann,
Dean Clabaugh, Ed Kormondy, and Larry
Stenberg to discuss the college's goals and
objectives.
Dean Clabaugh opened the meeting
with a brief statement about the history of
Evergreen's goals since the college's
birth. Ed Kormondy then talked about the
difference between goals and objectives,
goals being our "hopes and aspirations"
and objectives being "specific and measurable targets to aim for." After a brief outline by Charles McCann of what our goals
and assumptions are as an institution, the
meeting was thrown open to questions
and comments concerning the formation,
the roles, and the direction of Evergreen's
goals.

Ed Kormondy stated that the role of the
goals was to "make Evergreen an identifiable place" and to function as a "protecting umbrella" that should "keep out of the
way of the students and faculty". Charles
McCann said that it was important to keep
Evergreen an "open" place so that any
person could fulfill personal needs, and
that as many academic options as possible
should be kept open, so that a student
could become "a flaming dilettante" or a
student so specialized in one field that he
would be blind to other areas if the student so desired. He stressed that he hoped
these kinds of things would not occur as a
result of an Evergreen education, but that
the possibility must be left open.
The "rap session" turned into more of a
question and answer session between stu:_
dents and administrators, but the questions shifted from being about goals to the
subject of student input and effectiveness.
Many students questioned the importance
and effectiveness of the meeting itself,
voicing concern over their lack of control
or power in determining Evergreen's
goals and objectives.
PAGE 17

Guest commentary

Women's center
blooming
all the unexplored caverns call me
i know what i want
& it's not here, it's not
what i've ever had.
they tell me it doesn't exist
but they lie about everything.
one of these caverns will reveal
liberation & love: pardon me,
imust look elsewhere
it's not that you're in my way.
Alta
The Women's Center is blooming. Like the proverbial tip of
the iceberg, this might not be obvious to a casual passerby.
When, for this article, I count all the pies we have our fingers
in, it makes me tremble. The Center is growing so quickly, yet
so loosely; a complete listing of all our projects (complete, happening, or developing) is beyond the scope of this particular
article. Another person, another time can report on the intricacies of the women's car repair class, the KAOS women's show
(The Turn of the Screwed) affirmative action, poetry collection,
rape relief, faculty selection, gay women's rap group, the compilation of the resource center, Purdy book drive, communications with other women's centers, the women's gestalt co-op,
program planning and the ever-present, on-our-minds
Women's Art Festival. For the present, let's concentrate on a
few continuing activities.
The Women's Center, L 3214, 866-6162, is open usually 9:30
to 4:00 weekdays. On entering, one sees a typically small office
filled with telephone, typewriter, hastily scribbled notes, soft
light, hundreds of printed articles and perhaps, one or two tired
women, who look far too harried to be distracted by a question
or two. Actually, another living body will usually be welcomed
and our curiosity greets strangers warmly. Next door, L 3213,
wa»the Women's Center proper. With two-thirds of the lights off
now, it has lost the sterile library look and is a comfortable retreat from the hassles of life. Available for meetings or groups,
I, personally, use it often to relax and read, write, sleep or
.think quietly. Both of our doors are tastefully covered with
multi-colored notices, announcements and sign-up sheets. The
Center's primary function is to act as a clearinghouse, a place

i

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where women can relax and be themselves with other women,
and a coordinating body for projects, various interest groups
and college contracts. The Center is a focal point for all women
and those men seriously questioning sexual roles and social conditioning.
The best place to begin is consciousness-raising. This is
where awareness is born; within a group of women or men
whose varied experiences, feelings and beliefs combine to produce a trusting openness; your isolation is penetrated by the
realization that many others have felt as you have. A support
group wherein we may learn to love and tr,ust those of our own
sex; the love and trust which must exist for us to know ourselves. We must all go through this process; the difference is
that a C-R group can give you the support you need through
this change, and is difficult to find in the outside world. Either
individually or in a group, it is painful and beautiful to grow..
The Women's Writing Workshop is another form of support
group. In mixed groups, women tend to belittle their own writing and not assert or involve themselves in a group. In this
workshop, women are able to feel free to explore their talents
to an extent not available in a mixed group. A continuation of a
group begun a year ago, we make extensive use of the Peter
Elbow form of critique and evaluation used throughout the
college.
The Women in Conflict workshop is now closed to new
members, but if enough interested people inquire, a second
group can be formed. What is involved here is a sort of "beyond
C-R" group; women who are aware and familiar with their oppression and want now to learn to deal with it. The "conflict" of
the title is the conflict within ourselves between our ideals and
traditional roles, as well as interpersonal conflict.
That appears to be all I have room for at this time. In the upcoming issues of the C.P. Journal, Libby Lastrapes will have a
column by/for women which will carry on with whatever I've
started here and will keep women in print more in the future
than has been true in the past.
L.O.L.
little old ladies is what they say to make us laugh
at the women who have been fighting for sixty years.
Alta

TESC bldg.
gets the shaft
by Dana L. Campbell
A little over a week ago, optimism ran
freely around campus as reports of the
legislature's beneficent treatment of our
proposed supplemental budget for 1974
began reaching us. We were cheered by
what finally seemed to be "fair play". The
Communications Arts Building had a
chance, a good chance, it seemed, of making it this year.
Then the usual raft of misinformation
surfaced in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
In their editorial on Tuesday, Jan. 29, the
P.I. took its opposition stand citing a number of very interesting, but very misleading reasons why the legislature should
block the passage of the budget for the
Communications Building.
Under the head reading, "One More
Empire Under Construction", the P.I.
complained that the $6.7 million structure
would only be duplicating facilities already in use at Washington State University and the University of Washington.
This statement was backed by their comparison of the primary feature of those
facilities, audio-visual equipment, to what
the P.I. claims will be "a large portion of
the $6.7 million" budget here. In actuality,
only 6% of the TESC budget would go for
"television gear".

State want to integrate something, we
suggest they devise a way to integrate the
embarrassingly wasteful public telecommunications facilities we already have".
In a formal reply, written to each of the
legislators, Pres. McCann neatly countered and corrected the misinformation on
which the P.I. had based its editorial. He

"One more
empire under
consfruc f/'on

According to McCann, "Evergreen's
proposed building serves interdisciplinary
studies; it does not intend to turn out professional television broadcasters nor professional musicians or dancers. It will
serve to provide a total range of experience for Evergreen graduates so that, for
example, a person well grounded in an
educational background of business,
ecology, and communications skills can
get jobs in the internal training
department of major industries. The Communications Laboratory Building will provide relevant and appropriate facilities for
Evergreen's excellent students, rounding
out and serving an important aspect of
their undergraduate training."
Ed Kormondy, Evergreen Vice-President and Provost, said in regard to the
P.I. editorial, "Newspapers have every
right to take a stand, but they do have a
responsibility to be well-informed." It's
indeed too bad that the P.I. staff chose not
to accept this responsibility.

Calling the building "yet another little
telecommunications fiefdom", the P.I. advises that, "if educators at Evergreen

also expressed his disappointment "that
anything so inaccurate and misguided
should appear under the banner of one of
the state's leading newspapers". McCann
was concerned that the public list of proposed equipment and facilities had been
seemingly ignored by the P.I. staff in
favor of this rather undocumented piece of
journalism.

As it stands now, our cheery optimism
is rapidly going under, the budget for the
Communications Arts Laboratory has
been failed by the Senate Ways and
Means Committee, failed by the Senate,
and now resides in the House Ways and
Means Committee where it is expected to
be deferred till April. It makes us wonder
what could have happened had we had
more public support and more accurate reporting of the real story.

A tutorial program is operating now
through the Veterans Affairs Office on
campus. Any veteran or eligible dependent
receiving the G.I. Bill and enrolled at least
half-time can get specialized, individual
help in any subject relating to their chosen
field of study. Qualified students are

eligible for up to $450 at a rate of $50
maximum per month. All community
members are eligible to be hired as
professional tutors. Payment ranges from
$2.50 and up per hour. Veterans needing
help locating a tutor are encouraged to see
the Veterans Affairs Workers. A tutoring

file is maintained with a list of prospective
tutors. The People to People Index is also
referred to in locating qualified tutors. If
you're interested in finding out more about
the tutorial program, either as a tutor or
tutee, see the Veterans Affairs People in
Student Services, (Lib 1209 - phone:
866'6192)

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A plateful of lips
by Susan Christian
All art involves ambiguity. My favorite
example of clear ambiguity in painting is
in a Cezanne self-portrait. Right under the
right eye is a pink brush-stroke. It also
looks like the bag under a busy eye. It
doesn't look like a stroke one moment and
a bag the next; it looks like both all the
time. Like a good poet, Cezanne does not
require that we made a choice either/or;
the correct and pleasing choice is Both.
The best art allows us many of these
choices, and provides us with a great visual playground.
All humor involves ambiguity as well. It
is the equal value given to two (or more)
dissimilar ideas, images, constructions,
and so on, that surprises and produces
laughter. "That was no lady, that was my
wife" is an example of two choices which'
are presented as if resolution can only be
made by choosing between them, when in
fact this choice would normally be unnecessary.
The simple pun, verbal or visual, is the
tightest form of humor and the safest form
of art. A pun sets up an extremely clear
choice between two and only two possibilities. As soon as you understand a pun,
your experience of it stops.
In the current Ceramic Sculpture show
in the library, organized by Joyce Moty,
there are many pieces of work which lean
heavily on the pun both visual and verbal.
This reliance on the pun, I learned at an
excellent slide talk Sunday night (given by
Howard Kottler, who taught a lot of the
people in the show at the University of
Washington), is firmly in the tradition of
Ceramic Sculpture as it is practiced these
days on the west coast.

Applications for the positions of Editor
and Business Manager of the fabulous
Cooper Point Journal will be accepted
until March 1 of this year. Between March
1 and March 8, the current newspaper
staff will interview candidates, and on
March 8 the candidates will be interviewed by the Publications Board.
Applications should include, a resume and
a statement of policies and goals.
PAGE 20

The art-history of the kind of work in
this show is this way: There were a lot of
potters in California in the fifties. For
some reason they were itchy to be called
artists and not craftsmen. Pop Art appeared in the painting tradition of western
culture around them, and it provided a vehicle for the spat-upon potters. They
began to make jokes out of their own craft
— to make puns out of their pots — to
build cookie jars shaped like Oreos and
teapots made out of the letters T E A . The
ambiguity they produced was a humorous
ambiguity, but it also raised the pots they
were making up above simple unselfconscious containers. As pots became selfconscious and even, sometimes, functionally
useless, they took on the pomp of real art,
and changed their name to Ceramic Sculpture.
My favorite pieces in the current show
are those where the straight one-two pun
construction is eschewed or augmented.
Patti Waroshin Baur's Before the Catch,
for instance, starts off from the old
pottery - plate - but - with - something - on-it, also-made-out-of-clay-GET-IT? pun; a
beautifully painted 3-D fish lying on a
beautifully painted platter. The device is
so conventional by now that it isn't the
point any more; the point, I think, is the
pure visual beauty of the whole object.
The fun of it is that the platter is decorated with repeated Japanese ladies swimming around the fish; but they're painted
on the "pottery" plate and the fish is real
and round (of course it's painted too). This
set of ambiguities is more complex than,
for instance, Ellie Fernald's Candle-a-bra,
which I hardly need to describe for you
but which is a clay training bra which
sprouts a bunch of candlesticks with candles in them. This pun is too simple for me

The 1st Annual Valentine's Day Mud
Run will happen Thursday, Feb. 14 at 4:30.
The race will begin in front of the Library.
Everyone is welcome to participate and
there will be no entrance fee. Appropriate
prizes will be awarded to the competitors
in the mile and a half race. For more
information contact Lee Wallick at
866-6530. Registration will begin at 3:30 on
the 14th in front of the library.

and also too verbal, in my opinion, to
warrant translation into visual language.
Sally Rober's Watermelon is a beautiful
object, a white life-size porcelain watermelon, with a tiny green frog peering out
from a leaf which rests on top of it. But
wait. The frog is not sitting on the surface
of the melon; it's emerging from a tiny
blue pond which fades out into white just
beyond the frog's body. The water is flush
with the surface of the watermelon and
appears to be a natural variation of that
• surface; but in fact the painted clay in this
small area represents a liquid not a solid, a
liquid that can provide a home for a solid
(clay) amphibian. I was disappointed when
it was pointed out to me that the thing
was a WATER(get it)melon; I would have
liked it better, I think, if it had been a
pumpkin or a pig. The visual jolt would
'have carried without the verbal safety
catch.
Some of the work in this colorful shpw
indicates that the pun groundwork is
being transcended. It's the umbilical cord
to Mama Surrealism, who vindicates the
potters' right to be called (Ceramic) sculp-,
tors. So who was" arguing? Maybe those
snotty welders. I don't think everything in
the show is art, ambiguous though its
messages may be. But it's trying hard, all
of it: intellectually, technically, and I
guess ideologically. More next weeR.

The Security Office has imposed a few
new rules to help combat the rash of petty
theft and vandalism that has been occuring
on campus the past few weeks. From now
on, if you have an appropriately issued key
and intend on entering the buildings after
hours they ask that you phone security at
6140 and tell them. The same procedure
will be used for leaving the buildings after
hours. If you don't have a key and wish
access to the buildings after hours, you
must have an authorization from a Dean,
Director, or Budgetary Unit Head sent to
security specifying the building, the date,
and the times you'll be coming in arid out.
Security is sorry about this rigamorole,
but it has been proven necessary. The
crackdown on crime could get worse if the
procedure isn't followed. We're all
responsible, you know.

Blues from o cocktail lounge
by Joe Murphy
For a good many years I found it impossible to get behind the music known as
the blues. Friends would play Mance Libscomb and Robert Johnson and I would say
far out or something equally arcane, but
somehow the emotional/musical connection never really happened. Try as I would
to get off on the music, there was still a
gap of experience and form that I couldn't
get .past.
It wasn't until encountering the music
of John Fahey that I realized the undeniable subtlety of form that the blues is.
Somehow, Fahey was able to reveal the
meaning of each note in a way that created
a context for the blues to stretch out and
breathe, uninhibited by the form of individual stylization. The blues as universal
music.
Somehow this brings me to the strange
case of Randy Newman. Randy Newman
has been with us since the late 60's, recording and writing on the same level of
(non)popularity, a distinctly Middle American blues. The blues of television, cocktail
lounges, rest homes, and religion for the
masses, shaded, but ever colored by a
finely-toned, somehow evasive, despair.
American pathos vis'-a*-vis scotch and

soda piano and lyrical ramblings somewhere between later day Mark Twain,
and the Dos Passos of "U.S.A."
"In America you get food to eat
Won't have to run through the jungle
And scuff up your feet
You'll just sing about Jesus, and drink
wine all day
It's great to be an American " *
Saturday night, Jan. 26, the program
commission at Western Washington State
College in Bellingham brought us the
music of Randy Newman. It was Newman's first Northwest appearance, a fact
verified by such comments as, "I come all
the way up to the Yukon, to be insulted by
a bunch of lumberjacks". It was also his
first concert appearance in three months,
a fact made known, but not apparent.
On stage the balance between sardonic
humor and musical subtlety becomes pronounced over and above that on record.
The cocktail pianist, not quite daring to
take himself seriously, yet delivering a
vision, that is somehow more serious in
the manner of its delivery, laughing just
to keep from . . .? From "Lovers' Prayer"
to "Lonely at the Top", the renditions
were faithfully tossed out, interspersed
with comments from "Every note, per-

fect" to "I can see it, five years from now,
playing cocktail lounges in Bellevue,
Washington". At the same time establishing an affinity with the audience, while
protecting a certain distance. Appearing
as a performer, audience, and critic in the
course of one song.
Randy Newman is a bluesman of our
collective ghetto, singing of you and me
and the kid down the street, compounding
the experiences of American dreams and
decay without leaving the base of .his own
experience. Randy Newman is believable
as he avoids self-indulgence, he seems to
know where he ends and America begins,
linking the two with an often understated,
always delightful sense of humor. His "12
songs" is probably his best, but all of his
albums are of high quality, pick up on him
before he hits the cocktail lounges in BelleThe program commission at Western
has been producing consistently high quality music this school year, from Weather
Report and Paul Winter, to Ry Cooder,
and Bonnie Raitt. Next concert February
16, with Michael White, jazz violinist extraordinaire, and his ensemble.
* Randy Newman, "Sail Away"

John Prine in Seattle

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A singer of human songs
by Eric L. Stone
The Moore Theatre in Seattle looks like
where you would expect the Phantom of
the Opera to have retired to. It's a rather
ornate theatre left over from the days
when movies were more than a mere
everyday occurrence. They don't show
movies there any more. Instead, every so
often, like last Friday for instance, a usually raucous crowd of dope-crazed and
otherwise affected hippies show up there
for a concert. Last Friday it was John
Prine and Steve Goodman. If the Phantom
of the Opera had any taste at all, he would
have liked the show.
John Prine used to be a mail person.
The story goes that he would write songs
during his lunch break, curled up in a
handy postal box. He isn't a very small
person so I think the postal box part of the
tale must be an exaggeration. If occupation has anything to do with the quality of
what a person produces, all the songwrit-

ers in the world should be mail people. some of the usual obnoxious calling out of
John Prine easily writes some of the best requests, was unusually responsive to the
songs being written today. He sang a varied moods and moments in the concert.
number of them at the Moore Theatre.
Goodman, who is the epitome of short
For a long time, it seems, the trend in - and stocky, which has a lot to do with his
songwriting has been towards obscurity in stage presence, is a phenomenal guitar
lyrics. A great deal of the good old human player and a songwriter of no slight note.
feelings have been removed from a lot of He is perhaps best known as the writer of
current songs. With a few notable excep- "The City of New Orleans", a song made
tions, it's pretty hard to relate lyrically to famous by Arlo Guthrie. Friday night he
most all of the top 40. John Prine often told a number of drunken stories as he
writes of the heartbreak and trauma drank from a rather large dixie cup. My
which are familiar to most country favorite of his songs was one which wasn't
western music listeners but with more so- very friendly towards organic foods, "The
phistication. (A line from "Far From Me" Chicken Cordon Blues".
a song about the breakup of a romance
After John Prine's set, he and Goodman
goes, "You know she still laughs with me/ returned to the stage together for an
but she waits just a second too long.") encore. They played a few more of Prine's
John Prine, unlike a great deal of his con- songs, and a long set of Hank Williams! =^
temporaries, is a writer of human songs, songs. All in all it was a good night, and
songs which don't sacrifice feelings and everything from an excellent sound
warmth to their sophistication.
system to the ghostly presence of the
The Friday night crowd was older than Phantom of the Opera contributed to makthe usual rock and roll bunch and, despite ing it so.
PA(JK2)

Olympia
Movies: State Theater; "40 Carats" and
"Butterflies Are Free". Capitol Theater;
"Time to Run". Olympic Theater; "Soylent
Green" and "Westworld".
Friday Night Movie, "I Am a Fugitive
From a Chain Gang" at TESC Lecture Hall
1, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Feb. 8. 50 cents
admission charge.
Southwestern Washington Invitational
Exhibition, at TESC Circulation Gallery,
in the Library, opening Sunday, Feb. 10 at
2:00 p.m. and continuing through March 2,
free of charge.
Ramsey and the Chosen Few, nightly
cocktail lounge music at the Tyee Motor
Inn.

The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, will
perform Sunday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 at the
Seattle Center Opera House.
The 1974 Seattle Folkdance Festival will
begin Friday, Feb. 15 at the University of
Washington. It will run through the 18th.
For further information call Seattle—
325-8133 or 524-5418.
Neil Simon's "The Prisoner of Second
Avenue" will begin at the Moore Theater
Friday, March 1. The play will be
performed Friday and Saturday evenings
at 8:30 with a 2:30 matinee on Saturday.
Tickets are now on sale at the Bon Marche
and other suburban outlets.

Oly
Seattle
Movies: The Harvard Exit; "Playtime".
5th Avenue; "Cinderella Liberty" Uptown;
"Day for Night". Magnolia Theater; "The
Emigrants". The King Theater and
Cinema 1 - Renton; "The Sting". The
Movie House; "King of Hearts". Aurora
Drive-in; Gangsterama - "Boxcar
Bertha", Bloody Mama", "A Bullet for
Pretty Boy", and "1000 Convicts and a
Woman".
Paul Butter-field's Better Days and Doug
Kershaw at the Moore Theater tonight,
Friday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are
$4.00 in advance and $4.50 at the door.
Bob Dylan/The Band at the Seattle
Colliseum, Saturday, Feb. 9, at 2 and 8
p.m. Tickets are all sold out and scalper
prices are rumored to be from $20 to $50
per seat.
"Cosi Fan Tutte" - an opera at the
Seattle Center Opera House. Show time is
8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9, and Sunday,
Feb. 10. Tickets range from $2.25 to $13.50
and good seats are still available. Call:
447-4711 for more information and
reservations.

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best
sellers
The following books were the top-sellers in Olympia last week, courtesy of
Pat's Bookery and the TESC Bookstore:
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven
Plain Speaking — Miller
Joy of Sex — Comfort
What to Do in Olympia on a Rainy Day
- Hart et al.
Living Bible - God
Fantastic Art — Larkin
Only a Little Planet - Brower
Shelter - Kahn
Secret of the Golden Flower — Wihelm
Birds of North America — Robbins

The 59th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists is now at the Art Pavillion in
the Seattle Center. This usually controversial exhibit will run through Feb. 24.
Soup tureens, including the rare and
priceless Rococo Tureen ordered by King
George III and Queen Charlotte of
England, are on display at The Seattle Art
Museum through March 17. The exhibit, of
nearly 200 tureens dating to 500 B.C., is on
loan from the Campbell Museum in
Camden.N.J.

Tacoma
Movies: Villa Plaza 1 & 2; "The Sting"
and "American Graffiti". Proctor Theater;
"The Paper Chase" and "Walkabout".
Villiage Cinema; "Deliverance" and
"Rage". Guild 6th Avenue; "The Way We
Were". Rialto; "Walking Tall" and "The
Harrod Experiment".
mickie and The Playmates, playing
nightly at the Holiday Inn Dining Room
and Lounge.

Portland
Movies: The Southgate Quad Cinema;
"The Exorcist". The Movie House; "King
of Hearts", and two hilarious shorts,
"Bambi Meets Godzilla" and "Thank You,
Mask Man". Hollywood Theater; Woody
Allen's "Sleeper". The Backstage Theater;
a Marx Brothers Festival. Eastgate and
Westgate Theaters; "Serpico". The Moreland, Roseway, and Bagdad Theaters;
"Chariot of the Gods?" The Joy Theater;
"Elizabeth the Queen" with Bette Davis
and Errol Flynn, and Busby Berkeley's
"Hollywood Hotel".
The Warsaw National Philharmonic
Orchestra of Poland will perform one night
only, Monday Feb. 11, at the Portland
Auditorium. Ticket prices range from
$4.00 to $7.00 and the show begins at 8:15.
Budapest Symphony Tickets will be
honored.

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