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Journal
The Evergreen State CoUege
Olympia, Washington

Vol. 2, No. 22
April 25, 1974

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Letters

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Brief news page 9-11
Guest commentary
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page 14

Northwest cui ture

page 15

The cover
This week's cover was photographed by Stan Shore. President Charles McCann
beams after the passing of funds for Evergreen's Communications Laboratory
building.

Editor - Knute Olsson H.G.S. Berger; Business Manager - John Foster; Production Manager - Ingrid
Posthumus; Managing Editor - Andy Ryan; News Editor - William P. Hirshman; Special Editor Claudia Brown; Photo Editor- Michael Ushakoff; Cinema Editor - Jl'ffrey Mahan; Assistant to the Editor - Mary Frances Hester; Writing and Production - Teresa Countryman, Tom Graham, Brad
Pokorny, Stan Shore, Matt Groening, Susan Christian, Libby Lastrapes, Charlie Williams. Lee Riback,
Dean Katz, Brian Murphy, 'yVendy Kramer, Thomas R. Lenon, Paul Murphy, Tim Girvin, Glenn Whitmire,
Dan DeMoulin, Lynn Robb, Mike Tilton, Joel Gilman, Terry Toedtemeier, Steve Lanigan. Faculty
Advisor- Margaret Gribskov.

The Cooper Point Journal is published hebdomadally by The Evergreen Stall.' Collt•gp Roard of Publications and members of the Evergreen community. It is funded, in part, by studt•nt st•rvict's and activities
fees. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the editorial staff or Th.- Evergrt>en Stall' Collegl'. The
Journal news room is located on the first floor of the college Activities Bldg., rm. 103. Phonl': 866 6213.
The business office is located on the third floor of the Daniel J. Evans Library. rm. 3129. Phone; 866-6080.

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The Environmental Systems Project, a
19-member group contract headed by
Faculty member Bob Filmer, will soon
build a structure to harness wind-power.
A number of locations are possible: next
to the two pole-houses the group has
built on Marine Drive, on top of the Lab
building to power the vivarium. One
such possibility is to put the windmill
high atop the Clock Tower. It could be
used to provide power for a small electric car, an official vehicle for President
McCann.
IRS
The Input Resource Senter (sic) is one
of the newest attempts to deal with the
information overload of the Evergreen
community. While one can argue with
their orthography, their demography is
marvelous.
On April 17, the IRS published the results of the new student questionnaires.
These questionnaires were given to 50
new students and put in the registration
packets of 50 more; 40 responded. As
IRS director Piet Dobbins says in the
covering letter, "The information at-

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tached was not published in the spirit of
comparison but rather in the spirit of
sharing." So they make no attempt at
definitive interpretation. Let's see what
sort of erroneous conclusions we can leap
to from the raw figures.
Since only forty students responded to
the questionnaire, we must conclude that
20 percent of those asked never heard of
TESC, did not choose to come here, have
no perception of the college, and did not
reside anywhere before coming here.
These conclusions have not even the
respectability of having been subjected
to a chi-square, much less the "itemization, matrix tricks and plain 'ole' interpretation" that the IRS is capable of performing, but let's run them up the Cloek
Tower and see if anyone salutes them.
Scare tactics
About this time of year, most workstudy funding institutions run out of
money. The kindly folks in Financial Aid
and Placement may not be able to notify
affected students until a couple of weeks
later. It might be wise to check out your
own financial situation. Source: Ed
Brendler of the Drop-In Center.

Censorship
The Off-campus-Cable-television Review Board, formed by Charles McCann
as an ad hoc committee on April 9 and
approved by the Board of Trustees at
their April 18 meeting, will hold a business meeting Friday at 2 p.m. in CAB
110. Lee Chambers, chairperson, said
"We may not have any tapes submitted:
so we may not have any business." Still,
the meeting might prove interesting to
anyone. interested in. ~ecent FCC rulings
regardmg accountablltty, quality control,
and the nature of academic freedom at
Evergreen.
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Alexander
elaborates
To the Editor:
Somehow the heart of what I wanted
to say about Evergreen evaluations got
lost between the forty minute interview
with me and the story that appeared in
the CPJ this week. (CPJ Vol. 2 No. 21)'
I'd like to sketch briefly what it is I
thought was important.
After extensive experience reading
our evaluations I have been thoroughly
convinced that the student's self-evaluation is the most important part of the
transcript. The student, after all, knows
in detail what got learned, and how well
it got learned, and how important it was,
and whether it satisfied the student's
needs and expectations. The student
should strive to make the self-evaluations as complete and as accurate representations of the student's experience as
possible.
The faculty member seldom knows
tbt experience in detail and cannot be
('Xp('cted to describe it. The faculty

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member can validate the self-evaluatlon,
can comment on it, can offer reservations, can point out important things the
student has omitted. The faculty
member's evaluation, however, is usually
only meaningful in relation to what the
student wrote. I think that situation is
inevitable, and that we should accept it
and work with it, not against it. And so,
I repeat, the student should make a
great effort to produce as thorough and
telling a self-evaluation as possible.
Strictly personal concerns tended to
dominate evaluations the first year; they
appear less often more recently. That is
right, I think. After all, one has to
assume that anyone in the future who
will read these transcripts will be most
concerned about the academic growth,
development, and achievement of the
student. The future reader probably
couldn't care less about strictly personal
matters (or, at least, shouldn't). However, it often happens that developments
in a student's personal life had profound
effect on the academic work, and in
those cases where it becomes necessary
to explain why something academic happened or didn't happen - for instance,
why a student dropped seminar in midquarter, or could not complete a re-

search project - then it has to be decided just how much personal material to
include.
A thorough account of a student's academic development ought not to be
boring. And our. evaluations can provide
a portrait of the student so clear and accurate that the student's particularity
and individuality is present and alive in
the evaluations. But many faculty withdraw from such particular detail, and
many students as well. Obviously, when
a student has done poorly, there is great
risk involved in describing that poor performance in detail, and even more in explaining why it was poor. As so, understandably, there is a general tendency to
write bland and samey evaluations.
But I think we should not be so afraid
of that. The student who really does
bloom and prosper later, who comes to
perform well, will not be hurt by an
earlier evaluation which details a previous poor performance. In fact, such a
student will be helped, for then a reader
of the whole transcript can see just how
the student has grown, just how much
difficulty has been overcome. And, just
as important, the praise of the later evaluations becomes believ 11Jle.
Cooper Point Journal

Hard and trying as our evaluations
are, I would still urge that we not drop
the system until we have experienced it
at its best. And that requires - in my
view - that the student do a thorough,
detailed, and unboring job on the selfevaluation, and that the faculty aid the
student in that work, and provide
support for it in the faculty evaluation.
Bland and vague evaluations, on the
other hand, have the perverse effect of
making the student's work seem trivial
and inadequate. The students should insist on better than that.
Richard Alexander

ITT discussed
To the Editor:
A recent article on ITT by Dean Katz
in the April 11 issue did not include
some pertinent information regarding
the history of this multinational corporation and the upcoming stockholders
meeting in Seattle.
In 1920 Colonel Stephen Behn formed
Inte.rnational Telephone and Telegraph.
Thirteen years later, after Hitler had
taken power, Behn met with him to arrange an economic alliance. The Colonel
appointed NAZI-approved Ge•·man ITT
boards of directors and Hitler awarded
them with massive new contracts for rearmamerft. In 1938 ITT gained 28
percent control of the German FockeWulf company whose bombers would
later destroy U.S. convoys to Europe. !n
that same year, again after a meeting
with Hitler. Behn firer! all .Tew!-1 workinv
for ITT subsidiaries in German-held countries. During the war, ITT exported materials to neutral countries which continued to produce for the Axis powers.
Colonel Behn remained president until
Harold Geneen was appointed in 1959.
Katz's article begins at this point and
gives a good history of the last fifteen
years.
It should also be mentioned that in November, 1972, workers at the Continental Baleries went on strike demanding a
two-day weekend. This strike lasted 31
days during which ITT hired scab labor.
ITT continues to subvert the uniting of
U.S. labor or any peoples who join in
self-determination, as they did in Chile.
On May 8, ITT will hold a stockholders
convention at the Washington Plaza
Hotel in Seattle. To attend one must
hold a "proxy," which are sent to holders
of ITT stock. If you know of anyone who
holds this stock and is not going, you can
go in their place. At 1:00 p.m. a picket
line will form in front of the hotel and at
5 there will be a rally. If you would like
to go, please call me. These actions may
not prevent ITT from dominating the
world's people, but we will some day
stop ITT and its partners in monopoly
capitalism. See you in Seattle.
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People's lib
To the Editor:
The Women's Center, the Women's
Clinic and the Women's Art Festival
make me proud to be a member of
Evergreen's women's community. I left
the Women's Art Festival with mixed
feelings. I felt high because the women
who participated let themselves be seen
as they see themselves.
I felt low because I feel the men at
Evergreen are not doing the kind of
sexual self awareness things the women
are doing. For every woman who is
groomed to be a wife-mother-helpmateauxiliary, there is a man who is molded
to be a breadwinner-supporter-hardassjock. How are the men at Evergreen
dealing with their own brand of oppression? How many men have a place to
learn and talk about their maleness?
The Women's Clinic helps women
learn about their bodies and themselves.
How much do Evergreen men know
about their bodies and themselves? Does
the Evergreen Community assume the
men are squared away with their maleness?
I hope the men on campus can get together a men's consciousness-raising
group. I would support it, as I feel so
many of the men have supported the
women's groups. I want to know who the
Evergreen men are - as they see themselves.
Kathy McKinnon

Australian
greetings
To the Editor:
I've been away from Evergreen for
three, almost four months now, and I
often wonder how things are up there. I
think about the big "There," a place of
fuel hassles, government shortages, and
signs of change that continue to flash in
front of apparent blindness. Perhaps the
silent majority is blind as well. I don't
know. But, more importantly, I miss the
other "there," with modest small lettering. The Evergreen State College is a
place I have learned to defend: the
people I know, and some I love.
I'm doing an internship in Australia
and have had many opportunities to reflect upon my relationship to Evergreen.
Maybe it's the new perspective of distance or the nostalgia of friendships on
the other side of the Great Puddle. Regardless of the reason, I'm succumbing
to temptation to address the community
at large through the newspaper, if only
to say that Evergreen can do very good
things, provided one can tap the opportunities and get it on. That in Itself is a

frustrating and impossible task for many,
but nobody said it would all be peaches
and cream.
So, here I am doing work that I dig
and getting both pay and credit for it in
a place I've dreamed about. As AI Wiedemann wrote more than a year ago,
"I'm enjoying gloriously sunny days,"
down here at the antipodes of the mind,
where sand stretches as far as forever,
the roos walk on their tails, and I'm
called a yank, and more often a septic
tank.
All these words to say that I miss that
place in the greenery of the northwest. I
think of Ken, and the folks at Vine St.,
Marine life, hard-headed women, and the
list goes on. If this is ever read by any
of you up there, it will suffice to say
"Hello, see you in October."
"I see myself in different ways today,
on the outside looking in.
Just a short song to say
I hope to be home again someday."
Tom Rush. P.S. May the great white
father help Australia when the beer
shortage hits.
Don Blanchard

Destinies denied
To the Editor:
A group of students have been trying
since February to initiate a full-year
group contract in American Country
Music for the 1974-75 year. We have approached Rudy Martin (the dean of curriculum,) twice with the proposal, once
with a petition with the signatures of
fifteen interested persons; plus we have
a faculty member, Tom Foote, who is
very interested in sponsoring this contract. But on both occasions t_he dean answered us with a sympathetic but flat
refusal.
Tom Foote has also approached Rudy
with a possible compromise between the
program to which he's been assigned and
the country music contract. This too was
refused. Tom Foote has already been assigned by the deans to a· program which
they have designed. The necessity of our
prospective sponsor in the other contract
(a coordinated studies program) is debatable, and it seems possible to most of
the other people involved that he could
at least be replaced by another
competent faculty member.
We (the people who are trying to have
this contract apprqved) find ourselves in
ll, tight situation, a- most of us, after reviewing the catalogue supplement for
next year, have found very little, and in
some cases, nothing at all, that interests
us otherwise.
This proposed contract has been approved for the Spring Quarter, but we
feel that to have the program successContinued next page

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Letters
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fully carried out it would require a full
three quarters, and that by succumbing
to a one quarter experience we would be
over-compromising.
We are infuriated that after our efforts, we as students, the folks who are
supposedly being served here, are
denied a contract that has been said by a
number of administrators to be academically sound. Our minds, as students, and
the mind of our prospective sponsor,
have already been made up for us, and
unfortunately, to our contrary opinion.
If we are going to see that Evergreen
remains a place where people have control over their own destinies, then we
cannot consciously let the deans make
these decisions for us. We must take an
active part in seeing that what we, as individuals, need to learn is taken
seriously. Please take this as a warnin'g
to all, and if you are interested in seeing
this music contract approved we will
give notice for future meetings where
your attendance will be instrumental in
the success of this proposal. Thank you.

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Litterers lambasted
To the Editor:
When I first came to Evergreen in
1971, something that struck me as being
unique, other than the educational
system, was the setting of the school; a
beautifully wooded site. Something else
that was unique about the campus was
the absence of litter. I was impressed
that Evergreen attracted the mature student, who was concerned about the environment as well as his or her education.
I suppose I've been naive about the
slow but steady build-up of litter over
the past three years. Recently, though,
as I was walking through ASH to the
Campus Core I became aware of all the
garbage around me. It doesn't take any
effort to seek it out - it's thick!
Well, litter is a people-problem. It is
obvious what type of people we have
here at Evergreen now. People who, like
birds, have little concern for where their
droppings land, or who has to wallow in
them.
Maybe I should try to ignore the trashflow. After all I'm a student concerned
with matters of consequence. Maybe I
should re-address this letter, "Dear Childreh of Evergreen ..."
Jerry Moos
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Coalition confronts Trustees

In the April 11 issue of the Cooper
Point Journal we ran a story by David
Ettinger indicating that victims of sexual assault have to pay for their own
medical examinations. Fortunately, the
Evergreen security office informs us that
we were not altogether correct and victims can have medical expenses paid
under the new state Crime Compensation Act.
The Act, retroactive to January 1,
1972, is modeled after the Industrial Insurance Law and compensates victims of
criminal attack for medical expenses. If
serious injury has resulted, time-loss or
pension benefits are also available.
For more information contact the
Security office at 866-6140, the Department of Labor and Industries, Crime Victims Compensation Division, which administers the program.
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TALKING WITH TRUSTEE- Non-white Minority Coalition
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right) Sally Fixico, Marion Williams, Elena Perez and Tomas Ybarra dtscuss t~etr budget with Board of Trustees member Thomas Dixon (far right).
(Photo by Hashman)

Evergreen's Board of Trustees approved the Affirmative Action Plan, a
atatement of equal opportunity at the
college, and budget allocations for
1974-75 at its April 18 meeting.
Members of the Non-white Minority
Coalition were skeptical that the goals of
the Affirmative Action Plan, which
would include a 25 percent non-white
student enrollment by 1984, would be enforced. They indicated in a memo to the
trustees that they did not feel the administration was sincere, citing as an example the coalition's budget request of
$45,057 being cut to a base budget of
$23,988.
"What we are asking," said the coalition's executive secretary Tomas Ybarra,
"is that some attention be paid to the
needs of the non-white community which
are not being met."
"I would have said the same to any
group who wanted to double their budApril %5, 1974

get with the limited funds available," responded President McCann, explaining
why he did not accept the increased
budget.
The Board rejected a resolution to increase the coalition's budget but asked
McCann to work out a solution with the
coalition and give a report at the May 23
Board of Trustees meeting.

The deadline for Fall Quarter registration is May 17. In conjunction with registration the deans are sponsoring an aca·
demic advising fair for May 1, 3 and 4 in
the main Library lobby. Faculty and
staff will be available to discuss next
yeari's academic offerings.
Although choices for Fall Quarter
should be made by May 17, continuing
students will have a chance to switch
contracts and programs next September.
Academic Dean Charles Teske says a
supplement to the catalogue supplement
will be available before the fair to help
students to better understand "the cryptic and confusing information in the present catalogue supplement."
Continuing students who do not register, request leave, or withdraw by the
deadline can "kiss your 50 dollars goodbye," in the words of Registrar Walker
Allen. These students will be disenrolled.
While students must register this
spring, tuition is not due until September 13.
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They claim it does everything from protecting
engine parts to reducing heat, noise, friction, and
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They say it's the "racer's edge." Whatever
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really is.
It's a can of thick goo that makes the oil it's
added to thicker.
But if you want a thicker oil, you can just buy
a heavier grade of oil (like 40 or 50 weight) in the
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The very nicest thing we can say about STP Oil
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But there are less nice things, too.
STP can change the proportions of chemical
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Many motor oil manufacturers, including
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Even Consumer Reports (July 1971) says you
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Letters
Continued from preceding page

Don't pickTrilliams
To the Editor:
I have a feeling that your heart was in
the right place but your eyes were
blinded by bright spring sunlight when
you suggested in your April 11th issue
that everyone go out and pick a "trillium
or two" and give them to a friend. It
would certainly mean more to your
friends if you took the time to show
them the secret places where they grow
naturally.
Trilliums do not die if you pick them,
as many tales have implied, but their
growth may be seriously impaired. The
trillium stalk with its beautiful three·
petaled flower, grows from a short
rhizome or tuber under the ground. If
you pick the flowering stalk the plant is
then unable to make and store food in its
tuber. Succeeding years will not have
available the needed growth materials
and the plant will not bloom. For every
trillium picked there will be a bare spot
in the spring next year.

IRS Question
of the Week #1
The main reason for the Input Resource Senter's Question of the Week series
is to provide a regular weekly format for the Evergreen community to ask, respond to, and hear itself. Each week we hope to provide a new question or
series of questions, and the outcome of the previous week's question.
Question Ill
What elements that are a part of the campus environment support or motivate your learning/personal growth? Are there only elements that distract from
or block your learning/personal growth?
Please return responses to the IRS office, CAB bldg. rm. 206.
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publication.

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Com. building gets nod·
Many sections of the building are designed for more than one activity, according to staff member AI Saari who

STAN SHORE
The Washington State Legislature approved the $6.7 million Communications
Laboratory Building for Evergreen in
the final budget vote Tuesday, April 23.
The new building, whict, is scheduled for
occupancy in Fall 1976, will have experimental theatre, dance, drama, and music
rehearsal rooms, as well as film and
video facilities.
"It's finally been a good session at the
legislature for Evergreen," said a relieved Charles McCann, president of
Evergreen.
The building has had a harried life in
the legislature, over the past three years
since 1971 when the financing of the
working drawings for the building was
approved. Originally called the Drama
Music Instruction Building Phase One, it
went through a number of name changes
including Music Drama Art Building and
briefly Forensics Science Building, in an
effort to cajole the legislature into approving the facility.
Dean Charles Teske, who has had primary responsibility for directing the
design of the building, stated, "I could
have gotten nine to one odds against (the
building) downtown during the January
session. I wish I had put a few bucks
down."

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CHARLES McCANN (Photo by Dashe)
was responsible for much of the audiovisual facilities in the building. An example is the experimental theatre, a
two-and-a-half story rectangular room de·
signed for both dramatic presentations
and television production.

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"The design lends itself to relatively
compatible multi-purpose usage," Sarri
explained. Much of the prese.n t production facilities on campus will still remain
after completion of the building since the
Communications Lab will be primarily
for instructional purposes, he added.
Dissatisfaetion
Not everyone on campus is entirely
satisfied with the building, as one faculty
member explained, "The whole building
is too small. When you take a room and
multiply its purpose, for each new
purpose you add you lose something in
the way of quality. The theatre, for instance, will be dead for stage - the
acoustics are designed for TV. . . Also,
the largest performing space is two
hundred or so people. That is not large
enough for a potential audience of 2500."
Teske disagreed and felt that a series
of performances, as was done in "Alice
Through the Looking Glass" Fall Quarter, would be sufficient for all but major
one night shows.
A number of reasons go into the explanation of why the legislature approved
the building this session when it was
turned down the three previous sessions.
One reason, according to McCann, is
inflation. Between the time that the
building was first proposed in 1973 at a
cost of $6.5 million, construction and
other costs have risen as much as twelve
percent. Jerry Schillinger, director of
facilities planning, stated that if the legislature had not approved the building in
this session the cost would have risen
another twelve to fourteen percent each
biennium.
Lobbying by McCann
Another often cited reason is the lobbying effort by McCann on behalf of the
school and building. "McCann is Evergreen," stated one administrator, "and
they like him. The lobbying paid off."
McCann himself downplayed such reasoning. "Mere pressure with the legislature doesn't do any good," he stated,
'!and sometimes has bad effects . . .
(They) don't look enthusiastically on any
building proposal and funding is rather
difficult to get ... They're getting more
familiar with us, though."
Although Phase Two and Phase Three
of the building, which would include expanded audio-vic:ual facilities and a 200seat auditorium are ~til! s£rong in some
people's minds, no new capital expenditure proposals are planned for the near
future.

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Continued from page 9

Power pushed
A new role for the Sounding Board
was the main topic for discussion at the
April 24 Sounding Board meeting. Student Gary Marcus submitted a list of
suggestions written "to create a united
Evergreen or at least the appearance of
a united Evergreen," which covered such
points as Sounding Board purpose and
power, veto power of the president, and
legitimacy of disappearing task forces
(DTFs) not recognized by the Sounding
Board.
Marcus, in a statement to the Board,
said Evergreen no longer needs a "benevolent, farsighted dictatorship" but is
ready for a wider dissemination of authority. "I feel there is going to be
trouble," said Marcus, "if (President) McCann keeps all the power."
Reaction to Marcus's suggestions
varied from "ridiculous" to total agreement. However, it was generally agreed
that communication at Evergreen is the
main cause of decision-making disagreements.
Marcus offered to expand and rework
his suggestions in light of the discussion.
Sounding· Board meets again on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. in Activities bldg. rm.
108.
'

Nominees decline
Richard Alexander, chairman of the
DTF screening applicants for the post of
Academic Dean, reports that nine of the
nominees for the deanship - Larry
Eickstaedt, Betty Estes, Bert Guttmann,
Linda Kahan, Rob Knapp, Betty Kutter,
Chuck Nisbet, Niels Skov, and AI Wiedemann have declined. Three nominees,
Steve Hermann, Mary Hillaire, and Bob
Sluss are still undecided. Willie Parson
is the only nominee to have firmly
act'epted.

that the organization was allocated for
the 73-74 school year; its budget request
for 74-75; a narrative description of proposed activities; and an evaluation of
this year's activities. It has been recommended that groups try to limit their
budget requests to only about 10 percent
over their actual allocations for this year
since the board will probably only have
about a 10 percent increase in funds.
Woolley also made it explicit that any
organizations that do not submit their
budget requests on time will be placed
on a lower priority than those that submit requests before of- on May 13. "Exceptions will be made," Woolley stated,
"only for extraordinarily good reasons;
and even then, only if approved in advance."
From May 20-28 the S & A Board will
meet with each group for half-hour reviews of the proposals. Schedules will be
available in the Activities office. Final
decisions will be made by the board on
June 1 and 2 and on June 4 the board
will meet with groups for responses to
its decisions.

Plan released
The final draft of the Student Services
five-year plan has been released, and is
now available to members of the Evergreen community. The plan, written by
Dean of Student Services Larry Stenberg, is concerned with t~e future and
philosophy of Student Serv1ces.
"We have spent a great deal of time
developing this document, and we would
appreciate reactions to it in the form of

additions, deletions, suggestions for clatification," says Stenberg. Copies of the
five-year plan are available at the Information Center, the Dean's Lounge, and
in the Student Services area.

Module proposed
Four geologists from the Washington
State Department of Natural Resources
have expressed interest in presenting a
module entitled "Human Geology: the
Geological Environment in Washington."
Persons interested in a module of this
sort should plan to attend a meeting
with the geologists May 2, at 4 p.m. in
Science bldg. rm. 2033, or leave a note
for Academic Dean Byron Youtz in the
Science building.
'

Speaker to come
Dr. Robert W. Corrigan, Professor of
English at the University of Michigan.
will speak on "The Transformation of the
Avant-garde" Thursday, April 25 at 7
p.m. in Lecture Hall 3. He is being sponsored by the Democracy and Tyranny coordinated studies program.
Corrigan, who is the author of "The
Theatre in Search of a Fix" and editor of
"Theatre in the 20th Century," "The
Delta New Theatre of Europe," "Laurel
Classical Drama," and "Laurel British
Drama," has taught at Carlton College,
Tulane University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was also the
first president of The California Institute
of the Arts.

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Budget proposals for all groups who
intend to request funding from Services
and Activities Fees for the 1974-1975
academic year need to be submitted to
Susan Woolley, Executive Secretary of
the Services an<t Activities Fees Review
Board by May 13. As Woolley explained,
in a memorandum dated April 10, each ·
of the budget proposals should include a
base budget showing the total amount
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Guest Commentary
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The past two articles in the CPJ have misrepresented both
the proceedings .of the hearing board on art censorship and myself. The board IS very amorphous but I am specific and subsequently have received the brun~ of poor journalism. I have refrained from writing a letter in the past because the tone of the
hearings has been 'that of work to be done and not of something
to be proven and I did not wish to instill sensationalism into the
issue. But now some clarification is required.
The Visual Environment Group okayed an art exhibit proposal
by Barbara Shelnutt and myself about a month prior to its
posting. It was to be a collaborative exhibit with the fried egg
as the common image. During that month both Barbara and I
completed a large volume of work individually that we felt
merited exhibition. We redesigned the exhibit using the collaboration as a perspective on our individual work and vice versa.
At no time did the thought that any of the work could be
termed objectionable cross our minds. We hung most of the exhibit Sunday. On Monday Barbara put up the rest including her
"tampax door" piece. I received complaints from some women on
the library staff and since the piece was not integral to the
exhibit, okayed the removal, Barbara agreed, it was removed.
The next day I heard from someone in CAB that Dave Carnahan
had removed two drawings. I went to my office and found a
~emo from Dave requesting that I remove two drawings that
~e "personally (found) to be offensive and not of the quality (he)
~pects to be shown in the library gallery area." I went to his
l ifice and requested the drawings be replaced. He refused.
We agreed upon mediation with Pete Sinclair the following
ay at four. I called a VEG meeting for three and talked extenover the phone with a member that could not attend. The
EG looked at the drawings (now in the vault due to possible
amage in handling ·when removed). They found them not offenve and offered a compromise that the drawings be replaced
and signs posted stating that the material wall potentially objectionable - so view under your own volition. The signs were to

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be posted ~here o~e .would confr~nt the signs before seeing the
show. Durmg med1at10n Dave reJected the compromise. I called
for a hearing boar~. The original ~barges called for a public apology from Dave smce by the t1me any resolution could be
reached, the exhibit would be over and the drawings could not
be replaced; also for guidelines on censorship so a similar incident wo.uld not ?e encountered ~n the future. The first charge
was revised as first order of busmess: to determine whether or
not Dave's behavior was proper and to use that determination
to aid in the second charge.
The hearings proceeded and it was clear that the first charge
had two approaches: whether or not Dave had the bureaucratic
authority or, assuming he did, whether he acted responsibly. According to the poster policy the VEG had control over neutral
spaces. A neutral space is one not under control of a budget
head. Dave is the budget head for the Library. The gallery is in
the Library. He has bureaucratic authority.
My grievance was that he acted upon his personal bias when
he had a group representing the community readily accessible,
and that he did not even make a valid effort to contact Barbara
or myself, and that or.ce offered a compromise by the group, he
refused. The board subsequently chos\l the bureaucratic approach although they did use ethical terms in their resolution:
(because the works were not prescreened) Kahn acted beyond
his authority and Dave acted within his authority but hastily.
The board is now in the process of making recommendations
pertaining to the second charge.
I hope this clarifies the issue somewhat and I also hope that in
the future, the CPJ research their articles more adequately and
not let attitudinal or amateurish aspects of the reporters seep
into seemingly phenomenal reportage.
Doug Kahn

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The Sting stinks and Friday films
We at Evergreen have been fortunate
in having the opportunity to see some
very fine political films this year. Costa
Garva's State of Siege and the Brazilian
epic Hour of the Furnace come immediately to mind. This week the Friday
Nite Film Series will feature a film by
the Cuban director Thomas Gutierrez
Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment,
made in 1968.
We know little about the film except
that it was caught up in a flurry of publicity when the National Society of Film
Critics voted to present Alea with a special award at the festival at the Kennedy
Center. Not only was he refused a visa
to enter the country to receive the
award but the Treasury Department
threatened to arrest anyone who.
accepted the cash prize in Alea's behalf
as a violation of the Trade-with-the-enemy Act.
The film will show Memories of
Underdevelopment at 7 and 9:30 on
Friday, April 26 in Lecture Hall 1.
D
Perhaps this reviewer is just becoming
jaded but it seems that whenever I go to
the movies of late I am haunted by this
pretty blonde fellow. Whatever fUm I

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attend there he is wearing a toothy grin
and a forty-year-old suit. A few years
back he and Paul Newman made it big
as badmen in Buteh Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
He was in on that seven Academy
Award-winning con game The Stiag.
There is a con-man who is the good-badguy and the bad-badguys kill the goodbadguy's friend (who is the best-badguy).
While the bad-badguys and the bad-goodguy (a corrupt cop) try to kill the goodbadguy he gets together with some
other good-badguys to con the bad-badguys and the bad-goodguy thus getting
even for the death of the best-badguy. Is
that clear?
While the big swindle is being set-up
on the screen, the audience is being
set-up for the real con. They are tricked,
played for suckers, and finally lied to, all
for the fancy finish. The amazing thing
about that particular con is that after
being used so cheaply the audience
walks away having loved it.
Even if the scene, after Johnny Hooker's (Robert Redford) meeting with the
FBI in which we are clearly led to
believe that Henry (Paul Newman)
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still not ring true. The sets, which are
supposed to look like Chicago in the thirties, never quite manage to be believable
as anything but Universal Studio's back
lot. Then any time that you might be
willing to suspend disbelief and play
along, they cut in one of the painted
chapter titles or use one of those awful
diagonal wipe-cuts and remind you that
after all you are only being told a tale.
In the end the only way to see The
Stiag is as a sort of "drug-store novel of
the screen." The good-badguys have all
the warmth, charm and romantic goodwill of any character Damon Runyon
ever created. If you think of it as a 95
cent paperback, and you don't mind
being played for a chump, then The
Sting can make a rather pleasant ninety
minutes of fluff - to use a phrase of
Mason Williams, "a doily for your mind."
D
One major gap in Gorden Beck's
modular study of the French New Wave
Cinema is that the films of Francois
Truffaut are not being shown. Truffaut
is perhaps the best known of the new
wave directors and so his work was
passed over for the works of Goddard,
Bresson, and Resnais, the other major
figures of the French cinema of the sixties.
This week the Friday Nite Film Series
will be showing Truffaut's second feature
Shoot the Piano Player. The film, which
was made in 1960 and released in the
United States in 1962, is the strange tale
of a former concert pianist who is discovered playing honky-tonk in a little cafe.
The piano player becomes involved in an
adventure which stylistically manages to
look like an American gangster film
while leaping from romance to slapstick.
The film is typical of Truffaut's blending of serious and comic statement
within one film. It is a delightful adventure story which seems to be enough to
alienate those audiences who expect
foreign cinema to be serious! There seem
to be a lot of people around who wish
that Truffaut had limited himself to films
like The 400 Blows. They cannot include
the silliness of Shoot the Piano Player or
Day for Night within their definition of
serious cinema. Andrew Sarrie referred,
in his review of Shoot the Piano Player,
to these people, saying they would
"rather be tortured by Antonioni, bored
bv Satyajit Ray, or _preached to _by
Stanly Kramer." Yet the apparent playfulness of the film must be balanced
against such internal evidence of serious
intent as the 'dieing' bartender's statement that "for me women are always supreme." When the film was released in
France, Truffaut presented it as the only
statement he could make about the
Algerian War.
D JEFFREY H. MAHAN
Cooper Point Journal

OLYMPIA
Entertainment in store for Olympians
this week includes: The Three Muske·
teers and The Heartbreak Kid at the
State; Disney's immortal Allee in Wonderland is at the Capitol; The Sting continues its long run at the Olympic. Some·
times a Great Notion and Shamus are
playing this weekend at the Lacey
Drive-In. CindereUa Liberty and Seorpio
will be at the Sunset Drive-In.
The Coffee House, located at ASH,
presents musicians NeD Waterman and
SheBa Radman on Friday and Saturday,
and the film Miss Goodall and the WDd
Chimps on Sunday. "The People's Ballad
Singer," Jim Page will appear at the Applejam Coffee House Friday. The Applejam is located at 220 E. Union. The
doors open at 8:30p.m.
For you art connoisseurs, Ignotum per
Ignotius presents Journey through the
Mind's Sky, an "art show of magic realism." The display will be located at
218 1/z W. 4th, May 1-12.
Double Whameel Another TESC veterans' benefit at Captain Coyotes. April
29 at 7:30 p.m.

Fritz the Cat and The Cheerleaders play
at the Everett Motor Movie.
This is your last chance to see Eve Arden in Under Papa's Pieture at the
Cirque Dinner Theatre located at 131
Taylor Ave. N. The Crusaders will play
their current brand of rhythm and blues
at the Paramount Northwest on Saturday. Friday Brewer Shipley will be at
the Moore Theatre at 8 p.m. Joan Baez
will perform in a reserved tickets only
performance at the Seattle Arena qn
May 9 at 8 p.m. Mail orders for tickets
can be sent to Fidelity "bane Ticket Office, 1622 4th Ave. in Seattle. Shipstads
and Johnson lee Follies will be in Seattle May 7 through May 12 at the Coliseum. The Pointer Sisters return to the
Opera House for a concert Saturday,
May 4 at 8:30 p.m. Mareel Mareeau
comes to the Opera House for a one-night
only performance Monday, May 13 at
8:30p.m.

PORTLAND
The Utah Symphony Orehestra will '
perform May 1 at 8:30 p.m. at Portland
State University. Mareel Marceau per- '1
forms at the Portland Auditorium Sunday, May 12, at 8 p.m. and The Cleveland Orchestra will perform an all Beethoven program Wednesday, May 15 at
8:15p.m. at the Auditorium.
The Guess Who and Lighthouse will
be at the Coliseum Sunday May 12 at 8
p.m., The Pointer Sisters will be at the
Auditorium May 3 at 8:30 p.m. Also on
Portland's bill is Gorden Lightfoot Tuesday May 14. He will give two shows at 7 1
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Cine Mond and The Apple War at the
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and Sugarland Express plays at the Coliseum along with Sometimes a Great Notion; Cinderella Liberty plays at the 5th
Avenue; Blazing Saddles is at the Town;
The Conversation is at the Music Box
and The Day of the Dolphin plays at the
Lewis and Clark, Lake City and John
Danz theatres. Pat Garrett and Billy the
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