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The Evergreen State College
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Vol. 2 No. 25
May 16, 1974

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Vol. 2 No. 25
May 16, 1974

Times at TESC
Letters
Brief news
Affirmative action

page 3
page 4
page 6
page 10

Cover story :
Gay Festival

page 12

Tony Shearer

page 14

Guest Commentary
Faculty Forum
Expo '74

page 16
page 17

COG
Cinema
Northwest Culture
Cover:

page 18
page 19
page 22
page 23

This week's cover was photographed by Photo Editor Brad Pokorny. The Gay
Festival will run today through Saturday. See schedule page 12.

Editor- Knute Olsson H.G.S . Berger; Business Manager- john Foster ; Managing Editor - Andy Ryan ;
News Editor - William P. Hirshman; Special Editor - Libby Lastrapes; Production Manager - Ingrid
Posthumus; Photo Editor - Brad Pokorny; Cinema Editor - Jeffrey H. Mahan ; Assist-to-the-Editor Mary Frances Hester ; Writing and Production - Tom Graham. Stan Shore, Teresa Countryman, Steve
Lanigan, Lee Riback, Len Wallick, Matt Groening, Susan Christian, Tony Forrest, Charlie Williams, Dean
Katz, Thomas R. Lenon, Paul Murphy, Tim Girvin, Joel Gilman, Vincent Smith, Dan DeMoulin , Lynn
Robb, Terry Toedtemeier; Faculty Advisor - Margaret Gribskov .

The Cooper Point Journal is published hebdomadally by The Evergreen State College Board of Publications
and members of the Evergreen community. It is funded, in part, by student services and activities fees.
Views expressed are not necessarily those of the editorial staff or The Evergreen State College. The journal
news room is located on the first floor of the college Activities Bldg., rm. 103. Phone : 866-6213. The business office is located on the third floor of the Daniel). Evans Library , rm . 3129. Phone 866-6080.

Another success story for ex-Evergreeners; Sue Hylton, who was a student here
during the school's first two years, may
spend the summer in the Washington
State University swine barn.
On her way to WSU's silent and nearempty Holland Library, Sue stopped to
talk in the Cougar Union Building, where
many faces bore the marks of "MoscowPullman jet-lag" (a malaise afflicting Friday visitants to nearby Moscow, Idaho,
where bars are open to 19-year-olds).
"It's too bad that I didn't know .that I
wanted to study biology while I was at
Evergreen. I could have worked with topnotch people like Steve Herman. I feel
like I really missed the boat there."
About that swine barn: Sue hopes to
enter WSU's well-known school of veterinary science in the fall. "For 12 hours of
work a month, I can get the attendant's
room in the barn for free. When the sows
are giving birth, they like to have some.one here at night."
She talked about the transition from
Evergreen to Washington State: "It wasn't
hard getting back into tests and grades,
because I was still used to it from high
school. What seems strange are the weekend parties. Back at Evergreen we used to
study on the weekends.
"I felt a little lonely here at first, I
didn't know anybody . . . Remember me
to my friends at Evergreen. M~ybe I can
visit soon."
After a weekend watching the gilded
youth of the sunny Palouse country imbibing beer (a process described alternately as "getting loose'' and "getting
tight"), gyrating to raucous music, discussing acid and other implements of psycho-pharmacology, indulging in overt
flirtation, and frolicking through other
;alien activities that Evergreeners (rugged
pragmatists that they are) recognize as unproductive pastimes, it was a relief to
return to Evergreen, where students are
students on the weekends (if it's raining,
and nothing more important contravenes).
ECS
An example of such dedication is the
Energy Crisis Seminar, a group of 16 Individual in Contemporary Society students.
Twenty students, led by Ted Gerst!,
wrote a grant proposal over Halloween
weekend (surely a bizarre experience).

Their project was funded by Puget Sound
Power and Light Company, to the tune of
$2,750, plus supplies and printing costs.
From January 21 to March 17, the
group studied 22 Olympia families and
their reactions to fixed amounts of electricity, water, heat, gas, food, luxuries, a
meatless week, an "air pollution alert"
(which required a weekend indoors), and
the record-keeping for the study. The
walls of Lib. 2103 were papered with
charts of arcane symbols in different
colors of Magic Marker, as the students
collected their data, and attempted to
write a rough draft of the final report by
the 6th.
Now the walls are denuded, as the stu. dents edit that rough draft, invent pseudo-·
nyms to protect the privacy of those
studied, and discuss such titillating
phenomena as the "diaper syndrome." In
addition to chapters on the effects of individual shortages, there are evaluations
of the changes in family dynamics, and
the effectiveness of the project as a learning tool for the involved students.
The report should be printed in the next
week; it might make interesting reading
for curious Evergreen community members.
ESSENTIA
Just kitty-corner from this hotbed of
scholarly pursuits, the Environmental
Studies group were rejoicing in the arrival
of long-awaited drafting tables, finding a
publisher for their learning aids packet,
planning a "Solstice Seminar," and
puttmg out a newsletter.
The environmental learning kits, a·
teacher's aid designed to foster student involvement and excitement in the learning process, appear in the shape of a
game. The ambiguity of the game's directions leaves much up tc the students' creativity, and makes the kit useful from kindergarten through high school levels, in
science and other subjects. The kit was
developed while some members of the
group were at the University of Colorado
under an American Geological Institutesponsored National Science Foundation
grant. The copyright for the kit has been
sold to Addison-Wesley, a Menlo Park,
California, publisher. The money earned
will go to the Federal Treasury (not, unfortunatciy, to N.S.F.).

When the group moved to Evergreen, it
changed directions from developing materials to encouraging widespread use of
alternative learning modes. In accordance
with this goal, Essentia is inviting educators from all over to participate in a Solstice Seminar from June 20-30. The Seminar will take place in a camp-lodge in the
California Sierra Nevada near Donner
Summit. site of the far-famed Donner dinner party. "Integrating Intuitive and Rational Powers" and "Enhancing Creative
Capacities" will be among the topics for
discussion around the campfire.
Essentia's newsletter (printed in Seattle
via the state printer) should be available
by now, and will be well worth seeing.
As soon as you're done reading this trivia,
latch on to some Essentia.
TMRC
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SEEN A SKELETON?

'·. A student is probably going to end
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up paying $330 she doesn't have for
a skeleton ripped off from the 4th
floor cafeteria earlier this year.
Please bring it back to Marsha
Stead's office (Lib. 2155). $25
' reward. No questions asked.
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Thad Curtz

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Kan lauded
An open letter to Kingsley Kan :
We of the Office of Financial Aid and
Placement would like to thank you for
the valuable services you have provided
for the students of Evergreen. You have
our gratitude and appreciation for the
difficult job you did so well. You and
your staff at Student Accounts have dealt
with Evergreeners in a competent, conscientious and considerate manner. Your
office has been consistently sensitive to
student needs. Those of us who have
worked in other institutions have n~ver
experienced an office so concerned with
fitting the system to the concerns of the
student. Even though a Student Accounts
office is traditionally a "hot spot" upon
which students vent their frustrations, Evergreen students, by their consistently
high ratings in the Exit Interviews, have
gi·:en you a tremendous vote of confi-

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dence. You have forthrightly acknowledged the inevitable administrative errors
which have occurred in your office, and
have moved quickly to correct them.
You have been extremely responsive to
our office's needs . . . You have never
turned down a request from us to process
a student's check immediately, even
though it meant extra work for you and
your staff. Such a friendly, flexible attitude is a blessing to Evergreen and characterizes a Student Accounts office where
bureaucratic hassles are a rarity. You
have gone far beyond your job description in providing countless hours of counseling and financial advice to students.
When we consider your high standards
of competence and integrity, we are all
lhe more appalled at the unwarranted and
unsubstantiated charges made against you
by Mary Hillaire. We are dismayed and
incensed that a membt:r of this community would make such charges in your absence and give you no opportunity to respond.
We are very grateful to you, Kingsley,
for the job you have done at Evergreen
We are very sorry that you feel you must
leave but we hope you t•njoy y1>ur new

pos1tton with the Higher Education Personnel Board.
Lester W. Eldridge
William L. Smith
Carol A Curts
Kathleen E. Atwood
Wendy S. Porter
Gail Martin
Kitty Parker
Michael Hall
Pam MacEwan
Jennie T. Reisner
Susan Brenner
Thelma Stamey

Disgust
expressed
To the Editor:
This letter is a rather impotent way of
expressing my disgust about what went
on in the Library building during the
K/\OS hcnefit dance last May 3rd. Some
pruplc .lt the danr<>, many of them from
Evergreen, exhibited extremely chddish
behavior and an almost malevolent disreg.ml lor the already shaky image of this
,;, hn(ll. I'm rcfPrrin~ · 1 the people who
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found it necessary to trash up the second
floor lobby with a more than profuse
amount of beer, wine, and whiskey bottles . (At least 23 bottles and cans of beer,
5 bottles of whiskey, and several bottles
of wine) .
Many people here might ask, "So
what's the matter with a few broken bottles of booze?" For one, it's against state
law to consume alcoholic beverages in our
Library building. But that's not half as
important as the fact that it's against the
school's own code of conduct. A lot of
you might say, "well, that's not so important either . . ." OK, then what makes
this whole little incident really bad was
the Advising Fair that took place in the
Library the following morning. Prospective students and their parents were
coming here to find out about Evergreen.
Hah!
I wonder what type of impression a
trashy, bottle and litter-scarred academic
building creates on prospective students
and their parents? It made a bad impression on President McCann, anyway . It
also left a bad impression on the secretaries and the security person who wound up
straightening it out.
Maybe in the future we should hire ten
or eleven security people every time we
have a dance to make sure some of the
kiddies don't do anything stupid. I don't
know .. .
One thing we should do is to take it
upon ourselves to keep these get-togethers
from getting too rowdy . When you see
some idiot throwing a beer bottle, ask
him kindly to stop . Or if you don't want
to get involved call security or the directors of the dance . If you don't see who
threw it but see the bottle or can on the
floor - then pick it up and put it in a
trash can . Bottles and cans have been
known to hurt people .
The people who created the mess are a
bunch of dummies. But the people who
just stood by and watched the mess
accumulate must also share the blame.
fJ .S . This is in 110 way a reflection upon
KAOS Th ey held another gig on
M onday and everything went fine.
Don V. Smith

Nixon exhorts
To the 1974 college graduates:
As graduates of America's colleges, you
cross the important threshold from the
classroom of academic learning to the
0lht·r· a nd equally exhilarating classroom
of workmg experience. The world that
aw,lits your skills and welcomes the usefui
krwwledge you have acquired throughout
your cour se of study is one of infinite

Mav )6. 1974

challenge and excitement. It is a restless
world, impatient to right past wrongs and
ready to witness the realization of yesterday's dreams .
The focus of education in our country
has been more than ever adapted to the
practical realities with which you will
have to cope. I know that the knowledge
you have assimilated and the insights you
have gained into many of the major problems we face bode well for the America of
the future. But more than this, I am confident of your spirit of involvement and
your selfless desire to serve your fellowman . These are the qualities that will best
guide you as you put to use for yourselves and for our nation the educational
opportunities you have shared in throughout your college years .
As you go forth each in your chosen
endeavor, I can think of no words that
better capture the thought that I want to
leave with you than those of Woodrow
Wilson :
"The day of our country's life is still
but in its fresh morning. Let us lift our
eyes to the great tracts of life yet to be
conquered in the interests of righteous
peace. Come, let us renew our allegiance to America, conserve her strength
in its purity , make her chief among
those who serve mankind .. . "
Richard Nixon

Lighting
questioned
To the Editor :
A public letter to the Facilities Office.
This letter is addressed to the construction
currently underway on the campus parkway lighting system .
First, I would be interested to learn
which factors in the eyes of Facilities Office justifies the considerable expense of
erecting the lights as well as the continued
cost to power them .
Secondly, will the lights be operating
continually through the night (11 p.m. Dawn)? If so, again, what will justify the
cost sustained providing this luxury to the
handful of cars that use the parkway in
the wee hours of the morning?
Finally, please give a brief summary of
the decision-making process that preceded
the appropriation of funds for the project.
I am annoyed at this endeavor for several reasons :
1) It seems a poor choice of priorities.
Certainly, $18,000 would do more in the
way of making Evergreen a better place to
come to learn if used for the improvement
of academic programs rather than for
non-instructional physit:al 'conveniences.'
2) The only two motives for construction that I can imagine now are: A .

Security and B. Safety. Especially in the
light of the fact that the already existing
commuter facilities are designed for heavier loads than they now endure, the aforementioned benefits gained from spending
$18,000 this way seem minimal at best
and not at all in reasonable proportion to
the cost.
3) If the lights are left running all night,
it is likely to be annoying to the privacy
and aesthetics of at least some of the
people who live and sleep adjacent to the
parkway - that is, to interfere with the
accustomed enjoyment of the rural quality
of their home . It is quite possible that
some people will prefer it, but on the
other hand, it shouldn't be too hard to
imagine how blazing lights all night long
might be offensive.
4) I recall in the Newsletter announcement of the project that there was a note
of pride in the comment of how, in
awareness of the possibility of future 'energy crisises,' the intensity of the lighting
could be reduced . This seems to be pretty
blatant tokenism to me when, in fact,
such projects are themselves major contributing factors to the development of
energy shortages. I would be surprised to
find many people that would think the inconvenience (7) of a dark but otherwise
superb condition roadway would be
worse than the inconveniences it contributes to, that is, those that accompany an
energy crisis situation. In addition, such
development implies value juqgments regarding those things that must be sacrificed or added in support of this and similar activities: wilderness valleys flooded ;
the potential hazards of nuclear power .
plants; air degredation due to fossil fuel
plants; and international tensions directly
caused by our country's insatiable appetite
for fuel.
Part of the purpose of this letter is to
find out how and who decided that in the
early years of this college, we had to have
artificial light on our little freeway . Perhaps I was not attentive enough but I. for
one, never heard anything about it until it
was virtually built. If this is true as well
in general. I would hope that similar decisions which affect us all, obviously or
subtly, will not be left totally to the discretion of those whose job it is to administer them .
Matthew Sage

Journal praisecl
To the Editor:
This being my third year at Evergreen,
I've been exposed to a wide variety of
phases of the school paper. I considet: this
Spring Quarter the best issues put out! It's
readable! Way to go!
Dori MacDonald

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ASH bashed

Kan resigns
Head of Student Accounts Kingsley
Kan has submitted his resignation effective May 22, 1974. In a memo dated May
8 to his immediate superior Chief Accountant AI Spence, he explained that his
resignation was prompted by undocumented accusations made about him and
his handling of Student Accounts . The
statements were made at a Non-white
DTF meeting April 10, by Native American Studies Faculty member Mary Hillaire.
Kan's memo and resignation have
spawned a flurry of memos, accusations
and denials.
A tape made at the April 10, DTF
meeting reveals that Mary Hillaire stated ·
that Student Accounts was "shafting" a
lot of non-white students and that there
were "chronic inadequacies" in Student
Accounts. She also implied that Kan was
not competent to do his job.
In his memo of resignation Kan asserted
his capability to do his job, but said that
he is resigning because of "doubts about
due process" at Evergreen. He also has
stated that he feels such charges, even
though they are unsubstantiated, might
weaken his ability to do his job at Student Accounts properly.

"If a student can't feel free to come to
me with a problem that he's having with
Student Accounts, or a problem he's having with his loan because he feels that I'm
not going to give him a fair chance, then
obviously I'm no good in this position.
And I think just the accusation's being
made is enough because some students
won't question it."
In response to the accusations made
against Kan, Provost Ed Kormondy and
Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh sent a memo, on May 9, to Mary
Hillaire urging her to either document her
charges against Kan or write him an

MARY HILLAIRE
I was doing what the charge indicated

KINGSLEY KAN
Resignation prompted by undocumented charges
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apology by Wednesday May 15 at noon.
If she did not choose to comply with
either option, the memo continues, then
appropriate action as spelled out in the
COG document will be initiated.
This is most likely a reference to calling
an all-campus hearing board to review the
case, although neither the Provost or Vice
President would comment on the situation
as this issue went to press.
Mary Hillaire stated, 'To the best of
my ability I was doing what the charge
(to the non-white DTF) indicated, finding
out what exists in relation to the current
responsibility for non-whites and what
can be improved."
Hillaire also declined to either document the charges or apologize for them.

Adult Student Housing (ASH) Incorporated has been ordered by the federal government to reduce its rents in at least four
of its nine housing complexes. The order
came from the Portland Area Office of
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) and may affect the
ASH project located adjacent to Evergreen
State College campus.
Early this week the Portland Area
Office of HUD addressed a letter to the
ASH main office in Portland stating that
any rent increases beyond the rates in
effect when the project was initially occupied were in violation of the agreement
ASH had made with HUD, and must be
rolled back ... the order was pointed not
at Evergreen though, but at Clark College
ASH in Vancouver, Washington and three
other ASH projects in Oregon. Evergreen
is not within the Portland Area's district
so was not directly affected by the order.'
Within a couple of days of the initial
order, however, the Seattle HUD office
reiterated the Port office's decision
making explicit the fact that ASH at Ever~
green was included in the order.
"No rental increases have been approved at Evergreen since the initial occupancy," stated Assistant Regional Administrator for Housing Management Eddie
McGloin at HUD's Seattle Office, "so if
we find that the rents are higher than dur•ing the initial occupancy they will have to
be rolled back ... immediately."
He further explained that HUD had
contacted the main Portland office of
ASH and that they were sending up
copies of their rent schedules for the Evergreen complex.
When first contacted by the Journal.
ASH Inc. in Portland asserted that their
rents are presently lower than during the
initial occupancy in September 1973.
'There is an overall rent reduction for
that project (Evergreen ASH). It is about
20 percent lower than it was when it was
originally opened," confided Stan Stahl.
corporate controller at ASH's Portland
Office. 'Therefore the ruling does not
apply to the Evergreen complex."
The Journal looked into the matter
more closely and discovered that the
initial rates in September 1973 were for
furnished apartments with electrical costs
included. The present rates quoted by
ASH do not include either.
Figuring this in and computing that two
people would live in a one-bedroom, two
in a two-bedroom and three in a threebedroom apartment, the rates have
actually increased an average of $22.00
per apartment.
When confronted with ASH's failure to
include electricity and furniture charges in
their official rent schedule, the controller
was obviously upse' .
C .oper Point Journal

'Til have to check into that," Stahl
said, "You may be right or wrong. I'll
have to investigate that and see . . . I'm
not sure. I hadn't had it called to my attention, but I'll check it out."
In the meantime HUD is engaged in a
full-scale audit of all of ASH Incorporated
to see if they have violated any other federal regulations, according to the Portland
HUD Office.
If ASH is guilty of illegally raising the
rents at its Evergreen apartments, they
will be rolled back immediately and,
according to a HUD official, the possibility that ASH will be forced to reimburse
tenants for their extra rent is not excluded.

and Personal Vulnerability.
Durkan has been chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee since the 1967
legislative session, and, in that position
was responsible for placing the Communications Laboratory building back in the
budget after its failure in the January
mini-session - a move which paved the
way for its funding during the April session.

Locals busted
Starting Friday, May 10 and lasting
throughout the weekend, a series of police
raids rounded up over 30 young citizens
of Olympia, including at least two Evergreen students. They were arrested for
possession of marijuana and other illegal
drugs. One of the Evergreen students involved was arrested for allegedly selling
an ounce of marijuana, and charged with
possession of another ounce.
According to one of the persons arrested, who preferred their name not be
used, the raids were the culmination of
almost a year of undercover work by the
Thurston County Police Department.
During this time it is alleged a narcotics
agent going by the name of "Joey" infiltrated the group of smokers and criminals. The head of the narcotics division
who allegedly masterminded the plan is
Officer Jim Flint, who personally issued
the warrants Friday night.
In response to the arrests Dean of Student Services Larry Stenberg asserted that
there are no narcotics agents on campus
to his knowledge and that in the history
of the college there has only been one
bust on campus.
Still, he warned, students are foolish if
they believe the college can or will protect
· them from outside law enforcement agencies.

MARTIN DURKAN

Senator to speak on economics
and politics
Durkan, a member of the Senate Higher
Education and Judiciary Committees, is in
his third term in the Senate, and has had
one term in the House of Representatives.
He has chaired the Municipal Code and
Municipal Committees, the Legislative
Budget Committee, and co-chaired the
Forest Tax Committee.

Erection set
One hundred and four iights are presently being erected along the mile-long
Evergreen Parkway, spaced 150 feet apart
from each other at a cost of $163,000.
Jerry Schillinger, director of facilities,
stated "We decided years ago to erect
lights for safety and security reasons."
When asked whether the construction
of the lamps is in keeping with the energy
crisis, Schillinger replied, "Yes, the design
is such that we will have control of full
use, one-half use, one-third use, and no
use. Each standard (lamp) is equipped
with photo-cells and timers which will enable us to have full control of the number
of lamps in use and the length of time
they are in use."
Concern about the number of lamps
and the necessity of their usage has been
voiced by several members of the Evergreen community, including faculty member Richard Cellarius of the "Nature and
Society" program. "I think it's terrible
they're putting in far too many lamps/
Cel)arius said, "a few might be useful, but
they certainly don't need as many as
they've got."
The T otero Electric Company was contracted with several years ago during the
initial planning phase of the college, to
erect the lamps. Schillinger said that, even
if the college wanted to, it would be impossible to break the contract.

Continued next page

The guy in the
room above you has
a set of barbells.

Durkan to speak
Senator Martin Durkan (0-Issaquah),
chairman of the Senate Ways and Means
Committee, will speak at Evergreen May
21 and 22. Sc>nator Durkan will speak on
the topic of public office. in Lecture Hall
5 at 7:30 p.m . May 21. On the morning
of May 22 , hf' will discuss the finances of
high·~t •:dltc,•ttol' with Rl'vnlt l11 'Dv Economics -- a group contract - and in th.·
afternoon he will speak on politics with
thl' CPordinated studif's pwgram Power

Hay 16, '974

You owe yourself an Oly.
Olympia Brewing Company, Olympia, Washington ·oLY•i!
All Olympia emplies are recyclable

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Continued from preceding page

Report issued
The disappearing task force (DTF) on
Non-Traditional Credit and Acceleration
of Credit has issued its final report. The
report will become policy on Monday,
May 20, if no substantive issues are raised
in opposition. The report sets guidelines
and philosophy for external and accelerated credit.
External credit is credit awarded for
skills learned outside of an educational institution. Accelerated credit is more credit
than a student would normally earn in
per quarter or year, that is more than
four units per quarter, or sixteen credits
per year.
External credit will be granted to a student who has been out of school for at
least a year, and can demonstrate understanding of a skill or skills learned during
this time. Accelerated credit will be
allowed via College Level Examination
Program (CLEP) examinations or other
examinations, provided the student prepares for these examinations during a
vacation or leave of absence. Accelerated
credit in the form of extra credit for a
module taken by a full-time student, and
transfer credit for courses taken at
another college while a student is enrolled
full-time at Evergreen will not be allowed.
The DTF requested that external credit
be awarded cautiously during the initial
trial p~riod of the program in blocks of
four, eight, or twelve units.
The DTF requested that an external
credit office be established, probably as
an extension of the Learning Resource
Center, and that the Learning Resource
Center establish a module to aid students
applying for external credit to write papers demonstrating their understanding of
skills they have learned.
The report also establishes a review
committee to examine the papers and
other materials submitted by students applying for external credit, and determine
whether credit will be awarded. The starting membership of this committee will be
a carry-over of DTF members: George
Dimitroff, Carolyn Dobbs, Mark Levensky, Marilyn Frasca, Cathy Bumstead,
Maureen Karras, and Walker Allen as an
ex-officio member.
The committee membership has one student, lire staff member, the Registrar as
an ex-officio member, and four faculty
positions in the fields of natural science,
social science, art, and humanities. This
committee and the external credit office
would. also have a place in determining
whether "weird" credit, such as credit
from non-accredited institutions, will be
accepted. The committee would have a
fairly constant membership rotating only
one member out of the committee per

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quarter to assure continuity in decisiOnmaking.
No decision has been made as to how
much external credit would cost the student.

Exchanges start
During the 1974-75 academic year,
students from Evergreen will be given the
opportunity to take part in an exchange
program between experimental colleges.
The program will allow students from the
six member colleges to participate in
unique curricular offerings at the other
schools and experience different environmental and structural systems.
The program was conceived and outlined at a meeting held in Prescott, Arizona in December. At that meeting,
attended by Dean Rudy Martin and faculty member Jim Gulden, the basic philosophical intent and support by the
member schools were discussed. In April,
another meeting was held in Denver,
Colorado, to assign specific administrative
responsibilities to the member schools,
which are: Johnston College, Redlands
California; Prescott College Prescott,
Arizona; The Teaching and Learning Center, University of North Dakota, Grand
Forks North Dakota; Thomas Jefferson
College, Grand Rapids Michigan; University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Green
Bay Wisconsin; and The Evergreen State
College, Olympia Washington.
"The program will afford students
greater opportunity for specialization, as
each school has programs and academic
areas which are unique to their schools.
Students will receive credit through -their
home institutions and at this til]le it is
assumed that the only additional expense
students will incur is that of transportation and housing," said Marty Lind,
co-director of the program at Evergreen.
If anyone requires any additional information or is just interested in the program, they are urged to stop by and chat
with Cathy Bumstead in the Counseling
Center, or Marty Lind in Lib. 1508.

John Bagnariol (D-Aberdeen) chairman of
the House Ways and Means committee,
will present awards to the first internship
student Lesley Kinley, her former faculty
member Jack Webb, and her intern employer Carl Hansen, president of the
Bank of Olympia.
Since Evergreen's first year 1,300 students have had internships, with about
half of the graduates having participated
in the program. During the year, about
25 percent of the student enrollment is
placed in jobs by the Co-op Ed office.

Co-op assessed
Tomorrow, May 17, the Cooperative
Education Office (Co-op Ed). in charge of
the internship program at Evergreen, will
sponsor an ali-day workshop to assess the
strengths and weaknesses of the off-campus program and develop suggestions for
further improvement.
The day's events will begin at 9:45
a.m. with Evergreen graduate Tom Sampson o;peaking on the Co-op Ed office in
retrospect. There will be workshops in the
morning and afternoon dealing with various aspects of the internship program.
At a noon luncheon Representative

MIKE McCORMACK
U.S. Congressman McCormack speaking at Evergreen on federal energy policies
last Saturday.
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Books due
Deadlines for the return of materials
checked out from the Library and Media
Loan during Spring Quarter have been
set. Books and magazines on loan fro m
the Library should be returned or renewed
by June 3. Cameras and other media
equipment borrowed from Media Loan
should be returned by May 29. A $5 .00
fine , per item , will be assessed against
persons who return materials after the due
date. Materials which cannot be returned
must be paid for .

Deadline

nears

The deadline for Fall Quarter registration for continuing Evergreen students is
May 17. Students who wish to continue
at Evergreen should register in a coordinated studies program, group contract, or
individual contract immediately. Students
who have not registered, requested a
leave of absence or withdrawn by May
17, Friday, will lose their $50.00 deposit.
Although initial academic choices should
be made now, students will have a chance
to switch contracts and programs next
September. Tuition will not be due until
September 13.

Truste~s

meet

The Board of Trustees will have their
monthly meeting Thursday May 23 . The
main agenda item will be final discussion
of the revised Committee on Governance
Document (COG II) which defines Evergreen's governance and decision making
processes. Other items to be discussed at
the open meeting include the Teachers' Insurance Annuity Association/College Retirement Fund, the Publications Board
Document, and a facilities use policy.
The Trustees meet in Lib. rm. 3112.

Martin , Director of Admissions Ken
Mayer, Academic Dean Lynn Patterson,
Academic Dean Charles Teske, Director
of Co mputer Services York Wong, Academic Dean Byron Youtz.
Only the president, vice president and
the person evaluated will have access to
a ll of the evaluations submitted.

Family examined
The Changing Family Structures Conference held Monday, May 13, dealt with
the sticky questions of how to maintain a
long term relationship in today's society
and what viable alternatives there are to
traditional relationships and living situations .
The well-attended conference sponsored
by Counseling Services, included speakers , panels, and workshops. Political
economist Eli Zaretsky, who gave the
keynote address, spoke on the necessity of
socialism to the goals of feminism. He felt
that for the structure of the family to
change, some fundamental changes in society were necessary, which could be accomplished by socialism.
The morning panel, after brief presentations by panel members, discussed motherdaughter relationships, the differences in
the black and white family structures, and
male consciousness raising.
The afternoon panel considered the
questions of alternate living situations and
sexual exclusiveness in relationships .
Judge Carol Fuller explored the legal aspects of relationships while other panel
members discussed the importance of
openness and trust between people .

The evening session, described by some
participants as a "touchy-feely session,"
was designed to improve communications
within the Evergreen community. It was
less successful than the earlier components
of thP conference.
Phillip Slater, author of The lJursuit of
Lo neliness, acted as a panel moderator
and leader of the evening session. Some
conference participants were disappointed
that Slater did not discuss his views on relationships after being brought from Boston to do just that.

M.C. wanted
The Graduation DTF is looking for a
Master / Mistress of Ceremonies to moderate the two-hour event taking place on
June 2. The position is open to senior men
and women, and faculty and staff. Interested persons should contact George
Porter at 866-6220 .
Seating for the ceremony may be limited to guests of the graduates if the
crowd exceeds 2,000, which is the number
of chairs available. However, weather permitting, the event will be held in Red
Square, where there should be plenty of
room for spectators.

Donations asked
On Tuesday, May 21, the King County
Blood Bank will return to the Evergreen
cal)1pus, in an attempt to get contributions from at leas\ 100 people. They will
be in Activities bldg . rm. 104 between 10
a .m. and 4 p.m. and anyone can don<~te.

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Provost Ed Kormondy has asked all interested Evergreen community members
who have had contact with the Provost's
staff members, including himself, to submit written evaluations of those administrators. This process of administrative
evaluation takes place each year and is
designed to let the administrators know
how others perceive the job they are doing. Evaluations of the following persons
can be delivered to either the person evaluated or to Kormondy:
Vice President and Provost Ed Kormondy, Acting Dean of Library Services
Dave Carnahan, Administrative Assistant
Sally Hunter, Administrative Assistant for
Evaluation Bill Idol, Administrative Secretary Jan Krones, Academic Dean Rudy
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Women confront biases
many believe it is . "We are a room where
activities related to women can be
initiated." Scoggins explained, "People
assume we are all feminist-oriented and
cliquish. We don't want to be political, although sometimes it is necessary. We are
for reinforcement."

BY CLAUDIA BROWN

In th e May 2 issue an article by Brad
Pokorny discussed some of the issues surrounding Evergreen , Affirmative Action
and the non-white community . This
article will deal in the same light with
,women at Evergreen .
The Affirmative Action Plan, adopted
last month , is not just a statement of intent. Rather, it sets specific goals and
timetables for the employment and education of non-whites and women. It has
been established to comply with federal,
state and local equal opportunity statutes
and regulations . Affirmative Action Officer Rindetta Jones put it this way : "This
is a state institution and run by state and
fed eral funds. It ought to be that simple
and straightforward." Affirmative Action
is, in essense, the law .
Equality is not that simple, however. A
law can be passed and enforced . Changing attitudes and habits is another
problem.

PATRICE SCOGGINS
For a school with innovative values
it's no good
Student enrollment at Evergreen is
nearly S0/ 50; 1,064 males and 940 females . But some of the things that affect
students are not so equal.
Although there have been a few programs relating directly to women (Male
and Female Roles in Society, Women and
Literature and, proposed for next year,
Images of Women in Art and Literature of
the 20th Century) many women at Evergreen feel few programs have made efforts
to relate to women. Patrice Scoggins, one
of the coordinators of the Women's Center. states "The male faculty at Evergreen

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People have become extremely sophisticated about how they discriminate
should get their shit together on using
women as resources . . . women speakers,
books by and about women ." She feels
this is how the Affirmative Action plan
calls for "specific additional efforts. "
25.4 percent of faculty
Women currently comprise 25.4 percent
of the faculty . This is considerably less
than the female population at Evergreen.
Many programs do not have any women
faculty . Again the female viewpoint may
be missing. "There aren't role models for
women," Scoggins states, "For a school
with innovative values it's no good ."
Faculty r.1 ember Nancy Allen expressed
the opinion, "Most faculty members' definition of authority is based on a father
image ... being remote with students and
setting specific limits. Therefore women
faculty are not looked upon as having the
right kind of authority ." This establishes a
conflict for the women faculty members.
Either a women has to become more like
a male, often alienating female students,
or be content with less credibility in the
eyes of both male faculty and students .
Scoggins commented, "Anything that is
woman oriented is not respected . It is of
secondary importance."
Often this is extremely subtle and often
unconscious . Rindetta Jones said, "People
have become extremely sophisticated
about how they discriminate."
So far the way to change is through assertiveness. Women, in their traditional
role, are not assertive . There are no politically-oriented organizations at Evergreen
concerned with women's rights. The
Women's Center is not political, although

Lack of organization
Because of this lack of political organization , many women feel they take second priority to minorities in Affirmative
Action considerations. Next year the percentage of non-white faculty will be 17
percent, the figure Affirmative Action
calls for. But women will comprise only a
projected 25.5 percent of faculty, instead
of the 27 percent called for . Academic
Dean Lynn Patterson, in charge of faculty
hiring, says, "The women haven't been
raising a fuss about it. The way you make
people hear you around here is by being
organized." So far women have not or-

TAMI HICKLE
They don't put men in deadend jobs

ganized. Scoggins states, "We haven't
pushed" and sees this as the reason why
"women take a secondary position to
non-whites in regards to Affirmative Action. "
Organization among staff members is
also missing. Purchasing assistant Tami
Hickle, who has a master's degree in
English, explains one aspect of the
problem . "Quite a few clerical women
have short term goal s so they will put up
with poor working conditions. A director
gets used to it and they can 't shift gears to
a person looking for a career." She feels

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LYNN PATTERSON
The way you make people hear you
around here is by being organized
women are not educated on the limits of
their jobs. 'They don't put men into deadend jobs. They'll tell them there is no opportunity for advancement and to look
for another job. They don't do that with
women." Because Evergreen is a state inst itution, staff positions are classified according to the Higher Education Personnel
Board . Hickle says, "Traditional men's
jobs are rated higher with more advancement opportunities. This is institutional
sexism." Program Secretary Sandy Mallgren says many of the secretaries are doing jobs which demand more than their
classification requires . Some would like to
be reclassified as administrative assistants
"to open up more opportunities for advancement." She would like to see more
men in clerical positions. Women currently hold 89.2 percent of these jobs.
Mallgren states, "! think it would be great
if a program secretary was a man, but
goou lu ck finding one that is qualified."
Qualifications questionable
Another problem with classification is
that the qualifications required for jobs
are questionable as to their applicability
to women. Nancy Allen states, "Experience is a discriminatory criteria because a
woman can' t get experience. If women
have a personal life, that automatically
limits their experience and pay and status
anJ on and on."
Most women seem to agree that the Affirmative Action Plan will help considerably . Allen feels it will be the "discussion
of decisions that are made and then challenged" through Affirmative Action that
will institute change. Scoggins feels it "depends on the people" but agrees with the
opinion of [ones that 'Tt•oplc just won't
feel as comfortable doing the thing~
they've always done ."

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11:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.: Introduction and welcome with Marcel Zome.Jv(arcel is'''a·student. at Evergreen, was coordinator of the Gay
Resource Center last quarter, and is coordinate!) of the LaBoratpry(festival ~
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Presentation by Jill Johnston . Johnstonis a nationally-known Ra.d kij: Lesbian/ Feminist. She has written several books including Marmalade Me , Lesbiim Nation and Gullible's Travels; and ha_s been an editor 'and columnist for several years on the Village Voice .
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2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.: Panel on Gay Life and Cl,ilture with:
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Kate Millett : Millett is kn9wn mosUvidely as 'tlte ~utho'f' 'Of Sexuiif Pblitics, Nist sellet which is refoglilzed
as one of the most import~nt :contrib{itions to the .women's inovem~nt . She 'has _a PhD ~ fiom Columbi!}: and.' "<·
is a nationally known Lesbian/ Feminist/ Activist. She has ·also writien The Prostitute. Paper:s and Flying which
will be .released in the near ,Juture.
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Katherine Bourne : Activist'~d .poet, Bourne i s the author of Spirif·-Womim.
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Mark Freedman : Nationally known psychologist, Freedman is the ofganizer of the Gay Caucus at ttl~ Amer.;'
ican Psychological Association and a member of the San Francisw. Gay Rap Program and Gay CounseJing · ·
Service. ~e is also the authbr of Homosexuality and Psychological Functioning~ ,
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Chuck Harbaugh: A Doct9r of the Ministry c~ndida~e <i:t,the Chicag<;> TheoiRgit al Seminary, Harbaugh is a:' .
gay activist specializing in the area of religion,· ethics an'd gender identity. He is also ~e cpminup:Jcy liais:on.,
person for Seattle Counseling of Sexual Minorities.
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Women's Workshop withjill Johnston, L2100 . This :workshop is open to women only.
Faggots and the Women's Movement Workshop;--·CAB 110. Jaime Partridge and Don Anderson of the Faggot.'''
Effeminist contingent of the Gay Movement will be leading this workshop.
Gay Life and Culture Workshop, Library Mezzanine. This workshop is a de-brief of the panel presentation,
and will offer Laboratory participants ' an opportunity tq .discuss the issues arising in' the· panel/ThiS workshop will be led by Chuck Harbaugh.
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7:30p.m. - --8 :00p.m. : Poetry presentation by Sal Farine11a, gay poet a!'d contributor to the Male Mu5e and Gay Sunshine A'nthol~
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8:00p.m. - 8:45p.m. : Lavender Troubadour, an original play by Rebecca Valrejean, will be p~n~ed at this time. Valrejean, an, ""
artist, playwright and director, wrote Lavender Troubaaour as an attempt to explain -to the straight community what it is like to live in a cage without visible bars.
9':00 p.m.- on:
The Music of Eve will be presented by popular northwest feminist musicians Eve Motrisand Jody Alieson.

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9:30a.m . - 10:00 a.m.: Coffee Hour and Announcements.
10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.: Workshops :
Media presentation with Steve Tuna. and N .A. Diaman, Lecture Hall/IS,. Tuna is a video productions and
media expert, and is the creatQr of th.e,Canadian Gay Video Arc}:tfv~. Diaman is the co-founder~ of Queer
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Blue Light, a video expert, as well as ·awriter an<;! poet.
Gay History with Arthur Evans, L3500. Evans .i s a gay historian and author, and is a contributmg editor to
Out magazine.
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associate pa~tpr of the - ~
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At this time, the Library Mezzanin~ will be set aside for a special time in which to create your own workshop. This time was set aside to allow Laborat ory .participants a chance to design and develop,,,workshops
with the purpose of encouraging dJ~ogu~ ''e:)!l '~iects not spec;:ifically covere<f by the Festival/ :)A bulletin
board and information desk will be available as/ i esource_!) f.or those wishing to d_esign alternate workshpps.
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.: Lunch.
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1:00 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.: Charlie Shively, author, playwright, ppet a;td cqordinatqJ; hf ,tl\_e Fag Rag ~Wpepresellting .sO~ of his poetry at this time. Shively is a member of the boardAf dir~prs of-Jhe.B()stoii. ff~01oph!!e'Hea!tJ.tServices, associate professor of history of Boston Uni'versity, faCulty) idvisor t,?.'th~ ~.Ucl gay ~te~" ·contributing editor
to Ga:v Sunshine and is a delegate to the Ame.x.:ican HiStorY Associafi~n's Gay;HistoryCa1,1ctls.
• 1 :35 p.m.- 2 :05p.m.: Edward the Dyke aplay by Janine Bertram, Penny Ranci "aiJ.dSherry l\1ires ~If be' p~nted at this time. ·
Bertram, Rand and Mires are lesbian activists and ccHtumors ot' titili" play. J ·
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2 :05 p.m. - 2 :50p.m.: Lesbian Musicians Julie Blu Eagle and Pelican Whitm'6re 'will ·~ perlotrrti~~:Btu Eagle and Pelican are also
songwriters, and live on a lesbian collective in Sandy, Oregon.

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Puppet Power Workshop, :Libra,ry.rm. 3500. This is a w, 0.r,kshop~n.p~il,i.fip~~Jheat~r, as speqfically related to
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Gay Publications WorkMiop, Libr~ . nJ1,. ,2100: Winston Leyl~d. p~ihwr.fter, public~tiohs ~~pert and editor
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Gay Poetry~~pr.k'shop, LibrarY rqt_._._ 1600. This workshop_ .~_ijJ,~:J~.:- Ii.Y\::~~~1 Farine~~·· ::r~ )1A:~:::::·
Gay Poetryivilh Noni Howard, L2600. Howar.d -inrCmadian lesbian poi!t:' · • i r t:\:.
Awa.r,~ness Workshop with HarolitJo~son, limited to 20 participants. This woi:kShdp Yf'llJ focus on who we
are.- iii: <oU,r own lives at this momenLip time. It will be an exp,erience in n~lating honestly to ourselves and
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,8:00 p.m. ; 9:00 p;~,: Kate Millet will,
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will offer gay professionals and would-be profes~ionalstl:l'ichanc.e: t6. 'compare notes' and discuss their .experiences as gay people working in the helping professions: , . ·'-e
Gay People and the taw, Library rm. 3500. This wer~$h.8P wjll be led by Chuck Stra&o and Lori Morton,
who are both gay legal specialists presently involvt!d in dfganii:ing STOP in Seattle, a city-wide organization
. formed to counteract police brutality direc~e~ _against sexual lind racial minorities, and to further community
control of lal('l -enforcement. Strago and Chuck 1-larl?.a~;:'are working together to organize a Seattle prostitute's union. ·
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'Theatre Workshop; CAB 108. This wor~shop !'Vill explore various aspects of gay theatre, and its implications.
Gay Family Life with Madeleine Isaacson and. Sandra :.L. Schuster, Lecture Hall #2 . Madeleine Isaacson and
Sandy Schuster are lesbian mothers who 'recet.ttly £p~t a .court battle in which they retained custody of
their children although they openly acknowl~dged the~elves as lesbians. Schu.s ter is an R.N. completing her
M.A . in psychiatric nursing and is writing<heJ: thesis otl;ithe topic of homosexuality and gay parenting. Isaac- .
son is involved with p~blic appearances an!:I }:tas ~.n lecturing on child-rearing practices, sexuality, and
childhood.
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Counseling Gay People, Library rm: .2100..- This.w of kshop will..deal specifically with problems encountered
by ·counselors when they deal with gay ,people, eutd alsP: with the particular needs of gay people within the
counseling situation.
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Carr and Marcel Zome, is an open opportunity for <:o~munity members to become involved in the developmen~ and implementation of a gay ~rii.culuint a( Ey~tgreen.
A Fii\al Chance to <:;reate Your Ow-Ji)\.{orksho psj Mezzanine.
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This feat~re-length film concerns a love-triangle between three people
and e~plores how they deal'"wit'h.:; th~r,:~mot~P'~al and sexual feelings. David Green, who directed and pro' ,, ·•· · ·. ' ' duce'f the film will le~d: ~ wo~kshopf(5llb\v.~ng its showing.
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BY BRAD POKORNY

'Tony Shearer, author of the book
Lord of the Dawn is on campus. Do you
' want to interview him for an article?"
"Sure," I said eagerly. I had heard he was
an Indian prophet. I had never met a
prophet before. I had read his book
though and I had listened to him speak.
When I read the book it struck me as an
attempt by a hip Indian writer living in a
fantasy world of Indian mythology to
bend some of the stories surrounding
Quetzalcoatl and the Aztec calendar into
an apocalyptic vision.
My reactions to his speech were not
much different. He seemed little more
than a fundamentalist Christian fanatic
• who had traded his suit for a pair of
: moccasins and some beads, and switched
• his rhetoric from fire and brimstone to
' :that of the Great Spirit and the old
smoke.
Mr. Shearer had been brought to Ever' green by The Native American Student
Association to speak at the festival. "The
Gathering of the Tribes," they held last
week. Stan Shore (another Journal reporter) and I were to meet with Mr. Shearer
in Cruz Esquivel's office and Cruz was to
• help with the interview. We entered the
office and introduced ourselves. Cruz was
very busy with some other people, so
Stan and I began talking informally with
• Shearer. The room was crowded and
• noisy, and Mr. Shearer suggested we go
: somewhere more quiet. So we headed for
• the Journal offices, leaving Cruz behind
' with his telephone.
1
Mr. Shearer was extremely warm and
~ friendly, but then I expected that: he is a
"religious" person; they are supposed to
be nice. But as we talked it became clear
• he was very sincere. He was warm and
friendly because he cared. His eyes did
. not burn with the fire of religious fanaticism, instead they glowed with a certain
sort of calm that comes from knowing
something, a step beyond merely believing in something.
Aztec calendar
I We started to talk about his book
which is about, among other things. th~
prophecies surrounding the so-called
1 Aztec calendar.
SHEARER - 'The Aztec calendar is a
. 260-day calendar. This is accomplished by
the multiplication of 13 numbers and 20
symbols. A true cycle in Mexico was 52
years long. That was their equivalent of a
century. The 52 year cycle is created by a
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TONY SHEARER

I'm not a prophet, some people jt~st tlli11k I am

correlation between the 354 %-day year
and the 260-day year. This does many
things which are astronomically correct.
One century does nothing. A hundred
years does nothing, but an astronomical
cycle is to cycle with something. It has to
do with the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
the Moon, and the Sun. It is all-important
because it has to do with the Earth which
is where we are trying to keep time.
These calendars come from an ancient
prophecy of which no one knows the
source. And frankly I don't think we will
ever know. It came from the Great Mystery."
One of the most important prophecies
surrounding this calendar described how
the Indian people of Mexico will go
through 13 heavens and nine hells, each
heaven and hell being one 52-year cycle.
This prophecy was revealed by Quetzalcoati. According to the calendar, the start
of the 13 heavens for the Indian people
began in the year 843. On April 21, 1519,
the Indians entered the first of the nine
helk That was the exact day CortPz

landed and began the series of events
which was to virtually wipe out the
Indians of this continent. We are
presently in the ninth hell. It will end on
August 16, 1087.
Quetzalcoatl
His book is also about Quetzalcoatl.
the lord of the dawn. Who was Quetzalcoat!?
SHEARER - 'He is the Christ of this
land. He is the most controversial Indian
that ever walked the Americas. Quetzalcoati is believed by the Mormons to be
Christ. He was believed by the Spaniards
to be Moses because of the staff that was
his symb,)l. Then they said he was St.
Micharl, then St. Thomas. Then they said
he founded a divine priesthood that was
identical to the one Christ set up . Later
when the Buddhists saw it all they said he
was a 13uddhisl munk and he cJme from
ChinJ. l<'~ll't ~1tl l <•~h<r people decided
that he must have been the last
clesc<'ndant of Atlantis and that he had
brought with him fnlln Atl,mtis th<' sJcrcd
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calendar. Then in the twenties, a big book
was published saying that he was a reincarnated king from one of the past worlds
of man and he had come to lay down
marvelous metaphysical notions about
how man can live in harmony. And recently he has become the bizarre astronaut that crash-landed in Mexico.
"Quetzalcoatl was the mythical white
man that walked this land. One of our
(the Indian's) paths is white, that was his
direction, but that does not mean his skin
was white. He was born in the year 947
and they knew not only the day he was
coming, but they had prophecied the exact moment he was to spring from his
mother's womb . His name was Ce Acatl
which means One Reed, which is Moses'
name. His sign was the morning star,
which was also the sign of Jesus Christ,
who declared himself the morning star.
As I see it, Jesus Christ and Quetzalcoatl
are the same one . They are both part of
the same eternal spirit."
Scholars disinterested
"I took this to scholars hoping they
would go somewhere with it, but they
weren't interested. Comparative religion
classes wanted me to come speak about it.
The ethnologists were interested in my
findings as sort of a folk idea . They
offered it as 'Well here's what some poor
savage thinks about his past.' Which is
what happens so many times with Indian
people. We announce something and
people don't listen to us, instead they wait
until the university proper explains it or
publishes a book by some great author to
explain what we know. But you don't see
any Indians doing it and it's because they
don't believe we know anything about it.
Yet I will say to any scholar of pre-Columbian history that he does not know
what I know about this calendar."
We talked about the fact that we are in
the ninth hell now . Shearer said that
Quetzalcoatl prophecied that in the first
hell "The dark Lord of the north will
sweep across this country." In the first 52
years after Cortez's landing the black
plague wiped out 90 percent of the Indian
population from Yucatan to the San Juan
pueblo. At that time everyone said the
world was coming to an end, but the
prophets said that it was just the beginning of the end . The world would not end
until the ninth hell . "When we're through
the ninth hell then we'll know who the
people of the earth are," said Shearer,
"and if the question is then, when will the
end of the world be, well, it already has
ended: just look around ."
Nixon likened to Montezuma
As ~ listened to Mr. Shearer speak
noticed that his mind had an ability to see
parallels and patterns throughout history.
He seemed to see the universe as
essentially one unit, everything working
together. Perhaps that is what lets him see
the evidence of God .

May 16, 1974

Shearer compared Richard Nixon to the
Aztec king, Montezuma .• "We might
condemn Mr. Nixon in every way, but
isn't he the epitome of the American republic? He lies. He cheats, he does everything he can to get what power he wants,
and then he sits there and claims to be a
man of God . One of his advisers is a
Jesuit priest. The same thing was true
with Montezuma. He was the epitome of
the Aztecs, and the Aztecs hated him." He
cited other parellels between the two men,
like how Montezuma built a golden
pyramid in an attempt to appease the
gods and the people.
Shearer also drew an analogy between
the earth and the image of women.
"Indian people, who are Indian, know
that woman, female woman, is a direct
reflection of the earth mother." He
compared the earth to a little girl who has
grown up and been raped, her rivers
polluted and her land destroyed. "The
image of woman has been reduced to a
fold-out. Woman is truly the tree of life.
She is sacred, but so are we and we have
been taught that we are not sacred.
"The great difference between the
Indian religion and western religion is that
the Indian prayer was always one of asking to be the servant. The Indian is never
saying 'give me a new teepee or give me a
younger, better-built wife.' The essence of
all Indian holy men is to serve the people
and forfeit all things in order to serve the
people so they would be free to serve the
creation .''
People getting together
We asked him if he was really a
prophet. ''I'm not a prophet; some people
just think I am because of the book I
wrote. In my book I am just reporting
what I found out." The book was deciphered from ancient hieroglyphics that
have been found in the temples of the
Mayan and Aztec Indians. He thinks that
it is of key importa~ce for the people, all
the people, to start getting together. "The
Indian people are already getting together,
look at this gathering that is being held
here now.'' We asked him if he was the
follower of any particular religion and he
said that he was a follower of Baha'u'llah.
"The old order is dead, it's time to start
working on the new ."
When the interview ended a lot of my
initial skepticism had been burned away
by the sparkling sincerity of the man. But
his answer to our final question was what
led me to see just how clear his vision is:
"What did you do before you started
working on your book?"
"I was the number one director for the
Time-Life broadcast division. I did the
March of Times . I worked with Edward
R. Murrow doing documentaries for CBS
television. I won an Emmy for a documentary I did on prisons. Then I left that
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The Accreditation Committee members were all giggling like
kids at a circus who had somehow ended up in the center ring
with performers tumbling about them. Evergreeners of various
faiths and denominations were all giving testimony to their joy at
being "out here in the woods." Even those furtive souls, who are
doomed to cynicism, managed to smile and say, "yeah, we got
something here."
As the meeting progressed it evolved from a prayer" meeting to
a campers' delighted last night testimonial fire with each camper
tossing their pine cone into the flames an·d telling their story with
a surprising solemnity. The song leaders cried, "Raise your hand
if you're a survivor! Stomp your feet if you've been converted!"
Members of one cabin spoke in tongues, others told parables; still
others played the alright guys, while the King family came
through with a great rendition of "consider yourself one of us."
Everyone present had developed a proficiency for Evergreen
jabs, just like any minority whose members know all the jokes to
which they're vulnerable better than any attacker. Alongside this
joking is also an element of arrogance which one only notices in
the presence of newcomers, like the smell of the cat box which
one only notices as one tirst walks through the door With a visitor
one wants to impress. The jokes, the arrngance, and the fierce
loyalty are all mechanisms of the defensiveness which plagues
Evergreeners in many forms.

One committee member almost blew it when he suggested "The
college should avoid a defensive posture . . . I think it's one thing
to insist on the uniqueness and the innovative character of the
methodology you're using, but I think you should insist on the
commonality you have in your ultimate objective - you're
turning out educated people. You're like every other institution as
an educational institution.
· ''You are not unique in being innovative. There are dozens of
other innovative institutions in the country and some are better
... than Evergreen and some are not as good as Evergreen."
As the discussion moved to the places of change and tradition
at Evergreen, participation dropped off and there was a decline in
. coherency. The committee was drawing close to our ,(ieepest fear,
the fear of disappearing. I remembered another moment in which
I had experienced this intangible terror. During the outdoor performance of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the harrassed villain
suddenly turned on the audience and shouted something like "Oh,
yeah7 Well, one phone call to the legislature and I could have this
whole place wiped out!" The audience struggled to laugh and
found their sense of humor strangled in nightmares of budget cuts
and police academy scares. The man from San Francisco had ut. tered forbidden words and for a .precarious instant Evergreeners
gasped and reeled, clawing at the air, waiting to go up in smoke
like the Great Magician's best trick.
Needless to say we did not go up in smoke. But that one example points out first that we are extremely vulnerable and secondly, that we are terrified by our vulnerability.
Why does our vulnerability scare us7 Because we still believe,
~fter three years in operation and millions of tons of cement
poured, that some external enemy is going to swoop down and
wipe us out of existence. We sense the fragility of something that
is essential to Evergreen being Evergreen and we still believe we
must protect that essence against an external force of destruction.
Action
What makes Evergreen different from other social institutions?
It is not the prize-winning buildings, the developing library, the

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fine bureaucracy, or even the quantity of academic whatnot that
faculty and students have piled up under their names . All educational institutions can and do list all their successful students as
commodities which the¥ are proud to have produced. They list
PhD's, the various awards and all the often meaningless trappings
of success as their most important product. It is true that Evergreen can .produce good products for society just like every other
educational institution. However, that is not what makes Evergreen a uniquely valuable institution.
Evergreen, at its best, facilitates individuals to initiate and
follow through on their own education. It is an opportunity for
persons to initiate and carry out action in a community. It is not
primarily valuable because it means people "retain their learning
longer" or are able to acquire more trappings of success in the society. It is valuable in itself. The ends of any action are secondary
in importance.
The ability to act is something that many people in our society
have lost, primarily because they have not had opportunities to
exercise it. When one sits in his private duplex and hurls opinions
at the TV, he may believe that he is free and human. He may
even believe that he is capable of acting "if he has to." However,
rreedom, human-ness, and action are not things that one can own
and hold in the "inner life." They must be exercised into existence.
Our vulnerability, I think, is tied into action . Because action is
a temporary thing and must be exercised again and again, it is
very fragile in comparison to all the solid simple constructions of
our society. It is almost impossible to capture, even in our evaluation system which is sensitized to revealing the individual and
his/her actions.
Evaluations are reflections after the act. This ability to act is
facilitated by the structure of Evergreen, by its recognition of the
interrelationship of knowledge as an assumption, reflected through
coordinated studies; the value of individuals designing and
carrying out their own academic progr;1m, reflected in individual
contracts; and especially, the value of interaction in a personal or
public way that can occur in seminars. There is something exhilarating about the spontaneous, yet directed, interaction of individuals in community that occurs in seminars, and other public
forums that are part of Evergreen.
Self Study
During this time of self-study we have found ourselves reinforcing and cementing our structure with a zealousness unprecedented
in our short life. We have done this solidification too often in the
jargon of public relations. Instead of revealing ourselves, we have
adopted many disguises. We have blurred our existence by blurring
our terms. We now can say that evaluations are just detailed
grades, and that coordinated studies are equivalent to . . . All
these things are perhaps merely for the sake of making us understandable to the "outside world." However, translating Evergreen
terms into social terms does not communicate to anyone what
Evergreen is all about. One word is absolutely not as good as
another. When we make our terminology interchangeable we
threaten the validity of meaning of any terms. But when we come
!nto contact with other systems of evaluation, we find ourselves
Immensely capable of delivering up what we think "they" want to
hear. The only thing that this two-faced existence can achieve is
an ultimately destructive self-delusion. The "outside" world is suspicious of Evergreen. To allay these suspicions the last thing we
should do is add another layer of facade to the already thick
layers of interpreters that surround Evergreen.
The result of our facades can already be felt. People no longer
know what makes Evergreen valuable. If there really is no difference between grades and evaluations, Evergreen studies and standard course divisions, and if we can only show to the "public"
those aspects of Evergreen which we can translate and validate in
social/productive terms, then why in the world be at Evergreen
rather than at any other institution? There are people who have
lost so much awareness of how Evergreen is valuable and are so
caught up by our own propaganda of normality that they can't
see why we don't just have grades and courses and teacher certification.
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Ph.D. issue at Forum
PHOTOS AND TEXT
BY GARY McCUTCHEON
On April 24 the Faculty Forum, which
meets bi-weekly to air faculty concerns,
discussed the role of the Ph.D. at Evergreen - an important issue to some faculty persons. The agenda item was a result of a letter of application sent by faculty member Matt Smith, formerly on a
one-year contract to Evergreen. The following are excerpts of that discussion.

DAVE MARR: What is the role of the
Ph.D. at Evergreen? What is the
relationship between having a Ph.D. and
being a good teacher?

one example for which the Ph.D. is important ... and that is in my field, which
is biology. The essence of biology is in
the laboratory and an undergraduate student today does not get experience in a
laboratory. The only place they can get
that is getting a Ph.D. In most places that
is not even an adequate experience . . .
Unless we are encouraging people to
spend the rest of their lives here, where
that is not a credential they need, we do
them a disservice by discouraging them
from picking it up because the Ph.D. is a
ticket to a job in external society, and
teaching at a college like this limits your
mobility anyhow . . . If you didn't get
your degree your mobility is even further
limited.

you into the minor leagues . . . If a person has another experience that obviously
serves that function then it takes care of it
... There's a lot to be said for the people
who quit and I wish we'd really look for
creative dropouts, people who had good
reasons for leaving graduate school and
doing something else . .. I would simply
not say that Evergreen undergraduates are
doing anything that needs guidance by
people who have finished their dissertations.
TOM RAINEY: 'The Special Conference
on the Means of Agriculture: A Case
Study in Interministerial Struggles in
Czarist Russia from 1901 to 1903;' now I
fail to see how that is valuable for
teaching undergraduate students .

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TOM RAINEY: I thmk Its totally irrelevant: To be honest, I'm really surprised.
When I first applied to teach at Evergreen
and heard about Evergreen ... considerations like that were almost irrelevant. The
interest really was in teaching and getting
good teachers . . . the Ph.D. nonsense
was just that - nonsense, and it wasn't
going to be considered at least a very high
factor in either hiring staff or maintaining
them . . . I'm just really amazed that it's
an issue ... I don't see what relevance it
has.
KIRK THOMPSON: I would not want to
serve on a faculty who, let's say, had
B.A.'s and were 22. I don't think they've
got much to teach unless there is some
additional special factor that they've been
getting into.
PETE SINCLAIR: Would anyone be
willing to praise the Ph.D. experience?
LINDA KAHN: I would like to praise the
Ph.D. experience. I will do it by giving
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LINDA KAHN
TOM RAINEY: It seems to me that any
requirement here for Ph.D. would work
against minority faculty members . . . I
would rather see Black Elk here . . . who
doesn't have a Ph.D . . . . talking about
Native American History ... rather than ·
any anthropologist that I've ever heard
talk about Native American Culture.
SID WHITE: We have to carefully evaluate the people who are here and what
they do. That is a qualitative matter and
not one that . can be handled in some
standardized way . . . I do not think that
we should have any policy or rule that
requires that people have a Ph.D. I do
believe ... that it is certainly conceivable
that having a Ph.D. may be highly desirable ...
KIRK THOMPSON: I think we should be
clear on what our attitude is toward the
Ph.D .... It seems to me that it's a mere
driver's license ... It's just a kind of minimal thing in the academic world that gets

TOM RAINEY
DAVE MARR: I would much rather see
somebody who's had five or six years'
experience upon the high school level and
who went back to school and entered a
graduate program and has been carrying
on some sort of assistantship of the teaching nature who decided, 'I don't need the
Ph.D.' That's the type of person we want
to look at because they know something.
They've had that experience.
CHARLES McCANN: Simply, I can't see
Evergreen making or not making requirements. I think that's kind of silly. I think
we should proceed as we began, by assessing results, people.
KIRK THOMPSON: How did we all get
so worried about this. It's beginning to
look like it never was an institutional
,policy that anybody should have a Ph.D.,
only that they be qualified in a much
broader sense ... that's the only conclusion I can come to after all this discourse.
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Travels with Arthur
By TEDDY M. HAGGARTY
Friday May 3 we headed to Expo by
way of Pullman. Arthur Avalon and I
drove Art's '66 Mercury Comet. Once
you get past the mountains and get into
Eastern Washington all you see is land
and sky . The sky looks like it goes on
forever. The land is covered with bits of
green peeking through the brown rolling
earth . The hills are smooth and easy to
the eye. Everything is, as Art would say
- 'easy.' The sun is even falling all
around us.
We have been listening to the radio
hearing occasional reports on Expo .
Thirty-four thousand people and a mess
of dignitaries expected to be on hand for
opening day. Dick Nixon will be introduced by Governor Dan to open up the
'fair.
· Half the reason we are going to Expo is
so Arthur can see Dick. Richard Millhouse Nixon is Arthur Avalon's hero,
second only to Rebazar Tarzs, a Tibetan
mystic claimed to be over 500 years old .
Art says Dick is one of the loneliest men
in the world.
Art Avalon was showing me a six year
old goldfish at his parents' house this
morning. The fish has been alone - all
alone for most of his six years . God, I
just looked at the fish swimming around
and tried to imagine what life would be
like alone in a fish bowl.
"Art, do you suppose the fish reflects
on life and existence?" Art replied, "No!
He'd go insane if he did ."
Art also wants to get into the Russian
Pavilion and a lot of Russian vodka.
Art believes in the individual and sees
most 'isms' as a threat posed to the individual. Worst of all isms is emotionalism
conveyed by use of rhetoric. Capitalism is
OK with him; "it's easy, just keep the
bucks flowing, keep 'em flowing nice 'n'
easy." Art is also a self-described capitalist leech. He kind of leeches and sleazes
along through life always asking, "Who
am I and why am I alone?" Art wants to
shake another lonely man's hand Dick's.
I was inspired to go to Expo mostly just
because it's there. A man on the radio
said, "It isn't every day a world's fair
opens in your own back yard." Somehow
this seems fitting .
Last time I was in Spokane was two
years ago. Last time I was at a world's
fair was ten years ago. That was the New
York World's Fair. It was sunny ten years
a~o as I walked around with my family
ll'nking over the fair. I wondered then
when the rest of the world would look
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HECKLERS AND PROTESTORS
When something lacks estheti~s
it lacks effectiveness.
like this . l believed in something like technology or progress or science then . I don't
believe in much of anything now .
I'd like to believe in love. I'd like to be
in love .
We arrived in Pullman as the sun was
setting, found friends to stay with and
began drinking.
Art drank at where we were staying. I
drank at Rico's with some people I'd met.
I talked with a few WSU students about
Expo. They all seemed to agree with certain things that an articulate fourth year
WSU music student and Seattleite, Chris
Hanson , had to say . Chris is familiar with
Spokane pre-Expo days and present. Chris
has noticed a transformation take place
among the citizenry and the land of Spokane. He felt very positively about the
change he has seen. With attention being
focused on Spokane the people have developed a selfconsciousness which has become pride. With pride Spokane has developed self-respect. The slummy areas
have been cleaned up, trees have been
planted, etc. There is the plastic which
goes along with the fair and the more

mercenary aspects of money-making but
this is to be expected. The benefits to the
city outweigh the disadvantages he
believes. Chris sees the benefits as cultural
ones. Expo will be a cultural center for at
least the six months it will be in operation. After the fair is over the city will be
left with some nice facilities which will
hopefully wntinue to attract cultural
events and keep Spokane people-oriented.
Keeping Spokane people-oriented is the
most positive aspect of the fair according
to Chris and I tend to agree. I also see the
elevation of the citizens' consciousness out
of a decaying city into a degree of awareness of the world around them giving
them a feeling that they have a role in the
world very encouraging. Spokane, acculturation in process. Isn't that what all religious leaders have attempted to do transform the consciousness of the people
to a higher and other awareness of
consciousness, in order to enhance the
quality of existence.
I was pleased and felt enlightened
having talked with Chris. While traveling
my thoughts tend to center around when I
will have a decent bowel movement. 1 get
trapped in the grimness of everything,
start off with a bad attitude which is partially the result of a dying optimism held
in youth. You see I've bought the line
(that everything is bad) without looking
at the goods.
Three of us from Rico's retired to a
cocktail lounge nearby for a nightcap. I
had a whiskey sour then tottered off to
bed. Art and I got off to an early start. It
was another beautiful day. It was cool in
the morning with promises of warming
up . The sun twinkled through the new
springtime greenery . Everything was OK.
Art found the landscape insane with a
high potential of bumming him out. More
rolling hills, farm land dotted every few
miles by farmhouses, windmills, a few
trees, some cattle, billboards reading 'wild
oat herbicide' or 'weed killer,' again the
expa.nsive sky and rolling hills rolling to
the horizon . Every now and then we
would slow down to 30 in order to go
through the heart of a tiny town like
Rosalia or Spangle. The tiny towns are
romantic and make one want to sigh. The
scenery is kind of picturesque like it could
~ave come from an Andrew Wyeth paintmg. As I said earlier, it had the potential
to bum Art out.
We arrived in Spokane. Went directly
to the fair site, paid two bucks to park
and four bucks apiece to get in. It was
opening day and we wanted to be in a
position to get a look at Dick.

Next week:

a look at Dick
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COG
examined
BY STAN SHORE

Throughout the fall, the Committee on
Governance (COG) Disappearing Task
Force discussed and revised Evergreen's
original Governance document (COG I).
This procedure of review and revision is
called for in the COG documents - both
the old and the revised copie.s. The original governance document also calls for a
"ratification" by the college community of
any changes made in the document. To
this end President Charles McCann appointed the Input Resource Senter to poll
the community.
With the results of that polling
becoming known as cards are returned, it
seems clear that not everyone completely
understands either COG document. To
help make the ratification procedure a
valid one, we present the following summary of the documents and the differences between them.
One change in the documents, perhaps
of no importance, is stylistic. Phrases like
"Where the action is" have been replaced
by "accountable administrator." Much
repetition in the original document has
been removed along with a few statements of hopes and ideals which do not
really elucidate the governance process.
The result is that the new document
(COG II) is harder to read; more legalistic in tone.
Substantial changes incorporated in
COG II - and there are not that many
- lay in two main areas: the Information
Center and the process of mediation.
Information Center
The Information Center (formerly the
Information and Communications Center)
has been reduced. Pragmatism dictated
that the document describe what the Information Center actually is rather than
what it was hoped to be. The result is
that the COG I document envisioned a
communications and scheduling center,
where meetings would be coordinated and
scheduled, announcements could be posted
and records kept. COG I describes a sort
of landing control tower to stop all the
things flying around at Evergreen from
crashing into each other.
COG II describes concisely what the Information Center now is: A kiosk that
posts notices and keeps some records. Although the Information Center is an important part of the COG document, this
"updating" does not seem to serve much
purpose. The Center had its limitations
spelled out and goals narrowed last year
during reorganization . The COG revision
is a post mortem.
In the area of mediation and grievance
solving, COG II eliminates a hearing
board. In the old procedure, if student
May 16, 1974

John Smith could not solve some problem
he was having with faculty member Mary
Jones, the following steps were to be
followed:
1. If, after discussing it amongst themselves, no solution could be found or
agreed upon, a third party to act as mediator was called in.
2. If the mediator could not get the two
parties to agree to his decision, then they
went to a five-member hearing board.
3. If the hearing board made a decision
that one of the two didn't approve of, it
could be appealed to the All-campus
Hearing Board.
4. If the All-campus Hearing Board composed of three members with one
quarter terms and two temporary
hers which

someone still thought unsatisfactory, it
could (like all decisions made on campus)
be appealed to the Board of Trustees.
Middleman eliminated
COG II eliminates the second step; the
middleman hearing board. Under the new
document, all disputes would go direct
from third person mediation to the Allcampus Hearing Board.
There are other changes in COG II. The
procedure for setting up a DTF is clarified. Any member of the community may
set up a DTF and the responsible administrator is obligated to review the results.
In COG II the name of the College
Forum is changed to the President's
Forum. This is the forum which the presiContinued on page 21

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Candidate interviewed
BY WILLIAM P. HIRSHMAN
A replacemer1t for Academic Dean
Byron Youtz , who will be finishing his
term during the summer and rotating
back into the faculty , has been under consideration durir~g the past two months by
a dean-screening disappearing task force
(OTF) which will make final recommendations in a report to Provost Ed Kormondy
by the end of the month.
Of the 13 faculty members nominated
in the early weeks of April or1ly one official application was submitted and accepted: Willie L. Parson. As part of the
application procedure, Parson has placed
a Personal Qualifications File (PQF) at
the Library reference desk, which includes
his reasons for wanting the deanship and
letters of recommendation. On Tuesday
William Hirshman talked with Willie Parson and reviewed his PQF - which resulted in the following article.
One can find little but admiration for a
man who aspires to whal is often characterized as a "thankless job."
"''ve asked myself a thousand times
why I want to be dean," Willie Parson
observed, his eyes sparkling through his
wire-rimmed glasses as he sat discussing
the deanship in the cafeteria, "''m not
looking for punishment, although it can
be a punishing position."
Academic Dean Rudy Martin has called
the deanship an "ass busting job." Dean
Lynn Patterson has likened it to being in
the "center of a cyclone."

"I wouldn't wish the job of dean on my
worst enemy," wrote Will Humphreys in
recommending Parson for dean in the
winter of 1973 when Parson was first opting for the deanship, " . . . (but) the college needs Willie as dean, whether many
realize it or not, and whether he needs
that kind of trouble or not."
Top of the list
"I can offer Evergreen the experience it
needs in the natural sciences area . . . ,"
Parsons wrote in an essay on 'Why I wish
to be Dean' included in his PQF, ". . . I
believe I am realistic enough in my thinking to recognize the many inherent advantages in having strongly and soundly developed divisional studies, but I am also
idealistic enough to see the continued primary emphasis on truly interdisciplinary
interdivisional programs of study . . . I
offer Evergreen a personality ready to
make responsive decisions."
"There's no doubt that I want to make
my kind of impact on Evergreen," said
the 32-year old microbiologist. "We all
have our own ways."
Parson, a native of Louisiana, received
his PHD. from Washington State University in 1971 and in fall of that year started
teaching at Evergreen in "Causality, Freedom and Chance" program. Last year he
was co-coordinator of the "Mind and
Body" program. This year he has been
taking individual contracts in biology.
Parson emphasizes the continued and
asserted need in affirmative action policies.

WILLIE PARSON
Willing to take 'ass busting' job
"I hope to create a very good climate
for non-white and women students," said
Parson, noting that if he became dean Evergreen would have two blacks, one white
female and one white male in the offices.
"It couldn't happen at the University of
Washington," he added, explaining that
Evergreen is one of the few schools which
rotates faculty into and out of the deanships. "At any other institution the general rule (before one becomes a dean) is
that you've made a name for yourself ...
retirement material."
Parson displayed an unassuming confidence. "I think if the other 12 nominees
were running today," he said as modestly
as could be stated, "I would still see myself at the top of the list."
Parson knows he is not assured of the
deanship just because he is the only candidate. There is little doubt he wants the
position, but he said that if he did not get
it he would not be bitter. "If I didn't get
it, I w0uldn't be happy, but I certainly
wouldn't take that as a reason for leaving."

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Continued from page 19
dent is supposed to call regularly to discuss new ideas and let community members talk with him and each other. In
fact, in the past the forum has been used
only during crises and to announce important decisions to the community, such
as the decision last year to go modular.
The COG documents do not state how
often the forum should be called, but
simply assert that it should meet regularly.
Also changed in COG II is the use of
personal pronouns. The references to
"him" and "he," when referring to an average community member have been
dropped and replaced with "he/she" and
"him/her."
COG I called for review and revision of
itself after two years the first time and
every five years after that. Perhaps COG
II is more modest - it indicates that review is to take place after only two years
and every two years thereafter. Whereas
the original COG calls for "ratification"
but does not define it, COG II is more
precise, calling for a specific series of
public meetings to discuss any future revisions.
Although not part of the document
itself, there were some other changes
made by the COG II committee, headed
by staff member Helen Hannigan. This
includes the inclusion on the supplemental
application form of a question pertaining
to COG, to insure that new members entering the college will know about the
governance procedures. COG II committee also urged ·that a DTF be called on
communications at Evergreen. President
McCann has approved of this suggestion,
although no date has been set for the time
of its first meeting.

Commentary
Contmued from page 16
I am a senior, looking for a job and
facing the great outside world. I realize
that the easy definitions that many social
institutions are looking for are difficult to
come by. If someone is really interested in
hearing about Evergreen I. like most Evergreen students, am highly willing to give
testimony to the life of Evergreen and of
what that life consists.
We should recognize what is of greatest
value and not obscure it in a facade of
public relations, equivalencies and falsifying interpretations, because those facades
cannot guarantee its survival. And ultimately they serve to confuse the participants in The Evergreen State College until
they no longer know what it was of value
that they were trying to preserve. We
cannot preserve action; we can only exercise it - in the same way that fre.edom
and equality are not things that can be
preserved. They can only be exercised.
SHARON RYALS

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see a very funny example of the brothers'
early works which many Marx brothers
buffs haven't had the chance to see
before.

Crackers and

THX 1138
On Friday, May 17, the Seattle Film Soci,;:ty (SFS) will be showing the Marx
Br,others' Animal Crackers, one of their
least seen early pictures. Their second
feature, Animal Crackers, is a good example of their early (i.e. pre-Irving Thaiberg) style and promises to be entertaining, and very funny.
The Marx brothers' style went through
drastic changes when they began to work
with, and for, Thalberg.
Their early films, such as Animal
Crackers, were totally without any·
serious commitment to plot. The films
were primarily a series of gags and jokes,
which was fine with the Marx brothers.
Thalberg convinced them that gags were
not enough, that he could take out some
of the gags, build in a plot and the films
would ·be even more popular.
Thalberg, who was one of the young
creative geniuses of Hollywood, played a
major role in making the Marx brothers
stars, and the industry suffered greatly

from his early death. Animal Crackers is
a good example of the frenetic style of
their early work when it was enough
simply to make people laugh.
The Animal Crackers was made in 1930
when sound was still a remarkable innovation. The wisecracking brothers, and
Harpe who was the noisiest mute ever,
were perfect for the fledgling medium.
The film deals, loosely, with a wealthy
woman played by Margret Dumont whose
masterpiece has been stolen. Enter
Captain Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho) and
Signor Emanuel Ravelli (Chico) to search
for it. What plot there is was woven together by George S. Kaufman for the play
from which the film was taken.
The brothers had been performing Animal Crackers on Broadway when the call
came to turn it into a movie. This was a
fairly common practice in the first few
years of sound when the studios were
frantic to get anything with sound in
front of the cameras. Indeed, the year
before, in 1929 when ]olson's The Jazz
Singer was sweeping the country, the entire sets of Tl1e Cocoanuts were packed
up and moved from Broadway to the
sound stage so that Paramount could get
in on the ground floor of the rush to
sound.
Animal Crackers has, for some unknown reason, been out of circulation for
some time now. It is one of the few of
their films which has not been over-shown
of late. The SFS showing is a chance to

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The Marx brothers craze seems to have
peaked about a year ago. That is a blessing, for while no one is a bigger fan of
the brothers than I, there was a period
where one could see Duck Soup or Monkey Business about twice a week. Thankfully that period is past and one again begins to relish the occasional showing of
their better works.
JEFFREY H. MAHAN
Tomorrow evening the Friday Nite Film
Series is presenting two movies by George
Lucas: his first feature, the underrated
THX 1138, and Electronic Labyrinth, a
prize-winning short subject Lucas made
when he was a graduate student at the
University of Southern California. Electronic Labyrinth is considered a classic in
student filmmaking. The movie was so
successful and impressive that Francis
Ford Coppola's San Francisco-based
American Zoetrope Productions sponsored its expansion into a full-length
feature, and the result was THX 1138.
THX 1138 takes a nightmarish look at a
de-emotionalized society of the future
which lives entirely underground and is
populated by drugged, hairless men and
women enslaved by the society's oppressive concern for technological efficiency.
People are kept in line by police robots
with ironically smooth voices, and are
further controlled through their required
intake of tranquilizers, which is powerful
enough to kill all sexual desire.
The story gets interesting when THX,
our hero, has his daiiy drug dosage decreased by his female roommate LUH,
and together with unhaltered consciousnesses they make love. Unfortunately for
them, the whole society runs on a computerized Puritan ethic, and sex is very
much against the law. The two technicians are caught and THX ends up in a
prison which seems to be an infinity of
white in every direction. With his friends
SEN and SRT (who claims he is a living
television program), THX escapes and is
chased down long corridors and alleys by
the robots. The best part of the movie
comes towards the end during an exciting
high-speed car chase, which Lucas filmed
in the nearly-completed Bay Area Rapid
Transit tunnels in San Francisco. With
fine photography and good editing,
tension is built up very well.
For some the conclusion of the movie is
a disappointment, because the viewer is
left hanging. We really don't know what
will become of THX, and perhaps this
leads to a feeling of being cheated at the
end. The rest of the movie, however, is
enjoyable and visually pleasing, and a
sequel to the story would be welcomed.
MATT GROENING

C.:.cmer Point

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Serpico, Hollywood's latest contribution to the 'cop-craze,' opens this week at
the Olympic, starring AI Pacino. Where
the Lilies Bloom and Trap on Cougar
Mountain are playing at the Capitol, and
The Last Detail and The New Centurions
are at the Stale. Electra Glide in Blue and
Charley Varrick are at the Lacey Drive-In
and the Sun~et Dnve-ln is showing The
Poseidon Adventure. The Evergreen
Friday Nite Film Series presents THX 1138
a futuristic science-fiction film in which
~nhabitants of the earth live underground
m a self-supported environment, and feed
on tranquilizers.
A Laboratory/ Festival on Gay People
and Culture will happen May 16, 17 and
18 here. It is sponsored by The Gay Resource Center and will feature Kate
Millet, Winston Leland, Charlie Chiverly
and Jill Johnston. For more information
contact The Gay Resource Center, Activities bldg. rm. 305, 866-6544.

opera for Seattle; Giannini Schicchi and I
Pagliacci will be presented at the Opera
House in English, with tickets going for
$2.25 and $4.25. Disney on Parade will be
at the Seattle Center Coliseum between
May 30 and June 3.
Racing fans will be happy to know that
the Longacres track reopened for the season on May 15. The Seattle Sounders
soccer team will be playing their second
home game at Memorial Stadium on May
19 against the San Jose Earthquakes.
TACOMA
Movies showing in Tacoma include:
The Exorcist at the Rialto; Where the
Lilies Bloom and Trap on CQugar Mountain at the Tacoma Mall Theatre; Cinema
[ is showing The Great Gatsby and Memory of Us is at the Cinema II. A Touch of
Class and Night Watch play at the Lakewood Theatre. Linda Lovelace's Deep
Throat plays at both the Mecca and the
Community, along with The Devil and
Miss jones.

The world-renowned Glenn Miller
Orchestra, featuring Peanuts Hucko, will '
be at the PLU Olsen Auditorium on May •
17 at 8 p.m.
PORTLAND
Marne and Blazing Saddles continue
playing at the Bagdad this week, as does
The Three Musketeers at both the East- '
gate and Westgate. Zardoz, Sean Connery's latest film, is opening at the Lake
Theatre and Foster Drive-In with Forbidden Planet. Fantasia is playing at the
Valley, and The Pearl of Death, a classic
Sherlock Holmes movie starring Basil
Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, is at the·'
Movie House. Billy Two Hats opened this
week with The Man Who Loved Cat .
Dancing at the Family, The Broadway .
Jantzen Beach and Southgate, and Gen~
Hackman is in The Conversation at Cin- ,
ema21.
The Circus Vargas will be at the Jant- ..
zen Beach Center through Sunday.
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Movies in Seattle this week include:
Sugarland Express and A Touch of Class
at the Coliseum; The Apple War at the
Harvard Exit; Blazing Saddles at the
Town Theatre; The Great Gatsby at the
King; and The Three Musketeers at the
UA Cinema 70. l.F. Stone's Weekly and
Joyce at 34 continue at the Movie House.
Special theatre presentations include a
Busby Berkely spectacular, featuring Footlight Parade and Gold Diggers of 1935 at
the Bay Theatre. The Movie House
Shakespeare Series is presenting the 1948
version of Hamlet, which was both directed by and starred Laurence Olivier
together with Jean Simmons. This particu~
lar version received Academy Awards for
best picture and best actor. The Seattle
Film Society will be showing Animal
Crackers on May 18 at Bloedel Auditorium. This is the second movie that the
Marx Brothers maJe ~or Paramount, and
this is the first loc,d showing in umpteen
years.
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