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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 3, No. 7 (November 11, 1974)

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The Evergreen State College

Olympia, Washington

Vol. 3 No .7

November 7, 1974

The Video Crowd
Last week the Journal reported that
Cometronics, a group of television aficionados , were unable to use the video
equipment they needed to tape the
Sunday, November 3 Chick Corea concert. Faculty member Sid White and his
Public Information and Minority Affairs
group contract had control of that equipment. But on Friday morning last week,
after the story had appeared, Dean Willie
Parson authorized Cometronics to spend
5175 ill academic funds to rent equipmen·t
frorll a Portland firm. What ensued was
mr all day frantic equipment search , re-

suiting in the capture of the needed equipment from five different locations within
a 100 mile radius.
On Sunday night a tape was made of
the Corea concert which is now being
edited for later distribution. For the future , according to Norm Levy, a member
of Cometronics, the group is asking the
Services and Activities Fees Review Board
for over 3,000 dollars for video equipment, and Bud Johanson, faculty sponsor
of two Cometronics people, is negotiating
with White over future use of the equipment .

Because of the controversy generated
by the article , the Journal received the following letters from the people involved,
each telling their side of the story.
To the Editor:
Page three of your October 31 commentary is headlined "Communication
Gap. ~ ' I don' t think that the CPJ has done
much to bridge that gap. Yes, there was a
communication conflict between Norm
Levy and myself, but that is only one

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Cooper Point
Journal ·
The Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington

November 7, 1974

Vol. 3 No.7

Two Interviews Pages 15 & 16This week the Journal managed to arrange interviews with two important
people. The kinds of ir:nportance these two have are quite different, but both
have a kind of public prominence which makes them newsworthy.
Don Bonker is now the United States Congressman from the Third District,
which includes Olympia, having beaten his opponent Lud Kramer by a sizeable margin in last Tuesday's election . The Bonker-Kramer race had been a
hot one, with the two candidates
frequently holding public debates
and
referring to
each other
in their advertisements. Bonker was
at first the lesser known of the candidates, but he managed to receive
enough exposure during the campaign that the voters got to know
him - and then' elected him. Journal news editor Diane Hucks talked
with Bonker about his campaign
and about politics in generaL
Our second interviewee is anonymous, but many Evergreeners know
his work: he is the artist who
painted Evergreen's parkway signs,
transforming them from ordinary
and uncontroversial cement objects
into brightly colored and emotionally charged issues. His work was called vandalism by Facilities Director Jerry
Schillinger and art by others, but np one knew w,ho h~d done the deed. Now
the culprit (or artist) has decided to ask for amnesty from prosecution so he
can finish his work on the signs, and although his identity is still a secret he
consented to an interview with the Journal's Wendy Kramer.

MEDIA DISPUTE CONTINUES . ......... . . . ...... . ...... . . .. . ... .... . .. .. PAGE 12

.D epartments
Times at TESC ... . . . ........ .. . . . . . . 5
Letters .. . . ... ... . .... . .. . . ... .. . .. . . 6
News Briefs . .......... . . .. ... . ... . ... 9
Guest Commentary . .. . ... . .... . .. . . . 17

Eating in Olympia ... . . . ..... .. . . . .. . 19
Music .............. . .. .. . .. .... .. . . 20
Cinema .... . ........ . ... . ........ . . 22
N. W. Culture . . ... . . . ...... .. . . . .... 23

This week's cover is a collage showing the faces of several people involved in the media
access dispute.
November 7, 1974

EDITOR
William P. Hirshi:I~an
MANAGING EDITOR
Nicholas H. Allison
NEWS EDITOR
Diane Hucks
SPECIAL EDITOR
Sam Solomon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Knute Olsson H.G.S . Berger
PHOTO EDITOR
John Praggastis
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Ingrid Posthumus
ADVERTISING DESIGN
Liz Orred
ASSIST ANT PRODUCTION MANAGER
Mary Hester
BUSINESS MANAGER
John Foster
ADVERTISING MANAGER
Gary Peterson
SECRETARY
Stan Shore

GENERAL STAFF
Cecilia Barnett, Carl Cook, Andrew Daly,
Doug Ellis, Jim Feyk, Kim Goodman,
Matt Groening, Sallie Hancock, Cecile
Henault, Wendy Kramer, Kameel Majdali,
Ruth Milner, Joe Murphy, Kraig Peck,
Demian Porter, Lynn Robb, Rachel Rousso, Ralph Seeley, Regon Unsoeld, Eva
Usadi, · Jaroslav Vachuda, Len Wallick.
Faculty Adviser: 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 and
business rooms are located on the third
floor of the college Activities bldg. rm.
306. Phone: 866-6213. For advertising
and business information: 866-6080.
The Journal is .free to all students of
The· Evergreen State College and is distributed on campus without charge. Evergreen students may receive, by mail, subscriptions to the Journal without charge.
For non-Evergreen students, a nine month
subscription may be obtained at the price
of four dollars. For information: 866-6080.
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No
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tigers
For most Evergreeners the Activities
building is a daytime facility : for meeting
reading, banking, relaxing, and lounging.
Its nighttime inhabitants are normally limited to a few nocturnal KAOS D]'s , several swing shift custodians and once a
week on Wednesday a small tribe of Journal staffers in an all-night scramble to lay
out and prepare the newspaper for printing on the next day.
Such a Wednesday night occurred last
week, the night commonly known to teenagers as " Mischief Night," the evening
befo re Halloween . The Journal's productio n s taff was busy assembli n g what
would be the next day's paper, when we
noticed another kind of paper production
occurring outside our office on the second
and t;.ird floors of the Activities building.
Congregated on the balco n y area
amidst reams and reams of w hite paper
were about 15 students in the Humane
Technospheres program folding and
c utting , creating an oragami extravaga nza. In actuality all this business was,
acco rding to Humane Technospheres faculty member Bob Filmer, only a part of
the coordinated studies program.
The birds and bridges that were feverishl y being fo lded together that night are
in pa rt to "help the students obtain a grasp
of the varie ty of useful ways of deal1ng
with ethical problems and with science
and technology, said Filmer.
" The students are building usab le
models by which to understand further
the materials they deal w ith, and with
which to criticize them ," he said, "and,
models for the criticism and development
of the students' own thinking about ethics, science, and technology. "
The criteria· used in building the paper
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d ista nce the bui lder thinks possibie . If the
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tween supports, said Filmer.
The rules of the design are simple:
paper only , and the structure must be
able to stand on the ground by itself, that
is, allowing for moderate room air movement.
Filmer believes that the students are involved in "a creative, imaginative process
that involves abstraction and the evolution of a plan for a different physical
reality.
"Often , 90 percent of the problem is

being able to state the problem," he said,
"while 90 percent of the solution is also
being able to state the problem ."
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Whale I ib
To the Editor :
Alright, gang, we heard it from the
slugs two weeks ago. I am now directing
your attention to an equally-unheardfrom minority group, but one with infinitely more appeal: the dolphins and
whales. They are in sorry shape, and begging our help. A few of you may have
read those little posters that somebody
has been sticking up around the school,
but I thought I'd try to stick an article in
here where (almost) no one could miss it.
In my first (and last) year at TESC, 7172, I was made aware of the extremely
critical situation of the dolphins and
whales. by several magazine articles. Since
then the situation has become even worse.
The dolphins are threatened by the national and international tuna-fishing industries . Three species of dolphins (at
least) like to hang out above the deep-sea
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tuna fish school~, as both the tuna and
the dolphins prey upon the same smaller
fish. This arrangement worked fine as
long as the tuna fishermen used rods and
lures to catch fish ; the dolphins were
more than smart enough to avoid grabbing a chunk of steel and plastic . However, in the early '60's somebody carne up
with the idea that it would be far easier
just to throw a big purse-seine net around
the tuna and scoop 'ern in. Unfortunately,
the dolphins also get scooped in: terrified,
their sonar rendered useless by the whine
of the net-boat's outboards, they usually
panic (wouldn' t you?), ram the nets,
tangle, drown, or get hoisted aboard,
their flippers, flukes, or snouts caught in
·the net. It is currently estimated by various . conservation groups that approximately one-quarter of a million dolphins
per year are being slaughtered this way. If
the dolphins were even being utilized as
food (repulsive as that idea seems to me,
like cannibalism) one could (perhaps) find
less cause to complain ; however, the carcasses are simply dumped overboard, to
support the ocean's vast shark population.
The situation I is further complicated by
the fact that no one knows exactly how

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many dolphins there were to begin with,
so no one can guess how many there are
left to kill before there aren't any more
left.
Now, as to the whales : These huge,
harmless creatures reproduce very slowly.
·As early as the 1890's one species, the
California Gray, had been virtually wiped
out. Today, whaling is a highly mechanized and efficient business, more like theelectronic battlefields of Vietnam than the
glorious days of old. Whales are spotted
from helicopters , tracked with sonar
(their invention!) and harpooned with explosive lances _that literally blow their guts
out. An hour after it's sighted, a whale
has been reduced to a heap of guts,
· , pones, and oil. Chief perpetrators of this
species genocide are the Japanese, who
claim whale meat to be an important protein source (the actual figure is 1.5% of
their protein intake) and the Soviets, who
don't say what they do with them . The
body set up to regulate this business, the
International Whaling Commission, is
toothless and powerless to make any of
its voluntary members abide by its decisions.
This indiscriminate slaughter is made
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even more repulsive by the fact that the
dolphins and big whales possess brains
that put our tiny human biocomputers to
shame, and the evidence is accumulating
that there is a correspondingly huge mind
connected with the huge brain: a mind
that could potentially make some science.fiction writers' stoned fantasies seem tame
in comparison, because it's real. it's here,
right out there in the sea.
So what am I asking you to do? Very
simple. STOP BUYING TUNAFISH! Is
that so great a sacrifice to make? Write
the tuna companies (address on every
can, folks) and protest. STOP BUYING
JAPANESE GOODS! This means toys,
radios, cameras, cars. This need no~ limit
your purchasing as much as it would
seem to, because even if the USA stopped
importing everything from Japan this instant, .a lot of used Japanese goods would
be floating around for a while. There's
nothing wrong with buying a used Nikon
or Datsun or Sony product, because the
parent company ain't makin' a dime off
that sale. And write the manufacturer and
tell them what you're doing, and why.
Used goods cost less, anyway .
People desiring more info on these subjects are urged to check the following
sources : George L. Small's book The Blue
Whale, John Lilly's Mind of the Dolphin ,
and the recently published Mind in the
Waters, by Project Jonah, which will
hopefully become available in the TESC
Library soon.
Malcolm Brenner

Female
chauvinism
To the Editor :

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On Saturday evening dance was held
on the fourth floor of the library building .
The dance was billed as. a "Women's
Dance" with an all-woman band, but
there was no indication that only women
would be admitted to the dance.
_ Three men· and a woman were admitted
to the dance after paying $1.50 each.
Once they were inside the band stopped
playing, and several of the women inside
(there were no other men inside) indicated
that the men would have to leave . Their
money was returned and they left. Following this incident, a sign was placed at
the entrance to the dance proclaiming it
to be for women only.
The Human Rights Policy of Evergreen
under the Washington Administrative
Code states : "The college requires: that
all personnel actions such as . . . social
and recreation programs . . . student services (such as financial aid, placement,
counseling, housing, student activities,
physical recreation), and facilities usage,
. be administered without discrimination
based on race, sex, age, religion, national
origin , or physicar disability (except

where physical ability is a bona fide occupational qualification). " In addition, state
and federal Civil Rights laws, of course,
prohibit discrimination on the basis of
sex.
To selectively obey or disobey these
laws is to undermine laws which countless
numbers of people fought and worked extremely hard for. And these laws weren't
designed to ,offset the disadvantages imposed on non-whites and women by placing new disadvantages on men. Equal
rights was the goal.
These rules and laws don't mean to prohibit women from having private activities away from men . But when an activity is open to the public, it must be open
to all the public . An organization could
have an activity for members and invited
guests only, but that organization would
have to be formed for purposes other
than to discriminate against other persons.
David Blunt

Solidarity
forever

rs at
rgreen?
I ·no ed with interest the Journal's de- .
scripti n of Norm Levy : "a fourth-year
stude t in media, majoring in television" :
(CPJ October 31, 1974, p. 13). The
wor s are revealing.
·
T otsky said in his pole~ic against the
Ru sian Formalists : In the Beginning was
th Deed, and the Word followed after, as
p~onetic shadow.
David Marr

A tuft of grass

To the Editor :

It was not the outspoke~ policy of the
women's center to preclude any men's
ability to appreciate what went on on the
fourth floor of the library Saturday night.
People react outside of form and ther ·
was a reaction between perceived. opp sites, but just as the woman-only wor shop of the cultural festivals earlier t is
year were unprotested, we rightly or
wrongly assumed we could be in that
space again, without hurting any feEJiings,
by creating a women 's da~· e at
Evergreen .
.
. Ruthie Schwartz was mellow, giving,
and beautiful and we hope to h able to
share that with more of the cot munity in
a spirit l_ess .of separ~tion a2tl more of
joyful sohdanty next hme arof nd .
Laura

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cause of their f ace. As a member of the
board who attended this meeting, I can
assure you that though there, were some
unfortunate de sions made at the October 15 meetin , the Third World groups
were never de ed the funding which they
requested.
Ruth Milner

Jay Abraham

Fund 'denial'
explained
To the Editor:
This letter is in response to the Journal's
October 31 article on S&A procedures referring to a meeting of the S&A board on
October 15, which states that three Third
World groups were denied funds at this
meeting: This statement is not only inaccurate, but grossly unfair. The funding
decision for these groups was tabled until
the next board meeting ; the groups were
not denied their funds . To say that funds
were denied to three Third World groups
implies that they were refused money be-

To the Editor :
As I wandered onto campus this morning in my usual before-8-a.m.-stupor, I almost stumbled over a little bit of life poking up through a crack in the cement.
It was a wee tuft of grass, green though
unfertilized, alive though . unauthorized,
existing though not planned. I was utterly ·
shocked to discover this minute · celebration of spontaneity, so accustomed had I
become to the endless reign of cement and
bricks, interspersed here and there with
the proper amount of scientifically trained
plastic trees and turf as required by the
Architects Association.
I wanted to dance around it and have
everyone come to see it, touch it, kiss it.
But I suddenly realized the prophetic
character of this precious little bit of nature. I realized I could fell no one, because word might get. to Jerry Schillinger
and his crew, and within minutes the uniformed army of cementscape policemen
would be out in ·force, with their petroleum-fed diggers, scrapers, and sweepers,
swarming about the campus in a desperate search and destroy mission. And
the search would continue day after
arc-light filled night until the malfeasance
was located and purged. I didn't want
that on my conscience, so I didn't tell
anyone .
'
I can't keep th~ secret any more. But
I'm not going to tell where it is, even
though I may be arrested and charged
with conspiracy to destroy the sterility.
They can torture me if they like, but I
won't disclose the location ...
D. Paul Jeffrey
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Announcements
• All major campus facilities will be
closed on Veterans ' Day , Monday ,
November 11
• A symposium on Community and Spiritual Life will be presented at Evergreen,
January 23 through 26, by a group of
students in cooperation with the Thurston
Coun~y Ministries in Higher Education.
One of the goals of the symposium will
be to explore the relationships between
eastern and western concepts of spirituality and community . This goal will be pursued by means of nationally ·known
speakers, workshops, panel discussions,
films, and concerts. Further information can be obtained at
Library rm. 3222, phone 6476. Areas
where help is needed include publicity,
music, housing, films, food, workshops,
daycare, video taping and art.
• Last week a group of students presented
a critique of the present Services and Activities (S&A) guidelines to the College
Activities Fund DTF . They are now working on a proposal for new guidelines to be
presented to the Board of Trustees in December. Open meetings are scheduled for
Wednesday, November 13 and Friday,
November 15 from noon to 1 p .m . in the
Board Room, on the Library third floor.
Anyone wishing to have some input may
attend.
• A Women's Awareness Workshop will
be held on Friday, November 8 from 1 :30
to 5 in the afternoon, and Saturday from
10 a.m . to 4 p.m . in CAB rm. 110.
Guest speakers will be Katie Thorn,
Director for Equal Employment Opportunity for Women at the University of
Washington, and her assistant Lola
Tebelman, who h.a.s some background in
assertiveness training.
eThe Men's Center will hold a benefit
dance and bake sale on Saturday ,
November 9, from 7 p.m . to midnight in
the second floor Library lobby. One
dollar will be the price of admission to
dance to musical groups The Old Coast
Highway Orchestra and Tatoo Parlor,
Fuzzy Peach, Rainbow Alley, and The
Fruitland Famine Band.
• Mime Clown Tim Elliott will perform
at Evergreen on November 13, at 7 :30
p.m . in the second floor Library lobby.
Elliott will give two Master Classes of
two ho~rs each, one at 9 a .m ., the other
at 1 p.m. on the day of the evening performance . Students will be asked to pay
$3.50 for the workshops . Admission to
the evening performance will be 50 cents .
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own recognizance after his arraignment
earlier this week .

Campus ·N ews

HENDRICKS INJUNCTION
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An injunction placed by State Representative John Hendricks (R-Thurston
County) , owner of Hendricks Rexall
Drugstore at the Westside Shopping' Center, against a competing drugstore on the
West Side was turned over by the Washington State Court of Appeals November

In Brief
DEANS REJECT
GAY FACULTY CANDIDATE
A faculty candidate for an unfilled position in the Developmental Learning program was turned down by the deans because, according to a November 5 memorandum, he is "an avowed liberationist" ..
"the institution is not ready for him" .. .
and because hiring him "would indicate.
(the College's) willingness to have him
c o mmunicate h is strong beliefs on
campus."
During · the last two months Developmental Learning has been looking for a
faculty member to fill a vacancy created
late in August when a newly hired faculty
member decided not to come to Evergreen . According to George Dimitroff,
faculty fo r the program, an agreement
was made w1th the deans that Developmental Learning would take responsibility
for finding candidates because by the end
of September the deans had failed to take any action to fill the position.
Dimitroff said it was his understanding
that the options for the term of the position were open and that the program
could hire on a quarter to quarter basis or
could fill the position for the rest of the
year.
Dimitroff, Coordinator Bill Aldridge,
the student interns who designed the program last year, and several students interviewed three candidates for the po'sition.
They selected Chuck Harbaugh, sociolo. gist, counselor and program dirJctor for
Seattle's Stonewall, an alcohol rehabilitation center. His name was submitted to
the deans who .decided that he must go .
through the regular interview procedures
for all prospective candidates. ·
.
. -H~~baugh came to Evergreen last week
for a day of interviewing with several faculty members, the deans, and President
McCann . The evaluations available in the
deans office from these interviews were all
favorable, but indicate a misunderstanding of the term of his position.
On November 5, a memorandum from
the deans was sent to Dimitroff and Aldridge outlining the reasons whY his appli~
cation was turned down . T he memo did
not dispute Harbaugh's qualifications, but
said, "We believe Chuck not to be a
counselor who happens to be gay, but
one whose gayness is an important and
strong part of all he doe's and all he says.
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We are, therefore, uncertain that the institutiof1 is ready for Chuck ."
Among the dean's reasons were that
Harbaugh is a "liberationist," that hiring
him would be a highly symbolie step
which the deans are not ready to make,
and that he is unsuitable for the position .
Kent Ferris, a student in the program,
disagreed with the memo and stated that
the students and faculty felt Harbaugh
was eminently qualified and would be an
asset to the program . "He was exactly
what we were looking for," said Ferris.
Several students in the Evergreen Gay
Resource Center claimed that the · deans'
decision was a blatant act of both political and sexual discrimination. "This decision is a danger-;>us precedent, because
the wording of the memo may indicate
that if this decision is upheld, no new faculty who are hired here could make
strong public statements concerning sexuality, human liberation or anything. The
deans must feel that students eannot
handle a gay faculty member," said one
gay student.
.
"This is one of the most blatant cases
of discrimination this school has ever
seen·. The Gay Center intends to fight this
all the way ."

In making its decision, a panel of three
judges reversed an earlier ruling by a
Thurston County Court which for more
than a year kept Donald E. Forstrom,
operator of the Medicine Shoppe located
on Division Street around the comer from
the Hendricks store, from opening up his
pharmacy (see Journal September 26, 1974
vol 3, no . 1) .

EVERGREEN STUDENT IN DRUG BUST
As· a result of a traffic violation on the
evening of October 31, Evergreen student
Scot Holland has been charged with one
misdemeanor and four felony counts .
Holland's car was discovered disabled on '
the freeway by a Washingt~n State Patrol
Trooper who then noticed alcoholic
beverages in the vehicle. Upon· searching
the car, a quantity of marijuana was
found .
After Holland's arrest, he informed the
authorities that he' also had a greater
amount of marijuana and some peyote at
his residence. State Officials. assisted by
the Thurston County Sheriff's Department
and Evergreen Security. Staff, obtained a
warrant ~nd seized m.,ore .ti1ap:.40 _grams of
; xlianjuiina: and''lin·· \lndiSelS~a·;~(),ui\t; of ~
.peyote Friday morning, November·!. .. .
.Holland, · charged with :.mil)_o r ; in
possession of intoxicants, po·ssession ' of
marijuana, possession of peyote, possession of marijuana with intent . to·
distribute, and possession of peyote with .

John Hendricks.
"I have no comment at this time, " said
Hendricks, who retained his Congressional seat agai.n st a challenge by Democrat
Emory Kramer in last Tuesday's election.
·According to Appeals Court procedures,
Hendricks has 30 days in which to seek
reconsideration of the decision.
In September of 1973 Hendricks
brought a court injunction against Forstrom's Medicbe Shoppe, a cut-rate
franchise selling only prescription drugs
az:td related items with a guarantee to
undersell any pharmacy in the general
area. Hendricks claimed that according to
his lease he had exclusive legal rights to
'the only drug store operation in the
Westside Shopping Center:. Forstrom, on
the other .hand, insisted that the property
he was leasing was never an incorporated
part of the center and therefore not

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~ubject to the restrictions in Hendricks'
lease.
Forstram, who expects to open his store
sometime in early December, is planning
to file suit against Hendricks for revenue
lost during the period of the injunction.

PARAPROFESSIONALS' STRIKE
SETTLED
Striking student paraprofessionals and
Evergreen's Counseling have reached · an .
agreement settling the students' 14-day
strike. The strike officially ended at 10
a.m. on Wednesday, November 6.
T""e students' demand for an increase
from 15 to 19.5 hours per week with pay
was met when au~hority was received to
increase the hours "in an emergency,"
according to Lou-Ellen Peffer, director of
·
Counseling Services.
She cited as an example the case of
those paraprofessionals who staff the
drop-in center, where regular hours
cannot always be kept when a crisis
arises.
The other demand of the strikers was
that money be budgeted for · more
in-service tra;ning workshops. "Probably
not enough money was allotted for train.:
ing," said Peffer, "and we. are in the
process of taking a good, hard look at
our priorities and budget now."
"The commitment to training workshops is one we've had for a lorig time,"
said Larry Stenberg, dean of Student.
Services. "It's just taken us more than the
two and a half weeks between the
beginning of the quarter and the strike to
get it going." ·
Three of the 11 paraprofessionals have
resigned since the strike began on October
23. Ed Brendler has moved to Seattle,
Elena Perez has taken a job with the
Non-White Coalition, and Greg Knox
. resigned for as yet undetermined reasons.
When asked about the strike settlement,
the student paraprofessional group declined to comment.

" Regardless of the ou tcome of the
election," commented Yung, "the ability
of the chosen commissioner to represent
all of the people of Thurston County with
any credibility has been seriously compromised by this irresponsible use of the
campaign process."
The Thurston Property Owners Association went further and charged Carolyn
Dobbs and Russ Fox, two Evergreen
faculty members supporting Yung, with
engaging in land speculation activities
through their active support of the
Cooper Point Plan, a set of guidelines for
development of the area . Dobbs commented that while most of the charges
were simply untrue or grossly distorted,
some of them had just enough factual
basis to give them a plausible ring to an
outsider. Fox and Dobbs are presently
assessing the avenues of recourse open to
them .

NEW JOURNAL EDITOR SOUGHT
DUCK HOUSE OPENS SHOP
The crafts shop across from the Activities building cafeteria is the Duck House,
a new business interprise on campus
originated and staffed by students
receiving credit for their on-the-job experience.

Applications for the position of editor
of the Journal starting Winter quarter are
now being accepted . The applications
should be submitted to Lib. rm. 1602 no
later than 9 a .m . November 22. A new
editor will be selected by the Publications
Board, the governing committee for the
Journal, before the end of Fall Quarter.
"I would hope that the new editor will
be a person who has already had some
experience working with the Journal,"
said Bill Hirshman, the current editor,
"but mainly the person will be selected on
general journalistic ability and experience."
The editor is appointed to serve up to
three quarters . The position is salaried.
The Journal (formerly The Paper) has
had six editors in its two and a half years
of existence.

CO-OP ED OFFICE
OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES

MARJ YUNG DECRIES
CAMPAIGN TACTICS
In an apparent attempt to play on the
emotions of Thurston County voters
during the final stages of the campaign,
members of the Thurston Property
Owners Association labeled county commissioner candidate Marj Yung an "Evergreen student" and radical environmentalist" in advertisements placed in the Daily
Olympian shortly before the election.
Yung, elected last Tuesday in a close
race against Republican W.O. 'Woody"
Anderson , accused her opponents of
dumping "outrageous misinformation" on
the public, and criticized the Daily
Olympian for having run the advertisements so close to election day, eliminating
any chance for a rebuttal.
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student Jody Douglass, are both receiving
academic credit for their work. Watkins is
studying with faculty member York Wong
and Douglass with Chuck Nisbet.
At the present, Watkins is waiting for
the next S&A Board meeting to receive
funding for the Duck House. The budget
had been presented at the last meeting,
but was invalidated along with other proposals in the "frozen" meeting of October
15. The shop will request funds for two
work-study positions, one an assistant
manager, the other a sales clerk. There is
also a need for further physical
development of the shop.
Watkins said that areas in which he
hopes students in the Duck House will
gain knowledge include management,
accounting, advertising, display, setting
up a business, and dealing with the
college administration.

Tony Watkins, manager of · the Duck
House , stands among his wares.
Duck House, appropriately named after
Evergreen's mascot, the geoduck, sells
student-made clothes, jewelry, candles,
and other crafts on consignment with 20
percent of the revenue going back to the
shop.
Tony Watkins, originator and manager
of the store, wrote in his first proposal
last June to the Services and Activities
(S&A) Board, that the Duck House
would provide a place "where students
can display their works as well as training
for those going into the business world."
Watkins and the shop's accountant,

Applitation deadlines for several student job internships and seminars are
scheduletl. to occur in the coming weeks.
Students who are considering employment in government may attend the first
scheduled Job Information Day on
Wednesday, November 13 . Employers
from all levels of city, county, state, and
federal government will be available to
assist students in career exploration.
On Tuesday, November 12, Tim Mann, .
Community School Director at Ridgefield,
and Greg Hanson, Coordinator of the
Community School at Camas, will .b e on
campus to explain the .community school
concept.
November 18 is the deadline for
students planning legislative internships to
submit their applications to the Office of
Cooperative Education in Lab. rm. 1020.
The Consumer Advocates Program is
now accepting ajpplications for interns interested in serving as staff investigators in
two New York City neighborhood
consumer complaint ·centers.
Cooper Point Journal

Applications are also being accepted
from students interested in interning as
health advocates in the Mobilization for
Adolescent _Student Health program
(MASH) in New York City. Interns for
the program will study health care
systems , design improved health care
delivery plans, and implement innovations focusing on adolescent care.
More information on any of the abovementioned internships or seminars may be
obtained from the Office of Cooperative
Education in Lab . rm. 1020.

charge of mobile operations for the King
County Central Blood Bank.
By the end of the day, 127 members of
the Evergreen community had given a
pint of blood each. There was some
concern before the drive that volunteer
donors would fall below the 100 mark,
because "it just doesn't pay for us to come
out here, " said Peers, if less than 100
persons would be giving blood.

CURRICULUM COOKBOOK
"(0 BE WORKSHOP TOPIC

In last week's Journal (October 31 ,
1974), striking paraprofessionals counselor Jim Spivey was misrepresented

Academic Dean Rudy Martin will present his Curriculum Planning Cookbook
at the second meeting of the student-organized series of student curriculum planning workshops. The Cookbook details
the roles of administrators, faculty, and
students in relation to curriculum planning, specifies their functions, and gives
guidelines for program planning . The
workshop is scheduled for noon on Wednesday, November 13 in CAB rm. 110.
The first curriculum planning workshop, held on November 6, featured a
presentation by members of the Developmental Learning and Psychology of Socialization programs , discussing their
curriculum planning experiences.

STRIKER MISQUOTED

through a Journal error in a story about
the counselors' strike. The story was
dealing with the strikers' demand for
mo re pay, and in this context Spivey was
quoted as saying, "If someone comes in at
1:55 in the afternoon I can't exactly say,
'Hey, we've got to get this setttled because
I go home in five minutes .' "
The quote contained two errors. First,
Spivey was ~ peaking about 1 :55 a .m .
ra ther than p .m. ; second, he had referred
to receiving "compensation" for time
spe nt working after 2 : 00 , which we
interpreted to mean monetary compensation. He in fact meant compensation of
time off for overtime. We apologize for
the error .

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EVERGREEN SNATCHES DEFEAT
FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY
Evergreen's sailing team , the Geoduck
Yacht Club, upheld its non-competitive
tradition as it snatched defeat from the
jaws of victory last weekend by coming in
second in the Vancouver, B.C., regatta.
After Saturday's race, the team was tied
with the University of Washington for
first place. Sunday morning, the Ceoducks defeated Washington by sweeping
the first two places and moved into undisputed possession of first place . However,
the University of Washington team won
its next two races and the Evergreen team
was victorious over the University of British Columbia , leaving the two teams tied
again for first place.
The Geoducks got off to a shaky start
in the final race and despite commend,a ble
efforts were unable to maintain a lead.
Their efforts were rewarded by a quarterpoint loss, forcing a sudden-death sailoff
with the U.W. "beanie brigade," which
the Evergreeners lost.
The Geoduck's second place position
was awarded a bottle of champagne
which is on view in the Campus Recreation center trophy case.

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BLOOD DRIVE SUCCESSFUL
The blood drive of last Tuesday ,
November 5, was "the best we've ever
had, " according to Margarite Peers, R.N .,
blood drive coordinator and person in
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small part of the problem and should not
overshadow the basic issue .
The so-called communication gap is
widespread and involves a large number
of faculty ' students, staff and administrators. The underlying issue (which the CPJ
has yet to explore) has to do with conflicting perceptions regarding how Evergreen can most appropriately employ its
media resources. I submit that a careful
reading of the October 31 issue of the
CPJ reveals the true nature of the communication gap.
In their letters to the editor Joe Murphy
refers to a ''breech of access policy" while
Willie Parson refers to "our interdisciplinary mission" and "the need to set priorities in favor of many students becoming
1it¢rate,' in this _case, in media techniques
rather than specialized training for a few."
Jay Kent, the author of your feature article, reveals a misguided perception of Evergreen when he refers to Norm Levy as a
"fourth year student in media, majoring
in television. "
I believe the Public Informa tion and
Minority Affairs Group Contract is fully
, in keeping with Evergreen's educational
mission. It is not an O .V.T.l. type program nor is it a standard university program for television majors. Members of
the contract deal with content (ideas,
issues, information) and use cable television to communicate with a campuswide audience.
Now a few comments on the Cometronics project: I don't understand how anyone could seriously claim that a last minute money generating pop music taping
project should have priority equal to that
of the P.l.M.A. group contract. The real
issue is that of educational significance in
the context of Evergreen's purpose.
I conclude with these questions: Is the
Cometronics project educationally significant? Should its members receive academic credit for taping concerts? Should
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they have access to resources that are already committed to a group contract tha t
was planned and approved last spring?
Why were contracts negotiated (involving
the Gig Commission and o thers) which
assumed access to equipment that was not
reserved for this purpose 7
Sid Wnite

Isn' t the highway department at fault for
not publicizing the change when it has
such important implications?
You can rest assured that if this change
-in free access policy was publicized last
spring it would have met the opposition it
is meeting now. The fact is that it was
not, and I don't exactly know why. Every
time I hear "you should have had your
needs specified last spring," I cringe. My
needs and the needs of the other four students getting credit for this quarter would
have been met by the normal equal access
policy that .was changed in a manner
other than out front.
As for Sid White's contract being in a
defensive position (re Willie Parson's
letter to the editor last week) it seems like
a most 'lppropriate position to be in considering the gear is locked up in their
room because of some shady circumstances, and there's no reason for anyone
to feel comfortable about that.
So after three years at the college, I
find that it turns out · to be an institution
that is still plagued by politics, pettiness
and selfishness. More than anything else,
it hurts my feelings that the concepts and
principles our educational system was designed from are being dumped. The media
access issue is only an example.
Norman Levy

To the Editor :
To the Editor :
Once again, the individual student's
needs at this institution of higher education are junked. The deans must have
been aware that there were other uses and
needs for that goddam video equipment at
Media Loan before they gave it to the Sid
White intensive campus news reporting
group. Why else would Media Loan have
it in the first place?
Here is this equipment, one of a kind at
TESC,that has been available to qualified
community members for the past three
years. The common knowledge is that if
you need _it, you can have it.
All of a sudden, without warning, without inquiry, without consideration for the
needs of other students at Cement · City,
these tools are taken away from people
the college has theoretically prepared in
their use . The reason we are given is that
"you didn't ask for them and someone
else did. "
I didn't ask for them because nobody
-said I had to . And I want to know why
nobody said I had to ask special permission to use library-owned free access
equipment. Why the hell wasn't such a
drastic change in open access policy
checked ·with some of the students it
greatly affects? It was a very quiet process that resulted in the 100 percent dedication of these tools to nine students in the
college, excluding our five contracts' need.
If a one way road from north to south
is without public notice changed to a one
way south to north, should drivers be
prosecuted for driving the wrong way?

This letter is a response to the article
"Dispute over media access, " which appeared in the last issue of the Cooper
Point Journal. I must commend your reporter for his effort to do a ·good "story"
but I feel that he did not report fully and
precisely the role of Media Loan regarding
this issue. Also, reporting only a selected
part of an interview can distort the facts.
Therefore, I will attempt to clarify Media
Loan's involvement in the above-mentioned conflict.
The primary function of Media Loan is
to provide audio visual equipment to The
Evergreen Community for learning situations or credit-related purposes. Most of
the equipment is in use on short term
loan, however long term loans can be approved by the academic dean if submitted
prior to the beginning of the quarter. The
final decision regarding the approval. or
disapproval of a long term loan is made
by the academic dean.
PIMA requested the usage of the Panasonic camera and switcher system well in
advance of the beginning of fall quarter.
No other academic program had at that
time stated a need for this equipment. So
indeed, the PIMA request was given
priority and the academic dean approved
the request.
I would like to point out the unique nature of the issues in question. It is the first
time in Media Loan's history that such a
. conflict has arisen. Finally, it is not Media
Loan's responsibility to determine which
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academic program has priority in the utilization of the equipment. In order to prevent similar conflicts in the future, I
would suggest a closer working relationship. between program planners and
Media Loan personnel to determine in advance if necessary equipment will be
available for the program needs.
·
Yves Duverglas

To the Editor:
Academic Dean Willie Parson's letter to
the Cooper Point Journal (Oct. 31) in defense of Sid White's group contract, Public Information and Minority Affairs,
leaves many questions unanswered. Such
as, what is early enough planning? The
spring previous, the winter, fall; years
preceding. How much is enough 7 Does a
program of- 9 to 11 students deserve sole
accesss to the college's only paraprofes'sional portable television equipment?
The larger and really important question is, "Will Evergreen live up to its own
propaganda, 'the students can get what
they need at this college; can do what
they want'." Is the college prepared to
lose the uniqueness so often noted in the
college bulletin 1 Are we in fact ready to
abrogate the president's promise that,
"The college will stay out of the student's
way"7 This is a problem in the opposite,
the college is definitely in the student's.
way.
I am the new station manager at
KAOS, the college's radio station. We are
not only running a radio station, we encourage and maximize community input.
In other words, we encourage, train, and
put on the air people who are new to
radio.As to the claim that, "PIMA cannot
function as an adjunct to Media Loan,"
our day to day ·operation can refute it.
Our equipment is constantly in use, in
studio and out. Our equipment goes to
work for everything from interviews, to
live music, to group discussions, to radio
_theatre. We do, occasionally, run into
mix-ups as to who needs it, when and
where; but it's never anything , that
rational _(or irrational) people can't- work
with.
We strive to maximize the opportunity
for the greatest number, irregardless of
their level of expertise. It seems Willie
Parson is saying, "maximize the opportunity for the few, irregardless of the opportunity for the many."
Lee Riback
To the Editor:
As a media student working wjth Cometronics for both academic, credit and the
chance to work with the video facilities at
Evergreen, I have followed closely the
battle being fought between Sid White's
PIMA contract and Cometronics. RegardNovember 7, 1974

less of the various policies being quoted
back and forth, my feeling is that if we as
students are denied access to media equipment, then we get no academic credit,
and our $169 tuition goes down the tubes.
This is a state (public) institution, and I
feel we as students have a RIGHT to that
equipment when it is not being used in
another program .
For Cometronics to have to rent equipment from outside sources, while schoolowned equipment sits in some closet unused was· both a waste of money and a
gross waste · of time and energy. It's too
bad that what is regarded by many as the
most progressive school in the country is
in some ways no better than the most ·
conservative.
CarlL. Cook

To the Editor:
I don't know what your problem is
(lack of time, lack 'of staff, lack of ability
or lack of interest), but just once I wish
the CPJ would do a thorough, in-depth
job of reporting the full story. Usually
you all do a good, fairly objective .
reporting/writing job -as far as you go.
I'm referring to last week's PIMA/Cometronics video equipment hassle story. My
job puts me in the midst of that problem,
and I could have provided additional information arid clarified several points if I'd been consulted. Oh -well, enough
complaining about your editorial operation, now that information.
There are five levels of "sophistication"
of video equipment available to qualified
· Evergreeners. The first three are under the
jurisdiction of Media Loan and last two,
under Electronic Media (part of Media
Production Services) for which I am
responsible. Media Loan video equipment
includes: the medium-quality semi-portable, b'lack and white Telemation camera
system (pictured in last week's article)
and medium quality semi-portable, .black
and white Coho camera system (on
extended loan from the Superintendent of
Public Instruction) and finally, the broadcast quality, studio, ·color system. All
these systems, from the Porta-pak to the
color studio, require constant maintenance by the Library's Media Engineering
staff when properly used and a great deiil
of repair wheh improperly used or
handled (primarily the Porta-paks). The
Electronic Media video systems require a
professional electronic engineer to move,
set-up, align, operate and _trouble-shoot
the .e quipment. This skilled person must
be present at all times to insure proper
use and maximum electronic qmility. I
don't check out the Telemation or Coho
system unless I can provide an engineer or
the user can pay .for one.
Last May Sid White developed the
PIMA group contract and requested one
day of color studio production time and
one day of Master Control editing time.
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He also requested exclusive use of • a
medium quality, black and white video
system (The Telemation equipment) .to
produce a daily campus-wide news
program, from his lab I office space. , And
he also requested 50 to 100% use of one
of Media Loan's semi-portable video .
emsembles plus the video switcher, sync '
generator and so forth. The equipment
requesJs went through the established
Library channels (myself, Yves Duverglas:,
·Susan Smith and Dave Carnahan) and the ·
PIMA program was approved by th~
academic deans . The Library staff seeks
guidance from the deans with respect to .
allocation of library resources, i.e.', video
equipment. As the academic deans.
approved the PIMA group contract and
no other academic programs made specifi<;:
requests for video ·equipment, the PIMA
program was given the equipment and
staff support requested.
·
During the first week of September
Norm Levy detailed to me the Cometronics individual/ group contract and
equipment needs. He wished to use _ tl_t~
Coho system, just recently borrowed from
SPI. I stated that that system was in need
of considerable engineering and packaging
work and would require a qualified
engineer (student or staff) at all times;
which Cometronics would have to pay
for. Since that time, Norm has attempted
to pry the multi-camera Media Loari
system and/or . semi-portable Telemation
system away from Sid White and• his students. The Cometronics individual
contracts were not signed by faculty·
sponsor Bud Johansen until the first week
_o f October, and those contracts did
specify the need for video' equipment'.
Contracts requiring specialized equipment
require the signature of the person
responsible for .same. The Cometronics
folks did not ask me to sign their
contracts, which would have guaranteed
access to the Telemation, Coho, or studio
color systems. And as the Cometronicsdesired equipment was already loaned to
the PIMA program or unavailable, 1 I
would have ~ot signed the contracts
anyway.
As anyone who has been involved in
video production will -attest (including
Norm Levy, Margo Westfall, and Grant
. Richards), you can't . spend all your time:
screwing around with hardware. Whether
talking ·about who gets to use it when or:
trying to borrow it from Media Loan,
setting it up, testing, the actual recording·
and tearing down and returning. If your
attention and energies are consumed with'_
equipment hassles, no time is left for
focusing on, developing, 'producing and_
evalu~ting t-he actual content of the pro-'
gramming. Evergreen is not a vo_c-tech:
schooL its a liberal arts school and
effective use ~f the media is the teaching/
learning goal, not equipment operations
and management. Of course, the PIM A
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uipment all the time. But to have to
ep returning and retrieving the gear
)m Media Loan is a frustrati ng hassle (it
kes a lot of time, you're never sure if
:1 .:1! you've requested will be availiable
if it'll work - despite everyone's best
ten tions and the shreds of a reservation
stem). And to move, set up, operate,
ar- down and re-setup the Telemation
·stem requires a great deal of engineering
ne which does not exist. Our engineerg staff can't even adequately service . the
IMA equipment in its present stationary
mfiguration.
Both the Cometronics and the PIMA
:;up contract are serious, well-intended
d ambitious endeavors . The college and
e individuals will greatly benefit by the
xk done and learning accomplished.
1t there are a few rules-to-the-game to
llow if you want your act to happen,
•spite any inherent "good ness" or
•lkge-wide benefit. Cometronics did not
rk within those "rules" or guidelines
1d PIMA did .
Chas Davies

was granted. If for some reason the staff
felt it was unreasonable and the customer
wished to pursue it anyway arrangements
could be made through Media Loan for
the neces·s ary equipment. Right now both
of these systems are in th e hands of one
man. He just happens to be the Coach,
The Official and the ball handler - who
is putting an uncomfortable 'squeeze on
mine .
As I perceive it the new Rules for a
student wishing access to the Library's
T.V . equipment right now are 1) Join Sid
White's Group Contract or 2) Get a con- tract with Chas Davies.
I don' t want what Sidney has to offer,

which is basic television production. His
students are now learning what I was
taught two years ago. I desire to learn
new ways of capt uring and creating
movement and sound through the
medium of television. I had individual
contracts with Chas: Davies during the
winter and spring of 1973. I was attempting to study a specialized subject at the
time and was disappointed at the lack of
interest Chas had in my project. In my
Faculty Evaluation of student Achievement in the Spring of '73 he wrote:
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the Editor :

In the more than two ~ears I h;lv~ !?~~!")
ing portable black and white multiple
mera video systems for producing tapes
r various organizations and individuals,
is is the unprecedented first time the
cessary equipment owned by the TESC
•rary was unable to be acquired due to
: k of cooperation.
Access to this equipment means a great
·al to me. I have gone through ~uch
e, energy, and expense to ensure that I
ight attempt to record those rare events
hich I feel offer an unusual learning op)rtunity to myself and others in the
·esent and future Evergreen· community.
A great deal of my time and energy
•ent in ensuring access has been to
·oductions which I have given support
1en though I was unenthusiastic about
1e content of the program. Even so I of·red my skills and abilities and
~ rformed them the best I could . In this
·ay, I'm proud to say, the producer
=nefitted in having a competent individal on his production team and I gained
perience.
On numerous occasions I have "played
n the team" for Sid White and Chas.
>avies and gave them my best. After arIving on campus this fall I found out
<ere's a whole new ball game. Same old
all but now the game's locked and the
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The rules are different, too. Last year
ny faculty member or student who
1ished to do a video recording which
ailed for a multiple camera system could
resent a request to media services and
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The
Mad

Painter
Speaks

BY WENDY KRAMER
Under a full moon one May night, a
mysterious artist spray-painted a colorful
forest scene onto the two parkway signs
that introduce The Evergreen State College. Reaction to the signs was swift and
for the most part good. Faculty member
Paul Marsh called it "a playful and loving
piece of work designed to put a little
warmth into 'Concrete Slab U. '" But Jerry
Schillinger, director of facilities, called the
act "pure vandalism" and ordered the
signs painted over with concrete paint.
Refusing to be deterred, the artist set out
immediately to re-paint the signs.
After a lot of sorting through rumor
and fact, the Journal finally tracked down
the self-proclaimed "Mad Painter" and
found out exactly what prompted his acts.
When asked why he painted the signs
in the first place he replied, "They needed
it didn't they? They were so ugly . It's nice
to have a sign there, but it's even nicer to
have an image there .
"Those signs are a welcome from the
Evergreen people who are really here and
are glad to see you. They're part of the .
frivolous, very relevant spirit that drives
us and lets us survive in a much freer
space," he continued.
To the artist, an Evergreen student, the
act is in no way vandalism, but a creative
expression designed to make others aware
of their surroundings. "Art is a basic
function of the creative human being. Pictures of almost any kind are art to me,"
he said. "Painting the blank, oppressive
November 7, 1974

concrete walls of Evergreen, or mosaics or
sculptures in places you would least expect and tnost want to see them - that
would be useful art. It brightens up the
atmosphere. It livens it up and shakes
things into awareness ."
What follows is an open letter to Director of Facilities Schillinger from the "Mad
Painter":
Okay Jerry, I'll admit it. The lights .
Well, I live close to the parkway, and
when I saw those lights going up I
thought they were the most wasteful,
most ridiculous thing you had done so

a

far. But I was just in. nasty temper.
Actually, they aren 't too obnoxious at
all. In fact, riding a bicycle is a lot easier
at night than it was. Folks will conceivably be able to walk a lot safer now . Yep ,
Jerry , you did it. You put good lights on
the parkway. No kidding.
So now, what about those signs? A lot
of people like them . I like them . I'd like
to finish them. It's about time , don 't you
think?
So how about it, Jerry? How about a
full pardon on this deal , and letting me
work in the daylight for a change? After
all, the moon is all but gone for another
month, and it's not getting any warmer.
I'd really like to get on with it. I'll even
fix it so you can read the letters again , I
like the letters . I even like the signs. I'd
really like to make that sun picture a little
less bizarre.
Come on, Jerry , be a sport. Unless
someone won your contest. If they did,
let 's see 'em : I can't wait, those signs
make such good pictures. Thanks a lot,
Jerry .
The Mad Painter.

It seems now that it is all up to Jerry

Facilities Director Jerry Schillinger.

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Schillinger. Will he follow the example set
by President Ford, and give a full pardon
to the "Mad Painter" in order to heal the
wounds of the community and deal in. a
humanitarian way with the problem ? ·
The "Mad Painter" has the best interests of Evergreen and art on his mind, so
he said. He never thought his act would
cause such problems - - his motivation
came from a purely artistic response. As
he said, "We need art. We need pictures."
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An Interview with Don ·s onker
BY DIANE HUCKS
Don Banker is the proud winner of the
Third District race for the House of Representatives left vacant by Julia Butler
Hansen.
In the primary, Banker ran against
Democrat Bob Bailey who had worked
with Hansen for years and had her· endorsement for the election . But in spite of
the odds , and as a result of a grass roots
style campaign , Banker won the primary .
I3onker 's campaign staff felt that the
most difficult race was against Bailey, and
that campaigning against Washington 's
Secretary of State, Lud Kramer, would be
only a . metter of hard work. Apparently
they were right. However, Banker was
running on a comparatively small budget
against one of the more prestigious Republicans in the state who had one campaign slogan , "Don 't Get Bonked."
The night of his election Banker spoke
to a group of supporters at the Brown
Derby Inn. He stated that the election had
been a "moral victory" won without the
use of special interest monies.
The following is an interview with
Banker conducted Wednesday , November
6, the day after the election .
Journal: Are you nervous?
Bonker : No. Its kind of like a basketball
game. You've won and you're exhausted
but still excited and therefore you have
the stamina to keep going. I'm sure things
will settle within the next day or two and
I'll have to cope with reality again.
journal: How do you feei about your
success and the margin by which you
won? (61.6 percent)
Bonker : We're extremely pleased . It's
higher than expected . We're also relieved
that the campaign is over and now we
can begin plans for the future and new
challenges before us.
Journal : Do you think that Kramer
misrepresented your position during the
campaign in , for instance, logging
exports?
Bonker: Definitely, yes.
I spoke out in the primary on the log
export issue and cited my source as the
U.S . Forest Service Study and also the
Stanford Research Institute, both of which
concluded that if we didn't stop export of
logs, particularly from public lands, that
we would experience a significant recession in the wood products industry in this
area. That was unchallenged in the
primary.
Then in the general, I think my
opponent's strategy was to discredit my
position. He used figures that were never
substantiated, that my position would
. close the ports and put people out of jobs.
It was really an absurdity.
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Don Banker and his wife Carolyn during the campaign .
But there is not much that can be done.
pointed out several times in debates
that, number one, his claim wasn't substantiated. And number two, that I know
and he knows that he was including
private logs in that statement, and I've
never called for a ban on private logs . So
he realized that it was a distortion, but he
just continued . And then his deduction
from that was that my position would not
only eliminate all those jobs but cause
welfare lines, a deepening recession,
reduced services, and curtail education
budgets, and on and on. An absurd
representation of my position which is a
pretty mild one.
I was more b.otherE;.d about that than
the "Don't Get Bonked" ads. I felt that
was not only simplistic, but an insult to
the public.
He was taking a position that was
totally distorted and unfounded. That's
when people become confused and
skeptical. When candidates and officials
are not totally honest with them and with
themselves and they deliberately distort
the truth . Then the people have a right to
be suspicious and even apathetic. We
don't need that in politics . I think if
Watergate hasn' t taught us anything else,
it's that people expect better of their
public officials.
Journal: What do you think the
Democratic landslide in the Congressional
elections will have in Congress?
Bonker : I think it will have a definite
impact. One, it will hopefully bring about
needed reforms and changing priorities.

I've felt and I've stated all along that my
election in a singular sense would have no
immediate impact in Congress. But
collectively I can see things happening
and want to be part of that vital new
movement.
Jo.u rnal: Do you see any potential
problems in working with President Ford,
a Republican, in this predominantly
Democratic Congress?
'
Bonker: I think there was a clear message
that was sent to the White House in this
election. I hope President Ford is
perceptive enough to read it. And that is
that people are not satisfied wiih the
policies and the demeanor of our government. They were not satisfied with his
economic message; they were not satisfied
with the pardon . The only expression
they have is at the ballot box . They may
not even want to vote for the Democrat
who's on the ballot, but they know that
that's their form of protest and their expression ..
Journal: What are your observations of
Evergreen now that you've been here a
few times?
Bonker: I've been very impressed with the
student interest in the campaign. The
forum than you had on campus was a
great success - by far the best in the
campaign - by far the best in this
election year.
Journal: You are aware of the academic
structure?
Bonker: I'm quite familiar with it. I
support the concept and I'm impressed
with the end result.
Cooper Point Journal

Guest Commentary
Not Exempt From Change
BY KRAIG PECK

Social awareness is increasingly blooming at Evergreen . As
Safeway and Standard Oil begin to encroach on Cooper Point,
and as our cement knowledge factory expands in the form of landscaped superhighways, bright lights, and even a paved "nature
trail" through the woods, mor~ students are wondering if they can
ever escape from the madness. The answer bombards us every
day .
This resurgence of social consciousness is evident in many
ways : in the movement for student control of Services and Activities (S&A) funds, curriculum planning, and faculty hiring ; in the
greater number of academic programs which are analyzing the
social order and ways to change it; in Non-white involvement on
campus; in the high attendance and excitement generated at meet-

ings and events concerning Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Amnesty Inter·national, and the Socialist Workers Party ; in veterans' attempts to
deal with their situation ; in the greater social emphasis of the
Cooper Point Journal ; in the paraprofessional counselors' strike ;
in the efforts of the faculty to unionize; in the growing militancy
of the Evergreen janitorial staff; in the toP.ic of conversations in
the cafeteria; and in countless other ways. Perhaps abstract
touchy-feely relatedness is on its way out at Evergreen, and
genuine human solidarity is coming into its own.
What are the reasons for this heightened politicization7 Why is
it that so many people at Evergreen are now understanding the
necessity for study and action to create a new social order?
November 7, 1974

Evergreen is not isolated from the rest of the world, and therefore is going through the same changes that are occurring in the
whole society . High prices and unemployment affect students as
they do everyone else; it isn't so easy to live on summer savings
anymore and more students are forced to work part-time during
the school year. As we watch our savings leave us faster and faster, we have less choice about what we are going to do next summer, or even this winter. We have less control over our lives and
natur.a lly this leads to anger and serious action in an attempt to
change this condition.
Watergate, U .S. involvement in Chile, the secret bombings in
Cambodia, and the ITT scandal have revealed with unprecedented
clarity where the. real power lies in America . As students begin to
recognize that the U .S. government is little more than a mercenary
army of the monopolies, they are justifiably less enthusiastic
about careers in the government bureaucracy.
Private corporations having already been excluded as career
possibilities by many students, this leaves a substantial number of
people without much hope for a secure future . Once again, as
young people see that they have little control over their lives, they
begin to think seriously about changing the social order that determines how they live.
The events of the sixties disillusioned many who thought that
America could be changed overnight by marching in the streets.
Because the white student movement concentrated primarily on
the issues of Vietnam and the draft, it lost much support when
these matters lost their importance in the eyes of most people.
This failure has shown the necessity for study and the importance
of theory combined with practice. Perhaps this explains the growing number of students who are now studying social change,
whereas previously they were content merely to participate in
mass actions. Today, partly because of the serious study that is
taking place, community organizing is growing in success.
Heav)' industry is moving out to the country, where pollution
controls are often unenforced, energy is easily available, and
necessity forces the people to work for pennies. Consequently, a
lot of people are recognizing that monopoly capitalism is an
all-encompassing system which leaves nothing untouched.
The spirit of possessive individualism is a strong force in American culture . We are encouraged to believe that we can become
free as individuals - that we can realize our potentialities alone,
separate and outside of the larger social context in which we live
and work. Some people, therefore, have withdrawn into themselves and it is there that they hope to free themselves of their
oppressive socialization· and alienation.
Perhaps because of the reasons already mentioned, many of,
these young people are finding that the separation they have made
between "internal" and "external" is an impossible distinction that it is simply one more lie with which we have been inculcated
by our society. They are finding that it is impossible to change
oneself without changing the society that continues to structure
one's perceptions. This recognition that self-understanding and
social change are one process in the attempt to re-create oneself is
an important one . When people see that there is no "either-or"
choice involved, they are willing to become a part of the struggle
for a human world.
As more people become aware of the possibilities that exist for
creating a world in which we have control over our lives .:_ a
world in which we can fully realize our human potentialities we have that much more strength to take control of the
institutions that determine how we live . As power relationships
become demystified and the economy worsens, all Americans are
coming to see the necessity of taking radical action to improve
our situation. What is happening at Evergreen is but a small part
of what is occurring throughout America, and throughout the
world .
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meaningful assistance in the area of alternative formats and methods of productions ." Chas is a good producer-director
but does not offer what I desire to learn.
We have learned that the two television
systems owned by the library group· were
given to Sid White according to policy.
Why wasn't this policy publicized? Why
·was this policy not policy last year? What
made last year's policy not policy this
year?
I can understand why through some
major fuckup students who were using
these systems last year were not notified
or consulted before these new policies became rules. What I don't understand is
why Norm and Grant weren' t notified
when it was part of their job to know
what was going on with the Telemation
system . We were. hired by Media Services
last year to work in master control as
A / V operations technicians. Part of our
job was to go with the portable multiple
camera system Media Services operated
and maintained to ensure that it would
function and be used correctly. Last
spring I was told I could have the same
job this year. I came back to work this
fall and found out Sid had the portable
cameras and switching unit in his room
and didn't want anybody else using them.
The reason nobody else could use the
equipment was because Sid desired 100
percent control and Media Services didn't
want to hire a tec:;hnician to go out with
the equipment. I wanted to use the equipment and I don' t care if I get paid for operating it or not. I still feel I have a right
to use the equipment.
I have been trained by this school in a
specialized field and given an opportunity
to use these skills in a way which benefitted the college community through my
student job with the library media services. This just may be my last year at
Evergreen and in order to get a job in the
industry and earn credit I feel I need an
opportunity to build a presentable portfolio, a portfolio which includes video
tapes produced by me with a portable
multiple camera video system .
I hope I'm making myself understood. I
want to produce video tapes, not write
letters to the editor, not cause pain to the
faculty and staff or uneasiness to the
deans and administration. This letter may
sound like it's negative towards Chas
Davies, but I think it's working for him.
All this commotion could be solved if
Media Services could get the money they
feel is necessary to offer their services and
buy more hardware . So if enough
troubles are caused and enough faculty
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Eating in Olympia I Andrew Daly

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Those of you who are familiar with
Olympia may have noticed a sign directing you to the Jacaranda, "Olympia's
. finest waterfront dining." If you are wise,
you won't get any closer than the sign.
The Jacaranda is located in a futuristiclooking building at the foot of Washington Street. It looks that way for a reason
- as the "Home of the Future" at the
Seattle World's Fair (before it was floated
down to Olympia), it was supposed to
convey a surge of technological sophistication that would be au currant in, say,
1975.
The restaurant looks a lot like Buck
Rogers' garage. There are curved walls,
an atrium, and large ungainly rooms. If I
remember correctly, there was at one time
an exhibit about a device resembling a
cross between a riding lawn mower and a
Hovercraft. The "wave of the future ."
Luckily, it didn't catch on.
We arrived at 8:30. As there were only
three other parties, the reservation didn't
really seem necessary. A pleasant-looking
lady seated us and asked if we w.ould like
cocktails. We accepted, and ordered
Brandy Alexanders. A note - Brandy
Alexanders aren't particularly difficult to
make, but they are seldom prepared correctly. Generally, if they are good, the
restaurant is also. Ours were mediocre.
As we ordered, we were told that the
salad and soup bar was available. We
looked at each other. OK, but it was a
surprise. So was the salad. It wasn't anything to shout about, and those who
think a salad should be more than lettuce
will be disappointed.
After the salad, we both had some clam
chowder. · Neither of us was particularly
happy . The soup was a bit thin, and
tasted as though it hadn't simmered long
enough . My friend commented that it was
. the only chowder she had ever had to add
salt to . She was right. It needed it.
I!or our main course, we ordered a seafood Newburg. A Newburg consists of
fish prepared in a cream sauce. We got
shrimp and crab with a cheese sauce on
it. A properly cooked Newburg is a delight, and like most seafood, is not difficult to prepare . We did not get a seafood
Newburg, at least by my definition.
Just as we were getting our main
cour~e , the waitress began to turn off the
lights and blow out the candles. We were
the only people left, and so was our
candle. The waitress asked us if we could
still see. We could - sort of. She said
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We talked . In fact, the only good point
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got ... .
We went to the Oregon Trail. The band
was playing some fine blues. How appropriate.

that it was more romantic that way. We
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The problem with the Jacaranda wasn't
that everything was poor - that might
had made it interesting. It was simply inspired mediocrity. Many people must ·
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Music/Doug Ellis

DINNER WITH FOREVER
Scientology????
You've go t to be kidding! I know next
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wha t they're i~t o, well , I'll give it a stab

:;and see what we come up w ith .
The Return To Forever organization,
: found out later, is based upon the prin.;ciples of Scientology and the philosophy
.· of L. Ron Hubbard , the religion's
'; found er. And not only is · the organization
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To find out what is happening and how
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needles and domed stadiums we rang up
Allen Cousins, the tour manager of Return To Forever, in hopes of finding a
time in which to conduct an interview

with Chick Corea and the three other
members of the grou p.
"Halla," said Cousins, "we have a
sound check in just a few minutes, so it
may be a bit of a rush , but come on
down and afterwards we'll gq out to
dinner. " Allen was very English , very
proper a nd ve ry much a nice person .
With cameras and tape recorders in the
"ready" position , our crew of three invaded the lobby of the Seattle Hilton only
to find out we were too late; the group
had left for their sound check at the
Moore Theatre. We then repacked our
equipment and sca mpered off to the
thea tre.
The Moore Theatre is a n old, dilapidated, decaying building, yet in a sta te of
emptiness the pomp · and glamour of years
gone by could be fe lt and heard everywhere. The com plete o penness of empty
seats, coupled w ith the ha nd-carved figurines that lined all the wa lls echoing "testing one, two , three, testing," as each
microphone was checked, gave an air of
historical sig nificance to each and eve ry
act io n on the stage. A right fine place this
Moore Theatre, I thought, as I wai ted in
ant icipa tion o f the evening's even ts.
The sou nd check was over in what
seemed reco rd time, a nd Chick, scratching
his stomach , muttered something about
dinner . Reservation less, we headed down
Sea ttle's waterfron t to l var's Acres of
Clam s in hopes of filling the void in our
stoma chs, but when we ar ri ved we discovered l he r<' was a two-hour wait to be
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seated. Disgruntled, we ran off to the
Captain's Table: three hours. To the
Black Angus : one and a half hours . The
Old Spaghetti Factory : full up . Finally we
ended llP at the Merchant's Cafe in Pioneer Square which specializes in Spanish
cuisine . They didn't have tacos .
"It's all a matter of communication,"
said Chick Corea to a question concerning his music and Scientology. "Scientology teaches you how to communicate
with yourself and in doing so gives you a
better understanding on how to communicate with other people." Chick went on to
say how music was just one form of communication and that sound was the technical/physical medium he used to communicate to an audience.
I could tell that this wasn't the time to
be asking serious questions when Lenny
White, the drummer for Return To Forever, began to do his disappearing fork
act while Chick, AI, and Stanly did a
drum roll with forks, spoons and knives
against the water glasses and plates.
Lenny wrapped the fork in his napkin as
everyone started singing, "Da da da-dada, da da da da da da da-da-da ." He then
unraveled the napkin, letting the fork
drop to the table, and said, "Vawalla." I
didn't know what to say, as I thought
they were a serious group.
After dinner we rushed back to the
theatre and in a matter of minutes the
group was introduced on stage. Later that
evening I had a chance to get Chick off to
the side and drill him for some candid
answers about his music . I asked him
what kind of music he listens to in his
spare time . "I try to listen to all my contemporaries when I get a chance," he said,
"but mostly I listen to classical music, especially Wagner. " I told him it showed in
his style. He grinned.
We talked about the human condition
and I found that Chick was well versed in
religious philosophy as he spoke of various doctrines of religious orders. "All religions have a basic thread to them ; each
deals with the human condition and I
found that what is lacking in many of the
other religions is a direction - Scientology deals with results and the result leads
to a direction or goal. "
Stanly and Allen and AI are all into
Scientology also, and they like to run
their organization on the principles of
communication that are basic to its philosophy. " We never have fights, we love
each other too much for that. If someone
has a problem the others respect him
enough to listen and try to work it out.
It's just a matter of communicating and
knowing that we' re individuals," said
Chick .
I left the Hilton amazed and awed at
the respect the members of the group had
for one another. Each in their own way
was a part of a total unit working together to accomplish a result. That result
is witnessed and communicated to each
and every person that attends the Return
To Forever concerts.
November 7, 1974

Feeling Shafted?
It's not an uncommon complaint
these days.
Last summer a group of students,
meeting to investigate governance
systems at Evergreen , concluded
that "there exists a wide gap between Evergreen's stated philosophy
and its present reality," that "this
gap has resulted in factionalization
between staff, faculty and students, "
and that "existing avenues of governance , deci sio n-making , record
keeping and information dissemination have been inadequate."
As a result of their deliberations,
an "Ombuds-advocate office" has
been established in Library rm .
3228. We're open for business weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p .m. If you
have a question you can't get answers to, a problem you need help
resolving or are interested in
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Cinema I Matt Groening

SHARP PUNK'S STORY
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A special screening of Rockaday Ritchie
·•. and the Queen of the Hop is scheduled
~ ~ for this Friday, November 8, in Lee. Hall
;> 1. Rockaday Ritchie is one of the few full~. : length feature films to originate in the
'· · Northwest. It was written and produced
· by Don Cronquist, directed and edited by
George Hood, and stars Russell Fast and
Marcie Severson. J. Wilder Mincey, who
studied under Robert Surtees (the cinematographer for The Last Picture Show)
was the cameraman.
The film follows the violent murders of
a teenaged psychopath, and is based
- loosely on the real-life Charles Starkweather, who killed eleven people with
his girl friend Caril Fugate in 1958. Starkweather was caught, found guilty, and
two weeks after his sentencing, executed
by electrocution. His giil friend was recently released on parole.
"We only used the incident as a point
of departure," said director George Hood.
"We wanted to bring out the stifling sexual repression of the time, especially as
far as teenagers are concerned. It was
look-but-don't-touch emphasis on big
· boobs, tight skirts, tight sweaters, and the
feeling that you'd be struck dead if you
touched anything. It was a very closed-in
world for young people."
Russ Fast, who plays the lead, said,
" Ritchie is a punk - a pretty sharp punk
- but still a punk. In the town where
Ritchie grew up people were born anony-

·mous and died anonymous. Ritchie was a
guy who wasn't smart enough to know
how to get out and wasn't stupid enough
to be satisfied staying in.
"That's the foundation for the film,"
Fast continued, "but what carries it is
Ritchie's explosion. At first, the murders
are provoked - not justifiable, but still
provoked . Then all of a sudden he realizes what he's doing and it's like he's
purged of all remorse. Suddenly he knows
that he is somebody, killing becomes his
crazy art, the way he realizes himself.
Even when he's captured and he knows
he's going to die he doesn' t care because
he's got this huge amount of notoriety,
he's marked his own existence indelibly

Hood took a short break before tackling
the editing. "The next five months I remember only too well," he said. "We
viewed the hours and hours and hours of
footage and· I began to cut it together,
shape it, and give it form . The editing
process is very personal and quiet in
contrast to 1the loud dynamics of the
group production . I love editing film. It's
during this stage that all unknown variables disappear and it ends up w~th only
you and the film. At this point the editing
process is like a gigantic glass bead game
- your toughest opponent is yourself and
you can finally allow the full potential of
the creative experience to be born."
on the lives of everybody aro~nd him. "
Ritchie's girl friend is played by Marcie
Severson, who was 14 years old when the
movie was shot last year. Hood was very
enthusiastic about her part. " Even though
Marcie had never acted in film before
somehow, cast in the role of Laura sh~
was not only totally convi~cing, bu~ had
all t.~e cast and crew falling in love with
her.
Nine weeks of around-the-dock work
went into the film's shooting, most of
which took place in the Portland area :
Each day was divided into three rigorous
eight-hour shifts, actors and crew working
almost to the point of collapse.
After the hectic shooting schedule,

After five months of intense solitary
work, Rockaday Ritchie was finished.
Distribution negotiations with Hollywood
began last February, and news of fhe
movie stopped for a while . A few weeks
ago Evergreen student Frankie Foster contacted Hood and persuaded him (and
Hollywood) to allow a special screening
of the film to take place at Evergreen.
Two showings, at 7 and 9:30 p.m ., are
scheduled for Friday, November 8, in Lee.
Hall 1. Hood will also take time off from
editing his TV documentary on the classical composer Charles Ives to show some
of his earlier award-winning films and
give a talk on filmmaking in Lee. Hall 1
at 3 p .m. Friday afternoon.
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Academic Film Series (Tuesday in Lee.
Hall 1): Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh
Seal, starring Max Von Sydow and Bebe
Anderson.
Friday Nite Film: The gala world premiere of Rock-a-Day Ritchie and the
Queen of the Hop at 7 and 9:30p.m. in
Lecture Hall 1 . The film is based on Charlie Starkweather's rampage across the
midwest in the 1950's .
Evergreen Coffee House (ASH commons, Sunday night): Boom Town - the
1940 flick starring Clark Gable, Spencer
Tracy, Claudette Colbert , and Hedy Lamarr. Screens at 7:15 and 9:30.
State: Uptown Saturday Night-Directed by Sidney Poitier, this film puts fort h
the proposition that Black is not only
Beautiful, but Black is Fun . Stars Poltier,
Bill Cosby, and Flip Wilson. Co-billed
with Sam Peykinpah's The Getaway, starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw.
Capitol: Golden Voyage of SinbadThis children's film uses Ray Harryhausen's Dynarama process, which combines
equal portions of stop-action photography, elaborate multiple exposures, and a
kind of gentle necromancy. With Living
Free, the sequel to Born Free .
Olympic: Andy Warhol's FrankensteinBlood, sex, and camp, tastelessly blended
into a hilarious if unusual brew.
In Concert

Applejam : Tonight, November 7, The
Art of the Belly Dance. Carol Fulcher of
the Virginia Woods Dance Studio will
demonstrate various aspects of the belly
dance. Friday, the famous Old Coast
Highway Orchestra and Tattoo Parlor
sings original and jazz tunes of the 20's
and 30's.
Evergreen Coffeehouse (ASH commons): Friday, November 8, Rainbow
Alley, an experimental folk ensemble,
performs original work. Saturday, Enid
McAdoo performs on piano and guitar.
November 7, 1974

The Old Coast Highway and Tattoo
Parlor w ill perform at Evergreen from 7
p.m. to miqnight on Saturday, November
9 in the second floor _Library lobby . Also
performing at the concert will be Fruitland Famine Band , Rainbow Alley, and
Fuzzy Peach.
Ramsey Lewis will perform at the
Greenwood Inn on Friday, November 8.
Marc Bridgham performs traditional
Anglo-American an d Celtic Folk music at
Olympia Library on Saturday, November
9 at 11 a.m.
Classical guitarist Jeffrey Van performs
at Evergreen on Thursday, November 14
at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1.
Exhibits

Evergreen Library Gallery: "Studies in
Sepia," an exhibit of photographs by internationally reknowned photographers Paul
Strand (The Mexican Portfolio) and
Edward S. Curtis (Northwest Indians ),
ends Friday , November 8.
Wire sculptor Joe Police, creator of
both stationary and movable objects out
of wire, will demonstrate his craft Friday,
November 8, from 11:30 a .m. to 1:30
p .m. at Olympia Vocational-Technical
School.
TACOMA
On Stage
Co-Respondents, a feminist readers
theater, present Battle-Ax, a reading dealing with the question of women and
power on Friday, November 8 at 9 p .m .,
University of Puget Sound student lounge.
The Martha Graham Dance Company
of New York City will appear in Olson
Auditorium, Pacific Lutheran University,
at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, November
13.

The McNeil Island Arts and Cra
Show and Sale in the Tacoma Mall er
Saturday, November 9 .
Tacoma Art Museum: Japanese .Im
and other Oriental ceramics are on '
hi bit.
SEATTLE
On Stage
Culture Prism or: Chitlins, Tor til
Rice and Corn, a collage of one·
dramas of multi-ethnic experiences,
be presented at 8 p.m. Novembe1
through 9 at the University of Wash
ton Ethnic Culture Center Theater.
A Contemporary Th eater: Gods.r
moves to St. Paul's Episcopal Church
til Monday, November 10.
Seattle Opera: The Barber of Sev
will be presented on Saturday, Novem
9 in Italian and Friday, November 8 <
November 17 in English.

Tickets are now available for the
Capades November 27 through Decem!
1 at the Seattle Center Coliseum.
In Concert

Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles P I
harmonic Orchestra will perform at
Opera House on November 29. Th~ p
gram will contain the music of Wagr
Schoenberg, and Brahms.
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Tickets are now on sale for the D
Purple concert at the Coliseum on !
vember 16.
Saxophonist Boots Randolph, pia1
Floyd Cramer, and singer Brenda Lee '
perform at the Seattle Arena on Tues
November 12.
Exhibits

In Concert

Court C Coffeehouse: So Good, a
modern jazz quintet, will perform on
Monday and Tuesday evenings. Friday,
November 8, the Shirley Jackson Trio will
appear, and Saturday the featured performer wi ll be Robert Rohde.

Seattle Art Museum: The work of f
Meuse, whose photographs "express
fascination with cycles of life, the cbntJ
ity of birth, life, death," arcording: to
Museum, will be on exhibit until J ~nu
5. A Tribute to Mark Tobey end? S
day, November 9, at the Art Musl'
Pavilion.
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OLD DRAWINGS
Also new drawings, poetry, prose, or photographs are all being
accepted now for the Journal's literary supplement which will be
published at the end of the month. The deadline for: submitting
work is November 15 . All judgmen~s of whether the work is to be
published will be made after the deadline. Your creations may be
brought to the third floor of the CAB building and left for Stan
Shore at the Cooper Point Journal office, rm. 306.
Also, people who are interested in helping with the layout and
planning of the supplement itself are urged to contact Stan at the
· Journal office or at 866-5056 in the evenings. Your help would be
greatly appreciated.
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