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Politics & Evergreen
Vol. 3 No.8
November 14, 1974
Page 16
It is already commonplace to refer to "the sixties" as an era gone by, a
time of political awareness and action on the part of a young generation now
gone apathetic . And it is true that the marches, the demonstrations, the sitins of the last decade have vanished.
There may be a renaissance taking place now, however. The number of relatively young people involved in
"legitimate politics," exemplified in
the recent election , is much higher
· than it was five or ten years ago.
Along with this, other alternative
styles of political action are
re-emerging. The recent Puerto
Rican Independence Day marches
are one example; widespread interest in the fate of political prisoners
around the globe is another.
Here at Evergreen, this resurgence
of political awareness is indicated
by the formation of a new campus
group, the Evergreen Political Information Center, which has recently
opened a kiosk on the main floor of
the CAB. Eva Usadi , one of the
members of EPIC, emphasized that
the Center is open to persons of all political persuasions.
Since a number of students who are now working with EPIC were interested in writing political articles and commentaries for the journal, a new
column is instituted in this issue entitled "World Watch," written by members of EPIC. The column will deal with different world political problems
each week, usually focussing on both factual information and interpretation .
This week the first edition of " World Watch" is written by EPIC member Eva
Usadi.
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EDITOR
William P . Hirshman
MANAGING EDITOR
Nicholas H. Allison
NEWS EDITOR
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SPECIAL EDITOR
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GENERAL ST A.FF .
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Doug Ellis, Jim Feyk, Frankie Foster, Kim
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Rachel Rousso, Ralph Seeley, Regon Unsoeld, Eva Usadi, Jaroslav Vachuda, Len
Wallick, Nanette Westerman.
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Whatever road brings Evergreen-bound
travelers here, once they arrive, they
koow it. How? A different type of sign
tells them .
The signs we refer to are not of the
ordinary variety . Today as yesterday,
these slabs of cement reveal the title of
our community, · but however revealing
they may be or were, someone disliked
them. This person, who refers to himself
as the " Mad Painter," stands lone and de-.
termined not to be represented by sterile
concrete : not once or twice, but three
times the signs have been touched with
color.
ble for their c.o rrection, he's not going to
direct clean-up action until his question is
resolved: "Just what does this community
want? " Schillinger stated, " If the signs are
not wanted, I'd be happy to take them
down . My desire is to have something
mark the campus boundaries."
So far this entrance-signs controversy
has remained rather one-sided. Open to
community desires, Schillinger is eagerly·
awaiting the submission of community
suggestions. The maintenance budget this
year was described as· "not that tight," but
clearly, continued sign correction is crazy.
Although the response to Schillipger's
plea to the community for design ideas
has been slight- with only two people,
both students, having expressed their ideas
thus far - Schillinger is not disappointed.
His office door, with the black numbers
'107' clearly visibl~, remains open to anyone desiring discussion · of their idea. A
phone conversation is possible by dialing
(866- )6120 .
The first to respond to an article pre-
viously printed in the Journai (Sept. 26,
1974; Vol.3, No.1) about these signs of
our time was a male who suggested that
ivy be planted and allowed to grow up
and over the cement structures. The other
individual, a woman , had two ideas.
Schillinger suggested to her that she draw
up her ideas in some form ;md present
them to the community in the Journal.
When questioned as to how he would
go about selecting the super-suggestion, or
the idea most commonly desired in the
community, Jerry Schillinger informed us
that the procedure is yet undetermined in
the absence of presented ideas. "With a
design contest or a special disappearing
task force (DTF) or with the appearance
of an article indicating my receptivity,
perhaps ... "
In any case, our facilities director says
he firmly believes that whatever shall
mark the Evergreen community limits can
indeed be an indication of "our" identity .
BIM
As rain fell around and echoed throughout the 201 building last week, Jerry
Schillinger, facilities director, spoke of his
desires for sign designs . "The point is, " he
said, "correcting the pai~ting job is not
cheap . Why ... " he calculated, "two
currections erasing the paint cost as much
as the sign does. At least the first job was
good, even though I called it v'l-ndalism . .
"At the time that the first sign was
painted," explained Schillinger, "it still belonged to the contractor, so he had to pay
for it~ correction . Having bid one thousand dollars to build the sign, it cost this
co.ntractor another four or five hundred
dollars to pay for its correction. "
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Soon after the smudges of creative flair
were erased, strokes of a different hue appeared . Then some time in the latter half
. of last summer, a second cement slab, this
one on the east end of the college parkway was touched. "At least they could
have done it well, " Schillinger commented, :referring to the latest job. "I
don' t want to leave that mess around for
long ."
Schillinger's point was clear. Now that
the school owns the signs and is responsiNovember 14, 1974
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Third Worlders
-ignored?
To the Editor :
Agreeing substantially with Mr. Peck's
guest commentary of November 7, "Not
Exempt From Change, " and fully respecting and appreciating his effort and sincerity, I must, nevertheless, raise certain
questions and take exception to particular
implications.
Mr. Peck begins, in James Brown's parlance, "on the good foot,'' but well into
his second sentence a fundamental question arises : to whom is he addressing
himself? By saying ". . . more students
are wondering if they can ever escape
from the madness . . . , " he mu'st certainly
be ignoring Third World students." We are
unlikely to' delude ourselves by even
vaguely considering "escape from the
madness." We are its raison d' etre ; it is
upon the denial and exploitation of our
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forebears and the continued exploitation
of us the madness revolves. Further, owing to high-visibility (i.e. skin tone, eye
slant, hair texture, etc. ) consideration of
escape becomes patently absurd .
Further down the garment-littered trail
the streaking Mr . Peck refers to a "resurgence" of social consciousness manifested,
among other ways , by " non-white
involvement on campus. " Now, reflect a
moment on the implications.. Noah Webster says "resurgence" means: "A rising
again into life or activity; revivification ;
renascence." Based on this definition, it
appears proper to infer Mr. Peck is saying
Third World students were lifeless or inert
with regard to campus involvement. If
such is the case, I must ask, "Where has
Mr. Peck been? " (In answering this he is
perfectly welcome to "take fi ve" or claim
executive privilege, if he desires.) How
does he think The Third World Coalition
came about? The answer is readily available. I am more t}:tan certain anyone in
the coalition would gladly inform him . Is
he unaware of the controversy arising last
fall over attempts by the Gay Center to
become inv olved in the then (and now,
"legally" speaking) "Minority Coalition?"
Earlier editions of the CPJ (The Paper?)
might provide some insight. And surely
Mr. Peck cannot believe that the rigorous
struggle waged by Third World students
last fall to assist the college in complying
with its stated affirmative action goals resembles dormancy ? I think not. Instead,
perhaps Mao Tse Tung's "no investigati on, no right to speak" is applicable?
Moreo v er , if social being determines
social consciousness - and, of course,
Mr. Peck would argue that it does - is it
not likely then that being denied, oppressed and ~xpl oited day in and day out
(within and without Evergreen) would
foster acute and enduring soci;;tl consciousness? I ·would answer in the affirmative. It
must then be submitted that at best Mr.
Peck is guilty of cavalier solipsism or at
worst nefarious paternalism .
Proceeding; he says, " High prices and
unemployment affect students as they do
everyone else . . . " Well, Mr. Peck, you
need not remind those of us who: travel
gl'eat distances on severely limited funds,
receiving paltry relief (euphemistically
called "financial aid" ) criminally out. of
Cooper Point Journal
touch with the cost of educatio~, let alone
living, (2) have kin unable to provide
"foreign aid" because as porcine apologist
Alan Cranston (Senate D-Calif. ) moaned
" ... inflation is having its most drastic
effects on the price of staple foods. A report prepared by 26 experts for the Senate
Select Committee on Nut vition and
Human Needs showed ju; t how drastically
inflation has aff~c ted what used to be
moderately-priced staple foods. From December, 1970 to March of this year, dried
beans increased 256.3 perce!1t, rice 124.3
percent, flour 79.7 percent, margarine
63.08 percent and bologna 50.3 percent .
He (Cranston) further said, "During the
same period, the foods eaten by middle
and upper income people increased at
much lower rates. Sirloin steak went up
38.9 percent, lamb chops 31.3 percent,
whole wheat bread 36.9 percent, butter
8 .9 percent." And adding finally, he said,
"Inflation has affected us all, but it has
affected the poor much more." Again Mr.
Peck, you need not remind us, we know
only too well. And yes, unemployment
too is a familiar tormentor of those who
are least privileged and l~ast skilled. Profoundly enlightening, he continues " . .. it
isn't so easy to live on summer savings
anymore and more students are forced to
work part-time during the schooi year. "
Assuming one acquired summer employment - and he has acknowledged unemployment does indeed "qffect students" has it ever been easy to live on summer
savings? This is especially doubtful if during the summer such trivial matters as
health and dental care (which also have
prices attached to them) along with clothing and transportation become necessary.
He is qu,ite correct in asserting part-time "
employment becomes necessary for some
students. In fact , the very enrollment of
some students is contingent upon finding
part-time· jobs! Flowing next from his
facile fingers comes, "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." Certainly my colleagues would join me in
u nison asking , " What choice?" The
process Mr. Peck alludes to is a veritable
fait accompli, vis a vis Third World stu·
dents.
Moving right along, the author in ques~ tion says that students, recognizing the
U. S. government's function ". . . are less
enthusiastic about careers in the government bureauCracy. " For most · melaninproducing people the bureaucracy is defined by its inaccessability. As for, " 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 ," for relevance to Third World students It need merely be inverted to read,
many students having already been excluded by private corporations as career
possibilities have never had much hope
for a secure future!
Approaching the end of the trail,
streaking with his posterior revealed to
even Stevie Wonder, the erudite Mr. Peck
utters, " We are encouraged to believe 'that
we can become free as individuals ... "
For those of us victimized incessantly by
this system that this is not consistent with
reality is clear as saran-wrapped dung.
We k now our situati,ons are not
predicated upon our individuality but instead~our collective captivity.
Beni g hted as I began , through the
course of my inquiry I have become enlightened and, hence, I am able to answer
· my own question : " To whom is he addressing himself? " The answer must indeed be 2,201 non-Third World students . .
Raymond Turner
Tuft reply
T o the Editor :
I give up . Was it a joke or is there
really a D. Paul Jeffrey who actually
wrote the letter which appeared last week
in the CPJ under the title "A Tuft of
Grass?" In either case, you, the editors,
ai-e to be congratulated for two out of
three possible reasons . Four, counting
confusing me, which is easy .
'
One: If it was a spoof. it tops anything
I have ever seen in ' tl;le letters column of
the National Lampoon . If it was a spoof.
you have effectively synthesized what, for
me, is an Evergreen stereotype.
.
Two : If it wasn' t, the CPJ editors have
shown a lack of discrimination to rival
the college's pa\tern of recognizing nearly
any intellectual , indeed neural, emotional,
physical. or instinctive response as valid
production appropriate to an institution
of higher learning . Jeffrey's (and others')
apparent oppositon to covering certain
potential grass-producing areas of earth
with cement at Evergreen makes very
· little sense. Grass does no t grok walking
by large numbers of students on their way
from hither to yon. , It does not grok, it
dies . What is left is mud. Witness the
areas on the small lawn adjacent to the
clock tower where relatively few people
stray off the cement. Perhaps Jeffrey et al
were not around three plus years ago
when there was little cement and less
grass but lots of mud to walk on (in?).
Three: Congra tula lions for finally
eliciting a typographical but no less
convulsive sob from me. This is a
reaction not to one letter but to a type
w hich has proliferated in the CPJ. If the
primary purpose of the "Letters" column
is to provide a public for the creative
writing of ou'r legions of enfants de libre,
· then I withdraw my rhetoric, abdicate my
position and ap<;>logize on the dubious
grounds (no pun intended) of ignorance.
But if its purpose is (the cliche is
unavoidable) to facilitate the intelligent
exchange of ideas (e.g. try militating for
more efficient planning of walkways: less
cement and in the right places, or try
using a less self-defeating approach to
altering the social values which allow a
system based on political deviousness and
money-is-power goal orientation to dominate presumably beneficient institutions,
etc. , etc.) then let's have a little more of
that and less jacking off all over the pages
of the school paper.
Peter Vogel
P .S. Not that I'm against masturbation,
for chrissakes.
'
ReJection decried
To the Editor :
I was shocked to read in the November
7th issue of the Journal that Chuck Harbaugh, a candidate for a faculty position
in the Developm~ntal Learning Program,
was refused employment because he is a
homosexual, and an outspoken proponent
of an unpopular idea.
The facts, as they were presented in the
Journal. seem to indicate that the deans
are guilty of blatant discrimination on the
basis of sex, and suppression of free expression of ideas.
It appears that the deans, in making
this decision, were not guided by their
concern for maintaining a climate of academic freedom, and the free exchange of
ideas at Evergreen . Neither were they concerned with Mr. Harbaugh's constitutional
rights to freedom of speech, and freedom
of thought. The notion that allowing Mr.
Harbaugh to express his ideas here as a
faculty member would be an endorsement
of his ideas is an absurdity. It would be
an, endorsement of his right to free
speech .
The political 'reasons · for this decision
are obvious. Evergreen is so desperate to
preserve its image of respectability that it
is willing to sacrifice its principles of academic freedom on the altar of rtoncontroversiali ty.
There is great danger when an institution feels that it must censor itself to
avoid outside censorship. Overt censorship is identifiable and discredits the censor. Self censorship is more insidious . It
discredits the institution that does the self
censoring, and is just as effective as overt
censorship in repressing freedom. By censoring itself, Evergreen may insure institutional survival. but at the price of having
made itself an institution not worth preserving.
This issue raises quest1ons that are of
vital importance t0 the Evergreen community. This decision should be the subject of careful community review . If we
allovy this decision to stand unchallenged,
then the freedom to express unpopular
ideas at Evergreen will be in jeopardy . ·
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In Brief_
STUDENT UNION
IN THE PLANNING STAGES
Plans for a ·student union have been
formulated by a student group as a result
of their meetings throughout the past
weeks. The announcement was made at
the Wednesday noon meeting which took
place in the Board Room on the third
floor of the Library building. These plans
are the outgrowth of concern about
student roles in decion making at
Evergreen.
This group of students wilf issue a
"Student Manifesto" on Monday, November 18, outlining the general issues
involved. Don Martin, a student involved
in the process, stated at the Wednesday
meeting· · in regard to the manifesto,
, "Generally I feel that we have to make a
really strong statement about the interests
, of students, especially in terms of how it
relates to economic and power relationships ." Specifically, Martin referred to the
fund allocation of the Services and
Activities board and the process of faculty
hiring.
,
A hearing will take place on Friday,
November 22, at i in CAB 110. An
information table will be set up several
days prior to the hearing in the second
floor of the Activities building to answer
questions and gather input to add to the
agenda for the hearing. Another planning
meeting is scheduled for tomorrow,
November 15, at noon in the board room
on the third floor of the Library.
Tomorrow's meeting is open to all
interested students.
RAPE AWARENESS WORKSHOP
TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK
Rape Awareness Week, a five day
workshop to consider and study the
Eroblems of rape, will begin Monday November 13.
The workshop, open to women as
well as men, will include speakers, films,
panel discussions, self-defense and a
demonstration of TaeKwonDo.
Evergreen staff and students have been
organizing the workshop and will sponsor
films "Rape Awareness," "Rape A
Preventative Inquiry," and "No Lies."
Psychologist Maureen Saylor from
Western Washington State Hospital Sexual Psychopath Program will discuss
problems of rape.
Subjects which will be encount.ered in
November 14, 1974
the workshop as a whole will include
medical, moral , ethical, legal, and
psychological aspects of rape as well as
physical and mental self-defense.
A bulletin board across from the
-Women's Center on the third floor of the
Library building has been set up posting
all information on the workshop; there
will be program schedules available on
Monday.
DEANS ISSUE
CURRICULUM 'COOKBOOK'
Partly as
of interest
process at
can affect
a response to the recent surge
in the curriculum planning
Evergreen and how students
that process, the academic
charge of curriculum planning at Evergreen, explained that the main function
the cookbook provides is to put down on
paper what the processes are, "but there
are some procedural changes too. From
now on the deans will write to the
coordinators of a program explaining why
their program was rejected ."
Another revision in the curriculum
process is that, each year, a certain number of programs will be repeated from the
preceding year "to relieve us of having to
try and plan the entire curriculum from
the ground," Martin explained. The decision on whether a certain program
merits repetition will be made by the
deans "with faculty and student input. "
Perhaps the most interesting innovation
in the academic planning process described in the cookbook is the formation
of a "curriculum planning wall," designed
by students Jenny Matkin and Paul Luttrell. The wall is. a gigantic bulletin board
located, in the lounge outside the deans'
offices in the Lab building, on which any
member o( the community - students,
faculty, staff - may post ideas and proposals for coordinated study programs.
"It's an opportunity to read what's going
on in people's minds," commented an intern working in Martin's office. The proposals posted on the wall should be "reasonably formal," she stated. Guidelines
for proposals are contained in the cookbook.
Copies of the cookbook are available
from all faculty and budget heads, program secretaries, in the library and the
student services area, and from the deans
themselves.
'MAD PAINTER' P ARDON~D
Curriculum wall begs for contributions.
deans have issued a booklet entitled "The
Geoduck Cookbook, or Program Planning
Among the Evergreens." The booklet describes itself as "designed to help clarify
and to aid the process of academic program planning.
"It describes, " continues the introduction, "the primary functions community
members perform in that process and it
shows the relationships among the people
who carry it out."
Academic Dean Rudy Martin, who is in
The "Mad Painter" who anonymously
painted both signs on the campus
parkway met Wednesday morning, November 13 with Director of Facilities Jerry
Schillinger to discuss the future of those
signs.
_
Mack _Smith, acting as the initial gobetween, persuaded Schillinger to allow
the painter to come out in the open so
that he could finish the signs. Last summer when one of the signs was painted
the 'first time, Schillinger had called the
work "vandalism" and expressed the possibility of taking action against the painter
if he had been caught.
In the last few months, however, Schillinger revised his position on the act, calling for a campus-wide contest to redesign
the signs. He realized the fruitlessness of
·erasing the signs saying, "Apparently
they're not going to be left plain cement."
Now a contest to design the signs has
been set up with all entries due by "November 27 in the Journal office, CAB rrn.
306. The selection will be made by a campus-wide vote through the Input Resource
Senter the week after Thanksgiving when
all designs will be exhibited. All drawings,
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continued from preceding page
paintings, or written plans should be designed for practicality and artists may
consider that the lettering on the signs
reading "The Evergreen State College"
may be somewhat rearranged .
The following is a letter from Schillinger responding to the "Mad Painter's"
letter requesting "a full pardon. "
(See interview and letter in the Journal,
Vol. 3, No . 7, November 7, 1974, page
15.)
Letter to the Mad Painter:
I agree that the present condition of the
two entrance signs leaves much to be desired. Since your latest attempt, I have received nothing but unfavorable comments
about what you have done to the signs.
Perhaps the finished product only reveals
the lack of light, not the lack of talent I really don 't know . Be that as it may, I
simply cannot accept your offer of "finish~ng " these signs, as I have solicited design
rdeas from anyone who is interested in
assisting in the selection of more appropriate ones . Someone may come forward
with a much better solution than yours
for improving the signs, but I am offering
you the same opportunity as I have
others.
lt is interesting that you ask for a
pardon in exchange for "finishing" the
signs. Isn 't that all one way - yours?
What does Evergreen have to gain besides
your ideas alone? What about the many
people who have expressed a dislike of
what they see? Do we ignore those people
who took a responsible approach to adding "something" to the existing signs? You
chose not to take the responsible route
and now ask to be rewarded for it.
Since you have such confidence in your
artistic ability , let's see how you fare
when your design is judged along with
those of others. I'm throwing the challenge back to you. Can you handle it in a
responsible way?
Jerry Schillinger
NO EQUIVALENCY DISCLAIMERS
AT EVERGREEN
The equivalency disclaimer issue at Evergreen is dead, for the present. According to several faculty members, the disclaimers are not being used this fall . An
option open to individual faculty members, the disclaimer is an arrangement
that frees them from translating program
work into course equivalencies for credit.
In the past, the use of equivalency disclaimers has run into numerous problems .
In one case students' signatures were
forged on the forms ; in another the forms
were used without the students' knowledge, leaving them with no measurable
credit at the end of an academic year. Additionally , the forms themselves have
been criticized as tortuous, cumbersome,
and difficult to understand.
When asked about the use of disclaim-
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Faculty member Merv Cadwallader"The faculty . .. would be too em barrassed
to use them again ."
Martin or Cadwallader, however. Faculty
member Chuck Nisbet strongly defends
their use and indicates that he may use
them in future coordinated studies programs. In addition, Nisbet insists that
" there is no issue" surrounding disclaimer
use.
A copy of the disclaimer goes into the
student's portfolio and can cause serious
consequences when it comes to getting
credits transferred to another school, admission to graduate school, - or a civil
service job. And although the issue rests
for the time being, official policy still allows for their use in the future.
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"The faculty who used them last year
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again this year." Dean Rudy Martin
agreed, saying, "I don't think they (the
faculty) want to fuck with them ."
Not all factuly members concur with
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Lee Riback, former special productions
manager for radio KAOS-FM, has been
appointed new station manager for
KAOS by the station's advisory board.
Riback will replace Joe Murphy, who has
served as station manager since the beginning of summer quarter .
" We are preparing ourselves in all ways
fo r our expansion to 1,000 watts early
winter quarter," said Riback . The preparations include revamping the engineering
studios, training new staff members, and
setting up responsive programming, he
said.
This week KAOS staff members should
be working on their addition to the
Program Guide. By Monday, November
18, each staff member should have a program card ready and attend the noon
meeting at the KAOS station where the
staff photo will be taken. Any questions
can be answered by Cindy Stewart, the
new program director.
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CAMPUS NIGHT CLUB TO OPEN
Saturday , Novemer 23 will be the
opening of Headrest, Evergreen's own
night club . The night spot was organized
by United Entertainment, a group of
students from the Minority Economic
Development coordinated studies pro .::
gram, and will include live music, beer,
wine, and a menu of varied ethnic dishes .
The Secret Life of Sound, a Seattle jazz
group, will be playing opening night. The
five-member group includes pianist Mike
Ephron, who has performed with guitarist
Jimi Hendrix, and Gary 'Peacock, a bass
guitarist who has played with trumpeter
Miles Davis.
Alan Karganilla, director of the project,
says fu ture groups will be booked according to the musical tastes of Headrest
clientele. "We're going to offer jazz at
first, but we plan to keep ourselves
flexible enough to respond to other
musical tastes as well, " he explains .
Headrest will be open, for a small cover
charge, to all Evergreeners over 21 years
of age . The club located on the fourth
floor of the Library building will be open
from 8 p.m . to midnight, two Saturdays
this quarter, November 23 and December
7, and possibly every Friday and
Saturday night starting winter ·quarter.
The only problems Karganilla forsees for
the new club are "money and a liquor
license" which they are in the process of
obtaining.
S&A BOARD SELECTION QELA YED
The final selection for the new 19741975 Services and Activities (S&A)
Review Board has not yet been made due
to difficulties in interviewing the first
person on the required computer list of
possible candidates .
According to S&A bylaws, the first
person whose name appears on the list
must be interviewed before the selection
process can continue. S&A secretary
Sharon Brogan began the selection process
three weeks ago, but has not been able to
get in touch with the first person on the
list .
The final selection will be made by
Ftiday, November 15, and made public at
the Information Center. The first board
meeting will be held before the end of
November.
-PRACTICE
CLIMBING WALL PLANNED
building the practice area .
Construction will commence in stages
and provisions will be made for freeclimbing routes and routes where artificial
foothold / handhold objects can be used.
When totally completed, there will be five
different climbing paths encompassing dif-
will be devised in order to secure maximum safety. Climbers will not be allowed
on the roof at all ; solo climbing will only
be allowed if a second individual is there
to render support ; all climbers must wear
hats; the climbing wall will start ten feet
above the ground ; and equipment will be
put away when not in use in order not to
attract the curious and inexperienced .
DEADLINE FOR
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
APPROACHES
The new practice climbing wall, on
east side of the Recreation building.
ferent directions and obstacles.
One of the biggest concerns regarding
the construction of the climbing wall was
the safety / liability factor, said Hiltner.
Fortunately, the college's present insurance
premium will not go up due to the new
facility, but a Climbers' Code of Ethics
The "tentative final deadline" for the
Journal's literary supplement is November
15, according to the supplement's editor,
Stan Shore.
'
The supplement will contain artwor~ ,
photography, poetry, and prose by Evergreen sludents. Although published by the
Journal, the editorial control and layout
design will be separate.
"The reason why we call the deadline
both final and tentative," said Shore, "is
that I hope that this deadline can be the
final one - so the issue can be out before
Thanksgiving. On the other hand, if it's
decided that there is not enough writing
or artwork to put together a good issue,
then reluctantly the deadline will be extended.
"If you want to be sure that your work
will be considered for publication," he
concluded, "try to get it in awfully soon."
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the formation of the mountain climbing
practice wall on the east side of the Recretion building. The intention of the facility
is to provide exercise for artifitial aid
climbing where bolts will be used instead
of natural indentations, according to student Fred Hiltner of the Activities building Outdoor Kiosk. Pete Steilberg, director of campus activities, and the Evergreen Climbing Club ate planning and
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Faculty Candidate Rejected
'Avowed Gay Llberationlst,' say Deans
BY WENDY KRAMER
In a highly controversial decision
Chuck Harbaugh , a candidate for a
teaching position in the Developmental
Learning coordinated studies program,
was rejected by the deans last week, due
largely to the fact that they felt that
Harbaugh, who is gay, was too
outspoken an advocate of gay rights. In a
·memo to the faculty of the program, they
spelled out their objections to Harbaugh,
including that he was an "avowed
liberationist" and that Evergreen is not
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"ready for Chuck. " Following the decision
steps were begun immediately by the Gay
Resource Center and the Ombuds/ Advocate Office to challenge the rejection
formally .
What seemed at first like a routine
process became charged with emotion
when the reasons for the deans' rejection
of Harbaugh, outlined in a November 5
memo, were revealed as being primarily
related to Harbaugh's gayness.
"Our feeling was that we were free to
fill the position any way we chose", said
faculty member Bill Aldridge.
Students in the program promptly
suggested Harbaugh, a counselor-therapist
at the Stonewall Residential Treatment
Center in Seatle, which deals with
alcoholics.
Members of the program interviewed
Harbaugh and overwelmingly approved
him . "I was awe-struck with the beautiful
way in which he fielded questions, " said
Aldridge. "He's exactly what we want."
His name was formally submitted to the
deans .
Two weeks went by with no word from
the deans, so Aldridge contacted them
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and was told formal interviews would be
held to determine whether or not
Harbaugh would be hired. Six faculty ,
members were hastily requested to
conduct interviews, most of them without
the knowledge that Harbaugh was being
considered for a one-year appointment.
"I was impressed with Chuck's frankness, his dedication to teaching, and his
grasp of the 'Evergreen approach' and I
think he would be a definite asset to the
program, " said Peggy Dickinson in her
written evaluation of Harbaugh . ' Tm
strongly in favor of hiring him to work in
the Developmental Learning program ."
Three other faculty members also
expressed their feelings in writing. Leo
Daugherty said, ,.,I believe he is a very
gifted young teacher -- one who combines
the best of process-oriented humanistic
education with tough-minded expectations
of students . This, at least, is what lies at
the heart of his written and spoken
rhetoric : to be a truly confluent educator. "
"I found Mr . Harbaugh forthright and
apparently capable, and that he presented
himself exactly as one would expect from
his file ," wrote Richard Alexander.
"Apparently he has to offer exactly what
George Dimitroff and Bill Aldridge want
for their Developmental Learning program. So, I can see no decent reason not
to hire him, on a one-year basis, to do
the specific work that is wanted in
Developmental Learning. Indeed, I think
there are very good reasons to do that,"
h~ continued .
"Chuck appears to be a fine, intelligent
guy who might be quite valuable to
Evergreen ," said faculty member Burt
Guttman another member of the inter- ·
viewing team. "I felt that he appeared to
be very well qualified for the kind of
thing he does. I felt that under certain
circumstances he would be a very good
asset for the faculty . His general style
allows him to relate very well to the
students he has to deal with.
"I think the issue of homosexuality is a
red herring," he said in his written evaluation. "We have to start asking what
differences make a difference in teaching,
which is what we're trying to do here. I
would not like to see us introduce
sexuality as a criterion for hiring or for
teaching ability. "
Most of these faculty members were
under the assumption that Harbaugh was
to be hired for a three-year contract. The
. Faculty candidate Chuck Harbaugh [ center left 1 is the focal point of the controversy. Faculty member Bert Guttman
[center right 1 is one of the faculty who
interviewed Harbaugh before he was
rejected by the deans. The Gay Resource
Center Steering Committee [top] meets to
discuss their grievance filed with the
Ombudsl Advocate Office, whose members Andy Ryan and Susan Finer
. [bottom] confer.
November 14, 1974
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deans had failed to inform them it was for
one-year only : "I think this was due to
the fact that it was all so rushed, " said
Daughtery . "I don' t think there was any
Machiavellian plot involved ."
What the Memo Said
On November 5, a memo was sent to
faculty members Bill Aldridge and George
Dimitroff, written by Willie Parson for all
the academic deans. The memo listed six
•reasons for the rejection. It reads as
'follows :
"1. We are fully aware of Chuck's
· convictions and what he publicly stands
lfor and feel that the College's hiring him
~ would indicate willingness to have him
: co m municate his strong beliefs on
:campus.
• "2. We believe Chuck not to be a
· counselor who happens to be gay, but
: one whose gayness is an important and
r strong part of all he does and all he says.
We are, therefore, uncertain that the in-
learning' program with a small faculty .
We believe that , because of Chuck' s
strong convictions, he would be better
suited to an advanced program with three
or four faculty where there would be a
likely balance of viewpoints and personality .
A Swift reaction
Reaction to the memo came swiftly
after Dimitroff and Aldridge forwarded it
to the Gay Resource Center. Representatives of the Center went to the
Ombuds / Advocate Office, a new organization designed to facilitate grievances
brought by the college community, and
filed a formal request with them to
investigate the situation. Craig Conner of
the Center called the memo, "a pretty
blatant case of discrimination because he
(Harb_augh) is gay" .
The Gay Resource Center took issue
with the memo on all points. They felt
the rejection based on the issue of gayness
Harbau gh himself responded to the
memo by saying, "I am the subject of~_
none of which is about my qualities or
capacities as an instructor. I feel quite
disturbed about how other people view
me as a gay person . I am active in gay
politics, but I didn't know I was an
'avowed liberationist' . I find it funny that
the college is ready for a gay Festival but
not for a gay faculty member."
"I am somewhat sad," he continued,
"and concerned about the gay faculty and
what they are feeling . They have chose to
remain silent. "
Harbaugh received his letter of rejection
two days after the memo was sent out. In
three sentences he was informed of the
decision and asked if he wanted his files
to remain active for future considerations.
He has not yet replied.
On Tuesday, November 12, Dean Lynn
Patterson met with people from the Gay
Resource Center and Ombuds / Advocate
Office to discuss the matter. Patterson
said the memo was not intended to be
The academic deans-Lynn Patterson , Willie Parson , and Rudy Martin.
stitution is ready for Chuck.
"3. We realize that the College was
perhaps 'ready' for a Gay Festival. But the
current academic deans are not reacfy- to
make a highly symbolic step .
"4. Chuck is a avowed 'liberationist'.
Were he to come to work here, we believe
there would be pressures to enforce an
understanding that Chuck operate in a
r ole that separates him from his
'liberationist' role. This , we believe,
would be unfair and unrealistic.
"5. Chuck has made it clear that his
interes t is in a regular, continuing
appointment at Evergreen. We believe
that it would be unfair and unrealistic to
consider him for a visiting position for the
rest of this year, given his interest in a
continuing appointment, and given our
Reduction In Force policy which would
prevent him from being considered for
one year following the time he would
work here. We also believe Chuck' s
committments elsewhere require a clear
notion of his possible future here at
Evergreen . We are not willing to commit
to any future here for him ; we believe it
would be misleading to pretend otherwise.
"6. Finally, we believe Chuck would be
unsuitable for a program such as
Developmental Learning in so much as it
is a basic, 'get your head together about
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was discriminatory and offensive. They
have requested formal mediation with the
deans as of November 19 , dean c'
developmental services, and Cathy Burnstead as their choices for mediators . This
was sent to the deans for their acceptance
or rejection . The deans can reject those
choices and submit their own to the
Center. This process is repeated until both
sides accept the choices of mediators .
Bill Aldridge disagreed with much of
the memo, especially points five and six .
Upon learning of the Reduction In Force
policy of the college stating "that up to
10% of the total faculty positions be
designated as one-year 'Visiting Faculty'
positions, to be filled only by persons
who would not consider a second-year
appointment under any circumstances,"
and that a person could not re-apply for a
position until one year after the
appointment , Aldridge spoke to Harbaugh, who had expressed a desire to be
appointed for a full three-year contract.
Harbaugh made the decision to apply for
the position in Developmental Learning
anyway with that knowledge in mind.
Aldridge also objected to item six of the
memo which stated that Harbaugh was
unsuitable for the position irt the
program . He felt Harbaugh "couldn' t have
been a better candidate."
read by anyone other ,t han the faculty of
Developmental Learning . " I guess we
didn't expect, naively, that those faculty
members would share that kind of
in-house information, and it's my belief
that they did. "
She also said that the word "liberation1st" was not meant to connote something
negative, but merely to express the deans
perceptions of Harbaugh . Patterson reiterated that the issue of his strong beliefs
was something the deans did not feel they
were ready to openly endorse, and that
appointing him would be an indication of
support. Dean Patterson also stated that
although the memo was written by all the
deans, she didn ' t feel comfortable
speaking for all of them at the meeting .
No Comment
Later in the week, Patterson would not
make any statements nor answer any
questions . Dean Rudy Martin also refused
comment saying, "We've pretty much said
it. That's all we have to say right now. "
"I will make no comments on any
questions", said Dean Willie Parson when
.asked.
None of the deans wouid elaborate on
their tnemo, cat.~sing some resentment on
the part of the people involved in the
situation.
"This decision is a dangerous preceCooper Point Journal
dent," one member of the Gay Resource
Center said earlier in the week, "because
the wording of the memo may indicate
that if this decision is upheld, no new
faculty who are hired here could make
strong statements concerning sexuality,
human liberation or anything ." ·
There has also been some disagreement
over the process in which faculty are
hired for one-year and special appointments. Some have been hired with no
formal interviews and others have not
been notified that they cannot re-apply
until a year after their appointment. 'The
process is totally arbitrary, " said a
member of the Ombuds / Advocate Office.
"We don't want to be ~ evasive," said
Martin when questioned. "All the talking
we're doing is repetitious and serves no
use for no end." Vice-president Ed
Kormondy supported the dean's decision.
"If there are feelings, I support the deans,
and I have not had reason to question
them. "
There have been unconfirmed reports
that faculty members supporting Harbaugh have been pressured by others in
influential positions at Evergreen. These
have prompted a reply by Craig Conner
of the Gay Resource Center. "I think it
would be terrible if the administration
came down on the faculty that are
supporting us," commented Gay Resource
Center member Conner. "It would be a
strong denial of everything Evergreen
stands for."
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Meetings to be Held
The Gay Resource Center plans to hold
steering committee meetings throughout
the week in an attempt to resolve the
situation . They have called for an
all-campus meeting Thursday at 3 P·~ ·
On the third floor library balcony .
According to one Gay Center member,
due to the unconfirmed reports of
harassment of Harbaugh's supportt;!rS ,
they have been unable to get any faculty
members to speak .
The Gay Center has drawn up a four
point list directed to the deans . In it they
demand:
1. That Harbaugh be hired for the
position as recommended by the Development;il Learning program .
2. That the deans present a formal,
public apology to Harbaugh.
3. That the deans publicly repudiate,
point by point, the six articles of their
memo .
4. That the deans adopt a policy that
prohibits discrimination on the basis of
political ideology or sexual orientation for
future faculty and staff candidates.
The issue is far from settled. The
outcome of the Gay Center's actions will
not be determined for several days at
least, and action from other fronts may
be forthcomin g . Harbaugh commented
Wednesday, "I have been in conference
with my attorney. "
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213 EAST FIFTH, OLYMPIA
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 , decisi o n-making , record
keeping and information dissemination have been inadequate ."
As a result of their deliberations,
an "Ombuds-advocate office" has
been est abl is hed 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
re solving or are interested in
working with the office (two positions still open ; application deadline : November 15), stop by the
o:fice, or call us at 866-6496.
World
Watch
By Members of the Evergreen
Political Information Center
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BY EVA USADI
On November 2 Hortensia Allende,
widow of the slain Chilean leader, spoke
to :l;Jproximately 750 people assembled in
the Unitarian Fellowship in Seattle. Her
speech was translated
by Joe Morray, a
lawyer from Corvallis, Oregon, who has
traveled extensively
in Chile for the past
several years. She
. wa~accompanied by
20 bodyguards.
- Mrs. Allende first
addressed herself .. t.Q
the plight of the (:hilean working class.
Since the coup in Chile in September of
1973, unemployment has risen from 4 to
15 percent, which means that over one
million people are without work . Inflation
has risen to seven hundred percent annually. Agrarian reform and industrialization have been curtailed; 20 percent of
the public employees have been fired.
Dawson . Island, in the Straits of Magellan, near Antarctica, is a prison camp
. where senators, members of the chamber
of deputies, labor union leaders, professors, two rectors of universities, and all
ex-ministers of the Socialist government
(Unidad Popular) are being held. Winds
are 120 miles per hour, there is no heat.
Prisoners are forced to get up at 6 a.m.
every day, and must cut trees for posts
for electric lights. They must sing military
songs while they work . Many have lost
bclwt:e!l 45 and 65 pounds. In all of
Chile, there are over 19 thousand prisoners in an estimated 60 concentration
camps, not. to mention the 30 thousand
who have already been executed (two of
whom were U.S. students). Mrs. Allende
said, "All Chile is a prison from the
North to the South . . . There is no
human right that has not been trampled."
She spoke of Tejas Verdes, a women's
prison, in which rape is a regular occurrence. Women are often separated from
their husbands ; their
children left with
friends or strangers.
Women, as men, are
held without charges,
without legal defense
and without trials.
They are given from
20 years to life in the
prison. They are also
tortured . Mrs. Allende touched the audience with a moving
thourh harsh account of one instance of
torture in Chile as was applied to a 15-
Guest Commentary
Working for a Living
BY RALPH SEELEY
An institution such as Evergreen should, and does, attract more
creative students than the average bell-ringing-every-hour school.
Many of these people will eventually try to earn their living from
what is commonly thought of as art: music, writing, photography, painting, etc.
I am disturbed by what I hear from a great many of these people around the campus. They are bitter. "Artists everywhere are
starving," they say. "Great genius goes unrecognized while
Mickey Spillane makes millions ." Or, most common of all, "You
can't break into the field if you are .. . (here insert woman,
black, minority, unpublished, unknown, 'college student, etc.)'."
One word sums up my feelings about such things: Bullshit.
America today pampers her artists. Grants, scholarships, and
awards abound. Sinecures are legion, though they are rarely
called such . Never before has it been so easy for an unknown to
get his foot in the door with edi.t__o rs and publishers . . . if he has a
quality manuscript in his hand. Note I said quality manus_cript,
not just manuscript. (I speak in literary terms because that IS my
field. The parallels are obvious.)
Recently a student was complaining because no one in the
movie community in California would give him any time. He had
no experience, and could say nothing about himself to a producer
or director to indicate that he was serious about pursuing the
craft; another dilettante asking annoying questions and wasting
time. would be anyone's logical conclusion. The young man's next
comment was, "I don't believe in paying dues. It's just an ego trip
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on the part of the film producers. 'I had to do it, now you gotta
do it."'
What he doesn't realize is that millions of people would like to
earn a living in the arts. It is what most people conjure up in their
heads when you say "The Good Life;" no time clock to punch,
self-expression in your daily work, fame or at least a picture in
the local paper once in a while.
Robert Heinlein claims that half the adult, literate population
say they want to write . From my experience, I would say that is
true. Yet a survey done by the Author's League of America a few
years back revealed only 400 people in the country supporting
themselves and their families entirely from the proceeds of their
free-lance writing. Whyl_
There will always be people whining about the unfairness of the
literary Catch-22 - can't get published without an agent, can't get
an ·agent without being published. It is good. The more people
sniveling and the less working, the more likely it is that I will be
able to stand up under the competition. These people never think
of showing up on an agent's front porch with ten stories, a novel,
a partially completed second novel, and three sensational articles .
They write two or three stories and quit.
So if you're planning to make a stab at supporting yourself with
your art, be prepared to pay the price. If you make a legitimate
effort and fail , you've still got your perfected craft to fall back on,
and let';; face it, we're not all geniuses. I include myself in this potential list; if my novels don't make it, I can still construct an
English sentence, so I'll be a craftsman rather than an artist. It still
beats working for a living.
Ralph Seeley is a working author who recently started as a
student at Ev ergreen .
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year-old girl. The girl was stripped, covered with garbage, and assaulted by rats.
Others have been given electric shocks,
and been burned with cigarettes.
Mrs. Allende made an appeal to the
"women of the world" to "raise their
voices in detense of these women. " To
this effect , there is a petition being inter- ·
nationally circulated protesting the mistreatment of women. After 5 million signatures are obtained, it will be presented
to the United Nations and to the Vatican.
After her speech, Mrs. Allende opened
the floor for questions. Most were directed to the present situation in Chile,
United States involvement (CIA) and
what , if any, action the Chilean people
are taking to protest the continuing violence and suppression in their country.
It has been widely publicize-d that the
CIA contributed anywhere from 8 to 11
million dollars towards the overthrow of
, Salvadore Allende's Marxist government.
Radio and television programs have been
.financed by the CIA President Ford
openly defended the CIA's role in the
coup . He said United States interve~tion
was "necessary in ·the interests of the
countries involved ." Mrs. Allende added
that United States in tervention in Latin
America involves not only Chile, but
Guatemala, Santo Domingo, Brazil, and
in the future, Venezuela and Equador are
distinct probabilities.
According to Mrs. Allende, the Chilean
press, and the Congress are suppressed by
members of the Junta, whose four generals run everything.
In response to a question about the
activities .of the Chilean . people, she
explained that they are conducting strikes
· in mines and nitrate plants, sabotaging
equipment and military machinery, and,
most encouraging, that the people refrain
from spending money of the eleventh day
of e:very month ·__ the anniversary of the
coup.
According to NACLA's ·Latin American
report (May-June 1974 ), the resistance in
Chile has taken many forms. Because of
the mass popular consumption of noodles,
workers are secretly adding 300 extra
grams of noodles to each package, which
not only alleviates, to a small degree, the
misery of hunger they are subjected to,
but effectively disrupts the profits of large
industries and merchants . Industrial fires,
supposedly accidental, have destroyed the
Industria Multiplas, and the warehouses
of the firm Fuentas y Cia, both known for
their brutal exploitation of their workers .
The resistance committes have mobilized the large seg ments of the petit
bourgeoisie, the small proprieters, merchants, bus and truck drivers, in an
attempt to combine the forces of the
people .
The Chilean people are not easily
fooled. They are not bearing their
oppression in silence. They are speaking
out and act-ing against the exploitative
'brutality of the · junta dictatorship very
November 14, 1974
loudly . In the words of a resistance
committee pamphlet, "The dictatorship is
not invincible. Only the strength of the
people, of the workers, of the farmers ,
peasants, and students is invincible. "
One of the more revealing questions
asked of Mrs. Allende was how the
Chilean people feel about the American
public;. Mrs. Allende made it clear that
they make a distinction between the
United States government and th e people
of the United States.
I feel that we, too, should make that
distinction . In order to carry Mrs .
Allende' s observation to its logical
conclusion , we should support the
Chilean people, and oppose the present
Chilean government and the United States
government's policies towards Chile and
th e rest of Latin America .
Ou,r action should take the form of
letters to Pinochet (leader of the
dictatorship ), asking that all political
prisoners be freed , and that labor unions
be allowed. His address is :
Int. Lt. General Pinochet'
Edificio Diego Portales
Santiago , Chile
Also, the Fair Trials Committee for
Chilean Prisoners, a group of concerned
Chil ean and American lawyers , need
moral and financial support. They can be
contacted through:
Joe Morray
Corvallis, Or~gon
503-752-7191
Check the Evergreen Political Information Center (EPIC) for additio nal
information.
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Announc·e ments
e Laura Moqrehead, a longtime political
leader· in the Black liberation movement,
will speak at Evergreen today , November .
14, in Lee. Hall 3. The time of her speech
has been changed from 3:00 to 4:30p.m .
beca use of a conflict with an all-campus
meeting.
Moorehead was a candidate for U. S.
Congress in the 37th · district in 1972 and
for the California Attorney General's office in 1974 . She is currently a national
committee member of the Young Sodalist
Alliance .
e The Women's Drop-in Center is now
open from 1 p.m . to 3 p.m . every day fo r
women to talk to other women a nd counselors. Located in Lib. 3214 beside the
Women's Center, it will be staffed by
women from the Center and one paraprofessional from Counseling Services.
e A new program for student and faculty
exchanges between several other experimental colleges began this fall. The program, called the Network for Al ternatives
in . Und ergraduate Teacher Education
(N.A.U .T.E.) , is designed to facilitate
teacher education, as well as to provide a
breadth of academic env ironments in
Board of Trustees room (Lib . .3109) .
which students can pursue their specific
interests.
For those interested in the program
there w ill be a meeting on Wednesday,
November 20, at 7:00 p .m . in CAB llO,
or contact Pat Beckmann in Lib . rm . 3232
or 866-6019.
• The Unity Forum Series, a program
conceived and developed by Evergreen
student Chuck Shelton, an intern with the
World Without War Council of Seattle,
will exami~e the relation between
Chris tianity and war.
Per$ons desiring more information can
call Shelton at 866-5206 or go by Mod
318 B.
.
• A meeting will be held on Wednesday,
No vember 20 at 3 p .m. in Lib . rm. l 610
for persons interested in a proposed group
contract for next year entitled Jews and
Israel.
Ted Gerst! , sponsor of the contract ,
says it is open to ~ ll students, not only
those of Jewish ancestry. The proposed
three-quarter contract will study history,
language, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and cul ture; culminating in a
three-month stay in Israel, where students
will live on a kibb utz, wor.k on an
arch aeologica l dig, a nd further their
studies.
Interested students can contact Gerst! in
Lib. rm . 1610 or call him at 866-6616.
• Prevention of breast cancer will be the
topic of a rap session at the Thurston
Mason Health Department on Wednesday
November 20 from 3 to 5 p .m.
The session will include a film and a
§.peaker from Reach to Recovery, a group
of. women who have experienced mastectomies and give assistance to women
recovering from such an operation .
Evergreen women are welcome to the
session in the Department's conference
. room . Additional information may be
obtained by callin g Mary Looker at
753-8076 .
e There will be a meeti ng of all persons
in terested, to decide on films for the
winter quarter Friday Night Film series on
Wednesday, November 20 at noon in the
• The Citizens for a Sane Energy PoliCy
have scheduled a Public Meeting for
Monday, November 18, 7:30 p.m . at the
Ol y mpia Community Center, Rm. 3 .
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OVER THE RAINBOW
Evergreen students hail from across the
nation, so it only stands to reason that all
kinds of fishermen reside here . Surely
there is so-meone who has drowned
worms in the tepid waters of the Mississippi or one of her famous tributaries in
search of the short-sighted but long-smelling catfish.
stantly cast and retrieve, while plunkers
do the bobber trick. Both constan tly blow
on their hands and stomp their feet.
Volumes have been written on the art
of catching steelhead . Don' t believe a
word of it. It is really a .game played with
two teams, plunkers and drifters . It all
starts by everyone lining up along a
stream in a cold rain - the game is called
off in the event of sunshine. Drifters conNovember 14, 1974
hook,
sexual
in the
heads
If you're playing for the piunkers, you
get points by snagging drifter's lines,
knocking the players themselves down, or
splashing them with the icy water. Lesser
ways of gaining points include kicking
tackle boxes, spilling coffee, scaring wives
and kids, etc. Naturally, if you are play'ing for the drifters, you zeto in on the
plunkers. Points are awarded for leapi ng
fires, no matter who claims the fire.
Someone on this campus has fouled a
brand-new $4.98 lure in some bushes
while trying to cast under them for that
elusive mossyback bass. There may even
be a few people from somewhere west of
the Pecos who have actually mastered the
art of casting a fly to a rising trout.
Saltwater fishermen are no doubt
legion ; be their quarry snook in the Gulf
of Mexico , blues off Cape Cod, or albacore out of San Diego, they all have at
least boats in common, if not hundredpound test line.
Any enthusiastic fisherman coming to
the Northwest is going to be exposed to
the legend of the steelhead trout. Let this
serve as fair warning: there is no such
thing as a steelhead. The entire myth
seems to have been invented by t.ackle
manufacturers and rainwear companies.
Consider that the steelhead is supposedly a rainbow trout that gets some unexplainable urge to swim down the river
and go to sea. Now, anyone who has
·spent as many hours as I have carefully
casting a fly to a full-grown rainbow has
too much respect for the intelligence of
the animal to believe that he would leave
some sparkling, clean, gurgling mountain
stream where, incidentally, he is the
biggest thing around and therefore king .of
the pool , and swim down into some
murky , salty, polluted body of water like
Puget Sound where every other shadow
turns out to be some fifty-pound King
Salmon looking for a trout dinner. It just
doesn't make sense . Not to mention the
' fact that a trout's diet is almost all bugs ; I
mean, how many times have you seen
anything resembling a number 18 Ginger
Quill flitting across the water a half-mile
off shore?
it seem·s that when· a salmon feels a
he deciaes that all that customa ry
foreplay and get-down-to-it action
home stream isn't worth it , so he
for the saltwater.
A play starts when someone hooks a
salmon. The signal for the start of' the
play is · the scream , " One on!!' With that,
the person w ho has hooked the salmon
starts running downstream after the fish ;
In two seasons of "Steelheading, "
have scored many points. I have also contracted several colds, and one time my
hands got so cold that I couldn't play the
piano for three days. I have spent a total
of $3~ odn "Steelhhea~l gear." I finally accumulate enoug pomts to warrant an
invitation from a more experienced player
to come o,ver for a "Steelhead dmner:· lt
was an outstanding dinner, exactly like a
hundred other salmon dinners.
So when the season arrives, if you want
to play an exciting game; try "Steelheading. " Just don;t expect to catch a steelhead.
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Cinema/ Frankie Foster
OUT OF TOUCH
To communicate effectively an idea or
mood,. a filmmaker must be ' in touch '
comes almost insurmountable. Sometimes
this leaves the original impression buried
under the technical problems so deeply
that they are lost. This is at least in part
the problem behind Rockaday Ritchie,
which comes as a complete surprise to
with the audience. If a filmmaker could
easily transfer the image in his or her
mind to the actual film then the worst
problem would be solved. But in the making of a feature film that problem be-
those who are familiar with · George
Hood's earlier work .
In spite of the film's shortcomings, it
does contain moments that · indicate a potential that didn't survive throughout the
Rockaday Ritchie and the Queen of the
Hop
Directed by George Hood
film . Some examples o(this were the segment of Laura learning to smoke and the
chase sequence. However, the picture has
several bad miscalculations that will
prove as deadly to audience reaction as
Ritchie wa_s to his victims.
The screenplay on the whole didn't.
seem to have a point or move in any real
direction . If Ritchie had a goal to reach,
something that might help us think that
he could possibly escape , then ther~
might have been a chance for suspense.
But his journey was a rampage, each
move off the top of his head . The worst
mistake, and the ·first solid indication that
the film was dangerously out of touch
with the audience, came after the rape
and murder scene. Once Ritchie went this
far I could no longer identify with him .
But the film is momentarily saved when
Laura sees the occurrence and I adjusted
my identification to her.
Later back in the car it seems that she
has rejected him, but then she moves over
and kisses him. With this, she too steps
past the line and I suddenly found myself
· watching a film with no protagonist, and
spent the rest of the film getting more and
more whacked out by the violence on the
screen .
Even with a poor screenplay to work
with, several chances . for improvement
were nevertheless overlooked in the editing, which in general was quite loose .
Several hundred feet could be cut just by
tightening the existing scenes. ln addition,
I felt whole pieces needed removing. For
example, the sections with Ritchie in his
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cell at the end and near the middle 'don' t
give us any new information and only repeat over and over Ritchie's feelings,
which were made quite clear in the beginning. A different editorial problem occurs later in the film, as it feels like it's
going to end several times before it does.
Here some careful trimming and the use
of dissolves instead of the fade out - fade
ins might help tie the sections together
better.
·
, F11rther disappointments came in the
camera work, make-up, acting, and lighting. Each contributed to throwing the film
out of touch with the audience, leaving
the viewer exhausted and angry . The film
is too painful to be boring, which is perhaps its strange way of communicating. It
clearly states that the SO's weren' t the
good old days and makes us as frustrated
watching them as it might have been to
really experience them .
The first public screening of Rockaday
Ritchie marked a new experience for me,
and perhaps for some other Evergreen
people as well . Through the nature of the
event and the contents of the film, a
tenseness was generated that I have never
known to occur at a film showing.
At the afternoon lecture both filmmaker
George Hood and his earlier work were
well received by the audience. But at the
evening showings of Rockaday Ritchie
many people walked out. Those that
stayed recorded their feelin gs on a questionnaire and could ask the director questions. If the reaction of the general public
to Rockaday Ritchie parallels the overwhelmingly negative one of the Friday
Nite Film Series audiences, George Hood
unfortunately has a commercial failure on
his hands .
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TheaterI Cecile Henau It
DESPERATION GOSPEL
Godspell, a musical based upon the gospel
a.ccording to St. Matthew.
Conceived by John - Michael Tebelak .
Music and n ew lyrics by Stephen
Schwartz.
Godspell is playing at A Contemporary
Theater (ACT) in Seattle. The ACT is an
_intimate theatre that does justice to an al-
ready fine performance of Godspell. I object to the play itself and the reason can
be found in one of the lines from the
play, taken from the gospel: "Don't make
a show of your religion before man. "
I imagine the play's author Tebelak
sitting down one night reading the Bible
and wondering why, after nearly two
thousand years, the wise words really
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writes an interpretation of those words, a
simple interpretation. It appears that he
doesn't listen to his own words from the
play: "You can ' t serve two masters,
money and God," and, "If they ain't
gonna listen to Moses and the prophets,
they ain't gonna listen to nobody."
I can't deny the appeal of Godspell. It's
been around for a while and it's been performed in a lot of places. The smiling
faces of the old men clapping in the audience are a sure indication of the enjoyment it brings. But it seems to be like topforty AM radio. It's so blatantly loud that
everyone can get it and who cares that it
took little imagination to write it, and
takes none to view it. The actors recite
the words of St. Matthew, then like poor
teachers, interpret in simplistic slang.
The flashy, chaotic, clashing colors of
the actors' clothes attract the attention of
the audience. There are even some catchy
tunes. Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord
and Day by Day are my favorites and excellently done this time by William Witter
and Gail Herbert with the rest of the company in chorus.
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The play works. People wait in box
office lines in their fancy clothes, willing
to pay money (up to nine dollars a ticket
in Boston) . They allow themselves to be
led on stage to drink the wine the actors
serve (an interpretation of the Sermon on
the Mount or just a friendly gesture?).
They applaud with enthusiasm . Godspell
fail!! as an artistic play. It brings no new
consciousness to the life of Jesus or the
words of St. Matthew.
ACT does a fine job with Godspell .
The appeal for a theater company to the
play would seem to lie in the tremendous
amounts of energy required. That energetic constant motion is exciting to watch.
But after a time it becomes tedious and
only serves to point up the sense of desperation that permeates the play - a desperation necessary for a play which only
repeats the words of a work which has .been around for so long.
If you do go to see Godspell, make sure
you catch a look at the keyboard man
back of the stage. His enthusiasm with his
music is a refreshing contrast to the attempts at blissful smiles on the actors
playing Lord devotees.
Cooper Point Journal
Cinema
Dr. Strangelove, the Stanley Kubrick
satire about the nuclear destruction of the
world, will be broadcast this Saturday,
November 16, at 6 p.m . on KIRO- TV
(channel 7) . According to a recent interview in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner,
Kubrick claims to have based many aspects of Strangelove's personality on U .S.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
•
Friday Nite Film : Triple comedy feature ; And Now for Something Completely Different - Monte Python's zany
group of young, hip, British comedians
has been compared to the Firesign Theatre
only Python is sillier. Also Sergeant Swell
and Vicious Cycles.
Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, a film
about fascism in the United States, will be
shown free , tonight, November 14, at 8
p .m . in Lee . Hall 1.
Evergreen Coffeehouse (ASH commons,
Sunday night) : The original · Phantom of
the Opera, starring Lon Chaney .
Academic Film Series (Tuesday, Lee.
Hall 1): Wild Child - Francois Truffaut's
film , based on a true story, about the
education of a French child who has spent
the first part of his life completely isolat.e d
in the woods.
The State features two films worth
seeing this week (believe it or not): Conrack - An underrated but excellent film
starring Jon Voight as a schoolteacher
struggling in an all-black school on a poverty-stricken island off the Carolina
coast ; and The Paper Chase - Timothy
Bottoms and John Houseman star in the
true story of what it's like to suffer
through Harvard Law School.
Capitol: Where the Red Fern Grows
and The Neptune Factor.
Olympic : Wonder of it All.
In Concert
Applejam : Tonight, November 14, the
Sweet Adelines, "bringin' the best of barNovember 14, 1974 .
bershop singing from turn-of-the-century
America ." Friday, Tom Kneipp and Sara
Jones playing and singing traditional a~d
contemporary folk songs. Saturday, an
evening with Dave and Flip Auer and
Friends, performing a variety of material
from folk to fifties rock and roll, accom.panied by a variety of instruments .
Famed classical guitarist Jeffrey Van
will give a free performance at Evergreen
tonight, November 14, at 8 p .m . in Lee .
Hall 1.
Evergreen Coffeehouse (ASH commons): Friday, November 15, Rainbow
Alley, an experimental folk ensemble. Saturday, live entertainment.
·
Exhibits
Evergreen Library Gallery : The paintings, drawings, and prints of Charles
Stokes, James Hibbard, and George Johanson will be on display through November 29.
SEATTLE
In Concert
Deep Purple will appear at the
Coliseum on Saturday, November 16.
Tickets are now on sale for the Helen
Reddy concert at the Seattle Arena on December 5.
The Gregg Allman Tour and Cowboy,
featuring Boye·r and Talton, will appear in
the Seattle Center Arena on Sunday, November 17.
On Stage
Seattle Repertory Theater: A Grave
Undertaking, a new work by Lloyd Gold .
Empty Space Theater : The Alchemist
runs through December 21.
Pioneer Square Performing Arts Association theater : Dr. Calagari, by Seattle
playwright Yankee Johnson.
A Contemporary Theater: Godspell
continues .
Opera House : The Martha Graham
Dance Company will perform Friday and
Saturday evening, November 22 and 23 .
Friday, the featured work will be Cly-
temnstra, a full-length ballet. Saturday,
Diversion of Angels, Night Journey, Er:
rand Into the Maze, and Appalachian
Spring.
Dance Theater Seattle presents its fall
concert series Friday through Sunday, Nq~
vember 15 to 17, at the Poncho Theater
in Woodland Park .
TACOMA
Cinema
The 1975 American Film Theatre series,
scheduled to run from January 27 to May ;
20 in Tacoma's Lakewood Theater, is now :
taking mail orders for season tickets . This :
season's plays on film will be Ber t old ~
Brecht's Galileo, Jacques Brei Is Alive and :
Well and Living in Paris with , Brei himself, Alan Bates in David Storey's In Cele- '
bration, Maximilian Schell in The Man in
the Glass Booth, and Glenda Jackson and
Susannah York in Jean Genet 's The
Maids . Information can be obtained from
The American Film Theatre, P .O . Bm<
P-11 , 10 Pelham Parkway , Pelham·
Manor, New York 10803.
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In Concert
The University of Puget Sound Cham- :
ber Orchestra pres!'!nts its premiere con- ·
cert of the season on Friday, November ·
15 in the University's Jacobsen Hall. Robert Musser will be the featured soloist in
Benedetto Marcello's Concerto in C ~
Minor.
Court C Coffeehouse : Mr. B's Revue, a ~
modern jazz quintet, performs Mondays ~
and Tuesdays. Friday, No v ember 15 , ;
Caitlin, Irish-American string trio, w ill i
appear. Saturday, Mick McCartney per- i
forms .
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On Stage
Ann Sado will present an informal dem-:,
onstration of Kabuki, a Japanese classical
dance, at 4 p.m . Friday, November 15 in
Kilworth Chapel on the · university of
Puget Sound campus. Free.
Frula , Yu goslavian Dance company ,
will appear in concert Saturday, Novem- •.
.ber 16 in the University of Puget Sound .
Fieldhouse.
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ANNOUNCING
Applications for the positions of
Cooper Point Journal
Editor and Business Mana~&er
now beinll accepted.
The positions of Editor and Business Manager of the Cooper Point Journal will be vacant at the end of Fall Quarter and The Evergreen State. College Board of Publications is
now accepting applications from students who are interested in serving up to one academic year, beginning Winter Quarter, in these positions.
The Publications Board will make its selection on the basis of the following items. Applications for Editor and Business Manager should provide any information concerning
these qualifications where applicable .
1) Experience . 2) Overall journalistic or writing training . 3) Overall education.
4) Ability to provide leadership . 5 ) Ability to use competent judgment. 6) Proposed program for producing a fair, accurate, well-balanced and high quality production.
Applications should be submitted to Lib. rm. 1602 no later than 9 a.m. November 22.
For information regarding applications, the positions, or the Publications Board contact
Margaret Gribskov - 866-6702; Bill Hirshman or Knute Berger at the Journal 866-6214.