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JOURNAL
Volume IV Number 10

Moratorium:Crisis Clinic?

by Jill Stewart / Chris dowser
How do Evergreeners deal with issues
of crucial, community-wide significance?
A new precedent was set in the form of
a two-day campus moratorium held Nov.
24 and 25.
The moratorium, for which most academic activities were canceled and staff
and faculty were excused to attend, was a
student-originated response to several
matters of crisis-level concern. They included the lack of student participation in
governance and curriculum planning; circulation of rumors about faculty member
Merv Cadwallader's proposal to restructure Evergreen; and an abundance of general ignorance concerning how decisions
are made here, and what impact students
actually have on curriculum planning.
"We had a specific mandate from the
students," said student Marcel Hatch,
head of the "teach-in" logistic committee.
"Our purpose was to explore and discuss
the issue of governance — how decisions
are made at Evergreen, and not the decisions themselves."
The first day consisted largely of explanations of curriculum planning, the
COG document and its relation to the
Third World community, dean selection,
the board of trustees, the budget and the
state legislature. Three-minute open-mike
statements were also entertained.
Activities Tuesday included reports
from the previous day's group spokespersons; more small group meetings to arrive
at solutions to the problems, and a final
community-wide meeting for resolutions
for future action.
Motions, tablings, counter-motions and
points of information tangled the closing
group meeting. The final tangible result of
the moratorium was a resolution calling
for a group of interested students to revise
and simplify the welter of of ten-overlapping proposals made by the small groups
for a campus-wide vote Wednesday, Dec.
3 (see story this page).
One goal of the teach-in was to create
an on-going group of students, faculty,
and staff to continue working with the
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ideas. A large portion of the participants
were interested in forming this group as
soon as possible.
The problem with creating a representative body in the next few weeks is that
the faculty and staff involved thus far do
not necessarily represent their respective
groups. Many faculty and staff disagree
with what is going on; others are
confused; some are mildly curious; some
are not aware of the situation at all.
A representative group, while representing minority positions, must also speak
for the majority, and nobody seems to
know what the majority is thinking.
Other suggestions for this continuing
group ranged from a group contract to an
open meeting. A group contract at this
late date may be difficult to obtain and
tend to become isolated from the rest of
the school. On the other hand, large open
meetings to discuss everything from COG
revisions to faculty hiring could easily
become frustrating and stagnant. There
were many other ideas, but the above
suggestions seemed to be the most
plausible, although none of them are
perfect.
Many people were concerned not with
the structure of the group, but what the
group would do once formed. While there
were probably scores of ideas, two were
vocalized more than others.
1) The advisory model was brought up
several times — a group which would,
through town meetings or similar gatherings, find out what people thought on
issues and advise the administration
accordingly. Although this group would
not have decision-making power, some
hoped that it would open practical line of
communication between the administration and the students, faculty and staff.
2) Counter-arguments were that the
administration would not listen to this
group or any other group as long as the
administration has full decision-making
power. These people felt that a body with
decision-making power should be formed.
A problem arises at this point. By state
law, the Board of Trustees have ultimate
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Student Resolutions
by Chris Carroll
About 150 students appeared for yesterday's Teach-in Follow-Up meeting, organized to decide on a specific set of resolutions and guidelines out of the proposals
developed at the Teach-in on Nov. 25,
and to establish a group to carry out the
work of the Teach-in.
The crux of the meeting was on
adopting one of four proposals written by
the planning group in response to Dean
Lynn Patterson's resignation from her
curriculum planning desk, and Provost Ed
Kormondy's subsequent formation of a
short-range curriculum planning group to
carry on Patterson's work.
The proposal accepted said that
students should acknowledge the formation of these curriculum planning groups
and select student delegates by a
procedure determined at this meeting.
Also, select at this meeting a process by
which the groups will conduct their
business and insist that the delegates be
included in the membership of these

groups and this process be followed by
them.
A motion was made to accept this
proposal on the basis that it was the only
proposal strong enough to prevent
Kormondy from ignoring student recommendations and to insure fair and equal
representation on the short-range curriculum planning groups.
Some students, questioning this proposal, argued that "we can only speak for
ourselves" in regards to the legitimacy of
student representation by the people
voting on the proposals. Also expressed
was the idea that, in light of the short
amount of time left to decide, that the
group make recommendations for procedures and selection, and then, if the
recommendations aren't followed satisfactorily, stronger actions could be taken.
A vote of 96 in favor of proposition
four, 50 against, preceeded an open floor
comment by Ed Kormondy.
"I do not feel," he said, "as an officer
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December 4, 1975
authority in decisions made here. To
grant that power to a group of students,
faculty, and staff or any other group
outside the Board would require a change
in state laws which, if feasible, would
take years.
However, there are possibilities for
modifying the system without challenging
the law. COG can be revised, as can the
social contract. This, however, is all
decided by the Board of Trustees who
until now have apparently had no
involvement in the event of the past three
weeks.
Estimates from the logistics committee
placed attendance for the first day at a
consistant 850 people, while the second
day ranged from 700 present to 400 and
less at the very end of the proceedings.
Faculty member Joye Peskin saw the
teach-in as a positive influence. "My only
regret is that students didn't get more
support from the faculty," she said.
Hatch said he felt the real benefit of the
moratorium was as a starting point, in
addition to the respect for democratic
organization that was fostered. "Our task
now is to continue organizing, not to
sidetrack with the diversion of COG III,"
he said.
Student moderator Sheron Buchele was
pleased with the results of the moratorium, but admitted, "We are not a slick
group."
The single greatest handicap during the

entire series of group interactions was
undoubtedly the use of parliamentary
procedure during the final few hours of
resolution. Nobody suggested a better
method of dealing democratically with the
complicated issues, yet time and again the
spirit of the conference wavered in the
face of a mind-boggling display of stalling
tactics and other procedural intricacies.
One student criticized what she saw as
the exclusivity of the large group
proceedings, saying, "those 25 people up
at the microphones aren't representing me
or my views."
A great deal of energy was spent.
People became confused, anxious and
tired. Large group meetings, small group
meetings, planning meetings give the
impression of endless talk. People will
argue that the moratorium was a waste of
time; however, a few concrete things
were produced: the M & M Manifesto by
Dave Marr and Rudy Martin, the
beginnings of support for a student union,
initiation by McCann of a COG III DTP,
ititiation by Ed Kormondy of both short
and long-range curriculum DTF's.
Perhaps most importantly, people were
educated. The barriers between programs
fell away little by little as physical science
buffs mingled with sociologists. Students
have begun to understand governance at a
school where many thought COG meant
part of a wheel.

COG: A Critique

Evergreen is reaching a critical impasse.
Frustration with the way the college is run
and decisions made threatens to disrupt
the educational process altogether; and if
action is not take now, next year will be
worse.
Problems surrounding curriculum planning, faculty hiring and firing, adjudication of conflicts, implementation of
reports are symptoms, but the root of the
problem is the COG document.
COG was an ill-fated document from
the beginning. It was the first written four
years ago before the school had started,
when the library building was not yet
built, and when there were not more than
a dozen students on campus. These
students and a few staff members created
COG. When school had started and COG
was introduced at a mass meeting, most
of the people present were too busy with
the educational policies of the new school
to pay any attention. During the
following years it went through several
minor revisions including COG II. At no
time did students profess much interest in
the document.
COG is often represented as an
enlightened document which conforms to
the needs of a progressive school like
Evergreen. It is supposedly pragmatic.
According to COG, the President and
Board of Trustees must be "recognized" as
those having the "responsibility" for
"institutional direction." The governance
document also states that "Oligarchies are
to be avoided." However, Evergreen has
only one oligarchy: the administration.
No other oligarchy has a chance of
existance. The possibility of actual
community decision-making is never
really entertained in COG.
Of course, certain decisions have to be
made by the administration and Board of
Trustees. However, the real governance
issue at the college goes much deeper than
this. There are many levels of decisionmaking at a college and only a relatively
small number of decisions have to be
made by the administration alone. Most
decisions can be made at lower levels or
by the community as a whole.
Curriculum planning is a case in point.
Under present procedures, students have
the option of input — Dean Lynn
Patterson established consultative pools
and curriculum walls — but in the end
students have very little actual say about
curriculum decisions.
In the introduction to the governance
document, some of the things, which,
according to COG, must not characterize
decision-making at Evergreen are made
clear. "The Evergreen community," COG
states, "should avoid fractioning into
decision-making constituencies with some

sort of traditional representative government; e.g., faculty senate, student council." Everyone knows the problems with
traditional representative government, yet
one cannot help but wonder about a
system which is directed from the top
without any representation taking place at
all. Why shouldn't there be groups that
represent the faculty and students? Are
decisions that are made by voting
necessarily bad? A voting system is not
being advocated here, but it does have the
advantage of bringing people into the
decision-making system.
Another serious problem inherent in
COG is the input procedure. To obtain
input, an administrator may charge a
Disappearing Task Force (DTP) composed
of staff, faculty, students and administrators to gather information and implementation plans to solve a specific
problem. The DTP itself has no power.
Once it turns in its report it officially
dissolves. This system may be convenient
but it is worthwhile to look at one of its
consequences. When the Non-white DTP
turned its report in it sat for months on
one of the "administrative" desks. No
attempt was made to implement it. And
since the DTP had dissolved they were
no longer in a position to pursue the
matter. The administrator concerned is
obligated, COG states, to act on DTP
proposals at the "earliest possible time."
But who is to define when that is?
The adjudication procedure in COG has
been a dismal failure. One of the few
times in which the All-Campus Hearing
Board made a decision (the Affirmative
Action controversy over John Moss's
appointment as Personnel Director) the
Board of Trustees supported the administration and overturned the decision,
making a mockery of community decision
making.
(researched by Mary Hester)
The next few Journals will be
smaller in order to (you guessed it)
save money. We will be running an
8-page paper until about mid-January to keep our debts at a reasonable level. Color will be run only
when paid for by advertisers, as is
the case in this issue.
The final Journal for this quarter
will be published on Dec. 11. The
first paper for Winter Quarter will
be Jan. 8.
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WHY PICK UP THE TORCH WHEN THE FLAME'S DEAD?
To the Editor:
Contrary to popular opinion,
Dogma is not, and never has
been, related to Alpo. Contrary
to popular opinion, the abbreviation for Episcopalian is not Epic,
which ^also has nothing to do
with Homer or Jason and the Argonauts. The sky is not falling,
although the rain is, and politics
are not toys for children to tangle with. For the edification of
those in a time warp, the year is
1975, not 1967, 68, 69, 70, or
71. Like clockwork, with the
first realization that it's going to
be another wet, gray winter, students go at it again — drawing
up signs (the poor trees), running
off fliers, scheduling discussions,
which will break into smaller
groups, finally coagulating into
some sort of phlebitic clot which
will hopefully fix the ills, change
the way it is. I have to smile.
Castaneda calls it Controlled
Folly, but it's a sad sort of srnUe
nevertheless. The human race
was not designed to appear like
chickens without heads, but I
guess everything goes awry when
you get frustrated.
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to go to college so they could get
drunk and vote Eisenhower into
office. Now, college students
who were too young to be there
in Chicago in '68, be there in
People's Park, be there for May
Day, be there with Mario Savio,
contend with HUAC, work at
Port Huron, dream about when
they will get the chance to be the
fighter, be the champion, be the
college politico. In terms of the
movement, these people are
"dead weight liberals," the diehards who think that it's their
place to pick up the torch, even
though the flame is out. It amazed
me last year when "The Strawberry Statement" was shown
here how many people looked at
the glamour, theater tactics of
the revolution, and walked out
with some crazy notion that
"that's what it's all about," or
"that's what we have to do." Algeria didn't ge its freedom sitting in movie theaters watching
people in the struggle sit in Administration Offices. One day,
after the pain couldn't go on,
when lots of people knew who
they were, the streets filled, with
Algerians "yipping" at the French
bayonets that couldn't control
them. Unlike a day of the locust,
they danced in the street, and
the word STRIKE had meaning,
because it was a celebration, the
TRUTH of solidarity rather than
a "show" of it. Algeria's freedom
had meaning because the struggle
was real, not some toy, and
people, REAL people, did what
they had to because it felt good,
without the floundering that
seems to be the radical chic, a
more distasteful word than Liberal, that goes on and on here in
the woods.
The "REVOLUTION" had
meaning because for the first
time, America was experiencing
the tests that we all had to make
to see what we could do, how to
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the oppression still goes on, the
world still feels the effects, but
people, REAL people, came to
an understanding as to what had
to be done, what to do in the
future. The two key words in the
last couple of sentences are
REAL and DO. Real, meaning
true to one's self, because an INTROSPECTIVE, not EXTROVERTED, process had to occur
in order for one to feel good and
valid in what one DID. DOING
was the point of the movement.
Not meeting in groups to discuss, and discuss, and discuss the
dilemmas that will be there for
quite some time, especially if we
don't go INSIDE ourselves to
check out who we are, why we
do what we do, and PRODUCE
things, DOING more and TALKING less. Dory Previn says it
best, "Let's stop talking, talking,
talking, wasting previous time,"
while she sings to her lover, not
her precinct captain in the Revolutionary Brigade. More than
anything, most "heavies" in the
movement that I knew: Michael
Rossman, John Sinclair, Carl
Oglesby, Jeffrey Hadein, and so
forth, are working, REALLY
working, learning skills, doing
films, building houses with
happy workers, writing and honing their language so the words
won't be wasted, so the energy
won't get dissipated.
I saw a sigh tonight that said,
"Business as usual is trivial compared to . . ." The " . . . ." part
had to do with meeting to discuss the "NEW WAVE" that Evergreen is supposedly undergoing, ' as if "Evergreen" is some
strange, mechanized mass of nonhuman entities that don't have a
will or ability. Evergreen, in this
sense, is not the group of structures that sit in this neck of the
woods. Evergreen, in this sense,
are the people that walk around
and nod to you, teach you,
make love to you, don't make
love to you, touch your lives.
LIVING is what it's about. No
meetings or defined systems are
going to be what EVERGREEN is.
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can't do anything to you that
you don't let them. You, as individuals, don't have to - be the
sheep led to the slaughter if you
decided to receive yourself rather
than follow (I hate to say it) the
"flow."You use your skills to
learn what they know, which I
don't think is the issue. No one
questions the faculties' abilities in
terms of their worth. If a faculty
member is inept — which there
are some — the issue is getting
rid of them and getting better
people to take their place so students can learn. Cadwallader,
Alexander, and others are not
being confronted because of their
skills — they know their shit.
They're being confronted because
people are afraid they can control them, manipulate their lives,
which can't be done if selves decide to maintain their integrity.
One doesn't maintain one's integrity by making new systems on
other people's turf.
This is part of the STATE system, and surely no petitions at
this school are going to topple
the leanings of power, no matter
what designs are offered. They
make the rules, they OWN the
rules, so don't think that they're
going to give you anything that
isn't equally as oppressive. The
reason the Revolution didn't fail
is because people realized that
they could go through the reevaluative processes, the REAL
social change that happens when
a person decides to yield to his
or her own feelings, thoughts,
desires, whether they are in some
bureaucracy or not.
If your consciousness can handle it, you are the determinant of
your own life if you're willing to
receive that capacity in yourself.
Nietzsche called it a "Sacred 'I
will.'" Otherwise, you just end
up being the product of umpteen
Vogue Magazines, countless
Nightly News reports, too many
"It's cools."
One is the product of one's experiences, but one can finally
comprehend the fact that he can
change the course of his or her
life if he choose to relate to the
same things differently. Books
can teach you things if you
bother to read them. Words can
help you if you learn to master
them. Creations can help you express the things that only you
know and feel, instead of coming up with the status-quo actions, the BLUE JEAN ARMY affectations that are no more individualistic or free than the
dress codes or business suits of
those who you too easily call
your oppressors.
How you feel about things
isn't really determined in the
public marketplace. Ten individuals, all contending with their
own achievement orientations
and glamour egos, almost always
are more than the spokespeople
they are chosen to be. The group
will is not socialistically or democratically determined. Typically,
the few who are willing to
confront in a group, the very
few, determine what '.he "nodders" will agree to. I'm not so
concerned with the talkers as I
am with the nodders. When
you're confused and feeling unsure about the way things are,
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grasp at straws, which is most
easy in the crowd, sitting and
trying to believe in something
that sounds good and will help.
That ain't the way you get to
know whether it's for you or
not. Almost always, it gets you
into the fray without gaining the
truth or insights you need to get
on and DO what you do. It all
has to do with certainty in action. Praxis isn't determined in
the group. It's determined in
your bedroom or somewhere else
where YOU are the issue rather
than policy decisions or whatever.
It just isn't as easy as mass
meetings to really flourish in any
system. Stop looking out while
your're forgetting to look in.
Oppression and the State can't
affect you as much if you first
figure out why and how to be
who you are. Some day, if we'd
all DO what we really believed
in, the wars would end because
we wouldn't be willing to fight
in them. If you channel your energy into things that you have
some ability to determine, such
as your lives, Algeria could be in
Seattle. The issues are there, but
first we have to PERSONALLY
deal with them.
School first has to be amassed,
learned, before you become the
teacher and administration that
makes it right or wrong. The
women's movement can't be a
movement without it also being
the men's movement, where the
real learning and change comes
out in the relationships that you
make or break instead of at the
level of group versus group. Polarizing, "grouping" it, only adds
to the confusion. We don't have
all that much time to throw
away on the mass meetings. You
have to deal with the basic ele- *
ment of the problem.
You can't talk about minorities, you have to deal with the
Black, Chicano, Indian, Oriental,
et al, PEOPLE, not groups. You
have to change it all by DOING
it rather than theorizing and
mapping it out as a plan of action. The table in the cafeteria
isn't really that frightening to go
over to and talk to the one you
need to learn from, rather than
talk about the group he or she
belongs to. Alinksy knew what it
was about. Grass roots means
basic, not massive. Margo St.
James has it — CALL OFF
YOUR OLD TIRED ETHICS. Be
real.
Do you know who you are?
That's the issue.
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The Rahda School of Belly Dancing performs traditional Middle East folk and
belly dances Friday at 7 p.m. in the Library first floor lobby.
Nancy Resinkin, the Rahda School instructor (shown above in a 19th century
Egyptian Temple Dance costume), will offer a brief history of belly dancing.
Nancy — her dancing name is Rahda — and her students will perform Egyptian
Temple Dances, an Arabic-Turkish Dance of the Harem and Greek folk dances.
"We see belly dancing as a tool for integrating the body, mind and spirit,"
Rahda said. "Belly dancing dates back to the origins of Egyptian culture."
In October, Rahda performed for an enthusiastic audience at Governor Dan
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gay, Third World, and woman community members. We encourage students,
staff, and faculty respectively to put forth
On Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Board of
Trustees meeting at 11 a.m. in Lib. 3112, representatives to the Board, but it is
unacceptable to have the two sets of
Ernest (Stone) Thomas, Lenore Norrgard
needs mixed."
and Craig Conner representing respectively
Third World people, women, and gay
people at Evergreen, will step forward to
the posts of ex-officio members on the
by Neil Marshall
Board of Trustees.
Three DTFs were charged out of last
Community representation to the Board
week's teach-in and the all-faculty meeting
of Trustees evolved from a mandate from
that took place Nov. 26.
the Third World Coalition last spring. It
The most immediate is a DTP on
read: "Act immediately to seat, as
short-range curriculum coordination which
ex-officio members of the Board of
assumes the role Lynn Patterson rescinded
Trustees, a member of the Third World
last Wednesday. That is, developing a
campus community, a member of the
balanced and well-rounded curriculum for
student body, faculty and staff." The
the academic year 1976-77. This DTP
oard of Trustees changed the request to
should convene for its first meeting
one student, one staff and one faculty,
somethime this week, says Provost Ed
one of whom is to be a woman and one
Kormondy.
to be a "non-white."
Second is a DTP on long-range
This fall, following a request by
curriculum planning. This DTP will
President McCann, the Sounding Board
examine student and faculty complaints
discussed the matter and after several
about program-planning in an attempt to
meetings voted 17 to 3 that the ex-officio
assess what changes need to be made over
members should be autonomous, reprethe long run. The major question is
senting the Third World, women and gay
whether Evergreen needs to offer radically
people at Evergreen.
different programs, or simply to plan the
Immediately following the decision by
programs in closer conjunction with
the Sounding Board, the organizations
students and student interests.
each chose representatives to be introThird is a DTP to re-examine the
duced at the Nov. 17 meeting of the
governance structure at Evergreen. The
Board of Trustees, which was cancelled
focus of this DTP should be an attempt to
with two days notice.
institute structures that will foster wider
In a joint letter to the Board, Stone
community involvement in decision makThomas, Lenore Norrgard, and Craig
ing than do the current institutions.
Conner state, "We have decided that our
In all these DTFs ther is a problem with
gay, Third World, and woman representasiphoning energy and interest from the
tives must be chosen by ourselves and our
all-campus meetings.
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exist for as many as five students who
would be interested in the Jews and Israel
group contract — and interested in a trip
to Israel spring quarter.
Ted Gerstl, coordinator of the program,
said he hopes to take about 15 students
with him to Jerusalem by March 20.
Gerstl says students who enroll in his
program at Evergreen by Jan. 9 will spend
winter quarter gaining a perspective on
Jews in America, on world Judaism, Zionism and Israeli history, the Arab/Israeli
conflict and other topics pertinent to an
understanding of modern Judaism.
Students unable to enroll winter quarter
can still participate in the three-month
trip to the Holy Lands, Gerstl says. "Persons interested in going should contact me
as soon as possible, so they can complete
the admissions process at Evergreen, obtain passports and complete other procedures necessary before departure."
During a 12-week stay, students will
work on a kibbutz for six weeks, spend
one week each in the Sinai and Ein GediMassade field schools, tour and study in
Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv-Haifa areas.
Estimated cost of the trip is around
$1,300, which includes transportation, expenses and instructional programs sponsored and subsidized by the Israeli government. For more information, contact Gerstl in Lib. 1610, or call 866-6616 or 8666413.

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Transportation.
The building was awarded first place in
a category called, "Outstanding Examples
of Highway Oriented Public or Private
Enterprises Which Preserve the Environment."
The competition judges said the building (not the company) wasf constructed to
blend in total harmony with its environment. Just a great place.

STUDENT ECOLOGY
RESEARCH
Results of months of student research
on a variety of ecological field problems
will be reported in two days of public
meetings at Evergreen, Dec. 8 and 10.
Twenty-six students — 21 women and
five men — from the "Evergreen Environment" program will report their results
Dec. 8 in Lecture Hall One beginning at
8:30 a.m. and running into the afternoon.
Reports will be on: two different studies
of the puzzling Mima Mounds; six studies
on the natural history of the Nisqually
Delta; and one survey of plants and animals on Evergreen's campus.
Wednesday, Dec. 10, beginning at 11
a.m., students involved in undergraduate
research projects funded by the National
Science Foundation Student Originated
Studies Program will report their findings
in Lecture Hall Two. The presentations
will examine: possible re-introduction of
the wolf to the Olympic National Park;
distribution and bio-magnification of
polychlorinated biphenyls (a family of
toxic industrial chemicals) in Southern
Puget Sound; and distribution and abundance of lead and cadmium in the vicinity
of Kellogg, Idaho.

continued from page 2

MAN'S BEST END
To the Editor:
So the issue of dogs running
loose all over the campus is going to be brushed under the rug
as if it didn't matter, eh? Not if I
have my say, it won't. If you
ask me, we're due for some
Spring Cleaning right now.
Yes, I'm talking about dogs.
Dogs running unleashed all
through the campus, dogs distracting lectures, dogs disrupting
seminars, and dogs in general
bothering people. Trivial, you
say? I refer you to an article recently printed in The Daily
Olympian. "ELDERLY WOMAN
EATEN BY DOGS" was the grisly headline — the details are almost too gruesome to tell. The
article, summed up, told the
story of an aged female who was
consumed by canines. And this
did not happen in South America or India, where such occurrences are routine, but at nearby

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Kitsap County Chief Detective
William Clifton could not say
the woman had been attacked
while she was alive, neither
could he say that the dogs "only"
ate her after she was dead because they were hungry.
How long is it before we find
the half-chewed remains of some
unfortunate in one of the unused
lecture halls? Man's best friend?
Man's best end, if you ask me.
Joseph P. Bemis

OLDER WOMEN
To the Editor:
We are a group of Evergreen
and community women who are
planning a two-day conference
in April, 1976 on Older Women
and the Health Care System. The
reasons that we chose older
women as our focus are:
1) Because there has been relatively little public discussion on
this topic, and 2) we want to
open up channels between women of all ages. The health issues
of older women concern us all.
We need all kinds of input,
advice, ideas, consultation. We
welcome any women who want
to work with us. Write us at:
The Evergreen State College
Women's Center
Olympia, WA 98505
To the Editor:
I left Nov. 19th's meeting on
curriculum planning with a
strange mixture of relief and uneasiness; relief in experiencing a
potentially constructive force for
student generation of curriculum,
and an uneasiness in sensing a
feeling of rushed desperation
within some of the people present. The "faculty" is not trying
to ram anything down our
throats, not yet anyway. Haste
is destructive.
Whatever route "the process of
curriculum planning" takes, it
should not be exclusive to faculty, students, or any other
group. Only by developing a
"curriculum system" together can
• we fulfill the needs of everyone,
Tom Robison
To the Editor:
If we outlaw inlaws
only
outlaws will have inlaws.
James Douglas
continued on page 4

NEWS FROM

Feminists
Speak
THE TEACH-IN AND at TESC was discussed from the
THE TASK AHEAD
by Lenore Norrgard,
Radical Women and
Marcel Hatch,
Freedom Socialist Party
Within the last three weeks the
students of Evergreen have
brokert an administrative yoke
that has kept us long immobilized. The "rap group" model for
meetings that have always led to
chaotic free-for-alls, is the style
that the administration's COG
document recommends. When
the time came for us to take action and build the Teach-in, students initiated parliamentary
procedure. It was only through
the free and open discussion this
process allowed that students
were able to make decisions and
stand by them.
In the past meetings were endless and decisions were rarely arrived at. As a result decisions
were either made by a small
group of die-hards at late hours
or by the administration. If .decisions were made, nobody was
accountable to them and the
majority was forced to go along
with them. Democracy in meetings and decision-making at Evergreen mark the first important
victory for students from the
Teach-in effort.
POWER RELATIONS EXPOSED
The theme of last week's
"""each-In was governance. On
Monday the governance process

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perspectives of the administration, staff, students and faculty.
The major problem identified by
the staff, students and faculty
was that all decision making
power in the college rests with
the administration. The acknowledgement of this fact was a
major step to overcome in the
process of organizing for student
nower.
LINES OF SUPPORT DRAWN
On the first day of the Teachin every time unionization was
pointed to as the solution, huge
rounds of applause would follow.
People recognized the staff, students, and faculty each have to
make the decisions that affect
their education and working conditions at TESC. Late Monday
and during Tuesday of the Teachin union opposition appeared.
The union opposition presented
its arguments in the form of a
plea for the maintenance of "community." Their vague denouncements of unionization became
outright attacks on the pro-union
people, claiming that they were
out to "factionalize" the "community." In the end the "community" criers made clear their
true interests, as being in complete agreement with the administration's governance system.
They wanted the administration
to make their decisions for them.
Out of this conflict emerged the
second major victory of the
Teach-in for students. The lines
of union support and opposition
were drawn clearly.
Now with the clear support of
a large number of students who
recognize the necessity to organize to meet our needs in this institution, our task must be to
build an organization that can
do this.
A STUDENT UNION,
THE ONLY SOLUTION
A student organization that
represents the need of all students, including the special needs
of women and minorities, would

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CAREER PLANNING
by Molly Wright
If you will have a Bachelors
Degree by December 15, or
equivalent education, or significant experience, you are qualified
to apply for the position "Assistant to the Dean of Instruction"
at Olympic College, Bremerton,
Wa. Employment for this 12month position (with 24 days annual leave) begins Jan. 16, 1976.
The minimum qualifications also
include: possess competencies required for supervision and administration, and the ability to
operate with a minimum of direct supervision. The salary
range is 11,300 - 13,000. Applicants must submit a letter of application, resume, and where applicable official copy of college
transcripts and/or confidential
file by December 15, 1975. Contact Career Planning and Placement for more information — L.
1220, phone 866-6193.
Evergreen Credential Files are
no longer confidential, but they
do include the resume, letters of
recommendation, college transcripts, and a summary of academic work. A Credential File is
compiled by a senior or graduate
and sent out by this office to a
potential employer in support of
a job application or interview. It
is a good, flexible tool for presenting your background, education, and career aspirations. It is
act to unify the "community"
rather than "factionalize" it. A
student organization with democracy as its highest principle would
allow for all ideas to be heard.
An organization with a foundation of democratic decision-making means that decisions are arrived at collectively. Officers
would be bound to the collective
decisions of the whole, preventing them from acting as individuals when representing our
needs. Representatives and officers would be totally accountable
and recallable by the students at
any time. An organization of
students unified around the goal
of meeting the needs of all students at Evergreen would be unbreakable by the administration.
We would be in a position to
plan our curriculum and see that
it would get implemented.

used for employment purposes,
rather than as a function of graduate school application. Letters
of recommendation can. be from
faculty, internship sponsors, and
past employers. They emphasize
what you do well that would be
of value on the job market. The
summary of academic work is a
one page list of course equivalencies which describe the major
area of study, and also indicate
other academic work. It can be
important to employers concerned about specific fields of
study. If interested in compiling
your Credential File, we have the
resources.
Another function of Career
Planning and Placement is to
maintain the Job Board with listings of current openings primarily in the northwest. We receive
announcements from the Federal
Government, the Oregon and
Washington State Personnel Offices, and from private business,
industry, and institutions. Occasionally we hear from non-traditional employers, such as the Seattle Workers Brigade. The Brigade is comprised of the Little
Bread Company, Co-Operating
Community Grains, and the
Bookkeeping Team. They are
worker owned and controlled,
and coordinate with other co-ops
and collectives. Their purpose is
to serve the needs of northwest
Student monies would be distributed on the basis of who
needs them, not first-come-firstserved. The potential open to
students, working together, organized, and unified, is enormous. Five years of good ideas
and hundreds of students gone is
enough. COG III, IV, and V will
never give us the output we need
unless we have a student organization that will protect our interests and implement our decisions. The Teach-in showed us
our power; now we must work
to realize it.
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contact members of the bookkeeping team: Chris, Connie,
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Duties include: Responsible for
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news releases for newspaper and
radio media. The minimum requirements include a Bachelors
Degree preferably involving major study in journalism, public
relations, communications, advertising, or a closely allied field
and one year experience in journalism or public relations.
The Career and Graduate
School Lecture Series continues
this week with Paul Sparks discussing Visual Arts. Sparks, currently a faculty member at Evergreen, received his B.A. and
M.A. in Art at San Francisco
State, and has instructed at
South Western College and Portland State University. The lecture
will be on Friday, from 12 - 1:30
in the Lecture Hall Lounge. Bring
your lunch.

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WTR. QTR. REGISTRATION
Registration for winter quarter parttime studies programs at Evergreen will
begin Dec. 8.
Registration will occur from 6 to 8
p.m., Dec. 8, in CAB 110. Registration
will continue in the Registrar's Office
from 8 to 11:45 a.m., and 1 to 5 p.m.,
Dec. 9-12, and Dec. 15-19.
Following Christmas vacation, parttime studies registration will resume Jan. 5

with a 6 to 8 p.m. session in CAB 110.
Registration will continue Jan. 6-9 in the
Registrar's Office during daytime hours.
Winter quarter classes begin Jan. 5 and
run through March 19.
Complete information about part-time
studies at Evergreen — including a catalog
containting brief academic program descriptions — may be obtained from the
Office of Admissions.

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or a 24 hour visit. We need dorm and apartment students to act as host/sponsors. We will pay you $3 for
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Killer Whales

by Mark Overland
On the cover of this week's Journal is
the image of a captive Orcinus orca,
better known as the "Killer Whale." Orcas
are actually big dolphins — yes, dolphins.
Perhaps you have heard about the
hundreds of thousands of dolphins that
are dying in the nets of tuna fisherman.
These smaller cousins of the Orca may
very well be nearing extinction. "Would
you kill Flipper for a tuna-fish sandwich?",
reaUs a poster on the Information kiosk.
Orcinus orca may very well be heading
for the same fate in Puget Sound. Only
about 300 Orcas live between here and
Alaska. There has never been numerous
populations of Orcas, and after a decade
of harassment by hunters, they are rarely
seen anymore in the areas they were
known to frequent.
Since the capture of Namu, a male
Orca (1964), Orcas have been continually
hunted for live capture, and are sold to
aquariums around the world for thousands of dollars. They are the largest
single source of revenue for the
oceanariums but their mortality rate is
very high. More than half the Orca held
in aquariums have died, while at least 33
percent drowned or were killed during
capture operations. (A total of 269 have
been taken.) The - techniques used for
capture are wreckless, brutal, and
inhumane: bombs are thrown into the
water from boats that circle so wildly
around the Orca families that anyone
close by is in great danger. There is a
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total disregard for the safety of humans
and dolphins alike.
Although they can be ferocious hunters,
Orca are very gentle with humans.
However, a bad reputation has been given
them by an i.gnorant public. There is no
record whatsoever of an unprovoked
attack on human beings. At least one
diver, Mick Church, a test pilot for
underwater submersibles, swears an Orca
saved his life by pushing him to the
surface when trapped below in a net.
Orca dolphins are monogamous; they
mate for life and often nuclear families
are seen together in "pods." There is a
great deal of care-giving among them.
They have fine, well developed brains,
and their capacity and use of a complex
"language" has been established by several
scientists.
What have we done to help these
creatures? Not very much. Senator
Magnuson helped pass The Marine
Mammal Protection Act of 1972, which
was a great compromise to what was
needed. Realistically, it has served to give
licenses to the wealthy and powerful
dolphin hunters anyway. The University
of Washington now has permits to take
10 Orca for a limited time to implant
telemeter devices on them for tracking
purposes. The Greenpeace Foundation in
Vancouver is campaigning to save whales,
dolphins and seals. Subsequently, British
Columbia has declared a moritorium on
further captures of Orca. Should we do
the same?

n -:ave 1

of the college, that I can advocate willy
nilly, that responsibility. I cannot negate
the principles and policies of the current
Government Document. Therefore I have
selected the faculty and staff members on
this DTP after consulting with the
academic deans. I have not yet selected
student members for that group. I would
like to have a list of names that would
arise out of a group of this sort.
"It is important to recognize that we do
work under an existing system of
governance. That process does not allow
for an elected process. It allows for a
consultative pool and for consultation in
the process of selecting the DTP."
Kormondy declined to use his opinion
as an amendment to the proposal, leaving
the meeting with the omnipresent fact that
he intends to do the appointing, ignoring
the student selection of delegates as final.
The meeting proceeded into the
problem of composition. Adequate representation of gays, Third World and
women was advocated, as was the idea
that each delegate should represent
specific departments of the college; i.e.,
arts, humanities, social sciences, natural
and marine sciences. There was debate

that each delegate should represent all the
students, and that they should stay away
from departmentalizing.
Time was a pressing factor, and the
crowd finally dwindled down to the
handful of students who had dominated
much of the microphone time throughout
the meeting. Near the end of the meeting,
which had been extended an extra hour, it
was agreed that it would be unwise to
choose permanent student delegates at
that time, and a voluntary committee was
established to organize and publicize
another meeting where better student
representation could insure the proper
selection of delegates to be submitted to
Kormondy.
Parliamentary procedure, necessary in
maintaining order in such large meetings,
still eats up much valuable time at these
meetings, though structure is beginning to
become emphasized to a greater extent.
Student delegates must be submitted to
Kormondy by Friday, and though there is
no real guarantee that student concerns
will be met in the selection of student
members, it is, at the time, the only
viable opening given to students to insure
adequate representation in curriculum.

• All of the Dean candidates for 1976 - 77
have been invited by the Human Growth
Center to appear today, Dec. 4, from 3 to
5 p.m. in CAB 110 for "Dean 'Candidate
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B4NGING FERNS

by David Judd
One of the most popular tropical hanging house plants — that
gives a very cool atmosphere to
a room — is the indoor fern.
Numerous varieties of ferns can
grow in a home with heat and
sufficient humidity.
The "Boston" fern (Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis) is the
most widely selected hanging
fern for indoors, because of its
ability to tolerate dry heat at
low temperatures. It is relatively
easy to care f o r , requiring
minimal attention. The "Whitman" (N.E. Verona') and "Roosevelt" (N.E. 'Rooseveltii plumosa')
are similar hanging ferns which
require a little more humidity at
warmer temperatures.
The "Boston," "Whitman,"
and "Roosevelt" ferns should be
kept evenly moist and periodically misted. The best way to check
tor water is to lift the pot up
and, when it feels light (using
your own judgement), water

that it drains through the holes
at the bottom. Fertilize every six
months with a high nitrogen
solution.
These ferns need indirect
bright light to produce sufficient
lush growth. Hanging a fern in
the window is fine for the
winter; however when summer
comes along, direct sunlight will
burn the fronds.
Propagation of ferns is done
by four methods, depending on
the type of fern: propagation of
spores; rooting new plants that
develope on runners sent out by
the parent plant; division of one
plant into several rooted smaller
plants; and rooting new plants
that develop on the branches of
the parent plant.
In the case of the "Boston,"
"Whitman," and "Roosevelt
ferns, runners are sent out from
the parent plant during the
spring and summer months. New
ferns grow on these runners and
when they become several inches

long they can be clipped off and
potted into mostly peat type soil,
to be rooted within a month or
two.
Many other types of exotic
ferns — close to 12,000 species —
require more special care. "Maidenhair" (Adiantum), "Norwood
Lace" (N.E. 'Norwoodii'), and
several other rare delicate-leafed
ferns require high humidity,
making them more difficult to
keep alive in today's dry-heated
homes.
Ferns are not able to withstand
the sporadic heat in homes
which rely on fireplaces for heat.
It might be worth experimenting
with outdoor ferns instead, by
potting them into clay pots or
some sort of crate box or
container. Be sure to use plenty
of organic bark material found
in the soil outside when repotting outdoor ferns. They should
be placed near the window for
maximum light and the temperature should be cool (50°). It
might be necessary to mist them
to make up for the loss of
moisture not received on the
fronds inside.

UFW WIN
by Pat Barber
SALINAS, CALIF., (PNS)
Single men without families,
shifting from place to place
following harvests, condemned
to a perpetual life as low-paid
migratory workers — this is the
classic image of farmworkers
from Florida to California.
Now in California, farm
laborers have been offered diametrically opposed paths to
altering their lot in life — the
promise of higher wages through
the muscle of the world's biggest
union, the Teamsters, or the
struggle to break out of the
migratory cycle and become
workers with stable jobs, homes
and communities, led by the
United Farm Workers (UFW).

This is the real choice behind
the bitter Teamster-UFW fight
for the alledgiance of the
farmworkers, and the significance of the startling two-to-one
lead of the UFW over the
Teamsters in secret ballot elections held all across the state.
At the heart of the TeamsterUFW fight lies two systems of
work assignments that shape the
kind of life the farmworker
leads. The Teamster's method is
to preserve the old system of
labor contractors — the lone job
boss gathering up workers and
moving from field to field where
growers want work, with the
Teamsters supplying union officials to hammer out more secure
and profitable work.
The UFW, however, has
introduced the hiring hall, the
classic mechanism of a stable
trade union made up of permanent workers. The hiring hall
stays in one place, as do most of
the workers. It makes work
assigments according to grower's
needs — but makes sure its
members get some work, with
priorities set by seniority. While
there is no way it can overcome
the seasonal fluctuations of farm
work, the hall provides both
residents of the area and
migrants guaranteed work.
The growers like the Teamster
system because it keeps workers
migrating, freeing the ranch
owners from having to deal with
them during the off season.
More important, it leaves them
total control over access to jobs.
The UFW hiring hall, on the
other hand, gives the farmworkers a chance to enter the ranks of
the regular work force — to
settle down with families, send
their children to school, and
participate in larger community
affairs.
What the growers dislike even
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sent down from the central
office, but by ranch committees
elected by the workers themselves. If a dispute arises, a
grower can't run to Chavez to
negotiate, but has to deal with
the ranch committee of his own
workers.
What has emerged from the
UFW is La Causa — not just a
union movement but a political
struggle to build better lives. The
hiring hall itself is the center for
a host of services for the
workers, designed to tide them
over off-work seasons, provide
health care and help them with
the myriad problems of dealing
with government bureaucracies.
Each community has not only its
ranch committee, but ranch by
ranch grievance committees,
health and safety committees,
and contract negotiating teams.
It is the political nature of the
UFW which the Teamsters hit
hardest at in the elections,
putting themselves forth as a
no-nonsense union which would
deliver the goods without demanding involvement by workers on the ranches.
"Protect yourself from the
blackbird vulture," said one
Teamster leaflet, referring to the
UFW's black eagle symbol. "He
wants to swoop in and carry you
away in his dirty claws to a life
of bondages, marches, fines and
abuse at his dictorial dispatch
hall. Get yourself the best
on-the-job insurance possible, get
the Teamsters working for you."
The Teamsters — who endorse
the free enterprise, individualist
nature of seasonal farm work —
say the UFW's politics is an
impediment for workers who
want to travel fast from job to
job and make a lot of money.
Their message has had appeal —
particularly to younge workers
without families who prefer to
fend for themselves.
For this reason, the Teamsters
did well with young Filipino
farmworkers in Delano and
Santa Maria.
But as the greater than
two-to-one vote for the UFW
over the Teamsters suggests,
more and more farmworkers are
willing to put aside the shortrun, bread-and-butter gains promised by the Teamsters in favor
of the UFW's tougher road of
political involvement and mobilization. In these times of economic crisis, it is a lesson not likely
to be lost in the industrial sector,
either on management, unions or
workers.

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\y Gary Kaufman
There is a sculpture out behind
the library. It is big and heavy
and visually, it has no right to
stand. Many people have commented on, how it looks like a
giant slingshot. Others have
claimed it's a giant phallic symbol. Still others claim it represents a high point in women's
artistic expression and movement
into a field previously monopolized by men. Doug Wallower,
its creator, smiles and calls it a
sculpture.
Doug is a part of a very small,
very dedicated and very unassuming group of students in our
generally pretentious crisis-oriented community that finds
pleasure in building windmills
and then working just as hard to
tilt them. Doug is an Artist.
There are at least two other
people on campus that qualify
for the title. Both of them live
with Doug on a farm that they"
have turned into a gallery. The
pictures hanging in the Women's
Clinic are a product of that energy and dedication. Stop in
there and chat with the people if
they have time.
In October there was a sheet
steel sculpture out on the Park-

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Tumwater. Early Tumwater (?)
way. It, too, was a product of
Pioneer and Indian Uses of
that community.
Herbs and Wild Plants will be
With this reading, there should
offered at the new library
be at least one more large wood
Friday, Dec. 5 at 12:15 p.m.
and steel sculpture on campus.
A book sale will be Saturday
During evaluation week, hopeDec. 6 from 10 a.m. to [ 5 p.m.
fully, the Artists of this school
Evergreen will be the site of an
will come out and share with the
unrehearsed community chorale
community the Beauty they hold
and instrumental performance of
sacred. The key to discovering
Handel's Messiah on Sunday,
their work is to find the quiet
Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. in the Library
hidden places in our cement
Lobby.
maze. And wait. The person
Non-performers are invited to
walking by carrying a bizarre
come and listen. Musicians are
looking piece of wood or metal
encouraged to participate. It'll be
or leather or carrying sheaves of
a good event.
paper under their arms muttering
APPLEJAM:
or humming to themselves is an
Friday, December 5
Artist. Follow that person. They
Jerry Michelsen plays swing
will lead you to the Emerald
blues traditional and original
City locked beneath the trapsongs and crafted instrumentals.
pings of our, paradoxes notwithJerry participated in "Up with
standing, "alternative institution."
the Chickens" debut several
Community Events:
weeks ago and he's great on the
New England silversmithing
piano. Playing after Jerry will be
techniques and a session on gumBrian Butler pounding out folk,
drop-making will be included in
country blues and traditional
a week of programs and activmaterial on guitar to match hi?
ities that started in the Tumwater
booming vocals.
Timberland Library Dec. 1. On
Saturday, December 6
Thursday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m.,
Hank Bradley, 1974 State
Tumwater historian Jim Brown
Style Fiddling Champ, brings
will head a Tumwater Bicentenmusical tar of the jolly sort with
nial Committee public meeting.
old tunes and music gags. Doors
Included will be slides of early
open at 8. Donation is $1.00.

by Rick Speer
There is no question that television as it exists
today is banal almost beyond believability. Game
shows and soap operas are obvious examples. The
network's contempt for the viewer's intellect is even
more apparent when one looks at what's been dished
UD in the past — Comer Pyle, McHale's Navy, Petticoat Junction. What else can be expected in a commercial culture? The equipment's enormously expensive, putting the stations at the mercy of advertisers.
Both the stations and viewers are caught in a technological trap.
Lately, however, things have begun to change. The
introduction of "portapaks" — inexpensive, mobile
TV cameras and recorders — in the late 1960's made
the technology more available. Significantly, serious
artists began to explore and experiment with the new
tools.
This has been going on for about eight years, long
enough for museums to begin holding retrospectives.
The And/Or Gallery in Seattle has been doing this
recently, with the help of a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts. I went and saw a presentation by one of the better-known of these video artists,
Peter Campus.
Campus is a shining light in much of the chaos of
video art today. He doesn't do "image processing,"
the class of techniques that turn an ordinary image
into a light-show-like image of colors and patterns.
Nor does he use television consoles as elements in a
sculpture, as some do. Instead, he uses the medium
like a film-maker, creating short visual essays. Yet his
works are different from films in that they use techniques that are unique to video.
Evident in all of Campus' work is careful discipline.
His pieces are obviously planned in advance, which
stems from his background as a film-maker for ten
years. After discovering video, he experimented for
two years with it before showing any of his work. In
his gallery presentation, however, he did show three
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In 1933, when Nazi government in Germany came to power,
German-born Rolf Nesch immigrated to Norway. Hitler had
labeled his Expressionist art "entarte," meaning degenerate because of its emphasis on subjective feeling and folk art.
Life was not easy for Nesch in
Norway. Money was hard to get
and the land itself was harsh.
During the winters, he would
have to roll up in cardboard
sheets at nieht to keep from
freezing, and learned to sculpt
during the day — so he said —
to keep warm. Then in 1943, in
the midst of depression, at the
age of 50, he was struck by a
train car. He left with his entire
left side paralyzed.
It took several years for Nesch
to recover enough to work
again. His work became perhaps
more personal and, as Hitler

of these early pieces. Two were boring, but the third
was promising. In it Campus stapled layers of thick
cellophane directly in front of a camera. Watching
from the audience, it looked like he had just walked
up to the back side of the picture tube itself and
stapled plastic over it.
After the sheets were in place, he then began to cut
through them with scissors, while watching himself to
the side on a monitor. This had the amazing effect of
seeming like a large pair of scissors was cutting the
picture tube itself.
Watching himself in progress is very important to
Campus. He said that he considers this immediate
feedback an essential difference from film. Other
video artists have also commented on this capability.
Ira Schneider, for example, editor of the underground
journal Radical Software, stated that, "When you can
see yourself on TV, and the back of yourself simultaneously (via two monitors), something we seldom get
a chance to do, one can see oneself in a social, or spatial interaction."
Aside from his early exercises, Campus showed six
other tapes, all short pieces. One group of three was
called "Set of Coincidences," and was completed late
last year. In one of these, we see a room where a man
sits watching television (the man is Campus — he's
also on the TV screen). Then a second man enters the
room. It is Campus again. He stays in the foreground,
but walks to a spot such that he hides Campus #1,
sitting on the couch. (Campus on television is watching all this intently.) Campus #1 rises and walks
across to look at this intruder. A subtle ballet ensues,
with each Campus in turn obscuring the other. Eventually, one leaves, goes outside, and peers in the
window. The Campus remaining in the room hides
the other again by going and standing in front of the
window.
The final set of works was called "Three Transitions," and is already one of the more widely seen examples of video art. It was made at one of the most

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would say, more "degenerate."
He became a citizen of Norway
in 1946, and acquired a second
home in the mountains with his
wife. Four years ago he died at
the age of 82.
Nesch's 50 prints on exhibit at
Evergreen are outstanding examples of Expressionism, and the
printer's art. His subjects are abstractly treated yet natural. He
was impressed by the primitive
— in fact some of his work
looks like rubbings of petroglyphs. Behind the large, simple,
bold forms is a great technical
skill. Each print took at least a
day to make. The ink is applied
by hand. By accident, he discovered that burning through the
plate with acid causes a bold relief image. The printing plates
are works of art combining cork
fishing floats, netting, soldering
wire, and stones to create
unusual textures. These techniques produce something different from the precision of Currier
and Ives. Nesch succeeded in
making his work more passionate, full of color, texture, and
feeling.
Evergreen is fortunate in having these 50 prints from the
Smithsonian until Dec. 12 in the
Library Gallery.

elaborate facilities in the country, the studios of station WGBH in Boston. (Studio time there goes for
$3,000 a day.) Understandably then, the works were
short but technically brilliant. In one, for example, we
see an arm holding a piece of paper by one corner
vertically upright. On the paper is the image of Campus, looking out at the audience, watching us watch
him. A second hand then reaches with a lit match in
it, and sets the paper on fire. The image of Campus
on the paper looks down at the lit corner in fear. We
watch as the flames curl up the edge of the paper, destroying the image as they go.
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for last. As it begins, we see Campus with his back to
us, standing directly in front of a large paper wall. A
moment passes, then suddenly a knife pops through
Campus' back and makes a vertical slit downwards.
But Campus remains in one piece — we see now that
it's just his image projected onto the wall that's being
cut.
The knife continues cutting, eventually making
about a four-foot slit in the paper wall. The Campus
with his back to us then begins to step through the
slit, to the far side of the wall. As he goes through, a
second Campus is revealed to have been the knifewielder on the far side of the wall. This second Campus steps through the slit toward us, through the first
Campus. The first Campus gets all the way through
as the second Campus finishes stepping out. When #2
is completely through, he pulls masking tape from his
pocket, tapes the slit shut, and walks off-screen.
The work of Campus, other video artists, and
others working generally with technology simply is
more proof that "someday, artists will work with
capacitors, resistors, and semiconductors as they
today work with brushes and violins." But I think
James Seawright, in an interview quoted in Art and
the Future, sums up the situation best by saying that
as more and more artists get involved with technology, "there will emerge a more general view that technology simply offers extraordinarily powerful tools
for accomplishing the aims of artists, just as it's enabled people to fulfill many of their material needs."

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