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JOURNAL
Volume IV Number 11

December 11, 1975

Nisqually R. Floods:

Native Am. Land Washed Out
by Jill Stewart
Last week's floods hit the Native American communities of Western Washington hard. The tiny plot
of land called Frank's Landing faces possible extinction
if floods come again before they reinforce their land.
Last Thursday, the Nisqually River's swelling waters
knocked out electricity and water supplies, devouring
a great deal of land as they passed. By Friday afternoon, the river had gone down and electricity was being restored.
Friday, Dec. 5, the area looked quite normal at first
glance, despite the mud-brown river churning and
swirling by. It was only upon closer inspection that
telltale signs of the past two-day drama began to
show. In the kitchen of Maiselle Bridges rested half a
tree, the other half protruding out into the front yard.
A corner of a storage shed hung over the river's
abrupt edge. Where a pump-house once stood, there
now remained only a large metal pipe sticking up
from the water.
The water began slowly rising last week as the
mountain snow melted and the runoff fed the Nisqually River. The real trouble started Wednesday, according to resident Maiselle Bridges.
"We notified the B.I.A. Wednesday to start sending
in some kind of equipment," she said. "The river was
really rising and the Army Corps of Engineers was
helping upriver, but they never came down here. Logs
lodging behind the water-break were forcing water
closer to our land. The ground began to crack so we
knew the water was going underground," she said.
The tremendous force of the river was also an immediate threat to people and houses near the water.
"Trees would come down the river and hit that waterbreak and stand straight up. We wanted the Army
Corps to blow it up but they said they were not given
permission. We later saw documents saying they had
the right to come into a disaster situation and make
that decision. We know the Army was giving us a
bunch of nonsense," she said.
The Native Americans who live in this small community have been working against floods for years.
Car bodies and logs had been built up in a dike to
protect the land from flood. The community worked
all summer to reinforce the area, but around 7 p.m.
Thursday as the residents and volunteers fought the
river with sandbags, the big dike gave way to the urging of the river. Car bodies and logs were swept away
with the current, and the river began pulling down
pieces of land, eventually consuming a three block
long strip of earth, 20 to 50 feet wide.

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The group of volunteer workers and residents, who
fluctuated from 150 to 300 people, worked under miserable conditions. Those who were lucky enough to
wear boots and rain gear found themselves soaked
along with everyone else as they stood in two feet of
water, filling the 40-pound bags of sand. While the
group stacked bags near the river edge a large mass of
slow-moving water moved in behind them. "The
whole time we were sandbagging there was a chance
you could go in. There was a constant danger. Some
people were on their toes because the main dike
broke. Water went through the sand pit and surrounded them," said resident Hank Gottfriedson.
There were other dangers besides the river. A
power pole was surrounded and bombarded by the
water, evoking fear that if it fell in with the live wires
attached, many could be in danger of electrocution.
Puget Power was contacted continuously through the
rest of the day, and did not actually unhook the wires
until that night. Minutes after the power was unhooked the pole teetered and fell.
Problems caused by external forces were some of
the major handicaps the residents had to deal with.
The river began to slow its attack by 11 p.m. Thursday and by 11:30, most people had gone home. They
weren't sure that the sandbags would hold, but had
no choice — they had run out of bags. According to
Gottfriedson, "The county took 2,000 bags Thursday
morning that we had got from Seattle. They said they
needed them upriver. But when we ran out they
wouldn't share theirs. If the water had come up one
more time it would have come over everything."
The sheriff's office was telling people that Frank's
Landing was being evacuated and officials stood at
the entrance, turning volunteers away. "I don't think
they really knew what the situation was. They were
trying to turn people away," said resident Andy McCloud.
The group of volunteers was a strangely mixed
crew. It included Nisqually Indians, El Centre people
(a Seattle-based Chicano activist organization), Evergreen students and Lacey community members. The
Salvation Army supplied some of the food and clothes.
Even with this diverse group there were few
conflicts. "Most of the people were concerned about
helping us save our place. They weren't concerned
about differences. Not too many people knew what
they were doing but they wanted to help," McCloud
said. Gottfriedson confirmed this, saying, "We were
glad to have the people show up. We couldn't have

by Chris Cowger

flood-borne log went through a resident's kitchen.
done it by ourselves. They just jumped right in and
never thought about nothing."
At one point in the day, the group took some time
out for relief. According to student Elluage Anthony,
"I saw one of the Native Americans sneak off into the
woods to get some wood. It was really wet so I got
some gasoline. People gathered around the fire and
started singing to deter the mana of the brown god —
the river."
Anthony, -director of Ujamma, organized Evergreen
volunteers and supplied transportation and food with
money from Ujamma's budget. He says "I saw a common need and moved on it. This was a community
concern and I acted as a member of the community."
Anthony bought food at Mark-It Foods in Olympia
after a hesitant OK from Ed Kormondy. According to
a message relayed to Anthony from store employee
Scott Claybaugh, Kormondy called and said, "That
man is crazy. He may be in jail tomorrow but give
him what he wants."
A transportation and communication system was
set up through KAOS and Evergreen volunteers were
taken to the flood site in vans rented by Anthony.
The small community of Frank's Landing has gone
from six to two acres in just a few years. Each year
the river looms up, consumes a portion of land, and
then recedes. They have appealed to the B.I.A., the
county and the state for assistance to reinforce their
land. Each group has their excuse for not helping
them out. Hank Gottfriedson sums it up this way:
"Frank's Landing has been a thor;n in the state's side.
Everybody's opinion is that the state would like to see
us wash away."

related. The center continues to operate
with the same employees under the Ministry of Health of the new-government.

Over 100 people greeted Julie Forsythe
Dec. 6 at the Unitarian Meeting House in
Tumwater as she showed slides and spoke
Her slides evoked an impression of an
about her recent two and one-half year
attractive, hard-working people in a verexperience in war-torn Vietnam.
dant, agrarian paradise which she could
Forsythe, a member of the American
only describe as "lush." Although destrucFriends Service Committee, returned Oct.
tion abounds in Vietnam, Forsythe dis7 with her husband Tom Hoskins after
pelled the myth that the countryside has
observing the transition from the old
been totally devastated by conflict.
South Vietnamese government to the Pro"Working together is very important,
visional Revolutionary Government foland family bonds are strong," she said.
lowing the April surrender.
"The difference between the northern and
The Friends were recently one of the
the southern governments was one of selffew groups to obtain clearance from the
reliance."
U.S. government for a shipload of mediWomen play a very vital role in Vietcal and educational supplies and food to
Vietnam. The U.S. would not permit namese life, she added, both in agriculture and as soldiers.
items like rototillers, yarn, and fishing
nets to be sent, however, so the Friends
'At the time of the surrender, the couple
collected contributions earmarked for the
found themselves among the hordes of
illegal goods accompanied by signed statefleeing South Vietnamese soldiers and refments of complicity. On Nov. 10, those
ugees in Da Nang. Tom, a doctor, was
goods were sent and rallies were staged
asked by. Buddhist monks to stay on arid
across the country.
assist with casualties, but Julie was reAbout 2,500 people marched to the
quested to evacuate to Saigon because the
White House bearing over 5,000 complicmonks could not insure her safety. "The
ity statements and volunteering themselves
fear was that the South Vietnamese would
for arrest. However, the government rebomb Da Nang — a typical wartime patfused to prosecute and issued retroactive
tern," she said.
licenses for the illegal shipments.
During most of their stay in Vietnam,
She spent 12 hoars without food or
Forsythe and Hoskins worked in a civilian
water in the middle of the South China
rehabilitation center in the central city
Sea on one of the last barges to Cam
Quang Ngai, which before the surrender
Ranh Bay.
was 80 percent refugees. Work at the
One of the first policies of the PRG as
center consisted of making and fitting
they liberated an area, including Saigon,
prostheses, and Forsythe said 70 percent
was to displace rural inhabitants to the
of the injuries treated there were war-

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countryside. As an illustration, Quang
Ngai's population progressed from 7,000
in 1966 to 100,000 in 1973 to 20,000 only
one month after liberation.
External postal service was restored to
Vietnam December 1. Travel there from
this country is still virtually impossible,
since the U.S. has placed Vietnam on its
"Z" or enemy list. However, bills currently being sponsored by Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., and Rep. Jonathan B. Bingham, D-N.Y., would remove Vietnam
from that list.
"I was struck by the pragmatism of the
PRG," Forsythe said. "They make use of
everyone, no matter what his political
record, and all the officials I met were not
northerners but southerners." She added
that many lower-echelon civil servants
and government employees still hold their
former positions. The PRG is also quick
to admit they are faced with serious difficulties in attempting to control rampant
prostitution and unemployment, she
added.
Ceneral policy is established by the
Politburo and then adapted to the individual locale to avoid alientating a people
very much accustomed to Western lifestyles. "The policy of reconciliation is
dear to the PRG," Forsythe said.
The Vietnamese do not consider themselves Maoists or "stick-in-the-mud socialists," Forsythe said, but true Marxist Leninists. While recognizing Vietnam's
grave problems, she predicted a "very
hopeful" future for the newly-united nation.

RETURN TO WHAT?
To the Editor:
Evergreen from the beginning
has been an institution of crises.
The events of the past three
weeks merely seem more intense
due perhaps to a lack of historical perspective in the few years
of the college's existence. The tremendous concern that I see pressing Evergreen is not the call for
student power, that I can handle,
but what I fear is the call for student power without an underlying educational philosophy. All
too o f t e n d u r i n g debate for
power — and its location — concern with what that power is for
was lost, and thus a real opportunity to reaffirm the college's
mission was ignored. If much
can be seen from the effects of
the teach-in and its related activities, it would be a call for
power for the sake of power. No
one questioned the validity of
<ome student desires in light of
what I see the school attempting
to do. By not questioning these
motives, I feel a shaky step has
been taken to separate the col:»t:e into diverse sections and
may split the very thing that
makes Evergreen a powerful institution.
The proposals put forth by
Merv Cadwallader are in sharp
conflict with the kind of educational philosophy on which Evergreen is founded. His proposals
point by point are a return to
traditional college education built
on the model of the high school
experience we all wanted to
leave behind. And agitating for
power for the sake of power will
only lend itself to that kind of
experience.
A four-college systeT , with its
own deans and its own budgets,
will point this institution to the

type of departmental backbiting
that plagues most, if not all, colleges in the country. Evergreen's
insistence on interdisciplinary
study attempts to get past this
idiocy and instead recognizes the
need to teach composite education with heavy emphasis on
reading, writing and thinking. If
you can agree that high schools
and traditional colleges are
models of fragmented supermarket educations, then formulate a
student power group on refining
and maintaining Evergreen's
mode of innovative studies.
After all, it is clear to see what is
wrong with education without
substance, do you wish to return
to that which you disliked so
much?
The Council for Postsecondary
Education for Washington recommended that Evergreen's primary function be that of providing interdisciplinary instruction
in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, and
that this charge be specific to
Evergreen. Among the many
things said for and about Evergreen, perhaps the most thoughtprovoking was stated by Maxine
Mimms to the 1974 Evergreen
seniors. She said that she hoped
Evergreen had not trained them
for specific job skills, but rather
had taught them to learn how to
learn. Student power, without
accompanying educational philosophy, will only serve to return this college to the past, in
my estimation, a dreadful alternative to the present. The most
important thing to know when
you wish to change something is
to know what it is that you
have, and only after exhausting
every means possible to make
that system work, to consider
something else. 1 am not satisfied
we have come close to exhaust-

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ing those means, and in reality
the college is still better than
anything else presently existing
or being offered as an alternativeGeorge S. Wood

$ FOR RED
€r AFRICA
To the Editor:
A message for all my friends
and acquaintances out there in
the Evergreen "community:" As
you may or may not know, I am
in the Africa and the U.S. Program, which is planning to study
in Africa next year (1976-77). To
that end, I am raising money to
finance myself. I need approximately $3,000 to do it right. I
am therefore asking you, my
friends and acquaintances, to
send me $5 donations for Christmas presents instead of material
objects. This may sound presumptuous, but surely grosser
things have been done in the
name of money, so -I feel sure
you will accept this helpful hint
as a helpful hint and not a devious method of obtaining funds.
I also am an excellent typist
and will type for you at 75 cents
a page for regular typing (doublespaced) and $1 per page for evaluations. I also am available for
odd jobs (but not too odd!) and
am a hard worker (with common
sense — a bonus). I would also
add that I am spending Christmas vacation here at school and
will be happy to water your
plants in your absence for a
small fee (50 cents/day), provided I have a key and proper
instructions for your little dears.
1 am not liable for plants that
may die of loneliness in your abscence, so be sure to explain to
them before you leave that you
will return.
My address to mail donations
is Bldg. D, Room 515, The Evergreen State College, Olympia,
Wash., 98505. My phone number is 866-5169 if you have need
of my services. Thank you for
your kind consideration and
have a happy holiday!
Red, also known as
Fran Allen

WTR. QTR. LANG.
STUDIES
To the Editor:
During the last two weeks of
November, a questionnaire on
foreign language instruction at
Evergreen was available for interested persons to fill out. This
questionnaire was compiled by
concerned students and faculty
who feel this area of study is inadequate and ignored at Evergreen.
We received responses from
about ten percent of Evergreen's
campus population (nearly 200
people). Only a small percentage
of those who filled out the questionnaire have actually studied

languages here, yet the results in
general show a concern for the
lack of attention Evergreen has
given to foreign language learning. Several feelings expressed
address themselves to why so
few students have studied language here, and why nearly half
the questions were answered by
a majority of "don't know."
Lack of publicity and information on language classes was one
such widely expressed feeling —
several persons commented that
classes, their times, levels, and
meeting places should be listed in
the supplement along with other
programs. Time was in various
ways an important factor also.
Some felt that more time
offerings for language classes
should be available so people
could fit them into their schedules. Others felt that more time
should be alloted aside from programs which would allow them
to attend a language class.
This last problem deals with
an important reason for this
questionnaire — the advocation
of coordinating languages into
programs. Questionnaire responses to this idea were indeed
positive. This would resolve
many of the problems expressed
through the questionnaire. How
this could be done is a question
to be explored, as there are various ways in which it can be
done, but the question at hand is
— Should languages be a definite
inclusion into the educational
goals of Evergreen? It was
widely expressed that languages
would be an appropriate and
valuable inclusion into Evergreen's interdisciplinary structure.
We think the questionnaire,
despite its deficiencies, illustrates
two very important points: that
foreign language instruction is
presently inadequate at Evergreen, and that there is definitely
enough interest from Evergreen's
student body to expend the necessary time, effort, and money
to improve the present situation.
We would like to thank those
who took the time to respond to
the survey. For all interested persons, copies of the specific results
are available at the Information
Center.
Deanna Smith
Anita de Give
Members of the Linguistics
Group Contract

ZIONISM
To the Editor:
I was greatly saddened by the
vote of the U.N. General Assembly to equate Zionism with racism. What is especially sad is the
fact that the U.N. does in fact
mirror world opinion. This is
not only an issue for Jews
throughout the world; it is an
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especially minority peoples. That

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the Third World nations joined
to condemn another minority
people is ironic. What motivates
"the block" nations? Perhaps it is
an effort to get back at the U.S.
— i.e., scapegoating Israel; or
perhaps it is economically motivated (Arab oil); or perhaps individual countries are making
their own power plays (e.g. Mexico); maybe it is pure and simple
jealousy of the success the Israeli's have had in the development of their "undeveloped
country."
We should not be surprised.
Throughout its history, the Jewish people have " never escaped
the scorn and hatred of some of
its brethren. What is terribly
scary is that not since Hitler has
anti-Semitism been sanctioned
by governments as official policy. The United Nations, a world
body committed to world peace,
has once again hurt the chances
of peace.
It is now one week after the
infamous U.N. vote on Zionism.
Already nearly absent from the
news media, most people will
soon forget the significance of
this dastardly act. I shall not forget. Millions of Jews will not forget; we know the legalized and
"legitimate" anti-Semitism of
Nazi Germany. We now know
legalized and legitimate antiSemitism in our world body.
I am saddened but not surprised with the U.N. resolution.
But it is interesting — and scary
— how conditions in the world
resemble the conditions of Germany in the 1920's and 1930's.
Economic difficulties gave rise to
Hitler then; history, once again,
finds its convenient scapegoat.
President Ford, letting that kaft_
pen.
I was both saddened and surprised at his reaction, or more
aptly, lack of reaction. He lost
both my respect and my support.
His weak stance, his lack of severe condemnation and his willingness to substitute humanitarian values and personal integrity
for what I consider a political
and economic sellout to the Arab
nations — leaves me with a lack
of confidence in him and his administration.
I urge him and our Congress
to make restitution in the following ways:
1. Refuse to give weapons and foreign aid to
countries which voted
for the U.N. resolution. The countries
that voted for the resolution are not interested in democracy;
many are interested in
the destruction of Israel — the only democratic country in the
Middle East.
President Ford and those who
sell arms to countries calling for
the destruction of Israel are as
guilty of genocide as Hitler was.
In the event of a war, they bear
responsibility for the deaths of
men, women, and children.
2. Curtail U.S. contributions to the U.N. I do
not feel we should
withdraw from this
body. Although sick
and dying, it is all
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COOTS, ETC.

Coots cruising neutral waters.

I don't know why,
I love coots like I do.
I don't know why,
I just do.
by John Dodge
I am not an ornithologist. Nor am I an avid bird
watcher. However, in three years of lakeside living, I
have come to admire an innocuous, obscure bird that
makes Patterson Lake its winter home. The bird on
my mind and in my heart is the coot.
Classified under the genus name of Fulica Americana,
coots (mudhens) are members of the Megalornithadae
family, which includes cranes and rails. Coots are
partially migratory and inhabit lakes, swamps, and
marshes throughout the Americas from Canada to
Panama.
A small bird, 13 to 16 inches in length and a little
over one pound in weight, the coot acts and looks
like a duck. Coots have slate grey bodies, black necks
and heads and white bills. They swim bouyantly,
nodding their heads while paddling their lobed toes.
They dive with an upward jump before submerging to
search out algae and other vegetable matter. Their
flight is clumsy and heavy, legs trailing behind. The
coot, not a noisy bird, has a single note call that
sounds like an ungreased wooden axle.
The Pacific Northwest coot first receives mention in
the Lewis and Clark journals. On November 30, 1805
they note the presence of coots at the mouth of the
Columbia River. They are still a common wintering
bird there.
Over 250 coots spend their winter months on the
waters of Patterson Lake. Sporadic coot observations
have graced my own journal since October 17, 1973.
On that uneventful day, I have asked myself — How
long can a coot stay underwater? I decided not more
than a minute. . .
The first few days of January, 1974, Puget Sound
was in the grips of, an Artie freeze. The lake froze and
the coots seemed caught off guard, wondering if
they'd migrated far enough south. They clustered
together in the middle of the lake, wiggling their tail
feathers and flapping their wings to keep a small pool
of lake water from freezing over. The rest of the day
they slipped and skittered over the icy surface like
feeble old men on bowed legs.
And then, a month later, this note. . .
2/9/74. . . Today the fog is thick as soup with the
RY TIMOTHY LANGE
BOULDER, COLO., NOV. 28 (PNS)
The nuclear power industry will go on
public trial in 1976.
Led by Ralph Nader and the People's
Lobby, citizens' movements in 22 states
are turning to the ballot to try to block
construction of nuclear plants they consider unsafe.
The nuclear industry, in turn, is gearing
for a media advertising blitz to counter
the movements, with its trade organization, the Atomic Industrial Forum, doubling its public relations budget for 1976
to $1.2 million.
In California and Oregon, nuclear safeguards initiatives have already qualified
for the November, 1976 ballot. Petition
drives are actively underway in Montana,
Maine, Massachusetts and Colorado. The
other 16 states are now beginning the initiative process.
Although five of the states are east of
the Mississippi, they are collectively called
the "Western Bloc." Under initiative provisions in the constitutions of only these
22 states, laws can be proposed to the citizenry at the behest of a certain percentage
of the states' registered voters.
Though each state's organizers are
working independently, the initiatives differ mostly in detail. All would require
utility companies to prove three things in
public hearings before building new nu-

water, sky and fog all the same bronchial grey. No
depth perspective to the casual observer. The coots
gliding by look like actors on a one-dimensional stage.
The coot's physical appearance is mirrored in their
chosen winter environment. Slate grey bodies against
a slate grey backdrop. When they arrive unheralded
from the north, October takes on the look of
.inevitable winter. . .
10/16/74. . . The coots return to Patterson Lake, the
lily pads slowly sink and the air is thick and wet in
the mornings. Maybe you could return to me with
your gift of lost love. . .(You return again only to
disappear. Meanwhile the coots drift by — their heads
like periscopes, scouting neutral waters in this winter
of discontent.)
1/20/75. . . There must be 100 coots within my
vision. Some float in their sphere of vacuity. Others
cluster together, occasionally disappearing underwater
to secure slimy strings of algae. If I were to open the
door right now, let the screen door slam, and view
the results, I would see 100-odd coots paddle-flop
their way, motivated by instictual fright, toward the
middle of the lake.
No matter what approach I use; offerings of stale
bread, stealthy footsteps, or coaxing sounds, the coots
keep their distance. They have yet to realize my
compassion, my attempt at friendship. . .
2/6/75. . . The coots swim past the dock. Coots so
unknowing. Content, in fact, pleased by rain. Yee-yaw
goes their necks as they paddle-lurch their dumb grey
bodies over to the summertime rolling log. They peck
miniscule specks of algae off the anchored log,
bobbing and ramming their insignificant heads against
the log. Then they hop up on the dock and stand silly
and stick-legged, surveying the rainy lake scene.
Coots are on the game bird list for Washington
State, making them fair game during hunting season.
But I can't see shooting coots, let alone eating them. . .
3/18/75. . . "Coot corpses float into the beach like
driftwood." No, not really. It's only a nightmarish
image from my dreamworld, a thought triggered by a
story of a grade school principal who lives on nearby
Long Lake. He blasts coots right off his lawn into
oblivion. I don't understand his gross behavior. A
coot's most offensive move would be to waddle up on
the murder's lawn, dabble for food like a barn-yard
duck, and possibly leave a coot dropping or two on
his lawn. Hardly grounds for the death penalty. (I

wish I could convince the coots on Long Lake to fly
over to Patterson Lake and live. Over here
speedboaters, waterskiers, and hunters aren't allowed.
We have a peaceful ecosystem.)
3/18/75. . . I sit here with the coots waiting for the
!next storm. By 6:00 hail pounds the lake and looks
like popcorn popping. On a grey horizon a shaft of
sunlight squeezes through. The dime-sized hail slowly
melts on shore. I wonder if the hail gave the coots a
headache. . .
And then, with spring about to burst upon the
scene, the coots wing it north. As hard as I try, I
can't conceive of a coot making a migratory flight
Around the lake, their attempts at flying are awkward
and labored. They seldom fly higher than three feet
above the water. But records show certain flocks from
the southwest and Florida migrate as far south as
Costa Rica and the West Indies. . .
The Patterson Lake coots appear to be North
Pacific Rim coots, possibly spending their spring
mating season in British Columbia waters. In British
Columbia they weave their floating baskets and
anchor them to tules or other aquatic vegetation.
Mate up to produce eight to twelve buff-colored eggs
with black/brown dots. Tend to their nest until May
10th or June 1st when a black ball of down with a
fiery red head emerges.
I began to scan the lake for coots the middle of
October. My first sighting soon followed. . .
10/16/75. . .The coots are back. Why, today I saw
four, five, maybe eight coots chug by, looking like
they'd never left. Seeing those coots makes me feel
good.
11/15/75. . . Wind that ripped a million leaves
away — you remain today. Looking back a year, I
see the same kind of wind and rain journaled, the
same alder trees fighting a losing battle to keep their
leaves, the same 107 coots floating by in their own
seventh heaven. . .their graceful arced dives for
another bit of smuck. . .
My mind trips back over W. C. Fields film
dialogue. I recollect W. C. Fields calling someone "a
silly coot." It was just another line in a Fieldian
stream of quips and sarcasms. But I have a peculiar
feeling that the coot was W. C.'s kind of bird.

Nuclear Industry's Trial

clear plants: that safety systems are adequate; that radioactive wastes can be
stored and protected against theft, sabotage, war, revolution and acts of God;
and that a plant can get its own insurance
against any potential accident.
While initiative proponents doubt the
industry can prove any of the three with
current technology, the last one is the real
kicker. No private companies have been
willing to fully insure a nuclear plant.
Plants are now federally insured for up to
$560 million liability by the 1957 PriceAnderson Act, which is up for renewal in
Congress next year.
A "worst case" accident has been estimated to have potential for thousands of
deaths and cripplings plus up to $280 billion in property damages.
Even if the initiatives were to pass in all
22 Western Bloc states, the rest would still
be without such nuclear safeguards — and
those states currently contain most of the
reactors already in operation or under
.construction.
Nuclear initiative backers are counting
on success at the polls to convince politicians in these other states and the U.S.
Congress that nuclear power is losing its
popular support.
TOUGH FIGHT
The movement has enjoyed considerable
early success. California petitioners were
able to gather the needed 313,000 signa-

tures within 150 days. Oregon citizens
pulled in 60,000 signatures in only six
weeks, 12,000 more than required within
14 months. Chances appear excellent that
at least 12 more states will eventually
qualify initiatives.
But the organizers' real fight won't begin until the initiatives make the ballots.
Joining Nader, the People's Lobby and
other environmental groups backing the
initiatives are a number of former Atomic
Energy Commission ( A E C ) employees
and scientists such as Nobel physicist
Hannes Alfven; co-discoverer of uranium
223 Dr. John Gofman and author Dr.
Paul Ehrlich; and a small number of legislators like Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska
and Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York.
But arrayed against them are much of
the scientific nuclear establishment and
the federal Energy Research and Development Administration, successor to the
AEC. One particularly powerful group
opposing the initiatives is Americans for
Energy Independence, headed by retired
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and Nobel physicist Dr. Hans Bethe. In California, former
Gov. Edmund G. Brown heads the nonindustry counter-initiative group, Citizens
for Jobs and Energy.
President Ford is strongly committed to
nuclear power, encouraging construction
of at least 145 more nuclear power plants
by 1985 and 1,000 reactors by the turn of

Gary Plautz, the Journal Managing Editor, and long-standing Evergreen journalist, graduates this quarter.
This issue, then, is for "the Plautz" and his long hours spent on this side of the copy desk.
"30"

the century, which would supply 55 percent of U.S. electrical power. Fifty-five
nuclear plants are now operating in the
U.S., supplying about 8.5 percent of the
nation's electricity.
LONG WAY TO GO
But for the Western Bloc organizers,
perhaps the toughest fight will be convincing the voters themselves. In a Harris poll
this August, 63 percent of the respondents
said they favored moving ahead with nuclear power because they felt it was clean,
safe and inexhaustible. Nineteen percent
wanted more caution, and only five percent said they favored a nuclear plant
construction moratorium. The rest had no
opinion.
Western Bloc organizers say they can
convert enough voters to pass the initiatives, however, because their safeguard
arguments are sound and their approach
moderate.
Indeed, the People's Lobby campaign is
straight out of the consumer handbook,
taking pains to praise free enterprise and
the need for competition within an unbureaucratically regulated free enterprise
system.
According to Lobby chairman Ed Koupal, an ex-Chrysler salesman, "We, as consumers, allow industry to sell a product
and make a profit. Industry, in turn, has
an obligation to make a safe product that
will not harm us in the process."

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strate our displeasure
with its functioning by
urging a severe cutback in funds that we
give to the U . N .
3. Support a strong, defensible Israel through
continued economic
i and military support.
To support both Arab
countries and Israel is
to simply "up the ante"
and bring the Middle
East and perhaps the
world closer to war.
Finally, it is easy to encourage
Israel to deal directly with the
P.L.O. from the safety of the
United States, and the lush gardens of the White House. Consider, for example, the recent
bombing in Jerusalem. Eight
people died, and almost 50 people were injured. Israel is a small
country with a population of
about three million. The equivalent — if this happened in the
U.S. — would have the following headline: "640 killed; 4,000
injured in bombing." How willing would our President be to
'negotiate" with those who perpetrated the bombings?
I sincerely hope to see these
recommendations implemented.*!
will do all I can to actively support and campaign for candidates
that agree with the above views.
I urge those people who have
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unpardonable and irresponsible
act is passivity and lethargy.
Will we be like so many Germans and millions of people in
the world who, when confronted
with the reality of Hitler and the
murder of six million Jews, proclaim, "We didn't know it was
happening?"
Theodore Gerstl

REASON
To the Editor:
Reason, we are informed, is
that which separates the human
species from other beasts. Agreed.
But what is the force behind the
word that has keyed its development?
According to Darwin, Man's
position in Nature's hierarchy is
the result of our species' ability
to adapt to, and overcome, our
competition in the natural selection/survival of the fittest game.
This adaptive ability common
to our species does not owe its
success to the ability of a rational
mind to make logical decision.
Rather, I propose that our ability
to reason is the product of a
more primal force: fear. As our
brain size/mass ratio has evolved
as a function of the necessity to
develop a tool to overcome our
competitors, a survival mechanism is keyed by a correspondingly evolving sense of fear, a
sense more rudely displayed in
the reflex, survival instinct of the
simplest one-celled animal and
progressing, by stages, to the instinctive movement of baby turtles to the sea, and beyond, increasing in complexity with the
greater the brain size/mass ratio.
How is fear in Man exhibited?
Its essence, it seems to me, is the
act of dishonesty resulting from
an inability to trust for fear of
rejection.
To know and step beyond
fear, then, let me suggest this:
strive to be completely honest,
and in place of fear, let it be resolved this New Year's to replace

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To the Editor:
The paid parking program is
going fairly well this fall after a
two-year period of free parking.
There are, however, a few individuals who haven't received the
word that a valid parking permit
is required when their vehicle is
parked on campus between the
hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday thru Friday. Warning
notices are written in these cases
and occasionally vehicles are impounded for repeated offenders.
Parking in prohibited areas
continues to be a problem. The
following areas are prohibited
parking areas and vehicles will
be impounded by towing away:
Library Plaza and all
bricked areas
Library Loop (Fire Lane)
Residence Plaza (Fire Lane)
Loading Docks and adjacent areas
Residence Loop (Loading/
Unloading Zone only)
Handicapped Parking
Areas
Roadways and The Parkway
Marked Service Accesses
Parking along curbs in the
parking lots
Vehicles towed away are towed
to A & L Towing Service, 314
North Washington Street, Olympia. Towing fee rates start at
$15.00.
More information on parking
can be obtained by calling extension 6140.
Carl Renshaw
Parking Supervisor

FOOD STAMPS
To the Editor:
You've enjoyed the convenience of being certified for food
stamps right on campus, right?
You'd hate to have to go clear
out to the Tumwater office for
your food stamp appointments,
right? Well, that's what's going
to happen if people keep -failing
to show up for their scheduled
interviews. DSHS is threatening
to withdraw its interviewer from
Evergreen (she comes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays). By all
means, call Financial Aid (6205)
for an appointment. And, by all
means, get yourself over here
(Lib. 1213) at the appointed
hour!
Betty

Fl AID
To the Editor:
Many of you who have knowledge of and concern for student
financial aid matters may be
aware that there is cause for concern in current happenings on
the national scene. Congress approved a budget last summer
which includes funding for all
the financial aid programs currently available, but there is tremendous pressure from the Administration to severely cut back
and even eliminate them; SEOG
and NDSL are particularly
threatened at this time.
I must point out that the
Washington delegation has been
very supportive of financial aid
programs in the past. Senator
Magnuson, in p a r t i c u l a r , has
long been a knowledgeable and
steadfast proponent of student
assistance. With the election year
coming up, our representatives
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IN
BRIEF
Curriculum

by Neil Marshall
Interdisciplinary studies are
what attract many of Evergreen's
students here. Yet, the process of
generating these study programs
forces students to adopt certain
educational goals which they
may not have in mind for themselves.
The process of generating new
programs each year has several
purposes. One purpose is to get
programs to emphasize material
and the process of merging disciplines on a central and
common theme: another, is that
programs will be the creations of
their sponsoring faculty, the act
of offering them will be the final
catharsis of this creativity.
Yet, for students, this yearly
generation means they spend one
year at most, studying a set of
problems. Study which occurs
through a cluster of disciplines,
while they accept the values and
emphasis of the faculty who
sponsor it. I n t h e following year,

no program is intended to carry
on the emphasis and structure of
the student's previous year's
work. Rather, students are expected to adapt to a new cluster
of problems, to faculty with different values, and perhaps, to
totally different disciplines.
The classic problems with curriculum relevance at Evergreen
result from students wishing to
continue work they have begun
in programs the previous year.
EXISTING CONTINUITY
The kind of continuity students create within the curriculum offerings, when they are
able to do so at all, has striking
differences from the more usual
"specialization" that occurs at
most universities. President McCann describes it in a letter he
sent out this summer.
" . . . (After reviewing) the academic work of each student who
graduated this year after spending four years at Evergreen,
three general patterns emerged.
1) All of the . . . students began
studies in coordinated studies.

NEWS FROM
CAREER PLANNING
by Molly Wright
In October I mailed out an
alumni newsletter to all Evergreen graduates. Included was
news about the interests and activities of some grads, and information about the services we
offer that are available after
graduation, such as employment
counseling and Credential Files.
Accompanying the newsletter
was a survey card requesting
graduate school/employment
standing and an explanation of a
new program we are initiating
called Alumni Job Visitation and
Advisory Service. The purpose
of this new program is to coordinate Evergreen graduates with
students who wish to gather
career information and explore
specific work environments.
As an undergraduate student,
you will make decisions about
your career. It is important that
you have a good over-all view
of the areas you are considering
working in.
One way to research a career, to assess your inerest and potential, and to gain
ob experience is to participate in
he internship program facilitated
>y Cooperative Education, located at Lab. 1020, 866-6391. Another direct research method that
goes beyond books and on-camjus career related advising, is to

utilize the Alumni Job Visitation
and Advisory Service.
Many Evergreen graduates responded to the alumni survey,
and have offered to act as career
advisors, which entails having a
student visit them on the job.
These are folks who can tell you
about the nuts and bolts of a career decision: such as how a particular occupation would influence your life, what the requirements are for entry-level positions, the best way to get a job
in a given career area and the future in such a career. We now
have graduate advisory resources
in a variety of occupations, locally, throughout the United
States and abroad. For example:
Teresa Baldwin, Project Planner
and Consultant in Law Enforcement Administration, New York
City; Michael Hall, Director of
Financial Aid, Colegio Cesar
Chavez College; Elizabeth Bjelland, Radio News Reporter, UPI,
Capitol Campus; Lawrence Hall,
Planning Director for the Salish
and Kootenai Tribes,
If you are interested in these
kinds of resources, contact Career Planning and Placement,
Lib. 1220, 866-6193.
Happy Holidays and don't forget to schedule
in Senior Seminars next quarter:
Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to
5 p.m.

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Eighty percent eventually undertook individual contracts . . .
2) As the mode changed, so did
the content, the students' selfdirected programs moved from
general to specific, both in academic content and in career focus.
3) ... When concentration begins to emerge in the student's
record, it's in the form of a discipline conceived not as a 'body
of knowledge/ but as a way of
knowing."
The courses that students
make for themselves are "interdisciplinary" and are "ways of
knowing," not knowledge acquired about a specific discipline.
In effect, they are solo coordinated studies. When this continuity does occur, in large part,
it does so through individual
contracts — outside the general
curriculum generation processes.
Currently, there are several
proposals and much talk of ways
to improve the likelihood of providing this kind of continuity in
the curriculum proper. Most of
these proposals offer a bureau'cratic systematization of curriculum planning; but attempt to
preserve the originality of each
specific program within broad
planning guidelines.
It seems that each of these
plans approaches the problem
from the wrong end, that is,
from the top down. A relevant

curriculum would be one that
began with student and faculty
interests and possessed a process
for program generation which
aided these interests in coalescing
into programs for the coming
year. So far, no such plan is on
anyone's chalkboard.

Enrollment in the program is
open to members of all organized
fire departments, and to those
employed in occupations closely
related to the fire service. Persons interested in enrolling are
invited to contact Capt. Pedersen
at McLane at 866-6348.

• The Canadian mail strike has
been settled, and mail is now being accepted and processed. If
questions, call either 866-6224 or
866-6315.

FIRE PROTECTION
COURSE

Fort Steilacoom Community
College will join hands with Evergreen and the McLane Fire Department winter quarter to offer
a three-credit course on "Fire
Protection Equipment and Systems."
Captain Paul Pedersen of the
McLane Fire Department is organizing the program, which will
be offered Tuesday evenings, beginning Jan. 6, from 7 to 10 p.m.
in Building 212 on the Evergreen
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ORNITHOLOGY
During Christmas break, the faculty of
the "Ornithology: From Avocets to Yellow throats" cxintract will begin selection
procedures for the spring quarter contract.
Students interested in participating in
this intermediate to advanced level contract should submit their Evergreen portfolio (or in the case of transfers — a copy
of their transcript and other reference
material) along with the essay described
below, to the contract secretary Pearl Vincent, jLab 2013, by December 19th. The
essay should state in a concise manner
(not more than four pages, typed doublespaced on white 8 1 2 " by 11" paper) how 1
the proposed material and experience of
the ornithology contract will apply to the
student's academic goals and interests.
The essay should describe relevant academic and non-academic background as
well as career goals if applicable (i.e. the
essay should describe what you are bringing to this contract and what you expect
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by John Dodge
After poring over computer readouts
supplied by the Registrar's Office, here
are some statistical figures for perusal.
• Student breakdown by sex (breakdown
by sex?) is 51.3 percent male and 48.7
percent female.
• Minority enrollment for fall quarter is
11 percent. This figure is based on the following ethnic groups: Black Americans,
Native Americans, Asian Americans, and
Spanish Americans.
• The average age of a TESCIAN is 23,
while the modal age is 21.
• Students in the age group 35 and over
total 259 or 13.3 percent of the Evergreen
enrollment. The majority of these students
are off campus, working on individual
contracts and internships.
• Washington residents comprise 81.5
percent of the student population. Five
states — California, Oregon, Illinois, Ne.<v
York and Massachusetts — supply 88
percent of out-of-state TESCIANS.
• Food for thought: While entering freshmen (or should I say freshpersons) add up
to 812 (32 percent) of the student body,
only 13 of these students come from
Thurston County high school graduating
classes of 1975.

WALK AGAINST WAR
Thirty years after Hiroshima, war remains a crime against humanity. The
Continental Walk for Disarmament and
Social Justice calls for an end to this
crime, and an egalitarian world focus on
dealing with problems of sexism, racism,
militarism and other roots of war.
The walk — which is sponsored by the
American Friends Service Committee, Fellowship of Reconciliation and Women
Strike for Peace, to name but a few —
will begin in San Francisco, Jan. 31, and
end in Washington, D.C. about seven
months later.
A car caravan from Vancouver, B.C.,
however, will be leaving for San
Francisco on Jan 1. On Jan. 8, this caravan will come through Olympia, and
there will be an open forum concerning
such issues as disarmament, nuclear
power and nonviolent resistance in Evergreen's library lobby from 12 to 2 p.m. A
demonstration at the Capitol is also in the
planning.
People interested in helping with the
walk or any of the Olympia planning
should contact David Rabin at 866-1089.
RAPE RELIEF NEEDS

HELP
Attention women: Looking for a worthwhile project for Christmas vacation? The
YMCA needs your help.
Every month approximately ten women
call Rape Relief seeking help. The Rape
Relief staff needs four volunteers to work
in a supportive role with rape victims.
Work may include helping the victim
through her medical exam and legal process. Volunteers also work in an educa-

tional capacity at the high school level.
The YWCA is prepared to educate and
train volunteers. For further information
contact Ethel Roesch or Linda Lombard at
the YWCA (352-0593).

SOUNDING BOARD
Wednesday's Sounding Board meeting
opened with a progress report by Provost
Ed Kormondy on the short range curriculum planning DTP.
The DTP held its organizational meeting Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 7 a.m., at which
time they broke into four groups to evaluate and review the 75-to-100 program
proposals put forth for the next two
years. The group will make their first cut
in the numbers of proposals by the first
week of January. They will then gather
community reaction on the proposals,
make final cuts and get them ready for
the catalog, which should be out between
March 15 and April 1. A filing system of
all proposals, open to the community,
should be assembled by today, Dec. 11,
in Lib. 2005, according to Kormondy.
Members of Pat Sparks' weaving contract spoke in defense of their program
which will be cut after winter quarter.
The contract is currently overenrolled
with a waiting list, and Sparks has been
turning down interested students who've
been calling from as far away as the East
Coast and Hawaii. Yet, Sparks has confirmed a grapevine rumor that the program will be dropped due to "budget
cuts."
Several SB members were openly angered with the decision, but all agreed
with Stone Thomas that they needed
more information. All persons involved in
the decision will be invited to Sounding
Board to discuss the matter.
Rainer Hasenstab proposed that the
group adopt a motion to reaffirm their
commitment to offer those programs that
are overenrolled and currently active. The
motion carried with no dissension.

GEODUCKS
Evergreen's men's basketball team has
begun its third season in Olympia City
League competition.
This will be the third year Gerald Nelson has coached the Geoducks, bringing
the team from a 2-8 first-year season, to
an 8-6 third place finish last year. This
season's team should be just as good as
last year with tough competition expected
in the league.
The season started Dec. 3, and all
games are played at Jefferson Junior High,
just off Division on the Westside, on
Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Last Monday night, Clapping beat the
Cascara Streaks, 40-38, in the finals of
fall quarter 3-on-3 men's basketball.
In winter quarter, 3-on-3 basketball
will resume, so interested players should
start getting teams together, and stop by
the Sport Kiosk the first two weeks in
January for an application.

MORE ASH PROBLEMS

by Gary Plautz
Don and Lauren Van Cleave have been
fired as assistant managers at Evergreen's
Adult Student Housing complex, and they
are angry about it.
"Last Monday (Dec. 1), we were called
into David Bierman's office (Bierman is
the manager at ASH) and he told us we
were fired," said Don Van Cleave. "We
had no warning at all this was going to
happen, and as far as we know, we were
doing adequate work."
Van Cleave said Bierman told them the
reason they were fired was because of "incompatibility."
Bierman himself refused to comment on
the firing, saying it was a personal matter
and that it was company business.
Bierman did say ;he complaints the Van
Cleave's have made about his management at ASH are not shared by all of the
complex's residents.
"I work with these young people and I
hear them through when they have a
GEODUCK SOCCER
complaint," he said. "People come up and
say to us that they're glad we're here."
Geoducks invading the University of
"We have no personal vendetta against
Washington's Husky Stadium? Strange,
Mr. Bierman," said Lauren Van Cleave.
but true, and it happened Sunday, Dec. 7,
"We just think we were treated unfairly
when Evergreen's men's soccer team
and without consideration."
played the Husky Soccer Club on the halThe Van Cleaves' biggest complaint is
lowed Astroturf.
not that they were let go from their job,
But the Geoducks' elation on being on a
but rather thai: they were not given the
playable field for once was short-lived.
opportunity to resign rather than be fired.
The (as usual) undermanned Evergreeners
This is an extreme hardship, Don Van
(a fullback had to play the goalie position)
Cleave said, because they (they have two
spotted the Huskies two quick goals in the
children) have been forced in short notice
opening minutes of the first half. They
to look for a new job around the Christsettled down to hold the Dogs pretty
mas holidays. Also, Don Van Cleave will
much at bay the rest of the game, but
be forced to drop out of Fort Steilacoom
were not able to generate the kind of ofCollege.
fense they needed to win, and fell 3-0.
"We don't want our job back," said
But it wasn't a complete day of infamy
Lauren. "We just object to his tactics."
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en's soccer team beat the Husky women's
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ENTERTAINMENT
Hollywood and acted as a perby Gary Kaufman
There's a photo essay up on
fect vehicle for Harlow's comic
talents.
the third floor in the library . . .
One of the most interesting things
The Seattle Film Society at
for me this past week has been
Bloedel Auditorium, 1229 10th
my rediscovery of The Pub on
Ave. E. is showing Antonini's
the corner of 5th Ave. and Co"Cronaca di un Amore" (Story
lumbia. As I sat there last Friday
of a Love Affair) on Saturday,
night, my back pressed against
Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. SFS Members
the high cushioned bench running
get in for a buck, all others $2.
the length of one of the walls, I
It is considered to be Antonini's
watched the sculpted faces abest flik; but he's not dead yet.
round me each time they paused
Skid Road Theatre at 102
to sip on a beer or light a smoke
Cherry St. presents the musical
or rest up for the next shot at
play "A Funny Thing Happened
the pool table, propping themon the Way to the Forum" on
selves up with a pool cue. I lisThursdays - Sundays at 8 p.m.
tened to a lonely, bitter man talk
For reservations call 622-0251.
about the five years he spent in
Plans for the Seattle Art
Folsom Prison without parole. I
Museum's Annual Family Holiwatched the one time New Engday Party have been finalized. It
land Puritan try to drown the
will be held Saturday, Dec. 13,
old ways in the foamy glass befrom 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Volfore him. I watched Dustin Hoffunteer Park Museum and is free
man's Mrs. Robinson try to forto the public. The program this
get the dreariness of her drugyear will begin in the Garden
store job while she pretended, to
Court with a selection of seasonal
the rhythm of the barroom
vocal music presented by the
clock, that she was Katherine
Cornish School Chorale to be
Ross instead. And then Monday
followed at 3:15 by the Cornish
I went to see Bill Hirshman's
School Ballet. At 3:55, the Sophoto essay in the Library. For a
ciety for Creative Anachronism
moment I could have sworn I
will perform songs and dances of
was back in The Pub, watching the Medieval period, in authenthe miserable faces and the
tic costume. The Seattle Puphappy faces and the lonely faces,
petry Theatre will also perform
all frozen by technology's magic.
at both 2:45 and 3:15 p.m. ReGo see the essay. Go see The
freshments will be served in the
Pub.
Activities room throughout the
Olympia, bustling metropolis
party.
that it is, has already managed
In celebration of Mark Tobey's
to roll up the carpet for Crhistbirthday, the Pacific Northwest
mas break — and there's still one
Arts Council of the Seattle Art
day to go! Woody Allen's at the
Museum is sponsoring an exhibiState Theatre, it's a triple feation of Tobey exhibits starting
ture (see review).
Dec. 12 at 95 Yesler Way. Hours
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12
are noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday
Friday Night Film Series prethrough Saturday.
sents John Ford's "How Green
An exciting exhibition of conwas My Valley" at 7 and 9:30 in
temporary art by area artists will
Lecture Hall One. Starring
open Dec. 13 at the Seattle Art
Maureen O'Hara and Walter
Museum Modern Art Pavilion,
Pidgeon, it's the story of a farm
Seattle Center and continue
family being shafted by mining
through Jan. 11, 1976. Entitled
"Northwest Artists Today, Part
interests. The flik as I remember
it, is a bit hokey, but that's
II: Painting and Sculpture," the
okay; it's Christmas.
exhibition is part of the Museum's series of exhibitions preApplejam is dedicating the
sented in cooperation with its
evening to Sea Songs and ChanPacific Northwest Arts Council.
teys with Dale Russ and Jon BartFor this exhibition, the focus is
lett leading the festivities. Door
on the art of Washington and
opens at 8.
Oregon artists. Artwork for this
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13
invitational exhibition was seA troupe of Seattle actors, a
lected by the Museum's Modern
group of Native American dancArt Department through visits to
ers and storytellers and a Walt
studios, exhibitions and collecDisney flik are all part of a
tions. Viewers will find a selec"Children's Festival" scheduled at
tion which includes art by both
Evergreen from 10 a.m. to 5
familiar and new faces in Northp.m. Activities will also include
west art, with emphasis on high
two surprise guests after the
quality current work. Over 40
scheduled 10 a.m. registration in
artists are represented by more
the main Library Lobby. Cost is
than one work each. There are a
$2 per child. Youngsters may
large number of paintings, a
then choose between the Disney
strong representation in sculpture
film or live performances by Naand a limited number of works
tive American dancers. Both
in other media.
events will be repeated in the afHours at the Modern Art Paternoon. The Piccoli Theatre, a
vilion are 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily
group of Thespians, will highlight
(closed Monday); Thursday 11
the afternoon along with the ara.m. - 8 p.m.; Sanday 11 a.m. rival at 3:30 p.m. of two special
6 p.m. Museum docents will
guests rumored to be a famous
conduct free public tours on
deer and his master (I didn't
Thursdays and Sundays at 2
know Bambi had a master!).
p.m. Admission to the Modern
Youngsters are encouraged to
Art Pavilion is $1 for the genbring a brown bag lunch and
eral public; 50 cents for Senior
younger children are being asked
Citizens and students. Thursday
to be accompanied by adult suis a free day for the public.
pervision. Free milk will be proPORTLAND ART MUSEUM:
vided. For additional information
"Masterworks in Wood: The
check with the Office of Recreation and Campus Activities.
Applejam is having Centralia's
bluegrass quintet. They're damn
^ *
good!
And that's pretty much it for
Oly.
SEATTLE:
The Rosebud Palace, on the
corner of Third and Washington
in Pioneer Square, is showing
Jean Harlow in "Bombshell"
from Dec. 11 to 14. This film
put Harlow into the limelight
and on the list of top ten Hollywood favorites. The film is a
funny and wisecracking satire on

Christian Tradition" is still on
view and will be until Jan. 4.
The 50 wood sculptures in the
exhibition represent religious
subjects and were selected to
"suggest the meaningful flow of
the Church . . . " Music represented by most of the works will
be featured in three holiday concerts by Early Music Calliope
on Dec. 19 in the Galleries. The
group will perform in costume
and will give special attention to
vocal and instrumental works of
the early English Tudor period.
Graphic works and small
sculptures by Dmitri Hadzi and
Hugh Townley will be on view
through Dec. 21. Four other exhibitions will close Jan. 5: Selections from the collection of Francis J. Newton; Photographs by
Ernest Bloch; Four Buildings, A
Walking Tour; and Wooden
Musical Instruments, modeled on
historical designs by local craftspeople.
If you plan on traveling north
or south and have the time stop
in the Seattle or Portland Art
Museum; they're fine places to
spend some time. If you're staying in Olympia for break, well,
gee I'm awful sorry, but I hope
you have a good break anyway
(it is possible, I've been told).
TOODLES!

ALLEN'S TRIPLE
FEATURE

by Craig Sweet
I've never cared much for double-features when I go to the
movies. Those dusk-till-dawn
drive-ins could drive me berserk.
Sunday, I went and saw my
first triple-feature since I was ten
and my parents herded me off to
a Saturday matinee. I even
hitched in5 the rain to see it. I'd
recommend the same to everyone.
Woody Allen does that to me.
I lose all sense of normality and
love every minute of it.
This week, at the State Theater
on 4th Street, you can see, all at
once, Bananas, Sleeper, and Everything Yow Always Wanted to
Know About Sex" (*but were
afraid to ask). It's worth the
bucks.
Allen's comedy relies heavily
on his ability to make himself
out to be a total ass. His characters are consistently inept; the
king's Fool who isn't funny; the
loser who can't buy a porno
magazine without bringing it to
the attention of every old
woman in the drugstore; or the
health-food fanatic who awakens
after 200 years to discover that
science has proven cigarettes to
be healthy after all. His characters win in the end both because
of and in spite of their ineptness.

If Woody Allen can win, who
the hell can't?
When Allen strays from this
basic character, the humor strays
as well. In Everything You Always Wanted, etc., he plays the
hero against a giant female
breast. It's funny, yes, but it
seems strained. The humor shifts
from Allen's bumblings to this
great visual image of a huge
breast ravaging the countryside,
drowning people with its milk.
The image works, but the film
seems weakened.
In Sleeper, Allen fumbles
around the future with Diane
Keaton (the perfect female cohort
for him) and once again becomes
the hero in spite of himself.
Sleeper is the strongest of the
three films. Even the plot is more
cohesive, although with Allen
one shouldn't pay too much
mind to plots.
Playing a character who has
been frozen since 1973 and awakens in 2173, Allen is forced to
use this futuristic society's complex gadgets, of which he has
little or no understanding, to
help pull off espionage against
the evil of the society's ruling
class. But the audience relates to
the fact that our society gadgets
may be less advanced but are
equally confusing. Who at Evergreen could resist a giggle as
Woody dangles from a giant
computer tape, while Diane Keaton frantically tries to remember
which button works fast forward
and which works rewind? Or the
unraveling of the defrosted Allen
as if he were a TV dinner? It is
on this level that Sleeper becomes great comedy.
Bananas is Allen's most chaotic
film to date. The laughs are interspersed with filler, but the humor is some of his best. With all
of Allen's films, one waits for
special moments — in Bananas,
you just have to wait a little
longer.
Woody Allen has said that his
one regret in life is that he was
not born somebody else. I'm
glad he wasn't. I haven't laughed
so hard all quarter.

ACHILLES THE HEEL
by Curtis Milton
Sunday, Dec. 7, was the 34th
anniversary of the bombing of
Pearl Harbor, a date which will
"live in infamy." The date also
marked the unveiling of the latest work by Evergreen playwright
Malcolm Stilson, "Achilles the
Heel," heralded as "the biggest
bomb since Pearl Harbor."
"I take all the blame except for
the ad libs," reads Stilson's dis-

claimer from the play program.
Good thing, too, because at
times it was almost impossible to
tell which lines were from Stilson's script and which were being invented by the cast. No
worry to Stilson who kept swigging something from a convenient hip flask as the play progressed from strange to weird.
The play's main focus (if there
was one at all) concerned the
Mafia's attempts to turn fictitious
Wintergreen College into a profit-making organization. ("Now
let's see ... we got a hundred
and fifty bucks from the Friday
Nile Porno Flicks . . .")
The efforts of such moneyminded types as Joe Achilles,
Vice-President for Business (Dick
Nichols), Charlie Cassetti, GodDean (Darrell Six) and Zeus, the
Godfather (Kevin Clark) are constantly being thwarted by President of Wintergreen Ashford
Cann (John Moss) who insists on
running the school "for the students." In the end, right triumphs
over wrong and the entire cast
(according to the program " . . .
an indiscriminate mob recruited
from rejected Evergreen student
and faculty applicants, and castoff staff members . . .") winds
up singing the Geoduck Fight
Song.
"Geoduck Fight Song?" I hear
you cry. Yes, a real, live fight
song for the hard-shelled little
mascot ("Something to inject a
little enthusiasm in the students,"
says Cann) and a lot more music
as well, most of it conceived by
Stilson. Music ranged from a
Wintergreen alma mater ditty to
something called "I'm a Vicarious
Sicilian" (words and music by
Dick Nichols). The Wintergreen
Orchestra (Malcolm Stilson, his
flask and piano) provided musical first aid for the cast numbers.
As a spectator to this debacle
I'd just like to say that I hope
my psyche hasn't been permanently damaged. (Although I
have been feeling a little strange
ever since.) As an evening of
theatre at Evergreen it won't
soon be forgotten (unfortunately).

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