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JOURNAL
Volume IV Number 14

January 22, 1976

Tuition Up?

Students participating in the Curriculum Fair

Briefly: Curriculum
"Curriculum planning" — a phrase not
often discussed by college students. Yet,
student involvement in determining Evergreen's curriculum became a tsunami that
built and crested with amazing speed.
In early November Academic Dean
Lynn Patterson unveiled a long-range curriculum plan. At that time faculty were
expected to commit themselves to academic areas. A group of 55 students appointed by their programs met with Patterson to provide "student input."
During November 10 - 14 the studentgenerated play "Evergreen: Once Over
Lightly" pointed up many of the inconsistencies in Evergreen's brand of "co-learning." The pjay acted as a catalyst and
a(ter its performances, groups of students
met to debate the possibility of student
activism on curriculum.
That same week the "Person in Performance" program collapsed due to faculty differences and with no warning to
its students. Those students refused the alternatives set to them and created a new
program (A.R.T.S.) in conjunction with
their faculty. Meanwhile, half-a-dozen
other programs were having student/faculty meetings over academic problems,
with varying degrees of understanding
and change.
Nearly 400 students overflowed CAB
110 November 19 to implement student
involvement in curriculum. The meeting
produced three resolutions: " . . .that . . .
maximum student involvement . . . shall
be an integral part in any (curriculum) decision-making . . . ;" " . . .that a moratorium be placed . . . on all restructuring
proposals until students have formed an
organization that will have a deciding
voice . . . ;" and "If this petition . . . is
not accepted and enacted . . . a strike will
be called."
At that time students became aware of
a faculty proposal to restructure Evergreen into four separate colleges — apparently counter to student need.
The "Teach-in" was held November
24 - 25 with perhaps 825 people at the
first meetings, dwindling to less than 400
at the end. The welter of talk produced

the "M & M Manifesto" (by Dave Marr
and Rudy Martin) that provided for the
beginnings of a student union, a COG III
DTP and short- and long-range curriculum DTF's.

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Participation in the curriculum meetings
had dwindled to 150 which dwindled still
further when a long follow-up meeting
was held the following week.
Key issue was how to select student delegates to the above-mentioned curricular
groups. Eventually, students representing
eight curricular divisions (see Journal, 115-76, pg. 1) and staff were appointed by
Vice-president and Provost Ed Kormondy
to a short-term curriculum DTP.
The first order of business: an informative Curriculum Fair, to allow general student participation in curriculum planning,
held this week.
(See story below.)

Curriculum Fair
by Ti Locke
What if a college let students have a
hand in deciding their own curriculum —
and they didn't care?
That seems to be the feeling of all but
the approximately 600 students that
participated in the Curriculum Fair
January 18 - 20.
The Fair (not a registration) was
designed to give students a voice in which
1976 - 77 programs go and which are cut.
Students participating in the Fair had a
chance to read about study/contract
proposals for next year and fill out a form
stating what programs they'd like to see
in the catalog.
Memebers of the Short - term Curriculum DTP both created the fair and staffed
the information tables, answering questions and encouraging comments.
But where were the students? At least

one student said, "I don't care about it
(the Fair) as long as my program's here
next year." Others seem to be the victims
of mid - winter apathy and either didn't
know about the fair or didn't think that
their opinion was "worth that much."
Short - term Curriculum DTF member
Joe Dear said, "If we go through the
trouble of opening it up*. . .and there's no
response, then the administration is in an
'I told you so' position. We have to show
that students have made a difference, and
that their voices will be heard."
According to Dear, the highest number
of responses on the questionaires are in
Natural Sciences, the Arts and Outdoor
Education. A final tally is expected later
today.
He added that students should know in
about two weeks which programs were
cut.

by Curtis Milton
Governor Dan Evans has requested a
hike in tuition rates, along with many
other controversial budget proposals. If
enacted, the increase would be the first
since 1971.
Evans is calling for a 10% increase in
tuition for resident students at state and
community colleges. The tuition bill for
an Evergreen student would rise from
$169 a quarter to $188 or $564 a year, an
increase of $57 a year. Non-resident fees
would rise accordingly.
Th;it 10% raise, however, is small
when compared to increases which would
affect the two state universities and 27
comnjiunity colleges. Students at the University of Washington and Washington
State University will be looking at a 20 24% tuition increase next year, or an increase from $188 to $228 per quarter at
the UW. Non-resident students could end
up paying almost $2,000 a year in tuition
alone.
Students at Washington's community
colleges, where tuition rates are the lowest of all, would suffer the biggest increase
under Evans' plan. At those institutions,
tuition would increase $81 a year for residents and the rate for out-of-state students would almost double. The threat of
a 30-32 % tuition hike has community
college students worried, and they're beginning to organize for the fight ahead.
The Council of Representatives and
Presidents (CORP), the community college students' organization, has already
begun to lobby against the hike. So far,
they've received the support of the Washington State Labor Council, the Washington Federation of Teachers and the State
Child Care Coalition. Speaking in the
university »f wasnington ua-.iy, spumperson Arlene Christensen said that
CORP has vowed, "No tuition increase."
Why a tuition increase now? According
to a spokesperson in the Governor's office,
Evans feels that we're in the midst of a
real school crisis and it's become necessary
to pull in more money and revenue from
all areas. He feels the tuition increase is
"higher education's share" in solving the
school financing crisis.
Not all is gloom in the Evans proposals.
The Governor would like to see the salaries of state employees and college faculty raised by 5% on July 1. Also included
in the budget is a proposal to increase

from 3% to 6% the amount of money
available for student tuition waivers.
Reaction to the tuition proposal has
ranged from praise to outright condemnation. Students generally seem to be siding
against the raise while legislators and administrators have either adopted a proincrease attitude or one of "wait and see."
"As a "matter of public policy, I think
low tuition is a good idea," says President
Charles McCann, "if it's supported by a
broader tax structure including an income
tax." Looking at the increase with no specific policy in mind, McCann says "I
don't think it's unreasonable. I hate to see
. tuition keep going up Without the state reforming the tax structure."
McCann isn't worried about a massive
student dropout if the tuition increase is
implemented. He thinks that "something
should be said about the attention given
by the Governor to alleviating the strain"
by increasing money available for student
tuition waivers.
J?6es McCann think the tuition measure
will be approved? He says, "I've given up
trying to predict what happens in any
given legislature."
University of Washington President
John Hogness, faced with a possible $5
million deficit at the end of the 1975 - 77
biennium, told the Faculty Senate Jan. 15
that the UW would lobby in favor of the
tuition increase unless the Legislature approved the University's supplemental
budget.
"I think it would be irresponsible for
me not to speak in favor of some tuition
hike at this time," Hogness told the UW
Daily after the speech.
"I want to see what's involved," replied
Rep. John Hendricks, (R-OIympia) when
asked if he would support the tuition
know it's a burden." Hendricks says that
if the proposal is fair, "I'll be for it."
"The student only pays 10%, or at the
most 16% to 18%, of his total education
costs," says Hendricks. "Most students
don't realize this. If more realize it,
maybe they won't be opposed to it."
When asked about the tuition proposal,
several students at Evergreen replied that
they thought it was "crazy" (or words to
that effect). Many hadn't even heard of
the proposal. One student said that he
thought it was a "good thing. This school
needs more money. I don't think it's going
to break anybody's back."

PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION HEARINGS
by Lenore Norrgard
The fight over protective work
rules returned to the legislature
last Friday morning, January 16.
During a joint hearing before the
House and Senate Labor Committees, testimony was heard on
three bills proposed by Rep.
Georgette Valle (D — King
County/31st Dist.).
House Bill 1254 would reconstitute the Industrial Welfare
Committee (IWC) that writes
protective orders and would require the legislative labor committees to review regulations proposed by the IWC. A proposed
amendment to the bill would add
administrative enforcement for
IWC rules.
The main contention Friday
morning centered around House
Bill 1265, which would prohibit
mandatory overtime for almost
all employees.
The hearing room was packed
to overflowing, the majority of
people there representing businesses. The Coalition for Protective Legislation spokesperson
Cindy Gipple stated, "Working
people . . . are human beings
who need to rest, be with our
families, participate in the cultural and political activities of
our community . . . the human
cost of overwork is high —
chronic fatigue, increased susceptibility to disease and injury and
decreased productivity . . . The
passage of the ERA should have

provided an equal sharing of
rights, not abuse."
Monica Hill, President of
United Workers Union-Independent, quoted U.S. Dep't. of Labor
statistics, stating that 22.9% of
the work force worked 41 or
more hours per week and, according to May 1974 figures,
17% of full-time non-farm wage
and salary earners worked 46 or
more hours per week. Hill continued, "It is cheaper to pay overtime than to hire, train and
provide benefits to new employees."
A construction industry businessman said that when he first
heard about HB 1265 he "thought
it was a joke." He went on to
oppose HB 1265, saying that it
was necessary in the construction
business to be able to require overtime and that they could not
afford to hire more workers to
do the job.
Clarence Strong, a man who
called himself a long-time union
man, testified that mechanization
should prevent overtime. He refuted the necessity for overtime
in the construction business, saying that as an old construction
worker such problems could
easily be overcome with proper
planning. He said that more jobs
would be available without overtime and that every time two
men work 12 hours, it takes
away a job that could be available.

LETTERS

WOMEN NEWS
To the Editor:
Our "project" for the remainder of this year (and perhaps our
lives) will involve writings for,
by and about women.
We find that there has been a
general neglect/void/suppression
in the education of women in
their own history (her-story), <ocial origins, cartoon humor and
jokes, inspirational slogans, philosophy, etc.
Training for advance job skills
must be a woman's priority, for
economic survival. Although the
general suppression time to
absorb the volumes of knowledge
currently available, much less to
research the still-hidden facts.
We believe that a temporary
compromise would be to offer
abbreviated, entertaining and
provocative versions of women's
past and current issues.
To achieve a portion of this,
we plan to collect and research
aspects of women and publish
this in abbreviated versions.
For example, "current" topics/
events will be relayed to the
local National Organization of
Women's newsletter. Copies of
this newsletter are in the Women's Center. Additionally, we
plan to present cartoons, sketches,
poetry, historical facts, parodies,
• etc.
To contribute/work, with us/
discuss the possibilities with us/
drop off news articles, etc. — we
have established a mailbox in the
Women's Center Lounge.
The Fragmented Feminist
Gwendolyn G.
Linda Lombard
Pamela Patterson
Marsha Smith

SUPPORTS SPECTOR
To the Editor:
On December 20th, at the
Board of Trustees' meeting,
Barbara Spector walked away
from her place on the Board of
Trustees. Barbara Specter's refusal to be used as token window
dressing by McCann and the
Board of Trustees shows the
developing solidarity of women
on campus.
Barbara was picked by McCann
and a "computer" to replace a
democratically elected representative from the Women's organi-

zations. She stated her respect
for the work her sisters had done
and that she was not about to
undermine it. Barbara refused to
be used as a token "female" on
the Board. Her strong respect for
the attempts her sisters made to
be on the Board of Trustees/as
women elected by women, is an
example we can all follow in our
struggles at Evergreen.
Barbara's show of solidarity as
a woman is no surprise. The
position of women at TESC is
among the lowest and their
emerging opposition to tokenistic
bribes by the administration
demonstrates the unity the fight
for feminist equality creates.
Marcel Hatch

BANYACA SPEAKS
To the Editor:
Yesterday I went to a presentation on campus by Thomas Banyaca, a Hopi interpreter for the
prophets of his tribe, who is now
in his fifteenth year of spreading
the word of spiritual prophecy.
I am curious because I did not
see another "faculty face" there
besides Mary Ellen Hillaire and
my own; I assumed there would
be many. I'm puzzled because at
LETTERS POLICY
The Journal welcomes all
signed letters to the Editor
(names will be withheld on
request) and prints them as
space permits. To be considered for publication that
week, letters must be received
by 5 p.m. on the Tuesday before the Thursday of publication. Letters received after
deadline will be considered
for the next issue. Letters
must be typed, double-spaced
and 400 words or less. The
Editor reserves the right to
edit letters over 400 words.
Generally, a photo or original art is also run on the letters page. To be considered
for publication, photos/art
from the community must
also be submitted by 5 p.m.
Tuesday before the Thursday
of publication. Submission
size: 5" x 7" or 8" x 10" although other sizes are acceptable. Name, address and
phone must be on all submissions and all originals will be
returned.

£ JOURNAL
staff

NEWS STAFF
Joe Morawski
Molly Wright
Lenore Norrgard
Chris Cowger
Catherine Riddell
Matt Greening
Stan Shore

EDITOR
Ti Locke
PHOTOGRAPHY
NEWS EDITORS
Doug King
Jill Stewart
Doug Buster
Curtis Milton
PRODUCTION
Ford Gilbreath
FEATURE EDITOR
Kathleen Meighan Joe Gendreau
John Dodge

an early fall Beta faculty meeting
with Lynn the total consensus of
those present was that someone
"should come in and enlighten
everyone about Indians."
Well, you get the drift, the
hue and cry for the much-needed
word was there, and it was
asked for — it seemed — in all,
sincerity. I am concerned that
Mr. Banyaca came so far to give
his message, yet drew so few
people from the faculty and
working forces of this school,
not to mention deans and administrators. He is a kind, gentle,
knowledgeable and eloquent man
who is well worth hearing; who
not only gives you much about
his tribe spiritually, but of its
historical essence in time and^
place.
Sometimes we as Indians have

difficulty in convincing others
that we represent approximately
300 different groups today —
each culturally distinct, different
traditions, languages, and varied
ways of seeing and worshipping
the great spirit.
How do we as Native Americans open up communications
with other faculty, other areas of
study and administration?
It is sad, but when we do
speak, we do not seem to reach
many. Open communication is
extremely difficult because we
are often viewed by the nonIndian as not equal, even if we
have a PhD. If we are to have a
full-force Native American Studies program here, we need to negotiate and rely on others,
faculty and administrators, for
their expertise. We need visual
status within the school, the
Indian communities and the nonIndian communities.
For those of you that have
trouble telling Mary Ellen and
me apart, I am the one who
limps.
Mary F. Nelson

WHO VOTES
ON BOT?
To the Editor:
I am not pleased with recent
and renewed attempts by gays,
Third-Worlders and Women's
coalition to gain voting voice on
the Evergreen Board of Trustees.
This represents a further fractionalization of the "Evergreen
Community" while disregarding
laws and procedures established
by the 1889 Legislature. In addition, the attempt violates the
spirit and intent of the COG
document, specifically WAC
174-108-010 sub-sec, (h) and
ministrators, faculty, staff

the rest of us share the blame as
well.
Further, I am not convinced
that any or all of these groups
have true representative outlook
on the total picture of education.
The fabric of community at
Evergreen could be better improved by some or all of the following steps: 1) factions/individuals who want a voice on the
Board of Trustees should make
application to the Governor's
office and get help through correspondence to that office;
2) factions/individuals should be
mutually supportive of exacting
procedural steps to make the
COG document viable by representing all members of the community; 3) members of the community should renew their commitment to facing up to the
world "outside the walls" where
special interest groups not only
fractionalize but destroy equality
and justice for all the People, all
the time.
Evergreen is an island of ideas,
idealism and insulation from the
"real world" where some of our
rhetoric and idealism is flatly ignored or used as a whipping post
for other special interests. I don't
believe that within five short
years everyone at Evergreen has
developed "tunnel vision." We
all have a higher calling than to
quibble, cavil, and use non-systemic and unacceptable ways
and means to achieve meaningful
and timely changes.
Those who choose to continue
selfish and special interest courses
of action serve only to destroy
the basic framework of Evergreen
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Tm not a die-hard administrator'

Kormondy Cr Curriculum

Ed. Note: until the recent furor over student participation in curriculum planning, few students had
heard of Ed Kormondy. Yet, as Vice-president and
Provost he is and has been responsible for curriculum
at Evergreen.
In the following interview with news editor Jill
Stewart, Kcirmondy shows himself to be considerably
different from the student conception of the administrator isolated "up there on the third floor."
by Jill Stewart
How did you originally become involved in Evergreen ?
"The background of coming to Evergreen really
goes back 10 years. I was thinking about alternative
teaching and I began thinking that teaching would be
more fun if I could teach with somebody else who
knew something about a subject I knew nothing
about.
"We had introduced, to the best of my knowledge,
for the first time in the country, a team-taught biology course. That experience was so good that I began
to think — how about exploring something with
somebody in a field other than biology?
"The opportunity came along to go to Washington,
D.C. in 1968 to work with a group looking at undergraduate education across the country in the biological sciences. One of the many things we looked at
were new ways to teach old tricks or new ways to do
new things. That began to put me in touch with some
ideas and people. Evergreen had already been established by the legislature and I read some of the very
early literature of the college and I said, 'Wow, this
sounds like this is the place.'
"So for me it's sort of the Utopia, in terms of a philosophy of education. I came to Evergreen in the fall
of 1971 as one of the first-year faculty."
What does a typical day look like for you?
"Last fall as part of her project in Life and Health,
a girl, I've forgotten her name, took me on to do a
survey. She was here on a Tuesday and I said, 'well
maybe the best way to answer your questions is to
just let me get yesterday's calendar.' So I got my appointment book out and I started with her. I ticked
off what had happened and it was quite a shock because it was from roughly 9 o'clock straight on through
the rest of the day.
"It happened that we had that particular day a
team of six people visiting us from a new University

in Sweden. I spent about an hour and a half with
them. One of the academic deans was in to talk about
a personnel problem — a faculty problem that had
arisen — and they wanted to explore it and wanted
some counsel and guidance. Dave Carnahan had been
in with a sticky budget matter affecting the Library. I
interviewed a development officer candidate. There
was a meeting, I can't remember now what that was,
and so finally the girl said, 'well when do you write
your memos and answer your mail?' and I said at
night. Very seldom is the day such that there are sufficient blocks of time to do the kind of planning, laying
out of strategy of something, catching up on correspondence or whatever.
"She tried to do an analysis of the different kinds of
things I do, so we broke it up into areas. We said
some of the things are exploratory, some would be
problem solving, others policy interpretation. Sometimes it's information exchange. And yet another kind
of thing — practically I've never had to do this at Evergreen — is to call a dean or director on the carpet
and say 'You're doing a shitty job.' Or to say 'look;
X, Y and Z need to be done, now get off your ass and
do it.' We don't really have those kind of people
here."
Before the curriculum meetings and Teach-in last
quarter very few students knew what you actually did
do or even what you looked like, but now they do.
How has this come across to you?
"Well, this fall there was almost a 50% turnover of
students, so that meant that there were a lot of people
who were new to the campus who knew nobody —
that's a given. After the Teach-in one of the very re-

warding sorts of experiences I've had is that I get
more acknowledgement that I am here. When I walk
across the campus there are a lot of students whom I
do not know, but I've seen them around before and
they've seen me, and they say 'hi, good morning.'
There is a little bit more of a natural kind of 'helloness' that I've recognized since November."
You are moderating the Curriculum DTP for planning next year's curriculum. How successful has the
DTP been?
"It has been fruitful, it's been very productive. We
have a very good group of people and they have
worked their tails off. What you are asking a group
to do is what is almost impossible for an individual to
do. Because we create a new curriculum every year —
it is a tremendous psychic drain.
"The group has worked hard and well. I feel encouraged and I don't feel too frustrated by the process — I think it's moving along beautifully. I don't
think, I hope nobody feels co-opted or compromised.
I sense that they see the enormity of the job."
Every now and then someone will say that "Ed Kormondy looks just like a history teacher" and I'm
wondering if you have some hidden desire for a career
that you haven't gone after?
"Oh, that's good! Uh, no, my frustration with, this
position is that I would rather be over there as a
teacher, that's where my career is, that's where my
heart is and I think that's where my gifts are — as a
teacher — that's what I want to do again. If there is a
hidden agenda in that it is, that from time to time I
have talked about the fact that I do not think I want
to stay in teaching until retirement. In years of teaching I've become concerned about the deadwood that
can happen. I guess I want to sort of grease the skids
for myself so I don't allow myself to be deceived that
at-whatever-age — I'm really as good a teacher as I
once was. So, I've talked about opening a bookstore,
with a gourmet restaurant and good wines and fireplaces in the room; it would be sort of like a library.
I'd lose money, but what a nice way to go broke."
Are you really a die-hard administrator or do you
have a soft spot?
"I'm very soft, very soft. Ask the people who work
with me. My sense of how you deal with people is
that, at least in my book, you get the best out of
people when they feel respected, honored and when
they feel you are asking them to work for a common
goal. I've had to learn to be able to say no. It's never
easy to tell somebody that they probably do need to
think about other employment — that's one of the
hardest things for me to say. But sometimes it needs
to be done. No, I'm really not a die-hard administrator."

THIS WEEK: PACIFIC AVE. IN LACEY, VETS ON CAMPUS & DRUNKS ON THE ROAD
Second in a series on events
occurring during the Bicentennial
by Feature Editor John Dodge.
Concerned businessmen and
property owners along Lacey's
Pacific Avenue appear united in
their opposition to a proposed
arterial improvement project
scheduled to begin this summer.
A vote taken last year by the
Lacey City Council calls for
construction of a two - way left
turn lane and sidewalks, new
street lighting, relocation of
power lines and traffic signals
and landscaping.
The project includes the acquisition of ten feet of privately owned land on each side of the
road. In some cases, the loss of
ten feet would leave businesses
(Dirty Dave's for example)
without parking space. Many
businesses would be forced to
close, relocate or suffer through
a summer of insufficient access
to their businesses. These men
and women remember what
happened to Lacey Boulevard
when an arterial improvement

project left the road looking like
an obstacle course for months.
At a recent meeting of
businessmen, property owners
and city officials, a city engineer
told the skeptical audience that
no business would be cut from
access for more than three days
of the thirteen - week project.
Considering the scope of the
project, the statement lacks
credibility.
Also at the same meeting,
Lacey Mayor Bill Bush listed ten
alternatives dealing with the
project, ranging from the original
plan to a series of compromises
(require right of way on only
one side of the road, omit
sidewalk construction) and threats
(take businessmen and property
owners to court, charge them
$300 to $2,000 for utility
reconnections and parking). In
Bush's original plan, he asked
the property owners to donate
up to ten feet of privately owned
right of way to the city. His
proposal met with less than
enthusiastic response.
Pacific Avenue is the home of

Lacey's oldest businesses and the
property owners and proprietors
who work there demand and
deserve that their voices be
heard. The loss of even one
business would render the project
morally bankrupt. The ultimate
decision on the future of Pacific
Avenue belongs in the hands of
the men and women most
directly affected.
VETS
According to Steve Richter,
Veteran Affairs Co-ordinator for
Evergreen, there are over 400
veterans enrolled for winter
quarter. This figure represents
some 20 per cent of the total
enrollment at Evergreen and is
representative of the state-wide
figures for veterans pursuing a
college education.
Evergreen veterans, who receive an average of $300 a
month in G.I. benefits, are
forming a veteran's organization
to "help vets help themselves."
Of all the special interest groups
on campus (Gays, Third Worlders, etc), the veterans are the

PROTECTION SOUGHT FOR ORCAS
The disappearance of the Orca
whale from Puget Sound waters
and the need for their protection
will be the featured topic at a
free presentation by field naturalist Russ Mohney Jan. 22 at 7:30
p.m. in L.H. I.
Mohney, an editor for Pacific
Search Magazine, said there are
some 300 Orcas — commonly
known as killer whales — residing in the enclosed waters between Puget Sound and Alaska.
A serious objection to the
hunting of Orcas is the effect it
has on their migratory patterns.
The most intelligent animal in
the sea, the Orca has become
suspect of their safety in the enclosed waters of the Northwest
and are no longer sighted in the

Puget Sound with the frequency
of years past.
In 1975, the Democratic Party
administration of British Columbia established a moratorium on
the further capturing of Orcas in
the straits of Georgia. Last week,
Recreation Minister Grace McCarthy of the new Social Credit
Government said the moratorium
will continue under the new administration. Mohney will discuss
the possibility of moratorium action being taken by the United
States or Washington State.
Orcas became known as killer
whales from their habit of herding other whales into the reach
of the whaler's harpoon. Herman
Melville, famous author and
chronicler of the Nantucket whal-

ing in( j ustry Of the

igOO's, mentioned that little was known
about the killer whale although
he was known to attack larger
whales, take them by the lip and
hang there like a leech, worrying
the mighty leviathans to death.
Killer whales were not hunted by
the Nantuckers due largely to
lack of knowledge about the
quality of their oil. Melville also
said, "exception may be taken to
the name bestowed upon the
whale (killer whale) . . . For we
are all killers, on land and sea;
Bonapartes and sharks included."
Evergreen will be the site of
the First International Orca
Symposium to be held
March 12-13.

least vocal and yet potentially
the most powerful — if you look
at sheer numbers.
DWI
Mandatory five day sentences
and $500 fines for driving while
intoxicated (DWI) are now being
dealt out in Thurston County
District Justice Court.
The sentences in Judge Thorp's
courtroom represent a stiffer
stance toward drunken driving.
Two day sentences and $250 to
$300 fines were standard for first
offenders before Jan. 1.
Aside from the immediate

consequences, first offenders can
expect some long term effects of
a DWI conviction. A spokesman
for the Thurston Count prosecutor's office said a DWI conviction could cost from $2,000 to
$3,000 over a three year period.
Included in this estimate are
lawyer fees, court costs, increased insurance premiums,
payment of the original fine and
cost of the madatory Driver
Improvement Course.

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Safeway is a corporate giant that doesn't sell UFW
lettuce — an issue many Evergreen students feel strongly
about. Yet, the Journal included Safeway in a "Food
Market Review" price-comparison article. Why?
By listing Safeway's prices, we neither condemn nor
endorse Safeway. The Olympia store is a member of a
chain, important to include in a price-comparison article.
If the story had not included Safeway, it would have been
just as biased as an article on Safeway's prices alone.
Many students have complained about the inclusion of
Safeway in the article. Are they asking the Journal to
subscribe to selective journalism?
We are neither an arm of the administration or a sob
sheet for students. Yet, when we deviate from a supposed
editorial policy that states such truths as "sugar is unhealthy," "administrators are bad guys" or "Safeway is a
bad word," then we receive complaints.
The Journal is not published to help the Evergreen
community put on blinders or as a public-relations newsletter for people outside the immediate college community. It is published to report, as objectively as possible,
the varied moods of a non-traditional college with a nontraditional population.

• The STEAMPLANT is becoming a popular place for evening
activities. To avoid a doubling
of events, here is the winter
quarter schedule:
MONDAY: C o - R e c . Volley-,
ball. 6:30-8:30
TUESDAY: League Volleyball.
6:00 -8:00
WEDNESDAY: Legislative Volleyball. 6:00-9:00
THURSDAY: Co - Rec. Badminton: Singles and doubles. 6:008:00 t

• The "Self - Help Legal Aid
Program (SHLAP) is looking for
two people to train in legal
advocacy skills. Interested people
would be required to work at
least on day per week without
pay. Paid positions at 2.83/hr.
will open spring quarter. For
more information, call -6107 or
leave a note in our mailbox in
CAB 305.

• The Sierra Club will meet Jan.
27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Olympia
Community Center. The meeting
will
include a report from the
• Two hot - time recreational
state club concerning problems
events coming up this month
are: Next Monday's (Jan. 26) in forest management and wilderness throughout the state, and
Co - Rec Racquet ball Workshop.
a slide show: "Impressions of
Rick Tessandore will be presiding
Washington Wilderness." for car
in Courts 1 and 2. The
pool transportation call Vicki at
workshop is for beginning and
866-1636.
intermediate levels. Sign up at
the Sport Kiosk this week, and
• The S & A Board will meet
then show up on the courts at 5
Wednesday, January 28th. On
p.m. Monday.
the agenda are negotiating rent
On Friday, January 30, Len
rates for both the campus
Wallick will host a weight bookstore and SAGA.
training workshop for women
• Graduate school practice exand men at the beginning and
ams: tests include the GRE, the
intermediate levels. Prior sign up
LSAT and the MCAT. Practice
for this 7 p.m. workshop at the
exams will be given Saturday,
friendly Sport Kiosk.
Jan. 24th from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. Doors close at 8 a.m.
• The Human Growth Center is
Please pre - register at Career
offering the following additional
Planning and Placement, Lib.
workshops: "Exploring Mysti1220.
cism and Metaphysics" (2/6 • "Changer," a Skokomish crea2/8, $17 students, $40 communition myth, opens today for four
ty, register Lib. rm 1224);
weeks
at the Pacific Science
"Personal Organization and EfCenter in the Seattle Center.
fectiveness" (Sat. 1:30-4:30,
"Changer" is a Red Earth Per$10); "Experience Yoga: A
forming Arts Company producWeekend Workshop" (2/21 tion, the same group that
2/22, $15 students, $20 communperformed
"Raven" at Evergreen
ity, register Lib. rm. 1224);
last
fall.
"Changer" will be
"Creative Problem Solving Withstaged
in
the
Longhouse, at 8
in Relationships" (register Lib.
p.m."changer" is directed by
rm. 1224).
John Kouffman and is written by
Bruthe Miller. Tickets are avail• The Africa and the U.S.
able at the Pacific Science Center
program asks that every one
ticket booth.
clean out their closets, drawers
• The Winter Mountaineering
and attics and donate any yarn
workshop will hold its meetings
or knitted or crocheted items to
in Lib. rm. 3234 every Tuesday
them at Lib. rm. 1219.
and Thursday evening at 7 p.m.

continued from page 2
in the eyes of the public, the legislature, and most importantly,
impart a certain callousness and
foreboding cynicism in every
person who is associated with
Evergreen. These special interests
are not all without basis, but Evergreen and every one of us
could be better served by taking
our causes outside the borders of
the college. It is a zoo in the real
world. Will it be a rude awakening for us outside the walls? Will
our impact and efforts be spent
advocating changes within our
insulated community with some
of the best natural allies we
have, each other?
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to recruit for and advocate
Evergreen because my main selling points of "community and
cooperation" have visibly deteriorated over the last two and a
half to three years. I am proud
to have graduated from Evergreen. I am also sure that we as
alumni, staff, students, administrators, faculty and interested
Evergreen family members can
re-track this machine and use it
for better purposes.
Michael Harding

POLICEMEN ARE
OUR FRIENDS?
To the Editor:
At about 12:30 on the morning of January 8, I pulled into
the parking lot of the 7-11 store
on Harrison and Division in
West Olympia. I was greeted by
the sight of five Olympia police
cars, all with their lights flashing.
Of course my curiosity rose. I
glanced around to see what was
happening. I saw two young
Indian men standing on the storefront sidewalk, looking patient
and extremely boretl and one
man inside a police car. Around
these men were numerous policemen. Upon inquiry I discovered
that the 7-11 cashier knew
nothing-nbout tvlial tins 1'inppiii-

ing in his own lot.
I am new to Olympia and this
scene really made me wonder
about the police department of
Olympia and the justice (or lack
of it as this situation seemed to
be showing) which is a part of
that department. Why does it
take five police cars and eight to
ten policemen against three
Indian men who were peacefully
trying to ignore the whole scene?
Is the police department of Olympia really that bored? I find it
hard to believe that more than
one car was necessary and I can't
help but question the prejudice
of the department, a prejudice
that caused an immense and
senseless fear — the fear of three
Indian men.
In the evening Daily Olympian
(Jan. 8) Sheriff's Blotter I read
that the man I had seen in the
police car had been seen walking
out of the 7-11 store and Deputy Jim Chamberlain stopped
him for identification. Why?
Boredom and unjustified suspicion of a man because of his
race?
How can anyone still tell me
that "policemen are your friends"
as I was always told as a young
child. My adult eyes see the
truth, a truth I wish I could
deny. Thank you for letting me
voice my experience,
Rachel Kaplan

FROM MCCANN
To the Editor:
"President Charles McCann
this week announced a proposed
staff reorganization, essentially
designed to deal with problems
relating to student access to
Evergreen's academic programs
and matters associated with
academic administration.
"Here's a quick look at the
suggested revisions. The organization chart divides Evergreen
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directors reporting to Vice President and Provost Ed Kormondy
and seven directors reporting to
Administrative Vice President
Dean Clabaugh. To improve
academic administration, the
proposal creates a new 'deanery'
with three deans whose terms'
would be longer than the present
four years, and one associate
dean with a two - year 'apprenticeship' appointment. Those
deans would share the major
responsibilities of curriculum,
faculty hiring and development,
and other basic academic duties.
A new position — perhaps called
'minister' — would handle the
'desk functions' now shared by
the deans, mostly budgetary
matters and housekeeping kinds
of activities. The three deans,
one associate dean and the
'minister' would report to Kormondy along with Cooperative
Education, the Third World
Coalition and either the Library
or the proposed 'student access'
unit.
"That 'student access' unit is
the key to solution of the second
major problem — how to improve coordination of those
functions which students must
complete in order to attend (and
graduate from) Evergreen — for
example: admissions, registration, student accounts, veteran's
affairs, academic advising, and
possibly, career counseling.
McCann's proposal would group
all 'student access' units in one
physical location with one coordinator so students 'can get
straight answers all in one place.'
The groups not included in
student access, but now a part of
Student Development Programs — counseling, security,
health services and possibly,
career counseling — would probably report to the administrative
vice president under another
coordinator. At this point, it's
still not clear to which vice
prt
residents student ace
'TIBrary would report. McCann
is determined to reduce the
number of persons reporting to
the provost so that the provost
can become more directly involved in academic administration."
What's described above has
been the starting point for
discussion among all the people
involved. There have been several alternatives proposed, the
advantages and disadvantages of
which have been and are being
discussed.
I am calling a President's
Forum for Jan. 29 at 1:30 in the
Library Lobby, at which I am
pleased to answer whatever
questions you have. I'd also be
pleased to get your views on the
matter if you've given it some
thought.
Charles J. McCann

Applications for the job of
S&A BOARD
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

are now being accepted.
A 30 hr./wk. internship.

The replacement will be
chosen on Feb. 20 with an unpaid orientation period until
the job starts on March 15.
For a job description and application submission contact
Brent Ingram. CAB 305. 8666220.

HELP EVERGREEN AND BE PAID FOR IT

During the next 3'/2 months we in the Admissions Office
will be bringing high school seniors to Evergreen for a 24hour visit. We need dorm and apartment students to act as
host/sponsors. We will pay you $3 for each student you
host. Your duties are few. You would pick up the high
school students at 5:00 p.m. one day and return them by 12
noon the following day. You would take them to meals and
classes — they pay for their own meals. They bunk in your
rooms. We supply linen, blankets and pillows. If you would
like to help, please contact Jim in Admissions at 6170 or
Jackie'In Housing at 6583.

IN BRIEF

FLOOD VOLUNTEER
ROSTER
by Catherine Riddell
Thurston County's Department
of Emergency Services is establishing a roster of volunteers and
a co-ordinator(s) at Evergreen.
Hopefully^ the roster will help
deter the kind of confusion that
occurred during the floods in December.
During the December floods
there was no coordination of
volunteers. Over 200 volunteers
came to Frank's Landing when
50 were needed while other flood
areas had no volunteers working
there. The roster would provide
efficiency, avoid misinformation
and provide insurance and possibly gas money for registered volunteers.
Gene Wade at the Department
of Emergency Services explained
that that office has three staff
members with responsibilities for
Thurston County's emergency
preparedness services (Medic I(i
nuclear catastrophe, search-andrescue).
At the present there is no roster of sandbagging volunteers in
Thurston County. Volunteers
must meet no requirements except to have "a sincere desire to
help," Wade said. Volunteers
would probably be called twice
this year for help in sandbagging.
The first floods are expected in
February.
The roster presently has no
members and a co-ordinator is
needed. To volunteer, people
will need to fill out an "Emergency Services Personnel Record"
form at Campus Security.
Earlier this week the Nisqually
River crested for the second time
since early December. The river
washed away a home and trailer
owned by Samuel A. Card at

Frank's Landing.
Although Thurston County
crews have been monitoring the
floods, volunteers are still urgently needed.

The 3-D sculpture "Metabole"
approved at the EOT meeting

REP. REFUSES
BOARD POSITION
by Curtis Milton
Barbara Specter, computer
chosen student representative,
refused to sit on the Board of
Trustees at their Tuesday meeting. The representatives from the
staff, Yves Duverglass, and the
faculty, Mary Nelson, chose to
occupy their seats at the Trustee's
table.
"I don't believe in picking by
computer," Spector told the
Board. "I'm not a representative,
I was picked by a computer. I
respect the Sounding Board's
decision to seat the Third World,
Women and Gays. I don't think
I should be sitting here."
"You're entitled to this opinion," said acting Board chairperson Janet Tourtellotte, "this is
how we do things at Evergreen.
We're very happy to have you.
Your objections wouldn't preclude you from sitting with us."
"I've made my decision,"
Spector said, and walked out.

Later, Spector told the Journal
that "I felt like I was being used
as a token woman and to
obstruct the organizations on
campus (Third World, Women
and Gays)."
Spector says she was told that
her name was selected at random
by computer from a list of 15
Evergreen students which had
been selected in the same
manner. She claims that the list
has since been destroyed. Although she had been trying to
get a look at the list since Friday
of last week, Spector says she
never did get to see it.
In other action during the
meeting, the three Board members present, Tourtellotte, Thomas Dixon, and Herbert Hadley,
approved the final agreement
between the school and student
artist Don Collins. The agreement allows Collins to erect a 3dimensional art work, Metabole,
at the intersection of Kaiser
Road and the Parkway. Collins
will donate the labor and
materials involved in the 16 foot
work. After 10 years, the work
will either be removed or
destroyed in accordance with the
artist's wishes.
The Board took no action on
the proposed maternity leave
policy. The policy was prepared
by Rindetta Jones to meet
requirements of the Higher
Education Personnel Board.
The Board was favorable
towards most of the policy but
seemed to get hung up over the
portion which would allow
paternity leave for fathers. The
concern was that this clause
could cost Evergreen too much
money. It was quickly pointed
out that paternity leave would
either be counted as sick leave
or a leave of absence, which
would make it without pay.

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Delegates representing 30 seminars and programs met on
campus today to choose the
representatives for Long Range
Curriculum and COG III DTF's.
The group of some 45 students
also re - affirmed their position
that ten representatives were
needed on the Long Range
Curriculum DTP to equally
balance with the ten faculty
representatives. Ed Kormondy
had requested only five student
representatives.
Those chosen as representatives for the Long Range
Curriculum DTP include: Krag

Unsoeld, Leslie Owen, Susan
Stephen, Russell Colon, Chuck
McKinney, Jim Egerton, Vicky
Yeager, Cathi Hoover, Carla
Knoper, Doug Sebasian and Joe
Dear.
COG DTP representatives are:
Devi Unsoeld, Don Martin,
Michael Leifer, Bill Fulton, Jay
Fuller, Tom Murrill, Kiki Foote,
and Ron Smoire.
The group will meet again on
Wednesday, January 28 to choose
three additional COG DTP
representatives and hear the
Long Range DTF's report.
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was not represented at the
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ON CAMPUS
Friday, Jan. 23 — "A Clockwork Orange" (1971 — England),
directed by Stanley Kubrick and
starring Malcolm McDowell, a
movie based on the novel by
Anthony Burgess. (See review.)
There will be three showings of
this well-received movie — 3
p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. All
for 50 cents in LH. I. Please get
there early to assure yourself of
a se.at.
Saturday, Jan. 24 — ASH
Coffeehaus presents "Le Million"
(1931 — France), directed by
Rene Clair. "Le Million" stars
Rene Leferve, Annabella and
Paul Olivier. Showing at 7 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m. Donation 50 cents.
Sunday, Jan. 25 — Sunday
Night Music presents Harvey
Pittell on saxophone and Mary
Ewing on piano. Mr. Pittell, at
34, has appeared at Carnegie
Hall and performed with the
Boston and Los Angeles Philharmonics. His specialties include
classical, impressionistic and
avant garde music. Sponsored by
Eye-Five, the musical event takes
place in the Library lobby at 8
p.m.
Monday, Jan. 26 — EPIC
brings us The Family Circus
Theatre Collective in an excellent
play about the politics of nuclear
energy entitled "Superman Meets
the Plutonium Tycoon" at 7:30
p.m. in the Library lobby.
Tuesday, Jan. 27 — The
Family Circus presents a play
about women's roles and oppression (seems to be a favorite topic
these days) entitled "Who Stole
the Umbilical Cord." Starts at 12
noon in the Library lobby.
Also on Tuesday — The
Faculty Film Series continues
with the presentation of Ingmar
Bergman's "The Shame;" 2 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m. in L.H. I. No
charge.
Wednesday, Jan. 28 — Sherlock Holmes Film Classic movies
include "Sherlock Holmes and
the Secret Weapon" and "Pearl
of Death;" 7 p.m. in L.H. I. It's
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28 — The Evergreen Coffeehaus
brings magician Stephen Russell
to the Evergreen library lobby.
The magic show begins at 7:30
p.m. Donation is 50 cents.
OLYMPIA
Friday, Jan. 23 — Applejam
will feature two outstanding
single performers, both nationally
known and respected. Larry
Hanks plays topical and sentimental songs of America and the
British Isles, accompanied by
guitar, banjo, jaw harp and bamboo flute. Bodie Wagner sings
tales of cowboys, hobos and the
traveling life, accompanied by
guitar, harmonica and yodeling.
Promises to be a fine evening.
Doors open at 8 p.m. Donation
$1.00.
Saturday, Jan. 24 — Applejam
presents Curly Creek for an
evening of bluegrass music. This
group features some of the hottest
banjo playing and sweet harmonies of any bluegrass group in
the Northwest. Doors open at 8
p.m. for $1.00.
Odds and Ends — If you're
looking for a quiet lounge to sip
a drink, talk, or overhear a
lobbyist discuss with a legislator
the merit of some pending bill,
may I recommend to you the
Melting Pot. A restaurant and
lounge adjacent to the Capitol
grounds, the cocktail lounge offers the best jukebox music in
town and equally fine taped
music. Not a bad place to unwind.
SEATTLE
The most recent work of Roy
Lichtenstein, one of America's
foremost artists, shows at the Seattle Art Museum Modern Art
Pavilion, Seattle Center, from
Jan. 22 through March 7. Consisting mostly of paintings, the
exhibition also includes a selection of sculpture and prints.
Lichtenstein's work received
widespread acclaim in the early
1960's when Pop Art challenged
the acceptance of Abstract Expressionism. Concurrent with
Lichtenstein's exhibition is a display of work by Joseph Albers,
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to name a few.
"Women in the Arts 1976," a
festival to celebrate the artistic
achievements of women, comes
to the Seattle Center Jan. 23 - 25.
Over 250 women will participate
in the festival, a weekend overflowing with free events.
Highlights of the weekend include: The Anna Wyman Dance
Company will perform in the
Opera House at 8 p.m. Jan. 23;
female vocalists Wendy Waldman and Rachel Faro, courtesy
of Albatross Productions, perform in the Opera House at 8:30
p.m. Jan. 24 — this is the only
paid event in the festival —
$3.00; and the Northwest Chamber Orchestra presents works
composed by women in the
Eames Theatre of the Pacific
Science Center on Jan. 25.
Penny England, talented mime,
will open "Women in the Arts
1976" with a 6 p.m. performance
in the Food Circus Court of Center House on Jan. 23. Following
the performance, Judy Collin's
and Jill Godmilov's highly acclaimed film, "Antonia," will be
viewed in the same room.
Adios
MULTI - MEDIA AUDITIONS
Auditions for a multi - media
production, "A Woman is Talking to Death," are scheduled by
the Theater of the Unemployed
for Jan. 26, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at
the Olympia Community Center
(1314 E. 4th), and Jan. 27, 7
p.m. to 10 p.m. in CAB 202..
The group is seeking a cast of
nine women and seven men to
perform mime as well as
speaking parts in the play.
Written by poet Judy Grahn, the
play is slated for performances
this spring with rehearsals beginning in February. Technical
assistance in arts, graphics, film,
audio and photography is also
sought. Interested persons are
invited to contact the Theater of
the Unemployed at 357-8323.
• Wednesday, Jan. 28, KAOS
89.3 presents the second in a
series of Beethoven Symphonies.
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2 p.m. for Beethoven's Second.

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Stylized Violence
by Matt Groening
All our entertainment is to some degree violent. Most of us
were raised on frenzied cartoons and grim fairy tales, but we
knew instinctively that such violence was unreal and harmless.
Cruelty and suffering played a small part in those
days — what amused us was the immediate, impersonal
collision, explosion, or impact. But gradually, as our loyalty to
Daffy Duck faded, we became aware of the psychopathic child
molesters lurking in the woods. Violence wasn't total fun
anymore, because we were the potential victims and we cared
. _ about ourselves a lot.
And now we have Stanley Kubrick's ninth feature, "A
CLOCKWORK ORANGE," scheduled for Lee. Hall 1
tomorrow evening. (See Entertainment listings.) The film is a
story of the rise and fall and rise of the ultraviolent Alex, who,
with his teenaged "droogs," beat, rape, and murder; all to the
lovely strains of Ludwig Van and other faves. We may shudder
at the mindless sexual sadism Kubrick lingers over, but we are
let off easy: all the victims are deliberatley grotesque and
unsympathetic, so we can enjoy the highly stylized, ballet - like
mayhem.
For the first half of the movie we witness Alex's joyful,
random brutality, played with cold emotion by Malcolm
McDowell. But then he is nabbed for bludgeoning a woman to
death with a macrophallic sculpture. Alex ends up a victim
himself of the Ludovico Technique, a cruel aversion therapy
that eradicates Alex's love of ultraviolence and good old
Ludwig Van, but at the same time dehumanizes him to the
point of robotic, clockwork reactions. Kubrick's pessimistic
view of man as an irrational, ignoble savage is matched only
by his vision of society, which he shows can make man only
worse than he naturally is. But the movie's end is not as
pessimistic as Kubrick probably intended. Alex's return to his
preferred savagery is not a despairing scene; the film merely
glorifies Alex's final triumph of brutality and warms the hearts
of mean punks everywhere.
Technically, the film is overrated. While some of the
sequences are dazzingly well - executed, others are cheao and
foolish. The obvious rear - projection in the car stealing scene is
embarrassingly bad and a microphone is visible in at least one
scene. The version we will see is not the one originally played
in the theaters. Kubrick altered a couple of the most explicit
sex scenes to change the film's original MPAA rating from X
to R.
Ignoring the film's self - indulgent gratuitous sadism,
Kubrick's satire has other major problems. All of the*
characters, including Alex, are caricatures, with no depth, no
history, and no motivations. There is no insight into the
violence depicted, and since the movie is not really futuristic,
but about today's world, this lack of insight only furthers the
nihilism and ambivalence that brought about the nightmare in
the first place. Alex would have loved "A CLOCKWORK
ORANGE," because ultimately the film is a confused and
corrupt study of amorality, and it caves in on its own ugly
inhumanity.
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Cause Celebre Yoshimura
by Alan K. Ota
SAN FRANCISCO, JAN. 1 (PNS) —
In the three months since her arrest
with Patty Hearst Sept. 18 in a San Franisco apartment, Wendy Masako Yoshimura has captured the support and imagination of Japanese-Americans throughout
be country.
Now, because of this support, Yoshinura has been released from custody on
125,000 bail and is slaying in the home of
i Berkeley criminology professor Paul
"akagi to await her upcoming trial on
harges of possessing weapons and exploives four years ago.
In granting Yoshimura's Dec. 2 motion
o reduce her $100,000 bail in mid-De:ember, Alameda County Superior Court
udge Lionel J. Wilson referred to the exraordinary backing of the JapaneseAmerican community for her release.
Judge Wilson was moved to tears while
quoting from the affidavit of an insurance
man from Fresno, Cal., Mike Iwatsubo.
"I am a stranger to Wendy Yoshimura.
met her for the first time," it read.
"Yet, Judge Wilson, my wife and I are
milling to place all our savings ($2,500)
nto the court's hands to guarantee that
A/endy Yoshimura will appear and face
rial."
Although over half of the money was
eserved for his son's law school tuition
due in February, Iwatsubo wrote "I risk
.his tuition for my boy because I know
A/endy Yoshimura will not flee."
Such support for Yoshimura has been
strongest not among members of her own
;eneration but among second-generation
apanese-Americans (Nisei), who feel a
ipecial identification with her parents.
"Incarcerated after Pearl Harbor at
vlanzanar, their daughter born in camp,
the hopelessness, despair, confusion and
uncertainty during those dark years; then
repatriated to Japan and Hiroshima, the
return to their country of birth and again
solation, indifference, Wendy's adjustments as a 13-year-old teenager is placed
n the second grade — all these traumatic
experiences are similar to those we all
iave shared in some way," explained Edison Uno, a prominent member of San
irancisco's Nisei community and a lecturer in Asian-American Studies at San
rrancisco State University.
Before his confinement at Manzanar —•
in the desert of Owens Valley — Yoshimura's father had been a sardine fisherman. Pressured to renounce his American
citizenship after the war, he and his family were repatriated to bomb-devastated
Hiroshima. They returned to the U.S. in
1953. He worked as a farm laborer in
Sanger, Cal., and his wife became a cook.
They regained their citizenship only after
a long court battle.
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Moved by press accounts of the Yoshimuras' life, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a noted
Nisei playwright who has never met

them, wrote a play entitled "Wendy
What's Her Name." He based it on a Los
Angeles Times story that reported no one
in Yoshimura's old high school could remember much about her except that she
had graduated at 20, had had language
difficulties, and therefore evidently "wasn't
very bright." To school officials, she had
been quiet, not very "exceptional," not a
discipline problem — she was "Wendy
What's-Her-Name."
During hearings on her motion to reduce bail, defense counsel James Larson
explained Yoshimura's psychological and
historical connection to the JapaneseAmerican community. He claimed community support had given his client a
strong attachment to the community that
she had not felt before. "Honor to that
(Japanese-American) group is now the
most important thing in her life," he said.
To underscore his claims, Larson called
as a witness Mas Yonemura, a longtime
East Bay immigrant law attorney. In Japanese society, Yonemura said, a stranger's
offer to help someone automatically creates an obligation — known as "on" —
not to disappoint the benefactor.
Yonemura argued that Yoshimura
would be duty-bound to repay any help
given her by the community by honoring
the terms of her release.
In making his final ruling, Judge Wilson
said he would consider bail reduction on
the unique condition that it paid out of a
fund of community pledges, creating a situation of "on" for Wendy Yoshimura. i
DEFENSE FUND
Considered among the most conservative of Japanese-Americans, community
leaders in Fresno started the first defense
fund for Yoshimura as a form of community legal aid for her parents, now
longtime Fresno residents and professional
gardeners.
The organizers expressly did not want
to be associated with Wendy Yoshimura's
politics or to defend her actions. "What
we want to be sure of, and the reason for
raising this money, is that there will be
enough to cover these legal expenses so
that she may be assured of a fair trial,"
explained Judge Mikio Uchiyama. "Wendy
Yoshimura's parents don't have the funds
that the Hearsts have to cover expenses
for lawyers."
Since then, the fund has received over
$10,000 in over 1,000 small contributions
from throughout California, and from the
Midwest and New York.
In San Francisco, over $25,000 in savings passbooks and securities was pledged
to Yoshimura's bail fund — separate from
the legal defense fund — in the 48 hours
after her bail was reduced.
In Santa Rita prison, one week before
her release, Yoshimura expressed both
surprise and apprehension at the support
she has received. She had not expected
this aid, she told PNS. Her deep gratitude

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was obvious. However, she feared some
of her supporters might be misreading her
character or her life-style and have impossible expectations of her.
She said she had received several hundred letters during her three-month incarceration at Santa Rita.
She was especially touched by letters
from "old Japanese people," she said, who
empathized with her position, comparing
it to discrimination they suffered during
World War II.
Now she feels she carries the heavy responsibility of maintaining their good
name and justifying their faith in her.

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THE CENTER FOR POETRY IN
PERFORMANCE
Charles Webb and J.K. Os- ,
borne are featured in a free
reading tonight, Jan. 22 at 7
p.m. in the Board Room, Lib.
rm. 3112.
Webb and Osborne are co-editors of "Madrona," a Northwest
literary magazine. Both men are
Seattle poets whose work probes
both the humorous and dark
areas of the prose poem. Their
new usage of the prose poem has
brought Charles Webb and J.K.
Osborne widespread publication
in several American literary
journals.
For further information stop
by the Center for Poetry in
Performance, Lib. rm. 3228.

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