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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 5 (November 4, 1976)

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It's (almost) final

Curriculum 95% Sure for 77-78

Initiative 325-Big Money Pours In
b y T eresa Imfeld

T he fa te of In itiati ve 325 , the
Nuclear Sa feguards Ac t, will rest
In the hands of the vo ters on
NllVember 2 when Washington
rl', i d ~nt s go to the polls to choose
r,etw een indiv idual safe ty and
priva te co mpan y profits.
II passed , the Initi a tive would
JlI llw th e co nstruction of nuclear
p"we r plants on ly if the state
Ic), islature agrees that : • th ere is
a nee d fo r the power
and it ca nnot be gotten
trlllll an \' other source ;
, there' is ;In effectiv e
, vstem of pl <m t safety ;
" the nuclea r wastes can
be stored or di sposed of
\\"ith ,' u t oJ reaso nable
chance o f d oi ng ha rm to
lite o r pro pert y : • a nd
th'l t the nuclear indllstry
\\ " uld a ss ume liabilit y
t,' r acciden ts a t nu cl ear
plants.
I' ;) ss age of thi s sateguards in itl atl\·e . ho wever. looks so mewhat
b le ak w h e n c o mparison s are

made of the tally of campaign
contributions for each opposing
group.
The $97 ,004.60 collected by
the Coalition for Safe Energy is
dwarfed by the $637 ,104 .03
which organizations such as Citizens Against the Ban and WET A
(the Washington Environmental
Trades Association) have managed to gather together. These
tota ls can be somewhat misleading when trying to dete rmine
who's ahead in voter popularity,
for while the Safe Energy group
receives the majority of its financial support from individuals
(40 .7 % of its total contribut ions),
the opposing forces are being
backed by large industries who
can donate an eno rmous amount
of mo ney at one time (94.9 % of
their total contributions are from
indu stries with 49.8 % coming
from companies out-oF- state).
W ith such fin a ncial backing
the o pposin g gr oups are able to
u se e ffe ctiv e TV commercials
and newspaper adve rtisements in

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order to reach the general public.
This past weekend every Sunday
newspaper across the state car ried a four-page insert which
supported the "Ban the Ban"
forces .
A lthough working against such
a financial disadvantage , the
groups backing nuclear safety
are not despairing. Their volun teers cont inue to distribute literature at shopping centers, while
door- to-door a nd telephone campaigns are also bein!!, carried out.
Since under the Public Disclosure Laws the financial statements of each group's contributions and expenditures must be
filed, a more in-depth compari son can be made of the two. The
chart below includes the total
contributions up to October 21 ,
1976.
The figures were made possible through the volunteer efforts
of Jo lene Unsoeld and her fam ily . Ms . Unsoeld, wife of Evergree n facult y member Willi Unsoeld , has been working as an
" independent ana lyst" for the
Public Disclosure Commission
by recording the incoming statements in orde r to keep a running
total on them.

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Tota l : $97,004 .60
.... . . $39,470 .11 . .... .. 40.7%
1 . Individual Contributions .
.' $170.00 .
.. ' .. 2%
2. Business related sources . .
downtown merchants, etc.
$7,428.49 . .. , .... 7.7%
3. Organizations .. . .
environmental groups
Sierra Club
Californians for Nuclear Safeguards, the same group who tried
unsuccessfully to pass a similar proposal in California last
year , donated $5,000.00
4. Fund raising..... ...
. . . $6,393.11. . . . .. 6.6%
5. In - kind Contributions. . .. .
. .$28,660.00.. . . . 29.5%
Volunteers w ho work over 20 hours a week
. . . 1.4%
6. Other in-kind contrib utio ns . . . . . . . $1,405.37.
all owing the use of their phone
donating envelopes, etc.
... 2.3%
.$2,227.52.
7. Outstanding pledges not yet paid
Citizens Against the Ban
Total: $637,104.03
1. Individual Contributions. .
. . ... . $32,326,51 . .. . . . .. 5.1 %
2. Business related sources. .
. $568,562.27 .
. . . 89.2 %
3. Union sources. . .. . .
.$36,140 .99 .. ... . . . 5 .7%
i 4. Unidentified.. .
. . $74.26
IExamples of Contributions against Initiative 325
. 1. Bechtel Company - San Francisco, Calif .... .... . $25,000.00
2. Middle South Services Inc. - New Orleans, La . .. . $10,000.00
3. Pacific Power & Light - Portland, Ore. . . .
. . . $30,689.56
.$36,355 .57
4. Wa. Water Power Co. - Spokane, Wa. .
5. General Electric - Portland, Ore.
. .. . ... . . . .. $20,000.00
6. Westinghouse Elec. Corp. - Pittsburg, Penn ... . . . $33,413 .24
a . the Seattle office contributed a portion of this amount
7. Weyerhaeuser - Tacoma , Wa. .
. . . $10,000.00
8 . Puget Sound Power & Light - Bellevue, Wa .. . . . . $64,140.72
a. the b iggest single contributor
b. this is the company to which most of us pay our electric
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by Jim Wright
With barely six weeks of Fall quarter
gone, the bulk of Evergreen's 1977 - 78
curriculum has a lready been mapped out.
Final program selections for next year are
detailed in a report issued by Academic
Dean Rob Knapp. These selections will
commit up to 90 % of Evergreen's faculty
for next year, with the rema ining frac tion
to be saved for "well -formed proposals
that develop later in the year," according
to Knapp.
Final selection of programs was made
primarily on the basis of facul ty availabi lity, in conjunction with studen ts' interests
as expressed in respo nses to the Curriculum Tr ia l Balloon. Knapp added that
" most of the modifications in proposa ls
were made because of expressed responses
to the Balloon."
The Trial Balloon netted approximately
550 responses, "less than we hoped for
but more than we expected,'" said Knapp .
" If we tried the same exercise next year,
the same number would not be acc~ptable.
We'd like to get a response from everyone
in the school."
Program proposals appearing in the
Trial Balloon but not included in the final
selection were eliminated because of "multiple calls on the faculty needed to staff

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Whiilt if President McCann wanted to
call together a Disappearing Task Force
(DTF) to investigate the possibility of
trailer hookups in Parking Lot F, and had
to go through a board of nine staff, five
faculty , and fifteen students to do it?
What if any administrator who rejected
a DTF recommendation had to come to
that board and make a public explanation
about that decision?
If the proposed COG (Covenant on
Governance) III is accepted by the Evergreen community, President McCann , and
the Board of Trustees, we will find out.
Last spring a committee known as the

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The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington 98505

THE COOPER POINT

URNAL
VOLUME V NUMBER 5

NOV. 4, 1976

Demise of Sounding Board in the Works

LAKEWOOD THEATRE

ADULT
STUDE NT

Env ironm ent , Resources , and People SOFT (Field Geolollli and Field Bio logy
w ill be offered Summer, 1978).
Collabo rative
EXPRESSIVE ARTS A rts Co nso rtium ; Englis h Th eatre ; E.( plo ratio ns in 20th Ce nt~<ry M~, s ic ; Ston es,
Bones and S kin - FIRM .
EUROPEAN A ND AMERI C AN STUD IES - Format ion o f M odem Societ y , a nd
Soc ial Or ig ins of A rt and Ideo logy FIRM .
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND ITS
SOCIAL C ONTEXT - Helping R elatio n ship Skill s. Early Childh ood Dev elop m ent .
Human Soc ial Behav io r - FIRM , and
Life Cycl es und Cu ltural Sy s te m s SOFT.
INDIVIDUAL A N D COMMU N IT Y
HEALTH - Foundations of N atural Sci1"nce' Health Perspec tives, Cell to O rga n ism , and Molecular Bio logy - FIRM.
MANAGEMENT AND THE PUBLI C
INTEREST - Managem ent and th e Pub lic Interest, Managing T e chn ology BOTH FIRM , and Modem Co rpo ration
and the World of S~all Business - SOFT .
MARINE SCIENCES AND CRAFTS Van couver and Puget , Research Ves sel
Design , Marine Organis ms , and Tropica l
Reef Ecology - FIRM .
NORTHWEST NATIVE AMERIC AN
STUDIES - A Separate Reality, Cult ures
of the Pacific Northwest, Exp lo ring Native
American Art - ALL FIRM .
POLITICAL ECONOMY Co lo nial
Experien ce in th e Americas . Int ro du ctio n
to Political Economy , Labo r and the Pub lic Interes t, Current Econom ic Crisis . A p plied Research : Co rporatio ns an d Nu clear Power, and Th e Con stitutio n al1d
the Economy - FIRM.
Students who want to see the proposal s
can find them in Rob Knapp's office, Li b
2207.

COG 111 -proposal on the way

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the programs." Knapp cited two proposa ls.
Ritua l Process and Cultural Dynamics,
and Dreams and Poetry, as examples of
programs in wh ich sponsoring faculty
were needed to staff other programs. He
also noted that of the non-selected proposals, "None were among those that
drew the most not ice from students."
One student-ini tiated proposal was included in the final program selection. Ita hith, a program dealing with natura l medicine, was selected as an annual program
for next year. In addition , the Academic
Deans are work ing wi th a group of students on a proposa l in Fine Meta l-working to be incorporated tentatively into the
proposed Craftsmanship program .
"Student input has been very valuab le in tuning up the curricu lum, in eliminating gaps, in checking our estimates of
what was needed , and so on . " " Knapp
explained .
With regard to Affirmative Action pol icy and Third World representa tion in the
curriculum, the dean's report stipulates
that "at least one program in each 01 the
11 curricular areas have a substantial component re levant to Third World issues,
specifically identified in the cata log copy. "
This apportionment was determined at a
meeting of the Academic Deans, Affirma-

tive Action and Third World Coa lition
representatives, and other interested members of the Evergreen community. "Most
of us felt that this was far short of ideal
bu t thit it wa s something that we could
achieve this year. It's a step towards do ing even better next year, " said Knapp.
Program selections have been classified
as either " Firm" or " Soft. " Firm programs
are those which have a firm commitment
from one or more of the faculty "represent ing all the crucial elements of the program ." Soft selections are programs which
seem important to have but which lack a
faculty member in a crucial area .
The Basic Coordinated Studies program
allotment for next year turned out to be
somewhat larger than expected because
"they were overst uffed this year," according to Knapp. Basic Programs for 1977 - 78
include: Autobiography , Ajax Compact,
Biography / Fiction , Plato and Dante, Hu man Expression , Rise of th e Democratic
Ethic , Human Development , Voices of the
Third Wodd , Health: Ind ividual and
Community , Natural and Social Science
with Design , and Outdoor Education,
- ALL FIRM - and Family and Community Studies and Political Ecology SOFT.
Annual Program selections for next
year are: Arts rmd Music of Asia, Chau tauqua II , DarIce, Energy System s , Good
Earth II, ·Human Services and Human Potential II , Itahith , Mathematics as a Design Tool. Mythic Cycle, Peace, Conflict ,
and Social Change , Studies in Greece , a nd
Television and Drama - ALL FIRM and Craftsmanship - SOFT.
Specialty area se lections were as fo llows : ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Env ironmental Law, Natural History of
Washington, and Ve'rtebrate Biology FIRM, Applied Environmen tal Studies,

COG III DTF was formed in response to
student criticism that students had no in put, no decision - making power at Ever green. The result: students still have no
formal decision-making power at Evergreen, but with the new COG 1II proposal
they may have a good dea l more clout.
That clout could come .from the "Geoboard," a new board designed to replace
the floundering Sounding Board, wh ich
has been called everything from impotent
to non-existent by students and facu lty .
In essence, the Geoboard would differ
from the Sounding Board in that all DTFs
would have to originate and terminate at
the Geoboard. The Geoboard wou ld also
have the power to deny requests for DTF s.
This particular provision is a source of
conflict between originators of the pro posal.
COG III DTF Chairman Neils ' Skov
doesn't like the idea of people having to
ask permission to start a DTF. 'Tm not
particularly happy with it," said Skov , "It
any member of the administration has to
ask, 'Geoboard, I'd like a DTF, will you
call one l' I think there will be less admin istrators who call a DTF to air a contro versial subject when they can more quickly
call together people they know are the
experts on the subject."
COG III DTF member Les Eldridge
echoes that feeling, and also expresses
concern that community members (any of
whom can call a DTF together under the
current COG II rules) might be rejected
by the Geoboard when they request the
creation of a DTF . Said Eldridge, "Anybody should be able to say 'By God, I'd
like to charge a DTF on this,' and go and
charge it. The point where the [Geoboardl
can say ' no, we won' t change that DTF ,'
worries me."

But student COG DTF member Tom
Morrill disagrees . "Somebody, ' anybody ,
can come to us and say they want a DTF
called and we'll try to help them.
ad ministrators are against it more because
it's red tape to them and very time-consuming, not because it's power for the
Geoboard."
A tentative date of November 17 has
been set for the first publ ic hearing on the
COG 11\ proposal. Any member of the
Evergreen community may give his or her
opinions on the document , after which
the COG 11\ DTF will meet to consider
possible cha1'lges .
The proposed Geoboard may spark
some interest on campus because of the
five types of action it can take. In con trast to the vague description in the cur rent COG II that the Sounding Board will
" make recommendations for action as is sues pertinent to the college arise," the
G eoboard could 1) comment, 2) ta ke a
vot e of confidence, 3) take a vote of no
confidence, 4) drop an issue from consid eration , or 5) take a vote of censure . A
censure vote would be " made against a
person, not an action ," but "disapproval
of a single a ct no matter how strong the
disapprova l, does not alone warrant a
vote of censure ." Although the members
of the board do not expect to use the censure vote often, they do expect it to add
to the accountability theme of the COG
III proposal.
Student COG DTF member La rry
Mauksch feels the five actions proposed
for the Geoboard will " certainly hold
people accountable." As M auksch puts it,
"One boo - boo, is a vote of no -confidence,
and a track record of b oo- boos is a vote
of censure."
He cited the C huck H a rba ugh co ntro -

Larry Mauksch

versy of two years ago as an issue on
which " the dean s may ha ve go tten a vo te
of no- co nfidence o r cen su re. " Ha rba ugh
was a gay minister the college refu sed to
hire to fill a facult y sho rtage in the Develo pm ental Learning program in 1974.
However, administrat o rs w ill still he
the ones wh o decide w ha t acti o n, if any ,
to take again st a censored perso n. Said
T om Mo rrill , "The student might think
accountable mean s to fire the m, but th e
administrat o rs are the ones wh o interpre t
that word , and they mi ght think a slap on
the ha nd is wha t account able mea ns."
In an upco ming issue of The Cooper
Po int Journa l, t he text of the COG III
proposal w ill be p rinted .

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Commentary

Medical Politics Spell Trouble for Home Births
for me'" and dashing home to
get her speculum so she, too, can
be free and open at Evergreen.
Self-help clinics are a valuable
tool, and usually attempt to
culti vate a serious and tasteful
image. Chuck the drawing, las sies, and give us one that at least
looks like a normal speculum, or
is in some other way aesth:!tically pleasing. (Was your model.
by the way, one of those green
plastic ones that were on sale at
Sea-Mart a few months ago? A
real rip-off - I hear that they
break . )
Your pal.
BA Floren

EVERGREEN
MANICURING
FINGERNAILS
To the Editor :

STUFF IT
To the Editor :
For some time now , I've been
reading your weekly notices regarding the continuing art ex hibit , Stuffed Albino Squi~~els . I
resisted attending this exhibit for
seve ral months, mainly because I
inferred all along that it was a
display of the art of taxidermy .
(Which inference , by the way, I
suspect many among your readership have also made, alas.)
Now, taxidermy is an ancient,
demanding , and highly-honored
a rt - and one which has sadly
seen some slippage in our century - but it just isn't my cup
of tea. (J feel the sa me way
about pine-cone murals , formica
etchings, Da y-G lo needlework
pictures of Jesus leading a sem i
through a blinding snowstorm ,
and most of Mahler - "To each
his own," as Goe the said to Eckerma nn.) Imagine my delighted
surprise, therefore (when I finally
decided to di scard my own preJu dgmen ts and to !;o to the Joe
Bemis Gallery une evening last
week), upon finding th a t these
stuffed albino squirrels are not
products of the taxidermist's art
at aiL but rather are STUFFED
albin o squirrels - furry little
squirrels , and quite alive, which
have ea ten so many nuts that
they are all perfectly round, and
wh ich rol l around the gallery
like so ma ny soft and smiling
vo ll ey -ba lls. I watched them for
ho urs, ex perien cing an aesthetic
pleasure quit e unlike any other,
and was therefore quite inter ~s t ed to hea r the judgment of a
friend who acco mp ani ed me to
the ex hibit - a n emin ent critic

who regularly contributes to The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art
His/ory. "It's not art," he said,
"but it 's not bad." And another
friend , equally eminent in the
field, said quietly: "This exhibit
has helped me understand better
the age-old problem of 'I don't
know anything about art, but I
know what I like: For those
little round and rolling ambassa dors of aesthetics have helped
me to understand that , during all
my life, I have known about art,
but have known nothing at all
about what I like." Perhaps the
best part of all - for those of us
who feel that art should be participatory, like democracy, and
not just a bunch of sterile, gray,
co ld, forbidding, gooey, icky old
muse ums and stuff, is the nice
sign w hich says : Please feed the
animals.
- Milo

I am sitt ing on a bench in Red
Square. At The Evergreen State
College, land of the laid back,
home of the ecologically minded.
It is a beautiful sunny day . Yes,
it 's fine weather for sitting outside and writing, or reading, or
maybe even studying. However,
there is a very strange phenomenon . When 1 close my eyes so
that I can't see the plaza with its
sparse population of young
maple trees (or are they Elms?).
or the magnificent architectural
marvels that make Evergreen
unique throughout the land, [
can very easily imagine that I am
in the heart of a teaming metropolis, or perhaps on a busy construction site, instead of at our
little college in the woods . ..
The reason for this most annoying illusion is the noise . Red
Square is infested with men pushing strange devices around which
make a sound only equaled in
timbre and quality by the roar of
a whole ..neighborhood of good
subu(banites performing the Sunday inm-ning lawn mowing ritual.
I was curious as to the pur-

pose of those obnoxious devices,
so I watched one of them in action for a while, and I realized
that their only function is to
blow leaves around . That grounds
crew man is running around the
square with an offensive device,
that no doubt consumes energy
and money inefficiently, but is
very efficient at annoying the '
hell out of people. With this device he is systematically rearranging the leaves. Why, pray tell,
why? I imp lore some wise
person out there to tell me why
the grounds crew wastes so
much time on moving leaves
which will be moved back to
their original locations by the
first medium-sized gust of wind.
The ways of the grounds crew
are an eternal mystery to me.
Who decides when the lea.ves are
to be shifted? Who decrees that
all the grass on campus shall be
replaced w ith that aesthetic
wonder known as beauty bark?
Why does Evergreen put so
much time, money and effort
into manicuring its fingernails?
Why bother?
Yours truly,
Karrie Jacobs

ORGANIC FARM
INVITES YOU

into our lives.
The human waste composting
toilet that is currently located in
the Experimental Structures Projeet will be moved to the farmhouse. We have to dig and pour
a foundation for the room in
which it will be housed. Both
thE'se projects need a lot of
labor, are very educational and
are immediate needs of the only
building on campus that belongs
to the students. It was designed
and paid for and is being built
by st udents. Technical help is
being donated by the maintenance department. 'Anyone, Evergreen student or not, can come
down and work on it and have
their ideas expressed in the continual design changes and refinements..
This Friday and Saturday we
are going to have workday pot lucks. If you wish to work we'll
be starting at 9 a.m. and your
presence is gleefully welcome at
any time during the day. If you
wish to on ly discuss ideas, wh ich
is equally as important, it would
be best to come by around 12: 30
for lunch, but of course any time
will do .
Thank you,
Michael Baron

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CLASSIFIEDS

To the Editor:
The Organic Farmhouse construction is at a crucial point.
The academic support which
was available for students working on the house is non -existent
this quarter, making it difficult
for individuals to work on the
house for any amount of time on
a regular basis. Hard work is
pressingly needed in order to finish the roof. cutting and raising
beams, planking, insulating and
putting on shakes, before we run
out of this incredible weather.
Considerable damage to materials alfeady in place will result if
the roof is not completed before
the endless drizzle creeps back

The Melting Pot now
accepting applications for part
and full time work. Apply in
person.
Student needs place for herself and her horse preferably
near campus or near transportation to school. Chris, c/ Q
Mary at 866-7350.
Older female Evergreen stu dent needs roommate to share
attractive, furnished 2 bdrm.
apt. near Colony Inn. Must
be responsible, non -smoker,
into good music, witty repartee. Rent approx. $90 a mo. If
interested, call 943-6787.

CHUCK
SUPER-SPECULUM
DRAWING
To the Editor:
Is it a duck? Is it a garlic
press? Is it a bicycle tool? No I
It's Super-speculum! If the intention of the TESC Clinic is to
provide a few laughs, then the
drawing of a larger-than - life,
quacking speculum that is cur-.
rent ly adorning the walls of our
ca mpu s certainly does the trick,
at least for me. I realize how
great it is to be so free and open
at Evergreen that we can post
specula and look at them , but
somehow I don't get the mental
image of anybody glancing at
lhe graphic, exclaim ing "That's

by Tom McLaughlin
When Marty Butzen and Keith Eisner
decided to have their baby at home rather
than in 51. Peter Hospital in Olympia it
was not an easy decision. The difficulties
which they encountered serve to illustrate
the current medical climate which prevails in Olympia concerning the question
of doctors' attitudes towards home birth.
When Marty and Keith first considered a
home delivery they were innocent of a
great deal of the controversy surrounding
them, but when a couple decides upon a
home deli very it is difficult to remain innocent of medical politics for long .
At first Marty and Kei th were hopeful
of finding a doctor in Olympia who
wou ld help them at home. Marty talked
to nurses and members of Evergreen's
Women's Clinic and learned that the
doctors who do deliveries a t St. Peter are
opposed to home birth. Marty would
have preferred to go to a doctor who was
sympathetic to home delivery for her prenatal care, but she couldn't find anyone
like that in Olympia so she began seeing
Dr. Carnes. On Marty's first visit with
Dr . Carnes she mentioned that she wanted
a home delivery.
"Oh, we have lots of time to talk about
that," he responded.
Marty went on to make arrangements
with a paramedic who agreed to help with
her home delivery. On her third visit with
Dr. Carnes she told him that she was definitely going to have a home delivery.
"He lectured me as if I were a child that
had misbehaved," Marty recalled, "and
after the lecture he had the nerve to tell
me that if I were going to persist in mis behaving he would have to discontinue
prenatal care. I didn't care by then, 1
didn't want to go back to him anyway."
Marty's experience with Dr. Carnes dis couraged her from going to any other
doctor in Olympia. Instead she went to
the Fremont Women's Clinic in Seattle for
her prenatal care. In July a doctor from
Fremont and a midwife agreed to come to
Olympia for her delivery.
On the evening of Aug. 26 the bag of
wa ters which was surrounding Marty's
baby' bfoRe:- lJif ~\:h1g, of watEi(s ai:ts ';\s a
barrier aga inst 'infection; . so 'now that her
waters had broken it was important that
labor begin soon , Statistics kept on cases
of premature rupture of the membrane
show that in the first 48 hours the number
of infections and related infant d~aths begin to rise rather rapidly. For this reason
after 48 hours most doctors think it is
best to artifiCially induce labor.
The doctor from Fremont and his assistants arrived at Marty's on Saturday
morning, 36 hours after Marty's waters
had broken. They came directly from another successful home delivery in Olympia
and were exhausted after having stayed
up all night. They took a short nap and
began to induce Marty's labor Saturday
afternoon. Late that evening Marty still
had not begun her labor, and due to the
increasing risk of infection the decision
was made to enter the hospital. In the
hospital x-rays could be taken to determine if there were anything preventing
labor that was detectable . If labor did not
start soon Marty would need a Caesarean
section and if the baby was infected it
could be treated better in the hospital.

Marty Butzen with her child.
Before Marty and Keith left for the hospital they phoned the doctor in town who
they felt might be sympathetic enough towards home delivery to meet them in the
hospital and take Marty as his patient. He
was not unreceptive, but told Marty that
if she were not a member of Group
Health he could not treat her, She was '
not a member. It was after midnight and
given what Marty already knew about
O lympia's doctors she felt that she had no
choice but to enter SI. Peter Hospital as
an emergency patient.
The obstetrician on call at St. Peter was
Dr. Wayne Parpala. According to Marty
and Kei th, Dr. Parpala introduced himself
to them and Dr. Tom Artzner with the
statement that, "Whoever is handling this
case is medically irresponsible." Dr. Parpala went on to question Dr. Artzner's
credentials and stated that he did not beli eve that Tom was a " real doctor. " He refused to look at the comprehensive charts
of Marty's prenatal care at Fremont and
accused Marty of having " no prenatal
.care ." Next Dr. Parpala stated his con'cern that if the baby were burn with an
infection he would be held responsible by
Marty. Marty assured him that she accepted full responsibility for her decision
to have a home birth and would not hold
him liable for any complications w hich
might arise from her decision. At th is
point Dr. Parpala decided to call Dr.
James Krug for consultation. When he returned he advised Marty to go to Seattle
for treatment, informing her that he would
not accept her as his patient. She said one
of his final comments was, "I don't want
to have anything to do with this mess."
Marty and Keith drove to the University Hospital in Seattle which routinely
accepts patients of the Fremont Clinic . In
Seattle her labor began Sunday morning
and she delivered a healthy 8 lb., 10 oz.
baby boy .
Later, Marty, Keith, members of the
Fremont Clinic and a collective of persons
supportive of home birth in Olympia filed
a class and peer grievance against Drs.
Parpala and Krug with the ThurstonMason County Medical Society. The grievance made these contentions: 1. Dr. Parpala refused to treat Marty because she

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had attempted a home birth, and 2. he
eliminated the sole access to health care
which she had in her community. Prior to
this incident there was the possibility of
having a home birth in Olympia with the
knowledge that hospital care is available
in case of an emergency, but now women
are like ly to prolong needed decisions at
home, defer to long distances for the treatment of emergencies, or refuse to go to
the hospital altogether rather than suffer
the bias which occurred in this case.
On Oct. 1 Marty received a reply from
Dr. Ange la Bowen, chairwoman of the
grievance committee. She made a single
critical reference to Dr. Parpala's actions.
"We are surprised at Dr. Parpa la's apparent loss of temper and sincerely regret its
occurrence ." The reply went on to defend
Dr. Parpala's actions, stating that it was
his right to refuse a patient since Marty's
case was not an emergency The letter con cluded with the following paragraph:
"We are sorry that your acquain tance
with the Olympia medical com munity has
been so unsatisfactory to you. We have a
genuine desire to provide good quality
care here. It is perhaps inevitable that our
idea of what that involves sometimes differs from that of the community . We appreciate your making us aware of your
views .
The debate over what good quality care
actually consists of is continuing in Olympia in doctor offices and in people's
homes. Among the doctors in Olympia
there is much support for the posit ion
which Drs. Krug, Carnes, and Parpala
have taken against home birth. Many
doctors would agree with the essence if
not the wording of the statement made to
me by Dr. Parpala that "hospital birth re sults in higher quality babies."
The doctors have based their position
against home births on the argument that
hospital births are safer than home births .
Marty's case and the experience of other
Olympia women who are seek ing home
births and have been unable to locate a
doctor who will meet them in the hosp ital
in case of an emergency 'raises serious
doubts that Olympia's doctors have the
safety of these women in mind. The doctors are denying treatment to these wom -

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en, yet in the same breath claim to be interested in their safety or the safety of
their babies. The threat of a lawsuit is one of the
major unmentioned reasons that doctors
are hesitant to support home delivery .
Malpractice insurance rates are among the
highest for doctors specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. The doctors in this
field are afra id to risk a possible lawsuit
which might accompany a home birth.
Medical ethics are now outdated and have
been replaced by the modern concept of
legal liabilities . In cases where there is a
high degree of risk, doctors have aban doned the idea of protecting the pa tient
for the position wh ich protec ts themselves
from a lawsuit.
One of the ironies of the confrontation
between doctors and the advocates of
home births concerns the question of pa .
tient responsibility. Parents seekin g a
home birth feel that the decision to have
their baby at home is one which they are
Willing to take full responsibility for.
They have faced the issue of safety and
are aware that there are dangers involved
in the birth process at home or in the hospital. They are unlikely to believe in the
infallibility of doctors and are able to accept a tragedy should one occur . By refusing to ass ist in home delivery and insisting
upon hospitalization even for routine deliveries doctors are taking the responsibility for decision making upon themselves .
This reduces patient involvem ent in their
own health care and creates an unhealt hy
dependence upon the doctors . It is thi s attitude which has caused the numb er of
malpractice sui ts to rise in the last ten
years. Is there a courageous physician in
town wi llin g to break this circle by putting
the pat ient's interest before their ow n ? If
so w ill they please sta nd up.

Conference on
Handicapped
Seeks Housing
Accommodations are urgently needed
to House some of the 2,000 handicapped
people expected in Olympia for the Washington State White House Conference on
Handicapped Individuals happening the
weekend after next.
"We critically need hou sing . We're trying to find space for about 200 people in
private homes," said Monica Schw inberg,
a commit tee member working on the conference .
The conference will be ha ld on the
State Capitol campus and at the St . Martin's college pavilion on Nove mber 19, 20
and 21 to give persons with physical.
mental , and sensory handicaps a fo rum to
discuss their rights and needs.
People interested in attending the co nference or hosting a handicapped person
for Friday and Saturday nights of that
weekend, should call 753-1579 between 8
a.m . and 5 p.m ., or 1-800-562-6090, the
conference hot line number , on weekends
or evenings . According to Schwinberg,
hosts will not be expected to provide
more than a place to sleep and possibl y
some sort of breakfast on Saturday and
Sunday morn ing.

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Commentary

Medical Politics Spell Trouble for Home Births
for me'" and dashing home to
get her speculum so she, too, can
be free and open at Evergreen.
Self-help clinics are a valuable
tool, and usually attempt to
culti vate a serious and tasteful
image. Chuck the drawing, las sies, and give us one that at least
looks like a normal speculum, or
is in some other way aesth:!tically pleasing. (Was your model.
by the way, one of those green
plastic ones that were on sale at
Sea-Mart a few months ago? A
real rip-off - I hear that they
break . )
Your pal.
BA Floren

EVERGREEN
MANICURING
FINGERNAILS
To the Editor :

STUFF IT
To the Editor :
For some time now , I've been
reading your weekly notices regarding the continuing art ex hibit , Stuffed Albino Squi~~els . I
resisted attending this exhibit for
seve ral months, mainly because I
inferred all along that it was a
display of the art of taxidermy .
(Which inference , by the way, I
suspect many among your readership have also made, alas.)
Now, taxidermy is an ancient,
demanding , and highly-honored
a rt - and one which has sadly
seen some slippage in our century - but it just isn't my cup
of tea. (J feel the sa me way
about pine-cone murals , formica
etchings, Da y-G lo needlework
pictures of Jesus leading a sem i
through a blinding snowstorm ,
and most of Mahler - "To each
his own," as Goe the said to Eckerma nn.) Imagine my delighted
surprise, therefore (when I finally
decided to di scard my own preJu dgmen ts and to !;o to the Joe
Bemis Gallery une evening last
week), upon finding th a t these
stuffed albino squirrels are not
products of the taxidermist's art
at aiL but rather are STUFFED
albin o squirrels - furry little
squirrels , and quite alive, which
have ea ten so many nuts that
they are all perfectly round, and
wh ich rol l around the gallery
like so ma ny soft and smiling
vo ll ey -ba lls. I watched them for
ho urs, ex perien cing an aesthetic
pleasure quit e unlike any other,
and was therefore quite inter ~s t ed to hea r the judgment of a
friend who acco mp ani ed me to
the ex hibit - a n emin ent critic

who regularly contributes to The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art
His/ory. "It's not art," he said,
"but it 's not bad." And another
friend , equally eminent in the
field, said quietly: "This exhibit
has helped me understand better
the age-old problem of 'I don't
know anything about art, but I
know what I like: For those
little round and rolling ambassa dors of aesthetics have helped
me to understand that , during all
my life, I have known about art,
but have known nothing at all
about what I like." Perhaps the
best part of all - for those of us
who feel that art should be participatory, like democracy, and
not just a bunch of sterile, gray,
co ld, forbidding, gooey, icky old
muse ums and stuff, is the nice
sign w hich says : Please feed the
animals.
- Milo

I am sitt ing on a bench in Red
Square. At The Evergreen State
College, land of the laid back,
home of the ecologically minded.
It is a beautiful sunny day . Yes,
it 's fine weather for sitting outside and writing, or reading, or
maybe even studying. However,
there is a very strange phenomenon . When 1 close my eyes so
that I can't see the plaza with its
sparse population of young
maple trees (or are they Elms?).
or the magnificent architectural
marvels that make Evergreen
unique throughout the land, [
can very easily imagine that I am
in the heart of a teaming metropolis, or perhaps on a busy construction site, instead of at our
little college in the woods . ..
The reason for this most annoying illusion is the noise . Red
Square is infested with men pushing strange devices around which
make a sound only equaled in
timbre and quality by the roar of
a whole ..neighborhood of good
subu(banites performing the Sunday inm-ning lawn mowing ritual.
I was curious as to the pur-

pose of those obnoxious devices,
so I watched one of them in action for a while, and I realized
that their only function is to
blow leaves around . That grounds
crew man is running around the
square with an offensive device,
that no doubt consumes energy
and money inefficiently, but is
very efficient at annoying the '
hell out of people. With this device he is systematically rearranging the leaves. Why, pray tell,
why? I imp lore some wise
person out there to tell me why
the grounds crew wastes so
much time on moving leaves
which will be moved back to
their original locations by the
first medium-sized gust of wind.
The ways of the grounds crew
are an eternal mystery to me.
Who decides when the lea.ves are
to be shifted? Who decrees that
all the grass on campus shall be
replaced w ith that aesthetic
wonder known as beauty bark?
Why does Evergreen put so
much time, money and effort
into manicuring its fingernails?
Why bother?
Yours truly,
Karrie Jacobs

ORGANIC FARM
INVITES YOU

into our lives.
The human waste composting
toilet that is currently located in
the Experimental Structures Projeet will be moved to the farmhouse. We have to dig and pour
a foundation for the room in
which it will be housed. Both
thE'se projects need a lot of
labor, are very educational and
are immediate needs of the only
building on campus that belongs
to the students. It was designed
and paid for and is being built
by st udents. Technical help is
being donated by the maintenance department. 'Anyone, Evergreen student or not, can come
down and work on it and have
their ideas expressed in the continual design changes and refinements..
This Friday and Saturday we
are going to have workday pot lucks. If you wish to work we'll
be starting at 9 a.m. and your
presence is gleefully welcome at
any time during the day. If you
wish to on ly discuss ideas, wh ich
is equally as important, it would
be best to come by around 12: 30
for lunch, but of course any time
will do .
Thank you,
Michael Baron

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CLASSIFIEDS

To the Editor:
The Organic Farmhouse construction is at a crucial point.
The academic support which
was available for students working on the house is non -existent
this quarter, making it difficult
for individuals to work on the
house for any amount of time on
a regular basis. Hard work is
pressingly needed in order to finish the roof. cutting and raising
beams, planking, insulating and
putting on shakes, before we run
out of this incredible weather.
Considerable damage to materials alfeady in place will result if
the roof is not completed before
the endless drizzle creeps back

The Melting Pot now
accepting applications for part
and full time work. Apply in
person.
Student needs place for herself and her horse preferably
near campus or near transportation to school. Chris, c/ Q
Mary at 866-7350.
Older female Evergreen stu dent needs roommate to share
attractive, furnished 2 bdrm.
apt. near Colony Inn. Must
be responsible, non -smoker,
into good music, witty repartee. Rent approx. $90 a mo. If
interested, call 943-6787.

CHUCK
SUPER-SPECULUM
DRAWING
To the Editor:
Is it a duck? Is it a garlic
press? Is it a bicycle tool? No I
It's Super-speculum! If the intention of the TESC Clinic is to
provide a few laughs, then the
drawing of a larger-than - life,
quacking speculum that is cur-.
rent ly adorning the walls of our
ca mpu s certainly does the trick,
at least for me. I realize how
great it is to be so free and open
at Evergreen that we can post
specula and look at them , but
somehow I don't get the mental
image of anybody glancing at
lhe graphic, exclaim ing "That's

by Tom McLaughlin
When Marty Butzen and Keith Eisner
decided to have their baby at home rather
than in 51. Peter Hospital in Olympia it
was not an easy decision. The difficulties
which they encountered serve to illustrate
the current medical climate which prevails in Olympia concerning the question
of doctors' attitudes towards home birth.
When Marty and Keith first considered a
home delivery they were innocent of a
great deal of the controversy surrounding
them, but when a couple decides upon a
home deli very it is difficult to remain innocent of medical politics for long .
At first Marty and Kei th were hopeful
of finding a doctor in Olympia who
wou ld help them at home. Marty talked
to nurses and members of Evergreen's
Women's Clinic and learned that the
doctors who do deliveries a t St. Peter are
opposed to home birth. Marty would
have preferred to go to a doctor who was
sympathetic to home delivery for her prenatal care, but she couldn't find anyone
like that in Olympia so she began seeing
Dr. Carnes. On Marty's first visit with
Dr . Carnes she mentioned that she wanted
a home delivery.
"Oh, we have lots of time to talk about
that," he responded.
Marty went on to make arrangements
with a paramedic who agreed to help with
her home delivery. On her third visit with
Dr. Carnes she told him that she was definitely going to have a home delivery.
"He lectured me as if I were a child that
had misbehaved," Marty recalled, "and
after the lecture he had the nerve to tell
me that if I were going to persist in mis behaving he would have to discontinue
prenatal care. I didn't care by then, 1
didn't want to go back to him anyway."
Marty's experience with Dr. Carnes dis couraged her from going to any other
doctor in Olympia. Instead she went to
the Fremont Women's Clinic in Seattle for
her prenatal care. In July a doctor from
Fremont and a midwife agreed to come to
Olympia for her delivery.
On the evening of Aug. 26 the bag of
wa ters which was surrounding Marty's
baby' bfoRe:- lJif ~\:h1g, of watEi(s ai:ts ';\s a
barrier aga inst 'infection; . so 'now that her
waters had broken it was important that
labor begin soon , Statistics kept on cases
of premature rupture of the membrane
show that in the first 48 hours the number
of infections and related infant d~aths begin to rise rather rapidly. For this reason
after 48 hours most doctors think it is
best to artifiCially induce labor.
The doctor from Fremont and his assistants arrived at Marty's on Saturday
morning, 36 hours after Marty's waters
had broken. They came directly from another successful home delivery in Olympia
and were exhausted after having stayed
up all night. They took a short nap and
began to induce Marty's labor Saturday
afternoon. Late that evening Marty still
had not begun her labor, and due to the
increasing risk of infection the decision
was made to enter the hospital. In the
hospital x-rays could be taken to determine if there were anything preventing
labor that was detectable . If labor did not
start soon Marty would need a Caesarean
section and if the baby was infected it
could be treated better in the hospital.

Marty Butzen with her child.
Before Marty and Keith left for the hospital they phoned the doctor in town who
they felt might be sympathetic enough towards home delivery to meet them in the
hospital and take Marty as his patient. He
was not unreceptive, but told Marty that
if she were not a member of Group
Health he could not treat her, She was '
not a member. It was after midnight and
given what Marty already knew about
O lympia's doctors she felt that she had no
choice but to enter SI. Peter Hospital as
an emergency patient.
The obstetrician on call at St. Peter was
Dr. Wayne Parpala. According to Marty
and Kei th, Dr. Parpala introduced himself
to them and Dr. Tom Artzner with the
statement that, "Whoever is handling this
case is medically irresponsible." Dr. Parpala went on to question Dr. Artzner's
credentials and stated that he did not beli eve that Tom was a " real doctor. " He refused to look at the comprehensive charts
of Marty's prenatal care at Fremont and
accused Marty of having " no prenatal
.care ." Next Dr. Parpala stated his con'cern that if the baby were burn with an
infection he would be held responsible by
Marty. Marty assured him that she accepted full responsibility for her decision
to have a home birth and would not hold
him liable for any complications w hich
might arise from her decision. At th is
point Dr. Parpala decided to call Dr.
James Krug for consultation. When he returned he advised Marty to go to Seattle
for treatment, informing her that he would
not accept her as his patient. She said one
of his final comments was, "I don't want
to have anything to do with this mess."
Marty and Keith drove to the University Hospital in Seattle which routinely
accepts patients of the Fremont Clinic . In
Seattle her labor began Sunday morning
and she delivered a healthy 8 lb., 10 oz.
baby boy .
Later, Marty, Keith, members of the
Fremont Clinic and a collective of persons
supportive of home birth in Olympia filed
a class and peer grievance against Drs.
Parpala and Krug with the ThurstonMason County Medical Society. The grievance made these contentions: 1. Dr. Parpala refused to treat Marty because she

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had attempted a home birth, and 2. he
eliminated the sole access to health care
which she had in her community. Prior to
this incident there was the possibility of
having a home birth in Olympia with the
knowledge that hospital care is available
in case of an emergency, but now women
are like ly to prolong needed decisions at
home, defer to long distances for the treatment of emergencies, or refuse to go to
the hospital altogether rather than suffer
the bias which occurred in this case.
On Oct. 1 Marty received a reply from
Dr. Ange la Bowen, chairwoman of the
grievance committee. She made a single
critical reference to Dr. Parpala's actions.
"We are surprised at Dr. Parpa la's apparent loss of temper and sincerely regret its
occurrence ." The reply went on to defend
Dr. Parpala's actions, stating that it was
his right to refuse a patient since Marty's
case was not an emergency The letter con cluded with the following paragraph:
"We are sorry that your acquain tance
with the Olympia medical com munity has
been so unsatisfactory to you. We have a
genuine desire to provide good quality
care here. It is perhaps inevitable that our
idea of what that involves sometimes differs from that of the community . We appreciate your making us aware of your
views .
The debate over what good quality care
actually consists of is continuing in Olympia in doctor offices and in people's
homes. Among the doctors in Olympia
there is much support for the posit ion
which Drs. Krug, Carnes, and Parpala
have taken against home birth. Many
doctors would agree with the essence if
not the wording of the statement made to
me by Dr. Parpala that "hospital birth re sults in higher quality babies."
The doctors have based their position
against home births on the argument that
hospital births are safer than home births .
Marty's case and the experience of other
Olympia women who are seek ing home
births and have been unable to locate a
doctor who will meet them in the hosp ital
in case of an emergency 'raises serious
doubts that Olympia's doctors have the
safety of these women in mind. The doctors are denying treatment to these wom -

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en, yet in the same breath claim to be interested in their safety or the safety of
their babies. The threat of a lawsuit is one of the
major unmentioned reasons that doctors
are hesitant to support home delivery .
Malpractice insurance rates are among the
highest for doctors specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. The doctors in this
field are afra id to risk a possible lawsuit
which might accompany a home birth.
Medical ethics are now outdated and have
been replaced by the modern concept of
legal liabilities . In cases where there is a
high degree of risk, doctors have aban doned the idea of protecting the pa tient
for the position wh ich protec ts themselves
from a lawsuit.
One of the ironies of the confrontation
between doctors and the advocates of
home births concerns the question of pa .
tient responsibility. Parents seekin g a
home birth feel that the decision to have
their baby at home is one which they are
Willing to take full responsibility for.
They have faced the issue of safety and
are aware that there are dangers involved
in the birth process at home or in the hospital. They are unlikely to believe in the
infallibility of doctors and are able to accept a tragedy should one occur . By refusing to ass ist in home delivery and insisting
upon hospitalization even for routine deliveries doctors are taking the responsibility for decision making upon themselves .
This reduces patient involvem ent in their
own health care and creates an unhealt hy
dependence upon the doctors . It is thi s attitude which has caused the numb er of
malpractice sui ts to rise in the last ten
years. Is there a courageous physician in
town wi llin g to break this circle by putting
the pat ient's interest before their ow n ? If
so w ill they please sta nd up.

Conference on
Handicapped
Seeks Housing
Accommodations are urgently needed
to House some of the 2,000 handicapped
people expected in Olympia for the Washington State White House Conference on
Handicapped Individuals happening the
weekend after next.
"We critically need hou sing . We're trying to find space for about 200 people in
private homes," said Monica Schw inberg,
a commit tee member working on the conference .
The conference will be ha ld on the
State Capitol campus and at the St . Martin's college pavilion on Nove mber 19, 20
and 21 to give persons with physical.
mental , and sensory handicaps a fo rum to
discuss their rights and needs.
People interested in attending the co nference or hosting a handicapped person
for Friday and Saturday nights of that
weekend, should call 753-1579 between 8
a.m . and 5 p.m ., or 1-800-562-6090, the
conference hot line number , on weekends
or evenings . According to Schwinberg,
hosts will not be expected to provide
more than a place to sleep and possibl y
some sort of breakfast on Saturday and
Sunday morn ing.

4

Evergreen Groups Mobilize
in Response to Cascadia
" There is no fireside.
howsoe'er defended,
but has one vacant chair I "
- Longfellow

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ADULT
STUDENT
HOUSING
3138 OVERHULSE RD·8ee.8181

by Brad Pokorny
On Saturday, two weeks ago,
about one hundred Puyallup Indians gathered in the Cascadia
Juvenile Diagnostic Center for a
reception and dinner to celebrate
the opening of an Indian health
clinic. Fiftv Indians stayed after
the dinner, asked the staff to
leave, and occupied the building,
giv ing notice that "t his property
. is hereby taken into the possession of the Puyallup Tribe of
Indians as its sovereign and rightful owners."
You will see Cascadia as the
large buff-colored building off to
the righ t as you head out of Tacoma on your way to Seattle.
The five s tory brick building sits
on a green hill overlooking the
neat ly manicured, cyclone fenced
grounds that characterize institutions . The bUilding looks like a

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SENIOR EMPLOYMENT SEMINAR

Sub iect: How to Conduct an I nformation and Employment Interview
~ate :
Thursday , November 11
Time
330 p.m . - SOO p.m.
Place:
Career Resource Center, Library 1213

........................................................................................................................

LAKEWOOD THEATRE
6120 Motor Ave. SW
Lakewood Center
Tacoma

The Indians .let their feelings be known with this sign at the Cascadia Tuvenile Diagnostic Center .
hospital because it used to be. In
1939 the Puyallup Tribe sold the
20 acres next to 1-5 and 60 more
to the Federal government for
$500,000 on the condition that
they build an Indian hospital on
the land. Cushman Hospital
served the Indians until 1959.
When the government decided
Indian tuberculosis was almost
gone, leaving the facility underutilized, they gave the whole
complex to the state for a juvenile center. The Puyallups were
not consulted on the deal. They
wrote letters to Washington
D.C. in protest. Five years ago
the tribe stepped up their effort
to regain control of the hospital,
sending delegations to the Governor, the legislature, and other
state officials. Finally, two weeks
ago, the Indians evicted the state
from "their" hospital. A sign was
e rected : "This is Indian Land.
We will not leave."
Since the hospital takeover, a
number of Evergreen students
have been working ha rd , and

YAROS
Electronics
Sales -

Service

AUt0 Installation

CB , too
Across from bowl ing alley
West Side
Jim and Rosa Yemm
Shopping Center
Ph. 357-3942
Ph, 357-7845
Thi s week featuring:

stereo
tape player
with

cassette or 8 track

$tJ9.95
$109.95

AM I FM I MPX stereo receiver

7:00 / 9:00 Sun.Mats 2:00/4:00

with speakers

installed in -dash or under
for as little as $15.00

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continue to work, in support of
the Puyallups at Cascadia. Evergreen's Native American Student
Association (NASA) began immediately to provide students
with information about the
events at Cascadia. A memo was
issued calling for support from
student organizations and asking
for donations of food, juices,
blankets, and bail-bond money.
It was clear a confrontation was
expected, perhaps involving a
prolonged sit-in at Cascadia,
with possible arrests.
Students involved in communications went to Cascadia with
video porta-packs, tape recorders and cameras to document the
sit uation. Tony Olney, the coordinator of NASA, said at th e
time, "Being a state funded organization, we are obligated not
to get involved as a political entity. Therefore the involvement
we are using is in the fashion of
an academic study. Students in
commun ications, political science,
and Native American programs
are documenting the type of situations that arise out of the Cascadia occupation ."
A group of wh ite st udents, initially composed of people active
in the third floor Library student
groups, banded together as the
Cascadia Support Group. These
individuals volunteered to make
posters, collect money and food,
and speak to KAOS radio and
The Cooper Point Journal about
covering the Cascadia issue. The
Cooper Point Jou rnal was criticized by the group because it
chose not to cover the story for
the October 28 issue as they suggested .
Last Thursday, the 28th, federal marshals were expected to
deliver a court injunction evicting the Indians by 4 p.m. and
some students drove to the center to act as observers so that
any confrontation would be
peaceful. One student voiced the
rationale that "observers are to
help keep the lid on things. The
police are less likely to get carried away if there are a number
of non-Indians around."
The students ar~ived and were
allowed past the rifle- toting Indian guards and into the occupied
building. They reported that
things were very orderly inside,
that a strong communal spirit

6

~xisted. Many Indian women
and children were there.
Then, the 4 p.m. Thursday
deadline was pushed back to 1
p.m. Saturday by a federal judge.
Time was won for more negotiations. The Evergreeners came
home and focused attention on
an expected Saturday afternoon
conflict.
Settlement seemed uncertain
because the state wantt!<l $1. 7
million from the tribe for improvements on the facility. The
Indians ba lked. One Native
American at Evergreen said,
"They turned out hospital into a
juvenile detention center. They
put bars on the windows. What
do we wa nt with bars?"
On Friday NASA continued
to coordina te support efforts and
documentation. Students continued their media recording of the
scene at Cascadia. The Cascadia
Support Group printed up leaflets stating the Indians' position
and distributed them at the Friday Nite Films. A brief speech
was made there, asking for food,
blankets, money, and even gas
masks, before a somewhat rowdy
audience set to view the film
FREAKS .
By this time, federal officials
had been called to Cascadia.
Undersecretary of the Interior R.
Dennis Icckes flew in from Washington D. C. after wiring a
pledge to Tribal Chairwoman
Ramona ~ennett to take appropriate action for the return of the
property.
Saturday morning, members
of the Cascadia Support Group
prepared to go to Cascadia as
observers and to transport food
and supplies they had collected .
It was known that a settlement
might be near, but the group
was skeptical of the government's
willingness to ' give in. They
waited for some word until 11
a.m. and then decided to head to
Tacoma in case they were needed.
There was ta lk that observers
might be arrested along with the
Indians. Lawyers' phone numbers
were pa:SS~(r ' 'a round . . The Asttidents arrived around 1 p.m., just
when the injunction was to be
served.
The Indians were slowly trickling out of the facility. Federal
marshals in mufti with badges
pinned to their jackets stood at
the ga tes joking uneasily with
the Indian guards. There was no
need for the students to enter the
grounds. A settleme nt had been
reached.
Seven hours of negotiations
had ended when the tribe was
satisfied that the center was to
become theirs. The renamed
Chief Leschi Medical Center will
be transferred over during the
next year as the state phases out
its juvenile program there and
the legal papers move through
the courts.
NASA is planning to produce
a documentary on the occupation of Cascadia, using the tape
shot by students. The Cascadia
Support Group is looking into
the effects and effectiveness of
the actual ·agreement reached at
Cascadia . About the overall Evergreen support, Tony Olney
said: "Every individual helped to
the degree that they could in supporting the Puyallups at Cascadia. NASA responded by utilizing some of the equipment
here , and utilizing student expertise to coordinate an educational
effort ."

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Los
Hermanns
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45(,·6300

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purchase I with
this coupon.

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The Co-op Corner

Anything but Ho-Hum
by Jim Wright
"All the time I've been at Evergreen I've wanted to be in a successful program ... "
Ho-Hum would seem to be a
highly inappropriate label for
any academic program, let alone
one dealing with the colorful and
enticing subject of Outdoor Education. Yet in this case, the title
is somehow entirely appropriate,
because of its inappropriateness
in describing the dynamic student-originated and planned program it represents . Ho-Hum is a
cute if somewhat obnoxious abbreviation of the official program
title - Outdoor Education/From
Hoboken to Humptu lips.
What is Outdoor Educat ion in
the first place? It's an ambitious
subject, to say the least, and HoHum certainly doesn't pretend to
have any absolute answers. Program sponsor Willi Unsoeld defines the program in terms of
what it is not. "We don't emphasize environmental education,
which is part of it. We don't emphasize outdoor recreation , which
is an entertainment approach.
• A chess tournament will be
held at Evergreen next weekend,
offering prizes totaling $1,125.
The Sixth Annual Cedar Knight
Chess Tournament will run five
rounds in CAB 110 on November 13 and 14 in three sections:
Open, Booster (1800 N . W.
rating or less), and Novice (1400
N.W. rating or less). There are
six cash prizes to be awarded in
each section, with all first prizes
awarding a hundred dollars or
more. The time control will be
40 moves in 90 minutes, and registration is from 8 a .m. to 9: 30
a.m. on Saturday, with rounds
at 10, 3 and 7:30, a nd rounds on
Sundav at 10 a.m . and 3 p.m .
A";{ ' ~~iry.~fee ' ~f "$lsJ)O 'oiisite
or $12.00 in advance is required,
as is a Washington Chess Federation membership ($6 fee). Unrated players (one who has never
played in a tournament before)
are welcome in all sections. Send
advance registration fee to: CEDAR KNIGHT; P.O. BOX
3760 ; Lacey, Washington 98503.
• The 211 Darkroom is open to
students, staff, and community
members. The hours are: Monday, noon to 11 p.m., Tuesday,
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Wednesday, noon to 11 p.m., and
Sunday 1: 30 to 9 p.m.
• Students interested in th(
group contract From Cell to Organism to be offered winter and
spring quarters this year should
meet with Don Humphrey in Lab
3051 on Wednesday, November
10, at 1:00 p .m. to discuss
books, options and further
planning.

Outdoor Education students ready kayaks for workshop.
We emphasize the outdoors as a
vehicle for improving one's attitudes and value structures - to
develop a greater self-concept in
order to enable you to work
more closely with other peopie ... Self-development through
outdoor activities ."
Perhaps a better definition of
the program is to be found in the

Ho-Hum catch-all phrase "We're
flexible," which started out as a
private joke among Ho-Hummers. But as student program
planner Norman Teinowitz points
out, "That's kind of important.
You are the program . The people
in the program make the
program."
please tum to page 6

• Students interested in an evening/weekend Coffeehouse/social center should attend a meeting today, Thursday, at 4 p.m.
in CAB 102 (next to cafeteria). If
you can't make the meeting, but
are interested, leave your name
and ideas with Larry Stenberg'S
office at 866-6296.

3 - Dec. 8 (Wednesdays plus one
weekend get-together) 10 a.m. noon. Helping Relationship Skills
Deborah Matlack, facilitator Nov. 8, 9, 10 (Mon. , Tues.,
Wed .) 7 a.m. -10 a .m . or 10:30.
Being Alive: Deborah Matlack,
Facilitator - Dec. 4 and 5 (Sat .)
7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (Sun.)
1 - 5 p .m . Sharing and Support
for Men: Alan Chickering, Facilitator - Oct . 27 - Dec. 1 (Thursdays) 7 p.m. Creative Movement:
Wendy Schofield, Facilitator Nov. 2 - Nov. 30 (Tuesdays) 3 4: 30 p. m. Creative Movement
One-day workshop: Wendy
Schofield, Facilitator - Nov. 21
(Sunday) 10 a .m :~ noon and 1 3 p.m. Yoga Workshop: Kathy
Hayner, Facilitator - Nov. 13 &
14 (Sat.) 10 a.m . - 4 p.m. (Sun.)
noon - 6 p.m. Relationship and
Loss: a discovery of self: Suzannah Blessinger, Richard Rowen
- Nov. 19 and 20 (Fri.) 6 - 11
p.m. (Sat.) 9 - 9:30 a.m.
,.

• There will be a public student
forum held on Wednesday, November 10 in Lib 2205 at 12
noon. Issues to be discussed include student representatives for
the presidential search, the COG
III proposal, internal organization and funding for the student
forum, and its relationship with
the Sounding Board. All students
are welcome.
• The Human Growth and
Counseling Center is sponsoring
a series of workshops designed to
facilitate personal growth and
development, as well as group
and organizational development.
Registration is open to students, staff, faculty and community people on a priority
basis. All registration will be
held at Lib. 3223 or call Human
Growth and Counseling Center
at 866-6151 for more information.
Multi-ethnic Culture Study
Group: George Hom, facilitator
- Oct. 27 - Dec. 15 (Wednesdays) 10 a.m. - noon . Lifespring
Model: Making relationships
work: Brooke Floren, facilitator
- Oct. 28 - Nov. 11 (Thursdays)
7-10:30 p.m. Getting to Know
and Trust your Sisters: Tricia
HamiJ.ton, facilitator - Nov. 10Nov . 24 (Wednesdays) 7: 30 - 9
p.m. Applied Thought: Ron
Hooker, facilitator Nov.

by Keith Goehner
Co-operative Education is the office on campus devoted to helping place students in job situations in which they can either explore career possibilities or expand their present knowledge in a
particular field. Whether your field is science, counseling, education or research, Co-op Ed. can usually help place you in a job
related to your academic field.
Co-op Ed. is not an employment agency, it is an academic endeavor. Internsh ips (the actual job or research position) are creditgenerating experiences.
':The Co-op philosophy at Evergreen is based on the over·
riding conviction that real learning cannot be separated into
academic and practical components, the one occurring before
graduation and the other occurri ng after a student has re-entered
the ad ult c~mmunity. Rather, as an Evergreen student you ...
have the opportunity to develop very early the full range of skills
and talents required of today's educa tion (person) ." - 1975 - 77
coIl~ge bulletin.
Foll owing are just a few examples of internships ava ilable right
now and for winter quarter:
WHITE HOUSE FELLOWS Are you interested in serving for a
year with senior members of the White House Administration
starting next fall? If so, stop by the Co-op office by Octob~r 28
(Thursday).
LEGISLATIVE INTERNS for winter quarter; Co-op now has
the application forms and information on internships with the
legislature th is winter. Stop by to pick up an application form and
make an appoin tment to talk with a coordinator.
St. Placid's High School is looking for two people, an ORGANIZER AND COACH FOR INTRAMURAL & TEAM SPORTS,
and someone to help LAYOUT, DESIGN, & PUBLISH A COMMEMORATIVE BROCHURE for the 50th anniversary of the
school.
At the Skokomish Tribal Council Building near Hoodsport,
there is a child participating in the HEADST ART program who is
afflicted with CEREBRAL PALSY. On Mondays, Wednesdays,
a nd Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., she needs help in getting
around and participating in classroom activities . Minimum wages
a re available.
The Chautauqua Production Company is looking for a BUSINESS MANAGER. If you have a background in accounting or
business management and maybe some experience working with
an arts company, then you can have this internship where you
will be responsible for overseeing the company's budget and fundraising activities.
Internships have proven to be valuable experiences to a number of people, like Char Olsen-Alkire, who wrote on Oct. 11 , "As
a result of an internship through the Co-op off ice .. . at the Pacific Science Center . . . I (was) hired full time ... and have been
working there since my gradua tion in June 1975. . I never could
have landed such a job without the internship .
I am really
grateful to Evergreen for providing such an outstanding educational experience."

........................................................
CAREER/LIFE STYlE
PLANNING WORKSHOP:

For students in the process
.of deciding what to do
jafter Evergreen. Covers se lf-:
i assessment, career decision i
i making, planning and
i
i researching educational i
land occupational alternativesl
pate: Wednesday, Nov 10
i
iTime: 10:00 a.m. ~ 3:30 p.m . ~
iPlace:Career Resource Centeri
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Library 1213

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10 to 6
Mon. th ru Sat.

352-0720

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in our lounge thru November 7

c./\1IKE
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thurs -Iri -sat
nov4,5,6
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some items:
Pottery

in our dining room - Sunday Buffet

Craftwork and Supplies
•
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batik
macrame
candlemaking
beads, feathers
woodcarving : tools ... and wood'

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Westside Center across from the bowling alley

4

Evergreen Groups Mobilize
in Response to Cascadia
" There is no fireside.
howsoe'er defended,
but has one vacant chair I "
- Longfellow

~'-

1

~-

ijCt'

( as11)
ADULT
STUDENT
HOUSING
3138 OVERHULSE RD·8ee.8181

by Brad Pokorny
On Saturday, two weeks ago,
about one hundred Puyallup Indians gathered in the Cascadia
Juvenile Diagnostic Center for a
reception and dinner to celebrate
the opening of an Indian health
clinic. Fiftv Indians stayed after
the dinner, asked the staff to
leave, and occupied the building,
giv ing notice that "t his property
. is hereby taken into the possession of the Puyallup Tribe of
Indians as its sovereign and rightful owners."
You will see Cascadia as the
large buff-colored building off to
the righ t as you head out of Tacoma on your way to Seattle.
The five s tory brick building sits
on a green hill overlooking the
neat ly manicured, cyclone fenced
grounds that characterize institutions . The bUilding looks like a

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SENIOR EMPLOYMENT SEMINAR

Sub iect: How to Conduct an I nformation and Employment Interview
~ate :
Thursday , November 11
Time
330 p.m . - SOO p.m.
Place:
Career Resource Center, Library 1213

........................................................................................................................

LAKEWOOD THEATRE
6120 Motor Ave. SW
Lakewood Center
Tacoma

The Indians .let their feelings be known with this sign at the Cascadia Tuvenile Diagnostic Center .
hospital because it used to be. In
1939 the Puyallup Tribe sold the
20 acres next to 1-5 and 60 more
to the Federal government for
$500,000 on the condition that
they build an Indian hospital on
the land. Cushman Hospital
served the Indians until 1959.
When the government decided
Indian tuberculosis was almost
gone, leaving the facility underutilized, they gave the whole
complex to the state for a juvenile center. The Puyallups were
not consulted on the deal. They
wrote letters to Washington
D.C. in protest. Five years ago
the tribe stepped up their effort
to regain control of the hospital,
sending delegations to the Governor, the legislature, and other
state officials. Finally, two weeks
ago, the Indians evicted the state
from "their" hospital. A sign was
e rected : "This is Indian Land.
We will not leave."
Since the hospital takeover, a
number of Evergreen students
have been working ha rd , and

YAROS
Electronics
Sales -

Service

AUt0 Installation

CB , too
Across from bowl ing alley
West Side
Jim and Rosa Yemm
Shopping Center
Ph. 357-3942
Ph, 357-7845
Thi s week featuring:

stereo
tape player
with

cassette or 8 track

$tJ9.95
$109.95

AM I FM I MPX stereo receiver

7:00 / 9:00 Sun.Mats 2:00/4:00

with speakers

installed in -dash or under
for as little as $15.00

o

o

continue to work, in support of
the Puyallups at Cascadia. Evergreen's Native American Student
Association (NASA) began immediately to provide students
with information about the
events at Cascadia. A memo was
issued calling for support from
student organizations and asking
for donations of food, juices,
blankets, and bail-bond money.
It was clear a confrontation was
expected, perhaps involving a
prolonged sit-in at Cascadia,
with possible arrests.
Students involved in communications went to Cascadia with
video porta-packs, tape recorders and cameras to document the
sit uation. Tony Olney, the coordinator of NASA, said at th e
time, "Being a state funded organization, we are obligated not
to get involved as a political entity. Therefore the involvement
we are using is in the fashion of
an academic study. Students in
commun ications, political science,
and Native American programs
are documenting the type of situations that arise out of the Cascadia occupation ."
A group of wh ite st udents, initially composed of people active
in the third floor Library student
groups, banded together as the
Cascadia Support Group. These
individuals volunteered to make
posters, collect money and food,
and speak to KAOS radio and
The Cooper Point Journal about
covering the Cascadia issue. The
Cooper Point Jou rnal was criticized by the group because it
chose not to cover the story for
the October 28 issue as they suggested .
Last Thursday, the 28th, federal marshals were expected to
deliver a court injunction evicting the Indians by 4 p.m. and
some students drove to the center to act as observers so that
any confrontation would be
peaceful. One student voiced the
rationale that "observers are to
help keep the lid on things. The
police are less likely to get carried away if there are a number
of non-Indians around."
The students ar~ived and were
allowed past the rifle- toting Indian guards and into the occupied
building. They reported that
things were very orderly inside,
that a strong communal spirit

6

~xisted. Many Indian women
and children were there.
Then, the 4 p.m. Thursday
deadline was pushed back to 1
p.m. Saturday by a federal judge.
Time was won for more negotiations. The Evergreeners came
home and focused attention on
an expected Saturday afternoon
conflict.
Settlement seemed uncertain
because the state wantt!<l $1. 7
million from the tribe for improvements on the facility. The
Indians ba lked. One Native
American at Evergreen said,
"They turned out hospital into a
juvenile detention center. They
put bars on the windows. What
do we wa nt with bars?"
On Friday NASA continued
to coordina te support efforts and
documentation. Students continued their media recording of the
scene at Cascadia. The Cascadia
Support Group printed up leaflets stating the Indians' position
and distributed them at the Friday Nite Films. A brief speech
was made there, asking for food,
blankets, money, and even gas
masks, before a somewhat rowdy
audience set to view the film
FREAKS .
By this time, federal officials
had been called to Cascadia.
Undersecretary of the Interior R.
Dennis Icckes flew in from Washington D. C. after wiring a
pledge to Tribal Chairwoman
Ramona ~ennett to take appropriate action for the return of the
property.
Saturday morning, members
of the Cascadia Support Group
prepared to go to Cascadia as
observers and to transport food
and supplies they had collected .
It was known that a settlement
might be near, but the group
was skeptical of the government's
willingness to ' give in. They
waited for some word until 11
a.m. and then decided to head to
Tacoma in case they were needed.
There was ta lk that observers
might be arrested along with the
Indians. Lawyers' phone numbers
were pa:SS~(r ' 'a round . . The Asttidents arrived around 1 p.m., just
when the injunction was to be
served.
The Indians were slowly trickling out of the facility. Federal
marshals in mufti with badges
pinned to their jackets stood at
the ga tes joking uneasily with
the Indian guards. There was no
need for the students to enter the
grounds. A settleme nt had been
reached.
Seven hours of negotiations
had ended when the tribe was
satisfied that the center was to
become theirs. The renamed
Chief Leschi Medical Center will
be transferred over during the
next year as the state phases out
its juvenile program there and
the legal papers move through
the courts.
NASA is planning to produce
a documentary on the occupation of Cascadia, using the tape
shot by students. The Cascadia
Support Group is looking into
the effects and effectiveness of
the actual ·agreement reached at
Cascadia . About the overall Evergreen support, Tony Olney
said: "Every individual helped to
the degree that they could in supporting the Puyallups at Cascadia. NASA responded by utilizing some of the equipment
here , and utilizing student expertise to coordinate an educational
effort ."

--- ---,

tickets for concerts and sports events

Los
Hermanns
4520 PACIFIC
45(,·6300

10% off food

purchase I with
this coupon.

Outdoor Education group contract

The Co-op Corner

Anything but Ho-Hum
by Jim Wright
"All the time I've been at Evergreen I've wanted to be in a successful program ... "
Ho-Hum would seem to be a
highly inappropriate label for
any academic program, let alone
one dealing with the colorful and
enticing subject of Outdoor Education. Yet in this case, the title
is somehow entirely appropriate,
because of its inappropriateness
in describing the dynamic student-originated and planned program it represents . Ho-Hum is a
cute if somewhat obnoxious abbreviation of the official program
title - Outdoor Education/From
Hoboken to Humptu lips.
What is Outdoor Educat ion in
the first place? It's an ambitious
subject, to say the least, and HoHum certainly doesn't pretend to
have any absolute answers. Program sponsor Willi Unsoeld defines the program in terms of
what it is not. "We don't emphasize environmental education,
which is part of it. We don't emphasize outdoor recreation , which
is an entertainment approach.
• A chess tournament will be
held at Evergreen next weekend,
offering prizes totaling $1,125.
The Sixth Annual Cedar Knight
Chess Tournament will run five
rounds in CAB 110 on November 13 and 14 in three sections:
Open, Booster (1800 N . W.
rating or less), and Novice (1400
N.W. rating or less). There are
six cash prizes to be awarded in
each section, with all first prizes
awarding a hundred dollars or
more. The time control will be
40 moves in 90 minutes, and registration is from 8 a .m. to 9: 30
a.m. on Saturday, with rounds
at 10, 3 and 7:30, a nd rounds on
Sundav at 10 a.m . and 3 p.m .
A";{ ' ~~iry.~fee ' ~f "$lsJ)O 'oiisite
or $12.00 in advance is required,
as is a Washington Chess Federation membership ($6 fee). Unrated players (one who has never
played in a tournament before)
are welcome in all sections. Send
advance registration fee to: CEDAR KNIGHT; P.O. BOX
3760 ; Lacey, Washington 98503.
• The 211 Darkroom is open to
students, staff, and community
members. The hours are: Monday, noon to 11 p.m., Tuesday,
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Wednesday, noon to 11 p.m., and
Sunday 1: 30 to 9 p.m.
• Students interested in th(
group contract From Cell to Organism to be offered winter and
spring quarters this year should
meet with Don Humphrey in Lab
3051 on Wednesday, November
10, at 1:00 p .m. to discuss
books, options and further
planning.

Outdoor Education students ready kayaks for workshop.
We emphasize the outdoors as a
vehicle for improving one's attitudes and value structures - to
develop a greater self-concept in
order to enable you to work
more closely with other peopie ... Self-development through
outdoor activities ."
Perhaps a better definition of
the program is to be found in the

Ho-Hum catch-all phrase "We're
flexible," which started out as a
private joke among Ho-Hummers. But as student program
planner Norman Teinowitz points
out, "That's kind of important.
You are the program . The people
in the program make the
program."
please tum to page 6

• Students interested in an evening/weekend Coffeehouse/social center should attend a meeting today, Thursday, at 4 p.m.
in CAB 102 (next to cafeteria). If
you can't make the meeting, but
are interested, leave your name
and ideas with Larry Stenberg'S
office at 866-6296.

3 - Dec. 8 (Wednesdays plus one
weekend get-together) 10 a.m. noon. Helping Relationship Skills
Deborah Matlack, facilitator Nov. 8, 9, 10 (Mon. , Tues.,
Wed .) 7 a.m. -10 a .m . or 10:30.
Being Alive: Deborah Matlack,
Facilitator - Dec. 4 and 5 (Sat .)
7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (Sun.)
1 - 5 p .m . Sharing and Support
for Men: Alan Chickering, Facilitator - Oct . 27 - Dec. 1 (Thursdays) 7 p.m. Creative Movement:
Wendy Schofield, Facilitator Nov. 2 - Nov. 30 (Tuesdays) 3 4: 30 p. m. Creative Movement
One-day workshop: Wendy
Schofield, Facilitator - Nov. 21
(Sunday) 10 a .m :~ noon and 1 3 p.m. Yoga Workshop: Kathy
Hayner, Facilitator - Nov. 13 &
14 (Sat.) 10 a.m . - 4 p.m. (Sun.)
noon - 6 p.m. Relationship and
Loss: a discovery of self: Suzannah Blessinger, Richard Rowen
- Nov. 19 and 20 (Fri.) 6 - 11
p.m. (Sat.) 9 - 9:30 a.m.
,.

• There will be a public student
forum held on Wednesday, November 10 in Lib 2205 at 12
noon. Issues to be discussed include student representatives for
the presidential search, the COG
III proposal, internal organization and funding for the student
forum, and its relationship with
the Sounding Board. All students
are welcome.
• The Human Growth and
Counseling Center is sponsoring
a series of workshops designed to
facilitate personal growth and
development, as well as group
and organizational development.
Registration is open to students, staff, faculty and community people on a priority
basis. All registration will be
held at Lib. 3223 or call Human
Growth and Counseling Center
at 866-6151 for more information.
Multi-ethnic Culture Study
Group: George Hom, facilitator
- Oct. 27 - Dec. 15 (Wednesdays) 10 a.m. - noon . Lifespring
Model: Making relationships
work: Brooke Floren, facilitator
- Oct. 28 - Nov. 11 (Thursdays)
7-10:30 p.m. Getting to Know
and Trust your Sisters: Tricia
HamiJ.ton, facilitator - Nov. 10Nov . 24 (Wednesdays) 7: 30 - 9
p.m. Applied Thought: Ron
Hooker, facilitator Nov.

by Keith Goehner
Co-operative Education is the office on campus devoted to helping place students in job situations in which they can either explore career possibilities or expand their present knowledge in a
particular field. Whether your field is science, counseling, education or research, Co-op Ed. can usually help place you in a job
related to your academic field.
Co-op Ed. is not an employment agency, it is an academic endeavor. Internsh ips (the actual job or research position) are creditgenerating experiences.
':The Co-op philosophy at Evergreen is based on the over·
riding conviction that real learning cannot be separated into
academic and practical components, the one occurring before
graduation and the other occurri ng after a student has re-entered
the ad ult c~mmunity. Rather, as an Evergreen student you ...
have the opportunity to develop very early the full range of skills
and talents required of today's educa tion (person) ." - 1975 - 77
coIl~ge bulletin.
Foll owing are just a few examples of internships ava ilable right
now and for winter quarter:
WHITE HOUSE FELLOWS Are you interested in serving for a
year with senior members of the White House Administration
starting next fall? If so, stop by the Co-op office by Octob~r 28
(Thursday).
LEGISLATIVE INTERNS for winter quarter; Co-op now has
the application forms and information on internships with the
legislature th is winter. Stop by to pick up an application form and
make an appoin tment to talk with a coordinator.
St. Placid's High School is looking for two people, an ORGANIZER AND COACH FOR INTRAMURAL & TEAM SPORTS,
and someone to help LAYOUT, DESIGN, & PUBLISH A COMMEMORATIVE BROCHURE for the 50th anniversary of the
school.
At the Skokomish Tribal Council Building near Hoodsport,
there is a child participating in the HEADST ART program who is
afflicted with CEREBRAL PALSY. On Mondays, Wednesdays,
a nd Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., she needs help in getting
around and participating in classroom activities . Minimum wages
a re available.
The Chautauqua Production Company is looking for a BUSINESS MANAGER. If you have a background in accounting or
business management and maybe some experience working with
an arts company, then you can have this internship where you
will be responsible for overseeing the company's budget and fundraising activities.
Internships have proven to be valuable experiences to a number of people, like Char Olsen-Alkire, who wrote on Oct. 11 , "As
a result of an internship through the Co-op off ice .. . at the Pacific Science Center . . . I (was) hired full time ... and have been
working there since my gradua tion in June 1975. . I never could
have landed such a job without the internship .
I am really
grateful to Evergreen for providing such an outstanding educational experience."

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Hoboken to Humptulips
continued from page 5
The program attempts to mix
academic content with experential learning situations, reflecting
the idea that "The best way to
learn is to teach ." To this end,
every student in Ho -Hum is required. by covenant, to teach at
lea st one workshop per quarter .
Says Aubrey Nixon, Ho-Hum
member , "We' re
involved ,
through teaching workshops, in
wha t we' re supposed to be do ing . We're doi ng this in our
li ves. Ot her programs that I've
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far rem oved from experiences
had had. "
Ho-Hum is unique in several
different respects, " I think the
rea lly exciting thing about it is
that it's planned by students,"
says faculty member Willi Unsoeld . Similarly, the most exciting aspect of the ' program to
Norman Teinowitz is " having
the opportunity to plan a program . This program appeals to a
lot of people because students
need to put in their input ... " [t
becomes evident that Ho-Hum is
successful as a program because
its members function as a collected group rather than as individuals pursuing individual proj ec ts. Group consensus is the
name of the game. Decisions are
group decisions and activities are
group activities, in spirit as well
as in title.
The entire program is united
by a covenant which establishes
goals and objectives, and which
o utlines an ac tivities contract
that all members agree to abide
by. The covenant represents a

commitment to the processes of
learning rather than to the product - the actual proof of accomplishment. This agreement
was reached through consensus
at a program retreat at the beginning of the quarter. Explains
Norman Teinowitz, " We reached
a group consensus with 40 peo ple there. That's a pretty amazing thing to do. It kind of set the
tone of the whole program . People are willing to work together. "
The reaching of this consensus
was a process in itself, as Aubrey
Nixon points out. "None of us
knew w hat a covenant was. It
was going to be our guidebook.
We tried to make it the spirit of
the program. We a ll just remind
ourselves that it's the spirit that
we do things in that's important
- not the outcome."
Program activities are a spectrum ranging from seminars and
student-taught workshops to
safety conferences and planning
meetings for next quarter.
At present, Ho-Hum members
a re ques tioning themselves and
at tempting to establish values
with respect to the outdoors.
"We're just finding out about
ourselves. Why do we want to
become instructors 7 What does
the outdoors mean to us?" explains Teinowitz. "A t the same
time, the workshops are giving
us some experience in teaching."
Workshops are an important
part of the program 's teaching /
learning process. These workshops cover a wide range of sub jects, including Mountain Medi -

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cine, Rock Climbing, Environmental Education, Kayaking,
and Outdoor Living. One unusual experimental workshop proposed tha t four people rope up
together and then attempt to
play a game of soccer. to see
what effects the rope would have
on their movements.
Another very significant component of this Outdoor Educa tion program is the newly-formed
Safety Committee, convened to
standardize workshop procedure
and to define high risk field ac tivities and develop a compre hensive policy which will deal
with such activities. At stake
here is the conflict between limiting the college's liability in potentially hazardous field activities
such as rock climbing and kayak ing. while being careful, on the
other hand , to avoid "cramping
one's style" through unnecessary
regulation. For example, the
Safety Committee is currently attempt ing to dev ise guidelines for
the wearing of helmets by rockclimbers. The comm ittee is a lso
attempting to establi sh rules res tricting th e consumption of
"co nsciousn ess-a lte ring drugs"
(including alcohol) during field
activities.
Finally, a co mmittee has already formed to begin planning
progra m activities for next quarter. In addit ion, planners are
search ing for internship p ossibilit ies for spring quarter.
Every program has its problems, and Ho - Hum is no exception. By far the most frequentlymentio ned problem with Outdoor Education is the constant
co nflict between wanting to do
every thing and o nly having a
limited amount of time with
which to work . As one student
puts it, "No matter how deep
you dig, you ' re o nl y going to be
able . to scratoh. the !>lJI,lfface'::"ThQ
problem cente rs on aHotmerlt 6f
tim e. One student says, "People
are getting burned out because
they're go ing too fast - trying
to do too much ." 'Conversely,
Norman Teinowitz says, "We've
go t to be rea l consc ious about
time. It's very rea l. There's five
weeks left, and we have to do
this a nd this ... "
Ho-Hum is obv iously a fastpaced, hi g h- e n ergy program.
Aubrey Nixon revea ls the paradox when she says, "You' re so
busy doing things that you don' t
have time to reflect on what
you've done , .. " But, to quote
ano the r common
Ho-Hum
phrase. " ... Well , maybe next
quarter . . ."

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Rape as a War Tactic
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Boston . . . aghhhh
It's not one of those.
Well, talkin ' 'bout the midnight - shhhhh
The one who closed the
bedroom door . . .
Oh God, hit her head . . .

rape her, , , hang her . . .
The knife sharpened, ..
tiptoe . . . uhhhh
Oh just that. . . She was
dead Uhhh, the brain bell }an-

gled,
Hullo, have you ever seen
so dead?
- "Midnight Rambler," words
and music by M ick Jagger and
Keith Richard,

From prehistoric times to the
present, I believe, rape has played
a critical function. It is nothing
more or less than a conscio us
process of intimidation by which
all men keep all women in a state
of fear.
Susan

Brownmiller

in

Against Our Will
More than 55,000 American
women reported being raped in
1974. Officials say there are at
least three times as many unreported rapes, and some estimate
as many as 500,000 people a
year are attacked by rapists. Yet
few rapists - 2 % of offenders,
or less - are actually convicted
and jailed. And of the statistics
on the main violent crimes, including murder, assault, and
robbery, rape is the fastest-rising.
At first treated seriously only
by the feminist press, the subject
of rape has slowly gained recognition in popular m agazi n es,
newspapers, and television. T 0day the problem of rape is finally
being considered a major social
issue, and many women angrily
go even further: they consider
rape not as one feminist cause
among many, but as the ultima te
and essential m e taphor for all
the suffering of women at the
hands of men.
The most popular a nd impor tant book to appear on the subject is journalist Susan Brownmiller's bestselling Against Our

Will: Men , Women and Rape
(Bantam Books paperback, 541
pages, $2.75), Four yea rs of research a nd writing went into
Brownmiller's book, which provides the most comprehensive
study of the subject yet available. She traces the history, psychology, and laws of rape from
prehistoric times to the present,
and her apparently careful analysis yields some angry and
sweeping conclusions.
Brownmiller's basic thesis is
that rape is not a random ac t by
crazed perverts, but a worldwide
social mechanism with which
men control women. She says:
"Rather than society's aberrants
or 'spo ilers of purity,' men who
commit rape have served as

front-line masculine shock troops,
terrorist guerillas in the longest
sustained battle the world has
ever known." Brownmiller believes civilization was built on
" The male ideo logy of rape,"
which came about with .....
man's discovery that his genitalia
could serve as a weapon to generate fear, [which I must rank as
o ne of the most important dis coveries of prehis to ric times,
along with the use of fire and the
first crude stone axe."
The attitude of historians toward this kind of documentation
has usually been to ignore or dismiss it as tangential , inconsequential, or as possessing dubious
validity. Another reason for the
relegation of rape to the m iscellany of history is that those who
have sought to expose it have invariably had a political motiva tion, and those who believed or
disbelieved it based their conclu sions on their own political perspectives. Brow nmiller admits
she has been guilty of this herself . But the reason her book has
deservedly gotten so much at tent ion is precisely because it of fers a new version of histo ry , a
history from a woman's point of
view a nd reflecting women's concerns, instead of the traditi ona I
between -us-men vers ions.
To es ta bli s h her theory of
rape's acceptability throughout
history, she cites example after
examp le of m e n 's cruelty to
women, from Biblir.al stories to
the notorious cases of Kitty Gen0vese and the Boston Strangler.
The long record of rape during
wartime is examined, from the
Trojan War on up to Vietnam
and the thousands of rape victims in the Bangladesh war who
were rejected by their Muslim
husbands. The effect of reading
hundreds of pages of one ugly
atrocity after a nother is at first
shocking, then depressing, but

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gradually the endless list of hostility and misery produces weary
numbness. But Brownmiller's
purpose in relentlessly detailing
historical examples of rape is to
demonstrate that it takes on ly
the slightest discord in society a riot, for instance, or a revolution , a pogrom, a religious or
racial conflict - to unleash the
weapon of rape .
Rape , Brownmiller insists,
pointing to her examples, is a
conscious conspiracy a mo ng all
men. The awfulness of My Lai is
just another incident in "the casual con tinuing war against women ." Rapists and n o n-rapists are
members of the sa me team men - and they are the e nem y.
Brow nmill er asserts that rape is
the real basis of the family, monogamy, or a ny other excl usive
relationship between men and
women , a nd she repeats quotes a
number of times to back herself
\ up.
, That the rapist does the dirty
work for all men and is essentially a tacit agent is an idea tha t
many people, including me, cannot accept. As Brownmiller he rself says in criticism of tradition al theories of female psychology,
it is a mistake to confuse what
sometimes (or even often) is with
what must be. But despite disagreement with her ideas of male
conspiracy, Against Our Will is
a book which must not be ignored. It cannot be denied that
the cultural ideal of the aggressive male is directly related to
rape, and that hostility toward
women is a basic attitude of .the
rapist, The reader can dispute
some of Brownmiller's theories
without the book as a whole being weakened serio usly , and
many of her minor insights convince as much as they surprise.
In this space I have not even
gotten through a bare summary
of the ideas in Against Our Will.
I have left out, of course, the
facts a nd statistics which Brownmiller brings to her ma te ria l. [
have a lso not mentioned her eyeopening chapters and subchap ters o n the sexual abuse of chil dren, prison rape, the mythology
of rape that pervades our culture, or the special problems of
interracial rape. Brownmiller's
profile of the typical rapist a nd
suggestions fo r law reforms have
lik ewise been ove rlook ed, at
least in this essay .. Next week I
will continue with my summary
and critique of Against Our Will,
and future issues of the Cooper
Point Journal will explore further
many of the areas Brownmiller
dea ls w ith in her book, particularly those which pertain to Evergreerr st udents, such as rape and
"seductio n" in a n institutional
setting, including the college it self.

Events&Ir1k~

Arts and
"ILMS
ON CAMPUS
Friday, November 5
THE PASSENGER (1975 , 119
min .) Orig inal tit le : "Professi one:
Reporter." Michaelangelo Anton ioni
(" Blow· up") directed this controversial fi lm starring Jack Nicholso n
and Ma ria Sc hneid e r. Nicho lso n
plays a bored TV reporter on as·
s ignment in Africa who takes on
the identity of a dead man who resembles him in order to start a new
life. Critics' reac tions have ranged
from "a mas terpiece" to "a boring
piece of garbage." At any rate , the
film conta ins so me s tu nnin gly
beautif ul photography. You deci de .
Al so: IMPRINT , a short subject .
Presented by the Friday Nite Film
Series . LH One , 3, 7, and 9 ; 45
p.m. 75 cents.
Satu rday, November 6
A STAR IS BORN (1954) The fi rst
remake of the Holl ywood musical
sc hlock class ic, starring Judy Garlan d a nd Ja mes Maso n. Wit h:
CAMPUS VAMP , a sho rt s tarring
Caro le Lombard , and I'M NO
ANGEL , an ' excerpt from the full length Mae West mov ie of the
same name. Presented by KAOSFM. LH One, 7 and 10 p.m . 50
cents.
Monday, November 8, and Tues·
day , November 9
ON THE BATTLEFIELD A documentary on racial hatred in Ca iro ,
Illinois. Stone Thomas, director of
th e Third World Coali ti on , will
speak fo llowi ng the film . Presented
by EPIC (Evergreen Political Infor·
mation Center). LH One, Monday ,
7: 30 p.m . ; Tuesday, noon. FREE .
Wednesday, November 10
NAKED NIGHT (Sweden, 1953)
An early Ingmar Bergman movie.
"The open ing sequence should be
seen by everyone." says a noted
Ev ergreen fac ulty member. Pre sented as part of the Academ ic
Film Seri es. LH One, 1 : 30 and
730 p.m. FREE.
Friday, November 12
LAST DAYS OF MAN ON EARTH
(88 min.) A science ficti on fi lm
about a computer which is fed the
totat of all human know ledge , then
programmed Into the minds of two
human beings. The vers ion to be
shown is ten minutes longer than
the theatricat version released in
the United States. With NO. 00173,
a shOrt, and SUPERMAN, a 1945
Max Fleisch er cartoon. Presented
by the Friday Nite Film Series, LH
One, .3,7, and 9:30 p.m. 75 cents.
IN OLYMPIA
SILENT MOVIE And you won't
hear any laughter, eit her. WITH :
TWELVE CHAIRS, which is about
how many will stil l be fill ed when
thi s film is over. 'State Theater,
357 -401 0.

TUNNELVISION , a poor im itat io n
of "The Groove Tube." Olympic
Theater, 357 -3422.
WILDERNESS FAMILY About
this fami ly out in the wilderness.
Tentative ly sc hed ul ed. Olympic
Theater.
THE RETURN OF A MAN CALLED
HORSE Plenty of torture and gen·
era l sad ism. Capitol Theater, 357·
7161 .

MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Sat urday, November 6
PENUMBRAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
CONCERT featuring Michael Chalot,
Jerry Michelson, Chrissie McPhad·
en, Joseph SchliCk, John Adams ,
Sid Brown , John Carleton, Rennie
Selk irk, and more. Presented by

By the set or by the piece

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Kochie Box Prod uct ions and the
Gig Comm issio n. Library Mai n
Lobby , 8 p.m . $1 .50.
Tuesday , November 9
EVERGREEN COLLEGE·COM ·
MUNITY CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE wi ll play Mozart's Oboe
Quartet in F Maj or; Two Songs by
Brahms ; a Mozart Concert Aria ;
and Dvorak's St ring Quartet in F
Major. Performers include facu lty
member Greg Steinke, oboe; As·
sista nt Academ ic Dean Willi a m
Wind en. vocal, Olympian J oa n
Wlnden , vocal; faculty member
Robert GaUl ieb, viola; Bever ly
Moore, piano; Helen Pagels. violin .
and Peggy Olson, vio lin. Main library Lobby , 7 : 30 pm .. FREE .
IN OLYMP IA
Friday, Novem ber 5
NA SUNCU , a local trio, will perform songs and instru mental mUSIC
of Southeastern Europe . Also :
DAVID LEVINE , who plays folk
music on gUi tar, flute , and tin whls,
tie. Applejam Folk Center, 220 East
Unio n, 8:15 p.m. $1.
Satu rday, Novem ber 6
JANE VOSS, a featured perform .
er at the Smith son ian Institute' s Bi centenn ial Folklife Festival . spe·
cia lizes in songs by Jimmy Rodgers
and the Carter fami ty. Also : BERT
LEVY, who plays da nce musIc .
classical pieces, and songs on the
banjo an d conce rtina . Applelam
Folk Center, 8 : 15 p.m. $1 .
ON STAGE
IN OLYMPIA
THE MIKADO, a comiC opera by
Gilbert and Sullivan, wi ll be pre·
sented by the Olympia Chorale on
November 5, 6, 12, and 13 in the
Luther Hall of the Gloria Dei Lu theran Church, 1515 Harrison, at B
p.m. Included in the cast is Evergreen student Julie Stewart . Tickets
may be purchased at yenney's or
the Music Bar : Adu lts $2, students
$1 . Inf ormation : 357-7105.

WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
Thursday , November 4
THE MAGAZINE APPROACH TO
NEWS A pane l discuss ion presented by the Washington Information CounCi l, featu ri ng David Brew·
ster of The Weekly (Seattle) ; Denn y
Fleenor, Radio KZAM / FM (Belle·
vue); and Ron Sheets , KWSU · TV
(Pullman) . CAB 110, 3 to 5 p.m.
TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION A second preparatory lecture.
CA B 108, 8 p.m FREE .
ART
iN'OLYMPIA
Sf X WOMEN Stoneware casseroles by Marian ne Ke nady ; jewelry
by Penn y Grist; pain ti ngs by Linda
Waterfall. Jean Harrington . Susan
Chr isti an. and Haruko MoniZ
Thro ugh November 24 . Childhood 's
End Gallery. 507 Sou th Capitol
Way, Monday - Satu rday , 10 a m
to 5:30 p.m.
STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
WITH "GERALD FORD FOR PRES ·
IDENT" STENCILED ON THEIR
PALE LITTLE CHESTS For sale cheap. Many of these motl ey figurines will become co ll ector s'
Items in the near future. so get
yours today . Caution: Some of the
squirrels are soaked in frustrated
cam paign workers' tears, and the
fur in certain speci mens has been
torn out in chun ks by cruel, jubi lant Jimmy Carter supporters. Joe
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Hoboken to Humptulips
continued from page 5
The program attempts to mix
academic content with experential learning situations, reflecting
the idea that "The best way to
learn is to teach ." To this end,
every student in Ho -Hum is required. by covenant, to teach at
lea st one workshop per quarter .
Says Aubrey Nixon, Ho-Hum
member , "We' re
involved ,
through teaching workshops, in
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far rem oved from experiences
had had. "
Ho-Hum is unique in several
different respects, " I think the
rea lly exciting thing about it is
that it's planned by students,"
says faculty member Willi Unsoeld . Similarly, the most exciting aspect of the ' program to
Norman Teinowitz is " having
the opportunity to plan a program . This program appeals to a
lot of people because students
need to put in their input ... " [t
becomes evident that Ho-Hum is
successful as a program because
its members function as a collected group rather than as individuals pursuing individual proj ec ts. Group consensus is the
name of the game. Decisions are
group decisions and activities are
group activities, in spirit as well
as in title.
The entire program is united
by a covenant which establishes
goals and objectives, and which
o utlines an ac tivities contract
that all members agree to abide
by. The covenant represents a

commitment to the processes of
learning rather than to the product - the actual proof of accomplishment. This agreement
was reached through consensus
at a program retreat at the beginning of the quarter. Explains
Norman Teinowitz, " We reached
a group consensus with 40 peo ple there. That's a pretty amazing thing to do. It kind of set the
tone of the whole program . People are willing to work together. "
The reaching of this consensus
was a process in itself, as Aubrey
Nixon points out. "None of us
knew w hat a covenant was. It
was going to be our guidebook.
We tried to make it the spirit of
the program. We a ll just remind
ourselves that it's the spirit that
we do things in that's important
- not the outcome."
Program activities are a spectrum ranging from seminars and
student-taught workshops to
safety conferences and planning
meetings for next quarter.
At present, Ho-Hum members
a re ques tioning themselves and
at tempting to establish values
with respect to the outdoors.
"We're just finding out about
ourselves. Why do we want to
become instructors 7 What does
the outdoors mean to us?" explains Teinowitz. "A t the same
time, the workshops are giving
us some experience in teaching."
Workshops are an important
part of the program 's teaching /
learning process. These workshops cover a wide range of sub jects, including Mountain Medi -

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and Outdoor Living. One unusual experimental workshop proposed tha t four people rope up
together and then attempt to
play a game of soccer. to see
what effects the rope would have
on their movements.
Another very significant component of this Outdoor Educa tion program is the newly-formed
Safety Committee, convened to
standardize workshop procedure
and to define high risk field ac tivities and develop a compre hensive policy which will deal
with such activities. At stake
here is the conflict between limiting the college's liability in potentially hazardous field activities
such as rock climbing and kayak ing. while being careful, on the
other hand , to avoid "cramping
one's style" through unnecessary
regulation. For example, the
Safety Committee is currently attempt ing to dev ise guidelines for
the wearing of helmets by rockclimbers. The comm ittee is a lso
attempting to establi sh rules res tricting th e consumption of
"co nsciousn ess-a lte ring drugs"
(including alcohol) during field
activities.
Finally, a co mmittee has already formed to begin planning
progra m activities for next quarter. In addit ion, planners are
search ing for internship p ossibilit ies for spring quarter.
Every program has its problems, and Ho - Hum is no exception. By far the most frequentlymentio ned problem with Outdoor Education is the constant
co nflict between wanting to do
every thing and o nly having a
limited amount of time with
which to work . As one student
puts it, "No matter how deep
you dig, you ' re o nl y going to be
able . to scratoh. the !>lJI,lfface'::"ThQ
problem cente rs on aHotmerlt 6f
tim e. One student says, "People
are getting burned out because
they're go ing too fast - trying
to do too much ." 'Conversely,
Norman Teinowitz says, "We've
go t to be rea l consc ious about
time. It's very rea l. There's five
weeks left, and we have to do
this a nd this ... "
Ho-Hum is obv iously a fastpaced, hi g h- e n ergy program.
Aubrey Nixon revea ls the paradox when she says, "You' re so
busy doing things that you don' t
have time to reflect on what
you've done , .. " But, to quote
ano the r common
Ho-Hum
phrase. " ... Well , maybe next
quarter . . ."

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From prehistoric times to the
present, I believe, rape has played
a critical function. It is nothing
more or less than a conscio us
process of intimidation by which
all men keep all women in a state
of fear.
Susan

Brownmiller

in

Against Our Will
More than 55,000 American
women reported being raped in
1974. Officials say there are at
least three times as many unreported rapes, and some estimate
as many as 500,000 people a
year are attacked by rapists. Yet
few rapists - 2 % of offenders,
or less - are actually convicted
and jailed. And of the statistics
on the main violent crimes, including murder, assault, and
robbery, rape is the fastest-rising.
At first treated seriously only
by the feminist press, the subject
of rape has slowly gained recognition in popular m agazi n es,
newspapers, and television. T 0day the problem of rape is finally
being considered a major social
issue, and many women angrily
go even further: they consider
rape not as one feminist cause
among many, but as the ultima te
and essential m e taphor for all
the suffering of women at the
hands of men.
The most popular a nd impor tant book to appear on the subject is journalist Susan Brownmiller's bestselling Against Our

Will: Men , Women and Rape
(Bantam Books paperback, 541
pages, $2.75), Four yea rs of research a nd writing went into
Brownmiller's book, which provides the most comprehensive
study of the subject yet available. She traces the history, psychology, and laws of rape from
prehistoric times to the present,
and her apparently careful analysis yields some angry and
sweeping conclusions.
Brownmiller's basic thesis is
that rape is not a random ac t by
crazed perverts, but a worldwide
social mechanism with which
men control women. She says:
"Rather than society's aberrants
or 'spo ilers of purity,' men who
commit rape have served as

front-line masculine shock troops,
terrorist guerillas in the longest
sustained battle the world has
ever known." Brownmiller believes civilization was built on
" The male ideo logy of rape,"
which came about with .....
man's discovery that his genitalia
could serve as a weapon to generate fear, [which I must rank as
o ne of the most important dis coveries of prehis to ric times,
along with the use of fire and the
first crude stone axe."
The attitude of historians toward this kind of documentation
has usually been to ignore or dismiss it as tangential , inconsequential, or as possessing dubious
validity. Another reason for the
relegation of rape to the m iscellany of history is that those who
have sought to expose it have invariably had a political motiva tion, and those who believed or
disbelieved it based their conclu sions on their own political perspectives. Brow nmiller admits
she has been guilty of this herself . But the reason her book has
deservedly gotten so much at tent ion is precisely because it of fers a new version of histo ry , a
history from a woman's point of
view a nd reflecting women's concerns, instead of the traditi ona I
between -us-men vers ions.
To es ta bli s h her theory of
rape's acceptability throughout
history, she cites example after
examp le of m e n 's cruelty to
women, from Biblir.al stories to
the notorious cases of Kitty Gen0vese and the Boston Strangler.
The long record of rape during
wartime is examined, from the
Trojan War on up to Vietnam
and the thousands of rape victims in the Bangladesh war who
were rejected by their Muslim
husbands. The effect of reading
hundreds of pages of one ugly
atrocity after a nother is at first
shocking, then depressing, but

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gradually the endless list of hostility and misery produces weary
numbness. But Brownmiller's
purpose in relentlessly detailing
historical examples of rape is to
demonstrate that it takes on ly
the slightest discord in society a riot, for instance, or a revolution , a pogrom, a religious or
racial conflict - to unleash the
weapon of rape .
Rape , Brownmiller insists,
pointing to her examples, is a
conscious conspiracy a mo ng all
men. The awfulness of My Lai is
just another incident in "the casual con tinuing war against women ." Rapists and n o n-rapists are
members of the sa me team men - and they are the e nem y.
Brow nmill er asserts that rape is
the real basis of the family, monogamy, or a ny other excl usive
relationship between men and
women , a nd she repeats quotes a
number of times to back herself
\ up.
, That the rapist does the dirty
work for all men and is essentially a tacit agent is an idea tha t
many people, including me, cannot accept. As Brownmiller he rself says in criticism of tradition al theories of female psychology,
it is a mistake to confuse what
sometimes (or even often) is with
what must be. But despite disagreement with her ideas of male
conspiracy, Against Our Will is
a book which must not be ignored. It cannot be denied that
the cultural ideal of the aggressive male is directly related to
rape, and that hostility toward
women is a basic attitude of .the
rapist, The reader can dispute
some of Brownmiller's theories
without the book as a whole being weakened serio usly , and
many of her minor insights convince as much as they surprise.
In this space I have not even
gotten through a bare summary
of the ideas in Against Our Will.
I have left out, of course, the
facts a nd statistics which Brownmiller brings to her ma te ria l. [
have a lso not mentioned her eyeopening chapters and subchap ters o n the sexual abuse of chil dren, prison rape, the mythology
of rape that pervades our culture, or the special problems of
interracial rape. Brownmiller's
profile of the typical rapist a nd
suggestions fo r law reforms have
lik ewise been ove rlook ed, at
least in this essay .. Next week I
will continue with my summary
and critique of Against Our Will,
and future issues of the Cooper
Point Journal will explore further
many of the areas Brownmiller
dea ls w ith in her book, particularly those which pertain to Evergreerr st udents, such as rape and
"seductio n" in a n institutional
setting, including the college it self.

Events&Ir1k~

Arts and
"ILMS
ON CAMPUS
Friday, November 5
THE PASSENGER (1975 , 119
min .) Orig inal tit le : "Professi one:
Reporter." Michaelangelo Anton ioni
(" Blow· up") directed this controversial fi lm starring Jack Nicholso n
and Ma ria Sc hneid e r. Nicho lso n
plays a bored TV reporter on as·
s ignment in Africa who takes on
the identity of a dead man who resembles him in order to start a new
life. Critics' reac tions have ranged
from "a mas terpiece" to "a boring
piece of garbage." At any rate , the
film conta ins so me s tu nnin gly
beautif ul photography. You deci de .
Al so: IMPRINT , a short subject .
Presented by the Friday Nite Film
Series . LH One , 3, 7, and 9 ; 45
p.m. 75 cents.
Satu rday, November 6
A STAR IS BORN (1954) The fi rst
remake of the Holl ywood musical
sc hlock class ic, starring Judy Garlan d a nd Ja mes Maso n. Wit h:
CAMPUS VAMP , a sho rt s tarring
Caro le Lombard , and I'M NO
ANGEL , an ' excerpt from the full length Mae West mov ie of the
same name. Presented by KAOSFM. LH One, 7 and 10 p.m . 50
cents.
Monday, November 8, and Tues·
day , November 9
ON THE BATTLEFIELD A documentary on racial hatred in Ca iro ,
Illinois. Stone Thomas, director of
th e Third World Coali ti on , will
speak fo llowi ng the film . Presented
by EPIC (Evergreen Political Infor·
mation Center). LH One, Monday ,
7: 30 p.m . ; Tuesday, noon. FREE .
Wednesday, November 10
NAKED NIGHT (Sweden, 1953)
An early Ingmar Bergman movie.
"The open ing sequence should be
seen by everyone." says a noted
Ev ergreen fac ulty member. Pre sented as part of the Academ ic
Film Seri es. LH One, 1 : 30 and
730 p.m. FREE.
Friday, November 12
LAST DAYS OF MAN ON EARTH
(88 min.) A science ficti on fi lm
about a computer which is fed the
totat of all human know ledge , then
programmed Into the minds of two
human beings. The vers ion to be
shown is ten minutes longer than
the theatricat version released in
the United States. With NO. 00173,
a shOrt, and SUPERMAN, a 1945
Max Fleisch er cartoon. Presented
by the Friday Nite Film Series, LH
One, .3,7, and 9:30 p.m. 75 cents.
IN OLYMPIA
SILENT MOVIE And you won't
hear any laughter, eit her. WITH :
TWELVE CHAIRS, which is about
how many will stil l be fill ed when
thi s film is over. 'State Theater,
357 -401 0.

TUNNELVISION , a poor im itat io n
of "The Groove Tube." Olympic
Theater, 357 -3422.
WILDERNESS FAMILY About
this fami ly out in the wilderness.
Tentative ly sc hed ul ed. Olympic
Theater.
THE RETURN OF A MAN CALLED
HORSE Plenty of torture and gen·
era l sad ism. Capitol Theater, 357·
7161 .

MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Sat urday, November 6
PENUMBRAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
CONCERT featuring Michael Chalot,
Jerry Michelson, Chrissie McPhad·
en, Joseph SchliCk, John Adams ,
Sid Brown , John Carleton, Rennie
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Kochie Box Prod uct ions and the
Gig Comm issio n. Library Mai n
Lobby , 8 p.m . $1 .50.
Tuesday , November 9
EVERGREEN COLLEGE·COM ·
MUNITY CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE wi ll play Mozart's Oboe
Quartet in F Maj or; Two Songs by
Brahms ; a Mozart Concert Aria ;
and Dvorak's St ring Quartet in F
Major. Performers include facu lty
member Greg Steinke, oboe; As·
sista nt Academ ic Dean Willi a m
Wind en. vocal, Olympian J oa n
Wlnden , vocal; faculty member
Robert GaUl ieb, viola; Bever ly
Moore, piano; Helen Pagels. violin .
and Peggy Olson, vio lin. Main library Lobby , 7 : 30 pm .. FREE .
IN OLYMP IA
Friday, Novem ber 5
NA SUNCU , a local trio, will perform songs and instru mental mUSIC
of Southeastern Europe . Also :
DAVID LEVINE , who plays folk
music on gUi tar, flute , and tin whls,
tie. Applejam Folk Center, 220 East
Unio n, 8:15 p.m. $1.
Satu rday, Novem ber 6
JANE VOSS, a featured perform .
er at the Smith son ian Institute' s Bi centenn ial Folklife Festival . spe·
cia lizes in songs by Jimmy Rodgers
and the Carter fami ty. Also : BERT
LEVY, who plays da nce musIc .
classical pieces, and songs on the
banjo an d conce rtina . Applelam
Folk Center, 8 : 15 p.m. $1 .
ON STAGE
IN OLYMPIA
THE MIKADO, a comiC opera by
Gilbert and Sullivan, wi ll be pre·
sented by the Olympia Chorale on
November 5, 6, 12, and 13 in the
Luther Hall of the Gloria Dei Lu theran Church, 1515 Harrison, at B
p.m. Included in the cast is Evergreen student Julie Stewart . Tickets
may be purchased at yenney's or
the Music Bar : Adu lts $2, students
$1 . Inf ormation : 357-7105.

WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
Thursday , November 4
THE MAGAZINE APPROACH TO
NEWS A pane l discuss ion presented by the Washington Information CounCi l, featu ri ng David Brew·
ster of The Weekly (Seattle) ; Denn y
Fleenor, Radio KZAM / FM (Belle·
vue); and Ron Sheets , KWSU · TV
(Pullman) . CAB 110, 3 to 5 p.m.
TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION A second preparatory lecture.
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Sf X WOMEN Stoneware casseroles by Marian ne Ke nady ; jewelry
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Thro ugh November 24 . Childhood 's
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STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRRELS
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fur in certain speci mens has been
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Curriculum 95% Sure for 77-78

Initiative 325-Big Money Pours In
b y T eresa Imfeld

T he fa te of In itiati ve 325 , the
Nuclear Sa feguards Ac t, will rest
In the hands of the vo ters on
NllVember 2 when Washington
rl', i d ~nt s go to the polls to choose
r,etw een indiv idual safe ty and
priva te co mpan y profits.
II passed , the Initi a tive would
JlI llw th e co nstruction of nuclear
p"we r plants on ly if the state
Ic), islature agrees that : • th ere is
a nee d fo r the power
and it ca nnot be gotten
trlllll an \' other source ;
, there' is ;In effectiv e
, vstem of pl <m t safety ;
" the nuclea r wastes can
be stored or di sposed of
\\"ith ,' u t oJ reaso nable
chance o f d oi ng ha rm to
lite o r pro pert y : • a nd
th'l t the nuclear indllstry
\\ " uld a ss ume liabilit y
t,' r acciden ts a t nu cl ear
plants.
I' ;) ss age of thi s sateguards in itl atl\·e . ho wever. looks so mewhat
b le ak w h e n c o mparison s are

made of the tally of campaign
contributions for each opposing
group.
The $97 ,004.60 collected by
the Coalition for Safe Energy is
dwarfed by the $637 ,104 .03
which organizations such as Citizens Against the Ban and WET A
(the Washington Environmental
Trades Association) have managed to gather together. These
tota ls can be somewhat misleading when trying to dete rmine
who's ahead in voter popularity,
for while the Safe Energy group
receives the majority of its financial support from individuals
(40 .7 % of its total contribut ions),
the opposing forces are being
backed by large industries who
can donate an eno rmous amount
of mo ney at one time (94.9 % of
their total contributions are from
indu stries with 49.8 % coming
from companies out-oF- state).
W ith such fin a ncial backing
the o pposin g gr oups are able to
u se e ffe ctiv e TV commercials
and newspaper adve rtisements in

BETHESDA

On

order to reach the general public.
This past weekend every Sunday
newspaper across the state car ried a four-page insert which
supported the "Ban the Ban"
forces .
A lthough working against such
a financial disadvantage , the
groups backing nuclear safety
are not despairing. Their volun teers cont inue to distribute literature at shopping centers, while
door- to-door a nd telephone campaigns are also bein!!, carried out.
Since under the Public Disclosure Laws the financial statements of each group's contributions and expenditures must be
filed, a more in-depth compari son can be made of the two. The
chart below includes the total
contributions up to October 21 ,
1976.
The figures were made possible through the volunteer efforts
of Jo lene Unsoeld and her fam ily . Ms . Unsoeld, wife of Evergree n facult y member Willi Unsoeld , has been working as an
" independent ana lyst" for the
Public Disclosure Commission
by recording the incoming statements in orde r to keep a running
total on them.

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Tota l : $97,004 .60
.... . . $39,470 .11 . .... .. 40.7%
1 . Individual Contributions .
.' $170.00 .
.. ' .. 2%
2. Business related sources . .
downtown merchants, etc.
$7,428.49 . .. , .... 7.7%
3. Organizations .. . .
environmental groups
Sierra Club
Californians for Nuclear Safeguards, the same group who tried
unsuccessfully to pass a similar proposal in California last
year , donated $5,000.00
4. Fund raising..... ...
. . . $6,393.11. . . . .. 6.6%
5. In - kind Contributions. . .. .
. .$28,660.00.. . . . 29.5%
Volunteers w ho work over 20 hours a week
. . . 1.4%
6. Other in-kind contrib utio ns . . . . . . . $1,405.37.
all owing the use of their phone
donating envelopes, etc.
... 2.3%
.$2,227.52.
7. Outstanding pledges not yet paid
Citizens Against the Ban
Total: $637,104.03
1. Individual Contributions. .
. . ... . $32,326,51 . .. . . . .. 5.1 %
2. Business related sources. .
. $568,562.27 .
. . . 89.2 %
3. Union sources. . .. . .
.$36,140 .99 .. ... . . . 5 .7%
i 4. Unidentified.. .
. . $74.26
IExamples of Contributions against Initiative 325
. 1. Bechtel Company - San Francisco, Calif .... .... . $25,000.00
2. Middle South Services Inc. - New Orleans, La . .. . $10,000.00
3. Pacific Power & Light - Portland, Ore. . . .
. . . $30,689.56
.$36,355 .57
4. Wa. Water Power Co. - Spokane, Wa. .
5. General Electric - Portland, Ore.
. .. . ... . . . .. $20,000.00
6. Westinghouse Elec. Corp. - Pittsburg, Penn ... . . . $33,413 .24
a . the Seattle office contributed a portion of this amount
7. Weyerhaeuser - Tacoma , Wa. .
. . . $10,000.00
8 . Puget Sound Power & Light - Bellevue, Wa .. . . . . $64,140.72
a. the b iggest single contributor
b. this is the company to which most of us pay our electric
bills

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by Jim Wright
With barely six weeks of Fall quarter
gone, the bulk of Evergreen's 1977 - 78
curriculum has a lready been mapped out.
Final program selections for next year are
detailed in a report issued by Academic
Dean Rob Knapp. These selections will
commit up to 90 % of Evergreen's faculty
for next year, with the rema ining frac tion
to be saved for "well -formed proposals
that develop later in the year," according
to Knapp.
Final selection of programs was made
primarily on the basis of facul ty availabi lity, in conjunction with studen ts' interests
as expressed in respo nses to the Curriculum Tr ia l Balloon. Knapp added that
" most of the modifications in proposa ls
were made because of expressed responses
to the Balloon."
The Trial Balloon netted approximately
550 responses, "less than we hoped for
but more than we expected,'" said Knapp .
" If we tried the same exercise next year,
the same number would not be acc~ptable.
We'd like to get a response from everyone
in the school."
Program proposals appearing in the
Trial Balloon but not included in the final
selection were eliminated because of "multiple calls on the faculty needed to staff

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call together a Disappearing Task Force
(DTF) to investigate the possibility of
trailer hookups in Parking Lot F, and had
to go through a board of nine staff, five
faculty , and fifteen students to do it?
What if any administrator who rejected
a DTF recommendation had to come to
that board and make a public explanation
about that decision?
If the proposed COG (Covenant on
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the Board of Trustees, we will find out.
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THE COOPER POINT

URNAL
VOLUME V NUMBER 5

NOV. 4, 1976

Demise of Sounding Board in the Works

LAKEWOOD THEATRE

ADULT
STUDE NT

Env ironm ent , Resources , and People SOFT (Field Geolollli and Field Bio logy
w ill be offered Summer, 1978).
Collabo rative
EXPRESSIVE ARTS A rts Co nso rtium ; Englis h Th eatre ; E.( plo ratio ns in 20th Ce nt~<ry M~, s ic ; Ston es,
Bones and S kin - FIRM .
EUROPEAN A ND AMERI C AN STUD IES - Format ion o f M odem Societ y , a nd
Soc ial Or ig ins of A rt and Ideo logy FIRM .
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND ITS
SOCIAL C ONTEXT - Helping R elatio n ship Skill s. Early Childh ood Dev elop m ent .
Human Soc ial Behav io r - FIRM , and
Life Cycl es und Cu ltural Sy s te m s SOFT.
INDIVIDUAL A N D COMMU N IT Y
HEALTH - Foundations of N atural Sci1"nce' Health Perspec tives, Cell to O rga n ism , and Molecular Bio logy - FIRM.
MANAGEMENT AND THE PUBLI C
INTEREST - Managem ent and th e Pub lic Interest, Managing T e chn ology BOTH FIRM , and Modem Co rpo ration
and the World of S~all Business - SOFT .
MARINE SCIENCES AND CRAFTS Van couver and Puget , Research Ves sel
Design , Marine Organis ms , and Tropica l
Reef Ecology - FIRM .
NORTHWEST NATIVE AMERIC AN
STUDIES - A Separate Reality, Cult ures
of the Pacific Northwest, Exp lo ring Native
American Art - ALL FIRM .
POLITICAL ECONOMY Co lo nial
Experien ce in th e Americas . Int ro du ctio n
to Political Economy , Labo r and the Pub lic Interes t, Current Econom ic Crisis . A p plied Research : Co rporatio ns an d Nu clear Power, and Th e Con stitutio n al1d
the Economy - FIRM.
Students who want to see the proposal s
can find them in Rob Knapp's office, Li b
2207.

COG 111 -proposal on the way

westside center 357-4755

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the programs." Knapp cited two proposa ls.
Ritua l Process and Cultural Dynamics,
and Dreams and Poetry, as examples of
programs in wh ich sponsoring faculty
were needed to staff other programs. He
also noted that of the non-selected proposals, "None were among those that
drew the most not ice from students."
One student-ini tiated proposal was included in the final program selection. Ita hith, a program dealing with natura l medicine, was selected as an annual program
for next year. In addition , the Academic
Deans are work ing wi th a group of students on a proposa l in Fine Meta l-working to be incorporated tentatively into the
proposed Craftsmanship program .
"Student input has been very valuab le in tuning up the curricu lum, in eliminating gaps, in checking our estimates of
what was needed , and so on . " " Knapp
explained .
With regard to Affirmative Action pol icy and Third World representa tion in the
curriculum, the dean's report stipulates
that "at least one program in each 01 the
11 curricular areas have a substantial component re levant to Third World issues,
specifically identified in the cata log copy. "
This apportionment was determined at a
meeting of the Academic Deans, Affirma-

tive Action and Third World Coa lition
representatives, and other interested members of the Evergreen community. "Most
of us felt that this was far short of ideal
bu t thit it wa s something that we could
achieve this year. It's a step towards do ing even better next year, " said Knapp.
Program selections have been classified
as either " Firm" or " Soft. " Firm programs
are those which have a firm commitment
from one or more of the faculty "represent ing all the crucial elements of the program ." Soft selections are programs which
seem important to have but which lack a
faculty member in a crucial area .
The Basic Coordinated Studies program
allotment for next year turned out to be
somewhat larger than expected because
"they were overst uffed this year," according to Knapp. Basic Programs for 1977 - 78
include: Autobiography , Ajax Compact,
Biography / Fiction , Plato and Dante, Hu man Expression , Rise of th e Democratic
Ethic , Human Development , Voices of the
Third Wodd , Health: Ind ividual and
Community , Natural and Social Science
with Design , and Outdoor Education,
- ALL FIRM - and Family and Community Studies and Political Ecology SOFT.
Annual Program selections for next
year are: Arts rmd Music of Asia, Chau tauqua II , DarIce, Energy System s , Good
Earth II, ·Human Services and Human Potential II , Itahith , Mathematics as a Design Tool. Mythic Cycle, Peace, Conflict ,
and Social Change , Studies in Greece , a nd
Television and Drama - ALL FIRM and Craftsmanship - SOFT.
Specialty area se lections were as fo llows : ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Env ironmental Law, Natural History of
Washington, and Ve'rtebrate Biology FIRM, Applied Environmen tal Studies,

COG III DTF was formed in response to
student criticism that students had no in put, no decision - making power at Ever green. The result: students still have no
formal decision-making power at Evergreen, but with the new COG 1II proposal
they may have a good dea l more clout.
That clout could come .from the "Geoboard," a new board designed to replace
the floundering Sounding Board, wh ich
has been called everything from impotent
to non-existent by students and facu lty .
In essence, the Geoboard would differ
from the Sounding Board in that all DTFs
would have to originate and terminate at
the Geoboard. The Geoboard wou ld also
have the power to deny requests for DTF s.
This particular provision is a source of
conflict between originators of the pro posal.
COG III DTF Chairman Neils ' Skov
doesn't like the idea of people having to
ask permission to start a DTF. 'Tm not
particularly happy with it," said Skov , "It
any member of the administration has to
ask, 'Geoboard, I'd like a DTF, will you
call one l' I think there will be less admin istrators who call a DTF to air a contro versial subject when they can more quickly
call together people they know are the
experts on the subject."
COG III DTF member Les Eldridge
echoes that feeling, and also expresses
concern that community members (any of
whom can call a DTF together under the
current COG II rules) might be rejected
by the Geoboard when they request the
creation of a DTF . Said Eldridge, "Anybody should be able to say 'By God, I'd
like to charge a DTF on this,' and go and
charge it. The point where the [Geoboardl
can say ' no, we won' t change that DTF ,'
worries me."

But student COG DTF member Tom
Morrill disagrees . "Somebody, ' anybody ,
can come to us and say they want a DTF
called and we'll try to help them.
ad ministrators are against it more because
it's red tape to them and very time-consuming, not because it's power for the
Geoboard."
A tentative date of November 17 has
been set for the first publ ic hearing on the
COG 11\ proposal. Any member of the
Evergreen community may give his or her
opinions on the document , after which
the COG 11\ DTF will meet to consider
possible cha1'lges .
The proposed Geoboard may spark
some interest on campus because of the
five types of action it can take. In con trast to the vague description in the cur rent COG II that the Sounding Board will
" make recommendations for action as is sues pertinent to the college arise," the
G eoboard could 1) comment, 2) ta ke a
vot e of confidence, 3) take a vote of no
confidence, 4) drop an issue from consid eration , or 5) take a vote of censure . A
censure vote would be " made against a
person, not an action ," but "disapproval
of a single a ct no matter how strong the
disapprova l, does not alone warrant a
vote of censure ." Although the members
of the board do not expect to use the censure vote often, they do expect it to add
to the accountability theme of the COG
III proposal.
Student COG DTF member La rry
Mauksch feels the five actions proposed
for the Geoboard will " certainly hold
people accountable." As M auksch puts it,
"One boo - boo, is a vote of no -confidence,
and a track record of b oo- boos is a vote
of censure."
He cited the C huck H a rba ugh co ntro -

Larry Mauksch

versy of two years ago as an issue on
which " the dean s may ha ve go tten a vo te
of no- co nfidence o r cen su re. " Ha rba ugh
was a gay minister the college refu sed to
hire to fill a facult y sho rtage in the Develo pm ental Learning program in 1974.
However, administrat o rs w ill still he
the ones wh o decide w ha t acti o n, if any ,
to take again st a censored perso n. Said
T om Mo rrill , "The student might think
accountable mean s to fire the m, but th e
administrat o rs are the ones wh o interpre t
that word , and they mi ght think a slap on
the ha nd is wha t account able mea ns."
In an upco ming issue of The Cooper
Po int Journa l, t he text of the COG III
proposal w ill be p rinted .