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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 8 (December 2, 1976)
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Evaluation Week Looms Ahead
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who receives them, or about how they
were attained.
Self-evaluations complicate the creditawarding procedure in that they tend to
include subjective considerations of emotions, moods, and feelings, in addition to
!T1ore objective factors such as term papers, books, and projects which can easily
be measured. Self-evaluations add a degree of ambiguity to what has traditionally been a cut-and-dried process. Perhaps
this is why written evaluations are so
threatening to people who are accustomed
to more objective measurements.
In the absence of grades, self-evaluations become vitally important to students.
Says faculty member Ron Woodbury,
" No matter what happened (throughout
the quarter). it's the final chance to make
Evaluation week returns to campus next
\Veek to plague vacation-bound Evergreen
students once again. While students at
more traditional colleges and universities
'are aceing or flunking final examinations,
Evergreeners will be sweating away at
written self-evaluations of their work
over the past quarter.
Comparison between final examinations
and written evaluations is only superficial
however. Self-evaluations are unique to
Evergreen . They represent an attempt to
incorporate personal and individual considerations into the official credit-awarding process. Although grades provide convenient labels - A student, C student,
etc. - they say nothing a~out the person
the most of what you did do . . . You're
trying to convey to the reader that you're
an intelligent person - that you learned
something." Further, he emphasizes the
importance of evaluations as a means by
'which "the outside world" can evaluate
what the student has accomplished. "As
far as the outside world is concerned, the
last week is everything. That's when you
demonstrate whether you learned anything the previous ten weeks." In view of
this significance, he says, "Evaluations
have been nowhere near as good as they
could be or as they should be ."
Many faculty members are concerned
with the lack of emphasis upon evaluation
week and student self-evaluations. Woodbury explains, "Students tend to look
upon the last week of school - evaluation
week - as the time that the quarter is
over. The first ten weeks are the academic
program, and then you have evaluations
- something that is tacked on to the end.
Evaluations are very frequently sluffed
off, played down .. ."
To compensate for this problem, Woodbury attempts to "build evaluation-writing process into the program" through an
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Peter Davis ' Academy Award-winning
documentary on America's involvement in
Vietnam, Hearts and Minds, will be shown
on Monday , December 6. at 7 :30 p.m. ,
and Tuesday , December 7, at noon , in
LH One. Following the movie , Karen
Hunter of the American Friends Service
Committee will present a 20-minute slide
show of events in Vietnam during and
sin ce the transition of April ! May . 1975.
The presentations are sponsored by EPIC
(Evergreen Political Information Center) .
Admission is free.
Only two major films have been made
which deal with America's involvement in
Vietnam . The first was the 1968 schlocky
John Wayne beef epic, The Green Berets .
Wayne , who co-directed and played the
leading role, made a vile movie which remains false from beginning to end. (At
the fadeout , Wayne walks down the Da nang beach into a glorious sunset , and ap parently in the South China Sea the sun
disappears into the East.)
The other major film is Peter Davis'
powerful documentary Hearts and Minds,
which assesses the devastating immoralities of the U.S. in Vietnam, and probes
the motivations which lay behind our
country's conduct and values . Through
newsreel footage and filmed interviews,
Davis provides a simple historical outline
of the U . S.'s involvement in Vietnam,
contrasting the military ugliness in S. E.
Asia with the self-satisfied complacency
of most Americans at home. What makes
this film so moving is not the unrelenting
montage of familiar atrocities, which we
recognize from their mind -numbing appearances on the evening news. It is scene
after lingering scene of the individual victims of that war, American and Vietnamese, who in their efforts to cope with ruined lives seem to cry out to us for an explanation of the insanity as much as they
agonize to themselves.
For the first time, a film focusesperslsten'tly on the faces of the Vietnamese, and
we get a clear, unblinking look at what
the U.S. has done to them . In addition to
the aerial footage of bombed villages, we
get extended interviews with inhabitants
of those villages. and the body counts and
other abstractions of the war fade before
the pictures of individual suffering. A
North Vietnamese farmer, whose eightyear-old daughter and three-year-old son,
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killed in the 1972 Christmas bcmbings,
are shown lying in their coffins, demands
in a delirium of grief and rage: "What .
have I done to Nixon 7 My daughter died
right here . . . Sl:!e was so sweet . . . 1.'11
give you my daughter's beautiful shirt .
Take it back to the United States. Tell
them what happened here. .. She will
never wear' the shirt again ... It hurts so
much . .. "
Then General William Westmoreland
notes that "the Oriental doesn't put the
same high price on life as does the West erner. Life is plentiful. life is cheap in the
Orient. And as the philosophy of the Orient expresses it , life is not important. "
This sort of unconscious racism is repeated again and again. A returned pilot ,
in perfect dress ·uniform. asked by a parochial-school child what Vietnam looked
like, replies solemnly, "It would be beautiful , if not for the people ."
Hearts arId Minds intersperses old movie
clips and popular songs, football games
and patriotic celebrations, throughou't the
interviews and newsreels, in order to
build a cumulative search for the sources
of our national myths, which in turn
might explain the motivations behind the
brutality of the war. The result is an intentionally chaotic effect, pointing to the
fact that the U.S. has mixed up tradition al high ideals of freedom and democracy
with pervasive racism, anti-libertarian
paranoia, and a mindless "will to win, "
which has taken the sports goal of "killing
the competition" all too literally in far-off
foreign countries.
Lieutenant General George S. Patton Jr.
proudly praises his men as "reverent, determined, a good bunch of killers." and a
former bomber pilot recalls how "thrilling
and deeply satisfying" his Vietnamese missions ~ere , an'd how he enjoyed his "technical expertise ." Parents of a young !nan
killed in action soon after college graduation try to rationalize their son's death.
expressing confidence in President Nixon,
and their secret fears of meaningless loss
are painfully apparent . "The reality of the
peams or the people being blown away
(ir.... their homeland being destroyed just
was not part of what I thought about," a
pilot admits.
President after president offers misleading explanations of the reasons for and
't:onduct of tHe U.S. in Vietnam, from Truman to Nixon . Kennedy speaks of Tonkin
Bay, and Eisenhower has, almost inadver-
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The Evergreen State College - Olympia,Washington 98505
THE COOPER POINT
URNAL
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 8
You Must See "Hearts
by Matt Groening
all-day self-evaluating workshop helJ
during the tenth week of the term.
Woodbury believes self-evaluations
should include an opening "overview,"
paragraph explaining how long the student was in a particular program or contract, with whom he / she worked, and offering some basic conclusions on her or
his performance through the quarter. Sec·
ondry, evaluations should ·include descrip·
tions of what the student actually did in
the program or contract. Woodbury suggests mentioning a range of ten or twelve
activities to give the reader a feel for the
scope of the student's work. From this list,
the student would then select three or
four especially meaningful experiences to
describe in detail. __
Woodbury especially stresses the need
for a student to be as specific as possible
in describing what he or she actually
learned from the past quarter. He says,
for ·example. that "Students who understand a book can make an intelligent sentence or two about that book, and stu dents who do not understand a book cannot make such a sentence ."
DEC. 2, 1976
and Minds"
tently , his own moment of truth: were
[he French colonial interests not assumed
by this country, "the tin and tungsten we
value so much would stop coming." Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford
admits his mistake in justifying the war
on the basis of the domino theory , while
former presidential advisor Walt Rostow
(who incidentally sued the filmmakers un successfully over his interview in the film)
insists that the war was and is essential to
the fight against communism . Lesser bureaucrats smile and shrug their shoulders
in smug interviews. Their insensitivity is
placed in counterpoint with shots of
South Vietnamese prisoners, victims of
the infamous "tiger cages," or wailing old
people and children, or a napalmed infant,
its skin peeling from its body like loose
rags, which brings to mind a fitting comment on that last ugly weapon: if you
can't bring people to the ovens, bring the
ovens to the people.
Hearts and Minds is not without flaws.
Although the nO-minute fih":' -i; ca~efully
edited and crammed with detail. it cannot
help but leave many of the profound questions it raises unanswered. Scenes of
American popular culture juxtaposed with
battlefield footage do not always produce the apparent inference of direct connection, and even if YOll are sympathetic
to the filmmakers' sensibilities, you might
resent the unsubtle manipulations. We are
immersed in the pop culture which Davis
thinks we must be periodically reminded
of through the course of Heart s and
Minds. but these capsule reminders don't
add much to the power of the film . It
gains most of its impact from simple portraya ls of individuals devastated by the
war. shown for the first time at some
length 011 the screen for large audiences.
Hearts and Minds takes its title from a
statement by President Johnson: "The ulti mate victory will depend on the hearts
and minds of the people who actually live
out there ." The movie, which took two
years to make and months of legal litigation to get through , was finally rel eased
by Warner Bros .. ironically the company
that made The Green Berets a few years
earlier . When Hearts and Minds received
an Oscar for Best Documentary, producer
Bert Schneider took the opportunity to
read a message of "liberation" from the
PrOVisionary Revolutionary Government
of Vietnam . and the final irony of Johnson's· statement became apparent .
"We've all tried very hard to escape the
natural conclusions of what we've learned
in Vietnam. " a veteran in the movie says.
"Americans have worked very hard not
to see the criminality their officials and
policy-makers have exhibited ." And we
have tried just as hard to avoid seeing ourselves. Hearts Imd Minds is a major step
toward a re-examination of America , it~
ideals, and the people who give meanin~
to those ideals - us.
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Faculty Profile:
LettersIL®l1lb®Ir~IL®'l1'l1®Ir~IL®l1'l1(
Jim Martinez: A Man of Convictions
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STUDENTS'
CHARACTERS
IMPUGNED?
To the Editor:
(Re: CPJ Volume 5, Number 7,
No,l. 18. 1976, "Evaluations of
FaCLIlty - A Delicate Task. ')
An anonymous note has informed me that I may have impugned the character of Evergreen students when I observed
in a recent Cooper Point Journal
interview , that skillful instruction
was sometimes needed to elicit
"ho nest" evaluations of faculty.
In the interview I went on to say
that this was understandable, as
writing helpful criticisms to
teachers is not a skill that is normally cultivated in the schools
Irom which most of our students
( orne. Therefore, it sometimes
requires a special effort to convince some students that we really do welcome and really do
learn from see ing in writing how
they really do perceive our teaching we;:k nesses and strengths.
For examp le, requ ,cing that I be
addressed in the .. second person
rather than the third has enabled
some st udents to sharpen their
criticisms considerably .
Richard Jones
MARXISM
CONTRACT
ANGERED
T o the Editor:
Our contract, Marxism: Theo ry and Practice , has spent the
past eig ht weeks in int ensiv e
reading and discussion to develop
an understanding and working
knowledge of the philosophy,
histori cal basis , economics and
la nguage of Marx's theory of
class strugg le.
Last Tuesday, EPIC's guest
speaker and Marxist journalist,
Irwin Silber, was invited to meet
with us in a special seminar session to consider important current issues and other points of
interest to us . Stan Shore's presence at that meeting and the ensuing article in the CPJ demand
a critical response .
It is unclear why Stan chose a
sem inar from which to extract
material for his story when he
has had no previous exposure to
the contract, no background in
Marxian theory and it was not
the primary purpose for which
Mr. Silber was brought to campus . His lecture "The Politics of
Film" was a presentation prepared
for the more general audience
and did not take for granted a
history of radical theory. Stan
fails to understand that the seminar is a slice in time in an ongoing and accumulative activity
which presupposes the work of
the previous weeks. He was not
expected to be familiar with the
assumptions of our contract, nor
should he have attempted to be
so. It was a mistake for him to
perceive our familiarity with certain concepts and the ease with
which we dealt with particular
terms as careless and rhetoricaL
SpeCifically, his remark that "The
st udents more than once expressed chagrin at the enormity
of their task and their own uncertainty" implies a simplistic,
passive and uncritical approach
to both the material under study
as well as anything Mr. Silber
had to say.
In closing, Stan's negligence is
reflected in his use of such undefined and unfamiliar words as
"revisionist, " his tone of disrespect for the students in our contract and his general lack of journalistic responsibility to present
the Evergreen community with
an accurate analysis of issues
based on research and solid inSincerely,
forma tion.
MARXISM: THEORY AND
JOURNAL STAFF
EDITOR
Jill Stewart
CONTRIBUTORS
FEATURE/MANAGING ED Jim Wright
Matt Gioenin~
Lynda Barry
PRODUCTION MGR.
Lisa Fleming
Brooke Ann Floren
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rick Dowd
BUSINESS MGR.
David Judd
SECRETARY
Jea nne Han sen
ADVERTISING MGR .
Brock Sutherland
AD SALES
Jason Siff
PRACTICE, Group Contract
Kathy Conner
Michael Leifer
Sharron Coontz Tess Martinez
Tom Coppolino Tom Nogler
Roxann Daily
Robert Redman
Marita Haberland Susie Strasser
Paul Hathaway
Regon Unsoeld
John Heberling
Brent Ingram
Gary Lakes
Christian Collet
OPEN 24 HOURS
A DAY
To the Editor :
It's been awhile since we've
sent something your way so will
try to touch on a couple of points
of interest and hopefully mutual'
concern.
Security has noted a remarkable drop in the number of reported larcenies in the resident
areas since we went around talking to people about the pitfalls
of unlocked doors and insecured
property. We still have and will
let out the electronic inscriber for
anyone wishing to put their
name or a number on property .
We also recommend the use of
the personal property ID cards
which assist us enormously in
stolen property recovery.
F' parking lot continues to be a
major area of concern to us due
to the property loss and vandalism occurring there. Last weekend we did however apprehend
two male juveniles in F lot for
larceny after witnesses saw them
in the area and alerted us. Also
two more juveniles were picked
up in the CAB while attempting
to steal items from that building .
Statistics show that a great majority of our problems are generated by non-Evergreeners , we
would ask that anyone observing
people involved in questionable
or improper actions let us know
so we can check it out.
We would also like to remind
people that Security exists to provide pro tection and assure the
well-being of persons and property. We occasionally find ourselves in an enforcement role but
try to do this as humanely and
palatable as possible. We operate
a seven day a week, 24 hour
shop, feel free to give us a call if
we can be of assistance.
Gary Russell
Security
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To the Editor:
I have some comments on the
letter written by Maurine Hoff-
man to the CPJ about childbirth
and the reply by Cheryl Pegues.
Both writers are guilty of name
calling rather than defending
their beliefs by clearly raising the
issues which are involved. Maurine has equated motherhood with
stupidity and believes that labor
is trivial because' it is a common
occurrence. I agree with Maurine's
right not to have children and I
am sympathetic to the pressures
which arise from tftis position. I
would ha ve preferred to hear
more about the real problems
which a woman of childbearing
age is faced with when she decides not to have children, rather
than read Maurine ' s blanket
attack on birth. By calling Maurine a male Cheryl has joined
ranks with those who believe
that any opposition to birth is
completely out of character for a
woman. Her reply was insensitive
to the many women who do not
choose to have children and adds
to the alienation of these women.
As the author of the articles
on home birth , I would like to
respond to the charges against
home birth which were contained
in Maurine's letter. 1) She is sick
and tired of the plague of articles
about birth . Only through exposure to the issues involved can
the public be aro'u sed to take actions which will change the current undesirable situation. If articles about birth upset you Maurine, I suggest that you read
something else. 2) Maurine equates home birth with backwards, back to nature types,
who are afraid to deal with technology. In both of the births that
I described medical technology
was taken full advantage of to
provide for the safest possible
delivery. The proper issue is that
technology is not made available
to those who are seeking a home
birth, not that the mothers are
refusing to take advantage of
technology .
For those members of the community who are interested in
learning more about the choices
available in childbirth at home
or in the hospital there i~ a
group in Olympia whose purpose
is to educate the community
about the choices available in
childbirth and to see that the
widest possible range of choice
be made available to women in
Olympia. The name of this organization is the Birth Support
Group and their activities range
from weekly self educational
meetings which de~1 with a variety of topics, nutrition dur ing
pregnancy, complications during
delivery, and the care of infants
are a few; to work on a grant to
fund a Women's Clinic in Olympia. The B.S.G. is open to all
and is seeking new members 50 if
you are interested in attending a
meeting or in learning more
about the group please call Robin
Erhardt, 866 -4705. Debbie Lutz,
943-6109, or Joanne Tracy, 9432092. Once a month members of
the group hold a bake sale on
campus and are available to answer questions.
One final note about the controversy surrounding birth. While
o n campus for the bake sa le last
month members of the group
were verbally attacked by a concerned male who thought that
they were "right to life" style opponents of abortion. Maurine's
letter had a similar defensive
tone because she does not choose
to have children . The B.S.G.
does not have a slogan of "a
baby in every home," the . members actively support the right to
have an abortion, birth control,
and women who do not wish to
have children ... so relax Evergreen.
Sincerely,
Tom Mclaughlin
SO LONG GUYS
To the Editor:
This is just to thank all the
staff, faculty and students who
helped me out during my harrowing and delightful term as exhibits coordinator. You know
who you are. I send you warm
and sappy thanks.
So long
(name withheld by request)
Lynda Barry
NOW I KNOW
To the Editor :
I have always hated Richard
Alexander. Now I know why.
Sincerely,
Caroline Lacey
ANOTHER MODEST
PROPOSAL
To the Editor :
Matt Groening's reply to my
congratulatory letter last week
puzzles and disturbs me. Apparently he believes me to be insensitive to the trauma experienced
by the victims of rape, unconcerned about a solution to the
problem, and capable of writing
a long letter to the CPJ merely
to provide my fellow men with a
few cruel sexist jokes.
I am puzzled because my letter
does little more than draw from
Ms. Brownmiller's arguments
their logical conclusions. Ms.
Brownmiller is everywhere hesitant and evasive about this, why
I do not know, perhaps because
she wishes by toning down her
argument to placate potentially
hostile men. Whatever the reason, she does not go so far.
But many another feminist
does . And the arguments in my
letter, though put in my own
words, are virtually the same as
arguments to be found in the
writings not only of Ms. Brownmiller, but of Shulamith Firestone, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Robin
Moore, Elizabeth Gould Davis,
Adrienne Rich , Rita Mae Brown,
Anne Koedt, and many other
eminent feminists . Indeed I read
such authors obsessively and I
draw heavily on their work all
the time.
Apparently when a feminist
voices such arguments she produces sound scholarship, but
when a man voices such arguments he perpetrates cruel sexist
jokes. Perhaps Mr. Groening's
reviews are cruel sexist jokes?
I am indeed hostile to rape
and would, if I could, do away
with it tomorrow.
Is my letter funny? What sort
of joke is it? A reductio ad absurdum? Surely not. A "modest
proposal?" Even were that so, I
could not be accused, any more
than Dean Swift can be accused,
of insensitivity to the victims of
a disgusting crime. Perhaps it is
Devil's Advocacy? In which case,
who is the Devil involved? Do
you think I mean that rape is a
very serious crime, but that
Brownmiller's book is a very bad
book? That would at least relieve
me of the insulting slur on my
motives, for surely we can all
agree that just because we condemn rape we do not thereby
have to accept Ms. Brownmiller's
argument.
But I am not joking. I am
dead serious. And so· I am disturbed that Mr. Groening, who
has certainly read Ms. Brownmil ~
ler as closely as I have, is still
unwilling to face the evident, obvious, immediate consequences
of the arguments he professes to
admire.
Richard W. Alexander
Member of the Faculty
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Stewart
Faculty member Jim Martinez'
astonishing past is an inseparable
part of the man. Through it he
teaches and learns, d~elops philosophies and lives them out.
Spending the better part of his
early years in and out of detention centers and prisons around
the country, Martinez learned
what the worst of life was and
how to survive in it. He is a man
of convictions - no pun intended
- to such a degree that he has
written his philosophy of education in a short but concise paragraph:
"My philosophy is to stimulate the individual - to develop
their own potential, with their
own abilities at their own pace,
in a manner in which they can
function more effectively toward
constructive, rather than destruc tive goals."
As a child Jim was raised by
his aunt in Chicago . "My mother
loaned me to her sister," he said.
He excelled in school and was
double-promoted three t imes.
However, the departure of his
uncle from home and the begin ning of an unhappy home life affec ted hi s school work and behavior. Eventually he was trans ferred to a specia l ~ chool for children who were kicked out of the
public schoo l system. "They put
me in with some of the biggest
thugs in the city of Chicago ."
Martinez was sent away from
home to his mother in Cincinnati.
"That would have been nice ," he
sa id , "if I had known it was my
mother, but I would say. for
about 11 years, I thought [my
aunt] was my mother. There was
a bi! . c;>f. :ihllming .aro,uncI there. "
From there his .tr·oub lcs 'with
school worsened. His mother
lived in the Cincinnati slums.
"Yo u can hang out your front
window of your apartment and
the garbage cans are out at the
curb at night and you can watch
the rats hit the garbage cans and
knock the garbage cans down
and go on in the garbage cans
and eat garbage, okay?"
The Cincinnati school system
was of a lower quality than Chi-
cago's, so his mother sent him to
an all-white school with a standard closer to what Jim had preViously known. "Every time I
went into the bathroom, I had to
fight. These kids were out of
Kentucky okay? So you can imagine what I had to go
through."
One qay a boy sitting at the
desk next to Jim handed him a
lunch sack containing a white rat
and asked him to pass it over to
a friend. Martinez was caught by
the teacher and sent to the principal's office. "The teacher said,
'You know you're not supposed
to eat your lunch in the room'
and I said, 'But it's - - ' She
said 'Shut upl and carry your
lunch down to Miss Brady and
give it to her: So, I carried the
sack down to Miss Brady, who
was a nice little old lady, and I
gave her the sack. I said, 'I was
told to give this to you: And she
opened the sack and saw it was
a white mouse ... Although my
imagination gets the best of me,
but I think it was the first time I
ever saw Miss Brady raise her
dress and jump up on the desk.
For that I got expelled."
From there Jim landed in ju ve nile detention in Chicago and
later in Cincinnati. But the
Fourth of July was nearing and
he and another young man in
the jail were anxious to spend it
on the outside . "We planned to
escape that night. We got about
four others and we jumped the
guard, an old man, a good old
man. Everythi ng was all right
until he was unlocking the doors
to let us out ... he yanked the
door open and broke to run.
And when he broke to run , one
of us hit him high , the other. one ·
. hit:..him low ., _. . . acro:;s his .Iegs .
'just like a tackle. He fell through
the plate glass of the thing in
which they kept the china and
cut him up pretty bad, luckily
didn' t kill him, but Jesus ... We
made the front page of the
newspaper. It said: JUVENILES
ATTACK GUARDS. " The group
caught a train to Chicago and
were caught at the station.
That incident was Martinez'
ticket to the big time - county
jail. His first night in jail another
inmate tried to rape him. "I had
to black both his eyes and never
had a problem," said Martinez.
After jail his mother no longer
wanted him , 50 Jim was made a
ward of the state of Ohio, and
sent to a .boys~ industr·i.aJ school . .
"You marched . Everywhere you
went you marched. I ran off
three times, got caught three
times. The last time I was caught
I stayed out in the woods for
two weeks. The only reason why
I came back in was because they
had a hunter . Rocky used to love
to hunt black kids when they ran
away. He had a reputation for
shooting a couple. , . I was just
walking over to the disciplinary
"You want to get out? Stay in
trouble. If you don't stay in
trouble how are they going to
know what you 're doing?"
"They finally gave me parole
to get rid of me."
At last it looked as though
things would improve for Jim
Martinez. But it was not to last
long. He landed his first job at a
railroad station with his brother,
and " kind of liked it." But his
brother was fired for drinking on
the job . Not long after he re ceived word from his brother
that his mother had suffered a
heart attack and wanted to see
him . But when he quit his job
he discovered his brother had
lied . He didn 't want Jim working
there if he wasn't.
Again Martinez found himself
at odds. He jumped parole and
spent a lonely period riding the
rail s. "When a man is wanted ,
he is almost like an anim a l
can't trust nobody ," he said . He
was arrested in Shreveport, Lou isiana on a vagrancy charge that
was later dropped.
Back at the railroad yards Jim
met a man nam ed Frank who
took a liking to him. He became
one of the famil y. He had eye 'i
for a young woman around the
corner, but she went away with
a married man . Jim decided to
join the Army , get the GI Bill.
and maybe settle down, get a
house , marry. He felt so good
about what he was doing in the
Jim Martinez
Army that he contacted his
mother just before the end of
cottage just as Rocky had his
basic training. She wanted to
hunting dogs out."
send him a cake so he told her
As punishment Martinez was
where he was . Within a week his
whipped with a strap while
commanding officer received a
naked "until the disciplinarian
lett er from Martinez ' parole
got tired." He received 150 lashes.
board . When the Army looked
After spending one month 'on the
into his background he was dis discipline squad - where . for
charged from the service.
two weeks straight he could not
His first stretch in prison was
sit down except to lay down at
the resu lt of a false charge. After
night - Martinez was exhausted,
a boxcar in which he and "so me
tin,d of fighting the system. He
winos" had been drinking caught
decided to " behave" himself and
fire , Martinez was arrested. His
soo n had gone s ix months
I D had been found in one of the
with,)ut a single negative incident
cars.
The cOllfessions he signed
added to his accumulation of 150
stated only that he had been
bad conduct reports. In spite of
drinking in the boxcar, that it
this he was transferred to Ohio
had not been his fault . When he
State Reformatory.
,saw
the confession later, several
He was told by a lifer there:
lines had been added in the leftover space. The new addition ex plained that he was a war vet ,
depressed , and had set fire to the
boxcar.
In cou rt his first offer was for
50 years. This was eventually re duced to two years , which Martinez agreed to serve. "They told
me if I didn't accept the two
years they would kill me."
The following excerpts are
He served 14 months, 24 days
from a student self-eva luation
in
Huntsville in 1950 - 51. When
that Ron Woodbury considers to
he
got out he was , indeed , a bit be well-written . . .
ter young man. " I had nothing
"I participated in the "Work but hatred in me .
The things
ing in America" program out of
I'd
seen
in
Texas,
just
- I'd seen
my desire to understand more
guys
s
tabbed
in
the
show er ,
fully how the capitalist system in
chopped up with axes. I' d seen
the United States affects our lives
guys' throats cut. I'd seen bosse~
as workers. I learned that the
tell a dude to get him some water
alienation experienced by workfrom
the water wagon, the guy
ers as an individual problem is a
wa lk over to the water wagon
collective o n e caused by the
and the gua rd shoot him in th e
powerlessness of the worker over
back. "
his working environment and the
After prison he attempted hi s
direction of his own labor. . I
first burglary - and paid for it
found it enlightenin~ to learn
with four years in the Missouri
through Zeretski's article entitled
prison sys tem . He left Missouri
'Capitalism, the Family, and Perfor Texas and was caught bur sonal Life: that the fragmentation
glarizing a boxcar .- for a can of
of the extended family has dievaporated milk and a box of
rectly paralleled the development
cornflakes. T.ha t cost him fivl'
of industrial capitalism. . My
years in a Texa s pri 'ion . " By
studies throughout the year have
then , with my pn, on record, ."
conf irmed to me the value of an
said Martinez , " I W,)S co nsid erl'd
interdisciplinary liberal arts edua hard a" . On top of that wa'i
cation. As the world of work be the lact I was rai sed in Chi cago
comes increasingly specialized ,
and w..J s black ."
we are often under pressure as
In 1961 he broke into a 'iur ·
stude nts to develop a marketabk
plus
sto re in Yakima , Washing skill before we look at the world
ton
,
just
in time fo r a cop to pull
in a more general and holistic
up . It was night and he was cold
way. I think this limit s one's ability to understand the complex
(co rlt ill/led 0 11 pagr 4 )
problems with which we are
faced in the world today .. ."
Self-Evaluation Time Here
(eo l1tinu ed from page J)
Finally, Woodbury warns against including criticisms of
faculty or program in student
self-evaluations, "Fo r the student
to attack the program in that situation (self-evaluation) is to
make the student look like sour
grapes, or worse, like a spoiled
brat ."
In contrast with Woodbury ,
faculty member Mark Levensky
stresses complete objectivity in
self-evaluations, at least as far as
is possible within a written evaluation. Ideally Levensky says,
self-evaluations from his students
include a paragraph explaining
exactly what they did, a paragraph explaining how w~ll they
did it , "and absolutely no psycho logica l explanations as to
why they didn' t do better. " Since
self-evaluations become official
documents for employers to read
in future years, Levensky claims
that such explanations "can only
be extraordinarily damaging to
the student." He also asserts that
"95 % of such explanations are
false anyway."
Student self-evaluations are
usually "q uite generous," Levensky notes. "I use the evaluation
to tell how far the student and I
are apart in our views of what
the student has done."
Further, Levensky claims that
students cannot know why they
did badly. "They know what
they did, and approximately
how well they did it. They don't
ever explain why they did well.
It's when they do badly that they
start explaining." He concludes
that "Explanations of bad work
will only hurt the student."
Faculty member Peter Elbow
offers still another perspective.
"My main emphasis is not so
much what I want to see there
(in self-evaluations) but that I
want students to take it seriously
and ,~o take some time thinking it
out.
Elbow places considerable emphasis upon student self-evalua.
tions ... "I rely on the student's
se lf-evaluation to tell me what
the student has learned . I rely on
my perceptions over the quarter,
but I don ' t think a teacher
knows ... "
Consequently, he is concerned
that "Studen~s don't take it
seriously and don't make their
explanations as complete, as concrete, as possible." He says that
many students "tend to make
vague generalizations about what
it felt like as opposed to saying
explicitly whilt they learned."
Elbow encourages his students
to use a two-step process in evaluating their work. First, he tells
students to write an e;:tremely
rough, stream-of -consciousness
ve rsion , possibly includ ing such
factors as what things were espe-cially meaningful, to them,
whether they felt they worked
hard or not, whether time went
fast or slow , and what advice
they have for themse lves. He
also suggests for example, that
students describe the past quarter
as a journey and answer questi ons as to where they went ,
what the terrain was like, what
their destination was or is, and
whet her it was a complete trip or
merely part of a longer one.
From this rough draft students
should then be able to draw
more concrete conclusions about
the quality and range of their
work , according to Elbow.
Finally. Elbow· emphasizes the
need for self-evaluations to in clude personal and individual
qualities. "I don't want to leave
out the personal aspect. The
reader sho uld be able to feel the
writer, get a sense for what he or
she is like." He cautions against
evaluations that sound as if they
were "written from a computer." He adds, "It's got to sound
hones!."
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Jim Martinez: A Man of Convictions
by
STUDENTS'
CHARACTERS
IMPUGNED?
To the Editor:
(Re: CPJ Volume 5, Number 7,
No,l. 18. 1976, "Evaluations of
FaCLIlty - A Delicate Task. ')
An anonymous note has informed me that I may have impugned the character of Evergreen students when I observed
in a recent Cooper Point Journal
interview , that skillful instruction
was sometimes needed to elicit
"ho nest" evaluations of faculty.
In the interview I went on to say
that this was understandable, as
writing helpful criticisms to
teachers is not a skill that is normally cultivated in the schools
Irom which most of our students
( orne. Therefore, it sometimes
requires a special effort to convince some students that we really do welcome and really do
learn from see ing in writing how
they really do perceive our teaching we;:k nesses and strengths.
For examp le, requ ,cing that I be
addressed in the .. second person
rather than the third has enabled
some st udents to sharpen their
criticisms considerably .
Richard Jones
MARXISM
CONTRACT
ANGERED
T o the Editor:
Our contract, Marxism: Theo ry and Practice , has spent the
past eig ht weeks in int ensiv e
reading and discussion to develop
an understanding and working
knowledge of the philosophy,
histori cal basis , economics and
la nguage of Marx's theory of
class strugg le.
Last Tuesday, EPIC's guest
speaker and Marxist journalist,
Irwin Silber, was invited to meet
with us in a special seminar session to consider important current issues and other points of
interest to us . Stan Shore's presence at that meeting and the ensuing article in the CPJ demand
a critical response .
It is unclear why Stan chose a
sem inar from which to extract
material for his story when he
has had no previous exposure to
the contract, no background in
Marxian theory and it was not
the primary purpose for which
Mr. Silber was brought to campus . His lecture "The Politics of
Film" was a presentation prepared
for the more general audience
and did not take for granted a
history of radical theory. Stan
fails to understand that the seminar is a slice in time in an ongoing and accumulative activity
which presupposes the work of
the previous weeks. He was not
expected to be familiar with the
assumptions of our contract, nor
should he have attempted to be
so. It was a mistake for him to
perceive our familiarity with certain concepts and the ease with
which we dealt with particular
terms as careless and rhetoricaL
SpeCifically, his remark that "The
st udents more than once expressed chagrin at the enormity
of their task and their own uncertainty" implies a simplistic,
passive and uncritical approach
to both the material under study
as well as anything Mr. Silber
had to say.
In closing, Stan's negligence is
reflected in his use of such undefined and unfamiliar words as
"revisionist, " his tone of disrespect for the students in our contract and his general lack of journalistic responsibility to present
the Evergreen community with
an accurate analysis of issues
based on research and solid inSincerely,
forma tion.
MARXISM: THEORY AND
JOURNAL STAFF
EDITOR
Jill Stewart
CONTRIBUTORS
FEATURE/MANAGING ED Jim Wright
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PRODUCTION MGR.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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BUSINESS MGR.
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SECRETARY
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ADVERTISING MGR .
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AD SALES
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OPEN 24 HOURS
A DAY
To the Editor :
It's been awhile since we've
sent something your way so will
try to touch on a couple of points
of interest and hopefully mutual'
concern.
Security has noted a remarkable drop in the number of reported larcenies in the resident
areas since we went around talking to people about the pitfalls
of unlocked doors and insecured
property. We still have and will
let out the electronic inscriber for
anyone wishing to put their
name or a number on property .
We also recommend the use of
the personal property ID cards
which assist us enormously in
stolen property recovery.
F' parking lot continues to be a
major area of concern to us due
to the property loss and vandalism occurring there. Last weekend we did however apprehend
two male juveniles in F lot for
larceny after witnesses saw them
in the area and alerted us. Also
two more juveniles were picked
up in the CAB while attempting
to steal items from that building .
Statistics show that a great majority of our problems are generated by non-Evergreeners , we
would ask that anyone observing
people involved in questionable
or improper actions let us know
so we can check it out.
We would also like to remind
people that Security exists to provide pro tection and assure the
well-being of persons and property. We occasionally find ourselves in an enforcement role but
try to do this as humanely and
palatable as possible. We operate
a seven day a week, 24 hour
shop, feel free to give us a call if
we can be of assistance.
Gary Russell
Security
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To the Editor:
I have some comments on the
letter written by Maurine Hoff-
man to the CPJ about childbirth
and the reply by Cheryl Pegues.
Both writers are guilty of name
calling rather than defending
their beliefs by clearly raising the
issues which are involved. Maurine has equated motherhood with
stupidity and believes that labor
is trivial because' it is a common
occurrence. I agree with Maurine's
right not to have children and I
am sympathetic to the pressures
which arise from tftis position. I
would ha ve preferred to hear
more about the real problems
which a woman of childbearing
age is faced with when she decides not to have children, rather
than read Maurine ' s blanket
attack on birth. By calling Maurine a male Cheryl has joined
ranks with those who believe
that any opposition to birth is
completely out of character for a
woman. Her reply was insensitive
to the many women who do not
choose to have children and adds
to the alienation of these women.
As the author of the articles
on home birth , I would like to
respond to the charges against
home birth which were contained
in Maurine's letter. 1) She is sick
and tired of the plague of articles
about birth . Only through exposure to the issues involved can
the public be aro'u sed to take actions which will change the current undesirable situation. If articles about birth upset you Maurine, I suggest that you read
something else. 2) Maurine equates home birth with backwards, back to nature types,
who are afraid to deal with technology. In both of the births that
I described medical technology
was taken full advantage of to
provide for the safest possible
delivery. The proper issue is that
technology is not made available
to those who are seeking a home
birth, not that the mothers are
refusing to take advantage of
technology .
For those members of the community who are interested in
learning more about the choices
available in childbirth at home
or in the hospital there i~ a
group in Olympia whose purpose
is to educate the community
about the choices available in
childbirth and to see that the
widest possible range of choice
be made available to women in
Olympia. The name of this organization is the Birth Support
Group and their activities range
from weekly self educational
meetings which de~1 with a variety of topics, nutrition dur ing
pregnancy, complications during
delivery, and the care of infants
are a few; to work on a grant to
fund a Women's Clinic in Olympia. The B.S.G. is open to all
and is seeking new members 50 if
you are interested in attending a
meeting or in learning more
about the group please call Robin
Erhardt, 866 -4705. Debbie Lutz,
943-6109, or Joanne Tracy, 9432092. Once a month members of
the group hold a bake sale on
campus and are available to answer questions.
One final note about the controversy surrounding birth. While
o n campus for the bake sa le last
month members of the group
were verbally attacked by a concerned male who thought that
they were "right to life" style opponents of abortion. Maurine's
letter had a similar defensive
tone because she does not choose
to have children . The B.S.G.
does not have a slogan of "a
baby in every home," the . members actively support the right to
have an abortion, birth control,
and women who do not wish to
have children ... so relax Evergreen.
Sincerely,
Tom Mclaughlin
SO LONG GUYS
To the Editor:
This is just to thank all the
staff, faculty and students who
helped me out during my harrowing and delightful term as exhibits coordinator. You know
who you are. I send you warm
and sappy thanks.
So long
(name withheld by request)
Lynda Barry
NOW I KNOW
To the Editor :
I have always hated Richard
Alexander. Now I know why.
Sincerely,
Caroline Lacey
ANOTHER MODEST
PROPOSAL
To the Editor :
Matt Groening's reply to my
congratulatory letter last week
puzzles and disturbs me. Apparently he believes me to be insensitive to the trauma experienced
by the victims of rape, unconcerned about a solution to the
problem, and capable of writing
a long letter to the CPJ merely
to provide my fellow men with a
few cruel sexist jokes.
I am puzzled because my letter
does little more than draw from
Ms. Brownmiller's arguments
their logical conclusions. Ms.
Brownmiller is everywhere hesitant and evasive about this, why
I do not know, perhaps because
she wishes by toning down her
argument to placate potentially
hostile men. Whatever the reason, she does not go so far.
But many another feminist
does . And the arguments in my
letter, though put in my own
words, are virtually the same as
arguments to be found in the
writings not only of Ms. Brownmiller, but of Shulamith Firestone, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Robin
Moore, Elizabeth Gould Davis,
Adrienne Rich , Rita Mae Brown,
Anne Koedt, and many other
eminent feminists . Indeed I read
such authors obsessively and I
draw heavily on their work all
the time.
Apparently when a feminist
voices such arguments she produces sound scholarship, but
when a man voices such arguments he perpetrates cruel sexist
jokes. Perhaps Mr. Groening's
reviews are cruel sexist jokes?
I am indeed hostile to rape
and would, if I could, do away
with it tomorrow.
Is my letter funny? What sort
of joke is it? A reductio ad absurdum? Surely not. A "modest
proposal?" Even were that so, I
could not be accused, any more
than Dean Swift can be accused,
of insensitivity to the victims of
a disgusting crime. Perhaps it is
Devil's Advocacy? In which case,
who is the Devil involved? Do
you think I mean that rape is a
very serious crime, but that
Brownmiller's book is a very bad
book? That would at least relieve
me of the insulting slur on my
motives, for surely we can all
agree that just because we condemn rape we do not thereby
have to accept Ms. Brownmiller's
argument.
But I am not joking. I am
dead serious. And so· I am disturbed that Mr. Groening, who
has certainly read Ms. Brownmil ~
ler as closely as I have, is still
unwilling to face the evident, obvious, immediate consequences
of the arguments he professes to
admire.
Richard W. Alexander
Member of the Faculty
i
1
Jill
Stewart
Faculty member Jim Martinez'
astonishing past is an inseparable
part of the man. Through it he
teaches and learns, d~elops philosophies and lives them out.
Spending the better part of his
early years in and out of detention centers and prisons around
the country, Martinez learned
what the worst of life was and
how to survive in it. He is a man
of convictions - no pun intended
- to such a degree that he has
written his philosophy of education in a short but concise paragraph:
"My philosophy is to stimulate the individual - to develop
their own potential, with their
own abilities at their own pace,
in a manner in which they can
function more effectively toward
constructive, rather than destruc tive goals."
As a child Jim was raised by
his aunt in Chicago . "My mother
loaned me to her sister," he said.
He excelled in school and was
double-promoted three t imes.
However, the departure of his
uncle from home and the begin ning of an unhappy home life affec ted hi s school work and behavior. Eventually he was trans ferred to a specia l ~ chool for children who were kicked out of the
public schoo l system. "They put
me in with some of the biggest
thugs in the city of Chicago ."
Martinez was sent away from
home to his mother in Cincinnati.
"That would have been nice ," he
sa id , "if I had known it was my
mother, but I would say. for
about 11 years, I thought [my
aunt] was my mother. There was
a bi! . c;>f. :ihllming .aro,uncI there. "
From there his .tr·oub lcs 'with
school worsened. His mother
lived in the Cincinnati slums.
"Yo u can hang out your front
window of your apartment and
the garbage cans are out at the
curb at night and you can watch
the rats hit the garbage cans and
knock the garbage cans down
and go on in the garbage cans
and eat garbage, okay?"
The Cincinnati school system
was of a lower quality than Chi-
cago's, so his mother sent him to
an all-white school with a standard closer to what Jim had preViously known. "Every time I
went into the bathroom, I had to
fight. These kids were out of
Kentucky okay? So you can imagine what I had to go
through."
One qay a boy sitting at the
desk next to Jim handed him a
lunch sack containing a white rat
and asked him to pass it over to
a friend. Martinez was caught by
the teacher and sent to the principal's office. "The teacher said,
'You know you're not supposed
to eat your lunch in the room'
and I said, 'But it's - - ' She
said 'Shut upl and carry your
lunch down to Miss Brady and
give it to her: So, I carried the
sack down to Miss Brady, who
was a nice little old lady, and I
gave her the sack. I said, 'I was
told to give this to you: And she
opened the sack and saw it was
a white mouse ... Although my
imagination gets the best of me,
but I think it was the first time I
ever saw Miss Brady raise her
dress and jump up on the desk.
For that I got expelled."
From there Jim landed in ju ve nile detention in Chicago and
later in Cincinnati. But the
Fourth of July was nearing and
he and another young man in
the jail were anxious to spend it
on the outside . "We planned to
escape that night. We got about
four others and we jumped the
guard, an old man, a good old
man. Everythi ng was all right
until he was unlocking the doors
to let us out ... he yanked the
door open and broke to run.
And when he broke to run , one
of us hit him high , the other. one ·
. hit:..him low ., _. . . acro:;s his .Iegs .
'just like a tackle. He fell through
the plate glass of the thing in
which they kept the china and
cut him up pretty bad, luckily
didn' t kill him, but Jesus ... We
made the front page of the
newspaper. It said: JUVENILES
ATTACK GUARDS. " The group
caught a train to Chicago and
were caught at the station.
That incident was Martinez'
ticket to the big time - county
jail. His first night in jail another
inmate tried to rape him. "I had
to black both his eyes and never
had a problem," said Martinez.
After jail his mother no longer
wanted him , 50 Jim was made a
ward of the state of Ohio, and
sent to a .boys~ industr·i.aJ school . .
"You marched . Everywhere you
went you marched. I ran off
three times, got caught three
times. The last time I was caught
I stayed out in the woods for
two weeks. The only reason why
I came back in was because they
had a hunter . Rocky used to love
to hunt black kids when they ran
away. He had a reputation for
shooting a couple. , . I was just
walking over to the disciplinary
"You want to get out? Stay in
trouble. If you don't stay in
trouble how are they going to
know what you 're doing?"
"They finally gave me parole
to get rid of me."
At last it looked as though
things would improve for Jim
Martinez. But it was not to last
long. He landed his first job at a
railroad station with his brother,
and " kind of liked it." But his
brother was fired for drinking on
the job . Not long after he re ceived word from his brother
that his mother had suffered a
heart attack and wanted to see
him . But when he quit his job
he discovered his brother had
lied . He didn 't want Jim working
there if he wasn't.
Again Martinez found himself
at odds. He jumped parole and
spent a lonely period riding the
rail s. "When a man is wanted ,
he is almost like an anim a l
can't trust nobody ," he said . He
was arrested in Shreveport, Lou isiana on a vagrancy charge that
was later dropped.
Back at the railroad yards Jim
met a man nam ed Frank who
took a liking to him. He became
one of the famil y. He had eye 'i
for a young woman around the
corner, but she went away with
a married man . Jim decided to
join the Army , get the GI Bill.
and maybe settle down, get a
house , marry. He felt so good
about what he was doing in the
Jim Martinez
Army that he contacted his
mother just before the end of
cottage just as Rocky had his
basic training. She wanted to
hunting dogs out."
send him a cake so he told her
As punishment Martinez was
where he was . Within a week his
whipped with a strap while
commanding officer received a
naked "until the disciplinarian
lett er from Martinez ' parole
got tired." He received 150 lashes.
board . When the Army looked
After spending one month 'on the
into his background he was dis discipline squad - where . for
charged from the service.
two weeks straight he could not
His first stretch in prison was
sit down except to lay down at
the resu lt of a false charge. After
night - Martinez was exhausted,
a boxcar in which he and "so me
tin,d of fighting the system. He
winos" had been drinking caught
decided to " behave" himself and
fire , Martinez was arrested. His
soo n had gone s ix months
I D had been found in one of the
with,)ut a single negative incident
cars.
The cOllfessions he signed
added to his accumulation of 150
stated only that he had been
bad conduct reports. In spite of
drinking in the boxcar, that it
this he was transferred to Ohio
had not been his fault . When he
State Reformatory.
,saw
the confession later, several
He was told by a lifer there:
lines had been added in the leftover space. The new addition ex plained that he was a war vet ,
depressed , and had set fire to the
boxcar.
In cou rt his first offer was for
50 years. This was eventually re duced to two years , which Martinez agreed to serve. "They told
me if I didn't accept the two
years they would kill me."
The following excerpts are
He served 14 months, 24 days
from a student self-eva luation
in
Huntsville in 1950 - 51. When
that Ron Woodbury considers to
he
got out he was , indeed , a bit be well-written . . .
ter young man. " I had nothing
"I participated in the "Work but hatred in me .
The things
ing in America" program out of
I'd
seen
in
Texas,
just
- I'd seen
my desire to understand more
guys
s
tabbed
in
the
show er ,
fully how the capitalist system in
chopped up with axes. I' d seen
the United States affects our lives
guys' throats cut. I'd seen bosse~
as workers. I learned that the
tell a dude to get him some water
alienation experienced by workfrom
the water wagon, the guy
ers as an individual problem is a
wa lk over to the water wagon
collective o n e caused by the
and the gua rd shoot him in th e
powerlessness of the worker over
back. "
his working environment and the
After prison he attempted hi s
direction of his own labor. . I
first burglary - and paid for it
found it enlightenin~ to learn
with four years in the Missouri
through Zeretski's article entitled
prison sys tem . He left Missouri
'Capitalism, the Family, and Perfor Texas and was caught bur sonal Life: that the fragmentation
glarizing a boxcar .- for a can of
of the extended family has dievaporated milk and a box of
rectly paralleled the development
cornflakes. T.ha t cost him fivl'
of industrial capitalism. . My
years in a Texa s pri 'ion . " By
studies throughout the year have
then , with my pn, on record, ."
conf irmed to me the value of an
said Martinez , " I W,)S co nsid erl'd
interdisciplinary liberal arts edua hard a" . On top of that wa'i
cation. As the world of work be the lact I was rai sed in Chi cago
comes increasingly specialized ,
and w..J s black ."
we are often under pressure as
In 1961 he broke into a 'iur ·
stude nts to develop a marketabk
plus
sto re in Yakima , Washing skill before we look at the world
ton
,
just
in time fo r a cop to pull
in a more general and holistic
up . It was night and he was cold
way. I think this limit s one's ability to understand the complex
(co rlt ill/led 0 11 pagr 4 )
problems with which we are
faced in the world today .. ."
Self-Evaluation Time Here
(eo l1tinu ed from page J)
Finally, Woodbury warns against including criticisms of
faculty or program in student
self-evaluations, "Fo r the student
to attack the program in that situation (self-evaluation) is to
make the student look like sour
grapes, or worse, like a spoiled
brat ."
In contrast with Woodbury ,
faculty member Mark Levensky
stresses complete objectivity in
self-evaluations, at least as far as
is possible within a written evaluation. Ideally Levensky says,
self-evaluations from his students
include a paragraph explaining
exactly what they did, a paragraph explaining how w~ll they
did it , "and absolutely no psycho logica l explanations as to
why they didn' t do better. " Since
self-evaluations become official
documents for employers to read
in future years, Levensky claims
that such explanations "can only
be extraordinarily damaging to
the student." He also asserts that
"95 % of such explanations are
false anyway."
Student self-evaluations are
usually "q uite generous," Levensky notes. "I use the evaluation
to tell how far the student and I
are apart in our views of what
the student has done."
Further, Levensky claims that
students cannot know why they
did badly. "They know what
they did, and approximately
how well they did it. They don't
ever explain why they did well.
It's when they do badly that they
start explaining." He concludes
that "Explanations of bad work
will only hurt the student."
Faculty member Peter Elbow
offers still another perspective.
"My main emphasis is not so
much what I want to see there
(in self-evaluations) but that I
want students to take it seriously
and ,~o take some time thinking it
out.
Elbow places considerable emphasis upon student self-evalua.
tions ... "I rely on the student's
se lf-evaluation to tell me what
the student has learned . I rely on
my perceptions over the quarter,
but I don ' t think a teacher
knows ... "
Consequently, he is concerned
that "Studen~s don't take it
seriously and don't make their
explanations as complete, as concrete, as possible." He says that
many students "tend to make
vague generalizations about what
it felt like as opposed to saying
explicitly whilt they learned."
Elbow encourages his students
to use a two-step process in evaluating their work. First, he tells
students to write an e;:tremely
rough, stream-of -consciousness
ve rsion , possibly includ ing such
factors as what things were espe-cially meaningful, to them,
whether they felt they worked
hard or not, whether time went
fast or slow , and what advice
they have for themse lves. He
also suggests for example, that
students describe the past quarter
as a journey and answer questi ons as to where they went ,
what the terrain was like, what
their destination was or is, and
whet her it was a complete trip or
merely part of a longer one.
From this rough draft students
should then be able to draw
more concrete conclusions about
the quality and range of their
work , according to Elbow.
Finally. Elbow· emphasizes the
need for self-evaluations to in clude personal and individual
qualities. "I don't want to leave
out the personal aspect. The
reader sho uld be able to feel the
writer, get a sense for what he or
she is like." He cautions against
evaluations that sound as if they
were "written from a computer." He adds, "It's got to sound
hones!."
c
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5
Swallowing Lumps of Academic Content
by Lisa Fleming
Many people come to Evergreen with the idea of doing an
individual contract. They soon
find out that it is much easier
sa id than done .
M a ry Moorehead , head of
Ac a d e mic AdVising , and her
staff , try to help students with
such problems as finding a facult y sponsor for a contract, helping students decide which pro gram o r contract is right for
them , and many other aspects of
academic life here at Evergreen.
Student s who work in the office with Moorehead are Katy
Sarge nt. Bruce Honig, Doug McLaughlin , and Suzannah Blessinger.
Academic Advising's talents are
in high demand . Moorehead attributes this to the "100 % pro-
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of his or her credit from one program or contract, rather than
from several different classes at a
traditional college or university.
"We can't take all the students
who want advising," said Moorehead. "There's a fair amount of
traffic all quarter, not just at the
beginning or end ." .
A new program being implemented is assigning a student
who so desires to have a faculty
advisor other than one whose
program he or she is currently
in . Tile advisor would meet with
the student several times a quarter, to discuss how the student's
work is going, and what future
plans should be made.
"The response is not as great
·as I thought it would be," said
Moorehead. "There are about 20
people so far who have expressed
an interest.
'The faculty response has been
great. One said 'I'll be glad to
do that and I don't think it's any-
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Academic Advisor Mary Moorehead emphasized a point,
they could put together three or
four modules as a contract.
"Of course this rebounded,"
said Moorehead. "We started
getting angry calls from faculty
who had been approached by
students who thought they could
do a contract this way."
There may be a greater need
for adVising at Evergreen. But,
Moorehead said "The important
thing to remember is that learning at Evergreen is treated as a
process. It's not just lumps of
content that have to be swallowed."
Faculty Profile: Jim Martinez
Appearing Thru December 13.
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thing special because I'm being
paid a good salary to do it .'
"The myth is that everyone
who comes to Evergreen knows
what they want to do," said
Moorehead. "That just isn't the
case."
Since the demands put on the
advising office are so great, group
advising is being used in some
cases. An example of this is the
group advising meeting today at
1: 00 in Lib 2208, for students
who aren't registered for a program for next quarter. A second
meeting will be held on January
3, from 9 - 11 , primarily for new
students.
A student who wishes to do
an individual contract should "be
prepared with a basis in the discipline he wishes to study," said
Moorehead.
A contract negotiation day,
similar to an academic fair, will
be held on Friday, December 3,
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m , Faculty
who are in the contract pool will
be there, and faculty who are in
programs or group contracts, but
who have room for a few individual contracts will be there
part time.
"Students should come with a
very well-crystalized idea, and it
should be written out, and bring
their portfolio," said Moorehead.
She hopes there won't be a repeat of the fall quarter registration, where a member of the administration of the college was
helping, and told students who
couldn't get into a program that
(continued from page ·3)
_ _ _ _...J
and hungry. He was sent to the
penitentiary .
At the penitentiary he made
friends with a physiotherapist
and became interested in being a
nurse. He began working in the
hospital and after two and a half
years became circulating nurse in
the operating room . "I loved it,
ate it, and slept it."
After prison Jim worked at the
Pioneer Fellowship House in Seattle as a nurse. Later he worked
for the University of Washington
Primate Center and became "the
best animal technician they had ."
After that he held jobs as an animal technician and a vocational
rehabilitator. He then moved
into corrections work, the area
he now teaches at Evergreen. He
completed three years of college
at the University of Washington
and applied to the College of Ed ucation there. "It took them a
year to turn me down," he said.
In 1973 he received a call from
Evergreen saying his name had
been entered for application as a
faculty member at Evergreen .
Here he began to apply his philosophies of teaching and learning' He was given a group contract in Corrections, "I got 20
beautiful people," he said.
Jim's teaching style is often described as aggressive and motivating. It has earned him respect
and criticism from students and
faculty . "I'm still trying to find
out what I do. I think there'll be
times you'll come in, you won't
feel like working , you won't
want heavy stuff. So we won't
do it. Sometimes you'll want
heavy stuff - we'll deal with
that. I don't like the word teacher because I don't think I teach. I
think I share with people . . . I
can't share with you if you don't
want me to share."
His controversial past, his lack
of a college degree, and his unorthodox teaching style have
made him a sore point for college officials. Last spring he be-
came one of the few faculty
whose teaching contract was not
renewed under Evergreen 's notenure rules
"The best people who can
judge what I do is some of the
students.
" I know I don't fit , in a way ,"
said Jim. "There's no room for
me here. I just haven't come up
through the system like the system wants. . . But they don't
say that. They say 'Oh! We'll
accept anybody!' As soon as the
people start coming in you start
seeing various criteria being applied .. , Course you have to
look at it like: If you were white
and rich, and you sent your kid
to school, who would you want
to teach your kid 7 .. ."
Jim Martinez says his students
are the best judge of what kind
of teacher he has been, But he
put it best perhaps, when he said,
"No matter where I go, hey , I'll
keep on sharing ,"
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Swallowing Lumps of Academic Content
by Lisa Fleming
Many people come to Evergreen with the idea of doing an
individual contract. They soon
find out that it is much easier
sa id than done .
M a ry Moorehead , head of
Ac a d e mic AdVising , and her
staff , try to help students with
such problems as finding a facult y sponsor for a contract, helping students decide which pro gram o r contract is right for
them , and many other aspects of
academic life here at Evergreen.
Student s who work in the office with Moorehead are Katy
Sarge nt. Bruce Honig, Doug McLaughlin , and Suzannah Blessinger.
Academic Advising's talents are
in high demand . Moorehead attributes this to the "100 % pro-
r----------.
I
1
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, SEMESTER OR MUCH MORE ' 1
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for commi SS ion lines guaranteed to 5e lll
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week ly . Send resume & S2for job descriP -1
tlon , info sheets, application forms, post-I
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work manual free . With first weekly com
mission check receive your 52 back .
I
WRITE
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(NCMS)
Box 1384,
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1
I
I
-~t~~j~J
grams," or a student receiving all
of his or her credit from one program or contract, rather than
from several different classes at a
traditional college or university.
"We can't take all the students
who want advising," said Moorehead. "There's a fair amount of
traffic all quarter, not just at the
beginning or end ." .
A new program being implemented is assigning a student
who so desires to have a faculty
advisor other than one whose
program he or she is currently
in . Tile advisor would meet with
the student several times a quarter, to discuss how the student's
work is going, and what future
plans should be made.
"The response is not as great
·as I thought it would be," said
Moorehead. "There are about 20
people so far who have expressed
an interest.
'The faculty response has been
great. One said 'I'll be glad to
do that and I don't think it's any-
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...
"-
S~OULD
CHECI'i OUT T~E
fATI~ SCENE HERE IN DOWN
OLYMPIA,HERB[RT.IT1S
AT TO WATCH THE' OLD-T
~
Academic Advisor Mary Moorehead emphasized a point,
they could put together three or
four modules as a contract.
"Of course this rebounded,"
said Moorehead. "We started
getting angry calls from faculty
who had been approached by
students who thought they could
do a contract this way."
There may be a greater need
for adVising at Evergreen. But,
Moorehead said "The important
thing to remember is that learning at Evergreen is treated as a
process. It's not just lumps of
content that have to be swallowed."
Faculty Profile: Jim Martinez
Appearing Thru December 13.
Jazz.
GReentVoot>
2300 Evergreen Park Drive,
Ion Olympia.
943-4000
thing special because I'm being
paid a good salary to do it .'
"The myth is that everyone
who comes to Evergreen knows
what they want to do," said
Moorehead. "That just isn't the
case."
Since the demands put on the
advising office are so great, group
advising is being used in some
cases. An example of this is the
group advising meeting today at
1: 00 in Lib 2208, for students
who aren't registered for a program for next quarter. A second
meeting will be held on January
3, from 9 - 11 , primarily for new
students.
A student who wishes to do
an individual contract should "be
prepared with a basis in the discipline he wishes to study," said
Moorehead.
A contract negotiation day,
similar to an academic fair, will
be held on Friday, December 3,
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m , Faculty
who are in the contract pool will
be there, and faculty who are in
programs or group contracts, but
who have room for a few individual contracts will be there
part time.
"Students should come with a
very well-crystalized idea, and it
should be written out, and bring
their portfolio," said Moorehead.
She hopes there won't be a repeat of the fall quarter registration, where a member of the administration of the college was
helping, and told students who
couldn't get into a program that
(continued from page ·3)
_ _ _ _...J
and hungry. He was sent to the
penitentiary .
At the penitentiary he made
friends with a physiotherapist
and became interested in being a
nurse. He began working in the
hospital and after two and a half
years became circulating nurse in
the operating room . "I loved it,
ate it, and slept it."
After prison Jim worked at the
Pioneer Fellowship House in Seattle as a nurse. Later he worked
for the University of Washington
Primate Center and became "the
best animal technician they had ."
After that he held jobs as an animal technician and a vocational
rehabilitator. He then moved
into corrections work, the area
he now teaches at Evergreen. He
completed three years of college
at the University of Washington
and applied to the College of Ed ucation there. "It took them a
year to turn me down," he said.
In 1973 he received a call from
Evergreen saying his name had
been entered for application as a
faculty member at Evergreen .
Here he began to apply his philosophies of teaching and learning' He was given a group contract in Corrections, "I got 20
beautiful people," he said.
Jim's teaching style is often described as aggressive and motivating. It has earned him respect
and criticism from students and
faculty . "I'm still trying to find
out what I do. I think there'll be
times you'll come in, you won't
feel like working , you won't
want heavy stuff. So we won't
do it. Sometimes you'll want
heavy stuff - we'll deal with
that. I don't like the word teacher because I don't think I teach. I
think I share with people . . . I
can't share with you if you don't
want me to share."
His controversial past, his lack
of a college degree, and his unorthodox teaching style have
made him a sore point for college officials. Last spring he be-
came one of the few faculty
whose teaching contract was not
renewed under Evergreen 's notenure rules
"The best people who can
judge what I do is some of the
students.
" I know I don't fit , in a way ,"
said Jim. "There's no room for
me here. I just haven't come up
through the system like the system wants. . . But they don't
say that. They say 'Oh! We'll
accept anybody!' As soon as the
people start coming in you start
seeing various criteria being applied .. , Course you have to
look at it like: If you were white
and rich, and you sent your kid
to school, who would you want
to teach your kid 7 .. ."
Jim Martinez says his students
are the best judge of what kind
of teacher he has been, But he
put it best perhaps, when he said,
"No matter where I go, hey , I'll
keep on sharing ,"
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Bricks, Blowers and Biocides
by Lisa Fleming
A group of concerned people
here at Evergreen meet weekly to
t11 ~kc decisions that can affect
I he environment. They are the
Environmental Advisory Committee (E AC ), a mixture of students , staff and faculty, The
co mmittee is chaired by Mike
Ross, who works for Facilities.
As its name impli'es, the EAC
is an advisory committee, and
ca nno t implement decisions . Nevert heless, they pack a lot of clout.
"Unlike a lo t of o ther committees, the EAC is dealing with realities o ther than paperwork they' re very real issues and problem s, " said Ross, "We prevent
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to restore Overhulse road, a
major project involving filling in
and drainage .
The committee is also reviewing a proposal to the legislature
by Facilities to develop recreational fields on the side of Overhulse farthest from school.
The EAC is setting down policies to go into the Evergreen Administrative Code, such as when
Ground Maintenance should appear before the EAC with a proposal and when they should
have a free go-ahead. A major
policy being worked on is the
eventual elimination of biocides
(pesticides, herbicides, etc.).
Ross sees the elimination of
biocides as one of the most imObv ious from their meeting yesterday, the Environmental portant issues the EAC is working on,
Adl'isory Committee is looking for more members.
P) "Timetables are being drawn
up,"- he said. "But we have to
crises from happening."
a few trees, and the site we rechave time to put the alternatives
The purpose of the EAC is to
ommended had less of an iminto effect.
advise officials of the environpact. "
"Some of the students here
mental consequences of their acThe EAC works on several
contend that we're [the EAC I
tions.
levels. Facilities submits a form
too compromising and conserva"We have quite a bit of im to the committee listing the projtive . That's only natural in a colpact," said Ross. " Last year, the
ects they wish to do , and finding
lege this large. But we' re moving
site was changed of the proposed
out whether an Environmental
pretty quickly. "
gymnasium by our recommendaImpact Statement is needed to be
The issue of leaf blowers on
tion . The site proposed would
filed . Currently the committee is
campus has received a lot of athave meant knocking down quite
reviewing a proposal of Facilities
tention in the past several weeks ,
Ross doesn't think the noise created by the blowers is that large
an issue.
"Students respond to it rather
than other questions that are less
visible, and are long term things,"
said Ross .
The EAC is in need of members. The three staff members
are Mike Ross, Bill Kennedy,
and John Pearcl . Bill Clauson
and John Calambokodis are both
student members, with one student position vacant. All three of
the faculty positions are vacant.
"We'd like to have a lot of
people apply so that we can
screen. People don't necessarily
have to be environmentalists, although it helps. They should
have an interest in the environment," Ross said,
Meetings are held weekly in
LAB II , 1250 at 10 a .m. every
Wednesday . Anyone is welcome
to attend the meetings as a nonvoting participant, and may
bring items up for consideration
at the meetings.
"We have fairly dynamic meetings," said Ross , "There are a lot
of opinions of what should and
shouldn't be done, but the point
is that we have a real spirit of
working together."
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liner , and 17 lodgepole (pine)
poles. $250, call 943-8868 .
Astrology : Natal charts
hand drawn witl1 love . A
meaningful Christmas gift $10. Interpretations also , No
money ? Barter or trade is possib le. Ed , 943-9845.
Nice household with 4
bdrms needs one roommate
who will share in collective
domestic responsibilities : Rent
is $55 per person. Call 9431372.
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• Eldridge Cleaver, former Minister of Information of the Black
Panthers, has postponed his December 1 scheduled appearance
at Evergreen until january 12.
Cleaver, who is out on bail pending hi s upcoming trial for assault
and attempted murder in California, recently flew to Paris to
meet with publishers. The reason
for the delay in his Evergreen address is not known .
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ing dates and more information
about Federal employment is
available at the Career Planning
and Placement Office, Lib . 1214,
866-6193,
• The U.S. Civil Service Commission has recently published
the SUMMER JOBS ANNOUN CEMENT. A sample of
the Federal departments that will
have summer job openings would
include:
Energy Research and Development
Federal Communications Commission
Environmental Protection Agency
Domestic and International Busi ness Administration
Maritime Administration
Consumer Product Safety Commission
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Forest Service
Complete the application process
no la ter than January 13, 1977.
Those who applied fo r summer
employ ment in previous years
with the Feds will need to update
their application by the same
date. Contact Career Planning
a nd Placement for mo re information and registratio n forms, li bra ry 1214, 866 -6193 ,
• Contrary to what most people
might think , the trial balloon has
not floated away. The student
co mmittee working with the
questionnaires and the trial balloon process will issue an evaluative report at the beginning of
winter quarter. Stay tuned.
• "BEING ALIVE, " a workshop
of the Human Growth and Counseling Center, will be held in library 2204 this Saturday, December 4th from 1 - 5 p.m. and 710:30 p.m , as well as on Sunday ,
December 5th, from 1 - 5 p .m.
Total time for the workshop is
l1 1/ , hours . Facilitator - Debo rah Matlack. Call the Counseling Center to arrange: 866-6151.
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Tole painting •
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Slushy • Beer • Wine
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1811 HarrUon
357~71S3
• Position open for job as exhibits coordinator. Applications
will be accepted until Friday,
Dec. 10 at 3: 30. Earlier applications are urged . Please contact
Judy Lindlauf in Lib 2210 for job
description and more info.
• Students interested in the upcoming SUMMER IN MEXICO
group contract should be aware
of the prerequisites for admission, says faculty member Ron
Woodbury . Particularly impor-~ •
tant for admission' is ' at least "3
beginning knowledge of Spanish.
At least two quarters of forma:!
Spanish language study are required , and Woodbury notes that
this' can be satisfied by taking
Spanish winter and spring quarters . For more information contact Ron Woodoury a-t ~866-6078.
• A comnlUnity Women's Clinic
is forming . The first organizational meeting will be held Dec.
2, at 7 p .m . in Friendship Hall
on Union Street. Everyone welcome - input wanted . Informati o n at 866-3794 .
• The Birth Support Group
meets Tuesday evenings, 7 p .m.
Call for place and information,
866-3794 .
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• The members of the Services
and Activities board feel it is
necessary to make the duties of
the board known to the student
body. This board is concerned
with the allocation of sfudent
fees for the operation of various
groups and facilities on and off
campus.
1. The S&A board recognizes
a responsibility to the student
body to consider freezing or recapturing a group's funds if that
group is mismanaging funds ,
2. Mismanagement is defined
as using funds in a way contrary
to the general goals and philosophy the group expressed at the
time they requested funding .
3, Any member of the Evergreen Community who feels that
a group is mismanaging funds,
and whose complaint hasn't been
answered to her I his satisfaction
by that group or its budget unit
head, can present her Ihis complaint to the S&A board. The
S&A board must determine if
the situation constitutes mismanagement, and if it does; must
take some action or make a rec ommendation to another governance body.
For more information contact
the executive secretary for the
S&A board, Constance Palaia in
CAB 305A or ph'i>ne 866-6220.
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Alexander , Richard
Allen, Nancy
Bowerman, Priscilla
Brian, Richard
Cable, Carie
Chan, Donald
Coontz, Stephanie
r:rowe, Beryl
Crowe, Natalie
Diffendal, Betsy
Dobbs, Carolyn
Eickstaedt, Larry
Elbow, Peter '
Esquivel, c'ruz
Finkel, Don
Foote, Tom
Fox, Russ
Freund, Hap
Gerstl, Ted
Gottlieb, Bob
Gulden, James
Guttman, Burt
Hahn, Jeanne
Hasenstab, Rainer
Henderson Peta
Herman, Steve
Hillaire, Mary Ellen
Hitchens, David
Humphreys, Will
Ingram, Wini
Johansen , Bernard
Jones, Richard
Jordan , Don
Klyn , Stan
Kuehn, Lowell
Sig Kutter
Ladd, K.V.
lidman, Russ
Marr, David
Martin, Rudy _
Martinez, Jim
Milne, David
Nelson, Mary
Olexa, Carol
Pailthorp, Charles
Parson, Willie
Peterson, David
Portnoff, Greg
Romero, Jacob
Salcedo, Gil
Simon, Sandra
Skov, Niels
Smith, LeRoi
Smith, Matthew
Soule, Oscar
Spielholz, jess
Steinke, Greg
Strasser, Susan
Stroh, Jim
Taylor, Peter
Teske, Charles
Tsai, Andre
Unsoeld, Willi
White, Sid
Wiedemann, AI
Winden, William
Wong, York
Woodbury, Ron
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by Lisa Fleming
A group of concerned people
here at Evergreen meet weekly to
t11 ~kc decisions that can affect
I he environment. They are the
Environmental Advisory Committee (E AC ), a mixture of students , staff and faculty, The
co mmittee is chaired by Mike
Ross, who works for Facilities.
As its name impli'es, the EAC
is an advisory committee, and
ca nno t implement decisions . Nevert heless, they pack a lot of clout.
"Unlike a lo t of o ther committees, the EAC is dealing with realities o ther than paperwork they' re very real issues and problem s, " said Ross, "We prevent
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to restore Overhulse road, a
major project involving filling in
and drainage .
The committee is also reviewing a proposal to the legislature
by Facilities to develop recreational fields on the side of Overhulse farthest from school.
The EAC is setting down policies to go into the Evergreen Administrative Code, such as when
Ground Maintenance should appear before the EAC with a proposal and when they should
have a free go-ahead. A major
policy being worked on is the
eventual elimination of biocides
(pesticides, herbicides, etc.).
Ross sees the elimination of
biocides as one of the most imObv ious from their meeting yesterday, the Environmental portant issues the EAC is working on,
Adl'isory Committee is looking for more members.
P) "Timetables are being drawn
up,"- he said. "But we have to
crises from happening."
a few trees, and the site we rechave time to put the alternatives
The purpose of the EAC is to
ommended had less of an iminto effect.
advise officials of the environpact. "
"Some of the students here
mental consequences of their acThe EAC works on several
contend that we're [the EAC I
tions.
levels. Facilities submits a form
too compromising and conserva"We have quite a bit of im to the committee listing the projtive . That's only natural in a colpact," said Ross. " Last year, the
ects they wish to do , and finding
lege this large. But we' re moving
site was changed of the proposed
out whether an Environmental
pretty quickly. "
gymnasium by our recommendaImpact Statement is needed to be
The issue of leaf blowers on
tion . The site proposed would
filed . Currently the committee is
campus has received a lot of athave meant knocking down quite
reviewing a proposal of Facilities
tention in the past several weeks ,
Ross doesn't think the noise created by the blowers is that large
an issue.
"Students respond to it rather
than other questions that are less
visible, and are long term things,"
said Ross .
The EAC is in need of members. The three staff members
are Mike Ross, Bill Kennedy,
and John Pearcl . Bill Clauson
and John Calambokodis are both
student members, with one student position vacant. All three of
the faculty positions are vacant.
"We'd like to have a lot of
people apply so that we can
screen. People don't necessarily
have to be environmentalists, although it helps. They should
have an interest in the environment," Ross said,
Meetings are held weekly in
LAB II , 1250 at 10 a .m. every
Wednesday . Anyone is welcome
to attend the meetings as a nonvoting participant, and may
bring items up for consideration
at the meetings.
"We have fairly dynamic meetings," said Ross , "There are a lot
of opinions of what should and
shouldn't be done, but the point
is that we have a real spirit of
working together."
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8. Selection will take place
Decernber 10 , and app licants
w ill be contacted about when
to appear for a personal in terview.
Sioux Tipi for sale , 18 ft .
diameter , 10 oz. duck canvas ,
liner , and 17 lodgepole (pine)
poles. $250, call 943-8868 .
Astrology : Natal charts
hand drawn witl1 love . A
meaningful Christmas gift $10. Interpretations also , No
money ? Barter or trade is possib le. Ed , 943-9845.
Nice household with 4
bdrms needs one roommate
who will share in collective
domestic responsibilities : Rent
is $55 per person. Call 9431372.
II_
"'Prepared For A""
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Career?
It
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~ILRe~?~~" !~~ __!~!?~7_~780ck It
~,
• Eldridge Cleaver, former Minister of Information of the Black
Panthers, has postponed his December 1 scheduled appearance
at Evergreen until january 12.
Cleaver, who is out on bail pending hi s upcoming trial for assault
and attempted murder in California, recently flew to Paris to
meet with publishers. The reason
for the delay in his Evergreen address is not known .
I.
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{jJpitol
BUSINESS COLLEGE
... 815 E. Olympia 357-931 ~
ing dates and more information
about Federal employment is
available at the Career Planning
and Placement Office, Lib . 1214,
866-6193,
• The U.S. Civil Service Commission has recently published
the SUMMER JOBS ANNOUN CEMENT. A sample of
the Federal departments that will
have summer job openings would
include:
Energy Research and Development
Federal Communications Commission
Environmental Protection Agency
Domestic and International Busi ness Administration
Maritime Administration
Consumer Product Safety Commission
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Forest Service
Complete the application process
no la ter than January 13, 1977.
Those who applied fo r summer
employ ment in previous years
with the Feds will need to update
their application by the same
date. Contact Career Planning
a nd Placement for mo re information and registratio n forms, li bra ry 1214, 866 -6193 ,
• Contrary to what most people
might think , the trial balloon has
not floated away. The student
co mmittee working with the
questionnaires and the trial balloon process will issue an evaluative report at the beginning of
winter quarter. Stay tuned.
• "BEING ALIVE, " a workshop
of the Human Growth and Counseling Center, will be held in library 2204 this Saturday, December 4th from 1 - 5 p.m. and 710:30 p.m , as well as on Sunday ,
December 5th, from 1 - 5 p .m.
Total time for the workshop is
l1 1/ , hours . Facilitator - Debo rah Matlack. Call the Counseling Center to arrange: 866-6151.
*
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Grocery
and
Tole
Shop
*
Hours : 8 a,m , - 11 p ,m. -
Tole painting •
Supplies • Classes
• Party, block ice •
Slushy • Beer • Wine
• Picnic,
party supplies
1811 HarrUon
357~71S3
• Position open for job as exhibits coordinator. Applications
will be accepted until Friday,
Dec. 10 at 3: 30. Earlier applications are urged . Please contact
Judy Lindlauf in Lib 2210 for job
description and more info.
• Students interested in the upcoming SUMMER IN MEXICO
group contract should be aware
of the prerequisites for admission, says faculty member Ron
Woodbury . Particularly impor-~ •
tant for admission' is ' at least "3
beginning knowledge of Spanish.
At least two quarters of forma:!
Spanish language study are required , and Woodbury notes that
this' can be satisfied by taking
Spanish winter and spring quarters . For more information contact Ron Woodoury a-t ~866-6078.
• A comnlUnity Women's Clinic
is forming . The first organizational meeting will be held Dec.
2, at 7 p .m . in Friendship Hall
on Union Street. Everyone welcome - input wanted . Informati o n at 866-3794 .
• The Birth Support Group
meets Tuesday evenings, 7 p .m.
Call for place and information,
866-3794 .
/
/
• The members of the Services
and Activities board feel it is
necessary to make the duties of
the board known to the student
body. This board is concerned
with the allocation of sfudent
fees for the operation of various
groups and facilities on and off
campus.
1. The S&A board recognizes
a responsibility to the student
body to consider freezing or recapturing a group's funds if that
group is mismanaging funds ,
2. Mismanagement is defined
as using funds in a way contrary
to the general goals and philosophy the group expressed at the
time they requested funding .
3, Any member of the Evergreen Community who feels that
a group is mismanaging funds,
and whose complaint hasn't been
answered to her I his satisfaction
by that group or its budget unit
head, can present her Ihis complaint to the S&A board. The
S&A board must determine if
the situation constitutes mismanagement, and if it does; must
take some action or make a rec ommendation to another governance body.
For more information contact
the executive secretary for the
S&A board, Constance Palaia in
CAB 305A or ph'i>ne 866-6220.
Precision and melodic lyricism
made Jim this year's winner of
the downbeat Critics Poll.
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we're right next door to the
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FACULTY, PART 2
Alexander , Richard
Allen, Nancy
Bowerman, Priscilla
Brian, Richard
Cable, Carie
Chan, Donald
Coontz, Stephanie
r:rowe, Beryl
Crowe, Natalie
Diffendal, Betsy
Dobbs, Carolyn
Eickstaedt, Larry
Elbow, Peter '
Esquivel, c'ruz
Finkel, Don
Foote, Tom
Fox, Russ
Freund, Hap
Gerstl, Ted
Gottlieb, Bob
Gulden, James
Guttman, Burt
Hahn, Jeanne
Hasenstab, Rainer
Henderson Peta
Herman, Steve
Hillaire, Mary Ellen
Hitchens, David
Humphreys, Will
Ingram, Wini
Johansen , Bernard
Jones, Richard
Jordan , Don
Klyn , Stan
Kuehn, Lowell
Sig Kutter
Ladd, K.V.
lidman, Russ
Marr, David
Martin, Rudy _
Martinez, Jim
Milne, David
Nelson, Mary
Olexa, Carol
Pailthorp, Charles
Parson, Willie
Peterson, David
Portnoff, Greg
Romero, Jacob
Salcedo, Gil
Simon, Sandra
Skov, Niels
Smith, LeRoi
Smith, Matthew
Soule, Oscar
Spielholz, jess
Steinke, Greg
Strasser, Susan
Stroh, Jim
Taylor, Peter
Teske, Charles
Tsai, Andre
Unsoeld, Willi
White, Sid
Wiedemann, AI
Winden, William
Wong, York
Woodbury, Ron
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Wanted: Arts, Crafts, Skills
half the retail value. Though you
may not see big profits, I feel it
still provides a great service to
all corners of the Evergreen community .
.
The Duck House is open to all
persons who are ' into creating
something that can be defined as
either an art or craft. The store
is also open to all those people
who are willing to put their used
books, records, and high quality
used clothes on a consignment
basis.
We ' intend to start having
guest artists come in and demonstrate their skills in the CAB at
noon . We would like to have a
different person come every
week to get a good variety. If
you or any of your friends have
an art or craft they wish to share
and demonstrate , please leave
your name and sk ill at the Duck
House,
We have created a service exchange and barter board called
the "A lt ernative Source. " It
would be a co ntact point for Evergreen arts, crafts, and o ther
useful skills, This board is open
to Evergre~n peo ple who have
by JeHBerniHd
Du ck House Manager
This is the Duck House's third
\' ea r of opera tion . It was fi rst establis hed to raise more S&A revenue bu t has had no luck so far.
Severa l new things have been
tried this year : the new location
in the CAB mall , a five percent
higher consignment fee (w hich
nnw makes it 25 %), and new
hl,urs, 11 to 3, instead of 12 to
~ , I feel a ll these improvements
have shown progress towards the
Duc k H o u se sustai ni ng itself
"o meday in the near futu re.
For examp le, last year during
th e months of September and
Oc to ber the Duck House aver.l)(ed 510 a da y and this year for
th e same pe ri od we averaged $26 ,
Howe v e r , fo r th e fi r s t three
,,'eels of November last year the
, t,'re av eraged 520 a day and
thi s yea r we are brin ging in
,lb,' ut 51 7 a day, The reason I
think this dro p in revenue hap re ned , is beca use of the low percentage of new co nsignees fo r
the second half of the quarter.
Jeffrey Bernards , manager of the Duck House, and salesman
Michael Char/ot ,
I feel the profit idea associated
with th e Duck House should be
scratc hed . The Duck House
shou ld become e ne of the more
vital services of the Evergreen
commu nity. It allows a space on
ca mpus for s tud en ts, faculty ,
s,taff and community people to
have a chance to buy and sell
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I. Our Record and T.pa Club
10. F,.. D.IIv.ry end 1nat8llatlon
W,s'll bring your system to you, make recommendations on speaker placemenl for the
best sound and assist you in sening it up. There is no charge for 30 feet of speaker
wir6 or this service. We'" go almost anywhere.
11. F,.. Tumteble Callbr.tlon Just by following the manufacturers' recommended senings you can be up to 40%
OFFI With every turntable ..Ie we precisely set up and calibrate each tonearm and
cartridge combination, taking the guesawork out with our special calibration
equipment.
.
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1.1..,
dill.• we ban ICIIUId thaI lit Ictual teJU tIIla uJt
.urput oul up to 141 "Ilts. WI~ tIIeIr. bIIUt·1D p-apldc
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AUDIO
TECHNICA
'DIBlE ill ALSO MANY IN-STOIlE SPECIALS '100 NUMEROUS TO USI', BUT'WE CAN TELL
YOU THAT YOU WILL FIND RECEIVERS AT UP TO 35" OFF, TURNTABLES ~ OFF, AND
TAPE DECKS UP TO 30% om T8~E SPECIALS AlE ON MAJOR BRANDS UU KENWOOD,
BI TFAlINI WOWNSAK, BANG . . OLUFS!N AND OHM!'
.
',
12. Accurete ComPllrleon FecIIItIee
Even the belt quality. equipment sometimes gets shaken up ' in shipment and the
defect may not Ihow up Immediately. If any component (in a ~em or not) fails
during the fIret 30 days _'II give you a new one. The unit muat be returned with aU
packing material and in the original condition. The only exception to this policy is if
that particular model isn't available (diIc:ontinuedl in which cue we'll loan you a ,
piece of comparable quality while we repair yours.
Technics @.
4•
,
I. Tred. 1M euaepied let your uled equipment
I8fVe . .
.,00
13 • • D.y Price Protection
If you find a comparable ~em at a lower price from a store wilh comparable
services, _'II refund the difference.
14. Llfetlm. Cheolcup
You buy knowing that if you're not completely I8tisfied with your system you can
exchange any or all of it for fun value for 30 days (one year on lPMkers.I Naturally the
equipment muat be in original condition and with all packing material. '
When you purchal8 a system from us, we' ll recslibrate your turntable should it ever
get out of edjuatment or when you change cartridges, check your ~UI f~r wear.
check how many WIttS your amp il putting out and a lot more free InlpeClIOnS and
'.
, Should any piece covered by the 6 y.., System Guarantee fell.nd it tak.. ullonger
than 10 days to fix (our ...,..188 dayal, we'lloIIn you a piece of comparable value.
.'25.00
Whether you want to compare the sound of two
cartridges, two
IPMkers, different tape fonnata, or electronics, _ can (or very soon be able to) 1st
you hear the IUbtie acoustic differences in our demonstrstion rooms .
.....,1IOtIon a ...,..ltaad
I. Loe... PoIIoy'
'
To those who purchase a turntable from us we offer outstanding buys on any L~ in
print. Anyone who purchases a tape recorder from us we offer blank tapes at prices
only pennies above warehouse prices. We stock Maxell, TDK , and Sony and have
Fuji available to us. We also offer lPecial discounts on case lots.
When you buy a system from ua you may return the original 8PMkers fOr what you
paid for them on any pair coating 30% more (not 60% like everyone else.1 The
lPNkers Ihoulc:l be in good condition end returned in their packing material.
FMlAM ..... "--'-
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FM from \be people who bave been CD 01 \be IIIOIt respect-
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A .yisually stunning movie, rich in medieval detail. about
St. Francis of Assisi. A gentle, joyful film, directed by
Franco Zeffirelli ("Romeo and Juliet"). Music by Donavan. Rated PG
Federico Fellini's evoca.i ...e portrait of life in a s~1I
Italian town in the last days before World War II. "It's Aim
of exhilarating beauty ... Vincent Canby, New ' York
Ti~es. In Italian, with subtitles. Rated R
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AMARCORD - Dec. 8
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ACCESSORIES ARE REALLY NECESSITIES, SO WE ARE
GMNG;THEM,AWAY FBEE.TJII£WEEK.AT.-mESlE8EftSIlQrrE!
caled" serle•. Tbll 3·
a I Item (wllb ad-
JDIdrID&e
skills or services they wish to sell
or trade. It is also available for
people who wish to trade, buy,
or commission some form of
work from Evergreen . This
would include car and bicycle repairs, weaving, sewing, jewelry,
embroidering, tutoring, housecleaning, music, culinary skills,
etc.
So if you have a skill or need
one, just get your name and skill
on the "Alternative Source"
board. Remember, thij ", school
evolves around the alternatives,
so let's make this alternative to
money and big business work .
I hope this article clears up a
lot of misunderstanding about
the Duck House and the energy
behind it. Remember this is your
store , it's funded with your
money , so please help support it.
If you see or feel any improve, ments that can be made, please
express yourself, we are as open
as you are (11 - 3) , Help our li brary grow and expand into a
useful resource where academic
and pleasurable reading can be
bought or sold . Book donations
are gla dly accepted, too .
NIl"
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" ...............7L . . ...ece ............ ...
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he.cl phones in tile ,wotIdl
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11. Our eervIc •• ere ........... far your benefit
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a Down Payment on your new ayStem or
In Lacey c ..... ' : 4a2 tth
Should we diIcoYer a miltAlke we'llet you know and If you think we have erred, let UI
know. We'll make it right ..• for ua ell.
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From the Duck House
Wanted: Arts, Crafts, Skills
half the retail value. Though you
may not see big profits, I feel it
still provides a great service to
all corners of the Evergreen community .
.
The Duck House is open to all
persons who are ' into creating
something that can be defined as
either an art or craft. The store
is also open to all those people
who are willing to put their used
books, records, and high quality
used clothes on a consignment
basis.
We ' intend to start having
guest artists come in and demonstrate their skills in the CAB at
noon . We would like to have a
different person come every
week to get a good variety. If
you or any of your friends have
an art or craft they wish to share
and demonstrate , please leave
your name and sk ill at the Duck
House,
We have created a service exchange and barter board called
the "A lt ernative Source. " It
would be a co ntact point for Evergreen arts, crafts, and o ther
useful skills, This board is open
to Evergre~n peo ple who have
by JeHBerniHd
Du ck House Manager
This is the Duck House's third
\' ea r of opera tion . It was fi rst establis hed to raise more S&A revenue bu t has had no luck so far.
Severa l new things have been
tried this year : the new location
in the CAB mall , a five percent
higher consignment fee (w hich
nnw makes it 25 %), and new
hl,urs, 11 to 3, instead of 12 to
~ , I feel a ll these improvements
have shown progress towards the
Duc k H o u se sustai ni ng itself
"o meday in the near futu re.
For examp le, last year during
th e months of September and
Oc to ber the Duck House aver.l)(ed 510 a da y and this year for
th e same pe ri od we averaged $26 ,
Howe v e r , fo r th e fi r s t three
,,'eels of November last year the
, t,'re av eraged 520 a day and
thi s yea r we are brin ging in
,lb,' ut 51 7 a day, The reason I
think this dro p in revenue hap re ned , is beca use of the low percentage of new co nsignees fo r
the second half of the quarter.
Jeffrey Bernards , manager of the Duck House, and salesman
Michael Char/ot ,
I feel the profit idea associated
with th e Duck House should be
scratc hed . The Duck House
shou ld become e ne of the more
vital services of the Evergreen
commu nity. It allows a space on
ca mpus for s tud en ts, faculty ,
s,taff and community people to
have a chance to buy and sell
WI11ITREPUlCHASt:OfANYOf
TIm
WID'SSPt:AUI SPtX:IAlS
FREE
Evergreen a rts and crafts.
The Duck Ho use gives the freedom to people with the initiative
to create a chan ce to experience
a small scale business while still
a ttending classes. It also offers a
place where used books can be
bought or sold at no more th an
'[he ~tC1tO ,Shoppe
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....MON.-FRI.
514·2200
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UTILE BIG MAN - Dec. 1
The True Story of the Winning of the West, told by
America's most neglected hero - or a liar of truly epic
proportions. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George,
Faye Dunaway. Directed by Arthur Penn ("Bonnie and
Clyde" "Alice's Restaurant"). Rated PG
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BLUE SEA OF AUGUST - Dec. 29
A controversial film by the brilliant director Lina Wertmuller. It may be a comedy, a romance, or a political
statement - or none of the above. No one leaves this film
indifferent to it. Italian, with subtitles. Rated R
An extremely funny movie about the American Beauty
Pageant and the All-American girls in it - you'll never be
able to watch another beauty contest without laughing.
Starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon. Directed by
Michael Ritchie ("The Candidate," "Downhill Racer").
Rated PG
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automatic: IIDIIe play belt drive
table j:III ev•• be JII'OII'UIDMd to r.pul
play. It comet comPlete wI~ ...., cover.
lad Audio 1'edIaIeI AtIIe cartrtdn.
V.lfllte.,..
.$154.90, New.............~._.~~_.
$89
component.
7. Conv.nlent C....1t Av.lI.bIa -
("A system consists of electronics, apeakers, tumtable and/or tape deck,)
One of the most complete plans available anywhere for your protection and peace of
mind.
For 5 years there will be no charge for pans" where the defect is due to faulty workmanship. (""except for pans subject to wear, such as in heads, styIii, belts, etc.)
For 3 years there will be no charge for labor.
With this agreement, we intend to 'give you the benefit of any doubt. but naturally
cannot be responsible for equipment that has been abused or damaged accidently.
The final determination of the defect will be the responsibility of m.b. electronics and,
if necef".sary, the manufacturer. Also, unauthorized service, tampering, or operation
with faulty associated equipment not sold with the system will be considered abuse.
m.b. audio will not be held responlible should parts become unattainable during this
period, factory buming down, etc., but wiA try to rectify the problem.
All service wiN be performed in our store by our own expertly equipped, staffed and
factory authorized service facility . . . M.B. Bectronics.
This is a limited non-transferable Protection Plan.
This agreement includes manufacturer's guarsntee and does nOI cover regular maintenance and lubrication;
AUDIO
TECHNICA
In most cases you can charge your purchase on our 60 day plan with no interest or
carrying charges. Or you can use your Mastercharge, BankAmericard , or choose
from our other convenient credit plans.
8. Dlal-A-Tech -
Our Service Hot Line is available 10 you should you have any problems or questions ,
Just call 206-491-0974 and if we can't help you we'll leI you talk 10 our service
manager - Stan Berger.
I. Our Record and T.pa Club
10. F,.. D.IIv.ry end 1nat8llatlon
W,s'll bring your system to you, make recommendations on speaker placemenl for the
best sound and assist you in sening it up. There is no charge for 30 feet of speaker
wir6 or this service. We'" go almost anywhere.
11. F,.. Tumteble Callbr.tlon Just by following the manufacturers' recommended senings you can be up to 40%
OFFI With every turntable ..Ie we precisely set up and calibrate each tonearm and
cartridge combination, taking the guesawork out with our special calibration
equipment.
.
DlUtTOIID WAIEHOUSl DMSION
• All ~ CIat' t ,..............................25% ...
25"
...
.,..t.......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J5CJb ..
.- AII ........
• All BL
c.. i ••&1,..........................,..
l54Jb ..
• AII ..................................................
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All ..........
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'. IL\UON UIlDON • • 711.......................'1.. ...
MS,
AIIIW . . . . . . . . .....,
3. 10 D.y Afttl.Lemon PolIcy -
Slr23
C-Vlttvely nted II 11. watts per cIIuHI RIIS •
1.1..,
dill.• we ban ICIIUId thaI lit Ictual teJU tIIla uJt
.urput oul up to 141 "Ilts. WI~ tIIeIr. bIIUt·1D p-apldc
....... tIIlIi \IIIIt IDc:orpontaJ tile IIIOIt ~t.d
' - coatrol ~m ID ..y reeetver built. y wltb b
~.
'
,
,
Sem4.eptrpt!c: . . . . play tintable, _ .
t:.willi ..... - , ell AIIdIe ~
......JM.:
149
AUDIO
TECHNICA
'DIBlE ill ALSO MANY IN-STOIlE SPECIALS '100 NUMEROUS TO USI', BUT'WE CAN TELL
YOU THAT YOU WILL FIND RECEIVERS AT UP TO 35" OFF, TURNTABLES ~ OFF, AND
TAPE DECKS UP TO 30% om T8~E SPECIALS AlE ON MAJOR BRANDS UU KENWOOD,
BI TFAlINI WOWNSAK, BANG . . OLUFS!N AND OHM!'
.
',
12. Accurete ComPllrleon FecIIItIee
Even the belt quality. equipment sometimes gets shaken up ' in shipment and the
defect may not Ihow up Immediately. If any component (in a ~em or not) fails
during the fIret 30 days _'II give you a new one. The unit muat be returned with aU
packing material and in the original condition. The only exception to this policy is if
that particular model isn't available (diIc:ontinuedl in which cue we'll loan you a ,
piece of comparable quality while we repair yours.
Technics @.
4•
,
I. Tred. 1M euaepied let your uled equipment
I8fVe . .
.,00
13 • • D.y Price Protection
If you find a comparable ~em at a lower price from a store wilh comparable
services, _'II refund the difference.
14. Llfetlm. Cheolcup
You buy knowing that if you're not completely I8tisfied with your system you can
exchange any or all of it for fun value for 30 days (one year on lPMkers.I Naturally the
equipment muat be in original condition and with all packing material. '
When you purchal8 a system from us, we' ll recslibrate your turntable should it ever
get out of edjuatment or when you change cartridges, check your ~UI f~r wear.
check how many WIttS your amp il putting out and a lot more free InlpeClIOnS and
'.
, Should any piece covered by the 6 y.., System Guarantee fell.nd it tak.. ullonger
than 10 days to fix (our ...,..188 dayal, we'lloIIn you a piece of comparable value.
.'25.00
Whether you want to compare the sound of two
cartridges, two
IPMkers, different tape fonnata, or electronics, _ can (or very soon be able to) 1st
you hear the IUbtie acoustic differences in our demonstrstion rooms .
.....,1IOtIon a ...,..ltaad
I. Loe... PoIIoy'
'
To those who purchase a turntable from us we offer outstanding buys on any L~ in
print. Anyone who purchases a tape recorder from us we offer blank tapes at prices
only pennies above warehouse prices. We stock Maxell, TDK , and Sony and have
Fuji available to us. We also offer lPecial discounts on case lots.
When you buy a system from ua you may return the original 8PMkers fOr what you
paid for them on any pair coating 30% more (not 60% like everyone else.1 The
lPNkers Ihoulc:l be in good condition end returned in their packing material.
FMlAM ..... "--'-
:
••
••
FREE
2.1Y..r8,....rE.~nge
JVC
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JR-S800
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ADd yet, youltlU I~ IIIe FREE 1IacIpb_.
the most accurate speaker for
UDder $1,1., IDd we
the mUllclaDa to confirm
.tut claim. New ... fir &lie pair
•:
•:•
SMILE - Dec. 15
m.b. audio's 16 point Consumer Protection Plan
TbII
$15995
:
:
:
:
1f
1. Our own I y. .r 8y......• Protection Plan
..... $JI9.95 •
No
i
ANY Of'lllS1DI'S
nJINr,UUSI'IO.W YOO
WILL IDDVE A"'ATIS ID:OIDtAlE
SYmII!
..
ed manllflctw'en ID oar IDdIIatry f« DIlDy yeII'I. VOle 1«
\be dollar \I lbe key to IbII uait.
:
m.b. audio
Q
1••atta per c:IIanDel RIIS al low dIstortioD, aad ..cellent
FM from \be people who bave been CD 01 \be IIIOIt respect-
••:
A .yisually stunning movie, rich in medieval detail. about
St. Francis of Assisi. A gentle, joyful film, directed by
Franco Zeffirelli ("Romeo and Juliet"). Music by Donavan. Rated PG
Federico Fellini's evoca.i ...e portrait of life in a s~1I
Italian town in the last days before World War II. "It's Aim
of exhilarating beauty ... Vincent Canby, New ' York
Ti~es. In Italian, with subtitles. Rated R
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BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON - Dec. 22
AMARCORD - Dec. 8
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•:
•:•
ACCESSORIES ARE REALLY NECESSITIES, SO WE ARE
GMNG;THEM,AWAY FBEE.TJII£WEEK.AT.-mESlE8EftSIlQrrE!
caled" serle•. Tbll 3·
a I Item (wllb ad-
JDIdrID&e
skills or services they wish to sell
or trade. It is also available for
people who wish to trade, buy,
or commission some form of
work from Evergreen . This
would include car and bicycle repairs, weaving, sewing, jewelry,
embroidering, tutoring, housecleaning, music, culinary skills,
etc.
So if you have a skill or need
one, just get your name and skill
on the "Alternative Source"
board. Remember, thij ", school
evolves around the alternatives,
so let's make this alternative to
money and big business work .
I hope this article clears up a
lot of misunderstanding about
the Duck House and the energy
behind it. Remember this is your
store , it's funded with your
money , so please help support it.
If you see or feel any improve, ments that can be made, please
express yourself, we are as open
as you are (11 - 3) , Help our li brary grow and expand into a
useful resource where academic
and pleasurable reading can be
bought or sold . Book donations
are gla dly accepted, too .
NIl"
_~ .... I1 ..........." uti . . a .me. ...... ,..., Ie .... ,..W.ft' 71,
" ...............7L . . ...ece ............ ...
IIdtat • • ., fnIII, ......." II tile _ _ _ u I It
'•
Jwlw..,., ........ ~l ....... ..".
1enfN ............
tJnqueslionlbly lhe besl known
he.cl phones in tile ,wotIdl
e
Net_ .. we
. . . . . _we .....
aDVICE?
11007 ~ Way (IabwoOcI)
KOSSPROW
lpeeker
••
•••
••
••
••
••
•••
••
:•
i
•••
'
I8fVices at m.b. eudlo.
.
11. Our eervIc •• ere ........... far your benefit
.
a Down Payment on your new ayStem or
In Lacey c ..... ' : 4a2 tth
Should we diIcoYer a miltAlke we'llet you know and If you think we have erred, let UI
know. We'll make it right ..• for ua ell.
The management of m.b. audio.
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Book
Review
Marquez Portrait of a Monster
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by Ray Kelleher
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel Garcia Ma'rquez
Translated from the Spanish by
Gregory Rabassa
269 pp. New York : Harper and
Row . $10
In 1970 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's nov el, One Hundred Years
of Solitude, was offered to the
English reading a udience . There
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was hardly an uproar created
over this fresh wind from Colombia, but critically One Hundred
Years complemented the standards of scrutiny recently set by
Thomas Pynchon on the American literary scene . A readership
was generated . Top caliber writ ing from South America has begun to receive serious attention,
and those appetites aroused by
One Hundred Years have gone
unsatiated for six years. With the
recent publication of The Autumn of the Patriarch, the famine
has ended . Ma rquez, however,
must now survive the standards
he himself has set.
One Hundred Years depicts
the rise and fa ll of the fictional
South American village of Macondo . Ambitious in its embrace
o f time a nd meticulous in its
cha racterizations, the book follows the history of Macondo 's
fo unding fa mil y, the Buendias,
through fo ur generations of in sa nity , po lit ical uphea val, a nd
na tu ra l ca la mit y. O ne enters M a condo th ro ugh the eyes of Colo nel A ur el ia n o Bu e nd ia as h e
faces a fir ing squ ad. a nd reca ll s
the day hi s fa ther took him to
discover ice, magnets, a nd the
magn ifying glass, all inve nti o ns
bi-o ught to the tow n b y the gy psies . A s a y ou ng ma n, the Colo nel him se lf brings in the railroad,
a ppearing at first "like a kitchen
dragging a v illage be hind it .. . "
Ultimately M aco ndo is overco me
a nd defiled by an American fruit
co mpan y and left helpless to face
the su cceeding fl ood s and drought
that destroy it.
Th e tragedi es of One Hundred
Years a re p o rtrayed exquisitely .
Its ima ges a re irridescent , and
the disto rtion of its chronology
co nt ributes to an unusually"l'lOlisc
tic acco:mt of an a ncient and disinte[rc,ting social structure .
It is ob v ious that in the years
since Marquez' introduct ion in
English , his sense of purpose has
beco me m o re specifi cally political. The Autumn of the Patriarch opens with the image of
vultures circling the State House
which serves as coffin and putrescent legacy to a senile dicta tor kn own onl y. as the General.
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App ly Dec. 8 - 10 . Ca ll a he a d fo r ap p o int m e nt.
The General , bastard son of a
comically embraceable peasant
woman , is immediately identified
in his plain denim uniform without insignia, a single gold spur,
a nd a truss which suppo rts hi s
fig-sized testicle that whistles a
tune as he ambulates on huge,
fla t fee t thro ugh the shadow s o f
his palace . He surrounds himself
w ith lepe rs, cow s, and the co ncubines he enj oys taking by surprise, full y cl othed , in the co rne rs . Th ey bear him thousands
of so ns, all runts at seven - mo nth
gesta ti o ns. He rul es w ith a pathol ogical distrust of his army and
cabinet, and his po wer is so extensive that calves are born with
hi s b rand a lread y on them , a nd
roses open before dewpo int b ecau se he has decreed a change in
the clo ck .
Patriarch is essentially the caricature of a monster both in the
po litical and intimately personal
sense, a patterning anecdote after
anecdote, the sys'tem of which '
reveals a picture of corruption so
thorough the reader may find
himself fighting to remain aloof .
Time after time, however , Marquez neutralizes that aloofness
with suggestions of latent humanity in the General and longings
so commonly tender, so delicately
acted out that one is again
caught unaware when the General 's mo s t elevated emotions
catalyze another brutal victimiza tio n . The only woman he ever
regards highly enough to fornicate with while naked bears him
a son he proclaims legitimate
and an heir to power. Both are
to rn to pieces by a pack of assassin d ogs in the ma rke tplace .
Everything the General interacts
with co mes to anguish or macabre tragedy. At one point the
culmination of his internatio nal
political maneuverings allows the
United States to remove the entire Carribean Sea and transplant
it in Arizona in payment of the
national debt. Fornication, mur-
ra
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der and sewing machine repair
provide the only instances of his
succeeding at anything. There
must be a law prohibiting an opponent from beating him at dominoes. Throughout all he manages to hold power for somewhere between 107 and 232
years .
The impact of all this corruption and pestilence of the psyche
is overwhelming at first but too
soon becomes so numbing that
this book of relatively moderate
length grows eHortfu!' Add to
this the fact that Patriarch is divided into only five chapters,
with sentences of up to ten pages
in length , each of which must be
., taken in a single deep breath,
and the condition in which one
is left is either mild hysteria or
exhaustion.
Rabelaisian. Kafkaesque . Both
have been' said a bout Garcia
Marquez. Surrealism is dominant
throughout his scenarios . One
learns to take bodily ascensions
into heaven or a death that
leaves the perfect imprint of its
victim upon the s heet s as a mat ter o f everyday life . But as Marquez responded to a n in terviewer
in 1973, " In M exi co surrealism
runs through the s treets ." So he
gives it free rein in Patriarch . It
is no t the credibility of his visions tha t invoke response but
the intensity . T o get along well
w ith Marquez the reader must
acce pt his incredibilities with as
much finesse as they are offered .
The Patriarch is erected from a
mass of trivia that seems to leave
no t a moment of his career or a
pore in his herniated body unknown to the reader . Still, one
never knows the General's name
or the exact circumstances of his
tise to' powi!i-: His' fortune cannb t "
be told for lack of lines in his
palms . For however specific he
may become, the General is left
as a spectre in his humanness and
an archetype in his sovereignty.
If he were too well-defined the
book would appear as a thinly
disguised biography . What Marquez has written instead is an eulogy that speaks from the familiar. The General is not, as you
might imagine, Franco, Batista,
jiminez, o r Trujillo . He is all of
them and more . He is the archetype of absolute power as an
ambitio n, and the end of him
co mes in to tal disorientation regarding wha t is tru e . He loses
track of his identity , the ex tent
of hi s power, even the hiding
places for the no tes he has written to re mind himself of these
things. P ower is all that can live
in him a nd it is the resulting enfo rced so litude that undoes it all.
There is a quality between the
tw o majo r w orks of Garcia Marqu ez that bespeaks a co ntinuum .
One could only fea r they bear as
much observati o n as fancy and
that the ins tallments co ntinue to
co me so infrequently.
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by Lynda Barry
Editor's note : In a burst of
Christmas ebullience Exhibits Coordinator Lynda Barry has scheduled "MULTIPLE FRACTURES,"
or "I LEAD (X) NO . LIVES," an
exhibition of work by Catherine
Irwin (alias Aloha Lei and Catherine La Bonne) in the Library
Art Gallery . The exhibition ,
which will remain on display until December 10, will.feat~re special evening performances by the
artist and her friends this Saturday and Sunday. Exhibits Coordinator Barry is especially excited about this particular show.
Here is her report :
She threw it all in for a hula
skirt. No lie. In 1976 this is a
rarity. In October of 1974 it was
no less rare. Catherine Vaughan
Irwin became Aloha Lei and (to
help support this venture) Catherine La Bonne, the French maid .
The effects of this act of rebirth
are here to be seen both in the
Library and at two performances
in our own library lobby. Do
not dare to miss any of it.
The one thing you should not
do while viewing the exhibit of
Aloha's very life is try to relate
what you see to Art on (or in)
the Universal Plane . Take instead
these words into your heart of
hearts ( they were spoken by an
old man after he had laughed at
an Olden berg piece consisting of
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Yes, have a good time. The gold
spray-painted styrofoam wighead
with white sunglasses and a
Puka Puka hat is not to be viewed
as a comment on Man and Society.
"Blue Hawaii," taking up an
entire wall of the gallery, are
, actual blueprints of Aloha's. body
first exposed tQ sun, then carried
to the bathroom where toxic ammonia fumes were waiting to
complete the process. On the ~p
posing wall we find the ever popular and haunting "Cheap and
Gaudy Hula Mementos." It is
through these one feels the intox icating allure of the Islands, one
gets a true sense of. how absolutely deviant a hula girl can be.
The souvenirs are gifts from
friends, fans, and parents.
There are certain ones which
must not be missed: The kekepa
cloth from J.J. "tiny" Freeman,
her first set of cheap and gaudy
hula underwear , the movable
brown rubber hula girl , the
Amazing X panties, and the cruel
and unusual rendition of Chain
of Fools adapted for hula usage.
On first entering the gallery, delight in the color.. Xeroxes of
Catherine in her many manifestations. Read her statements. Wander through all that is dear to
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Friday, December 3
DAVID AND LISA (1962, 94 min .)
Frank Perry directed and Eleanor
Perry wrote the screenplay aboul a
friendship between lwo deeply disturbed teenagers, based on the flc·
tionalized case history by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin. Keir Dullea, In
his lirst starring role, plays David ,
a young man afraid of being touched
and Janet Margolin plays Lisa, a
schizophren ic youno woman whose
only mode of communication con s ists of strangely stru ctured
rhymes . With SUNDAYS AND CYBELE ( France , 110 min.) Th is
movie about the friendship between
a 12-year-old girl and a war veleran
suffering from amnesia won the
1962 Academy Award fo r Bes t Foreign Film. LH One, 3 and 7: 30
p.m., 75 cents.
Monday, December 6, and Tu esday, December 7
HEARTS AND M[HDS (1973, 110
min .) Winner of the lJest Documentary Academy Award , this movie Is
essential viewIng . See rciew elsewhere in this issue. Following the
movie Kate Hunter of the American
Friends Service Committee will present a 2O-minute slide show of
events in Vietnam during the transition of Apri" May , 1975. Sponsored by EPI C (Evergreen Pollt leal
Information Center). LH One, Mon day, 7:30 p.m. ; Tuesday, noon .
FREE.
Friday, December 10
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1962 ,
88 min .) Alain Resnals produced
and directed th is unusual movie,
his first feature. Marguerite Duras
wrote the screenplay about a fleeting love affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Rlva) and a Japanese architect (Eljl Okada), who
meet at Hiroshima. The film Is preoccupied with the irrevocable and
enigmatiC nature of time, which
w.ill bore some and hold others
spellbound . Many critics consider
this movie a landmari< in film his·
tory . LH One, 3, 7, and 9:30 p.m.
MUSIC
ONC'AMPUS
Friday, Decemb6r 3
STUDENT RECITAL featuring a
vocal performance of Baroque mu sIc by Katy McFarland , with accom paniment by Judith Cohen on harpsichord and Lynn Kormandy on
cello. Also : Baroque guitar selections performed by Ken Turley , accompanied by violinists Jane Austin
and Ruth Asschaffenburg ; original
songs by Tom Ehrlichman; and
Mexican songs performed by El izabeth Wellings. 2100 Lounge, li brary, noon . FREE .
Thursday , December 2
MICHALOBA POKAJEFSKI'S MUSIC, in a concert by local musi cians, library lotlby , 7:30 p.m.
FREE .
Friday, December 3
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
BAND OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST in a concert of Christmas
songs. library lobby , 7: 30 p.m.
FREE .
Sunday, December 5
HANDEL'S MESSIAH Singers and
instrumentalists are inviled to participate in an unrehearsed read-
RADIO
satUrday, December 4
ALL · NITE JAMM wi th host Carl
L. Cook. Tonight: Tom Abboll and
Hal McDonald , a country /folk duo,
10 p.m. - 4 a.m., KAOS -FM , 89 .3.
ON STAGE
ON CAMPUS
YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHAR ·
LIE, BROWN , a musical starri ng Evergreen student s. December 4 - 5
and 11 - t 2. Saturdays at 1: 30 and
7:30 p.m. ; Sundays at 7:30 p.m.
only. Students, $1 ; non-sludents,
$2. LH One, reservations, 866-8011 .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, December 10
HERE SHE COMES a special presentation by the Co -respondents ,
in what may be their lasl performance. A benefit for NOW (Nat ional
Organization of Women) . Abbey
Theatre, St. Martin 's College, 7: 30
p.m., $3. Call 943-6061 for tickels
(also available at Yenney's) .
ART
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MULTI.PLE FRACTURES or " I
LEAD (X) NO. LIVES" A visual
show with ceramics. photos, and
souvenirs by Catherine Irwin (Al oha
Lei). December 1 - 10, Palm Tree
Pair-o-Dice Gallery (in the library).
Saturday, December 4
COCONUTS TO YOU A special
Art performance featuring song and
dance, lewd remarks, hula kits , and
so on, featuring Aloha Lei, Tim EI·
liot , Paul Lenti , and Karen Helmer·
son. Library lobby , 8 p.m ., 25
cents.
Sunday, December 5
DIAMOND HEAD DISCO , with
Aloha Lei and hula on the airwaves.
library lobby , 8 p.m., 25 cents .
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL CONVERSATION STOPPERS
"Stuffed albi.n o squirrels? I don't
get it. "
"I've gol four cats and three
dogs ."
"I'm okay , yo u're okay ."
"Never touch a girl there. "
"I quit smok ing last week ."
"I'm pregnant ."
"Who left this in the bathroom? "
"Tell me Ihe truth . Am I ugly?"
"What's you r sign ?"
"I lound it."
"Here's the rectal thermometer
- now what do I do with itO"
" Whe re do you get al l you r
ideas?"
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lhrough of the oratorio . Dr. Wayne
S. Hertz, retired chairman of the
Department of Music at Central
Wash inglon State College , will di rect. Singers should bring their
own scores , and cookies are wanled
for an alter-performan ce coff ee
hou r. Lasl year 250 musicians partic ipated at Evergreen in a similarl y
unrehearsed MessIah. Library lobby,
1 :30 p.m. , FREE .
Tuesday, December 7
EVERGREEN 'JAZZ ENSEMBLE
AND CHAMBER SINGERS ANNUAL
FALL CONCERT The 20-member
Jazz Ensemble and 16 Cha mber
Singers will be joi ned by a new iazz
qu intet, all under the direclion 01
Evergreen faculty member Donald
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move with or without" the electric fan. ("I made some of
palms into ashtrays so people
wouldn' t feel so awkward about
buying art.")
For you she made 100 sharkbile paper weights.
For you she took 90 pictures
of herself brushing her teeth with
her ex-husband over a threemonth period.
And for you she will perform .
That's right. Performance is very
much a part of her life. For 25
cents you ' can actually meet her,
see her dance, sing, play ukulele .
and accordion with her joyful
and robust troupe: Tim Elliott,
Paul Lenti, and the defiant Karen
Helmerson . Nights to Rememberl
Thrills hitherto undreamed of!
Imagine the throngs of others
like yourself openmouthed and
spastic with delight when at last
you realise there wiil be HULA
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pay eight bucks to see Warhol
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bits?
"Coconuts to You! " on Saturday , December 4, and Diamond head Disco on Sunday, December 5, will truly be events of our
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel Garcia Ma'rquez
Translated from the Spanish by
Gregory Rabassa
269 pp. New York : Harper and
Row . $10
In 1970 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's nov el, One Hundred Years
of Solitude, was offered to the
English reading a udience . There
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was hardly an uproar created
over this fresh wind from Colombia, but critically One Hundred
Years complemented the standards of scrutiny recently set by
Thomas Pynchon on the American literary scene . A readership
was generated . Top caliber writ ing from South America has begun to receive serious attention,
and those appetites aroused by
One Hundred Years have gone
unsatiated for six years. With the
recent publication of The Autumn of the Patriarch, the famine
has ended . Ma rquez, however,
must now survive the standards
he himself has set.
One Hundred Years depicts
the rise and fa ll of the fictional
South American village of Macondo . Ambitious in its embrace
o f time a nd meticulous in its
cha racterizations, the book follows the history of Macondo 's
fo unding fa mil y, the Buendias,
through fo ur generations of in sa nity , po lit ical uphea val, a nd
na tu ra l ca la mit y. O ne enters M a condo th ro ugh the eyes of Colo nel A ur el ia n o Bu e nd ia as h e
faces a fir ing squ ad. a nd reca ll s
the day hi s fa ther took him to
discover ice, magnets, a nd the
magn ifying glass, all inve nti o ns
bi-o ught to the tow n b y the gy psies . A s a y ou ng ma n, the Colo nel him se lf brings in the railroad,
a ppearing at first "like a kitchen
dragging a v illage be hind it .. . "
Ultimately M aco ndo is overco me
a nd defiled by an American fruit
co mpan y and left helpless to face
the su cceeding fl ood s and drought
that destroy it.
Th e tragedi es of One Hundred
Years a re p o rtrayed exquisitely .
Its ima ges a re irridescent , and
the disto rtion of its chronology
co nt ributes to an unusually"l'lOlisc
tic acco:mt of an a ncient and disinte[rc,ting social structure .
It is ob v ious that in the years
since Marquez' introduct ion in
English , his sense of purpose has
beco me m o re specifi cally political. The Autumn of the Patriarch opens with the image of
vultures circling the State House
which serves as coffin and putrescent legacy to a senile dicta tor kn own onl y. as the General.
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• a bo ve posit ions c ho se n b y ne w Edi tor .
App ly Dec. 8 - 10 . Ca ll a he a d fo r ap p o int m e nt.
The General , bastard son of a
comically embraceable peasant
woman , is immediately identified
in his plain denim uniform without insignia, a single gold spur,
a nd a truss which suppo rts hi s
fig-sized testicle that whistles a
tune as he ambulates on huge,
fla t fee t thro ugh the shadow s o f
his palace . He surrounds himself
w ith lepe rs, cow s, and the co ncubines he enj oys taking by surprise, full y cl othed , in the co rne rs . Th ey bear him thousands
of so ns, all runts at seven - mo nth
gesta ti o ns. He rul es w ith a pathol ogical distrust of his army and
cabinet, and his po wer is so extensive that calves are born with
hi s b rand a lread y on them , a nd
roses open before dewpo int b ecau se he has decreed a change in
the clo ck .
Patriarch is essentially the caricature of a monster both in the
po litical and intimately personal
sense, a patterning anecdote after
anecdote, the sys'tem of which '
reveals a picture of corruption so
thorough the reader may find
himself fighting to remain aloof .
Time after time, however , Marquez neutralizes that aloofness
with suggestions of latent humanity in the General and longings
so commonly tender, so delicately
acted out that one is again
caught unaware when the General 's mo s t elevated emotions
catalyze another brutal victimiza tio n . The only woman he ever
regards highly enough to fornicate with while naked bears him
a son he proclaims legitimate
and an heir to power. Both are
to rn to pieces by a pack of assassin d ogs in the ma rke tplace .
Everything the General interacts
with co mes to anguish or macabre tragedy. At one point the
culmination of his internatio nal
political maneuverings allows the
United States to remove the entire Carribean Sea and transplant
it in Arizona in payment of the
national debt. Fornication, mur-
ra
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• a bo ve p os iti o ns c ho sen by Bus ine ss Ma nage r App ly Dec. 6 a nd 7, m o rnin gs
,winter quarter
~ and a Merry Christmas to all from
~ the staff
of the
Cooper Point Journal
der and sewing machine repair
provide the only instances of his
succeeding at anything. There
must be a law prohibiting an opponent from beating him at dominoes. Throughout all he manages to hold power for somewhere between 107 and 232
years .
The impact of all this corruption and pestilence of the psyche
is overwhelming at first but too
soon becomes so numbing that
this book of relatively moderate
length grows eHortfu!' Add to
this the fact that Patriarch is divided into only five chapters,
with sentences of up to ten pages
in length , each of which must be
., taken in a single deep breath,
and the condition in which one
is left is either mild hysteria or
exhaustion.
Rabelaisian. Kafkaesque . Both
have been' said a bout Garcia
Marquez. Surrealism is dominant
throughout his scenarios . One
learns to take bodily ascensions
into heaven or a death that
leaves the perfect imprint of its
victim upon the s heet s as a mat ter o f everyday life . But as Marquez responded to a n in terviewer
in 1973, " In M exi co surrealism
runs through the s treets ." So he
gives it free rein in Patriarch . It
is no t the credibility of his visions tha t invoke response but
the intensity . T o get along well
w ith Marquez the reader must
acce pt his incredibilities with as
much finesse as they are offered .
The Patriarch is erected from a
mass of trivia that seems to leave
no t a moment of his career or a
pore in his herniated body unknown to the reader . Still, one
never knows the General's name
or the exact circumstances of his
tise to' powi!i-: His' fortune cannb t "
be told for lack of lines in his
palms . For however specific he
may become, the General is left
as a spectre in his humanness and
an archetype in his sovereignty.
If he were too well-defined the
book would appear as a thinly
disguised biography . What Marquez has written instead is an eulogy that speaks from the familiar. The General is not, as you
might imagine, Franco, Batista,
jiminez, o r Trujillo . He is all of
them and more . He is the archetype of absolute power as an
ambitio n, and the end of him
co mes in to tal disorientation regarding wha t is tru e . He loses
track of his identity , the ex tent
of hi s power, even the hiding
places for the no tes he has written to re mind himself of these
things. P ower is all that can live
in him a nd it is the resulting enfo rced so litude that undoes it all.
There is a quality between the
tw o majo r w orks of Garcia Marqu ez that bespeaks a co ntinuum .
One could only fea r they bear as
much observati o n as fancy and
that the ins tallments co ntinue to
co me so infrequently.
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by Lynda Barry
Editor's note : In a burst of
Christmas ebullience Exhibits Coordinator Lynda Barry has scheduled "MULTIPLE FRACTURES,"
or "I LEAD (X) NO . LIVES," an
exhibition of work by Catherine
Irwin (alias Aloha Lei and Catherine La Bonne) in the Library
Art Gallery . The exhibition ,
which will remain on display until December 10, will.feat~re special evening performances by the
artist and her friends this Saturday and Sunday. Exhibits Coordinator Barry is especially excited about this particular show.
Here is her report :
She threw it all in for a hula
skirt. No lie. In 1976 this is a
rarity. In October of 1974 it was
no less rare. Catherine Vaughan
Irwin became Aloha Lei and (to
help support this venture) Catherine La Bonne, the French maid .
The effects of this act of rebirth
are here to be seen both in the
Library and at two performances
in our own library lobby. Do
not dare to miss any of it.
The one thing you should not
do while viewing the exhibit of
Aloha's very life is try to relate
what you see to Art on (or in)
the Universal Plane . Take instead
these words into your heart of
hearts ( they were spoken by an
old man after he had laughed at
an Olden berg piece consisting of
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as a comment on Man and Society.
"Blue Hawaii," taking up an
entire wall of the gallery, are
, actual blueprints of Aloha's. body
first exposed tQ sun, then carried
to the bathroom where toxic ammonia fumes were waiting to
complete the process. On the ~p
posing wall we find the ever popular and haunting "Cheap and
Gaudy Hula Mementos." It is
through these one feels the intox icating allure of the Islands, one
gets a true sense of. how absolutely deviant a hula girl can be.
The souvenirs are gifts from
friends, fans, and parents.
There are certain ones which
must not be missed: The kekepa
cloth from J.J. "tiny" Freeman,
her first set of cheap and gaudy
hula underwear , the movable
brown rubber hula girl , the
Amazing X panties, and the cruel
and unusual rendition of Chain
of Fools adapted for hula usage.
On first entering the gallery, delight in the color.. Xeroxes of
Catherine in her many manifestations. Read her statements. Wander through all that is dear to
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Friday, December 3
DAVID AND LISA (1962, 94 min .)
Frank Perry directed and Eleanor
Perry wrote the screenplay aboul a
friendship between lwo deeply disturbed teenagers, based on the flc·
tionalized case history by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin. Keir Dullea, In
his lirst starring role, plays David ,
a young man afraid of being touched
and Janet Margolin plays Lisa, a
schizophren ic youno woman whose
only mode of communication con s ists of strangely stru ctured
rhymes . With SUNDAYS AND CYBELE ( France , 110 min.) Th is
movie about the friendship between
a 12-year-old girl and a war veleran
suffering from amnesia won the
1962 Academy Award fo r Bes t Foreign Film. LH One, 3 and 7: 30
p.m., 75 cents.
Monday, December 6, and Tu esday, December 7
HEARTS AND M[HDS (1973, 110
min .) Winner of the lJest Documentary Academy Award , this movie Is
essential viewIng . See rciew elsewhere in this issue. Following the
movie Kate Hunter of the American
Friends Service Committee will present a 2O-minute slide show of
events in Vietnam during the transition of Apri" May , 1975. Sponsored by EPI C (Evergreen Pollt leal
Information Center). LH One, Mon day, 7:30 p.m. ; Tuesday, noon .
FREE.
Friday, December 10
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1962 ,
88 min .) Alain Resnals produced
and directed th is unusual movie,
his first feature. Marguerite Duras
wrote the screenplay about a fleeting love affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Rlva) and a Japanese architect (Eljl Okada), who
meet at Hiroshima. The film Is preoccupied with the irrevocable and
enigmatiC nature of time, which
w.ill bore some and hold others
spellbound . Many critics consider
this movie a landmari< in film his·
tory . LH One, 3, 7, and 9:30 p.m.
MUSIC
ONC'AMPUS
Friday, Decemb6r 3
STUDENT RECITAL featuring a
vocal performance of Baroque mu sIc by Katy McFarland , with accom paniment by Judith Cohen on harpsichord and Lynn Kormandy on
cello. Also : Baroque guitar selections performed by Ken Turley , accompanied by violinists Jane Austin
and Ruth Asschaffenburg ; original
songs by Tom Ehrlichman; and
Mexican songs performed by El izabeth Wellings. 2100 Lounge, li brary, noon . FREE .
Thursday , December 2
MICHALOBA POKAJEFSKI'S MUSIC, in a concert by local musi cians, library lotlby , 7:30 p.m.
FREE .
Friday, December 3
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
BAND OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST in a concert of Christmas
songs. library lobby , 7: 30 p.m.
FREE .
Sunday, December 5
HANDEL'S MESSIAH Singers and
instrumentalists are inviled to participate in an unrehearsed read-
RADIO
satUrday, December 4
ALL · NITE JAMM wi th host Carl
L. Cook. Tonight: Tom Abboll and
Hal McDonald , a country /folk duo,
10 p.m. - 4 a.m., KAOS -FM , 89 .3.
ON STAGE
ON CAMPUS
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LIE, BROWN , a musical starri ng Evergreen student s. December 4 - 5
and 11 - t 2. Saturdays at 1: 30 and
7:30 p.m. ; Sundays at 7:30 p.m.
only. Students, $1 ; non-sludents,
$2. LH One, reservations, 866-8011 .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday, December 10
HERE SHE COMES a special presentation by the Co -respondents ,
in what may be their lasl performance. A benefit for NOW (Nat ional
Organization of Women) . Abbey
Theatre, St. Martin 's College, 7: 30
p.m., $3. Call 943-6061 for tickels
(also available at Yenney's) .
ART
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MULTI.PLE FRACTURES or " I
LEAD (X) NO. LIVES" A visual
show with ceramics. photos, and
souvenirs by Catherine Irwin (Al oha
Lei). December 1 - 10, Palm Tree
Pair-o-Dice Gallery (in the library).
Saturday, December 4
COCONUTS TO YOU A special
Art performance featuring song and
dance, lewd remarks, hula kits , and
so on, featuring Aloha Lei, Tim EI·
liot , Paul Lenti , and Karen Helmer·
son. Library lobby , 8 p.m ., 25
cents.
Sunday, December 5
DIAMOND HEAD DISCO , with
Aloha Lei and hula on the airwaves.
library lobby , 8 p.m., 25 cents .
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL CONVERSATION STOPPERS
"Stuffed albi.n o squirrels? I don't
get it. "
"I've gol four cats and three
dogs ."
"I'm okay , yo u're okay ."
"Never touch a girl there. "
"I quit smok ing last week ."
"I'm pregnant ."
"Who left this in the bathroom? "
"Tell me Ihe truth . Am I ugly?"
"What's you r sign ?"
"I lound it."
"Here's the rectal thermometer
- now what do I do with itO"
" Whe re do you get al l you r
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lhrough of the oratorio . Dr. Wayne
S. Hertz, retired chairman of the
Department of Music at Central
Wash inglon State College , will di rect. Singers should bring their
own scores , and cookies are wanled
for an alter-performan ce coff ee
hou r. Lasl year 250 musicians partic ipated at Evergreen in a similarl y
unrehearsed MessIah. Library lobby,
1 :30 p.m. , FREE .
Tuesday, December 7
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AND CHAMBER SINGERS ANNUAL
FALL CONCERT The 20-member
Jazz Ensemble and 16 Cha mber
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For you she made 100 sharkbile paper weights.
For you she took 90 pictures
of herself brushing her teeth with
her ex-husband over a threemonth period.
And for you she will perform .
That's right. Performance is very
much a part of her life. For 25
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see her dance, sing, play ukulele .
and accordion with her joyful
and robust troupe: Tim Elliott,
Paul Lenti, and the defiant Karen
Helmerson . Nights to Rememberl
Thrills hitherto undreamed of!
Imagine the throngs of others
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who receives them, or about how they
were attained.
Self-evaluations complicate the creditawarding procedure in that they tend to
include subjective considerations of emotions, moods, and feelings, in addition to
!T1ore objective factors such as term papers, books, and projects which can easily
be measured. Self-evaluations add a degree of ambiguity to what has traditionally been a cut-and-dried process. Perhaps
this is why written evaluations are so
threatening to people who are accustomed
to more objective measurements.
In the absence of grades, self-evaluations become vitally important to students.
Says faculty member Ron Woodbury,
" No matter what happened (throughout
the quarter). it's the final chance to make
Evaluation week returns to campus next
\Veek to plague vacation-bound Evergreen
students once again. While students at
more traditional colleges and universities
'are aceing or flunking final examinations,
Evergreeners will be sweating away at
written self-evaluations of their work
over the past quarter.
Comparison between final examinations
and written evaluations is only superficial
however. Self-evaluations are unique to
Evergreen . They represent an attempt to
incorporate personal and individual considerations into the official credit-awarding process. Although grades provide convenient labels - A student, C student,
etc. - they say nothing a~out the person
the most of what you did do . . . You're
trying to convey to the reader that you're
an intelligent person - that you learned
something." Further, he emphasizes the
importance of evaluations as a means by
'which "the outside world" can evaluate
what the student has accomplished. "As
far as the outside world is concerned, the
last week is everything. That's when you
demonstrate whether you learned anything the previous ten weeks." In view of
this significance, he says, "Evaluations
have been nowhere near as good as they
could be or as they should be ."
Many faculty members are concerned
with the lack of emphasis upon evaluation
week and student self-evaluations. Woodbury explains, "Students tend to look
upon the last week of school - evaluation
week - as the time that the quarter is
over. The first ten weeks are the academic
program, and then you have evaluations
- something that is tacked on to the end.
Evaluations are very frequently sluffed
off, played down .. ."
To compensate for this problem, Woodbury attempts to "build evaluation-writing process into the program" through an
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Peter Davis ' Academy Award-winning
documentary on America's involvement in
Vietnam, Hearts and Minds, will be shown
on Monday , December 6. at 7 :30 p.m. ,
and Tuesday , December 7, at noon , in
LH One. Following the movie , Karen
Hunter of the American Friends Service
Committee will present a 20-minute slide
show of events in Vietnam during and
sin ce the transition of April ! May . 1975.
The presentations are sponsored by EPIC
(Evergreen Political Information Center) .
Admission is free.
Only two major films have been made
which deal with America's involvement in
Vietnam . The first was the 1968 schlocky
John Wayne beef epic, The Green Berets .
Wayne , who co-directed and played the
leading role, made a vile movie which remains false from beginning to end. (At
the fadeout , Wayne walks down the Da nang beach into a glorious sunset , and ap parently in the South China Sea the sun
disappears into the East.)
The other major film is Peter Davis'
powerful documentary Hearts and Minds,
which assesses the devastating immoralities of the U.S. in Vietnam, and probes
the motivations which lay behind our
country's conduct and values . Through
newsreel footage and filmed interviews,
Davis provides a simple historical outline
of the U . S.'s involvement in Vietnam,
contrasting the military ugliness in S. E.
Asia with the self-satisfied complacency
of most Americans at home. What makes
this film so moving is not the unrelenting
montage of familiar atrocities, which we
recognize from their mind -numbing appearances on the evening news. It is scene
after lingering scene of the individual victims of that war, American and Vietnamese, who in their efforts to cope with ruined lives seem to cry out to us for an explanation of the insanity as much as they
agonize to themselves.
For the first time, a film focusesperslsten'tly on the faces of the Vietnamese, and
we get a clear, unblinking look at what
the U.S. has done to them . In addition to
the aerial footage of bombed villages, we
get extended interviews with inhabitants
of those villages. and the body counts and
other abstractions of the war fade before
the pictures of individual suffering. A
North Vietnamese farmer, whose eightyear-old daughter and three-year-old son,
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killed in the 1972 Christmas bcmbings,
are shown lying in their coffins, demands
in a delirium of grief and rage: "What .
have I done to Nixon 7 My daughter died
right here . . . Sl:!e was so sweet . . . 1.'11
give you my daughter's beautiful shirt .
Take it back to the United States. Tell
them what happened here. .. She will
never wear' the shirt again ... It hurts so
much . .. "
Then General William Westmoreland
notes that "the Oriental doesn't put the
same high price on life as does the West erner. Life is plentiful. life is cheap in the
Orient. And as the philosophy of the Orient expresses it , life is not important. "
This sort of unconscious racism is repeated again and again. A returned pilot ,
in perfect dress ·uniform. asked by a parochial-school child what Vietnam looked
like, replies solemnly, "It would be beautiful , if not for the people ."
Hearts arId Minds intersperses old movie
clips and popular songs, football games
and patriotic celebrations, throughou't the
interviews and newsreels, in order to
build a cumulative search for the sources
of our national myths, which in turn
might explain the motivations behind the
brutality of the war. The result is an intentionally chaotic effect, pointing to the
fact that the U.S. has mixed up tradition al high ideals of freedom and democracy
with pervasive racism, anti-libertarian
paranoia, and a mindless "will to win, "
which has taken the sports goal of "killing
the competition" all too literally in far-off
foreign countries.
Lieutenant General George S. Patton Jr.
proudly praises his men as "reverent, determined, a good bunch of killers." and a
former bomber pilot recalls how "thrilling
and deeply satisfying" his Vietnamese missions ~ere , an'd how he enjoyed his "technical expertise ." Parents of a young !nan
killed in action soon after college graduation try to rationalize their son's death.
expressing confidence in President Nixon,
and their secret fears of meaningless loss
are painfully apparent . "The reality of the
peams or the people being blown away
(ir.... their homeland being destroyed just
was not part of what I thought about," a
pilot admits.
President after president offers misleading explanations of the reasons for and
't:onduct of tHe U.S. in Vietnam, from Truman to Nixon . Kennedy speaks of Tonkin
Bay, and Eisenhower has, almost inadver-
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all-day self-evaluating workshop helJ
during the tenth week of the term.
Woodbury believes self-evaluations
should include an opening "overview,"
paragraph explaining how long the student was in a particular program or contract, with whom he / she worked, and offering some basic conclusions on her or
his performance through the quarter. Sec·
ondry, evaluations should ·include descrip·
tions of what the student actually did in
the program or contract. Woodbury suggests mentioning a range of ten or twelve
activities to give the reader a feel for the
scope of the student's work. From this list,
the student would then select three or
four especially meaningful experiences to
describe in detail. __
Woodbury especially stresses the need
for a student to be as specific as possible
in describing what he or she actually
learned from the past quarter. He says,
for ·example. that "Students who understand a book can make an intelligent sentence or two about that book, and stu dents who do not understand a book cannot make such a sentence ."
DEC. 2, 1976
and Minds"
tently , his own moment of truth: were
[he French colonial interests not assumed
by this country, "the tin and tungsten we
value so much would stop coming." Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford
admits his mistake in justifying the war
on the basis of the domino theory , while
former presidential advisor Walt Rostow
(who incidentally sued the filmmakers un successfully over his interview in the film)
insists that the war was and is essential to
the fight against communism . Lesser bureaucrats smile and shrug their shoulders
in smug interviews. Their insensitivity is
placed in counterpoint with shots of
South Vietnamese prisoners, victims of
the infamous "tiger cages," or wailing old
people and children, or a napalmed infant,
its skin peeling from its body like loose
rags, which brings to mind a fitting comment on that last ugly weapon: if you
can't bring people to the ovens, bring the
ovens to the people.
Hearts and Minds is not without flaws.
Although the nO-minute fih":' -i; ca~efully
edited and crammed with detail. it cannot
help but leave many of the profound questions it raises unanswered. Scenes of
American popular culture juxtaposed with
battlefield footage do not always produce the apparent inference of direct connection, and even if YOll are sympathetic
to the filmmakers' sensibilities, you might
resent the unsubtle manipulations. We are
immersed in the pop culture which Davis
thinks we must be periodically reminded
of through the course of Heart s and
Minds. but these capsule reminders don't
add much to the power of the film . It
gains most of its impact from simple portraya ls of individuals devastated by the
war. shown for the first time at some
length 011 the screen for large audiences.
Hearts and Minds takes its title from a
statement by President Johnson: "The ulti mate victory will depend on the hearts
and minds of the people who actually live
out there ." The movie, which took two
years to make and months of legal litigation to get through , was finally rel eased
by Warner Bros .. ironically the company
that made The Green Berets a few years
earlier . When Hearts and Minds received
an Oscar for Best Documentary, producer
Bert Schneider took the opportunity to
read a message of "liberation" from the
PrOVisionary Revolutionary Government
of Vietnam . and the final irony of Johnson's· statement became apparent .
"We've all tried very hard to escape the
natural conclusions of what we've learned
in Vietnam. " a veteran in the movie says.
"Americans have worked very hard not
to see the criminality their officials and
policy-makers have exhibited ." And we
have tried just as hard to avoid seeing ourselves. Hearts Imd Minds is a major step
toward a re-examination of America , it~
ideals, and the people who give meanin~
to those ideals - us.