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Vol. 5 No. 16

The Evergreen State College

March 3, ·1977

Tuition Testimony Probably Futile
by Ka.rrie Jacobs
Last Saturday, February 26, the House
Higher Education Committee held the final
hearing in a long series on the subject of
tuition raises for the state's colleges and
universities. The committee, chaired by
Representative Phyllis Erickson, listened
to testimony from numerous student organizations representing most of Washington's institutions of higher education.
The hearing was originally scheduled to
take place in a room in the House Office
Building, but was moved to the more spacious and prestigious House Chambers, in
anticipation of a large crowd .
The hearing began with two long presentations, one by a group from the community colleges, and one by the State College Council , followed by about fifteen
shorter speeches from representatives of
various student organizations throughout
the state.
OPPOSING STATEMENTS
In general, the statements were in opposition to any raise in tuition. Certain
points were brought up over and over again during the course of the hearing. It
was stressed frequently that one product
of higher tuition would be "educational
elitism.'' This "elitism," it was said, would
deny access to students unable to afford
the price of increased tuition, but who are
not eligible to receive financial aid. The
problems of the middle class, the bind of
making too much money to qualify for fi nancial assistance and not enough to send
the kids to college, was brought up innu merable times.
The first testimony of the day was from
Bob Adler, representing the community
coiJeges in the state. He described a bill
which the community college organization
was introducing into the legislature. The
bill proposed that an advisory committee
be formed within the Council for Post
Secondary Education, consisting of mem bers who could be drawn from the ranks
of financial aid officers and students in the
state, but not necessarily limited to those
groups. This advisory committee would
be directly responsible to the Council for
Post Secondary Education. It would assist
the CPE in reviewing financial-aid effectiveness, and in making recommendations
on aid programs an.::l formulas .
The bill also states that the CPE would
have to make a report to the legislature
on the state of higher education in Washington every even numbered year, starting
in 1978.
Possible funding sources for higher education as alternatives to tuiti<n1 hikes were
also mentioned in the community college's
bill. These options include running a state
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the gas tax, and taxing corporations.
Michael Sparks of the State College
Council, a non-profit organization that
represents the University of Washington,
Central, Eastern, and Western Washington State Colleges, and Washington State
University, spoke after Adler. It was
Sparks' contention that raising tuition
should be used only as a last resort in fi nancing higher education, and that it was
not yet time for last resorts. He claimed
that the legislature was trying to "buy off"
the tuition hike with increased financial
aid packets.
.COST ADJUSTMENTS
On the topic of automatic tuition hikes
that could come with legislation to adjust
the cost of tuition to the actual cost of instruction, Sparks said, "Establishment of
tuition levels must remain within the legislative arena, to assure adequate student
and parental input in the system. We feel
that by taking the human element out of
the tuition-setting question, the legislature
will lose one of its most important controls."
Another criticism of the tuition bills

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currently in the legislature is that some of
them contain a provision to remove the
fee waivers presently granted to Vietnam
veterans. Richard Blye of the Washington
Student legislature called this removal
"odious,'" and contended that regardless of
the morality of the war, the men and
women who served in it should be reim bursed for the time that they gave to their
country. Blye considered the denial of tui tion waivers to veterans as "a slap in the
face to every service man and woman ."
An issue brought up several times during the hearings was the problem of misuse of Services and Activities funds. Apparently, students at most of the state colleges have little or no control over the
S&A fund, which is included in the tui tion fee and which is intended to fund stu dent services and activities . According to
representatives from Eastern and Central
Washington State colleges, as well as the
community colleges, the administrations
have been abusing the S&A funds, using
them for paying administrative staff positions, among other things.
One man spoke at the hearing who had
no affiliation with any student group and

was not a student himself. Darrell Phillipson, an attorney from south King County,
who attended Eastern Washington State
College in his undergraduate years, spoke
as a taxpayer who felt that college graduates made up for the low cost of their
education in contributions to society in
later years. He also said that taxes paid by
college graduates, who are theoretically in
higher income brackets by virtue of their ·
education , will help support higher education. "' I am more than willing to pay now:·
he said , "as a premium for what I received
eight or ten years ago."
EVERGREEN 'S INPUT
Tom Thacker, of the Evergreen Student
Defense Committee, arri ved to speah. at
the hearing with an armload of petitions
which were taken away from him by a
security guard in order to slip them subtly to the committee without causmg a
scene.
Thacker started hts talk by pointing o ut
some of the more '"objectionable" parts of
the bills, such as the ··manpower sh ortage
clause. He said that the clause wou ld servt>
to make colleges '" little more than a train ing ground for business, .. when it should
be a " training ground for society ...
He called the idea of basing tuition on a
percentage of educational costs ··clearly
unacceptable" and commented, "To sav
th~ s tudents should pay a percentage ~~
these rising costs implies that student<>
have control qr direction over the financ1al
mess that the legislature faces . . . We refuse to be pivoted against facu lt y and staff
when they are negotiating for higher sal aries.
Thacker called the proposed tuition hike
' a "short term solution to a long term problem," and attributed part of the funding
difficulties the state is having to its " regressive" tax structure.
ln response to Thacker's comments on
the need to overhau l the tax system, Rep .
William Burns, the co-chairman of the
committee. asked " Would you and the
s tudents of the state be willing to go out
and carr1 that message to the resident s of
the state of Washington in order to help
us to go about reforming the regressiveness
of the tax system 7··
Thacker's reply was indefinit e, perhap<.
because he found it difficult to speak l o r
aJl the students in the state.
It is hard to say what effect the ht-atings will have on the proposed tulllC"In
bills, which should be bouncing around
the fl oor of the House by now . Rep . Erick son says that she and the other
.1minee
members tried to go into the hearings wi th
no preconceived notions on how they
would solve the higher education fund ing
problems, and it will be interesting to see
what kind of notions they come ou t with

Harassing Third World Movements
by Matt Groening
" Harrassment or Enforcement : The Role
of law Enforcement In Third World
Movements" will be the subject · of two
afternoons of discussion at Evergreen on
Monday, March 7, and Wednesday,
March 9. The forum, which is sponsored
by the Third World Coalition, .. will be
broadcast live on KAOS-FM.
On Monday, March 7, at 2 :30 p.m. in
LH One, John Trudell, the National Chairman of the American Indian Movement
(AIM) will appear to mobilize support
for AIM leade( Leonard Peltier. Peltier
will be tried on March 14 in the Fargo,
North Dakota federal court on charges of
"aiding and abetting" in the death of two
FBI agents on the P ine Ridge Reservation.

Dino Butler and Bobby Robideau, codefendants in the same case, were recently
acquitted by an all-white jury in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
The Tribal Chiefs and Headsman of the
Oglala nation say that Peltier "stands in
danger for his life, not because he has
committed any crime, but because he has
been a strong, vocal leader of Indian rights
and because he has assisted lourl people . .. "
Also speaking on March 7 will be Donna
Tindal, the traditional elder who adopted
Peltier when he was in Canada, Russ
Redner, and Suzette Mills of Frank's Landing.
"We'd like to point out the contradictions of a judicial and political system that
allows Nixon to be pardoned and Peltier
to be prosecuted," said Stone Thomas,
Third World Coalition Coordinator.

"On the Pine Ridge Reservation from
January until March of 1975, the murder
rate of Indian people was higher than the
city of 9licag9, " said
member
of
the Native American Stu dent Associa tion . "The federal government didn't
care. They thought Indian lives were
cheap, and didn' t IJlatter. But when the
FBI lost two of their men the government
came out of hiding. Before, they were
making it look like an Indian vs. Indian
situation. When the FB I were killed is
when they came out more aggressively,
using such tactics as intimidation, infiltration, bribery, and the grand jury judicial
system as tools to oppress Indian nations."
On Wednesday, March 9, in LH Three
at 2:30 p.m., William Hampton, brother
of Black Panther Fred Hampton. who was
murdered in Chicago on December 4,
1969, will speak . Hampton, who is presi -

dent of the December 4th Commit tee, IS
responsible for a suit pending against the
Chicago Police Department and the FBI.
Also scheduled for March 9 is a show ing of the film, "The Murder of Fred
Hampt on .''
"The purpose of the forum is to enhance people's awareness of the other side
of the Watergate shenanigans, specifically
the Third World Movements," said Stone
Thomas. ., America has been exposed to
the activities of politicians in the political
system, but very little attention has been
given to the impact of various law enforcement strategies developed during that
lime, especially COINTERPLO ."
The forum is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted .

For related article, "Spying On The
Women's Movement," see page 13.

Comics Under Male Supervision
Evergreen's
Friend
To the Editor:
Re: "The Man Who Wants To
Oose Evergreen" CPJ, Feb. 24,
1977.
There are those of us in the
legislature who are proud of and
support Evergreen.
Representative Dennis L. Heck

Shuttered Out
To the Editor :
Re : Letter from the Evergreen
Filmmakers
I was amazed at the filmmakers' letter in the COOPER
POINT JOURNAL I dropped
out of Evergreen for the same
story - you'd think things would
grow, not regres~.
I dropped out in '74 . The last
teacher I talked to was Bob Barnard. Had I been able to find a
sponsor in film at the college, 1
would have gotten another year
in . So it goes . Let's hope the
filmmakers at Evergreen underthrow the overground!
Steven D . Walker

The Truth
About Student
Salaries
To the Editor .
I want to correct an error in
your article on student salaries,
and provide some additional information for clarification. You
sta ted "students cannot receive
less per hour for a new job than
they received for a previous job,
even if the classification is lower."
Not true. Rates of pay are set by

employers (and approved by the
Financial Aid office) according to
the skills, experience, and level
of responsibility required by the
position . A student who has
worked at a campus job may
choose to transfer to a new job
at a lower salary. ($ / he may. of
course, negotiate with the employer at any time for a higher
ra~ of pay .)
I had hoped your article would
mention the fact that student employees receive incremental salary increases after each 300 hours
of work in any given job and that
hourly accumulations are not
transferable from one area to another. Many of the students who
are shown on your list as paid at
higher rates have considerable
longevity on their jobs.
I would like to point out, also,
that there is no great consistency
among campus employers re garding job titles - some are
fairly descriptive, others are not.
I refer interested readers to the
Student Affairs section of the
Evergreen Administrative Code
EAC 174-162-150 for more complete information on student employment policy at Evergreen.
Kay Atwood
Editor's note: More student
salaries can be found on page 4
of this issue.

Art Spelled
Backwards Is
Tra La La
To the Editor :
in march the evergreen gallery
will be presenting a display entitled,
I
PROPAGANDA PROJECTS
in alternative spaces around
the campus. the show is the
work of
ART & LANGUAGE AND
(PROVISIONAL) A & L
which is a group of artists in
new york who work as a collective and who are " ... CONCERNED WITH TRYING TO

RECLAIM ART AS AN INSTRUMENT O F SOClAL AND
CULTURAL T RANSFORMATION, IN EXPOSING THE
DOMINATLON OF THE CULTURAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPARATUS !RULING CLASS
MANlPULA T ION I AS WELL AS
ART WHIC H INDOLENTLY
REFLECTS THAT APPARATUS ... "
the display is in part comprised
of 4 journals published by art &
language: THE FOX N 1, T HE
FOX H 2, THE FOX N 3, AND
RED-HERRING. these journals
are available in the periodical office in the library, or THE EXHIBITS COORDINATORS OFFICE LIB 3229 AND THE EPIC
OFFICE.
ln addition to these journals, a
member of the collective, MICHAEL CORRIS, W ILL SPEAK
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 11 AT
1:30 p .m. IN LH TWO. the content of the show will be of interest to anyone who has become
INTERESTED IN I FRUSTRAT ED/PLAGUED BY THE IN NUMERABLE CONTRADICTIONS INHERENT in the consumptive bourgeois value system,
WHICH DOESN'T SATISFY,
RATHER GENERATES. NEEDS.
AND
particularly to anyone with
any interest in the arts as a means
of social I cultural transformation.
Robert Yerks
Tom Keogh

Socrates And
Subliminal
Seduction
To the Editor:
In general reference to the CPJ
article on student -faculty sexual
relationships, specifically to the
quote from Aristedes' article:
"Specifically, let us consult the
Symposium, the dialogue about
love ... it is also a dialogue about teaching, which is a form of

Charles Burns

love, at least as Socrates envisions it in the d ialogue. " Aristedes admits that the statement
"teaching is a form of love, " is
another of S<;>crates: visions. Everyone has and ,seeks visions.
This is tine, but one man's visions, while deserving respect,
should not be believed to be one's
own. Socrates' visions are fine
for Socrates. Reading them is just
as fantastic an experience as reading some of the reliable articles
on psychedelics.
Teaching, rather than love, is
seduction . A seduction. or enticement to see things from a
more refined vantage point.
Aside from the particulars that
my teachers at Evergreen teach, I
am intuitively learning the art of
seduction from them, in how
weU they handle my growing
consciousness. In some cases I
am amazed and impressed by the
skill exhibited and so inspired as
to delve into the work given me,
finding the same inspiration
there. Some methods of seduction are so boring that all I can
do is drop the class and get out
of the teacher's claw-like grasp.
Then later: " . . . Akibiades
invited Socrates to stay the night
and made his pitch. Socrates
heard him out, then said: ·And if
you're trying to barter your own
beauty for the beauty you have
found in me, you're driving a
very hard bargain ... You' re trying to exchange the semblance of
beauty for the thing itself .. .·"
Socrates now envisions sexual encounter as the image of real
beauty. It seems safe to say from
this that Socrates has never experienced a real, true and fuU
man-woman sexual encounter.
That Alcibiades was disappointed
because " nothing happened"
technically (via Masters and
Johnson ) upon sleeping with
Socrates, is merely indicative of
the maleness of this whole dialogue.
Teaching is a subliminal seduction. Students and teachers
get involved. These relationships,
while undesirable to some, are
nevertheless one of the more real
aspects of the world that one is

likely to find on a college campus.
LD- Evergreen student, female

Pipe Dreams
To the Editor:
When is somebody going to
fix the broken sewage pipe in the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL office?
D.B.

Technological
Capabilities
Of Air Force
Clarinets
To the Editor:
I am wtiting to express my anger with the Forum editorial.
"Confronting the Air Force
Band." I found it sim plistic and
arrogant.
To begin with, it is irresponsible to say that the military's "pr imary purpose and function" is
"the protection of U.S. corporate
interests overseas." Corporations
are recent phenomena; military
establishments have existed for
centuries all over the world. The
statement implies that without
overseas corpo rate interests,
armed forces would be unnecessary, that there is no need for
minimal armed forces to defend
the country against prospective
attack. It is a plausible, though
by no means proven, hypothesis
that armed forces serve to protect a ruling elite, in this case an
alleged intertwined network of
corporatio ns. That doesn't mean,
however, that just because people don't want to be told what to
do by one ruling elite, they
wouldn't mind being told what
to do by another. Militarism,
greed, and the arrogance of power are world problems. The U.S.
military cannot be dismissed as a
mere corporate enforcer and dis-

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carded in a fit of moralistic hysteria.
It compounds the simplism to
imply further, as the editorialists
did, that the American disaster
in Vietnam resulted solely from
our financia l interest there. Such
an analysis ignores contributing
causes like paranoid anti-Communism, neurotic fear of " losing
a war, " the machismo and physical isolation .which distorted the
personalities of the responsible
policy makers. I do not believe
that our fi nancial interest in Indochina was large enough to sustain such a long-term, costly
commitment of money and blood.
The second point I wish to
make is that it is unfair and farfetched to condemn the Air Force
Band as a military propaganda
tool. In detailing the military's
public relations effort, the band
is linked only by an obscure
mention of "cu ltural events.'" The
suggestion is made that the overall campaign is designed to instill
Americans with awe at our "technological capabilities." I don't see
how a band concert fits into this
strategy. unless it's to show the
"'technological capabilities" of
Buffet clarinets and Selmer trumpets.
The editorial states that the
Air Force Band is an "'inseparable
part of the general program of
the U.S . military. " So are the
prisoners-of-war who allowed
themselves to be exploited by
Richard Nixon; so were the soldiers and bombardiers who Willingly fought in Vietnam. Does
this mean we should spit on
POW's and repeal the GI bill7
My point is that it is unfair to
smear peripheral organizations
and near-helpless individuals
with the stain of militarism.
My final point is that while
people have a right to demonstrate, the people planning and
defending this particular demon stration are using arrogant and
counterproductive approaches. I
am appalled that they even considered physically disrupting the
concert. I am amazed that they
think Evergreeners are so vulnerable to the clarion call of militarism that it is worth it to "protect" us even at the expense of,
as they admit, "playing into the
hands of Evergreen's chronic critics." Their rationale for taking
the risk is full of straw-man arguments. To equate people's irritation with a specifi: stance or
tactic with the shucking of social
responsibility i~ elitist. To equate
a roundhouse punch at the Air
Force Band with a challenge to
forces of oppression and exploitation suggests a lack of humility
and cool-headedness. To imply
that the alternatives to this ill··

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advised action were inaction or
ineffective action on the overall
issue (militaristic propaganda) is
simply and obviously falaciou s.
I have faint hope that this letter will change anything. Its only
reason for existence is to release
my anger. The world does not
seem as easily comprehensible as
a conspiracy theory to me, nor
do its problems seem addressable
by impetuous confrontations. I
am not an expert on the issues l
have discussed- but then I don't
claim to be.
\
Sincerely,
Richard R. Weiss, Jr.
Sophomore
Communications and
Community
Editor's note: FORUM is a column of commentary open to any
individual or group on campus.
Opinions and arguments in the
FORUM columns are solely the
authors', and should not be confused with COOPER POINT
JOURNAl editoria ls.

Military Noise

since there's no killing going on
right now (that we know of)
why don't you try out an
internship with the ''rea l world"
and enlist? You'll be able to
cu ltivate your fondness for
military music until you puke! It
might even get you promoted .
The military will even promise
to send you to the North Pole
for flee if that's where you want
to go. And while you're there,
you may even be able to wrangle
your way into a band; you
could entertain the polar bears
and lemmings while you ' re
defending their freedom to listen
to your noise! But if the o rder
ever came down for you to kill
your listeners, then you'd have
k'. You'd only be doing your
job ; bt>sides, you'd better do
your job or Uncle Sam will do
one hell of a job on you .
This liberal un-consciousness
that oozes from practically every
navel on this campus is very
unbecoming of !hose involved in
higher learning. It is in fa ct
pathetic, a nd, I don't give a
damn if the U.S. Air Force Band
makes pretty musi c or not,
pretty music is not its mission!

FTA

To the Editor:

Gary Lakes

In reply to Jane-Louise Rugg:
For those of us who don't take
a radical (get t o the root)
approach to analyze why things
happen (i.e., injust ice, wars,
depression, rapes, etc.), it's very
easy to reach the conclusion that
hate makes the world go 'round.
But, that isn't true. Hate is the
reaction to specific conditions
and events; same as peace. It's
somewhat logical to argue that
you can't fight hate with hate,
for example: castrating rapists
will not bring an end to rape.
Men Jearn to rape and people
learn to hate, and until we
provide ourselves with a different set of circumstances to
relate to each other such
behavior will continue. Our
society often forces us to do
many things that are not rational
nor beneficial to ourselves or
others.
I did some time in the U.S.
Military and believe me, they
taught me how to hate real
good. The military teaches
people sexism, racism , and
national-chauvinism , and for
these reasons it deserves to be
publicly criticized, and everything should be done to inform
people of what the military is
and whose interests it represents.
I don't have a thing against
those dudes playing the music
because I know that there are
certain advantages to playing in
a military band. One is that you
might not get fucked with so
much! If you think E.P .I. C.
(which was not responsible for
the protest) is down on the
military, then you should talk to
some G.I.'s sometime! Better yet,

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I Wish You
Could Have
Seen The Look
On My Face,
Jane- Louise
To the Editor:
Dear Jane-Louise Rugg,

I am glad you wrote your opinion of the demonstration on Feb.
3rd. As one of the angels of
death who stood as the Air Force
played I am responding. I contain no abhorrence for the men
in the Air Force Band . They are
playing beautiful music for the
enjoyment of others. Many of
them may disagree with America's involvement in Vietnam and
other less "developed" nations.
They are serving their time in
the most creative way they can .
And it is creative•!
The question of the Air Force
Band playing in my community
is different, however. The Air
Force uses the Air Force Band to
publicize themselves and to convince men and women that they
too can get creative jobs and
skills by joining the Air Fo rce.
The fact is many hundreds of
Americans join the Air Force to
gain career training. and end up
without the training, serving in
countries like Vietnam. Jt is important for me to stand and tell
others what I know .
I was surprised that the dem onstration was considered an
EPIC action, because it wasn't. I
took part as a moralist rather
than as someone against the establishment. Boeing is capable of
making low-cost housing units,
rather than B-1 bombers. The
Pentagon was planned to be an
excellent hospital when the war
(World War 11) was over. let us
finally convert to a peace-time
economy, where we do not spend
our money on guns in Angola,
Cambodia, or any other nation
in transition.

I wish that you could have
seen the look on my face, JaneLouise. It was one of concern,
not of hatred. Indeed that word
perplexes me.
In Loving Concern,
Molly Forsythe

Protest Poem
Provokes
Polemic
To the Editor:
I would like to make an important, if somewhat obscure,
point to those who were upset
by the demonstration at the Air
Force Band concert.
About a week after the demon stratio n the audience attending
the open mike program at the
Evergreen Coffee house under went a simi lar experience. After
a particularly lively set, one of
the demonstration planners got
up and read a powerful. disturbing poem which examined the
cent ral issue of the demonstralion. The poem questioned why
a rtists. gifted humans that they
are, would wish to support the
Air Fo rce and all it stands for,
when they could be focusing all
their creative talents on facilitat ing understanding between people. The poem went on to contrast the message delivered by
the music with the message delivered to the Vietnamese people
by Air Force bombers. After
hearing the poem, there was deep
silence. We were stunned. The
quiet was thick enough to slice.
Afterwards, I was surprised to
find myself going through many
reactions I find echoed by thvse
who opposed the demonstration :
Why read this poem here7 Why
now? Why bother? I've been
working hard all week and I
don't want to think about anything.
I tried to analyze these reactions. They weren't completely
unfounded . After all, the Vietnamese now control their own
destinies. President Carter made
a small, important step when he
pardoned the draft resisters. Congress halted another potential
Vietnam - type involvement in
Angola . In this context, the poem
seemed irrelevant. What harm
does it do to have an Air Force
Band when the counter-culture
has artists who get more airplay
than the band does7
I had a fairly fierce internal dialogue going with myself by the
time l left the coffeehouse. I
didn't get much resolved until
now. What I realize now is that
it has been enormously easy to
let the whole Vietnam issue fade
away. I was relieved when the
bombing halted, It was wonderful to relax after fighting the system in 1968. What 1 had forgotten is the universality of this
feeHng. Students who fought the

system as well as citizens who
supported it are enjoying the relative freedom of our postwar society . We aren't embroiled in the
affairs of any country. On the
surface, things have c hanged .
After Nixon and Ford, it's a relief to have Carter as president ,
warts and all. However, what the
poet who authored the poem and
the students who engineered the
demonstration have made clear
is that we still live in a country
which is servile to corpora te int e res ts, profoundly ant i -com munist, which believes in free
enterprise regardless of the consequences, and still promotes the
belief that American representative democracy is the finest form
of government anyo ne cou ld
wish to buy . It is of continuing
importance to demon st rate to
people what it lll€ans to defend
these policies, and expose them
to the kinds of murder we have
been able to commit in their
name.
It's going to take radical measures to keep reminding healthy .
peace- loving Americans, musicloving leftists as well as fans of
the Air Force Band. of just what
this country is capable of inflict ing on others in the interests of
progress and security.

EDITOR
Matt Groening
MANAGING EDITOR
Brad Pokorny
FEATURES EDITOR
Karrie Jacobs
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Steve Willis
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James Chupa

Astral Jive
To the Editor:

Not that I give one half of a
hot fuck about it, but I am really
sick of all this "jive"' I'm hearing
about the beauty of meditation
and astral projection. Every time
1 get into the elevator I am worried about the people I am riding
with. This is becauSf! sometimes
they will astral-project on me,
and then when I get to my floor
they say, "Hey, 1 just astral-projected." It gets me down. I heard
this woman say, "Yeah, my
mother astral-projected once." 1
don't know why but 1 really hate
that sort of thing. I mean, if you
have to do it, at least don't talk
about it. The worst place for it is
at the coffee lounge at Saga during the brown bag films. 1 can't
eat my lunch there because I am
so messed up about it.
This is how to tell if a person
is astral-projecting : They will
stand still and barely breathe.
Then they will look anxious and
say, "Oh wow man, I just astralprojected."
This is how to stop them : Slap
them hard.
Boy it really gets me.
Signed,
R 305

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Cynthia Goodwin Orc:ulation AMI.stant
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Toni Holm KAOS Station Manager
Richas-d Holmes Stockroom Attendant
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Bruce Honig Academic Advisor Assistant
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If there is one field Evergreen excels in, it is photography. Not community-college-portrait-studio-school-kids-police-photos-of-fingerprintshow-to-focus-and-enlarge photography, but something called personal
expression. As with many other endeavors here, the emphasis in imagemaking is on exploring the self. The assumption is that a fully-developed
self will be a better member of society.
Evergreen is an alternative school, and attracts people who think in
alternative ways. The combination of self-discovery and alternative
thinking probably accounts for the excellence of the imagery at Evergreen. Evergreen photographers are doing some of the best undergraduate photo work in the country.
Some critics have maintained that Evergreen photographers are obsessed with a style marked by wide-angle infrared shots of mundane objects, dubbed the Evergreen School of Photography. The accusation is in
part true, as many people find that the wide-angle lens allows a more
encompassing vision. But as the following photographs show, the subject matter and vision at Evergreen is diverse.
We present the following images as a record of some of the personal
visions being worked out at The Evergreen State College in 1977.

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These photos are fun to shoot. The
film / flash I lens combination allows me to
shoot very quickly, without focusing or
viewing . I walk around and shoot people
as we pass - usually without getting the

photo was shot in a cafeteria at an industrial exposition in Czechoslovakia.

l am interested in the way people occupy and share space with other people
and objects. But mostly I am interested in
Brad Pokorny developing my sense of sight to the point
that I can enjoy looking at things with or
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the hard gestures or facial expressions
certain energy exchange between people
which are caught that way are always
who are placed in a confrontation situaPhotography has become, to me, a way
tion that dictates what they ding to and
fascinating to me.
of distilling experience for the metaphor,
how they protect or emphasize their selfFord Gilbreath
of creating and unraveling endJess quesimage . I am constantly amazed by the
tions. I want to photograph that which is
selves I didn't know were part of me that
important. Et voila, Ia masque : a carnival
emerge through my photographs. My
in which everything is possible and fears
camera is a vacuum cleaner.
are disguised as pleasures. The only real
danger there lies in believing too much
Margaret Stratton
I would like to suggest that people lookthat the role one is given to play is oneing at my images not ask, "Which one of
self.
these photos do I like?" Rather, try just to
see and make contact with what is in the
Kathleen Meighan
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image. Try not to make judgments. You
photographs seem to be pictures of what
can do this a little later. Simply look at
we don't see rather than of what we do
the images, and listen to what you see.
see. you can take pictures of things that
Maybe after looking at the photographs
no one looks at very often, and those tum
for awhile you notice that the place in the
out
to be the pictures we want to see over
Photography has been an inspiration for
image looks familiar, even though you
and over again. photographers are piome
in
just
this
last
year.
My
instruction
have never actually been there. After doneers on the frontier of vision. it's easy to
began at the Sun Valley Center for the
ing this for a while, stop and think back
do cuz you only open your eyes. it's hard
Arts
in
Sun
Valley,
Idaho.
The
energy
at
to your first impression of the image and
to do because cameras, darkrooms, film
the center really was incredible and I
how now maybe that impression has
and chemicals have nothing at all to do
stayed
through
the
summer.
This
winter
changed and developed into something a
with those feelings of opening your eyes.
I've been working in the Foundation of
little different.
a true photographer doesn't need a camthe Visual Arts Program, and will be
era.
Rohn Finard
graduating this spring quarter. Most important to me in photography is the range
Janneli Miller
of personal expression available through
images, and I feel my most successful
photographs are those that mirror an honI'm interested in pictures that take you
est, personal world of myself. My imsomewhere you have not been. I usually
agery has just begun, and can see growtake a lot of photos when I travel. The
ing with it much more in the future.
Children with their big-leaded pencils
photo of the airplane was taken as my
and finger paints impress me. They build
plane refueled in Gander, Newfoundland
Terry Boley a language where line, texture, form , and
when I was travelling to Europe. The other

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Scott Miller

Most of my photographs are pictures of
attempted failures: failures at attempted
depiction of attempted boredom . Some
other photographs are ones I took when I
was trying to be a real photographer photographim~ borin,g subject matter : pictures
of houses, naked men and women in
woods, sleeping drunks, friends posed in
front of supermarkets, children playing,
close-ups of expressive hands, barns, photos of rusty drainpipes, ferns, logs, friends
posed with certain kinds of objects, shadows of myself, comers of buildings, amusement parks, and trimmed bushes.

Charles Burns
Editor's note: not all photographers
were available to make statements about
their work. We would like to thank everyone who submitted photographs. Then
were many good images besides these.

THE EYERGREEN PHOTOGBAPHER
EDITOR
Brad Pokorny

EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Matt Groening
ASSISTANCE
Larry Shlim

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The Language Of Photography

Larry Shli m
b) Larry Shlim

l'hut••t-:r.lrh" h,l" JchieveJ an
unprl•u·Jl!ntl'd mtrronng ol the thmg<.
"I ~•ur cu lture . It JS co mm!1nly de lt•ndl'd •'n the ground.;; (lt tt s ~sefu lness, tn
the <..tn-.t· that J teleph c.rne is useful ,
1•r bec.au\ot> o l its service as an illustration
lllr W NUS.
But many photographers are
not content with the camera as a
mere practical tool. They are exploring
the significance of the medium as a
untque language in creative selfe'l.pression. The language of photography
l'i somethi ng new in human experience.
and it 1s frequently misunderstood.
Inherent tn ~;>_hqography are the factors
wh1ch defme its p~ose. As in any
artistic medium , a paflicular human a ction with certain materials produces a
new thing. The materials and
maker define not o nly the final
product. but its uniqueness as a medium,
.md therefo rt>. its reasons to exist.
But unlike o ther media, the camera
- with 1ts lens. shutter, and film requires s0meth ing ot her than materials
and maker to function. A writer can
wnte m a void. Sculptors and painters
l'ften w0rk miles and years from
the s0urce oi their vision. But camera
lenses require both light and some
rea l th ing ex ternal to both materials and
maker The photographic image is caused
b~ l1ght houncmg off whatever
1'\ in frnnt nl the lens .
This ueatec, an interesting ehenOf!leQOIJ..:,_
·a 1wo-dlni-enc:10_n.al-cfeliriea·tion
th e~
rt:al 11\ Prld 1: 1~ the closest human tec h-

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m1k1gy hc1<; u•me to reproduc ing
!<tnd t hC'rdl1re .. haringl that aspect
''' lill· known ;J<; visual perceptio n. A
r hntut:r.tph ,, .Jhle to preserve, like
d memPry . the raw material of human ex rt•rit·nt t'
Pho tography j., deeply related to
time. Because it ca n treeze objects to a
fraction of a second, there can
be a heightened awareness of how things
move, o r are implied to move . Moments
are captured in between our usual
perception of reality . Important
events. a ctual or implied , combine in
frozen forms, and weigh more heavily
within the pictured context. Photographs
are records which ca n make a
tree, a rock. or a person immortal.
You can trace a photograph to
the fraction of a second in which it was
taken . All photographs contain some atti tude toward time : mornings, late
afternoon ligh L. the 1950's. and
personal time - this photograph reminds
me of my childhood, or a dream.
o r a feeling. The implication of time is an
important symbol in the language of
photography.
The photographic image has a separate
physical reality from the real object
which caused it. That is, it is not
merely a window on the world, it is
a look into the subjectivity of some~e·s
personal visio n . The relationship
between thing made and thing in reality
is that of tension. There occurs
a conflic t (not necessarily unplt:asq_otLbet ween whai...is-..o:een and .wha-tis implied . Photographers try to
recognize the symbols which the external

world provides. so they ca n use them
as raw material for new statements.
Whether this is a conscious or
intuitive process. the resu lting tension between image and reality a ttests ,
to the subiective vision contained in that
image.
Photographers often combine a number
of photographs to express a cohesive vision. From a series of images the
viewer can understand the over-all
design of idea , process, and selection. By
noticing things li.ke sequencing,
the continuity of form and content, and
the consistency of the vision itself.
you can participate in the language of
photography. Learning to see photographically is like learning to think in a
foreign language. It teaches you
to observe the meanings of sometimes common things in an a ltered context.
The tension between image and
reality creates further irony when
photographs are used to symbolize the dream. Photography does
not deny the reality of imagination or the
subconscious. All meams and imaginings
are woven of the same raw material
as photographs. Photography may
actually be the ultimate surrealist medium .
Photography can be a direct road to
self-discovery. It is fairly simple
technically, inexpensive, and extremely
prolific. You can learn a lot in a
short time. As in any art form ,
a certain amount o£ orientation is needed
to appreciate it on a higher level. (UsuaiJ.y...p.hot.og-r-af)hy-·tA-Our cultureis. seen at the lowest level : pictured
information that passes at a glance. )
On the o ther hand, much of the
misconception about photography stem-;
From the attempt to relate it to
a broad acceptability as art. The
inventio n of photography helped painters
rea lize that there need not be any
inherent relatio nship between

painting and reality It helped clear
the way for a turning inwa rd that
profoundly changed the course of art.
Pa inting became concerned with
putting paint on a surface; scu lpture.
the art of making three-dimensio na l
~hapes o ut of anything. Photography is
causing images to be made by
reality , but it took the photographers
themselves a lo ng time to realize this.
Photographers have chased
artists down through art history :
through romanticism , impressionism,
pop, op, and now into conce::ptualism,
while some painters have turned to photorealism . These attempts to expand
photography int o~ broad acceptability a:; art is not just undignified,
not just visually and morally
stale. but simply an ti-photography in a
deep way. Photography's lack of selfrespec t is expressed by George
Bernard Shaw, who wrote :
When the photographer takes to for gery, the press encourages him. The
critics, bEing professional connoisseurs of
the shiftiest of the old makeshifts,
come to the galleries where the
forgeries are exhibited. They find to their
relief that here, instead of a new
business for them to learn, is a row of
'monochromes which their old
jargon fits like a glove. Forthwith they
proclaim that photography has become an
art.
The moment of creation in
photography requires a sort of balancing
-acr-betwetm- re<tllty, camera lens,
and the emotio nal " baggage" we c11l carry
around with us. Our thoughts, fantasies,
feelings. and emo tio ns can be
expressed visua lly in subtle and
profound ways. Great pho tographs
exist not so much where image
and rea lity meet and ba lance, but in
the elect ric tensi,m between real
and unreal .
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Spying On The Women's
Movement
"The New Campaign Against
the CIA, FBI, and Local Police
Spying" will be the subject of a
s~ch by Frank Wilkinson at 8
p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, in
LH One.
Wilkinson's talk will focus on
the surveillance and harrassment
of the Women's Movement. He
will also present an update on
the status of Senate BiJl One.
Wilkinson is the Executive Director of the National Committee
Against Repressive Legislation.
He has been an outspoken organizer for civil liberty causes
since 1953.
Tht' talk is sponsored by several academic programs, the
Women's Center, and EPIC (the
Evergreen Political Information
C-enter) . . ·F0r more
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• The Center for Literature in
Performance presents Lisa Hornbrook and S haron Ryals on
Thursday, March 3, 1977. The
reading takes place in Library
3112 at 7 :00p.m.
• There will be a meeting for
prospective s tudents of Foundations of Natural Science 1977 - 78
on Wednesday, March 9, at 10
a.m . in the third floor lounge of
LAB II. The faculty for next year
will be there to discuss plans for
the program and for the precalculus entrance exam. There will
be modules in chemistry and
mathematics during spring quarter for students wishing to prepare for FONS and the exam.
• Employment in the Arts will
be the subject of a one-day workshop on Wednesday, March 9,
beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Ub.
2205. The panelists include 1une
Marsh, artist; Helen Swanberg,
Olympia School District Art Coordinator; Marsha Pinto, coordinator of the Artist-in-the-Schools
program for the Was hington
State Arts Commission; David
Marsh, Western Washington
State College art faculty; and Bill
Radcliffe, State S upervisor of
Art, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Sign up in Career Planning and
Placement, Lib. i214, or call
866-6193.
• An information session on
Teacher Certification is scheduled
for Wednesday, March 9, from
10 a.m. to noon, in Lib. 2205.
Representatives from certification programs at the University
of Washington, Western Washington State College, and the
University of Puget Sound will
answer questions about enrolling
with a Bachelor of Arts degree,
transferring as an undergraduate,
special concerns for Evergreen
students, and the teaching job
market. Sign up in Career Planning and Placement, Lib. 1214,
or call 866-6193.

If you feel people should make
conscious decisions whether to
have children"' or not, and would
like to talk with other people about how these .decisions are
made, come to" A CONFERENCE
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CHILDREN ."
The conference will occur on
Saturday, March 5, in CAB 108
and 110.
The conference is free and
everyone is invited. There will be
free child care - a fun, full day
of activities. At 9 a.m. the conference will begin with coffee and
child care. The introduction and
an originaJ drama concerning the
parenthood decision and exploring the social assumptions of
parenthood will begin at 9: 30.
Then there will be a series of

workshops, lunch, an afternoon
drama, and two afternoon workshop series. The conference wrapup will begin at 4:30p.m.
Workshops include : Pros and
Cons of Having Children; Women, Children, and Careers; Alternatives to the Nuclear Family and
Single Parent; Legal Implications
of Having Children; How Does a
Man Decide ; Implications or Not
Havin_,g Children; Physiology and
Medica l Questions ; Adoption
and Foster Care; Effects of Children on a Committed Relationship; Economic and Political Implications of Birth Control and
Having Children; Considering
Children from Third World Perspectives; and others.
For more information, call
866-6385.

• The Thurston And Mason Alcoholic Recovery Council (TAMARC) is seeking the help of
Evergreen volunteers for a phonathon March U and 13 to raise
funds for a new building the organization hopes to construct on
Mottman Hill. T AMARC is
currently headquartered at the
old Seven Gables building,' where
it has a ten-bed capacity. Its
counseling organization is separated from Seven Gables. The

ten-year old group hopes to
combine and expand facilities at
the Mottman site.
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GOOD READING is a column listing books and articles which
members of the COOPER POINT JOURNAL staff have found
especially useful , entertaining, or important. From time to time
GOOD READING .wilUsalure· short commentaries and Items on
literary matters. We welcome suggestions and ideas for this
column from our readers. Rustlcus expectat dum defluat amnia.
("The rustic waits for the river to run wholly by.")
PERIODICALS DEPARTMENT
"Cruise Missiles," by Kosta Tsipis. These small pilotless aircraft
are the next step in strategic weapons technology. Cruise missiles,
the modern version of the Infamous
German V-1 buzz bombs, utilize
lightweight jet engines and ultrasophisticated terrain -fo llowing radar to enable them to deliver nuclear or conventional warheads anywhere in the world . And they are
cheap: we could produce and release them by the thousands.
The article details the technology
of cruise missiles and dlscuss~es
thelr Impact on the arms race, outlining some of the specific problems they present to arms negotiators. For Instance - radar will not
tell whether an approaching cruise
missile carries a conventional or a
nuclear warhead.
The cruise missile Is the weapons system being considered as an
alternative to the highly controversial B-1 bomber system. Scientific
Amertcan February 19n, page 20.
"Failure Seen for Big-Scale, High
Technology Energy Plane," by Luther J. Carter. A citizen's task force,
made up predominantly of "solidly
respectable leaders from middle
class organizations," has released
a report which says that nuclear
and other large scale energy plants
are economically unfeasible. The
report, titled "The Unfinished Agenda," recommends that we begin
the shift to "soft" energy technologies. such as solar and wind power,
that operate at a local level , and
that we cut our energy demand In
half through conservation.
Interestingly, the report indicates
that the nuclear power movement is
already dying. "Dying not only because In economic terms It is too
capital-Intensive to be viable as a
long-range energy option, but because the more debate surrounds
it, the less viable It becomes as a
political reality . Nuclear proponents
are winning a few battles, but losIng the war," says the report. Science February 25, 19n, page 764.
"They're Glvl~ Ua Gas All Right,"
by James Nathan Miller. It seems
that the only data about gas resarves Is provided by the gas Industry Itself. Yearly statistics are
comolled by the American Gas As-

v.w.

sociatlon using data provided by
the gas companies - they are the
only ones with the necessary equipment lor surveying. There Is evidence that the large gas-producing
companies are allowed to choose
which geologists carry on the research, and a number of these geologists have recently admitted under oath that they are expected to
supply whatever estimates the companies want.
So questionable are the practices
surrounding the survey that Federal
Trade Comm ission investigators
have recommended that the AGA
and the gas companies be t<lKen to
court for "concertedly maintaining
a deficient reporting system." Miller
says that Federal Trade Commissioners have ignored this recom mendation for political reasons.
Miller urges Congress to use Its
subpoena power to carry on Its own
Independent surveys. The New Republic February 12, 1977, page 15.
''S.ttllng In," by Elisabeth Drew.
Washington correspondent Drew
checks out the new atmosphere in
the Carter White House, writing In
her own easy-reading New Journalism style. The New Yortcer February 28, 1977. page 82.
"The Current Cinema - Roots,"
by Pauline Kael. Roots as the forerunner of a coming trend in television: the epic made-tor-TV movie.
Kael discusses the current palaver
about It In Hollywood. The New
Yortcer February 28, 1977, page 89.
"Vladimir Bukovsky: Interview."
The recently released Soviet dissident has spent 11 of his 34 years
in Soviet mental hospitals and prison camps. In this Interview with
Peter Williams he talks about the
treatment he received while Incarcerated, and some of his methods
of resistance. New Yortc Review of
Books February 22, 1977, page 16.
"The Way We Weren't," by Sara
Davidson. The way things were really like In the flower powerful days
of the late '60's, according to two
sorority sisters at Berkeley. Sara's
husband was a sexist pig, and communal living was not all peace and
love. This article comes with some
nostalgic photographs of happy
hippies hugging one another In varIous places. Esquire March 1977,
page 83.

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Last Saturday morning, February 26, while the members of the
House Higher Education Committee sat in their places at the
front of the House Chambers,
listening to the testimony from
an endless stream of bright-eyed
young men and women, who
clutched 3x5 cards and volumes
of notes in their nervous hands,
a group of students from all over
the state gathered on the Capitol
steps to protest tuition hikes.
The crowd started assembling
before 10 a.m :: nailing signs together, sitting on the steps, talking about the governor, hoping
that it wouldn't rain, hoping that
it would rain, and just waiting
for enough people to arrive to
fonn a sizable demonstration.
The signs that the step-squatters
held proclaimed the thr~ "principles of unity" of the StateWide Committee to fight the
Tuition Hike : " 1.) No tuition
hike. 2 .) No cutbacks in educational goods and services. 3.) Tax
the corporations and the rich,
not the poor."
The demonstration grew from
a sparse representation of the
Evergreen, Eastern, U of W, and
OTCC student bodies, plus a
few stray Boy Scouts who had
drifted aw4y f-r.om-t heir- t-our ef
the Capitol (an example of democracy in action), to a substantial gathering of 100 to 150 people, with contingents from each
of the state colleges and universities.
While the students inside stuttered and slipped uncomfortable
jokes in between facts and figures, the group outside heard pep
talks amplified in that magnifi-

cent tinny megaphone manner
that no demonstration would be
complete without.
"We shouldn' t be concerned
with writing letters and all that
crap . .. We gotta show 'em our
strength," said Bill Rkhman, a
University of Washington student and member of the Revolu tionary Student Brigade there.
Blue song sheets were distributed to th~ crowd and a guitarist
was brought to the top of the
steps to lead the crowd in a rousing chorus of "Fight the Hike
Song," sung to the tune of "Sixteen Tons."
"They said tuition hikes,
that's what you get,
Just take another loan and get
d~per in debt.
If you don' t have the bucks
then you gotta hitch
This ed-u -ca-tion is just for
the rich ."
There were more pep talks and
a few rounds of chanting "No
way, we won't pay," and "Stop
the hike, organize to fight." One
could a lm os t hear whispering
echoes of " U. S. out of Southeast
Asia, stop the bombing now,''
wafting in the breeze, and somehow the atmosphere seemed to
contain more nostalgia than it
did anger.
The time finally came to move
-eU-the steps-arud-iRt~--the near~ng

for a s how of solidarity in the
galleries. Armbands were tightened and the demonstrators
marched, chanting and clutching
their signs, two abreast, up the
marble staircase to the balconies
that overlook the Chamber fl oor.
The state troopers hovered nearby, ready to act in case of trouble, and the gold-jacketed House
ushers whispered and prepared

themselves to handle the on slaught. When the down-jacket
and the gold-jacket contingents
met, there was a certain amount
of confusion and uproar because
the ushers were not about to allow any of those signs into the
gallery. The process of confiscating all of the carefully hammered
and lettered "No Hike" placards
was awkward at best and a few
got smuggled in anyway, despite
a valiant effort by the palace
guard not to allow it. After the
first confrontati<>n the ushers
went about their usual business:
"Hands off the gold railing, feet
off the marble, and will you
please take a seat7"
A few of the signs that had
made their way in surreptitiously
popped up here and there, and
the ushers rushed in to remove
them before they could be noticed
by the committee members.
Several times during the course
of the hearing, chants of "Stop
the hike" started in the galleries
and Chairwoman Phyllis Erickson threatened to adjourn the
hearing unless they stopped immediately, or were removed from
the galleries. The "stop the hike"'s
trailed off, usually leaving one
fervent and slightly embarrassed
person still chanting. Erickson
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They left, chanting and reclaiming abandoned signs.
One demonstrator was heard
to say to another on the way
out, ''Hey, maybe we should
have printed up 'No Hike' Tshirts, I mean, what could the
guards have done about that,
told us to take off our shirts?"
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Roll Over, Casanova
By Brad Pokorny
The dock striking twelve, I
shewed her the principal actor
who was longing to perform, and
she arranged the sofa, saying that
the alcove being too cold we had
better sleep on it. Bu t the true
reason was that, to satisfy the
curious lover, it was necessary
for us to be seen.
Dear reader, a picture must.
have shades, and there is nothing,
no matter how beautiful in one
point of view, that d oes not require to be sometimes veiled if
you look at it from a different
one. In order to paint the diversified scene which took place between me and my lovely mistress
until the dawn of the day, I
should have to use aU the colors
of Aretina's palette. I was ardent
and full of vigour, but I had to
deal with a strong partner, and
in the morning, after the last exploit, we were positively worn
out: so much so that my charming nun felt some anxiety on my
account.
- The Memoirs of
Giacomo Casanova
Federico Fellini has distilled
Casanova's twelve-volume memo irs into three hours of pure vis-.
ual excitement. Meshing the semilegends of Casanova's own life
with the bizarre imagery of his
own personal mythology, Fellini
has translated the rambling autobiography of the 18th century's
greatest seducer into a careful
catalogue of mechanistic sex. The
film presents Casanova's life not
as a continuous flow, but as an
episo'di't' · setles · bf' se-duct ion
scenes. Each scene represents a
different seduction scenario: a
secret rendezvous with the nun,
a pale young virgin who faints
her maidenhead away, whoring
and the venereal resu.lt, the euchring of a gullible old widow,
an orgy, a true lover and a broken heart, and almost every other
classic mode of shallow, consumer- minded love and sex.
The episodic nature of the film
presumes a lot o n the part of the
viewer. We are expected to make
mferences al5out- casanova's
character on the basis of FeiUni's
carefully dissected scenes. No attempt is made to explain Casanova's origins or youtt:, and the
only clue to his psychological
motivations is revealed in the
final scene of the film: a dream
he has as an o ld man. Fellini's
standard cast of freaks, hunchbacks, dwarfs, and people with
grotesque, fantastic faces, coupled
with the film's lavish and almost
overdone sets, make it difficult
to know how much of the story
is Fellini's imagination and how
much is an accurate portrayal of
the life of Casanova.
In fact, the film is quite accurate in re-creating Casanova's
character.
Giacomo Casanova was born
in Venice in 1725 to a fam ily of
dancers, and at the time the theatre was synonymous with the
b r othel. Casa n ova q ui ckly
learned that his mother's husband was not his fat her, and that
one could o b tain women's desires more easily with tricks than
with the truth. He spent most o f
his youth away from home being
educated by monks, and it was
not until he was 17 that he discovered the joy of sex. He began
with the double seduction of two
young sisters.
Fellini picks up Casanova's life
after he has traveled o nce around
the continent and has well established his reputation. He is 28.
The fi lm opens at night in Venice

with gala coverage of the huge
festival. Everyone is costumed.
Casanova is passed a letter, and
told that a nun wants to meet
him at a casino ·o n Murano, an
island not far from Venice. Casanova rows through a sea of bil lowing plastic, makes his rendezvous w ith the nun, and engages
in wildly acrobatic sex to the
strange tune of a music box with
a mechanical bird on the top.
Donald Sutherland plays Casanova, and he always remains
partially clothed during the sex
scenes. The women, too, reveal
little, and the intentiona l result
is more a parody of sex than an
erotic display.

The lovers a re watched from
behind a pain't ing of a whale during all this. Casanova notices,
asks, and is informed that the
French ambassador has long
wanted to see the great Casanova
in action. After they are finished,
the still hidden ambassador compliments Casanova o n his prowess. Casanova thanks him and
asks to see the ambassador later
about an invention he is working
on. But the ambassador is gone,
his interest only in voyeurism.
Most of this scene is historically correct, at least according
to Casanovas-metJroirs:- Everyyear o n Ascension Day there was
a gigantic festiva l in Venice. And
it was well known that some of
the ladies behind the masks were
the Brides o f Christ, possibly
hoping to be seduced in their anonymity.
The nun was pro bably Maria
Michie!, the daughter o f a patrician, who had been committed
to a convent to keep her away
from Casanova. He had already
shown a strong interest in her.
Casanova did meet with Maria
at a private casino on Murano,
and their lo ve-making was observed by Pierre de Bernis, the
French ambassador to Venice.
The quotatio n at the beginning
of this article is Casanova's description of the actual act.
That Fellini's Casanova would
ask to see the Frenchman later
about an invention is true to
character . Casanova was intel ligent and highly educated, and he
was constantly trying to impress
the upper classes with his work
in inventing, mathematics, and
playwriting, among other talents.
In a following sequence, Casanova has established himself in a
seamstress' pa rlor and takes a
fancy to a particularly pale g irl
who keeps fainting. Each time
she colla pses a doctor is summoned, who bleeds her. Fellini
works this to comic effect, casting a semi- hunchback, from his
personal gallery of freaks, as the

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IN OLYMPIA
too often and Casanova seizes her
Sunday, March 6
and her virginity.
THE EVERGREEN JAZ2 ENSEM·
FILMS
The real Anna Maria Del Pozzo
BLE In a fou r-hour, benefit perON CAMPUS
formance. Proceeds go Into the en~as a mysterious pale girl who
Friday, March 4
semble's travel fund, which the
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) An
had never menstruated although
band hopes will finance a trip to
uneven
but
often
funny
satire
on
sh~ was 28 (she claimed she was
perform at the Pacific Jazz Festival
the evils of Hitler and Mussollnl.
18). and as a consequence she
In Berkeley, California. Captain
Charles Chaplin, who wrote the
Coyote's, 7 to 11 p.m., $1 .
had been bled 104 times. Casascreenplay, composed the music,
and directed the movie, plays the
nova decided he had a cure for
dual rote of a Jewish barber and the
that, and although it worked, the
dictator of a mythical European
CONFERENCES
family sent him packing.
country. The movie Is overlong and
Saturday, March 5
too
.sentimental
,
but
certain
seOne scholar suggests CasaA CONFERENCE ON THE DECIquences (particu larly the c lassic
nova was so successful because
SION TO HAVE CHILDREN Alterna·
scene In which Chaplin as the dictives, economics, socialization. and
he usually chose women who
tator Hynkel does a ballet with the
other subjects will be explored 1n
were insecure about some flaw
globe of the world) are visual clas·
workshops and discussions. Free
sics. Paulette Goddard plays a
they felt they had, women who
child care will be provided from 9
bouncy ghetto waif, and Jack Oakie
were not the best-loo king, who
a.m. to 6 p.m. For more informahams it up as the Mussolinl-style
tion, call 357-7909.
were from the lower classes, or
dictator named Napalo nl . With :
who might have been handi HOOSEGOW , a Laurel and Hardy
short. Presented by the Friday Nite
capped in some way. He flattered
Film Series. LH One, 3, 7, and 10
SPORTS
and admired them and the womp.m. 75 cents.
ON CAMPUS
en, unused to such attention,
Monday, March 7
Friday, March 4
quickly capitulated. One imporTHE PEOPLE ARE MY HOME
VALENTINE SWIM MEET Rec
(1976) A short documentary on the
tant similarity between Fellini's
pool, noon.
experiences of Midwestern women
IN OLYMPIA
Casanova and the real one is that
born around 1900. Made by the
Friday. March 4 - Sunday ,
both seem t o genuinely fall in
Twin Cities Women's Film CollecMarch 6
love with every woman, or al tive as a ··Bicentennial gift." MemFIRST ANNUAL PING PONG
bers of Seattle's Radical Women
most every woman, that they seTOURNATHON Officially sancwill discuss the film afterwards.
tioned by the Washington State
duce.
Presented by EPIC (Evergreen PoTable Tennis Assoc iation Ftfty
The film con tinues in its faith litical Information Center). LH One,
continuous hours of play. Comfulness to history with Casanoon and 7:30p.m. FREE .
munity Center, 1314 East 4th AvThursday, March 3
nova's imprisonment for practicenue. Starts 5 p.m. March 4. and
LA JETEE , an overrated French
runs unti l 7 p.m. March 6.
ing cabalism and alchemy - al sci-fl short , and METROPOLIS
though the real crime was mak(1926). An expensive, ambitious film
ing fools and cuckolds of too
about flf,e In a kakotopian city In
the year. 2000. The movie is dommany prominent Venetians. In
ON STAGE
Inated by the enormous archltec·
the film it might appear that he
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tural designs of Otto Hunte, Erich
is being locked in a dungeon , but
Thursday. March 10 - Monday,
Kettelhut, and Karl Vollbrecht.
March 14
it is actually the attic of the
Goebbels was so impressed by the
THE FANTASTJCKS A lavish profilm that he asked Fritz Lang, who
Doge's palace, the Inquisitor of
duction by the Performing Arts To·
dico-wrote
the
screenplay
and
Venice. And Casanova did esday coordinated studies program
rected, to stay In Germany and
cape thro ugh the roof. as is comlibrary lobby, 8 p.m. Tickets are
make movies lor Hitler. But Lang
$3, $2, and $1 .50. Available at the
ically shown in the film, although
refused, and left for France and the
campus bookstore or at Yenney's In
U.S. In 1933. ~B Coffeehouse.
it actually took him 15 mo nths
Olympia.
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Fellini creation . Casanova did
FIGURE
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Angeles car wash. With : WHITE
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not easy being a non-feminist. antitemplate suicide there, but it was
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not because he had contracted
HAROLD AND MAUDE The cult
days. Not easy at all. The frustra ·
movie starring Bud Cort and Ruth
venereal disease. That he got 11
lions of running a state government
Gordon,
with
music
by
Cat
Stevens.
times in his life. l have not found
day alter day get buried, repressed.
Everyone knows somebody who has
denied . .. but they all come out at
any reference to the giantess Felseen this movie 29 times, so get In
night. In the form ol unpleasanl ,
line. The Cinema, 943-5914.
lini's Casanova was drawn to, or
screaming nightmares : fired , unto the stud competition that he
confirmed appointees clutching at
engages in with a coachman at a
her desperately, Ralph Nader dancIng nude on an overturned oil tankdecadent Rome party. As for the
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by "survival of the fittest :· and radioactive Hanford Nuclear Facility
lini uses so well to examine the
Fourth floor library, 7:30 p.m., 50
workers begging to shake her hand
programmed nature of Casacents donation.
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Saturday, March 5
nova s ove-ma ing, t ey seem
NAOMI unLEBEAR and KRISwhen you're the ldl Amln ol Washproducts of f ellini's brilliant and
TAN ASPEN with the URSA MINOR
Ington state.
perverse imagination .
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Address all love letters , hate
mall, and excess nuclear waste to
The portrait of Casanova in
will be presented by these Portland
the late Joe Bemis, in care ol the
his later years as the librarian at
performers. LH One. 8 p.m. $1 .50.
Child care provided.
Joe Bemis Memorial Cryogenic life
Dux in Bohemia is excellent. He
Sunday, March 6
Support Gallery, open 24 hours. No
had become a cantankero us o ld
FOLK SING , a gathering of peoflash photos, please. All hot drinks
and hammers must be checked at
man, and he did complain about
pie and songs. CAB Coffeehouse,
the door.
3 p.m. FREE.
his macaroni not being cooked
properly. He was laughed at by
the younger men around the
court for his archaic manners
a nd stale stories.
At the end of the film Casanova dreams of being back in the
Venice of his youth, dancing with
the perfect woman, a mechanical
doll he made love to once. His
mother and the Pope a rrive in a
carriage, a nd observe. This dream
is probably a good analysis of
what drove Casanova to be the
lover he was. Having spent his
boyhood away from his mother,
Casanova seems to have been
obsessed with her , a nd the women he seduced were possibly an
attempt to replace her. And it
appears that the double standa rd
of Catholicism was important in
allowing him to sin, yet feel fo rHilarious comedy - but joyo us love story. This is a
given, a llowing the rationale by
movie that makes you feel good. Starring Ruth Gorwhich he might vent his lust, and
d o n and Bud Cort. Directed by Ha l Ashby .
still keep a strong sense of pride.
Casanova was so vain that he
7:00 &: 9:00.
P.G .
never forgave anyone who played
even the most minute prank o n
him.

Harold (&2, Maude

Oly's Westside Will Never
·
Be the Same
by Karrie Jacobs
A mixture ot older and newer
homes in a :.etting of great
nt~tural beau ty ." Sounds nice,
uoesn' t it7 That's how the L975
plan for Olympia describes the
Westside . It in vokes images of
houses tucked away in woody
knolls with views of M oun t
Rainier out the bathroom window. birds chirping. children at
pla y . . . Realistically speaking,
tha t setti ng of grea t natural
beau ty means undeveloped la nd,
a nd undeveloped la nd means
mont'y, a nd so the develo pment
o~ O lympia 's Westside for fun
and profit has begun.
For almost eight years. the
land lying south o f West 4th
A venut. between Cooper Point
Road and Black Lake Boulevard.
ha!t been slated for the const ruetwo of a regional sh opping
center This cen ter would be
n.> gional 1n the sense tha t it was
n ~, t planned with the demands 0r
nt•edo; ot the Westside or
Olvmpia in mind, but with the
intention of drawing customers
~r()m a bO-mile radius.
The
Olymp1a
Highlands
Rt?gl<'n..tl Shopping Center. as it
1<. calleJ . will be the corP in a
plt~nned development clus ter .
Th1s will also include t1 107,000
"YUJre-1oot "neighborh \'Oc.l level"
... 1w pp1ng center to se rVl' the
nl'Nlc; of the V\'estside. which is
,., J't'Clt•d h• tncreac;E' in pnpula111>11 lrnm 1ts pre~Pnt 10 000 to
2C 00L1 pl'Pple h· I<NO. A 300
'''' .1pJrtment cPmrlc' and a
12~, .Hit' mul••· tdmlly rcc:Jdt'nltdl
oil ol I' 1ll hl•Jp hPU!-l' tht:'m c11l
ht• ··•Hue C\>mple' •., part <ll .t
•'!.1;, rwd I m t D<'vt'IPpml'nt l'r
1'1 'f) ..1, PUD b defined ... ., a
dt"•r..:n • nnc t'pl th.1t all~'w" a
d,•\ •·l.,pLr llextbi ltt y 1n thl• typrs
.. n,! '"< ,ltu•ns ''t huildm~~ and
'''PP"rtl"!-: tacthtll'" in ,, rl!stclenIJ,d t<Wlmerctal or m1'<eO prot' 1
In l 'chanJ!e tor greater
,h·<.rt.:n tlt:'< lbihtv and the nppNtunlt\' t<• mi>. u.;es the developer
uhmu~ h1" plan<. to a mnre
mtens1ve public revrew .
In effect, the PUD creates a
tn ntng variance in an area for a
"' lli.'L ifl c project. 1n this case
allowing a multi-uni t housing
d!.'velopme nt and a ~ hopping
center on land originally zoned
lo r single-umt residential use.
The PUD is good for three
vears, o r until the construction
u f the project. whichever comes
t 1rst
This PUD ha s been
renewed several times since its
lirst approval in 1969. and a
lmal master plan WdS approved
1n 1974 . On Monday n ight.
February 14 a meeting was held
bv the Olymp1a Planmng CommiSSIOn to determme the fate of
the PUD which st1ll shows no
physical evidence <1f turning mto
the mythical s hopping center ,
e'<cep t I or a s tray s urvey o r 's
c;take or two .
It was nu surprise that the
plan once again received the
approval of the planning com·
m1<.~ion . which now sends the
pr<'posal on to the ci ty commisc;toners for a fmal decision .
Some minor changes in the
plan were also okayed at the
Monda y meeting wh1 c h w il l
affect the multi - unit housing
de v elopment west of Cooper
Jl" mt Road on land owned by
thr Y,lU~er-Po rt er Company .
The> proposals to muve the
.,hoppmg complex further south,
alter its shape. and alter the
d1<.tnbution of open space, were
a~rt>cable to the comm1ssion
YauKer-P o rter's desire l(\ build
o tflce and shopping space. 1n
iH.Idi t1o n to mulli-unit housing,
u1c,1l'ad o t thE' proposed 40-acre
l 11 v park em their 136-acre s1te,
wJ' not lonked upon tavnral>ly

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by the comm1ssi,m. It a compromise ca nno t be re<~chcd withm
thr~<' vt.-.lP·
the IJnd west of
Conpe~ I 'o1nl Rt,ad wJII revert to
Jl<o o n gin,ll ~mglc llnlt rcsruential
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One td tlw r.....t qtJ('Sll<lnS that
comes tn mind tn uny disruss•on
of tht• Olvmpia Highlandc, c;hop·
ping cen ter ~~
Whut does
Olympia need anl'ther shopping
center for? Do('Sn t the South
Sound Center adt'quately serve
Olympia's needs7
St'veral JUSt ificat 10ns are given
tor the construction of this
.;hoppi ng center. O ne is that the
Westside wi ll need th e n ew
neighbMh ood s hopping center
that comes along with the
regional center in the PUD .
because of the projected population growth . Another justification is the quantity of jobs the
center will create for a ll those
people w ho will be li ving o n the
Westside by the time the center
is finished . Those reason s bring
to mind the rather obvio us reply
that the population will increase
on the Westside because of the
facil ities and jobs p rovided b y
the shopping center. The answer
to that comes m two parts.
Growth on the Wes ts ide is
inevitable , t>specially with t h e
college acting as a catalyst . as
well as the eterna l p resence of
state government luring workers.
However. the sh o pping center
c1nd the adjacent multi-unit
housing development will serve
to escalate growth . perhaps
beyond a manageable level.
Rap1d growth necessitates developing st>wage. utility . public
<,erv•ces and 'ichool systems to
keep up with it The shopping
center will bring in q uite a bit of
tax rt>venue to finance th ose
imp roveme nt l>, but judi cio u s
pla nning on the part of the city
will be vital.
In any case, market studie~
were conducted to determi n e
whether there wer e e n ough
consumers in the area to support
such an undertakin g . T he market
analysis is based on the premise
that the mi nimum population
necessary to support a regional
sho pping center is abou t 150, 000.
All of Thurc;ton County. and 65

per cent of Grays Harb o r ,
Mason and lewis Counties are
w1Lhin " reasnnable" driving
d1stance and conceivably Abt>rdE.'en and Hoquiam , a 50-60
minu te d ri ve. would be in the
polt>ntial trade a r ea . An l'St imaled 180.000 people will live
in that area by 1980, and
220,000 by 1990.
Another fa c tor involved in
deciding whether an area is
suitable for a regional shoppin g
cen tPr is the per capita expenditure of the residents in the trade
area on Genera l me rchandise,
Apparel, and Furniture (the GAF
expenditure). The G AF is affected by incom e and by the

availability of places in which to
spend that income. Currently, in
the proposed trade area, per
capita income is 5 per cent lower
than the sta te average. but GAP
expenditure is 25 per cent less.
What this indicates to developers is that given the opportu n ity,
the locals will spend more
money on General merch andise,
Apparel. and Furniture. Just give
them a chance.
All these figures p u rport th at
this region could support two
new department sto res, w h ich
could form the nucleus of a
s hopping cen ter. It wo uld,
however. be a t the expense of
existing shopping areas, such as
downtown Olympia.
It is reassuring to know that
the Bon Marche and J.C. Penneys, which are the two department stores committed to locating themselves in the Olympia
Highlands center. won't go broke
in the effort. But it is time to
consider the effect that over 100
new stores, 420 housing units,
and innumerable cars will have
o n the fair city of Olympia . I
should start by pointing o ut that
t h e PUD co mplex is only a
beginning. The Ba r bo- Danie ls
Agency, which owns the land
south of Ninth Avenue, land on
Harrison between th e new
Capital High School and the
Ba nk of O lympia o ffi ce, a nd
Lake l o u ise (nee Kaiser Pond) ,
has p lans fo r a communit y
shopping center, fast food ou tlets, and more multi-unit housmg. Out-of-state in vesturs and
developers have p lans for multiunit tlevelopmenls on Overhulse
Road. among other places. a nd
all told, there are a good S.OOO
units on the prnverbia l drawing
board for the Westside. If even
half nf thosE.' units get built there
c1re gorng lo be a lot of people
running around these parts.
When the shopping cen ter was
lirst plannt>d, an enviro nmental
impact sta tement. required by
law. was written up. One
problem the s tatement pointed
o ut was traffic. As a resu lt, road
improvements
were
m ade.
widening and re-ro uting Cooper
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Boulevard with Local Lmprovem e nt District (liD) fund s.
derived partia lly trom the developers. It is p r ojected that
Harrison will be widened to four
lanes. as well as West Nin th
Avenue, to keep all the cars
circulating freely.
A great deal of concern has
been given to the convenience of
auto mobiles and their d rivers. A
regional shopping cen ter is, by
n atu re, wed ded to t h e automobile, in t ha t it draws from a
w ide area a nd a ttempts to make
t he more p edes t r ian-orie n ted
local shopping areas obsolete.
A major issue which concerns
the shopping center is the
r edevelopment of downtown
Olympia.
The downtown area currently
has s lackenin g sales and the
regional shopping center could
dP.al it a fatal blow. Downtown
merchants may face the prospect
of moving to the sho pping center
o r losing a majority of their
customers. In fact . the shopping
center developers expect to draw
a great deal of their smaUer
stores from d owntown .
The Centra l O lympia Revitilization Effort (CORE) made up
of d owntown merchants and city
planners, has been cooking up a
pla n to make d o wntown itself
into a reg io na l shopping center
by building parking facilities.
attracting new specialty sto res
and at least one major department store , creating covt>red
pedestrian mall<., and generally
making d\WIOtc,wn an attractive
and c~)nvcn1ent piJcl' to shop .
But what CORE means by
attra<.tive cJnJ convenient might
b e modern, uniform. and lacking
in character R<>vitaltzed o r no t.
the downtown will nc1t be helped
by the West!'>ide !>hopping center.
With luck Olymp1a'!o downtown
will n o t join t h e ranks of
downtowns killed by shoppmg
center competition.
One thi ng is certam . Wests1de
will never be the same. It is hard
to imag me that it w ill have even
a trace o f its rura l cha racter left.
o ne shopping center. one decade.
10,000 peo ple from now.