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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 17 (March 10, 1977)
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Latin Funk and Prison Blues
by Kim McCartney
Editor's note: COOPER POINT
JOURNAL staff member Kim
McCartney visited the Washington State Penitentiary on Monday , February 21, with two musical groups, who performed for
the prisoners. Here is her report:
Eighteen of us were let in after
being subjected to a mild pat dow n ( th e matron a sked me to
pardon her col d hands ). The
ba nds prov id ing the entertain men t were Olymp ia 's OBRADOR
a nd BLUES EYE . a four -member
bl ues gro up fro m Sea ttle who
back up A lbert Collins w hen he's
in tow n . A coupl e o f the OBRAOOR members were wit hout picture 1.. 0. , so we had to wait a
few m in utes for clearance. The
guard s commented that it wo uld n't be a prob lem going in w ith(lut 1. 0 .. b ut it could lea d to
compl ica ti o ns when it came time
Ill r us to leave . This sta tement
I\' as met w ith nervou s laugh s by
...'U r
cre\\·.
Clearan ce ca me thro ugh and a
huge r" II- up door opened into
the max imum security yard . We
all "a lked in to the drab , mudd y
area an d I wa s so nervous in the
tirst liv e minutes that a rin g
sh oo k of f my index finger and
10 10 a mud puddle. The equip ment va ns foll owed slow ly as we
were diJ'\~c t ed to th e a udit orium .
T here were ab out 70 men in the
yard . Jnd I was able to ta lk freely
With som e of them while the va ns
were un loaded w ith help fro m
\'olu n teerin g re sidents . I discovered an o ld friend among the resIdent s a nd his prese nce imm edia te!y pu t me at ease.
I wa s a llowed to ha ng out in
t he yard w ithout a guard on me
(alt hough I'm sure I was closely
' \latched) for about 15 minutes.
un til all the gear was unloaded.
Much to my surprise I didn 't
sens e an y sexist at tit udes, and I
rel axed even more . All of us wh o
had never been in a prison beto re had p reconcei ved ideas abou t' th e atmosphere, and thi s
trip reall y cha nged our att itudes .
I was instru cted to move into the
aud it orium and jo in the rest of
o ur crew o n sta ge. We had two
hours to perform bef o re all the
residents had to be-in lock-up for
a count a t 4 p.m. OBRAOOR
opened the show in the cement walled. aco ustically-deficient
room whic h was filled with 500 - 60u men . ' T he- h-ous-e-hghts--weredown and the music was very
we ll - received. BLUES EYE fin ished the show promptly at 4
p . m. and th e residen ts quickly
di spersed to their cells for the
count.
Du ring the performance I sat
o n the side of the stage ta lking
w ith several residents, w ho were
a ll eage r to com munica te their
fee lings a bo ut being in the peni tentiary . Mo st of the d iscuss io n
concerned things I have ne ver
been awa re of. The news media
tends to sensat iona lize events at
priso ns (such as ri ots. escapes,
dru g use . and h o m osex u a lit y)
and ignore the problems encoun tered by norma l residents during
their average incarceration . Please
keep in mind that most of w hat
follo ws is informa ti on given to
me by res idents themselves, ra th er tha n t hat of th e prison officia ls .
Th ere a re curre ntly 1,659 resident s in an institution which.
should ho use no more tha'11 ,OOO.
O nly ab o ut 300 o r so hav e daily
j"bs. with wages averaging 25 85 cent s a day, leav ing the rest
L'f the population with nothing
much to do other than wa lk a ro und the breezeways and play
ca rds (and they go through deck s
nt cards like my household goes
through jars of peanu t butter)'
Their recreation facilities and equipment are defini te ly lacking,
leaving the ~idents to provide
th eir own ways to pa ss time. Few
cells have telev isions , a nd on
weekends fi lm s a re shown in the
a udi to rium .
Th e voca ti o na l program is very
lim it ed and the o nly educa ti o nal
program offe red through the ad mi ni st ration is at the Wall a Wa ll a
Com munit y Co ll ege. Bas ic Educa tio n Opportunity Grants are
ava il a b le o nl y for tha t college,
and rarely is th ere a n o pportun ily fo r a resident to st udy with a
four - year educatio nal instituti o n .
The re is a lack o f industry in
this facil ity. Some feel it is be ca use of int e rs tat e c~ m mer(e
laws , w hich prohibit tra nsporta ti o n of prison - produced goods
across sta te lines, a lth o ugh a bill
was passed in legislature in 1974
tha t enco ura ges private indus try
to use prison labo r and / or skill s
at prevai ling wages w ithin the
. indus try.
Most of the residents would
li ke to work to help support thei r
families, ma ny of whom are on
public assista nce . Those residents
for tunate en ough to have jobs
oft en have most of their wages
turn ed over to the Department of
Social and Hea lth Services for
family s upport. Savi ng s fro m
wages earned by working for priva te indust ry could go to a fund
--se~e.-1o.r__ thffiL.SlLlM.L.Y.~
relea se, the resident would have
more to make a start on than the
100 dollars and a new set of
clothes now given to them . This
wou ld create a means for the res ident to support his family, and
also allo w him to pay debts related to court costs and res tituti on - relieving the state o f those
financial burdens. Man y men go
into prison with no skills, and
have learned none upon their release. Sta tistics (for w hat they 're
worth ) indica te that those prisons
partic ipati ng in a Voca tiona l Ed ucation program obtain only 13
percent recidivation compared to
60 percent without such a program.
With t hi s n umb e r of me n
crowded into o ne facility, the
po tential for disturbance is great .
Howeve r, in recent years the residents have sta rted clubs a nd
groups wit hin the population to
keep themselves in control. Some
of the groups are: Black Prisoners Forum United , the Muslims,
the C hicanos, Confederated In d ian Tribes, Washing ton State
Penitent iary Motorcycle Associa tion, Awareness Self-Help Pro gram, Social Thera py, Lifers with
Hope, an d Socia l Awareness for
Minorities. T he leaders of these
groups have met and decided that
sinc'e ex isting in h a~ony at the
pen itentia ry is what the different
groups wa nted, then that is what
will be. The residents feel the ad-
ministration is attempting to pro voke a riot or a major disturb a nce, to hel p in pressuring the
leg isl atu re to a ll oca te gr eater
sums for mo re prisons and staff.
That the administration has not
succeeded in encouraging a riot
is impress ively attributed to the
respo nsibl e ac tion of the organizati o ns. Th e penitentiar y has
been running sm oothly not be cause of the administration , rath er, in spite of it.
Since the trea tment programs
offered a re ineffec tive, the resident s h ave implemented th e ir
ow n . While many of the men are
incarcerated for crimes they com mitted in the course of surviving
depl o rable economic situations,
many were never educated about
making the right personal decisions in the first pla ce. The residents feel treatment should be
ad ministered in a humane perspective, rather than with severe
punishment and inhumane existence. Many are striving to ga in
re sponsibility for th e mselv es
through indiv idual initiative Willingness to reach goals while
incarcera ted , rllther than idling
until release, or waiting for a
more mean ingful experience in
the free world . They are trying
to improve their thinking processes, through the best applica tio n of logic, reason, and wisdom,
ROTTEN TEETH
Most of the residents I spoke
with made a point of showing
me their teeth. Many have rotten
teeth and gum disease, and the
persona l care for dental / medical
problems at the peniteniiary is
considered a joke .
The administration is more
co ncerne d with the buildings
them selves than the population .
In the institution's budget proposa l fo r the next two years, pri ority is given to building more
priso ns (which will probably be
just as crowded), a nd for more
guards . Personal care and rehabilatation programs are low in
the priorities ; $653, 250 has been
asked for rewiring the penitentia ry, and $145,150 for salaries (one
dentist, o ne assistant, and one
dental technician) . An additional
$300,000 has been requested to
re n ovate the old 110-person
women 's quarters (there was a
women 's sect ion until Purdy Cor rection Cente r ope ned in 1971),
and $155,450 to remodel the rec rea ti on area .
STRIP SEARCHING
One relief from the grind of
do in g time is visitors. However,
many of the men would rather
not have their wives and mothers
visit them due to strip searching.
They would rather go without
visi ts than have their dear ones
subjected to the humiliation of
a nal and vaginal probes. The
penitentiary is off the beaten
track (it to ok us around six ho urs
to drive there from Seattle), a nd
many of the men's fami li es are
too poor to afford the trip. There
a re not enough funded transportation serv ices to arrange for
ma ny families to visit. Some
families who try to live in Walla
Walla to be close to their men
are often met with housing dis crimination from the very con serva tive community .
BLOOD AllEY
While the bands packed up I
was given a tour of the prison by
a non -residen t recreation leader.
Feeling like a typical tourist , I
saw th e mess hall , chapel, A lco-
holics Anonymous, the Biker's
clubhouse, a security control
room with the thickest glass window I've ever seen, the hospital,
and " Blood Alley," where several
murders occurred because of its
poor surveillance location (it has
since been closed off) , the gallows
area, and finally , one of the cellblocks. While I don ' t feel that
capital punishment is much of a
deterrent to crime, a look in a
cell in the penitentiary is . Four
men are sandwiched into an
eight-by-twelve-foot cel! with a
small sink and toilet. They are
comparable to "deluxe slaveship
quarters ." They can decora te .
their cells in their own fashion,
but so what? Too many men are
crammed in the cell to even be
able to look at what's on the
walls.
After leaving th e less- th a n warm cellblock , I was escorted
across to the very warm administrati on building , where I waited
to join the bands before heading
over to the minimum security
cafeteria to ea t a holiday ~(it was
President's Day ) d inner. Believe
me when I say the only positive
comment I have about the meal
was tha t th e ma shed pota toes
were real instead of being instant.
We were able to ta lk freely with
o ther residents in the cafeteria
a nd they were disappointed that
the bands wouldn' t be able to
play for them th at evenin g. We
then left the prison for the long
ride back to Seattle, each of us
emo ti o nally affected by the day's
ex perience. One gig on the insid e
was worth dozens on the outside .
It 's easy for the public to not
care abo ut o ur in s titutions ,
wheth er they 're mental wards,
nursing hom es, reformatories, o r
prisons. Lock 'em up where yo u
don't have to see them a nd it's
a lm ost as th ough they don ' t ex ist.
Well, these men are treated like
anima ls and the punishment they
receive comes arou nd to pay the
taxpayer back.
To my brothers at the Wa shington Sta te Penitentiary - Right
on to yo ur efforts - keep hangin g onto the inner strength and
amazing self-control a mongst
you all . Your togetherness is delightful and evident. Don't let the
administration use y ou to further
their own interests.
Vol. 5 No. 17
The Evergreen State College
The Scramble' To Control The
New Communications Building
by Brad Pokorny
and
KarrieJacobs
Media and communications students
and faculty are upset and splitting into
factions over how the money appropriated
for equipment in the new communications
building should be spent. The most vocal
group is the television production stu dents, who claim that the potential for
quality television production facilities is
being aced out of the communications
building by faculty interested in audio recording, electronic music, and the performing arts. An emergency meeting of
the Sounding Board has been called for tomorrow , March 11, to investigate the allocations for media equipment in the almost
completed building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. in CAB 110.
Willie Parson, the dean responsible for
the allocations in the communications
building, has been working with media
arts faculty and staff since the first of the
year to determine what equipment is necessary to operate the building as it was
designed. Two weeks ago Parson suggested a budget that marks $110,000 for
audio/video coaxial cables and video production equipment from a total of $758,000.
But Parson said that some faculty met
with him last Wednesday, March 2, and
told him that they think even $110,000 is
too much to spend on video. "I haven't
talked to any students, but I have talked
to faculty whc have some i:lterest in programs in t he building," said Parsen. "The
meeting ended with those facuity who
were present questioning the necessity of
spending the amount of money indicated
for video production."
PARSON "SNOWED"
Blaine Lawrence and Terry Cannon, two
Evergreen students who are taking individual contracts in television production,
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are circulating a petition to demonstrate
support for the video production program
in the communications building. Cannon
claims that Parson has been "snowed" by
the faculty representing the electronic
music and audio recording areas_ According to Lawrence and Cannon, students interested in video are without a voice in the
funding process, because they have no faculty to represent them.
The $110,000 is needed. according to
Lawrence and CanG,;,n, to ".stall wiring
and control equipment which would allow
t he presently -owned industry -quali ty
color cameras to be used in video productions in the communications building.
Without that equipment, Lawrence said,
"We'll never see quality television production in the communications building."
Parson admitted that some faculty were
pushing for less money for video facilities
in the new building. He also indicated that
some teachers were questioning the need
for any new video facilities construction
on campus. Some faculty consider the
present facilities underutilize<L "The
meeting was flavored with concern having
to do not only with the money itself, but
with what kind of activities may take place
in the building and the extent to which
they may conflict with each other," said
Parson .
Denny Kott...... a stage wchnician 0 11 the
college siaH, is concerned about there be ing enough lighting for the new building.
"It's ridiculous to order video equipment
if we don't have lighting for it ." He de scribed the current lighting allocation as
"minimal.
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Lawrence suggested that a dean of com munications be appointed. "The media
arts should combine their energies and efforts instead of fighting each other along
the way," he said. According to Cannon,
each group fights for its own equipment
now , and then keeps it locked up. "They
(the audio recording people) have a $7,200
tape recorder that they don't even use.
Areas are falling apart because people
are unwilling to share equipment around
here ," Cannon said .
The heart of the controversy probably
has to do with the differing perceptions of
the purpose of the new building, specifically the experimental theatre area, wbere
the video hook-ups would be installed .
One anonymous administrator pointed out
that if the video facilities are fully devel oped in the experimental theatre area,
then the stage area would be in constant
demand for video production work.
LIVE PERFORMANCE PRIORITY
This could conceivably cause a conflict
between t he live performance and film or
tape production in the experimental the ater area. According to a document outlining the functions of the communications
building drawn up by Charles Teske last
year, the experimental theatre nea is to
be used mainly for live performance .
Ainara Wilder, a theat re arts teacher,
said, "It's simply a matter of priority.
There isn't enough money to fully fund
video as well as live performance . It's a
matter of making a deeision. A long time
ago the college decided to give priority to
live performance."
Parson said that although he has requested the budget allocations be finalized
by March 15, he expects continuing con troversy over equipment at the communi cations buildinj!'. "The bigger issue," he
said, "is how the place gets used whether in fact a lot ofthe money gets put
into the video thing, t here's going to be
continuous debate about the whole thing. "
Why Evergreen Costs Less, Costs More
by Brad Pokorny
presents
March 10, 1977
Washington 98505
Evergreen into a graduate school annex of the
University of Washington.
• The House is thinking about raising
tuitions and tying them to the cost of education.
• Senator George Scott suggests that unused office space at Evergreen be utilized
by state agencies in need of more room.
In one way or another, all 01 these un fortunate suggestions relate to the cost of
instruction, and specifically to Evergreen's
higher cost of instruction compared to the
other three state colleges. According to
the Council for Poetsecondary Education
(CPE), it will cost $2,912 a year for the
1975 - 77 biennium to educate one student
at Evergreen. To educate a student at one
of the other state colleges it would OO8t,
on the average, $2,874. Since all state college students pay the same tuition, the
state of Washington pays more to educate
someone at Evergreen than it does to educate someone at Eastern. Western, or
Central.
RAWDOLLAR8
Instructional eoeta are divided into two
categories: dIreet instructional OO8ts, and
Inclireet Instructional costa.
Direct instructional costa count the raw
dollan that it takes to educate someone.
Direct eoeta include faculty salaries, academic secretaries' uJaries, money for educationalsupplies and equipment, and the
COtlt of academic instruction.
Evergreen's direct instructional OO8ts
compare favorably with other institu tions in the state. It actually costa leu to
pay faculty to teach someone here than it
does at other state achoola. According to
combine two cluses of ten into one of
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UnderRobinson pointed out that Evergreen's
Upper
Gradudte
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library and media services are unique for a
Divi s ion
Ac adem ic
Avera ge
J2QQl. ~ Average AVf'r age
college this size, which contributes to
higher indirect costs. "Our library endowEa ster n lolA St at e Co l l ege
SI . 1I 4
$1, 304
SI, 205
11.44 1 $5 ,7 94
$1 ,694
$1,2) 6
ment is much higher," he said, "and we
Cen t r a l ~A St a t e College
$1,572
$1, 30 2
S 980
$2. 548
$1.048
52 , 252
11. 346
spend a lot more on media than the other
.Western lolA St a te Co ll e ge
$1, 388
$2 , 468
11, 134
I 71 3
11 , 06 3
$2 . 88 7
$2 . 507
colleges do."
Thr ee Co ll ~ge A~er a g ~
$ 916
$I ,4 24
$2 , 144
$1.,17 8
$2 . 094
$2 . 558
11,229
ADMINISTRATORS'SALARIES
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The Eve rgree:l St at e Co ll ege
11. 516
$ 953
$1, 167
$ -$ -$ -$1. 167
cushioned by fewer students here than at
Four Co ll eg e A~ e ra g e
$1 ,362
$1,177
$2 ,094
$ 970
$2, 144
S2 ,558
11 . 222
other institutions, and this also contributes
to Evergreen's relative indirect COtlts. For
example, the president at the University
University of Washington
$I ,645
S 820
$1 .203
$2 .455
$3 ,586
$2,81 2
$1 .486
of Washington and the presidents at the
Washington St ate Univer sity
$1 ,757
$1,272
$3,177
$2 ,952
$3 . 086
11.441
S 955
other
state colleges get roughly the same
1wo Un ive r s ity Ave rage
$ 873 I
$1 ,682
$1, 228
12,594
$3 . 421
$2. 8 71
$1 .471
amount that President McCann gets (about
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$44,(00). But at Evergreen that $44.000
ill
spread over 2,400 students, compared
the CPE , the direct cost at Evergreen in
services are, for the most part, geared
to some 50,000 students at the University
1974 - 75 was $1,167 per student. At the
for the larger number of students_ The
of Washington, and 6,000 to 8.000 at the '
other three colleges the average cost was
steam plant is constructed to heat buildother state colleges.
$1,229. The estimates for current years
ings with space for 4,600 students, the adOne lut factor contnbuting to Everremain essentially the same.
ministration could serve 4,600 students,
green's
apparent high cost has to do with
The reason Evergreen costa more (about
and student services could, with some ad Evergreen's sole dedication to teaching.
$650 more over-all) is because our indirect
justment. process 4,600 students_
MOtIt other schools carry on research and/
costs are higher. Indirect costa count exThe major portion of the $650 more the
or public service programs, and the OO8ts
penditures for plant operation and main state pays for each student here goes
for operating these programa are proportenance, custodial and grounds services,
largely to heat and light the extra space
tionally deducted from the total operating
student services (such things as registraEvergreen fa apparently not usint', action, enrollment, and counseling.).. general
costs. Norm Fisher, an institutional recording to Robert Strecker, the director
search analyst for the CPE, put it this
adminiatration, and the library services.
of facilities, and Bill Robinson, a staff budway: "Since Evergreen has very small
UNDER-ENROLLMENT
get analyst. Strecker suggested that it
Almost all of the reasons our direct
components of original research and pub would be poasible, although extremely difcosts are higher have to do with the rellic instruction, almOtlt all of the support
ficult, to cut the power costa by encouragative under-enrollment of the college.
COtlts are used to determine the student.'
ing academic programa to share space. "It
Evergreen's academic facilities are detotal educational cost. Evergreen is eNen would entail cooperation between the acasigned to support 4,800 to 4.600 students,
tially a teaching institution, with some demic people who are developing the prowhile only 2,400 students are currently
where around 97 percent of the money gograma," he said. "You might conceivably
enrolled. The expenditures for indirect
ing to teach students."
ACADEMIC YEAR 1974- 75
TO TAL DIR ECT INSTRUCTION COST PER
STU DENT
BY COURSE LEVEL AND ACADEMIC/VOCATIONAL COURSES
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SOf!\EHOW
Ain't Goona Pay For
, DO,.fT quiTE
ff.EL UP
No Phone No More
TO 11t1S ...
by Paul Fink
In America in 1976 , the Ford adm ini strat ion proposed to th e Congres s a bud ge t of $254.2 billio n. Of
t hose billions . 54 pe r ce nt. or about $137.3 billion. was
earmark ed to pay for wars - pas t , prese nt, a nd fu tu re. In fa ct, the U.S. has s pe nt $1.5 trillion ( th a t' s a
mill io n m illion dollars) on th e military si nce t he e nd of
World War II \figures comp il e d hy the Library of Con g ress Legi s lative Reference Se rvice, a s re le a se d by
f1 e prese ntative Les Aspin) . Mos t Ameri cans do not
realize that income taxes ar e not t he onl y source of de fense r e venu es . Here is an exa mple of a little know n
hil t very luc rat ive so un'p of addit ional Pe ntago n fund ing. '
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1"/71
The Unjust
Treatment of
James
Martinez
To the Editor:
This is a copy of a letter I have
sent to e x -gove rnor Evans on be·
half of James Martinez. I would
lik e a n opportunity to share it
wit h CPJ r e aders through your
lellers to t he e ditor.
Governo r Daniel J. Evans
Dear Sir:
I a m a n Ev e rgreen grad uate
and have been very pleased to
hea r t hat yO'J were to accept the
~~~~.I'?Tw'?Lp~eslde~~_?.f_!~_S C. L_
ave a way s s upported and ad·
mired th e manner In which you
served as our gove rnor. I hav e
ohserved that yo u a lw ays handled
'b .I."
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vo ur r es.
ponsl I Itles In an Intelh '
ge.nt and pract
ical mann e r and
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With great Inte gTlty. More 1m portan tl y , I wa s Imp. ressed With
f I
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.vour qua IIty 0 a ways t Inking
of th e people an d t heir welfare as
yo ur first .co nSid e r atIO n . rather
t han favo rin g till' s peCial Inte r t' , b , a ~ so many po litician s see m
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I.f! (0.
WI . I~ s ure. be ne '
III lrom vour a ~s umln g Its pres i (k nn.
I a'~ k you. a ~ one of you r fi rs t
t;"k.,. to if\ v[' s li gate ann r ev iew
I hI' dl'(' i~i "n of t he E verg r ee n ad ·
Iliin is l rutin· sta ff in de cl ining to
n ' nl' W t ht, ('onlr,te[ of faculty
1111' llllwr ./al1 l('S Mart inez. I a nd
Ill :lm· nt lwr f>l' rgTe e ners . hot h
,tu dl' nt s alld fa(' ult \·, fe pl th at
t hi" decision i, not in t hl' he s t in t('n' st of TE SI. I url{e you 10
I a lk wit h F:\·('rg-r ppnl'rs about
t hi ~ mat tel' so you wi ll know th e
t '~ I('('m in w hich we hol d James
Mart inl'z.
Jaml's Martine z is a man who
dOl'S not ('omp from an acade mic
h;lckg-r o und , Thi s is w hy his con ·
tract is no t he ing r e ne wed. In th e
"YI' S of t hI' d pans, he s hould not
r<' m ain on t he faculty beca use he
d ot,S not hav e the pre req uis ite
academic dl'grl'ps. In fact, he has
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'
something to offer which is emine ntly more valuable than a
Ph.D. This is the person that Jim
is and the triumph that his life
represents.
Jim has not had an easy life.
He spent a great deal of it in pris ·
on. He is an exceptional man,
who has overcome incredible obstacles in his striving to build a
bridge of understanding between
the oppressed and alienated
members of our society and the
mainstream . He is the living portrayal of what can be accom plished by minority and disad vantaged people against powerful odds. His relationship with
his students is the embodiment
of e mpathy, compassion, and understanding. These are things we
need to learn more than anything
else. and we are learning them
from Jim. I overcame mown
--pr.ejudi-.-bllwanL Blaek ~eoPle
through knowing ,Jim and I fee l
this to be the mos t important
thO109 I' ve Iearne d d
·
urlng
my co II
ege career.
Jame s M ar t'Inez IS
. no t th e k'In d
f
h
Id
0 man w 0 wou
arouse a c Iamo r
of protest, e ven when he is he in g
tre ate d unJ·ustly I t h O
·
. n
IS case.
Evergree n is being treated un jus tl y. Jim dese rves to be on th e
F:vergreen facu lty and we need
him.
T ha nk you Gove n
I'
'
.
r or ~v a ns ,
for your co ns id e ra t ion.
.
S lfI ce re ly.
Gera ld Larkin s
Eve r green g radu ate
See Sickness
T,! thl ' Kdi l or:
The majority of t he ph oto g raph s in the CPJ March 3, 1977
arl' s trenuous a nd uninterest in g
ar r angements of sce ne r y or ina n itie s s uch as th e cover photo by
Tou st e r. Yes . Evergree n photograph e r s (t hose few who were
re prese nted ) are "exploring th e
se lf." But , whereas m ost co n ·
te mporary photograp hers' works
cause a mome ntary suspension
of the viewer's disbelief or a
heightening of his admiration of
the technical prodigies achieved,
the photos represented leave the
viewer with the impression that
t.he photographer d id it for no
other reason than he wanted to
do it. Revised Duchampion Dic tate: "If I call it a photograph, it
hecomes a photograph." Through
this expose it is quite apparent
that the photographic "artists"
(Ste iglilz, Strand, Ray, Kertesz)
are he ld in low estee m and that
thp amat.l'urs are now ca lling the
s hots .
Sincerely.
Tom Peterson
The
ImPortance Of
Being
Evergreen
To th e Editor:
To th e S tude nts of E ve r gree n:
Th e leg-is lature is now getting
l'('ad y to (' ut Eve f!{ree n's Qudget
very drast ic a ll y . Th ey a rc eve n
se rio us ly co nsiderin g giv ing our
schoo l t o t he OW t o usc for a
graduate sc hool. I e ncn urage y ou
1. 0 use t hi s op port unit y to tell t he
Il'gis lators why it is imp ortant to
.vou and soc iety t o have school s
lik,' Evergreen to learn in. Write
y our le t.te r s to t he Se na t e Hi g her
E du catio n Comm ittee m e mhe rs,
t he Sc nat l' Ways and Mean s
Co m mi ttee and a ny of the le gis la t ors w ho represe nt your vot in g
di s trict. Also phon e t he m on t he
Legislat ive Hot -Line, 562 -6000.
W hat sho uld one say whe n one
is co ntacting th ese people ? Te ll
t he m wit h a ll t he s incerity you
can mu s t e r why you need a sc hool
like Evergree n more than you
nee d a trad itional sc hool. T e ll
t he m how Evergree n is a place
w he r e s tudents hav e close con tact with their fac ulty. T e ll the m
w hy it is important t o evalu ate
your own progress. Tell them
why it is important to seminar in stead of being only a passive par ticipant in a lecture hall. Tell
them why it is important for you
to be involved in planning your
programs. Tell them about a valuable experience you have had as
a co -learner with a faculty member . Tell your legislator about a
project you or other students are
involved in outside of your program work, like the recycling
projecl at the dorms, the Wome n's Center's efforts to eliminate
the rape proble m, the student ·
coached soccer teams, EPIC's
attempts to raise people's awareness of oppression, and any of the
other things students are doing
that yo u especially value. Tell
them why it is necessary for the
s tate to provide an on -campus
he alth se rvice for u s s ince we are
a long way from town.
If you do not believe lhe ideas
li sted represent things that aclu all y t,x ist at Evergreen, but wish
they did , contact me at the Sound ing Board office (Lib 3231, 866fi lfit)). Our office hours are posted
o n ou r door. I am aware that
many of the se exper ie nces are
s lowl y vanishing from our liv es
herl' duE' to a co nse r vatizing
t rend in a ll eon s titue ncy gro ups,
mak in g t hi s a more traditional
a nd I,'ss of a humanistic in stitu ·
t io n all the time, 1 e nco urage y ou
to w rit!, to .nlli r legis lato r s. but
abo ['1H' tJLIJ·ag·" vo u a ll to hegin t o
ta lk to l':ll'h ot her about t hi s phe nonwllon and ask wh y w e s hould
g ivl' up a ll th at ma kes E vcrgr ee ll
a Ilniq lH ' se hooi.
I ..v l,· T ribbett
Soundin g Hoa rd Mode ra tor
#251928
Writes
To the Ed itor:
I a m a pri so ne r doing time at
t he Monroe Slate R e formator y ,
and I'd like to say t hat I appre- _
ciate it. for yo u se ndin g me the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL,
s in ce I'm from Oly mpia it kee ps
me informed on what's happening around the town and the college. Also. I now have someone
writing and visiting me from Ev e rgreen. since that was my re o
quest along with asking for the
newspaper, and already I've
grown to be very close to this
person.
It's nice to know that there are
people out there in the free world
who think and care about people
locked up in our prisons, and who
will take some time in doing
something about it. It helps form
new relationships.
Sincerely,
Dave Burnside 11251928
Monroe State Reformatory
Watch Out,
Arlo Guthrie
To the Editor:
Dear Folk s :
Ha ve you ev e r walked through
th e wood s , a nd be en s ick e ne d by
findin g a large . nasty garbage
dump ? Or see n thin gs fa llin g
£i'om a t ruc k (may be cracki ng
yo ur wi nd s hie ld !) or peopl e
throwin g Greasy Gru b wrappe rs
frOlllth e ir cars') W e r e you a ngry?
What ca n you DO?
In Thurs ton County . call th e
S he riff s Office, a t 753-8175 , a nd
ask for t he L itter Co ntrol Offi ceI' .
He w ill t.ry to find o u t. who th e
pe rson( s ) r esponsib le was (we r e)
a nd he or s he wi ll have to clea n
up t heir mess an d mor e.
H the thought of ca lling th e
S he riffs office bothers yo u. but
you st ill ge t m ad at the thou g ht
of a ll those rusty cans po llu t ing
t he woods, please ca ll me in stead. I'm an ex · Ev e r g reen s tu de nt.
Merry A. Kogut
S.W. Office
De pt. of Ecology
753 -0139
Southern
Africa
Teach-in
1'0 t:he Ed itor :
A t['aeh -in o n southern Africa
is scheduled for Monday, March
28 . I he first day of s pring quarter.
During t he day t he Southe rn Af riea Te ach -in Coalition will show
film s on southern Africa in CAB
110. At 7:30 p.m. a program is
plann e d for th e library lobby. It
w ill includ e a talk hy Dr. Daniel
Ncay iyana on the history of col onization, a s lide show on U. S.
corporate involvement, and a
dance and poetry presentation.
...:-tlLeJ&l!.ch -in was planned as a
response to a call from the National S tud ent Coaiition Against
Racism for actions around the
country that week to protest
U. S. support of the racist regimes in so uthe rn Africa. Co sponsors of the Evergreen teachin include the Third World Coali ·
tion (UJAMAA,
MECHA,
NASA , Asian Coalition), the
Marxi sm program, EPIC, Nogler's Tree Farm Co llective, the
Gay Resource Center, the Wom e n' s Ce nter . a nd the Me n's Cen tel'. Child care will be provide d. Will so uth e rn Africa be the
next Vietnam'! Why is the U.S.
so in terest e d in the southern Af r ica s ituation? How in volved is
th e U . S.') These are so me of t he
quest ions to be di sc ussed at t he
teac h -in. A n inte nse strugg le is
g oin g on right now as Blacks, by
far the majority of the South Af rican population, try to rid the m ·
se lv es of the oppressive apart ·
he id syste m - a system that de nies them all of their democratic
rights. The spo nsors of the teach ·
in believe Evergreeners have a
responsibility to e ducate them ~e lves about apartheid. about
southern Africa, and to call for
an en d to U.S. political , econom -
ic and military s upport to t he
rac ist r egimes t.h e r e.
S ha ron Coontz
Men, Women,
and Art
To the Editor:
To clarify our statement about
the WOMEN'S ART SHOW: the
show iB to share women's art with
women and men. Women, bring
your work to an important meeting on Sunday, March 13, at 10
in Lab. 1046,
Mary Metzler
NM.cy Lemoins
Due to mechanical difficulties with the college type.setting equipment, we had to have part of thiB iBsue
set elsewhere. Thanks to SCO'ITSMAN PRINTING
COMPANY of Lacey and THE LACEY LEADER, we
have a paper this week. Thanks also to Tex and Billie
Cornish.
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Matt Groening
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David Judd
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Brad Pokorny
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lhe right to edit lor content and style. Names ",III be withheld on r1Iquesl.
Th e T e lep hone Exci se Tax was fir st e nacted in 1941
as a temporary tax. Thi s tax had fina lly heen Clit to
3 perce nt and was du e t o be di sco ntinu ed l'nt irt' l), in
1966. H owe\'e r. in Ap ril of 1966 . as th e gover nm e nt
was t'sca la Li ng t he V iet nam war. Con g ress passe d a
la w rai s in g t he ta x to 10 pe r ce nt. "It is clea r." s a id
[{ppre sentative Wi lhur Mills. chairman of t he H ouse
Way , and Means Comlllit tee , "t hat Vietnam and o nly
ill(' Vi(,t nam ope r at ion mak es thi s bill necess ary. "
I Co ng r p,siona i Re cord. Feh. 2:3 . /976 .1 Accordingl y,
t h,' te l<' ph one tax was du e' to de c lin e to 5 pe:'ce nt in
1971 . to:3 pe r cent in 1972, and t o 1 pe rce nt in 1973. It
was t.o he re pealed e ntirely in 1974. However , once
'l!{a in , on Jan . 2. 197 1, Congress deci d ed to ex t e nd th e
te leph o ne exc ise t ax to 10 perc e nt for 1971 and 1972.
Accordin g to thi s ne w law . t he tax will drop on e pe r ce nt a ge po int eac h year unti l it e xpires in ]982 . Thi s
.\·par . t he tax is 5 percent. To g ive you an examp le of
t he im pact of thi s t e le phon e tax, in F e bruary 1974 , th e
IR S co ll e cted $56.507,000 in federal exc ise te le phone
and t e legraph tax es in the state of Washin g ton alo ne ,
Thi s is more than one -ha li of the ]976 City of Seattle
hud ge t. Wouldn't you prefe r your money s p e nt mo re
wisely ? (Information taken from Ain't Gonna Pay For
War No More.)
,
1 rai sed t he w hole issue of the telephone excise tax
because it occurred to me that if 15 percent of the
Evergreen studerltbody, or about 400 stude nts, would
ba nd together and collectively refuse to pay their tel ·
ep hon e excise taxes on a monthly basis. at least $2,000
a year (a very conservative estimate) could be s ub tracted from the Pentagon's budget. To find o ut how
much Excise Tax you owe this m o nth, just look und er
"U. S.Tax" on your phone bill.
On the evening of March 10 (tonight) at 7 p. m. a dis cussion is planned in the CAB coffee house to talk a bout organizing an Evergreen student group of tel ephone tax resisters . In large numbers there exists
power. It is my hope that we ca n form a group with
enough resisters to put a tiny dent in the defense bud get too large for the Defense Department to ignore.
Already, there ex ists a national organization of th e
War Resister's League (WRL) with an office in Seat tle. The organization of this tax resisters movement
would be unconventional in the sense that it would not
need to meet regularly for spirit- ):lUi lding or planned
activities. and no time or energy would be required simply a refusal to pay a portion of the phone bill on a
monthly basis. All campus resisters would hav e th e
names and phone numbers of all the ot her resiste rs
and could communicate by phone if a question or un us ual situation arose ..
I hope to be writing one or two more articles about
the tele phone tax and federal taxes in ge neral in t he
nea r future . If what you have read has excited yo u to
act, come to th e meetin g tonight at 7 p. m. a nd see how
much a concerned group can accompli s h . If y ou would
like to he lp organize t he Evergreen W RL or wou ld
like more information, call me in t he evenings or
weekends at 866 -5 112.
About the autbor: Paul Fink is a student and a member of EPIC (Evergreen Political information Center).
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SOf!\EHOW
Ain't Goona Pay For
, DO,.fT quiTE
ff.EL UP
No Phone No More
TO 11t1S ...
by Paul Fink
In America in 1976 , the Ford adm ini strat ion proposed to th e Congres s a bud ge t of $254.2 billio n. Of
t hose billions . 54 pe r ce nt. or about $137.3 billion. was
earmark ed to pay for wars - pas t , prese nt, a nd fu tu re. In fa ct, the U.S. has s pe nt $1.5 trillion ( th a t' s a
mill io n m illion dollars) on th e military si nce t he e nd of
World War II \figures comp il e d hy the Library of Con g ress Legi s lative Reference Se rvice, a s re le a se d by
f1 e prese ntative Les Aspin) . Mos t Ameri cans do not
realize that income taxes ar e not t he onl y source of de fense r e venu es . Here is an exa mple of a little know n
hil t very luc rat ive so un'p of addit ional Pe ntago n fund ing. '
-
CHUPA
1"/71
The Unjust
Treatment of
James
Martinez
To the Editor:
This is a copy of a letter I have
sent to e x -gove rnor Evans on be·
half of James Martinez. I would
lik e a n opportunity to share it
wit h CPJ r e aders through your
lellers to t he e ditor.
Governo r Daniel J. Evans
Dear Sir:
I a m a n Ev e rgreen grad uate
and have been very pleased to
hea r t hat yO'J were to accept the
~~~~.I'?Tw'?Lp~eslde~~_?.f_!~_S C. L_
ave a way s s upported and ad·
mired th e manner In which you
served as our gove rnor. I hav e
ohserved that yo u a lw ays handled
'b .I."
.
.
vo ur r es.
ponsl I Itles In an Intelh '
ge.nt and pract
ical mann e r and
..
.
With great Inte gTlty. More 1m portan tl y , I wa s Imp. ressed With
f I
h' ·
·
.vour qua IIty 0 a ways t Inking
of th e people an d t heir welfare as
yo ur first .co nSid e r atIO n . rather
t han favo rin g till' s peCial Inte r t' , b , a ~ so many po litician s see m
, TP.S C .,' I'
I.f! (0.
WI . I~ s ure. be ne '
III lrom vour a ~s umln g Its pres i (k nn.
I a'~ k you. a ~ one of you r fi rs t
t;"k.,. to if\ v[' s li gate ann r ev iew
I hI' dl'(' i~i "n of t he E verg r ee n ad ·
Iliin is l rutin· sta ff in de cl ining to
n ' nl' W t ht, ('onlr,te[ of faculty
1111' llllwr ./al1 l('S Mart inez. I a nd
Ill :lm· nt lwr f>l' rgTe e ners . hot h
,tu dl' nt s alld fa(' ult \·, fe pl th at
t hi" decision i, not in t hl' he s t in t('n' st of TE SI. I url{e you 10
I a lk wit h F:\·('rg-r ppnl'rs about
t hi ~ mat tel' so you wi ll know th e
t '~ I('('m in w hich we hol d James
Mart inl'z.
Jaml's Martine z is a man who
dOl'S not ('omp from an acade mic
h;lckg-r o und , Thi s is w hy his con ·
tract is no t he ing r e ne wed. In th e
"YI' S of t hI' d pans, he s hould not
r<' m ain on t he faculty beca use he
d ot,S not hav e the pre req uis ite
academic dl'grl'ps. In fact, he has
J
'
something to offer which is emine ntly more valuable than a
Ph.D. This is the person that Jim
is and the triumph that his life
represents.
Jim has not had an easy life.
He spent a great deal of it in pris ·
on. He is an exceptional man,
who has overcome incredible obstacles in his striving to build a
bridge of understanding between
the oppressed and alienated
members of our society and the
mainstream . He is the living portrayal of what can be accom plished by minority and disad vantaged people against powerful odds. His relationship with
his students is the embodiment
of e mpathy, compassion, and understanding. These are things we
need to learn more than anything
else. and we are learning them
from Jim. I overcame mown
--pr.ejudi-.-bllwanL Blaek ~eoPle
through knowing ,Jim and I fee l
this to be the mos t important
thO109 I' ve Iearne d d
·
urlng
my co II
ege career.
Jame s M ar t'Inez IS
. no t th e k'In d
f
h
Id
0 man w 0 wou
arouse a c Iamo r
of protest, e ven when he is he in g
tre ate d unJ·ustly I t h O
·
. n
IS case.
Evergree n is being treated un jus tl y. Jim dese rves to be on th e
F:vergreen facu lty and we need
him.
T ha nk you Gove n
I'
'
.
r or ~v a ns ,
for your co ns id e ra t ion.
.
S lfI ce re ly.
Gera ld Larkin s
Eve r green g radu ate
See Sickness
T,! thl ' Kdi l or:
The majority of t he ph oto g raph s in the CPJ March 3, 1977
arl' s trenuous a nd uninterest in g
ar r angements of sce ne r y or ina n itie s s uch as th e cover photo by
Tou st e r. Yes . Evergree n photograph e r s (t hose few who were
re prese nted ) are "exploring th e
se lf." But , whereas m ost co n ·
te mporary photograp hers' works
cause a mome ntary suspension
of the viewer's disbelief or a
heightening of his admiration of
the technical prodigies achieved,
the photos represented leave the
viewer with the impression that
t.he photographer d id it for no
other reason than he wanted to
do it. Revised Duchampion Dic tate: "If I call it a photograph, it
hecomes a photograph." Through
this expose it is quite apparent
that the photographic "artists"
(Ste iglilz, Strand, Ray, Kertesz)
are he ld in low estee m and that
thp amat.l'urs are now ca lling the
s hots .
Sincerely.
Tom Peterson
The
ImPortance Of
Being
Evergreen
To th e Editor:
To th e S tude nts of E ve r gree n:
Th e leg-is lature is now getting
l'('ad y to (' ut Eve f!{ree n's Qudget
very drast ic a ll y . Th ey a rc eve n
se rio us ly co nsiderin g giv ing our
schoo l t o t he OW t o usc for a
graduate sc hool. I e ncn urage y ou
1. 0 use t hi s op port unit y to tell t he
Il'gis lators why it is imp ortant to
.vou and soc iety t o have school s
lik,' Evergreen to learn in. Write
y our le t.te r s to t he Se na t e Hi g her
E du catio n Comm ittee m e mhe rs,
t he Sc nat l' Ways and Mean s
Co m mi ttee and a ny of the le gis la t ors w ho represe nt your vot in g
di s trict. Also phon e t he m on t he
Legislat ive Hot -Line, 562 -6000.
W hat sho uld one say whe n one
is co ntacting th ese people ? Te ll
t he m wit h a ll t he s incerity you
can mu s t e r why you need a sc hool
like Evergree n more than you
nee d a trad itional sc hool. T e ll
t he m how Evergree n is a place
w he r e s tudents hav e close con tact with their fac ulty. T e ll the m
w hy it is important t o evalu ate
your own progress. Tell them
why it is important to seminar in stead of being only a passive par ticipant in a lecture hall. Tell
them why it is important for you
to be involved in planning your
programs. Tell them about a valuable experience you have had as
a co -learner with a faculty member . Tell your legislator about a
project you or other students are
involved in outside of your program work, like the recycling
projecl at the dorms, the Wome n's Center's efforts to eliminate
the rape proble m, the student ·
coached soccer teams, EPIC's
attempts to raise people's awareness of oppression, and any of the
other things students are doing
that yo u especially value. Tell
them why it is necessary for the
s tate to provide an on -campus
he alth se rvice for u s s ince we are
a long way from town.
If you do not believe lhe ideas
li sted represent things that aclu all y t,x ist at Evergreen, but wish
they did , contact me at the Sound ing Board office (Lib 3231, 866fi lfit)). Our office hours are posted
o n ou r door. I am aware that
many of the se exper ie nces are
s lowl y vanishing from our liv es
herl' duE' to a co nse r vatizing
t rend in a ll eon s titue ncy gro ups,
mak in g t hi s a more traditional
a nd I,'ss of a humanistic in stitu ·
t io n all the time, 1 e nco urage y ou
to w rit!, to .nlli r legis lato r s. but
abo ['1H' tJLIJ·ag·" vo u a ll to hegin t o
ta lk to l':ll'h ot her about t hi s phe nonwllon and ask wh y w e s hould
g ivl' up a ll th at ma kes E vcrgr ee ll
a Ilniq lH ' se hooi.
I ..v l,· T ribbett
Soundin g Hoa rd Mode ra tor
#251928
Writes
To the Ed itor:
I a m a pri so ne r doing time at
t he Monroe Slate R e formator y ,
and I'd like to say t hat I appre- _
ciate it. for yo u se ndin g me the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL,
s in ce I'm from Oly mpia it kee ps
me informed on what's happening around the town and the college. Also. I now have someone
writing and visiting me from Ev e rgreen. since that was my re o
quest along with asking for the
newspaper, and already I've
grown to be very close to this
person.
It's nice to know that there are
people out there in the free world
who think and care about people
locked up in our prisons, and who
will take some time in doing
something about it. It helps form
new relationships.
Sincerely,
Dave Burnside 11251928
Monroe State Reformatory
Watch Out,
Arlo Guthrie
To the Editor:
Dear Folk s :
Ha ve you ev e r walked through
th e wood s , a nd be en s ick e ne d by
findin g a large . nasty garbage
dump ? Or see n thin gs fa llin g
£i'om a t ruc k (may be cracki ng
yo ur wi nd s hie ld !) or peopl e
throwin g Greasy Gru b wrappe rs
frOlllth e ir cars') W e r e you a ngry?
What ca n you DO?
In Thurs ton County . call th e
S he riff s Office, a t 753-8175 , a nd
ask for t he L itter Co ntrol Offi ceI' .
He w ill t.ry to find o u t. who th e
pe rson( s ) r esponsib le was (we r e)
a nd he or s he wi ll have to clea n
up t heir mess an d mor e.
H the thought of ca lling th e
S he riffs office bothers yo u. but
you st ill ge t m ad at the thou g ht
of a ll those rusty cans po llu t ing
t he woods, please ca ll me in stead. I'm an ex · Ev e r g reen s tu de nt.
Merry A. Kogut
S.W. Office
De pt. of Ecology
753 -0139
Southern
Africa
Teach-in
1'0 t:he Ed itor :
A t['aeh -in o n southern Africa
is scheduled for Monday, March
28 . I he first day of s pring quarter.
During t he day t he Southe rn Af riea Te ach -in Coalition will show
film s on southern Africa in CAB
110. At 7:30 p.m. a program is
plann e d for th e library lobby. It
w ill includ e a talk hy Dr. Daniel
Ncay iyana on the history of col onization, a s lide show on U. S.
corporate involvement, and a
dance and poetry presentation.
...:-tlLeJ&l!.ch -in was planned as a
response to a call from the National S tud ent Coaiition Against
Racism for actions around the
country that week to protest
U. S. support of the racist regimes in so uthe rn Africa. Co sponsors of the Evergreen teachin include the Third World Coali ·
tion (UJAMAA,
MECHA,
NASA , Asian Coalition), the
Marxi sm program, EPIC, Nogler's Tree Farm Co llective, the
Gay Resource Center, the Wom e n' s Ce nter . a nd the Me n's Cen tel'. Child care will be provide d. Will so uth e rn Africa be the
next Vietnam'! Why is the U.S.
so in terest e d in the southern Af r ica s ituation? How in volved is
th e U . S.') These are so me of t he
quest ions to be di sc ussed at t he
teac h -in. A n inte nse strugg le is
g oin g on right now as Blacks, by
far the majority of the South Af rican population, try to rid the m ·
se lv es of the oppressive apart ·
he id syste m - a system that de nies them all of their democratic
rights. The spo nsors of the teach ·
in believe Evergreeners have a
responsibility to e ducate them ~e lves about apartheid. about
southern Africa, and to call for
an en d to U.S. political , econom -
ic and military s upport to t he
rac ist r egimes t.h e r e.
S ha ron Coontz
Men, Women,
and Art
To the Editor:
To clarify our statement about
the WOMEN'S ART SHOW: the
show iB to share women's art with
women and men. Women, bring
your work to an important meeting on Sunday, March 13, at 10
in Lab. 1046,
Mary Metzler
NM.cy Lemoins
Due to mechanical difficulties with the college type.setting equipment, we had to have part of thiB iBsue
set elsewhere. Thanks to SCO'ITSMAN PRINTING
COMPANY of Lacey and THE LACEY LEADER, we
have a paper this week. Thanks also to Tex and Billie
Cornish.
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EDITOR
Matt Groening
BUSINESS MANAGER
David Judd
MANAGING EDITOR
Brad Pokorny
ADVERTISING
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FEA TURES EDITOR
Karrie Jacobs
SEC RETARY
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PRODUCTION MANAGER
S ieve Willi s
The COOPER POINT JOURNAL is published weekly for the students. faculty ,
and staff of The Evergreen State College, Olympia , WashIngton 98505 . Views ex ·
pressed are not necessarily those of The Evergreen State College . Advertising ma terial presented herein does not necessarily imply endors'ement by Ihls newspaper.
011 ices are located in the College Activities Building (CAB) 306. News phones :
866-6213,866-6214. Advertising and business: 866-6080. Letters policy : All tetlers to the editor must be received by noon Tuesday for that week's publication .
Leiters must be typed , doubte-spaced, and 400 words or less . The editors reserve
lhe right to edit lor content and style. Names ",III be withheld on r1Iquesl.
Th e T e lep hone Exci se Tax was fir st e nacted in 1941
as a temporary tax. Thi s tax had fina lly heen Clit to
3 perce nt and was du e t o be di sco ntinu ed l'nt irt' l), in
1966. H owe\'e r. in Ap ril of 1966 . as th e gover nm e nt
was t'sca la Li ng t he V iet nam war. Con g ress passe d a
la w rai s in g t he ta x to 10 pe r ce nt. "It is clea r." s a id
[{ppre sentative Wi lhur Mills. chairman of t he H ouse
Way , and Means Comlllit tee , "t hat Vietnam and o nly
ill(' Vi(,t nam ope r at ion mak es thi s bill necess ary. "
I Co ng r p,siona i Re cord. Feh. 2:3 . /976 .1 Accordingl y,
t h,' te l<' ph one tax was du e' to de c lin e to 5 pe:'ce nt in
1971 . to:3 pe r cent in 1972, and t o 1 pe rce nt in 1973. It
was t.o he re pealed e ntirely in 1974. However , once
'l!{a in , on Jan . 2. 197 1, Congress deci d ed to ex t e nd th e
te leph o ne exc ise t ax to 10 perc e nt for 1971 and 1972.
Accordin g to thi s ne w law . t he tax will drop on e pe r ce nt a ge po int eac h year unti l it e xpires in ]982 . Thi s
.\·par . t he tax is 5 percent. To g ive you an examp le of
t he im pact of thi s t e le phon e tax, in F e bruary 1974 , th e
IR S co ll e cted $56.507,000 in federal exc ise te le phone
and t e legraph tax es in the state of Washin g ton alo ne ,
Thi s is more than one -ha li of the ]976 City of Seattle
hud ge t. Wouldn't you prefe r your money s p e nt mo re
wisely ? (Information taken from Ain't Gonna Pay For
War No More.)
,
1 rai sed t he w hole issue of the telephone excise tax
because it occurred to me that if 15 percent of the
Evergreen studerltbody, or about 400 stude nts, would
ba nd together and collectively refuse to pay their tel ·
ep hon e excise taxes on a monthly basis. at least $2,000
a year (a very conservative estimate) could be s ub tracted from the Pentagon's budget. To find o ut how
much Excise Tax you owe this m o nth, just look und er
"U. S.Tax" on your phone bill.
On the evening of March 10 (tonight) at 7 p. m. a dis cussion is planned in the CAB coffee house to talk a bout organizing an Evergreen student group of tel ephone tax resisters . In large numbers there exists
power. It is my hope that we ca n form a group with
enough resisters to put a tiny dent in the defense bud get too large for the Defense Department to ignore.
Already, there ex ists a national organization of th e
War Resister's League (WRL) with an office in Seat tle. The organization of this tax resisters movement
would be unconventional in the sense that it would not
need to meet regularly for spirit- ):lUi lding or planned
activities. and no time or energy would be required simply a refusal to pay a portion of the phone bill on a
monthly basis. All campus resisters would hav e th e
names and phone numbers of all the ot her resiste rs
and could communicate by phone if a question or un us ual situation arose ..
I hope to be writing one or two more articles about
the tele phone tax and federal taxes in ge neral in t he
nea r future . If what you have read has excited yo u to
act, come to th e meetin g tonight at 7 p. m. a nd see how
much a concerned group can accompli s h . If y ou would
like to he lp organize t he Evergreen W RL or wou ld
like more information, call me in t he evenings or
weekends at 866 -5 112.
About the autbor: Paul Fink is a student and a member of EPIC (Evergreen Political information Center).
4
Just
a short walk
fro 111 canlpus.
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866-8181
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CannpusNotes~~mIDI
• The Evergreen CoHeehouse
is looking for performers for
spring quarter. We have a small
amount of money per week that
we can use to pay performers.
Folk -si ngers, jazz musicians,
dance bands, jugglers, mime artists, poets, heavy eq uipment
operators, monkeys, and systems analysts are all encouraged
to cal! Lisa at 866 -5115_ P lease
call soon.
We cu)"rently have open mikes
the first and third Saturdays of
the month, fun and games the
others, and performers on Friday nights. Anybody who has
ques tions or comments concerning the coffeehouse is encouraged to scraw l them on the
butchf'r paper we have meticulousl} installed on the wall of
the cvffee house_ The coffeehouse
is in CAB 104, the old non s moking room of t he cafeteria_
• A workshop in self-evaluation
writing wants you from 3 to 5
p .m. today, March 10. Faculty
member Duke Keuhn and academic advisor Mary Moorehead
promise an interesting (and
what's more interesting than
writing easily about yourself?)
work sess ion with some hints about writin g, targeting, a nd using reality checks .
Just getti ng into a se lf-evaluation can be difficult. Mary a nd t he
Duke will help you apply a synt hesis of Evergreen experience
- plu s some of t heir own - to
t he process of assessin g your
quarter's growth ,. The workshop
begins at 3:00 in Lib_ 1417. .
$2 .60
$3.20
$6.00
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A panel discussion on "Wash ington and Its E nergy Future"
was he ld on Tu esday, March 1, in
CAB 110. T he d iscussion represe nted t he recently formed Evergreen Council on t he Environment's first effort at "ce ntraJiz ing e nvironmental awareness on
campus," the group's goal, according to coordinator Glenn
_______~::~~~t-~P~h~i~lI~ip~s~·fi
---------vergreeffs:P rovostana~cade mic Vice President Ed Kormondy acted as moderator and
introduced the discussion with a
s umm ary of Governor Ray's Feb ruary 16 Ene rgy Address.
St at e Representative Don
Charnley, a geo logist who has
frequently spoke n in defense of
Ma rch 1 - 17 Tu esday thru Sunda y
the e nvironment. ta lked about
the legislator's reaction to Ray's
address . Referring to Ray's pro -
E
• The Feminist Karate Union,
a n organizat ion of women teach ing women, welcomes new students . Classes will be he ld Friday
evenings at 7 p .m. in the CRC
Multi · purpose room, starting
April 1. Special beginners' sessions will be held on March 30
and April 6 in CRC 202. The cost
is $25 for ten weeks . Pay instructors at class. A ll levels are we i·
come.
• A s pring quarter group con tract has been formed to organ ize a nd deve lop a biweekly feature magazine for t he Olympia
area . T here will be a meeting Fri·
tanker sta nce, Charnley said that
"there is a stro ng divergence of
opinion between t he governor
and a majority of t he legislators."
Most legislators w ill vote to curtail tanker traffic in the Puget
Sou nd , according to Charnley,
and believe that, "we need oi l,
but not to the extent that we e n dange r ourselves."
Panel membe r Dr. Ruth Wein el' , a dean at Hux ley College w ho
teaches a course on energy re so_ur.ces
waste and methods of waste pre vention. Building sma lle r gen erating plants. for !!x ample , a nd
recycl in g heat d iss ipated dur ing
t he gene rating process, would
save s ignificant amounts of e n ~rgy. Minor policy change s could
rf'du('c waste with out drastica ll y
changing- uur life -sty les; s uc h
polic ies hav e bee n effective in
Sw{'de n. Rut. insisted Weiner,
conservation laws must be made
At The CPJ
for Spring quarte r
GReeDLOoo1>===::::=J
2300 Eve rgreen Park Drive.
Inn
O lympia. 943 -4000
,
Shak,ti shoes and boots
538_95
to $44_95
Weslslde Cenler
357 - 8779
Monday - Saturday,
9 :30 - 6:00
Job Openings
Production Manager
2.55 an hour . .. 15 hours a week.
Secretary
2.80 an hour . .. 15 hours a week.
Ad Salesperson
.Shoes for the Sole
International Women's
Day ' Celebrated
day, March 11th, at noo n in CAB
108F to talk specifics a nd answer
questions for t hose interested.
• A day of awareness will be
held on Saturday, March 19, 1977.
T he aware ness will concern itself
with ab used a nd negl ect ed ch ildren in Thurston and Mason
Counties .
Location: Gloria Dei, 1515 Har r ison Street. Olymp ia, Washing ton 9 a .m. to 3:30 p.m. Bring a
sac k lunch - coffee and te a is
prov ided.
For furth er information con ta('t Dick Wi lli ams, Veterans Offin' _866 -6 192 .
Washington's Energy Future
by Connie Matthiessen
-- -----
Fantasticks Opens Tonight
25% commission , 10 cents a mile
mandato ry, l'sp(' ~'iall 'y t hose d i
re~' l pd toward heavy in dustry_
(;ovprno r Ray and indu stry
spokt'spero;;ons hot h opposp rna n datory conservation laws .
Ken Bostock of t he Wash ing ton EnerKY Office spoke in favor
of mandatory regu lations, and
poin ted to "pressure by various
in tp rpst Kroups" as t he prime
fa('\ or prevent in g e nactment of
('urt ailme nl laws. Both he and
Charn ley urKed the audience to
counterba la nce that of oi l and
indust ry lohhyists, who inu ndate
leKis la t firs with facts and figures
a nd I' xtra\'aga nt luncheons .
Money is a lso a factor in legislal ive action, said Weiner, who
prnphas ized , the need for campaign ex posure and election reform , a nd revealed that Puget
Power alone spent $90,000 in its
drive to stop Initiative 325.
Bu lletins posted prior to the
forum stated t hat Bostock would
be speaking for the governor;
Bostock disclaimed th is role, thus
disappointing students who
hoped to learn more about Ray's
long-range energy plans . Audience questions indicated appre hension on this point; one student
was particularly disturbed by the
inconsistencies in the governor's
press statements . T he speakers
were unable to predict how the
new governor will influence
Washington's energy future , but
re -emphasized the need for citizens to communicate energy concerns to their legislators. "The
most important things are letters
or phone calls that give facts,"
said Charnley . Bostock was opti mistic about the power of citizen
pressure, "Policy," he said, "can
be affected, it can be changed."
The E.C.O.E . will be sponsor ing more activities in the future
and welcomes suggestions and
comments from the community.
Contact Glenn Phillips through
the campus activities office in
CAB 305.
Birkenstock sandals
THE FANTASTICKS, presented by the Performing Arts Today academic program,
opens tonight, March 10, in the Library lobby theater. It will continue each evening at 8
p.m. through Monday, March 14. The musical romance is directed by faculty member
Ainara Wilder, and stars J eH Judy as EI Gallo, Linda TyreU and Dustin Wilson as ~he
star-crossed lovers, Ernie EUeson and Ted Roisum as the fathers, Robert Winkley as The
Mute, Steve Smalley as Mortimer, and Dave Raddatz as Henry. t'aculty musician Don
Chan is the musical consultant, and students Jayne Austin and Diane de Moulin are the
musical directors. Choreography is the product of Evergreen faculty member Maggie
Hunt, and the set and lighting designer is Denny Kochta. A tuxedo-clad orchestra caps the
evening's two-hour, fourteen -song musical extravaganza.
Admission to the show is 53 , general, 52 for students, and 51.50 for children under 12.
Tickets are on sale at the campus bookstore, at Yenney's music in downtown Olympia, and
will be available at the door.
TUNE-UP SPECIAL· ONLY $21 95
Semester Proposal Dropped
T he proposa l to change Evergreen's
quartpr syste m to a n early seme"ter syst em has been dropped. An opinion poll,
w hich was circu lated t hroughout the cam pus. showed a narrow majority of t he stu dpnts a nd fac ulty we re against such a
~ · h ang-e. Evergree n's staff members , how('''('r. were in favor by a margin of about
I hrpe to one.
OU I of 3 .746 ballot cards whi ch were
sP nt out, 660 we.re returned . Of the stude nts' respo nses . 252 agreed with pro posa l. a nd 286 were against it. Seve nteen
fa('u it y were in favor and 23 were against.
Sixty -one s taff members were in favor ,
and 2 1 were against.
Registrar Walker A ll en, who brought
up the proposa l at February's Soundi ng
floa rd mee ting. has dropped the idea. He
had introduced it as a way to cut down on
t he amount of paper -s huffling and expenses in t he re~i s.tratio n process by re -
$28_95
dueing the number of terms . The plan was
a lso touted as a way t.o inc rease actua l
class time.
The plan had definite disadvantages,
s u('h as a fall se mester w hich would st art
in latp A UKust, eliminating the possibility
of stu den ts getting ce r tain seasonal jobs.
Anot her prob le m pointed out was a reduction in t he opportun ities for a student to
(' hange his or her course of study .
The early semester poll d isturhed some
st udents. according to Sounding Board
modprator Ly le Tribhe tt. "Students were
angry wit h the Sound in g Boa rd because of
il s see ming- in vo lvement with the plan,"
hf' said . Tribbett said t he poll was mistakpn ly attrib uted to t he Soundin g Board,
wh ich had mere ly suggested t he method
of polling to Registrar Allen . "The best
method for finding out what students
were thinking was to go down a nd actu all y ta lk to some stude nts." Tribbett said .
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1
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3138 Overhulse Rd
866-8181
Butterfly
Spider
Dragon 18" x 300"
CannpusNotes~~mIDI
• The Evergreen CoHeehouse
is looking for performers for
spring quarter. We have a small
amount of money per week that
we can use to pay performers.
Folk -si ngers, jazz musicians,
dance bands, jugglers, mime artists, poets, heavy eq uipment
operators, monkeys, and systems analysts are all encouraged
to cal! Lisa at 866 -5115_ P lease
call soon.
We cu)"rently have open mikes
the first and third Saturdays of
the month, fun and games the
others, and performers on Friday nights. Anybody who has
ques tions or comments concerning the coffeehouse is encouraged to scraw l them on the
butchf'r paper we have meticulousl} installed on the wall of
the cvffee house_ The coffeehouse
is in CAB 104, the old non s moking room of t he cafeteria_
• A workshop in self-evaluation
writing wants you from 3 to 5
p .m. today, March 10. Faculty
member Duke Keuhn and academic advisor Mary Moorehead
promise an interesting (and
what's more interesting than
writing easily about yourself?)
work sess ion with some hints about writin g, targeting, a nd using reality checks .
Just getti ng into a se lf-evaluation can be difficult. Mary a nd t he
Duke will help you apply a synt hesis of Evergreen experience
- plu s some of t heir own - to
t he process of assessin g your
quarter's growth ,. The workshop
begins at 3:00 in Lib_ 1417. .
$2 .60
$3.20
$6.00
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9.: 32707
G I'fts o f D I'stl'nct l'on
So'u ,day
10 am 5 P'"
88
~.c*gsS8_~===============~B888~
~ ~ ;:::
l~ ~
A panel discussion on "Wash ington and Its E nergy Future"
was he ld on Tu esday, March 1, in
CAB 110. T he d iscussion represe nted t he recently formed Evergreen Council on t he Environment's first effort at "ce ntraJiz ing e nvironmental awareness on
campus," the group's goal, according to coordinator Glenn
_______~::~~~t-~P~h~i~lI~ip~s~·fi
---------vergreeffs:P rovostana~cade mic Vice President Ed Kormondy acted as moderator and
introduced the discussion with a
s umm ary of Governor Ray's Feb ruary 16 Ene rgy Address.
St at e Representative Don
Charnley, a geo logist who has
frequently spoke n in defense of
Ma rch 1 - 17 Tu esday thru Sunda y
the e nvironment. ta lked about
the legislator's reaction to Ray's
address . Referring to Ray's pro -
E
• The Feminist Karate Union,
a n organizat ion of women teach ing women, welcomes new students . Classes will be he ld Friday
evenings at 7 p .m. in the CRC
Multi · purpose room, starting
April 1. Special beginners' sessions will be held on March 30
and April 6 in CRC 202. The cost
is $25 for ten weeks . Pay instructors at class. A ll levels are we i·
come.
• A s pring quarter group con tract has been formed to organ ize a nd deve lop a biweekly feature magazine for t he Olympia
area . T here will be a meeting Fri·
tanker sta nce, Charnley said that
"there is a stro ng divergence of
opinion between t he governor
and a majority of t he legislators."
Most legislators w ill vote to curtail tanker traffic in the Puget
Sou nd , according to Charnley,
and believe that, "we need oi l,
but not to the extent that we e n dange r ourselves."
Panel membe r Dr. Ruth Wein el' , a dean at Hux ley College w ho
teaches a course on energy re so_ur.ces
waste and methods of waste pre vention. Building sma lle r gen erating plants. for !!x ample , a nd
recycl in g heat d iss ipated dur ing
t he gene rating process, would
save s ignificant amounts of e n ~rgy. Minor policy change s could
rf'du('c waste with out drastica ll y
changing- uur life -sty les; s uc h
polic ies hav e bee n effective in
Sw{'de n. Rut. insisted Weiner,
conservation laws must be made
At The CPJ
for Spring quarte r
GReeDLOoo1>===::::=J
2300 Eve rgreen Park Drive.
Inn
O lympia. 943 -4000
,
Shak,ti shoes and boots
538_95
to $44_95
Weslslde Cenler
357 - 8779
Monday - Saturday,
9 :30 - 6:00
Job Openings
Production Manager
2.55 an hour . .. 15 hours a week.
Secretary
2.80 an hour . .. 15 hours a week.
Ad Salesperson
.Shoes for the Sole
International Women's
Day ' Celebrated
day, March 11th, at noo n in CAB
108F to talk specifics a nd answer
questions for t hose interested.
• A day of awareness will be
held on Saturday, March 19, 1977.
T he aware ness will concern itself
with ab used a nd negl ect ed ch ildren in Thurston and Mason
Counties .
Location: Gloria Dei, 1515 Har r ison Street. Olymp ia, Washing ton 9 a .m. to 3:30 p.m. Bring a
sac k lunch - coffee and te a is
prov ided.
For furth er information con ta('t Dick Wi lli ams, Veterans Offin' _866 -6 192 .
Washington's Energy Future
by Connie Matthiessen
-- -----
Fantasticks Opens Tonight
25% commission , 10 cents a mile
mandato ry, l'sp(' ~'iall 'y t hose d i
re~' l pd toward heavy in dustry_
(;ovprno r Ray and indu stry
spokt'spero;;ons hot h opposp rna n datory conservation laws .
Ken Bostock of t he Wash ing ton EnerKY Office spoke in favor
of mandatory regu lations, and
poin ted to "pressure by various
in tp rpst Kroups" as t he prime
fa('\ or prevent in g e nactment of
('urt ailme nl laws. Both he and
Charn ley urKed the audience to
counterba la nce that of oi l and
indust ry lohhyists, who inu ndate
leKis la t firs with facts and figures
a nd I' xtra\'aga nt luncheons .
Money is a lso a factor in legislal ive action, said Weiner, who
prnphas ized , the need for campaign ex posure and election reform , a nd revealed that Puget
Power alone spent $90,000 in its
drive to stop Initiative 325.
Bu lletins posted prior to the
forum stated t hat Bostock would
be speaking for the governor;
Bostock disclaimed th is role, thus
disappointing students who
hoped to learn more about Ray's
long-range energy plans . Audience questions indicated appre hension on this point; one student
was particularly disturbed by the
inconsistencies in the governor's
press statements . T he speakers
were unable to predict how the
new governor will influence
Washington's energy future , but
re -emphasized the need for citizens to communicate energy concerns to their legislators. "The
most important things are letters
or phone calls that give facts,"
said Charnley . Bostock was opti mistic about the power of citizen
pressure, "Policy," he said, "can
be affected, it can be changed."
The E.C.O.E . will be sponsor ing more activities in the future
and welcomes suggestions and
comments from the community.
Contact Glenn Phillips through
the campus activities office in
CAB 305.
Birkenstock sandals
THE FANTASTICKS, presented by the Performing Arts Today academic program,
opens tonight, March 10, in the Library lobby theater. It will continue each evening at 8
p.m. through Monday, March 14. The musical romance is directed by faculty member
Ainara Wilder, and stars J eH Judy as EI Gallo, Linda TyreU and Dustin Wilson as ~he
star-crossed lovers, Ernie EUeson and Ted Roisum as the fathers, Robert Winkley as The
Mute, Steve Smalley as Mortimer, and Dave Raddatz as Henry. t'aculty musician Don
Chan is the musical consultant, and students Jayne Austin and Diane de Moulin are the
musical directors. Choreography is the product of Evergreen faculty member Maggie
Hunt, and the set and lighting designer is Denny Kochta. A tuxedo-clad orchestra caps the
evening's two-hour, fourteen -song musical extravaganza.
Admission to the show is 53 , general, 52 for students, and 51.50 for children under 12.
Tickets are on sale at the campus bookstore, at Yenney's music in downtown Olympia, and
will be available at the door.
TUNE-UP SPECIAL· ONLY $21 95
Semester Proposal Dropped
T he proposa l to change Evergreen's
quartpr syste m to a n early seme"ter syst em has been dropped. An opinion poll,
w hich was circu lated t hroughout the cam pus. showed a narrow majority of t he stu dpnts a nd fac ulty we re against such a
~ · h ang-e. Evergree n's staff members , how('''('r. were in favor by a margin of about
I hrpe to one.
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fa('u it y were in favor and 23 were against.
Sixty -one s taff members were in favor ,
and 2 1 were against.
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up the proposa l at February's Soundi ng
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had introduced it as a way to cut down on
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Anot her prob le m pointed out was a reduction in t he opportun ities for a student to
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modprator Ly le Tribhe tt. "Students were
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il s see ming- in vo lvement with the plan,"
hf' said . Tribbett said t he poll was mistakpn ly attrib uted to t he Soundin g Board,
wh ich had mere ly suggested t he method
of polling to Registrar Allen . "The best
method for finding out what students
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POWER TYPI NG
212 E . Legion
Somet imes it see ms as if we've
rea lly come a long wa y since
The Loretta Young Show and
My Friend Irma. Until. that is,
one looks at t he characte ri s tics
of women these images support.
The wome n on these s how s te nd
to be slightly mad, awfully cute,
new ly or uneasily on their ow n,
in need of a n e normous a mou nt
of reassu ra nce and praise from
men , ext re mely he lpful in a
pin ch, sex ually inactive, stub born, takin g ris ks to prove the ir
libe ration, cheerful, nice to have
around the office or apartment
building, outspoken and / or us ually or always coy, flirtatious
a nd yet, somehow, one of the
boys,
Indeed, lovable house wives,
divorcees, a nd widowed wome n
living respectable and humorous
lives and heavily identified with
m:l--cl-epenuent-u pon'-ma~l
leagues, ex -husbands, or boy friends for survival a nd emotional support have become so
acceptab le with TV audiences,
that male producers have begun
to portray deep fears and anx ieties regarding women and
women's power.
APRfL HOON-
Theses
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I once wrote an article about
media's attempt to link dark ness with crime. Pamphlets by
c:rime pre vention organizations,
telev ision ads, a nd ne wspaper
ads sponsored by power companies re peated in various ways
the message that "evi l lurks in
darkness," and if we s omehow
had e noug h li ght, crimes would
be great ly reduced, if not e lim inated. This in spite of a physics
professor's analy s is of t he stat is ti cs. which demonstrated that
your chances of being a victim
of ui me on a lighted s tree t is
a bo ut 24 times grea te r t han on
a dark street. I conclud ed that
America's logico- rea lity sys te m
is s urpri s ingly primi t ive a nd
that. in gel1p ral, peop le are
ready to <In:ept witc hcr a ft or
ot her supernat ural ex planations
of j ust abo ut any th ing they fear
and don' t und erstand. And mass
media is rig ht there, ready to
support and spread the message
(i f not in ve nt it).
Toda y w e're bei ng de lu ged
w ith mass media images of the
changing r ole of wome n. If yo u
don't he li eve it, consider that
(acco rdin g to Ne ilson ) 97 pe r ·
ce nt of a ll U. S. house hold s have
television sets, a nd those sets
a re watc hed a n average of s ix
hou rs a day. What do peoplewatc h? In 1975, amon g the top
15 s how s we re several which
featured wome n (Maude, Phyllis, Rhoda, Mary Tyler Moore,
Carol Burnett, and Police Wom an) and another several in which
wome n play significant roles,
----suwas--Ait-In-the-Pamily-a ml
Good Times.
Since then, programs have
added programs featuring wom en: The Bionic Woman, Wonder
Woman, Laverne and Shirley,
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,
and of course, Barbara Walters
and The ABC Evening News.
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yells accusations and demands
(for the 15th episode) that
Wanda not have anything sexually to do with her own husband. Lila, too, is a blackmailer.
Apparently, most, if not all,
women who love other women
are either blackmailers, being
blackmailed or about to be blackmailed. So much for sisterhood.
Other media fantasies about
women with too much power or
those who dare t<1 strike against
their roles are perhaps less ob. vious. This particular brand of
"keeping the women in their
place" propaganda is closer to
the "evil lurks in darkness" synleague]. These postures seem ridrome, and may have begun
diculous , but are necessary rewith a film called The Exorc:ist.
minders to women that their
The underlying message of The
place in the scheme of things
Exorcist (based on an incident
will not change easily or quickly
involving a boy, not a girl) was
- and in fact power in women
that there is enormous danger
[and by that I mean poise, con in the world of independent
idence, strength, taking one's
women. The mother, working
self seriously, celebrating one's
on her own career, living apart
own abilities, energy, and vitalfrom the child's father, is "rightity] is dangerous.)
fully" stricken with guilt over
How does the media handle
the child's possession. The child
is at an age when she is just bewomen with powe r? In the Glitter Palace (February 27, NBC
ginning to feel some sense of
Big Event) made an interesting
power in her own life (including
effort to portray a woman
a sense of her own sexuality) .
This power is manipulated by
(played by Barbara Hershey )
who is gay and healthy and hap·
the filmmaker so that it is seen .
py. She does not find it neces to be a possession by evil. The
sa r y to giggle and slither around
girl speaks not with the voice of
he r male ex· lover and friend
authority but with the voice of
(p layed by Chad Everett). But
the devil. She doesn't simply
lest anyon e (es pec ially Anita
begin to sense her sexuality and
Bryant) be led to be lieve that
take some pleasure in it, she
th e life of a woman · identified
masturbates with a crucifix. She
woman is really a viable a lte r is not simply able to control her
nativ e, th e love portrayed in no
world and assert herself in it,
way resemb les th e love Chris
she can make objects fly around
Williams on si ng s about. The
the room and kill people. The
woman's lo ve r i ~ accuseo of
power and possibilities of a
murder ing anothe r woman who
young woman's life are manipu(Incidenta lly, Barbara Walters
is clea rly not mad, cute, or coy ,
has been using yet another wom la ted all out of proportion by
and with other female anchor·
an to blackmai l dozens of wom the frightened world of male
pe rso ns is rea lly on the for e·
en who w is h to hid e t he ir homoimage -makers (and applauded
fro nt in chan g ing th e ima ge of
sex uali ty . D uri ng th e course of
by the superstitious and ' conwome n in mass media. It's no
the program, we see a group of
fused public). How many times
wonde r a lot of people don't like
wonlPn karate choppe rs admin ·
has this theme been repeated? I
he r. She acts as if she knows
ister a good beating to E ve rett,
don't know. There's Carl"ie, for
what· she's talking about. She
a nd we see a noth e r young wom example.
doesn' t apologize or giggle. She
an in hidin g with he r baby. Her
Another Big Event (who's behu sba nd bea ts h e r a nd the
hind these Big Events anyhow?)
looks at people with a stra ig hton leve l gaze and isn't in the
courts ha ve decla red he r an un ·
featured Lee Grant as the mothb usmess
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tion. Most women in mass media
sex uality. So mu ch for th e world
adolescent. She is evil, maligcan't do that or anything e lse
of t he woman · identified woman .
, nant, jealous, and full of dangerth a t sugges t s th ey ' r e rea 11 y
Her life is seen as a sinister,
ous power. In a twist on the
capable of standing on their
blackmailin g, chi ld -losing, a nd
theme of "It's all the mother's
own. E ven Wonder Woman, afmurderou s one. It is fu ll of ev il
fault," Lee Grant reveals that
te r fearlessly banishing the bad
a nd intrigue, and so long as the
she, too, is a witch, and it's just
guys, pulls back her hair, puts
media can treat it that way, it
another version of All In the
on her glasses, and hides her
is an image of woman we'll be
Family. The message in this
energy inside a breast-flattening
a llowed to see .
production is that it is possible
and altogethe r unsexing army
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartfor women full of strange powers
uniform. She is harmless and
man has .managed to make
to grow up and learn to control
l>;-ven-t'Q-f1tWni'ng-ov€'rhcr-wv~1~
- --J.~w:onren~ 1'<W1n~.v1)m~--e-v~n-mm;:-~----·~ese powers and marry '"and'-'derful male boss. The Bionic
blz~rre. Ltl~ I~ an over:sexed
have families and become good
Woman pretends she isn't strong
maid ~ho .IS In lov e wlt~ t~e
middle or upper -middle class
and goes out of her way to let
mayor s. Wife, Wanda. LII~ IS
housewives anyway. Lee Grant
males take credit for her feats
possessive and enormously Jeal has a nice big house to take
["Gee, I guess you're stronger
ous. In one s\!ene, she jumps
care of an'd always (or almost
than you thought you were,"
from the arm.oire in the couple's
always)' defers 1.0 her husband.
she coos after lifting a steel
bedroom w~lie the mayor and
The daughter will learn. Even
girder off a trapped male colWanda are In an embrace. She
Samantha (Bewitched) and
continued on page 7
J eanie (I Dream of Jeanie) in
ea rlie r , less malevole nt versions I
of women with power which
must be controlled and eith e r
hidd e n from men or used only
for t heir be ne fit, . were more
risk -ta kin g th a n Lee Gr ant's
carefull y coifed, Mercedes · and
martini -loving character. One
ex pects her to breathe to her
daughter, .. Don't rock t he boat,
darling, I just had th e pool
cleaned a nd Daddy and I wo ul d
hate to have to leave the neigh borhood."
A February 28 offering ca lled
The Strange Possession of Mrs.
Oliver once again demo nstrated
that power in women is perfectly
understandab le in the context of
witchcraft, evil, or possess ion.
Kare n Black plays yet another
housew ife with a gia nt house. In
her g lasses, s licked · back hair,
and prim suits, s he looks a lot
lik e Wonder Woman in he r
Clark Kent inc arnation. S he
doesn't want a baby just now,
yet he r husband , w hose career
is blossoming, believes it is time
to begin a family. Her rebellion
is handled through t he now fa -
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miliar theme of possession. As
she tries on a wig and new ear·
rings, eerie, foreboding music
comes on the soundtrack. When
she rents a beach cottage to
spend some time alone, she is
terrorized by dreams of a former life and the reality of a
nasty man who wants to murder
her. As the "possession" grows,
her husband (played by George
Ham'ilton), complains, "Miriam,
what's happening to you? You're
a different person;" And packs
her off to a psychiatrist.
It's obvious to me then why
A Star Is Born seemed like a
breath of fresh air. I loved it. ,
Barbra Streisand produced it
and reportedly did a lot of the
directing. And that is probably
what comes through. I don't
want to go overboard on this
film, but throughout this remade
fantasy of a star portraying a
star the way the -star thinks the
movie-going public wants to see
a star (hence the whole thing is
removed from anything we have
to believe), there is (if only by
comparison with the Judy Gar·
land version) a fresh and hopeful statement about women to·
day.
Maybe Esther (the character
Streisand plays) IS interesting
and fun because she dOesn't try
to be anything or anyone. She's
not "designed" to make a state·
ment for or about women. She's
not an Alice not living here or a
mad housewife. She's just a
woman with a great voice, no
problems she can't handle, happy, confident, assertive, and
with few hang-ups (she doesn't
e ven do drugs or drink). She has
been married, is living alone
and doing fine . She can't make
beaten biscuits. Not that she
won't - she simply can't.
She is not in awe of Kristoffer son . When he interrupts her
nightclub act, she asks him to
stop . When he tries to charm
himself into her aparUnent that
night s he says no, come back for
breakfast (if you know how to say
no, you can say yes). She knows,
in short, what she has, wha.t'~
important, what's worth defend ing, and what's worth going after.
She stays in control of her life
even in linking it with the lovable
but unalterably burned-out Kristofferson. Well, yes, it is a love
story. Some people call it corny.
And yes, he gives her some
breaks and a few nudges to get
on with it. But she pretty much
stands on her own, and one gets
the strong impression that she
won't allow a destructive, gameplaying relationship to develop
between them . She'll get· out
first. She doesn't become guilty
about her own success as Kristofferson faces failure. And Kristofferson (unlike Mason in an
earlier version) is not shown as a
man who is jealous of his wife's
obvious strength and talent. He
seems to love her thoroughly,
but is incapable of accepting the
clear, uncomplicated, and unselfconscious life she is willing to
share with him ,
Unfortunately, we don't get to
know much more about Esther
(this is, after all , a fantasy) except that s he has a sense of humor, great taste in pillows, and is
not a perfect beauty (which
makes her much more believe able). We do know that she is not
possessed or evil and does not
castrate, bewitch, or otherwise
harm Kristofferson or any other
man or woman .
See ms somehow peculiar to
say, but in my opinion Streisand
has created one of the few uncon ditionally and unself ·conscious ly
positive images of women I've
seen in films or television in quite
a while. There's some reason I
came away from Star feeling
good about myself and the world.
Arts and
FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, March 10
SANDMAN, an animated short ,
and HOW COULD I NOT BE AMONG
YOU? , about the dying poet Ted
Rose.,thal. CAB Coffeehouse, noon
FREE .
Thursday, March 10
AN EVENING OF ENVIRONMENTALLY-RELATED FILMS Several
short subjects from the collection
of the Washington State Film library : America the Beautiful, The
New Alchemists, A Thousana :;uns,
Drowning Bay, and Before the
Mountain Was Moved. CAB Coffeehouse . 8 : 30 p.m. FREE.
Friday, March 11
MADE FOR EACH OTHER, ARA BESQUE, and MURMUR OF THE
HEART Three very-hard-to-research
movies. Presented by the Friday
Nite Film Series . LH One, 3,7, and
9 : 30 p.m . (times approximate) 75
cents.
Thursday, March 17
WHERE ALL THINGS BELONG A
short subject on " human potential ,"
co-sponsored, surprisingly enough,
by the Association for Humanistic
Psychology and the Weyerhaeuser
Lumber Co . Presented by the Hu man Growth Center & Multi-ethnic
Cult ure Counseting Center. CAB
Coffeehouse, noon . FREE .
Wednesday, March 30
MACUNAIMA (" Jungle Freaks")
(1971, 95 min.) ·A surreal tragicomedy directed by Pedro de Andrade
of Brazil, about the incredible advent ures of Macunaima, who was
born a very ugl y, full - grown black
man with the mind of a child . Along
the way he meets a flesh-eating
ogre, fall s in love with a glamorous
bank-robbing rev o lutionary, and
steals a magic stone from a giant
capitalist. Politics and soc ial issues
are blended with Marx Brothers anl ics in what the New Yorl< Times
called " one of the major works of
cinema in this decade ." Presented
by the Academic Film Series. LH
One, 1 : 30 and 7 : 30 p.m. FREE .
IN OLYMPIA
CAR WASH The real thing is bet-
About the author: Lynn D.
Patterson is a student and practitioner of visual anthropology,
and a member of Evergreen's
faculty.
Note: Reprinting this essay
without the author's permission
is forbidden.
ler. Also
WHITE LINE FEVER ,
starring ·cars. Capitol Theater, 3577161 .
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A STAR IS BORN (See review
elsewhere in this issue .) State Theater,357-4010 .
TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING II
"could be the most important t,lm
ever m ade an d every American
should see it!" says Senator George
S. McGovern . No wonder he lost in
'72. Starts March 17 (tentatively) .
State Theater.
PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN
The worst of the bunch . Olympic
ood Re'a ding
GOOD READING is a column listing books and articles which
members of the COOPER POINT JOURNAL stall have found
especially useful, entertaining, or important. From time to time
GOOD READING will feature short commentaries and items on
literary matters . We welcome suggestions and ideas for thi s
column from our readers. Suus culque mos . (" Everyone has his
own peculiar way .")
RECOMBINANT DNA BLUES DEPARTMENT
In recent years scientists have
discovered that it is possible to cut
the tong spiralling DNA molecules ,
which carry genetic information for
-an Ilvrng things, and splice them to
different types o f genes. These
linked ger.es , known as recombi-nant DNA , can be inlroduced into
"host cells" which will adopt th e
new gene as one of its own, thus
creating new life forms. Experiment s suc h as the introduction 01
k now n carcinoge ni c substance s
into rapid l y multiplying bacteria
ce ll s could have disasterous result s
if the bacteria were aCCidentally
spread ____
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has
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alarmed scientist s and the public
alike. A number of articles on the
subject have appeared recently .
"SCience That Frightens the Scientists ," by William Bennet and
Joel Gurin app~<Ifll!l in EebC!!ary's
Atlantic Monthly, and deals with
the process the sc ientific comm unity has gone through in trying to
re stric t its own experimentation
with recom binant DNA .
"DNA: The Corporate Takeover
New Life Forms," by Jeremy Rifki n, Molher Jones , February I March
1977 , disc usses th e unrestricted
ex perimentation tha t corporations
have been dOing , creating new mi - .
cro -organ isms through the use of
________________
recombinan l DNA . ______________
Theater,357-3422.
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE The
theatrical release cut from the high Iy -acclaimed Swedith TV series by
Ingmar Bergman . The timing of the
scheduling of this movie might
seem unfortunate, since it is being
shown on television this week. but
remember the TV version will be
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the impact will
be lost . white the movie version will
be in the original Swedish with
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Events&1r~
Wednesday, March 16
BALKAN SINGING WORKSHOP ,
CRC 202,10 a. m. - noon
Thursday , March 17
OLD- TIME SQUARE DANCE,
fourth floor library , 7 : 30 p.m. 50
cents .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday , March 11
FAITH PETRie Born in the mountai ns of Idaho, raised on cowboy
songs, hymns, and country tunes,
Faith sings the lively spirit of them
all . Guitar accompaniment , as well
as spoons, bones , and tin whistle.
Applejam Folk Center, 200 E. Un ion.
Ooors open 8 p.m . Minors wel co me, $1.
Saturday, March 12
CARL SPAETH Energetic, crazy ,
funny originals by an Evergreen
graduate . Spaeth plays guitar, sing s
his head off, and plays hot jazz
trombone. Atso : PAT GILL, a southpaw guitarist who zings out rags ,
blues , country folk , and originals .
Applejam Folk Center , 220 E. Union .
Ooors open 8 p.m . Minors we lcome, $1 .
Wednesday, March 16
BROADWAY, BLUEGRASS ,
CLASSICS, ELECTRONICS, MBIRA.
AND ALL THAT JAZZ. A niQht wilh
Evergreen musicians . Tumwater
Performing Arts Center, Tumwater
High School , 8 p.m., FREE .
ON STAGE
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, March 10 ~ Monday,
March 14
THE FANTASTICKS, a lavish mu sical presented by studenl s in the
Performing Arts Today academic
program and directed by faculty
member Ainara Wilder . See artic le
elsewh ere in this issue. Library lobby , 8 p .m . Tickets a~va i l able at
Ihe campus bookstore or at the
door, $3, general . $2, studen ts:
$1 .50 chil dren under 12.
ART
ON CAMPUS
THE FOUNDATIONS OF VISUAL
ART SHOW A student ex hibiti on
tha t 's surpri sing ly good . Library
~~n~~."ery, throug h the end of Ihe
STUFFED
ON TRIAL
ALBINO
The following is a warran t for the
arrest o f one Joseph Bemis , alias
Mr. Stuffy, alias Mrs. Mildred Bartoo . ali as Grumpy . You are hereby
charg ed with malic io us mischief,
excessive sati re, reckless insolence.
rude noises , unnecessary unpleast t l
t ' n 0 1 ' ng
an ness, unna ura ac s I v v,
objects of ta xidermy . embarrass ing itches , co nspirac y 10 rr dicule.
loitering, and general crim es aga,nst
humanity .
Theref ore. In Ihe nam e 0 1 the
peop le, you will be un froze n :rom
your state 'of suspended ani mation
at -100 degrees cen tig rade in l h1>
Joe Bemi s Memorial Tank . I ~cated
in th e ba semen t o f the Joe Br-m is
Memorra l Lif e Su pr ort Gallery. and.
wi ll be brou ght 10 tri al for the
charges listed above. one wee k
from today. in a sec rei loca ti on
wh ich w ill nO! be announ ced .
You have the rig hl 10 rema,n s' lent , and so on and so fo rt h.
ne ThlfOWTng objects are hereby
conf iscaled from Ihe Joe 8em ,s
Memo ria l Lif e Support Gallery : One
life support lank with Mr. 8 em,s ,n
it : one life suppo rt tank w ,l h uniden t, fied fe male in it ( bel ieved to
be Mr. Bemi s' mother); three doz"n
assort ed st uffed albino squirrels ,n
varro us states 01 di srepa ir : o np.
Ou ija boa rd. and $73 in th e so ·
ca l led Joe 8emis Mem orial Sch olar ·
ship Fund .
Th e Joe Bem ,s Memorra l Lrf e
Su pp orl Gall ery is he reby dec lared
ol f - I,m it s, 24 ho urs a day .
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MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Friday, March 11
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Sunday, March 13
FOLKSING , "a gathering of people and songs." CAB Co ff eehouse,
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POWER TYPI NG
212 E . Legion
Somet imes it see ms as if we've
rea lly come a long wa y since
The Loretta Young Show and
My Friend Irma. Until. that is,
one looks at t he characte ri s tics
of women these images support.
The wome n on these s how s te nd
to be slightly mad, awfully cute,
new ly or uneasily on their ow n,
in need of a n e normous a mou nt
of reassu ra nce and praise from
men , ext re mely he lpful in a
pin ch, sex ually inactive, stub born, takin g ris ks to prove the ir
libe ration, cheerful, nice to have
around the office or apartment
building, outspoken and / or us ually or always coy, flirtatious
a nd yet, somehow, one of the
boys,
Indeed, lovable house wives,
divorcees, a nd widowed wome n
living respectable and humorous
lives and heavily identified with
m:l--cl-epenuent-u pon'-ma~l
leagues, ex -husbands, or boy friends for survival a nd emotional support have become so
acceptab le with TV audiences,
that male producers have begun
to portray deep fears and anx ieties regarding women and
women's power.
APRfL HOON-
Theses
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I once wrote an article about
media's attempt to link dark ness with crime. Pamphlets by
c:rime pre vention organizations,
telev ision ads, a nd ne wspaper
ads sponsored by power companies re peated in various ways
the message that "evi l lurks in
darkness," and if we s omehow
had e noug h li ght, crimes would
be great ly reduced, if not e lim inated. This in spite of a physics
professor's analy s is of t he stat is ti cs. which demonstrated that
your chances of being a victim
of ui me on a lighted s tree t is
a bo ut 24 times grea te r t han on
a dark street. I conclud ed that
America's logico- rea lity sys te m
is s urpri s ingly primi t ive a nd
that. in gel1p ral, peop le are
ready to <In:ept witc hcr a ft or
ot her supernat ural ex planations
of j ust abo ut any th ing they fear
and don' t und erstand. And mass
media is rig ht there, ready to
support and spread the message
(i f not in ve nt it).
Toda y w e're bei ng de lu ged
w ith mass media images of the
changing r ole of wome n. If yo u
don't he li eve it, consider that
(acco rdin g to Ne ilson ) 97 pe r ·
ce nt of a ll U. S. house hold s have
television sets, a nd those sets
a re watc hed a n average of s ix
hou rs a day. What do peoplewatc h? In 1975, amon g the top
15 s how s we re several which
featured wome n (Maude, Phyllis, Rhoda, Mary Tyler Moore,
Carol Burnett, and Police Wom an) and another several in which
wome n play significant roles,
----suwas--Ait-In-the-Pamily-a ml
Good Times.
Since then, programs have
added programs featuring wom en: The Bionic Woman, Wonder
Woman, Laverne and Shirley,
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,
and of course, Barbara Walters
and The ABC Evening News.
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yells accusations and demands
(for the 15th episode) that
Wanda not have anything sexually to do with her own husband. Lila, too, is a blackmailer.
Apparently, most, if not all,
women who love other women
are either blackmailers, being
blackmailed or about to be blackmailed. So much for sisterhood.
Other media fantasies about
women with too much power or
those who dare t<1 strike against
their roles are perhaps less ob. vious. This particular brand of
"keeping the women in their
place" propaganda is closer to
the "evil lurks in darkness" synleague]. These postures seem ridrome, and may have begun
diculous , but are necessary rewith a film called The Exorc:ist.
minders to women that their
The underlying message of The
place in the scheme of things
Exorcist (based on an incident
will not change easily or quickly
involving a boy, not a girl) was
- and in fact power in women
that there is enormous danger
[and by that I mean poise, con in the world of independent
idence, strength, taking one's
women. The mother, working
self seriously, celebrating one's
on her own career, living apart
own abilities, energy, and vitalfrom the child's father, is "rightity] is dangerous.)
fully" stricken with guilt over
How does the media handle
the child's possession. The child
is at an age when she is just bewomen with powe r? In the Glitter Palace (February 27, NBC
ginning to feel some sense of
Big Event) made an interesting
power in her own life (including
effort to portray a woman
a sense of her own sexuality) .
This power is manipulated by
(played by Barbara Hershey )
who is gay and healthy and hap·
the filmmaker so that it is seen .
py. She does not find it neces to be a possession by evil. The
sa r y to giggle and slither around
girl speaks not with the voice of
he r male ex· lover and friend
authority but with the voice of
(p layed by Chad Everett). But
the devil. She doesn't simply
lest anyon e (es pec ially Anita
begin to sense her sexuality and
Bryant) be led to be lieve that
take some pleasure in it, she
th e life of a woman · identified
masturbates with a crucifix. She
woman is really a viable a lte r is not simply able to control her
nativ e, th e love portrayed in no
world and assert herself in it,
way resemb les th e love Chris
she can make objects fly around
Williams on si ng s about. The
the room and kill people. The
woman's lo ve r i ~ accuseo of
power and possibilities of a
murder ing anothe r woman who
young woman's life are manipu(Incidenta lly, Barbara Walters
is clea rly not mad, cute, or coy ,
has been using yet another wom la ted all out of proportion by
and with other female anchor·
an to blackmai l dozens of wom the frightened world of male
pe rso ns is rea lly on the for e·
en who w is h to hid e t he ir homoimage -makers (and applauded
fro nt in chan g ing th e ima ge of
sex uali ty . D uri ng th e course of
by the superstitious and ' conwome n in mass media. It's no
the program, we see a group of
fused public). How many times
wonde r a lot of people don't like
wonlPn karate choppe rs admin ·
has this theme been repeated? I
he r. She acts as if she knows
ister a good beating to E ve rett,
don't know. There's Carl"ie, for
what· she's talking about. She
a nd we see a noth e r young wom example.
doesn' t apologize or giggle. She
an in hidin g with he r baby. Her
Another Big Event (who's behu sba nd bea ts h e r a nd the
hind these Big Events anyhow?)
looks at people with a stra ig hton leve l gaze and isn't in the
courts ha ve decla red he r an un ·
featured Lee Grant as the mothb usmess
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tion. Most women in mass media
sex uality. So mu ch for th e world
adolescent. She is evil, maligcan't do that or anything e lse
of t he woman · identified woman .
, nant, jealous, and full of dangerth a t sugges t s th ey ' r e rea 11 y
Her life is seen as a sinister,
ous power. In a twist on the
capable of standing on their
blackmailin g, chi ld -losing, a nd
theme of "It's all the mother's
own. E ven Wonder Woman, afmurderou s one. It is fu ll of ev il
fault," Lee Grant reveals that
te r fearlessly banishing the bad
a nd intrigue, and so long as the
she, too, is a witch, and it's just
guys, pulls back her hair, puts
media can treat it that way, it
another version of All In the
on her glasses, and hides her
is an image of woman we'll be
Family. The message in this
energy inside a breast-flattening
a llowed to see .
production is that it is possible
and altogethe r unsexing army
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartfor women full of strange powers
uniform. She is harmless and
man has .managed to make
to grow up and learn to control
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blz~rre. Ltl~ I~ an over:sexed
have families and become good
Woman pretends she isn't strong
maid ~ho .IS In lov e wlt~ t~e
middle or upper -middle class
and goes out of her way to let
mayor s. Wife, Wanda. LII~ IS
housewives anyway. Lee Grant
males take credit for her feats
possessive and enormously Jeal has a nice big house to take
["Gee, I guess you're stronger
ous. In one s\!ene, she jumps
care of an'd always (or almost
than you thought you were,"
from the arm.oire in the couple's
always)' defers 1.0 her husband.
she coos after lifting a steel
bedroom w~lie the mayor and
The daughter will learn. Even
girder off a trapped male colWanda are In an embrace. She
Samantha (Bewitched) and
continued on page 7
J eanie (I Dream of Jeanie) in
ea rlie r , less malevole nt versions I
of women with power which
must be controlled and eith e r
hidd e n from men or used only
for t heir be ne fit, . were more
risk -ta kin g th a n Lee Gr ant's
carefull y coifed, Mercedes · and
martini -loving character. One
ex pects her to breathe to her
daughter, .. Don't rock t he boat,
darling, I just had th e pool
cleaned a nd Daddy and I wo ul d
hate to have to leave the neigh borhood."
A February 28 offering ca lled
The Strange Possession of Mrs.
Oliver once again demo nstrated
that power in women is perfectly
understandab le in the context of
witchcraft, evil, or possess ion.
Kare n Black plays yet another
housew ife with a gia nt house. In
her g lasses, s licked · back hair,
and prim suits, s he looks a lot
lik e Wonder Woman in he r
Clark Kent inc arnation. S he
doesn't want a baby just now,
yet he r husband , w hose career
is blossoming, believes it is time
to begin a family. Her rebellion
is handled through t he now fa -
"A Star Is Born "And Other
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miliar theme of possession. As
she tries on a wig and new ear·
rings, eerie, foreboding music
comes on the soundtrack. When
she rents a beach cottage to
spend some time alone, she is
terrorized by dreams of a former life and the reality of a
nasty man who wants to murder
her. As the "possession" grows,
her husband (played by George
Ham'ilton), complains, "Miriam,
what's happening to you? You're
a different person;" And packs
her off to a psychiatrist.
It's obvious to me then why
A Star Is Born seemed like a
breath of fresh air. I loved it. ,
Barbra Streisand produced it
and reportedly did a lot of the
directing. And that is probably
what comes through. I don't
want to go overboard on this
film, but throughout this remade
fantasy of a star portraying a
star the way the -star thinks the
movie-going public wants to see
a star (hence the whole thing is
removed from anything we have
to believe), there is (if only by
comparison with the Judy Gar·
land version) a fresh and hopeful statement about women to·
day.
Maybe Esther (the character
Streisand plays) IS interesting
and fun because she dOesn't try
to be anything or anyone. She's
not "designed" to make a state·
ment for or about women. She's
not an Alice not living here or a
mad housewife. She's just a
woman with a great voice, no
problems she can't handle, happy, confident, assertive, and
with few hang-ups (she doesn't
e ven do drugs or drink). She has
been married, is living alone
and doing fine . She can't make
beaten biscuits. Not that she
won't - she simply can't.
She is not in awe of Kristoffer son . When he interrupts her
nightclub act, she asks him to
stop . When he tries to charm
himself into her aparUnent that
night s he says no, come back for
breakfast (if you know how to say
no, you can say yes). She knows,
in short, what she has, wha.t'~
important, what's worth defend ing, and what's worth going after.
She stays in control of her life
even in linking it with the lovable
but unalterably burned-out Kristofferson. Well, yes, it is a love
story. Some people call it corny.
And yes, he gives her some
breaks and a few nudges to get
on with it. But she pretty much
stands on her own, and one gets
the strong impression that she
won't allow a destructive, gameplaying relationship to develop
between them . She'll get· out
first. She doesn't become guilty
about her own success as Kristofferson faces failure. And Kristofferson (unlike Mason in an
earlier version) is not shown as a
man who is jealous of his wife's
obvious strength and talent. He
seems to love her thoroughly,
but is incapable of accepting the
clear, uncomplicated, and unselfconscious life she is willing to
share with him ,
Unfortunately, we don't get to
know much more about Esther
(this is, after all , a fantasy) except that s he has a sense of humor, great taste in pillows, and is
not a perfect beauty (which
makes her much more believe able). We do know that she is not
possessed or evil and does not
castrate, bewitch, or otherwise
harm Kristofferson or any other
man or woman .
See ms somehow peculiar to
say, but in my opinion Streisand
has created one of the few uncon ditionally and unself ·conscious ly
positive images of women I've
seen in films or television in quite
a while. There's some reason I
came away from Star feeling
good about myself and the world.
Arts and
FILMS
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, March 10
SANDMAN, an animated short ,
and HOW COULD I NOT BE AMONG
YOU? , about the dying poet Ted
Rose.,thal. CAB Coffeehouse, noon
FREE .
Thursday, March 10
AN EVENING OF ENVIRONMENTALLY-RELATED FILMS Several
short subjects from the collection
of the Washington State Film library : America the Beautiful, The
New Alchemists, A Thousana :;uns,
Drowning Bay, and Before the
Mountain Was Moved. CAB Coffeehouse . 8 : 30 p.m. FREE.
Friday, March 11
MADE FOR EACH OTHER, ARA BESQUE, and MURMUR OF THE
HEART Three very-hard-to-research
movies. Presented by the Friday
Nite Film Series . LH One, 3,7, and
9 : 30 p.m . (times approximate) 75
cents.
Thursday, March 17
WHERE ALL THINGS BELONG A
short subject on " human potential ,"
co-sponsored, surprisingly enough,
by the Association for Humanistic
Psychology and the Weyerhaeuser
Lumber Co . Presented by the Hu man Growth Center & Multi-ethnic
Cult ure Counseting Center. CAB
Coffeehouse, noon . FREE .
Wednesday, March 30
MACUNAIMA (" Jungle Freaks")
(1971, 95 min.) ·A surreal tragicomedy directed by Pedro de Andrade
of Brazil, about the incredible advent ures of Macunaima, who was
born a very ugl y, full - grown black
man with the mind of a child . Along
the way he meets a flesh-eating
ogre, fall s in love with a glamorous
bank-robbing rev o lutionary, and
steals a magic stone from a giant
capitalist. Politics and soc ial issues
are blended with Marx Brothers anl ics in what the New Yorl< Times
called " one of the major works of
cinema in this decade ." Presented
by the Academic Film Series. LH
One, 1 : 30 and 7 : 30 p.m. FREE .
IN OLYMPIA
CAR WASH The real thing is bet-
About the author: Lynn D.
Patterson is a student and practitioner of visual anthropology,
and a member of Evergreen's
faculty.
Note: Reprinting this essay
without the author's permission
is forbidden.
ler. Also
WHITE LINE FEVER ,
starring ·cars. Capitol Theater, 3577161 .
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A STAR IS BORN (See review
elsewhere in this issue .) State Theater,357-4010 .
TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING II
"could be the most important t,lm
ever m ade an d every American
should see it!" says Senator George
S. McGovern . No wonder he lost in
'72. Starts March 17 (tentatively) .
State Theater.
PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN
The worst of the bunch . Olympic
ood Re'a ding
GOOD READING is a column listing books and articles which
members of the COOPER POINT JOURNAL stall have found
especially useful, entertaining, or important. From time to time
GOOD READING will feature short commentaries and items on
literary matters . We welcome suggestions and ideas for thi s
column from our readers. Suus culque mos . (" Everyone has his
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RECOMBINANT DNA BLUES DEPARTMENT
In recent years scientists have
discovered that it is possible to cut
the tong spiralling DNA molecules ,
which carry genetic information for
-an Ilvrng things, and splice them to
different types o f genes. These
linked ger.es , known as recombi-nant DNA , can be inlroduced into
"host cells" which will adopt th e
new gene as one of its own, thus
creating new life forms. Experiment s suc h as the introduction 01
k now n carcinoge ni c substance s
into rapid l y multiplying bacteria
ce ll s could have disasterous result s
if the bacteria were aCCidentally
spread ____
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has
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alarmed scientist s and the public
alike. A number of articles on the
subject have appeared recently .
"SCience That Frightens the Scientists ," by William Bennet and
Joel Gurin app~<Ifll!l in EebC!!ary's
Atlantic Monthly, and deals with
the process the sc ientific comm unity has gone through in trying to
re stric t its own experimentation
with recom binant DNA .
"DNA: The Corporate Takeover
New Life Forms," by Jeremy Rifki n, Molher Jones , February I March
1977 , disc usses th e unrestricted
ex perimentation tha t corporations
have been dOing , creating new mi - .
cro -organ isms through the use of
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recombinan l DNA . ______________
Theater,357-3422.
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE The
theatrical release cut from the high Iy -acclaimed Swedith TV series by
Ingmar Bergman . The timing of the
scheduling of this movie might
seem unfortunate, since it is being
shown on television this week. but
remember the TV version will be
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the impact will
be lost . white the movie version will
be in the original Swedish with
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Events&1r~
Wednesday, March 16
BALKAN SINGING WORKSHOP ,
CRC 202,10 a. m. - noon
Thursday , March 17
OLD- TIME SQUARE DANCE,
fourth floor library , 7 : 30 p.m. 50
cents .
IN OLYMPIA
Friday , March 11
FAITH PETRie Born in the mountai ns of Idaho, raised on cowboy
songs, hymns, and country tunes,
Faith sings the lively spirit of them
all . Guitar accompaniment , as well
as spoons, bones , and tin whistle.
Applejam Folk Center, 200 E. Un ion.
Ooors open 8 p.m . Minors wel co me, $1.
Saturday, March 12
CARL SPAETH Energetic, crazy ,
funny originals by an Evergreen
graduate . Spaeth plays guitar, sing s
his head off, and plays hot jazz
trombone. Atso : PAT GILL, a southpaw guitarist who zings out rags ,
blues , country folk , and originals .
Applejam Folk Center , 220 E. Union .
Ooors open 8 p.m . Minors we lcome, $1 .
Wednesday, March 16
BROADWAY, BLUEGRASS ,
CLASSICS, ELECTRONICS, MBIRA.
AND ALL THAT JAZZ. A niQht wilh
Evergreen musicians . Tumwater
Performing Arts Center, Tumwater
High School , 8 p.m., FREE .
ON STAGE
ON CAMPUS
Thursday, March 10 ~ Monday,
March 14
THE FANTASTICKS, a lavish mu sical presented by studenl s in the
Performing Arts Today academic
program and directed by faculty
member Ainara Wilder . See artic le
elsewh ere in this issue. Library lobby , 8 p .m . Tickets a~va i l able at
Ihe campus bookstore or at the
door, $3, general . $2, studen ts:
$1 .50 chil dren under 12.
ART
ON CAMPUS
THE FOUNDATIONS OF VISUAL
ART SHOW A student ex hibiti on
tha t 's surpri sing ly good . Library
~~n~~."ery, throug h the end of Ihe
STUFFED
ON TRIAL
ALBINO
The following is a warran t for the
arrest o f one Joseph Bemis , alias
Mr. Stuffy, alias Mrs. Mildred Bartoo . ali as Grumpy . You are hereby
charg ed with malic io us mischief,
excessive sati re, reckless insolence.
rude noises , unnecessary unpleast t l
t ' n 0 1 ' ng
an ness, unna ura ac s I v v,
objects of ta xidermy . embarrass ing itches , co nspirac y 10 rr dicule.
loitering, and general crim es aga,nst
humanity .
Theref ore. In Ihe nam e 0 1 the
peop le, you will be un froze n :rom
your state 'of suspended ani mation
at -100 degrees cen tig rade in l h1>
Joe Bemi s Memorial Tank . I ~cated
in th e ba semen t o f the Joe Br-m is
Memorra l Lif e Su pr ort Gallery. and.
wi ll be brou ght 10 tri al for the
charges listed above. one wee k
from today. in a sec rei loca ti on
wh ich w ill nO! be announ ced .
You have the rig hl 10 rema,n s' lent , and so on and so fo rt h.
ne ThlfOWTng objects are hereby
conf iscaled from Ihe Joe 8em ,s
Memo ria l Lif e Support Gallery : One
life support lank with Mr. 8 em,s ,n
it : one life suppo rt tank w ,l h uniden t, fied fe male in it ( bel ieved to
be Mr. Bemi s' mother); three doz"n
assort ed st uffed albino squirrels ,n
varro us states 01 di srepa ir : o np.
Ou ija boa rd. and $73 in th e so ·
ca l led Joe 8emis Mem orial Sch olar ·
ship Fund .
Th e Joe Bem ,s Memorra l Lrf e
Su pp orl Gall ery is he reby dec lared
ol f - I,m it s, 24 ho urs a day .
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MUSIC
ON CAMPUS
Friday, March 11
OPEN MIKE, CAB Co ffeehouse ,
8 : 30 p .m . FREE.
Sunday, March 13
FOLKSING , "a gathering of people and songs." CAB Co ff eehouse,
3 p. m . FREE .
Sunday , March 13
FOLK · DANCING with loud rec·
ord s. Second floor CAB, 7 :30 - 11
p.m . FREE .
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Mon . thru Sat.
352-0720
SQUIRRELS
A bri llia nt film directed by Ing.
mar Bergman a nd starri ng Liv
Ullman. P.G. S how t imes 6:30
and 9:40.
Rental housing is big business for real estate companies, land developers and
investment corporations . Monies col lected from renters help to pay for:.< head office
expenses like utilities, salaries , telephones, expense accounts , stock dividends
and investment maintenance . Whatever is leftover is Grofit. At Campus Housing , we charge
j ust enough to cover expenses ari"d rental upkeep . The rest pays for the needs of the
renters including heating, water and electricity. We also have cost-saving programs like
cooperative food buying and minimum deposit telephone service . Together ,
we try to save as much money as we can .
If you 're on a limited budget or watch your hard - earned money , maybe Campus
Housing is the right thing for you. Call 866 - 6132 or stop by the Housing
Office to find out more about living on campus.
I.
Campus Housing. We're not in it for the money.
Rental housing is big business for real estate companies, land developers and
investment corporations . Monies col lected from renters help to pay for:.< head office
expenses like utilities, salaries , telephones, expense accounts , stock dividends
and investment maintenance . Whatever is leftover is Grofit. At Campus Housing , we charge
j ust enough to cover expenses ari"d rental upkeep . The rest pays for the needs of the
renters including heating, water and electricity. We also have cost-saving programs like
cooperative food buying and minimum deposit telephone service . Together ,
we try to save as much money as we can .
If you 're on a limited budget or watch your hard - earned money , maybe Campus
Housing is the right thing for you. Call 866 - 6132 or stop by the Housing
Office to find out more about living on campus.
I.
Campus Housing. We're not in it for the money.
Latin Funk and Prison Blues
by Kim McCartney
Editor's note: COOPER POINT
JOURNAL staff member Kim
McCartney visited the Washington State Penitentiary on Monday , February 21, with two musical groups, who performed for
the prisoners. Here is her report:
Eighteen of us were let in after
being subjected to a mild pat dow n ( th e matron a sked me to
pardon her col d hands ). The
ba nds prov id ing the entertain men t were Olymp ia 's OBRADOR
a nd BLUES EYE . a four -member
bl ues gro up fro m Sea ttle who
back up A lbert Collins w hen he's
in tow n . A coupl e o f the OBRAOOR members were wit hout picture 1.. 0. , so we had to wait a
few m in utes for clearance. The
guard s commented that it wo uld n't be a prob lem going in w ith(lut 1. 0 .. b ut it could lea d to
compl ica ti o ns when it came time
Ill r us to leave . This sta tement
I\' as met w ith nervou s laugh s by
...'U r
cre\\·.
Clearan ce ca me thro ugh and a
huge r" II- up door opened into
the max imum security yard . We
all "a lked in to the drab , mudd y
area an d I wa s so nervous in the
tirst liv e minutes that a rin g
sh oo k of f my index finger and
10 10 a mud puddle. The equip ment va ns foll owed slow ly as we
were diJ'\~c t ed to th e a udit orium .
T here were ab out 70 men in the
yard . Jnd I was able to ta lk freely
With som e of them while the va ns
were un loaded w ith help fro m
\'olu n teerin g re sidents . I discovered an o ld friend among the resIdent s a nd his prese nce imm edia te!y pu t me at ease.
I wa s a llowed to ha ng out in
t he yard w ithout a guard on me
(alt hough I'm sure I was closely
' \latched) for about 15 minutes.
un til all the gear was unloaded.
Much to my surprise I didn 't
sens e an y sexist at tit udes, and I
rel axed even more . All of us wh o
had never been in a prison beto re had p reconcei ved ideas abou t' th e atmosphere, and thi s
trip reall y cha nged our att itudes .
I was instru cted to move into the
aud it orium and jo in the rest of
o ur crew o n sta ge. We had two
hours to perform bef o re all the
residents had to be-in lock-up for
a count a t 4 p.m. OBRAOOR
opened the show in the cement walled. aco ustically-deficient
room whic h was filled with 500 - 60u men . ' T he- h-ous-e-hghts--weredown and the music was very
we ll - received. BLUES EYE fin ished the show promptly at 4
p . m. and th e residen ts quickly
di spersed to their cells for the
count.
Du ring the performance I sat
o n the side of the stage ta lking
w ith several residents, w ho were
a ll eage r to com munica te their
fee lings a bo ut being in the peni tentiary . Mo st of the d iscuss io n
concerned things I have ne ver
been awa re of. The news media
tends to sensat iona lize events at
priso ns (such as ri ots. escapes,
dru g use . and h o m osex u a lit y)
and ignore the problems encoun tered by norma l residents during
their average incarceration . Please
keep in mind that most of w hat
follo ws is informa ti on given to
me by res idents themselves, ra th er tha n t hat of th e prison officia ls .
Th ere a re curre ntly 1,659 resident s in an institution which.
should ho use no more tha'11 ,OOO.
O nly ab o ut 300 o r so hav e daily
j"bs. with wages averaging 25 85 cent s a day, leav ing the rest
L'f the population with nothing
much to do other than wa lk a ro und the breezeways and play
ca rds (and they go through deck s
nt cards like my household goes
through jars of peanu t butter)'
Their recreation facilities and equipment are defini te ly lacking,
leaving the ~idents to provide
th eir own ways to pa ss time. Few
cells have telev isions , a nd on
weekends fi lm s a re shown in the
a udi to rium .
Th e voca ti o na l program is very
lim it ed and the o nly educa ti o nal
program offe red through the ad mi ni st ration is at the Wall a Wa ll a
Com munit y Co ll ege. Bas ic Educa tio n Opportunity Grants are
ava il a b le o nl y for tha t college,
and rarely is th ere a n o pportun ily fo r a resident to st udy with a
four - year educatio nal instituti o n .
The re is a lack o f industry in
this facil ity. Some feel it is be ca use of int e rs tat e c~ m mer(e
laws , w hich prohibit tra nsporta ti o n of prison - produced goods
across sta te lines, a lth o ugh a bill
was passed in legislature in 1974
tha t enco ura ges private indus try
to use prison labo r and / or skill s
at prevai ling wages w ithin the
. indus try.
Most of the residents would
li ke to work to help support thei r
families, ma ny of whom are on
public assista nce . Those residents
for tunate en ough to have jobs
oft en have most of their wages
turn ed over to the Department of
Social and Hea lth Services for
family s upport. Savi ng s fro m
wages earned by working for priva te indust ry could go to a fund
--se~e.-1o.r__ thffiL.SlLlM.L.Y.~
relea se, the resident would have
more to make a start on than the
100 dollars and a new set of
clothes now given to them . This
wou ld create a means for the res ident to support his family, and
also allo w him to pay debts related to court costs and res tituti on - relieving the state o f those
financial burdens. Man y men go
into prison with no skills, and
have learned none upon their release. Sta tistics (for w hat they 're
worth ) indica te that those prisons
partic ipati ng in a Voca tiona l Ed ucation program obtain only 13
percent recidivation compared to
60 percent without such a program.
With t hi s n umb e r of me n
crowded into o ne facility, the
po tential for disturbance is great .
Howeve r, in recent years the residents have sta rted clubs a nd
groups wit hin the population to
keep themselves in control. Some
of the groups are: Black Prisoners Forum United , the Muslims,
the C hicanos, Confederated In d ian Tribes, Washing ton State
Penitent iary Motorcycle Associa tion, Awareness Self-Help Pro gram, Social Thera py, Lifers with
Hope, an d Socia l Awareness for
Minorities. T he leaders of these
groups have met and decided that
sinc'e ex isting in h a~ony at the
pen itentia ry is what the different
groups wa nted, then that is what
will be. The residents feel the ad-
ministration is attempting to pro voke a riot or a major disturb a nce, to hel p in pressuring the
leg isl atu re to a ll oca te gr eater
sums for mo re prisons and staff.
That the administration has not
succeeded in encouraging a riot
is impress ively attributed to the
respo nsibl e ac tion of the organizati o ns. Th e penitentiar y has
been running sm oothly not be cause of the administration , rath er, in spite of it.
Since the trea tment programs
offered a re ineffec tive, the resident s h ave implemented th e ir
ow n . While many of the men are
incarcerated for crimes they com mitted in the course of surviving
depl o rable economic situations,
many were never educated about
making the right personal decisions in the first pla ce. The residents feel treatment should be
ad ministered in a humane perspective, rather than with severe
punishment and inhumane existence. Many are striving to ga in
re sponsibility for th e mselv es
through indiv idual initiative Willingness to reach goals while
incarcera ted , rllther than idling
until release, or waiting for a
more mean ingful experience in
the free world . They are trying
to improve their thinking processes, through the best applica tio n of logic, reason, and wisdom,
ROTTEN TEETH
Most of the residents I spoke
with made a point of showing
me their teeth. Many have rotten
teeth and gum disease, and the
persona l care for dental / medical
problems at the peniteniiary is
considered a joke .
The administration is more
co ncerne d with the buildings
them selves than the population .
In the institution's budget proposa l fo r the next two years, pri ority is given to building more
priso ns (which will probably be
just as crowded), a nd for more
guards . Personal care and rehabilatation programs are low in
the priorities ; $653, 250 has been
asked for rewiring the penitentia ry, and $145,150 for salaries (one
dentist, o ne assistant, and one
dental technician) . An additional
$300,000 has been requested to
re n ovate the old 110-person
women 's quarters (there was a
women 's sect ion until Purdy Cor rection Cente r ope ned in 1971),
and $155,450 to remodel the rec rea ti on area .
STRIP SEARCHING
One relief from the grind of
do in g time is visitors. However,
many of the men would rather
not have their wives and mothers
visit them due to strip searching.
They would rather go without
visi ts than have their dear ones
subjected to the humiliation of
a nal and vaginal probes. The
penitentiary is off the beaten
track (it to ok us around six ho urs
to drive there from Seattle), a nd
many of the men's fami li es are
too poor to afford the trip. There
a re not enough funded transportation serv ices to arrange for
ma ny families to visit. Some
families who try to live in Walla
Walla to be close to their men
are often met with housing dis crimination from the very con serva tive community .
BLOOD AllEY
While the bands packed up I
was given a tour of the prison by
a non -residen t recreation leader.
Feeling like a typical tourist , I
saw th e mess hall , chapel, A lco-
holics Anonymous, the Biker's
clubhouse, a security control
room with the thickest glass window I've ever seen, the hospital,
and " Blood Alley," where several
murders occurred because of its
poor surveillance location (it has
since been closed off) , the gallows
area, and finally , one of the cellblocks. While I don ' t feel that
capital punishment is much of a
deterrent to crime, a look in a
cell in the penitentiary is . Four
men are sandwiched into an
eight-by-twelve-foot cel! with a
small sink and toilet. They are
comparable to "deluxe slaveship
quarters ." They can decora te .
their cells in their own fashion,
but so what? Too many men are
crammed in the cell to even be
able to look at what's on the
walls.
After leaving th e less- th a n warm cellblock , I was escorted
across to the very warm administrati on building , where I waited
to join the bands before heading
over to the minimum security
cafeteria to ea t a holiday ~(it was
President's Day ) d inner. Believe
me when I say the only positive
comment I have about the meal
was tha t th e ma shed pota toes
were real instead of being instant.
We were able to ta lk freely with
o ther residents in the cafeteria
a nd they were disappointed that
the bands wouldn' t be able to
play for them th at evenin g. We
then left the prison for the long
ride back to Seattle, each of us
emo ti o nally affected by the day's
ex perience. One gig on the insid e
was worth dozens on the outside .
It 's easy for the public to not
care abo ut o ur in s titutions ,
wheth er they 're mental wards,
nursing hom es, reformatories, o r
prisons. Lock 'em up where yo u
don't have to see them a nd it's
a lm ost as th ough they don ' t ex ist.
Well, these men are treated like
anima ls and the punishment they
receive comes arou nd to pay the
taxpayer back.
To my brothers at the Wa shington Sta te Penitentiary - Right
on to yo ur efforts - keep hangin g onto the inner strength and
amazing self-control a mongst
you all . Your togetherness is delightful and evident. Don't let the
administration use y ou to further
their own interests.
Vol. 5 No. 17
The Evergreen State College
The Scramble' To Control The
New Communications Building
by Brad Pokorny
and
KarrieJacobs
Media and communications students
and faculty are upset and splitting into
factions over how the money appropriated
for equipment in the new communications
building should be spent. The most vocal
group is the television production stu dents, who claim that the potential for
quality television production facilities is
being aced out of the communications
building by faculty interested in audio recording, electronic music, and the performing arts. An emergency meeting of
the Sounding Board has been called for tomorrow , March 11, to investigate the allocations for media equipment in the almost
completed building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. in CAB 110.
Willie Parson, the dean responsible for
the allocations in the communications
building, has been working with media
arts faculty and staff since the first of the
year to determine what equipment is necessary to operate the building as it was
designed. Two weeks ago Parson suggested a budget that marks $110,000 for
audio/video coaxial cables and video production equipment from a total of $758,000.
But Parson said that some faculty met
with him last Wednesday, March 2, and
told him that they think even $110,000 is
too much to spend on video. "I haven't
talked to any students, but I have talked
to faculty whc have some i:lterest in programs in t he building," said Parsen. "The
meeting ended with those facuity who
were present questioning the necessity of
spending the amount of money indicated
for video production."
PARSON "SNOWED"
Blaine Lawrence and Terry Cannon, two
Evergreen students who are taking individual contracts in television production,
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are circulating a petition to demonstrate
support for the video production program
in the communications building. Cannon
claims that Parson has been "snowed" by
the faculty representing the electronic
music and audio recording areas_ According to Lawrence and Cannon, students interested in video are without a voice in the
funding process, because they have no faculty to represent them.
The $110,000 is needed. according to
Lawrence and CanG,;,n, to ".stall wiring
and control equipment which would allow
t he presently -owned industry -quali ty
color cameras to be used in video productions in the communications building.
Without that equipment, Lawrence said,
"We'll never see quality television production in the communications building."
Parson admitted that some faculty were
pushing for less money for video facilities
in the new building. He also indicated that
some teachers were questioning the need
for any new video facilities construction
on campus. Some faculty consider the
present facilities underutilize<L "The
meeting was flavored with concern having
to do not only with the money itself, but
with what kind of activities may take place
in the building and the extent to which
they may conflict with each other," said
Parson .
Denny Kott...... a stage wchnician 0 11 the
college siaH, is concerned about there be ing enough lighting for the new building.
"It's ridiculous to order video equipment
if we don't have lighting for it ." He de scribed the current lighting allocation as
"minimal.
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Lawrence suggested that a dean of com munications be appointed. "The media
arts should combine their energies and efforts instead of fighting each other along
the way," he said. According to Cannon,
each group fights for its own equipment
now , and then keeps it locked up. "They
(the audio recording people) have a $7,200
tape recorder that they don't even use.
Areas are falling apart because people
are unwilling to share equipment around
here ," Cannon said .
The heart of the controversy probably
has to do with the differing perceptions of
the purpose of the new building, specifically the experimental theatre area, wbere
the video hook-ups would be installed .
One anonymous administrator pointed out
that if the video facilities are fully devel oped in the experimental theatre area,
then the stage area would be in constant
demand for video production work.
LIVE PERFORMANCE PRIORITY
This could conceivably cause a conflict
between t he live performance and film or
tape production in the experimental the ater area. According to a document outlining the functions of the communications
building drawn up by Charles Teske last
year, the experimental theatre nea is to
be used mainly for live performance .
Ainara Wilder, a theat re arts teacher,
said, "It's simply a matter of priority.
There isn't enough money to fully fund
video as well as live performance . It's a
matter of making a deeision. A long time
ago the college decided to give priority to
live performance."
Parson said that although he has requested the budget allocations be finalized
by March 15, he expects continuing con troversy over equipment at the communi cations buildinj!'. "The bigger issue," he
said, "is how the place gets used whether in fact a lot ofthe money gets put
into the video thing, t here's going to be
continuous debate about the whole thing. "
Why Evergreen Costs Less, Costs More
by Brad Pokorny
presents
March 10, 1977
Washington 98505
Evergreen into a graduate school annex of the
University of Washington.
• The House is thinking about raising
tuitions and tying them to the cost of education.
• Senator George Scott suggests that unused office space at Evergreen be utilized
by state agencies in need of more room.
In one way or another, all 01 these un fortunate suggestions relate to the cost of
instruction, and specifically to Evergreen's
higher cost of instruction compared to the
other three state colleges. According to
the Council for Poetsecondary Education
(CPE), it will cost $2,912 a year for the
1975 - 77 biennium to educate one student
at Evergreen. To educate a student at one
of the other state colleges it would OO8t,
on the average, $2,874. Since all state college students pay the same tuition, the
state of Washington pays more to educate
someone at Evergreen than it does to educate someone at Eastern. Western, or
Central.
RAWDOLLAR8
Instructional eoeta are divided into two
categories: dIreet instructional OO8ts, and
Inclireet Instructional costa.
Direct instructional costa count the raw
dollan that it takes to educate someone.
Direct eoeta include faculty salaries, academic secretaries' uJaries, money for educationalsupplies and equipment, and the
COtlt of academic instruction.
Evergreen's direct instructional OO8ts
compare favorably with other institu tions in the state. It actually costa leu to
pay faculty to teach someone here than it
does at other state achoola. According to
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UnderRobinson pointed out that Evergreen's
Upper
Gradudte
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library and media services are unique for a
Divi s ion
Ac adem ic
Avera ge
J2QQl. ~ Average AVf'r age
college this size, which contributes to
higher indirect costs. "Our library endowEa ster n lolA St at e Co l l ege
SI . 1I 4
$1, 304
SI, 205
11.44 1 $5 ,7 94
$1 ,694
$1,2) 6
ment is much higher," he said, "and we
Cen t r a l ~A St a t e College
$1,572
$1, 30 2
S 980
$2. 548
$1.048
52 , 252
11. 346
spend a lot more on media than the other
.Western lolA St a te Co ll e ge
$1, 388
$2 , 468
11, 134
I 71 3
11 , 06 3
$2 . 88 7
$2 . 507
colleges do."
Thr ee Co ll ~ge A~er a g ~
$ 916
$I ,4 24
$2 , 144
$1.,17 8
$2 . 094
$2 . 558
11,229
ADMINISTRATORS'SALARIES
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The Eve rgree:l St at e Co ll ege
11. 516
$ 953
$1, 167
$ -$ -$ -$1. 167
cushioned by fewer students here than at
Four Co ll eg e A~ e ra g e
$1 ,362
$1,177
$2 ,094
$ 970
$2, 144
S2 ,558
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other institutions, and this also contributes
to Evergreen's relative indirect COtlts. For
example, the president at the University
University of Washington
$I ,645
S 820
$1 .203
$2 .455
$3 ,586
$2,81 2
$1 .486
of Washington and the presidents at the
Washington St ate Univer sity
$1 ,757
$1,272
$3,177
$2 ,952
$3 . 086
11.441
S 955
other
state colleges get roughly the same
1wo Un ive r s ity Ave rage
$ 873 I
$1 ,682
$1, 228
12,594
$3 . 421
$2. 8 71
$1 .471
amount that President McCann gets (about
1
$44,(00). But at Evergreen that $44.000
ill
spread over 2,400 students, compared
the CPE , the direct cost at Evergreen in
services are, for the most part, geared
to some 50,000 students at the University
1974 - 75 was $1,167 per student. At the
for the larger number of students_ The
of Washington, and 6,000 to 8.000 at the '
other three colleges the average cost was
steam plant is constructed to heat buildother state colleges.
$1,229. The estimates for current years
ings with space for 4,600 students, the adOne lut factor contnbuting to Everremain essentially the same.
ministration could serve 4,600 students,
green's
apparent high cost has to do with
The reason Evergreen costa more (about
and student services could, with some ad Evergreen's sole dedication to teaching.
$650 more over-all) is because our indirect
justment. process 4,600 students_
MOtIt other schools carry on research and/
costs are higher. Indirect costa count exThe major portion of the $650 more the
or public service programs, and the OO8ts
penditures for plant operation and main state pays for each student here goes
for operating these programa are proportenance, custodial and grounds services,
largely to heat and light the extra space
tionally deducted from the total operating
student services (such things as registraEvergreen fa apparently not usint', action, enrollment, and counseling.).. general
costs. Norm Fisher, an institutional recording to Robert Strecker, the director
search analyst for the CPE, put it this
adminiatration, and the library services.
of facilities, and Bill Robinson, a staff budway: "Since Evergreen has very small
UNDER-ENROLLMENT
get analyst. Strecker suggested that it
Almost all of the reasons our direct
components of original research and pub would be poasible, although extremely difcosts are higher have to do with the rellic instruction, almOtlt all of the support
ficult, to cut the power costa by encouragative under-enrollment of the college.
COtlts are used to determine the student.'
ing academic programa to share space. "It
Evergreen's academic facilities are detotal educational cost. Evergreen is eNen would entail cooperation between the acasigned to support 4,800 to 4.600 students,
tially a teaching institution, with some demic people who are developing the prowhile only 2,400 students are currently
where around 97 percent of the money gograma," he said. "You might conceivably
enrolled. The expenditures for indirect
ing to teach students."
ACADEMIC YEAR 1974- 75
TO TAL DIR ECT INSTRUCTION COST PER
STU DENT
BY COURSE LEVEL AND ACADEMIC/VOCATIONAL COURSES
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