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' The Evergreen State College
) Olympia, Washington 985Qg

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STATE COLLEGE
NEHSLEfTER

November 1, 1971

Volume 3, Number 13
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GETTING TOGETHER
The Evergreen clan, at long last, has gathered in one place. Coordinated Studies
students and faculty—who ha%?e net everywhere from the wilds of the Mount Baker
National Forest to the staid halls of the State House of Representatives during the
last month—are now.on campus, picking their way through the maze of offices and
classrooEs in the gigantic library building. Contracted Studies' students still are
off caapus, by and large, but even they aad their faculty sponsors, now have more
permanent bases to touch with each other. To say that everything has suddenly' become
placid and-orderly would be erroneous, but at least the rapid, sometimes confusing
flurry of activity is largely confined to one geographic location. The size of the
"campus'" has shrunk considerably-—fro® the entire state to 1,000 acres, but it's still
the largest in Washington.
It goes without saying that Evergreen's opening sonth was unique, capturing not only
the imagination of all persons associated with the college but also the strong interest
of the public. Dozens of newspaper articles—most of them focusing on retreat activities of the various study groups—have "been published, during the last month. The
college has appeared on news programs of major television and radio stations. And,
it's been the topic of a lot of conversation. All in all, it was quite a beginning—
'•rmsual and unforgettable—but one senses a general relief that the days of general
far-flung operations have ended and that the" Evergreen situation, which is still
different from others, is moving toward normalcy.
One of the big jobs facing everyone is pulling the community together for Its first
year of life. Orientation activities., which began October 23 and will -continue through
through Xoveiaber 6, are designed to help do just that. The orientation program was
set up to help get people acquainted with each other in less than formal circumstances
and has included such varied activities as athletic events; a general reception for
students, faculty and staff; film festivals; a fine College Day program in the GlyrapiaLacey-TuBwater area; aed a People's Fair featuring booths, demonstrations, and some
smashing good entertainment. Still to come are a campus talent show—the Teske Superstar Spectacular at 7 p.m., November 3—and a semi-formal sports spectacular, including football, basketball, soccer, darts,, table tennis, road races, and bicycle rides
on Koveaber 5 and 6. Something for everyone and a. whale of a lot of fun.

The first big event of the orientation program was the October 24 College Frisbee
Championship, held on the sand playfield east of the library building. Recreation
Director £«te_Stei.lberg reports that few en,tered the tourney but chat the competition was keen. Winners will receive awards at a later dace. Other frisbee tournaments will be held in future months. The winners:

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Regulation strong-arm distance toss (using a college frisbee)-—Paul Zimmerman,.
College Services Assistant.
Open strong-arm distance toss (any frisbee will do)—Phi1 Rainev, student*
Weak-arm distance toss (righties throw lefty and vice versa)—
college staff.
Accuracy toss-—'j
Behind-The-Back toss
Behind-The-Back catching—Geof_f£e£_Mever_s student,
TH1E_BIG_MOVE
It's interesting to note that with the still incomplete move to permanent campus
quarters Evergreen is now occupying its fourth home since its creation'by the 1967
State Legislature, In fact, moving around is sort of getting to be old hat for some
people, particularly Vice President for Business Dean__Cj.abajagh_, his secretary Candy
S.tamey_, Controller Ken Winkley and Budget Officer He^en_J3|jea_rs_$ who were around when
the college first set up shop in a senate committee room in the legislative building.
The next stop for that foursome (later joined by a handful of other staff members)
was a former Plywood Workers Credit Union building in downtown Olyrapia. A year
later, October, 1969S the college packed its collective bags and moved again; this
time to the temporary quarters now being vacated by one operational unit after
another. And, now it's on to the next stop—the Daniel J. Evans Library. Even
that won't be the permanent home for everyone because, as library operations expand,
other functions will have to be placed in new (but thus far unfunded) facilities.
Thus, as we've observed before, if you're at Evergreen, your physical location is
either temporarily permanent or permanently temporary. Just depends on your viewpoint.
The first college operations to move into the library were the admissions, registration, controller's, and business services offices, the bookstore and food services.
Academic spaces were occupied next. Other moves are scheduled as additional sections
of the huge buildings are finished in the next few weeks.
Coordination of the big move fell on the shoulders of Director of Facilities Planning
Jerry Schi11inger, who had to be sure spaces were ready, and Director of Plant Operations Don Parry, who had to worry about getting people and things into them. College
crews, limited in size because of the institution's severe budget pinch, moved furniture and, if reimbursed by individual units, office and personal belongings. Packing and unpacking were left to staff in the various operating units, as was the
transport of supplies for offices unable to pay moving expenses.
Meanwhile, there was the problem of student housing. Residence halls furniture arrived
by the multiple truckload during October and had to be placed into the various living
units as they became available. By October 24, some 321 students were housed in
either the residence halls complex or the nearby modular units. The other 281 who had
signed up for college housing were moved along with furniture into the Villa Capri
apartments on Olympia's West Side. They will begin moving to on-campus units as
space becomes available and time allows, but it will be December before all college
housing units are ready for occupancy.
What's to become of the temporary quarters that so many have known as their home away
from home during the last two years? The Probst Building (Building 201, the bluecolored former meat packing plant) will become the home of the Facilities Planning

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and Plant Operations units. Building 212 (which housed admissions, registration, etc.)
will become a temporary (we hope) college fire station. The small trailer which
housed the Controller's operations will be moved to the shops and garages area on
the east edge of the campus to provide office space for storage and receiving personnel. Everything else—trailers and modular buildings—will be returned to the firms
from which they have been leased. The old Probst House will be razed in the near
future. And, the land on which all this has rested since 1969? The site for a
future parking lot, probably by 1974.
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ANECOLOGICAL_NpTE
Someone must still be wondering what happened to such orientation activities as the
beach walk, boat rental program and the Mr, Danger Fishing Derby, all of which were
scheduled to take place on the Evergreen waterfront, They were dropped from the
schedule for ecological reasons. Have you ever thought what 1300 people can do to
a fragile ecosystem such as the college shoreline, particularly if mass and unrestrained activities go on for any length of time? Look around at some public beaches
and you*11 see.
Some time ago, the college invested about $5,000 in a study of the waterfront property
to try to determine which areas should be set aside as ecological preserves or outdoor educational laboratories and which should be devoted to recreational uses. The
study showed that further investigation was needed before any final decisions were
made. The idea was to make certain that the beach environment was not compromised by
sudden and perhaps erroneous land use decisions.
There is no question that the beach property Is beautiful and inviting and that somehow parts of it must be made available for recreational use. There also is no question,
at least in this editor's mind, that the college should go slow in developing the
waterfront before a tragic ecological mistake is made. Evergreen has shown restraint
as an institution, purposely avoiding shoreline development until all the facts are
assembled by staff and by faculty and students in such, academic endeavors as Environmental Design and the Evergreen Environment contracts program. What it now boils
down to Is restraint on the part of the 1300 Individuals making up the college community. We can only hope that such restraint will be used by all of us—students,
faculty and staff.
The world is full of environmental mistakes. Will we as individuals make another one?
Think about it before you go charging off to the beach,!
DICK NICHOLS

PERSONNEL NOTES
Jim Spivey of Tacoma has been named Coordinator of Printing Services at Evergreen.
He'll be responsible for all on-catnpus printing in both the library print shop and
copy center and also will supervise and instruct students wishing to learn printing
operations as part of their academic programs. Jim, who joined the staff October 15,
has been owner and operator of his own business, Quik Copy Center in Tacoma, for the
last two years. Prior to that he was a salesman for Washington Natural Gas Company

and a printer for Tacoma General Hospital and The Boeing Company,
Also welcome
aboard to J222__Landr_^t new clerk-typist in the Registrar's office, and
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» clerk-typist In the steno pool. . Sue has been around on a temporary
basis, serving as campus receptionist, for quite awhile. We also ought to acknowledge the presence of Sharron^_Connor_, our temporarily permanent or permanently
temporary secretary in the Housing office,
PEOPLE.....TO PEOPLE_JNDgX
Evergreen's library staff, spurred on by M^^c_a_Caulf_ield_ and Pat_Mathenj;, has been
busy since lasc summer putting together a People to People (or Human Resources)
Index in an attempt to match interest between members of the Evergreen community and
between college and townspeople. The idea is to collect and maintain a file of
human resources, categorized by subject and made accessible through the library.
Specific skills and areas of knowledge of professional, vocational or avocatlonal
levels have been identified by surveying students, faculty, staff and community residents. Thus, if you like to play pinochle, for example , you might check the index
to see if anyone else in the file has expressed a similar interest. (Check for
yourself to find out about pinochle!).
The survey has gone pretty well in terms of student and off-campus interest; not
so well in terms of faculty and staff, The list contains hundreds of items, which
we won't attempt to list here. Some of the more interesting (that's subjective,'
we'll admit) Include the following:
Frisbee, Borneo, all kinds of music forms, Paipo Boarding, falconry, dog training, glass cutting, various arts, orgarvicultufe , winemaking, Yoga, Hatha, fly
tying, surf riding, tie dying, science fiction,, macramfe', herpetology, ornithology, Icthyology, automobile repair, tropical fish, cats, birds, sled dog
racing, Judo, Kendo, fencing, oyster culture, savings "and thrift, heresy and
heretics, poultry breeding, welding, rabbit breeding, Bald Eagle habits,
serigraphy, candlemaking, music box making, Runic alphabet, Druids and Druidism,
Judaism, and .American foreign policy after 1900.
And. that's just a small sample.

You name it, it'' s probably in the index.

Faculty member ^on_Chan says he would like to hear from those Interested in participating in one of three instrumental ensembles — Choral Ensemble, Jazz-Rock Ensemble
and String Chamber Ensemble. The Choral Ensemble requires ten tenors, ten basses,
ten sopranos and ten altos. Term I will concentrate on motets, madrigals, and
Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of the Carols. Terras 11 and 111 will center on contemporary, avant garde, non-western, and original compositions,
The Jazz-Rock Ensemble requires trumpeters, trombonists., saxaphone players, woodwind
performers, two percussionists, a guitarist, and an electric bass player. Music to
be performed includes music arranged for big band from the Blood, Sweat and Tears;
Chicago; and Santana repertoire; plus music by Don Ellis, Count Basic, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Miles Davis (as arranged by Gil Evans);
and original -manuscripts from the University of Illinois, Indiana, and North Texas
State Libraries.

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The S.ring Chamber Ensemble requires violinists, celllsl^d bassists. Music to
be played will be decided at a later date.
Interested persons should contact Chan as soon as possible in Rao, U12 of the
Library Building or by calling 753-3965.

.two-wee, trial bus service progra, fro
October 28 under special arraag --ts »ade be -- ^colleg
water Transit Commission. Ifce trial program,
neROriated by Dave Calor ,
determine whether and in what tor. it anoold "nuinue,, «*;£*<> Jarshall^ olympia
Evergreen student and former College Services Assistant;
City Supervisor; and the Transit Commission.
Bos service, costing
students, faculty and staff

boarding Transit vehicles.

the costs.
Busses will make three round-trip runs to and fro, the carapus each day, Monday
through Friday, or, the following scnedul
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trips:
State Avenue and Central Street
State Avenue and Puget Street
State Avenue and East. Bay Drive
station on the State Ave. side)
State Avenue and Capitol rfay (adjacen, co tn tire ^c ^
Ralph's Thriftw'ay
Fourth Avenue by the downtown shopping center which
(at the foot of the West Side hill)
Harrison Avenue at Woodruff Park on the West Side of
Harrison Avenue at the West Side Shopping center.
Then on to the carapus.

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Return-trip busses will make stops as needed by passengers.
Busses being used for the special trial program are 60-passenger vehicles.
All members of the Evergreen community are urged to make use of the special bus service during this two-week trial period. Service is badly needed on a permanent basis,
but if the trial run doesn't show positive results it may be difficult for the Transit Commission to justify continuing the campus trips. In other words, use it or
maybe lose it!
Meanwhile, Calof reports , . discussions are continuing with the Retail Board of the
Olympia Chamber of Commerce for establishment of a Share~A-Ride Program for students
needing transportation to the college, The idea is to place between eight and a
dozen sheltered benches at key spots in the Olyrapia area. Students needing rides
could go to the shelters and be picked up there by motorists bound for the college
or by motorists driving near bus line pickup stations. A shelter also probably will
be placed on campus for students needing return transportation. The program probably will become operational by mid or late November, Calof says. The Olympia City
Commission already has approved the idea; officials in Lacey and Tumwater will be
approached for approval.
THE POT PROBLEM
Faculty member P§ul_JJa£Sh was scheduled to deliver a paper entitled "POW's: From
Korea to Vietnam" during the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies,
held in San Diego October 29-31. Marsh, who came to Evergreen from the Claremont
Colleges in California, says in his paper that there is a tendency to attribute
the fact that many American prisoners of war speak critically about the nation's
involvement in Indochina to the torture of brainwashing. He argues that much of •'
the POW criticism of the American role in Southeast Asia stems from prisoner exposure to establishment media and establishment critics. Marsh says that American
prisoners are fed a daily diet of American criticism of the Indochinese conflict —
newspaper and magazine articles, radio broadcasts, etc. "It's very subtle," he
adds, "And it would behoove us as a nation not to blame torture as the reason for
criticism by the prisoners."
One of the discussants on the panel with Marsh is Lt . General Victor Krulak (USMC
ret.), who is president of. Copley News Services. Copley serves about 587 newspapers in the United States.
OTHER CONFERENCES
Director of Cooperative Education Ken__ponohue_ will attend the North Pacific Regional
Conference, 1971 National University Extension Association, in Seattle November 1
and 2. The keynote speaker, Dr, Leonard Freedman of the Department, of Continuing
Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, will discuss "The Open Universtiy: Toppling the Ivory Tower."
The conference is coordinated by Dr. F. R.
Ferringer, Director of the Center for Continuing Studies at western Washington State
College.
Faculty member AjLJWiedemann has a busy week end scheduled November 5 and 6. He will
lead a November 5 graduate seminar for the Department of Biology at Oregon State

University, with the discussion focusing on biology teaching and general education
philosophies at Evergreen. And, on the 6th, he'll attend the Annual Verboort Sausage
and Sauerkraut Festival (that's the. truth!), held at Verboort, Oregon, a small settlement about 20 miles southwest of Portland. Anyone who wants to know about the festival should contact Wiedemann after (not if) he gets back.

In case you hadn't heard, Director of Cooperative Education Ken_Donohue has an assistant now. He's Dave__Calo^,, Evergreen student and, during the last summer, a College
Services Assistant. Dave's new- title is that of Coordinator in the Office of Cooperative Education. He's helping find placements for students who seek "real world" working experience for academic credit. Dave spends most of the rest of his time as a
student in the Individuals Citizen and State Coordinated Studies Program.

This human interest note from Larry Eicks^taedt
program:

coordinator of the Environmental Design

Two students — Charl±e_]Buckwa]Lter and Freida__Habbi£k— lived in adjacent rooms
in a New York City apartment house last year, but did not meet until the
E. D. program got together at its retreat at Camp Robbinswold on Hood Canal
during October, Typical of what you'd expect in a large; city, right?
Well, when Eickstaedt related the story to some of the other students he discovered
that Mike Lansing, Denj.se and Da^a^e^JJh/ing^ton (sisters) and J_oh_n Pau_l_Jone_s_ I_1_I had
lived within a block of each other in Olympia through the summer and hadn't met until
the Robbinswold retreat. How about that?

Robe r t LeC 1 e re of Olyrnpia, an Evergreen painting and sculptering Contracted Studies
students recently won the 330 first prize in the downtown sidewalk art panorama sponsored by the Downtown Olympia Association and Evergreen Plaza. LeClerc won the prize
for his painting entitled "A Portrait, of Ty", He is a 1966 graduate of Olympia High
School and a former undergraduate of Washington State University,
T EACHER C ERT IFIC AT I ON P ROGRAM
Anyone interested in working to build a teacher certification program at Evergreen
is asked to contact student Dave__SJ.emens (phone 352-5200).
'We have already held some
planning meetings and we welcome more ideas and manpower," Siemens says. "The work
could be part of the academic program for any interested student," Siemens is a
transfer student from the University of Washington.
OTHER PEOPLE NEWS
Academic Dean CharLes_jresk.e is the author of a very nice piece in the October issue
of Puget Soundings. The story, entitled, "Today's Alternative: Tomorrow's Prototype*
appears on pages 12, 13, 22, 23 and 4. It's an article about the growth,, development and plans of Evergreen and is well done. Puget Soundings is published by the
Junior League of Seattle.

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Teske and his wife Helga have both been elected to the Board of the Olympia Community
Concert Association for 1971-72. And Helga is organizing an International Food Group
through the Evergreen College Community Organization; more than 80 persons have signed
up and there's room for more, TESC!s Teskes are busy people!
Faculty member Ed Korraondy, coordinator of the Political Ecology Program, has an article
entitled "Learning About the Environment" in the October, 1971 issue of Science Activities. The entire issue of the journal, which is aimed primarily at pre-college science
teachers, is devoted to the environment. Kormondy's article suggests specific steps
students might take in conducting their own investigations.
AND. FINALLY._.__._.
The Newsletter is hungry for news about what's happening at Evergreen. Right now, it's
our only all-campus publication and serves as one small way in which information can
be shared throughout the community by students, faculty and staff. We send out news
forms twice monthly but you don't have to have a form to contribute information. Just
send it along in written form to Di^cJc_J^ich£ls, Office of College Relations. We'll
publish just about anything that's fit to print except for "classified ad" material.
There just isn't room for that.