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Part of The Evergreen State College Newsletter (April 19, 1973)

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April 19,

1973

state higher education budget approved
EVERGREEN'S SHARE INCREASED
The State Legislature has approved a 1973-75 biennium operating budget for higher
education which includes $10,830,065 for Evergreen, plus funds to implement salary increases for faculty and exempt and classified staff. Lawmakers also approved $8,751,396
in new capital construction funds at Evergreen and appropriated $1,800,000 to the State
Highways Department for completion of two lanes of the parkway from the campus to the
Olympia-Aberdeen Freeway. Though less than requested for the college by the governor's
budget office, Evergreen's operating and capital budgets for the next two years are both
higher than the amounts originally approved by the State Senate. Both figures were
boosted by the House of Representatives and agreed to by the Senate.
The 1973-75 Evergreen operating budget is the same as recommended last week by the
House Ways and Means Committee. This amounts to a $298,815 increase over the total approved earlier by the Senate. The operating total includes a $245,372 line item for pay
increase for faculty and exempt staff, effective July 1, and subject to allocation at
the college's discretion. In addition, the Legislature included money to carry the $40
across-the-board pay raises of last February through the next biennium, funds for additional 3.5 per cent faculty and exempt staff pay raises (again, subject to discretionary
allocation by the college) on July 1, money for a 4.5 per cent pay raise for classified
staff next January 1, and funds to provide an increase from $15 to $20 in the state's
monthly contribution to employee benefits.
Turning to the capital budget: The Legislature's final 1973-75 appropriation for
Evergreen—$8,751,396—is about $863,000 higher than the amount approved earlier by the
Senate. It includes everything requested by the governor's office except the Forensics
Sciences Building. The $8,751,396 total does not include reappropriations of 1971-73
biennium capital funds that won't be expended by June 30, 1973. Newly-funded projects
include the following: Laboratory Building, Phase Two—$7,512,962; completion of the oncampus section of the Evergreen Parkway—$415,474; site improvements—$447,733; equipment
for Phase One of the Seminar Building—$355,227; and minor remodeling and improvements—
$20,000.
The Legislature, during the last week of the session, also approved an allocation of
$1,800,000 to the State Department of Highways for completion of work on two lanes of the
Evergreen Parkway, from the south border of the campus to the Olympia-Aberdeen freway.
The lawmakers passed a bill providing for improvements in the TIAA-CREF retirement
program. The new legislation, effective on July 1, 1974, basically sets for the first
time a minimum goal retirement package. The plan provides for the retiree to receive
50 per cent of the highest consecutive two years of salary for 25 years of service at
age 65. It also provides for improvement in benefits for surviving spouses.
The 1973 Legislature passed a number of other measures impacting higher education.
A summary of these measures is being drafted by Bob Carr, Director of the Office of Interinstitutional Business Studies, and will be presented in a subsequent edition of The
Newsletter.
NICHOLS:

A THANK YOU TO LEGISLATORS IS IN ORDER

During the height of Evergreen's budget battle in the recently
adjourned Legislature, many of us spent extra time contacting Lawmakers, urging them to restore funds that had been cut earlier in

-2the session. We also asked friends, parents of students, and
other supporters to contact legislators on our behalf. Now that
the session has ended on such a positive note for Evergreen (see
above story), it seems only appropriate that we spend a little
more time expressing our thanks to all those legislators who
rallied to our support. If you know a legislator or have a friend
who knows one, a brief "thank you" note from either of you would
be very much in order. It also would be helpful if students and
parents would express gratitude to their legislators.
Notes to whom? Any legislator is fine, but the list certainly should include Senators Harry Lewis of Olympia, Gordon Sandison
of Port Angeles, and John Murray of Seattle (plus any member of
the Ways and Means or Higher Education Committees), and Representatives Del Bausch of Tumwater, John Hendricks of Olympia, Charles
Savage of Shelton, Robert Charette of Aberdeen, Alan Thompson of
Castle Rock, A. N. Shinpoch of Renton, and John Bagnariol of
Seattle (plus members of the Ways and Means and Higher Education
Committees). If you need names and/or addresses, contact Director
of Information Services Dick Nichols, Office of College Relations,
753-3125.
potential for $750,000 more
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARDS EVERGREEN $50,000 SUMMER GRANT
Evergreen has received unofficial notice that the National Science Foundation will
award the college $50,000 to begin developing self-paced learning units as an approach
to individualized learning in the natural and social sciences. Academic Dean Don Humphrey
said eleven faculty members will be involved in the project this summer. "If the summer
program is sufficiently productive," Humphrey added, "the possibilities for additional
funding up to a total of $800,000 exist."
The official announcement, expected any day, will come from the Experimental Programs Division of the College Science Improvement Program of NSF. With the grant, NSF
is "recognizing Evergreen as a model for change toward individualized instruction in the
sciences," Humphrey said. Funds will enable a faculty/student team to accelerate production of learning resources designed to take the place of standard academic courses.
"We hope that much of the information, laboratory skills and conceptual framework
traditionally presented in courses will be made available at Evergreen by way of selfpaced learning units as these skills, concepts or facts are needed by students involved in
academic problems, projects and seminars," he said.
Development of the self-paced units
coupled with the opening of the new $5,000,000
laboratory building complex
will enable Evergreen to offer a full range of learning
opportunities in the sciences. Faculty Members Fred Tabbutt and Robert Barnard will coordinate the project. Other faculty members who will be involved in the NSF project this
summer are Byron Youtz, physicist; Richard Brian and Charles Lyons, mathematicians; David
Milne, ecologist; Al Wiedemann, botanist; Mike Beug, chemist; Burt Guttman, molecular
biologist; Richard Cellarius, plant biophysicist, and Lee Anderson, physicist.
HEALTH FAIR, MAY FESTIVAL SLATED FOR MAY 1
Thurston County residents are invited to join Evergreeners May 1 for a celebration
of May Day, jointly sponsored by Health Services and the College Recreation Center. More
than 20 health organizations from Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia are expected to participate
in the Health Fair which is designed "to acquaint local residents with the wide variety
of services and facilities available to them," Nurse Edwina, Dor^ey^Travis, who is coordinating the event, said.
Three mobile units will be available for inspection on the central campus plaza,
including the Tumwater Rescue Truck, a fire truck from the McLane Fire Department and the i
Thurston-Mason County Mobile Health Unit. "The staff of the mobile unit
and some of
the other agency staff members
will be able to provide free services while they are

-3on campus," Ms. Dorsey-Travis said. Testing for sickle cell anemia will be provided,
along with immunizations for communicable diseases, blood pressure tests, V.D. checks,
dental examinations, hearing tests and simple blood tests. Agencies planning to participate include the Arthritis Foundation, the Thurston-Mason County Blood Bank, Group
Health, the Department of Social and Health Services, the Community Mental Health Clinic,
Beltone Hearing Aid Center, Olympia Mountaineers and the YMCA.
The Health Fair, which will be headquartered in the two main foyers of the Library
and the central plaza, will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and will include several displays, films and demonstrations, she added.
MAY POLE DANCE, TUG OF WAR ALSO SLATED
A tug of war contest "across a nice muddy puddle" will kick off the May Day Festival being organized by Pete Steilberg, Director of Recreation and Campus Activities.
Four divisions will be featured in the contest, which begins at 1 p.m. just off the main
central plaza. "We'll have contests for women only, men only, mixed couples and open
singles," Steilberg said.
Other events scheduled include a Frisbee tournament to begin at 2 p.m. with winners
judged on accuracy, distance and catching abilities; a Heart Run around the campus parkway at 3 p.m., and a gunny sack race at 3:30 p.m. A May Pole Dance and other folk dances
may also be scheduled. Games areas in the College Activities Building will be free all
afternoon, and volleyball nets and standards will be set up around campus for everyone's
enjoyment, Steilberg added.
S & A BOARD ALLOCATES $10,730 TO CAMPUS GROUPS^
The Service and Activities Fees Review Board allocated more than ten thousand dollars
to Evergreen community organizations in two meetings held April 7 and 13. Groups funded
included the Chamber Singers and Jazz Ensemble, $150; recreational folkdancers, $316;
Recreation Center (for outdoor equipment), $384; GIG Commission (for Spring entertainment),
$500; radio station KAOS (for enlarging the station and equipment), $3,000; organic farm
(for furnishing the house and purchase of a rototiller) , $640; the community newspaper,
$4820; the Gay Center, $800; and Robyn Smith (KASO staff member who is designing a "Call
for Action" program), $120.
CLUB BASKETBALL TEAM BEING ORGANIZED FOR NEXT YEAR
A basketball squad from Evergreen may compete in 12 home games and 11 away games next
year under the guidance of student coach Pete Burns. Burns, who organized and coached a
club ball team at Washington State University, said he hopes to recruit a 12-person squad
to play regular basketball games against college, military and club teams in Washington
and Oregon.
Scheduled already are games with junior varsity teams from Lewis and Clark Community
College, Portland State University, University of Portland, and Mt. Angel (Oregon) College.
Some funds for the Evergreen hoopsters may come from the Student and Activities Fees Review Board, Burns said. "But," he added, "the majority of the $1,500 budget we'll need
will be raised from off-campus donations."
Three overnight trips have been scheduled for the season. The 12 home games will be
played at Tumwater High School. Burns said the activity "will be low key at Evergreen,
but will give those students who want to play a chance to meet some real competition."
Burns, who played basketball while he was in the service and while he attended college
in Hawaii, said interested persons may contact him through the College Recreation Center
office, room 305.
BERKELEY SOCIOLOGIST TO ADDRESS BLACK STUDENT MEETING MAY 4
Harry Edwards, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley,
will address an all-day conference of black student groups at Evergreen May 4. Edwards,
author of five books on such topics as sociology, the black athlete and minority student
movements, will "inform black students of the orgnizations in the Pacific Northwest which
are open to and in need of their involvement," according to Doris Brown, student coordinator of the program.
A former instructor at San Jose State College, Edwards has authored magazine articles

-4in many of the nation's major publications, and has appeared on all three television
networks. He has traveled throughout the United States, delivering more than 300
lectures to sociology departments, university student governments, minority groups and
physical education departments. The 30-year-old professor, a former collegiate athlete,
was a 1964 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and was named "Man of the Year"
by the San Francisco Sun in 1968. Edwards earned his doctorate from Cornell University
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in 1972, his master's from Cornell in 1966, and his bachelor's degree from San Jose
State in 1964.
His talk, scheduled for 1 p.m. in Lecture Hall One, is free and open to the public.
Other activities scheduled include poetry and dances at noon by members of the Evergreen
Ujamaa Society; a play, "Day of Absent", scheduled for 3 p.m. in Lecture Hall One, and
a dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the multi-purpose room of the College Recreation Center.
GRADUATING SENIORS INVITED TO PLANNING MEETING ARPIL 26
Graduating seniors have been invited to attend a planning session for the June 9 commencement ceremonies April 26 at 4 p.m. in Library room 3121. Associate Dean Oscar Soule,
who is in charge of graduation this year, said the meeting will afford the last chance
for seniors to have input into planning their own commencement program. "We'd like the
ceremony to be uniquely tailored to the Class of 1973," Soule said, "but time is running
out and if we don't get some assistance by interested seniors, we'll have to try and
come up with a plan without them."
SOUNDING BOARD TO MEET BIWEEKLY
Spring Quarter meetings of the Evergreen Sounding Board will be held every other week
rather than weekly, according to chairman Dick Nichols. Meetings will continue to be
held in Room 108 of the College Activities Building and will start promptly at 8:30 a.m.
Date for the next Sounding Board meeting is April 26. Other Spring Quarter meetings will
be held May 10, May 24, and June 7.
Persons with agenda items for the Sounding Board may submit them at the Information
Center through 5 p.m. on Wednesdays preceeding the meetings. Agenda items should be signed.
Items will only be discussed if the persons submitting them appear at the meeting. Sound-<
ing Board members should attend all meetings. If unable to do so, they are obliged to
arrange for their own substitutes.
CLOWN TO MAKE TWO APPEARANCES APRIL 23
Stanley Sherman, an actor in the tradition of mime and clown theater, will present
two performances at Evergreen April 23. Sherman, a graduate of Ecole Jacque Lecoq, Theater
of Mime and Mouvement, Paris, France, has scheduled a 1:30 p.m. workshop with students
in the Drama and Theater Arts Group Contract, and a free 8 p.m. public performance in
the reference alcove of the Library.
All material in his 45-minute presentations is original and involves use of clown
masks, juggling and audience reaction and participation. Currently director of and a
performer in Our Mime Company of Portland, Sherman appeared on television programs in Portland and Seattle. He has taught mime techinques at the Firehouse Theater in Portland
and has taught drama and juggling to children and high school students at the Jewish Community Center in Portland. He spent a year as an actor with the American Cultural Center
Experimental Theater Company in Paris and has performed street theater throughout France.
STUDENT INVOLVED IN OLYMPIA LIBRARY FUND RAISING DRIVE.
Student Colleen Hunt of Walla Walla, is working as a full-time intern with the Timberland Regional Library. As part of her duties, Ms. TIunt has helped design a brochure for
the Olympia Library's fund raising drive. She provided pictures, helped write copy for
and laid out materials in the Friends of the Library brochure. The brochure will assist
the library board in seeking support for a feasibility study, an architect's projection
and a fund drive for construction of a badly-needed new library for the cityHUMPHREY;

NO TRIPS WITHOUT TRAVEL AUTHORITY

Academic Dean Don Humphrey has issued a reminder to all faculty about the personal
financial risks of travelling without a travel authority. "Whether or not your trip is on
private-, non-college related business, it is important to call your attention to the fact
that without a travel authority (even if the travel is at no cost to the college), you
would be ineligible for coverage under state industrial insurance."