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February 1, 1974

spring registration required
NEW POLICY BECOMES EFFECTIVE TODAY
Continuing students will be asked to select their Fall Quarter programs earlier
but pay their tuition fees later this year, according to a final DTF report approved
by Provost Ed Kormondy. The report, which becomes effective today, calls for all continuing students
and those new students admitted by April 15
to register for
Fall Quarter between May 1-17. Those students "must participate in Spring registration"
and will be mailed registration materials, according to Kormondy.
Continuing students who do not participate in Spring registration, request on-leave
status, or withdraw by May 17 will forfeit their $50 deposit, be disenrolled for Fall
Quarter, and must reapply for admission to return to Evergreen.
New students admitted before April 15 and continuing students will be able to register either in person or by mail. If they choose to register by mail, their registration
material must be postmarked by May 17. In-person registration will be processed on a
first-come, first-served basis. Fall tuition bills to students registering Spring
Quarter will be mailed August 26 and due September 13.
Students admitted after April 15 will register on campus September 23-25 and will
be required to pay their fees at the time of registration. Spaces will be reserved in
all Coordinated Studies Programs and group contracts for fall registrants, and all students will be given a chance to change registration September 26 and 27 after new students
have registered.
Acting Registrar Laura Thomas said the new policy will enable administrators to
better estimate how many new students to admit for Fall Quarter and will also allow
students more time to pay Fall Quarter tuition. "Last year we mailed out materials in
August and registration cards and tuition were due at the end of that month," she explained. "This year we'll have the program cards filled out by May 17, but tuition payments will not be due until September 13."
The new policy will also enable faculty members to get an earlier enrollment count
for their programs and to plan accordingly. It will better enable instructors to contact
their registered students over the summer, and it will give students an earlier indication
of exactly what program to which they have been assigned.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES FACES HEAVY AGENDA
Evergreen's five-member Board of Trustees faces a long
and potentially controversial agenda today when it convenes
at 10 a.m. in Library 3112. Slated for final approval by
the Board are revision of the Governance and Decision-Making
(COG II) document and consideration of a policy for Reduction
in Force in the event of an enrollment drop.
The 1974-75 resident tuition rate will also be discussed
along with approval of bid awards for five minor construction
projects, and other business matters. The meeting is open to
the public and interested Evergreeners are urged to attend.

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1974-75 CURRICULUM ANNOUNCED; INTENSIVE PLANNING DONE
Faculty members and deans were huddled in meetings this week as a Monday announce-'
ment of the 1974-75 curriculum commanded their attention. Announced at a packed meeting
of faculty and staff, the new curriculum includes 27 Coordinated Studies programs:
seven basic programs open to students at all academic levels; six divisional programs
which are more limited in terms of academic disciplines covered but are open to either
advanced or beginning students; and nine advanced or restricted programs. One continuing
Coordinated Studies program (Native American Studies) is listed along with five other
non-white programs, one of which is a two-quarter Coordinated Studies program (Folklore,
Myth and Storytelling). Three language programs are also listed.
Thirteen group contracts have been announced for Fall, 15 for Winter and 14 for Spring,
and 22 faculty members have been tentatively assigned to individual contracts. Final
faculty assignments
to program coordinators and group contract sponsors
will be
made before the day is out. The rest of the faculty will be assigned later.
Complete information on the proposed programs will not be available until the
faculty and deans compile their descriptions for the Catalog Supplement which should be
off the presses before the end of the quarter. Persons interested in the tentative planning assignments and brief program descriptions may review them at the Information Center.
SOME SELF-STUDY REPORTS AVAILABLE
An institution-wide evaluation is currently in process on the Evergreen campus and
several first drafts of self-study reports have been completed. Larry Stenberg, Dean of
Student Services, said the drafts are part of a report which will be presented to an
evaluation team from the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher School Commission
on Higher Schools, which has the power to grant Evergreen full accreditation status.
Reports, available for review at the Information Center, include those on Auxiliar^(
Services (Housing,Food Services, Bookstore, Recreation,and Campus Activities), Student
Services (Health Services, Counseling Services, Financial Aid and Placement, Veterans'
Affairs, student orientation) and Admissions.
GERSTL'S STUDENTS AWARDED $3,250
More than three thousand dollars in funds and supplies have been awarded to Evergreen
students by Puget Sound Power and Light Company. The award, announced this week, will
support studies on the energy crisis currently being undertaken by members of an Individual in Contemporary Society Coordinated Studies program seminar directed by Faculty
Member Ted Gerstl. The total includes $2,750 in cash and $500 worth of supplies and
materials.
Some 22 Olympia area families are involved in the study, which will require them to
live under energy restrictions for one month beginning sometime near the end of February,
Gerstl said. In the meantime, students are getting acquainted with their study families,
gathering data on their "normal" energy uses and preparing for a busy month ahead.
INTERNS AN ASSET TO EMPLOYERS
Ninety-six per cent of those who employed student interns from Evergreen last Spring
felt the students "were an asset to them and their organization." The figure is the
result of a poll taken by the Office of Cooperative Education which places more than 200
interns per quarter in a variety of business, industry, governmental and community organizations. Some 200 field supervisers were invited to respond to the poll and 113 of them
actually did.
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Of the 113 respondents, 96 per cent also reported they would consider accepting
another intern, and 98 per cent felt that the intern program was "a viable and positive
approach to education and should be expanded as the college grows. Co-op Director Ken
Donohue said 94 per cent of the intern employers felt the internship was "a real learning

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experience worthy of academic credit," and 79 per cent said that if the intern were
graduating soon they would consider hiring him/her on a permanent basis.
Donohue also reported that nearly half of the intern employers polled reported
their organization had given the student special company-sponsored training beyond
the normal supervision provided by their field supervisers.
EDUCATION BIGGEST DRAW IN CO-OP ED
Of the 231 students who have filed internship agreements this year, 39 have secured
learning experiences in the field of education. Ken Donohue, director of the Office of
Cooperative Education, reports that business, management and finance have attracted the
second highest number of student interns, with 29 listed in that category. Counseling
tied with law and political science internships for third place with 20 student interns
in each area. Graphics, media and public relations attracted 17 students; while work in
the fields of mental health and environmental and urban planning tied .for fifth with 15
students in each category. Social work was close behind with 14 student interns.
Donohue, in a report prepared for the 1974 legislative session, said environmental
planning internships "provide an excellent example of Evergreen's ability to prepare
students for careers after graduation."
Citing a number of students who have moved into responsible positions with state
and local planning agencies after graduation, Donohue said, "most of these students obtained valuable experience and career contacts by interning in the field for one or more
quarters prior to graduation."
Those students who have secured planning jobs after graduation include: Phil Bridges,
planner with Lewis County Solid Waste Study; Richard Scheffel, director of Lewis County
Parks and Recreation; Paul Roberts, planner for the housing division of the Office of
Community Development; Pollard Dickson, project manager for the North Bonneville relocation effort; John Hubbard, planning aide for the City of Tumwater; John Paul Jones III,
social planner for the housing division of the Metropolitan Development Corporation;
Clarence Pettit, director of the MDC housing division; Larry Hall, planner for a Montana
Economic Development District; Diana Meyer, planner for the Washington State Library Drug
Information Program, and Jim Zito, planner for the City of Lacey.
Fifteen Evergreeners are currently interning in environmental and urban planning,
and Donohue said he expects the number to more than double before the end of the academic
year. "And," he said, "we expect the demand for Evergreen graduates in environmental
planning to increase accordingly."

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY WORKSHOP TOPIC
Alternative energy sources will provide the main topics of discussion at an all-day
public conference at Evergreen February 1 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the College Activities
Building (room 110).
The featured workshop speaker will be Kurt Drumheller, director of the Department
of Solar Research at Battelle Northwest, Richland, and program manager of the company's
Alternative Energy Systems.
Drumheller will present short talks on solar, fusion, geothermal, wind, tidal and
hydrogen energy concepts, and will follow each presentation with a question-answer and
discussion session.
A former employee of the Atomic Energy Commission, Drumheller is a graduate of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was invited to direct the workshop by students
in Evergreen's Basic Skills in Science and Technology academic program, which is cosponsor
with Battelle.
Persons interested in attending the workshop or obtaining more information about it
are invited to contact Evergreen Faculty Member Jacob Romero, 866-6719. No admission
will be charged.

-4ESSENTIA TEAM CONSULTS FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Bob Samples and Cheryl Charles, staff members of the Essentia project based at
Evergreen, recently completed consultant work for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Offering guidance on "How to Humanize Schools" Bob and Cheryl worked with more than a
hundred principals of overseas schools for military dependents at a conference in Bagio City,
Republic of the Philippines. The January 5-11 conference attracted principals from
the entire Pacific Theater, Samples said.
MIME ARTIST HERE MONDAY
Claude St-Denis, one of Canada's leading mime artists, will present two public
performances in the Olympia area February 4 and 5. St- Denis, an internationally known
performer and creator in the ancient art of pantomime, will appear at Evergreen February
4 at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall One, and at St. Martin's College February 5 at 8 p.m. in
the Abbey Theater.
A resident of Paris, France, St~ Denis has toured extensively throughout the United
States, Canada, Europe and most recently, Africa. He founded the Montreal School of
Mime in 1968 and has been performing his "universal language of the silent gesture,"
since 1956, when he won a major Canadian talent contest.
Sponsored by Eye-5, St~ Denis's performances are free and open to the public.
'SURVIVAL' PROGRAM EXPLORING MAN'S HISTORY, DIFFERENT CULTURES
by Judy Annis
A chance to explore cultures widely different from their own, to gain an understanding of man's evolutionary history, and to examine components of "the good life" are
absorbing 57 students and four faculty members in the Matter of Survival Coordinated
Studies program.
Coordinated by Faculty Member Al Wiedemann, a biologist, the year long basic program has emphasized man's natural history
how man evolved and adapted to both his
physical and cultural environments
and, at the same time, has encouraged students
to explore some fascinating topics of related but less intense concern.
Occupying the majority of student and faculty time are the program's basic studies,
which include examination of man's physical environment, his biological makeup, his
basic needs, his culture, and his social life. Students have found that man's survival
has been dependent on his ability to adapt and meet new situations, so they've closely
examined man's regulatory and reproductive mechanisms. They've applied behavioral science
skills and studied man's culture. As a special Winter Quarter project, they are doing
an enthnographic study, which basically is a description of a "cultural scene." "We've
asked them to select a small group of persons who share a common knowledge about something," Wiedemann explained. "For example, they might select all the members of a
first grade class, the taxi drivers in one town or a police force. Then, they work with
informants from the group to learn about that particular culture. They will present
their findings to the program by the end of the quarter."
SPRING FIELD TRIPS PLANNED
From there, Wiedemann said, students will go on to study one of four widely different,
larger cultural groups Spring Quarter. With their faculty seminar leaders, students will
be able to explore the natural history and Native American culture of the Pacific Northwest (guided by Wiedemann); they can examine the cultures of a farming community, a
small town or an inner city (lead by Russ Fox, an urban planner); they can explore Mexico
on a six-week trip to the south (directed by Medardo Delgado, Chicano Studies); or they
can study the nation's major financial market, Wall Street, for four-to-five weeks
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(assisted by Pris Bowerman, an economist). Whatever their choice, they will spend much
of Spring Quarter off campus, returning by the first of June to share their new perspectives with the entire program.
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lives. Through "good life" seminars they've been encouraged to develop and improve
communication skills by fantasizing on what, for them, a "good life" would be. Each
seminar leader has explored the topic in a different way. Wiedemann's students have
read novels and biographies which describe how other persons have lived and what they
felt was a good life; Bowerman's group has examined Utopian communities; Delgado's
students have investigated the Aztec and Spanish cultures; and Fox's seminar has viewed
the contemporary approach to the good life
vegetarian diets, returns to nature,
etc. By the end of the quarter, each of the program's 57 students, most of whom are
freshman, will complete a statement of what "the good life" represents to him/her.
That statement, Wiedemann says, will come in almost all forms. "We're saying little
about how the statement should be made. We want students to have room for expression."
SOME DIFFICULT TIMES
The program has gone through some difficult times, Wiedemann admits. Planned when
he was on vacation last winter, it carries an anthropological emphasis with no anthropologists on the faculty team. It attracted students from a wide variety of skill and
interest levels, some with misconceptions on what the program would offer. "Some
thought it was going to provide instruction on how to survive adverse environmental
conditions," Wiedemann says. "Others thought it would give clues on how man can meet
future ecological crises. And, many wanted more in-depth work than we were prepared
for, while still others felt we were going too deeply into subject areas.
"In a way, it was kind of like .teaching in a one room school," he says. "But, many
students left, having found what they wanted in other areas of the college. Our enrollment has dropped from 88 to 57 and stabilized there. We feel the program is accomplishing
what it set out to
that is, students are gaining an understanding of man's natural
history and his physical and cultural evolution. They're acquiring insight into what
makes cultures so different and why persons from different cultures sometimes can't
get along."
If they gain those understandings, Wiedemann feels, they will have not only gained
a sound foundation for work in a variety of academic areas, but an invaluable insight
into man's potential for survival.
A DOZEN MORE GRADS HEARD FROM
Business management, counseling and graduate school continue to attract Evergreen
graduates, according to Placement Counselor Gail Martin, who shared some of her reports
with the Newsletter this week. Among alums recently heard from are:
Margaret Allen, Fall '72, attending graduate school at the University of Washington;
Ken Balsley, Summer '73, recently promoted to City Editor of The Lacey Leader; Candace
Beach, Spring '73, teachers' aide for Olympia Head Start; Terry Billedeaux, Spring '73,
outreach worker for a southwest Washington alcoholism center; Harold Blackwell, Spring
'73, manager of Andean Imports; Doris Brown, Spring '73, counselor for a residence
facility for girls; Lynda Caine. Spring '73, training program for Washington Arts Commission; Susan Chappie, Summer '73, clerk for the King County Library; Mozell Chinneth,
Summer '73, manager for Standard Brands; Steven Court, Summer '73, counselor at Rainier
School in Buckley; Bob Crocker, Fall '73, counselor with Cedar Creek Youth Camp, and
William Crumbaker, Summer '72, assistant director of Washington State Traffic Commission.
Stay tuned for additional reports from the Financial Aid and Placement Office,
which helps students fund their education, and works closely with graduates and seniors
to help them find a job which suits their academic and professional training.
BIDS AWARDED FOR MINOR PROJECTS
Bids for four minor construction projects on campus were awarded last week. Aimer
Construction Company of Seattle was the apparent low bidder to construct six residence
hall bike shelters. The Aimer bid of $5,970 was the lowest of 11, while the highest
was $11,455, according to Jerry Schillinger, director of facilities.
Other successful bidders were Lee and Davis Welding, Olympia, which bid $5,944 to
construct kiln shelters for the Laboratory Annex; Hunter Construction, Gig Harbor,
which bid $1,125 to construct a ramp for the handicapped at the College Recreation Center,
and C. E. Skinner of Orting, which bid $1,278 to construct an entrance sign for the
South Parkway.

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unique in its accessibility
COMPUTER SERVICES OFFERS WIDE SPAN OF ACTIVITIES
It helps a resident of the Washington Correction Center in Shelton master data
porcessing skills. It tracks the path of the Comet Kohoutek. It provides self-paced
learning units in numerous areas, and it plays a deadly game of hangman's noose. "It"
is the Office of Computer Services, headquartered on the first floor of the Library.
Directed by York Wong, the eight-member Computer Services staff works closely
with faculty, students, administrators, interested community members, residents of the
Shelton center, and fellow computer experts at six other colleges to meet the growing
demands for its programs, equipment and services.
AIDS INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH
Unique in its accessibility, Computer Services has committed more than 30 per cent
of its professional staff to support of Evergreen instruction and research, Wong reports.
More than 400 persons currently use its campus computer, and 97 per cent of computer
resource time is taken by faculty and students. They are participating in workshops,
individual study contracts and computer-assisted instruction programs which span a
variety of academic interests, including business computer applications, systems and
programming, study of American folklore, avalanche control, electro-acoustic music,
and computer films and graphics.
At the same time, Evergreeners receive computer support for their research activities and have access to a large catalog of problem-solving packages.
Key administrative support is also provided by Computer Services to almost every
budget unit on campus. Systems currently in operation serve Admissions, Registration,
Financial Aid, Placement, Housing, Personnel, Payroll, academic deans, Business Services,
Office of Facilities, Bookstore, Central Stores and the Library. More systems are being
planned and developed.
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVIDED
Services are also available to community residents. For example, some 20 high
school students are currently gaining programming skills through use of the computer.
State agencies, community groups and other educational institutions are sharing its
learning resources. The Higher Education Personnel Board uses the computer to analyze
data; three colleges (Lower Columbia and Centralia Community colleges and Western Washington State) use Evergreen equipment to teach basic programming; Steilacoom Community
College works with the Computer Services staff on its accounting and financial record
keeping; the University of Washington School of Business also uses its resources, as
does the Washington Correction Center which offers data processing instruction through
use of an Evergreen terminal on loan at the center.
Computer Services even offers a trip through space
provided by the Oregon
Museum of Sciences and Industry and the skills of programmer Peter Langston. The programmed space trip allows the would-be astronomer to track the Comet Kohoutek on its trek
through the universe.
Not content to rest on its laurels, Computer Services is planning a number of additional activities in the near future. A Computer Film Festival is on tap for March,
and a series of programs is brewing for the anti-computer, non-scientific types who
have yet to become acquainted with its facilities.
If you number among the latter, take a stroll to Library 1414 and check it all out.
It really is a fascinating operation with a potential for- service still largely untapped.
And, if you still don't want to study computer theory, you might match wits with the
computer in a game of pinocle or Star Trek. Try it. You might like it.
NON-WHITE COALITION SELECTS BOARD
Each organization which belongs to the Non-White Coalition has selected two of its
members to serve on the Coalition's board. New board members are: Greg Knox and Sally
Fixico, from the Native American Student Association; Alan Karganilla and pay_id_ D£lm_endq,
from the Asian group; Lionel Spears and Marion Williams from UJAMAA, and Amalt.i G.'irx.n
and Elena Perez, from Mecha.