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February 22 1974

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SUMMER QUARTER PLANS UNDERWAY
The Pacific Northwest will provide the academic focus for Summer Quarter 1974,
according to Academic Dean Byron Youtz, who is charged with planning the 10-week
session. Three Coordinated Studies programs and 15 group contracts have been tentatively lined up for the session, which Youtz hopes will attract some 700 students,
"We've pretty much outlined our plans for summer, but would appreciate receiving
some community input before we finalize the program," Youtz said. Persons with ideas,
suggestions or comments are invited to contact Youtz in Laboratory Building room 1003
or call him at 866-6521.
Early registration for Summer Quarter will be held from May 20 to May 31. Students are encouraged to register early to insure enrollment in the program of their
choice. Late registration will be held June 21 and 24. Classes will begin June 24.
Tuition rates for the summer session have not yet been set, Youtz said.
Tentative Coordinated Studies offerings include The Immigrant in America, a sevenand-a-half-week program; Ecology and Natural History of the Northwest, and Native
American Studies, both ten-week programs.
The following group contracts will probably be offered: Marine Ecology of the
Puget Sound Region; The Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution; History of the West Revisited; Experimental Structures; Drawing from the Landscape; Calligraphy: The Dance of
the Pen; Ceramics and Sculpture; Traditions of Musical Improvisation: East and West;
Theater, Cinema and Television; Education and the Community; New Directions in Counseling;
Dance and Theater in New York City; Revolutionary Voices from the Third World; Personal
Ethics in the Absence of Authority; and Psychology, Literature and Dream Reflection.
Eight of the group contracts will run seven and a half weeks; five will run ten
weeks, and four will run five and a half weeks. One will run from seven and a half
to ten weeks depending on student's personal options.
MAJOR SPOKESMEN HERE FRIDAY TO DISCUSS ENERGY CRISIS; ALL INVITED
An all-day public symposium on Energy Awareness, which will draw representatives
from oil companies, gasoline stations, consumer interest groups, politicians, and federal
and state agencies, will be held at Evergreen Friday March 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Organized by recent Evergreen graduate Tom Sampson, the symposium will seek to
improve public comprehension of the issues involved in the current energy crisis and
to achieve "far broader participation in determining new directions and commitments
for public policy," Sampson said.
Sampson, staff member of the State Department of Emergency Services, said the
opening presentation will begin at 9 a.m. with a talk on "Is There Really an Energy
Crisis," by Jack Robertson, director of the Regional Federal Energy OfficeA panel discussion on "Energy and the Consumer
the New Ethic," will be presented from 10 a.m. to noon. Panel members include W. P. Slick, senior vice president
of Exxon; W. P. Woods, chairman of the Board of Washington Natural Gas; Ken Billington,
executive director of Washington Public Utility District's Association; State Senator
Nat Washington, chairman of the Senate Ecology Committee; Thomas S. Pryor, director of
the State Department of Emergency Services; Joan Thomas, president of the Washington
Environmental Council; Betty Schimling, from the Washington Committee on Consumer In-

-2terests and Bill Victory, president of the Evergreen Service Station Asso. Emory
Bundy, public affairs director for KING Television, will serve as panel moderator.
Faculty Member David Barry will present a luncheon address in CAB 110 on "is There
a Need for Change of Lifestyle in Washington State?" His talk will be followed by a
panel discussion on "Oil on Puget Sound." Panel members are: Verii Lindskog, retained
attorney for major oil companies: State Representative Robert Perry, chairman of the
House Transportation Committee; Dr. James Crutchfield, chairman of the State Energy
Policy Council; Robert Lynette, founder and vice president-legislation of the Coalition
Against Oil Pollution. Art McDonald, director of special projects for KOMO television,
will serve as panel moderator.
Late afternoon sessions will feature Dr. Robert Engler, chairman of the City University of New York's graduate center, discussing "Politics of Oil" at 3:15 p.m., and
Lee White, chairman of the Energy Task Force of the Consumer Federation of America,
discussing "Where is the Consumer?"
The all-day event is sponsored by The Washington State Department of Emergency
Services, the University of Washington Institute for Environmental Studies, the Pacific
Northwest Regional Commission, the Regional Federal Energy Office, the State Energy
Policy Council and Evergreen.
It is free and ope to everyone.
EVERGREENERS URGED (AGAIN) TO POOL IT

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Evergreeners received an inviation from the governor this
week
an invitation to join the state's new car pool program
sponsored by the Department of Highways. The car pool booklet
sent to all faculty and staff urges state workers to save money,
gasoline and the environment by joining in an all out effort to
"pool it."
Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh sent the car
pool information to everyone and urged them to return the questionnaire as soon as possible, since the Department of Highways
would prefer to have all the questionnaires from one agency
returned at the same time.
"Please return the forms to Library 3114 even if you don't
want to participate in a car pool," Clabaugh said. "For the
system to work best, the state needs maximum input." Clabaugh
also asked that Evergreeners use 1115 as the Evergreen location
index number. It is not included in the list of index numbers,
but is on the car pool map.
The state effort is a pilot project xdiich will provide interested state employees with a list of names, addresses and
office telephone numbers of other employees who live near them
and work in the same general area. Each individual will be responsible for making car pool arrangements with those on his list.
NEPAL PROGRAM ATTRACTING ATTENTION: MARCH MEETINGS PLANNED
The chance to explore and study the complexities of Nepal, to learn its language
and develop expertise in any one of several academic areas is being offered to 30
advanced students by Evergreen's climbing professors
Willi Unsoeld, 1963 conqueror
of Mt. Everest, and David Peterson, M.D., participant in the successful 1973 climb of
Mt. Dhaulagiri.
The two professors and Peterson's wife, Kathleen
a graduate student in Tibetan
Bud-dhistology at the University of Washington
have designed a six-quarter Evergreen
group contract which provides for two quarters of intensive on-campus preparation and
four quarters of living and studying in the mountainous Asian country which borders
India Tibet, Sikkim and West Bengal.
Unsoeld, who spent more than five years in Nepal working with the Agency for
International Development and the Peace Corps in successive appointments, describes
Nepal as "one of the more evolving and geopolitically central of the Third World nations."
It offers, he says, "a unique opportunity for developing cross-cultural bridges between

-3many human areas of concern which have traditionally separated East from West...
areas as diverse as ethnomusicology and political science, philosophy and economics,
linguistics and family planning."
Students who enroll in the program will not only be able to develop, refine and
expand their skills, Unsoeld adds, "but will also broaden awareness of the necessary
interdependence of the world's people."
AIMED AT ADVANCED EVERGREENERS
Aiming the program at advanced Evergreeners, Peterson says he and his two colleagues
will work with students half time next Winter and Spring Quarters (1975), concentrating
on Nepal studies. Students will spend the remainder of the time for those two quarters
developing skills in particular subject areas, such as economics, music or philosophy.
The group will leave for Nepal in July of 1975 and spend two months during the monsoon
season in intensive language study with native instructors. During the remaining three
quarters, students will complete their own individual projects and travel throughout
the 55,362-square-mile nation, which lies almost entirely within the Himalayan mountains and is home to more than eleven million Asians. Students will be registered both
at Evergreen and at Tribhuvan University as "casual students" throughout the last three
quarters of their stay and they will be expected to attend appropriate lectures and
courses at the university as well as completing a thesis in their subject area.
David and Kathleen Peterson will accompany students on the trip. Both have
traveled to Nepal twice within the last three years. Kathleen is skilled in Tibetan
and Sanskrit languages and is studying Buddhist Iconography at the university. David,
who is also a general practioner, will administer the six-quarter program
and
help keep everyone healthy. "You have to assume that EVERYTHING in Nepal is contaminated," he says. "That way you'll only be sick 25 per cent of the time."
WILL ESTABLISH A HOME BASE
David and Kathleen hope to establish a "home base" for students in the Kathmandu
Valley where "the worn-out, tired, sick and scared" can come and breathe a sign of
relief between travels in the independent kingdom which, as Unsoeld says, "offers
spectacular scenery
palaces and pagodas, tigers and rhinoceroses, rice^clad valleys,
dense swampy jungles and 13 of the highest 16 mountains in the world."
Students interested in enrolling in the unique 20-credit program are invited to
attend informational meetings in Lecture Hall Three March 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. and
March 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. A question and answer session will also be held March 12
from 7 to 9 p.m. in Lecture Hall Three.
PHILADELPHIA QUARTET HERE MARCH 1
The nationally known Philadelphia String Quartet will perform in concert at
Evergreen March 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the old cafeteria on the fourth floor of the Library.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The quartet, composed of Veda Reynolds and Irwin Eisenberg on violins, Alan
Iglitzin on viola, and Charles Brennand on cello, will present a complete musical
program including Quartets Opus 59 No. 1 Rasumovksy and the late Quartet 'Grosse Fugue'
The quartet is currently 'quartet in residence' at the University of Washington.
AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL SLATED
An African Music Festival, complete with marimbas, mbiras, and African drums will
be staged March 9 at Evergreen. Directed by Faculty Member Abraham Dumi Maraire, a
member of the Shona Tribe in Rhodesia, the festival will feature afternoon workshops
from noon to 4:30 p.m. and an evening concert at 8 o'clock in the main floor of the
Library Building.
The free, public festival is sponsored by students and faculty members in the
Individual in Contemporary Society Coordinated Studies program who have spent much of
Fall and Winter Quarters learning about the Shona culture, with special emphasis on
Shona music, dance and instruments.
Groups scheduled to perform in the all-day festival include: the Shona Marimba
Ensemble, a group of Seattle musicians directed by Maraire; the Ewajo Performing Arts

-4Dancers, an afro jazz dance group directed by University of Washington dance teacher
Edna Degrey; Bakere and Norta Marong, a husband and wife team from Gambia who dance
and play Gambian drums, and the Tropical Rainstorm, a steel drum band whose members
are primarily from the West Indies.
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Each group will sponsor one workshop. Scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. in separate
sessions are Bakere and Norta Marong and the Tropical Rainstorm. Ewaja and the Shona
Marimba Ensemble are slated from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

the "ms." becomes "rev."
PEARSON TO BE ORDAINED
She wanted to become a minister, but at the time women were only allowed to
direct Sunday School programs. But Faculty Member Linnea Pearson never lost the urge
to deal with "the ultimate questions" and her persistence paid off. Come spring, the
journalist-turned college professor will become the sixth woman to be ordained by the
Unitarian-Universalist Church.
Ms. Pearson, who began college at a small Illinois church school says "everyone
going there wanted to become a minister...but there were no lady ministers then." So,
she transferred to the University of Illinois, where she changed her major to journalism,
"which was the closest I could come to the ultimate issues of life and death that I
wanted to deal with."
BECAME POLITICALLY ACTIVE
She continued her education, earning a master's degree and then a doctorate in
literature and heading south to teach at an all black college in Norfolk, Virginia.
There, she says, "I got involved with 'radical' southern politics
like the ACLU
(American Civil Liberties Union)
and started a women's group which became the first
Virginia chapter of the National Organization of Women."
Her community activities led her to the Unitarian Church, which was one of the
political forces in the area. "I began thinking about the way the church could be used(
for social action and I started to tune into my own religious interests and the ultimate questions we all must deal with," she says.
In 1972 she won a fellowship to Harvard University and began work on a master's
degree in theology, which she hopes to complete this summer. Her next step was to
apply for a ministerial license from the Unitarian-Universalist Association. She passed
an extensive oral examination covering theology, religion, social action and the history of the Unitarian Church and delivered a sermon to the Ministerial Fellowship
Board on "the need for mystery and celebration within the church." Permission for
ordination followed shortly thereafter....and the "ms." became The .Reverend.
The new reverend joined Evergreen last fall and began making what she describes
as "the sermon circuit." She's made guest sermons at Unitarian Churches in Everett
and Seattle and has several more planned for later this year.
Teaching will remain Rev. Pearson's main occupation, but she "may consider" a
part-time ministerial appointment in the future.
TALKING ABOUT RELIGION "HARD"
"The idea of talking with people about religion in some sort of way that's both
emotional and intellectual is still very new to me," she admits. "It's a very hard
thing to do because you're dealing with the ultimate values in your life. We're so
conditioned not to do that...we get embarrassed and want to shy away from it. But,"
she adds, "we need to find the words to speak about these things...to share thoughts
instead of keeping them as private experiences."
Rev. Pearson says talking about one's religion is almost taboo, like talking about
sex or death used to be. "But," she says, "we're learning to talk about the other two
and we're starting to talk about God."
She hopes to inspire some talk about religion in her Coordinated Studies program
next fall. Entitled "Images of Women in the 20th Century," the program will examine
art and literature, including the Bible and the myths and scriptures of other religions
which she feels "have so much to do with the image of women today."
"Our consciousness is tied closely to the image of the maleness of God," she says.
"We need to reexamine theology from a woman's point of view."

-5EGG-HIBIT OPENS FEBRUARY 25
Two Evergreeners will present a "collaborative egg-venture...complete with a
thousand yuks" when they exhibit their drawings, paintings and sculpture in the
Evergreen gallery, circulation area of the Library, February 25-March 16.
Sponsored by the Visual Environment Group, the exhibit will feature the recent
works of Bremerton graduate Doug Kahn and Seattle student Barbara Shelnutt. The two
collaborated on "the fried egg as a common image," Kahn says, but adds, "the egg is
only one part of the show."
Stop by and take a look. The gallery has become a fascinating place this year.
BALLET NORTHWEST OFFERS FILM SERIES
Ballet Northwest will present its second evening in a four-week series of films
February 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Five. Focus of the evening presentation will
be men in the dance world.
Films include "Ballet with Edward Villella," a film about the leading male
dancer with the New York City Ballet Company; "Paul Taylor and Company: An Artist
and His Work," showing the creation of a new modern dance; "The Mime of Marcel Marceau,'
"Witchdoctor," and "Dance of a Pagan."
A nominal contribution will be requested at the door. Children will be admitted
free when accompanied by an adult.
GAIL MARTIN:

"GRADUATES DOING WELL"

Evergreen graduates are accomplishing their own goals and comparing well with
those of other four-year colleges, according to a recent report published by Gail
Martin, counselor in the Office of Financial Aid and Placement.
With a total of 295 graduates since 1971, Evergreen has already recorded successful placements for 96 per cent of the 1971-72 graduates and 80 per cent of the 197273 graduates, Ms. Martin reports. "These figures are based on ALL Evergreen graduates,
she adds, "not just those graduates who register with the placement office, as is the
case with reports from the other colleges."
Of the 233 1972-73 graduates, 186 are placed
150 are employed, 17 are in
graduate school or pursuing further training, four are traveling, seven are homemaking, one is doing volunteer work and nine are unplaced by choice. Seventeen per
cent (39 persons) of the class continues to look for work. No record is available
on the remaining three per cent (eight persons) who graduates in the 1972-73 academic
year.
So far, the 39 1973 Fall Quarter graduates seem to be holding their own, she
notes. Forty-six per cent of them are placed; forty-one per cent are looking for work,
and information is not yet available on the other 13 per cent.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Two Evergreeners will journey to San Francisco next week to attend the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Provost Ed
Kormondy will address one half-day symposium organized by Faculty Member David Barry,
which will examine "Creative Responses to Contemporary Needs by Higher Education."
Topic of Kormondy's presentation is "New Approaches to Curriculum Planning "...
Faculty Member Linnea Pearson spoke to the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest College English Association at Pacific Lutheran University February 15. Topic
of her paper was "But Now We See Through A Glass Darkly: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar..
New to the staff this month is Jody Douglas, who will replace Joyce Sigman as a parttime accounting assistant. Joyce has resigned effective February 28. Also new:
Robert Hall, who has been named office assistant in Purchasing, and Erlene Zaugg, an
office assistant in the Library....Library Technician Sara Johnson has resigned.

-6no easy definitions
FREUD AND JUNG A UNIQUE HUMANITIES PROGRAM

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Freud and Jung, a year-long Coordinated Studies program, defies tidy definitions
and neat descriptions. Its faculty members
Betty Estes, David Powell and Kirk
Thompson
view the program somewhat differently and admit to difficulty in dealing
with the unique approach it takes to what is essentially humanities material.
"It's really a mind-stretching program," Coordinator Estes says. "It attempts to
achieve a rational perspective on how others, primarily great writers and philosophers,
transcended the rational."
The program began with an intensive Fall Quarter spent absorbing the thoughts
and theories of the two psychologists for whom the year-long effort is named. Once
students and faculty had completely immersed themselves in the thoughts of these two
men, they sought a means of examining some rather traditional humanities readings
the Bible, Dante's Inferno» The Odessey, Faust
with an eye toward how Freud and
Jung might have viewed them.
"It's a rather unique approach to the humanities," Ms. Estes says. "The typical
approach is to study literature in its historical context and to look for recurrent
themes that represent common occurrences in human experiences." In contrast, she says,
the F and J program is looking at these materials
through the eyes of Freud and
Jung
as personal journeys that the authors have taken to achieve some kind of private salvation and as possible clues to how human beings develop their power to
achieve that which is most desirable to them, be it inner peace, political power or
whatever.
Powell, whose field is literature, says the program's approach is "a difficult
one to keep together." "We didn't use the thematic rubric," he says. "For better or
for worse, we decided not to do that and to leave the 'pulling together' of themes and
commonality to the individual."
"The program," he continues, " is designed to help people take subjectivity
seriously...and that's difficult, even painful, but joyous for those who succeed."
Both Powell and Estes admit that some have not succeeded in their program,
which began with five faculty members and more than 100 students and now has three
faculty and 55 students in the middle of Winter Quarter.
"Our approach to the humanities doesn't follow any high school handbook," Powell
"We're all out in the open in a new field of study.
There are no pillars to
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hide behind. We all took a risk approaching these authors this way," he adds. "We
have to read them deeply and compare them. They become our guides."
Powell sums up the program as a "test" of the possibility of "objectively studying academic data while admitting the subjective nature of our reality."
"Western Civilization has concentrated on objective, verifiable data only," he
explains. "We're trying to introduce subjective veriflability. We all know it's an
important reality in adult life, and we want to see if a classroom can handle both
subjective and objective veriflability."
Students are attempting to handle that assignment by reading and rereading a
'heavy' booklist, which includes the writings of Sioux philosopher Black Elk and I
Ching, as well as the traditional western humanities texts. They're seminaring twice
a week, participating in a writing workshop, and preparing to author their own personal
myths by the end of the quarter.
"We want them to examine each author's views with this question in mind: What
in me is like what is in him," Powell says. "Then we want the person to write a
myth which applies this self examination to a personal reality."
Spring Quarter the group will continue to meet weekly but will spend the majority
of its time divided among the three faculty members. Ms. Estes and her students will \e rati
religions, and Powell's seminar will focus on 19th and 20th century literature,
art and music.