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Part of The Evergreen State College Newsletter (April 29, 1974)

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April 29, 1974

...LEGISLATURE APPROVES COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORY BUILDING...The second time in 1974
proved to be the charm for Evergreen's Communications Laboratory Building as the State
Legislature in the waning hours of the second half of its split session gave final
approval to a supplemental budget that included the $6.8 million project. The favorable Legislative action paved the way for the college to begin the bidding processes
necessary to get building construction underway so that the facility can become operational by January, 1977. Evergreen Director of Facilities Jerry Schillinger says that
if all goes according to plan, construction bids will probably be called by July 1,
opened in August, and a contract awarded in early September. Actual work on the building would start shortly thereafter.
...BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS NEW AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN...Evergreen's Board of Trustees
April 18 adopted a strong Equal Opportunity Policy and Affirmative Action Program designed within a decade to increase sharply the numbers of non~whites and women among
the ranks of faculty, staff, and student body. The action also assigned a wide range
of responsibilities to college officers for both implementation of the numerical goals
and development of programs
in the words of the plan —- "to overcome and prevent
the effects of systemic institutional discrimination and benign neutrality in employment and educational practices."
The policy, replacing one adopted in 1972, expressly prohibits discrimination
against any person on the basis of race, sex, age, religion, national origin, or physical disability, except where physical disability is a bona fide occupational qualification. It further requires recruiting, hiring, training and promoting staff and recruiting students in non-discriminatory ways. Specific goals listed for accomplishment
by 1984 include a 25 percent non-white student enrollment, a 50 percent female student
enrollment, and a 50 percent female faculty. The goal for non-white faculty members is
listed as 25 percent by 1982. Goals for the hiring of females and non-whites in
various managerial, professional, technical, clerical, crafts, operational and service
areas vary from 15 to 45 percent, depending on the category.
...NUCLEAR POWER SYMPOSIUM SET MAY 10 AT EVERGREEN..."Nuclear Fission Power: A
Faustian Bargain?" is the title for an all-day symposium scheduled at Evergreen May 10,
beginning at 9 a.m. Organized by a group of students, the symposium will "provide a
forum for airing of a diversity of views on the critical moral, economic, and technical
issues involved in the decision to 'go nuclear' for energy production," according to
Ann Beug, an Evergreen research technician who is advising the student organizers.
"It is geared to the general public and based on the conviction that information
on these critical issues can and must be presented to the public in an informative,
objective and comprehensive dialogue," Ms. Beug, a chemist, explained.
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will examine such questions
as reactor safety, radioactive waste disposal, long-term, low-level radiation explosure
effects, food-chain concentration of radionuclides, economics of fission plants, and
possible alternatives to a fission-based economy.
...ELEVEN FACULTY MEMBERS SIGN THREE-YEAR CONTRACTS... Six new faculty members have
signed three-year contracts with Evergreen for terms beginning with the 1974-75 academic
year and five current faculty members who were hired last year for one-year terms,
have also signed three-year agreements. New Evergreen faculty members and their fields
include: William Brown, geography; Rainier Hasenstab. environmental design; Stephen S.W.
Hui. physics; Don Jordan. Native American studies; Joye Peskin, communications/literature
and Lynn Struve, East Asian History.
Current faculty members' signing three-year terras
include; Susan Fiksdal. language studies; Abraham Maraire. ethnomusicology; Jim
Martinez, corrections; Sandra Simon. English literature, and Matt Smith, political
science.

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...LEADER OF UNITED FARM WORKERS TO ADDRESS CHICANO EVENT ON CAMPUS MAY 5. . .Delores
Huerta, a founder and Vice President of the United Farm Workers, will be the keynote
speaker during a May 5 program sponsored by MECHA, the Evergreen Chicane students' organization. Her talk is part of a half-day celebration of the Battle of Puebla in which
Mexican revolutionaries triumphed over Napoleon's French Army at Puebla May 5, 1862.
Ms. Huerta, an organizer for the largely Chicano union headquartered in Delano,
California, will discuss the farmworkers' boycott of agricultural products. Her
address begins at 3 p.m. in the main lobby of the Evergreen Library. Other scheduled
events include dance performances, a Chicano play, art exhibits and sales and a
Mexican dinner. All activities except the dinner are free and open to the public.
...MONDAY CONCERT FEATURES FACULTY MUSICIANS. . .Music by Debussy, Milhaud and Rossini
will be featured during a free public concert April 29 in the main lobby of the Evergreen Library. The program --- featuring faculty members William Winden, Donald Chan
and Robert Gottlieb and Olympia operatic soprano Joan Winden --- will begin at 8 p.m.
...O'NEIL PLAY SLATED FOR MAY 2 and 3... Two performances of Playwright Eugene O'Neil's
"Long Voyage Home" will be presented by Theater/Dance students at Evergreen May 2 and 3.
Directed by Seattle junior Clark Sandford, the one-act play centers on the lives of four
sailors on shore leave in London from the ship Glencarin immediately prior to World War I.
The performances, presented by an all-student cast, are scheduled at noon both
days in the multi-purpose room of the College Recreaton Center. They are free and open
to the public.
...SIMMER FACULTY TO EXHIBIT ART. . .A special four-person art exhibit will be displayed
in the Evergreen gallery May 5-11.
The exhibit will feature the works of Faculty Member
Marilyn F r as ca , a painter, and of three summer faculty: Ben Sams, a Seattle Ceramic
sculptor; Larry Gray, a California landscape painter; and Tim Girvin, a Spokane calligrapher. The one-week show will be hung in the main circulation area gallery on the
second floor of the Library. Admission is free and the public is invited.