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Part of The Evergreen State College Newsletter (December 9, 1974)

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...STUDENTS TO REPORT RESULTS OF NSF RESEARCH...The results of several months of scientific
research
supported by the National Science Foundation and Evergreen
will be reported
by 21 students and their faculty sponsors in a public campus meeting Dec. 13 in Lecture
Hall Two. The reports, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., will reveal results of studies on:
Douglas Fir Tussock Moth damage as it relates to forest management; effects of acid rain
on nitrogen fixation in Western Washington coniferous forests; and flouride concentration:
levels in an ecosystem and research into related ecosystemic changes.
All three studies were financed through the NSF Student-Originated Studies Program last
Spring. The student scientists, most of who have been enrolled in the Evergreen Environment
or Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution Coordinated Studies programs, were guided in their
NSF projects by three Evergreen Faculty Members
Dr. Steve Herman, Dr. Oscar Soule and
Dr. Michael Beug.
...EVERGREENER PICKED AS BONKER AIDE...Barbara Madsen, an Evergreen sophomore, has been
selected to serve as a legislative aide for Congressman-elect Don Bonker when the Vancouver
Democrat assumes office in January. Madsen, a 1972 graduate of Bellevue High School, was
selected from a list of more than 200 applicants to fill the position, which will take her
to Washington, D.C., where she will earn full academic credit and a Congressional stipend
for her work in the House of Representatives.
...HALF OF FALL INTERNS ASSIGNED TO THURSTON COUNTY...More than one hundred Evergreen
students are currently serving one-quarter internships in schools, governmental and social
action agencies, and businesses in Olympia, and more than half of all Evergreen interns are
working in Thurston County. Placed by the Office of Cooperative Education, the students
are earning full academic credit and often a salary while gaining on-the-job experience in
a variety of placements.
Of the 104 students placed in Olympia, 28 are working in area schools, 23 in governmental agencies, 13 in health services programs, three in Morningside Incorporated, five
with the Union Street Center, and four with the Washington State Patrol. Other students
are completing internships with the Olympia Police Department, State Capitol Museum,
Animal Medical Hospital, Sailing Equipment Warehouse and Grace Piano Service, to name a few.
A total of 240 students have been placed throughout the state and the nation in the
Fall Quarter internship program.
...NINE PART-TIME STUDIES PROGRAMS OFFERED WINTER QUARTER...Nine modular courses will be
offered at Evergreen Winter Quarter, according to Academic Dean Rudy Martin. An introduction
to these academic programs, especially designed to serve adults from the immediate college
service area, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 in Lecture Hall Two. Martin said the special
"Living Catalog" presentation will offer interested persons an opportunity to meet faculty
members and discuss academic program content.
Registration for the one-credit modules, which are equivalent to four quarter hours of
credit, will be held Jan. 8 from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 9 and 10 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
in the Office of the Registrar, Seminar Building.
Module offerings include: Introductory Physics, offered Tuesdays and Thursdays by Lee
Anderson; Philosophy of Science, offered Mondays and Fridays by Will Humphreys; Calculus with
Analytic Geometry, offered Mondays and Thursdays by Charlie Lyons; Mathematics for the Uninclined, offered Tuesdays and Thursdays by Richard Brian; Pre-Calculus Mathematics by
Fred Young; Introduction to Organic Chemistry offered Mondays and Wednesdays by Michael Beug;
Basic Ecology, offered Tuesdays and Thursdays by E_d j^ormondy; Autobiographic Writing by Earle
McNeil; and Stage Lighting offered Thursdays by Keith Smith.

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...EVERGREEN SKI SCHOOL ORIENTATION DEC. 11...The Evergreen Ski School is offering Winter
Quarter lessons In conventional, short ski and cross country skiing. The sessions will be
held on Sundays, beginning Jan. 5, and Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 8. An orientation session
for all ski students will be held Dec. 11 beginning at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall One.
The Evergreen Ski program, which is fully recognized and accredited by the Pacific
Northwest Ski Instructors Association, will be taught by a dozen professional skiers. All
supervisory staff in the program are certified by the Association and belong to the Professional Ski Instructors of America.
Costs for the eight-week programs are: $70 for the conventional ski program (with
transportation) and $110 for the short ski program (with transportation). The programs cost
$40 less without transportation, which is available only on a first-come, first served basis.
Fees for the cross country skiing program have not yet been set. Skiers seeking
additional information are invited to contact the Recreation Center, 866-6530.
...ENGLISH PROFESSOR TO LECTURE ON MARX DEC. 12...Professor David McLellan of the University
of Kent at Canterbury, England will deliver a public lecture on "Karl Marx: The Vicissitudes
of a Reputation," Dec. 12 at 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall One. McLellan, an internationally renowned Marx scholar, says he will "attempt to trace the history of what people have thought
important in Marx over the past 100 years, explain why the emphasis has changed and adjudicate
between competing interpretations."
...SENIOR CITIZENS INVITED TO JOIN EVERGREEN COMMUNITY; MEETING DEC. 11 DOWNTOWN...Senior
citizens in Thurston County have been invited to join the Evergreen community and participate in the Encountering America Coordinated Studies program. Faculty Member Russ Fox /
has invited all interested senior citizens to attend a meeting with his students Dec. 11
at 1:30 p.m. at the Thurston County Senior Center, 612 North Columbia. Purpose of the meeting is to explain the students' program for Spring Quarter and encourage older persons to
participate..."to share their ideas, perceptions and experiences, and to work with them in
studying the problems of the aged in American society." Interested persons unable to attend
the meeting are invited to call Fox at 866-6605 weekdays.