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issue "clearly not closed"
TRUSTEES RULE IN FAVOR OF CLABAUGH; REVERSE HEARING BOARD DECISION
by judy annis
The Board of Trustees "settled" a three-month long dispute over the appointment by
Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh of John Moss to the dual directorship of
Personnel and Auxiliary Services at a historic hearing Wednesday (Feb. 26), but the issue
"is clearly not closed," according to petitioners.
After more than six hours of testimony and deliberation, the Trustees voted four to
one to "reverse the decision of the Campus Hearing Board and reinstate the decision of the
Administrative Vice President." The majority of the Board —— Janet Tourtellotte, Halvor
Halvorson, Trueman Schmidt and Herbert Had ley --- determined that Clabaugh 's action "was
within his authority as one of the chief administrative officials of the college and that
nothing illegal was involved in the management decision made."
DIXON DISSENTS
Board of Trustee Chairman Tom Dixon "respectfully dissented" from the
majority opinion declaring, "it is my belief that not only the spirit of the Affirmative
Action policy but also the letter of the... policy have been violated by the action taken
by the administration in this situation." Dixon said he felt that he could not "in good
consience agree with the decision made by the majority of the Trustees and that it would
constitute a grave error were I to so agree."
Agreeing that a "grave error" had been committed by the Board's majority, Sally Hunter ,
administrative assistant to Provost Ed Kormondy and one of the original petitioners in
the case, said in an interview yesterday (Feb. 27) that the "issue is clearly not closed."
She indicated the petitioners hope to meet "soon" to explore future options they may wish
to take, but added, "we're not ready to air those options at this time." Hunter said she
felt the major issue resulting from the Board's decision was the Trustees' failure to
meet their "clear responsibility to clarify some issues. . .such as what a job vacancy
really is, what the ramifications of their decision are for exempt hiring and affirmative
action policies, and what the nature of consultation and other COG processes in administrative decision making is to be."
Hunter said she personally felt "we need to know what we have a right to expect from
the president (Charles McCann) as far as leadership goes." She said she felt he (McCann)
had not made his stand on the issues clear, and that as the college's chief affirmative
action officer, he had not made his commitment to affirmative action policies clear either.
"...LEFT AGAIN IN A VACUUM"
Hunter also said she felt the Trustees hearing was "a mockery." She said the manner
of questioning of the members of the Hearing Board (about their original decision to
reverse Clabaugh 's appointment of Moss) was "nothing but intimidation." She added that
"none of the facts were spoken to (by the Trustees) and we're left again in a vacuum."
Clabaugh, in his statement to to the Board (which was read by Moss because of the
Vice President's severe case of laryngitis) said he felt the Hearing Board had "erred by
improperly considering the combined position to have resulted in a vacancy which would require filling under Evergreen's Affirmative Action procedures." He declared that his
appeal "relates only to the vary narrow question of whether combining two jobs, one of
which has an incumbent, creates a new position with no incumbent." He said the Assistant
State Attorney General (Richard Montecucco) had stated that "such a combination does not
create a vacancy." And, he noted that if the trustees were to support the Hearing Board,

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"it would hamstring Evergreen, since, carried to its ultimate and ridiculous conclusion,
any shifting of duties whatsoever would create whole series of new jobs without incumbents."
Clabaugh said the Trustees needed "merely to decide that logic dictates an incumbent's job,
is not vacated when his or her duties expand or contract."
"...MULTITUDE OF VIOLATIONS"
Academic Dean Lynn Patterson, who spoke for the respondents to Clabaugh's appeal,
urged the Trustees to uphold the Hearing Board's unanimous decision. She said the "method
of the (Moss) appointment constitutes a multitude of violations of the college's Affirmative
Action Policy," and "perpetuates and memorializes systemic institutional discrimination
and benign neutrality." She said Clabaugh filled the post "from at best a discriminatory
job pool or, actually, from no pool whatsoever," and charged that Clabaugh failed to
recognize as a problem the underutilization of women and non-whites in the officials and
managers area of the college.
Patterson also noted that Clabaugh's justification of his decision "is difficult to
criticize...because he keeps changing it," and said,"this attempt to disguise an improper
decision behind the screen of semantics is disappointing to those of us who believe in
this human rights document..."
As has been the case throughout the dispute, Patterson contented, "the job was
vacant. The personnel officer left. The job descriptions for personnel director and for
director of Auxiliary Services are substantially different." Patterson also contended
"there has been no real intent to impartially consider affirmative action by the parties
responsible for the decision." She added, "We are disappointed with President McCann's
role in this process as well." She said he "did not follow up or initiate any independent
inquiries" into the issue.
Patterson concluded the presentation, signed by 11 other faculty, staff and students,
by declaring, "both the letter and the spirit of our affirmative action policy have been
violated. The totality of these violations and the blatant disregard for the policy compound the insult." She asked, "What is the purpose and intent of Affirmative Action? Why
is it the college policy?" She said, "We want you, the Board, to know that many of us
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take this document very seriously. We want it to work. We want it enforced."
None of the college's top three administrators (McCann, Clabaugh or Kormondy) were
available for comment as the Newsletter went to press, but additional discussion of the
issue has been called for by the Evergreen Political Information Center, which has
organized a rally for noon, today (Feb. 28) in either the central campus plaza or the
main Library lobby. Issues up for discussion, according to an announcement which began:
"Students, Faculty, Staff UNITE!! Same struggle
Same fight," are: the Trustees'
decision, the state workers' strike, and the proposed tuition increase.
SPRING QUARTER MODULAR COURSES ANNOUNCED
Academic Dean Rudy Martin has announced seven modular courses which will be offered
Spring Quarter. An introduction to the courses
especially designed to serve adults
from the immediate college service area during late afternoon or evening hours
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be held at 7:30 p.m. March 12 in Lecture Hall One. 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 will be
held March 17 through March 28 in the Office of the Registrar between 8 a.m. and noon and
1 to 5 p.m. weekdays.
Module offerings include: American History, offered Mondays by Faculty Member Ron
Woodbury; The Artist As Photographer, offered by Faculty Member Paul Sparks; The Growth of
American Presidential Power, offered Tuesdays by Faculty Member Paul Marsh; Math for the
Uninclined, sponsored Mondays and Thursdays by Susie Jones; Practice In Interpretation,
offered by Faculty Member Thad Curtz; Statistics, offered Tuesdays and Thursdays by
Faculty Member Richard Brian; and Walking on Three Legs: A Brief Introduction to Chinese/
Thought, offered Tuesdays and Thursdays by Faculty Member Lynn Struve.
Complete descriptions of all Spring Quarter modules available to Evergreen students
will be available Monday (March 3) at the Admissions Office, Registrar's Office, Office
of Student Services, Information Center, Program Offices, faculty offices and from the
academic deans.

"WALL" SET UP FOR STUDENTS SEEKING INDIVIDUAL STUDY CONTRACTS

Students seeking individual study contracts Spring Quarter have been asked by
Academic De^n Rudy Martin to "go to the wall" by March 5. In a memo addressed to faculty
staff and students,Martin explains a new procedure for students seeking faculty sponsors
for individual studies. Martin says a "contract wall" has been set up on the third
floor of the Library balcony and divided into four main academic areas: humanities, arts,
natural science and social sciences. He says students seeking contracts should fill out
a card indicating the kinds of study they want to undertake and pin their card under the
sign that most nearly represents the area emphasis for that contract. He says they should
have their cards in place by Wednesday (March 5).
Faculty have been asked to check the cards and sign their names, office and telephone
numbers to the ones they're willing to sponsor. Deadline for faculty signatures is March 12,
Martin has asked all faculty sponsoring individual contracts to "be accessible for
contract negotiations March 12 and 13." Then, he says, if negotiations result in a contract
agreement, the project should be written up in contract form and filed according to
current procedures. He adds that, "if negotiations between students and faculty members
break down (no agreement results from their discussion), students should cross out the
faculty member's name and return their cards to the wall to be signed by someone else."
Martin says if student cards have not be signed by March 13, students should go
to'the Dean's area (first floor Laboratory Building) for advice regarding what academic
work to do next.
The contract wall idea was offered by Faculty Member Will Humphreys and is being
tested on an experimental basis. Aim of the wall, according to Martin, is "to decrease
the difficulties students experience in the process of negotiating contracts."
OLEXA SUES THURSTON COUNTY
Faculty Member Carol Olexa has filed a $10,000 damage suit for defamation of
character against Thurston County. Olexa said the suit is a result of treatment she
received at the hands of County Coroner Hollis Fultz last October when she volunteered
as a witness in the inquest conducted into the death of Evergreen student Vicki Schneider.
The Evergreen faculty member, a sociologist, said she testified that she had talked
to a "strange" man the day before Schneider's death. The man had asked about the
student, but didn't know her name well enough to ask for her without referring to a
piece of paper in his wallet. Olexa said she thought the man's behavior strange at the
time and then, following Schneider's death, realized he could have had some connection
with the incident. Olexa said after she offered her testimony, the county prosecutor
tried to discredit her as a "credible witness." Once the inquest was adjourned, the
coronor commented to a Daily Olympian reporter that Olexa was a "wierdo" and a "wacko,"
and he did not want her testimony on his record.
Olexa said she was upset to think that a person who volunteered to testify would
receive such treatment, and that she felt the county was accountable for the remarks
made by the coroner (who has since retired) and for the general treatment she received.
She said the suit will probably not go to trial for several months.
HELP SOUGHT FOR ORGANIC FARM MEETING HALL
The Services and Activities Fees Review Board has agreed to allocate $15,000 for
materials to construct a combination caretaker's quarters and meeting hall at the Organic
Farm.
Student Ralph Allen, a Bellevue junior, says the request for funds has to be approved
by the Board of Trustees before the money can be spent. Allen, who has been working
on the project for the past year, says the original plans for a log cabin have been
revised. "We're now looking at building a heavy timber house with post and beam construction," he says. "We found the log cabin to be an impractical way to go—an inefficient
use of timber and an extremely difficult project to build because of the weight of the
logs and their non-uniform sizes and shapes."
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sinking any more money into," Allen says. He's been working with Facilities Director
Jerry Schillinger and staff architect Bill Knauss, both of whom agree the current
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facility needs to be replaced. "Carpenter ants have devoured the floor joists," Allen
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explains. "Plans are now to raze that structure as soon as the heavy timber cabin is
completed."
Though the money for the new facility has not yet been finally approved, Allen says
there's still lots of work that can be done now. "We need the help of persons who have
had some experience in drafting, basic design, electricity, and plumbing," he says. "We're
hoping people with some expertise in those areas will volunteer to help us complete
the design work and expand their own skills in the process."
Allen predicts that, once funds are approved, it will take six to eight months
to completely finish the meeting hall/cabin.
"We're going to build it ourselves—with
just the labor of student and staff volunteers, " he days. Allen's been deeply engrossed
in the project for months and says he's'really learned a lot about design and architecture.1
He encourages others to join him in these final design stages and invites all interested
persons to contact him by leaving a message with Knauss at 866-6120.
GOAL SURVEYORS SEEK MORE RESPONSES
An effort to double the number of responses to the first phase of the three-part
Institutional Goals Inventory being taken by four Evergreen students will be made in
the closing weeks of Winter Quarter. John Agnew, student coordinator of the survey,
says 25 percent of the people asked to fill out the first questionnaire in the survey
have responded.
"It's a good response," he adds, " but we'd like to shoot for 50 percent participation
in this first stage—and as high as 80 percent in the second and third stages."
Agnew says the long range goal of the survey is to "help us better understand where
we (TESC) are and how close we are to what we say we are." He feels there could be
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discrepency between Evergreen's rhetoric and the reality of the institution..."at
least that discrepency has been perceived by a lot of people." Agnew hopes that by the
end of the three-step survey, funded by Provost Ed Kormondy, "we will be able to reflect
a more accurate picture of what Evergreen really is."
First step in the survey was to submit a questionnaire aimed at gathering as many
views of the college's goals as possible. Some 635 persons received questionnaires.
So.far, 164 have returned them—a figure which represents 15 percent return by classified
staff, 24 percent by exempt staff, 28 percent by students, and 33 percent by faculty.
Agnew wants very much to increase the total percentage of responses, particularly from
classified staff, before he sends out the second questionnaire the first of Spring Quarter.
He says his group will be calling persons requesting that they return their questionnaires.
He adds that any responses his team is gathering are "completely confidential." "No
one outside of the goals team will ever see any personal information," he says.
The second questionnaire will be a difficult one to formulate, he indicates, because
the goals team will have to boil some 250 responses down to 40-60 statements which
reflect all the goals expressed by those responses. Then in step two, he'll ask respondents to rate the goals 1-6 in a "agree," "disagree" system.
Once those responses have been tabulated he'll send out the third and final
questionnaire, probably May 4, and ask respondents to study the percentage of responses
to the goals in the second questionnaire. Then he'll ask them to "consider moving
closer to those goals rated
the highest by the largest percentage of Evergreeners."
"What we're aiming for is a consensus on Evergreen's goal," he explains. "We want
to see if Evergreeners can arrive at a comfortable, commonly agreed upon definition
of this institution."
He hopes to publish results of the survey by the end of May. Working with Agnew
on the project are fellow students Cyndia Siedentop, John Lundberg and Daniel Wall.

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upcoming events
FORUM TO EXAMINE "PEOPLE EFFECTS" OF LEGISLATION

The weekly Legislative Forum will examine the "Impact Legislation Has On People"
at its March 4 meeting scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the Olympia City Hall Auditorium.
Guest speakers include Jerry Thomas, deputy director for Community Services, Department
of Social and Health Services; Representative Ron Hanna, a Tacoma Democrat; and Mary
Helen Roberts, executive director of the Women's Council.
The free, public program actually starts at 9:30 a.m. Coffee is served from 9 to 9:30 a.n
ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS TOPIC OF MARCH 5 JOB DAY
Careers in art and communications will be discussed during a March 5 Job Information
Day sponsored by the Evergreen Placement Office. The day-long conference will be held
in room 3112 of the Library Building, starting at 9:30 a.m.
Representatives from the field of communications include: Evergreen graduate
Joe Washington, reporter KOMO television; Dean Wooley, personnel manager, KING radio
and television; Linda Daniel, assistant city editor, Seattle Times; Ed Bagley, Editor,
Laeey Leader; Ken Balsley, City Editor, Lacey Leader; Marty Wilson, freelance public
relations; Kenneth Christy, account executive, Jay Rockey Public Relations; and Don
Lee, Olympia Brewing Company Public Relations.
Advising students on career opportunities in the Arts will be: George "Painted
War Horse" Giwon, community involvement director, Multi-Culture Institute; Marilyn
Hoyt, administrative assistant, Washington State Arts Commission; Willis Woods, director,
Seattle Art Museum, and Lois Gottlieb, freelance architect and teacher.
This Job Information Day is one in a series sponsored by Evergreen's Placement Office.
YOUTZ FAMILY AND CHAMBER SINGERS TO PERFORM MARCH 6
The Evergreen Chamber Singers, directed by Faculty Member Bill Winden, will present
a free public concert March 6 at 8 p.m. in the main lobby of the Library.
Highlight of the hour-long concert will be the premiere presentation of "Tanka,"
composed by Evergreen student Greg Youtz, with lyrics by Youtz' younger brother David.
Two other members of the Youtz family, father Byron, an Evergreen faculty member, and
sister Margo, an Evergreen student, will also perform eith the Chamber Singers.
The evening musical also will include: selections from the "Liebeslieber Waltzes,"
by Brahams; "The Doe and The Swan," by Hindemith; and "Three Pieces on Zoological
Studies—The Vulture, The Bison and The Dodo," by Skolnik.
In addition, members of the college's Interplay Coordinated Studies program will
stage a dance performance of "The Unanswered Question," by American composer Charles Ives.
Vocal solos will also be performed by Interplay students Adele Berg, singing works by
Debussy; David Schroeter, performing his own works; and Ellen Barnes, performing music
by Schubert.
WOMEN'S DAY CELEBRATION SLATED MARCH 7
Guest speakers, musical groups, and representatives from women's organizations and
labor movements will take part in a half-day celebration of International Women's Day
at Evergreen March 7 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in the main lobby of the Library.
Ramona Bennett,a member of the Survival of American Indians Association, will be
on hand along with Cindy Gipple, a representative of the Seattle Radical Women's Organization, who will discuss the "Independent Woman Worker.!' Speakers from several labor
groups have also been invited to participate in open discussions on the women's movement.
The half-day celebration will commemorate the "role women play in work and in their
resistance to oppression and exploitation," according to Patrice Scoggins, an Evergreen
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Other persons on tap for the event, first celebrated in the United States in 1908,
include members of the Peoples Committee for Better Working Conditions, a group concerned/;
with extending protective legislation (removed from Washington State law when the Equal \s
troupe which performs songs about women and working; and Wein Min She, an Asian American
Anti-Imperialist organization from San Francisco.
Following the afternoon program, a public potluck dinner will be staged from 5 to
7 p.m. in the Lecture Halls rotunda. A full-length feature film, "Salt of the Earth,"
is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Two. The film dramatizes the 1954
strike by predominantly Chicano workers in the New Mexico zinc mines.
NEWS BRIEFS
...The Evergreen-Olympia Kiwanis Club is attempting to form a Kiwanis Circle K
Club on campus. A Circle K Club is comprised of a group of college students who are "of
good character and scholastic standing and who are officially enrolled in the institution
where the club exists."
Circle K, according to Kiwanis Club President Jack Williams, is "not a social
fraternity, but a service club that builds character and leadership." Anyone interested
in becoming a member of this group is invited to call Pp.t-p S<-pj Ibprg, 866-6220 or Williams
at "357-9333, extension 14, as soon as possible.
...Native American Studies program is staging a pow-wow March 5 at 7 p.m. in the
outdoor pavilion. The event is the final activity of the Native American Singing and
Dancing workshop that has been conducted throughout the quarter.
Gus Kahclamat, Seattle dancing instructor, and several other guest Indian dancers
and singers will be on hand in authentic costumes to enjoy the festivities.
The program, open to all, is described as a "fine time to look at the colorful
costumery, to hearing the wailing sounds and participate in this traditional Indian
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social event."
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Four recent Evergreen graudates have made the news in recent weeks. Mariel Brockway,
is featured as a "found" woman in the February issue of Ms. Magazine (page 68).
Brockway, a transfer from the University of Washington, is the first woman to teach
a man's course in the Texas Outward Bound program and the first woman to be a chief
instructor in the Northwest Outward Bound program. Geraldine Lawrence wtites that her
studies on variations of Chehalis tribal names and other related research have been
accepted for publication next fall in Northwest Anthropological Research Notes...
Chris Holden, who just graduated this month, has been hired as assistant program
coordinator for the Washington State Aural/Oral History program. His job will be to
coordinate efforts and produce a history of Washington and its third world cultures to
be placed in state libraries within the next two years. And, Gregory Renault writes
he has earned his master' sdegree in social and political thought from York University in
Ontario and is now enrolled in a doctoral program while working as a teacher's assistant.
Two new persons have joined the Evergreen staff
Katherine Surles and Mary Wiatrak
are both working as program secretaries. Meanwhile Edwina Dorsey Travis, director of
Health Services, has resigned to accept a new job as a nurse practioner and administrator
at the Veteran's Hospital on American Lake (outside of Tacoma). Edwina will be in charge
of upgrading medical facilities and will also work in the Outpatient Clinic...Also resigned are Ruth Lonardelli, Health Services receptionist, and Susan Shugarts, office
assistant in the Library.
Dave Carnahan, associate dean of the Library, will begin a six-month sabbatical
leave tomorrow (March 1) to identify effective ways of measuring and evaluating the value '
of college library services. And, finally, two faculty members have welcomed new
additions to their families: Oscar Soule is the very proud father of a new son named
Adam and Craig Carlson is smiling about a new daughter named Amy.

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February 24, 1975

...NEXT YEAR'S ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED; SUPPLEMENT DUE MARCH 14...The Catalog
Supplement describing Evergreen's 1975-76 curriculum will be off the presses about March
14. Seven basic, four divisional, and six advanced coordinated studies programs as well
as 35 group contracts have been planned for next year.
Peppered with Bicentennial sentiment, seven programs in American studies have received
final approval from the academic deans. They are: Culture, Ideology and Social Change in
America; Africa and the U.S.; Working in America; Paradigms in Crisis; The American Revolution; Economic Cycles; and American Country Music, Then and Now.
Three group contracts will be traveling and living abroad in Mexico, Israel, and
Nepal. For those staying at home, an entire contract will be devoted to Taxes: Theory and
Practice. Two programs, Life and Health and The Politics of Health Care, will concentrate
on health problems. Two other interesting contracts include: The Good Earth, a small
farming contract scheduled to start this Spring and conclude with harvesting in the Fall,
and Orthinology: Avocets to Yellowthroats, which will start next Spring. Considerable
interest in the 'messy' arts is also evident in next year's program. Offerings include
group contracts in ceramics, murals and architectural art, woodworking and boat building,
weaving and fiber arts, and wood sculpture.
...THREE RECOMMENDED TO PROVOST FOR DEANSHIP...The names of three faculty members have been
forwarded to Provost Edward J. Kormondy by the Dean Screen Disappearing Task Force. One
of the , three
Richard Alexander, Leo Daugherty or Bud Johanson
will be selected by
Kormondy to fill the post currently held by Academic Dean Charles Teske. Teske, who is
the last of Evergreen's original three deans, will rotate into the faculty the beginning
of the summer.
Kormondy was originally scheduled to announce the new dean by Feb. 21, but he has been
called out of town and will probably not make his announcement before this weekend.
... STANFORD PSYCHOLOGIST TO LECTURE FEB. 25...Dr. Seymour Levine, professor of psychology
in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, will discuss "Malnutrition and
Mental Retardation: Fact or Fantasy," in a free, public address at Evergreen Feb. 25
at 3 p.m. in CAB room 110.
Dr. Levine, who joined the Stanford University Medical School faculty in 1962,
has concentrated his research efforts on developmental and behavioral neuroendocrinology.
He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Denver in 1948, and his doctorate
from the New York University in 1952. He has taught at Boston and Ohio State Universities,
and has served as a research associate at the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric
Research of the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and the Institute of Psychiatry of the
Maudsley Hospital in London.
...ARCHITECT LOIS GOTTLIEB TO DISCUSS DWELLINGS AS PERSONAL EXPRESSIONS... Lois Gottlieb,
Olympia architect and author, will discuss "Dwelling As A Personal Expression," in a free
public presentation at Evergreen Feb. 26 at 1:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Five. Sponsored by
the Evergreen College Community Organization (ECCO), Mrs. Gottlieb, wife of Evergreen
Faculty Member Robert Gottlieb, is the first person to speak in ECCO's newly created Home
Art Series.
Currently a part-time teacher at Olympia Vocational-Technical Institute, Mrs. Gottlieb
has taught at Alameda State College and at the University of California at Riverside. She
earned her bachelor of art's degree at Stanford University and undertook graduate studies
at Harvard. She spent 18 months working as an apprentice to Architect Frank Lloyd Wright,
spent another 18 months traveling around the world, and also was awarded a Fulbright grant
to study the crafts of India.
She is currently working as a professional architect in
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...EYE-5 BRINGS CIRCUS; CLASSICAL GUITARIST FEB. 24, 26...A three-man circus and a classical
guitarist are on tap at Evergreen this week, thanks to the efforts of the Eye-5 organization,
a non-profit community arts group which brings a variety of artists to the Puget Sound area
each year.
Scheduled first is the Royal Lichtenstein Circus, which appears Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. in
the main Library lobby. The show, a creation of Nick Weber, features a quarter-ring,sidewalk circus, complete with tight rope walking, pantomime, clowns, magic and what is described
as "escapism and mirthdom's merriest menagerie."
Eye-5 Affiliate Artist Jeffrey Van returns to Evergreen Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. in Lecture
Hall One. Van is a guitarist who has performed a variety of solo recitals, ranging in
musical variety from 17th century monody and Elizabethan lute songs to the most recent
additions to classical guitar literature.
Both performances are free and open to the public.
...BALLET NORTHWEST SLATES THREE PERFORMANCES...A collection of four ballets will be performed by Ballet Northwest at Evergreen. Feb. 27 and 28 and March 1, beginning at 8 p.m. in
the main Library lobby.
Directed and choreographed by Evergreen Faculty Member Bud Johanson (who is also Ballet
Northwest artistic director), the works to be performed include: "La Boutique Fantasque," a
light fantasy which takes place in a magical doll shop; "Of Terpsichore," a modern ballet
done to live traditional Renaissance music; "Ideas in Motion," a contemporary work with
music by Debussy/Tomita; and "Tyl Eulenspiegel," a story ballet which offers humorous,
light satire on the social structure of the early Renaissance.
Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for patrons, $3 for adults, $2 for students, a
$1 for children under ten.
...WINTER QUARTER SCHEDULE REMINDER...Winter Quarter will end March 14, not March 21, as
some academic calendars have indicated. Evergreen students and faculty will have a twoweek quarter break, from March 15-30. Spring Quarter begins March 31.

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Feburary 21, 1975

FULL-TIME ACADEMIC PROGRAM FOR STAFF MEMBERS A POSSIBILITY
Evergreen staff members may soon be able to begin earning their college degrees
as full-time students, while continuing to work as full-time staff members if a new
academic program being explored by Faculty Members Maxine Mimms and Margaret Gribskov
pans out.
The two met with more than two dozen staff members Feb. 18 to examine the possibility
of forming a group contract next Summer or Fall Quarter—a full-time academic program for
full-time students, all of whom would also be full-time employees.
"What we're talking about is you all earning four units per quarter and paying your
own tuition," Mimms explained. "It will be just as easy for you to earn four units per
quarter as it would be to earn one
and, if the thing is designed right, it's not going
to affect your job."
Mimms said faculty members were "committed" to serving staff needs. "You tell us
your needs," she said, "and we guarantee there's a faculty member who is willing to meet
it." Mimms said she really wanted "people here to know they can get a college degree
at Evergreen."
She discussed the possibility of having staff members meet one hour a day
on
their noon hour. She admitted it would be a "tiring strain" for some, but encouraged
staff members to try it.
Gribskov, who is already instructing three Olympia-area women who work full-time
for other agencies, said she would like interested staff members to write statements of
what they want to study, when they can meet, and what kinds of funding problems they
might have. She indicated that "as of now the college will not pay any portion of tuition,"
but others commented that both Washington State University and the University of Washington
do waive portions of tuition for full-time staff members.
Mimms encouraged staff members interested in earning their degrees to begin applying
for admission now, and to also explore the possibilities for earning credit through
the CLEF examinations (through which a student can earn up to 12 units of credit) and
through the External Credit Office (where students can also earn 12 units by demonstrating
knowledge they have gained through previous, non-academic experiences).
Program Secretary Pearl Vincent questioned whether staff members who earned their
degrees would have any opportunities for "upward mobility" at Evergreen or "if they'd
all have to go somewhere else to achieve that mobility."
Gribskov cautioned staff members to be "realistic about their expectations." "You
have to want to better your own education for yourself," she said, "not entirely because
it may give you a better job. It may enable you to do something different with your lives."
Academic Dean Rudy Martin, who attended the meeting to "listen," he said, asked
Mimms and Gribskov to "send me something in writing" so he can examine the proposal and
consider implementing the program by Summer or Fall Quarters.
Anyone interested in the possible program should contact Mimms, who is serving as
coordinator, through the Learning Services Center.

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DOBBS AND FOX FILE LIBEL SUIT
Evergreen Faculty Members Carolyn Dobbs and Russ Fox have filed a $50,000 libel suit
against the Thurston County Property Owners Association , The Daily Olympian and its publisher, and the Gannet Corporation.
Dobbs said the suit, filed in Thurston County Superior Court Feb. 18, names three
officers in the Thurston County Property Owners Association
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Peterson and Ronald Taber. She contends that the advertisement, run in the Daily Olympian
last November, and the letter, similar to the ad in content and sent out to residents
of the County, were used "deliberately and maliciously to try to win an election"
for Woody Anderson, a Republican who ran against Democrat Marj Yung for County Commission/
Yung, an Evergreen graduate, won by 52 percent.
The advertisement named Fox and Dobbs as "college faculty who served on Mrs. Yung's
steering committee." It also said "they are the authors of the Cooper Point Plan which
Mrs. Yung helped them push through to become county law. They own acreage next to the
College which was zoned for apartments by the Cooper Point Plan. It is the only area
zoned D-12 north of Old Highway 101 and now the most valuable land on Cooper Point.
Fox and Dobbs are substantial money contributors to the Yung campaign
why not? Their
property is worth four times what it was!!"
Dobbs said in the suit she and Fox will show that: (1) Fox, not both of them,
wrote the proposal which was submitted to the Thurston County Planning Commission, which
was later modified and adopted; (2) That they own 2.17 acres of property in the area
zoned D-12 (there's a total of 380-400 acres so zoned in that area), and that property
has not increased in value since its purchase in 1971; (3) That Defendant Taber owned
or was buying 48 acres immediately adjacent to their property—which was also zoned D-12;
(4) That Marj Yung was not on the Planning Commission when the County Commissioners
enacted the ordinance adopting the Cooper Point Plan; (5) That they were not, in fact,
members of Yung's steering committee, and; (6) That they, in fact, contributed only
$147.50 to Yung's campaign.
Dobbs and Fox allege that the advertisement and the letter damaged their "prior
good reputation," it exposed them to "hatred, contempt and obloquy in the community" and
"was libelous per se." They also contend that the advertisement "jeopardized their posianity
tions on the Evergreen faculty and diminished their ability to place students in community
service projects and to obtain grants for community planning projects."
Dobbs said they have asked for a jury trial, which they hope will take place in
June or July. She said she hopes that by filing suit, they will "make people think
twice before they again resort to these kinds of tactics to win an election."

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DTF RECOMMENDS THREE FOR DEANSHIP
The names of three faculty members have been forwarded to Provost Ed Kormondy
by the Dean Screen Disappearing Task Force. One of the three
Richard Alexander, _Leo
Daugherty or Bud Johanson
will be selected by Kormondy to fill the post currently held
by Academic Dean Charles Teske. Teske, who is the last of Evergreen's original
three deans, will rotate into the faculty the beginning of the summer.
Kormondy was originally scheduled to announce the new dean by Feb. 21, but he has
been called out of town and will probably not make his announcement before next weekend.
Faculty member Stan Klyn was also considered for the deanship by the DTF. But, the
guidelines for selecting the new dean called on the DTF to send only three names to
Kormondy and Klyn was eliminated in the final DTF selection process.
NEXT YEAR'S PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED;

SUPPLEMENT DUE MARCH 14

The Catalog Supplement describing Evergreen's 1975-76 curriculum is due to arrive
on campus about March. 14.
Seven basic, four divisional, and six advanced
coordinated studies programs as well as 35 group contracts have been planned for next
year.
Peppered with Bicentennial sentiment, seven programs in American studies have
received final approval from the academic deans. They are: Culture, Ideology and Social
Change in America; Africa and the U.S.; Working in America; Paradigms in Crisis; The
American Revolution; Economic Cycles; and American Country Music, Then and Now.
Three group contracts will be traveling and living abroad in Mexico, Israel, and
Nepal. For those staying at home, an entire contract will be devoted to Taxes: Theory and
Practice. Two programs, Life and Health and The Politics of Health Care, will deal with
health problems. Some of the other interesting contracts include: The Good Earth, a small
farming contract scheduled to start this Spring and conclude with harvesting in the Fall, and
Orthinology: Avocets to Yellowthroats, which will start next Spring. Considerable interest

in the 'messy' arts is also evident in next year's program. Offerings include group
contracts in ceramics, murals and architectural art, woodworking and boat building, weaving
and fiber arts, and wood sculpture.
According to the academic deans, priorities for new faculty hiring are in the disciplines
of journalism, radio/television production, inorganic chemistry, European history, and
language/linguistics.
Students will be able to to pre-register this Spring for next year's programs.

THREE-MAN CIRCUS, CLASSICAL GUITARIST HERE NEXT WEEK
A three-man circus and a classical guitarist are on tap at Evergreen next week,
thanks to the efforts of the Eye-5 organization, a non-profit community arts groups which
brings a variety of artists to the Puget Sound area each year.
Scheduled first is the Royal Lichtenstein Circus, which appears Monday (Feb. 24)
at 7 p.m. in the main Library lobby. The show, a creation of Nick Weber, features a
quarter-ring, sidewalk circus, complete with tight rope walking, pantomime, clowns, magic,
and what is described as "escapism and mirthdom's merriest menagerie." The circus is especially enjoyable for "children of all ages."
Eye-5 AffiliateArtist Jeffrey Van returns to Evergreen Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. in Lecture
Hall One. Van is a guitarist who has performed a variety of solo recitals, ranging in
musical variety from 17th century monody and Elizabethan lute songs to the most recent
additions to classical guitar literature. He also plays guitar concertos, a repertoire of
chamber music and large-scale works for choir and guitar.
Both performances are free and open to the public.
STANFORD PSYCHOLOGIST TO LECTURE FEB. 25
Dr. Seymour Levine, professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at
Stanford University, will discuss "Malnutrition and Mental Retardation: Fact or Fantasy,"
in a free, public address at Evergreen Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. in CAB room 110.
Dr. Levine, who joined the Stanford University Medical School faculty in 1962,
has concentrated his research efforts on developmental and behavioral neuroendocrinology.
He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Denver in 1948, and his doctorate
from New York University in 1952. He has taught at Boston and Ohio State Universities, and
has served as a research associate at the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric
Research of the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and the Institute of Psychiatry of "the
Maudsley Hospital in London.
Dr. Levine will be on campus for three days, along with Sally Mendoza , a 1974
Evergreen graduate now enrolled in Stanford's School of Medicine under Dr. Levine's
sponsorship. The two will give lectures and conduct seminars and special interest workshops for three Evergreen academic programs and will also meet informally with Evergreen
students, faculty and staff during their stay.
Persons interested in contacting Dr. Levine or Mendoza should contact Academic Dean
Willie Parson, 866-6521.
ARCHITECT LOIS GOTTLIEB TO SPEAK FEB. 26
Lois Gottlieb, Olympia architect and author, will discuss "Dwelling As A Personal
Expression," in a free public presentation at Evergreen Feb. 26 at 1:30 p.m. in Lecture
Hall Five. Sponsored by the Evergreen College Community Organization (ECCO), Mrs. Gottlieb,
wife of Evergreen Faculty Member Robert Gottlieb, is the first person to speak in ECCO's
newly created Home Art Series.
Currently a part-time teacher at Olympia Vocational-Technical Institute, Mrs. Gottlieb
has taught at Alameda State College and at the University of California at Riverside.
She earned her bachelor of art's degree at Stanford University and undertook graduate
studies at Harvard. She spent 18 months working as an apprentice to Architect Frank Lloyd
Wright, spent another 18 months traveling around the world, and also was awarded a

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Fulbright grant to study the crafts of India.
...
Mrs. Gottlieb has exhibited drawings and photographs of her work in San Francisco
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and Richmond, California and has had them published in numerous magazines and newspapers
including House Beautiful.
She worked with Warren Callister, architect, in San Francisco
and operated her own business in the Bay Area. She continues to work as a professional
architect from her home in Olympia. Dr. and Mrs. Gottlieb have two children, Karen and
Mark, both currently attending Evergreen.
Concurrent with Mrs. Gottlieb's talk at Evergreen, an exhibit of drawings and
photographs of her work will be displayed in the Art Gallery in the reference section
of the library. Both her talk and the exhibit are free and open to the public.
BALLET NORTHWEST SLATES THREE PERFORMANCES
A collection of four ballets will be performed by Ballet Northwest at Evergreen Feb.
27 and 28, and March 1, beginning at 8 p.m. in the main Library lobby.
Directed and choreographed by Evergreen Faculty Member Bud Johanson (who is also
Ballet Northwest artistic director), the works to be performed include: "La Boutique
Fantasque," a light fantasy which takes place in a magical doll shop; "Of Terpsichore,"
a modern ballet done to live traditional Renaissance music; "Ideas in Motion," a contemporary
work with music by Debussy/Tomita; and "Tyl Eulenspiegel," a story ballet which offers
humorous, light satire on the social structure of the early Renaissance.
Tickets available at the door, are $5 for patrons, $3 for adults; $2 for students
and $1 for children under 10.
STILSON SEEKING ACTORS, STAGE HANDS FOR SPRING PRODUCTION
Malcolm Stilson, Evergreen's own playwright, is seeking recruits for his Spring
Quarter production of "Without Morals—An Episode from the Life of Aesop," which promises
to be another of the librarian's stirring and humorous musical satires.
Stilson, producer of such classics as "Sir Lunchelot," "Mercer's Harem," "Secretaries
Anonymous," "Malice in Blunderland," needs actors, stage hands, and singers. Experience
is not required. Anyone interested
and willing to work and have a good time in the
process
is urged to contact Stilson by calling the Library, 866-6250.
CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE HERE FEB. 26
John Fisher, assistant dean at Claremont Graduate School, will discuss his school's
graduate program Feb. 26 at 9 a.m. to noon in room 3112 of the Library. Career Counselor
Michelle Hayes says Fisher is willing to discuss the college's programs with all interested
students,faculty and staff, and she adds that interested persons can get additional
information on the graduate programs by picking up Claremont Bulletins outside of her
office in Library 1223.
WINTER QUARTER PLAY CANCELLED
Faculty Member Ainara Wilder says the Winter Quarter production of "Murderer the Women's
Hope" has been cancelled. She says the production, which was scheduled for the first week
of March, ran into a time shortage. Wilder also says she did want to acknowledge all the
work that had already gone into the production and she points out that music for the play
was composed by Evergreen student Greg Youtz, whom she felt really did a "wonderful job."
NEWS BRIEFS/REMINDERS
Winter Quarter ends March 14, not March 21 as listed on some calendars. Students
and faculty get a two-week quarter break, March 15-30. Spring Quarter begins March 31.
The Evergreen Board of Trustees will hear the John Moss Appointment Appeal Feb. 26
at 10:30 a.m. in CAB 110. The meeting is open to the public, but the Trustees' deliberations will be conducted in closed session.

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...EVERGREEN GRADUATES FARING WELL IN JOB MARKET...Despite an increasingly tight job market
and stiff competition for admission to advanced degree study programs, Evergreen graduates
continue to be successful in finding a wide variety of placements, according to the college's
first comprehensive placement report issued this week.
Gail Martin, Evergreen's Coordinator of Placement, said the college had graduated 693
men and women since its opening in the Fall of 1971, 581 of whom have reported on their
status. Of those 388
or 67 per cent
are employed and 64 others
or 11 per cent
have entered graduate schools. Martin said that 89 per cent of the 1974 graduates reporting
back to the college
304 of 341
have taken jobs, entered graduate school, or secured
other kinds of placement. Information is not available from 96 of the 1974 graduates. She
added that 217 of 233 graduates in 1973 had reported on their status. Of those reporting,
199-of them, or 91 per cent, indicated they had been placed. The 23-person graduating class
of 1972 reported 22 placements, 96 per cent.
The majority of Evergreen's graduates reporting placement have entered the job market,
although the number entering graduate schools increases each year, Martin said.
...CONFERENCE ON WORKING SLATED FEB. 20 AND 21...Perceptions and meanings of work will be
explored at a two-day conference "On Working" at Evergreen Feb. 20 and 21. Sponsored by the
Evergreen Placement Office, the conference is designed to provide an opportunity for students,
graduates, unemployed and employed persons to discuss and share their work and work-related
experiences through panels, workshops, discussions, a Workers' Chorus, and a dramatic
production.
Evergreen graduate Beth Harris, who is coordinating the two-day event, says "On Working"
is "for students who are trying to formulate an idea of work, for graduates and others who
are seeking jobs, and for those who have jobs but are trying to improve their situations."
Issues such as job mobility, job searches, and rights of employees will be discussed
in workshops, and the conference will also examine job roles on personal, institutional and
social levels.
A complete schedule of the conference, which is open to the public, is available by
calling the Evergreen Placement Office, 866-6193.
...SEVEN FACULTY GRANTED PROFESSIONAL LEAVES...Seven Evergreen faculty members have been
granted one or two-quarter professional leaves for the 1975-76 academic year. Evergreen
Vice President and Provost Edward J. Kormondy said the paid professional leaves will be "of
considerable value to each faculty member professionally and thereby augment their already
substantial contributions to Evergreen."
Four of the seven faculty members were granted two-quarter leaves: Dr. Richard Jones,
a psychologist, will spend Winter and Spring Quarters "renewing his scholarly speciality of
the psychology of dreaming while in residence at Evergreen." He will also visit laboratories
engaged in sleep research. Le Roi Smith, a faculty member in psychology, will intern in
Psychological Services Area of the Seattle Veteran's Administration rfospital; Dr. Fred
Tabbutt, a physical chemist, will study the mathematical techniques of modeling ecological
and social systems while in residence at Warwick University in Warwick, England; and Dr. Kirk
Thompson, a political scientist, will undertake a program of studies in Jungian (analytical)
^psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.
Three faculty received one-quarter leaves: Peggy Dickinson, an artist, will conduct
research in Oxford, England and Crete on the Kamarea Pottery of Bronze Age Crete; Dr. Peter
Elbow, a faculty member in literature, will conduct research while in residence at Evergreen
on how to help students write essays; and Dr. Peter Taylor, an oceanographer, will develop
new competencies in biological oceanography while in residence at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at La Jolla, California.

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...DIRECTOR OF OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL STATION TO SPEAK FEB. 18...Denzel Ferguson, director of
the Malheur Environmental Field Station headquartered near Burns, Oregon will discuss the
MEFS summer program and present an hour-long wildlife film in a free, public presentation
at Evergreen Feb. 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall Five. The film, entitled "Steens
Mountain, a Wildlife Western," was made by the British Broadcasting Company and took two
years to complete. Ferguson says it is "truely an outstanding presentation of the wildlife
and way-of-life in Eastern Oregon's high country."' He says the film is "appealing to everyone"
and does a good job of depicting the opportunities for outdoor study at MEFS.
...JAZZ PIANIST SLATES FEB. 20 CONCERT...Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett will stage a benefit
concert at Evergreen Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in the main Library lobby. Jarrett, a well known and
popular jazz musician, has performed with such diverse groups as Charles Lloyd Quintet,
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Roland Kirk and Art Blakley's Jazz Messengers.
Jarrett's performance at Evergreen, one of his few appearances in the Pacific Northwest,
is sponsored by Evergreen's KAOS FM radio and the Third World Bicentennial organization, a
student group. Advance tickets are $4 for students and $5 for others. If any tickets are
still available Feb. 20, they'll be sold at the door for $5 for students and $6 for others.
Tickets can be obtained by writing to KAOS, TESC, Olympia, WA 98505.
...CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TO PERFORM AT ST. MARTIN'S FEB. 23...The Evergreen Chamber Orchestra,
under the direction of Faculty Member Robert Gottlieb, will present a free, public concert
of Baroque and Classical music at St. Martin's College Chapel Feb. 23 at 3 p.m.
Works to be performed by the 25-member orchestra include: Concerto "La Notte" by
Antonio Vivaldi; Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major by J.S. Bach; Two Arias from Xerxes by
Handel, and 8 Contradanses for Orchestra by Joseph Haydn. The 90-minute concert is sponsotf
by the State Capitol Museum, and the public is cordially invited.
...LEGISLATIVE FORUM TO DISCUSS EMPLOYEE RAISES...The Feb. 18 Legislative Forum, scheduled
to begin at 9 a.m. in the Olympia City Hall Auditorum, will examine the "State As An Employer."
Leonard Norde, director of the State Department of Personnell will share his views with
representatives from the AFL-CIO and the State Legislature at the free, public meeting.

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TRUSTEES VOTE TO HEAR CLABAUGH APPEAL AT FEB. 26 PUBLIC HEARING
Evergreen's five-member Board of Trustees voted unanimously to hear an appeal
issued
by Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh
of the All Campus Hearing Board's Jan. 27
decision on the John Moss appointment to Director of Personnel and Auxiliary Services. The
Board voted to hear the appeal in a public session Feb. 26, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in
CAB room 110.
The decision came after lengthy public discussion of the procedures open to the Board
in the case, which first arose following Clabaugh's appointment of Moss to the newly created
dual directorship of Personnel and Auxiliary Services. Petitioners to the Hearing Board
charged Clabaugh violated the college's Affirmative Action document by appointing Moss to
a "vacant" position without first opening it to a non-discriminatory applicant pool. Clabaugh, in his appeal, contended the position of the dual directorship was never "vacant"
and that he was appointing an "incumbent" to the combined post, since Moss had formerly
served as Director of Auxiliary Services.
The Board conferred in executive session with the college's legal counsel, Richard
Montecucco, State Assistant Attorney General, before issuing a 12-point statement on the
procedures they will follow in the Feb. 26 hearing. Those points are as follows:
"(1) This will be a public hearing. (2) Each side in the matter will appoint a spokesman
and so notify the Board of Trustees prior to the date of the hearing. (3) The Board will
review the record made before the Campus Hearing Board and may notify the parties prior to
the hearing of any witnesses they may wish to ask to attend. (4) At the time of the
hearing, the Board may wish further information to be given by these witnesses that are
asked to attend. (5) The spokesman for both sides shall deliver to the Board's designee
for transmission to the Trustees a written statement of their position (no longer than 10
pages) at least five (5) days prior to the hearing for mailing to the Trustees.
"(6) At the time of the hearing, the appellant will be asked to make an opening statement not to exceed ten (10) minutes, as will the respondent. (7) Two (2) hours will be
allowed each side (the appellant commencing) for a review of the record and arguments in
support of their position. (8) Either side wishing to submit further testimony or documents
in addition to those submitted to the All Campus Hearing Board will be required to so
notify the Board for approval of this at least five (5) days prior to the hearing. (9) Closing arguments (not to exceed one-half hour), if necessary, will be granted each side.
"(10)
The Board intends to go into executive session to deliberate and hopefully issue
its decision on the same day. (11) Although this hearing is to be held in public, there
will be no audience participation. (12) The Board hereby designates the President's Office
as the place to which all documents and communications shall be submitted."
The twelfth point originally designated Montecucco "as the person to whom all
documents..." shall be submitted, but petitioners in the case objected on the grounds that
Montecucco had already offered legal advice to Clabaugh on the case and hence had a
"vested interest" in it. Trustees readily agreed to name the President's Office as the
depositor."
PROMINENT ECOLOGIST, AUTHOR, LECTURER TO SPEAK FEB. 21
Dr. Garrett Hardin, a professor of human ecology at the University of California at
Santa Barbara and a nationally known environmental author and lecturer, will discuss
"Weighing the Future: A Problem for Ethics and Ecology," in a free public address at
Evergreen Feb. 21 at 2:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall One.
Dr. Hardin, author of the influential essay on overpopulation, "The Tragedy of The
Commons," was educated as a biologist and began writing about the moral and social implications of his science in the 1950's. For the past two decades he has involved himself in
a dialogue of genetics, evolution and the problems of population growth.

SEVEN FACULTY TO TAKE LEAVES NEXT YEAR
Seven Evergreen faculty members have been granted one or two-quarter professional
leaves for the 1975-76 academic year. Evergreen Vice President and Provost Edward J.
Kormondy said the paid professional leaves will be "of considerable value to each faculty
member professionally and thereby augment their already substantial contributions to Evergreen. "
Four of the seven faculty members were granted two-quarter leaves: Richard Jones, a
psychologist, will spend Winter and Spring Quarters "renewing his scholarly speciality of
the psychology of dreaming while in residence at Evergreen." He will also visit laboratories
engaged in sleep research. Le Roi Smith, a faculty member in psychology, will intern in
Psychological Services Area of the Seattle Veteran's Administration Hospital; Fred Tabbutt,
a physical chemist, will study the mathematical techniques of modeling ecological and
social systems while in residence at Warwick University in Warwick, England; and Kirk
Thompson, a political scientist, will undertake a program of studies in Jungian (analytical)
psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.
Three faculty received one-quarter leaves: Peggy Dickinson, an artist, will conduct
research in Oxford, England and Crete on the Kamarea pottery of Bronze Age Crete; Peter
Elbow, a faculty member in Literature, will conduct research while in residence at Evergreen
on how to help students write essays; and Pete Taylor, an oceanographer, will develop new
competencies in biological oceanography while in residence at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at La Jolla, California.
Kormondy has asked the faculty members to deliver a report to him evaluating their
leaves upon their return to campus.
GRADS DOING WELL IN JOB SEARCHES
Despite an increasingly tight job market and stiff competition for admission to
advanced degree study programs, Evergreen graduates continue to be successful in finding a
wide variety of placements, according to the college's first comprehensive placement reporfr
issued this week.
Gail Martin, Evergreen's Coordinator of Placement, said the college had graduated 693
men and women since its opening in the Fall of 1971, 581 of whom have reported on their
status. Of those, 388
or 67 per cent
are employed and 64 others
or 11 per
cent
have entered graduate schools. Martin said that 89 per cent of the 1974 graduates
reporting back to the college
304 of 341
have taken jobs, entered graduate school,
or secured other kinds of placement. Information is not available from 96 of the 1974
graduates. She added that 217 of 233 graduates in 1973 had reported on their status. - Of
those reporting, 199 of them, or 91 per cent, indicated they had been placed. The 23person graduating class of 1972 reported 22 placements, 96 per cent.
The majority of Evergreen's graduates reporting placement have entered the job market,
although the number entering graduate schools increases each year, Martin said. Noting
that "the job market is rough in all fields except accounting and engineering," and pointing out that more people are unemployed today, Martin said this "does not mean there are
no job vacancies.'7
"Many job openings are never, advertised. Instead, employers send out information via
their particular professional grapevine and solicit applications and hire through informal
referral. Today's job seeker must learn how to tap into this 'hidden' job market."
Martin said Evergreen students planning careers get help from the college in two
basic ways: academic preparation and a comprehensive placement program which works closely
with faculty and career and placement counselors.
ADMISSIONS OFFICE PLANNING ACTIVE SPRING
Representatives from 55 Washington high schools and a dozen community colleges will be
visiting Evergreen in the next three months, according to Admissions Director Ken Mayer. I
The visitations are part of an extensive student recruitment program being conducted by Mayer"
and his staff in the Admissions Office. Mayer says his staff has concluded its Fall

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and Winter Quarter contacts with high school students through the Washington Council on
High School-College Relations and is beginning to concentrate on work with community college
transfers and on informing community college faculty, high school counselors and prospective
students' parents about the opportunities available at Evergreen.
He says the method used to work with community college transfers involves visiting
some 13 campuses from Feb. 25 through April 17. All of the campuses his staff will visit
are located in Western Washington.
Mayer adds that his staff is bringing counselors from 55 high schools and faculty
members from a dozen community colleges to Evergreen between now and the end of May to
introduce them to our facilities and programs. Last year's efforts with community college
faculty helped raise Evergreen's enrollment of new community college transfers by 66 per cent.
Parents of prospective students are sought out through the Evergreen Previews,
a sort of traveling road show conducted by faculty and staff, usually at central locations
in major cities
this year in Vancouver, Wa., and Seattle. Mayer's staff is also organizing two workshops
in Yakima and Spokane
for counselors who aren't able to visit
the college in person.
upcoming events listed
DIRECTOR OF OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL STATION HERE FEB. 18

Denzel Ferguson, director of the Malheur Environmental Field Station near Burns,
Oregon, will discuss the MEFS summer program and present an hour-long wildlife film in a
free, public presentation at Evergreen Feb. 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall Five.
The film, entitled "Steens Mountain
a Wildlife Western",
was made by the British
Broadcasting Company and took two years to complete. Ferguson says it is "truely an outstanding presentation of the wildlife and way-of-life in Eastern Oregon's high country,
and specifically in the Harney Basin." He says the film is "appealing to everyone" and
does a good job of depicting the opportunities for outdoor study at MEFS.
Evergreen is a member of the 19-school consortium which sponsors the Malheur Field
Station, located in central Oregon on a wildlife refuge. Faculty Member Bob Sluss, Evergreen's "official" representative to MEFS, says Ferguson is coming to campus primarily to
introduce students to the Field Station's summer program, taught at the institute in four
three-week sessions, beginning June 16. Evergreen Faculty Members Mark Papworth, Steve
Herman, and Paul Sparks will be teaching three of the 24 courses planned for this summer.
Sluss says the academic work is all closely tied to field experience, and, while it
concentrates on what Sluss calls "bugs and bunnies (science and natural history) ,"
there is a fair smattering of social sciences offered as well. Courses are available at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels and class structure, according to the MEFS brochure,
is "generally relaxed and liberal and allows much personal interchange between instructors
and students."
Students interested in more details about the MEFS program can contact Sluss or Herman
for a brochure, or stop by and check one out from the Information Center.
JARRETT TO PLAY THE IVORIES FEB. 20
Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett will stage a benefit concert at Evergreen Feb. 20 at 8 p.m.
in the main Library lobby. Jarrett, a well known and popular jazz musician, has performed
with such diverse groups as Charles Lloyd Quintet, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Roland
Kirk and Art Blakley's Jazz Messengers.
Jarrett's performance at Evergreen, one of his few appearances in the Pacific Northwest,
is sponsored by Evergreen's KAOS FM radio and the Third World Bicentennial organization.
Advance tickets are $4 for students and $5 for others. If any tickets are still available
Feb. 20, they will be sold at the door for $5 for students and $6 for others. Tickets
are available at KAOS, third floor of the College Activities Building. Proceeds from the
concert will go toward purchase of a new and larger KAOS transmitter and toward sponsoring
the Third World Bicentennial Forum, set in late April.

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AFFIEMATIVE ACTION AND WHITE MALE TOPIC OF FEB. 19 WORKSHOP
Evergreen's Affirmative Action Office and the Men's Center are co-sponsoring a workshy
on "Affirmative Action and the White Male," Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Library 2600*
lounge. Ned Swift, Men's Center representative, said the six-hour session will explore
"how Affirmative Action applies to the white male work force."
Swift says "there's often a tendency on the part of white males to write off Affirmative
Action as 'having nothing to do with me'." And adds that "Affirmative Action is not just
a rule for hiring, but a goal to ensure that our campus provides equal opportunities for
both sexes and all nationalities, and a commitment on the part of everyone to work together
and discuss how they relate to each other."
Featured speaker for the workshop is Paul Macbeth from Western Washington State College,
along with representatives from Health, Education and Welfare; Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission; and the Office of Contract Compliance of the Department of Labor.
Swift urges all interested Evergreeners to attend.
CONFERENCE "ON WORKING" SLATED FEB. 20 and 21
Perceptions and meaning of work will be explored at a conference "On Working" sponsored
by Evergreen's Placement Office Feb: 20 and 21. The program will give people the opportunity
to share their work and work-related experiences through panels, workshops, discussions,
a workers' chorus, and a dramatic production. According to Evergreen graduate Beth Harris,
who is coordinating the conference, "On Working" is for students who are trying to formulate
an idea of work, for graduates who are looking for jobs, and for those who have jobs, but
are trying to improve their situations.
Issues such as Evergreen's Reduction In Force policy, job mobility, job searches, and
rights of employees will be discussed in workshops. The conference will also examine job
roles on personal, institutional and social levels.
The program will begin Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Library lobby with an introduction (
from the workers' chorus, followed at 10:30 by the presentation of the adaptation of the
play "Interview: A Fugue for Eight Actors," by Jean-Claude Van Itallie. Director Tina
Nehrling calls it "the theater of the unemployed, a poor theater becoming a potential
theater through collective creativity." The play will be critiqued by a panel composed of
personnel officers from Acme Personnel Service, the Department of Labor and Industry, and
Georgia Pacific, as well as three unemployed workers,two of whom are mothers seeking jobs.
Later Thursday afternoon, the panel will discuss "Our Work
Our Selves," giving
viewpoints of those who hire and those who seek employment. Workshops on various workrelated topics will absorb the rest of the afternoon's agenda.
Friday at 9:30 a.m., a panel of faculty, staff and student employees will discuss
"Working at Evergreen." Panel members include Pearl Vincent, Maureen Karras, Rindy Jones,
Medardo Delgado, Cathy Burnstead, Smokey Hulet and York Wong.
Interspersed throughout the conference will be readings, songs and poetry performed
by the workers' chorus. Friday at 2:30 p.m., the chorus will present a historical perspective
of work through song and prose. A complete schedule of the two-day conference is available
at the Placement Office.
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

PERFORMING AT ST. MARTIN'S FEB. 23

The Evergreen Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Faculty Member Robert Gottlieb,
will present a free, public concert of Baroque and Classical music at St. Martin's College
Chapel Feb. 23 at 3 p.m.
Works to be performed by the 25-member orchestra include: Concerto "La Notte" by
Antonio Vivaldi, featuring soloist Greg Youtz, bassoon; with Margo Youtz, harpsichord;
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major by J.S. Bach, featuring soloists Kika MeArthur, violin;
Randy Meade, flute; and Ratherine Preston, harpsichord; Two Arias from Xerxes by Handel, (
featuring tenor soloist Wayne Bloomingdale; and 8 Contradanses for Orchestra by Joseph
Haydn.
The 90-minute concert is sponsored by the State Capitol Museum, and the public is
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...EVERGREEN STUDENTS RESEARCHING SALT MARSHES FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY...Eight Evergreen
students are working hand-in-hand with professional scientists in a pioneer study of
Jefferson County's salt marshes, which will aid planners in developing a comprehensive
shorelines use program.
Research completed by the students will provide guidelines for the County Planning
Commission to grant tidal marsh development permits required by the Jefferson County
Planning Department and the County's Shoreline Management Advisory Committee.
Goal of the study, according to Jefferson County Planning Commissioner Dave Cunningham,
is to develop a system for classifying tidal marshes, which will aid in implementing the
Shorelines Management Act. Cunningham says the student work is part of a "pioneer project"
never done before in Washington State.
Working under the guidance of Evergreen Faculty Member Peter Taylor, the students are
earning academic credit, but no salaries for their efforts. They are working with Hap
Leon of Northwest Environmental Consultants, a private firm hired by Jefferson County
Planning Department and the County's Shorelines Management Advisory Committee.
Leon says students will gather most of the data for the project, and some of them will
also help analyze and interpret the data for the final report.
...ATWOOD NAMED FINANCIAL1 AID DIRECTOR...Kathleen (Kay) Atwood has been appointed Evergreen
Director of Financial Aid. The appointment, announced by Dean of Student Development
Programs Larry Stenberg, is effective Feb. 10.
A financial aid counselor at Evergreen for the past year, Atwood formerly served as
a clerk typist at Evergreen, also in the Financial Aid Office. She replaces Director of
Financial Aid Bill Smith, who resigned Feb. 7 to assume a new post as Executive Director
of the Northwest Indian Fishing Commission.
...SENIOR WINS HUMANITIES YOUTHGRANT...Tom Maddox, an Olympia senior, has received a $3,948
Youthgrant from the National Endowment for the. Humanities to study the works of American
novelist Thomas Pynchon, according to Academic Dean Charles Teske.
Maddox, working under the.guidance of Faculty Member Leo Daugherty, will spend six
months authoring two essays on Pynchon1s novels, "Gravity's Rainbow," a recent winner
of the National Book Award for fiction, and "V", which won the Faulkner prize for first
novelist.
...INTERNS ASSIGNED TO 19 CITIES, 7 STATES...Nineteen Washington cities and six other states
are currently serving as learning laboratories .for 258 Evergreen students who are serving
internships in a variety of businesses, governmental and social agencies. Of the 258
Evergreen interns working this quarter, 142 have begun new internships and 116 students
are continuing internship programs begun earlier in their academic careers.
Of the 142 new Winter Quarter interns, 84 are assigned to Olympia
working for
such agencies as the Departments of Natural Resources and Ecology, the State Legislature,
the Governor's Office, Thurston County. Mental Health Center, State Research Council, St.
Michael's School, Thurston Regional Planning Council, Senior Citizens Center, Looking
Glass Gardens, Olympia YWCA, Washington State Women's Council, Thurston County Sheriff's
Office, Olympia Public Schools, St. Peter Hospital, Office of Community Development,
Timberland Library, Morningside, Group Health, American Civil Liberties Union and the
Washington State Patrol.
Other Washington cities hosting Evergreen interns include: Tacoma, nine; Port Townsend
and Shelton, six each; Seattle-, five; North Bonneville, four; Lacey, Chehalis and Wenatchee,
three each, and Vancouver, two. One student intern is assigned to each of the following
cities: Port Orchard, Washougal, Aberdeen, Omak, Bellingham, Mt. Vernon, Kirkland, Spokane
and Port Angeles. Eight Evergreen interns are also working out of state
in Oregon,
Idaho, Colorado, Missouri, Maryland and Virginia.

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...HOUSING WORKSHOP OFFERED FEB. 14...The Thurston-Mason County Health District, the Housing
Listening Post from the Office of Community Development, and the Health Services Division
of the Department of Social and Health Services will sponsor a Housing Workshop Feb. 14
at Evergreen in Lecture Hall Five, starting at 8:30 a.m. Students from the Life and Health
Coordinated Studies program and Evergreen's Self-Help Legal Assistance office are helping
sponsors plan a program which will seek to aid local governments in solving their housing
problems. Professionals and students working in the fields of health, building, law enforcement, social work and planning are invited to attend.
...MIME ARTIST PERFORMS FEB. 10...Canada's leading mime, Claude St-Denis will perform at
Evergreen Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall One. His performance, sponsored by Eye-5, is
free and open to the public. St-Denis has toured steadily on three continents for the past
13 years. He is also founder of Theatre de Mime de Montreal and is currently preparing a
book on the technique of mime.
...FOLK GUITARIST TO FIDDLE FEB. 12...Marie Rhines, Massachusetts classical violinist and
folk fiddler, will perform in concert at Evergreen Feb. 12 beginning at 8 p.m. in the
main Library lobby. During her performance, she will trace the development of fiddling
from Irish and Scottish reels and jigs through French Canadian, Appalachian, Bluegrass, and
Cajun...
...LAND USE TOPIC OF FEB. 11 LEGISLATIVE FORUM...Land Use Planning will be discussed at the
Feb. 11 session of the Legislative Forum, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the Olympia City
Hall Auditorium. Evergreen Faculty Member Carolyn Dobbs, an urban planner, will moderate /
the program, which will feature State Representative Joe Haussler, Omak Democrat and
sponsor of the major land use planning bill before the 1975 Legislature; State Senator Alan
Bluechel, Kirkland Republican; Joe Black of the Washington Environmental Council, and Ken
Stevens, Thurston County Commissioner.

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February 7, 1975

ATWOOD REPLACES SMITH AS FINANCIAL AID DIRECTOR
Kathleen (Kay) Atwood has been appointed Evergreen Director of Financial Aid. The
appointment, announced by Dean of Student Development Programs Larry Stenberg, is effective
Feb. 10.
A financial aid counselor at Evergreen for the past year, Atwood formerly served as
a clerk typist at Evergreen, also in the Financial Aid Office. She replaces Director of
Financial Aid Bill Smith, who resigned Feb. 7 to assume a new post as Executive Director
of the Northwest Indian Fishing Commission.
Atwood, a 1963 graduate of North Thurston High School, earned her bachelor of art's
degree in arts and letters from Portland State University. She has been active in the
Thurston County League of Women Voters and formerly served on the Lacey Planning Commission.
EVERGREEN RESEARCHING SALT MARSHES FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY
Eight Evergreen students are working hand-in-hand with professional scientists in
a pioneer study of Jefferson County's salt marshes, which will aid planners in developing
a comprehensive shorelines use program.
Research completed by the students will provide guidelines for the County Planning
Commission to grant tidal marsh development permits required by the Jefferson County
Planning Department and the County's Shoreline Management Advisory Committee.
Goal of the study, according to Jefferson County Planning Commissioner Dave Cunningham,
is to develop a system for classifying tidal marshes, which will aid in implementing the
Shorelines Management Act. Cunningham says the student work is part of a "pioneer project"
never done before in Washington State.
TAYLOR GUIDING STUDENTS
Working under the guidance of Evergreen Faculty Member Pete Taylor, the students are
earning academic credit, but no salaries for their efforts. They are working with Hap
Leon of Northwest Environmental Consultants, a private firm hired by Jefferson County
Planning Department and the County's Shorelines Management Advisory Committee.
Leon says students will gather most of the data for the project, and some of them
will also help analyze and interpret the data for the final report.
Taylor, who serves as scientific consultant as well as faculty advisor to the project,
says salt marshes are vital sources of food for commercially important fish and shellfish,
as well as waterfowl and other wildlife. When the marshes become filled, Taylor says,
the food chain is broken and much of the marine and wildlife, which is dependent on that
food, is destroyed. He says Jefferson County planners need to know what the salt marshes
in their area contribute to the general ecosystem so they will have better information for
assigning marshland development permits.
THREE DAYS A WEEK
The students, members of the Pacific Northwest Coordinated Studies program, are spending
three days a week working on the project in the field, and two days each week integrating
their field work with their academic studies. Members of the Jefferson study project
include: Jean-Pierre Bressieux of Rochester, N.Y.; Eric Rosenburg of Stamford, Ct.'
Art Whitson of Bedford, Maine', Ann Waichler of Oak Park, Illinois,* Iris Burch of Vancouver,
Wa? Robin Brakefield of Tacoma, Kathy Marshall and Don Tripp, both of Seattle.

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HOUSING WORKSHOP OFFERED NEXT WEEK
The Thurston-Mason County Health District, the Housing Listening Post from the Office
of Community Development, and the Health Services Division of the Department of Social and
Health Services will sponsor a Housing Workshop on Feb. 14 at Evergreen in Lecture Hall
Five, starting at 8:30 a.m.
Students from the Life and Health Coordinated Studies program and Evergreen's Self-Help
Legal Assistance office are helping sponsors plan a program which will seek to aid local
governments in solving their housing problems. Professionals and students working in the
fields of health, building, law enforcement, social work, and planning are invited to attend

HELP SOUGHT FOR COMMUNITY BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
St. Peter Hospital Auxiliary in Olympia will sponsor a three-day community festival
as part of the 1976 American Bi-Centennial celebration in Thurston County. Planned for
May 7-9, 1976 at the Capitol Pavilion in Lacey, the festival will involve a wide variety of
indoor and outdoor activities focused on American historical eras. Auxiliary members
already have received participation commitments from several local clubs, organizations and
agencies. They're now soliciting help from Evergreeners.
The festival will feature such outdoor activities as square dancing, an old-fashioned
barn-raising, and various games and contests. Indoors, a number of booths, exhibit, and demonstration areas representing different eras will rim a central performing stage
to be used for various forms of entertainment. Activities of possible interest to Evergreen
groups and individuals include arts and crafts booths and demonstrations; the barn-raising
(perhaps cooperatively with others); musical performances; history of cinema and photography; quilting bee; and, with other agencies, the history of education in America.
No fees will be required of festival participants unles-s their activity involves a\g ve
the mode of one of the country's historical eras.
If you're interested in obtaining further information about individual or group
participation, please contact Dick Nichols, Office of College Relations (866-6128) soon.
JAZZ WORKSHOP MAY BE OFFERED
Jack Percival, described as an "excellent" jazz pianist, is willing to offer a
jazz workshop for Evergreen students if ten or more sign up for it, according to student
Russ Paulsrude. Percival, now playing at the Oregon Trail, normally charges $5 per
lesson, but will charge only $15 per student per month for his proposed workshop to be
held for two hours on Saturdays. Interested students can sign up for the workshop at
the Information Center or outside the door of Library 2410. For more information contact
either Paulsrude or Faculty Member Cruz Esquivel.
LAND USE PLANNING TOPIC OF FEB. 11 LEGISLATIVE FORUM
Land Use Planning will be discussed at the Feb. 11 session of the Legislative Forum,
scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the Olympia City Hall Auditorium. Evergreen Faculty Member
Carolyn Dobbs, an urban planner, will moderate the program, which will feature State
Representative Joe Haussler, Omak Democrat and sponsor of the major land use planning bill
before the 1975 Legislature; State Senator Alan Bluechel, Kirkland Republican; Joe Black,
from the Washington Environmental Council, and Ken Stevens, Thurston County Commissioner.
The forum, held weekly during the legislative session, is free and open to the public.
ARCHEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS ON DISPLAY
An exhibit of archeological illustrations from the Ozette Archeological project on
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section of the Library. The exhibit, drawn by Olympian Chris Walsh, will remain on display
through Feb. 16.
Walsh, a native of Connecticut, attended the University of Arizona. As there is no
established curriculum in archeological illustration, she learned her art in medical and
biological illustration. She is the daughter-in-law of Malcolm Stilson, head of Evergreen's
Library Acquisitions.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO CONSIDER MOSS APPEAL IN CLOSED SESSION

An appeal by Vice President Dean Clabaugh to reverse the All Campus Hearing Board's
Jan. 27 decision will be heard by the five-member Evergreen Board of Trustees next Thursday,
Feb. 13. The appeal considered a "quasi judicial matter" by the Trustees, will be heard
in a closed, executive session.
The Trustees decision could be the final step in the controversy, which arose last
November when Clabaugh appointed John Moss Director of Auxiliary Services and Personnel. The
All Campus Hearing Board reversed that appointment and called for Clabaugh to name Moss
"acting director" while a search "is conducted which complies with the affirmative action
policy."
The Trustees can elect to hear the appeal and either support the Hearing Board or
support Clabaugh's appointment. The Trustees can also refuse to hear the appeal at all,
which would, in effect, support the Hearing Board.
Other agenda matters scheduled for the Feb. 13 meeting include a possible report
from the Salary Disappearing Task Force, a bid opening for site development of Phase II
of th'e Laboratory Building, and discussion of the tuition and fee schedule for Summer
Quarter, 1975.
GERSTL PLANNING TRIP TO ISRAEL FOR GROUP CONTRACT
A three-month visit to Israel, complete with a six-week- stay on a kibbutz and a twoweek archeological dig are on tap for students interested in studying "The Jews and Israel"
through a unique academic program being offered next fall by Evergreen. Ted Gerstl, faculty
member and program sponsor, says he's seeking 20-25 students interested in spending the
entire 1975-76 academic year studying the history, literature and philosophy of Judaism
and Israel. He says the first three months of the academic program will concentrate on
the study of Hebrew, Jewish literature and the history of the Jewish religion.
Winter Quarter plans call for additional studies of Hebrew and Jewish literature,
plus an examination of the Jews in America, development of research skills, and promotion
of an understanding of American and Israeli social systems. In March of 1976 Gerstl will
accompany his students on a trip to Israel, where the group will spend six weeks living in
a kibbutz. There, he says, students will be able to actually join the kibbutz work force
and earn a minimum monthly salary. He also intends to take students on a two-week archeological dig and then spend the rest of the visit helping students complete independent
study projects, traveling with them to historic sites and escorting them to educational
and cultural seminars and events.
Gerstl says students interested in enrolling in his program need not be Jewish. "We
welcome non-Jews so we can all join in a mutual learning effort," he explains. He estimates
the cost of the nine-month program, excluding tuition and fees, will be $1300 and encourages
interested students to contact him at Evergreen.
WINTER QUARTER PLAY CAST: PERFORMANCES SET MARCH 6, 7, & 8
Ellen Barnes, a Bainbridge Island sophomore, and Dan Martin, a Longview freshman,
have been named to the leading roles in Evergreen's Winter Quarter production of
"Murderer the Women's Hope." The play, slated to be performed March 6, 7, and 8, was
adapted and rewritten by Faculty Member Ainara Wilder from a German Expressionist play by
Oskar Kokoschka. Wilder describes her interpretation of the play as a "nightmare." She
says the original work, only six pages long, has been adapted for a musical, to be staged
by members of the Interplay Coordinated Studies program, the Evergreen Chamber Singers, a.
newly organized orchestra, and a 24-member cast.

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Tom Maddox. an Olympia senior, has received a $3,948 Youthgrant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to study the works of American novelist Thomas Pynchon,
according to Academic Dean Charles Teske.
Maddox, working under the guidance of Faculty Member Leo Daugherty, will spend
six months authoring two essays on Pynchon's novels, "Gravity's Rainbow," a recent
winner of the National Book Award for fiction, and "V", which won the Faulkner prize
for first novelist.
Maddox is the second Evergreen student this year to win a prestigious NEH Youthgrant.
The first winner was Barry Roderick, who is completing a study of the Inuit Eskimo tribe
in Alaska.
INTERNS ASSIGNED TO 19 CITIES, 7 STATES
Nineteen Washington cities and six other states are currently serving as learning
laboratories for 258 Evergreen students who are serving internships in a variety of businesses
governmental and social agencies. Of the 258 Evergreen interns working this quarter, 142
have begun new internships and 116 students are continuing internship programs begun earlier
in their academic careers.
Of the 142 new Winter Quarter interns, 84 are assigned to Olympia
working for
such agencies as the Departments of Natural Resources and Ecology, the State Legislature,
the Governor's Office, Thurston County Mental Health Center, State Research Council, St.
Michael's School, Thurston Regional Planning Council, Senior Citizens Center, Looking
Glass Gardens, Olympia YWCA, Washington State Women's Council, Thurston County Sheriff's
Office, Olympia Public Schools, St. Peter Hospital, Office of Community Development,
Timberland Library, Morningside, Group Health, American Civil Liberties Union and the
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Other Washington cities hosting Evergreen interns include: Tacoma, nine; Port
Townsend and Shelton, six each; Seattle, five; North Bonneville, four; Lacey, Chehalis
and Wenatchee, three each, and Vancouver, two. One student intern is assigned to each
of the following cities: Port Orchard, Washougal, Aberdeen, Omak, Bellingham, Mt. Vernon,
Kirkland, Spokane and 'Port Angeles. Eight Evergreen interns are also working out of state
in Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Missouri, Maryland and Virginia.
MIME ARTIST PERFORMS MONDAY
Canada's leading mime, Claude St-Denis will perform at Evergreen Feb. 10 at 8 p.m.
in Lecture Hall One. His performance, sponsored by Eye-5, is free and open to the public.
St-Denis has toured steadily on three continents for the past 13 years. His most
extensive tour to date took place in the 1971-72 season when he performed for eight
consecutive weeks throughout North Africa. Between his numerous touring engagements,
St-Denis offers workshops at the Montreal Community College. He is also founder of
Theatre de Mime de Montreal and is currently preparing a book on the technique of mime.
FOLK GUITARIST TO FIDDLE FEB. 12
Marie Rhines, Massachusetts classical violinist and folk fiddler, will perform in
concert at Evergreen Feb. 12 beginning at 8 p.m. in the main Library lobby. During her
performance, she will trace the development of fiddling from Irish and Scottish reels and
jigs through French Canadian, Appalachian, Bluegrass and Cajuh.
Rhines began her career as a classical violinist. She holds a master's degree from e
the New England Conservatory of Music and has taught violin and chamber music in both the V
United States and England. She became interested in the folk origins of the violin and
began playing folk fiddle. Since that time she has given folk fiddle concerts at colleges
and universities throughout the nation. She recently won first place in the Northeast
Fiddlers' Association's Old Time Fiddlers Contest held in White River Junction, Vermont.

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...BLUES FESTIVAL SET FOR FEB. 8 ... An all-star musical cast from the Mississippi Delta
will perform Feb. 8 during Evergreen's first Blues Festival. The festival features performances at 8 and 11 p.m., both in the main Library lobby. The festival is sponsored by the
college Gig Commission and a student-supported organization, Straight From The Pit Enterprises.
The Blues Festival marks the first time the Mississippi Delta Blues Band, Bonnie
Jefferson and Mississippi George Lee have appeared together on a college campus outside the
Delta region. The harmonica and acoustic guitar dominate the sound of the Mississippi Delta
Blues Band, members of which include Harmonica Albert, vocalist; Delta Joe, bass guitarist
and vocalist; Guitar Jones, lead guitarist and vocalist; and Bob Hance, drummer. Mississippi
George Lee (Spears) has performed on plantations, in dance halls, barrooms and coffee houses
throughout Mississippi for 30 years. Bonnie Jefferson, one of few women blues guitarists
in America, is a versatile, crowd-pleasing performer who plays and sings traditional folk
songs and blues, as well as country music in the tradition of Jimmy Rodgers.
Advanced tickets cost $2.50 for students and $3.50 for others and may be obtained at
the college bookstore, Rainy Day Records, Childhood's End, the Music Bar in Lacey,
Rainbow Grocers in Olympia, and Rap Records in Tacoma. Tickets sold at the door will cost
$4.

...ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER OPEN FOR BUSINESS...An Evergreen Environmental Resource
Center has opened for business in Library Building, room 3225. Growing out of a Fall
Quarter academic program in environmental law, the Center researches, collects, and provides
environmental information to concerned citizens. Designed and coordinated by three Evergreen
students the Resource Center also provides
access to the legal, technical and tactical
tools required by citizens to effectively address themselves to environmental issues.
The Center has already begun acquiring and cataloging faculty and student research. It
is also providing important data, documents and proposals on legal and technical developments
in the environmental field. In addition, the Center has begun contacting individuals,
government agencies and private organizations in order to develop a two-way line of communication and to provide access to these resources for students and others.
The Center, open Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., does not yet have
a telephone, but students hope to have one installed by the middle of February.

...CO-OP REPORTS 276 INTERNED FALL QUARTER...The Evergreen Office of Cooperative Education
reports 276 Evergreeners served internships last quarter. Of the 276, 126 earned an average
monthly stipend of $489. For Fall Quarter, the paid interns earned a total of $169,310,
in addition to full academic credit for their work.
Interns worked a total of 8,208 hours Fall Quarter. By Dec. 13, 704 students had filed
requests for internships with Co-op and 755 agencies had "committed" themselves to Evergreen1
Co-op program. By the end of the quarter there were 1,001 internships available to Evergreen
students, and salaries were offered with 254 of those internships.

...WORD ART SHOWN AT GALLERY...Word Art, an exhibit of prints, books and audio tapes, is
currently on display in the main gallery of the reference section of the Evergreen Library.
The exhibit, organized by Seattle artist Michael Waiter, is free and open to the public
through Feb. 15.
Waiter, a multi-media editor and publisher and former program director for KRAB radio
in Seattle, has sought to present works that use words as art. He says the show is organized
with "mainly an American focus", but also includes an international flavor, contributed by
art works from England, Canada, France and Germany.

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...FORMER AEC SAFETY EXPERT TO DISCUSS NUCLEAR POWER...Carl J. Hocevar, former safety
expert for the Atomic Energy Commission, will speak on "Nuclear Power: Is It Safe?" at
Evergreen in Lecture Hall One Feb. 5 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Evergreen
Speakers' Bureau, the presentation is free and open to the public.
Hocevar, now employed by the Union of Concerned Scientists, resigned from the Atomic
Energy Commission in 1974, saying he felt the commission was ignoring advice from its
experts on reactor safety problems. A mechanical engineer, Hocevar developed the AEC's
method of analyzing the heat-up of a nuclear reactor core during loss-of-collant accidents.
He was also responsible for developing computer programs for the safety analyses of nuclear
reactors.
...ECCO SLATES FEB. 8 MARDI GRAS...Dancing to the Don Chan Quintet, dinner and cocktails
will all be available Feb. 8 at the Greenwood Inn when the Evergreen College Community
Organization sponsors its Mardi Gras Party. Tickets to the event, which begins with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 8 p.m. and dancing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., are
available at $8.75 per person at the Evergreen bookstore, Rainy Day Records, Yenney's Music
and from ECCO Steering Committee members. Door prizes and costume prizes will be awarded.
Costumes are encouraged, but not mandatory. For tickets or information, call 866-2326
or 943-1118.
...LEGISLATIVE FORUM TO EXAMINE HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES...Milton Burdman, deputy superintendent of the Department of Social and Health Services, will discuss "Health and Social
Services" at this week's Legislative Forum, set to begin at 9 a.m., Feb. 4. The forum,
sponsored by a group of community organizations, is free and open to the public. Meetings
are held each Tuesday morning of the legislative session in the Olympia City Hall auditorium.
...NEW HOURS FOR REG. CENTER POSTED...The Evergreen Recreation Center, open to the public
seven days a week for a nominal fee, has extended its hours Winter Quarter. New hours are
from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; Noon to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. to
6:30 p.m. Sunday. Use fee for Olympia area residents is 75o per person each day, Sunday
through Friday. Saturdays the fee is lowered to 25<: per person. Children under 13 years
of age must be accompanied by an adult.