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TRUSTEES UNANIMOUSLY MOVE FOR INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS PROGRAM BY FALL QUARTER
The Geoducks will take to competitive swimming pools and soccer fields next fall,
if plans approved by the Board of Trustees last week are carried out. During what
Trustee Chairman Hal Halvorson called "A Red Letter Day," trustees heard a complete
report from Activities and Recreation Director Pete Steilberg calling for adoption of
plans to gradually enlist Evergreeners into 16 competitive sports over the next
eight years, with two and possibly three of those to begin next fall. The report,
requested by trustees last November, was prepared by Steilberg and a seven-member
campus task force. Their first and major recommendation called for the college to
develop "a limited program of formal intercollegiate athletics for men and women
which would eventually encompass....basketball, cross country running, downhill and
nordic skiing, fencing, golf, gymnastics, rowing, sailing, soccer, springboard
diving, synchronized swimming, swimming, tennis, volleyball and wrestling. Fourteen
of those sports involve both men and women; synchronized swimming is for women only,
while wrestling is a men's team sport.
The majority of these sports, said Steilberg, are not expensive and most would
not require additional facilities. Only basketball and volleyball would necessitate
new facilities, and only basketball and crew racing were viewed as relatively
expensive in terms of equipment and other operational costs. The selected sports also
"seemed to be in harmony with the social and academic environment of the college,
as well as with the existing club sport program," the report concludes. In addition,
all of the sports appeared to offer both "ample opportunity for competition" and
inspiration of "a high degree of enthusiasm" "on the campus as well as in the
community."
DETAILED TIME SCHEDULE OUTLINED
A detailed time schedule was included in the report, which calls for allocation
for funds Spring Quarter for a "full or part-time coach/aquatics director for men's
and women's swimming, for a part-time seasonal coach for men's and women's soccer and
for an athletic director and trainer." At TrusteexRobert Flowers' suggestion, the
board moved up the implementation of women's synchronized swimming to Fall Quarter
"if it proves feasible." Training and competition in all three sports would begin
Fall Quarter. During winter of 1980, the report calls for allocation of funds to hire
coaches for men's and women's tennis and cross country running, with training and
competition to begin fall of 1980. Preparations for wrestling would begin Spring Quarter
1981, with competition set for the following fall. Training for rowing would begin
in fall, 1982, followed by training for golf in spring, 1983. Fencing and springboard
diving would begin in fall, 1983, with sailing competition to begin in spring 1984.
Fall, 1985 would welcome the addition of downhill and nordic skiing as well as gymnastics
and, if all goes as planned, basketball and volleyball will be added to the sports agenda
during Winter Quarter, 1987.
Trustees also approved the report's suggestion that the college join the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Association of Intercollegiate
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addition to selected (sports) conferences as deemed appropriate." Coinciding with
joining these organizations, trustees approved a recommendation that the college develop
"an advisory committee on athletics for incorporating formal athletics into Evergreen,"
and a fifth recommendation calling for that integration "into the academic program,"
including the possible development of a coordinated studies program aimed at sport in
world society.
The recommendations also call for the college to develop an administrative support
structure for intercollegiate athletics that would change the title of the current
Director of Recreation and Campus Activities to Director of Sports and Leisure Programs
and change the title of the current Associate Director of Student Activities to Director
of Student Activities. And finally, the report, as approved by the Trustees Thursday,
calls for distribution of an announcement of the new sports time table to all colleges
and universities which assisted with the survey. It further urges "negotiations to
begin immediately with independent and conference competitors."
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HALVORSON'S RED LETTER DAY
Trustee Halvorson, completing his last official day after a dozen years on
Evergreen's board, beamed with enthusiasm as the unanimous motion to approve intercollegiate athletics was approved. "I've been waiting 12 years for this," he
smiled. "This is a Red Letter Day." Halvorson, one of the founding trustees
appointed by former Governor Dan Evans in 1967, has been a consistent voice for such
activity since the planning years, he says. Expressing his confidence that a fund
raising program could quickly be established to support sports, he later wrote a
$3,000 check to launch creation of that fund by the Evergreen Foundation.
Halvorson, a well known Spokane contractor, will continue serving on Evergreen's
board until Governor Dixy Lee Ray names his successor. That will bring to four the
number of Ray appointees on the Board. Only Herb Hadley of Longview will then remain
on the board as an original Evan's appointee. Hadley's term expires in March of 1980.
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STAND BY FOR GEODUCKESE
As a result of action by the Board of Trustees last Thursday (see page 1),
Evergreeners have already begun coining phrases for their new sports
competitors. In addition to having to master such sports terms as
N.A.I.A. (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics), A.I.A.W.
(Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women) and N.C.W.S.A.
(Northwest College Women's Sports Association), Greeners had best
brace themselves for terms like: bivalves, mussels, clams ....
especially when reported in sports casts like the following:
"The Evergreen Geoducks offered a hard shelled defense last
night as the bivalves dug in against the University of Washington
Huskies in a rain-soaked soccer contest. Not to be outdone by the dogs,
the clams showed no reluctance to stick their necks out when the going
got tough. Instead, they could be counted on as the game continued
to stay clam, squirting out an aggressive attack that the University's
booters often found offensive. It was a strong demonstration by
the victorious geoducks, that they're a team of solid mussel, one
that let it all hang out as they kicked their way to their first
soccer victory."
And, lest there be those amongst Newsletter readers who do NOT
know the words to the traditional Geoduck fight song, read on and prepare
to follow the unforgettable words of Malcolm Stilson: "Go, geoducks go,
through the mud and the sand, let's go! Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about, let it all hang out! Go, geoducks go, stretch your
neck when the tide is low, siphon high, squirt it out, swivel all about,
let it all hang out!"
Cheerleaders and sports writers will be warmly welcomed to the
geoducks fields and pools come fall.
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HOUSING RATES TO CLIMB, PLANS FOR REMODELING CONTINUE
Evergreen's Board of Trustees approved a recommendation raising campus housing
rates an average of 10.2 percent for the 1979-80 academic year. The increase,
described as "necessary because of inflation" reflects a projected raise in electricity
costs by 20 percent, fuel costs by at least 12 percent, and supplies and repairs
costs of approximately 10 percent, according to Housing Director Ken Jacob. The
rate hike, he noted, falls well within guidelines offered by President Carter's
Council on Wage and Price Stability, even though Evergreen is technically exempt
from those regulations.
Jacob also told Trustees March 8 that plans for remodeling portions of the
Residence Halls continue under the supervision of Architect Jon Collier and his fourstudent Housing Design team. Jacob said the major problems facing housing are the
lack of a large social space and the inadequacy of the community kitchens, which
are supposed to enable up to 20 students to prepare their own meals.
Focussing on Residence Hall A, Collier and his students have concentrated primarily
on redesigning two-person studios and on the community kitchens. Generally filled
by only one person because of their design, the two-person studios can accommodate up
to 16 persons per floor in their current condition. Collier and his students have
been "very cautious" about reducing the numbers of persons the residence halls can
accommodate, and have proposed remodeling the studios in a manner that will reduce their
potential capacity by only 2 persons per floor, and will possibly make these studios
more rentable to couples. Their redesign calls for expanding one of the middle two
studios on each side of each floor into a room that can more comfortably accommodate
two persons, leaving the outside wings of the studios intact, and making the other
middle rooms into one-person studios.
The redesign of the community kitchens, which would offer more counter space as
well as more cooking and storage spaces, will be tested in the next few weeks when
a prototype kitchen is remodeled on the fourth floor of Residence Hall A. Collier
hopes that prototype will be finished by the beginning of Spring Quarter so students can
test its improvements before other floors of community kitchens in the building are
remodeled. He also hopes that, during Spring Quarter, his team will be able to plan a
new structure providing a large social space, a need recognized on campus for years and
recently pointed out by the Council for Postsecondary Education in its study of the
college. While that social space is still on the drawing boards, Collier hopes
student suggestions for improving the social space on the first and second floors of
Biiilding A will be implemented this summer.
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, COMMITTEE CREATED
Following a report by President Dan Evans on the avalanche which took the lives of
Faculty Member Willi Unsoeld and student Janie Diepenbrock March 4, Evergreen's
Board of Trustees approved a motion to create two kinds of memorials. First, the
board asked that The Evergreen Foundation consider establishing a scholarship fund in
memory of Willi and Janie. In addition, they asked President Evans to appoint a
five-member committee to study suggestions for a separate campus memorial and make
recommendations back to the trustees.
Evans told trustees memorial suggestions which have already come in include naming
the clock tower for Willi, renaming a mountain for the well-known conquerer of
Mount Everest and creating a mountaineering scholarship in the names of both Willi and
Janie. Campus persons with suggestions for an appropriate memorial are invited to send
them to the committee care of this Newsletter, Library 3114.
WASHBURN NAMED DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Susan L. Washburn, presently Vice President for Development at Centenary College,
Hackettstown, New Jersey, has been named Director of Development, according to
Les Eldridge, Assistant to the President. Washburn, a Franklin and Marshall College
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graduate, and former Assistant Development Director at St. Lawrence University and
Franklin and Marshall College, has been Vice President at Centenary since February, 1977. /
She will report to Evergreen as soon as her present contract expires in June.
Washburn says she's "excited and eager" to begin her duties and has already begun
a work plan draft for development at Evergreen. Prior to her arrival on campus, the
new director will make several visits to Olympia to meet with staff and Evergreen
Foundation Board members. She intends to maintain regular communication during the
interim with her new staff, which includes Assistant Director Paul Roberts and
Secretary Marguerite Gibbs. Washburn replaces Suzanne Feeney, who resigned last May.
Legislative Memo, volume V, no. 9
HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TO HEAR MASTER'S BILL
By Les Eldridge, Assistant to the President
At press time, Substitute House Bill 568, the House version of Evergreen's
Master's Degree Bill, was scheduled for a hearing next week in the House Appropriation's
Subcommittee on Education. The bill now mirrors its Senate counterpart carrying a
$296,000 appropriation, $253,000 of which will be held in reserve to be expended upon
review and approval of a degree proposal by the Council for Postsecondary Education.
Action contemplated in the House Appropriation Committee would strip the appropriation
from the bill and place it in the House version of the operating budget, House Bill 236.
1985 CRUCIAL DATE
As passed by the House Higher Education Committee last week, Substitute House
Bill 568 also carried an amendment proposed by Rep. Phyllis Erickson which requires
annual reports from Evergreen through CPE to the legislature on the progress we have made
for implementing goals of the CPE report. The final section of the Erickson amendment,
now part of the substitute bill, reads as follows: "in its reports to the Legislature
and Governor in January, 1985, the Council shall review and evaluate the effectiveness
of the steps the College has taken with respect to increasing enrollments, reducing
costs, and expanding service to Southwest Washington, and make a recommendation on the
College's instructural program in its then present form, at which time the Legislature
shall make a determination of the need for the continued operation of the institution."
An amendment was offered by Rep. Delores Teutsch of Kirkland to strike the final phrase,
concerning determination of need for continued operation. She argued that the legislature
has the right to make this determination at any time and pointed out that each session
has devoted some attention to this question, but the inclusion of this ever-present
possibility in statutory language would adversely effect the institution's application
rate. Teutsch cited the likelihood that the news media would misinterpret this
language to mean that the intent of the legislature was to close the college. Her
amendment was defeated by a 4 to 6 vote.
Sure enough, the Seattle Times headlined a report on the bill as follows: "Bill
could close down Evergreen State College." The Times article went on to state that the
House Higher Education Committee approved an amendment which "would shut down Evergreen
in five years if it does not increase its enrollment and its orientation towards
Southwest Washington students." The language in the bill, of course, provides for no
such thing. It remains to be seen whether some members of the legislature, armed with
the evidence of damage through misrepresentation that this language can cause, will
attempt its removal in the House or will resist its addition to the Senate bill which
does not now contain such language. Some observers felt that the addition of that
language is a key to passage of the Master's Bill in the House.
SESSION RECONVENES WEDNESDAY
The Senate Ways and Means Committee will not meet until the session reconvenes on
March 21 and scheduling of Substitute Senate Bill 2610, Senate version is expected for
that committee a short time thereafter.
- 5In a flurry of last minute activity before its adjournment last Thursday, the
Legislature passed a bill presenting a constitutional amendment to the people calling
for annual sessions of 105 and 60 days in alternating years. It also passed Initiative 62
which will tie state spending increases to income increases for Washington State
citizens. Yet to be addressed is full funding for common schools. If approved, this
will most certainly have an impact on the size of the budget for higher education.
Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution memorializing Willi Unsoeld
and Janie Diepenbrock and offering condolences to the families. The resolution,
sponsored by Rep. Mike Kreidler, with comments by Rep. Claude Oliver was similar to
the resolution in the Senate sponsored by Tacoma Republican Charles Newschwander and
commented on by Senator Barney Goltz of Bellingham.
The House Appropriation's Subcommittee on Education on Thursday passed a Higher
Education amendment to the budget bill, House Bill 236, which included a $20,886,000
appropriation for Evergreen, some $300,000 above the Governor's original budget level.
Particular problems for the College with this budget, subject to amendment by the
full committee, include an amount for the student services program that is below current
level. The budget forces colleges to fund work study matching out of formula-generated
funds rather than making a non-formula appropriation, as before. It includes a variable
tolerance band for underenrollment, stating that "no fiscal penalty will be assessed if
the faculty entitlement generated by an institution falls within the following
tolerance bands:.5 percent for the five universities and the community colleges and
1 percent for Evergreen." The bill also provides an authorization to transfer up to
5 percent of the amount appropriated for any specific program to another program upon
review and approval by the Office of Financial Management. The bill is tentatively
scheduled for hearing on March 20.
Two Senate bills pertaining to sick leave have advanced in the legislature during
the 60-day regular session. Senate Bill 2030, which exempts OASI contributions from
sick leave payments, has been delivered to the Governor after passage by the Legislature.
Senate Bill 2192, which provides compensation to employees for unused sick leave, is in
the House Rules Committee and will be scheduled for second reading. House Bill 319,
which authorizes waiver of tuition of Higher Education employees on a space-available
basis, has passed the Senate. The Senate Rules Committee holds House Bill 194, which
sets Service and Activity fee guidelines for student participation in the S & A budget
process. House Bill 226, providing for tuition reciprocity between community colleges
in the vicinity of Portland and Vancouver and between Portland State University and
the Evergreen Vancouver program, has passed the Senate. House Bill 994, which would
authorize students at proprietory educational institutions to participate in the state
need grant program is in the House Appropriations Committee and will be heard during
the special session. House Bill 1316, which would allow Higher Education Institutions
to continue to contract for services such as food service, rather than hiring state
employees to provide those services, remains in the House State Government Committee.
A recent State Supreme Court decision held that contracts with organizations such as
SAGA were illegal under present law.
CRAB FEED AGENDA ANNOUNCED
There's still time to buy your tickets to the "Crab Feed and Would-Be Gong Show"
slated for Friday, April 6 on the fourth floor of the Evans Library. Dan Weiss, one
of the schemers of the sort-of-annual event says dinner will begin at about 6 p.m.
Friday, followed by music of Tex Mitchell's country western band at 7:30 p.m. and
Malcolm Stilson's play, reportedly recapturing "the best (??) of Wintergreen State
College" at 9 p.m. Local talents and "other amusements" will top off the evening
about 10 p.m. Tickets, limited to 250, are on sale now in the Cashier's Office for a
paltry $6.50. Buy two today.
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three deaths in two days
WILLI AND JANIE DIE ON MT. RAINIER; MORGAN KILLED IN OLYMPIA
Evergreeners were still feeling the effects today of three deaths in less than
48 hours
two on Mt. Rainier when an avalanche took the lives of Faculty Member
Willi Unsoeld and student climber Janie Diepenbrock
and a third on Olympia's
Westside when a murderer took the life of student Morgan Beckett.
Unsoeld, a founding member of Evergreen's faculty who jokingly referred to himself
as "Evergreen's campus guru" was leading a team of 21 students in Outdoor Education
down Mt. Rainier Sunday when an avalanche struck at 2 p.m., taking him and Diepenbrock
to their deaths. The remaining 20 students dug their colleagues out of the snow
within 15 minutes, but they were already dead. Students then hiked down to Camp Muir
where they were forced by weather to spend Sunday and Monday nights, finally being
led down to Paradise Lodge late Tudsday afternoon. Two students
Jeff Casebolt
and Bruce Ostermann
stayed at Camp Muir to help rangers find and bring down the bodies of
Unsoeld and Diepenbrock.
They returned to campus Wednesday after the search was called off.
The remaining 18 students arrived on campus late Tuesday night to a greeting of
concerned friends and loved ones. Those already back on campus are: Marjorie Butler,
Bruce Clifton, Bob Dash, Penny Dempsey, Rhea Dodd, Sean Downey, Paul Fitch,
Mary Ellen Fitzgerald, Sheri Gerson, Lloyd Johnson, Frank Kaplan, Eric Kessler,
Peter Miller (who suffered a bruised rib when he was briefly buried by the avalanche),
Dave Ridley, Wanda Schroeder, Douglas White, Ian Yolles and Rowland Zoller.
While the campus was still reeling with the news of the two climbers' deaths
word came from Olympia Police that 27-year-old Morgan Beckett, who lived on North
Rogers Street in West Olympia, had been raped and murdered early Tuesday morning.
A suspect, 21-year-old Hershel Lakey was charged with first degree theft
Tuesday afternoon. Beckett, who was enrolled in the Intermediate Economics program,
was from Santa Monica, California. Her brother Adam died in a California fire the same day.
"A MEMORABLE CELEBRATION" FOR WILLI AND JANIE OFFERED TOMORROW
The families of Willi Unsoeld and Janie Diepenbrock, Evergreeners killed on
Mt. Rainier Sunday, have invited friends to join them for "A Memorable Celebration
and Potluck" tomorrow, March 10, beginning at noon on the fourth floor of the
Evans Library. Jolene Unsoeld has asked Evergreeners and guests to "bring their tears,
thoughts and smiles" to the Saturday celebration, along with food to share and their
own utensils. She adds that the ceremony "will be a nontraditional" one, similar to
the ceremony held on campus two summers ago for Nanda Devi Unsoeld, who also died
while on a mountain climbing expedition.
Tomorrow's celebration follows on the heels of a heart-breaking week on campus
where students, faculty and staff have gathered to hug and cry over deaths of one of
the college's most beloved and best known faculty members and the adventuresome young
student who died with him. As calls poured in from newspapers and concerned friends
from throughout the United States, colleagues tried as Faculty Member Carolyn Dobbs
said Tuesday, "to find a way to handle it all." "I've gone from shock, to disbelief,
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to anger at Willi, to anger at myself, and finally to the point where I've tried to
think about what it was I've gotten from Willi over these past eight years."
WILLI: "EPITOME OF EVERGREEN..."
In a brief all-campus meeting Tuesday, Dobbs told Evergreeners, "I wanted to find
something I could take from that and give it to people in the future." President
Dan Evans told the same somber gathering that "Willi would have enjoyed this more than
anyone else." The notice of the meeting had only bean out 15-30 minutes before it
began Tuesday yet Evans pointed out "never have so many Evergreeners gathered in one
place in so short a period of time." Evans said he'd called the meeting so "all
of us can share through some sense of being together the loss we've all faced..."
He noted that the "legacy Willi would want to leave" was one of the college carrying
on in "absolutely the best possible fashion " in this, one of the most difficult times
in its history. "Willi would want us to be determined to make sure the very spirit
and zest for living and learning he exemplified continued to affect and infect us at
Evergreen."
Earlier Evans described Willi to the press as a man who "was in many respects the
epitome of what Evergreen was all about." "As a founding faculty member," Evans
said, "Willi gave early direction to the interdisciplinary studies which have been
Evergreen's contribution to higher education. Hundreds and hundreds of students have
developed a toughness of mind and a gentle spirit through Willi!s teaching," Evans
added. "Their future progress and accomplishments will be one of Willi's finest
legr.cies."
Willi and Janie were also remembered in an official way by the State Senate which
Monday passed a resolution expressing condolences and sympathy to their families and
recognizing Willi as "a true Renaissance man who was loved by many and respected by
all for giving to those who learned with him a desire to emulate his philosophy of
life wherein excellence is met by toughness of mind and gentleness of soul." The
Senate tribute also recognized the work of Jolene who, it said, "is admired and
respected throughout the State of Washington for her unceasing efforts to assure open,
responsive government in high levels." In addition, the Senators lauded Regon, Krag
and Terres Unsoeld who "have joined their parents in providing exemplary models for
citizen participation in community development."
CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE SENT
Tributes and accolades came from throughout the country all week. Evergreeners
and other friends of Willi and Janie are warmly welcomed to share their feelings
tomorrow at noon. Those who want to contribute in some other way to Willi*s memory
are invited by the family to send contributions to the following organizations*.
The Evergreen Foundation, TESC; The Wilderness Society, 1901 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20006; Pete Sieger's Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, 250 West 57th,
New York City, New York 10019; and "In These Times," the independent Socialist
magazine, 1509 North Milwaukee, Chicago, Illinois 60622. Both families have asked that
no flowers be sent either to their homes or to the college.
KUEHN OUTLINES COURSES OF "IMMEDIATE ACTION"
Special Assistant to the President Duke Kuehn, who has been charged with responsibility for implementing recommendations from the Enrollment Design Disappearing Task
Force, Thursday planned to announce to the Board of Trustees those "actions which are
to begin immediately."
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when President Dan Evans assigned him that responsibility last week. He views his
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new primary duty to be one of "coordinating efforts
making sure all elements are
coordinated." He says the whole project is one that offers Evergreeners "the chance
to show that the things we encourage academically
cooperative, collaborative accomplishment of learning objectives
can be successfully applied to this kind of
major effort." "We'll need to mobilize every element of the campus," he adds, "and
we'll need to make sure that our short term efforts are not confused with the very
long range goals we simply must achieve to ensure the college's future."
The second major step toward implementing the DTP and achieving both long and
short term goals is the hiring of an outside consultant, a task "close to accomplishment,"
he reports. He, the president and other college officials have met with a number of
potential consultants already and are awaiting written proposals from them before
a final selection is made.
PRAG TO BE APPOINTED
By Thursday, Kuehn hoped to have completed a third major recommendation requiring
immediate action, the appointment of a public relations advisory group (PRAG) to
review plans for the proposed public relations plan. In an interview Monday, Kuehn
said he expected the group would include representatives from College Relations,
Graphics,
the community, staff, faculty, and
student body.
This afternoon he hopes to finalize decisions on appointment
of an arts coordinator so plans can begin immediately for a Spring Festival to which
prospective students, their parents and the general public will be invited.
Another recommendation Kuehn hopes to act on quickly is the appointment of two
advisory committees, one composed of community college trustees; the other composed
of high school principals. In addition, he will soon direct the Provost to "revise
future catalog supplements according to the DTF's recommendations, with special
emphasis on clarity of titles, messages to the point of identifying course
equivalencies in catalog copy.1* He will also direct the Registrar to "change the cover
sheet of student transcripts," and he will "encourage all representatives of the college
to use clear, understandable language to describe our operations and curriculum ..."
In addition Kuehn is directing the Office of Academic Advising to implement
the recommendations for providing "for a more reliable and comprehensive system."
At the same time he is asking the Director of Admissions to "implement a
comprehensive and aggressive admissions plan...with extraordinary efforts...directed
at Washington state residents." That plan is already well underway.
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PROGRAM BY FALL
Other actions high on Kuehn's priority list include a request that the academic
deans "implement a public employees program to be included in the 1979/80 curriculum;"
and to implement "a comprehensive system of part-time offerings to begin in Fall,
1979." He will ask the Director of Education Opportunity Programs to "meet at once
with coordinators of next year's programs and group contracts to determine whether
Third World educational needs are covered."
While all this is taking place, Kuehn has agreed "to provide reasonable budget
support for special public relations and recruiting campaigns." Additionally, he
has agreed there should be a "no-charge" policy with the exception of services
presently contracted on that basis..."
Kuehn says others of the DTF's recommendations have fallen into three categories:
those which are being implemented and require additional action; those which require
further study before action; and those which are of slightly lower priority or may
need to be rethought. He says he will be making at least bi-weekly reports to
the president on his progress as facilitator, an appointment effective through
November 1.
Working with Kuehn directly in his new job will be Eileen Humphrey, who currently
serves as an administrative secretary to the deans. She'll move next week to
Library 1604, 866-6138.
_ 4NOMINATIONS FOR ASSISTANT DEAN DUE MARCH 16
Nominations for the two-year post of Assistant Academic Dean currently held by
Dr. Rob Knapp will be accepted by Provost Byron Youtz through Friday, March 16. Youtz
says the appointment will be effective from September 1, 1979 through August 31, 1981.
Nominees for the position must be an Evergreen faculty member "with sufficient
experience here to understand our methods and procedures, demonstrating ability to
work hard and well with colleagues and to demand high standards of achievement in oneself
and others."
All persons who accept nominations for the post will be asked to submit a current
portfolio to Youtz by April 6, along with a personal statement addressing "at least
the following two points: why the assistant deanship is attractive to you and what you
hope to bring to and do with the position." A Dean Screening Disappearing Task Force
will be appointed to interview and recommend candidates for Youtz's consideration and
appointment.
PROVOST, DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR APPOINTMENTS DELAYED
The search for a new provost and development director which some had hoped would
be concluded this week,have been delayed due to the tragic events absorbing campus
attention this past week. President Dan Evans said Tuesday he still "hopes to make
the provost appointment soon5" but will take the time he needs to make sure all
considerations have been weighed. Finalists are Byron Youtz, who currently holds the
post on a one-year basis, Peter Conn, director of the writing center and associate
dean of faculty in Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and Adrian Tinsley,
dean of William James Colleges in Michigan.
Les^ Eldridge, assistant to the president and head of the development office,
says he is also in the final stages of recruiting a new director to replace Suzanne
Feeney, who resigned last year. An offer has been made, he reported as the Newsletter
went to press, "but we probably won't know for another week or so if the candidate will
accept it."
FIVE FINALISTS FOR FACILITIES DIRECTOR BEING INTERVIEWED
Interviews are in process to select a permanent director of facilities to replace
Bob Strecker who resigned in January. Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh
said three interviews will be conducted today, with two more scheduled on March 13.
He hopes to announce his selection of the new director by the end of next week.
Persons being interviewed today in Library 3112 include: Milton Romrell, currently
assistant director of physical plant maintenance and operations at Idaho State University,
who will be interviewed from 11 a.m. to noon; Lynne Svir, director of administrative
services at Olympia. Technical Community College, who will be interviewed from 1 to 2 p.m.:
and David Wallbom, director of plant operations at Bellevue Community College, whose
interview is from 2 to 3 p.m.
Interviewed Tuesday in Library 3112 will be Eugene Dueber, director of college
facilities at Montgoaery College in Maryland, whose interview is from 2 to 3 p.m. ;
and EvertJRoeterBj assistant director of the physical plant at The Claremont Colleges
in Californias whose interview is frcm 3 to 4 p.m.
LEISURE REGISTRATION OPENS MARCH 21
Registration for Spring Leisure Education workshops at Evergreen will be held
March 21 through April 13, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the Office of Campus Recreation,
College Activities Building 302. Spring session features 45 separate offerings,
including nine workshops in the martial arts, seven in movement, ten in sports and
19 others in a wide variety of arts.
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designed for personal growth ana enjoyment. Enrollment is open to the public, as
well as to students and staff at The Evergreen State College. Workshops for Spring
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other time blocks.
Complete details and a brochure describing costs and meeting times is available
upon request from the Office of Campus Recreation, College Activities Building 302,
866-6530.
upcoming events
GUITAR RECITAL SUNDAY
A recital of classical and modern guitar will be presented by Evergreen sophomore
Jon Klayman Sunday, March 11, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the
Communications Building.
Klayman, a student of Faculty Musician Dr. Greg Steinke, says he'll perform some
original compositions as well as pieces by Bach, Handel, Lauro, Scarlatti, Satie and
others during his free Sunday evening concert.
MARCH 13 TUESDAYS AT EIGHT CANCELLED
Faculty Member Willi Unsoeld, who died on Mt. Rainier Sunday, was scheduled to
offer an encore performance of his slide/lecture on Nepal March 13 in the continuing
Tuesdays at Eight series. No replacement for his performance has been scheduled.
Willi Unsoeld cannot be replaced.
TANNER TO DISCUSS THE 'MIDDLE YEARS' WEDNESDAY
Today's woman in her middle years has an opportunity to do some things with her
life she never could have before, asserts Olympian Barbara Tanner. This opportunity
brings about a new freedom as well as some unavoidable change.
Addressing the subject "Transitions of Middle Years: what if the salt loses its
savor," Tanner will share her own insights and those of other local women in a free
noon-time program March 14, beginning at 12:10 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church,
downtown Olympia.
Tanner, a communications instructor at Olympia Technical Community College's
Learning Skills Center, is the sixth of eight speakers in the current "Piece of My Mind"
series sponsored by Evergreen Campus Ministeries, the Olympia Ministerial Association
and Associated Ministeries of Thurston County. Free and open to the public, her talk
begins at 12:10 p.m. and continues until 12:50 p.m. with discussion afterward for
those who can remain. Participants are invited to bring their "brown bag" lunches.
Herself a middle aged woman, Tanner says she has experienced new ideals and
interests quite unexpectedly at this time in her life. She has found lots of company
with other middle aged women and, in the process of sharing her own growth and experience
with others, she has identified "a number of women I respect and admire"
women who
have done something noteworthy or made special sense out of this time of transition.
Barbara Tanner will share the views and changes these women, who she sees as
representative of the emerging middle aged woman, during her talk on March 14.
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS CONVENE HERE FRIDAY
High school teachers from throughout Southwest Washington will go back to college
March 16
for a day-long seminar in nine subject areas offered by faculty members
at The Evergreen State College. The programs, set to begin with 8:30 a.m. registration
Friday, coincide with a state-wide In-Service Day set aside by many school districts
to enable teachers to update skills and discuss educational methods and materials with
their professional peers.
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the New Grass Revival, Blake will perform at 7:30 and 10 p.m. March 31.in concerts
sponsored by KAOS FM radio. Advance tickets for his performance are already on
sale for $4 at the Evergreen Bookstore, Budget Tapes and Records and Rainy Day Records
in Olympia, "The Other Side of the Tracks" in Auburn, Olympic Records in Shelton and
The Great Music Company in Chehalis. Tickets will cost one dollar more at the door.
EXPANDED BUS SERVICE NOW AVAILABLE
Thanks to efforts by students and staff in the Office of Recreation and Campus
Activities, bus service to and from Olympia has been significantly expanded within
the past week. Assistant Recreation Director Lynn Garner says new runs have been
added to accommodate students wanting to travel at night and during weekends.
Two new night runs have been added
leaving campus at 8 and 9
and bus
service, via the 15-passenger Evergreen van, has also been increased during Saturday
and Sunday afternoons and evenings.
Garner says the expanded service also includes a "new midnight run" leaving
campus at exactly midnight and returning to the residence halls by 12:55 a.m. All
evening runs are now delivering students to campus residences, she adds, noting that
a new "safety run" has also been added at 11 p.m. "That route has now been changed to
follow Kaiser Road to Mud Bay and back to Overhulse so students don't have to walk
those roads alone at night," she says.
Also new to the bus system is service to the Eastside of Olympia during evenings
and Saturdays, says Garner. Check the Information Center for a complete, new
schedule.
Legislative Memo, volume V, no. 8
SALARY RECOMMENDATIONS STILL A QUESTION MARK
BY Les Eldridge, Assistant to the President
March 5 the Compensation Subcommittee of the House was unable to come to any
agreement on a recommendation to the full Appropriations Committee concerning state
employee salaries. The six-member Subcommittee was unable to reach a majority vote on
an alternative espoused by Eastern Washington University on raising faculty salaries
to the seven state average for the first year (3.2 percent for Evergreen, 7.9 percent
for EWU) and adding 7 percent the second year. Nor was there a majority vote on an
alternative to increase faculty salaries to the seven state average on July 1 with
an additional 7 percent increase coming in October, 1979(the beginning of the
federal fiscal year), and a further 7 percent increase in October, 1980. Having found
no agreement on the first few alternatives, the subcommittee opted not to debate
further, but to refer the salary matter to the full committee. The position of the
Council of Presidents remains an across-the-board 12 percent and 7 percent increase.
The Subcommittee did favor deleting the Governor's freeze on salaries above
$45,000 a year.
As of Tuesday, the Personnel Merger Bill was in Senate State Government Committee
and the bill providing for staff tuition exemptions was awaiting concurrence on
amendments by the House. The sick leave pay-off bill remained in House State
Government Committee.
At this writing the Governor was scheduled to announce her intentions concerning
a special session later this week.
She had requested assurances of each House that
the special session would go no more than 20 days and that the question of annual
regular sessions would be addressed.
HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES MASTER'S BILL
Once a special session is called, it is likely that both versions of the Evergreen
master's degree bill will remain under consideration. Substitute House Bill 568
was passed out of House Higher Education Committee to Appropriations on Wednesday
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morning. The substitute bill contained not only the Senate language on a $290,000
appropriation for the Master's program but also required Evergreen to report to the
Council for Postsecondary Education annually on its progress in implementing the
provisions of the CPE report. It provided for a six-year "breathing space" at which
time the Legislature would review Council recommendations and determine the desirability
of continuing the institution.
The Senate version, Substitute Senate bill 2610, was scheduled for hearing in
Senate Ways and Means both Tuesday and Wednesday, but the Ways and Means Committee
was unable to meet. The scheduled hearing on Tuesday had been cancelled because
the Senate remained on the floor until 4:30 p.m. Early indications on both bills
were that they would be priority items for consideration during the special session.
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...EVANS NAMES NEW SPECIAL ASSISTANT...Evergreen Faculty Member Dr. Lowell "Duke" Kuehn, who
most recently has served as acting director of Institutional Research, has been named by President Dan Evans to facilitate accomplishment of recommendations recently outlined by a campus
Disappearing Task Force on Enrollment Design. The appointment, announced March 7, is effective
immediately and carries the title of "Special Assistant to the President." Evans said Kuehn
will "be my right arm in carrying out recommendations in the report between now and Fall
Quarter." In the meantime, the president said, he will confer with campus leaders on the 52
pages of recommendations, all of which seek to help Evergreen double its enrollment within the
next five years.
...FORMER TRUSTEE "SINK" SCHMIDT PASSES...Trueman L. "Sink" Schmidt, a founding member of Evergreen 's Board of Trustees, died March 7 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Olympia.
Schmidt, who was appointed to the trustees by former Governor Dan Evans, retired from Evergreen'
Board in 1976, shortly after leaving his post as administrative vice president of Olympia Brew
ing Company.
...CLASSICAL WORLD STUDY OFFERS EUROPEAN ADVENTURE...Evergreen students this spring will have
an opportunity for intensive study of the art history of the Classical World with a field trip
to Europe. Lead by Faculty Member Dr. Gordon Beck, the group will spend four and a half weeks
of preparation on campus and then travel to Europe for first hand study of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and the early Roman Empire. Information on the program, which
generates 24 credit hours and begins March 28, is available from Dr. Beck at Evergreen, Library
room 2119, 866-6097.
...NATIVE AMERICAN AWARENESS WEEK BEGINS TODAY...Eight public presentations, including lectures
and a slide/film showing, will be presented March 5-9 by members of Evergreen's Native American
Student Association (NASA) as part of their Native American Awareness Week festivities. The
presentations, which begin today, are all free and open to the public. Complete details on
the Native Awareness programs may be obtained from the Office of College Relations, 866-6128.
...DELAHUNT TO EXAMINE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MARCH 7
Heritage has traditionally played
an important, fundamental role in Native American communities, says Olympian Jacqueline Delahunt
a Lakota Indian who grew up on South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux Reservation. Giving her personal
"Native American Perspective on Cultural Change and Survival," Delahunt will outline ways that
heritage has shaped spiritual outlooks, child rearing practices, art and other aspect's of
Native American life in a free, public presentation Wednesday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Olympia Public Library.
The third of seven speakers in the "Future of Our Heritage" series, Ms. Delahunt will
cite ways that certain events have affected Indian heritage, as well as the ways that Indian
arts and women have begun to hold new status in contemporary society.
Delahunt is presently a teacher at the WaHeLute Indian School near Olympia. She has also
served on the child development and education faculty at Evergreen, and is a well known, outspoken representative for Native American women in the women's movement.
...JENSEN SHARES "PIECE OF MY_MIND" WEDNESDAY...Sometimes we need to shed the dreams and pick
up a new life, asserts Darlienne Jensen, an instructor of Writing at Olympia Technical Community College. In a noontime talk on March 7, Jensen will explain why it's important to become
mentally "untrapped" of others' stereotypes and simply learn to be ourselves. Her presentatation is part of the "Piece of My Mind Series" and begins at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday at the
First United Methodist Church in downtown Olympia.
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EVANS NAMES KUEHN SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR ENROLLMENT DTF RECOMMENDATIONS
Faculty Member Lowell "Duke" Kuehn, who most recently has served as acting director
of Institutional Research, has been named by President Dan Evans to facilitate accomplishment of the recommendations outlined in the Enrollment Design Task Force.
The appointment, announced Wednesday at an all-faculty meeting, is effective
immediately and carries the title of "Special Assistant to the President." Evans said Kuehn
will "be my right arm in carrying out recommendations in the report, between now and
Fall Quarter." In the meantime, the president said, he'll be conferring with campus leaders
on the recommendations which he said have fallen into four categories: those which
require immediate implementation, those which will be assigned to campus staff for completion, those which will be assigned for further study, and those which migttiieed to be
"rethought."
Evans said part of the work to be done includes examining the college's organizational
structure for possible long-range changes, including potential hiring of a permanent marketing staffer, who migHtassume the post, recommended by the DTF, of "director of public
relations." Along with that potential staff change, Evans has asked Assistant to the
President Les Eldridge, to whom Kuehn reported as institutional research director, to
"look at ways to cover that function on an interim basis." Many of the responsibilities
to be handled by that position in upcoming months deal directly with the marketing research
aspects of the DTF report, Evans said, and will probably be carried out by Kuehn and his
consultant group.
Evans also noted that the DTF recommendation to "hire an outside consultant in
marketing" is being pursued. "I'm still interviewing a number of possible consultants
and I hope we'll be able to make that appointment soon," the president said.
Watch next week's Newsletter for a more complete report of Evans' reaction to the
Enrollment Design DTF report, issued last month to the Board of Trustees.
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PROVOST APPOINTMENT DUE SOON
President Dan Evans said this week he hopesto announce the. appointment of a new provost
by the end of this week or the first of next. Three finalists were interviewed last week
and the Provost Search Committee was scheduled to finalize its recommendations to Evans
on March 7. He hoped to select from among the finalists
Byron Youtz, Adrian Tinsley
or Peter Conn
as soon as he had time to study the recommendations of the DTF and "those
others who took ihe time to interview the candidates and prepare written recommendations
to me."
TRUSTEES TO MEET THURSDAY
Evergreen's Board of Trustees faces a full agenda at its March meeting, set for
Thursday morning, beginning at 10:30. Reports dominate the list of considerations, including a long-awaited final report by the Intercollegiate Athletics Task Force, which has
been headed by Activities and Recreation Director Pete Steilberg. Admissions staffers will
present a report on their operation, the Housing Office will offer an annual report, and
the Housing Design Project team will bring trustees up to date on its activities. In
addition, Evans will provide trustees with a progress report on implementation of the
Enrollment Design Disappearing Task Force Report presented to the board last month.
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Trustees will also be asked to consider: Use of the college's $15 late fee; a
policy defining financial obligations of students; proposed housing rates for 1979-80;
and a new policy, drafted by Academic Dean Barbara Smith and the science faculty, on
"use of human subjects."
The meeting, to be held in Library 3112, is open to the public.
"Founding trustee for nine years"
"BINK" SCHMIDT FATALLY STRICKEN WEDNESDAY
Trueman L. "Sink"Schmidt, a founding member of Evergreen's Board of
Trustees, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack. Schmidt, who was
appointed to the board by former Governor Dan Evans in 1967, retired from
Evergreen's board in 1976 shortly after leaving his post as president of
Olympia Brewing Company,
Born on the site of the Brewery's present administrative offices in
1913, Schmidt was the second son of Adolph and Winifred Lang Schmidt and
a 1932 graduate of Olympia High School. He attended both Oregon State
University and the University of Washington and served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II. He began his career at the Brewery, founded by
his family, in 1946 as the company's first night shift engineer. He
worked there continuously until his retirement as administrative vice
president in 1975.
The father of two and a very proud grandfather Bink told Evergreeners at his retirement gathering in April of 1976 that "it's time for me
to be a bit selfish with my time." He promised then he would "not be
a stranger to the college" and in the interim he continued to actively
support Evergreen and attend its social functions, including a retirement party last July for former founding trustee, Janet Tourtellote
Holmes.
In addition to his nine years of service on Evergreen's board, the
former trustee also contributed actively to his community, working as
president of the Olympia-Tumwater Foundation, a member of the Advisory
Board of the Olympia Branch of Seattle Trust and Saving, a board member
of the Tumwater Area Council of Boy Scouts, a former United Way chairman
and a member of a variety of civic clubs.
A memorial service for "Bink" Schmidt will be conducted today
at 2 p.m. at Saint John's Episcopal Church, 114 E. 20th Ave., Olympia.
"CLASSICAL WORLD" STUDY TO VISIT GREECE, ROME; MEETINGS NEXT WEEK
Students this spring will have an opportunity for intensive study of the art
history of the Classical World with a field trip to Europe. Lead by Faculty Member Dr.
Gordon Beck, the group will spend four and a half weeks of preparation on campus and
then travel to Europe for first hand study of the art and architecture of ancient Greece
and the early Roman Empire. Beck will hold two information meetings on his Spring Quarter
program next week: Tuesday, March 6 at 4 p.m. in Library 2118 and Thursday, March 8 at
8 p.m., also in Library 2118.
Beck says plans call for students to visit London (British Museum); Oxford (Ashmolean
Museum); Paris (Louvre); Split, Yugoslavia; Delphi, Athens, Sounion, Corinth, Argos,
Mycenae, Epidaurus, Bassae, and Olympia, Greece. From Patras, Greece they will take the
ferry to Brindisi, Italy and follow on to Benevento, Paestum, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Naples,
and Rome.
Traveling inexpensively in rented . cars, the group will camp in organized campground^
for about 850 a day, and prepare much of their own food purchased in open markets. The twomonth study tour will have a median cost of about $1,150 per student including airfare,
car rental, gas, oil, food, lodging, museum fees, postcards and guidebooks, laundry, ferries
and passports.
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Guidance counselors from throughout Western Washington will be on campus, Tuesday,
March 6, to attend a half-day "get acquainted with Evergreen" meeting, beginning at
8:30 a.m. according to Admissions Director Arnaldo Rodrigues. The session, which opens
with a welcoming talk op Evergreen by President Dan Evans, will include discussions of
Evergreen's new advising system and the college's academic programs. Recent area high
school graduates will conclude the morning session with talks on their experiences at
TESC. Counselors are then invited to a social hour, luncheon and guided tour.
Rodrigues has also notified counselors at six Thurston County high schools that
Evergreen will now serve as a testing center for high school juniors seeking to take
the Washington Pre-College Test. "Even though we don't require these test scores for
our new students, we wanted to make it easier for local students who want or need to
take the test," Rodrigues says. "Before we offered this service, local juniors had to
drive to Centralia for the three-hour tests, which begin at 8 o'clock on Saturday mornings."
Dates for local students to take the tests in Lecture Hall One include: March 17,
Tumwater and Yelm; March 24, Capital; April 21, Timberline; April 28, NorthThurston; and
May 5, Olympia.
upcoming events
NATIVE AMERICAN AWARENESS WEEK BEGINS MONDAY
Eight public presentations, including lectures and a slide/film showing, will be
presented March 5-9 by members of Evergreen's Native American Student Association (NASA)
as part of their Native American Awareness Week festivities. The presentations, which begift
Monday, are all free and open to the public.
A discussion on "Indian Treaty Rights" by Billy Frank, director of the Northwest
Indian Fisheries Commission, and Sue Hvalsoe, Puyallup Indian tribal attorney, will launch
the week-long program March 5, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Four. Two
presentations will be offered Tuesday: Gloria Bean, former member of the Puyallup Tribal
Council, will discuss "Treaty Rights of the Puyallup Indian Nation,"beginning at 1:30
p.m., followed by a film/slide show on "Fishing and Treaty Rights in the Pacific Northwest,"
presented by Gary Peterson of the Point No Point Council. Peterson's presentation begins
at 4 p.m. Both programs are in Lecture Hall Four.
Wednesday, Richard LaCourse, former director of The American Indian Press Association,
will discuss "Indian Press," at 1:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Four, followed at 4 p.m. by a
discussion on "The Responsibility of Native Americans in the Field of Entertainment" by
Sandra Johnson Osawa, a Seattle Native American woman who works with the media.
Evergreen faculty members will stage a "welcome back" program for TESC graduates and
former students in a public session Thursday, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in room 110 of the
Gollege Activities Building.
Topping off the week on Friday will be three presentations: children from the
Wahelute School in Thurston County will offer a performance at 11 a.m. Friday in the main
lobby of the College Activities Building; at 1:30 p.m. Caroline Mills, an Evergreen alum,
will discuss the International Youth Festival held last summer in Cuba; and at 3 p.m. Joe
Washington, a Lummi medicine man, will discuss "Unity Among Native Peoples." Both the
Friday afternoon performances will be held in Lecture Hall Four.
Complete information on Native Awareness Week programs is available through
Evergreen's NASA office, 866-6024.
DELAHUNT EXAMINES NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE WEDNESDAY
Heritage has traditionally played an important, fundamental role in Native American
communities^ says Olympian Jacqueline Delahunt, a Lakota Indian who grew up on South
Dakota's Rosebud Sioux Reservation.
Giving her personal "Native American Perspective on
Cultural Change and Survival, " Delahunt will outline ways that heritage has shaped spirit-
-4ual outlook, child rearing practices, art and other aspects of Native American life in a
free, public presentation Wednesday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Olympia Public Library.
The third of seven speakers in the "Future of Our Heritage" series, Ms. Delahunt
will cite ways that certain events have affected Indian heritage, as well as the ways
that Indian arts and women have begun to hold new status in contemporary society.
Jacqueline Delahunt is presently a teacher at the WaHeLute Indian School near
Olympia, for Nisqually and Puyallup children ages three through 12. She has also served
on the child development and education faculty at Evergreen and is a well known, outspoken representative for Native American women in the women's movement.
EUROPEAN PILGRIMAGE OFFERED BY BECK TUESDAY
Awe inspiring views of churches, monasteries, hospices and bridges
colored by
religious tales of saints and pilgrims
will be featured when Evergreen faculty member
Dr. Gordon Beck takes Tuesdays at Eight audiences on his "Pilgrimage to Santiago: Tracing
the Medieval Routes through France and Spain," March 6, beginning at 8 p.m. in Lecture
Hall One at Evergreen. Dr. Beck, who has conducted study treks through Europe for the
past six summers says he'll trace four routes through France which lead into one Spanish
pilgrimage trail to the shrine of Saint James, the apostle who became Spain's patron
saint when his spirit helped its armies drive out the Moors in the ninth century.
Promising to share tales of medieval Europe, Dr. Beck brings to his performance
research work he began while on sabbatical leave from Evergreen during the fall of 1976.
He has continued to expand on that research and next fall will coordinate a full-time
academic program called^Pilgrim Age"which will focus on the search for knowledge in the
Middle Ages.
His Tuesdays at Eight lecture March 6 will be followed March 13 by a repeat performance of "Nepal: Scent of Jasmine and Urine," by Evergreen faculty philosopher and
mountain climber, Dr. Willi Unsoeld. Tickets to all Tuesdays at Eight lectures are $1.
JENSEN SHARES "PIECE OF MY MIND" WEDNESDAY
Sometimes we need to shed the dreams and pick up a new life, asserts Darlienne Jensen,
an instructor of writing at Olympia Technical Community College. In a noontime talk on
March 7, Jensen will explain why it's important to become mentally "untrapped" of others'
stereotypes and simply learn to be ourselves.
Her presentation on "Becoming Real" is fifth in a series of eight during the current
"Piece of My Mind Series", sponsored by Evergreen Campus Ministeries, the Olympia Ministerial
Association and Associated Ministries of Thurston County. Free and open to the public, the
talk begins at 12:10 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Olympia. Discussion will follow after her talk, for those who can remain.
"Students often tell me they can't write," she notes, recalling years of teaching,
"but it's really a matter of trusting their own ability in expression," she finds. She
tells them that learning to write is like learning to live, for it involves finding a
way to find faith in ourselves and what we know.
"Honestly, it's the only way to adjust to the decision and changes thrust upon
us by a changing society or abrupt shifts in our personal lives," she adds, citing death
and divorce as two common events affecting people.
Darlienne Jensen seeks "to become" by willingness to experience a personal evolution.
In this way she feels she can broaden her own understanding of herself and come to accept
the aging process. FollowingJensen will be Barbara Tanner, also of OTCC, who will share
her views on "Transitions of the Middle Years," on March 14, in the next "Piece of My Mind"
presentation.
EVERGREEN CHAMBER ENSEMBLE PERFORMS THURSDAY
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Six student musicians comprising the newly re-formed Evergreen Chamber Ensemble will
present a free noon concert Thursday, March 8 in the main lobby of the Evans Library.
Directed by Faculty Member Robert Gottlieb, students have prepared to perform works by
Mozart, Hayden, Merula, Purcell and Bach in their afternoon concert.
Set to perform Thursday are Julie Solne, cello; Marianne Weems and Joseph
violins; Greg Carlia, viola; Oscar Spidahl, harpsichord, and Deanette Crockett, flute.
STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL PLANNED
Evergreen graduate David Woman has announced plans for an "Evergreen Student
Film Festival" to be shown Thursday, March 8 beginning at 3 and 6 p.m. in Lecture Hall One.
The program will feature a special premiere of "Laughing Saxophones," a just completed
animated cartoon produced by Wormann, with soundtrack" help from Obrador, a local Latin
Jazz band.
All work shown in the film festival will be the product of Evergreen students or
alums, says Wormann. He'll ask a 50-cent donation at each showing.
THIRD JAPANESE SEMINAR OFFERED MARCH 9
Exporters and other businesses interested in expanding their markets in Japan will
be offered a day-long seminar, focused on ways they can increase direct sales and consumer
appeal in that country, on Friday, March 9 when Kyodai and Evergreen combine forces at
a special session in Seattle's Rainier Club.
Kyodai, a Seattle-based management education service, says keynote speaker for the
Friday session is Don Maloney, sales manager for Harris Corporation of Cleveland and author
of the popular newspaper column, "Never the Twain..." published in Japan Times, Maloney
will share his views on "opportunities and challenges for selling in Japan."
Also featured will by Cyron Snyder, formerly West Coast regional director for
Design and Market Research Laboratories, Container Corporation of America, who will discuss
"Traditional Japanese packaging, point of sales and cultural determinants of effective
packaging and advertising."
The joint topic "Expanding options for direct sales" willbe explored by Thomas Roehl,
assistant professor in the University of Washington's School of Business Administration,
and by Norman Roe, assistant vice president for Asia Pacific Group of Pacificbank.
Roehl will focus his discussion on "Assessing, utilizing and bypassing the Japanese
distribution system," taking time to examine the opportunities and risks for direct sales;
while Roe will analyze ways to evaluate financial statements of small and middle-sized
companies in a talk called "Japanese accounting: how to do a credit analysis of a
prospective partner/buyer?"
Registration information on the March 9 seminar, for which academic credit through
TESC is available, may be obtained from the Office of College Relations, Library 3114.
TALENT SOUGHT FOR "WOULD-BE GON£- SHOW
Cohorts coordinating the upcoming "Crab Feed and Would Be Gong Show" April 6 for
all Evergreeners are seeking talent to perform at the unusual "sort of" annual event.
"We'd call it a Gong. Show if it weren't a talent show," says Personnel Director Rita Cooper,
one of the event's conspirators. She says tickets will cost $6.50"because the
cost of crab has gone up so high". Only 250 ticket? will be sold, beginning March 5 in
the Cashier's Office.
Talented types are urged to contact Cooper, Dan Weiss or Dave Carnahan if they're
willing to contribute their skills to the April 6 event.
ADDRESS CHANGING MADE EASY
Students may find it easier to notify the Registrar's Office of their address
changes, according to an annnouncement this week by Registrar Walker Allen. New boxes are
being installed around campus so studentsconveniently can drop word of their changes without
journeying to the Registrar's Office. Available at each box will be forms which enable
students to simultaneously notify the college and the U.S. Post Office of their address
changes. Look for boxes at the Library circulation d^sk CAB Information Center, mailbox
-6area of Residence Hall A, first floor lobby of Laboratory I, in the Communications Building
and even in the Registrar's Office itself.
The new program is the brain child of student employee Pete Storti.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Faculty union members have elected new officers for the American Federation of
Teachers Local 3421: Tom Rainey is the new president; Matt Smith, vice president;
George Dimitroff^ secretary; and Betty Estes, treasurer. On the Executive Board
are Susan Smith,' Frank Motley, Ron Woodbury, Sandra Simon, Peta Henderson^ Stephanie.
Coontz and Bill Brown.
Works by three Evergreen artists have been selected for the 1979 Governor's Invitational Art Exhibit on display in the State Capitol Museum March 4 _ - April 4. Selected to
display their works are Faculty Members Jean Mandeberg and
Dave Gallagher, and
campus sculptor, Robert Maki, who completed the "Trapezoid Square" which stands in front of
the Communications Building. Serving on the three-person selection committee for the
exhibit was Faculty Member Sid White.
Faculty Member Carolyn Dobbs has been selected to participate in one of six regional
meetings throughout the state to discuss a "College of Agriculture Information Exchange"
program being set up by Washington State University. Dobbs was scheduled to attend a
day-long meeting today at the Western Washington Research and Extension Center in Puyallup
to discuss, among other things, "how agricultural research, instruction and extension at
WSU address client needs."
Faculty composer Greg Steinke reports his "Ostinato Di Tango" and "Ostinato Fantasy"
were recently performed at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. This week,
Steinke says, marks the concert premiere of his percussion trio, "Diversions" and
"interactions" at the American Society of University Composers' National Conference in
La Jolla.
Faculty Biophysicist Betty Kutter, on professional leave this year, writes that she
is participating as a speaker this week at the Lewis and Clark (College) Winter Forum
devoted to "Ecology and the Human Nature." Kutter's topic: "Biological and sociological
implications of recombinant DNA research." She also has been invited to appear on
ABC's morning program "AM Northwest" in Portland. And, she has just returned from a
meetirig of the National Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, aimed at securing "broader
public involvement in policy making" relating to genetic engineering. Later this month
our traveling scientist will discuss her recombinant DNA work for two days each at
Hampshire College, University of Maryland and the University of Georgia. She's directing
the classes withLeRoy Walters/nead of bioethics at the Kennedy Center for Medical and
Bioethics in Washington, D.C. When she's not on the road, Kutter is studying nutrition
and fetal development at the University of California at Davis. She hopes to be in town
(Olympia) this weekend, following her appearance at Lewis and Clark, and she intends to
return full-time to the faculty next fall.
Legislative Memo volume V, no. 7
MASTER'S BILL SENATE HEARING "PROBABLE"
By Les Eldridge, Assistant to the President
The continuing saga of the Evergreen Master's Degree bill found the Senate version
(Substitute Senate Bill 2610 sponsored by Senator Bud Shinpoch and 12 others) in Senate
Ways and Means with a hearing probable for next week. The health of this bill and of its
companion measure in the House depends in large part on what Governor Ray decides to do
about an extraordinary session and how much time consequently becomes available for the
passage of bills. If Ways and Means were to take favorable action on the bill, it would
then go to Senate Rules Committee where it must be placed on the second reading calendar V
by majority vote of the Poiles Committee, pass second and third readings on the floor of
the Senate with a constitutional majority, and then be sent to the House of Representatives
The House version (House Bill 568 sponsored by Representative Scott Blair and 26 others)
-7will be heard Monday, March 5 at 1:30 p.m. in HOB A15. At that meeting, an amendment may
be offered which requires Evergreen to report annually on steps taken to achieve goals
set forth in the Council for Postsecondary Education's study for Evergreen. The amendment
may also call for CPE to evaluate these steps and recommend action.
The faculty collective bargaining bill (Senate Bill 2236) was heard by the House
Labor Committee on February 26, with more than a dozen individuals testifying, but without
actions taken. Testimony included a remark from Mike Ryherd, lobbyist for the Washington
Federation of Teachers, in which he quoted the EVergreen union position on tenure and
collective bargaining to the effect that "the three-year faculty contract is nothing
more than a promisory note" and as such is "void", offering no tenured protection. Therefore, he argued, collective bargaining is the only effective protection against administrative caprice.
In action in committee on Wednesday, House Higher Education Committee passed House
Bill 324 by a 6 to 4 vote. The bill calls for creation of a new community college district
for Olympia Technical Community College, removing it from District 12 and leaving
Centrailia College as the sole District 12 institution. The bill also requires O.T.C.C.
to contract with four-year public institutions in its district (Evergreen) for temporary
space. Earlier last week, the Senate committee passed re-engrossed House Bill 226, providing for reciprocity of in-state tuition between Oregon and Washington counties surrounding Portland and in the vicinity of Walla Walla. That bill is now in the Senate Rules
Committee for second reading. The Senate Higher Education Committee also passed Senate
Bill 2251, which increases the tuition waiver for needy students from 3 per cent to
4 and makes the additional percentage available for use at the institution's discretion,
for academic merit instead of need. The Senate Committee also considered but did not
move substitute House Bill 319, authorizing waiver of fees for university or college
employees taking courses on a space available basis.
The compensation sub-committee of the House Appropriations Committee is now considering both the 8 percent salary increase mentioned in last week's legislative memo and
another alternative which would differentiate increases among four-year institutions
according to their placement in relation to the seven state salary survey average. Under
this alternative, Evergreen faculty members would receive a 3.2 percent increase and
University of Washington faculty members, a 4.5 increase. Additional funds for cost of
living increases on top of the differentiated percentages is also a possibility. Whether
this approach will be the one chosen by the sub-committee and whether or not the whole
committee will adopt it remains to be seen.
17TH CENTURY CELEBRATION SET MARCH 9-10
An evening of 17th century theater, music and dance will be presented March 9 and
10 by Evergreen students in the study program "Plays and Ayres: An English View,"
directed by Faculty Members Joan Winden,, Andre Tsai and Meg Hunt. The productions, offered
at 8 o'clock Friday and Saturday evenings in the Recital Hall of Evergreen's Communications
Building, will feature dramatic scenes and music from six plays: two Restoration Period
dramas,"The Way of the World" and "The Country Wife" and four Shakespearean plays, "Much
Ado About Nothing," "The Taming of the Shrew," "Hamlet," and "Twelfth Night."
Five Olympia string musicians will join The Evergreen Singers to present "The
Street Cries of London," by Richard Dearings. Performing will be Olympians Nancy Kinnear,
Peter Elbow, Peggy Olson, Floy Wang and Ann Marie Ratliff.
Student singers will also perform madrigals, rounds and music for consorts of
recorders and violas, featuring compositions by Morley, Dowland and Ravenscroft. Dances
for both "the gentry and the country folks" will also be performed by student dancers,
accompanied by a country fiddler.
Admission to the evening performances is $1. Tickets go on sale at the door of the
Communications Building at 7:30 p.m. March 9 and 10.