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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 11, Issue 14 (February 17, 1983)

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Evergreen Critic Speaks His Mind
by Arthur West
Since its founding in 1972, TESC has
frequently drawn criticism from inside the
state of Washington . Hardly a single year
of the institution's 12-year history has
passed without some proposal to close
the school considered by the legislature.
Last year TESC drew local attention
when Republican Representative Dick
Bond of Spokane proposed legislation to
close the college. Although the bill never
gained a hearing, TESC administrators
contend that the school' s application rate
dropped 50% after its introduction. A
longstanding critic of TESC, Mr. Bond
welcomed the opportunity to voice his
opinions to the CPJ.
CPI: In the past few years, you have
been outspoken concerning TESe. Can
you explain your perceptions of the
institution 1
BOND: The major problem I have with
the school is that it has never fulfilled it's
role as a regional institution principally
because the local high school graduates
don't go there. I ha~e sort of learned
more about this over the last few years in
that there are a number of Thurston
County students over at Eastern. I talked
to them and said, .' How come you come
all the way over here when you've got
Evergreen right next door?: pointing out
that they could probably go there
cheaper ... They said that as far as a
career in the real world, they just didn't
think that Evergreen would suit their
purposes. I think that in effect they would
regard it as a waste of time to go there.
Tliat's part of the story. Another part of it
is that since it hasn't been able to attract
local high school students it's ended up
being the most expensive school that the
state operates because it doesn't have the
size of student body that would be
needed to spread the cost and get the
per student amount down. So it remains
our most expensive school. Recruiting has
gone on all over the country in an effort
to build up the student body and so
naturally it ends up with a lot of out~f­
state students. In fact it is the school with
the highest proportion of any school in
that area. And so, these days, when we

have extremely difficult money problems,
in my view it indicates that we need to
set some priorities. I just can't condone
paying for out~f-state students when that
money could be diverted to so-called
local students.
CPI: You mentioned that high school
graduates don't believe that they would
be able to get a job with a degree from
Evergreen. Do you think this is an
accurate perception?
Bond: I think it probably is in comparison with other schools and based on a
large number of different fields of study
that are involved. There may be some
areas where a TESC graduate's employment opportunities would be pretty good .
Apparently in a number of areas, as they
evaluate things, the opportunities are not
that good.
CPj: Then you concede that there are
at least a few areas in which Evergreen
grads do well?
Bond: Could be; well I hear of some
anyway. I guess I believe them. Anyway
,t's an interesting thing. It's like the
Mexicans coming into America illegally.
In their minds they evaluate things and
they figure they would be better off, so
they make the move. So high school students around here, they do an evaluation
process and they end up going somewhere
else. There's no program around telling
them " don't go to TESe. " They must arrive
at their decision on their own .

CPI: So your of the opinion that because high school graduates don't go to
TESC that the school does not meet the
needs of southwest Washington 1
Bond: Yes .
CPI: TESC has a number of older students . Do you believe that it has worth
for Washington state citizens some years
after they graduate?
Bond: I don't know, I guess so. I have
heard there are some older students. I do
know that there are older students who go
there for courses because it's close, more
for recreation and conven ience than for
a career.
CPI: One of the fastest growing student
groups is the state workers . Does this
have any bearing on the worth of the
institution?
Bond: I suspect that most of these fall
in the areas we just discussed, The only
way to make sure would be to survey
them and find out. I am sure that some
do and some don't.
CPI: The base of a sound economy res ts
upon competent workers. You have heard
of the term " brain drain," when educated
and potentially productive citizens are
drawn from an area. Do you believe that
TESC could act in the opposite direction - that is to draw people into the state
who remain in Washington and benefit
the economy?
Bond: I sure hope you're right, but I'm
. 'oncerned that TESC is not attracting the

Military Guards The Truth
by Steve Kistler

activity incident to military service." "The
United States was not liable . . for injury
death of servicemen resulting from
negligence in medi ca l treatment by Army
surgeons,"
A group of citizens have organized to
lwork at having this precedent, which has
come to be known as the Feres Doctrine,
ireconsidered . This non-profit organization
is called Citizens Against Military Injustice
(CAMI) and their activities also involve ,
pursuance of investigations in deaths o f
servicemen when the military apparently
avoid giving explanation. They are currently working with 160 families who are
searching for the truth about the death of
a loved one in the military
Mr~...!' rnestine Bunnell, an Olympia
reSident,' tells the story of her son Guy
" Bud" Bunnell who died under mysterious
circumstances last July while serving with
the army in Pirmasen, West Germany. She
received a radio telegram informing her
that on July 10 he would begin leave prior
to his transfer to Ft. Hood, Texas . On
IJuly 19 an agent of the government came
. ._ _ _!I!!I!!I!!!S_EEiII_ _ _ _ _IiiIiI_ _
to her door and told her that her son had
" :died on July 9. The body did not arrive
Cover Photo: Origami Peace Crane, one
until three days after she got the news,
of a thousand . See story page six. Photo '
and the burial took place on July 23, She
by Hill
was told the body was still the property of
the military.
• _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. . Following these' events, Mrs. Bunnell
It has been said that when you join the
military you are "signing your life' away."
Most people infer this to pertain to loss of
civilian freedoms and the responsibilities
enlisted men have if a combat situation
should arise. In reality, it goes much
deeper than that.
In the 1930's t he Tort Claims Act was
specifi ca lly interpreted with regard to
servicemen injured or killed because of
negligence. The Tort Claims Act delineates
our rights in su it against the federal
government. The case of Feres vs, United
States involved a serviceman who died in
a barracks fire at Pine Camp, New York,
allegedly because of a defective heating
plant and inadequate fire watch. Considered alongside his case was one
charging that an Army surgeon had left a
towel in a man's abdomen after surgery.
The Supreme Court dismissed both
cases and includes these specifics in the
transcript: " The government is not liable
under Tort Claims Act for injuries to
servicem~n ~rising out of or in course of

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began inquiries into the cpuse of his
death . A call was placed to Congressman
Don Bonker. He said he could get no
information and that the death was still
under investigation. She contacted Senator Henry Jackson and spoke to hi s
secretary . This elicited no reply. Next a
letter went to the White House. They did
not answer it, but forwarded it to the
Department of the Army, who again said
they had no information and it was still
under investigation . This was more than
two month s after Bunnell's letter went
out. Mrs. Bunnell also sent inquiries to
her son's commanding officer at Pirmasens, but got no response .
Finally U .S. Senator Henry Jackson
ordered a Congressional investigation,
which meant the Department of the Army
had to report all fi ndi ngs related to the
incident. Mrs. Bunnell was told that the
,autopsy showed a breakdown of most of
his internal organs and his chest cavity
was filled with fluid, but they said that
they didn't know what caused his collapse.
The immediate circumstances surrounding his death were also disclosed. Guy
Bunnell had been working at the switchboard as a radio communications officer
and had come back to his room. He told
his roommate that it was time for dinner
but that he wasn't going. Forty-five
continued on PIl{Ie six

right type of people to Washin gton state.
I saw in a newspaper article in the San
Francisco Chronicle that gays are welcomed at TESe. If that's true, I'd say we're
not attracting the right type of pE'ople.
This type of policy doesn't help the in ~t l ­
tution 's reputation ; that's the genf'ral
consensus in the legi slature and In the
:Jopu lation as a whole .
CPI : Do t he unorthodox tear hin g
net hods employed at TESe aifec t vour
" pinion?
Bond: It's not for everybodv My vipw
, that there is d place for thdt t\'pp of
·chool but I'm not at all sure tha t It
'lou ld be a taxpayer-s upportNJ 'i f hool , >0
'lut'S another area that gives 111 e' d rt'<1,on
o disl ike the present situation
CPI: Then you believe that taxpd\""
! Ipported sc hool s should be rnorp
,.thodox 1
Bond: Yes, I do, especially whf'11 \'fJll
Ind that that's pretty much thE' way •
'l.Jjority of students look at it too. y" .
, lPntioned the NY Times story
lhe\
·honed me up for an interview and th.' n
ley wrote it up in glowing term s We'll,
,11at's fine but the taxpayers of New York
Iren't paying for the school you know.
I hat's part of the problem Do you see
ePJ: Do you see anything unusual in
Ihe fact that people from out of state like
TESC, but people from Washington don'\1
Bond Some people in the state do, but
)Illy a small proportion . You see these socalled regional colleges, of which we have
four; the older ones , Eastern, Central, and
Western have done pretty well in serving
as a regional college and that's the concept envisioned for TESe. but it's never
really been fulfi lied.
CPI : So basically you beli eve that the
institution is not cost effect ive?
Bond: Yes .
CPI : How do out~f-state students relate
to this?
Bond: Well that has been and currehtly
is even a bigger problem for the legislature and for the taxpayers. As you are
aware, previously a student could arrive
from out of state, pay out-<lf-state tuition
for one year, and after that become a
resident, and pay in-state fees . So in an
attempt to continue to identify and
determine whether these students really
were residents or not (a nd I have received
a number of phone Gills about thi s one
from Spokane way too) we've dropped on
thi s idea of using the parent's tax reru rn
(the top half anyway) which shows.
whether of not they claim !tie student as
.a dependent as being, at the moment, the
best way we can determine whether they
are a resident or not. That is what we're
doing now. I don't know how it's worki ng .
If it works, then I think mast of us here
will have less problems with out~f-state
students because we'll figure that they're
paying tuition at the level they should be.
However, o ut~f-state tu ition doesn't pay
the whole cost.
CPl . What is the state subsidy per outof-state student 1
Bond: I really don't know, I can't give
yOU a number. The theory is that out-<lf;tate tuition is supposed to pay the mst
of instruction, but it doesn' t pay for
facilities. What the percentage is, I really
don't know.
Right now, however, TESC represents
something of a burden to taxpayers. If
the tuition covered everything, then we
would at last be in a break-even situation
and the out~f-state students would be
doing their share to support the cost of
the operation . Aside from tuition , an out:>f-state students pays other expenses :
housing, food, and transportation ,
CP}: Does this help Washington state?
Bond: It's like tourism sort of, Yes,
that's right, that certainly helps the
economy .
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News

& Notes~~~ussians,

THE EDITH K. DRAHAM SCHOLARSHIP,
also for the 1983-84 academic year in the
amount of $1,CXX>, is available to both
new and continuing Evergri'!en students
and based on financial need and a
demonstrated ability in fiction writing.
The Puget Sound Branch of the National
Academy for Child Development (NACO)
is bringing a special seminar to Olympia
entit led " THE MIRACLES OF CHILD
DEVELOPMENT." It will be presented by
Robert J. Doman Jr on February 23, a
Wednesday evening, from 7-10 p.m., at
the Unity Church of Olympia, 1335 Fern
St. It is free and open to the public.
NACO is a non-profit, charitable, and
voluntary organization devoted to the
development and application of procedures which will assist parents in helping their children in achieving their full
potential whether they are " normal, gifted,
or handicapped ."
TO FIND OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AT
THE STATE CAPITOL AND HOW IT
AFFECTS STUDENTS, come to the Geoduck Lounge on the third floor of the
CAB building at TESC Tuesday, February
22. at noon . Featured speakers will be
Secretary of State Ralph Monroe, Senator
Di ck Hemstad, and House Majority Leader
Df'nnls Heck . The sem inar is frf'e and
,> pomored by the Washington State Student Lobby .

NYC SUMMER MANAGEMENT INTERN-New
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OUTDOOR EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION PRO GRAM COORDtNATOR - TESC & Western Wa .Two qual:er In ternship to develop and impl ement
al l a s pecl ~ o f an ou td oo r educatio n program for
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deSign. recrultmenl. adm ini s tration and field

THE S&A BOARD WILL BE MEETING
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 from 1 to 4
in Library 2220. Agenda will include the
question, "Should we or should we not
have a few hours of closed executive
session in the Spring Allocation process?"
THE WOMEN'S CENTER has been
accepting entries for a deSign for a
Women 's Center T-shirt . The winning
entry will receive a $50 prize. If you don't
have your entry in yet, hurry! The deadline for designs is February 25. Watch for
the T-shirts to go on sale Spring quarter.
For more information call the Women's
Center at 86fMiOOO ext. 6162.
THE ANNUAL S&A SURVEY IS DUE TO
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Read it and find out where $4OO,CXX> of
student money goes to. Fill it out and
return it to CAB 305 or one of the drop
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best chance for the mass of the student
body to inform S&A (Services and
Act ivities) of what it wants.
S&A BOARD HAS ONE POSITION OPEN
for a dynami c , self-motivated student
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Th e next Evergreen Co lloquium is
scheduled for March 4 when Evergreen
faculty member Dr . Steve Herman will
di scuss " Shorebird Migration in Grays
Harbor, Washington."

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Preference wi II be given to students who
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Information and requirements for these
scholarships can be obtained at the
Financial Aid Office, 866-6000 ext. 6205.

Are you concerned about global nuclear
proliferation?? PEACE CRANE ALLIANCE"
is a new local non-violent support and
study group of concerned peace activists.
We are dedicated to educating ourselves
and others about the reality of the nuclear
arms ra ce. The first (organizational)
monthly meeting of Peace CRANE Alliance
will be on Friday, February 18, at 7 p.m.
in Lounge 2100 in the Library Building at
The Evergreen State College Come discuss
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Hear the story of " Sedako and the
thousand paper cranes," learn to fold the
origami peace crane. Find out about our
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Becom e Active l For further
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by Richard Fellows

Jolene Unsoeld is well known among
legislators and state workers for her
activities as a public interest lobbyist. She
started off her talk by explaining how she
had gotten " addicted" to the legislative
process when her late husband Willy
Unsoeld came to Evergreen to teach.
Around the capital she got involved in
issues such as energy, phone rates,
hazardous wastes and campaign expenditures_ Working to create coalitions,
interest the press in issues, and inform the
legislature, she has been active ever since.
'What would you think of an employer
who never talks to their employees, or
wants them to work 60 hours per week
without even minimum wage for their
overtime, or of a landlord who wants their
tenants to fix a floor which was broken
when they arrived?" Jolene pointed out
that this is similar to the public's attitude
towards the legislature.
Unsoeld commented that very few
people nowadays aspire to be politicians.
[Only a handful raised their hands to indicate they had considered it) When asked
why they thought this was, one person
answered "cowardice"; the rest were
silen t. The political process, says Unsoeld,
involves comprom ise and persuasion . This
"messy conflict of ideas got ugly." She
said that this pertained to people's dissatisfaction with politics and their reluctance to get involved . " It seems sinister,"
she commented .
She says this cowardice and uncertainty
might be diffused . " It's not a waste of
time trying to advance our causes . persuasion takes time. No one group can
impose their will on other groups . . most
can compromise . .. compromise is no
better than no solution ... Even the
speaker of the house majority can't get a
program through without lots of effort .
Since a series of majority votes is required, such things as commendations
pass quite easily while tax reform is very
difficult ."

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Evergreen Foundation's seventh annual
ng/ informational Phone-a-thon began
IMclndiav. February 14, and will run until March 3.
over 100 volunteers are in the process of
'ng 6,000 parents and alumni around the
for pledges. These pledges are part of an
to meet the Evergreen Foundation's Annual
goal, which this year is $75,000.
ing to Ellie Dornan, Alumni Coordinator,
year's Phone-a-thon goal is $25,000, up from
year's $20,000. One means of Im'lrO\,ino
in the event, said

the challenge process where one group 01 callers
challenges another to see which one can raise
most pledges. "The Alumni Association has
already challenged the laculty," Dornan 1IIIu ''''<le(l.1
The Foundation's remaining fund will be raised
by a direct mail appeal and through donations.
Currently , 38 students on campus are on scholarships from the organization. It also provides
fu nds for art and library acquisitions, student and
faculty research, inlercollegiate athletics, and
innovative student projects and programs such as
Earth Fair. Bridges , and the Summer Repertory
Theater.

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Production Manager: Eric Brinker
Arts Editor: David Gaff
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Production Crew: Erin, Johnny , Eric, David, 'lesll , and Tracy Taylor

Mutually beneficial exchanges, says
Unsoeld, are a necessary part of the
legislative process. "In the marketplace
we accept exchange activity. We use
dollars and sell things benefiCially to both
parties ... Some deals are bargains, some
are not . . . I would submit to you that the
legislature is a marketplace where goods
and commooities are exchanged. We don't
like to see this but mutually beneficial
exchanges are a necessary part of the
legislative process. These transactions
may be intangible . .. gestures, handshakes, smi les, pats on the back, applause,
promises, and later, votes, are all part of
that exchange process. Like an Asian
exchange, barter must go on."
She went on to discuss " money and the
pollution this places on the decision
making process. " In Washington in 1974
she said an election averaged $5CXX> in all
races, and $9000 for contested races. The
top race cost $22,CXX> for a job paying
only $3,600. In 1980 she said, elections in
the house were up to $15,CXX> and $24,CXX>
for the Senate. The top ten races ap-

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pacs can contribute $5CXX> to a candidate
while individuals can only contribute
$1CXX>, many good people hesitate to run
because they don't want to be beholden
to special interests. (Unsoeld distinguishes
" special " interest groups from interest
groups as t~ose which represent the interests of large money) She pointed out that
Slade Gorton , who said he'd never take
pac money, ended up accepting a great
deal in order to win .
Jolene commented that the situation is
enough to make us sick and it turns off
many people. She cited voter turnouts as
being dismaL Turnouts have dropped by
half in percentage sirice 1942 declining to
33% of the estimated eligible voters
participating in the 1980 primaries Half
of 33% leaves only 17% selecting our
most recent President.
"Obviously, we the employers are not
paying attention to either our employees,
or the structure of the organization within
which they must work. "
A problem Unsoeld sees on the national
level is that since public financing began,
people who were accustomed to spending
lots of money on these elections were
burning holes in the ir pockets and as a
result great amounts of money have come
to bear on state and county politics. A
bill is in the works on the national level
to carry public financing down to other
elections as well as to counter the
Supreme Court's ruling that money equal s
'IJeech . The argument is that unless we
limit some people's freedom of speech,
others are drowned out. Therefore public
financing should make the amounts of
'JJeech equal when one ca ndidate has
more speech than another.
Unsoeld summed up by emphasizing the
need for better publi c participation in
politi cs. She said that candidate" forum s
havp niscouraging turnouts. One person
from the audience asked if maybe she
wa, underestimating the voting public,
if maybe the people voting are the ones
wht. should be. Unsoeld replied that no
groups should be considered less respon sible to vote than others . It is done in
other count(ies but she hopes it never
happens here in the .U S.

The scene was uplifting. There's a
certai n thrill to hearing a well-informed
person address a large receptive audience.
The topic was "The legislative Process: Is
It Ethical?" The audience was about 200
people gather~ around tables at the
United Methooist church in Olympia last
Wednesday noon .

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lating Inarket potential through brand develop-

Broadcast Production Intern - Under direction
of Broadcast Production Manager . intern will be
involved in all phases of broadcast production
management. including talent contrac1S and
trafficking 01 broadcast materials . Prefer student
with some background in communications and

40 hrsl wk , paid in tern ,!lIp. rate to be determined

Dr. Andrew Hanfman, faculty member
in languages and Soviet affairs at The
Evergreen State College, will focus on the
American mooel of intelligence gathering
in his free public lecture on "INTELLI·
GENCE AND FOREIGN POLICY" on
Friday, February 18, at 3:30 p.m. in
lecture Hall Three at The Evergreen State
College.
"The main purpose of the intelligence
community is to gather accurate information which can be used to formulate
realistic foreign policy," Dr Hanfman
says. "It's only realistic to assume that the
intelligence community will provide the
best information it can."
Hanfman is a native of Russia and spent
20 years in various capacities with the
Central Intelligence Agency. A naturalized
American citizen, he has been a member
of the faculty at Evergreen since 1972.
His talk is the second in a series of
Winter Quarter discussions sponsored by
the Evergreen Colloquium. His presentation will be preceded by a 3 p.m. gathering in the Lecture Hall Rotunda, and
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proached or exceeded $40,CXX>. In 1982,
House races were up to $20,CXX>, Senate
races were averaging over $31,CXX> and
open, uncontested races were averaging
$30,CXX>. The top race cost $70,CXX>.
In 1971 the Federal Public Disclosure
Act was passed . As came out in Watergate, however, money was being washed.
As a result of the investigation, in 1974
the Campaign Reform Act was passed .
This act limited contributions from a
single entity to a single candidate, overall
campaign expenditures by a single party,
and personal or family expenditures. It
also provided for public financing of Presidential elections. Public funding of
Congressional campaigns passed in the
Senate but not in the House version so it
was not included in the legislation.
People threatened by this act challenged it in court. In the trial of Buckley
vs. Valeo in 1976, the Supreme Court
upheld public financing, self-imposed
spending limits for those receiving public
. finan Ci ng, disclosure, ceilings on ind ividual contributions, but they "gutted the
core." The Supreme Court equated spending with speech and cut out spending
limits on Congressional races, private
fundraising, and spending. It struck limits
on individual expenditure so that individual s ca n run separate campaigns each
funded to the limit, and it removed the
ceiling on personal and family expenditures on elections. Two years later when
Massachusetts passed a measure on a
state-wide ballot which prohibited corporations not affected by a measure from
spending money to influence passage of
the measure, again the Supreme Court
equated spending with speech and struck
down the measure. This, said Unsoeld,
declared an open season nationally for
the influence of money on initiative and
:::ourt, also by a 4 to 4 vote, let stand a

referendum campaigns. The Supreme
proposal allowing Presidents to spend unlimited amounts on their campaigns. This
measure, said Unsoeld, makes individual
participation less effective and discourages
it, while making the influence of large
money more effective.
In 1979, said Unsoeld, there were 89
political action committees (pacs) and in
1982 there were 1397. With only 17% of
firms with over $1 million in assets now
having pacs, "the worst is yet to come .
We have brought wealth to bear on the
political process in a bad way "
In 1980 a dozen or so pacs made over
$14 million worth of direct expenditures
outside of any limits. Much of this money
went into ·attacking Carter and a large
amount was spent on behalf of Ronald
Reagan. Republican s got control of the
Senate with the help of pac money which
went into wiping out several long-term
Democrats pressing such issues as abortion and military spending. Only one of
the targeted Senate Democrats survived
the onslaught. In the same year. Unsoeld,
the chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, through which any tax
reform must pass, received $157,CXX> from
corporate pacs to finan ce his elect ion .
Thi s, she said , was in recognition of his
potential bargaining power. The National
Auto Dealers Assn., the fourth largest pac
in 1980 contributed over $1 million in
that year to candidates who persuaded
Congress not to pass rules stating that a
dealer must reveal known defects in a car
to potential buyers . Eighty percent of the
candidates who opposed the rules
' received money.

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LETTERS
Stick To Your Guns

by I. W. Nielsen ,
As most people know, there IS an
attraction these days to live in the fast
lime. The why, can really only be answered
by the experts. But I have noticed that
the general direction of the world today
has scared so many people into believing
that they must get' as much "gusto" as
possible. It will be much worse in the
future, or so they believe. So people live
day by day, with few thoughts of the
future and the thoughts of the future that
they have are bleak.
Some people are just really lonely. So
they surround themselves with trivial
tinsel that to them garnishes their lonely
surroundi ngs, When living in this habitat,
a false feeling of security cancels the
loneliness and for the time being these
people are happy with themselves. When
the habitat is changed or taken away
most people look and search out hoping

to replace the lost garnish. I think this
action of searching is what living in the
fast lane is all about. It is important, I
think, that people should know that there
is no substitution for reality.
In whatever way we go about helping
ourselves deal with our problems we
shouldn't lose sight of what is real and
what is not. For many who have been
living in the fast lane for a long period of
time, it is espec ially hard to break back
into reality . If you wait too long to come
back to earth in facing your problems,
they will hit you like a brick wall. In order
to get out of the fast lane safely, one
must work on one problem at a time.
Don't take on everything at once.
If you're a student, and having problems getting out of the fast lane, contact
the trained professionals at Counseling
Services. It could very well change your
life.

TESC Theater faculty member Richard
Nesbitt died last Monday, February 14,
while at home, from a massive heart
altack . He would have been 46 February 24.
A memorial fund has been established
by the Development Office of The Evergreen State College. All funds raised will
go to the family, particularly his son, Pan.
" Richard was one of the gentlest souls
here at Evergreen," said Evergreen Vice
President and Provost Byron Youtz. "He
was a friend to many. All faculty, staff,
and students have lost a talented and
dedicated colleague."
He received his bachelor of science
degree from Emerson College in Boston
and served as a guest lecturer in theater
management at the University of Missourikansas City. Richard worked as business
manager, production manager and managing director at 5everal theaters in San
FranciSCO, Kansas City and Portland .
Richard came to Evergreen in 1979 as
director of the Communications Building. '
became an adjunct faculty member,
ing stage management and theater
production . He ran an audition workshop
in 1982 became a full member of the
faculty, teaching in the "Foundations of
Performing Arts" pr6gram. He was also
one of the founders' of the "Evergreen
Expressions" series 'nciw in its fourth year,

many significant performing groups to the
Olympia area.
Dean John Perkins, expressed sorrow at
the news of his death. He described
Richard as " one of the sweetest people I
knew, just a very gentle souL"
Many of Richard's students were also
shocked by the news. Their program had .
been studying the history of rituals dealing with life and death and were preparing
a public performance around rituals
created by the participants. The students
expressed a desire to go through with the
performance dedicating it in memory of
Richard .
He was actively involved in the Olyrnpia community where he was a member ·
of the Cultural Arts Advisory Committee '
and most recently served on the architectural selection committee and building
design committee for The Washington.
Center.
A funeral service will be held in New '
York on Thursday, February 17. A memorial service will be held on campus, Friday,
February 18, at noon in Room 110 of the '
Communications Building. The family
requests that no flowers be sent. Donations should be made to the heart fund.
He is survived by his son; and a mother,
father and sister in New York. Donations
to the Nesbitt Memorial Fund can be
made at Evergreen's
Development Office,
,

Dear Editor:
I am responding to the many people
who are opposed to the bill which will
disallow financial aid to people who do
not register for the draft. I am not taking
sides on this matter, but I will give some
ideas of mine which these IJE!OI?le should
consider. Before I start, I would like to
mention that I was drafted in 1972, and
served more than eight years in the Army .
These people are making a strong stand,
not on the bill, but on draft registration.
This is a strong conviction, but no less of
a conviction than a person who registers
for the draft. A conviction is a statement
of one's belief.
This country was made by people with
strong convictions, and they paid a price
for what they believed in. The price was
high, but they knew they had "right" on
their side, and they paid the price.
Your conviction has a price, and you
must be willing to pay that price. "If that
price is a jail term and/or lack of financial
aid, then you must be willing to pay that
price. If you are not willing to pay the
price, then you should go to the post
office and register for the draft.
Terry L. Buchanan
A Veteran Student

Evergreen State College represent the
present situation truthfully and 'move to
open the 8- and 16-track studios. This
means hiring faculty, organizing an audio
program and department and beginning to
take action with the same enthusiasm that
campus relations has when it gives its
:>romotional talk about audio being an
Jetive part of Evergreen's educational
curricul um.
Kate Dresen
Operations Manager KAOS FM

Schroeter Shrieks

Dear Editor,
Although the CPJ has some talented
people who write good articles, the overall
presentation and content of this year's (PI
has been quite boring. I had more trouble
getting students to accept a free (PI in
the CAB building on Thursday afternoon
than the Revolutionary Workers Party has
getting people to read their garbage on
the streets of Seattle.
With much consistency, the (PI editors
have allowed total garbage to hit the
Olympia community in our school paper.
Let me list some examples:
A. "Faggot and Dyke" sauna announcements ((PI Feb. 3) do not belong in the
sports section . This type of activity belongs in News and Notes or Arts and
Events, not in sports, This type of crap is
one of the reasons why Dick Bond tries to
close Evergreen every year and our intercollegiate sportl gets less support from
College PR Misrepresents
the business community than any other
school
in the state. It displays a very poor
Editor :
image
of
our sports program.
On Thursday, February 3, I witnessed a
B.
There
is more or LESS no sports
member of what I presumed was campus
The
Feb. 10 edition had no
coverage.
relations personnel of the Evergreen State
sports
at
all.
Duane
Heier wrote a story
College, giving a tour of the 8-track
it
was
cut
by
self-appointed
managing
and
recording studio on the first floor of the
"he
writes
editor
Erin
Kenny
because
Library building.
shitty stories." Anyone who read his interI am upset at what I overheard this
view with Jacques Zimicki knows that isn't
man to present. His talk explained that
so.
The cut story conta ined information
this wonderful 8-track studio is an active
on the sailing team qualifying for a race
part of academic studies which brings
in California and two ski team members
music students and audio students
who qualified for the regionals in McCall,
together.
Idaho, at the last race of the year. What
The 8-track recording studio is closed.
Ms_ Kenny thought was more important to
So is the 16-track studio. I didn't say anyprint was a story about a man who doesn't
thing as I stood in the door of the 8-track
eat and only breathes air. (The story
studio (which I, as an audio student, had
doesn't even mention if this person ever
never seen) and heard what I assume is
spoke at Evergreen or when.) Ms. Kenny
the usual pitch of campus relations
also felt that the record reviews are more
personnel as they show off the 8- and 16interesting and build better P.R, for the
track studios.
school than "shitty" sports stories. There
The mair.l reason for closure of the
was also no sports story written at all on
recording studios is lack of faculty. There
the swim team's last meet or the fact that
is no full -time faculty in audio, We have
the soccer club is currently 8 and O.
adjunct members who in the past worked
C There is no investigative journalism_
harder than even a full-time faculty
Period .
should have worked . There is a lack of
The editor(s) of the (PI are going to
faculty and no one to undertake the large
have to do a much better job if they are
13mount of work involved in adequately
goi ng to get students to read the paper .
teaching audio. The music department is
also short one staff member this year. The again. Some more local on-campus stories
would help. May I also suggest that the
hiring priority of the DTF does not even
hiring of a professional to take charge of
include audio or music. We need full-timE
the paper next year would be a good idea,
faculty in b9th the audio department and
Someone who understands public relations
music department in order to get anywhere near living up to the image campus and timeworthiness, and can help the(PI
reporters gain more skills and a better
relations and the registrars office express.
understanding of journalism instead of
Audio is an advanced discipline of the
telling them (or not telling them) that
arts. Too often it has been labeled techthey write "shitty" stories.
nical. This, an assumption made by the
Sincerely,
deans who seem to know little or nothing
Ben Schroeter
about communications. The potential of
Evergreen's audio department is excellent
because of the facilities . This institution
Dear Ben,
had best become responsible for the
While we appreciate your criticism, you
poteritial because campus relations is
should realize that we do keep deadJ;nes
doing such a fine job of bringing students
here and the first stories that are cut each
like me in . We are not going to let the
week are the ones that are not in on time.
audio department die passively,
It IS not fair to the writers, who do meet
I came to this college because of the
the deadline, to cut their stories,
audio department. If I had been a prosMaybe the quality of investigative
pective student going through next year's
journalism doesn't meet your "h igh " .
catalogue or had listened to campus
standards but we have received many
relations staff, both of which hype how
positive comments from qualified readers
the audio and music students work
on our journalism as well as our public
together in "multi-track" studios, I would
relations this year.
seriously question the college's integrity
Regarding your comments on the swim
when I found the studios closed, and a
and sauna announcement; stories involvlack of audio faculty. I would also add
ing our recreations department will
that I am not the first to point out the
usually be found on the sports page, The
contradiction on the schools part. The
size of our paper precludes more stringent
college relations staff had been asked
categorization than you might find in a
major paper. Maybe you should try readearly last fall to get its story straight.
ing the paper instead of giving it away in
What I witnessed on February 3 showed
the (AB.
me that no heed has been taken of these
Editor
requests .
Next year the 8- and 16-track recording

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A Hitchhikers Guide To Smelt Dipping
by D.A Heier
The Northwest is a sportslT!an's paradise.
You can fish for almost any kind of trout,
including our own famous steel head.
Deer, elk, sheep and bear fill thousands 01'
gun sights each fall. Besides all those
critters, there is a wide variety of little
edible creatures that neither run away nor
tug at your line. Oysters can simply be
plucked off the beach, clams lie just
below the surface, in easy reach of rakes
and shovels . Smelt run up the rivers in
such astounding numbers that they can
be taken by merely dipping in the stream
with a long-handled net.
This is a saga of smelt dipping.
I like to eat just about anything that
swims or crawls in the water, however
fried smelt or even pickled smelt are
terrible. Fortunately, they are delicious
smoked, the best beer snack since
popcorn .
A co~ple of weeks ago, a friend of mine
from down in Longview stopped to see
me on hi s way through town and was telling me how good the smelting had been
in the C~wlitz.
"The run has just started, but you
should see the number of people lining
the banks with their buckets and nets.
The limit is 20 pounds."
Smelts are little bitty things that look
like herring. Twenty pounds has to run
several hundred fish. Winter provisions for
a hungry camper-dwelling student.
Standing by the southbound 1-5 ramp in
Tumwater the next Friday watching the
outward migration pass by my thumb, my
mind wanders to a vision of millions of
tiny fish on their spawning journey; their
run like a ghost of the once great salmon
runs.
After what seems like too long a wait, a
beat-up old Ford pulls over and I squeeze
into the front seat with the two scruffy
looking occupants. There's barely room
for my bag in the back seat 'cause it's full
of gear. These gentlemen are obviously
nimrods.
"Where are you guys headed?"
"We're going down to the Cowlitz,"
says the short blond passenger, "gonna
catch us some steelhead ."
"My lucky cousin here caught two last
weekend," the driver chips in .
I sit back, glad I've finally gotten a ride
at least two-thirds of the way to my
destination and these two young pot
heads aren't bad company. They tell
me all about how to rig a line to fish the
Cowlitz, where they fish, and all about
the previous weeks trip. I tell them lies
about all the steel head I caught when I
was a kid.
It's cold and dark where they let me
out. Just as I begin to contemplate
another long cold wait, the first car pulls
over and gives me a lift. Surprisingly, the
lone driver is a middle-class, semi-middle
aged woman. This doesn't happen often,
especially at night. My luck seems to
have changed; her destination is within 15
miles of mine.
"When you let me out, I think I'll just
call my friend and see if he'll come and
pick me up." I figure Jerry will want
to go honky tonkin' in town anyway.

,CPJ Sports Editor '~m,OKI'S

"If your friend lives off the westside
· highway, you might as well ride on into
, Vader with me, it's ' closer to his house
than here by the freeway and besides
there's a tavern there for you to wai tin .
She must smell the beer I downed with
, the two steelheaders_
, As I walk into the bar, a backwoodsy,
· homey kind of place, my unfamiliar face
and traveling bag draw most of the few
patrons' noti ce.
When I order a beer and go to the
phone, I find that Jerry is not home.
"Damn," I mutter to myself, "he must
have gone into Castle Rock."
That's the nearest freeway exit to his
· house and since it's already 8:00, he
· probably went there thinking to meet me.
Several seconds of thought fails to conjure up the name of his favorite Castle
Rock bar, so I quiz one of the pool
players standing next to me.
"Are you on foot?" he asks,
After I explain the situation, he says,
"Well hell, I'll give you a ride over there.
I hate to see anybody walkin'."
Riding down the road with my new
benefactor, I mention that I've come to
dip smelt.
"I've been dippin' some myself, rye got
about 200 pounds in my freezer, but I
want about twice that many."
"Hey, that's a lot of smelt. "
"Well , I don't eat all of them. In fact,
most of them get used for sturgeon bait."
There must be one hell of a lot of smelt
in the ri ver.
Fortunately, Jerry was where I hoped
he would be. The rest of the eveni ng's
activities are even less relevant to smelt
ing than the rest of this already too long
story ... except the hangover I carry to
the river the next day.
Driving to the river Saturday morning,
we see many other people with what
look like over-long, heavy-duty butterfly
nets tied to their cars. Once we get along
the Cowlitz, every little parking area is
crowded with smelt dippers.
Wherever the current comes near shore,
people line the river bank a net's length
apart, hundreds of them.
When we find a space to get at the
water, my smelting lesson begins.
"Put the net in upstream of you with
the opening downstream" explains Jerry.
"Let the current carry it down, when it
gets to the end of the arc, twist it a little
and pull back to lock the fish in."
With that, he drops the net in and sure
enough pulls it out with two wriggling
little silver fish.
After a couple more passes, he hands
the net to me. The first several tries I get
nothing but rocks from the bottom. This
isn't as easy as it looks. The opening of
. the net must be held upright in the water
: and you have to bump the bottom, kind

radio before we can tell him that we got
all of them five miles away.
"Are_you guys using radios?" he asks us
: as we get into the car.
, " No. We use a net."
We get back to Jerry's with about a
hundred of the little beggars, and by the
. time we get them all cleaned, I'm just
as glad we didn't get more . A hundred
only amounted to about a quarter of the
limit .
The next morning we set out with
Iclear heads and immediately find an
excellent place to dip. An overnight rain
of feeling your way around rocks and
has apparently brought more fish upstream and we start getting at least five
snags, and get the little twist at the end
just right. After some practice, I start
per dip, sometimes as many as twenty .
getting a few . We move on up the river,
Even though these fish are mostly under
trying it here and there. We are only
six inches in length, at times there are
getting one or two per scoop. That's not
50 many that you can feel the fish
very good smelting.
hitting the rim of the net through the
handle. I n half an hour, we have about 300
, We finally get upstream to a place
~me lt , and a hell of a fish-cleaning job
where several dips prove that we are
Later in the day, as Jerry is dri Ving
above that day's migration. But in the
me
and my smelt back to Olympia, the
short time it takes to get out the net and
road is clogged with people heading
test the water, six other car loads of
home from the weekend. I think again
smelters have pulled up. Some just sit and
of migrating fish and of the incredible
watch us, others break out their nets and
abundance of salmon, steel head, and
start futilely straining the river. One guy
sturgeon in our rivers before we started
who has a portable CB sees our partially
damming and foul ing them .
full bucket and starts jabbering into the

Bond I nterview

continued from page one

(PI: Do you believe the state would be
better off if the school was closed?
Bond: It is my conv iction that. higher
education would be better served by
spending the money at the other four
regional schools .
(PI: Has there been any reaction from
your constituents I
Bong: A number of people have called
and their reaction was, 'What's happened
to the Spokane paper? We don't need a
Westside newspaper here:
(PI: Can you explain something of the
east-west politics in Washington state I
Bond: A lot of states have that sort of
thing. I grew up in California. It's an
identical situation there between north
and south . Here it's between the eastside
and the westside of the state. The east
side is what I guess you 'd call more conservative and there are a great number of
other differences .
(PI - Such as l
Bond.' Well, for one thing the western
side of the state likes higher taxes -at
least they keep electing legislators who
give us a higher tax rate .
(PI: Does the east-west politi ca l
polarity of the politics of Washington
state have anythi ng to do with the
political image of the schooll

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Bond: I don't have one I'm going to
turn in tomorrow, but I might. It's a
matter of determining what's the best
approach to use. I introduced Just a plain ,
straightforward bill to close the sc hool
last time as a device that I thought
could be modified , but also as a test to
see how much support there was I nterestingly, over the years there's been a
feeling among the legislatures that the
schoo l is inadequate and inappropriate . A
greater proportion of legislators come to
Ihdt conc lusion now , and the reason, I
,uppose, is that the economy is tougher
now. If you have money to squander, you
,an better justify spending It on Ever~ree n . But If you don 't and you reall v feel
ihat all of higher ed is hurting, you look
,lround and you think that if we cl05ed
~vergreen and took all that money and
put it into the other schools, we'd be
better off That is a natural conclusion
some people come to.

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that is that a higher proportion of eastern
legislators want to close the school. However there is a similar feeling on the part
of a number of western legislators as well.

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Friday
Friday Night Films presents "Foxes" (1980,
105 min., color). directed by Adrian lyne, Friday,
February 18, at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. In
lecture Hall One. "Foxes" stare Jodie Foster,
Scott Balo, Sally Kellerman, Randy Usld, and
Cherie Curle. Admission Is $1 .50.

they do racing.) On the strength of those
performances, the Geoducks placed third
overall in cross country.

by /] .A. Heier

. Two weeks ago at the Lewis and Clark
Pi oneer Invitational , our own schUSSing
, hell fi sh beat three of the eight tea.ms
that showed lip at Oregon 's Multopor Ski
bowl
The Geodu ck ski team was paced in
Illen's alpine events by Eri c " Sverre" Smith
,n slalo m and Bill "The Beaver" Cleaver in
the giant slalom. A total of seven bivalves
parti cipateC in those events .
III cross country, the men were led by
Smith . who fini shed fourth, John Wadland. w ho fini shed 11th, and David " The
Docro l ,. Hampton . (I think these people
spend more time thinking up names than

Danish Photographer Documents
Disparity In American Culture
by Da vi d Gafi
"' mer;, 'an Pictures ." a slide show and
graphi ( representation " f -'\ merl can cultu re th rDugh th e eyes of Danish filmmake:'
J':Kob Hold t, was shown last Friday,
Februil rv 11 The slide show, sponsored bi
no Ie" than eight student organi zation s.
la,ted l ive hOll r, and in cluded a di sc us,ioll b\ Holdl ', Ameri ca n representative,
1011 \ H,lrns
rill' sli de ,how co nsisted of s('veral
sllelt' IIllages at the sa me time Ho ld t (on
1,1ilt'l \\,15 des r nbi ng w hdt th e pi clures
\o\, ' lt' ,1hou t . Abo IIlcludpd were inl erVI"\\ '. ,l<'lu.1lldped evenh. and song,
( hn'I'" tor tlwl( soc ial Signif ican ce The
n']II,1IIon b\ Holdt wa , the slory o f hi s
tr,l \ "I , through Ameri la as a vagabond ,
ml '( ' :lI l~ peoplp of every race and c las,.
Holel t lias in the Unl tpr! Sta tes between
'1971 and 1Y7b. an d re turn ed betwepn '
1971l and 1980 to updatp hi s slide show.
Holdt was ,1 11 over the Uni ted States,
obserVin g thing, th at evell the larges t
telev ision net\\o rk s had fa iled to comment
on He did not fail to mention this fact.
Among the plac es and events he photographed were a camfl in Florida where
Ho ld t found peopl e who he thought were
no bet ter tha n slaves; a KKK rally in the
South : Wound ed Knee, where he fought
with t he Indi ans (and was arrested by the
F.B I ). ,,",ary land , where he was picked Ufl
hi tc hhi king bv Ted Kennedy, Ethel
Kennedy and Burt Bacharach; West
Virginia . where he knocked at the door of
Governor of West Virginia jay Rockefell er' s house and was invited in ; and to a
town where he met joan Littl e and her
family long before her trial for killing a
whi te pri son guard in self defense (and
her subsequent acquittal) .
Holdt lived in 381 homes during his
Iravels around the U .S. (at least the first
time), and travell ed over 100,000 miles
hi tc hhi ki ng He lived with whoever would
let him st ay at th eir home. Holdt, who
had long hair at the time of the first tour,
brought a short-hair wig along to help
him to get into the homes of the middle
and upper classes.
Although up to this point " American
Pi ctures" might sound like a representation of all races, it is not. This presenta-

After the first half of the slide presentation , Holdt's American representative,
Tony Harris, tried to explain Holdt's
philosophy to the aud ience in a question
and answer session . In the show, Holdt
said that poverty in America is the worst
in the world . Harris explained the reasoning, saying that in America, " poor people
live around affluence " He explained
furth er, that "In Third World countries , it
is known that everybody will not be able
to work ." In the
however, people are
taught that they should be able to find a
job, and if they don't it's their own fault.
In the next few months, Holdt will be
revising " American Pictures," but as the
organi zation he developed to show
" American Pictures" is a non-profit foundation, he must keep showing the slide
show in order to raise money for the
revisions . He will also be producing a
book (American edition), based on the
slide show.

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TESC sailors catch some wind

photo by Oberbillig

by Camey Combs
By winning the Douglas Cup eliminations regatta, The Evergreen State College's
(TESC) sai ling team earned a berth in the
regatta in Long Beach, California. They
beat teams from the University of Washington and Tacoma Community College
during the weekend of the 12th and are
now this districts representatives to the
Douglas Cup Regatta in Long Beach. This
will be held in March on the 4th , 5th, and
6th .

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minutes later his roommate found him
dead i n hi s bunk .
" Th ey say they don't know (why he
died) but I don't believe them ," says Mrs.
Bunn ell . From information obtained
through CAMI , she has found that in most
cases if someone continues to push the
investigation , they find out the military
does know the cause of death . She has
heard of many instances in wh ich the
military tries to put people off until they
"mellow out" or stop pursuing the issue:
The investigation into her son's death was
to take 90 days, and it has been seven
months now since it began. Mrs. Bunnell
has no intention of letting the army off
the hook. Even though the military has no
legal liability, she believes she has the
right to at least know the real reason for
the death of her son .
" It's the hardest thing when they knock
on your door and tell you that your son is
dead but they won't tell you why. That's
the hardest thing to live with . If they told
me he had a heart attack, I could accept
his death."
This is an issue that many people of
military age are not aware of . The military
takes no responsibility for death or injury
whether you are serving in combat, are a
victim of negligence in a medical situation, are involved in a disciplinary action,
or are simply a victim of some kind of
accident.
The most recent CAMI newsletter contains two case histories of men who died

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PIQe e The Cooper Point Journel

set to music, at the Recital Hall of the Communications Building, Saiurday, February 19, at
4:30 p.m. The concert will feature choirs tram
Tacoma and Seattle. Admission Is $2 for the
general public and $1 for students. Kuumbe
Gospel Is one of several events planned by the
Ujamaa Society for Black History Month. Wednesday, February 23, from 3-5 p.m ., Mona lI ..
Salay will be hosting a pOetry workshop. Saloy
will lecture on " Ira-the Time of Personal Awareness," at 8 p.m. In the Recital Hall. Admission Is
$3 for both events (workshop and lecture) or $2
for one of the events. Ujamaa will also present
The Paul Robeson Community Drama n-ter on
Thursday, February 24, at 7:30 p.m. In the Library
lobby. They will perform a musical, "Drums of
Life." For admission prices, please contact the
Ujamaa Society.

Military
tio n i, primarily a doc umentary on ra cism
and th e economi c and soc ial reasons
behind it. Throughout hi s travels, Holdt
tri ed to hold hi s own impression s of the
people hi' was living with, and see things
th eir way By holding hi s own opinions
back, Holdt got clear and distin ct impressions of ra cism in Ameri ca. Unfortunately,
through all his impressions, thoughts, and
conclusion s, Holdt had few answers.
Those answers that Holdt did have are not
easily attainable.

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The Artists' Co-op Gallery, at 524 South Wash·
ington in downtown Olympia, will be featUring as
their artists 01 the week, February 'S-26, paller
Joy Matheson and etching artists, Julie Ring. The
gallery hours are from 10-5 Monday through
Saturday.
EPIC presents "Bush Mama" (95 min .). directed
by Halle Gerima, Monday, February 2', at 7 : 30 p.m .
in lecture Hall I and in CAB 110, February 22, at
noon. "Bush Mama" has all the immediacy and
impact 01 a documentary, capturing the distinctive
style 01 ghetto language and humor. It is a
?owerful portrayal of urban black America, focus·
Ing on a black woman fiving on welfare in Watts.
Admission is Iree.
Recent works by Jo Hockenhull, a member of
the art department of Washington State Un iversity .
will be on display February 22 through March 14
in Gallery 4 of the Evans library at The Evergreen
'>tate College. Hockenhull, whose unique art is
nspired by X-ray photos , will begin her exhibit
l ith a lecture on "Women in Art " on Tuesday ,
~ ebruary 22, at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall 01 the
'.ommunicat ions Building . Her lecture is span ·
ored by "Art History : 20Ih Century Women ." an

The Ujamaa Society presents Kuumbll Goapel,

The j-24 is the type of boat that will be
used in the Douglas Cup It is a bigger
boat than TESCs team is accustomed to
sa il i ng, 24 feet as opposed to 14 feet.
Anoth er di ff erence is that the 'Du cks
usually sail dinghies and the )-24's are
keel boats, which feature an attached,

Ameri ca n Pictures

Coming Up

an evening of creativity through the wordS of God

In the March regatta, they will be
racing against seven of the top teams in
the country. The seven other districts in
the nation are sending their winners . This
alone makes the competition tough but in
addition one of the University of Texas'
sailors is the World Champion )-24 racer.

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In women's alpine, Nancy Zevely finished 13th in slalom and 22nd in giant
sla lom. In women's cross country,
Michelle Ridgeway scored a strong third .
Ridgeway and Smith have qualified for
regional competition held at McCall ,
Idaho, on February 17 .
After a distant 6th place finish at the
end of january in the University of Washington's Afterguard Regatta, the Evergreen
sai ling team got a break last weekend at
the UW's Douglas Cup qualifying regatta.
Though several other teams had been
slated to compete, only Tacoma Cornmunity College (TCC) and the Greeners
showed up to take on the Huskies. After
the Geoducks whipped TCC, the wind
died down, and the UW decided not to
compete. As a result, Geoducks Eric
Noyd, Rick Baldwin, and Gordon Smith
will be heading for Long Beach, California, March 4 through 6 for the National
Douglas CLIP

Arts & Events

The Rainbow Restaurant, located at 200 W .• th
m downtown Olympia, presents the New Smithfield Trio every Wednesday and Thursday during
~ebruary, Irom S-" p.m . Every Friday and Satur1ay, Patrick Tuzzolino, a jazz vocalist, pianist,
and guitarist will appear. Sunday, Filbruary 20 ,
Bebop Revisited appears. Admission for Bebop
Revisited will be $3.50.

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Sunday
KAOS's continuing "Alive In Olympia" program
can be heard each Sunday at 7 p.m. on 89.3 FM.
Sunday, February 20: TravelOg-An evening
of progressive rock. Travelog plays traditional
rock instruments with electric mandolin.

weighted keel. Th'ese 24-footers are cabin
cruisers, with three crew members to a
boat. Each school will send two threemember crews . Evergreen's crew members
will be Rick Baldwin, Erik Noyd, Gordon
Smith, Storm Thompson, and Coach Lou
Powers.

Tides of Change presents "The Children's
Hour" (1962, '07 min.) , directed by William Wyler
Sunday , February 20, at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. in
lecture Hall One. The film stars Audrey Hepburn,
Shirley Maclaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins
and Fay Bainter. AdmiSSion Is $1.50.

Besides the boats being different, the
regatta will be organized differently.
Instead of having all of the teams compete at the same time, they will be match
racing. This one-on-one competition takes
much longer than the former kind. Each
team races another team three times
the team winnin€: best two out of three is
the winner of the match. This means that
TESC could race up to 21 races, with up
to 60 races altogether.

The Animators Group presents " Yellow Submarine" (Great Brilain , .968 , 85 min ., color/,
.I"ected by George Dunning Sunday , February 27 .
113 p.m ., 7 p.m. , and 9 : 30 p.m. in the Rec ital
, all . The funds raised will go towards the forma·
.Ion 01 an animators collective . Admis sion is
$1.50.

Childhood's End Gallery , at 222 West 4th in
,)Iympia, is featuring paintings by Marilyn Frasca
and Raku wall reliefs by Mary Robinson from
February 4-28. The gallery hours are '0 : 30-6
Monday through Saturday and from. 2 to 5 on
Sundays .
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"< It,, <lti on ." Some of Ihest' choi ces Il1 lgh t

by Eric Brinker

by Jo hn Hill

Those peopl e who went to the recital
hall last Wednesday night to hear readings
by floets Robert Bly and Connie Martin
were treated to something mo~e than your
average poetry reading. Bly and Martin
read poetry. di scussed the ch anging roles
of men and women , and with the aid of
mytho logica l masks ac ted out a fairy tale
durin g their two-hour presentation in the
Evergreen State College Communi cations
Bu ilding.

Some o f the United Stat es' be'it ami
bri ghtest indi viduals are flayedl,y Iht:'
gov~ rnm e nl 10 as sisl in forll1ul atln!-;
forpi gn po li cy Th " profess ional " think
tank " helps to deCide Amerird\ rt' lat ionship w ith til[' world . Their dec isions, however, mi ght not always be in the in t,'req s
of all A meri cans. Petrin a Wa lker, founder
of O ly mpi a's F\o>ace CRANE Alli all« ', has
an altern ati ve : " [du cating yourse lf and
others
drawing uflon IllI-' ,,''>ouru', of
concern ed citi Lens."

Bly, editor o f the ac claimed poetry
journal " The Eighties" (formerly " The
Seventies," " Th e Sixties" and " The Fihies"
under hi s ed i to~ship ) has won the national
book award for his book of poems " The
Light Around the Body," as well as being
an accomplished translator. Bly has
brought many people in contact with the
works of Spanish poet Fredrico Lorca,
German poet Ranier Rilke, and the Sufi
poet Kabi r, as we II as several others.

The F\o>ace CRAN E A llianl.t-' (FCA) is a
lew loca l research, study, and support
troup of concernE'd peace activi sts.
,\Ithough W alker\ own in te rps ts focus on
'he nu clear arms race and what she con·
iders its " fearsome implications," there is
he opportunity for many issues to be
, ~x plored . " It all depends on the interests
,f the people who get involved ," said
Walker.

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Bly is not satisfied with merely reading
hi s poems, but rather invites audience
participation. At the beginning of the
reading when they brought the house
lights down he had them brought back up
saying that he likes to see the audience
and that darkness creates "a wall " between
the person on stage and the audience. He
accompanied himself on the bouzouki, a
Greek instrument similar to a mandolin
but with a longer neck . The bouzouki
added another dimension to the rhythm
of the poems as well as to the atmosphere. Bly started by reading a few poems
on fathers and sons. It was powerful
imagery. There seemed to be a time lag
between the end of each poem and the
applause that followed, you could literally
hear the crowd catch its breath. Bly also
retold the timeless parable of the prodigal
son which capped off his father/son
selections.

If you are interested in acquiring more
nformation about Citizens Against Military
njustice, or wish to give assistance in the
rm of donations or publiCity for their
fforts, they can be contacted at: Citizens
gainst Military Injustice, 62 N . Ondaga
d., Mason, Michigan 48854; (517)
96-9074.

AT BOMB-mITH BOOKS

As part of Black History Month, the Ujamaa
Society is sponsoring a showing of photographs
and paintings by black artists, Robert Lloyd and
George Cook, which will be held in Gallery II in
the library, Irom January 29 through February 27.

: lJergreen academic program .

Bly and Martin; MoreThan Poets Ride On The Peace CRANE

in non-combat situation s. In one, a so ldier
who was discharged from a military
hospital was ordered back to work and
was ignored when he said he was sti II
si ck. Despite vomiting and dizziness, he
was ordered to continue working in the
98 0 heat. His sergeant continued to deal
harshly with him in spite of convulsions,
and by the time he was taken back to the
hospital , four and one-half hours after his
discharge, his temperature was 106° and
he was comatose. He died six hours later.
The other is a story in which the evidence
seems to indicate foul play aboard a navy
ship, but because the ship had been
plagued with "bad publicity" the Navy
refuses to answer many of the families
questions and they still don't know why
their son died.
The CAM I is planning to have their
organization, which now boasts about
1000 members, go to Washington in June
to voice their appeal against these abuses
of servicemen and their families .

The Classics
Traditional & .Modern
Qual ity Fiction

Continuing

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The Geoduck sailors have gotten a
chan ce to practice in )-24's . Sails Northwest's local manager, Brian Hoonan, took
the team out in one of the boats in a
regatta sponsored by the South Sound
Sailing Association. Evergreen won the
race against 40-50 other boats. Thi s was
th e first time they have raced in j-24's.

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The acoustic rock duo of Linda Waterfall and Scott Nygaard will perform in the Evans Library lobby
at The Evergreen State College at 8 p.m. on Fflday, Filbruary 18.
Waterfall, praised by reviewers for her "ec lectic style and magic voice," returns home from a fall tour
encompassing the East Coast and California. She and Scott Nygaard, her accompanist are working on
Waterfall's fourth album. Her concert promises to be a delightful evening of music, blending elements
of rock, jazz, blues and folk into a lyrical whole.
Waterfall's concert will be opened by Olympia's own "We Three," an a cappella triad that gained
widespread recognition when they opened for Holly Near last year. Listeners can expect engaging
harmonies expressed through moving renditions of We Three's own songs and folk classics.
Tickets can be purchased at the door of at The Evergreen State College Bookstore lor $3 .50 students
and $4 general. For more inlormation , call 866-1356.

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Next, Connie Martin read some poems
she herself had written on the mother/
daughter theme. These poems proved to
be very searching indeed. Martin used no
instrumental accompaniment but was a
physically active reader. My personal
favorite of these was "The Seal Between
Us ," but the juxtaposition of masculine
and feminine was a theme the readings
revolved around throughout the evening.

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After a short break, Bly read some love
poems from his forthcoming book. The
audience was offered a choice of endings
to " The Black Hen of Egypt ," it was a
difficult choice to make. Bly came off as
a warmhearted grandparent with a wonderful sense of humor. At one point he
asked why people on the West Coast are
so caught up with the idea of en lightenment. "How about a little endarkment for
a change?" he pleaded. This plea helps to
illustrate one of the points of his discussion : That people need to experience the
light and the dark, the masculine and the
feminine within themselves. To not be
entifely one way or the other but to strike
a harmony between them .
Connie Martin shared some of her love
poems and then along with Bly, acted out
a mythologici;ll fairy tale, which further
illustrated the masculine and feminine
experience in each of us. Bly finished the
evening with a poem by the Sufi poet
.Kabir and the audience responded with a
standing ovation. Both poets were
exhausted from traveling, but watching
them on the stage, captivatingly energetic,
you would have never known . I walked
out of the building and noticed my feet
weren't touching the ground.

This is not a study group for students
mly, explains Walker : " I want a real
troad base of individuals
drawing from
he community as well as the college
In issue like the nuclear arms race affects
'verybody"
According to Walk er, Olympia o ffers no
reasonable outlet for citizens to become
involved with issues pertaining to peace
activism . Peace vigils are part of this
Tlvolvement, but she believes that a study
group could pick up where the vigils leave
off. "You have to educate yourself, then
make active choices based on that new

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J ( ' are concern ed clti zp ns In thi s part 0 1
,hI' world and that we believe Ih at you
Ire con cern ed too "
According to Walker. it is the small
()Iiti cal minoritv 'J: hUl h countri es th at
"eps Russians and Ameri cans in an
dversary relationship. " If w e cou ld begin
) communi cate with them as cOllce rn ed
I ti zens then 1 bel ieve we cou Id start
Jreaking down a few of those barri ers
dnd the us vs . them mentali ty."
The first (organization al) monthl y meetng of the Feace CRANE Allian ce will be
'In Friday, February 1R, 7 p .m , in Lounge
~100 of the Library Building at The Ever'~reen State College. Discuss your concerns and personal peace goals . Hear the
; tory of " Sedako and the Thousand Paper
Cranes ." For further information, contact
Petrina Walker, evenings, at 352-2155 .

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