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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL

February 14, 1985

Issue No 16

Vol. No, 13

F EVENT.---TONIGHT
"Rules Of The Game"
7 and 9:30 p.m., Lecture Hall I,
$1.50.
"A wonderful and clear-eyed
Valentine by Jean Renoir."
Sponsored by Thursday Night
Films.
"Pieces From The Heart"
6:30 and 8 p.m., Ben Moore's,
112 W. Fourth, Olympia. No
cover charge, but reservations are
requested.
Pianist John AIkins performs a
special Valentine's Day show.
Cutting Edge Colloquium
7:30 p.m., Council Room,
Governor House. Free.
Dr. Brian Smith of Xerox of Palo
Alto, California, will speak o n
"The New Stanford Center for
the Study of Language and
Intelligence. "
Bible Discussion Group
6:00 p.m., every Thursday.
ASH Apartments, number 136.
Free to everyone, "searchers
welcomed." .
For more information, call Pat,
943-7359, or Cliff, 866-1400.

Friday
Singalong at Bread and Roses
8 p .m., Bread and Roses Hou se
of Hospitality, 1320 E. 8th
Avenue. Free .
Bring an instrument, or your
voice, or even both! For details,
call 754-4085.
Piano Man
Friday evenings, Ben Moore's
Ca fe, 112 W. 4th, Olympia. No
cover charge.
Phil Bunker will perform every
Friday in February at Ben
Moore's newly remodeled dining
room. For reservations , caJI
357-7527.
Multinational Uni! E
7 p .m. , Kane Hall 130, University of Washington, Seattle. $5.00

general admission, at all Ticket
master outlets.
Multinational Unit ~ is a San
Francisco area jazz band that incorporates Chinese cultural
heritage into popular and traditional jazz. Seattle musician
Deems Tsutakawa will open the
show. For more information, call
ASUW Productions, 543-7663.
George Thorogood in Concert
8 p.m., Paramount Theater,
Seallle. Tickets on sale at all
Ticketmaster outlets.

Saturday
Beaux Arts Ball
8:30 p.m ., CAB lobby . $3 .75,
students with I.D.; $5.00, general
admission .
~efreshments
provided.
This annual celebration features
Ready Made Family, a rhythm
and blues/funk group from Seattle, and Olympia's own Factory
Girls. For more information, call
866-6000, ext. 6220.

Monday
Books Take a Break
Timberland libraries in five counties (Grays Harbor, Lewis,
Mason, Pacific, and Thurston)
will be closed today for the President's Day holiday. Hours will be
back to normal tomorrow.
"Mon Oncle"
7:30 p.m., Lecture Hall I. Free,
childcare provided at the Parent
Ce nter, Lib 3221 .
This 1956 "gent le, pan tomimed
lunacy", directed by Jacques
Tati, is sponsored by E.P . I.e.
and The Human Condition program. The film will be repeated
tomorrow in CAB 110 at noon.
Wallyball
7-9 p .m. , eRC Racquetball
,Courts I and 2.
Everyone's invited to come and
play.

ALLIED HEALTH CA REER S
WORKSHOP
The Career Planning and Placement office will sponsor a workshop
In th e allied health careers in CAB
108, February 27th, fr om I :30 to
3:30 p.m .
Paneli!> ts will represent var ious
health career area s such as nutrition,
Ilc alth edu cation, nur s in g and
emergency health ca re. All are
welcome to attend and ask questions
(I f the panelists.
For 1110rc information abou t the
works hop. call Ca reer Planning and
Placement at 866-6000. ext. 6193.

FOLK DANCE FEBRUAR Y 22nd
The Evergreen State College Folk
Dance Club is sponsoring a folk
dance party at the college Recreation
Ce nter on Fr iday, February 22nd,
from 8 p.m. to midnight. Dances
from eastern Europe, Scandinavia,
and the Midd le East are among our
favorites.
The evening wi ll feature the li ve
music of Dobar Dan Tamburitza Orchestra , one of Seatt le's finest
Balkan bands. Beginner s arc
welcC'me, and m .. ny dances will be
taught. AdmissiC'n is $1 .

•••••••••

MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT
LIFE AND DEATH
St. Pe ter's HosDital will spo nsor
a free forum on the issues facing
families whose members may need
ex tended life support during severe
illness. Making Decisions A hour
Lije and Death will be held on
Thursday, February 21, from 7to 9
p .m. at St. Peter's .
The program is free, but St. Peter
Hospital requests that you try to
register by Monday, February 18th .
by calling the Public Relations
Department at 456-7248 .

HIGH TECH BOARD MEETS
The Washington High Technology
Coordinating Board will meet Tuesday, Februar y 19, from 9:30a.m. to
2:30 p.m., at Evergreen. in Room
108 of th e Co ll ege Activitie~
Budding.
The Board was established in 1983
by th e sta te legislature to oversee and
coord inate the state' s hi gh
technology education and training
activit ies.

•••••••••

• ••••••••

"Coup de Torchon"
6:30 and 9 p.m., State Theatre,
204 E. Fourth. $\.50 Olympia
Film Society members, $4.00
non-members.
A "diabolical and suspenseful
satire (that) appeals to the
mystery lover in all of us." This
1981 film stars Philippe Noiret
and Isabelle Huppert. Presented
by the Olympia Film Society.
Women In Science
12:00-1:00 p.m., Lib 3216.
Women from any academic area .
are welcome to share thoughts
and ideas about sexism in
education.

Tuesday
Wallyball Again
7-9 p.m., CRC Racquetball
Court I.
Men's Support Group
Evening; Check at the Men's
Center, Lib 3227, for the specific
time and place. This group meets
weekly in members' homes.
"Independent Investigation of
Truth"
7 p.m., ASH 141.
An informal discussion sponsored by the Evergreen Baha'i
Association. For more information, call Stephan Dimitroff,
866-9069.
Lesbian Support/Rap Group
7:00-9:00 p.m., Lib 3223 .
Sponsored by the TESC Lesbian /Gay Resource Center. For
information. call 866-6000, ext.
6544.
Meditation and Discussion
12 noon, Lib 3225.
A time to quietly center yourself,
then explore with others your
spiri tual questions. Sponsored by
Innerplace.
Education Committee Meeting
9:30 a.m.-noon, Room ID2.
Transportation Building, Jeffer-

Computer Field Trip
8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Free, meet in
the library loop.
The trip will include a visit with
Bill Ritchie, Fine Arts professor
and one of the leading computer
artists in the Northwest, and a
trir to Artronix, an 'ad agency
with some of the most advanced
equipment in the region. To
register, sign up in Lib 3224.

Animal Liberation Presentation
7:30 p.m., HUB Auditorium,
University of Washington,
Seattle.
Ingrid Newkirk of the Animal
Liberation Front will speak and
show a videotape compiled from
a confiscated University of Pennsylvania tape of animal
experimentation.

Art Galleries

Wednesday

Women's Cultural Center
Gallery
University YWCA, 701 N.E.
Northlake
Way,
Seattle.
632-4747.
Pastel drawings on black paper
by former Evergreen student
Louise Williams.

Overeaters Anonymous
7:00 p.m., CAB 108 or 110.
The only requirement for
membership is a desire to stop
eating compulsively. For infor. mation, call Ivy, 866-0225.
Master Conserver Course
The Energy Extension Service
will be offering its fourth annual
Master Conserver Course beginning tonight. The program will
provide training in energy conservation and uses of renewable
energy in the home. To participate, call 943-4595 .
Carl Stone in Concert
8 p.m., TESC Recital Hall. $2.50
students,
$3.00
general
admission.
"Electro-Acoustic" music, sponsored by the O lympia Media
Exchange.
Sherlock Holmes Double Feature
7 p.m., Lecture Hall I. $2.50.

Artists' Co-Op Gallery
524 So. Washington, Olympia.
Oil by Bob Farrington and pen
and ink by Cathy Healy, through
Saturday. Watercolor and pottery by John Cash, and oils by
Claudia Marsh, February 16-23.
Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mandarin Glass Gallery
8821 Bridgeport Way S.W .,
Tacoma. 582-3355.
"Dimensions In Glass" features
19 artists recognized for their accomplishments in a variety of
glass media. Show cont inues
through March 3.
Evergreen Gallery Two
Evans Library, 2nd floor.
Watercolors by Mariko Marrs
and Haruko Moniz, January 27
through March 10.
Evergreen Gallery Four
TESC, Evans Library Building.
. Point of Departure", a group
exhibition of prints by MFA
graduates from the University of
Wisconsin, runs from Jan. 19 to
Feb. 17.

POETRY
NORTHWEST
CONFERENCE
A three-day poetry conference at
Saint Martin' s College will feature
Hether McHugh, Nelson Bent ley,
Emi ly Warn and Jim Mitsui.
O lym pia area poets will be emphasized Thursday, February 28th.
McHugh and Bentley, from the
University of Washington, will critique submi tt ed poems and read th eir
own work Friday March I. Mitsui
and Warn will preside March 2 .

•••••••••
"DON'T BOTHER ME, I CAN'T
COPE" FEB. 21
The Paul Robeson Community
Theatre Group presents the musical
"Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope"
on Thursday, February 21 at8 p.m.
in the Library lobby at Evergreen.
The Micki Grant musical is a lively and moving portrayal of the Black
experience in America, which played
to enthusiastic Seattle crowds last
summer during the city's Black
Musical History Month.
"Don ' t Bother Me, I Can't
Cope" is sponsored by Evergreen's
Ujamaa Society in ce lebration of

TONIGHT - Thursday Night Films presents Rules oj the Game.
7 and 9:30 p .m., Lecture Hall I. $1.50.
Black History Month. Ujamaa's
Student Director Hoover Chambliss
says "We are presenting this production free of charge to the communi-

ty as a gift from our organization ."
The 8 p.m. showing is free and open
to the public. For more details, call
Ujamaa at 866-6000, ext. 6781.
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We got Letters.

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BARBARA HOWELL

We got poetry.

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p.7

Annnnnnd . . . .
THE EVERGREEN

STATE COLLEGE

February 21, 1985

by Roger Dickey

We got Komedy! ... p. 6

WashPIRG
watches
Hanford
by Irene Mark Buitenkant
In March, the U.S. Department of
Energy will publicly review the Environment Assessment, a document
being used to justify the selection of
Hanford, Washington, as one of the
th ree sites for a nuclear waste
repository.
WashPIRG (Washington Public
Interest Research Group) will
challenge
this
report
at
the hearings. It is the last time that
the State of Washington will be
allowed to have a say in site
selection.
Wendy Wendlandt, campus coordinator for WashPIRG, says that it
appears that the choice of Hanford
is a political decision and not one
based upon scientific research.
. The Hanford site has a basalt base
(solidified lava). WashPIRG and
some some geologists consider
granite a preferable host rock.
The environmental assessment
report says water from tbe Columbia Riv'er, ten kilometers away,
won't be contaminated for 20,000
years. But the U .S. Geological
Survey contends that groundwater
from the waste site might travel to
the Columbia River in less than 20
years.
The environmental assessment
report dismisses the possibility of
transportation accidents with the
reply that they ean be "mitigated."
WashPIRG is also concerned with
the PUREX, (Plutonium Uranium
Extraction Plant), near Hanford.
The plant was re,- started in 1983
by the Reagan Administration to
process nuclear waste into defense
material. It was shut down two
months later because of a plutonium
leak. At the time of the accideni,
nearly half of the monitors were
inoperable.
The State of Washington was not
informed of the mishap.
WashPIRG is lobbying for the
passage of an independent state
monitoring bill so that the state that
is affected by the fallout does not
have to rely on the federal government to tell it when standards are
violated.
The third issue is the strengthening of the C&C (Cooperating and
Consultation) agreement, between
Washington and the federal government. The agreement sets up
guidelines for the possible siting of
the first high-level nuclear waste
dump at Hanford .
This agreement, being the first of
its kind, will probably be the prototype for similar agreements in
other sites which have initially Ix:en
selected as the nuclear waste
repositories.

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We got Prince . . . p.5

THE EVERGREEN
STATE COLLEGE
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We got Russia.

We got no gym ..

son and Maple Park, Olympia.
The Washington State Committee on Ed ucational Policies,
Structure, and Management will
meet to report and discuss Committee recommendations and
activities.
Pickleball
12 noon-I p.m., first floor
Library lobby .
Learn a created-in Washington
sport!

Schwartz
responds
to gun
question

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Factory Girl Christine Bengston, and hat, kept things hopping at Evergreen's annual Beaux Arts Bal/last Saturday. Ready Made Family gave Evergreen a rare dose ojjunk. The CA B Lobby brimmed with people in rnl,f)rT.W
costumes. An enthusiastic group slam-danced near the stage throughout most oj the Factory Girls' perjormance,
and the band was called back jor two encores. UJAMAA and S & A sponsored the jun-filled and "i~'''-.'wi,ritl'd
event in cooperation with the 1984-85 Evergreen Album Project.

"I have drafted and have had sit ting on my desk for several weeks a
charge to a DTF [Disappearing Task
""orce] to study whether this college
should have a police department or
security department," sa id Richard
Schwartz, Evergreen's Vice President for Business.
He will also ask the DTF to con sider the "related que stion of
whether firearms are needed by officers at Evergreen."
Schwartz said he will not form th~
DTF until the Higher Education
Personnel Board (HEP) rules on a
job classi fication appeal by several
Evergreen Security officers.
In September, 1984, the officers
asked the campus personnel office to
change their job classi fication from
security to police officers. The officers sa id they were performing th e
duties liS'ted under police.officer, not
security officer. The personnel office
ruled that police officers must
operate within parameters set by a
police department. Evergreen's officers, therefore, could not be police
officers regardless of their duties.
The officers appealed that decision to the HEP Board which a.;sign ed the case to a staff member to in vestigate. The staff members will
recommend an action to the HEP
Board, which normally follows such
recommendations. The losing party
at that point can request that the entire H EP Board review the case. The
entire process is usually resolved in
a few months but can take years .
A police officer receives approximately $150 more per month than
a security officer of equal rank.
The above process is the standard
reclassification proces s for all
classified staff at Evergreen.
Schwartz said he will not charge
the DTF to study the departmental
classification until after th e
classification of individual officers
is sett led.
"The question is a different one."
Schwartz said, "if we have police (Ifficers anyway."
If the security deparment became
a police department , officers would
have police powers directly rath er
than receiving them as dep uti es fo
the Thurston County Sheriff as at
present.
Another major difference would
be improved training ava ilable free
to the department at the State Police:
see Sch wartz page 3

Unsoel·d, TESe clash on adding trustees
by Charlie Campbell
A bill that would increase the
membership of Evergreen's Board of
Trustees from five to seven has pitted board members against one of
the school's oldest friends, the prime
sponsor of the bill, Rep. Jolene
Unsoeld .
The increase looks likely. U nsoeld's bill easily passed the state
House on Monday, 94-4. An almost
identical bill passed the state Senate
last Thursday, 37-11.
.
Each new trustee would only cost
the state traveling expenses and per
diem, estimated at $1,800 per year.
The bill would make the increase
at Washington's three regional

universities and Evergreen . But Stan
Marshburn, Evergreen's legislative
liaison, is lobbying to have
Evergreen exempted from adding the
two new trustees.
Unsoeld said, "I can see why the
board would be [opposed to the bill],
because it would be a decrease in
each individual's power."
Evergreen Trustee Bill Robinson
objected to the change, saying,
"Communication is a major thing to
deal with . Adding two more
[trustees] to the loop without some
identifiable benefit just doesn't
make sense."
Unsoeld said the benefit is that a
larger board is more likely to reflect
the racial, sexual, and political diversity of the region the school serves.

However, the bill does not st ipul ate
this diversity.
The only way to insure diversity
is "to elect good governors that
make good appointments," Unsoeld
said ... But with five [trustees] instead of just seven there is a little
more opportunity for broader
representation.
The bill is also designed to spread
the workload on more backs.
The National Commission on·
College and University Trustee
Selection recommended in 1980 that
governing boards should consist of
at least nine members.
Evergreen Trustee George Mante
said a larger board might divide into factions.
Unsoeld agreed that the board

should not be too large.
She said. "The question came up
of nine members, but seven is a belter balance in order to make each individual feel a sense of commitment
to the school they'll be serving.
A problem in the past, said Un·
>oeld, has been uncommitted gover·
ning board members.
A joint legislative advisory committee last year recommendect
trustee selection should be based
upon "interest, expertise, and experience in higher education."
Unsoeld said, "It's unfortunate
that these positions are sometimes
made political gifts, and that people
filling the position have little or no
intert'~t in the position or in the
agency they are appointed to serve."

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February 21. 1985
Pal:e 2

February 21. 1985

THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL

Rainey and Hanfman create a lot of Bolshevik

Old .editor
unfair

Students knee-deep in
homework, but satisfied
by Susan Arnold
Tom Rainey, coordinator of the
Russia/USSR program, calls it a
., long and arduous three quarters. "
He reiterates throughout the year
that, "if we wanted you to have a
social life, we would have issued you
one. You've signed on for a very
demanding program."
This is what the students in the
Russia/USSR program have chosen
for the year. About 46 students
present ly remain under the Tom
Rainey/ Andrew Hanfman regime,
reading up to 750 pages per week,
attending three lectures, two
seminars, and either four hours of
Russian language or a workshop on
Dostoevsky or Lenin every week ,
and three 5-10 page papers per
quarter. Spring quan<;r students will
research and write and 15-25 page
paper.
Rainey and Hanfman are coteaching the Russia/USS R program
for the third time . "I can't imagine
a better pair, a better teaching
staff," said student Jennifer Priddy.
Other students agree. Phillip
Goldman came to Evergreen from
the University of Washington
specifically for this program . He said
he is "continually amazed by Andrew [HanfmanJ." Hanfman has a
rich store of historical knowledge, is
very well-read, and is an accomplished linguist and etymoligist, Goldman
added.

"Athletic," is how student Joel
Martell described Rllmey's method
of teaching. He is dynamic and
realistic, Martell said . Student Lara
Norkus added that Rainey "tries to
get to the root of things. [HeJ makes
history come alive. He is passionate
about his work, and that really
comes across."
Rainey agrees with that. One thing
that makes the program successful,
he said, is that he and Hanfman
"dearly love this material. It is
precious to us." Another reason for
the program's success is the "enormous amount of trust" between
Rainey and Hanfman. And the two
teachers agree on how to teach the
material.
Precisely, they believe that the
teachers should set thecurricLiIumfor
the program. Rainey believes in the
"master-apprentice type of
teaching," and has never Ii ked the
idea of "co-learning," as Evergreen
attempted in its beginning. Rainey
has worked hard to make the school
more structured, and is satisfied with
how it is now.
The goals of the program, are
first, to learn the "historic and
economic conditions which have led
to the formation of the Soviet State.
From then on, [the goal isJ to acquaint them with the way the Soviet
State is run," began Hanfman .
"It is a program that teaches people that cliches don't apply to real
politics, whether they come from the

Dear Editor,
The letters from Francisco A.
Chateaubriand and ·Marcia Savage
in your most recent issue cry-out for
response. I would like to reply to
them individually.
First, I was amazed at the tone of
Mr. Chateaubriand's drill-sergeant
chew-out of Janine Thome. From
the second sentence, accusing her of
"hysteria," its intensity betrays '
something itself far beyond the pale
of cool discussion. In fact, castigation this harsh is entirely unbecoming in a superior writer such as he.
Perhaps Mr. Chateaubriand has
already forgotten th"t the CP J is the
understaffed student paper of small
institution, whose personnel are
presumably still learning. Snide
"welcome to journalism" comments
and verbal sneers do not help them,
and especially do not befit alumni,
who, having completed their allotted time here, should bow out
gracefully and let those remaining do
what they are, after all, here for.
Second, Ms. Savage's argument is
unfair and misleading in bringing up
the still-painful memory of the
Tissot shooting as an argument for
reclassification of the campus security department as an armed police
department. That instance involved
a killer who kept his weapon concealed until its moment of use.
Alarming as it may be, the presence
of police officers armed with similar
weapons would have made no difference at all. The difference the
presence of a Dolice deDartment
would make on campus is reflected
in the change of terminology. An effective campus security department
is part of the community and protects it from threats to the students'
security: ~cts of ; violeJ)ee, thefts.

/
left, well-meant as they may be, or
from the right, stupid as they may
be. We are not interested in giving
a pro- or anti-Soviet point of view ."
Hanfman'said, "We are primari. ly training the people to realize the
complexities and therefore develop
a critical historical and political
sense, so eventually with suffient information they might form their
own personal judgement.. .by serious
analytical reflection ."
Rainey puts the goal another way.
It is an "exercise in understanding
another culture that is very different
than the culture of the students. We
encourage people to try to empathetically project themselves into
that culture," and to understand
, Russia on its own terms.
Last summer about 24 students
took beginning Russian language for
four hours per day, four days per
week. Fall quarter, students began
studying early Russian history. During th is quarter two weeks each were
allotted for Tolstoy's War and Peace
and Dostoevesky's The Brothers
Karamazov. During wi.llter quarter

they have been reading works by
Chekhov, Gorky, and Lenin. About
halfway through winter quarter the
Russian Revolution occured;
thereafter, the Soviet state is the
focus. Spring quarter they will go into greater detail of the Soviet state.
Included will be a workshop/course
on the Cold War, 1945-present.
Student Helen Lazara pointed out
that the study of the Cold War is
more pertinent than the history,
culture, and literature that they've
been learning, that it "affects our
immediate lives more deeply ... · But
as Jennifer Priddy said, "One of the
first things I learned was you have
to know a country's past to know
where they're coming from." The
course will probably attract
hundreds.
. About fourteen Evergreen.
students will be going to the Soviet
Union with Rainey this summer.
They plan to leave about June 14
and they will first be in Moscow for
three days, being tourists. Three
weeks will be spent in Leningrad
where they will attend school from

9 a.m. to 1 p.m., learning language,
history, and culture from Soviet instructors. The remainder of the day
will be spent touring, reading, etc.
Then will spend three weeks in
Krosnodar, a city near the Black
Sea. The trip will end about August
4. Students are required to keep a
journal' and write a lengthy paper as
part of the credit they will receive
Jennifer Priddy's enthusiasm for
her studies is conveyed by her comment, "we're learning so little as
compared with what there is to
know. " Priddy developed an interest
in the Soviet Union in high school,
and began reading about it, especially current events.
Lara Norkus plans a future of
high school teaching and peace
work . She has discovered that people are more alike than they think.
She said, "Maybe I can teach my
students that and keep ourselves out
of hot water ." She has also learned
that "governments are universally
stupid." Norkus thinks that there is
renewed interest in the Soviet Union,
and thinks that is a good sign .

Hanfman shares his history and ideas
by Susan Arnold
Andrew Hanfman is the Senior
member of the faculty here at
Evergreen. He is so special that the
Board of Trustees passed a resolution, though phrased in general
terms, specifically allows Hanfman
to teach beyond retirement age.
To thi s he said, "You have to
preserve the relics of t he past, you
see. "
What is your area of specialization
and your background, Mr.
Han/man?
"I am a native of Russia . I was
brought up in Germany and Italy,
where I took my doctoral degree in
Comparative Literature and Modern
Languages.
"I came to the United States immediately after World War II. I
taught in Kenyon College, Ohio
from a pproximately '47 to
'SI ... Kenyon College used to be a
small, non-coeducational college,
only for men, or boys as we called
them then,. [This collegeJ had an extremely high academic level, patterned after the English and British sort
of sc hool.
"Kenyon College was an interesting institution because it was

there that the Kenyon Review was
published ... it was one of the little
leading literary magazines [of the
40's and 50'sJ. [It was) edited by the
Southern agrarian poet,John Crowe
Ransom,
who
is
dead,
un fortunately ...
"[Kenyon) produced a series of
rather prominent writers and poets,
among them, James Wright, a very
close friend of mine, who died, unfortunately, and writers like Doctorow, the author of Ragtime. then
also a couple of other celebrities like
Paul Newman, who was a student in
the Department of Speech and
Drama then.
"After four years approximately
at that college I entered the government service, and was in the government for twenty years ... in the Central Intelligence Agency. Eventually in '72 I came to Evergreen, and
have been teaching at Evergreen ever
after. "
What kind of work did you do in
the C.I.A.?
"I was engaged ip analysis of
Soviet policies and collection of information on Soviet affairs. I was
not killing people, as some romantic and uninformed people [might
thinkJ .... Normally they don't kill

expresses
. to HC)01Ver
Chambliss, UJAMAA'S coordinator, for UJAMAA 'S support of the exhibit honoring important black historical figures. The Exhibit will be on
display through the end of this month.

people, nor do they have a great interest [in killing people) as people
think they have.
"[The work) involved clandestine
as well as overt work . Overt work,
in intelligence, if you might want to
know, is similar, in fact, identical,
with academic research. You have to
read books, you have to read
newspapers.
"You have to evaluate their
reliabilty ... as compared with other
information derived from other
sources. So it's a very complex process which a sophomoric mind cannot yet understand."

What kind of life do you hope
your students will lead?
"I hope they will live as intelligent
and rational people, primarily. What
I do hope and what we try in our
modest way to do in our program
(Russia/USSR) is to look at someeven emotional-issues rationally, as
objectively as possible. [Then
students should) develop their own
personal judgement: not succumb to
propoganda, agitation, emotionalism, so forth.
"So roughly speaking, what I expect a good undergraduate education to do is prepare people if they
want to go on to graduate
studies ... to have a good educational
background ... so they can succeed.
"What I expect for people who do
not continue .... They should be in- '
dependent, responsible, rational
people, so that whenever they apply
for some kind of work, they will fit
in the social structure which they
find around them.
"By which I don't mean that they
should conform, but I think they
should, if they do not agree, let's
say, join the governmental structure
and so forth , in order to change
them from within ...
"I do not know of any society
which has been changed in a revolutionary fashion in the last century
which has produced a satisfactory
society. "
What do you think about
America?
"That is an entirely different matter. .. because the Revolution at the
end of the 18th century, was, first

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vandalism. A police department is
set above the community (witness
. police reference to non-police
citizens as civilians) and is charged
with going beyond protection to
policing (overseeing) of the community.
Sincerely,
John Dylan Cooper

What do you think about the
nuclear war issue?
"In any program, American
Culture or Native dancing, I fail to
see how the nuclear issue could not
be involved. The nuclear issue is not
put in a drawer next to How to Make
Jam . It's universal; [it) affects
everything .... [You) cannot eli mate
[it).
"On the other hand, I am a born
Eurepean. I am not American, and
hence with some arrogance I can say
that we don't quite take the
hysterical view that very often appears in the U.S.
"After all, we have lived with
atomic disasters in energy since 1945
and somehow survived. So I feel that
there are rational ways of dealing
with the problem. Emotional ways
are probably the worst.. .way of
[dealing with) moral and technical
problems of this nature,

In Sisterhood,
Theresa 1.. Crater

Dear Editor:
Susan A:llen asks those of us who
object to the pseudo-generic "he" to
convince her of the worthiness of
something else. People cannot be
convinced of something they really
don't want to be convinced of.
Susan claims she does not "condone
using 'sexist language' " (the use of
quotes suggests she doesn't believe
it really exists), but continuing to use
"he" shows us that this is not the
case. She is not ready to change, nor
does she take feminist objections to
this false generic seriously. Using
"he" for everyone who has not
definitely been proven fet ;,ale
establishes male as the norm, .... hat
is "proper," and shows that we consider female to be abnormal, the exception to the rule. Everyone is considered male until proven female.
Personally, I use <:ither "she" for
everyone, "s/he", or "they",
depending on the circumstances .
But, rather than becoming obsessed
with what word to use, I think we
can learn more by examining our
discomfort when we challenge certain language usage.
Does our concern with using
language "properly" really reflect a
desire to communicate more effecti.yely, or is it a .cl.esire lO.Jearn and

have to be made to change the
Evergreen governance document to
allow officers to carry firearms. That
continued from page I
decison could be. made whether the
Academy. "Under the present
officers are members of a security
scenario," Schwartz said, "that
force or a police department.
training is not available."
Schwartz said he has received
Schwartz said that the reclassificacomments from students on both
tion issue has been confused with the
sides of the firearm issue, although
issue of firearms on campus. "Peoa' huge majority are opposed: Some
ple have jumped to the conclusion,"
students do feel a need for armed
he said, "that if we have police ofprotection on campus, Schwartz ·
ficers, they will be armed."
said.
That is not necessarily true, accor"I don't see any need for that"
ding to Schwartz. "Western
Schwartz said. There are several
Washington University in Bellarmed forces close by if firearms are
ingham has had a police department
necessary, for example the Sheriff's
without firearms for six year,"
Department and Olympia and TumSchwartz said, "so there is a
water Police.
model."
According to Schwartz, the issues
of guns and a police department on
Gary Russell, chief of Security,
said that a separate decision would
campus are not new. He said "The
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perpetuate the language code of a
particular social class in order to
gain access to the privilege and
money enjoyed by that class and exclude others who use language differently? White, male, upper and
middle class language is the norm.
Third world peoples have long been
ridiculed and denied rights on the
basis of the language they' use. Including ",(omen in the language
challenges this division also.

.Reader questions sexist
language
Guns demand
clear dialogue

Schwartz

of all. not so much aimed at social
change, but at the political independence from the mother country . There was no intent to change
the socio-economlC structure ...
"I think it was one of the best
constitutions devised , essentially ... One of the most revolutionary
societies, in the sense of rapid
change, is the U.S ...
"In my seminar I pointed out the
question of racism. In about 20 or
30 years the problem has essentially
already been solved .. . [We must)
cope with the remnants of bias and
prejudice. But if you think that in
other countries, say in the Soviet
Union, nationalities and minorites
still are second- and third-rate
citizen:;. Yet it claims to be a revolutionary society. Then you have a
basis of comparison which indicates
how rapid and radical the changes
are in the U.S."

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To the Editor:
No, please, no guns on campus.
appreciate Security'S desire for
higher pay, more training and a
stronger sense of safety. But guns
are not the solution.
People are using t he Elisa Tissot
shooting to promote the use of
handguns on campus. What they
may not remember is that there was
no way for Security, with or without
guns to react in time to save Elisa.
Michael Pimentel walked right in
and pulled out the gun and killed
her. Security was nowhere nearby;
there was no reason they should have
been . If Security had shown up with
guns there's no telling what that
might have provoked Michael to do,
and there's no telling what a scared
security officer might have done in
the situation. If an officer had killed Michael we would have been
doubly shattered.
Aside fom this incident, guns still
don't have a place on campus . We
are a relatively peaceful place. The
best defense against violence is a
strong sense of community, and a
sense of trust and working together.

reclassification request brought them
to the front burner. Some of the officers do want guns, do feel unsafe
when they're alone out there at
night. I think the issue for some of
them is fifty percent guns and fifty
percent money."
Schwartz is waiting for the HEP
Board , ruling. "When I get that
response," he said, "I'll charge the
DTE$'
ThJDTF will accept testimony and
evidence on campus needs and opinions on the police department
classification and on firearms on
campus. It will then make a recommendation to Schwartz.
Any action would eventually have
to' come from the Board of Trustees.
Personally Schwartz is adamentIy opposed to firearms on campus .
"We have lived on this campus for
fourteen years without firearms," he
said. "I don ' t know of anything
that's changed to warrant firearms.

Student
shows
nuke world
by Liz Green
In the words of Cli ff Missen, who
compiled images donated last spring
by 35 campus community members,
Ima!(es From Under the Cluud
"speaks to what its like living in a
world with nuclear weapons."
This multi -media presentation,
created by Missen and the staff of
the Peace and Conflict Resolution
Center, will be shown on February
23rd at 7 pm in Lecture Hall 5. The
presentation is sponsored by Innerplace, and admission is free.
According to Missen, Images,
which combines video tapes of interviews with members of the

Pa~e

Having police on campus would only polarize the officers and the
students.
This really scares me. I shudder to
think of weapons being used against
the officers and students, the way
the robbery suspect in Seattle recently grabbed the gun away from an officer and shot him to death, over
some tri vial prize the suspect had
allegedly stolen. That's what guns
can do to people who are frightened and high-strung·. That's what the
image of a police officer can do.
This letter comes from gut
response as well as rational thought.
I think that's an appropriate
response to something as violent as
a handgun. Let's have a very clear
dialogue about this subject before a
decision is made.
Allison C. Green

No use
for guns
Dear Editor,
This letter is in two parts.
I. There are events that make us
ask, "could I have done
something?" and then say, "I f I
were a better person, I could/ would
have done something."
These events are, generally unprovoked, unpredictable and
relentless. No one can point them
out beforehand, no one can point to
the future. No one can guarantee
anyone complete protection. These
events are not our tragedies, tragedy
implies fate or forewarning.
The April murder of Elisa Tissot
typifies this sort of event, and hindsight is not reassuring, it is a delu-

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sion. No one, in no way. could have
read Michael Pimentel's mind. The
sec~rity department of Evergreen
should not feel guilty for not being
able to do what no one can do.
The Tissot murder shocked the
whole community, no one was left
unharmed. By implicit occupational
guidelines, a security persop in such
an event must remain, in order to do
their job, unharmed. To use
psychology terminology for a moment, this paid repression of an
awful thing (the shooting itself) has
resurfaced as a fantasy necessity for
handguns .
2. We, the undersigned, for the
reasons stated above and our own
which total a list too long for thi s
venue, do not want guns to be allowed on The Evergreen State College
campus. Guns, in anyone's hand,
make us feel insecure,' not secure.
Evergreen is, in many senses, an
utopia which we, the members of it,
build. Necessarily part of our
cloistered society are security people,
whose joh it is to make us secure.
What is security? Security is what
makes US feel secu re: we are the
consumers and we have no use i'or
what we do not want or need.
We do not believe t hat Evergreen
needs handguns in any way, shape
or form. We believe that th e Social
Contract of Evergreen should con·
tinue as it is.
J.W. Renaud, Heather Lewis,
Dwight Moody, Deb M. Roraback,
Jennifer Rose, Gena Gloar, Laurian
Weisser, Rob Dietrich, Mark Lewin,
Gala Miller, Michael Gates, Rick
McKinnon, Tom Spray, Susan M.
Johnson, Jim W. Hartley, Dorr
Dearborn
CORRECTION: The opinion letter
in last week's issue entitled Strongly Opposed, regarding Campus
Security, was written by Knstina
Knauss. The CPJ regrets the error.

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A still from Images Under the Cloud
Evergreen community with slides
and music, "addresses the issue
from a gut-level stance ... not to scare
people, but to inspire hope for
progess. "
The image that inspired Missen to
design the project was that of the
missiles lifting off from the silos in
The Day After, but the presentation
does not consist only of images of
bombs and destruction. Interspersed with pictures of Hiroshima
and mushroom clouds are pictures
of children playing, of churches, of
an African village.
The possibility of nuclear war is
so real, so perva sive, yet so
unimaginable that few .of us consistently acknowledge its existence in
our daily lives. The major value of
the presentation seems to be in keeping that possibility in our minds until the point at which, in the words
of Dwight Eisenhower, people "are
going to do more to promote peace
than our governments," to the point
at which "people want peace so
much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way
and let them have it."
Responses on the video to the
question, "What's it like living in a
world with nuclear weapons?" range

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from "paranoid and angry" to
"numb and helpless." Many reflect
the frustration of living in a world
where the future seems to be in the
hands of "a small group of people
playing games with dangerous
toys."
. Some of the most powerful images
emphasize the incongruit y o f
mechanized instru ment s of destruction in a natural world, or contrast
the range of man 's achievements.
One that particularly sticks in the
mind is an image .of military
helicopters hovering above the Egyptian pyramids. The helicopters are
dwarfed by the pyramids, yet their
presence is powerful, undeniable,
like malaria-bearing mosquitos, or
locusts rcady to devour a forest.
When asked what they envisioned as the most realistic solution to
the p'oblem, most people spoke
about Lisarmament, unilateral or
bilateral, and its somewhat dubious
effectiveness. One person answered
"We can't not have them. Once you
have the knowledge you can't pretend it doesn't exist." But the most
interesting and perhaps telling solution to the problem of nuclear arms
proposed
was
a
"mass
transcendence of consciousness."

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THE

Evergreen gets big
budget, but no gym
by Charlie Campbell
Gov. Booth Gardner's capital
spending plan ups former Gov . John
Spellman's plan by $51 million, but
Evergreen will get $700 less - and
no gymnasium .
Gardner's 1985-87 budget cuts
Spellman's proposed allocation to
Evergreen from $4,374,700- to
$4,374,000. The gymnasium turned
down by Spellman was again turned down by Gardner.
The $700 is cut from a roofing
project.
Although the Legislature can ammend Gardner's budget, it seems
unlikely that they will add
$8,519,400 for the gymnasium - it
would nearly double Evegreen's
allocation.
Darrel Six, Evergreen's head of
engineering, said, "We need to reemphasize to the Legislature that we
need the gym to compl iment existing
academic programs and to aid in
r ecruitment and retention of
s t udent s ."
An article ill the last issue of the
Evergreen Review called the gymnasium "the last major structure
needed to make the Evergreen State
C ollege a complete educational
entity ...
Evergreen's original designs in cluded a gym.
Jan Lambertz, director of athlectics and recreation, is one of the
gymnasium's strongest proponents.
She has urged Evergreen faculty,
staff and students to write their
representatives to show their
support.
Lambertz said, "The kind of
things that will go on in the gym,
leisure education, musical concerts,
basketball, are revenue producing."
But another Evergreen ad ministrator, who asked not to be
named, said the cost of maintenance
of the building, and the cost of intercollegiate athletics, which would
soon follow, would "supercede the
initial cost tenfold."
The source said state government
is deterred from funding a gym if
they know they will soon be asked
to fund "a badminton team."
"I think this person's statement is
just wrong," said Lambertz.
She said that asking state government for a gymnasium to play intercollegiate sports in increases the
~hances of the project being fund-

ed, because most legislators
recognize the benefit of organized
competitive sports.
Lambertz also stressed how sorely Evergreen needs a large meeting
place. Evergreen's largest meeting
space can accomodate 550 persons.
The gymnasium could seat 2,500
persons.
Evergreen s.tudent Jason Renaud
said, "Evergreen needs a large
meetin/l. place. A gym might have a
dual purpose."
The porch a/ Off-Campus
Other highlights of Evergreen's
allocation are the approval of the
sale of over 2 million in bonds for
the longhouse project, and $994,000
to renovate the fire protection
system.
Evergreen does not receive proceeds from a federal land grant as
the other state four-year schools do.
For capital projects, Evergreen
depends completely on funding from
the state government.
When Washington became a state,
the federal government gave the
by Margot Boyer
University of Washington and
Washington State University each a
The Thurston County Offtract of land from which they could
Campus School is an alternative high
draw proceeds for capital projects.
school that provides interdisciplinary
The federal government gave the
education to young adults in a small
three regional universities, Eastern
Washington University, Central . group run by democratic process.
Several Evergreen students have
Washington University and Western
attended
Off-Campus,
and
Washington University a tract of
Evergreen students and graduates
land from which to share the
are working there.
proceeds .
The school is housed in an old
These schools can sell bonds to
white house on Olympia's Eastside.
pay for a new project and payofF
Students and teacher look up briefthe bonds by selling timber from the
ly when a visitor enters, and return
land grant.
to their discussion. A collage of
In the past the Legislature turned
human faces with the motto,
down Evergreen's push for proceeds
"TAKE CARE OF YOURSELFfrom a shoreline area.
TAKE
CARE
OF
EACH
Current law prohibits any addiOTHER," hangs on the wall. A
tions to the list of land grant schools
puppy plays on the floor.
until all bonds are paid off.
The school has many goals in adtakes 25 years 10 payoff a project,
dition to helping students receive
and the legislature has never apdiplomas or prepare for GED tests.
proached a 25 year span without
granting a new bond sale. It is
unlikely that all the universities will
ever be completely paid For.
Therefore, it is unlikely that
Evergreen will ever be able to join
the list of land grant schools.
Untijjl,does Evergreen is depen- by Tarja Bennett
The Peace and Conflict Resoludent on' the Legislature.
Ken Winkley, Evergreen's direction Center sparked an interest
tor of Facilities, said, "We're a litamong members of the Evergreen
community when the Center
tle disappointed that we didn't get
the gym . I think it's good that we publicly expressed its desire to
still got something."
students and faculty to share their
opinions on issues they think the
Center shcitlJld address.
The results From the Center's
survey and the videotape recorded
interviews will more than likely influence the way it spends its funds.
The Center has approximately $3000
left in its budget for the rest of Ihe
academic year.
The eight active members are
already working on some projects.
The volunteers-Wayde Furguson,
Bill Lott, Georgia Martin, Chris
Hubbard, Kristin Thomson, Mandy
Goldberg,
and
Debra
Gronning-a~ well as the coordinator, Paul Gallegos, spent a good
portion of last quarter brainstorming on projects and clarifying the
Center's purpose.

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Staff and students work to help
students learn the basic skills that
will allow them to learn' throughout
their lives, to provide a close community where people have worthwhile relationships, and to develop
the group skills that enable them to
work and make decisions together.
Everyone in the school signs a
community agreement that outlines
the responsibilities of students and
staff. Decisions are made by majority vote during all-school weekly
meetings.
There are about 40 students currently attending the school, and a
few who work independently but are
enrolled. There are four full time
teachers, two part time, and three
Evergreen interns.
Some students have come to OffCampus out of dissatisfaction with
the rigidity of public schools, or out
of desire to plan their own educations. Some feel that standard high
schools are a waste of their time.
Some have been asked to leave other
schools, and some prefer OFfCampus for the warm atmosphere
and
close
teacher-student
collaboration.
Student Julie Balch said she likes
the school- because "There aren't
any cliques here-you're respected
for yourself ... I'm learning quite a
bit."
Both students and staFf are excited
about their work at the school.

PCRC proposes big projects
Gallegos says they intend to create
a Peace and Con flict library at the
Centj:L They have set aside $500 for
purchases and plan to order a
"representative spectrum of books"
in March .
Gallegos is also sending a notice
to faculty requesting suggestions and
asking for donations of written work
done by faculty and students on
peace and confict related subjects.
"We'd like to provide the community with a place to research,
where all the information is in one
place and hopeFully avoid having to
search allover the school library for
information," Gallegos saia. Each
book in the collection will have an
annotated bibliography.
Ideas for a video project during
Spring quarter are presently being
defined. So far the project will have
a two-fold purpose.
First, it will establish a forum in
which the members of the community can express on issues, to the
campus.

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February 21, 1985
Students are enthusiastic about both
the community and the academic
work .
.Asked if she liked the school, student Lisa Anderson said, "Oh God,
·yes. I'm actually learning-it feels
good."
Evergreen student Tom Bowen is
teaching a class called Modern
Times. The class is concerned with
post World War I history.
During -the first week of the
semester they studied Yeats' poem
The Second Coming as a point of
departure to talk about anarchy,
disillusiori, revolution, war, and the
rise of fascism. Students memorized the poem and connected Yeats'
work with their own political
concerns.
Student Piml Thomson said that
'this kind of learning is, "not
mechanical. You have to stop and
think about causes and effects."
Other classes are Psychology,
which is covering Freud and Reich;
Altered States, which includes math
and natural and social sciences;
Drawing; Drama; Getting Your
Stuff Together, a basic skills class;
Women's Self Defense; and subject
labs.
Events provide opportunities to
learn. Recently a police officer came
to the school looking for a student.
Some students were upset that the
officer walked in without knocking
or asking permission to enter.
One student said, "Cops scare me
period, even if I'm not doing
anything."
This event, and the student's
response to it, started a discussion
of when confrontation with authority is appropriate and when it is not,
and an investigation via the
American Civil Liberties Union, of
the legalities of police .officers entering private schools.
The people at Off-Campus emphasize the process of working with
other people and making decisions
for oneself. Teacher Nora Walsh
thinks that even students who attend
only briefly benefit from the
experience.
She said, "Students learn to make
good decisions about their educations and lives-it makes a big
difference. "

Second, it will expose students to
other programs.
Members of the Center hope to
visit programs and record parts of
lectures and seminars. They want to
present the members of the program
with questions about their satisfaction with the program, and also how
the program applies to current
issues.
Each part of the project will be
edited and will most likely be shown
in the CAB.
Martin said she would like to "see
a student meeting facilitated by
alumni about curriculum and faculty problems, with the goal being to
bring Evergreen closer to its roots
and stated purposes."
The idea is for students and faculty to have an informal way to express their complaints in hopes that
the problems can be solved more
readily.
" It would be helpful for there to
be people to talk to, who know what
Evergreen is like at its best. Unless
we work at it we'll become just
another college," Martin said.
The Center is now in the middle
of the Joy and Anger Workshops.
The Center held the Joy Workshop
a couple weeks ago and was a
sellout.
The Anger Workshop occurs
March I. It is predicted to be a
sellout as well. The Center can provide more information on the
workshop content.
They are co-sponsori ng a film,
Max Hovlor. with the program
Political Economy and Social
Change, in Lecture Hall 5 on
February 27. Tl1ere may be a second
showing of the film .
The film's t heme is parallel to the
struggle in Central America. According to Gallegos, "It is about
bureaucratic abuses and disregard
for human beings. "

February 21, 1985

Prince:
purple,
passionate,
predictable
by Wendi D. Kerr
The crowd was on its feet at 8
p.m., 15 minutes before the lights
even went out. Every time a roadie
set foot on stage, a chorus of
screams would begin, spreading
through the entire Tacoma Dome
before the screamers realized that
nothing was going on.
The audience, as instructed by the
print on their tickets, wore purple:
purple shirts, lacy purple lingerie,
even purple hair. They lined up at
souvenir stands to buy $ IO programs, $7 posters, $13 t-shirts, and
official Purple Rain sunglasses.
The object of this devotion was a
five-foot two-inch musician from
Minnesota, Prince Rogers Nelson,
known on stage and record as
Prince. His much ballyhooed Purple
Rain tour arrived at the Tacoma
Dome last Thursday night for the
first of two sold-out shows, to be
opened by his protege (and rumored
girlfriend) Sheila E.
The show seemed to be intended
to please Prince's newest fans, those
who were introduced to him through
the success of his film, Purple Rain.
Though he did every song from Purple Rain. he. left out such old
favorites as "When You Were
Mine" and "I Wanna Be Your
Lover".

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Robinson Ensemble
inspi.res, disappoints
by Margot Boyer
The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Ensemble appeared in the Evergreen
Experimental Theater Wednesday
night in a performance both inspiring and frustrating to watch. Inspirhe played the same unusual white
The show opened, like the film,
ing, because of its tremendous
with "Let's Go Crazy." Confetti guitar used in the film. In "When
energy and style, and frustrating
Doves Cry, " he again wore a
dropped on the front rows of specbecause the performers attempted
tators; the audience went crazy. In costume similar to the one worn in . ballet that was beyond their ability
quick succession came "1999," rhe video.
to do well.
"Little Red Corvette," "Take Me
As for the celebrated sexual conThe long dance "Lush Life"
With U," and "Delirious," before tent of Prince concerts, none of it
opened the show with a series of
was new to fans who had seen PurPrince sat down at the piano to perdramatic scenarios, introduced with
form a medley of "Let's Pretend
ple Rain. He repeated the same
texts by Maya Angelou and Ntozake
We're Married," "Free," and other
stage-humping routine in "Darling
Shange which were spoken by the
older material.
Nikki," the phallic guitar routine in
dancers. Clad in a range of red hues
"Baby I'm A Star," and the
The best moments of the concert
from nut-brown to pink and purple,
simulated fellatio routine in "Comwere during the slower songs,
the dancers gave us night maneuvers;
puter Blue." (Yawn.) Instead of beespecially "The Beautiful Ones."
following and leading, strutting,
The line, "Do you want him/Or do
ing shocking, Prince may now run
fighting, courting and showing off.
the risk of becoming a parody of
you want me?", chilling enough in
They danced in a modern style
himself.
the recorded version, is positively
that was almost jazz, showing off
After "When Doves Cry," he left
transcendent live.
their exuberance and expressiveness.
the stage. The audience already
Although Prince's voice isn't
The second piece, "Serendipity,"
knew what the encores would be: "I
perfect by any stretch of the imwas unfortunate. There was no apWould Die 4 U," "Baby I'm A
agination, he can sing wilh convicparent reason for the choreographer
tion when he wants to, and his . Star," and "Purple Rain."
to have chosen the formal medium
screams, rather than being noise,
Even the special guests, Apollonia
of ballet, and the perFormers haven't
carry anguish and frustration.
6, Sheila E., and Time valet Jerome
the technique to do it.
Many of the best moments,
Benton, who were all onstage durThe male dancers, who radiated
however, were overshadowed by the
ing "Baby I'm A Star," were no big
grace and strength in the opening,
surprise to the audience, because
show's lack of spontaneity.
were put to contrived gestures.
Everything seemed to be planned to
Prince had brought them out on
Some of the women fared a little
cater to the fans who were introstage in nearly every show on this
better, getting by on natural
duced to Prince on MTV or saw
tour.
charisma and perhaps a bit of ballet
During "Purple Rain," many
Purple Rain eight times. Examples:
training but the whole company
in "Little Red Corvette," Prince
people in the audience began to file
seemed unequal to their task.
performed the same dance steps as out-after all, they knew there
They kicked fast because they
would be no surprises. Sadly, they
in the video, and he wore a similar
could not lower their legs slowly.
were right.
long purple coat. In "Purple Rain ,"
They struggled to keep their balance
Prince has energy, ability, and a
while extending one leg, and had to
great light show, but all of this is
take a moment to recover after
neutralized by the tour's overwhelmleaps.
ing air of calculation. For all his
They had already won the hearts
talent and musical innovation, he
of their audience, but this piece
risks little in concert.
strongly detracted from the total
True, like the Beatles twenty years
efFect.
ago, he doesn't have to risk
anything; the money will just keep
rolling in no matter what he does on
never had on the walls of our high
stage. It's sad, though, to see a perschool history class. These are the
former of his caliber be so
pictures that we didn't find in our
complacent.
history texts. Or rather, as people
point out in the gallery's comment
book, these are some of the pictures
that we didn't find in our history
classes.
Miller Beer left some out: where's
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devoted to student work. And that's
the only sensible use of that gallery.

The romantic duet, "With You
I'm Born Again," featured elegant
dancing but predict~ble and
uninteresting choreography. The last
piece, "Raindance," returned to the
uninhibited energy of the opening,
with a variety of emotional tones
and combinations of dancers.
This ensemble could be wonderful, if they were to keep their ballet
in the practice room until they have
the control to back it up, and expanded their movement repetoire .
They were most winning where
they took risks with the material, but
the choreography tended to
stereotype. They could keep their audience in step with them, instead of
disappointing us after just one turn
around the floor.

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Black History Month
deserves better show
by Rob Dieterich
Beer companies don't have particularly good taste in art. In fact,
they surround us with a lot of bad
art.
Look around the Fourth Ave.
Tavern some time: notice the
stamped plastic. the colored lights,
the moving parts. The point is to get
your inebriated attention. That's
what corporate public relations do .
Miller Beer paid for the art now
in our student gallery. Commissioned by Miller, a retired Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel, Clarence
Shivers, created these prints in editions of 500.
The prints are in the Student
Gallery because they were brought
here by a student organization,
UJAMAA. They are here for
Febru'ary, Black History Month.
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Ffbrullry 21, 1985

February 21, 1985

THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL

Greeners prefer small sticks, big rocks and Greek music
by Tom Spray
Due to a sudden build-up of
academic work and to the assignment of Don Quixote De La Mancha to be read by the end of the
wee!k, I went mad. My madness was
nothing like that of Don Quixote. I
had no delusion with windmills or
the like. I did not want to become
a knight. My sudden and abnormal
desire was to c.onduct a survey at
Evergree!n to reveal the students
preferences.
I'll say right now that running my
own survey was not a pleasure
cruise. It was an unending source of
hardship, agony, and unhappiness.
Many hours I spent at my desk battling with the survey sheets and the
general messiness that they
contained .
Anyhow, what was popular on
campus already seemed obvious to
me: rocks , sticks, and cassette tapes.
But to know that these items were
the campus favorites was not
enough. I wanted to find out what

kind of rocks, sticks, and cassettee
tapes' were.in vogue. Thus I chose the
three! types of sticks and the three!
types of rocks from the stick and
rock kingdoms: small, medium, and'
large. And I chose three! prominant
types of music on cassette tape: jazz,
Gree!k, and Carole King.
I then carne up with a series of
pertinent questions and composed
them in a formal survey.
Once I arri'ved at school, I enthusiaticaUy handed out the surveys.
I watched the participants choose
from the various rocks, sticks, and
cassette tapes that I had placed on
display and marvelled at the participants effeciency in completing
their tasks. I collected the forms into my briefcase and rushed home to
formulate the results.
Before revealing the results of my
survey, I should like to condemn to
heck those few insubordinates who
failed to cooperate . Their smartalecky responses to the survey Questions caused me no undue amounts
of frustration.

Here, then,. are the results: 28 percent of those surveyed preferred the
medium size stick, 33 percent preferred the the large stick, and, lastly,
a Whopping 39 percent preferred the
small stick.
The overall smallness and the
smooth surface of the small stick
was the cause of its popularity.
Fifty percent of all participants
admitted that if they were to carry
the preferred stick to the store, they
would carry it in their hand. A measly 22 percent said they would carry
it in a pack or briefcase. AIid 28 percent said they would carry it in a
pocket of some sort on their person.
The popularity of carrying the
preferred stick in-hand can easily be
attributed to the pleasing texture of
the ever-popular small stick.
Seventeen percent of those
surveyed preferred the small rock, 39
percent preferred the medium-sized
rock, 44 perce'lt preferred the large
rock .
An interesting contrast can be See!n
here: the stick that received the most

votes was small, and the rock that
received the most votes was large.
We can therefore assume that most
Evergree!n students enjoy either very
little or very much and avoid the
medium course.
When asked how far the preferred rock would go if thrown, SO percent of the participants felt that the
preferred rock would travel under
ten fee!t. The popUlarity of this opinion is due, in fact, to the popularity of the large rock which in its
largeness intimidated the people into imagining that they were weak .
Twenty-two percent believed that
they could throw the preferred rock
up to SO fee!t, and 28 percent thought
that they could send it over 51 feet.
Now, before I continue, I would
like to say that because of the many
misspelled words, incomplete
sentences, improper punctuations,
and messy handwriting that I encountered on the survey sheets, I acquired a migraine headache and
could not continue with my \\ <'rk on
the survey until the following even-

ing: so disturbed the errors made
me.

,.

.

But getting back to the survey, we
find that an overwhelming 5S percent of the participants preferred the
Greek cassette tape, 39 percent
preferred the jazz cassette tape, and
a mere six percent preferred Carole
King.
When asked jf they were to drop
the preferred tape on the floor, 67
percent said that they would pick it
up, nobody said that they would not
pick it up, and 33 percent admitted
that they would kick it with their
foot.
What can we now conclude from
the results of the survey?

Just About A Year Ago
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It isn't often anymore that Old

Ben Freely comes out of the woods
to visit Evergreen. But the eightyseven-year-old, self-proclaimed
"Mountaineerin' Man" was on
campus last Friday. He came "just
to see what the fart was goin' on,"
he said.

Q: So you were here when Evergreen
began, right?
Old · Ben: What the she-hootie is
Evergreen?
Q: The school. You mean you didn't
know this was a school?
Old Ben: So that's what this dem
place is .
Q: Yeah. What did you think it was?
Old Ben: I guess I always figured it
was some kinda resort for rich
weirdos.

Q: You thought it was a resort?
Old Ben: Oem bet 'cha. Like that
room they got over in that place by
the parkin' lot. The room with all
them mirrors and lights and sinksthey even got a shower and a pisser
in there. Used t'be me an myoid
friend-uh, what was his name?-I

guess it was Red. Yeah, Red
somethin'. Well, me and Red used
t'get all snockered up in that room.
Some times there'd be all kindsa
folks 'round there: nothin' on but
their underwear, runnin' 'round puttin' on make-up and stuff-

·1. Most Evergreen students pay little heed to the rules of grammar
when participating in a survey.
·2. Sometimes I get cranky.
·3. The rest is up to the public to
decide . For me, the author, a conclusion is too di fficult to locate.

Q: You mean the make-up room in
the Comm. Building?
Old Ben: Dang if you don't sound
just like them highfalutin ,. folks that
run me outta there last night. I told
'em I was lookin' fer Red, but they
kept sayin' they'd never hearda no
Red ... boy-howdy but that boy could
make 'one helluva gin and tonic ....

developers . Wasn't mucha nothin'
left fer me to do 'round here, so I
started walkin' 'round the woods
buryin' all the money. Cain't.
remember zactly why I started doin'
that ... but if yer ever out in the
woods and you see a peace sign
made of rocks on the ground, start
diggin'. If ya dig down dee!p enough,
you'll be just as glad as gee-golly ya
did .
Q: How much money have you
buried?
.
Old Ben: Ya think I done counted
it all?
Q: SO the school sure has changed,
hasn't it?
Old Ben7 You kin bet yer bingo
money on that, boy.
Q: So, what specifically has
changed?

The Sunday afterward

I drove to Edmonds for the first time
I got lost chasing the hearse
(Giggling schoolchildren
after the rollercoaster)
I am as guilty as you are.

Q: So you were here when the school
first started?
Old Ben: First started? Heck! Long
time ago I came walkin' through the
woods one day and I seen all these
folks campin' in tents and livin' in
teepees. Right here. Actin' like
they'd always been here. Like it
weren't nobodies' business where
they came from .
Q: So things sure have changed since
then, haven 't they?
Old Ben: She-shuckerin' sure as shehootie have, buster! Back onto 'SI
or so, I sold the farm to them land

It was a 'perfect Puget day to be buried .
I arrived after everyone had left, held the ritual silence
in the drizzle
moved on
I wanted to drive like hell
Drive Milt"s car off those narrow tracks
Never eat those damn doughnuts again

Q: What happened?
Old Ben: Well, by bingo, that fellah
was sure mad when I run out into the
water and told him he was gonna
have t'come get me if he wanted me
Cput my pants on. He was callin' me
all kindsa names. That felhih musta
been twenty dirrent kindsa mad as
a hornet.

Q: Really? Naked swim night?
Old Ben: Now don't get me started
on that. Used t'be all I could do
justa wait fer that t'happen every
year. Justa'bout all this old boy
could handle when it did happen.
A'course that was back when I was
a teacher here.

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I lay awake at the end of my bed,
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muscles clenching;
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and the monster
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Douglas firs, Cedars, Salal, Vine mapi es,
deep crooked grooves, red strips of bark;
shiny oblong reptile fossils,
yellow mittens bright as the full grown tree.

A thousand year old skeletal cedar snag,
once three hundred feet tall,
once young and brash,
once stately and grand,
once solemn and wise;
now (imposing like the dinasaurs)
dissappearing from the earth.

I lay awake
at the end of my bed,
curling tighter and tighter,
muscles clenching.
and tried not to breathe.
And the monster,
he started to breathe fire,
burning the walls.
I wanted to look,
to crawl from underneathe
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Horns with fresh blood on the tips.
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Before her first blood,
There was always a time each year
when the tide was low and cold.
She would walk out on frozen mudflats
and push her naked fingers into the
wet sea bottom,
an offering.
Now,
she is known as Elder in the town
and the shadows of so many winters
have made a pained and constant home
in her creaking raucous bones.
She will tell you
whether you want to know or not
that tommorrow will be a cold one,
the mudflats are howling
in her knuckles and knees.
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Q: So, what 'are your plans for the
future?
Old Ben : Ah, I' m just gonna walk
back to my cave. It's way back up
in the woods. It ain't much but I can
walk to one' a them Arctic Circle
restaurants from there. You know,
them places throw out one heckuva
lotta french fries ... 1 just came into
town ('see some friends and t'put in
an order with the Liquor Control
Board. You know, them boys
deliver ....
,

MY

As plagues go it's not bubonic,
though at least that struck but once.
The cold is fitting for the modern world,
a dull and faithful misery to accompany
our viral jobs and bacterial marriages.
Try to make it interesting,
as you float on your lake of secretion:
imagine hordes of germ Attilas,
pillaging the dreary day
and ravaging the restless night,
pouring through the passes
of the pathetic wheezing empire.

Q: What happened when you did
come out of the water?
Old Ben: Ya See!, boy, I just kept on
swimmin' and that fellah justa kept
on yellin'. He told me he was gonna
call out the Coast Guard, said they
was gonna come in a submarine and
shoot my tallywhacker off! But
about daybreak I heard him snorin'
on the beach, so I sneaked up and
used his handcuffs to latch him
round a tree!. Then I stole his pants
and threw 'em up in this big old tree.
Then I danced 'round him nekked.
He was one mad sonuva-

Q.:. Aw, come on, you weren't a
teacher here, were you?
Old Ben: Yep, I was, by shuckerin'
she-golly! Don't know how many
folks I taught. Fer a while there I
was one'a the favorite teachers
'round here. Seemed like everybody
wanted me to teach 'em how to roll
their own cigarettes. Never got paid
a penny fer any'a my work, but I
sure got to go to some'a the goddamdest beer parties I ever did see.

-

Now versus then everything is settled whereas,
Everyone can eat their lunch whereas

Q: What else has changed?
Old Ben: Now I don't like t'say it,
but folks just ain't as friendly as they
used t' be. Like I was down at the
beach last summer, fixin' to go
swimmin'. Then 'this boy come up to
me and tells me I gotta put my pants
on. What the?-you ever hearda
anybody goin' swimmin' with their
pants on?

Old Ben: Well, the reason I left here
when I did was they stopped havin'
nekked swim night over at the swimmin' pool. Used t'be alii could do
justa wait fer that t'happen every
year. Disappointin' day in my life
when I found out they stopped it.
Used
t 'be
nekked
people
everywhere! Dancin' 'round like
they's happier'n a buncha cranberry
pickers ... justa'bout as bare nekked
as can be-

-

You know what I mean?
Like, now everything is quietAs if one part of the amusement park closed down
--no, that's not right, the ·air-.
or the texture
or, something like
the ride is finished.
We all did it. & IT was a awful thing .

"What- happened to nekked swim night?" asks Olde Ben
by Mike McKenzie

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Clare Spitalny

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Listen:
the story in Spring is of growing,
in Summer of abundance,
in Autumn of retreat,
and all winter long
the beauty of death.
Terry Miner

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