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Pal!,e 8
February 28, 1985
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
F EVENh
Remember that the calendar
deadline is noon Monday!
ternationa l s tudies are invited to
learn about Evergreen's partner·
ship with the Jackson School of
International S tudie s at the
Universi'ty of Washington.
TONIGHT
"Duck Soup" and "Cocoanuls"
Duck SOIlP 7 p.m ., Cocoanll!s
9:30 p.m ., Leclure Hall I. $1.50 .
A Marx Brothers double fealure
and "Ihat's the funniest Ihing I
ever l1Oid!" To hear Ihe real
thing, see th ese films. Sponsored
by Thursday Night Films.
"Peate Through Pray~r And
AClion"
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church.
World Day of Prayer sponso red
by Church Women United . For
more informal ion , ca ll 357-3386.
Bibl~
Discussion Group
6 p. m" every Thursday. ASH
136. Free 10 everyone, "searchers
welcomed . "
For morc information, call Pat,
943-7359,
or Cliff. 866- 1400.
Saturday
"Voices
And
Spirit
Of
Communitl"
For information, call Marita,
866·0825, or Linda, 352-9524.
A 11'0 day opportunily 10 reflect
on contemporary lifestyles and
values and to explore ideas and
hopes for creating a communilY.
Spol1sored
by
Campus
Ministries, lnnerplace, and the
Evergreen
Siudeni ~
Organization.
Friday
Murphy And Sieber Perform
8 p.m., TESC Recital Hall. $3.50
st ud.:nts,
senior
citizens,
unemployed; $4.50 general. Advance tickets avai lable at Rainy
Day Records, Smithfield Ca fe,
and the TESC Bookstore.
Cellist and vocalist perform a
musical message of social change.
C itizen 's Band will also play .
Sponsored by EPIC, the Men' s
Center, and t he Lesbia n/ Gay
Resource Cen ler. For further informali0n, ca ll Donna al
R66-04IS.
Kuumba Gospel Festival
2-5 p.m., COM 110. $1 sllldents,
$2 genera l public.
This festival fealures many of Ihe
finesl church cho irs from Sealtle,
Tacoma, a nd Olymp ia. The
Re ve rend Tyrone Crider will
open Ih e fcs li va l, which i, spon so red by Uja maa .
Ziel!,ler Presents Sanctuar)'
Meetinl!, Tapes
7:3 0 p.m., Breau and Roses
House of H0spilality , 1320 E. 8th
Aven ue . Free and open 10 aiL
Bob Zie~kr wi ll present laped
la lk , delivercu al the recenl nalional Sanct uary Meeting held in
TlIc~on.
Monday
"Ball Of Fire"
6:30 and <) p.m., State Th~;l1er,
204 E. 41h. $1.5(J Olympia Fill11
Society members and sc nior s, $-1
n on - Ille III he r\ .
Gary Coo per and l:Iarbara Sla nwycl-; arc the odd couple in th i~
1941 Howard Hawks co medy.
For morc informalion on the
Olympia Film Socie ty or on up·
co ming film s, ca ll 7S4-/i670.
Ar i/on3 . For morc in -
f0rmal ion. (all 754-4085.
Inl('rnalillnal SllItlies InfHrlllaliHnal Ml'l'tin\:
2:30 1'. III " Lib 221,).
Si ud en i' \\"h,) will be juniors or
,eniors nexl yea r and who have
a serious int erest in advanced in-
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EVergreen ,cc urit y chief Gary
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Become one of the few, the proud,
Ihe weI. P lay " .A.O.S. H<' lIsing and
ASH rcsidenls o nl y, please.
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W EVERGREEN POOL CLOSED
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The swimming pool in the Campus Recreation Center is closed due
UJ to a pump breakdown. Recreation
II!] and Alhletic Director Jan Lambertz
says the pool will be closed until
CO NSERVATION INTERNSHIPS
March 6th at least, and advises all
AVAILABLE
interested swimmers to call the Rec
Siudents have until March 15 10
Cen ter at ext. 6530 for updates. All
sign up for Student Conservation
other Rec Center facilities will be
Associalion int trnships for this summer. Posilions include environmenlal studies, natural sciences, outdoor
education and olher relaled s tudies
wilh public and private agencies
responsible for natural resource ,
conservalion and recrealionallanus
in Ihe U.S. Housing, food
a llowance, and travel' funding is provided. For furth er information and
applications, contact the Office of
Cooperative Education and schedule
an appoinlment with a counselorLab I, Room 1000, or call Evonne
McMillan al 866-6000, ext. 6391.
ill~
Wallyball
7-9 p.m., CRC Racquelball
Couns I and 2 ..
Everyone's inviled to come and
play.
Wallyball Again
7·9 p.m., CRC Racquetball
Court L
For those who couldn't make it
on Monday night.
Art Galleries
Lesbian SupporllRap Group
7·9 p.m., Lib 3223.
Sponsored by the TESC Lesbian / Gay Resource Center. For
information, ca ll 866-6000, ext.
6544.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Men's Sup port Group
Evening, check at the Men's
Center, Lib 3227, for the specific
time and p lace. This group meets
weekly in members' homes.
"The Good Fight"
7:30 p.m ., First Christia n Church
701 S. Franklin. $2 admission 10
rai se money 10 buy an am bulance
for Nicaragua.
A film about Ihc Span ish Civi l
War. Sponsored by Ihe Centra l
America Action Committee.
Baha'i
Group
Spo nsors
Discussion
7 p.m., ASH 141.
"The Earth is but one count ry,
and mankind its citizens." An informal discussion sponsored by
the Evergreen Baha'i Association. For information, calli
Stephan Dimilroff. 866-9069.
Big Mounlain Support Group
7 p.m .. Lecture Halls' ROlunda.
Students Speak Out: (;overnance
1- 3 p.m .. CAB 104 ..
Students will meel with Joe
Olander, Patrick Hill, Gai l Martin. and David Marr. The lopi c
IS "Slude nt s' View of (iovernance at Evergreen." All interesled siudent' ,houlu atlellu.
Picklcball
Noon-I p .m., first floor Library
lobby.
Learn a crea ted-in· Wa., hing lon
s pml l
Overcalers Anonymous
7 p.m., CAB lOR or 110.
The on ly requiremenl for
member,hip i, a ucsire '" ""'1'
ea lin g compu lsively. t-"or infor ·
I1laliol1, call Ivy, l\66-022S.
Communily Network MCl'linJ;(
Noon-I p.m., Lib 3234 .
To di sc u., ., ",oc ial gluc" alld
" soc ia l chao,", and 10 sel
guideline,," for future
Ill ~ct ing ....
For inrormation, ca ll l:Ii ll LOll.
Ro6-R26K.
Meditation and I)iscllssion
Noon , I .ib 3225.
A time to quielly cellter yourself.
Ihen e"p lore with o lh ers yo ur
'piritual quc' lions . Sponsored [" .
Inncrplace.
Evergreen Gallery Four
Evans Library, Fourth Floor.
Young Harvill: Monotypes, anu
Lynda Rockwood : Pholograms,
February 23-March 17.
THE EVERGREEN
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open al their regular hours.
JEWISH CULTURAL GROUP
FORMS
A Jewish cu ltu ral organizalion
called Maarava has recently begun
to organize on campu,. It' s members
see the group encompassing
students, faculty, and other folks
within the community wilo arc interested in Judaism and Israeli
culture ..
I he meeting al Ihis time is
especially important because the
Artists' Co-Op Gallerl
524 So. Washington .
Photography by Dave Bushell
and stained glass by Veronica
Clifford, Ihrough Saturday. Pen
anu ink by Jes,e Hey and oils hy
Cla\ldia Mar~hall, March 2-'1. to
a.m .-5 p.m., Monday-Salurday.
M.uianm' Partlow (;HlIl'r~
51h and Wa,hinglOn. <)·n-III1~5 .
(;1(1.).)-1980-1985. hv Iknialllin
~l"ore. :\1arch 2-April III . Open
I"lIl"u;I\,·Frida\" I (l:.10-': "dllli '
d;I\, 11 -4,
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.. DiIllCIl." 'ioll . . III (jla ........ h..'aIIiIL"
Il) ~Irti,,, rl..'c"l!!lli/(..'d I'lH' Ilh. '1I
SherlUl'k H"lmrs Film Seril'.'
7 p.l11 .. Lecturl' Hall I. S2.~O.
~l\,:hiL·\l'Illl.·IlI"'111 ~I \jJrll'(\ \)1 !! I;l .....
1II,·dia.
Do-II
YIIlIr .S l'lr
Di'"fl'"
Workshop
6 :30 -'):30 p . lI1 .. I.ib 22(14. S.1(1 in ·
dividual, $45 (oup lc, ,Ind 52 c;lsh
for forms, payable al \\ orkshop.
Thi, workshop i, dc,i),'ncti 10 pfl).
\'idc all I he ill formal ion n..'!...' \ a III
I" Ih e pnlCl''' <If lI1arllal d i""III '
lion. Preregi'lralion reqlllreti: 1(1
re~i .'lcr, call X66-O(XXJ. <:\1. (,1('2 .
SpolI'or,' (\ by the \\' (lillell ',
. CcniLT.
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looks up jrom his work keeping the shrubbery in check.
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By Traci Viklund
Evergreen is overenrolled for the
first lime in its history. A complicated issue requiring in-depth
study
and
decision-making,
overenrollment is also a pressing
problem requiring immediate action.
The response of t he college was to
close enrollment for Spring quarter,
sending shock-waves throughout the
campus. Enrollment was closed 10
"specials," those sludents who are
not degree-seeking and taking less
than II quarter hours for credit.
Evergreen had 276 special students
on campus Winter quarter. Generally they are local, Olympia residents.
Some were second language students
needing more work with English
before they were formally admitled .
Many were post-graduate students.
Closing enrollment was a drastic
measure forced on the college by the
highest enrollment in its 13 year
history, an enrollment which exceed-
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commen ts."
FREE REC CENTER PARTY
MARCH 8TH
Friday, March 8, from 9 p.m. to I
a .m .. we want everyone to come to
the biggest FREE party of the
weekend! The Rec Center EXTRA V AGANZA!
Some signs
say it's March I, but it's really the
8 and we want you there!! For more
information, call Ellen Bigham, ext.
6530.
"
EVERGREEN
CHAMBER
SINGERS GIVE FREE CONCERT
MARCH II
The Evergreen Chamber Singers
will pc ' . orm a free concert on Monday, March II, at 8 p.m., in the
Evergreen State College Recital Hall.
NAT'l MEO DDS
ECFMG • FLEX. VQE
NOD. NPD I • NLE
Test Preparation Specialists
Since 1938
For information, Please Calf:
by Charlie Campbell
The state Senate has passed a bitt
that would create a more powerful
board 10 oversee public higher
education in Washington. The
House Higher Education Committee is working on a similar bill.
FACTORY GIRLS
Friday & Saturday
March 1st & 2nd
$3.00 Cover Charge
The new board would set the
state's educational goals and cast
each school's role in achieving the
goals,
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If the the bill beeomeo law , a ninemember Higher Education Coordinating (HEC) Board will replace
the Council for Postsecondary
Education (CPE) next January . The
f(vvfLDLANDS~
RESEAR.CH
SAN FIUNClscosr~TE UNIVERSITY
£KT£NO£D EDIJCATION
Summer & Fall '85
"There's /Jeell a lot oj misinj()rmation and people are expecting some negalil'e things to happen where I see .1'0111(' r('al
positive things would result (If E~eI'green 's security force
became a police deparlment/' "
Evergreen Security Chiej Gary Russell
ed the FTE budget established by the
legislature. FTE stands for Full Time
Equivalent, and is the key to the funding process. Instead of total
nU{l1ber of students, the FTE
represents total amount of credits
registered, divided by 16 (16 equals
one full time student for FTE purposes). Because not all students carry
16 credits, FTE figures are generally lower than the total amount of
students . FTE is a budgetary figure,
the number used to determi ne
legislative funding.
Each year the legislature looks al
average FTE patterns when
establishing the college's funding.
Evergreen was allotted money 10 accomodate an FTE of 2380. This
figure was later s upplemented to
2400.
What happened this year was a
crisis, as far as these numbers are
concerned; FTE hit 2510 during Fall
quarter, and barely dropped to 2503
during Winter. While these numbers
are exciting in terms of the growth
they represent, they are problematic
in terms of the funding available to
s upport Ihat growt h .
It is ironic that Evergreen should
face problems with positive growth.
Five years ago, . followed by two
years of serious enrollment decline,
the college was given a mandate to
grow by the legislature . At that time
the ac tu al number of students had
decreased from 2636 in Fall 1976,10
only 2198 in Fall 1978. Even more
significantly in terms of funding, the
FTE dropped from 2407 to 2198
during this two year period. In
response to the legislalive mandate,
Evergreen's first marketing plan was
devised.
Director of Admissions, Arnaldo
Rodriguez helped to design Ihe
original plan. IL comprised three
areas of focus: recruiting, relenlion,
and public awareness. With many
additions, these same goals have remained within Ihe plan up till the
presenl. To assist in its implementation the Enrollment Coordina ling
Commillee was formed, headed by
Sue Washburn, Director of College
Relalions and Development.
Many see retention as the mOSI
vital factor. "It's nol just a mailer
of bringing students to Evergreen,
but keeping siudents once they're
here," saiu Rodriguez.
Public awareness of Evergreen's
excellence has a lso contributed to the
college's growth . In addilion, Ihere
has been favorable recognition for
Evergreen in both local and national
publicalions during the past year.
Evergreen has responded to the
legislature' s mandate. Growth,
resulting from the cumulative effecls
of the marketing plan, is evident.
Yel as Joe Olander pOinled OUI, Ihe
legi slat ure has gi ven I he co llege a
contradiction. "On the one hand
Ihey have given LIS a mandate 10
grow, while at the same tim e
wilhholding the funding to supporl
'thai grow th ."
It is Ihi s (ontradiclion which
brought Evergrecn the new problem
of overenrollmenl. Allhough the
supplementa l budget rai,ed FTF 10
2400, bolh fa ll and Wimer q uart er,
greally exceeded Ihat limil. Administralors found Ihemselves in the
paradoxical position of looking for
ways to decrease nllmhers instead of
increase them.
Washburn said, "The Ih oughl of
denying access was painful, yet when
forced 10 priorili ze the col lege relt a
primary res ponsibility loward s
degree- seeking s tudents . " Through
dosing enrollmenl 10 s p ec ia l
see enTolllllel1l pa!;!! 2
HEC Board would assume all the
duties of the CPE and would cost
about Ihe same, but il would have
additional powers including setting
minimum admission standards.
Stan Marshburn, Evergreen's
legislative liaison, said Evergreen
backs the proposal even though its
satellite campuses at Tacoma and
Vancouver would come under the
scrutiny of the HEC board ,
"We have confidence in the programs in Tacoma and Vancouver,"
Marshburn said. "They serve
legitimate needs in those areas, and
having someone look at them
doesn't frighten us. It's plain good
government to have the type of
watchdog activity."
President Joseph Olander said,
"The state needs coordination and
it (the bill) preserves each institulion's autonomv."
Olander said he is relieved Ihat a
compeling bill, eliminating each
school's governing board, received
little support. The bill, sponsored by
Rep. Cathy Allen, R-Edmonds ,
would create a' c'superboard" and
abolish Evergreen's Board of
Trustees.
Critics feared this would leave
Evergreen with no defense of ils slyle
of education .
Sen. Nita Rinehart, the Senate
bill's sponsor, said that under her
bill, Evergreen i ~ protected from being pushed into the mold of the other
four -year schools.
"Your protection is in the
assumption that a rational person
would say that we need a lot of di fferent approaches to higher education," said Rinehart, D-Seattle .
She said the bill attempts to create
a board strong enough to coordi nate
e fforts and settle disputes among
schools, while still respecting each
school's self-appointed mission.
The bill stresses HEC Board deci sions should be made in consultation
with advisory committees including
staff, students, faculty and trustee
represenlalives from Washin~ton
state universities, com munit y and
four-year colleges, and vocat ional
colleges. Privale colleges would also
have a voice.
"What we've em phasi zed is coor ·
dinalion,
not
contro l
or
homoge nization ," said R inehan.
However, Rep. Kcn J aeobscn,
sponsor of Ih e similar House bill,
sa id that a st ronger board "could
have so me homogenizing effect."
J aco b sen, D-Seallle , said th e
House bill leaves as muc h aut horil Y
as possible in t he hands of each
school's governing board, so thallhe
schools have the leeway 10 be
di fferent.
see HEC board page 2
3·14 units
Join a Backpacking R_arch T.am
In the Mounteln W.lt or Alalka
On-sile explorations to preserve:
• Wildlile Species
• Witderness Environments
Course details:
The editor regrels Ihallhis week there is no way
10 save
Spunky.
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THE EVERGREEN
STATE COLLEGE
. Olympia, W A 98S0S
WILDLANDS RESEARCH : (707) 632·5665
Mosswood Circle Cazadero CA 95421
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Whether Ihe deparlm e nt shou ld
he called a policc department hinges ,
for RlI ssell, on free training al Ihe
po lice academy. The in stanl il
becomes a police department. "we
get full-blown acadcmy training , " he
,ai u.
Russell sa id he hope., thc forum
on Monuay is wett allenueU. ''\' 11
I'c d real good if a 101 of people ., hol\'
up," he sa id, "but at lea st I'll kllow
Ihal we've tri ed 10 presenl a sidt' of
the issue th ai lot s 01' people haven't
hearu."
Proposed law to put Evergreen under tougher coordinating board
GMAT
LSAT • MCAT· GRE
GRE PSYCH· GRE BID
GMAT • OAT • DCAT • PCAT
VAT· MAT· SAT
situation.
Evergreen closes enrollment to 'special students' this spring
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Directed by John Webber. The
25-member choir will sing select ions
by Schubert. Mendelssohn, Morley ,
Vecchi, de Victoria, and LOlli. For
further information, ca ll 866-6000 ,
ext. 6833.
The Maarava o ffice is Room 3214
in the Library Building.
Evergreen Security Chief Gary
Russell will host an open forum
Monday, March I! th at noon in
CAB 108 to discuss the issues of
security reclassification and guns on
campus.
Russell said the forum would be
a "good time to ask us question5 and
10 hear some of the things we are
trained to do well."
"There's been a lot of misinformation," Russell said, " and people
are expecli ng some negalive things
to happen where I see some real
positive things would result (if
Eve rgreen's security force became a
police department]."
"Full-blown police academy training would help us better serve the
communily, the victims of crime and
the institution," Russell said. He
thinks th e officers would be better
equipped 10 deal with difficult situalions in non-Iegalislic fashions. The
training leaches officers, "nol only
all facel s of I he legal system, but a lso
social interaction , kills anu techni ques," he said. ,.
Russell discou-nts fears thatlhe officers wil l become more aggressive
law enforcers for 11'0 reaso ns. i-' irSl,
Ihere's no ,'hunge in their police
responsibilities. "Righi now we arc
commissioned hy I he Thurston
C OllnlY Sheriff's departmenl, "
Ru sse ll sa id. "All ollr officers are
police officers except one and hc's in
Ihe reserve academy in a course that
will
lead
to
him
being
commissioned. "
Second, Ihere is an ? llempt
Ihrough the legal system to make
fewer court cases . "The courts are
clogged," .Russell said. "Even in
regular polrce department, the
policemen a re' told whenever . it ualions can be resolved short of clogging the courts, they are urged 10 do
so. Part of the training Ih ey get in
t he police acauemy is problem so lving without involving Ihe court
system. "
Acco rdin g 10 Russell, Ihe
reclassification iss ues are pay and
training. "The inuividual officers,"
Russell said, "are being asked to do ,
al least potentially, everything thai
any police officer might have 10 do,
but they' re being paid as securilY officers. That' s a non-equitable
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deadline for budget estimates is
March 20th, and we will need the
next few weeks 10 make up a scheudie of events for I he 1985-1986
school year.
We have reserved a room in CAB
108 for March 4, a t 7:30 p.m., and
welcome anyone with queSTions or
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EDUCATIONAL CENTER
ARE WATER WARS LOOMING
IN YOUR FUTURE~
Doc> Ihe thoug ht of bombing your
roommate with a water balloon
make yo u swoon with longing? Do
yo u enjoy inlrigue, mystery, anu extreme paranoia? Then K.A.OS (the
game, 1101 the radio slation) just ma y
he right fo r you . Because ii's so late
ill th e quaner, we won ' t ,Iart p laying umi l April, but now is the time
I,) get in volved. If you · re interested
in playing, or if you don't know
"hat I'm talking about and wam to
find OUI, ca ll 866-0809 or leave a
1l1<'"age on Ih e door of A-lOI6.
Murch 7, 1985
STATE COLLEGE
Childhood's End Galler~'
222 W. 4th, 943-3724 .
Paintings by Vivian Kendall and
porcelain by Colleen Trousdale.
Through March 5 .
Mandarin (;Ia" Caller)
XX2 1 I:Iridgeport W;n
Ta(oma . SH2- .1:155.
Security chief calls
forum..on gun issue
by Roger Dickey
Evergreen Gallery Two
Evans Library, 2nd floor.
Watercolors by Mariko Marrs
and H.<\ruko Moniz, through
March 10.
Il1\1(\.
W Ru"ell imit es all illlcrel ted com- W
I!] munil, member, co nce rn ed wilh
departmcnt a nd per so nnel
rccl3 s,i fication anu firearm s o n
I!] ca mpus 10 an 0pen rorul11 on
Monday March II at noon in
CAB lOR .
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Women In Sciente
12·1 p.m., Lib 3211').
Women from any academic area
are welcome to s hare thoughts
and ideas about sexism in
education .
ISsue No 18
Vol. No, 13
NONPROFIT ORG.
U .S.POSTAGI:
PAtD
OLYMPIA. WA
PERMIT NO.6S
M~rch 7. 1985
Pa~e
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March 7. 1985
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
G RE E NE R SPEAK
Question: How would you resolve tlJ.e conflict between ecology and economy?
To m Conner. Co ntract, Advanced
Sharon
A griclilflIre.
Michael Leitch, Natural and Ar-
Connie Anderson, Issues, Traditions
Environment
What i~ eco logica l should be
ec o nomi ca l a s well.
tificial Dynamics
and Change
I wou ld look at th e lo ng term
be ne fil S ralher than the short term
problems. In t he long t e rm,
eco no my will lose o ut and ecology
will win.
Have people involved in ordering
and desig ning the guidelines.
I f corporations could figure out a
way to make money on a good environment. they would, otherwise,
they will exploit it.
Conboy,
Evergreen
Thefts and threats plague South Sound's Evergreen branch
h I Mik e M e Ken7i,·
T \'vo del l a h~.q; ~ . cO IlIi.lIning m o~{ 1\ I'o mrut cr pri nl-o ut s, we rc ,wlen
)rolll" Sou lh So und Nati o nal Bank
CI)urie r ca r [la rk ed in Ih e Eve rgree n
( olkge Ac ll\ ili c, Bui ldin g (C AB)
loacl ing dnck o n Tucsda y, Fehr ua ry
IY. T hc dr il cr 1' 1' Ih e car wa, ma kin g a del il l' r, III Ihc E ve rgreen
bra nch o f t he ha nk , locat ed in Ihc
CII B lo bb y, w he n t he t hefl
arJ no rcu
l'(H ~
l o r carr yin g
111 0 n ('y,
he said .
lKT UTT CcI.
HOMH THREATS
O n Wcdn c".lJ y, Febr ua ry 20, a
bo mb threa l wa, made di rectl y to the
bank by phone, whi ch caused the
(' II R to be evac uated fo r over an
hour. Ano ther bo mb threal came on
Ih c fo ll owi ng Friday when a note
was found on t hc table o Ul side the
bank, but the CAB wa s n't
cvac uat ed.
DATA BAG· THEl-T
Accord ing to Evergreen C hief of
Securit y Ga ry Russell, when the
d rive r returned to the courier car,
"The rear window was smashed-out
and the (data bags) were gone."
The data bags were recovered "in
the woods," Russell said. But the exac t loca tion where the bags were
found was withheld "as the crime is
The first bomb threat came by
phonc direcll y 10 thc bank.
Everg reen' s CAB wa s evacuatcd
fro l11 2:35 to 3:50 o n Wednesda y
afternoon .
The second threat came on Friday
al appro xim ate ly 2:00 in th e after noon . What Security C hief Russe ll
described as "a scraw led message
anybody could have left" was found
o n th e table directly outside the
bank.
"We're working closely with
Thurston County investigators on
techniques to apprehend (suspects),"
Russell said ,
Both the threats and the robbery
are relonies under the Washington
State Criminal Code.
HEC Board
financial aid, that they didn't have
time to think and set policy _So what
we've said is for the first year one
of the things that they do is decide
where financial aid and a number of
other programs will be best housed
and t hen to come back wi th
recommendatons.' ,
She said lawmakers hope the
legislation will keep the new board
from losing the confidence of the
schools and Legislilture as the CPE
has done since it was formed in 1975.
Rinehart said CPE's influence has
diminished " because they had
isolated themselves from the the institutions and from the Legislature.
So that when they came up with an
idea, since they hadn't gone through
a process of listening to everybody
involved. sometimes it was very far
afield from wha t 's going on in the
real world ."
Rinehart said that if the CPE had
been initially given more power it
might not have" faded away into being a very weak organization."
She added, "One of the things we
will want to do is to watch very
carefully what happens with our new
board, and be sure that they have
sufficient authority to do what we
want them to do,"
continued from page 1
"Yo u want that variation so that
you' re getting people from different
background s moving into society, "
said Jacobsen. "Uniformity is more
and more common in higher education, a nd I don't think that's
healthy. "
A prime reason for the creation of
a stro nger board is thl recent "turfwars" between Eastern Washington
U niversity and Washington State
University.
Rinehart said, " In our proposal
the board would be given the
a uth or it y to arbitrate disputes
among the institutions competing
wi th each other to provide services
- and just getting way out of
hand ."
One difference between the House
and Sena te versions of the bill is that
Sen . Lo is Stratton, D-Spokane,
amended the Senate bill to reserv e
fo ur of the nine positions on the
board for people from the eastern
side of th e state. The amendment
carried 25-21.
A nother difference is that the
Senate bill would set minimum admission "standards," while the
House bill uses the less strict term
"guidelines. "
Jacobsen sa id the bills are
"somewhat si milar. We'll just have
to sit down and sort o ut the
differences. "
The BEC Board would spend its
first year deciding which administrative duties would be
dele6ated to ot her agencies.
Rinehart said the C PE "was
burdened with so many administrative functions, including
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Ken Jacob, Everg reen' s d irector
of A uxili ary Services , sa id th at the
decision to eva cua le th e C AB on
Wed nesday was mad e by Sec uri ty
a nd him se lf in con sultation with
Vi cc Presidem Richard Schwartz.
Thc deci sio n not to evacuate on Friday wa s mad e in con sultation wit h
President Joe Ola nder , a s Schwartz
co ul d n' t be con ta cted .
The dec ision not 10 evacuate was
made after Ja cob l a lk ed to
employees or the bank , and was due
to " the nature o f the threat it se lf."
Jacob did, however , have the
trash carried out of the CAB because
"(the garbage co ntain ers are) a common place to dump somcthing
in co nspicuously, ' ,
"My persooal feeling is there isn't
a connection (between the theft and
the bomb threats). thou£h your
guess is as good as mine," Jdcob
said . I f a suspect is apprehended
Jacob would recommend charges be
pressed "if we had a good enough
case. I think this is serious."
A STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE
Evergreen
student
Bernie
Johansen was in the CAB lobby
Enrollment
con'tinued from page I
studentS, and moving forward the
deadline for new student applicants,
the Enrollment Coordinating Committee estimate they have lowered
Spring ITE to 2415, a number close
to the legislature's established limit.
For next year Evergreen has requested an ITE increase, No decision has been made by the legislature
yet. If Spellman's budget holds, FTE
will increase to 2425. However there
is also a possibility that Gardner will
freeze the budget at its current 2380
allocation _
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Ken Jacob, director of Auxitiary Services, President joseph Olander and
Fire Chief Bob Allen, discuss the February 20 bomb threat of the CAB.
reading a book at about 2:00 on the
afterno(m of Friday, February 22.
Then an Evergreen staff member
told Johansen "there might be a
bomb (in the building). They found
a letter."
Johansen looked around the lobby. About twenty people were sitting
'in the area , What he guessed to be
security officers in plain clothes were
around the bank. Johansen watched Ken Jacobs carry out garbage.
. "I went around and told people
(there might be a bomb), " Johansen
said. " I thought they should have
the choice (whether or not to leave
the building under circumstances like
this), I come here a lot. I'd like to
know if there might a bomb in
here. "
almost certain; overenrollment will
continue to present a problem for
Evergreen throughout next year.
Closing enrollment for Spring
quarter was a temporary solution.
Evergreen does not want to disenfranchise special students permanently; they are a part of the
community the college was chartered
to serve.
The dilemma is provacative.
Evergreen is known as a nontraditional college, should the col·
lege then resort to traditional
methods of limiting access? In order
to solve the problem must the college prioritize among differant student cohorts? Next week this column
will continue with this issue, and explore the question of, "Where do we
go from here?"
Morty dog, come home
by Lee Norton
Morty Dog may not be a common
household
name for mo st
Americans, but in the_bizarre world
of underground comics (ipelled
comix), he is somewhat of a
phenomenon , A dog who escapes
human mortality, and mocks human
experience, he has died no less than
six times, always to return. He
traveled deep into the center of the
planet Saturn, played Hamlet in the
only comix version of the play, and
has had words with God. Call him
a star and he'll deny it. "In the
world of comix characters, I'm hardIya 'star'," says Morty, " I'm just
another pretty face among the
zillions of comix characters,"
I went looking for this character
among characters, I wanted to finct
out what the world of comix entertaining is all about, and what the life
of one of its most vigorous entertainers is like.
I found Morty in one of his frequent haunts, a sleazy dive called
"The Glass Crutch," When I walked
into the place it felt as though I was
walking into the sinking hull of the
Titanic. There was an odor to the
place that I'll never be able to
describe, like a mixture of brine and
bleach perhaps, but it' s not even
worth trying. I found Morty in one
of" _ red plastic booths in the back,
his head on the table, his right paw
clutching a double shot of Jim
Beam. It was hard to hear him when
he spoke, he kept slurring his words ,
He'd obviously been drinking for
quite a while,
"If I was a big star, I don't think
I could cope with it," he told me
candidly . "Just the other day I
learned Nancy and Sluggo were
breaking up. She caught him in the
sack with little Lulu, and some blows
were exchanged. . . why do you
think they call him ' Sluggo'? Now
he's off on some self-destructo rock
suicide trip, and Nancy's popping
Valium like popcorn , If success can
turn decent folks (folkx) like that into ugly caricatures, I'M sure not up
to it. No, not for me,"
I asked Morty how had changed
since first appearing as a young dog
in the Cooper Point Journal. "I'm
not so cute anymore . In fact, my
tastes run toward the sleazy, Myearly years at Evergreen were like liv ing in some sort of Ja-Ia land. For
some reason, the legislators got upset
when we dogs would shit on the
see Morty page J
Serious Reporter says Banquets, Schmanquets, who oeeds 'em
The evening was spoiled , Reginald
by Tom Spray
became quite ill and had to lie down
The Serious Reporter is not acin the study while all the guests worcustomed to excessive eating. He, in
ried about the state of his health.
fact, avoids the most delectable, the
Amidst all of this excitement; the cat
most scrumptious foods as if they
relieved himself on Dr. Cushing's
were so much dirt.
lap. "
Out of politeness, he attended his
We talked to Dr. Cushing, who
Aunt's home for supper. But what
tried
his best to treat the Serious
his Aunt had not told him was that
Reporter's ilLhealth.
the meal was to be a banquet of the
"Reginald suffered · stomach
most exquisite sort, and that she had
cramps and a slight headache," says
invited many people . We interviewDr. Cushing. "I attempted to make
ed the cook from the banquet to find
a more complete diagnosis, but I was
out what the Serious Reporter
too disturbed by the smell of my
thought of the food.
trousers to concentrate in an ade"Well," says cook, "I brought
quate manner. I had a mind to look
out several fish entrees, the most exfor that wretched cat and punish him
travagant chicken, veal, and goose
severely. "
dishes , the finest of wines, and a
We followed Dr. CUShing's lead
splendid array of salads, breads, and
and searched for the cat ourselv.es.
cheeses. The serious fellow finished
We found the cat on the stairs and
his port ion quite rapidly - long
interviewed hiin.
before everyone else. So I asked him
"I'm a good cat , says the cat,
how he had enjoyed his meal.
"and I deserve good treatment. And
"I've already forgotten about the
when I saw the black shoes and
taste," he sa id . "Food sustains my
white pantlegs walk over to the panhealth and keeps me going without
try , and heard a can be ing sliced
delay. I haven't the time to to think
open, and smelled the eniicing
about flavors, spices, seasonings, as
aroma, I knew that my stomach
they pass by me without my
would soon be happy .
noticing.' ,
"And when the white legs weill
"I immediately took offense,"
right past the dish without the hands
says the cook, "and marched back
coming down to scoop out the food
to my kitchen. I opened a can of cat
with the fork, I became very angry.
food, spooned it neatly onto a plate,
The
food was going to some other
and garni shed it with parsley to
stomach. I wouldn't stand for it!
make it look attractive. I brought the
And so I ran into the room where all
dish out to my offender's table and
of the people sat, jumped onto one
placed it before him. I then slipped
back to my kitchen - from there I of the laps, and relieved my a nger
there and then."
heard the commotion thaI
Dr. Cushing - who had gone to
follow ed. "
look for the cat - allowed us to use
We interviewed the Serious
hi s stethoscope to interview the cat
Reporter 's aunt about the commofood in the Serious Report er' s
tion in the banquet room:
stomach .
" The cook and his pranks! He
"What am I doing in here?" asks
should not have fed Reginald (the
the
ca t food. "I belong in the
Serious Reporter) the food of a cat.
Morty
continued from page 2
library carpet. That's when I probably first developed my problem
with authority figures. Later. I
became disgruntled with Greener
politics when all they would feed me
was alfalfa sprouts. Also, they kept
tying red bandanas around my neck
... how humiliating!
Steve
Willis
is
Morty's
manager/creator. He is an unassuming man who live in Pullman,
Washington, A couple of years ago
he took up Iibrarianship as a steady
job, in order to keep Morty supplied
with the necessities he need to keep
fueled up for his comix gigs - a case
of beer a night, cheap stogies and
potato chips .
I tried to contact Steve to dsk him
a few questions. Each time I tried.
he was either at work or had fallen
victim to some sort of minor misfortune, such as an allergy attack, or a
scabies infestation, or a mental
derangement which manifested itself
in the singing of silly songs. His wife
was very helpful, she told me that
her "pookie goo-goo" just couldn't
make it that night and would I mind
trying some other time? To tell you
truth, I was wondering if it was a
good idea ever to try again .
"Willis is a perfectly normal
American who like to daydream
when he should be doing work."
Morty told me without hesitation .
"When I first met him. he was
drunk on his butt in one of Olympia's sleazier dives , He asked me for
money so he could 'Have one for the
road.' I replied, 'Sure , in exchange
for your soul! Being the weak-willed
entity he is, he agreed, and then attempted to give me his shoe. But it
was too late_ I enter:!d his mind and
took over. He wasn't my first choice
for an easy tool, but hey, I can't
complain. Don't tell him this, but I
manage him. "
I began to feel sorry for the man;
the whole subject was leaving me
depressed .. I tried to change the tone
of the conversation. Morty was kind
of hunched over the table, playing
dejectedly with a matchbook . I tried
to tell him, as politely as I could, that
his left ear was floating in his drink ,
I then asked him my next question.
"Do you feel any sort of responsibility towards your audience? Or
do you think it's enough just to be
your wonderful self?
He gave me a rather incredulous
look and sa.id, "Frankly. I don't
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think about my audience . What I
think about is that paycheck. Where
else but comix could I just walk on
stage, say a few words , walk off. and
collect the dough?"
"What wue you doing before you
got into comix?"1 asked , this time
to a little more receptive dog.
"Good question," he replied , "I
wish I knew the answer. I'm the victim of amnesia. Shortly before I met
Willis, I woke up in the third boxcar, midnight train, destination :
Bangor, Maine . There was a lump
on my head, and a note tied to my
tail which read, 'Morty, you nogood-son-of-a-bitch, get out of town
and stay out!' That's my earliest
memory. I can't remember anything
before that. I don't know how old
I am , who my parents are. where I
was born, and if not for that note ,
I wouldn't know my name , Deep in
my heart of hearts, I think this is my
reason for going into comix entertaining. Maybe someday, someone
who knew me in myoId life will step
up and tell me who I am ,
"One curious sidelight here : I
could swear that the handwriting on
that note is a perfect match for
Willis', but he denies any
knowledge . Sometimes I wonder."
Sometimes I wonder, too.
Sometimes I wonder a lot. I left
Morty in "The Glass Crutch" in the
wee hours of the morning, when the
populat ion of the place had dwindled to only a few patrons. As I was
heading for the door, I noticed a
rather quiet man sitting in the corner. He looked perfectly normal in
nearly every way. except for a
strange twitch in his left hand. He
photo h II Chris COIn"
was holding either a pencil or a
straw, I couldn't tell wh ic h in the
bad light. He played wit h h is
moustache and glared at Morly, who
didn ' t seem to notice. Morty was
oblivious to nearly everything at that
point.
Maybe he 's a Morty fan , I
thought, transfixed at seeing the
quasi-star himself sitting across the
room; then again, he could just be
an average joe, amazed to see a dog
drinking at a bar.
Then, for some strange reason , I
thought of Steve Willis , but to tell
you the truth, I was afraid to find
out.
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such names as " low down scoun drel" and " rotten stinker." Dr.
Cushing found the cat and spank ed
it.
"I could see him chewi\lg," says
the plate. "I can always see them
chewing. I watched his adam's apple bob up as he gu lped. But suddenly he stopped everything. His
mouth hung open .
" That' s when he dropped the fork
on me and stared down al t he food
lhat he had just eaten. He stood up .
His chair fell over. He announced
that he 'd been tricked into eating the
food of a cat."
We interviewed the fork:
"NO UK KIT-FOOT EN ME.
AN WH EN KIT-FOOT GET EN
ME, ME GIT SIK E N DE HED."
The Serious Reporter' s chair was
also questioned, des pit e it s injuries.
"I felt him squirming," says the
chair. " I don ' t like it when they
squirm, squirm , a ll the time squir·
mingo But they do it. They squirm
when they get sick on the food.
Squirm: I hate it.
"He stood up. They stand up . All
lhe time standing up. He knocked
me onto my side and chipped some
of my paint off. The spoon rell on
the floor. I saw it. I seen it."
We spok e to the spoon abou t ilS
invol vement in the incident which
sent it downward to the dirty floor.
"DUNNO WOOT HOOPAN," '
says the spoon, "BOOT WOOT
HOOPAN NOOT GOOT."
Once hi s stomach fully di gested
the cat food, the Serious Reporter
became himself again . He vowed Serious Reporter searches for a clean ice-cube
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but God Almighty, for humans? I
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March 7, 1985
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Make English
State language
Dear Miss Allen:
Please accept my compliments
for writing about writing and for
doing so well.
Mrs. Karney and I have
subscribed 10 the CPJ since day I.
While I like to keep up in general
with what is going on there - at
least as reported by the CP J - and
whal is goi ng wrong - as expressed by generally over-emotional letters 10 the editor - I find that, over
the yea rs, with an occasional exceplion such as yours, the quality of
writing is no betler than that of our
high school paper during whichever
ice age it was that I went there.
I've only recently learned that
t here is a national organization that
is endeavoring to make English our
orfic ial language.
Locally,
Representative Dick Bond, R.,
Spo ka ne, has introduced a bill to
make English o ur state language.
T his , he is quoted as sa ying~ would
eliminate bilingual courses in public
schoo ls and save the cost of prin ting the Official Voters' Pamphlets
in mo re than one language .
(Unless there is already legislation in both areas, I see no need for
his bill; just stop doing both.)
Co lumnist Robert Cummings,
long-time reporter of state administrative and legislative deeds
and mi sdeeds , asks, relative to the
loca l bill, just what English is. Is
it really like we speak it here, he
says, or is it like it is spoken in
Boston, or in B ~po kly_n, in New
Jersey o r in Mississippi. And he
notes thai there isn't much similariI y bel ween the En,glish spoken jJv
a n Oxford graduate and a Liverpool Irishman from the Limehouse
Dislrict. I hope he's just kiddinl( . .
because I think it is relatively simple to write understandable English
here a nd elsewhere. Accents are a
different
maller,
as
are
co lloquialisms.
Correction : I say "relatively simpie." It is, I think , if it is welltaughl, which, in general, it isn 'I,
at leas I in our loca l public sc hools.
I've become persona non grata
wi th a ll o ur loca l educators from
classroom leac hers on ' down 10 the
Sla te Superinlendent of Public I nst ru clio n. (Yes. Ih e " down " is intended.) Perhaps so me of Ihe
fo llowing lillie gems will interest
you. Excepl for wanting 10 cry, I'd
laugh a l Ihcm . All of Ihem came into o ur hom e unsoliciled and were
written by ed uca lors.
- Research h'lS shown that reading
and wri ting a nd speak ing can be used a, tool s to help student s learn.
- Brothers and sister not in high
sc hool must go to the high sc hool in
Ihe atte nda nce area in which th ey
live .
- The sc hoo l cannot teach pupils
who are not present.
-Our high school has received a
disadvantaged grant in Ihe amo unt
of $6.500.
- There are st ill children who are
not adequa tely immunized or inadequalely immunized.
- T he Winter Sports Banquet will be
he ld in our cafeteria Thursday.
March 6th, at 6:30 p.m. Eat dinner
before you come.
-Lost a nd found boxes will be
maintained in the office and o ne in
the swi mming pool.
And so on, for 90 more examples.
But no , I'm not an educator nor
a gram marian. I'm just a retired
Highways Department personnel officer who just plain got fed up with
the way college graduates, a mong
others, mangled our language in the
recoUPling or' their qualifications for
employment. But as I've just read
this a.m. in the Reader's Digest,
PllS's Robert MacNeil sees thought
as words, arranged in grammatically precise ways. (But that isn't why
I addressed you as Miss. Ms. isn't
".
fair. You see. you ladies can choose
whether to say "I'm single," "I'm
married," or "I'm not going to tell
you ." We men have no equal
linguistic ability.) (Just wait until
Men's Lib passes .)
Appreciatively ,
Wesley Karney
A small item
but a big topic
Dear Editor:
In the last issue of the CP J, I
noticed a small item in the Calendar
of Events regarding an open forum
concerning the Security Department,
personnel reclas~ification and
firearms. Gary Russell has invited all
interested community members to
allend.
I was disappo inted by the lack of
attention given in the placement of
this piece of information, and feel
that il could be emphasi zed a bit
more . This event, to be held on
Monday, March II, at noon in CAB
108 , could prove to be an excellent
opportunity for any inquiries concerning all aspects of Ca mpu s
Security - 10 be answered up front
and in person.
I feel that the issue of campus 5ccurity is a significant one that merits the
attention of each and every member
of the campus community. Perhaps
it will provide some good insight as
to what aspects of the "Evergreen
Experience" are worth preserving,
and which will be forced to change
in order to keep up with the times.
I do not think that the success of
Evergreen as an "education with a
difference" is something to be taken
for granted by those of us who have
benefited so well in its existence,
whether financially, ideologically, or
academically. I hope that all who
have gained as a result of this institution will take the time to wonder
how they got here and reflect on the
fact that Evergreen 's character has
as much to do with its successful existence, as any other factor that
makes or breaks an experiment. We
are all part of this .
I encourage a ll community
member to express their opinions
and interesls on March II.
Thank you.
Andrew R. Bernick
The problem
with guns
Dear Ed ilor:
I am a member of the Peace and
Contlict Resolution Ce nter. This
editorial, however, is not an official
P.C.R.C. statement. I am in favor
of Security'S change of status request, from Security Officers to
Police Officers. I support their request because of the benefits that
they would derive from the change:
higher salaries; availability to use
the State Police Academy, free of
charge; ability to use competitive
employment practices by offering
higher salaries to applicants .
Yes, I do have a problem with
guns. And I am willing to hear
alternatives to carrying the guns.
Two thoughts that I have about the
guns (are as follows): Issue the
guns, but keep them under lock
and key in the Security Office; or
simply don 't issue the guns. I
haven'l looked at the plausibility of
these two ideas, I am in favor of
the change in status, and not in
favor of handguns, we have a problem. And let's not lose our res~t
for each other over this.
Chris Hubbard
Dear Mike
letter
Dear Mr. McKenzie:
I ndeed, letters of opinion should
be welcome. in the CP J no matter
whom their source; but overly harsh,
nay, cruel disparagement of an apprentice writer's style from an exper ienced a lumni amounts to
needless bullying. What I meant by
" bow out" was simply, let those
who are here to learn, learn. That is
what students "are, after all, herc
for," and I'm sorry I have to repeal
it. I would love to read what Mr.
Chateaubriand has to say about the
actual issue, but as he himself noted,
after five paragraphs of vented
spleen, there was no room left for
more pertinent discussion.
The issue we 'never should have
ceased to talk about remains the proposed reclassification, and perhaps
arming, of the Evergreen security
department. It is ironic that your
response to my letter centered on the
least important of its points, but
sin ce the crux of my letter was not
printed, it suppose it shouldn't have
been unexpected . To resume at the
point at which I was cut off: a police
department, unlike a security department, is legally obligated to enforce
a ll laws, the unjust equally with the
just, and to use force against the
violator of those laws. An argument
for police presence at Evergreen is
a request for this kind of policing.
Arguments for armed police here are
asking for more guns on campus and
more potential for violence.
The British police force, aside
from special tactical squads, carried
no firearm s until the 1970's and
functioned quite we ll. S urely
Evergreen can do without firearms,
and without police, a good while
longer.
Sincerely,
John Dylan Coo per
Pronouns: do
bring about. Those who consider it
to be either easy \lr fun do not
understand and arC' not interested
in social change. One who causes
social change gets other rewards,
though .
The problem English writers
have with pronouns is not trivial.
If we cannot SlaY exactly what we .
mean, then we cannot communicate well enough to cause
significant · social change. If ODe
says, " .. : he does this and such,"
then one should mean that a male
does this and such. Unfortunately,
con ventional written English bids
us to say 'he' when we mean 'a person,' and this is what we usually
do . But we don't have to say 'he'.
We can choose to change a convention of English by saying 'one' to
refer to 'a person'. Yes : we can
change the language if we have
courage.
Stephen L. Beck
TEse
gets
trashy
Dear Ed itor ,
I have some feelings and concerns
I would like to share. I have chosen
to share them publicly because I
believe they concern the Evergreen
community as a whole, and would
only hope that they provoke a more
conscientious lifestyle here on
campus.
I am becoming concerned with
both the use and misuse of campus
grounds and the surrounding environment. More blatantly, I am
disgusted with the unnecessary
amounts of garbage, broken bottles,
cans, etc ... that I see daily while
walking around the more travelled
areas of the campus. I have toted
away approximately I case of empty beer bottles since the beginning of
the '84-'85 school year, and keep an
empty box in the back of my truck
for recycleable cans and paper I find
daily on campus.
It's no wonder to me that a
glass/aluminum recycling program
isn't in effect on campus - these
items can't even make it to the welldi stributed garbage cans, let alone
March 7. 1985
Forum:
Sexual ·Harassment document 'puritanical'
by Leo Daugherty
The CPJ story on the doings of
the Sexual Harassment DTF, coupled with the appearance of the DTF's
document of February 22 which was
discussed at last week's faculty
meeting and then reported on here
in the paper, prompts me to say a
few worried things in response.
First, the document written by the
DTF makes it clear that its members
have already agreed on a rather
startling thesis which is implicit in
their text. That thesis is that no persona relationship that a student and
teacher might have is actually a relationship of mutual consent. Rather,
such a personal relationship is defined by the DTF as a power relationship between the dominated (the student) and the dominating (the faculty member). This thesis as it relates
to romance or sex is stated clearly in
point C-2 of the document under
"Issues Involved." The DTF says
·that all such relationships are only
"apparently consenting" (italics
mine), but that they are in reality
ones of "role and power
differentiation. ' ,
What is startling about this thesis
is that it is opposed in spirit, and
perhaps even in letter, to Evergreen's
historical tradition of treating
students as adults, not as children .
(This position is itself explicitly spelled out in our community's central
governance document (COG) in the
section stating that the college does
not stand in loco parentis - Latin
for "in the place of the parent. ")
The sad assumption behind the
DTF's position is that college or
university students are really
children who are incapable of enter-
My second concern lies in what I
see as the indiscriminate removal of
trees, mainly around the mods. I
understand and appreciate the fact
that some thinning was done in order
to prevent further mishaps of
women being "jumped" by
strangers lurking behind unlit areas
of trees . I can't help but wonder ,
though, what will happen if unfortunate situations such as this continue to occur on campus. Will every
stand of trees be thinned in order to
prevent sexual attacks or abuse on
campus? And if these attacks continue even further, will we one day
find the Evergreen campus completely devoid of tree life?
It seems to me that providing
more open spaces in order to prevent
or discourage sexual abuse on the
TESC campus is a farce. If there is
a problem in this area, let's punish
;rnd/or remove the problematic peo[pie, not the trees they hide behind .
In additon to the thinning of trees
around the perimeter of the mods ,
there has also been a great deal of
tree pruning and branch removal
from within the midst of the mods
area. Here, I would hope that in the
futu're a more careful evalua,tion of
the area be completed before the
chainsaws are brought out. Though
I don't claim to be an expert in the
field of tree pruning and branch
removal, I feel certain that more cutting has occurred than was
necessary.
ing into adult relationships (sexual
or not) - and therefore, that such
relationships should be outlawed by
statute. This assumption is extraordinarily insulting to students who,
presumably, have chosen Evergreen
at least in part because it is one of
the few colleges which as specifically promised to treat college students
as adults. It is also extraordinarily
insulting
to
faculty
who,
presumably, came here to teach
students who have gladly accepted
the adult responsibilities ang
privileges accorded them in our
Social Contract.
The implications of the DTF's
position, as noted in their document
itself, would be dramatic. There'd be
no more potlucks. no more retreats,
no more getting together informally for coffee or drinks - just for
openers . Why? Because faculty
would be too scared of going out on
such social limbs. At best, they
would incur frowns of disapproval.
At worst, they could get reprimanded or fired. Students may not be
aware that professors at lost of provincial colleges are routinely fired or
denied tenure for such "violations"
as holding seminars in their homes
and going to student social gatherings as guests. The wording of the·
document suggests, through its
Harper Valley PTA rhetoric, that we
may not be far from this state of affairs here.
Second, the document itself is so
frighteningly puritanical in all its
assumptions that I think there is
cause for moral concern. The plain
fact is that any community which
strongly gives the impression that it
hates sex (through its laws, customs,
social mores, or whatever) will be a
hateful community. Such communities are typically characterized
by hypocrisy, repression , and
general grief. The members of the
DTF might well reply here that their
intention is only one of protectionism and that any inference that
their intention is to establish an anti-erotic ethos is a misinterpretation.
But the protection of others -- usually characterized as helpless children
-- has always been the rationale
employed by puritans in their zeal to
make law. (After a ll, what other acceptable rationale is ever available to
puritans?)
Third, I frankly worry about
those who could produce such a
document. In my discussions of it
with others over the past week, both
at Evergreen and away from
Evergreen, readers have several
times noticed a tone in it of lost or
missing authority. One of my friends
said, "I'd guess these to be ageing
people who are no longer very sure
of what they know about their fields.
Or maybe their own children don't
mind them or something. Or maybe
they've simply come to an age at
which college students look like
children to them, whereas fifteen
years ago they looked like 'colearners' or 'learning partners' or
'junior colleagues. '. Maybe the only
way they can retain their authority
is to turn their students into little
kids -- lillie kids with problems -because maybe they can only find
some authority befitting their proressorfl roles in preventing or solving the problems of people they have
diminutized. "
I do admit that I sense that spirit
in the document myself, as well as
in the pronouncements of some who
have spoken for what it advocated .
And if that spirit of diminutizationof-persons is really there , then the
teriffic irony is that those who so
sincerely and well-meaningly seem to
offer students protections against
power relationships between faculty and students seek in reality
(though not, I think, consciously) to
establish (or. maybe re-establish)
their own power over students -- institutionally sanctioned power, too,
if the spirit of diminutizing gets turned into supposedly protectionist law.
Finally, as to sexual harassment
itself. Everyone agrees that it exists,
everyone agrees that it is awful,
everyone agrees that it must be
prevented by law. People speak of
a difficulty in defining it, but that
difficulty only exists if we insist upon
expanding its definition to include
our own sexual) or anti-sexual
ideologies.
In the excellent book How to
Grade Your Professors (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1984), Jacob Neusner
writes: "Whenever someone
pressures you to do something you
do not want to do, that is harassment. When the pressure concerns
sex .. . , that constitutes sexual harassment." Simple enough. At the
University of Washington, there are
now posters up everywhere advising
students that sexual harassmant laws
exist and that the University employs
a special sexual harassment officer
who will gladly hear their complaints
and advise them as to appropriate
action , legal or otherwise, and then
help them carry it out.
We should do the same here . And
we should then put this twisted little Hawthornean episod e in
Evergreen's history -- althou!!h it ha.~
proved worthy of Cotton Mather
himself in the miasmal atmosphere
it has created here in the past week
or two -- behind us. I urge students
to secure copies of the DTF's
February 22 document and to read
them carefully. I then urge those
who fundamentally agree with what
I say here to write lhe DTF (chaired
by Art Mulka), to circulate petitions
to give to it, and to write the CPl.
At this point, informed and civil stu dent opposition alone can do any
real good.
The University of Washington' s
new definition of sexual harassment
is a powerful and enlightened one
which extends Jacob Neuser' s statement to include the matter of the
learning and working enviornment.
It also closely follows EOC
guidelines. I recommend that it
become our own definition . Here it
is: " The use of one's authority or
power, either explicitly or implicitly, to coerce another into unwa nted
sexual relations or to punish another
for his or her refusal, or as the creation by a member of the universit y
community of an intimidating,
hostile, or offensive working or
educational climate through verbal
. or physical conduct of a sexual
nature." This is a definition which
covers the abuses without interfering with the normal range of human
activity.
English is alive and well and still sponging it up
I must confess, I am a lover of
trees and of beautiful places. I feel
that here on the TESC campus we
have been richly endowed with both
of these physical characteristics, and
would hope that in the future, more
care will be taken to live and work
more conscientiously within them.
by Susan Allen
"Foreign words are not foreign to
those who speak them . Each
language group has ' a" distinctive
outlook on the rest of the world.
When we penetrate this different
way of thinking, we have added
another dimension to our own personalities." So says Charles Berlitz
in his book , Native Tongues.
The Dutch have given us speakers
of English "Iuk." The Maylay
pirates have taught us to run
"amoq," and the French have given
us "Iogique" and "tragedie." The
E nglish language is Ii ke a giant
sponge . It picks up new words, and
incorporates them , to a greater extent than any other language.
English enjoys one of the largest
Wendy Schweizer
vocabularies in the world, one of
between four and six hundred thousand words! Compare this to a
vocabulary of one hundred fifty
thousand words for French or one
hundred thirty thousand for
Russian!
Maybe because of its rich
vocabulary, English is spoken as a
native language by over three hundred million people and as a second
language by possibly twice that
number. Of the the two thousand,
seven hundred and ninety -s ix
languages presently spoken on this
planet, English is the most widely
known.
I am consta ntly amazed at the
diverse origins of words we use da ily. "Okay" came to the U.S . from
West Africa. "Sugar" is Arabic;
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designated recycling bins. I would
like to offer my services to those who
have transportation problems getting
to and from recycling centers by urging people to get in touch with me
if you would like to collect your cans
and bottles. I would be willing to
pick them up intermittently and drop
them off at the Co-op. Obviously
there are limitations to this; I can't
become the recycling center of
TESC, but I do have a truck;, and if
it will help to clean up the campus,
I would like to do what I can.
as French do
Dear Edilor :
How can we avoid chossing an
a bstract pcrson's gender when we
assign a pron o un 10 a person? By
do ing what the French do and
assigning the pronoun 'o ne' to a n
abs tract person . I f we assign a person th e pronoun 'one,' we can
avoid assigning the person a gender
a t the same time .
So meone reading thi s is say in g,
"Use 'one'! But 'one' is such a stiff
sounding pronoun!" I reply, yes,
'one' is a stiff sounding pronoun.
But it sounds stiff only because we
aren't used to using it in this way.
It doesn't sound stiff at all to the
French. They've been using it for
years .
I'm not saying that you should
use 'one' indiscriminately. You
should always use tile abstract person ca refully in your writing. Some
writers veil statements to their
readers or about themselves with
'he' in place of 'you' or ' I' . This
is one way in which they avoid taking responsibility for the consequence of their words. Take
responsibility : when you speak to
your reader, refer to your reader as
'you' ; when you speak about'
yourself, refer to yourself as ' I' .
Don't ptay coy with your r~llder,
but be direct and candid.
When one considers the problem
of gender-biased pronouns, one is
not just considering one's own
writing but conventional usage of
written English. In other words,
one is considering a social problem
that can only be solved through
social change. Significant social
change is neither easy nor fun to
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"apron" is Italian; "leisure" is
French. Our "tlaesc" and "ban"
and "blod" and "guttas" may be
Anglo-Saxon, but almost everything
else is borrowed.
But have any other languages borrowed from English? Well, the
Japanese
play
and
watch
"beisuboru" as avidly as people in
the U.S. They can also moan about
their backs wings over glasses of
"koka-kora" in the clubhouse after
eighteen holes of "garafu."
Spaniards cheer on their favorite
"futbol" teams while watching
television in their favorite bars over
a few "cocteles."
West Germans hear reports on
"Press Konferenzen" concerning
" die Recession." Like government
officials everywhere, those from
West Germany often have " no
Komment" or speak "off di e
Rekord . "
The Russian government may offer a "servis" to its citizens. Like in
the U.S., the hopeful citizen must go
to an "offis" to get this "servis,"
and so metimes the "boss" of the
department must serve as a "referi"
between the interests of the government and the individual.
Of course, not everyone is thrilled to accept foreign words into their
vocabulary. Though much of the
English language is borrowed from
the French, up to forty percent,
some Frenchmen are unwilling to
allow t he same . Though "Ie
gadget," " Ie boy-friend," and "Ie
drugstore" are commonly used in
France, the Academie Francaise objects. This organization attempts to
"protect" the French language from
dying of an over-dose of " anglais."
Robert Claiborne, in his book,
The truth is that if borrowing words could destroy a
language, English would be
dead, deceased, and kaput
Latin), surpasses (from French), and
eclipses (from Greek) any other
tongue, past or present .. . For centuries, the English-speaking peoples
have plundered the world for words,
even as their military and industrial
empire builders have plundered it for
more tangible goods. And linguistic
larceny has this major advantage
over more conventialtypes of theft:
it enriches the perpetrator without
impoverishing the victim. Nor have
these centuries of linguistic peculation left English 'faceless and
cl.iche'd'; on the contrary, they have
given us the largest, most variegated
and most expressive voca bulary in
the world."
Now, don't you feel smart!
PEEVE OF THE WEEK-Amount
and number, suggested by Mary
Ellen McKain.
I goofed, and Mary Ellen caught
me. In my last article, I used the
word "amount" when I should have
used "number."
The rule is : use "number" to refel
to objects which can be counted
(people, rubber ducks, lima beans),
and "amount" to refer to something
which cannot be 'counted (credibili ty, Cream of Wheat, love) . I don't
make a great "number" of gram matical errors, but I feel a great
"amount " of relief when I discover
and correct them.
P .S. The word " mortgage" comes
from French, and when translated
litera lly, means " death pledge."
Happy house-hunting!
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Our Marvelous Native T()ngue,
replies more aptly than I. "The truth
is that if borrowing foreign words
could destroy a language, English
would be dead (borrowed from Old
Norse), deceased (fro~ French),
defunct (from Latin), and kaput
(from German). When it comes fo
borrowing, English excels (from
Fenster did not like the col/ege's new student retention program.
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March' 7, 1985
Page 6
March 7, 1985
Red Rockers: serious psychedelia
Beat Happening: fun
by Wendi D. Kerr
The Red Rockers want to be
known as a band with serious
intentions.
In the short space of three albums,
they've evolved from neo-Clash
punks to neo-psychedelic intellectuals hovering on the brink of
po pular success. Their last album,
Good As Gold featured one song,
"China," which was even an MTV
hit.
There could be more video fame
in store for this photogenic band,
but the Red Rockers have more in
mind than winning MTV's Friday
Night Video Fights. In the album
Schizophrenic Circus, their songs are
about frustration and fear: Frustration with the economy, fear of war,
fear of rejection. The lyrics float
over a background of trebly guitar
arpeggios in some songs (" Just Like
You"), while others break loose and
jump ("Blood From A Stone" ).
Much of the album shows a style
si milar to U2, Big Country, the
Alarm, and R.E.M., with a strong
mid-'60's innuence. "Good Thing I
Know Her", in particular, has the
psychedelic flavor, with Byrdsy
12-string gui tar, feedback, and lyrics
like
"She ' s a psychedelic
playground / A kaleidoscope of color." "Shades of 45" features a
guitar ending straight o ut of Sgt.
Pepper, with a vo ice-over remi ni sce nt of the one at the end of "I Am
The Walrus."
A surprise was the remake of
Barry McGuire's hit . 'Eve Of
Destruction," the only protest song
ever to hit Number One. The song
so unds like R.E.M. until lead
voca li st John Griffith starts to sing;
from that point on, the song is strictly rout ine. Griffith 's voice just
doesn't seem to carry the conviction
of the original recording.
In" Another Day," t he band
Dutch film shows man's
inhumanity to man
by Cindy Davis
The shock of the Dutch film
"Max Havelaar" remains in the
mind long after the curtain goes
down. This film vividly rips open the
truths of man's inhumanit y to man,
which reaches across the span of
time. It is not only a comment on the
underlying cruelty of colonial imperialism but a revelation of the
gruesome reality of timeless human
exploitation by the powerful.
It bares the hypocrisy of society's
institutions that would have a peo-
pie believe in the illusion of their inherent righteousness. By focusing on
a single example of human exploitation and the individuals involved, th~
film serves to bring home the full,
painful reality of all exploitation, including that which continues today.
The scenes of this true story take
place mostly in Indonesia between
1850 and 1860, duri.ng the reign of
Dutch imperialism. The interests of
the Dutch have long been intertwined with those of the native rulers, in
a system arranged solely for the
so unds almost mainstream, with a
metallic gu itar solo and pensive
piano finale. "Burning Bridges," on
the other hand, features droning
vocals representative of the type of
psychedelia many of us hope will
never return, the kind that on ly
sounds good if you're very stoned.
It's sim illir to the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows," but doesn't
stand up to it in comparison .
On the whole, however , the album
isn't half bad. The production has
an ethereal quality that complement s
the songs nicely, and though certain
songs are slightly annoying or bland,
certain others are gems. You'll never
hear thi s on commercia l radio, so it
cou ld be a worthwhile purchase.
One more review: Local record
stores are now carr.ying a single by
Olympia favorites Beat Happening,
"Our Secret" backed with "What's
important." "Our Secret" kind of
reminds me 01 the songs I used to
benefit of those in power.
On the scene arr ives Max
Havelaar, a just and patriotic Dutch
officer appointed to the position of
assistant-resident in the impoverished province of Lebak. The man's
respect for ·the natives and his
unsel fish commitment to the welfare
of all in the province builds him up
as a hero. The viewer keeps waiting
for the fulfillment of his aims, the
reward for his undaunted spirit.
Simultaneously the depth of
Havelaar's naivete is gradually
revealed, and the true extent of the
corruption and injustice of the
system appears. The long film builds
towards its bitter, anti-climactic
finish, in which 'Havelaar hopelessly realizes the cruel and exploitative
purposes of his nation's colonial
policies, and his helplessness in helping the oppressed. The unmerciful
ad-lib when I was seven: repetitive
tune, simple lyrics, and not much of
an ending. I like this song anyway,
perhaps because of the local
references ("We could go swimming
in Capitol Lake"), or maybe because
t he song is so un-sel f-con scious ly
fun.
The flip side, "What's Important", was my favorite of the pair.
It has a nice jang ly-guitar sound,
though it also lacked an ending.
I won't fool you; this record Isn ·t
particularly melodic, but it does have
an appealing roughness. Fans of
local/underground music should be
pleased . An additional note of in terest: The record was produced by
Greg Sage of the Wipers .
Short Notes (WARNING--These
may appear in future editions of
Trivial Pursuit!): Fans of R.E .M.
may be interested to hear that the
band's single, "Rockville," features
a li ve recording of "Catapult" that
was recorded at the Seattle show on
June 27, 1984.
Band-Aid's "Do They Know lt's
Christmas" has just become the biggest selling single in British history,
outselling Paul McCartney's" Mull
Of Kintyre ." Somehow, I don't feel
suffering and murder of the Indonesian people will continue in the name
of hi s own king.
The shock of such a film demands
the viewer's reflection. How can one
man, and one culture, be so ignorant
and unfeeling of the oppression it inflicts on another people? How does
it happen that well-meaning people
are the driving force behind inhuman evils? What is the value of
one people's "progress" that leaves
the human flesh of others mangled
in its wake? W\lat role do 1 play, or
refuse to play, in the changing yet
continuing crisis of cross-cultural
exploitation?
These are the questions brought
forth from the raw impact of the
film . The shock is painfully real; the
ramifications continue to ring in our
ears.
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Modernity, Bane of the Thane
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too sorry for 01' Paulie.
The American answer to BandAid, "We Are The World," comes
out this week. The song ~as cowritten by Michael Jackson and
Lionel Richie, and includes guest
vocals by Bruce Springsteen, Bob
Dylan, Daryl Hall and John Oates,
Diana Ross, and nearly every other
major American artist except Prince,
who decided not to 'participate in the
group recording, though he will
uonate a song to an upcoming
,. USA For Africa" album.
This evening's ~hursday Night
Film, the last for this quarter, is
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's
most acclaimed work, The Seven
Samurai, (1954).
Probably the most influential
samurai film ever made, it remains
an enduring classic. It countered the
idea of samurai films as little more
than sword.slashing amusements for
the matinee crowd. The swordslashing fIlms have, rather healthiIy, remained, but The Seven Samurai
looked deeper into the dynamics of
the society involved in the fight and
not just the fight itself.
The Seven Samurai and several of
Kurosawa's later samurai films were
the basis for numerous American
western's (including John Sturger's
The Magnificent Seven as well as
Sergio Leone's many spaghetti
westerns with Clint Eastwood).
The Seven Samurai concerns the
adventure of seven unemployed
samurai who are hired by poor rice
farmers to protect their village from
maurauding bandits. Among the
samurai are two prominent Japanese
actors who have acted in many of
Kurosawa's successful films,
Toshiro Mifune as the aspiring
samurai, and Takashi Shimura as
the leader of the group. When the
bandits attack, the samurai more
than earn the farmers' (and the audience's) payment. It is an alternately funny, exciting and moving tale
about survival and, I suppose, the
importance of doing one's job well.
Due to its length (3 1/2 hours)
there will be only one showing at
7pm in Lecture Hall I. Tickets are
$1.50, and free child care is available
in Library 3221.
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAl.
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Auggie peers above my sink
Pink and black, it makes me think
How we proved our love at the Federalhouse
With breakfast and a big gold couch.
Our Christmas tree with liver spots
The memory will be there until it Rots.
One morning , on answering a loud pounding at my door, I was surprised to
find a huge man, dressed in medieval armor, stand ing in the rain. "Who are
you?" I demanded of him .
"You do not recognize a hero when he stands before you," he replied.
"Beowu lf is my name."
"Beowu lf! I've just been reading about your exploits, your slaying of th e
monsters and dragons that once plagued mankind. But what are you doin g h ere
in the 20th century?"
"The world is yet plagued by monsters and dragon s. In fact they surround
you, but you do not recogni ze them any better than yo u recog ni ze a hero. I
have co me to slay these demon s."
"You are a bold fellow , Beowulf, but who says we want our demons slain ?
We worship our demons."
"I ndeed you do , and that is why yo ur world is so confused. You thi n k
yourselves more secure than the people of the dark times, but you live in COlltinual terror, cons tantly esca lating your defenses, clothing yourselvcs in invisible
armor, holding on to those you love with a ll your might for fear of abandonment, afraid even to get out of bed in the morning. I have come to s how vou
how to live . "
.
"I'm sorry," I told him, " but th e o ld ways won't work any more . We hav e
technologized everything. Why do we need heroes when we have comp uter s?"
"Your co mputers enslave you. You worship them as if th ey werc gods.
Perhaps the computers are your monsters and dragons. I will s lay them first.
Then the televisions, the fast-food chains, the automobiles, the nuclear power
plants, all the plastic-producing machines ... "
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you're tearing down all of modern society.
Some of those things you mention are very wonderful and useful. They make
life easy."
"So why do you want life to be easy? What does it profit a man to live an
easy life? Perhaps that's your greatest demon. I must slay the easy life!"
(This guy would slay everything in sight, I thought, if given the chance .)
"You can't do it, Beowulf. Our society would crumble. "
"Without some courageous humans, it would indeed. I will teach you to let
go of your fear, to open your hearts and live courageously."
"I'm afraid it's too late, my friend. We can't go back. Progress is the name
of the game."
.
Beowulf sighed. "Yes, even I have to make some concessions to the times"
he said. It was then that I noticed he was wearing running shoes, and his ar~or
appeared to be made of polypropylene. "Well, I must be off. There are many
monsters here, and my work is cut out for me."
I sincerely wished him luck, but did not express what I knew to be true : that
no one has ever yet slain a computer, and that all those who have tried have
met horrible deaths. After all, gods are, by definition, immortal.
Greg Beutel
Anne Culbertson
,.
Space Case
I'm a big shining image of masculinity's
blond haired, bemuscled, bejeweled, successful
phallus pressing myself into what I choose because
I need to prove that I am the perfect man.
No
I'm Tired
I'm a super-intellectual, always punctual,
understanding, emotional, fair and good
icon knocking on the door of perception's
enlightening house because I am the perfect man.
I'm tired of being mired,
in your prolixic waxing
I find it far too taxing
I'm
Subjectively you interprete,
selectively you work it,
I'm a self-flagellating, self-denigrating,
I say-I've had my surfeit.
easily
under-thumbed heap of passive mentally
Humanistic sky pied
castrated
dust mice crawling not onto, but instead underneath
dig in and divide,
the
protective
bed of feminity because I am the perfect man.
too soon gone they cried.
You elite egalitarians,
Not.
proudly green barbaraians,
making war on antiquarians.
T. Vere Bailey
The ways you fight each other,
sister versus brother,
through words the flame you'll smother.
My poetry, it's true, for the dogs,
hopes to remove the clogs,
of your unseen ocular logs.
every lost genius
For once-please unite,
a secret mind
here's illusion: black or white,
beyond death
there truly is no fight.
Although for now I'm pissed,
Pete Murney
we ultimately won't be missed,
so gladly I remain .........
an invertebrate biologist.
Donald Mack
I am the space case
The one you talk about sometimes
The one who's slightly strange
. And doesn't talk much
When you talk to me
You might see my eyes' get glazed
And I'll nod or say, "Uh-huh"
At the aprropriate moment
But you know I haven't heard a word you've said.
Sometimes while riding on the bus
Or during seminar
I'll hear Grateful Dead inside my head
Or maybe I'll be deep in the rain forests
Or playing my guitar
But I'm not paranoid anymore
Because I see through your head games
And power trips
And I know what's real
So sometimes I'll smile
For no reason at all
I know the best way
To see the world
Is from space
And the joke is really on you
For thQugh I may appear to you
To be many miles away
When I come home
No one knows where I've been
Ruby Jones