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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
November 21, 1985
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Cooper Point Journal
Issue No. 10
Ongoing Opportunities
Students propose downtown
Olympia community center
Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. They describe themselves as recovering addicts who meet regularly
to help each other to stay "clean." They have a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. They are not affiliated with any other organizations, and they are a
free service, funded by donations. NA operates a 24-hour hotline, number 754-4433. They also operate two on-campus support groups on Tuesday, at noon and 8 p.m.
in LlBI509. These meetings are open to all concerned people and are focused on individuals who are recovering from a substance addiction. For more information, call
.
David Alexander in the Counseling Center, x6800.
by R. Paul Tyler
The Battered Women's Social Network is a weekly support group for women who have experienced a battering relationship. Their goals include providing an atmosphere
where women can safely vent emotions and explore issues of abuse, and working on survival skills developed during the situation which are no longer appropriate. The
meetings are facilitated by Laura Dolinski and are held on Tuesdays at6 p.m. in LlB3216. Childcare is available. For more information call the Women's Center at x6162.
At the November 20 S & A Board
meeting, three Evergreen students
made an ambitious proposal for an
off-<:ampus student center located in
downtown Olympia. The three
students, Bret Lunsford, Denise
Crowe, and Clay Zollars came as
representatives of a group calling
itself the "Greater Evergreen
Students' Community Cooperation
Organization" (GESCCO) .
Their request from the Board was
for $10,359 in student activities fees
to be used as seed money for
establishing the student center. At
this time GESCCO says that it has
about 30 students participating in the
development of the program .
According to the proposal made
to the Board, the student center
would serve two important functions: it would serve the 66 percen t
of Evergreen students that live offcampus, and it would help address
the anti-Evergreen sentiment in
Olympia and around the state.
Members of GESCCO said they
reel that many of the students who
live off campus suffer from a double sense of isolation. On one hand,
Tai Chi Ch'uan Practice Group, Yang Style meets every Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. in LlB4300. For more information call Cosette at 357-9476.
The Rainbow Restaurant provides local jazz every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night from 9 to II :30 p.m., dollar cover. The Rainbow is situated at 4th and Columbia.
Tonight, November 21
Art for Healing is the topic of the first Healing Arts Forum sponsored by Innerplace. CABlO8 at 7:30. They will do therapeutic artwork using such techniques as fingerpain·
ting . Children are welcome.
Thursday Night Films presents From Hitler to MX. This 1982 film, directed by Joan Harvey, explores the role of the U.S. as an aggressor in today's international move
to war. The movie shows at 7:30 and 9 p.m. in LH I for $1.50; free childcare in the LH basement for the 7:30 show.
Jennifer James will speak on self esteem from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Tumwater High School.
Friday, November 22
Auditions for The Olympia Little Theater's production of A Thousand Cluwns will be held on campus Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall. For more
information call 866-9731 evenings.
The Christian Science Organization a t Evergreen invites you to short readings from the Bible and from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy, followed by testimonies of healing. 3 p.m. at the Innerplace office, LlB3225 ; a ll are welcome.
Paul Prince, so lo guitar ist, will perform at the Smithfield Cafe from 9 to 10:30 p.m. $1 donation requested .
Saturday, November 23
Friday, November 29
Open Recreation for such activities as basketball and volleyball in the Old Washington building at Eastside and Legion Way from noon to 10 p.m. For more information
call 753-8380.
Sunday, December 1
Old fashioned Christmas celebration: downtown merchants invite you to visit their stores from noon to 5 for a Christmas celebration. At I p.m., Santa will arrive at
the Hotel Olympia, pulled by two Clydesdales, and will be available for Christmas pictures. At 5 p.m. musicians will lead a candlelight procession to Sylvester Park,
where a 30·foot Christmas tree will be lit and there will be a sing-a·long.
Monday, December 2
Comparable Worth is the topic for the Women's Center's Brown Bag Lunch; the speaker is Evelyn Rieder, A.F.S.C.M .E. The structure will be informal and permit interaction. CABI04 at noon.
Beneath the Surface of Japanese Poetry is a talk being given by Mark J. Nearman, Research Director and Co-founder of Theatre Arts Research. LH2 at I p.m., free.
Cosmically Speaking is a free musical performance featuring the Tiny Giant's own Nicholas Lewis appearing as "A. Psycho Electrical Magnetic Phenomena," currently
manifesting as "A. Human Student of Life." The event will be at8 p.m . in the Recital Hall, free. The performance will be repeated on Tuesday, same time , same place.
Tuesday, December 3
Nutrition Center Workshop in LIB2100 at 7:30 p.m. This will be the first in a year long series of workshops on nutrition and health. The topic will be "Health, Nutrients
and Vitamins." Refreshments provided.
Wednesday, December 4
Lewis and Clark Law School will have a representative on camp us from 10 to II :30 a.m. giving a question and answer session in LIB2205.
Thursday, December 5
by Cynthia M. Sherwood
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pull oul se('lioll all pllges 9-1l. ,..11.1'0 ill Ihe Groovy Tooth: II re vie w of
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Governance report
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In this Issue
The first draft of the new gover·
nance structure for Evergreen appears on pages 15-16 in this issue.
The Wednesday Student Forum is
seeking letters of application and
resumes from any and all students
who are interested in serving on the
new Campus Advisory Board.
The Disappearing Task Force on
Governance is nearing its deadline,
and the Student Forum will be
reviewing applications for student
membership on the Board as soon as
President Olander approves the final
draft.
Please hand deliver or mail your
application letter and resume to
either Thome George at the Information Booth on the second floor of
the CAB, or to Vice President Gail
Martin's office in LIB 3236. The
Student Forum will start reviewing
appltciltlons during the first few
weeks of Winter Quarter.
It is imperative that you act now
to ensure that the student representatives on the new Board are selected
by sll/dents, not administrators. The
only definite requirements at the moment are a willingness and ability to
serve for a minimum of two years.
Please try to come to the Public
Meeting of the Governance DTF
from 10a.m. to I p.m . Wednesday,
January 8, in Lecture Hall I. The
mem bers of the DTF will try to
a nswer your questions about participation and membership on the
Advisory Board.
Students interested in helping to
choose their representatives should
attend th e Wednesday Forum at
12:30 p.m. in CAB 104.
l\1adness/ Creativity lecture
Healing through Storytelling is the Healing Arts Forum no. three. CABI08, 8 p.m., free.
Women in Dunes is this week's Thursday Night Films. Opening short: "Custody" by students Bruce Ca nnon and Chri sti ng McDonough . LHI at 7:30 and 9 p.m. for $1.50.
Friday, December 6
Masterworks Christmas Concert will present Charpent ier's "Midnight Mass for Chri stmas Eve" and an evening of traditional carols. The conct'rt is at 8 p.m. at the Washington
Performing Arts Center. Tickets are priced at $10, $7 and $5 and are on sa le at the box office, 753-8586.
A free lectur e e ntitled
"Madness and C reativit y" will
be presented December 12 a t
9:30 a.m. at the State Capitol
Museum at 21 I W. 21st. To get
10 the museum, go . towards
Tumwater on Capitol to the
Ii ht at 21st tur
Saturday, December 7
Evergreen Hour is on channel 15128 at 9 p.m. on the First Saturday of every month.
Linda Spoe rl will discuss the
theme o f madness in both the
lives and books of se lected
au thor,.
The lecture has oeen made
possible by a gra nt from the
Washington Com miss ion for
Many students who at one time or
another found themselves amidst the
confusing area known as the
Evergreen Library, have also probably found the helping hand of
Malcom Stilson. "My poli<;y has
always been to rescue t~ who
look dazed , that's a part of my being at Evergreen, part of the job,"
said Stilson. Even though many
st udents may only be aware of his
library sk ills, his accomplishments
and gifts to Evergreen go far beyond
the reference desk.
For example, Stilson said he has
written seven major musicals. "I've
produced twelve Wintergreen pla ys,
which are satires on Evergreen," he
explained. He said that he worked
a half an hour on them every day.
"Many were written during the time
that my wife was preparing dinner.
They worked out my daily frustrations. They are usually based on
something that is going on arou nd
campU5 that everyone know s
about," said Stilson, defining th e
reason behind the sati res' success.
"I've given humor to the college,"
Stilson sa id, and th e~e sa tires are
representa tive of that humor.
Occasionally at noon, St il so n can
be found in front of the library giv·
ing a short piano concert for anyone
who wishes to listen. But, he said,
because of his busy schedule , he
doesn't get to playas often as he
would like to.
An ongoing project of Stilson's
has been the Evergreen Archives.
The ar~hives includ e the college's
history of beginning curriculum
discussions, back articles discussing
the development of Evergreen, nearly every CPJ issue published,
numerous slides of Evergreen' s start,
and much more. "I chose to do it
because it was a part of my job. In
a sense 1've put my imprint upon the
co llege," he said. Since Sti lson is
only able to work on th e archives
two days a week, he said, he knows
it will be quit e some time. before they
are completed.
Many
old-timers. around
Evergreen might have encountered
Stilson's first satire,"Omnia Exstares," that he has created from his
memories of the 1971 Evergreen
Staff meeting at Millersylvania State
Park. "Omnia Exstares" means, Let
it all han g out, the truth about the
eve nt s that occured at Camp
Chicken. "They were based on battles with th e budget and problems
with th e staff," said Stilson. "They
were well rece ived."
Stilson, who is also the composer
o f "The Geoduck Fight Song," ex ·
plained that the fight song came
from one meeting at Millersylvania.
The idea of a geoduck as mascot was
sugges ted and adopted during one
presentation. One characterislic of
the sa tires , Sti lson sa id , is that they
all have the fight so ng incorporated
into th em as a part of their themes.
The sa tires are especiall y
humorous because they poke fun al
personal characterist ic, or ,ta tT
members who are well known to
Evergreen, such as Charles McCann.
Stilson said he created Ihe character
Ashford Cann(Ash Ca n for short)
afte r Charl es. He asked Rudy Mar·
tin to play the part. "The funniesl
thing abou t Rudy playing Ash
Can," said St ilson , "was that
whenever Ash was supposed to
blush, which C harl es often does,
Rudy would have 10 ho ld up a sign
Ihat read , 'Blush.'
"My greatest joy i, to have a hap ·
py a uuience , hear people laugh.
know they have enj oyed themselves
at the end of the play," St ilson said .
Now that Stilson is no lon ger at the
library reference desk, he i~ able to
spend more of his time devoted 10
hi s satires, th e development of the
ar.ch ives. and many o th e r o ut ~idc
activ iti es. Stilson say~ he is now
working on another sa tire called
"Th ik Hai Sahab," which mean s
,on t. on page 2
Malcom Stilson in his element.
. NONPROFIT ORG.
THE EVERGREEN
ST ATE COLLEGE
Olympia,
Holly Daze Bazaar will be in the CAB all day. More than 50 artists and craftspeople will be selling their wares; local musicians will be performing.
GESCCO representatives see a
as members of the Evergreen com·
downtown student center as a way
munity, the physical distance from
for Evergreen to build a bridge from
the campus to the greater Olympia
the campus to the community.
community serves as a barrier to
Hi storically, Evergreen has had protheir participation in on-campus
blems justifying its very existence to
events.
the city and the state. By giving
On the other hand, as students,
students and student groups a visithey find it difficult to integrate their
ble presence in downtown Olympia ,
lives into that of the community in
which they reside. In their presenta- . the community may understand
what is happening here.
tion to the Board, the GESCCO
As an example of the current lack of
group stated that a downtown st uunderstanding, GESCCO quoted
dent center could help remedy both
college president Joseph Olander
of these problems.
from a recent CP J article. "The
By providing a space for student
president of Evergreen," Olander
groups to sponsor events and a censaid, "is subject to a whole range
trallocation for students to meet, a
of questions about its existence, its
downtown student center would
purpose, its role, its scope."
make it easier for the off·campus
"We aren't talking about some
students to become an integral part
so rt of student office," Lunsford
of the student population . The SlUtold the Board, "We're talking
dent center, by providing an easily
about a student/community center
a~cessible and readily identifiable
where the two communities can meet
location, would also establish a comeach other, work with each other,
munity presence for the student
educate each other." The GESCCO
body in the city of Olympia . They
representatives see the student center
said it would be easier for the citizens
as a place that could house student
of Olympia to think of Evergreen
art works, presentations by student
and its students as an integral part
groups, lectures by faculty, dances,
of their community, while allowing
plays, and music, as well as serving
Evergreen students to think of
Coni. on page 2
Olympia as their town.
Stilson's "Wintergreen"
summons sense of deja vu
Envisioning Peace: Exploring the Interconnections is a workshop sponsored by the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation. It will be an opportunity for individuals to
share visions and create a holistic vision of a world at peace. The participants will break into small groups, each of which will discuss one of the following topics: "Ecology
and Economics," "Human Rights and Responsibilities," Peace and Security," and "Working Together for Peace." The entire workshop will then meet to integrate the
shared information. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; lunch and dinner are provided. "Envisioning Peace" will be held
at St. Michaels School, 10th and Eastside, and is free with donations requested. For more information call 249-5251 or 491-9093.
Toxic Household Chemical Disposal will be available for al) Thurston County residents from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Thurston County landfill, exit III of 1-5 on Hogum
Bay Road. For more information call 786-5461.
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Downtown branch could cure "cabin fever"
Evergreen recycling makes dollars and sense
by Bob Reed
com, from page 1
as a meeting place for the offcampus student community and an
escape hatch for on-{;llmpus students
with "cabin fever."
The center would also be used"as a
place for noo-student community
groups to extend a hand to the
Evergreen community, As one example, Zollars said that GESCCO
had envisioned working cooperatively with the downtown Senior Center
in an event to be held at the new student center.
Another possibility is that state
legislators could come to the student
center to give talks, representing
their positions on the issues of the
day. "Everyone is talking about how
important it is for Evergreen to do
outreach," Zollars said, "but so far
it's only the administration that's
doing it. I think it's important for
the students to present themselves to
the community directly."
The S & A Board voiced questions
in two areas. One question addressed that the GESCCO proposal was
only including a request for money
to rent a facility. How would such
a facility be staffed? Zollars replied
thilt the center would reiy on two
sources of staffing.
One would be from volunteer effort. The response to the proposal
has been very good among students.
GESCCO had collected over a hundred signatures of support in less
than two weeks.
The other source would be from
students assigned to work at the
center, for credit, as part of a group
contract. The GESCCO representatives told the Board that Carolyn
Dobbs of the Sustainable Community Design program was enthusiastic about the idea and would
want her students to be involved in
the project.
The other question the S & A
Board addressed to the GESCCO
representatives had to do with
money. According to the proposal,
the student center should become
self-supporting through revenuegenerating efforts and grants. This
caused the Board to be concerned on
two counts.
Stilson's "Wintergreen"
cont. from page 1
"OK, Mister." He said it is about
his adventures in India, and his part
as a G.1. entertainer in a company
during World War II. Stilson said he
is also continuing his work on
organizing several notes from his
grandfather's diary in the hope that
he 'might soon be able to publish
them . "I am involved in the 1989
Centennial for the' state of
Washington," Stilson said. He says
that this project will take up a large
part of his time.
"My ambition now is to present
one of my musicals at the
Washington Center," he said. The
satires so far have always been performed like a "Reader's Theater,"
always using scripts. He said he
would like to see one of his musicals
performed with full costuming and
full orchestra.
Before
Stilson
showered
Evergreen with these numerous gifts,
he spent many years both studying
and working. 'I actually wanted to
become a grade school librarian but
there were no jobs, so I went to work
for the Law Library at the University of Washington, "Stilson said.
The U of W also happens to be
where Stilson received his master's
degree in librarianship. Stilson said
that for eight and one-half years he
was an employee at Boeing, but
found it to be very tiresome, so he
quit.
It wasn't until September 16,
1%9, said Stilson, that Jim Holly
hired him at Evergreen to screen
several hundred boxes of books and
magazines that had been donated by
the state !ibrary. But his actual
employment.on the library staff, he
said, was not until January I, 1970.
"Malcom is unique," said Frank
Montley, a co-worker. Because of
his unique qualities, Stilson ha~ been
able to preserve memories of both
the best and sometimes the worst
aspects of Evergreen - better known
to him as "Wintergreen."
Periodicals reviewed
The Library Resource Selection
Committee has initiated a review of
the Library's periodicals. The Committee in inviting all interested persons on campus to participate in the
process to determine which
periodicals best fit the needs of people at Evergreen.
Lists of periodicals by subject will
go out over the next two weeks to
faculty members for their review .
Additional lists are available at the
Reference desk and in the
Periodicals office for student and
staff patrons who wish to make their
preferences known. Faculty
members who wish to review
holdings in subject areas for which
forms were not received should also
pick up lists there.
Recommendations for new
subscriptions may be made .
However, because of the continuing
increases in subscription costs, new
titles cannot be added unless a
subscription of comparable cost is
deleted.
Reviewed lists may be submitted
to Reference or to Periodicals between now and March I, 1986;
signatures should be included at the
bottom of each page. Questions
about the review may be directed to
Louise Cothary in Library
Periodicals, ext. 6255 .
Board looks for student
Gail Martin, Vice President for Student Affairs,
is searching for a student to serve on the Board of
Trustees. Please submit a letter of application and
interest to Gail Martin in LIB 3236. Preference will
be given to students who have been at TESC for one
year or more. Deadline for applications is Jan. 8,
1986.
"
If the center did become selfsupporting, what assurances were'
there that it would continue to serve
student needs? Zollars replied that
since the seed money would come
from the S & A, and the entire
puropose of the center would be to
serve students, that this should not
be a problem .
The second fiscal concern the
Board voiced was contingent on the
possibility that the center would not
be self-supporting and that
GESCCO would have to continue its
reliance on student fees to support
itself. Members of GESCCO said
that this is a possibility, but con-
sidering the number of off-campus
students and Evergreen's need to
enhance its image such future requests would be as legitimate as this
initial request.
Concern was also expressed that
the program might be premature.
Would it be possible, for example,
to have the administration co-fund
a student center, thus ensuring a
more reliable base?
Zollars replied that, "This idea
will always be premature. Until someonegoes O'lt and proves that it is
needed and makes it a success, it will
be very difficult to get the administration to back it. ,.
Given their own energy level and
the support they sense in both the
student and general community,
GESCCO representatives feel that a
successful downtown student center
is a good bet. The S & A Board will
decide on the request for funds as
part of its mid-year allocation process during the month of December.
Students interested in GESCCO
can learn more about it by contacting Bret Lunsford at EPIC, x6144,
Denise Crowe at the Expressive Arts
Network, or Clay Zollars through
the S & A Office in CAB 305, x6220.
l\1AARA VA to publish a
campus-wide lit magazine
by Dennis Held
A new campus·wide· literary
magazine will be published this year
by MAARAV A, the Evergreen
Jewish cultural organization.
The magazine, to be printed by
the Evergreen Press, will feature
essays, short fiction, poetry and artwork, according to co-editors
Christie Eikeberg and Jacob
Weisman . "We want to produce a
nice, professional looking magazine
featuring work by members of the
Evergreen community," Weisman
said.
"We're set to go with two issues,
and we hope that if they take off
we'll be able to get funding for up
to two more this year."
The first issue is scheduled to be
released February 13, Weisman said,
so work should be submitted as soon
as possible. "We would like to close
submissions in mid-January for
the first issue, and the second issue
is scheduled to come out in March. "
Despite MAARA VA's sponsorship of the magazine, there will not
be an emphasis on Jewish themes.
"This magazine will be as diverse as
the Evergreen community,"
Weisman said. "We're hoping to get
submissions from quite ' a few
Evergreen students, faculty and
staff. "
Because. of the printing process,
bold artwork which reproduces well
is preferred, Weisman said. The
MAARAVA office, LIB 3214, is
open on Wednesday from 10 a.m.
until noon, and can be reached at extension 6493.
Learning Resource Center
helps students write better
by Margaret Livingston .
At a college where everyone
writes, the writing required at
Evergreen may be more than some
students can effectively handle. For
the student who agonizes over
writing every paper, there is help offered at the Learning Resource
Center.
The LRC is available to any
Evergreen student to discuss a
specific paper, or to get help with
specific problems students may have
with writing, such as spelling or
punctuating. The LRC also has programs to improve reading speeQ and
comprehension.
Students can work on their ipdividual problems with a staff
member or a student tutor on a
drop-in basis. If a student feels he
needs more help, he may register for
up to four hours of academic credit.
Students wanting to work for credit
should talk to Stella Jordan, the program coordinator. (Her signature
needs to be on the registration
form) .
In the first week of class the stu·
dent will take a diagnostic test to
determine which skills the student
needs to improve. Using the results
of this test, the LRC and student will
negotiate an in-house contract.
Students who are now using the
LRC are very enthusiastic about the
improvement they have made. One
student who returned to college two
years ago is in his last quarter and "
is enrolled at the LRC for credit.
When asked why he waited this long
to get help he said, "I guess I was
just too bull-headed to admit I' need
help in anything so basic. I had the
ideas, but found I had lost all
knowledge <if the fundamentals of
English . I spent more hours worrying about writing the paper than I
did writing."
Jordan has been with the program
for eight years. She works with one
other staff member, Theresa Crater,
and directs 13 student tutors. Student tutors must have excellent skills
to be selected to work at the LRC
and are given two eight-hour training sessions at the beginning of Fall
Quarter. In these sessions, student
tutors learn specific techniques to
t~ach punctuation, spelling, and
study skills. Additional training is
given throughout the year.
Confidentiality is stressed;
anything that goes on between a
tutor and a student must be kept absolutely private.
The center can also give diagnostic
tests to determine a student's
academic needs. New students are
given a test as part of orientation
and registration. It is hoped that
these tests will enable LRC program
members to recognize students that
may need help. Jordan states that
Evergreen students are arriving at
college better prepared now than
when she first came into the LRC
program. But, she said, students still
need to know that help is available
if it is their first quarter here, or if
they want to hone their skills fpr
graduate school.
Dennis Held, student tutor from
Wisconsin said, "Encourage anyone
to stop in at the LRC to see what is
available and to make use of the
facility. At the present time it is very
underused. The tutors would like to
spend more time helping people ."
Leisure Education as a
Christmas stocking stuffer
Looking for a unique Christmas
gift? Evergreen Leisure Education
has that special gift for a friend who
enjoys learning, creating, or demanding physical challenges.
Over 70 workshops will be offered
Winter Quarter to inspire the mind
and challenge the body . A sampling
of these workshops include:
heirloom apple propagation, winter
natural history, fundraising and
grant writing, origami, drawing,
watercolor, pastel making, aquatic
classes, cross country ski touring, ice
climbing, winter camping skills,
Evergreen Ski School, musical comedy, clogging, as well as many more!
Leisure Education brochures will
be available here during the week of
December 9. Registration begins
here Monday, December 30, at 8
a.m., and ends Friday, January 17,
at, 5 p.m. A special off-campus
registration session is set for noon-3
p.m., at South Sound Center between J .K. Gill and Sears.
For persons unable to register in
person, mail-in registrations will be
accepted beginning . December 30.
Classes begin the week of January
13 and continue for eight weeks
through the week of March 3, unless
otherwise stated.
For further information and a
complete brochure listing, call
866-6000, ext. 6530.
page 3
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Vern Quinton, in charge of campus paper and aluminum recycling
here, has a hefty goal. "We shoot
for recycling thirty thousand pounds
a year of paper."
To reach the goal, Quinton and
his staff have placed barrels and
boxes for paper (white and mixed
ledger, computer print and cards,
newsprint, etc.) in strategic locations
around campus. He strongly urges
people to not throw garbage in the
recycling containers, which are well
marked.
Current locations include: the
Print Shop, the first floor of the
Ii brary (Xerox rooms 1104 and
1118), library second floor (Dean's
office - room 2207, copy room 2102, Computer Services - 2408),
library third floor (Xerox room 3102 and the Cataloging room),
CAB (CPJ office - 306B), Recreation Center offices, Communications (room 302), LAB I (Xerox room 2023, Co-Op Education offices, 3rd floor lounge), LAB II
(room 1254, Xerox room 2250), and
Seminar Building (Xerox room 3118,
4th floor hall).
Containers for aluminum are
located as follows: two in the CAB
building, and one by the pop
machines in the Recreation Center,
A dorm, and the frist floor of the
library building.
Quinton said it is important to
recycle aluminum because of the
amount of energy used i~s production . He said three hundred pounds
are needed before it will economically practical for him to dispose of the
cans.
Quinton would like '0 include
glass in the recycling program, but
he has some concerns. He said there
would be a liability problem if a person on campus was cut by broken
glass 'from a recycling container.
Quinton said people have also asked him about recycling cardboard.
The best solution is to shred and
bale the cardboard, but the
machinery is too expensive, he said.
In the short range there would not
be enough cardboard to make it
worthwhile.
Iw;·royous
Quinton emphasized that he is in
favor of expanding the recycling
program, as long as the quality is
maintained. "We've chosen to do
what we can (do) efficiently.
"I'd like for this office to be involved with new recycling programs.
I want to help to make something
that can look good, will work and
will go on.
"I don't like recycling to be
associated with being an admmlstrative service. I like to see
myself as the carryover service,
especially over the summer."
Quinton said he has been pleased
with the students that have worked
for him in the recycling program.
Last year, Jake Towell worked with
Environmental Resource Center
(ERC) activists Peter Hark and Dve
Campbell . This year Shari Knutsen
and Bonnie Ward, with assistance
from bookstore employee Nat
Blankenship, are handling the day to
day duties.
One of those duties is to separate
the garbage from the recyclable
items. "Some people throw garbage,
coffee grounds and moldy sandwiches in recycling bins. We found
a fish carcass in one bin," Quinton
said.
He said that he has bad feelings
for people who continually throw
garbage in the containers. "Our biggest problem is people who just
don't give a damn. It's frustrating
and it's doing-in the people that care
about the program"
Quinton said the two trouble spots
are the Xerox room (LIB 3102) and
the Co-Op Education office, room
1020 in LAB I. He said employees
in the adjacent offices have been
cooperative and are not causing the
problems.
The mishandled garbage has hurt
the recycling effort. This past
month, one third of the Xerox room
recycling material and one half of
the Co-Op office material has been
thrown away because of the added
garbage.
'
Quinton sa itmishandled garbage
is not the only problem facing
recyclers. "The industry is just slow
to accept recycling. They'd rather
make new paper than recycle. That
will change and is changing."
Campbell, currently working with
the ERC to get recycling funding
from the Student Activities board
also sees a tough situation. "Recycl~
ing is really hurting. The dollar is so
strong that it's cheaper to buy
aluminum overseas."
Campbell helped recycle six thousand aluminum cans last year by
going through school dumpsters.
.. Recycling is a very labor intensive
industry." To pay for that labor ,
Campbell said prices for recycling
items must be at a certain level. Currenty prices are depressed, he said.
Campbell cited aluminum as an
example. From a peak of 45 cents a
pound in the 1970's, it went to 27
cents in 1984 and now is 19 cents to
20 cents a pound. The recycling industry paid a penny a pound one
year ago for steel and tin, but is not
accepting those items today (at least
in Olympia) because the market is
glutted, he said.
HOur biggest
problem is people who just
don't give a
damn. "
Quinton said slick or glossy paper,
such as magazine paper, can be
ground down and used for insulation
and packing. This paper is not currently recycled because that market
is also glutted.
'
Despite the problems, Campbell
said he sees recycling as a viahle
economic alternative. "I'm approaching recycling from an
economic viewpoint. People won't
recycle because it's good for the
environment. "
Campbell said some cities and
counties are recycling to cut down on
their garbage bills and cited an
eastern Washington county as an example. In the past, this county has
paid $43 a ton to have its garbage
hauled 133 miles. The county is currently recycling everythiflg, including
glass, metals, paper, and compost,
at a cost of $10 a ton, saving $33 a
ton.
Tips to continue living by
This holiday season will be filled
with parties, family get-togethers,
dinners and many other types of
celebration. The Counseling and
Health Center wish you a safe and
enjoyable holiday. We would like to
offer some suggestions to keep you
and your loved ones alive.
-If ·you drink, drink responsibly.
Hangovers and a wasted day can increase your depression and decrease
your holiday spirit.
-If you drink, don't drive. Do we
really need to say more?
-If someone else drinks , don't let
them drive. Be vocal about it. If you
can't get them to not drive, don't get
in the car with them.
car in case of an accident. And a
million dollars will never be enough
to bring back the .life of a friend.
-Have a designated driver -- someone who will not be imbibing
alcohol and will be driving the partygoers around town and home. Some
restaurants and bars participate in
this program and offer free nonalcO\t0lic beverages to the designated
driver.
-If you are giving a party, be a
responsible host and take charge of
your guests' car keys . Let them
know beforehand that you will be
taking their keys and will provide accommodations or will call a cab if
they are unable to drive. Be sure that
food is available (carbohydrates are
the best but stay away from those
high in salt) and also stock nonalcohelic beverages as well,
-If no one can safely drive, call a
cab or a friend to pick you up. A $50
cab fare is a drop in the bucket compared to a $500 DWI fine, or the
cost of replacing or repairing your
Again we wish you an enjoyable
holiday and a safe return!
Contract seeks students
The student-initiated, studentplanned contract the "Politics of International Economic Relations" is
, seeking a few new students. In their
course of studies, they wish to address the following questions. How
are the problems of the Third World
-- deDt and underdevelopment,
poverty and unrest -- linked to the
policies of the First World? Are
Marx and Keynes still relevant? Is
mature capitalism necessarily imperialistic? Do multinational corporations benefit the majorities in
Third World countries? Is the World
Bank the neutral institution it professes to be? What are the roots of
Third World revolution going back
to the days of the first European
explorers?
Prerequisites are upper-division
standing, faculty signature, and
macroeconomics, though current
enrollment in macroeconomics may
be substituted.
For further information, pick up
a syllabus at LABI 2013, or call:
Louis Yachetla, 866-2018; Nick
Keyes, 943-9590; Bill Matheson,
866-1380; Carol Costello, 866-0182.
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December 9, 1985
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
more news
Governance
inadequately
represented
Step towards peace on Great Peace March
by Karen Liltin
As students, we so often find
ourselves acting as observers of the
world rather than participants . We
study history, but we seldom dare to
dream that we can actually change
its course.
I r you could make a change, what
would you be willing to do? Wou ld
you be willing to participate in what
CBS News has termed "the largest
civilian undertaking in history?" On
March I, 1986, 5000 people will
lea ve homes, jobs and schools to
walk for nine months from Los
Angeles to Washington, D.C. It will
be a great sacrifice for a great goal:
global nuclear disarmament.
PRO-Peace, the sponsoring
organization, is buiding a large internationa l citizens movement based on the belief that the arms race
is a moral and personal question, not
just a political one. As Eisenhower
put it, "The people want peace so
much that one day the governments
of the world will get out of their way
and let them have it."
The Great Peace March will put
the nuclear issue at the center of
public attention and keep it there for
nine months. The world and its
leaders will watch as a city of 5000
moves across the nation. The marchers will be inspired by the belief
that through their personal sacrifice
the dream of nuclear disarmament
will be realized .
Though it sounds lofty, the march
is being planned down to tne
smallest detail. Over 70 professionals
in media, finance, organizing and
logistics have put aside careers to
make the Great Peace March
happen.
Students will playa crucial part in
the effort. PRO-Peace expects that
half of the marchers will be students,
and plans to involve thousands of
students in the organizing and financing of this mammoth project.
Already, six schools have pledged to
raise a total of $75,000. Many professors have offered to give
credit to marchers who do a project
or paper based on their experience.
One of the main objectives of
PRO-Peace is to dispel the image
that students are apathetic and
fatalistic about the prospect of
nuclear war. Students will get involved when they see that they can make
a difference_
While we educate ourselves for
future careers, we must work to insure that there is a future. As
students, we have the most to lose
and the most to gain. It's our
responsibility; we have more
freedom than most to devote a year
to peace.
Nuclear war is the most important
problem of our time. if we don't
solve this one, we may never have
the opportunity to solve the others.
Join the march. See America. Make
a difference.
For more information, contact
Marshall Mayer, Campus Coordinator for PRO-Peace at (213)
653-6245 or write to 8150 Beverly
Blvd., Suite . 301, Los Angeles,
California 90048.
Editor,
After reading the Student
Wednesday Forum's manifesto in
your last issue I've tried to find
out who these people are. I want to
do this because they say they are going to select student representatives
to DTF's and other boards, and I
want to know if they can do a good
job of it. So I've asked around and
I've been told two things about their
last meeting in November. First, that
there were ten people there and one
was a woman; second, that there
were twenty and maybe a third were
women. Their minutes don't shed
any light on this. Either way it's a
small group that doesn't seem to
represent the Evergreen I know .
Since the Forum hasn't introduced
itself adequately, it seems that the
CPJ has a responsibility to fill us in.
How about it? Who are these
people?
Karen Litfin is a Doctoral Student
in Political Science at U.C.L.A . She
is also a volunteer for PRO-Peace.
Moving Beyond War
Area residents will have a unique
opportunity on Saturday morning,
December 14 to attend a "Global
Space bridge"
in
the
new
Washington Center for the Performing Arts.
This live two-way television
satellite transmission will link six
countries with San Francisco. The
leaders of Argentina, India, Mexico,
Ja:mes Mershon
United Republic of Tanzania,
Sweden, and Greece are being
honored for their "Five Continent
Peace Initiative" which is aimed at
convincing the nuclear powers that
an end to war is necessary for the
survival of humankind.
Tickets at $6 are available from
Bob or Bonnie Jacobs, 352-8114 or
720 Gov. Stevens, Olympia, 98501
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Clearance
Processexplained
To the Editor:
In a recent CPJ article, Performance Art student Christopher
Tolfree was quoted as saying that
more students might be willing to
stage collaborative performances on
campus if the procedure to schedule
space was simplified. He called the
procedure "a hindrance." Ah, an
excellent opportunity presents itself
to tell you about' the Production
Clearance Process.
The production of any event requires that space be reserved and
technical services provided ... sound
reinforcement, lighting, custodial,
security, childcare, and, if necessary,
projectionist services. This process
of lining up space and arranging
technical services is one that event
producers must go through whether
they are on campus or ofr: ' At
Evergreen, we have attempted to
create a system that allows event
producers the maximum in artistic
control while imposing the minimum
in bureaucracy.
It's important to us that the process be as easy as possible for student event producers. This year, for
example, we have hired a full time
staff person whose responsibilities
include' assisting students through
the Production Clearance process.
Helen Gilmore in CAB 305 is
available to provide you with I) information about lining up space and
tech services and 2) the form
necessary for appropriate signatures
from technical service providers.
Also, if you are interested in producing a performance and need some
help with planning, arranging, promoting, producing and perhaps even
funding your event, there are a couple of options open to you. One is
to talk with a student group coordinator about having your favorite
student organization sponsor the
event. Call ext. 6220 for mOfe information on student organizations.
The other option is to contact Supplemental Events Coordinator Pierre
Gautier in CAB 305 (also ext. 6220).
In many cases, Supplemental Events
can be of great assistance to student
event producers not affiliated with
student organizations.
Christopher Tolfree suggests that
our process might be simplified if the
S & A office could establish an administrative group "who does all the
paperwork, who goes through it,
and who checks their schedules."
Please be aware that there is a group
of administrators and students who
meet on a regular basis to discuss
ways to make the Production
Clearance process easier and more
effective. The name of that group is
the Production Clearance Board.
But the bottom line is this: we simply cannot arrange the scheduling or
technical details of your perfomance. Nobody knows what the
technical requirements are except the
event producer. Bu! we are ready,
willing and able to help you through
that process if you contact us with
sufficient lead time for arrangements.';
to be made. So if you are thinking
about producing a collaborative performance, please come see us in
CAB 305. We will do everything we
can to help you make il a successful
event!
Michael Hall
Student Activities Director
ESA letters
were not
threatening
Dear Editor,
Regarding the current ESA
debate, I would like to say first that
I agree absolutely with David H unsaker that there is indeed . a
"fashionable" political point of
view here at Evergreen, and that he
should have every right and freedom
to express his viewpoint -- whatever
it may be.
Second, though the responding
letters were certainly angry in tone
they were only responses_ Surely the
point of sharing ideas in the first
place is to gain feedback, insights
and information, and exposure to
new ideas, in the interests of
abolishing ignorance and . intolerance. I think more than
anything Frank Gunderson was addressing the ignore-ance on the part
of the ESA regarding the situation
in South Africa. He made a point
which I would like to elaborate on:
Assuming the Blacks did indeed
choose to kill each other, if freedom
is a God-given right, then surely the
Blacks have every right to kill each
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
{)ther in their own land if they
choose -- more so than the whites
have to kill them.
Third, I found it very interesting
that both Mr. Gunderson and Mr.
Hunsaker anticipated violent
retribution for expressing their
beliefs .
Yours Truly,
Rosalind Gorsline
ESA should
help, not hurt
Dearest CPJ,
After reading last week's interview
with Evergreen Students for
America, I believe they could play
a constructive role on campus. I suggest they respond to the criticisms of
substance that were levied against
their letter, that is, if they really are
willing to lake responsibility for their
actions. As it now stands it seemed
designed more to draw attention to
the authors than to add anything of
value to the discussion of economic
involvement in South Africa. The
devil's advocate shou ld articulate a
thoughtful point of view that is both
crucial and missing so far. In defensible statements made just for the
sake of disagreement can do more
harm than good.
I also wonder what they mean
when they claim to be "for
America." I don't know many
Americans who'd be comfortable
with the views expressed in their letter. What exactly about America is
ESA for? Just for fun I pretended
that I was ESA and came up with
this:
The America I am for is fundamentally opposed to both the
ever-centralized Corrimunist political
system and the undemocratic power
concentration in big-time capitalism .
In this America we use our abilities
to improve the quality of life while
using less stuff, with local people
meeting local needs with local
materials as much as possible.
Each step we take in this direction
will make the world a safer place
because nothing makes people more
spiteful than to be taken advantage
of. By living the high-consumption
lifestyle, we take advantage of people in faraway countries by "demanding" they "supply" materials and
cheap labor when they don't have
the political power to say "No, this
is not the way we want Ii fe to be set
up here." As heavy arms and
nuclear bombs spread it'll be
downright dangerous to have people
carrying around an accumulated
spitefulness towards us.
I'm for smaller regions that are
more sel f-reliant. This means the
work and exchanges are happening
face-to-face much more often and
that more people are assuming a
widely dispersed responsiblity. This
will make the world beller in at least
three ways:
I) By reducing the dangerous
motivation of one group to take advantage of another.
page 5
There is a lot about America
which favors this pArticular vision,
and when I'm for America my
mouth flaps for a good while on
some of those things. It's not unconditional love of country, though.
There are things going on that are
absolutely horrible and which we are
a part of, though it doesn't seem so
when they're played out someplace
else. I've got no loyalty toward those
aspects of our nation. There are
times when heartfelt convictions fit
well with political boundaries and
times when they transcend them.
That's why I wonder what exact ly
ESA is for.
R. Roth
Open, honest
dialogue
encouraged
Letter. to the editor:
This is in response to the selfproclaimed "Evergreen Students for
America" correspondence.
First off, two of the main lessons
Evergreen students should be learning through the seminar process is
taking responsiblity for one's own
opinions and being open and
respectful to other points of view.
While we are saddened that any
group of Evergreen students feel that
they will be persecuted for having a
particular point of view, we can offer no apologies for Evergreen continuing to be what it was intended
at it's inception: an ait';!rnative college. There are thousands of colleges
all over the country where the opinions being expressed by these
disillusioned students have the upper
hand in the campus community.
That some students like ourselves
had to travel 3000 miles to find what
Evergreen has to offer in a price
range we can afford is indicative of
how rare true "alternative" is. We
are not trying to advocate a "love
it or leave it" attitude. A crucial part
of the educational process is an
open, honest dialogue. But the most
precious thing that Evergreen has offered us is the opportunity to explore
points of view not accepted
elsewhere. This is not the place for
st udents looking for reinforcement
of status quo American values. It is
the place for those having the
'perseverence and the fortitude to explore alternatives to Ronald
Reagan's vision for America.
omnia extares!!!!!
Tom Hill and Lara Norkus
Generous
greeners
protect
Salvadorians
To the Evergreen Community:
2) By not having the poiticians at
By now you are probably aware
the larger levels of government make
of the effort to send Salvadoran studecisions which can be dealt with
dent leaders Antonia Quezada and
successfully at the more accessible
Rodolfo Rosales back to EI Salvador
local levels (the same holds for bigwith some .hope for their safety.
business executives, and local
Both students were on a death list
entrepreneurs).
published in the Salvadoran press by
3) By improving the way we liV~
. il¢t_wing deathi squads before the
with the earth. When the peopl-e . tw~ their country this past summer. They came to the U.S. and
calling the shots in an area are th
same ones who will drink the water,
have visited about thirty college and
fish the river, eat the produce, walk
university campuses here in an attempt to raise international support
the forest, I believe the natural
systems will receive a lot more
for the reopening of the University
of EI Salvador, destroyed by the
respect. This will lead to the added
benefit of a healthy place for the
Salvadoran military in 1980.
children, the grandchildren, the
When he spoke at Evergreen on
great-grandchildren, the great-greatNovember 7th, Antonio was asked
grandch...
how he felt, knowing he might be
killed in EI Salvador. In reply he
stated" I have no desire to be killed. My people have enough martyrs
already. Like any person, I fear
death . But the struggle for higher
education at the University of EI
Salvador is more important than any
one person."
Antonio and Rodolfo are back in
El Salvador now. And traveling with
them are several North Americans,
including Evergreen Camp us
Minister Tim Marshall. It is hoped
that the presence of North.
Americans can help prevent harm to
the two Salvadoran students.
The Evergreen Community was
asked to help pay for Tim's travel
to EI Salvador. There were information tables in the CAB and visits to
academic programs for several
weeks before the Thanksgiving
break. And the good news is
this .. .you contributed $465 toward
Tim's Diane fare . That's over half
the cost of his round-trip ticket. So
a thousand thanks to you,
Evergreeners, for being so generous
and so supportive in the movement
to help protect Antonio and
Rodolfo .
We will be doing more in the near
future to establish a "sister university" relationship with U.E.S.
Already some photos of the
Evergreen campus and community
have been sent to U .E.S. and we are
hoping that Tim will be able to bring
some images back from EI Salvador.
And efforts are under way to provide material support for the effort
of reopening the demolished U.E.S.
But our work in establishing this
supportive relationship has just
begun . If you would like to contribute to Tim Marshall's efforts to
help protect Antonio and Rodolfo or
you want to make a contribution
toward the reopening of U.E.S.,
please drop a check off (payable to
Tim Marshall) or stop by and talk
with me in CAB 305.
"La Vniversidad se niega a morir"
"The University refuses to die"
Michael Hall
CPJ does
anything
for a story
Dear Mr. Editor:
In regards to the ESA "controversy," I would like to point out that
the letters in response to that
organization's initial manifesto were
hardly contesting anyone's freedom
of speech. We were merely respon ding. You are right in comparing
yourself to the Daily O. Anything
for a story.
Yours,
Frank Gunderson.
ESRRJGCS
Evergreen Student for the Re turn
of Responsible Journalism and
Good Common Sense
Letters policy
The Cooper Poin! Journal
welcomes lell e rs from OUf
readers. All letters to the editor
must be typed, double-s paced,
limited to 250 words, signed,
and must include a daytime
phone number where Ihe author
"an be reached for consultation
on editing for libel and obscenity. The editor reserves Ihe right
to reject any material, and edit
any contributions for length,
content, or style. Letters mu SI
be recieved no later than 5 p.m .
on Monday for that week's
publication .
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December 9, 1985
more letters
Iy unfortunate for all those folks
who chose not to attend the
workshop for whatever reason they
devised.
Drug abuse
workshop
was lonely
Dear Cooper Point Journal,
We're writing this letter in regards
to the substance use and abuse
workshop of November 19 hosted by
the Housing office.
The disappointment that we suffered was monumental due to the
lack of interest and participation
conveyed by not only housing
residents, but by some of the major
organizations on this campus. We
don't particularly want to single out
anyone of these groups, but feel that
because of their blatant lack of support for this FREE workshop, th at
cou ld have provided anyone in a
counseling position additional information, something must be done.
It would seem as though The
Evergreen State College takes an extremely lax position on substance
abuse; a statement clearly justified
by the obvious ignorance and lack
of involvement portrayed last night.
We personally know differently, but
where were the members of the oncampus services that cater to these
dependencies? Although these
organizations may boast of previous
knowledge in this field, reaffirmation never hurt anyone and the
substantial expertise that the
presenters possessed was obvious to
all those in attendance.
Also, the amount of time, effort,
and lastly, money, needed to put on
this type of workshop must be considered. Agrant, written, proposed,
and accepted, by one of the Housing assistant directors, seems to have
Perhaps the most detrimental
aspect of the limited attendance was
that focused on the Counseling
Center. How can a dependant person be expected to take this service
seriously when none of the members
chose to attend a workshop of this
nature? We can completely understand how any glimmer of inclination
to reach out for help through
counseling would have been extinguished had there been people at
the wor.k shop to witness this lack of
interest. Fortunately for the
Counseling Center, there were not
enough people there to cast this kind
of shadow on the service .. Really,
'wasn't it the Counseling Center that
voiced to Housing such concern
about substance abuse? And now acting on their pressure and concerns,
where is their support?
Sincerely yours,
HEY NOW!
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responds
to criticism
In fact, on the same night, there
was a speaker talking about Northern Ireland who drew in over 100
people! This is an outrage! We don't
mean to discredit the presentation
about Ireland, as we are sure it was
interesting, but this is certainly
proof that most Oreeners, who profess to be "in touch" with
themselves, have a real hard time
facing some of their vices.
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Sam Segall
Mike Oilman
o uniquely
Qp-inions
know it doesn't sound too bad on
paper, but is it practical?
Financially it is practical, because
it would be no more costly than an
abortion, and society has already
chosen to pay for abortion. The cost
per procedure would be less, but
there would be more of them so the
net is about the same. The real problem is that a woman would ·have to
To the Editor
make this choice in advance.
Because she would not have much
Jeanine Corr's editorial on the
time to think about it when the situaopinions piece "Science solves protion arose.
blems of abortion and sterility"
You see, I'm pro-choice, but at
states that I'm removing choices
the same time I do not like abortion.
from women; when in fact I'm givI'm proposing a fundamental
ing women another choice. Now a
change; right now abortion works to
pregnant woman has only three real
see that what will develop into a
human being is stopped. What I prochoices: she can abort it; she can
have it, and put it up for adoption;
pose, fights to see that it will develop
or third, and most popular, have the
into human life. I think that a
child and keep it. All I'm saying is
woman should have the right to have
that thtre is a fourth choice for a
an abortion , but I would like to see
woman . That is she can have the emfewer abortions. What I propose,
bryo transplanted to another
does just that.
woman. Perhaps a scenario would
Your assumption that I made an
help to clear things up.
. assumption on women's opinions is
wrong. I made a generalization. I
Let's say a woman that is sex ualhave talked to women who have had
ly active misses her period by a week,
at this point she (and no one else) is
a bortions, and without exception
bound by the new system to make
they would rather have had the embryo transplanted. You must undersa choice independent of whether she
is pregnant or not. I f there is a
tand: people are not pro-abortion,
chance that she is pregnant she must,
but pro-choice; and people are not
at this point, make a choice. For em- anti-choice, but anti-abortion. Once
bryo transfer can only be performpeople realize this, and look at the
ed from the time the egg is fertilized
statistics they will realize that I'm
to the time it attaches to the uterus
right, it will work.
wall, as much as 22 days later. If she
The barrage of legal questions that
does not make the choice in the time
you ask ("What happens if the baby
period nature removes the option .
is born with a birth defect? Who is
If she chooses that she does not
responsible for the child? The carwant to have a child, and has done
rier of the embryo at birth? the
so in time, she can go in for the
natural mother? the state") are
transfer procedure; which is an inthings that I did think of, but am
unable to answer. I'm not a lawyer,
office, non-surgical, half-hour pronor a supreme court justice, or even
cedure, which does not even require
anesthesia. If it was just a late period
a member of congress; I do not
then no loss, no gain, but if it was
make or interpret laws, it is not in
an embryo, it would be saved, and
my realm . Though I would think
given to a woman who wanted it. I
that the chain would run something '
The workshop was attended by
less than 15 people, an excrutiating
minority of "concerned" Oreeners.
Perhaps if the presentation focused
on human rights or malnutrition in
Third World countries, two subjects
a little less personal or intimidating,
the attendance may have been a bit
more realistic.
like this; the mother that had the
child would have first responsibility. She could ' keep the child, and
take care of it, or put it up for adoption. If she put the child up for
adoption it would be like any other
child in the same situation.
Finally, you ask, "Rather than
delving into modem technology to
look for a cosmetic solution to the
abortion issue, why not deal with the
problem at hand?" The problem at
hand as I see it, is that if something
is not done, women will lose some
of the rights they now have, and embryos will needlessly be killed. If
what I propose is accepted on a larlle
scale, then the number of abortions
will drop. If the number of abortions
drop, then the opposition to abortion will drop as well, because, for
the most part, we live in a number
based society. Protect the rights of
the individuals, and save the embryos, that is what I want.
In that last question you also
seemed to look at embryo transfer
as some kind of technological BandAid. But if you look at abortion, you
see that it is the technological BandAid, stretched taut across a mass infected open wound, carved deep into our society.
I'm glad to see your concern, hope
I have answered your questions, and
I thank you for your letter. Sorry if
I seem a little harsh in some of my
answers.
Sincerely,
David Henshaw
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issue no. eight (Nov. 14, 1985),
a letter from W. C. Zollars,
Charles Murray and Brian Seidinan appeared to contain some
faulty addition . The error caused the sum of $18,984 (S 'and A
funds to the CP J) to be omitted from the second paragraph.
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Quibbling over semantics wastes seminar time
by Josef Rodin
Some species of trees can be made
to produce paper. Some of our
movements can be traced to
messages being carried by nerve impulses from the brain to the moving
part of the body. This is, most would
agree, fixed knowledge. There are a
great many things in our world
which fit into this category of fIXed
knowledge. Some things do not.
Correct moral behavior, and
meaningful personal values, are two
examples of knowledge which is not
fixed, but must be learned through
assimilation. The individual's
capacity to understand the importance of the value or moral is the only determiner of its meaning.
When we try to communicate our
values and morals to others, we must
remember that we are using fIXed
symbols to represent a moving, constantly changing and evolving idea.
Too many times, expecially in our
college setting, we confuse these
symbols, or concepts, for the
knowledge they represent.
Let us,use an easy example to
show that morals and values are not
fixed. We will use the value of nonviolence. At one point in a person's
life he or she may see the meaning
of non-violence as not hitting his or
her spouse with metal objects. Later,
this same person may see nonviolence as never even yelling at his
or her spouse.
As the person continues to grow,
he or she may even get to the point
where non-violence means to love his
or her spouse. The meaning is not
fixed and absolute, but is constantly evolving as the person grows in
awareness.
Though values are relative, it is
often helpful to extract a definition
to communicate the general idea to '
others. One could do this with non c
violence by defining it as not hurting
others. We know that this is only a
concept to help people, and not the
meaning of non-violence, which has
a rela'tive and ever-changing
meaning.
None the less it can be a helpful
guide to communicate to others, and
to be used as a role model for someone in the beginning of their
journey of assimilation of meaning.
Socrates thought himself smarter
than his peers because he was the only one who understood he knew
nothing. Others thought they knew
a great many things, but when
shown up by Socrates' scrutinization, most found that. their definitions were not answers but costumes
which represented answers.
The famous case of Euthyphro
pointed out rather obviously the difference between meaning and
definition.
Most of us college students have
been well versed in conceptual
knowledge. We know an amazing
array of concepts about a great
many subjects. Often times we, like
Socrates' foes, confuse concepts for
the knowledge they symbolize. This
is why we can seminar on some
crucial and important topics, and
come out unchanged .
We are throwing concepts around
at each other. As students of twenty years there about, we haven't had
t he experience necessary to
assimilate deeply the meaning of
even a handful of important values,
or morals.
To carryon with concepts is productive to a point, but does not
always lead to significant insight of
meaning. How then can we use the
seminar experience to help us
assimilate the meaning behind ideas,
rather than learning only to articulate the ideas correctly?
One obstacle which one runs into
almost immediately is language. Our
language is set up in a way which
divides and gives absolute meanings
to relative and changing ideas. We
must be conscious of this. We must
also look back in our lives to meaningful events where we learned
something significant.
We may analyze that things took
place that facilitated our learning,
and we should incorporate them into our college environment. There
are many other possible ways to approach knowledge and learning
which could provide us with insights
that seminaring on concepts just
can't do.
Honeywell entices student support with contest
by Polly Trout
" After reading "The Jungle" by
Upton Sinclair, which is famous for
its expose of big business as a slimey
cancer in society that can be cured
only by socialism, I was in a ·slightly
paranoid mood when I read the
following press release:
HThe essays will
be judged on ...
patriotism,
cheerfulness,
bootlicking. "
System Designs. Vento Photographv.
Inksllnge rs. Scrimshaw Marketing,WesternPaper.
Wash. Apt. Assoc., Researchers Unlimited.
Aladar, and United Video Productions.
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"Imaginative college studems
....itl/ a desire to stretch to bounds of
technology have only until
December 31 to enler Honeywell's
fourth allllual FUlurist A wards
Competitioll--a contest that will earn
une st.udellt $IO,OrJO."
The contest "In viles all full-lime
('Of/ege studellts to write essays aboul
technological advancements in the
"ext 25 years in !WO of the follow-
ing areas: electronic communications, energy, aerospace, computer
science, manufacturing automation,
alld office automation. A third essay
must address the societal impact of
the technological predictions. Each
essay will be judged on Ihe basis of
creativily, feasibility, c1arily of expression, and legibility. "
Honeywell is an "international
high-technology company with 1984
revenues of 16. I billion. Its major
business are Control Systems, Control Products, Aerospace alld
Defense, and Information Systems.
"Last year we had willners predicting space shutlles embarking on a
weekly basis and computers implamed in the humall body as a
memory tool." said Ernie Von
Heimbllrg, Honeywell university
relations manager.
The three essays should be 500 to
750 words ill length and submitted
to Honeywell before Dec. 31. For
more information you can call them
toll-free at 1-800-328-5111, x1523.
Now, we may ask, why is
Honeywell spending money on us
poor college students? Out of the
goodness of its little-corporate heart?
Of course, $20,000 in various prizes
i~ only .3 per cent of their yearly income, not a big hardship. Still.
For Honeywell, progress means
power and money, especially if they
can sell it to the masses. They are
most interested in catering to the
masses with money--namely college
grads. They want to make what we
want to buy. They also want a
barometer of feeling t('wards various
advances.
In other words, all those little
essays wi II be analysed by
H oneywellian experts to help
Honeywell make more money.
In addition, the winning essay can
be used for a cute little piece of PRo
"Wait," you say, "the essays are being judged on clarity, feasability,
creativity!" And, of course,
patriotism, cheerfulness, pro-
'~Hip"
capitalism, and bootlicking.
In case you would like to enter the
Honeywell essay contest, here are
some thoughts to get you started:
"25 years from now the world will
be oh-so-hunky-dory, you will just
not believe it! Technology will be used to solve all the worlds problems,
and the Red Menace will be conquered! People won't have to worry
about fucking up anymore, because
computer implants will help us do
the right thing! And all thanks to
Honeywell, Saviour of the Universe,
that darling of a corporation . Don't
we just love 'em!"
I suspect that no matter how
creative, feas'able, and clear my
Honeywell essay was to be, I would
not wi n the $10,000 prize or the internship at Honeywell, because my
personal theory is that there will be
no technology in 25 years. I f all goes
well, AIDS will kill off four fifths
of the human population and our
ecosystem will have rebalanced
itself. Honeywell won't exist. I
realize, however, that that sort of attitude is not going to make me or
Honeywell any money.
advice to bummed brother
by Michael Strauss
The thought of Christmas and the
New Year stirs up heavy emotions in
all of us. When I start feeling wishy
washy and a little confused about it
all, I call up my good friend Old
spending all their savings on
everyting they see, drinking, smoking and eating anything they can get
their hands on and they're watching
football six hours a day. I don't get
it.
"Lighten up, brother. You're
Hippy.
Hello, Hip? "How's it goin',
man?" I'm kinda bummed out
about the holidays. Oot any words
of wisdom? "Let me see, hmmm?
Oimme a second ... gotta sort
through some old files. Oh yeah, I
remember, the new year blues, tax
time again . What you don't spend,
the government will, right?"
No, that's not it. There's this feeling in my gut and a fogginess in my
brain, like something isn't right.
They call it celebrating ... but they're
lookin' at it all worng. You see, you
grew up in another space and time
when all you got was stimulation and
excitement. Life was a big party,
remember? You're probably strung
out. You gotta relax , recreate your
nerves.
"When they were your age, life
was a drag. Twenty-four hours a day
all they did was work, 'cause they
had to. The work took its toll on
their hearts and on their so uls. I
mean, they perfected the burn out.
Now they want to relax and celebrate
but they don't quite know how.
Smoking and drinking and watching
football is their way of relaxing.
They do not know another way.
"You gotta hang out till they
figure it all out and you gotta see the
humor in it. Trip down to the mall,
spend a few hours watching the people who work and eat at the Dairy
Queen. Better yet, bundle up in your
favorite blanket, in front of the fire
and read "Diving Right's Trip"
again. Some laughter is sure to find
its way to your troubled heart.
"If you're still bummed, find a
spare minute to scribble a note like :
Dear Mr. President, why don't you
use the $600,000 you raised on Monday to stop people from dumping
chemicals in lakes and rivers or to
stop the war in Central America.
Crumple it up and throw it away or
type it up and send it. You decide.
"Life is like a rainbow: it's made
up of all th e colors together .
Sometimes you gotta laugh and
sometimes you gotta cry and that's
mostly what it is. Take care, man.
Talk to you soon."
Thanks, Hip.
Fun facts about the holidays
by Lee Howard
Bing Crosby's on the rah-dee-oh,
Twit in a fake beard bangs a bell,
Moms throw cash at G.I. Joe,
It's Christmas time or I'm in Hell!
Everyone knows these famous
lines from the popular holiday poem
"Christmas with a Sarcastic Jerk"
but, few think about their true
meaning.
Back when the earth was without
form and void (anytime before
1968), the Sumarians invented
winter. It was more than just a
publicity stunt, it was a time of year
when they could actually stop farming for a few months and kick back.
It also provided a wonderful
opportunity to use all the st uff that
they had just invented and called:
"Krr'emptlempt" (later Krrr'lmp,
and finally "snow").
Then about four hundred years
later in northern Scotland, Lenny
Phillips, who had founded druidism
because he thought "Pict" sou nded
silly, bought a small Christmas Tree
farm. Two weeks later he invented
what he termed "Oos'l d'm IF.rit' II "
or "Holiday Season," in o rder to
give him a peak time for business.
When asked what a Christma~ tree
was good for he replied,"You can
hang things on 'em." This led to a
barbaric outburst of lynchings in
Europe . At this time St. Nicholas
was martyred for nailing the king's
socks over the fireplace and filling
them with cand'y to protest
something he couldn't properly
remember at his trial. So Christmas
took on an entirely new meaning to
everyone in the world . Especially
Matiell. Happy X-mas.
page 8
lHE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
reviews
December 9, 1985
December 9, 1985
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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Tiny Giants .and Variant Cause spice local scene
b~
Melody Lee
Because th is review is dedicated to
local music, perhaps I should review
some on -c ampu~ music that's more
up to date. Like Variant Cause's
single, "Complete Details" and
"Marathon Man ," or The Tiny
Giants' tape Cartoon Violence.
"Marathon Man" on Variant
Cause's single is the better of the two
songs on the tape. It's strong and
fast, and depends, like "Complete
Details," heavily on percussion. The
drums are prominent and have an
uncommon sound (rimshots?).
The most notable thing about
Variant Cause is their so mewhat
original sound, something not found
too often. They blend a Savage
Republic sound with the Talking
Heads, and some post-punk speed.
That's a hard combination to form
in the mind's ear.
.. Marathon" is a hard song to
describe. Suffice that it's a good at tempt by Variant Cause at creating
their own niche, but not a completely successful one. The speed and
form changes are good, and the
drums are excellent, but the song
doesn't quite satisfy the ear. It
reminds me of an unfinished Zimbo Chimps song. Maybe that's what
Variant Cause wanted, in which C>I<I'
"Marathon's" a success.
"Complete Details" is a bit more
commonplace. It is cliche rock 'n'
roll. The wind instrument solo and
the drums are the saving graces. The
so lo, I'm not sure on what, is innovative, and sounds and feels good .
It has a mood and a sound that the
rest of the song never quite attains.
The drums are just really strong and
creative. Not just a se t pattern.
Variant Cause poses on the Seattle Center's monorail. The memhers are Jan Greger on juxpo vocals and trash
guitar, Mark Fenton on frenetic skins, Greg Morlan on head guitar, Weyo Hogan on rusllllour keyboards, and
Ryan Col/ins on power tremor bass.
The Tin y Giants' Cartoon
Violence is only available as a tape.
It has eight good songs on it. The
Tiny Giants sound is a menagene. It
ranges from straight rock, "Radiation Babies" to country rock"
"Modern Prophet," and even out
into the depths of what I guess you'd
call rock-gospel , "Grace of God."
Cartoon Violence starts with a
rock tune, "Radiation Babies."
"Babies" is the rockiest song on the
tape . It has an R & B Stones meet
Dead or Alive feeling to it. The
keyboards in the song are well used
but not overused.
It creates an atomic or molecular
mood. The guitar, like the keyboard,
is well used but not abused. The
guitar has an atmosphere of tension
to it. Add to this the doomsayer bass
and muffled drums, and you've got
a tune that'll blow you all the way
to side two.
Side two begins with "Sound
Wave." "Wave" is a fun
Washington surf song. It doesn't
resemble The Beach Boys or Jan and
Dean, but from what I've gathered
there's not a lot of surfing to be done
in Washington, so ... the lyrics to this
song are based on a creative pun,
and are wholly satisfying. "Wave"
is a good dance tune, one I'd love
to hear live. The music's not terribly
complicated, but the song, and The
Tiny Giants sound that much better
because of this. The Tiny Giants
have a simple ska/reggae-influenced
sound which can be heard on this
song .
Although not as well as on the
next song "Ego Go." "Ego" is one
of the slower songs on the tape. The
Tiny Giants do their slow songs as
well as their rockier songs,
something a lot of bands can't do.
The interplay between- the guitar and
the keyboards on "Ego" has a happy, sort of upbeat feeling to it. It
reminded me, and this may sound
weird, of a mountain stream.
Again, The Tiny Giants haven ' t
piled on the sounds and the intricate
leads. Their sound is great because
they don't play poor music well and
complicatedly. They play good
music simply, and allow each sound
and rhythm to have it's own
breathing space.
"Cartoon Violence," the last song
on the tape, has a neat authentic cartoon violence intro . The lyrics are
funny, although also scary. It reinforces the fact that cartoons are not
merely cartoons when you're as
young as most Saturday morning
viewers.
Musically, the song is interspersed wth authentic cartoon violence.
The interplay between the guitar and
the bass has a good bluesy feeling .
And anyway, any band that's into
kazoos can't be that bad.
I picked up Cartoon Violence at
the book.,ure, and hopefully The
Tiny Giants will have a new tape out
soon.
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Film portrays Feds as ruthless as the criminals
by Arvid Gust
Skating on the thin ice of a new
day, the United States Secret Service
is exposed as ruthless and daring as
the criminals they pursue. This is an
organization determined 10 discover
and track down person s who
perpetrate crimes against th e state;
in this case, an abundance of
cou ntt'rfeit currency. And, "To Live
a nd Die in L.A." deals out a hand
of cards you can bet wtih.
Each moment of this film reveals
truths with such succinct clarity that
when the chips a re down, rubber
gloves never leave fingerprint s! The
multitude of details fit together as a
very plausible puzzleboard, challenging the viewer to become more attent iv e at every turn of events.
"The love of money is the root of
a ll ev il," and most people are eas ily
tri cked into abusing the privilege of
monetary gain.
In a metropolis the size of Los
Angeles, individuals exist on every
plateau of survival and material
pleasures, arbitrating lawyers included. And the closer to the lOp one
gets. the more we find this obsession
overwhelming everyone in its path
with greed, agression, and deceit. Set
against the barrenness of a vacuous
desert city, these very real characters
are all interested in Playdoh. In fact,
there is so much phony money on
th e streets, even the bartender in the
agents' after hu urs bar attempts
passing off a bogus $50 bill on the
"good guys."
Less than charming in sty le and
manner, these good guys prove to be
inhibited by a lust for vengeance,
while the bad guys want respect. To
eliminate fear, we see one Secret Service agent leap from alSO ft. span
bridge. While tempting the fates on
the L.A. Skyway, one of his legs is
secured by a rope wh ich breaks his
fall about 30 feet above the bay. You
decide if he was wise. Later this
strengthening of the spirit does help
save our boys when placed under
stressful circumstances.
Posing as doctors who wish to
launder illegal bonds for a wealthy
businessman, they attempt 10 set up
Rick Masters; he is responsible for
making and circulating the dough.
We observe the entire plate-making
and printmaking processes with
fresh, crisp bills being the end result.
First, the agents must procure
$30,000 dollar s in real money ,
in order to puchase a million in funny dollars . How they come up with
the thirty grand becomes a chapter
fraught-.with illegal ways and means ,
culminating in a chase scene com-
plete with a high powered pursuit sequence which includes a car chase
going up the "Do Not Enter -Wrong Way" ramp into oncoming
L. A. traffic . The agents identities
are preserved awhile longer.
Exciting camerawork allows the
viewer a first-person look, and you
are caught in the crossfire of a manysided, double dealing attitude adjustment. Camera angles in the firstperson also unravel a tight visual collage which allows a beautiful and
well thought out display of imagery.
Distinct choices of color and light
accent creative perspectives,
highlighting fast-paced action.
.
Actual violence is not overly'
graphic and the manner of direction,
photography, and music are charged with brilliance. There are no
"Miami Vice" overtones and no
"Hill Street Blues" soap suds.
Directed by William Friedkin ("The
French Connection," "The Exorcist") "To Live and Die in L.A ."
has vivdly captured the climate of
the times. Here is a brisk-paced, nononsense film with an introspective
viewpoint; a story of snowballing
schemes and the consequential
events which follow suit.
Slick performances are by Willem
DeFoe as daredevil agant Rob
Jessup and Jon Pankow who portrays his Greener partner. The film
score includes choice music by Wang
Chung, Rank & File and the
Beasters. This film can be seen at the
Capital Mall Cinemas (302 Capital
Mall) on Olympia's West Side
through Thursday. Call 754-8777 for
times.
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TIlE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
page 10
December 9, 1985
Some great gifts for all progressive rock fans
by Duane Anderson
Santa has been very good to progressive rock fans this holiday
season; under the progressive rock
Christmas tree are gifts from Yes,
Jethro Tull and Asia.
The first package under the tree
is wrapped in silver and contains
music from Yes's incredible 1984/85
world tour. The album is named
9012 Live and is made up mostly of
solos (5 of the 7 tracks are solos).
The best performances on the
album are from Chris Squire on bass
and Alan White on drums. This
rhythm section has been the soul of
Yes since 1972, and Squire and
White do not disappoint on this new
album.
Squire provides a distorted version
of "Amazing Grace," which flows
into
a
Squire-White jam,
"Whitefish." The "Whitefish"
track, which combines "the fish"
(from Fragile), parts of "Sound
Chaser (from Relayer) , other Yes
material, and flat out jamming provides this album's grand finale.
Alan White's drumming on the
two non-solo tracks, "Hold On"
and "Changes" (both from 90125),
is even better than his studio work
on those two tracks and helps both
tracks seriously drive.
Tony Kaye tick les his electric
ivories to give a fun, keyboard solo
and Trevor Rabin demonstrates his
skills with an acoustic guitar solo.
Jon Anderson sings "Soon" (The
conclusion of "The Gates of
Delirium" from Relayer accom:
Asia's John Wellon belts oUi hook lines on their new Astra album.
panied just by synthesizer -- a live version of "The Gates of Delirium"
with full band is on Yesshows .
9012 Live is a prime gift for a progressive rocker this Christmas. By
the way, the 9012 Live sleeve announces the release of a Yes movie,
also named 9012 Live, which has live
renditions of "Leave It," "Starship
Trooper," and 7 other Yes songs.
The only package under our tree
that is directly Christmas themed is
a definite bonus for Yes fans: Three
Ships from Jon Anderson. Anderson has put together a seasonal
album of new and old Chrstmas
.
songs that is quite delightful.
How Christmas fits into Anderson's space fantasy milieu comes
through on the opening of his ver-
sion of the title track. "Three Ships"
begins with UFO sound effects
which give a heavy-handed hint of
where Anderson thinks the three
wise men came from. As with many
of the tracks, "Three Ships"
features traditional vocals (with
Anderson backed up by a childrens'
choir) with electronic, progressive
pop music.
Anderson's own beliefs shine
through on tracks like "Forest of
Fire," in which he praises "Super
Nature."
Three Ships should provide
Christmas morning smiles for all Jon
Anderson fans .
Behind our tree, you will find an
elegantly wrapped gift: A Classic
Ca!re on which The London Sympurple wrapping is the third album
from Asia, Astra.
phony Orchestra plays the music of
Jethro Tull with majesty.
Asia champions the fusion of proIn the past progressive rock bands gressive rock with pop music and
have had great success playing Astra is their most listenable form
"classical" music, the best example of this fusion .
being Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's
John Wetton has slowed down the
version of Mussorgsky's Pictures At
vocals for the verses (possibly takand Exhibition; orchestras, though,
ing a clue fro~ Greg Lake, who took
have often failed at playing rock, a
Wetton's place on the last Asia
prime example being the London
world tour and turned the blandest ·
Festival Orchestra on the Moody
Asia songs into elegant ballads -- one'
Blues' Days of Future Passed. With
can hear and see these versions on
A Classic Case, however, the LSO
the Asia in Asia video), which real-- conducted by David Palmer, who
ly improves the sound. Wettonstill
has worked with Tull before -clings to polished hook lines, which
triumphs with an amazing
sound like fingernails on a
performance.
blackboard to my ears.
I think the oroblem on Davs of
Geoff Downes remains the reason
Future PQS!red was that the LSO just
to listen to Asia. Downes is a wizard
played the notes and came across as
on keyboards and brings life to Asia.
Muzak; Palmer, on the other hand,
Mandy Meyer has replaced Steve
has the orchestra divide up and take . Howe (now in GTR) on guitar, but
the parts of the original rock inMeyer does not even come close to
struments and he makes the LSO
Howe's skills and creativity. Meyer
rock and swing.
simply cranks out heavy metal riffs,
While some of the tracks, like
with the exception being his
"Locomotive Breath," arguably
delightful work on "After the
sound like college fight songs, these
War," the final and best track of the
new versions are mostly splendid
album.
compliments to the Tull originals.
Astra should only be unwrapped
Members of the current Tulliineby progressive rockers who can
up make guest appearances, with Ian
stomach blatent hook lines.
Anderson providing extremely hot
After the disappearance of progressive rock as a major force in the
flute playing.
If you are open to variations in
early eighties, both 1984 and now
your progressive music, I suggest
1985 have been just boffo for proyou make A Classic Case a part of
gressive rock fans . With England
your Christmas.
producing new progressive bands,
like Marillion and Pallas, there could
The final present is wrapped in
be many great holiday seasons to
purple and has an electronic creature
drawn by Roger Dean; under the
come.
"Fresh Tracks" gives exposure to local bands
by Melody Lee
I've been asked to cover some
local material, which perhaos is only right if I'm going to complain
about the big record companies. So
this week I decided to be as local as
is humanly possible by reviewing
Fresh Tracks.
Fresh Tracks is an album that was
put together last school year by two
then-juniors: Tom Hill and Rick
Powell. They raised the $2500 needed to do the a lbum, without
Evergreen funds. According to
Powell, the only criteria for submissions were that the songs be written
by Evergreen students, that the
songs be under four minutes long,
and that the songs be potential hits.
There were 175 submissions, and
"95 percent of this stuff was really
good," said Powell .
All of the recording and artwork
was done by Evergreen students, and
the 10 tracks on the album were
picked by a board of seven listeners,
who were not tOld anything about
the songs other than the number that
was assigned to each song.
The second track, "The Silent,"
by The Factory Girls, now three
Evergreen grads and two other people, is not as synth oriented as
Turner, but it has been so produced
that the edge it should have is gone.
The song is strong and the instruments mix well to give it a dark
sound, which is appropriate for
lyrics. In partie'war the singer's
voice, which is low and husky , gives
the song a hollow · mood. The
keyboard riff, a high and simple
melody, throws a feeling of eerie
contrast over the music. This is one
of my favorite songs on the album,
but it would probably be a lot better live, or less produced.
The production and sound of
"It's Gonna be Alright" by The
Midnight Rhythm Band is the best
on the album. The song captures and
communicates the feeling of a live
show perfectly. The drums come
through loud and clear (a problem
on the rest of the album), and the
vocals and harmonies are great.
"Alright" is a low-key blues tune,
appropriate in a dark smokeY,l basement bar. My only complaint is the
song's cliche ending; the overused
so lo vocal hangs with the instruments, re-emerging for the final
ba-dum. The Midnight Rhythm
Band had two Evergreen juniors in
it at the time of the recording.
The fourth track on side one is
Myron Partman's "Say You Love
Me." This song has a lot of Prince
influence in it, although it is not a
straight Prince rip-off. "Say" is a bit
less funky than Prince's stuff, the
guitar isn't as complicated and prominent, and the music <is more
middle-of-the-road. "Say" doesn't
have a lot of energy, it's a song you
could dance to if you wanted to
dance, but it doesn't make you want
to dance. Part man was a junior last
year.
The final song on side one is
"Ouiet Time" by Cause and Effect.
"Quiet Time" inevitably reminds me
of U2. The music for the first
rhythm (usually the verses) sounds
just like something from U2's War
or Under a Blaod Red Sky albums.
The second, and a better rhythm ,
deviates from the U2 sound, heading
more towards punk. "Quiet Time's"
second rhythm is an echoing guitar
and feedback dominated piece that
is discordant and grating. And it
feels angry. However, I'm afraid
"Quiet" is another song that is lacking energy and sharpness, again
possible because of over-production.
Everything is smooth and somewhat
flat. Cause and Effect had three
Evergreen students in it last year, but
is now all Green.
Side two of Fresh Tracks is less
rock 'n' roll than side one.
"Target Heaven" by Nicholas
Lewis, a junior and member of The
Tiny Giants, is a more or less easylistening song. The instruments,
sounds and their arrangement are
good, but there are forced rhymes
that are awkward. "Heaven"
sounds like a lot of the soft music
that is becoming a big part of
modern music (yes, there is such a
thing) nowadays.
"Illumination." by Chris
Bingham, then a Junior, is an instrumental which is sort of mellow
fusion jazz. "Illumination" is a
good example of this softer music.
The sax on the song is a nice break
from the synthesized sound today.
The pacing is good, as is the arrangement and mix of the instruments.
The vocal piece (not singing), and
the break in the middle give "illumination" a nice flow. However
this song would probably work better if it didn't follow the other
mellow homogenized song on the
album, "Target Heaven."
Like Eppo's "The Teddy Bear
Song" contrasts it. Eppo is a senior
who plays a lot around Oly. I'm not
sure if he uses a fiddler, a viloinist,
and a clarinet player when he plays
live, but they help give "Teddy" a
nice homey feel. "Teddy" is the sort
.pf song you sing around a camp fire.
Or. "nd this is my second hot transition, a home fire.
"Red Scare Blues" by Citizens
Band is, I hope, a parody. The
sound of the song is World War II
USO three-girls-cheering-up-thetroops, mixed with a bit of country
and some jazz solos. I was unable to
get any solid information on Citizens
Band, so.. . [ would like to see
Citiz~.n.s Band live. They remind me
a bit of a local band back in Salt
Lake City I liked, The Saliva Sisters.
Anyway, the song works well
because the lyrics, the music and the
vocalist work so well together.
And that's all we'll hear from The
Evergreen Record Project this year
folks. So, if you'd like multi-genre
compilations, buy it now. This is a
limited edition pressing and it
doesn't look like there will be any
more Evergreen Record Projects .
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TIlE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
December 9, 1985
pa~e
II
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork are back
with the same craziness you've always loved
by
tee Howard
When YQU hear somebody's voice
say "Where's the Banana' Splits?"
and you're in an ice cream parlour,
you can guess . that they're
overweight, repugnant, hornrimmed, and probably borderline
autistic. But, if you're in a record
store and someone says, "Where's
the Banana Splits?" you can guess
that they're hip, with it, overweight,
and probably borderline autistic.
The Bananas split up in late 1974
long before rock videos were legalized. (The Banana Splits were pioneers
in this field.) They were the first
band to host a cartoon show. They
were the first band to have an anthropologist PROVE that they were
impeding the progress of mankind.
They were the first band to be forced into breaking up by a special session of the United Nations. In fact,
many groups felt that the hand of
God was visible in the retirement of
this musical legend. With this mountain of firsts do they get the recognition that they deserve?
More than being a rock'n'roll
milestone, they became a rock'n'roll
millstone. Their's was a force to
be dealt with. (And of course, it
was.) But; that's all changed now,
or as Fleagle, the lead singer puts it,
"That's all changed now." The
Banana Splits have just finished
work on their new revival album
MORE B . S. (Hanna Barbara
performing the old song Fleagle
replies, "Dang yes! That's the rock
classic that made us what we are!"
But, this article is not for dwelling
on the darker regions of the human
soul.
.
Needless to say, the reforming of
this pop-music pustule means a
quiek end to the new Emerson,
Lake, and Bingo. "Not quick
enough," replied Keith Emerson.
"This was the worst idea I've ever
had! When I first saw Bingo I
thought he was arl Armenian woman
with chapped lips. I mean, he
doesn't look like an ape. Face it. I
was about to run when he told me
he was the drummer for the Banana
Splits. So I decided, what the heck,
I'll STILL run. But, then he sat
down behind the skins and I
discovered that he couldn't carry a
rhythm in an aijigator purse. He
couldn't play drums to save his soul
for eternal damnation."
Why did Emerson start the band?
"I've been a personal friend of
Morocco Mole for years. He said
Bingo would straighten up and fly
right after a while. By the way, I had
nothing to do with Morocco Mole's
death. Death? Did I say death? I
meant his unsolved disappearance,
of course."
Bassist/vocalist/ guitarist! swell
guy Greg Lake said, "Fear." His
eyes widened and he became quiet.
"Keith waS terrified of Bingo. We
all were.
when he was car-
release and an impending world
tour. Unfortunatley, Eddie. the
recording engineer, lost faith in the
project four minutes into the show
and went on home to "take in some
tube." When Snork found out that
only four minutes of the show made
it onto tape he was livid with
rage ... Well, about as livid as a short
man in a honldng elephant costume
can get. He asked the symphony to
do it over and met with a surprisingly enthusiastic response. Benito
Torgman the conductor puts it best:
"He got more laughs in those five
minutes than Jerry Lewis got during his entire honeymoon . The orchestra was laughing so loud that
they actually caused structural dammage to the rehearsal hall."
Snorky tried to compensate by
humming the res!' of the symphony
and releasing it as a three-record set.
No go, bargain bin city.
Are these days behind them? Will
their new album climb the charts and
eclipse their former career?
"Ever since William Hanna and
Joseph Barbara discovered us playing covers of The Who at a big gig
in a 24-hour gas/mart in April of
'68," says Fleagle, "We've been in
the public eye as deities, or neomessiah< of the twentieth century.
Gods, if you will. Don't tell me
we're not, 'cause I'm here, I know!
I hear Atom Ant has been putting
out albums these last few years. I
haven't heard them, but I have seen
his picture. He looks lots different
without his helmet and sweater. I
don't think he's gonna make it,
though. He never had the appeal of,
say, Squiddly Diddly. As far as the
Banana Splits goes, sure we're older
now, but we still have the power to
turn a crowd into a stampede. Okay,
so they stampede OUT of the
stadium. That's irrelevent! It's the
stampede that counts . Are we sexy
after all these years? I know Bingo
can still make the women scream.
He caused quite a stir in a Denny's
the other night."
Does the band hang out together
much?
"A lot more than we used to. In the
past we were more of a working
group than a social group. After taping a show we'd all just go our
separate ways. We never sat and
talked. We COULDN'T. All the fur niture was painted on the walls. But,
we're pretty tight now . Prison does
that to ya."
The album should be out by
Christmas to make the perfect gift
for divorced couples or a clue at the
scene of a homicide. The tour will
be getting under way by February
and it won't be long 'till those
Banana Buggies come rollin' down
the streets of your hometown and
the colored stagelights reflect off
their weird, red, plastic helmets.
Check with the proper authorities
for dates and times, or write to:
Drooper on stage at the Federal Way Art-Rock Festival and Serbo-Croatian
Cookie Bake-Off '72.
remember the titles of them."
Is he at all sure he made the
albums in the first place?
"No. "
He became frighteningly silent as
he picked up his bass and started to
flog it in a droning eerie fashion.
"Hey," I blurted in, "aren't you
supposed to be plaving a bass?"
That's a wide-mouth bass! ... A
fish : .. Sure they're spelled the same
but, they're pronounced different. ..
No reply. He was silent. Staring.
I left him in the freezing waters of
his waist-deep home, wondering how
anyone could work with such a
character. As for Fleagle and Bingo
I wondered WHY anyone would
work with them. Snorky was a different story, however.
I found Snorky to be warm and
sensitive, intelligent, bright, witty,
and an utter joy to converse with. I
most likely came to this conclusion
The original Asia: Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Fleagle, John Welton and Carl Palmer in happier days.
because he can't talk.
Snorky's la~t few years are just the
rying his sticks-they were 2J(4's with
playin' bass-lines and tells me he's
Records).
same
as Drooper's. with one trall.ic
gonna
be
frontman!
I
was
"It's good to have the whole nails in them. Behind that vacuous
twist: He can remember the title of
FURIOUS! I asked him why I
grin
and
Satanic
shades
was
a
brain
group back together again," stated
his solo album that rocketed towards
the size and most likely, the shape couldn't front the group and he tells
Fleagle in a recent interview at his
the
bargain bin.
me
he
has
a
sexy
baritone
voice.
I
of a cashew.
"home" in Northern California.
In
early '75 Snorky had the idea
just
laughed
at
him
so
he
says,
Fleagle retorted in his insipid
"Very Northern California," says
of
mingling
his keyboard virtuosity
'OK,
I
don't
have
a
ridiculous,
fireFleagle. "The guy told me this was voice, "I don't think Bingo's going
with the Royal London Philhartruck-red,
plastic
tongue
conto
miss
those
two
jokers
any
more
California. Is there a Yukon Counmonic Symphony Orchestra to put
tinually sticking out of my face!'
than I'm going to miss Asia."
ty in California? Hmmm. I suppose
music to a book that had turned his
That's
when
I
beat
feel.
I
wasn't
Fleagle met with disaster at the
not. [ don't like this house a heck of
li
fe around. And so the "You Can
about
to
hang
out
with
those
losers
fQrmation of the triple-platinum
a lot anyhow. I can't stand up
Quit Smoking In One Week Or -Your
anymore."
"I
said,
let's
call
supergroup
Asia.
straight in it and the chickenwire
Money Back" concert was born .
Meanwhile, there was Drooper. I
it Perth Amboy. It's just the name
doesn't do Jack Cheese to keep the
(Snork
had turned to cigarettes after
met
Drooper
at
his
house
on
the
of a town, not a continent! A contisnow out."
The Banana Splits Preservation
losing
the
role of Merrick in "The
coast
of
Maine.
He
was
kind,
yet
nent! That's so pompous. Not only
He says that the new album has
Society
Elephant
Man"
to
John
Hurt.)
Th
e
did they decide to call it Asia, and depressed as usual, and still wearing
the original Banana Splits that we all
2511 S. 286th , Apt. 2050
concert
was
performed
at
the
not only did Steve Howe take the those beat-up spats.
remember. "Fleagle, Bingo,
Federal Way, Washington 98003
Lyceum
and
recorded
for
intended
The house was nice except that
guitar spot away from me, but
Drooper, and Snork"as the song
other houses on the coast that I had
goes . When asked if they would be . [John) Wetton gets tired of just
seen were on the LAND looking out
towards the SEA.
"Ol)e minor mistake," he said .
"I'll take care of that one of these
days. It might make it easier to mow
the la~n ."
What ever became of Drooper?
it's not a pretty story. He'd gone into semi-retirement until the new
B.S. project. He was driven into introversion following three or four
very unsuccessful solo albums.
"Nobody noticed my solos! I got
soooo depressed over that. ' t His
Southern drawl got thicker and he
fiddled about with his tail, working
himself into an ever-deepening
depression over his tearful past.
"They didn't even get reviewed!
Anywhere! Nobody bought them . Snorky, 1974: "You Can Quit Smoking in Ten Days or Your Money Back"
They didn't even make it to the concert. Photo taken by an oboist behind the cellos who had "nothin' else
bargain bin. In fact, I can't even 10 do but stare at an ocean of empty seats. "
A supergroup that wasn't: Emerson, Lake arid Bingo.
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December 9, 1985
THE COOPER POINT .JOURNAL
December 9, 1985
page 13
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
"That 'Year of the Cat' Guy" comes to Seattle
by Lee Howard
He's an unassuming little man
with a bi zarre grin on hi s face that
says he eithe[ has some strange inside joke, running gag, or lost
member of Monty Python darting
about within the walls of his skull.
He 's a somewhat forgotten
singer I songwriter who made slight
ripples in a musical ocean sometime
back in the mid seventies. His early
folk albums brought him a respectful spotlight in Britain in the late 60's
and his first American releases
became cult classics to a loyal
following--a small, yet fanatical
crowd.
AI Stewart's music and nonsequiturs appeared at Parker's on
Aurora Ave. just a couple short
weeks ago, and to the few of us that
made the sojourn to the nether
regions of the north, it was well
worth it. Apart from the usual table
of
pin
heads
shouting
"Nostradamus" between every
song, the show was something to tell
the kids about.
The "Masterpiece Theatre" fan fare preceded his appearance on the
photo by Adam Yurman
Robin Lambie, Steve Chapman, Peter White and Adam Yurman are backing musicians for AI Stewart, seated with wine and large hamburger.
stage, a fitting intro for Mr. Alastair Poco) on drums, and Peter "ResiStewart. The l!ghts came up and the dent Genius" White on everything
band broke into "Oile Stage else were introduced as "Diana
Before." The band containing Dave Ross, Diana Ross, Diana Ross, and
Camp on sax, Steve Recker on Diana Ross" by AI.
Camp provided a ripping, disguitar, Steve Chapman (late of
alone is worth the trip downtown .
jointed, psychotic sax solo during
"Cafe Society" in the manner of
If you're at all interested in escapMel Collins' King Crimson material.
ing the servile and the abject; if you
He also supplied the harmonica for
want to hear some great music, but
"What's Going On?", a rather
you're tired of guys with yellow,
unexpected tune . Peter White's
rubber <:oats runninll: a flashlill:ht
schizophrenic fingers rolled through
through your socks, then AI's the
blues, jazz, baroque, and whatguy to see. If you're wondering why
have-you on a fabulous' key solo,
AI's fans are wide-eyed fanatics; if
then took to the spanish guitar for
vou can't figger out why your
"On the Border" .
friends weird roomie has the lyrics
As an encore he and Peter perto "Terminal Eyes" tattooed on his
formed "Roads to Moscow," the
foot and plans to sack Europe for
song that the "Nostradamus" guys
a copy of Bedsitter Images; or if you
had been yelling for since he finishwant to hear poetry that will make
ed "Nostradamus." (They're
your every brain cell drool, then pick
"concert-jerks." They gotta yell
up an AI album. Any AI album.
somethin '.) After seeinl! a show WIth
(Some of them include the likes of
that much genius behind it, it truJimmy Page and the one and only
ly becomes a shame that AI's last
Rick Wakeman. I'm not gonna tell
album, Russians ' and Americans,
you which ones. I want you to have
vanished without a trace. It contains
to get 'em alL)
many a song that could make the
radio waves, but most D.J.s haven't
If you're already a fanatic you'll
realized that AI has refused to roll be wanting to write:
up and die. A copy of Russians and The AI Stewart Appreciation Society
Americans would, in fact, make a
c/o David Dash
fine focal point for some of your
212 Stratford Road
holiday cash . The song "Accident
Brooklyn, Ny 11218
on 3rd Street" is a sentinent and for tour info, the lyrics to "Terminal
twistedly funny work . And that Eyes," and maybe even a tattoo kit .
Congressmen get taxing with home taping bill
by Duane Anderson
Congress is considering a bill that
would tax blank tape at one pennyper-minute and a tax of 5 percent to
the wholesale price of tape recorders
and 25 percent on dual deck
recorders . The sponsors of this bill
are trying to replace the supposedly
lost revenue caused by home taping
of records, but this tax would do
nothing to enhance copyright laws
and it only helps the recording industry which is boasting unprecidented sales.
The bill, which was introduced in
the Senate by Senator Charles
Mathias (R-Md), would have money
collected by this tax go to the
Copyright Royalty Tribunal, which
would then distribute the money to
copyright holders; the recording industry, though, is organized in a
fashion that guarantees the lion's
share of revenues raised would go to
the major record companies, music
publishing companies, and a handful of wealthy superstars.
This tax actually would create
reverse Robin Hood situations by
taking money from those who need
it, and giving it to people with an
abundance of money. If a local band
wants exposure they might make a
tape of their music; if this bill was
passed, however, the band would
have to pay a tax on their tape and
their recording equipment, and the
taxed money would go to the likes
of Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger . I do not believe that either
Springsteen or J agger is being so
hurt by home taping that they need
to take money from a band just starting out.
Copyright laws are not even served by this bill. The laws are designed to promote more creation of
music, but the raised revenue will
only go to people who need no extra funds to create or distribute their
music.
This is not the fITst time the recording industry has tried to tax blank
tape. In the early eighties the industry was in trouble and a finger
was pointed at home taping; in the
early eighties, though, there was a
recession and billions of dollars was
being diverted into the video game
craze. Now that both the resession
and the video game craze are over,
the recording industry is doing
booming business.
In 1984, several record companies
made all-time high profits with over
all industry revenues hitting a new
high of S4.4-billion. According to industry reports, 1985 will prove even
more profitable. Just how is this industry being hurt by home taping?
I really do not even think home
taping stops many record sales. I
mostly use tapes to preserve records
I have purchased. Taping of records
is also often done in order to make
customized greatest hits tapes or to
make dance tapes for parties.
This bill unfairly hurts anyone
who records uncopyrighted material.
Tapes are used for purposes ranging ·
from recording orininal music to
recording lectures. This bill, though,
accuses any buyer of blank tape of
planning to use that tape to record
copyrighted material, and then
punishes the tape buyer without
trial.
Early Lecithin use may prevent Alzheimer's
by Michael P . Tobin
It is now an observable selfevident fact that the world faces an
epidemic of senile dementia, or
Alzheimer disease. This concern prompted a study in 1981 for the need
of long-term care of the aged by the
Federal Council on the Aging. In the
United States alone, approximately
2.5 million people over the age of 65
suffer dementia; the projected
prevalence in the year 2000 is 3.2
million (DHHS, 33). There is reason
to assume that this problem has existed on a relatively smaller scale forty years ago, but people live longer
in America than they did forty years
ago. Based on the projected growing numbers of the aged population
in America, the number of the aging population with senile dement a
is growing. The immense cost in
human suffering to patients and
families is often underrated. The
health care costs are also immense:
considering only the I. 5 million
elderly residents in nursing homes in
the United States, 56 percent are
diagnosed as having chronic mental
condition or senility and 5 percent
to 6 percent as senile dementia
(Cherkin and Riege 420). The
estimated annual nursing home costs
for these 840,000 residents exceeds
$19 billion (420). It is understan -
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the best predictor of pathological
memory changes, independant of
age and intelligence (137). Decreased levels of brain acetylcholine may
impair the memory in sufferers of
Alzheimer disease (Thai, Fuld,
Masur, and Sharpless , 491) .
There is abundant evidence that
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region (Kuhar, 270) . The aged in
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disease have low levels of
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deficiency may be characteristic of
this disease (Thai, 491) . Evidence of
a decreased acetylcholine concentration in the cortex of post-mortem
material and decreased acetycholine
synthesis in biopsy samples from
Alzheimer patients has recently lent
support to this possiblitity (Thai
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deficiency may be characteristic of
this disease (Thai, 491) . In addition
to these deficiencies, a loss of
cho linergic brain neurons is
associated with aging (Wurtman Sci
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from a storm cloud causing it to
waste away, brain neurons decline at
a fairly steady rate of 6 percent to
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(Hornykiewicz, 9).
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brain contains relatively large
numbers of cholinergic neuron s
(Kuhar 270). The contribution of the
hippocampus to the "normal"
operation of human memory processes has been quit e clea rl y
delineated by Milner and her collaborators during the past fiftee n
years (Butters and Cermak 377).
Normal nonverbal memory function, for example, can be classed as
the recognition of faces or the recall
of familiar routes, landmarks or
tunes (Erikson 272). Milner has
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theory of memory - both short-term
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or by mail from Magical Strings,
P.O. Box 4086, Seattle, Wa. 98104 .
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Senility is also referred to as
Alzheimer's syndrome, chronic
brain syndrome, chronic organic
mental syndrome, idiopathic senile
dementia, organic brain disease,
organic dementia, sen ile brain
disease and senile dementia
Alzheimer's type (DSM-I1I, 35).
Dementia, in terms of memory loss,
is characterized by an increasing difficulty in early encoding and
retrieval (Brown, Randt and
Osborne 131). Some of the aged, being tested for rapidly degenerating
memory responses, were in such advanced stages of dementia they could
not even say their name (133) . Unfortunately, with the exception of
the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS),
there are no widely used batteries of
clinical tests of memory function .
The WMS presents many problems
when used to test the elderly : It does
not control for original learning or
provide a set interval to recall .
Retention memory is measured by
recall performance testing while
learning is measured by recognition
memory performance testing (131).
Aging has a greater detrimental effect on recall performance than on
recognition memory (135). So the
old cliche, "You can't teach an old
dog new tricks," is not so believable,
at least where the implication is intended for humans and not animals.
Evergreen State
The Audio Recording Rights
Coalition, a coalition of consumers,
retailers, manufactures and allied
trade associations, is fighting the
bill. If you want more information
you
can
call
them
at
1-800-282-TAPE or write them at
Audio Recording Coalition, P.O .
Box 33705, 1145 19th. SI. NW,
Washington, D.C., 20033.
Senate debate on the bill has been
postponed until after the holidays.
If you do not want the bill passed,
I suggest you write your senators
when you go home for the holidays.
Celebrate Christlllas with Magical Strings
Magical Strings will be presenting
an evening of Celtic music in their
A nnual Celtic Yuletide Concert to be
held this year on Saturday,
December 14 at 7:30 at the Universit y Christian Church. Magical
Strings is Philip and Pam Soulding
and their five children .
The Boulding familv. sometim es
referred ( 0 as th e, " Trapp famil y
of the Northwest, " have performed
a Seattle Christmas show for the last
seven years. The family will play arrangements of Celtic music and their
own compositions on Celtic harps,
hammered dulcimers, cello, violin,
dable that the challenge of senile
dementia is stimulating widespread
attention among neuroscientists .
One such focus of attention is on the
debilitating effects of Alzheimer
disease -- memory loss.
The hallmark of dementia is
memory
impairment.
The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorder, DSM-IU, defines
senile dementia as a dementia with
insidcous onset and gradually progressive course ... .!t involves a
multifaceted loss of intellectual
abil ities, especially memory impairment, which are severe enough to interfere with social and/or occupational functioning (Cherkin and
Riege 423). Before any testing can be
done, a careful diagnosis of irreversible senile dementia is critical in
separating patients with othe r
disorders as some 61 individual
reversible causes of mental impairment have been identified (415). To
reduce complexity, this article will
focus on the memory impairments
characteristic
of
"primary
degenerative dementia, senile
onset," following the terminology
guideline of the DSM-I1L The DSMIII is used to avoid abiguity when
describing a disease; doctors and
scientists may u~e two conflicting
terms to describe a disease when in
fact the symptoms are identical.
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December 9, 1985
governance
Lecithin increases brain choline levels
(Thai 491). The intake of lecithin in73). In fact, there was a very large
creases the amount of brain
decrease in choline uptake into the
acetylcholine; physostigmine thereby
distinct stages in the processing of in- hippocampal synapl'Osomes which
prolongs and exaggerates the effect
formation. Spanning the first 30 to corresponded to the decrease in
of acetylcholine (PDR, 784). The
aceylcholine levels in the hippocam60 seconds after presentation, shonprofuse and unbelievably complex
pus
and
conex
.
This
suggests
that
a
term memory material is considered
system of connections within the
of
the
free
significant
portion
relatively transient. Storage capacicerebral cortex is made by synaptic
ty of the short-term memory is very choline in the brain may be localizjunctions
between fibers and the
limited (378). Traces of short-term ed to cholinergic neurons.
branch-like
dentrites, or their cell
Alzheimer
disease
patients
suffermemory may be easily interrupted by
bodies,
which
transmit impulses
ing
from
memory
loss
due
to
low
competing information, for examfrom the processes of one neuron to
ple, setting the car keys down levels of brain acetylcholine can imthe membrane of another (Bindman
prove memory responses through
somewhere and simultaneously
and Lippold 392). The transmission
daily
oral
intake
of
lecithin,
a
soy
becoming aware that the bathroom
at
these synapses does not occur in
product.
Oral
intake
of
approxis flooded; the probability is great
the
one-to-one manner characteristic
imately
10
grams
of
lecithin
combinthat there will follow a search for the
of
the neuromuscular junction,
keys. Even if there is little in- ed with approximately 2 milligrams
where
each impulse from nerve to
terference, memory traces are of physostigmine, was shown to be
muscle
results in contraction (392).
more
effective
than
choline
in
raissusceptible to decay if repetition of
One
neuron
may have thousands of
ing
plasma
choline
levels
..
.
(Wunthe desired subject is not sustained .
synapses and usually a more-or-Iess
man "Aging"217). Physostigmine
With optimal learning conditions,
material may be transferred from the appears to enhance the cholinergic simultaneous activation of a proportion of these is required before the
short-term memory into the long- system rather than function as
threshhold
of the neuron itself is
general
stimulant
or
arousing
agent
term memory where it is stored
relatively permanently (379) . Longterm memory information is usually forgotten because of failure to
retrieve the stored engam due to interference from previously or newly
learned materials (380). Information
is transferred from one storage
system to another through a process
called encoding. Encoding determines the probability that an item
will attain short-term or long-term
memory storage as, for example, in
remembering that the Santa Claus
belongs at the top of the Christmas
NEURON
tree vs. memory as to where all the
CELL
other ornaments go . Encoding also
BODY
determines the item's strength in
storage and the subjects' ability to
retrieve information . For example,
while being lectured to, the sounds
and associations of words may be
encoded into long-term memory but.
the abstract dimention of meaning
may not. The higher the level of encoding, the greater the chances of
storage and retrieval of materials
(392). The results of these dual process memory studies have clearly
established that bilateral destruction
of the hippocampus results in severe
amnesia for all kinds of verbal and
nonverbal materials ... (378). The left
hippocampus is involved in the
retention of verbal materials, the
right hippocampus in the retention
of nonverbal patterned materials
(378). Moreover, damage to the hippocampus can result in several
relatively unrelated species such as
rats, humans, and monkeys, suggesting that impaired hippocampal
function is related causally to lack . Function of Sy naptic connection in th e human brain
of memory (Ehlert and Yamamura
cont. from page 13
lowered sufficiently to let it generate
its own impulses (393). Within the
cell body, some synapses lead to excitation and others give inhibition,
enabling very subtle variations in the behaviour of cortical
neurons ... (398). One irreversible
cause of memory disfunction is said.
to be neuronal loss. Since lost
neurons are not replaced, the accompanying disfunction is also considered to be irreversible (Cherkin
and Riege, 422). Impairment of one
memory pathway may leave a secondary pathway intact so that, like a
deciduous tree in which a branch is
removed, the energy will be transferred causing another branch of the
tree to flourish. In much the same
way, compensation for the lost
neurons in one area of the brain may
occur through an expansion of
synaptic dendrites by reactive synaptogenesis (422). This is important as
oral i"ntake of lecithin causes
presynaptic enhancement by increasing the level of the acetylcholine
precursor -- choline (Cherkin and
Riege, Multimodal, 435).
The concept that memory impairment results from the cumulative effect of numerous insults to the brain
suggest that all available means
should be utilized to counteract the
effects of those insults (Lazarus,
435). Lecithin and physostigmine offer only one such means. There are
also nondrug methods that have
been reported to improve cognitive
performance in elderly or brain injured patients.
Nondrug experiments which have
been effective are the use of tasks
such as memory for lists of words
(Cermack, 508); cognitive skill training - which trains in verbal strategies
such as figural relationships and
concept identification (Plemons,
Willis, Baltes, 226); reality orientation -- involves informing the patient
about such things as the date, time,
location, patient name and staff
names (Eisindorfer, Cohen, Preston,
220); and exercise therapy -- simple
physical exercise (Powell, 160). Patients with Alzheimer disease also
respond favorably to sensory
stimulation. The sensory deprivation
that accompanies social isolation in
many elderly hastens cell degeneration in neural systems. Much like
any muscle which is not used and
becomes weak, so does the brain
shrink when not stimulated. Mainly
affected by sensory deprivation is the
system which involves incoming information. the raw material of
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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Governance DTF iss'ues first draft of report
memory formation.
Much more research is necessary
before the above methods will be
available generally to the American
public. Physostigmine, for example,
is a poisonous crystalline compound
extracted from the Calabar bean; it
prevents the destruction of
acetycholine but cannot be obtained without a doctor's prescription
(pDR, 373). Dosage varies with individuals; it can be dangerous and
can cause a cholinergic crisis if not
used properly. The results of experiments by Thai and others were
obtained by careful scientific study.
Additional research on the effectiveness of physostigmine in improving memory is underway.
Lecithin, however. "an be readily
obtained through health food stores,
co-ops and mail order. All available
information is consistent in the
assertion that phosphatide content
of lecithin is most important in increasing brain acetylcholine levels.
Most health food stores sell lecithin
brands that at best contain 60 percent phosphatide.
To date, testing of lecithin without
the aid of such _additives as
physostigmine has been rushed. One
'long-term" experiment, failing to
demonstrate improvement in
memory performance of fourteen
elderly outpatients endured all of
four weeks of cognitive testing
(Cherkin and Riege, 418). More time
may be needed; possibly months or
years of lecithin in take may be
necessary before memory improvement becomes apparent. Furthermore, consumption of lecithin, if
taken daily, early in life as a dietary
supplement, may prevent the effects
of normal age-related neuronal loss.
Recent reports indicating that longterm lecithin supplement may prevent normal age-related memory
deficits and neuronal atrophy have
stimulated interest in continued
lecithin testing in humans (Harris,
Dysken, Foval\).
Eight I'atients with early
Alzheimer disease were treated with
gradually increasing multiple daily
doses of lecithin and oral
physostigmine (Thai, 491) . Six individuals showed improvement in
total recall and retrieval from longterm storage (491).
The results suggest that small oral
doses of physostigmine combined
with lecithin ingestion have shown to
improve memory responses in some
patients with Alzheimer disease.
DTF Members
Carolyn Dobbs, Chair, Bill Arney, .
Sandy Butler, Keith Eisner, Amanda Goldberg, Richard Jones, Nancy Koppelman, Jay Saucier, Gail
Tremblay, Ed Trujillo
DTF Process
The Governance DTF . has been
meeting since October to prepare
this first draft of our report. Copies
of this draft will be circulated to the
CPJ and campus mail stops during
the week of December 2. Copies will
also be available at the Information
Center in the CAB.
The Governance DTF will hold a
public meeting to receive comments
and suggestions on Wednesday,
January 8, 10 a.m. to I p.m. in Lecture Hall I . Please come to that
meeting or send your written comments to Carolyn Dobbs, Lab I, by
2 p.m., January 8. The DTF will
meet at that time to review comments and prepare our final report,
which will be given to President
Olander by January IS, 1986.
Charge Given to the DTF
President Olander indicated that we
were to rewrite those sections of
Evergreen's governance document
that describe the Evergreen Council
(WAC 174-107-230-360). He requested that we develop a new
campus-wide governance body that
would provide advice to him on
policy matters that affect more than
one constituency (defined as . staff,
students, or faculty). In addition, we
were to show how this structure
would relate to constituency governance bodies. He further indicated
his intention to serve on the campuswide body, and he emphasized that
other members must be able to speak
for their respective constituencies.
Within this framework, we · have
developed
the
following
recommendations.
Scope and Purpose of the Advisory
Board.
The Evergreen State College is
governed by its Board of Trustees
through the President of the college.
The President delegates authority
and responsibility for governance as
outlined in the documents by which
the coUege operates. The policies and
rules, according to which the college
chooses to govern itself and its
members, are constrained by the
laws of the iand and by policies promulgated by agencies and bodies
that, by statute or contract, have
governance authority over some or
all members of the Evergreen
community.
There are three constituencies that
comprise the college. They are
students, staff (classified and exempt), and faculty. All policies and
rules of the college affect members
of all three constituent groups.
The Advisory Board (AB) makes
recommendations about ali-<:ampus
policy matters to the President upon
his/her request or when college
policies and resulting rules create
concern or con flict, potential or
realized, between or among constituencies. It is intended that matters
of concern will be studied by the AB
proactively, if possible, before actual
policy-related conflicts occur.
Therefore, it is essential that
representatives maintain full and
continuing communication with
their constituency. The AB does not
make policy or issue rulings.
While the AB makes recommenda-
tions only to the President, it should
also serve all constituent groups on
campus. Should it fail in this regard,
the AB · should be changed or
abolished.
that constitu.ent group. Constituencies should follow the college's affirmative action guidelines to ensure
that people of color and women will
be represented on the AB. All
members should be responsive to
concerns of people of color, women,
and other minority groups.
In the event a constituency does not
have a selection mechanism or
chooses not to select representatives,
the Provost may select three faculty, the Vice President for Student
Affairs - three students, and the Vice
President for Development and Administrative Services - three staff.
. The two at-large members will be appointed by the President based on
recommendations from the nine
other members of the AB. Priority
should be given to making sure people of color and women ar e
represented. In the event that these
two groups are represented, the two
at-large positions should be used to
provide diversity by representing
special campus groups such as pantime or graduate students or satellite
Membership of the Advisory Board campus personnel and students.
Make-up: Each of the three conti- Terms of office: Each member of
tuencies will be represented on the
the AB, excluding the President, will
AB by three persons. In addition,
be chosen for a two-year, oncethe President and two at-large
renewable term. The term of office
members will also serve on this AB.
will run from November 1 through
Each constituency will also select at October 31. Terms will be staggered
least one alternate to serve if a
within each constituency's represenregular member is unable to comtatives and for the two at-large
plete his/her term of office. The
members. The President's term on
chairperson, who shall not be the
the AB will coicide with his presidenPresident, will be chosen by the
tial tenure.
members of the AB as soon as the A term of office may be terminated
at-large members have been selected . by request of the representative or
Selection process: Each constituen- by the AB for two unexcused
cy will choose representatives to the absences. The chair of the AB will
AB using mechanisms established by notify the constituency as soon as
"There are three
constituencies
that comprise
the college.
They are
students, staff
(classified and
exempt), and
faculty. "
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Two members from each constituency will be designated to hold twoyear terms; one member will hold a
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will be given a two-year term and
one, a one-year term.
The Advisory Board's Agenda
The agenda of the Advisory Board
will be set by the chair, drawing
from items offered by the President
or other AB members at the request
of their constituency. Agenda items
will focus on all-campus policies,
proposed or in effect, and interconstituency concerns or conflicts
over policies. In the case of conflicts,
every effort will be made to resolve
the conflict at the constituency level
before invoking AB review of the
issue.
The AB will hold meetings regularly; meeting may be initiated by
presidential request or by the chair
of the AB.
Advisory Board Procedures
General: The AB is used in two
ways . First, the President may request that the AB provide him/her
with advice and counsel when a
policy caused or may cause the conditions for inter-constituency conflict. When the President asks the
AB for a recommendation, the AB
may give a recommendation or
respectfully decline to make a
recommendation. Second, a constituency, through its representatives
on the AB, may request that a
recommendation be given to the
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
December 9, I98S
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
.everg.....
re. . .e. . .n. .,. . . _____......-______
Governance DTF gives their report
conL from page 15
tion, or ask that it be rescinded or will be recorded; important issues
President . In such an instance, the
not put into effect. After the P.resi- and recommendations will be
AB may declare the matter to be of
dent makes a decision, he/she published in the CPJ, and minutes
should notify the AB in writing.
will be avail abe through the office
little consequence or outside its purview, the AB may try to resolve the
Communication and
of the Governance Coordinator, the
conflict or potential conflict without
Record-Keeping
Information Center, Services, and
making a recommendation to the
In dealing with agenda items, the AB Activities OffICe, and related student
President. In every case, the AB will
will both gather· and disseminate in- organizati_o ns. Names of AB
issue a public statement outlining the
formation. Members will be open members, meeting times and places,
matter brought before it and its
and agendas for upcoming meetings
resolution . The AB will also,
will be posted on a bulletin board
Ihrou~h its members, ensure that AB
designated for that purpose. The AB
actions are communicated to
will keep a record of its deliberations
in the offices of the Governance
constituencies.
Specific policy conflicts: The followCoordinator and the President.
ing procedure will be used when the
Funds must be allocated to provide
The Merriweather Band will be in the Olympia Ballroom Dec. J3 at 8.
AB has been asked to participate in
a professional clerical position for
resolving inter-constituency policy
the AB. Responsibilities include tak'd •
ing and disseminating minutes,
conflicts.
Step I: Resolving the conflict "in
recording meetings, insuring proper
house"
notifications of constituency goverAn individual or group will first
nance gorups about AB meetings
bring
policy
concerns
to
and agendas, and maintaining a file
his/ her/ its constituency governance
of all written and verbal communicabody: the student forum, faculty
tion received by the AB. This posimeeting, or staff union. In addition,
tion is essential for the effective and
a person or group might address
efficient operation of the AB.
concerns to the campus mediator or
adjudicator, if appropriate.
Evaluation
Step II: Informal resolution through
The AB will design a process for
AB mediation
regular evalutation of its record.
If the concern cannot be satisfied
Grievance
That night, Carlyle
within' the constituency, AB
The Governance DTF recommends
got
into the instant
and accessible to students, faculty,
that individual grievance procedures
representatives from that constituencoffee and was awake
cy may be directed to ask the chair
or staff, as well as serve as a chandescribed in previous governance
for the rest of his Ii/e.
of the AB to appoint a subcommit-, nel of communication between the
documents (WAC 174-107-360
tee to investigate the policy issue and
administration and members of each
through -530) not be a responsibilibring the constituencies in question
constituency.
ty of the AB. We also recommend
together, if necessary. The subcomRepresentatives of each constituenthat the Presiaent charge a separate
cy will report regularly to the goverDTF in January, 1986, to study and
mittee would consist of two to four
members, primarily drawn from AB
nance group designated by that conrecommend procedures for handling
members from the constituencies
stituency. (Until a constituency personal grievances. Finally, we
most affected by the policy. If a subforms a governance body, the vice strongly recommend that the Presicommittee decides to mediate the
president who oversees the consti- dent publish all information about
conflict, such efforts will be made in
tuency will be responsible for grievance mechanisms and make the
a timely fashion within 15 working
holding open meetings regularly to document available to all students,
days_ The subcommittee will then
discuss policy concerns.) Agenda This concludes our first draft report
report results to the full AB.
items being addressed by the AB will on campus-wide governance. We
Formal resolution of the policy conbe reported to the constituent gover- will include in our final report all
flict by the AB
nance body before recommendations references to the Evergreen Council
are made. Prospective agenda items in WAC 174-107 that fall outside
In those cases where informal subcommittee mediation failed, the full
should be gathered from constituen- sections 230-360. We will recomAB can choose to study the conl1ict cies by their AB representatives.
mend that these references also be
further and make recommendations
The names of the AB members will deleted in January.
for resolution to the President. This
be published at least twice a quarter Thank you for taking the time to
recommendation could support the
in the Cooper Point Journal and read and, hopefully, comment on
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Social Contract gives rights, responsibilities
Evergreen is an institution and a
community that continues to
organize itself so that it can clear
away obstacles to learning. In order
that both creative and routine work
can be focused on education, and so
that the mutual and reciprocal roles
of the campus community members
can best reflect the goals and purposes of the College, a system of
governance and decision-making
consonant with these goals and purposes is required.
J
I. The Evergreen State College requires a social contract rather than
a list 'of prohibitions and negative
rules, Evergreen can thrive only if
members respect the rights of others
while enjoying their own rights .
Students, faculty, administrators
and staff members may differ widely in their specific interests, in the
degree and kinds of experiences they
bring to Evergreen, and in the functions which they have agreed to perform. All must share alike in prizing academic and interpersonal
honesty, in responsibility obtaining
and in providing full and accurate
information, and in resolving their
differencc~ through due process and
with a strong will to collaboration.
2. The Evergreen community
should support experimentation with
new and better ways to achieve
Evergreen's goals. Specifically, it
mUM attempt to emphasize the sense
Jf community and require members
Jf the campus community to play
multiple, reciprocal, and reinforcing
roles in bot h the teaching/ learning
process and in the governance
process.
3. The individual members of the
Evergreen community are responsi ble for protecting each other and
5. Member of the Evergreen comvisitors on campus from physical
munity recognize that the College is
harm, from personal threats, and
from uncivil abuse. Civility is not
part of the larger society as
just a word; it must be present in all
represented by the State of
Washington, which funds it, and by
our interactions.
the community of greater Olympia,
Similarly, the institution is
in which it is located. Because the
obligated, both by principle and by
Evergreen community is part of the
the general law, to protect it.s prolarger society, the campus is not a
perty from damage and unauthorizsanctuary from the general law or ined use and its operating processes
vulnerable to general public opinion.
from interruption. Members of the
community must exercise the right
accorded them to voice their opi6. All members of the Evergreen
nions with respect to basic matters
community should strive to prevent
of policy and other issues. The
the financial, political, or other exEvergreen community will support
ploitation of the campus by any inthe right of its members, individually
dividual or group.
or in groups, to express ideas,
judgements, and opinions in speech
7. Evergreen has the right to proor writing. The members of the comhibit individuals and groups from
munity, however, are ohligated to
using its name, its financial or other
make statements in their own names
resources, and its facilities for comand not as expressions on behalf of mercial, or political activities.
the College. The Board of Trustees
or the President speak on behalf of
8. There may be no discrimination
the College and may at times share at Evergreen with respect to race,
or delegate the responsibility to
sex, age, handicap, sexual orientaothers within the college. Among the , tion , religious or political belief, or
basic rights of individuals are
national origin in considering infreedom of speech, freedom of dividuals' admission, employment
peaceful assembly and association,
or promotion . To this end the Colfreedom of belief, and freedom from
lege has adopted an affirmative acintimidation, violence and abuse.
tion policy. Affirmative Action
charges shall not be handled through
4. Each member of the communithe governance document because of
ty must protect: (I) The fundamenthe legal implications of such mattal rights of others in the communiters,
ty as citizens; (2) the right of each
member is the community to pursue
9. All members of the · College
different learning objectives within community have the right to
the limits defined by Evergreen's organize their personal lives and
curriculum or resourl:es of people, conduct according to their own
materials, equipment and money; (3) values and preferences, with an apthe rights and obligations of propriate respect for the rights of
Evergreen as an institution establish- oth ers to organi ze their li ves
ed by the State of Washington; and differently ,
(4) individual rights to fair and
equitable procedures when the in10. All members of the Evergreen
stitutionacts to protect the safety of community are entitled to privacy in
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tions. Reasonable and impartially
applied rules may be set with respect
to time, place and use of Evergreen
facilities in these activities. Meetings
~f public significance cannot be held
in secret.
II. Evergreen does not stand in
loco parentis for its members.
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open forum for the members of its
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as a mechanism of widespread involvement in the life of the larger
community,
12. Evergreen's members live
under a special set of rights and
responsibilities, foremost among
which is that of enjoying the
freedom 'to explore ideas and to
discuss their explorations in both
speech and print. Both institutional
and individual censorship are at
variance with this basic freedom.
Research or other intellectual efforts, the results of which must be
kept secret or may be used only for
the benefit of a special interest
group, violate the principle of free
inquiry
13. An essc;ntial condition for learning is the freedom and right on the
part of an individual or group to express minority, unpopular, or controversial points of view. Only if
minority and unpopular points of
view are listened to, and are given
opportunity for expression will
Evergreen provide bona fide opportunities for significant learning .
14. Honesty is an essential condition of learning, teaching or working. It includes the presentation of
one's own work in one's own name,
the necessity to claim only those
honors learned, and the recognition
of one's own biases and prejudices .
15, All members ~f the Evergreen
community enjoy the right to hold
and to panicipate in public meetings,
to post nOJices on the campus, and
to engage in peaceful demon stra -
17. The governance system must
rest on open and ready access to information by all members of the
community as well as on the effective keeping of necessary records .
18. In the Evergreen community,
individuals should not feel intimidated or be subject io reprisal
for voici,ng their concerns or for participating in governenace or policy
making.
19. Decision making processes must
provide equal opportunity to initiate
and participate in policy making,
and Evergreen policies apply equally regardless of job deoScription,
status or role in the cor,tmunity,
20. The College is obligated not to
take a position, as an institution, in
electoral politics or on public issues
except for those matters which
directly affect its integrity, th e
freedom of the members of its community, its financial support, and its
educational programs. At the same
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citizens of the larger society, in
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swim team has J2 meets scheduled for Winter
quarter. The first action will be Friday, Jan. JOth
at Portland Community College. Future meets will
continue on most Fridays and Saturdays, until Feb .
20-22nd when Evergreen will host -the District
Championships. Contact Bruce Fletcher in CRC 302
TENNIS is ALIVE and WELL at Evergreen!!! Practices are on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from
4-6 pm through evaluation week_ Both the men's
and women'steams will return to the courts the first
week of school in January, with meets starting the
end of the February. Interested players are encouraged to contact Bob Reed in CRC 302 x-6520.
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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exp-re'ssive arts network
Printmaking Studio
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CONTEMPLA TIONS ON A FIRST SNOW
Snow was falling on the glass house.
Inside on the mantle
a little green creature lived to die
amid the cranky clutter of old masks,
paper bits, bottlecaps, and stainless steel love letters.
by Susan Reams '
,,
Outdoor Installation Number 1 by Sarah Mittelstadt Bean, "Sculpture Idea" student.
Essay:
Photo by Devon Damonle
Expression needs freedom
by Stefan Killen
Last week the Evergreen community had the opportunity to view work completed
thisfall by students in "The Sculpture Idea, " "Studio Project, "and individual contracts. Those who attended the exhibit in LAB I saw the product of a quarter's work.
Most people, however, were probably unaware of the unique approach Evergreen
takes to studying art, an approach that made this work possible.
My own experience in "Studio Project" has convinced me that the arts at this school
are unusual and important. What follows is my understanding of what I have been
doing this fall. I hope that what I say offers insights into the Evergreen visual arts
for those people who have no contact with the department but are interested in what
we are doing.
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Language is our most available means of expression. With words we identify objects around us, explain experiences, and express feelings. Unfortunately, words only identify a small number of objects, experiences, and feelings. Frequently we adapt
that which we want to express to the words which only vaguely meet our needs.
Language often seems to actually limit our ability to identify our experiences and
concerns.
One who can give to words meaning that is not usually present certainly has more
freedom with language. But a person with such skills would be a poet or writer, and
it is art which permits this freedom . The arts give us the opportunity to express ourselves
in a language which is essentially our own.
But to express ourselves in our own language we must be given freedom -- freedom,
that is, from those people who tell us our story is too pessimistic, or too trite, that
our painting Jacks. a certain technical skill, or that we should have put more upbeat
music to the dance piece. These pressures place the same demands on us that words
do -~ we have to bend our real expression to outside limitations. If we have to do
this, we won't know what our real expression is.
Evergreen visual artists are unusually fortunate to have teachers who are giving
us this freedom . Faculty members Marilyn Frasca and Susan Aurand both stress the
importance of two issues: that of doing work in series, and that of seeing what is
present in work. Both issues contribute to this freedom of expression.
Working in a series involves learning from one's own work, permitting one image
or piece to lead to the next. Those people who have worked in this way might explain
the development differently; even within my own work the manner in which I move
from one image to the next is rarely consistent. Sometimes I want to repeat a technique I accidentally discovered, so I make another image. Occassionally I want to see
more of an object which only suggests itself, so I draw it again more prominently.
The decision that I make in each case is intuitive, and often feels more like a guess.
But inevitably , after making many images, I begin to focus more clearly on an issue
which concerns me. By listening to each image, to its most intriguing and energetic
elements, I begin to identify issues which hold real meaning for me. Looking back
through this quarter's work, I can see that the issues I have been concerned with -order, relationships, and repetition -- all devel'oped out of my initial drawing, a small
spontaneous scribble. Only because I have been given the freedom to follow the pulse
of my work has this development been possible.
A good deal of time is spent critiquing work -- our own, each others, and that
of prominent artists. This is when we learn to see. Behind the seeing is the assumption that the artist has expressed something through his or her work. So rather than
judging the work and asking, "Do I like it, or not?" or "Is the composition balanced?" we ask, "What is present?" "What is being expressed?"
Such an approach to viewing work permits us to see more than our own interests,
which we tend initially to project into what we see. Similarly, we can see beyond what
we might culturally be expected to see. We might, for example, see tenderness in a
J a panese print of lovers, where perhaps previously we had seen pornography. Finally, by giving our and other' s work such freedom to expr~ss what it wants to express,
we are giving each other the freedom to express our concerns in our own language .
With the advent of a new biennium, some Expressive Arts students
have questioned whether the arts will continue to be considered an
important part of the Evergreen curriculum. Printmaking students
are particularly concerned since the closure of the Printmaking Studio
this academic year.
Members of the arts community have expressed that they feel
threatened by the cuts such as the studio closure and the loss of a
theater support staff position. Questi<;ms such as: Why was the Printmaking Studio closed? What alternatives are available? What is in
the future for the studio? prompted an interview with John Perkins,
academic dean, with hopes to clarify the situation.
When creating the academic budget proposal for the 1985 to 1987
biennium, Perkins had to consider a 2 percent to 3 percent decrease
in available funds. Even though Evergreen received an 8 percent increase in the total budget for this biennium, to keep Evergreen
operating as it had in the past a 10 percent to II percent increase
was needed.
Obviously reductions had to be made. When asked what criteria
were used which resulted in the studio closure, Perkins replied that
programs central to the most important things in this institution were
given priority. He said a support staff position was considered for
termination, and that reductions in staff or facilities would be made
that did not affect academic programs offered. Perkins stated that
Evergreen has never had a full-time faculty member with a printmaking focus, so the cut did not cause the closure of any academic
programs. In comparison, if a science staff position was terminated,
several programs would have closed.
Reopening could be considered if there was great student interest,
or if the facility was needed for a core program. But based on last
year's enrollement, approximately 14 students per quarter attended
the "Image and Design in Print" module. There is no way to total
the number of individual contract students who utilized the studio.
According to Perkins, the studio happens to be one of the best
facilities in the Northwest. With 2 lithography presses, 2 intaglio
presses, a darkroom, a silkscreening studio, the letter press, and paper
making materials, few other studios compare. Student organizations
previously utilized the studio to print publicity fliers and posters.
Unfortunately they will no longer have access to the silkscreening
equipment.
There are no good alternatives for Evergreen printmakers until
1987, when a new budget proposal asking for the reopening of the
.studio is submitted. Even opening parts of the studio for limited
equipment is not feasable for security reasons.
Perkins stated that the bulk of Evergreen students are enrolled
in the Expressive Arts or Science courses. He reassures arts students
that the administration does support the Evergreen arts, but until
the next biennium, the printmaking studio will be closed.
A starship flew about
teasing the tired sofas
and surprising the armchair into quick retreat
back to the cage of contraptions.
The manipulation box squatted on the kitchen table
ignoring the regiment of empty beer bottles,
partners in crime with the ashtray rats
who spy from the inside out.
The dictator crouched above troops
and at the sound of the beep a cat hissed and was caught
wriggling on a piece of thin tape.
The swimming pool on the wall
murmured french in reply,
infuriating the wood stove that saw only smoke
and prayed for reincarnation as a snowball's'
most hideous nightmare.
photo by Marlon Herum
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A man, battered and raggy,
clutched my sleeve.
Simple truth had burst his human heart
and covered his eyes with dry blood
from one impossible vision.
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he said,
"will give you the knowledge that you cannot see
or it will blind you. "
And then he said,
"I've said too much already, "
and he let go,
but only of my sleeve.
And he disappeared,
but only from the vision
of that which cannot see.
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
December 9, 1985
December 9, 1985
If your ~nternal environment is,
for example,
one of self-loathing,
you'll go find it
while it's finding you.
Do you want to live in light?
You've got to have the will
to change your environment
because
environment is stronger than will.
You can generate the magnetic field
that will align you to
Magnetic self-protection (invisibility to evil),
Magnetic work (energy transferal and manifestation),
Magnetic God (call him up and tell her what you want).
Astral entities with great desires will find you.
And if you are content to let the world be ugly
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The chdndelier crept outside,
to a crystal dream
beneath cold b;anches,
silhouettes of weariness covered with ice.
On the lawn a little clay figure held his earthen hat
and gazed far beyond tomorrow
with sly eyes of china blue
at the last transparent world
freezing in a glass tomb.
B. Myhr
TOGETHER
We talked about us
not as a pair
But as things separate
together in bed
Her life as her
mine as me
She called it a discreet affair
I don't care
We make love as a pair
PERSPECTIVES
Blue sky
above red band
girding black mountains.
Cold December sunset
exquiste without haze,
like the shock of a
taste of pure spring water.
She turns and says
god its so cold so early.
W.C.Z. III
CONCERNED CITIZENS
It all depends on where you've been
I say elfishly,
knowing that her eyes
will soon burn like coals.
navajo corn wilts
in dry sorrow
while future is discussed
in hot tubs
After all, I explain
as I swagger
as my coat comes off,
I come from Alaska.
Scott Brownwood
James Barkshire
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502 South washington Sf. • Downtown Olympia. (206)357-5103
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phone number on all submissions. Any material can be returned upon
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