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JOURNAL
Volume XVI

The CP] would like to put out an Evergreen Potluck
Cookbook in time for the holidays. Send us your favorite
potluck recipe by November 20, 1987. We will compile
these in a delightful cookbook which, we hope, you will
find useful and may even want to send as a gift to
families and ·friends.
Send your submissions to Susan Finkel,
CP] Cookbook, The Evergreen State College,
CAB 305, Olympia, WA 98505 .

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LETI'ERS ................ 3-4
• Megalomania

photo by Philip Bransford

NEWS ...................... 5
• S&Aspots are filled.

Let'ters

AmLETICS ................ 6

A Trip to
the .~oo

• Swimming Goeys

FEATURES .............. 8-13

To the Editor,

• Who is Yun-Yi H07
• Injustice in EI Salvador

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ENTERTAINMENT ........ 14
• Celtic tunes on Campus
OPINION .................. 15
e A new kind of horror

LITERATURE ............. 16

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Last weekI submitted a short story e~­
titled "A Trip to the Zoo," which you
printed with the revised title: "An Existential Altering." With the original
title, the ItOry was balanced somewhere
between humor and pretense. The new
title did nothing to tip the scales toward
humor.
Is thii revision the relult of
megalomaniacal need to impose yourself
on the ideas of othen? Are you dull
enough to think that what you did was
art improvement?
" Also, please lpell my name correctly
this time.

EvtTgreeners Chris Wyths, Sandra Funk, Larry HiMes and Nick Roberts afUr they were acquitted oj chargu stnnmingfrom an anti-apartheid protest at the Capitol building. Not pictured
are former dejmdJJnts Tome Naught, Ty &ss and Laurie'Gressman, The jury decided that while
they had in fact broken the law, they did so with a higher morat'principle at stake, name!>', the
i,yustict of Apartheid, and now' other adequate legal alternative was available. Amy Carter was
acquitted by a similar mechanism last ytllr.

eEpsie gOes to Missouri
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Ronald Saint Laurent

CALENDAR ............. 20-22
GREENERSPEAK ......... 23
.How ya doin'?

COMICS ...........•....... 24

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Calendar Editor--Kristin Fontaine;
Typetetter--Whitney Ware; Graphic Services-Shirley Green; Late Night Graphic Services-Ben Tansey; Poetry Editor--David ThompIon; Advertising Production:-Julie Williamson; Advertising Manager--Chris Carson;
Photography Editor--Philip Bransford;
AdvilOr-Suaan Finkel; Production Manager-Kathleen KeUy; BUlineu Manager--Carol
Poole; Managing Editor--Andrea Miller;
Editor--Ben Tansey.

The Cooper Point Journal is published on
the campus of the Evergreen State College,
Olympia, Washington 98505. (206)
866-6000 extension 6213 or 6054.
Copyright by the Cooper Point Journal,
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
98505. We do not necessarily endorse or
advertisen, but we appreciate their support . We don't do windows.

Bloody
Appreciation
Dear Blood Donors,
Thank 'you aU for participating in our
fall blood drive on November 2, 1987.
The Puget Sound Blood Bank informa UI

that it was one of our most succeSllful
Qlood drives with 127 sign·ups. Because
of your efforts, 3?1 people will be able to
·teeeive rpedical treatment from the blood.
Our next blood drive is on january 19,
1988 and we hope to increase our
·patidpation to 200. In order to accopmplish thil, we will need your help by
donating again and bringing a friend in
with you. Again, thank you all for
donating; it was greatly appreciated.
W en-Yee Shaw
Blood Drive Coordinator
SEM 2110

Accolades
for All
To The CPj Editors,
I applaud Eric Lanen 's letter in
defense of Ben Tansey in the Nov. 5th
CPj. I applaud everyone who exercises
his right offree speech. YAHOO!
Near the beginning of his letter, Eric
states that he is not questioning "the right
or appropri,teneu of individual's to
question, and addrels Ben's controversial views. " 'Indeed, Mr ..Larsen finds the
practice of this right atimulating. In consequence, he must have been very
stimulated by tile October 29th CPj. I
found it very interesting; and if nothing
elte, the letters in that iSllue added to it
a curious literary flavor.

After rP..ading Eric's account of the
President's Forum, I sympathized with
this view of Ben's verbal mauling, during which Ben was finally shouted down.
Though I did not attend the Forum, I
believe Eric. He'd be foolish if he were
to make this account without basis in
'some type of evidence. I also agree with
Eric.
This
•• shouting
down"
demonstrated a gross disrespect for Ben's
right to speak, and is therefore
inexusable .
In his next -paragraph, Mr. Larsen
states that he assumed "Evergreen Activists" were courteous, respectful, and
fair. They are, by golly! They're also
cheerful, brave, clean, and reverent. Yet,
it is riduculous to assume that people will
exhibit these characteristics at all times .
To Eric, the activistS' actions were "an
ugliness. " To me, th~se actions reveal' an
earnestness in the activists' feelings
toward the Master Plan. Mr. Larsen then
uses the terms "malignancy" and
•'hurdles of social change" synonymously
with •·ugliness. " I will leave the question
of "malignancy" to someone else . And
history will decide whether the activism
exhibited in opposition to the Master
Plan ever constituted a hurdle to social
change. In one sense, the protest activities are building a hurdle, one that I
hope proves very difficult to clear.
Nonetheless, this very style of activism
c.an also catalyze social change .
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Furthermore, Eric suffered a temporary lapse of good sense when he implied that the activists on campus are not
creative . The gorilla theatre they staged
to initiate their public protest was
creative, entertaining, and effective.
Surely I'm not the only one whose
a ware ness of and interest in the Master
Plan began with that theatre. In addition,
the recent teach-in played a vital role in
the on-going protest, a role I've seldom
witnessed at Evergreen, Teach-ins,
tailored to varying circumstances, should
play a fundamental role in any
democratic process.
In closing, I give Eric a hearty highfive for stating there is "something to be
said for the advocacy of the Devil."

Every "Devil" needs its advocate. So
does every "Lord ."
Paul Whitmore

The Plain Truth
To the
Community:

Evergreen

A very good friend of mine recently
visited the prison in Shelton and brought
back an observation I thought you should
hear about. According to this friend, the
most common reading material he saw at
the prison was The Plain Truth magazine.

Free Box Captured
by Ben Tansey

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Generous

There is no good way to say this. The
Free Box was stolen .
The Free Box is a place for people to
leave things they no longer want so that
others may claim them.
After a great deal of confusion and controversy over the summer, the Free Box
was placed on the first floor of the CAB.
There it remained for but a few weeks
when it disappeared last week. Neither
the S&A office nor Fac.ilities has any idea
what became of the Box. As of late this
week, campus Security also had no leads
regarding its fate.
The accompanying photo was improvised to stress the loss felt by the campus because of the Free Box's absence .
The insidious creaturels who stole the
Free Box will have their petty satisfaction
nullified, however, because there are
Great Plans afoot.
Recycling Coordinator Marie Forsberg
has designed a new Free Box. S&A Coordinator James Martin is awaiting approval of the design from various parties
on campus before initiating funding appropriations at an S&A meeting. The
new Free Box will cost an estimated
$. /'.: ( 1( 1 f": ontact S&A for more info.

News
If this is not an example of cruel and
unusal punishment then I am not sure
what is. All of you who want to spare a
prisoner from the fate of reading this right
wing fundamentalist rag now have a
chance to act. Collect those books and
magazines that are not being constantly
put to good use and donate them to the
I I Books for Prisoners (not religious propoganda) drive." Donation boxes will be
in the CAB, Corner, Peace Center, and
Library Lobby until the end of the
month.

Thanks for your Support.
Knoll
For more information, call the Peace
Center.

Landfill Prohibition Lifted
by Carol Poole
A move by the Olympia Planning
Commission to bar any further landfilling in Budd Inlet (including the proposed National Guard facility on West Bay
Drive) has been apparently blocked by
the question of its legality. The Planning
Commission, which has just finished
drafting the next decade's Olympia Comprehensive Plan, met November 4 to
finalize the draft. During that meeting,
a blanket prohibition against fIlling any
tidal lands was removed from the Comprehensive Plan and replaced by a list of
conditions under which landfill would be
allowed.
The National Guard is considering an
invitation from the Port of Olympia to .
locate a shipyard and training facility for
60 full-time and 500 part-time Guards on
West Bay D~ve, across from the Seven
Gables restaurant. The development
would require filling 7 to 8 acres of tidal
land to accommodate a 600 foot fueling
pier, more than 30 boats, 34,000 square
feet of indoor space and 15,000 square
feet of parking. A blanket prohibition

against landfill in Budd Inlet would effectively shut the Guard out of this site.
No environmental impact statement has
yet been prepared to assess this proposal,
according to Joel Greene of the Westside
Neighborhood Association (WNA). The
WNA has expressed concern about the
impact this development would have on
wetlands, wildlife, traffic flow and quality of life in western Olympia.
However, Dick Malin of the Port of
Olympia says that the Port is waiting to
hear from the Guard, and doubts that
they will proceed with the facility. "The
Port has other sites to offer, too. I'm not
really sure where this (West Bay proposal) stands right now."
According to Joel Greene, the Planning Commission's decision was in
response to a letter from Alexander
Mackie, attorney for the Port of Olympia. The letter questioned the City's
authority to establish such a prohibition,
when Ports in this state have the statutary
authority to dredge and fill "marginal"
lands (including tidelands). During the
November 4 meeting, the Planning Commission held an executive (closed to the

public) session with legal counsel, and
then voted to change the blanket prohibition to permit landfilling in Budd Inlet
under several conditions, which a
spokesperson described as "difficult, but
not impossible" to meet.
Under the new conditions, landfall
might be permitted in Budd Inlet for certain kinds of development, including
recreational projects, water dependant
projects (involving lninimallandfill), projects whose benefits could not be achieved in any other way, or projects whose
economic benefits could be shown to exceed the economic and environmental
costs. All landfill proposals would have
to take into consideration the development's impact on traffic, tourism, wildlife, tidal flushing action, public
rights of navigation and general
environment. ,
The Comprehensive Plan is due for
adoption in December. Only one public
hearing is scheduled for the final draft,
including the landfill issues. It will be held
Tuesday, November 17, at 6:00 pm in
City Council Chambers on Plum Street.

Students Selected for S&A Board
by Andrea Miller
Final selection of the Service and Activities (S&A) Fees Review ' Board
members were announced this week, fIlling the six offical voting seats and three
alternate positions for the 1987-88 school
year.
New to the Board are Bradford Brooks,
Fred Hudgins, Carol Poole, and Frank
Hartman. Michael Lane and Michael
Perez return both for their second year.
Alternates are Howard Scott, Jenny
Francis, and Michael Papritz.
The S&A Board's primary function is
to allocate funds collected from student
tuition for, essentially, the majority of
services and activities Evergreen students
to participate in. Board members serve
in an advisory capacity where they
negotiate the allocation of student fund

with the Administration. Final decision's
on Board recommendations are made by
the college Board of Trustees.
Bradford Brooks brings with him skills
in budget management, board review
and policy administration stemming from
eight years in busuless prior to attending
Evergreen. With an interest in Evergreen
Administration and student involvement,
Brooks describes himself as adequately
prepared for his role as a Board member.
"The S&A Board is here to represent
student interests to the Evergreen
bureaucracyladministration," Carol
Poole stated. "The Board _should be as
truly representative as possible, striving
to education Evergreen's students about
the important decisions being made for
and about them The Board should en- '
courage full student participation in these
decisions. "

Fred Hudgins described his reason for
becoming involved in the Board as wanting "to be a part of an on-going positive
process here at TESC ' for students."
Hudgins has 20 years of civil service experience and business owners~q, which
.. gave me a total understanding of
budgets."
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"The decisions the Board makes reflect
the school's attitude toward certain subjects and movements," Frank Hartman
said. "The board speaks for the school
as to name its priorities. In turn, the
school reflects the attitude or positions the
Board will take-it's a two way street."
Hartman's experience comes from
previous work on similar boards, and
brings with him "the ability to listen and
understand. Patience. And the ability to
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Athletics

Information
Students of Color Seek EIIlpowerrnent

Swimming to Success

by Kathleen Kelly
by Peter Moscowitz

The women's swim team started out
the dual meet season with a victory over
Portland Community College. The
women Geoducks swam to a 61-48 win.
Leading the way were returning teammates Rachel Wexler and Ann
Remsburg. Rachel collected first place in
the 500 and 200 yard freestyle races and
Ann was a double winner in the 50 and
100 yard Butterfly events. "Both Rachel
and Ann had personal best times; this is

a great way to start out the season," commented coach Bruce Fletcher. Fletcher
was extremely happy with the many new
faces on this year's team. Newcomers
that collected first place finishes included Romy Church in the 50 yard
Backstroke, Claire Littlewood in the 100
freestyle, and Tammi Trefethen in the 50
freestyle.
The results for the men's swim team
was a close one . Evergreen got 56 points
and PCC 61 points. The meet came
down to the last relay. Portland just
touched out Evergreen by one second.
Tino Ruth swam the anchor leg of the

200 free relay. "I was very impressed to
see Tino give 110 percent in his effort to
win the meet," said Fletcher. Pieter
Drummond sizzled to a win in the 100
yard freestyle with a 51 .9 1 time. Returning national finalist Max Gilpin swan
to victories in the 200 I. M. and the 100
Breaststroke . The Butterfly events were
dominated by Mike Hernandez and
Mike Hurwitze, and the 200 freestyle by
Jake Towle and Aaron Soule , who finished first and second, respectively. The
next meet for the swimming Geoducks
will be Friday November 13 at Highline
Community College.

How can institutions of higher education·
bette r m eet the needs of students of color? This quest ion will be addressed by the
the first state-wide "Students of Color
Conference" to be held on campus
November 20-22.
Anthony Greenidge, coordinator
the U moja Society, is organizing the
three day event which he says is "looking encouraging as far as state participation. " Confirmed participants in the conference include ten students from the
University of Washington, five from
Whitman and five from Centralia College. Interest is being ge nerated through
mailings to four-year colleges, junior colleges and high schools.
The first objective is to "foster unity
among students of color throughout the
State of Washington. " The second objec-

tive is a focus on how the trend of declining numbers of students of color in higher
education will affect our communities and
how colleges can better meet the needs
of students of color.
Students will interact in forums to "examine the issues of excellence, opportunities, and equity for students of
color. "
Workshop topics include "The Master
Plan" and its implications for students of
color, empowerment, multicultural
leadership skills, fighting racism in college, semantics-unlocking the door to
accessibility, orgamZIng student
organizations and college survival
techniques.
The result of the conference will be a
document addressing what is needed to
make institutions of higher learning more
accessible and hospitable from the
perspective of students of color. This

Great American Smokeout
Take a breather! That's what the
American Cancer Society want you to do
if you smoke. On Thursday, November
19, the annual "Great American
Smokeout" will take place, encouraging
smokers to give it up for 24 hours . If you
don't smoke, yo~ can "adopt a smoker"
for the day , and promise to help that
friend get through the day without a
cigarette . Films will be shown in the
lounge area next to the Deli from 9:00 am
to 4:00 pm, and you can have your blood
pressure checked, too. A few tips to help
you through the day: chew sugarless gum
or munch carrot sticks instead of smoking; drink lots of liquids (no coffee or

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HOLIDA Y BOOK SALE IS
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alcohol!); tell everyone that you're quitting for the day; excerise to relieve tension; try the "buddy system," and ask
a friend to quit, too .
Millions of smokers across the country
will temporarily kick the habit, so why
not join them? For more information,
contact Health Services at X6200 .

Green Hug-In
Thursday, November 12, will be
Evergreen's big Hug-In . This event will
be held in front of the CAB from 10:00
am to 4:00 pm. Greeners are 1,lrged to
come by and get a ~ug from as long or
from as many people as they wish. If you
suffer from muscle pains or brain tissue
aches, someone will be there to do accupressure/Reflexology 01: Shi-at-su on
your suffering body forfree . As the HugI n organizers say, please come by and
share yourselves. Your energy can be felt
and can heal. Tqere will be no
discrimination in this group.

document wiIi be presented to the
Higher Education
Coordinating
Board's Minority Task Force .
The agenda for the conference runs
from Friday, November 20 to Sunday,
November 22. Saturday will be filled with
workshops and conclude with a banquet
and dance on campus open to the community. Sunday, small groups will be
formed specifically to address state-wide
issues and the discussions will be recorded in order to create a docum~nt to "provide direct feedback" to the HEC Board.
If you are interested in helping in this
event by making yourself available as a
contact person, providing homestays for
the visiting students, driving vans from
the Greyhound bus station to ' the
Westwater I~ where students will be
staying and to the campus, or just providing support, contact anthony at the
Umoja society in LIB 3207 or call
866-6781.

S&A Con't.
(make) a commitment of time and
energy."
Alternate Board member Jennifer
Francis is "concerned that sometimes
student funds get allocated to inte·rests on
campus that are not the students' (interest) ... I wish to be there and help
decipher real student needs and appropriate funds accordingly." Francis
describes herself: "I work well in groups,
1 have good discussion skills , 1 think and
care about what I do."
Michael Papritz, another alternate,
brings experience in college governance
with him to the Board, as a former
member judicial officer and senator during his first two years at a community
college.
Board members can be reached at the
S&A extension 6220, or in CAB 305 . The
Board's first meeting is tomorrow, during governance hours (12:30 to 2:00 pm),
in Library 2116. Regular meetings will
be held Mondays and Fridays during
governance hours . Contact the S&A office for meeting location.

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Bridging Occident and Orient
by Nick Keyes

Interview with Yun-Yi Ho

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Photo by Audrey Mandelbaum

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. education can be a manifestation of that parochialism.

Along with a higher operating budget,
resolution of the Free Box conflict, and
a boomerang team, Evergreen can count
among its assests this year Yun-yi Ho, a
visiting faculty teaching in the Civilizations: East and West program. He has
taught at the UniversityofPuget Sound ,
Pacific Lutheran, National Taiwan
University, and now is on exchange from
Tacoma Community College (TCC)
where he has taught for the last 16 years.
Professor Ho was born in China, and
grew up there until the revolution of 1949
forced his family to move to Taiwan . He
remained there until 1962, completeing
the country's required military service
and his undergraduate degree . He then
moved to the US for graduate work at the
University of Minnesota , and has been
based in this country ever since.
As anyone taking the East-West program knows, Professor Ho is an engaging speaker who has the ability to convey a wealth of experience with a lot of
good humor. These are excerpts from a
CPJ interview with him.
CPJ: You were born in mainland
China . Could you t1ak a little about your
early life there?
Ho: I was born In Southern China.
When I was in school , the Japanese
.came. My father's company got moved
to the hinterland-- the city of Xian . The
move was interesting--you had to use the
primitive roads to avoid the Japanese .
After the war ended, I returned to Nanking and was there for a few years. Then
the communists took over. They had
crossed the Yangtze river. This meant
that the last defense of the nationalists
had collapsed The nationalists had always
believed the Yangtze couldn't be crossed . It was sort of a psychological defense
as well as a natural one . So when that
happened, in 1949, is when I went to
Taiwan.
CPJ: When you moved to Taiwan, did
you find it a lot different from the
mainland?
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Ho : Well , yes . For one thing, I had
never had ice cream before. I think I was
in the 6th grade.
CPJ: What took you out of Taiwan?
Ho : After I got my B.A ., I enrolled in
graduate school, a t the National Unive r-

sity there. At that time, one after another
of my friends were going to America to
study . Finally, I had no one to play pool
with anymore.
CPJ: SO you came to the States for
graduate study?
Ho: Right . I went to Minnesota in '62
to study Modern Russia and China . I'd
say the American education is in a sense
more demanding. The graduate school
education. It's more rigid .
CPJ: That ' s surprising to hear.
Ho: There's so much to follow. In
Taiwan, graduate school is more free . It ' s
all your own research .
CPJ: When you realized you were going to be in the west for some time, were
there things about Taiwan , about
Chinese culture, that you began to miss?
Ho: The food. But we got over that.
Also , American students had to have
jobs, so there were not as many chances
to get to know them. In Asia, there's a
much closer relationship among students
and between students and teachers . You
gain a lot of knowledge in this kind of iIiformal relationship that can't be conveyed in two-hour lectures. A good relationship with a professor willing to admit
what they don't know, which you don't
find among Asian professors.
CPJ: What did you end up writing
your dissertation on?
Ho: I wrote on the Ming Dynasty of
14th century China.
CPj: What did Iyou teach first when
you went to Tacoma?
Ho: The history of civilization and the
modern far east. After that I taught a
course in japanese civilization and one
in Oriental philosophy. Three years ago
TCe was given 'a grant by the National
Endowment for the Humanities . One object of this grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities . One object of
this grant was to use the city as a
microcosm for the civilization. So if you
wanted to study Revolutionary France,
for example, you would study Paris .
Recently , I've been teaching a course on
the Golden Age of Athens at TCC. I've
also been involved with the EvergreenTCC joint program in downtown
Tacoma, where we've also used this
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CPJ: And this is how you got involved teaching here?
Ho: Yes.
CPj: Evergreen is supposed to be an
alternative institution. Do you find the atmosphere here much different from TCC
or Minnesota?
Ho: I think at Evergreen you have
much more freedom to study or not to
study. At a big school like Minnesota-I'm talking about the graduate level here-there's much more pressure . You 'have
to work all the time, and you really don't
have the luxury to just think'.
CP]: What do you think are the major differences in motivation between
students from China, Taiwan, and the
United States?
Ho: I would say that in Asian
tradition--the East Asian Confucian
tradition--educational merit is the only
way you can prove yourself. And the em phasis is on liberal arts education, rather
than vocational training, because of a
cultural bias.
CPj: If you were given the choice,
where would you most like to teach-China, japan, Enlgand, or the US?
Ho : I don't like to teach in one particular place. I like to teach in different
places. I had a conversation with a British
professor, and we agreed that American
students are very good--they really work
hard . And I think the whole higher
education system her!! iuet up very well.
,CP): I guess one of the criticisms we
ha ve of ourselves, of this system , is that
it doesn't produce people \yith a wide
education, that it produces specialists.
Ho: I don't think that's a problem of
the American educational system. I think
that ' s a problem of American
parochialism . And I think education can
be a manifestation of that parochialism .
CPj: You're planning on visiting
China this year, going back for the first
time in many y~ilrs. What aspects of the
culture al:e you going to be most interested in looking at there?
Ho: -I like t9 preserve my knowledge
of Chipa as I ~emeffiher it'. So I'm always
wondering if this t ~ip .will shatter my image of China. China today is very different from China then . So I'm he*ant .
I want niy old dreaft;J. ~o be preserved , not
destroyed.
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I nformatio.n
Evergreen Library Goes High
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by Stephen Schramke
I f you are a typical Evergreen student,
you have likely spent numerous hours in
the library. Like many students you were
probably delighted to discover the computerized INFO-TRAC periodicals index. The index was aquired on a trial
basis last Spring Quarter. Its overwhelming popularity led the library to decide
to lease the system. The success of this
product has brought about the development of over· a hundred new databases
now available on CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in computer lingo is an
acronym for Compact Disc-Read Only
Memory. Most people are familiar with
it as the new laser disc for prerecorded
music. The advent of this new technology
has tremendous potential for use in

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libraries because of its capacity for storing and retrieving large amounts of data.
The discs cost $1.50 to $3.00 to mass produce and are roughly equivalent to about
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The Print
by Claire Davis

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accepting eyes, open, admitting, incapable of closing out hope.
Ellen and Butch were busy planning
The neighborhood was quiet. Its tall,
their latest scheme of terror o~ Fat Paul
two-story flats stood high and remote
who lived down the street. Fat Paul who
from the snow that wrapped about the
owned a room full of toys, among which
smaller cottages on the back lots.
was a giraffe fully as big as the children,
Moisture framed kitchen windows as
and a bear large enough to snuggle up
stoves baked breads, or boiled soups
on, but never letting anyone but himself
against the brittle cold of the winter day.
And the aproned women worked in the
ride the long-legged giraffe or hug the
robust bear. Karen looked across the
noise of their children's indoor play, or
back yard. The fences, drifted in, formshooed them out of doors to steal a moment of silence.
ed a march of small snow covered hills.
She guessed that Fat Paul's house was the
On the back porch of a flat with its
fourth hill over. Though to her young
steps wide enough for three children, the
eyes the snow had somehow changed her
young girl, Karen, sat on the step below
two other children. Her face was _tuf!1ed
neighborhood into something that had litup. A guilted down-hopd framed her
tle or nothing in common with the old
fence-bound one. And so, even though
small face and hid a hand-knit wool cap
she knew in her mind that Fat Paul lived
beneath. The cap, tightly cinched,
four houses down, that knowledge seempleated her skin into a double chin. She
ed uncertain in the face of the hills that
had large eyes, deep brown, the color of
had risen in the winds overnight. Ellen
chesnuts that rode in the pockets of
had dismissed Butch's suggestion that
children in fall. The kind of eyes that
they commence with another lettermade people stop in the street to remark
writing campaign from the "Black
on the length oflashes, the extra-ordinary
Hand. " The laSt two had Fat Paul waksize, the richness of color. Cow-eyes, her
ing in nightmare sweats, or 80 Fat Paul's
sister Ellen called them. And as is the
momma had said. None of them had
nature of younger sisters, Karen believbeen directly accused of being the author
ed Ellen.
of the "Black Hand" letters, but the onThe young girl, Karen, sat on the
ly people Fat Paul's mother had comlower porch step, looking up at her older
plained to had been the chilchen' s
sister Ellen and their cousin Butch.
mothers. This was probably because she
Because they were eight, they had the uphad seen Karen at their mail box jU8t
per step, the one without the split board
moments before collecting the mail. Even
that in the summer time pinched soft upthough Ellen aDd Butch had assured
per thighs. Karen was.!, whole three yean
their junior; and Ellen and Butch were .. Karen ' that this very · possibility was
remote, ~t there couid not be the least
intent on keeping her .a ware of 'that·,
chance of'her being caught, That this was
To this end ~en was careful t~ place
the most minor detail of the escapade .
her feet dose to Karen, her feet enclosed
And that. she should be proud they felt
in those wonderfwl ' new white rubber'
her capable, at her tender yean, of carboots with the soft rabbit. fur trim cuffs.
They were Karen's . fondest dream..-a .. .rying out so great a responsibility.
It was in the quiet between plans for
pair of brand new snow-white bGots with
Fat Paul that Ellen picked at the icicles
rabbit fur cuffs. By the tim.~ thefwou}d
be handed down to net, the white .~.6uld
suspended from the po.r ch railing, Th~
be scuffed, the fur shecI out . . $\m, 'ih; " . . railing was a single iroq pipe With knobby rusted fittings, and 'in the afternoon
young child hoped , She trusted that this '
sun the icicles dripped red with the partime they would stay white until she got
ticles of rust caught in the act of f~ing , '
them . That piece of coal bar her siste~
Ellen plucked off an iciCle and st~ in:
kicked down the iced sidewalk would not
tently at the railing.
mark them. That the continued tugging
on the boots wold not pull out the soft fur
In a voice of almost casual disinterest .•
Ellen asked, "Ever taste the railing, '
trim. It was as if she were like those wide
Karen?"

And Karen · startled out of her quiet
reverie of the snow covered landscape had
to think a moment before answering.
"No."
Butch glanced quickly at Ellen, and
though one might expect that Karen,
with such wide eyes, would see something
in that glance to question their intentions,
she did not.
Even though she had been witness to
that very same glance just prior to the
delivery of the "Black Hand" letter. Or
even before that, as Ellen and Butch had
closed her in the ~ark closet "for just a
minute" that had turned into hours. Or
even before that time, when her sister had
used their mother's indelible lipstick to
turn Karen into the Indian counterpart
of their cowboys. That same glance had
fired between the two of them again and
again before Karen's wide, accepting
eyes, until it must have seemed to the
other two that they could pour these suggestions into her endlessly, like some deep
water pool, brown and still in the dark
of a forest where the ripples would go
unremarked by anyone . The pool would
always be there, accepting.
And yet, even that pool must fill eventually, Perhaps it was this, or the familiar
landscape suddenly changed that made
Karen hesitate . She studied the railing
with her wide eyes, and there was the
least fli~ering of lashes, a sudden
danin ~ce back at the two older
children, just the most minute pause
before she leaned forward, extended her
tongue, and tas~ed the railing.
On the tip of her tongue was the tinge
of metal just before the sudden burn of
ice seared short the taate . Tears filled her
eye., and she felt the certain panic of trying to pull away and being caught,
unable ,to' even speak or ask for help. She
was captive with tongue extendedfrozen tight to ~ railing-her sister and
cousin falling backward on the step
laughing hard .
. She' pulled hendf free, her tongue
bleeding and sore in her' mouth. As the
laughter e~ded, ,ahe opelled her eyes to
the skin offier tong\.iefike a print on
the railing. And with her skin on the rail
and her trust burning ~ her mouth, she
looked up "from under lidded eyes.

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"Provided that they reach a courtroom alive) and

CO-MADRES Looking for Missin.g & Murdered
by Whitney Ware
and this is what happens in El
Salvador when someone is arrested. They
are 'missing' or murdered , " said Maria
Teresa Tula , a member of the COMADRES (Committee of Mothers and
'Relatives of Political Prisoners, Disappeared and Assassinated of El Salvador,
Monsignor Oscar Arnullo Romero), during her November 9 visit to Evergreen
and Olympia. Tula is touring the northwest in an attempt to raise public
awareness and support for her organizat ion's work in their country .
The CO-MADRES began in 1977 ,
when some El Salvadoran mothers , seeking to find their lost fa mily members ,
grew frustrated with the indifference that
they were being met with from police and
government officals. The disappearences
began in 1975 with the abducti')ns of
teachers , students, farm e rs, union
workers and some doctors , and continues
today with the " disappearing" of anyone
who disagrees with the right-wing
government of Napoleon Duarte . COMADRES was founded on December 24,
t 977 by 20 women at the suggestion of
their pastor , Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo .
Romero , who was later assissinated by a
death squad for opposing the government ' s huma n rights abuses. "It was he
who told us to unite and form a committee of mo thers , and to ask for the release
of our sons. For that reason, they
assassinated him, " said Tula . In his
honor, the CO-MADRES carry his
name . " Then ," she added, "only 365
were mi ssing. Now , more than 7,000 are
mlssmg .
The stated objection s of the COMADRES are:
1)Immedi a t e a nd un co nditional
fre edom for a ll El Sa lvadoran political
prisoners;
2)An ex pl a nati o n a s to the
whereabouts of the deta in ed and the
disappea red:
3)An investi gation of the cases in which
pe rs o ns we r e detai n e d a nd la te r
assassin a ted :
4)Justi ce and punis hme nt for the pe r12 sons respons ible, phys ically a nd inle lJec·

tually, for political assassinations and
disappearances, and ;
5)Suspension of decrees 50 and 330 (of
the El Salvadoran constitution) which
legally admit confessions obtained under
duress and/or torture by the Security
Forces.
Their activities include occupations of
churches and the El Salvadoran Red
Cross, hunger strikes, street marches,
press conferences held in order to bring
international awareness to the situation

Graphic by Kathleen K elly

of human rights abuses in El Salvador,
and meetings with political officials in
order to demand amnesty for political
prisoners. Their offices in El Salvador
have been firebombed, vandalized, and
broken into , their Washington D.C . office's phone lines are bugged, and
members of the CO-MADRES have
been abducted, tortured , "disappeared"
and assassinated . Nevertheless, there are
currently over 700 women , men and
children in the organization . "The COMADRES grows day by day in suffering
a nd pain . W e want it to grow-but in
solidar ity , not suffering." Their struggle,
t he CO-MA DR ES cla im , is to abolish

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the practice of torture, cease arbitrary
detentions, and have respect shown for
human rights for the Salvadoran people
as they are defined in the United Nation's
Universal Declaration on Human Rights,
of which the government of EI Salvador
is a signatory .
The plight of PQlitical prisoners in El
Salvador is a serious one from the day of
their "disappearance." Provided that
they reach a courtroom alive, and are not
assassinated or tortured to death by the
death squad that collected them, a
prisoner is not guarenteed a fair trial. As
the trial is presided over by a single
military judge, the prisoner is not allowed an attorney, and if a family manages
to hire one, the attorney is often subjected
to bribery and death threats.
Families, also , are often bribed, given
the offer of money in exchange for their
lost member. As is most often the case,
the family is a desperately poor one, and
cannot raise enough money to meet the
demand; and, if they can sacrifice enough
to raise the funds, the bargain is seldom
held and the prisoner is not released.
If a prisoner is allowed to be released, he
or she is not allowed to leave the prison
unless relatives can come and escort them
away. The CO-MADRES come to the
aid of those without living family. "We
consider ourselves to be mothers of the
prisoners," Tula explained, "because we
see the necessities and needs that they
have. All of them call us "mother",
because they know that we fight for
them." The CO-MADRES work to support the approximately 1,000 political
prisoners being held in the Mariona 11opango prisons, and also supply what aid
and support they can to the families and
orphans of the "disappeared."
The mother of six children, Tula
herself became involved in the COMADRES in 1978 when her husband, .a
worker in the sugar industry, was kidnapijed by the El Salvadoran National Guard
along with 21 others for their support of
unionization . He was held incommunicado for 5 days, and was being tortured during that time. After those first
days , he was transported to other prov ie nces seve ral, so then his family

are not assisinated or tortured to death ... ))

could not visit him. Six months later, he
was released. It was during those six
months that Tula came into contact with
members of the CO-MADRES, and continued after her husband's release to work
with them. Two years later, her husband
was assassinated, presumably by the
same security forces who had abducted
him earlier.
In 1984, Tula was one four COMAD RES members chosen to receive
the Robert F . .Kennedy Human Rights
Award on behalf of the organization, but
she was denied a visa to enter the U.S. in
order to claim the award . Nor has she
been left unscathed by her work in the
CO-MADRES. On May 6, 1986, she
was abducted by several heavily armed
men dressed in civilan clothes outside of
the San Salvador CO-MADRES office.
She was brutally tortured and raped, and
left on the street two days later. Later that
month, she was again kidnapped and tortured, and then placed in the Ilopango

prison where she was held until
September 23, 1986. While in prison, she
gave birth to her sixth child.
Tula has entered the United States illegally to conduct the CO-MADRES
Northwest tour, as it was the only way
she could cross the border with her two
youngest children. She has applied for
political asylum in the United States,
despite the fact that she doesn't feel safe
here in the U. S., as our State Department has previously labeled her a terrorist and anarchist. "What can I ask of
them?" she said in a soft, tense voice.
"Security? Or the worst?"
Meanwhile, security provided by those
who Tula and her children are staying
with has been tight, due to recent attacks
over the border by Salvadoran death
squads against Salvadoran refugees in
Los Angeles . Political violence against
human rights activists is not limited to El
Salvador, as her press conference notes
soberly point out.

Tula holds the United States to be
"completely responsible" for the human
rights abuses that are occuring in her
country, as the United States supports.the
Salvadoran government through foreign
aid. Tula went on the call Duarte's administration a "puppet government."
"We can also say," she added "that it
(El Salvador) is a colony of the United
States," due to its dependence on our
aid. Most of that aid goes straight for the
military, funding aggressions against
the civilian population.
"The
(Salvadoran) government receives aid,
and this government (the United States)
knows where it is going. " Tula would like
to see U.S. citizens become involved in
the political battles concerning El
Salvador by getting in contact with local
Congressmen and Representitives, and
voicing some form of disapproval.
As for the future of the CO-MADRES,
"They are the mothers ... and they will
continue to fight."

Observes view graphic photos oj El Salvador's slo.in. The pictures art used by COMADRES
" to find the disappeared and identify the dead. " The photos are being displo.yed on the first
floor of the CAB.

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Blood, Guts, and the Little Boy
or if he was even watching. When he
as two te~der golden Twinkies, reaching
turned to his father with a curled foreffor a soda in his father's hand. His father
''1:' ..
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handed it to him and turned back to the
I paid my dollar at 'the booth outside
said, "Dad, look: I got a hook in my
movie.
the theatre and my ticket jumped out at
hand . " The dad smiled at him and turnThe gore continued on the screen as
me from the steel counter..Iike a green
ed back to watch the horrible conclusion .
'the male protagonist came back from the
paper tongue. Inside I h~nded th.e ticket
More hooks and chains flew out of the
worklof pain-loving demons in the form
to' the skinny. made-up gul who IS there
darkness at the escaped demon. One
of a flethy skeleton dripping with
to' t~ar my ticket every ~eek. I bought my
gouged into his face just below his eye,
mucous. He hid in the attack of his
usual medium sized Dr. Pepper and
others into his legs, hands, cheeks, back,
brother's house and enlisted the help of
started' i(;to 'the dark ' tbeater. H,Urautr
neck, ribs, jaw, and foot, until he stood
his brother's wife, the one who had fanwas the movie. I did~'t expect to like it
pulled apart by a web of chains, bleeding
tasized about his raping her, in getting
m~ch, but it ~as only a doUar.
,
and smiling, and said, ".Jesus wept."
fresh dead bodies; he had to drink fresh
I was expecting a typical bad horror
The kid in the audience turned and
blood in order to gain back the rest of his
movie full of gore without any substance.
hugged his dad, who patted his son'sback
body. So the wife started bringing
That was what I got at first, and I laughand looked over his head to catch the fmal
strange men home from .bars and
bad
guy
solved
a
satanie
d
as
the
scene.
e
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bludgeoning them to death With a hamRubik's Cube which teleported him mto
a world of masochistic, sadistic demons , mer. After one of these bludgeoning
scenes the kid in the audience turned to
wearing left-over costumes from . Star
his dad and aske,
d "Are you h ungry.?"
Wars. Within fifteen minutes, our female
The hammer murders continued. The
pro~gonist fantasized about being raped
couple's
eighteen-year-old ~aughter
by ~e earlier solves of the cu~, who hapdiscovered
her uncle the demon m the atpened ' to be her ' brother-m-law, She
tie. He, wanting to rape her too, told her
resisted at flJ'St, but after he ripped otT her
to "come to daddy," whereupon she ran
shirt and said, "You want it," she
away, taking the evil box with her, and
agreed.
.
.
managed herself to discover the dem~n
Then I heard the voice of a httle kid
world. There a giant monster shaped like
from somewhere iIi the audience blurt
a male sex organ chased her screaming
out, "I want it. Give me more of that.
down a long, narrow corridor. The
I want more." I looked and saw that
father/husband was killed by his brother
several rows in front of me a kid of about
the demon, who also killed the wife who
seven, with cheeks as big and soft-looking
had helped him, saying, "Sorry, bitch."
There were blood and flames, hooks and
chains, drooling ghouls, screams of ter~
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and said, "I love you," and wrapped
chuby anns around his father's neck. His
father continued to watch the movie.
The end drew near. The daughter led
the demons to the house where the
escaped demon/dynamite lover was
hiding. When he realized that he was
trapped he turned to the girl and tried to
stab her, but a hook on the end of a chain
Graphic . by Kathkm Kelly
shot ringing out of the darkness and
caught his hand at the last moment. I was
wondering if the kid was getting all this,

by Aaron Yanick

CRUISE SHIPS

15,

A Trip HODle
were the days when the trucks went down
the middle of the street and the cars took
to the side. Now the N.R .A. was in effect and working conditions were much
better. It cost us to stay in the city and
we didn't want to go broke there so we
sa id our goodbyes and started back.
Knowing that I had nothing suitable
to mix bread dough in, I went shopping
in Belle Fourche, S. Dakota when we got
there. A tin dis pan was twenty five cents
and I bought it. It was not a good buy.
I t buckled and soon had four cracks on
top that kept getting lon ger and so sharp
it cut my wrists. I knew that it wasn't fit
to use but not having anything else I
would try it again, thinking to be real
careful. The pan wobbled, I would get
cut again and I still have some of the
scars.
The homestead place was as lonely as
ever and when I had to clean the ch imney
of the kerosene lamps, how I hated that
job! I wanted to smash them to bits'
When I tried to' get them shiny, they
stayed smudgy' and dull. At neighbors
homes, the first thing I noticed were the
lamps all bright and shining , ready to
night to come. I didn't have the nerve to
ask how they. did it.
One morning , Marla and Bud were
playing outside in their favorite dust pile,
the baby was asleep and I was working
in the kitchen, when there was a knock
on the door. It was a man in a dark suit
and tie, who introduced himself as the
missionary for the community . His first
question startled me a little as he asked ,
"Are you saved?" I showed him the Bible that had been given to me when I was
confirmed at the Evangelical Church in
the little village of Stony Hill , Mo . I
didn't tell him that I walked three miles
to get there, every weekday for five

We now retum 10 Esther Barnhart in our
serialization of her book, We Went
Westward, ... Ho , Ho, Ho . Esther ckCides
to take a breather from the tough homesteading
I ije in Epsie, Montana 10 visit relatives back
in Missoun·.
By the way, readers have been expressing dijfering emotions about the Epsie serial. We
would appreciate input. If you are e1!joying it
(it gfts even betleT!ater), please let us know.
If not, same thing. Thanks.

The winter passed and when April
came I wrote to Clara that if anyone
wanted to know how long two years were,
I sure could tell them . We started the
garden again and it got off to a good start.
Soon we had lots of vegetables again and
the days were all about the same as the
year 1933.
Barney's mother would write and ask
when we were coming back back so she
could see the baby . I was about as
homesick as one person could get. We
sold our turkey poults, told the neighbors
to take whatever was ready in the garden
while we were gone and left for Missouri.
This time there were five of us in the
Coupe, it was a little crowded bu the road
was dry so it was a little better traveling
this time .
How good it was to see the relatives on
the way down and family and friends in
the city. In a few days though we were
ready to go back. The heat was terrific,
day and night, and when there was a
shower of rain it d idn 't cool off any, just
made it more sticky hot. When I rode the
street car it was so noisy that it gave me
a headache. Barney went to the Safeway
warehouse where he had worked for eight
years as a truck driver and saw most of
the fellows he had worked with. Those

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sometimes breaking through the ice in
winter or using a long pole to vault across
when they were high in the Spring. I was
saved from drowning and from
pneumonia, of ·that I am sure.
It was rather different to find that
church services were held only once a
month at the schoolhouse. The young
folks played ball until time to start. One
bachelor managed to sit next to the
teacher and when the offering hat was
passed, he showed off by putting a silver
dollar in it. It tickled him to have her say,
"Golly , you can't afford to go to church
very often can you?" He never got the
teacher but he used to tell about it for
years afterwards. The minister was a
, ' fire and brimstone" preacher and when
church services were over I never saw
anyone go up to him and say he enjoyed
the sermon .
The teacher and her pupils always had
a nice program at Christmas time and a
picnic on the last day of School. The
teacher hardly ever had picnic spot picked, she waited until every mother came
and then a long time was spent talking
over the various places. They were finally narrowed to two, then the teacher had
a show of hands to decide . Those that
were out-voted would grumble a long
time, hating to give in. I remember one
time we went a long way, then because
the wind was sharp, we ate standing up
next to an old deserted house . Cows had
stood there too and we stepped around
the fertilizer they had left. I made the
comment that the schoolhouse might
have been a better place to eat. One of
the mothers ·said very loudly, " The kids
have been in that schoolhouse long
enough . They deserve to get away from
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You remember. She was
always there when you were
frightened. And if you got hurt,
she was standing by with bandages. Wouldn't it feel good
to talk to your mother again
right now?
Calling over AT&T Long
Distance Service probably
costs less than you think, too.
And if you have any questions
about AT&T rates or service,
a customer service representative is always standing
by to talk to you .Just call
1800222-0300.

Sure, your schoolwork and
your friends keep you busy.
But call home and find out
what she's wrapped up in.

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There are a lot of Plans floating around thes.'
days. You're probably familiar with the Master
Plan. Then there 's the Olympia Comprehensive
Plan. You might be interested to know that there
is also a Stategic Plo.n. This last is an Evergreen
document which is considered to be the primary
statement of Evergreen philosophy. It's quite
long, but I thought we 'd just print the Mission
Statement part.
The Stratigic Plan " recognised some unofficial patterns " which came into being over the
last few years, according to Director of (what
else?) Planning Steve Hunter. Such patterns include the commitment to diversity. Evergreen has
diversity ambitions which make affirmative action goals look conservative. It is the Strategic
Plan, also, which affirms the school's intention
to grow to 3, 200 students, or "FTE's, " as
we are affectionately known.
Ifyou 're interested in other points in the document, which, according to Provost Patrick Hill
is guiding maTry decisions, check the Provost's
office, the Student Communication Center or the
Cooper Point Journal.

", in interdisciplina ry learning
com-munities which immerse
students in com-plexity and in a
diversity of perspectives,and which
foster development of the skillsof
cooperation, communication and
integration;

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE
STRATEGIC PLAN

Evergreen strives to produce graduates
who are distinguished by their ability to
communicate, by their self-reliance as
learners and researchers, by their ability
to conceptualize and to solve problems,
by their comfort with diversity and complexity, and by their commitment to personal intergrity and the public good.

The Evergreen State College aspires to
be the best college of arts and sciences in
th e country, offering students of
Washington State an education which is
both high quality and simultaneously the
most effective preparation for the world
of the future.
The Washington State of the future for
which we prepare our students will be one
of complexity , of rapid change and
techonological innovation, and of multicultural populations. The economy of the
state , undergoing structural changes
already , will be dependent on service industries, and on an international
economy .
Our fundamental mission is to assist
students in learning how to learr. , and
how to continue developing their skills in
this new world . We approach our task
with the tools of a traditional college, viz .,
the disciplines of the humanities, arts, the
natural sciences and the social sciences.
Eve rgreen transforms those disciplines,
however , into teaching and learning experiences which mirror the world of the
twenty-first century:

", in internships and applied projects which bridge theory and
practice;
", in small classes and narrative
grading which require, even at the
behinning level , active involvement
of students;
", in independent study options and
self evaluations where students take
responsibility for their own learning ; and
", in a campus environment which
celebrates diversity as a resource for
learning .

PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
The College was created at a time
when the relevance and effectiveness of
all of higher education was being questioned. Evergreen chose then and chooses
today, when higher education has again
been called to task, to experiment with
various modes of instruction consciously
designed to improve the quality of
teaching and learning. Evergreen ' s commitment to the pursuit of excellence in
_higher education through experiment is
joined to a commitment to an on-going
evaluation of teaching strategies and student outcomes to assess effectiveness.
STUDENT RECRUITMENT
The College actively recruits for
students capable of high quality academic

work. That is our first concern. In view
of its willingness to experiment with alternative structures for teaching and learning, the College has a special interest in
those students who have not been wellserved by traditional education. Among
them are the older student and the
creative student whose talents were
manifested, for instance, more in community work or on the high school
newspaper as well as in the classroom .
SERVICE AREA
Evergreen welcomes the opportunity to
offer a high quality arts and sciences
education,
principally
at - the
undergraduate level, to students
throughout the state ofWashin·g ton. The
College recognizes a special responsibility
to the residents of Southwest
Washington . A majority of Evergreen's
students have been drawn from the more
densely populated counties surrounding
the Puget Sound Basin, including King
county. This same area is forecast to experience substantial population growth in
the future , increasing the need for services of a four-year public institution.
Resources and responsiveness of the College will be focussed on this large and
growing segment of our service area ' s
population .
STATE GOV ' T
Evergreen's location in the state capital
provides the institution with a special opportunity to work closely with state
government. Resources and academic
programs, particularly at the graduate
level, will take special advantage of this
opportunity.
COMMITMENT
SERVICE

TO

PUBLIC

Evergreen welcomes the opportunity to
provide public service to Southwest
Washington . Within its public service
mission, the College intends to escalat e
its service to state government. It is also
in a unique position to be an active participant in the national effort to improve
public education. Beyond those two
distinct public service responsiblities , the
College will explore additional strategies
to increase its responsiveness to the community a nd region within which it I S
located .
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Calendar

SCHOLARSHIPS

DIVERSITY
ETHICS & POLITICS

The Lesbian/Gay Resource Center is
throwin~ a Latent or Blatent Dance on
Saturday, November 14 in the Fourth
Floor Library Space (4300).
The Gay/Lesbian Resource Center has
Rap Lunches every Thursday from noon
to 1:00 pm every week . Bring a brown
bag.
EDUCATION & WORKSHOPS

M ira Brown will be showing slides and
answering questions about the rural
development work she has been doing for
the past 2 Y2 years in Cua-Bocuy district
of Northern Nicaragua on Monday,
November 16, from 3:00-4:15. All people interested in bringing appropriate
technology to disenfranchised parts of the
world are most welcome . For more information contact David Abeles 866-6124,
or leave a message at the Peace
Center/EPIC.
The YWCA Job Search Skills Class
orientation will be held Thursday,
November 12. The class, which is held
twice monthly, is for men and women
who are looking for work. For more information on the sliding fee scale and
times, please contact the YWCA,
352-0593 now.
Managing and Supervising Effectively, a one-day workshop designed for first
line and first time supervisors, will be
conducted by jennifer Belcher and sponsored by the Olympia YWCA on Friday,
November 13. The cost of the workshop
is $75.00 for YWCA members and
$85.00 for non-members; cost covers the
workshop and materials. The workshop
will be held at United Churches Social
Hall, 11th and Washington . For more in~ormation, call the YWCA at 352-0593 .

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The Firat Church Lecture Service
presents Carter Heyward, professor of
Theology, Espiscopal Divinity School ,
Cambridge MA, in a seminar on
F emimilt Liberation Christianity, The
Call; The Celebration; The Challange,
on No~ember 14 & 15. The cost is $5.
For more information, call 547-3374.

The Shadow Government, The Men
Behind Iran/Contragate. A one-hour
video. 7:30 pm, Tuesday, November 11,
Lecture ~all 3. Sponsored by Olympia
Christie Affairs, EPIC and other student
groups.
Low Income Women and the Law in
. Thurlton County will be the topic of
discussion for the Thurston County
Women's Political Caucus meeting, noon
Wednesday, November 18. Barbara
Baker, Attorney for Puget Sound Legal
Aid, will address the brown bag forum .
The meeting will be held in room 91, the
Senate Rules Room of the Legislative
Building on the Capitol Campus. The
public is encrouged to attend. For more
information, please contact Linda Metcalf at 754-9319 .
Socially Reaponlible Invelting: What
is it? An introduction and overview of
SRI movement will be presented by SRI
Northwest (a trade assolCation of investment professionals) on Wednesday,
November 18 at 12:00 in CAB 110. This
workshop is free and is co-sponsored by
the Peace Center, ERC and SIP. For
more information, call 754-9554.
EPIC has student group organizational
meetings every Thursday night at 5:30
in the third floor student lounge. For
more information, call X6144 or stop by
L3222 .
Helen Suzman, one of the leading Inter. national Voices to Abolish Apartheid will
speak Tuesday, November 17 at 8:00
pm in the Field House of the University
of Puget Sound, Tacoma. Tickets are
available through Ticketmaster.
Are you interested in social protest that's
creative and effective? Are you interested
in politics and theatre? Are you interested
in having a lot of fun? The Thin Air
Theatre is a New Guerilla Theatre Company. We will take an active part in the
political dialogue on the MaSter Plan, the
Superfund and other issues important to
Evergreen and Washington State. We
will have an organizational meeting at
7 :00 pm in the lobby of the CAB on

Wednesday, November 18. If you're interested, come find out what it's all
about!

more information, contact the CPj, or
write to: Dow Jones Newspaper Fund,
PO Box 300, Princeton, Nj, 08543-0300,
phone 609-452-2820 .

FOR FUN

Come dance to the live music of The
Local Magnetic Disturbance and The
Grufs, two great Olympia bands. Tickets
are $5 at the door, no age limit. Proceeds
from the dance will be used to help run
the Thurston County Off Campus
School. The dance will take place at The
Olympia Ballroom, located at 116 Legion
Way, S.E. on November 20, Friday,
1987, from 8:00-11:30 pm.

WashPRIG will be sponsoring Winter
Quarter Internships for (1 )voter registration reform; (2)a state resolution advocating the ban of styrofoam;
(3)Initiative 97 (toxic waste clean-up);
and (4) possibly working to stop The
Master Plan . For more information contact Patty Duggan, LIB 3228, 866-6000,
X6058 or 357-4152 . Application deadline
is November 30, 1987.
MUSIC

Jumper Night., the Northwest's longest
running winter-time show jumping
event, returns for another exciting seuon
at The Trails, Saturday November
at
6:00 pm. The series will continue with
ev.ents December 19, january 9 and
February 13.

1.

The Wilderness Resource Center
presents a Women'. Mountaineering
Slide Show on Tuesday November 7 at
the WRC/CAB 14 (take the CAB
elevator down to the baaement). The cost
is SI. For more information, contact
WRC at X6530.
The Asterisk and Cheese Library is baving a Poetry Reading at 7 :00 pm, Sunday December 6. Sign up at the Asterisk
(right next to Rainy Day Records), or
just come to relax and enjoy.
Black Hills Community Hospital's Guild
is sponsoring their first annual
Homemade Holiday Feltrival on Friday November 13, from 7:00 am until
4:00 pm in the hospital's first floor
classroom.
INTERNSHIPS

Approximately 50 newspapers are signed up to hire students through the Dow
Jonel Newlpaper Fund'i 1988
New.paper Editing Intern Program tor
College Junior. and the Minority
Editing Intern Program for CoHere
Senior•• The deadline for both programs
is November U. For applications or

Music at Barb's BBQ: November 13 at
8:00 the hot jazz sound of Skip Elliot and
on November 14; 6:00 pm Cloud Wells
and their folk blues sound.
The Steve Munger Trio will be performing in the dining room of Ben Moore 's
restaurant, 112 W. 4th, Uptpwn Olympia, Wednesday November 18th. The
Steve Munger Trio consists of: Steve
Munger; saxophone, Chuck Medcalf;
bass, john Hansen; Piano . The performance will begin at 9:00 pm and there
is no cover charge.
Windham Hill A~ists ... Night Noise will
perform in Killworth Chapel at the
University of Puget Sound , Tacoma
Saturday, November 14, 10:00 am to
4:00 pm at 209 East 4th, room 216,
Olympia. Cost is $50. Call 789-9470, for
more information.
jasmine, a womans' jazz band, will be
performing November 13 at The
Evergreen State College Library Lobby,
at 8:00 pm . Tickets are $5 regular and
$4 students. For more informatio<1 call
X651 1.

The Career Development Office will be
sponsoring several workshops during the
week. What is Career Planning? will
take place November 16. On November
17 the office will present How to Plan
Your Career and finally on November
19 there will be a Resume Writing
Workshop. All workshops will be held
from noon to 1:00 pm in L1406. For
more information call X6193.
Total Experience Gospel Choir and We
Three will be in concert Saturday,
November 21, at 8:00 pm at the Capital
Playhouse '24, 206 E. 5th, Olympia.
Tickets are $6 and $8. All proceeds go to
the Nicauragua Construction Brigade.
Call 352-9524 for more information.
WashPRIG is sponsoring a Voter
Registration R eform Conference in late
November/early December. Volunteers
are needed now to help coordinate the
co nference and do community outreach .
It's a , great opportunity to work with
politic·al and community leaders in the
state. For more information contact Patty Duggan, LIB 3228, 866-6000, X6058
or 357-4152.

Animal Control is now offering the
Lost Pet Hotline. This is a tape record·
ed message listing the description of all
stray animals at the shelter. The line can
be reached by calling 357-PETS. The in formation is available 24 hours a day and
is updated each day except Sundays and
holidays.
Stan Marshburn, Assistant to joe
Olander, a nounces that the final draft
of the HEC board's Master Plan is in the
library. For more info.mation C'ill
X6116.
SUPPORT

PUBLIC SERVICE

Illusions New Age Bookstore and
Teaching Center extends a warm
welcome to visit during their open house
week November 16-20. Lots of special
events! Call 943-8404 for details.

Single Parents now forming. Particular
emphasis on learning to cope with
children. Time to be arragned. Call
Melissa at the Parent Resource Center to
get involved, X6036. Or stop by, LIB
3226.

College students can WIn thousands of
dollars in scholarship mon ey by creating
a healthful recipe that uses Sweet' N Low
and can be prepared without a conventional
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Contact 943-7227.
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First Prize of $2,000 and Second Prize of
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THEATRE & DANCE
T he Olympia High School Drama
Department presents The Curioul
Savage on November 12-14 at 7:30 pm
and a mattane on the 14 at 1:30 pm . The
Curious Savage will be presented at the
Olympia High School Little Theatre.
November 19-21 will feature dazzling

choreography and vibrant dance when
Danceworks Northwest, in conjunction
with PERFORMA '87, will perform the
world premiere of Once It Touchel the
Rain. Performances begin at 8:00 pm
and pre-concert lectures at 7:00 pm at
Broadway Performance Hall. Tickets are
$9.50 general and $6.50 students and
seniors_ Call 32-DANCE for ticket and
lecture reservations. Advance tickets may
be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at
628-0888.
New Directions Northwelt: Contemporary Native American Art will be on
view at the Evergreen State College
Gallery 4- on the forth floor Library
Building, from November 6-November
29, Mon.-Fri. 12:00-6:00/Sat . and Sun.
1 :00-5:00.
The Mari!lnne Partlow Gallery presents
New Paintings by Bob Gills. The show
will run November 6-Dec:ember 9.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday 10:30
am-5:00 pm, and Saturday 11:00
am-4-:00 p. The Gallery is located at 500

South Washington Street in Olympia.
Mary Nelson, Evergreen State College
faculty member and native of the Colville
Indian Reservation, will be exhibiting a
selection of her drawings' and paintings
in the Evergreen State College Gallery 2
in . the Library Lobby, November
6-December .~8, during regular library
hours.
Downtown Olympia presents Waldorf
Creationl, two seperate art exhibits by
the Olympia Waldorf School. The fIrSt
exhibit will take place November 16-20
at Buck's ,F4fth Avenue, 209 E. Fifth,
Olympia. The second exhibit will occur
at Carnegie's Restuarant , S. Franklin
and E. 7th, Olympia from November
22·28. The Olympia Waldorf school will
also be sponsoring an open bouae on
Wednesday , November 18, from
. 7:00-9:00 pm. The Waldorf school is
located in the Tumwater United
Methodist Church, 14-01 Lakepark Dr.,
SW off of Trosper Road.

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I'm doingjustfine, and I
thi1llc how I'm dJJing is
how the kaves are doing;
just IuJnging on the trees,
and not surr when I'm conna fall and hit tIu ground.
--And I'm loo!cingforward
to my flight downward to
experimu tIu air and then
to tou&h tIu ground. That's
really how I'm feeling.

Real, real well. A certain
young man decided to tell
me he loved me, and that
maJces things really nice.

Fairly well. Yeah, yeah,
'fairly well'. Well, I'm
tired, it's been a rather
unusal do.y. I had so,,!!r
practice this morning which
wasfun, but it was too early. [t was at ekven. I was
tired_ I wanted to skep_

Peachy, nifty, keen, because there's no sun today, and ['m htwing a good
time. I lilce my program,
The Making of Meaning .
It's a good program. We're
taUcing a lot about SIX, and
mak and female relationships. It's been real fun.
We've done a lot of cool
things. We got to see a
human brain and poke
aroun4 at it. That was real
Jun. It's sOmltlaing I've
never dJJne before. And
we're going to do a lot of
photography, so I'm really
into it. It's cool.

I'm doing great. It's a
wonderful walkfrom ASH
to tIu library today; actUIJIIy, every do.y, even when
rain threatens. --Or when
rain promises, one should
say these do.ys. I'm really
impressed with tIu musical
offerings on campus: First
tlwt string qUIJrtd from
Portland, Oregon featuring
the women and black composers last week, and then
Scott COUSStIJU this week,
--1 metln, it'sjust a wealth
of musical I4lnat. I don 't
study music, though; I
study literature and
technology. I'm writing a
book on literature and
technology --technology 's
impact on values as modem
A mentan authors portray
it.

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