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5, 1977
Vol. 5 No. 22
Affirmative Action At Evergreen
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by Karrie J:acobs
Tucked away in the very back of the
1977-79 Evergreen Bulletin, followed only
by the maps of the Olympia area and the
College and the closing credits, is a twopage statement on Evergreen 's Affinnative
Action policy.
The Bulletin statement is a much abridged version of the section of the
Evergreen Administrative Code (EAC)
that deals with human rights . Affirmative
Action is an outgrowth of Evergreen's, or
rather the State of Washington's, Equal
Opportunity policy. a program whose
origins stem from Federal law. from the
civil rights legislation of Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society days .
Evergreen's Equal Opportunity policy,
It was hoped that by fall of 1976 , 15
stated brieOy. goes like thiso "The College
expressly prohibits discrimination against
any person on the basis of race, sex, age,
religion , national origin, marital status or
the presence of any sensory, physical or
mental handicap unless based upon a.
bona fide occupational qualification . This
policy requires recruiting, hiring , training.
and promoting persons in all job categories without regard to race, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status or
the presence of any sensory physical or
mental handicap unless based upon a
bona fide occupational qualification. All
decisions on employment and promotion
must utilize only valid job-related requirements."
ONE STEP FURTHER
The Affirmative Action policy goes
Dill!
step further. Wher• th• Equal Opportunity
policy attempts to correct and prevent injustices in the College's hiring and recruitment practices, Affirmative Action tries to
reverse the trends which made the Equal
Opportunity policy necessary in the fi"'t
Hi
place.
.. The Evergreen State College is committed to an affirmative action program,"
states the College Bulletin, ''a goal-oriented
program through which it makes specific
additional efforts to recruit, hire, train ,
and promote non-white and women students . The Affirmative Action program is
designed to overcome and prevent the
effects of systemic institutional discrimina tion and benign neutrality in employment
and educational practices. The College
will take affirmative action to solicit bids
on goods and services contracts from nonwhite and women vendors and contrac-
tors ."
The Affirmative Ac tion program came
into existence as official Evergreen policy
at a Board of Trustees meeting on April
18, 1974 . It was the product of a Disappearing Task Force (DTF) which was investigating the concerns of the non-white
community at the College.
In order to insure the implementation of
the Affirmative Action policy, the position
of Affirmative Action Officer wu developed to perform the wide range of dutieS
involved in establishing and monitoring
the program.
RINDETT A JONES
"I llko my job, " said R. ndetta Jones,
Evergreen's Affirmative Action Officer,
as she began to detail the many functions
that her office serves. In general, she descril>M her job as "making sure a whole
lot of things get done ."
The Affirmative Action Office handles
complaints from all sectors of the Evergreen community on discrimination and
on-the-job harassment . When such a complaint is received, Jones must investigate
to see whether it is warranted. By gathering the relevant facts and speaking with
the parties involved, she must try to decide what needs to be done and what can
be done . Complaints pertaining to discriminatory hiring practices or sa lary dis-
p;~nt1es are generally easier to handle,
according to Jones. than charges stemming
from harassment by an employer. which
tends to be subtle and hard to prove. Not
only does the Affirmative Action Office
have to monitor the employment practices
of the school itself, it also must make sure
that contractors on campus such .a s SAGA
or the construction companies live up to
the policy's standards .
SKillS RANK
In order to make a special eff.ort in insuring that Third World people and women have equal access to employment
opportu n ities, the Affirmative Action
Office maintains a "skills bank" of resumes
from job hun ters. W henever the Office
receives notification from an employer
that a position has opened up , resumes
from appropriately skilled people are forwarded to the prospective employer. "It
is important ," said Jones in speaking about
good hiring practices, "to have an applicant pool that reflects Third World people,
women , as well as white males. You've
got to recruit long enough and hard
enough ."
Another part of the Affirmative Action
Officer's job is to review and analyze information in reports from vice-preidents,
deans, unit heads. directors, and others
on camp~;~s. which describe the nw
umbers
percent of the student body wo uld be nonwhite . The actual figure wa s 9 .7 percent.
"Admissions needs a st ronger recruiting
effort ," according to Jones, "and more
dollars to hire staff ." It was also hoped
that the student populati on would be 50
percent women by 1974 . The cu rrent fig ure is about 47 percent.
The goal for Third World faculty members for October of 1976 was set at 19
percent . The figure reached was 16 percent.
The list of statistics goes on. covering
each employment area at Evergreen . from
administrators on down . It is not surprising that of the 30 College employees classif ied as administrators, 18 of them . o r 60
percent , are white males. two are black
males, seven are white female!~ . tw o are
black females . and one is an Asian male .
As a malter of fact , according to the goals
established in 1974 , we are right where we
should be as far as female administrators
KO . .at 24 percent . The ultimate godl i~ lo
have 45 percent of the administration be
women by 1984 ,
Also not surprising is the fact that 82
percent of the College's clerical staff is
white and female . followed by black and
Native American women who constitute
.04 percent of the clerical work force each .
Jones maintains a large collection of
statisti cs, both on a blackboard on her
office wall and in many manila folders .
She contends. "Progress ca n only be measured through numbers placed in a time
con text . numbers that represent the change
in existing discriminatory palterns through
hiring."
As Affirmative Action Officer, Rindetta
Jones spends her time trying to make
ot her people's goals work . As for her own
aims, she says, "My goal is to see to it
that we have a mo re vigorous program
next year than we've ever had ."
Sounding Off On The Demo Memo
by Matt Groening
Yes , we require the lowest deposit for rental housing in the greater Olympia
area . Compared with comparable dwellings, Campus Housing is set apart.
·(We require a modest $45 while our nearest competitor requires $100.00)
Campus Housing doesn't stop with just the deposit, but also
includes electricity service so you only have to pay one flat price each month.
And , telephone service is a snap. We've arranged it so you don't have
to pay a deposit. Just pay your monthly bill on time. We have other extras too
numerous to talk about now. So remember , Campus Housing has the lowest
deposit in town with the highest returns . Stop by the Housing Office to
find out more about living on Campus.
of students or employees handled by their
area broken down into ra ce and sex . These
reports, issued quarterly , are usually in
the form of often unintelligible statistiCS.
It is interesting to see how the current statistics compare to the original numerical
goals set by Affirmative Action. When
J.s ked how we were doing 1n rea ching
hese goals, Jones replied . "Let me put it
this way : we've never surpassed an y goa l
that we've set. "
60 PERCENT WHITE MALE
ADMINISTRATORS
President McCann's con troversial proposal to regulate demonstrations on campus was the subject of questioning and de-
bat• at an oftm lively Sounding Board
meeting yesterday morning, May 4. Approximately 35 students, faculty , staff, administrators, and McCann himself listened
to pro and con opinions about the pro posal. Because the board ~ached no con clusions on the matter, a special meeting
was scheduled lor Wednesday, May 18, to
discuss the matter further. McCann plans
to submit the proposal. with tentative
changes based on campus ~action , at the
Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, May
20, for possible inclusion in the Evergreen
Administrative Code.
Another meeting, organized by students
opposed to McCann's proposal, is ocheduled for Friday, May 6, at 1 p.m. in th•
Board Room (Lib. 3112). Formation of a
student union and a teach-in on Founder's
Day (May
21)
will be considered. McCann
said he will have reptHentatives a ttend
the meeting.
UNSPEOnED DISCIPLINARY AcnON
McCann's proposal, popularly known
as the "demo memo," ails lor guldolina
regulatins prot..ts on coD~ property apiNt college-sponsored ovmts. Violations
of the proposed regulations would be sub -
ject to unspecified disciplinary action .
Many students at the Wednesday Sounding Board meeting questioned McCann
about the wording of the memo, saying
they were confused by its vagueness.
'What this proposal does is pu t down in
fairly terse form what the law already is,"
McCann replied. He said the proposed
guidelines were a way of ensuring "aca demic good manners."
SQUEAKY SHOES
Student Regon Unsoeld wanted to know
exactly what was meant by the word "disruption" in McCann's memo. "Squeaky
shoes could be considered a disruption to
som• peopl• ." Unsoeld said .
McCann answered that it d~nded on
the circumstances. "The who situation
changes with the size of the oom," he
said, "- Wh•ther it's CAB 1
or th•
Kingdome ."
Another student wanted to know what
exactly constituted a n "open public meeting" in McCann's proposal. "If it's a de- .
bat•. that's on• thing," McCann answ•red.
saying that some conflict at such an event
could be expected. "But if it's a
conart," M continued, " that's
McCann w•nt on to .. y that
lines Weft not unlik• th- at
••
symphony
different ."
hls guideother col-
"No, th.,., is a dillft-enc:e," said student
Libby Skinner. " At Evergreen, there is no
student union , so What input we have is
often token and reactionary ." Because
" Evergreen is 'above' unionizing," she continued , "we have to fonn coalitions and
stage demonstrations." Skinner was critical
of the proposal because she said it constituted "prior restraint " of student input.
She was also critical of the amount of time
it took to get one's voice heard on campus issues. ''I' m not getting my school
work done," she said. " And there are
others who have dropped out to work
more fully in campus politics. •·
McCann's proposal stemmed from the
demonstration by about 30 students a gainst the Air Force Band last February 3 .
Sounding Board member Trina Krueger
wan ted to know if the Air Force Band
demonstra tion would have been illegal
under McCann's guidelines. "What about
the Grim R•apenl " she asked. m•rring
to the four costumed demonstrators who
rftNined sta nding silently in the aisle-s
throughout the first hall of th• February 3
concwt, until Security Chief Mac Smith
asked them to leave . No one a nswered
~r' s qu.. tion dir<ctly, but McCann
admitted tha t the Air Foru Band episode
misht be a "red herring," and that it just
called attention to the need lor guidelinos
regula ting futu,.. protests.
" All this is," McCann said. IS a reminder of the bedrock law which supports
our rights ."
Director of Informat ion Services Judy
Annis, who invited the Air Force Band to
Evergreen, defended the demo mem o . " I
went over the Social Contract and Presi dent McCann 's proposals. " she said ... and
I go along with them ." At Evergreen. she
continued, " the Air Force Band is an un popular and controversial group." With out the proposal. she said. " I would hesi tate to have Reagan , Kissinger . or the current governor on campus ." According to
Annis. McCann 's proposal "allows Ever green our Eldridge Cleavers. our Margot
St. James' and our Air Force Bands ."
Student lyle Tribbett d•lended the February 3 demonstration by saying, "We
didn 't deprive anybody of their music. We
didn' t (shout down the Air Force Band) .
Nobody's done that. " He contin ued. stat ing that "effective learning is not promoted
by disciplinary action ." Tribbett also
wondered why the demonstrators were
never "approached by Charlie McCann or
Judy A nnis as to why we protested."
McCann replied that he didn't ...,k th•
follts who d•monstrated why they did it
because it would be In loco ...,....tis stuff."
AJI h is propou.l was. he said again, wn
"a terse f't'Pri.ition of the law."
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tival. Her feelings reflect the
views of many women and men
here . . . views that show the
other side of the issue.
1 cannot support an event that
discourages men from attending,
any more than an event discouraging women from attending. I
feel that the men of the Evergreen
community are a hell of a lot
more supportive of women than
those men in different environ ments and lifestyles. My experiences here make me proud of the
coopera tion and understanding
men have shown and I hope this
event does not discourage men
around here from conti nuing to
be more aware .
The irony of my situation here
is that I've had more negative
encoun ter s with women than
with men . I'm not saying all the
men are perfect - it 's just that I
feel they deserve a lot more credit
than they' ve received . I just won der what would happen if the
men staged an event that discou raged women 's attendance.
Like Lorree, I support all folks,
and I hope we can all get together
to hear some read good live mu sic soon. Live music is best.
HOREN
K Elt " CNAJuom
Dltt)
IIUifiJ
AUDITORIUM
Si ncerely yours ,
Sandra Freeland
Topsy Turv y
De m o M em o
College campuses have long
l'f.'t'n sanctuanes for free speech
lnd assembly The proposal sub·
mtted by President McCann re..:.irdLng regulation of assembli<'S
" an Important measure, one not
,,, be cons1dered lightly . We bela·ve that the regulatiOns , if endorsed, would be a grave transgreSSIO n agam st our civ d hber tu?s Our bas1c rights of freedom
of speech and pea ceable assembly
are Ln 1eopa rd y. yet without a
sLgn•fLcant response from the Ev ergreen co mmunity-at-large we
will f1rd ourselves victims of a
decis1on made Without our input
or consent And the decision will
not be in our best interests, nor
in the best interests of Evergreen .
There 011re certain points within
President McCann's m~mo which
are unclear and / or contradictory .
These points are the ones which
most clearly infri nge upon our
nvil liberties :
I ) The words '' protest," "dem ·
o nstrallon ," " peacefuL " " hinder ,"
'd1srupt ," and " activities" are
used so ambiguously as to allow
almost any interpretation and / or
US<
2.J The procedures state that
protests may occur on any col·
lt-ge pro perty that is not at the
tim ~ bemg used for college activ ·
111es. but bKause th~ definition
of ··actiVIIies" is so obscure it
could prohibit protests from takmg place on co ll~ge property at
all
3 . ) Pomts (2) and (4) under the
iKtlon h~aded " Manner" could
~xclude str1king, p1cket lines , leaf ·
l~ttmg and other m~asures as a
means of protest
We are calling for a coalition
of all concerned individuals .
groups. and o rganizations to take
•ction against the proposed reg ulations . The issue is not radical•sm on nmpus ; the issue is the
pr~rvat1on of our fundamental
r1~ht\ tn lrffd("lm ol expres~u:m
flleasf' cum f' e--.pres~ your v •ewP"'Int opm•om 1df'as , sugge-s·
IL\\ns. and c rit1c1sms. Everyone
commg will have the opportunity
to address the issue at hand .
FRIDAY . MAY 6, 19n. I p.m.
BOARD ROOM . LIB . 3112
Th1s C..all to Acti o n is endorsed
m part by ·
Wilh UMoeld
Stephame Coontz
Jan Schmitt
Valerie Vogel
Mary Moorehead
Patricia Hamilt on
Lmda Bookey
David Powell
Malcolm Stilson
Alan Burrer
Sally Fixico
Keith Keyser
Russell Fox
John Benkoczy
Ernest M . Jones
and 18 others.
Repressive
Evergreen
To the Editor :
The American F~deration of
Teachers wishes to express its
opposition to the proposed guidelines for demonstrations on cam pus. These regulations, if adopted,
would make Evergfftn one of the
most repressive academic institu ·
tions In the country . The guidelines are so vague as to allow almost any interpretation. including the prohibition of picket
lines, signs. even audit-nee response to a speaker. Furthermore, the regulation makes protest organizers responsible for
any actions that may occur at a
demonstration , whatever the organizers' own aims and actions .
Finally. the right to peaceable
assembly and protest, including
the right to demonstrate at and
in public events, is a Constitutional right that has been established in communitie-s and cam puses across the nation . Such
demonstrations are , of course,
always subject to existing civil
sanctions against violence , disruption . and damage . The at tempt to develop separate. more
"tnng(·nt standard" fN the cxert..LS<' ot Civil l1bert1es at Evergreen
than prevail 10 the communit y at
large plac("S campus m~mbers in
double reopardy and contradicts
the college's role as a defender of
CIVd nghh .
The Fvergreen State College
FederatiOn of Teachers
Good Sport
To the Editor :
ster because he is black . Without
becoming murderou sly angry , I
would like to say that the aforementioned piece of writing de serve-s some kind of award that I
am in no mood to invent. It has
easily ~~ The Evergreen State
College ba~ck five years in its
public relations efforts.
have been few strong women
role model s for us that validate
our ambitions and aspirations
outside of the traditional roles
for women .
In looking around at the mus1c
world . Evergreen , concerts. festivals, the music industry , l see
that the majority of women mu ·
sicians are vocalists. the majority
of instrumentalist s are men . In
the past years of playing in bands
whe-~e I was the only woman or
with one other woman in the
band, I've had to struggle with
doubts (Is it really okay for me
to do this1) that have gotten in
the way of my musical cltovelopment. This has had nothing to
do with the male musi cians I've
played with who were not insensitive .
It is tru~ that we' re all oppressed. women and men , and
part of that oppression is that in
this highly individualist society ,
it's hard to look beyond our own
individuality and see the commonness of our experience .
Women and women musicians
have a common experience that I
am looking forward to celebrating at the Women 's Music Festival this weekend . If an all-women's event does not represent the
feelings of some people, women
and men , it is your responsibility
to get together and organize an
~vent that does represent you.
Women organizing in a patriarchal society has always histor ·
ically been a very powerful statement and tool for social change.
When women organize they
threaten the whole pittriarchal
structure. We shou ld all recognize
our common struggle but not un dermine this powerful tool within
the struggle that women organizing is .
Yours for
responsible journalism,
Greg Smith
Your ribbing of the " real "
Dady Ze ro was fun - but only
tou ched on the total world of
rou1-n::iasm m Olympia .
Case in point - the sports
page I If you ever consider doing
another parody . include a sports
page for us to smile and laugh at.
Thanks.
A WSU Fan Who Can't
Find Out Whal's Happening
In Pullman
Zero Fiddling
While
Evergreen
Burns
To the Editor :
May I write to say that I found
the Daily Olympian parody to
be in extremely poor taste... Not
only did the article reflect a bla tant lack of sensitivity to the in ·
tricacy of small town society it
also reflected a callowness of attitude one would not expect to
confront in the midst of what I
Women's
Commonness
To the Editor :
This is in response to Loree
Knutsen and a lot of people I've
talked to concerning all-women
concerts . The arguments I've
heard against all-women concerts
go something like this : Why
should men be excluded from a
consciousness- raising experience 1
Many men are interested in women's m usic, etc. These· argumen ts
focus on the feelings of men. This
seems to me to be the wrong focus. The primary issue of an all women's concert i.s that it is
women recognizing their com monness and getting together.
The secondary issue is the fact
that women getting together, by
its nature. excludeS men . But the
point of a women 's concert is not
to do just that. To emphasize the
ethics or morality or unkindness
of excluding men from a concert
is to obscure the issue. It also
sounds a bit like the familiar
~feelings -come-fi rst syn-
had thought to be a group of
serious learners. The people of
the Olympia community read the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL.
These are the people whose
awareness of Evergreen we are
(suppo~ly) trying to cultivate.
It is a true shame that the edito -
rial staff of the JOURNAL cannot k~ thne ideas in mind
while cooking up the w..,k[y
pulp. On a much less critical
scale, mak,ing fun of a small town
new spaper for its lack of sophisIH.a:um or litera ry sht'rtcommgs
\real or 1magmed) can bto l1kened
to a white grade school child 's
cruel ta~unts at a fellow young-
a musician , I've had a par r kind of experience because
woman in this society. As
a kid , my first aspiration and
fantasy was to be a concert vio linist . When I imagined this , the
picture in my head was of a man
in a black coat with tails standing in front of an orchestra, play ing. This was true of anything I
The Unfair
Sexes
To the Editor :
To Founders and Participants in
the Woman's Festival :
It greatly gri~ves me to see
women struggling for power, the
right ,to oppress and segregate.
Admittedly women need a place
in culture, they need to be recognized and taken seriously. But
what , may I ask, is women's culture going to do to benefit humankind if it excludes men7 Isn 't
this reversed Sexism 1 How do
you expect men to acknowledge
your talents if you won't share
them openly7 I agree you 're not
women
the only offende rs have been opp ressed by men for
years and still are. but do two
wrongs make a right 1
Espt"Cially at Evergreen it saddens me to see the Men's Center
offer movies about rape for men
only, and music. a universal
language, to choose an audience.
women preferred . If anything.
the division of sexes here makes
me view Evergreen in a very tra ditional light. An alternative education7 For whom7 The unity
of two sexes seems obsolete. If
CAREER / LIFE
STYLE PLANNING
WORKSHOP
This is a letter ~upporting last
week's letter by 1 orrf't' Knutc,nn
I was delighted to ~C'<' ~l)meone
speak out about her feelmgs con arning the Women 's Music Fes-
1
Writes Again
To the Editor :
A lot of people tend to have a
one - track mind about convicts
and ex · convicts . They figure
once a con, always a con. But
then again. the same people who
are saying this just didn 't get
ca ught for their cri mes, but we
did .
Most of the time when a per son comes to prison he takes up
a trade so that he can have some
skill when he goes out to face the
world once again , in hopes that
h~ can put his skill to work. But
a lot of employers wo n't hire him
because he's been in prison , and
that's all the employer cares to
learn about the man . He doesn 't
try to find out what his person ality is like or other things about
the man , just that he's an ex-con
and that's all that matters. This
is what makes a lo t o£ ex -cons
angry , depressed and worried .
He goes about beating his brains
out to find work, and the same
thing happens over and over.
~
Employers want you to be sin cere and honest with them , and
when we do they spit right in our
face . What it boils down to is
that we are paying for our debt s
twice, as if once wasn 't enough .
This world would be better off
if people stopped thinking and
worrying about themselves and
lend a helping hand to the people
in need . We want to be accepted
by society, but socie ty makes us
feel like we are some kind of
ca ncer to them . And a lot of you
people wonder why we keep
coming back to prison. If society
would wake up and take heed to
our needs and give us a chance.
we wouldn 't have to keep returning to prison . Otherwise, most of
us are forced to steal and rob for
a living.
We are human just like the rest
of you . We think and fttl just
like you . We love, care, laugh
aiiAKE aLEEDEII
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Date :
Time :
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How To Write Letters To
The CPJ
Type them . Double-spaced, if possible. Try to get
to lhe point and stick to it. If you are unable to stick
to the point . al least try lo be funny . If you can' l be
funny , be crazy . If you can' l be crazy , be brief.
The most effective lellers make one or two points.
Sign your leller, then mail il lo the COOP ER PO INT
JOURN A L, The Evergreen State College, CAB 305 .
Olympia , Wa 98505 . Lellers musl be received by noon
Tuesday lo be considered for thal week 's publica -
Sincerely,
Dave Burnside /125 .928
Monroe State Refo rmatory
tion .
You 're Not
My Type
To the Editor :
An open letter to Bill Winden :
I am new to The Evergreen
State College this year as a transfer stude nt from Reed Collegt'
(with a year off in-between) and
have been enrolled in the Foun datl(lOS of V1•ual Art program
these past twn quarters . l was
o;;;om ewhat taken .Jback when la st
quarter''i. evaluation time ca me
.Hound to bt- 1 lid nat all evalua tams must bt• 'Yilt' '' ntten on the
forms prov1ded My seminar
leader. Paul Spark .. has told me
ht' wdl sti ck by th. t requtrement
this quarter t~,,, , if mly because
he ca n' t afford the ti.ne and trou ble that will be incurred by the
Registrar's Office sen.fing hand written evaluations ba~k to h•!Tl
Because I feel som~what imposed
upon by this regulation I decided
I should try to do , something
about 11 . and he sugges ted I tdll..
to you. Last Thursd.1y aftnnoon
I Marth !OJ I stopped by Judy
Lmdi.:JUf \ offtce to make an ap ·
pomtment. When I told her my
reason for want in~ to talk ttl you
she refused to .;e t an appomtrnent
t1me . ~ a y mg . 'There IS nothmK
to talk about .' that tt is a h.ud
and fa st rule w1th no exceptu>n ~
rcrhap._ you have ac;ked her In
sc reen suc h reque ... ts tare there
man y71 or perhap!> sh(• ft'lt 1t
with1n h<'r 10b to den y a .;tudt' olt
dCCec,s ttl a dt<an if the rt'que<tt
seemed frivoltlu<; In any event I
d1dn "t feel up to argumg w1th her
(lr bem~ further humdtat{'d I
hope you ca n be.u IP rt>.:lll th1 s
tnstead
I do not have a typewrit(•r . I
dlJ not know how to type . I do
not want to depend o n others to
do my t ypi ng for me , I do not
care to type an evaluation that
Teachers at au 1.-..ls
Universal Teachers - Box 8966
Portland, Ore . 97208
cu uiJ be comparably handwntten
m a trac t10n of the t1me I admit
that while this add ~ up to a great
unpos1tion for me . 11 IS a rather
"mall inconven 1ence 1n the Great
Scheme of Thmgs. But that is
only one way of lnokmr, at 11.
The fact that the adm101~tratJnn
can decide what IS best for the
student; i.e. typewnllen evalua tions are better m appt•Jr.ln<.t• or
overall legibility and " tudt>nt "
wdl want to mah .:1 ~o0d im pression on futurt' schoo ls and
employers: and thl· admtnlstratinn 's intractabd1ty regardm~ that
dt:'nsion I lind md JCa t1ve ol a
Creal Imposition indeed .
All during high school I t'n ·
co untered a Similar mentality
among some administrators. They
conce ntrated only on a student's
petty complaint . dragged it
through the "proper cha nnels .''
wo re you down . humiliated you
anything but try to see that
that complai nt was most likely
"y mptomatic of a failing in t he
~ys tem , a blind spot in the1r o ut look . I did not expect tCl encoun ter the same problem at Ever·
green : 11 seems an alternative education would be best served by
an alternative administration .
The only concrete reason Ms .
Lmdlauf gavt' me for not all ow tn~ handwritten evaluations is
that they must be Xeroxed when
<>ent out with tran script s and that
handwritten form s do not copy
well. I am enclosmg a Xerox co py
of my fall quarter\ evaluation . I
don 't think ynu can agree that
the reason IS a valid o ne .
Why not all(lW seJt -,. tyll'd evaluation"? Even requmn g that they
b,;- su bmitted on tht> <~ppropnate
forms, .;;tudt.•nt" would feel they
hJd the c han ce to bt'ttcr repre<>ent
them,.elves . It is tht> student 's
own evaluation of personal -a chievement after all. If you are
more co mfortable with calligraphy or writing backwards or
const ructing rebuses . would not
these styles of written communi·
ca tion present a truer picture of
the author7 It would seem to
make sense that a student would
most willingly type his or her
evaluations if that· IS how they
wished to be presented, or is
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Smcerely,
J•ll Reynolds
I
Captain Video
Meets The
Westside Kids
To the Edit o r :
Dear Ch ad Rabies .
What s all this fus s about VD
produc t1 on1 I don t th~nk ~·e
should be producing VD an yway VD tS a ho rnble dJseast•
and it' s nasty , and Evergreen
shouldn 't spread it aro und .
Instead , C had . why don't you
worry about something clean and
worthwhile, like television 1 In
fact , you should watch the w~st
side Kids . They' re all clean . Not
one of them has VD . And they 're
funny . Tuesday night s at 10 p .m
on channel 6.
Signed,
The Westside Kids
WE
10 .00 a.m to 2 :00p .m.
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• Open every day •
most co nvenient for them . I do
not feel well - represented by a
poo rly · typed evaluation and I
wouldn 't want a future school or
employer to think that I was .
l think there is a great deal
mo re to be said on the matter.
espec ially of this G~t lmposa tlon I mentioned (another example · wh y are students locket1 out
\•f buLidmgs at 10 p m.7 Who
,md what is the school fo r anyw <:~ y7 ). I will be out of town for
• coup!t> weeks but I wou ld like
1\
gt>t together and talk th1ngs
·vet w1th you when I return tf
·l'U o;, hou ld feel so inclmed
I
h l V(' already typed (poo rly ) and
u~M ittt•d the last quarter'~ eval lfl(lno, hut I would really ltke to
,<.h.mKe tht'm w1th my o wn
•nnted o nes If I m1ght. Thank
-.,• ou fo r any consideratiOn yo u
nliKht g1ve the matter and I ho pt>
h• hear from you .
coln
11th
and Placement at lib. 1213/phone
86&-6193.
and play, and our feelings can be
hurt like yours too . So you see,
we think and feel just like you .
It's just that we got into trouble,
and we are paying for those
troubles .
I' m from the Olympia -Tum water area , and I plan on going
back there when I get out. And I
ca n say one thing, I'll be ready
and prepared to make it this
time, and face any difficulties
that happen to come my way ,
and deal with it .
HELP
WANTED
planning :
Dis~ouragement
ture was of a man doing it.
Freudian analysts w o uld call this
penas envy, but I kn ow that th1 "
IS not )USt my individual experi ence. It is the com mon experience
of women in this society . There
#251928
,Of AM a.tl Joint
Courage About
To the Editor :
an alternative educatee
A workshop designed to help you
ldenllty pereonal skills, abilities,
values and Inter-uta as they r&tate
to educational and occupational
Teasy Ryken
imagintd myself doing. The pic-
you're a woman you can learn of
women , if you' re a man you can
learn of men , but when art these
two forces going to combine?
I'll tell you one thing, I'm not
going to buy t-shirts for women's
soccer, nor buy tickets for a
woman's festival. nor try to in vade men 's rape films . But when
the two of you co me together I'll
join you . What are you doing in
the meantime? Please think .
Topic : Credential Flies & Job Ap ptlc.tlonl
Date : Tuesday, May 10th
Time : 3 :30- 5 :00p.m.
Place : Library 1213
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tival. Her feelings reflect the
views of many women and men
here . . . views that show the
other side of the issue.
1 cannot support an event that
discourages men from attending,
any more than an event discouraging women from attending. I
feel that the men of the Evergreen
community are a hell of a lot
more supportive of women than
those men in different environ ments and lifestyles. My experiences here make me proud of the
coopera tion and understanding
men have shown and I hope this
event does not discourage men
around here from conti nuing to
be more aware .
The irony of my situation here
is that I've had more negative
encoun ter s with women than
with men . I'm not saying all the
men are perfect - it 's just that I
feel they deserve a lot more credit
than they' ve received . I just won der what would happen if the
men staged an event that discou raged women 's attendance.
Like Lorree, I support all folks,
and I hope we can all get together
to hear some read good live mu sic soon. Live music is best.
HOREN
K Elt " CNAJuom
Dltt)
IIUifiJ
AUDITORIUM
Si ncerely yours ,
Sandra Freeland
Topsy Turv y
De m o M em o
College campuses have long
l'f.'t'n sanctuanes for free speech
lnd assembly The proposal sub·
mtted by President McCann re..:.irdLng regulation of assembli<'S
" an Important measure, one not
,,, be cons1dered lightly . We bela·ve that the regulatiOns , if endorsed, would be a grave transgreSSIO n agam st our civ d hber tu?s Our bas1c rights of freedom
of speech and pea ceable assembly
are Ln 1eopa rd y. yet without a
sLgn•fLcant response from the Ev ergreen co mmunity-at-large we
will f1rd ourselves victims of a
decis1on made Without our input
or consent And the decision will
not be in our best interests, nor
in the best interests of Evergreen .
There 011re certain points within
President McCann's m~mo which
are unclear and / or contradictory .
These points are the ones which
most clearly infri nge upon our
nvil liberties :
I ) The words '' protest," "dem ·
o nstrallon ," " peacefuL " " hinder ,"
'd1srupt ," and " activities" are
used so ambiguously as to allow
almost any interpretation and / or
US<
2.J The procedures state that
protests may occur on any col·
lt-ge pro perty that is not at the
tim ~ bemg used for college activ ·
111es. but bKause th~ definition
of ··actiVIIies" is so obscure it
could prohibit protests from takmg place on co ll~ge property at
all
3 . ) Pomts (2) and (4) under the
iKtlon h~aded " Manner" could
~xclude str1king, p1cket lines , leaf ·
l~ttmg and other m~asures as a
means of protest
We are calling for a coalition
of all concerned individuals .
groups. and o rganizations to take
•ction against the proposed reg ulations . The issue is not radical•sm on nmpus ; the issue is the
pr~rvat1on of our fundamental
r1~ht\ tn lrffd("lm ol expres~u:m
flleasf' cum f' e--.pres~ your v •ewP"'Int opm•om 1df'as , sugge-s·
IL\\ns. and c rit1c1sms. Everyone
commg will have the opportunity
to address the issue at hand .
FRIDAY . MAY 6, 19n. I p.m.
BOARD ROOM . LIB . 3112
Th1s C..all to Acti o n is endorsed
m part by ·
Wilh UMoeld
Stephame Coontz
Jan Schmitt
Valerie Vogel
Mary Moorehead
Patricia Hamilt on
Lmda Bookey
David Powell
Malcolm Stilson
Alan Burrer
Sally Fixico
Keith Keyser
Russell Fox
John Benkoczy
Ernest M . Jones
and 18 others.
Repressive
Evergreen
To the Editor :
The American F~deration of
Teachers wishes to express its
opposition to the proposed guidelines for demonstrations on cam pus. These regulations, if adopted,
would make Evergfftn one of the
most repressive academic institu ·
tions In the country . The guidelines are so vague as to allow almost any interpretation. including the prohibition of picket
lines, signs. even audit-nee response to a speaker. Furthermore, the regulation makes protest organizers responsible for
any actions that may occur at a
demonstration , whatever the organizers' own aims and actions .
Finally. the right to peaceable
assembly and protest, including
the right to demonstrate at and
in public events, is a Constitutional right that has been established in communitie-s and cam puses across the nation . Such
demonstrations are , of course,
always subject to existing civil
sanctions against violence , disruption . and damage . The at tempt to develop separate. more
"tnng(·nt standard" fN the cxert..LS<' ot Civil l1bert1es at Evergreen
than prevail 10 the communit y at
large plac("S campus m~mbers in
double reopardy and contradicts
the college's role as a defender of
CIVd nghh .
The Fvergreen State College
FederatiOn of Teachers
Good Sport
To the Editor :
ster because he is black . Without
becoming murderou sly angry , I
would like to say that the aforementioned piece of writing de serve-s some kind of award that I
am in no mood to invent. It has
easily ~~ The Evergreen State
College ba~ck five years in its
public relations efforts.
have been few strong women
role model s for us that validate
our ambitions and aspirations
outside of the traditional roles
for women .
In looking around at the mus1c
world . Evergreen , concerts. festivals, the music industry , l see
that the majority of women mu ·
sicians are vocalists. the majority
of instrumentalist s are men . In
the past years of playing in bands
whe-~e I was the only woman or
with one other woman in the
band, I've had to struggle with
doubts (Is it really okay for me
to do this1) that have gotten in
the way of my musical cltovelopment. This has had nothing to
do with the male musi cians I've
played with who were not insensitive .
It is tru~ that we' re all oppressed. women and men , and
part of that oppression is that in
this highly individualist society ,
it's hard to look beyond our own
individuality and see the commonness of our experience .
Women and women musicians
have a common experience that I
am looking forward to celebrating at the Women 's Music Festival this weekend . If an all-women's event does not represent the
feelings of some people, women
and men , it is your responsibility
to get together and organize an
~vent that does represent you.
Women organizing in a patriarchal society has always histor ·
ically been a very powerful statement and tool for social change.
When women organize they
threaten the whole pittriarchal
structure. We shou ld all recognize
our common struggle but not un dermine this powerful tool within
the struggle that women organizing is .
Yours for
responsible journalism,
Greg Smith
Your ribbing of the " real "
Dady Ze ro was fun - but only
tou ched on the total world of
rou1-n::iasm m Olympia .
Case in point - the sports
page I If you ever consider doing
another parody . include a sports
page for us to smile and laugh at.
Thanks.
A WSU Fan Who Can't
Find Out Whal's Happening
In Pullman
Zero Fiddling
While
Evergreen
Burns
To the Editor :
May I write to say that I found
the Daily Olympian parody to
be in extremely poor taste... Not
only did the article reflect a bla tant lack of sensitivity to the in ·
tricacy of small town society it
also reflected a callowness of attitude one would not expect to
confront in the midst of what I
Women's
Commonness
To the Editor :
This is in response to Loree
Knutsen and a lot of people I've
talked to concerning all-women
concerts . The arguments I've
heard against all-women concerts
go something like this : Why
should men be excluded from a
consciousness- raising experience 1
Many men are interested in women's m usic, etc. These· argumen ts
focus on the feelings of men. This
seems to me to be the wrong focus. The primary issue of an all women's concert i.s that it is
women recognizing their com monness and getting together.
The secondary issue is the fact
that women getting together, by
its nature. excludeS men . But the
point of a women 's concert is not
to do just that. To emphasize the
ethics or morality or unkindness
of excluding men from a concert
is to obscure the issue. It also
sounds a bit like the familiar
~feelings -come-fi rst syn-
had thought to be a group of
serious learners. The people of
the Olympia community read the
COOPER POINT JOURNAL.
These are the people whose
awareness of Evergreen we are
(suppo~ly) trying to cultivate.
It is a true shame that the edito -
rial staff of the JOURNAL cannot k~ thne ideas in mind
while cooking up the w..,k[y
pulp. On a much less critical
scale, mak,ing fun of a small town
new spaper for its lack of sophisIH.a:um or litera ry sht'rtcommgs
\real or 1magmed) can bto l1kened
to a white grade school child 's
cruel ta~unts at a fellow young-
a musician , I've had a par r kind of experience because
woman in this society. As
a kid , my first aspiration and
fantasy was to be a concert vio linist . When I imagined this , the
picture in my head was of a man
in a black coat with tails standing in front of an orchestra, play ing. This was true of anything I
The Unfair
Sexes
To the Editor :
To Founders and Participants in
the Woman's Festival :
It greatly gri~ves me to see
women struggling for power, the
right ,to oppress and segregate.
Admittedly women need a place
in culture, they need to be recognized and taken seriously. But
what , may I ask, is women's culture going to do to benefit humankind if it excludes men7 Isn 't
this reversed Sexism 1 How do
you expect men to acknowledge
your talents if you won't share
them openly7 I agree you 're not
women
the only offende rs have been opp ressed by men for
years and still are. but do two
wrongs make a right 1
Espt"Cially at Evergreen it saddens me to see the Men's Center
offer movies about rape for men
only, and music. a universal
language, to choose an audience.
women preferred . If anything.
the division of sexes here makes
me view Evergreen in a very tra ditional light. An alternative education7 For whom7 The unity
of two sexes seems obsolete. If
CAREER / LIFE
STYLE PLANNING
WORKSHOP
This is a letter ~upporting last
week's letter by 1 orrf't' Knutc,nn
I was delighted to ~C'<' ~l)meone
speak out about her feelmgs con arning the Women 's Music Fes-
1
Writes Again
To the Editor :
A lot of people tend to have a
one - track mind about convicts
and ex · convicts . They figure
once a con, always a con. But
then again. the same people who
are saying this just didn 't get
ca ught for their cri mes, but we
did .
Most of the time when a per son comes to prison he takes up
a trade so that he can have some
skill when he goes out to face the
world once again , in hopes that
h~ can put his skill to work. But
a lot of employers wo n't hire him
because he's been in prison , and
that's all the employer cares to
learn about the man . He doesn 't
try to find out what his person ality is like or other things about
the man , just that he's an ex-con
and that's all that matters. This
is what makes a lo t o£ ex -cons
angry , depressed and worried .
He goes about beating his brains
out to find work, and the same
thing happens over and over.
~
Employers want you to be sin cere and honest with them , and
when we do they spit right in our
face . What it boils down to is
that we are paying for our debt s
twice, as if once wasn 't enough .
This world would be better off
if people stopped thinking and
worrying about themselves and
lend a helping hand to the people
in need . We want to be accepted
by society, but socie ty makes us
feel like we are some kind of
ca ncer to them . And a lot of you
people wonder why we keep
coming back to prison. If society
would wake up and take heed to
our needs and give us a chance.
we wouldn 't have to keep returning to prison . Otherwise, most of
us are forced to steal and rob for
a living.
We are human just like the rest
of you . We think and fttl just
like you . We love, care, laugh
aiiAKE aLEEDEII
aOCKET -IIIICH
.... Soeba ...... ,. ..
Date :
Time :
Pl.:e :
Wednesdriy , May
S· ~a
ltlicMo end
CMhen For ~ . Fcwd. ltn-
How To Write Letters To
The CPJ
Type them . Double-spaced, if possible. Try to get
to lhe point and stick to it. If you are unable to stick
to the point . al least try lo be funny . If you can' l be
funny , be crazy . If you can' l be crazy , be brief.
The most effective lellers make one or two points.
Sign your leller, then mail il lo the COOP ER PO INT
JOURN A L, The Evergreen State College, CAB 305 .
Olympia , Wa 98505 . Lellers musl be received by noon
Tuesday lo be considered for thal week 's publica -
Sincerely,
Dave Burnside /125 .928
Monroe State Refo rmatory
tion .
You 're Not
My Type
To the Editor :
An open letter to Bill Winden :
I am new to The Evergreen
State College this year as a transfer stude nt from Reed Collegt'
(with a year off in-between) and
have been enrolled in the Foun datl(lOS of V1•ual Art program
these past twn quarters . l was
o;;;om ewhat taken .Jback when la st
quarter''i. evaluation time ca me
.Hound to bt- 1 lid nat all evalua tams must bt• 'Yilt' '' ntten on the
forms prov1ded My seminar
leader. Paul Spark .. has told me
ht' wdl sti ck by th. t requtrement
this quarter t~,,, , if mly because
he ca n' t afford the ti.ne and trou ble that will be incurred by the
Registrar's Office sen.fing hand written evaluations ba~k to h•!Tl
Because I feel som~what imposed
upon by this regulation I decided
I should try to do , something
about 11 . and he sugges ted I tdll..
to you. Last Thursd.1y aftnnoon
I Marth !OJ I stopped by Judy
Lmdi.:JUf \ offtce to make an ap ·
pomtment. When I told her my
reason for want in~ to talk ttl you
she refused to .;e t an appomtrnent
t1me . ~ a y mg . 'There IS nothmK
to talk about .' that tt is a h.ud
and fa st rule w1th no exceptu>n ~
rcrhap._ you have ac;ked her In
sc reen suc h reque ... ts tare there
man y71 or perhap!> sh(• ft'lt 1t
with1n h<'r 10b to den y a .;tudt' olt
dCCec,s ttl a dt<an if the rt'que<tt
seemed frivoltlu<; In any event I
d1dn "t feel up to argumg w1th her
(lr bem~ further humdtat{'d I
hope you ca n be.u IP rt>.:lll th1 s
tnstead
I do not have a typewrit(•r . I
dlJ not know how to type . I do
not want to depend o n others to
do my t ypi ng for me , I do not
care to type an evaluation that
Teachers at au 1.-..ls
Universal Teachers - Box 8966
Portland, Ore . 97208
cu uiJ be comparably handwntten
m a trac t10n of the t1me I admit
that while this add ~ up to a great
unpos1tion for me . 11 IS a rather
"mall inconven 1ence 1n the Great
Scheme of Thmgs. But that is
only one way of lnokmr, at 11.
The fact that the adm101~tratJnn
can decide what IS best for the
student; i.e. typewnllen evalua tions are better m appt•Jr.ln<.t• or
overall legibility and " tudt>nt "
wdl want to mah .:1 ~o0d im pression on futurt' schoo ls and
employers: and thl· admtnlstratinn 's intractabd1ty regardm~ that
dt:'nsion I lind md JCa t1ve ol a
Creal Imposition indeed .
All during high school I t'n ·
co untered a Similar mentality
among some administrators. They
conce ntrated only on a student's
petty complaint . dragged it
through the "proper cha nnels .''
wo re you down . humiliated you
anything but try to see that
that complai nt was most likely
"y mptomatic of a failing in t he
~ys tem , a blind spot in the1r o ut look . I did not expect tCl encoun ter the same problem at Ever·
green : 11 seems an alternative education would be best served by
an alternative administration .
The only concrete reason Ms .
Lmdlauf gavt' me for not all ow tn~ handwritten evaluations is
that they must be Xeroxed when
<>ent out with tran script s and that
handwritten form s do not copy
well. I am enclosmg a Xerox co py
of my fall quarter\ evaluation . I
don 't think ynu can agree that
the reason IS a valid o ne .
Why not all(lW seJt -,. tyll'd evaluation"? Even requmn g that they
b,;- su bmitted on tht> <~ppropnate
forms, .;;tudt.•nt" would feel they
hJd the c han ce to bt'ttcr repre<>ent
them,.elves . It is tht> student 's
own evaluation of personal -a chievement after all. If you are
more co mfortable with calligraphy or writing backwards or
const ructing rebuses . would not
these styles of written communi·
ca tion present a truer picture of
the author7 It would seem to
make sense that a student would
most willingly type his or her
evaluations if that· IS how they
wished to be presented, or is
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Smcerely,
J•ll Reynolds
I
Captain Video
Meets The
Westside Kids
To the Edit o r :
Dear Ch ad Rabies .
What s all this fus s about VD
produc t1 on1 I don t th~nk ~·e
should be producing VD an yway VD tS a ho rnble dJseast•
and it' s nasty , and Evergreen
shouldn 't spread it aro und .
Instead , C had . why don't you
worry about something clean and
worthwhile, like television 1 In
fact , you should watch the w~st
side Kids . They' re all clean . Not
one of them has VD . And they 're
funny . Tuesday night s at 10 p .m
on channel 6.
Signed,
The Westside Kids
WE
10 .00 a.m to 2 :00p .m.
library 12'13
• Open every day •
most co nvenient for them . I do
not feel well - represented by a
poo rly · typed evaluation and I
wouldn 't want a future school or
employer to think that I was .
l think there is a great deal
mo re to be said on the matter.
espec ially of this G~t lmposa tlon I mentioned (another example · wh y are students locket1 out
\•f buLidmgs at 10 p m.7 Who
,md what is the school fo r anyw <:~ y7 ). I will be out of town for
• coup!t> weeks but I wou ld like
1\
gt>t together and talk th1ngs
·vet w1th you when I return tf
·l'U o;, hou ld feel so inclmed
I
h l V(' already typed (poo rly ) and
u~M ittt•d the last quarter'~ eval lfl(lno, hut I would really ltke to
,<.h.mKe tht'm w1th my o wn
•nnted o nes If I m1ght. Thank
-.,• ou fo r any consideratiOn yo u
nliKht g1ve the matter and I ho pt>
h• hear from you .
coln
11th
and Placement at lib. 1213/phone
86&-6193.
and play, and our feelings can be
hurt like yours too . So you see,
we think and feel just like you .
It's just that we got into trouble,
and we are paying for those
troubles .
I' m from the Olympia -Tum water area , and I plan on going
back there when I get out. And I
ca n say one thing, I'll be ready
and prepared to make it this
time, and face any difficulties
that happen to come my way ,
and deal with it .
HELP
WANTED
planning :
Dis~ouragement
ture was of a man doing it.
Freudian analysts w o uld call this
penas envy, but I kn ow that th1 "
IS not )USt my individual experi ence. It is the com mon experience
of women in this society . There
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women , if you' re a man you can
learn of men , but when art these
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going to buy t-shirts for women's
soccer, nor buy tickets for a
woman's festival. nor try to in vade men 's rape films . But when
the two of you co me together I'll
join you . What are you doing in
the meantime? Please think .
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Date : Tuesday, May 10th
Time : 3 :30- 5 :00p.m.
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Med School After Evergreen
by Brad Pokorny
Barbara Ramsey is the first
stu dent who has attended Evergreen for fo ur years to be accept·
ed by a medica l school. She
learned of her acceptance to the
Un1versity of Wa shington Medical Sc hoo l last spring just befo re
she graduated from Evergreen.
and she began her studies last
September . T o gather so me im pressions of what an Evergreener
ca n expect o n the road to and
through medical school. I went
to Seattle t his week to talk with
Ramsey and check on her pro·
gress.
HAMBURGER WITH BONES
Cadave rs and s tark lec ture
halls . Two fa cts o £ life for a first yea r med1ca l student. "We get
four hours of lectures a day , six
days a week , including Satu rday. " Ramsey said. "Some days
we have as many as eight hours
a day ."
Although medical students are
notorious for playing games
w1th cadavers, Ramsey said it
wa~ very clear from the begin nmg that any tri cks with them
would bc'c;eve rely frowned upon .'
'The first-qua rter anatomy teach er is more capab le of striking
terror in to people 's heart s t ha n
any other teacher that I' ve had
so far . So when he says somt>thmg like that you go. 'Yes Sir":·
Ramsey admitted that there
was a "never-ending fasonation "
w1th cadave rs . The fi rst t1me they
cut one. Ramsey said. the instructors urged them to make the
mcision with ··zest .'' because "' it
will bc the longest mnsion of
yt,ur whole career ·· The first cut
1n Gros!l Anatom y runs from the
1hroat to the bottom of the abdnmen . Everyone IS squeam 1sh.""
... he sa1d. "You overcome 11 Tht'
t~r ... t t1me , t'veryone stands a round dnmg nothmg, wa1tmg for
... ,,mer'nt' to make the hrst movt•
There aren t a lo t of Kung-ho
ht·n' <>calpel-lnvNs that go nghl
IOI\1 11 But after lonK enough
l uttm~ .1nd look mg. you forgt>t
11 You o;tart st"elng cadaver<> a ...
hilmhurger w1th bones--becauo;('
Y\IU no longer share anythmg
w1th the cadavN exc(>pt the
vaguc~t c;nrt of form ··
Mmd -numbing hard work that
lc1y~ wa<;te to the asp1r.ttions of
many a mt•d•cal student ic; the
tlther <>tereo type ol the f1rst year
m a phyo;1c1an s trammg "'You
dn havc to work really hard
<oa 1d Ramsey . 'hut 11 comes easu:-r
than you think. because every·
one around you 1<; workmg very
hard In coll('ge. everyo ne around
ynu isn 't workmg hard . And 1f
yo u work hard . you are d01ng
it on your own . It 's an act of
will But here . because everyont>
I'> doing 11 , not do1ng work is an
act of w•ll. because the current
1
is towards working .
Medical studenh learn to perfo rm physical examinations o n
each other. Ramsey noted it was
amusing to see h o w people
grouped up for the class . 'What
st ruck me as funny is that people
were ret icent to take off their
clothes. Here they are, getting
ready to be doctors, and they're
ready to tell fourteen people a
day to take their clothes o ff , but
the idea of taking their own
clothes off is very upsetting."
DOES WESTERN M EDICINE
H URT O R HEA Ll
Ramsey has strong o pini o ns
abou t what medicine in thi s
cou ntry should and shouldn 't be.
She questions the underlying
assumptions in medici ne , advismg anyone considering medical
sc hool to "ask themselves what
Western medicine does fo r people. Does it make t hem sick o r
well? I w o uld advise everyone to
read Medical Nemesis by Ivan
lll ich, and decide if they want
to be a part of what he talks
about . because a lot of it is true .
"'You soon find out that if one
disease is e radicated, it is rapidly
replaced by a nother disease ," she
continued . " If the cholesterol
doesn"t get you , somet hing else
wdl. It makes you cy nical about
how muc h you can do to main tam your own hea lth in twentieth
centu ry America .
For examp le. the more you
start look1ng into topics like nu trition , the more you realize that
for every study that proves something, there a re four others th at
disprove it. You start doubting
the knowledge that you have . I
hadn 't bought a ca rt o n of eggs
in .:;ix months. until I had a lecture on cholesterol--becausr I
d1dn I thmk it was so good to eat
a lnt of eggs But at the end of
the lecture. I d heard so many
d1 ... parate opinions and experi·
mental proofs, that I went out
and bought a dozen eggs and
had myself a nice omelet
"I thmk. medical ca re should be
comp letel y frt'"t" , but I also thmk
that 11 should be restri cted . because what Amen can mt'dicine
can do . what 11 can heal. 1s very
l1m1tl"'d . But the desire for peop le
tn get well. to be healthy . is so
~real that people think doctors
(an dn more than they really
lan And so If you have a lot of
dl,ctor<; and a lot of people gomg f1). me . f1x me. · you ve got
doclor!l crea ting di.:;ea~ ins tead
ol (UflnK them People getting
hooked on drugs . for instance.
bec.lU!lol' 1hey want to be cured
and I he doctor wants to get them
out of his ha1r .
"' I lhin k tf medical care is so
abu ndant and so va lue-d that
people start gomg to doctors a ll
the time, the n they end up going
for things t hat are not medical
problems . They hav e a fight
w ith their wife . so they go to the
doctor to get a pill. Or they d o n't
like their boss so they d t'velop
low back pain s an-J they don 't
have to go to worl.. .'"
A P RESCRI PTIO N FOR
PRE-M ED EVERG REENERS
Ramsey said that for man y
people, herself included , Evergreen was an excellent pla ce to
prepare for medical school. "If
you're a good test-taker , and you
can do well on the MC A T's
( Medi ca l Co llege Admi ss io ns
Tests) , I think Evergreen is a
good way to get in . I got in beca use my sco res were high and I
h01d good recommendations from
Evergreen teachers . Evergreen's
small enough so that you can get
w know faculty and they can
write detailed recommendations
that carry weight. "
"There's also a greater chance
a t Evergreen of doing individual
pr ojects which s how personal
initiative," said Ramsey . "Also .
Evergreen allows you to survive
the endless strea m of pre-medical
requ i rt'ment s. 1 don 't think I
could have taken it at the Un iversity of Washington . The class·
es are too big and the pressure is
tuo great .'"
Some courses that Ramsey said
we re important for a pre-med
student at Eve rgreen to take are
basic physics. math up through
calcu lu s, a nd organic and inorganic chem1stry She tned to
stick to cou rses that had a direct
co nnection with biology . "'I al ways realtzed every year that I'd
have to spend a major p~rl of
my time doing science and biologiCal things .''
Takmg Developmental Biology
here helped her a grea t deal ··A
lot of courses at medical school
assume you have it. or rush
through 1t o;o qluck ly that 11 you
d1dn "t know 11 before, you could
ne ver catlh 11 at all. "
She said that b1ochem1stry wa s
Important . bec'luSt' taking it here
allowed her to take a test . get
cred1t. and establish her pro
ficiency w1thout taking a ·· 1 ~ng
and t1ring ' class at medi c).l.r
school. "I would advise anyone
who wants to get mt o medical to
take biochem. "
'C oming from Everg reen
you 've got to be li eve in yourSt'lf.
because you will have to defend
Evergreen , and if you do 11 persuasiveiJ:: and co nfid e ntl y , 11
comes ofT well. ""
"Wht'n you get acceptt>d , 1t"s
really exc1tmg. It 's like cl1mbing
a mountam You do somethmg
that you were never really surr
you were going to do ."
Ramsey is persua!rive and confident. and domg just fme at
medical school.
The Pacific Northwest W om en's M usic Festival will ta ke place
on campus this weekend. May 6,
7, and 8 . Fea tured artists for the
event will perform in concert on
Friday and Sa turday nights a nd
on Sunday afternoon . Scheduled
fo r Friday night at 7 p .m . are
Malvina Reynolds , the 76-yearo ld singer, songwriter and activ ist ; and Na o mi Littlebear and
the Ursa Min o r C hoir , a Port land-based group .
Saturday 's performance will
showcase the guitar - playing and
vocal talents of Maggie Savage
and Jude Fogelquist, the music o£
los Angeles pianist and songwriter Ma ry Watkins. and Teresa
Trull's North Ca ro lina crooning.
The S unday afternoon concert
will begin at 2 p .m . with Ginny
Bales, who accompanies her vo cals on guitar and piano . Bales'
performance will be followed by
a dance with a seven-piece band
ca lled Baba Yaga , whose repertoire includes latin 1az.z and funk
rock .
Festival o rganizers a re promo! ·
in~ the concerts as ··wo men - pre ferred" events. and are discour agmg men from attending.
Advance tickets . available at
the Women 's Center . wdl be $10
for all three co ncert s, $7 for two .
;::~nd $4 for one co nce rt. All con certs will be S4 at the door
The festival a lso includes workshops during the day Saturday
and on Sunday mornmg . The
sched ule :
SATURDAY , MAY 7
10 a.m . · noon
Buildin~ Our Culture To meet
Our Need s A discu ssion led by
Ginny Bales of performancr problems, audiences, and the rela tionship of women's music to
mamstream Amcncan music . lib .
3500 lounge.
Conga Drums and More The
Women's Drumming Group plays
a number of instruments, includir1g congas, bongos. bells. tam bourines, and a marimba . " We
want to provide a space for wom en to get in touch with their own
musical energ1es through play1ng
together ." Lib . 4001 .
C reating Fe minist lyrics Mag gie Savage will talk about the
difference between music w ritt en
by women for women and just
writing music . Lib . 2205.
P . A . System s - A Practical
Tour Ca rla Knoper will conduc t
a guided tour th rough micro phones, mixe rs, and amphfien .
Library lo bby.
Songs For Children Malvina
Reynolds leads a discussion for
adults involved in music with
children - writing , collecting, or
teaching.
12 ,30-2 ,30 p·. m
Open Mike library lobby
3-Sp.m .
Feminist Musical s C hris Arthur
of tht> Ursa Minor Chotr talks
about ideas a nd problems related
to femmist musical productions.
Lob . 2100.
Finger - picking Styles Flip Auer
conducts a worksho p for mter ~
mediate and advan ceJ gu1tarists.
with a running commentary on
women folk·guitarists in the U.S .
Lib . 2205 .
Aute Pam Miller provides duet
music for beginning a nd experienced flutists . Lib . 3500 lounge.
Third World Women In Wom en's Music Naomi Littlebear will
talk about the lack of Third
World women in music fields.
why white middle -class women
dommate the new movement in
women 's music, and co-optation
and commercia lity . CAB 108.
Vocal and Percussion Explora ·
tion Jan Buchan.il.n of Baba Yaga
will be "p layi ng with sounds and
rh yt hm s and taki ng off w it h
them ." Lib . 4001.
SUNDA Y, MA Y 8
10 - li , 30 a . m .
Song-sharing Ginny Bales and
others will share so ngs by no n featured performers. Lib . 3112 .
Traditio n al Women ' s Music
Linda Allen will discuss songs
which describe wo men 's lives and
fantasies . Participants are as ked
to bring instruments and so ngs
to share . Lib . 4001.
Women and Jazz Patti Vincent ,
Bo nnie Kovaleff. and Susa n Co lson of Baba Yaga look at the is sues raised as white women play ing music which has pnmarily
come from black cu lture and ex perience. Lib . 3500.
Women 's Survival In the Music
Industry Malvina Reynolds dis cusses music as a product . and
the expe rience of women as smg ers, mus1cians . and writer /com posers. CAB 108 .
Noon -1,30 p . m .
Balkan Singing Carol Elwood
gives an introduction to traditiona l womt'n·s songs from sou th eait Eu rope . Voice exercises w ill
be demonstrated . Lib . 3112.
Classical Music and Composers
Jean Vignes looks at class1ca l
composers from the thirteenth to
the eighteenth centuries. CAB
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108 .
lookmg For a
Olivia Records Teresa Trull
and Mary Watkins share experiences as working members of the
O li via Records Collective . Lib.
3500 lounge.
Tribal Chants, Spirituality, and
Women ' s Music With Rachel.
les1a . and Nwbe . L1b 4001
To Be Announced W1th Ruth1e
Gorton . Lib . 2100 .
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Sun -Thurs 3 00-10 JO
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Sat 4 00-12 00
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also serve Amencan and vegetarian food
111 NO CAPITO L WAY 352-8855
We
Special for Mother's Day
Open
11 :00 to 11 :00
Come and give your
Mother a special treat
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student Barbara Ram sey and collea gue To m Payne e:r.amlne the crania..l structure of a cadaver .
Med School After Evergreen
by Brad Pokorny
Barbara Ramsey is the first
stu dent who has attended Evergreen for fo ur years to be accept·
ed by a medica l school. She
learned of her acceptance to the
Un1versity of Wa shington Medical Sc hoo l last spring just befo re
she graduated from Evergreen.
and she began her studies last
September . T o gather so me im pressions of what an Evergreener
ca n expect o n the road to and
through medical school. I went
to Seattle t his week to talk with
Ramsey and check on her pro·
gress.
HAMBURGER WITH BONES
Cadave rs and s tark lec ture
halls . Two fa cts o £ life for a first yea r med1ca l student. "We get
four hours of lectures a day , six
days a week , including Satu rday. " Ramsey said. "Some days
we have as many as eight hours
a day ."
Although medical students are
notorious for playing games
w1th cadavers, Ramsey said it
wa~ very clear from the begin nmg that any tri cks with them
would bc'c;eve rely frowned upon .'
'The first-qua rter anatomy teach er is more capab le of striking
terror in to people 's heart s t ha n
any other teacher that I' ve had
so far . So when he says somt>thmg like that you go. 'Yes Sir":·
Ramsey admitted that there
was a "never-ending fasonation "
w1th cadave rs . The fi rst t1me they
cut one. Ramsey said. the instructors urged them to make the
mcision with ··zest .'' because "' it
will bc the longest mnsion of
yt,ur whole career ·· The first cut
1n Gros!l Anatom y runs from the
1hroat to the bottom of the abdnmen . Everyone IS squeam 1sh.""
... he sa1d. "You overcome 11 Tht'
t~r ... t t1me , t'veryone stands a round dnmg nothmg, wa1tmg for
... ,,mer'nt' to make the hrst movt•
There aren t a lo t of Kung-ho
ht·n' <>calpel-lnvNs that go nghl
IOI\1 11 But after lonK enough
l uttm~ .1nd look mg. you forgt>t
11 You o;tart st"elng cadaver<> a ...
hilmhurger w1th bones--becauo;('
Y\IU no longer share anythmg
w1th the cadavN exc(>pt the
vaguc~t c;nrt of form ··
Mmd -numbing hard work that
lc1y~ wa<;te to the asp1r.ttions of
many a mt•d•cal student ic; the
tlther <>tereo type ol the f1rst year
m a phyo;1c1an s trammg "'You
dn havc to work really hard
<oa 1d Ramsey . 'hut 11 comes easu:-r
than you think. because every·
one around you 1<; workmg very
hard In coll('ge. everyo ne around
ynu isn 't workmg hard . And 1f
yo u work hard . you are d01ng
it on your own . It 's an act of
will But here . because everyont>
I'> doing 11 , not do1ng work is an
act of w•ll. because the current
1
is towards working .
Medical studenh learn to perfo rm physical examinations o n
each other. Ramsey noted it was
amusing to see h o w people
grouped up for the class . 'What
st ruck me as funny is that people
were ret icent to take off their
clothes. Here they are, getting
ready to be doctors, and they're
ready to tell fourteen people a
day to take their clothes o ff , but
the idea of taking their own
clothes off is very upsetting."
DOES WESTERN M EDICINE
H URT O R HEA Ll
Ramsey has strong o pini o ns
abou t what medicine in thi s
cou ntry should and shouldn 't be.
She questions the underlying
assumptions in medici ne , advismg anyone considering medical
sc hool to "ask themselves what
Western medicine does fo r people. Does it make t hem sick o r
well? I w o uld advise everyone to
read Medical Nemesis by Ivan
lll ich, and decide if they want
to be a part of what he talks
about . because a lot of it is true .
"'You soon find out that if one
disease is e radicated, it is rapidly
replaced by a nother disease ," she
continued . " If the cholesterol
doesn"t get you , somet hing else
wdl. It makes you cy nical about
how muc h you can do to main tam your own hea lth in twentieth
centu ry America .
For examp le. the more you
start look1ng into topics like nu trition , the more you realize that
for every study that proves something, there a re four others th at
disprove it. You start doubting
the knowledge that you have . I
hadn 't bought a ca rt o n of eggs
in .:;ix months. until I had a lecture on cholesterol--becausr I
d1dn I thmk it was so good to eat
a lnt of eggs But at the end of
the lecture. I d heard so many
d1 ... parate opinions and experi·
mental proofs, that I went out
and bought a dozen eggs and
had myself a nice omelet
"I thmk. medical ca re should be
comp letel y frt'"t" , but I also thmk
that 11 should be restri cted . because what Amen can mt'dicine
can do . what 11 can heal. 1s very
l1m1tl"'d . But the desire for peop le
tn get well. to be healthy . is so
~real that people think doctors
(an dn more than they really
lan And so If you have a lot of
dl,ctor<; and a lot of people gomg f1). me . f1x me. · you ve got
doclor!l crea ting di.:;ea~ ins tead
ol (UflnK them People getting
hooked on drugs . for instance.
bec.lU!lol' 1hey want to be cured
and I he doctor wants to get them
out of his ha1r .
"' I lhin k tf medical care is so
abu ndant and so va lue-d that
people start gomg to doctors a ll
the time, the n they end up going
for things t hat are not medical
problems . They hav e a fight
w ith their wife . so they go to the
doctor to get a pill. Or they d o n't
like their boss so they d t'velop
low back pain s an-J they don 't
have to go to worl.. .'"
A P RESCRI PTIO N FOR
PRE-M ED EVERG REENERS
Ramsey said that for man y
people, herself included , Evergreen was an excellent pla ce to
prepare for medical school. "If
you're a good test-taker , and you
can do well on the MC A T's
( Medi ca l Co llege Admi ss io ns
Tests) , I think Evergreen is a
good way to get in . I got in beca use my sco res were high and I
h01d good recommendations from
Evergreen teachers . Evergreen's
small enough so that you can get
w know faculty and they can
write detailed recommendations
that carry weight. "
"There's also a greater chance
a t Evergreen of doing individual
pr ojects which s how personal
initiative," said Ramsey . "Also .
Evergreen allows you to survive
the endless strea m of pre-medical
requ i rt'ment s. 1 don 't think I
could have taken it at the Un iversity of Washington . The class·
es are too big and the pressure is
tuo great .'"
Some courses that Ramsey said
we re important for a pre-med
student at Eve rgreen to take are
basic physics. math up through
calcu lu s, a nd organic and inorganic chem1stry She tned to
stick to cou rses that had a direct
co nnection with biology . "'I al ways realtzed every year that I'd
have to spend a major p~rl of
my time doing science and biologiCal things .''
Takmg Developmental Biology
here helped her a grea t deal ··A
lot of courses at medical school
assume you have it. or rush
through 1t o;o qluck ly that 11 you
d1dn "t know 11 before, you could
ne ver catlh 11 at all. "
She said that b1ochem1stry wa s
Important . bec'luSt' taking it here
allowed her to take a test . get
cred1t. and establish her pro
ficiency w1thout taking a ·· 1 ~ng
and t1ring ' class at medi c).l.r
school. "I would advise anyone
who wants to get mt o medical to
take biochem. "
'C oming from Everg reen
you 've got to be li eve in yourSt'lf.
because you will have to defend
Evergreen , and if you do 11 persuasiveiJ:: and co nfid e ntl y , 11
comes ofT well. ""
"Wht'n you get acceptt>d , 1t"s
really exc1tmg. It 's like cl1mbing
a mountam You do somethmg
that you were never really surr
you were going to do ."
Ramsey is persua!rive and confident. and domg just fme at
medical school.
The Pacific Northwest W om en's M usic Festival will ta ke place
on campus this weekend. May 6,
7, and 8 . Fea tured artists for the
event will perform in concert on
Friday and Sa turday nights a nd
on Sunday afternoon . Scheduled
fo r Friday night at 7 p .m . are
Malvina Reynolds , the 76-yearo ld singer, songwriter and activ ist ; and Na o mi Littlebear and
the Ursa Min o r C hoir , a Port land-based group .
Saturday 's performance will
showcase the guitar - playing and
vocal talents of Maggie Savage
and Jude Fogelquist, the music o£
los Angeles pianist and songwriter Ma ry Watkins. and Teresa
Trull's North Ca ro lina crooning.
The S unday afternoon concert
will begin at 2 p .m . with Ginny
Bales, who accompanies her vo cals on guitar and piano . Bales'
performance will be followed by
a dance with a seven-piece band
ca lled Baba Yaga , whose repertoire includes latin 1az.z and funk
rock .
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in~ the concerts as ··wo men - pre ferred" events. and are discour agmg men from attending.
Advance tickets . available at
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Our Need s A discu ssion led by
Ginny Bales of performancr problems, audiences, and the rela tionship of women's music to
mamstream Amcncan music . lib .
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Conga Drums and More The
Women's Drumming Group plays
a number of instruments, includir1g congas, bongos. bells. tam bourines, and a marimba . " We
want to provide a space for wom en to get in touch with their own
musical energ1es through play1ng
together ." Lib . 4001 .
C reating Fe minist lyrics Mag gie Savage will talk about the
difference between music w ritt en
by women for women and just
writing music . Lib . 2205.
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adults involved in music with
children - writing , collecting, or
teaching.
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Feminist Musical s C hris Arthur
of tht> Ursa Minor Chotr talks
about ideas a nd problems related
to femmist musical productions.
Lob . 2100.
Finger - picking Styles Flip Auer
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mediate and advan ceJ gu1tarists.
with a running commentary on
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Aute Pam Miller provides duet
music for beginning a nd experienced flutists . Lib . 3500 lounge.
Third World Women In Wom en's Music Naomi Littlebear will
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why white middle -class women
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Willy Crisp
A Short Story By Constance Matthiessen
I hove a friend named Elizabeth and
she's lived on this lsland all her Hfe. She
was born here eleven years ago, up-island
in the big hospital. I've lived here for five
yean and Elizabeth still has to tell me
things . She knows ladi~ who'll give us
candy if we kn ock on thei.r door and say
hi . Sometimes we don' t have to go in and
talk to them , they'll just bring us candy or
gum and ask us our names. I have to~ laugh
when Elizabeth stands there smiling in at
one of the ladies, her face pressed against
thtt screen. One lady is pretty old and
when she tries to pal Elizabeth 's hair Eliz.dbcth wall squirm away and tell me to
come on She chews three pu.•ces of gum
at once and throws the wrappt>rs in th t>
street That lady 'o;; an old queer," she tell s
m(' Don I tell mv SISler about the candy ,
ol..ay7
Ehz.abeth
1s
th(' one who told me about
Mrs. B1ggs . Mrs B1ggs is an old lady who
live-s down a dirt road near the dump and
Elizabeth's brother told her that she throws
thmgs at k1ds and yPIIs at them if they
walk near her house . " He says she's a
w1tch and she 's got dead things in that
house with her." We were eating lunch at
Elizabeth's house. Her house is small and
kind of dark and it always smells like
cooking cabbage. Her mo ther is older than
a mother should be, but I like her anyway .
She's never around , she puts sandwiches
in the icebox and leaves us alone. So we
don 't have to have milk. That day we
drank pop and Elizabeth was sipping hers
through a straw while she told me about
Mrs. Biggs. " I think we should go out
there and spy on her. Maybe we can see
one of the bodies."
We took our bikes and rode out neu
the dump . Everything smells smoky out
there and there are lots of rusty cans and
smashe-d up glass along the roadside .
"There are giant rats out here," Elizabeth
told me as we walked our bikes over the
yellow sand . " Kids CQJne out here and
shoot them at night. "
" Is her house near the road7 " There was
a lot of rustling from a pile of boxes and
I'm pretty sure I saw a big brown tail.
" Nah , she hates people. She lives way
away from the road I bet. "
We finally found a mailtox that said
B1ggs on it in faded red letters . The mail box was dented and sort of leaning at the
._>nd of an overgrown dirt road .
"'no~s is it all right ," Elizabeth whispe~
as she pet"ked into the mailbox . " Let's hide
our bikes and sneak in through the
woods ."
The bushes were all brambly and
scratched at us as we tried to walk . There
was lots of trash in there too , really old
1unk like newspapers with all the writing
go ne , and ca r seats with springs popping
th rough the leather. We even found an
ol d car, all rumpled and stretched out
with no tires or engines or seats. The
windshield had big holes in it and cracks
that looked like cobwebs. The car looked
kind of sad with all its doors hanging
w1de and grass growing up where the en g~ne used to be.
" See th ose bullet holu7 " Elizabeth
pomted at the windshield . "That's an old
gangster car ."
We walked around the car and kept on
through the woods. Pretty soon we came
to a big f1eld and we 'tould see the house .
I was expecting something like a castle or
a b1g spooky mansion , but it was just a
nonmd house with grey shingJes. It looked
open- mouthed and kind of ti~ and it
~me-d to be winking at us because one
of the wmdows had glass and the other
wa s stuffed with tar paper . There was no
front door and there was a big crate where
the front steps were supposed to be The
house was all grey from dump smoke but
in a way it looked too new too because
no OM n-er finished it. There was a car
pulled up next to the house , one of those
~.J.IIy old ones with a square front and
wood on thf' sides.
" Let's crawl throu.ah the grass," Eliz.a beth whispered . " We can ~
close,
she'll never ..., us ." Then .he pulled a pad
out oi her pocket and wrote "no mo~
,...1
talking·· on it with one of those chewedup pencils she always carries. She shoved
it in my face, then we both got down on
our hands and knees and crawled through
the high yellow grass.
When we got up close to the house I
decided 1 didn't want to go any further. I
didn't need to see any dead bOdies or
witches and I told Elizabeth that.
"Stay here then and watch the door."
she whispered . " I want to look in one of
those windows." So I crouched there and
shifted my eyes back and forth between
Elizabeth and the open door.
Elizabeth was almost at the window
when a dog sneaked out from under the
car and started barking at her. He was a
dumb· looking dog : black and white with
a big bald spot on his back, and he didn't
try to chase Elizabeth or run at her or
anything. He kept away from her like a
big chicken and just yipped and growled.
I wanted to run but I stayed for a second
to be sure Elizabeth got away , and that 's
when I saw someone standing in the door·
way . I think it was an old lady : all bent
over with long grey hair and a black dress,
but I'm not sure because I turned then and
ran as fast as I could .
Later Elizabeth told me that she saw
something on a mattress inside the house
that looked like a dead person . And she
told her brother that someone shot at us
when we ran away , but I didn't hear any ·
thing .
Elizabeth is probably the first one who
told me about Willy Crisp, but everyone
kn ows about him . He's mental , that's what
everyone says, he's even b«n to a crazy
house a few times. They always let him
out again and I don 't know why because
everyone is afraid of him . They say he
sets fires in the woods and calls old ladies
on the teleph one. And once a long time
ago he pulled Nancy Carls off her bike
and made her say swears. Elizabeth says
he's forty years old, and he still rides a
bike and lives with his mother. Everyone
walks really fast when they have to pass
Willy Crisp's house, me too because I
don't want him to grab me. I seoe him on
his bike lots of times , or in the paper store,
and he looks like a nonnal man to me . But
his face is kind of hairy and his knees
stick out when he rides his bike.
Even Elizabeth is scared to spy on Willy
Crisp, but sometimes when we're walking
with a bunch of kids Willy wiU ride by
and Elizabeth will say, " Wiii -EEEEEE" ,.._
ally loud and we all laugh . I can't tell if
Willy hears or not , maybe he's deaf .
Elizabeth used to be friend. with Coro-
line Zanes who fell off the wharf and
drowned . I knew Caroline. she 'Yas a
grade ahead and when I was a little kid in
kindergarten she helped me take my hat
off once when the knot was stuck. But I
wasn't friends with her, not like Elizabeth
who lived right next door and p~yed with
her all the time . Elizabeth tells me about
it every time we walk near the whari. It's
scary there, you can go prttty high up so
you're way above the water, and it moves
reaUy fast. " It just sucks you down iJ you
fall on it. " Elizabeth says. I believe her
too because I can see the way it sifts and
swirls, it's not smooth like normal Willer
at a.ll .
"They say Caroline was doing cart·
wheels here, right next to the edge but
they're full of it. She WillS such a chicken
of the water , I bet you somebody pushed
her. "
We stand there with our anns around
those big brown posts - they smell so
good, like tar, or sticky sap - and I
wonder about Caroline. "Didn't anyone
see her fall inl " I always ask Elizabeth the
Mme question because I can't believe her
mother wasn 't there, or someone. There
are always high school boys standing around , or old men .
" It would be easy for someone to just
shove her off," Elizabeth tells me. "I
mean , if a kid was just standing there and
you were someone like Willy Crisp, you
might just want to give her a little push .''
'Was Willy here that day?"
··sure he was , he's always around .
think he rides around and looks in people's windows at night. "
"My mother says she slipped . She was
fooling around and she fell right off.
Everyone says so .''
Elizabeth didn' t say anything then , she
just turned and started walking really fast
toward town . I went after her and asked
her if she wanted to play twins . We play
twins a lot ; we tie two of our tegs together and pretend we're connected, like Siilmese twins . We walk downtown like that
and the man in the candy store kids us .
It 's really fun but it gives me kind of a
cr«py f«ling . I don 't think I like Siamese
twins very much .
That day I asked Elizabeth if she wanted
to play twins and she said no . 'What
does your mother know anyway7" she
stopped walking and asked me this . An
ice cream cone was lying in the street, it
had melted to ill white puddJe with the
cone pointing up out of it. Elizabeth
squiiitted down and watched the ants
crawling in the ice cream smean. "Your
mother's so dumb , I bet you'll move away
because of her."
"No, we aren t. We aren't going to
move."
"Your mother is bad news, everyone's
saying so. And people who get talked
about never stay here, except Willy Crisp
who's too dumb to move."
'What do you mean 'bad news'l Come
on Elizabeth." I was sure she was mad
about Caroline and kidding me.
"Everyone knows about it , that's what
my dad told my mom." Elizabeth poked
011 the ants with a piece of stick. '1 don't
think he even likes me playing with you ."
"Everyone knows what7"
'That your Mom is bad news . I don't
know , that 's all I heard . Come on, let's
go get an ice cream ."
Elizabeth wasn 't mad anymore and we
went to get a dairy whip. We Hke it in the
sum mer because all the soh ice cream
places open and we don't have to get
cones at the drugstore . The drugstore has
big stools but they only have chocolate
and vanilla for navors and the lady who
works there doesn't Hke us very much .
Elizabeth says she doesn 't like anyone ,
not since her son died in a car crash . That
happmed a long time ago , befo~ I was
evenbom.
"Everyone knows that he was drunk
but she won't believe it," Elizabeth told
me once . "She went nuts for awhile and
wouldn't believe that he was even dead ."
When we walk into the sto~ the lady
sneaks around after us to mUe sure we
don't steal anything. Lou of times Elizabeth milkes it out with a candy bar, I
don't know how . '1 love to fool th.ot old
turd," she laughs and shows me what
she's taken . '1 think she drinks too, I can
smell things on her breath ."
At first I thought Elizabeth said that
stuff about my mother because she was
angry about Caroline Zanes. But after
that she kept talking about my mother
more and more and I kind of had to listen
because Elizabeth knows a lot. She spies
on her parents when they talk, and her
brother tells her lots of things. It's a small
island and Elizabeth knows just about
ev~one who lives here. Lots of people
w~ born here and so we~ their parents
and grandparents . Most people never
move away unless they do something
,..ally bad and then it's hard to stay because everyone talks about you .
I'd move away if I was Clark Fontina
because everyone talks about him and he's
only in the eighth grade. Evm Elizabeth
is afraid of him and when we tee h.im we
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ride really fast on our bikes or cut through
the woods so we won't have to meet up
with him . I think he's sort of mental , his
face reminds me of one of those devil
masks kids wear on Halloween. He's always smiiU, reaJiy mean or talking to
himself. Some of the older kids call him
Chatty Baby because of the way he mumbles, but I don't dare call him anything
and when I see his red sweatshirt ahead
of me I get really scared.
.
Clark always wears a red sweatshirt,
the kind with pockets in the front and a
hood . He walks with the sweatshirt pulled
over the front of his pants and if he see
you he comes after you and tells you that
his fly is down . It 's scary because he smiles
and leans at you and you don't know
what he wants to do .
A few weeks ago I met up with Clark
and I was all bv mvself. I was on mv way
back from Elizabeth's house . That day Elizabeth and I went to the beach . We went
swi mming and did jelly rolls and head·
stands and swam between each other's
legs. I like to wat ch Elizabeth under the
water , she looks all mu shy like a fish and
her hair drifts out behind her. When she
comes up for a1r she holds her nose and
dips her head back in the water so her
hair will lie smooth. I like the way she
does it so I do it too, even though my
hair is short.
"You know what I hate so much7" Eli·
za beth asked me as we lay resting in the
shallows. "I hate getting dunked. You
know , when someone takes your head
and holds it under the water ; that drives
me up a wall . The next time anyone tries
that on me I'm going to get my brother to
kill them ."
I hate getting dunked too but later on I
did it to Elizabeth and she couldn't do it
back because I'm bigger than she is. She
got real mad and went up on the sand and
wouldn't come into the water again. When
I got out she was sittifls with a bunch of
kids up near the beach grass , where the
sand is nice and hot. When I sat down
with them Elizabeth started whispering
and laughing. I felt funny because I'm not
friends with any of those kids and they
were all looking at me and laughing too .
Elizabeth was talking mainly to this
girl named Debbie Brix who I hate and
Elizabeth hates her too. Everyone hated
her a few years aso because she smells
funny and J he stayed back a bunch of
times. But this year she has a boyfriend
and a bra and now a lot of the kids are
nice to her. Me and Elizabeth stiU hate
her though , she thinks she's so big and
she's a real flirt. And that day she was
laughing loudest of all at the stuff Elizabeth was saying. She has such a dumb
laugh, Debbie does . I think she was the
one who started saying those things about
my mother.
" Better not talk about that ," said Eliza beth, and she looked over at me. "She
doesn't know anything about her mom
and she might start bawling."
I got up then and went back in the
water. It was mean to dunk Elizabeth so I
wasn't really angry , later she came back
in the water and we swam some more .
But she was bossy for the rest of the
day so when we got back from the beach
I decided '" go home . My mot her was
coming to pick me up but no t until later,
so I sta rted walking .
I was alm ost home when I saw C lark
Fontina . He was wal!...in g toward me the
way he does , on ·his toes wi th his dumb
red swea tshi rt pulled over his front. It
wa s too late for me to run , I co uld aJ .
ready hear C lark talkmg to himself And
then he was ta lk ing to me too and smili ng
and telling me that h1s fly was down .
I tried to walk aro und h1m but he kept
moving in front of me , even when I told
him , "Get away Clark ." He was grinning
at me with _this devil grin that' s V·shaped
and he didn 't look as though he felt sorry
for me at all. I hate it when people give
that lool. or when I see it in the movies.
It 's the kind of face that is so mean and
sure that you know there is no use asking
them to stop.
" I got my fly open under my sweilter,
little girlie, you can see the bump if you
look ." C~rk kept saying stuff like that
and I wanted to laugh because he thinks
he's so big when he's just a dumb kid that
everyone calls Chatty Baby . But I didn't
laugh becau!oe I was trying so hard to get
away from him and he kept twisting a round and coming in front of me.
"Come on·, sweetie-pie, have ill little
look. How come you're so scared of me if
my fly isn't down 7" He backed me up
against a t~ but I still wouldn't look
down there . I just shut my eyes and tried
to get away . It's awful to push against
someone when they just won' t budge, and
I felt sorry again about dunking Elizabeth.
" How come you' re crying, little girlie7
Are you a baby or something?" Clark has
this really scrapey voice and when he
chases after you or trilps you it sounds as
if he's singing really low. "Come on, look
down there girlie, then I'll let you go."
Can pa§Rd us but no one stopped, they
must have thought we were just playing.
So finally I looked real fast. "And it's got
hair on it too," Clark told me, smiling
with his face really cia.... I kept my eyes
on his face . He was chewing a big pink
blob of gum , I hadn't noticed it before.
I'm not sure if it really had hair on it but
I don't think so.
"Clark. you said you'd let me go if I
looked . Please let me go." He was still
holding on to me . " I want to go home." I
was crying very hard by now .
" Don 't you want to touch it7 It won 't
hurt you , little baby ."
just then my mother and a man went
by in a ca r . I was sure it was my mother
so I shouted as loud as I could . I shouted
help over and over but the car didn't stop
"What are you domg1" Clark tried to
cover my mouth . '" Better stop screammg
o r I'll - -··
" M y mothe r just drove by and she.-.
co ming back . You betrer let me go."
''I'm so scared of your mo ther," sa1d
C lark, but he let me go. "She isn't go ing
to hurt anyone ."
I wanted to sc ream at him and call him
Chatty Baby o r Lose r or Queer but I was
afraid he'd co me after me so I just ran ,
and I didn 't stop until I got home. A car
pulled out of our driveway just as I got
there, it was the car my mother had been
in when she passed me. Mr. Damhurst
was driving. he's a man who works at the
compa ny with my father . I thought he'd
stop and ask me why I was crying and
running like that , but he only looked at
me and kept driving .
I ran into the house and straight into the
living room . My mother was standing at
the winQow and smoking a cigarette.
" What are you doing here7" she asked
me, her voice kind of angry . "You're sup·
posed to be at Elizabeth's."
" I walked home early. Mummy, Clark
Fontinil was ctasins me and - -" I was
panling so hard that I couldn't talk right.
" Why didn't you stop 7 Didn't you ...,
me7 "
" Has it ev~ occurred to you that I may
want a little time to myself7 You come
running in he~ when you're supposed to
be-- -"
" Why didn 't you stop though 7 Didn't
you see me, near thilt fence by the Nelsons? I yelled so h.ord when I saw you Clark chased me Mummy, and then he
held me so I couldn't - -"
My mother didn't notice thait 1 was cry ing or sared, she just kept being angry .
"I don't know what you 're talking about.
I've been at home all day ."
" But I saw you go by wit h Mr. Dam hurst , right before Clark let me go. It was
so awful , he wouldn't let me go even when
I cried."
She didn't get it though . She walked
toward the kitchen and she was still angry ,
but not at Clark . "I don' t think I want
you playing with Elizabeth any more. You
always come home with these big stories.
you 're getting as bad as every one else m
this nosy place."
There's no use talking to my moth er
when she get s in a mood like that but I
kept trying anywa y. " It 's about Clar~ !
got to tell you, Mummy . He wac;; co rn u,~
after me and saymg dirty · ~
' I tell you l"m sick of these ~tones an ! I
mean 11. .. she smacked a pan down hMJ
on the stove. "'You and th at hornd Eli1.1
bt>th
it's always someone like th <H
poor Fontina boy who's s1ck and sad l'
nough, without you spreading these · ·
I got so angry then because she would r- I
li sten and because she called Clark po 1r
when he isn 't poor at all. He"s nasty a nJ
he's strong, didn 't she see th e way he w.1 <,
holding mel " Elizabeth isn't horrid.' I
yelled at her. "She's smart and she know s
things . She knows more than you and she
isn' t horrid at all .''
lfl a few weeks we'll be moving off·
island and it 's partly my fault . My mother .
says for one thing she's tired of all the
gossip and I think she means the stuff me
and Elizabeth are always saying.
I could stay here if I wanted to because
my father is going to be living here , at
least for a while. But I don't like this place
so much any more. I want to go some
place where there are no weird people like
Mrs. Biggs and Willy Criap and Clark
Fontina to bug me.
Elizabeth says she'll come visit me offisland but I bet she never does . She's only
been off the island once and that was
when she was really small, she'll be too
scared to really do it. She says she won't
be scared but I don 't think I'll want her to
visit me anyway .
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Willy Crisp
A Short Story By Constance Matthiessen
I hove a friend named Elizabeth and
she's lived on this lsland all her Hfe. She
was born here eleven years ago, up-island
in the big hospital. I've lived here for five
yean and Elizabeth still has to tell me
things . She knows ladi~ who'll give us
candy if we kn ock on thei.r door and say
hi . Sometimes we don' t have to go in and
talk to them , they'll just bring us candy or
gum and ask us our names. I have to~ laugh
when Elizabeth stands there smiling in at
one of the ladies, her face pressed against
thtt screen. One lady is pretty old and
when she tries to pal Elizabeth 's hair Eliz.dbcth wall squirm away and tell me to
come on She chews three pu.•ces of gum
at once and throws the wrappt>rs in th t>
street That lady 'o;; an old queer," she tell s
m(' Don I tell mv SISler about the candy ,
ol..ay7
Ehz.abeth
1s
th(' one who told me about
Mrs. B1ggs . Mrs B1ggs is an old lady who
live-s down a dirt road near the dump and
Elizabeth's brother told her that she throws
thmgs at k1ds and yPIIs at them if they
walk near her house . " He says she's a
w1tch and she 's got dead things in that
house with her." We were eating lunch at
Elizabeth's house. Her house is small and
kind of dark and it always smells like
cooking cabbage. Her mo ther is older than
a mother should be, but I like her anyway .
She's never around , she puts sandwiches
in the icebox and leaves us alone. So we
don 't have to have milk. That day we
drank pop and Elizabeth was sipping hers
through a straw while she told me about
Mrs. Biggs. " I think we should go out
there and spy on her. Maybe we can see
one of the bodies."
We took our bikes and rode out neu
the dump . Everything smells smoky out
there and there are lots of rusty cans and
smashe-d up glass along the roadside .
"There are giant rats out here," Elizabeth
told me as we walked our bikes over the
yellow sand . " Kids CQJne out here and
shoot them at night. "
" Is her house near the road7 " There was
a lot of rustling from a pile of boxes and
I'm pretty sure I saw a big brown tail.
" Nah , she hates people. She lives way
away from the road I bet. "
We finally found a mailtox that said
B1ggs on it in faded red letters . The mail box was dented and sort of leaning at the
._>nd of an overgrown dirt road .
"'no~s is it all right ," Elizabeth whispe~
as she pet"ked into the mailbox . " Let's hide
our bikes and sneak in through the
woods ."
The bushes were all brambly and
scratched at us as we tried to walk . There
was lots of trash in there too , really old
1unk like newspapers with all the writing
go ne , and ca r seats with springs popping
th rough the leather. We even found an
ol d car, all rumpled and stretched out
with no tires or engines or seats. The
windshield had big holes in it and cracks
that looked like cobwebs. The car looked
kind of sad with all its doors hanging
w1de and grass growing up where the en g~ne used to be.
" See th ose bullet holu7 " Elizabeth
pomted at the windshield . "That's an old
gangster car ."
We walked around the car and kept on
through the woods. Pretty soon we came
to a big f1eld and we 'tould see the house .
I was expecting something like a castle or
a b1g spooky mansion , but it was just a
nonmd house with grey shingJes. It looked
open- mouthed and kind of ti~ and it
~me-d to be winking at us because one
of the wmdows had glass and the other
wa s stuffed with tar paper . There was no
front door and there was a big crate where
the front steps were supposed to be The
house was all grey from dump smoke but
in a way it looked too new too because
no OM n-er finished it. There was a car
pulled up next to the house , one of those
~.J.IIy old ones with a square front and
wood on thf' sides.
" Let's crawl throu.ah the grass," Eliz.a beth whispered . " We can ~
close,
she'll never ..., us ." Then .he pulled a pad
out oi her pocket and wrote "no mo~
,...1
talking·· on it with one of those chewedup pencils she always carries. She shoved
it in my face, then we both got down on
our hands and knees and crawled through
the high yellow grass.
When we got up close to the house I
decided 1 didn't want to go any further. I
didn't need to see any dead bOdies or
witches and I told Elizabeth that.
"Stay here then and watch the door."
she whispered . " I want to look in one of
those windows." So I crouched there and
shifted my eyes back and forth between
Elizabeth and the open door.
Elizabeth was almost at the window
when a dog sneaked out from under the
car and started barking at her. He was a
dumb· looking dog : black and white with
a big bald spot on his back, and he didn't
try to chase Elizabeth or run at her or
anything. He kept away from her like a
big chicken and just yipped and growled.
I wanted to run but I stayed for a second
to be sure Elizabeth got away , and that 's
when I saw someone standing in the door·
way . I think it was an old lady : all bent
over with long grey hair and a black dress,
but I'm not sure because I turned then and
ran as fast as I could .
Later Elizabeth told me that she saw
something on a mattress inside the house
that looked like a dead person . And she
told her brother that someone shot at us
when we ran away , but I didn't hear any ·
thing .
Elizabeth is probably the first one who
told me about Willy Crisp, but everyone
kn ows about him . He's mental , that's what
everyone says, he's even b«n to a crazy
house a few times. They always let him
out again and I don 't know why because
everyone is afraid of him . They say he
sets fires in the woods and calls old ladies
on the teleph one. And once a long time
ago he pulled Nancy Carls off her bike
and made her say swears. Elizabeth says
he's forty years old, and he still rides a
bike and lives with his mother. Everyone
walks really fast when they have to pass
Willy Crisp's house, me too because I
don't want him to grab me. I seoe him on
his bike lots of times , or in the paper store,
and he looks like a nonnal man to me . But
his face is kind of hairy and his knees
stick out when he rides his bike.
Even Elizabeth is scared to spy on Willy
Crisp, but sometimes when we're walking
with a bunch of kids Willy wiU ride by
and Elizabeth will say, " Wiii -EEEEEE" ,.._
ally loud and we all laugh . I can't tell if
Willy hears or not , maybe he's deaf .
Elizabeth used to be friend. with Coro-
line Zanes who fell off the wharf and
drowned . I knew Caroline. she 'Yas a
grade ahead and when I was a little kid in
kindergarten she helped me take my hat
off once when the knot was stuck. But I
wasn't friends with her, not like Elizabeth
who lived right next door and p~yed with
her all the time . Elizabeth tells me about
it every time we walk near the whari. It's
scary there, you can go prttty high up so
you're way above the water, and it moves
reaUy fast. " It just sucks you down iJ you
fall on it. " Elizabeth says. I believe her
too because I can see the way it sifts and
swirls, it's not smooth like normal Willer
at a.ll .
"They say Caroline was doing cart·
wheels here, right next to the edge but
they're full of it. She WillS such a chicken
of the water , I bet you somebody pushed
her. "
We stand there with our anns around
those big brown posts - they smell so
good, like tar, or sticky sap - and I
wonder about Caroline. "Didn't anyone
see her fall inl " I always ask Elizabeth the
Mme question because I can't believe her
mother wasn 't there, or someone. There
are always high school boys standing around , or old men .
" It would be easy for someone to just
shove her off," Elizabeth tells me. "I
mean , if a kid was just standing there and
you were someone like Willy Crisp, you
might just want to give her a little push .''
'Was Willy here that day?"
··sure he was , he's always around .
think he rides around and looks in people's windows at night. "
"My mother says she slipped . She was
fooling around and she fell right off.
Everyone says so .''
Elizabeth didn' t say anything then , she
just turned and started walking really fast
toward town . I went after her and asked
her if she wanted to play twins . We play
twins a lot ; we tie two of our tegs together and pretend we're connected, like Siilmese twins . We walk downtown like that
and the man in the candy store kids us .
It 's really fun but it gives me kind of a
cr«py f«ling . I don 't think I like Siamese
twins very much .
That day I asked Elizabeth if she wanted
to play twins and she said no . 'What
does your mother know anyway7" she
stopped walking and asked me this . An
ice cream cone was lying in the street, it
had melted to ill white puddJe with the
cone pointing up out of it. Elizabeth
squiiitted down and watched the ants
crawling in the ice cream smean. "Your
mother's so dumb , I bet you'll move away
because of her."
"No, we aren t. We aren't going to
move."
"Your mother is bad news, everyone's
saying so. And people who get talked
about never stay here, except Willy Crisp
who's too dumb to move."
'What do you mean 'bad news'l Come
on Elizabeth." I was sure she was mad
about Caroline and kidding me.
"Everyone knows about it , that's what
my dad told my mom." Elizabeth poked
011 the ants with a piece of stick. '1 don't
think he even likes me playing with you ."
"Everyone knows what7"
'That your Mom is bad news . I don't
know , that 's all I heard . Come on, let's
go get an ice cream ."
Elizabeth wasn 't mad anymore and we
went to get a dairy whip. We Hke it in the
sum mer because all the soh ice cream
places open and we don't have to get
cones at the drugstore . The drugstore has
big stools but they only have chocolate
and vanilla for navors and the lady who
works there doesn't Hke us very much .
Elizabeth says she doesn 't like anyone ,
not since her son died in a car crash . That
happmed a long time ago , befo~ I was
evenbom.
"Everyone knows that he was drunk
but she won't believe it," Elizabeth told
me once . "She went nuts for awhile and
wouldn't believe that he was even dead ."
When we walk into the sto~ the lady
sneaks around after us to mUe sure we
don't steal anything. Lou of times Elizabeth milkes it out with a candy bar, I
don't know how . '1 love to fool th.ot old
turd," she laughs and shows me what
she's taken . '1 think she drinks too, I can
smell things on her breath ."
At first I thought Elizabeth said that
stuff about my mother because she was
angry about Caroline Zanes. But after
that she kept talking about my mother
more and more and I kind of had to listen
because Elizabeth knows a lot. She spies
on her parents when they talk, and her
brother tells her lots of things. It's a small
island and Elizabeth knows just about
ev~one who lives here. Lots of people
w~ born here and so we~ their parents
and grandparents . Most people never
move away unless they do something
,..ally bad and then it's hard to stay because everyone talks about you .
I'd move away if I was Clark Fontina
because everyone talks about him and he's
only in the eighth grade. Evm Elizabeth
is afraid of him and when we tee h.im we
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ride really fast on our bikes or cut through
the woods so we won't have to meet up
with him . I think he's sort of mental , his
face reminds me of one of those devil
masks kids wear on Halloween. He's always smiiU, reaJiy mean or talking to
himself. Some of the older kids call him
Chatty Baby because of the way he mumbles, but I don't dare call him anything
and when I see his red sweatshirt ahead
of me I get really scared.
.
Clark always wears a red sweatshirt,
the kind with pockets in the front and a
hood . He walks with the sweatshirt pulled
over the front of his pants and if he see
you he comes after you and tells you that
his fly is down . It 's scary because he smiles
and leans at you and you don't know
what he wants to do .
A few weeks ago I met up with Clark
and I was all bv mvself. I was on mv way
back from Elizabeth's house . That day Elizabeth and I went to the beach . We went
swi mming and did jelly rolls and head·
stands and swam between each other's
legs. I like to wat ch Elizabeth under the
water , she looks all mu shy like a fish and
her hair drifts out behind her. When she
comes up for a1r she holds her nose and
dips her head back in the water so her
hair will lie smooth. I like the way she
does it so I do it too, even though my
hair is short.
"You know what I hate so much7" Eli·
za beth asked me as we lay resting in the
shallows. "I hate getting dunked. You
know , when someone takes your head
and holds it under the water ; that drives
me up a wall . The next time anyone tries
that on me I'm going to get my brother to
kill them ."
I hate getting dunked too but later on I
did it to Elizabeth and she couldn't do it
back because I'm bigger than she is. She
got real mad and went up on the sand and
wouldn't come into the water again. When
I got out she was sittifls with a bunch of
kids up near the beach grass , where the
sand is nice and hot. When I sat down
with them Elizabeth started whispering
and laughing. I felt funny because I'm not
friends with any of those kids and they
were all looking at me and laughing too .
Elizabeth was talking mainly to this
girl named Debbie Brix who I hate and
Elizabeth hates her too. Everyone hated
her a few years aso because she smells
funny and J he stayed back a bunch of
times. But this year she has a boyfriend
and a bra and now a lot of the kids are
nice to her. Me and Elizabeth stiU hate
her though , she thinks she's so big and
she's a real flirt. And that day she was
laughing loudest of all at the stuff Elizabeth was saying. She has such a dumb
laugh, Debbie does . I think she was the
one who started saying those things about
my mother.
" Better not talk about that ," said Eliza beth, and she looked over at me. "She
doesn't know anything about her mom
and she might start bawling."
I got up then and went back in the
water. It was mean to dunk Elizabeth so I
wasn't really angry , later she came back
in the water and we swam some more .
But she was bossy for the rest of the
day so when we got back from the beach
I decided '" go home . My mot her was
coming to pick me up but no t until later,
so I sta rted walking .
I was alm ost home when I saw C lark
Fontina . He was wal!...in g toward me the
way he does , on ·his toes wi th his dumb
red swea tshi rt pulled over his front. It
wa s too late for me to run , I co uld aJ .
ready hear C lark talkmg to himself And
then he was ta lk ing to me too and smili ng
and telling me that h1s fly was down .
I tried to walk aro und h1m but he kept
moving in front of me , even when I told
him , "Get away Clark ." He was grinning
at me with _this devil grin that' s V·shaped
and he didn 't look as though he felt sorry
for me at all. I hate it when people give
that lool. or when I see it in the movies.
It 's the kind of face that is so mean and
sure that you know there is no use asking
them to stop.
" I got my fly open under my sweilter,
little girlie, you can see the bump if you
look ." C~rk kept saying stuff like that
and I wanted to laugh because he thinks
he's so big when he's just a dumb kid that
everyone calls Chatty Baby . But I didn't
laugh becau!oe I was trying so hard to get
away from him and he kept twisting a round and coming in front of me.
"Come on·, sweetie-pie, have ill little
look. How come you're so scared of me if
my fly isn't down 7" He backed me up
against a t~ but I still wouldn't look
down there . I just shut my eyes and tried
to get away . It's awful to push against
someone when they just won' t budge, and
I felt sorry again about dunking Elizabeth.
" How come you' re crying, little girlie7
Are you a baby or something?" Clark has
this really scrapey voice and when he
chases after you or trilps you it sounds as
if he's singing really low. "Come on, look
down there girlie, then I'll let you go."
Can pa§Rd us but no one stopped, they
must have thought we were just playing.
So finally I looked real fast. "And it's got
hair on it too," Clark told me, smiling
with his face really cia.... I kept my eyes
on his face . He was chewing a big pink
blob of gum , I hadn't noticed it before.
I'm not sure if it really had hair on it but
I don't think so.
"Clark. you said you'd let me go if I
looked . Please let me go." He was still
holding on to me . " I want to go home." I
was crying very hard by now .
" Don 't you want to touch it7 It won 't
hurt you , little baby ."
just then my mother and a man went
by in a ca r . I was sure it was my mother
so I shouted as loud as I could . I shouted
help over and over but the car didn't stop
"What are you domg1" Clark tried to
cover my mouth . '" Better stop screammg
o r I'll - -··
" M y mothe r just drove by and she.-.
co ming back . You betrer let me go."
''I'm so scared of your mo ther," sa1d
C lark, but he let me go. "She isn't go ing
to hurt anyone ."
I wanted to sc ream at him and call him
Chatty Baby o r Lose r or Queer but I was
afraid he'd co me after me so I just ran ,
and I didn 't stop until I got home. A car
pulled out of our driveway just as I got
there, it was the car my mother had been
in when she passed me. Mr. Damhurst
was driving. he's a man who works at the
compa ny with my father . I thought he'd
stop and ask me why I was crying and
running like that , but he only looked at
me and kept driving .
I ran into the house and straight into the
living room . My mother was standing at
the winQow and smoking a cigarette.
" What are you doing here7" she asked
me, her voice kind of angry . "You're sup·
posed to be at Elizabeth's."
" I walked home early. Mummy, Clark
Fontinil was ctasins me and - -" I was
panling so hard that I couldn't talk right.
" Why didn't you stop 7 Didn't you ...,
me7 "
" Has it ev~ occurred to you that I may
want a little time to myself7 You come
running in he~ when you're supposed to
be-- -"
" Why didn 't you stop though 7 Didn't
you see me, near thilt fence by the Nelsons? I yelled so h.ord when I saw you Clark chased me Mummy, and then he
held me so I couldn't - -"
My mother didn't notice thait 1 was cry ing or sared, she just kept being angry .
"I don't know what you 're talking about.
I've been at home all day ."
" But I saw you go by wit h Mr. Dam hurst , right before Clark let me go. It was
so awful , he wouldn't let me go even when
I cried."
She didn't get it though . She walked
toward the kitchen and she was still angry ,
but not at Clark . "I don' t think I want
you playing with Elizabeth any more. You
always come home with these big stories.
you 're getting as bad as every one else m
this nosy place."
There's no use talking to my moth er
when she get s in a mood like that but I
kept trying anywa y. " It 's about Clar~ !
got to tell you, Mummy . He wac;; co rn u,~
after me and saymg dirty · ~
' I tell you l"m sick of these ~tones an ! I
mean 11. .. she smacked a pan down hMJ
on the stove. "'You and th at hornd Eli1.1
bt>th
it's always someone like th <H
poor Fontina boy who's s1ck and sad l'
nough, without you spreading these · ·
I got so angry then because she would r- I
li sten and because she called Clark po 1r
when he isn 't poor at all. He"s nasty a nJ
he's strong, didn 't she see th e way he w.1 <,
holding mel " Elizabeth isn't horrid.' I
yelled at her. "She's smart and she know s
things . She knows more than you and she
isn' t horrid at all .''
lfl a few weeks we'll be moving off·
island and it 's partly my fault . My mother .
says for one thing she's tired of all the
gossip and I think she means the stuff me
and Elizabeth are always saying.
I could stay here if I wanted to because
my father is going to be living here , at
least for a while. But I don't like this place
so much any more. I want to go some
place where there are no weird people like
Mrs. Biggs and Willy Criap and Clark
Fontina to bug me.
Elizabeth says she'll come visit me offisland but I bet she never does . She's only
been off the island once and that was
when she was really small, she'll be too
scared to really do it. She says she won't
be scared but I don 't think I'll want her to
visit me anyway .
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End Of The Dial
How does a trip to the beach
turn into a left - wing news -analysis show7 Don't ask Tess Mar tinez, Janet Woodward , or Tom
Clingman. These three students,
along with Ca llie Williams and
Lanny Aronoff , are too busy
producing " News From the Left
End of the Dial," one of KAOSFM 's newest radio shows, to put
up with such trivial questions .
" When we first started," said
Janet Woodward , "our idea was
to get a lot of listeners by focusing on community ISS•Jes. " The
group's plans then included a
documentary on the ownership
of land near the college by Mi chael Myers (see CPJ "The Overhulse Property, " April 21(, an
example of absentee landlords
and their affect on land use .
They soon decided to expand
their coverage to national and
international issues. " We really
feel the existing coverage of that
kind of news is superficial ,'' said
Tess Martinez .
"We didn 't just want to co ver
the county commission meet ings ," added Tom C lingman .
" We wanted to cover groups
who were working for alterna tives, peop le doing political work
in different sorts of ways ."
They found no problem with
possibly hostile interviews, as
they had feared they might.
" People feel comfortable talking
with us ," said Cli ngman , " but
not with the tape recorder on .
People have a hard time with the
tape recorder sometimes."
One of their biuest concerns
is how many people they are
reaching . " We n~d to know if
we're being unclear, redundant.
<fr rhet orica l.'' said Clingman .
The group is anxious to hear
comments ancl idea!. from listen ers.
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SHOAT STORY DEPARTMENT
MThe Kugelma11 EptiOde,.. by
Woody Allen . shows what happens
when a bald , Jewish, leisure- suit ·
cl ad professor of humanities gels
magically transported Into Flau bert's novel M.cteme Bovary Professor Kugelmass Is In search of a
li llie romance , a little flmg before
old age sets m permanentlY . and
Emma B ovary Is the largel of hiS
des1res New Yorter Magazme. May
2. 1977, page 34
who behave w!lh unbelievable courage Thai's exactly what happens '"
ltle - some respond terribly and
some beautifully " Esquire May
1977 . page 72
John Gardner (eulhor of many
short stories, the novels Octobef
Ugh I and The Sunlight Dialogue. ,
among others , and a lew operas) tS
mlei'\I'Jewed m the Ma y AtlanUc
Monthly He talks aboul wnters and
wr1tlng . " The whole POint of ltcl10n
" Redemption ," by John Gardner ,
IS a story abOut a lwelve-year - old
for me Is to e~~:plore the world and
to expla1n lt. to undersland 11 It's
bOy who acctdentally kills his 11111e
brother wtth a trac tor The bOy feels
profoundly relevant to I he world ·
1
remorse His lather runs away from
MA Conversation with John Gard home H1s mother cries The bOy
Mr," In Atlantic Monthly , May 1977,
page
43
does !he farm work His father
comes home The boy learns to play
DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT
the French horn The story Is better
than II SOUndS Atlantic Monthly ,
May 1977 , page 48
SPEAKING OF WOODY ALLEN
AND JOHN GARDNER DEPARTMENT
The bananas are missing from
the article Woody Allen Wlpn the
Smll• Oft Hl1 Fece by Frank Rich
tn May's Esquire Allen wants to
change his Image , get serious .
make movies about death just like
Bergman Allen , the philosopher.
says . " Ute Is a concenlrallon camp
You're stuck here, and there's no
way ou t , and you can only rage Im potently against your persecutors
The concen tration camp Is the real
test There are those who choose
to make terrible moral decisions
and betray their beat friends and do
h()(tible th1ngs . and there are others
In February's EsQu ire Magaz ine
there was an anonymous story titled
For Rupert - With No Proml ....
written In J 0 Sallnger - style with
Salinger's characters Some readers
believed that It actually was Satin ·
ger emerging fr om hts Vermont re treat and ot her readers made
guesses as to who would ha11e the
gall to Imitate lhe s&cred Salmger
Guesses primed In the Esquire let ters column Inc lude John Updike .
John Cheever, and Jacqueline Sus anne Well . Eaqulre admltled the
story was a take, wri tlen by their
f1ct1on echt()( Gordon Ush Us publication was juslilled by edltonal
d1rector Don Erickson who said , " If
11 makes a hundred people go back
and re . re&d the splendOf'S of For
Elme - wllh love.,~ Squalor. It's
worth It "
a . m . to 4 :30 p. m thr<1ugh june
27 in the Registrar's OffiCe The
1977 su mmer program offers 13
group con tra cts and s1x coordi nated stud•es programs . In addition , about 18 faculty member ~
have been ass1gned tn offer md• vidual co ntra cts
• The Women 's Chn1c IS spun sonng a workshop ent1tled .
"Those things that ft't'l wrong
which ' they ' s.:;y d o n't worry a bout. " For example ; m1sst>d pen ods, spotting, breast tenderness .
cysts , cramps, etc. Informati on .
questions, and answers . Pre o;ented by Jan Schmitt . the Wom en 's Health Care Special.st o n
Wednesday , May 11. 5 ·30 to 7
p .m. in Health Se rv1 ces Lounge,
Seminar 2110.
• The Question You Asked is the
title of a slide show being pre sented by EPIC (Evergreen Political Information Center) and
the Native American Solidarity
Committee on Monday: May 9,
at noon and 7 :30 p . '11 . 10 LH
One. The slide show mcludes a
section o n Indian st ruggles in
Washington ~ tate : fishing , the
Cushman Occupation. and Yvon ne Wanrow's fight for freedom .
A discussion will follow the slide
show. Admission is free .
• A play about rape ent1tle1
The Guy Next Door will be pre·
sented on Ma y 9 at noon 10 CAB
110.
• Women faculty and students
meet for lunch Monday , May 9
m CAB 108 . To d1scuss the pro ·
motion of a woman faculty to
the deansh1p , and to share the
conce rns of women faculty and
stude nt s.
• Those expectmg fmann.1l a1J
for the 1977-78 academ1c ye<~r
take nott> of the May 15, 1977
deadline . Students who apply before May 15, 1977 w11l ha ve f1r"t
pnority for all Ever~rl't'n - admml
stered aid program ~ . Any fund ..
sti ll available after the 1n1tial
awards will be g1ven to apph cants with high need So ~1.'1
tho~t> apphcat10ns m to ln..,Ur(·
lull conside rati on for you
'-----GR.eenwoon-'
2300 Evergreen Park Dnve,
Inn Olymp•a 94.1-4000
ALL WAYS Tl'tAVEL SERVICE, INC.
NEW ADDRESS : Harri son & Division
O lympia, Washington
943-8700
vu.o·re Building a New Town
• ur·free vill•ge for 2500 people of sol•r homes , orgo~nic go~rdens o~nd
sm•ll businnses. We o~re est .. blishing .. new \Uy of living with an
emphuis on community life , the integro~ tion of worll o~nd plo~y , .and livin~
with no~ lure through o~ppmprio~te technology . Join our 8 week summer
workshop •nd help creo~te •n eco-systemic o~nd humo~n sc.ale t o~n
College credit .
The Center for Creative Community
Gordo Ran c h , Dorena lake Cottage Grove, Or . 97~H
• Women 's S tudi es Program
(Group Contract) met>t1n~ Fn ·
day , May 6, from noon - 2 p m
L1b. 2204 Margaret GnbsJ...ov
and 1nterested studt'ntc; wdl meet
to plan the d1rcct1on of the pro gram
DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER
without seeing us!
(l_Y1\IJ'IA
• Facult y member Rudy Mart 1n
wall examme wnllngs by modern
Amencan and English poets m .:1
lecture called Why l{ead litera ture 1 wh~eh he wdl g1vt> on W('d
nesday , Mav I I. at 7 30 p m m
LH Three
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One excellent Lt>ntar enlarger
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program will be offered o n Wed nesday , May II. from 10 d m .
2 p . m . (w ith a half -hour lunch l
Ca reer cou nsel or Michelle lw u
will conduc t the program at the
Career Resource Center. L1b
1214 . For more information. call
866-6193.
• There will be a women 's soccer game on the Evergrl"t'n field
at 11 :00 a . m . on May 7
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Brieflets
Appeanng Tues. APRIL 19- Sun MAY 15
The COOP[!! POINT JOUR NAL need~ a new Mandg1ng Ft•d tures Ed1tor summer quarter
Come tu the CPJ ofh(_e m LAB
306 for details or call Sb6-o213
• A six - hour audemic fair on
Wednesday . May II launchec;
registration for more than 20
programs during Evergreen · ~ ten week summer session Reg•~tra
tion continues weekJays from 8
Students from the Politic~ Ecology program empti~ a dump ster o n Red Square T uesday to demonstrilte that a luge quantity
of the co ntents could be recycled .
News From The Left
End Of The Dial
How does a trip to the beach
turn into a left - wing news -analysis show7 Don't ask Tess Mar tinez, Janet Woodward , or Tom
Clingman. These three students,
along with Ca llie Williams and
Lanny Aronoff , are too busy
producing " News From the Left
End of the Dial," one of KAOSFM 's newest radio shows, to put
up with such trivial questions .
" When we first started," said
Janet Woodward , "our idea was
to get a lot of listeners by focusing on community ISS•Jes. " The
group's plans then included a
documentary on the ownership
of land near the college by Mi chael Myers (see CPJ "The Overhulse Property, " April 21(, an
example of absentee landlords
and their affect on land use .
They soon decided to expand
their coverage to national and
international issues. " We really
feel the existing coverage of that
kind of news is superficial ,'' said
Tess Martinez .
"We didn 't just want to co ver
the county commission meet ings ," added Tom C lingman .
" We wanted to cover groups
who were working for alterna tives, peop le doing political work
in different sorts of ways ."
They found no problem with
possibly hostile interviews, as
they had feared they might.
" People feel comfortable talking
with us ," said Cli ngman , " but
not with the tape recorder on .
People have a hard time with the
tape recorder sometimes."
One of their biuest concerns
is how many people they are
reaching . " We n~d to know if
we're being unclear, redundant.
<fr rhet orica l.'' said Clingman .
The group is anxious to hear
comments ancl idea!. from listen ers.
" News From the Left End of
the Dial" is broadcast each Thursday from 6 - 7 p .m . on KAOS FM . The frequency IS 89 3 .
ood Readin
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
GOOD READING Is a column listing books and articles which
members of the COO PER POINT JOURNAL staff have found especially useful , entertaining, or Important From lime to time
GOOD READING will feature short commentaries and Items on
ll!erary matters We welcome suggestions and Ideas tor this
colu mn from our readers Actu• me Invito factu• . non ut meu1
aclul . ("An &ell do against my will is not my act ")
SHOAT STORY DEPARTMENT
MThe Kugelma11 EptiOde,.. by
Woody Allen . shows what happens
when a bald , Jewish, leisure- suit ·
cl ad professor of humanities gels
magically transported Into Flau bert's novel M.cteme Bovary Professor Kugelmass Is In search of a
li llie romance , a little flmg before
old age sets m permanentlY . and
Emma B ovary Is the largel of hiS
des1res New Yorter Magazme. May
2. 1977, page 34
who behave w!lh unbelievable courage Thai's exactly what happens '"
ltle - some respond terribly and
some beautifully " Esquire May
1977 . page 72
John Gardner (eulhor of many
short stories, the novels Octobef
Ugh I and The Sunlight Dialogue. ,
among others , and a lew operas) tS
mlei'\I'Jewed m the Ma y AtlanUc
Monthly He talks aboul wnters and
wr1tlng . " The whole POint of ltcl10n
" Redemption ," by John Gardner ,
IS a story abOut a lwelve-year - old
for me Is to e~~:plore the world and
to expla1n lt. to undersland 11 It's
bOy who acctdentally kills his 11111e
brother wtth a trac tor The bOy feels
profoundly relevant to I he world ·
1
remorse His lather runs away from
MA Conversation with John Gard home H1s mother cries The bOy
Mr," In Atlantic Monthly , May 1977,
page
43
does !he farm work His father
comes home The boy learns to play
DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT
the French horn The story Is better
than II SOUndS Atlantic Monthly ,
May 1977 , page 48
SPEAKING OF WOODY ALLEN
AND JOHN GARDNER DEPARTMENT
The bananas are missing from
the article Woody Allen Wlpn the
Smll• Oft Hl1 Fece by Frank Rich
tn May's Esquire Allen wants to
change his Image , get serious .
make movies about death just like
Bergman Allen , the philosopher.
says . " Ute Is a concenlrallon camp
You're stuck here, and there's no
way ou t , and you can only rage Im potently against your persecutors
The concen tration camp Is the real
test There are those who choose
to make terrible moral decisions
and betray their beat friends and do
h()(tible th1ngs . and there are others
In February's EsQu ire Magaz ine
there was an anonymous story titled
For Rupert - With No Proml ....
written In J 0 Sallnger - style with
Salinger's characters Some readers
believed that It actually was Satin ·
ger emerging fr om hts Vermont re treat and ot her readers made
guesses as to who would ha11e the
gall to Imitate lhe s&cred Salmger
Guesses primed In the Esquire let ters column Inc lude John Updike .
John Cheever, and Jacqueline Sus anne Well . Eaqulre admltled the
story was a take, wri tlen by their
f1ct1on echt()( Gordon Ush Us publication was juslilled by edltonal
d1rector Don Erickson who said , " If
11 makes a hundred people go back
and re . re&d the splendOf'S of For
Elme - wllh love.,~ Squalor. It's
worth It "
a . m . to 4 :30 p. m thr<1ugh june
27 in the Registrar's OffiCe The
1977 su mmer program offers 13
group con tra cts and s1x coordi nated stud•es programs . In addition , about 18 faculty member ~
have been ass1gned tn offer md• vidual co ntra cts
• The Women 's Chn1c IS spun sonng a workshop ent1tled .
"Those things that ft't'l wrong
which ' they ' s.:;y d o n't worry a bout. " For example ; m1sst>d pen ods, spotting, breast tenderness .
cysts , cramps, etc. Informati on .
questions, and answers . Pre o;ented by Jan Schmitt . the Wom en 's Health Care Special.st o n
Wednesday , May 11. 5 ·30 to 7
p .m. in Health Se rv1 ces Lounge,
Seminar 2110.
• The Question You Asked is the
title of a slide show being pre sented by EPIC (Evergreen Political Information Center) and
the Native American Solidarity
Committee on Monday: May 9,
at noon and 7 :30 p . '11 . 10 LH
One. The slide show mcludes a
section o n Indian st ruggles in
Washington ~ tate : fishing , the
Cushman Occupation. and Yvon ne Wanrow's fight for freedom .
A discussion will follow the slide
show. Admission is free .
• A play about rape ent1tle1
The Guy Next Door will be pre·
sented on Ma y 9 at noon 10 CAB
110.
• Women faculty and students
meet for lunch Monday , May 9
m CAB 108 . To d1scuss the pro ·
motion of a woman faculty to
the deansh1p , and to share the
conce rns of women faculty and
stude nt s.
• Those expectmg fmann.1l a1J
for the 1977-78 academ1c ye<~r
take nott> of the May 15, 1977
deadline . Students who apply before May 15, 1977 w11l ha ve f1r"t
pnority for all Ever~rl't'n - admml
stered aid program ~ . Any fund ..
sti ll available after the 1n1tial
awards will be g1ven to apph cants with high need So ~1.'1
tho~t> apphcat10ns m to ln..,Ur(·
lull conside rati on for you
'-----GR.eenwoon-'
2300 Evergreen Park Dnve,
Inn Olymp•a 94.1-4000
ALL WAYS Tl'tAVEL SERVICE, INC.
NEW ADDRESS : Harri son & Division
O lympia, Washington
943-8700
vu.o·re Building a New Town
• ur·free vill•ge for 2500 people of sol•r homes , orgo~nic go~rdens o~nd
sm•ll businnses. We o~re est .. blishing .. new \Uy of living with an
emphuis on community life , the integro~ tion of worll o~nd plo~y , .and livin~
with no~ lure through o~ppmprio~te technology . Join our 8 week summer
workshop •nd help creo~te •n eco-systemic o~nd humo~n sc.ale t o~n
College credit .
The Center for Creative Community
Gordo Ran c h , Dorena lake Cottage Grove, Or . 97~H
• Women 's S tudi es Program
(Group Contract) met>t1n~ Fn ·
day , May 6, from noon - 2 p m
L1b. 2204 Margaret GnbsJ...ov
and 1nterested studt'ntc; wdl meet
to plan the d1rcct1on of the pro gram
DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER
without seeing us!
(l_Y1\IJ'IA
• Facult y member Rudy Mart 1n
wall examme wnllngs by modern
Amencan and English poets m .:1
lecture called Why l{ead litera ture 1 wh~eh he wdl g1vt> on W('d
nesday , Mav I I. at 7 30 p m m
LH Three
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Dukroom Equipment for sale :
One excellent Lt>ntar enlarger
with f4 N1kor lens, plus easel and
other goodies . . best offer
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• A ca reer / life -s tyle plann1ng
program will be offered o n Wed nesday , May II. from 10 d m .
2 p . m . (w ith a half -hour lunch l
Ca reer cou nsel or Michelle lw u
will conduc t the program at the
Career Resource Center. L1b
1214 . For more information. call
866-6193.
• There will be a women 's soccer game on the Evergrl"t'n field
at 11 :00 a . m . on May 7
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Original Parish Art
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IN
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Altend a special wOO<sho p on law
GEf YOUR PRESCRIPTI O NS AT
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Wednesday , May 11th
2. 4 p m
Place
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Reo 1ster Career Planni ng & Placement , Lib 1214 / 866· 6193
Date
nme ·
DRUGS
WESTSIDE CENTER
943-3311
CAREER
FILM
Parts 101' •II Imported C8rs.
BAP Olympia Ltd .
SERIES
Top1c Cnm1nal Justice System
Ft lm
" Holi days .
Hollow Days"
Th•s film Is a group of one act plays
on pnso n hfe written , directed and
performed by Inmates
Date
May 6 , Friday
Tt me 2 - 4 p .m .
Place C AB 108
Ref reshments will be served l
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D1 s<:ounts to a ll students
Zoology Special
Punks Are People Too
by John S. Foster
PUNKS ARE PEOPLE TOO
" love Is something you feel
for a dog or a puMycat " - Sex
Pistol 's singer.
" I hate to go on but you should
have the message by now. Why
do you print letters complaining
about 'punk ' rock and continue
to do nothing about it 7 Can't you
see we're all sick to death of it 7
Aren 't you conouned about your
once briUiant paper going to the
dogs? Don 't you care that you're
losing all your serious reade:rs 7
Doesn 't it bother you that soon
.1.U the following you1l have is a
bunch of illiterate morons who
write 'punk ' rock songs and sniff
glue 7 If you don 't grt Jmart you
are going to end up as a ldddJes
comic instead of an lntelligatt
paper for folks, young and old,
who just simply like MUSIC ."J. Foster, Warrington , Lanes. in
the New Musica l Express.
Evergreeners keep asking me
about New York C ity . I don' t tell
them not h ing, shrug my shoul ders , keep on walking. Let them
find o ut o n their own . Got that,
Jack? Leave me a lone - you
bother me .
NEW ZEALANDER SPOTTID
A su nburned red - headed New
Zealander boasting a nose- ring
and funny square - toed boots was
seen squinting suspiciously at Al fred Bergman's Face to Face in a
local movie -ho use.
Later the N~w Zealander fielded
questions in an infonnal press
conference about the fauna of his
homeland. The interrogators, a
bunch of ignorant snoolds, re peatedly confused New Zealand
with Australia and Nigeria and
were heard to squeal uncontrol lably when the New Zealander
spoke of penguins with obvious
familiarity . Correcting the impression that New Zealanders are
out of season, he explained that
in his native country it is now
autumn. He listed his interests as
grass (the type one squishes one's
toes in) and such mu sic as exem plified by Bruce Springsteen . New
Zealanders, although undoubt edly foreigners. narsh vibulously
with Evergreen 's darstal climes .
A New Zealander hotline , en tirely independe nt of the Ever green Poli tica l Informatio n Cen ter , has been set · up at 866- 7955.
SQUASHING
FAL0.:CIOUS PUNKISMS
John Holm s tr om , editor of
PUNK, on punk -rock : " ... Any
kid can pick up a guitar and become a rock'n' roll sta r, despite
or because of his lack of ability ,
talent , intelligence, limitations,
and I or potential, and usually
does so out of frustration , hostil ·
ity , a lot of nerve. and a need for
ego-fulfillment ... It takes a lot
of· sophisticat ion - or better,
none at all - to appreciate punk
rock at its best - o r worst (not
much difference) ."
Lester Bangs on punk - rock :
"Music made by teen -age slobs
who wrre proud of it. and that it
was the perpetuation of adoles cence and the cultivation of in fantilism by (a) getting drunk and
sta ying that wa y , and (b) living
with your parents t.'l you 're 40 ."
Bo th these guys are full of it.
Punks a re l~rs . squirt. There
is no reason for them to carry
swit ch blade s
because
they
wouldn't know how to use them
if the si tuation ever arose . Punks
Don't Worry:
Punks Are Afraid To Smash Your Face In
co ntinued fro m page J 0
Thursday , May 5
are passivists as opposed to paci fists . They have difficuhy mov ing their limbs . Punks have no
blood in their veins and take on
the appeara nce of black-and white photographs no matter
what one does to discourage
them . Punks are sma rt and re ally don 't care who thinks so .
Punks often live with their parents in the subu rbs although none
of them are as young as they
would like o ne to think . Punh
" You 're a loudmouth baby I You
bette r shut it up / I'm going to
beat you up / 'Cau se you 're a
loudmouth babe."
Tuff Dart l•ff Sal en , ·· w.
makt> a very blunt b lack -and white statement. We don 't leave
no thing to the irnag1nat 1on , nothIn g vague . I hate vagueness .
Vagueness is what fu c ks up the
da y - you go out 1n the night
so yo u won ' t be vague - hke
somt>th1ng will happen to yo u.
The daytime is like - 'Oh . what
are we going to do today ? and
all that bullshit relat1 ons with
are not human .
LOUDMOUTH
T he Ramone 's ' Lo udmouth :
o ther people - we dun 't want
that at a ll. We 're very ambiti o us
and we kno w where we' re go 1ng,
and we just hope peo ple art> read y
for us ."
Last of the Sex Pio;tols on
BB C- TV ,
Host - "Go on , You 've go t an other five second s. Say some ·
thing outrageo us ."
Pi s t o l ~ " Yo u dirt y bastard
Hos t : ··en o n , agam ."
Pistol : " Yo u dirty fucker !"
Host : " Whaat a clever bo y ··
Pisto l . " What a lucking rot ter. "
Punkoid Trivia Quiz
1. Who is Richard Hell? a . ex Tuff Dart b . Vo id · Oid c. ex Talking Hrad d a . b . c.
2 Who wear.;o a sa fety-pi n in
his ear? a . Jo hnn y. Rotten b . jo hn ny Thunders c. Jo hnny Cougar
d Johnny Cash
3. Not a Ram one a . To mmy
b DeeDe• c. Jo hnny d . Bobby .
4 . C BC B stands fo r : a . Citizens Band Goes Bananas b . Coun t ry , Bluegrass, and Blues c. City
Boys' Grand Ballroom d . Clancy's Bar and Gri ll in the Bowery .
5. Namesake shot Rimbaud a .
Vill on b . Valery c. Verlaine d .
R•do n
1
Dog d . Go Girl Crazy
9. Patti SmithS mother : a ,
b . Beverly c. Shi rl •y d .
continued on rage 11
Listen to the Pitter- Patter of
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ON CA MPUS
Friday , May 6
lAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962,
212 min ) A fine 111m by the olten
great David Lean ( Brfet Encounter ,
Greet Expectations) , with a power lull perfOfmance by Peter O'Toole
and e•cellent photography by Fred
Young . Whether this wide- screen
spectacle can survive a16mm show ing in LH one remains to be seen
Presented by !he Friday Ntte F ilm
Series LH One , 3 and 7 p m o nl y,
75 c ents
M onday , May 9
UGETSU ( I 953 , 96 m tn J The Japanese ClaSSIC by Ken jt M IZOQUCnt ,
acc laimed lor li s superb , hau nt tng
pho t()Qraphy " NO matter what e!se
•s betng sho wn th1s week ," says
Evergreen facully member Rtchard
Alexander, "nothtng w 1tl be more
beautif ul " L H F tve. 7 30 p m
FREE
Tuesday , May 10
SAN C HO THE BAI LIFF ( 1954 12'5
mtn ) KenJI M 1zogucht dtrectea lh1s
modern re1n terpretatt on ol a Japa
nese f olk legend about slavery 10
the I t l h Century The I tim nas Deer>
Ctted I Of li S VISUalS and acttng l H
Fwe. 7 30 p m FR EE
Wed nesday. May 11
MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD Or beller
yet M 'Ennul Chez Maud AnOi her
ta l ky mov1e by t he overrated Enc
Roh mer Presen ted by the Academ tc
Ft lm Sen es LH One 1 30 and 7 30
p m F RE E
Th ursd a y. May 12
BIG BUSINESS . a Laurel a nd
Ha r d y on e - t eeter. w t t h
THE
FLOORWALKER . an early. 1n tenor
Charlie C ha pltn movte . and BLUE
AN GEL , a somell mes-entert atntng
l;:m w tth Marlene Otelnch. badly
marred by a poorly - recorded sou nd track C AB Colleehou se. 8 30 p m
FREE
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OBSESSION The f il m Brtan De pal ma made just belore C.f11e. Wtth
HARD TIMES Not to be confuted
wtth Terkel' s o r D1 c kens ' Hard
Times th is one has Charles
Bronson as a pugnaci ous baKer
State Theater , 357 -4010
FACE TO FACE lngmar Berg man' s portrait ol a d istntegratmg
personality , wllh Llv Ullmann
Through Tuesday The Ct nema ,
9-43-5914
FIVE EASY PIECES A t! lne movie
stamng Jack N icholson and Karen
Black , directed by Bob Raphaelson .
What people remember about !he
movie are Its heavy , somber moments , but tl Is also often very
Iunny N icholson, as usual , lums
In a line performance Friday and
Saturdaty midnight showi ngs only .
The Cinema, 943 · 5914
ROCKY Sylvester Stallone In a
good old- fa shioned slugfest with a
ridiculous plot Gre;ll fun Olympic
Theater , 357 -3422 .
6. " Nobody ever called Poblo
Picas90 . . . " a . a taxi b . a sur realist c. an asshol~ d . Lazlo Pi zarro .
7. Who says he 's the hand somest man in rock'n'roU 7 a .
Ritchi~ Blum b . Gene Simmons
c. Bryan Ferry d . Wayne County
8 . The Oictatqrs first LP was
caUed a . The: Dictators b . Young
American Faldsts c. KiU Your
Time Loves a Hero
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Arts and Events&rril
MUSIC
ON C AMPU S
Thursday , May 5
MARCIA LEVENSON , PAM MIL LER and DEBBIE LUENQ perform
w0f1o;s by Vivaldi and Cimarosa . In struments to be pllyed will be a
surprise . Presented by the Chamber
Music contract. Library lobby , noon .
FREE
All Little Feat Albums
NOTORIOUS SOUNDS OF A
CRAZY GEODUCK , a solo concert
on mystery 1nstrument(s) by Jetlrey
Morgan Also , Morgan wt ll lec!Ure
on Cosmomus lcoiOQy Library lob by , 8 p m FREE
Friday , May 6
THE FIRST PACIFIC NORTH WEST WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Malv 1na Reyno lds headl.nes the l 1rst
at three concerts over !he weekend
J. lso on the b ill Friday mght are the
Ursa M inor Choir and Naom 1 lt llle bear Men are d tscouraged !rom attendmg Ten d oll ar s tn advanc e l or
the three concert s, $7 l or two con cert s and $4 at the door lor each
event ltbrary lobby. 7 p m
Saturday , May 7
WOMEN 'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
CO NCERT NUMBER TWO w 1th
Bellevue pet1 ormers Magg 1e Savage
and Jude Fogelq ut st Mary Wa tk tns
an O li VIa Records Collect tve member , and Teresa Trull. a N ort h Caro ltna l em 1ntst song w rller L1brary
lob by, 7 p m
Sunda y , M ay 8
WOMEN ' S MUSIC FESTIVAL
CO N CERT NUMBER THREE With
Gtnny Ga les a vocaltsl and songwnler accompanytng herself on
guttar and p1ano and Baba Yaga a
seven-memoer women s oand whtch
perf orms Lat1n tazz and l u., k - rocll
mustc Lt b rary Iaboy . 2 - 6 JO p m
IN OLY MPIA
Fn day . May6
NEW RIVER REVIEW Tom Robison Jell M 11te r Scan M ollet aM
Dedo Norns play bluegrass on l tddie . t w 1n IIddle gut tar , mandolm
and t>an 1o The y Stng , too Apple Jam Fol k Cen ter . 220 Eas t Unton
Door s open 8 p m M tnors we lcome, St
Satu rday . May 7
MIKE SAUNDERS pla ys a vartety
a t songs an d Instrument a ls from
Amenca a n<l the Bnttsh Isl es on a
nu mber ol dtllerent Inst ruments
Apptejam Fol k Cent er Door s open
8 p m M tna rs welcome , $1
ON CAMPUS
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL All-NEW 1977 GUIDE TO
OPENING LINES FOR A PRELUDE
TO A MEANINGFUL ENCOUNTER :
" Do you believe In love at l trs t
sight , man ?"
" Going my way . man? "
" You're a Sag lt tart us , aren' t you
man ?"
" I g1ve the m o st ou trageous bac k rubs . man "
" Say , man , that's a Braut lgan
boo« you're rea<1 1ng , aren't you.
man? "
" Follow me . man , and don't ask
Questions ··
" I know I looM. and sound li ke a
jertt , man , bul I'm sort ol lonely
and desperate and SUICidal , and
uh , what's your sign? Wan! a drink "
Hey , where are you going?"
" 1 subscribe to H~h TlmM . man
Wanna read an Issue ?"
" W ould you like to come up and
see my guitar , man ?"
" Would you like to come up and
and see my frisbees , man? "
" W ould you like to come up and
see my black-llghl posters , man ?'
" Would you like to come up ana
see my stuffed albino SQUi rrels
man? "
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Hollow Days"
Th•s film Is a group of one act plays
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Date
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Tt me 2 - 4 p .m .
Place C AB 108
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D1 s<:ounts to a ll students
Zoology Special
Punks Are People Too
by John S. Foster
PUNKS ARE PEOPLE TOO
" love Is something you feel
for a dog or a puMycat " - Sex
Pistol 's singer.
" I hate to go on but you should
have the message by now. Why
do you print letters complaining
about 'punk ' rock and continue
to do nothing about it 7 Can't you
see we're all sick to death of it 7
Aren 't you conouned about your
once briUiant paper going to the
dogs? Don 't you care that you're
losing all your serious reade:rs 7
Doesn 't it bother you that soon
.1.U the following you1l have is a
bunch of illiterate morons who
write 'punk ' rock songs and sniff
glue 7 If you don 't grt Jmart you
are going to end up as a ldddJes
comic instead of an lntelligatt
paper for folks, young and old,
who just simply like MUSIC ."J. Foster, Warrington , Lanes. in
the New Musica l Express.
Evergreeners keep asking me
about New York C ity . I don' t tell
them not h ing, shrug my shoul ders , keep on walking. Let them
find o ut o n their own . Got that,
Jack? Leave me a lone - you
bother me .
NEW ZEALANDER SPOTTID
A su nburned red - headed New
Zealander boasting a nose- ring
and funny square - toed boots was
seen squinting suspiciously at Al fred Bergman's Face to Face in a
local movie -ho use.
Later the N~w Zealander fielded
questions in an infonnal press
conference about the fauna of his
homeland. The interrogators, a
bunch of ignorant snoolds, re peatedly confused New Zealand
with Australia and Nigeria and
were heard to squeal uncontrol lably when the New Zealander
spoke of penguins with obvious
familiarity . Correcting the impression that New Zealanders are
out of season, he explained that
in his native country it is now
autumn. He listed his interests as
grass (the type one squishes one's
toes in) and such mu sic as exem plified by Bruce Springsteen . New
Zealanders, although undoubt edly foreigners. narsh vibulously
with Evergreen 's darstal climes .
A New Zealander hotline , en tirely independe nt of the Ever green Poli tica l Informatio n Cen ter , has been set · up at 866- 7955.
SQUASHING
FAL0.:CIOUS PUNKISMS
John Holm s tr om , editor of
PUNK, on punk -rock : " ... Any
kid can pick up a guitar and become a rock'n' roll sta r, despite
or because of his lack of ability ,
talent , intelligence, limitations,
and I or potential, and usually
does so out of frustration , hostil ·
ity , a lot of nerve. and a need for
ego-fulfillment ... It takes a lot
of· sophisticat ion - or better,
none at all - to appreciate punk
rock at its best - o r worst (not
much difference) ."
Lester Bangs on punk - rock :
"Music made by teen -age slobs
who wrre proud of it. and that it
was the perpetuation of adoles cence and the cultivation of in fantilism by (a) getting drunk and
sta ying that wa y , and (b) living
with your parents t.'l you 're 40 ."
Bo th these guys are full of it.
Punks a re l~rs . squirt. There
is no reason for them to carry
swit ch blade s
because
they
wouldn't know how to use them
if the si tuation ever arose . Punks
Don't Worry:
Punks Are Afraid To Smash Your Face In
co ntinued fro m page J 0
Thursday , May 5
are passivists as opposed to paci fists . They have difficuhy mov ing their limbs . Punks have no
blood in their veins and take on
the appeara nce of black-and white photographs no matter
what one does to discourage
them . Punks are sma rt and re ally don 't care who thinks so .
Punks often live with their parents in the subu rbs although none
of them are as young as they
would like o ne to think . Punh
" You 're a loudmouth baby I You
bette r shut it up / I'm going to
beat you up / 'Cau se you 're a
loudmouth babe."
Tuff Dart l•ff Sal en , ·· w.
makt> a very blunt b lack -and white statement. We don 't leave
no thing to the irnag1nat 1on , nothIn g vague . I hate vagueness .
Vagueness is what fu c ks up the
da y - you go out 1n the night
so yo u won ' t be vague - hke
somt>th1ng will happen to yo u.
The daytime is like - 'Oh . what
are we going to do today ? and
all that bullshit relat1 ons with
are not human .
LOUDMOUTH
T he Ramone 's ' Lo udmouth :
o ther people - we dun 't want
that at a ll. We 're very ambiti o us
and we kno w where we' re go 1ng,
and we just hope peo ple art> read y
for us ."
Last of the Sex Pio;tols on
BB C- TV ,
Host - "Go on , You 've go t an other five second s. Say some ·
thing outrageo us ."
Pi s t o l ~ " Yo u dirt y bastard
Hos t : ··en o n , agam ."
Pistol : " Yo u dirty fucker !"
Host : " Whaat a clever bo y ··
Pisto l . " What a lucking rot ter. "
Punkoid Trivia Quiz
1. Who is Richard Hell? a . ex Tuff Dart b . Vo id · Oid c. ex Talking Hrad d a . b . c.
2 Who wear.;o a sa fety-pi n in
his ear? a . Jo hnn y. Rotten b . jo hn ny Thunders c. Jo hnny Cougar
d Johnny Cash
3. Not a Ram one a . To mmy
b DeeDe• c. Jo hnny d . Bobby .
4 . C BC B stands fo r : a . Citizens Band Goes Bananas b . Coun t ry , Bluegrass, and Blues c. City
Boys' Grand Ballroom d . Clancy's Bar and Gri ll in the Bowery .
5. Namesake shot Rimbaud a .
Vill on b . Valery c. Verlaine d .
R•do n
1
Dog d . Go Girl Crazy
9. Patti SmithS mother : a ,
b . Beverly c. Shi rl •y d .
continued on rage 11
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SAN C HO THE BAI LIFF ( 1954 12'5
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What people remember about !he
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ROCKY Sylvester Stallone In a
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7. Who says he 's the hand somest man in rock'n'roU 7 a .
Ritchi~ Blum b . Gene Simmons
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Thursday , May 5
MARCIA LEVENSON , PAM MIL LER and DEBBIE LUENQ perform
w0f1o;s by Vivaldi and Cimarosa . In struments to be pllyed will be a
surprise . Presented by the Chamber
Music contract. Library lobby , noon .
FREE
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NOTORIOUS SOUNDS OF A
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on mystery 1nstrument(s) by Jetlrey
Morgan Also , Morgan wt ll lec!Ure
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Friday , May 6
THE FIRST PACIFIC NORTH WEST WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Malv 1na Reyno lds headl.nes the l 1rst
at three concerts over !he weekend
J. lso on the b ill Friday mght are the
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the three concert s, $7 l or two con cert s and $4 at the door lor each
event ltbrary lobby. 7 p m
Saturday , May 7
WOMEN 'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
CO NCERT NUMBER TWO w 1th
Bellevue pet1 ormers Magg 1e Savage
and Jude Fogelq ut st Mary Wa tk tns
an O li VIa Records Collect tve member , and Teresa Trull. a N ort h Caro ltna l em 1ntst song w rller L1brary
lob by, 7 p m
Sunda y , M ay 8
WOMEN ' S MUSIC FESTIVAL
CO N CERT NUMBER THREE With
Gtnny Ga les a vocaltsl and songwnler accompanytng herself on
guttar and p1ano and Baba Yaga a
seven-memoer women s oand whtch
perf orms Lat1n tazz and l u., k - rocll
mustc Lt b rary Iaboy . 2 - 6 JO p m
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Dedo Norns play bluegrass on l tddie . t w 1n IIddle gut tar , mandolm
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MIKE SAUNDERS pla ys a vartety
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ON CAMPUS
THE STUFFED ALBINO SQUIRREL All-NEW 1977 GUIDE TO
OPENING LINES FOR A PRELUDE
TO A MEANINGFUL ENCOUNTER :
" Do you believe In love at l trs t
sight , man ?"
" Going my way . man? "
" You're a Sag lt tart us , aren' t you
man ?"
" I g1ve the m o st ou trageous bac k rubs . man "
" Say , man , that's a Braut lgan
boo« you're rea<1 1ng , aren't you.
man? "
" Follow me . man , and don't ask
Questions ··
" I know I looM. and sound li ke a
jertt , man , bul I'm sort ol lonely
and desperate and SUICidal , and
uh , what's your sign? Wan! a drink "
Hey , where are you going?"
" 1 subscribe to H~h TlmM . man
Wanna read an Issue ?"
" W ould you like to come up and
see my guitar , man ?"
" Would you like to come up and
and see my frisbees , man? "
" W ould you like to come up and
see my black-llghl posters , man ?'
" Would you like to come up ana
see my stuffed albino SQUi rrels
man? "
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Vol. 5 No. 22
Affirmative Action At Evergreen
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by Karrie J:acobs
Tucked away in the very back of the
1977-79 Evergreen Bulletin, followed only
by the maps of the Olympia area and the
College and the closing credits, is a twopage statement on Evergreen 's Affinnative
Action policy.
The Bulletin statement is a much abridged version of the section of the
Evergreen Administrative Code (EAC)
that deals with human rights . Affirmative
Action is an outgrowth of Evergreen's, or
rather the State of Washington's, Equal
Opportunity policy. a program whose
origins stem from Federal law. from the
civil rights legislation of Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society days .
Evergreen's Equal Opportunity policy,
It was hoped that by fall of 1976 , 15
stated brieOy. goes like thiso "The College
expressly prohibits discrimination against
any person on the basis of race, sex, age,
religion , national origin, marital status or
the presence of any sensory, physical or
mental handicap unless based upon a.
bona fide occupational qualification . This
policy requires recruiting, hiring , training.
and promoting persons in all job categories without regard to race, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status or
the presence of any sensory physical or
mental handicap unless based upon a
bona fide occupational qualification. All
decisions on employment and promotion
must utilize only valid job-related requirements."
ONE STEP FURTHER
The Affirmative Action policy goes
Dill!
step further. Wher• th• Equal Opportunity
policy attempts to correct and prevent injustices in the College's hiring and recruitment practices, Affirmative Action tries to
reverse the trends which made the Equal
Opportunity policy necessary in the fi"'t
Hi
place.
.. The Evergreen State College is committed to an affirmative action program,"
states the College Bulletin, ''a goal-oriented
program through which it makes specific
additional efforts to recruit, hire, train ,
and promote non-white and women students . The Affirmative Action program is
designed to overcome and prevent the
effects of systemic institutional discrimina tion and benign neutrality in employment
and educational practices. The College
will take affirmative action to solicit bids
on goods and services contracts from nonwhite and women vendors and contrac-
tors ."
The Affirmative Ac tion program came
into existence as official Evergreen policy
at a Board of Trustees meeting on April
18, 1974 . It was the product of a Disappearing Task Force (DTF) which was investigating the concerns of the non-white
community at the College.
In order to insure the implementation of
the Affirmative Action policy, the position
of Affirmative Action Officer wu developed to perform the wide range of dutieS
involved in establishing and monitoring
the program.
RINDETT A JONES
"I llko my job, " said R. ndetta Jones,
Evergreen's Affirmative Action Officer,
as she began to detail the many functions
that her office serves. In general, she descril>M her job as "making sure a whole
lot of things get done ."
The Affirmative Action Office handles
complaints from all sectors of the Evergreen community on discrimination and
on-the-job harassment . When such a complaint is received, Jones must investigate
to see whether it is warranted. By gathering the relevant facts and speaking with
the parties involved, she must try to decide what needs to be done and what can
be done . Complaints pertaining to discriminatory hiring practices or sa lary dis-
p;~nt1es are generally easier to handle,
according to Jones. than charges stemming
from harassment by an employer. which
tends to be subtle and hard to prove. Not
only does the Affirmative Action Office
have to monitor the employment practices
of the school itself, it also must make sure
that contractors on campus such .a s SAGA
or the construction companies live up to
the policy's standards .
SKillS RANK
In order to make a special eff.ort in insuring that Third World people and women have equal access to employment
opportu n ities, the Affirmative Action
Office maintains a "skills bank" of resumes
from job hun ters. W henever the Office
receives notification from an employer
that a position has opened up , resumes
from appropriately skilled people are forwarded to the prospective employer. "It
is important ," said Jones in speaking about
good hiring practices, "to have an applicant pool that reflects Third World people,
women , as well as white males. You've
got to recruit long enough and hard
enough ."
Another part of the Affirmative Action
Officer's job is to review and analyze information in reports from vice-preidents,
deans, unit heads. directors, and others
on camp~;~s. which describe the nw
umbers
percent of the student body wo uld be nonwhite . The actual figure wa s 9 .7 percent.
"Admissions needs a st ronger recruiting
effort ," according to Jones, "and more
dollars to hire staff ." It was also hoped
that the student populati on would be 50
percent women by 1974 . The cu rrent fig ure is about 47 percent.
The goal for Third World faculty members for October of 1976 was set at 19
percent . The figure reached was 16 percent.
The list of statistics goes on. covering
each employment area at Evergreen . from
administrators on down . It is not surprising that of the 30 College employees classif ied as administrators, 18 of them . o r 60
percent , are white males. two are black
males, seven are white female!~ . tw o are
black females . and one is an Asian male .
As a malter of fact , according to the goals
established in 1974 , we are right where we
should be as far as female administrators
KO . .at 24 percent . The ultimate godl i~ lo
have 45 percent of the administration be
women by 1984 ,
Also not surprising is the fact that 82
percent of the College's clerical staff is
white and female . followed by black and
Native American women who constitute
.04 percent of the clerical work force each .
Jones maintains a large collection of
statisti cs, both on a blackboard on her
office wall and in many manila folders .
She contends. "Progress ca n only be measured through numbers placed in a time
con text . numbers that represent the change
in existing discriminatory palterns through
hiring."
As Affirmative Action Officer, Rindetta
Jones spends her time trying to make
ot her people's goals work . As for her own
aims, she says, "My goal is to see to it
that we have a mo re vigorous program
next year than we've ever had ."
Sounding Off On The Demo Memo
by Matt Groening
Yes , we require the lowest deposit for rental housing in the greater Olympia
area . Compared with comparable dwellings, Campus Housing is set apart.
·(We require a modest $45 while our nearest competitor requires $100.00)
Campus Housing doesn't stop with just the deposit, but also
includes electricity service so you only have to pay one flat price each month.
And , telephone service is a snap. We've arranged it so you don't have
to pay a deposit. Just pay your monthly bill on time. We have other extras too
numerous to talk about now. So remember , Campus Housing has the lowest
deposit in town with the highest returns . Stop by the Housing Office to
find out more about living on Campus.
of students or employees handled by their
area broken down into ra ce and sex . These
reports, issued quarterly , are usually in
the form of often unintelligible statistiCS.
It is interesting to see how the current statistics compare to the original numerical
goals set by Affirmative Action. When
J.s ked how we were doing 1n rea ching
hese goals, Jones replied . "Let me put it
this way : we've never surpassed an y goa l
that we've set. "
60 PERCENT WHITE MALE
ADMINISTRATORS
President McCann's con troversial proposal to regulate demonstrations on campus was the subject of questioning and de-
bat• at an oftm lively Sounding Board
meeting yesterday morning, May 4. Approximately 35 students, faculty , staff, administrators, and McCann himself listened
to pro and con opinions about the pro posal. Because the board ~ached no con clusions on the matter, a special meeting
was scheduled lor Wednesday, May 18, to
discuss the matter further. McCann plans
to submit the proposal. with tentative
changes based on campus ~action , at the
Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, May
20, for possible inclusion in the Evergreen
Administrative Code.
Another meeting, organized by students
opposed to McCann's proposal, is ocheduled for Friday, May 6, at 1 p.m. in th•
Board Room (Lib. 3112). Formation of a
student union and a teach-in on Founder's
Day (May
21)
will be considered. McCann
said he will have reptHentatives a ttend
the meeting.
UNSPEOnED DISCIPLINARY AcnON
McCann's proposal, popularly known
as the "demo memo," ails lor guldolina
regulatins prot..ts on coD~ property apiNt college-sponsored ovmts. Violations
of the proposed regulations would be sub -
ject to unspecified disciplinary action .
Many students at the Wednesday Sounding Board meeting questioned McCann
about the wording of the memo, saying
they were confused by its vagueness.
'What this proposal does is pu t down in
fairly terse form what the law already is,"
McCann replied. He said the proposed
guidelines were a way of ensuring "aca demic good manners."
SQUEAKY SHOES
Student Regon Unsoeld wanted to know
exactly what was meant by the word "disruption" in McCann's memo. "Squeaky
shoes could be considered a disruption to
som• peopl• ." Unsoeld said .
McCann answered that it d~nded on
the circumstances. "The who situation
changes with the size of the oom," he
said, "- Wh•ther it's CAB 1
or th•
Kingdome ."
Another student wanted to know what
exactly constituted a n "open public meeting" in McCann's proposal. "If it's a de- .
bat•. that's on• thing," McCann answ•red.
saying that some conflict at such an event
could be expected. "But if it's a
conart," M continued, " that's
McCann w•nt on to .. y that
lines Weft not unlik• th- at
••
symphony
different ."
hls guideother col-
"No, th.,., is a dillft-enc:e," said student
Libby Skinner. " At Evergreen, there is no
student union , so What input we have is
often token and reactionary ." Because
" Evergreen is 'above' unionizing," she continued , "we have to fonn coalitions and
stage demonstrations." Skinner was critical
of the proposal because she said it constituted "prior restraint " of student input.
She was also critical of the amount of time
it took to get one's voice heard on campus issues. ''I' m not getting my school
work done," she said. " And there are
others who have dropped out to work
more fully in campus politics. •·
McCann's proposal stemmed from the
demonstration by about 30 students a gainst the Air Force Band last February 3 .
Sounding Board member Trina Krueger
wan ted to know if the Air Force Band
demonstra tion would have been illegal
under McCann's guidelines. "What about
the Grim R•apenl " she asked. m•rring
to the four costumed demonstrators who
rftNined sta nding silently in the aisle-s
throughout the first hall of th• February 3
concwt, until Security Chief Mac Smith
asked them to leave . No one a nswered
~r' s qu.. tion dir<ctly, but McCann
admitted tha t the Air Foru Band episode
misht be a "red herring," and that it just
called attention to the need lor guidelinos
regula ting futu,.. protests.
" All this is," McCann said. IS a reminder of the bedrock law which supports
our rights ."
Director of Informat ion Services Judy
Annis, who invited the Air Force Band to
Evergreen, defended the demo mem o . " I
went over the Social Contract and Presi dent McCann 's proposals. " she said ... and
I go along with them ." At Evergreen. she
continued, " the Air Force Band is an un popular and controversial group." With out the proposal. she said. " I would hesi tate to have Reagan , Kissinger . or the current governor on campus ." According to
Annis. McCann 's proposal "allows Ever green our Eldridge Cleavers. our Margot
St. James' and our Air Force Bands ."
Student lyle Tribbett d•lended the February 3 demonstration by saying, "We
didn 't deprive anybody of their music. We
didn' t (shout down the Air Force Band) .
Nobody's done that. " He contin ued. stat ing that "effective learning is not promoted
by disciplinary action ." Tribbett also
wondered why the demonstrators were
never "approached by Charlie McCann or
Judy A nnis as to why we protested."
McCann replied that he didn't ...,k th•
follts who d•monstrated why they did it
because it would be In loco ...,....tis stuff."
AJI h is propou.l was. he said again, wn
"a terse f't'Pri.ition of the law."