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Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 01/08/2006 - 7:49am.
It was going to be a very weird quarter.

Early October, 1974. The school year was just starting. The "Encountering America" coordinated studies program went into a retreat somewhere at a lake up in Mason County.

One of the faculty members, Dumi Maraire, prepared dinner for us. Dumi was a native of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe, where Dumi returned and died in 1999) and had a short and controversial career at Evergreen. He brought in a live goat and slaughtered it before the assembled students. Then we cooked and ate it. I think even some of the vegetarians took part, since it was almost an insult not to. Actually, it was pretty good.

While I was helping unload the car of another faculty member who was bringing in supplies from the outside world, I saw the headlines of a newspaper she had just picked up. Back at TESC, an Evergreen student named Vicki Schneider had fallen, jumped, or was pushed off a top floor of A Dorm and landed on the pavement next to the circle. Right under my window. Matt Groening's room was next door.

When I got back to TESC I learned all my roommates had been first on the scene. The death was ruled suicide.

It was going to be a very weird quarter.

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Cool to see a story involving

Cool to see a story involving Dumi Maraire. In the early 80s he was active up in Seattle and wonderful marimba concerts were held in the U District. All sorts of people would turn up for the music and dancing.

Coats would be left in a huge pile, guarded by whoever wasn't dancing at the moment. Eventually babies were laid down on the coat pile also, they would sleep while their parents danced.

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