The Cooper Point Journal Volume 28, Issue 20 (March 9, 2000)

Item

Identifier

cpj0781

Title

The Cooper Point Journal Volume 28, Issue 20 (March 9, 2000)

Date

9 March 2000

extracted text

Cooper

Point

I
The Evergreen Srare Co llege· March ,), 2000 • Volume 28 • Number 20 • © Coop<:r Poinr Journal 2000

O.OO~

$10.00~

1
FE

I

!
I

And the winner is
by Mike Reparaz

After months of searching, winnowing
through resumes, and interviewing candidates,
the wait is finally over. The Board of Trustees
announced Wednesday that Evergreen has a
new president. and his name is Les.
On March 8, the Board o f Trustees
an noun ced that it had selected Dr. Thomas L.
"Les" Puree from among th e pool of five
presidential candidates. Purce, currently Vice
President for Extended University Affairs and
Dean of Extended Academic Programs at
Washington State University. will take on his
duties as college president this July, after
current 'college president Jane Jervis retires.
Despite the fact that he's been workillg at
WSU for the past several years, Purce is no
stranger to Evergreen. Beginning in 1989, he
served as Vice President for College
Advancement, Interim President during the
last presidential search eight years ago, and
became Evergreen's Executive Vice President
before leaving for WSU in 1995. It was also
during this time that he was involved in the
development and building of the Longhouse.
During his tenure at Evergreen, Puree says
he learned about the value of community
participation and Evergreen's administrative
processes. Using the presidential search as an
example of the latter, Purce says that "it's long
and it's laborious, but it's a valuable, valuable
process."
''I'm excited and humbled ... to think the

• • •

Les Puree

community would invite me back," says
Purce about his appointment as President.
"It feels good to be coming back to a place
that shares my values about equality, about
inclusiveness ...
At a press conference on Wednesday,
Dr. Purce shed some light on his strategies
for the years to come. While he stressed
that the most important thing is to identity
what the goal of the college will be in the
future. he discussed the importance of
"putting students at the center" of the
college's concerns.
'" think ... the biggest challenge is the
Institution's plan to meet the state's plans
for ... greater numbers of students at our
institutions," says Purce of the college's
future. '" I'll be some of the major work
we'll have to do , to flgure out how to
accommodate that kind of mandate for
growth, and to maintain our vitality and
effectiveness."
An animated, extremely friendly
man, Puree says he is looking forward to
pharo by Aaron Cansler
the opportunity to meet students. "When
Animated and friendly Newly elected Les Purce mingles at his reception yesterday
, come in the summer, as school arrives
and students are here," said Puree, "I really
relations) is to talk," he says, adding that he the diversity that he has seen so far.
want to spend a lot oftime with them, as well
'Tve just had a chance to meet people as
looks forward to discussing the concerns of
as faculty."
I come in the door, students, different
faculty and staff as well as those of students.
Puree feels that it will be vital to maintain
When asked about the concerns of many students, different walks of life, different
a good relationship between the students and
students that Evergreen is becoming an styles," says Purce, pausing for a moment. "(
the president'soffiee. '" mean, that's why we're
increasingly mainstream college. Puree says love the inclusiveness. Aperson can have a suit
here!" he says, laughing. To this end, he
that he hasn't heard anything like that yet. He on, or they can have fatigues on, and ... they
intends to maintain an open-door policy when
does, however, say that he is impressed with can be a part of the community."
he takes office. "I think the way you [build
'I

Mumia supporters rally in San Francisco

sroryan

36 hours of driving, three and a half days, 1600 miles, no showers--all in

the name of social change ... or something like that. Twenty-plus Evergreen
students made the grueling trek to the Bay Area by van to participate in a
student activism conference at UC Berkeley. Prefacing the conference was
a rally and mass demonstration in support of writer/activist and death
row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia (born Wesley Cook) has been in
prison since being convicted of shooting and killing Philadelphia police
officer Daniel Faulkner 19 years ago .

•

TESC

Olympia, WA 98505
Address Service Requested

,

Bulk-Rate
U.S. Posrage Paid
Olympia, WA
98505
Permit No. 65

_!.-o

v- '

-c1

01ic

Police Blotter 2000: Hiflhliflhts :~
_~ . .

edited by Jen Blackford

Tales from the Blotter

So much police stuff, so little space. On with the mayhem , the madness , the maelstrom that is
the world of Police Blotter.

As promised last week, here are the case reports I missed out on because I was sick. May you
find as much entertainment and/or dread in reading them as I did in writing them up.
Reach Out and Touch Someone.•..
On Feb. 22, a hapless parking attendent reports a cell phone taken from the parking booth.
Oddly enough, the pepper spray wasrnoved, but not taken. Obviously a discriminating thief
with choice tastes in telecommunications.
Creepy Crime of the Week Contender #1
Also on Monday. Feb. 22. a black CD holder and 29 CDs were stolen from student housing.
The next day. Feb. 23, the victim reports someone trying to open her window after midnight.
She says that someone was nosing around the day before in the HCC. asking where her room
was.
Soul Man
(in honor of Bill Bradley)
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, trouble boils over. Astudent upsets the "secret service guys" by putting
his hand in his bag and making it look like a gun as he began walking towards Bill Bradley. One
of the age~ts responds "This is lIIe last time I'm going to tell you to keep your hands away from
your bag.
Alcohol and Autos
On Thursday, a swerving driver is pulled over. The officer smells, you guessed it. alcohol on the
driver's breath and eventually arrests the man for driving while under the influence. And another
person's weekend goes down the tubes.
Creepy Crime of the Week Contender #2
Also, a student was studying in a study cubicle when a man sat down on the tloor about twu
feet away from her. Wilen he started looking at her legs. she got nervous and reported it to th e
library staff. He left bel are they cuuld stop him. but the last time they saw him, he was heading
to catch a bus. However, the driver reported no ogling individuals on the bus.
Minors in Possession
Between friday and Saturday, there were three minors in possession incidents reported in the
blotter. Several students in A·Dorm were drinking beer in a kitchen when an omcer on 100 1
nalrol caught them. He emptied their beer and reported them to the Grievan ce Offict'.
Random Mischief
Un Fridav hMn er rocks on a pathway, leading Ii'om the HCC to the \{el' Center. wer ~ 11 H1Vl'd t"
t Ill' center of It. Pohce move them back to the edge, leading to nUI1lerous un:lllSwered question, .
Who Illoved the rocks'! Why did they move them 10 the center'? And most importantly. were
they completely hamlllered?
A Couple of Evergreen Traditions
,
On Sa lurdal' . a lire alarm in A-DOrin evacuates resident s from th(' building. As poilet, werl'
making SlIrl' everyone was out oftbe building. an ufficer noted that a room door was open I Iespo tted a "clea r bag with gree n vegetable matter" 011 the counter and waited for the r('mlcnt I "
w ille back. He later forwarded this to th(' Gri('van ce Office as the vegetable Inaller was. al:t, .
pOi. 1'111 sure yo u weren't expe c tin~ that plot tWISt.

-COOPER POINT JOURNAL-

Tuesday, Feb. 29
10:50 a.m.
·Fire alarm is set off from a faulty wire in a detector on the first floor of the
library building. It's bad enough people set them off... now we have self·activating alarms?
Gateway2000 computer is stolen from Electronics Maintenance. I guess
3 p.m.
someone was tired of waiting to use a computer in the Computer Lab.
Wednesday. March 1
7:22 a.m.
Window broken in jesse Welch's office. Suspected offender? A skateboarder.
Whether it's surfing off tables or breaking windows. boarders do everything with style.
Thursday, March 2
People are too depressed about the mOllth of TV reruns that await them to commit crime.
Fridax, March 3
7:46 p:m.

Minor in Possession.

Saturday, March 4
2:52 a.m.
A driver is stopped lor not having her headlights on. The officer smells
alcohol in the car and sees two beer bottles in the car .The driver is arrested for driving with a
suspended license plus given an infraction for having an open container.
SUllday. I\l:!rch 5
10:05 p.m.
A wallet is stolen from a student in thl' Housing Community Center.

Police Briefs
Les Miserables: The Next Generation
11:44 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1
On March 1, an oniccr investigates a ca ll, Irolll a wilness who reports seeing a male and a
IClIlalc suspect push on the grate that separates the Deli from the lobby. H(' saw the male suspect
grab a bag dlIIncr rolls on the table and take threl' of them. Enigmatically, he put the two rolls by
tlt t' gra te and stilrted to eat th e third. later w(,dging it in a hack door so the door would not shill.
Th(' suspects: a skinn y 5'8 male in his early 20s and a slim temale. 5'9, also in her 20s.
A killale matching the description (actually younger and taller) later r('turns through thc
propped-open door and is positively identiheu as one of the grate·pushers. She is arrested for
hllTglary. IlIlI rell'Jsrd when it is determined she neither took nor cOllsullled the dinner rolb.
Thc'\' later arrest the male suspect (a lso vounger and shorter thall the description) for
i>urgbrl' Inthl' wcolld dcgrce. placing hilll in handeuO s and transporting him to Policc Sl'rl'i n·' .
He conlesscs to removing tlte dnnwr rolls. eal ing onc 0 1 thcnl . and propping the door upt'n SI) it
would not lock behind hin!. The re port oft hi~ incid(' nt is forwarded to Ihe prosecutor and till'
male suspect is now awaiting a rourt date .
Ironically. sOlll'ees say tht' bread prud llrts had becil Iree thaI day.
Exercising Rights or Just Playing Around?
Friday, March 3
1:40 p.m.
'An omcer is dispatched to th e socrer held whtn' ~lllale suspc'ct It:td iJeen reported klck lltg
a ball near lite goal posts. reillsing to leave
He is lold he was ask('d to leave hecause th l' lil'ld IS pretty tOrtl up so it \ c\uscd lor "Kcrr
until Aprill alld that he shouldn t be wearing cleats that add even more dama ge to tltc' li(' lll
Tlte suspect says he pays llloney to this school so he should be allowed to lise the lieili. l ie
adds he is resisting as a matter of civil disobedience and that he will not go unless he is arreslt'd .
He IS arrested, released and promises hl' won'lust' the held until this IS resolved . HOWl'\ er
t hat does nOI stop him Ii-olll writing a letter. which appears III the CPlllm \\'\' ~k.

CA B 31 (, . Th ~ Evergreen Srare ColI~ge, Olympia. Washingron ')H'i() 'i
Volume 28 - Number 20 -March 'J. 2000

The NW Earth Institute announces its ESSAY CONTEST on shifting
Kri ~ I ltJupLT. Ikll kl ll K,id e. M,ll
Lojowsky. Amv I.",klll.,. 1'.11 li ck MUIIIU" . IZic"-lId IvIvas
Sralll'hotogr.lplll'rs: Amll1 ClI1s ler. 1'.,,01 H.lwxloll rs l
Lenrrs & Upinion> Editor : Pml 11.,\\,,1 111 1",1
Cory I--:di",,,: Jm Bl:ockl'Jrd . Javn l' K.lV.vn ,i-, 11<-11
Kinkade
Comi cs 1'.I~e Editor: Mdl-Icyw",),1
Seera!;e Edit"': Nicuk A1bl11i
L1YOUt Edi",rs: Whimey Kv.lS.tger. Aln lvIikitik
EdilOr: fI""doll Beck
EdilOr: Mikel Reparaz
Editor: Mollv Erik"" ,

our consumption patterns and living more lightly on the earth.
This is your chance to write about "What I Want Most that Money
Can't Buy" and win prizes from local earth-friendly businesses

----------------------------------------------------------~~rie~~---------Former Master
Thousands ofstudent ideas and projects Submissions Needed

Politrl-cks
.,OPINION

by Mac Lojowsky
Only hours before the CPJ went to
press for the last time until April 6, the Board
ofTrustees announced their selection of Dr.
Thomas Puree as Evergreen's new preSident.
Purce's selection came as a sllPck to many
students and faculty, who overwhelmingly
oppose Purce.
Puree's interim position as Evergreen
president from 1990·92 was both uneventful
and unpopular. During the Gulf War,
Evergreen students took an active role in
opposing the U.S. invasion. On January 23,
1991, during a meeting with the House
Appropriations Committee, the Seattle
Times reported Purce apologized for the
college's opposition to the war. Of the
protesting students he said. "I was very
disturbed with the group of people who did
that. "
Despite Purce's conflicting opinion
with the majority of the college, other issues
must be raised. The true injustice of this case
is the fact that the Board completely
disregarded the wishes of both the faculty
and the students. Almost without exception ,
the Evergreen members I spoke with
supported Dr. Elizabeth Minnich.
Maybe it is no surprise the Board chose
who they did. Evergreen's Board of Trustees
is appOinted by Washington's Governor.
Needless to say, to be appointed by the
Governor, you need to have some relations
with the government. You don't have
relations with the government by opposing
it. One of Evergreen's Board members is a
top executive at Boeing; another comes from
a long line of money in Gray's Harbor.
As Purce' s selection welldemonstrates, the Board makes decisions
for the state government . not for the
students and faculty. Politicians in Olympia
do not want another jane jervis, or another
speech by Mumia. Instead of physically
dismantling the college, the state, with the
help of the Board, will philosophically
dismantle Evergreen. The easiest way to do
this is to choose a president who will
willingly listen to their wishes.
This is an issue that goes beyond a
presidential selection; it forces us as a
community to question our own positions
of power. Why were we lead to believe that
our opinion mattered? Why was our
valuable time wasted listening to speeches
and filling out forms? Further than that, why
did we willingly give the Board the power to
make the final decision? As Evergreen grows
over the next ten years we must question
how and who will make the decisions, which
affect our lives. If we wish to remain a
progressive college, we need to start acting
like one.

TRENDSETTER THAT
KNOWS THE HOT

705-2884. Call for details. Do it!

SPOTS OF YOUR CITY?
ARE YOU LOOKING TO
GAIN MARKEI'ING
Then we how the perfect job for

"JIta,rd 4. 2000

~

all CPJ contributors retain the copyright for their material printed in these pages
puhli slrnl 2 1) flllln c. ll' h ,H. •Hl t' Ull l P',II Oil Thu rs d ,l)'S wh~' rl ~1.1 5~ I~ II I Sl'UltlU : \\'('d.. !o
· d HOUl-!,h 1() d Uri ng F~I I q ll ,trl c r .111(.1 ..... t'ck, 2 r brllll~h I () III \X<'lIl1n ,md .spfl ll ~ ( 1"· Hl n~.
· '1Il l" COOpt" [' 1)1111 JOli tll.I I a dlSlr ll!lJ lnllrn' ,II (Ill , ,.lId " II \.l lI\ pll ~ ~ I!l'~ III r ill.: O ] pll p r,I-]II Il1 W,II t"r l .r'l'r .1I l· ...
het" t1l 5I r .:)
1'1 \ IH1IIIed I n ont' UlpV 11(" 1 ni'IUI I1 p n P1.' f Stlll I'n SlIlls III 11(, t'd 01 ' IItll l' [h i ll Olll' lll !' }' ~h O\ d.t
.. " !lIlt r rh t"
'I '!H' r 1'11111 1 Jo u 111,.1 h,ISI IW Sli 1ll,111.1j!.l'r I II CA H \ I (, o r .11 ()f,l1) H(,( , -(,I)(HI .... (1( / ~' I III .HLIn j!." :" 1
- l in: C u op e l 1'0 111 1 J Ollrll ,r l rs

'<"

II lld II 1' 1t·\ 1

rill'

hll .SlI I C ~'

( :( ) lIq~ c, wil li

!-, t' lf,;rt't:Il ....

ill

I~l' n'

l o) ll('~l.' nl.l}' I 'd
11,' rllbt:/ ~ IIVI'

n l l 'I"

- !'.ll' f!! ftT

• 'lI hl11l \\I"

:\'Ull)1l1 l:,

It
[ Il l

'.1011 11' \ ' 1'1 I ' It.:,l'l 11.1S , ill'

lit'

\\ll II, .. ,d l \\

• \11

I IIH "

, , l ll l rm,l u "

j

(lip)" l or ,HldlllP l1,d lI ' p ln,

Iln' d' III1

IIJ 'U Il ti l l' pr l ' "

~t' l

Service and Parts
Departments will
be open for
your
convemence.

Slzuttle Sen ,ice

.,

tor

It . \ l lh ll!> ~
wnll dll~ It

,lilt!

h l r,u

,htll
I\H

C,I"I't'l l'U I Il! ft l ll/II,d d f I h ~1I .. 1l'lIt o; t.dt
rn l't ' H:'lh l J. tlt' ~' ItHl'll1,'\1 ,1I 11(l ll~ whll It I ~ tll. l! 01
n.p 111.11 111' 1' III bu rl, ~ I II'I't h Illi prlll l H, Hlt I II SIII I.

We'l. I"I!' l ' ul'ln ,II ~lIhrn"\I \l 1l ,111 11 pu bll t,"
I .It'll ( ' \ B \ I () ,I!IlI 1,\ t ,lil lll ).!. (HIO) ~(,(, ( ,00(1 x(,.!. ' , ' I

\tll th' llI

,II

"'Y 1111

,1' 1 1' 111

Il l'

the' ,'~'{ t' PI

,lIl(:

or

ft' ) l' '1 1111 1,1

til

",I Vl' rI

p nur 10 1' 11111 11.11111 11 , Illl I tlt·l' l t'lt- r ,I t. !\

11, .. 1 "l hllll\5 I(1 I\ \ ,HI'

, .t ~I I

LOl l

1Il'n lu IIl
llll I

f ll t"t l

It' (' ,!l II'\'[

""~
r('~l'l\'nl 1111 ,~

Ii

CR-V
(360) 754-3399

Pili II I

1, )( 11"1

Ii

.!" k "lIl ;1 1

HONDA

2375 Carriage Loop SW, Olympia, WA. 98502

,l ld'pt.\ h !t-

/llll!> ! 11,1\\' .lit." ,\lld lOr~ It"d 11.1 11 1(' .lll d \ di d !I'lt-p lhl lu Il lllll bl'f
r 1'1111 11 JO UIIl l' H' !l5 tll\!,!. l)' ,11I 11111~\ di ~' d ,Hlvn \~lI'J.!, ~ 1 ', H. l· In form,lf lllil ,d~ n\l r :lIhnll\:"~

'-: 111\ ,lilt!

.>lhl lll(I Il S :H l'.\

'H I IlO\ Ill'

• h r~ '

,III ,) 1,\

O\n S l "i
\
' \lbKfll'l .,

,~n 11.l~ tI ll'

'd

I1 ldt!('

fil.l

1111 1(1 ( :I. I B

Sil

,II

",I ) 1111

t!.l!>\ llu dl,l \ \111,1

( ,AH II (1

Illl l

by C tlltll ~ ( H, O) X('(" (lOOO

X(){]<)Il

I II(' (

!lUPI '1

:1\l ll[' 1 I( HI l.'o \l 5

,I fr

IY,III., hll'

Sll

A I H~ l

101 ,I yt', II "

Willi

(' I. IH \UhS lIIPltnll

h

n, 1... ~lIn

I nr

lur

I )'l', tr 'S wunlt

1I1 1UI In ,lIllln 0 1\

huw

Illd

lUl lIll,d

ttl ( :1'1 1"~I1\'~

Russian teachers pay
a visit to campus

. d
De1" 1oSlng
own

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

INSURANCE

MUTUAl FUNDS

TRUST SERVICES

TUITION FINAN[ING

Deferring taxes with
TIAA·CREF [an be so
rewarding, you'll wonder
why you didn't do it sooner.
One of the fastest ways to build a retirement nest egg is
through tax·deferred Supptemental Retirement Annuities

With funds automatically deducted from your paycheck, you
can easily build income to supplement your pension and

IT'S EASY TO SAVE MORE THROU6H
THE POWER OF TAX DEFERRAL

)IOU•• ••

In·IIoI1!JT!II..-.ings,ftoflJus

• AIm ·lJx "'"""

And your contributions to SRAs grow undiminished by taxes

keeping expenses low, and you have more money working

• FtT is approx. 35 hrslweek $45G'week
• PtT is approx. 20 hrs./week: $25C\Week

for you.

• Grassroots marketing program targeting a

So why wait? Let us help you build a comfortable retirement

teenage girl audience
PHIL CHI. DAU,FT. WORTH. LA SF and STTl£

You will be promoting the coolest new
wei>-site at teen girl oriented events and
hang out spots. You must be an
enthusiastic trendsetter with a strong
knowledge of teen girl hotspots and live
in one of the above cities. Mustwork
~II with limited supervision, and posses
strong communication skills. Only Full
lime candidates must have a driver's
license and a dean driving record.
Interested candidates should fax or
email their resume and tetter to:
Sara Shelly ASAP lit: P: 617.723.8929
F: 617.7232188, I8he1@1rip1edatcom.

541,232
5]1,9]]

investment performance, bolstered by our commitment to

• 61.'111lek position, April 17·May 27
• Full lime and Part lime positions available

• Promote a coot new teen girl web-site
• Positions available in NYC. 60S, ATL WASH.

5102,068
567,514

Social Security.

until you withdraw the fund s. t Add to that TIAA-CREF's solid

T~ CtiConYnurUions is an Equal ~E~
r,il t',

! 11I 11[

ti ll' l \tl' l ~t IIl \l' 01 r ql'llllll1 ,tI 1II,lllvl'rtl\lllJ.!,

rl)l[II)l I~

Not Available

1, 11 I1 d'I'

"till" '~1I1 11~

• " h (' ( 'Oil,

Saturday
Hours:
8 a.m.
to
4:30 p.m.
Sat I IrdllY

01 11K

td r l ).!,h l\ ,lll tl

new.

I?itet Honda's

\LIII I' d , ..... rHlt·n. t' d llt'tl , l lId 1!1~ ll lt Hll t'~1
lilt' \ j lll.kIl I S t'I Hol kd I I I ltl'
,
.l lId '1.l h lr h'r 11t ~' p" ' lhhtl ,'11 ,III J l 1111 1'1 11 01 tIll' IInn p,,!'C"f 1\0

II \ ,Ht.I Ilt"l'

,HIII'II!! ,Ill' ,I

. "" ]' 111 1\\;,'

Il ~l'
,rl'

"I1'(l r~l lI p
1,>11, ,1 11 )' ' II \

..

Lt: ll1 ~

.

S~<Ut't41

1ft' \ l dt'l y ft"IWIl\lh l l '

,.In ,I .\ p t:l l ,d

'nl l llll to ,' \

' 11IB)'lI l).!,
I I Ind n

' ll,rn. l!!, l"1 111.1)' l l l.L q!t' 7')

" 'Inl J\I \ Hn ,ll l~ ~ IJI('l l t:d

-Tl a' COII I'{"

A.

The 2000 Students of Color Anthology
By Ally Hinkle
needs submissions.
Dick Fuller, who retired from Evergreen
• The Anthology is a yearly compilation of
in 1997 after 25 years as Media Services'
student work focusing on race. Pictures, poetry
Broadcast Engineer, passed·away Tuesday, Feb.,
and prose are encouraged and welcome by the
22 at the age of 65 from heart failure.
deadline on Friday, March 10. For submission
Al Saari, who currently works for
information, call Angela or Koffi at x6143.
Computing and Communications, hired Dick
in 1972 for the position in Master Control and
offers the following thouglits:
"Dick was a very outgoing person. He
liked to socialize. He was also a dedicated
A delegation of Russian educators from
worker in his support oftelevision operations."
1C
Kalmykia are visiting campus. Not only are
Many of the staff who worked with Dick
Fine Host is closing the Deli for they interested in curricular materials but also
have great stories to tell about his general good remodeling from March 19 to March 26. books for their own enjoyment. So, if you have
humor, coffee breaks, and his concern for the During this time, the Greenery will be open any give·away or lonely books (Tolkien was a
individual. Peter Randlette, Media Services, from 7:15 a.m. to 6 p.m..
special request) starting with children's stories
remembers a more personal side:
An e·mail arrived, saying "We apologize but including anything interesting, our visitors
"He was a wild hair. He liked to say what for any inconvenience this may cause but we would be most grateful.
he though t, full speed ahead, and damn the believe that you will appreciate the face·lift."
Bring your books to the library and leave
consequences. He drove a mean backhoe, Questions or comments can go to x6281.
them at the reference desk for Sara Rideout.
always had a good story, and was definitely an
individual among individuals.l'II never forget •
In Megan Grumbling'S article on the mediaworks show (2/ •
driving down the Harrison street hill with him • err&1i&
24/00) it mentioned an installation by Aaron Cansler. In •
addition to Cansler. Brandon Beck created the installation.
•
in one of many rattle trap trucks filled to the •
brim with trailer park support tools. When the
brakes failed, he yelled "hang on" and wildly • In the calendar, we listed the wrong meeting place for the Yoga Club. It meets in CRC •
swerved around until we coasted to a stop. And . • 117 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 12-1:30 p.m. and Thursdays 12:30-2 p.m. Also, •
• It IS an open session.
•
then started laughing!"

ARE YOU A

prizes and two $50 prizes). Entries due April 10.

S~_Sat~

went by his watchful eyes. He worked hard to
support them.
He was a good soul.l'll miss him.
In retirement, Dick happily pursued
numerous schemes and projects, staying in
touch with friends at the college.
He is survived by his wife, Phyllis; son
Bob Fuller of Lacey; daughters Jonnalee Dow
and Sheri Bevilacqua, both of Kent; nine
grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
There will be no service, in consideration
of Dick's wishes.

(SRAs) from TIAA-CREF.

for food, books, and entertainment (two $200

EXPERIENCE?
Business Manager: Carrie Iliner
.",,,.,,.wt Bllsiness lvIan.tger: Michal'! S.·lbv
Designe,,: Joslo Lmge
Representative: Sindi SOlllers
Disrributill n Mana!;ers: Will Hew ill. 1l.lni" S h .lfl~· 1
Pruufer: Hen Kinkade
Circulation: Michaela Mlln:1h:1"
Advisor: Dimne Conr.ld

Con troller passes awa.1u

INVEST AS LmLE AS today with ta x·deferred SRAs. We
' $25amonth
through an automatic
think you will find it rewarding
payroll plan 2
L -_ _ _ _ _ _---' in the years to come.

513,052
511,609
tOYIARS

20YIARS

10 VIARS

In this hypothelilal example. setting aSideStOO a monlh
in a tax·deferred investment with an 8'1. return in a
28% tax bralkel5hows better growth than the same
net amount put into a savings auount. J

www.tiaa-cref.org

-

l , U~

federiJlmlaw.wkhdrJwills priot'tOIge 591f2l~ subject to ~sUiction5,ilnd may also be subject 10 II000iddicioNlwc.2. You rmybe iI~to illV'l!'St up todw IRS maximum of
penona.am uklNtkln d ~ n\l)(knum contributkM\ QM TlM-CREF ~ t 800 842-2776. 3. The chan:.OOYe;s presented for iaust'lt~ purpose ontv and
resutts.of iI1YTtM.C8ifaccount,or refIKt expeMfS.1lAA-CREF Individuil and Jns'icutional5efvK~ lnc.dist,ibute5 (REF certif'"Kite$
Ind interests In thellM Rell Estlte Accourc. TNChers ~I tnwstors SfiYKM.Inc.distributfltheWttriible component oIlhe ~I iIlnuit:~s.m&A:ual funds and tuition s.wings ~rer­
mont. TIM ,ndTlM-CR£F UN! I""",on Co.bsuo _ u n d annuities. TIM-CREFTnJSI ComPOI1)/.F58 pro¥idestruS1 .......ices. •• _ M pnMIucts _ _ FDIC .......... _ _
............. notI ................ fof more com~ ~ton on our ~rities products.inckJdlng charges and ~c~11 800 842-2n6.m. 5S09, ror tM prospKtuses.RHd
,hem Qrofutly beIofe you ;......
money. C1 2000 TIM<lIf1 1100.

SIg,soo pet' )'eiIr.To m:eive iI

~ not reftKt actual performira. or predict Man

0(_

II I u r de.'1 ,I

1'1 ("\(,0) X(,(, (,UOO 1(('0 "' ",

Cooper Point Journa -2- March 9, 2000

March 9, 2000 -3- Cooper Point Journal
.

I

----------~~r-------------------------------------------------------------Hooper

I

S

Homily

by Kris Hooper

If you're anything like me.{and I know I
am!) feelings of alienation on campus overwhelm
you until the point you're lying under your bed
naked in fetal position at 3 a.m. crying yourself
to sleeIJ. This isn't a cry for help. This is about
our current state of community
You can 't escapl' it.lt seems like everywhere
,'ou go somebody is talking about our
"community" or lack there of. Some Jaded cynics
would say that this issue is a waste of time, silKl'
having a community (which depends on being
hOlllogenou s) is counterproductive to the
diversity Evergreen prides itself on.
Not me! Community may he within our
rl'ach. but I think the main reason that there is
no community on campus is due to the fact that
we are mi ssing the most important aspl'ct of a
community. Any good anthropologist will tell
you language is instrumental in fustering
community. We don 't have lingo to call our own.
We don't need a whole lallguage. just a fl'w key
sayings to unite all of us.
Where would the beatniks be without
"daddy-o"? Or tbe hippies without "groovy" and
"far out"'! They probably would have died of
loneliness because they wouldn't have felt
connected to a community of others similiar to
themselves. Then their collective groups would
have faded from pop culture quicker than CB
radios. This dilemma has been on my mind for
quite some time and I've coined a few choice
terms that I think would create a greater sensl' of
community if they were adapted in the Evergreen
vernacular.
Shasta McNasty
This is my personal favorite. It's the name
of a sitcom on the UPN . I believe that the name
has beell changed to just "Sha sta." so I'm
claiming the saying as my own. It could be used
to replace the rampant ohscenities used on

I was raised in a Catholic home. Even
though I'm not Catholic myself. believe you
me, I've internalized my fair share of Catholic
guilt and repression. Greeners have some foul
little mouths, Everyday I hear the "F word"
more times than I'd like. Each time I hear it I
get sick to my stomach and weak in the knees.
What sounds better to you: "F&*@. I just gut
a paper cut" or "Shasta McNasty. I just gut a
paper cut." Terms to identy yours{!lf are
crucial to maintaining community.
Greener
"Greener" has been around for a while
and it's grown stale. Peppermint Patty would
be used in rderence to female Evergreell
students. It seems apropos for 3 school with
such a strong "femmy" mentality to have a
empowering gender specific nickname. It
stems !i'om Peppermint Patty from ··Peanuts".
The name works for Ewrgreen because
they have many similarities with PepIJermint
Pall)'. Patry was a free nothing individualist
who differentiated from the aesthetic norm
of society, which would have been l.ucy. While
l.ucy a co-dependent masochist . longing for
Sch roder to give Iwr life meaning. Peppermin t
Patty lived life Oil her own terms. She was
content to sIJend her time with her
androgynous female friend that referred tu
Patty only as "sir."Ilmmm· ..
Put that in the yuck box
What colloquial dialectic would be
complete without the ohnoxious equivalent of
such sayings as "don't go there" and "talk to
the hand?" These sayings have worn out their
welcome because they've appeared on the talk
show circuit way too much. They bring to
mind 600 pound trailer park trash longing to
be strippers and glue sniffing. pregnant
teenage runaways.
These sayings may not he the best hut
I'm positive they're a thousand times hetter
than "show me the money." My skin crawls
just typing that. but that saying helped unify
many people hack in early '97. I can't speak
for ot her pl'ople but whenever I uw these
sayings on campus. I fed like for the first time
in my life I'm involved in something larger
than

LIVE AND LEARN
JAPANESE!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------~~~---------------

Help just when you_need it.
By Richard Myers

Tenth week students rush to complde past
assignments, write final papers. and wrap-up
plans for the spring. Simultaneously we start
thinking about what we'll be doing next (not to
m~l1tion where to live and work during the
summer) .
Prime Time AJvising offers help with all
those tasks and decisions when students need it
lTlost- in the afternoons and evenings. The
office, located on the lTlalll floor of i\ Building.
includes writing tutors. peer advisors, career
develoIJment assistant s. and a professional
academic <JdvisoL
One of the great things about the I'rime
lime office is its accessihilit y.
"I'm really lazy." said Paula Cross . a student
who lives on campus. "It's totally l'asier hecause
they're right there ... and tllt'y're very helpful ant!
understand ing."
Del lIeauUry. a Prime Tillie writing tutor
and peer advisDl'. said their ollicl' hours are het ter
Iilr students.
"When you're UIJ at ~ o'clock (in the
evening) writing a IJaper. you can Just run in
here."
"It's not like the daytime advising office
where you have to sign-up or make all
appointment." he said. The Prime Time office is
more informal and welcomes people who need
assistance right away or just want to hang out and
talk.
The Prime Time team (as they like to be
called) resembles Evergreen 's interdisciplinary
approach. Each team member brings a differen t
part of the curriculum and a unique set of skills.
Adrian Newlon brings her experience into the
mix as a IJart-time student and career
development advisor.
"One of the reasons we would like to see
students in here is becausl' they'll have a bl'ttl'r
experience with the right support," she said.
Noal Fo x. a third-year student nearin g
graduation . utilized the tealll's diverse skills to
till'uS his academic path.
"Since I've been working with them on a
regular basis. I've gotten a dearer picture of my
academics. It's wonderful having them there to
help with my work."
Students who discover the Prime Timl'
advising office usually come back fi,r different
types of help. The team covers many corners. so
a student might have a paper proof read and then
come back to talk about a certain professor or
work on a resume.
It's this rounded support that led Beaudry
to call the Prime Time office, "the best value in
student services."

They're even he lpful with those not-socommon questions. Newlon said to come in "if
you're a vegan wanting to know where to buy
faod. or where's a good place to go danCing."
"I try to plug students into the Olympia and
campus communities." said Sara Rucker. the
Prime Time Advisor and coordinator of the oRiel'.
"I also try to network students. I have a good idea
of the local arts community and local volunteer
opportunities. "
A popular side of the ufJice is its relaxed
atmosphere and interesting conversations .
Between the hot chocolate. tea. and cookies,
students find themselves comfortahle in the
atmosphere.
Beaudry laughing ly points out. "This is a
fun place. Students get to see us year-round ... It
breaks down the barrier with staff."
Theofiice is unique in that it tries to CUlllleci
academics with residential life. bridging upper
campus and I lousing. Rucker says. "This is thl'
first attempt at moving academics into Iiousing
followed up by the Fi shbowl and Learning
Assistant Program. It's an easier way f()r resident s
tu get their academic sUIJport."
The Fishbowl serves as a media center in A
Building. offering computers and staff support.
Now first-year students also have Learning
Assistants who focus on providing campus
residents additional academic support. In an
attempt to continue connecting residential life
with academics. Rucker hopes to have a "faculty
salon."
The idea is kind oflike a mini academic fair,
but geared toward providing Housing students
the opportunity to ml'et potential professors.I·ve
heen told that faculty often came down tn work
and ta lk with residents when the college was
young. That seems lih something valuahle to
encourage agam.
The Prime Time advising is open to all
students. lIe3udry sugests. "Part Time students
could really make use of us."
In addition to the staff' mentioned in this
article. Paul Felton (the guy in Evergreen 's
catalog) works as a writing tutor along with Josh
Salzmann , a peer advisor.
Antonella Novi , a student and regular
visitor in the office, said, " I discovered the Prime
Time advising office last year. The writing tutors
are very experienced and offer great advice. I
highly recommend dropping in with a paper just
to see for yourself."
The office. located in A Building Room 207.
is open Monday through Thursday 3:30pm to 9
pm, and Sunday 7 pm to !-J pm.

The Waseda Oregon Transnational Program, Fall 2000 and Spring
200 1, is a comparative US -Japanese Societies study program that
mixes US-based and international students with undergraduates from
the prestigious Waseda Un iversity, Tokyo , Japan. Three levels of
Ja panese language in struction are offered in addition to US-Japanese
Soc ie ties courses in the hum3nities ;lIld social scien ccs. Scholarships
of up to $1000 are available! For more inform :nion, conract :

The

by Joe Groshong
SESC is an acronym for Students for
the Evergreen Student Coalition. We are
interested in student governance at
Evergreen and the purpose of our group is
to: (1) Develop a model or models ofstudent
govemance. (2) Present these models to the
student community through a vilriety of
media including the CP] and public forums.
(3) Ask students to vote 011 the models
presented and to determine whether or not
they would like to adopt one of the proposed
models. (4) If this vote is successful. to
organize the election of members for the

en

Saturday
March 18, 2000
-.. 7:30 p.m. -

Spring Sale- April B & 9

Friday. march 10

All new music 10% off
All box sets 15% off
Hundreds of new & used
CDs & LPs up to 50% off
Skateboard decks &
wheels 30%-50% off
Tons more ••• Stop on by

Mary Jane Lamond
Gordie Sampson

8:00 pm
C!apitol Theatre

"Care to know where
you r rna ney goes?"

206 E 5th live

Support fair trade with low·income artisans
and farmers.
We are:
A center for fairly-traded products from around the world
A cafe with good food
• A performance space for concerts, classes, forums, and more

Website:.traclltlonstairtAde.eo... ..
c1i'..

Ana makes a lovely vegan sauce!

A Celtic Night
from Cape Breton

their entirety ...

... On any
18" "create
your own"
pizza

(360) 943-8044

THE TOWN MEETING
by David S m i Ii,
The guidin g principles on which I base
my theoretical mO:del of student
representation are primarily concerned with
the building community through increased
communication . That would include
soliciting and recording the students
opinions and concerns, representing those
views in a form the administration can
comprehend and assist students attempting
to be heard by the Faculty or Administration.
Studeilt representatives should also serve to
hold accountable the Board of Trustees by
cornmunicating their intentions, past
history, and current actions to the students
in a balanced manner.

shows in

Vic s Pizzeria

233 DIVISION ST NW

rtIJresentalivl' lIIodei oriented toward gOVl'fIIing
and making dtcisions lilr others. t he Union's roll'
is to advocate students' voices and facilitate direct
student involVl'ment. i\ ~ Evergrll'n continues to
expand and form more smali communities, the
linion will hopefully grow into thl' role of a
unifi l' r. bridgin g the boundaries of isolated
groups. Intimate learning communities arl'
cl'nlralto llur educational philosoIJhy but somt'
issues. particularly those involving changes
within the institlllion. demand communication
and organizrd effort across thesl' man y
populat ions. Ultimately the creat ion oft he Union
is intended 10 further Fvergreen's mission by
providing students more of an opIJortunity to
hone their energil's and talents toward the
coliegl''s goals. The Union is also encouraged to
fUrl her its own llt-velopml'nt by amending this
document and extending their l'lllltribution to
the' institution.

EVERGREEN STUDENT COAUTION
THE EVERGREEN STUDENT
h y Jot' Gro s hon!-\
To represent Evergreen Undergraduate COORDINATING UNION (ESCU)
students and to advocate for student interests by Richard Myers
The Evergreen Studellt Coordinating
and student rights at Evergreen. To take on
student issues that affect the student body as a Union (ESCU) shall (1) IJro!11ote cooIJeration
encourage
whole and 10 generally improve the quality of ;1I11ong stud~nt org;.nizations.
students
to
affect
institutional
policy.
( 3)
the undergraduate student experience at The
advocat
e
student
inclusion
on
institutional
Evergreen State College. To act upon gathered
student i\lterests by representing student decision-making processes. (4) inform students
opinion and interest to the College of institutional affairs. (S) act as an a('cessible
Administrati o n and other bodies. The resource for concerned student s. (ti) help
Coalition will be recognized as the advocating integratl' students into com!11unities. and (7)
foster continuity throughout student
body that represents the interest of Ihe
generat ions .
undergraduate student body of TESC.
Vision:
Recognized by the students of TESC,
The Evergreen Student Coordinating Union is
administration oITESC, the Board olTrustees
intended to strengthen the continuity and
ofT ESC. the HEC Board , and the Governor of cooperation of student communities around
the State of Washington. The basic business of institutional issues . Unlike a traditional
the Coalition must be advocating the interest
of a growing student body. The "interest" of . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - '
the Evergreen student body will be stated in a
general dOCllment amended and or updated by
th e student body by farm of vote Oil a quarterly
basis.

,--------------------------,

Coupon value:
$4.00

hlve had before. We couldn't even agree on
a single model of Student Governance to
present to the student body, However, we did
Mcide that we should take the idea of
student governance to a vote this yekWe
wanted to at least give the student. body an
opportunity to decide for themselves if they
wanted some form of student representation
or not.
We've got three models. None are
perfect and .there is no chance at that all
students will favor a single one ofthem_ Still,
they each offer their own pros and cons, and
we hope that one of them will appeal to a
significant majority to current students at
Evergreen. We will be having a vote on these
models during spring quarter. Students will
have the opportunity to vote for one of these
models or for no student governance at all.
This is important stuff. Your comments
would be appreciated.

Grateful Dead

Waseda Oregon Programs Office
(800) 823-7938
(503) 223-7938
info@opie.org
www.ople.org

2 free
toppings!

student governance model and to apply for
funding for the group.
Evergreen has never had a successful
student government. That's pretty obvious,
right? We don't have one now and we haven't had
one in the last four years. Many students have
attempted to establish a student government at
Evergreen and for a variety of reasons they have
all failed.
Many students at Evergreen over the years
had the general idea that some kind of student
governance at Evergreen would be good, but
beyond that it seems that they did not often agree
on much. Everyone has a vision of the ideal way

things should be around these parts, which has
been both good and bad_ It's great that people
here have historically been so invested in different
ideas of governance, but no governance model
has ever been up to snuff for all students at
Evergreen. Also, students who propose models
of governance or initiate discussions of student
governance at Evergreen upen themselves up for
all kinds of attacks. "What's ip this for you? Why
do you want to give so much power to so few
students? Shouldn't you get more people from
the community involved before you dare to
. proceed further?"
Things aren't much different today. SESC
has been around for most of winter quarter. We
thought that, like other students before us, we
needed some form of student governance. Thirty
students or so were involved in the ongoing
process with a core group of about ten people
who came back to our meetings week alter week.
We've been exposed to the same kind of attacks
and had some of the same problems that groups

"Just

•

300 5th Ave SW, Olympia • 705·2819
a splash from Heritage Fountain & Capitol Lake "

,--------------------------~
Cooper Point Journal -.4- March 9,2000

elympia
S1U lId\? I S1::! door
Tlx at Tlcketillas/'er
& Rainy Day Records
::!UUU W l'}arrison
01ymplll

-skateboards
-music, new& used
-incense -Converse
shoes -1OOs ofarl &
foreign films to rent
Special Orders Welcome
:J57-4755
In The WESTSIDE CENTER
At DIVISION a HARRISON

. MON - WED 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
THURS - SAT 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
SUN 12 - 5 .m.

Join us for all evening of music from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,
the international center for contemporary Celtic music.

Tickets: Adults $18-26

Students/Seniors $16-24 Youth $8-13
($1 service fee not included) Box Office (360)753-8586

Student Rush tickets available for 112 price one hour before the show.

_0_
THE WASHINGTON CENTER
FOR lHE PERFORMING ARTS

512 Washington SI. SE - Olympia, WA 98501

March 9,2000 ,-·5- Cooper Point Journal

----------~~~-----------------------------------------------------------History tells of a time when a stout
voluptuous woman could launch a thousand
ships (by hand), or could have pillaged her way
across the Eurasian Mountains and Plains. The
early cultures of Europe and Asia have these
me to totter around on a 5-inch heel every day lovely Earth Goddesses; ripe, fertile, and ready
and be 6 foot 8 inches. Big Girls like me try not to bear children. It was the desirable look for a
to spend our lives trying to fit in a Calista (needs woman until the 1920·s. Thinness has been a
to be fed) Flockheart-sized mold wh ich the quality valued in virginal girls. in fact it seems
.~
fashion world forces upon us.
to represent innocence and chastity.
I spent my adolescence wearing my
Voluptuousness seems to represent
clothes one size smaller than [ should have worn bounty and comfort. Young women were
and eventually coming to the conclusion that married as early as nine years old to men in
no matter how much [ weighed, my damn' their thirties in the upper classes. In the rural
bones would still wejlf a size 14. This was of world you had a better chance of marrying
course
after enduring those acid-washed tight someone closer to your age. If you think about
BV Amv Loskoti,
which
I had to lay flat on the bed with a it, a thin woman is much easier to be assumed
jeans
Maybe it was because we were taller than
our teachers in seventh grade and were used to hanger through the zipper, to zip up. Then, as chaste as the male can eaSily see if her virtue
being mistaken for 19 at age nine. I became a oflate, the local mall had the nerve to close our has been true. A big woman's virtue is not so
big girl at age nine: You remember when your Lane Bryant (the only store that had nice clothes easily guessed as she can hide pregnancy and
shoe size suddenly becomes the source of many for BBW's) to put in a Baby Gap! Since when other indiscretions.
The current media creates a world where
salesperson's contemptuous eye-rolling who do babies need to shop at the Gap'? Maybe you
could
take
that
fifty
bucks
for
a
tiny
leather
big
people
are laughed at. stared at, and
always said "no, we have nothing in your size".
jacket
and put it in junior's college fund? We personified as unattractive. And over the last
Thus, us big girls spend the rest of our
are
in
Olympia. WA, land of the overweight week, I would agree somewhat. I looked at the
lives focusing on one quest. the perfect shoe
middle
class miasma, where the fat is where it's mall and at the bus stops, and I saw many really
and clothes fit. That perfect black leather Mar)'
at.
Most
of the stores in our mall and overweight people struggling with walking.
Jane, with a normal chunky heel in a size 11 1/
2 still makes me breathe a little harder thinking downtown would make so much more money some having to drive themselves in carts, and
of it on my foot. Though [ had discovered if they would accommodate the majority of the waiting prostrate for the bus. It can be a disease
which, like I have mentioned before, is a
transvestite shoes stores, there is little need for Thurston County population's big butts!
symptom of our economic hreakdown. We
have all the food we can stuff down our gullets .
Domestic
and no place to live or sleep of our own.
-Air Conditioning
Imports
My mother never seemed to realize that
Capitol Services
-Timing Belts
we were not meant to look like the mode ofthe
RV Auto & Truck Center
day. She never seemed to remember that our
-Tune-ups
ancestors were stocky farmers and warriors
Free pick up and Delivery
-Electrical
whose bodies were designed to store as much
Scheduled factory maintenance 30K-60K-90K
fat as possible; so what if! didn't look as bad as
-Diagnostics
SO 17 Joppa SW
I thought, nobody told me. Instead I was told
that "If! just would lose 10 pounds I could be a
Tumwater, WA
-Transmission
model." Guys in school used me as the "you're
-Engine minor/major
going out with her" girl. I scrunched up my

Big Girls:

When we grew
up, we grew up.

~~GRUMPY
J

&6IIok

~RANT

Auto Repair

st.

(360) 754-1233

shoulders and made my personality as feminine
and diminutive as pOSSible.
Preconceptions abound about statuesque
women. Like we don't like to date shorter people
when the truth is we do. Or that we eat a lot of
food to get this big. The truth is that people are
big for many reasons. Some of us have eating
disorders we can't control, some of us just have
a physical balance that gains weight easily and
many other medical reasons, too. And some of
us were born very voluptuous and had a very
generous puberty. Some would say we are lazy.
The truth is I am not. [ am not hopping up and
down jacked up on caffeine, running races to
stay thin, but I am out there lifting heavy
weights, digging in my garden, and biking
downtown. [n addition, no matter how healthy
I am, unless [ get sick, [ am always going to be
this big.
There are some that think'we are ugly and
disgusting. However. when it comes down to it.
and [know this from the mouths of men and
women, big people are well-desired in and out
of bed. [love the writhing beauties of Titian,
Klimt, Duer, and Rubens. Courtiers of the
Western tradition are always painted as fleshy,
wanton, and bursting with erotic promise. Who
wants to lay in bed with a hard bony teddy bear'!
Who wants to bruise themselves on their
partner's bony body? I know I don't want to go
to bed with preadolescent girls or boys,
nonetheless wear their clothes. A normal
amount of woman-type (butt, hips, bosom, and
tummy) fat makes you normal. It makes you a
mature and ripe young adult ready to go out,
mate. and survive on your own.
Whatever weight you are should not stop
you from being social, having fun, and getting
the most out of your life. Toss off the burden of
shame and enjoy your life while you have it,
whatever you look like. A rich bank of diverse
skills and experiences are the best cosmetic.

POLICE
CORPS

THE WASHINGTON POLICE CORPS promises qualilied applicants a
tremendous opportunitv to enter the law enlorcemenl prolession, while
providing outstanding linancial incenlives.
Receive lull salarv 01 vour emploving agencv while receiving up to 30,000
dollars in reimbursement lor previouslv incurred college expenses.
Requirements: ABachelors Degree or earning abachelors degree bv
Spring 2000.

Cooper Point Journal -6- March 9,2000

Lette

ons------

Upski and Beyond

.

by Mark Bader
I'm the one who attempted to speak
at the Upski event about the current
famine in Ethiopia . When Evelyn. a
Ghanaian-American on stage said she
didn't want to talk about Ethiopia. I
responded with "And you don't want us
to talk about this?" It was a mistake that
I personalized the issue in a way that
implied that people of African descen't
should have more reason to care. I
apologize for this . What I should have
said was. "8,000.000 people at imminent
risk of starvation is a hllman tragedy that
should be of concern to everyone."
Unfort unately, by the time I was able
to speak, the conversation had moved
beyond where it was when I first put my
hand up. A black man chastised
progressives for concerning themselves
with issues far away and ignoring the
plight of, say, the black community in
Tacoma. Evelyn was mad at Upski for
setting her up and Upski was offer ing a
bumbling apology.
As for the appropriateness of
mentioning the famine at the eventwhile the timing could have been better.
when it is not appropriate to ca ll
attention to unfolding tragedies of
enormous proportions? Whether it be the
famines in North Korea and Ethiopia, the
effects of the sanctions on Iraq or the
ecocide of the planet itse lf. the main
obstacle to speedy and effective relief to
the victims is the obliviousness of those
in a position to help. What can we say
about the casllal acceptance by the west
of the preventable deaths of millions of
third world peoples? Is this not based on
the devaluation of non-white li fe? Is this
not racism? Doesn't this indiffe'rence to
the sufferings of people in the third world
have something in common with the
indifference shown to people of color in
the US?
The article I read in the New York
Times (2/24/00) the day befor e
described the peril of 8,000,000 people
with. according to the UN, 2,000 ,000 at
extreme risk. Fifty million dollars is
needed immediately. This sum is pocket
change to Bill Gates and Paul Allen, let
alone the US Government. And yet , as far
as I know, the necessary aid is still in
question. I knew that most people in the
room would not know of this, not having
read the one article to appear on the
crisis. As of this writing, I have seen no
further mention of the crisis in the U.S.
media. My fear is that it will be
marginalized until it is too late.
How much of Africa's troubles are
the product of European colonialism and
the U.S. post-colonial manipulations: th e
slave trade, the destruction of nations,
redrawing lines, the map, the creation of
puppet rulers, the activities of our C.I.A.
(read: John Stockwell, former C.I.A.
station chief for Angola), the arming of
counter-revolutionary thugs like Jonas
Savimbi, the Clinton administration's
blocking of intervention in the Rwandan
genOCide?
There is a strong possibility that the
AIDS epidemic ravaging the continent
may have its origins in Western scientists '
experiments in Africa . Not long ago. AI

Gore argued against offering anti-AIDS
formulas to southern African nations to
produce affordable treatments.
The extreme weather ca using
flooding in Mozambique may be caused
in part by the global warming impact of
our sport utility vehicles. To pretend that
Africa's troubles are her own is to
embrace a provincial outlook to the point
of denial.
On the general subject of racism. I
call attention to Howard Zinn 's "A
People's History of the United States. "
Zinn argues that racism is not a naturally
occurring phenomenon but a mechanism
used by ruling elit es to keep those who
are to be exploited divided.
Any discussion of racism wh ich fails
to deal with the political and economic
context within which racism operates will
fall short of coming to grips with racism's
root causes.
A recent example of this would be
President Clinton's "Dialogue on Race,"
a series of narrowly defined discussions
that effectively limit any challenge to
institutional structures of domination
and hierarchy.
Racism has been a useful tool for
half a millennium . but it could be easily
abandoned should it no longer be viewed
as useful. the system can be just as easily
served by people of color. Witness Native
American Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.s.
Senator from Colorado and friend of
mining and timber intere sts despoiling
the land. Or General Co lin Powell,
bombing Iraq as Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
Towards the end of their lives,
Malcolm X and Reverend King broadened
their concerns to include the
international situation and struggles for
economic justice.
"You can't understand what is going
on in Mississippi if you don't know what's
going on in the Congo ... they're both the
same. The same interests are at stake. the
same sides are drawn up, the same
schemes are at work in the Congo that are
at work in Mississippi." Malcolm X, 1965.
Malcolm was ke en ly interested in
forging links between the movement for
racial justice in the U.s. and the newly decolonized African nations. Martin Luther
King strongly denounced the U.S. war in
Vietnam and was organizing a Poor
People's March on Washington when he
died . Each came to realize that the real
struggle was not so much about race as it
lVas about rich and poor, and that racial
justice cou ld not be ach ieved in a
meaningful way outside of the lar ger
pursuit of social and economic justice.
My purpose in speaking up at the
Upski event was to call attention to an
emergency. I hope that my remarks and
this article serve that purpose, as well as
fostering further discussion. It is not my
intention to offend anyone and to those
who may have been offended, [ express
my regret. I welcome any comments or
criticism and look forward to working
with a nyo ne interested in responding to
the current crisis in Ethiopia.
Come children, Let us drive a mighty
s take through the heart of Babylon
system. th e vampire.
\

Graduation Day Blues
Dear Geoducks of Class Y2K.
"If you won't dance, I won't televise your
revo lu tion!"
(and
other
creative
recontextualizations and appropriations by any
means necessary... to fit on the T-shirt)
Regarding your class motto: "If I can't
dance ... " - She never said it. I can't prove it
conclusively, since she died sixty years ago, but
my research indicates that Emma Goldman
never wrote it either.
Local activist, Chris Carson, brought this
marvelous "quote" to my attention last year. I
had complained that attendance to Dance 0'
Dance was still low amongst the anarchists,
progressives, peaceworkers, and social justice
crowd. I knew all along that I'd wanted a
different. more subversive. Live TV Show.
Instead, mostly the kids wanted a hill pop rock
social club.
Although I've plagiarized & misattributed
& infringed on copyrights more than my Fair Use,
I 1/eeded to know the history around such an
eloquent & profound statement of principles. I
searched the public library, looking through
several shelves of quotation books and using the
index to find either "Emma Goldman" or
"Revolution" or "Dance". After a half hour of
honest but fruitless effort, I found it in the New
Beacon Book ofQllotatioTlS by Women compiled
by Rosalie Maggio, author of The Non-Sexist
Word Finder. On page 450. under
M[SQUOTATIONS it reads: "[f I can't dance I
don't want to be in your revolution. Or: It's not
my revolution if! can't dance. Or: 1ft can't dance
to it, it's not my revolution."
Emma Goldman (According to Goldman
biographer Alex Kates Shulman, "Dances With
Fem inists." The Women's Review of Books,
December 1991, p.13) never said it. In her 1931
autobiography, Living My Life, p. 56, Goldman
describes being accused offrivolity at a dancea passage that Shulman recommended to an
anarchist group making Goldman T-shirts tor a
1973 New York City festival celebrating the end
of the Vietnam War. The T-shirts duly appeared
with the now-famous abridgement and despite
the fact that the word "revolution" never

appeared in the Goldman passage. The closest
Goldman came to expressing the idea was "[ was
tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into
my face. [did not believe that a Cause which
stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for
release and freedom from conventions and
prejudice, should demand the denial oflue and
joy. [insisted that our Cause could not expect
me to become a nun and that the movement
should not be turned into a cloister. lfit meant
that. [did not want it."
I left with a better idea ofEmma Goldman's
work and greater respect for an anonymous
anarchist with a flair for phrase-ology. [ then
crafted my own motto combining elements of
dance & politics. [See below] When I saw the
flier seeking submissions for the class of 2000's
T-shirt design incorporating Emma's misquote ...
well, quite frankly, my dears. [gave a damn good
laugh out loud and, as if Bogart whispered "Play
it again, Sam," [ DID IT AGA[N. LOL!!! Not only
did [ Laugh Out Loud again. [ went back to the
library iii'tent on photocopying the above
citation. so [could be abso-fuckin-lutely positive
ofmy source (& my source's source. & my source's
source's source). Ittookanother half-hour to find
it again .
[n addition, [found another quote in which
Goldman actually uses the word "Revolution".
This time, from The Creat Qllotations[ compiled
by George Seldes, the Citadel Press. pg. 284]: "N 0
revolution ever succeeds as a tactor of liberation
unless the Means used to further it be identified
in spirit and tendency with the Purpose to be
achieved." - My Further Disillusion . 1924. I
considered following the trail further. to the
primary source materials, but I'll bet you can do
that yourselves. I'm excited to see these T-shirts.
& I hope you'll be my guests on the June 9th
episode [wearing your sh irts and mortarboards I.
Thanks in advance. thanks in a dance.
"Organize the Movement. Step into the
Revolution, and Perform Direct Actions
Televised LIVE for your Community"
-Justin B. Wright

The Tragedy at Thekla
Bv David Smirh
. Beer is water, hops and sugar. It's pretty widely
accepted that beer predates bread in many cultures.
Either way it's been with us a very long time. In
Olympia it's about two bucks a pint on draft, dH'
'good' stuff a little more, dIe 'cheap' stuff a little less.
Two dollars; around 15 minutes work at minimum
wage, a gallon of milk at the store. a single talllatte'
at the coffee shop.
What is two dollars?
For dlat matter what is dle value ofa beer?
I hope you'll excuse my rambling, I've been
pondering these questions this moming in the hope
dlat dlere is some significant answer for something
dlat has been just beyond our intellectual reach for
centuries now: thevalueofa life. What does thevalue
ofa beer have to do with the value of a life? Simply
this: Friday night. for what appeared to be the sake
ofa spilled beer, one person lost their life and several
more will never be dIe same.
Someone [ know quite well who works at
Thekla said. " He was on the stairs and bumped this
guy's beer or something. spilled it... hit him in dIe
face with the bottle and he fell back... He died in my
mend's arms."
There are dark and primal urges in all of us.
They threaten to boil up from the most ancient
recesses of our psyche; defend, attack, eat, mate...
They are all there, dley have always been there, and
they always will be. We like to think of ourselves as
evolutionary masterpieces, a higher fonn oflife. lt is
I

,

.

•

March 9, 2000 -7- Cooper Point Journal

a comfort to an ego in search ofan individual identity.
But work around horses for a while. or any other
speciesyou like, and you'll realize that what separates
your intellect from theirs isn't as much as you
thought.
Our values shape our decisions and it is those
decisions that define us. The advertising and
entertainment mass media reflect a culture that
values strength, speed and sexuality over intellect,
integrity, or patience. We have become a society of
consumers, always having to have the latest and the
greatest, valuing. honoring, making icons out ofthe
flashiest, the richest. the "best." But your stutThreaks
or gets stolen, your money goes down in value faster
than you use it, your house can be taken by dIe IRS
or by your ex's lawyer, even your accomplishment~
are shared. [n the end only your mistakes are entirely
yourown. Forme, character and maturity are defined
by how we choose to channel our passionate
impulses. [n dIe end, it's the only thing we possess of
value.
My grandfather started dIe fight that split dIe
family over the last piece of apple pie. I try to ask
myselfbefore [draw the line in the sand; 'is thisworth
it?' A NOLS field instructor. long retired now, told
me once; "[t isn't about who got to the top of the
mountain first or who did this or that better than
anyone else. it was whether or not you did it with
style. And dlat's not something you tell me, 111 see it
in your eyes."

"e

"FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

ongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress of grievances."
- First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

Poor Judgment, CPJ
Dear Ashley (Editor-in-chief),
Iam writing in regards to your choice to print
the photo taken at the scene uf Rory Kaulhnan 's
death. Although you bring up some thoughtful
points in your corresponding article I feel that it is
not enough to convince me that this needed to be
done. As a staff person of th e CPJ, member of th t'
student community and as a human being I fail to
see the benefit or necessity ofpresentillg this photo
publicly.
As you stated, the majority of the CPJ statr
"decided printing the photo would be in the best
interest of the community." In acting on the side
of the majority you show your ability to be a fair
democratic leader and I respect you for that. I trust
that if the majority had taken the opposing stance
you would not have printed the photo.
This aside however, I feel the arguments are
weak. I did not need to see the picture of Rory's
covered dead body to feel grief or to understand
that he is dead and that "suicide kills". The rront
page coverage presents the tragedy and, in my
opinion, in no way softens the blow or paints a
"pretty or dishonest portrait of suicide." Although
I understand the thought process behind your
choice I believe that the wrong decision was made
in chousing to publish th e photo.
When I found out on Monday that a student had
fallen out of a donn window and died Ileit shock

and sadness. At that time I did not kllow who the
student was. When I participated in the first
related CPJ group discussion and was presented
the idea of publishing the aforementioned photo I
was strongly opposed. It seemed so inappropriatr
to me that I was actually shocked that it even
net'ded to be discussed. I remember verbalizing
that I feIt printing the photo wO'lJld be especially
insensitive to the people that knew the student. At
that time I did not realize I was one of those people.
Rory was not a close friend of mine. He was
an acquaintance. We had worked on a group
performance art project together last spring before
he dropped out of the class we had together.
Whenever we saw each other on campus we would
say hello and occasiollally stop for brief
conversations. This was a person that I had
interacted with, shared creative ideas with and will
nOW!fllss.
I believe that it is important lor us to lise thesr
situations as learning experiences. Perhaps in the
world of college journalislll ubtaining a photu such
as this may be a rare accomplishment. However,
just beca use something is rare does not mrall that
it is hrnrlicial. And just becallse somcthing is rare
does IIOt mean that it necd.\ to be .~ han'dwi th
everyullc.
-Sin(1i SOIlll'rS

Another Poor Choice
I was and continue to be sickened, hmt,
and angered by the phuto ofRory Kaullinan 's sccne
of death printed with a missing photo credit. Yom
"t ough decision," which resu lt ed in the
disrespectful and distasteful printingof this photo.
was incredibly hurtfill. Your "tough decision" was
furthered by the message that "suicide ends only
in death," a rather redundant message that does
not justity the printing of this photo. I think all
will agree that the result of suicide is death: this is
not a revetation. However, for Rory, suicide ended,
in addition to his death, with his exploitation
compounded by disrespect and dishonor to him,
his family, and all who cared for him. Rory was
my rriend; I wonder if you would have faced such a
"tough decision" itne had also been yours. Printing
the photo is not only exploitative, it is heartless.
The missing photo credit was obviously not a
mistake. The person who took the photo is a
coward. I want you to be aware of the major
journalistic
flaw in the absence of a photo credit. I think it is
imperative that the CPJ stalfbe reminded of their

jumnalist ic responsibility tn own all work.huwever
controversial. This is the bottom line. The photo
should not haverull simply because thr
phutugraphcr was alraid tn uwn it. Of course. as
someone who cared lor Rury, seeing his covered
body in my comlllunity newspaper was entirely
unllecessary alld very difficult to view. This,
however. is my opinion and the staR'obviously does
not share my view. Stall' Illembers who were
behind the printing of this photo were probably
not rriends wit h Rory either, but that is beside the
point. Printing photo credits and by lines are not
to be omitted at will. These are not optional bits
of print.
All ethical decisions are arguable, but the phuto
credit should have been printed. If you ran't claim
your work, however controversial, YOll do not have
the right to print it. This was an all time low,
humanly and joufllalistically. ever thought possible
for the CPJ. I am trllly disappointed, hmt, and
outraged by this actiun. Have some respect. An
apology to Rory, his family, his friends. and the
entire Evergreen commllnityis in order.
-Melisa Siblt'y

A Close Call
DearCPJ:
I must confess to being rather shocked and
saddened by the death of Rory Luke Kauffil!an last
week.
Shocked because I normally walk around ADorm. to the main campus. along the side path upon
which his body was discovered. In fact, on Monday, I
decided, lor seemingly no apparent reason, to walk
around A-Dornl via the opposite pathway. If I had
followed my usual routine it is possible that I could
have discovered his body. Other than the shock dlat a
simple matter ofchance meant dle diBerence between
discovering Rory or contil lUing ont 0 college completely
unaw~re of anything untoward, I was and am

•

Ions
saddened by dle college's lack ofoutward and obvious
demonstration ofcommunity feeling for Rory. Other
dlan a black flag flying, where was dle college's coming
together? If not for Rory, then to at least remember
dlat a sizeable percentage of students, at one time or
allodler, sufter varying degrees ofdepression. Apublic
demonstration might show a little bit ofcare for Rory,
but it might show a lototlove and care for the student\
faculty and staff still living who might sometimes
question the point ofcarrying on for another day.
Evergreen, as a community, you have
disappointed me. We have collectively demonstrated
as much care for one of us as we would show fora minor
fender-bender at the Mall. If this lack of care is a true
rellection of Evergreen and society, was Rory right? I
hope not, for dle rest ofus still living, but Iadmit dlat I
cannot find the evidence proving him wrong.
Thank you.
Adrian R. Magnuson-Whyte

A State ofMourning
Dear Friends or the Evergreen State College
Community, My Heart is heavy with sorrow for th ings
I have witnessed on our campus during the last week
of February.
We have lost a community member, Rory
Kaultillan. This is enough in itself to ask us to pause
and take considerations.
We also had an is~ue ofracerelations arise during
WilliamUpski's appearance asa speaker. Manypeoplr
Ix'calll(' allgered, solnt' became ali-aid, and many more
were thoroughly cunlilsed by events which unlolded
in his poorly thought out attempt to disClls\ iS~lIes or
race and imprisonment, amongst others.
[~ISt year at this timc I lost three oI'my hestlriends
in the lirst week of March. Two of them died in :rrull
over accident on the Evergreen parkway. and the dlird
sllot himself He was lound dead in a pickup Inlck in
till' nationall{m~st near Wenatchee. Neither inciucnt
had any obvious relation.
Dean Baxter and Brady Gates died on the
Parkway. Dean was an old scl;ool Plink who loved
nuthing lx,tter than to howl, rave and shyly grin when
anyone noticed. He is loved by many fine people. Brady
was a once-stingy bitchman who figured out that
sharing was better than being alone, and made many
friend\ thereby. Dave, who killed himself fought tor
many years to reconcile the idiotic tortures which
people force on one anotherwidl his deeper sensitivity
dlat told him the Inlth: We are all in this togcther.111e
dlree ofdlem were very close, and our bond extended
to many hundreds offiiends from Seattle to Portland.
We are dIe locab.
At dIe wake, held during spring break last year,
we listened to a tape, which Dean had made. On it he
rants, cus.~ingfaggotsanddykes,niggers, injuns, gooks,
crackers, politicians, apadletics, religious zealots and
lukewarm tenants. As I looked around the room filled
with our friends, I saw the twins, Chehalis Tribal
mcmbers whose fiunily took Dean in when he was a
nm3way, and gave him a home. I saw Tony, black as
night and beautilill in his painted lead 1m. Isaw Dial lilt'

and Heather, the lesbians who opened dleir home to
our need to be sorrowful and moum the loss of our
loved ones. George, our fav Ilaminggay man, Tiffany,
skin the color ofmilkcoUee, and on, and on, so it goes,
till time without end.
My rrie nd~ had died, and in the darkest abyss of
LewisCounty, from whence come only stick~ and Ilick~,
I had found somet hing that Evergreen lacked. Asense
of community beyond color. sexual orientatioll or
other phenomenal evidence.
Dean, the one who was always first with an
inappropriate remark, was also the first to admit he
was worse ofrthan the rest. A non-conformist, so anti
PC dlat people judged him before dley knew him, Dean
lI1arked himself to bear the abuse of humanity. How
else should the court jester perlorm? And yet, at the
end. we all sat around, ina l11eltingpot more profound
than any Schuolhouse Ruck, crying, holding. and
comforting one another.
My Heart is heavy. I laid Dean, with my own
hand~, in the ground of the Chehalis Peoples Tribal
Burial Ground. The gill he gave us at his parting "viII
('lIrich me to the end of my days, and I pray for the
strength to pass it along. My rriend~ at TESC,I ask you
tq please let me lighten my heart.
Please do not judge Upski tor his naivete. He is
the polar opposite ofdle punks we were. How could
he know our live's suffering? How can he know
another race's inner struggles? My fadler was in
prison until I was 12.1 do not know the grieving,
pain and anger of my father. How can Upski? Please
do not blame him for being naive, but instead
persevere in understanding, and working hard 10
spread tllis fonn ofcompassion: under die myriad
experience we reap as individuals, beyond tile
communal well and wealdl ofour diverse racial and
cultural heritage, we all are beings of light clothed in
dIe crudeness of flesh. Be forgiving, and patient Rory
Kaullinan, Ioffer prayers for your ascensiOlI
-Deston Denniston

Community starts with the individual
Han nah Meaox:k

Rory, I couldn't hear you." He ttlmed and looked me personal motives. I am reminded ofJeremy's storyI sat down with Rory on the stePs outside dIe lecture in the eyes for dIe first and last time; 'l1lis place is so the boy who shot himo;eltln front ofclass. Let us honor
Rory'sdeadl by being av.-are ofits message. With this,
hall "Is an}(lne else here?"1 asked "No, just me" Rory strange."
We
went
ill'iideto
~rt
dres.~
rehearsal
We
were
I'd
like to addres.~an issue I have heard a lot about since
replied This was the first time I'dever been alone widl
Rory, and besides casual chat about the play we were all on stage when we hit a pau.o;e. 1111' part ofsecond coming to Evergreen_11le issue i~ community.
By no means do I teel that the Evergreen
performing rLife is a Dream") it is the only serv.IIlt'wa.~up."Where'sRoryTsomooneindlegrx)up
conversation that we ever had "So what's )001' story, a.<;ked. I looked up from my script, '1113t'sodd, he was community cau.'ied Rmy's deadl, but I do believe dlat
how long have )00 been at Evergreen?" I asked "La.\1 just here. I was talking to him a minute ago." We d1i.~tragicevelltshouldbeusedasaleamingexperience
year was my first year" Rory answered_ "So wi Jere did assumed that he'd be back We made it through in tenn~ of community. Evergreen has an incredible
system of independent education in which we are
you live, where do }'OlIlive now?" I kept inquiring. "I . rehearsal that day, but Rory never returned
Exactly twmtyfour hours later Iheard dle news . allowed to dIOse our own academic paths. This does
lived in the mods last year, this year I live in A donn."
"So which do}'Olllike better the mods or A?" "I liked ofRory's death. The scene on the Stairs immediately not mean that we (as humans) do not need an
living in the fTlOd'l better, I guess." Rory had a somber replayed in my mind. and over again through out dIe emotionallylillJlPOrliveellvironmellt. Whatcan we 00
tone in his voice and mostly stared straight ahead at oextdays.lhaveanopinionon Rory'ssuicide_1 realize to make our campus a moresupponiveen\'ironment
the library building_ He mumbled something under dlat it is one ofmany. I feel that Rory killed himself. in for those with or without personal problems or
his breath. I couldn't make out what he said, 'Pardon part, to prove a point. This does not discount his depression? Iam ofthe opinion d13tcormrunitystarts

Cooper Point Journal -8- M~rch 9,2000

widl the individual. I encourage us to open our minds
and hearts to one another, so this community
compassion for Rory's death may heal our own
emotional wounds. Iemploy us to leamall that we can
rro!n Rory's bold statement
As I wa.~ walking duough Red Square the other
day, I1learda young manconunent, "I hate dlatgirl
and I don't even know her," This is exactly the kind of
attituded13tmanifi:5tsitselfll}~.ltdoesn'tmatter

whose attitude it is, it makes for a disharmonious
environment fur everrone-111ope that we all can use
dlis break as a time for reftettion and relaxation. Use
die time well to undo the stresses of the end of the
quarter, and try to rome back with a slightly more
positiveattitude_lfs the best thing we can 00 for our
conununity.1OOd for thought over break-what can
)00 00 to help yourseIfand)OOf fellowGreeners?

Every person may freely speak, write and publi~ on all
subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right."
- Article I, Section 5, Washington State Constitution 1889

Staggered Departure
By Da vid

R~

ffi n

A lot of people, especially old people, have a lot
OfftlllllY notions about deadl. fur example; they believe
in the old adage dlat you die when it's "your time."
"Poor old Mrs. Grant. Iguess itwasjusthertime.
Right there in d Ieexpress checkout. Clutching 13 items
to her bosom. She would have wanted it that way. A
consumer to the very end."
Sometimes, a lot of people elie aU at the same
time. 316 people- all with the sudden urge to go to
Idaho. Not knowing why- but buying one-way tickets
all the same. Guys on dleonrampsaying. "I don't know
why I'm here. I don't even k.now anybody in Boise. I
just feel compelled to go. It's like I've got no choice."
All these people slam into a mountainside.
Why? It saves on dIe paperwork.
It's a little-known fact, but dIe holy ghost hates
paperwork. Stuck v.~th all the dmdge work, he takes
advantage ofall dle shortcuts he can.
A plane crashes into dle mountainside and die
survivors resort to cannibalism before subcoming to
the cold. Staggered departure times- One fOHn. Sure,
lot\ of names on it, but only one torm. He stamps it
"'ld that's the end of it- it's onto the next task- It's
somebody else's time.
We have plenty of other outdated concepts.
While we're on the subject, let 's talk about the bullshit
Wl' refer 10 as science and thr scientilic method. TIll'

double blind study. Let's talk about that. Control
groups- how do we really know dlat vitamin C helps
stay oftlleart attack and that aspirin ward~ oU'stroke?
Maybe dIe control group was made up ofunfommate
individuals. Maybe the active group was never going
to corne down widl anything in dIe first place. Nottlleir
time. Pure happenstance. Dr. Jung is sitting somewhere
giggling and mumbling under his breath about
synchronicity while watching die new amvals dribble
in and complain that dley never got to Boise, not that
they really wanted to go, but really, the nerve...
Sometimes there are mass shootings.
Sometimes, aguy has just had enough. Anytime dlere
is a tragedy at a supermarket, schoolyard or
McDonalds in this great country; anytime a federal
building i~ leveled into the rubble from which it spring:
anytime there is a political assassination ofany note, I
say something that is bound to piss off the masses.
Anytime you can rationally or irrationally point
the finger of blame toward speculc individuals for a
crime of this type, people get all holier than thou and
talk about it over their espres.\os and lattes. "TIlrow
the bookat'im," they say. "Filth," they call them. That's
whell I get indignant and tum with a cold, hard look
011 my lace and SiIY, "He had his reasons." Then I go
back to whatever I was doillg. Alld the people keep
thrir distance after that. which was alllw<ls asking in

Buses, truth, and ruckus
People come togedler to make their voices I,eard
when their voices arc shrouded by the representative
and vague Irderalist system in which we live. This is
what I saw ill a park ill the middle of Olympia, on
Saturday. l11is is what Isaw as I talked to strallgers all
eating potatoes, bagels, and soup, lovingly prepared
and donated by our fellow community members. 111is
is \\1lJt I saw as hundreds ofpeople-disabled, able,
yOlmg. old, aftIuent and poor college kids, poor parents,
and three-year olds- marched down Ca pitol
Boulevard fj'om dIe park.
Joy, memories of the WTO, of marching that
same street a month ago after a previous rally flooded
through my mind as voices chanted that we want
busses. TIlis is what I saw and felt as the tripods were
hoisted, as some dallCed, others linked arms, and all
made noise. There was not a small group around the
tripods as Mac stated in his article 011 the 2'''' .. .tlIere
were hundreds. Hundreds or people who were not
scared of making a ruckus, hundreds of people of all
ages ready and willing to not bow down to a police
officer who lied to us, willing to wave at the passing
cars who honked in encouragement. We reclaimed the
street, we yelled that dlesc were our streets, "Who's
streets?" "OUR STREETS" and ifwe couldn't usc them

with busws we will take them over.
Iioulld Mac'silldicatioll that the "tripoJ (X'Uplc"
ollly yelled profanities to bequite oRrnsive,"We don 't
want no more fuckin' cars!" was a chant that Idid not
(Jl'rsonally hear. 'nil' mes\age from dlC road-blockers.
which included myself; and many of my fiiend\, was
clear. We will not conform to a government that keeps
LIS apart, we will come together, we will make a great
noise, and we will be heard.
On Sunday, die first day of bus cuts I got a flat
tire on my bike. I had to hitch hike for the rest of the
day because dlere were no busses. Ialmost missed my
presentation at a community meeting that night
because of this. People have built their lives around
publiC transit. We will not sit quietly while it is taken
away, and we will not sit quietly while we are made out
to be annoying extremists. Ifelt the power ofdle mas.o;es
at dle WTO demonstration. TIlat power resonated in
the streets 011 Saturday. I will never again give up that
power, and I will never give up my admiration for
people who make a ruckus; these are the people who
cause us to talk, the people who bring us together. We
are the people who will reclaim politics for the
community.
-Natalie Nicklett

Dedicated to Roty Luke Kallffil13Il
As time blinds dIe perception of the world (pause)
It sometimes blinds dIe reflection oflifi>.
And intensifies the thought ofdeath, hurled
down upon one causing griefand strife.
"And he will wipe out every tear from your eyes,
and death will be no more."
It abnost bums through one, straight down to dle core.
As time and wlforeseen occurrences enact
We aU as individuals must survive for a fact.lt is unfortunate what deadl or complications extrapolate
Our f.unilies and friends are traumatized
Death is a serious matter in which people should realize
In my opinion death is the conclusion to one's fute.
Owing one's existences, many complications occur
But life, is the complex element that we endure.
-by William Hill

flowers.
the lirst place.
Roadside vigils mean one thing to me- Free
It's trl.leafierall. No matter what happens, people
have their reasons. Sometimes they have more thall Flowers.lI1t weren't lordle high deadl rateon our roads
one. Sometimes they have a litany of reasolls. Like and highways. I would be forced to payout ofpocket
lor flowers on those occasions I need them. Fresh
mallY of the saints.
When these illcidrllts of mass murder UlTlIr flowcrs lor the taking. That's nodling to sneeze at. Not
to mention all dIOse small crosses.
people all say the sallle
You never know when your going
dling:
to need to crucity something
"So many died
"It's a little known fact, bur small.
betore dleir time."
And it keeps the florists in the
BULLSHIT! It was
th e holy ghost hates
black as well, I may add. You've
their time! Had it not been
paperwork. "
got to dlink of the economy, as
dleir time, dley would be
they have so often reminded me.
here with you and I,
The only thing [ caution against
laughingat someone ebe's
misfortune. 'Ille Gennans have a word for dlat. TIley is taking the flowers while the roadside vigil is sttU
standing dlere across the street. You should always wait
call it schadenfroh.
People don't like it when you say that. People until dley have ju.st left. TIl is is only proper manners,
telld to have theS(' feelings about mas\ murder. Unless and widlOut proper observance ofmanners we are lost.
Sometimes you see the vigil up close, as you
tile mass murder occurs at the hands ofthe state. 111en
peoplegenerally couldn't give ashit. ln human society, rollnda blind comer and just mis.~ hittinga figure with
mas\ murder is a sin, but genocide is a means to an his anns loaded with floral offerings.
end.
If you hit them, there is already a crowd of
And now dlat we're laying it all out on the table, mOllmrrs ready with flowers and cros\rs. I'd say they
.
let's talk about the so-c3lled "lrdgedy" ofdnlllk driving. were ready to go. It's karma.
I say leavr the corpses there to rol. Let the
When people die 011 the road. usually resulting
in soml' manner Irum the imbibing ufalrohol.JX'opll' hllzz;lfds pick thelll clean. That's natures way.
gather in roadside vigils and leave snIalllTos\l'S and Hllz7~lrds haw got to rat. After aU, it's not their timc.

Pain in the grass
To the Membl'rs of the EvergrC'l'n
Community.
This afternoon, like most Friday aliernoons,
I walked out to the playing field, (you know, that
huge area of grass in front of the com munit y
crnter), to play soccer and generally run arollnd
and unwind. This afternoon though, I was asked
to leave, and when I refused I was arrested. No, I'm
not a criminal, and yes, I am a currently enrolled
student. Iwas arrested becallse I refused to comply
with a policy that has temporarily closed the fields
fortheir rejuvenation. I was told that the fields were
bcing preserved for the slimmer. If I am correct,
most of us are not even here for the summer (but
the Washington Huskies are, right? If I am alsu
correct, this is probably the gloomiest tillle of the
year in this state as well as the end of the quarter.
Most of us Ilave had ollr faces glued to computer
screens or have bee n stuck inside a building under
fluorescent lights for hundreds of hours now,
feeling the pressure ofdeadlines on the completion
oflabs, portfolios, and papers that will eventually
mark the end. If! am still further correct, there is a
fundamental adage, maybe from the Greeks, that
emphasizes the relationship between a sound body
and a sound mind. There is always heart disease to
think about too. Why else do we have a wellness
center, or go jogging, or anything else? So does it
not seem out of place, or maybe even a little
Orwellian, or just a little unfair, for a student on a
campus that has put me 25,000 dollars in debt to
attend, who just wants a break rrom the glow of a
computer screen, to be arrested for running around
outdoors, grabbing a breath offresh air and a basic

March 9, 2000 -9- Cooper Point Journal

piece of lIIillll.
Illllderstand th e principle that the playing
lidus need tu rej uvcnate . It is a huge space though .
It would be leasible tu rope otrindividual sections,
selectively letting them recover. Already the upper
level of the lield is dosed to 'regular" students, (all
4000+ of us) because we might ruin it for the
roughly 40 students from the official men's and
women's soccer team who use it each fall or, god
help us, the Washington Huskies. So what about
the rest? The message Igot today is that this area is
not lor us, that I should just be compliant, hop in
my car, and disappear.
So even though there are no signs, according
to the definition that they used to arrest me, the
fields in their entirety are closed. On a Friday
afternoon if you're feeling stressed, and you want
to unwind by throwing a rrisbee or kicking a ball,
you're a criminal or you're practicing civil
disobedience. I encourage everyone to fight this,
to exert your right to use this space, and get a little
exercise. If they arrest you, protest this loudly to
let everyone understand the stupidity of this
situation, to see the contradictions between the
advertisements in Evergreen's flashy brocbures for
the availability of this space and the politics and
economics of reserving it for the part of the season
when the majority of us aren't here. If they don't
arrest you this is selective enforcement of a law,
which is illegal.
Thank you ahead of time for supporting me
in this matter. Sincerely, your fellow student and
community member,
-Samuel J. Trechter

She §ling§ ILn Grialelllic
By Megan Grumbling

~

With popular Celtic acts like the
Chieftains and Loreena McKennitt having
made it big in recent years, one might suspect
that the genre has overgrown its folk roots.
Disproving this suspicion is Mary Jane
Lamond, a Canadian vocalist who, despite
large-scale acclaim, sings true to a tradition
that celebrates the small.
Lamond's rural island home in Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia, harbors a thriving, living
heritage of Scottish Gaelic culture. Steeped in
old musical traditions that continue on in thr
lives of its people, Ihe Cape Breton community
IS Lamond's model for the social role of music.
"Music is an amazing part of the fabric of life
here ." Lamond said in a recent phone
interview, "Nobody puts the stereo on."
It is in the spirit of this community that
Lamond performs her own renditions of the
old Celtic songs. Her new CD, Lan Duil ("full
of hope and expectation") is sung completely
in Gaelic and draws deeply upon the cultural
memory and folklore of her Cape Breton
neighbors. Lamond sings the traditional love
ballads, mournful laments. and work songs
whose evocations of common human
experience have roots deep in the past , and
whose resonance carries to this day among
these Gaelic people. "They were always famous
for singing," Lamond said, "Poetry chronicled

their history."
Although the English-speaking Lamond
grew up in a nomadic fashion, and her
formative years were not immersed in the
culture and language she would come to revere,
she glimpsed Gaelic's beauty early on from her
paternal grandparents in Cape Breton. Later,
while working for a Nova Scolia community
theater in 1989, Lamond began singing with
the Antigonish Gaelic Choir and was able 10
learn Gaelic phonetically. Most Significant in
her movement toward the Gaelic folk culture,
though. was her attendance at a "milling
frolic ." a traditional work and social gaihering.
Participants beat a sheet of newly-woven cloth
against a table in order to cohere the fibers
while singing milling songs sets to set the pace
(if this rhythmic work.
!\fter experiencing this vibrant model of
thl' intimate social role of Celtic music ,
Lamond's desire to learn and sing the folk
songs oflhe Gaelic people took on new urgency
and passion. Of this time in her life Lamond
commented, "I suddenly knew that I wanted
to make singing these songs my life." Lamond
suhsequently spent four years in the Celtic
Studies program of Saint Francis Xavier
University to gain a fuller perspective of Gaelic
culture's musical repertoire and traditions.
Where Lamond diverges from the strictly
traditional is in her incorporation of rockbased modern instrurnentatiOJl. In her latest

album Lamond makes use of electric guitar.
keyboards. and the trans-cultural influences of
East Indian tablas and African drumming.
These innovations, Lamond said, allow her to
use the structure of the genre to pursue other
musical interests and to explore
cultures with musical traditions
similar to Gaelic practices. In doing
so, however. she believes it is critical
to remain true to the spirit of
tradition .
.
Lamond explained that each '
work song. for example. has a
standard rhythm and speed which set
the pace for a particular job. such
as milling. churning. or
milking .. These songs
would traditionally be
performed a cappella .
while the singers
worked. In adding not
only instrumentation but
a rock beal , Lamond must
walk a tine line between
innovation
and
the
displacement of essential
traditional elements. She
concedes that it is often
a challenge in her work.
"How far can you go ," Lamond asked
rhetorically. "before tradition becomes
meaningless?"
The Gaelic language does much on its
own to transmit traditional meaning,
according to Lamond. "It evokes the history of
the people," she said, and considers the

people for a demand to access to this
dimension of their heritage. Lamond has
participated in programs which take Gaelic
songs al)d plays into the schools, even serving
for a year as president of the Gaelic Society of
Cape Breton. She feels that touring her Gaelic
repertoire also serves to increase awareness of
the worth of the language and the traditionrich community it represents beyond the
borders of Nova Scotia.
Lamond views the rural. age-old values
of the Cape Breton community as elements of
a healthy society that are generally missing
today. "A lot of people are feeling the need for
community:' she said. Lamond feels that it is
the genre's capacity to transmit the aura of a
closely-knit and deeply-rooted community, in
large part, that attracts her and others to Gaelic
music. In an age of ram pant individualism, she
said, it has become easy for people to detach
themselves from their roots and from other
people. "The impulse is to reinvent our lives."
Lamond speculated that it could be these
very social conditions which spurred the
current popularity of Celtic music. In her
modern adaptations of Gaelic songs with such
timeless themes as love, work, and loss,
Lamond brings modern rhythm and musical
innovation to a very timely celebration of the
simple and the ancient. Our modern society
bombards us with much that is meaningless,
she said, and "people need smaller things to
be attracted to."

language a "reflection of the culture itself" As
in any language the sounds. nuances. and
rhythms of Gaelic necessarily effect the
expression and connotaion of an idea or
emotion. Lamond contended that even the
pace of conversation is set by the nature ofthe
language. "In Cape Breton you can't call
people up and get right to the point.
You have to talk about the weather
first."
Gaelic poetry is beautiful to
her for its abstractness and its finelycrafted motifs. Lamond likened the
weight and resonance of its imagery to
that of haiku. In contrast to the
English Childe ballads, which
rely on straight-forward
narrative to relate plot.
Gaelic ballads express their
stories more obliquely,
through subtle. symbolic
images and language.
It
saddens
Lamond . then. that this
language is among those
endangered in our
modern age. Lamond
lamented that Cape Breton
is progressively losing its
native speakers and that the Provincial
government has sent precious little money into
venues for Gaelic cultural preservation. She did
note, however, that recent years have seen an
increase on the part of Nova Scotian young

-== ---==---:-:=---c-

Continued next page

:,::,:,.:~.:

r~ii!. .~:t.t
CdiiCNt hf ffomca~l!retdri~ atthe

~~:~~l~~~ft~~FJ~~~~~~t~6.'
P,ni.~.· AdUI~$18-26;~stUperits/seJiiof

·$lfi;24;:yoqth $8~13 _ Formore info
(all 753'8586.
. ' C.-,

,
.!

I

•

.
•

" "..

/'-".>-.; . ,.{:"

Mult~plex
A Poem by Tom Chenhall

Jungle
The past!
Don't look back to who
fori at it as fast,
For when you look back, you
make a paie look like a
stack,
You make a block look like a
stock, you make a rock look
like a clock.
It is their competition that
i oes aiainst the very land!
Liquidatina the ult1mate
value of natural settini s
into some currency,
Trouncina on an ounce of
clean land for the sake of
bathroom cleaners,
Disposable plates, ~ispo?~ble
ideals, disposable 1dent1t1es!
Nobody in the city of a TV
knows why they are that
person,
Other than the selfreflectin2 e20 of their
possessions, animate or
inanimate,
Confused about how to
become themselves, the
television is permanent,
Infused with doubt about all
but a hand-full of finite
worldly thinlZS,
Themselves objectified
accordina to the objectives
of the elite,
These subjects are not to be
trifled with, they tell us,
In a very serious and

Yet the viewer should stand
for more than a part of the
commodity drain.

traditions lack in
attractiveness,
Compared to the vast and
ilitterini spectacle that
ta ints us all?

The palace popped so loni
a20; into the countryside,
And what was proper propped
up power and typified the
expandin2 periphery,
Fenced in on all sides, it
becomes property.

Then perhaps you should
take a walk down the hall,
Listen to your steps,
interlaced by the pall of
silence,
And find a way to iet
between all the cracks.

These borders encroached
into the wood,
As the farms iradually
increased,
While nativity ceased,

There, you will find the real
aienda of your parents:
To evolve you throui h
torture to a state of
strenith .

For natives were now a poor
folk, humble, and with 10n2
lives,
Yet only the conqueror,
travelin2 on the hiihway of
desire, could pro$per.

In tradition: the symbolism
that lOiS us into wisdom,
The tears that knit us
tOiether.

And this dichotomy continues
to extrapolate itself into
the ~resent day,
But it 1S the ill02ical
propa~anda of the Spock
macnine of history!
They resisted in fits of
depression; starvin~,
drunken, furious.
The problem is that, unable
to transform their own
hatred into for2iveness,
There is no positive
contribution in transmittinlZ
their opinions so broadly.

I

Lions we must be, to oppose
this evil throuih constant
toil,
To build some kind of new
culture that deserves to
exist!

CRISIS RESPONSE
TRAINING
What: learn how to Provide
Effective Peer support

Questions?
Call x6310

When:
Cost:

N

When will we realize how to
turn back the rotten tides
of old?
Mine enemy is myself, arid
money is oil on the fire.

Does your family ahd their

Design the Class
W of 2000 T-Shirt
Use the motto or create
your own original
IJIIIIJIII
design

There also you will find the
real aienda of the
2litteri~i spectacle
med10cracy:
Contextualized in a million
different buttered SU2ar
packets, but with fish hooks.

Wednesdays

@

2:30-5:00 p.m.

Free

weekly trainings
will include:
* Effective Listening Skills

In the Spring of 1998, Governor Gary Locke signed into
law a bill allowing students at four-year institutions of
higher education in hte State of Washington to have
voting member privileges on their respective Board of
Trustees.

. - ...
--- - -.
-.~-

The law reads that the Governor, with the consent of the
Senate, appoints one full-time student in good standing
to the Board of Trustees of their respective campus.
This student is chosen from a list of three to five applicants from each institution.

Now accepting applications for
2000-2007 Student Trustee
Position

=~---

-

--

~

$
2
\

0
0

*suicide Intervention
*The laW« Victim's Rights
* Alcohol
Submit
entries
in L1221

Deadline for submittal is
March 29th

.,.

Deadline:

Rape Drug Awareness

* Evergreen's Response to Sexual Assault
* legal

March 21st
Call x6220 to find out more
abou't being a student
trustee, the selection process, or the role of the
Board of Trustees

."".

eSc

eSc

Medical Resources

Sponsored by the Office of Sexual Assault
Prevention
call Rosalinda at ext. 5111 for more
information and registration
possible Internship Available

March 9, 2000 -11- Cooper Point journal
Cooper Point Journal -10- 'March

9, 2000

----------~~~------------------------------------------~=----------------

.

Show me
Kung Fu teatll scores big- no money

Gallery II Exhibit Explores Possession
By Megan Grumbling
What are we capab le of holding
between our hands, and within the space of
memory? Childhood toys, first kisses,
another person?
This questioll of the nature of
possession is at the source of Jared PappasKelly's thoughtful library exhibit, /-lapp)'
Birthday: PossessioJl. Pappas-Kelly arranged
for the gallery space over a year ago, in
anticipation of presenting his senior thesis,
and by sheer coincidence landed the exhibit \
open ing night on the date of his 26th
birthday. As a result of this fortuity PappasKelly began to think of his project as an
opportunity to evaluate the last 26 years of
his life. Pappas-Kelly conceived his senior
project a~ vehicle through which to advance
a dialogue on the idea of "owning your
. ,s
years. " .. Wi·
1at tS possessa bl e.7"'·
I11S arttst
notes inquire. "What is our relation to the
objects of our lives?"
concede with
some
I will
embarrassment that I initially supposed
Happy Birthday to be one more example of
out-there and inventive, but inaccessible art
which mayor may not find a particular haven
in the halls of Evergreen. Upon devoting time
and reflection 10 the exhibit, however, I
found its at-fIrst-sight wacked artistic
elements slowly converging into a sharp
thematic unity. The profundity of PappasKelly's query, and his execution of it, crept
up upon me as if from behind.
First to confront the viewer is a ceramic

birthday cake and party hats. Both of these
items are symbols lhal initi ate a sense of
celebration and ceremony. On the left and
right walls hang eight sheet-rock paintings,
that chronicle formative objects and events
in the life of the artist-in-self~portrait. The
quizzical looking artist figure appears in each
painting along with an id entical
configuratioll.ln each of the artist's hands is
held one of various objects (a doll, a book of
matches, a timepiece). In the background
hangs more ghost ly and evocative figures (a
(Ow boy, an operating table and surgeon , a
bank-robber in stripes). Each painting's
depth of dimension, both visual and
thematic, was such that contemplation of the
images invited entrance into its world. I
found it easy to lose myself somewhere
between the fore- and back-grounds, and in
exploration of the relations between objects
and flgures
Each flat is essentially composed in
monochrome. Together the paintings
employ a medley of bright pastel colors.
Pappas-Kelly chose this color theme to instill
a "frosting motif" and the feel ofa childrens'
birthday party. Since the co lor is so blithe,
the deep reflective quality of eac h artistobject-figure configuration tS well
juxtaposed. All together the effect is
provoking and somewhat haunting. PappasKelly explained that the sheet-rock and twoby-fours chosen as materials are significant
for their role in the structure ofa house. I had
not picked up on this connection prior to
speaking with him but I do, however,

apprec iate the idea that the use of these
materials adds dimension to the concept of
home as a possession. To what degree is it
the structure of a house to which we come,
and to what degree is it something entirely
less tangible?
Projected upon the rear wall is the artist
in a video monologue, relating a memory of
having once received a box of a woman's
cremated remain~ as a housewarming
rresent. Compositionally, the black and
white screen both plays otf of and contrasts
with the bright flats, as the on-screen artist
adopts all of the positions of arms and hands
identical to those in the paintings. Here,
though, his fingers only clutch at the air,
grasping nothing, and once again spur
reflection upon just what it is that we can
hold. A lIlemory'? A person? At what point
does a person become an object? When they
fit into an urn?
The third component of /-Iappy
Birt hday conti nu es the exploration of
pt'l"son-as-possession, this time in the
context of interpersonal relationshipS. Three
large game-board spinners provide possible
solu tions to dilemmas concern ing "your"
romantic partner. What do you do, for
example, if you can't stand her/his new hair
color? In this element of the exhibit, PappasKelly brings the idea of personal autonomy
into the dialogue. What are the limits of
possession?
In spite of my initial doubts, I believe
that Pappas-Kelly has created an admirable
and provocative artistic exploration. His

exhibit requires more than a quick once-over,
but the time I spent was satistying time. I
believe that the questions and ideas of this
show are well-conceived and of universal
relevance.
The opening reception of /-Iappy
Birthday: Possession had been scheduled for
Feb. 24 , but due to a miscommunication the
openin g was supplanted by Bill Bradley's
visit. Pappas-Kelly was understandably
disappointed by the blunder, as the opening
had lon g been in the books. It is also
unfortunate in light of the show's birthday
motif and personal significance to the artist.
The upshot, however, is that you have not yet
missed your chance to help Pappas-Kelly
celebrate the comp letion of his probing and
smart ly-executed senio r thesis. A
rescheduled opening reception is imminent
(though without a date as of press time) and,
I suggest, well-deserving of your patronage.
/-Iappy Birthday Possession runs until
March 27. Contact the Library Gallery at
x5125 for the rescheduled opening
B

E

ADS

*

tNCENSE*
CANDLES*
STICKERS*
BUTTONS*

210 1/2 West 4th Avenue

Downtown Olympia
(360) 753-5527

CARDS

Evergreen·s Bak Shaolin Eagle Claw
Kung Fu team has just returned from its first
competitive outing this year with 17 medals.
The Double Diamond Nationals held last
weekend at the Chinook Winds Casino in
Lincoln, Oregon. The competition was
sponsored by the National Black Belt League,
one of the largest Karate Sanctions in the
world with members in 55 states and 33
coun tri es. The tournament is considered the
largest and 1Il0st important in th e
northwestern NB!. conference and draws
many competitors arollnd the U.S.
Competition kicked off Friday night
with team captain. Jesse Harter, fighting in
the light heavy weight continuolls sparring
division. Jesse was initially given a bye, but
at the last minute was pitted to face the NBL's
continuous fighting World Champion of'99
and placed fourth in the division.
Loa Arnoth. in her second appeara nce
as a black belt in the fighting ring, faced both
the amateu r fighting champion of'99 and the
three-time world champion, finishing fourth in the
division.
Jessie Smith, co-captain of th e women ·s team,
finished in third-place after fighting two matches
against tough, seasoned opponents.
In the Formsdivision, Loa took first ptace in the
traditional soft (Kung Fu) division, in a field of all men.
"I forgot where my form was because of my tough
earlier fights" said Loa. Jesse Ilarter. also took first
place in the Kung Fu weapons division. by using his
fast staff form.
Saturday morning, Owen O'Keefe and Shasta
Smith won first and second places in the hard alld soft

2<')()()

~)'!)

~rs

r

pharo cClurresy of rhe Kung FlI ream
style forms division. with Katherine McClain taking
home a second place in the hard style.
Although Smith foug ht quickly and
aggressively, he was disqualified in the point fighting
round. Although O'Keefe, McClain. and John Eastlake
represented Evergreen well. the Geoducks felt as
though the judges were biased against the Kung Fu
team.
Loa, Harter, and Smith were also entered in the
creative musicat forms division. Loa took second.
Ilaner came away with third. and Smit h placed fourth.
tn the la.,t matd, of the tournament. Harter

finished an amazing fourth in the most difficult division
against the top ten rated NBL fighters in the country.
The team would like to thank Arlem' McMahon
(REC sports) and the S&A Board for their backing and
assistance. They would also like to thank Grandmaster
Fu Leung, Sifu Dana G. Daniels, and everyone else who
supported them along the way.
Their next tournam ent is the Tiger Balm
Internationals, held in Vancouver, Ca nada on March t819th. For more information, check out their web site
at: www.evergreen.edu/users3/harjes04. Best of Luck
to the Kung I'll tealll!

AND

10 A.M.-6 P.M.

STERLING

FRI. 8cSAT.

SILVER"

Geoducks fare well at nationals

AND

by Molly Erickson

QUEER GEAR"
GLASS

TUES.- THURS.

10 A.M. - 10 P.M.
SUN. NOON - 5 P.M.

M

ART*

L.OTS

0

R

E

The Evergreen swim team fared well at the NAIA Swimming and
Diving Championships this last weekend, with the men placing ninth , and
the women finishing 14.
Evergreen standout, Ryan Miyake, led the Geoduck charge, placing in
the top-ten in three events, including a fourth place finish in the 400-medley.
Miyake also placed seventh in the 1650-freestyle and ninth in the 400freestyle, although his time in the 1650 may be a disappointment, because
Miyake had one of the better qualitying times in the nation going into the
meet. Nonetheless, he was responSible for 34 of Evergreen 's 40 team points.
Senior Matt Heaton, was the only other individual performer for the
Evergreen men, but his time in the 400-medley did not quality him for either
the final or the consolation heat. The Geoduck 200-freestyle and 200-medley
relays each qualified for the consolation finals. Miyake, Heaton, Ken Rice,

and Evan Ragland, placed ninth in the medley and 10th in the
freestyle.
Simon Fraser, the host uf the championships, won the meet
with 605.5 team points.
Competing in both the 100 and 200-breaststroke, Bonnie
Martin, qualifled for the consolation fillals in each event. The
junior placed 11th in the 100 and 12th in the 200.
The women's 200-freestyle relay of Martin, Gretchen
Brownstein, Kristine Endsley, and Heather Morrow placed 12th in
the competition. After setting a season best time in the qualifier
(2:01.83), the Geoducks swam a 2:02.67 in the consolation final.
Simon Fraser also won the women's team championship with
547 team points, with the Geoducks in 14th with five team points.
Congratu lations, Evergreen, on a great season!

~a Books

Bed '&?
Breakfast

Student Discount
10 <Yt) Off New Texts
Wouldn't you like to be next year's S&A
Board coordinator?

We buy books everyday!
509 E- 4th Ave_ • 352.0123
Mon-Th to-B, hi & ~.lt 10-" , Sund.1V

You could:
-Work with fun people and millions of dollars
-Get paid for nineteen hours a week doing good work for the Evergreen community
-Gain experience facilitating group dynamics and discussions
-Line up a job for next year before you leave for the summer

o
Cooper Point Journal ·12- March, 9,2000
. ,

NATJONAtS

POSTCARDS*

H'e,y studen

I-

~PINION

WfLCOftlE f"

by Kung Fu Team

11-:;

Channing 1910 :M.an.sio_n~b~~~
Overfoo~ng the

Puget Sou/u{
Stwfellts eat for
free'

Westside (Near Campus)
420 McPhee Rd SW
943-3571

-Nationally
Certified

N ow serving cocktails!
Mar. 11
Mar. 10
I & I Reggae
TBA

Sunda, - Blood, (Mar,) Sunda, with Ughtning Joe
Sunda, Night -Thunder hosts ''The Simpsons"
and "Futurama"
Daily Beer
Specials

Full Kitchen
with Daily
Specials

Thursday
night Blues
Jam - Free
Check
seasonal
beer
specials
Semiprivate
space
Group

parties
NCAA
March
Madness

-Ages 12 months
to 6 years

-Working Connections
~
Openings Available
(DSHS) Accepted .. _~
-Sliding Fee Scale

786-1444
Tuesday
Server
Night

Pool Darts
Happy Hour
Cribbage
5-7p.m.
Backgammon Micros/well $2

OLYMPIA CHILD CARE CENTER

11 .36 [,,,,I\,,y Dr. OlympIa. \V/\ 98506· 754·0JSQ

Mar. 18
Mar. 17
Jude Bowerman Jude Bowerman

o

,...

by Ben Kinkade
This is in regards to the artide ·'Jock Support'· in the
Feb. 10 issue ofthe CPJ. tam opposed toathletic scholarships
for a number ofreasons but Iam not, however,opposro to
student athletes. 'Ille notion that "Evergreen atilletl'S believe
they deserve tuition waivers because oft he time and effort
put into their sport" offends me.
Ju,1 three yea rs ago Evergreen gaint'!.l awomen·sand
men's basketball team, in addition to a tennis te.lll .
Although Iam quite sure that this decision was based on
what the o ut~ide public had to say, not what the actual
Everh'l"een community wanted. However. it would be logical
tosaythat Evergreen was among the few, ifnot only, colleg~
in ourcountlY Ulatdid not have athletics as away toprolllote
their college (thi., lack ofbig-tirne sports actually added
"diversity'· and uniquenes.\ to Evergreen). What do most
people thinkofwhen they hear ··Duke University'"! Do they
thinkoftheir mathematical program? Not even. Generally.
most people would automatically associate Duke with the
Duke Blue Devil, basketball prob>rdlll. indeed, a progrdlll
of runtinut'!.l success. ts it O.K. with graduates thaI their
emptoyer thinks more of their employee's college athletic
program than their academics"! I don't know about you. but
Idon·t want to be known for a "program·· that a select few
can participate in. Iwant to be known for going to a college
of the sdences and art.5, to be credited for what is in my
brain and heart, not how strong or fast or winning the
athletic teams ofmy college are.
tfyou want to finda reason for my unhappiness wiUI
this,just look at every other college's scholarship program
in thiscountry. t know people thatattend UW. on full-ride
athletic schotarships: college is good for them, they revet in
their "glory." "they don't have to worry about working to
afford college. Life isgood. I also know ,tudents at the college
tllat are on several academic scholarships that don't even
pay 40 percent of tuition costs. College is a struggle
sometimes. Why are there almost no ful~ride "academic"
scholarships? Do we priZt' sports that much more than
academics·! Areacademics not the reason wearein college?
Wedon't need athletic scholarships at Evergreen. We
shoutd, however, add more scholarships for a diversity of
students that hold down other activities or jobs while
attending college. Athletes would be qualified for such
schotarships.
Student athletes "deserve tuition waivers because of
the time and effort put into their sport?" What, then. do
regular students "deserve," students that work all day and
come to class exhallSted at night to better themselves? tn a
country that over-idolizes and overpays its athletes by
millions ofdollars. Isay.play fort he love ofthe game or play
ordon 't play at all! Be proud that you were among the select
few that were picked to represent your college, that you can
be glorified for your highlights ofyour Iay.... ps or field goals.
t love basketball: I play it everyday. [ also love
swimming and baseball. But, I've seen the "cut" players walk
off playing fields with their heads and hopes down. Idon't
like it I cannot support a ,ollege program where a select
few are given free college education. And they say college
athletes aren·t paid?

OCCC

Call Now to
Enroll Your Child

C99rfK~~~
,

,~w...The natural choice for off-campus

"~~~~

housing.

-:'?ff~
· GP~il

Private, quiet, friendly atmosphere
within walking distance from TESC.
Month-to-month rental
agreements.
Water/ sewer/garbage/
extended cable
On major bus route #41.
Limited garden spots available

Call us today at 866-8181
Don't forget to reserve your spring and summer apartments now!

Cooper Point Journal-13· March 9, 2000

.-

Week Ten··. the end.
,.

I Cl~.~~EDS I

.'

9
. A,,'

SO, I.dile h wvZ a.. b...b'y,
h€ cL oIII? obs"r v"J,. fi.. a+ A~
UlVl f 1\ w~v;. f:rl?vd (wit-! tJ.'

'r
11...1....
o.h~
ST~e o~ de~elof>M{'11-.

r.,o",/'I~I

f ofH'r

~Q./1

)'0>."" I\"J

..

,uA

J. ,

I

6 p.m. The Empty Stage presents
their Holistic projects in the
Experimental Theater. " ... be read y
for the unexpected."

y-e".SOI(

i 5, AhliKes ,4- wheh.
Io.Jies hKe i-i'
i" -+

!Nil Z
ct Jlln J/~I\I C\ ~ ~ So S ~ e Min eeL /'II
TQ)(' 'C v z. At, ~~cl. ~S_ _ _=-_~
born ill.
a

Oil

+ oH e r-

the dances. includi~g Coritras ,
squares, and Big Circles . That's
right, it's Old Time country at the
South Bay Grange, on the corner of
South Bay and Sleater-Kinney. An
intorducotry workshop begins at
7:30. Six bucks at the door. 3575346.

Thursday

7 p.m. "Come see my bitchin'
rock'Il'roll band ." Plus Erroll Thill
Bille Line Morris 's Fast. Cheap.
and Outta Control and animated
shorts by Matt Barbie. Lecture
Hall 3.

e

re

i

I

Sunday

Anita Hensley
Styli..!

use
your
feet

8 p.lll. Li ve taping of Dance 0
Dance . TCTV Studio A, 44()
Yauger way. Contact Justin
Wright at 866-4524 or
justi nh@writellle.colll .
p.m . solid Acid Jaa at
Jazmine's, 611 5th Ave.

<)

II p.m. Graffiti Wall in the
Librarv Lobh} .

11

-("I~ '?
\(IY, ~ 50~ IN

. • ~ Vu\-(S 17 1 0
.

0

f,\ow

II

S"AMt)"

0'.

'., •0 ~ HP6 A l1lSr(01l-,( of flJf16-ry 0
, • ~~~\U> ~&\O b~. 0

ar0y~~~
BlJil ~Ih~

~0~1?~~

IU a.l11. En..:a Langley, Seattic's
most daring Lust Lady, reveals
all in Lec ture Hall I.
K The Hummlnghirds play the

musi l' and

dOli

Lellnartson ca lls

Student Group Meetings
Suhmit vour student group
infurmation to CAB 316 or call
866-6000 x6213

SOC'S ~()~ ~(J'f ~ V~~
~ IN ~ V~ Vv ~ON AND @>

V'(~S~L.'1 /At\S ",o~~N(\{MA~ .
-r~1S 15 ~.

Monday

use
your
ringer

AFISH Advocates for Improving Sa lm on
Habitat. Meetingsareat3 p.m. on Wednesdays
in CAB 320
The Bike Shop is a place where you can come
fix your bicycle with tools provided by the shop.
Schedules for their hours are posted in the CAB
and the Library. For more information call
Murphy or Scott at x6399.
EARN works to promote awarl'ness about
animal rights & vegetarianism on and oft
ca mpus. Meelingsare on Wednesdays@4:jO
p. m. in CAB 320. Co nta ct Briana Water~ or
Deirdre Coulter@ x6555.
Emergency Response Team (ERT) is a stlldent
rlln team that I~ trained in adva nced Fir~t Aid
and Urban Search and Rescue in preparation
for a disaster or emergl' ncy. It meets on
\londays 0] ;':30 p.m. in the Housing
Commu nity Cellter. Contact Ian Maddalls for
more info: ert@elwha.evergreen.edu.
ERC is an environmetital resource center for
polit ical and ecological informati on
concerning local bioregional and glohal
environmental issues . Meetings are
Wednesdays@3p.m.inLlB3500.Call x6784.
3rd floor orCAB building for info.
1be Evergreen Medieval Society is Evergreen's

ftro?

iiJl\o 'i~t> ~ ~ f6

S\\A~~I~(,- ~" ~
1"00 I-D0D IN'lt:'6
M\QDL€; ~ L.-O~tr -Q\.J 1-$1 0"-1 C",,",S.

I

Telephone Regi st rat ion hegi ns.

14 Tuesday

Saturday

') a.lll. "Co llege Bound adults :
The ABCs of Going to College" at South Puget Sound
Community College. Building
26 . Lecture Hall )

~ \f-Ul~5: .

k(" ".1,ff~,N'J1P v~ rro9.Jk.:',

13

7 p.m. Evergreen Trustee Billy
Frank and Lacey Museum Historian Drew Cooks discuss the
Medicine Creek Treaty in the State
Capital Museum Coach House. 2 11
W 21 st Ave. Call Shanna
Stevenson at 786-574) .

public educal ion worskshop in
the Longhouse. Pa..:k a lunchthiS is an all da~ evc:nl. Call
Lin Nelson at Xf,05 (1..

Wt\O CAl.t.E.D

"SpecialiZing in F od lightening"
Perm>, Color

8 a.m. Environmental strategies

?I-m\ ~
L ____",\M~

time.

15

Wednesday
Noon . Loca l hist orian Shanna
Stevenson speaks ahout wOlllen's
hIstory in Olympia, in honor or
Women 's History Month , at th e
Woman's Cluh or Olympia, IU02
Washingotn St SE. Shanna' II also
hand out a walking tour pamphlet.
See ahove tor her number.

& Waxing

Andre,,', Salon
2 10 1Harrison Ave. NW
O I'Jmpia, Wa.

(360) 352-0111

,

..

clude lake swimming, boating,
archery, hiking, arts & crafts,
sailing, adventure trips,
horses,mt.biking,etc.
www.seattlearch.org/cyo
or Call Sara, Catholic Youth
Organization

at

1-800-

950-4963.
Deadline is 3 p.m . Friday . .
Student Rate is just $2.00/30 words.
Contact Carrie Hiner for more info .
Phone (360) 866-6000 x6054
or stop by the CPJ, CAB 316

The Farmers Market
APRIL

GRAND .
OPENING

6TH

IAca1 proclu.ce aDd pIaDta. heIba aDd honey. rre.h
fIoweaa aDd bn1be. 8ped~ eeafood. aad meata.
aelect flu1t aDd proclu.ce
V.1dnw VaDey.
bot lunc"". be"". I afted . . . . and JDm'eI

"om

OPEN 10a ' n-3prn.
Thu-8uD.: AprIl-Oct. - Sat:. Sun: Nov-Dec
700 N. Capitol W'a;y

852-9096

Caesa r dies.
branch ofthe Society for Creative Anachronisms.
They meet Tuesdays @ 5 p.m. CAB 3::!0 couch
area. For info call Amy Loskota x6412.
Evergreen Students forOuist meets Mondays @
7 p.m. in LIB 2219 tor Bible study and discussion
on activism.
The Evergreen Swing Oub (the other TESC)
welcomes ANYONE whois interested in dancing
10 join us for free weekly lessons. We provide a
place to learn and practice both East Coast and
. Lindy swing. Meetings are Thursdays@ 7 p.m.
on 1st tloor of the library and @ 2:30 p.m.
Saturdays in the HCC. Con tact David Yates @
866-1988 for into.
Film This HandS-Oil ri lmmaking. Film Forum,
and visiting artist. Meeting~ are every
Wednesday 1·5 p.m. ill Lab I J047. Contact Will
Smith @ 867·9595 or e-ma il him @: film_this
@hotmail.com for more intormation .
Jewish Cultural Center: strives to create an open
commullity for Jews atld oth ers interested on the
Evergreetl campus. 1-.1ce tin gs are::! p.m. III CAB
no in j.c.e. Call Shmuel or Dayla @x6493.
MECHA & LASO meet every \'Vednesday at 6
p.m. in CAB 320 in th e Mechn Office. Call Mecha
x6143 or LASO 658j for in to.
Middle East Resource Center strives to provide
an academ ic resource and cultural connl'ctions
to students and the comm unity at large They
meet on Monday 5:30 p.m .. 7 p.m. Con tact
Yousof Fa houm 352-7757 for info.
Native Student Alliance IS committed to building
cross·cultural awareness to better conceptualize
huw people from diverse ethnicity can stand

togl'ther with other indigenous groups. They
meet Mondays @ noon in the third floor of the
CAB. Call Megan or Corinne@ xG105 for info.
The Ninth Wave: The Evergreen Celtic Cultural
League is dedicated to exploring and
transmitting cultural traditions of the greater
Celtir Diaspora. Meetings are Wednesdays in LI B
3402 @ 2 p.m. For info call x6749 or email @
h tt pi /: 192.2] 1.16.30/ usersl / rna bus /
ecdframes.html.
Percussion Oub seeks to enhance percussiVl' lillat Evergreen. It meets Wednesdays@7:30 lJ.ltJ.
in the Longhouse. Call Elijah orTamara at x6R79
for info.
SEED works to unite nature. culture and
tec hniques to reintegrate the needs of human
society within the balance of nature. ~ EED meet '
Thursdays at 5 p.m. in Lab II room 2242. Call
Craig or james at x5019 for more info.
Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention
Education (SHAPE) offers re sources, plam
events, and educates ahotlt the prevention of
sexual violence/ assault@ Evergreen and ~ Ithin
th e larger cUllllnunity. They meet Monday~ (nJ
3:30. For more infurmation call at x6724 or stop
by the office in the third floor of the CAg.
Slightly West is Evergree n's official lIterary arh
magazine. Meetings are Wednesday., 1:J Op.m. ·
2:30 p.m., and office hours are 12 p.m. ·4 p.m.
Ca ll x6879, or go to the jrd floor of CAR to find
out more.
The Student Activities Board is a student group
responsible for the allocation or student fe c~
Meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 · 6 p.m.

Cooper Point Journal -15- March 9, 2000
)

I

Wanted

Beautiful Western WA .
Camps Seeking Counselors Summer 2000. Activities in-

Persita 01 Sean at Jazmine's.
"Futuristic jaZl sounds blend with
seventies swagger to make thl.!
perfect comhination or hip and
cool."

12

10 Friday

','...

Get in touch with joe Groshong for info.
Student Arts Council specializes in all art and
fun shows. Meetings held Wednesdays @ 4
p.m. in the pit of the 3rd ft. CAB. Get in touch
with Laura Moore x6412 or in the S&A office
for intll.
Students for Evergreen Student Coalition .
meets in CAB 315 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Students For Free Tabet meets Wednesdays@
I p.m. in Lib 2221. Contact Lancey at x6493
for more information.
Umoja (a Swahili word for Unity) attempts to
capture the itlterest of the Evergreen
comm utlity whu are of African descent. Their
purpose is to create a place in the Evergreen
comm unit y whic h teaches and provides
actlvit l e~ for African-Americ;1tI students at
Ev('rgreen . Meet ings are @ 1:30 p.m. on
\t\oedttesdays in CAB 320. Call x6781 for info.
Union ofStudent Workers seeks to create and
mamtain a vOIce of collec tive support for
student workers. Meetings arc Wednesday@
2 p.m. itt 12220. Info: Steve or Robin x6098.
Women of Color Coalition seeks to create a
space thaI is free of ra cism . sexism,
homophobia, dassism, xenophobia, and all
forms of oppressio n. so . we can work
collectively ull issues that (oncem women of
color. Mee t ing~ ..Ire the lst & 3rd Tuesday of
every month @ 3:30. Call Fatema ,lr Teresa@
x 6006 for more infurmatiOit.
Yoga Club meets in CRC 117 Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays 12·1:30 p.m .. and
Thursdays 12:30-2 p.m .. Bring ideas!

Item sets

The Evergreen State College Student Newspapers

Media

cpj0781.pdf