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The Evergreen S[a[e College· January 13, 2000 • Volume 28 • Number 12 • © Cooper Point Journal 2000
photo by Aaron Cansler
Campaign 2000
by Avery Johnson
Although it's almost a whole year until
America heralds her 43rd president,
Evergreen is nearly finished choosing its own
new chief.
That's right folks, we are getting a new
school president! The best part? Evergreen
wants you to be involved.
This past summer, the disappearing
task force, chaired by Academic
Dean, John Cushing, has been
working hard to find the
new president. Consisting
of 14 members, the
committee represents all
parts of the Evergreen
community. The search
party advertised, weeded
through applications, and
selected the five finalists.
Ellen Miley, one of two
stude nt DTF members
representing undergraduates,
thinks it is important for
students to be involved.
"There a re not many
opportunities at other colleges
and unive.sities that allow
students to become directly
involved and have influence on
the hiring process.," she said .
"The president represents the
comm unity-being us-as part
of six other state run school:..
They represent the school in
front of t~e legislature
when it comes to
funding."
The Search DTF
began the procedure by dividing into
subcommittees, each one reviewing 20
applications, Miley said. Each subgroup
separated the material into yes, no, and
maybe categories. The no piles were
automatically eliminated. The yes piles went
straight to the finalist category. The maybes
were further examined by the other
subgroups.
Marcia Husseman, search committee
coordinator, 'said over 100 complete
applications were surveyed. Her role was to
regulate advertising in the appropriate
journals around the country and field all
inquiries. She praised the present student
representatives, claiming they were very
ac tive throughout the process. She says the
group as a whole worked very hard at
creating a thorough and complete search.
Cushing reaffirms their thoughts on the
process.
"I think this is a process that has been
truly collaborative. All parts of the
community have been involved. Everyone
has worked hard and carried the weight."
Now that the five finalists have been
selected, open interviews will be held. All
students are encouraged to attend and voice
.. . from the book ofMatthew Wood
their opinions.
Richard Meyers, the second
undergraduate representative, considers the
diversity of the candidates.
"I think the reason that there is only
one woman finalist is reflective of the fact
that there are less women in higher
education, " he said. "It's mostly the way
things unfolded.
Throughout the process,
we strived to recruit
5} candidates with difTerent
0 backgrounds, gender, and
If ethnicity. We advertised
in various journals around
the country. We set out our
values and chose candidates
that reflected those values."
Meyers said he feels it is
tremendously important
that students involve
themselves in the final
deliberation.
"It is crucial the new
president understands
where
the
studen t
population is coming from ,
he said . And specifica lly
what their concerns are for
Evergreen's future."
Cus hin g
Cha irman
seconds the notion. "The
president sets the tone of
the college." He added,
"They have a lot to do with
how successful the college
is in getting state support,
i.e . scholarships, financial
aid, and similarly other things
that are vital to students. The president sets
the tone of how other faculty and staff
should interact with student members of the
college community."
The DTF has done their job. The Board
of Trustees is responsible for making the
final decision . They plan to announce
Evergreen's newest leader at the March 8
board meeting. Cushing stresses that they
want to hear the opinions of students before
this time .
There will be five open forums. They
will be held in the CAB building and Library
lobby during lunch hours . Students will
have a chance to evaluate the credentials and
directly ask the candidates questions. There
will be evaluation forms available for
students to complete.
"Hiring a new president is a two way
street. " Cushing sa id . "We also have to
convince the candidates that this is a good
place to be. That is why good participation
matters. If there are interested people
engaged, I think this is the message wewant
to convey."
The first student-focused interview
will be held 1/19 in CAB 315 from 12-1:30
p.m. Be there!
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Olympia, WA 98505
By now you have already seen tlier~"o~ poste~sfQr
the two-day annual celebration oftheDaY'of:Pi~~oce
on Thursday,January 20 and Day ofAb5ence'onJan\Jary
21.
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Simply, The Day of Presence is a day wh~re we as a
campus come together in order to embrace our
differences and learn about each other and ourselves. It
is also a time to celebrate and acknowledge the diversity
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within our community:
The Day of Absence provides the opportunity for
.all staff, faculty and students of color to retreat off
campus and attend a program designed for celebration,
enrichment and community building.
see ABSENCE, page 5
Registration tweaked
by Mikel Repara'l.
Those of you who took a good look at
your tuition bill for winter quarter may have
noticed something a little different.
In past years, tuition has been due on
the first Tuesday of every quarter; this winter,
however, it was due on Dec. 29, a full three
business days before its usual due date. In
addition, the fee for late payment has also
received a hike, from $15 to $50.
Why the change?
According to Evergreen's Registrar,
Andrea Coker-Anderson , it's all part of a
master plan geared toward getting students
into the programs they want.
"When we looked at other
institutions," she says, "we looked both
cheap and easy. Somebody asked me, were
we cheap or easy? We were both . Other
schools would [charge) $50 for one week,
and $100 the second week. That was a pretty
typical combination.
"I hardly think of it as new at this
point," says Coker-Anderson of the new plan.
"Some people say we've been working on it
for 10 years." She points out that tuition was
also due in advance at the beginning of Fall
quarter, which is when the plall was first
enacted.
"There was a need ... to move people
ahead, both in registering early and paying
tuition in advance of the quarter," CokerAnderson says, explaining the new plan's
origins. "So with a lot of conversation from
different areas of campus, [and) even a
written proposal that went in front of the
enrollment coordinating committee, it was
approved Spring of98." She goes on to say
that before its approval, it had been in 'the
planning phase for a full year.
Why was the change made?
According to Dean of Enrollment Jesse
Welch, there are a couple of different reasons.
"You know how the programs here
sometimes fill up very quickly? " asks Welch .
"When we started looking at the patterns of
enrollments and drops, it was obvious that
some students maybe had been using some
programs [as) placeholders." In other words,
some students would register for programs
that they had no real interest in attending.
"They wanted to activate their financial
aid," Co ker-A nderson explains, "or be
registered for a variety of reasons. And then
they wouldn't attend [the programJ. And
that was obviously affecting wait lists and
enro llment. "
The most obv ious effect that these
"placeholders" had was that st lldents who
were int erested in taking certa in programs
were forced to sit on a wait list, and often had
to go with a second-choice program because
their first choices were seemingly filII. The
end result was a lot of unevenly-enrolled
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t;rt;t:tHey Readers! Wuz Up!
The CP] staff
_ _ ,,. recognizes that you
have a lot to say about
what we're doing ormore to the pointwhat we're not doing.
We are listening. And
after a very rough Fall
quarter, we've come up
with an evaluation of
ourselves. Suffice it to say
that we realize we have a lot
to work on. In an effort to be
honest with ourselves and
honest with you, we'd like to
share the list:
- Organization
- Meeting deadlines
- Increasing student voice in the paper
- Make the pape r more accessible to students
- Pay more attention to editing, plafement
and cutting of content
- Communication within and outside the office
- Community involvement and awareness
- Photography (more and better)
- Clariry our vision/purpose
- Ga in coherance and consistancy in mntent
and design
- Stop assum ing and avoid errors
- More content, better content
- Go out and get more ideas
- More thought into content and arrangement
What does this mean?
First of all, it means we're trying to meet
your needs and the needs of the community as a
whole: Second, it means we need help. We waot,
more than anything short of sleep, to hear from
you. So, we invite you to speak up in a few
different ways:
Compose your thoughts into a letter fm
publication.
Attend a Monday meeting at 5 p.m. to
express your concerns.
Inform us about story ideas
Submit your own stories (if this intimidates
you , you're normal. Give us a call and someone
will be de ligh ted to work with you.)
Come in and talk to us. We have chocolate.
Where is this so-called community?
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Help .Wanted
by Mac Lojowsky
Let's start with a scene: Last year, you
spent three intense quarters with roughly 60
other students and three faculty. You went
through seminar with each other, potlucks at
the teachers' homes, group projects, and self~
evaluations. This school year begins. You S(,C'
all those familiar faces, but they look past YOll,
or maybe YOlllook past them. Sound familiar?
The Evergreen State College, with 3,45(j
students, prides itself on the concept of
"community." Everywhere YOIl turn, there is
another student, faculty. or administrator
rambling on about Evergreen's community. So,
where is this community?
It appears that there are small
communities within Evergreen, (such as the
granola gang, animation gang, writers gang,
radicals gang, graduate school gang) but no
general community. Each group is seemingly
content to remain their own little island. Folks
simply don't know what other folks are
learning, seeing, creating, feeling, or political
and social left. We pretty much agree that U.S.
imperialism is bad, the Co-op is good and that
the buses should' keep running. If we, as a
relatively like-minded campus, cannot create
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a community with each other, how do we
expect to create communities when we
leave Olympia?
Now, I'm not asking for any campfire
sing-a longs ofKumbaya on Red Square, but
we can at least say "hello" to one another.
Beyond that first step, let 's find out what
ollr neighbors are doing. There arr
undergraduate programs going to Costa
Rica, tutoring in prisons. drawin g
ecosystems of life . There are graduate
programs with incredible studies on some
ohhe world's most urgent issues occurring
right now. There are student groups on
campus building drums, baking bread, and
fighting the evils of every known "ism."
Clearly, Evergreen is a rare and
wonderful experiment. It is a reasonable
assumption that at no other time in our
lives will we be among this many people
who are, thank the heavens, freaks like us.
Let's take advantage of all the incredible
resources this college has to offer-mainly
each other. Let's create a community not
just of'rhetoric, but of reality and action.
~et's start by saying hello.
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COMMUNITY ORIENTED -POLICING
-2- January 13, 2000
Well, it's the new millennium supposedly, so where's all the warand mass destruction
that was supp.osed to happ.:n? Not wnere I hve, I'll tell you. I have a great bunker that's
completely going to waste. That's not to say Greeners didn't make u.p for the lack ofworld
annihilation with their own random acts of violence. There was prenty of pot-smoking,
speeding cars, fire alarms, and crazy madcap fun. Who needs the end of the world when
you have Evergreen?
This week's blotter contains highlights from Dec. 9 through Jan. 9.
Thursday, Dec. 9
12: 10 a.m .
A student is arrested for possession of marijuana. The suspect later states
he has a black bag with a used marijuana 'pipe back in the room, but it is never found ...
11:33 p.m.
Found narcotics contraoand. Is it a black bag) Who knows?
Friday, Dec. 10
11:15a.m.
A student reports that she is being harassed by a bus-riding acquaintance.
Saturday, Dec. 1 1
3:52 a.m.
Pounding on a door in A- Dorm brings the cops in. Seems a hallmate
wanted to borrow something at 4 a.m. A cup of sugar? Pi. pillow? The report does not say.
How l11any
Cs in TESC?
by [h: n Ki n kad<:
The Three Cs. Communication,
Collaboration and Cooperation. The Evergreen
State College's Three AllIigos. All three are
symbols of our college. We collaborate in class
10 better communicate in seminars and
discllssions with our faculty. To do both
requires cooperation. To cooperate , we need
good communication and collaboration. We
can't have one without the other.
Why is it, then, that while we
communicate in class, we don't seem to be
doing a very good job of communication out
of class or with our school's staff members?
One of my instructors is new 10
Evergreen. In fact, he is teaching alone in his
second quarter here. Last quarter I helped my
instructor with information on evaluations.
Although I enjoyed helping him, it was
apparent to me that the college does not teach
its new instructors about the TESC grading
system, nor the process of evaluations that is
involved.
As a student, I know little about what
happens to the three copies of my selfevaluation once I hand them in to my
instructor. Maybe I should know more-I
don't know. But what I do know is that my
instructor should feel comfortable that he can
get accurate information to and from the
appropriate person without feeling confused or
having to find out the information from his or
her students.
While far the llIosl part I've faund the
stafl and filculty of the college to be extremely
knowledgeable and helpflll,l've also faund that
almost every person has a different explanation
of where evaluations go, who gets what, and
whether or not a student has to write one after
all. This seems to be where our "C Train" goes
off-rail. [t tells ule we don't communicate well.
Cooperation is also difficult when we are
confused and upset. Good communication
solves the problem.
Though its difficllit to determine where
the breakdown in communication starts, it's
obvious to me that we could all do a better job
of communicating. Especially at a college that
boasts of its collaborative and communicative
nature.
Last yein when 1 needed to get a key far
entrance into the CPJ office, I can't tell you how
many trips I made between the key office and
CPJ . There was a mix-up with the door numbers
and corresponding keys. Though I enjoyed
working with both parties [ was again aware
that there was a communication breakdown .
One party called the other but nothing was
solved-at least not right away. It took weeks
to solve the problem and get my own key.
Communication and collaboration are
the keys to making The Evergreen State College
successful. Keys we need to keep copying and
distributing equally to all students, staff, and
faculty.
Sunday, Dec. 12
I'm sure all the good little Greeners were at their respective places of worship.
Monday, Dec. 13
9:45a.m.
A backpack is stolen overthe weekend from a student's unlocked bedoom
in C-Dorm. Apparently- when he got back, he found a strange man sleeping in his bed.
There is no suspicion of GoldilocKS or the Three Bears.
Tuesday, Dec. 14
9: 14 a.m.
Fire alarm in A-Dorm. An event that is as constant as death and taxes.
Wednesday, Dec. 15
Was it Hug-A-Cop Day? It seems 29 people needed to be escorted by an officer.
Thursday, Dec. 16
1:26 a.m.
Faulty fire alarm on the 4th floor of the library. Thanks to the alarm happy residents of Housing, police need not fear this horrific occurence in the dorms.
Friday, Dec. 17
12:05 p.m.
An ill student is taken to the hospital thanks to a concerned roommate.
2:34 p.m.
Veh icle with broken windshield and shattered glass in Clot. Was It
someone working off the stress of a bad evaluation?
7:34 p.m.
One vehicle accident in Mod parking, non-injury.
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By Officer Pamela Garland
Welcome back from the holiday break!
The New Year brings lots ofchanges for us here at police services. Officer Lana Brewster
left us to -finish her Law Enforcement career with Western Washington University in
Bellingham, Lana has been with Evergreen Police for about [4 years, We will be replacing her
with J new officer sometime this month.
The naming of this column will be coming soon . We have narrowed the selection
down ro four names. If you would like to vore please e-mail me with your choice. The four
rop names are The Hippie Herald, The Bacon Sirip, ESCPD: Life on the Beat and The
Greener Files.
Officer George Oplinger arrended computer crime training in Los Angeles during the
week of December 13. This class was provided at no charge to law enforcement personnel
because it was initiared from a grant. Oplinger was very fortunate to be involved in this
because it was a high ly covered training class involving white-collar crimes.
I asked Oplinger whar kind of interesting information he learned. He told me that he
is now able to find, decode and safely retrieve fi les that the criminal element may attempt to
hide. It was not an easy class even for those who are computer literate.
Why would one of our officers need th is type of training? Does it really apply for here
at Evergreen? Yes, it does. Many of you may not realize the variety of crimes we investigate.
We have had two separate cases involving pornography on the Internet and some involving
children. Suspects h,lve been arrested who were using our library computers. Officer Oplinger
was involved in both arrests so he was the most obvious choice for this training.
In the last year there were 123 deaths of police officers throughout the United States. 56
were related to felonious situations and 67 were accidental. Though it was a slight decrease
from the year before, we hope that every year there will be continuous decreases. Having
good training in officer safety and practicing techniques have all contributed to the saving of
lives. That is one reason officers like to go to training. Criminals get smarter so we need [0
keep one step above them. We want to keep the criminal element off campus for the safety of
our students and employees.
May the new year bring you success in your endeavors. And as I am approaching midlife (scary) I have to say I am very thankful for my health.
Pamela Garland is the CommunilY Oriented Policing Officer for The Evergreen State
College. She can be reached at x5157 or GarlandP@evergreen.edu.
Police Briefs
Alcohol Incidents at A-Dorm (all occur on
Sunday, January 9)
12:26 a.m.
Housing sraff members notice someone at the
HCC crying and confused. The student states how
depressed he is and other things that cause the staff
to call the police.
The student makes his way back to his dorm
where he attempts ro smother himself with a pillow.
He is handcuffed for his safety until the fire
department shows up to examine him.
He is found to have had way too much alcohol,
including beers, tequila, and margaritas. The student
vomits which seems to relieve him and his system.
His roommate comes in IU walch over him and the
police and medics leave.
Saturday, Dec. 18 and Sunday, Dec. 19
A prowler in F-Lot is spotted. Did someone forget where they parked, perhaps?
Monday, Dec. 20
I :25 a.m.
Car prowl in C-Lot. For a change, this crime does not happen in F-Lor.
8:55 p.m.
Car prowl in F-Lot. A third prowl; everyone wonders who will be nexr.
Tuesday, Dec. 21
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A car is reportedly danlaged out in C-Iot, due to a hit and run. However,
the case report notes that some evidence SflOWS the damage may not be recen r.
Wednesday, Dec. 22
3:24 p.m .
Police detain a bus rider for harassing an Intercity Transit driver. The
rider IS cited for disorderly conduct and served with a trespass order from IT.
Thursday, Dec. 23
5:32 p.m.
The computer in the HCC is unbolted. Damn that Y2K frenzy!
Friday, Dec. 24 through Tuesday, Dec. 28
Everyone takes a brearner and contemplatees life, the universe, and everything.
Wednesday, Dec. 29
I 1:02 a.m .
A broken stairway door in B-dorm leads to suspicion of college hijinks.
"Beer-bottle bowling" say the housmg staffin the reporr. I guess It's better than speeding.
I :22 p.m .
Fire alarm on the Lib I" floor. Sigh, the last alarm of the millennium.
Thursday, Dec. 30 and Friday, Dec. 31
Surprisingly quiet for the last two days of human existence. But is it rou quiet?
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Saturday, Jan. 1
7: 15 p.m.
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Fire alarm in ~ousing c~us~d by burnt food. No matter how much
change we thmk the new year will bnng, I[S I1Ice to know some thmgs stay the same.
9: 16 ~m.
Two students in F-Lot need a jumpstart for their car. However, when
the officer gets there, he notices the car owner acting 111 a fairly drunken manner. It turns
out that the owner is a minor. He gest an MIP [0 aad to the one he got a month earher.
Sunday, Jan . 2
Many people, in rapture for surving the apocalypse, commit vehicular acts of malfeasance.
Monday, Jan, 3
9:39 p.m.
Guy gets stopped in the modular housing parking lot for earlier erratic
driving, including nearfy hittting a cop. His breath tests at at.176.
Tuesday, Jan. 4
4: II p.m.
Fuel spilled from Vehicle in F-Lot. That wacky F-Lot. Between the
prowlers, vehicle boots, and this spill, it leads quite an exciting life.
WeThursday, Jan. 6
Peace sweeps through campus as remorse for drunken New Year's deeds finally kicks in.
Friday, Jan. 7
4:55 p.m.
A person is arrested on an outstandin,g warrant in the LIB. A Qolice
officer takes.. a look at his pocket and finds a baggy full of-pot. Suspect's response: ''That's
mysmo ke.
Saturday, Jan . 8
3: 16 p.m.
Person falls face-first onto th~ curb, injures his hea4, a.nd is taken ro the
hospital. For hours afierwards, pohce tape enCircles the scene of the II1cldent.
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Sunday, Jan. 9
1: I 0 a.m .
Student caught doing donuts on the field . Reason: He had seen others
driving there in the past so It seemed-okay [0 do. (Note [0 self: cancel drag race next
Sunday on the lawn.)
7:47 p.m.
Keys stolen from 1I student.
10:35 p .m.
Accidemal pull of a fire alarm. "Oh no! My hand accidentally slipped
and yanked down that alarm 111 a non-deliberate fashion. Wliatever shall I do?"
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Officer Pamela Garland
and a c()nfisGl!~d keg
2:15 a.m.
Student is caughl with open
container. Says he's been drinking beer at a party and
arrested for minor in possession.
2:30 a.m.
Student on second floor of A-Dorm is given copy or Open Container infraction . Yells
''fuck,'' and kicks a hol e i~[Il1 he wall neXI IIllhe elentor. He is arrested for Malicious Mischief.
Domestic Violence
December 20
3:07 p.m.
A d isturbance is reported in the Arts Annex involving an argument between a male and
a female. When police investigate, they determine that there was no physical altercation and
bOlh parries blaming the other one. It is suggested that they maintain their distance from each
other until emotions coul down. Counseling is also suggested after it is revealed that this not
the first time they have had problems.
December 23
2:20 p.m .
A woman contacts an officer outside Police Services in regards to an assault on her in
the Arts Annex by her former boyfriend. She states that they were arguing and when she
attempted to leave, he grabbed around her throat and began choking her for several seconds.
She was able to escape after falling to the ground.
The officer observed red marks around her collarbone and redness on the throar.
The ex-boyfriend is tracked down and detained and eventually arrested for Domestic
Violence Assault and Unlawful Imprisonmenr. He later admits that he wanted to talk wilh
her so he grabbed her in a bear hug hold. He states that he only wanted 10 help.
Telephone Harassment
December 8
2:30 p.m.
Police are called out to investigate a disturbing message left on a faculty's voice mail at
10:30 a.m. by an unknown person. Two more are later made that day around 7 p.m.
The police are later able ro determine who the person is and call him up. He is informed
that he is mistaken about the identity of the faculty and the subject of her class. The man then
stated that he would not call her anymore.
December 13
8:08 p.m.
Police are notified from a TESC employee that he is receiving harassing phone calls
from a man whose voice he recognizes as being involved with him in an argument over work.
The employee later comes in to state rhat another caller is threatening him and that he knows
who she is as well.
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--------------------------------------------~<!rjef])~-----Ever-innovative Evergreen
And a bargain to boot!
The Evrrgrel'n Fund for Innovation will
di\'ide $41.000 bl' tw('('ntwo proj('cts this year.
Thl' lion's share will go into the creation
of Ml' diaspace. Faculty members Sally
Cloninger and Petl'r Randlette submitted the
proposal for this inllovativr media system. It
will allow media students to display their wares
Oil the Illtrrnet. where viewers can not only
oft er insightful comml'n ts and helpful
su gg estions. but actuall y alter the works
th eillseives.
The remaindl'r of the funds will support
research into bacteriophage therapy. and will
involve using certain viru sl's (calll'd phages) to
attack bacterial infections in salmon and other
fish . Considered innovat ive when first
dewloped. phage therapy has been largely
ignored since the advent of antibiotics. A team
headed by faculty member Betty Kutter will
conduct the rl'search.
The Evergreen Fund for Innovation will
award up to $50.000 each year to keep
Evergreen at the vanguard of higher education.
This is thl' sl'cond Yl'ar it has actually done su.
Evergreen was recently named one of
fifteen best small-college bargains by
MEN'S BASKETBALL
GREENERS DISLIKE IDAHO
Evergreen dropped both games Idst week
against opponents they had beaten earlicr in the
season.
On Monday. Evergreell was handed its
worst defeat in school history. as Lewis-Clark
State whipped the Geoducb 99-53 in Lewiston.
Trelton Spencer (Long Beach. CA / jordan HS)
was held to a season low five point~, the first time
III almost three seasons that he did not reach
double figures. Aaron Foy (Tacoma / Tacoma CC)
led Evergreen with a season high II points.
Following a harrowing 275-mile trek across
the snow-covered state, Cascade Conference
leader and NA IA No.3 ranked Albertson
overcame a second half deficit to defeat the
Geoducks 64-46 Wednesday in Caldwell. A 10-0
Evergreen run over the last four minutes of the
first half cut a 'Yotes lead to 21-20 at the break.
The Geoducks took a 32-29 lead early in the
second stanza. but after Spencer and Wayne
Carlisle (Van Nuys. CA / Valley]C) each pickl'd
up their fourth personal fouls, Albertson brokr
away with a 16-0 run to seal the deal. Spencer
had 22 points in the losing effort for EVI'rgreen.
SECOND HALFRAW SPARKSSEATILEWIN
The seventh game on Evergreen's six week.
nine game road trip looked eerily similar to the
earlier games this week, as the Geoducks trailed
33-25 to Seattle University at halftime. However.
behind Carlisle's 27 points and 10 rebounds.
Evergreen responded with a 79-66 win over the
Redhawks. Kenny Robinson (Federal Way /
Highline CC) shook off a 5-for-28 Idaho swing to
score 13 for Evergreen, and reserve A.j. La Bree
(Bellingham / Sehome HS) added 11 points off
the bench. The Geoducks are now 3-0 in school
history against Seattle.
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LONG WEEK FOR THE WIZ
The 27-point performance was a great
finish to a tough week forthe senior Carlisle. The
forward began last week on the ineligible list due
to problems with his registration for the winter
term. After being forced to sit out thr game
against Lewis-Clark State, Cariislr flew back to
the Puget Sound area and to ok care of the
paperwork. Another flight ensued. and he was
in uniform against Albertson. scoring eighL
points of the bench. His double double on
Saturday night was his second of the season . and
the 27 points equaled Carlisle's season high.
',. ti .
The Evergreen Queer Alliance has
scholarship
applications available from th e
Discollnts and Deals at the Nation:~ 360 Best
Pride
Foundation
and the GBSA for gay .
Colleges. Written by Bruce Hammond. the
publication purports to demystify the financial lesbian, bisexual. and transgendered studenb.
The scholarship is also available to students
aid process.
Evergreen found itself in the company of raised by gay or lesbian parents or potential
sllch prestigious yet economical institutions as leaders in the sexual minority cOlllmunit y.
the University of North Carolina at Asheville Applications arc due by Feb. 18, 2000. You can
pick them up at the EQA oilice at CAB 314 or
and the College of New Jersey
call x6544.
Registration
Two words: Lutjanu
campecheanus
Sarah Callens, a junior at TESC, recently
completed a 13 week fellowship at the Dauphin
Isalnd Sea Lab on Dauphin Island. Alabama.
Six undergraduates were chosen from a
rigorous nation-wide search. The culmination
of Callens' fellowship at the Sea Lab was the
presentation of her research project entitled
"Caloric densities of predominant prey of reJ
snapper. Lutjanu campecheanus, in the
northern Gulf of Mexico. "
They sing once before they die
The bad news is that longtime faculty Y'all concurred with WashPirg
member Meg Hunt is retiring. The good news
is t hat her farewell performance. Swan Song, is
On jan. 10 and 11. the Washington Public
fiee .
Interest Research Group. or WashPIRG
Swan Song will feature modern and Orissi
gathered nearly 1170 student votes in order to
Indian classical dance mixed with Hunt's own
continue its work on campus and in the
choreographies and commentary.
community. This vote extends WashP IRG's
Hunt. who began teaching at Evergreen
support from TESC for the next two years.
in 1976. will perform on Feb. 11 and 12 in the
WashPIRG is a group that is cUllcefilcd with
Experimental Theater at 8 p.rn
enviromental. political. and social injllstices
that exist within the commullity.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
O-FOR-IDAHO
As ncwcomers to the Cascadr Conference.
th e Geoducks were given tlw royal treatment by
the scheduling comlllittee-a trip to play in
Idaho against two orthe eres top teams.
Playing without starting point-guard jen
Mav (Woodland / Shoreline CC) and sixth-Illall
Ch~issie Vuyles (Connell / Tacoma Ce) Evergrecn
opened Friday night aga inst Albertson and fell
78-38 in Caldwell. The Lady 'Yotes used a 19-2
run to dose the first half to open up a 44-15
advantage and were never headed. The Ceodllcks
were led by 14 points from Erin Day (Vancouver
/ Fort Vancouver HS) and a career high ninl'
points from sophomore Shoshanna HolmanGross (Mapleton, OR / Mapleton I-IS).
Sa tur day night wasn't much better as
Northwest Nazarene ran away from Evergreen
in Nampa, 75-31. The Crusaders, the No.4 tram
in the latest NAIA Division 1\ poll, allowed each
of their 14 players to receive extended minutes
in the game. The Geoducks trailed 12-8 eight
minutes into the contest but were outscored 286 the rest of the period. Day again had a masterfill
performance. recording a double double with 11
points and 10 rebounds before fouling out with
four minutes len.
GREAT WEEKEND FOR DAY
Despite the two losses. it was a standout
weekend for Day. The sophomore. who seemed
happy either on the basketball floor or running
around the team hotel with a green Styrofoam
hat on . hit II-of~23 field goals. pulled down 16
boards. dished Ollt five assists. and was 3-for-4
from the foul line. Day was listed in this wecks
Cascade Conference report as an hOllorable
mention Player of the Week. Shr also ranks
fourth in the conference in steals (2.3 per g;lIl1~)
and sixth in rebollnding (6.9 per game).
INJURY PLAGUED TEAM
The Band-Aids and ice that had hrld thl'
team together throughout 1999 finally weren 't
enough as Evergreen played without three players
to open the new millennium. May. who has
broken the school record for three-point field
goals made and attempts in a career. did not
make the trip to Idaho with a serious bruise on
her left shoulder. According to athletic trainer
Todd Sandberg, the swelling is not noticeable.
but the senior is in much discomfort. Voyles
JUSCEN LEAVES SQUAD
Walk-on guard Kathy jusccn (Moscow. ID
/ Spokane eC) has left the Evergrcen program.
j Il SC (,~I. who scored two points in two games,
decided that managing basketball and school
was tou milch.
SWIMMING
WHITMAN EDCES CWDUCK MEN
With Christmas and the millennium chaos
behind them . Evergreen returned to the pool
Wednesday. hosting Whitman in the only dual
meet to be held in til(' Evergreen Pool. The
Missionaries used their team depth to defpat the
Ceodllcks 70-52 . Despite the loss. All-America
candidate Ryan Miyake (Bellevue / Intefllational
HS) continued his torrid pace, winning all three
events that he entered. The freshman scored wins
inthe 200 1M (2:04.40).200 Breast (1:07.05). and
the 500-free (4:53.79). The Geoducks also got a
win in the 50-hee tl-om Matt Heaton (Bellevue /
Sammamish HS) (:~4.2()).
NATIONAL SPOTLICHT ON MIYAKE
Talk about making a splash in your first
months on campw.. rvliyakL' not only is winlling
races against good competition (two victories
and a second at th e 010rthwest Invitational). bllt
is plllling ul' eYl'-popping times. I-Ie is current I)'
the 01,\ 1,\ leader in the lIi5()-tiw (16:57.78). and
h;IS i\AIA top-five times in thl' SaO-free (4:52.3~)
Ifyou've mastered your medium and feel
ready to take your message to the masses, get
yourself down to the Olympia Center at 222
N. Columbia and register for Arts Walk. If you
beat the Feb. 4 deadlin'e, you 'll be able to
display your wares in front of 15.000 people
frolll points as distant as Trnin o and
Aberdeen.
and 400- IM (4:14.82). Watch out Bllrnab\,.
Hritish Columbia and the national meet .'a
Greener has ey('~ on you.
WOMEN FALL TO WHITMAi\
The Geoducks swam their fastest on
Wednesday night , but the effort was not gooJ
enough to deteat Whitman as the Missionaries
prevailed 115-51'1. Evergreen got a good win from
junior Heather Morrow (Kingston / Nurth
I-;itsap HS) in the 100-h-ee (27.77). edging out
Whitman swimmer Jennifer l'\ew at the wall.
L\onnie Martin (Wauna / Pcninsula HS)
continued her domination of the 100-breast ~t
Evergreen. The junior won hl'r marquec event
(1 :15.17) and holds the top-six timcs in school
history. Sophomore Gretchell l)rownstein
(Shelton / Shelton HS) placed second in the 500free (6:17.65) ill probably the race of the mel".
After swimming 10 laps of the pool. Missionar),
swimlller Heather Bastnes out-touched
Brownstein to the wall by .0:; ofa sl'cond.
EVERGREEN'S NEW LEADER
After spending on e s.eason as assistant
coach. Mike Westphal has asslImed leadership
orthe G('oduck vessel. Westphal replaced Jallelle
Parent as head coach. so Parent could
concentrate her time as interim director of
athletics, after eight years under the helm. Prior
to coming to Evergreen. Westphal was coach of
the Evergreen Swim Club. where he coached five
junior National. 0111' Scnior National. and one
Olympic trial qua lifying swimmers. He lVas a
four-time NA IA All-American at Linfield College.
where hewon the 400-medley at the l~% NAJ..\
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missed Friday's game with Albertson with a
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Cooper Point Journal -4- January 13, 2000
albeit significant number.
"It worked quite smoothly in the fall .. . for
students and staff and faculty," Coker-Anderson
says of registration under the new plan. She
- CONTINUED FROM COVER. does say. however, that "we could have done a
better job of re-emphasizing it for Winter
quarter."
programs and dissatisfied students and faculty.
For Fall quarter, she says, nearly every
"This new policy actually allows us to conceivable method of communication was
clean up our [wait lists] a lot earlier." says Welch. used to inform students of the new payment
"It allows a lot more students to get into the date; the information was included in the CPj,
programs that were their first-choice on bulletin boards, in the registration packets
programs."
that were sent out in May, in recorded messages
Coker-Anderson agrees with this on EARS (Evergreen Automated Registration
statement, saying that she feels the wait list "has System). and in postcards that were sent out to
some meaning now."
students. "We even had it in the parents'
"Priorto [the new systeml. there was very newsletter that went out to all students," she
little movement on the wait lists." she continues. adds.
"We would need to clean up the wait lists so that
She also feels that part of the problem this
the faculty would have that information before winter was the fact that many students were oft:
the quarter began. [and] we couldn't continue campus on the 29th, a fact that she says
the wait list into the first week of the quarter." Registration will take into account in the future .
In the past, Coker-AnJerson says. Registration
Welch in particular wants to make it very
would drop people on the second and third days clear that the new policy will also be in effect for
of the quarter, beginning immediately after the Spring quarter, which has a much shorter
3:45 p.m. deadline on day two.
turnaround time. "it's important that if students
"We'd spend the next day working out the have issues, they let us know beforehand." he
drops. and see how that affects enrollment." she says. "But we're going to go ahead and continue
explains. "and then 10 and behold, we LOuld this policy, because we think it 's gooJ for
have underenrolled programs that would have everybody involved."
been affected by these wait lists ... people could
Both Welch and Coker-Anderson have
have gotten in otherwise." Now. she says. gotten their share offeedback from students and
"otherwise" has become a reality. Students are faculty on the new plan, much of it positive and
getting off of wait lists and into the programs some of it negative.
they want, because people who have failed to
Most of the feedbdck that Welch's office
pay tuition are losing their spots prior to the has received has been positive. particularly
quarter actually beginning.
where the staffis concerned. "I've heard the staff
Again, the new payment date isn't the only have all said it's worked better; financial aid,
change that the plan has enacted. The fee for registrar's office. business office." he says. ''I've
late payment has also been raised, from $15 to only heard of very few students that have said,
$50.
'you know, I'm concerned about this. It seems
"Stud~hts laughed at our $15 late fee," to be a hardship. ",
says Coker-Anderson. "We'd say, 'you know, it's
However, Welch says that the plan is still
gonna cost you $15.' They'd say, 'yeah, sot" being evaluated. and he urges anyone who has
Over time, it became' apparent that the price of something to say about it to get in touch with
a pizza wasn't motivating students to pay ahead him.
of time.
"I'd like to get the information." he says.
"It affects all of th e campus," Coker- "It's going to take a lot now for me to say, 'let's
Anderson states. "when people wait until the revisit this: because it's worked so wcll. But
s('cond or even the third weeks of the quarter to we're always interested in collecting information
register. The quarter's too short."
about huw we can provide bt'tter service. If there
"It's not our mindset to be punitive," she are specific target groups that we need to pay
adds, "but there should be consequences."
different attention to. we'll he happy to do that."
She stresses, however, that Registration is
Coker-Anderson says that the type of
extremely lenient about the new fee. Not only feeJback she gets from students depends.
was the fee waived for those students who were unsurprisingly, on how the plan has atlected the
dropped and re-registered in the first week, but students in question; those who have gotten into
spe(ial provisions have also been made for the classes they want secm to think it's great. anJ
students who are putting together contracts anJ those who have had to pay the latr fee or reinternships. Also. if students have a valid excuse register haven't looked too kindly on the change.
for not paying on time, chances are that the fee
''I've heard some stuJents saying. 'you'rt'
will be waived.
just trying to make this easy for the institution ....
Of course, there has been a Jownside. she says, elaborating. 'That's not the reason that
mostly for those students who lost their places. we did this. We're trying to aJdress some real
When asked if the new plan had caused more st udent issues, reconciling the wait list anJ
dropped students than usual, Coker-Anderson helping faculty account for who's in their
admits that "it is a higher drop this quarter than program."
it was last year at this time" She estimates that
"We're very student-centered:' she aJds.
about 40 more students than usual were "We're looking for ways to serve students better,
dropped from registration this winter. It is to serve the college better. It doesn't make our
important to consider, however, that with a work any easier."
student body of over 4 ,100. this is a fairly small.
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State
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the lives of new possibilities
Carole will be
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copies of her book!
Please join us in welcoming
Carole to Evergreen on
January 13, 2000 from
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. inside TESC
BOOKSTORE
Cooper Point Journal - January 13, 2000
by Brandon B.
Wi2~ins
Registration
frustration
Not once have I had a good experience at as a student and capacity for productive work
the registration office. I'd even settle for a is influenced by matters of non-existent
satisfactory experience. But each and every time consequence.
I've come away discouraged. disgruntled. and In any case, how my transcript appears to those
in a few instances, flat out mad.
who view it is a value controlled entirely be me.
There are a couple of reasons forth is. One In fact it is a very serious matter if someone
is that they're never open. They close at 4 pm other than myself is responsible for the quality
and there aren't that many college students that of content and appearance of my transcript.
are organized enough to get up, get ready for The contextual value of my transcript is
the day. organize their thoughts and paperwork reflected in mine and my facu lties' evaluations
ill preparation for a trip to the registration of the work I do and the quality of its product.
office, and actually go, much before 3 pm. It's Similarly, the physical state and appearance of
not technically the school's responsibility to my transcript is a variable of the universe as we
cater to the students' schedules. but in terms of know it affected at the sole discretion of, well,
student service and transaction/interaction the me. Technically I am allowed, intentionally or
registration office is effectively open for not, to negatively affect the quality of my
business only about five hours a week. Or four transcript. This includes the content and
really, since students sleep-in after a big physical appearance of the pages that compose
weekend.
my transcript. If I decide that a minor flaw
The Registration otllee has to have been (found here in small-box form) wiIlnot affect
open sometime, because otherwise I wouldn't my life negatively then I don't think that the
even have an)' experience by which to judge. registration process should be obstructed
Much more influential to my poor experiences because of it.
have been the lack uf productivity with which
In two entirely separate instances I have
my albeit infrequent trips to the registration had to act by no one's suggestion but my own
office have provided me. I go with particular and get a signature to essentially expedite the
intentions and am met with a blurry, thick, and contract submission and approval process.
gooey yet impenetrable barrier to my student What normally happens over a few days or
business. Feeling like I wasted my time and weeks I did in person by walking upstairs and
coming away having accomplished no more employing the necessary administrative
than Iwould have, doing what I would normally resources.
be doing at that time. waking up in a pool of
It is reasonable to reprint my contract
my own sick, has become a routine experience. without the boxes, a'nd get my faculty sponsor's
I describe all of this vaguely. but be assured that signature at a later and more convenient time
the details of my experience support my claims. to replace the contract I submitted to register
Basically the red tape of student business in for the quarter. But the reason that it is such an
tight admixture with the productivity inhibiting issue to have my contract rudely rejected by a
pt:rsonal interaction available at the registration glance at the registration office is that to track
office leaves me dissatisfied and frustrated.
down my faculty sponsor and get another
I walk into the office and up to the round of signatures, and do so any time soon,
countcr. I have all of my materials ready and in is an impossible task. Sponsor availability is
order. I explain my business and set my sparse and unreliable during the hectic first
independent contract materials on the counter. week or two of each quarter. Alii want to do is
My request to register the contract is met with gd my registration taken care of and out of the
a fl'action as though it is riJiculous how I could way. Not that it was particularly arduous to
possibly think m)' contract registration affairs bypass the registration office's 'petty crux
are in order. some of the papers actually flung detector' and get the contract approved myself,
in my direction. The main reason for my but it seems as though the priorities of the
contract being so clearly and unnecessarily registration office and actual contract approval
impoli tely dissed by those who assisted me could be reflective of one another.
(they really put the "ass" in "assistance") was
So it st:ems like registration could maybe
that there were small boxes around a few words use some improvement. Maybe some petitions
at the bottom of the contract form. When I went to sign or a free box installed in the registration
to the computer center to print the fuur cupies oflice would make things more inviting. They
of the contract I knew I needed, there was a class have changed a few things already. The deadline
in the main part orthe lab and 1was forced to ror tuition was moved up a week. and we can
use one of the older computers, which as this select, hold, and even buy books online. That's
expericnce has made sure I will never forget , use great (and the latter ofthe two is the bookstore.
an older version of Word and screwed up some not registration) but it doesn't actually
of the furmatting. making normally invisible diminish the negative experience of going to the
buxes around the words at the bottom of the registration office. What wuuld do the trick is a
form. visible. (Apparently very visible. since it way to totally cut out going to registration in
seemed like the entire registration uffice was the tirst place.
shaking their head in aneurysm-inducing
Enter salvation. Hopefully anyway, for
infantile unison before I even got to the students, current and future, and for the world
counter.) Is registration really so preoccupied at large. The word is that within the next few
with unbelievably petty and incunsequential years registration will provide its services on the
details'! They tell me that the reason they want internet. This seems like a great solution to the
the contract forms to be perfect is so that my problem. (Actually it's not a solution. but rather
when someone of consequence looks at my a way to completely bypass the problem, the
transcript there aren't any minor flaws that physical act of going to the registration office.)
wuuld reflect puorly on m)' work.
Students can do thdr business at 4 am without
First of all anyone who is concerned with ever putting down their bong. Whether or not
these few tiny boxes on my contract form the idea will be executed in a manner that would
enough to alter their judgment of my character alleviate the inevitable frustrations associated
isn't a person of consequence. Priorities this with the registration office is not guaranteed.
perverted and out of touch with anything but the concept is good . The glory of internetremotely approximating rational logic aren 't based registration won't be realized while I'm
found with people of substantial achievement around but I still hope it happens and is as
or consequential power. I would not be useful a way around going to the registration
concerned with the character judgement made office as I would want it to be. Speaking of
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The Parent s' Resource Network is a
newly formed student group open to all who
are interested.
Students who are parents juggle their
time between many demands such as school,
work, and family. This can leave little time for
study, attending events, participating in clubs,
and sleep . When you look around the
classroom it is hard to tell who is a parent, who
The Parents' Resource Network
A student group aimed at providing a
place where student parents can come
together.
is not, who has found a babysitter just in time
to make it to class, orwho has been up all night
with a sick child. Parents sometimes feel like
the demands are toogreat, community is less
than supportive, and the resources are just not
available.
Erica Sweet and Stephanie Johnson are
Evergreen students who have not only
recog nized the needs of students who are
parents, but also have acted upon those needs
and formed a students group called The
Parents' Resource Network. The idea behind
the network is just that, parents helping
parents, students helping students - a place
to come together, get acquainted, share ideas,
organize fun events, participate in educational
activities, and a way to help define our
community.
The Parents' Resource Network is open
to all that are interested. Currently our officl'
is located in the Women's Resource Center,
CAB building, room 206. This does not mean
we are a women's group. All genders are
welcome.
The group meets once a week, The
meeting agenda will alternate between the
typical business meeting that usually consists
of a potluck and a four-hour stretch of time
designed for study. All meetings include
childcare. The tentative schedule looks like
this: business meetings will take place during
weeks 2, 3, 5, and 7 of the Winter term on
Wednesdays at 3 p.m. , and the study·time
meetings are planned for weeks 4,6,8, and 9
on Saturdays. Study-time meetings will most
likely be in the afternoon or evening. Each
week, flyers which provide the date, timl', and
location of the meeting will be posted in the
CAB and Library building.
Study times are designed to give students
a four hour block oftime to use the library, the
computer room, or to work on projects while
childcare is provided close by. Students may
utilize the time as needed
Transit rally a first step
toward bus funding
Other events include getting together
every first Friday ofthe month, at 6:30 p.m., at
the Children's Hands on Museum. The
museum is located downtown Olympia on
Union, just off the corner of Capitol. "Oh yeah,
every first Friday is free, no admittance
charge!"
We are always looking for volunteers to
help provide childcare. If you are interested
please call us or stop by our office.
If you have questions regarding The
Parents' Resource Network and would like
more information, contact our office located
in the Women's Resource Center at x6162. You
are always welcome to stop by our office, room
206 in the CAB,just across from the bookstore.
Please join us at our next meeting. Bring your
appetite, children, ideas, and come get
acquainted.
by Jen Blackford
By Amy Loskota
Sex and the Single Person of Non-Specific Gender
The group is stationed in the Women's
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The Center is located at CAB 206,
The groups schedule is tenatively
the following:
Business meetings will take place during
weeks 2, 3, 5, and 7 of the Winter term on
Wednesdays at 3 p.m., and the study-time
meetings are planned for weeks 4, 6, 8, and
9 on Saturdays. Study-time meetings will
most likely be in the afternoon or evening.
Each week, flyers which provide the date,
time, and location of the meeting will be
posted in the CAB and Library building.
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Say your piece on general education requirements
by Kclli Sangn
Many of you may know someone, or
be someone who studies only one subject
here at Evergreen. It may be because you
choose to or because you can't navigate
the curriculum to do otherwise. It has
been documented that the majority of
evergreen students who major in art do
not take any science classe s and most
students who take science classes do not
take art, and hardly any of us take ANY
MATH. Is that really a liberal arts
education?
The General Education DTF
(disappearing task force) has been created
collie tu Evergreen, in order to solve th e
general education problem. No one here
wants to see Evergreen become just
another normal university: having student
choice, no uniform requirements, and
interdis'cip lin ary learning is what makes
Evergreen truly Green. So what can we do?
Students recommended that Advising
take a stronger role in helpin g students
naviga te the curriculum, help them decide
what to take, and showing them how to get
a broad education while still concentrating
in what they want. With an advisor who
worked with liS through college, we could
to change this trend, The qut'stions that
we need to answer are· What is it that
students should graduate with at
Eve rgreen? How ca n we create a real liberal
arts education that includes all subjt'cts?
To answer these questions we asked the
students and teachers.
On Nov. 17, a student meeti ng was
held for t he Ge neral Education DTF to
hear what stud ents thought should be
changed about the Evergreen curriculum.
They all agreed that th ey did not want
"traditional requirements " (like a laundry
list of required subjects to choose from) to
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get advice on what classes to take, who to
talk to for independent contracts and help
all of us to get a liberal arts ed ucation
while still having a subject of
"co ncentration."
The DTF has also been talking to
faculty. At the faculty retrea t professors
crea ted a list of what that they would lik e
to see an Evergreen graduate look like . It
ranged from art literacy to MATH . But in
wanting students exposed to all th ese
different subjects, it was agreed that the
faculty does not want "traditional
requirements" either. So how are we going
to solve this problem?
Before we can decide how to make
these subjects more available to students ,
the DTF has to decide just what subject s
and skills we nee d to ge t across. Th e
Ce n era l Education DTF is creating a
vision statement-one that describes what
an Evergreen student sh ould leave this
college with . It is a list of ski lls that should
be taught here. and is a state ment that
both the stlldellt bod)" and the faculty
have a say in. This draft will go to the
faculty for feedba ck in]anuary, and to the
st udent body in th e Sp rin g, Thi s
docum ent needs yo ur fE' edback'
Ways that VOli can have your I'o iel'
he ard: Go to the CAB Tu esd ay. Jan. 1 8.
and Wednesda \,. Ian. 19: studenh frolll
th e DTF \\'ill b~ th ert' to ta lk 10 yo u abo ut
th is vis io n s ta t elll ~ Il t :I nd t hl' Ge nna I
Ed ll ca ti on DTF.
Check oul tl w ("() nl llll' nt boa rds tha i
will be in t he C \ B. and l\T il l' dOI\n I li ur
sugges tions.
YOli can talk to a ll )' of the memhrrs
uf the DTF, includin g three studen ts.
myselfat sanke I 15c'iiJevergreen.edu, Sas ha
Sc hworm a t sc hworm a0)evergr('e n.ed u .
and Anatra Brewer. As thi s document will
shape the future of Evergreen 's education,
it see ms onlY'fit that the students shou ld
help form it, Please voice your ideas I
Cooper Point JournaL • January 13., 2000
I
As oflate, if you mention the word "love"
to an old hack like me, you will get a face much
like I had eaten a bad fig, "('m in love" and
"we're getting married" are the taunts of the
impulsive twits who have been inducted into
the hall of shame and misinformation we call
matrimonial commitment.
Why so bitter, you ask? My main reason
is that. at the moment, I am not in love. See, if
I was in love , I'd quote Shakespeare, write
poetry, and be totally wrapped up in my
instinctual rush to breed. That breeding can
be so fun and be the most horrible thing you
ever did, all at the same time.
Speaking of horrible, somewhere out
there is one man who can honestly say I ruined
his life. And I would agree that the me who
existed in 1997 took it into her empty addled
little head to do unthinkable things to this poor
innocent of twenty-one (a bit of Kantian
philosophy), The me who is now. is completely
ashamed of the me who was then. And the me
who is now wishes I could go back and smack
the me who was then in the head every time I
sa id something like "Never have any regrets!"
I have plenty of regrets now. I regret
making out in front of my single friends . I
regret flaunting my unorthodox little jaunts in
to realms of depravity, I regret puttingso much
of my heart and soul into the needs of a lover.
Heart and Soul, Passion and So lace,
Balance and Unity, all attempted and tailed by
me. A heroic attempt on my part as I learned
love and sex are not for cowards.
On the other hand. I am happy to share
that marriage will not cure your mental
problems-it co uld even make them worse. if
vo u are sexually repressed before marriage. you
still will be after.
So many of us girls were brought up to
adore and focus on our weddings. In my
Christian college it was always "W hat are yo ur
colors?" and "Can I see your ring?" So what if
the dorks had entirely derailed their dreams of
becoming teachers or traveling to India to work
with the poor. They were happy (or were they?)
at the thought of spending the rest of their life
as the pastor's wife, raising his spawn, and
dreaming of what it would have been like to
have seen the world,
I really don't think God had anything to
do with it. It was the people always drumming
it into you-"When you get married," and
"Someday you'll find someone to take care of
you." I pity the person who tries to take care of
me . To help me. yes, to share'my work, no
problem, but I do ilOt need a pseudo·daddy to
tell me where to go and what to do. Long gone
are the times of an arranged marriage, where
the bride and groom had as much passion as a
hunter and his prey. Gone are the times when
women had to reproduce in profusion to
survive. Gone are the dark days when learning
about sexuality was still considered a sin.
Some folks think sexuality is something
to control or to ignore, It was created by some
Higher Power, so it must be expressed as that
Higher Power guides you personally. Thirty
years fi'om now, being in a gay or polygamous
marriage won't matter, as all the political
detractors will be dead. Maybe then marriage
will stop being a government issue and go back
into the community's hands.
These days we are taught to be capitalists
with our emotions-we buy and trade and sell
to whoever we think is the highest bidder. But
of course, as in all trade, sometimes looks can
be deceiving, Some buy the cheap and shiny
new model. which breaks often and which
needs to be replaced quickly by another. The
more serviceable and sturdy models, which can
last J lifetime. are looked over and sold a few
yea rs past brand new, One can bear your
heaviest loads and one can break down when
you lIeed it the most. One can use up all your
money in gas, while the other ca n keep going
on a thimbleful.
So as for love and life , shop for the best
you can afford. stay away from name brands
and expensive labels, and see beyond the otten
misleading and painted on wrappings to where
the true qualities of integrity, strength of
character, and honesty lie inside.
On Monday, Jan . 10, bus riders from
around Washington State had the chance to
voice their opinion at a rally at the capitol.
At noon, approximately 300-350 people
showed up to demonstrate their support for
transit, which is receiving massive cuts due to
the passage of 1-695, the initiative setting
license tab fees at 30 dollars.
Lasting around twenty minutes, the rally
included speakers such as Governor Gary
Locke and King County Commissioner Ron
Simms. Afterwards, the demonstrators
marched into the Capitol to talk to their
legislators about the importance offunding tor
public transportation. Others marched to the
transit center if they could not go inside.
Steve Hughes , an Evergreen student ,
attended this rally because '"Evergreen teaches
us everything's interconnected." He says th at
the loss of transit affects everyone by isolating
those who would join together. Thus.
Evergreen students should care about keeping
public transportation alive because they are
one of the groups greatly affected by it.
On Feb. 27, the cuts necessi tated by 1·695
to Intercity Transit will go into effect. These
cuts include the elimination of all Sunday
service, Dial-A-Lift service, and at least 13 bus
routes. The remaining service will be reduced
drastically, most likely running on the hour
in the evenings. For Evergreen, this means
lack of mobility in connecting to other routes
downtown, as well as non-transportation on
Sundays.
Hughes isn't losing hope yet, however.
For him and the other demonstrators , the
short term goal is to to get funding to stop
the bus cuts, A longer term goal would be to
work out a funding strategy that would
maintain the original standard of bus service
before 1·695.
He's not angry at the passing of the
initiative that has transit in turmoil. "There's
a feeling of cynicism out there-it's to be
understood. When it's out there, that's when
people are desparate for something."
And it's this frustration that makes it
important for individuals to take action to
save public transportation. "People need to
get out in the streets. People will remember
what it is to have a voice, to have something
bigger than they are."
Preparation for the rally included an
Alliance of Public Transportation (APT)
meeting on Jan. 2 as well as a community
forum on Jan, 7. You can reach the APT at
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BTl Wanls Adriee AbDUl Building Mote Patking lOIS
by Thad
by Bren.. r Seabrook
CUrt7,
Evergreen is almost certainly go in g to of the current lots. For a couple of million
have to have some more parking spaces soon. dollars we could clear more land and build
Thurston County's regulations ca ll for the another lot abou t the same size as one of the
college to add 380 parking spaces as a part of current ones. For a million' dollars or so we
getting the permits to construct the Seminar 2 could tear up and rebuild one or more of the
bui ldi ng. which we're now planning. These current lots so they had a lot fewer trees and
may not be enough to accommodate all the grass than they do now, and looked more like
parking demands of our planned growth. We the parking at Safeway or the Ma ll. For
expect to add another 750 students (and lInknown amounts of money, we could try less
accompanying faculty and staff) to the campus obvious solutions like renting parking space
population by 2010. We may need a couple of from the Capitol Mall or setting up parking on
hundred new spaces on top or the ones for one lane of the Evergreen Parkway, and then
Seminar 2 in order to giV<' these' additional running a shuttle service to get people from
their C3rs to campus and back.
people someplace to park.
State law requires the college to charge
For the past couple of months, the
Parking DTF has lJeen meeting to explore our enough for parking to pay for the lots and their
options; in another couple of months they are maintenance. The cheapest of these
supposed to recommend a plan for dealing alternatives wou ld probably require doubling
with our parking needs to Vice President Art the parking fee, which is now $75 a quarter;
Costan tino. This group of stafl, students and sOllie of them, like the garage, would require
faculty have been studying a couple of reports raising parking fees very dramatically.
Of course, if we could persuade people to
about options that the college cornmisioned
carpool,
or vanpool, or ride the bus to campus
from SeA, a local transportation engineering
we
might
need fewer parking spaces. We'd also
firm, as well as a range of suggestions from
need
fewer
spaces if more classes met on
people at the college. For eight million dollars
we could build a parking garage on top of one
Mondays and Fridays, so that fewer people
were all together on campus for class on
Tuesdays and Thursdays. If more people
telecommuted or worked a four day week,
made up offour ten hour days, we'd need fewer
parking spaces. So far, Evergreen's efforts at
commute trip reduction have produced very
small changes in parking demand, but other
places have reduced car trips and parking by
twenty or thirty percent through combinations
of st iff increases in parking fees and significant
expenditures on supporting and rewarding
people who stop driving their own cars.
The DTF is interested in ge ttin g
suggestions and advice from students, stafLmd
faculty. If you would like to participate in
discllssing the issues, and get the minutes of
the DTF's meetings, you can subscribe to a
mailing list called parking-dtf. Use a web
browser from a machine on campus and go to
http:// news. evergreen. edu/ c gi -b i nl
majordomo. Enter your e-mail address.click
the button that says you want to browse all the
lists, and click on the GO button. You should
get a page that shows all the current lists. If you
click the button next to parking-dtf and then
click the Apply button, you should get an email message saying you have been subscribed
to this list and asking you to return an
authentication code. Send back a message that
just has the code in it, making sure you delete
any ",,"s that your e-mail program may have
stuck into the reply, and you should start
getting mail from the list. when and if there is
any. (You can unsubscribe by using the same
web page from on campus.) If you'd just like to
send a message to everybody on the DTF and
anybody else who has subscribed to this
mailing list you can send an e-mail from anywhere to parking·dtf@news.evergreen.edu.
The DTF would love to get suggestions or hear
your views abo ut what the college should try
to do.
(Thad Curtz teaches literature at the college,
and is a member of the Parking DTF.)i,;I
In 190 1. Melvin Calvin won a :--!ohel Pri ze tl1r discove rin g the' series of chemical reactions
in pho tosl'll th esis. Facultv member Jeff "e1 ly studied photosvnthesis at Berkele\,. ill Calvin's
lab.
Je frs been teaching at Evergreell sillce 1972. He shares aile teaching position with Clvde
Ba rl ow, who's been at Evergreen since 1981 . Je ff does the lect ures and ( l\'de docs th e labs.
Clyde's an organic chemist. Ill' worked with the biophysicist Britton ( h;l'nce, who IVan the gold
medal in yachting at th e 195L Olympics in Hplsinki.
Jeff continues to study photosynthesis wh ile Clyde studies the mitochondrial process.
"One stores energy from the Slln , the other usps food to gain energy," Jeff explained. "They're
similar processes, and we use similar methods."
They're applying spectrophotometric methods to metabolism in living tissues.
"We always get the first spaces in the parking lot," Clyde grinned. "We're in by seven-thirty."
They work ten or eleven hours a day, including weekends, split ting their time between teaching
and research.
·"It doesn 't all fit in a forty-hour week," Clyde explained. "Ilike teaching, but I'm a research
animal. When I had my interview. they asked me, 'What do you like to do ill your spare time?
What are your hobbi e~?' Well. I like to work in the lab. That's my hobby. As a research scientist,
you do what you like to do-we're similar to artists, in that way.
"We go through the same process that artists do, as well. We take an idea, make it a reality,
prepare it for presentation , and hold it up for peer review.
'
"There's not much interaction with the arts faculty, though our philosophy's so similar. Darshi
Bopegedera taught a class with Susan Aurand-they did a two-quarter program about the art
and scie nce oflight and color. It was a great learning experience for both kinds of students.
"I'm interested in doing something with ceramics, but the timing's been bad. The science
programs are heavily enrolled. Molecule to Organism needs two organic chemists. We have
three, so I end up spending two out of three years in that program. That leaves one year in
between to do something else."
, Undergraduate research
(Fictional Sociology was a full -year program
taught last year, '98- '99, by Bill Arney, Charles
Pailthorp, and Sara Rideout. Thill article i.~
their attempt at extinguishing the rumor that
Fictional Sociaology is still alive, while
discussing Evergreen 's accreditation.)
The teaching team for "Fictional
Sociology," an academic program offered last
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h h
year, h as denie d accusatIOns t at t ey ave
fomented rumors about the college losing its
accreditation.
Sara Rideout, the program's coordinator
who is, this year, just a librarian, said,
"Everything that came out of 'Fictional
Sociology' was made up. As far as I can tell,
these rumors are true. That should show you
we had nothing to do with it."
In an e-mail sent to all faculty members,
Provost Barbara Smith said, "We've been
hearingsomeconcernfromstudentsaboutthe
college losing its accreditation as a result of the
"
story the CPJ ran severa 1wee ksago.
soCial science or math or ill the humanities or glad for the work of the Gene.ral Education
in math, the teaching team published "the Req uirements That Are Good for You
math issue" of their journal , "The Comm ittee. (l don't think we should shorten
Spokesperson.
the real name to 'General Education' or 'Gen"But everything in our math issue was ed.') As for 'Fictional Sociology,' no one took
made up. No group offormer students is really that seriously-not us, not our students. This
suing the college for 'math induced anxiety' is the way things should be."
and Rideout does not give math credit to
Rideout added, "It's a tiresome business to
students who learn about love triangles in have to deny responsibility for things that are
Proust or who sit through her rants about how just tr'ue. People should know that anything
bigger really is better (and other properties of that happens this year or next, no matter how
inequalities) and Pailthorp said he won't give absurd, is not a joke. We won't be offering
math credit just for the askinguntilthe faculty Fictional Sociology again until the fall of2001."
passes his proposal that we all be able to do so.
The truth about "Fictional Sociology,"
It was all fictional. That means it wasn't true." including issues of "The Spokesperson," can be
What is true is that the college has a found at http://192.211.16.13/curricular/
General Education Committee trying to come t\ction/home.htm.
up with ways to keep the accreditation wolves
It is also true that the CPJ has over 200 copies
from the college's doors.
of "The Spokesperson" still in its evidence
"See," said Arney, "they took the locker.iil
accreditation report seriously. I, for one, don't
want the college to lose its accreditation, so I'm
Ben's Top 9 (Like Letterman-but without
East Coast humor)
Top 9 TESC New Year's Resolutions
by Ben Kinkade
9. To practice what we preach.
8. To get lighting in at least part of the
building.
7. Hire the Soup Nazi to work at the deli:
tofu for you!"
6. To shave our legs (women) and cut off our
ponytails (men). Yeah, right!
5 To get more students enrolled in math
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contribute to my utler lack of common sense. technically aren't drugs. I held back because I teachers here!)
I figured that there must be some reason why figured he would have considered me a biggel -!. To get 60 percent back for our used texts
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by Kris Hooper
this question was relevant so I checked all the piece of human excrement than he already all times (or run an initiative to do so).
boxes of substances that I've tried. Even when thought I was.
3. That Tim Eyman will leave us with at least
I did one of the drugs only once back when
To get off the subject he asked what school I one or two buses-or refund us back $36.
George Bush was President I checked the box. go to. When I told him Evergreen he closed the 2. To leave our pets safely at home .
I started to regret my decision before I had folder and stared at me for a second. I knew 1 1. That every new instructor is adequ
even met the oral surgeon.
was in for a lecture. For the next seven minutes informed of all rules, regulations, an
The
surgeon
was
pretty
much
like
I
had
(l timed it) he explained in considerable detail obligations regarding evaluations, and
BIBI SIlI,e" anll the
expected,
an
upscale
middle
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man.
He
why he thought Evergreen was a waste oftime policies. And that part-time instructors are not
EIIBr,reen Stllllent
overlooked in full-time faculty hiri
looked like a cross between a character in a and money.
He kept monotonously repeating that if you processes.
Over the holiday season I enjoyed the John Cheever novel and a neurotic next door
neighbor
on
an
episode
of
"Thirtysomething."
want
to "go off and be a philosopher" or "think
masochistic pleasure of having my wisdom
He
was
looking
at
my
x-rays
and
questionnaire
out
side
of the box" than Evergreen is an
teeth extracted. Ironically the real pain began
certain drawbacks about Evergreen. although
before the procedure; it started at the when he sat down with me for the consultation. acceptable choice. Most of his emphasiS was he made me realize something. Evergreen not
After a few obligatory pleasantries he got right on how in the real world you have to compete
consultation.
down
to it.
against others and grades are vital in only gives an opportunity to get a degree, it
The consultation was scheduled at 8 a.m. I
"Well, you've got quite the extensive drug competing. Going to Evergreen puts people at gives you the ability to annoy all the right
was running late for the appointment. The
people.iil
a permanent disadvantage in his opinion.
night before I was out late and had about four history, Mr. Hooper," he deadpanned.
How are you supposed to reply to such a
I tried to the best of my ability to defend
hours of sleep. Just before dashing out ti:le door
in my groggy stupor I had to fill out the medical statement? "Thank you" or how about a witty Evergreen's honor. Although it was hard since
questionnaire. One of the last questions was, retort along the lines of, "Some people collect he was glaring at me with the same expression
"Have you ever used drugs?" Next to the stamps but I prefer my hobbies to be a little I always imagined my father would give me if
question was a list of various drugs to check, more risque." I lamely mumbled about how it's he discovered a "Playgirl" magazine with stuck
Undermath the question was a comment been years since I've done the vast majority of together pages under my mattress.
You could tell that the oral surgeon felt
saying it was very important to answer if you drugs that I checked. For a second I was
were going to be put under general anesthetic, tempted to use the standard line ofdefense that passionately about education and the benefits
which I was. My lack of time and sleep helped marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms you receive from it. He may have been right on
Hooper
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January 13,2000
'·We wanted to do research with undergraduates, so students could apply their learning to
practical situations," said Clyde. "But you can't do research without money.
"We got a couple of seed grants from Evergreen. We applied for a bunch of other grants, from
the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, Mobil Oil, and the American
Heart Association, but-nothing.
"The reviews all said the same thing: 'Interesting, creative-but there's no research environment
at TESC.' We were competing with the University of Washington, UCLA, Stanford-all those
big institutions. And they said that undergraduates were incapable of participating, even though
they'd done the preliminary work that the grant proposals were based on.
"In a series of classes, like those offered at most universities, you may learn the material,
but not advanced skills. The most successful results come from immersion in an area for an
entire year. You end up very skilled in some things-like lab work.
"Stacey, next door, did all the work on our most recent grant proposal. Diane is working at
a graduate student level. They were invited to the UW, to train them on the methods we've
developed.
Jeff's daughter is the copy editor for their grant proposals.
"She tells us when we're not communicating what we want to communicate."
During his term in office, President Reagan grew concerned that sma ll businesses were
being left out offederal contracts.
"He got a bill through that allocated one and a quarter percent of all federal research and
development funds to small businesses. We thought, 'Here's a way to get money.' So we formed
a small corporation.
"We lease space, and we don't use college facilities-all our equipment comes from grants.
We've donated equipment to the school, however. It's a net positive gain for the college-we
provide research opportunities for students, equipment, and computers.
Bedsores
"We develop methods for other labs. Design something that will produce conclusive results.
Build the necessary instruments."
"You can count the number of instruments we've sold on one hand," Jeff sighed.
"Yeah," said Clyde. "We're good scientists, but bad entrepreneurs."
"But," said Jeff, "Researchers've begun to ask, 'Can you find a way to do this?'''
Clyde provided me with an example.
"The Head of Vascular Surgery at Maricopa Medical Center, in Phoenix, asked us to find a non-
intrusive way to measure bedsores.
.. People who are confined to bed or a wheelchair often develop pressure ulcers on their hip,
tailbonC', heel-a nywhere bone is close to the surface. It stops the blood flow.
"When there's a medical problem, we need to find a treatment. But before we can do that ,
we need to ask ourselves, 'How big is the problem?'"
"We like to measure things." said Jeff.
"The gold standard for measuring volume of bedsores was u ~ ing alginate, or dental molding
compound," Clyde continued. "You would put the alginate in the bedsore, make a cast, and then
measure how much water the cast displaced. It seemed cruel and llnusual to us.
"We thought of saran wrap, stretching it across the surface of the ulcer, and then adding
liquid. But it had already been done, without much success. So we tried injecting gas, instead.
"We'd take a ~ample measurement of the gas' dilution. That would be one hundred percent.
Then, ifit diluted by a factor of two, we'd know it had doubled in volume.
"But we like to work with light, so we set a laser at a 45 degree angle, then captured an
image from straight above. If the surface was flat, there'd be a straight line-but if it dipped, the
laser would be displaced. The depth would be equal to the displacement."
"It's like measuring the height of a tree from its shadow," Jeff explained.
"The added advantage was it gave us a profile of the bedsore," sa id Clyde. "A topography."
"We started out with 33 parallel lines, but the instrument was clumsy, and the analysis was
difficult," said Jeff. "We rebuilt the instrument, using regular laser pointers, like you can buy
anywhere, and a mirror to move the beam. A video camera captures the data, which goes into
the computer. But so far, there's no automatic method to get the data into the computer, without
human intervention-it needs to be friendlier for clinical workers."
"Doesn't that sound like fun?" grinned Clyde. "There's biology, physics, the construction of the
instruments, and computer-based analysis.
"We're not experts in everyone of those fields, but some of our students are into biology, some
are into computer science, and some are into physics. We have the idea, but the students put it
into practice. In seminar, they're able to add their piece to the puzzle. Of course, we have to start
by defining terms-they all speak different languages."
Doing the math
I asked Clyde what he thought the deficits of an Evergreen education might be.
"It's built around immersion for a whole year, so if you're struggling, don't worry-keep
working, and you'll finally begin to assimilate the material. If you only immerse yourself il) a
narrow range of material, however, you'll learn those perspectives and views very well, but don't
achieve a broad education.
"One of the things they're looking at, in relation to accreditation, are quantitative skills, or
math. Liberal arts faculty are expected to teach writing, and to participate in a multicultural
dialogue, but not to stimulate a quantitative view of the world.
"The faculty at other colleges are hesitant to teach writing, but here, we're required to teach it.
Not creative writing, or poetry, but writing that applies to what else we're teaching. We do
technical writing, in formal papers and lab notebooks. And we teach critical reading- how to
analyze the content and writing of a given text.
'" was in a program years ago-Health, Individual, and Community-and we needed a math
component. The other faculty thought I would take it on. Well, I have trouble with math, too.
Every other faculty had more math than I did. Even Betsy Hilbert, a writing professor, had
advanced calculus-I only had basic. Everyone was hesitant to teach math.
"Iffaculty were also expected to teach quantitative skills, they'd find a way. Since it's liberal
arts, it'd be math with a different flavor, but it'd be math. We were interviewing someone for an
animation position, for example, and the applicant talked about timing sequences to portray
motion, in quantitative terms-and that's the same as math."
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DTI Wanls Adrice AbDUl Building .01B Palking llllS
by Thad Curtl.
by Brent Seabrook
Evergreen is almost certainly going tu
have to have some more parking spaces soon.
Thurston County's re gulations call for the
college to add 380 parking spaces as a part of
getting the permits to construct the Seminar 2
building, which we're now planning. These
may not be enough to accommodate all the
parking demands of ollr planned growth. We
expect to add another 750 studellts (and
accompanying faculty and staf1') to the ca mpus
population by 2010. We may need a couple of
hundred new spaces on top uf tht' ulles for
Seminar 2 ill order to give these additional
people someplace to park.
For th e past couplt' of months, the
Parking DTF has been meeting to ex plore our
options; in another couple of months they are
supposed to recommend a plan lor dealing
with our parking needs to Vice President Art
Costantino. This group of stafr, students and
faculty have been studying a couple of reports
about options that the college cornmisioned
from SeA, a local transportation engineering
firm, as well as a range of suggestions from
people at the college. For eight million dollars
we could build a parking garage on top of one
of the current lots. For a couple of million
dollars we could clear more land and build
another lot about the same size as one of the
current ones. For a million dollars or so we
could tear up alld rebuild aile or more of the
current lots so they had a lot fewer trees and
grass than they do now, and looked more like
the parkillg at Safeway or the Mall. For
lInknown amounts of money, we could try less
obvious solutiollS like renting parking space
Irom th e Capitol Mall or setting up parking on
one lane of the Evergreen Parkway, and then
running a shuttle service to get people Irmn
their cars to campus and back.
State law requires the college to charge
enough for parking to pay lor the lots and their
maintenance. The cheapest of these
alternatives would probably require doubling
the parking fee, which is now $75 a quarter;
some of them, like the garage, would require
raising parking fees very dramatically.
Of course, if we could persuade people to
carpool, or vanpool , or ride the bus to campus
we might need fewer parking spaces. We'd also
need fewer spaces if more classes met on
Mondays and Fridays, so that fewer people
were all together on campus for class on
Tuesdays and Thursdays. If more people
te lecommuted or worked a four day week,
made up offour ten hour days, we'd need fewer
parking spaces. So far, Evergreen's efforts at
commute trip reduction have produced very
small changes in parking demand. but other
places have reduced car trips and parking by
twenty or thirty percent through combinations
of st iffincreases in parking fees and significant
expenditures on sllpporting and rewarding
people who stop driving th eir own cars.
The DTF is interested in getting
suggestions and advice from students, staH-and
faculty. If you would like to participate in
disctlssing the issues, and get the minutes of
th e DTF's meetings, you can subscribe to a
mailing list called parking-dtf. Use a web
browser from a machine on campus and go to
hit P :llnews .e ve rgreen. ed ul c gi-bi nl
majordomo. Enter your e-mail address.click
the button that says you want to browse all the
lists, and click on the GO bullon. You should
get a page that shows all the current lists. If you
click the button next to parking-dtf and then
click the Apply button, you should get an email message saying you have been subscribed
to this list and asking you to return an
authentication code. Send back a message that
just has the code in it, making sure you delete
any" " "s that your e·mail program may have
stuck into the reply, and you should start
getting mail from the list, when and if there is
any. (You can unsubscribe by using the same
web page from on campus.) If you'd just like to
send a message to everybody on the DTF and
anybody else who has subscribed to this
mailing list you can send an e-mail from anywhere to parking·dtf@news.evergreen.edu.
The DTF would love to get suggestions or hear
your views about what the college should try
to do.
The teaching team for "Fictional
SOciology," an academic program offered last
year, has denied accusations that they have
fomented rumors about the college losing its
accreditation.
Sara Rideout, the program's coordinator
who is, this year, just a librarian, said,
"Everything that came out of 'Fictional
Sociology' was made up. As far as I can tell,
these rumors are true. That should show you
we had nothing to do with it."
In an e-mail sent to all faculty members,
Provost Barbara Smith said, "We've been
hearing some concern from students about the
college losing its accreditation as a resu lt of the
story the CPJ ran several weeks ago."
sodal science or math or in the humanities or
in math, the teaching team published "the
math issue" of their journal . "The
Spokesperson.
"But everything in our math issue was
made up. No group offormer students is really
suing the college for 'math induced anxiety'
and Rideout does not give math credit to
students who learn about love triangles in
Proust or who sit through her rants about how
bigger really is better (and other properties of
inequalities) and Pailthorp said he won't give
math credit just for the asking until the faculty
passes his proposal that we all be able to do so.
It was all fictional. That means it wasn't true."
What is true is that the college has a
General Education Committee trying to come
up with ways to keep the accreditation wolves
from the college's doors.
"See," said Arney, "they took the
accreditation report seriously. I, for one, don 't
want the college to lose its accreditation, so I'm
glad for the work of the General Education
Requirements That Are Good for You
Committee. (I don't think we should shorten
the real name to 'General Education' or 'Gen·
ed.') As for 'Fictional Sociology,' no one took
that seriously-not us, not our students. This
is the way things should be."
Rideotlt added, "It's a tiresome business to
have to deny responsibi lity for things that are
just true. People should know that anything
that happens this year or next, no matter how
absurd, is not a joke. We won't be offering
Fictional Sociology again until the fall of2001."
The truth about "Fictional SOciology,"
including issues of "The Spokesperson," can be
found at http://192.211.16.13/curricular/
fiction/home.htm.
It is also true that the CPJ has over 200 copies
of "The Spokesperson" still in its evidence
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Ben's Top 9 (Uke Letterman-but without the
East Coast humor)
Top 9 TESC New Year's Resolutions
by Ben Kinkade
9. To practice what we preach.
8. To get lighting in at least part of the
building.
7. Hire the Soup Nazi to work at the deli: "No
tofu for you!"
locker.~
6. To shave our legs (women) and cut off
ponytails (men). Yeah, right!
5. To get more.students enrolled in math
.....----------------.,.----------------------------------1 classes. (We have some of the best math
contribute to my utter lack of common sense . technically aren't drugs. I held back because I teachers here!)
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I figured that there must be some reason why figured he would have considered me a bigger 4. To get 60 percent back for our used texts a
by Kris Hooper
this question was relevant so I checked all the piece of human excrement than he already all times (or run an initiative to do so).
boxes of substances that I've tried. Even when thought I was.
3. That Tim Eyman will leave us with at
I did one of the drugs only once back when
one
or two buses-or refund us back $36.
To get off the subject he asked what school I
George Bush was President I checked the box. go to. When I told him Evergreen he closed the 2. To leave our pets safely at home.
I started to regret my decision before I had folder and stared at me for a second. I knew I 1. That every new instructor is adequatel
even met the oral surgeon.
was in for a lecture. For the next seven minutes informed of all rules, regulations, an
The surgeon was pretty much like I had (I timed it) he explained in considerable detail obligations regarding evaluations, and 'ClI'lIUll
expected, an upscale middle aged man. He why he thought Evergreen was a waste of time policies. And that part·time instructors are
looked like a cross between a character in a and money.
overlooked in full-time faculty hirin
John
Cheever
novel
and
a
neurotic
next
door
Over the holiday season I enjoyed the
He kept monotonously repeating that if you processes.
masochistic pleasure of having my wisdom neighbor on an episode of'Thirtysomething." want to "go off and be a philosopher" or "think
teeth extracted. Ironically the real pain began He was looking at my x-rays and questionnaire out side of the box" than Evergreen is an
before the procedure; it started at the when he sat down with me for the consultation. acceptable choice. Most of his emphasiS was certain drawbacks about Evergreen. although
After a few obligatory pleasantries he got right on how in the real world you have to compete he made me realize something. Evergreen not
consultation.
down
to it.
The consultation was scheduled at 8 a.m. I
against others and grades are vital in only gives an opportunity to get a degree, it
"Well, you've got quite the extensive drug competing. Going to Evergreen puts people at gives you the ability to annoy all the right
was running late for the appointment. The
people.~
night before I was out late and had about four history, Mr. Hooper," he deadpanned.
a permanent disadvantage in his opinion.
How are you supposed to reply to such a
hours of sleep. Just before dashing out tbe door
I tried to the best of my ability to defend
in my groggy stupor I had to fill out the medical statement? "Thank you" or how about a witty Evergreen's honor. Although it was hard since
questionnaire. One of the last questions was, retort along the lines of, "Some people collect he was glaring at me with the same expression
"Have you ever used drugs?" Next to the stamps but I prefer my hobbies to be a little I always imagined my father would give me if
question was a list of various drugs to check, more risque." I lamely mumbled about how it's he discovered a "Playgirl" magazine with stuck
Undermath the question was a comment been years since I've done the vast majority of together pages under my mattress.
saying it was very important to answer if you drugs that I checked. For a second I was
You could tell that the oral surgeon felt
were going to be put under general anesthetic, tempted to use the standard line of defense that passionately about education and the benefits
which I was. My lack oftime and sleep helped marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms you receive from it. He may have been right on
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.letf's b:en teachin g at Evergrl'l'11 since 1972. lie shares onc tcaching position with C1l'ric
Bar low. whos been at Everg reen si nce 1981. Je lfdoes the lectures and Clvde docs th e labs . .
Clyde's an organic chem ist. He worked with th e biophvsicist Britton Cha·nce. who won the oold
med:!1 in yachting at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. '
t'o
Jerf c~.n tinu es to st lIdy photosynthesis while Clyde stlldies th e lIIi tochondrial proccss.
. . One stores energy from the sun. the other uses food to ga in energy,"Jelfexplained. "Thev 're
Similar processes, and we use similar methods. "
.
They're applying spectrophotometric methods to metabolism in living tissues.
:'We always ge t the first spaces in th e parking lot," Clyde grinned. "We're in by seven-thirty. "
fhey work tcn or eleven hours a day, including weekends. split ting th eir time between tea ching
and resea rch.
. ·"It doesn't all fit in a forty-hour week," Clyde explained. "I like teaching, but I'm a research
annnai. When I had my interview, they asked me. 'What do you like to do in your spare time?
What are your hobbies't' Well , I like to work in the lab. That's my hobby. As a research scientist,
yo u do what you like to do-we' re similar to artists, in that way.
"We go through the same process that artists do, as well. We take an idea . make it a realitv
prepare it for presentation, and hold it up for peer review.
"
"There's not much interaction with the arts faculty, though our philosophy's so similar. Darshi
Bopegedera taught a class with Susan Aurand-they did a two-quarter program about the art
and mence ofhght and color. It was a great learning experience for both kinds of students.
'Tm interested in doing something with ceramics, but the timing's been bad. The science
programs are heavily enrolled. Molecule to Organism needs two organic chemists. We have
three, so I end up spending two out of three years in that program. That leaves one year in
between to do something else."
(Thad Curtz teaches literature at the college,
and is a member of the Parking DTF.)~
riiai:1iiiijiiil, AccusatiDns
(Fictional Sociology was a full·year program
taught last year, '98- '99, by Bill Arney, Charles
Pailthorp, and Sara Rideout. This article is
their attempt at extinguishing the rumor that
Fictional Sociaology is still alive, while
discllssing Evergreen s accreditation.)
.
In 1961. Melvin Ca h'in won a ;'\!obel Prize tor discovering the ser ies ai chelllical reactions
In pholoSl' nlhesis. Faculty member .Ieff Kellv st lldied photownthesi s at Be rkelev. in Ca lvin 's
lab.
' .
Undergraduate research
intrusive way to measure bedsores.
. "People who are can lined to bed or a wheelchair often develop pressure ulcers on their hip,
tailbone, heel-anywhere bone is close to the surface. It stops the blood How.
"When there's a medical problem, we need to find a treatment. But before we can do that
we need to ask ourselves, 'How big is the problem?'"
'
"We like to measure things." said Jeff.
'The g,?ld standard for m~asllring volume of bedsores was lIsing alginate, or dental molding
compound, Clyde continued. You would put the alginate in the bedsore, make a cast, and then
lIIeasure how much water the cast displaced. It seemed cruel and unusual to us.
. . "We thought of saran wrap, stretching it across the surface of the ulcer, and then adding
~,lqLlI,d. But 11 had already been done, Without much success. So we tried injecting gas, instead.
We d l~ke a sample measurement ot the gas' dilution. That would be one hundred percent.
Then, It It diluted by o/Iactor of two, we'd know it had doubled in volume.
.
"But we like to work with light, so we set a laser at a 45 degree angle, then captured an
Image trom straight above. If the surface was nat, there'd be a straight line-but ifit dipped, the
laser would be displaced. The depth would be equal to the displacement."
"It's like measuring the height of a tree from its shadow," Jeff explained ..
he added advantage was it gave us a profile of the bedsore," said Clyde. "A topography."
We .~ta~~ed .out wl~,h 33 parallel h~es, but the instrument was clumsy, and the analysis was
difficult, said Jeff.. We rebUilt the IIlstrument, using regular laser pointers, like you can buy
anywhere, and a mmor to move the beam. A video camera captures the data, which goes into
the computer. Bu~ so far, there's no automatic method to get the data into the computer, without
human IIlterventlOn-1t needs to be friendlier for clinical workers."
:'Doesn't that sound like fun?" grinned Clyde. "There's biology, physics, the construction of the
mstruments, and computer-based analysis.
"W~'re not experts i~ everyone of those fields, but some of our students are into biology, some
are mto c~mputer sC.lenee, an? some are into physics. We have the idea, but the students put it
Into practice. In semmar, they re able to add their piece to the puzzle. Of course, we have to start
by defining terms-they all speak different languages."
:r
."We wanted t~,do .research ~ith undergraduates, so students could apply their learning to
p,ractlcal SituatIOns, said Clyde. But you can 't do research without money.
We go~ a couple. of seed grants from Evergreen. We applied for a bunch of other grants, from
the NatIOnal InStitute of Health , the National Science Foundation, Mobil Oil, and the American
Heart Association, but-nothing.
'The reviews all said the same thing: 'Interesting, creative-but there's no research environment
at TESe: We were competing with the UniverSity of Washington, UCLA, Stanford-all those
big institutions. And they said that undergraduates were incapable of participating, even though
they'd done the preliminary work that the grant proposals were based on.
"In a series of classes, like those offered at most universities, you may learn the material,
but not advanced skills. The most successful results come from immersion in an area for an
!, a~ked Clyde wha~ he thought the deficits of an Evergreen education might be. .
entire year. You end up very skilled in some things-like lab work.
.
It s btult ar~und Immersion for a whole year, so if you're struggling, don't worry-keep
"Stacey, next door, did all the work on our most recent grant proposal. Diane is working at
worklllg,
and you II finally begm to aSSimilate the material. If you only immerse yourself in a
a graduate student level. They were invited to the UW, to train them on the methods we've
narrow
range
of material, however, you'll learn those perspectives and views very well, but don't
developed.
achieve
a
broad
education.
Jeff's daughter is the copy editor for their grant proposals.
"One of the things they're looking at, in relation to accreditation, are quantitative skills, or
"She tells us when we're not communicating what we want to communicate."
math
.
Liberal arts faculty are expected to teach writing, and to participate in a multicultural
During his term in office, President Reagan grew concerned that small businesses were
dialogue,
but not to stimulate a quantitative view of the world.
being left out of federal contracts.
";he
faculty
at other colleges are hesitant to teach writing, but here, we're required to teach it.
"He got a bill through that allocated one and a quarter percent of all federal research and
Not
creative
wntlllg, _or poetry, but wntlllg that applies to what else we're teaching. We do
development funds to small businesses. We thought, 'Here's a way to get money.' So we formed
techl1lcal wntlllg, m formal papers and lab notebooks. And we teach critical reading-how to
a small corporation.
ana
lyze the content and writing of a given text.
, "We lease space, and we don 't use college facilities-all our equipment comes from grants .
"I
was
in a program years ago-Health, Individual, and Community-and we needed a math
Wev: donated eqUIpment to the school, however. It's a net positive gain for the college-we
component.
The other faculty thought I would take it on . Well, I have troub le with math, too.
prOVide research opportunities for students, equipment, and computers.
Every other faculty had more math than I did . Even Betsy Hilbert, a writing professor, had
advanced calculus-I only had basic. Everyone was hesitant to teach math.
."!ffaculty were also expected to teach quantitative skills, they'd find a way. Since it's liberal
arts, It d be math With a different navor, but it'd be math. We were interviewing someone for an
"We develop methods for other labs. Design something that will produce conclusive results.
al1lmatlOn pOSition, for example, and the applicant talked about timing sequences to portray
Build the necessary instruments."
motIOn , m quantltal1ve terms- and that's the same as math."
"You can count the number of instruments we've sold on one hand," Jeff sighed.
"Yeah," said Clyde. "We're good scientists, but bad entrepreneurs."
"But," said Jeff, "Researchers've begun to ask, 'Can you find a way to do this?'"
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"The Head of Vascular Surgery at Maricopa Medical Center, in Phoenix, asked us to find a non-
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Who's that living next door?
It could be white supremacy
hy Shmu el Rubinslcin
We all like to think that racism and the
psychological dysfunction of judging another
human being as an unequal based upon their
ethnic, cultural. or religious background has long
ceased in our wonderful little world of trees and
rain here in the Northwest. "Racism ended with
the Civil Rights Movement" . the infamolls quote
of our cnrren t age. It's a very co mfortabl e
statement to make when YO II 're on the otlter end
of Ih e stick of bigotry and discrimination that
It as ep itomized the essellce of this cO lin try in
which 11'(' live. Those of us who have received
co nsi stenl illtimidation in our lives frolll the
white hoods and shaven hrads of our "colorhlind " ~ocil' ty know that this indeed is not th e
reality that Americans would like to believr.
Today . racism (white supremac y)
co ntinues 10 dominate the discourse of
American society and culture. There was never
any true attempt to eradicate this disease from
the heart s of white peo!-,Ie t hroughoul the globe.
Thlls. it thrives. It has brco nle sllch an accepted
ABSENCE
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The Day of Absence has been cl'leiJratrd ;It
Evergreen since 1975 (with a four-year hiatus ill
the late 80·s). In th e ea rl y 90's. The Day of
Presence was addrd. Thr idl'a for the l1ay of
Absence was taken frolll the play by the same
l1ame which lVas written by Douglas Turner
Ward. In th e rl~y . s(' t in th l' early (;o·~.
mysteriou~ l y. ol'em ight all of the folks of wlnr
::f i\appear and th e town i~ kit to ti111ctionl.ln ih
.)\\'11 . which provcs to bl' ill1pm~ible as the tOlI'l1
Je[!ended on th e folk\ .,r ['<JIM for all of it>
nl'ce\\ iti(·.\.
The IlH·\Sage·! .. I\'l' alln l'l'd l'adl Il t her in
:1rdcr to lun cti on a\ a c0 Il1Il11lnity: \\'l' need to al/
I'alue earh ot her and th l' gifh wc haw to oflt'r.
Each yea r the twu days are shaped dilfen·ntly
depe nding on the Ill'cds of thr comll1l1l1 it y and
IdCJS of the open planning committ ee.
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white hoods. passing over the nest from which
these horrific acts of brutality originated: the
roots of American society and culture. Today. the
people who continue to construct the foundation
for this hatred and violence wear business suits.
teach at universities. and sit next to you on the
bus. They are not only poor white people who
are looking for scapegoats due to their economic
reality. They are also wealthy. college-educated
profeSSionals whom you interact with each day.
But how much do you know about the thriving
movement of white supremacy in your neighbor
hood'? There is an abundant history of white
suprematist activities out here in the Northwest.
which continues to this day. Just a few months
ago. there were the incidents of white
supremacist intimiclation al Puyallup High
School. which were so severe that some of the
minority students' parents had to physically
guard their children in the hallways durin g the
sc hool day. If anyone has visited TacomJ.
WJshington lately. it might not bl' too diftiwlt
to comprehend why they have the second highest
population of activr neo-nazi skinheads in the
entire United States. There is always the
constantly growing militia movcment. which is
compiling massive amounts of weaponry to aid
their anti-Semitic and racist rhetoric. And of
COllrsl'. as always. the seemingly infallible
movement of Holocaust Deniers. whose entire
purpose is to deny that the genocidal slaughter
of over 6 million Jews newr occurred! This is just
the tip of the iceberg. How Illuch do yo u rea lly
know?
You will have the opportunity - actually. 1
should say. RESPONSIBILITY - to alleviat e
yourselffrom your ignorance and innocr nce this
coming Day of Absence/Day ofPresence. As pari
of the many act ivities going 011 for thi~ event. we
will be bringing Eric Ward from the Northwest
Coalition for Human Dignity ill Sl'attle to give a
lecture Oil the white supreillacist TlIovemCilt in
Ihe Northwest and how YO U ran
help in combating it. The lecture will be taking
place on Thursday.Jan. 20 fi-omI2:00-1:30 p.m.
(location To Be Annoullced).
Please take this opportnnity to educate
yourselves on thl' crucial realit y of this
movement. Itis YOllr neighbors who are ca using
it. and only you can prevent it.
This year we haw madr a few changrs in
th e schedule. For example. this is the first yea r
that we have had the Day orAhsence come after
th c Day ofPrescnce. Also. in thr past on-cam pus
programming took place on t he Day of Absence
while the rctreat was guing un. as yuu will be able
to scc through the schedule. th e Day ufPresence
is strong l' nough to stand on its own.
And for those lulks who have cOllle before.
we wclcome you to colll e again . Please remcmbrr
<'ae h year is co mpletrly dillr rrntt hant he last and
hrillgs many new ideas and oppurt llniti l's lur
learning. I fcrl' is th e schedu le of evc nt s taking
pia l'\' - givl' us a rail or drop by our taolc in the
C,\ l\ . lIT wi ll be thl're "vl'r\'dal' Irolll 11 ;1.111.-1
p.1l1 . through Thllr ~(iav. jail: :W. th e Da v of
l'r(,.\(·I1<'<'. We I"ok 1()f\\,:'lrd tll Sl'l'ill " \'·:tll ai th e
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cl'lebrat iOII\.
'1111' proi-: rillll is ((Jonlll1ill['rl hy lilt' ollie!'
01 Finl Peuples ' rI dvisill,!i Sell'iccs ;Hlel cusponsored by /IIi/ny ol fl er orgJniZil l iO ll s on
camplls iIJcludiIJI? IfIeJcwish Cullllral ('('1111'( alld
Ih (' PrcsidcIJI \ DiI'efsit)' FUIJd.
This Tu('sday. Jail. 18. at 5 p.m. in Lecture
"all !i. the EV('rgrrl'n camplls will have th('
privilege oflistening to on(' of our wurld 's trllly
gre<lt living heroes. Abe Osheroff. For th ose of
you who have no t had the life -c han gi ng
opportunity to he:lr Abe sprak in th e past It'll'
yea rs he has conll' to the Evergrccn cam!-'us.
please rl'ad this bril'f description abollt this
remarkable Illan. Understand that it is only a
glimpse int o Ihe wealth of inspiration Abe will
lill c:1ch one of you with when you witness him
in person.
Born in Brownsville. N.Y. in 1915 to an
immigrant working-rlassJrwish family. Abe
began his social activist career in his tecns as a
!Inion organizrr lor the CIO. In 1937. at the agr
01'21. Abe dl'lied U.S. law byvolnlltrering to light
the 1;lscists in the Spa nish Civil War. Along with
OWl' 3.000 other AmericallS. Abe delrnded thr
Spanish Republic by Joining th r International
Abraham l.inroln Brigad('. Alier heing injun·d.
Ahl' rl'tllrned to light 11i(' I;l.scists witli Ihe {I .S.
Arm)' in World War II.
lIpon his ret 11m totlie l lnlt"d St:Jt('~. Abl'
worked ;1\ a l';lrp"nt"1 while 1iL' con tinll cd tll
organi z(, within hi s cun l1lHlnil y. In 1~)(i4. Abe
travded to Mississippi to Ill' one of the leading
organizers in thl' Civil IUghts MOI'(,1I1ent.
Despite having his car hlownup. he persisted in
traillillg 11I:II1Yof the yonllg arlivish. illdllding
the well-known author of "A I'l'opk's Ili story 01
thl' li nit ed Stall·s." Iloward Zilln .
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rhls mural. com lssloned by First Peoples' AdVISing was created by the artistic group CROW and is on di splay I)OW in the CAB.
Lib. 4300, Dr. Leticia Nieto
"Strategic Interventions for Anti-oppression"
Lib. lobby, Eric Ward
"From Compounds to Congress: White Nationalism in America
CAB 110, Dr. Leticia Nieto
"StrategiC Intervl'ntions for Anti-oppression"
Lib. lobby, an exchange of multicultural expressions
"Crossroads ... "
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S hmuel Rub i n stei n
B('tw('rn 1972-1974. while und er ('onstant
threat from the fascist gove rnment of Franco.
Abe returncd to Spain to record a memoir of the
Abrahalll Lincoln Brigade's experiences. Entitled
"Dreams and ;-.Jighlmar('s." Abr won 1st prize
of the International Film Critics in 197.5 for hi.\
Ii 1111.
In 1985. Abc co ntinued to dedicate his liltin the strllggle for equal rights and justic(' in thi ~
world by traveling to Nicaragua to build hOllle \
lor a peasant co-op.
Although Abe taught history at UCLA fran
197~1 - 1985. and th en again at the University 01
Washington frolll 199 3-1997. hl' h:1 .\
fundam entally made his living as a carpenter. 111
the past. Abe has Il'ctured at over 200 universities
throllghout the country. insr, iring young
students with stories of his experiences. ami
ca lling for a rais ed !-,olitical and social
consciousnl'ss with his fiery words of wisdom.
In addition to speaking ahout his past
expl'fil'nc('s during his lec ture this cOllling
TII"sda), night , Abe will be I(l(using onlhe roil'
his Jewish identity has had on his delermination
in fighting for the l'quality and justice of all .
Whalever YOII Illay have planncd for
TUl'~da)'. Jan.IX at!i p.IlI .. I st rongl y suggest that
YO ll I(·.\clieciulr it lilJ' this rare op portunit y tn
listen to an individllal who has dedicated his lile
to Ill:lking th e world a hetter pbce for li S all .
Abe\ Il'cturl' will br I'rr('. and all are Illore thall
welcollll'. Ilopl' to see yuu then"
For more inlorma tion . ('on tact the Jewish
Cllltur;i1 Ccnter at .x(i4 ~I :l.
••, " ! e will discuss his experiences in the
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Abraham Lincoln Brigadc, his lifelong
commitment to social justicc and the role
that his Jewish idcl1tity has playcd in his
Day of Absence: Friday, Jan. 21
Cooper Point jotlmal
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Day of Presence: Thursday, Jan. 20
8:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
reality that most people simply comply with the
uncomfortable reality of living under the
hammer ofhatred and violence. For example. the
reality that every synagogue I attended for these
past High Holidays in September had security
guards outside of them due to the recent
shooting at the Jewish day school in California.
That was not the only reason for th e security
guards. There had also been the two acts of arson
at synagogues in California. the wounding of six
Jews. and th e death of an African-American and
Asian man in a rampage of a lunatic in Illinoisall within the course of a few ll)onths. I personally
had th e special privilege of having two of the local
skinh eads decide to do a drive·by shooting une
early ('ve nin g a lew years ago at my synagogue
back home in Eugene . OR.
The media and other Americans would
love to paint th ese eve nts (in additi0n to th e
many othrrs which conSistently plague
American society. like the horrific dragging
death of the African-American man in Jasper.
Trxas. to name but one) as isolated incidents
which rl'tlect only the fringe of white America. If
this is done. we all vilify the shaven heads and
Working-class
Jewish revolutionary
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educate students
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9a.m.
9:45 a.m.
10a.m.
12 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
4 p.1ll.
January 13, 2000
Vans leave from Red Square to go to The Woman's Club of Olympia
Opening comments
Opening story by Joyce Stahmer
Potluck
"Stress Release: Experiencing, Talking. and Taking Action
Dr. Ernest Johnson
Dr. Yvonne L. Terrell-Powell
Final comments. thoughts and closure
CO llrtSey
Tuesday
Jan. 18
5 p.nl.
Lecture Hall 5
of Ralluci Sa lin as! first I'corlcs' Adv isinf;
Afew notes about the schedule.....
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If YOIl plan to attend any ofthe events for the Day of Absence you need to giw us a call at xfi467 so that
we can prepare the space in advance. As part of our Remembering the Past, please bring a memory. picture.
thought. or item to share (we will be sharing in small groups) which represents a piece of your own personal
history. We will have vans for folks who would IlkI.' to not drive. otherwise we ask that you consider carpooling.
as parking is very limited. Please call x6467 10 reserve your space in the van.
On Thursday. Dr. Leticia Nielo will be offering an anti·oppression training that is enjoya ble. nourishing
and challenging. ThL~ training is for anyone who wallts to learn about how we all have to fight oppn·ssion in
orde r tu become a strong com munity. She is alTering this training twi ce on Thursday to accolllOiodall'
schedule, . Please call us at x64li7 to sign up for a space.
Also on Thursday. Eric Ward. the Regional Cnordinatorofthe NortlllVl'st Coalition for Iluman IJignity
lI111 he gil'ing a talk on white supremacy in America. This lecture illuminates contemporary American hate
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movements, conspiracy mongering, and fundamentalist totalitarianism. "To (Qnfronlthe frightening aims of white
supremacy. we must have a sense of who these people are individually and demographically."
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Towards the end of the day at4 p.m .. the 1999 First Peoples' Advising Services Undergraduate Schulars and
Er InternationalSchool of English are putting together a program entitled "Crossroads. An Exchange ofM ulticultural
Expres.~ions." All faculty. stalfand students are invited 10 come and share yourcll lturewith the Evergreen communily.
There will he tables. easels and spare for you to share your (1llture. your oackground and your~clf. \ome I(Jlks are
planning to bring famil), pictures, family recipe,. artwork. poetry. IlIliSIC. and postcards. Tlw 'ky is the limit. The
scholars would like to see as m~ny community memhers ~s po.>sible come out ~nd join them. It doesn't h~1 e to be
anything fancy. aU of us have \omething to share and a lotto learn ahout each oth er. Call x6<lti7 to reserve a space.
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The time must be now,
Revolution on the grandest scale,
Karl Marx had avision,
Now is the time to realize that vision,
I don't like our world
being destroyed
How many are awake
and see the deterioration of the planet and those that walk blindly upon it.
I don't want to become nuclear waste,
I don't want to be lied to and told I live in ademocracy!
I don't want anymore guns pointed at me,
Who still cares?
Alone .. .I'll be seen as eccentric
With the pro literate masses united .. ,we will survive the very real and present crisis
and maybe avision of utopian communist paradise could be realized,
Imagine, aclassless society,
But now I've spoken ataboo,
See the propaganda alter the masses,
See avision of utopia warped by red communists seduced by power,
Aphase of dictating proliterate masses seizing Earth,
Soon it will all be too late,
I'll not cherish aw~e,
I'll fry in anuclear holocaust before that dream along with so many other are realized!
Let all who want achange unite,soon!
Tum the flag upside down
All flags!
Pat Graney: Guggenheim Gal
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at 1009 E, 4th Ave_
presents
The Pa t Gr a n ey Comp a ny reh ear s ing Tatt o o _
By Sarah Papineau
mi s pl aced newb o rn; a n un carin g sc ho ol
;Id mini str:l! or more interested in publishing
th an in her stud ent 's welfare and the gendercO llfu w d adolesce nt of th e play\ titl e and
Va ll 'II ge t just a n id ea of th e insan ity ratt ling
:Iround inth c mind of Christ oph er Durang,
"It is surpri sing su ch out rageo us , aw ful
thin gs can be rodder for cO lili c satir e but
Sll llll' how Du ra n); make's it work ," r1 aill1cd
th l' show's dir cc tlH, Steph cn Kel sey, "As
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its end wc a re mea nt to scr no matt er how
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l!t'cid c, to ,~ t l'al th e bahy to rl'pl acl' hl'!' own pl a)'s:l \'car, ShllWS that hoth ent ert ain :I nd
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kind of pla ys we like and not go
broke,"
This is esp ec iall y so ,
Kelsey s aid , "wh e n ma ny
th eat er group s have had to turn
tll prol1tabl (' projec ts such as
children's shows a nd po pular
mu sica ls to st em th e tid es o r
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th ere are a lot of guo d script s
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di scove r yll tJr ~ rll a littll' ant sy and unSllrl'
th ai thi , i ~ th e what YO II should bl' doing
with yo ur Friday night s, Thi ~ is Il onllal ; do
no t pani c, and re sist th e m gl' to ~ Iill k
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details call the EQA at x6544.
8 p.m . - "Blues Show of the
Milleniull1" A musical combo
starring The Fabulous
Thunderbirds, Swamp Mama
Johnson. and the Jud~
B()werman Band. The sh()w
will be held in the CRC and
costs $ 1X in advance and $22
at thl.! door.
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one man "unique experience"
playing rags, hlues, and
novelty songs from the '20s
and ·30s. The show will be at
Traditions ClOO 5th Ave. Sw.
downtown Olympia). The cost
is $ 10.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
18 Tuesday
5 10 6 p.m. - Masters in
Teaching information session
in LIB 2118.
7 to 8 p.m . - Swing dancing
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21 +[>Marinella rcaturin g the Hot
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INfO CALL 8666000 EXT. 6213
8 p.m. - A dant:e performant:e
ny the Pal Graney Co. at On
the Boards (100 W Roy St,
Seattle). Cost is $ 16 to $20.
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8 to I} p.m. - "Dance-ODan(;e." Be part or this live
dance show held at the TCTV
studio (4400 Yauger Way, Ste.
C, Olympia).
Bring your calendar items to
CAB 316 or leave a message
at 866-6000 x6213. Thanks.
Student Group Meetings
Subl/lit .Your stl/dellt ~roup
information to CAB 3 16 or cu ll
866-6000 x62 13.
The Bike Shop is a place where you can come fix
your bicycle with tools providcd by the shop.
Schedules for their hOllrs are posted in the CAB
and the Library. For more informatiun call
Murphy or Scott at x6399.
EARN works to promote awareness about an imal
rights & vegetarianism on and off campus.
Meetings are on Wednesdays @ 4:30 p. m. in
Longhouse 1007B. Contact Briana Waters or
. Deirdre Coulter @ x6555.
Emergency Response Team(ER1') is a student run
team that is trained in advanced First Aid and
Urban Search and Rescue in preparation lor a
disaster or emergency. It meets on Mondays @
5:30 p.rn. in the Housing Community Center.
Contact [an Maddaus for more info :
ert@elwha.evergreen.eclu.
ElK is an environmental resource center for
political and ecological information.concerning
local biorcgional and global environmental issues.
Meetings are Wednesclays@3p.m. in LIB 3500.
Call x6784, 3rd floor ofCAB building for info.
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p.l11 . - A band triulllvcrate
featuring Out Hud. Replikants.
and Witchy Poo at thL!
Arrowspace, 117 Washington
St., downtown Olympia. The
cost is $4.
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noon to I :30 p.m. - Student
focu sed open interview with
Evergreen presidential
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CAB 315 on the third floor.
I to 5 p.m. - Student Gover-
nance
4 p.m. - Mike Segawa is
hosting a discussion group on
sec urity for dorms A-D. The
discussion will be in the A
dunn pil.
6:30 p.m. - Poetry readin g hy
Cynthia Prall at Traditions
Fair Trade ClOO 5th Ave. SW.
downtown Olympia).
X til II
p.l11 . - "Dance Spirit"
at the Wild GracI.! Arts Ce nt~ r
for Y()ga and Dance ( ** * ). The
cost is $5.
t() II :30 p.l11. - Open mi c at
Hannah ·s. 123 5th Ave SW.
downtown Olympia.
X p.l11 . - A threL! band show
starrin g ThL! Brother Egg.
Rllsyve lt, and Crow n. Thc
show is at Sel i' ServL! Cash
House on 1117 E 4th Ave and
(;osts $2.
Wednesday
I p.m. - EQA all queers
discussion group LIB 3500.
5 p.m. - Discussion with
Abe OsherofT about his life
experiences as a Jewish
revolutionary. Held in Lecture
Hall 5.
8 p.m. - A dance performance
by the Pat Graney Co. at On
the Boards (100 W Roy St.
Seattle). Cost is $16 to $20.
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........... 1 to 3:30 p.m. - A latina
. . . . . . . . .workshop on applying for
scholarships and financi al aid.
Scholarship kits will be
provided . The forum will oe
held in rooms 101 and 102 at
the Olympia Center. 222 N.
Columbia.
4:30 to 5:30 p.m. - Meet lane l
Talk with President Jane Jervis
by the Deli in the CAB.
8 p.m. - A dance performance
by the Pat Graney Co. at On
the Boards (100 W Roy St.
Seattle). Cost is $16 to $20.
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7:30 p.m. - "Songs hy
Schuhert, Strauss, Sor, and
AmL!ri(;an Compusers" at the
Recital Hall. The cost is $15
for students and $ 10 for
selllors.
8 p.m. - A dance peri'orman(;e
by the Pat Graney Co. at On
the Boards (100 W Roy St ,
Seattle). Cost is $16 to $20.
All week long (January 13-19)
Gallery Two - "Twenty-Three Thousand Men Once Worked
Here."
A photography exhibit by Martin W. Kane, an
Evergreen employee. The exhibit will remain in
the gallery until Feb. II. The Gallery is open
during Library hours.
Gallery Four - "Visionaries, Penitents and Pi Igrims" A Sculpture, Print, and Painting exhibit by Lisa Sweet.
The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from
noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.
Also in Ga llery Four is a Sculpture
exhibi t by R. T. Leverich.
The Evergreen Medieval Society is Evl'rgrl'cn's pml)11' Irom diwrse ethnieitycan stalld togethrrwith
branch of the Society for Creative Anachronisill. other indigen()us groups. They meet M()lIdays ([I)
They meet Tuesdays@5 p.m. CAB 320 couch area. nooll in tlte third flour urtlte CAB. Call Megan or
For info ca UAmy Loskota x6412.
Corinne @x6105 for info.
Evergreen Students furOu'ist meNs Mondays@7 The Ninth Wave: The Evergreen Celtic Cultural
p.m. in LIB 2219 for Bible study and discussion on, League is dedicated to exploring and transmitting
cultural traditions of thl' greater Celtic lJiaspora .
activism.
The Evergreen Swing Club (the other TESC) Me('[ingsarl' WednC'sdays in LI B3402 (it] 2 V Ill. Fur
welcomes ANYONE who is interested in dancing to inl() call xG749 or email @ http//:192.:m.16.30/
join us for free weekly lessons. We provide a place to llsersl/ Ina bus/eeclITa I nes.lltml.
learn and practice both EastCoastand undyswing. Peer Health Advocacy Team (pHA1') is committed
Meetings are Tuesdays @ 7 p.m. in CRC and @2 to providing health inlonnation and resources to
p.m. Sundays in the HCC Contact David Yates ([IJ Evergree n's student population. Their meetings will
866-1988 for info.
be held at 5:30 (I.1lI. on Wednesdays in the 3rd 1I00r
FIlm This Ilands-{)n Filmmaking, Film Forum, and of the CAB. We are looki ng lor new volunteers to
visiting artist. Meetings are every Wednesday 3-~) carry us into the n('w year. For morr inlo call Joanna
p,m_ in Lab 11047. Contact WillSmith@867-9595 laTorre Hurlbut or Brcca Giffen at xG724.
ore-mail him @:film_t his@hotmail.com for more Percussion Oub seek~ to enhance pcrcus~ive lite at
Evergreen. It meets Wcdnesdays @ 7 p.m. in the
information.
Jewish Cultural Center: strives to create an open Longhou~e. Call Cloud at x6879 for inlo.
comlJlunity for Jews and others interested on the Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention
Evergreen campus. Meetings are 2 p.m. in CAB 320 Education (SHAPE) offers resources, plans events,
inj.CC CaUSamuel or Dayla@x6493ifinterested. and educates about the prevention of sexual
Middle East Resource Center strives to provide an violence/ assault@Evergreenandwithinthelarger
academic resource and cultural con nections to community. n ley meet Mondays@3:30. For more
students and the community at large. TIley meet on information call at x6724 or stop by the ollice in the
Monday 5:30 p.m. -7 p,m_ Contact YousofFahoum third floor ofthe CAB.
352-7757 for info.
Slightly West is Evergreen's official literary arts
Native Student Alliance is committed to building magazine. Meetingsare Wednesdays J JOp.m. -2:30
cross-cult ural awareness to hel1er conceptuali7..l' how p.m., and office hOllrs arc J2 p.m. -4 p.lT!. Call xG879.
or go to the :lrd Boor orCA I) t(/find olltmore.
The Student Activities Board is ~ stlldent h'rnllp
responsible lor the allucation of student fees.
Meets Mondays and Wednesdays ITom4 -6 p.m.
Get in touch with Joc Croshong lor infO.
Student Arts Council spccializes in all art and fim
shows. Meetings held Weclncscbys@4 p.m. in
the pit olthe 3ru II. CAB. Cet in touch with LAura
Moore x6412 or in the S&A oiliee lor infu.
Students For Free Tibet meets Wednesdays@ 1
p.m. in ub 2221. Contact Lancey at x6493 for
1110re inlormation.
Umoja (a Swahili word fur Unity) attempb to
capture the interest olthe Evergreen community
who are of Alrican descent. TI1eir purpose is to
create a place in the Evcrgr<'<'n community which
teaches and provides ~ctivities for AfricanAmcrican students at Evcrgr<'<'n. Meetingsare@l
1:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in CAB 320. Call x6781
for info.
Union of Student Workers s('ek~ to ueate alld
maintain a voice ofcollective support for student
workers. Meetings are Wednesday @ 2 p.rn. in
[2220. Info: Steve or Robin x6098.
Women ofColor Coalition seeks to create a space
that is free of racism, sexism, homophobia,
classism, xenophobia, and aUforms ofoppression,
so we can work collectively on issues that concern
wome n of color. Meetings are the lst & 3rd
llresday uf every month @ 3:30. Call Fatema or
Teresa @x 6006 for more information.
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